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j Population City Limits i........ ... . . . . . . 7.206 Trading Area 154)00 (1945 Batlon Board Flguzw) Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper 14 **9es Today VOL. 62 HO. 31 Sixty-Second Year Kings Mountain. N. C.. Thursday. July 31. 19S2 Established 1889 PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News PAGES TO MOVE Mr.* and Mrs. J. H. Page ex pect, to move this weekend in to tneJr new brick home on Shelby Highway. They have resided lor the past several years at 603 W. Mountain street. BACK FROM CAMP ? Sfc. F. R. MeCurdy and Sgt. J. C. McKinney returned SUn [ day from Camp Rucker, Ala., and a two-week summer en campment with the army's or ganized reserve corps. UNION SERVICE " Sunday night's union servi ce for five city congregations ?will be held at St. Matthew's Lutheran church at 8 o'clock* Rev. W.. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial A. R. P. church, ?will conduct the service. TO AUDIT BOOKS A three-man staff of auditors from Ernst & Ernst, Winston Salem auditing firm, arrived this week to conduct the annu al audit of the city's books for the fiscal year 1951-52. Dave Robinson is auditor- in -charge. PASSES EXAM Dr. James claUde Gantt, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gantt, has been licensed to practice den tistry by the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners, ac cording to recent announce ment by Dr. Frank O. Alford, of Charlotte, secretary of the Jooard. STREET RE-SURFACING Taylor Construction Compa ny has notifed the city that it expects to be in Kings Moun tain about the middle of Au- j gust to begin street re-surfac ing work for which the firm holds contract,. M. K. Fuller, city administrator, said Wed nesday. GINNERS' MEETING Meeting of the Piedmont dis trict, Carolinas Ginners asso ciation, will be held in Shelby at the Forest Lake club Thurs day morning at 10 o'clock, ac cording to announcement by M. W. Tilghman, president of the association. All cotton gin ners are being urged to attend. GOSPEL CONCERT The All - American quartet from Decatur, 111., radio station WDZ, and the Sisk quartet from WOHS, Shelby, will pre sent a gospel concert Friday night at 8 o'clock at the South Shelby Grammar school. Ad mission, adults, $1.00, and children 50c. IN WASHINGTON W. Earle Myers, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Myers, has ac cepted a position as physicist with Reed Research Laborator ies of Washington, Q. C. Mr. Myers, who recently received a Master's degree from the. Uni versity of Virginia, assumed his new duties last week. Lions Club Issues Call For Cratches Geroge Houser, president of the Kings Mountain Lions club, issued an appeal to persons who have borrowed Lions club crut ches to return them, if no longer needed. Mr. Houser said 11 pairs of crutches are listed as "out", and that other calls are being receiv ed for them. Persons who have Lions club crutches are asked to call C. D. Ware at 118. Warning Issued On Street Work City street craws were begin ning Wednesday initial poring mt ark on a numbe* of city street*, with a flection of Sims and Grace streets as the start ing points. The beginning of the work brought ? warning from the police department to local mo torists to observe barricades e rected by tne street crews. It was pointed out that too early traffic on the streets damage* the j base and causes cracking up. It was stated that motorists wta > fall to obeerve the barricades wUl be prosecu ted. V/itt Open fuW ferm "Split Term' Issue Is Compromised By Board Action The county school board ef rected a compromise Tuesday in ??ncernIng the "split 'or G rover school, ordering the school to open for a full con secutive term on October 1. H^VHVGrLg8' county superinten dent of schools, said the county board made its decision following a lengthy discussion participated j" representatives of both fac tions of Grover school patrons. stIr?n8,V supported the original decision of the Grover school commute* to abandon the split term while the other plan" ?PP?sed the change in Mr. Grigg said the decision of the county board is a policy for this year only and a policy ef fecting Grover school only. i uJiekSa1^ thG board's decision Tf th~ane1, ?n 1} the awareness of the polio epidemic which hit Grover recently, and 2) the fact that the short summer session woulda,rnafdy late in starlin8 and rhaUndcus?tfomnaT ^ * S"Crter ?l the GrOVer SChool were a,so Present for the Tuesday session. They are: J. ?. ?.llis, chairman, e. F Harrv Jr ' H- Wright, Conrad Hughes and Carl McGinnis. nusncs Gr,Sg said the Bethware school committee had considered patter of abandoning the spilt term earlier, but feared that a drop in attendance would cause OSS of faculty members. Beth KwS,n lu summor "ssk,n Schools May Open On September 2 Park Grace school of the countv system is September 2 SuS tendent B. N. Barnes said yester. The tentative opening date is finn il"8 0fiicial Schoo? board ac tion, he said. Park Grace usually opens when Kings Mountain SCM ST>bcgin their fal1 term. ? Mr. Barnes also announced ad r!tl?n Z ?."e new teacher to the I _ity schools faculty. Miss Ruth Blggers, of Clover, S. C? signed a contract last weekend as an elementary teacher, he said. Miss Blggers has been teaching tv ??l in Caston Co?n; P eight years, Mr. Barnes reported. t ? . Bethware School Attendance Good John Rudislll, principal of Bethware school, reported atten of "fhn ' ,f0r the flrst 10 days whirh wi 8 summer session which began last week; He said enrollment had been down slight*, bui that he exp^t improve by next week. Faculty members of the Beth Conttnued On Page Eight DIES IN KOREA ? Cpl. Harvey Lawson, above, died from wounds received in action near Hadokkom-gal, North Korea, on July 10. He was the son of Mrs. Ada L. Lawson of route three. Haivey Lawson Korean Victim Cpl. Harvey Lawson, nineteen year-old son of Mrs. Ada L. Law son of route three, and the late Dellard Lawson, died on July 10 from wounds received in action near Haddkkon-gal, North Korea. Mrs. Lawson was notified last week by telegram from the army adjutant general, with a confirm ing letter received this week. "On the morning of July 10", the letter stated, "Cpl. Lawson was participating in a battalion size sweep of enemy positions. Contact was made with the ene my and during the encounter that followed Lawson was wounded by fragments from an enemy artil lery round. He was immediately evacuated to a nearby medical installation where he was given treatment. Despite the employ ment of every possible medical l -xpeuient, Cpl. Lawson passed a way the same morning," the let ter continued. He Was serving with Company F. 29th Infantry Regiment at the time of his death. Before entering the service July 18. 1950, Cpl. Law'Son wa& employ ed by an upholstery plant in High Point. Surviving in addition to his mo ther are six brothers, Philip, Bob by, Bill, Johnny, Tommy, and David Lawson, all of the home; two sisters, Miss Bessie Lawson and Mrs. Beulah Owens, of Kings Mountain. Also surviving is his paternal grandfather, John L. Eawson, 91, of Converse, S. C. Mrs. Lawson said she requested that the body of her son be sent home for interment. Lutherans To Hold Morning Communion St. Matthew's Lutheran church will hold & Communion Service at 9 a. m. Sunday. There will be no sermon; it will be finished in time for Sunday School. Regular worship at 11: a. m. pinion Service at 8 p. m. Rev. W. L. Pressly will preach. Solo by Frances Summers, accompani ed by Mrs. Miles Mauney on the violin. The public is invited. Early-Citizen F. W. (Sam) Cansler Recalls Kings Mountain of 1880's In the year 1882 on a wagon ] drawij by two - mules, one of Kings Mountain's first settlers came here to Hve. Now some sev- i enty years later, he again returns here on a visit. Samuel W. Cansler, 75, came to Kings Mountain with his par ents,- Richard Thomas Cansler and Sally Abernathy Cansler, two brothers and one slater. The pur pose of their sojourn was to es tablish the older boys at Captain Bell's Military Academy here, once located at the Kings Moun tain high sdhool site. Mr. Cansler recalls that when he first moved here in 1880 there was o'nly one store, Crowe's, which was located near the First ilies, not a single church, and the National Bank, perhaps 25 fam old Kings Mountain gold mine. The old Mountain View Irotel was built after he moved here. He continued that the hotel was built probably to accommodate the workers in the gold mine and those who attended f-he Bell Mil itary Academy. He remembered that Cansler Springs was located where the Country Club is now located and that he used to take oxen (down to the springs to carry water. "A sawmill was once located where the Kings Mountain Man ufacturing Company now is," lie said. "My friends and I used to go there and play In the sawdust Continued On Page Eight Home B. & L Firm Outgrows Charter Limit Stockholders of Home Building & Loan association will meet on August 14 to consider amending the charter of the organization, according to announcement this week by A. H. Patterson, secre tary-treasurer of the institution. Mr. Patterson said the original charter limits stock shares to $1,000,000 and that ? the associa tion has now exceeded that figure, requiring that the charter be a mended. The stockholders will be asked to approve an amendment to make the amount of shares "un limited", Mr. Patterson said. "The founders of the associa tion did not foresee the day ".'hen the association would grow to its present size," Mr. Patterson re marked. The meeting wih be held in the association offices at 5:30 p. m. on August 14. Bills To Reflect New Power Rates First-of-the-month statements to Kings Mcuntain utilities cus tomers go in the mail Friday, the first statements reflecting the newly revised power rates re cently adopted by the city board of commissioners. How the new rates will effect individual customers will vary, but the difference is not great as far as the city is concerned. Joe Hendrick, city clerk, said gross utility billings for the mon th total $21,852.84, reflecting an increase in power billings (both residential and commercial) of $356.87 over July 1st billings. Wa ter billings dropped from the pre vious month by $159.93. "It will require a six-month period, at least; te determine fi nal effect of the rate changes on gross billings for power," Mr. llendrick Eild, adding that hot weather and resultant use of fans might well account for the slight increase in power billings over J une. Under the <iew rates, only two schedules are followed, one a res idential schedule, the other a com mercial schedule. Under former policy, four schedules were used. The board adopted rate schedules recortimended by Max Miller, Greensboro engineer, after he had made a study of the former sche dules. Gas Reservation Recommended The staff council of the Feder al Power Commission has recom mended reservation for use by Kings Mountain of 1,397 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, i R. Davis said Tuesday. Mr. Davis, city attorney, had received the Information from the Federal Power Commission and said he fell the recommen dation would help Kings Moun tain considerably in obtaining a certificate of convenience and necessity from the North Caroli na Public Utilities commission. The latter application is toeing opposed b> Public Service, Inc., a private utility seeking to dis tribute natural gas in the Kings Mountain area. Mr. Davis said the reservation recommendation calls for more gas than the c ity thought it would require for the first two years of operaion of a natural gas system, but less than the 1, 700 million cubic feet per day the engineers estimated the city would heed in the third year of operation. MOSS BEUWIOtf The annual Moss Reunion will be held Sunday at Mt. Zion dhurch, located three miles from ICherryville on the North Brook road. Dinner will toe ser ved at 1 p. m. and special sing ing will feature the progriim. Merchants Vote New Year's Day Retail Holiday Directors of the Kings Moun tain Merchants association, in accordance with a poll of mem bers, have set New Year's Day as an official holiday for retail stores. * Vote in the poll was 25-10 in favor of adding the holiday. The merchants also voted to pontinue present policy of closing on Wednesday afternoons wheth er or not full . holidays fall in the same week,. This vote was 21 to 14. according to report of Mrs. John Le'*"is, association secre tary. Action on the New Year's mat ter' was taken Monday at the regular monthly directors meet ing. In other actions, the directors I 1 ) Sot December 4 as the date I for the annual Christmas open- ' ing parade. 2> Voted to suspend Wednes day closings, effective the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving, the suspension to continue through. Christmas. 3) Received with commendation a financial report showing the association "in the black" for the first time In several months, witn all bills paid and with opefaUri" funds on hand. 4) Heard reports on upcoming promotions of the association Regular holiday schedule of the association by-laws now pro vide seven full holidays during the year. They are Eoster Mon day, Independence Day, I.abor Day, Thanksgiving Day, two days at Christmas, and New Year's Day. Nazarene Church Sets Homecoming First Church of the Nazarene will observe its annual Home coming Day on Sunday, with din ner at the church at 1 o'clock, and with an afternoon service begin ning at 2:30, according to an nouncement by the pastor, Rev. C. E. McKenzie. Guest minister for the after noon service will, be Rev. Perry Montgomery, now pastor of the Charlotte Tomasboro Church of the Nazarene, and a former mem ber of the Kings Mountain, church. Special singing will also fea ture the service. Rev. Mr. McKenzie said th<> church is inviting all former members and friends to attend the Homecoming Day services. Tax Advertising Starts Next Week A number of tax matters at crty and county levels, are being called to the attention of citizens this week by the respective of ficials. City Tax Supervisor Clarence tarpenter and County Tax Su pervisor -R. M. Gidney said that they would begin advertising pro ^ 'or sa'c f?r non-payment of 1951 tax bills next week. City Clerk Joe Hendrick re minded business f'rms that penal ty of five percent per month ap plies to delinquent, privilege li cense purchases made after the dose of business Thursday at 5 P. m. Mr. Hendrick also reminded that Thursday is the final day for obtaining a one and one-half per cent discount on 1952 city tax bills. The discbunt rate drops to one percent after Thursday. Under a special act "of the North Carolina General Assemb ly, citizens may obtain the full two percent discount on 1952 county tax bills by paying them during the month o? August. Presbytery Body Elected McGill John L. McGill, elder of-Boyee Memorial ARP church, was elec ted chairman of elders of First Presbytery at annual meeting of the group at Bbenezer ARP chur ch near Charlotte, last Thursday. 'First Presbytery Includes some 32 Charlotte area ARP churches. Kings Mountain merrVbefs at tending the meeting were Rev W. I>. Pressly, W. S- Fulton. Sr.', and W. E Blakely. Taxable Gain Is $292,000 DROWNING VICTIM ? Denver Edward Gladden, 21. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gladden of Parker street, drowned in the Catawba River Monday night. Funeral services were held Wednesday aiternoon. Denver Gladden Drowning Victim Funeral services for Denver Edward Gladden. 21, son of . Mr. and Mrs. John \V. Gladden, of Parker .street, who was drowned in the Catawba River Monday night, were conducted Wednes day afternoon at 4 o'clock from Second Baptist churc h. The pastor,- Rev. B. F. Austin officiated, assisted by the Rev. W. H. Redmond. Interment was in Memorial Park of Mountain Rest cemetery. Gladden, who was employed by the Charlotte News as motor dis tributor, graduated from Central high school in the class- of 1.949. He was a member of the Ameri can Legion, and served in the U, S. Navy. The young Kings Mountain man was drowned near Buster Boyd bridge at around 8 -.40 p. m. Monday. . Surviving in addition to his pa rents are: four brothers, J. W. Gladden. Jr., Timothy, Carl, and Paul, ail of Kings Mountain; six sitters, Mrs. Sam McAbee, Mrs! M. C. Falls. Jr., Misses I^ouise Gladden, Joyce, and Janice all of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. R. M. Dixon of Charlotte. Witnesses said t'jat Gladden, Karline Jacobs, 23, and Jean Love. 18, his two companions, stepped from four-foot depth into rieen waiter off a shelf in the river. Their cries brough other mem ber^ of their. party and swimmers to the scene. Both girls sank mo mentarily from view bul were found and dragged to the surface where the rescue team with the aid of a resusv'itator revived them. They were then sent to Charlotte Memorial Hospital for emergency treatment. Life saving crews dragglngthe river found the body at 11 p. m. after swimmers and the Charlotte Life Saving and Rescue Crew had succeeded in saving the two girls from drowning. Active and honorary pallbear ers were- members of Otis D. Green Post 155, American legion. HAS OPERATION J. C. Clary, Kings Mountain business man, underwent an operation at Gaston Memorial hospital Wednesday morning Tax Supervisor ' j Reports Total At S6.454.953 The- city's taxable" valuation for the year 1952, as reported by Clarence E. Carpenter, tax su pervisor. is $6,454,953.24, up al most $300,000 over the taxable valuation, for the year 1951. Mr. Carpenter completed bal ancing hts tax books last week. Actual gain In listed worth of taxable property is $292,820.24. At the city's adopted tax rate (if $1.70. per $100 valuation, the tax levy for the year is $109,734. 21. In addition, poll taxes on males age 21 through 50 at $2.70 each are scheduled to return to city coffers $3,307.40. Mr. Carpenter said the tax scrolls are complete with one ex ception. Current figure for West ern Union has not been received from the st;:?e agency which re ports utility va....?tioris. The total furnished by Mr. Carpenter in cludes Western Union at its .1951 listing. Funeral Held For Mrs. Styers Funeral rites for. Mrs. Ida Falls ?Styers, 63, Kings Mountain native and citizen for many years, were held Tuesday afternoon at I lanes Chapel In Greensboro, with in terment following In Forest Lawn . cemetery there. Mrs. Styers. widow of T. V. Styers who died several years ago, was pronounced dead on ar rival at St. Leo's hospital In Greensboro at 10:20 Sunday night. Death was attributed to a heart attack. She. had been in de clining health for several months. Mrs. Styers resided at 2412 Laurel Drive, Greensboro, The funeral rites. were conduct ed by Dr. James C. Stokes, pastor of College Park Methodist church, G rcensboro. Surviving are four sons and four daughters,. Thomas Styers. Eddie Si.yers, and Fran lor Styers, all of Greensboro, and Harold Styers. of Durham, Mrs. I. C. Shelley and Mrs. Jack W. Bryan, both at Greensboro, Mrs. C. L. Wright, of Winston-Salem, and Mrs. .Joseph L. Perkins, of Bur lington. Brother and sisters surviving are Oliver FalK Mrs. Ellen Pe trosino, and Mrs. Paul Beam, all of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Jessie It. Whittimore Ind Roland Falls, both of Greenw>? and Mrs. I <eo. la Whitworth, of Lowell. Eight grandchildren also survive. Amontf local people attending the final rites were Miss Nancy Dickey, of Concord, and Mr. and Mrs. James Dickey, Mis.s Margie Lou Dickey, Mrs. Paul Beam, Mr. and Mrs. Dickie Tate, Mrs. Danic Oates, Mrs. Robert Hord and Hen ry Thorn burg, all of Kings Moun tain. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for t lie week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $143.04. according to report of Joe Hendrick. city clerk. City's Filter Plant "Running Hot"; No Shortage Difficulties Expected I : The recent hot weather h?;s caused Kings Mountain citizens to increase their consumption of water to what might be record consumption, George Moss, manager of thr city's water plant, said the plant operated at capacity on July 21 -22-23, pumping 3,240.000 gal lons of filtered water duririg the three-day period, or 240,000 gal lons more than the plant's rated capacity of a million gallons per day. Through Monday, the plant had pumped 20,565,000 gallons for the month of July, and Mr. Moss thought the total for July might be a monthly record for the city There Is no danger of a water shortage, Mr. Moss added. Heaviest days for water usage are Mohdays. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with Thursdays and Fridayjf not far behind. Consump tion falls off heavily on Satur days and Sundays, Mr. Moss re ports, giving the plant a chance to "get ahead" for the forthcom ing week's peak days. "It would he nice," Mr. Moss added, "to have at least twice the storage capacity the city now has. since it Is desirable to have at least a day's water supply al ready filtered, stored and ready for use." The city's storage capacity on Cherryville Road is a half-mil lion gallons. 1952-53 Budget Shaved, Shifted To Provide Cnt In a surprise action on the at lernoon of July '23, the city .board if commissioners, meeting in special session, voted unanimous* ly to pare the city tax rate for 1952-53 to $1.70 per $100 valita lion, it) cents off the tentative rate, and lowest city rate since UMNft The hoard also adopted finally [I19 budget for the fiscal year, leaving it virtually unchanged in total, but-amending it in several details tp provide for the tax cut. ~ TAX REFUNDS ' Refund checks on previously paid 1952 city tax bills will be mailed as quickly as possible after the tax bills are refigured at the new rate. City Clerk Joe Hendrick said Wednesday. He estimated that it would proba bly be ten days to two weeks before the refund checks are put in the mails. Again the vote Was Unanimous. The budget estimate anticipated expenditure of $180,517 for the year ending June 30, 1953. Commissioner James Layton made the motion to cut the rate, with Commissioner Lloyd Davis seconding. Commissioner Baxter Wright moved final adoption of the budget, with Commissioner C. I'. Barry seconding. In other actions, the board: 1) Considered the report of the Cleveland County grand Jury re commending the condemnation of the city jail as unfit. It did not add to the $3,000 appropriation for Jail 'mprovements; . 2> Voted to employ Fred Wright, Jr., for the immediate construction of an additional sec tion of concrete bleachers at City Stadium, on motion of Commis sioner Layton, seconded by Com missioncr Davis and passed unan imously. 3) Adopted a resolution to hold ' a sewage bond election in Sep* tombor. 4) Adopted a resolution to re examine the city's fiscal position iy December 1, with intent of providing fluoridation of the ?ity'g water supply, if possible. Resolution on the sewage bond election was unanimous on mo tion of Commissioner Olland Pearson, seconded by Mr. Layton. Action on the bond election has been delayed due to necessity of i certificate of convenience and necessity from the -State Board >f Health, the certificate required before the city can obtain local Government commission permis -iion to exceed the customary bonded debt limit of e'ght per rent of the city's taxable valua tion. Sense of the resolution as advanced by Mr. Pearson, was to hold a bond election for what ever legal amount is issuable. Ac cording to engineering reports, >00000 is required to build art adequate sewage disposal sys tem City At torney J. B. Davis 'in formed the board that the State Hoard of Health meets quarterly and that the. next meeting is scheduled for August. Budgetary, shifts included: de* letion of a $l,r>00 item for pur. chase of a car for the police de partment; a $2fw) saving on the original estimate of cost of a street roller, a $500 saving on fust estimate of cost on a dump truck, deduction of $2,101.95 from the original estimate of expenso in street-building materials, and Conttr ^ l On Page Eiijht' Portrait Fund Tops S300-Mark Total contributions through Wednesday noon to the Lottie Goforth Portrait Fund topped 5300. 6 Contributions during the week totaled $30, according to report of Dr. O. P. Lewis, treasurer of the fund to honor the late Miss Goforth, who is credited with founding Kings Mountain Hos pital. Plans of the hospital board of trustees call tor painting of a portrait for hanging at thft hospital. Miss Goforth willed her entire estate for the build ing of a hospital here, Contributions should be hand ed or posted to Dr. Lewis. The report to date: Previously acknowledged $278 A. H. Patterson 20 Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Goforth, Sr. 10 Total to date $306