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Population
City Limit* (1940 Census) 6.574.
Immediate Trading Area 15400
(1945 Ration Board Figures)
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VOL. 61 NO. 17
Sixty-First Year
Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday. April 2C. 1950
Established 1889
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
STOBY HOUB
Regular Friday afternoon
story hour will begin at Jacob
Mauney Library at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. Luther Oansler will serve
as story toller, with Mrs. E. T.
Plott as hostess. The story this
week will be for children from
the first - through the fourth
grades.
BUILDING PERMITS
Building permit was issued
to First Baptist church last Fri
day for construction of a three
story brick add*' on to the edu
cational plant. Oost of tiie pro*
iject was estimated at $30,000 ,
and the fee collected 'by the city
was five dollars.
TO 8UZLD HOUSE
Construction is scheduled to
oegin soon on a summer house
a* Bon darken, ARP church as
sembly grounds, which is being
built by Boyce Memorial ARP
church. Decision to build the
house was made oh April 16.
- to attend Convention
Dr. Nathan Reed, Kings Moun
tain optometrist, will attend
the annual convention of the
North Carolina Optometrlc so
ciety to be held at Asheville
.from Sunday through Tuesday..
Dr. Reed said his office would
be closed on Monday and Tues
day at next week, while he Is
An Asheville,
AT MMSMACY MEETING
C. D. Blanton, of Kings Moun
tain Drug Company, end Wil
son .Griffin, of Griffin Drug ?
Company, attended the annual.
couvedHlii^w - tb t ? North Caro
lina Pharmaceutical associa
tion held at Asheville this week.
Mjr
? Blanttal ??!?-?*?. <5
' 'jr ????' i - . - 1;
*uct director
Miss Nancy Dickey, daughter
of Mrs. Paul Beam of Kings
Mountain, -is director of a play
"They Call It Nowhere," recent
ly presented at Aycock auditor
ium in Raleigh by students of
Wormfw'a College, University
ot North Carolina.
SERIOUSLY ILL
- The condition of Grady Wat
terson, Well-known Kings
Mountain citizen, who has been
seriously 111 for the paat two
weeks with a heart ailment,
was described as unchanged
Thursday afternoon.
WINS PHOTO PRIZE
Tim Hord, of Kings Mountain,
owner of Hord Studio, Shelby,
?was named winner of the best
all around portrait of any sub
ject award and winner of the
Brewer award for the best por
trait of a child under six years
of age at the North s Carolina
Photographers convention last
weekend at Winston-Salem af
ter the annual exhibit.
SYMPHONY CONCERTS
Schedule of the North Caro
lina Symphony, dkected by Dr.
Benjamin Sw&Hn, calls for con
certs in Gastoitia on May 4 and
in Shelby on May $0, it was an
nounced this week "by Mrs. Paul
Mauney, oh air man of the Kings.
Mountain Symphony Society.
Mm. Mauney reminded Kings
Mountain membem that their
? membership tickets are good
for admission at these concerts,
ap well as others in the Mate.
Bites Conducted
For SL E. White
Funeral services for Henry E.
White, 75, of route one. Kings
Mtoimabi, who died of a heart
ataek Sunday around 8:30 p. m.
at us home, were held at Trini
ty Baptist church between Boil
ing Springs and CllfMde Tue*
day afternoon at 2 o'clock.
- Rev. ft. O. Gore and Rev. C. <6.
Crowe assisted the Trinity pastor
Burial was in the
Mr. White was a farmer and
had been in ^-saith ' for two
months. He Was M native of Cle
veland county and Was the son
at the fate Richard end LavinU
Dobbins White.
Survivors include Ma
former Miss Lsla *
Hal Ward To Manage
Smith Campaign ^
SMITH MANAGER ? Hal D. Ward
tb? city's mayor pro tempore cowl
well-known business man. Will
manage the Smith- for -Senate
campaign in Number 4 Township,
according to announcement this
week from Smith campaign head
lions Honored
Ladies Tuesday
Fun and frolic was the keynote
Tuesday night at the Woman's
Club, as the Kings' Mountain
Ldons club held its twelfth an
nual Ladies' Night banquet.
There was seldom a dull ? or
quiet ? moment during the
three-hour banquet gathering at
which the Lions honored their
ladies; in a program featured by
A side-splitting, humorous ad
dress hy H. F. Seaweli, of Car
thage, special entertainment. oL
several kinds, plus. the. feature
unique to Lions clubs called
"tai^-twisting.,,
Mr, Seaweli, a Carthage lawyer,
drew from a full stock of anec
dotes and humorous stories in de
veloping an address on "Four
Things I'm Not Going to Talk A
bout" He then proceeded to
make fun of (1) the Scott "Go
Forward" program, (2) speeches
on "World Federation and Ever
lasting Peace," (3) "Socialism,"
and (4) "The Potentialities of A
tomic Energy." Talk about them,
he did, however, as he laughted
?t four subjects 'I'm sure all you
Lions and all other civic club
members have been too steadily
dieted on."
The Speaker closed with his
only serious note. He reminded
his Ue*ener>7 that aH persons are
Mhuihan beings," and he pointed
oat the teason people don't like
their neighbors is because they
don't know them.
"It's hard to diSHke someone
you know." he concluded, and he
suggested that people reserve
judgment on 4>ersons until they
did know them, quoting passages
of the Bttb'e to support his state
meats.
, The "tail -twisting " was handl
ed in deluxe style by John Ed
Davis, tail -twister of the Shelby
Lions club, who was presented as
Mini Susie Brown, and Hal Ward.
"Miss Brown" was dressed in
(Cont'd on page eight)
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Mayor Pro Tem
Is To Direct
Work For Votes
Hal D. Ward, well-known Klng^
Mountain businessman and
member of the city board of com
mission era, will manage the
Smith -for-Sena tor campaign in
Number 4 Township, according to
announcement Wednesday by
Willis Smith campaign head
quarters.
As manager here, Mr. Ward
will superintend the Smith drive
lor votes in this township, In close
cooperation with the Cleveland
oounty Smith organization, which
is headed by Carlos Young of
Shelby.
Willis Smith, Raleigh lawyer
end -iormer president of the A
merlcan Bar association, is a
niong three candidates for the
SSSI
Broughton. He opposes Incum
Frank P. Graham and form
er Senator Robert R. Reynolds.
Mr. Ward, proprietor of Ward's
Seed .*?d Peed Store, is a former
menber of the North Carolina
Highway patrol. He was elected
*_city commissioner last May and
? the city's mayor pro tempore.
"I ?e?l that Willis Smith is the
kind of a man the people of Nor
th Carolina want to represent
them in the United States Sen
ate, .'Mr. Ward said, commenting
on the campaign. "He has a good
recoid as a member of the North
Carolina General Assembly and
is one of the state's outstanding
??&S\t.Kinw Mou?
?ld WD! accord Mr. Smith a
heavy majority." ?
Patton To Speak '
At laycee Fete
The Kings Mountain Junior
Chamber of Commerce will he 13
ita annual Ladies Night banquet
at the Kings Mountain Country
Club on Tuesday night at 7:30.
Robert L. Patton, well ? known
humorist and a superintendent of
Burke County schools, will make
the featured address of the ev
?ttjng. Mr. Patton has many times
addressed Kings Mountain audi
ences and is in constant demand
as a speaker. He last spoke in
Kings Mountain some three years
ago when he was the featured
speaker at the Annual Merchants
Association banquet.
of the program
wiW include Installation of the
organization's officers for 1950-51.
Syd Sheppard, of Charlotte, Jay
oee national director, win con
duct the installation..
Announcement concerning the
program was made by Charles P.
Thomtaason, chairman of the
committee on arrangements. Oth
lr*hid? J.
T^McGlnnis, Martin Harmon,
Drace Peeler and Bill Lindsay
1950 Population MMfgnt
7,000, CrewLeadex Says
Indications were this week that
Kings Mountain's population
growth during the past 10 year*
will not prove out a? much qp
some optiirists had thought. *1
Dorus Blalock, No. 4 Township
crew leader, expressed k this
way: 'ft begins to look like it
might push Kings Mountain to
reach 7,000."
He reported that lour of the
fix censos-tsts^i working within
the City of Kings Mountain had
completed their work and that
only two, Mrs. Virginia Harris
and Mmc Grady McCartn-, were
yet to make final reports.
The )eb should be done in King.
Mountain within *eW* few
e^*e, he added.
LB of April 2>, th? Job < taki
the eeaeus in rh# 1m? ,<Mi?
I If CHABSjOTTE CHOIR ? On* of the talented member* of tho Char
lotte (Boys Choir, which sing* here Friday night at the high school
auditorium. Is burrow HalL abovo, who sings such popular favor
ites as "Down by the Old Mill Stream" and "In the Good Old Sum
mertime." f* ?/
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Charlotte Boys Choir
To Sing Here F riday
Lions Sponsor
Variety Show
By Famed Choir)
The well-known Charlotte Boys
Choir, which has performed in
New York, on coast-to-coast ra
dio hook-ups, and before other
lafge audiences, w<ll present Its
variety show here Friday night
at 4he high school auditorium,
under sponsorship of the Kings
Mountain Lkms club.
The program begins at 8 o'clock.
A large crowd is expected to
hoar the variety program, which
In addition to group selections,
will include many individual
MM.
The 26-number program in
cludes such old favorites by the
choir as "Pop Goes the Weasel", '
the "Hiking SOng," "Carolina
Moon", "Carolina in the Morn
ing!" and 'Take Me Out to the
Ball Game."
Individual specie lies include
David Russell's rendition of "The
hoM'm Prayer," an aooordian solo
by Dun Moffatt "Twelfth Street
Rag," and Mike Whekhel's "Dap:
per Dan."
Ertle Powers is Cha irman of the
Lion* committee on arrange
ments for the program.
Ticket? for the show will be $1
for adults and 75 cents for stu
dents.
"The Charlotte Boy? Chair pre
sents a truly outstanding pro*
gram," Mr. Powers said, 'tft is ?
real variety show, and the choir
is tops In musicianship and en
tertainment."
Jlan Cash mas!
Reading Medatl
Jean Cash, daughter of Mr. and
Mr*. D. E. Cash and Senior at
Kings Mountain high schopl, was
declared winner of the county
Schoolmasters reading contest in
the finals held at Gerdner-WeM>
college last Friday night.
Her reading, with which she
won the annual Fulton Reading
Medal here on March 24th, was
'The Show Must Go On and On."
Mias Cash became the 18th
Kings Mountain student to win
the annual county-wide award;
in the past 23 years.
Jean Lynch won the medal In
1949.
Key Club Group
Off To ComronHon
JtfS Hedden, faculty adviser and
Kiwanlan, left for Columbus,
Ohio. Thursday rooming, where
Will attend the bMernatJon
Clubs.
WINS HOST MEDAL ? Harold
England, wn of Mr. and Mrs. W.
f. England, Is 111* 1950 winner of
tha Rooy Declamation modaL gi
ven annually by Senator Clyde It
Boor to the Cleveland County
high school boy adjudged the
boat dsda tam in tto annnol
Bib
Praised
Member! of the Kings Moun
tain citizen's committee for the
teaching of Bfbfe in the public
schools met at Central school at
a luncheon meeting on Monday,
heard a report on the past year's
work by Miss Laura Bell, Bible
teaches, unanimously commend
ed the report and went on record
for continuance of the program.
Dlscusskfh on continuance of
the program followed announce
ment that Miss Bell, who has con
ducted Bible courses at Bast, Cen
tral, West, and Hark Grace ele
mentary schools, and at Central
tvigh school during the past two
yMMy tUd tendered her reslgna- 1
Ctodn effective at the end of the
present Ochool term.
committee, representing al
matt all Churches and cMc or
ganlrations, which provide fl
nancial SOpport for the program,
discussed possibility of filling the
forthcoming vacancy with a view
toward making recommendations
tn the near future
In tier report. Miss Bell said
that 300 elementary students are
currently enrolled for courses in
Bible, While 47 high school stu
dents are currCtnly enrolled 'for
the course.
The courses are offered as elec
tees aad include instruction In
Bible history and literature.
Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of
rust Presbyterian, church, Is
chairman <4 the com nut Mo*, and
B. a Nettl aerves as OBSaaurar.
Registration Books To Open
Saturday For May 27 Primary
Franklin Greet
Dies Following
Accident Monday
Franklin Clay Greer, 20, of
route 3, Kings Mountain, was al
most instantly killed near the
gate to Elmer Lumber Co. and J.
E. Herndon Co., Monday morning
around 9:30 o'clock when a 6,000
pound hydraulic cotton lift fell
from a -truck, and crushed his
head.
Cleveland County Coroner J.
Ollie Harris, of Kings Mountain,
ruled the death accidental and
said that no inquest was neces
sary. Harris said that the dead
man was seated on the lift hold
ing the brakes on the machine
when the slowly moving truck
went up a slight Incline and tilt- 1
ed, throwing the lift off the bed of
the vehicle.
Gi-eer, Jumped, witnesses said,
but fell' Into the path o( the ma- ;
chine. His head w as crushed by'
the weight of the lift and he died
enroute to Shelby hospital.
He was employed at J. E. Hern
don Co., Kings Mountain cotton
merchant. Coroner Harris said !
that the lift had been placed on '
the truck to be taken from the*
firm's warehouse to a garage for
repair. The truck was being op
erated by Willie Smith.
A native of Grant, Virginia,
Greer had been employed for sev
eral years by Mr. Herndon nad
before his mariage to the former
Miss Geraldlne Kinley, of Kings
Mountain, had made his home
here withr an uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Carroll. He was
a member of First Wesleyan Me
thodist church and was a former
member of the U. S. air force.
Survivocs include his wife, one
son, F. C., Jr., age five months,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
M. Greer, of Grant, Va., and four j
brothers, Isaac, Bryant, Marvin
and G. K. Greer, all of Grant: Va.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock
at First Wesleyan Methodist
church, oonduoted by Rev. J. W.
Phillips and Rev. Yancey Carter.
The body was taken (b Bartons
Crossroad Baptist church near
Grant, Va., for burial.
Cancer Fond
Nears $500
The Kings Mountain financial
campaign for funds to fight can
cer n eared the $500 mark this
week, and Mrs. J. H. Arthur, drive
chairman, expressed confidence
that the Kings Mountain quota
would be reached.
She asked that campaign work
ers make their reports as quick
ly as possible, In order that a fi
nal check-up may be made.
"Kings Mountain citizens have
been most liberal in their support
of this campaign," Mrs. Arthur
said.
The funds a#e used for re
search to determine means to
fight the dftaj disease
Conducting of the drive is an
annual project of the Kings
Mountain Woman's Club.
WINS CONTEST? Harvey Bum
gardner, ton of Mr. and Mis. Ha
ul B. Bumgardner, recently won
I Individual honors lor poultry
Judging In the Southern Colle
giate contosti held at Memphis.
; Tenn. He was a member of the
I N. C. State tecfim which copped the
team contest.
Bumgardnei
Wins Contest
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Harvey Bumgardner, student
at N. C. State college and son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hazel B. Bumgard
ner, of Kings Mountain, was high
individual scorer at the Southern
Collegiate Poultry Judging con
test held recently at Memphis,
j Tenn.
Mr. Bumgardner scored 1,289
| out of a -possible 1,500 points. He
placed first In judging in the ex
hibition division, second in the
production division, and first In
breed selection, as fhe State team
scored h'igh to defeat teams repre
sentlng eight other land-grant
colleges.
Mr. Bumgardner is a Dean's
List student at State, and he is
secretary - treasurer of the
school's Poultry Science club.
Mullinax Rites
Friday At 4 P. M.
Funeral services for Noah
Thomas Mullinax, 64, of 25 Elm
street, who . died Wednesday
morning around 9 o'clock of a
heart attack, will be held Friday
at 4 p. m. at the home. ? , ,
Elder E. H. Simpson, pastor of
Corinth Primitive Baptist church,
of Which he was a member, will
Officiate and burial will be at El
Bethel Methodist church ceme
tery.
A native of South Carolina, he
was the son of the late Joe and
Martha Peterson Mullinax. He
was formerly employed by M?u
ney Mill.
He Is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Florence Davis, three
daughter, Mrs. Edley Eldridge,
Mrs. Alex Eubank* and Mrs. Cor
bie Henson, all of Belmoivt, one
brother, Will Mullinax, and one
rfister, Mrs. Bessie Philips, both of
Kings Mountain.
Ernest and Miles Mauney, duo- - ^l!tli8UK3W|
pianists, presented a Concert f>
The twin* were enthurtaetlcal- W
I y acclaimed In their first '.ro jfl
fea>ional appearance here.
strated the flawless technique 1 ' j
and sensitive musicianship of MfH
the young Kings Mountain ar- HI My
tists, opened with the bright and II |. r
interesting "Concerto in C Minor" I
if 1. S. Bach. That their playing a : V
was relaxed and effort lens was ^Bp
seen In this classical number
Hon of phrasing and expression.
mer Night's Dream" by Mendel*
ssohn was a masterpiece of dell- I
o?cy with dynamims ranging | ?
from pianissimo to fortissimo. ? ?*_?#.
It would be difficult to ?el^t f .T?. I-|,,
one selection as the most bril- ?2S?.? -My, ?V
llant but the "Suite No. 2 Op, IT ? wseya ssnas oiipec
by Rachmaninoff inlfrnt fir this . . ? ? cLnin!^^
description. The Russian com- :r~~7'tr" 7^7*^*' ifi'mij^ni
poser's suite in divided Into four _.TL* ,, T?! .? .- in thT^rn
movements: March, Walft, Ro 5lz frf* .,..*7^,
mance, and Tarantella. The Mar- ^ - _J
eh is la u-adlttonal form with ON DEAN'S JUST
a heavy opening, trio, and quiet E G. Plonk, Jr., son of Mr.
ending dtacriptive of the proces- and Mrs. Grier Plonk of King*
rton in the distance. The watt* Is Mountain, made the dean's list
gay with modern harmonlMtlon. tor the second semester at the
The beautifully melodious Ro- University of North Carolina.
Books "Clean"
In Beth- Ware,
Local Boxes
_Kof3tratlon for the May
,>Ti,nar>' w''ll open
for the first time on Saturday at
the various precinct iK>llinK pla
t-CT.
Busings for the registrars is
^ to ^ brisk in Klngs
Mountain and at the new Beth
. f,1!0 Precinct, where new regis
trations have been ordered by the
county elections board
h It was pointed out by elections
?52S& as T" as b>' lhe several
ndidates, that no citizen. ef
is currently reg
istered and that, unless registra
Mon Is accomplished during die
the< books arc ?Pen- the
fnftri?^0' ? ?*?
The new registration was order
V0asons' acxwding. to
Elections Board. ?ha*?nan C ? .
Hendrix, (1) to "ciekn" the books
JS^Sid ' % f 1 tK> votin? P?"
cess*, and (2) because of creation
? Beth-Ware precinct, which
w^Tih1J> Jflpal,y trom th?
2L? 8 Mo"ntain precinct.
Registrars will be at the poll
MouMata area^irc." K,n ?*
East Kings Mountain Citv Hall
ST' Mr? ??:S?a2
rv,^681, K,nS? Mountain, Victory ?
zsssiJSssr- ?s?
mar Herndon, registrar.
],vin{? ln the new Berti
ed btSr are ^nfi remind
ed by election* officials to note
2XmT r'i.'"8 BounSar
low Beth Ware precinct fol
BEGINNING wjth United
Statea Highway No. 74 at the
Bridge over Buffalo Creek ; then<*
Fork* X*?"* Vreek to Muddy
up Mudd> Fork to
Earn rr? mrn PPok; ' ^nce
e2 wi,i?V?atS ,hence
u/? i Kings Mountain and
th^L^??d uto Ebenezer School;
thence South to Putnam's Store
thence South to R. F. Klam's Rock
House; thence Southeast to O A
Ruin FPk'?T; ?"** sShiS to '
to Si ?i Vhenc? Southwest
ver mJh 88 fountain and Gro
ver Highway; thence with this
?fy uSouthwe? to Long
thence West with Ix>ng
wk? B^^a^n s creek. af>d
C'Sk aT?h to Buffalo
52'^ up Buffalo
SSf?~?H,ghw "? ?* *>?
West Students
Win Contests
Anita McGlnnU, seventh grade
fflfin !!!*' * school, is the
of the Bak<'r ?*ad
i?xth Ji and Jerry McCarter,
sixth grade student at West
NelS' 1950 wl??? of -the
Nsisler Declamation medal,
rne students were declared
winners following holding of the
annual contests at West tx?hooi
auditorium Wednesday after
MrASMMinniJ daughter of
~arf -nL ^ PaUJ McGinn!*, ?
at Came Back", an5
McCarter, son of Mr. and
JS?"** McCarter gave the de
clamation Jefferson Davis."
kJrtZf?nteaUnU {or ,he Ba
tter medal were Peggy Fisher
East school eighth grade who
firaJe' J?""" ^f1"01 TCvcn'h
E! ?E* 10 reafl J hc Home TaJ
ent Reherasal."
1-555^ ??ntestants for ,he Nels
i?r medal and their declamations
were David Baity, East school flf
^?ra^- "We. Too, Were There."
and Kenneth Roberts, Central
*rade. "Here's To
Judges for the contest were J
- ' Mlss Lu,a Mae Teague
an-m. S Lawrence Patrick.
The Baker medal is given toy
tH'.L . Baker, veteran .member
nLi-i^ y hearu. and the
p 1? ?^,medal Ls *iv?n by Mrs. C. -
K. Neisler., '
Power To Be Of i i
Sunday Afternoon
1 Cltlsnu who live on the west
rtdee* Kings Mountain wlU be ^
wMltoat electrical aervlce en
Sunday afternoon from 2 in
???"it announced v
thAeweek by tho city electrical
doportment
^TUjje-o., Is in
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