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Schools Split Into "North", "South" Groups Reorganization of the Western and South Piedmont (AA) con ferences was effected and 1954 schedules drawn at a meeting of tha Western North Carolina High School Activities Association at Mooresvllle Monday afternoon. The two WNCHSAA loops are now divided Into "North" and "South" groupings, with cham pionship playoffs set In the three major sports. No provision was made for championship games between the two conferences In football and baseball. An annual WNCHSAA basket .?2)1 tournament was set up under the r.ew plan, with the teams bracketed so that the semi final winners will become the confer ence champions. Two top teams IT. &lV>Up, boys and girls, will become eligible for the 16-team (boys and girls) tourney. Three new schools were ac cepted to membership In the as sociation prior tb the re grouping, all In the South Piedmont loop. Admitted were t-andls, Concord (Wlnecoff) and China Grove. The purpose of the new group ing, according to B. N. Barnes, Kings Mountain superintendent and WNCHSAA president. Is to eliminate the rule of the top five teams playing each other, to fa cilitate schedule-making, to cut travel and expenst and to Im prove, the general over- all func tioning of the association. The proposal to re group the schools In the association was first made at a meetinp of the "roup's executive committee at Mooresvllle on November 9. The new grouping Is as follows: Western Conference: "North" group ? Wilkes Central, Tay lorsville, Newton ? COnover, Hie ory! Valdesc, Morganton, Marlon, and Lenoir.. "South" group ? Kings Mountain, Shelby, Ruth erfordton - Spindale, (Central), Forest City (Cool Springs), Car oleen (Tri ? High), Cliffside, Cherryville, Lincolnton and Bel mont. South Piedmont Conference: "North" group ? Children's Home, Thomasville, Mills Home, Asheboro, Lexington, Spencer, Barium Springs and Statesvllle. "South" group ? Mooresvllle, Landis, Kannapolis, China Grove, Concord (Winecoff), Mon roe and Albemarle. Caroleen (Tri-Hlgh) and Cliff side are not members of the Western Conference for football, both fielding six-man teams. Each team is to play all other teams in it's group in football, five group foes in basketball and five in baseball under the RECREATION I BOUMMJP The Rock Hill (S. C.) Recrea tion Department's team invaded City Stadium Tuesday afternoon with about. 60 boys in football togs but by dusk the K. M. Cow boys had given all 60 of them a lesson in single wing and tricky T-formations that had them grog gy. ; Jerome Grant took a kickoff for 80 yards and a scorfe. Don Gladden ran for 60 yards and a T. D. and caught a pass for 25 and his second score. Charley Cleary, a converted tackle, car ried the ball seven consecutive times and picked up 70 yards and <f score. Banks Guyton, K. M. tjuarterback, ?arrle(J for all the extra points. Blanton, Childers, Gibson, Ware and Ramsey were outstand ing on defense. Henry Foster did the kicking. Phil Mauney was un able to play due to an injury Monday but he was in school to day, . *.?? ? This Was the final game for the Cowboys and all players are in vited to participate in the recrea-' tlon department's basketball pro gram If it does not interefere with any school activities. Plans for the program Include both boys and girls teams. The men's basketball team be gan practice Monday in Central gymnasium and will drill night lv. with the season opening set for December 7. Anv men inter ested in trying out for the team are urged to contact Bud Medlin or Red Layton. Students are not eligible for the team. Players reporting for the Initial practice wero Medlin. Bob Falls, Joe Hen driek,- Jerry Morris. Joe Costner, Walt Harmon and Red Lavton. Other? expected art? Bob Nelll, Dave Nelll, Luco Falls and Cla von Kollv. Plans are in the making for a fish frv for nil football players who participated this season. new set-up. Dates for completion of the schedule In the three major sport were also agreed upon, with the regular season football games to he completed hv the second Friday In November .and the play-off game to be the fol lowing week. The regular season basketball games are to be completed by the end of February and the WNCHSAA tournament to be held the first week in March. The regular season baseball games are to be completed by the sec ond weekend in May and the play-off game to be the follow ing week. 1 Mountaineers Play 16 Cage Tests; Baseball, football Cards Announced Kings Mountain High school, now a member of the "South" group of the Western AA Confer ence of the Western North Caro lina High School Activities As sociation will meet all eight op ponents in the new group accor ding to the basketball schedule released Tuesday. The Mountaineers will play 16 loop games, an Increase In num ber of games player over the past several seasons^ with one contest listed before the Christ mas holidays. Forest City and Rutherfordton Spindale were added to the 1954 card, with the former coming here for the lid-lifter on Decem ber 18. Coach Don Parker will again tutor the varsity boys and Miss Elizabeth Collette, a new teacher and former girls coach at Troutman, will replace Coach Carlton &9 girls coach. Kings Mountain did not have to drop a single cage foe to meet the new regulations. Hickory, Lenoir and Newton ? Conover, "North" group 'members, were dropped off the 1953 schedule. Under the new conference grouping arrangement, all mem bers must play at least five group opponents in basketball. Kings Mountain has all eight of the remaining teams in tha "South" group on its 1954 West-, em conference schedules. The Mountaineers meet six loop foes In football, two of the "South" group teams fielding six-man clubs. The new set-up necessitated dropping Marlon's Rippers and adding Belmont's powerful Red Raiders to the 1954 grid card. The Belmont game is slated for the finale, on Novem ber 12, 1951. Two non-loop foes, Bessemer City and Mount Holly, remain on the new schedule and Coach Shu Carlton hopes to fill two open dates as soon as possi ble. Coach Carlton said that efforts to place Clover, S. C., on the football schedule failed when the two teams' open dates failed to match up. Kings Mountain will play homelnhome. series in base ball with five group foes and will meet three teams ony one time for a total of 13 games. One open date is llkted. JOIN FRATERNITY James Kimmell and James McGlnnis both of Kings Moun tain were among seventy-five students accepted Into Lenoir Rhyne College social groups during meetings Jield on the campus last week according to a report received here. BARGAINS WINTER DRESSES Good Selections S4.95 and $5.95 Big Selection TOPPERS As Low A:. S10.95 Ladies SWEATERS $1.98 and $2.98 Ladies COATS 10% OFF Now As Low As $13.45 Big Choice MOUSES Si * ?r J $2.98 Ladies SUITS 20% OFF Now As Low As $10.55 McGinnis Dept. Store West Mountain Street " BASKETBALL Dec. 18 Forest City Home Jan. 8 Rutherfordton Away 12 Tri High Away 15 Cliff side Home 19 Cherryrllle Away 22 Belmont Home 28 Forest City Away 29 Shelby Home Feb. 2 Rutherfordton Home | 5 CUffslde 1 _ Away 9 Lincoln ton Home 12 Cherryrllle Home 16 Tri High Home 19 Lincolnton Away 23 Belmont Away 2fi Shelby Away (* ? all games 7 p. m.) BASEBALL Mar. 30 Shelby Away April 2 Tri High* Away 6 Cherryrllle Home 9 Lincolnton Away 13 Cliff side Home 15 Ruth.Spindale Home 20 Shelby Home W Tri High > Home 27 Open 29 Cliffside** Away May 4 Belmont Home 7 > Ruth.-Spinrale Away 11 Cherryrllle Away 14 Forest City Home (* ? 3 o'clock game) (**?3:15 game) All Others 3:30 FOOTBALL Sept 10 Bessemer City Away 17 Mount Holly Home 24 Cherryrllle Home Oct. 1 Forest City Away 8 Open 15 Ruth.-Spindale Home 22 Lincolnton Away 29 Open Nor. 5 Shelby Away 12 Belmont Away (All Games 7:30 p. m. Bethware, Flyers Split Openers Bethware high school split a pair of county leaigue games with Fallston at Fallston last Friday night, the girls winning 54-21 and the boys dropping a close one, 57-42 It was the opening loop game for both teams. Laura Morris hit the hoops lor 32 points lor the winning Beth ware lassies and Jeanelle An thony had 14 markers. Bethware took a 9-6 lead at the end of the first period, movted out front by 14 points at the half, doubled the score at the end of three and In creased the margin in the final canto. The Bethware guards allowed the losers only threte Held goals during the game. Coach Jeff Wells' lassies now boast a season record of three wins and a loss, the lone setback coming at the hands of Tryon at Tryon on November 17. In the boys game, Fallston rushfed to a 20-9 lead at the first post, doubled the score at the half and rode our a Bethware bid to catch up during the final half. Richard Jarvis hit 13 points for the losers and Jake Dixon had 9 and Dean Huskey seven. Hoyle had 17 to pace the winners and Morgan hit for 14. The box scones: GIRLS Bethware (54) Maw. Pot. GFG TP ft FTM Laura Morris, t 13 6 32 5 3 Jeanelle Anthony, t 6 2 14 , 3 S MUdred Peterson, f 0 0 0 0 2 L. Bov ill. I 3 0 6 0 0 A. Ow: plon. f 1 0 2 3 3 M. Davis 0 0 0 0 0 WUma Ledbetter. g 0 0 0 5 0 Shirley Ledbetter, g 0 0 0 S 0 Carolyn Bell, g 0 0 0 5 0 J. Lovelace, g 0 0 0 4 0 L. Barrett, g 0 0 0 5 0 A. War#. g - 0 0 0 1 0 TOTALS 23 ? S4 M It Fallston (21) purr". a ra tp wr nU Gardner. 1 12 4 2 7 DeUlngar, ( 2 6 10 3 . 9 J. Hendrtx. f 0 110 1 Whtt*. t 0 8 6 0 3 Carroll, g 0 0 0 4 0 Hamrtck. g 0 0 0 2 0 Jones, g 0 0 0 5 0 Yonder, g 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 1 IS 21 U 20 SCORE IT PERIODS: a wss; i ? n ? I ? rallston ? >' S 4?21 OPPlClALsi f. Harris, refers*; f. Bants, umpire; Scoreri O. Seas. BOTS Bethware . (42) Player, Poa. O PO TP PP ITM Richard Jarvis 5 3 13 4 5 Jake Dtxon 1 7 9 4 1 jack Harmon 0 4 4 3 4 Dean HuSkey 1 5 7 3 5 Bill Huffstlckler * 1 1 3 4 0 Giles Bell 0 1 1 1 ? 1 Bobby Webster 0 1 10 0 Ken Yarboro 12 4 4 1 Ralph Kord 0 0 0 2 0 Doyle Burton 0 0 0 1 0 TOTALS S t4 43 M IT Fullston . (57)i HT.U. Poa. G ro TP PP PTM Morgan 6 2 14 . i 5 Dtxor. 113 3 4 Hoyle 6 A 17 1 3 Wllllama 2 3 7 4 2 Beam 2 3 7 4 6 Hamrlck 0 2 2 2 2 Queen 2 15 2 0 La U 0 2 2 3 8 Pertenberry 0 0 0 0 0 Stamey 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS IS IS 57 SI IS SCORE SY PERIODSi - kllnrsN . . ..I 7 10 1S-3 Palls too JO IS I# IS? S? 1 PAITR BAPTIST cmmai Burlington Mill ?XV. W. PPAYN*. Paator Sunday School ? 9:45 a. m. So*. ? B T Brooks Preaching ivrvlce ? 11a. m. KV ? 5:45 p. m. Evening Service ? 7 p. m. The New York Journal offered | a reward of $50,000 for informa tion leading to the conviction of | the person or persons who sank j the battleship Maine. Bethware Cagers At Home Tuesday , ? * i Bethware high's cagers will take Friday night oil, returning to action on Tuesday against BoiHng Springs on the Bethware harwood. The Number 4 clubs dropped a twin bill to "Casar at Bethware Tuesday night. Laura Morris tallied 45 points for the Bethwaite girls who lead In the game until the final chap ter when the starting guards went out on fouls and Ca3ar went ahead for a 64-60 Verdict, Jeanelle Anthony had 13 points. Lorene | Black hit 27 for the winners. Bethwarte led, 14-11 at the end of the first, maintained the three point spread at the half, 26-23 but slipped Into a 44-all deadlock at | the end of three periods. Casar got off to a fast start in the second game to post a 25 14 halftime lead and won going away. Richard Jarvis toppfed the ' effort with 10 points, while Carl Wall hit 17 for the winners. Cellar Dwellers Clip Leaden ??*?? The cellar-dwelling Mountain eers and Independents aife mak ing things tough for the top two teams in the Kings Mountain fowling loop these days. In action at Shelby Community | Center Monday night, the Moun taineers edged the loop-leading Alltey Cats 1464-1440 and the In dependents trounced the second | place Luckles 1428-1309. Captain Tom Gamble and Jack Clark each had 303 for the Mountaineers, with Gamble's 134 good for high line in the match. Capt. Ralph Arrowood of the lo sers took high honors for the set, howtever, with a 329 figure. In the other match, Capt. Al bert Brackett hit top figures at 117 and 31? and Hill Carpenter posted a 305. None of Capt. Fur man Wilson's Luckies cracked the 300 mark, Jim Everhart's 279 edeing Wilson's 278 for honors. The scores: GAMES or NOVEMBER 13 Alley Cat? (9-31 Mounlaireers (4-?> Howell TTOTlRnor 270 Morrison 270 Kezzlah 294 Arrowood 329 Clark 303 Ware 290 Wright 294 Hamrlek 279 Gamble 303 SCORE 1440 SCORE 14S4 Lockles/ (7-5) Independents (4-?? Kelly 270 Palls 263 Everhart ^*9 Carpenter 308 Riser 258 Ixxan 260 Jonas 234 Houser 283 WUson 278 Brackett 317 SCORE 1309 SCORE I4M Grover Cops 2nd Loop Twin Bill Grover, victor in two county loop doubleheaders to date, is scheduled to take on Lattlmore at Lattlmore on Tuesday, a game with Number 3 at Grovter for Thursday* being postponed. On Tuesday night, Graver's girls downed Waco 62-52 and the boys prevailed 55-44. On last Fri day night, Coach Gene Turner's charges defeated Polkville, the girls 58-55 and the boys 57-52, in a pair of close ones. Sue Keeter paced the Tuesday effort against Waco, hitting 16 field goals and three free shots for 35 points. Betty Watterson had 16. Grover broke away from a 25-24 lead at the half to post the 10 point margin of victory in the final half. Tommy Keeter had 22 points as the Grover boys held a 23-20 lead at the end of the first two periods and held on to down Wa co's boys. At Polkville last Friday night, Sue ' Keeter had 47 points and Tommy Kteeter 33 to pace the Grover clubs to two close wins. The girls led at the half by 28-17 and the boys 29-6, with reserves seeing action during the final chapters. The Tuesday boxes: GIBLS GROVER (62) nonr?r. Po?. a ra rr rr rru Sue Keeter, t 16 S 35 0 11 Betty Watt-raon. ( 7 3 16 13 Cath. Hambright, f 1 1 3 1 0 Barbara Glbaon. ( 0 1 1 0 0 Linda Ponder, ( 0 0 0 0 0 Pcitgy Watterion. g. (31901 Theo HuHatetlcr. f. (1 0 3 O' 0 Colf.i Reynold*, g 0 Anne L Huffatetler, g 3 Marjorie Allen, g - 0 Joyce MrC;innl?. g 0 P?fgy MoGlnnla. g 1 TOTALS ? t ft S 14 WACO (52) Pkrrwr. Poa. O PG TP PP PTM Cllne. f ft 1 10 1 4 Putnam, ( 13 3 37 0 3 Beam. ( 0 0 0 0 0 feat, ( 3 0 10 1 Dalton. g 1 Wllllama. g 4 Putnam, g $ Mom, g 0 TOTALS 14 4 SI ? I Technical Pool.: T. MbMkl, ley a old*. A. Ruffs teller 1. P. McGlnal*. CUM. Dal too 1. WUtUans. NHW, ROTS GROVER (55) Ptarer. Poe. O PQ TP PP rn* Tommy Keeter. c 10 3 32 3 ~ ? Mil Welle, t 10 3 13 ?on Blta. ( 7 3 16 1 3 Eddie Tucker, I 0 111O Jimmy Owena. t ' . 0 0 0 1 0 Jo? MMMH. g 113 4 1 Jerry Cooi.,. g 3 0 6 0 0 Robert Petervm. g 0 0 0 1 0 f-.cnc Oriom* g Q a 3 0 3 Pickle Owena. g I t j I i TOTALS H ? U It It WE (?4) Player. Pm. Q ra TP PP rm ?ack. g '-a ? /.l * Cath. g p 0 0 3 o Stlrewalt. g 3 0 4 s _ g 10 3 0 Harrelaon. c 3 O f 3 ? S??ee*y.' c 0 0 0 1 $ Stack. ( 0 0 0 1 4 r. Wright. ? S $ IS 3 0 - ?*. <r i o a o ? * IH TOTALS It I 44 II II Tree Seedlings Aie Available Free Of Chaige Cleveland County landowners and 4-H Club members can re ceive up to 5,000 frete tree seed lings for planting this winter, it was announced today by Howard B. Clapp, Cleveland farm agent for the State College Extension Service. Mr. Clapp said 2,250,000 free seedlings are bteing made avail able for planting Idle and unpro ductive acres by three pulp con suming companies. Any landown er, or 4-H Club member, may or der up to 5,000 of the free seed lings by making application through the county agtent's office. Landowners making applica tion should acquire an applica tion blank from the county agent and submit it to the State Forest er, Box 2719, Raleigh. 4-H Club members should submit their ap plications to John L. Gray, State College Station, Raleigh. Following are the threte spon soring companies and the coun ties in which they are making seedlings available: The North Carolina Pulp Com pany is offering 1,000,000 loblolly pine seedlings to 4-H'ers who live east of Caswell, Guilford, David son, Rowan, Cabarrus, Mecklten burg and Gaston; the Champion Paper and Fibre Company will give 4-H'ers living in or west of Person, Caswell, Guilford, David son, Davie, Iredell, Catawba, Lin* coin and Cleveland Counties 350, ? 000 white pines and 150,000 short leal pines. The International Paper Com pany of Georgetown, S. C., has offered 750,000 1- blolly, hmgleaf, shortleaf, and slash pines to land owners in these 39 counties: Ruth erford, Cleveland, Lincoln, Gas ton, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Stanly, Montgomery, An son, Richmond, Randoph, Ala mance, Orange, Durham, Frank lin, Wakte, Chatham, Carterrett, Pitt, Lee, Moore, Hoke, Scotland, Robeson, Cumberland, Bladen, Co 1'imbus, Brunswick, Duplin, Pen der, New Hanover, Lenoir, Jones, Odk'.ow, Beaufort, Craven, Pam lico, and Sampson. Four Kings Mountain Officials Listed Four Kings Mountain officials are listed on the Western AA Con ference list to handle basketball games this season. Bruce Thorburn, veteran offi cial, Is again on the roster. Also listed were Bob Neill, Jote Hendrick and Dave Neill. Some of the industry's toughest lubrication problems are being solved by new oil products. Spe cially developed oils and greases give high-temperature service. Others have exceptional ability to hold up under heavy loads. Spe cific compounds can be used in almost any type of surface ~ metals, plastics, glass, or ceram ics. Oil progress and Industry progress work, together in the gi gantic task of bringing better products and conveniences to A mericans. 1 . Hours Listed Here For Local Library . Schedule of library hours at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li brary was announced Wednes day morning by. Mrs. Cbarlee Dilling, librarian. Monday: 2 p. m.-5 p. m.; and evening hours-7 p. m.-9 p. m. Tuesday: 10 until 12 a. m. (library closed in afternoon.) Wednesday: 10 - 12 a. m.; 2 p. m.; 7-9 o'clock in the even ing. > .1 Thursday: 10-12 a. m.; 2 p. m.-5 p. m. Friday: 10-12 a. m.; .2 p. m. 5 p. nu v Saturday; 10 until 12 noon. Phenix Activities Here Friday Night "Phenix Night Activities" will be held Friday, November 27, in the recreation room at Phenix Plant of Burlington Mills, Inc. The entertainment will begin at 7 p. m. and a small admission of 25 cents will be charged. The Phenix Square Dance Team is apons^-ing thte event. Gai.,ds may be played during the evening Including shuffle board, ping pong, and carrom. There will also be round and square dancing. Everyone is cordially invited to come arid enjoy an evening of fun, a spokesman said. North American farmers ex pect to produce about 1,785,000, 000 bushels of, wheat this year, 214,000,000 less than in 1952. Ji; lUWOfttltt Your Favorite Brand Duke's 6V2 Oz. Bottle Golden Delicious 2 lbs. for Devil's Food. Spice. White, Golden Plain or Sell-Rising
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