Population Pages Today City Limit* . Trading Area 7,206 15,000 (1945 Ration Board Flguroo) VOL.62 NO. 20 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 15, 1952 Established 1889 PLANNING FASHION SHOW ? Shown above are four members of the Junior Woman's Club in a planning session for tbe forthcoming "Fashion Frolic", a fashion show of summer apparels to be pre sented at the Woman's Club May 23. They are, left to right. Mrs. Sam Hamrick. Mrs. Helen Ramsey Blanton, Mrs. A. B. Chandler, project chairman, and Mrs. E. R. Goter. (Photo by Carlisle). Local News Bulletins CLUB PRESIDENT Miss Dotty Smith, rising Jun ior at Greensboro college, has been elected president o I the college Spanish Club for next year,' according to information received here. BANK HOLIDAY The First National Bank will be closed next Tuesday in ob servance of a legal bank holi day, commemorating Mecklen burg Independence Day, accord ing to announcement this week. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts total ed $152.05 for the week ending Wednesday, May 7, and $161. 02 for the week ending Wed nesday, May 14, according to a report of Joe Hendrick, city clerk. ON BOARD J. Ollie Harris, Kings Moun tain mortician, was elected 'to the state licensing tooard for North Carolina Funeral Di rectors and Bitvbalmers at the< state association in Charlotte last week. Mr. Harris was elect ed for a five-year term. HAS OPERATION Drace M. Peeler, well-known Kings Mountain businessman, underwent a leg operation at Memorial hospital, Charlotte, Tuesday morning. His condi tion was reported satisfactory )&outhem city obtains It Mwmn J|t ???RSBHif HBHHHi AMONcTtHE CANDIDATES ? Shown above art three Kings Mountain area citizens who are seeking Dem~ratic nominations in the May 31 primary. Edwin Moore, left, and Wayne L. Ware, center, are among nine Cleveland county citizens seeking five nominations to the county board oi education. H. G (Fat) Clemmons, right. Is one of five candidates for the Number 4 Township constable nomination. Saturday Last Day For Registering AT BAPTIST CHURCH ? Miss Blendo Huneycutt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Huneycutt. of Kannapolls, will serve this sum mer as educational director of the First Baptist church. A grad uate ol Mars Hill college and Baylor university. Miss Huney cutt is now studying In Louta ?ille. Ky., for a master's degree in religious education, prior to entering the foreign mission field. Annual Band Concert Tonight The top-rating Kings Moun tain school hand, under the direc tion of Joe Hodden, will present its annual spring concert Thurs day evening at 8 o'clock, at Cen tral school auditorium. According to Mr. Hedden. the program will be quite varied, in eluding military marches, popu lar ballads, and Jazz novelty num bers, as well as the symphonic classics. Two soloists will be featured on the program. Gene Austin, bari tone soloist will play "Willor Ec hoes", und Gene Ellis will play a trumpet solo "Carnival of Ven ice", with Miss Barbara Gault ac companying at the piano. No admission will be charged. Plonk School Ploy Will Be Presented The Plonk .School of Creative Arts will present Its annual spring season play Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:30 at the Plonk School Theatre in Ashe vllle. The college workshop players will present Philip Barry's "Second Threshold", a two-act play produced at the Morosco Theatre in New York In January, 1951. Among the cast is Miss Nancy Plonk, of Kings Mountain, who takes the role of Thankful moth er. Miss Nan Jean Gantt, of Kings Mountain, is one of the stage managers, and Miss Shirley Hou ser, of Kings Mountain will serve as an usher. Admission will be one dollar per person. HOSPITAliZBD Mrs. Do?thy McCarter Ham, Herald reporter, is a patient at Kings Mountain hospital. She became ill at work shortly af ter noon Tuesday. Olive, Umstead. Nolan, Morgan Pay Visits Here Prospective voters must regis ter by Saturday. If they expect to vote in ihe May 31 primaries. Saturday is the final day on which the books will be open, and the registrars will be at their desks all day to put new names oh the books. May 24 is Challenge Day. Political activity, still outward ly quiet here compared with noi mal spring seasons, was increas ing considerably. Both of the leading Democrat ic gubernatorial candidates, Hu bert Olive, of Lexington, and Wil liam B. Umstead, of Durham, were in Kings Mountain this week. Olive was here Mohday, Umstead on Tuesday. Also showing signs of warm ing Considerably was the race be tween Senator Clyde Nolan and Robert Morgan, the challenger, for tfio Democratic nomination for the North Carolina Senate. Both these candidates marie i Kings Mountain their working i headquarters ? o:i Tuesc'?> and i both uniformly reported "it looks I good".; The five-man township consta ble race was also forming into an interesting affair, with all the candidates busy beating the bushes for prospective voters. They include Ervin Ellison, Paul Byers, Will Blackburn, the in cumbent, H. G. Clemmons and Ken Stepp. Busy also in the county wars were Wayne L. Ware and Edwin Moore, of Kings Mountain, both seeking Democratic nominations They are two of nine candidates seeking the five nominations. to the county board of education. Other races weren't getting too much attention. LEGION COMMANDER ? Sam Collins, above, was elected and installed as commander of the Kings Mountain American Le gion post last Friday nigbt. Collins Takes Legion Helm Sam Collins, Kings Mountain ?businessman, was elected com mander and Installed along with other 1952-53 officers at the regu lar May meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155. the American Legion, held at the Legion Building last Friday night. Past Commander Glee X. Brid ges installed the newly elected officers. "There is no rank among u.?j. Upon your shoulders." he ad dressed the new officials, "rests the responsibility of running post affairs". "Your duty is to buck your officers and work for the post," Mr. Bridges saifi to the other members present. OthT. officers installed were: First Vic<';C"omrt:urido,r ? Jutnes Bennett* Second Vice-Commander Ned A. MeGiil, of Gastoriia, Adjutant C. T. Carpenter, Jr Finance Officer Fred Haithcox. Chaplain \V F. Laughter Historian L. T. Anderson. Sargeant - at . Arms Hubert Aderholdt. Service Officer John \V. Glad den. Additional members of the post executive committee. Past Commander Warren Reynolds,! Past Commander Paul Mauney, Past Commander John Floyd. Past Commander Gladden and Paul Byers. . ? Mr. Reynolds, retiring -cohn (Continued On Page Eight) Fuller Says City Under-Spending Income, To End Year With Surplus The City of Kings Mountain will show an operating profit rather than a loss for the current year. M. K. Fuller, city admini strator, told the city board of commissioners Monday night. He said he ba.<4ed his estimate Tentative figures on the 1952 property valuation for the city are S6.405.892, up about a quar ter of a million dollars from the 1951 valuation. M. X. Fuller reported Monday night In cluded was S2rS 50,752 in per sonal property and $3,855,840 In reed property, plus the 1951 figure* on corporations which are valued by the state assess ment board. on figures compiled for the first ten months of the fiscal year ending April 30. and said his re. port of the previous month, when an operating loss was Indicated, was based on a clerical error ty* tabulating expenditures. Mr. Fuller reported for ten months: 1) Total receipts of $353,530.39, against total expenditures of $319,912. 2) Bank balance at April 30 of $66,360.33. 3) Tax collections for the year totaling 89.6 percent of the $110, 948.5-1 levy (on & valuation of $0.. 162.127). Total tax collections for ten months have been $99, 420-35 4) A larger increase in gross revenues from utilities, causing his prediction that water reve nues would be up $15,000 for the full fiscal year and that light and power revenues would be up approximately $14,000 for the fls cal year. Water revenues, he reported, have already reached $47,128.71, to top the $41,799.04 for all of 1951-52. Light and p ? -- Commissioners Repeal City's Sunday Blue Law The city board- of commission ers, in regular monthly meeting Monday night, tentatively set the 1952-53 tax rate at $1.80 per $100 valuation, and repealed by 4-0 the Sunday blue law enacted at a re cent special meeting. t The tax rate action is not final, hut will give the city a basis for accepting prepayments on tax bills next month at the legal two percent discount. The tentative rate is the same rate which has prevailed for the past three years. The blue law repeal was the result of Commissioner B. T. Wright's motion and Commission missioner OUand Pearson and C. P. Barry's second, with Com Lloyd E. Davis supporting. Com missioner James Layton abstain ed. Previously, the same motion by Mr. Wright had elicited only a 2-0 vote, all the other commis sioners abstaining. The city at torney offered the opinion that at least three votes Were requir ed, and, after considerable dis cussion. the other commissioners joined in the action. Following the action, the com missioners unanimously passed a resolution urging business firms to close their businesses, on a voluntary basis, during the hours of 10 a. m. to noon on Sundays. In seconding the motion, Mr. Barry remarked that he did not believe In working on Sunday and did not himself, but that he felt it impossible fo legislate morals. Other actions by the board in cluded: (1) Approved a street paving petition from property owners on Monte Vista Drive; from Wilson to Falls Street. (2) Voted to attend the May 29 regional meeting of the North Carolina League of Municipali ties at Shelby. (3) Tabled for further informa tion a suggestion by Mr. Pearson that C. E. Carpenter, court clerk and tax lister, b^ named tax supervisor. (4) Authorized inviting bids for a billing machine. (5) Authorized installation of a twoinch water line off Cherry ville Road to provide better water service, on complaint received from Ted Ramsey. <6) Voted to oil non-paved city streets, other than thoSo schedul ed for paving, as a dust preven tive. <1 ' Authorized grading work on Ma'uney. Avenue to improve a bad drainage. situation, at an es timated cost of $250. the cost, not exceeding that amount, to lie paid for by K. T. plot*. *8) Authorized installation of drainage tile on Ijnwood Road to accommodate Second Baptist church, which plans to build a new church dn the south side of L, in wood Road. f9) Tabled for action at the May 14 special meeting request by the City Stadium planning committee to build permanent type concession stand and ticket booths at fhe Stadium. (10) Voted to Install a six-inch water line from York Road to Oriental avenue and to extend a two inch water line to serve Mrs. Alda Deal, who appeared before the board to seek water service. (11) Heard a delegation of Neg ro citizens ask for improvement of West Ridge Street. (12) Voted to set up in the forthcoming 1952-53 budget a $5,000 sum for purchase of a suitable tract to trade Burlington Mills Corporation for a 17-acre tract sought by the Recreation commission as a recreation plant site. A. B. Chandler, commission chairman, had told the board two sites' Were available which Burlington had indicated would he acceptable. City Attornev J, R Davis told the board he had forwarded to New York bond attorneys all in formation thev had asked con cerning a proposal to call a sewape Improvements hond elec tion and tl.at he expected a re port fr..m the attorneys in the near future. All the actions, other than the blue law matter, were by 5-0 vote. ?' OOn DONORS At 3:30 Wednesday after noon, lOl pints of t>]ood had been collected by- the Red Cross BloodmobHe from Kings Mountain area citizens Donors had kept both the medical and volunteer staff busy from opening time at 11 a. m.