Coggins Visit and Local Kiwanis Picnic Notice
Mr and Mrs Harold Coggins visit Chapel Hill this week as he attends the University of North Carolina management institute. The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club plans a picnic meeting Thursday at 6 00 pm at Bethware School hosted by the Bethware community. Otis D Green Post 155 American Legion holds its regular August meeting at Legion Hall Friday night at 8. Commander Sam Collins calls an executive committee meeting for 7 pm Friday ahead of the regular gathering.
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Chapel Hill
Harold Coggins
Mr. Coggins
Management Institute
University of North Carolina
Kings Mountain Kiwanis
Lup
Bethware School
Bethware
Legion
Otis D. Green
American Legion
Legion’ Hall
Sam Collins
Water Plant Reports July Pumpage Totals
City water plant pumped 23 575 000 gallons in July, one of the hottest months. Superintendent George Moss noted July’s total did not break the record set in August 1951 of 27 350 000 gallons.
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George Moss
Moss
Foote Mineral Company
Weekley Accepts First Baptist Call
Richard Foster son of Mr and Mrs Joe Foster received his degree at Newberry College on Friday night August 1 He is a physical education major and served as class president in his senior year He will begin duties as assistant football and basketball coach at Eau Claire High School in Columbia DC on August 15 His wife earned a chemistry degree from Newberry in June and will join Hand Junior High School faculty in Columbia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard
Dick) Foster
Joe Foster
Newberry College
Eau Claire High School
Columbia
D. C
Newberry
Hand
Wilmington Man To Assume Duties Early Next Month
M Gordon Wee of Masonboro Baptist Church Wilmington has accepted a call to serve as pastor, with duties beginning the first week in September. He will succeed Rev T L Cashwell. Wee is a Furman and Southern Baptist Theological seminary graduate. he and his wife have one son. Dr Robert A Dyer has served as supply pastor since Mr Cashwell left.
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M. Gordon Wee
Masonboro Baptist Church of Wilmington
D. F. Hord
Chav Sa Eave
Sepone
T. L. Cash
Weekley
Furman University
Greenville
Southern Baptist ‘Theological Seminary
Louisville
Weekleys
Robert A. Dyer
Gardner- Webb College
Cashwell
Harold Crawford
W. A. Williams
George W. Allen
Mrs Littlejohn Dies Suddenly at 64 in Kings Mountain
Mrs. Nettle Rutledge Littlejohn, 64, died suddenly at 208 Fulton Street at three on Wednesday afternoon from a heart attack. She was the wife of Charles H Littlejohn and a former Kings Mountain Manufacturing employee. Survived by husband and seven children, plus two sisters and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were pending communication with her husband.
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Littlejohn
Charles H Littlejohn
U.S Veterans Hospital
Mountain Home
Tenn
Kings’ Mountain Manufacturing Company
Charles H. Littleohn, Jr
Charlotte
Johnnie Gaston’ Littlejohn
U.S. Coast Guard
Bobby Littlejohn
Kings Mountain
Betty Lee Littlejohn
Mary Ann Littleohn
Edna Nell Stacy
Peggy Grace Frady
Bessemer' City
Maude Hulfstetler
Mollie Pope
Winston Salem
Little League Banquet Set For Monday Night At Masonic Hall
Reservations for Mountain Little League banquet due by Friday. Event at Masonic dining hall Monday at 7 30 p.m. per Red Layton league commissioner. Four teams attenders may pick tickets from Layton or Dr Gerberding. Tickets cost one dollar. Trophies and awards to be presented. Trophies on display at Belk's Men's Store window.
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Kings
Mountain Little League
Masonic Dining Hall
Red Layton
Layton
W. P. Gerberding
Belk’s Men's Store
County Tax Bills Payable At Discount August 1952
August is the month to pay county tax bills and obtain the full two percent discount. The notice urges individuals and businesses to pay promptly to secure the discount.
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Sername
Skettis Tomer
Profesren Uppal Ie Shenae
Local Area Roads Paving Under Way Near Kings Mountain
Grading on a 3.1 mile Kings Mountain farm to market road began Monday as part of paving plans. The route links Kings Mountain Oak Grove road with Highway 4 and is among three short roads slated for surface work. Rev W H Stender, former pastor of St Matthew's Lutheran, will preach at Resurrection Lutheran at 11 with a picnic dinner after services.
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Oak Grove Baptist Church
Oxford
Kings Mountain
Kings Mountain Oak Grove
E. K McGimpsey
State Highway Office
el Bethel Church
Bethlehem Church
Midway
Kiwanis Magazine cover features Nessler at Seattle Ball
Paul M. Nessler Sr. is identified as one member of a group photo used on the August Kiwanis Magazine cover. The image was captured at the Kiwanis International annual convention in Seattle Washington during the President's Ball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul M. Nessler, Sr
Goforth Portrait Drive To Close In Kings Mountain
Kings Mountain native J Lee Settlemyre of Rock Hill has been commissioned to paint the late Miss Lottie Goforth portrait for Kings Mountain hospital. Fund drive for the portrait ends next Wednesday with additional contributions planned and reported to date.
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Goforth
Settlemyre
Lee Settlemyre
Kings Mountain
Rock Hill
8. C
Lottie Goforth
Kings Mountain Hos
Il End
Armeal
Ines Marin Wer
L. P. Baker
Rate Schedule On July Power Bills in Kings Mountain
Kings Mountain citizens faced new utility rates adopted by the city board in June and active with July bills. The overhaul consolidates four former schedules into two, one for residential and one for commercial use, with meter readings combined under single accounts. The city plans to remove extra meters in coming months and implement demand charges once meters support it.
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Kings Mountain
City Board of Commissioners
Historic City Electric Rates Schedule From Early Ledger
The fragment lists SCEDULE RC-LIGHTS and HC-HEATING OR COOKING rates with tiered kwh brackets and monthly minimum charges, plus a combined Schedule 1 for LCH-LIGHTS HEATING AND COOKING and Schedule 1-POWER details. It notes outside city limits add ten percent to total and includes stray numbers and garbled text from the original listing.
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Aks Abe
Kings Mountain to Add 13-Bed Nurses Home
Kings Mountain hospital plans a 13 bed nurses home in the Lottie Goforth Memorial wing era. W. W. Breeze and Associates of Shelby draft plans as a three man Raleigh committee works with the State Medical Care Commission for potential financial support.
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Kings Mountain Hospital
Lottie Goforth
W. W. Breeze & Associates
Shelby ‘Architects
Joe Dixon
Commission
Medical Care Commission
C. C. Horn
Cleveland County Hospital Board of Trustees
R. L. Moser
L Arnold Kiser
Country Club
Mrs MacLeod to Speak at First Presbyterian
Mrs W Murdock MacLeod of New York City, chair of the council of church women of the United States, will visit Kings Mountain to speak to local women on Thursday afternoon August 14 at 3 30 at the First Presbyterian church. A reception in Fellowship Hall will follow and all church women are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Murdock MacLeod
New York City
Council of Church Women of the United
Miller To Explain Power Schedules
City commissioners will hold a special session at 7 30 PM in City Hall with Max Miller, the consulting electrical engineer, to explain the new power rate schedules adopted on his recommendation. Also on the agenda are possible tougher sanitation laws, water rate revisions, and checks on sprinkler system lines. The meeting does not replace the regular monthly session which may be postponed to Tuesday night.
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City Board of Commissioners
City Hall
Max Miller
Miller
M. K. Fuller
Lmits
Fuller
Garland Still
John Charles Accepts Kings Mountain Coaching Return
John Charles, former Lenoir Rhyne backfield ace, announced last Friday his decision to fulfill his Kings Mountain High School assistant coach contract. He had briefly signed with Bessemer City and later accepted the Kings Mountain post, succeeding Jack Sink who resigned for armed service. Charles plans to move his family to the area in about two weeks while the family resumes vacation in Pennsylvania. William Klein will fill the pulpit at Boyce Memorial ARP church at 11 a.m. Sunday.
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John Charles
Lenoir Rhyne College
Kings Mountains High School
Charles
Kings Mountain Beat
Bessemer City High School
Kings Mountain School
Jack Sink
Armed Services
Pennsylvania
William Klein
First Presbyterian Church
Boyce Memorial Arp Church
Grover Fire Destroys Three Firms in Grover
A Monday night blaze in Grover destroyed three business establishments and the Masonic Lodge, with initial losses over 50 000 dollars. Grover Cleaners owned by Plato Heavener a Kings Mountain resident. a beauty shop run by Joyce Falls Cashion also of Kings Mountain. and People's Drug Company owned by Roland Tate. Buildings owned by Harold Herndon who had bought them from Warren Hicks. Firefighters from Kings Mountain Shelby and Blacksburg fought the blaze about two hours. Cause not yet determined though Heavener cited an overheated motor at his plant as a possibility. Some occupants lacked adequate insurance. cleaning firm had limited coverage and the drug firm and beauty shop had none. Fire prevented spread to neighboring buildings.
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Grover
Masonic Lodge
Grover Cleaners
Plato J. Heavener
ofKings Mountain
Joyce Falls Cashion
Kings Mountain
Mary Reed Norman
People’s Drug Company
Roland Tate
Harold Herndon
Warren Hicks
Shelby
Blacksburg
S. C
Heavener
Minette Mills
Grady King
Spivey Named President Of Kings Mountain Little Theatre
Jim Spivey to succeed B S Peeler Jr as president of Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc. He takes office September 1 along with Bruce Thorburn as vice president Hubert Carlisle secretary Delbert Dixon treasurer. New and holdover directors named with retiring officials including Mrs M A Ware and Mrs Aubrey Mauney. Miss Betty Ledford serves as executive secretary. Continued on page eight.
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Jimmy Spivabove
B.S. Peeler, Jr
Kings Mountain Little Theatre, Inc
Jimmy Spivey
Kings Mountain’ Little Theatre, Inc
Spivey
Bruce Thorburn
P. G Padgett
Hubert Carlisle
C7. Carpenter
Delbert Dixon
Sam Ctallings
Meek Carpenter
Carlisle
J. B. Goforth, Jr
Bill Melcher
Peeler
P. C Padgett
Thorburn
Jack White
Dixon
M.A. Ware
Aubrey Mauney
Life Theatre Group
Sword of Gideon
Betty Ledford
Little Theatre
Dixon to Join Shelby Farm Equipment Firm
Dixon, longtime Archdale Farms manager at Kings Mountain dairy, plans resignation if he becomes officer and stockholder of a new Shelby farm equipment concern. He would serve as vice president and treasurer. the firm is the successor to Hardin Tractor Company with Joe Hardin as president and Mrs. Joe Fradin as secretary. Mrs. Dixon is also a stockholder. Nessler Mills owner P M Nessler, treasurer, says an announcement on the dairy’s future operation will come soon. Dixon has led Archdale Farms for 20 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland P. Dixon
Archdale Farms
Kings Mountain Dairy
Come
Shelby
Dixon
Hardin Dixon ‘Tractor Company
Ford and Dearborh
Hardin Tractor Company
Joe Hardin
Joe Frardin
P.M. Nessler
Nessler Mills, Inc
Famiry
City Tax Refunds Mailed To 146 Citizens
Postmen delivered good news to Kings Mountain residents as 146 citizens and businesses received prepaid tax refund checks totaling 1968.72 dollars reflecting a 10 cent city tax rate cut. The refunds covered the prepayments for 1952 city taxes.
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Kings Mountain
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. H. Brendall
Central Methodist Church
B. Merritt
Cornelia Dick
El-Bethel
Jacob Mauney
Charles Dilling
Nazarene
Silk Quartet
Shelby Rn- Alo
First Church
the Nazarene
C. E. McKenzie
Merchants Office
Ann Mayes
Kings Mountain Merchants Association
John Lewis
GMSN
Donald E.cashion
Minnie’ Cashion
U. S Navy
San Diego
Calif
First Baptist Call
Wilmington
Kiwanis
Harold Funnicutt
Kings Mountain Hostal
Kiwanis Club
B. S. Neill
Carlisle Studio
Reial
Sureiae
Nand
Mrs. MacLeod
Jim Spivey
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