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7.206 <atTU??J.' ... im? Trading Ar?a ' (IMS Batloo B<xmJ ri?tw*?) VOL 62 NO. BO Established 1889 Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 1 1, 1952 Sixty-Second Year PRICE FIVE CENTS He** *oeclal caU * \56, the A; ?""fSl" 8?u JfStSo^" r.^jssss^/s * an ? ? tfcl ot Mftuncy ^ wa8 re" SSv^o damage - . ported* ? _ - CouncUj^eaaqu^- - , MethoJJJ -co{ Christmas.^ ^TSntata^nd * Mi5S 5S[i*J*utO tags tot according to a *epo ^ags > ? ^ v\ Betaile** Hofidat < ? i y ? - ? * ?Mountal?\ *&&&?&: -?ss\ Deee1?^*- president \ ^aoclatlon a8so-\ "SBHrfS&s; -gy 2Sr<S?-i "K3S? . :& S <*sw3 ,^rw <><* S^5l|g Sffi2^istR? ??for two days c\ose\ ? ' ?2r ,nd \ OIi.hK tall pe-offi;, closing "necem- 1 hill; ^%<?K?"?wwA J*1l IrS *r S2&J5A *rSSSS!>?\ ^theMerc' here cusv lng\ "f,mW ???t,[,lnS\ Sfu?.i ct>'1,,m ' days _ Jaycees Sponsor Food Collection "Buy a Can, Leave a Can!" Is' again this year the appeal of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce. The club is again asking citi zens to remember the city's needy at Christmas time by leaving staple food items In boxes located at most Kings Mountain grocery firms. "Remember ? when you're gro cery shopping this Christmas sea son, buy something for the Josfl fortunate and leave ft at tlie store. We will see thit your gift Is distributed to make someone's Christmas merrier," a spokesman ?aid. The club will collect the donat ed items and distribute them to a welfare department list of needy persons In time for Christmas. Christmas Sal# ...?> Set By Council - \ , A Christmas sal* of decora* ?... fleas, anasgenMBtt, gift Items, Christina* cookies, cakes, and other dellcacto. will be conducted by the Kings Moun tain Garden Club council on 19 at th* Woman's Chfth. according to m ?sent this w*0k by Mrs. Hambrlght, publicity c The sale, similar to one con ducted last year, will be con ducted for one afternoon only, from 1 to ? o'clock, and the public to Invited to attend. r*s sal* was * "s*U 0t>Th? Qaxden Club OOuncll In - 1 i. I ?: ? ? ' '* ? ?* ' ' ? ? t*. Goforth Portrait To Be Unveiled At Hospital The portrait of Miss Lottie Go forth, benefactress of Kings Mountain 'hospital, will be un veiled at special services at the hospital on Sunday afternoon, beginning at 2:30. C. D. Blanton, Number 4 Town ship hospital trustee, will serve as master of ceremonies. Dr. W. P. Geiberding, pastor of of St. Matthew's Lutheran chur ch, will open the service with prayer, and Mr. Blanton will make a brief statement of appre ciation to the public for the do nations which made possible the painting of the portrait. Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church, will deliv er the principal adress, and Rev. R. L. Shore, Jr., pastor of Central Methodist church, will unveil the 'portrait and give the bene' diction. The public Is invited to attend the special ceremonies, to be held in the hospital lobby. The portrait, painted by J. Lee Settlemyre, Kings Mountain na tive and now a Rock Hill, S. C., artist, honors a Kings (Mountain woman who is credited with launching the suocessful move ment to build a hospital here. At her death, Miss Goforth be queathed her entire estate, which, on conveyance to the county Tboard of commissioners totaled $33,959.56, for the pur pose of building a hospital here. X~few years later, the county voted a vond issue to expand the Shelby hospital plant and to build a new plant here. Today, Klnge-Mountain hospital can ac commodate 40 patients. In opera ition only about 20 months, it has already been expanded from the original plant, an addition completed a few months ago bearing the name of the Lottie Goforth Memorial Wing. Bids have .been accepted for a nurses' home, on which construction is to begin around January L. Miss Goforth's bequest was u tillzed in building of the wing which bears her name. The board of hospital trustees Invited the public to share in I honoring Miss Goforth, and citi zens contributed more than $300 to defray costs of the painting which will be unveiled Sunday afternoon. Basil Whitener The Llncolnton Kiwanis Club journeyed to Kings Mountain for an inter-city . meeting with the Kiwanis Club here last Thursday night Harvey Jonas, Jr. of Lincoln ton, Introduced the speaker, Basil Whitener of Gastonla, who is state solicitor for the 14th dis trict. Mr. Whitener spoke on the "Progress of the South." ?. The Gastonla man compared the advancements of the South with that of the North He par ticularly noted the progress of the textile industry in the South. In the1 last 15 or 20 years, he said, the South has made long strides toward progress in in dustry. Approximately 52 members from the Kings Mountain Kiwa nis club were: present and about 29 from the Llncolnton club. Gal ther Frye, president of the Lln colnton Kiwanlans, presided over the meeting. Harold Iiunnicutt, president of the Kings Mountain Club welcom ed the Llncolnton club to Kings Mountain. Saturday Is Deadline Tor Filing City Carrier Extension Petitions Citizens of Kings Mountain, not now receiving city delivery postal service and .leading It, should present petition* request ing such service to .the postmas ter by Saturday. Postmaster W. ?. Slakely, who last week Invited petitions for city delivery route extensions, la compiling a survey and cost an alysts of the Increased service at the Instance of the assistant all petition* should toe Id his office fey Satur day, and should be signed by residents of the street and block seeking route extensions. He said several groups of citizens had already Indicated that they would file, ouch peitions. '??} ? Previously, Postmaster Blake ly had asked thfct a postal in spector be sent here with a view to extending city carrier routes. Following this inspection, the assistant postmaster general or dered the survey and coat ana lyst*. No major route addltons to the , city carrier service have been | made In the past six years. UNVEILING ? The portrait of the lot* Lottie Goforth. painted by J. Lee Settlemyxe from the picture above, will be unveiled Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at spe cial ceromoaie* at Kings Moun tain hospital. MUi Goforth, through the bequest of her es? tate for the building of a hospi tal In Kings Mountain, was cre dited with launching the move ment for building of the hospital. Shopping Pace Is Quickening Officially opened last week end, Kings Mountain's Christ mas-shopping season is well un derway, and merchants expect heaviest buying to begin this weekend and continue for the next two weeks. That's right, one merchant re marked, Christmas is only 12 fast-flying shopping days away. Generally, merchants report that Christmas - shopping is fol lowing the pattern of former years. While some citizens are early - bird buyers, it appears that majority will attend to their gift purchasing during the final two weeks. "It's too late already to shop early," one merchant reminded. Stocks of Christmas ? season goods seem quite plentiful in Kings Mountain stores, with on ly a few items on the scarce list. Some furniture items are not ob tainable on "at once" delivery, and some models of television sets are virtually non-existent, though higher priced models with larger screens are still toe ing exhibited on' dealer's floors. Most dealers think television set sales will break all records this Christmas season. Apparel merchants reported an upturn in buying last week end and during the early days of this week, tout they expect the peak season to begin Friday. Jewelers have reported good sal es for the past month and gen erally outdistanced other mer | chants on November sales. There is no lack of toys for Santa's bag from Kings Moun tain stores, with several firms having stocked toys more ex tensively than ever this year. The postoffice is expecting re cord-breaking mailings and, like the merchant, is urging citizens to handle their business early. Boaid Requests State Suggestion On Sewage The city board of commission ers voted unanimously Monday night at their regular monthly meeting to Invite the North Car olina State Board of Health for suggestions on handling the city's sewage disposal problem, in light of last Saturday's unfavorable vote on the issuance of bonds to improve the sewage system. * Previously, Commissioner Ol land Pearson had withdrawn his motion to suspend ail sewage in stallation work previously autho rized and not yet underway. It had failed of a second. The State Board of Health pre viously had condemned the city's sewage disposal system as inade quate and defective. Monday's monthly meeting was long but principally concerned routine business. One exception was a charge by Taxi Operator Frank Price that Taxi Operator Frank Roper has been violating provisions of the city's taxi franchise ordinance by using a private vehicle as a cab. The board voted to remind all taxi operators of the franchise terms. Otherwise, the board:, .1) Accepted the bid of Allison Fence Company to put a five-foot fence around a portion of Moun tain Rest cemetery (2,200 feet) for $-1,067 ins lulled. 2) Voted to bill citizens for several thousand dollars worth of street assessments. ?.,3' Vo,ccJ <? charge a fee of ri"*? Per month to out-of-citv Wc^^h6 USing City sewaSe scr vice (the vote was 3 to 1 Com mlgsloner Baxter Wright oppos i?wSg,)?teStoner C- P- "erry ab, authorized payment of salaried ??P?oyees for a half-month in advance on December 15. 5) Voted raises to Citv I in? men Wilson and Blantooof ?? 6) Deferred action on request of Tax Supervisor Clarence Car by ER,0?rCrVViC(' lo,s ownedl ?nr k' ir Roberts from tax books, on claim that lots are out of city limits re V ^Author^e<* 30-minute park ing on weekends at the Ware railway siding, and voted to re strict parking to one hour on Mountain street, from Railroad I?r?ly,S eet* and on w- Gold 150feet Hallro?d we8t 'or 8) Heard a report by City At torney on the action of an FPC, thl tw ,n "commending r/,nJ^S requesU? allotment of natural gas. 9) Approved installation of a th^M n.8ht ?n 3ims slreet near the Barber residence. ,J?!APPr?Ve(i lnstaHation of a two-inch water line on Carpenter street, and stoning of a portion) of Carpenter street. 11) Appointed Clarence E. Car- ! Penter tax lister for 1953. 12) Appointed Tom Henry Commissioner's Layt0n and Wright a commltte of three to Purchase an air compressor. 13? Authorized painting of city jail by Broadus Cash at $1.25 per hour, K Seal Sale Total Now $3,12118 i Proceeds from the sale of Christmas seals in Cleveland county totaled $3,172.18 on Tues day, according to report from Maru Jarrett, The total represents about 40 ES, at the goal and brought an appeal from officials of the Cleveland County Tuber culosis association for all citi zens to send In checks for the familiar Christmas seals. Christmas seals were mailed to ?hwine?* flrms and citizens throughout the county. Sale of the seals furnishes the only rev enue available tQ foster the ac trvitles of the association In its work to stamp out tuberculosis. ChTl!rtr?PM>ney1 obtalned *?>m CJrtotmaa seal, is u*?d to pro tr?*tment for Indigent pa Imnnuii^' re?"rch <*> determine improved methods of prevention and cure, and for education on ?ie prevention of tuberculosis ***** receipts Parking meter receipts col lected Wednesday morning to *?1 V*21! "X?*** tO if "Port by the dty. treasurer': office. . v-'.v ? YOUNG PASTOR ? Rev. Boyce Huffstetler, 22, above, hhs accep ted pastorates at El Bethel and Penley's Chapel Methodist chur ches. He Is to graduate from Wofford College la January, when he will assume full-time duties here. Churches Fill Pastorates Rev. Boyce Hufstetler, 22. who will graduate from Wofford Col lege in January, -has accepted pastorate at El Bethel and Pen ley's Chapel Methodist churches and delivered . his fir?* oci inorus on Sunday. The new pastor graduated from Kings Mountain high school in 1949. After his graduation from Wofford, he will complete a cor respondence course from Emory Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. He is married to the former Miss Marie Humphreys, daugh terof Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Humph reys, former Kings Mountain residents^ They have onp son. Rev. iMr. Huffstetler will take over his new duties fulltime at the first of the year and will move into the newly constructed church parsonage about Febru ary 1. The young pastor is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Huffstet ler of Kings Mountain. Dole Speaker At Lions Fete "On the friendly fields of strife are learned what boys need for the future," was the word of Bill Dole, Davidson football coach, as he spoke Tuesday night at the annual football banquet of the Kings Mountain Lions Club. Given in honor of the high school football team* the banquet was attended by team members and their coaches, as well as a number of invited guests. Coach Dole, referring to the over-emphasis of sports to the point that it caused corruption and scandals declined to agree with the extremists who desire to throw out all inter collegiate athletics. "Just because one inci dent occurs, It doesn't mean that all of It Is bad." Davidson, he said, is trying to build better athletic teams, yet keep athletics on a healthly par with scholastics. He said David son, for instance, wants to be in position to be able to win a mini mum of half its football games each season, preferably more, but that it wants to offer as many non-athletic scholarships as at' hletlc scholarships. He commended the members of the Kings Mountain coaching staff and said he felt all coaches should have experience coaching In high school. He closed his re marks by quoting what he called the "Ten Commandments of Sports", which command that lo sers shall not quit or alibi, that winners shall not gloat, and that none shall take unfair advantage of another. Coach Dole was presented by Jack Ruth, of Kings Mountain, Davidson quarterback for the past three seasons, who complet ed his Davidson career. Ruth praised Coach Dole as "a fli o man and a good coach" and Don said Ruth was one of the ? "bes boys" he had ever coached. Following the address, Coach Dole, aided by his assistants, Car- J rol Hambright and Chuck Ele ments, showed motion pictures of 1 the thrilling Davidson-Harv-irri game. Gifts were presented Oraches Shu Carlton, John Charl/.* and Don Parker by the Lions Club. Coach Carlton presented team members. Priot to the program, Sam Stal lings welcome-; Hal S. Plonk and Rev. Phil M. Shore, Jr., as new members of the organization. Among special guests was Charles Nelsler, coach of one of the city's Little League teams. Citizens Give % 109 Pints Blood Here On Monday Kings Mountain area citizens contributed 109 pints of blood Monday during the one-day visit Here ol the Red Cross Bloodmo blle. The total was 55'. pints short of the goal for the collection, but was higher than some previous collections. The total would have been greater, Red Cross officials reported, had not several poten tial donors been refused for a variety of reasons, either because they had just returned from a broad or because they had recent ly given blood, or for other re lated reasons. Mrs. J. N. Gamble, Red Cross executive secretary, said no Ne gro donors were Included in the Monday group and she urged this group to help swell collection to tals in. the future. Rev. Vance Daniel, chairman of tiie Kings Mountain chapter's blood collection program, issued a statement in which lie thanked Sunrise Dairy for milk and Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company for ice, donated to the canteen. Ife also thanked Fireman Ted Gamble and P. D. Fulton for their work in assembling and dis mantling the Bloodmobile equip ment "1 also wisli to thank each blood donor for their part in' helping to increase the Kings Mountain collection; We did not get enough on this visit, but 1 am hopeful that future collec tions will be much larger," Rev. Mr. Daniel said. Following is Monday's blood donor list: John H. Lewis Mrs. Rosa Head David Klneaid Jerry King Lester R. Howell Geo. H. Mauney Timmons W, Vassey Sam Stalllngs L. E. Abbott ' Pansy L. George R. Lawrence Lovell Mrs. Hilda Goforth Dr. D. F. Hord Bobby. E. Henson Mrs. Addle M. Turner James T. Malcolm John A. Cheshire Clarence Dixon Robert G. Whlsnant Richard B. Hale Philip L. 3hore James H. McKee Everette Cloninger J. Edwin Moore Hall Rufus Goforth Edgar E. Marlowe John C, Reynolds Maynard Lee Odell Joe W. Hutchins George Kelly Charles W. Kennedy Troy L. Wright James P. Crawley Mary Edna Brown [William B McSwain William A. Pyror Millard L. Metcalf Baxter Short Theodore E. Moss Ruth C. Cloriiger Charlies A, Black John P. Lackey Frank Morrow White Kenneth Davis Darrell Austin Miss Alice Winifred Fulton Miss Mildred Oletha Ballard Broadus Mosb Carl Fisher Mauney Miss Marilyn Gall Lewis Bobby W. Rhea John F. Hoyle Hubert C. Whitaker , Charles Edward Blalock Continued On Page Twelve Allen Memorial Chutch Dedicatory Services Will Be Held On Sunday The new building of Allen Me morial Baptist church will be dedicated at special services Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, the dedicatory services marking the recent retirement of $5,000 in indebtedness, the last install ment owed on the building. Announcement of the special service was made by the pastor, Rev. W. L. McSwain, who said that final payment bf the church debt was made possible through the Lord's Acre and Dollar-A Month club projects, which sup plemented regular gifts and spe cial offerings. Rev. Garland Hendrlck, of Gardner ? Webb college, will preach the dedicatory sermon. Others haiving part In the ded icatory- service* will be the Rev. Lewis' E. Ludlum of Winston Salem; Albert Hardin, Harold Queen and Paul Allen, all local youpg men who are students for the ministry; Brady A. Lall, chairman of the board of dea cons; the Rev. Durham Hughes who helped to organize the church, and nastor McSwain. ? Two deacons will be ordained with Mr. Ludlum delivering the message tor this part Of the ser vice; the history of the church from its beginning will be read toy iMr. Lail; the pastor will lead in the responsive dedicatory ser vice and with the assistance of the trustees and deacons, will burn the cancelled notes; and Mr. Hcndrlck will deliver the message of dedication after which the benediction will be pronounced by Mr. Hughes. Pastor McSwaln came to the congregation early in March of 1949 and since that time the church has had a healthy grow ths has about doubled its toud get afid, at the same time, has done some construction work. "During several years drought and tooll weevil hindered the fi nancial progress of the church," Mr. McSwaln said, '^but now that It is debt-free, the church can lookforwar d to greater growth and to more Improvements on tys physical property. "We cordially Invite the pub lic to worship with us Sunday," Mr McSwaln said. . / ? ? ? .. .... ' ? ?? . -? ACCEPTS CALI. ?Rev. R. E. Rob bins has accepted the call of Bethelehcm Baptist church to become its first full-time pastor. He will preach his first sermon on December 2i. Robbins Accepts Bethlehem Call Rev. R- E. Rabins will assume the pastorate of Bethlehem Bap tist church on Sunday, Decem ber 21. following acceptance of the. call of the church to become its minister. < Rev, Mr. Robbins, presently the pastor of First Baptist church, Goodman, Miss., as> a native of Lenoir, and has held pastorates In North Carolina, Georgia. Tex as, and Mississippi during the past 13 years. He is a graduate of Mars Hill college, Furman university, and Southwestern Baptist Theologi cal seminary. Fort Worth, Tex. Mrs. Robins is the former Miss Evelyn Watkins, of Mt. Holly. They have two children, Linda, age seven, and Tommy, age three. Mr. Robbins will become the Bethlehem Baptist church's first full-time pastor since its organ ization more than 100 years ago in 1849. He will fill the pulpit left vacant by the resignation of Rev. T. W. Fogleman, who retir ed from active ministry. The church has recently com pleted a handsome parsonage at the cast of $12,000. Mr. Robbins and his family ex pect to arrive aibout the middle of next week. East School To Give Program On Tuesday "Christmas in Many Lands," a Christmas play, will be presented by pupils of East School on Tues day night, December 16. at the school auditorium. Pupils of all grades will make up the cast of the play whleh is directed by Miss Margaret Cole, city schools mustc supervisor, and other grade teachers. Miss Cole urged the public to see the play. "Time of the pro gram Is set for 7 o'clock and no admission will foe charged," she said. Proposal Loses By 57 Ballots In tight Vote Kings. Mountain voters d^lined to approve a bond issue for sow. ape improvements in a special election held last Saturday. The official canvas showed 244 votes against the tyohd issue, with 187 votes for the bond issue. . The margin of defeat for the nond issue was therefore 57 votes. Interest in the election was slight only 434 taking the trouble to visit the polls. Three ballots were not counted, registrars re ported, because they were defac ed. , ; . Genera Hy speaking, election of. Ucials spent a dull day as the voters stayed away from the polls n droves, indicating little interest In whether the city Was given per mission to borrow up to $600,000 for sewer 'system improvements. It was the third time since 1946 that a sewer improvements bond issue had been defeated. The ot her two were for lesser amounts. ' Of the five voting precincts,, only one returned a favorable vote on the question. Voters of Ward III favoring the bond issue by a heavy margin. In other wards the opposite was true, with Ward V voters turning in the heaviest margin of "no" Votes, The totals by wards: Ward I ? For 32, against 45. Ward II ? For 32, against 40. Ward III ? For 53, against 14. Ward IV ? For 25, against 39. W ard V ? For 45, againrfi a06. The voting was quiet through out the day with no outward signs of organized effort either to pass the proposal or to defeat it. The total vote was only about one-fourth the total cast in the runoff city election of 1951, when more than 1,800 persons went to the polls. Rites Thursday For Mrs. Clark Funeral rites for Mrs. Rachel Neal Clark, 91, who died Tuesday !mnLngufo,llowlng a lon? Hlness, win be he d Thursday afternoon at 3 o clock at Shlloh Presbyteri an church in Grover, with the pas tor, Rev. Park Moore, officiating, assisted by Rev. J. T. Dendy The body will lie in state at the church for a half-hour prior to the funeral rites, and inter, mcnt will be in Grover cemetery. Mrs. Clark had been in declin ing health for the past five years.. -Surviving are a daughter, Mrs! < urtis Hardin, of route 2, Kings Mountain, and a brother, T. L. Neal, of Grover. Also surviving are four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Mrs. Clark was a member of Shiloh Presbyterian church. Legion Hall Square Dance Set Saturday Phenlx Square Dance club has issued an Invitation to the public to attend a dance to be held at the Legion Hall on East Gold street on Saturday night at 8 p. pi. Bruce Thorburn, recreation di. rector at the Burlington Mill# Corporation plant here1; made the announcement and urged local Square dancer9 to attend the fro lic. The dance was moved from the club's recreation room at Phenix to the Legion Hall to accomodate a larger number of dancers and spectators, he said. The famous Oramertoft square dance team is scheduled to give an exhibition and to Join in the dancing. The Phenlx band will play. Herald To Advance Christmas Issue The Herald, as is its custom, will advance its Christmas wMk edition to appear in ad vance of Its regular publica tion day. > This year's Christmas-week edition will be published on Tuesday* December 23. rather than on the regular Thursday date which tails on Christmas Day this year. The adition will include spe cial Christmas season feature material and greeting adver tisements from business firms, la oddlHon to the customary full news' coverage of any reg ular Herald edition.