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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1952
Page
1
The driver license bureau will be closed on Thursday December 25 and Thursday January 1 per W W Wright. Jacob Mauney Memorial Library closes December 23 through December 26 per Mrs Charles Dilling with reopening on December 27. City tag sales for 1953 total 210 as of Wednesday. tags cost one dollar and must be purchased by February 1, 1953.
Bethlehem Baptist will present a Christmas program in song scripture and verse on Tuesday evening at 7 30. Mrs Juanita Warren I pianist and Max Blackburn is chorister.
Kings Mountain Jaycees launched a traffic safety drive selling Red Line bumperlites a luminous five foot by one and a half inch red tape for rear bumpers. Tape glows at night, lasts about two years, and is applied with a sensitive coating sold only by Jaycees. Police cars already equipped. price one dollar per vehicle.
The Kings Mountain Herald will publish its Christmas edition on Tuesday instead of Thursday, filling a seasonal feature package and full news and social coverage. Merchants will use the issue to send greetings, with deadline for ads and society news by 10 p.m. Tuesday.
The Kings Mountain Laundry and cleaners change hands to David D. Saunders and E. A. Harrill in a sale that excludes the building, with renovation to move to the Cleveland Avenue site of D. C. Mauney. The laundry will close December 22 for moving and reopen December 29 as Shine Laundry.
Kings Mountain merchants will extend hours starting Monday December 22. Departments and variety stores stay open until 7 p.m. through Christmas Eve, furniture stores close at 6 p.m., grocers open later than departments. Most shops close Christmas Day and December 26, reopen December 27, then halt early on December 31 for New Year’s Day.
A large number of Kings Mountain residents petitioned for city carrier postal service based on an announcement by Postmaster W. E. Blakely. The petitions covered Davidson avenue Deal street Waco Ro South Cherokee street City street Wells street Wilson street Falls street Monte Vista drive Parker street and W King street. Blakely expects some areas to be approved and noted an inspector may be sent after the petitions and an inspection was requested. PAGEANT SUNDAY Resurrection Lutheran Church will stage a Christmas pageant The Kingdom of the Christ Child Sunday at 7 30 PM Directors are Mrs Eugene Mitcham and Mrs Sam Mitcham and attendance is invited.
A candlelight service for the Nativity will be held at Resurrection Lutheran Church at 11 p.m. Wednesday December 24, concluding at midnight, followed by a caroling service.
Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce members plan a Tuesday night Plank Motor Company meeting to assemble baskets for the needy as part of the Buy a Can Leave a Can Christmas campaign. Jaycee vice president J T McGinnis urges citizens to donate staple items for local stores. Grocers statewide participate and a regular meeting at Masonic dining hall announced a show set for January 29 and 30 at Central School Auditorium with Miss Louise Galfen and Miss Melba Tindall performing Christmas numbers.
Kings Mountain area schools will close after Friday classes for the annual Christmas holidays. City students have a longer break than county units, with Park Grace and all Kings Mountain city schools reopening January 5. Grover and Bethware districts set return dates late December.
Kings Mountain High School bands and mixed chorus present the annual Christmas concert Thursday at the high school auditorium. Admission is free. Selections include Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer Here Comes Santa Claus Jingle Bells O Holy Night Winter Wonderland Half as Much Syncopated Clock and more. Girls trio Dolores Davidson Shirley Falls Nora Jane Deese sing. Shirley Houser accompanies. Chorus numbers Noel White Christmas sung with band. Margaret Cole directs the chorus. Joe Hedden supervises band. attendance urged.
The First Baptist church announces Christmas program plans led by Rev. Gordon Weekley. Friday evening the annual all church party at the Masonic Dining Hall features social roles, a Christmas reading by Miss Marie Camp, group carols, gift distributions, and Santa. Sunday includes an 11 a.m. Christmas sermon and a 5 p.m. pageant titled A King to Borns directed by Mrs. F A McDaniel Jr. with music by Mrs. J C Bridges. Sunday evening carol visits to shutins are planned and Easter Eve directives follow.
The Central Methodist church choir plans a 5 PM Sunday performance of H. Alexander Matthews cantata The Story of Christmas. The 24 voice group is directed by Miss Bonnie McIntosh with B S Peeler Jr as assistant director and organist. soloists include Mrs. Delbert Dixon and Margaret Cole among others.
The Christmas rush is on at Kings Mountain with heavy mailings on Tuesday. Machine cancellations totaled 17,844 pieces, up from 11,027 on Monday, as officials implement temporary changes including twice-a-day city carrier deliveries through December 24 to manage the volume.
The Kings Mountain post office will stay open all day Saturday to handle Christmas mail. Normally closing at noon, the office adds six extra employees two extra window clerks and two more extras for the finish to aid city and rural carriers. Postmaster notes rising mail volume from greeting cards gifts and season mail. Also, the Young Married Ladies class of Patterson Grove United Church Sunday School plans a gift sale Saturday at Home Service and Fri Mdaire Store on West Mountain Street offering items such as apples pillows and related articles.
Saturday is the final day to enter the city wide Christmas door contest. Sponsored by the Garden Club Council and First National Bank, prizes total thirteen divisions with five dollar awards and a grand prize of a twenty five dollar savings bond. Entries require name address and division on an entry blank and must be mailed or dropped at local box locations. Judging by out of town judges will occur December twenty two based on originality suitability and general appearance.
The Kings Mountain Garden Club council will hold a Christmas sale Friday afternoon at the Woman's Club. Decorations gifts arrangements and holiday cakes cookies and other delicacies will be sold beginning at to o'clock. The sale aims to repeat last year's success with three Kings Mountain garden clubs participating.
Special Christmas services are announced for St. Matthew's Lutheran church by Pastor W P Gerberding. Christmas worship occurs at Sunday School and morning service, with a 5 pm White Christmas program by youth and children's departments, followed by the annual Christmas party and late refreshments. The church will also hold its traditional midnight musical on Wednesday at 11 pm with two choirs, solos, violin offertory, carol singing, and a short meditation by the star.
The Herald publishes a public hearing notice for proposed street paving assessments totaling about 16000 dollars. The city board of commissioners will hear objections Monday January 12 1953 at its next regular meeting. The assessment list covers portions of twenty streets including City Cherokee First Third McGinnis Wilson Deal Sims Meadowbrook Rosewood Goforth Gold Grace Myer Wells Dilling and Monte Vista Drive.
Rev Vance M Daniel was named president of the Kings Mountain Ministerial Association at the December meeting held at Central Methodist Church. He serves as pastor of Resurrection Lutheran and was secretary treasurer last year. Other officers include Rev B F Austin as vice president and Rev Phil Shore Jr as secretary treasurer. Committee members include Rev Gordon Weekley Rev W T Gerberding and Rev W L Pressly. Speakers included W G Abernathy of Southern Bell and Ollie Harris Kings Mountain funeral director.
The city proposes a minor zoning amendment at the board of commissioners meeting to rezone a 105 by 150 foot lot on York Road from residential to neighborhood trading. Warren Reynolds requested the change to build a self service grocery. Public hearing notices invite all interested residents to attend.
Kings Mountain merchants brace for a five Saturday buying spree this weekend as shoppers finish Christmas purchases. Apparel, furniture, jewelry, drug and appliance stores report brisk toy sales and strong demand across all stores. Grocers prepare for peak holiday stocking of larders and seasonal dinners as families ready gifts and treats.
Phenix Plant a Burlington Mills unit announces total Christmas bonuses of 4335 dollars for production staff. Superintendent J T Lathem also says the plant’s yearly party is set for December 21 at the Joy Theater with gifts for children 10 and under and a brief program.
Mr and Mrs Vernon Crosby opened Crosby's Antiques Monday at 80409 South Battleground Avenue. The new business will specialize in early American antiques including furniture, brass works, lamps and chests, and will also offer wallpaper and decorator fabrics. Mrs Crosby will manage the shop. The firm plans to feature Christmas items such as candeliers. A related event is a 6:45 pm Christmas program at the Masonic Dining Hall, organized by the Boys and Girls Work committee chaired by Burt Chandler, with no meetings scheduled for Christmas or New Year's Days.
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