Pages Today VOL. 62 NO. 28 Kings Mountain. N. C? Friday, July 13, 1951 Established 1889 I Population City Limits 7.193 (Final Unofficial Census 1950) Immediate Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Ballon Board Flguiii) PRICE FIVE CENTS I Local News [Bulletins L_ ; T WITH RAINWATER Tom Burnett, of Waco, Rogd, has joined Rainwater Fu^i :ture Company as a salesman, according to announcement by R. P. Wiley,* manager, Mr. Barnett was formerly employ ed at Craftspun Yarns, Inc., and previously was associated with Kings Mountain Furni ture Company, prior to its con solidation with Cooper's, Inc. BACK ON DUTT B. S. -Neill, executive vice president of the First Nation al Bank, returned to wortt on a part-time basis this week, fol lowing an operation at a Char lotte hospital. PRIVILEGE LICENSES A total of 96. business firms doing business in Kinlgs Mountain had purchased 1951 ST Privilege license at noon T iu sday, according to report ot O. T.. Hayes, Sr., acting clerk, Mr. Hayes reminded that all buslnes firms doing business in Kings Mountain are required to buy licenses 3 at later than July 31. Penal - es apply for late purchases. PRE-PAYMENTS Kings Mountain property owners had pre-paid a total of $19,611.60 in 1951 city tax bills at noon Thursday. The total represents about one-fifth of the anticipated levy of $103, 096.76 levy for the current year. Persons paying city taxes dur ing the month of July qualify for a one-and-one-half percent discount The discount rate drops to one percent at the close of the buaines July 31. BACK FROM jA#AN ' Mists Virginia Plonk, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Plonk, arrived home last week from Japan, where tile had taught for a year in an army sdhool. Presbyterian Group At Camp Conference y? ??%?$>?> ? * v~ ' - .-mFj Kings Mountain Presbytery^: eluding churches . in . Gaston, Cleveland, "Lincoln, Rutherford and Polk counties, has purchas ed a beautiful' camp in Hidden Valiey, near Hendefsonyllle. The first conference of camp site is now In session and nearly 300 young people of V;!pih Presbytery are attending. Those attending from the local Pres byterian Youth Fellowship are i !d Hopper, at Blatant p istor, and Miss Lillian Barber, director of religious education, who are ier? ving as counselors, and Misses Delores Davidson, president of P. Y. F. of Kings Mountain Pres bytery, Susan Mass, Ann Dilllng, Patsy Goferfh, Lossle Lynch, No r, K?he Dsese, and Mwwrs Dick Webb, a member of Presbytery Council, Bill Ruth and Rannie Arnette. This group will return homo next Monday. ? Bible School IHlMrill Money To Hospital ' I l-,i - l';u ,< l ii .n ( ;i till- School Of the .Secohd BapW';?(iiKh don ated a nan of money to the Kings Mountain hospital to be used for linen supjjm||i':. s Mrs. N. L Fipps, principal of <$M school, presented the money *** ? . i Attention Called To Herald Deadlines enter Reports s Very l&w 99 NEW TRUSTEE ? C. D. Blanton, Kings Mountain druggist. Is one of six new members. of the coun ; ty hospital board of trustee*. He la one of three members irom Number 4 Township. On next Wednesday* board members and their wives will hold a picnic meeting at Bracket? s Cedar Park at 8 o'clock. Following dinner, a business session will be held at which time the board will or ganise lor the new yoar. Cannady Joins First National J. ?. (Dick) Cannady, of Snow Hill, has assumed the duties of personal loan manager of the First National Bank, President F. R. Summers announced this week. Mr. .Cannady, is Leaking ,.ov? the duties of Ben H. Goforth, Jr., who has -been order . 'd to active duty with the navy in Septem ber. Mh. Cannady, a veteran of World War II, was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1950 with the degree of B. S. in commerce. He major ed dn banking, and sRent the past year at Fordham Universi ty law school, where he studied commercial and banking law. He is residing at the nome of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Peeler. Hambright Reunion To Be Held Sunday Annual meeting of the Ham bright family descendants of Col. Frederick Hambright of. Revolu tionary War fame, will be held at Antioch church near G rover on Sunday, July 15. - - * Rev. Park Moore, of Grover will be the speaker at the open ing exercise beginning at 12:15 p. m. ; I ir J. Ollle Harris, of Kings Moun tain, secretary of the organiza tion, -made the announcement W. A. Hambright, of Grover, Is pres ident of the group and J. D. Hambright, of Clover, 9. C., 1$ vice-president. Music will be furnished by the Mello-Tone and Twilight quar tettes and the Parrlsh trio, of Gaffney. Picnic lunch will be ?erved. -7 Cross-Checking With County Adds Valuation Clarence E. Carpenter, police desk sergeant who has been do ing special work on the 1951 t^x books during the past three weeks, reported to Mayor Gar land E. Still Tuesday that some listings of personal property "seem incredibly low". He also reported addition of $74,566 to the valuation scrolls arising from correction of figuring er rors. ? . . Mr. Carpenter had spent two weeks cross-checking city listings against the county listings. The listing errors, on the-basis of the city's $1.80 tentative tax rate, would have cost the city treasury $1,342.18. Mr. Carpenter's report to the mayor follows: '?"As requested by you, I beg to submit herewith report 1ft con nect in with my recent check of the City's tax records: "The carrying-over of real property from last year's books was done very neatly, and the 1961 listings were done in a most legible manner, however, the fol lowing errors were noted, most of which have been corrected: "A total of $74?66 In errors were discovered. Some of these were In the addition; some in the failure 'to carry totals to the right column ? and some as the result of the appearent inatten iHHkE&Sat# buildings furnished by the coun ty apraisers. "Men over fifty years of age, on one book, were e *rgea?lng tenta tively a rficord budget, the elty board of commissioSers, at their regular July meeting Monday night 1) Named J. Roan Davis city I attorney at a salary of $100 per month; , 2) Named Commissioner C. ?.{ Barry as the city board's repre sentative on the Jacob S. Maun* ey Memorial Library board; 9) Indicated large user* of] cfty water may have to pay more for It. The 'water-rate discussion oc curred aa the board "considered | I* water contract with Foote Min eral Company, the city's biggest! ' ?P" """ JJnder terns of the proposed! contract. Foot* ? Mineral would pay regular city rates, which | scale down heavily lot large-us ers, alas lu pei to the fact that theoom^nyl (fe-cq W thel which also wanted a study of water coats and rates. He added that Poote Mineral officials were not quibbling over the rates end had expressed wl'^ngness for ? rider to he attached to the contract proposal covering a future vari ance in ratea. City Attorney Davis was In structed to re-write the contract. Including the rider, in time for pMBentatlon at Monday's sched uled special meeting of the com missioners. . During discussion on the ter rate matter City 'Administra tor hi. K. Puller presented the board an extensive report on water costs, including compari sons with other munict|?aMtie* ?nie report showed that other municipal itf jo charge out-of clty customers rate differential* of from 35 percent to 290 per cent. It also showed that the low eat fate aoales of ether cities in cluded Monroe, at lS-oaots per 1,000 'galon*. Lenoir M 13 cents per 1,000. Roxboro at lft cents, land Oxford at 17 cents. Kings Mountain water rates, which Mr. I Puller j*ld had not been adjust ed since 1030, Scale down to nine On Pop* Might FIFTY -YE AH MASON ? B. MMk OrmandL center, was pnNnttd a fifty-year emblem and Recorded grand Masonic honors at a stated communication of FaUrleW Lodge No. 339. A? F. & A. M., Monday night Capt OrmandL retired railway conductor. Was raised to the degree of master mason In Gastonla Lodge No. 369 on May 31. 1901. and transferred to Fairrjew Lodge on Jan. 31, 1921. He still attends meetings 'regularly. Pbst Master Arnold KincaltL right made the presentation while Master Paul W. Owens looked on. Only two oth er members of the lodge bare received the 50-year emblerq, the late D. M Baker and the late J. M. Patterson. (Photo by Carlisle Studio.) Ernst & Ernst Files Examination Report *" ^tLepm di cond i t i on o r the 'City of Kings Mountain at May 31, 1951, as compiled by Ernst * Ernst, Winston-Salem account ants and auditors, showed the city with an excess of assets over liabilities of $999,84938. This total represented an in crease in assets during the past 11 months of- $84,427.31. During the period, bonded indebtedness showed a net decline of $24,000, and total liabilities declined by $9,113.23. Total assets were $1,321,170.78, | including cash, $62,171.25, receiv ables (at net) $32,249.16; inven tory, $25,509,63; and property and | equipment valued at $1,201,240. 74. . Net bonded indebtedness was I $289,000. At the end of 11 months, the city had already received In to tal revenue, $324,539.28, only $7,. 603.21 less than its estimated re ceipts for the whole year, Indicat ing that gross revenue would ex ceed the total estimate by at least $15,000. The city had re ceived in 11 months more money than it had expected in 12 months from sale of auto' license ?tags, from court costs, from sale of cemetery lots and graves, from4 the state intangible tax rebate, from parking meter ? collections, parking meter fines, sale of fish ing permits, franchise taxes, tax penalties and interest, and from pole rent. It had received nothing from land sale certificates, where it had expected to receive $600, and nothing from co lection of old accounts, where it had anticipat ed $3,200. It had collected $76,869.54 in ad valorem and poll taxe*, $9,261.53 over, the anticipated revenue, and had collected $198,609.25 from sale of water, power, and lightc, $17,639.25 over antlcipa> tod, gross receipts. On the spending category, the end of 11 months of operation found the fire department, light and power department, the re corder's court, and the miscel Continued On Paff ? Might Three Local Men Attend Presbytery Rev. P. D. Patrick, ytery at New Hope Presbyterian church, in Gaston county last Tuesday. At this meeting ftev. Charles Blxler who served Dbg Owners Urged To Get Licenses City dog owntn are being warned this week by city offi cials that the. privilege licen se ordinance requires pur chase of a dog tag anuually at J 1.00. Mayer Garland Still said ' that, following the July 31 deadline for purchase of the tags, the police department will bo instructed to enforce this ordinance. , The Mayor pointed out that reason for requiring the dog tag is a public health meas ure. Vaccination against rabies is required before dog tags are T issued. Services Hike Aagast Quota The services issued a call on selective service Wednesday to furnish 35,000 men in August, 28,000 for the army and 7,000 for the marines, but Mrs. Clara Newman, clerk to the Cleveland County board said she could not estimate the county?s quota. ! During the past several months, the county's quota has been small, attributable to heavy calls last year, when 90 counties of the state were without selec tive service boards, and heavy percentage of volunteers. The board sent eight men to Charlotte for induction on Thurs day. Only one Kings Mountain man, ? haHle Eugene Anderson, was in the group, which also in cluded three volunteers. Mrs. Newman said a few scores from the second college deferment tests were being re ceived In the Cleveland office. She also said that regulations now provide two methods of de termining determent for college atud? 1) scholastic standing and 2) results of deferment tests. Deferment on scholastic stand ing requires the following: fresh men must be in the upper half of the male members of their Class, sophomores in the upper two-thirds of male members of their class, and juniors in the upper three-fourths of male mem bers in their class. Seniors get a chance to finish. If they don't require too long a period. Mrs. Newman also emphasized that mere passing of the defer ment test does not mean that a registrant is (ffitoraatlcally de terred. He roust request defer meht, just as he would on any other grounds. - MiVMI MUWBtt' . A total of $148.38 was col lected from the city's parking meters Wednesday, ? McDaniel, Hayes Swap Positions ? At City Hall City Clerk Joe?H. McDaniel and Assistant City Clerk OliVer T; Hayes, Sr., swapped jobs Thurs day, as a result of a series of developments at City Hall begin ning Monday night. Mr. McDaniel resigned as city cferk, treasurer and clerk of re corder's court at the regular meeting Monday night. In a spe cial meeting Wednesday night, the board of commissioners, by 4-0 vote, named Mr. Hayes act ing clerk, treasurer and clerk of court, and named Mr. McDaniel assistant city clerk and treasur er. Mr. Hayes will receive $2,700 per annum, Mr. McDaniel $50 per week. The resignation of Mr. Mc Daniel came as a surprise to the board, members told the herald, and his appointment to the Number 2 office followed his re quest to toe retained in some ca pacity. After accepting his res ignation Monday night, effective on naming of a successor. Mayor Garland Still and Commissioners James (Red) Layton and Olland R. Pearson asked him to recon sider his resignation Wednesday afternoon. They were Joined by Commissioners B. T. Wright, Sr., and C. P. Barry at the Wednesday night special meeting, but Mr, McDaniel declined. The motion to name Mr, Hayes as acting clerk was a compro mise, arrived at after several mo tions had been put, none of which could obtain a second. They included: 1) motion of Mr. Wright to name Mr. Hayes to the clerk-treasurer-court clerk position for 30 days; 2) motion by Mr. Pearson to name him to the position without the 30-day provision; 3) motion toy Mr. Lay ton to name Clarence E. Carpen ter to the portion. The several discussions con sumed an hour before Mr. Wright and Mr. Pearson agreed to compromise their motions. The result was motion by Mr. Pearson to name Mr. Hayes act ing clerk-treasurer:court- clerk, which Mr. Barry seconded and Continued On Page Eight Audit Report Adds Recommendations The city received Monday the report of examination of the city's books from Ernst & Ernst, certified public accountants. The report ihcluded six specific state ments of findings, in addition to the 18 general comments noted on completion of the check of the books, which set forth need for improvements of city opera ting accounting procedures. The report covers the 11-month period ending May 31. The six salient quotations from the accountant's report follow: "There was no evidence of any recent work to collect the large amounts of delinquent poll taxes and personal property taxes. "The procedure* for the ac counting for and control of the utilities accounts are, In our opinion, Inadequate for the pro per safeguarding of the city's as sets. The City bills and collects for over $200,000.00 of utility ser vices annually, which is more than half Its total gross Income." "The street and sidewalk -as sesments receivable are stated without Interest. All these assess ments are dated back to 1942 and prior. The assessments receivable are, in theory at least, secured by liens on 1 property. No action has been taken toward the exer cise of these liens. / "The internal control proce dure* of the City do not provide for accountability for the large hmount of materials and supplies Oontfmtitf I On 'Page Fiv0 JP Bbl- . j! i AUFHOH ? Robert Osborne, a bove, has written cm historical drama, "Then Conquer We Must." for presentation at the Kingfr Mountain National Park this autumn by the Kings Moun tain Little Theatre. Senator Clyde R. Hoey notified officials this week that the Interior De partment was making the park's amphitheatre available for use of the Kings Mountain group. Try-outs for parts are to be con ducted Monday evening at eight o'clock at the Woman's Club, with Little Theatre groups of surrounding cities being Invited to participate. The drama has 37 speaking parts. lodging Expert Speaks To lions i Harvey L. Bumgardner, recent graduate of North Carolina State college and national champion in poultry judging, addressed the Kings "Mountain Lions club Tuesday night and provided many interesting facts concerning the poultry industry. Mr. Bumgardner, reporting that much progress had been made In the poultry Industry during the past decade, cited two large programs which are ?helping to improve the Industry. They Include, he said, the Na tional Poultry Improvement plan, which has two principal alms, elimination of diseases and better - breeding via cull ing, and the Chloken-of-Tomor row contest, sponsored by Atlan tic & Pacific Tep. Company, with its purpose to grow a better meat bird, The latter, Mr. Bumgardner reported, has already resulted In growing a four and'one-quarter pound bird in 12 weeks, on two plus pounds of feed per pound per bird, a great gain over the old standard of four pounds of feed per pound of bird. The three main principles of poultry industry improvement, he said, are 1) better breeding; 2) management; and 3) diet Bet ter "breeding, he reported, ban already produced a hen which has laid 346 eggs per day, a far cry from the bird found in India (where chickens originated) which laid about two dozen per year. In management, Mr. Bum gardner said, the addition of la bor ? saving devices, such as au tomatic waterers and feeders, enables one man to tend a flock of as many as 4,000 chickens and still hq,ve time for other work. He also said that the old hen house-cleaning Job on a once a-week basis has fallen into dis repute, with the better poultry man now cleaning their houses not over once per year. Better diets have been developed b~ the feed manufacturers, he add ed, and efforts are n0W being -di rected toward experimentation with anti-biotics. Mark of Improvement he said is the demise of the "barred rock chicken as the favorite. "The barred rock was all right," he said, "except It was short on breast meat and long on pin feathers." Mr. Bumgardner, who will be Continued On Page Five Legion luniors. Hoping Shelby Lads Faltei, Home Saturday, Wednesday Kings Mountain's American Legion juniors get a big order this weekend, facing the strong Hickory Juniors Friday night at Newton and Saturday night h?l* at City Stadium. The home fin al* is set for Wednesday night against Haywood County. Coach J. R. Bradshaw's Moun taineers will probably face the southpaw slants of Hickory Ace John "Horn" Issac, ot Newton, at Newton, Friday night Iaaac came on In relief in the game here Wednesday night, walked two and allowed Jimmy KlmtoeD to eteal home with the winning run. Bobby Chester, however, had walked Klmroell and receiv ed credit for the loss, saving Is aac's perfect record for the sea son. Shelby must lose at least one game arid Kings Mountain must win both game* with Hickory and the twogame series with Haywood to stay in the, running for second place snd the opportu nity to play In the second round of state elimination play. Shelby, currently til second ?lace, defeated Haywood county Wednesday night 12 to 5 and must meet the Canton-Waynes ville nine once more and Ruth erford County twice. > . ?' >y . l. ' - * ? ? Boaid Expects To Keep $1.80 Rate On Books The <;lty board of commission ers tentatively adapted a record budget Monday night and ten ta;;v"ly set the tax rate at $1.80 per $100 valuation, same rate in vogue the past two years. During the period July 1, 1951, to June 30# 1952, the city expects to receive and spend $373,245.9-1. Funds available for spending, should the tentative budget be adopted, will actually surpass $400,000. Books had not been closed on June business Wednps- 4 day, but City Clerk Joe H. Mc Daniel said he expected a 1950 51 surplus approximating $30, 000. The new year's budget would therefore exceed the previous " year's budget by about $60,000, had the surplus been included, as it was in the 1950-51 budget adopted by the Herndon admin istration. principal sources for the an ticipated In revenue increase are: 1) the expected gas-tax re bate from the state for street maintenance under the Powell bill of $24,950.94 ; 2) an anticipa ted increase in property valua tions of $82,000; 3) a big gain in revenue during the past year from sale of electric power. The budget was prepared and presented by M. K. Fuller and was tentatively adopted without change. However, the board ex pects to meet again in special session on Monday evening, it ? was indicated, to consider It fur ther and to make whatever ad justments are considered neces sary. Final action is anticipated for a special meeting on July 23. The budget anticipates sever al increases In pay scales, nota bly lor policemen and city la bor crows. The anticipated po lice pay schedule would provide , a policeman with 18 months ex 1 perlene* top pay of 9223 per month, while a ro6kf0 would re ceive a beginning salary of I1T7 per month. Credits would be provided for police school at tendance and duly certified prior experience. under the anticipated pay schedule, hourly rated city workmen would receive 75 cents per hour, a boost of 20 cents over the previously paid 55 cents. Other pay scht*dules tentative ly budgeted include: superinten. " dent of pubLIc works (t, C. Par sons), $303 per month; superin tendent of light and power (Hunter Allen), $300 per mon th; superintendent of water and sewer (F-- Tld well) $250 per mon th; superintendent of streets, $300 per month; water plant op erator (George Moss), $240 per month; assistant water plant op erator (Robert Wright), $190 per month; foreman, street depart ment, $50 weekly; foreman, wa ter department, $50 weekly; line men, light department, $200 per ? month each; foreman, light de partment, $240 per month; me chanic, $300 per month; ware house clerk, $175 per month; keeper at dam site, $125 per month and house 'or residence; equipment operators (two), $50 each per week. RECEIPTS The city expects to recive the coming year a total of $373,245.94 from all sources. Sale of power is the largest revenue item, and is expected to return $171,500 to city coffers, and second largest item is a net of $95,000 antici pated revenue from the ad val orem tax. Sale of water Is ex pected to bring In $43,000, while the gas tax rebarte follows at $24,950.04. Business firms are expected to pay $7,000 in privilege license fees, and motorists are expected " to buy 1,100 auto tags at one dollar each. Parking meters are expected to return $7,500 in rev enue, while meter violations are expected to add an additional Continued On Page Bight Postmaster Reports Postal Receipts Up Postal receipts at Kings Mountain postoffice showed a gain of ?rer $3,000 during ths first sis months of 1951, ac cording to reports of W. E. Blakety, postmaster. Receipt* tec th? period end ing Inns 30 totaled $2X871JW. white receipts toe the sixmon th period ending June 3a 1950, totaled $1093544. Under preeent schedule* it appeals Kings Mountain post of 'tco will hare no difficulty . retaining flist-ctass status te which It returned July 1. An nual calendar year receipts of S40400 am required to attain tint-class status. ? -J