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City Limits (1940 Cen.-nia) 8.S7-I
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(IMS Ration Board F??|ur?*)
VOL. 60 NO. 23
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Kings Mountain. M. Friday. June 10. 1949
Today
PRICE FIVE CENT3
V f R. LAURA
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IA PLONK
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' DR. LILLIAN LENOKA PLONK |
Former Citizens i
Given Doctorates
*? '
Miss Laura Plonk ana Miss LiHian
Plonk, former Kings Mountain citi
zens and founders and directors of
the Plonk School of Creative Arts of
Ashevilie, Were awarded the hon
orary degrees trf Doctor of. Art of
Oratory at commencement exercises
in Boston June 2 from the Staley
College of the Spoken Word.
Emma Laura Plonk lb director of
the Plonk School. She is a graduate
of Lenoir-Rhyne college aiid the
Curry School of 'Expression of Bos
ton. She later served on the Curry
school faculty. ? j
Lillian Lenora Plonk is assistant
director of rhe Plonk Sehool. She
attended Lenoir-Rhyne college, and
wat< graduated from the New Eng
land Conservatory, also of Boston.
The Misses Plonk are daughters of
the late William Lafayette Pionk,
who had an abiding interest in ed-]
ucation and who -served for many
years on the Kings Mountain school |
board. Their school in Aiheville,
which observed its silver anniver
sary in the spring, is dedicated to
him.
The Staley college is a senior sci- i
entific speech school established in ;
1900. It has a faculty of 30 and a .
student body of 350. Students of <he
Plonk school who receive the full ]
three-year course are accepted as
fully -accredited seniors at the Sta
ley college -and at the completion j
of a year's work are entitled to re- i
eeive the degree of Bachelor of Art '
of Oratory.
Attending the graduation exer
cises were Migx Nancy i Plonk, of
Kings Mountain, and Miss Clara !
Plonk, of New York and Kings Moun .
tarn.
Merchants Plan
Picnic At Lake
The Merchant* Association will
hold an employer- employee pic
nic at Lake Montonia Wednesday
afternoon, beginning at 6 o'clock,
it was announced yesterday by
Jams* B. Simpson, secretary.
Merchants and their employees
am being urged to attend with
-well-filled baskets by the arrange
ments committee which includes
Sam Weir and loo Leo Woodward.
Only food k required, as the asso
ciation is aranging far a full
quantity of
Eade Anderson, assistant to the
pastor of First Presbyterian chur
*h for the past two summers, has
returned to Kings Mountain .to.
assume similar duties, ft wss an
nounced this week. Mr. Anderson
will live at the home of Mrs. A. S.
Cerver on Parker street.
ON HONOR ROLL
L B-. t Ooforth, Jr., of Kin?s
Mountain, recent graduate of Ap
palachian State Teacher? College
at Boone wss among four Cleve
land Coontv students on "the
school's spring quarter honor roll,
according to announcement from
the college.
More Kings Mountain Mountain
| Voters "Split"
Students W in Degrees On Bond issues
H
Several Local
Students Complete
College Courses
Several more Kings Mountain
college students art- amyjig th'< >>.?>'
i-eeciving degrees at gradual ton ?>?
crvi.-.t ?i various schools through-'
oui the nation.
r MLss Manila Plonk, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. L- Plonk and one of
14 "co-ed veterans'' ai Ohio Univer
sity ar.Columbu.v. wilt receive on
Friday the degree of Master of Sei
env- ... !
On Monday, Thomas Nelson Bri.l ?
ges. son of Mr, and Mrs. Glee A.
Bridges, will receive the degree of
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering
from Georg-ia Tech at Atlanta..
During the past week. .Unties Cur
ry Thronehurg, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Y. F. Throneburg, received his Ba
chelor of Arts degree from Duke
university on Monday, and on the
same evening Meek Anderson Car
penter, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. ;
Carpenter. Sr., was graduated from
the University of North Carolina at;
Chapel Hill with rhe degree of Ba
chelor of Arts in Chemistry,
Other recent college graduated'
from Kings Mountain are Miss My r- i
tice Weaver, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. B. O. Weaver, who was gradu- ,
ated from Lenoir-Rhyne college on
May 30 with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts in Biology and General Sci
ence, and I. Ben Goforth, Jr., who
was graduated front Appalachian
State Teachers college with an A. B.
degree in Mathematics and Science.!
Miss Plor.'.c, ?"ho ser.ved in the
Waves during the war, is a gradute
of Woman's College at Greensboro
and is a former home demonstration j
director in the Farm Security ad- j
ministration.'
Mr. Thronebnrg was a Dean's List ,
student at Duke and was a member
of the Duke Glee Club. Mr. Carpen- '
ter, who completed his undergradu
ate work in March, had attended
Clemson college for a year, and ser- :
ved as a, member of the University
band for two years.
Miss Weaver, an honor graduate
also received a North Carolina Tea
ching certificate, Class A. At Lenoir.
Rhyne, she was an active member ;
of the newspaper and yeart>ook
(Cont'd on page eight'
Final Rites Held
For Patsy White !
Funeral services were held Thurs
day afternoon at 4 a'clock at the
home for Patsy White, 10-year-oid
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C.
White, of route 2, Kings Mountain,
?Who died In a Charlotte hospital
Wednesday after an illness of eight
weeks
Rev. T. W. Fogleman, patrtor of
Bethlehem Baptist church, officiated
and burial was in Grover cemetery.
Death was attributed to tumor of
the brain. She was a member of the
Bethlehem Baotist church. |
In addition to her patents, two
brothers, Richard and Steve White, ;
and three >;i?ters, Charlene. Gait and
Barbara Ann White survive.
JAMES CURRY THRONEBURG
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MISS MYRTICE WEAVES
MEEK ANDERSON CARPENTER
Judge* Barnes Heard
Six Cases Monday
Six casea were tried Monday aft*
ernoOij in regular weekly session of ,
City Reorders court heid at City
Hail Judge W. Fa won Barnes pre
siding. .
?William Bush, on an old non-sup
port charge, paid $2;> and c.wts for
contempi of court and Judge Barnes'
continued a t2- months suspended
sentence on the non-support count. ;
Ruben O-rear Jenkins, of ftesiiemer
City, paid a tine of $25 a'id costs
for speeding. # " i
Four defendants were convicted
on charges of public drunkenness.
LODGE COMMUNICATIONS
A ?t anpd cornTO u n icatlon of Fair
view Lodge 339, AF & AM, will be ^
held Monday night at 7:30. ? wa* j
announced yesterday bj Paul j
Walloer, secretary
Legion luniors Scheduled To Meet
Charlotte Nine Here Saturday Night
Kings Mountain Juniors are sched
uled to meet the strong Charlotie
junior team here in City Stadium
Saturday night at 8 p. m. in a con
tinuation of group 2, area 4, elimi
nation play.
Ooach Shu Carlton's nine was set
to play in Shelby last (Thursday)
night in the third game of the 14
game first round card. Kings Moun
JUHIOTtS SCHEDULE
Saturday. Jon* 11 ? Charlotte?
Muwdar. June 13 ? Gastonia?
Tbwr*.
Thursday. Iom 1* ? Chauy*
rtll> That#.
Saturday, fun* It ? Hickory ?
Km.
tain defeated TaylorsvHe and Forest !
City In the first two games of the'
schedule. - ~ i
On Monday night at 8 p. fn. Kings
Mountain to billed to journey to!
Gastonia and on Thursday. 'June 16 :
are set to travel to Cherryvllle.
The loam returns here Saturday,)
June 18, for a game with Hickory ;
juniors.
Charlotte and Gaston la probably |
rate as the strongest teams in group j
2. Last year teams were ^sponsored j
In Mecklenburg and Gaston counties j
as well -as in 'Charlotte and Gastonia ;
and the single entries this year will ,
be drawing players from a larger j
area. Rules require that teams may j
be drawn from a leas-<han-2000 to- J
tal enrollment of schools. Charlotte
had to drop players from Central
high school this year in order Co
drawn the cream of Mecklenburg
county high school teams.
Charlotte and Gastonia, along
with Kings Mountain, were on top
of -the loop aty?r the first two (Tam
es with 2-0 reoords. Che^tyvjlle lost
to Charlotte and defeated Hickory
tor a' 1-1 record. Hickory had aft 0-2
record Aind Shelby a 1-1 count in
games won and lost.
Largest crowd of the season is ex- :
pected for the Charlotte game Sat- 1
urdsy night officials of the Kings i
Mountain team predicted. ?'
Kings Mountain voters split svith
Governor Scott on his road and
school bond programs last Saturday,
the city returning 101 -vote majori
ty tor thv SL'.j.OOU.OW state -school
bond is^ue, and voting against the
road bonds Ijy a majority ot 197 bal
lottv.'V ?"
ilie voting was li^jht, aw had been
predicted. and the voting here ran
aooiit iii aavanoe by po
jiticjii guesjajrs.
Tile road bond issue got it.s great >
est support a; the VVe s; Kings Moun
tain box, Which rfa., a large rui.at
vote. At the West precinei, the road
The Xings Mountain school dis
trict's -.ihaie ot the 525,000,000
bond issue, voted by citizens ol
the state lor school building con
struction last Saturday, will be
$52,504.52. (t was announced by
Superintendent B. N, Barnes. In
addition the district will receive
S29.209 oi the S250.000 coming to
Cleveland county under the act ot
the 1949 General Assembly ap
propriating $25,000,000 of the sur
plus to the 100 counties. The
share is based on school popula
tion and the tigure used by Mr.
Barnes Is 11-68 percent o< the
county's total school enrollment.
Cleveland county will receive S2.
766,000 ot the S200 million road
bond issue.
bonds showed only a 39-vote deficit,
252 to 213, while The school bonds
were favored by 285 to 179.
The East Kings Mountain box,
where the rural registration is light,
made a different story. The road
bonds were "snowballed" by 251 to
33, while the school bonds went
down by five votes, 173 to 168.
Thus Kings Mountain Joined Shel
by In returning a majority against j
the road bonds, though by not as
grent odds.
Meantime. Cleveland county rural
voters were piling up sufficient vo
ces to put ?the road program ahead
In the county by 2 to T."The
bonds did even better.
The county result wa.i surprising
in some quarters, in view of the
heavy anti-votes by neighboring
Piedmont counties. Gaston, Meck
lenburg, and Cabarrus, and because
of the anti-Scott vote it* last spring's
primary.
Both issues carried easily through
out the state.
Voting here was almost as quiet
a* light. No dfjJturbances occurred at
the polls and there was a minimum
of at-the-polU politicking. Votes
here wvre tabulated by 7:30 p. m.
Board To Convene
Monday At 4 p. m.
The city board of commissioners .
will hold their regular June meeting
a day in advance to avoid a conflict i
wrth high school graduation exer- j
cises, Mayor J. E. Herndon said yes
terday.
The board will meet at 4 o'clock]
Monday afternoon instead of the i
customary Tuesday evening meet-i
lng |
' i
Principal business on the agenda '
includes consideration of the priv- j
liege license ord-i nance, Mayor Hern - j
d<7ir"said, and study of monthiy re
ports. Lt is also possible that the;
board will fill vacancies on the city,
planning board and the library. The ;
(term of Otto Williams, pianningj
board member, has expired, and the
board is to name one at It* own
members as the city representative
on the library board.
Final adoption of the 1949-30 bud- !
get and official setting of the tax,
rate does not come up until July.
Citizens Reminded
Of Tax Discounts
Kin 9 ? Mountain taxpayers wet* !
remiixled fMtndar by City Clerk
8. A. Grouse that a two percent
discount la allowed for pro-par*
OMt of IMS city tax bills by
*?
Mr. CNu* said Individual no
ttea unlading of the discount
period ass not being mailed this ;
yaar and urpsd all Who expect t?
take advantage of the discount to i
make atTi?BWOMits for prepay
rhMA TaSaatlons have not boon '
received from the county, ? dad
uw? s Of property as which eal
win get benefit of the discount by
School Commencement
? V'.' ? ?
Programs A n nounced
DR. KARL W. KINARD
DR. THONTI8 W. JOHNSTON
X-RafUmtTo Be
Heie Next Week
The county's mobile T B jX Ray
unit will he iti King*. Mountain
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
or iiext week, and in operation from
9 to 4:30 p. m. daijy on Battleground
avenue In front of the Fir.*'t Nation
al Bank.
The X-Ray machine way given to
the county by the Jaycee organiza
tions of Kings Mouniain and Shelby
after they conducted a Joint cam
paign u> raise funds for the pur
chase.
The health department staff will
give X-Raya free to all persons who
visit the unit. Medical officials are
urging full use of these new anti
disease facilities.
Bethware Graduation
Plans Are Announced
Commencement exercises at Beth
ware high school will begin June 19;
according to announcement yester.
day by Principal John Rudisell.
Jtev. W. H. Stender, Lutheran pas
tor, will deliver the commencement
sermon on June 19, and graduation
exercis-es will be held on June 24,
with the senior class In charge of
the program. Diplomas will be pre
sented by Mr. Rurilsell.
Kinard, Johnson
Are Speakers; 54
To Get Diplomas
C oii.imoncemeii,_ for "I
Km-:; Mountain iii^h >< ho >, seniors
*>ill bcjjm SuiitJ,t_s evening wtrn the*
annual ba ivau laute'-i to sermon. an t
w . 1 1 be concluded 1 ucv* I a_v evening
with ; lie annua! tinalspM^ram, in
eluding 10 m 1110 nee men t address, an 1
awarding of diplomas
Both finals program* begin at H
o'clock.
Tile Ko\ Kari W. Kin.ird. D. D?
president .of rlw Lutheran Synod of
South C arolina, win deliver the com
moncoment ? sermon, and Dr. Fronnij
W Johnson, Davidson college pro
feasor of history, win make the eon-,
men'cement address on Tuesday ov -
ening.
Dr. Kinard is a native of North
Carolina. Hp has served pastorate.*
at Sumter C.. and at Columbia, S,
C., and after serving as Sjnod se>c
retary became president in 1942. A
graduate of Newberry college and a
formed member of its board of triUi
tees, ho received the degree of Doc
tor of Divinity from Newberry in
1944. ...
Other features of the Sunday ev
ening program will include special
mu??ic by the Girls' fJiee Club, tin
der Die direction of Miss Bonnie Me
Imosh, and a solo by Miss Barbarvi
Matthews, member of the graduxtt||{
class. Rev, W, H. Slender will pre
sent the speaker, while Rev L. C.
Pinnix win say the invocation.
Scripture will bo read by Rev. J H.
Bretidall, and Rev. (J. VV. Pink vviil
give the benediction.
Dr. Johnson, a native of Summer
vilie, S. C, was graduated from Da
vidson in 1930 and receiv?kd hij
(Cont'd on' page eight'
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Cards Vs. Farmers
Here On July 5th
Two Class p We.sierri Carolina lea
gue teams are scheduled ta meet in
City Stadium here on July 3 in au
exhibition game to l>e sponsored by
the Mountaineer CiuH.
Announcement of the pairing of
the i wo professional tea i: is for the
game was made bj Dad Huffstvtler,
co-chairman of jhe membership
commntiv.
Shelby, who pairedd off here last ?
year with Henderson ville in' the first
professional game in Kings Moun
tain and are the two teams set to
square off on a league off night.
Buck Mauney, dwner of <he Lin
colnton Cardinals, gave his appro
val several weeks ago, and stressed
the need for a professional team In
Kings Mountain. Carl Short an
nounced this week that the Shelby
Farmers board of directors had a
greed to the game.
Lineointon is currently running in
the top halt of the standings and
pusfhing Newton Conover's Twins for
leadership. Shelby is in the cellar
but, with Wall Dixon now ai the
helm replacing Joe Borlch, are fx
piHJtCd to be in a - position to give
the resi of the loop learns a bat tie
down to the Wire.
Proceeds from the game will go
toward financing a week's training
trip in August for ihe Kings Moun
tiin high school football team
Rafe King. Convicted Of Wife's
Muider, Dies In Columbia Prison
Rafe King, convicted of the muf- j
der of his wife, Faye Wilson King, :
died in South Carolina state prison
early Tuesday morning after serving ;
more than 18 years of a life sentence. ;
Tne King case, one of the most ;
celebrated in the nation, shocked '
Kings Mountain and Cleveland j
county as weVl as the surrounding
area. Faye Wilson King was a form - j
er Kings Mountain and Shelby ]
school teacher, and King himself
was from a prominent Shelby fam j
!ly
King never admitted the murder,
but was first sentenced to death i
when found guihy of choking his j
wife ro death and leaving her bcly
in an outhouse near their Sharon, S. j
C , home. Th?? body was found Jan- j
uary 23, 1929.
A.t first, the death was termed a
suicide and Mrs. King's body was
returned to Kings Mountain for fu ;
^Cont'd or page eight)
Names Of War Dead
Sought For Memorial
Namet of World War II iwrfcr
m?n of th? Kings Mountain area
who their' lives in service an*.
. being sought by Shelby VFW and
Kings Mountain Legion official*
In order that they may be correct
ty Usled on a memorial plaque to
be placed at the county court,
house. (
Friends and kin of those irh>
pcdd the supreme sacrifice are be
ing asked to forward the name*,
with particular attention to correct
spelling to Paul Llajerlck, Shelby
VFW commander, or to Ollle Har
vis. Kings Mountain Legion com
mander. not late* than Fridt-r
morning/ I?*ie 20. After that d'f".
additions and corrections cannj*
be made. Commander Harris an
nounced. "*