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Population City Limits 7.199 (Final Unofficial Census 1950) Immediate Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) VOL. 61 NO. 33 12 Pages Today \ 4r Sixty-First Year Kings Mountan. N. C.. Friday. August 18. 1950 Established 1839 PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins LEGION SUPPER A hamburger steak supper for all Legion members has been scheduled for Saturday night at the Legion Hall. Tinje is 6:30 to 9 >p. m. Next regular meeting of the organization has been set for Friday,. September 8th. '. at 8 p. m. h BUILDING PERMITS Building permits were issued at City Hall during the past week to Dr. Paul Hendricks, for construction of a six-room dwelling on West Mountain street, $5,000, to Sam McAbee, for addition of two rooms to residence, $270, and to Carl F. Mauney, for construction of a. garage, $750. DIRECTORS MEETING Directors of the Kings Moun tain Country Club, Inc., will hold their regular monthly sup per meeting at the club on Fri day night at 7 o'clock, it was nounced by Ollie Harris, secre tary. ATTENDS CONFERENCE B. N. Barnes, superintendent of City Schools, Is attending the annual conference of North Carolina School ? Smw>rlntfn. . jdents beJUig-?Leldr-4it -Macs- Hilt col lege. ' ATTEND CONFERENCE Mrs. J. N. Gamble and Mrs. Paul Mauney attended the area conference in Charlotte last week of Red Cross officials for a discussion of plans for emer gency blood collections. The Red Cross is mapping plans to increase collections of blood, in event of national crisis. ARP LATMAN'S DAY Sunday will be Layman's Day at Bon darken, summer assembly grounds of the Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian church, and a large number of members of the Boyce Memori al ARP church here are expect ing to go to Bon darken for the annual observance. METHODIST PICNIC Annual picnic of Central Me thodist church will be held at Lake Montonia on next Friday I August 2.5th) at 6:30 p. m. ac cording to announcement this week. Miss Peggy Ham.n. nd, youth director at the church this summer, will be the speci al honor guest. ? NEW MANAGER I. J. Terry, native of Lexing- i ton, Ky? has moved to Kings | Mountain to accept a position as manager of Eagle 5 & 10 Store. He is married and Is tem porarily residing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Hord while in search of a four-room house or apartment. TO MANAGE TEACHERAGE Mrs. Hill Carpenter will as sume the duties of manager of the Teacherage on North Pied mont avenue, it was learned Thursday from the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library board. Mrs. Carpenter, physical education teacher at Kings Mountain high school for the past several years, will assume her duties prior to the opening of the school term on Septem ber 5. She succeeds Mrs. J. B. Simpson. McGills Of Gaston Hold Annual Reunion The McGills of Gaston ?held ( ieir annual reunion at Bethel church arbor off the Cherryville road Wednesday, elected officers for the coming year and enjoywf a picnic dinner. Some 80 members of the clan were present for the annual ga thering and elected the follow ing officers: Wilmot Whitesrides, of Gastonia, president; Mrs. Geor ge W. Mauney, of Ktn*s Moun tain, vice -president; and Miss Ava Ware, of Kings Mountain, secretary-treasurer. Rev. J. H. Br end a 11, pastor of Central Methodist church, con ducted the devotional period, and Mrs. A. P. Whltesides, of Gas tonia, gave a brief memorial ser vice. Miss Willie McGill, of Kings Mountain, read the vital statis tics for the year. Sgt. Myers Leaves For Temporary Doty Sergeant First Clasa Clarence G. Myers, Jr., left Wednesday for four months temporary duty at Camp Lee, Va. Sg<. Myers is a member of the Kings Mountain National Guard unit. He will attend an army food service school M Camp Lee. Sgt. Myers is mess sergeant of the Kings Mountain company. Latvian Wains Kiwanians Of Red Dangei Against a backdrop of personal experience as a Latvian citizen, F. Burvis, currently a Charlotte electrical company employee, warned members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanls club at last , week's meeting against the Rus- j sian Communists, who, he said, intend to conquer the world. The Latvian recited the history > of the Baltic state, which, he said, j dates back 4,000 years, and which was guaranteed independence af- j ter World War I. The independ- | ence didn't last long, and the lit tle nation of 2,000,000 people be- j came a battleground between Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. First, Russia took over the na tion via terms of the German - Soviet non- aggression pact of June 17, 1940. The Russians, Mr. Burvis reported, took over in typ ical fashion, seizing some 36,000 Latvians and killing 26,000 in the first year cf occupation. The Russians would guarantee independence in one breath, he declared, then pillage, appropri ate and destroy at the next. He said the people were over joyed when Hitler's armies rout ted the Russians from Latvia early in the fighting, only to find that the N 'is operated in the same mannor as the Russians. "It was tin; m nw as TTTUnists," he declared. In 1944, he continued, Latvia again became a seat of war, add ing that the Nazis in their re treat, followed the scorched earth policy. Theyjordered the Latvians evacuated, and those who did not "cooperate" were either shot or imprisoned. Biit many were hap py to run away from the "Red de liverers," he added. , Again, as in 1940-41, Latvian people are exposed to the same dangers, he said, with echelons of deported people leaving the Baltic for unknown places. In turn, ithe Russians send In their own. people and others, who as sume name* of those deported, lie said a general order by the Russians declares married Latvi- J ans summarily divorced, with the women forced to marry the inva ders. In closing, Mr. Burvis declared: (1) The Communists have as their one great aim the world rev olution. (2) The Communists live in the imagination that the revolu tion can be brought about by. force. (3) The Soviet Union is regard ed by them as the chief force in the world revolution. (4) The Communist parties out- : side the Soviet Union are branch 1 offices or auxiliary troops of the j party. Stating that people of this na tion who have no concept of the Communist tyranny are often in credulous concerning its terrors, he declared, "God forbid that those who look down on us from their height, their seeming secur ity and their seeming superority may not suffer one day the same bad misfortune as we (Latvians) bear it now." Street And Sewer Work Progressing City street crews were busy this week finishing the Jofo of widening South' Piedmont ave nue, from Mountain street to E. Gold street. The West side of the ctreet was previously widened and treated with tar and gravel surfacing, and city street crews began work on the Bast side of the street Wednesday. City officials also reported the sewer installations on North Watterson and North Sims streets virtually completed. This work was done by Reed and A bee, Asheville contractors. It is de signed to p?>vide sewer service to two large residential areas. fByMHMy"''" ' ?? ? -? ???? ??????.? J' . -K> . . , " . . . . ?.?? ??kj to > I SKETCH OF PROPOSED LEGION BUILDING ? Shown above is an architect's sketch'of the Legion Building, located on East Gold street as it will look after proposed remodeling is completed. The taller part of the structure is the present building, with tho two additions, to the south (front) and t~ the east sketched in. Plans call for an auditorium, a dining room, a kitchen, a locker room, ladies' and men's rest rooms, a game room and a refreshment bar. A building permit secured from the city several weeks ago listed the estimated cost at S12.000. Van Wageningen & Cotbran. Shelby architectural firm, recently completed plans for the remodeling work and is now in process of making blueprints. Taxable Property Listed at $5,501,078 Valuation Off Fxq? Ldsl ? Yeax. By $83,827 Taxable property In Kings Mountain for 1950 totals $5,501,- 1 078, a net loss of $83,827 from the valuation for 1949, according to figures announced yesterday by S. A. Crouse, city clerk and treas urer. The downward trend thus con- j tinues for the second cunsecutive j year. Biggest drop is shown in list ings of personal property which has shown a downward trend since the high of 1948, when list ings of personal property for tax- 1 ea totaled $1,964,144. The figure this year Is $1,487, 974, a considerable drop from the $1,686,373 in 1919. In general, it j was pointed out, inventories of industrial plants showed a steady j drop from the peak at January j 1948. Real property totals continue to increase slightly, realty list ings totaling $3,692,516 for the current year, a gain of approxi mately $113,000 -over 1949. Listings of motor vehicles al- 1 so accounted for a portion of the drop in personal property list ings, owners of Kings Mountain automobiles, trucks and other motor vehicles listing a total of $593,102 in motor vehicles this year, a drop of $107,000 from (he total in 1949. This was attributed to a general decline in "blue j book" values of cars. Listings are j taken from the pricing chart of the American Association of Au tomobile Dealers. Kings Mountain citizens list ed motor vehicles totaling $700, 153 for 1949 and $595,498 for 1948. The total listing of $5,501,078, with a tax rate of $1.80 per $100 valuation, should return to city coffers during the current year $99,119.41. ? J Breakdown on tax listing.- /or recent years follows: 1950 ? Realty, $3,692,516, per sonal property, $1,487,974; cor porate excess, $320,588; total, $5,501,078. 1949 ? Realty, $3,579,898; per sonal property, $1,686,373; cor porate excess, $318,634; total, $5, 584 905. 1948 ? Realty, $3,469,979; per sonal rroperty, $1,964,144; cor porate excess, $308,456; total, $5, 742,579. PARKING MONEY The parking meters in down ? town Kings Mountain collected a total of $148,55 for the week which ended at noon Wednes day according a report toy City Clerk S. A. Crouse. First Gioap Of Cleveland Men Took Physical Exams Thursday The reactivated draft operated again In Cleveland County Thurs day morning, as 62 men were transported by bus to the Char lotte Quartermaster Depot for preinduotkm physical examina tions. A special bus left Shelby at 1 o'clock for the trip to Charlotte. Several men ordered to report for preinduction physical exam inations failed to report, Mrs. Mrs. Clara Newman, clerk to the selective service board said. They Included: Hex L. Owens, Ralph Adam* Jr., Albert J. C. Martin, John . Franklin Varner, Curlee 'Ross and Gene Watson. Second group of men to get pre-lnduction physical examina tions Wave been ordered to report to the orfftoe In Shelby fbr trans portation to Charlotte' next Wed nesday. Call lor next Wednesday is for 100 men. The board te already dipping into the 22-year-old group to fill Its calls. Under .present selective service procedure, older men in the 19-25 age group are being called up first. Men found physically fit will have a minimum of X day s be fore being order up for Induction. First possible induction date for men from this county 'will be September 7. Mrs. Newman Said Thursday that no further calls have been received by the county board However, General Lewis B. Her shey, Chief of selective service, said this Week that titoore large calls are anticipated. He declar ed that July estimates of needs for men toy the armed forces are sf dMs.T- . lay Cees Picnic At El Bethel MtWiP-M.t.i.-Miiw " ' ' " ' ~ ; ? I ?"??"KmSPmSrffSn Jay^SSTHJeir* wives and guests were treated to a bountiful picnic supper by la- | dies of El Bethel Methodist chur ch on the grounds of the historic church last Tuesday. The supper took the place of the regularly scheduled meeting. Some sixty -odd members and guests attended. No business 1 meeting was held. Eastern Star Reception Held Some 185 guests called at th'o Masonic Hall last Friday after noon at a reception honoring Ar nold W. Kincaid, of Kings Moun tain, associate grand patron of the North Carolina Order of Eas tern Star, and Mrs. Maude Bay nor Foy, of Kinston, associate grand matron. i t Among the group calling at the reception presented by the Bes semer City and Kings Mountain Eastern Star chapters were guests from Raleigh, Charlotte, Hender sonville, Asheville, Belmont, Roseboro, Gastonia, Shelby, Black Mountain, Cremerton, Lowell,' Fallston, Salisbury, Sanford, Kin ' ston, Elizabeth City, Durham. [ Hickory and Elkin, including sev , eral members of the grand com mittee. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bridges | greeted the guests and Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Bridges ?introduced the guests to the recei/ing line. Miss, June Smith directed the guests te | the punch bowl, where members, of the Bessemer City and Kings Mountain Chapters served. Pun ch was poured by Mrs. Roy Moore, Mrs. D. M. Morrison, and Mrs. Am rose Cloninger, Mrs. Floyd Noblett and Mrs. G. A. Brid ges superintended the register 'and Mr. and- Mrs. B. E. Callis said goodbyes. In the receiving line, in addi tion to Che honored guests, were Mrs. Theo Lynn, worthy matron of the Bessemer City chapter, Mrs. A. W. Kincaid, worthy matron of the Kings Mountain chapter, G. A. Bridges, worthy patron of the Kings Mountain chapter, Mr&j Mae H. Willman. worthy grand matron, of Asheville, Jesse ' M. Henley, worthy grand patron, of Roseboro, Mrs. Helen Rimmer, grand conductress, of Sanford, Mrs. Hilda Hallburton, grand Es ther, of Asheville, Mrs. Viola ! Dawson, grand Ruth, of Charlotte, Marshal Dillinfr, past grand pa jtron, of Gastonia, George R. Ben j nett, past grand matron, of j Greensboro, Mrs. Rheta Henley, past grand matron, of Roseboro, Mrs. Elspeth C. Setzer, past grand matron, of Charlotte, Mrs. Leola M. Byerly, past grand matron, of Gastonia. Mrs. Hugh Steven*, grand representative, of Ashe ville, Mrs. Lucille Davis, district deputy grand matron, of Char lotte, Mrs. Awella Gregory, dis trict deputy grand njatron, of Elizabeth City, Mrs. Claire Leond hart, district deputy grand ma tron, of Shelby, Harvey Bird, dis trict deputy grand patron, of Dur ham. Dewey Sigmon, district dep uty grand patron, of Hickory, And Edward Hood, dfcftriet deptuy grand paM-on, of EHdn. Following the reception, five chapters of Eastern Star were hosts <o the worthy grand ma tron and patron at 8 o'clock, some 130 persona attending this meet ing. Ho* chapters wene Bessemer Cttjr, Kings Mountain, Sheib; Fallston and Camp Call. . - Grayson To Quit Draft Position ! T. W. Grayson, Kings Mountain jeweler and member of the Cle- J veland County Selective Service i board, said this week he is re signing from the board. This means that the hoard is ? now seeking two new WMnbo^ crease its membership from three to five men. Mr. Grayson told the Herald he was resigning effective August 22nd, but Mrs. Clara Newman, clerk to the board, said Mr. Gray son had agreed to serve until a replacement had been appointed. Members of the selective ser vice board are appointed by the . director of selective service, on \ recommendation by the clerk of court. Mr. Grayson said he was re signing from the board due to ! the press of other duties. He has served on the board for more than a year. He is a veteran of World War II. Recreation Body j Meets In Shelby Members of the Kings Moun-i tain Recreation Commission dis- j cussed ways and means of build- j ing a community recreation cen- j iter here with members of the Shelby Recreation Commission at a dinner meeting in Shelby Wed nesday night. | The dinner was held at Shel by's Community Recreation Cen jter. 1 Outlining methods by which Shelby secured its handsome plant were Clayton Perrault, J manager of the center, and Holt McPherson and Henry Edwards, members of the Shelby commis sion. The Shelby group suggested I that first steps would be selec tion of a suitable site and a check of the legal standing of ithe city recreation commission. Mrs. Paul Mauney, chairman of the Kings Mountain commis sion, said the local commission expects to continue efforts along this line, - Attending the meeting, in ad dition to Mrs. Mauney, were Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, Mrs. George Houser, Mrs. J. H. Patterson, Mrs. Harry Page, Dr. P. G. Padgett, W. K. Mauney, Jr., and Hunter Neis ler. Softball Playoffs To Begin Monday First games of the playoff se ries for the four first division fin ishers in the Initial season of the Kings Mountain Softball Asso ciation sponsored league are scheduled to get underway Mon day afternoon on the Craftspun Mill atheltic field. Pauline and Craftspun are to tangle In the first game at five o'clock, with Margrace and Bur lington set to go in the second game of the doubieheader imme diately after the first game. ' The two Monday losers are scheduled to meet at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the first game of a double bill, with the two Monday winners to play In the "owl" game. One team will be eliminated from play in the first game of the Tuesday set in the double elimination event. The tournament oouid end on Wednesday afternoon with a pair of games provided a team- is eliminated in the first game. The winner of that gaim- would have to play a double header. Should a seventh game be re quired it would he played on Thursday afternoon. AH games are to be played on tha Craftspun field and no ad ttjsakm win be charged. Graham Says Montonia Road To Get 66 Fullest Consideration " Pauline Mill, Fulton Home Damaged By Fire The city was victim of an epi dcmic of fires this week. City firemen, were called out three times, beginning late Sun-. I day night, with an alarn^at Pau line Mill. Early Tuesday morning the fire department was called to put out a fire in an automo bile on Grace street, and they ex tinguished a fire at the home of C. L Fulton on West Mountain street Thursday mornintr. Total damages on the fires had not been completely estimated Thursday at noon. City firemen answered the a larm on the Fulton residence fire at 7:15 Thursday morning. The fire was caused by a defective chimney at the rear of the house and resulted in considerable damage to the kitchen and roof.' Firemen sprayed the blaze with two streams of water before ex tinguishing the blaze. The fire - ? . - ? Harry Kimmel, Pauline Mill su perintendent said damage from the Sunday night fire at the mill would total in excess of $2,000. Only one loom was destroyed by the fire, but several suffered se vere water damage. The fire resulted from a defec tive wiring connection and broke j out only about 15 minutes before the plant was to begin operations on the Monday morning shift. ! Firemen found connecting hose : unnecessary for this fire, as the I mill sprinkler system extingufh- i ed the blaze. The fire in the automobile of ' Loy Camp on Grace street oc curred at 2:45 Tuesday morning. Damage was slight, Fire Chief Grady King, reported Ware Wins Degree At Indiana School. . FORT WAYNE, Ind. ? William; P. Ware, son of Mr. and Mrs. Law- ; rence Ware, 606 W. Gold street, is among the summer term grad uates of Indian^ Technical Col lege in Fort Wayne. He received the B. S. degree in aeronautical engineering. Ware came to Indi- 1 ana Technical College in the] spring of 1948. The school awards the bachelor's degree in 27 mon- 1 ths in aeronautical, chemical, ci vil, electrical, mechanical and ra dio engineering by omitting many of the cultural courses while retaining the fundamental mathematics and engineering courses. Ware graduated from Kings Mountain high school and served in the U. S. Army for about two years, attached to the 82nd Air borne Division. Whije attending college. Ware was employed part-time at the Keenan Hotel. Nearly 60 percent of the students earn all or part of their expenses and the school gives special help in arranging for such employment. In the school year 1949-50, 406 men received degrees from Indi ana Technical College, represent ing practically every state in the United States and many foreign countries. t Young Democrats Of District To Meet A district meeting of Young Democrats of the 11th Con gressional district will be held at Brackett's Cedar Park, near Casar, on Saturday. September 9, it was announced by W. Fai son Barnes, chairman of the i Cleveland County organization. Mr. Barnes said U. S. Senator Clyde R. Hoey, Congressional Nominee Woodrow Jones, So- , licitor Basil Whitener and oth er party standard-bearers have been invited to attend. Supper will be served and tic kets for the gathering are now available at SI. 50, Mr. Barnes said. Morticians To Convene Here I . Some 50 members of the North j Carolina Funeral Directors asso ciation will attend a ninth dis Monday evening, according, to announcement by J. Ollle Harris,, Kings Mountain mortician and i district governor. ' The district includes Union. Mecklenburg. Cabarrus, Lincoln Gaston and Cleveland counties. State officials expected to at tend the meeting are President Fred Kesler. of Henderson, Vice President W. N. Hovis, of Char- 1 lotte, Secretary Luther Culpepper, of Elizabeth City, and Clyde O. Robinson, of kaleigh, executive secretary of the North Carolina Funeral Directors and Embalm ing Board. j Dinner will be served at 6 o' clock, and the business session following will include a discus sion of new laws concerning fun eral directors. Beth-Ware Fair Plans Progress I Plans lor the annual Beth-Ware Community Fair were going for- 1 ward this week, according to an- j nouneement by Myers Hambri- : ght, fair manager. . The annual three-day commu- j nity event will be held at Both !\Vare School grounds on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, Sep- , tember 14, 15 and 16. The R. C. Lee Riding Devices will be on hand to furnish a spe- j clal treat for the- youngsters, and : : Friday, September 15th will be School Day, with special events land contests staged for children ^and with special reduced fares for children on the riding devices, j Mr. Hambright said the annu ! a 1 pre-fair barbecue supper, for , Fair Premium Book advertisers, has been scheduled for Wednes day, August 30. Exhtbits are expected to be bet ter than ever. Mr. Hambright said, with many entries 1n the several divisions, which include livestock, field crops, horticul ture, domestic science, live-at home program and other commu nity activities. The fair is sponsored by the Beth -Ware Progressive club. High School Football Practice Began Tuesday; 45 Out Fox Team With the 1350 football practice reason only In Its second day, candidates for the Kings Moun tain high school team got down to rough work Wednesday with ja light scrimmage session. Some 45 students reported for uniform Issue Monday morning and Tuesday morning the squad i under the direction of Head Coach Shu Carlton .and Assistant ;Coach Don Parker, assisted by Line Coach Pride RaUerree, of Lenoir Rhyne College, an All State lineman with Wake Forest in 1945, took to the field at City i Stadium. Hot weather Thursday sent the team back into shorts for "dry run" scrimmage and condition ing exercises. Some eleven Jettermen of the 1949 team, which had a good sea son record of five wins and five losses and a Westren (Class A) conference record of three wins and five losses, form the back bone of the 1950 squad. Lettermf n Include End Don Flowers, Tackle Charles Mauney, | Tackle Jack Crouch, Tackle Ger ald Valentine, Guard Robert Da I vis. Guard faul McGlnnls, Cen ter Bob Hul tender. WingbacV Jim Cobb, Tailback Charles "BiJiy" Shytle, Blocking Back Fred Tate and Fullback Don Bumgardner. I On hand to bolster the return- j ing backfield 1s Jim Kimmell, a sophomore who will be playing his first season of football. He was a promising candidate last season, was sidelined with a bad case of appendicitis and was lost for the season. Several graduates of the gram mar grade football program are also out for the team including Ollie Harris, Ronnie I^ayton, Jim McDaniel, WIllLi Greene, Dickie Woodward, Don Barrett, Bill Rhea, Don McCarter, R. Moore, J Patterson, D. Barrett, S. Boheler, E. Stroupe and J. Abernathy. Other players out for the *950 team include Robert Goforth, Guy Fisher, Dickie McMackin, Gene Welch and Dickie Webb, of the 1949 roster and Kenneth Davis, Bill Ruth, Steve Jones, Bob Go forth, Fred Price, Charles Guyton, Thurman Bums, Don Cioninger, Jimmy Weaver, Douglas Falls and Dean Ayers, newcomers. Players lost from tfie 19-19 team by graduation and otherwise in clude AH Conference End Bob (Cont'd on page eight) Commissioner Talks Roads At Meeting Here I Highway Commissioner Joseph Graham, of Iron Station, promis ed "fullest consideration" of lo cal citizens' request for hard sui facing of the Lake Montonia road 1 at a dinner here Monday evening. ! 'Commissioner Graham, County Advisory Committeemen Wayne L. Ware and Tom Cornwell, and Ninth Division officials were en tertained at dinner at the Kings | Mountain Country Club by city officials and (interested citizens. Commissioner Graham said that the Lake Montonia road had 1 been under consideration for im provement, but that it had not | yet been determined whether the road would be improved, He said jit Was possible that >it eould be improved out of regular highway funds, if not under the special rural roads bond money, and promised to look over the road in the near future. ^WTfoHTTOtJi'^K^EtwL t h^com- ? "fhfssioner with a petition from some 150 citizens who are served by the Lake Montonia road, pointing out the need for improv ing the road; ' The commissioner said the Ko rean War had already resulted in crimping highway department plans for road work, with recent bids on road -building higher, and with material shortages already existing or anticipated. "Bids on roads during the first three months of this year were generally lower than had been expected, but recently they have been higher," the commissioner said, "and we frankly don't know just how far we shall be abhe to stretch the money available. L. Arnold Riser asked the com missloner to aid in improving the road Into Davidson Memorial Scout camp, a road not now on the county system. Division Engi neer Lewis Peck explained that the highway commission might be able to give some aid in im proving the road as a "communi ty" road. Joe A. Neisler asked improve ment of a half-mile strip of road running from the Margraee Mill village to the Beeson Creek Road, the latter now being improved. Mr. Neisler pointed out that im provement of this road would eliminate rail crossings for a large number of motorists daily. Commissioner Graham and his staff agreed to drive over all the roads and to do "everything pos sible." Hal Ward, mayor pro tempore, presided at the dinner. Roberts Bound Over On Charge Of Rape Charlie. Roberts, 45-yearold farmer of the Oak Grove section, was bound over to the October term of Superior court In a Re corder's court hearing at Shelby Tuesday and is 'being held with out bond on a charge of raping a 21-year-old mother of three child ren. Martin Ware, deputy Sheriff, was the only witness to take the stand in the hearing. Ware testi fied that according to his inves tigation Roberts came to the home of Mrs. Willie Mae Willis o I Oak Grove at midnight while her husband was at work in Kings Mountain. Ware said the woman told him that Roberts I asked her to open the door and give him a piece of bread for a hungry child who was with him. He is charged then with forcing his way into the home and rav ishing Mrs- Willis whose young est cbild is one month old. i Deputy Sheriff Ware said that Roberts admitted the attack in a I confession made at the Cleveland county jail folowing arrest at his ihome at 8:30 p. m. on the even ing following the alleged crime. Lions To Hear ? Crowell Little ' . , Crowell Little, Davidson col lege football coach, will address niemberS of the lUngs Mountain SLionsclub at their regular meet - iing Tuesday night at 7 ?'clpck at the Woman's Club, according (to announcement by William Plonk, program chairman, j Mr. Little is beginning his first iyear as coach of the Davidson college football team. He is a former head coach at I Kings Mountain high school and I was a star quarterback at the I University of North Carolina, playing on UNC teams from 1 1935-37. He was high school football I coach here in 1938