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I Population City Limits ... 7,206 Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Bcltion Board FigaxM) VOL.63 NO. 7 Sixty-Second Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Thursday, February 14. 1952 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins COURT OF HONOR The Boy Scout Court of Hon or, Kings Mountain District, will be held Thursday at 7:30 p. m., at City Hall. A Scouter' Rountable will be held during court. PAGE HOME Harry Page, who underwent an operation several days ago at St. Francis hospital, Green ville, S. C.,.was to return home Wednesday afternoon; BACK AT WORK Postmaster W. E. Blakely was back at work this week. He had been a patient at Char lotte Memorial hospital for several weeks. GETS PROMOTION Cpl. J. D. Rhea, son of Mrs. Grady Rhea, and the late Mr. Rhea, who is stationed a? Low ry Field, Denver, Colo., has Just been promoted to Sergenat according to information re ceived here. CAGERS HERE FRIDAY Kings Mountain high school's cagers meet Lenoir here Fri day night at 7 p. m. before be ginning a two-game road stand Tuesday. ? KIWANIS MEETING Joe Dixon, business mana ger of Kings Mountain hospi tal, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club at the regular meeting of the organization Thursday night, at 6:45, at Masonic Din infeHall. STATE TAX HELP B. A. Lefler' and J. H. Hair field, representatives of the North Carolina Department of Revenue, will be at City Hall courtroom next Wednesday laf ternoon to aid local area' citi zens in preparing 1951 income tax reports. CAKE-PIE SALE " The WSC5 of Central Metho dist will have a cake and pie sale Saturday morning in the C. E. Warliok Insurance office from 10 o'clock 'til 12. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits were ap proved by Building Inspector, Kelly Dixon, and issued at City Hall last week to the follow ing: C. E. Mitchem for construe tion of a one-story residence on Hawthorne road at an esti mated cost of $5,000; C- D. Blanton for remodeling of res idence on W. Gold street at an estimated cost of $1,000; H&l S, Plonk for construction of a one-story residence on Morris Street at an estimated cost of $2,490. Legion Discusses Finances, Baseball Past Commander Paul Mauney presided over the regular month ly meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion, held at the Legion building last Friday ) night. . Commander Warren Reynolds wac absent due to confinement in ? a Charlotte hospital for observa tion and treatment. Vice-Com mander Sam Collins was out-of town, on his honeymoon. Business discussions Included a , study of the post's financial posi tion and talk Of the 1952 Junior baseball team. A special meeting of the post was set for February 22 to further discuss the baseball program. The group decided to have a supper and later pla^ announced Wednesday call for a fish supper on Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p. m. . at the Legion building. Ladies are being Invited to attend the affair. John Gladden, prominent Le gionnaire, i&esented a past com mander's lapel button to Mrr Mauney on behalf of the post. East School Music Program On Tuesday "Our Own United States", a mu sic program, will be presented on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock at East Elementary school auditor ium. Howard , Coble, director of Kings Mountain city schools mu sic department, made the an nouncement |r All students at, East school are to be in the esSL Mr. Coble said. ? and the public is invited to attend. % PLAN DISTRICT RALLY ? Three Methodist ministers ol the Gastonia district have arranged a two day district evangelism rally to be held ln^Gastonla next Tuesday and Wednesday. They are Rev. J, H. BrAndalL left pastor of Ceneral Methodist church here, who Is district secretary of evangelism. Rev. Cecl* Hefner, center, of Lincolnton, and Dr. Joseph Owen, right, of Gastonia. Dr. Owen will preach on Tuesday night. Bishop Arthur J. Moore will deliver the sermon on Wednesday evening. Methodists To Hold Evangelistic Rally Features Sermon By Bishop Moore _ J A two-days Methodist evange listic rally for the Gastonia dis trict will be held in a*-- ' next Tues^? _ ulC uastonia dis ...uc will be held In Gastonia next Tuesday and Wednesday,! according to announcement this wefek by Rev. J. H. Brendall, pas-j tor of Central Methodist church, and the district's secretary of ''evangelism. The Gastonia distr*.. includes Gaston, Lincoln and Cleveland counties. The two-dav { - ? ' _ ciiu Cleveland ?oUllllCS> The two-day program will cul minate on Wednesday evening with a mass meeting at the Gas tonia high school auditorium, featuring a sermon by Bishop Arthur J. Moore, and special mu ! sic by a 100-voice choir. This program begins at 7:30. Bishop Moore is an ? turer^ ? ' ? .? cnotr. Thii r.ogram begins at 7:30. I Bishop Moore Is an author, lec turere and prominent- evange list. * A service will also be heli Wednesday morning at 10 o' clock at Main Street church. Tuesday's program calls for services at 10 a* m? 2 p. m., and 7:30 p. m. At the Tuesday even ing service, planned for pastors, district lay leaders, church offi cers and teachers, Dr. Jrtseph |Owen, the pastor, will preach. TUe two-day program was ar ranged by a committee includ ing Mr. Brendall, Dr. Owen, and | Rev, Cecil Hefner, pastor of Lin colnton's First Methodist chur ch. i A large number of Kings Mountain Methodists are expec ting to attend the rally. Final Rites Held For James Avery Funeral services for James Blane Avery, 32, of 33 Spruce street, we're held Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock at First Church Of the Nazarene. Rev.. C. E. Mc Kenzie officiated and burial was [ In Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Avery died Thursday aftfcr jnoon at 4 o'clock at Western | North C,a r o 1 1 n a Sanatorium | Black Mountain, after an illness of one and one-half years. He was a native of Caldwell county but had lived in Kings Mountain for the past four years. Mr. Avery was a former em ployee of Elmer Lumber Compa ny. He Is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Crowder Avery, two brothers and three sisters. Mr. Avery is a veteran of World War II. 1/076 TAGS SOLD City auto owners had pur chased a total of 1,076 city au to tags Tuesday afternoon, ac cording to report of Joe Hen dflck, city clerk. > 45 Rose Plants SlUI Available Of the 175 rose plants re cently received by the City Beautification committee, 45 ore still available for pur chase, Mrs. Sam Davis said Wednesday. Citizens who would like to i have one or more of the Paul's Scarlet Climber plants are | asked to call Mrs. Davis at 391 -J. or Mrs. Hunter Neisler, at 549 -J at once. Unsold plants from the latest shipment will be planted on some public site next week, Mrs. Davis said. The plants sell for 75 cents. Township Raises $4,805 for Polio * ' Kings Mountain and Number Four Township raised a total of $4,805.73 in the annual March of Dimes fund campaign for infan tile paralysis according to initial report of Jack White, township chair nan. That figure is expected to show an increase when several firms and other units who have not reported make their reports to division heads, he said. 1 The total to date is some $800 $1,000 short of the 1952 fund drive quota for the township. The 1951 drive also -failed of reach ing the quota allotted in the county drive. The breakdown of collections announced by Mr. White inclu ded : .?.iMil'.s? $1,625.95. Township schools? *$1,505.21. Business and individuals ? "$480.65. CivlC clubs ? $335.50. ' Grover, c'ty. ? $278.07. "Mother March" and ama teur night ? $220.56. . Trpn lungs ? $128-76. Doctors and professional ? $116.00. Eethware community ? ? $115.03. Chairman White expressed his appreciation to all workers and contributors to the annual ap peal and stated that additional contributions will be taken at anytime. . He said that Victory Chevrolet Company's "irpn lung'' collection box ranked first in collections of the many placed around the township. File Presented To Library Friday The Kings Mountain Herald presented to the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library Friday the HERALD file for the year 195L The file, bound In green, brought the Library's total to five, dating from 1947. The files are presented annual ly to the library. Merchants Association Will Hold _____ ' * ? . Annual Employee-Employer Event Annual employee . employer banquet of the Kings Mountain Merchants association will ibe held Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic Dining Hall. Feature of the banquet will be an entertainment program to be presented by Bob Parks and a group of Lenoir- Rhyne college students from Hickory. Also on the agenda for the meeting will be election of offi cers and six directors for the coming year. v . Mrs. John Lewis, secretary of the Merchants association, said a capacity crowd is expected to attend. Admission will be $2 per person, and merchants who have not yet purchased tickets are re quested to telephone their re quirements to the association of fk*. Barbara Gault will furnish dinner music for the occasion, and Rev. P. D. Patrick vill give the Invocation. T. W. Grayson, re tiring president, will preside. The banquet annually attract* a capacity crowd of merchants and their employees. Dexnis Mission Begins Sunday A special preaching mission to be conducted hy Rev. Peter J. Dexnis. associate director of evangelism in the United Luth eran Church in America, will be gin Sunday morning at Resur rection Lutheran church. Mr. Dexnis will preach on ^e subjects, "What Is Your Con ception of Jesus Christ?" at the 11 o'clock service. Services will be held each morning at 11 o'clock and at 7:30 each evening through Fri day, February 22. His Sunday evening topic is "The Gospel Truth." Other sermon subjects for the series are: Monday, "Too Muci Religion." Tuesday, "I Love You." Wednesday, "Can Jesus Do The Same Tilings Today?" Thursday, "Let God Worry." Friday, "A Heap o' Living." Rev. Mr. Dexnis became a Lu theran minister In 19-11, after studying at . the Lutheran, semi nary, M? Airy, ^a., at Eas tern Baptist Theological semi nary, and at Temple university. The preaching mission will al so include group discussions to be led by the pastor, Rev. Vance Daniel. . "Pastor Dexnis is an excep tional minister, and we invite the public to hear him," Mr. Daniel said. Shelby Open House Saturday, Sunday ; The new Shelby hospital plant, after the addition of a complete new section and remodelling of the old hospital, will hold open house to the public Saturday and Sunday from 2 til 4 p. m. Satur day and 2 til 5 p. m. Sunday. No formal program or speak ing has been planned for the event although a number of offi cial of the Medical Care Com mission and the Duke Endow ment. Senator Clyde Hoey and other governmental dignitaries have been invited. Tours of the entire plant will be conducted by nurses on Satur day and Suhday afternoons. The first floor of the new wing can accommodate 32 patients and is equipped with -complete floor kitchen, utility room, nurses sta tion, and waiting room, and the second floor has 25 beds and the same facilities as the first floor. Children Burned As Stove Overturns Two children, Steve and Thom as Hodge, age three and two re spectively, were badly burned Saturday afternoon, when, while playing, they turned over a two burner oil stove at their home. City firemen answered the fire call at 12:45, found the blaze al ready extinguished, but rushed the children to Kings Mountain hospital, where they were still hospitalized Wednesday at noon. It was one of four fire alarms answered by firemen ir. the past week. Later Saturday afternoon, firemen put out a grass fire In Crescent Hill pbout 4 o'clock. On Sunday afternoon, firemen extinguished a fire in the Rose's 5-10 Cent Store awning, thought to have started from a lighted cigarette. About half the awning was burned, and the fire attract ed a targe crowd. Another grass fire was put out Monday after noon at the corner of Ridge street and Oriental avenue. LEGIOIf SUPPER A fish supper has been sche duled for members of Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion, Tor Saturday nlsftt from 6:30 to 8 p. m.. according to announcement toy Comman der Waprer E. Reynolds. Price per plate will be $1.23 and la dles are being Invited, he said. City Authorizes Study of Bates Foi Electricity The city board of commission ers, In regular meeting Mon day night, authorized signing of a contract with Max Miller, Greensboro electrical engineer, for a light and power rate study at a fee of $1,?00. Previously, City Administrator M. K. Fuller had told the board he had received from Mr. Miller a survey of the ?ity electrical distribution system, together with maps, an^i that the ehgineer had recommended line improve-, ments which could be accom plished by city crews, piece meal, at a cost of $8,000. He said the engineer did not think com plete re-building of the system, with heavier lines, is now nec essary. In other actions the board: 1) Completed appointment of a city planning board, naming to it C. E. Neisler and Cajl F. Mauney. The appointments had been * recommended, on request of the board, by the original three members named, who In clude J. B. Keeter, Hal S. Plonk, and L. E. Abbott. 2) Voted to transfer $500 from the surplus account fot use by the city recreation commission and authorized advance pay. ment of one-third of the cost ($333) for a recreational plant survey by Charles Graves, At lanta engineer. 3) Voted installation of 200 feet of sewer line on Goforth street, between Gold and Land ing streets. 4) Approved breaking of curb ing on the south side of East King street, from Deal street to the East King Esso Service pro perty line, to provide off-street parking for the business houses in that neighborhood trading area. 5) Amended on motion of a previous meeting to install park ing meters on the east side of N. Piedmont avenue, between King and Mountain streets. Under the new motion, packing meters are to be Installed from the Central Methodist church corner to the S. R. Suber driveway. A petition from property-owners concerned opposed the meter installations. j 6) Told Jetton Hum, who sou ght a 'axi franchise, that none was available. Declined action on a re quest by J- E. Hord to install drain tile on a . Carpenter street lot. _ ,, 8) Voted to send Mr. Fuller and City Attorney J. R. Davis to Raleigh to discuss financing of a municipal gas distribution system with W. E. Easteding. official of the League of Muni cipalities. 9) Deferred a study of the Barnard & Burk gas system sur-i vey to a special meeting. 101 Agreed to make a study of water rates, with a view to es- 1 tablishing a commercial rate,j with a minimum charge. The latter agreement was made at the suggestion of Bert > Chandler, of Foote Mineral Com-j pany. who appeared before thCj board to point out a discrepancy] in the water contract between the city and his company. Mr. j Chandler suggested it Is the pol- 1 icy of other cities tx> follow the commercial rate i minimum charge system. A committee in cluding City Attorney Davis, Mr. Fuller and Mayor Garland Still] was named to correct the Foote j contract. Mr. Chandler also appeared before the board in behalf of the city recreation commission, of which he is chairman. He told the board four sites were avail able for trade to Burlington, Mills for the property sought for a city recreation plant. It was suggested that his committee obtain options on the sites and | final agreement from Burlington Mills for the trade. The recreation discussion brought the principal disagree ment of the evening. Commis (Continued On Page Eight) Baker City Agent For Oil Dealer Tolly Shuford. manager of Bes semer City Ice & Coal CJompany, announced this week the as signment of a residence fuel oil truck to Kings Mountain and the appointment of R. C. Baker as the company's Kings Mountain agent ' The Bessemer, City concern deals in Atlantic heating fuels, including kerosene and fuel oil. Mr. Shuford, a citizen of Kings Mountain, said the service would toe available six weekly and said his firm would also specialize In servicing stoves and furnaces. Mr. Baker #111 conduct the agency from his business estab lishment at 106 W. Mountain street. Natural Gas System Cost $890,000, Engineers Say Former Police Officer Jailed On Four Counts Kell C. Boney. of 102 City street, former city policeman, is being held In jail in lieu of $1, 300 bond, on charges of assault ing f\is wife with a deadly wea pon with intent to kill her, drunken driving, resisting ar rest, and carrying a concealed weapon. The assault warrant was sign ed by (Mrs. Boney's brother, Jer ry Queen, and the other charges were lodged by Policeman A. C. Stewart and J. O. Thompson, af ter they arrested Boney on Mountain street about 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Chief S. R. Davidson said the officers relieved Boney of a pis tol. He said that Queen, in call ing for the officers, told . them Boney was pointing a pistol at Mrs. Boney and threatening to kill both her and himself. Boney was blackjacked by Of ficer Stewart while being arret ted and several stitches were require; to mend the wound. Boney was removed to the county jail at Shelby Wednesday afternoon, pending preliminary hearing on the charges In city recorder's court Monday, Chief Davidson said. Plans For Little League Announced Announcement of efforts to or ganize a Little League of base ball was made this week by sev. eral Interested Kings Mountain citizens. The group intends to organize and promote the uniformed Jea ? gne provided mterest is shown in the project. Little Leagues, with some 30 odd teams, were operated in Gas tonia last summer, with the pity's all-star team going to the finals played at Savannah, Ga? and missing the "Little League world series" at Willi finis port, i Pa., by a one -run, homo run loss in the Georgia series. Large numbers of people attended the Gastonia games. Cherryviile and several other surrounding towns has already laid plans to enter a league, which is ?governed by national regulations. Plans for Kings Mountain would provide for four teams, with doubleheader games to be played at City Stadium one or two nights per week with no ad mission charge to be made at the gate. A meeting has been tentative ly set for the courtroom at City Hall on next Thursday night (February 21) to get an indica tion of the city's interest in such a program. All prospective team sponsors, coaches and others interested in the program ? everybody except players - ? are being urged ^ to make plans now to attend the meeting. The date and time will be definitely announced next week. The program is for boys throu gh 12 years of age but has a def inite city ? wide recreation fla our. ? IN FLORIDA HOSPITAL Sonny McDaniel who suffer ed an acute attack of appendi citis while on a trip to Flori da is reported as Improyetf-. He is a patient at Memorial hos pital, Deland, Fla. t SPEAKS HERE? Mrs. E. H. Ould. Roanoke, Va., psychologist and lecturer, will speak here twice Friday, irf the afternoon at the high school, and In the evening at Central Methodist church. Mrs. E. H. Ould To Speak Here ? ? 1 ? ? Mrs. E. H. Ould, nationally known psychologist and lecturer, wilt make two addresses here Friday. Mrs,. Ould will speak at Kings Mountain high school at 1 o' clock Friday afternoon and at the Central Methodist church Friday evening at 7:30. Her appearances here were ar ranged by Rev. J. H. Brend all, pastor of Central Methodist chur ch. Admission Is free to both lec tures. Mrs. Ould, of Roanoke, Va., is currently teaching a course in hoirte- making at Main Street ! Methodist church in .Gastonia. '?Ventral Methodist church is ! happy' to provide this sen ice. to the community,!' Mr. Brendail said. "Mrs. Ould Is a master of a. ' witty and humorous style. She ?' is booked tor engagements a year' in advance and has - been I forced to decline many invita tions. The public* is cordially in vited to hear her and a treat is; in store for those who do." Belk's Renovating Its Men's Store Beik's Department Store is re novating and re-decorating it* Men's Store. 1 Work lias been underway for [the past several weeks, Hilton iKuth. manager of the firm said, land the renovating work will re sult in both a bwter appearan Ice and improved arrangement of j the Men's Store. J - I Building & Loan Meeting Thursday Annual meeting of stockhold ers of Kings Mountain Building & Loan association Mil be held in the association office Thurs day evening at 8 o'clock, accord ing to announcement by J. C. Lackey, secretary-treasurer. Business of the meeting will include election of directors for (he coming year and presenta tion of annual reports by offi cers. City Now Has Two Police Chiefs, Davidson By Day, Shytle A! Night Kings Mountain now has a daytime police chief and a night time police chief, as a result of action of the city hoard of com missioners Monday night in naming Wilbur P. Shytle, mem ber of the force, as "night chifef." Commissioner ' Lloyd Davis made the motion, it was second ed by Commissioner B. T. Wright, Sr., and passed unanimously, with all members present. Mr. Davis had previously moved naming Mr. Shytle assistant ehlef. The. motion also provided that both Chief S. R. Davidson and Stiytle will have the same authority on their respective duty schedules. During the discussion on Mr. Davis' .original' motion, Mayor Garland Still suggested that the motion be amended to make Shytle chief, stating he would J like to see Chief Dayidson rt Hey | ed of .his duties. He said he had received many complaints con cerning the police department. Mt. Davis said he had also re ceived complaints, but h? de iclined to accept the Still suggest tion. Earlier in the meeting Bill Whetstine, taxi operator, had ap peared before the board to com plain that the police department had been stopping his cabs for unauthorized reasons. He charg ed that city policemen were parking outside the city Hnrdtn, In Gaston <x>u?ty, then following the cab* Into town and further stopping them, for no reason. Under the action of the board In making Mr. Shytle "night chief," no change was made In his salary. Barnard & Burk Declare Project Is Sound Bisk The report of Barnard & Buck. Baton Rouge, La., consulting en gineers, covering a natural gas distribution system for the city of Kings Mountain, estimates the construction of such a system would cost. $890,000 and would be a financially sound project. Stating that the estimates are conservative, the. engineers say the distribution system could be paid for, with Interest, in a 30 year pediod, and, in turn, Jut into city coffers a profit of $2, 985,000. or an average of $92,800 per year. Following a survey of potent ial users of natural gas, the en gineers figure that the debt ser vice "coverage" ratio is 2.9. which it regards as highly favor able. The detailed survey report In cludes maps and complete breakdown of data on a 30-year financing plan, residential po tential. commercial potential, and large commercial potential. It. lists are the largest potenti al commercial users Neisler;. Mills, Ind., and Bennett Brick & Tile Company. It lists, in addi tion. a dozen other industries and businesses which would be potential users of natural gas. In the survey; various com parisons are made between the cost of natural gas and other fuels, including oil and coal, and electricity. In all instances, sav ings would he affected by use of natural gas, the engineers re port. The city is to seek an alloca tion of natural gas from the Transcontinental pipeline at a I Federal Power Commission hear ling in Washington, now sohed juled March 3. Logan Purchases Gamble Intere: t ?W. B. (Bill) Logan ha> pur chased the interest of >ert Gamble in Logan Supply <?m pany, according to ami uiiice* ment this week. Though the purchase is effec tive as of January 1, 1952, details Of the transaction were -com-plet ? ed only a few days ago, Mr. Lo gan. said. ? The. company, which deals in appliances, pumps, and other related products, was formed by Mr. Logan, .shortly after World War II. and Mr. Gamble became a partner January. 1, 1948. As a result of the dissolving of the partnership, the Billie Lo gan Record Shop, owned by Mrs. W. B. Logan and operated in the building adjoining Kings Moun tain Building & Loan associa tion, is being consolidated With Logan Supply Company. The firm will be open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. daily except Sat urdays, when it will close at 1 p. m.. Mr. Logan announced. Lions Take Part '. In Quiz Contest Several members of the Kings Mountain Lions club partlcipa. ted in a quiz contest Tuesday night, all the participants star ring sufficiently to win a carton of cigarettes each as prizes. Contestants were chosen by drawing from names In , a hat. They included Oliver Falls, Lee Roberts, Edwin Moore, C. C. Edens, B. T. Wright, Sr., and Clyde Whetstine. However, the contestants failed on the jack pot question. .Dan Huffstetler, master of ceremonies, had asked the group to give an English word which did not use either ot the vowels, "a",, "e", "1", "o", or "u" The answer Mr. Huffstetler had In mind was "rythm." In an all- member contest. Bob Osborne finished first on the Job of listing the 48 states. Runners-up were Ollie Harris, and Clarence Flowers. Prior to the contest, Larry White, young Qrover school boy, gave several "boogie-woogie" renditions on the piano.