Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 (fee figure fof Greater ring* Mountain U derived iron UM 1965 King* Mountain city 'll rectory eensue. Tbe City Unite figure In Irom the United Statee ceneue of 19S0. 1 P Pages 10 Today VOL 66 NO. 33 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. CM Thursday, August 16, 1956 Sixty-Seventh Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins HOMECOMING Gamble Hill Baptist Church, located between Gastonia and Kings Mountain, will hold homecoming services at the church Supnday, according to announcement 'by Rev. W. P. Bumgardner, pastor. Picnic dinner wil 'be served following the morning worship service. UNION SERVICE Sunday night’s union ser vice wil be held at First Pres byterian Church with Rev. James B. MoLarty, pastor of Central Methodist Church, to deliver the message at 8 o’clock. ONE PERMIT Building inspector J. W. Webster issued a 'building per mit Wednesday, August 8, to Geneva Carroll to erect a house on Tracy street, at an estimat ed cost of $3,500. TO ATTEND CONVENTION Horace Brown, governor of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748, will leave for Chicago Friday to attend the National Moose convention to be held next wek. MOOSE MEETING Members of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will hold their regular weekly meeting at the lodge on Bessemer City road. MATTHEWS IMPROVING Eugene Matthews, Herald mechanical superintendent, is recuperating from a slight stroke of paralysis suffered on Tuesday, August 7. Mr. Matt hews has not been hospitaliz ed and Dr. John C. McGill, at tending physician, said Wed nesday Mr. Matthew’s is im proving satisfactorily. JAYCEE OUTING Kings Mountain Jaycees will hold their annual family picnic at Lake Montonia on Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock. Gene Mit cham, Joe Hord and Ken Pruitt, of the house committee, have made the necessary arrange ments with the assistance of George Thomasson. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending noon, Wed nesday totaled $193.25, accord ing to a report from city clerk’s office. Street meters returned $163.13, while off-street meters accounted for $30.12, the re port indicated. CHURCH TO SPONSOR SALE El Bethel Methodist church is sponsoring an old-fashioned homemade cake and ice cream sale at the El Bfethel clubhouse Saturday night at 7 o’clock p. m. for church benefit. REUNION Annual reunion of the des cendants of Nathan and Susan McGinnis will be held at Carl ton clubhouse, Cherryville, Sun day with dinner to' be served at 12 noon. Surviving children in clude Henkle and Henry Mc Ginnis, both of Kings Mountain, and Wiley McGinnis, of Cherry ille. Mrs. Louis Sabettie is sec retary of the clan. CITY GETS CHECK The City of Kings Mountain has received a check for $6, 318.76, representing refund from the State of North Caro lina on intangible taxes col lected1 by the state. TAX PRE-PAYMENTS City taxpayers have pre paid a total of $18,665.53 in 1956 taxes, Tax Collector J W. Web ster reported Wednesday after noon. Both city and county tax es are now payable at fully al lowable two percent discount. The discount rate drops to one percent in September. Polio Patient Out Of Hospital Bill Bagwell, 26, of Gaston street. Kings Mountain’s first reported polio case for 1956, has been discharged by his physician Dr. Paul Nolan. Mr. Bagwell was admitted to Kings Mountain hospital August 6, and discharged from the hospi tal August 11. Dr. Nolan stated Wednesday that Mr. Bagwell’s case was of the non-paralytic type. GerberdingNamed Recreation Head New Members Want Schools To Take Stadium Dr. W. P. Gerberding was elect ed chairman of the nfewly appoin ted City Recreation commission at that organization’s first meet ing Monday night in city court room. Mrs, J. N. McClure, the com mission’s lone woman member, was elected vice-chairman of the organization. Gene Mitchfem, city clerk had already been appointed secretary-treasurer of the com mission by action of the City Board of Commissioners in a re dent meeting. Members of the commission ex pressed dissatisfaction with hav ing City Stadium included in the list of recreation facilities they are to operate. They contended that the stadium should be turn ed over to the city school system. Fred W. Plonk, former mem ber of the recreation commission and present member of the City School Board of Trustees, told the new commission that an a greement between the schools and the city would not allow the schools to accept the stadium un til it is completed. The school board has refused to assume re sponsibility of the stadium stever al time in past years. This did not change the stand of the commission members, who stated that they did not believe they should have the stadium re sponsibilities, when the park play, ed no part in the city recreation program, William Plonk, American Leg ion Post 155 representative on the commission, expressed the opin ion that the city should charge a fee, other than for lights, for use of the stadium, if the city was to retain responsibilty for it. This idea was also supported by Lions Club Representative Gene Timms. He pointled out that the stadium needed many repairs, and that the commission should riegard these repairs as one of the most pressing items on its agen da. A major part of the meeting concerned discussion of the finan cial status of the commission, and what revenues it could expect. Jack White, who served as secrte tary - treasurer of t h e former commission, had been invited to attend this meeting to give a re port on the financial condition of the recreation department. He was unable to attend and will be invited to attend the commission’s next meeting, which has been set for August 27. “Kings Mountain is far behind in recreation, and someone will havte to pay to catch up,” Dr. Ger berding stated in regard to the local recreation outlook. Continuing in the financial vein, he added, “We have to know if the city is willing to support the type of recreation program we need here.” Shu Carlton, city recreation di-1 rector for this summer, gave the j commission a report on the rec reation progam fo the past three Continued on Page Eight TO GIVE RECITAL — Gordon Beaver, minister of music at St. Matthew's Lutheran church, will present an organ recital Sunday afternoon at the church. The re cital will begin at 4 o'clock. Beaver To Play Organ Recital Gordon Beaver, minister of mu sic at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, will play an organ re cital at the church on Sunday afternoon, beginning at 4 o’clock. The program will include: “Ah, Jesus Christ With Us Abide,” Bach; “Prelude and Fugue in G Minor,” Bach; “Aria with Varia tions,” Martini: “Concerto in F," Handel; “Andantino in G Minor,” Franck; “Joyeux Noel,” and Van Hulse; “Toccata in G,” Dubois. In September, Mr. Beaver will enter Union Theological seminary in New York for further study in organ and to obtain the degree of Master of Sacred Music. A graduate of Catawba Col lege in 1952, he is an army vete ran. He was a special teacher in piano in the city schools last year. He is a native of Landis and is married to the former Peggy Mauney, of Kings Mountain. 200 At Legion Celebration Some 200 Kings Mountain Le gionaires ate fried chicken and barbecue Saturday night at the Otis D. Green Post 155. The post celebrated payment of all debt on its building with a mortgage burning ceremony. The food was free and the Le gionaires happy as they ate hear tily and watched the mortgage formerly held by J. Bun Patter son, who had financed the Legion obligation, go up in smoke and paper cinders. Melton Kiser served as caterer for the party. The Legion building here has a book value of $37,500, represent ing an initial investment in the building in 1949 of $17,500, plus a later addition of clubroom facil ities requiring $10,000. W. D. Morrison is serving a second term as Legion comman der. Morgan Thinks State's Pearsall Plan To Be Model In Southland Will other Southern states foL low North Carolina’s lead in thfe school integration problem? State Senator Robert Morgan says yes. Senator Morgan told Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club membfers Thursday night that Florida and other states in the South have already indicated in terest in thfe Pearsall Plan, on which North Carolina voters will vote September 8. However, somfe of the states will not settle for as moderate an approach as the Pearsall Plan, Mr. Morgan added. "I btelieve in the Pearsall Plan,” Senator Morgan stated. “It is the most moderate approach to this problem facing us today.” ‘This plan is absolutely fair to the Negrotes of North Carolina,” he added," and protects them aga inst invasion of the colored schools by white students. It also provides the same amount of tui tion grants provided for white students.” The Pearsall Plan provides that the State of North Carolina has the right to grant educational tuition grants to students to at tend private schools. Thfese grants would amount to about $140 pfer student per school year. It also gives the voters in a given area the right to vote to close the public schools in that area. For example, if Negro students apply for admission to white school, the local assignment law would first be used to bar their admission. If all other legal moves failed to halt admission to the white school, then the local school board, either city or county depending upon the location of the school, could designate this school’s enrollment area as a “local option unit,” giving regis tered voters in that area the right to vote to close or continue the public school. In event that the school is clo sed, the state would then make tuition grants to the students of the closed plant. These grants would be used to pay tuition costs in a private school. A safety valve left in this part of the plan provides that, if the school board will not call an elec tion, 15 percent of the registered voters in the local option unit can sign a petition requesting an elec tion and the County elections board will be required to call such an election. Local option units can also vote to reopen -a closed school. “We should vote for this plan in order to give ourselves as much Continued on Page Eight City-Mauney Litigation In Gaston Court Litigation involving exceptions j to appraisal board findings in a i condemnation action involving the City of Kings Mountain and Paul Mauney was beig heard by Judge Hugh B. Campbell in Gaston Su perior Court Wednesday. Most of the morning session had been taken in picking a jury to hear the case, which deals with the City taking 2.56 acres of land belonging to Mr. Mauney through a condemnation suit nearly two years ago. The land was used by the city in construct ing a new sewage disposal plant on McGill Creek. At the time of the condemna tion, an apraisal board consist ing of Wray A. Pionk, F J. Nob lett, and Hoke Coon set a price of $6,500 for the property Howevter, the city did not agree to this price and appealed on the grounds that the set price was j “excessive.” Mr. Mauney then filed an ap peal saying that the price Was too | low for the amount of property taken. City attorneys for the case are J. R. Davis and Jack White of Davis & White law firm of Kings Mountain, and E. R. Warren of Gastonia. Mr. Mauney is repre sented by George Thomasson of ; Kings Mountain and James Mul.1 lin of Gastonia. Judge Hugh B. Campbell, newly j elected resident judge of Meek- I lenburg County, is the presiding jurist. Witnesses called for the city Wednesday included Mayor Glee A. Bridges, B. D. Ratterree, Boyce Ware, and Haywood Lynch. Other city witnesses on hand included Sage Fulton, Dan Huffstetler, and City Commis sioner W. G. Grantham No witness for Mr. Mauney was called Wednesday, but Hal Plonk and Wray Plonk were in the courtroom awaiting a call to testify. Haywood Lynch testified that in his opinion $300 was a fair market price for the 2.56 aeries in question. Mr. Lynch, a Kings Mountain real estate dealer and merchant, was one of the last city witnesses to be called Wed nesday. H.W. Haskins, 44, i Died Wednesday Howard Walter Haskins, 44, j resident of 606 West Gold street, died Wednesday morning at 6 a. j m. in Charlotte Memorial Hospi- j tal following an illness of one day, A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Has kins had lived in Kings Moun tain for the past nine years. He was an employee of Elmer Lum ber Company, and a member of First Baptist church, Pearland, Texas. He was a veteran of World War II. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Bailey Haskins of Pearland, Tex.; his wife, Mrs. Hattie Mae Stewart Haskins; four s