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Pony Teams Play Smyre Thursday Pony League exhibition sche dule was announced this week. On June 18, the league is to play Smyre Mill of Gastonia here at the Pony league field near the Legion Hall. Jtuss Bergman coaches the Smyre team. On Tuesday, the locals are slat ed to meet the Gastonia Optimist club here. Sam "Flower Is coach of the Optimist team. On June 25, K?lph Johnson's Firestone nine Is slated at the Pony field here. - ' Return dates with the visiting teams have not been set. The American Peoples Encyclo pedia Yearbook reports t-hat the American Cancer Society an nounced that the 1952 Cancer Crusade for $16,000,000 passed its goat. The funds- were being used to support research, education, and patient service programs. Since 1945, the society had pro vided more than $20,000,000 for cancer research, and in 1952 it awarded more than "$1,500,000 for such projects, including 48 fellow ships, amounting to $190, 0><19. An additional $1,500,000 went to hos pitals and universities conducting coordinated research studies. It Was announced that 631 approved cancer detection centers were operating in 1952. The number had doubled in ten years, but still was considered only half -the numlwr needed. Adding Machine RIBBONS SI. 00 ? Sundstrand ? Burroughs ? Allen Wales ? R. C. Allen HERALD PUBLISHING HOUSE Phone 167 & 283 , ctmixf.-WHffHS&ewr ZSg^rlM ? ? ? KINGS MOUNTAIN'S AMERICAN LEGION JUNIOR BASEBALL TEAM ? Pictured above ar? members of the 1953 King* Moun tain American Legion baseball team which Is scheduled to meet Ashevllle here Friday night. A twi-night twin bill will probably be played, beginning at 6 p. m., if Ashevllle approves the idea. The first game would be a make -up of the rained out game of June 6 at Ashevllle. The team is slated to meet the strong Gastonia juniors here Monday night at 8 p. m. The team, first row, left to right. Ken Cloninger. Bobby Wilson. George Harris. Dean Huskey, Earl Marlowe, Giles Bell, Ralph Hord and Palmer Short; back. Manager James Byers, Coach Hal Dedmon. Alburt Anderson, Ken Roberts, James Abernathy, J. P. Ellis, Milton Hope, Carl Barnette and Ollie Harris, one of the athletic officers of Legion Post 155, sponsor of the team. (Herald photo by Carlisle Studio.) LITTLE LEAGUE SCHEDULE' Friday,; Junf 19 " ? Jaycees at HurMil Kiwanis at Park G rare Tuesday, June 23 tturMil at Park -Grace K i wan is at J&yeees" RESULTS June 16 - Kiwanis 9, HurMil 5 Jaycees 3, Park Grace 2 June 12 ? Park Grace "7. HurMil 4 Kiwanis 3, Jaycees 2 June 9 HurMil 17, Jaycees 1 . Park-Grace 8, Kiwanis 0 June 7> HurMil 19, Kiwanis 9 Park-Grace, IS, Jaycees 1 Monday Little Loop Night In Gastonia Monday night is Little League Night at the Gastonia Rocket's home park in Gastonia, Sims Field. All Kings Mountain Little Leaguers in uniform will be ad mitted to the. game free of charge. Little League players in the Gastonia district haye been in vited and are urged to be at the park by 7 p. m. Monday to be in troduced to the crowd. The Rockets are champions of the Tri State league. Jaycees Hear GOC Program Kings Mountain Jaycees heafd a program on the Air Defense Command's Ground Observation Corps at the regular meeting of the club held at Masonic dining hall Tuesday night. Dr. -R. P. Anstett, of Shelby, Cleveland County GOC director, told the group that Russia coUld attack the United States in a lit tle more than nine hours from USSR bases and that civic organ isations should encourage mem bers to become observers. Dr. Anstett introduced WO S. Y. de Veries and Sgt. H. Myers of the Charlotte filtration center of GOC. The Charlotte cenTer has the job of recruiting 427 GOC posts In North Carolina and Mr. de" Veries. said that 1,500 observer helpers are needed -now. men, wo men. and children. Observers need 50 hours of training, he said. Need for trained observers, it was cited, lies in the fact that radar cannot be trusted in gaps and under 5,000 feet ? sight ob servation is still the best method of indentifying enemy aircraft. The men told the group that Charlotte has been ranked 17th on Russia's most-likely-to-bamb cities in the U. S. and that Cliff side, with it's huge power plants, is very high on the list. After showing a movie on a simulated air attack and GOC operation, several members vol unteered to Join the Kings Moun tain GOC post, of which Fireman Ted Gamble is director. Other in terested persons were urged to contact Mr. Gamble. Dr. L. T. Anderson arranged the program. President Paul Waiter presid ed and guests included Jonas Bridges, Bill Pack, Tom Henry, and Louis Sabetti. Bill Jonas made a report on the national convention, which he attended last week In Minneapolis along with K. ?., Morrison and Lewis Falls. Dean Payne and Bill Eldon were, welcomed as new members of the club. Two members who joined -the club two weeks ago were assigned to committees: Pink War& .to sports, recreation and youth, and Curtis Gaffney to Christmas activities. The family of. dominions, colo nies and protectorates in the Bri tish Commonwealth numbers 52 in all with, a population of 585, 205,241 or more than a quarter of the entire human race, the Amer ican Peoples Encyclopedia Year book for 1953 reveals. Dan Finger Wins Handicap Trophy Dan Finger was presented the Kings Mountain Country Club handlv-ap tournament champion ship trophy at a golfer's dinner at the club Wednesday night, June 10. W.. J. Fulkerson was presented the runner-up trophy and Geor ge W. Mauney and M. H. Biser won semi-finalists trophies. Mr. Finger defeated Mr. Ful kerson in the final match of the tournament several weeks ago. Production of 1953 sweet corn in North Carolina is estimate'd at 720.000 units (5 doz. ears) as of June 1, compared with the 668, 000 units harvested in 1952 and the 1949-51 average production of 762,000 units. Such a produc tion, if realized, would mean an average yield of 90 units per ac re from the State's 8,000 acres of sweet corn. In 1952, an average yield of 75 units per acre was harvested from 8.900 acres. Har vest is Expected to begin around mid-June, continuing in the Mountain counties until late July. Tigers To Play Here Thursday, Saturday The Kings Mountain Tigers will play two games here this week, Manager William Orr re ports, Qn Thursday night, the "Tig ers" will face the Shelby "Elks Raiders". The starting pitcher for the 'Tig?i?" will bp Sonny Har?| rls. 1 Saturday night, the "Tigers" will face the "Statesville Blues".] The Kings Mountain team has been away for three weeks, play ing in different parts of South Carolina. The 'Tigers" were defeated in Greenville by the "South Caro lina All-Stars" by a score of 14-2. The royal crown of England which now belongs to Elizabeth II, has passed through many mo difications, since the early days of Anglo-Saxon princes, accord ing to the American Peoples En cyclopedia. At the Norman con quest, it was a circle of pearls set in gold; later It was elaborated into a radiated diadem. , MORE ABOUT Scoot Comp Continued From Froni Fa Members of the Town Commit tee Officers for Girl Scouts are: Mrs. Paul Hendricks, general chairman; J. C. McKinney, trea surer; Mrs. E. T. Plott, recording secretary; Mrs. J. H. Arthur, as sistant chairman; Mrs. Robert Miller, corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Harry Page, camping chair man. . Mrs. David Hamrick, program chairman; Mrs. Claude Ham bright, training chairman; Mrs. Luther Canselr, ttoop organiza tion; Mrs. J. C. Bridges, public relations chairman and cookie sale chairman. Eighteen Kings Mountain Girl Scouts have enrollea\at Camp Rotary for the 1953 swson, . They include: Flnt week Susan Moore Davis, Jane Hambright, Jane Houser, Sue Hunnicutt, Margaret Jack son, Laura Jean Page, Joyce Plonk, Marian Plonk, Paula Shutt, Billie Joe Thorburn, and Marliene Weir, all of Troop 32, and Sara Adele Hendricks, Troop 1. Second week ? Brenda Gail Hamrick, Troop 1, and Nancy Ho vis, Troop 32. Third week ? Nancy Craig an J Carol Jean Goter, all .of Troop 1. Fourth and fifth weeks ? Pe$. gy Craig, Troop 11. Fifth ' week ? Nancy Castle. Troop 11. | Billy Graham estimates that in 1952 his movie, radio, and tele vision appearances were respon sible for 75.000 conversions, com pared With 35,000 in his coast-t )? coast evangelistic tours, accord ing to the American Peoples En cyclopedia 1953 Yearbook. SHOP AMOS' Town Topic Dress Shirts in Broadcloth and Summer-cools NECK TIES ARGYLE SOCKS HANDKERCHIEFS ? 4 * 8 ? * * T-SHIRTS Remember: Sunday. June 21 is FATHER'S DAY Spoil Shirts Assorted Colors Short and Long Sleeves in Broadcloth, Pliss and Summer-cools NYLON AND RAYON SOCKS PAJAMAS SHORTS SWIM TRUNKS Amos & Son 413 N. Piedmont Telephone 325-W RUBBER BASE ASPHALT ROOF COATING ^ Per the first tin . . : aspbalr roof cooling baa been (!>n ? Klanl rubbtr batt/ JL Posttivrly mil it joints and n cracks because the rubber bate expands and contracts with the weather. JL A proved root coatinf that ? Will outlast ordinary root coatinfa by years I Most ecoa omical. i .A, Apply only one coat . . . n? K thinninj . . . spreads easily. At your dealers bob I dmigjCob GKemicof Go-.' RICHMOND. VIRGINIA ( BRIDGES HARDWARE Phone 187 SUNDAY June 21st uM&i '.dr.. * Choose him something he'll wear and enjoy from Belle's Men's Store ? * ? t ? * v . i * ? K . - ?' ' ? ' , ? Swim Trunks . . . $1.96 '? Sport Shirts $1.96 * Easy-Jean Slacks . ....... $2.96 . Leno-Mesh Sport Shirts $1.98 Tie & Cuff Link Sets . . $2.50 Skipdent Sport Shirts . . $1.00 Cotton Krinkle * V Straw Hats $1.98-3.98 Sport Shirts ; $1.79 Archdale Ties . $1.50 Bonaire Ties $1.00 Dad will appreciate these fine gift*. They're gifts he'll know for he's accus tomed to wearing them. As usual at BELK'S, you'll find them budget priced to suit all purses. '?
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