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City Limits 7.206 Trading Area .. 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figunt) VOL. 62 NO. 37 Sixty-Second Tear Kings Mountain. N. C? Friday, September 14. 1951 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS Pages Today New Still Circular Causes Fists To Fly Local News |Bulletins PARKING MONET A total of $149.75 was collec ted from the city's parking meters Wednesday afternoon, according to a report of acting City Clerk, Joe McDanlel. ATTENDS MEETING W. K. Mauney, Jr., general manager of Mauney Hosiery Company, left Thursday after noon for Roanoke, Va., where he is attending the meeting of the Southern Hosiery associa tion. JATCEE MEETING The regular meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Masonic dining hall Tuesday night at 7 o'clock. ATTEND SCHOOL B. N. Barnes, superintendent of schools, and city school janitors attended a janitor's school conducted by the State Department of Education Wed nesday at Myers Park school, in Charlotte. Attending, In ad dition to Mr. Barnes, were Ro bert Byers, William Gould lock, John Jackson, John Gist and William Briggs. LEGION MEETING Regular meeting of Otis D. Green Post 195, American Le gion, will be held Friday night at 8 o'clock at the Legion Building. Commander Warren Reynolds is urging members , to aid in the membership cam paign iby bringing new or re newal members to the meet ing. TO GERMANY Pvt. Bobby E. Etters, son of Mr. and Mrs. /ohn W. Etters, of Kings Mountain, left Wed nesday enroute Germany aft er spending a 15-day furlough here. Etters took his basic trainir\g at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa. WINS STRIPES Sgt William (Bill) Blackwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bright Blackwell, was recently pro moted to that rank at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colo rado. , Schools Show Enrolling?!* Gain City school enrollment totaled 1,824 at the end of the first five days, a gain of 32 over the com parable date last year, Supt. B. N. Barnes reported Thursday morning. Park Grace school had a total enrollment at the end of the fifth school day of 183, a gain of seven over the same date last year. In addition, Mrs. J. C. Nick les, principal, reported, Parte . Grace school had perfect attend ance 4or each at the first five" school days. City school figures show in creases for each school division with the exception of the high school. High school enrollment of 363 at the end of the first week was 22 below the compara ble date last year. Howevet, en* sollment had picked up three from the first day of school Sep tember 4, and Mr. Barnes said It is possible additional enrolleee will be added. Other enrollment figures for the fifth day of school follow: White elementary, 1,210, a gain of 27. if Negro elementary, 18b, a gain of 34, Negro high school, 71, a gain of three. School Surveying Physical Plant City school officials were busy, Thursday completing a survey of their physical plants. Supt. B. N, Barnes said a com plete survey is being made to de termine adequacy of building*, playground spare. rqiiipmpnt, : and all other physical assets. y ThO survey is part of a state* wide survey being conducted by the stete^departmcnt^of educa Mountain schools are more 4sJ* Mayor Renews Circular War In New Blast Mayor Garland E. Still renew ed his circular campaign Tues day. Among the results was a sore jaw for the Mayor, administered by City Commissioner Lloyd E. Davis. Both participants bore out re ports of the fracas, which occur red shortly after 8 o'clock in front of Myers' Department Store. 7 Neither participant looked the worse for wear, though Mr. Still complained that his new falL hat had been bashed in. In a signed circular distributed Tuesday, Mr. Still charged Mr. Davis with doing business with the city, and had further alleged nepotism oh the part of Commis sioner B. T.' Wright, Sr. Mr. Davis said he had previ ously warned the Mayor against such occurrences telling him he "would do his best to thrash him," if such occurred. In the circular, the mayor made an inferential plea for res toration of his salary, cut from $300 to $50 per month by the board of commissioners on Au gust 13. The circular read, "It is a said state of affairs when the Mayor's salary Is cut lor per forming his duty." He^ inferred that Commissioner Wright was particularly anxious to have the city do business with Wright ft Son, manufacturers of cement products, citing the in stallation of a section of concrete bleachers at City Stadium and the commissioner's favoring of a cement block fence for the sta dium in remarks advanced at Monday evening's board meet ing. Commissioner Wright made no formal statement but told the Herald that the contracting of Wright A Son to install the blea cher section was done without his knowledge while he was out of-town. He said it was ordered by other members of the board and the mayor. ''As for the concrete block fence," Mr. Wright continued, "many a new stadium is using a concrete block fence. I person ally feel It would last longer and be cheaper in the long run. Should the project go forward, I assume It would be contracted to the lowest bidder." He said he was not particular ly surprised at the Mayor's cir cular, stating that Mr. Still had approached him recently asking his support to discharge City Administrator M. K. Fuller, Act ing Chief of Police S. R. David son and In restoring the mayoral salary. Trains No. 29, 39 Will Ucv Earlier Changes in schedule of the Sou* thern Railway System's "Peach Queen," Train No. 29, between New York and Atlanta, provid ing for earlier departure from New York and Washington and earlier, more convenient arrival in Southern cities waa announced today. The changes will be effec tive' with departure of the train southward from New York on September 16. Now scheduled to leave New York at 6:50 p. m., this popular train will depart at 6:25 p. m., and will leaye from Washing ton's Union Terminal at 10:45 p. m. instead of at 11:35 p. m., as at present. It *111 arrive in Atlanta at 2:30 p. m. instead of 3:30 p. - The schedule change will af fect Kings Mountain aa follows: Leave Kings Mountain at 8:49 a. m. Instead of 10:00 a. m. for Greenville, Atlanta. TWO OF DRAMAS LEADING CHARACTERS? Pictured above in full costume as they will appear in "Then Conquer We Must|", Bob Os borne's historical drama commemorating the Battle of Kings Moun tain, are Robert St. Lawrence, of Gastonia, and Mrs. Ellen Atkins, of Gastonia, who play the leading roles of CoL Patrick Ferguson, the British commander, and Virginia Salter, his mistress. (Photo by Car lisle Studio.) ; Battle Drama Holds By EDWABD H. SMITH i When audiences see The n Con quer We Mutt, beginning Septem ber 21, they will be seeing more than just an historical pageant about the Battle of Kings Moun tain, presented in the usual man ner of outdoor spectacles. The idea that author Robert Osborne and director C. J. Spivey have in mind is something new in the realm of open-air presentations. They emphasize that Then Con quer We Must!" is not a pageant but, straight exciting drama; and as authentic as months of re search could make it. There is a wealth of dramatic material a bout the Battle of Kings Moun tain, and the people who took Stat? Magazine, published aF Raleigh, will feature '"Then Conquer We Mastl/' the dra ma commemorating the Battle of Kings Mountain, In Its is sue of September 22, the mag axzine informed the Herald | this week. part in It. Although Mr. Os borne's script reads like the most exciting kind of blood-and- thun der fiction, historians will have to look hard to find any discrep ancies in the story. This does not mean that this newest of the outdoor dramas will be lacking in color. There is a full score for organ and chorus, with colonial minuets and moun tain dancing. The women will be dressed in the colorful gowns and powered wigs of the period, and the men wear the authentic uniforms of the Revolutionary War, red coats or fringed buck skins. Drama, color, and history go hand in hand in the drama, all played against a backdrop of natural scenery in the lovely Bat tleground Amphitheatre. Director Spivey asserts that the re-enact ment of the Battle as spectacular as anything ever done in any outdoor theatre. But Then Conquer We Mutt/ is not just a story of blood, battle and history. There is also the love story of Virginia Sal, the flame haired beauty from Charleston, and Pat Ferguson, the British colonel who lost his caution? and Continued On Page Bight I The board of directors of the Kings Mountain Junior Cham ber of Commerce unanimously adopted Wednesday night a reso lution condemning the Ku Klux Klan and other groups appealing to "prejudices and fears". I The Kings Mountain Jaycees therefore joined the state organ ization leadership and other local Jaycee organization* in condemn ing the Ku Klux Klan. - In other actions the Jaycee board discussed for possible pre sentation a city-wide Hallowe'en celebration and named B. S. Peel er, Jr? chairman of a project to * motion pictures of club ac m fpk. fn?? U ^ ^ -a a . The film is to be used by ?- ?" wfW t . . M '? j i sti. % \ t HI - ? * : the state organization in making a composite motion picture of Jaycee activities throughout the [state. . . ? The board also voted to discon tinue. effective October 1, Its po licy of granting inactive member ship status to members who are full-time residents of the dty. i The resolution condemning the iKu Klux Klan, it drawn by Jack White, follows: "WHEREAS: The Ku Klux Klan Is attempting to organize In the State of North Ouwm and "WHEREAS: The Ku Klux Klan la ? hooded legion appealing to religious and racial prejudice " ? On Pm? Bight .jo v> mmmkm tr**t" lajjlf rtghfH T?,- afte' on i?_ SSV*?^ ?*. ?Bfc.sr&c*/ ^SSsn fern ?Lfcn**iu'0/r huge n??. d corne r? X??m tro? JJ*** DPrw^ ^ ?&?*** nis*** *r. kg****!. ?r \ City To Share Cost On Construction Of Sidewalks, Curbs - And - Gutters I. B. Franks Is Wounded By Gun Blast An elderly Kings Mountain man, reportedly mentally unbal anced, shot' and seriously injur ed another man at Park Yarn Mill shortly before 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Eye fitnesses said the man, Charlie Hawkins, got out of a Car in front of the home of J. B. Franks, walked toward the house and fired a shotgun blast at Mr. Franks at short range about 10 or 12 feet The full load hit the man in the left arm, they said. The account of witnesses was reported toy Ted Weir, owner of Weir's Grocery, whp said he had Hawkins' shotgun after it had been taken away from him. Mr. Weir said relatives of Mr. Haw kins had told him after the shooting that the man had been acting strangely all day. Mr. Franks arrived at Kings Mountain hospital at about 2:35 p. m. and was admitted to the emergency room. Hospital offi cials did not think Thursday that the arm would have to be ampu tated. Dr. Craig Jones was the attending physician. The shooting took place be tween Weir's Grocery and Park Yarn Mill. Chief Deupty George Allen, of Shelby, arrived at the scene at around 15 minutes after the shooting took place. ? Hawkins was arrested at a round 2:40 p. m. by Constable W. L. Blackburn as he was report edly walking toward town to give himself up. Lions To Operate Booth At Fair Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions ClUb will sling hash again next week. Again this year, the Kings Mountain civic club will operate a concession stand at the Cle veland County Fair, selling not only the customary fare of ham burgers, hot dogs, aspirin, and other related items, but also vending home-made pies, cakes and other delicacies prepared by wives of club members. Dr. Nathan H, Reed is general chairman of the Fair K->oth pro ject. Chairmen and co-chairmen for each day, beginning Monday, follow: Monday, C. C. Edens and Dr. D. M. Morrison. Tuesday, Dr. Reed and Gene Tim ma. Wednesday, T. W. Grayson and Jofcn Lewis. Thursday, Richard Barnett and Ollle Harris. Friday, E. E. Marlowe and C. D. Ware. Saturday, F. E. Powers and Bruce McDaniel. The booth has already been constructed - under the supervis ion of Hazel Bumgardner. Five Cases Heard In Monday Term ? *?????? Cases tried In City Recorder's Court Monday were mainly char ges of traffic violations. Judge E. A. Harril presided. Jdhn R. Adams, 32, Negro, ar lested by officer C. A. Bowers and charged with speeding in a school zone, was fined $10 and costs. Julius Bailey, 23, Negro, arres ted by Officer Bowers and char ged with running through a red light, was taxed with the costs. Marvin F. Hoover, 55, Negro, charged with possession of % pint non-tax-paid whiskey, was fined $5 and costs. Two defendants were tried and found guilty of public drunken ness and taxed with the costs. Sentence against Farcal B lan ton, charged with assault on a fe male, is to be passed in the Sep tember 17 term of court. Cases continued Included. Jasper Peterson, charged with assault on a female and interfer ing with officers. Carl Slsk, charged with non support. Burgeon Wilson, charged with assault on a femala Thurmond A. Gaddy, charged with reckless driving. William McClary, charged with disposing of mortgaged Annual County Fair Opens Next Tuesday M WINS MASTER'S ? Joe Hedden. Kings Mountain city schools band director, was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in schocl administration and mus ic education from Peabody col lege, Nashville, Tenn., on Au gust 17. Hedden Awarded Master's Degree Joe Hedden, veteran Kings I Mountain city schools band dlrec Itor, was awarded the degree of Master of Arts In school admin istration and music education at the August convocation of George Peabody College for Teachers. Mr. Hedden won the degree nf- ' ter attending three summer ses sions at the Nashville, Tenn., college and one summer session at V/inthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C. He was graduated from West ern Carolina Teachers college in 1942, then spent about 42 months In the navy, during which time he served aboard navy destroyers in both Atlantic and Pacific wa ters. One of the ships on which he served was sunk in the Eng lish Channel on June 8, 1944, while participating in the Nor mandy invasion. Mr. Hedden came to Kings Mountain as band director im mediately following his navy set vice and is beginning his sixth year In that position. Last spring, the Kings Moun tain band won top honors in the annual state music contests. Mrs. Hedden Is the former Miss Frances Crouse. Legion Sponsors Square Dance The annual square dance sea son will begin Saturday night with a dance at the Legion Building off York Road. The pub lic Is invited to attend the dance, according to an announcement by Warren Reynolds, commander of Otis Green Post 155 and spon sor of the dance. The Kings Mountain Ridge Runners will fufnish the music for the event which will begin at 8 o'clack. Admission price will be one dollar per person although all servicemen In uniform will be admitted fi?e, Commander Rey nolds said. A large crowd is an ticipated. , Dorton Reports Many Features Added This Year Cleveland County and much of many adjoining counties go to the Fair next week. The annual Cleveland County Fair, offering a record $15,000 in prizes to exhibitors of choice farm products and livestock, o pens Tuesday and continues through Saturday evening, Sep tember 22. * In addition to the added pre mium money, which compares to $12,000 last year, the Cleveland County Fair billing calls for sev eral new features, as well as for mer favorites with fair-goers. Added this year is a North Carolina Wildlife exhibit which approximates a North Carolina zoo, showing all known North Carolina wildliir:, This exhibit is free, and fair officials are invit ing Cleveland county citizens to loan any wild animals they have for exhibit. The exhibit is all North Carolina with one excep tion. This a seven-variety mon ?key exhibit, foreign of course to this state. Another new feature Is a square dancing contest In which 12 square dancing teams will compete for prizes plus the right to represent the area at the North Carolina State Fair. The square dancing competition will be conducted each evening In front of the grandstand. Again this year, the winner of Cleveland County's Better Acres contest will be awared $1,000. The contest is conducted among 12 county farm" families. George Hamid's 60-member troupe will again foe the enter tainment feature at the grand stand, with performances sched uled both in the afternoons and evenings. Harness ? racing fans Continued On Page Eight Lion View Film 'Tar Heel Family" Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club saw an Interest ing film, entitled "Tar Heel Family", at the regular meeting of the organization Tuesday night. T' The film was presented by Dr. Richard Weaver, executive direct or of the North Carolina Re source Youth Education commis sion. In preliminary remarks, Dr. Weaver explained that the color motion picture was designed for use in visual education. Its pur pose, he said, is to impress North Carolina youth with the resour ces of the state and to encourage them to channel their education into those fields. The picture outlined many North Carolina developments in agriculture and industry and gave particular attention to the development of truck farming in the Clinton area. It also gave at tention to bad practices of Indus try and agriculture, including stream pollution and lack of at tention to soil erosion. Dr. Weaver, commended Kings Mountain Mica Company for its "nice Job" of preventing stream pollution, a usual by-product from most mica mining opera tions In the state. Dr. Weaver was presented by Rowell Lane. Record Crowds Expected To Throng Fourth Bethware Fair This Weekend Two full days remain at the fourth annual Bethware Commu nity Fair, which opened Thurs day. The exhJbltt, which are using twice the amount of space as last year, according to an an nouncement by John Rudislll, secretary, will be on display throdgh Saturday at midnight. A new feature of the fair this year la the fireworks display gi ven each evening. Friday has been designated as Children's Day with lower prices for children prevailing on the five rides of the Pee Dee Amuse ment Company up until 6 p. m. Various contests for the children will be held in the afternoon. No entrance admission is char ged. The first Bethware fair pre dates the Cleveland County fair aocordlrig to early history of the Bethware Community. The first Bethware fair was held at Bethel and for several years moved an nually from Bethlehem, ?Patter son Grove, and Bethware, the sponsoring communities. The first Bethware Fair ' was under direction of Wayne L. Ware, chairman; Boyd Hariri - ?on, Oveta Morris (then school principal), J."T. Ck> forth, Clyde Rand le, and J. D. Harmon. Joe R. Hendrick Of Shelby Named To Clerk's Post The city board of commission - ' ers, in regular session Monday night, named Joseph R. Hen drick, of 'Shelby, city clerk, Air. Hendrick, for the past sev eral months an employee of the State Highway commission, will assume his new duties on Mon day. Joe McDaniel, acting city clerk, will resume his former du ties of assistant city clerk and treasurer. Mr. Hendrick will be paid $.100 monthly. In other actions the board' 1) Named Police Desk Ser geant Clarence E. Carpenter clerk of city court, at $25 per month. 2) Established a side-walk pa ving policy whereby the city will share costs on side-walk paving with abutting property owners on a 50-50 basis. 3) Established a curb-and-gut ter installation policy, whereby the city will share 50-50 with a butting property owners where the installation is on one side of the street and will pay one-third the cost where installations are On both sides of a street. 4) Approved for paving Mea dowbrook road, from the exist ing paving to Joyce street; Brice street, from Gantt to Cansler; rails street, from Wilson to Mon te Vistaj Landing street, from Sims to end of street; Goforth street, from Gold to Landing; ' and Landing street, from Sims to Juniper extension. 5) Named John P. Latham and A. B. Chandler to the city recreation commission. 6) Authorized the city admin istrator to contract for grading work on several street opening requests and for a stadium park ing area at the corner of Car penter street and E. Gold street. 7) Authorized the city recrea tion commission to employ an engineer to make a survey of facilities and to make recom- * mendations lor a city-wide rec reational program. 8) Voted improvement of elec trical service, by replacement of certain equipment, to Bennett Brick & Tile Company. 9) Voted to close Carpenter street at. the north and south stadium fence lines. 10) Voted to invite cost esti mates on a concrete block fence for City Stadium. 11) Formally approved con struction of a section of Concrete bleachers at ' City Stadium, on which work had already been ordered, and approved purchase of a $100 advertisement for the city in the 'Then Conquer Wq Must!" program. 12) Instructed the city ad ministrator to move the bleach ers behind home plate at the ' stadium to the visitors' side of the field. 13) Voted to refund taxes to D. C. Mauney on two houses, Hat ed in error, which are outside the city limits. 14) Passed a resolution .put ting city employees under the federal social security act, re troactive to July 1. . 15) Approved zoning law chan ges requested by E. T. Plott and Wallace Shock ley and denied a zoning law change asked bv Phillip Baker. All the above actions were unanimous. On motion by B. T. Wright, Sr.. ? seconded by Lloyd E. Davis, the board voted 4-0 to instruct Its city attorney, J. R. Davis, to file an answer to the suit in which 47 petitioners seek to restrain ' the pay of the city administra-i tor. Supporting the motion werq C. P. Barry and James (Red)! Continued On Page Eight I Red Cross Disaster I Fund Still Short L. E. Abbott, chairman of tbo Kings Mountain Rod Cross chapter's Disaster Belief cam paign, issued Thursday what ho termed a "final appeal." "We're $168.45 short of our SS50 quota." Mr. Abbott said, "and we hope to close the fund out. successfully, over the weekend.'' Total contributions to date wore S381.55. The funds will akl destitute people In the Mid-West flood relief area. The original quota was V27S. which was raised, but the Sod Cross later doubled all quotas . of all chapters. Mr. Abbott t said contributions should bO i forwarded to Mrs. f. *. Gam ble, led Cross secretary.