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Population City Limits 7.193 (Final Unofficial Census 1950) Immediate Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) VOL. 61 NO. 32 12 Pages Today Sixty-First Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday. August 1 1. 1950 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS | I Local News I I Bulletins | MASONS TO MEET A stated communication of Fairview Lodge No. 339 A. F. & A. M. will be 'held Monday, August 14, 7:30 p. m. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits were issued % at City Hall during ithe past r week to J. Tracy McGinnis, for construction of a new six-room house- on Simes street, $5,000; to Hubert McGinnis, addition of a new front to store building on Mountain street, $500; and to W. H. Harmon, for .construe ? tion of a poultry house, $100. HULLENDER REUNION The annual Hullender reun ion will be held Sunday at the [,'7 , John Foster home, seven miles north of Kings Mountain, it was announced this week by John' Faster and A. B. Morrow, reun ion co-sponsors. Among rela tives expected to attend is a group from Birmingham, Ala., and all members of the clan are urged to attend the "reunion. PARKING MONEY The parking meters in down , Kings Mountain collected Art*. SlSS 15 fnr th^ ? ed Wednesday at ndbn, ac cording ' to City Clerk S. A. g|< Crouae. ' ? | Hickoiy Inniois ? Here Saturday Kings Mountain and Hickory are scheduled to ring down the curtain on the 1950 baseball sea Bon here Saturday night with a game between the 1951 American . Legion Junior baseball "pros pects". The game is scheduled to get underway at 7:45 p. m. The two teams met in Hickory on July 29th with Kings Moun tain coming out on top 5-4 on a four -hit pitching job by Southpaw Fred Kiser. Pink Ware and Houston Black have been coaching the team for the past month. New players added to the team j roster Include Dean Payne, Dean ; Huskey, James Abernathy and Kenneth Roberts. Vernon Smith, scrappy little second 'baseman and outfielder, was dropped from the team this week. He will be ineligible to play next year. Final practice session of the season is slated fot Friday after noon at City Stadium. The group underwent a lengthy drill on Wednesday afternoon. With the pitching corps well rested the coachies have a pick from a staff Including Kiser, Dar vin Moss and Dealis Burton, left banders, and Bob Wells, Charles Painter, and Doug Eubanks, right holders, for -duty in the finale. Don (Chubb) Cobb, veteran catcher, is expected to handle the receiving duties along with Bob McPallft. Both are lefthanded hit ? ters. Infielders out for the team In clude Jim Klmmell, Ollie Harris, Frank Plott, Don McCarter, Char lie Mulllax, Dewkt Guyton, Aber nathy and Roberts. Outfielders battling for berths include Bob Huskey, Ken Spen cer, Earl Maddox, Richard Smith, Jimmy Williamson, Gerald Val entine, Payne and Dean Huskey. Admission fo t the game is 25 . and 50 cents. Herndon, Bridges loin Air Force James*fe. Herndon, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J, E. Hemdon, and Nelson Bridges, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bridges, enlisted Thursday in the Army Air Forces. Both were to leave Thursday night for Kelly Field at San An tonia, Texas. Both are. applying for officer training, Mr. Herndon in the air force finance depart ment, and Mr. Bridges for naviga tor's duties. Mr. Herndon is a graduate <rf Davidson oollef #aoil completed a year oi graduate ? _<t fli iiiiiiijaiii BR Hi CaioHm last spring. Mr. Bridge* Is a graduate of Georgia Insti tute oi Technology aod for the past year t*a? been working at Ideal Machine Shop in Bessemer City. " Two Polio Cases iM Barnes Announces City Schools Faculty List For 1950-51 Term Eight New Faculty Membeis Axe listed B. N. Barnes, superintendent of city schools, announced Thurs i day the faculty for the city school system for the 1950-51 term which opens September 5. The faculty is complete with the exception of four elementary teachers and a public school mu sic teacher, the latter position having 'been vacant for trie past two years. . ** Mr. Barnes said he expects the remaining elementary depiart vacancies to be filled at the next meeting of the school board, which has the responsibility of electing teachers. He also said that he has high hopes of being able to employ a public school music teacher for the forthcoming term. The faculty list to date lists eight changes from last year, ^liv frrlfrffily h"n" mnmhgM-wt ? city school faculty, Mrs. Cather- J Ine Fisher, third grade tfeacher, and Mrs. Margaret Wren Craig, who will teach high school Eng lish. The six new teachers are Mrs. Ray F. Swink, of Bessemer City, and Miss Doris Stout, of Slier City, both in the elementary de partment, Jack Sink, of Thomas ville, eighth grade, Miss Kittie Lou Sutton, Sparta, Tenn., high j school math, Miss Mary J. Mai- j lard, of Greensboro, Bible, and I Miss Cornelia P. Cobb, of Raleigh, 1 piano. Other members of the faculty announced by Mr. Barnes follow: | PRINCIPALS Mrsf. CQ. Bhyne, West Eele mentary School. Mrs. J. H. Thomson, East Ele- : mentary School. . I Miss Willie McGill, Central Primary.! . " - I Rowell Lane, High School. and! Central Grammar Grade. J. A. Gibson, Davidson High School. " ? FIRST GRADE Mrs. Pauline D. Harrill, Latti mor<\ ' Mrs. Macie L. Covington, Polk yille. ' . . . Miss Ruth Beam, Shelby. | Miss Marjorie Hord, Kings, Mountain. Miss Jete Plonk, Kings Moun tain. Mrs. Victoria L. Logan, Kings j Mountain. SECOND GRADE v Mrs. Carolyn Stockton, Gaffney, S. C. Mrs. Hester B. McSwain, Kings Mountain. Miss Sybil Spratt, Nebo, N. C. Miss Carlyle Ware, Kings Moun tain. THIRD GRADE 1 . Miss Willie McGill, Kings Mountain. FOURTH GRADE Mrs. Jeanette L. Mann, Kings Mountain. Mr a. Lettie S. -Lackey, Kings Mountain. Miss Annie Roberts, Kings Mountain FIFTH GRADE Miss Marie E. Lineberger, Lin colnton, N. C. Miss Margaret Go forth, Ruther fordton, N. C. Mrs. Helen Baker, .Kings Moun tain. (Cont'd on page five) "B" GRID COACH? bovc, of Thomasville, graduate of I Lenoir Rhyne College where he i played four years as a varsity guard on the football team, has accepted a position as assistant coach at Kings Mountain high ; school. Ho will hare charge of the I *'B" team program. lack Sink Signed ^TTClffrCoadF ! Jack Sink, varsity football play- , er at Lenoir Rhyne College fori four years, has been added to the ; coaching staff at Kings Mountain j high school as assistant coach according to announcement by B. N. Barnes, superintendent of city schools. Coach Sink is 21 years of age and is a native of Thomasville.. He is a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne. He will teach an eighth grade and will be in charge of the "B" football squad which will play a regular schedule of games this season. Coach Sink fcs currently -a mem bef of the North Carolina Finish ing Co., baseball te&m which was engaged in play last week in the ! (state semi-pro baseball tourna ment. Outcome of the tourney was unknown here. Mr. Barnes did not say wheth- ' er the new coach'would be avail- 1 able next week for *,he start of football practice, which is sched- 1 uled to get underway on the field on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. The new coach was a member of the. North Carolina All-Star baseball team in the Boys' All Star game in Charlotte in 1946. He was a second baseman at that time. He was also a member of j the Lenoir Rhyne baseball team. Coach Sink was a guard on the strong Lenoir Rhyne college foot ball teams of the past four years and comes here highly recom mended Mr. Barnes said. Bell Business Office To Close Saturdays ? ? beginning Saturday, the busi. ness office of Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegiaph Company will be open only five days week ly, Monday through Friday, ac cording to announcement made to subscribers this week. "The closing of our business Of fice on Saturdays instead of on Wednesday afternoons has been decided upon after friving full consideration to good customer service and the welfare of our employees," the announcement stated. Office hours will <be 8:30 a. m. to 5. p m., Mondays through Fri days. Oideni Out Foi 66 Cleveland Men To Take Pie-Induction Physicals A total of 66 Cleveland county i young men have been mailed no t.cea to take pre -Induction phy sical examinations at the Char lotte Quartermaster Depot on Au gust 17th, and similar natives will be mailed in the next few day* to" 100 more young men for ex aminations on Auguit 24th. > The quota of 66 caused tt>ft board V> dip into its available manpower pool virtUMlly through men born in September 1927, Mrs. Clara Newman, cleric to the setec- 1 tivo ssrvuse board said. The Au gust 24th call will cause the board to aend for examination al most ?11 men bora in 1928. ? Currently the board 1s ordering up oldest men first in the 19-25 age group. Mrs. Jlewmati safcl the men are ordered to report to the select*** tSflki tn Shelby for tnus !j *PLC*?abu*t? *** gfcyfoally fk tor wrvkj. wtll have * minimum of ? days before being ordered a tor Induction. ^uaTno men win |fc | county via the mmmmM route prior to & ' k : September 7. At the moment, 'deferment poli cy is limited to students. Mrs. Newman said existing regula tions allowed postponement ? on Inductions of high school stu dents until they hsd finished high school or had reached their twentieth birthdays. The board Is permitted to postpone Induct ion orders for college students un til the end of the current acade mic year. There is one difference between deferments end ' pom pon menu, under selective service terminology, Mrs. Newman said. When a rsgHtmm is "deferred" after passing physical examina tion, he must 1>e. inducted within 90 days, or must be re examined. A "postponement" of induction does not require another physical examination. She SSkl the county board anticipates fallowing the "postponement" portcy. Mrs. Newman also said die board had adopted a policy of not releasing Mala of nan order ed up tor physical examination*. The board ;W4l 1 announce, she add?vi, men ordered tap tor induc tion. Bankrupt Claims Hearing Set For Thursday Hearirtg to consider the malter of claims Against Kings Mountain Narrow Fabrics, Inc., bankrupt, and other related matters will be considered at a hearing Jn Char lotte next Thursday afternoon at 4:30 according "to notice from R. Marlon Ross, referee in bankrupt cy. According to the notice, the fol- 1 lowing matters will be heard and passed upon by the court: 1. The confirmation of the pro- 1 posed settlement between Harold R. Hunnicutt, trustee in bank- 1 ruptcy of the above-named es- , tate, and Carhal Factors, Inc., in 1 which Carhal Factors has agreed to withdraw its claim against the bankrupt in the sum of $17,883.- j 44, on condition that 3770 yards j of "tape in the possession of Car- > hal Factors as security for ad- i Hrfimaawiu wwJe to bank 1 mpt befutyrnaTTKraiTtgy T>ff "*rg I Teased to Carhal Factors, and up on fhe further condition that the trustee in bankruptcy will pay over and deliver to Carhal Fac tors ithe sum of $2,334.78 which! was received by the trustee throu gh collection of certain checks for goods manufactured and sold prior to bankruptcy, invoice for which was assigned to Carhal Factors as security lor advance ments made by Carhal Factors prior to bankruptcy; and upon the further condition 'that the! said trustee will release and dis- , charge Carhal Factors from any , and all claims of every nature and kind. ! 2. Controversy over alleged lien on 1947 Chevrolet lV& ton Truck, the title to which is in the pos session of Mrs. Margaret Hunni- . cutt, whereby Mrs. Hunnicutt pro poses to pay over to the said trus tee in bankruptcy the sum of $500 and retain said truck. 3. The .preferred claim for labor filed by Jag. R. Riley, former pres- . ident of the bankrupt company, for $600, is challenged by the! trustee in bankruptcy and will be heard at the above meeting. 4. Preferred claim filed by R. H. Peasley will be heard. ' The ! trustee denies the priority of this claim. < j 5. The petition- of J. R. Davis, j attorney, of Kings Mountain, for compensation in the sum of $500, for representing the bankrupt,, will be considered and passed upon. ? " ? ? ' ? ' j 6. The petition of C. R. Jonas, I attorney, of Lincolnton, N. C, for j $1,000 as compensation "for repre senting the said trustee in this proceeding, and expenses in the sum of $100. T. The petition of Harold R. Hunnicutt, trustee in bankrupt cy for $712.41 as commissions, 1 and expenses in fhe sum of $158.25. 8. The petition of Fred E. Up- j church for the aHowance of the I sum of $500 for auditing work done for the trustee. Reception Friday At Masonic Hall <? ? " ? 1 ? * A reception honoring state Eas tern Star officers will be held at j the Masonic Hail on Gold street Friday afternoon according to in vitations issued last week. Kings Mountain Chapter, U. D., ! and Bessemer City Chapter No. j 263, N. C. O. E. S., are Joint hosts j for the event and officials have j announced that the general pub lic has been invited to* attend. Arnold W. Klncaid, of Kings Mountain associate grand patron, and Mrs. Maude Bayncr Foy, as sociate grand matron, of th? state chapter are to be honored guests of the reception. .? The event is to begin at 5:30 p. m. Friday and will continue for two hourt. Many other prominent state and local officials are ex pected to attend Joyce Falls Opens Shop In Graver ; ii Miss Joyce Falls is announcing this week the opening of a beauty shop in Glwer. , The new firm Is modernly *? quipped and to located over Gro ver Cleaners. ; ; . The business will be operated under the trade name of Joyce Beauty Shop, k was formally o pened on Thursday with an open Miss. Falls 1* the daughter o' Mr. and Mrs. Craig Falls. Lions Members Hear Sticldey, District Head Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club heard an interest ing address Tuesday night by John L. Stick ley, of Charlotte, governor of Lions district 31 -B. Mr. Stickley made an inspira tional address in which he para ; phrased the meaning of the word "Lion", as compared to., the cus tomary definition, of ''liberty, in telligence, our nation's safety." Mr. Stick ley remarked that.be [preferred to use the several iot j ter.-s for something else w|jich "we are sometimes prone to forget." He suggested the "L" stand for liberality of time and talent. "It is easy enough to write a Check", he stated, "but it is not as easy to give a part of ourselves, and this is the most important." He il lustrated his contention by rela ting the story of the 57-cent gilt | which launched the Temple Bap- j tist church in Philadelphia, and ! later the now-great Temple Uni- . versity plant. The "I" of Lions should stand! for ideals, he said, pointing out ! that not individual or organisa tion is "worth a tinker's damn," ! unles3 he is an idealist. The "0"i he added, could well mean op- ? portunity and the Opportunity for ?werid -s? Urt*? better for bavmgn been here,- we will have lived in j vain," he declared. ?, j Changing the emphasis to <he , negative, he contended that the j "N" might well mean neglect ? I a warning against neglecting the opportunities "which always sur- j round us." The "S", he said, could mean! satisfaction, "not necessarily sue- j cess," he said, for "success does > not mean satisfaction." ? Satisfac- j tion comes, he declared, with the 1 sense of accomplishment of a Job; well done. Mr. Stickley commended the ; club on its record of service in : the community and for Lionism, and urged the members to review ) its opportunities in an effort to continue, .and to improve on, its service record. . He was presented by Rev. J. H. BrendaH. High Grid Drills Start Tuesday Coach Everette Carlton an - j nounced this week schedule for football practice for candidates for the 1950 high school team, j which is to get underway on the field at City Stadium on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Uniforms and equipment will be issued at the gymnasium on Monday morning at 9:30 a. m., he j said, with a meeting of all can- J didates set for 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at the gymnasium. Beginning Tuesday the drill schedule will call for twice-daily sessions on the field, at 10 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. until the opening of school. Some 45 players are expected to report for uniform issue on Monday. Coach Carlton mailed letters to I members of the squad this week informing them of the drill sche dule and of the addition of Coach Jack Sink to the staff. Coach Don Parker will also be back to round out the three-man staff. Coach Carlton is expected back in town Saturday after attending the coaching schools at Chapel Hill and Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory. last week and the Greensboro coaching school whV.h- started Monday. Pride Ratterrve, Kings Moun tain citizen, also attended the . coaching schools with Coach Carlton and will probably assisi in the opening phases of practice. He is to report back to Lenoir Rhyne around September 1st ; when the college's pre season i drills are to begin Opening game of the 10-game 1950 schedule is slated for City Stadium on September 8th a gainst Dallas high school. Coach Carlton urged full at tendance at all pre-school drill sessions and pointed out that on ly four wefks remain before the opening game. Philbeck Convicted On Knifing Count Gus Philbeck, 29-year-old Cher ryvtHe textile worker, is under $500 bond unUl he completes payment of a fine a*ter convic tion in Recorder's court Monday on a charge of asaault with ? dfl?d!y weapon. Philbeck allegedly cut Paul Brown Negro, with * knife last Saturday Judge W. Falson Barnes order ed Phllfceck to pay $300 to the clark of court In weekly pay ments of $39 and was taxed with costs of court. Fait of the $300 hi to co towards payment of doctor Mitt for Brown, with the remain der to he the One. fifteen additional caSfes were (Confd on page ftve) Citizens 9 G roup 9 Officials Discuss Southern Bell Service , Rates No Committment Made Concerning Dial Service W. Faison ?Barnes, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which is circulating a petition , opposing requested rate increases for local telephone service until service is improved, said Thurs day thai 43 persons have signed the initial peiition and t hat the | petition was to he circulated a ' mong members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday ! night. . I .The petition reads;;. "We. the undersigned citizens and residents of Kings Mountain, North Carolina; and subscribers to telephone service through the Kings Mountain exchange, wish to express our concern about the proposed increases in telephone rates and charges which have been requested by the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph ?ewmpawy? - ? ?* "Our present telephone service leaves much to be desired in view of the fact that we still have a manually operated switchboard despite the fact that practically all of the towns in this area have a dial telephone system. Even with our present manually oper ated system, we believe that our telephone service could be great ly improved. We, therefore, be lieve that under the conditions which now exist, we are not get ting what we are paying for even under the present rates, tn view of this state of affairs, we should like to go on record as opposing any increase in telephone rates until we have a dial syslem, or until our present system is im proved." , . The petition is jointly address ed to the North Carolina Utilities Commission and to Southern Be'.t. On June 24th, the company pre sented testimony to the commis sion, asking rate increases for the whole state. A futute hearing by the commission will be open to persons and groups wishing to offer testimony opposing the in crease. Hospital Unit Seeks Enlistees Lt.-Col. Craig Jones, of Shelby, commanding officer of the 311th Station Hospital which was alert ed for active duty this week, has announced that the unit has been authorized to recruit additional i personnel. Dr. Jones said that the unit j needed some enlisted personnel and nurses and was especially in - i terested In signing former medi cal corps men. However, he stated, the unit j will accept high-caliber veterans' regardless of "MOS" number. Dr. Jones also said that the Shelby recruiting office has been i instructed to enlist some men with no prior service for duty with the group. ' "This type of duty, with a sta- 1 tion hospital, is desirable and j we're trying *o iill up the . unit | with Cleveland County mien and j women In order to make it more j desirav' V Dr. Jones said. The unit expects to leave wtih- j In the next "month or so" he said. JAYCEES TO MEET Members of the Kings Moun- Ij tiin Junior Chamber of Com merce will hold a picnic supper > at El Bethel Methodist church next Tuesday evening at ^ o'clock. Supper will be served by ladies of the El Bethel church. Uona TV ACT1?N - No OddT Jn'ormatlon ha, been re C H^ .!^0nC,,nln9 Pvt- Rufu* G. " 'tickler, reported missing Pvt H.??f J? i^?r0a "lnce Jun? 20 Mo,'.n? ! r 18 the ,,r,t K,n9? Mountain casualty in the Korean war. No More Word On Missing Man 'hanu a lol,er ?oi??rniinc ?fj le,'S"Phf mcsHgo that Pvt. "Stickler was miss wcfJVnCtlKn in Kort>a' no '""her ^.h^.been reepivcd concern ing the Kings Mountain soldier. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sta ccy Huffstiekler, received the con- , firming letter from the war do- , partment last Saturday It stat ed that Pvt. Huffstiekler wag ser mn h1. 3 CalV3ry Un" ?? 'he June 20, S.^'^ ,nis8in? j H,!!r!!,fa??UyJast hcardirom Pvt. vlav 7 M?r ? ,clicr dat?? May 7 . Mr. Huffstetler assumed I rh?S^n. be0n 1 "inferred to I the Calvary unit following that time, for he had previously been serving wHh an anti-aircraft unit j Pvt. Huffstiekler a- 'ather serv ed for more than 10 years in the army including service in World War I and almost four years in I China and Japan. Mr. lluffstickler. was in the Ea.st from 1924 to 1928 ' f??,ng, w',h ^e 15th infantry! I most of the time stationed at Tientsi'h on ihr Manchurian bor aer. At the time, General George Marshal., "former chief of staff was a colonel in the 15th infantry! Pvt. Huffstiekler is a member or an army" family, being a see ?"*, of lhc la,e Capt. Clyde Huffstiekler, who was captured tU$Z ^,apanese ;,t t?i<< fall of the Pmliippines in KM2. Funeral Held For Leone Ware Funeral rites for Leone Ware, W, well-known King*. Mountain farmer, were held Monday after noon from El Bethel Methodist [church, with interment following in the church cemetery. Mr. Ware died Saturday after noon abou' ? :30, when he was stricken with a heart attack while shopping at. Crawford's Market. A native of Cleveland county, Mr. Ware was the son of the late Marcus and Eliza Herndon Ware r? u of Bethlehem Baptist church. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Miss Lula Ware, two sons and WRewf Kin^S Moun,aln! and I M, R, Ware, of Kannapoiis, a brother, Edwin Ware, of Newland ?m Angip w Kudi ! ?r E1 Pas'. Texas. Also sur vi~P**re tou' grandchildren. The funeral rites were conduct ed by Rev. Ray Swink. El Bethel pastor, assisted by Rev. J. G. Winkler, and Rev. T. W Forle man. 8 Active pallbearers weTe Paul Ware, Robert Ware. Buford Ware s,rxn,\^,eo",e'wm'M Impact Of Korean War Indicated In Local Unemployment Figures j Indicative of the impact of the Korean war in Kings Mountain, ia activity in the North Carolina Employment Service office. The report on Kings Mountain area employment m the end at May read "uncertain" and chang ed to "virtually fall" at the end of Ja?y. There wtt alao a big drop in el ''.jtm for unemployment com- | penaatton during the period, ac cording to Mm Llttlie Bouldin, of the Kings Mountain office. | Pbr the week ending Auguat 4th, claims tor unemployment compensation dropped to 236. Re cent high was 721 for the week ending June 9. In general, Kings Mountain In dustry has already gone Into "high gear" from the production standpoint, with several plants operating on a' three-shift-per day, six-day week. It marks a considerable change from a few abort weeks ago. when several plants were rtmnlrig on short time, several others were al ternating employees on aval table , production. ? Petition Against Rate Increase Being Circulated A group of Kings Mountain ' businessmen and officials o( Sou thorn 'J el i Telephone & Telegraph ( ompany discussed the requested j rale increase for Kings Mountain i subscribers and service problems Wednesday morning, but no con ? . fusions were reached. > . ? Specifically, representatives of the company noted objections of the businessmen to current serv ice received on the local exchan ge, and promised full efforts to improve it, but the company re presentatives did not commit themselves concerning possible installation of dial service. In turn, the 'businessmen did not commit themselves to cease opposing the company's request ed rate increases. Present at the meeting were H. Y. Alexander, Charlotte district manager,. C. E. Cox. district traf Gaston in _31strict~ manager" re presenting Southern Bell, and Wilson Crawford, Kings ' Moun tain Merchants association pres ident, Mayor J. E. Hern don, F. K. Summers, W.' Faison Barnes, president of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce and secretary of the Merchants Asso ciation, Ollie Harris, representing the Lions club, G. A. Bridges and Martin Harmon. Discussion first centered a round the matter of service com plaints, Including time lag be tween connections and discon nections, inability to ring succes sive numbers without time lags, and other problems, all leading up to the request for dial service. Mr. Alexander explained that company policy on the installa tion of dial systems depended on two factors: (1) available space for installation of additional manual "positions," and t2> ob taining of dial equipment, which, he said, was being received much behind current demand. He said space requirements caused the recent dial Installa tions at Shelby and Gastonia, and now posed a p/essing prob lem at Lincolnton. He indicated that space is not a present prob lem at the Kings Mountain ex change, which he reported, had increased in number of subscrib ers during the past 10 years from 399 to 1,366. He also added that the company now has on file 383 applications for phone service here. "The big expansion here and elsewhere has taxed oi*r resourc es in both manpower and mater iel, as well as our finances," Mr. Alexander declared. He -also pointed out the economic loss by Junking "good equipment," stat ing that none of the equipment of the local exchange is over 10 years old. He said 83.1 percent of the ph9nes in the state are now dial type. Mr. CrawWcVa question, "Is dial installation planned, or scheduled, and if so when?" was not directly answered. Responding to several service | complaints presented by Mr. ; Summers, Mr. Bridges and Others, |Traffic Manager Cox said a re cent survey here showed "Ans wering by the operators appeared, good, ringing poor." He empha sized that the survey was recent jand could not be considered to j cover a long period of time. This brought a question from i Mr. Barnes concerning the pres ent equipment, which does not |ring automatically, but the com - pany representatives contended j the current equipment ;s better ithan that in the local exchange prior to the fire several years ago. That equipment rang num bers automatically. On the matter of calling* suc cessive numbers, Mr. Cox advised, (Cont'd on page eight Highway Trafiic Is Very Heavy It will come as no particular n?w? that traffic on tf. S. 74 and 29 is quit* heavy, as this stmtch of road is frequently mentioned as the most-heavily traveled in North Carolina. However, a traffic check made by the State Highway de partment Monday showed that move than 7.000 vehicles travel ed Battleground Ave (U. S. 29) during a 24-hour period, and that move than &500 traveled en Xing street (9. 8. 29 and 74) dosing the nam period. The meters shewed more than 14000 axle crossings on Battle ground and more than 134)00 on King. Two metev clicks repre sent one auto.