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Population City Limits 7,206 Trading Area 154)00 (1945 Ration Board Figaro*) VOL 63 NO. 38 ? ? Established 1889 Kings Mountains RELIABLE Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 17, 1953 Sixty-Third Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins CHURCH PLAY The YPE of the Church of God are presenting a play, "Stand ing True to Jesus Regardless of Tests," Saturday hlght at 7. p. m. at the churcfh located on Parker street. The public is In vited to attend. ? _______ , . ? ATTEND MEETING Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Speidel, Kings Mountain Country Club managers, attended the annu al Piedmont section week-end conference for clufb managers held at the Alamance Country club in Burlington this week. FULTON IMPROVED W. S. Fulton, Kings Moun tain businessman and Ward 1 city commissioner, was much improved Wednesday after noon. Mr. 'Fulton became ill Friday morning and has been a patient at Kings Mountain hospital. Members of the fam ily said they expected his dis missal from the hospital soon. AUTO ACCIDENT Will F. McGill, route 1 Kings Mountain farmer, escaped with only bruises on Wednes day night, September 9, when the pick-up truck he was driv ing was struck toy another ve hicle. The aocldent occurred at the McGill crossroads near the Bethany community. Mr. Mc Gill's truck overturned several times. Off-To-School List Now 107 Addition of 17 students to the area's off-to-school list for the 1953-54 ternV brings to 107 the number of students from the area now attending or leaving soon, for colleges, universities, prep schools, nmlnf ?mi" speciality schools, Gardner- Webb college at Boil ing Springs, Appalachian State Teacher's college at Boone, and Lenlor-Rhyne college at Hickory, head the list with 35 area stu dents enrolled at the three. Total listings of off-to-school students last year was 115, seven more than the 1953-54 figure. The name of Johnny Walker listed as a student at Oak Ridge School for Boys, in last week's paper should have been listed as Johnny Kiser, who is enrolled there for the fall term. The Herald, as its annual cus tom, has made a diligent effort to compile a complete list of Kings Mountain area students go ing away to school. The Herald would appreciate receiving infor mation on any student omitted from the listing published today and last Thursday, as well as corrections if erroneous listings have been made. Additions to last week's listings follows: LENIOR-RHYNE COLLEGE? Maxine Jackson. GARDNER ? WEBB COLLEGE ? Elizabeth Camp, Martha Cox, and Ray Goforth of Grover. NORTH CAROLINA STATE ? Bob Huskey and Ken Spencer. APPALACHIAN STATE TEA CHER'S COLLEGP ? Pauline Hayes, Phillip Harry of Grover, and Elizabeth Slsk, Frances Slsk, and Mary Jane Slsk, of Bessemer City. HIGH POINT COLLEGE ? Bobbie Barrett. RINGLING ART SCHOOL (Sarasota, Fls.) ? 'Patricia Par rish. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY <St. Louis, Ma) ? Nancy Dickey. UNIVERSITY OF N. C. ? Wil Ham Prince. ROWAN HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING (Salisbury) -Jean Owens. 5 ' OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (Columbus, Ohio) ? Suzanne Shutt. f , Nuptial Night Busy To* Grover Groom Whra George Boyster, of Grow, said "I do" as he pled his troth to CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH GROtJN DBRE AK INC? I Bad Go forth. Sr.. chairman of the board of trustees, is shown at right abore turning the first spade of earth at a groundbreaking service Sun day afternoon for the new addition to Central Methodist church. Other officials pictured are, left to Iright, B. S. NeilL building fund chairman, Kelly Dixon, chairman of the official board; Wilson Griffin, building program chairman; Rev. P. L. Shore, pastor; Paul Walker, church school superin tendent; Mrs. C. A. Butterworth. president of theWSCS; and Mrs. J. H. Patterson, chairman of the commission on education. t i . ' ?nLn.wi',. ' n ? I I II >| I I Ml? r I I I I *1 .1 *11 **i ? ' I' I ? I I .11 ? , ; ? Bethware Fair Underway; County Fair Starts Tuesday Bethwaie Event Vill Continue Bert Of Week Perfect westher, keen compe tition, and bargain rates for chil dren on the rides prevailed as the sixth annual Bethware Fair open ed Wednesday afternoon. Myers Hambright, fair man ager, was smiling broadly and generally pleased with the out look as he predicted this year's Bethware Fair would be another successful event. Sponsored by the Bethware Progressive Club, the Fair com petition is open to all citizens of the surrounding community. Fair has become a community institu tion. The Fair will continue dally through Saturday evening. Judg ing is scheduled for Thursday, and fireworks displays are sche duled each evening at 9:30. Williams Amusement Company is offering the entertainment for the children with six rides, and the Bethware school lunchroom Is opened each afternoon at 5 p. m. to serve dinners to fair-goer* cafeteria style. Homemade pies and cakes are included on the menu. Fair officials In audition to Mr. Hambright, are Boyd Harrelson, president; Mrs. F. C. Ware and Will Watterson, assistant man agers, John H. Rudislll, Jr., sec retary-treasurer, Mrs. Lamar Herndon, assistant secretary, M. C. Poston, grounds , superinten dent, Leonard Gamble, assistant grounds superintendent In charge of parking. Dale Volbracht, assist tant grounds superintendent in charge of tickets. "Come out to see us," Mr. Ham bright said. "We have a fine fair and you will have a good time." , MRU RECEIPTS A total of *162.40 was collec ted from the city's parking me ters Wednesday morning, ac cording to a report from the city treasurer's office. City Is Observing Citizenship Day * * Business finu and other public institutions are being requested to display the Unit ed State* tbag Thursday in commemoration of annual Ci tizenship Day. The reminder was issued by the Col. Frederick Hambright chapter. Daughters of the A merican Revolution. Kings Mountain DAR offficials point* ed out that Citizenship Day is one of seven national flag days and was instituted by Congress in February 1952. Formerly known as Constitu tion Day, it commemorates the final adoption of the Consti tution of the United States and honors all persons who bcr ? become citizens of the Unite . States during the year. A patriotic display of repli cas of historical docubaents is on display today In the lobby of the First National Bank, un der sponsorship of the DAR. , Firemen Answer Three Alarms Kings Mountain Fire depart ment answered three calls during the week. Thursday morning they answ ered a fire alarm to Kings Moun tain Cotton Oil Co. and extinguis hed a blaze in a bale of cotton being ginned. The building and machinery was not damaged, they reported. Sunday at 5:20 a. m. they an swered a call to the Rock Motel on Shelby road and extinguished a blaze in a bed and two mat tresses in the establishment. The motel was not damaged. Monday night at 8 p. m. fire men extinguished a car fire o'n W. Gold St near Sadie MU1. The car was only slightly damaged, they reported Wednesday morn ing. Imgcpnblicans To Gather Monday Ipir Airport A second rally of area citizens of the Republican political faith in Kings Mountain, Grover, Beth ware, and No. 4 Township is scheduled for Monday night. The meeting* according to a paid political announcement In today's issue of the Herald, will be free to begin at 7 prtKiM Brtflp* Airport. Committee chairmen and town ship precinct leaders were elected at the initial GOP meeting last month. The August rally was the first r* organization effort of thr Republican party in Kings Moun tain in over a score of years. 1 " All area Republicans are being Invited to attend the meeting, a spokesman tor the group said, adding, "-Number 4 Township vot ed Republican in the 1962 elec tion! ? Let's spread this elative action throughout the county." At their August gathetfefc ,W?-; T, (Tted) Weir was elected man. ?t?d Grady Howard. W. A~: Williams and Charles Alexander were named precinct chaii uML , "We are exxxscting a big atten dance Monday night." Chairman Weir said. "We want all Repub licans' to come out and enjoy the fellowship." New Attractions On Bos; County Fair Schedule Cleveland County's mammoth Fair, and annual autumn event billed as the biggest and best county fair In the nation, starts Tuesday lor a five-day run at the Fairgrounds on Highway 74-A near Shelby. While much of the format is the same ? sizzling hot dogs, stirring high-wire acts, thrilling auto and horse racing ? there are also many added events de signed to please and to attract the crowds. ... The crowds are customarily large but, given good weather, a new attendance record will be set, Dr. J. S. Dorton, the veteran fair manager, predicts. The George S. Harr.id TV revue will be the feature grandstand attraction, and the sprawling Ja mes S. Strates rides and shows will form the bulk of the mid way. One big added event is a trac tor-driving contest, which a num. ber of Cleveland County tractor operators are entering for a se ries of prizes. This event is sche duled for Thursday, September 24. Tuesday will be Cleveland County day, when all pupils of county schools will be admitted free. In order to stagger the crowd, Shelby and Kings Moun tain school pupils don't get to use their free tickets until Friday, September 25. The tickets are al ready in the hands of the school officials, which means more than 2,000 tickets will be distributed in Kings Mountain alone. On Wednesday night, Septem ber 23, Jack Kochman's dare devil drivers Will be back for their thrill show, while bor*e rac ing will be on the afternoon pro gram Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Friday afternoon, September 25, a number of Dar lington race winners will com pete In NASCAR races. On the following afternoon, big cars will run in AAA races. Special honors are scheduled on September 24 for veterans of the Korean fighting, when all veter ans will be admitted free. Meantime, work is underway throughout the county by schools, farmers, and others Who are en tering the many competitions for the long list of prizes. KcOtlX RECUPERATING V. V. MoGill, well ? known ] businessman, returned home < from Charlotte Memorial hos pital Adonday operation- Though tie will N confined tp bed fox another week to ten days, his condition was reported to quite iatls factoiy Wednesday. Mr. Mc- ? Gill had been suxferlng from phkWtto. Mauney Twins On Community Concert Series Season tickets <V>r thr 1953-54 Cleveland County Community Concert series, which will fea ture among its minimum of three performances a concert by Kings Mountain's duo piano artists, the Mauney Twins, are now being sold, and Mrs. Paul Mauney, co chairman of the sales campaign, said the demand for the tickets is "good". Prices for the season tickets are Ax dollars for adults, three dollars for students. The ticket sales campaign be gan Monday night at Hotel Char les in Shelby when a kick-off ban quet was held. At this banquet, officials of the association an nounced that one of the 1953-54 programs would ? be a full-dress piano concert by Ernest and Miles Mauney, of Kings Mountain and New York. E. L. Kemper, publicity director of the association, said Wednes day that numerous industrial and business firms are purchasing blocks of student tickets for va rious school pupils, and suggested that a number of Kings Moun tain firms might like to follow suit. "Our idea is to make these con certs as near available to all school pupils as possible," Mr. Kemper said. Kings Mountain citizens handl ing ticket sales, in addition to the co-chairmen, Mrs. Paul Mauney and Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr., .are Mrs. E. R. Goter, Mrs. J. C. Mc Gill, Mrs. W. B. Logan, Miss Leo ne Patterson, Miss Margaret Cole and Rowell Lane. Joseph G. Payne Rites Conducted Funeral services for Joseph Greer Payne, 76, resident of Gantt street were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 <p. m. from First Wesleyan Metho dist chupcfi. Rev. A. JL Argo and Rev. W. L> Pressly officiated and burial was in Mountain Rest Cemetery. Mr. Payne died suddenly at his home at 10:55 o'clock Monday morning after suffering a heart attack. He had been in declining health for the past 12 years. A native of Cleveland County, he retired from active work at Pauline Mill here in 1942. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Payne. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Laura Missouri Allen Payne; three sons; Lee, Calvin and Joe Payne, all of Kings Mountain; two brothers, John Payne of Bes semer City and Zeb Payne of Kannapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Pearson of Gastonia and Mrs. Sallie Groves of Kings Mountain; and five grandchild ren. * . ' All-Night Singing Set For Saturday Members of the Ladies' Bible class of East ?>lde Baptist church are sponsoring an "All-night singing" Saturday night at Cen tral high school auditorium. Singers on the program will Include the Slsk quartet of Shel by, Bud and Ray Tally singers of Brevard, Kings of Harmony, Gospel Trio, and Kings Men quartet of Kings Mountain. Proceeds from the program will go to the church. Advance tic kets are on sale at Marlowe's and by member* of the Ladles' Bible class. Admission Is 80 cents for adults and 40 cents for children. Time of the program is 8 p. m. Area Korean Vote Invited To Fair Kings Mountain area Korean veterans have been Invited to at tend the Cleveland County Fair as guests of the fair association on Thursday, September 24, ac cording to George C. Cabiness, Shelby Legion post commander who is also chairman of the gov ernor's committee to welcome home Korean prisoners of war. Special entertainment will be accorded POWs and they will be presented in front of the grand stand. All Korean veterans are urged to contact C. E. Wsrllek, com mander of the King* Mountain Legion poet, to obtain letters of introduction which will be requir ed for admission at the fair. Mr. Warlick's office Is located be tween Home Budding it Loan association and Griffin Drug Company. Petitions Being Obtained For Consolidation Voting Books To Close On Saturday For Bond Vote Registration books for the Oc wh1" state-wide bond issue e lections dose Saturday with Number 4 Township registrars reporting registration let KMty quite negligible. - y \fEa'!r ?'ngs fountain register, Mrs Neil Cranford, said she add ed five names to the (books Sat tUheati' ^ftCr drawinE ? blank on *h* fl?1 registration day. J. b. Ellis, Grover register, ?still show-, ed a clean book, as far as addi tions are concerned, and Mrs H Bethware registrar, j? 5? ad<*ed two names to the Bethware voting scrolls. Best prospect for new registrants toe L?;i^ *nd ?t the registration period Saturday at 6 p. m. Is at Bethware. Mrs. Goforth said she knew of a number of unregister ed citizens and felt they would register while attending the Bethware Community Fair. Mrs J. H. Arthur, West Kings Mountain registrar, was out-of town Wednesday and could not be reached for a report. luan 016 fact of the ; rclt o"ibooks l*1"* ?Pen, there was little activity looalkr con hen Noj*th Carolina voters will decide 1) whether the state shall borrow $50 million for school construction, and 2) whether the state shall borrow $22 million for ^ construction of mental in stitutions. The election was ordered by Governor W. B. Umstead aftw permissive legislation has been P&mfofyl>y the 1953 General As No active opposition has been reported, either In Kings Moun tain or In the state, and the ibond issue proposals have the support not only of the Governor, but of former- governor who lg politically at odds with Governor Umstead. Registrars will be at the re spective polling places all day Saturday, beginning at 9&m? and persons who expect to vote must have their names on the pollbooks. Saturday, September 26, will be Challenge Day. Thief Enters Home, Breaks Front Glass Intruders broke the front glass door of the Jerry Grigg home on First street Tuesday night while the occupants of the home slept. Mr. and Mrs, Grigg discovered the broken glass Wednesday mor nlng. City police officers, who In vestigated, said nothing had been reported taken from the home. Investigating police officers were P. R. Sanders, Martin Ware and Chief Hugh Logan. City Receives 1953 Powell Bill Check The City of Kings Mountain received Its Powell Bill check for 1953 on Tuesday. The sum, totaling $28,652.04, ar rived In the mall Tuesday, .City Clerk Joe Hendrlck reported. The Powell Bill provides for the refund of a portion of the state's gas tax revenue to the cities on a formula based on city maintained street mileage and population. SENATOR TO SPEAK ? Kings Mountain Kiwanians will Join with members of the Shelby Ki wanis club Thursday night as they hear an address by North Carolina's recently - appointed junior senator, Alton A. Lennon, of Wilmington. The Joint meet ing will be held at Hotel Charles, Shelby, at 7 o'clock. Rites Conducted Foi W. K. White Funeral rites (or William K. White, 82, resident of 114 Fulton street, who died at his home Fri day at 11:15 p. m. after a four month illness, were conducted Sunday at 4 p. m. from First Bap tist church. Rev. H. Gordon Weekley, the pastor officiated, assisted by Rev. P. D. Patrick and Rev. L. C. Pin nix. The body lay-in-state at the church one-half hour prior to the service, and interment was made in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. White was a member and a former deacon of First Baptist church. He was married on Au gust 31. 1893 to Mrs. Fannie Lau ra Ann Ross White, who survives. Also surviving are five sons, Ernest of Greenville, S. C.; Wil burn of Dallas, Texas; John L. land James E. of Kings Mountain; [and Paul K. of Columbia, S; C.; ' three daughters. Miss Viola White ; |and Mrs. Andrew Jenkins of j I Kings Mountain and Mrs. Fred I jBabbington of Nantahala. A sister. Miss Georgia White of Kings Mountain, and 13 grand children and seven great-grand children also survive. Active pallbearers included Ar nold Kincald, Paul Ivey, Paul King. W. A. Williams, D. F. Hord, and Harold Crawford. Harmon Property Bid Baised Again The T. N. Harmon Estate lot at the corner of Battleground avenue and Falls street will be sold for the seventh time on Sat urday, October 3, under commis sioner's sale procedure. M. L. Harmon on Tuesday raised the previous $9,055 high bid of B. D. Ratterree by the le gally required five percent. The bidding at the October 3 sale will therefore begin at $9,507.75. The re-sale of the property is being advertised today by Martin L. Harmon, Jr., commissioner. The property was first auction ed on May 16, along with other tracts belonging to the estate; Public Hearing On U. S. 29 By-Pass At City Hall Courtroom September 2) Highway Commissioner June F. Scarborough, of Statesville, will hold a public meeting in Kings Mountain on September 29 for the purpose of discussing the proposed U. S. Highway 29 tW4>as?, Lewis B. Peck, district engineer, said Wednesday. The meeting will be held at! City Hall courtroom, beginning at 7 o'clock, with the city board of commissioners in attendance, and with all other Interested ci tizens invited to attend. (Mr. Peck suggested that all persona Inter ntatf in the by-pass, both pro or con, should attend the hearing. A U. S. 29 by-pass south of Kings Mountain has been A con citizen* and> highway depaft ment dream for some years. '{ ? For the first time, the by-pass appears approaching a reality. Surveys ip^pfe- MM south of Kings Mountain have been com pleted and scheduling of the pub lic hearing indicates that the highway department is nearly ready to complete the mapping and prepare for receiving bids. Construction of a U. S, 29 by pass connecting with the newly widened four-lane boulevard to Gastonia would be another step in the Improvement of the North South U. S. Highway 29. Soon, it is anticipated by highway offi ciate, U. S 29 will be a four-lane strip from the Virginia to the South Carolina border and be yond. Now being completed is a new atrip of U. S. 29 from G rover to Lyman, S. C, While only two lanes of that new segment are now being completed, rights- of ? way have been obtained for four lane* and a full four-lane 'boule vard is planned. Arranging Vote Is First Step. Officials Agree Forms for petitions calling for an election on the matter of "he consolidation of schools in Num ber Four Township arc to be for warded to school boards and dis- ? 1 riot committees involved for action as the result of a public meeting held at Central school auditorium (Monday night at 8 p. m. Horace Gripg, county superin tendent of education, is to mail the forms, which arc to be re turned to him .after action hy the several groups involved. The action came after approv al of a motion presented by J. R. Davis. Kings Mountain district trustee, and after much discus sion on the consolidation pro posal. It was generally agreed, after discussion at the procedure to 4>e followed, that the first step in consolidation must be to set up the new, or enlarged adminis trative unit. Under the state plan for Bchools, there are only two typ es of administrative units ? city and county. Thus, the proposed new unit would be titled, "The Kings Mountain administrative unit." In order for the new unit to <be established, areas outside the present Kings Mountain district (which now Includes all of the City of Kings Mountain and some small areas outside the city limits) would have to vote a special school tax levy of 20 cents on the $100 valuation. Kings Mountain district already has the special 20 cents levy, voted In 1937. The areas to foe included in the enlarged unit must vote the special tax In or der that the entire new proposed school unit 'be under the same school tax structure. In the event of a favorable vote on the consolidation propo sal, the new unit would then proceed with the establishment of a governing ibody and with plans for a white and a Negro high school for the area. It was agreed that none of the five districts involved could now make decisions as to location of the new high schools or on any other matter involving the new administrative qnit. The five districts involved in the consolidation proposal are Kings Mountain, Bethware, I'ark-Grace, Compact and Gro ver. Representatives of the boards of all five districts wece present at the public meeting, a long with patrons of Davidson Negro school and several other interested citizens. Mr. Grigg, City Superintendent B. N- Barnes and Edwin Moore, memiber of the county board of education, were also present. W. B. Harry, temporary chair man of the combined boards, presided at the meeting, called after receipt of a letter from the attorney-general answering sev eral questions posed toy the group at a meeting several mon ths ago. The consolidation pro posal was instituted after a state school planning committee survey team recommended that the Kings Mountain administra tive ur.!t te expanded to include all of Number 4 Township. Compact Fair This Weekend The public is being incited to visit the Compact school and community this weekend for a revival of the Compact Commu nity Agricultural Fair. M L. Campbell, agriculture teacher at the school, said the Fair is scheduled for Frid.iy and Saturday, but that a preview showing will be held on Thurs day night at 7:30. "We hope citizens who cannot attend on Friday or Saturday will attend the preview showing Thursday night," he said. "While Judging will not be completed, the exhibits will be prepared." The revival of the Compact Community Fair marks the first time the fair has been held In the past decade, Campbell said. Competitions will Include cat tle, hog, and poultry divisions in addition to farm and live-at home booths, and shopwork ex hibitions. Cash prizes await winners in all events and the decision of the Judges will be llnal, according to announcement in the fair pre mium list.