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^r v?>Ws*..? . - *%&?? -v.-' Population City Limits ! . . ' 7.206 n? population U from the O. S. Gonnanl uont report lor I8S0. The Cmiu Bureau uUmatM Uw naUoo'i population vain aloe* 1950 at 1.7 percent per year, which means *ln<js Mountain's ISM population should approxi mate 760>. The trading area population in IMS. based , on ration board registrations at the Xloas Mountain ~M1" ? ? IS. 000. Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper . }?>? .. V h :> ? f ? ? \ -I v -V .? i VOL 64 NO. 31 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., ThuVsday, August 5, 1954 Sixty-Fourth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS [Crowds Increase At Battle Drama Local News Bulletins ? > A u OBOVB . Revival services aire contin uing this week at Oak Grove Baptist church with Rev> Alexander, of Greenwood, S. C., conducting the services at 8 p. m. each evening. Rev. Mr. -Alexander will assume the du ties of pastor of the church in September. LEGION MEETING Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Post No. 155. the American legion, will be held at the Legion Hall on East Gold street Friday at 8 p.. m. All members are invited to at tend. . LIONS OUTING Meirfbers of the Kings Moun tain Lion5Trh*b--and_thelr_fam ilies will gather for a barbe cue dinner at Lazy Lakes, near Bethwar* school, lor the club's - regular meeting Tuesday ev ening at t o'clock. ' 2UWANIS MEETING Members of the Kings Moun tain Klwanls club and their families will gather for .anoth er of a series of picnic outings on Thursday night-aV 7 o'clock. This week's picnic will be held at Concord Methodist church in the Tryon community of Gas tOB county. .* *?*?>' -J -V- > " Jhp Umii McGILLS OF GASTON Annual reunion of the Mc Gllls of Gaston will be held at Bethel Church arbor, off Cher ryvllle Road, on August 18, it was announced this week by Mrs. Ertle Powers, secretary treasurer of the clan. UNION SERVICE Sunday nlght'e union servi ce for five city church congre gations will be held at Resur rection Lutheran church with Rev. P. L, Shore, Jr., pastor of Central methodlst church, to deliver the message at 8 p. m. TO ORANGEBURG Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Willis, Jr., and daughters, Beverly, Kathy, and Jan left Monday for Oran geburg, S. C., where Mr. Willis has accepted a position with the Orangeburg radio station. STORY HOUR Story Hour will be held, at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial 11 tetry Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, according to announ cement by Mrs. W. L. Mauney, who will tell the story. All chil dren of t$8" community are in vited to attend. COMMUNICATION ,iRoguIar communication of Falrview Lod^e No. 339 A. R A A. M. ,wlll be held Monday night at 7:30 at Macunic Tem ple, according to announce-, ?nent by Joe H. McDaniel, sec- ' ... retaiy. LICENSE, PURCHASES Privilege ljcenae purchases jumped considerably during the past week and totaled H* 738.89 through Tuesday, As sistant* city Clerk Joe McDan ? lei reported. Penalty of five percent per month applied July ai. *t/M'*ARDNER BETTER Hatel B. Bumgardner was re came ill at his home Monday evening and has been confined to bed since. ?/ ? Cpk Kelly WeSver, son of Mr. and Mri Ralph Weaver, has just been promoted to the ra ting of corporal, according to & information received here. Cpl. . Weaver is serving with the <;J 3rd Marine Division In Japan. AT GREENWOOD, S. C. Mayor Glee A. Bridges and City CleHs Joe Hendrick went to Greenwood, 8. C., Tuesday to Observe the bid-opening by the City of Greenwood on con struction of Gteenwood's nat ural gss distribution system. Kings Mountain city officials are to open bids on their pro posed system Friday morning ?t 11 o'clot * PROMOTED v Third Weekend Of Performances Starts Thursday "The Sword of Gideon" re sumes performances on the last half of its scheduled,. 1954 run Thursday evening. Six scheduled performances re main, thtee this weekend and three the weekend beginning Au gust 12. s. Mrs. P. G. Padgett, publicist, reported increased crowds during the past weekend, with Satur day's audience the peak crowd of thte season. She also reported that Mayor Glee A. Bridges has ten dered an invitation to attend to Miss Miriam Stevenson, the South Carolina beauty recently chosen "Miss Universe." Whether Miss Stevenson will bla able to at. J tend had not been learned Wed nesday at noon. Whether a make-up showing for the blacked-out opening night performance will be presented is yet to be determined. However, Mrs. Padgett said, any make-ups will be in the last week. Some suggestions havte been advanced to run the show each night dur ing the week of August 9, but fi nal decision has not been reached. Out-of-state and area travelers are continuing to see the perfor mances, Mrs. Padgett noted, with auto tags from California, Michi gan, Florida, and Wisconsin ap pearing in the parking lot last weekend. In last week's audiences too were 25 Waco school pupils. Parking is under direction of Bill Hudspeth, who is using a "staffs of Foote Mineral Company ? em- 1 ployees. ; Mrs. Padgett also noted that grandchildren of the late John Van Dyke, owner of the tract which became' the Kings Moun tain National Military park, are member's of this year's cast. "The Sword of Gideon" is Flo rette Henri's battle drama of thte Battle of Kings Mountain, which, on October 1, 1780, resulted in a resounding defeat for the Bri tish forces and paved the way for subsequent victories and the surrendter at Yorktown. The outdoor drama is present, ed at the Military Park amphi theatre, near "the site where the i battle was fought Tickets are on sale dally at the Kings Mountain Little Thfeatre office on East King street, and prior to the performances at the amphitheatre box office, ^mis sion is $2 for reserved seats, $1.20 general admission, and 60 cents for children. The show is dl&cted by Bill! Tfotman. Perry Admitted To Boanoke, Va.f VA Hospital Otis ? Perry, the ex- navy boxer who had been arrested last week on a charge o ? temporary Insan ity. was admitted to Roanoke, Va., Veterans Administration hospital Tuesday. Perry, first detained by Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr., on July 26, and examined by Dr. P. E. Hendricks, was released July 28 to the custody of his parents. Before the day was over, Chief Logan said, lie arrested Perry tot the second time, again for stop ping traffic at the U. S. High way 74 <bridge over the Southern Railway tracks. Again, the Chief said, Perry was accosting moto rists and showing them printed religious tracts. Chief Logan said Perry "gave some trouble" on the second arrest. Perry was lodged at county Jail until Tuesday when admis sion Was obtained for him at the state sanitarium at Goldsboro. While county officers were tak ing Perry to Goldsboro, notifica tion was received by Count* ? Service Officer Chalmus Miller that the Roanoke VA hospital would admit the veteran. The officers were reached by Raleigh authorities and proceed ed to Roanoke. Efforts by Ser vice Officer Miller to obtain ad mission for Perry at the Salis bury VA hospital had proved unsuccessful. Miss Virginia Perry, sister of the veteran, called the Herald Wednesday morning to ask that her family's appreciation be stated publicly to Commander James Bennett, commander of Otis D. Green Post 15JL American Legion, Dr. P. G. .Padgett, Oliie Harris,- Coley Freeman, and the American Legion post for their successful efforts in obtaining admission to the Veterans Hos pital for the Kings Mountain veteran. She said her brother suffered a broken Jaw in a nSvy boxing match prior to fcls discharge 7rom service m 1939; andth&t tre had served five years in the na vy. ' \ Norwood Pastor Accepts Call Rev. R, J. Essary, a native of Tuscaloosa County. Alabama, has accepted the pastorate of First Church of the Nazarene, assum ing his duties July 25. Mr. Essary comes to the Kings Mountain church from First Na zarene Church, Norwood, where hie served three years. Before ac cepting the pastorate of the Nor wood church, he served three years at First Church of the Na zarene, Plant City, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Essary have four children, Donald 17, and Annie Ruth, 15, at home, and two sons, one of Norwood, and one of Plant City, Florida. Rev. Mr. Essary succeeds Rev. A. D. Holt who is expected to ac cept pastorate of a church in Greensboro. Assessment PoUcj Is Outlined; "lEings M<?i4aiif'Wf^|ioveiiior A Kings Mountain citizen has anonymously addressed the Gov ernor of North Carolina ques tioning the right of the City of f&tbgs Mountain to collect street assessments. Rankin, Jr., private ??*<?? retary to the Governor, forward ?d the letter to June F. Scar borough, district highway com missioner, who forwarded the correspondence to the Herald. Mr. Rankin noted that the question on street assessments appeared to be a purely local mat* ter and felt that city officials would want to make a statement clarifying the matter of street. Ulcatlon of the street-paving leg N. C. 161, and the Cherryville Road. * The city receives from the state funds from the gasoline tax (un der the Powell Bill) and has been using this money to pay its po tion of the paving costs, along with other street maintenance. When Pnwell Bill funds are in sufficient, the remainder of the city's street work comes from other revenues, such as property Mr. Rankin noted that It is not customary for the Governor to give much attention to unsigned letters but that he thought clarl M ? ? ?? ? - m * " Ipaving assessments. Under long-term policy. Assis tant City Clerk Joe McDaniel said, t Tun city has paved streets On the assessment basis, with one-third of the OOtt Mid by the city, and the additional two thirds by the abutting property owners. The Bridges administra tion, tn an announced effort W simplify the prooes*. stan dardized the paving assessment at 75 cents per lineal foot of pav ing for each property owner. The city pays for the remaining a mount and for all intersections. The sidewalk and curt?-and-gut ter formula is 30-50, half for the city and half for the property owner. The Bridges administra tion policy on sidewalk assess ments is SO cents per lineal foot The state maintains all high ways passing through the city, which, in Kings Mountain, in. eludes US Highways 74 and 29, aliiy might prqve beneficial to both the city and its citizens. Thte unsigned letter to the Gov ernor Was addressed "Personal To The Governor of NT. C., Ra leigh, N. c.", and it read: "I don't hardly know how to write this letter It concerns the people of Kings Mtn., N. C. and the sarrounding area. We wpttld like to no what kind of Laws we havte, we understand that the state gave money for our roads to he fixed. Also we pay taxes for the roads and the Town of Kings Mtn. N. C., wants the peo ple to pay for the roade to be fix sd for ?*<*! house, on a street It any from $45 to I? are to pay taxes and keep up the mads to and they have sent m statement wants us to pay It right away and it is hard for as to make a living now. We the people of Kings Mtn, N. C." u: ' SINGERS FOR OUTDOOR PROGRAM SATURDAY ? The Lefevre Trio, of Atlanta, Go., will be among the featured radio-television gospel singers to appear here Saturday evening at City Stadium at a Gospel Sing being sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Other groups on the program will include the Lefevrealres, The Pantomime Quartet, the Toney Trio, and the Kingsnien's Quartet. Gates open at 7 o'clock and the program U scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock. Admission is SI. In event of rain, the program will be held at Central school auditorium. Job Picture Here Is Slightly Better Jobless Pay Claims Dropped Oaring July Franklin Ware, manager of the Kings Mountain branch ol the North Carolina Employment ser vice, on Wednesday termed the employment situation here "a lit tle brighter". Mr Ware based his statement on the branch office's July re ! in^M??n!Ch lbo^d total claims 1 at 1,831 XUT 'he four-week period 1 ending July og. ? He said resumption of weekly production at Park Yarn Miils ?^er firming in the textile industry, and placements in area construction jobs had bet tered the situation. During July ^ t? Jice 60 vacancies out of 71 Job orders. ?JTU/Vler improvement is antic*, j Pf- u/ 01" and coming weeks, Mr. Ware added, with resumption of more regular production by Mauney Mills, Inc. wVO! drop was due, Mr. I Ware said, both to improvement in the employment situation, and to exhaustion of benefit periods for some workers. < At July 25, the office listed 349 applicants for work. Baxter Changes Corporate Name The former Baxter Paper Cor at'c^^^b ?Pera,e8 a Plant at Graver, has changed its cor Porate name to The Baxter Cor -wording to announ- , BaxteJ Pr 081 dent Irving S. Mr. Baxter noted that the I change Is in name only and in wZZLFL chan?e whatever in ownership, management, or fi nancial structure, nor in charac piled p cts and services ap. f "? " p,anU at Pat terson, N. J., and Providence, B. I., in addition to its <5 rover plant it Is incorporated In New York and maintains offices at 90 West Broadway, New York, N. Y. Baxter Corporation specializes In general textile services for Jacquard fabrics and says it has the most complete service in the indu*try. . Th? Graver plant is managed by ?oy Thompson, with Ray mond Barry and Everett Pruden sketching, jacquard designing, oonvber fcoard man lSwC.-Eii 1#,arn1esa Gilding. Pierce Cassidy is sales manager. Man Indicted After Wreck William Ramsey Lovelace, 64, has been indicted by the Kings Mountain police department on * th.*r*9 ?* driving drunk as ? rMult of ? four car smash- oo oc Sffifc Sunday afternoon on Intersection m.?L~ S\?,ghway ? and N. C Highway 16i. t0 th?*<*"?nt re port, the three other cars lnvol Oomllmmt On Pi** Bight Auto Thieves Swap Cars With Shytle "Take one, leave one'" was apparently the motto o f visit ing automobile thieves, who according to Police Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., evidently pulled a switch of cars on Landing street Wednesday night, July 28. According to Chief Logan, Martin Shytle, of 609 Landing street, reported last Thursday the theft of his 1950 auto. Shy tle, Logan Stated, said the r .. toad been stqjen from his res idence sometime during the night after ll p. m. While officers were still in- . vestigatlng this incident, Lo gan said, a report was receiv ed by the police department of an apparently unclaimed car with Georgia license parked near the spot the Shytle car , had been stolen. Logan said investigation proved that the car had been stolen from Kermit E. Year wood, of T6coah, Ga. The Georgia police, -ording to Chief Logan, saic .at two in dustrial school escapees were suspects. Logan also said that It was believed after the Georgia car was stolen. It was apparently driven as far as Kings Mountain and swapped for the Shytle car. Investigating officers were Chief Hugh A. Logan. Jr., Sgt. Tom Gladden, Officers Bill Bell, Jack Stone, P. A. Hawkihs, and R. R. Carrigan. City To Hold Two Sessions \ r 1 ? The city board, of commission. era will hold its regular August meteting Thursday night at City Hall at 8 o'clock and will con vene again on Friday morning 4t " o'clock to open and to con sider bids for construction of a natural gas distribution system. A portion of the Thursday night meeting has been designat ed as a public hearing on street improvements assessments, inclu ding $1,375.50 for sidewallc in stallations dn West King street, and $1,236.77 for paving of Floyd street, from York road to Oriental avenue. The board win also hear a plea fr>m Tax Supervisor Clarence E, Carpenter that the city seek leg islation by thte 1950 General As iembly to make city taxes pay able during the month ot August ** the full two percent discount. Mr. Carpenter noted that the county follows this procedure under a special act of the Jegisla tare, and that the variance be tween Kings Mountain and Coun ty policy is causing confusion a mong many taxpayers. Mr. and Mrs. 1, O. Plonk, Jr. | have resumed residence here, having returned Friday from Lafayette, Ga., if where Mr. Plonk was employed by Ely 4k Walker Company, the Arm has assigned him for work with' C. A. Plonk, of Ashe vl lie, veteran Ely * Walker sales man. Harold Plonk, sdn of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Plonk, has re placed J. O. Plonk, Jr., at the Lafayette salesroom of Ely ~k Walker. 1 : t I Gas Superintendent Hired, Webster Is Tap Salesman - - 'in* ~?rtwtifrm>i Some Sewer Taps Will Cost SS5. Board Decrees The city board of commission ers, at its special meeting last Friday night, set a pavement breaking fee of $20 in connection with installing sewer taps. Under the action, persons or firms requiring sewer taps on non-paved streets will still be charged the $35 tap fee. Should the city have to break pavement for the tap-in, thte total charge will be $55. The action was taken on recommendation of Public Works Superintendent E. C. Nich olson, who said a survey had in dicated most cities make a simi lar charge, adding that the cost involved is "quite real". In an other action, the board authorised payment of the state ment of Gilbert Construction Company for re-routing the raw water line, provided approval of the payment is received from the State Highway & Public Works commission, which had agreed to pay the re-routing expense. The board passed a resolution, on request of the county sanitari an, to ask the county commis_ sioners to adopt for Cleveland County provisions of the 1953 Public Health law relating to milk sanitation, and voted to re quest that thte Lions club provide for a safety award presentation to city officials from Edward Schiedt, state commissioner of motor vehicles. In a procedural matter relat ing to building permits, the board ordered that building permits ap proved by the city building in spector bb forwarded to the su perintendent of public works for inspection of utility installations iand subsequently to the tax su pervisor for inclusion on the tax books. Mayor Glee A. Bridges report- j ed that he had been informed by j E. L. Kempbr, division highway engineer, that only about $5,000 i remains to the city's credit for jthe proposed curb-and-gutter in stallations on N. Piedmont ave nue, an insufficient amount to curb-and-gutter both sides of the street. Action on the mattt-r was deferred to the forthcoming meet ing. ' " All commissioners were pre jsent except Harold Phillips. Postal Receipts Gained In luly Kings Mountain postoffice re ceipts continued to burgeon in ? July. Receipts for the month totaled $5,314.55, Assistant Postmaster George Hord reported, a consid erable gain over the $4,37068 for July 1953. GRASS FIRE Kings Mountain fire depart ment answered a call Tuesday afternoon at 1:45 to North Car penter street and extinguished a grass fire. No damages were reported. j f ^ ' * CITY GAS MAN ? Vincent L. Beechum, of Concord, has been employed by the city as superin tendent of the newly-created gas department. Missing Man Found Dead The body of John Crawford, 77, who was reported missing by the .police department July 27, was found Wednesday morning by a searching patty some distance off a county road, near Sparrow Springs. Gaston County Coronor W. J. McClean said there was. no evi dence of foul play and that no inquest will be held. According to Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., Mr. C awford, who left home with the' intentiori of visiting his granddaughter, Mrs. V. H. Crawford, of Rock HU1, S. C,, was last seen In Love Valley, near the VHXon school house. Etta Cordell, who lives in the house with Dennis Crawford, a son, stated Wednesday afternoon, that Mr. Crawford was visiting in the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Leigh, near the Rattle ground. at the time he left on the trip to Rock Hill, S. C. Graveside rites will be held at Mountain Rest cemetery at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, with Rev.. R. M. Hardee officiating. Sunday Stonn Caused Damage Kings Mountain citizens expbrt. enced their Worse storm of the summer Sunday afternoon, when heavy gales accompanying rain felled several trees, took a heavy toll on television aerials, and blew off the platform roof of Kings Mountain- Bonded Ware house. Insurance agents reported rushing business Monday as po licyholders filed claims for dam ages. Television aerials at Stowe Ra dio and T-V Service and at Mc Ginnis Furniture Company were toppled, among others. The rain was not general, fail ing to reach the parched Cherry ville Road area. Herald To Publish Political Poll Of Princeton Research Service The Kings Mountain Herald is presenting for the first time this week a new feature, the copy, righted findings of the United States Poll by the Princeton Re search Service, Princeton, N. J., an independent non-political or ganization specializing in public opinion research. The United States Poll makes weekly reports on social, political and cultural Issues affecting A merican voters. A cross-section of American citizens la interviewed each time a survey la made. In the November, 1962, nation al elections, Prindeton Research Service's United States Poll made two nationwide predictions: first, that Eisenhower would' win with 50.8 percent of the national vote. He did win with 55.1 percent of the vote ? a deviation of 4.3 per cent; second, that the Republicans would get ^49.5 percent of the na tionwide vote cast for Congres sional candidates; Republican, Congressional candidates receiv-' ed 49.77 percent bf the vote. ? a deviation of less than three-ten tha of one percent ? to be exact. Thus In Its two nationwide pre dictions, the United States Poll' scored two bull's eyes and its average deviation was less than 2.3 percent. . . During the coining weeks and months the United States Poll will report the nation's thinking on topics of current interest. Kenneth Pink, director of the United States Poll, was born in Manchester, England, in l?to4. HJs parents brought him to this coun try In 1913, when he was nine years.old. Educated in Pennsylvania pub lic schools, Mr. Fink received a ft S. Degree from Urslnua Col lege, Collegevllle, Penn.( in 1927, and an M. A. Degree from New ?ork Unlveraity in 1934. From 1928 to 1943, Mr. Fink was a member of the English De partment of the North Plainfleld High School, North Plain! teld, New Jersey, and from 193V to 1943 Was head of the school's English Department. In 1943 he took charge of the 48-state interviewing staff of a large public opinion research or ganization, located in Princeton, .sew Jersey. Mr. Fink travelled all over the United States super vising opinion polls, ' At tho present time, Mr. Fink [Jives with his wife and eleven year-old daughter in rural Somer set County, New Jersey. Vincent Beechum Gas Department Head; Rates Set The city board of commission ers employed a gas utility su perintendent and a gas tap sal esman last Friday night, and formally adopted rates for sale of natural gas. The board employed as gas su* perintendent at a salary of $300 per month Vincent L. Beechum, 37, of Concord, veteran of 11 years experience in gas distri bution, and employed J. W- Web ster, also the, city's building in spector, as its' tap salesman, at $60 per week, and a 35-gallon gasoline allowance. The rate schedule adopted va ried slightly from the original recommendation of the city's en gineers, Barnard & Burk. The schedules were raised slightly in some categories, but, the en gineers said, would leave the city's rates considerably under those charged by Public Service Company of North Carolina, and would maintain the competitive advantages of natural gas with other types of fuels. The rates are the same adopted by the City of Shelby, also entering the nat ural gas distribution business. Following are the monthly rate schedules adopted by the city and being used by Mr. Webster in his tap-selling work, which began Monday: (asterisk indL cates monthly minimum bill): Residential ? ? 400 cubic feet or less $1.25*; next 600 at 25c per 100; next 3,000 at 16 cents per 100; next 6,000 at 11 cents per 100; all over 10,000 at 9.8 cents per 100. Commercial ? first 200 cubic feet at $1.50*; next 4,800 at 13 cents per 100; next 15,000 at 11 cents per 100; next 80,000 at 9 cents per 100; next 200,000 at 8 cents per 100; next 500,000 at 7.5 cents per 100; all over 800,000 at 7 cents per 100. Interruptible ? first one mil lion cubic feet at 40 cents per 1, 000; next one and one-half mil lion cubic feet at 33 cents per 1,000; all over two and one-half . million cubic feet at 28 cents per 1,000. The monthly minimum on the interruptible contract is $100. Gas Superintendent Beechum was chosen by the commission ers, on recommendation by Resi dent Engineer Bill Edwards, from a group of 24 applicants, 12 of whom the board had inter viewed. He attended high school at Lillington. For the past eight years l.e has been employed toy Public Service Compnay of North Carolina in gas maintenance and service .work at Ashevllle, States vllle, and Concord. Prior to Join ing Public Service, he was em ployed by People'* Water & Gas Company, Miami Beach, Fla. and by Tidewater Power Com pany (gas. division) at. Wilming ton. He will officially Join the city in about two weeks, but has been here this week while on vacation. Mr. Webster recently resigned his position at Elmer Lumber Company to Join Lithium Cor poration of America in about 30 days. He said Tuesday a dozen citizens had already contracted for a gas tap installation, toeing offered by the city at $10 during th? pre- construction and con struction period. The engineers have recommended that the post -construction tap fee be $75, but the commissioners have not acted on the recommendation. City, County '53 Taxes 92% Paid City taxes for 1963 are 92.8 percent paid, and prepayment* on the 1954 city levy total $52, 385.67, fax Supervisor Clarerra E. Carpenter reported Wednea <Uy. Mr. Carpenter noted that ad_ vertlaing of property for sale due to unpaid taxes will begin next week and he urged citi zens to pay now to avoid fur ther Expense entailed by the ?ale process. County Tax Collector Robert M. Gkfney, advertising proper ty for sale due to unpaid 1953 taxes for the first time this week, has reported the county's 1953 levy 92 percent paid. On the 1953 city levy, receipts have totaled $117,021.17, again st the $126,052.64 levy. The 1954 tax levy is $165, 392.23. I :J