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^ Population City Limits 7,193 (Final Unofficial Census 1950) Immediate Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) 14 Pages Today VOL.61 NO. 44 Sixty-First Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday. November 3. 1950 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS Citizens To Go To Polls For General Election Tuesday Local News Bulletins LEGION SUPPER A fried chicken supper will be served Legionnaires at the Le gion Hall Saturday night from 6.30 to 9 p. m. it was announ ced this week by James Ben nett, adjutant. WORK STARTED Footings were poured Wed nesday for the new addition to the Legion Building on East Gold street. Brick laying is to be started soon a spokesman .said. PARKING MONEY A total of $151.26 In revenue was collected from the city's parking meters Wednesday ac cording to a report by City Clerk S. A. Grouse. BUILDING PERMITS Permit was Issued to L. C. Parsons on Monday for cover ing residence on East King street, estimated cost $150. STORY HOUR RESUMED . The llrst children's Story Hour of the current school year will be conducted Friday after noon "at Jacob S. Mauney Me morial Library from' 4 to 5 o' clock, with Mrs. L. W. McSwain serving as story-teller and with Mrs. E. T. Plott as hostess. The story hour program is designed for children in grades one Through four. , REHEARSALS BEGUN "The Kings Mountain Choral society, which recently presen ted a full-dress public concert, began rehearsals Thursday night tor a special Christmas program. Franklin Pethel, di rector, announced that the so ciety will welcome new mem bers. Rehearsals are held at the St. Matthew's Lutheran church recreation room. IN POUCE GROUP PANAMA CITY, Fla. ? Preven tion of sabotage and protection against attack on United Sta tes Air Force bases will be in creard with the graduation Saturday, November 4, of a* new Class of Security Patrol Air PI ?lice. Among the airmen to be graduated are Pvt. D.'C. Hardin, son of /Mrs. Dennis Crawford, Kings Mountain, N. C. W. C. Kimmel Bites Conducted Funeral rites for WiHiam Carl Kimmel, 64, a former employee of Margrace Mill, were held Sun day afternoon ?*t Harris Funeral Home, with Interment following at Mountain Rest cemetery. Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterfan church, con ducted the rites. Mr. Kimmel, who had been in ill health for the past year, suc cumbed Saturday morning at 6 o!clock at a hospital in Black Mountain. He was born at Louisville, Ky.\ but he had lived in Kings Moun tain for many years. Surviving are a son, Harry Kimmel, superintendent of the Pauline Mill, t^o grandsons, Bob Kimmel, ? student at N. C. State cOUege, and Jimmy Kimmel, of Kings Mountain, a brother, Er nest Kimntel, Washington, D. C., and ?. sister, Mrs. Robert Hansel], of Salisbury. Pallbearer were J. W. Gamble, M. F. Cloninger, Guthrie Ham rick, W. W. Parrish, J. N. Gamble, and Paul Patterson. City Purchases Dttchina Machine The City of Kings Mountain h?s purchased & used ladder-type ditchihg machine from the City of Htckovy for use in making water line and sewer line installations. Arrangements for purchase of the machine lor $5*000 were com pleted Tuesday morning. The ma ? ?chine Is to be delivered Monday. The city board aproved the pur chase at' a special session Mon day night. Light Vote Anticipated At Local Boxes The citizens of the United Sta tes go to the polls next Tuesday in the biennial general election.. How strong they will bo joined in the Kings Mountain area is a question most local political ob servers decline t? answer specif ically, except to offer the opinion that the vote will be light. They point to the lack of local contests, with the exception of some township constable races, and the fact that the county and state are predominantly Demo cratic as reasons for anticipating a light vote. . Most feel, however, that trte Kings Mountain vote will be somewhat larger than the 688 cast in the last off-year voting in 1946, due to an increase In the number of voter! and the estab lishment of another precinct at Beth -Ware. The vote in the 1948 presiden tial election year in Kings Moun tain was 1,450, but the specula tors doubt that this total will be reached. ?In spite of North Carolina's tra ditional record in the Democrat column, party leaders have been busy for the past mortth holding rallies and otherwise working to get out the vote. Only Kings Mountain man on the county ballot wlllbe 3. Ollle Harris, Democrat, who is unop posed for re-election for county coroner. U. S. Senator Clyde K. Hoey, of Shelby, seeks Te -election to a second term. Polls will open at 6:30 a. m.t and. will close at 6:3Q p. m'. in the 28 Cleveland county precincts. Registration was very light for the Tuesday election. Kings Mountain area election officials follow: East Kings Mountain: Mrs. Nell Cranford (D), registrar, T. P. Mc Gill (D) and Frank Glass (R)/ judges. West Kings Mountain: B. D. Rattcrree (D) registrar, Charles B. Campbell (D) and Clarence P. Goforth(R), judges. Beth-Ware: Miss Freelove Black (D), registrar, Clyde Rand all (D) and J. S. Ware (R>. judg es. East Kings Mountain residents vote at City Hall, West Kings Mountain residents at Victory Chevrolet Company, and Beth Ware precinct residents at Beth Ware school. Cleveland county Democrats are holding a pre-election rally at the Shelby Community Center Monday night, with barbecue and speakings by party leaders and candidates on the menu. - loycees Of District To Meet Tuesday Representatives of 11 Junior Chamber of Commerce organiza tions will meet here Tuesday ev ening at the Woman'* Club at 7 o'clock for * third district meet ing. W. FalsOn Barnes, president of thd Kings Mountain Jaycees, said guests will include North Caro lina President Bucky Snider, of High Peint, and District Vice President Ai Brown, of Concord, in addition to other Jaycee offi cials. BIRCH. THE MAGICIAN ? Kings Mouutain citizens will have a chance to test the old saying "the hand is quicker than the eye" Tuesday night, when Birch, The Magician, presents his 50-act show at the high school audito rium, beginning at 8 o'clock.' The show is being sponsored by the Kiwanis club. Magician Shows Here On Tuesday Birch, The Magician, will at : tempt some 50 difficult magical acts next Tuesday night at the ' high school auditorium when he appears here under the sponsor ship of the Kings Mountain Ki i wanis club for the benefit of the organization's fund for under - . privileged children. The show be ' gins <a< -8 o'clock. Among the feature acts of the | Birch show, will be the magici an's projected escape from a well nailed strong-box, built here by Elmer Lumber Company, and now on display in the window of Bridges & Hamrick. According to | the announcement. Birch will es cape from the box after being nailed In it on the stage. Other feature acts include ma king a live pony vanish, slicimj a beautiful girl into four parts, and shooting a live canary into a burning light bulb. . His assistant "is Miss Ethel Sperry, young xylophonist, a for j mer radio and concert performer. The Birch show is billed as the largest now on tour in America, with some $25,000 in equipment, scenery and effects. Admission will be 60 cents for students, $1.20 for adults, and tic kets are now on sale at Griffin Drug Store and Kings Mountain Drug Company. Kiwanis officials report that the Birch show is an excellent one, according to recommenda tions received from other cities in which Birch has played recent ly. Dr. E. E. Gillespie To Deliver Sermons ^ * Rev. E. E. Gillespie, D. D., of Greensboro will deliver the morn ing service at First Presbyterian church on Sunday and will also preach at Dixon Presbytreian ohurch at the 3 o'clock service It was announced this week. Dr. Gillespie will be filling the pulpit for Rev. P. D. Patrick who is conducting a meeting at Rox boro First Presbyterian church. "For many years Dr. Gillespie has been a leader in the mission work of the Presbyterian chitrch. He has rendered distinguished service to the church and is rec ognized as one of the ablest min isters. We Invite fhe public to hear bim," a spokesman of the church said. Giri Scoot Fond Drive To Start Monday; Campaign Goal S1.100 Annual Kings Mountain area Girl Scout fund campaign will begin next Monday with a goal of $1,100, according to announce ment yesterday toy John L. Mc Glll, fund drive chairman. Mr. McGill also announced the solicitation organization as fol lows: E. King ttreet, civic clubs, Grover rd. ? Mrs. W. W, Tolle*on, Mrs. J. G. I>arracott, Mrs. Sam Weir. Cherokee St.. Mountain, York rd ? Mrs. David Hamrlck, Mrs. J. S. Evans, Jr. E. Gold st. portion of Moun tain St.,? Mrs. J. B. Simpson. Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Sr. Industrial? Mrs. Harry Page, Mra. George Houser. Bessemer' City rd., Piedmont ave., and Cherryvllle rd., Mrs. A. W. Kincald, Mrs. J. E. Mauney. N. Railroad ave., Shelby rd. ? Mrs. P. G. Padgett, Mr*. Jacob Coopa*. tl Negro division? Prof. J. A. Gibson. ? The fund campaign begins Monday, Just after the close of National Girl Scout Week, and Mr. McGill said he hoped the drive could be finished by Sat urday, November 11th. asked that citizens give lib- , erally to the fund In order that the local Girl 8cout work can be| ftmiwr optadwl. . m City Awaiting Sewerage Plan! Recommendation The City of Kings Mountain is expecting a report in the near fu ture from state Board of Health engineers with passible recom mendations for re- vamping of the city's sewerage disposal system. A group of three engineers met with 'the city board of commis sioners last Thursday afternoon, after making a survey of the lo cal system, and declined to make recommendations prior -to further detailed study. They Indicated however, -that they would include recommenda tions for possible consolidation of the sewerage disposal system. The engineers here were F. R: Blaisdell, of Asheville, and W. S. McKimmon and W. J. Stevenson, of Raleigh. Some pressure for improvement of the system, at least at the Mc Gill disposal ank, was indicated this week, when E. Y. >IcBayer, Gaston county sanitary oifficer, and P. F. Ashton, of the state board of health, lodged an infor mal complaint about the defec tive McGill tank with City Ad ministrator M. K. Fuller. The Mc Gill tank is within the bounds of Gaston county. Bank Resumes Christmas Club The First National Bank is in viting Kings Mountain area ci#- 1 izens to help themselves to aj Merry Christmas ? in 1951. The bank is announcing this week the opening of the 1950-51 Christmas Savings Club, for the first time in. several years, in which regular weekly deposits | over the next 50 weeks build up ; into a sizeable sum in time for! Christmas 1951 shopping. It has been several years since' the bank offered the Christmas j Club plan, and it is being resum- 1 ed, an official said, to promote regular savings for holiday-sea son buying. Persons may join the club by paying in as little as 50 cents per week, or they may pay in larger amounts. At the end(of a 50-week period, the bank mails a check to the club member. While per sons may join throughout this month and early into December, the- bank is urging potential members to join at once. Miss Frances George is in charge if the First National's Christmas Club and full details concerning the plan can be ob tained from her at the bank. Employment Security Law Violator Fined T. L. Whitley, claims deputy, of Gaston ia, announced this week conviction of another Kings Mountain citizen for violation of the state employment security law. Sam P. Barber was found guil ty Thursday before- Magistrate Lee Roberts and was fined $20 and costs. Barber becomes ineli gible, under the law, for further unemployment benefits for the benefit year. He was charged with working and not reporting earnings while filing claims for unemployment compensation during the week ending October 20, 1949, Mr. Whitley said. Some dozen defendants have been convicted in similar cases here during the past .year, the claims deputy said. Macedonia Church To Hear Morrisett Rev. Stephen Morrisett, head of the Bible Department of Gardner Webb college, will lecture Sun day night at 7 o'clock at Macedo nia Baptist cnurch. -Rev. Mr. Morrteetr, recently re-, turned from a tour of Palestine ?and other Holy Land countries, will show pictures of his trip in connection with his lecture, ac cording to announcement by the pastor, Rev. R. L. Hardin. The public is invtted to attend. , . ? - ... i ?? n il ? .-w .<^xWWJr. M "* .'.*?? HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION IS PROGRESSING ?Construction of the Kings Mountain hospital is nearing completion, as the picture above indicates. Since the picture was made, the hospital area landscape has been changed considerably as workmen are busy laying out drives and walkways. Completion of plumbing installations at the hospital are currently underway and the principal hold- ! up to final completion of the construction Job is shipment of metal doors. (Photo by Carlisle.) Five Amendments Before Voters North Carolina voters will ap prove or disapprove five propos ed amendments to the North Car olina constitution at Tuesday's general election. Three of the amendments affect the courts of the state, another i> designed to safeguard monies Jn the teacher's retirement fund, and a fifth would raise the pay of tho state's legislators. The retirement fund amend ment would prohibit the stjtte from using the teacher's retire ment fund for any purpose other than contained in the law. It could not be loaned, borrowed, diverted or otherwise used for other purposes. The amendment on pay of leg islators would raise the pay to $15 per day for a maximum of 90 days in regular sessions and for a maximum of 25 days in spe cial sessions. Under the current law, legislators receive S10 per day for a maximum of 60 days. The amendment would also raise the pay of the presiding officers to $20 per day for the maximum periods. One amendment would allow a person to waive indictment by grand Jury, when represented by counsel, in all except capital cas es. It was pointed out by. support era of the amendment that many 1 people arrested are sometimes detained in Jail for long periods waiting grand Jury action. A further amendment would allow the General Assembly to prescribe the number of Superior ^ Court Judges in a particular dls- j trlct, providing each district ha.s one. This amendment is design ed to undog dockets in congest ed areas. Another amendment affecting ' the courts would transfer au thority of the Governor in assign ment of Judges and calling spec- , ial terms of court to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Abbott to Head Kiwanis Club j tawrence E. Abbottr cashier of the First National Bank, will sue- j ceed H. Y. Ballard as president of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club in January, according to results: of the annual club elections con ducted recently. Harold Hunnlcutt was elected vice-president. Directors named for 1951 in- ! elude: W. T. Weir, Harry Page, E. W. Griffin, E. C. McLain, W. K. Crook, Paul Mauney, and B. S. 1 Peeler, Jr, Retiring President Bal-i lard will serve as a member of ; the board, ex officio. Mr. Abbott is currently serving as vice-president of the club. Xfoeter Firm Begins Family Night Friday Keeter's Department Store In augurates a new policy Friday evening, When it remains open j until 9 p. tn. The firm is labeling the addi tional shopping time as "Keeter's Family Night" and is urging pa trons t<jr take advantage of the vening hours to do their shop ping. Book Fund Donations Reported At $750 First reports on progress of the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library book fund campaign showed total contributions of $750. according to announce ment this week by W. K. Maun oy. v. '' " This report was turned in by the committee handling indus trial contributions. Otherwise reportB on the campaign were incomplete, but Haywood E. Lynch, in charge of business solicitations, said he hoped to complete this portion of the campaign early next week. Goal of the campaign is S2, 000. Moss Completes 25-Year Record Theodore E. Moss was awarded a bar Sunday at Macedonia Bap tist church, the honor marking hia completion of 25 years of per fect attendance at Sunday school services. With exception of the several Sundays he has been away from Kings Mountain, Mr. Moss has attended the Mac?donia services, and on other occasions he has at tended Sunday school at other churched. * Mr. Moss holds the distinction of being the only charter member of the Macedonia church still ac tively attending its services. This church was organizzed Oc tober 31. 1920. While problems of continuing the record were nt?t too great on the whole, Mr. Moss relates, he does recall one Sunday when it was necessary to wade through knee-deep snow for more than a mile in order to attend Sunday school. He and the other three hardy members present held Sun day school. Pledger) Sorority DURHAM ? Alda Jean Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Davis, 116 E Mountain St., Kings Mountain, N. C. was recently pledged as a member of Zeta Tau Alpha, social sorority at { Duke University. Caldwell Rites Held Wednesday J - * ? ' Funeral services for Henry Hun t ier Caldwell. -19, who died Mon day rnght around 11 p. m. m Shcl : by hospital after suffering a cer j rubral hemorrhage lliree hours I earlier, were held at Harris Fun eral Homo Wednesday afternoon j at -1 o'clocdt. ' . i Roy, Paul R:mrner and Rev. H. E. Crump officiated and burial ? was in Mountain Rest cemetery. i He was stricken around 8 p. m. | Monday at Barrett's Grocery on | Cherryville road and was rushed ' to Shelby hospital where tie was | placed in an oxygen tent. A salesman for Tyner Motor Co., Shelby, Mr. Caldwell had been a resident of Kings Moun tain for 48 y^aTs. fie is survived by his wife, the former Miss Mildred O'Brien, two daughters, Mrs. Wiley Harvin, of Blacksburg, S. C., and Miss Anna Caldwell, of Kings Mountain, his mother, Mrs. William Henry Caldwell, and two brothers, -Dew ey and Millard Caldwell, all of Kings Mountain, and five sisters, Mrs. George Adams, Mrs. Jess Jenkins, Mrs. Lester Welch and Mrs. Tom Smith, of Kings Moun tain, and Mrs. W. P. Gore, of Oak Ridge, Tenn. Active palbearers were Kenneth E. Jenkins, John Caldwell, Billy CaldwellrDonald Welch, William Harold Adams and William J. Gamble. Funeral Conducted For Prince's Mother Mrs. Alfred B. Prince, mother of Alfred Prince of Kings Mountain, was buried Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Bethlehem Baptist church, Spartanburg, S. C. Mrs. Prince lived to the ripe old age of 96 years and 10 days. Her death came after an Illness of ten days, lolowing a birthday cel ebration in her honor by her fam ily. Born October 17, 1854, Mrs. Prince, a widow of 45 years, is survived by 7 children and a lar ge number "f grandchildren, j great-grandchildren. Mrs. Prince I loved the church very nruch and ! resided at the time of her death with her son, Rev. Clarence Prin ce Of Fair Forest, S. C. School Programs Will Feature Education Week Observance Here Next week will be National Ed ucation Week, throughout the United States, and Kings Moun tain schools and other organiza tions are Joining in the observan ce. Purpose of the observance, ac- 1 cording to the National Education ; association, is "to remind Amer- j lean people of their duties to I their schools." Teachers a .J sdhools cannot be effective with out public support, the associa tion points out, and the heeds of education are constantly chang ing. In Kings Mountin, the schools, churches, Parent-Teacher asso ciations, and American Legion are participating in the observan ce through various programs. The public 1s lnvfte^ to attend the programs and thereby to bet ter acquaint themselves with the functions of, and needs of, the school systems. The programs scheduled in clude: Central School , . ? ' Mon&rfy ? 1 p. m. ? Rev. T. L. Cashwell. Tuesday ? 1:10 p.m. ? High school band and glee club. Wednesday? 1:10 p. m. ? P. T. A. (Open house immediately fol lowing program.) Thursday ? 1:10 p. m. ? Mrs. Thomasson's 6th grade. Friday? 1:10 p. m. ? American Legion. West School Tuesday ? 8:45 a. m. ? Band. Wednesday ?*- 8:45 a. m. ? Rev. T. L. Cash well. Friday ? 8:45 a. m. ? Student Participation Program. East School Tuesday ? 10:30 a. m. ? Band. WednefKhiy ? ? 10:30 ? \ Rev. T. L. Cashwell. Friday ? 10:30 a- m. ? East school glee club. Commission Is Asked To Compel Operators To Act The City of kings -.Mountain, ,wl:h the complete endorsement i>f ?'lvic and ser\, tee organizations j of <heeity, went to the .North Car !olin:i Utilities Commission, this ; week wnli. a ; request Ui.it the ! commission, compel bus. compa , n't'! operating through the city jo i piov *le suitable tormina] ?faciiii ilCS/ J .'????v.'- ;" Following a meeting of (he city Aboard with representatives . of the civic and service organiza tions Monday ri.ight, City Attorn ey J. It. Davis Tuesday addressed <i letter to the commission re-, i questing such action and added that tl)e city would be glad to for mally petition a hearing on the matter, if this action is necessary. Meeting Monday night at the Instance of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club's public affairs committee were representatives of the Kings Mountain Lions club, the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce, Otis D. Green Post, American Legion, and the Kings Mountain Merchants association along with the city l>oard of commissioners and oth er interested citizens. VV. K. Mauney,. chairman of the Kiwanis club committee, explain ed -the purpose of the meeting, and Mayor J. K. Hemdon review ed previous efforts' of the city to work out the bus terminal situa tion with bus company officials, efforts which, thus far, have prov ed to no avail. It was the consensus of opinion among those present that contin ued effort to work out the matter with the bus companies would not be successful, unless pressure were brought to bear through the Utilities commission, which regu lates intrastate carriers. After this discussion, the city board asked, the attorneys of the city, Mf, Davis, E. A. Harrill and VV. liaison Barnes, to address the necessary communications to the Utilities commission, and Mayor Herndon appointed a 11-man ci tizens' committee to further the project. included on the committee are the three attorneys, W. K. Mau ney, II. E. Lynch, Paul Mauney, Fred VV. Pionk, Carl F. Mauney, M. K. Fuller and Martin Harmon, with Mayor Herndon as ex offi cio chairman. The group agreed thai the principal reason for. Kings Moun* tain's being a bus station flag stop is the unwillingness of the bus operators to invest any mo ney in a terminal here and their desire to have a terminal only at the risk of someone else's cap. (Cont'd on page eight) Three Local Men Inducted Into Army Three Kings Mountain men were among the 11 from Cleve land county who went to Char lotte Wednesday for final induc tion into the army. They are Clifton D. Hamrick, William Palmer Fulton and Har ry Gajther Gosey. Two of the men were transfer red from other boards and were not originally registered from this county. The board send9 40 men to Charlotte for pre-lnducfion ex aminations c i November 13th. No other calls fOi November have yet been received, Mrs. Clara New man. clerk to the board, said. Thursday morning. Wednesday Closings To End November 22 Majority of Kings Mountain retailers will suspend Wednes day half -holidays, effective November 22nd, according to action of the board of directors of the Rings Mountain Mer chants association Tuesday night. y The board thus followed cus tomary policy in spending the Wednesday afternoon clos ings during the Christmas shopping season. The schedule means that the merchants will be open all day on the Wednes- ' ( day prior to Thanksgiving, which will be observed this i year on November 23rd, and on subsequent Wednesdays throu* gh Christmas. At the meeting Tuesday, the board also discussed further plans for the .annual Christ mas opening parade and cele bration. scheduled for the after noon of November 30th. The board voted to make optional extension of closing hours on that date to 7:30 p. m.