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Population City Limits (1940 Census) 6.574. Immediate Trading Ana 15.000 (IMS Ration ftond Figures) 1 C Pages I D Today Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. 61 NO. 14 Commissioners Favor Expansion of Board Local News Bulletins METER RECEIPTS A total of $177.08 was collec ted from parking meters Wed nesday representing the regu ,ler weekly collection according to a report by City Clerk S. A. Crouse. ?' . 'ri;'-,:" LEGION SQUARE DANCE Regular weekly square dance of Otis D. Green Poet 135, 'A* merioan Legion, will be held at the Legion Building from 8 p. m. to midnight Friday. The affair is open to the public. SENSOR FLAT Hie annual senior class play, which has been announced for Aprila?, will be fie.d on Fri poMrtfeg ?o an nouneemtat by JtaMell Lane, Oentrarl school principal. WE3LETAN SPEAKER Rev. Lyman F. Lance, presi dent of the North Carolina ooi. ference of the Wesleyan Me thodist church, will deliver the sermon at First Wesieyan Me thodist church here at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. It was an nounced by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Phillips. MINISTERS' MEETING Rev. C. Wesley Lovin, pastor of Firestone Wealeyan Metho dist church, will speak to mem bers of the Kings Mountain Ministerial association at* meeting of the organization Monday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Matthew's Lutheran church. ? BUILDING PERMITS Building permits were issu ed to E. T. Plotton Tuesday for construction at five new five room houses on Oriental ave nue at an estimated cost of $12,000. Permit was issued on Wednesday to Murphy Hill for construction of a new seven room brick house on West King street, estimated cost $20,000. LEGION SUPPER The weekly Saturday night supper of Otis D. Green Poet 155, American 'Legion, will fea ture a menu of ham and eggs, according to the \freekly an nouncement of club activities by Commander Paul Mauney. Supper will be served to "iem ben and other eligible veter ans at the Legion Building be tween the hours of 6:30 and 9 o'clock. TO HEAR CANDIDATE Charles ?. Hamilton, of Gas tonia, candidate lor the 11th "district Democratic Congres sional nomination, will speak to mem bers of the Kings Moun tain Lions clyb at their regu lar meeting at the Woman's Club Tuesday night at seven ?o'clock. Announcement was , made by Hilton Ruth, program chairman. Mr. Hamilton will be the third of four candidates tor the office to address the elub. Wood row Jones and J. Nat Hamrick having previous dy made addresses to the Lions, ^Sp^iDngs Mountain golf ers are planning to attend the ?emi-Hirl and final rounds of the Augusta, Ga., Masters tount-1 ament this w?*end. Tie group plans to leave Sat urday morning and catch the Saturday semi-final 18 hols* and the Sunday finals, ?lso 16 holes. His group lncidHfcs Buck Press Trtly Shuford, Amos Dean, Carl (t^Fattsfw. k'oS* and BL O. (Toby) Williams. County Fathers Pass Besolution For 5-Man Body Creation of a five-man board of Cleveland County commission ers appeared assured this week, a s the present three-member board unanimously passed a res olution Monday favoring the ex pansion of board membership. In the resolution, according to report of the Shelby Daily Star, the commissioners requested the representatives of the General Assembly of 1951 to introduce legislation .to bring about the change. The commissioners also sug gested that the county be zoned into districts by township, with each of the five zones to be as nearly equal in population as possible. ? . ? . ji ' ? ' According to the plan advanc ed, one commissioner would be elected from each zone, though the election would be "at large," that is, ail citizens of the county would vote for one commissioner from each district or zone. It was also suggested by the commissioners that machinery be worked out for interim appoint ment of two 'members of the board, on enactment Off the legis lation. The legislation would come be fore the General Assembly as a "looal" hill. Action by the Gen eral Assembly, while mandatory for passage, is usually perfunc 'tory, when both representatives seek passage of a local b#l Appearing before the board at its Monday meeting in support of the proposal were Senator Lee B. Weathens, Representative B. - Falls, Jr., and Glee A. Bridges and Arnold Klser. # # Members of the county board of commissioners are Zeb V. Cline, chairman, A. C. Brackett and H. W. McKinney. Choir To Sing The Holy City" ' The choir of Central Methodist church win sing Alfred Gaul's "The Holy City," In a special Good Friday program at the church on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. , ?ol?fc9ts w111 be featured in the two-part choral presenta tion. They are Miss Betty Falls, James Throneburg, Burlie Peel er, Jr., Miss Dotty Smith and Mlas Betty Cash, members of the chair, and Franklin Pethel, guest soli 1st. The program lists Miss Bonnie Mcintosh as organist and choir director, Miss Barbara Gault, as sistant organist, and Miss Jean ene Hallman, as guest pianist The pootlude will be Bach's "Concerto in A Minor." Members of the choir are; So pranos ? Jo Ann Falls, Shirley Falls, Winifred Fulton, Barbara Gault, Elizabeth Hunt, Patsy Jol ly, Jean Cash, Betty Fall#, Dotty Smith and Betty Wilson; Altcs Mra. Y. F. Throneburg, Mm. J. B. Psy*nr, Betty Cash, Barbara Grantham, Jo Anr. Wright, Mrs. Eugene Goforth; Tenors ? Arth Peeler, Jr., and Bill Allea l Ben Goforth, Jr.! Board Announces Beth-Waie Box Boundaries The Cleveland Coynty elections board this week announced the boundaries of the newly created Beth -Ware precinct, which will be used as a voting place tor the first time in the May 27 primary The new precinct is carved principally out of the former West Kings Mountain precinct, and it means that all eligible vo ters living within the new bound aries will cast their votes at the new polling place. While thej board has not designated the lo cation of the polling places, it is assumed that the voting will be conducted at Beth-Ware school C. H. Hendrix, board chairman, j said the new voting precinct was created on request by "a number of citizens in the Beth-Ware area." He added that the addition of the precinct would serve to al leviate voting -day jum-ups at the West Kings Mountain box. The boundaries of Beth -Ware precinct toltow: ' "BEGINNING with United States Highway No. 74 at the Bridge over Buffalo Creek; thence north up Buffalo Creek to Muddy 1&5 East to the Oats Place; thence East with Kings Mountain and Waco Road to Ebenezer School; thence South to Putnam's Store; thence South to R. F. Elam's Rock Houoe; thence Southeast to O. A. Rhea Farm; thence Southeast to Rufus Phifer"*; thence Southwest to Old Kings Mountain and G ro ver Highway; thence with this highway southwest to Long Branch; thence West with Long Branch to Beason's creek, and with Beason's Creek to Buffalo Creek; and thence up Buffalo Creek to Highway 74, the Be ginning." Cancel Drive Qaota Is $250 Kings Mountain's quota in the nation-wide fund campaign for the National Cancer Society will be $750 it was announced this week by Mrs. J. H. Arthur, who will serve as chairman of the campaign. Other members of the cam paign committee are Mrs. Au brey Mauhey, co-chairman, Mrs. Hayne Blackmer and Mrs. L. E. Abbott. The cancer fund drive is an an nual project of the senior Wo man's Club. Last year, Kings Mountain over-subscribed its quota by $500. The Cleveland county quota Is $3,000. Mrs. Arthur said the drive be gins throughout the nation on April 10. ? Fundi* raised in the campaign are used for research in efforts to find methods of curing the dread disease. "Kings Mountain has been most generous In supporting this campaign in the past," Mrs. Ar thur said. "Certainly the need is great. Other diseases have been virtually stamped out, and there Is good possibility for eliminating cancer as a killer if sufficient funds are provided." Mrs. Hold's Father Mm; Bit? Held Funeral rites for Winfred T. Turner, 54, father of Mrs. Forrest Hord of Kings Mountain, were held at Bethlehem Baptist chur ch, Gastonia, Thursday after noon. ? v Mr. Turner, a Gastonia cab op erator, was pronounced dead at Memorial hospital, Charlotte, af ter M ng Involved in a traffic ac cident. Death was attributed to a heart attack. The accident oc curred in Charlotte ?bout 1 o' <0o6ls Tuesday. Pre-Easter wRjpi Correct Guess of City Census Is Worth $15; The Herald is announcing to day a one-week contest whereby some Number 1 or Number 5 Township citizen may win $lf?. The rules are very simple. Mere ? ly guess the official 1960 census for the City of Kings Mountain. A blank for the convenience, of citizens who wish, to mail in their guess Is printed below. Persons entering the contest should be sure that the blanks are filled in l%gibly and correctly. The rules of the contest: (1) Contest closes at 5 p. m. Friday. April 14/1950. (Mail en tries must bear postmarks not la ter than this hour and date.) (2) The contest is open to all ci tizens of No. 4 Se 5 Townships, with the exception of the Imme diate families of the several enumerators in the Kings Moun tain area and employees of thej Kings Mountain Herald and their | Immediate families. (3) Entries must be on the blank printed in today's edition of the Herald, or on copies of the blank which are obtainable at 1 the Herald office on S. Piedmont avenue. v (4) In case of a tie, the $15 prize will be divided equally a mong the winners. I ? (5) Should .none guess the ex act number, the person or per sons closest to the official 1950 j census figure for Kings Moun | tain will be declared winner of the contest. (6) The award will be made as quickly as the official census fi gure is announced. (7) The. contest is not open to children under 12 years qt age. Fill In This Blank-Win $15 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, Kings Mountain, N. C. My estimate of the official population' of the City of Kings Mountain for 1950 is Name , Street address . ?Gity. . .v.V..vV;t v...... (Mall or bring this blank to the Kings Mountain Herald, Kings Mountain, N. C. Entries mutt be received not later than 5 p. m. Friday, April 14, 1950, or postmarked not later than that hour and date Please typewrite information above or print It legibly.) i Jaycees Heard Nat Hamrick "We need to take every func tion out of Washington that can be taken out and put them in the states and we need to take ev ery function out of the states and put them into local govern J ments. We need to bring back to the people their government so they can watch it" Those were the closing words by J. Nait Hamrick, 11th district congressional candidate, in a speech delivered at the regular I meeting of the Junior Chamber of j Commerce Tuesday night at the | Woman's Club. Mr. Hamrick congratulated the Junior Chamber of Commerce on Itfe national campaign In favoi of the Hoover Commission bills and cite# several facts included in that report in picturing the I "Frankenstein" present federal government, ' "We have allowed our govern ment to grow too big ? we have dodged our responsiblHtles in al lowing this "Frankenstein" to he created," he said. "America sprang from free men under the only new form of government ev er recorded. England, under the rule of William, The Conqueror, did not advance In 700 years of pianned economy but in 164 years ' this newest Idea at government ' has seen this country prosper and advaneo as no other ever has The biggest threat to our free dom and individual energy and initiative, the things that have made America what is is today, is the present size of our govern ment," he continued. W. Faison Barnes introduced Mr. Hamrick. Several committee reports were made prior to Mr. Hamrick 's ad dress, including report of the nominating committee. W. S. FuMon, Jr., chairman, read the nominating committee report which fisted Mr. Barnes for president; Dr. D. F. Hord, for first vice-president; Ralph (Fros ty) Spearman, for eeoond vice president; Dean Payne, for secre tary; I. Ben Ooforth, Jr., for treas ure*; Yates Harbinson, tot ser gearit-at-arras; C. F. Thomasson, Fred Weaver and ? 'SMS1. Curdy, for directors; and (Stumpy) Houser for (tie remain ing one year of Dr. Hord'e dkec l$V(Cora'd on page eight) Center Monday Will Be Holiday __J OPENS OFFICE HERE ? Dr. L. T. Anderson, above, native of Glen wood. Iowa, announced this week opening of hit office In the Mor rison Building for the practice of chlropracttcs. Dr. Andeison Opens Office 1 1 . 0 . V Dr. L. T, Anderson announced this week opening of of/ices in Kings Mountain for the practice of chiropractic*. .His office will be located up stair* in the Morrison building on Battleground road. * A veteran of past war In which he served overseas for three years, Dr. Anderson graduated from Lincoln Chiropractic Col lege, Indiannapolis, Ind., and tool: post graduate work at Logan Chiropractic -College, St. Louis, He successfully completed the North Carolina state board exam ination in Raleigh in May 1949. Dr. Anderson is a native of Gieenwood, Iowa, and now re sides at the home of Mrs. Edith Goforth, on South Piedmont av -Mf V ' He ts tingle, to a maeofi, and Is a member of the * Mettiodiet Men of the First Baptist church are being invited to attend a supper meeting at Hie church hext Wednesday night *t seven o'clock, for the purpose at f own ing ? Men's Brotherhood organ! ration Announcement was Made >Njp Ollie Harris, chairman of the committee promoting the organic stated that Horace Bason, Bsptist leader. - and other Deed Of Trust Is Conveyed For legion Home Commander Paul Mauney an nounced at the regular month iy ?ftin? * Olts D. Green Poll 155, the American J.egion, held m/J VL nifht' ,hat ^e post had made the first payment on the building on Last Gold street 5k oi neM<s highlighted the meeting at which several oth. er important items of club buis ness were discussed n,.^LClU,b VOtfd 10 increase the number of meetings per month to two and to hrfve a party with Le gion Auxiliary members and wiv gSsto VWerans 40 be invited Finance Officer D. D. Saunders dub's financial report and Membership Officer John W Gladden reported a total of 312 members signed for this year. Commander Mauney as voted authority to appoint a nomlnat ue<; and named Sam Coiiins as chairman and Hoyle ar w- * ,D~> b-??? Announcement was made that! an!^ual state convention wou^d be held in Charlotte June nafiT ed 10 members to the athletic ^m^te, h*?ded by Athletic Of. S iTa , nlJ: They were W, S. friil ton, Jr., Grady Howard Sm J /hllllps- Mr Mabry, Mr! Jfenn^f u James ? m p. ' ? (Toby) Williams, I N. M. Farr and C. T. Carpenter, Jl ^ announced that the entry notice with the Garden Expert Here Tuesday -vi-n? <-???-? - - ,-5. n2?? ??ra Harrl?. Charlotte1 News garden consultant and wde!y know magazine writer,; will discuss "Continuity of Bloom in the Shrubbery and 1 Flower Border ' in a special pro gram at City Hall courtroom Tues i day night at 7:30. j Miss Harris Will show koda chrone slides demonstrating the ! possibility afld practicability of I hd'- garlWl8 for continuous blooming throughout the year j Many of the pictures were taken in the garden "For Pity's Sake " I restored by Mrs. Charles A Can- ' non, of Concord. < Miss Harris, who spoke to members of the Woman's Club here some five years ago- is speaking on a pragrom arranged Club Mountain Garden a^U1?n to her work for the Charlotte News, Mrs. Harris . *m<*uhly column called Living for Young Homemakers" Sn??h.e?^II?aRazen "Mademoi. seije, and hos previously done articles for several other nation ally-circulated magazines. - V*e Club is extending an invitation to aH citizens inter Harris gaTdenfng 40 hea'- Mrs. ? 1 KEETER SPEAKER Byron Keeter, lieutenant gov ernor of Kiwants division I, was to make the address of the ev enirtg at the Kiwanis dub here Thursday night. It was Mr. Keeter's "official" visit to his home club. Sunrise E?s,cr . 0t 6:1^ M iii m* - W FOP CONSTABLE ? Clarence O. Myers, above, has announced that he U peeking the Democratic nomination for No. 4 Township, subject to the May 27 primary. \ i Myers Seeking Constable Post | Another candidate wa a in and another out this week in thej Number 4 township constable race for the May 27 Democratic primary, but the total of candi1 dates remained the same. - ? ' * Incumbent Warren Ellison, who won the post two years ago, an- 1 nounced his withdrawal from the race, and Clarence G. Myers, : Kings Mountain sign painter, an I nounced he was running for the I Job. , Other candidates are Former Constable Will Bteekburn, now a member of the city police force, 1 and Marion D. Blackwtfll. It was a reasonably quiet j week in county politics, with the exception of the withdrawal of O. Max Gardner, Jr., as a candi date for the North Carolina Sen~ ate. , This announcement was fol lowed by another, from Clyde No- 1 lan, of Shelby, that he Would seek the Senate seat. Mr. Nolan, currently chairman of the Cleveland County Demo cratic organization is welt known in political circles throu ghout the county. He is a Shelby realtor. Mr. Gardner announced withdrawal due to ill health, and is now in New York under treat ment. Other actions included the an nouncement of Mrs. Lillian E. Newton that she would seek re election as county treasurer, and payment of the filing fee by L. T. Hamrick, Jr., Shelby lawyer, who hrfd previously announced he would seek re-election as county recorder. Principal rumor of the week wis that Robert Morgan, of Shel by, would oppose Incumbent B. T. Falls, Jr., for Representative to the General Assembly. Deadline for filing notice of candidacy with the county elec tions board is April 15. Newcomb To Address Kiwanians. Guests At Ladies Night Event KIWAHtt mAm ? Alan H. Meweomb. of Colombia, 4. C, will MtottopdMMaMmialtli* annaal Ladios Night ?anquet of the Kings M?mMi Elwanli club noxt IWfter alfht, Mr. Nmomb ii ? World Wbt II Pilot comrr Tuesday . RcguMr session of City Re carder's court has been ail noun Sftf Iff Tuesday of 1 * JB* 1 Alan H. Newcomb, author, ac tor, and radioman, will be the featured speaker at the annual Ladles Night Banquet of the ; Kings Mountain Kiwanla club, according to announcement this ; week by Aubrey Mauney, Chair man of the program committee. The banquet will be held at the Woman's Oiub next Thursday HNgtlglftt 6:45 and A capacity crowd is expected to be present IpF jfy-^Went, one of the club'a major annual programs. Newcomb is a former ar my bomber pilot, Who was ?hot down in the Ruhr area in 1944. He was captured by the Germans and spent several months in pris on. During this time, he kept a complete diary, which later be came a book "Vacation with Pay," a story featuring the hu morous aspects of prison life. Mr. Newcomb is now on the staff of Radio Station WIS, Col umbia, S.C. W ' ; t His address to the Kiwanla La dle* Night gathering will be en-; titled "The P.fyohology of Laugh ter." Member* of the committee on arrangement for the event, hi ad dition to Mr. Mauney, are Hunter Neisler, foe Lee Woodward. Ar nold turner, and W. G. Grantham. for the iff.ilr wttl In> ..j. Crowd Expected For Community Easter Service Kings Mountain's annual com munity wide Easter SUnrise Ser vice will bo held at Memorial Park of Mountain Rest Cemetery Easter morning, beginning at 0:15 The annual program is presen ted and sponsored by the Kings Mountain Ministerial associa tion. Rev. G. W. Fink, pastor of Grace Methodist church, will de liver the Easter message. His subject will be "The Conquering Christ." The service will open with a 15-minute concert by the Kings Mountain school, band, under di rection of Joe Hvdgtn, and will feature special Easter music by the Kings Mountain Choral o> -eiety, Under direction of Franklin Pethel. The 50 -voice choral socie ty will sing "Christ Is Risen, Citisens driving their auto-. . mobiles to the Easter Sunrise Service at Mountain Rest ceme tery's Memorial Park should enter the cemetery at the Dill ing street gate, according to announcement this week. Pisa* ty of parking space is te be found within the cemetery grounds. Motorists are asked to follow directions of Boy Scouts, who will direct txafllc. "The Day of Resurroctlon," "Now Is Come the Salvation of Our God," and "1 Know That My Re Central Methodist church and president of the Ministerial as sociation, wlM give the invoca tion, and Rev. L. C.?Pinnix, pas tor of First Baptist church, will read the Scripture. Rev. W. L. Preasly, pastor of Boycc Memorial ARP church wil.1 offer the Easter prayer, and the benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Harry E. Crump, pastor of First Church of th Nazarene. In event of rain, the .service will be held at the high school audi torium. A large crowd is expected to at tend the annual Easier service. Census-Taking Progressing Counting the noses of Kings Mountain cltizerA wa.^ continu ing this week. The corps of census enmeratois in Utfa area was hard at work en deavoring to tally each man, wo man and child in addition to va rious and sundry other Informa tion from every fifth person in terviewed. Hoyt Cunningham, 11th district census director, said reports were stlil sparse at his office, but that the job was going along well. On ly town In the district where the census Job had already been com pleted was the little community of Delhrtew In Gaston county. To tal popoulatlon was seven. Original estimates "were that urban area counting would re ( Cont'd on page eight) St Matthew's Easter Story ? ?a In the end of the sabbaUwas it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the oth er Mary to see the sepulchre. And. behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the deer, and sat upon it ' Bis countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keep ers did shake, and became as And the angel answered and said unto the women. Pear not ye: for I know that ye took Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is ris en, as be said. Come, see the place wfeere the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that ho Is risen from the dead; and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there -?pi see him: lo. 1 have tflflp '!#??* And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great Joy; and did run t? hriiiq h.? dlsr word. ???Minimi ??? ? ??? ? , . g| r\ , 'TO -v It:* , .