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H A Population City Limit? 7.206 Trading Area 154)00 (1945 Ration Board Figures) *| g Pa^es Today VOL. 63 NO. 17 Sixty-Second Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Thursday. April 24. 1952 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS * Local News Bulletins REPRESENTS HOSPITAL Mrs. Charles Moss, Jr., book keeper, at Khigs Mountain hospital represented the hos pital at a (Blue Cross Insuran ce meeting In Ashevllle last Thursday and Friday. BUILDING PERMIT A building permit was issu ed to Warren E. Reynolds Fri day for construction of a one story building to toe used as a garage and storage building on E. King street at an esti mated cost of 1500. ATTENDING MEET Mrs. Helen R. Blanton, pres ident of the Junior Woman's Club and Mrs. Grady Yelton are attending a meeting of the State ^Federation of Woman's Clubs in Winston-Salem. FULTON BETTER W. S. Fulton, Sr., who has been a patient at Duke Hospi tal, Durham, since last Thurs day, was reported improved Wednesday morning. He is re ceiving treatment for an as thma condltior-. FATHER'S NIGHT Central Parent-Teachers As sociation will hold Its annual Father's night Tuesday night in the high school auditorium at 7:30 p. m. according to an announcement Of Mrs. P. G. Padgett, president. ATTENDS MEETING Rev. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, attended a meeting of the Home Mission board of First Presbytery, held Tuesday at Charlotte's First ARP church. Mr. Pressly Is a member of the board. KIWANIS MEETING Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club will be held at Masonic Dining Hall Thursday night at 6:45. The meeting will be the club's reg ular monthly business meet ing. TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Miss Anita McGinnis, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mc Ginnis,, will be one of the Girl Scouts to represent the Pion eer Girl Scout Area Council at the Regional Senior Girls' Con ference to. be held this week end at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla. OLIVE MANAGER Charlie Falls, Jr., Gastonia lawyer and Kings Mountain native, will manager the Gas ton county Olive -For-Govemor campaign, it was announced from Olive headquarters in Ra leigh this week. LUTHERAN FILM The most, recent Lutheran sound film, "45 Tioga Street," [ will be shown at St. Mat thew's Lutheran church Sun y day at 7:30 p. m. according to announcement by Rev. W. P. Gerberdlng, who also jssued a welcome to the public to at tend. Annual District Meet Here Monday Annual meeting of the sixth Educational district, North Caro lina School Board association, will be held at Kings Mountain high school cafeteria on Monday at 7:90 o'clock. School superintendents and principals, along with dty and and district committee members have been invited to attend the meeting. B. N. Barnes, superintendent of city schools, made the announce ment and said that a good pro gram has been planned around the theme of the legislative pro gram for the public schools for 1953 and that a large number of school officials are expected to attend. ? ' A. W. Klncald, chairman of the rJ'ngs Mountain school board, is district chairman and will pre side. Wells H, Rogfers, of Albe i.iarle, a former Kings Mountain dttan* la district vice-chairman aad H. H. Davis, of Monroe, and B. Austell, chairman of the Cleve land County board, are members of the excutive board of the dls k trtct. Kiwanls Horse Show Advanced To fane 4 The annual Kings Mountain Kiwatt.U club horse show, pre viously scheduled for June 11, has been re -scheduled for Wednesday. June 4, at City Stadium. ; ? Plain for the one-day event are well-underway, with By ron Keeter serving as chair man and W. G. Grantham as co-chairman of the project. rhe forthcoming horse show was among the principal items of business discussed at the regultu monthly directors meeting of the club held Tues day night at Kings Mountain hospital, the directors being guests of the hospital for din ner. Fellowship Day Set For May 2 The Kings Mountain Council of Ghurchwomen will Join with more than 1,800 other local coun cils throughout the nation In ob servance of. May Fellowship Day on May 2. Feature of the Kings Mountain council meeting will be an ad dress toy Mrs. Patsy Smith Good win, president of the Charlotte council. The meeting will be held at the Boyce Memorial ARP chur ch at 3 p. m. Theme of the observance is "Spiritual Security for Today's Families," stressing the impor tance of the home community in building spiritual security. May Fellowship Day is one of three special days observed by the Council of Churchwomen, it is traditionally set for the first Friday In May. An offering will be taken at the service, with the proceeds to further the work of the United Church women. All churchwomen of the com munity are being Invited to at tend the special service, Mrs. Jacob Cooper, publicity chairman of the Kings Mountain Council of ChurChwomen, said In making the announcement. Mission Study At Resunectioh A Mission Study class will be held at Resurrection Lutheran church Tuesday night at 7:30, The Women of the Church will be hostesses to the Women of St. Matthew's Lutheran church. "Churches for Our Country's Needs," is the theme of the Home Mission Course, and a study of the books '?Mission To America," by. Truman Douglas, and, "Now! Everybody Needs A Church," by Brace and Eldridge will be conducted by Rev. Vance Daniel, Resurrection pastor. LIBRARY CLOSED The Jacob S. Mauney Memo rial Library will be closed 'til Monday due to the d^ath of Mrs- Charles Dllllng's sister. City Teachers Re-Elected For 1952-53 The Kings Mountain district board o 1 school trustees took ac tion Monday to begin work on a Negro elementary building at Davidson school and voted to re elect all city school teachers. The actions were taken at the regular April meeting of the board, held at the office of Super intendent B. N. Barnes at Central school Monday at 5 p. m. J. R. Davis presented a motion "to Install new toilet fixtures at the Davidson school and to make whatever repairs that may be necessary to the existing building and to build a new elementary building In accordance with recommendations made by the State Planning Board." The motion was seconded by Dr. P. G. Padgett, with Fred W. Plonk also voting approval. Chariman Arnold VV.. Kincaid presided and the only member absent was Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch,, who was confined to her home by illness. The Davidson school toilet con dition had been, brought to the board's attention by Will Brown, representing the Negro citizens. The board, aware of the bad toi let conditions at the school, had dlscus?od zne situation at previ ous meetings but had taken no action awaiting final plans for the colored school building pro gram^JState school officials have , recommended that only minor immediate repairs be made to the present Davidson building, recom mending that it be replaced as soon as possible. The Davis proposal set in mo tion machinery for beginning of construction of the new Negro elementary building,, which the board hopes to begin as soon as school is out. State school offi cials must first approve the en tire proposed building program before bids on the construction may be requested, Superintendent Barnes informed the board. State officials have recom mended some $60^000 for , con struction of a Negro *ive-room elementary building and some $130,000 for construction of a new. c-ight-room elementary building for white students. The board now has only some $190,000 in hand or budgeted for school building construction.. In connection with the building program, the board informally agreed to a joint meeting with the county school b^ard and the Shelby school board with a view to preparing a request to the courtty board of commissioners for improvements of schools in the county. Mr. Barnes repoited the resig nation of Mrs. Helen \V. Patter son, effective at the close of the school term, and read letters from the State Board of Educa tion Insurance Committee, the Kings Mountain Merchants Asso ciation and several from state (Continued On Page Eight) > Mayor Appeals Reckless Driving, Speeding Charges To County Court Garland E. Still, Kings Moun tain mayor, appealed for a Jury trial In Cleveland County Record er's Court Monday on charges of speeding and reckless driv The mayor had been arrested about 4:20 a. m. Monday morn ing by city officers W. P. Shy tie, W. E. Stroup, and P. A. San ders, after a chase on the Besse mer City Road. Mr. Still was ac tually arrested at his business establishment. Horseshoe Grill. Released on toond, Mr. Still en tered the appeal before Judge E. A. Harrlll at the Monday after noon seaskn of city recorder's court. The Mayor's arees* brought out a new Still dodger. In which he labeled the city police depart ment aa "rotten." On Monday afternoon, accord ing to C. E. Carpenter, police desk sergeant and cleife of city court, wT Falson Barneh. former city Judge, approached Solicitor Jack White and the arresting of ficers, asking that an additional warrant be issued against the *or drunken driving. So lic. >r Vhite and the officers de clineu, Mr. Carpenter said. Officers Sanders and Stroup said 'they hay tailed Mr. Still on Bessemer City Road at a speed of 70-80 miles per hour but failed to catch him before he parked at Horseshoe Grill. They said he disposed of A pint of whiskey by throwing It out along the road. Other cases Included: Emmett Hughes, Negro, charg ed with driving drunk, received a 60- day sentence, suspended upon the payment of a fine of $100 and costs, and was ordered to tirn his license over to the police department Two defendants were tried and found guilty of public drunken, ness and each was taxed wltfl the costs. SEEK CONSTABLE NOMINATION? Shown above ate two of four candidates for the Democratic nomination tor constable of Number 4 Township. They are. Err in Ellison, left and Paul Byers, right. Oth. er candidates are H. G. Clements and Ken Stepp. W. L. Blackburn, the incumbent, had also filed for renomination but announced Wed nesday afternoon he was withdrawing from the race. Blackburn Is Out Of Constable Race Obtain All Permits Early, Fuller Says M. K. Fuller, city adminis trator is asking property own obtain all required building permits before begin ning new construction work. He pointed out that obtain ing the permits is not only ,e quired by law, but Is a protec tion to the property owners. As an example he cited the failure of one .citizen, F. M. r'PPY' to obtain a plumbing permit. After the house was underway, it was dif-covered Mr. Fuller said, that Insuffl. clent fall was available to per mlt Installation of city sewage service. "Had the foundation been two concrete blocks higher," Mr. Fuller said, "there would have been no sewaqe installa tion problem," Lynn Succumbs To Heart Attack Charles C. (Pete) Lynn, 76, res ident of the Margrace Mill vil lage, died suddenly Wednesday at his home at 12:30 p. m. after suffering a heart attack. He had been an employee of the Margrace mill for the past 29 years. He was a native of Cleveland County and was the son of the late Calvin and Sallv Lynn. Surviving are his wife, the Mlss Ada Connor; a son, Bill Lynn, of Kings Mountain; three daughters, Mrs. John Mitch am, Mrs. A. B. Barrett and Mrs. George Stroupe, all of Kings Mountain; four brothers, John and Bob Lynn, of Kings Moun tain Tom Lynn, of Gasionia, and Mark Lynn, of Clover,' S. C. ; 13 grandchildren; and one great grandchild. A son, Felmer Lynn, was killed in action In Germany in 1944. Funeral will be held at Macedo nia Baptist church Friday after noon at 4 o'clock. Rev. R. L Har din, the pastor, officiating. The body will lie in state at the church from 3:30. Burial will be at Mountain Rest cemetery. Lions Observe Ladies Night A large crowd of Lions, their wives and guests spent an even In* of laughter Tuesday at the 14th annual Ladies Nigh! ban quet of the Kings Mountain Lions Feature entertainment of the evening was provided by panto mine artists, Dave Carroll and Bob Heckard, of Winston-Salem who presented a half-dozen hum orous skits. To the accompani ment of recordings, they mlmlck ed such artists as AtViur Godfrey and Mary Martin, Phil Harris, Fr ankle Lane and others. Their toning was near-perfect and their ?kits brought roars of laughter. Otto (Toby) Williams served as master of ceremonies for the co ( Continued On Page Eight) y : , .... ;? ? r , ? . v- - r- ? ' ? **?": Moore Files For Nomination To School Board Will L. Blackburn, incumbent township constable, told the Herald Wednesday afternoon at 4:20 that ho had decided to with draw from the face and would not i>e a candidate in the May. 31 Democratic primary. The withdrawal of Mr. Black burn reduces to four the. num ber of persons seeking the con stableship, which shares top bil ling lor prime interest of Kings Mountain area citizens with the contest for county school board nominations. Edwin Moore, Patterson Grove farmer and member of the Beth ware school committee, filer! Sat urday afternoon, shortly before the 6 o'clock deadline, for the county school board, and four candidates ? Ervin Ellison, Paul Byers, H. G. Clements and Ken Stepp ? are seeking the con stable nomination. The entry of Mr. Moore in the school board sweepstakes brings to two the number of Kings Mountain men seeking nomina tion to the school board. Wayne L. Ware, incumbent, had previ ously filed for re-nomination. Altogether, nine men are in the race for five positions. Others are: W. K. Lut/, Waco; B. Austell, Earl; C. Dixon Stroupe, Fallston; R. A. Warlkrk and C. D. Froney, Jr., both of Lawndale, Walter Davis, route 5. Shefby; and A. A. Parker, of Casar. Other major race of local in terest is between Senator Clyde Nolan and, Robert Morgan for the North Carolina Senate seat. Renominated without opposi tion were: Hazel B. Bumgardner, of Kings Mountain, District 2 county com missioner; B. T. Falls, Jr., of Shelby, representative to the North Carolina General Assem bly; Dan ,W. Moore, register of deeds; D. R. S Prater, county surveyor; Z. V. Cline, Shelby, District A county commissioner; and F. L. Rollins, District 3 county commissioner. Two incumbent county com sioners face opposition. Incum bent A. C. Braqkett, of Casar, Dis trict 4 commissioner is opposed by B. P. Jenkins, Sr., of route 1, Shelby, and R. G. Burrus, of Mooresboro, District 5 commis sioner, is opposed by A. B. Ham rick, route 1, Mooresboro. Under (Continued On Page Eight) . Local Men Gel Masonic Posts Two members of Fatrvlew Lodge, A. F. & A. M., have been appointed to high positions In North Carolina Masonry by Wil liam H. White, of Sanford, grand master of ttie Grand Lodge of North Carolina. Arnold W. Kincaid was re -ap pointed grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, and John H. Floyd has been ap pointed deputy grand master of Masonic District 37. Action Tops Busy Session; Terminal Opening Is Sought Board Oideis Enforcement Oi "Blue" Law Meeting in a long and busy session Monday night for the regular monthly meeting, the city board of commissioners took action on a wide variety of ma jor and minor matters. The board:" 1) Ordered enforcement of an old Sunday '^blue law", on writ, ten request of Rev. Vance Daniel, secretary of the Kings Mountain Ministerial association. 2) Appointed W. P. Shytle, previously listed as night police chief, as lieutenant, or assistant chief, thereby eliminating the i two-chief set-up installed several weeks ago. 3) Heard a resolution from the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club asking city consideration of fluoridation of water and indi cated it would consider the mat ter during the budget prepara tions for the forthcoming fis cal year. 4) Authorized signing of a contract with R. S. Dickson Com pany, Charlotte bond house, for aid in preparing sale of a natu ral gas bond issue. 5) Instructed the city clerk, Joe Iferidrick, to write a letter to the North Carolina Public Utilities commission to urge commission action in forcing early opening of the m-w bus terminal. 6) Heard a summation of the j city's financial condition from City Administrator M. K Puller, who said that he anticipated more revenues and expenditures tor the 1951-52 fiscal year, and added the possibility, that the city might show a small opera ting deficit for the fiscal year ending in June. The old ordinance restricting j Sunday operation of stores and other businesses permits only Grade "A" pales and drug stores to be open on Sundays between 9:30 a. m. and 12:30 p. m. and between 6:30 find 8:30 p. m. Prime, effect of enforcing the old [ordinance would be the closing, during the particular hours,, of some service stations 'and some cafes. The polite department matter brouglii 7 1 tie principal disagree ment of the evening, and was a mong the final items in the agenda. It was the only split vote of the evening. Commission . er OUand Pearson made a mo tion to rotate the day and night chiefs, but was not seconded, Commissioner C. P. Barry ob jecting to making any change at the moment due to the "re cent Hare-up" following Mayor Garland Still's Monday morning arrest and h.s subsequent circu lar attack on the police depart ment. Mayor Still had left mid ?way the meeting, and Mayor Pro Tempore James Layton was pieslding at the time. Commis sioner B. T. Wright then moved that Officer Shytle be made lieu tenant at a salary of $235 per month, a raise of $.2, retroactive, to April 15. Commissioner Lloyd Davis seconded and the vote was 3-1, Mr. Pearson opposing; Authorization of the contract ( Continued On Page Eight ) City Board Enacts Traffic Changes The following parking limits and traffic changes were enac ted by the city board Monday night: :? 1) Elimination of parking at anytime from Morris street south on Piedmont avenue to the Southern Railway cross ing. : ; 2) Limitation of parking to 10 minutes on the East side of Piedmont avenue, from Parker to Barnett & Tlgnor Garage. 3) Limitation of parking on the East side of Piedmont from Barnett & Tignor Garage to B. A. Smith Store to one hour. "Stop, then turn right on red" signs were ordered in stalled on three city stoplights, at Gold . Battleground, at Mountain . Battleground, and Mountain- Railroad. The board directed that the stoplight at Linwood Road Cleveland Avenue operate 24 hours daily, and voted to ex tend the "caution" time period on all city stoplights. Ruth Elected At Davidson H. L. (Jack) Ruth, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. 11. L. Ruth, was elected president of the student body at Davidson college for 1952; .">3, in a series of elections corn pleted Monday at the college. Mr. Ruth, a rising senior, was the winner of an election which first Included 12 students. A member of the varsity foot ball team at Davidson for three years, Mr. Ruth was also recent ly eleeted_to membership on the school's Pan-IIellenlc council. He is a member of Be ta Theta Pi fraternity. McDaniel Dies At Age Of 93 David Iloyle McDaniel, 93. re tired Bethlehem community farmer, died at his ht<m| at 3' o'clock Wednesday afternoon. He had Ben ill for the past t u . weeks. . i Funeral arrangements wer< in ' complete late Wednesday after noon, but It was thought tlie rites Would be conducted on Friday at Bethlehem Baptist church. iti'.- McDaniel was a native of? Cleveland County, a .son of the late David H. and Barbara Ann Cobb McT>aniel. He was a loyal member of Bethlehem Baptist church. Mr, McDaniel was married to the former Miss Sara Angeline Morrow, who died in 1918. Surviving are four sons and two daughters, W. A. McDaniel, of Atlanta, Ga., G L. McDanJel, J. B. McDaniel, and Lee McDan iel, all of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. T. B. Ware and Mrs. J. S. Putnam, both of Shelby. Also surviving are 45 grand children, 54 great grandchildren I and one great-great-grandchild. Kings Mountain Band Again Wins Highest Rating At Music Festival Kings Mountain city schools band won a I rating (superior) at the annual state music con test held Tuesday at Womans College in Greensboro. Director Joe Hedden's organi zation was one of two bands In Group III who won superior ra tings In last year's contest and along with It the right to com pete In the state contest this year. Cherryvllle'g band also won a rating of superior for the second year In a row. A total of eight bands from Group III schools of the state were in the final compeltlon TXiesday. Ariheboro and Lexing ton also won superior ratings and the other four won ratings of excellent. All but the Kings Mountain and Cherryville bands won out in district compeition this year for the state final con test. Judging the compeitlon were Fred MoCa.ll, of the University of Miami, Manley R. Whitcomb, of Ohio State University, a"d Mark H. Hiridsley, of the Unniversity of Illinois. Mr. Hindsley is one of the most outstanding authori ties on band and orchestra or ganization and admin.stration iri the United States, Mr. Hedden reported. He has written several text books used by most colleges offering courfces in band and or chestra administration, he said. On Wednesday, Group IV, V and VI bands and orchestras ?were being judged. Sewer-Water Bond Election Will Be Called The city board of commission ers took the first step Monday night toward offering a sewer age and water bond issue, when it instructed City Attorney J, R. Davis to contact the New York law firm, Mitchell and Pershing, bond attorneys, to start the nec essary Jegal procedure. Mr. Davis was instructed to confer with Jhe bond attorneys concerning a bond election bas ed on the Olsen Engineering ConTfiany report of sewer and water system needs and estima ted to cost $878,000, including $600,000 for sewer system im provements and the remainder for water system improvements, including raising of the dam at city lake and expansion of fil tering plant facilities. 'Vhether or not the water sys tem improvements would be in cluded was left tentative. Ex pressions of city- commissioners indicated that the water 'bond is sue might be left off, if it ap peared both Issues would stret ch the city's financial situation too greatly. Mr. Davi^ said Wednesday morning he was writing the New York attorneys to begin the nec essary procedure, which requires preparation of resolutions call ing for a special bond election, opening the registration books, and conducting the voting. The process can seldom be conducted in less than four to six months, Mr. Davis told the Herald. He also said he did not think the le gal provision preventing the holding of certain special elec tions within 60 days of so-called regular elections would apply to a sewer-water bond election. It does apply, he said, to holding of special elections to determine legality of sale of alcoholic bev- . erases. Should the 65-day provision apply, the earliest possible date for a bond election here would ?be in August. Cancer Drive u ?>C| Progres .*? :g Initial reports of soliciting committer seeking funds for the American Cancer Society indica ted the drive is progressing sat- ' isfacterily, Mrs. J. H. Arthur, member of the Cancer drive com mittee .said Wednesday. Kings Mountain's quota for the annual fund campaign is $750, and Mrs. Arthur expressed confidence that the quota would be met; The fund drive is a pro ject of the SeniorWoman's Club. Funds derived from U a*e us ed to conduct research to deter mine improved methods of treat ment, discovery and prevention of cancer. Fogleman Rites At Liberty Friday ' -A James Henry Foreman, age 88, resident of Kings Mountain for the past eight years, died Wednesday morning at 1:30 a. m. after an illness of two days. Mr. Fogleman was a native of Alamance County and was the son of the late Henry and Julia Ann St'aley Fogleman. He is survived by three neph ews, Rev. T. W. Fogleman, of New London, former pastor of Bethlehem and Oak Grove Bap tist churches here, S. A. Fogle man of Charlotte and Lawrence Fogleman of Elon college; two nelces, Mrs. Bessie A Lamb of Lexington, and M^s. Mae Ded mon of Salisbury. Funeral services will be con ducted at Pleasant Hill Baptist church, Liberty, N. C., on Friday at 11 a. m. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body was taken to Loflln Funeral Home tn Liberty Thursday.