POPULATION
cin Units (1*40 Cmiui) B.5T4
I tnunodiato Trading Ana 15,000
(IMS Ration Board Tiqu*?)
VOL. 60 NO. 48
Kings Mountain, N. C.. Friday. December 2. 1949
Pages
Today
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Bus Terminal Powwow
Results In Stalemate
METER BSCEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for the"
Aveek which ended at noon Wed
nesday -totaled 5146.22 according
. to officials at CJty Hall. Receipts ?
"f foi^ttie previous week totaled
*150.88 for a two-week's total of
129710. - -
MOWHTAIMEERCLUB
t Directors of The Mountaineer
Club, Inc., are scheduled to meet
* 'in the office of Attorney W. Faison
'Barnes Monday night at 7:30
?o'clock. Ail directors are urged to
attend and any club members de
-siring to Attend urged to be
present.
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REVIVAL TO CONCLUDE
Revival services currently und
I arway at First Church of the Naz
arene will end Sunday morning,
? ' with the Rev. C. M Kelly, the e
'evangelist, preaching on the sub
1 Ject of a "man praying out of the
'?death cell seven hours before ex
!*cutk>n," according to announce
I ment by the pastor, "Rev. H. C.
_ ^ "Crump. Services will be held Frl
""day and Saturday evenings at 7
I -o'clock.
WARE IMraOBVED
" T*he condition of M. A. Ware, who
?l?a3 ?been confined to his heme
'lot the paStthree weeks with an
? aeut attack of bronchial astham,
' -was reported improved Thursday.
' He was expected to be confined to
"h+s home for several days more,
' however.
JATCXE MEETZMC
Officials of the Aed Cross Blood
\ mobile will speak to members of
! the Junior Chamber of Commerce
'm the regular meeting at the Wo
; man's Club at 7 o'clock Tuesday
; night, according to announcement
; 'by President Grady Howard. The !
flfaycees will sponsor the next visit
i of the Bloodmohile in Kings Moun
tain in January.
Book Fond Gifts
Now Total $791
Contribution* to the Jacob S. Mau.
rey Memorial Library Book Fund
reached $791, according to a report
this week by B. S. Ndll, member of
the ttbraiy committee.
^ 'Additional contributions totaled
<183.- >-?"? :
The fund is still less than half the 1
goal of $2,000. AH the funds are us- 1
?d to purchase new books for the 11- '
forary and it te estimated that $3v000
wiH purchase about 1,000 books at
current prices.
Persons who have notm-ade con
tributions are asked to forward
checks to Mr. NeiH or to W. K. Mau
siey.
Oorrtri but ions reported this week
Include: \ ?
Superior Stone Company $50.00
Miss Willie McGill 1.00
Mrs. H. B. Covington ljOO
Miss Ruth Beam 5 00
tesNe McGtnnis 5.00
Ideal Machine Shop A0.M,
Dixie Home Store 25.00
Kiwanls Club 50.00
Mrs. Irma W. Thomson 5.00
S?m Balldlag Nndb
Issued At City Hall
Seven building permits were issu
ed Qt City Hall during the past two)
Hftc permits -were mostly of the,
minor verity tout did call for con
struction of two new dwelling*
of permits kwuad incluri ?
| On Tuesday ? to Peeler A Thom- >
asson, erection of otfMdc doer a.
Building, ooat JP50,
t Ob Monday ? to Mrs. Bdna Call
mm, construction of a shed, $75; to
"Wilt Adams, construction of a new
fhWHSam dweHtag on Batft Sldge
construction of a garage, $75. I
SMWUI. I?W Virgin Oous ?
?r, repairs, $300. -.3
On Nov. 23? to M. (X Foston, con
struction of outside stairs, $300.
S On Nov. 21? to W. B. Lngan, con
kf*. wtruction of a rww four room dwell
Amette Says
Hell Operate
Until Jan. 1st
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The city board of commissioners
.held a two- hour conference wltfi re*
pr<Htefct*ttYes of the State UijHties
Cbrrimisskirtf ^Atlantic Greyhound
and'QueeaCtty Trail ways Thursday
monringj-but no progress was made
toward settling the dispute orver the
Kings Mountain bus terminal.
Thursday afternoon, Jack Arnette,
local bus station agent said he had
agreed with the bus companies to
continue tooperate the station at the
temporaiy E. King street site until
January 1, 1950, "unless the utilties
commission closes me up."
The city board session ended in a
stalemate, with the city board con
tinuing to decline approval of the!
E. King street site, and with the bus
companies failing to offer to make
any expenditure for operation of a \
local terminal more than the 10 per
cent commission now paid the agent
oh tickst sales.
The representatives did virtually
rule out the possibility of getting
facilities on the Herndon property
on Battleground avenue, due to dif
ficulty of getting buses in and out
ind traffic problems. Mayor U. E.
Herndon had previously remarked
"I'm twit trying to rent you this pro
perty. It's merely a matter of help
ing you out, if it can be utilized."
''Among those present at the ses
sion were Clayton Love, the Queen
City representative who had visited
the board last week, Fred Titlow, J.
A. Living tston, and W. R. Armstrong
all of Greyhound. UC Represent* -
u rives A. JfJf!or **&
remtanap' whose .name press
failed to learn. ^ v
- TiU' officials
mounted the {set that bus revenues
are declining and that they could
not afford morethan the 10 percent
commission, lite city board mem
ber^.tM^m>:MflHNr -band, Indicated
they were Mill of the opnion that
the companies could afford to make
a capital investment of one-fourth
theaitwju t toa#n In Ml mm Shelby
terminal (about $100,000) and there
M Kin^s Mountain what the
?board deemed proper terminal facil
ities. Commission Carl Mauney,
made that ^statement and Commis
sioner Hal Ward summed it up with
this statement: "I believe M you get
your hoart right and pocketbook.
ready, you can get proper facilities,
properly located."
Queen City's Clayton Love argu
ed that the Kings Mountain situa
tion was merely the difference be
tween a man living in a HmOOO
?house and renting .a four-roomer.
'If he can afford it , it's fine," Mr.
Love said, "but In this matter, we!
can't." :'v - > 1
In the discussion over bus reven
ues, Mr. Mauney contended that
Kings Mountain returned about one
- ^Cont'd on page eighth/ .1
froop Investiture
Senro"lKpbv
v: *, *
<V>r the fir* time in Kings Moun
tain, two churches have united in
la^iMiiorship of a Girl Scout troop,'
the Boyce Memorial Associated Re- ]
formed Presbyterian church and the
Fir* Presbyterian f-hurehSBajl
The troop leaders are Mrs. Dean
McDaniel, Mrs. W. L. McMackin.l
and Miss Bernice Harrtsoo4?tom the
a h p. church, and the troop mem- 1
ban are from both chufchea. They
are: (Jacqueline Arnette, Patsy Go- ;
forth, Uerry MeCarter, Carletty He
Daniel, BiiHe Ma toy, Jane Osborne,
Louise Patterson, Synthla PJo* and
Shirley Ware.
At 7:30 Sunday right Investiture
of Troop 12 Will be held at the First
Presbyterian church.
After the Call to Worship, the ser
vies will open with the entrance o I
the Flaf bearcia and Color Guards.
- ill# ipMttl pnn? (fonal will Ifit
led by Mlas Fannie Funerburke, Di
rector at the Pioneer Area, and Miss
Florence Stabler, a rear field work
er. Th? troop and -the* landers will
'oe followed by the Troop Committee
men -bets: Mrs. Jack Arnette, Mrs.
aaWMtoms and Mrs. Grady Mc
faitti, titm rTSSbyterian Browne
Scout Troop Ho. 32 with their lead
em and troop committee; ?he Pres
byterian Girl Scout Executive Com
mittee members: Mr. Paul Mauney,
Mr R. H W>bh, Mr. Hubert Oav!d
^ (Cont'd on pace eight) ^
CLUB PRESIDENT ? Howard Jack
soil, above. NeUler Mills executive.
Is the new pwrtdint of Ik* Slays
Mountain Coos try Club, succeeding
Foul M. KeisWr, Sr.
Jackson Names
Club Committees
Major standing committees of the
Kings Mountain Country Club lor
the coming year were named by
President Howard Jackson at a meet
ing of the directors held Monday
night.
They Include:
Greens: Joe A. Neisier, chairman,
Ertle Powers, H. B. Jackson, Jacob
Cooper, Drace Peeler, Otto Williams,
Hunter Neisier, W. J. Fulkerson, Co
man Falls, George Houser, R. W.
Thornburg, and George W. Mauney.
'House: Fred W. Plonk, chairman,
W. X. Mauney, Jr., Olli* Harris; L.
A. Hoke, Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr.,
Mrs Drace Peeler, Mr a. Carl Mayfls,
Mrs. Harry Page. Mrs. C. E. Warlki.
Mrs. P. D: Padgett, Frank Hoyle and
Orl P. .Finger^ -
Social: Jack Arnet to. chairman, W.
S. Fulton, Jr. M. A, Ware, Bruce Mc
Daniel, Claude Hambrtjrht, George
W. Mauney, Dr. P. G. Padgett, Mrs.
(James Simpson, Jacob Cooper, Mrs.
Paul Neisier, Mrs. George Houser,
and Martin Harmon.
Membership: Tolly Shuford, chair
man, O. W. Myers,, Dr. P. E. Hend
ricks, W. K. Crook, Harry Page, Char
?lea Neisier; \#Mam Plonk, George
Hook, Sr., C. u. Blanton, Dr. L. P.
Baker, E. W. Griffin and J. B. Keet
er
?Ne?t regular meeting <ot the di
rectors was advanced to December
9 to avoid conflict with the Lions
football banquet.
Deadline Monday
On Grid Ducats
Members of the King* Mountain!
Lion club are being reminded that!
the deadline for reservations fcr the
December 16th Lions club football
banquet is >$onday, December 5.
C. C. Edens, chairman of the ticket
committee. Mid he had contacted
most Lions, but had missed a few.
He asked that those who wish to
bring a guest to the meeting notify
him not later than Monday. Tickets
are being mailed to those who have
already made reservations.
Feature of the banquet ? honor
ing the high school football team ??
will be an address 'by Coach Carl
Snavety of North Carolina. Also
scheduled is a showing of motion
pictures of some of this season's
games, to begin at 8:30 in the high
school auditorium. The fHm showing
will be free to thowe who wish to
come, with a special section reserved
for members of the Grammar Grade
football teams.
Mrs, Thcxd Summers'
Funeral Is Friday
<
Mrs. Iliad Summers, of Statesvliie.
mother at ftoak R. Summers <4*
Kings Mountain, died Thursday
morning ?t 1 o'clock at Long hos
pital in Statesvliie.
"Funeral rlt>? are to be hrfd Fri
day morning at T1 o'clock at Broad -
street Methodist church in States
vliie. .
Mrs. Summers had suffered from
a heart ailment lor the past several
years and had been hospitalized for
the past tW> weeks.
Another son, aHo survives, Fred A.
Summers, of Bichmond, Vm. ^ _
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Discussion Heated As City Board
Makes Evans 9 Dismissal Official
Will Bay
; Bridges
The city board of commissioners,
in special .session at City Hall Mon
day afternoon, voted to purchase the
water and sewer lines of Crescerit
HU1 Development Company and the
sewer lines on Landing street.
Privteoes attached to* the unani
mous action of the board were that
the purchases would be made pro ?
videtf thftre are no legal objections
and, if legal objections, provided the
courts approve the payments.
Purchase price of the Crescent Hill
facilities Is to be $7,250, payable to
the company owned by Fred Plonk
and Hal Plonk, and purchase price
of the Landing Street facilities from
Glee A. Bridges, owner, is to be $1,
200.
The action by the board was made
on motion of Commissioner Hal D.
Ward and Commissioner Hudson j
Bridges' second after the board had
heard a report from a three-man 1
committee which had been seeking
an agreement with the persons In
volved. The c ommittee Included
Mayor J. E. Herndon, Mr. Ward and
Carl F. Mauney, and it had reported"
that the Messrs Plonk and Mr. Brid- J
ges, respectively, had agreed in writ,
ing to accept the figures set forth
In the motion. It was also reported :
that both paries claimed expendftu- 1
res for the facilities Involved tfcon- 1
siderably in excess of the amounts
agreed upon.
Money to buy the facilities the city !
board expects, to obtain froqfrtale of
honds. According 'to Jew, the toward
may Issue public improvement
bonds up to twtMrds the amount
of bonded indebtedness retired dur
ing the previous fiscal year. After
purchase of the facilities, the re
mainder of the estimated 920,000 the
board expects to issue will be used
for other improvements, the board
has Indicated in discussing the mat
ter.
Should no legal objections arise
and the purchases be made, the ac
tion will conclude a matter which
has plagued city administrations
during the past four years.
Both the Plonks and Mr. Bridges
had agreements with the city board
of 1945 which called for re-imburee.
meat for expenditures for improve
ments when a specific number of
bouses were completed. The agree
ment called for' re-imbursement by
the city at the cost of the installa
tions or the oast at time of re-im- 1
bursement, which proved the lesser.
Questions dt legality arose con
cerning the re-imbursement agree
ment, and the present administra
tion has agreed to compromise the
matter by purchasing the facilities.
Pastors Promote
Church Loyalty
Ministers of the city, most of whom
discu' "<vi the subject in sermons last
Sunday, ere in hearty cooperation 1
with the current Klwanis-sponsQred
Church Loyatty campaign, Rev J, W.
Phillips, president of the Minlserial
association said this week.
"The ministers are seeking to pro
mote the Church Loyalty campaign '
lnevery possible way," Mr. Phillips
said, "and wish to urge all citizens
to attend church during the period
between now and Christmas.
Many churches are planning spe- '
clal events in connection with the
Chi ;h Loyalty campaign. .
ts ?tocttoa art tk? oimI cmtmUm
I of tfcs cMMCictlMi f b* held la D?i
! ham asxt May. Mr. HwU wm aon*
' taorttd at tks district nitlag la
Balaaaat Tuesday ai?bt. TW district
include* l.iaoela, Cwlia. Macklta- ,
burg, Cabarrus. Ual?a aad CU?.
load counties. i
1.000 Cheer
Local Pianists
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. By DICK PITTS
Charlotte Obtnrtt
CHARLOTTE, ^<av. 30.? A capacity
audience of more than 1,000 music
> lovers Fast night hravoed Its appro -
I val of the second concert of the
season by the Charlotte Symphony
orchestra, presented at the Piedmont
Junior High school auditorium un>
der the direction of James Christian
Pfoh!.
And greatest portion of the bravoe
were directed at the young guest ar
tists, the famous Mauney twins of
Kings Mountain, who played Mo
zart's "Concerto in E KUt Major for
Two Pianos and Orchestra."
To this reviewer it was the finest
concert presented by the orchestra
during the last 17 years of its exis
tence ? and the audience seemed to
agree, being particularly reluctant
to let the Mauney twins leave the
stage. For an encore, the twins play
ed the scherzo from Mendelssohn's
"A Midsummer Night's Dream."
The writer has made a few predic
tions concerning young artists to ap
pear on the local stage, but judging
from the virtuoso musicianship dis
closed by the twins last night,
doesn't hesitate to predict a great
future for them. If they do not soon
(Cont'd on page eight)
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Three Sterchi Men
Cep Contest Prizes
Three members of Sterchl's Kings
Mountain branch are among the
winners in a recent company sales
contest on Royal Rest mattresses
with Henderson Herndon, salesman
oopping the top prize in the chain
for greatest percentage of mattress. .
essold over quota.
Mr. Herndon's record was suffici
ent for a cash prfze of $500. Joe
Towles won $125 in the office man
ager's group for being tops in the
Cerolinas division, and total sales
placed the Kings Mountain branch
third in the chain to earn Manager
E. C. McClain $300.
The men were notified of the re
sults by O. C. Bowdoin, company
president. The contest covered a pe
riod of about two months. I
City Is Not Expected To Suffer
Per Coal Dealer Hambright Says
With the United Mine Woricew
* Mtcy board decision Thursday
l\ xning to put the -miner* on a
three day per -week schedule, k ap
peared that King* Mountain would
not freeze for warn df the coal which
became "black gold" during the re
cent 52-day strike
One Blip MounMO^ dealer,
Claude HarrtbrigWt, however, Mid be
Mill exported to purchase the non
union coal until stocks were suffi
clerttly btrtlt up to assure no short
age here.
Be said he had five ears en route
here now, and estimated that the
* '-"ffV*- '? ? ' ? ? ' ;
Itkm-4?y week schedule of the mi
new would keep ooal trickling In.
He ajiftMi that He is still rationing
egg and lump ooal to one ton per
customer. Stoker and furnace coal is
not being rationed.
Information from the mine own
er* Thursday morning, Mr. qaafcri
ght aaid, was that the mtnem ware
in very grumbling *pirk because of
the strike which Went Into effect at
midnight Wedtveaday. They Mt that
they should be wotWttg wMh Christ
mas near, operators at KnoxvfUe
and WilHamdburg) toM Mr. Ham
bright. ? 'J 'V'.
Vote Was 4-1 -v
At Special
Monday Session
By Martin Harmon
The city board of commissioners .
stood hitched Monday afternoon on
the matter of discharging City Engi
neer Joe S. Evans.
Commissioner Hal Ward made the
motion to relieve the cHy engineer of
his duties, effective December 31.
and T. J. Ellison seconded. The ratr
was 11, with Hudson Bridges and
A. H. Patterson Joining the majority,
and Carl F. Mauney voting "no."
The motion ?nd vote were virtu,
ally the same as they had been at
the unofficial executive session,
with the exception that Carl Maun
ey was present and voted as he had
indicated he would.
The meeting was not without wnt
strong discussion, after City Engi
neer Joe Evan3 had first listed a
few reasons he felt he had been
earning his pay and further told
the board he would like to stay on it
it reconsidered.
Mr. Evany remarks were com
pletely without rancor and animos
ity, but the bill of charges he had
asked for were not completely
phrased.
The strongest part of the discus
sion involved Carl Mauney and Her
ald Editor Martin Harmon, both of
whom spoke in faivor of the princi
pal of hiring an executive at City
Hall, on the one side, and Mayor
Herndon and Commissioner Patter- ,
son, on the other. The Herald editor
did not enter the discussion until in
ferentially taken to tadk by Mr. Hon
don and Mr. Patterson concerning
some of the details in the story ap
pearing in the November 25th issue
which reported the discharge of Mr.
Evans.
Main points were denial by Mayor
Herndon that he ever made th?
"Evans or me" remark, and denial
that a meeting had been calle* in
September for -the purpose oC termi
nating the city engineer's servists
with the city. Commissioner Patter
son said no such meeting was called
but admitted the matter had been
talked as long as three months ago.
On contest, he did not deny that h<?
was doing some technial hair-split
ting.
In making the motion, Mr. Ward
said he would repeat it as previous
ly made and add>kl that he felt fully
justified in that action. At this point
Mr. Evans asked that the reasons be
given, but Mr. Ward declined, stat
ing that the hour was late and he
had an appointment. He said, he
would give them, however.
There was not further discussion,
and the vote was taken after Mr. El
lison's second. Mr. Ellison had
agreed In the discussion that the
previous administration had accom
plished little before employing an
executive. .
Two minor reasons for the board's
action ? in addition to .the Mayor
al statement of last week that the
board deemed the position unnec
essary to the operation of the city
at the current time ? cropped out In
the course of the discusBlon, Mayer
Herndon and Commissioner Patter
son mentioned that complaints ht4
been received that the city engiaesr
was not in his office enough sad
that the city office frequently dMafe
know where he wss. Mr. Evans
pointed out he could get more done
by working outside in the dsy sad
attending fo book matters at night.
The other possible reason Mr. Dvaao
brought up himself. He addremi
Commissioner Bridges and told Mas
thst the rumor, credited to Mr. Brid
ges, thtt Evans had hired sn out -of
town engineer to assist hkn In *
aide -walk 'laying job was untrae. It
(Cont'd on page eight)
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