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t f 1 ' '? " ? ? s*4 : ? ?* .? ? ? ? ; .. ? ?&r> **??; $ ? . y : VV> v '??'"? - ' Efcte* City Units 7.183 (Final Unofficial Census 1950) ftfemediato TMittt|Ano 15400 ' (1945 Ration Board Figtur*) b2^Xtf\%?jk '-?As'iti * > -.A tv? ? ' *, ts&g ? ? . ? I ? gMLfrj '- |."J.' ???.(u. i .,; r : Pages Today PRICE FIVE CENTS Established 1889 N. C- Priday. July 6. 1951 UNION SERVICE Sunday night's five- church union service will ibe held at central Methodist church, with titfv. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce (Memorial A. .. K. P. church, delivering the sermon. The service will (begin at 8 o'clock. NEW POLICEMAN Benjamin P. Sessmons, of near Crowders . Mountain com munity, assumed duties Sun day morning as policeman for Kings Mountain police depart ment according to announce ment by Acting Chief S. R. Da vidson. : TO CONCLUDE study Rtaal lesson In a weefc's Bi ible study series at Macedonia Baptist church, will he held Friday evening at 7:30 at fh? church. Prof. Stephen Morri sett, of Gardner -WeWb college, (has been conducting the study on the first epistle of John. STATED COMMUNICATION A stated communication Of Fairvlew Lodge No. 339, A. |V ? A A. M., will be held Monday at 7:30 p. tn. *t the Masonic hall. A 50-year pin will Be (presented to Mason B. Meek Or m and by DDGM George D. Washburn, of Shelby. HAS OreSATXON . . B. S. Nelll, executive vice president of , the First Nation* al Bank, ffc recuperating from an operation at Charlotte Me morial hospital. His condition is reported to be satisfactory and he Is expected to. return ? home . within the next few days. Negress Faces Mi ar . . . , ,**?! v TVO Id Riser for the past 10 years, wi| killed instantly at 12:24 Sunday morning at his hom? on Che Riser fawn on Cheriy vIlle Kinuff-MounUin highway. His wile, ifaaeUne Pressley, 32, was lodged in Gaston county Ja#l and has been bound over to Gas ton. County Superior Court on a charge of murder, following a coroner's inquest. Death resulted from shotgun wounds in the at Officers investigating the case said they were informed'that the Pressleys had been drinking homebrew. However, Mr. JCteer ?aid that the Pressleys had left .?Ones Mountain from the Sadie Mill about 10 o'clock Saturday night and that they were not drinking at that time. Another couple, Mose RusseH and Ms wtfK were visiting the Presaleys at ? the tftne of the shooting. They told police that Preasley's wife became angry be cause her husband was talking to the Russell woman. Witnesses said, officers reported, that the PfMtiey woman fired a 16-guege shotgun into her husband's sto mach while he was asking her not to shoot. Gaston Deputies Walter Canon and Wylie Wil liams investigated.. Goforth Ordered Duty It. <#. g.) Ben fl. Goforth, Jr., USNK, manager of the personal loan department of the First Na tional Bank, tins 'bpen ordered to report for active dutfe jvqp-'.Jgif navy at Gfenvlew,. nt, on Sep tember 30..- , . % Lt. Goforth will undergo a five-month training course as an air observer. Be served in World WaT H as ?n enlisted man, being d|lfcharg ?d as an aviation ordnanceman, second-class and serving as a .gunner on W* flying boats. He wis corrrmjssioned an ensign in the naval reserve on ?r?luation from Western Carotin* KaChers College In 1949 and was' recently promoted to his present rank. ? ? * Contract Action, Ruled Illegal Is Then Tabled M. K. Fuller, city administra tor, may not get a two-year con tract alter all, as a result of a special meeting of the city boat^ of commissioners Jufte 28 which also resulted in resignation of E. A. Harrill, city attorney. The meeting had been called to iTOn out the contract matter, following the June 26 special meeting, when the board had voted 3 to 1 for Combmissioner Baxter Wright's motion to con tract Mr. Fuller's services for a two-year period for duties under terms of General Statute 163 359, Vol. in. Investigation had proved that this statute was a City manager statute and would have given Mr. Fuller many of the powers and duties now held by the may or. Mr. Harrill had advised the mayor that this was illegal, In ?view of the city's cteuter and the defeat of the city manager form of government option Offered In a city-wide vote in Auguit 1948. Presumably-the meetiHg was called to amend the Wright mo tion, according to provisions which the city attorney thought iegajh* . ' ? Meeting-time found . the wea ther hot and tempers in the same vein. In the course" of the meet ing, sever*! citizens in attendan ce stated they wtfnted no city manager .system, and Garagjis sioner lames ((Bed) Layton told Mr. Harrill i lia tallied too much and to "shut up." Mr. Harrill posted the (follow ing letter tp the City fathers Sat urday: "After due consideration, I herewith tender to you my res -- ? -?-~i I! * wiU not surpries you." The Thursday night meeting was principally conversation. Mayor Garland Still used. the oc casion to read the -board a long stateinent of recommendations concerning city operations and t? Which he said he recommend ed employing Mr. Fuller for two1 years, hut as a supervisor, not a cky manager, With stated dele gated authority. : Ottly action, according to the official minutes, was a 3-2 vote In which the board voted to de fer action on the Puller contract. Commissioner Wright made the motion, and Commissioner C. P. Barry seconded. Th- mayor's statement of re commendations follow: "One: The proposed contract suggested and passed on by the Board at the l*?t meeting re specting our hiring of (Mr. Fuller and glvii* him powers that were set out under the section as sug gested, 163 346 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, I want to suggest that I have toeen advised by Mr. Harrlll that un der that section we would 4>e un dertaking Mid setting out the powers of ? City Manager as sft forth und?r plan A of a mana gerial form of government for the city. This has heen voted down by the P?oi>le and as 'Mr. Harrlll has informed mrte that we do. not have the taps! right to confer the powers of a city man ager on anyone, that we are op erating under the old form And that the best we can do in to con tinue to operate under the old fo*m as a Mayor and City Coun cil. "Two; That we can hire Mr. Fuller as we have done'and'ws can hire him for the duration cf our term of otfice if we wish, and which I recommend, hut fur ther recommend that wP hire him as a supervisor and that 2. (Continued On Page Eight) ? * 1 ? " 1 * I larrill Resigns City Attorney Post; F utter Contract Hit & Snag n?-=== Business Firms Buying Licenses Slavs Mountain business firms war* paying city privi lege licenses this week, accord ing to provisions of th* ordin ance passed recently by the city board of commissioners. The new ordinance made no changes in provisions in vogue [ for the past two yean. The full ordinance i* published in to day's' edition of the Herald, on pages -8 and 7. Section 1. The law provides that privi lege licenses are due and pay able during the month of July, with penalties applicable when payment Is not made prior to JulyJI. Rites Conducted Foi Mrs. Cashion Funeral services for Mrt. Fan nie Kimbrell- Cashion, 74, who died Monday at 11 p. m. at her home at 111 Lackey street after a three-day illnew, "wjere held Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock' from Central Methodist church. Rev. J. H. Brendpll, pastor, of ficiated. assisted by Rev. W. P. Gerberdlng and Rev. W. F. Mon roe. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. " V-. Mrs. Cashkm wis tife widow of the 4ate William L. Cashion. She was amative of Mecklen burg County, the daughter Of the late Mr. and Mis. William Kim brell, but had lived In Kings Mountain over 50 years, She was a member of Centwji Methodist ' ^Siwivors include^ three Mountain, Mrs. Carl W. Moss. of Columbus, Gi., and Mrs. James Denney, of Cataula, Ga.; a lister, Mrs. Henry Rich, of Columbia, S. C., 19 grand-children and 11* great- graattehlMren. ? Negro Youth Hurt When Hit By Truck A 13-year-old Negro boy waa painfully in Juried In an accident here Saturday night around 9:45 o'clock when he evidently walk ed or Ml under the rear wheels of an Associated Transport trac tor-traller, according to police. Carnell L. Quirni, Who Uvas At 231 Cherokee street, suffered * fracture of the left leg near the hip and a dislocated right knee. He was treated at Kings Moun tain hospital and sent to Shelby hospital where the bone was re set. * > >:4- ~ Police Officers I , O. Thompson and D. H. Street investigated the aoofdent, -vylilch was termed as unavoidable. No charge* have been filed against the driver of the truck, Henry W. Wyatt, of Greenville, S.C. Wyatt was stopped about a mile south of Kings Mountain on the Graver road toy Constable W. L, Blackburn. He said that he didn't know that he had hit the youth, that he was clear, when the passed him. LIONS MEETING Harvey L. . Bumgardner, re cent graduate N. C. State . college, and national champ ion in poultry Judging, will addrefts members of the Kings Mountain Lions club at the regular meeting of the organ Izatton Tuesday nlfM at 7 o' clock at Masonic Lodge Dining Hall. Announcement was made by Oilie Harris, program chair ? i ? ? The Kinfia Mountain Little Theatre announced today plans for presenting a historical drama atoout the ?battle of King* Moun tain. The play, which will tee presented thto fall In an outdoor theatre on the battleground it self, vu mitten by Robert B, OnbOrne, member of Ihe local A - .-^i ? . , - . ? - tn*atre group. Mr. OMborn? emphasized that It Is a play and not * pageant, but he expieosed the belief that the presentation Will 'be very col orful. In addition to the drama* tie quality of the v*y ItseK, there will be a full musical score by Mm, Aubrey Sfauney and mm Gmelyn Gtllesple for organ and eltoru?. scenes of colonial; dancing, colorful owtimm and) *> ,r 'S scene at 0?e tattle tt-| PKlnga Mountain Choral Society will provide the vocal I background. Production plans are net com ptf% at the moment, but the teukaUve actiedule calls for per formances on Fridayand Satur day nights beginning September 1st and continuing through the anntvertary of the battle on Oc tober 7th. Try-outs for ctttlat wm be held aoon. Mr. Oebome said, and aUwe there are 37 speaking parts in the drama, any one deeiring a part should t* ?hie to find room in th# cart., He added that ft* Little Theatre will need the support of all per IflMli In Kings Mountain who are Interested In <#ramattca If the ?p V a wammm. C. D. Blanton One 05 Six New Trustees C. D. Blanton, Kings Moun tain druggist, was named a mem beraf the Cleveland county board of hospital trustees for Number 4 Township Monday. Mr. Blanton was one. of six new members of the board ap pointed by the county boaid.oi commissioners to three ? year terms expiring June 30. 1954. Mr. Blanton succeeds W. K. Mauney, who completed hjs three-year term on June 30- The appointments are immediate, and the new trustees will attend their first regular meeting on July 18. ' Other trustees named "by the| commissioners were: (M. C. Whit worth, Number 5 Township, fil ling a vacancy from that town ship; B. G. Beason. Number 2, succeeding Chairman J. D. El liott; Parr is L. Yelton, Number 6. succeeding A.-V. Hamrkrk; D. D. Lattimore,' Number 8, ncceeding W. Horace Covin gtoii; and Dr. A. A. Lackey, Number succeed ing Herman Beam. The 15- member board of trus tees has tke responsibility - of operating Cleveland County hos pitals, which include the Shelby hosgital and Kings Mountain hospital. Under provisions of the sta tutes setting up the Cleveland County hospital governing board, the board must include three members from each township in which hospitals are located, and one member from each of the re maining V townships. Under the provision! no trustee can serve hah I, |? 4 n mil ri consecunv0 t6i?ns> ? " Other membeijj f*om Number 4 trusted and VI^cKal^ian Hun' terH. Neisler. Mr. Mauney, retiring member tram Number 4, also served as treasurer of the Kings Moun tain unit building fund. PRE-PAID TAXES An additional $3,166.56 in city tax bills was paid by the close of business at City Hall Saturday at noon. Total paid was $17334,03, earning the early-bird taj^ayers $357.68 in discounts. Budget, Attorney Matter On City's Monday Agenda Consideration of the city bud get for 1951-52 and possible nam ing of a successor to E. A. Har rilT, who has resigned as city at torney, will he the principal items on the agenda of the' board of commissioners at their regu lar meeting Monday n ight, Hay - or Garland Still said Thursday. The Mayor said that City Ad ministrator M. K. Fuller has vir tually completed work on budget recommendations. He also said that the board does not antici pate any increase In the 51.80 tax rate, though he expects the budget to be one of - the largest In city history, since K will in clude anticipated street revenue under terms of the Powell Bill. Speculation concerning filling the city attorney position indi cates that 5. R Davis may be returned to that post. Some members of the "board have con tacted Mr. Dayis and have asked him to aocept the position, since receiving Mr. Harrlll's letter of resignation. " Mr. Still said he did not know whether the board would wish to re-open the matter of a con tract with City Administrator Fuller, tabled at a special meet ing on June 28. However, he in dicated the board might meet on Thursday night (July 5) to dis. cuss that particular matter and Otherwise to agree on -the re mainder of the agenda for Mon day night's regular session. * - li fudge Horrill Hears Very Light Docket mmmmm rnmrnmmm " ' % '1 want no one to "be afraid to come to this court. I am here to administer justice," Recorders Court rJudg? Ector A. HarrlU told the Monday afternoon session of the court, his first siftce taking ovej the Job. Judge Harrlli faced a -rather Ug^do^et^trled defendants drew fines for public drunkenness. Joseph us Conley, Negro of Ma rlon, was found not guilty on a charge ?f driving without a dri vers license. Arlmunes Eugene Goode, Ne gro also of Marlon, was taxed with court costs after he was found gutlty of allowing an un licensed driver to. . operate his motor vehicle. * * Dorothy Ledford, of Ruther fordton, paid costs on an affray charge. Tentative County Tax Rale Is Set At $ 1.04 Citizens In Kings Mountain) School District Hthre Tentative Rate of $1.87? Budget Estimate f 1,409,385 The county bouji'ot commis sioner* tentatively approved a $1,409,385 budget for 1951-52 on Monday and tentatively set the county-wide tax rate at $1.04, a hike of 4x cents per $100 valua tion. ; V On th? basis of the tentatlye figures, majority ot Kings Mountain citizens will pay coun ty taxes at the rate of $137 per $100 valuation, including the special Kings Mountain school district taxes of three cent* for debt service and 20 cents lor supplemental expenses. The budget estimate was com piled on total valuation of $58, 000,000. <&argest beneficiary of the county tax payment? will be the schools. Exactly half the county wide rate of $1.04 will go for school expenses, including 26 Ctgtft for current expenses, , 11 fcents for capital outlay, end IS cents for debt service. The mo ney is divided among the three sdhool districts, Kings Mountain, Shelby, and the county, on the basis of school population. The Kings Mountain district receives 11-pius percent of the total re i out my dukot fiomo For Plane Contests Pfc. Thomas F Baiter, station ed with the Air Feme In Tripoli, North Africa, has been returned to the United States to eater sev eral model air pbm? contests sponsored -by the air force. He apent a few days With his rhecontest at Westover A- F. B., Upon completlo* of several contests he will be sent back to Tripoli for completion of *3S overseas tour of duty. ceipts from the county-wide levi es lor school purposes.) A new appropriation sure to create considerable interest throughout the county is a f ive oent levy to be used for revalua tion of property. Five cents is ex pected to return the county $27, 000 for this purpose ? only about one-fourth the estimated amount required. Another five-cent levy will go to support the hospitals, and 15 cents is earmarked for the gen-' eral fund. Appropriations were approved ?n follows: General iund $141,300; poor fund 944,000; debt service $32, 001; old age assistance, $24,000; aid to dependent children $16, 000; county hospital, $27,590; county farm agent's office, $15, 500; weltere administration, $24,491; county health depart ments, $25,000; county aecount ant, $5500; county fcutkMngs fund, $8,250; revaluation, $27, 027; school* current ex pense. $1^,226; county schools capital </uttay $700,000; county gdwols <<ebt servVe $113^49. Wildlife Body To Stock Lqfco The North Carolina U:,dI1fe Resources commission will stock the city lake with 2,000 large mouth bass finger lings, accord ing to Information received Thursday morning by City Com missioner James CBed) Layton. According to the letter, J. H. Cornejl, chief of the tlsh division, has instructed th? Table Sock H*1 r^ Morganton T hi Wldlife wraSSwTn request of Mr. Lajfioh. r Accountants List 18 Criticisms Of City Hall Office Procedures ? ?*? ? ? '? ? ' ' ? Financial Finns Pay 526,221.73 In Dividends Kings Mountain financial in stitutions have just completed paying a total of $26,221.73 in semi-annual dividend to hold ers of savings accounts and shareholders. Largest total was paid by Home Building & Loan associa tion. A. H. Patterson, secretary treasurer, _r$*ported payment of dividends $13,817.01. The total included: optional savings divi dends, $3,935.91; full-paid stock dividends. $7,939.10; matured stock dividends, $1,899.93; pre paid stock dividends, $130. Kings Mountain Bunding & Loan association pfeld out $8, 315.72 in dividends, Secretary Treasurer I. C. Lackey reported. They ? included: on lull-paid stock, $5,223.47; on optional sav ings stock, $2,279.98; on matured stock, $324; on withdrawn stock, $488.27. L. E. Abbott, cashier of the First National Bank, reported di vidend payments on 668 indivi dual savings accounts totaled $4,089. Stevens Promotes | George Lattimore George Lattimore, Jr., formerly cost accountalnt for the J. P. Stevens Company Stanley plant, has beer, promoted to Head cost account .in t for Stevens' Carter group wfljen includes to plana; ?Mr. Lattimore, son of Mr. and Mrs. George **? Lattimore, Sr.. Joined the Stevens company sev en months ago. He and his wife, the former Helen Turner, had been residing at Gastonia. They have moved to Gieefisboro and are living at Frank Smith Apart ments,, 1212 C Whildon Place. ? Mr. Lattimore is a navy veter an of World War II and a grad uate of Duke University. Vital Statistics Keepers Named Mrs. Leila Barber Houser has been appointed registrar of vital statistics for the City of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Craig Falls has "been named the registrar for Number 4 Township. Thus two persons have been appointed to fill positions held Jointly by D. H. ( Doc) Houser, late husband of the city appoin tee. Mr. Houser had been the reg istrar here Since 1913, his fam ily Stated. N Mrs. Houser wtm appointed eity registrar >by Mayor Garland Still. Mrs. Falls was named Number 4 Township registrar by Chairman Z. V. Cline, of the board of county commissioners. Roland Tate is the vital sta tistics registrar in Grover. It i? the duty of the registrars to record births and deaths in their area ai>d to place them on permanent record with the Cleveland County Register of Deeds. TO <BE INSTALLED? Rot. W. P. Gerberding, D. D? will he in stalled as pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church In special ritee at regular morning services Sun day at 11 o'clock. Her. F. L. Con rad. D. D.. president of the Evan gelical Lutheran S^nod of North Carolina, will deliver the sermon and will conduct the installation service. Gas For City The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club has urged the city board of commissioners to consider the possibility of natural gas service. The Kiwanis club, second Kings Mountain organization to suggest that the city Investigate these possibilities, addressed the following letter to the mayor and board of commissioners last Sat urday: "The Klwants Club otf Kings Mountain recommends that you give serious consideration to the possibility of securing Natural Gas for the City of Kings Moun tain. "The club feels that we are in a most favorable position to se cure this fuel since we are lo cated so near the recently in stalled gas pipe line." Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, had previously ad dressed a letter to the city ad ministration urging investiga tion and consideration of city na tural gas service possibilities. School Board To Aaction Sites Two county school properties in the Kings Mountain area will 'be sold at public auction on Aug ust 6, according to legal notice of salg Published in today's edition of the Herald. The county will offer at auc tion the Dixon schoolhouse and site, and the Vestibule Negio schoolhouse and site. The Dixon school building and that Pnrfion of the site Bast of the p?i^i?c road will be sold to gether. The portion of the site West of the road will be sold separately. Then the property will <be offered in a bloc. ' . Under terms of the sale, all bids will stand open for ten days and may be raised by an in creased bid of 10 percent. The county boar^ of education re serves the right to reject all bids. The sale will be conducted at the county courthouse in Shelby at 2 p. m., August 6. The sale notice is signed by J. H. Grtgg, secretary to the board. Independence Day Is Celebrated Quietly; Weatherman Noisemaker Kings Mountain celebrated ita l75th anniversary of Indepen dence Day Wedne^ay quietly with otrjy the noise of an occas sional fije-or acker dispelling the calm. . i; The weather man, however, tor* a hand eafly In the evening, and put on 'a fireworks display of his own, hi the form of a col orful electrical storm, featuring the noise of thunder, flashes of lightening and i red-hued sky. Shortly after the storm, the fire department answered Ha first alarm in recent weAs but found no fire. The atorm had blown down a 2300-volt line on N. Watteison street. During the day. Its was quieter than a Sunday .In th? uptown business section. Drug stores were open on shorter schedule* and service stations were opoft. hut one operator remarked, "We do most of our ' NulrtSlte before anti-after holidays, not on the holiday Itself Otherwise the business section had a "strets roHed-up" appearance. Acting Chief of Police S. R. (Pop) Davidson reported no ui? usual business In his depart ment. Several T.^srionn aires visited Kings Mountain Battleground for the address by Congressman 1. ,P. Richards, oi South Carolina's Fifth district and the celebration sponsored Jointly by Legion posts of the surrounding area. Other citizens not on vacation trips, spent the day looking for cool spots to beat the July heat. INDUCTION (MOOT Seven Cleveland County men ''will be Inducted into the army via the srtecUv* service pro cess next Thursday. No pre induction Orders bate been re ! ceived by the county board tor July. ' Auditors Make No Charges Of Malfeasance a^auV^ X" city's iulyTjwfTSi lthie951POr ommended last w?k tha? !<??" twtiSi insfitutpd 'or pro employees."0 th? ?lty and its The accountants, Howard W?i ?ker and Dave Robinson emphi' nntM .they had discovered JSLTJS1^ upon th* ^ integrity of any of the but^nt ?F t0rmer employ Included in their ;???, *8 general comments, de iisrisizsr6 ,he c,,y'3 bu? woTke?*CStUym5:,f E?edFru<''r th ?'* 46 return later t?> audU ?le Ulrtk,n8' ln orc,er to ' iiie a complete report for the fiscal y#ar 1950-51. The general comments nf u accountant* follow. ? 16 atC ir 01 emPloyed by the 'r,?u^??c4'^2kn2,d 0t^l7'tJ;eyfol lowing' am?ng z~ men/aP??ment ?' vendors' state ments (as contrasted to invoi ?n"^,U,PoS*,e """te celPte tor.?edt??dy"",alt emlloilT"""12"1 loa? '? I^{1red'?hSk5.'" aWC,,""s rtieJJi. C"h1"ir "indorsed "12) No control over cash "13a)gwwr ?Vera^es peceDtn Eflt of un numbered reoepta for cash received. u__ i Laxity in control of paid bond coupons. h?iu ?r?i15) Fai,ure to properly con lti?aCCOUnt8 rece,va'Me tor util- , ?1T)"f a" t?rymyt&zri01 n*?mty of efrori wflT?1 over?bundance enfrv /ff the preparation and '^We w.^Untn<f Jnformatlon. point ? Tphasl2e at this tL e ave discovered nothing that reflects upon the an* integrity of any rc v?w'?rmer employee? of evertR, f ^"'wnenti. how ever, that "better controls be In *? f '??cu0? XJs, the City and Its employees." Postoffice Back ; To First-Class Kings Mountain has a first class postoffice again. The Kings Mountain postof fice wag restored to first-class status, effective July 1, on the basis of receipts for th* calen dar year 1950, which totaled $40, 802.58. The change will have little ef fect on service, with the excep tion that the money order win dow wil 4>e open two hours less daily. Under the new schedule It will op?n at 9 and close at 5, instead of opening at 8 and clos ing -vt 6 under second -class re qu?:ements. Change of status also meant that box rent fees advanced Slightly, as was noted by pa trons paying rent-due notices last wfcek. The change also means slight Say raises for Postmaster W. E. lakely and Assistant Postmas ter George Hord, . The postoffice was first-class during the fiscal year 1944-45. CUEIST MUSICIANS Miles iMaliney, of New York city son of Mr. and Mrs W. K. Mauney. will be guest fer ? garrlst and Ml* Prances - Summers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank k. Summers, will be guest soloist 'at the 11 o-' clock service at St. Matthew's Lutheran church on Sunday.