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POPULATIONCity Limits (1940 Census) 6,574 , Immediate Trading Area 15,000 (1945 Ration Board Figures)16FagesTodayVOL. 59 NO. 30Kings Mountain. N. C., Friday. July 23, 1943PRICE FIVE CENTaying Underway As Polio Cases Total 11Local News tBulletinsWRIGHT ON LEAVERobert Wright, city employee at the filter plant, has been on a two-weeks leave of absence since July 12. The city precautionary measure was taken at the advice o£ Dr. Mitchell, county health officer, afier Mr. Wright’s child was found to have polio.BUILDING PERMITSTwo building permits were issued by S. A. Crouse, city clerk, at City Hall during the past week. Permit was issued to W. A. Williams for construction of two new five-room dwellings on York road, valuation $8,000, and William T. Ledbetter for addition of a room to dwelling on Lackey street, $250, both permits issued on Monday.ENLISTS IN NAVYJames Oren 'Fulton, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. D, Fulton. 400 E. King street, has enlisted in the navy and has been sent to San Diego, Calif., for basic training at the Navy Training Center, according to announcement form the Spartanburg Navy Recruiting Station.LIONS MEETINGMembers of the Kings Moun-tain Linn* club will hear a varie*Kings Mountain Citizens' County Tax Rate $1.34Kiwanians Cancel Oak Grove OutingThe Kings Mountain Kiwanis club, which was scheduled to visitKings Mountain citizens will pay county.taxes on their properties this year on the basis of-$1.34 per $100 valuation.This rate was adopted .by'- the board of county- commissioners las* Friday, as It also ‘adopted a budget of $359,for the fiscal \ ear 1.1 IB-19. ..The tax rate for Number -1 township Is thus increased by 14 cents over the tax rate for the year ending June 30. The increase is represented in a genera) increase of that amount In the county-wide rate which is $1.09, as compared with 95 cents last year. The additional 25 cents is a school district tax. revenue from which goes to the operation of the schools in the Kings Mountain district.The rate for other Number 4 township citizens — those who live outside the Kings Mountain school district — will be $1-19. Grover, Beth-ware and No. 3 school tax is 10 cents.Principal Increases in the county appropriations for the forthcoming year are for debt service, accounting for seven of the 14*cents increase, three cents for the county hospital, one for the health department, one for old age assistance.The budget includes a five percent increase in pay for all county employees, and sets up a $10,000 reserve for a county-wide property re*tho Oak Grove community for a picnic supper Thursday night, cancelled the outing due to the polio situation, it was announced Wednesday.’’It was w»th real regret that we cancelled the outing. said John L- McGill, president of the club, but the advice of doctors is that it would be safer tc avoid outings of this kind until the polio situation improves.Mr. McGill said the club was to meet as usual at the Woman's Club at 7 o'clock.Draft Law To Become ®oc,0“ Re*?1/ rif/ft If! DFP I ACfkcOpera five A UgllSt 30 During Past Wee!Officials Not Ye! Informed Of Local Details of DraftBethware Farm Class Qn TourSome thirty members of the Beth-ware veterans farm class Journeyed to Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College, Clemson, S, C., on Tuesday for a trip through rhe school's vast agricultural set-up, Myers Hambright, Clemson graduate and Bethware agricultural teacher, was In charge of the class trip along with Veterans Administration Instructors, J. S. Ware, Amas Best, and Ted Ledford.Also accompanyng the group were . farmers J. C. Owens, W. W. Putnam, J. C. Randle, Theodore Herndon, and Cameron Ware.At the college the group heard a practical discussion of manageWith five weeks remaining before first registrations under the new peacetime draft !au arc schedu.ed to begin. Cleveland County was still somewhat in the dark regarding the new set-up for service inductions.Everett A.'Houser, Jr., Cleveland county clerk of court, one of three men charged with the duty of setting up a county draft board, said Wednesday he had received no Information concerning present plans for administration of the law.Others who with Mr. Houser will set up the draft board are C, H. Hendrix, chairman of the county e-lections board, and Horace Grigg, county superintendent of schools.Mr. Houser said It was his opinion there would only be one draft board in the county for the peacetime draft, and that this board would be at Shelby. Some small counties, he anticipated, would be combined for draft purposes, with only one board, while some large counties would have more than one.President Truman recently made the draft law effective by orderingLEGION HEAD—O ill© Harris.. Kings Mountain businessman, will be installed as commander ol Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, at a post fish fry at the Trout Club Saturday night. Mr. Harris will succeed John W. Gladden as commander.Legion Fish FrySjfllPllAtf limit}Kings Moun'!.1 in citizens -sniff* i •DDT and counted up two more c sea of polio ihis* week, ■■ The two additional cases broug tile total of infantile paralysis * .. es which-haVe occurred in K:u Mountain to II—ujniost half : total ol 23 reported i n Clevel.'ir county..‘1 he two new case.-,. reported h Kings Mountain doctors are;Karen Goins' 21 -month-old dan ghtor, of Mr. and Mrs, Boyce Gnu; who live in the Craftspuu Mill con munity.Franklin Yates Dorrlty, elght-je old son of Mrs. Dora Faye MeDank-Who lives on Waco Road,Both were hospitalized at Ga - tonia's Orthopedic hospiral.Dr. W. L, Katmeur attended Jhe Goins child, and Dr. J E. Anthony attended the Dorrity child. i Dr. P. E. Hendricks reported Thurs day morning he had had no add.! tional cases during the past week,| and Dr. P. G. Padgett had had n J new cases on Wednesday, j Meantime, the cfty was condue log its city-wide DDT spraying, in the hope that the spread of rhe disease might be hailed.The spraying, begun last wee!: end, was still underway and City Engineer E. C. Brandon, Jr., said the Job should be completed by the en of the week.Jake Sipes and a drew of city men were doing the snravlne and were
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