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V rr , .. r . .?y ? ? ? -? . ? * - ' ' - ' ? ? ? ? * * . ? " . Yes" -- Give Liberally ? To The Red Cross Roll Call Beginning Monday Population l- : : Iv City Limit# .7.206 Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Bation Board Figure* ) VOL. 63 NO. 9 Sixty- Second Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Thursday. February 28. 1952 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS $6,500 Red Cross Campaign To Start . ' * ? * i. . ? ' * ? \t. _ ? . Local News PENLEYS CHAPEL SERVICES Services will be held at Pen leys Chapel Sunday night at 7 o'clock. Rev. R. L. Forbis, pas tor. . , i PARKING MONEY A total of $134.88 wds collec ted from parking meters for the week which ended Wed nesday according to a report of Joe Hendrlck, city clerk. ENTERS SERVICE Bill Allen, son of Mr. and Hunter Allen, left Monday for Fort Jackson where he will leave for Fort Knox, Ky., to join the Army Security Agency. OUT OF HOSPITAL Miss Ollie Hartsell return ed Thursday from Memorial hospital In Charlotte where she underwent a minor opera tion. She is recuperating at her home on Piedmont avenue. WEBB BETTER Claude Webb, manager of the Imperial Theatre, Wednes day morning was reported im proving steadily by Shelby Hospital officials. Mr. Webb entered the hospital on Wed nesday, February 20, after suf fering a heart attack. I ON DEAN'S LIST Iris Patterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. . G. Patterson, and Norman McGill, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. F. McGill, were listed on the dean's list at Erskine College for the first semester, according to an an nouncement received by E. A. Sloan, Dean. ON WAY HOME Sgt. Martin (Andy) Etters, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Etters of route 9, is on his way home from Korea where he has beeri serving since April 1st, 1951. Sgt. Etters Is expect ed to arrive in the States Mar ch 25, according to information received by his father. MONTQNIA MEETING Annual meeting of stock holders of the Lake Montonia Club, Inc., will bo held Tues day night at 7:30 at City Kail courtroom, Busir.es* will in clude election of officers for the coming year and discus sion of activities of the preced ing year. HARMON NAMED Martin Harmon, editor of the Kings Mountain Hcald, has been appointed a member of the North Carolina Literary and Historical association's committee to publicize North Carolina history by Clarence Griffin, chairman of the com mittee and editor of the Forest Ctty Courier. Other members include Holt McPherson, Shel by Daily Star, and Stewart At kins, Gastonia Gazette. Funeral Conducted For Tumlfo Infant Funeral rites foj- Tommy Stev enson Tttmlin, two-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tumlin, route 1, Kings Mountain, were held Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock at Wallace Grove ohuroh between Shelby . and Fallston, interment following in the chur ch cemetery. The child died at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Death was at tributed to pneumonia. Surviving in addition to the parents are four brothers. Rev. Jake Thorrtburg conducted the rites. Penalties On Taxes Advance Saturday . . . Penalties on unpaid 1951 city cad county tam odranot to two petoent March 1. City CUik Jo* Hendrick re ?IMM delinquent topaywn that the penalty advances and ?Mill 1 on- pon ont f,n Sat urday, and be urged payment After March, further pud ttee fin hit on ? m \ :fi ? ft:'; Campaign Plans Near Complete, Plonk Reports v Final plans for the Number 4 Township Red Cross fund cam paign were (being completed yes terday. The campaign, which has as its goal a minimum of $6,500, will begin Monday morning. Committee heads were com pleting divisional solicitation or ganizations and chairmen Of sev eral committees were hoping to conduct a successful campaign In record time. Of the total budgeted quota, 64 percent will remain in the lo cal treasury for use by the Kings Mountain chapter in regular charitable activities in Number 4 Township. The remainder will represent the local contribution to the national Bed Cross organ ization. Fred W. Plonk, who Is serving as chairman of the .1952 fund drive, issued a statement this week urging all citizens to give as liberally as possible. 'The good works of the Red Cross are well-known, both at home and all over the world. Wherf there is trouble, or disas ter, there you find the Red Cross," Mr. Plonk said. "It is also most Important lo cally,"- Mr. Plonk continued. "The Red Cross blood program supplies 'blood for the hospitals, the (Red Cross professional staff serves as a direct connection be tween families and their sons In service, and the Red Cross issues many other daily services which the community can ill afford to j be without, Or to curtail." Mr. Plonk said the campaign committee's schedule calls for an early completion of the drive. "All the members of the com mittee are highly enthusiastic," Mr. Plonk concluded, "and I have no doubt that this enthus iasm will be translated into a successful Red Cross fund cam paign." All Kings Mountain depart ment stores are devoting window space to support of the cam paign. Heart Campaign Receipts $150 George Houser, chairman of t He city's heart fund <Mve, report ed receipts of $150 through Wed nesday noon. The Heart Fund committee seeks $625 as the local contribu tion in a $2,500 county-wide ap peal, Mr. Houser said additional pled ges of gifts had been made, but he urged all persons who have not yet contributed to post a check to him or to Humes Houston, co chairman of the appeal. "UnlesB more gifts are received, the quota will not be met", Mr. Houser said. BEN'S CHAPEL RE-NAMED The church officials and, members of Ben's Chapel Bap tist ohuich voted Sunday to change the name to Midview Baptist church. The church was organized March, 1950, and Jim Painter was called to be the first pastor. The church is located about a mile west of Mai-grace Mill near Morrison airport i WINTHROP GIRLS TO SING HERE SUNDAY? Member* p! the Winthrqp College Choir, directed by Miss Katherine Pfohl, will give a program o! sacred music at First Presbyterian church Sunday even ing at 7:30. Miss Ruth Williams, executive secretary of the Winthrop Alumnae Association, will ac company the group. The public U Invited to attend the program. (Winthrop News Service Photo.) Winthiop Choir Heze On Sunday The 32-voice Winthrop College choir, under, the direction of Miss Katherine Pfohl, will sing a program of sacred music at First Presbyterian church Sunday ev ening at 7:30. Announcement of the special appearance here of the choir was made by Mrs. E. M. Leopard, Presbyterian choir director. The choir is well-known throu ghout the Carolinas, and for the past several years has made nu merous appearances in schools and churches. The director, Miss Pfohl, is a native of Winston-SaJem, and a cousin of James Christian Pfohl, veteran Davidson College direc tor and also director of the Transylvania Music Camp at Brevard. The public is invited to attend the Sunday evening program. Scout Campaign ! Reports Lagging Bruce Thorburn, co-chairman I of the Kings Mountain district Boy Scout Fund drive, reported the campaign lagging this week and asked solicitors to complete their work within the weekend, if possible. Cash receipts, reported by J. C. McKinney, treasurer, totaled only $325, against the quota of $1,750. Mr. Thorburn said he under stood other funds had been giv en but not yet reported to the treasurer. However, ' he urged completion of the .solicitation work at once. "I'm confident tho quota will ?be reached," he said, "but we are anxious to complete it." Final Bites Held For Mrs. Carter Funeral services for Mrs. S. L. Carter, who died Friday of a heart attack, were held in the Mars Hill Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Prior to her marriage, Mrs. Carter was Miss Bessie Logan, the last of the immediate family of the late Leonidas Marion Lo gan and Elizabeth Herndon Lo gan of Kings Mountain. Among those attending the fun eral services were Mr. and Mis. Bill Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Logan, Mrs. J. J! Logan, Mrs. L. M. Logan, Miss Mabel Lo gan, and James Logan, all of Kings Mountain and Mrs. George Logan and family of Raleigh and Chapel Hill. King Wintei Hits Late With City's Heaviest Snowfall In Font Years It snowed Tuesday. White flakes began falling shortly after 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, continuing for the next 12 hours, and covering the Kings Mountain area In its first heavy snow In the past four years. Depths were estimated at four Inches. Traffic was tied up, and the motorists nervy enough to move without chains found themselves ?pinning Wheels . and slipping and sliding on the slick streets. Service station* did a brisk business In tire chains, and long distance telephone calls were many as out-of-town travelers called their homes to report they'd arrive late. Merchants had their best run of the winter on rubber footwear. Schools were closed here Wed nesday, to the delight of the stu dents who took advantage of the holiday to play in the white flake*. City street crews and the state highway department workmen were busy with scrapes, clearing roads to make them passable. Among the worst traffic Jams was on Gamble hill on the Gas tonla road, where heavy trucks found the grade impossible to navigate until highway crews spread sand and gravel on the road bed; The city closed the portion of S. Piedmont avenue, where another large hill appear ed dangerous, Tuesday night. A warm son was melting the snow quickly Wednesday. City To Ask Gas Allotment Of FPC Area Photos Will Be Shown Aft Cifty Hall Do you want to see your land on an aetial photo? Jnyr-n Mrrpptnij f^mpnny "wfil show at the City Hall on March 5th and 6th aerial pho tos of Borne of the surround ing area. Bob Neill, a representative of the firm, will show the pic tures and he is asking farmers to come by and so* the aerial, pictures and point out their land to him if possible. Mr. Neill will be at City Hall each day from 8 a. m. 'til 5 p. m. Former Citizen Dies In Wreck Ilarry Falls, 60, former Kings Mountain grocer ai d meat deal er, was HiUcd early Monday morn ing when 'he pick-up truck he was driving crashed into a bridge abutment east of Asheville. Mr. Falls, who recently opened the Harry Falls Livermush Com pany, in Shelby, was instantly killed. Investigating officers thought he had fallen asleep at the wheel. M>"s. Harold Crawford, a niece, said Wednesday it is expected that final rites for Mr. Falls will be held here, but that information from Asheville indicated funeral arrangements were incomplete, pending arrival of his sons from distant points. A Kings Mountain native, Mr. Falls was for some years a part ner with J. R. Cline-ln the M sys tem Store here, a business sub sequently sold to the Home Store (now Dlxie-Homfc) in 1934. Mr. | Falls their held a position with! the Home Stores for 10 years and made his home in Asheville. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie Bird Falls,, and four sons, Miles E. Falls. Dallas, Tex., Rob ert Hoyle Falls, with the Army in California, Lt. Harry Falls, Jr., with the Air Force in Frankfurt, Germany, and William Bird Falls, of Asheville, who recently return- j ed home from a tour of duty in Korea. Little Theatre Piay Date Set The Kings Mountain Little Theatfe, Inc., will present LAURA, a mystery -dram a, at Central school auditorium on Saturday night, March 15, at 8 o'clock. The announcement was made this week by Mrs. Alfred B. Chandler, director of the produc tion. Included in the cast are Miss Bern Ice Harrison, Bruce Thor burn, Robert Osborne, Delbert Dixon, Mrs. Bill Melcher, Bob Goforth, Mrs. Sam Stallings and Sonny McDaniel, she Mid. , "LAURA Is a three-act, highly suspenseful, fast - moving play full of Interesting characters", Mrs. Chandler continued, "and we urge everyone to make plans now to attend on March 15th" Admission will be 75 cents, ?h? said. 0 Keeter, Davis, Still To Attend Capitol Hearing City Attorney J. R. Davis, By ron Keeter, planning board i chairman, and Mayor Garland i Still are to go to Washington this weekend to appear Monday before the Federal power com mission to seek an allocation of gas for the city from the Trans continental Pipeline. Hearing on the Kings Moun tain i"equest is now scheduled foi Monday, following a previ ous postponement. The city board commissioners authorized the trip Tuesday | night, following a discussion of the gas distribution system pro-; posal, in which A. S. Hall, repre sentative of Barnard and Burk, explained details of the engi neering survey, and City Attor ney Davis reported on his recent conversations concerning finan cing the project with W. L.j Easterling, secretary of the Nor- i th Carolina League of Munici- j pal i ties. Mr. Davis went to Raleigh last week to confer with "Mr. Easter ling. 1 ' j He reported that the League, official took a dim view of the; R. S. Dickson Company proposal to handle revenue bond sale ar rangements for a fee of one-and onehajf percent. The League would handle bond sale arrange ments under its regular set-up, Mr. Easterling told Mr. Davis, regardless of prior arrangements with the Dickson Company. The city, if it launches the gas distribution system project, has planned to issue revenue-type , bonds, whereby only income de- ! rived from sale of natural- gas would be used to pay for the! system. The city's property taxi rate wquld be unaffected by the venture. i Mr. Keeter told the commis-i sioners that the' five-member planning board favored the nat ural gas project. The city attorney also report ed conversations with Mr. Eas terling concerning the issuance of general type bonds for public improvements. The League offi cial said outside limits of gen eral bond issues which would be approved by his office voulf1 ,,e $600,000, Mr. Davis reported, and that the League would not look wifh favor on the issuance of bonds for a recreational plant, in lieu of water and sewer bonds. The city has an engineering survey which recommends ex penditure of more than $800,000 to improve Its sewage disposal and water distribution system. Spring Festival To Be Presented Central Grammar school will present a spring festival of music and dances at the high school au ditorium tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 p. m. Howard Coble, public school music teacher, made the an nouncement Children from the first through eight grades will take part in the activities, Mr. Coble said. The public la cordially Invited. T. N. Harmon Funeral Rites Held Tuesday Funeral services for ? Thomas Newton Harmon, 79, well-known ! Kings Mountain citizen, were hold Tuesday morning at 10 ;30 from Boyce Memorial ARP chur ch, with interment following, in Mountain Rest cemetery. Me. Harmon died Sunday even ing at 7:40 at Kings Mountain hospital. Death was attributed to a heart attack. He had been hos pitalized Thursday in a condi tion bordering on pneumonia, but had improved considerably. Mr. Harmon had been in de clining health for the past sever al years, as the result of several paralytic strokes and a heart condition. .For the past two. years | he had been Unable to speak co- i herently, though his faculties of | comprehension were complete until his passing. A retired hardware salesman; he was long associated with i Phifer Hardware Company and, J prior to that time, with Us pre- j decessor, D. M. Baker Company, j From 1906 to 1918, he lived in j Los Angeles, Calif. He was forj many years a director of the Home Building & Loan associa tion. He was an elder and former deacon of Boyce Memorial ARP church, and was a. devoted mem ber for the greater portion Of his j life. He was never married and. for the past several years, had ' resided at the home of Mr. and ! Mrs. J. Pat Tignor. Mr. Harmon was bom on Oct o- j ber 21, 1872, the third son of > Peter Beam and Rittie Falls Har- 1 mon in the Beulah community of Cleveland county., He moved to Kings Mountain in 1892. Rev. W. L. PresSly, Boyce Me morial pastor, conducted the fi- 1 nal rites and described Mr. Har- j mon as "a man close to God."j He quoted from the Bible,' Gene- ; sis 5:24/ "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; fori God took him." Mr. Harmon is survived by a brother, M. L. Harmon, anti -three half-sisters, Mrs. Minnie H. Crawford, Miss Ella Harmon, and Mrs. T. P. McGill. A large number of nieces and nephews also sur. vive. Pallbearers were Garrison Go- | forth, James Anthony, W. S. Ful ton, Jr.. I-indsay McMackin, R. ? H. Burton and Marriott Phifer,, ail deacons of Boyce Memorial ARP church. Baptist Men's Class | To Hold Ladies Night Dr. Hoyt Biackwell, president o( Mars Hill college, will make the featured address at a ladies night banquet of the Borean class of First Baptis; church Su:i day school, ar-eording to an-, nouncement by Wiley Blantqn. chairman of the arrangements Committee. The banquet will be held Mon. day night at 7:30 at Masonic Dining Hall. Other members of the arrange ments . committee are Allen Herndon, W. B. Logan, Paul King and Grier Sipes. W. ,T. Weir isj president of the class, and Ar nold Kincaid serves as teacher. P-TA To Sponsor Womanless Wedding Bethware Parent-Teachers As sociation will sponsor a Woman less Wedding Friday night at 8 o'clock in the high school auditor ium. Admission will be twenty-five and fifty cents. A cake walk and auction of cakes will be held after the wed j ding. World Prayer Day Will Be Observed ATHLEIIC OFFICER ? ? Paul Mauney, above, has been ap pointed athletic officer of the Kings Mountain American Le gion post. Mauney Legion Athletic Head . Paul Mauney, prominent mill official and post commander of the organization, was named athletic officer of Otis 1). Green | Post 155, the American Legion at a special meeting last Friday night. Commander Warren E. Rey nolds made the appointment af ter the group had discussed ways ! and means of sponsoring anoth er junior baseball team here. Three other members Were; named to the baseball board,) with several other appointments to be made soon. Sam Collins ! was named to again head 'the, concessions committee, Fred Haithcox was ro- appointed treas- [ urer and C. T. Carpenter, Jr., was appointed secretary. All mem bers of the hoard will he assist ant athletic officers. The post has been studying; ways and means of continuing' the baseball team sponsorship j since late last summer when it : was disclosed that the 1951 team | went in the red some $2,<XXY Teams have been sponsored here for the past seven years. The special meeting Friday; was called (o further plans .for junior baseball this summer. Members agreed, that with the building project underway, the post can tu>; afford to face aholh er deficit in it's baseball opera tions.^The group is planning to.1 sponsor a tca.n if - some $1,500; can be raised toward the base ball operating budget before the team entry deadline, about the! first. of April; The group hopes to raise the money', to sponsor the team : through donations and. sale of score card advertising. Advance sale of single-game tickets is al so- contemplated. The 19.% and 1951 1e;<ms fin ished in third place in first tound standings, one-half game] out of the second round of state: eliminations. Mrs. Fuller's Mother Dies In Pennsylvania Funeral rites were to be held in Mehaffey, I'a.. Wednesday af- ; ter noon for Mrs. -G. K. Conrath. ! mother of Mrs. M. K. Fuller,, of Kings Mountain. Mrs. Cqnrath died Monday morning following a long illness. She has been seriously ill for the past three weeks. Other details concerning the funeral arrangements were not available here.. Lynch, Ruth, Coggins Are Appointed To Merchants Trade Boosting Body Haywood Lynch, Hilton Ruth and Harold Coggins wore ap pointed as members of the Kings Mountain Merchant association trade promotion committee for the current year at the meeting of the association board of directors Monday night. Mr. Lynch Will serve as chairman. In another action designed to boost local retail trade, the direc tors adopted a resolution asking all merchant* to devote advertis ing spacc to "Trade-At-Home" copy. The board voted to recommend tha* merchant!! close their firms during the hour of the World I>?y of Prayer service Friday morning (9:30 to 10:30). The directors also accepted the resignation of W. S. Fulton, Jr., as director, and voted to hold regular monthly meetings on fourth Monday evenings. All directors were named to the association membership commit tee, and attention was directed to curtailment of certain type so licitations by instruction to the president to appoint a secret soll ciations committee. The board also agreed that membership decals should be pur chased for distribution to mem bers, with the cost to be assessed to thp members. I > " ? * Church Women Sponsor Service Friday At 9:30 Kinks Mountain will join With other communities of the globe Friday. In its annual observance of Work! Day of Prayer. The annual community . wide service will be held at St. Mat ?. ? thew's Lutheran- church Friday morning at 9:30, under sponsor ship of the Kings Mountain Council of Church Women, an in terdenominational groyp. Mrs. Paul Mauney will serve as program leader for a drama tic presentation of World Day of Prayer projects on the theme "Christ Our Hope." Taking part in the program will be Mrs. Frank Summers, as Mother Liberty, Mrs. Marriott Phifer, as an American Indian, Majority ol Kings Mountain merchants will close Friday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 for the Kings Mountain observ ance of Worjd Day ol Prayer, to bo held at St, Matthew's Lu theran church. Directors of the Merchants association recom mended the closing at their meeting Monday night. Mrs. Charles Ballard, as a Japan, esc American. Mrs. Clarence Plonk, Jr., as a Migrant Woman, and Miss Phyllis Ware, lis a For eign Student. Prayers will be offered by Mrs. C. A. Butferworth, Mrs. T. L. Cashwell. Jr., Mrs, J. E. Mauney, Mrs. Lona McGill, and Mrs. J. II. Brendall. Special music will bo furnish ed by Howard Coble and Mrs. J. E. Herndon, and Dr. W. P. Oer- . herding will say the benediction. An offering will he taken., with the proceeds tp be used for home . mission work among migrants and to .foreign mission work to provide schools ahd literature for siudents. The public is urged to attend the special service. Friday Proclaimed As Day CM Prayer WHEREAS, There is a ct>n flit ion *>f uncertainty in the work! today, ? WHEREAS, it is recognized by Christians everywhere. that I ho many problems confront ing us today can be solved only with the help of Almighty God; NOW THEREFORE. I, Gar land Still, Mayor of the City "< ? Kings Mountain, do hereby <le clare Friday, February 29th, as . a day of prayer, and that as we pray in our homes, or as we gather together in public, we remember the needs of our country, before God, the Ruler * of the universe. (Signed) Garland E. Still, Mayor More Vaccination Clinics Scheduled Rural people are cooperating admirably with the series of dog vaccination clinics being conduct ed by the county fiealth depart ment. Urban dwellers are not, This was the report yesterday ojf Dr. J. P. Mauney, veterinarian, who has been conducting the clin ics in the Kings Mountain area. Dr. Mauney announced another series of rural area clinics for this weekend as follows: Thursdny?Welr's Store, 1 to 2 p. m., and Margrace Store, 2 to 4 p. m. Friday morning? Waco postof fice, 9:30 to 10:30, Goforth Store, 11 to 11:30, Champion Gin, 11:30 to 11:45. Friday afternoon ? Frank's i>tore, 1:30 to 2 o'clock; A. L. Put nam Store, 2 to 2:30; Seism's Gin, 2:30 to 3 o'clock. Carver Blanton, county dog warden has ?pointed out that vaccination of dogs against rabies is not only required by law, but serves as a protection for both people and livestock. Dr. Mauney will visit City Hall ? in Kings Mountain again in March 7.
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