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I Local News Bulletins METER RECEIPTS ' A total of $146.59 was col lected from the city's parking meters Wednesday morning according to a report by the city treasurer's office. ATTENDS MEETING B. N. Barnes, superintendent of city schools, went to Mars Hill Tuesday ior the annual meeting of North Carolina school superintendents. He is xo return Thursday. UNION SERVICE :v Sunday night's union setvice for five city congregations will be held at Central Methodist church. Mr. William R. Klein, summer supply pastor for First Presbyterian church, will de liver the message. COURT OF HONOR Court bf Honor for the Kings Mountain district, Boy Scouts of America, will be held Thursday night at City Hall courtroom at 7:30, according to announcemet from Pied mont Council headquarters. TO ASSEMBLY Rev. Glenn Eason, pastor of the Church of God, is attend ing the General Assembly of the Church of God which meets this week in Indianapolis, Ind. The assembly meets every two years. MISS AVERITT HERE Miss Alice Averitt, teaching consultant In Kings Mountain City schools, arrived here Tues day to begin her duties for the coming year. Miss Averitt is residing with Miss Carly le Ware at her home on W. Moun tain street KIWANIS MEETING Members of the Kings Moun tain Klwanis club and their families will attend a barbe cue supper at Lake Montonia Thursday evening at 6:30. Red Bridges is to se*-ve the dinner. In event of rain, the supper Is to be held at Masonic Dining Hall, the club's regular meet ing place. LIONS PICNICKED About 100 Kings Mountain Lions, their families and other guests, were served picnic din ner Tuesday night at Bethle hem school by ladies of the Bethlehem community,. In ad dition to fried chicken and countfy ham, the tables were laden with a rich variety of cakes, pies, sandwiches and other delicacies. McGILL REUNION McGills of Gaston will ga ther at Bethel Arbor off the Cherryville Road at 11:30 for their annual reunion. Picnic dinner will follow the pro gram and business session. All members of the clan are being urged to attend. COLTRANE TO SPEAK D. D. Coltrane, assistant di rector of the budget, and a re cent target of Governor Scoit, is to address the Shelby Kl wanis club on the subject "North Carolina Fiscal Policy" at the regular meeting of the organization at Hotel Charles Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. i>enator Clyde Nolan arranged the program. KISER TO PREACH Rev. W,. A. Kiser, pastor of Gethesemane Lutheran chur ch, Cicero, 111., will deliver the sermon at 11 o'clock services at St. Matthew's Lutheran church Sunday, it was an nounced by the pastor. Dr. W. P. Gerberding. Rev. Mr. Kiser, a Kings Mountain native, gave the invocation at ?r.e of the s?>sslons of the Democratic Na tional convention. BETHWARE BARBECUE The Bethware Progressive Club will entertain Bethware Fair catalog advertisers and other supporters at the annual pre- Fair barbecue at Bethware school next Wednesday after-. ' noon at 6 o'clock. Invitations to attend were mailed yester day afternoon, according to John Rudislll, secretary ? treas urer of the Fair. He said fair catalogs would be ready for distribution this weekend. BENSON ILL L. L. Benson, Southern Rail way agent here, has been con fined to bed for the past eight days. His condition is not re garded as serious, and he has shown improvement during the past few days. He expects to enter Black Mountain San itarium for farther treatment within the near futura. i LITTLE THEATRE AT WORK ON BATTLE DRAMA? Shown above is a recent picture of the Kingi Mountain Little Theatre members, and others from Little Theatre groupe oi nearby cities at work on the new drama "Sword of Gideon." commemorating the Battle of Klpg* Mountain, which will be pre sented at Kings Mountain National Military Park beginning September 11. Above, left to right, are Roy Trammel, of Shelby, Mrs. Phillip Padgett. Sam Mitchem. Hudi Wuennenberg. Meek Carpenter, Mrs. Sam Mitchem, Dr. Phillip Padgett, and Miss Polly Hendricks, of Shelby. Complaints V oiced Against New Rates Some 60 to 70 citizens braved . a heavy rain last Thursday night to attend the special meeting of the city board of commissioners and to hear Electrical Engineer Max Miller outline reasons for the city s change in electrical po wer schedules. There were undertones of poll, tics, as well as complaints and protests on Increased bills receiv ed by some customers, but, prin cipally, the protests came from a group of commercial users who had found heavy increases in the bills they received August 1. Engineer Miller consumed a. bout two hours in explaining de tails of the two new rate sche dules but the tenor of the audi ence was pointed up toward the end of the discussion when, to a question by JL. L. Alexander ask ing why no break in rate is given commercial customers between 100 and 1,000 kilowatt-hour-usage, Mr. Miller responded, "All you're saying is that the commercial rate should be lowered." The response was a chorus of "yeas". Among those protesting was W. M. Gantt, who exhibited a power bill slightly more than doubled for usage of 80 less kilowatt hours. Mr. Gantt also flourished one of Mayor Garland Still's campaign circulars of last year, In Which Then-Candidate Still charged that the city was making too much profit on its power sys tem. Ben A. Smith complained, as did Mr. Alexander, , that the new commercial schedule penalized small users, and Wilson Crawford "The amount of current used is no fair basis of taxation." George W. Allen, candidate for mayor last year, asked how Kings Mountain's new rates compared with rates in other cities, and Mr. Miller said TJncolnton's rates are comparable Mr. Allen later com mended Mr. Miller on his work, saying, "You've done exactly what these boys have told you to do." Commissioner Olland Pearson remarked, "If these fellows had been plugged in properly, they would have been paying more all along." Mr. Miller, in reviewing the study of the rate schedules, said he had received two orders from the board of commlMionera, 1) to equalize the schedules so as to be fair to all users, and, 2) to re return the city the same revenue. He said he had gone over every 1951 billing, even checking for figuring errors, and had deter mined the following results of the new rate schedules: J) about 1,000 customers would get lower bills; 2) about 800 would pay about the same, 3) some 100 would pay slightly higher bills; 4) about 100 wo 1 . pay much higher bills, increased by as much as 60-70-80 to 100 percent. "No names entered Into our figuring," he said, "but we knew that 48 commercial patrons would have their bills increased, while 112 would find their bills decreased." He said that the big increases would not have been as large, had these firms been properly billed in the past, adding, "I ad vised against going back and bill ing for past mistakes." He justified the Institution of demand charges as follows: On commercial usage. he pointed out that "a customer which had the same available service should get a cheaper rate Ithan the customer who had com parable facilities yet used it on ly a small amount For Illustra tion. he comparfti an eight-hour daily operation to a seasonal in dustry, such as a sawmill. On residential usage, he said the demand charge is instituted more, for the future than for the present, since few customers use enough power to be assessed a demand charge. The residential demand charge will effect fu ture home owners who elect to heat with electricity, he said. A. H. Corpwell posed the only question on the residential sche dule. Mayor Still recessed the meet ing about 10 o'clock, and, when It was reconvened, majority of the citizens interested in the power rates had departed and the matter was not discussed further by the board. Engineer Miller was In town all day Friday and cortferred with individuals concerning the rate changes. National Council of Chuchwomen Chairman Speaks Here On Thursday Mrs. w. Murdock MacLeod, of New York city, general chair man of the National Council of Churchwomen. will address Kings Mountain Churchwomen In a special program at Firs! Pre^jyterlan church Thursday afternoon at 3:30. The program will also featu.-d special music by Me. and Mrs. Miles Mauney New York con cert artists, who ate now vls'i ing Mr. Mauney's parents here. following the program, an in formal reception will toe held In the Fellowship Hall of thr chur ch. . ' 1 Mrs. O. W. Myers, president of the Kings Mountain Council of Churchwomen, sponsors of the program, urged all women of the community "> attend the pro cram. "We are particularly fortunate to have Mra. MacLeod with us." Mr*. Myers said, "and I am sure ?he will haVe much of value to tell us." Mrs. MacLeod Is the mother of Mrs. William Klein, wife at the assistant pastor of the First Presrtjyterlan church, and will visit her daughter while here. Pie-Induction Draft Quotas Are Increased Cleveland County's selective service board has a stepped-up pre-lnductlon quota for Septem ber, probably indicative of the Increased call for men by the army in October. Mrs. Clara Newman, clerk to the board, said that the county board has two orders to fifrnish 40 men each for pit-induction ex aminations on September 9 and 18. It also has been ordered to furnish 40 men for pre-induction examinations on August 28. Eight men, including one from Kings Mountain, go to. Charlotte Thursday for induction into the armed forces. Cleveland county is to furnish ten men for induction on Sep tember 30. Plumbing Firm To Move Here Ben T. Goforth, well-known Grover pjumber, has purchased the York Road building known as the Velma Craft building and will- move his shop here in the near future, it was announced this week. Mr. Goforth purchased the building from George W. Mauney, of Kings Mountain, and C. G. White, of Gaffney. First used for a small textile plant, the building has most re cently housed the veterans textile school conducted by John Floyd. Consideration was not announc ed. Several Street lobs Completed A large number of Kings Mountain citizens are how out of the dust as a result of street-pav ing work completed Tuesday by the city street department, under the supervision of Tom Henry; as sistant sulperintendent of public works. Street-paving 1 work reported completed by Mr. Henry Include: North Simp street, North Goforth street. Third sti^eet, Grace street, Falls street. Falls street exten sion, Wilson street, and Monte Vfsta Drive. The city also has re-surfaced one block of Falls street and three blocks of West Gold street. Next week, Taylor Construction Company is expected to begin work on re-surfacing more than two miles of city streets. The Tay lor firm was moving its hot-mix plant here Tuesday, to fulfil con tract with the city for about $25, 000 In street re-surfacing. Btanton Reunion To Be On Snndoy The annual Blanton Reunion will be held Sunday at Lake Crawford, In the South Carolina state park, according to announce, ment this week by Ralph Blariton. secretary-treasurer of the clan. Rev. J. H. Barrett is to speak to the clan at 11 o'clock, with a pic nic dinner following. All members of the clan are being urged to at tend. ?i ii , .-ji ' * i . . City Retains Architect Firm For fail Work Meeting in special session last Thursday night, the city board of commissioners 1) Passed resolutions to pave portions of Morris street and N Gaston street; 2) Retained Vaughn & Or rnand, Shelby architects, to draw sketches of proposed improve ments to the city Jail; 3) Assigned Fire Chief Grady King the task of making a fire line check, to determine that lines serving industrial sprinkler systems are clear; 4> Named Commissioner Jam es Laytori and city Administ.-a 101 -M K. Fuller as a committee of two m recommend changes in water rate schedules';- and 5) Passed an ordinance mak ing crashing of street barricades illegal and providing a $25 fine, for persons convicted of such of fense. Mr.. Layton had complained that th6 city's water rale sched ule "doesn't make sense,"' point Ing out that the first 3.000 gal Ions of water are .billed at 33 1/3 conts per 1,000. while addition al gallonage is billed at larger amounts before the sliding scale reverts downward; Mr. Layton remarked, "We don't want to penalize anybody." Mayor Still suggested that the rate for the minimum user not be raised. Resolution to pave Morris street followed an appeal by Bi H Mullinax who said he had been waiting for 'two years." Accord ing to the resolution the street will be hard-surfaced to a po'r<t where the city's 40-foot rlght-of way ends. N. Gaston street is to be paved from Parker street to the house owned by Wilson Crawford. Under the arrangement for sketches of the jail improve ments, the city will pay the firm one percent o t the estimated cost of the work. If working drawings are ordered, the firm will receive an additional three percent, and an additional two per cent should the city retain the architects for supervision of the work . The board also passed unan imously a general resolution covering a considerable amount of street . paving work, some of which has been completed, some of which is in process, and some of which is scheduled for the fu ture. faycees Attended Cherryville Meeting Some 116 Jaycees attended the first quarterly meeting of the third district, held at Cherry ville's Carlton clubhouse Tues day night. Twenty-one Kings Mountain Jaycees attended. J. L. Wilkle, of Sh<?lby, third district vice president, presided and J. B Brame. state president was the featured speaker. Other prominent Jaycees pres ent Included Gene Osenrlter na tional director, and Bill Snow state extensions chairman, both of Asheville. The Cherryville Jaycee organ izatlon was host to the meeting J- L. Beam is president of the Cherryville club, organized a bout a year ago by the Kings Mountain club. In addition to dinner Tuesday at 7 p. m. other activities of the meeting included swimming and golf at the Cherryville Country club during the afternoon. Vice President Paul Walker gave the report of the Kings Mountain club. Other Kings Mountain Jaycees attending were Louis Falls, K. E. (Red) Morrison, Delbert Dixon. Bill Melcher, Bill Beam. Clavon Kel ly. Dr. L. T. Anderson. Bob Led better, Sam Mitchem, Meek Car penter. J. T. McGlnnis, J. C. Mc Kinney, Bill Hudspeth. Bill Ful ton, Wilson Griffin, Harold Phil lips, John Chaney, Fred Weaver, Billle Mauney and Yates Harbi son. Work On Church Interior Begun Construction work on Resur rection Lutheran church began Monday. The work, being done by Ben nett Construction Company. In cludes finishine o I the interim; of the main auditorium ati't i completing the building of th ? front entrance. The work is expected to re quire about two month*. P 4 * TO MEET The city's parks and recrea tion commission Is scheduled to meet Monday at 2 p. nrv at the Phenlx conference room. Approval Is Given Negro School Plani . ' ? - . ? ? ' * ? ^ 30-Day Quarantine On Dogs Ordered - City and county officials have ordered a dog quarantine for 30 days beginning Satur day at noon. During the period, dog own ers are required to keep their dogs tied up. on a leash, or penned, according to S. R. (Pop) Davidson, chief of po lice. Chief Davidson said the county and city are making a determined effort to wipe out rabies. Grover Switches To Dial Phones Grover's Southern Bell tele phone system was switched over to dial operation at 2 o'clock last Saturday, and persons calling Grover are now using a new sup plementary directory distributed prior to the switch over. -Kings Mountain citizens calling Grover now place calls just as they do to Shelby, by saying to the operator, "Grover, 4295" or whatever number Is desired. Formerly, a patron asked for "Grover", then gave the desired number to (the Grover operator. There is no toll service between Kings Mountain and Grover, or vice versa. Grover lists 235 telephones. During the first hour uf opera tion 1,746 calls were placed, with 1,115 completed and 631 blocked by equipment's inability to care for such a volume of traffic. George Taylor, Southern Bell rrianager for the company, spoke briefly at ceremonies held at Gro ver High School prior to the swit chover. The ceremony was spon sored by Grover Lions Club and was attended by telephone com pany officials and civic leaders of the county. The first call through the new exchange was made by Mayor Ilarry of Grover to his son, who is a patient in Asheville Ortho pedic Ho&pltal, following a severe attack of polio some time ago. St. Matthew's Bible School Will Begin Vacation church school will be gin at St. Matthew's Lutheran church Monday morning, with the daily morning schedule to be from 9 to 11:30. The daily session will include recreational and refreshment periods, and all children are be ing invited to attend. The faculty will include: Mrs. James Lackey, ? Miss Doris Lack ey. Mrs. Dan Finger, Mrs. Glee E. Bridges. Mrs. Raymond Mann, Mrs. William Herndon. Mrs Ja cob Mauney. Mrs. George H. Mauney. Mrs. W. fC. Mauney, Jr. Mrs. James Simpson. Miss Grace Carpenter.. Miss Janice Allen, Miss Shirley Houser, Miss Mar tha Plonk, Miss Rachel Plonk, Miss May Plonk, Miss Louise Ki ?ser. Miss Betty Kkser and Dr. W.. P. Gerberding. 9 City Trustees Get Go-Ahead On New Building Tin* city board of sr|\<kj| trus locslias received approval to propped with plans for the build luff of a six- room Nen.ro elemen tary hThool building on a new site', According to report this week by Superintendent -B- - N. Barnes Approval, of plans of the. board to aH.CViate a pressing problem for the Negro school population followed a meeting in -Raleigh last week with the survey panel of the Department qf Public Int struction, when Mr. Barnes and Trustees Fred W. Plonk and Ar nold W. Kincald conferred with members of the state survey pa nel. Recommendations of the pa nel have been approved by the North Carolina Board of Educa tion. Mr. Barnes said that the next moves on the part of the Kings Mountain board of school trus tees will be obtaining of a site and plans for the new building. He added that, while approval had been obtained for a six room building, construction of six class rooms would depend on available fu:<ds. Originally, he said, the local board and the survey panel had talked in terms of a five-class room building, but that both lo cal groups thought a six-class room building desirable, if suf ficient funds could be allocated. Developments on building of another elementary plant for white pupils were these: the survey panel recommend 1) that plans be deferred pending ano ther and more complete survey to determine best location; and 2) a study of available funds and where to obtain more funds for a long-term building pro gram. Mr. Barnes said the trustees had pointed out to the survey panel that all its available funds could not be used for improving the colored school plant, since housing the white school popu lation is becoming a greater pro blem annually. Intangibles Refund For City $4,217.95 Mayor Garland Still received Tuesday the city's check for the state refund on intangible tax collections, in the amount of $4, 217.95. The amount was slightly less than the budget estimate for this item of 4,300. IfoWever, the city expec.ts to show a slight "gain" on its bud get estimate when it receives its check for street maintenance as provided by the Powell Bill. Under the formula announced last week by the State Ifighway commission, the city should re ceive almost $27,000, compared to the budget estimate of $26,000. In the report to the commission the city listed slightly more than 33, miles of city ? maintained streets. Payments under the Po well Bill are based on 1) city maintained street mileage, and 2) population. Kings Mountain Citizen Reports Impressions Of European Rebuilding Covering six nations of Europe in a brief period of time keeps an American on the run, Aubrey Mauney. Kings Mountain manu facturer, reports from Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Mauney and his family at tended the Lutheran World Con ference in Hanover, Germany, and are making a quick trip to Italy and Paris before returning home late this month. In an Interesting letter to the Herald dated August 7, Mr. Mau ney sumrnariies his impressions gleaned in the past few weeks: "It was an unexpected pleasure to receive the Herald in Colognne. Germany, and again here in Zu Wch. Switzerland. The destruc tion of war we saw wrought in Colognne was terrible ? blasted homes, whole business sections and churches. It waa awful to see and stand in s tricking contrast to this beautiful city in which we now are. In this small peaceful country ? where there has been no war to mar the beauty of scenes of long ago. Ages of construction and improvement have created buildings mellowed with age. Each generation for a thousand years or more, has added to and taken nothing from. "The people we see here look like the best we would see in any community back in America. The same was true in Holland. We are always surprised to find that they may not understand our American English. Yet We can always find those who can talk with us. Many people here speak in as many as five languages. 'The Swiss are a mixture of French, German and Italian In thlssectton the language is most ly German, The slgr.i are in French and German. "Everywhere we go we see many American tourists. We met Howard Coble accidentally in Volendorn, Holland. "So many of our soldiers are lr\ Germany and it is no great novelty for Americans to be everywhere in Europe that we feel that it would be almost trite for, us to try to give a travelogue to the people In Kings Mountain or to give our impressions of the people, the economy or the polltl Continued On Page Eight City Enacts Restrictive Livestock Law The city commissioners ' passed a sanitation law last Thursday night, entitled "Livestock Ordi nance/ which restricts the keeping of swine, poultry ana other livestock within the city limits, i ' The ordinance specifies: 1> No person shall maintain "hogs, pigs, horses,- mules, cows, with 200 feet of any residence, place of business, cemetery, public of private playground within the city limits. . , 2^ No person or firm raisin? poultry for commercial purposes shall maintain such a place ; within -100 feet of any res I don re. place of business, cemetery, park or playground The law also requires that such places complying- with the distance regulations shall be kept clean, provides five days for compliance with a complaint notice,, and provides penalty for. persons convicted of violating the ordinance. Persons convicted are subject to a maximum fine of $25 and imprisonment up to 30 days, ? ? ?/. The ordinance was unani mously adopted. , It is published in full in to day's Issue of the Herald, Sec tion I. Page 7. Rites Sunday For Boyce Stone Funeral services for Boyce Henry Stone, 2S, native of Cleve land County and resident or route 2. El Bethel community, were conducted Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock from El Bethel Bap tist church. Rev R L. Forbis, pastor of the church, officiated assisted by Rev. Ray Swlnk and Rev. R. L. Charily. Interment was In Ei Bethel church ccmetery. Stone was killed instantly Fri day morning at 11:50 when the crane which he was operating at the new Shelby water plant over turned and pinned him under lu He was employed by the Lee Construction Co. of char'?"f At the time of the accident. Stone was moving some large pipe, the heavy weight of the pipe causing the crane to overturn, thus cat' chlng him beneath it. Shelby po* ? lice reported that it took about 40 minutes to get him from under the crane. Death was termed ac cidental by Coroner Ollle Harris and no inquest was held. Stone was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Will F. Stone of thr. El Bet hel community and was a member of El Bethel church. The young Kings Mountain man vvas a former professional baseball player. playing In ?47 as pitcher for Charlotte, In Vi for the Shelby Farmers, and In '49 for Conover. A veteran of World War II. SXone served as a sargeant in an aviation battall6n. Surviving in addition to his parents are: ^ne son, Tony Lee Stone of Baltimore, M4-I one bro ther. W. F, Stone, Jr.; and one sister, Betty Stone, both of Kings Mountain. Honorary pallbearers included: Jack Stone, Jr., Harvey Stone, William Maple, Sr., Paul Medford and Walter Atcom. Active pallheaiers Included: Buster Watterson, A. T. DeBreel, Wilford Maples, William Maples, and Hubert Maples. Hardin Farm Auction Set For Saturday Auction sale of the L D Har^ din farm on Grnver road will he held on Saturday beginning at i o'clock. The property, known as HaT" din's Peach Orchard and located about four miles south of KinRS Mountain on U. S. 29, lncl"d**', two residences, one six -rooms and one four rooms, numerous outbuildings, building lots and several farm tracts. Prizes are being rtffererl hold i ers of lucky nunvbers. J B. No lan Co.. auctioneers, have an I nounced. Board To Meet , Monday Night scheduled for Monday night at CJty Hall at 7:30. i The meeting was postponed I tho oast Monc-ay ni^ni, 'i "Mayor Garland Still agenda, thus far. is routine. monthly reports to ^ j?*' I and other routine pending mat I ters to be discussed. I