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Population. City Limits 7.206 Trading Area 15.000 (IMS Ration Board Plgum) r|(^ 14 Pages Today VOL. 63 NO. 34 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C.( Thursday, August 20, 1953 . Sixty-Third Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins METER RECEIPTS A total of $168.60 was collec ted from the city's parking me ters Wednesday morning, ac cording to ? report from the city treasurer's office. LUTHER LEAGUE PARTY Members of the Luther Lea gue of St. Matthew's Lutheran church will entertain college students and teachers going away for the school year at a social on Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the church, it was an nounced this week. NO COURT MONDAY Judge Jack ?. White will tbe on vocation and there will toe no sessions of city recorder's court next week, according to y announcement toy Clarence Carpenter, court clerk. Mr. Car penter said court would con vene on schedule August 31. SEEK REGISTRANT The Cleveland County selec tive service board is seeking to learn the whereabouts of James Sotaman, a Kings Mountain area registrant, who failed to report in answer to a recent summons toy the board. AT CONFERENCE Mrs. Bill Page, teacher of Home Economics at Central school, is attending the North Carolina Vocational Home E conomlcs Teacher's conference in session this week at State College in Raleigh. SPEAKER Dr. W. P, Geitoerdlng, pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, will preach at special homecoming services to toe held at St. Male's Lutheran shurch in Crouse Thursday ev ening at 7:30- St. Mark's chur ch is the mother smttfch to the St. Matthew's church here. UNION SERVICE Sunday night's Union service for five city congregations will be held at Resurrection Luther an church with Rev. P. L. Shore, Jr., pastor of Central Metho dist church to deliver the mes sage at 8 o'clock. AT ROCKY MOUNT Miss Peggy Mauney, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Autorey IMauney, has Joined the facul ty of the West Edgecomb Vo cational school in Rocky Mount as Home Economomlcs teacher. K-RAY UNIT Cleveland County mobile X Ray Unit will toe in Kings Mountain in front of Belk's De partment Store Tuesday, Au gust 25 from 9-12 and 1-4. An nouncement was made toy unit officials Wednesday morning. SUFFERS ATTACK Puller McGlll, service station operator, suffered an acute at tack of phlebitis Sunday and Is confined to his home here. His condition, was reported as improved Wednesday. FIRE ALARMS City firemen answered two fire alarms this week. They extinguished a crass fire off S. Cherokee street Friday at 2 p. m. and put out ablaze in a box car on Battleground av enue Monday morning albout 2:15 a. m. No damages were re ported. ? AT >HBKIX Burley B. Davis, of Cowpens, S, C., a recent graduate or Clemson College, has joined the office staff at Fhenix Plant, Burlington Mills, Inc. Ma. Davis assumed his duties as apprentice on Monday. He < Is residing at. the home of Mrs. Edith Goforth. SEARCH RESUMED A search of Lake Moultrie, S. C, was Tesumed this week when a door and bits of fusel age, found in the lake Sunday, were identified as being from the plane of Dr. Hairy G. Set* tie, missing Fort Mill, S. C, physician. Mrs. S. M. Hughes of Rings Mountain Is a sister of the missing man. master's degree from Univer sity of Mwyla will (address members of the Kings Moon tain Lions dub %t their N|u tat meeting Tuesday night at 7 o'clock at Masonic Dining HalL Mr. Bumgardner is a specialist In poultry manage ird n?*r, Jni mt m. Sumgard t redolent of a Republicans Name W eir As Chairman . - " " 1' '? ? S; ? : Woman's Club Gives Dinner On Sunday The International Relations De partment o? the Woman's Club will serve dinner at the club on Sunday beginning shortly after noon, according to announcement this week by Mrs. J) K. Willis, department chairman.' Turkey and ham dinners will be served at $1.25 for adults, and 75 cents for children to all who make reservations in advance. Tickets are now on sale. Price of the dinner includes ice cream for dessert. Homemade cakes and pies will also be available at ex tra charge. . Proceeds from the dinner will be used to support the projects of the .department, Mrs. Willis said. Currently the department is befriending a Japanese woman needing aid and examining ways and means of promoting welfare of teen agers, she added. City Purchasing Galion Machine At a special meeting last Fri day night, the city (board of commissioners voted to purchase a Gallon motor grader from Nor th Carolina Equipment Compa ny, of Charlotte, at price of $10, 808.20. The bids on the equipment had been received eight days previously, but action had 'been deferred while members of the board examined a used machine at Salisbury. In routine actions, the board ordered the paving of several Streets, majority of which had been previously approved. The streets included: Morris street, from Cansler to Qantt. ? Gaston street, from Parker to Railroad avenue. Goiorth street, from King to Mountain street. Goforth street, from Gold to Landing street. Gold street, from Sims to Juni per street. Landing street, from East End of Landing to Sims sfr ^et. Landing street, Landing ex tension, Sims to Juniper street. The board voted to seal coat the following streets: City street, from Waco Road to Walker street. South "Railroad avenue exten sion, Church street, from On wood avenue to end of street. All (members of the board were present and all decisions were unanimous. Church To Hear Maoney Trio Special music will toe furbish ed toy Ernest and Miles Mauney, duo-concert pianists, and (Mrs. Miles Mauney, violin soloist, at the Sunday morning church ser vice at St. Matthew's Lutheran church. Mrs. Mauney will play a vio lin solo and will toe accompanied (by her husband. Ernest Mauney is to direct the choir. The three concert artists begin a six-month tour In Octotoer that will take them before audiences throughout the East. They are to appear In 40 concerts. The service is to be broadcast over Radio Station WKMT, MOSS AVEOTT HERE Miss Alice Averitt, of Wil mington, arrived Monday to resume her duties as teaching consultant In Kings Mountain City schools. County Chairman I. Worth Silver Is Under Attach By Elizabeth Stewart Twenty-one area Republicans met at the Morrison Building Monday night, elected a three man committee to map out plans for the forwarding of the Repub lican faith in Number 4 township Grover and Bethware precincts and discussed the appointment of a committee to "scout out and select a man for county Republi- 1 can chairman." W. T. (Ted) Weir, local gro cer, was elected chairman to head J the organization and other com mittee precinct leaders elected were Grady Howard. Charles gander, and W. A. Williams. The group made no secret of I Its desire to depose J. Worth Sil ver, of Shelby, as Republican county chtj-man, a position held by Mr. Sliver for many years. Discussion included suggestions I that other county Republicans be contacted in an effort to replace I Mr. Silver and to revitalize the county organization. The GOP meeting, first reor ganization effort of the Republi can party in Kings Mountain in a score of years, was called last week for Monday night for the purpose of appointing committee men and to launch a reorganlza- 1 Uon campaign In Kings Mountain Beth wire, Grover and adjoining communities of Number 4 Town ship. W. A. WJlllams acted as tem porary chairman and conducted committee elections. All decisions were unanimous. " ' pi Mr. Williams, who stated the purpose of the reorganization ef fort, told the group assembled that one of "our basic needs is for a two party system but one "In which a person can stand up ! for what he believes In." "Over 800 Kings Mountain folks voted the straight Republican tic ket in the last election", he adued "Good men should be the theme of the Republican organization", he added. : Expressed opinion at the meet ing seemed to center on an orga nization movement of the party throughout the township and county. Working together, meeting reg ularly, planned procedures and increased attendance at commit- f tee and group meetings, party members said would heighten in terest in the Republican cause. "We need a county chairman bad," was one of the themes set forth by several Republicans pre sent and still another remarked that the present chairman Is a "stumbling blodk to the whole county." One speaker present told the assembly that county Repub lican leaders had furr.lshed the group with a list of Republicans to contact for support. Upon visit lng in ? the various communities and townships they said they found that only two of the mem bers listed in Waco were living." Dan Huffstetler stated during the meeting that "not many Re. publicans, on tbn social and home level, hold top positions in county offices." "Under the Republican admin istration there's never been a war, another person at the meet ing remarked. "If we get organized and go to work, the Republican party will come back in North Caro lina," he added. Recording an4 corresponding secretaries named to a commit tee to handle publicity and litera ture were Mack Murray, Eliza ^ Continued On Page Bight Prison Camp Trusty Senster Geddie Unapprehended After Stroll (HI lob A Negro prisoner evidently made good an escape from a county work crew near Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Co. Tuesday morning.. Clyde Poston, superintendent of the state prison camp at Shelby, said yesterday that no trace of the prisoner had been found. The Negro. Senster Geddie of Washington, D. C., a trusty, slip ped away from the work crew about 9 a, m. and bloodhounds were at the scene about an hour later. . , I Mr. Poston and another Negro trusty were working a dog south of the escape point shortly before II a. m. wWn J. V. Press ley, an employee of Community Imple ment * Supply Co. Informed them he had seen a Negro walking south along the edge of G rover road about 9 a. m. He was dress ed in a trusty uniform. Mr. Press ly reported, and "looked Just like he was taking a stroll". Further work doWn the, road i with the dog resulted in no pick up of ithe eacappe's trail. Superintendent Poston , said that he didn't know what <3eddte waa sentenced to the road for or where sentence was passed. He also said he didn't remember how long the prisoner had been , .t a* on*. JSi jj!; ti ,;k.! -? i I Il'li' I ,Ti J MAYOR RECEIVES SAFETY CITATION ? Mayor Glee A. Bridges, left, is shown above receiving a citation commending the city for its 1952 record in recording no pedestrian deaths within the city limits. The presentation, made by Lee Smith, of the Carolina Motor Club, took place at the recent traffic safety meeting of the Kings Moun tain Lions club. Bethware Readies For Annual Fair Annual Barbecue For Sponsors Next Wednesday Annual sponsors and exhibitors I barbecue sponsored by officials or the Bethware Community Fair will be held at Bethware school on Wednesday at 6 p. m. Premium list and rules and reg ulations booklet for the sixth an nual fair, scheduled at Bethware school September 16, 17, 18 and 19, will be released at the event. I Tickets, priced at $1.50, are now on sale. Persons wishing to purchase tickets may contact John Rudisill at Bethware school. I Boyd Harrelson is president of the 1953 fair officers. Myers Ham bright is manager and Mrs F C I Ware and Will Watterson, assis tant managers. Other officers are Mr. Rudisill, secretary - treasurer; Mrs. Lamar Herndon, assistant secretary; M.J C. Po? ton, superintendent of I grounds; Leonard Gamble, assis tant superintendent of grounds In charge of parking; and Dale Volbracht, assistant superinten dent of grounds in charge of tic- I kets. - Department directors and as sistants are; Agriculture ? J. VV. Ware, di rector , and Willis Harmon, Char les Goforth, Joe Craver and La mar Herndon, assistants. Horticultural ? Cameron Ware, director, and Wayne L. Ware, Jr., Frank Ware and Ed win Moore, assistants. Farm and machinery ? Lewis ITovis, director, and Lyman Champion, Walter Garrett and Holland Dixon, assistants. Mrs. F . C. Ware is director of the women's department and Mrs Hal Morris and Mrs. Clay Poston are assistants. Women's department chairmen and assistants are: . Continued On Page Eight i Three New Courses Ottered At School > King* Mountain high school will offer three additional elec tive courses to high school stu dents this year, Principal Rowell Lane announced this week. A new guidance course, which has been highly recommended by the stat* department of public Instruction will be offered to nin th grade students, he said, A course In general business and business English will be of fered to the 10th. 11th and 12th grade students, and a course in solid geometry will also be offer td senior students, he report Pd. Mr. Lane said that he will be In his of free dally from 9 a. m. to !> p. m. and all high school stu dents Interested In, any ol the courses named are U'?ed to visit his office and not# their choices. Power Blackouts Sot For Sunday All city electrical power will be cat off, weather permitting, from S to 7 o- m. and from 2 to 4 p. m. Sunday, according to announcement by Hunter Allen, electrical superlntas< dent. Mr. Allen said the cut-off la required in order to cut in the new line being constructed from the sub-station to the city system by Bryant Electric & Repair Company, of Gaston ia. The new line will divide the city's power load. Bolt Victim's Rites Conducted Funera) rites for Otis B. Smith, 28, instantly killed when struck by lightening Sunday afternoon, were held at Patterson Springs Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, with interment fol lowing in the church cemetery. S***ith, a Purple Heart veteran 6f World War II, was holding the threeye&r-old son of Lester Bul lock in his arms pwhen struck by the bolt near the Bullock home at 2:15 Sunday afternoon. Though the victim was killed instantly, the child fell to the ground un harmed. Smith was standing near a tree with his foot on a plow stock. The Bullock home is near Moss Esso So i vice. Son of John F. Smith, of the Oak Grove community, and the late Ella White Smith, he r?slricd at the home of a sister, Mrs. Ar z|e. Roberts. He wa? a native of South Carolina, born March 10, 1935. He served in Italy in World War II as a private in the 551st infantry, and he was severely wounded in action. Also surviving are three bro thers, Glenn W. Smith and John Sidney Smith, both of Kings Mountain, and Benny L. Smith, of Akron, Ohio. Pallbearers were members of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion. Pallbearers were Charles E. Warlick, John Gladden, Ross Alexander, F. R. McCurdy, Sam Collins and James Bennett, all members of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion. H C. S troupe Buys McPonlol Building R. C. 8 troupe has purchased the Piedmont Beauty Shop building on North Piedmont av enue from O. Dl MCDanlel, It learned this week. Mr. gfroupe operate* a barber ?hop near the North Piedmont avenue ? "Railroad avenue In tersection and plans to move his business to .the new location , It la understood. Consideration of the sal? was not announced. . k v t , T om Henry Resigns Position As City Public Works Chief loy Theatre Will Install Cinemascope Joy Theatre is to install cine mascope, the new motion picture projection process developed by 20th Century Fox, in the near future. S. E. Tutor, manager of the theatre, said that a new, wide screen needed for the new pro jection is on order and delivery has been promised by. October i. New projector lenses and stere ophonic sound equipment are also on order for the new process. The new equipment is to be installed as soon as possible after arrival, Mr. Tutor said. "This new achievement in mo tion picture presentation makes the audience feel they are part of the picture," Mr. Tutor said. "The Joy Theatre will be among the first in the Stewart & Everett circuit to get cinemascope and alSo among the first in the state," he added. The new screen will cover the entire front wall of the theatre and win be slightly two times big ger than the present screen. The new presentation process will al so show three dimensional mo vies, with the aid of viewing glasses. Cinemascope was first intro duced in New York this summer and officials of the Stewart & Everett chain viewed the process in Atlanta recently, Mr. Tutor said. City Fathers Meet Tlinrsday The city board of commission ers will hold a special (meeting Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Among the principal Items on the agenda will be discussion on naming a successor to Tom Hen ry, superintendent of public works, Mayor Glee A. Bridges said. He added that he had sev eral applications for the position and was planning to Interview some persons concerning the po sition yesterday afternoon. The board i9 also to receive bids on painting the inside of the city water tank, and to re ceive bids again, if any, on a used motorcycle the city wishes to sell. The ctty previously re fused a 'bid of $400 for the mo torcycle formerly used by the police department. Bids On School To Be Opened Bids on construction of a new six-room Negro elementary ichool building will be opened at 2 p. m. Tuesday at Central school according to J. L. Beam, Jr., Cherryville architect, who is handling the Job for the Kings Mountain school board. Mr. Beam said he expects eight or 9 general contract bids on the project. He> said that 30 sets of plans were out to prospective bid ders Wednesday morning. School officials announced sev err*', weeks ago that the site of the new building had been cleared of construction to begin but that tlie entire 12 or 13 acre site has not been fully cleared. The new site is some few hun dred feet west of the present Davidson school building and has been designed to accommodate fu ture expansion of Negro school facilities. Mr. Beam has estimated the cost of the six-room building and heating plant at $65,000. AUXILIARY PRESIDENT ? Mrs. Clarence L. Jolly, above, will be installed as president of the Otis D. Green Post 155, American Le gion Auxiliary on Thursday night. Formal installation of 1953-54 officers of the group will be conducted by Mrs. Warren Neill, district president, at a meeting at the home of Mrs. G. W. Allen at 8 p. m. Mrs. Jolly will succeed Mrs. Merle Beatty. Rummage Sale Pick-Up Sunday Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club will conduct a col lection of old clothing Sunday afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock. It will be the club's first effort of the current season to collect an "inventory" for its Second An nual Fall Rummage salcf, sche duled for October. After the clothing collection, the clothes will be cleaned and otherwise put In best condition possible for the sale. All citizens are being asked to place old clothes on the doorstep Sunday. Should a bundle acciden tally not be*plcked up, the missed giver is asked to notify Dan Huff stetler, at phone 59, or J. W. Web ster, at phone 25, who will make arrangements to pick up the bun dle. Co-Chairmen Huffstetler and Webster said this week, "We had a most successful project last year and we hope this year's vyill be even better. The Rummage sale is an ideal time for persons to clear their closets of no-longer needed items, and Is also bene ficial to bargain hunters who pur chase the garments." All types of clothing is desired, it was pointed out, for men, wo men. boys, and girls, and Includ ing shoes, dresses, pants, shirts, ties, skirts, blouses, handbags, hats, and related Items. Rattenee Ups Rid To $8,547 B. D. Ratterree, Kings Moun tain realtor, has again raised the bid on the T. N. Harmon estate property at the corner of Battle ground avenue and Falls street. Mr. Ratterree's bid is now $8,547, raising by five percent the previous $8,140 of M, L. Har mon, Sr. As required by law. the proper ty is being re-advertised for re sale, and the re sale will be con ducted at the . site on Saturday, September 5, with the bidding starting at the Ratterree bid. It will be the fifth time the pro perty has been auctioned. High bid at the first sale was $6,300. Qiama; 1023 Attended This Year The curtain rang down for the last time In 1953 on "The Sword of Gideon" Saturday night, com pleting the thlrci season for a commemorative drama of the Battle of Kings Mountain. During the four -weekend 11 performance run, which began July. 23, the drama played. to 4, 023 persons. Business Manager Sam StaUlngs reported. One sche duled performance was cancelled by rain at curtain time. Mr. Stalling! said that the final weekend's performances attract ed the largest crowds, with Sat urday's crowd the largest of the season, 0 ?- vv-'V'. ''-i'Vv He added that he was not in position to speak for the Kings Mountain Little Theatre, which sponsors and produces the drama, but added the opinion that plans would be laid shortly for again producing a drama at the amphi theatre of Kings Mountain Na tional Military Park in 1954. An informal party for the cast and production staff was held at Kings Mountain Country Club Tuesday night ?The show drew critical acclaim from many reviewers and attract ed visitors from distant cities and states. v Department Head Accepting Post With Chenyville Thomas S.. Henry, the city's superintendent of public works, has resigned that position, effec tive September 14. Mr. Henry stated in His letter of resignation , tendered to the board last Friday night that he is accepting a position in another city. . Mayor Glee A. Bridges said Mr. Hdnry had told hinv privately that he was accepting a similar posi tion with the Town of Cherryville at a salary of $5,200, which is $1,300 more than he was receiving as superintendent of public works here. The hoard accepted the resigna tion unanimously and asked Mr. Henry to stay on the job as long as ho practicably could, or until he could help i successor ass ;me the duties of the position. In con nection with the request, the board voted to pay Mr. Henry for any vacation time due him at the time he severed his con nections'with the city. Mr. Henry came here two years ago for double duty as the operator of a ditch-digging ma chine the city was purchasing, and as a mechanic at the city'* then-new garage. He was later named assistant superintendent of public works and was promot ed to the top position on the re tirement of L. C. Parsons last December. Mayor Bridges said the board of commissioners regretted to sec Mr. Henry leave. in his letter of resignation, Mr. Henry wrote the board; "As I have decided to accept a position with another municipali ty, I respectfully tender my re signation as Superintendent of Public Works for the City oC Kings Mountain to be effective a? of Monday, September 14, 1953. During this time I wish to take part of my vacation. "I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your 100 percent cooperation since you have been in office. It has been a great plea sure to serve under you and I am sure that with your fine spirits. Intelligence, and cooperation a mong yourselves, you shall go far in making Kings lyiountain a place in which its fine citizens can be proud. "I wish to thank the employees of the City and especially those of whom worked under me for their initiative and cooperation. "I also wish to thank the many citizens for their cooperation that was needed on many occasions." 74 May Open In Two Weeks U. S. Highway 74 between Kings Mountain and Gastonia should be open to traffic around September 1, barring weather in terference or other unforseen ' . difficulty, District Engineer L. B. Peok said Wednesday. Mr. Peck said the new four lane boulevard would not be completely ready by that time, - but that two lanes should be ready for traffic. Highway 74 traffic between the two cities is now being detoured via Besse mer City. Majority of the construction work on the west or Kings Mountain side is completed, though some patching work la being done on the old two- lane strip near Gamble hill. On the East or Gastonia end, the old two-lane strip Is being torn up, the steep grade leveled and a new two- lane strip installed. Construction on the new strip was begun three years ago. Spinal Meningitis Fatal To Bolt Child Funeral services for Ricky Dean Bolt, 15-months-old son of Howard and Lois Blackwell Bolt, of Second Avenue, were held Monday afternoon at the home on Second Avenue, with inter ment following in New Hope cemetery at Earl. Rev. Floyd Holler conducted the rites, The child died at 4:25 Sunday morning at Kings Mountain hos pital, where he had been receiv- ,< ing treatment for spinal meningl t is. He had been ill three days. Surviving in addition to the pa rents are two sisters, Patricia Ann and Linda Sue Bolt.