Population
City Limit* 7.206
Trading Are 15.000
(IMS Bottom Board Ftgvrot)
VOL.62 NO. 23
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Sixty-Second Year
Kings Mountain. N. C., Thursday. June 5. 1952
Established 1889
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Pages
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MOVING FRIDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smyce and
family are leaving Friday to
make their home in Greens
boro.
INTANGIBLES REFUND
The city received Tuesday
from Che North Carolina treas
urer a check for 1706.98, the
city's portion of the state in
tangibles tax.
OUT OF NAVY
Oren Fulton arrived in Kings
Mountain last week after re
ceiving a discharge from the
tU. S. Navy, in which he served
for three years and 10 months.
I NEW MEMBER
Dr. Nathan H. Reed has Join
ed the Kings Mountain Mer
chants association as an asso
ciation member, according to
announcement in the associa
tion bulletin.
LEGION MEETING
Regular monthly meeting of
Otis D. Green Post 155, the A
merlcan Legion, will be held
Friday at the Legion Building
at 8 o'clock. Commander Sam
Collins has urged all1 members
to attend.
HOME ON LEAVE
Cpl. Jerry Cloninger, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Clor.lnger, is
spending a 30-day leave with
his parents before reporting to
PlttSburgj -Cmltf., for an over
seas assignment.
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METER RECEIPTS
A total of $158.61 was collec
ted from the city's parking me
ters Wednesday according to a
report by the treasurer's office.
. PRIVILEGE LICENSES
The city mailed noticesover
the weekend to business firms
reminding that privilege licen
ses, due July 1, are how paya
ble, and that a penalty of five
percent per month applies af
ter July 31.
TRANSFERRED
Capt. Paul E. Hendricks, ar
my medical corps, left Friday
for Birmingham. Ala, Where
he has been transferred for
duty from Camp Gordon, Ga.
Capt. Hendricks had spent a
two-week leav.? with his fam
ily here.
AT K7?UARA FALLS
SgL William H. Davis, son
of Mr. and Mrs, Ernest L. Davis
of Walker street leaves Sunday
for Niagara Falls munlc^>al
Airport where he is to be sta
tioned. Sgt. Davis has comple
ted 20 months service in Japan
and Korea, 9 months in Korea.
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BARBECUE TICKETS
Tickets for the Kings Moun
tain Merchants association
employer . employee bart>ecue,
to be held on June 18 at Lake
Montonia, will go on sale this
weekend, according to announ
cement by J. C. Bridges. Price
per. person Is $1.50. Tickets
may be obtained from Mr.
Bridges, J. C. McKlnney or E.
E. Marlowe.
City Is Accepting
Tax Pre-Payments
The city Is now accepting
pr? -payment* of 1952 tax bills
at the legal two percent dis
count based on the tentatively
set tax rat* of I1J0 per HOC
valuation.
Under North Carolina law.
tax bills may he paid in June
at two percent discount, in
July at one and one-half per
cent, in August at one percent
and in September at one-half
of one percent. Tax bills are
due at net October h
Under special legislation.
Cleveland county auccpts pre
payments of tax bills at the
full two percent discount in
August i
Joe Hondricfc. city dork, said
that any change in tbe tax
rate would be adjusted, either
by subsequent btltngs or re
funds. The tax rats will be fi
nally set in July.
Bobbin's Call
Assures Second
Primary June 28
Will Blackburn, who Tan sec
ond in the five-man race for
Number 4 Township constable to
Paul Byers, said Wednesday
morning he had not decided
whether he would seek a second
primary.
Byers led Blackburn by 643 to
.421 a margin of 222 votes, but
failed of a majority. Ervln Elli
son received 330 votes, Kin
Stepp, 126 and H. G. Clemons 89.
Me. Blackburn, the incumbent
constable, has until five days af
ter the official canvas of the vote
to make notice In writing that
he desires a second race. The
vote was officially canvassed by
the county elections board on
Tuesday.
However, Kings Mountain area
Democrats will aet the opportu
nity to go to the polls again for
a second primary, Judge William
H. Bobbitt, of Charlotte, having
already requested a second race
with Judge R. Hunt Parker, who
led the state wide balloting for
a judgeship on the Supreme
Court.
Judge Bobbitt, of Charlotte,
was a favorite with townshp vo
ters last Saturday, polling a vir
tual 3 to 1 lead over Parker.
Other possibility of a state'
wide second primary contest is
between Luther Hodges, the
leader, and P.oy Rowe, the sec
ond high vote-getter, in the four
man race for the lieutenant
governor nomination. Rowe was
still weighing the matter Tues
day.
Harry Appointed
Hospital Trustee
Franklin Harry, of Grover, was
named to the county hospital
?board of trustees, representing
Number 4 Township, by the
county board of commissioners
at their Monday meeting.
Mr. Harry will succeed L. Ar
nold Kiser, veteran member of
the 'board, now completing a
three-year term of office. Mr.
Kiser is currently vice-chairman
of the board.
Other new trustees named
were M. H. Walker, Number 1
Township, succeeding Kester
Hamrick; R. J. Rucker, Number
6 Township, succeeding John
Crawley; Marvin Putnam, Num
ber 5 Townshin, succeeding M. C.
Whitworth; and Everett Lutz,
Number 10 Township, succeed
ing W. T. Warlick.
The new trustees are to be in
stalled at a special meeting to
be held at Brackett's Cedar Fark
on June 18. The meeting is to be
attended by incoming incumbent,
and retiring trustees, and their
wives.
Five trustees are appointed
annually for three-year terms.
Number 4 Township representa
tives with unexpired terms are
C. D. Blanton and Hunter Nels
ler.
Polio Victim
Is Improving
Jaquitha Roundtreq, of Grover,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Roundtree, was reported improv
ed Wednesday following an at
tack of infantile paralysis.
She is recuperating at Ashe
ville Orthopedic hospital. First a
patient at Kings Mountain hos
pital, the child was transferred
to the Ashevllle hospital, where
her condition was diagnosed as
polio.
A partial neck paralysis Is re
ported easing and her family is
h.jpeful for a quick and com
plete recovery. The child Is a
granddaughter Of Mrs. C. F.
Harry.
TO MEET TUESDAY
Regular monthly meeting of
the Kings Mountain Little
Theatre, postponed from Tues
day night, will be held next
Tuesday at the office on East
King Street. President B. S.
Peeler, Jr., said that main Item
of business would be election of
officer* and completion of
plans for the drama, "Sword of
Gideon'*.
Margaret Ratterreo
WCUKC
Billy Gene Amos
WAKE FOREST
Margaret Arthur
WCUNC
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Shirley Arthur
J>EACE
William McSwaln
LENOIR.RHYNE
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Ralph Northcutt, Jr.
DAVIDSON
Frank Summers
GEORGIA TECH
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Myrtle Hoyle
ASTC
JUda J?an Darts
DtXKE
Jean Cash
STEPHENS
Dozen Kings Mountain Students
Among Nation's 1952 Giaduates
A large number of Kings Moun
tain area students are being grad
uated from colleges and universi
ties. of the nation.
Among them are;
Miss Margaret Ratterree. dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Rat
terree, who received a master's
degree from Woman's College U
niverslty of North Carolina;
William A. McSwaln. of Kings
Mountain, who received an A. B.
degree from I-enior-Rhyne col
lege;
Ralph Wllburn Northcutt, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Marie Northcutt, who
was graduated from Davidson
college;
Miss Margaret Ann Arthur,
daughter of Mr. fcnd Mrs. J. H.
Arthur, who received an A. B. de
gree in biology front WCUNC;
Billy Gene ArtiuK, son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. C. Amos, who re
ceived the degree of Bachelor of
Science from Wake Forest col
lege; '
Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch Tolleson,
daughtei of Mr. and Mrs, Hay
wood E. Lynch and wife of Lt
George Tolleson, who received an
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High School
Graduated 70
Tuesday Night
Seventy high school seniors re
ceived diplomas Tuesday night at
annual graduation exercises at
Kings Mountain high school.
C. W. Phillips, of Greensboro,
delivered the graduation address,
and Mrs. H. E. Lynch, vice-chair
man of the city school board, pre
served awards.
Don Flowers, president of the
graduating class, presented the
class gift to the school. He said
the class would build a needed
retaining wall between the school
garage and school building to pre
vent erosion. He added that the
wall would also provide an Ideal
"loafing" seat for students wait
ing for class bells to ring. Arnold
W. klncald, school board chair
man, accepted for the school.
Other officers of the graduat
ing class were: Fred Tate, vice
president; Katy Jones, secretary;
Jo Ann Wail and Phyllis Ware,
co-treasurers. Mascots were Caro
lyn Heavner and Tommy Wright.
Diplomas were presented in a
crowded auditorium by Principal
Rowell Lane to:
Dwight Lane Alexander
Geneva Ruth Allen
Suzanne Arrowood
Gene Franklin Austin
Norma Sue Bridges
Harold Donald Bumgardner
Thomas Francis Burke
Eula Annette Childers
Evelyn Elizabeth Cline
James Jennings Crawford
Ruby Louise Crawford
Ruth Elouise Crawford
Kenneth Riley -Dalton
Douglas Franklin Falls
Guy Whacker Fisher
Paul Nelson File ?
Mary Ruth Fleming
William Donald Flowers
Barbara Jean Gault
Betty Jane Gladden Roper
Dorothy Frances Goforth
Robert Thomas Goforth
Ruby Hazel Greene
Charles Blease Guyton
Troy Dewitt Guyton
Billy Horace Hawkins
Rhonda Kuy Hope
Betty Faye Propst Home
Doris Jeanette Jolly
Katy Ann Jones
Louis Arnold Kiser, Jr.
Helen Sue Led ford
Mary Helen Logan
Charles Frederick Mauney
Ann Clark Mayes
Paul Henkle McGinnrs, Jr.
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Union Service
Schedule Given
Five Kings Mountain churches
will again join together for a se
ries of Sunday evening union
services during the summer
months of June. J,iiy and Au
gust, according to announce
ment this week by the Kings
Mountain Ministerial associa
tion.
The series began with the high
school's baccau la rates service
on Sunday night.
Participating churches are St.
Matthews Lutheran, First Pres
byterian, First Baptist, Boyce
Memorial ARP and Central Me
thodist.
An is customary, the ministers
of the five churches will preach
In neighboring pulpits.
The schedule follows:
June 8, at Boyce Memorf"!
ARP, sermon by Dr. W. P. Ger
berding; June 15, at Central Me
thodist, sermon by Rev. W. L.
Pressly; June 22, at Central Me
thodist, sermon by Rev. P. D.
Patrick; June 29, at First Pres
byterian, sermon by Mr. Pressly.
July 6, at ARP, sermon by First
Baptl9t minister; July 13, at First
Baptist, sermon by Mr. Patrick;
July 20, at Central Methodist,
sermon by Dr. Gerberding; July
27.. at St. Matthew's Lutheran,
sermon by Rev. J. H. Brendail;
August 3. at St. Matthew's
Lutheran, sermon by Mr. Press
ly; August 10. at First Presby
terian, sermon hy Mr.. Brendail;
August 17, at, Central Methodist,
sermon by Mr. Patrick; August
24. at First Presbyterian, sermon
by Dr. Gertberding; August 31. at
ARP, sermon by Mr. Brendail.
City Board
Meets Monday
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The city bonrd of commission
ers will hold its regular June
meeting Monday evening at 7:30.
Included on the agenda are
routine year end matters. In
cluding consideration of the
1932-53 privilege license ordl.
nance, and similar items, ac
cording to M. K. Fuller, city ad-,
minlstrator.
Work is underway on the
1952-53 city budget, but Mr, Ful
ler said he did not expect It to
be considered at the regular
meeting.
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Bus Terminal May BeOpened
June 15, Quattlebaum Says
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Two Men Die
In Plane Crash
Heze On Sunday
Two men? Robert Larkin Ho
well, 32, of Gastonia, and Roy
Hooker, of Charlotte? died of In
juries sustained in an airplane
crash Sunday at 6 p. m. at Kings
Mountain Airport, two miles
south of Kings Mountain.
Hooker, pilot of the ill-fated Pi.
er Cub plane, died almost instant
ly and Howell, Gastonia carpen
ter, died at 1:25 a.-m. Monday at
Kings Mountain hospital, some
seven hours after the crash. Ho
well suffered third degree burns.
A large throng gathered at the
scene shortly after the accident.
According to CAA agents Karl
VV. Llndemann and Odell Garri
son, of Charlotte, who investigat
ed, witnesses related that the
plane was stunting at a very low
altitude, stalled in coming out of
a barrel-roll, fell arid burst into
flames.
Witnesses reported that the
plane crashed and caught fire af
ter passing Uie landing strip at
the airport, owned by Dr. D. M.
Morrison, of Shelby. The plane
hit the ground almost in a small:
jroad leading to the hanger from '
a county road about a mile south
of Margarce Mill.
A man identified by persons
who gathered at the crash as
Jennings Gregory, suffered burns
while pulling Howell from the
wreckage. Members of the Kings
Mountain Fire Department ans
wered a call and put the fire out.
after It had burned some 45
minutes.
Mr. Hooker had flown to the
airport from Charlotte along
with at least one other small
i plane. He had landed and Mr. Ho
well had accepted a ride in the
ill-fated craft, witnesses said.
Th<> field had not been operated
by Dr. Morrison for several
months, it is understood. b\it
planes had still been using the
strip.
Cleveland County Coroner Ollie
Harries, of Kings Mountain,
answered an ambulance call to
the crash. Neither of the men
were thrown from the plane
when it crashed and Mr. Howell
apparently suffered no broken
bones, he said, although -Mr.
Hooker had suffered several frar
tures. Hooker, burned badly, was
identified frorti paper on his per
son and by other pilots who land
ed after the erackup, His body
was not removed from the wreck
age until the fire had been ex
tinguished.
Mr. Hooker was employed by
Brown Equipment Co., of Char
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ON CHTJHCH STAFF ? Miss Ce
lia Ann Edwards, of Ashevllle, is
the summer youth work director
oi Central Methodist church. She
will be on the church stall
through August.
Celia Edwaids
On Church Staff
,
Miss Celia Ann Edwards, of
Asheville. wjll serve as yotlth
worker at Central Methodist
church dyrlng Tune. .1 1 1 1 v and
August.
Miss Edwards is a graduate oi
Greensboro College and has just
completed one year post-gradu
ate work at Garret }3iblleail Insti
tute and Northwestern Universi
ty. She expects to return tor a
nother year to earn a Masters de
gree in Religious Education.
Miss Edwards has had much
experience in the field of religious
education while in college. She
has been teacher and counselor at
summer schools of the Methodist
church. Her duties will include
children's and youth activities,
Rev. J. II. Brendnll says, "We
are fortunate Indeed in obtaining
the services of this attractive and
highly competent (Rrector".
TO CONVENTION
Dr. and. Mrs. Nathan H. Reed
will leave Saturday for Miami.
Fia.. where chey wiil attend
the armual convention of the
American Optometrlc associa
tion. June 8 1L- Chief program
attention is to be devoted to
school and industrial vision
problems'. They expect "to. re
turn on June 11 Dr. Reed said
Miss Phyllis Ware will". be in
his office (luring his absence
to handle routine business.
Township Democrats Supported
Many Primary Winners Saturday
Number 4 Township cast a very
light vote in last Saturday's Dem
oeralic primary, supporting as
usual, some of the winners and
some of the losers, But the win
ners percentage was better than
sometimes.
Unofficial returns showed that
voters in the four precincts of the
township, East and West Kings
Mountain, Bethware and Gro'ver,
cast only 1,613 votes for the three
gubernatorial candidates, giving
a margin of 1D4 votes to the state
wide winner, William B. Umstead,
of Durham. The total was Um
stead 900, Judge Hubert Olive 'iOf>
and Manly Dunaway 7. Only the
Bethware box favored Olive, by
GK to 55, but the Umstead margin
at East Kings Mountain was a
slim 33.
. Otherwise the Democrats of the
township gave strong support to
the leader in the race for lieu
tenant-governor, Luther H. Hod
ges, of Leakf.ville. and to Robert
Morgan, of Shelby, who defeats
Senator Clyde Nolan, also of
Shelby, in his bid for renomina
tion.
The county school board race
would have been slightly diffe
rent, had it been settled by Num
ber 4 Township alone. The town
ship supported winners Edwin
Moore, Patterson Grove farmer,
B. Austell, Walter Davis and W.
H. (Coot) Luti, but would have
placed Wayne L. Ware, Bethware
farmer and art Incumbent, on the
county board of education. In the
county totals, Moore edged Ware
for the fifth spot.
The township gave a large lead
to Paul Byers, running for the
first time, over four opponents
for the constable's post* Byers
polled 6-13 votej, VV. L. Black
burn. incumbent, 421, Ervin Elli
son 330, Kin Stopp 126, and H. G.
demons 89.
The township totals for the
county board of education were:
Moore 1059, Austell 758, Ware
736, Davis 612, I.utz 572, C. D.
Forney, Jr/, 559, C. Dixon Stroup
?138, R. A. Warllck 117, and A. A.
Parker 326.
The voters of the township
seemed particularly undecided
concerning the state's insurance
commissioner, casting identical
totals of 587 for Waldo Cheek,
the incumbent and state wide win
ner. and for his challenger, John
Frederick.
In the crowded race for nomi*|
nation to the North Carolina 1
Supreme Court bench, the town
ship supported the two leaders,
ft. Hunt Parker, of Reidsville. and
William II. Bobbitt, of Charlotte,
but in reverse position. Judge
Bobbin "mopped up" in Number
1 Township, though he ran se
fond statewide. The township to
tals for the regular term of eight
years were: Bobbitt 68S, Parker
160, F. Don Phillips 139. Itlmous
Valentine 120, Oscar O. Efird 116.
and Allen II. Gwyn 106.
For the brief short term the
totnH were: Bobbitt 838. Parker
1JM. Efird 163 and Valentine 154.
The township count for lieu
tenant-governor was: Hodges 727,
Roy Rowe, of Burgaw, 238. Ben
McDonald 230 and Marshal Kur
fees 161.
The Morgan Nolan totals were
763 to 618. Nolan led by five votes
in the West Kings Mountain box,
306 to 301, but Morgan took the
others.
Work Resumed
On Completing
City Terminal
Kings Mountain's n<nv bus tor
minal on West King Street may
open by June 15. J. T. Quattle^.
baum, of Queen City Coaa?i Com
pany. told the Herald Wednesday
morning. *
Mr. Quattlebaum said the June
15 terminal opening depended
on one or two things," but he
hoped it could be opened by. the
middle of the month."
He said he was not ready to
announce who would operate the
terminal.
Work on the terminal, which
has been under construction for
several months, was resumed a
Rain this week.
J. B. Thomas, the contractor,
is paying unloading areas and
completing interior work.
The city has been without a
terminal for more than two
yedrs.
Formerly operated in conjunc.
tion With the Purol service sta
tion at the corner of Battleground
and King." a station was operated
briefly on East King street, be
tore It was closed on Feburary
? 15)50. Since that time the city
has been a flag stop, though
Bridges Auto Parts has handled
parcels for Queen city. Atlantic
greyhound has had m parcel
station. 1
Weather Delays
Re-Surfacing
I The weatherman delayed the
beginning of street re-surfacing
work here by Tay lor Construction
Company, originally scheduled
?to start last weekend.
M K Fuller, city adminlstra
?<>r said Wednesday chat the
Taylor t ompany. now complet
ing a job near Shelby on U. S 74 ?
hoped for clear skies and would
be ready to oegin the Kings
Mountain job as quickly as wea
ther permits.
Contract calls for re-surfacini?
about one-third of city - main
tamed hard . surfacing, in addi
tion to treating non-surfaced
streets with MCO, an asphalt
base dust preventive.
Mrs. Chandler's
Rites Conducted
Mrs. Ifattie Pitner Chandler, of
Maryville, Tenn.. mother of A. B.
^handler, of Kings Mountain,
died last Saturday afternoon.
Funeral services were held in
MaryviUe on Monday afternoon.
Mrs Chandler was the wife of
Dr. Gilbert E. Chandler, who
survives.
Mr. and Mrs. a. B. Chandler ?
returned to Kings Mountain on
Monday after attending the ser
vice.
Revaluation Work
Is Underway Here
Representatives of the Cole
Layer-Trumble company, now re
valuing real property in Clevc
land County for tax purposes, arf*
now working in Kings Mountain.
Jack Jordan, of Salisbury, said
Monday that he was completing
the field work on uptown com
mercial realty, while another
group js starting residential field J
work. Industrial field work has
not begun here.
Lottie Goforth's
Picture Sought
L. Arnold Kiser, vice-chair
man of the Cleveland County
Board of Hospital Trustees, is
seeking a picture of the late
Miss Lottie Goforth, who be
queathed her estate for the
building of a hospital here.
Mr. Kiser asks that anyone
having a picture of Miss Go
forth either contact him or Dr.
O. P. Lewis, executor of the Go -
forth estate, and he promises
that the picture will be return
ed without damage.
The picture U needed to pre
pare a suitable portrait lot
hanging In the Lottie Goforth
Memorial wing of Kings Moun
tain hospital. The new addi
tion is nearing completion,
with furniture to be installed
within the next few days.