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Population City Limits (1940 Cmwu) 6.574. Immediate Trading Aiea 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) Established 1889 1 A Pages 14 Today PRICE FIVE CENTS ? Local News Bulletins . FjjIOLY OAT Sunday will be Family t>ay at. the First Baptist church. In , .cooperation with the the^e .JSP,;, the month o f March, all mettl' jj toers are being urged to bring the family to Sunday school and church on Sunday. , LEGION SQUARE DANCE Regular Friday night square dance sponsored by Otis D. Green Poet 155, American Le gion, will begin at the Legion building at ? o'clock, con tin ?uing until midnight. The dan ce is open to the public. . KIWAN13 MEETING Rev. J. C. Cornette, of oolnton, was to address mem ber# of the Kings Mountain Kl wanls club ^fttipfular tog Thursday night The {%, gram was arranged by L. EL' . .V^STOEY HOUR ? Regular Friday afternoon story hour will begin at Jacob 6. Mauney Library at 4 o'clock. Mrs. P. D. Patrick will serve a* story -teller, with Mrs. t{ G. Oarracott as hostess. The story this week Witt be for all child ren. - " '".'/r"';" ? ""*?> BUILDING PERMITS Building permits were issued this week to J.- Earl Seism, on Tuesday, for construction of a new tour-room dwelling on East Gold sheet, $2,000, and to E. S. Medlin, on Monday, for construction of a new three room dwelling on Canaler street. *1*00. , LEGION SUTTER Bill uf fare for the regular Saturday night supper of Otis D. Green Post 195, American Legion, will he "hamburgers and 'taters," according to an* nouncement by David Delevie, peat adjutant. The supper will he served at the LegJOn build ' FILM AT AW CHtJftCH Hie conversion of St. Paul wW he *hown at Boyce Memo rial ARP church at 7:30 Saba bth night. This film shows the per mutton of the followers of Christ by Saul of Tarsus In his determination to stamp out the ?movement, .This Is a "faithful. . account of his cdnverskm .as. given In Acts 9." The public Is cordially invited. BUILDING BEGUN The congregation of Pint Baptist church voted Sunday to accept recommendations of the church building committee fea the three-story addition to the educational building, and Clyde T. Bennett, general con tractor, was already at work on the project Thursday. ON BONOS ROLL Sue Seism, of Kings Moun tain, was among the 88 Gard ner-Webb college students who ; '-jOfBd e the scholastic honor roll tor (he first six weeks of ths current semester, according to announcement from Mrs. Doro thy Hamriek, registrar. LODGE MEETING Falrview Lodge, 339, A. F. & A. M., will hold an emergent communication at the Masonic Hall Saturday night at 7:30 for work In the third degree, It was announced by Paul Walker. All Master Masons are Invited to DIVISION MEETING Representatives from all clubs of Ki wants Division I are pi expected to attend a meeting of the Kings Mountain Ktwants olub next Thursday night, Mar ch 30. Also expected to atiend are district officials Or in Crowe and Hubert Hennlg, according to announcement in the "Sin awlk", cluto bulletin, More Activity Being Noted For County Posts As was anticipated, local level poltlcs began to move at a faster pace this week, following the close last Saturday noon of fil ing time for district and state of fices. Though filing deadline for, candidates who seek county and township offices does not fall un til April IS, there was an evident quickening of the pace during the past week, with several tangible evidences. They included: CI) Announcement Wednesday by Incumbent County Commis sioner Zeb V. Cline, A. C. Brack* ett and Henry W. McKinney that they would seek re-election. ?2) Annuoncement here by Ol* lie Harris that tie would week re election as county coroner. (3) Expressed Interest by sev eral local citizens that they would seek nomination and elec tion as Number 4 Township con stable. (4) Announcement by A. 'Mi barker, route 1, Casar, that he will seek nomination for the county school board. (5) Announcement by R/ fcl" Plonk, veteran Kings Mountain members, that he will not seek re-nomlnatlon to the county school board. (tfhder the school board set-up, the state legislature appoints members of the county school board. With a large Democratic majority in all "General Assem blys of recent vintage, it has been practice to appoint Democratic nominees. Announcement of candidacy by the Incumbent commissioners and by Mr. Harris had been antic ipated, as was the announcement toy Mr. Plonk that he would not ?fer again. Mr. Plonk had indi cated to friends and to county school officials several months ago that he would not seek re nomination. Since Mr. Plonk was the only the^e^'lt **** bowii wl*? W?* 1,1 j^whettser some osodtda te fronf BP** section would announce. Considered as a possible school board candidate was Whitney Well* of the Dixon community. Other possibilities of Candida (Cont'd on page eight) Band Campaign | Work Underway I A solicitation organization tor the Band Fund campaign was set Mf *** ***** Work this week, though Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, chairman sakl he -as yet had no thlTdrive m ?a th* of The steering committee for the fund campaign, augmented toy a large number of Band -Parent as social Ion members and interested dtizeiw, includes W. K. iSun^ Jr., Industrial, Mrs. Hunter Neis tor- uptown business, Mr?. Hal D. Ward and Mrs. W. G. Gran them, outlying tousktess, and John h. McCill. civic clubs of the fund drive is $1,800. (The figure was inadvertently gi the Herald last week at &500.) The money is used for the pur chase of uniforms, equipment, fcU*^Jlndw<?h't oece**ties for thefttngs Mountain school band. Dr. Hendricks, himself a for mer director of the school board, ?"rfktence that the $1^800 will be obtained. 'The people of Kings Moun tain have always been very (lib eral in their support of the band, andthey still will be," Dr. Hen | d ricks commented. FORENSIC TOURNAMENT CONTESTANTS ? Metered abor* am ttofenimmbm of the King* Mountain high school dramatics dab who participated la the annual forensic erent hold at Loo Edwards .high school in Ashevllle last Friday and Saturday. Clarisso Smith, second from loft holding cupt, was dodazod winner in the recitation division. Othor entrants worn, loft to right Harold England, Sonny McDaniel and Joan Cash. (Photo hy Hord Studio.) Board Indicates p( )K ' County Board Members Offer For Re-Election The Shelby Dally Star Wednes day quoted members of the 'Cle veland County Board of Commis sioners as indicating they would support the proposal, currently galng favor, of a five-man coun ty board. If this la what the people want, we want tt too," the Star quoted the commissioner. "In some way? wethlnk it wottd toe Time thing to have a larger board of commissioners," con tinued the Star, quoting the hoard. The proposal was publicly ad vanced last week by the Kings Mountain Herald in an editorial entitled 'Five-Man Board." it has the support of a number of Kings Mountain political 'lea.!**.*, who take the position that a fWe man board would give the coun ty better representation and, con currently, better government. Local leaders have expressed a preference for a district or ward arrangement, whereby the 11 townships of Cleveland county would toe carved into five wards, with a commissioner from each. [At the same time, citizens would vote for their fWe favorites, one from each ward or district. Change of the number and me thod of electing members of the county board would have to be enacted by legislative act of the General Assembly. Formal en dorsement of the plan by the county board of commissioners would be tantamount to enacting the changes, local political lead ers think, provided there devel oped no particular objection to the proposal crrr court Three cases, two in which de fendant* were convicted on Charges of public drunkenness were heard in regular weekly session of City Recorders court held at City Hall Monday ?fter I noon. Judge w. Falson Barnes, who presided, posted a fine of 160 and costs on W. N. Aber nathy after convicting him of speeding and carrying a con cealed weapon. "When 1 wm * boy {ricking cot ton l uted to toll ?ty dad that I wkm i i d been t**n **> far north oC Ae Mason-Dixon Hue that 1 never nw ? stalk of cotton." That WM the <epiy at I. Clyde Randle, who Had Just received (ho am Efficient Production A view Farm dairy, when asked why ho had jumped into dairying m the cot ton country. Mr. Handle received a beauti ful plaque, size 11 lnch?o by 18 fnchea, from the Notional Dairy Products Corporation after hav ing been Judged by the state a warda committee of the hairy Herd 'Improvement Association. | Rings Mountain some 30 years ago. Bio parents, W. T. and AMe Sheppard Randle, recently cele brated their 57th wedding armi **Yep, used to raise cotton. My Mg oOtton year was to 1?"1 when we produced 40 bales on 90 acme and sold them the next spring tor $ mud one-quarter cents * pound after lightning hod struck my barn and kiUad my mulea," Mr. Handle continued hie cotton story. "Last cotton planted on the place was in 1*46 by a tenant and to 1MB we made four bales to two acres. Back then It used to coat J&80 per 100 so got the ??t TO ADDRESS CLUB? J. Nat Ham . rick. Rutherford ton lawyer and a candidate lor Coifnn from tht Uth Congressional district, will members of Mb* lions dub at their ; rsynlar meeting Tuesday night, anofdinf to an nouncement by Hilton lath, pre* gram chalnn&n, The club meets at the Womoa'i Club ?t 7 o'clock. IS 01 Area On tan Duly Fifteen Kings Mountain area citizens have been named ' m*" mong the 68 eeneus enumerators for Cleveland county, according to announcement last weekend. Enumerators named in the Kings Mountain area include; Mrs. Hazel H. Fryer, Mrs. Virgin* la Helen Harris, Mrs. Edna W. Hord, Mis. Lela B. Jackson, Thomas Hoyt Matthews, Mrs Harrie Lea McCaiter, Mrs. Eliz abeth J. McDanlel, William A. McSwain, Mm. Patricks W. Pat terson, Robert M. Patterson, Mrt Lucia D. Phillips, Mrs. Mary Nor ma Powers, Beuna Mae Robetrs, Mrs. Frances B. Wolfe, and Albert S. Crisp, of Grower. The taking of the 17th decen nial census Is scheduled to begin on April 1. The enumerators Mil attend' a four-day school at the district census office in Gastonia begin ning March 27. Hoyt Cuntagham, of Gastonla, is supervisor of the census for the , lith Congressional district. City Is Improving S. Piedmont Avt. The cflty sheet department was at tvork thLs weok Improving ? portion of flout* Piedmont ave nue, from the pc*t office line to Goidetreet Working on the east side of the street, the Wty is Shaping up rfiouldsrs and out in f ' a side walk, in an effort to make the street wider and safer for trrf Hi. ' , ; 7." Z It wss also antldMtMt th?? ?ha Expected To Foreclose On Mill Soon Definite action on the sale of DuCourt Mills,' Inc., 'properties was deferred again on Monday. The Associated Press reported that Federal Referee Herbert Lo wenthal had Informed counsel for Pilot Life Insurance, holder of first mortgage in the properties of the bankrupt, that the referee would approve a foreclosure or der when submitted. Kings Mountain Attorney J. R. Davis, handling an account a gainst DuCourt for collection, said he was informed by Sidney Krause, attorney for the trustee in bankruptcy, that Pilot's coun sel had an order drawn for pre sentation on Monday, but that technical errors were found, pre venting its acceptance. The indication was, therefore, that Pilot Life Insurance will pro ceed with the foreclosure, and that the DuCourt properties will be sold at auction at the court house door In Shelby In the near future. It Is also assumed here that that action will be an open one, with no upset price. Polot's mortgafe Is for $150,000, .plus interest. Taking precedence over the first mortgage are coun ty and city tax bills in the aggre gate amount of $22,847.99, plus some additional -penalties. The Associated Press reported that Mr, Krause told the referee that negotiations were underway with Courtland Palmer, President of RusselvlHe Mills, Inc., the lat tar second mortgage-holder, whereby the second mortgage claim of <125,000 would be reduc ed to $72,000, which in turn would result in a lowering of the original upset price to $300,000. However, Mr. Davis said that Mr. Krause did not metnion this de velopment to him. 'Only bid on the property Mon .day was plaoed by Alfred J. Con Worti, of New York, who bid $72, Garden Expert To Speak Here Mrs. Cora A. Harris, garden con sultant and garden editor of the Charlotte News, will speak here to members of the Kings Moun tain Garden Club and other in terested citizens on the evening of April 11 at City Hall. Mrs. Harris, widely known au thority on gardens, will discuss "Continuity of Bloom In the Shrubbery and Flower Border." The program was arranged for the Garden Club by Mr*. H. C. Mayes^ who made the announce ment. In addition to her work for the Charlotte News, Mrs. Harris writes a monthly column called "Living tor Young Homemakers" for the magazine "Mademoi selle," and has previously done articles for several other nation ally-circulated magazines. The Garden Chib ts extending an invitation to ?W citizens inter ested in gardening to hear Mrs. Barrt* Concord faycees Visit Local Group Highlight of the regular meet ing of the Kings Mountain Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, held at the Woman's dub Tuesday night, was a visit by aome half doosen Concord Jayoees. The visiting group was push ing the candidacy of A1 Brown for third district vice-president of the state organization. Jacob Cooper, of the Kings Mountain club, is retiring from the Job Mr. Brown seeks. Btyi Howard, Brown's cam paign chairman, made ? short ? elk and presented hi* candidate to the local group. Brown is cur rently state agricultural chair-, man and is a combat veteran of j Worid War II, \ Two new M>mbws ? Paul Bid Clx and hoy Costner ? ?were eSoomed into the club by Bill Fulton, membership chairman. The club voted to present the "minstrel" show again at a date end place to be announced. Dr. lldllw Moves HU Local Office J $18,000 City Bond Issue Sells At Record <Low Rate Of Interest TO PBEACH HERE ? Si. Hunter B. Blakely. president of Qaevni i College of Charlotte, will dellv or the sermon Sunder? morning at Pint Presbyterian church. College Head To PieacfcHere Dr. Hunter B. Rlakely, of Char lotte, president of Queen's Col lege, will deliver the sermon at regular 11 o'clock services at First Presbyterian church on Sun day morning. The sermon of Dr. Blakely will be among the features of the church's observance of "Christian Education Sunday." Also visiting the church Sun day for the Sunday school hour will be Miss Summers Tatlton, head of the Queens department of religious education, and Mias &Belva Morse, AJleen Kabrich L Danda Oxner, Queens stu dents majoring In religious edu cation. The public is cordially invited to hear this outstanding educa tor and minister," Rev. P. D. Pa trick, the pastor, said, In making the announcement. Jaycee Leaden Vote Donations Directors of the Kings Moun tain Junior Chamber of Com merce conducted a considerable amount of business at their Mar ch meeting, according to report in "The Jayceer," club bulletin edi ted by Dr. D. F. Hord. Included in the several actions of the board were donations of $30 to the Kings Mountain Girl Scout organization and $50 to the school Bible teacher salary fund. The latter donation was in the form of a "bonus donation," the Jayoees having contributed $75 to this fund several months ago. Other aotions of the board In cluded appointment of a nomi nating oommittee, ladies' night banquet committee, and road sign committee. The nominating committee in cludes: W. S. Pulton, Jr., chair man, Jacob Cooper, Hoyle (Snooks) McDantel, W. B. Logan and Martin Harmon. The road sign committee (to build or purchase <Jaycee signs for placement on major highways leading into Kings Mountain) in cludes Ben Ballard, chairman, Fred Wright, Jr., Elmer Rhea, and Dracfe Peeler. The ladies night committee in? eludes Charlie Thomasson, chair man Drace Peeler, J. T. McGinnis, [Bill Lindsay and Martin Harmon. - METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week which ended On Wed nesday totaled $165.78 accord ing to a report from the office of S. K. Orouse, city clerk. j EJOCCtrnVE MEETING Members of the Cleveland Rutherford Executives club will hear an address by I Lei and Stowe^ ptiae- winning nmmng at Gardner MemorkU IP First National Purchases City Issue At 1.72 City water and sanitary sewer bonds sold for ai record low in terest rate Tuesday. The total of $18,000 sold for the City of Kings Mountain by the Local Government commission, in Raleigh, went to the First Na tional Bank, of Kings Mountain, ave*age interest rate of V '26 percent. ' ' Previous low was on of street bonds issued in 1946 at an average interest rate of 1.75. ft. S. Dickson Company, Char lotte brokerage firm, handled the transacticr* for the King? Moun tain banking institution, which also purchased $75,000 of the $75, 000,000 road bonds Sold by the State of North Carolina Tuesday, The R. S. Dickson firm arrang ed purchase of the state bonds they were purchased on tow bid by Chase National Bank of New York. The state bonds were sold at an average Interest rate of 1.523 percent. will mature at the rate of $1,000 will mature at teh rate of $1,000 annually beginning in 1952. and continuing to 1957, and the the rate of $2,000 annually thereafter final bond is matured in 1963, "The First National Bank is particularly happy that It was able to bid successfully on the City of Kings Mountain bonds," ?aid F. R. Summers, president, and w? were also glad to obtain a portion of the state road bond tsmia. The bank leak fortunate hi being in the position of investing both in the city lh which k lives and the state in which it lives." Tke city's issue includes $9, 000 for water extensions and $9, 000 for sewer extensions, With a total of $8,450 of the amount ear marked for purchase of water and sewer lines in Crescent Hill and for purchase of waterllnfts on Landing street. fink To Give Easter Message W. Fink, pastor of Oraoe Methodist church, will de t?!f ho m!ssa?? at the annual Easter Sunrise service sponsored by the Kings Mountain Minister ial association. _The program is scheduled to S?1 a- m- April 9th and will be held at Memorial Parte, Mountain Rest cemetery accord - ifgtFi^V w^- Ph,l,,ps' pa#tor ?L, k W ^ We?leyan Methodist church and secretary of the asso ciaWon, who made the announce ment. . *jngs Mountain school band, under direction of Joe Hed vW Zlll &**in precludc **? <*'? vice wkh a concert and th? re cently organized Community Chorus will sing an anthem. Large crowds have witnessed the impressive service for the past several seasons. Community Chorus Soloists Named Soloists tor the Community Chorus have been announced by Franklin Pethel, director, ?? fol lows: Soprano: Miss Alice Ridenhour, Miss Dottte Smith. - Alto: Miss Sarah Alexander, Mrs. James McSwain. Tenor: Rev. L, C. Plnnix. Baritone: B. S. Peeler, Jr. Bass: W. P. Fulton. Jr., and I. B. Goforth, Jr. Thechoroug which lnokide? ap proximately 60 voices will pre sent the con tat*, "Eastertide,'' by Prothero, on Sunday evening, April 2, fei the high schOol atKti torlum at 7:30 o'clock. Accompa nists will be Miss Bonnie Mcln ; sEfcK.3 Mt-tuEcnrioii ? J. oiu? Harris. county coroner and prom inent Kings Mountain moittdafc officially filed notlc? of candl. dacy lor re-tlection on Wirtnii" day with the county election* board. I? . " Harris Announces Foi Re-Election Kings Mountain had its first of ficial candidate for county office this week. Ollte Harris, well-known and popular Kings Mountain morti cian. announced he would be a candidate for renominatlon end re-election as county coroner, subject to the May 27 Democratic primary. Mr. Harris who was reared in Shelby, has been a citizen o< Kings Mountain for the past three years, since he purchased FuH<m ! Mortuary, which he has rince op erated successfully as Harris Fu neral Home. ' Since becoming a citizen of Kings Mountain, Mr. Harris has been very active in .Civic affairs of the community. He is a past commander of Otis D. Green Poet 155, American Legion, a member of the VFW, a Mason and a Lion. He is currently serving as chair man of the fund campaign of the Kings Mountain chapter, Amer ica,, Red Cross, and last year was lean . ... . Number 4 town chairman or Tn. . ship March of Dimes campings. He is a member of the Firetf, Baptist church. Mr. Harris officially filed his candidacy Wednesday. Fulton And Davis Contests Set Friday Annual contests to determine winners of the Fulton reading medal and Davis declamation medal will be held at Central high school Friday morning dur ing the regular chapel period ac cording to announcement by Ho well Lane, principal. Winners of the medals will re present Kings Mountain in the annual ooilnty reading and ora torical opntesrts. The Fulton reading medal i* presented annually by H. Tom Fulton in memory of his sister, for many years a teacher in Kings Mountain schools. The con test 1? open to high school girls and was won last year by Miss Jean Lynch, who also won the county Schoolmasters reading contest held at Gardner-Webb college on April 23, 1949. The Davis declamation medal, presented annually by J. R. Da vis, prominent Kings Mountain attorney and school man, b giv en to the high school boy who ia adjudged the best orator. De mauth Blanton was the 1949 win ner and also won the county Hoey oiucorical contest held at Gard ner-Webb college on April 11, Both Miss Lynch and Mr. Blari- . ton survived county preliminary contests held In Shelby prior to the finals and went on to give Kings Mountain a clean svwoop of the contests. Foetal fob Deadline ? Falls April 4. 195* } bate* dots fee the position ef~ substitute ? at the K" m petteHloa is April 4* 1950, according to enaouace ment ysstssdery by Marlon C, Fan*, secretary of the local ?!? Applications for the position at the iwtitllM should be tilled to the offta* of the Di llltll, rourth 0. 9. Civil Sor ttH heaiou. Temporary Build ing V ted and Jeffetsoa DWus. S, W. Washington, D. C. The position *1 substttuto dork-carrier U on hourly ratod ?aa paying 91 JlS por hour b Talent Show To Be Held F'rida |p! Thnnday Show Canceller The 3rd Annual Lion* Talent Show will be ? one-nigh; Affair after all. It wn? announced Oil* Week by Chairman Gene Timm*. Mr. TImms said entrle* in some divisions were Insufficient for ft two-night program, a* had been Scheduled, an<* tfjat the two pro m ? i * -* M ? ? *-* * ? ' *? ? gfn m ptrat wouKi d# coruonoiica fot one large performance, to be held Friday night ?t 8 o'clock at high school auditorium. - The talent popular spring promotion of the Lton* club for the pa* two y?M% 1 ffetW and feature* a variety of ama teur act e by Ktogs Mountain area school children. Admission fr?r the Friday night show Is 30 cent* for students, 60 cents forftdult* Mr. Ttmms also announced a change in the prtoe list for win ners, a* foHows: first, sttver cup; second, 91ft; third, $10; fourth, f5. | "We are looking forward to a (good show," Mr. Tlmrae said, "w'th particularly keen competi tion" . I I . ' .V -- *?'? * *" W ? ? -