North Carolina Newspapers

Population City Limits 7.193 (Final Unofficial Census 1950) Immediate Trading Area 15.000 <1945 Ration Board Figure*) 1 fl Pages IU Today VOL. 61 NO. 27 Sixty-First Yeqi Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday. July 7. 1950 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS Dr. Phillip Padgett j To Construct Clinic I Local News Bulletins """""""to SING SUNDAY " Miss Frances Summers, Kings Mountain soprano, will be special soloist at morning ser vices at the Boyce Memorial ARP church Sunday ?t 11 o'clock, according to announ cement this week. BUILDING PERMITS Building permit was issued at City Hall last Friday to E. C. Martin for construction of a ga rage on Wells street. Cost was estimated at $200. PRIVILEGE LICENSES Owners of business firms in Kings Mountain are being re minded that 1949-50 privilege licenses expired on .June 30. New city licenses are required to be purchased during the month of July. Penalties apply after July 31, HAMBRIGHT REUNION Annual reunion of the de scendants of Col. Frederick Hambrtglrrwlll tie ?held Sunday church it was announced this week. Those attending are ask ed to bring picnic baskets. METER RECEIPTS A total of $151.74 was col lected from the city's parking meters Wednesday according to a report from City Clerk S. A. Crouse. TO CONVENTION Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harmon left Thursday afternoon for Asheville where they are at tending the annual convention of the North Carolina Press as sociation at Grove Park Inn. ? ~'1I ~) - r w ' Variety Maries Conrt Session Some 24 cases were heard in regular weekly session of City Recorder's court held at City Hall Wednesday afternoon with Judge W. Falson Barries 'presiding. Six de/e.'wUirts were found guilty of public drunkenness. Other defendants were arraig ned on various assortment of charges, ranging to improper use of a stoplight to non -support of Illegitimate children. In ail, some 14 different charges were made. Iva Jane Roberts requested e jury trial on a charge of illegal possession of whiskey. Edward A. Smith and Tom H. Crawford were ordered to pay costs of court and make the checks good on separate charges of passing worthless checks. Will McCoy, of Gastonia, was found guilty of larceny of a dog and was taxed with costs of court. Bdmound Fields, or Detroit, MtchSgrfn, was found gutlty 7?r driving without an operators li cense and Improper use of a spot light and was taxed with costs of court. Josephine Branch, of Spartan burg, S. C., and/toMts Lee Oats of Bessemer CttJV^'lMre taxed with court costs after conviction on charges of driving without a license. Louis H. Scott, of Charleston, S. C., was found guilty of reck less driving artd was taxed with casta of court. . John Wells, Negro, was given a suspended sentence of 12 months on a charge of nondsupport at illegitimate children dered to pay $10 per week to (he clerk of court for support of his family and to pay < of court. Lulu McCurry forfeited a bond drun kenneas and using profane lang ip Grady Robinson ( of Whmsboro, S. C., was taxed with the oasts of court after coovWtion on a charge of driving without an operators license. * niHH fcMSse verdict on a charge a for - cfrblo trespass. Barl B. Beam wae fined $35 and costs on a charge of reckless driving. BHl Rose borough, of Gastonia, was fined $5 and costs after con viction on a thus of speedtt|v 55 Fred Roberts, convicted on a charge of assault on s female, wad taxed with costs of court. : &M*"* "H*! anrl BmH were found guHty of "public mil cnee" and each was taxed with costs at coftrt. Leon M. Cathern was taxed With costs of court on conviction t? ijMHRHpBp esr mufWer. : 1 77 ' * Plans Received For Ten-Room Medical Clinic Dr. Phillip G. Padgett, promi nent Kings Mountain physician, has purchased the lot on W. King street now occupied by the James Roberts residence and expects to erect a 10-room medical clinic on the site in the near, future. , Dr. Padgett recently purchased the site, which fronts 65 feet on West King street and is 250 feet deep, from W. K. Mauney and D. C. Mauney, and he received pre liminary plans for the 10-room clinic on Thursday morning from Van Wagenlngen and Cothran, Shelby architects. Dr. Padgett said the building will be of Roman brick and glass construction in modernistic style. The dimensions will be 47 feet wide by 60 or 65 feet deep, and it will be recessed from the street ?by a minimum depth of 23 feet and a maximum depth of 32 feet. The remainder of the lot at the rear of the building will be cleared for parking area, and the front yard will be sown in grass and landscaped. . The lO-ropmolttiic will include four treatment rooms, a waiting room, physio -therapy room, aux iliary waiting room, consultation room, laboratory, and X-Ray room. Dr. Padgett said he hopes to be able to begin construction of the clinic by early flaJl. Two In Violation Of Security Law Two Kings 'Mountain men were found guilty of violating the Nor th Carolina Employment Security law, in hearing before Magistrate Lee Roberts Thursday. Jessie G. Ledford had prayer for Judgment continued on pay ment of the costs and condition that he refund thecommission $25. Millard L. Metcalf had prayer for Judgment continued on pay ment of the co^ta and refund of $19 to the commission. Charges preferred toy T. L. Whitley, of Gastonia, commis sion claims deputy, were that the two men violated the law toy drawing unemployment compen sation while gainfully employed. Each was charged with drawing one week's unemployment com pensation during a period of em ployment at Hemdon Spinning company. "? Metcalf plead guilty, and Led ford plead nolo contendere. Coman Falls Tourney Champ Ooman Falls defeated Amos Dean to win the Kings Mountain Country Club foandtcapp toU tournament. Champion Fails advanced to the finals with victories over Dr. P. G. Padgett and Pat Hovia. Runner-up Dean advanced to the finals of the event by defeat ing Jacob Cooper one-up on Id hole*. Cooper had defeated Clyde Ldndsay and Mr. Dean had elimi-1 rated Robert AUen In c*her first flight matches. Results of the other fttgKts weer not available. LODGE MEBTfNr A stated communication of Falrview Lodge No. 339 A. F. * A. M. will be hold Monday night July 10 at 7:30. King* Mountain observed In dependence Day with little fan fare Tuesday. ft was a holiday for the ma jority of King* Mountain citizens and those who didn't invade the beaches and mountains, found other means of occupying them* selves in the free hours. Local recreation spots did brisk business, with Lake Mon tonta's ewimmlng area well crowded, and some golfers admit ted they "overdid" it. Others busied themselves with a variety of home duties, catch ing up in the oi?airfn| and yard manicuring departments. raw bualnin establishments were open tor the day, wi^lf die exception of service stations. Drug stores operated on abbrevi ated hours. St&fea opened again Wednes day morning, and uptown traffic I was somewhat brisk, as house wlvea replenished holiday - de pleted larders, and visited the department store* for clothing items to foil hot weather. Then the commerce ceased at noon. The holiday wu about ended Thursday morning, though tex tile employees of seven of the city's plants would not report for work until Monday morning. Pre- holiday Monday was high lighted by local interest In the outcome of the Lincolnton - Tay larsviH* Legion baseball game, which :esulted in elimination oi the local Juniors. Telephones of Legion Basebal officials here and the Herald rang consistently as ioeal fans sought reports on the game won toy Lincolnton, 4-0. The hofttylay was ? quiet one, according to report of Chief of Police If. M. Farr. Major acci dent marring the Jong holiday weekend was the tragic death of Marvin Randall last Saturday. METHODIST YOUTH CARAVAN? Pictured above is the Msthodist -Youth Cuim cB> t-.'um Ihleh'U te uriive tn Kings Wountain Txity T3 for a week's visit at Central Methodist church. . They are. first row, left to Frieda Morgan, councilor, and Martha Roberts; second row, Phoebe Burns, Gene Henderson, and Annette Aiken. Cotton Blooming In Spite Of Weevil Boll weevil or not. some cot ton Is blooming In the Kings Mountain area. Doc Willie Evans, colored farmer who lives on the H. G. Plonk farm on the Tork high way brought the first cotton bloom to the Kings Mountain Herald office this week. On Tuesday, I. R. Carroll, Route 2 farmer, brought in No. 2. Mr. Carroll farms the Stew* art property near Dixon Pres byterian church. . . Evans said he hadn't dusted his cotton and didn't hare "too much boll weevil." Carroll said he hod dusted and sprayed his crop and that the boll weevil was "pretty bad." Baker Brothers Cop Honors Kings Mountain's model plane experts, Phillip Raker and Tom my Baker, corwinued thler mas tery at the bu- .ness of /lying mo del planes Tue sday, as they won major honors at the Model Plane Flying Circus held In Charlotte. The Kings Mountain brothers tied for highest speed honors of the day, flying models in the o pen Jet class 10 top .speeds of 147.54 miles tx-r hour. Tommy Ba ker was the official winner, but only toy the to jo f ? coin. Tommy Bat.er also took the following firsts: Class A open, speed of 103.45 miles per hour. Class B ir* n, speed of 126.76 miles per hour. He also tied for second place In Class D Open, flying his model plane at 138. .6 miles per hour. Again a coin . >ss was in his fa vor, as he won over Allen Carter of Reidsvillc. Some 10.00;- persons attended the show at charlotte's Freedom Psric. Youth Caravan Here July 15 A special series of meetings will be held at Central Methodist church from July 15 to 23, when the Methodist Youth Caravan will come to Kings Mountain. Announcement of the special program, designed especially for young people ot Central -*nd Grace^Methodist churches, was made this week. Adult workers, parents and other Interested adults will be offered a discussion period each evening following the worship service at 7 o'clock. The discus sion period will be led by Frieda Morgan, councilor, of Midland. Workers with Intermediates will be Frieda Morgan, Annette Aiken, and Martha Roberts. Workers with Seniors and Young People will be Phoebe Burns and Gene Henderson. Frieda Morgan, councilor, is a senior at Greensboro college. She has been working in the nursery department at Grace church in Greensboro for the past year and a half. She was a student dele gate to the W. S. C. S. Conference in Cleveland, OMo. For her life's vocation she has chosen religi ous education. Her hobbies are reading to small children, and hiking. She serves as Caravan leader. Annette Aiken, of Ma<>ison, Ga., will be a senior at Georgia State College for Women at Mil ledgevllle next year. She is treas urer of the Wesley Foundation and secretary of the Health club at her college. After getting her B. S. in Heakh Education, she plans to teach and later go into social service work. She will work with the Community Service commission also while here. Martha Roberts, is a second se mester Junior at Miss. Stace Col lege, majoring In social studies in the school ot education. Active in tho Wesley Foundation and the local church, she was elected secretary of the Y. W. C. A. for the year "50- '51 school session at Miss. State, and is a member of the Zeta Tau Olpha social soror ity. She will work with the World Friendship commission. Phoebe Burns, of Linvllie, Ala., has finished her sophomore year at Alabama College. In 1948 she was president of the M. Y. F. and Sub -District At college dha was a member of the Wesley Founda tion and on various committees. She has been to Intermediate MYF camps end to MYF assem blies, also the Cleveland confer ence. Her hobbies ok playing the piano, tennis, pointing modern art, and swimming. 3he ta mi >oring in Home Economics and 1 plans to either be a teacher or a home demonstration agent. She will be the recreation leader, and (Cont'd on page ten) XJOKS MEETING Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions Hub will be held Tuesday night at 7 o'clock ?t the Woman's Club. Program for the meeting has not been announced. Directors of the club were to meet Thursday rright to organize for the cur rent year. ? Marvin Randall Killed By Train Here Saturday Funef?l services were held Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock ai Central Methodist church for Marvin O'Del) PTndali, ? 35, of route 2, Kings Mountain, who was instantly killed here Satur ; day afternoon around 2:10 p. m. when he was struck by a north bound freight train while he i stood in the track awaiting pass j ing of a southbound train that 'was moving through town a* the j same time. ? Rev. Roy Swink, pastor of EI Bethel Methodist church, offiei | ated. He was assisted by Rev. A. ]S. Elliott, of Cherryville, and Rev. IT. W. Fogleman. Burial was in {Mountain Rest cemetery, j Cleveland County Coroner J. Ollie Harris, of Kings Mountain, i who was among numerous wit nesses to the accident, ruled the death accidental. He said that ! Mr. Randall apparently never : saw the northbound train; Southern Railway Extra Freight No. 6138, as he stood In the cen ter of the track waltng for the southbound freight to clear. His body was hurled into the side of the southbound freight by the blow. The fatal accident took place at the Gold street rail crossing, near the heart of .the Kings j Mountain business district. The (train was delayed for some thir i ty minutes. - nf tho frpifr it listed as K. Adams and the i engineer was J. C. Mauldin. Both jare from Greenville, S. C. An employee of Quality Sand wich Co. here, Mr. Randall was a native of Cherryville. He had been a resident of route 2 for the past five years. A veteran of World War II, he married the for mer Miss Annie Belotte, of Paris, France, ih Paris while serving in that theatre of operations. Survivors Include his wife and two children, Annie and Brenda Kay, his parents, Quincey C. and Leola Thornburg Randall and two brothers, Olin and Quincey ^Randall, Cherryville,- and two sisters, Mrs. James Franklin, of [Cherryville, and Mrs. Ida Dillon, [of Winston -Salem. ? ? 1 Active pall-bearers were A. K. j Walker, Hal Whisnant, W. W. By era, L. A. Ware and Hugh Dover and Furman Sellers, of Shelby. Guard Unit Arrives At Fort lackson ? FORT JACKSON, S. C. ? Mem bers of the Headquarters & Head quarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment Joined some eight thousand other mem bers of the 30th "Old Hickory" Division of the North Carolina Tennessee National Guard Sun day for important maneuvers at Fort Jackson, S. C. The Klags Mountain unit made the trip to Fort Jackson in good order, according to staff officers, and has already begun what ma ny observers consider the rtost significant Guard training since World War H. Major General John Hall Man ning of Raleigh, commanding the 30th division, called upon the of ficers and men of the Kings Mountain unit to make the motrt of this month's training oppor tunity. "While all of us hope that con ditions in the Far East will grow no worse," General Manning said "we must prepare ourselves for any eventuality." Although Guardsmen are pri marily concerned with military training, their off -duty hours will be pleasantly spent. Theatre, post exchange, and swimming facili ties are available, and soft ball and golf tournaments have been scheduled by the division special services officer. lake Earl; loins Minneapolis Nine Jake Early, Kings Mountain professional otu*eb?ll player, passed through Kings Mountain last weekend on his way to Join forces with the Minneapolis Mill ers, currently in a three-way fight for tHe lead in the Ameri oan Association, AAA league. It was understood that the Chattanooga Lookouts, Southern Association entry with whom ' Early has been playing since he i left the Washington Senators, after the 1949 season, sold the veteran catcher to the Milters. A 10- year major league veter an!; Early Is expected to bolster the Millers receiving department as they gird for the pennant ffffht with Indianapolis snd ; Louisville. Minneapolis is ? Nev.' York Giant farm club. Word Received He re From Three Kings Mountain Folk In Jajmn Two B.& L. Dividends Total Ovet $18,000 Semi annual , dividends' paid last week b.V Kings Mountain's two building and loan associa tions totaled S18.185.31. Announcement of the dividend payments were made by A. H Patterson, secretary treasurer of Home Building &? Loan associa tion, and by J. C. Lackey, secre lary-treasurer of Kings Mountain Building & Loan association. Dividends paid to shareholders of Home Building & Loan asso ciation totaled $10,813.23. inclu ding $7,304.24 paid to holders of full paid Stock, and $3,508.99 on optional savings slvares. In addi tion, Home Building & Loan also i listed dividend payments during the six-moth period ending June 30 on maturing shares and with jdrawals totaling $2,819. Dividends paid by Kings Mountain Building & Loan asso ciation totaled $7,372.08, includ ing $1,955.16 on full paid stock and $2,116.92 on optional savings accounts. Dividend payments on withdrawals and matured stocl<" during the" six -month period end ing June 30'tota-led $516.45. Rites Are Conducted For Green Infant Graveside funeral rites for Jackie Ray Green, five-day -old son of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Green, of Cherry Street, Kings Mountain, were held at -Oak Grove Baptist cemetery Thursday afternoon, with Rev._C. C. Crowe officiating. The child died Wednesday night at Shelby hospital. Surviv ing are his parents and two bro thers, Kenneth Green and Ducky S. Green, both of the home. Tax Pre-Payments Total $3S,408.3S Pre payment on 1950 city tax bills totaled $35,408.35, through th? close of business Wednes l day, according to report of S. A. Crouse city clerk and treasur er. Though the' budget for the coming year has not been.fi ally set, the tentative tax rate is S1.80 per $100 valuation and tho pre payments are expected to approximate one-third of the levy for the 1950-51 fiscal year Just beginning. Tax bills for 1950 may still be discounted, though the dis count rate dropped from two percent to one and one-half percent on July 1. TribMe Building Bought By Webb . * I I W. H. (Bill) Webb, of Shelby, I ibid $6,015 for the Tribble bund ling and fixtures on West Moun- j i-tain Street, sold at public auc tion Mo?'J?y ? by- Frat?k ; fer of ;he Tribble estate. j Attorney K. A. Harrill condue- 1 I ted the auction and it required 1 34 minutes to sell the property. Others bidding on the property j were R. L. Mauney and J. G. Dar i racott. After the bidding hurriedly j reached $5,300 the bidding slow led, with a series of five dollar j ; raises and ten dollar raises being j made. Finally, Mr. Darraeott bid $6,010, but shook his head when | Mr. Webb raised to $6,015. j The property Included fronts ! 13 and one -ha If feet on Moun jtain street and Is 35 feet deep. It I is now occupied by p. & H. Bar Bank's "Fifty Yeazs Of Piogress" Booklet Documents City's Giowth First copies of "Fifty Years of i Progress," a special Golden An niversary booklet being publish |ed by the First National Bank, I were received this week and are j being distributed to patrons and ' I correspondents of the bank, city j ; and county officials and other in - . terested citizens. Though designed to comme.n | orate the 50th anniversary of the ! I Kings Mountain banking institu- j I tion, major portion of the book- j | let is devoted to the community j itself and might will- be the work of a Chamber of Commerce. Principal reason for this treat - j ment is indicated on a memo- j randum attached to the cover of the booklet. It reads: "For 50 ; years, the First National Bank j of Kings Mountain and the City 5 of Kings Mountain have moved 1 forward together. Their progress has been parallel and hand In j hand, gained (through mutual co operation and effort. As we cele- ' brate our golden anniversary j with the publication of this book let, it gives us pleasure to dedi- j oate it to the people of Kings | i Mountain and Cleveland County,! our frienJ.-: customers who have made this event possible." i Also indicative of its value as a community-progress booklet is | fact .that the Kings Mountain j Merchants* association has pur-! J chased 400 of the booklets for use [as a publicity medium for the 'okty. The booklet is handsomely j printed on heavy book paper,) [with a heavy gold board cover, j Particularly outstanding is the excellent photographic treatment ( given to Kings Mountain's major Industrial plants, its recreational j facilities, churches and public buildings. ( 1 In addition to the' section on the bank itself (which includes an up-to-the-minute June 30, 1950, statement of condition a lOTifc wKh a photograph of the statement of June .30, 1900), are sections devoted <0 "The City,", "Industry and Agriculture." "Re creation," "Public Buildings," "Churches," and 'Transports tfon." Point is made of the ac cessibility of Kings Mountain to (he outside world by all modes 1 of travel, and considerable atten tion ds given to the Kings Moun- I tain National Military Park. One interesting premise claim ed in the "booklet is that Kings Mount ailh is an Ideal place to live, as evidenced by the fact tha<t the two local building and loan associations have financed more than 300 homes during the past four years. The section on the bank itself includes photographs of the old banking house in its early days, along with pictures of the exter ior and interior of the. modern banking house which was remod eled in 1945. Also included are short historical notes on the or ganization of the bank in Janu ary 1900, and short paragraphs on the bank's three presidents, W. A. Mauney, D. M. Baker, and F. R. Summers The late Mr. Mauney was first president of the institution. The late J. S. Mauney was the initial vice-president and K. L. Mauney the first cashier. The 50-year comparative state ments are quite interesting, too. At the close of business June 30, 1900. the First National? oldest national bank in Cleveland coun ty ? reported resources of $25, 853.28. This included $829 in gold coin, and $412.50 in banking house fixtures. Loans and dis counts totaled $10,309.90. The statement of last Friday showed total resources of $3,692 559,76. Gold coin no longer ap peared on the list, and the bank ing house was listed at $60,780. Loans and discounts totaled $1, 090,241.15. The booklet was the idea of President Frank R. Summers, though he claims little credit for its final production. "I merely turned it over to BUI Creighton of the Observer Printing House at Charlotte, outlined the idea, and gave him full rein," Mr. Sum mers said. j Mr. Creighton Joined the Ob-^ served Printing House in 1913, when Mr, Summers was also an employee of the firm. Mr. Creigh- j ton today is the firm's general manager. Board To Act On City Budget Principal business of the city! board of commissioners at the regular July meeting next Wed- j nesday will be adoption of the j budget for the fiscal year 1950 51, and concurrent setting of <he j tax rate. ' According to state law, the budget is required to be adopted this month. The board had previously an nounced the tentative tax rate at $1.80 per $100 valuation, same rate in effect last year. It \d anticipated that the bud get will approximate the same figures as last year, or slightly in e*c*is of $300,000. Reaction Given To Korea Wai By Local Folk Ai least three Kings Mountain citizens are in the Tokyo area of Japan, Jump off spot for the j United States' forces in their ef jforis to repulse the invasion of i the South Korean Republic by j Communist North Korea. They include (.'apt. O. T. Hayes, Jr., air force pilot, Mrs. Pauline William*, wife of army Sgt. Clark II. Williams, and Miss Marion Arthur, civic service employee attached to the army -in Tokyo. Word from Capt. Hayes ? World War II combat veterans ? was received by his family last week end, after he had called his wife at Shreveport, La. At the moment Capt. Hayes, stationed at Johnson Air Base a bout 25 miles from Tokyo, was busy training pilots and up to that time had done no combat flying In a letter dated June 26, day after the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, Mrs. Williams wrote the Herald -to suspend mailing of Uer na pgr, as -her hush, Hid ha* been ordered back to tin- United State.-: for reassignment Miss Arthur also wrote her par ents on June 26th. She wrote that first evacuees from Korea were arriving in Japan "with lit-, tie more .than the clothes on their backs. She added that ser vice personnel had already been alerted and that civilian person nel had been restricted as to tra vel. Resorts, she added, booked up for holiday vacationists, had been ordered to cancel, all reser vations in order to accommodate, evacuees from Korea. Otherwise, Kings Mountain ci tizens continued to watch the Korean developments ? which have looked anything hut good ? with concerned interest. The lo cal national guard company left for a two-week encampment at Fort Jackson. S. C., last Sunday morning, and many wondered if the encampment would end in the scheduled two wcks. .Local members of the organize ed reserve were conscious of a possibility of vail 10 duty and wme invaded attics and trunks to check old uniforms for size.;. No merchant here was using the war scare as aide to pushing sale of his commodties. as one auto dealer did in a city in the East. In general, the attitude here was much the same as it was throughout the nation: concerned waiting for future developments. Two Youths Tried On Liquor Charges Two youths, caught on June 121 by Kings Mountain police -of* j fleers, were tried In regular week ly session of City Recorder'* court here at City Hall June 1 26 on charges of transporting li quor. The boys ? Robert Bell, 19, and Bobby Dean Goforth, 19 ? were i picked up on June 21 around 2 | a. m. by Officers W. G. Ellison ) and P. A. Hawkins. The officers ("bumped" the youth's vehicle to a stop on East Gold street. Four teen gallons of whiskey was con fiscated. f Judge W. Faison Barnes, who presided over- the session, found ^ Bell guilty of driving without an operators permit, reckless driving and transporting liquor for the purpose of sale. He v.'*i given a sentence of eight months, which I was suspended, and he was put | on two-year probation and order ed to pay costs. Prayer for judg ment in the case was continued. | Goforth, who has a previous li quor-running record and was wanted by Feder.i I agents for vi olation of terms of parole, was sent to Cleveland County jail and prayer for Judgment in the case here was continued. Other cases heard and out comes included: Case against William C. Hunt singer, charged with hit and run, not guilty. Lawrence Davis, of Bes onier1 City, requested a jury trial rm a , charge of "trespass to real prop erty." ! Earl Llndsey Caldwell, of Gas tonia, speeding 50 miles per hour, taxed with costs. George W. Goldman, of Green wood, d. C., failure to- stop for stop sign, taxed with costs. I Freddie R. Owens, of Wa-hing fton, D. C., failure to surrender I right-of-way, taxed with costs. Two defendants were convict ed on charges of public drunken ness.