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Help Your Neighbor , Help Yourself City Limits 7.206 Trading Area 15,000 (1945 Ration Board Figuros) Give A Pint Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper Pages Today VOL. 62 NO. 27 Sixty-Second Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Thursday. July 3. 1952 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS Blood Collection Goal Is 200 Pints Local News PHONE NUMBER CHANGED The telephone number of the Kings Mountain Country Club has been changed from 3Q2-J to 860. METER RECEIPTS. A total of $164.86 was col lected from the city's parking imeters Wednesday according to a report iby the treasurer's office. KEETEK WINS J. R. Keeter's "Red [Raider" won the reserve championship for walking horses at the Eas ley, S. C., horse show held last Friday night. KIWANIS MEETING Regular meeting of the Kings (Mountain Kiwanis Club will ?be held Thursday night at 6:45 at Masonic Lodge hall. Program for the meeting had not been announced. TO BE INDUCTED Jack Sink, high school "B" team football coach for the past two years, and Legion baseball coach, has been order ed to report for induction in the armed services on July 14, by the Davidson County selec tive service board. TO ENGLAND Mrs. Maynard Snow and daughters, Ann and Linda, are to be in Westover Field, Mass., July 17, from where they will fly to Sheppard's Grove Air Force Base. England. Captain Snow is stationed at that base in England, where the family will make their home. DAVIS PROMOTED Carl E. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Davis, of Kings Mountain, has been promoted to the rank of corporal, it was announced today, according to information received by his parents. Cpl. Davis Is now sta tioned in Korea. UNION SERVICE Sunday night's union service for five city congregations will toe held at Boyce Memorial ARP church at 8 o'clock. Dr. Robert A. Dyer, member of the faculty of Gardner Webb col-, .lege and currently serving as supply pastor for First Baptist church, will deliver the ser mon. TO ROCK HILL Jim White, news editor of the Kings Mountain News and formerly news editor of the Cleveland Times at Shelby, has resigned to accept the po >-'sitlon as manager of the York 1 bureau of the Rock Hill Her ald. Mr. White is to begin his new duties on Monday. ON HONOR ROLL Charles Blanton. a rising se nior at the, University of Nbrth Carolina, was among 43 stu dents appearing on the Phar? macy school's dean's list for the spring quarter. The Kings Mountain student, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Blanton, was listed on the honor roll, which requires a scholastic average of 92.5 or better. TO TENNESSEE J. H. (Buck) Pressly, formerly golf professional at the Kings Mountain Country Club and mofe recently golf professional at Eastwood Club, Charlotte, has accepted a similar position at Clarksville, Tenn., accord- ' ing to information received here. DIXON SERVICES Morning worship services will ,be conducted at Dixon Presbyterian church beginning Sunday, July 6, and continuing throughout the summer mon ths at 9 o'clock. Sunday school will follow at 10 o'clock. An nouncement was made (by the pastor, Rev. P. IX Patrick. The services had heretofore been i conducted at 3 o'clock on Sun ft day afternoons. Bloodmobile Visit Thuisday At Woman's Club "You can do your paft by do nating a pint Of blood on Thurs day between the hours of .11 a. m. and 5 p. m. at the Woman's Club," Rev. Vance Daniel, chair man of the Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter's blood collection committee said yesterday. The Bloodmobile makes its first visit of the new fiscal year on Thursday, and local blood collection officials have set a Merchants of the community are being asked to display United States flags in front of their establishments Thursday as a reminder of the Red Cross Blodmoblle visit at the Wo man's Clnb. previously unattained goal of 200 pints of blood for the one day collection. Mb. Daniel pointed out that Kings Mountain had a deficit on its 1951-52 quota and that filling the blood needs as determined by area medical experts is im perative. "Part of it stays home, part of. it goes to Korea. It is badly needed to save lives at home and on the fighting front," Mr. Daniel said. Kings Mountain's blood col lections have been increasing! during the past six months.] First a new. record of 156 pints Was collected, and that collection was followed by another new re cord of 166 pints. Mr. Daniel reiterated the fact that the donor suffers neither pain nor ill effects, and that blood collected by the Red Cross Bloodmobile is distributed with out cost to both the armed ser vices anij to hospitals of the area. Wright Rites Held Tuesday Funeral services for James Hei<bert Wright, 35, who died at 8:30 p. m. Monday at Morganton of heat prostration, were held Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at Harris Funeral Home. Rev. P. D. Patrick officiated and burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Wright had been in ill health for the past several years. He suffered a nervous breakdown while serving in the U. S. Navy during World War II and had been a patient at the statq hos pital in Morganton for the p&st several years. He was a member of First Bap tist church, Survivors include his mother, Mrs. John G.. Wright, three bro thers. Fred, Baxter, and G. L. Wright, and three sisters, Miss Pashia Wright, Mrs. W. F. Os borne and Mrs. R. B. Osborne, all of Kings Mountain, Active pallbearers were: Hu bert Davidson, Yates Harbison, Charhe Blalock, Pink Ware, Ro ger Murray, and Bryan Hord. National Guaxd To leave Sunday Foi Encampment The 42 officers and men of the Kings Mountain national guard unit, officially known as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division, wili join other units of the (battalion from nearby cities Sunday for a two-week encamp ment at Fort McClellan, Ala Capt. Humes Houston, com mander of the local company, said the main elements of the group would leave by train on Sunday, though the company's vehicles, with men, will leave on Friday. Capt. Houston expressed- ap preciation to Kings Mountain commercial and industrial firms for their cooperation in allowing the imen of the company leaves of absence for the two-week training period. "The two-week encampment is needed to round out the regu lar training given here," Capt. Houston said. Other units of the 3rd Battal ion are located at Shelby, Mor ganton and Newton. Small Succumbs To Heart Attack William Alexander Small, 67, Kings Mountain, shoe salesman, d"?'d at his home, 205 S. Piedmont avenue, at 1:15 Wednesday after noon following a heart attack. Mr. Small had been In apparent ly good health and his death came as a shock to his family. He had already passed when Dr. W. L. Ramseur arrived on the emer gency call. Mr. Small was a representative of the Knapp Shoe Company, of Boston, Mass. A native of Kershaw, S, C., he had lived here for the past four years. He was a member of First Baptist church. He was twlce married, his first wife, Mrs. Mat tie Madison Small, having died 12 years ago. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Le na Morgan Small, seven sons, Aundrla and William Dale Small, both at home, Fleete Small, Mi ami, Fla.. Laton, Lewis and Jack Small, all of Charlotte, and W. A. Small,, Jr., of Camp Gordon, Ga.; a daughter, Mrs. W. G. Watson, of Charlotte; and three sisters, Mrs. Cordia Collins, Bowling Green, S. C., Mrs. Vassey Rhein hart, Asheville, and Mrs. Sallie McCorkle, Lando, S. C. Nine grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements were in complete at mid-afternoon Wed nesday. Hamilton Rites Held Tuesday Charle.?; Hamilton, 68. native of Kings Mountain and brother of Mrs. Ottie Herndon, died of a heart attack Sunday night at 12 o'clock. Funeral services were conducted at Lakeland. Mr. Hamilton, who ? is well known in Kings Mountain, ser ved in the navy for 30 years* His brother, Frank Hamilton, 70, al so died of a heart attaok a mon th ago in Salisbury. Mr. Hamilton is survived in edition to his sister, by his wife. Mrs. Minervd Hamilton, of Lake land. Belk's Buys Men's Store Building From Dr. D. M. Morrison Friday ?d by Dr. ? tlon eomp>*M U?t Belk's Department Store has purchased the Battleground ave nue building it now use^ for its Men's Store from Dr. D. M. Mor rison, Kings Mountain and Shel by optometrist. Announcement of the purchase was made this week by .Hilton Ruth, veteran Belk's manager here. Mr. Ruth said the transac tion was completed last Friday. ! The purchase gives Belk's full ownership of the two builclings they occupy here, the firm having purchased the former Baker building from Dr. Morrison in December 1943. The building purchased last Friday was formerly owned by the Willeford Estate. It is a two story building 25 feet wide .and 75 feet in length. It has been rented by Belk's since 1937, when it was first utilized for the firm's ready-to-wear department. It has served as the firm's men's store since 1940., Purchase price was not an nounced but Mr. Ruth confirmed Continued on page twelve PERFECT ATTENDANCE ON THE JOB? Marshall Wells, right, section man at Burlington Mills' Phenlx plant, gets double congrat ulations from Superintendent John Latham not only lor winning his five-year pin but also for being neither absent nor tardy for work during that time. Thieves Loot Safe At Lambeth Rope An unknown thief, or thieves, rifled the safe at Lambeth Rope Corporation Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. Losses included S"0 in cash belonging to the company, plus personal effects of Frank Burke, manager of the firm, which in cluded a $400 diamond ring be longing* to his son, personal in^ sura nee policies and other pa pers. It was the opinion of Sheriff Haywood Allen and SBI Agent John Vanderford, who are in vestigating the case, that at Jeast two persons perpetrated! the robbery, an opinion gleaned i from a survey of the premises ; which showed two definite and sepal-ate mud -tracks. It was the opinion of the man agement that the robbery oc curred prior to 11 o'clock, before ; Martin Leigh, night watchman, j came on duty. Prior to 11 o'clock, Cletus Pressly, colored, had been j "blowing off looms," a noisy op eration which, would have pre-j vented his hearing any activity > in the office, which is separate from the main plant. The thieves entered the tbuild ing at the front" door, breaking; a window pane 2*nd tripping the lock. They .used a crowbar to; break the lock off the safe, rif 1 - . ed it, leaving papers strewn on the floor, and exited by tie samoi route. Car tracks were found on the sideroad off the county road connecting the Margracc Mill community with Phifer Road. Sheriff Allen said the thieves ev idently parked their car and walked the remainder of the way. During the walk, 'hey got into a mud patch which left tracks on the Lambeth office floor. Sheriff Allen did not connect the Lambeth robbery with ano ther rdbbery in the vicinity. West Point Cafe, operated by Claude Edwards, had been lobted the previous night between the hours of 11 p. m. and 7 a. m. The culprits had looted the cigarette machine and juke box. Sheriff Allen said a safe cracker, nine times out of ten, is a "specialist," and won't touch any other Job. The Lambeth robbery was dis covered shortly after 9 o'clock Wednesday morning when Mr. Burke and his daughter, Mary Burke, went to the office. Ben Hardin Bays Uncle Henry's Store Ben Hardin, a former employ ee of A St P Tea Company here, purchased the Henry Huffstetler business, operated as Uncle Henry's Store, on CherryyUle Road. Mr. Hardin assumed owner ship of the business on Mon day. Coble, Mrs. Leonard Resign Positions B. N. Barnes, city schools su perintendent, announced two teacher resignations this week. Howard Coble, director of pub lic school music, has resigned to take a position at Golddboixx Mrs. Virginia Leopard, Whose husband is oh the way home from Korea but still has anoth er year of army duty' ahead, has also resigned. Goiorth Portrait Fund Now $143 The Lottie Coforth Portrait Fund grew to S143 Wednesday morning, according to report of Dr. O. P. Lewis, treasurer of the fund which will be used to honor the late benefactress pf Kings Mountain hospital. Citizens of the community are being asked to give a min imum of S600 to supply a por trait of the late Miss Coforth for hanging at the hospital. Miss Coforth, who died in 1942, bequeathed her entire es tate for the building of a hos pital here. Checks should be drawn to the Lottie Coforth Portrait Fund and mailed to Dr. Lewis. Following are the contribu tions acknowledged by Dr. Lewis: Previously acknowledged $80 E. W. Griffin, Jr. 10 John L. McGill 10 J. R. Davis 10 Clyde Bennett 10 Dorus Bennett 10 Clee A. Bridges 5 Mrs. M, L. Harmon, Sr. 3 Baird Furniture 2 Olland R. Pearson 2 A Friend I TOTAL S143 Bennett Rites Held Wednesday Funeral services for Joseph Wilson Bennett, 83, resident of 106 Deal street, were held Wed nesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Harris Funeral Home. Rev. Vance Daniel officiated and hurial was in -Mountain Rest cemetery., Mr. Bennett, a life long resi dent of Kings Mountain, died at his home Tuesday morning at 4:30 o'clock after an illness of several years. He was a native of Gaston County; son of the late Mr. and Mrs. "William Bennett. Active pallbearers were mem bers of the Berean Bible Class of the First Baptist church. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Regina Lynch; two sons, Grady O. Bennett of Gas tonia and James H. Bennett of Great Falls, S. C.; four daugh ters, Mrs. J. B. Ellis of Grover, Mrs. Boyce Gault of Kings Mountain. Mrs. Isaac Ray of Bur|ing:^n and Mrs. P. E .Queen of Shelby; seventeen grandchil dren; and 9 great-grandchildren. Privilege License Purchases Increase Kings Mountain business firms are buying 1952-53 privi lege licenses at a much faster rate than they purchased them last year, according to report of City Clerk Jo* Hondrlck. Sales through Tuesday to taled S3. 1 98. 12. I Sales through Juno totaled S3 ,028.87, against sales through Jan* 1951 of only S823.7S. "Old licenses bar* expired," Mr. Hendrick reminded, add ing, "Penalty of five per cent per month applies after July ?&/* Argument On Audit Poses Charter Quorum Question ITrio Docketed I a criminal a r r y Commls^ono" Wr?iwns 0, Wtfy Vi>?" ISS? i^^ciSSrtt: ??> <>?? 1 1 Judge J- 1 ? . ".Not docket^ (or trial n ,tu-?or'"-r1^row'.,sSucr.S nai docket , is l^cr board ol com 1 acatnst the may' or. ^ t>uilfcr, to \ Lissloners. and^M^ ol restrain the pay Altnc Ross ler. The sult' "rees that the city and others, cha J a person ' itf Mr. Fiber's p?Sy?A. Houserl crlro' , i nai docket. , sury returned 1 1 A county Brand jury aCtions, Garland btui. . Bridges, ?e*le* Committee Heads men of the King 5 Christmas chants assoc^ ion ? ^ was an.l ?P?nS ST week W Dan Huff nounced tnis stetier. o{ the commit Other members ; ^ week tee. it was announ idpnt. by Dan Huffstet ^ ^ rommit Other member hlfer l. E. tee include Men?yonk Hnton Abbott. ^oh"j * Lewis, and R^v. Ruth, John ? Daniel repre Vance Da^- ; fountain Minis sents the Kw?h? terlal association. was ap. Mr. Huffstetler saw ^fly in pointing the cot^mt mc could be order ' that more Umc^ c allowed tf' ?ak romotlon one of ffiSfK ^sociotion history. Xe beTt in association n? Oates Commands \ New V ART Unit t . r p (Bus) Oates. 1 e?Tn^ SnCeweA?J Force reserve unit no* 1 bolnR orgaHi^ v^ a8 Flight The unit Is *hlunteer Air Re "C", 9942nd D. Rpguiar meet ^V?h3S each Tuesday even u?A s!?jy and rf-1 Both air f?rce ,Qln the unlt.l crults arc invite^ ^ lnforma- , S??;S oM.lnri <rom Cap. I ates. _ ? FlB* ALfn*wered an City firemen ???tnootl at alarm Sat"[^Lh a fire at j 5:40 to extlnpu sn xmertX^ Burlington M}? Gamtale said Fireman Te ^ a tv lightening had mlnor I set, 'psul!!"*Ralrt me occupants 1 damage. He ? wpre awa> of the apartmem p from home at jne ? __ CROW HONORED ? R C. C. Crow, Kings Mountain minister, has bee" "-"ml of the year In North Carolina" by The Progressive Farmers maga sine. ' Oak Grove Pastoz! Receives Honoi | Rev. C. C. Crow, pastor of Oak Grove Baptist church, has been named "rural minister . of the year in North Carolina" by The Progressive Farmer magazine. Rev. Mr. Crow is also pastor of the Mt. Sinai Baptist church. He will receive in connection | with the award a scholarship to the Town and Country School for Ministers from Candler School of Theology, Emory University, At lanta, Ma., July 29 - August 14. The Rev. Mr. Crow was cited for "leadership in rural church building, and for unusual results in the Lord's Acre movement, and for effective service as pastor of rural'churehes." He learned to farm as a 14 year-old hoy. He grew unusually good corn crops and bought a 40 acre farm with his profits when he was 19 years old. After he was married, he felt the call to preach. He entered' college at Wake For est at 27 with the totai assests Of one milk cow and a Model A truck. He returned ?< to Rutherford County as pastor of three' churches. He projected one of the first Lord's Acre programs in the area. He is a leader in building new churches. North Carolinians who have been named Rural Minister of the Year in other years are Rev Gar land; A. Hendricks, Baptist Churclv. Route 3, Apex, 1949; Rev. CJarland R. Stafford. Chairman of the North Carolina Rural Church Institute, Lewisville, 1950; Rev. Dumont Clarke, Religious Direc tor, Farmers Federation, Ashe ville, 1951. Rev. Mr. Hendricks is now a professor at Gardner Webb College. Bond Vote Action Is Expected Soon Mitchell & Pershing, New York bond attorneys, are ready to fur nish the city necessary forms for proceedings to hold a special bond election for sewer system Improvements, as quickly as they receive a State Board of Health order declaring the improvements Letter from Mitchell & Persh ing was received by City Attor ney J. R. Davis last weekend. ? Mr. Davis said the Sta'e Board of Health meets in Raleigh on Tuesday and that he anticipates favorable action on the city's pe tition at that meeting. lane Tax Pre-payments 531,000; Over 27 Percent 01 1952 Levy Paid More than one-quarter of thej city's estimated tax levy for' 1952 has been pre paid, accord- 1 ing to figures supplied Tuesday by joe. Hendrick, city clerk, and Clarence Carpenter, tax super | visor. Tax bills paid through Mon day, close of the month in which the full discount of two percent is allowed, totaled $31,263.33. It amounted to 27.2 per cent of the estimated levy of $115,290, as based on a tentative tax rate' of $1.80 per $100 valuation and an estimated total valuation of $6, 405,000. By paying their bills In June, city taxpayers saved themselves $62415. Discounts are stiil obtainable, though the discount rate is only one and one- ha If percent during July. It drops to one percent in August. The prepayments for June were considerably higher than for June 1951, when city taxpay ers pre paid only $18,130.87, of the 1951 levy. Bid day in the June collection period was last Thursday, 'when more than $12,000 was poured Into city coffers. Under a special act of the leg islature, Cleveland county tax-, es may be paid in August at the full two percent discount. ?> ? .1 Three Members Protest Recent Audit Action ^ The 3 0 action by Mayor Gar land Still and tvvo commission ers. Olland Pearson and James (Red) Lay ton, whereby' they vo ted on June 25th to retain Ernst & Ernst to audit the city's books, may or may not bo legal. Tlie 3 0 action again -pointed up the argument of last sum mer on whether the Mayor and two city commissioners consti tute a quorum, as was set forth in a 1943 amendment to the city charter. Following the June 25 action, Attorney J. R. Davis, on behalf of the three absent commission ers, B. T. Wright, Sr.., Lloyd Da vis, and <C. t\ Barry, wrote the Local Government commission at Raleigh protesting the legali ty of the meeting. Attorney Da vis did not furnish the Herald a copy of his letter to the Local Government commission, but he said he based his plea on the facf that the charter change of 1917. which provided for the e-. lection of a Tfjayqf, in addition .to five commissioners, '? stated that the mayor could vote only 111 case of a I iCi ? Upshot of the protest was that Dave I'obinson, Ernst' & Ernst accountant,- returned to Win ston -SaleTn Wednesday after noon. He had boon hero to in struct city personnel in closing out the books for the 19.71-S2 fis cal year, -prior to returning later to make the audit. Mr, Robinson told the Herald that the Ernst & Ernst management had instruc ted him to return to Winston - Salem until such time "as the matter is straightened out." The dispute among the com missioners first developed at the June 9 regular meeting, with the Stlll-Pearson-Layton group pushing for retention of Ernst & Ernst, which conducted the . au dit last year, and with the Wright ? Davis-Barry group sup porting inferentially the bid of George !L. Emery Company i of Statesville, which' had conducted the audit for a number of years previously. fhr Contention of the Wright' - Davis-Barry group was that Ernst Ernst was "ton hBh." At the same time, a bid was. received from the Emery firm to conduct the audit for a maximum of $jr>o. After the hoard ordered the asking of bids, the Ernst Ernst firm bid. a max imum of $67.> to conduct the au dit. At the meeting on Juno 2.?; only 'Mayor Still, Commissioner Pearson and Layton were pres ent, and by 3-0 vote, with the mayor voting, authorized con tract with Ernst Ernst. Following is a copy of the let ter from the Local Government commission to Attorney J. R. Da vis. copies of which were mailed to Ernst & Ernst and to Mayor Still: "1 have your letter on June 27 advising that the Mayor and two members of the Town Board at a meeting on June 25 approved the contract with Ernst & Ernst and that the three other mem bers, who were not present at the meeting, have asKed that the contract not be approved at this Continued on page twelve Merchants Voting On Holiday Matters The Kings Mountain Mer? chant* association Is conduct ing a poll to determine wheth er 1) retailers will change their polity of closing on Wednes day afternoons, regardless of the proximity of full holidays, and 2) whether New Year's Day will be added as a regular holiday, prescribed by the as sociation by-laws. Under present policy Wed nesday half ? holidays are ob served also during the weeks regular holidays occur, and New Year's Day Is not observ ed as a holiday. Regular holidays now pre scribed by the by-laws include Easter Monday, July Fourth. ' Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and the day fol lowing. Member firms are being urg ed to return their postal Card ballots at once.