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' '.V 4 V ' " ? ' Y ' ' ? . . ? # Big Parade To Open Kings Mountain Christmas Season Next Thursday Afternoon City Limits 7.193 (Final Unofficial Census 1950) Immediate Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) Today VOL.61 NO. 46 i ? . 1 Sixty-First Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday. November 24. 1950 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS AT DELLINGER'S Mrs. Joe Heddon will join the staff of Dellinger's Jewel Shop Monday and will be with the firm through the Christmas shopping season, it was an nouned this week by W. K. Del inger. PARKING MONEY A total of $150.85 in revenue was collected from the city's parking meters on Wednesday according to a report by offi cials at City Hall. POLICEMAN RESIGNS Joseph D. Andrews, city po liceman, resigned his position effective Thursday according to an announcement by M. K. Puller, city administrator. G JEST SPEAKER Rev. C. E. Shumake, District Superintendent of N. C. District will speak at the First Church of the Nazarene Friday night and throughout the -weekend. Everyone is invited to attend. Film ert Boyce Memorial "The First Christian Martyr" will be shown Sabbath Even , ing at 7:30 P. M. It is the Life <rf Stephen, and is one of the most exciting In all the New Testament "A superb moving picture, highly dramatic with a challenge for everyone." The public Is cordially invited. FULLERS TO TEXAS City Administrator and Mrs. M. K. Puller are to leave Fri day afternoon for Houston,' Texas, where Mr. Fuller will attend a four-day convention of the International City Man agers association. Mr. Fuller is to be back on the Job next Fri day. C&OSEN FOR TOffa Miss Dotty SmfCA, <tff Kings Mountain, student at Greens boro College, is among the col lege choir members who have been chosen to membership on the touring group which will sing this year in Florida, Geor gia, and at several cities in North Carolina. IN HOSPITAL Sam Mibchem, Coast Guard serviceman, wag admitted to the Norfolk Navy hospital this week after suffering an acute case of arthritis. His .condition has improved and he is now in a wheel chair it was learned. Mr. and Mrs. Mitcham visited relatives and friends in Kings Mountain last weekend. UNO Clown Cagers Set To Play Here The Mountaineer Club, Inc., has arranged a tentative date for a basketball game at the high school gymnasium between a lo cal quintet and the Carolina Ctowns team of Chapel Hill which features such stars Charlie (Choo Choo) Justice and Art Wei ne?. Announcement of the schedul ed game was made Monday night at a meeting of officials of the cluh and the game commit tee. E. E. Marlowe and Dan Huff stetler were named co-chairmen ' of the event Others named in cluded Faison Barnes and Fred Wright, Jr., tickets, Hazel Bum gardner, concessions, Charles Neisler programs, W. J. Fulker son, officials and Charlie Moss, Jr., gymnasium and reception. Tentative date was set as Jan uary 26th. The Clowns have won 69 of 70 games played during the past three or four years. Coy Carson is manager of the outfit and other players on the squad are Huck Hold ash and Dick Bunting, of the UNC 1950 football team, and Kip Kyan, former all-southern baseballer at Carolina. Justice is now playltig professional foot ball with Washington Redskins ?nd Weiner is with the New York Yankee pro grid cflub. \ -A Opening Set l ?r Floats And Bands To Be Feature Of Annual Event Santa Claus will make his 1950 pre-Christmas visit to Kings Mountain next Thursday after noon and will be the featured performer in a large Christmas pairade presented by the Kings Mountain Merchants association. Plana for the annual event are already virtually complete, with the Merchants Association listing a big number of entries. Among the features of the parade will be six floats, five high school bands and numerous other entries, in cluding Boy Scout and Girl Scout UNE-OF-MARCH Lioe-of-march for next Thurs day's annual Christmas parade here follows: Organize on W. Gold sh??t proceed to Railroad avenue, north on Railroad av enue to overhead bride, east on King stseet to Piedmont aven ue. south on Piedmont to Moun tain street west on Mountain to Battleground avenue, south on Battleground t? Gold, east on Gold to Cherokee. units, the Jack and Jill Kinder garten class, and others. Floats will include entries by Queen City Coach Company, Bridges & Hamrick, Burlington Mills, the Kings Mountain Min isterial association, Patterson Grove church, and the Merchants Association, the last-mentioned designed lot the personal vehicle of Old Santa Claus himself. Bands to participate include the Lincolnton, Shelby, Gastonla, ChetryvLlle and Kings Mountain bands. The parade will mark the of ficial opening of the Christmas Chopping season In Kings Moun tain. The City of Kings Mountain will install Christmas lights in the business section prior to next Thursday -and the lights will be turned on for the first time dur ing the parade. The street deco rations have been expanded fcr this season by the purchase of additional units. , Business houses are expected to observe longer hours next Thursday, remaining open after the parade until 7:30. The Christmas parade annual ly attracts a large crowd. Members of the committee in charge of the event include Mar riott Phifer, chairman, E. C. Mc Clain, and T. W. Grayson, in ad dition to W. Falson Barnes, as sociation secretary. Stasavich Is Banquet Speaker Clarence Stasavitch, head foot ball coach at Lenolr-Rhyne col lege, will make the featured ad dress at the -annual Kings Moun tain Lions club football banquet on December 12th, according to announcement yesterday by W. L. Plonk, club program chairman. The annual banquet, given In honor of the Kings Mountain high school fpotbali team, is one ot the principal special programs given by the Lions club each year. Expected to accompany Mr. Stasavitch heze will be Pride Ratterrse, of Kings Mountain, Lenolr-Rhyne nssistant .coach, and other members of the coach ing staff. ? ; Mr. Stasavith is a former ath lete at Lenolr-Rhyne and has been head football coach and athletks director for the past sev eral years. , He regularly fields winning teams and has enjoyed a success ful season during the current year. Lenolr-Rhyne closed its sea son Thursday with the annual. Thanksgiving Day gapie against arch-rival Catawba. Mr. Plonk said a number of other special guests will be in vited to attend the banquet. Further details concerning the event will fee announced next week, he said PBACTICE TEACHING RALEIGH. ? Miss Mary Beth Hord, of Kings Mountain, tea--' mong 36 prospective teachers for the public schools from the I Meredith college department of education now being trained in actual teaching experiences in the Raleigh and Cary achotfls. Miss Hord. dauchter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Hord, \a working In music at the Cary school. Merchants Now Open All Day Wednesdays ? mi i ? ? Kings Mountain retail firms were open tor a full-day Wed nesday for the first time since last Christmas. The merchants have suspen ded the regular mid-week half holidays until after the Christ mas season, which means that they will resume this plan on December 27th. Christmas falls on Monday this year, which j means that the merchants will close only one day for Christ- j mas# according to by-laws of ] the Kings Mountain Merchants Association. Several merchants reported late i. afternoon buying spurts Wednesday afternoon, as cold weather dictated a need lor heavier clothing and - house wives visited groceries for last* minute Thanksgiving dinner purchases. Patrick To Head Red Cross Drive Rev. P. D. Patrick has been named to head the annual Red Cross fund drive next March ac cording to an announcement by L. L, Benson, Kings Mountain chapter chairman. The announcement was made at a meeting of chapter officers and directors held November 16 at which time the home service plan of organization was revised and expanded. Chairman Benson appointed directors to head the various ser vices. The appointments include B. S. Neill and W. K, Mauney, home service; Mrs. Maty B. Go lor Red Cross; Mrs. Lamar Hern don, home nursing; Joe Thom son, auditor; J. B. Keeter, Hal Ward and C. F. Harry, Jr., disas ter; and William Plonk, first aid and life saving. Harold Hunnicutt announced regional plans for addition of a nother mobile unit by the Char lotte blood program center. Mr. Benson also announced members of ? committee appoin ted by Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, chairman of the Council of Church Women, to assist Mrs. Ruth Gamble in planning for the welfare of families in need. They are Mrs. F. R. Summers, Mrs. J. E. Mauney and Mrs. L. L. Benson. Neaxing Its Goal Contributions of Kings Moun tain citizen to the Girl Scout fund now total $968.80, accord ing to a report on the fund cam paign made Wednesday toy John L. McGill, chairman. The campaign this is approach ing its goal of $1,100, with sever al soliciting committees yet to report, Mr. McGill said. He asked that persons not yet contacted to send their donations to him or to J. C. McKlnney, treasurer. "We have had an excellent re sponse to the Girl Scout fund campaign and it appears that the goal will be reached,. If not ?ur passed," Mr. McGill stated. Drive workers are being asked to complete their reports as quickly as possible. The funds are used for expand- . ing the Girl Scout program and j for carrying on the program in Kings Mountain and In the Pi oneer Area Council, which in cludes Cleveland and several ad Joining counties. Recorder's Court In Light Senlon Only five cases were heard in j regular weekly session of city | Recorded court held at City Hall Monday afternoon. Three defendants were con victed on charges of public drunkenness. Don Bennlx was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced six months, suspended on payment of costs of court and to be on good behav lor for two years, not to molest his wife and not to. drink wine or liquor. Bennlx was also convicted on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon and was ordered to pay a fine of $50 and costs. BURTON INJURED R. H. (Doc) Burton suffered a severe -cut on his right arm Saturday In the market of Plonk Brothers Grocery. W. G. Hughes' Funeial Rites Aie Conducted Funeral services for William Gordon Hughes, 73, < resident of the Dixon community who died suddenly of a heart attack Mon day around 5 p. m. near Bethany S. C., were held Wednesday aft ernoon at 3 o'clock at Antioch Baptist church, near Grover. Rev. W. A. Hoffman, of Gas tonia, former pastor of Antioch church of which Mr. Hughes was a member, a;nd Rev. T. L. Cash well, Jr., officiated and burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Hughes was a native of Cleveland County and had lived near Kings Mountain for 50 years. He was a prominent far mer and was a brother of the late Hatcher Hughes, famous author and professor at Columbia Uni versity. Survivors include his wife, the former Fioience Wells; five sons, Conrad, Nevett, Gordon, William and Robert Hughes, of Kings Mountain; six daughters, Mrs. Charlie Campbell, Mrs. E. C. Mar tin aWd Mrs. Phillip Baker, of Kings Mountain, Mrs. C. C. Boone, of Radford, Va., Mrs. W. B. Atch ley, Raleigh, and Mrs. W. I. Car rill Asheboro; two sisters, Mrs. Molly Neal, Blackburg, S. C., and Mrs. E. Atkins, York, S. C.; 26 grandchildren and 8 great-grand children. Pallbearers were six grandsons, Bill, D. C., Jack, Eugene, Harry and Ervln Hughes. Little Theatre Play Dec 5th ^ ? The recently reorganized Kings Mpuntain Little -.Theatre will o The play will be presented at the high school auditorium and is under the direction of Mrs. M. A. Ware. Rehearsals have been under way lor several weeks. Admission will be 35 cents for children, and 75 cents I or adults. The play "You Can't Take It with You" ran for several years on Broadway and became a mo-, tion picture hit as well, starring Jean Arthur and Lionel Barry more. In the play, each character is a person who lives his life exact ly as he wants. The scene never changes from the room which customarily carries the name liv. Ing room, -but, In this house, could ?be called an everyman-for-hlm self room. In this room, meals arc eaten, plays are written, snakes collected, ballet dancing practic ed, printing presses operated, etc. The ibrood is presided over by Martin Vanderhof, and each goes about the business of living iu i his own merry way. The Kings Mountain Little Theatre was re-organized after four year's inactivity and has a large membership. funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 3:30 oclock for Jackie Paulette Long, 4-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Long who died Saturday night at Shelby hospital. Rites were conducted by Rev. R. L. Hardin at the home of T. D. Long. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. I Rites Conducted For Long Iniant State Health Engineers Say Sewage i4 - i ? , : .? ? , ..... ?; - Disposal Plant In Very Bad Shape WINNERS AT CAROUNAS CARROUSEL ? Shown above is the Kings Mountain school band's drum majorette team, which took first honors in the Carolinas Carrousel parade at Charlotte on November 16th. Left to right are Jerrie McCarter, Faylene Falls, head drum majorv Patsy Malcolm, Maxine Mill er, Hallle Ward, Linda Hartsoe and Peggy Ware. The group received a living cup signifying its honor. The band's under the direction of Joe Hedden. Country Club Directors Named ? Stockholders of the Kings Mountain Country Club, Inc., met in annual meeting Tuesday night, heard reports on the past year's operation of the club and elected 12 directors to serve for the coming year. ? * " ? ' . * ?* ' Directors elected included Er tle Powers, W. S. Fulton, Jr., J. Ollie Harris, C. D. Bl&nton, Dr. W. L. Ramseur, Hunter R. Neisler, Otto (Toby) Williams, George Houser, Davi<J Neill, Charles Neisler, George W. Mauney, md George floefe, Sr., of B??scr.?ef ,.v, Mr. Powers, Mr. Fulton and Mr. Hams are holdover members j from the retiring board. Old directors and new directors wijl hold a Joint meeting at the j club on Friday evening. Follow- j ing this meeting, the 1950-51 board will organise, electing of ficers from the board member ship. Reports made by club officers and committee chairmen reveal ed that the club had enjoyed an active year. Sec. -Trees. Ollie Harris rpad the financial report, which showed all Club obligations paid and with a cash balance to begin the new year. Ertle Powers, reporting for the greens committee, asked J. H. (Buck) Pressley, club profession al, to report on improvements to the golf course. Mr. Presjley list ed improvements during the year and outlined plans for further im provements. Mr. Powers, chair man of the swimming pool pro ject committee, said that the work of this committee had been temporarily halted by govern ment edict, but that the club held some $800 in donations from members for the building of a pool, plus additional pledges. Jack Amette gave the report of the social committee, Tolly Shuford gave the membership committee report, and retiring S resident Howard Jackson stated is appreciation for the help giv en the directors during the year. Retiring directors include M?. Jackson, Mr. Arnette, Mr. Shu ford, M. A. Ware, Fred W. Plonk, Joe A. Neisler, Dr. Paul E. Hend ricks, O. W. Myers, and W. K. Mauney, Jr. Henry R, Franklin Missing In Korea Amy Reports Reynolds. Clark As Casualties j Three Kings Mountain men were listed on Korean casualty reports this week. Staff Sgt. Henry Russell Frank lin, of Boston, former Kings Mountain citizen was listed as missing in action according to in formation received by relatives here on November 16. He is a half-brother of T. A. (Bud) Mc Daniel, Jr., Logan McDaniel, Broadus McDaniel and David Mc Daniel. The message said that Frank lin was trapped by the enemy in action on November 1st. He was a member of K company, 8th reg iment, First Calvary division. Sgt. Franklin was a veteran of 18 months combat service in World War II and was in the ar my for two years before Pearl Harbor. He served a year over seas after lighting ceased and returned to civilian life and en tered school. He re-enlisted Into the army about a year ago. Pfc. Jack E. Reynolds, son of Mrs. Mable Reynolds of route one was listed as wounded in action. Pfc. Floyd K. Clark, son of Mrs. Nancy Y. Clark of route one was listed as injured. Draft Board Seeks Tones. Not Tomes The Cleveland county jraft board is seeking to locate Otis Tones, not Otis Tomes, well known Kings Mountain colored man. In a previous list of draft de linquents published In the Her ald, Tones' name was mis-spell ed. Tomes says he's been accused of "draft-dodging," ' and points out that he is somewhat over the draft-age category. The man sought; Otis Tones, was living at Route 2, Kirigs Mountain when he registered. His last-known address was Hosklns post office, Charlotte. T urkey Day Holiday Quiet Here - ?: - ? 1 . _ . . * - * I With an assist from the weath er man, Kings Mountain enjoyed Thanksgiving Thurs^y. After a siege of -wintry Tain on Wednesday, the c.ouds cleared and Thanksgiving dawnel clear and frosty, Just ai the picture books say It should. Though the hig portion of in dustry operated as usual, the majority of Kings Mountain bus iness houses were closed for the day snd the business section was rather uniformly deserted. Drug stores observed short tiours, and the principal activity was around eating establishments, service stations and theatres. Many families had guests for thfc day, including kin and friends from other cities. For oth - ?rii, it was a day of travel to visit friends tn other places. It .?y also an ideal day for the hunter to welcome the opening of the quail, squirre.l and rabbit i seasons, and Kings Mountain hunters took to the woods In con siderable number#. How good the hunting turned out to be was questionable, for some hunters almost surely found much posted land, where the owners qlidn't want their game shot up. The Herald had a record run on sale of "no trespassing" notices through Wednesday. Members of Bc^-ce Memorial ARP church held their annual morning Thanksgiving service and breakfast, with a record crowd iri attendance. Following a half-hour service at 7:30. the group was served breakfast by the men of church In the educa-' tional building. The menu Inclu ded country sausage, eggs, rolls, grits and hot coffee. Oscar Mc Carter's kitchen committee re ported for duty at 4 a.m. Majority of other churches held Thanksgiving services In connec - tion with regular Wednesday t - venlng prayer meetings. School children were enjoying the holiday, and not bothered with school bells to r the full weekend. School will resume on regular schedule Monday. Grocers reported rush business during the first of the week, with particular emphasis on turkeys, cranberries, whipping cream and traditional Ingredients for Thanksgiving Day menus. Football was virtually limited to the Lenoir-Rhyne-Catawba game, but many more Kings Mountain fans were planning weekend trips to at least two football gathering grounds. One group will go to Chapel HH1 for the annual Duke-Carolina g ar.ie Saturday while another will go to Columbia, S. C., for the annual Wake-Forest-South Carolina tus ?id. , ' p ? Two Garden Clubs Sponsoring Contest The Kings Mountain Garden Club and the Rouse and Gar den club announced this week a Jointly-sponsored outdoor lighting contest for the forth coming Christmas season. A prise of $10 will be given for the home Judged to own the best outdoor lighting arrange ment with a prize of $5 for the runner-up. Members of the two garden clubs, though expecting to de- I corate their homes, are not eli gible for the competition. Out of-town Judge j will determine ' tho winners. Announcement was made by Mrs. George H. Mauney, who heads a Joint committee on the contest. Further details are to bo given later. Club To Sponsor College Show Tho Lenoir-Rhynp Playmakors will present the Clarence Day play, "Life with Mother," at the high school auditorium Monday night, December 11, under spon sorship of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club, according to an nouncement by the club this week. "Life with Mother" is a three act comedy, based on the life. of an American family in the 1880's. it is the author's sequel to the Broadway and motion picture hit, Life with Father." "Life with Mother" wag a Broadway hit in The Lenoir-Rhyne Playmakors have gained wide recognition through the years with their pro auctions and last year while on tour they played before large au diences all over the state. "We feel very fortunate in ob taining this performance for [Kings Mountain," L. E. Abbott said, in making the announce ment. "The Lenoir-Rhyne Play makers need no introduction to Kings Mountain and thplr choice of a play for the current season is one which will appeal to the whole family, young or old." Tickets for the show will be on sale soon. Admission will be 30 cents for students and 60 cents for adults, tax included. Woodward Matter Hearing Wednesday First meeting of creditors in the I matter of Joe Lee Woodward, tra jding as Woodward & Son, bank rupt, will be held at noon next Wednesday at the Mecklenburg County courthouse before R. Ma rion Ross, referee in bankruptcy. In a notice to creditors and oth er Interested parties distributed under date of November 10th, the referee said that a trustee would ! be named at the meeting and other such business as might pro perly eome before the meeting would be transacted. The firm was adjudicated a bankrupt on a petition filed by creditor on October 13th. It was pointed out that *11 claims should be filed on proof of-claim forms, properly signed and sworn to. City Officials Receive Report On Recent Survey North Carolina Board of Health engineers hav<? recommended im- ' mediate steps on the part of the City of Kings Mountain to re vamp iis sewage disposal system. The engineers recommended : (1) If feasible, to pump the sewage t>o\y going into the Ware and Mauney tanks ihto a new modern plant to he built in the vicinity of the present McGill plant. . - (2) Ifnoi feasible, to proceed with improvement plans accord ing to one of the types of treat ment outline by W. K. Dickson, consulting engineer, ear& in 1948. ? The Teport was made by F. R. Blaisdell, district engineer, fol lowing a survey of the system and discussion with the city board of commissioners several weeks ago. Two other engineers colaborated with Mr. Baisdell in making the report, which was re ceived this week by Mayor J. E. Hemdon and members of the board of commissioners. A bond issue to Improve the sewage disposal system was de- ? fealed in 1948. The engineers stated flatly that the McGill and Mauney tanks are "outmoded and overloaded." "These plants cannot be ap proved by the State Board ot Health, and immediate action should he taken by the people of King# Mountain to replace them," the report stated. It was pointed out that the Ware tank might be put in sat isfactory condition to serve for a few more, years but that funds necessary to ifnprove the plant might be better expended if spent toward a newj>lant. The report suggested that the board of commissioners investi gate feasibility and comparative costs of combining the three plants into one and to proceed according ot the findings. The engineers' analysis of the situation at the three tanks fol lows: " "McGill Plant ? This plant is located east of the city in Gaston county. It consists of an Imhoff tank and sludge drying bed in a poor state of maintenance. No bar screens are provided. Accord ing to Mr. Dickson's report, this plant receives an average sew age flow of 300,000 gallons per day, a maximum flow of 590,000 gallons per day, is grossly over loaded both in the settling and sludge storage compartments. Some industrial waste, consisting of size, dye and fiber waste from cotton and hosiery mills, is dis charged into the plant. The re ceiving stream has a l?w flow and the effluent from the plant Is having a decidedly detrimental effect on it. It was the consen sus of opinion of the engineers from the State $oard of Health that the conditions as Mr. Dick son reported them were correct regarding this plant. "Mauney Plant ? This plant is located in the southwestern sec tion of the city, near the brick plant It consists of a rectangu far covered Imhoff tank and sludge drying bed. The drying bed is located at such a low ele vation in respect to the receiving (Cont'd on page eight) Hughes Firm Going Out Of Business Clyde Hughes, owner of Hugh es Clothing Company, announc ed this week that the firm will suspend operations here in the near future. Mr. Hughes also announced special discounts on virtually all stock In the firm, to be offered beginning Friday at a going-out- ? of -business sale. He said he expected to close the store *by January 1. Mr, Hughes purchased the business last spring from D. L. Saunders. He also owns and operates Hugh es Clothing Company, specializ- ] ing.in men's wear and ladies ready-to-wear, at Union, S. C, LIONS MEETING Rev. J. H. Brendall will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Lions clu'b at the reg* ular meeting of the organiza tion to be held at the Woman's Club on Tuesday night at 7 o' clock, according to annuoncf ment by W. L. Plonk, program chairman. .