Local News Briefs From Kings Mountain Area
Wednesday meter receipts totaled 138.50 according to city clerk S A Crouse. Building permits were issued to C Weir for a five room house on West Gold Street and to Mrs Helen R McGill for remodeling on Gaston Street. Kiwanis supper planned at Beth Ware school with David's Chapel Baptist Church cooks. Lions Club fish supper at the Davidson Memorial Scout camp off York road. Leslie McGinnis visiting Kings Mountain. former editor of the local paper now in Richmond. Beulah Methodist homecoming set near Waco on September 4 with preacher Rev Lesler and dinner on the grounds. Dr from Charlotte to speak in afternoon service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Weir
West Gold Street
Helen R. McGill
Eopaence
Gaston Street
Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club
David's Chapel Baptist Church
Beth Ware
Kings Mountain
Beulah
Mauney Concert Delights Kings Mountain Audience
Young pianist Miles Mauney and mezzo soprano Frances Summers entertained about 400 at the Col. Fred J erick Hambright DAR chapter benefit at the high school auditorium. Mauney and Summers drew attendees from Shelby, Charlotte, and nearby cities with Chopin ballades and a Dance of the Names encore. Proceeds supported the DAR chapter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles Hoffman Mauney
Kings Mountain
Fred J‘erick Hambright
Daughters of the American Evolution
Shelby
Charlotte
Summers
Miss Summers
DAR
Jean
Las Pleac
Pers
Haims
Fire National Bank
Allen's Robes Shop
Vets May Apply For Dividends On NSLI Melon
World War II veterans in Kings Mountain may apply for NSLI dividends with simple nine field forms. Cline Barber will issue forms at the Southern Railway depot and post office. Eligibility covers veterans with NSLI accounts and beneficiaries of deceased veterans receive checks from VA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Service Life Insurance
Kings Mountain
Veterans Organization Service
VFW
Cline Barber
Southern Railway
Veterans Administration
NSLI
Baker Brothers Enter International Model Plane Contest
Baker Brothers Tommy and Phillip skip Sunday travel to Detroit to compete as a team at the International Model Plane Contest on Belle Isle August 22 to 29. Plymouth Motors dealers of Charlotte selected them at a recent Plymouth event to represent the area among 500 top builders from across the states and abroad. Kings Mountain builders captured several speed ship classes with internal combustion engines and two Jet-Propelled types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy and
Phillip Baker
Detroit
Mich
Plymouth Motors
Plymouth Dealers
Charlotte
Belle Isle
Kings Mountain
Mauney Named Treasurer Of Kings Mountain Hospital Fund
Mr K Maune member of the county hospital board of trustees from No 4 Township was named treasurer of the Kings Mountain Hospital unit building fund at a board meeting last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mauney
K. Maune
No. 4
Kings Mountain Hospital Unit
City Engineer to Attend Cement Plant Meeting
City Engineer J. E. Evans will attend a Raleigh meeting Tuesday of a special state commission investigating a proposed cement plant. He represents the city by invitation from Ed R. Hanford of Burlington, with Kings Mountain noted as a limestone rich area. The commission hopes a plant costing about a million dollars may be built, and Evans offered city cooperation in the Kings Mountain area investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Evans
Raleigh
Special Commission
Evans
Ed R. Hanford
Burlington
Veromic Engineering
N €. State College
Kings Mountain
MYF Service Friday Night Dedication and Youth Workshop
Me thodist Youth Fellowship closes a week of activities with an 8 pm dedication service in the sanctuary after a 6 pm vesper and 6:30 supper. Dorothy Smith led nightly sessions on The Marks of a Christian with Grace and Central churches, as Barbara Gault and Barbara Grantham played piano. Supper each evening came from different Woman’s Society circles. tonight all circle members provide a covered dish. Jo Ann Falls directed folk song singing before and after supper. The workshop week included commissions led by Bill Alen John Walick Dorothy Smith and Ramona Allen with adult advisors, planning future projects. The chapel hosted Our Protestant Belief with Kelly Dixon and the group discussed lives of notable religious leaders, with perfect attendance recognized.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship
Sipper
Grace
Dorothy Smith
Barbara Gault
Barbara Grantham
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Jo Ann Falls
Bill Alen
John Walick
Kelly Dixon
Lions Club Broom Sale Supports Blind Workers
The Mountain Lions Club plans a broom sale September 1 to 3 to aid the blind. Brooms, manufactured by Guilford Industries for the Blind in Greensboro, cost 150 dollars total. one dollar goes to the manufacturing firm and fifty cents to Lions. The campaign includes house to house sales and aims to move 1000 brooms. The program aids rehabilitation and helps blind workers who range from totally blind to those who distinguish shapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Mountain Lions Club
Guilford
Greensboro
Total Club
Sora Children
Weal of
J. G. Carracott
Darragore Gai
Es Guilford Industries
Kings Mountain Merchants name Barnes executive secretary
Kings Mountain merchants association in a special meeting Tuesday named W F Barnes, a local lawyer, as executive secretary on a part time basis. Barnes will conduct the secretary duties while employing an office secretary for credit reporting and correspondence. He succeeds James B Simpoon who resigns effective September 1, and is also judge of the city recorder's court with ties to the Kiwanis and Junior Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings Mountain Merchants Association
W. Faisonarnes
Kings Mountain Lawyer
Barnes
James B. Simpoon
Harold Coggins
Ogeins
Kings Mountain
City Recorder's Court
Baptists Plan Wednesday Picnic at Lake Montania
The First Baptist church and Sunday school will hold a picnic at Lake Montania next Wednesday afternoon with noon access, life guards on duty, and lemonade. Boy Scout Troop 6 will manage parking and waterfront, with transportation help arranged through Arnold Kincaid if needed. Committee includes L. E. Abbott as chair and others. rain backup is the Woman's Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Lake Montania
Boy Scout Troop 6
Arnold Kincaid
Southern Railway To Close Saturdays
Kings Mountain's Southern Railway will suspend all Saturday train operations starting September 1 under a national five day forty hour week adopted by railroads. The move aims to reduce weekly hours across the industry while maintaining essential service, with workers to receive pay for five days as if six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings Mountain
Southern Railway
Southern
Lions Kiwanians to Mix On Diamond Labor Day Game
Ings Mountain Kiwanis and Lions clubs will stage a benefit softball game at City Stadium Labor Day afternoon. Details were sparse but both clubs appeared ready to field a civic minded team. Kiwanis lineup includes Hugh Ballard Abbott and Dr J P Mauneyam. Lions slated M E Stenton and Martin Harmon. The game is planned as a twilight contest beginning at sunset.
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Ings Mountain Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
City Stadium
Labor Day
Hugh Ballard
Abbott
J. P. Mauneyam
Kiwanis
M. E. Stenton
Martin Harmon
Lions Club
Lions Kiwanis Set One Day Horse Show Plan
Joint planning committee at Kings Mountain Country Club outlines a one day horse show with afternoon and evening performances. Prize list may total 1500 in ribbons and cash. Event aims to draw top horses from Piedmont NC and SC and beyond. Jumping class and stake planned as joint sponsors by Kings Mountain civic clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings Mountain
Mountaineer Club Reports Expenses and Plans
The Mountaineer Club met at City Hall with about thirty members and 275 prospective members as part of a membership drive. C T Carpenter Jr, president, reported on a Brevard College high school football trip costing 525 dollars plus bus gas, with 15 dollars per man for 35 participants. The board approved the trip and voted to insure the players, with policy costs around 100 dollars and 325 dollars per player initially, rising to four dollars per man after approval. Warlick Insurance Agency donated services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountaineer Club, Inc
City Hall
C. T. Carpenter
Brevard College
C. E. Warlick Insurance Agency
Schools Ready to Start New Term Thursday in City and County
Summer vacations end next Wednesday and the 1949 50 term opens Thursday at Central West East and Davidson in the city system and Park Grace in the county system. Opening day is abbreviated and runs 8 40 a m with regular classes at 8 30 a m on Friday Sept 2. West School renovations bring changes. First and second grade out of district enrollment shifts to Central or East. West will shorten the day until renovations finish and all students will eat lunch at school or bring lunch to speed the day. Parents may request inter district transfers by written note to the school board. East School adds an eighth grade for the first time. To enter, a child must be six by October 2 with birth certificate and vaccinations for whooping cough diphtheria and smallpox. Improvements noted at all city schools especially Davidson colored school. General teachers meeting for white teachers set at Central at 1 30 p m Wednesday August 31. Davidson faculty same time. Park Grace teachers meet Wednesday with time to be announced.
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Kings Mountain
Central
West
East
Davidson
Park Grace
West School
B. N. Barnes
East School
Barnes
Davidson Colored School
Central School
Boone graduate among Appalachian State Teachers College diploma recipients
Among 90 students of Appalachian State Teachers College awarded diplomas Thursday night August 25, D. B. Blalock of Kings Mountain was among the graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Appalachian State Teachers College
D. B. Blalock
Kings Mountain
Kings Mountain Gridders Train Hard At Brevard Camp
Kings Mountain high school football players completed a five day Brevard camp with rain soaked scrimmages against Fayetteville to sharpen skills. Coaches Shu Carlton and Don Parker praised the squad as they practiced indoors and outdoors, with daily drills and a skull session to finish the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brevard Camp
Fayetteville
E. E. Marlowe and
Earl
Carl Mauney
Snooks McDaniel
Jeth Field
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M McGinnis
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Leslie McGinnis
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McGinnnis
Richmond
Acta
James
Te Mountain
Eterchants Association
Cleveland ‘County Veterans Service Officer
Barber
C. E. Warlick
At.c.e. Werlick Insurance
Build
Baker Brothers
MYF
City
Faison Barnes
Baptists
L. E. Abbott
W. M. Moorhead
W. A. Williams
A.K. Willis
Tack Hallender
Woman's Club
Truman
Heavine
Lions
Mountaineer Club
Hufstetler
roUp
Shu Carlton
Don Parker
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