5)
Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21.914
City Limits 8.465
The Greater Kings Mountain iigurc Is derived Irom the
Special United States Bureau of the Census report of
January, 1966. and Includes the 14.990 population of
Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 from
Number S Township, in Cleveland County ond Crowders
Mountain Township in Gaston County.
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL 84 No. 5
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February t, 1973
Eighty-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
City-Wide Thanksgiving For Peace Service Sunday
«
K Mills. Inc.
Is Building
Office Adffition
K Mills, Inc., is buil(ii'n';» a ima-
jor addit'i<?n to its office at its
plant on Marie street.
The firm has purchased city
birildmig permit for a 40 x 40 foot
addition, cstiimated to cost $28,-
^,owry Hood, of Mt. HoHy, Is
arcihitect and Robertson-Davis, of
Ga.stonia, is contractor.
Also purchasing building per
mits durig the past week was
Camp Development Coinporation
to build two six-room homes, es
timated cost $17,000 eak^h, at 415
and 419 .Sl.'otland Drive.
Other permits:
Don Ware, 409 Can.sler Street,
$300 utility building and demoli
tion permit for two storage build-
ing.s.
Ivan M. Lawsan, trailer place
ment, Second Street Extension.
Ih.-bert Ivey, Stinnett Acres,
trailer placement.
Incidence Of Influenza Is Heavy
Former Roller Mill jjjnjBcepiiiie Lake Vandaliim?
Than Youngsters
Property Acquire i
West Gold Tract
Bought Foi CBD
Redevelopment
By GARY STEWART
Many Kings Mountain rilizon.s
arc out of work an<i school ab
senteeism ha.s skyroc‘ket(xi due to
a recent outbreak of the flu.
Police Checking
KMHS
To Clinics
The Kings Mountain high
school choir is among 300 high
school s-n.^er.i from Ih;' wcstr'rn
half of N( rth C;;iolina ami -cst-
ern Tennessee who will altend
the 2oth annual choral clinic. Feb.
9 and 10 at Mars Hill college.
Dr. Daniel Moe, director of cho
ral activities at the Oherlin Col
lege Conservatory of Music, Oliio,
will servo as guest director for
the “silver anniversary” of the
clinic,, one of the oldest in the
nation according to Joel Stegull,
music department and choir dir-
tor at Mars Hill.
Two public concerts will be gi-
n in conjunction with clinic.
The first will be Friday, Fob. 9,
by the Mars Hill Colie' vO ciioir;
the second will be Salurrlay. I 'b.
Whether or not the bug which
has struck local iMople is the
London llu hius not iieen dolor-
mined, acewding to a lo:'.il phy
sician. “We have sent .«ame te?ts
to Atlanta to determine whotlier
cr not it's the London flu,” he
said, ‘but most likely it is.”
The do-jlur, who ci'd not want
to bo -idcntifioil, .said that he
ha.s been seeing about 40 to 50
cases a day, one-third inorease
of what he normally sees.
The flu is apparently affecting
all ages a.s both the Kings M-aun-
CONTESTANT — Judy Royfield-
Kings Mountain junior at West
ern Carolina University, is a
contestant in the "Miss Cata
mount" pageant to be held in
Cuilowhee February 5-7.
kdy Bayfield
In WCU Pageant
By MARTIN HARMON
Kings Mountain Rodevelcpment
C''mmission ha.s purchased from
Mauney Mill.s„ Inc., a portion of
the former Ware & Sons roller
mill property, among the pmper-
ties the commiiss'ion requrr^ to
implement 'the central business
district redevelopment project.
The property, for which the
commission paid $18,000, contains tain District Schools and local
approximately 32,500 square feet, plants report excessive ab-sences.
ItreXanf 182^Lt"o.r^nr^d. The pcr.scnnel manager of one
The trapezoidal-shaped tract line looal plant reported that h^ ab^
then grs northwest 233.f..t and d'nh
appear to be getting better, he
said. "It appears to be leveling
off somewhat,” he noted, "but
I don’.t think it*s going away. Peo
ple that I’ve talked to that have
had it say they’ve never hail
anything to compare with it. It
really gets you down.”
School officials report that ab
senteeisms almo-st doubled dur-
ing the p^ist wce*k and most of
!Se Service
Cists During
1 Second Crisis
northeast along the Pbiifer lot
93 feet.
Purchase price was $18,000.
The remaining portion of the
original Ware property is now
I^artially oocupied by Kings
Mountain Knit Fabrics, Inc. Pur
chase price by Mauney Mills for
the total original tract was
$35,000.
Gene White, director of the re-
developfment commission, said
iunior ^ change in the West Gold
J street location to eliminate the
lempie Gold street rail crossing. a local druggist repcited hij»
10 by the clinic choir. Loth c* n- Smith at Western Carolina Un- Meantime the redevelopment pre.s(‘ripticn service for flu-relat-
certs will begin at 7 p.m. a.icl iversity in Cuilowhee^ is a con- on and the City of Kings od viruses has .slimvn an increase
Miss Judy
voice student
Rayfiold,
of Dr.
testant in the "Miss Catamount
pageant to te heUl on the W'CU
clinic (aiTii>uJ February 5-7.
Kings Mountain student,
.laughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
will to held in Moore Au-lit<jr
ium.
Moe will conduct the
choir in numbeus by
Haydn, Schumann, Handel and
in two of his own compositions. j
"Stranger, Share Our Fire” and sponsored
"Hosanna to the Son of David.
Theta Xi Fraternity.
Meeks Sentence
Is Suspended
^ fl^>
A Kings Mountain man plead
ed guilty to assault with a d(*ad-
ly weapon, inflicting serious bo
dily injury, in Cleveland County
Superior Court Friday morning.
Thomas .Meeks, 43 of 111 t'hiid-
ers stieet, pleaded guilty to the
July IS. 1972 pistol shooting of Grove Youth Choir.
Willie Smith.
Judge W. K. Meix'an gave
Mocks a two-year suspended jail
term and placwl him on a pro
bation for five years. He also
ordered Meeks to pay into the
offic'o of the clerk of Superior
Court $10 pt‘r week for thi-ee
years. At the end of that period
the money is to bo turhcKl over
o Smith for damages suffered.
Meeks was also ordered not to
)o.';sess or drink liquor nor to
possess a firearm for five years.
Miountain are seeking TeiJlace-
ment of ^he crossing with an un
derpass.
The buildings, which ineludo
the roller mill proper, a onetime
by wholesale grocery warehouse and
onetime cotton gin, are to be
razed in the near future, Mr.
She is member and soloist of White said,
the University Concert Choir
which will go on tour In the
state in February. Miss Rayfield
was selected to sing at the Ma-
<iiigal Christmas dinners held on
campus and also had a leading
role in the musical play, "Fan*
PLANT MANAGER — Richard
Long has assumed new duties
as plant manager of Carlton's
Knitting Division here.
Cailton Yams
Taps Lcng
Charles \\'. Hammer Vue Prt'-
the central business project plan absoiwc^ wcre related to flu. sident of ManuLutuiing at Carl-
rails for the property to be used affected many ton, Incorporated, has announced
<— .. ir. w#Mst Gold ” appoiiitnieni Richard II. Long
as Plant Manager of Ciuulton’s
Knitting Division at Kings
Mountain.
Mr. foniKM-ly of Durliam.
and wife, Joan X(".ve]l ,'f Kith-
non 1, Va.. live w.th their two
(hildrt'Ti in Sunbeam Acres in
Cherryville.
of about 40 percent since the first
of the year. He added the flu
seems to be at its peak now.
"It seems to bo affecting mosrt-
ly people age 25 and up,” lie not
ed. "The increast» is not too much
with young cliildrcn. Their pro
blems seem
Sanitation
Ratings Listed
All five Kings Mountain mo-
tastics” which was presented by hospital, Quality Sand-
llie Music Department of WCU. Company, two foo<lstands,
A member of the Choir of Pat- 13 meat markets 15
tor.son Grove Baptist church she <aurants an_d all schoeds but^one
;s also director of the Patterson
Mr. Long was recently em{»li\v-
^ cl at the Pinnacle Plant of Kur-
to bo more on the linglon In.iustrios in Cherryville
and had been associated with
that firm for the i»ast five years.
He is a graduate of Catawba
roll(*g(‘ in Salisbury, N. C., where
lie inajorod
istration.
Mr. airl Mr<. Long are mcm-
iers of the Fir. 1 Presbyterian
High school .students wlio are chunh of Cherryville and he
members (»f the Fulurt» Business teaches Sunriay .School for Y uing
Leaders of America cUih will Adults. He is acli\e in ih^'Clieiry-
conduct a house-to-liou.se canvass ville Cpiimi.st Club as their pro
of gram direrttn* an i has i een a
mcnilx'r of the Kiwannis and
line of bronchial trouble.”
FBLA Students
March Sunday
The city had its seecnd wat n*
cri.sis in three weeks last Thu:-i*
day, a.s the pomps at the Buffalo
La:;e treatment sank aagin. But
the plant was back in operation
Thuisday night, without any cut
backs of .service.
•'We vw.re better prepared the
second time,” Mayor John Henry
Moss ccimmented. He referred to
the fact of “^piire pumps on
hand”—the city’s which had
sunk January 12, and which had
been prepare*! in anticipated the
b .rrowed one to the regional civil
delense agen<*y.
Meant.me, the State Bureau oI
Inve-stigation, has joined Sherifl
Haywood Allen and Chief of Po
lice Torn NEcDevitt in seeking to
de'ermine whether van<lall>m oi
t'he; skullduggery might have
b(‘en involvtKi in one or both
.sinkings of the temporary pumps,
doing tiieir job from pontoons.
Col. W, K. Dickson, the city’s
(.iigint-'er, lhink.s there might
have been. i>arti;cularly the sink'
ing discovered last Thursday
m.riling.
Full pumpage was restored la.sl
Friday vvlien the second pump
was in.--la lied. The -plant Is now
( CMible cf pumping 4,5OO,0lX) gal-
lon.s daily.
Though no SOS had been issu
ed to any user to pare usrige,
:Mayor Moss noted. SjKvtrum Te.x-
lured Kibcr.s, one of the cKy's
largest users, cut back voluntari-
^ "The fact (rf pumps on hand
and the exporieme of the first
crisis made the quick restoration
iflf operaTion.s p.)s.sible,” -the May
er said, adding, ‘‘the Thank you’
list Ls the .same as two weeks be-
in Bus ness Admin- fore, with some additions.”
Tile Slielby Scuba divers, Gro
ver and Ivings Mountain Rcsc-uc
squad, Naticnal Guard Comi>any
lOotli Engineers, eity crews, and
Governor Jim Holshouser, city
engineers and the general con*
tractor and the civil defen^ Qg-
(Cuntlnucd On Faye S'u'f
HONORED — L. A. Wolfe, Sr..
Gaston County dairyman who
was a founder of Sunrise Doiry,
ha? honored recently by the
North Carolina Dairy Products
Association with the 1972 Dis
tinguished Service Award. The
oward was presented ort the
concluding bonquet of the asso-
ciat cn's 39th annual conven
tion in Pinehurst.
ALPHA DELTA KAPPA
The Kings Mountain chapter
of Al])ha Delta Kappa, teacher
.somrity, will hold regular meet
ing Monday night at 7:30 in
the Ccnumunity Room of Kings
M»>untain Savings & Loan A.sso-
oiatlon on West Mountain
street. Ho.stesse.s will be Mrs.
L. Arnold 'Ki.ser and Mrs.
Franklin L. Ware, Jr.
received A grade ratings for food bimefit of the March
handling by the Cleveland Coun- Saturday and Sunday,
ty Health Department. Charlie Harry of Giover, drive Ja .cecs.
Inspections were made by San- said all pn)ce(vds from Mr. Long .says that he enjoys
itarians Ralph W. Dcxlmond, Bill drive'will be earmarked for li\ing in Cherryville and the op-
Thompson, Dean Harrill and Ken into the cause of birth p(trtunity and cliallenge of oper-
^lartin. ^ defects ating the new Charlion Knits Di-
Lodging places receiving "A” nat.onal organization
ratings were Kings Mountain Business Leaders of both single and double knit mac ,,
Motor Court, Kings Mountain sponsoring the .March bines and is continuing to om- atiocaie
Hunt Bill KM
Share $357,600
of vision. The plnnt now oporatos llunfs
Truck Plaza, Motel RoyaJ, Rock
Motel. Royal Villa Motor Inn.
Kings Mountain hospital
ceived rating of "A”.
Kings Mountain schools will re-
Kop. Jack II
$109,000,000
Quality Sandwich Company (;.jtizens Saturday
of Dimes effort, said Mrs. Grady |)loy a Iditional knitters due
Howard, advisor for the KMIIS its expans:on.
chapter. Mrs. Howard said .some
of the students will call on area
Another Record Year—Best Ever—
At Home S & L; Assets $19,313,697
Home Savings & Loan As.so(?ia-
tion had a record year—its 49th
—in 1972.
At the recent an-nual meeting,
shareholders heard reports on
the 1972 operation.? and re-elect-
od dirootors. Following the meet
ing, directors re-eleoted officers.
Highlights of the report, pre
sented by Thomas A. Tate, exe
cutive vR'C-president, were:
Assets inoreavsed 24.2 percent,
or $3,762,228, to $19,313,697.
Savings increa.sed 21.5 percent,
or $3,039,053. to $17,172,916.
Mortgage loans increased 21.2
percent, or $2,864,345, to $16,365,-
845.
Dividends paid .shareholders
totaled a record $831,1.55.
The a.ssociation added $121,864
to it? reserv'C.s, which at year-end
Bncludod $258,702 in the rc.serve
account for bad debts, and $748,-
518 in the fedciral insurance re
serve account, both the re.servo
funds totaling $1,007,220.
Other a.ssocialion assets includ
ed $282,234 in cash, $1,639,009 in
Grocery; Community Gro-
bonds, and share loans of $387,- eery; Falls Grocery; Gault Gro-
750, office buildings $172,626, and eery; Harris Teeter; J&C Meat
office furniture and fixtures at Processing; Ole Country Store;
$4-1,102. 'Macs Grocery & Meats; Pauline
During the surruner tihe asso- Stoi^; Waco Road Grocery; Winn
elation opened its new branch Dixie.
building in Bc.s.st>mcr City. Grade B markets in the area
During 1972 the assolciation are Hambright Grocery d Gro-
made 423 new loan.s and had eery of Grover; Ro’-erts Cash
1903 loans in force at year-end. Grocery; and Weir Grocery.
At year-end the association had
5832 savings accounts. Gcody Barbecue; Griffin
received rating of "A .
Food stands receiving “A” ra
ting were Crossroads Music Park
and Kings Mountain Swimming
Pool.
Grade A markets in the area marching on birth de
are A&P; B&B Food Store; Bla-
lock
afternoon
while others will be working in
the area on Sumlay afteriUM>n.
The drive is being c‘onduct(Ki
s’milarly to the former Moth<*r’s
March on Polio hut instca<l, stu-
SHAREHOLDERS
Annual meeting of shan'linld-
ers of Kings Mountain Saving?
& Lean association will be
held 'in the Community R<K)m
of the a.s.?ocintion offices Feb
ruary 13tb at 2 p.m., Secretary-
Treasurer Kuby H. Baker has
announced.
After 23 Years, Champion Hopes
To Walk Again Without Crutches
BUT IT won’t he that way
of
to tlie state’s surplus for locnl
school construction is approved.
Hunt inirocluced the bill last
Friday. It allows schools to u.se
its share of the funds for schcx)l
construction or for repayment of
e.'cisting school construction debt.
A s'jhool's share is bas(?d on
its average daily enrollment,
which is 4.129 Tor Kings Moun
tain District Schools.
I'nder the bill, CL-velaml
County schools would share in
about $1..5 mdlion. The county
school district, with an enroll
ment of S,619, would receive
$716,500 and the Shelby district,
with an enrolhnent of 4,S61,
would receive $421,000.
Hunt’s bill was intro<lucc:l a
Tax Listing
To End Friday
Friday is the final day for list
ing proix^rty for 1973 ad valorem
taxes.
Tlie last-minute ru.?h has been
on this week, Edwin Moore, Num
ber 4 Township tax lister said
Wednesday. At one time Monday
citizens wanting to list were
queued into the City Hall lobby.
Mr. Mocre thinks the final
township total will prove larger
in number than last year.
"There are many new citizens
lusting this yeaT,” he commented,
adding that a number who listed
by mail last year are listir^
their properties at City Hall this
year.
All property owners art* requir
ed to ILst personal projx'rty for
ta.xes. Realty is carried from
year to year. H()wever. any wiio
have sold or otherwise transferr
ed proijerty during 1972 should re
port Hie transaction.
Home owners over 65, with a
gross income of less than $3;)«X)
per year are qualifi(*d for a prop
erty tax homestead ext*mpt4on.
Application must be made an
nually, and blanks may be* ob-
taineti from tht local listers or
from the county tax office in
Shelby. Application deadline is
April 15. 1-
Thieves Net
$1,000 Haul
Nearly $1,000 worth of hou.se-
lioid gtx)ds wius stolen from a
home here sometime between
Jan. 10 and Jan. 24, police lea.n
ed y(*slerday.
Police rt'i>orted Mar>' Ertest ol
Kings Mountain had moved her
belongings into a home at 204
Blanton St., in Kings Mountain
but had been living with hw
mother-in-law for the past two
weeks.
When she returned to the home
yest(*rda\' nearly cveiything she
owned was stolen. Among the
missing items w(*re all of the
family's clolht's, all of the baby's
toy.s, an oil lieater, electric blan
ket. a number of eli'clrical appli-
ames, a baby .'iirollcr, make-up
mimr and a jewelry case.
Politx* r(*ported entry to the
liomt* was apparently made
through an unlocked door.
Pastors, City
Are Sponsoring
Celebration
‘Thanksgiving for Peace” ser
vices will be held in vhtually all
Kings Mountain churches Sunday
morning.
The Kings .Mountain Minister
ial .Vssc.ciation and the City of
Kings Mountain are .jxjnsorini
the .services which culminate a
celebration of "special Thanksgiv
ing” designated in tlie city by
the mayor and city commission.
"To give thanks for peace and
to honor and exjjress our mixst
humble and sincere appreciation
to all veterans and sersicemon
and their faimilies; to those w'ho
made the supreme sacrifice Of
giving their lives and to their
families; to those who are miss
ing in action and their famHies
and to all prisoners of war and
their fa'milie.s” will be e.>lpiressod
in the worship services.
A resolution establishing the
time between Wednesday, Janu
ary 31 and Sunday, February 4rh,
as a special period of ‘Thanks
giving for Peace” in Kings Moun
tain was signed by Mayor John
H. Mass and Commissioners Ray
Cline of Ward 1; W. S. Biddix ol
Ward 11; T. J. EIlis(>n of Ward
III; Norman King of Ward IV;
Jonas Bridges of Ward V and Jim
Dickey of W’ard VI.
NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT RE
SOLVED by the Mayor and the
Board of Commissioners for the
City of Kings Mountain. North
Carolina, that the period oi time
between Wednesday. January 31,
1973 and Sunday, February 4th,
be, and it hereby is, proc*Iailmed
as a special period of ‘Thanks
giving for Peace” in the City of
Kings Mountain, and that this
period be, and hereby is, dedicat-f
ed to the proposition that the
ending of the war is a first step
toward building peace in Inck)-
china and Southeast Asia and a
lasting and enduring peace in
our w’orld, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that all churches in the City of
Kings Mountain and area join
with the Kings .Mountain Minis
terial Association lo hold .si)eeial
.'services on Sunday, Febrinwy 4,
to give thanks for peace and to
honor and e.\j)ress our most hum
ble and sincere appreciation to
all Veterans and servict*men, and
their families; to those who made
the supreme .'••acrifite of giving
their lives, and to their famili(*s;
to those who are Missing In Ac-
(Continued On Poyr Six)
Rhea Child's
Rites Today
Funeral services for Victoria
Louise Rhea. tliree-* oar-old
daughter of Mr. an<I Mrs. Jack
Rhea, will lx* conductej Thiirs-
<.4 •' afternoon at 4 p.m. from
OaL Grove Baptist church.
Rev. Bussell Hinton and Rev.
(..ly W^alke*’ will officiate at the
final ntes and interment will be
in Oak Orm^e cemetery.
The child died Tuesday morn
ing at her home.
De.ith was attributed *o pneu
monia.
Surviving are her parei.‘s,
Jack and Joyce Capps Rhea; one
brother. Richard Rhea; and one
sister. Kimb<*rly R.hea. 30th Ot
the home.
Also surviving are her
grandmother, Mrs. Grady Rne»
Kings Mountain and her mate*
nal grandmother, Mt.s. Johnsie
MvCallister of Gastonia.
Little Theatre To Open Friday
Five Show "Bull In China Shop
By LYLE EDWARDS
In The Gastonia Gazette mucli longer. Champion is home (tay after a similar hill wa.s in-
Howard Champion ha-'^n’l slept from the hosiLital, recovei'iiig n-cxluced by Rep. Claude !><*•
on his back for nearly 23 years, an oi)erating in which a surgeon Hruhl. Under DeBruhl’s hill.
Grade A restaurants are Goo(}>-- He can't; he has arthritis so had rehuiit his hips. He expects '•> funds could Ix' us^ for new
Drurr that it froze his hips and twisted throw away his crutches and building only and not ft'r de i ic-
Dircelore are L. G. Patterson, Compa'ny; Kings Mtn. Oafeteu his legs into awkward shapes. start walking normally within tiremont. Under Hunt's bill, funds
Jack H. White, Thomas A. Tate, ia; Jean's F"ish Fry; Kings Moun- He has to sleep on his side in four weeks. .. . „ . ... through tlie county
B. D. Ratteriee, J. H. Thomson, tain Drug; Little Moo; Long- bed. “H ^ ^ miracle, he ^nd. commissioners.
R. S. Plonk, Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, horn Restaurant; Minute Grill; Champion’s condition is so bad "I underwent surgery on Dec. Hunt pointed out
Charles Blanton and Fred Wright, 'Norman and Love Fish Box; Peg- that he can’t sit in a straight 1972. and I vo lia.l no compli- to authorize a $^10'),000,i^K stale-
jr. gy’s Restaurant; Paul Seafood; chair and can’t even cross his cations. There’s een no pam. no wide hon\ issue for school con-
Officers arc J. H. Thomson, pres- Reen’s Cafeteria; Royal Villa legs when he sits down. swelliiv^ no infection The doc- struolion has also fx'cn iniKKluc-
adent; B. D. •Rattorrc'e, vicc-iprcsi- Restaurant- Silver Villa; Burger He hiisn’l taken a step in near- tor says I 11 e as good as new. fxl and its possible his
dent; Tlromias A. Tate, executive House. ' ly 23 years without using crut- .M«‘anwhile he is takin;; it easy Hruhl’s i)ills will lx* c
vk*e-'prpsident; Jat'ob A. Dixon, Carolina Cafe received rating ches. home, waitin.; lor a final wiih the bond i.'-siic iiroposal.
Manager of the Bessemer Ci-ty of "B”. Ho couldn’t straighten up. In clie kun :n February before Hunt said hi.s bill would ‘aK
'Branch and treiisurer; 'Nancy S. Schools receiving grades of “A” his lx*nt-over position he looked l e s lelcastnl to li\o a noimal in piovkling eqiMl ^iiuationa
Seism, secretary; and Rebecca are Bethware, East, Grover, like a midget, less than four feet lile. opportunities for all children. re-
Broome ojid Bonnie Bridgo.s, as- Kings Mountain high school, tall. Champirm, who lives in the Oak gardloss of plan* of residence
*<istant .secretaries and treasurers. Kings Mountain Special Educa- That’s the way it’s been for Grc'vo section of Cb‘veland Coun- and would ".save millions of lax
Babb, Wanda tion. North, and West. the Cleveland County man since ty, went to Orlando, Fla., for dollar.s in intere.st on proposed
Inez Central school received rating his crippling attack of arlhrit.s surgerv .He had heard of Dr. $.3(X),000,OtK) Capital School Inl
and Dc-
•onso)i<lated
Tellers are Joyce
Johnson, Judy Crawford,
state and federal government Lail and Libby Blanton.
(Contmued On Page; SixJ in June of 1950.
(ConUnued On Page Six) provements Act bond election.”
The curtain will go up Friday
at^ S p.m. on opening irghi of
five prmiuetions by the Kings
Mountain Little Theatre of the
mystery-comedy, "Bull in the
China Shop.”
A 12-momlx*r cast will present
the play by C. B. Guilford in
Park Grace auditorium on the
evenings of Friday and Satur
day. Feb. 2 and 3. Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 9 and 10, and
Sunday afternoon. Feb. 11th.
.T(m* Ann Walker Mc'Daniol, ve-
t<*ran Little Theatre performer,
pres cient and director, is direct
ing the play.
lia.'k before the lights is a
popular fH*rformer. also a form
er diivctor and president of the
Little Theatre, Nan Jean Grant
who has the female lead in the
show. Mrs.Grant shares star bil
ling with Roy pedmon of Shel
by. headmaster of Twelve Oaks
Academy. Mrs. Grant is the pro
prietress of the rest home wheix;
all the action takes place and
Deimon is the handsome detec
tive who catches the eyes of all
the female boarders who entice
him into the house via a crime
they’ve commited for him to in
vestigate. Supporting roles are
those of the women residents
of the home: Mrs. Bob Cox, Mrs.
Aubrey Mauney. Mrs. Betty Wat
son. Mrs. O. O. Walker and Mrs.
Sylvia Bruct*. Other members of
the cast are Shony Burgess as
the newspaper reporter and Gary
Watson and David Parker who
assist in the crime investigation.
Among newcomers to the
stage is Mrs. O. O. Walker, for
mer city commissioner and mo
ther of Mrs. McDaniel.
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