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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 )&<e Wednesday morning. XXWAN18 MEETING Virgil Weathers, of Shelby, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanls club Ttiursday evening at 6:45 at the regular weekly meeting, lite club meets at Masonic Dining Hall. Still Pleads Guilty On Speeding Charge ^Mayor Garland Still plead lty to a charge of speeding be Judge Rueben Elam in lty recorder's court Wednes \and was fined $5 and the (ayor was found not gull charge of reckless driv khad plead guilty to driv mlles per hour. 1 case, P. A. Hawkins, italn policeman, was t guilty on a charge of in office. Judge E Warren Reynolds, ptain auto dealer, and witness, with the of "frivolous prosecution". the Mayor a arrest by city ofr i weeks ago. w . Models Are Listed For Fashion Frolic k ? ? ? * . . . . , ? ? . ? ' N , . ^ Sonuner Apparel Fashion Show Work Underway Twenty Kings Mountain wo men will serve as models for Fashion Frolic, the summer ap parel fashion show scheduled for presentation on May 23 at the Woman's Club. Tickets for the event are now on sale at 50 cents each. The show event is being spon sored by the Junior Woman's Club in cooperation with the Kings Mountain Merchants asso ciation. . . The models Include: Miss Betty Hayes, Mrs. Margaret Paysour, Mrs. Sam Mitchem, Miss Berniee Harrison, Miss Margaret Corn well, Mrs. Ruby Crawford, Mrs. L. E. Abbott, Mrs. Bruce Thor burn. Miss Vera Hudson, Miss Joyce Foster, Mrs. John Cheshire, Mrs. David Cash, Mrs. P. D. Hern don, Mrs. Pinky Ware, Mrs. Hun ter Patterson, Mrs. Carl Mauney, and Miss Eleanor Myers. Children's summer apparel will be shown, but the models have not yet been announced. Mrs. A. B. Chandler, chairman of the Junior Woman's Club pro ject, said much interest is being evidenced concerning the forth coming show and a capacity crowd is expected to attend the event Firms participating in the show are Belle's Department Store, Plonk Brothers & Company, Myers' Dress Shop, Keeter"s, Inc., Reba's Fashions, Wee Folk Shop pe, Dellinger's Jewel Shop, Gray son's Jewelry and Sudie's Beauty Shop. MOVED SATURDAY Mr. and Mr*. W. K. Mauney, Jr., and family, moved Satur day Into their new brick home on East Gold street. JAYCEE PRESIDENT ? Joe Hed don, city school band director, was installed as president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the club's annual banquet held last Friday night at the Country [ Club. Jaycee Frolic Well Attended Annual ladies night banquet of the Junior Chamber of Commerce was held at the Country Club last Friday night, with informali ty the theme, and with some 125 persons attending. | Joel Ritchie, of , Albemarle, third district vice-president, in stalled officers for the coming year. New officers are: President Joe Hedden. First Vice-President Paul Wal ker. Second Vice-President J. T. McGinnls. Secretary Pete McDaniel. Treasurer Rudl Wuennenbt-rg. Sargeant-at-Arms Bill Beam. Directors, for two-year terras, Yates Harbison, Jack White and (.Continued On Page Eight) Bethware Commencement Piogiam To Be Held Sunday, Monday Nights Graduation exercises for 21 seniors at Bethware high school will begin on Sunday evening, with the baccalaureate service, followed by the commencement exercises on Monday evening. Both programs will begin at 8 o'clock. On Sunday evening, Rev. R. L. Forbte, pastor of El Bethel Metho dist church, will deliver the ser mon. Rev. C. C- Crow will read the Scripture and pray. Special music will Include two solo num bers. by Dorothy Patterson and by LUlher McSwa.'n, Jr. On Monday evening, J. H. Grigg, county schools superin tendent, will deliver the gradua tion address Frances Bridges will give the invocation, and the girls' trio will sing "Others". Lather McSwain, Jr., will give the salutatory address and Freda Brown the valedictory adrlress, while Bobby Huskey" will Intro duce Mr. Grigg. . Irvtn McSwaln, Jane Goforth, Betty Wllllama and Bobby Mor ris will serve as marshals Class, mascots are Freda Alli son and Darrell Leohart. Kiwar.isClub Completes Plans For Horse Show Full plans for the Kings Moun tain Kiwanls Club's annual horse show were announced this week by Chairman Byron Keeter, who said that more than $1,5Q0 would be offered as prices in the one day, two-performance event sche duled for June 4 at City Stadium. W, G. Grantham is serving a$ co-chairman of the show, vWth L. E. / bbott as secretary-treasur er. Mr. Keeter announced that Jim my Richardson, here two years ago to furnish music on his elec tric organ, will play for the show this year, and that J. D. Massey, of Greenville, S. C., who announc ed the afternoon events last yeiar, would serve as master of cere monies. Judges will be Ed Stalcup, gait ed division, and Hulon Ferrel, walking horse division. Stewart Dellinger, of Stanley, will serve as ringmaster, and Dr. Jacob S. Mauney, of Kings Mountain, will be the official veterinarian. The afternoon performance I will include ten events, while 11 competitions are scheduled for the evening performance, thfc lat ter including nine stake events. Committees as announced by Mr. Keeter include (first-named serving as chairman): Entertainment ? W. K. Crook, David Neill, Arnold Kincaid. Entries -'Dr. D. F. Ford. Publicity ? Paul Mauney, Dr. W. P. Cerberding. Grounds ? Lewis ijovis, W. G. Grantham. W. T. Weir, D. M. Peeler, Jim Anthony and Ed Concessions ? J. L. McGlll, J. H. Patterson, W. Tt Weir and Harold Crawford. Tickets ? A. B. Chandler, Fai son Barnes, Joe Lee Woodward, J. C. Bridges and E. W. Griffin. I Advertising and program ? I Arnold Kiser and W. K. Mauney, co-hajrmen, H. R. Neisler, Aubrey Mauney, Halbert Webb, Harry Page, J. E. Herndon and M. K. Fuller. Music and Lights ? Harold Hunnicutt and B. S. Peeler, Jr. Davis Reports On FPC Hearings It wiU probably be three months before the city learns whether it will get an allocation of natural gas from the Trans continental Pipeline, City Attor-' ney. J. R. Davis told the city board of commissioners Monday night. Mr. Davis was reporting on three trips he rriade to Washing ton to represent the city in hear ings before the Federal Power commission. He related the objections ad vanced by opponents of the Kings Mountain application and those of 14 other southern cities, includ ing Shelby and Lexington in North Carolina. Fighting the southern applica tions, Mr. Davis said, are Trans continental itself, northern cities and companies now being served by the pipeline and desiring more gas, the coal companies, and oth ers. Objections advanced by the op ponents of the application, as listed by Mr. Davis, included: 1) Tranfcontlnental had sought and deserved a rate raise, and 2) the allocation might be smaller than asked, with one or both these de velopments probably causing the proposal to look uninviting finan cially. Others included charges that the city was not united In wanting natural gas, that the city couldn't obtain the necessary pipe to Install a distribution sys tem, arid that the city could not issue revenue bonds without an approving vote of the citizens. Mrf Davis said that all the ar guments were rebutted strongly, with engineers for Barnard A Burk, who surveyed the local gas Jemand, and a representative of R. S. Dickson Company, combat ting many of the unfavorable ar guments. Resolutions endorsing the natural gas proposal from Kings Mountain civic clubs and the First National Bank were In troduced as evidence that the city was united on the allocation re quest. A construction contractor testified that, If tie entered a successful bid, he could Install a distribution system in 90 days, Mr. Davis continued. The attorney offered the opin ion that Kings Mountain would be allocated gas, if any- other >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<?wer reve nues for ten months have total ed $157,921.06. against $175,801.66 for all of 1951-52. ?> ? -- 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.