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POPULATIONCity Limits (1940 Census) 6,574 , Immediate Trading Area 15,000 (1945 Ration Board Figures)16FagesTodayVOL. 59 NO. 30Local NewsBulletinsKings Mountain. N. C., Friday. July 23, 1943PRICE FIVE CENTayrngCases Total 11Kings Mountain Citizens' County Tax Rate $1.34Kiwanians Cancel Oak Grove OutingWRIGHT 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 of Dr. Mitchell, county health officer, after Mr. Wright’s child was found to have polio.BUILDING PERMITSTwo hutiding 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, accordingKirigs Mountain citizens will pay county.taxes on their properties this year oh the basis of-$1.34 per $100 valuation.This rate was adopted by *- the board of county-commissioners Iasi Frida.v. as it also‘adopted a budget of $359,83fe for the fiscal vear l.» 18-19.The rax 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 general increase of that amount In the county-wide rate which is $1.09, as compared with 35 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 dis-triot — wilt 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,The Kings Mountain Kiwanis ' club, which was scheduled to visit the Oak Grove community for o picnic supper Thursday night, cancelled the outing due to the polio situation, it was announced Wednesday.It was with 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 te 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 S00*0^. Rep°rt7 Two More CasesOpera tire A Ugast 3 0 During Past Wee3Officials Not Yet Informed Of Local Details of DraftBethware Farm Class On 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 agricuRural 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 aeeomponyng the group wereWith five weeks remaining before first registrations under the new peacetime draft law arc scherfu.ed to begin. Flevelajid County was still somewhat in the dark regarding the new set-up for service indticttans.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 smallLEGION HEAD—Ollte 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 com man-Kings Mountain citizens snifft i f DDT and counted up two mute t, sea of polio ihis-w«■ t*k.Tito two additional eases Grots ; life total of infantile pataly sis r ,. es which -have occurred in Kin:• Mountain . to 1!—ajmost half : total ol 23 reported t n fleteKv: county.Tfte two new .cases.reported b; Kings Mountain doctors are:Karen Goins*. 21-month-old d.tt ghier. of Mr, and Mrs. Rnyeo Go:; who live in the Craft spun Mill oott m unity.Franklin Yates Dorrity, eight-yr-old son of Mrs. Dora Faye McDanio.. Who lives on Waco Road.Both were hospitalized at Ga - tenia's Orthopedic hospital.Dr, W. L. Ramseur attended ,the 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. tionat cases during the past week, j and Dr. P. G, Padgett had had u | new- cases on Wednesday.Meantime, the city was condue ing its city-wide DDT spraying. ui the hope that the spread of rhe disease might be halted.The spraying, begun last week
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