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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7,206 The flyun for Greater Tings Mountain Is derived from the 1965 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950. VOL 66 NO. 15 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday April 12, 1936 Sixty-Seventh Year 1 (J Pages I y Today PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News r Bulletins MASONIC LODGE An lemergent communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF and AM for work in the second de gree will be held at Masonic Hall Saturday night at 7 o’ clock, it was announced Tues day. REVIVAL Rev. J. R. Howe, pastor of Highland Baptist church, Shel by, will begin a revival tonight (Thursday) at Faith Baptist church. Services are at 7:30 p. m. nightly through April 21, it was announced by Rev. Flay Payne, pastor. CLINIC Pre-school clinic for children who will enter West Elemen tary school in the fall will be held at First Baptist church Tuesoay, April 17, at 1:30 p. m., it was announced toy school officials yesterday. ATTEND MEETING Mrs. J. N. Gamble and Mrs. P. G. Ratterree attended a meeting of the regional iblood committee held Tuesday at My ers Park Methodist church, Charlotte. Miss Laura Breeze, health educator from the office of public health of Gaston county, addressed the group* COURT OF HONOR April meeting of the Boy Scout Court of Honor for Kings Mountain district will toe held Thursday evening at 7:45 at City Hall courtroom. A cub leader’s training course will be held at the same hour at Cen tral Methodist church. AT CONVENTION Grady Howard, business man ager of Kings Mountain hospi tal, is attending a convention at Richmond, Va„ of hospital managers and administrators. ONE FIRE City Fireman C. D. Ware re ported Kings Mountain Fire department answered a call Friday night around 10 o’clock to extinguish a blaze in a car on First street. SCHOOL BOARD MEETING The Kings Mountain City School (board will hold its reg ular monthly meeting Monday night at 7 o’clock at Central School. Supt. B. N. Barnes said Wednesday that routine busi ness is scheduled to toe heard at this time. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending noon, Wednesday totaled $196.65, ac cording to a report Iby City Clerk Gene Mitchem. He repor ted that street meters returned $158.05, while the off-street meters accounted for $38.60. ATTEND PRESBYTERY W. S. Fulton, elder, Donald Crawford, deacon, and Dr. W.. L. Pressly, pastor, represented Boyce Memorial AiRP church at the meeting of First Presby | tery, ARP held at Back " Creek church near Charlotte, Tuesday. BUILDING PERMIT Building Inspector J. W. Web ster issued a permit Saturday to It. F. McGill, Jr., to erect a brick veneer house on W. Mountain street, at an estima ted cost of $10,000. MOOSE MEETING •Regular meeting of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will ibe held at the lodge Thursday night at 8:15 p. m„ according to an announcement made by Curtis Gaffney, sec retary. Hospital Auxiliary Meeting Tuesday A meeting of Kings Moun tain area women interested in organizing a hospital auxili ary will be held at City Hall courtroom Tuesday night at 7*45, it was announced by Mrs. P. G. Padgett, chairman of the organizing committee. (Purpose of the meeting is to elect officers and for other orginizational details. Six groups will be formed: “pink ladies," sewing division, landscaping division, nurse’s activities division, membership i committee, and publicity-his tory committee. All women interested In ser ' ving in the auxiliary in any of life the several capacities are invit 9%ed to attend, Mrs. Padgett Hboted. City Likely To Show Surplus For Current Year Wright Seeking Nomination For Register Of Deeds Post ELECTED — Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr., was elected Tuesday as chef de gate of Voi ture Locale 1180, 40 & 8, in a meeting of the American Legion fun-making organization at Lin colnton. The voiture serves sev en counties. Logan To Head 40 & 8 Voiture . Voiture Locale 1180, 40 & 8, fun society of the American Le gion elected Hugh A. Logan, Jr., Kings Mountain police chief, as chef de gare for the coming year at a meeting in Lincolnton Tuesday. Other officers named from Kings Mountain members were F. R. McCurdy, correspondent, Sam Collins, chef de train, and Glee A. Bridges, commissaire, in tendant. All officers will be installed at the May meeting, which will be held here at Bridges Airport, with local area members as hosts at a fish fry. Voiture 1180 includes Cleve land, Lincolnton, McDowell, Rutherford and Polk counties. Pianists Win Top Ratings Five Kings Mountain pianists won top ratings last Saturday in district piano contests at Salis bury. Each received ratings of “1” oi “superior”. They were Peggy Joyce Rey nolds, who played in the senioi high school division, and Puckj Lewis, Susan Kesler, Joyce Plonk and Jimmy Plonk, all of whom played in the junior high school division. Susan Kesler is a student ol Mrs. Hilde Kreutzer, of Gastonia and the other pianists are pupils of Mrs. Martin Harmon. Miss Reynolds will play in the state contest at Greensboro or April 21. filing Deadline Foi County Posts Is Saturday Noon Wilbur W. (Ebb) Wright, for mer Kings Mountain citizen, an nounced Wednesday he would be a candidate for register of deeds, subject to the May 26 Democra tic primary. Mr. Wright will oppose Dan Moore, the incumbent, in the May primary. Another political development of the past week was the filing of notice of candidacy by Elmer G. Ross, of Kings Mountain, for Number 4 Township constable. Ross’ entry into the race brings the number of candidates for this position to five. Others seek ing the nomination are C. A. (Gus) Huffstetler, the incum bent, Ben Sessoms, Robert Ruff and William (Bill) Huff stickler. All have formally filed with the county board of elections. Wright had not paid his fil ing fee Wednesday afternoon, but had talked with Elections Board Chairman J. W. (Bill) Osborne. Mr. Osborne noted that poten tial candidates have only until noon Saturday to file for politi cal office subject to the May pri mary. Mr. Wright, onetime Kings Mountain barber, is a son of the late Julius A. Wright. The can didate was educated in Shelby and Kings Mountain schools and was graduated from Kings Moun tain high school in the class of 1929. He served in World War II for 14 months and subsequent to his discharge served nine years as a state driving license examiner. He has recently com pleted a course at Howard Busi ! ness college. j He said, “I have never asked ] the voters of Cleveland County for any public office, nor has any member of my immediate fa mily. If nominated and elected register of deeds, I shall endea vor to perform the duties of the office to the best of my ability.” Mr. Wright is a mepiber of Eastside Baptist church. He is married and the father of four children. Other county-wide races are few as the filing deadline ap proaches. One contest has developed for the county board of commission ers for District I (also to be county-wide this year) between Incumbent Zeb V. Cline and George Leukhardt, both of Shel by. Six contestants sleek the five nominations for the county school board, including Edwin Moore, C. D. Forney, Jr., Dr. Richard Maybin, Walter Davis, B. Austell, and W. H. (Coot) Lutz. Dr. Maybin is the challen ger, as the other members are currently serving on the board. Continued On Page Eight Tax Supervisor Carpenter Gets Leave; Webster To Be In Charge Clarence E. Carpenter, city tax supervisor, was granted a six months leave of absence and J. W. Webster, city building inspec tor, was named acting tax su pervisor by the board of commis sioners last Thursday night. The leave of absence is to be come effective April 15. It was Requested by Mr. Carpenter in a letter read to the board. Mr. Carpenter wrote that he needed the time for hospitalization in 'order to recuperate from ill ef fects of an operation he under went last year. In turn, the board voted to move the tax office into the ma yor's office, and designated Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr., to serve as acting clerk of recorder’s court, a position also held by Mr. Carpenter. The ma yor will take over quarters in the former tax office. Mr. Carpenter, in his office Wednesday, said he was feeling better and might withdraw *his request for a leave of absence. He said he would ask the mayor to call a special meeting to con sider the situation. Otherwise, the city board up ped grave-digging fees for vault size graves to $15, leaving as it was the $10 fee for regular-size graves. The board also renewed, with minor changes, the city’s water : contract with Foote Mineral Company. The contract is to run for five years, subject to revi sion annually on initiation from either party to the contract. Ter : mination is also provided on six months’ notice. The change, As sistant City Clerk Joe McDainiel said, changes the contract to con form to regularly-charged city rates for water, including the ten percent outside-the-city differen tial. It meant a slight increase in water rates for Foote, Mr. McDaniel said. Foote now uses about four million gallons of city water monthly. Foote has used up to 10 million gallons month ly. The commissioners deferred, for rpcpipf of option contract form and construction specifi cations, action on a Charlotte man’s request for option to pur chase a tract In Mountain Rest cemetery for the building of a crypt. The board discussed without action thfe problem of collecting Continued On Pag* Sight CANDIDATE — William (Bill) Huffstickler is one of five candi dates for the Democratic nomi nation for Number 4 Township constable, subject to the May 26 primary. H. H. Houston Rites Conducted Funeral rites ror H. H. Houston, 67, former Kings Mountain tex tile official and school trustee, were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Pageland, S. C., Presbyterian church. Mr. Houston died at 12 $2 early Tuesday morning in Mercy hos pital, Charlotte, where he had undergone a major operation a few days earlier. Since leaving Kings Mountain 22 years ago, Mr. Houston has been associated with Palmetto Yarn Mills, of Pageland, one of a group of mills acquired by Hor vath textile interests from the C. E. Neisler family of Kings Mountain. He came to Kings Mountain to serve as secretary treasurer of the Phenix Mill (now, DuCourt), when that firm' was owned by E. A. Smith. Mr. Housfon was a son of the late Col. and Mrs. George Porter Houston, of Baltimore, Md. He was an active Presbyterian, serv ing as an elder of the Pageland church and clerk to the session. He also for 15 years taught the men’s- Sunday school class, was active in the Pageland Red Cross, Boy Scout organization and other civic work. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Ella Mae Kidd, and five sons, Samuel Humes Houston, Kings Mountain, Henry Hopkins Continued On Page Eight Kiwanians Plan Charter Night Kings Mountain Kiwanis club will hold its annual Charter Nighf at its regular meeting Thursday night at the Kings Mountain Woman’s club. The Rev. Roy Leinbach of Newton will be the guest speak er. Rev. Leinbach is pastor of the Reform church in Star Town. He is an active member of the Newton Kiwanis club of which he is president. He has also served at Lt. Governor of District II, and at one time served in the State Legislature. All Kiwanians and past presi dents are invited to attend and bring their ladies. Bethware Seniors To Present Ploy The senior class of Bethware jhigh school will present the ! three-ace farce, “The Daffodils” Friday night at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. Mrs. N. F. McGill, Jr., is di recting the production Admis sion is 40 cents for adults and 25 cents for children Included in the cast are Joe Chapman, who has the role of Richard Dill; Sarah Mae Ham rick, who portrays Carol Dill; David Herndon as Rodney Dill' Bonnie Welch as Doris Dill; Em mett Moss as Dudley Dill; Nancy Bell as Grandmother Dill; Mari lyn Green as Cousin Maude Mat tix; Mona Hamrick as Elaine Es cot; Sonyia Goforth as Amy Lo well; Kenneth Randall as Pete Norton; Lib Bolin as Widow Woggles; and Betty Moore as Arnica Jukes. -<3 Sandra Plonk, Robert Plonk Win Contests Robert Plonk, fifth-grade West School student, won the Neisler Declamation medal in the annual contest conducted at Central School Wednesday afternoon. Sandra Plonk, sixth-grade stu dent at Central School was the winner of the Baker Reading medal. The competition saw the win ners from Central, East, and West Schools competing for the medals in each division. Central’s l-epresentatives were Sandra Plonk and Paul Rollins; Barbara Ford and Wayne Laugh ter represented East School; and ( West’s representatives were Ro bert Plonk and Joyce Plonk. The winning declamation was entitled “We The People," and the winning reading entry was “Let Brotherly Love Continue.” Judges lor the contests were the Rev. Aubrey Quakenbush, Mrs. F. A. McDaniel, Jr., and Mrs. William Herndon. Special music by the eighth grade Central school choral group, directed by Miss Marga ret Cole, was presented between the reading and declamation con tests. Students Win Science Awards Students from Kings Mountain high scnool won a first ana three second prizes last Saturday in the ssoum Piedmont district Sci ence fair hcia at Davidson col lege. capturing a first place honor was jioriija Kay Hamrick, for her essay on “Wild Life.” winning second pjace honors were nances Williams, for her essay on •x.ardinais'’; Dianne pansier, tor ner essay on “Wild Lpe ’, and Bill Early, for his bi ological project entry. me following students won certificates of participation from tne north Carolina Junior Acad emy of Science Fairs: Beth rtooerts, Gertrude Pearson, Edward Blanton, Larry Carpen ter, Mary Ann tseam, Peggy Joy ce Reynolds, William Ivey, Cur tis George, Karl Moss, Phillip Padgett, Donald McKinney, and Donald Parker. Miss Odessa Black and W,. O. McKeown, teachers of science in •central High School, attended tne Science Fair. ft was the first year Kings Mountain High School has par ticipated in the Science Fair. Officeis List Two Break-Ins Cleveland County Sheriff De partment officers reported a pair of (break-ins in the Kings Moun tain area during the past week. Keeter’s Food and Dry Goods Store in Grover was entered Sun day night and a quantity of goods taken. (Reports indicated that the thieves took 100-124 car tons of cigarettes, 100 pairs of ladies’ nylon stockings, about 10 pairs of men’s blue jeans, and several women’s dresses. Entry was made by breaking a large glass pane from the front door of the store. The other break-in occurred Monday night at West End Gro cery on Shelby road. The back door to the store was forced open a,;d approximately $25 was taken. Both cases are being investi gated by Sheriff Department of ficers. Welch Services Held On Monday Funeral services were held Monday at Midview Baptist church for Richard Pinkney Welch, 50, brother of Mrs. Gary Carpenter and Mrs. Robert Ear ney of Kings Mountain, who died Saturday. Survivors, other than the sis ters, include his wife, Mrs. Eula Mae Hamby Welch; two daugh ters, Evelyn and Joyce Welch; and five sons, Richard, Jr., Char 'es. Jimmy, Harold and Billy Welch, all of the horrie. The Rev. Otis Hayes and the Rev. C. A. Ramsey officiated. Burial was in a Cherryville ce metery. Mr. Welch was the son of the late John and Omie Pressley Welch. Two AFL Unions Seek Foote Vote AT FIRST BAPTIST — Rev. Ad rian Blankenship, Southern Bap tist missionary to Brazil and for mer pastor of Lenoir's First Bap tist church, will conduct revival services at First Baptist church beginning Sunday and continu ing through April 22. Services will be held each evening at 7:30. Pathologist Mattes Talked The Cleveland County hospi tals joint conference committee discussed last Friday the ques tion of Kings Mountain hospital participation in the employment of a pathologist but reached no decision. Previously the iboard of hospi tal trustees had authorized em ployment of a pathologist for Shelby hospital. Original suggestion had been to employ a pathologist on a fee basis, but Kings Mountain phy sicians contended that the local hospital did not require a patho ologist to the extent proposed. In turn, Number 4 Township trus tees objected that the proposed basis of payment — 40 percent of all laboratory fees (except char ity cases) — would jeopardize the financial position of Kings Mountain hospital. Dr. Frank Watgon, leading prospect for the position wa^ pre sent for the joint conference committee discussion in Shelby last Friday. Members of the committee are George W. Laycock, Grady How ard, Lewis Hovis, Ladd W,. Ham rick, Dr. W. L. Ramseur, Dr. H. C. Thompson, ,Dr. R. C. Cloninger, and Dr. J. C. McGill. Officers Blow Liquor Still Deputy Sheriff L. L. Ham rick and Constable. Gus Huffstet ler put anothter liquor still out of commission last Saturday, when they set off a charge of dynamite under a 125-gallon boi ler. The officers had spotted the still, with a load of mash “working” a few days before. But the owners failed to show again, at least while the officers were maintaining a watch, Depu ty Hamrick reported. The Still was located in the Allen Memorial Baptist church area, on Beeson’s Creek. NLRB Hearing On Petition Set For Monday A hearing has been scheduled for Monday by the National La- I bor Relations district board in j Gastonia to determine whether | two American Federation of La bor unions have sufficient mem- j bership to justify calling of a la- ; bor representation election at j Foote Mineral Company. Two AFL unions, the Brother- ; hood of Operating Engineers and ' Teamsters, have filed a joint pe tition seeking an (election. The same unions collaborated in seeking and obtaining an elec tion recently at Lithium Corpo ration’s Bessemer City plant, when the employees voted aga inst union representation by a narrow margin. It is the second effort by la bor unions to organize Foote Mineral Company employees. Previously, the CIO Steelworkers sought and obtained an election, but the election results a heavy majority of Foote employees aga inst the proposal for Steelwork er representation. Cancel Drive Going Well Mrs. J. H. Arthur, chairman of the American Cancer Society’s Kings Mountain fund campaign drive, reported Wednesday that first reports from canvassers have Ibeen “good.” She added that not enough re ports had ibeen made to make a financial report at this time, however. Members of the Kings Moun tain Junior and Senior Woman’s Clubs are conducting the solici ting of funds in the city this. year. The quota for Kings Moun tain has been set at $2,000. Mrs,. Arthur had announced earlier that the campaign is ex pected to be completed in a 10 day period, with house-to-house canvasses planned. Cleveland County’s quota in the nation-wide drive is set at $10,000. The funds will primarily be used for research to discover improved means of combating cancer, and for financial aid to needy cancer victims. / - George McKenzie Wins Promotion George McKenzie, historian at Kings Mountain national mili tary park since May, 1953, has been promoted to senior historian at Fort McHenry National Park, Baltimore, Md., it was announc ed this week by Ben Moomaw, Kings Mountain superintendent. Mr. McKenzie is the author of the official handbook on the Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park and also author of the handbook on Fort McHenry, where he served for six years be fore coming to Kings Mountain. Mr. McKenzie is a graduate of John Hopkins university, Balti more, where he majored in hist ory. Flem Mauney One 01 4.300 Students Eligible For Merit Scholarship Flem Mauney, son o fMr. and Mrs. Paul Mauney of Kings Mountain, has been named as one of 4,300 top notch high school seniors throughout the nation who have just been awarded cer tificates of merit by the Nation al Scholarship Corporation. These students were selected from hundreds of thousands of students in 10,388 high chools en tered in the competition. Mauney, an outstanding senior at Central High School, has been active in school activities. He served as president of National Honor Society, a marshall dur ing the 1955-56 year, is a mem ber of the Key Club, and has been a band member for four years during which time he has served on the band council and is a member of the Band Letter club. He recently won the Federat ed Woman’s club district piano contest, and will compete in the state finals on Saturday. He holds the Life rank in Boy Scouts, and serves as vice-mo derator of Presbytery Youth Council of Senior High Fellow ship for Kings Mountain Presby tery. Mauney’s name, along with the other certificate winners, will be given to various colleges and universities throughout the na tion for consideration in award ing scholarships. The Merit Scholarships will be awarded about May 1, with 504 scholarships valued at $3 mil lion to be given. Each of the scholarships will have an average total value of $6,000 to the student and college and will cover four academic years. Report Indicates First Black Ink Year In Four The City of Kings Mountain has good prospects of finishing a fiscal year without a deficit for the first time, in four years, financial report for the first three quarters of the year indi cates. The report was presented by City Clerk Gene Mitcham to the board of commissioners last Thursday night at the regular April meeting and shows 1) ex penditures through the first nine months of the fiscal year totaled $406,522.38 against budget esti mates $498,963.33, and 2) receipts are running well, ahead of es timates. Mr. Mitcham accompanied. his teeport with the verbal warning “it’s no time to get reckless.” The detailed report showed that four departments, general, administrative, police, water and sewer, have spent more than three-fourths the appropriations of last July and will either have to operate for the remainder of the year on short rations or be. rescued by deficiency appro priations, which could be hand led either by budget-upping a intendments, or departmental transfers of funds. Light and power department had spent an even 75 percent of appropriations, while all other departments were “under spent” on the basis of the 75 percent test. Mr. Mitcham noted, how ever, that street department ex penditures would zoom up with the end of winter weather. Through March, rectelpts had totaled $475,729.56. No less than 14 categories of receipts showed budget estimate surpluses. A mong the major ontes were: prior years taxes, 286 percent of bud get or $17,199 against an estima ted $6,000; street assessments, 265 perctent of budget, or collec tions of $13,261 against budget estimate of $5,000. Current year taxes were repor ted paid, and sale of utilities had rteturned the city $215,154, or 80. 9 of the estimate for the. full 'ear. Departmental hrough March 31 Cemetery Administrative street sanitary 3olice "ire General iVater & Sewer Light and Power Court expenditures follows: 4,563.79 15,838.50 35,875.71 18.576.01 32.410.01 14,388.27 43,746.95 44,574.05 105,426.07 1,982.50 Honor Society Taps Kincaid David Kincaid, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Kincaid, was recent ly elected to the national prgan ization of "Scabbard and Blade” at N. C. State College, in Raleigh, where he is a member of the ju nior class. Membership into the honorary military fraternity is based on scholastic attainment and Re serve Officers Training Corps leadership. Mr. Kincaid has also achieved the rank of Cadet First Sergeant highest rank attainable by a Mil itary Science III student. His wife is the former Miss Lossie Lynch. School Group Is Meeting Tonight The annual meeting of Dis trict 14, North Carolina School Boards Association will be held at Wilson Junior High School, Mecklenburg County, Thursday night at 7 o’clock. Arnold W. Kincaid of Kings Mountain is president of the Dis trict 14 organization. Supt. B. N. Barnes i,s secretary of the group. Mayor Asks Again For ”29-A" Marking Mayor Glee A. Bridges is still seeking State Highway & Public Works commission des ignation of the former U. S. 29 route as Highway 29-A. The Mayor reported to the board of commissiohers last Thursday he had written High way Commission Chairman A. H. Graham and had enclosed a copy of a newspaper clipping reporting that plans to elimi- * nate Shelby’s ‘74-A” designa nation had been shelved. Chairman Graham had repli ed, the Mayor added, that he was referring the request to the engineering department.