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? ? ?? | H ?? :? . ? ?:;_ V '? -'%,J -? 12 Pages Today Sixty-Second Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday. January 2G. 1951 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS ??:?h -A _ Local News Bulletins CARLTON CALLED Everette Carlton, Kings Moun tain high, school coach, has been ordered to report lor phy sical examination February 7th preparatory to return to active duty with the Marine Corps. Mr. Carlton is scheduled to re port for duty at Quantlco Ma rine base on March 7th, provi ded he passes the medical ex amination. '? ' PASTOR TO MOVE Rev. Vance Daniel, pastor to a new mission Lutheran church here, will move here next Tues day. The Daniel family will occupy a new home recently completed on Meadowbrook Road. . WIDENING STREET The city's street department is widening Gold street, in the block between Cherokee street and Piedmont avenue,, to its fullest possible width. The work is being done, City Ad ministrator M. 1C Fuller, said, to facilitate increased traffic on Gold street. BREAKS ARM Paul M. Neisler, Sr., suffered a broken right arm Tuesday morning when he fell on the icy back steps of his home on Gaston street. Mr. Neisler was still suffering considerable pain Thursday. COOPER IN HOSPITAL Ja?ob M. Cooper underwent a minor operation Tuesday morn . ing at Mercy hospitals Char lotte. His condition 1s describ ed as satisfactory and he ex pects to return to his home over "he weekend. PARKING MONET A total of $140.65 in revenue >vas collected from the city's - parking meters Wednesday ac cording to a report by City Clerk S. A. C rouse. STORY HOUR Regular story hour for child ten through the fourth grade will be held at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial library Friday after noon from 4 until 5 o'clock. Mm. Grace Whisnamt will serve as story teller and Mrs. Luth er Cansler is the hostess. All children are urged to attend. . . .i I, TAG SALES A report from City Hall shows that a total of 794 vehicle 11* cense tags had been sold ' through noot TJ.uuJay. Tags must be displayed in vehicles February 1st according to city ordinance. Man Arrested Here For Texas Officers A King* Mounts ir man was ar rested here Monday on a fugitive from -Justice warrant Issued by ?l Paso, Texas, police officers. Major L. Wilson, 22, of Cora / street, was arrested around 10 , a. m. Monday toy Officers G. K. Camp and D. H. Street of the Kings Mountain police depart -? ; ment. Sheriff W. O. Hfcka, of El Paso, has notified Kings Mountain po lice that his officers are to arrive here Saturday to take . Wilson bade to Texas. Wilson is wanted on a felony ;< ' charge. . .y . . Next Wednesday Deadline Dif v Ne*t Wednesday is Oeadlufte It Is final dor for listing Horn Outlines Proposed County District Set-Up County Attorney C. C. Horn an nounced the tentative arrange ment of county districts in a bill he is drawing to change the coun ty government set-up. * Under the proposed change, the board of commissioners will be increased to live members, with the members to be elected from particular districts. Mr. Horn said the tentative plan calls for the following' dis tricts: * ? 1. Number 6 Township. 2. Num ber 4 and 5 Townships. 3. Num ber 9 and 10 Townships. 4. Num ber 8 and 11 Townships. 5. Num ber 1; 2, 3, and 7 Townships. Mr. Horn said the proposal, as based on the 1950 unofficial cen sus, would make each district approximately equal in popula tion. The districts, according to the proposed plan, would limit only a person^ offering for office. Un der the proposal, all citizens would have the privilege of vot ing for one candidate from each of the five districts. The bill will be presented to the county board of commis sioners for its aproval at the Feb ruary meeting. It will ibe introdu ced, as approved, in the General Assembly by the county's legis lative delegation, who have indi cated that they favor the pro posed changes. Ten Loc^l Men Are Inducted V ? " Ten Kings Mountain area men were among the Cleveland Coun ty group inducted into the army at the Charlotte Induction center last Friday. They included:. Kenneth Robert Childers, Floyd Lee Hardin (of Grover), John Da vid Fisher, Wood row Brown, Ed ward William Humphries, Dan Brevard Lall, John Archie Bolin, Jr., Jame9 Lewis FaTris, Marshal Eugene Camp, and Jesse Ralph Carpenter, (R-2, Cherryvllle.). Next induction call on the Cle veland County board is for Feb ruary 19, when the county board will furnish 55 men lor induc tion into the army. Cord Party Is Scheduled At Club The Rings Mountain Country Club social committee will pre sent a free bridge ? canasta party at the club on Thursday evening, February 1, at 8 o'clock, accord ing to announcement this week ?by Mrs. George Houser. The evening's play will In clude 'both contract bridge and duplicate bridge, and canasta. Prizes will be given high scorers and light refreshments will be . served. The entertainment is . open , to members and out-of-town guests. Reservations are request ed not later than Thursday noon. w ? ? ? I I i'i mmmmmrn HEBE THURSDAYS Chalmers L. Miller, of Fall ston, Cleveland County veter ans service officer, will be In Kings Mountain all day next Thursday, February 1st and on each Thursday thereafter. Mr. Miller's old schedule called for visits to Kings Mountain on Tuesday mornings and Thurs day afternoons. Lions To Conduct 1 Sale For Blind Fel Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions ciub will conduct a broom and door mat sale here next Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, February 1, 2, and 3, Geor ge Houser, chairman, announced Ifiis week. The brooms and mats are made by bHnd persons at Guilford In dustries for the Blind, Greensboro. Proceeds from the sals will be usad la Kings Mountain by the Hons club m It's woi* with the bHnd. Other members of the broom sale committee are Billy Maun ey, Horace Herd and Fred DaughV tery. Members of the club are to Jones Emphasizes Civil Defense Need - oy u Blllie B. Blan ion is receiving treatment for a wounded foot at Fort Bragg. Sgt. Blanton sustained the wound in Korea on January 7. when anoth er soldier's gun accidentally dis charged. Sgt. Blantt Suffers Wo ? Sgt. Blllie B. Blanton, well known Kings Mountain man and army veteran, suffered a wound in the foot in Korea on January 7 and is now receiving treatment at Pert Bragg. Member* of his farRTty Visile* him over the weekend and repon that he is recuperating satlsfac torily. Sgt. Blanton was wounded three days after arriving in Ko rea on January 4. Sgt; Blarnor.j was helping another soldier dis engage a Jammed rifle, when the rifle accidental lly discharged, wounding Sgt. Blanton in the foot. Sgt. ear Masons To K Dr. Caldwell The Grand Master of Ma9ons n North Carolina, Dr. Wan?? * aid-well. " me Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina, Dr. Wallace E. Caldwell, of the University of N. C. faculty, Chapel Hill, will be the guest speaker at the A*?- ? Ladies Nl*h* Annual iiignt banquet of Fair view Lodge 339, A. F. & A. M., in the Masonic Dining Room on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Other Grand Lodge dignitaries attending will include Herbert M. Foy, of Mt. Airy, Deputy Or?-J Master; Dr. Oh? " ~ ? ? ? ?? rugh, of Gas ?.?ma, Junior Grand Deacon; and George D Washburn, of Shelby, District Dcj/r.ty Grand Master. In keeping with Its time-hon ored custom the Lodge will have as 1t? special guests all the Ma sonic widows There are now 17 of these^adies In King* Moun tain. They will be introduced by, John H. Floyd, Past Master. Kings Mountain Mayor J. E. Hem 'on, Past Master, will give the addrc^ of welcome, which will be responded to by Mrs. Sam Stalling*. The master of ceremo nies will be Arnold Kincaid, Past Master. The dinner will tee served by the local chapter of the Eastern Star. Tickets jean be secured from Dickie Tate or any one of his committee. - , ? i .. . > : - , ?. / ?' I Innual Broom unaiy 1,2.3 I in.., fc iiiiia " conduct a house-to-house sale, on the sale dates. ' Price* of the itemfe Include: house broom, 91.50; industrial ?broom*, $2.00 and $2.25; and door mats, $2.50 An increase in price of brooms is anticipated, Mr- Houser said, due to a shortage of broomcorn, production of whteh was some 36 percent below average in 1880. "When you buy a broom or mat, you get value received, provide employment for the blind and our Lions club hi rble to further its *ror% <vith the bHnd," Lions President Otto Williams said. . Defense Head Says Nation Can Be Bombed "At any hour of any night, the Russians could wipe out any city of the United States with the a tomic bomb,".E. Z. Jones, North Carolina director of civil defense told an audience of 150 Kings Mountain citizens Tuesday night. As proof of good reasoning, Mr. Jones, an army major during World War II, said air force offi cials had toid him, "No American bombing mission in World War II was stopped short of its mis sion by enemy action." He point ed out that this was true even though the Germans had already developed air defense to a high degree of perfection. He also pointed out that Russia could bomb th is country on a one-way flight, with bombers similar to the U. S. B-29. "The Russians could unload on any city, then bail out, and be intern ed for the duration at Grove Park Inn," he said. By such statements, Mr. Jones made .out a good case for the current need for a civilian de fense organization throughout the state and the nation, inte grated, he said for the one ma jor aim of civil defense: to min imize the effect of enemy action. The organization could be used in peacetime emergency, he no , ted, but added that this wa a not the primary aim. j. He compared civil defense to an insurance policy. "Just because we have insurance, we don't go around wanting the house to burn down," he pointed out. "But if it does burn, that insurance proves invaluable." | The individual, he said, can do his part in civil defense in two ways, by selling the need for(civ il defense and by volunteering for duty. He reported that the Mayor of Cologne, Germany, told him that that city had evacuated 240,000 persons during the heavy bomb ing raids of World War n. Then he asked, "Could we do it?" Te pointed out that there ?ate four major means in which an enemy could attack the United States, by bon.bers, missies, sub marines, or sabotage, and he fur ther noted that the Communists in this nation are doing every thing then can to discourge civil defense. "What would you do if a bomb (Cont'd on page eight) Pfc. Bolds Wins Bronze Star WITH THE FIRST CALVARY DIVISION IN KOREA. ? A Kings I Mountain soldier has been awar ded the Bronze Star Medal for his conspicuous devotion -to duty which contributed to the destruc tion of seven enemy tanks. He is Private First Class Henry M. Bolds, son of Mrs. Lola Mae Bolds, 118 Walker street, Kings Mountain. . Private Bolds was awarded the 'fourth highest decoration for he roism in action September 27, 1950 at Hambung-ni, Korea while a member of the U. S. 1st Caval ry Division. The citation accompanying the decoration read* in part: "Private Bolds" battery was at tached to the task force making the Initial breakthrough to link up with United Nation force* at Inchon when it was suddenly am bushed, shortly after midnight, by ten enemy tanks. Courageos ly disregarding the terrific vol ume of enemy tank cannon and machine gun fire directed at him. Private Bolds, as connoneer, quickly asartsted in placing his 105 mm howitzer in firing posi tion." "The lead tank was allowed to come within a range of 25 yards before it was fired upon and destroyed, Mocking the ad vance ot the other tanks. Private Bolds' coolness under fire, " the ci tation continued, "and conspic uous devotion to duty greatly contributed to the eventual de struction of seven enemy tanks and to preventing 'the overrun ning of the ta-sfc force's column. Private Bold'e heroism reflects great Credit upon himself and the military service." the citation con eluded. t a* i ?rs HERE FRIDAY ? Charlie (Choo Choo) Justice. UNC and Wcuh ington Redskins star, will plcry with the Carolina Clowns cagers hose at Control gymnasium Fri day night against the Kings Mountain Stars in a game being sponsored by the Mountaineer Club. A telegram received yester day .from .Coy .Carson, .Clown manager, read : "Justice Win ' B* with us Friday." The game Is scheduled to begin at 8 p. m., with a preliminary event between the Kings Mountain high school "B" team and the "Phantoms" to get underway at 6:30 p. m. H.C. Wilson Scoot Head The annual meeting and Scout Parent banquet of the Kings Mountain District, Boy Scouts of America, will be held at the Ma sonic Hall On Tuesday, Febru ary 6th, at 7 p, m. according to an announcement by H. C. Wil son, new district chairman. Mr. Wilson succeeds Ollie Har his, who filled the un-expired term of Rev. W. H. Stender, as chairman. Mr. Harris Is the new vice-chairman of the organiz tion. . Other new officers Include Dr. N. H. Reed, secretary ? treasurer succeeding Charlie Blalock. J. H. Patterson is the new com* miss loner of the group and nei ghborhood commissioners this year are Rev. T. L. Cashwell, Jr., Rev. T. W. Hager, Harold Hunni cutt and I. Ben Goforth, Jr. The remainder of the 1951 or ganization follows: Organization and Extension ? L. E. Abbott, chairman, Dr. D. F. Hord, C. D. Ware, Paul Mauney, Arnold Klser. Leadership Training, Buck Bar ley, chairman, C. D. Ware, Broad us Moss, Junior Wilson, M. L. Hoi comb, Ralph Hullender. I Finance ? Dr. Phillip Padgett, chairman, George Mauney, Ar nold Kiser, J, C. McKinney, Buren NeHI, Jr., B. S. Peeler, Jr. Health and Safety ? Dr. W. L. Ramseur, chairman, Dr. Paul Hendricks, N. M. Farr, Ollie Harris. Advancement (Court of Honor) ? Harokl HunnVmtt, chairman, E. E. Marlowe, J. H. Patterson, Rev. W. L. Pressly, L. E. Davis, Rev. P. D, Patrick, Charlie Blalodlc. Camping and Activities ? C. C. Edens, chairman, Fred Plonk, Carl Maya*, Wiley Blaitton, Wil liam Plonk, Clyde Kerna. Relationships ? f - Ben -Gofor th, Jr., chalvnan, Rev. J. H. Bren dan, Rev. J. W. Phillips, Dr. Ja cob Mauney, Paul McGinnis, Jr., Arnold Kincaid. CLUB TO BE CLOSED ' The Kings Mountain Country Club will be closed for 10 days, effective February 6, according to announcement toy H. R. Nelsler, president. The club will be closed In order to pro vide * vacation for the man agement However, it Was an nounced, the pro^ shop and locker room will be open daily during the period at 1 p. m. \HeraM Is Winner \Of Contest Award Editorial Page Adjudged Best Among Weeklies The Kings Mountain Herald was adjudged to have the best editorial page among weekly newspapers in North Carolina in the 1950 newspaper contests of the North Carolina Press Associa tion. Governor W. Kerr Scott an nounced and presented the a wards at the annual Duke Uni versity dinner of the Mid-Winter Press Institute, held last Triday night at Durham. The weekly newspaper con tests were judged by officials of i the Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., who based their decisions on each issue published by newspapers entering the contests during the final quarter of 1950. In the editorial page division, th6 Franklin Press wa3 adjudged second-place winner, with the Northampton County News tak ing third. Special mention was accorded the Marion Progress, the Valdese News and the Mt. Airy News. In the semi-weekly contests, the Cleveland Times, of Shelby, was given special mention in lo cal news coverage and in the ed itorial page divisions. Pri9r the press awards, <he Herald re ceived from the Judging officials an interim report or critique, in which the Washington and Lee officials praised the editorial page as "good." "Its appearance is excellent and editorials are well-written and expressive," the critique read. It also stated, 'The paper re ports news of all community ac tivities with balance and objec tivity," and noted, "the Herald regularly prints enough sports copy to fill up >a regular sports page. Publication of complete statistics of high school games was excellent, as well as unusual for the weekly field." For its award in the editorial division, the Herald received a handsome bronze plaque, with engraving noting the Herald's award. City Has Completed Water Line fobs The City of Kings Mountain has completed currently approv ed water line projects In three a reas of the city, City Adminis trator M. K. Fuller said this week. The city has Installed six-in ch water lines in Linwood road, in the Burlington Mill village, on Cansler street and in Crescent Hill. , The installations have also in cluded addition of nine lire hy drants, three in each area, which will improce the fire protection for those areas, Mr. Fuller said. City crews are now busy me tering houses in the Burlington section, and citizens of the area are being asked to tie In with their -private lines as quickly as possible. A DAT OF PRATER Mrs. W. L. Pressly, chairman of the committee 1 or the World Day of Prayer announces plans have been completed and will be published in the next issue of the Herald. The meeting will be held this year in the FiTst Baptist church, February 9 st SO a< m. NAZARENE PASTOR ? Rev. C. E. McKenzie. elder in the Church of the Nazarene. is the new pastor { of the Final Church of the Naza rene here. Mr. McKenzie, former- 1 ly pastor of First Church of the Nazarene, of Concord, succeeds j Rev. Harry E. Crump, who has ac- 1 cepted a call to serve as pastor of ' First Church of the Nazarene in I Rock Hill, S. C. Paul W. Owens Lodge Master I Paul W.*Owcns was installed as Master ot Fairview Lodge, No. *3S9'"tr.'T:~?"A. "M. On December 29, succeeding Arnold W. Kin caid. Mr. Owens was installed, along with the following officers for 1951, by Past Master Kincaid. ? D. E. Tate, Senior Warden; G. W. White, Junior Warden; J. C. Keller, Treasurer; Paul W. Walk er, Secretary; Boyce Gault, Sen ior Deacon; Glee A. Bridges, Ju< nior Deacon; Emmett Ross, Stew ard; T. T. Moss, Steward; and J. A. Walker, Tyler. . . Drive At $1,290 March Of Dimes Contributions by Number Four Township citizens to the 1951 March of Dimes campaign totaled $1,290 Thursday, according to re port of Sam Staliings, campaign chairman. Mr. Stalling** said the financial campaign to aid the fight against infantile paralysis was progres sing well, and he expressed con fidence that the $6,000 quota would be met. "Some committees havte al ready turned in more funds than I last year, while others are still working," Mr, Staliings said. He added that few reports have yet 'been received from the indus trial division, but that indica tions are that donations in this division will be good. Also not reported, and not due until next week, is reports from the schools division. "The committees are working hard, and we expect to go over the top," Mr. Staliings said. Any individual who wishes to make a donation should call Mr. Staliings at Burlington Mills of fice. He said he will visit the donor and pick up his gift. Funds derived from the cam paign are used to treat victims of infantile paralysis and to pay for research to determine the cause of polio and Improved me thods of treatment. County Board Will Send 200 Men flff Amy Physicals February 28 J Currently eligible for Induction are single men in the 19 to 25 year age grouos. The men have been calied by inverse age order, which mean* that available men from 21 to 25 have already been called, or are awaiting induction, except thoae found physically or otherwise unfit lor army duty. After taking ? pre- induction physical examination, a regis trant found fit for duty has a minimum of three weeks prior to induction. This means that the men examined on February 8 would not be inducted prior to March 1. ' The Cleveland County eelective service board has been ordered to furnish 200 men for pre-induc tion physical examinations on February 8. The call Is 6y far the heaviest I yet recefvca by the orvunty board and is Indicative of the heavily increased demand for men by the mMmfr Newman, clerk u> the board, aaid that filling of the February 8 call would virtually exhaust the board's pool of reg iMMlp-W Hi 30-year-old ..fft group. * Two King Street Lots Purchased By Bus Company Queen City Coach Company has completed arrangements for the purhasc of two ]otg in the 100 block of West King street for purported erection of a bus ter minal. Sale of the two Jots, from the Maud Eunice Hord Estate and from Fred W. Plonk and Hal S. Plonk to the Queen City Compa ny, was confirmed by the owners Tuesday. Total cost of the property to Queen City was $15,500, the com pany agreeing to pay $8,000 to the Maud Eunice Hord estate for a lot 75 feet by 158 feet, and $7, 500 to Fred and Hal Plonk for the adjoining lot, which is 64 feet by 158 feet. Meeting in special. session Wed nesday morning, the city board of commissioners, which has been active in urging the bus company to make provisions for a suitable terminal here, unanimously ap proved the site for erection of 1 a terminal. Just how quickly Queen City will, be able to utilize the proper ty for a terminal is a question, in view of the current building freeze on commercial construc tion. However, Mayor J. E. Herndon, who has been in constant touch with Queen City officials for the past several months in an effort ? to speed action on a bus termi nal site, expressed the opinion that the federal government would approve the erection of a terminal as necessary to the pub lic welfare. Newg of the purchase of the property wril be welcomed by Kings Modntain area citizens who use inter -city buse# for trans portation. Since February 16, 1950, Kings Mountain has been a flag stop for bUses Bridges Au to Parts on West King street is a receiving station for bus ex press, but bus patrons have had to secure schedule information, from Shelby or Gastonta termi nals. Efforts to- secure a terminal site have been in the news dur ing the past year. At request of the city board of commissioners, Utilities Commissioner Edward H. McMahan held an informal hearing on the matter here, and the city adminuistration had an ticipated seeking a Utilities Com mission order requiring the bus operators to provide terminal fa cilities. In talks with Mayor Herndon and others J. H. Quattlebaum, Queen City traffic manager, has indicated that his company an ticipates building a bus station here comparable to one the com pany has recently completed at Wadesboro. . Schoolmen Cite Pupil Draft Policy City school officials called at tention this week to current se lective service policy, whereby the induction of men under 20 years of age may be postponed, provided the young man Lg mak ing satisfactory grades on a full course of study. Under present policy, a young man ir. such circumstance may have induction postponed until he reaches the ageof 20, gradua tes from high school or ceases to pursue satisfactorily a full-time course of instruction, whichever occurs first. "When a full-time student un der 20 years of age receives hk? notice of induction, "Superinten dent of Schools Clyde Erwin ad vised in the January issue of the North Carolina Public School Bulletin, "he should make writ ten request for postponement to his local draft board. This writ ten request should carry an en dowment from the superintend ent of schools to the effect that the said student is under 20 years of age and is satisfactorily pur suing a full course." In Cleveland County, no reg istrants under 20 have yet been called for induction or even pre induction examinations. How ever, it is expected that call for March will Include men under 30. Principal Howell Lane, of Kings Mountain high school, said only a few pupils of. the local school would be- effected by the ruling under current policy Vi whereby 18-year-olds are not be- ? . v ing drafted. However, he pointed out, it would effect a larger num ber should Congress permit th? ? drafting of 18-year-olds, as is now being requested by the Defense Department.
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