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?:?- ? :.V . v:^'. ?'? VA* ; ?; - _fc___________ _______________ TT ' P. ??'. i V ?. r<jpulatic Ctty Limits : 7.206 population U bom. tk? O. s. Oownmont cotuui rt (or 1S50. TIm C?nius Bureau MllmalM th? nation's da sine* ISSO at 1.7 p?rc*at por y?ai, wMch _ Mountain's population should approxl 7608. TIm tradln* at?a population In IMS, bawd M ration tooard rogisirationa at Uu King* Mounto da otflco. wa? lb. 000. r Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper VOL 64 NO. 43 , ? _ ? ?... ...... , Wffip l . Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 28, 1954 Sixty-Fourth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS HIGH SCHOOL LAUNCHES DRIVINGXCOiP?i^2 Pictured are principals In the recently-installed driver education course at Kings Mountain high school with the new dual-control Ford to be used ttt. -iho instructor's laboratory. Loft to right art Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr., who urged the school to Institute the course, Faculty Member lion Parker, who will teach the course, and Mrs. Jacob Maunov. president of Central P-TA. which Is 'sponsoring the new subject. The specially equipped err was provided free by Plonk Motor Company, free Insurance was provided by Warlick Insurance Agency, and the city's oil dealers axe providing gas and oil for operation of the vehicle. (Photo by Carlisle Studio. ? OYSTER SUPPEH Hie American Home Depart ment of the Woman's club will sponsor an oyster supper at the Woman's club next Wednesday from 5 o'clock until 7 p. m. Plates of fried oysters will sell for $1, and oyster stew will be 75 cents per plate. Children plates sold at half Ai 'iKND CONVENTION , , Or. and Mrs. P. G. Padgett and children, Phillip, Jr., and Connie, attended the djfjMww convention of this North Caro lina Chapter, Academy of Gen eral Practitloneers, held a-' HL E. Stockholm \ Ja?t week. The doctors and their families made a cruise to Havanna, Cuba, and Nassau, British Bahamas. B. S. Peeler, Jr:, also made the trip with the / meeting oftpeGaatonia To astm aster's ? ?hii. via present the program, at Thursday night's meeting of the; Kings Mountain Kiwanls club at Masonic Dining Hail at 6:45. The group, onder the rectlon of Maa Mcintosh, will give . a sanipic * i n in i ivr meeting. . ? . MfgftSlNG PBOGipK -i A program of singing will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 p. ra. at Grace Methodist chur. eh. Among singers expected to attend are Concord's LiOberta Trio. Mrs. Terrace and ? the Highland Trio of Shelby, and the Lintoln Avenue Baptist Trio, of JLincolnton. The public Is invited to attend. . i ASC MEETING <*'? ' \ ? ' D. B. Blalook is attending in c A9C 'district meeting in session 'Ais fweek in 'harlotte. The meeting convened^ Monday City May Appeal Team finding; Action Deferred A court ? appointed three-man appraisal team has awarded Paul Mauhey, $6,500 for 2.56 ac res of land sought toy the city for use In building a sewage dispo sal plant on (McGill creek. ' City Attorney J(. R. Davis re* ported the action of the apprais al group at a special meeting of the city commissioners Monday night. The hoard tabled the report for action at its regular November 4 meeting, after Attorney Davis had .explained that either party has 20 days in which to appeal the finding. Virtually all members of the itooard ventured the opinion that the award of the appraisal team appeared excessive. Mr. Mauney was out-of-town this week and conlment on the a* ward my him was not available from him nor his attorney, Geor ge Thomasson. . Members of the appraisal team, appointed by the clertc of Gaston Superior Court, were Wray Adonic, F. J. Noblett, and Hoke Coon. They inspected the property and reported their find ings on Monday. Under condemnation proced ure, the city, be depositing the a mount of $6,5) 3- with the Gaston clerk of court, i* in position to proceed with the construction ot the new sewage disposal plant, for which contract was let pro-; vislonally two weeks ago. < Should either party elect to ap peal the decision of the apprais al team, the appeal would be heard by Judge and Jury in Gas ton Superior Court. In another action Monday Continued On Page Bight Drivel Course Being Tanght At High School A dual ? control Ford Coach, courtesy of Plonk Motor Compa ny, was delivered last week to Kings Mountain High school for the use of students who are tak ing a driver's education course offered for the first time by the school. The course, sponsored by i the P.-TA, Is feeing- offered to *Ui dfents who have Just become 16 years of age -or who are almost 16. Chief Hugh A. Logan. Jr., and Mrs. Jacob Mauney, P-TA presi dent stated that (plans for a. dri ver's course which have been discussed for the past two years were formulated last summer af ter Instructions on conducting an approved driver's course were received from the State Depart ment of Motor Vehicles Safety division. Plans for the course were ap proved by Superintendent B. N. Barnes, the instruction car - ar rangements were approved by the school board and Principal Rowell Lane installed the course in the curriculum in September after Don Parker, high school teacher, obtained an instructor's certificate upon completion of a study course conducted by the Department of Public Instruc tloni^'^v The dual-control car is insur ed free by Warllck Insurance A gency, Mr. Logan noted. 'I per sonally feel," Chief Logan stat ed, "a drlyer's education course will cut down teen-age accidents, and I hope the whole town will oo- operate." "This is going to be a good thing," Mrs. Mauney stated. Gas and oil for the car, Mrs. Mauney said, is being furnished free by local gas and oil dealers. "It's a mighty good thing," is the opinion of Mr, Parker, in' j structor for the driver's course. Mr. P artier thinks it will be some time before results of the course will be noted, but ?'In time we'll be able to see a big difference," he stated. Mr. Parker said that at present 44 students are taking the course, which includes 54 one- hour period classes. Thirty - Continued On Page flight Spooks and goblins will fly and | cavort a n'lfcht early this season, as Kings Mountain schools avoid | this year's Sunday date for the annual observance of Hallowe'en. Grover schooTs Hallowe'en parnr W1U be oh Friday, night. hhhSI Wi An In pastyears, school Teacher associations are sponsor' ins the traditional lialloweVn ISMtf Wtklii ? '? Plenty of games and goodies available for the yoimg celebrant*. Central spool's party w111 terS^^rft:^)' Tlie "(trtter f a inmcnt will include room activities in tbk primary department; comic mo VStM la the IWdltOrlam at 7 o'clock and a cake Wtlk. At 8 o'clock a fib " Drill call the figures. West school's Hallowe'en carni val will be held from 5 to 8 o'clock at the School, with a big and varied program of activities, while East school's party will be gin at 5:30, also with food, class rc?om activities, -fofmlarlty dt*i' tests and similar frolic on the 1WT ol event*. Park Grace school's party will start at 6 o'clock and will include fortune- telling, cake Walks, dart 31B?f ^*s,,pper Will ??SO u# KTVWV . f ]_ asswli tans Fali Festival activities at the school. It will begin with supper at 5:30 In the school cafeteria and includes the school king and Dismissed Group Protest Heard By City Board Several among nine discharg ed employees In the city's public works department protested their dismissals to the board ol com missioners at a special meeting Monday night. , > . Principal spokesman among the discharged employees was Campbell Lockridge, and others speaking out were Ben Sessions and Dan Lanier, Mayor Glee A. Bridgtes explain ed the purpose of the meeting and invited all who. wished to speak. He also noted that the po licy of the board was to leave em ployment matters in the hands of the department heads, in this In stance, E. C. Nicholson, superin tendent of public Works. He also stated that the city had discuss ed employment of the discharged men with the contractors for thte natural gas distribution system and had been assured that the men could obtain employment there. Mr. Lockridge said he'd been employed with the city for thrtee years, is a home-owner and tax payer, and objected to his dis charge while out-of-town resi dents were still on the payroll. He also said that the gas con tractors had told him, and others, that 75-cbnts-per-hour Jobs were all they had available, wldch he said was a considerable cut from the $1.15 he earned with the city. Mr. Nicholson explained that the dismissals were necessary if he were to operate within his budget and offered the hopd that re-hlrings would be possible next spring. He also said at least five | more city employees v^ould have to bfe discharged to avoid a de partment deficit. : Expressions of "Mr. Sessions and Mr. Lanier indicated the dis- j charged group was concerned a bout loss of two day's pay, since the gas contractors had told them no men would be put on the Job until- October 27. Mr. Sessions also interjected a political tone as he addressed the Mayor and said he hoped he'd be around until the next election. Commissioner W. G. Grantham told the group that discharges and iayoffs were pleasant for none but "they sometimes have to be done." Both he and Mayor Bridges said they had been as sured by the gas contractors that they needed machine operators and other skilled employees and would employ these at higher pay rates. * . '? Mr. Lockridge interjected the | contention that he was being dis charged because of "trading too much with Tommy Ellison", and because falsehoods had been. told concerning his work. Nell Hullender, city garage me- 1 chanlc, said Lockridge was a good handler of equipment. ? Near the end of the discussion, i Vincent Beech urn, city gas super intendent, stated he had employ ed Supt. Nicholson's son "after board authorization" to > hire a helper for the upcoming gas work. - ? At the end of the discussion, the commissioners voted unani mously to pay the discharged men wo day's pay and any accrued /acation time. Honor System WoridngWoll I nf'-siiyg* kel honor system on over-parking is working handsomely, officials of the Kings Mountain Merchants association, sponsors of tlfe six* month trial plan, are ported this week. / -i . President John H. Lewie issued his initial report on' the system which showed that 362 ove*park hart* " $33.26 for nickels advanced by the city's meter officer. The feport included receipts through ' Wed nesday morning. ! fender ed at Merehlmta apiotfirtlgti. W4 I f board com missioners, a motorist who leaves hi*. car too long in a metier zone 'MuthM' a /ebafrttily nickel eft vie .lope instead of jpt long familiar pink p?rkihcTt^cet The over parking motorist it informed that tr policeman has W^rted the meter and' the mo lted to refund the nic kel to the policeman or any mer chant. Many have returned more than the nickel. The old pink parking, ticket cost a dollar plus Cooke's Audit Report Details j City Operations For 1953-54 The city's 1953-54 audit report, on file at the office of the city clerk, details the fiscal operations of the city during the fiscal year ending last June 30, and shows total receipts of $1,094,649.49, in cluding $600,000 in specially vot ed bond monies, and total expen ditures of $536,720.68. The budget estimate had anti cipated expenditures to balance income at $427,302.50, exclusive, of course, of the bond issue re ceipts. Of the previously reported bud get over-expenditure of $109,418. 18; a total of $43,018.21 was chargeable, Auditor R. H. Cooke set forth, to bond money. While it was over spending its budget by $66,399-97 in regular operations, the city was receiving $67,346.99 more than it had anti cipated from regular income sources. ? In the preface to the many, (schedules of figures, Auditor Cooke referred to his September 14 letter published two weeks ago as follows:' "Special Com ment A separate letter of rec ommendations and comment is written in connection with this report addressed to the Mayor and Board of Commissioners." Mr. Cooke's ?September 11 letter contained sharp criticisms of city bookkeeping procedures. Mr. Cdoke subsequently minimized those criticisms In a second letter dated October i9 and published in full in last week's Herald. In the prefacing comments, Au-J dltor Cooke noted that the petty cash account showed, a shortage of $68 which had not been located when the audit was completed, and wrote: "Because of lack of j Internal Control and of certain procedures in the system of ac counting used, I am unable to ex press am unqualified opinion up on the result of the audit and the financial statements in connec tion therewith, however, it is my opinion that the foregoing report has been prepared in such a man ner as to reflect with fair accura cy the financial condition of the City o I Kings Mountain, in ac cordance with the records avail able for audit at the end of its fiscal year June 30, 1954, and the result of the operations for the year ending on thai date, in ac cordance with generally accepted accounting principles." Auditor Cooke suggested con Aim Of Visit Is Minimum Of 125 Pints ' f The Red Cross Bloodmobile will make a one-day visit in Kings Mountain Monday, setting up to receive blood donors at the Wo man's club from 11 a. m. to Si p. m. Goal of the collection, this time under city police department sponsorship, is 125 pints, which, Red Cross records Indicate^ will require about 200 prospective do nors. While Kings Mountain is mo mentarily "off the hook" on its blood quota ? result of the mam moth Labor Day collection ? Mrs. E. W. Griffin, publicity "chairman, offered the hope that the Monday quota would be met to further assure no repeat performance of the blobd supply crisis which existed prior to Labor Day. Mrs. , Griffin said she hoped prospective donors who were not able to give on Labor Day will visit t >e Bloodmobile Monday, She also asked that merchants re-display Red Cross blood collec tlon postert with corrected date during the coming weekend. Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter is a member of the area blood bank located at Charlotte. The bank maintains supplies of blood of all types and Issues It to hospitals on order and frtee of charge. Recently, supplies at the bank became dangerously low, duo to failure of many communi ties to meet their quotas. Both .Kings Mountain and Gaatonia, a mohg other cities, were on thfe verge of suspension from the Mountain's great Labor Day response solved the immedi ate problem," Mrs. Griffin noted, "but we don't wAnt to be In that position again." McElwee Heads Bar Association W. H. McElwee. North Wilkes boro lawyer and son-in-law of Mrs. John O, Plonk of Kings jMouptain, was elected president of tin.3 North Carolina Bar Asso ciation at Its meeting in Raleigh last Thursday. Mrs. McElwee Is the former Miss Douglas Plonk. They have five children. MOOSE DANCE . Kings Mountain Loyal Order ol Moo* Lodge No. 1748 Will , bold a Hallowe'en dance for i JMintiris and guests Saturday, at JO p. m. at the lodge on ' Bessemer City road. :i Sist* . - ji?/. i i . Mi i EVANGELIST ? Rev. E. F. Har din. of Ridgeae.it begins a week'* revival at Bethlehem Baptist church Sunday. Services' are at 7 p. m. nightly. Hardin To Lead Bethlehem Series Rev. E. F. Hardin, Ridgecrest evangelist, will begin a revival series at Bethlehem Baptist church Sunday morning with ser vices to be held nightly at 7 p. m. through November 7. * "Mr. Hardin has held some of the leading pastorates in the state and 1? an able preacher of the gos pel", Rev. R. E. Robbing. Bethle hem pastor, said in announcing the services. siileration of adequacy of fidelity i bonds for the city treasurer, as sistant treasurcF, and tax collec tor, and noted that the depository bonds of First National Bank, the city depository, were Insuf ficient to cover the amount of the hank balances of the city. First National funds in escrpw totaled $530,600, compared to Junfr 30 de posits of the city at $624,312.08. The much - discussed over spending of the budget appeared in every city department except administrative, which cost the city $935.60 less than was antici pated. Had not bond monies been involved to thp extent of. $43,018. 21, the city would have under spent its capital outlay budget es timate by $4,757.24. Following are the total expen ditures and amounts over-spent for the other departments: Street department, $73 214.32, or $21,814.32 over the budget; water system, $29,250.66, or $11, 535.G6 over the budget; water plant and dam, $26,908.26, or $2, 318.26 over the budget; canlta tlon department, $22,996.71, or $5, 226.71 over the budget; sewer maintenance, $7,236.72, or $2,011. Continued On Page Eight Women Name Mis. Houser Contest Entry The Kings Mountain Woman's club has named Mrs. George H. Houser "Club Woman of the Year" and has Entered her name in competition in the annual "Woman of the Year" contest sponsored by the Woman's Home Companion. Any Woman's Club may enter the contest by submitting the name of a member of their club who they rfccognlze for outstand ing work in the club. A 300-word article about the member and the club submitted and some out standing community service achi eved by the club during the year is also required with the fcrftry. The magazine makes an award to the winning "Woman of the Year" and the winning club re ceives _ a $1,000 dollar savings bond. Deadline for entries is Novem ber 6, and winners are to be an nounced in January. Mrs. Houser, who is serving a second consecutive term as presi dent of the local club, was nomi nated at a Joint meeting of the club's three departments Monday night. Band Attended UNC, Wake Forest Game The Kings Mountain school band attended the University of North Carolina - Wake Forest football game at Chaptel Hill last Saturday, y . The band, 69 members strong, left by bus and autos at 5:30 a. m. Saturday and had picnic lunch at Chapel Hill. During the half of the game, the band assembled with over 50 others on the field and the 4,000 student musicians played a con cert conducted by Earl SlOcum, UNC band director. Nicholson Says Davidson Source To Finnish Watei By Next Week By next Wednesday, Kings Mountain should be getting some raw water from lt> new Davidson Creek auxiliary reservoir, ?. C. Nicholson, superintendent of pub He works, said yesterday. ? The pump at the new reservoir was being installed Wednesday, and Mr. >Jlcholson said it was possible pumping of the water In to the,York Road reservoir might begin as early as Monday. He said the water level in the David son reservoir has reached a point 15 Inchfes above the base Intake valve.' - ' ' i ' , ' Meantime, he reported the Gold mine shaft water level "holding It* own" it a depth of approxi mately 240 feet. . Present plana call tor pumping both the Uokf Mine shaft and Davidson creek supplies Into the York Road reservoir as last as possible and within limits of the water supplies available * from I these two auxiliary sources. ' Power service was curtailed on York Road Wednesday and will be again Thursday, Mr. Nicholson said, as work on the Davidson creek pump setting continue#. Cohsumption- continued at low! level* as citizens obeyed the tem porary restrictions on water use. Assistant, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel reported that billings for water during the period Septem ber 18 - October 18 will reflect the curtailed consumption. Only a few instances were noted of seem ing excess water use and these were found to be due to leak* In pipes, which have been repaired. Mr. McDanlel added. . V Tuesday night's weather report promised showers for Western North Carolina on Thursday, but bright sunshine and summertlmr temperatures prevailed Wednes day No. 4 Township Voteis To Mark Four Ballots Kings. Mountain and Cleveland County citizens will go to the polls Tuesday to consider four separate ballots and to help de termine the results of North Car olina's biennial election. The polls will open at all the county's 28 precincts at 6:30 a. m. and will close at sundown. Elections Board Chairman J. W. Osborne said , Predictions- are lhar the voting will >be light throughout Cleve land County where only one con test for office is listed, this in Number 5 Township (Waco) where Enos Beattie <R), seeks the office of constable township against Eugene Bridges (D). Otherwise, the only names on the.eounty-wide and township ballots are Democrats. The voters will also mark bal lots on a long state ticket and on five pro) osed amendments to the North Carolina constitution. The state ticket, however, is merely pock-marked with Re publican o'pposition to Democra tic candidates. Among the races are: For United States Senate, blx yeai-torin, W. Kerr Scott (D>, and Paul C. West (R). Scott haa no opposition for the short term of less than two months. State Treasurer Ed Gill (D) is oppos ed by Rex Morton (R) and State Commissioner of 'Insurance Charles F. Cold <D) ls opposed -by Fred G. Frlok (R). Eleventh District U. S. Congressman Wood raw Jones (D) ls opposed by iR. R. Ramsey (R). The five amendment proposals to the state constitution would: 1) provide for retirement ot the State Supreme Court for their recall for temporary duty In e vent of' illness of an active mem ber; 2) authorize the General Assembly to create a Board ot Paroles; 3) provide that no coun> ty shall ibe entitled to more than one senator in the General As sembly; 4) to liberalize residen ce requirements for voting to provide that a person would have to live in a precinct only 30 days before being eligible to vote, if he had lived in the state one year; and 5) to eliminate short terms of office running be tween a general election and the subsequent January 1. Indications of a light vote for ' next Tueedav are also iborne out by very negligible registration activity. Less than 40 persons were added to the voting scrolls in Number 4 Township during the three-week registration pe riod ending last Saturday, regis* trars have reported. However, the total registration Is large, with 2.346 listed on the East Kings Mountain pollbooks, alone. West Kings Mountain Is " a larger'precinct. In Kings Mountain alone (ex clusive of Grover) the voting to tals for past years were: 688 in the non-presidential election year of 1946; 1,450 in the presi dential election year of 1948; 66 1 in the 1950 _ off-year elections; and 3,004 in the 1952 presidential year contests. Shelby Mayor To Speak Heie Mayor C. M. King, of Shelby, will speak at the regular meeting of the Junior Chamber of Com merce at Masonic Hall Tuesday , at 7 p. m. on a program featuring American Education Week, to be observed November 8-13. Mayor King is a former Shelby school principal. An invitation has been extend ed to interested persons to at tend the program on Tuesday. Persons dcBlring to have dinner with the club are requested to contact Wilson Griff tn for reser vations. The program will begin at around 7:45 o'clock, he said. Tuesday Election Facts Are Listed . Pacts on Tuesday'* biennial general election follow: Polls open 6:30 a. m. PoIIr close at Sundown. Kings Mountain area voting places: East Kings Mountain at City Hall, Mm. Nell Cranford, regis War; West Kings Mountain, at Victory Chevrolet Company, Mr^ J. H. Arthur, registrar; Bethware, at Bethware school, Mrs. H, A. Goforth, registrar; Grover, at Keeter's Dry Goods ?tore, Broadus Ellis, registrar. Number of ballots: four. voiB township: 700800. : ^
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