f ;* '? . ' ? ?.? ?? . % ? Population City Limits 7.208 Trading Area 15.000 (IMS Ration loari Flfim) VOL 64 NO. 27 ^ U Pages Today Established 1889 ? ' Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 8, 1 954 Sixty-Fourth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins AT GEORGIA TECH Frank A. Summers bas re turned to Georgia Tech at At lanta, Ga., for graduate work in civil engineering. A gradu ate of Georgia Tech, Mr.. Sum mers was employed toy Hum ble Oil Company for a short time after graduation and prior to active duty with the army corps of engineers at Port Bel voir, Va., and in . Ko rea. STUDENT OFFICE B At their monthly meeting, the KINGSMEN, a business and professional fraternity of King's Business College, Char lotte, elected Jdhnle Gaston Littlejonn, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Littlejohn, of Kings Mountain, second vice - presi dent. Mr. Littlejohn is an up per division student in ac counting. UNION SERVICE ' Sunday night's union servi ce. for five x city church con gregations will be held at Central Methodist church with ihev% P. J>. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church, to deliver the message at eight o'clock. KIWANIS PROOBttfe " A colorTllm "Land of the Maharajahs" will be shown members of the Kings Moun tain Khvanl* club Thursday evening on Wilson Griffin, president, an nounced the appointments. H. G. Plonk, Jr*, was appoint ed to the board to fill the one year term of Harold Phillips, re signed. Herbert Mitchem -vtfhs appoin ted to the board to fill the two year term of Sam Mitcham, re signed. Curtis Gaffney was appointed sergeant-It -arms, replacing Bob Cox, resigned. Bill Jon?a announced that the club had apparently failed to se cure the district Softball tourna ment. Last summer the club pro moted the event successfully and has been seeking authority to present the tournament again. Gordon Goodnjait, of the Shel by recreation department, is dis trict commissioner this year a^d the event will probably be held In Shelby the first week in Au gust, Mr. Jonas reported. , : : The group voted to move out doors for the July 20th meeting, possibly to th# ctty picnic area. Dean Payne announced that the cluib will begin presenting attendance plna this year and urged all iwemht n to work to ifs - Inquest Monday hio Accident Fatal To lenldns ? . ? * Coronor*s Inquest into the dea'U of Roy Fletcher Jenkins, 28, Mar grace Mill employee killed when his motorcyle went out of control Sunday near Huffate titer's Store on Cherryville Road, has been set for 5 o'clock Monday after noonat City Hall courtroom, Cor onor J. OUie Harris said Wednes day. Members of the six-man coro nor's Jury impaneled for the hear ing are Georgte W. Mauney, L. E. Abbott, F, R. McCurdy, Yates Harbison, George W. Allen, and Harold Coggins. Jenkins, who lived In the Pine Ridge community, died of head and internal injuries at Kings Mountain hospital at 12:45 Sun day afternoon, . about a half-hour after the accident. The accident involvted the 1953 Ford driven by Reid Bell, Kings Mountain bar ber, 'Highway Patrolman D. L. Owens, said. Bell, traveling north on Cherryville road, made a left turn in front of the southbound motorcycle of Jenkins. It appear ed, Officer Owens, added, that Jenkins moved to thte left side ol the road and lost control of the motorcycle, which skidded 105 feet before throwing Jenkins to the. pavement Funeral rites for Jenkins, a World War EC veteran who was observing his 28th birthday on Sunday, wtere held at Mldview Baptist church Wednesday after noon at 3 o'clock, with Rev. Bud Williams and Rev. Carl Martin officiating, and with burial fol lowing in the Moss family ceme tery, near Blacksburg, S. C. Jenkins is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edna Moss Jenkins, his pa rents, Thomas Jenkins of Mor ganton and Mrs. Violet Farris Jenkins Foster of Kings Moun tain, two sons, Toney and Jerry Jenkins, and a daughter, Linda Jenkins, all of the home. Two brothers, Thomas Henry Jenkins of Gastonla, and Jerry Jenkins of Kings Mountain, two listers, Mrs. Ann Franklin of Ox nard, Calif., and Miss Autfcney Jen kins of Hartsvllle, S. C., and three half-sisters, also survive. Half-Tear Postal Receipts Increase Receipts at Kings Mountain postofflce Increased $5,381.10 dur ing the first six months of 1954 .over the comparable period last1 year, according to a report Wed nesday by Assistant Postmaster George Hord. Total receipts for the first half year were $29,701.64, compared to $24,320.54 in thte January-June pe riod of 1953. II Receipts for the second quarter I 1954 were under quarter receipts, but' only 'slightly. The figures were; March quarter $15,668.03; June quarter $14,033.61. Figures for 1953 werte: March quarter $12,281.21; June quarter $12,039.33. ? School Survey Team Hero On Wednesday 1 A three-man survey team from the division of school house plan ning of the state department of public instruction was in Kings Mountain Wednesday. ? . . The group inspected current building projects and gathered data in pifeparation of a report on expansion of school facilities in the city. One member of th? group said, that a report would not be ready for two or three weeks. Meantime, work was progres sing rapidly on the East school four room addition and on altera tion* to the present OCKy Welch was bound over taiSup*??'? court on a charge of assault wfth Intent to rape his 13-year-old daughter after prob able cause was found against him I by Judge Jack White in a prelimi nary hearing, Tuosds/ in ('Ity Kocorrler's court. ; /? Bond, set at (1.000, had not been made Wednesday morning. Welch declined to take the stand, but stated. 'Tm guilty If my wife says so^ JThe aUeged June 30L . Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., testl fled that a statement was made In the presence of witnesses by Welch that he Was drinking when the alleged assault occurred, and, not remembering what took place. pted but not successful. To questions by the Judge, thte child substantiated the charge, de tailing In part the request made of her by her father. Mrs. Welch, Vbf defendant's wife, said she was unable to take the stand but stated from the courtroom floor that she witnessed a part of the assault. On leaving the courtroom lift another mm, a charge and a counter chargte of mmW with a deadly weapsn against two Me gro defendants, William Mitchem and Veo Wlngo, retired in a four month* road sentence for Mitchem and a not guilty verdict ? , ' . ? V* * n Roote 1 Deliveries To Be Lote Saturday Route 1, Kings Mountain, residents will get their mall late on Saturday, delivery to be de layed tor the one day until Sat urday afternoon. Postmaster R Blakely said the delay will be necessi tated because of the U. S. Civil Service commission examina I tion Saturday morning, which Temporary Carrier Harold Glass, as well as substitutes for the route, are planning to un dergo. The examination will be con ducted at Wray Junior high school, Gastonia, beginning at 8:30 a. m. Postoffice officials report there were numerous in quiries concerning the teats, for which applications closed June 22. Fieak Wreck Hospitalizes 7 Seven people were hospitalized at ICings Mountain hospital Sun day (evening after miraculously escaping death when a 1950 Buick four-door sedan crashed into the residence of Mrs. Bertie L. Lock ridge, on Cherryville road- An eighth victim, Mrs. Lorene Wil son, of Icand, received first but was not admitted. According to police repor&^gji vehicle operated tty Evan Herman Bivens of Church street, Cherry, ville, was traveling north on Cherryville highway at a high rate of speed. As he neared the Lockridge residence, police said, Bivens lost control of his vehicle. The vehicle first traveled Sfil one Whetei off the pavement on the right shoulder, then traveled to the left aide of the roadway, skidding 38 feet Then Bivens* car veered into the yard of the Lockridgte residence, struck two trees and crashed Into the porch, shearing four posts, and finally coming to rest against a. 1954 Pord owned by Carl Hipps, of route 1, Valdese. Hospitalized were Bivens, who received bruises on the head, Da vid Lockridgte, 26, of Kings Moun tain, lacerations on head and small cuts: Ophelia Johnson, 18, of Rock Hill, S, C., larceratlona of right leg and left arm; Mary L. Johnson, 45, of Rock Hill, S. C., lacerations of head, arms, and legs; Clifford Wilson, 32, of Rock Hill, S. C., lacerations of left and right arms and legs; Wayne An derson, 30, of Falrview street. Kings Mountain, lacerations of right and left arms and legs, and mouth; and Mary Francis Lock ridgte, 21, of Kings Mountain, la cerations of left hip, right and left legs, left arm and right hand. Clifford Wilson and David Lock ridge have been discharged. According to the attending phy >>??- Paul Hendricks, Wed nesday morning the accident vic tims are not in critical condition. According to the police, Bivtens when released from the hospital, will be indicted by the police de partment on information and be lief of drunken driving. Investigating officers were Statte Patrolman C. D. Fortune, Chief Hugh A Logan, Jr., and Officers Tom Gladden and Jack stoai^jpg OF BONO! '???4. j-Ci' jtoy Scout court of hot win he iii|f^ram? jjS&j* mm , '?<$&& "B^O^ef Boundtable following*.. % w . Oak Grove Man Died Wednesday; Bites Tentative John Wllburn (Will) w#th?p mSSSL cerebral hemorrhage suffered at his home In the Oak Grove community at 5:30. A prominent farmer, Mr Wat EES h?u ln aPPareni Zrt alth, though he had previouslv pres8ure["CUJtJr ",,h '"2 A native of Cleveland county WatT** a SOn of Mrs- Ida Dlxori Watterson, of Charlotte ?nn late John Watterson. He was i church ?f ?3k Grove Bapis? church, a member of the nXZ SIS fo""er president of the Bethware Progressive Chib and w^rnSmc'"lnran or <*? VS. mltMe c P"*tact com.,' U ,^anda11. and Judy ZT?-* ot K1"SS Moun . 8- WUlard Boyle* Clearwater, Fia. fIvp tprL>8lX nf,e? 8urvjve, Bun Wat S gj'y. Mitchbll ?? Irm I' >gs Mountain Mrs oiwtt? 2?> ?*vI"e? and Mrs. P. w "?J*?8. High Point I; Funeral rites Have bean ? ! DAB Broadcasts July 4th Program 3??r,3ua<"' ""o" ssSS ssswra: K""r??fnr: re?a "" Mr.P JtrpUa T"" were ..j J- E. Anthony, Jr., S? MnD.^!nCelSUmmer8' solo nil America" and "God S^.^1Cal MU* "?">n2S by ** * e. naUMW^', dtta? ??? 177fi ^f^?gles 8lnce July 4. S that the naUon and ^cr^ase Its trength, militarily, economically tod spiritually, but sugirestMi thm* jmaMtufc o? ch.H?8S512S! Sum!? if!. . United Jeadert in foreign affairs. f??ii? ^ dual Americana in iowSS i SSS2* would do toward Improving relations with hiJou" "* th*n "???r Bowen Services Held Tnesday I Funeral services for June G, Bowen, 09, of route 1, Grover, were conducted Tuesday after noon at 3 o'clock from New Buf falo Baptist church. Rev. N. S. Hardin officiated and was ed by the Rev. D. W. Dlgh. Burial Was in the church cemetery. Mr. Bowen died Sunday night at Shelby hospital. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel McMurry Bowen; two sdns, Hugh Bowen of Kings Mountain, Route 2, and Clifford Bowen of Grover, Route 1; six daughters, Mrs. J. R. WhI taker of Shelby, Route 3, Mrs. Troy Lee Wylie of Blackaburg, S. C-, Route 1, Mrs. R. L. Lemmom of Kings Moun tain, Route 2, Mrs. Frank Ross of Charlotte, Mrs. Julian French of Union, ft. C., and Miss Mary Ruth Bowfcn of the home. Also surviving are IS grand children and 'a great grandchild. MZTCI bcuri ? A total ?f W4X47 was collec v ted from the city's parking me tes* durfng the weak ending Wednesday at noon, according , to report of Miss Grace Car penter, of the city clerk's of Postal Inspector Recommending Bonte 1 Addition A number of Kings Mountain citizens, with Bessemer City mailing addresses, are expected to get change addresses to "Kings Mountain" within, the near future. After a recent visit here, In spector C. H. Heffner has recom mended that 53 residents in East Kings Mountain foe served by Rural (Route 1, Kings Mountain .Postmaster W. E. Blakely said Wednesday, rather than from Bessemer City. The recommendation, if appro ved as expected, will add 335 miles to Rural Route 1 to serve: 37 residences on Linwood road; 8 residences on Morrow street; 8 residences on Jackson street; 10 residences on Cleveland avenue and Highway 161. The letter of Mr. Heffner also notes that reasonable service will also be provided to residents of Rhodes, Groves, and Cather ine streets. Approval of the recommenda tion also, will mean that the ten citizens on Cleveland avenue and Highway 161, who have been without mail delivery ser vice since May 10, will receive their mail on Rural Route 1. Prior to May 10, the ten had received their mail on Rural Route 3, but this piece of route was eliminated with the chang es which added city carrier ser vice in East Kings Mountain. Since May 10, the residents of Cleveland avenue and Highway 161 have had no home delivery service. Hospital Plans Being Considered Representatives of Ormand & Vaughan, Shelby architects, and of the county hospital administra tion jrar^inAW*h Wednesday tDtM*seftr plans Jor the forthcom ing addition to Kings Mountain hospital. Thte plans, Business Manager Grady Howard said, call for a 1 new wing on the south aide of I the hospital for a pediatric ward and for a number of private rooms, for expansion of the pre sent north wing to provide in creased kitchen facilities and space, and for erection of a sepa rate storage room. Transfer of the present pediatric ward will permit utilization of that space for rooms, and will enable in crease of beds for Negro patients to nine In the proposed 50- bed plant. Plans call for two delivery rooms. The ntew pediatric arrangement proposal replaces original plans calling for a morgue, which hos pital officials here have termed unnecessary for the Kings Moun tain plant - \ The plans are subject to appro val of the State Medical Care com nlssion, which, along with the federal government, supplied a major portion of the funds for the addition. Wxecks, fixes Mav Hot Holiday Two major accidents, one fatal to Roy F. Jenkins, several minor accidents, and tWo weekend fires, one of which damaged slightly the Margrace mill finishing plant, marred the Independencfe Day holiday weekend for some Kings Mountain citizens. Otherwise, the holiday weekend | was observed quietly in Kings Mountain, where stay-at-homes were subjected to another heat wave that continued through Wednesday. Kings Mountain was wet down slightly by thunderstorms on Fri day and Saturday, but the alight quantity of rainfall was not gen eral, insufficient to brighten suf fering lawns and withering gar dens, and passing over some dry farm sections completely. Some early holidayera are back at work this week at several In dustrial plants, but others are taking post-Fourth vacations this Next Monday will be return to-normal day for almost all Kings Mountain citizens, Includ ing the city's laundry . cleaning industry, shut tight since the dose of IttsfaMM Saturday. Also re-opening on Monday WlD be Kite's Shoe Service, ako closed tpr the week beginning Monday. City offices, the poetoffloe. al most All Detail StOTM and the city's financial institutions wAre cloeed on Monday, a one-day-late lilies i vsnie of Indepen rlsin ra Hag aence ksmj. , - ?jr>. "> " City Contracts For Delivery 0fNaturalGasByJanuaryl5 - ? ? - -V Mauney Is Said To Want S20.000 Foi Sewei Trad The city board Of commission ers, meeting last Thursday night, authorized the mayor to sign a contract with Transcontinental Pipeline Company to accept de livery of natural gas by January 15, 1955. The Board also heard Commis sioner W. G. Grantham report Paul Mauney told him he would accept $20,000 for 2.56 acres the city seeks by condemnation pro ceedings for utilization in its Mc Gill sewage disposal tank moder nization. City Attorney J. R. Davis, ques tioned on the legality of proceed ing with condemnation with Mrs Mauney In Great Britain, said the North Carolina attorney general had written that the action could be continued in Mrs. Mauney's ab sence, since her interest Would be only a "d'ower right". However, Mr. Davis suggested that the city, with much construction work un derway> might do well to delay pressing the action until Mrs. Maunby's return. Mayor Glee A. Bridges, however, indicated he wanted the project to go forward without delay and the board mem bers indicated concurrence, though without formal action. The city has previously filed con demnation action In Gaston Su perior Court and asked that R. L. Lewis, of Bessemer City, be nam ed the city's representative on the three ? person appraisal team provided by state-city statute. W. K. Dickson, Charlotte engi neer, had previously told the boant he had plans for the Mc Gill sewage unit ready and was seeking approval of them by the State Board of Health and the State Stream Sanitation board. In another action, thte board, on objections to the previous action of the board in raising the ped dling license to $200 per year by Commissioners Harold Phillips and T. J. Ellison, amended the privilege license ordinance to pro vide that peddlers of produce may obtain a license at $15 per year. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Ellison were absent at the June 28 session when the privilege license ordi nance was adopted. In other actions, the board: 1) Voted to advertise for bids on the temporary re-routing of the city's raw water line during the highway construction work on York Road. The motion provided that the State Highway commis sion, which will reimburse the city for cost of the work, is to ap prove the contract award. 2) Authorized transfer of two taxi franchises held by Coley Freeman to Hubert Clemmons and Joe Fisher. 3) Appropriated to the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library $300 from the 1964-55 parking meter receipts. Mayor Bridges told the board that Carl F. Mauney, owner of the Gold Mine property, had changed his mind about giving the city a long-term lease on the property, but had no objection to the city's use of it for stand-by water supply. The Mayor also re ported he had received several commendations from East Kings Mountain residents on the street work now underway, and told Commissioner Phillips First street had not bten Included on the oiling program because of projected installation of a sewer Continued On Page Bight kufistetler Takes Oath As Constable * ? ? ? ? ... ? G. A. (Gus) Huffstetler took the oath of office as Number 4 Township constable before Clerk of Court Everett A. Itouser Tues day, shortly after he was ap pointed to the position toy the board " of county commissioners. The office had been vacant since the resignation of Paul By ers, now a county deputy sher iff. Huffstetler won the Demo cratic nomination in the June 26 second primary. The present term expires December 1, tout Huffstetler is unopposed for the office in the November general election. ' . ; City Tax Levy One-Third Paid The city's 1954 tax levy was one third paid at the close of business last Thursday, final day for ob taining the full two percent dis count. Tax Supervisor Clarence E. Carpbnter listed net payments of $46,945.14 through ' Thursday a gainst the combined levy of ad valorem and poll Axes at $166, 404. The prepayment record for 1954 is thus considerably ahead ? both in percentage and dollars ? of the 1953 figures, which, on July 1, 1953, showed only 27.5 percent of the levy pre-paid. The dollar receipts are heavily ahead by approximately $12,000, reflecting both the increase In ^crsentage of payments and the 40-ctnt increase in city tax rate for the new tax year. Rite Conducted Foi Crash Victim Funeral services for Robert Earl Burton, 21, of route three. Kings Mountain area's first traf fic fatality for 1954, were held from Patterson Grove Baptist church Sunday at 2:30 p.. m. Rev. J. J. Thorn burg, the pas tor, officiated and burial was in the church cemetery. Burton was killed In an auto accident Thursday about 7:30 p. m., on the Patterson Grove chur ch road 1.5 miles north of High way 74, .when he lost control of his car as he attempted to pass a Jeep driven by his mother. Mrs. Rosa B. Alford. The vehicle trav eled 571 feet off th^Jeft should er of the road before coming to rest. Burton died of a broken neck and internal injuries 8:45 p. m. at Kings Mountain hospital, less than an hour after the accident. The accident was investigated by State Highway Patrolmen J. H. Page and C. D. Fortune and Deputy Sheriff L. L. Hamrlcit. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are a brother, Jesse Os car Burton, and a sister, Rosa Etta Burton. TO FAR EAST tLt. James A. Carpenter, son of Clarence E. Carpenter of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Bess Webb Carpenter of Shelby, will go by plane to San Fran cisco, Calif., Monday to em bark for duty in the Far East. He has been serving as chap lain at Camp Gordon, Ga. Tentative County-Wide Tax Bate 95 Cents; Area Bate At $1.15 Th? tentative county-wide tax rate for 1954 is 95 cent* per $100 valuation, following action Tues day by the county board of com missioners, which also adopted a budget estimate of $1,754,165. 71, including $800,000 in bond money for school construction* The commisloners are sched uled to meet again on July 1$ and will probably adopt the budget and tax ?%te finally on that date. '-v.';-'*'.. In addition to the county-wide levy., the board levied the custo mary, ao-cent Kings Mountain district school tax. which means that county residents of the Kings Mountain school district will receive 1954 tax bills based on a total tax of $1.15 per $100 valuation.