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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1952
Page
1
Local notice reports W K Mauney a Kings Mountain textile executive was reelected as a trustee of Lenoir Rhyne College last week.
T W Grayson a Kings Mountain jeweler returned Tuesday from Winston Salem after attending the annual conven tion of the North Carolina Jewel ry Dealers association.
Don Carpenter who has served with the Navy for the past 15 months was honorably discharged this week, according to information received here.
Corporal Ivan Weaver son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Weaver leaves Thursday for Camp Kilmer New Jersey on leave for transfer to England for duty with the Air Force He has spent a 30 day leave here with his parents.
Warrant Officer Ray Black departs Sunday for Camp Kilmer New Jersey assignment in Germany. Mrs. Black and the children will reside in Kings Mountain during his overseas service.
The Duke Endowment allocated 179 to Kings Mountain Hospital for charity work done in 1951, announced after a meeting of the Endowment trustees on Tuesday.
Health official W. S. McKimmon, chief sanitation engineer of North Carolina, will visit for a public hearing on the city's sewage disposal system needs. The meeting is set for May 14 at the City Hall courtroom, per City Clerk Joe Hendrick.
Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Cashwell Jr. will move Thursday to Le noir where he becomes pastor of College Avenue Baptist Church. He completed his pastorate at First Baptist Church with a Wednesday evening prayer service.
Dr P G Padgett will leave Sunday to attend the annual session of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina to be held at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst May 5 to 7. Announcement was made by James T Barnes executive secretary.
Carlysle Isley of Burlington was elected director for the sixth district of the North Carolina League of Municipalities and appeared on the cover of the league’s April issue Southern City. He is married to former Miss Margaret Plonk of Kings Mountain.
About 700 city water and power bills will look strange to customers on Thursday. With two thirds of the month's billing done, Assistant McDaniel reports the billing machine broke, and the rest of the task was completed by hand. The odd bills show only water and power amounts plus the total.
Registration books for the May 31 primaries open Saturday at polling places from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for three consecutive Saturdays May 3, 10, and 17 with May 24 as challenge day. Democratic registrars staff East Kings Mountain, West Kings Mountain, Bethware, and Grover precincts, with some judge appointments mixed due to a statewide Republican contest. Voters may register through sunset May 17, or if already registered in 1950, remain registered unless residence changes.
The annual May Day festival by the physical education department will be held tonight at 8 in the high school auditorium. Admission is five cents. Ruby Crawford will be crowned Queen of May with maid of honor Maxine Miller. Queen’s attendants include Dot Goforth Jo Ann Stewart senior. Shirley Falls Nancy Hardin junior. Lois Ann Spake Anne Dilling sophomore. Patsy Freeman Mary Alice McDaniel freshman. Theme is Ive Got Rhythm in My Bones. dances by girls’ physical education classes. Sponsored by the K club and PE faculty.
The Kings Mountain Bus Terminal opening was delayed due to a contractor delay in installing partitions in the bathrooms. J H Quattlebaum of Queen City Coach Company informed Edward H McMahan of the utilities commission via a city clerk carbon. Quattlebaum said partitions had arrived and would be installed soon, and Queen City hoped to open the terminal as quickly as possible.
Plonk School of Creative Arts in Asheville won highest ratings in both the high school and college divisions at the North Carolina Dramatic Festival in Chapel Hill last weekend. Shirley Houser and Nan Jean Gauit starred in Reciprocity, and the college entry Twelve Pound Look featured James M. Bartie. Directors Misses Laura and Lillian Plonk, Kings Mountain natives, led the program. Mrs. W. M. Gantt and Mrs. George Houser attended.
Fifty purebred Guernsey heifers go to auction beginning at 12 30 Saturday as Ward Snarr hosts his eighth annual sale in Cleveland County in cooperation with the Cleveland Guernsey Breeders association. A Friday supper for breeders merchants consignors and guests at 6 30 precedes an address by Ralph Coarsey manager of Reigerdale Farms.
City Hall last week issued a building permit to McCoy Service Company for a service station on Railroad Avenue with an estimated cost of 5000 dollars.
Funeral services for C. C. Shorty Edens 53 were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 4 at First Baptist church with interment in Mountain Rest cemetery. Edens, a Kings Mountain civic figure and former Economy Cash loyal merchant, died Monday morning at Kings Mountain hospital after a heart attack. He had fallen ill four days earlier, with a mild attack the prior week. The Oconee County, South Carolina native was the son of the late Samuel and Mary Stancil Edens and was active in church and civic life.
Rev. Vance Daniel, pastor of Resurrection Lutherans, was named blood program chairman of the Kings Mountain chapter, American Red Cross, succeeding Rev. T. L. Cashwell Jr. The move was announced at a Red Cross directors meeting. The quota for the coming year is 667 pints with 220 behind.
Patsy Smith Goodwin of Charlotte will deliver the principal address at a Friday May Fellowship Day observance at Boyce Memorial ARP Church at 3 pm. The theme is Spiritual Security for Today's Families with proceeds aiding United Church Women. Kings Mountain Council notes the event as one of three key days in the church council program.
Graduation exercises at Bethware School will be May 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. Rev. R. L. Forbis will deliver the baccalaureate sermon May 18 and J. Horace Grigg will give the graduation address May 19. Bethware seniors receiving diplomas total 22. valedictorian is Frie da Brown and salutatorian is Luther McSwain Jr. Fourteen seniors are on a Capitol city tour in Washington, D. C., joined by 22 Tryon school seniors and chaperones.
Gastonia native Rev. David N Morris will become pastor of Temple Baptist church on May 11 after completing his second year at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville. A Wake Forest and Gardner Webb graduate, he has pastored in North Carolina and Kentucky and succeeds Rev W F Monroe who resigned months ago.
Fairview Lodge 339 A F and A M invites Master Masons to a 7 o'clock Monday night meeting where the Master Mason's degree will be conferred. All master Masons are urged to attend.
Ministerial student William Forbis of High Point college will be guest minister at the 11 o clock morning service at Bethel Church with special music. Evening services are set for Penleys Chapel at 7 30 p m as announced by Rev R L Forbis.
A. G. Dawson head of the United Forces for Education accused lobbyists for 11 big interests of writing North Carolina education legislation. He urged a five point program for better schools and said gains could be funded without tax increases, possibly via a bond issue. District 6 officials were elected for the coming year as the NC School Board Association met in Albemarle.
City clerk Joe Hendrick reported the weekly parking meter receipts amounted to 146.13 dollars ending Wednesday. The figure reflects total collections and is part of routine municipal revenue tallies.
W L Blackburn reentered the Democratic constable race after withdrawing on April 23. The May 31 primary will feature five candidates Erikson Ellis on, Paul Byers, Ken Slepp, H G Clemmons, and Blackburn. Blackburn cited ballot printing as reason to stay and serve two more years if voters want him.
Kings Mountain Kiwanis launches a register and vote campaign with J C Bridges as chairman to achieve 100 percent registration of eligible voters by the May 31 primary. Using ads to urge registration and turnout, Ballot Battalion seeks the largest primary turnout in area history, in cooperation with Kiwanis International.
W. E. Blakely attended a board meeting of Erskine College at Due West on Monday, adding to ongoing governance discussions and decision making at the institution.
Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club hosts annual ladies night banquet at the Masonic Dining Hall with Lex L Ray of Raleigh as after dinner speaker. Ray, a former NC State graduate and ex secretary of the NC Dairy Manufacturers Association, will be introduced by Lewis Hovis. Kings Mountain High School girls trio Dolores Davidson Melba Tindall Evelyn Cline will provide music.
Kings Mountain city board of commissioners Friday night amended the Sunday blue law to apply to all businesses from 10 a.m. to noon. The meeting followed objections to an April 21 enforcement action. Minutes and May 12 approval delay enforcement. Citizens, ministers, and business operators attended. debate centered on whether to enforce or strike the law.
Final rites for Julia Etta Walker 66 wife of Joseph A Walker were held at Central Methodist church Friday afternoon. Burial followed in Mountain Rest cemetery. She died at Kings Mountain hospital after a two month illness. Survived by husband three sons a daughter a sister and one grandchild with several pallbearers named.
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