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Dinner will be served at 8 o'clock and members are: asked to make re servations as early as possible. KIWANIS DIRECTORS Incoming and outgoing di rectors of the Kings Mountain Kiwanls club will hold a dinner meeting at the Woman's Club on Friday evening at 7 o'clcok. Purpose of the meetlog^ill be to organize tot the ooming year. m HALF-HOLIDAY Merchants resumed this week the customary Wednesday half-holiday. The half-holiday had been suspended during the Christmas shopping season to better accommodate the buying . public. \r PARKING MONEY . A totaLof $186.63 was collec ? ed from the city's parking me ters Wednesday according to a I report by City Clerk S. A. Grou se. The mortgage on the meters has been paid for and all col lections stay 1n the city treas- I ur y.v.^v-4?; -a. "r HoUdofQiiie Here,* Fifteen Cases Tried Mountain spent a quiet <5hristm*? weekend according to Police Chief N. M. F?rr who re ported no wrecks and compar- 1 atlvely few arrests. Only fifteen ; cases were tried in recorder's! Court at the regular we?fcly ses- j ?lon held Wednesday aftemdoh | Nine defendants were convic ted oti charges of public drunken neas and were ordered to pay fin- 1 <es and/or coats of court. > J Bill Beatty, 23, was sentenced QiijptiijijW'flwj' ? under the super vision of the county commission er*. Beatty was Charged with pub lic drunkenness and violations of | terms of previous conviction*. : vt ' Anderson pAld cgata "W&, charges of assault, disorderly con 4uet and public drunkenness. CiiftiOfc- " jj|?)hii?ner <J*y, pas coats ? fter conviction operating a vehi cle with improper brakes, v Walter Eugene Brooks, charged abandonment and non -sup port, was ordered to pay costs and to pay $10 weekly to the clerk for support of his family. ivfiwey ftanisey paid a fine of flO and costs after conviction on . Augru^tA Tailed, of Slay, s. C., was fined $100 and costs and or dered not to operate a car in Nor th Carolina for twc^Jmfw efter conviction on charts of driving , drunk and without ftn operator's license. pSNfbdBe W, Faison Barnes pre aided. . w ; >*' ? ? ? | Joycees Sponsoring Dane* Friday Might , The Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce will s/>on ?me a pubHc dance at the Mfh wjfliool gymnaaium Frldajr Jjttt ^JWfeioVeteck to midnight, Itjfi ilMlwifir"" 1 . fifWi '*1 Fund Campaign To Begin Here On January IS Sam Stallings, industrial engi neer of Burlington Mills' Phenix plant, will serve as chairman of the 1951 March of Dimes cam paign in Kings Mountain. Announcement of the appoint ment of Mr. Stallings was made Wednesday by Rotoert Morgan, of Shelby, county chairman of the drive which will have as its goal $20,000 to fight infantile paraly0 I sis and to provide treatment for victims of the dread disease. The Cleveland County chapter of the National Infantile Parayl sis Foundation currently shows a $6,812 deficit, Mr. Morgan said, the deficit representing excess of treatment costs for Cleveland _County patients over funds col lectedTn previous years. He poin ted out that 11 cases of polio oc curred in the county during 1950 and that the chapter is also pay ing for brace adjustments and periodic medical ctieck-ups for more than 30 other county vic tims of polio. Quota for the Kiag* Mountain area has jfot yet been' wet, tout Mr. Morgan said It wOuld proba bly approximate $6,000 for Num ber 4 Township. Mr. Stallings is an active Meth. odlst and Lion. Ho said yesterday that he would announce his solicitation organization in the near future. I . Franklin Avenue Open to Traffic The new mfllion-dollar Frank lin avenue strip of Highways 29 and 74 was opened to traffic this week. " The 3.2-mlle piece of road in Gastonia is a smc ::h, wide con crete strip and will eliminate the detours which have been neces sary during the construction pe 1 riod. , Gastonta's Franklin avenue was once known as the "worse piece of road on Highway 29,'" It was a patch-work of ruts and holes, with much of it bisected by rail tracks. Price Of Milk To Advance Here - Milk price* la Xla?* Moun tain will gdfonet next week. Mo?t milk distributor* have Informed retailers that they ?tll eWbo the p rice of milk approximately one cent per | quart, eMectlrs January 1. The distributor!. hare been (need with rising cost* a?d can absorb the Inoum mo long, er. one distributor told the Her hU I. M. Patterson Rites Conducted j On Wednesday Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday morning at ; 11 o'clock for John Martin Patter son, 80, prominent retired bus! .nessman who died Monday night ; at 9 o'clock after an illness of j several years. Rev. W. L. Pressly officiated j and burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Patterson was long a Kings Mountain grocer and was former ly secretary-treasurer of Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company. He was a member of Boyce Me morial A. R. P. church and was a Mason, having received his 50 year pin over a year ago. He was the son of the late Em anuel and Barbara Shuford Pat terson. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Roberta Simonton Patterson, a son, Malcolm and two daughters, Misses Marian and Leone Patter son, of Kings Mountain; two bro thers, George V. Patterson, ' of Gastonia, and Ed Patterson, of . Kings Mountain; and two sisters, ' Mrs. G. D. Hambrlght, of Kings Mountain, and Mrs.' Charles Bor ders, of Jacksonville, Fla. Active pallbearers were Nor man McGill, Harold Plonk, Fred Plonk, Lloyd Patterson, Garrison Golorth, J. E. Anthony, Jr., Wen dell Phifer and John O. Plonk, Jr. Firemen Overtime City firemen have been work ing overtime during December and particularly during the past week. The tally on fire alarms through Thursday afternoon was 18 for the month, ten of them in the period from Saturday through Tuesday. Fortunately, the majority of the fires were grass and woods fires and resulted In no damage. One alarm was to extinguish a fire In the Victory Chevrolet Company's paint shop and this was accomplished with only slight damage resulting. Oddly enough, the firemen had two alarms at the same time on Saturday at 1:15 p. m. On Sun day, there were three alarms at the same time, also at 1:15 p. m. Firemen got to rest on Christ mas Day, but their "business' started again on Tuesday. John Petty Rites Held On Sunday - Funeral services were held Sun day at 4 o'clock at Grace Metho dic chureh for John Petty, 65, of Grace street. Rev. T. W. Hager officiated and burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Petty <hm last Friday in Shelby hafpiial mtifr lliness of eight week*. He was a native of Cherokee County, S. C., and was formerly employed by Loom -Tex Mill. He is survived py his wife. Merchants Change Minds; Most j| Qfaerve New Year's Holiday ' On the basis o I a nrr?T Thursday morning by the Kings Mountain MeichontH associa tion, it appeared' that moot re tail firms of th? city woukl ob Nm Now Toot's Day as a hol i iday. Tho day Is not customarily ob served as a holiday In Kings Mountain, bgt, with tho groc ors doing tho Initial missionary 1 work, a large number of flans indicatod thoy would not opon on Monday, -thns providing re tail personnel a long weekend moot department store*. XMtor'i Deportment Store, which closed on efctra day dur ing the Christmas weekend, an nounced It would be open Mon day. Phi 1st Hardware also in dicated It woaM be open for bactaoM as amaL bat Bridges & Hamrtck said it would take the holiday. The First National Bank will be closed bat the Home Build ing & Loan and Kings Moun tain Building ? Learn will be o It wiH be e holiday for the W.fUeon Bane* eea the association, was still togont** *^"1 Thursday erf -IntMUghto f 1950 Was Busy Year News Review Reveals - ? KIWANIS PRESIDENT ? L. E. Abbott. Kings Mountain banker, is the newly elected president oi the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. Ke will be installed as president at the meeting ol the club next Thursday night. Mr* Abbott succeeds Hugh Ballard. Final Bites Held Foi Mis. Gunnells Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at PlxaL Baptist cku?h lpx Mrs. Oc-e Strflup Gunnells, ?? who died rMonday morning at 7:15 a. m. at her home on Oriental avenue. Rev. T. L. Cashwell, the pastor, ! and Rev. W. F. Monroe, of Temple I Baptist church, officiated and bu rialwas^in Spencer Mountain cemetery" near Gastonia. She had been In failing health for two years. , . I Mrs. Gunnells was a member j of High Shoal^ Baptist church. Her husband, Robert Gunnells,! died 47 years ago. Survivors inchide two sons, O. j T. and Robert I. Gunnells, both of Kings .Mountain, a brother, Sam Stroup, of Kings Mountain, | a half-brother, A. A. Jones, of Llncolnton; a sister, Mrs. W. A. j Hawkins, ot Kings Mountain, six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Tag Sales Delayed;* Ahead of 1950 Pace % Despite a late start, sale of city j automobile license tags for 1951 ] is considerably ahead of 1&50 sales at this date last year ac cording to Mrs. Ray Kirby, assis tant city treasurer. - The 1951 plates were several days late in arriving from the manufacturer but sales through Wednesday had reached 371 as compared to sales at 278 last year. Tags went on sale Decern toer 7th. All city' residents are required by city ordinance to purchase and display license plates for all ve hicles by January 1st. A total of 1,123 tags were sold for 1950. Following the usual pattern, the Number One tag was sold to Mayor J. E. Herndon and No. 2 to Mayor Pro-Tem Hal Ward, commissioner from Ward 4. Tag No. 3 is displayed by Ward One Commissioner A. H. Patter son. No. 4 by Ward 2 Commission er Carl Mauney and No. 5 toy Ward Cormmissioner Tommy El lison. The next five tags are display ed by Police Chief N. M. Farr (No 6>,Cty ClerkS. A.Crouse (No. 7), City Administrator M. K. Fuller ! (No. 8>, Mrs. Kirby (No. 9) and Superintendent of Public Works Parsons (No. 10). Methodist Choir Sings Cantata The 18-member choir ot Central j Methodist church presented the Christmas cantata "The Holy ; Child", by Thomas Adams, in special services at the church Sunday afternoon. The cantata was presented un der the direction of Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, choir director, and solo ist* included Miss Dotty Smkh, Miss Barbara Grantham. Arthur Walker ami B. S. Peeler, it. Prank 1 In Pethel accompanied at the plan*, ?nd. wtth Mrs. Mauney at the organ, collaborated on two 'iiyil ptaasdoo* ? r : City Had Full j Quota of Both Good, Bad News The year 1950 comes to an end Sunday night, giving way to 1951. The beginning of the new half - j century was an eventful one, both j for the world and for Kings Mountain. The big news of . the year was the Korean War, a continuing chapter of news that is still far from completed and which may lead to all-out war only five-plus years after the end of World War n. Effects ' of the war in Kings Mountain, as shown by a review (of Herild headlines included the renewal of the selective service ? process, higher prices, brisk tex tile activity, recall of reservists to the armed serv ices, and new army casualty lists saddening Kings Mountain homes. Locally, there was plenty of big news too. In the good news division were beginning of con struction of Kings Mountain hos pital and paving of several rural j > roads. A continuing news event of the year was the thuS-far unsuc cessful effort* ggl tarai inal for tbe city, which has been a flag stop since February 16. Otherwise, citizens here had some interesting experiences in j the local part of the national cen- 1 sus-taklng job, deplored the cur- j tallment of mail delivery sched ules, and got excited ever county and state political races 1n the spring. The American Legion post purchased a building and the^ Kings Mountain Country Club] paid off its mortgage. " The city proved 'liberal again, i supporting eight fund drives for, various causes, adding another in j providing a life-saving operation for Kaye McCarter who had a fatal heart condition, contribut- ; J ed clothing in a P^TA drive, and j bought poppies. Most participated ! I in helping the needy at Christ- i jmas. It was a unique year business- ' wise. Generally, most industrial; {concerns had a prosperous year,! ( with several plants getting back into operation unaer new own- 1 ersh lp. These included Loom -Tex j Corporation, Lambeth Rope Cor poration. and Foote Mineral Com pany. Mauney Hosiery Company increased its production with more building and machines. Tn ! the retail f iejd, It was a good year lor furniture and appliance deal ers and automobile concerns. Soft goods merchants could not brag about the first eleven mon ths, but benefited from a heavy Ch_,?iUnas - Shopping season. The far.ner was ravaged by the boll weevil. 1 Balrd Furniture was the major new retail firm opened, but sev eral others closed their doors. Six Kings Mountain men ap peared on army casualty IJsts. Pvt. Rufue G. Kuffstickler, Pvt. Billy Owen and S/Sgt. Henry R. Franklin were reported niSsing In action, and Pfc. Charles E. Howe, Pfc. Jack E. Reynolds and Pfc. Floyd K. Clark were wound ed in action. There were several tragic dea ths. Four persons were killed in an auto-car wreck at the King Mountain intersection, Marvin Randall was killed by a train, James Wyte, Jr.. lost his life in a freak accident, and Franklin Greer was crushed to death. Death a .so removed a number of well-knowp citizens including John North Sfnith, Robert D. Mil ler, Joseph Stanhope Mauney, Mrs. William H. Dettmar, Frank lin Grady Watterson, Luther Ral ph Mltchem, Leone Ware, W. O. Falls, Hunter Caldwell, W., C. KImmel, W. G. Hughes, Mrs. Joe Cole, Mrs. Howard Jenkins. Mrs. Gene Ware. W; M. Hord a; id J. M. Patterson. The Herald's major headlines of 19S0 follow^ January , Hospital Construction Expected %o Begin Soon; Gastonia High-, way to Gel Dual Lane- Citizens Donate 85 pints of Blood for Area Bank; Mailney To Head March of Dimes; B. A. L Dividends $19. 301 90; Evans Engineer with Road (Cont'd to page twelve) I Phone Rental Fees To Advance On January 1 Beginning Monday, Kings Mountain's 16-plus telephone subscribers will start paying higher rentals for the privilege of calling their neighbors an J the cbrner grocer. Rate increases recently authori zed'by the North Carolina Utiliti es Commission become effective ( January 1, and, since rental fees are payable in advance, will be i reflected in January 1 billings. Some additional service will be available for residential subscri- | bers, who will now be able to call Shelby and Grover without pay ing toll charges. This service was previously granted business sub scribers without charge.. At some future date, all tele phone subscribers here will get free service to Bessemer City, ac cording to announcement by E. N. Qrr, Jr., Gastonia district mana ger. Mr. Or r said the free service to Bessemer City wiU.be provided when certain equipment installa tions are completed. Long distance tolls remain the same, as do installation fees, but semi - public telephone su bscribers will find their guarantee rate hik ed frorrt 15 cents per day to 21 cents per day. Biggest Increase will <be for. business telephones, with most j subscri'Tiexy paying $1.75 per | month additional rental. Most j residential users will be paying 75 cents more per month. The following rate table shows the new monthly rates as com pared to the present rates which expire December 31 Business Phones New Old One-party ..$650 $4.75 Two-party $5.75 $4.00 Four-party $500 $3.50 Rural * $3.50 $2.75 Residential One-party ' $3.50 $2.75 Two-party $3.00 $2 1Z , Four-partv $2.50 $2.00 ' Rural " $2.50 $2.00] 40 County Men To Be Inducted Forty Cleveland County men ! Will be Inducted into the army on j January 19. The Cleveland County selective 1 service board has received orders to furnish that number of men for Induction on that date. On January 12 the Board will fill a pre-lnduction quota oi 75 men. Orders for .both groups are to be mailed in the near future, (accord ing to announcement by board officiate. To fill the pre -induction call, the board will dip heavily into its registrants in the 20-year old group. Annual Tax Listing Will Begin Monday I".. . -v ?? . ;? ... ? ? ? ? ' " J , ; ' ?' ; < . PASSES SUNDAT ? William M. Hord. above, for 40 years a welt* known Kings Mountain grocer, died Sunday. He was 81 years old. ? v" . ? ? . ? , % Funeral Held For W. ML Hord Funeral services for William M. Hord, 81, who died Sunday af lusmopn after an lllnes# o I two ! years, were held at First Baptist church Tuessday afternoon at 3 ! o'clock. Rev. T. L. Cash well, Jr., offici ated and burial was in Mountain Rest Cemetery. M. Hord was a prominent Kings Mountain grocer for 40 years until he retired 12 years a go. He was a member of First Baptist church. His wife, the former Miss Cha rity- Keller, died six years ago.' Survivors include the ten children, Charles Hord, of Char lotte, Jake and Horace Hord, of | Kings Mountain, William Hord, i of Bridgeport, Conn., Kiser Hord, [ of Washington, D. C., MrW. D. B. j Wallace, of Goldsboro, Mrs. L. W. Davis, of. Concord, and Mrs. Bun | Goforth, Mrs. Jim White and Mrs. j G. V. Petty, alj of Kings Moun- | tain; three sisters, Mrs. Joe Ken drick, of Cherryville, and Mrs. J. > C. Keller and Mrs. Ed Hord, of Kings Mountain; 26 grandchild ren and four great-grandchild ren. Active pallbearers were Wil liam Miles Hord, Jake Hord, Jr., W, M. Baker, Dorus Bennett, Wil liam H. Wallace and Lemly Ro berts. JAYCEE MEETING Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held Tues day evening at 7 o "clock at the Woman's Club. The meeting ?will be devoted to work of tihe forthcoming Jaycee Minstrel, according to announcement by W. Faison Barnes, president. 1951 General Assembly To Convene Wednesday: Issues Are Listed The 1951 session of the North ] Carolina General Assembly wrtl convene next Wednesday. Cleveland county wIH be repre sented by one new and one vet eran legislator. Clyde Nolan, of Shelby, will be in the Senate, suc ceeding Senator Lee B. Weathers, I while Representative B. T. Palls, ! I Jr., will return for anottter term in the House of Repi jsentaives. Newsmen and political observ ers are predicting an eventful seis. slon, with moat of the business of the legislature to concern finan cial matters. Size of the budget requests for the forthcoming two years were greatly Increased, tout some gues- 1 sers feel the Advisory Budget eMttmttilftn 'has already slashed some of the requests. Sure to get top tilling will be (efforts of teachers to get pay in creases. They will seek a mini mum salary scale of $2,400 for beginning teachers with "A" cer tificates plus experience incre ments Up to $3,600. Other matters on the agenda wftl Include the renewed effort of QtunfcipaUttes to get more rev enue from the gasoline tax, a?<l ( a possible new effort to get a ( state-wide liquor referendum. In local matters, the county 1 board of commissioners Is oom ! mitted toy resolution to seek ? change in the county govern men - j tal set up, whereby the board would be expanded to five mem- j toers, and the city parks and recre- j Ration commission had hoped to obtain pa/^sage of a bill permit- j ting use of parking meter re- J celpts for recreation purposes. Governor Scott is scheduled to ' give his "state of the state" mes- ! sage on January^ or 5, but he had bean very coy in Indicating what recommendations he will make There is some speculation that' the governor will ask removal of certain sales tax exemptions. In general, the legislators' pro Mem will be finding enough rev enue to meet demand for servi. CCS. Most observers are predicting a longer -than-usual session, with pressure being applied from ma ny quarters to cut state spending In the face of huge increase* in federal spending. \ City, County Listers To Be At City Hall The annual johof listing raxes beg ins Monday. B. D. Ratterree, county list tak er, and Joe McDaniel, Jr., city list taker, will bo at the, city hall courtroom from 8:30 to 5 p. m. *o accept the property declarations. The city lister will be on the job every weekday. Mr. Ratterree will follow a similar schedule with the exception of January 11, 18 qnd 25, when he will be at Herndon's Store in Urover to bet ter accommodate citizens of that area. All owners of property, both real and personal, are required to list their properties for taxes dur | ing the month of January and the law provides penalties for those who fail to Iwi and for those who do not list within the month. Male persons between the ages .1 of 21 and 50 arc required to list for poll tax, and farmers are al- ? so required to make a farm re port. Tax officials are urging all ci tizens to complete the listing Job as early as possible, 1n'order x6 : avoid the customary iast-minute rush. "By listing in the early day* of the month," they pointed out, "delays will be virtually elimina ted." New Bank Honrs 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. . > Patrons of the First National Bank are' being reminded again this week that, effective next Tuesday, the bank will close an hour earlier each fall business day. ' , . The bank will be open daily from 9 a. in. to 1 p. in. lor general banking business, excepting Wednesdays, whea the bank will close at noon. ? The personal loan department will be oj/ !n from 3 to 5 p. m. In the after.ioon, and officers o f the bank will also be o? duty duricf these hours to handle loans and other related business. The now schedule wiH enable the bank to have it* full staff on duty at all times during the full day's schedule for general bank ing, officials have pointed out They feel the change will speed up service to all patroaa. Notices to patrons concerning the change in. schedule will be mailed with December bank statements. Hughes Clothing , To Close Saturday Hugfces Clothing Company, Kings Mountain haberdasheiy, will clow its brancla here at the end of the business day Saturday. Clyde K. Hughes, owner of the establishment, announced 3ast. month that the firm was closing. its Kings, Mountain oraneh arxfJ for the pasrt month has conducted a going-out-of- business sale. Mr. Hughes purchased the bqn iness from D. L. Saunders last r January. He a!so operates a men's store and ladies' shop fit Union, S. C, > '??? Jaycee* To Colled. Paper January 7 The Kings Mountain Junior , Chamber of Commerce will conduct a paper collection on. January 7, according to an nouncement yesterday by Fat* . son Barnes, president- . ; . ' The pick-up will be another in a regular schedule of col lections conducted by the }ef> cess. The drives are coodnctaSl for two purposes: l)to salvage waste paper: 8) to earn twaewr foe the public parks ehd wdtfg atlon fund. " ' . ; ? A; '