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 ? 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"? 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, ite dub's ladies night party on Ma> X, . w.y ?