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MAKES DEAN'S LIST
Miss Lois Ann Spake, daug
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. K. B.
Spake of Kings Mountain, has
earned a position on the
Dean's List just released for
the fall term at King’s Busi
ness College in Charlotte. Miss
Spake, who is taking the Ad
vanced Secretarial course, en
tered King’s in September, 1954.
LEGION MEETING
iRegular monthly meeting of
Post No. 155, the American Le
gion, is scheduled at the Le
gion Hall on East Gold street
Friday at 8 p. m. All members
of the post are urged to attend,
Commander James . Bennett
said..
MOOSE MEETING
The .regular meeting of
Moose Lodge No. 1748 will be
held Thursday night at 8:15
at the lodge on Bessemer City
road.
METEH RECEIPTS
Net meter receipts from city’s
parking meters for week end
ing Wednesday at noon were
$148.03, according to Miss
Grace Carpenter, of city clerk’s
office.
FIRE ALARMS
City firemen answered a call
Thursday at 6:30 p. m. to East
King street where they exting
uished a truck iblaze and on
Friday extinguished an oil
stove iblaze at Victory Chevro
let Co. No damages were re
ported.
CITY BOARD
Regular January meeting of
the city board of commission
ers is scheduled for City Hall
Thursday night at 8 o’clock.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges said he
anticipated a short agenda.
MOVE HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Bridges
and children, Susan and Ar
chie, Jr., moved here from
Shelby last Friday and now
reside at 209 S. Gaston street.
A native of Kings Mountain,
he is manager of Spangler’s
Ready-Mix Concrete, Inc., and
fa (he son of Mr. and Mrs. F.
M. Bridges of Shelby.
Methodists Set
Opening Services
Formal opening of the new
educational 'building will be ob
served at Central Methodist
tjiurch during the week of Jan
uary 23-30.
Program for the week Is not
complete tout is expected to in
clude eight services with two
former pastors to take part, Rev.
Phil Shore, pastor, announced
this week.
The new touilding fronts on
South Piedmont avenue and has
two floors consisting of 8,660
square-feet of floor space, with
3,120 square-feet of the old edu
cational touilding having been
remodeled into the new struc
ure.
The touilding cost some $77,
000 and was built toy Kelly Dix
on, Kings Mountain ibuilder. It
Is the culmination of planning
begun during the pastorate of
Rev. J. G. Winkler in 1041-48 and
further planning and fund-rais
ing during the pastorate of Rev.
X H. Brendall, Jr., in 1948-52.
Plans were submitted toy Jam
es L. Beam, Jr., Cherryville ar
chitect and were approved on
May 31, 1953 toy the congrega
tion. Ground was (broken for the
project on September 13, 1953,
and work on construction was
commenced shortly afterwards.
The new building .is divided
into assembly and classroom
space for all departments of the
church school and also has a
large fellowship hall and kitch
en and a small chapel seating
about 50 persons.
Polio Campaign
To Be Organized
Kings Mountain civic leaders
will meet Thursday afternoon at
5 o’clock at the Kings Mountain
Building & Loan association to
organize the city’s 1955 March of
Dimes fund campaign.
Ben H. Bridges, Jr., and W. J.
Fulkerson are co-chairmen of the
campaign, and will enlist the aid
of various citizens and civic
groups.
Numbbr 4 Township has a cam
paign quota of $6,000.
The fund drive is -cheduled to
begin January 14.
legislators Get
Bill To Change
Discount Period
The city has furnished the
county’s legislative delegation for
General Assembly action a pro
posed amendment to state sta
tutes which would make the
city’s tax pre-payment system
conform with the system used by
Cleveland County and the City of
Shelby.
City Attorney J. R. Davis said
Wednesday he had mailed a copy
of the desired legislation to Rep.
B. T. Falls, Jr., and Senator Ro
bert Morgan with request for en
actment.
Under the proposed amend
ment, city citizens would get the
full allowable two percent de
duction on city taxes provided
their bill3 are paid during the
month of August.
Under present statute, taxfes
paid in June to qualify for the
full two percent discount.
The board of city commission
ers passed a resolution to seek
the change several months ago,
on recommtendation of C. E. Car
penter, city tax supervisor, who
said the variance in county and
city systems caused confusion a
mong the taxpayers. In addition,
the June pre-payment date some
times required defunds for over
payments or billings for under
payments, since tax rates are not
finally set until July.
Text «of the proposed amend
ment iouows:
AN ACT FIXING DISCOUNTS
FOR PREPAYMENT OF TAXES
IN THE CITY OF KINGS
MOUNTAIN.
“The General Assembly ol
North Carolina do enact:
“Section 1: G. S. 105-345 as a
mended is hereby further amend
ed by adding the following sub
section at the end thereof:
“However, subsections 1, 2 and
6 hereby shall not apply to tax
levied by the City of Kings Moun
tain and should any taxpayer of
the City of Kings Mountain make
payment of his taxes in the mon
ths of August through October
foiiowing the- levy thereof, he
shall be entitled to the following
discounts:
“If paid before or during the
month of August a deduction of
2%.
“If paid during the month of
September, a deduction of 1%.
“If paid during the month of
October, a deduction of Yz of 1%.
“Taxes levied by the City of
Kings Mountain shall be payable
at par during the months of No
vember, December, and January
lext after same shall have be
come due and payable.
“Section 2: All laws and clauses
of laws in conflict with the pro
visions of this Act are hereby re
pealed to the extent of such con
flict.
“Section 3: This act shall be
come effective from and after its
ratification.”
LAKE MONTONIA
Annual meeting of stock
holders of Lake Montonia
Club, Inc., is scheduled at the
City Hall courtroom Tuesday
at 7:30 p. m., according to
Harry E. Page, secretary-treas
urer. Annual reports will be
given and officers will toe e
fected.
Park Sets Another
Attendance Mark
Utility Customers
Using Deposit Box
City utility customers are al
ready availing themselves of
the night deposit box service
for paying utility accounts af
ter office hours, Joe McDaniel,
Jr., assistant city clerk, said
Wednesday.
“We have found several ac
count payments in the night de
posit box since bills were mail
ed January 1," Mr- Daniel not
ed, and continued, “we expect
quite a flow around the tenth
of the month.” The tenth of
the month is the final day for
paying utility accounts without
penalty.
The deposit box is in the door
of the south side office in the
city Hall entrance. Envelopes
for thfe checks or cash are in a
container for customer use. The
system was instituted for con
venience of customers who
have difficulty making pay
ments during regular office
hours, from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p.
m.
Uiurch oroup
To Give Plays
The Senior High Fellowship of
First Presbyterian church will
present two plays, “The Marriage
Proposal” and "The Doctor In
Spite of Himself”, Saturday at 8
■>. m. in the Fellowship Hall of
the church.
A famous farce, The Doctor In
Spite of Himself” is written toy
the French dramatist, Moliere
and translated by Barrett H.
Clark. It is presented in two
scenes toy the following cast:
Mike Houser, "Sganarello,” E
laine Goforth, "Martine,” Buddy
Smith, “M. Robert”, Nick Smith,
“Valere,” Dick Hunnicutt, "Lu
cas,” Derice Weir, "Jacqueline,”
Jackie Arnette, “Lucinde,” Sam
my McCarter, “Geronte,” and
Bobby Houser, “Leandra.”
Written toy Anton Tchekoff
and translated by H. Baukhage
and B. H. Clark the farce, “A
Marriage Proposal” includes the
following cast of characters: Do
nald Hord, “Stepanovitch Tsch
utookov,” Jane Ostoome, “Natal
ia,” and Flem Mauney, "Ivan
Lomov.” It is presented in one
act.
Georganna Moss is prompter
and Carol Barber and Harold
Jackson are in charge of scenery.
D. W. Swink, high school Eng
lish teacher, directs the plays.
No admission will be charged
and the public is invited to at
tend.
TAG SALES
A total of 217 city auto li
censes for 1955 had been sold
through Wednesday morning,
according to a report of Miss
Grace Carpenter, of city clerk’s
office. Seventy-one of the to
tal had (been sold this week,
she said.
City Election Four Months Away,
But Politicking Outwardly Quiet
The city will hold its bifennial j
election in May, and though the
election date is only four months
distant, there has been thus far
little outward evidence of politi
cal activity.
However, the subject is crop
ping up in somle conversations,
usually in the vein, “Isn’t this
election year?” and “Who’s going
to run?’’
Generally speaking, it is antici
pated that majority of the incum
bents will seek re-election, in
spite of some indications to the
contrary Uy some of the members
of the Bridges administration,
now nearing the end of its first
term of office.
Mayor Bridges himself is pub
licly non-committal. To a ques
tion on his plans, he said, “I bet
t 'r think about that a little bit
yet.’’
Two years ago, Mr. Bridges had
already filed notice Of candidacy
at this date.
W. S. Fulton, Ward 1 commis
sioner, made no definite state
ment his election intentions.
He added he offered two years
ago becauste of a dearth of candi
dates.
Ward 2 Commissioner J. H. Pat
terson and Ward 5 Commission
er W. G. Grantham are expected
to offer again.
Among the early rumors of the
political season is one that Ward
3 Commissioner T. J. (Tommy)
•/. ...
Ellison will seek the mayor's
post. Hie has been quoted as say
ing he would offer, unless H. Tom
Fulton, a former mayor, offers
for that post. Mr. Fulton has
been listed amoi»g the early view
ers as a likely candidate. Gar
land Still, another former mayor,
is also reported considering a
comlehack attempt.
Ward 4 Commissioner Harold
J. Phillips has stated publicly and
privately that he won’t seek re
election. However, it is known
that he is receiving encourage
ment to offer again.
Olland Pearson, formter Ward
3 commissioner, is already unof
ficially running for the Ward 3
post again, and it is possible his
brother, Tilmah Pearson, may
seek the Ward 3 post.
One citizen active in the politi
cal scene says the Bridges “tic
ket” may form up likte this: For
Mayor, Mr. Bridges: for Ward 1
Commissioner, W. S. Fulton, Sr.,
or George H. Houser; for Ward
2 commissioner, Mr. Patterson;
for Ward 3 commissioner, David
L. Saunders; for Ward 4 commis
sioner, George H. Mauney; for
Ward 5 commissioner, W. G.
Grantham.
Also to be elected in May arte
two school trustees, six . year
terms of Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch,
Ward 2 trustee, and Arnold W.
Kincaid. Ward 3 trustee, expiring
this year.
143,694 Visited
Military Park
During 1954
Kings Mountain National Mili
tary Park logged in 143,694 visi
tors during 1954, another record
in total visitations for the ninth
consecutive year.
Visitors to the park during 1954
exee'eded last year’s total of 110,
615, by 33,079 persons.
In announcing the figures,
Superintendent Ben Moomaw
said that Kings Mountain park
is the only military park in the
federal system which can boast
a new record of attendance1 since
the end of World War II.
In addition to thousands of
United States citizens, from each
of the 48 states, Hawaii, Alaska,
Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, and
District of Columbia, citizens of
many other countries stopped to
visit the historic shrine during
1954.
The park staff reported visitors
from Alberta, Ontario, Quebec,
Manitoba and British Columbia,
n Canada, from Cuba, Costa Ri
:a, and El Salvador, from North
Africa, Japan. Jordan. Indonesia,
he Phillipines, India and Korea,
and from England, Scotland, Nor
way, Sweden, France, Ireland,
Yogoslavia, Hungary, Germany,
Greece, Switzerland, and Holland.
December park traffic, 3,535
persons, more than doubled the
otal of December 1953 at 1,482
persons.
Church To Effect
Organization
iTicij of <wn‘vi^j*
kee Street Tabernacle, at the
corner of Cherokee and Dixon
streets, will be effected at servi
ces Sunday afternoon at 2:30, it
was announced iby Rev. Kelly
Dixon.
The church will be chartered
under Christian Fellowship, Inc.,
a non-denominational religious
organization.
Mr. Dixon said the church
members would elect a board of
directors and officers. Dr. Glenn
Parton, of Spindale, will be in
charge of the organization ser
vice.
Regular services have been
held at the Tabernacle since Au
gust,
Skirts Purloined,
Oil Cars That Is
Police, this week, received two
complaints of fender skirts stolen
from cars by theives.
Mearl Valentine, of route 1, re
ported to police, that between
7:30 and 9:30 the night of De
cember 30, while his car was
parked near Joy Theatre, some
one removed 'from his car the
fender skirts and a cigarette
lighter.
Tuesday, D. J. Ferguson, of
1410 Main street, Roanoke, Va.,
reported to police the theft of fen
dter skirts from his car.
Mr. Ferguson stated his car
had been parked both in Besse
mer City and in Kings Mountain
beside the B & B Soda Shop, and
behind City Hall.
Merchants Banquet
To Be January 31
Officers and directors of the
Merchants Association at their
meeting Tuesday set January 31
as the date for the 1955 employ
ee-employer banquet, appointed
chairmen for the annual event,
and nominated several candida
tes for association officers.
Sam Collins and B. S. Peeler,
Jr., are in charge of the program
for the banquet, Yates Ilarfcison
is food chairman, and Hubert
McGinnis, in charge of tickets.
John H. Lewis, association
president, presided.
Merchants Resume
Mid-Week Closings
Majority of merchants of the
city resumed their customary
Wednesday afternoon closings
yesterday
The stores had been wen on
full six-day week schedules
since the Wednesday prior to
Thanksgiving, with the excep
tion of the Thanksgiving and
Christmas holiday period.
Under by laws of the Mer
chants association the half-day
closing policy will be continued
into next November.
Annual Meeting
Ot Red Gioss
To Be Thursday
The annual meeting and elec
tion of officers of Kings Moun
tain Red Cross Chapter will be
held Thursday night at 7:45 o’
clock at City Hall courtroom.
The meeting is oplen to the pub
lic, and all civic organizations
and clubs are asked to be repre
sented at the meeting.
Four directors along with a
chapter chairman, recording sec
retary, and fund chairman are to
be elected.
Retiring officers are I. G. Pat
terson, chapter chairman, Mrs.
Grady King, recording secretary,
and W. K. Mauney, Jr., fund
chairman.
Retiring directors are J. L. Mc
Gill, Henry Neisler, Earl Mar
lowe, and W. G. Grantham.
Officers with unexpired terms
are Rev. P D. Patrick, first vice
chairman, Mrs. C. E. Neisler, se
cond vice-chairman, Mrs. P. G.
Ratterree, treasurer, Mrs. J. N.
Gamble, executive secretary, B. S.
Neill, fund treasurer, and J. H.
Thomson, auditor.
Hold-over directors are Mrs. J.
E. Herndon, Eugene Patterson,
V. L. Neal, of Grover, Dr. D. F.
Hord, Mrs. C. D. Blanton, Mrs.
T. E. Mauney, Mrs Harry Page,
ind Aubrey Maundy.
"Man 01 Year"
Nominees Sought
Kings Mountain Jaycees are
seeking nominations for “The
Most Outstanding Young Man of
Kings Mountain for 1954” and
deadline for nominations, which
may be made 'by apyone in the
city, Is January 14.
The only restriction is that the
“young man” nominee must be
between the ages of 21 and 35
inclusive, R. G. Plonk, Jr., chair
man of the club’s Distinguished
Service Award committee, cau
tions.
Winner of the DSA award will j
be cbosen from, the list of nomi
nees by a secret committee of
Kings Mountain men who are 36
and older and will be announc
ed at the next meeting of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, at
Masonic Hall on January 18.
Names of nominees .other than
the winner will be kept secret,
Mr. Plonk said.
Winner of the award, to be
given annually by the Jaycees,
will be awarded a key and cer
tificate and will be entered in
the North Carolina DSA contest.
The project is a part of the
club’s observance of National
Jaycee Week, January 14-21.
Chairman Plonk pointed out
that although nominees must be
of Jaycee iStge (21-35), they need
not be members of the club or
any other civic club. Basis of the
award is listed as:
1) Contribution to community
welfare during 1954.
2) Participation in all-around
community activities.
3) Evidence of lasting contri
bution to community.
4) Exhibition of leadership a
bility.
5) Evidence of personal and
business progress.
6) Cooperation %vith individ
uals and civic organizations.
Nominations may be made to
Chairman Plonk, who asks that
notation be given him of the
nominees achievement during
the year.
Rites Friday
For Mis. Flum
Funeral rites for Mrs. Annie
Raechiel Flum, 98, who died Wed
lesday morning at her home on
route 1 after a three-week illness,
will be conducted Friday at 3 p.
m. from Sisk Funeral Home, Bes
semer City.
Rev. Hugh Barringer, pastor of
Grace Lutheran church, Besse
mer City, will conduct the rites,
interment to follow in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Flum, daughter of the
late Charles and Annie Raechiel,
was bom in Germany March 23,
1857, and came to America in
18(54 at the age of seven. It took
the Raechiel family 3 months to
come by sailboat from Germany
to Pennsylvania where they lived
until 1882.
Surviving are two sons, Louie
Flum, Kings Mountain, and Fred
Flum, of Starke, Fla., and four
daughters, Mrs. Annie Compton
and Mrs. Mary Smith, both of
Gastonia, and Mrs. N. T. Lynn
and Mrs. Louise Stroupe, both of
route L
LIONS MEETING
Regular Lions meeting will
be held Tuesday night at 7
o’clock at Masonic hall. There
will be a guest speaker for the
evening.
Cut-on Date For Natural Gas
Scheduled For January 14tn
Tax Listing
Activity Here
Reported Heavy
Kings Mountain area citizens
were beating a steady path to
the City Hall courtroom this
•week as the annual job of list
ing properties for taxes began.
Clarence Carpenter, city tax
supervisor, and Conrad Hughes,
township tax lister, said the list
ing work appeared off to a good
start, though they were unable
to estimate, after three days la
bor, the percentage of listing
accumjjiisnea.
Vast majority of the listings
were taken from individuals,
with almost ail business and,
industrial firms still immersed
in year-end inventorying and
other bookkeeping duties.
Mr. Carpenter said automobile
listings, which took a big drop
last year, after the temporary
glut of the market, would prob
ably hold at last year’s levels.
The listing officials are using
the current 1955 “blue book” of
wholesale values, and the list
ings approximate last year’s
scale of automobile values.
The county is. introducing for
1955 a new system, of inventory
listing for business Vid indus
trial firms. Special forrrts, for til
ing inventories were mailed by
County Tax Supervisor Max
Hamrick last weekend to busi
ness and industrial firms in the
county, with the notation that1
the completed forms should be!
returned to the county office at!
Shelby.
The firms are required to list
actual values at December 31 of
merchandise, finished goods, ;
work in process, raw materials,
supplies, and ail other items. Of
the total, 32.5 percent is to go
on tlie tax books for assessment
under tax rates to be set in July.!
The policy on inventories was
set by the board of county com
missioners several months ago. j
Other information asked of
business and industrial firms
includes: 1) listing of consigned
or leased goods or equipment,
together with address and name
of owner; and 2) listing of
counties other than Cleveland in
which the firm has assets other
than real estate.
the tax listing officials noted
that all persons are required
to list their properties, and that
all males between the ages of
21-50 are required to list for poll
taxes, regardless of whether they
own any property. Penalties ap
ply for late listing or for failure
to list.
Charlie Ware is taking the
farm census, and Jim Lytorand
is assisting with the listing
work.
The officials are at City Hall:
daily except Saturdays from 8
a. m. to 4:30 p. m. On Saturdays,
Mr. Hughes is at Jtoundtree’s
Hardware in Grover to serve ci
tizens of the Grover area.
In Number 5 township, List
taker E L. Whitworth has an
nounced he will 'be at Whitworth
Store, Waco, daily with these ex
ceptions: January 6, at Eaker’s
Store, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.; January
7, Waters’ Store, 8 a. m. to noon;
January 7, Washington school, 1
p. m. to 5 p. m.; January 8,
Odell’s Store, 8 p. m. to 5 p. m.
TO CHICAGO
J. Kcnnon Blanton, manager
of Sterchi's, will leave Satur
day for Chicago to attend the
annual winter furniture show.
He will be accompanied toy
other Sterchl managers from
"the area.
TO BE INSTALLED — J. C. Brid
ges will be installed Thursday
night as president of the Kings
Mountain Kiwanis club for the
coming year. The meeting will
be a ladies' night affair.
Kiwanis Officers
Will Be Installed
Officers for 1955 of Kings
Mountain Kiwanis club will be
formally installed Thursday night
at a ladies night meeting at Ma
sonic Dining hall at 6:45.
W. Stanley Moore, editor of the
Morganton News Herald and re
tiring lieutenant governor of Car
olinas Kiwanis District 1, will
serve as installing officer.
It was noted in the club bulle
tin that dress’for the ladies night
affair will be informal.
Officers to be installed are J. C.
Bridges, president, succeeding
Dr. W. P. Gerberding; B. S. Pee
ler, Jr., first vice - prasiden^vfciid
Harold Coggins, second vice-pre
sident.
Directors to be installed are
John Cheshire, I. Ben Goforth,
Jr., Ed Goter, W. S. Fulton. Jr.,
William Herndon, Henry Neisler
and W. T. Weir. Dr. Gerberding
will serve as an ex officio mem
ber of the board.
Ttfe officers and directors were
;lected in annual club balloting
in October.
Drive-In Loot
Is Recovered
Part of the loot taken by thiev
es in the December 29 break-in of
the concession stand of Bessemer
City - Kings Mountain Drive-In
Theatre, located on Bessemer City
-oad, has been recovered. Chief
-lugh A. Logan, Jr., said Wednes
day.
The loot, which included candy,
chewing gum and nuts, was
found near Third street Monday,
Chief Logan said, by children
whose parents notified police.
Gaston County Detective Jim
Harris, who is investigating the
incident since the break-in occur
red in Gaston County, stated
Wednesday that no arrests have
been made but several persons
are under surveillance.
A second incident at the Thea
tre which occurred Saturday
night, involving the destruction
af 17 speakers at the Theatre
has been closted by the sentencing
in a Gaston County court of five
Fallston boys.
The boys, Lammoris Lail, Law
rence Hoye, Julius Hoyle, Robert
Seism, and Dwight Dellinger, who
tvere reported to have already
settled damagtes incurred at the
Theatre before court, were order
ed to pay costs for disorderly con
luct.
Lithium Corporation About Ready
To Begin Operations Oi New Plant
Lithium Corporation of Ameri.
ca’s new Bessemer City plant is
virtually ready to go into produc
tion, according to a report from
the plant Wednesday.
G. A. Munson, plant manager,
had not returned from South Da
kota, but Fred Dixon said that
Herbert Rogers, president of
Lithium Corporation, and F. F.
Clark, vice - president, arrived
Wednesday to superintend the
launching of operati ns.
The company had previously
announced from Minneapolis,
Minn., the home office, that it
would employ about 150 persons
when production gets underway.
The company has been receiv
ing job applications for its Bes
semer City plant, and Mr. Dixon
said Wednesday that he under
stood majority of the employee
complement has been obtained.
He said construction work on
the $7 million plant is in the fin
ishing stages.
The company announced two
weeks ago that mining opera
tions, underway for several
weeks, have already resulted in
stacking of 80,000 tons of spodu
mene ore in anticipation of be
ginning operations.
Lithium, end product of the
operation, has been termed “the
new wonder metal’’. It has a
great variety of commercial uses,
from a component of greases to
television tubes, and is also used
in the hydrogen bomb. It is the
lightest of metals.
Nicholson Says i
East Portion '
Lines Ready ,
The city’s natural gas system
will begin receiving gas from the
Transcontinental pipeline on
York road on January 14, E. C.
Nicholson, public works superin
tendent, said yesterday.
With the cut-on, the city will
therefore West by one day its Jan
uary 15, 1955, deadline for taking
gas, as set in the Federal Power
Commission order granting the
city an allotment of natural gas.
Mr. Nicholson says that natural \
gas service will be immediately
available to virtually all in-city
residents on the east side of the
Southern Railway mainline, with
possible exception of some of the
Whitesides development in East
Kings Mountain.
Mr. Nicholson further estimat
ed that 300 residents business and
industrial firms will become na
tural gas users within a short
time after the January 14 cut-on.
One customer will be the city it
self. It anticipates converting the
City Hall boiler from coal to gas
on January 16, Mr. Nicholson
added.
The public works superinten
dent said that all gas lines now
installed have been tested under
119-pound pressure for a 24-hour
period, which is at heavier pres
sure and for a longer period than
normally required.
Natural gas is ordinarily odor
less, but is being treated with
an odor - producing agent at the
cut-in point by Transcontinental
Mr. Nicholson said. The odorizing
treatment will not be as pungent
an unpleasant as the “skunk
juice”, with which the gas is
treated for testing lines against
eaTcS') he added. ’ —~
W’ork on installing the system
s slightly behind schedule, due
o bad weather, Mr. Nicholson
continued, but the construction
crew has ben augmented this
week by arrival of another con
struction team.
Hospital Bid
Date Nearing
—
j. Advertising for bids for the
(construction of a 14-bed addition
to Kings Mountain hospital
should begin late in January or
early February.
Grady Howard, hospital busi
ness manager, said Wednesday
this was his information from
! the architects, Ormand & Vaugh
| an, of Shelby.
Plans and working drawings
!are going through minor changes
i at the moment, on instruction
from the State Medical Care com
mission, and will be returned
within the next few days, with
approval expected immediately.
The State commission will ad
|vise the letting date, Mr. Howard
said.
The project is joint federal
state - county, with each agency
of government furnishing a por
tion of the funds which will bring
the Kings Mountain institution to
a 50-bed unit with regular hos
pital status. Plans call for the
[addition of an East-West wing
at the front of the present build
ing, with re-location of business
office and other present facilities.
Wreck Victims
Recuperating
Tom Eanes, music director of
First Presbyterian church, and
Mrs. B. D. Patrick, wife of the
pastor of the church, were injur
ed Saturday night in an auto
wreck on the Buffalo Shoals
Koad six miles north of Lincom
ton.
Eanes was reported improving
Wednesday. He is receiving
treatment at Kings Mountain
hospital for a depressed fracture
at the base of the skull. Mrs.
Patrick suffered a broken right
collarbone, and was reported re
cuperating satisfactorily. iRev.
Mr. Patrick, a passenger in the
1951 DeSoto of Mr. Eanes, was
uninjured and able to fill his
pulpit Sunday.
The accident occurred in hea
vy fog on a slippery road, when
the car went out of control and
over-turned. Damage to the car
had not been assessed Wednes
day.
The group was returning to
Kings Mountain from a trip to
Roanoke, Va.