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Pages TodaY FIVE C.EN'TS .Tk?J ,bK*?? 1889 VOL. W lOtll ItUii ? * _ Rings Mountain's RELIABLE Now*pape? Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 7, 1954 Local News - - $ Bulletins TAG SALES A total of 390 city auto Ii? censes tor 1954 had been sold through Wednesday afternoon, according to report of Tommy Owens, of the city clerk's ofifice. MONTONIA CLUB Stockholders of Lake Mon tonla Club, Inc., will hold their annual meeting at City Hall courtroom on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, according to an nouncement this .-eek toy Har ry E. Page, secretary-treasurer. LEGION MEETING Regular monthly meeting of Otis a Green Post 155, the A merlcan Legion, will toe held Friday at 8 p. m. at the Legion Hall on E. Cold stireet. All members are urged to attend, C. E. War lick, Commander,' stated. METER RECEIPTS Net redeipts from the city's parking meters for the week ending Wednesday at noon /? were $133.73. An additiohal 9&30 in dimes were removed from the meters and turned y over to the Maroh of Dimes fund. LIONS PROGRAM 3k' fcMlss 'Roberta Wiley, now at Gastonia tout a former medical missionary to North Africa, will speak at Tuesday night's meeting of the Kings (Moun tain Lions club on a program arranged by Dr. N. H. Reed and George Thomasson. The club meets at Masonic Dining Hall jjgi-jffiT ofo laate. ? ; Pau ls Brisk City and townslil^ttfit listing was Off to what tho | ax listing officials called a "good (*tart this vaik, . ? , ? Clarence E. Carpenter, city llstter, and Conrad. Hughes, Num Township lister, were kept quite busy on the opening days M#*pl?ek a?d Wednesday's traffic was also good. Most folk Md only a short Walt before i>e Ing able to see the listing officials. Slightly Hess busy was Charlie Ware, the farm census official. ^Sp$lto tally of the number of persons listing each day Is kept, :,p^mi|mpossible to estimate pro gress to date, but generally the listing officials were plea?fed;: .]&: they can maintain the present busy pace, they feel there will be much less of a last-minute rush Hum is customary for the flnai week of January. ? h'<v Ml . property owners a r >> i . \ - quired to list for taxes, and males ^fipilflltipliiiages of 21 and f>o are required to list for poll taxes. Both real property and personal property nnittt fas listed during the month of January, ^ wit provides, and eets forth penalties late listing. , J?;:'- Both city and county listfrifwi ficitls will ^p^gjpfilf'court room daily from 8:30 a. m. tj>-p. p. m. through January with the following exceptions; Saturday afternoon, January 9. Saturday, all day, January 16. Saturday afternoon, January On the Saturday dates listed, Mr. Hughee will be at Round tree's Hardware In Grovter to ac commodate citizen* of the Gro wer irm. , a Plonk, Jr., will direct the Uttle Theatre production, luled for early February, e vehicle will b* the mystery, i Cfeost Train", by Arnold ty *ttog la now underway, with arsals to begin as soon as ait Is selected. on Henry Hardin, Jr., was f In* featoy torn at Kings antsirv Hospital In 19M. [e Is tto?ono#Opi and MM. Bf. Hardin of C, rover. * bab* wit bom ft 11:84 a. on Aid*# Janoa>^y ? . ? 1 1 immm mmm m\ RITES CONDUCTED ? Funeral mttIcm for Kings Mountain's veteran fixe cbleL Grady W. King, were conducted at the homo last Friday afternoon. Mb - Mb V ? Fue-Fighters I Nominate Tignoil ? at a meet uesaay night. Under present procedure, a -^wnan saftfr lt Is customary fur the fire department to elect Its officters, subject to confirmation by the city board of commission er*. Other recommendations of the department at Tuesday night's meeting are: ' ^ Hunter Allen, for assistant chief, a post he now holds. \ Floyd Thoraburg, captain. , .? Neal Grissom, lieutenant. Jake Bridgtes, secretary-treasu rer. Frank Hamrick, engineer. - The recommendations will be presented to the city board of commissioners, at Thursday night's meeting, at which the . firemen have Ween invited to be present "Shooters" Gave I Exhibition Heze ! ? ' ..''J ' Cherryville's 38- member "New . Year's Shooters" paid their first visit to Kings Mountain Thurs |day morning at 9 o'clock when the group' fired their ancient Confederate muskets as a New Year's welcome, a 200-year-old tradition. South Railroad avenue, be. tween West Mountain and West Gold streets, was blocked off for the exhibition. I D. M. Black, of Cherryvllle, ?aid Monday that the "Shooters" visited G rover, Gaffney, (Blacks burg, Kings Mountain, and 851 other places in and around the Cherryvllle area through Gaston county. They began their exhibi tions last Wednesday night, he said, whh a performance at the Heavner Fish Camp, near Cher ryvllle. Guns were fired three times by the "Shooters" here Thurs day. City lire Chief Succumbs Here To Long Illness Funeral services for Grady William King, 58, veteran Kings Mountain automotive mechanic and chief of the city's volunteer lire department since its organi zation in 1931, were held last Friday afternoon at his home on West Mountain street. The veteran Kings Mountain fire chief succumbed at his home on the morning of Thursday, De cember 31, at 8:40, following an illness of several months. He had been hospitalized several times during the course of the illness and his condition had worsened steadily until he lapsed into a coma two days prior to his death. The final rites were conducted by Rev- P. L. Shore, pastor of Central Methodist church, Rev. Boyce Huffstetler, pastor of El Bethel Methodist church, and Rev; P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church. Interment was made in Mountain Rest cemeteiy. Mr. King was a native of Ru therford county, a son of Mrs. Ollie Reed King, now of Lancas ter, S. C., and the late G. T. King. He was born at Henrietta, April 5, 1895. One of the principal or ganizers of the Kings Mountain volunteer . fire department in chief and served in that position continuously until his death. Since he became ill, he had ten dered his resignation to the board of commissioners, but the resignation .was not accepted. Mr. King spent aimost all his life in Kings Mountain, though he lived for a short time at Nash ville, N. C., and subsequently at Statesvllle before opening the G. W. King Garage, one of the city's older business establishments, in the early twenties. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Estelle Willaford- King; five brothers, G rover H. King, G. Thomas King, Boyce King and Walter King, all of Lancaster, S. C., and Charles M. King, of Kannapolis; and three sisters, Mrs. Anna King Dllling, Kannapolis, Mrs. Ma^y Mauney, Gastonia, and Mrs. Gene Willi^ns, Charlotte. Active pallbearers were Glenn Grigg, Frank Hamrick, Dewitt Hughes, Hal Ward, Hunter Allen, and Pat Tlgnor. ?? Honorary pallbearers were members of the Kings Mountain fire department. Final Rites Held Foi Arthur Ormand Final ritoa for Arthur Ormand, 57, brother of Mrs. Glenn Grigg, of Kings Mountain, were held PgtflMMw-Afternoon at Colum bus, following1 brteiMrtidM Dunn on Tuesday. dkd. Sunday In Veteran*._ Zfospital, Fayettevllle, where he had been a patient for two months. He was suffering from a kidney ailment. '? He #a4wi|Mrof the late Char' les Tracy and Laura Ware Or Surviving, In addtion to Mrs. Grigg, are his wife, several chil dren, three brothers and four sis Kings Mountain medical mitt, hospital officials and township hospital trustees arts collaborat ing with others throughout the county In seeking sufficient peti tions for a county ?vide bond is sue election for hospital con struction. ? Under agree nent between the county mtedical society and the hospital trustees, the two groups asked on Monday that the county board of commissioners call a bond issue election tor $165,000 said to be sufficient to add SO beds to the Shelby hospital plant and ao beds to the fOnfrMotai' *tn hospital plant, provided the customary formal* j|tferal and Stat* contributions Is follow Toe commissioners agreed to call the election, If the protx>r pe tltions are filed, and provided the # gTliM mi *1 ? -JL a ? | ??? f\ m ? Sf . mi i ? 1a TMrni! statf contriDiiuons a*e nvnilnbli^ ? . ? - i't. Thtere has been considerable ?peculation mat funds under the Hill-Burton act will be scarce, if not completely exhausted, follow ing the dose of the finest year next June, which, proponents say, dictates haste. " Representing Kings Mountain and Kings Mountain hospiui at Monday's comity, commissioners' session were Dr. W. L. Ramseur. member of the county medical society committee handling the matter, and U - fly hos pital business manager. > Mr. Howard said KtnfOfoun tain hospital can Make a strong case tor b^<%:?n<J bases the request for more building on V an 18 percent increase taTMtients in the etlsnidar year 1W over cOH* 3) lade of private rooms, which, Mr. Howard said, is costing th* who would oth CITIZENS INVITED TO INSPECT NURSES HOME ?The hospital board oi trustees will hold open house at the recently completed nurses home of Kings Mountain hospital on Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 O'clock. The picture above was taken shortly after the delivery of shrubs used in the landscaping of the grounds and provided by the House and Garden club. Mrs. Arnold Riser and Mrs. G. E. Bridges served on the committee in charge of the beautiflcation project. The eight room .brick home is located on Edgemont Drive. . (Photo by Carlisle Studio.) Open House Set __ For Nurses Home . ... f ?_ The noon, wt^Ji\ro8 Mountain h? S?SCnn^ M^ tt0m l ^ \ o'clocVc. _ _ -ToWnship trustees, , SSfe? SS ??^SS5 *? ??w? toy other me^r weU ?? 'gSrt- ^?S'tS ?? ?""" ?^ITn ?o?P?^ ?li ^csssrffssryf gan, K- ?B , Comply* Kings ? ? FurnUhlngs^re cftived anc *n*aU are partlc CltVzens %S the d the open \ r??. oy 1 hospital trustees- ^ thls, "?e af m^h-needea ?^iS\ neW .rhosplt*1 P*&?1 *3 to do a 1 S3SS m ^^Sggi =~?r&^ 1 Sh?wG^to toppU*8 the :w. ?_.\ ^Klnga Mountain gJJtjy m?re\ . also bought v order* m.wo po"; ro i?3-' ssu ?*? .b?as^"slrt sssjsi h;Sw ?**??* duf pmu?"?m SS5.T! w'i'SJud w -eg: 2gl?B?5 The 195B total receipts by quarters was: March quarter, $12,676.43; June quarter, $11,006. 31; September quarter, $10,404. 32; December quarter, $14,907.44. Total: $40,085. The total receipt* by quartern for 1958 w**: March quartbr. $12, 281 .21; June quart*, $12,(m33; September quarter, $11,1H4J?; December qmrtcr, $17,370.48 To tal: $52,87531. ?i -? - ?- ? iii fn ? n ? ? - M ^ r rinK cox, money oratf cwnc, supplied the report on money or der purchases. ; ^ A first- class postofflce for rfrv eral years, the total receipts for the year were well over tit* mini mum figure required to maintain first-class stajtos. 1953 City Taxes 63.6 Percent Paid City taxes for 1953 were 63.6 percent paid through January 2, according to report from Clarence E. Carpenter, city tax supervisor. Mr. Carpenter reported total payments pf 580,294.97 against a levy of 5126,086.18 which will be produced by the $1.30 per $100 tax rate on property and the $2 poll tax. Remaining to be paid. _ are $45,791.21. ""axes are payable at par du ing the month of January. Penalties accrue in February. ConuDtokonen Meet Thursday City board ol commissioners meet Thursday evening at 8 o'clock for the regular January meeting with several items of business listed on the agenda. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said the board will ^consider appoint ment of a fire chief, to succeed the late G. W. King, and that the fire department had been invited to attend the meeting. Other items! he said, include opening bids on curb-and-gutter and sidewalk installation on West King street. .The board is also . expected to discuss recent developments on thte city's request for an allot* ment of natural gas. Mayor Bridges added that the city's water supply seems to bo increasing slowly, with the city having suspended its intake from the Gold Mine shaft. Still being used i? about 100,000 gallons daily from the Cherryville Road wtells. Kiwanis Officers To Be Jnstalled Henry Edwards. Shelby attor ney and secretary of the SheVby Kiwanis club, will install offi cers of the Kings Mountain Ki wanis club at the Thursday night meeting of the club, which will be a ladles night affair,. The cluib convenes at Masonic Dining Hall at 6:45 Officers to be installed are: Dr. W. P. Gerberdtng president, J. C. Bridges, vice-president; and B. S. Peeler, Jr., second vice-pres ident Directors to be installed are: Continued On Page Sight Kincaid Child Funeial Rites Held On Monday Funeral services fu. Laura Margaret Kincaid, seven-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Kincaid, were conducted Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from thfe home of the child's ma ternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hayv ood E.. Lynch. Rev. P. D. Patrick and Rev. Gordon Weekley officiated and burial was. in Mountain Rest cemctery. The young child died of acci dental suffocation at the Lynch home Sunday morning at about 7:45 a. m. according to Ollle Har ris, Cleveland County coronor. Mr. Harris said thte Child was apparently sleeping on her sto mach and had moved to the foot of the bed catching her head face down, between the foot board and mattress. She was rushed to Kings Moun tain hospital where shte failed to respond to efforts to revive her. The young parents are resi dents of Raleigh, whore Mr. Kin caid is a student at N. C. State College. They wbre visiting here during the school holidays. Survivors Include the parents and maternal grandparents and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Kincaid, the paternal grandparents. Registrars Add Few New Names Registration for the January 16 city bond elections ended Satur day with very minor registering activity. , C. L. Black, Ward 1 registrar, reported a net addition of four voters. Mrs. J. T. McGinnls, Jr., Ward 5 registrar, reported a net addi tion of nine voters, while Mrs. H. R. Parton, Ward 2 registrar, had two additions, and several trans fers. Other registrars could not toe reached Wednesday, tout It was understood little activity was noted at either Paul Led ford's Ward 4, nor at Mrs. Ruth Bowers Ward 3 precinct. Saturday will be Challenge Day, when any citizen may screen the toooks to challenge the right of registered persons to vote. It is expected to toe a quiet day, too, according to past cus tom. Registered citizens will have the opportunity to ? determine four questions on January 16: 1) Shall the city borrow $250, 000 for water system Improve ments? 2 1 Sha"'} the city toorrow $200, 000 for si < r system improve ments? 3) Shall the city borrow $150, 000 for building recreational fa Continued On Page Eight Free Barbecue And Speeches listed On Young Democrats Rally Agenda Horace (Dagwood) Kornegay, Greensboro lawyer and chairman ^tJVorth Carolina Young Demo crats, will make the principal ad dress Friday night at an organi zational rally of Number 4 Town thlp Young Democrat*. Jack White, leader in the or ganization movement, a*i4 |fc f* fully anticipated that a capacity crowd Mfcr night's free barbecue fit Masonic Dining: Hall, and that the organization will be effected. An Young Democrat* (age* 18 to 40) are being urged to attend, who* apedal* invitation*- 'fc^jw* feteen *ent to D*s4KdBad*r* In Cleveland County, and to other leading Dwnocrata. Jim White, county YDC chair man, will attend, a* will C. C. Horn, county Democratic chair man, it was announced. Otnerm Wky specially Invited Include member* of the county board of commis sioners, members of the city board of commissioners, County Coronor J. Ollle Harris, Senator Robert F. Morgan, and Rep. B. T. Falls, Jr. The supper will begin at 7 o'clock, with Red Bridges' bar becue listed as the principal de licacy. 1 Jack White said It to the Intent of the organizing committee to hold an election of officers and to name committees for each pre cinct In the townfltrip. Generally, the organization movement has been Interpreted as an answer to Number 4 Town ship Republicans which organiz ed a township GOP committee several months ago, with W. T. Weir as chairman. \ Polio Fund Drive Details Complete Thomasson Lists City Oiganization Foi Fond Effort Everything is in readiness for the Klivgs Mountain 1934 March of Dimes campaign, Co-Chalr man George . Thomasson said Wednesday as he announced so liciting, committees, and other details of the annual fund-rais ing effort. Commercial and industrial so liciting will begin Monday with eight committees dividing the work of covering the whole com munity, Mr. Thomasson said. In addition, he announced that the Junior Woman's Club, with Mrs. Denver King as chairman, will conduct the familiar moth er's march on January 21, and that Mrs. Carl Mayes will direct campaign participation of Kings Mountain Garden Clubs. J. C. McKinney will serve as treasurer for the campaign. Motorists are being invited to put dimes ? which won't give any parking time ? In the city's parking meters. The dimes will go to the campaign against in fantile paralysis. Stickers Invit ing the dimes heve been placed on the meters. The several soliciting commit tees include: Group 1 ? E. E. Marlowe and Vernon Crosby. Group 2 ? Fred Weaver and Mr&. Charlie Ballard. ? ? ? ? ? Group 3 ? Dave Saunders, Sr., and Paul Walker. Group 4 ? Charles Dixon, J. C. Bridges, Clyde Whetstine, and Bobfoy Cox Group 0 ? Whltey Whites idea and John Greene. Group 6 ? Charles Neisler (in dustrial). Group 7 ? Dr. N. H (Reed, John Lewis, and George Thomasson. Group 8 ? Joe flendrick, John Cheshire, and Gene Tlmms. "The goal of $5,000 is not a lot at money to ask for this worthy cause," Mr. Thomasson aald. "However, it will require a lot of individual gifts to assure our reaching that amount. We hope everyone will dig just as deep as they possibly can." Gaunt Family Loses Almost All In Fire The residence of Golman Gaunt, 100 Cleveland avenue, was destroyed by fire Wednes day morning at 3:15 a. m. Firemen said that the fire had a head start before thesy arrived. Virtually all of the belongings of the Gaunt family were de stroyed by the fire which was thought to have started from an oil cook stove. The house, said to be a total loss, is owned toy D. C. Mauney. Firemen also answered three other alarms during the past week. On Sunday, firemen were call ed to extinguish an auto blaze In the 400 block of S. Battleground avenue. Two grass fires were al so extinguished, one at the home of Otto Williams of Watterson street and the other on Waco road. Seal Sale Total Reported Short Cleveland County's annual sale of T-B Christmas seals is run ning short of Its $8,000 goal, ac cording to report this week by Mrs. B .M. Jarrett. She pointed out that the funds are urgently needed to properly operate the county-wide program to prevent tuberculosis and to cure those who contract the dis eases One of the principal functions of the T-j3 Association is in sup plying funds for operating the T-B X-iRay unit, which makes pe riod^ visits here and to all parts of the county. . The mobile unit will set up here again Thursday on S. Bat tleground ?venue, in* front of Belk's Department Store. It will be open from 10 a. m. to noon, *nd from I to 4 p. m. Any person may obtain a chest x-ray free of charge, merely toy vL'ting the x-ray unit HJIS OFKBATJON Mrs. Eugene Roberts was reported In satisfactory condi tion Wednesday, following an oration at Gaston Memorial hospital on Tuesday. TO HEAD MERCHANTS ? John H. Lewis ha* becil elected presi dent of the King* Mountain Mer chants association for the com ing year. . He will succeed J. C. Bridges. Lewis To Head Merchant Group John H. Lewis will serve as president of the Kings Mountain Merchants association for 1954-55, according to results of mail bal loting for officers announced Wednesday by association offi cials. Mr Lewis, erbdit manager of Sterchi's, will succeed J. C. Brid ges. of Bridges Hardware. Paul Walker, of Myers' De partment Store, was elected vice president, to succeed W. G. Grantham, of Victory Chevrolet Company. Four new directors elected are Ross Alexander, Sam Collins, Martin Harmon, and Hubert Mc Ginnis. -v ? Holdover directors are John O. Plonk, B. S. Peeler, Jr., Yates Harbison and Fred W, Plonk. Retiring directors are Dan Huffstfetler, O. W. Myers Hal Ward, H. E. Lynch, and Hilton Ruth. ? . The new officers and directors assume their duties In February. Jaycees Convey Gift To Hospital Kings Mountain Jaycees will purchase an incubator for King8 Mountain hospital and will a ^aln stage "Operation Road block" as a March of Dimes pro jeet. The two actions highlighted the regular meeting of the orga nization, held at Masonic Hall Tuesday night. Around 36 mem bers were present. President Paul Walker, who presided, told the group that the board of directors had approved the purchase and asked the club to vote $500 for the unit Grady Howard, hospital busi ness manager, pointed out that regular funds are not sufficient for purchase of special ment and said that the addition of the incubator would give the hospital the finest equipment of this type. ..j President Walker announced appointment of K. E. . rison as chairman of "Operat Ion Roadblock." Mr; Morrison urged all members to take part In the project, which will be ** the corner of East King ****** and York road on Sunday, MXMt* ary 17th. George Thonvasson, Kings Mountain area Dimes drive co chairman, also urged Jaycees to again support the project. The club voted sponsor a "Get-Out- The- Vot1 campaign on January 16, date of. the city bond election. Jaycees will he stationed at the polls and will "tag" voters with lapel ibuttons signifying that the citizen cast his ballot. Jack White announced that Horace Kornegay, state presl I dent, will be the speaker at ? Number 4 Township Young De mocrats Club organizational I meeting at Masonic Hall Friday 1 night and urged all interested 1 Jaycees to attend. I It was announced that Bill to ns* leads in "Lite A-Lawn" house marker ?ale? wrtth 2CL | dub has sold over 50, Project I Chairman Morrison reported. The Band Pund drive total fras reported at ??S0 and Wilson Grif fin, drive chairman, urged final 1 mopUP<* the affort this i Mr. Jonas, the club treasurer, Conttotvd On Poo* *****