Population City Limits .; .., r4 .. . ... 7.206 Trading Area ...... . 154)00 (IMS Batten Board FlguiM) Kings Mountain's BE LI ABLE Newspaper Kings Mountain N. C., Thursday, December 18, 1952 r ? - ?. * . .. .v ? 20 Pages Today Sixty-Second Year PRICE FIVE CENTS David D. Saunders Buying Laundry Local News BUBEAU CLOSED Driver's license bureau will be closed on Thursday, Decem ber 25 and Thursday, January ? 1, according to W. W. Wright, 11- ? cense examines. The office will again reopen January 8, he eald. v CLOSE TUESDAY Jacob Mauney Memorial li brary will be closed on Tues day, December 23 through Fri day, December 26, according to announcement by Mrs. Charles Dilling, librarian. The library will again reopen on Saturday, December 27, she said. TAG SALES Sale of 1-953 "city tags total ed 210 Wednesday morning ac cording to a report from the city clerk's office. Tags must ' ?be purchased iby February 1, 1953 and price of the tag is Qne dollar. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM^ Bethlehem Baptist church will present a special Christ mas program in song. Scrip ture and verse on Tuesday ev ening at 7:30. Mrs. Juanita Warren Is pianist and Max Blacloburn is chorister. ' Jaycees Launch Bnmperlite Sale The Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce has laun ched a campaign to cut down on the number of traffic accident* In the city. To do this, the Jaycees have gope into business, selling "Red line bumperlltee", a luminous tape which is attached to rear bumpers of automobiles. The bumperllte is a strip of red tape, five feet long and one and one. half inches wide. It has little use In daylight hours but glows brightly at night as a warning to vehicles which may be approach Ing from the rear. Jaycees say it will last for approximately two years. Tile bumperllte is attached to vehicles by means of a highly sen sitized coating on the reverse side of the tape. Jaycees recommend that it be placed a little higher than half way up the rear bump er. This will prevent Its belpg I scratched by cars or trucks dur ing parking maneuvers. The Jaycees have installed the bumperlltes on police cars. Chief S. R. Davidson said he considered the bumperllte to be an outstand- J ing measure to reduce accidents. Red-line bumperlltes are sold only by Jaycees and may be ob tained from any member of the Kings Mountain club, Chairman K. E, Morrison has rnnottnced. Jaycees employed at Plonk Motor Company and Victory Chevrolet Company have a .supply of the tape and Mr. Morrison may be contacted at his taxi stand near the bus station. Price of the tape for one vehi cle Is one dollar. Christmas Herald To Appear Tuesday The next edition of the Kings . Mountain Herald, Its Christ mas edition* will appear next Tuesday rather than Thurs day, as the Herald follows its customary annual custom of advancing the Christmas week inn#. The edition will include special Christmas - season fea ture material, in addition com . plete coverage of news and so cial events. Merchants also wlU use the edition to convey i's greetings to their pa Advertising deadline for tbe advanced edition will be S p. n. Saturday. With the news aeadHns at 2 p. m. M?ndar. AH society news should Le te net later than 10 a- m< Correspondents are In to copy accordingly, win Mi ? *? i . xt evening, and Sale Effective End Of Week; Plant To Move Kings Mountain Laundry, laun derers and cleaners, has been sold to David D. Saunders, ac cording to joint announcement this week toy Mr. Saunders and ?by E. A; Harrill, owner of the es tablishment. The transaction includes the laundry and cleaning business along with equipment and fix tures, but does not include the large brick 'building where the Kings Mountain Laundry haa operated for the past several years. Mr. Saunders said the firm name would be changed to Sim shine Laundry, and that the bus iness would be moved to the Cle veland Avenue building owned by D. C. Mauney and which for merly housed Kings Mountain Laundry. The Maunev building has been most recently used as a warehouse by Sterchi's, local furniture firm. Mr. Saunders is the son of D. L. Saunders, owner of Saunders Dry Cleaning. He has been asso ciated with hte father for the past several years. He form erly managed Saunders Men's Shop, a men's store subsequent ly sold to Clyde Hughes, of Un ion, S. C. t Mr. Harrill has been either owner, or part-pwner, of the Kings Mountain Laundry for the past nine years, having purchas ed it in 1943. Paul Mauney 'pur chased a share of the business and it was operated as a partner ship until August 1948, when