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Population City Limits 7.206 Trading Area 15,000 <1945 Batlon Board Flgaroa) Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C? Thursday, March 26, 1953 18 Pages Today Sixty-Third Year PRICE FIVE CENTS ? l; -? . Local News Bulletins FAILS TO REPORT County selective service of eials are seeking the address of George .Loroy .Griffin, .of. .Kings Mountain, who jfailed to. .report for induction into the. .armed forces Tuesday morn- . ? ing FIRE ALARM City firemen answered an alarm Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 to the home of Marvin. Bell on Cansler street. Cause . . of the fire was an oil stove ex-, plosion in the home. Estimat ed damage was from $50 to $100, firemen said. mWANIS MEETING Forrest H. Shuford, of Ralei gh, North Carolina Commis sioner of Labor, will address members of the Kings Maun- | tain Kiwanis club at their meeting Thursday night. The club convenes at 6:45 at Ma sonic Dining Hall. PONT LOOP MEETING A "meeting of all parties in terested In formation of a Pony Baseball league here this summer will be held at City Hall next Wednesday af ternoon at 5 o'clock according to announcement by K. E. Mor rison. SINGING SUNDAY There will be a singing Sun day at the Grace Methodist church beginning at 2:30 p. m. The public Is cordially in vited to attend and hear some good old time spiritual sing ing. BANKERS' MEETING L E. Abbott, First National Bank vice-president and cash ier, is in Atlanta this week attending ? meeting of the In dependent Bankers' Associa IN STALLED v N. F. McGlll was installed as an elder and Wendell Phi fer, John Cheshire, Oscar Mc Carter and R. H. Burton, as deacons, of Boyce Memorial ARP church on Sunday. All deacon's terms of office are four years, with the exception of Mr, Phifer, Who fills the one-year unexpired term of N. F. McGllL Dameion Draws Five To 7 Yean Arthur G. Dameron, 23-year- old Negro, was sentenced to serve from five to seven years In state prison by Judge Dan K. Moore In March term of Cleveland County Superior court, in session at Shelby this week. Dameron was found guilty of assault, with lni-nt to kill, and attepapted armel robbery of Bar ber's Cash Grocery here on March 6. In the unsuccessful attempt to rob Mr. Barber in his establish ment on West King street, Dam eron cut the grocer with a knife. Dameron waived preliminary hearing before Judge Jack H. White here In Kings Mountain Recorder's cdurt on March 7 and $1500 bond was set in each case for trial in Superior court. Also receiving sentence Tues day was William Earl Navey, 20 year-old Kings Mountain youth, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison on charge resulting from attempted robbery of Hun t?r Patterson, Home Building A Loan Association secretaiy, on the sidewalk near his home pn South Gaston street on Friday night, February 13th. Charles Rodney Smith, 17-year old youth, who was charged with aiding and abetting in the rob bery, received a 12- months prison sentence. ? Both Navey and Smith had been bound over to Superior court here in a preliminary hearing be for Judge White. Dixon Resigaf : ) Joe Dixon, business manager of Kings Mountain hospital since its opening nearly two years ago, ha* resigned that position. Announcement of the resjgna t ion was marlo folnwing a moot lng of the county hospital board of trustee* on Wednesday, Mardfc 18. Number 4 Township Trustees Franklin Harpy, C. D. Blanton and Hunter Weisler, along wtth County Hospitals Administrator Robert Moser were named as a committee to employ a successor to Mr. Dixon. Mr. Mopar said this week that applications for the position are INSPIRING SCENE FROM LITTLE THEATRE PLAY ?The Emperor Caligula tries to persuade the Ro man Marcellus to renounce his faith in the above scene from the Little Theatre production, "The Robe/' superbly presented at Central auditorium Tuesday night. Pictured, left to right, are Meek Carpenter as "Marcellus," Mrs. L B. Goforth. Jr., as "Diana." Franklin Pethel as "Caligula." Mrs. Bruce Thorburn as "Salome," Phillip Baker as "Quintus" and Sam Mitchem as "Sarpedon." The play will be presented again on Saturday night at 8 o'clock at Central auditorium- (Photo by Hubert Carlisle.) "The Robe" Plays Again Saturday Night Kings Mountain Little Theatre players will again dramatize Lloyd C. Douglas' best-seller, "The Robe", at Central school au ditorium Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. First performance of the religi ous play was presented on Tues day night ana drew much praise from the small, but spell-bound audience. Many considered the play to be the Little Theatre's best effort of many excellent presentations during the past three years. Last performance of the Easter series will be given at the Besse mer City high school auditorium on Tuesday at 8:15 p. m. The Tues sorPn Dy tne Bessemer City Junior Chamber of Commerce. Members of the cast are Meek Carpenter who portrays "Marcel lus Gallio"; R. G. Plonk, Jr., as "Demetrius"; Mrs. I. B. Goforth, Jr., as "Diana Gallus"; Miss Bll lie Gibbons as "Lucia Gallio"; Mrs. Merle Beatty as "Sara"; John Curtis of Bessemer City as "Melas"; Sam Stallings as "Pau lus"; and L B. Goforth, Jr., as "Pontius Pilate". Dr. R. N. Baker plays two rol es, as "Capt. Fulvius" and "Ti berius"; Miss Bernice Harrison as "Helen"; Mrs. H. L. Campbell as "Cornelia Gallio"; Robert Grlgg as "Senator Gallio"; Mrs. Franklin Pethel as "Phoebe"; Miss Barbara Matthews as "Theodosia"; Phillip Baker as "Quintus"; Miss Jane McGirt as "Rhoda"; and Hsl S. Plonk as "Simon Peter." The cast also includes Frank lin Pethel as "Caligula"; Sam Mltchem as "Sarpedon"; and Mrs. Bruce Thofburn as "Sa lome"; Hubert Carlisle, and Bruce Thorburn play the part of soldiers, Miss Joan Britt plays the part of a woman and Connie Padgett plays the part of a child. The recently re-organized Cho ral society presents several ren ditions at the opening of the play. Franklin Pethel will direct the group. tiuiftr To Sing Dubois Work A spe lal Palm Sunday service will be presented on Sunday af ternoon at 4:30 by the senior choir of Central Methodist church which will sing "The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ", by Cle ment Francois Theodore Dubois. The 24-volce choir will sing one chorus in Latin which is a prayer at the conclusion, and the remain ing choruses will be sung in Eng lish. The soloists are Margaret Cole, Mrs. Delbert Dixon, Shirley Falls, William Briggs, Jo Aim Dixon, Earl Marlowe, And Burlie S. Peeler, Jr. The choir is under the direction of Bonnie Mcintosh, director and organist, and Burlie S. Peeler, Jr., assistant director. ? Author of. the musical presen tation is an early twentieth cen tury French composer, who was the Church of t$l Madeleine and professor of com position at the Paris Conserva tory of Music. He Wrote for the voice well as for the oi ffijfc and received numerous honors for his compositions including the French I-egton of Honor award. iMTOMT Mctoile X fiay unit will be in front of Be He's Department Thursday, MtM| $6 ;! from 10-11:45 In the morning and from 1-4 o^look in the a?t- I ?moon. Persons who need a birth certificate are urged to have fhelr chest X-rays made Go-Ahead Voted On Negro School Site Purchase Is Approved By School Board Kings Mountain district board of school trustees, in regular Mardh meeting at Central school Wednesday, March 18 at 4:30 p. im., voted to proceed with the purchase of a new Negro school site and to construct a new ele mentally. building at the new location. Motion Was made by Mrs. H. E. Lynch, seconded by Dr.. P. G. Padgett and carried unanimous ly The action authorized the board's building committee to continue se'curlng options on land for the new site and to con struct a new building, as rec ommended (by the state school board planning committee sev eral months ago. Chakman Arnold Kincaid pre sided and all board members weife present, along with Super intendent B. N. Barnes and Prin cipal iRowell Lane. J. A. Gibson, Davidson school principal, was present for the first part of the session. Under the present plan, Dav idson high school pupils would continue classes in the present building. The new site is located several hundred feet west of the present Davidson building and contains some 12 and one-half acres. I'ard Member J. R. Davis made a motion authorizing the building committee to execute an option with Robert B. Byers for some of bis property on fhe site. After second by Dr. Pad gett, the motion carried unani mously. . Mr. Davis also offered a mo tion authorizing the superin tendent to secure or employ a person to landscape and grade the playground at East school, which was approved by the board. Mr. Barnes reported thai the Continued On Page Ten laycee Minstrels Show Postponed Jaycee Mlnistrels of 1953 hare been postponed two weeks, O. D. Sounders, chair man of the promotion said Wednesday afternoon. The show, an annual project of the organisation (or the past several years, will be gi ven for two nights, on April 10 and 11, Mr. Saunders Said. "We -regret the postpone ment but several conflicting matters forces It^he wife. The ?hew'' was originally scheduled fer Thursday and Friday nights. Week's Politics Speculatory It was a quiet week politically, from the standpoint of new can didates for city offices, but the paucity of announcements was not fully indicative of the activ ity underway. Candidates already filed were at work iaying the groundwork for votes, Mayor Garland Still got out another circular, and there was much scurrying about among potential candidates and string-pullers. Generally speaking, next week was toeing mentioned as spring board date for a number of can didates for city office, and the names getting the big play In cluded a long list of probables, potentials, and possibles. One observer said of Former (Mayor H. Tom Fulton, "he's def initely running," tout others doufbted it just ad ardently, W. G. Grantham, prominently mentioned as a Ward 5 commis sioner candidate, pointed to next week as decision time, and ano ther Ward 5 possible was J. C. Keller. Lasted as "sure" to seek office was T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, ex pected to run again for the Ward Continued On Page Ten Wright Won't Seek Re-Election; Harris Not To Enter Mayor Race Baxter T. Wright, Sr., Ward 5 commissioner, will not seek re election to that position, and Ol lie Harris, mentioned frequently as a possible mayoral candidate, will not offer for that position. These two announcements, made formally Wednesday, were the principal outward develop' ments of the city's 1953 political campaign this week. No new candidates had enter ed the field at noon Wednesday. Mr. Wright, who Is proprietor of Wright's Barber Shop, In his statement, said: "I wish to thank the citizens of Kings Mountain for their kind support and en couragement In every way dur ing my term ?s commissioner and for the interest of each in dividual who has asked me to seek re-election. However, I wish at this time to announce 1 will not seek re-election." Mr. Harris Cleveland county coronor and Kings Mountain mortician, ax&nowledging that that he had been urged to offer for the office of mayor, said, "I am highly flattered at the Sug gestions of many friends that I seek the office of mayor at the forthcoming election, tout I am I unable to otter for this position and desire that my name be eliminated from speculation concerning it" Mr. Wright is the second mem ber of the current administration to decline Ho seek re-election. C. P. Barry, Ward 4 commissioner, said several weeks ago he would not seek re-election. Three members, Mayor Gar land Still, Commissioners Ol land Pearson and Lloyd E. Da vis, are seeking re-election, while Commissioner James Lay ton, Ward'l, incumbent, hall not made known his interiUoMi. 1 The candidates to date: For mayor ? Garland E. Stil1-. incumbent, Glee A. Bridges, and George W. Allen. For Ward 2 commissioner ? Lloyd E. Davis, incumbent, and Warren E. Reynolds. ?For Ward 3 commissioner ? Oltand R. Pearson, incumbent, and Clarence Elgin. ; - For Ward 4 commissioner ? O. T. Hayes, Sr., Harold Phillips, and Floyd Williams. For Ward 5 commissioner ? Sam S tailings and D. L. Whit*. Dr. Hendricks Now Building 12-Room Clinic Construction was proceeding rapidly this wek on the 12 room medical clinic of Dr. Paul E. Hendricks. Dr. Hendricks, currently on ac tive duty with the armv and sta tioned in Charlotte at the induc tion center, expects to be released from active duty. about July 1 and anticipates that the clinic, located at the corner of Cansler and West Gold struts, will be ready for use at that time. . Formerly a residence and most recently occupied by Neal Grls som, the property w<?s obtained by Dr. Hendricks from C. D. Blanton and J. L. McGill. ? The house is being completely renovated to make a modern 12 rOom medical clinic, both utility and in exterior appearance. In ad dition to two waiting rooms, the building will contain a nurse's office, three treatment rooms, an x-ray room, two baths, electro* cardiagraphy room, and ear, nose and throat treatment room. The clinic will be completely air-conditioned and the old peak ed roof is being replaced with a modern-type flat roof. Asbestos shingles art bcmg used for out side weather boarding. Sam Davis is installing the air condition !ny plant, and Clyde Blanton is superintending the carpentry work. Cancer Drive Begins April 8 Mrs. Hubert Davidson is chair man and Mrs. C. S. Weir, Jr., co chairman of the annual Cancer Fund drive scheduled to begin here on April 8. Announcement of the Kings Mountain division drive leaders wa s mad* hy Mrs. Craig Jone?, of Shelby, county chairman. Kings Mountain quota has been set at $750, Mrs. Davidson reported yesterday. The dr've is sponsored by the Cleveland County Chapter, A merican Cancer Society. Funds collected in the nation - wide drive are used to combat cancer and to treat cancer patients. La^i. year, only $445 was rais ed toward the Kings Mountain quota. M. N. Kendrick's Bites Conducted Funeral rites for Marcus Nevitt Kendrlck, 72, of Mount Holly and brother of four Kings Mountain citizens, were conducted Saturday at 11 a. m. from the First Baptist church of Mount Holly. Rev. J. D. Williams, the pastor, officiated and burial was in the Sharon Memorial Park in Char lotte. Mr. Kendrlck died last Thurs day at 8:30 p. m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Kokoska in Charlotte following a heart at. tack suffered early Thursday morning. He had lived in Mount Holly for 30 years going to live with his daughter in Charlotte about a year ago. He was the son of the late John and Bell Nevitt Ken drlck. A prominent business man, he was connected with the Ken | drlck Brick and Tile company of j Mount Holly. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Maude Hamrick Kendrlck; two sons, Llnwood of Charleston, S. C., and Joe Kendrlck of Shelby; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Kokoska of Charlotte; five sisters, Mrs. Agnes Thomasson, Mrs. Flossie Ware, Mrs. Mary Lipford, and Miss Margaret Kendrlck, all of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. P. L. Ware of Mount Holly. Also surviving are four grand children. Belmont Firm Promotes Ballard Hugh Y. Ballard, former Kings Mountain citizen and for ten yean superintendent of Park Yarn Mills here, has recently been promoted to the position of super intendent of National Yarn Mill*, Inc., of Belmont, Mr. Ballard Joined National Yam Mills, Inc., slightly more than a year ago as assistant su perintendent and personnel di rector. In his new position, Mr. Bal lard succeeds Jonathan L. Rhyne, who has resigned. f Mr. Ballard is well-known in Kings Mountain, where he was ac tive in civic affairs of the commu nity. He is a former president of the Kings Mountain Kiwonisxlub. Township Administrative School Unit Recommended / ? ? ? f v- ;W|?||WI .????????? HONORARY OFFICIAL AND PARENTS ? Billy Gene Sanders, 12, right, who has been unofficially adopted by the police department and given honorary city titles, is pictured above with his invalid father, Simon Sanders, and his mother. The police department is sponsoring the color picture, "Hiawatha," at Joy Theatre next Wed nesday and Thursday. April 1 and 2, with proceeds going to Young Sanders' educational fund. Police Sponsoi Motion Picture For Youngster Billy Gene Sanders, age 12, whom the Kings Mountain police department feted last Christmas and later honored at a banquet, will be the honored' guest at the movie "Hiawatha" on April 1 and 2 at the Joy Theatre, sponsored by the police department in be half of Billy's educational fund. wlas only 6 year old when his father, Simon Sanders, was stricken with paralysis. Since that time Mr. Sanders has been an in valid, six years of which he has spent in bed and five on crutches. He has been confined to his bed for the past two years. The fami ly has been struggling along, all these years on what little help they obtained from the welfare department. It was not until the police de partment started to buy little Billy's Christmas presents that, the plight of the Sanders' family came to light. It was then the police decided to do something to insure Billy's education; and in January of this year a banquet was given In Billy's honor at the City Hall. That night Billy was appointed Honorary Mayor, Hon orary Chief of Police and Hono rary Fire Chief; and, the same time, the police unofficially a dopted Billy and decided to pur chase an educational policy to further his education and to ren der any other assistance possible to Billy and his family. This is the beginning of what the Kings Mountain police intend to make an annual affair and It is going to start with a bang! ^ big parade is planned Tues day afternoon at 4 o'clock, led by the high school band, the may or, and board of aldermen. Billy, as Honorary Fire Chief, will ride in one of the fire trucks driven by Fire Chief Grady King. Immediately following will be the city police cars, then the junior police on foot; followed by the boy scouts, the girl scouts, the mobile unit of Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 120th Infantry, North Carolina National Guard and an infantry company of the Shelby National Guard, the State Highway Patrol, the Cleveland County Sheriff's Department, a float by the merchant's associa tion and any other civic minded car owners who wish to partici pate. Joe Hendrick, city clerk, is chairman of the parade arange ments committee. Tentative route of parade: Continued On Page Ten Interest On Paving Balances To Apply Interest on unpaid city street ? paving assessments applies on April 1 at the rate of one-half of one percent per month, Joe R. Hendrick, city cleric reminded citisens yester day. Mr. Hendrick also made a report on street assessment payments which showed total payments through Wednesday noon of $3,957.04. Majority of the payments covered assessments approved by the city beafd of commis sioners on January 12. Stroke Fatal To Mis. McFadden Mrs. Minnie McFadden, until j a few months ago a Kings Moun tain citizen, died last Saturday ; at Port Angeles, Washington, at j the home of a Hece, according ! to information recei'cJ here. Full details concerning the | death of Mrs. McFadden, about 77 years of age, were not receiv ed here 'but it was understood that she had suffered a stroke of paralysis about 10 days prior to her death. The body is being returned to Atlanta, Ga., her home for many | years, fWr burial, and funeral Is expecteu to be on Saturday, from ! the H. M. Patterson & Son Fun- 1 eral Home, 1020 Spring Street, . Northwest. A widow, Mrs. McFadden came to Kings Mountain a number of years ago to reside with the late Mrs. J. M. Garrison. She was a member of the Associate Refor med Presfbyterian church and quite active in the work of the Boyce Memorial ARP church while she lived here. After the deafih ol Mrs. Garrison, Mrs. Mc Fadden resided at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Ware. A number of nieces survive, including Miss Mary Thompson and Miss Lurline Thompson, both of Charlotte. Weekley To Give Easter Sermon Rev. H. Gordon Weekley, pas tor of First baptist church, will preach the sermon at the annu al community - wide Easter Sun rise service at Mountain Rest cemetery, according to an nouncement this week try Rev. P- D. Patrick, chairman of the Continued On Page Ten Gold Stxeet Cemetery Entrance Dedicator; Rites Sunday At 3 Special ceremonies dedicating the completion o 1 a new entrance to Mountain Rett cemetery will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the site on East Gold street. Rev. Phil Shore, Jr., pastor of Central Methodist church, will be the principal speaker at the ?pedal ceremonies, and Mayor Garland E. Still will be the mas ter of ceremonies. Other ministers will take part In the 30- minute rites to which the public Is invited. 8am R. Suber, superintendent i of Mountain Rest cemetery, will present Mr. Shore. Ribbon will be tied over the en trance gate and will be cut, mark ing the opening of the new en trance to the public. All of the Mountain Rest ceme tery property has now been en closed by an all-steel wire fence, and the new East Gold street en trance is designed to facilitate traffic in and around the ceme tery. The new entrance is expect ed to remove a considerable a mount of traffic from E. King street. > ?? _____ State Survey ; Group Reports On School Needs A Stale Department of Public Instruction school planning sur vey committee has recommended iliat the city schools administra tive unit discuss with the county board of education expansion of the Kings Mountain unit to include ail of Number 4 Town ship. The survey committee recom mended further that efforts be made to provide one white high school and one Negro high school for' all of Number 4 Township. The survey was made by a six member committee from the State Department of Public In struction. The report, recently received from Raleigh, Was first consider ed by the city school trustees at their meeting of March 18. Text of the report follows: "The Division of School Plan ning of the State Department of Public Instruction arranged for a survey to be made of the Kings Mountain Schools on the above date at the request of the school board. The survey committee studied statistical data covering the past twenty years, and also studied spot maps of pre-school, and elementary school popula tions. In order to secure first ? hand information the committee visited each of the schools ?nd residential areas. "Upon the basis of this study thn survey committee makes the following comments and recom mendation; "It is recommended that the Kings Mountain School Board consult the Cleveland County Board of Education with a view to expanding the Kings Moun tain Administrative Unit to In clude all of township four. An en larged district would make It pos sible to maintain more adequate high schools for each race. Some of the benefits which could re sult from larger high schools would be improved instruction In shopwork, and vocational sub jects, better recreation and athet Ic programs, improved libraries, science departments, and improv ed cafeteria services. The adop tion of such a plan for the white schools would relieve the present ly over-crowded elementary schools. 'The County Board of Com missioners will be better able to provide for the total educational needs of township four if the Kings Mountain City Board of Education and the Cleveland County Board of Education could get together and make provision for a district high school for each race. "A. Davidson School: 1). It is recommended that a site of at least 15 to 25 acres for a new union school should be ob tained immediately. 2). Before any construction be gins a plot plan should be deve loped with space requirements blocked out for the entire project. 3). First construction on the new site should be an elementary school unit .composed of at least five classrooms, health site, of fice and storage space. Heating and other service systems should be large enough to care for future additions. 4). If the school district can be enlarged to include township four, then high school facilities should be provided. Among these facili ties are classrooms, multipurpose room, cafeteria, library, and ad ministrative* space. If the enlarg ed district cannot be formed, con sideration should be given for transporting the high school pu pils to a nearby school. B.) White Schools: 1.) Secure a site In the northern part of town and erect a modern Continued On Page Ten Sunday Power Cut-Off Scheduled The city electrical depart ment announced this week that a power cut-off Sunday afternoon would be made from 1 >30 to 4 o'clock and will effect customer* on Crescent Hill Road, Meadowbrook Road, South Canaler Street and some customers on Gold street and Railroad avenue. Patrons are being asked to note the service interruption and to plan accordingly. The curtailment will enable the department to make need ed line changes, according to Banter Allen, superintendent.
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