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Population City Limit* * 7,206 Trading Area ] 5,000 - ' ' ' ' V (IMS Bottom Board Flffuroa) Kings Mountain's R E L I A B L E Newspaper VOL.63 NO. 46 , ? , Established 1889 - ? Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 12, 1953 16 Pages Today Sixty-Third Year PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW KINGS MOUNTAIN CITY SCHOOLS FACULTY MEMBERS -MrratMll new faculty members hare lolned the teaching staff of the city schools for tho year 1953-1954. Many patrons hare met the netr teachers on visits during National Education Deek programs underway at all area schools this week. They are, left to right first row, Dorothy Lachmund, English and history, high school; JO Ann Easley, 7th grade. Central; Elisabeth Collette, physical education and civics, high school; Mrs. Donald Deal, piano. Central; and Mrs. Betty Kendrick. 2nd grade. West; second ro, Mrs. Martin Harmon, piano. West; Dorothy Hodges. 4th grade. Central; Mrs. William ?George, 5th grade. East; Mrs. Elizabeth I. Morrison, 7th grade. East; Margaret Hoffman, English, high school; and Doris Hoover, 1st grade. West; third row, Mrs. Thesis Warlick, 1st grade. Central; William George, principal. West; Mary Nolan, 2nd grade. Central; John Porter, 8th grade. Central; Margaret Stem. Bible; and Mrs. Helen Collins. 5th grade. West. Local News Bulletins BBHSPIT BRIDGE The American (Home Depart ? merit of the Woman's club is sponsoring a benefit bridge, < rook and canasta party at the ' club house Friday at 7:30 P- m. lar and no reservation is re quired, Mrs. Boyer Murray, chairman Said. BOOK WEEK Beginning Monday, Novem ber 16, through November 21 la National Book Week. The entire week is set aside for ap preciation of books. (Mr&. Char les Dilllng, librarian, Invites everyone to visit the library sometime during the week. (Friday at 3:30 a story hour will toe held with Mrs. J. B. Simpson telling the story. LEGION MEETING Regular November meeting of Otis D. Green post 155, the American Legion, postponed to avoid conflict with the Kings Mountain - Shelby football/ game, will be held at the Le 0on Hall Friday at 8 p. m. The executive committee is to meet at 7 p. *n., prior to the regular meeting. Oil BOMOR BOLL OAK RIDGE ? Major W. J. Chandler, administrative dean of Oak Ridge Military Insti tute, announced today the name* at those students whose -academic averages have plac ed thern on the honor roll. This list is compiled from the first six- weeks grading period. In cluded in this list is cadet Louis Arnold Klser Jr., of Kings Mountain, N. C., who is In the second year of the col lege division of Oak Ridge Military Institute. REVIVAL 9Eh VICES Revival' services at Midvlew Baptist church will close on Saturday night. The week seri es Je being conducted each ev ening toy. Rev. Odell Good of Greenville, S. C. The church Is located on tha Grover highway near Morrison's airport. City Auto License Will Be Slicker Ilngi Mountain onto owners win change style come IBM. City vehicle ]i?m? will no longer be the familiar toga, bat small docals. bearing tha fnpliea ef monument at Kings Mountain Military park, accoramg to qciioti town ay the board of eommissionen last Thursday. To make the change legal the beard pisssd an ordinance Details lasted Foz Retailers' First Giveaway First of a -aerie* of Treasure Chest drawings, feature of the Kings Mountain Merchants As sociation's Appreciation Day pro motion, will be conducted Thurs day afternoon at 3:90 p. m. aw the -?orner of Battleground avenue and Mountain street, near the First National Bank. The Treasure Chest will con tain $128. Some person who has registered for the drawing. In one of 31 participating retail firms during the past nine days, will win a portion of the Treasure Chest fund, payable in trade cer tificates, in turn fully spendable at one of the 31 firms joining to gether in the promotion. . No person may win more than the percentage of the Treasure Chest fund noted on the winning ticket. The maximum is 50 per cent, the minimum is five per cent. Rules of the contest specify that a person must be present to \yin. A husband may answer for his wife, or vice- versa, but other wise the person whose name is on the ticket must be present If a name Is called and the person is not present, another ticket will be pulled after a one-minute wait. The process will be continued un til someone wins. Subsequent drawings will be held each Thursday, with the value of the Treasure Chest in creasing eadh week. All tickets are|fgood" for the duration of the promotion. J. C. Bridges. Merchants as sociation president, and John Lewis, trade promotion chair man, pointed out that coupons are obtainable at all the1 partici pating firms and that there is no cost to register. "Register everytlme vou visit 'an Apprecia tion Day firm. Better still, visit one of these firms fo register," they pointed out Circulars explaining the rules of the contest were distributed house-to-hduse this week, and ma Continued On Page Eight REVIVAL] ST ? flev. R. M. Har dee, abo*t, pastor of West End Methodist church in Gastonia, will conduct a revival series at Grace Methodist church here be ginning Sunday. Services begin each evening at 7 o'clock. Bank Schedules Open House Event .The First National Bank will observe open house next Wednes day afternoon, as its part In the state's Know Your Bank week observance which begins Monday. From 1 to 5 p. m. next Wednes day, the bank is Inviting its pa trons to visit its banking house, and plans to conduct inspection tours of all departments, at the same time pointing out the many different operations which make i up a regular banking day.. There will be favors for all visitors, from sanseveria laurenti (snake plants) for the ladies, and comic books for the children, President Frank R. Summers, an nounced. The snake plants will he 15 to. 18 inches long, gold-band ed, and have two to three leaves. Visitors will tour the whole banking house from teller** cage to bookkeeping department. Another feature of "Know Your Bank Week" here will be a dis continued On Page Bight South Carolina Coach Rex Enright r tKirlWtto??FootbaIir( Rex Enrlgh\ head footbftll coach of the University of South CaroHna, will deliver the prlnd K address At me annual foot 1 banquet of the Kings Moun tain Lions club. according %o an nouncement Wednesday morn m. ? M* The banquet, an atuAwirgflp| honorlri9|,v4he Kioto Mountain high schoo' football team and Its cbadies, jprt be held on Decem ber 8 ?t Masonic Dining HalL 1 roll details of the event aire not yet Uiaiyhl* Ollla Harris, club president said, but ho indicated as many tickets as po*?ible will be mads avaMaMa toiht public. Chart* Moas made arrange menta for Coach Enright to fill the banquet speaking engage ment. - . It will b? a return engagement for Mr Enright, who made the principal add raw at the Uona Football banquet of 1945. The University of South Car olin* has *t?)oyed a MCM*ful have Knocked off arch rty^l (he traditional State Fair game, and laat Sator dayjtejtoatlng the Unlveralty a? Nfcrth Carolina, another old rival, by three touchdowfli Enrl?W la a ?onetime Notre Dam# atar, and haa ?' \ . ? . City Sets Policy On Street-Paving, Sidewalk Charges Barring unusual grading prob lems and consequent expense, fu ture street- paving will be assess ed to wpperty owners at 75 .cents per lineal foot, and future side Vvalk construction will be assess ed at 5? cents per lineal foot. The scale of charges waa adopt ed at the suggestion of Mayor Glee A. Bridges at the November meeting of the pity commission ers. Mayor Bridges told the board record ? keeping on the several construction jobs are sometimes ineicact and that an average per foot charge would help city and property-owner alike. The board decayed action, on advice of Attorney J. R. Davis, on calling a city-wide bond issue election, but scheduled a special meeting for that purpose for No vember 23. The postponement was due to a legal technicality. The board named City Clerk Joe Kendrick as purchasing agent, after E. C. Nicholson, pub lic works superintendent, had told the commissioners the city had "too many buying". Mr. Hendrick was voted purchasing authority and instructed to set up a pur chase order system. S. A. Blanton, water depart ment employee, Fas named city plumbing inspector, and the board voted to require inspection when a sewer line tap-in is made. Mr. Nicholson had . stated that many "bad taps" are showing up to foul disposal mains and lines. Otherwise the board: 1) Accepted a petition to pave E. Floyd Street, from York road east, and to install sidewalk on the north side of the same street. 2) Accepted a petition to pave a portion of Gantt street, provld Continued Gn Page Bight Baby Contest Leaden Listed Leaders in the American Le gion Auxiliary's baby contest, through Tuesday morning, were Samtrjy. Anderson and Teresa Leigh, it wae announced by Auxi liary officials. Second place in the boys' derby was held by Paul Early, with Kay Kimble second In the girls' race. The contest will continue [through N&ven!ber 20, with pro ceeds to benefit a disabled Kings Mountain veteran. Votes are worth one-cent each I and voting boxes are located at business firms and other public places. ' 'I The full lists of coniesUiils fol low: I Boys ? Mark Gdforth. Joel Ware, Andy Neislef, Jackie Rey nolds. Paul Early, Johnny Char les, Don Bridges, Glee Bridges, ! Jr., Tcnuny Bridges, Randy Byera, Michael Huffstlckler, Jim my Grayson, Tommy Grayson. Lea Abbott. David Lojjin Sammy Anderson, Gary Ramsey, William **' .Kelly, Jack Whit?. Jr,, Carpenter, Butch Kerns, I Kiaer. Scott ClonIn/#r. Girts ? Kathy Neill, Robyn Neill, Lynn Harmon. Mary Ann | Bennett. Louis Ann Sharer. Pen Patterson, Rita Fulton, Kathy ock. Donna Falls, Dab Water Level Decline Slowed; Restrictive Action Deferred Site Problem To Head Board's Monthly Agenda Discussion of the Negro ele mentary school site problem will be one of the major items of busi ness on the agenda of the board of school trustees at their regular monthly meeting Monday night,. Chairman Arnold W. Kincaid said Wednesday. Plans of the school for acquir ing a 12 acre site hit a snag re cently when citizens who live ad jacent to, or near, the site where construction Is already underway, joined in petitioning the school trustees not to condemn a small tract cwned by B. D. Ratterree and the Estelle Weir Estate. In answer to a second petition filed with the board under date of November 2, In which 48 citi zens asked a public hearing prior to further condemnation action, Chairman Kincaid wrote each pe titioner last Saturday: "I have received the petition which you signed oh November 2. Your request for a public hear ing in the matter of our condem nation of the Ratterree-Weir pro perty before we take further ac tion will be granted and at least two days' notice will be given to each of the petitioners. However, pending the outcome of our Board's effort to secure other land acceptable to the State Board of Education, further ac tion on th?r condemnation of the Ratterree-Weir land is to be in definitely witheid." Mr. Kincaid declined to dis cuss details of the efforts to ob tain other land, to which he re ferred In the letter, pointing out that the matter had previously been In the hands of the school board building committee, which Included Fred W. Plonk, Dr. P. G. Padgett and Supt. B. N. Barnes, and that full board discussion of the matter is in order prior to any public statements. He did say, however, that the board was surprised when the general objection to obtaining the Ratterree-Weir land was first Continued On Page Eight Dotson Killed In Accident ' Funeral services lor Nathan Roger Dotson, 17, who died Tues day from injuries sustained in an auto accident near Easley, S. C., on Monday night, will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock from Park Grace Church of the Nazai-ene. Rev. Clay Childers and Rev. H. S. Scruggs will officiate and burial will be In Mountain Rest cemetery. The body will lie-in state at the church for one-half hour prior to the service. Young Dotson died In a Green ville, S. C., hospital about 6 a. m. Tuesday. The young man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leslie Dotson of 804 Third street, Craftspun mill, was enroute to Florida on a hitchhik ing venture with two other Kings Mountain youths ? Dewltt Guy ton and Tommy Millen. Guyton suffered lacerations, but was able to return to his home Tuesday. Millen was unin jured. According to South Carolina State Highway Patrol Corporal J, J. Fickling, who Investigated, the boys had thumbed a ride with Dewey F. Duncan of Seneca who was traveling west toward his home town. They had been in the car for only two miles when the crash occurred on the Easley by pass two-tenths of a mile east of the Easley city limits. The other car trav?Mne: east, was driven by William H. Stevens of Easley. Neither Stevens nor Duncan was Injuied. The accident occurred at 5:55 p. m. Monday. . ft Dotson, riding in the front seat W.flie car next to the door, Was thrown out of the vehicle and his head struck the pavement. Ha died ot a skull fracture, The Ste vthtele frrerturned. -c-:. : Dotson attended Kings Moun tain high school but did not grad uate. He was an employee of Sa die Cotton Mm. Surviving In additVm to his pa are two brothers, Wnilard and Thomas Dotson, and f<??, a* ters, Mrs. Ocie Powell end Mrs. Agnes Under, both of Cowpens, S. C., and Mr*. Pauline Ernst and Miss Marilyn Gag Dotson, both """'""Iff? " Frieda Mill Sold To Carlton Firm Rudisill Confirms Purchase; New Name Is Carlon Carlton Mills, Inc., has pur chased the 7,100-spindle Frieda plant of Beaunlt Mills, Inc., at Crowder*s Mountain in a trans action completed Wednesday. Ben R. Rudisill, of Cherryvllle, president and treasurer of Carl ton, confirmed the completion of the transaction In- a telephone conversation with the Herald Wednesday afternoon. He said the name of the plant will be changed to Carlon divi sion, of Carlton Mills, Inc., and that, as quickly as overhauling is completed the mill will resume yarn manufacturing operations. Purchase of Frieda adds a third division to Carlton, which, in addition to the home plant at Cherryvllle, operates a mill at Salisbury, Carlton's Cortex divi sion. Negotiations for the purchase of the plant have been underway for Several weeks and had been previously approved by Carlton stockholders. George H. Mauney, a Kings Mountain Carlton stock holder, said he made the motion to purchase the Frieda plant from Beaunlt. Hearing Is Set On Assessments The city board of commission ers, meeting last Thursday night, called a public hearing on street improvement assessments ? for street paying, curb-and-gutter and sidewalk installations ? for the board's next regular meeting on December 3. The assessments, as listed, to tal $9,191.28. The board took off the assess ment roll tentative assessments for three churches, Primitive Bap tist, $26.26; Grace Methodist, $228,62; and Church of God, $106.02. Motion to delete the bills to the churches was made by T. J. Ellison, seconded by Harold Phillips, and unanimously car ried. Tha assessments cover the fol lowing improvements: Mountain street between Sims and Juniper, Gold street between Sims and Juniper, Sims street between Landing extension and south end Sims, Sims between Landing and Gold, Morris between Cansler and Gantt, Gaston between Parker and Railroad ave., Goforth be tween Mountain and King, Land^ ing extension between Sfms and Juniper, Falls and Falls exten sion, Childers street, James Continued On Page Eight MISSION ART ? Rev. Carl W. Judy, missionary to Korea, will speak Sunday morning at Cen tral Methodist church. In Korea two years alter the Korean War began, he expects to return early in 1954. ludy To Pieach ;Sanday Morning Rev. Carl W. Judy, a mission ary of the Methodist church In Korea, who has spent two years in relief and evangelistic work there since the conflict began, will be guest speaker at 11 a. m. morning . services at Cereal Methodist church on Synday. He expects to return to Korea after Christmas. Born in Charles ton; West Virginia, and educated at Morris Harvey College and Duke University Divinity School, Rev. Mr. Judy studied the Ko rean language at Yale University. From 1943 to 1946, Rev. Mr. Judy held pastorates in the Western North Carolina Annual Confer ence of the Methodist church. Rev. Mr. Judy was married in 1944 to Margaret Taylor Bran nan, who was born in Wonsan. Korea, the daughter of Methodist missionaries. Rev. and Mrs. Judy have been missionaries since 1948, although his wife, former director of Music and Religious Education at Central Methodist church, Asheboro, has lived in Korea longer than aJiywhere else. In Korea, seminary students are conscripted as soon as thty graduate and many of them serve as chaplains. The older men, who are laymen In the church; are be ing trained as preachers. " METER RECEIPTS A total of $1.17.17 was collec ted from the city's parking meters Wednesday, according to a report from the city treas urer's office. Kiwanians To Heai Senator Hoey At Past President's Night Event The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club will observe annual Past President's night Thursday ev ening, with United States Sena tor Clyde R. Hoey to deliver the principal address. The event will i> e a ladies night and will convene at 6:45 at Masonic Dining Hall. h. Arnold Kiser, who arranged the program, will present Sena tor Hoey. - Rev. W. L. Pressiy will give the invocation and J. C. Bridges will superintend the weekly attend ance prize ebntejrt. Dr. D. F. Hord, ?lub president, will recognize all club put pres idents. The Kings Mountain KiwanU club was chartered In 1M0. Past president* include Ladd W. Hamrick, W. E. Blakely, Harry E. Page, W. K. Maune" B. & Peel er, Sr. the late Dr. It li. Balrd, Glee A. Bridget, L. L. Benton John L MoGlll, Byron Keeter, Hugh Y. Ballard, L. ?. Abbott, and Harold Huhnicutt ?> . ? ? ; > ? Irrigation Rig Ups Pumpage From New Creek Bright sunshine and dusty air continued to greet Kings Moun tain citizens during the past week causing increasing concern for the adequacy , of the city's water supply. Emergency measures to in crease the supply by the city were paying off, Mayor Glee A. Bridges said Wednesday at noon, with the rate of decline in water level at city lake lessened. However, the situation is on a ^la^-to-dav iiasia^-with the city board having Instructed Mayor Bridges and Superintendent of Public Works E. C. Nicholson to keep a close watch on the situa tion and to Invoke emergency measu.es as appear necessary. Some 400,000 gallons of water per day are being obtained from the stream serving Davidson Memorial Scout camp, via a pas ture irrigation system obtained from O. Max Gardner, Jr.., of Shelby. With 1,500 feet of live inch aluminum pipe and a large pump, all furnished free iby Mr. Gardner, the city Is draining the small pond at the camp, allow ing it to refill, then repeating the process. . Mayor Bridges said the water level at the city lake dam drop ped one-and-onie-half inches Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. However, he said the daily rate of decline had drop Water-Saving Ways Three won, in addition to Jteneral attention to using a, Uttlo water as possible (or ail fn rP?^"' b0re b0ma ll*t*d ?>? !h? *-< ??, waT" *? eon?rw th? dwindling water supply: V)don t wash onto*; 2) don't w?ter lawn.; 3) hare the plumber repair leaks. ped to one-half inch. Mayor Bridges said the city is investigating ways and means or tapping a well at the W. K Mauney, Jr., residence, if the supply available proves feasible. fhL ^a8 81111 a P?ssibility that the city might utilize the old wells at the CherryvilJe Road re aevoir which prior to 1929 suppli ed the full demands of the city. Water Plant Operator George Moss told the board last Thurs day that the water was slightly contaminated, requiring chlorlna tlon before use, but Mayor Brid ges said yesterday the city owns a portable chlorlnator and that ne has an appointment Thurs day morning with a represent* - ment county health depart Meantime, Foote Mineral Com Jf"/' H,,MClty'8 maJor water user, 1 operating on a two i ilrds of consumption basis. The valves are closed from 7 a. m. to 3 P- m. daily, and Foote is re claiming for reuse much of the water it uses. J. E. Castle, manager of Foote, said his plant might be able to operate a week to ten days with out any city water, using water exclusively from Its own reser voir, but he said he wasn't sure not knowing the exact gallonaee ?n the reservoir. He said a complete shutdown would nrcbaMy mean a layoff for 85 to 90 of the company's 120 regular emphxyees. At the mo ment, >oote is building still an ?? L, reservolr. and the con struction has upped the total em Continued On Page Bight Christmas Opening Here December 2nd Kings Mountain merchants *?n?ally launch the Christmas shopping season on Wednesday, December 2. ac cording to plans being com pleted now. J. C. Bridges, Merchants as sociation president, said the aMjociation will forego a pa ?ade. but that a gigantic ,or the child - will be conducted on Fall *??d avenue, between Gold ?2 Mountain sheet] r te all children at ?Luther details ate promise ? ?*? mmm future.