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Population City Limits (1940 Crams) 6.574. Immediate Trading Area 15*000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) Today Kings Mountain. N. C? Friday. April 21. 1950 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS i & ? sbhhhiihhhhhhihp^i PLAT SERB WEDNESDAY? Ernest Mouney, toft and MUh MauO*y. light twin duo- pianists. will play a full -dress duo-piano concoct at tho high school auditorium Wednesday eT?nii>y, beginning at ttM. The MMWt Is being presented under sponsorship of the Kings Mountain Kiwanls dub. Mauney Twins Play Concert Wednesday i i '..: t t ?f'* /A- J -v " ? % * ' * v' ?' .? ' ? ' - '? Local Newi Bulletins BUILDING PE EMITS Building permits were Issued *t City Hall to Flx?t Church of the Nazarene, on Monday, tor remodeling old church Into a seven ? room parsonage, $1,500, and to Fred J. Wright, jr., on last' Friday, lor addkfonof one room to residence on West Gold street, $900. Regular Friday afternoon story hour will begin at Jacob Mauney Library at 4 o'clock. Mm James B. Simpson will serve as story teller, with Mrs. David Hamrick as hostess. The story this week w*ll be tor chil dren from the first through the fourth grades. ; LEGION SQUABS DANCE Members of Otis D. Green Post 156, American -Legion, wiH hold their final square dance at the season at the Legkm build ing Friday night beginning >*t 8 o'clock. The dance Is open to the public. ; ( : . CONTRACT LETTING Bids will b? opened on 6.5 miles of grading, paving, and structures from a point three miles east of Shelby east and south via Oak Grove to U.S. Highway 74 at Bethwsre school on April 28, According to an nouncement by the State High* wap m*A Public Works com ml* ^fn-, ???; ?; - ' S3? .. ??WJL '4 ? . . * FINALS flOAT Jean Cash wAl represent Kings Mountain h igh school m the finals at the annual School - mastoas readia* contest to he haM Friday nfcht an 6 p. m. at Hamrick auditorium. Gardner 1 1 ? f Ernest and Miles Mauney, iden tical twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney and professional duo-pianists, announced this week a two-part program for their first home" concert, since they began playing professional ly several months ago. The artists will play here und er sponsorship of the Kings Mountain IQwanis club next Wednesday evening at 8:30 ill the high school auditorium, with club officials anticipating a vir tually capacity crowd. The Mauney Twins, who first began playing together at pre school age, are in the midst of a concert tour. They played Thurs day night in AaheviUe, win play next Monday night at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C., on Toss day night at Greensboro College Greensboro. Their schedule calls lor a concert at Columbus, Miss, On May 1, at Limestone College, Gaffney, S. C, on May 4, and on May 8 they will bo featured In conceit M Miami, Fta., before delegates of the international Convention of Kiwanis Clubs. The that port of (he fcwogram here win include ?1?och's "Con certo to C Minor," the Mendel ssohn ?cher*jj^"fc Midsummer Night's Dream," and {tachrnsni noff? "Suite No. 2, Opus IT." The second port of the concert will include Chopin's "Hondo in C Major, Opus 72, "Saint-Siena" "Scherao, Opus 87", two Dcbua?jf* Ravel noctures, "Clouds" and "Festivals," and Ravel's chore graphic poem, "La Valse." . Admission for the concert is $1.00 tor adults, 50 cents for stu Heradon Says City To Employ Administrator Mayor J. ?. Herndon said Wed nesday that he and members of the city board of commissioners are currently Interviewing indi viduals with ? view to employing a city administrator. He said a committee from the city board was interviewing a man on Wednesday, though he declined to name him. Previously, he added, two other applicants have been interview ed. Mayor Herndon said the board hoped to employ a city adminis trator in the near future, and that the board would exhaust all pos sible means In an effort to secure an able administrator. The city has -been without a full-time administrator since De cember, when the board, toy four to one vote, relieved J. S. Evans, Jr., of his duties as city engineer. ^ Siooe JhaiJUpje several civic or ganizations -have offered resolu tions urging the board to employ an administrator at the earliest possible moment. "The board recognizes the need for a full-time administrator," Mayor Herndon told the Herald, "and it hopes to make an an nouncement concerning the mat ter within the near future." Census-Taking Still Underway Census-taking ih Kings Moun tain was still underway this week and Dorus Blalock, Number 4 Township crew leader, said it ^ah nil! 1. .. .ih n't i ti'i 4,a JkMAA'a* would yruua i>iy w tflonifr nm before the "completed" tag could be put on the Kings Mountain file. Rural census-taking will take longer, he added. Mr. Bialock declined to esti mate the final population total of the city, but did say he antic ipated "considerable gain" over the figure of 1940. Meantime, the Herald's census guessing contest came to an end last Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock tinder a rush of incoming blanks with guesses as to the 1950 total. Only two ballots were received with postmarks after the dead line, out many people reported they forgot to get in on the guess ing game. There is no Indication yet, as to When the $15 award to the per son guessing nearest the final to tal can be made. The award will toe made on the basis of the official count, and that, of course, will have to await final tabulation in Washington. Ernest Gardner, of Shelby, es timated Tuesday that the cen sus-taking job In the 11th Con gressional district was 48 percent complete. Last Friday, a total of 133,278 persons had been enum erated in the district and 7,765 farms had been enumerated. Mr. Gardner is assistant district su pervisor. HEADS CKATTEB RALWIGH. ? George E. Tolle son of &ings Mountain, a Junior in civil engineering, has been elected president of the N. C, State College Chapter of Mu Beta P*i, national honorary mu sic fraternity, for the 1950-51 school year. Hiiiltne for filing for county political offices p assed at * P m. Saturday, and final day fil ings tor the May 27 primary were routine and ottrnt ?ny . laaU minute wrprtMa A total of aix candidates for county office* tave no oppoaition and ar? automatically ^ .tenxft cratic nominees: are in cumbent Coroner OWe Harria, of King* Mountain; Clyde Nolan, for the State Senate; Incumbent B. T. Pal la, Jr., for the Mate boune of representative*; Inctuv&ent V, A. Houaer. Jr., tor clerk of superior <"ing of r.he s was an ob the (mMW Dettmar, Hullender Get Kiwanis Awards TO' JAPAN ? Miss Marlon Arth ur. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Arthur, will leave April 28 for Tokyo. Japan, wh?r* she has ac cepted a position with the civil service branch attached to the United otates army. Lions To Fete Ladies Tuesday Members Of the Kings Moun tain Lions Club will bold their twelfth annual Ladles Night ban quet at the Woman's dub Tues day evening, beginning at 7:30. Featured address of the even ing will be given by M. F. Sea well, Carthage lawyer and hu morous speaker, according to an nouncement by Sam Stalling?;, chairman of the commit ua- on ar rangements. The program will feature spe cial music, and other unusual features. C. P. Barry will give the invo cation, and W. L Plonk will pre sent Mr. Sea well. Otto Williams will superintend Che prize-draw ing for ladies, Rev. J. H. Brendall will welcome the todies and Mrs. Martin Harmon wttl gKe the re sponse. President Sam Weir will intro duce special guests. Mr. Stallings said he was ex pecting a capacity crowd for Che annual .event. Other members of the committee on arrangements include Mr. Williams, T. W. Gray son and Horace Hord. Scoutmasters Win Unselfish Service Honor Two veterans Kings Mountain Scoutmasters ? Laney Dettmar and Jack Hullender ? are reci pients of the Kings Mountain Ki wanis Club's 1950 award for un selfish service. The awards were announced by Rev. W. L. Pressly, chairman of the Kiwanis committee on the a ward, at the annual Ladies' I Night banquet of the organization on April 13. - Rev. Mr. Pressly no'ed that Mr. | Dettmar had served for 19 yeara j as a Scoutin?^ec4iJuo*^Mp*4n- i tain, and that Mr. HQlIertdeJ has served 16 years. "I wish to point out," Mr. Press-, ly said "that both these men have been members of working com- i mittees in the Scout organization for all these years, rather than on standing committees. He pointed out that serving as a Scoutmaster requires a minimum of 58 nights a yea; for regular meetings, not to mention Courts of Honor, special functions, camp ing trips and the various ocher re quirements of a Soout leader. Members of the award commit tee, In addition to Mr. Pressly, were W. S. Fulton, Jr., and Drace M. Peeler. The awards highlighted the annual banquet, which fegtmei an interesting, fun -filled program of entertainment, including a. hu morous address "by Alan New comb, Greenville, S. C., radio ar tist and author, on the "Psychol ogy of Laughter." Interviewing his philosophy of laughter with a continuous stream of humorous stories, Mr. Newcomb variously defined lau ghter os "the window -trimming of life," as a "shock-absorber," and as " the lubricant of life." He described humor as the best method lor relieving tensions and suggested that all persons devel op the hafbit of laughing at oth ers and at themselves. Another feature of the program was special music by Latvian Violinist Viktor* Zledonis, now of Shelby, with Miss Velta listers, another Latvian as accompanist. Mr. Zledonis and Miss I listens 4 Cont'd on page eight) J. K. (Buddy) Lewis, I. B. Biadshaw To Coach Legion Baseball Innion Funeral Conducted | or Ruth's Father Funeral rites for WUUmd Mon roe -Ruth, prominent Salisbury citizen and father of Hilton Ruth last Friday at Salisbury's First Baptist church. Mr. Ruth, a native of Davie county, died at his home on April 12. He had been in 111 health since September 1. A salesman by profession, Mr. Ruth held memoershtps in the Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of World, and other civic and fraternal orders. He was a mem Salisbury First Baptist church for 96 years, and was a former member of the Salisbury school hoard. wif'". tw? other sons, two daughter and one brother. to im, I W&K, ?ry . Clmd Croup Plans Group Plai n For Jan* At a dinner miilln| of the Ad vleory council ?f the Kings Moun tain Choral Society last Monday even in* tt was decided that the organization would present ano ther program of music early In June. ' \ . C ^ ? ; ? Franklin Frthei, minister " of mueic at St. Mattta-w^ Lutheran church, was named director for the next performance and Mj and Jo Culp, ac- 1 At ? <neett?{%? "Hi* *fcorai ' evening in H'pf the Luth J. K. (Buddy) Lewis, of Oat tonia, former mm)o r league base ball player who rose from the ranks of the American Leg km Junior baseball program, will coach the 1950 Kings Mountain team. Ooach Lewis will be assisted by J. R. Bradwhaw, also of Gas tonia, according to W. L. Plonk athletic officer of Otis D. Green nUICTlOB SATURDAY . Organisational practice ses sion for candidates for the 1950 Kings Mountain Junior bass ball tsarn will toe held Satur day aftsrnoon at 1 P- m. at City Stadium it was announcsd yes Boys botn sines January 1, 1933. am eligible for ths Mam which is drawn from ths Kings Mountain - Beth-Ware ? Grarer didate is argsd to be peasant Saturday at the first sissisn. Coaches >M4y Lewis and J. R. Bradshaw will not gttood *hs first sesston but are to bsgtn work with the lean on April OtacUds of ths team also tor '^Leg^* B^Vdissg onMau - day n^^^7t30jp. m. md a rg Poat ISO, sponsor of the Kings Mountain team, who made the ?niMnmcamewt.( ? ? The new coaches played junior bttrball in Gastonia on the same team ' In 1934 and served a tour of duty as coechea In the program in 1948 in ~ " " < iBlnit m?m nefant ?coaoh I^WI, HmM (Bt* ?M league in 19."M? hi a Wash ington Senator uniform after a XMHK psepping at Chattanooga. He played a number of years as a thir<fjba.iprmn and finished hi* the having awMched < Cont'd on pm?e 4**) 7' iJ&tt ? . .Ml - K_E^ ' LOCAL MANAGER, CANDIDATE ? Shown above are J. G. Darracott. left, well-known King* Mountain citisen, and Woodrow Jones, right; of Rutherofrdton, candidate for Congress from the 11th Congressional district. Mr. Darracott will manager the "Jones- for -Congress" cam paign in Kings Mountain according to announcement this week by Mr. Jones. Darracott Is Na med j Jones Manager Here District YDC Rally Planned For May 6 Tentative plans were an announced this week by Faison Barnes, president of the Clm land County Young Democra tic Club, for a YDC Uth district rally for the first weekend i n May. probxbly May 6. Mr. Barnes said YDC m?m bsr? and other Democratic lead ers from the seven counties of the 11th distHct would be invi ted to attend, including candi- * dates for Congress and the U. S. Senate. . Tentative plans call for hold ing the supper meeting at Bracketfe Cedar Peak near C a sar, Mr. Bonos said. Funeral Held Foi Mb. Haynes Funeral services were held at Kings Mountain First Church of the Nazarene Wednesday after noon at 5 o'clock for Mrs. Brentle Florence Haynes, 67, of Monte Vista Drive who died early Tues day morning in a Gastonia hos pital after an Illness of several years. Rev. H. E. Crump, pastor of the church of which she was a mem ber, officiated and was assisted by Rev. John Gregory . Burial was In Mountain Rest Cemetery. She wao the daughter of the late Monroe and Anna Michael Weaver and was a native of Ca tawba county. She had been a resident of Kings Mountain for the post 10 years and formerly liv ed In Cherryville. Survivors include her husband, W. C. Haynes, five sons, Russell Haynsa, of Granite Falls, Ernest Hoynoa of China Grove, Rev. Ho ward Haynes, of Spartanburg, S. CL? Boy Haynes, ol Kings Moun tain, and Hal Reed Haynes, U. S. Army, New Mexico; four daugh ters, Mrs. Dorse Wh Resides, of Kings Mountain, Mrs Clyde Dills of Gastonia, Mrs. Hazel Plyler, of Pineville and Mrs. Jack Jenkins, of Gastonia; one brother, Dan 1 Weaver, of Gastonia, and two sis- 1 ters, Mrs. George Armstrong, of j Kannapolfe, and Mise Ethel Wea- j ver, of Gastonia. Woodrow Jones, of Rutherford ton, candidate for Congress from the 11th Congressional district, announced this week that J. G. Darracott, prominent Kings Mountain civic and church lead er, would manage his campaign In Kings Mountain. Mr. Jones, a two-term state re presentative from Rutherford county, is opposed for the Demo cratic nomination by Charles E. Hamilton, J. Nat Hamrick and Mickey Walker. Mr. Darracott txfld the Herald that organization of the "Jones for Congress" campaign in Kings Mountain is already underway. Mr. Darracott came to Kings Mountain from Abbeville, S. C? in 1938 to open Western Auto Asso ciate Store, an enterprise he op erated successfully for almost 12 years. He recently sold the busi ness to Haywood E. Lynch. Since coming to Kings Moun tain, Mr. Darracott has been prominently identified with the civic and religious life of the community. He is a former pres ident of the Kings Mountain Lions Club, Kings Mountain Mer chants association, and has tak en an active part in the work <A the Red Cross and other charita ble groups. A former member of First Presbyterian church he was instrumental in the orga nization of Dixon Presbyterian church and is an elder in the Dix on church. , "l am very pleased to have a man of the caliber of Mr. Darra cott directing my campaign In Kings Mountain," Mr. Jones mid in making the announcement. Baptist Revival To Start Sunday Annual spring revival will be gin Sunday at First Baptsit Chur ch with Dr. J. C. Canlpe, of Heri dersonvllle, preaching in a twice a da? series of services. 1 Th* services will be held at 9 o'clock in the morning and at 7:30 j in the evening through Sunday-, ! April 30. Song leader for the series will, be Roland Leath. of Shelby. * "We are -indeed happy to pre sent Dr. Canipe to out church and to the community," Rev. L. C. Pinnix said In making the an nouncement. "It will be a real re vival of Bi'Me evangetem." Graham Says Survey Due Soon On Two-Lane load To Gastonia 'f. , . Joseph Graham, ninth division highway oommtwfcmer told the Hera-id Monday, that die highway division hoped to have a com pleted survey of an additional two-lane road between Kings Mountain and Gaetonla wkhin the next five to six months Other pronouncements by the1 Oommisrioner included : (1) Next local area rural road scheduled for hard -surfacing will tee In the BsUrtehew community. (2) Re-routing of Highway 29 outside the city Is more futuris tic, due ?o necessity for agree mem between the South Carolina highway department, the federal government roads commission, and the regional road -planning board, as well as North CaroUna off lets is ^ (3? No < Kange ?? cornmnp luted on die present la<*y rout* <J. Highway 74, though this toad (?. King street) ia to be widened three feet on each side from Wat tenwn street west to the city li- l mitt. Mr. Graham and Division Engi neer Lewis Peck had lunch in Kings Mountain Monday while making a tour of the area. "The road between King* Moun tain and Gastonia is being con sidered as Highway 74 Sfkme," Mr. Graham remarked, "?nd our plan is to construct an additional two-line road between the two cities. The present road will car ry one-way traffle either east or Commentlg on the rural road: program, Mr. Graham said be thought the road- building pro gram was going well and, refer ring to Ms promise made here several months ago la an address ?~? the Lions Club, added, 1 trust Kings Mountain doesn't test <*?>"? m much like ? led- beaded mom* CMM as It did. K. M. Postoffice Received Order For Curtailment On Thursday :? Friday will be the last day at twice-a-day mail delivery here, as the Kings Mountain postoffice complies with the order of the Postmaster General to pare de liveries and otherwise cut ex penses of operation. Announcement of the change was made Thursday by Postmas ter W. E. Blakely, immediately after receiving the new instruc tion in the Postal Bulletin, date of April 18. The postoffice department had asked Congress to either increase rates or boost appropriations to avoid a large deficit. Congress had done neither, and the paring program was ther esult. Other than the Immediate ces sation of twicer-day carrier de livery and parcel ppst delivery, it<jvasMibt yqtjiciermined _bere What other effects the changes would have on operations at the Kings Mountain postoffice. Basic idea behind the service curtailment order was to save on salaries and wages, the Postmas ter General said, and he further stated .that salaries and transpor tation form 96 percent of total postoffice expenditures. One result of the new policy here will surely be that many people will not receive their dai ly mail until the afternoon. Postmaster Blakely and other local postoffice employees were still studying the 36, point direc tive on Thursday for possible ef feots on service and personnel. Among the points in the direc tive was that third-class mail 1* hot to receive preferential treat ment. No hope of succor to persons wanting to receive their mail more quickly was held out to lo cal citizens through the medium of renting postoffice boxes. Alt boxes at the Kings Mountain postofflve are currently rented and there already existed a wait ing list of persons who wish to rent boxes. England Wins Hoe; Contest A Kings Mountain high school senior walked off with the Hoey medal for the second straight year as Harold England won the annual count-wide declamation contest for boys held at Gardner' Webb college at Boiling Spring* on Thursday night, April 13th, The seventeen-year-old <*udent Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. England and advanced to the county finals after winning the annual Davis contest held at Kings Mountain high .school on March 24. He was adjudged win* ner of the Hoey contest over fiv? other contestants. Hig subject was "A Stranger Within Our Gates." England was awarded the Dav I is medal in 1949 after winning first place in the contest heM that year but the medal went to Kel? and Mrs. J. Wylie Blanton, won England became the 10th Kings Mountain winner in the last 15 years, Principal Rowel 1 Lane said this week. Taison Barnes To Head 7;ycees Faison Barnes, prominent Kings Mountain lawyer, was elected president of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce for 1950-51 at the meeting of the organization Tues day night. Other officers named included: Dr. D. F. Hord, first vioe-presl dent; Ralph (Frosty) Spearman, second vice-president; Dean Payne, secretary; I. Ben Ooforth, Jr., treasurer; and Yates Harbi son, sergeat-at-arms. Directors named included James (Stumpy) Houser (one ysar), and J. T. Me Cinnis, Fred Weaver, and F. R. McCurdy (all for two years.) Prior to the election of officers, Faison Barnes welcomed four new members eo the club. They are: Dr. L. .T. Anderson, Fired Hafthcock, BiUy PMfier and Char les Moss, Jr. Henry Fentfrs, president of the Albemarle club, was present . at the meeting, brought greetings, from his organisation and ex tended to the local JSycees invi tattons to a* tend ? district meet ly* Albemarle on April 28, and ->e dub's ladies night party on Ma> X, . w.y ?