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J?*.-* ( ;\S i - * '*? "?v - ~ Population City Limits 7.206 Trading Are is.ooo (1945 Ration Board Flguiu) *" * VI " Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 1 1, 1952 20 Pages Today Sixty-Second Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News , Bulletins LEGION SPECIAL A special called' meeting of 7,011a I>. Green Post 155, the A* merican Legion will toe held at the Legion Hall Monday night at 8 p. an. Important business will foe tliscussed and Com manded Sam Collins has urg ed all members to attend. ... *' TUESDAY FIRE City firemen answered an - alarm Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and extinguished ? ; Maze at Mauney Mills village crossing. No damage was re jorted. ? COURT OF HONOR Court of Honor for Kings (Mountain district Boy Scouts will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 at City Hall, according to announcement from Pied mont Council headquarters. YULE CANTATA The Senior choir of Central t Methodist church will present **The Stofy of Christmas," a sacred cantata, Sunday, Dec. 21, at 5 p. m., directed by Miss Bonnie Mcintosh. TAG SALES Sale of 1953 city auto tags totaled 159 Wednesday morn iQg according to a' report from the city clerk's office. Tags must toe purchased by Febru ary 1, 1953. City vehicle owners . purchased 1,190 during 1952. Price of the tag is one dollar. . Retailers List Holiday Horns Majority of Kings Mountain retail merchants won't observe longer hours prior to Monday, December 22, Dan Huf?stetler, association president said yes terday. ' Recommendation of the asso ciation, he said, is that retail firms observe Saturday hours daring Christmas week. This means that department, Jewelry and variety stores would foe open until 7 p. m.'on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday immediately prior to Christmas. Furniture and appliance store* would close ?lightly earl io r, and grocers sli ghtly later than the other groups. The association's holiday sche dule calls for two days at Christ mas time, with stores to close both on Christmas Day and on J"riday, December 36. A week later another day and one-half holiday occurs for re tail personnel. The Wednesday half - holiday closings are sche duled for resumption on Decem ber 31, and New Year's Day has %een added as a regular holiday vthe Merchant^ association... Merchants here customarily extend their schedules during -the final Christmas shopping days. laycees 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 olty^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 lesS fortunate and leave It at the store. We will see that your gift is distributed to make someone's Christmas merrier," a spokesman said. - The club will collect the donat ed items and distribute them to a welfare department list of needy persons m time for Christmas. Christmas Sal* -v Set By Council % A Christmas sale of decora tions, arrangements, gift Items, end Christmas cookies, cakes, and other delicacies will be conducted by the Kings Moun tain Garden Club council on December \9 at tbe Woman's meat thlsweek Jf Mr^'ocrade Hambright publicity chairman. Tbe r.s le, similar to toe con ducted last year, will be eon ducted for on* afternoon only from 1 to 6 o'clock, and tbe public Is Invited to attend. . bait year'* sale was a "??11 oat" officials i spotted, ' | . Tii* Gmd#(l Club rounrll In eludes thr?e King* Mountain garden club*. ' ' 1 Goforth Portrait To Be Unveiled li 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. Geiberdlng, 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. Pi L. Shore, Jr., pastor of Centra) 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 hotpltal lobby. The portrait, painted by J. Lee Settlemyre, Kings Mountain na tive and now a Rock Hill, S. C.t artist, honors a Kings Mountain woman who is credited with launching the suocessful move ment to ibuild a hospital here. At her death, Miss Goforth be queathed her , entire estate, which on conveyance to the county board of commissioners totaled $33,950.56, for the pur pose of building a hospital here. . Xiew years later, the county voted a bond issue to expand the Shelby hospital plant and to build a new plant here. Today, Kings Mountain hospital can ac- . commodate 40 patients. In opera tion 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 atcepted for a nurses' home, on which construction Is to begin around January L Miss Goforth 's bequest was u tlllzed In building of the wing which bears her name. ' The board of hospital trustees Invited the public to share in honoring Miss Goforth, and citi zens contributed more than $300 to defray costs of the painting which will be unveiled Sunday afternoon. Kiwanians Hear Basil Whitener The Lincolnton Kiwanis Club journeyed to Kings Mountain for an inter- city meeting with the Kiwanis Club here last Thursday night. Hsrvey Jonas, Jr. of Lincoln ton; introduced the speaker, Basil Whitener of Gastonla, who is state solicitor for the 14ih 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 the 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 Lincolnton club. Gal ther Frye, president of the Lin colnton Kiwanians, presided over the meeting, Harold Hunnkutt, president of the Kings Mountain Club welcom ed the Lincolnton club to Kings Mountain. Saturday Is Deadline Foi Filing City Carrier Extension Petitions citizens of Klngfe Mountain, not now r*cetvlwg clty delivery postal service and desiring it, should present petitions request ing such service to the postmas ter by Saturday. Postmaster E. Blakeiy, who last week Invited petition* for city delivery route extensions, Is compiling a survey and coat an alysis of the Increased service at the Instance of the assistant postmaster general. ^ Mr. uiaktly said all petitions should toe In his officr by Satur day, and should be signed by residents of the street and block seeking route extensions. He said , several groups of citizens hsd already indicated that they would1 file such peiiions. < < Previously, Postmaster Blake* ly had asked th*t 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 cost ana lysis. ? , v# Mo major route additons to the city carrier service have been made in the past six years. UNVEILING ? Th? porticut of th? late Lottie Goforth, painted br J. Leo Settlemyre from th# picture above, will be unveiled Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at spe cial ceromoniea at Xing* Moun tain hospital. Miss Gofprth* through the Iwqurtt of her ??< tate for the building of a hospi tal in Kings Mountain, was cre dited with launching the move ment tor 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 xhat 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 brepk all records this Christmas seasorw. Apparel merchants reported an <u*>turn 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 th$n ever this year. The poetofftee is expecting re cord-breaking mailings and, like the merchant, Is urging citizens to handle their business early. Board 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 ol 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 all 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 $4,0G7 installed. 2) Voted to bill citizens for several thousand dollars worth of street assessments. 3) Voted to charge a fee of $1.50 per month to out-of-city residents using city sewage 'ser vice (the vote was 3 to 1, Com missioner Baxter Wright oppos ing. Commissioner C. P. Berry ab staining). 4) Voted city office holidays for December 25, 26 and 27, and authorized payment of salaried employees for a half-month In advance on December 15. 5) Voted raises to City Line men Wilson and Blanton of $25 per month each (to $250 per mon i th), and to Robert Wright, water [plant operatoi, of seven dollars per week (to $55 per week). 6) Deferred action on request of Tax Supervisor Clarence Car penter to remove fice lots owned by E. R. and J. R. Roberts from tax books, on claim that lots are out of city limits. 7) Authorized 30-minute park ing on weekends at the- Ware railway siding, and voted to re strict parking to one hour ort Mountain street, from Railroad to City street, and on W. Gold street, from Railroad west for 150 feet. 8) Heard a report by City At torney on the action of an FPC trial examiner in recommending the city's requested allotment 'of natural gas. 9) Approved Installation of a street light on Sims street near the Barber residence. 10) Approved installation 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. 1 12) Appointed Tom Henry, Commissioners Lay ton and Wright a committe of three to purchase an air compressor. 13) Authoi.zod painting of city Jail by Broadus Cash at $1.25 per hour. Seal Sale Total Now $3,172.18 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 percent of the $8,000 goal and brought an appeal froni 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 business firms and citizens throughout the county. Sale of the seals furnlshes*tbe only rev enue available to foster the ac tivities of the association in its work to stamp out tuberculosis. The money obtained from Christmas seals is used to pro vide treatment for indigent pa tients, for research to determine improved methods of prevention and cure, and for education on the prevention of tuberculosis. . METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts col lected Wednesday morning to taled $152.13, according to i> report by the city treasurer"* office. ? ? ?kU. \*v . jrV>^>v j* % * , *, : ? YOUNG PASTOR ? Rev. Boyce Huffstetler, 22. above, hbs accep ted pastorates at El Bethel and Penler's Chapel Methodist chur ches. He Is to graduate from Woiford College in January, when he will assume full-time duties here. Churches Fill Pastorates Rev. Boyce Hufstetler, 22, who will graduate from Woflord Col lege in January, has accepted pastorate at El Bethel and Pen ley's Chapel Methodist churches and delivered his first sermons 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 ma..?vd to the former Miss Marie Humphreys, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Humph reys, former ? Kings Mountain residents^ They have one son. ?Rev. (Mr. Huffstetler will take over his new duties fulltlme at the first of the year and will move into the n^wly 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 j the future," was the word of Bill i Dole, Davidson football coach, as) he spoke Tuesday night at the i 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 hletic 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 Sporis", which command that lo sers shall not quit or alibi, that winners shall not gloat, and that none shall take ur.iair 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 fine man and a good coach" and Dole said Ruth was one of the "best boys" he had ever coached. Following the address, Coach Dole, aided by his assistants, Car-< rol Hambrlght and Chuck Sle ments, showed motion pictures of the thrilling Davidson-Harvard game. Gifts were presented Coaches 'Shu Carlton, John Charles and Don Parker by the Lions Club. Coach Carlton presented team members. Prloij to the program, Sarn Stal llngs welcomed Hal 3. Plonk and Rev. Phil M. Shor??, Jr., as new [members of the organization. Among special guests - was Charles Netsler, caeh of one of the city's Little League teams. i ?? . Citizens Give 109 Pints Blood Here On Monday Kings Mountain area citizens contributed 109 pints of blood Monday during the one-day visit here of the Red Cross Bloodmo bile. The total was 55 ' pints short of the goal for the collection, but was higher than sonic 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, cither because they had just returned from a broad or because they had recent ly given blood, oi% 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 the Kings Mountain chapter's blood collection program, issued a statement in which he thanked Sunrise Dairy for milk and Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company for ice, donated to the canteen. He also thanked Fireman Ted Gamble and P. D. Fulton for their work in assembling and dis mantling the Bloodmobile equip ment. I "I also wish 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 Kincaid Jerry King Lester R. Howell Geo. H. Mauney Timmons W. Vassey . Sam Stallings L. E. Abbott Pansy L. George R. Lawrence Lovell Mrs. Hilda Goforth Dr. D. F. Hord Bobby E. Henson Mrs. Addie M. Turner James T. Malcolm John A. Cheshire Clarence Dixon Robert G. Whisnant Richard B. Hale Philip L. Shore James H. McKee Everette Cloninger J. Edwin Moore Hall Rufus Goforth Edgar E. Marlowe John C. Reynolds Maynard Lee Odell Joe W. Hutqhins 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. Cloniger Charles A. Black John P. Lackey Frank Morrow White Kenneth Davis Darrell Austin Miss Alice Winifred Fulton Miss Mildred Oletha Ballard Broadus Moss Carl Fisher Mauney Mfss Marilyn Gail Lewis Bobby W. Rhea John F. Hoyle Hubert C. Whitaker . Charles E<Jward Blalock Continued On Page Twelve Allen Memorial Chnzch Dedicatory Services Will Be Held On Sunday . , ? ? ? . * ? ' 1 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 t>y the pastor, Rev. W. L. McSwain, who said that final payment of the church debt was made possible through the Lord's Acre and DoUar-A Month club projects, which sup plemented regular gifts and spe cial offerings. Rey. Garland Hendrick, of Gardner ? Webb college, will preach the dedicatory sermon. Others having part In the ded icatory services will be the Rev. Lewis' E. Ludlum of Winston Salem;' Albert Hardin, Harold C^ueeh and Paul Allen, all local youpg men who are students for the ministry} Brady A. Lail, 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 gfrtiiliMB iififeK--- HfitofcAk t .? with Mr. Ludlum delivering the message for this part of the ser vice; the history of the Church from Its beginning will be read by 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. Hendrfck will deliver the message of dedication after which the benediction will foe pronounced by Mr-Hughes. Pastor McSwaln came to the congregation early in March of 1949 and since that time Jhe church has had a healthy grow th, has about doubled its (bud get and, at the same time, has done some construction work. "During several years drought and boll weevil hindered the fi nancial progress of the church," Mr. McSwaln said, "but now th?t It is debt-free, the church can lookforwar d to greater growth and to more improvement* on Its physical property. "We cordially Invite the pub lic to worship with us Sunday," Mr McSwain said. ?1 1 ACCEPTS CALL ?Rev. R. E. Rob bins has accepted the call ol Bethelehem Baptist church to become its first full-time pastor. He will preach his first sermon on December 21. Robbins Accepts Bethlehem Call Rev. R. E. Robins 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. t 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, ahd 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- Mfss Evelyn Watklns, 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 vaicant 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 cost of $12,000. Mr. Robbips 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 which is directed 'by Miss Margaret Cole, city schools music 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'ibe charged," she said. Proposal Loses By 57 Ballots In Light Vote Kings Mountain voters declined to approve n bond issue for sew ace improvements In a special election held last Saturday. . The official canvas showed 214 votes against the bond issue, with 187 votes for the bond issue. The margin of defeat for the bond issue was therefore 57 votes. Interest in the election was slight, only 131 taking the trouble to visit the polls. Three ballots were not counted, registrars re ported, because they were defac ed. . ? Generally speaking, election of ficials spent a dull day as the voters stayed away from the polls In droves, indicating liule 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. Votiers 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. Ward V ? Far 45, against 106. The voting was quiet through out the <iay 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 .'.'rsons went to the polls. Bites Thursday For Mrs. Clark Funeral rites for Mrs. Rachel Neal Clark, 91, who died Tuesday evening following a long illness, will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Shlloh Presbyter!* an church in Grover, with the pas tor, Rev. Park Moore, officiating, assisted by Rev. J. T. Dendy. The body wlir lie in state at the church for a half-hour prior to the funeral rites, and inter ment will be In Grover cemetery. Mrs. Clark had 'been in declin ing health for the past five years. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Curtis 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 Shlloh Presbyterian church, * Legion Hall Square Dance Set Saturday Phenix Square Dance club has issued an Invitation tc the public to attend a dance to be held at the Legion Hall on East Gold street on Saturday night at 8 p. m. Bruce Thorburn, recreation di rector at the Burlington Mills Corporation plant herer, made the announcement and urged local square dancers 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 Cramerton square dance team is scheduled to give an exhibition and to Join in the dancing. The Phenix band will play. Herald To Advance Christines Issue The Herald, as is its custom, will advance its Christmas ?Mk 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 falls on Christmas Day this year. The edition will include spe clal Christmas season feature material and greeting adver tisements from business firms, in addition to the customary full news coverage of Any reg ular Herald edition.
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