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Drama Casting Is Coniinuinn Many citizens of Kings Moun tain ace expected to appear in "THE SWORD OF GIDEON" this year, according to Mrs. Mol fatt Ware, director of the play. In gddltlon to the people appearing |n the danco and battle scenes, quite a few of the major roles have been filled by local people. Some are members of the Little Theatre; some are not. Local actors appearing "in the play will be: Dr. Philip Padgett, as Billy Hover, a comical medi cine man who appears in many scenes; Meek Carpenter, as Whit taker, a hard-hearted villian of the old school; Sa'm Mltchem, as Raven, son of Chief Atta Culla Culla, who likes nothing better than scalping palefaces; Woodle ftawles, doubler up as Col. Camp bell. and Hls-Mouth-Stretches; Philip Baker,, appears as Co). Fredrick Hambright; Marriott Phifer, as Major Hanger, a scoundrelly British officer;: Jack White, as Col. Shelby ami also Vlekers; Frances Mitch cm as Alice; and Charlene Padgett as the Widow Smith. David Nelll as i Col. Bon Cleveland; and Dr. W. L. Mauney as Major Winston.' B. S, Peeler, Jr., as Major McDowell, and Joe Hendiiek as Col. John jjevler, leader of the Watauga |6rce.. ? Mrs. Ware expressed great con fidence in the outcome of this year's presentation. ".We "think that it will t)e even more success ful than last year's", she said. The drama last year was a great success, and a tribute to all who took part in it. Hut we've got more experience now; and as a result of last season's achieve ment, we've showed a lot of peo Ele what great possibilities the iattleground drama has. We're getting more support as a result of this." Mrs. Ware said that many ot hers will be needed for non speaking roles. She stressed that, this year the dances will not bo AS long and should not require us much rehearsal as was neoes sary last year,' and that the group and battle scenes will be organiz ed to hold rehearsal to a mini mum for those appearing in non speaking roles. Haidin Property To Be Auctioned The ]. I). Ilardin farm on the Grover Road, known as Hardin's Peach Orchard,, has been sub divided and will be Offered for sale at auction on August 1(5; ac cording to announcement this week by J. 11. . Nolan Company, jnd by the owner The properly uBludes two res Jdences one .? sl\ room dwelling, the other .1 four room <Hve!lin-,;. plus numerous 'other nutlunM ',?1 I'rJ.-i s ire beirfl oftore.l !:??]. L e:\iit lucks uflmhers at the au.<-. : i i ? * 1 s . ^Vork Well Under.vay 1 On Bleacher Section Work.was well Intlcrvvfl pes ifiii.t.s on (tie new section of con . : ete . blot-K BmcIu i s, at Cit} Si.i vIuim Fred 1. Wriijlit, -ir.. loe.il .on i'rete pro It: I.; te.B'if ictm -r. con jrncred the job and Floyd. Smith i-< laying tii>- blx>k. The no*.*, section is loi.itod on the soutli s.dcj of (lie present per manent section and ? ill be a dup licate of the fust sevti.m The new section will l>,. ready in time for the opening home football guuo i:i September. if ORB ABOUT . Splvey Continued From Page One roles in Rebecca, The Campbells Are Coming and You Can't Take It With You. He has also served as director of several productions, Including Dear Ruth, and last year's historical drama, Then Conquer We Must! For this work in the drama he received many favorable notices in the press, and from visitors to tiie produc tion. "I even got sorrte fan let ters!" he said. Mr. Spivey is a graduate of Gardner-Webb College, with a bachelor's degree in chemistry lie was very active In dramatics at G-W and participated in sever al sports. He is employed at Plonk Motor Company and is married to the former Miss Beu lah Rhea. They have two chil dren, Jerry and Karen. Vice-President-elect Thorburn, another prominent member of the local group, played the lead In Laura, and has participated In many other productions. He movt ed to Kings Mountain from Greensboro, and has been very active in civic affairs since com ing here. Parks Body Talks Of Teen-Age Plans The city's parks and recreation commission met at City Hall Mon day at 1 p. i ... ?rd .discussion in cluded formation of a teen-age club and control of City Stadium. Mrs. George I louser, chairman of the sub committee <>n teen>age club organization, reported that her group had met with Hill Bai ley, organizer of the Shelby teen ige group, j0 discuss local orga nization. Mr. Bailey suggested, and the committee concurred, that the rlub have a separate building and that a paid director, be secured to fun the program. Mrs. Ilouser reported that in terest appeared to be high in the undertaking; with many individ uals and clubs indicating support rti the project. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Jay Pat terson and Dr. P. G. Padgett. The commission agreed to pro eede with the organization. At a meeting on July 21 the group voted to request the city board to turn over City Stadium to the commission. Chairman A. B. Chandler, who presided Mon day, again brought up the matter and told the group that it was essential that the commission control the stadium because "funds spent there, without our approval, will be taken from funds allotted the parks and rcc reation commission". Members present then voted to appoint a two-. "O'nber group- to arrange for a meeting with the city board to "straighten out the park control situation." Mr. Chandler and G. C. Kelly were named .to the special committee. ' live group voted to meet again on Monday at 2 p. m. at the Bur lington Mill conference room. Members present at the meet ing Monday were Mr. Chandler, Mrs, ilouser. Mrs Patterson, Mr Kelly. H-ev. IV D. Patrick. J T. I them. H K. N-eisler and Jack White Softball All-Stars Lose Tough 2-1 Game J Kings Mountain's Men's Soft ? ball League all-stars, went .down*, and out. in the district softbaU tournament in Shelby Monday { losing a Joughle to Caldwell Pur ; niture in an extra inning tilt J Score was 2-1, . with Boyd Wor ;'slram tossing, a three-hitter for Kings Mountain and the local hit ters able to collect -only one hit I off the -Caldwell" hurler. !. All runs were scored on errors.. at AMOS <S SON i i ?i^e^uc*,ons HU Summer Dresses . ? Nvlonc Nylons Bemberg SUMMER SKIRTS '? P-nts. Gin SJE? and Waffle Pique # Reduced Gjrls' Junior Sizes SUN DRESSES $1.48 Gj/Is and Ladies' Slips ? $l.oo Ladies' SHORTY P J S Seersucker Small Children's PINTAFORES and SUN DRESSES Sizes 12-3 Batiste Tissue Gmghams dC'?th ???Greatly Reduced TS _ ??? blouses Broken sizes ? Heduced Children's 6 Lodies< SHORTS ? Reduced ?;?T Children', SILK PANTIES Vere 48c 4 for $1.00 Children's UiceUinuned PANTIES Sixes 2.12, colors 35c FEW BEACH TOWELS were Summer P< S4.9J, ? Greatly Reduced Aipos & Son 413 N. Piedmont *T mmmm?ZPhOM 32S"W Little Leagaeis Lose Tough One Kings Mountain Little League's tournament team dropped a 3-2 heartbreaker at Todd Field, Gas tonia. Monday afternoon in the district eight eliminations. The Lou Gehrig loop stars of Mount Holly applied the defeat that eliminated Kings Mountain from further contention in 1952 Little League national pldy. Winner. of the one-loss-and-out district tourney will advance to the state tournament. Randy Cash tossed a neat four hitter but five Kings Mountain errors hurt and the Kings Moun tain batters could collect only two blows to back up the big right hander. Dave Falls, Kiwanis team mem ber and all-star centerfielder, col. lected the only pair of blows off Mount Holly starter Broome. Wilson came in from shortstop to take over in the fourth to get credit for the win. Kings Mountain scored in the fourth on a hit by Falls and an error. Mount Holly came back in the bottom of the fourth to tally one, on a double and ari error. ! The losers scored the go-ahead tally in the fifth on two walks and an error but the winners pur together a walk, an error and a hit to score the winning pair of runs. Cash struck out six otfer the route. Broome and Wilson struck 6Ut JO Kings Mountain hitters. The box score: Klnei Mn< AB It II TlCToiv -2b .Too Humjf'er. c :ioo Fall*. cf .1 1 a MrGtnhl*. It j 'o o Sin It h. 3b :t II O Cash, j> ;r o u Ml. Holly An It Jl Rankin, 2b 110 fVtttn. lb 2*1,0 .McCarter. it 2 0 0 Wiiion. ??. p ;i n i Broomr. p. rf 0 o Arm'sii. o. If J 1 J Guyton.. m 11 II ! U?ol?l>>. If. c 2 0 1 Ptvnk, lb l t> o I Mflder'n. 3b 2 0- q Smith, rf 2 0 0 1 Jenklnj. ft s? 2.0 O TOTALS 21 2 2 | TOT A I -S 19 3 ?> k'lnK* Mouniairt "oto lT? 225 Ml Holly 000 1 .34 2 Dixon Revival To Close Sunday Evangelistic services, which began Monday night at Dixon Presbyterian church, will come to a close Sunday night, accord ing to announcement oy the pas tor. ' William R. Klein, a graduate of Davidson College, and candi date for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary, the sum mer supply pastor for both Dix on and First Presbyterian chur ches. is conducting the services. Bible school, which also began Monday night an hour prior to the revival services, will come to a close Friday flight, he said. At tendance has been' good both for the Bible. school and the revival services, lie continued. ?On Thursday night,. Mr. Klein will -continue speaking from pas sages from tin' Book of Genesis. Sermon .subjects arc Thursday, "The Deceiver"; Friday night, ."'Phi' Dreamer"; and SUruiay "night. "The meeting .it Genesis." There will be no Saturday night services. ? Leaders and toachers iii thi? Bi ble school, include; Mrs. Bill Klein and Miss Pauline Mau'ney. Primary and Beginners; . Miss t'Orn^lia Dick. Junior and Inter mediates; and Rev P D. Patrick., adults. Mrs. Bill Merrin is in charge; of music: and Mr. Arnold Jackson is in. charge of the sing ing.. Bill Klein is superintendent of the school ? Revival services begin at eight o'clock, immediately following Bible school period at 7. . ? laycees Vole To Go To Cherryville Meet Kings Mountain Junior Cham ber of Commerce voted Tuesday in cancel! the scheduled August i;? meeting to attend the thifd. dis trict meeting at Cherryville on next Tuesday. The Cherryville meeting is to lie highlighted with a dinner at the Carlton .Mill clubhouse at 7 p. m. Cn.lf, swimming and other activities are on tap earlier Tues day. , The group also Voted to have a barbecue supper at Billy Man ney's swimming pool' on Fast Gold street in lieu of the reguuar September 2nd meeting, Guests ami wives will be invited to the barbeeye. .Meek Carpenter gave a report' on the state beauty pageant, seating' that Mis Barbara Jean Matthews, "Miss Kings Moun tain of 19f>2", represented the club very well. Dave Robinson, of Winston-Salem, who i,s currently at work here auditing the city's books, was a guest and also made a report on the pagetuit. Mr. Ro binson was on the pageant com- 1 mittee, as a member of the Wins ton-Salem Jaycees. Dr. N. H. Reed urged the group to turn in news items for the state publication to him by- the 20th of each month. Bill Hudspeth. Jaycee Little League team coach, made a re port and the group thanked him for his contribution to the pro gram. Jack White, chairjnan of the projects committee, announced a square dance show for August 22 at City Stadium. Treasurer Rudl Wuenrtenherg . gave a financial report to the club, Wilson Griffin, chairman of-! the extensions, interclub relations and conventions committee, had charge of the program and con ducted a Jaycee quiz. Tigers Card Gomes Thursday, Saturday The Kings Mountain Tigers, Ne^ gro baseball te&rA, are scheduled to face the Bessemer City Dod gers here Thursday and the Dal las Aces here on Saturday. Both games are slated (or 8 p. m. at City Stadium. Frank Mltchem tossed the Ti gers back into the win column here last Saturday night with a neat two-hitter over the Clover, S. C., Tigers. Kings Mountain won by 5 to 2, scoring on six hits and two ene my errors. Charles Twltty, Kings Mouiv tain catcher, had 2 for 3 to pace the winners, D. W. Bennlx, Miles Brown, Manager William Orr and Pitcher Mltchem each had one blow. Other Klnga Mountain players were Jimmy Bennlx, Roosevelt Adams, Sonny Harris and Ted Byers. It was Mltchcm's first game ot the year and he was wild at the start but settled down to hand cuff the visitors the final six Innings. Clover scored on a sing le and an lnslde-the-park homer. The win was the ninth for the Tigers. METTB RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts on Wednesday totaled $151.36 ac cording to a report by the city treasurer's office. Crowd Attended Kiwanis Outing In spite of a heavy rain, 38 KI wanlans, their wives and guestv were present for last week's pic nic dinner meeting at Bethany near Clover, S. C. . A delicious dinner was enjoyed by the group. KINGS MOUNTAIN * ' ? '? . ? and Vicinity Th e 4? ings Mountain Established 1889 Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper 167 Phones 283
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