TO KOREA Charles L. Clary, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Clary, at Kings Mountain, was to leave from Camp Stoneman, Calif., Mon day for duty In Korea. He days here before reporting to Camp Stoneman. METEB RECEIPTS A total cf 9333.61 was collec ted from th? ?Uy'8 parking me ters Tuesday morning, accord ing to a report by the city treasurer's office. The collec tion coveted the period since the December 17 report, he said. communion Holy Communion will be cfb* served at St. Matthews Luth eran church Sunday at a spec ial 9 o'clock service Sunday morning, in additld? ;to the SPECIAL SERVICE Demauth Blanton, Wake For est pre-ministerial student, was to conduct a special serv ice at First Baptist church ??? m the service commemorating the ending of the old year and beginning of the new. ttnrrus stroke Miss Bessie Skuonton is se riously 111 at her home on Cast King street, after suffering A stroke of paralysis early Wed nesday morning. Mist Simon ton, well - known retired tea cher, bad been recuperating from * similar illness suffered several months ago. Laundrjj^succes Listing Officials At City Hall Beginning Friday | !* ; ' " ' ? Annual tax listing gets under way Friday for both city and county, with list takers scheduled to bt> on duty at City Hall court room dally, except Mondays, throughout the month o! Janu ary. Clarence Carpenter is the city Hat taker and Conrad Hughes is serving as Number 4 township list taker. ? . . V Charlie Wats Will again handle the farm census for Number 4 Township. ?except Mondays VJMH Hater will be at GroverTI city property owners must also list in the county, city listing also will be suspended on Mondays to avoid confusion, Mr. Carpenter Max Hamrick, county auditor, Mid Wednesday that the county expects to use its new set of pro perty values, soon to be received from Cole-Layer-Ttumble com-' pany. It will not effect general \ tax listing, except thg* realty will have no vans listed with It, nor will business and industrial equip ment. Businesses and industries are required to famish values of Inventories and sQUlpment addi tions, and individuals will list personal property as they always have:. . .1 All men between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to list for poll taxes. The law requires that all per sons list property for taxes dur ing the month of January, and penalties are provided for those who fall to list their properties by the end of business January 31. lite tax listers wBl be on duty from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. % mo xiwjurs msxtuvg ' Members sf -the ring* Moun tain Ktwanls club take a holi day Thursday night, due to the New Tear's holiday, and will not hsid their regular Thursday evening meeting. Next meeting win be on Jan* uary 8 and will feature instal lation of officers for the com ing year, ft will be a ladies' nfrhtmsertrtg mcisifeoi roltTtew Lodge- 339, A. P. & A. for th? coaling fMh Kr. TaU will sacOMd Paul; Masonic Mast6i D. E. (Dickie) Tate was recent ly elected muter of Falrvlew Lodge 339, A. F. * A. M. Mr. Tat* will succeed Paul Owens. The new officers were elected at a stated communication held on December 8, and they will be installed, along with appointive officers, at communication to be held ih the near future. Other officers chosen for the coming , year are: Boyce Gault, senior warden; Emmett Ross, Junior warden; J. C. Keller, trea surer; and Joe McDanlel, Jr., sec retary. Board Holds Short Special Mooting The city board of commission ers held * brief special meeting Monday afternoon. Two actions were unanimous: 1) approval of payment of $193. 69 to Mitchell and Pershing, New York bond attorneys, for profes sional eervtees in connection with the reeent sewage bond election, and 2) approval of proposal of M. ft R. Granite Company to ereet an entrance at Mountain paid shares, *3,803.19 on optional savings shares, $1416 on lnatal) meat shares, and $93.32 on wttfc all games, with radio all of them, and mimil suEaa $ tr la? Businessman Formally Filed Tuesday Morning Glee A. Bridges, prominent Kings Mountain hardware mer chant and former county commis sloner, Tuesday morning paid the five-dollar filing fee and an nounced his candidacy for mayor, subject to the biennial city elec tion in May. Mr. Bridges had bee>; rumored as a mayoral candidate for sev eral months. However, his filing was somewhat earlier than first filings in previous city election years. After filing for office, Mr. Bridges made the following state ment: ? "In announcing as a candidate for Mayor of the City of Kings Mountain, I want to emphasize the fact that I am not being sponsored by any person or group of persons, but am coming out on my own, and, if elected, will go Into office with no strings at tached. % ?1 promise, if elected, a fair and square deal to every person re gardless of his or her station In life. I am for a progressive, big ger and better Kings Mountain. "I am taking this means to ask the 100 percent support of every ' citizen of our fair city." Mr. Bridges has been a Kings Mountain businessman for 33 years. Currently he is salesman at Bridges Hardware, a firm which he conveyed to his sons two vears ago. He Is vice-presi dent )t Home Building & Loan Association and a director of First National Bank. A promi nent Baptist layman, Mr. Bridges is an active member of First Bap tist church, a 32nd degree Mason, and a Klwanian. He Is a past president of the Kings Mountain Klwanis club, three times past president of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, a former City ftchoOl trustee. He la a for- ~~ mer city commissioner, having served the major portion of one term by appointment. He la a navy veteran of Vorld War I. Former Citizen Dies !a Hickory Funeral rites tor W. L. Long, 81, retired Hickory grain broker and a former Kings Mountain citizen, were conducted Sunday afternoon at the First Methodist church in Hickory. Mr. Long, a cousin of Mrs. A. H. Patterson, of Kings Mountain, was associated with his uncle here in the grocery business a* round the turn of the century, m before going to Hickory in MOO* where he first entered the mer cantile business and later be* :f came a leading grain broker. Mr. Long wai; $M| Mecklenburg County, a the late Joseph Lee and __ beth Jane Clark Long, and the youngest and' last sur member of a family of _ ren. He was born on June 1871. Mr. Long was married Miss Georgia Rose Currie of Gi ton County, who survives the following children: Mrs. . ble L. Waggoner of Charlotte, Mrs. Sidney R. Griffin of Sail fax. and^V. H. Long of Spartan burg, S. " Also surviving are two grai. iren anu five great - grantc provide about 40 parking fe % ? for rent