Population
City Limits 7.206
Trading Area 15.000
(1945 Ration Board Figure*)
VOL 63 NO. 35
Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper
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Established 1889
Kjngs Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 27, 1953
Sixty-Third Year
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Local News
Bulletins
COMMUNION
A special service of commun
ion will ,t>e held at St. Mat
thew's Lutheran church Sun
day morning at the 11 o'clock
morning worship hour. The
service will be broadcast over
radio station WKMT.
HARMON REUNION
Annual Harmon reunion for
the descendants of the late
Haywood Harmon will be held
Sunday, September 6, at the
home of Mrs. Eliza Harmon
Bridges on Graham street in
Gastonia, off Bessemer City
road. All friends and relatives
are urged to attend.
FIRE ALARM
City firemen answered a fire
alarm Sunday afternoon at
2:30 to the home of Will Pryor
* on. the corner of Gold and
Cherokee streets. An oil stove
fire was extinguished in the
kitchen. No damages were re
ported.
LIONS DIRECTORS
Directors of Kings Mountain
Lions club will hold their reg
ular monthly supper meeting
Thursday night at 7 o'clock at
Kings Mountain Country Club.
TO MEETING
Miss Alice Averltt, city
schools teaching consultant, is
attending a meeting of North
Carolina consultants toeing
held at Catawba college, Sal
isbury.
FULLERS MOVE
Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Fuller
have moved from Kings Moun
tain. Their present mailing
address is Lauada, N. C. Mr.
Fuller Is a fortifier city admin
istrator. No announcement was
made as to his plans. The
Ridge street residence the Ful
lers occupied, which is owned
toy Mrs. Pritchard Ferguson, of
Atlanta, Ga., Is toeing rented
toy Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Abbott.
Little Loop, Pony
Banquet Friday
Annual banquet for Kings
Mountain Little League and
Pony League ibaseball players
will be held Friday at 7 p. m. at
the Woman's clutohouse.
Red Layton, director of the
leagues, made ' the announce
ment and urged all players, par
ents and others interested In the
programs to attend.
Price lor (parents and fans is
$L50 per plate, he said. Reserva
tions may toe made toy calling
Mr. Layton or the police depart
ment, and tickets may be paid
for at the door Friday night, he
addc-*1
Pony league team players will
toe guests of W. K. Mauney, Jr.,
one of the team sponsors.
Trophies and award* to be pre
sented at the banquet are now
on display in the window at
Belk's Men's Sto're, Mr. Layton
reported.
Little League all-star team
players are urged to bring their
uniforms to the (banquet to toe
turned in to Mr.. Layton. W1U
Grice, coach of the Pony team,
has also requeued that his play
ers bring their uniforms Friday.
Ladies of Bess Hoey Memorial
Methodist church are to serve
the dinner.
Davidson School
Policy Altered
Full first-day attendance at
Davidson Negro school Is being
urged by J, A. Gibson, principal,
who announced an Important
change In the dally schedule at
the school*
Principal Gibson said a half
day cpenlng day schedule will
be observed but that beginning
Wednesday there will be no
noon recess, with all pupils re
quired to eat at the school cafe
teria. However, pupils may bring
lunches from home IX they deslte.
Cafeteria lunches will be served
at 20 cents and will include mQfe
Milk tjjtil be fold separately at
four cents.
"This schedule means," he add
ed. "that pupils will not be allow
ed to leave the school grounds at
any time during {he School day
without written note frotn pa
rents and principal. We are going
all out for the health and safety
of the children, and we ask the
full cooperation of our patrons."
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LEGION AUXILIARY OFFICERS INSTALLED ?Pictured above are the officers of the American
Legion Auxiliary shortly after they were installed by Mrs. Warren Neill, of Charlotte, department
?ice -president at a meeting at the home of Mrs. G. W. Allen. Left to right are Mrs. C. L. Jolly,
president; Mrs. Sam Collins, vice-president; Mrs. Neill; Mrs. Otckie Tate, rehabilitation chairman;
Mrs. Pride Ratterree, treasurer; Mrs. Clarence Black, chaplain; Mrs. John Gladden, historian. The
lady pictured- in the mirror is Mrs. Paul Mauney, publicity chairman. (Photo by Carlisle Studio.)
City And Park Grace Schools
Open For Fall T erm Tuesday
Moie Pupils
Afe EXpftCt*d
For New Tern
Summer will "officially" termi
nate for Kings Mountain city1
schools and Park Grace school
students Tuesday morning at
8:30 a. m. when the bell will ring
for the beginning of the 1953-54
term.
City schools* students will at
tend a half-day session on open
ing day, with a full-day operation
to begin on Wednesday for all ex
cept first-year students.
First graders will continue a
half-day schedule the remainder
of next week and all the follow
ing week, going on a full-day on
Monday, September 14.
Cafeterias will begin operations
at all schools on Wednesday.
School Superintendent B. N.
Barnes said yesterday that he
was expecting an increase in er
rollment at city schools and stat
ed that crowded conditions are
expected until the building pro
grams at East and West Elemen
tary schools are completed.
West school will use auditorium
space for two temporary class
rooms to take care of added first
and eighth grades, he reported,
and at East school, where an
eighth gra'de has been added, au
F1RST GRADERS
With some 225 or mora stu
dent expected to eater the
city schools system's eight
first grades on Tuesday. Super
intendent Barnes this week re
stated regulations governing
enrollment of first-year stu
dents.
A child must hare reached
his sixth birthday on or before
October 1$ in order to enter
school this year, he said. The
regulation was changed from
October 1 by the state school
board several months ago. The
state attorney general has rul
ed that a child bora on Octo
ber 1$. 1949. Is qualified to en
ter school Tuesday.
City school* regulations alee
require that no child will be
enrolled in the first grad*
without a birth certificate and
that each child be Immunised
against whooping cough, small
pox and diphtheria before en
rollment.
ditorium space will be used to
temporarily house one class
room.
City schools principals met at
Central school Wednesday morn
ing and Mr. Barnes announced
general teachers meetings for
MoniMtf jBflOtao a. m/lfcCttftral
school and Dertdeon eoKocjt ?]
Mr. Barnes also announced that
school child insurance would bq
available at $125 per child and
Elementary students
would M Jtqutred to pay a?U0
fee, as before, for supplementary
rpadife. -
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Merchants Plan
Labor Day Holiday
Majority of Kings Mountain
retail stores will observe - the
annual Labor Day holiday. It
was announced this week by
Mrs. Elaine Queen, secretary
of the Kings Mountain Mer
chants association.
Mrs. Queen said the by-laws
of the association lUt Labor
Day as one of the regular sta
ted holidays and that majori
ty of the merchants will dose
for the day as usuaL giving
retail personnel a long week
end holiday.
Labor Day falls this year on
Monday, September 7.
The Jacob S. Mauney Memo
rial Library will also observe
the holiday, it was announced
by Mrs. Charles Dilling, librar
ian.
A/IC Baker Wins
Top Plane Awaid
A/IC Thomas P. Baker, of
Kings Mountain, won top honors
in the seventh International
Model Plane Contest In 2??frolt
this week.
The meet, which brought to
gether nearly 500 of the top mo
del plane flyers of the United
States and Canada closed Mon
day, and winners were announ
ced and awards tmade at a ban
quet Monday night.
Airman Baker represented the
Air Force in the contest. He is
the son of Dr. and Mrs. L. P. Ba
ker of Kings Mquntain and is
married to the former Miss Mary
Beth Hord.
Clerks Nabbed
Napping Uriel
At Belk's Monday
Sammy Roseboro, 21-year old
Kings Mountain Negro man, and
four-day parolee from New Jer
sey State Penitentiary, is being
held without bond on charges of
breaking and entering Belk's De
partment store here Friday night.
Preliminary hearing of the case
is set for Monday in Kings Moun
tain Recorder's court.
Roseboro was apprehended
Saturday morning at the stair
way exit of Belk's store. Hilton
L. Ruth, manager of the firm, and
his son, Bill Ruth, had opened
the store and heard noises in the
back, they told police.
The Negro man, who said he
entered by way of the roof, had
shirts, pants, and other merchan
dise valued at $81. He could not
make good his escape, he said,
because of officers outside the
store, and decided to wait until
earlier in the morning or until
the store opened ar.d leave as a
customer.
His plan back fired when
he went to sleep at the back of
the store, overslept and awakened
about the time Mr. Ruth came to
open the store, Police Chief Hugh
Logan, said.
Roseboro was serving a five
year sentence on automobile
theft charges and was parolled
last week.
He was once employed by
Belk's some years ago.
Officers assisting in the arrest
were City Officers Jack Stone,
H. L. Gladden, Martin Ware, S.
R. Davidson, and Police Chief
Log.tn raid.
City Votes Expenditure Of $2400
To Properly Mark Streets 01 City
The city board of commission
ers approved purchase of 150
street-name markers at a special
meeting last Thursday night at
a cost of $14.50 each.
The action was taken to place
names on the many streets not
now designated and to speed ex
pansion of city mall routes to
Areas not now Serviced by 'city
carriers.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges told the
bodfd of commissioners he had
counted with a postofflce in
specW, here to survey the re
quest of Postmaster W. E. Blake -
ly for expanded carrier service,
and that the inspector had told
him the expansion would be ap
proved, but that approval could
not be implemented until streets
are properly marked and houses
properly num" wed.
The board also approved In the
same motion purchase of traffic
signs for a number of needed
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In other actions, the board:
1) Upped the pay scale of city
policemen by $15 per month at
all levels, effective September 1,
on rtquest of Chief H. A. Logan.
The increase will raise the maxi
mum to $250 per month and will
raise rookie pay to $204 per
month.
2) Employed Jack Stone as a
city policeman, after Chief Logan
had reported the resignation of
Officers D. H.\ Street, Earl
Stroupe and Gus Huffstetler,
each of whom lived outside the
city limits and declined to. move ,
Inside, the chief said.
3) Increased the salary of Tom
my Owens, city office clerk, by
$15 to $215 per month.
4) Voted to pay Policeman Paul
Saunders two weeks' salary,. Jn
lieu of vacation time.
5) Designated Arnold Falls a*
city plumbing inspector, a duty
formerly assigned to Tom Henry,
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Goforth, Hoke
Low Bidders
On School Job
Kings Mountain district board
of school trustees accepted bids
totalling $67,447 for construction
of a new six-room Negro ele
mentary school building at a spe
cial meeting held at Central
school Tuesday at 6 p. m.
Frank D. McCall, of Drexeli,
was awarded the general con
struction contract on a low bid
of $52. 200.
L. A. Hoke Electrical Co., of
Kings Mountain,, was awarded
the electrical contract on a low
bid of $2,395.
Hon 1 . Goforth, of Kings Moun
tain, was awarded the plumbing
contract on a low bid of $5,065.
Taylor O. Johnson, of Shelby,
was awarded the heating contract
on a low bid of $7,737.
Architect J. L. Beam, Jr., of
Cherryville, 'publicly opened the
bids on the project at 2 p m.
Tuesday at Central school.
Seven bids were received on
the general construction work
with a bid of C. T. Bennet Con
struction Co., of Kings Mountain,
secwd low by $1,040 to the suc
cessful bid of $52,200 by Mr. Mc
Call. Bids ranged as high as $64,.
?75 on the general contract. One
contractor submitted a bid after
the closing time and jt was not
opened. It would not have been
low, the bidder said.
Mr. McCall gave his construc
tion time as 190 days.
i" our firms bid on the electrical
??ract' with Mr- Hoke's low bid
$530 under the second low figure.
Bids ranged as high as $2,975.
Mr. Goforth's bid on the plumb
ing work wa? $274 lower than the
next low bid of the six submitted
The high bid was $6,795.
Four of the six plumbing and
heating firms also submitted bids
on the heating work for the pro
ject, with Mr, Johnson's figure
$941 lower than the next lowest
bid. High bid was $9,725.
The general construction work
by Mr. McCall .'Jgurejj al $6 53 per
square foot for the 8.000 square
feet in the six-room building. The
total cost-per-square-foot of the
building, Including plumbing and
heating, will be $8.43 per square
foot.
Adding Mr. Beam's five per
cent architect's fee of $3,372.35 to
the total of the bids, the new
building figures to cost $70,819.35
exclusive of the cost bf the new
Negro school site.
Construction of the new build
ing is expected to begin as soon
as the contracts are formally ap
proved in Raleigh by the state
board of public instruction.
Chairman A. W. Kincaid per
sided at the meeting and all mem
bers were present and voted fav
orably.
The board also adopted a for
mal state resolution to request a
grant of state funds for the new
project.
The plumbing bids included a
deductible alternate for installa
tion of pipe in the concrete floor
ing for hot water In the toilets
and rooms of the new building.
After considerable discussion, the
board unanimously agreeded to
accept the low base bid, which in
cluded the hot water piping.
In other actions, the board re
leased Walter R. Johnson from
contract to teach here. Mr. John
son, who signed a contract on
July 31 to teach high school math,
science and history, had asked
the release to accept a principal
ship in Union County, which be
came open after he had agreeded
to come to Kings Mountain.
The board also appointed Miss
Mary Lee Pope as treasurer of
Davidson Negro school on recom
mendation of Principal J. A Gib
son.
Willis loins
Station WKMT
J. K. (Jimmy) Willi's, Jr., has
joined Radio Station WKMT as
advertising salesman, according
to announcement by John Greene,
manager of the station.
Mr. Willis, a Kings Mountain na
tive, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. K, Willis, Sr. A graduate of
"Lenolr-Rhyne college, Mr. Willis
was previously associated with
Station WMAT Monroe for more
than a year, with Station WHKY
Hickory for four years as com
mercial manager, and recently
with Station WINX Rockwell,
Md., a* manager.
Mrs. Willis is the former Miss
Ann Crapps. Mr, and Mrs. Willis
have two daughters and are liv
ing at the King Apartments, N.
Gaston street.
CHURCH Or GOD HOUR
The Church of God will con
duct a Gospel Hour broadcast
on Radio Station WKMT Sun
days from 2 to 2:30 p. m. be
ginning Sunday, It was an
nounced this week toy Rev. Doc
Wllbanks, the pastor, who will
conduct the service.
Nicholson To Succeed Henry
As City Public Works Chief
LOCAL TALENT ON TV SHOW? Miss Louise Gladden. Rev. H. Cor
don Weekley, and Miss Melba Tindall, First Baptist church tiio, will
appear on the Grace MYF church sponsored TV Talent Day show
to be held at City Stadium Saturday night. They will be accompan
ied by Miss Blenda Huneycutt. (Herald photo by Carlisle Studio.}
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TV Talent Hunt
Set For Stadium
Saturday Night
A TV Talent Show, first of its
kind in this area, will be held at
City Stadium Saturday night at
8 p. m. sponsored >hy the Grace
Methodist church MYF.
Arthur Smith, Don Reno, Tom
my Faile and the Crackerjacks,
Clyde McClean, the Sisk Quartet,
and other radio and TV enter
tainers are to appear In a full
one hour variety show previous
to the talent portion of the pro
gram.
Admission is priced at $1 for
adults and 50 cents for children.
Advance tickets may be purcha
sed in local business establish-']
ments or from members of the
Methodist Youth Fellowship.
Local talent appearing on the
program will include Gene
Whitstine, guitar soloist; James
N. Peterson; William Rogers,
WBT soloist; Miss Evelyn Cline,
song stylist; Gene Ellis, trumpet
soloist; Marvin Edward Bishop,
song and dance; Miss Marie
Cobb, dancer; BH>by Huskey,
baritone soloist; Kings Mountain
Trio, religious singing group;
Miss Elizabeth-Camp, piano sol
oist; Miss Sarah Garver, soloist;
Carolina Twins, guitar artists;
Miss Brenda Ann Sweezy, accor
dian soloist, and First Baptist
trio, religious singing group.
The winning contestant, as
chosen by CBS-TV talent scouts
is to foe offered a week's TV con
tract with options. Popularity
winner of the show will receive
a cash award.
Proceeds from the program
will go to the Grace Methodist
church Youth Educational Build
ing Fund.
UNION SERVICE
Sunday night's union service
for five city congregations
will "be held at First Presby
terian church with Dr. W. P.
Gerberding, pastor of St. Mat
thew's Lutheran church, to de
liver the message at 8 o'clock.
Anti-Dusting Motion
Teases City Fathers
The Bridges administration
almost broke its record for
unanimity last Thursday night,
but not quite.
The difference of opinion
developed' when Commissioner
J. H. Patterson offered a mo
tion to ban cotton dusting
within the city limits.
"People are hot about it"
Mr. Patterson declared. 'They
say they can't br*ath*< that
their babies are sick and their
dogs are dying."
Commissioner T. J. (Tommy)
Ellison rejoined, "I don't be
lieve the dogs are dying from
cotton poison but from some
other kind of poison. Besides,
the only man I know who
grows cotton inside the city
limits is Sage Fulton."
Commissioner Fulton grin
ned and noted that he had
only nine acres, adding that he
was sure his hand -dusting at
dawn and dusk couldn't both
er anybody.
The revelation that Commis
sioner Fulton was, at least,
one of the chief in-city cotton
' growers gave all the board
j members a good laugh, Mo
tion-Maker Patterson and Cot
ton-Grower Fulton included.
The result was a substitute
motion suggested by Mayor
Glee Bridges to name a com
mittee to Investigate. Mr. Elli
son and Mr. Patterson drew
the investigating Job.
Owens Twins Left
Hospital Wednesday
Dicky Dean and Ricky Gene
Owens, five-week-old twin sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Owens, were
discharged from Kings Mountain
hospital Wednesday morning.
They had been hospitalized
since birth. Jhe twins, the Owens'
eighth child and third set of
twins, weighed only three pounds
each at birth;
City Fathers Dusting Off 1949
Dickson Sewage Survey Report
The city has pulled out of its
files the four-year-old W. K.
Dickson sewage survey, basis for
an unsuccessful 1949 bond issue
election, and has made arrange
ments for the engineer to bring
the survey up-to-date.
Under the agreement Mr. Dick
son, a charlotte engineer, will re
work the survey for $200. He was
previously paid $2,000 for the
original survey after the bond
Issue failed to carry and the rec
ommendations, therefore, not
carried out. Should the survey
be used, the fee of $2,200 would
apply against the customary en
gineering contract commission of
six percent
The action to dust off the Dick
son sewage survey was taken by
the city board of commissioners
at a special meeting last Thurs
day night. It Indicates that the
Bridges administration will not
consider the sewage system sur
vey of Olsen Engineering Com
pany, of Raleigh, made for the
Still administration in 1951. The
Olsen survey called for building
a new sewage disposal system. A
$600,000 bond issue election, based
on the Olsen recommendations,
failed to carry last December by
a narrow margin.
The Dickson sewage survey
was presented to the H. Tom Ful
ton administration in January
1949, At that time, Mr. Dickson
recommended immediate con
struction of an activated sludge
type sewage treatment plant to
replace the over loaded McGlll
tank on Potts Creek. At that time
the tank- \*as serving an area
covering 720 acres and occupied
by more than 600 houses. Mr.
Dickson also recommended $33.
000 in line extensions. He esti
mated that the new installation
he recommended would cost $175,
000 to build and would adequately
handle the sewage disposal needs
of the area until the city's popu
lation reached 14,000 ? double
the 1950 population.
The action of the board of com
missioners indicates that the re
vised Dickson survey wiH serve
as its basis for a sanitary sewage
bond election, mentioned several
times by Mayor Glee A. Bridges
in 4n formal statements at board
of commissioner meetings.
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City Appointee
To Begin Work
Heie Thursday
The oily board of commission
ers has. employed "Emory C. Nic
holson, of Gastonia, as superin
tendent of public works, and Mr.
Nicholson will assume his duties
Thursday morning.
Mayor Glee A. Brklges con
firmed the employment of Mr.
Nicholson early Wednesday af
ternoon. after (lie hoard of com-'
missioners had tentatively ap
proved his employment at a spe
cial meeting Tuesday night.
The new superintendent is 51
years of age and has lived in Gas
trin ia the past 13 years, though
his duties in various construction
employment has taken him
throughout the Southeast. His
work experience has included en
gineering work, paving, wiring,
and related construction work.
For two years he served as a
superintendent under the city
manager of Cornelia, Ga. He has
spent a year with DuPont at Aik
en, S. C., as layout man, and was
previously employed by C. J. Fea
therstone, Charlotte, as a con
struction superintendent and by
Barge Thompson Company, An
niston, Ala.
When the board of commission
ers interviewed him at their meet
ing of last Thursday night, Mr.
Nicholson told the commission
ers he had just completed a con
struction job for Southern Bell
Telephone & Telegraph Company,
at Anniston.
He is a native of Georgia.
Mayor Bridges said the board
had chosen Mr. Nicholson from
a large number of applicants for
the position, which is being vacat-.
ed by Tom S. Henry. Mr. Henry
has resigned, effective September
14, to accept a similar position in
Cherryville. .
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Board Conducts
Brief Session
Mooting in brief special -ses
ision Tuesday night, the city
Koard of commissioners dispos
ed of several items of business
as follows:
1 > Voted to purchase miscel
laneous garage equipment from
Tom Henry, who has. resigned as
superintendent of public works,
for $800.
2) Authorized paving of Gofor
th street, from MQuntain to Gold
street.
3) Accepted a sidewalk peti
tion for more than 1,100 lineal
feet on N.. Piedmont avenue.
4) Voted to pave S. Rosewood
Lane.
5) Adopted a policy of renting
city equipment on an hourly (ba
sis at $1 per hour for each $1,
000 of cost. Service from a ma
chine purchased toy the city for
$10,000 would be charged out at
the rate of $10 per hour, includ
ing operator.
6) Authorized the city clerk to
ototaift quotations on & 40-gal
lon hot water heater for City
Hall. The clerk is to report the
quotations at the regular meet
ing September 3.
All members were present and
all actions were unanimous.
Cemetery Gales
Markers Up
Gate markers on the six en
trances to Mountain Rest ceme
tery were installed during the
past week.
The gates were named by the
recent city adm nistration as fol
lows: Fulton gaf>, in honor of
the late H. T. Fulton, Sr., Kings
Mountain and Cleveland county
pioneer mortician; Dweile gate,
for the late H C. Dwellr. onetime
city commissioner and ardent
landscaper who developed the
cemetery landscaping: Falls gate,
for the late Robert Falls, who
by his gift of two acres found
ed Mountain Rest Cemetery;
Green gate, for Otis D Green,
first Kings Mountain man killed
in World War I; Blackwell gate,
for Johnny W. Blackwell, first
Kings Mountain man killed in
World War II; and Suber gate,
for Sam Suber, veteran cemetery
superintendent.
METER RECEIPTS
A total of $145.98 was collec
ted from the city's parking
meters Wednesday morning,
according to a report from the
city treasurer's office. '