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j Coaches Carlton, > Gamble Attend , Greensboro Clinic * Pre-?yhool fooCbaU drill* for < candidates lor the 1954 Kings Mountain high school grid team t are to begin at City Stadium on Monday. . 1 Coach Everett? Carlton an ' nounccd a twice-daily schedule I o I drills on Tuesday. Morning sessions are to begin at 9:30 o' g: clock, with the afternoon ses g sions to get underway at 3:30 c p. m. j Uniform numbers have already been issued to 31 players. Coach _ Carlton said, and the group will * t>u ready to go to work after a 5 quick trip through the uniform | storage room. c Candidates who have not been assigned uniform numbers itre fi lo be issued full gear on Mon 5 day. Physical examinations wore I given last 'Friday. 3 Work has already begun for' ^ two members of the coaching g" staff, although the paycheck ' doesn't start until Monday. * Coach Carlton and Line Coach * John Gamble left yesterday to J attend the anrual North Caroll r ' na High School Athletic Assocla ! tion footfball clinic at Greensbo 4 / to. The clinic runs through Frl 1 day, with the annual all-star 8 football garni? slated Friday night. Wally Butts of Georgia < and Gomer Jones of Oklahoma << are assisting with the clinic this * year. Coaches Gamble and Don Par ?* ker will Join Coach Carlton * Monday for the pre school drill schedule. Coach Ffed Withers, J '. who was added to the staff this j summer along with Coach Gam 1 ble. will begin his coaching du * ties at the opening of school. He * is currently playing semi-pro fcasebali with the Llncolnton Cards. Several changes have been ' made in the coaching setups a round the South Group, Western AA Conference, which includes Kings Mountain. At Cherryville, Coaches Hinse Qulnn and Frank Snyder have !?.' resigned to take other positions and have been replaced by Bill > Link, a? foofball coach, and Em mett lcimster, a. basketball coach. Sherrill Cranford rer.-.ains as director. of athletics and head basohal) and track coach. Bill v'-ordcll, who.came to Kings Mountain for the three months when Coach Carlton was called back into service with the Ma- j rirves in 19, >1, is I lie new head j coach at rVic.u City, replacing Bill Greene. j A new conch has been named! to -replace Che ;ter Womaek,' who j has been named a principal in j the Rutherfordton Splndale j school setup. At Bessemer City, Coach Geor ge Tate has been replaced by two coaches. Hubert G. Splvey, Jr., been elected to serve as high school principal and football coach and Ken Bost, who let Mt. Holly's baseball team to the Class A state finals last spring, Is the new basketball coach. lightning Ignites House Monday Firemen answered two calls Monday afternoon, one directly ?as the r suit of Monday after ?noon's electrical storm, the oth 'er indirectly. According to Fireman Ted ^Gamble, tho first call was ans wered on Baker street at 3;30 p. tn, at a house owned by Mac Gantt M^ Gamble said that wa ter from the storm running in' on ajn electric light ebrd caused : sparks, but the house actually vdld not ignite. rrhe second call, according to Attempted Break-In Reported By foUct Burglar* were Unsuccessful In their bid to break into York Road Grocery Monday night. Acco Ung to the police report, the would-'be burglars, in an ef fort to gain entry to the store, broke a window in ihe back of the store, and attempted to re move the bar across the baek door with a broom. Police said the broom was left inside the door by the culprits. Investigating officers were Jack Stone and Paul Sanders. W. Calvin Wane Died Wednesday William Calvin Ware, 79, re tired Route 2 farmer, died at 4:20 Wednesday afternoon at Kings Mountain hospital, fol lowing a stroke suffered eight days ago. A bachelor, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ware and is survived by a brother, F. Luther Ware, Sr., and a sister, Mrs. J. F. I lam bright. (J rover. He was a mem ber of Boyce Memorial ARP church. J Midget Football Being Discussed An effort is underway to field a Kings Mountain Midget foot ball team In a Gaston County lea gue this fall and men interested In assisting with the club arte be ing asked to attend a meeting at City Hall Monday at 7 p. m. Recreation Director Red Lay ton made the announcement. Mr. Lay ton said that he at tended a meeting in Gastonla Tuesday night at which the lea gue was discussed. Final orga nizational meeting is scheduled for August 23, he added. At Tuesday night's meeting, j playing rules and regulations and i Insurance plans for players were 'discussed. . ? Playing fields are to.be reduced to three-fifths regulation isize for the Midget program, with a Junior program also planned on . a field four-fifths the regular 100. i yard size. Penalties will also be j reduced accordingly, as will height of goal posts. Playing times will also be cut. Players must not have reached 'their 13th birthday before No vember 1, 1954 to be eligible to play and must not weigh over 100 pounds at the start of the season nor gain oyer 10 pounds during the year. The Junior program weight limit is 110-115 and the players must not have attained his 15th birthday by Nov. 1. Boys under 10 years of age are not eli gible. Team coaches must meet ap proval of an advisory board and boys can play for only one team, must have a release signed by iheir parents and must have a physician's approval in order to play. NO COURT Regular Monday afternoon session of city recorders court was not held this past Mon day. Judge and Mrs. Jack White are on vacation. r'ircman Gamble*, was answered at the residence of Minnie Wells, ;everal miles down York road, md "was caused by lightning striking the house. Firemen ans we red the call at 3:45 p. m. Dam *<*es estimated by -Mr. Gamble totaled $100. A third call was answered Saturday morning by city fire nen to extinguish a box car load ng near Park Yarn Mill. Accord ing to fireman Gamble, the tel ephone pofes were burning when the train pulled into Kings Mountain. IMPERIAL THEATRE Kings Mountain. N. C. Phone 134 TODAY, THURSDAY AUGUST 12 DOUBLE FEATURE "THE UNTAMED "OVERLAND HEIRESS" STAGE RA'DERS" with Judy Canova with John Wayne Cartoon FRIDAY - SATURDAY AUGUST 13-14 DOUBLE FEATUhE ? OPEN AT 11 O'CLOCK "THE PHANTOM "THE SEA OF STALLION" LOST SHIPS" with Rex Allen ^ith ,0*n J??"* and Wanda Hendrlx Comedy . Cartoon MONDAY - TUESDAY AUOUVT 16-17 "THE YANKEE PASHA" with Jeff Chandler and Rhonda Fleming Two Cartoon* WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY AUGUST 18-1B DOUBLE FEATURE "IT CAME FROM "c?NOUKCT OP OUTER SPACE" " ? 'With Richard Carlson ^ JJWJ Stack and John In "ok Cartoon Craftspun Nine, Graver winated As Gastoeia Takes Softball Crown Craftspun and Grover Softball teams bowed put of thq Midwea tern District Softball tournament at Shelby on Wednesday, August 4, each team suffering its second loss in five games of play In the event Craftspun was defeated by Do ver of Shelby by a score of 1-0, with Firestone of Gastonia trip ping Graver's Mlnette Mills nine 2-0 in' two extra Innings of play. Roy Pearson, who tossed all five games for Craftspun, tossed fivfrhit ball against Dover, struck out one and walked none, but three errors afield by his team, mates hurt. Manager Olland Pearson's Craftspun nine manged only three hits off Big Jim More head of Dover. Dover scored in the fifth on an error, a stolen base, another cr ror and a two out single. More head retired the last six Craft spun hitters to nail down the vic tory. - ? > Grover threatened in the open ing frame,. but couldn't push a runner across. The winners scor ed in the top of the ninth on a walk, a bunt single, and two er rors. Wade Vaughn was the Grover pitcher, allowing only five hits. Grover got six bingles, paced by Tippy Francis with three for three and Tommy Keeter, who got the longest blow of the game, a two-out triple in the fourth. On Thursday night, Gastoriia City defeated Dallas Brewers and Bo Davis 2-1 to gain the finals. On Friday Dallas came back to eliminate Dover 3-0 on Davis' one hitter. in the finals Saturday night, Gastonia City won the crown with a seventh-inning run to de feat Dallas 5.4. Gastonia will en ter the state tourney at Winston Salem on August 18, a single ell nination, 10-team affair. Grover placed three men on the jail-tournament team and Craft . r pun's Harold Pearson was cho i sen for a utility spot on the club. Pitcher Wade Vaughn and In flelders Tippy Francis and John Gold were voted on the dream team. JOY STARTS WITH Starts With Late Show Saturday. Aug. 21. ALSO SHOWING Monday - Tuesday August 23-24 ? Regular Admission ? mmiiuiiimm Mature Hayward MCHAIt HWJI . Ot?IA PAOCT ANN! lAHOOn ??!** tOMMVX FRANK ROSS ?~~wDELMER DAVES w PHILIP DUNNE LINE SCORES Mld-Wutsrn District [; !. Softball. Toanamrat Games of July 27 Gas ton la 4, Grover 1 Games of July 28 Dallas 6, Craftspun 3. Gomes of July 29 Akers 001 000 0?1 1 4 Craftspun 000 203 x? 5 4 4 Long and Lawton; Pearson and Reynolds. Grover 307 5?15 11 1 Harris' 000 0? 0 0 5 . Vaughn, Patterson and Little; Allen, Huntslnger, Tate and Wat son. Games of July 31 Hickory 000 000 O? 0 3 3 Grover 012 001 x ? 4 6 0 Bollck, James and Moore; Vaughn and Little. Smyre 200 000 1?3 6 1 Craftspun 023 001 X ? 6 11 2 Beal and Frady; Pearson and Reynolds. Gomes of Aagust 3 Craftspun . . 000 200 Or? 2 6 1 State Hospital 001 000 0?1 4 1 Pearson and .Reynolds; Whis nant and Rhyne. Rex 201 000 3? ? 6 4 Grover 302 120 x? S 12 7 Pike, A-bee (6) and.McCarver; Patterson and Little, Hamrick (6). Gomes of August 4 Firestone 000 000 002?2 5 1 Grover . . 000 000 000?0 6 5 Lynn and Atkinson; Vaughn and Little. Craftspun . . 000 000 0?0 3 3 Dover 000 000 x? 1 5 0 Pearson and Reynolds; More head and Bridges. BUILDING PERMIT Building Inspector J. W. Web ster issued a permit Monday to Hugh W. Yates to erect a one story dwelling to be used as a residence oh property lo cated at corner of Parker and Dilling street, at an estimated cost of $4,000. DIXIE Last Times Thurs. "HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE" Burt Lancaster > Friday - Saturday Double Feature N Alan (Rocky) Lane - -?in-1 ? "STAGECOACH TO MONTEREY" ?? ALSO? Louis Hayward "SAINT'S" GIRL FRIDAY" 1 ? Plu?? Dick Tracy - Cartoon Monday -Tuesday Big First Run Gangster Picture From Warner Bros. "CRIME WAVE" with Sterling Hayden Gene Nelson Wed. - Thursday NEXT WEEK John Wayne Susan Hayward "FIGHTING SEAREES" MORS ABOVT City Board Continued From PaOe Om . full title' to the linfe. 3) Tabled for unitary depart ment report request of W. C. Del linger for sewer line Installation on fienfleld street Mr. Delllnger said the link! would serve six houses, only one ol which now hii a septic tank. 4) Heard a complaint from John Owens who said he wanted pay for timber cut off the Davjd son Creek dam site. Mayor Bridges told Mr. Owens he under stood the contract on sate .of the property stipulated that the Mr. Owens had 30 days to remove the timber. The Mayor named Com. missloners T. J. Ellison, J. H. Pat terson, and W. S. Fulton, Sr., as a committee to examine the sale document and to rfeport its find ings at a future meeting. 5)' Heard a plea from L C Spratt for installation of a water line on Katherine avenue. Ques tion of installation hinged on city policy requiring service to three houses before a line is installed. The Mayor named himself, Com missioner Grantham, and Super intendent of Public Works Nichol son to investigate the problem and to make recommendations. 6) Voted a $30 refund to Ben T. Goforth, overpayment on a wafer meter tap fee. 7) Heard a plea from Grier Sipes, N. Goforth street, for re building of steps and installation of a retaining wall as a result of grading for the paving of N. Go forth street. Mr. Sipes said he gave the city property for a street connecting Goforth and Sims, and that M. K. Fuller, former city ad ministrator, had promised to cor rect the problem. The board vot ed to refer the problem to Com Tigers Play Sox Here Saturday Kings Mountain Tigers are scheduled to play the "Old Black Sox", a team of veteran Negro players, at City Stadium Satur day night ? The "Sox" lineup will feature Sam Boyce, manager. In center Held; Frank Mltnhum, p; Johnny McClure, lb; Charles Twitty, ?} Luico Wilson, 2b; John Brown, Its; A. J. Jamison, rf; William Orr, 3b; Speedy Adams, p; Jack Rhodes, p; and John Blalock, If. The Tigers defeated Valdea? here last Thursday 9-8 behind David Adams. Sonnle Shoats had 4 for 4 driving In six runs. On Saturday, , the Tigers lost to Val dese 5-4 In 12 innings. Shoats, with 3 for 4 drove in all the Tl^er runs. missioner Fulton for handling. 8) .Voted to pay Tom Bar belt i $10 per week through September 'for janitorial service at the Mc- ,< Glhnis street city park, the funds to be paid out of parking meter receipts. v. 9) In lieu of permission for use of Gold street as asked, voted to provide Spangler & Song police escort through the city for a one day concentrated series of cement deliveries to Lithium Corporation of America's Bessemer City plant. . 10) Voted to pay expenses ap proximating >165 for Fire Chief Pat Tignor to attend the National Fireman" 3 convention at Houston, Texas. 11) Heard a report from Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr., that Central Methodist church had no objection to installation of park, ing meters on West Mountain street and that no report had been received from First Bap tist church on proposed Installa tion of meters on a portion of S. Piedmont avenue. High speeds are deadly speeds. Avoid accidents, death and in Jury. SLOW DOWN AND LIVE! Now Your- ? With True Cinemascope I I M Stereophonic Theatre ' V %j|F ? Sound ? s? PERFECTLY AIR-CONDITIONED ? LATE SHOWS EVERY HON.. WED- FRL. SAT. GET OUT OF HIS WAT . . BEFORE ITS TOO LATE! LATE SHOW SATURDAY ALSO MONDAY - TUESDAY orMurder n \\ N m RAY MIliANDGRACE KELIY- ROBERT CUMMINGS .JOHN WILLIAMS ALFRED HITCHCOCK PLUS: Latest World Newt Hnrt vmafc wed. -totes. looe stnry of the year with A* world* ? grmttti loot music iff Color by TECHNICOhO ft / KfUiPSODY' EUZABETH TAYLOR fORIO GASSMAN JOHN EfSCSON LOUIS CALHERN MORM ABOUT Abbott Continued From fuse Onm He is a former vice- president of j the Kings Mountain Merchants association and has taken an ac tive part in many charitable fund-raising efforts, including ; Red Cross, March of Dimes, Boy Scouts and others, A veteran of World War n, he ! was a navy lieutenant when re- . leased from active duty In 1946 after three years of service. He I was graduated from the Univer sity of South Carolina In 1936. Mrs, Abbott is the former Miss 1 Mary Owens and they have two j children, a" girl, Laurie, eight, 1 and a boy, Lea Abbott, Jr., three. I MONTI! VISTA DRIVE-IN ? GASTON I A THURSDAY. Aug. 12 "THE GOLDEN HAWK" in coioi with Sterling Haydon Three Cartoons FBI.. SAT- Aug. 13-14* 2 Color Hits "CITY OF BAD MEN" with Dale Robertson ?also? ? "Treasure Of The Golden Condor" with Cornel Wilde Cartoon SUN.. MON., TUES. August 15. 16. 17 "HONDO" in color with John Wayne Cartoon and Featurette WED- THURSDAY August 18-19 in color "WORLD IN HIS with Gregory Peck Cartoon North Carolina's Due-cured to bacco crop is expected to be slightly larger this year than last. oasToma wn iwwm? wei?AY Friday - Saturday Auqust 13-14 3 BIG HITS "THE GREUT SIOUX UPRISING" by Tochnicolo with Jell Chandler Faith Domergue Lyle Bettger "The Importance Oi HIIm Kamest*/' by Technicolor 30 Minuses o! Color VJJjCartoons - J;-; tmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmmmmt ) ? ' Sun.. Mon., Tu|j|': Aug. 15. IS. 17 Wed. - Thursday August 18-19 , . Color Cartoon ?Mt B949 PASTONIA- KINOS MOUNTAIN HIQrhWAY your FAMILY driver WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY August 11 & 12 First and Only Drive-In in Gaston County Eqiupped to Play Cinemascope with True Stereophonic Sound. Also the Largest Screen in The Two Carol"na.i. Mmm FRIDAY & SATURDAY Warner Bros. , MONDAY & TUESDAY August 16-16-17 Admission: Adnlto 48c; Cblkben FREEI 2 SHOWS NIGHTLY ? STARTS AT DUSK ? ' A'". , v'".' '-y . ' ?*- , 7 ?? f A Ml L Y MIGHT ' | ?$? uorra.v/ mtt Tuesday ... iifMH !Kc PRB CAW \
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