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i Population City Limits 7.206 Trading Area . .r: . .... 15.000 (1945 Batlon Board Figure*} 16 Pages Today Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS ifi First ion Day Local News COLLEGE TRUSTEE ? W. K. Mauney, Kings (Moun tain textile executive, was re elected a trustee of Lenoir Rhyne college last week. i ?? ATTENDS CONVENTION T. W. Grayson, Kings Moun tain Jeweler, returned Tuesday from Winston -Salem, where he attended the annual conven tion of the North Carolina Jew elry Dealers association. RECEIVES DISCHARGE Don Carpenter, who has been serving with the Navy for the past 15 months, was honorably discharged this week accord ing to information received here. TO ENGLAND Cpl. Ivan Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Weaver, leaves Thursday for Camp Kilmer, N. J., preparatory to transfer to England for duty with the ALr Force. He has spent & 30- day leave here with his parents. LEAVES SUNDAY Warrant Officer Ray Black leaves Sunday for Camp Kil mer, N. J., for assignment to duty In Germany with the ar my. Mrs. Slack and children will reside in Kings CMountaln while Mr. Black is overseas. ' DUKE ALLOCATION' Kings (Mountain Hospital was allocated $179 by the Duke Endowment for Charity work done In 1961, according to an nouncement following a meet ing of the Endowment trustees Tuesday. HEALTH OFFICIAL W. S. McKimmon, chief san itation engineer of the North Carolina Department of Heal th, will come here May 14 for a public hearing on the city's sewage disposal system needs. City Clerk Joe Hendrick said this week. The meeting will be held at City Hall courtroom. CASHWELLS MOVING Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Cash well, Jr., will move Thursday to Le noir, where Mr. Cashwell will assume the duties of pastor of College Avenue Baptist Chur ch. Mr. Cashwill completed his pastorate of First Baptist chur ch at the Wednesday evening prayer service. TO ATTEND MEET Dr. P. G. Padgett will leave Sunday to attend the annual session of the Medical Socie ty of the State of North Car olina which will be held at Carolina Hotel, iiv Pinehurat, May 5-7. 'Announcement was made by James T. Barnes, ex ecutive secretary. 1' , ISLEY FEATURED Mayor Carlysie Isley, of Bur lington, recently elected di rector for the sixth district. North Carolina League of Mu nicipalities, was pictured on the cover of the League's April edition of its monthly publication Southern City. Mr. Isley is the husband of the for mer Miss Margaret Plonk, of Kinps Mountain. 1! Your Light BUI Looks Odd. Read This About 700 city water and po wer bills, approximately one third of the totaL will have ? strange appearance to custo mers receiving them Thursday. With two-thirds of the mon th's billing Job dene. Assistant Cit* Clerk Joe McDanlel re ports, the billing machine brake, and the remainder of the task bad to be done by hand. The "odd" bills list only the amounts lor water, lights and other Items, pins totaL without the several meter en tries customarily made by the machine . Mr. McDanlel says the meter readings will be famished en request. The machine has new been repaired and the bills eboald return to their normal look n?*t month. Mr. IfcDamiel i ? Pie-Primary Registering To Get Underway plaSHy at thC respoctlve .Polling The registrars will bo nt ?>,?i X TT 9 a' ? 4mm,1 zens not now register**! ? handle transfers fnr Th* secutive ' three cod ami 17 Q.t ^ays' on May 3, 10 fenRe day M? ?? ch.? TwjsMp^lZL Si1? u iSfrtSSfK* *szra?gr? ?*?*> b Grave, (TaM's Drag Store,. j. ^&5sE?*~k ,Mr. Hendrick saw !J ?, ^P,ete' KrUnParbli0tolyse^0,KS f ^ -ntroneRabeCaT ^ clnct will be a D&nJH * pre" will be a Rep^SS? *"* ?"e <D, ??* F"'s WUlIara7tlJ{J'e,If?u"toIn, w. A. J"?8e. Othe, ludM ^?UKi'Can not been named: Klng8 the county primary in lssn , the general election of 7 EX' r ln May Day Festival To Be Presented ? & ? ? Admission will be five cents on o y Crawford will be e? Sn prisi? s.?f,G,?'rh r -to si wart, juniors, Shirlev p?ii0 . t freshmm Patey fv,"? "U"e: Mary Alice mXS.T?1" and " z '&?>%?? z:yBz: ffsvpis? i preMm^ classes. phy"lcaI education K ^h?K Day 15 8P?n8ored by the k' an or??nlzatJon of girls r?H \!?aVe earned schot>l letters and the members of the nhv?inoi education faculty. Physical Material Delay Slows Opening Of Bus Terminal The contractor's delay in in stalling partitions In the bath rooms of the near-complete Kings Mountain Bus Terminal was giv en as the reason for delay in opening of the terminal, in a let ter received .by the city Wednes day. The letter was a carbon of mes sage sent by J..H. QuatUebaum, of Queen City Coach Company, to Edward H. McMahan, Utilities commissioner, according to City Clerk Joe Hendrick. In response to a letter from the city clerk, Mr. MaMahan, who has been handling the Kings Mountain case for the utilities commission, had written the Queen City official Information on when the terminal would open. Mr. Quattlebaum stated in the letter that the contractor had in formed him the partitions had ar rived and would be installed in the near future. He said that Queen City hoped to open the terminal "as quickly as possible, and will do so." Plonk School Plays Won Highest Ratings Plays of both the high school and college departments of the Plonk School of Creative Arts, of Asheville, won }op honors at the annual North Carolina Dramatic Festival held at Chapel Hill last weekend. Lead roles in the cast of Mar> tha L. Levering's "Reciprocity," were played by Shirley Houser and Nan Jean Gantt, Kings Mountain, students at the Ashe ville school. The college depart ment presented James M. Bar rle's "Twelve Pound Look." The Plonk school is directed by Misses Laura and Lillian Plonk, Kings Mountain natives. Mrs. W. M. Gantt and Mrs. George Houser, of Kings Moun tain, attended the festival. Snarr Heifer Sale Saturday Fifty purebred Guernsey heif ers will he sold at auction at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds, beginning at 12:30 Saturday. The auction, is a feature of Ward Snarr's eighth annual heifer sale, and the third annual sale in Cleveland County. The sale is being conducted in cooperation with the Cleveland Guernsey Breeders association and is. designed to improve the quality of Guernsey herds in the county. On Friday niglu the associa tion will hold a supper for breed ers, merchants, consignors, Grade "A" dairy operators and other "guests, also at the Fair grounds, at 6:30. Following sup per, Ralph Coarsey, manager of Eeigeidale Farms, at Trion, Ga., will deliver an address. Holland Dixon, of Kings Moun tain, is a member of the commit tee arranging the Friday night supper. J. C. Randle, also of Kings Mountain, is president of the Guernsey Breeders associa tion and will preside over the meeting. BUILDING PERMIT A building permit was is sued last week at City Hall to McCoy Service Company for construction of a service sta tion on Railroad avenue at an estimated cost of $5,000. Funeral Services For C. C. Edens Conducted Wednesday Afternoon Funeral rites for C. C. (Shorty) Edens, 53, were conducted Wed nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at First Baptist church, with Inter ment following In Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Edens, for much of his a dult life a well-known Kings Mountain citizen, died Monday morning at 9:10 at Kings Moun tain' hospital after suffering a heart attack. He had been lfi for four day&, having suffered a slight attack last Wednesday. He appeared to he recovering satis factorily until early Monday morning when he suffered a se vere attack. He was admitted to the hospital about five hours be fore his death. A native of Cteonee County. S.' C., Mr. Edens was the son of the late Samuel and u.lary Stand] Edens. He liad recently retired as a merchant, .having disposed of hla interest in Economy Cash Grocery. A loyal and active member of the First Baptist church, Mr. Edens was actively Identified in the civic life of the (c ontimmed On Page Eight) HEART ATTACK FATAL ? ' Fun ?ml rltoa for C C, (Shorty) Edtu. woll- known Kings Moun tain dttson wm hold Wodnes day afternoon at First Baptist church. Mr. Edons succumbod Monday morning, following a heart attack. r?atw#i BLOOD CHAIRMAN? Rev. Vance Daniel has been appointed blood program chairman of the Kings Mountain chapter. American Red Cross. Succeeding Rev. T. L. Cashwell. Jr. Daniel Named Blood Chairman Rev. Vance Daniel, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, was appointed .blood program chairman Of the Kings Moun tain chapter, American Red Cross this week, succeeding Rev. T. L. Cashwell, Jr., who leaves Thursday to assume a new pas torate in Lenoir. The appointment was made by Rev. W. L. Pressly, chapter chairman, and was announced Monday nigl)t-at a special meet ing of the Red Cross directors concerning the blood program. Addresses were made by Mrs. Marion Ritzert, of Charlotte, area blood program representative, and by Miss Hope Buck, of At lanta, special field irepresenta tive, both of whom pointed out the great need for increased blood collections to 'serve both civilian and armed services de mands. Mrs. Mary B. Goforth also re ported on a recent meeting in Charlotte at which quotas for the coming year were scheduled. She said that Kings Mountain's quota for the year beginning July 1 is 667 pints of blood, and, that the community is currently 220 pints- behind on its 1951 52 quota. Mrs. J. N. Gamble, Red Cross secretary, said that there is dan ger that the Red Cross will, with draw its supplies from the Kings Mountain hospital if the blood quotas are not met. Kings Mountain's last collec tion, under Mr. Cashwell's chair manship, was it's i <t success ful. A total of 144 pints of blood was collected. I Mis. Goodwin To Make Address To Chuichwomen Mrs. Patsy Smith Goodwin, of Charlotte, president of the Char lotte Council of Churchw'onien and active in Charlotte's literary and cultural life, will make the principal address here Friday at community-wide observance of May Fellowship Day. The program will be held at Boyce Memorial ARP church at 3 o'clock. In commenting on the program, Mrs. O. W. Myers, president of the Kings Mountain council said, "We are very fortunate to have Mrs. Goodwin with us for one of the three important days in the church council's annual pro gram. She is a highly accomplish ed person and a most interesting speaker. We want all women of the community to attend." Theme of the observance is "Spiritual Security for Today's Families", with special emphasis on the importance of the home and the home community in build ing spiritual security. More than 1,800 communities throughout the nation will join With Kings Mountain in the May ^Fellowship Day observance. An 'offering will be taken, with proceeds to further the work of the United Churchwomen. Bethtvaie Finals Speakers Jfamed Graduation exercises at Beth-| warp school wilf toe held on thei evenings of May 18 and 19, ac cording to announcement iby John Rudisill, principal. Rev. R. L. Forbis, pastor of El Bethel Methodist church, will de liver the baccaulaureate sermon on May 18, and J. Horace Grigg, superintendent of county schools, will make the graduation ad dress on May 19. Both programs will begin at 8 o'clock. Mr. Rudisill said that 22 Beth ware seniors will receive diplo mas. Class valedictorian Is Frie da Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brown. The salutatori an is Luther McSwain, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Luther McSwain. Fourteen members of the sen ior class are in Washington, D. C., this week on the annual se nior class tour of fhG Capitol city. Also on the tour are 22 members of the Tryon school se nior class. Mrs. Pauline Putnam, of Tryon school, and Mr. and Mrs. Rudisill accompanied the group. The group left Monday and expects to return over the weekend. Rev. David Morris New Temple Minister Rev. David N. Morris, Gastonia native, will assume the duties of pastor of Temple Baptist -church on May 11, according to an nouncement this week. Mr. Morris, now completing his second year of study a* ite Sou thern Baptist Theological semi nary, Louisville, Ky., is a grad uate of Wake Forest college and of Gardner-Webb Junior college. The son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Morris, of Gastonia, Rev. Mr. Morris is 28 years of age. Mrs. Morris, also a hatlve of Gastonia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Quinn. They have two children, ages six years and seven months. ? ' Rev. Mr. Morris has held pas torates in both North Carolina and Kentucky, having recently served as pastor of Black Grove Baptist church. In North Caroli na, he has served the High View Baptist church and the Mont, wood Baptist church. Mr. Morris succeeds as pastor of Temple Baptist church Rev. W. P. Monroe, who resigned sev eral months ago. MASONIC MEETING An emergent communication of Falrview Lodge 339, A. F. & A. M. will be held Monday* night at 7 o'clock. The Master Masons degree will be confer red. AH master ilaaons are toeing invited to attend. TEMPLE PASTOR ? Rev. David N. Morris, Gastonia native, will assume the duties of pastor of Temple Baptist cburch on May II. according to announcement by the church. GUEST MINISTER William Fofbis, ministerial student at High Point college, will be guest minister at the morning service at El Bethel chunCh at 11 o'clotfc. Special music will also be rendered. Evening services will "6e held at Penley's Chapel Sunday at 7:30 p. m. Rev. R. L. Forfris made the announcement. Dawson Blasts State Lobbyists m In Address Here Charging that a group of lob byists for 11 big interests wrote the 1952 education appropriation bill for the General Assembly, A. G. Dawson, head of the North' Carolina United Forces for Edu cation program, urged laymen to support a five-point program for improvement of schools, In an address here Monday night. Mr. Dawson, superintendent of school? at Southern Pines, was the principal speaker at the an nual District 6 meeting of the North Carolina school board, as sociation. The 80 ooiiool board members $nd officials present fot the meeting elected H. Wells Rogers, of Albemarle, president for the coming year, named James Glenn, of Charlotte, as vlce-prcs ident, and John Birch Morris, of Albemarle, secretary. Mr. Rogers, a former Kings Mountain resi dent, succeeds Arnold W. Kincaid of Kings Mountain. Mr. Rogers was elevated from the vice-pres idency. - The district includes Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Stanly and Union counties. Mr. Dawson declined to name liis source of information on the lobbying charge. ? The program of the United Forces he outlined included: 1 J Provision of good instruc tion, through increased appro priations to provide a salary schedule for teachers beginning" at ?2,600 annually for beginning "A", certificate teachers, with in crements over a 12-year period to $-1,100. 2) Reduction of the teacher load from 32 to 30 pupils. 3) Adequate appropriations for instructional supplies. 4) Employment of attendance officers to get the 60,000 "lost" Ncirth Caiolina children In school regularly. 5) Additional school construc tion appropriations by the state to take care of the expected school population increase dur ing the forthcoming decade. Mr. Dawson offered the opin ion that the principal recom mendations of the United Forces for Education can be obtained without increased taxes, though he inferred that school building appropriations would require a state ibond issue. He declared that the state will show a large surplus at the end of the current fiscal year, esti mated the surplus at the end of the 1951-53 biennium would ap proach $-10 to 560 million and urged citizens ' interested in schools to see that the schools get a portion of the surplus. He declared that none of the war years surplus went to the schools. Charles McCrary, of Asheboro,. president of the North Carolina School Board association, in brief remarks prior to the Daw son address, similarly supported the five-point program. He said he felt laymen, headed by school boards, could obtain more favor able treatment from the General Assembly than could "profes sional" school citizens. He said he did not favor mass meeting# of school teachers in RaleLgh be fore legislative committees, say ing he felt these "pressure" meetings did more harm than good. Mr. Dawson added his a greement. Retiring President Kincaid pre sided over the meeting, and Dr. A. S. Hurlbuft. of the University of North Carolina School of Ed ucation, presented association officials. During dipner, Howard Coble, public school music instructor, and the girls trio, including Do lores Davidson, Evelyn Cline and Melba Tindall, presented a mu sical program. They were ac companied by Barbara Gault. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts total ed $146.13 for this week end ing Wednesday, according ta a report of Joe Hendrick, city cleik. City Commisioners Amend Blue Law 8 RUNNING AGAIN? W. U Black burn, who announced April 23 ho was withdrawing from the Number 4 Township constable race, changed his mind over the weekend. Five candidates seek the nomination in the May 31 Democratic primary. W. L. Blackburn Re-enters Race W. L. Backburn re-ehtered the race for the Democratic nomina tion for constable Monday, fol lowing his announcement on April 23 that he was withdraw ing from the race. It was the principal develop ment of the week in local area poli?;?= now peaking for the May 31 i>emocraUc primary. The reentry of Mr, Blackburn in th" constable contest returns to five the number of contest ants for the constable nomina tion. The others are Ervin Klli son, Paul Byers, Ken Stepp and H. G. Clemmons. Mr. Blackburn exhibited a let ter from C. H. Hendrix, of Shelby, chairman of the county board of elections, under date of April 25, which read: "In regard to your request to withdraw your notice of candi dacy irt the primary election as Constable of Township Number Four, we are sorry to inform you that the ballots have already been printed, and your name, of course, is on them." In his re-entry statement, Mr. Blackburn told the Iferald: "Since my name was already on the ballot and could not be removed, and at the urging of many friends and voters. I have "decided that if the people want me for consijbie for another two years. I would serve as in the past, to rhe best of ability." Kiwanis Project To Get Out Vote A Register-andvote campaign has been launched by the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. .1. C. Bridges is chairman of the pro ject. The club's purpose is to get 100 percent registration of all eligible Kings Mountain area voters by the May 31 primary. Plans are to use advertising methods to urge eligible voters to register and then to vote, Chairman Brid ges said. The campaign, entitled "Ballet Battalion", is expected to result in the largest turn out at the polls in the history of primary elec tions in this area The Kings Mountain club Is conducting the "'Juliet Battalion" in eonjuction , i<h the national Kiwanis organization. ATTENDS BOARD MEETING W. E. Blakely attended a board meeting of Ersklpe Col lege at Due West, Monday. Kings Mountain Kiwanians To Hold Annual Ladies Night Fete Thursday Lex L. Ray, of Raleigh, director of the State College Foundation, will be after-dinner speaker at the annual Kiwanls Club ladies night banquet to be held tonight (Thursday) at the Masonic Din ing Hall. j Mr. Ray will be Introduced by Lewis Hovls. Special music will be rendered by the Kings Mountain high school girls trio, Dolores David son, Melba Tindall antf Evelyn Cllne. They will be accompanied by Miss Barbara Gault. W. Faison Barnes, chairman of the club's ladies night committee, made the announcement. Others on the committee are J. C. Brid Crook. Mr. Barnes stated that Mr. Ray spoke here last at the Kiwanis club farmers night program and Is a widely known after-dinner speaker. He Is a graduate of N. C. State college and Is a former exe cutive secretary of the N. C. Dairy Manufacturers Association. ? ? . . ? ? .. I Effective Date Of New Ruling Not Included Kings Mountain's Sunday blue law was amended last Friday liight by the city board of com nilssioners to apply to all busi nesses between the hours of 10 a. m. and noon. The special meeting was called to consider amending the law, following objection to the board's April 2lst action in ordering en forcement of an old ordinance. Commissioner Lloyd Davis made the motion, Commissioner' Olland Pearson seconded, and the vote was 4-0, Commissioner James I.ayton abstaining. After some question about the effective date of the amended ordinance. City Attorney J. R. Davis advised the citv not to en force the ordinance until minutes of the meeting had been approv ed. Minutes approval eustomerjly occurs at the regular monthly meeting of the board, with the May meeting scheduled for May 12.- City Clerk Joe Hendrlck said the police department will not en-" force the law until the minutes are approved. , ? A large number . of citizens at tended the Friday night session, including operators of some busi nesses which have been open on Sundays, as Well - as representa tives of the Ministerial associa tion. The three ministers present, Rev. P. D .Patrick, Rev. Vance Daniel and Rev. T. L. Cashwell Jr., denied that tb*y trying to exert undue pressure on the board to enforce the Sunday blue law, hut Mr. Cashwell remarked that the law shouud be enforced or stricken from the books. ? Mr. Patrick asked how many ??ommunities had similar laws and enforced them, but no an swer was supplied until Bill But er, of Silver Villa Grill remarked I A tor that he had to be open to serve hungry people, stating that ' nothing is open between Char lotte ant! Asheville". Mr. Patrick was quick to suggest that the other communities seemed to be doing all right, where partial closing schedules were observed. ity Attorney Davis suggested that the old law was discrimina tory, by allowing only Grade "A" cafes ito remain open, and voiced the doubt that such discrimina tion is legal. Jim Leigh, service station ope rator, said that closing for church hours On Sunday morning and Sunday evenings might result in j rm ing to be closed seven days [weekly. 7 W. A. Crawley, Operator of a fruit stand, said, "Wouldn't it he o. k. for a man to let his con science make the decision? I make my living serving people on Sunday, Just like the preacher does preaching on Sunday." The statement brought much laugh ter from all present. The ministers said that a Mini stcrial association member, not present, had led the movement in which the association asked the ^ to enforce Its old blue law. ibis minister, they said, had stat ed a number of citizens, required - (Continued On Page Eight) Final Rites Held For Mrs. Walkei Final rites for Mrs. Julia Etta Walker, 66. wife of Joseph A. Walker and resident of 307 Parker Street, were conducted from Central Methodist church Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. J. H. Brendall and Rev. Lee J. Spenser, pastor of Cher ryvllle Methodist church, offici ated. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Walker died at 7:45 a. ,m. last Thursday at Kings Mountain hospital after a serious ilfnfcss of two months. She was a native of Cleveland county, a daughter of the late Daniel M. and Martha Hallman Hartsoe. She was a member of Central Methodist church. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Walker is survived by three sons, Arthur Walker, Paul Walker, and Horace Walker,, all of Kings Mountain and one daughter, Mrs. D. C. DeVenny of Cherryville; one sister. Miss Myra Hartsoe and one grand child. Ilillar! Black, Boyer Murray, Baxter Pavseur, Plnkney Ware, M. C. Poston, and Holland Dixon served as pallbearers. ;? **. . ./ -? - ?.