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Population City Limits 7,193 . (Final Unofficial Census 1956) Immediate Tradina Area 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) VOL 61 NO. 35 Sixty-First Year 12 Pages Today PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins MRS, PACE NAMED Mrs. William H. Pago, of Kings Mountain, Was named ?ounty Future Homemaker's supervisor, at a meeting of Cleveland County Vocational Home Economics teachers held at Shelby high school this week. TO BAYLOR Bobby E. Patterson left Mon day for Waco, Texas, where he will enter the Junior cass of Baylor University. A graduate of Gardner-Webb Junior Col lege, Mr. Patterson is a pre ministerial student and expects to entefr the seminary after graduating from Baylor. JAYCEES TO MONTONIA Members of the Kings Moun tain Junior Chamber of Com merce will hold a barbecue at Lake Montonia Tuesday even ing at 6:30, with wives and oth er guests of the Jaycees to be honor guests. The 'pool will be open to the Jaycee party prior to the dinner, it was announc ed. FINGERPRINT EXPERT Officer R. O. Hord of the T*?aQ'?0" study sponsored by the Ruther ford County Law Enforcement Officers Association this week. He had been attending school in Rutherfordton for the past several weeks and received six- I ty hours credit. The course was j handled by SBI personnel. HARRILLS HERE " Mr. and Mrs. Thornton S. Har rill are spending several days with Mr. Harrlll's parents, Mr., and Mrs. E. A. Harrill, prior to going to Maryland, where Mr. Harrill is being assigned to a new position with R. S. Boul igny & Co.,. Charlotte contract ing <irm, Mr. HarrfM has been working on company projects In Florida and Roaring Fork, Miss. > ROAD BID Brown Paving Company, ox Lexington, was low bidder on . hard-surfacing propect involv ing 14.2 miles of road In the Kings Mountain area, accord* ing to announcement of bids as received by the State Highway commission Tuesday. The pro- j Ject covered by the Brown Co. I bid includes hard -surfacing of Blalock road from Highway 26 to Bethlehem church; Dixon school road from tl. S. 29 to Dixon school; Midway road, from U. S. 74 to Kings Moun tain via Bethlehem church. City Stadium Being Repaired The Sky Stadium grandstand is being repaired for the approa ching hlfjh school football season which geta underway Sept. 8. City ere .ien have 'been busy at the Stadium for the past week, and M. K. Fuller, city adminlstra tor, reported the grandstand in "pretty bad shape.',' (Many planks had rotted out to make the grandstand potentially unsafe for spectators. * Otherwise, city street crewmen were still at work shaping up Dilling street and Wells street for hard-surfacing, and were cutting weeds and grass off dty side walks, particularly In school a reas. The electrical department was busy completing a line transfer on Floyd street. Club Golfers Musi Qualify By Sunday Golfers planning <o enter the Kings Mountain Country. Club championship tournament were reminded thh> week by Buck Pressley, club professional, that Sunday will bt '.he last day to ? quaHfy for the event. Am a? Dea.i has posted the low est qualifying score to date, a 75 (37-38) stroke round notched last week. Pat Hovls, club champion in 1948 posted an 80. Twenty ? one s?lfeia had quali fied for the event up to Thursday noon. Winner of the club champ ionship will gain permanent pos session of the President's Cup, The sixteen low quattfyers will j play a first round match with the winners to form the champion ship flight <and the losers going into the first flight. v * Or. F. G. Padgett ' won the championship last year. He will be unable to defend hia title be Mitt* of a frtrrf Hnhirv ' Cashwell To Preach First Sermon Sunday First Baptist Pastor Assumes His Duties Here Rev. Thomas Leary Cashwell, Jr., new pastor of the First Bap tist church, will preach his first sermons at his new charge, on Sunday.' Rev. Mr. Cashwell was official ly scheduled to assume his new duties on September 1, but arriv ed in Kings Mountain two days early, he and his family taking up residence in the newly-redeco rated church iparsonage on Gas ton street on Tuesday. The new Kings Mountain min ister Succeeds Rev. L. C. Pinnix, as First Baptist pastor. A native of Cornelius, he is the son of Rev. T. L. Cashwell, Sr., a Baptist minister in Gastonia for the past 23 years. He was educa |ted at Mars Hill. college, Wake Forest College, and at Southern Baptist Theological seminary. He has recently been completin . work toward a doctorate, while serving as pastor in Indian Creek ^^ti^eKuSS- at -Georgetownr Ind. Prior to serving the Indian Creek church, Mr. Cashwell was for more than three years pastor of Ryker's Ridge Baptist church at Madison, Ind. Members of the church pulpit committee included Byron Keeter, chairman, W. A. Williams, Mrs. J. E. Lipford, Mrs. E. C. McClain, L. E. Abbott, E. R. Roberts and I. A. McGill. Rev R. L. Councilman, of Bur lington, has been serving the church as supply pastor since de parture of Mr. Pinnix. Club To insure High Gridders i i Directors of the Mountaineer Club met Wednesday at the offi ce. of the Arthur Hay Agency and voted to purchase an insurance policy covering 33 Kings Moun tain high school.footba.il players. Coaches of the grammar grade football prog -a. n also attended the meeting and the group com pleted additional plans for the "sophomore" season of play. The Mountaineer Club, an ath letic boosters organization form ed here in April 1949 and char tered under state laws as a non stock, charitable corporation, in augurated the program last year and the venture proved highly successful. ? The group set age and weight limits for the grammar program. Any student who has reached his 16th birthday before Septem ber 5th, . opening day of school, will be ineligible for play" TTT the program, ?nd no player must weigh- over 135 pounds, according to the rules adopted by the group. Students who are ineligible un der these rules will be allowed to play on the high school "B" team according to Head Coach Shu Carlton, who also attended the meeting. The directors authorized pur chase of uniform and equipment items needed for the program this Cont'd on page eight) - ; . ?? * r -> ?" . ? . ? _ * ?**' ? ? . ? , f Social Security Law Amendments Up Benefit Checks September 1st ASSUMES DUTIES ? Rev. T. L. CashwelL Jr., new pastor of First ; Baptist church, will preach his tirst sermon here on Sunday morning at 1 i o'clock. He will al- j | so preach at evening services, j Rev. Mr. Cashwell and his family moved into the Baptist parsonage on Gaston street Tuesday. Mrs. Hambright j Seriously 111 M As. Claude Hambright, who j underwent an emergency opera- 1 tion at Memorial hospital in , Charlotte Wednesday, was report- j ed Thursday morning to have j rested well following the opera- 1 tion. Her condition was still regard ed as serious, members of her family said, but physicians hop. , ed for her complete recovery. Mra. Hambright became ill at her home here last Friday even ing and was taken to the Char lotte hospital for observation and treatment. She failed to respond tb treatment and the emegency operation was decided upon on Wednesday. Dr. Thomas Sparrow performed the operation. It was found <hat Mrs. Hambright was suffering from a ruptured intes- 1 tine. Though in not the best of heal th, the seriousness of Mrs. Ham bright's condition was not sus pected until she became suddenly ill last Friday night. Miss Barber New Education Director Miss Lillian Barber, of Moul- j trie, Ga., will begin her duties as religious education and choir di rector of First Presbyterian chur ch Friday according <to announce ment by Rev. P. D. Patrick, pas tor. Miss Barber graduated from Queens College, Charlotte, in June with a major in religious ed ucation and voice. She was in charge of the kindergarten class at Montreat this summer. | She is a daughter of Rev. E. L. Barber, executive secretary of home missions in the Southwest Presbytery in Georgia. Miss Barber is residing in the J. R. Davis home on East Moun tain street. Here is what happened to old age and survivors insurance in the GaMonla area yesterday when President Truman signed the 1950 amendments to the Soci al Security Act All monthly insurance checks now "being paid to the 3,900 so cial security beneficiaries in the counties of Gaston, Cleveland and Lincoln which are adminis tered by the Gaston la Field Of fice will be raised subetantially, beginning with the September; checks, according to Miss Marga ret H. Lowder, Manager of the lo cal office- Miss Lowder explain ed that these automatic lncre? - en, are scheduled to reach local; beneficiaries during the first; week of October. Increases will ; range from about SO percent to a bout 100 percent For example,' the average primary benefit of approximately $26 per month for a retired worker will be increased j to about $46. A widow wtth two children who had been receiving $55 a month will now receive a bout $110 altogether. Mlas Lowder said that under the old terms of the aortal secur ity law the 3,300 beneficiaries In this area would have received a bout $53?50 (total) for the mon th of $eptamba?v Vn4a the w?| increases, however, total pay ments for September are estlma j ted to be about $100,375, or an immediate increase of some $47, j 125 monthly in insurance benefits I to this area. i Under the new law the amount , I of earnings which a beneficiary may make In a month, ?nd still ! accept his insurance payment for! that month, is raised from $14.99j j to $50. This applies to beneficiar- j ies under age 75, and for earn- j ings in a Job covered by social security. After attaining age 75, a beneficiary may have any a mount of earnings and still ac cept his insurance checks. Approximately 9,700,000 more 'people may have old-age and survivors insurance under the re vised law. For most of the new groups, coverage will toe manda : tory after January 1, 1951, How jever, employees of nonprofit charitable, religious, and educa tional Institutions will come und er social security only if the em ! ployer chooses and if two-thirds of the employees express a wish to participate. Employees of State and local governments may have social security coverage on an optional basis tout the State [ .(Cont'd on page nine) No Induction Calls Received By Draft Board As of Thursday morning at 11:30, the Cleveland County se lective service board had not yet received calls for induction of men into the armed services, though it had received another ?pre- induction call. The board has been ordered to send for physical examination 25 registrants to the Charlotte pro induction center on September 8, according to announcement by Mrs. Clara Newman, clerk to the board. Following two August pre-in duction calls, the board now has listed as availahle for service in excess of 70 men. Induction calls are expected for late 1n September, following an nouncement last week that the armed services has asked North Carolina to furnish 1,525 men for induction during September. The Stare has been asked to furnish 1,526 men for induction during October. life-induction calls are expect ed to be lighter during the next few weeks, since Cleveland was among the first boards activated. Several counties could furnish no men for pre-induction examina tions during .August, because they had not been activated. However, all counties now. have selective service boards in opera ? ? Under prevent policy, only reg* istrants between 19 and 25 years of age are draftable, and these are limited to non-veterans with out dependents. According to present regulations a registrant is considered a veteran If he ser ved on active duty for 90 days be tween December 7, 1941, and Sep tember 2, 1945, or as much as one year between September 16. 1940, and June 24, 1948 Stores To Close For Labor Day Monday will be holiday 1n Kings Mountain for the majority of retail salespeople, but for most other folk, Labor Day will be a day of labor, rather than a holi day. The long week end will apply for the majority of retail firms, including grocery stores, furni ture department and jewelry stor es, and financial institutions. The postoffioe will be closed, so will the North Carolina Em ployment Service office, the Shel by office of the Cleveland County selective service board, and city offices. i Retail firms here will re-open for business on Tuesday morn ing. They will observe the regu lar Wednesday afternoon half holiday, as usual. Principal local feature of the Labor Day holiday will be pres entation by the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce of its Second Annual Model Air Show at City Stadium. Labor Day will not be a holi day for teachers in Kings Moun tain city schools, as they attend teachers' meetings in the after noon prior to ?#>neral opening of schools on September 5. 17 Cases Heard In Court F ission Seventeen cases were heard in regular weekly session of City Recorder's court held at City Hall Monday afternoon. Nine defendants were convicted on charges of public drunken ness. ? . L. D. Wheeler, of Scottdale, Fla. was fined $10 and coats after con viction on a charge of reckless driving. . James Wlltiams -was found not | guilty on a charge of reckless! driving. . Walter Johnson was found guil ty of passing a worthless check and was fined 510 and costs and ordered to make the check good. James Mauldin, charged with public drunkenness' and illegal possession of whiskey, was sent ; to jail for 60 days. Joseph .Bivens Gregory, of Page land. S. C., was fined $5 and cosrts after he was convicted on a char ge of speeding. Thomas John Smarr and James Alvin Bell were each ordered to pay costs, with prayer for Judg ment continued after they were convicted on a charge of driving without an operators license. i Charles E. Blalock was fined $10 and costs after oonvkAion on charges of operating a motor ve hicle with Improper muffler and improper lights. , j METER RECEIPTS A toal of $151 was collected from the cHy's downtown park ing meters Wednesday accord ing to a report by CKy Clerk S. A. Crouse. fV 'ikr-'l.' ???.'?. V'<"' * A Of Vr ? V *?'- a" ' / : ~ " ? City, Park Grace Schools Begin 1950-51 Terms Tuesday Morning I LOOKING UP TO THE COMING GRID SEASON? Candidates lor the 1950 Kings Mountain high school ; football team took a five minute break in pre- school drills last week at City Stadium to pose for this picture. The Mountaineers jump off an a 10- game schedule this year, with the first game set for City Stadium next Friday night (Sept. 8th) against Dallas high school. (Photo by Carlisle Studio.) | Model Air Show Set For Stadium Monday laycees Sponsor Second Annual Flying Event The Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce will pre sent its Second Annual Model Air Show at City Stadium Mon day, with competitors expected from cities throughout the South east, The show will get underway at 3 p. m. and continue until 10 p. m. Competition will include five classies: - ? Internal comburfion engines, Class A. Internal combustion engines,! Class B. Internal combustion engines, Class C. Internal combustion engines. Class D. Jet propulsion. J. T. McGinnis, chairman of thv event, said invitations has been .extended to model flying expert! from Virginia, the District of Co lumbia, South Carolina and Geor j gia, jn addition to North Caro lina and he anticipates a big field of entries. Amissrion to the event will b? 10 cents for children; 25 cents for adults. The Jaycees will operate a con cession stand at the stadium fo? the convenience of competitors and spectators. Several Families Change Residences Several Kings Mountain fami lies are changing places of res- j idence. They include: Mr. and Mrs. S. R- Suber, Jr., who are moving into the residen- ; ce on W. Gold street, which they ' have purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Goforth, Sr. The Goforths have moved into their new home off the Shelby high way. In turn, Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Morrison are moving Into the Mauney Apartments, occupying the apartment being vacated by the Subers. Highway Patrolman and Mrs. Bill Sawyer have moved from their apartment on Gaston street to the Kerns house on Wells i street, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam t Hamrick, who have purchased the Gantt home on Gaston street, expect to occupy it in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Looney are moving from their present home on Waco Road to the Thorns sawn house formerly occupied by C. J. ! Gault, Jr., on E. King ctreet. President Truman To Speak Friday President Harry S. Truman has sch&duled a nation-wide radio address for Friday night at 9 p. m. in which he is ex pected to tell the nation how much belt-tightening he ex | pects in the economy due to the I war in Korea. Tho address is to be carried by major radio networks. Congress is expected to vote | the President emergency pow ers to control prices and wages ! within the next few days, and Just what controls the President will invoke may be given in his | Friday evening address. Lions Working On Fair Project . Preliminary work for operation of a concession stand at the Cle i veland County Fair by the Kings Mountain Lions club, is well un jderway, Publicity Chairman Sam IWeir reported this week. | Members of the club are pre fabricating the booth for quick and easy erection at the opening | of Fair Week, and the food com I mittee is already purchasing country hams and other supplies ! for the project, Mr. Weir said. The project is under the direc tion of the club ways and means committee, which includes Sam Stalling*, chairman, George Hou ser, Holland. Dixon and W. D. Byers. Local Men In Hospital Unit Several Kings Mountain area men are members of the 311tb Station Hospital, which has been ordered to active duty by the ar* my, and which is to report for duty next Thursday. ? Local men jn the unit, com mand! d by Lt-Col. Craig Jones, j include Lt. Bill Ross, ' Thomas Tindall, Dwight Hurt. Doriis B. ! Blalock, John Lail, Lester R. Ho well, Carl E. Reynolds, Clarence E. Dixon, William B, McDaniel, ! John D. McDaniel, and Robert M. Blackburn. ! Another member of the unit is ICapt. Dan Teague of Hickory, j brother of Miss Lula Mae Teague, | (of Kings Mountain. j Homecoming At Grace Methodist ^ -? ? ; I Rev. L. B. Abernethy, of Char lotte, will preach the sermon Sun - | jday morning at 11 o'clock at an- i [ual homecoming services at iGrace Methodist church, accord ing to announcement" this week ! by the pastor, Rev. G. W. Fink. Picnic dinner will be served at the church at 12:30, a/id Rev. W. A. Stanbury, district superinten dent, will. conduct a cornerstone [ceremony at 1:15 "p. m. Services will begin hi 9:15 a. jm., with Sunday school. I Tho sf>oclal homecoming ser tvlce will also feature special mu isle by visiting choirs and quar i tets. I- Formers pastors of the church j and former members are, being! urged to attend the service.' Benson Reports On Red Cioss Activity Since Korean Outbreak The American Red Cross al ready has 21 field representatives in South Korea and has sought permission to enter North Korea, L. L. Benson, Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter chairman, was in formed this week. In a letter from W. W. Jeffer- ! son, area manager, 1t was stated that the International Red Cross seeks to get representatives jnt0 North Korea and <o effect, in be half of American prisoners of war, the protection and facilities of the Geneva convention, it was also stated that the Red Cros9 al- 1 ready has on hand an emergency supply of prisoner-of-war food packages lor American personnel in North Korea, ready for ship ment to the Far Kast as quickly as permission Is received for the j Red Cross *o enter the country. "Although the North Korean government announced in mid-i July that k 'is strictly abiding by the principles of the Geneva Con- i vention in respect to war prison - 1 ers,' it has not yet Issued visas to permit the entry of the Inter- | national Committee's delegate, ; * *' \ ?- ~ ? - ? * ?? *" nor has it released any official lists of Americans held as prison- j ers," the letter stated. A Red j Cross delegate is now at Tientsin, I China, In an effort to complete ar- 1 rang#nients for Red Cross entry i into North Korea, . Mr. Jefferson i stated. He further informed the local ? chapter chairman that the Red Cross representatives in South j Korea are providing services to able-bodied troops and to hospi talized servicemen, and that a vast .volunteer program is being activated in Japan, under direc tion of Miss Edith Miller, recent ly returned to Japan after five years of Red Cross service in the Far East. Mr. Benson said the letter stat ed that first shipments of blood, collected via Red Cross national blood program, were, gathered ! from regional centers August 25th for dispatch to Korea. The Red Cross has asked all its chapters to increase its blood collection quotas by a minimum of 25 per cent. ? School Heads Report Full Faculty Lists Pupils Kings Mountain city schools 'and Park Grace school jn the county system will begin the 1950-51 team Tuesday morning at 8:30, according id announce ment this week by B. N. Barnes, superintendent of city schools, and Mrs. J. C.- Nickels, principal of Park Grace school. Both Mr. Barnes and 'Mrs. Nick els said this woek that arrange ments for the opening of school are virtually completed, with full faculties.-. Prior to school opening Tues day morning, city teachers of Central, East and West, will meet at Central school at 1:30 Monday for a general teachers meeting, to be followed by divisional meetings at the respective schodts at 2>:30. First day schedules will be for * US i "I I 'Ti rV^ili .schedule -~Th'? i n n i ng~on ~Wednes - day. Mr. Barnes announced ap pointment of a public school mu sic teacher and four teachers in tho elementary and grammar grades to complete the school faculties. They are Miss Margaret Ratterree, of Kings Mountain, former teacher in Ashevllle schools, who will teach the third grade at West school, Mrs. Ruby Wells Upchurch, of Cherryville, former teacher at Cliffside, who will teach the third grade at East ? High school students who have moved to Kings Mountain during the summer and who thus will enter the school for | the first time are asked to re ! port to Principal Rowell Lane prior to Monday noon for regis tration for the term which be gins Tuesday. ? . . 'school, Mrs. Mary Pritchard, of Gaffney, S. C? former, teacher at the Winecoff school, Concord, 'who will teach the sixth grade at jEast school, Mrs. Garland Still, - of Kings Mountain, former teach er in the Winston Salem, schools, .who will teach the fourth grade [at East school, and W Howard j Coble, of Guilford College, pub lic school music leacher. Only one new teacher is listed I at Park Grace school, 'Mrs. Miles Beam, Jr., of Shelby, replacing Mrs. Helen McGill Ferguson, who resigned. Other members of the faculty | are: Mrs. Carl Davidson, Mrs. Pauline Weaver and Mrs. Nevette Hughes, all of Kings Mountain, | and Mrs. Boyd Minick, of Shelby. Mr. Barnes pointed out several | requirements for first grade stu dents. To enter the first grade, children are required to be six years of age on or before Octo j ber 1, 1950, and they are also re ! quired to have received vaecina jtions against small pox, whoop ing cough and dipttieria. He also said parents of children entering the first grades are requested to [furnish birth certificates on the [children. Slightly increased enrollments are anticipated at both Park Grace and city schools. In the city schools, the open ing day situation shows much improvement over last year, when it was complicated by the remodeling and expansion of the West school building. Mr. Barnes said work at this school is almost completed, with the building having been painted and renova ted throughout. Seven grades are taught at West school and eight g>ades at East school. Christmas Opening Here November 30th Directors of the Kings Moun tain Merchants association, in meeting Tuesday night, set November 30th for the official opening of the 1950 Christmas shopping season in Kings Mountain, and voted to send the association's executive sec retary, Faison Barnes, to Relei gh to oppose Southern Bell Tel ephone and Telegraph Com pany's request for phone rate increases. Date of the hearing on the phone rate matter has not yet been set. The Christmas opening will feature a Christmas parade, according to initial plana of the directors, with committees fo? tho event to' be named at a fu ture date. _