Population
City Limits.7.206
Tbe population U from tbs D. S. Government census
report lor 1950. The Census Bureau estimates tbe nation's
population gain since 19S0 at 1.7 percent per year, wblcb
mease Kings Mountain's 1954 population should approxi
mate 7609. Tbe trading area population In 1945. based
on ration board registrations at tbe Kings Mountain
office, eras 15.000.
Kings Mountain's BELIABLE Newspaper
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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 31, 1955
VOL 65 NO. 13
Established 1889
Sixty-Fifth Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SCENE FROM PALM SUNDAY PLAY — The Kings Mountain Little
Theatre will present "Family Portrait", a religious play, Sunday
evening at 7:30 at the high school auditorium. Pictured in the ritual
of drawing up the marriage papers are, left to right. Derice Weir, as
Esther; Lawrence Warlick, as Leban; Buck Early, as Mendel; Bil
lie Gibbons, as Beba; Gordon Beaver, as Joseph; and Mrs. Phillip
Padgett, as Mary.
Religious Drama
Set For Sunday
Local News
Bulletins
IN HOSPITAL
Clarence E, Carpenter, city
tax supervisor, entered Kings
Mountain hospital Tuesday for
observation and treatment of a
stomach disorder.
HOSPITAL GETS S6S0
Kings Mountain hospital is
receivig $650 from the Duke
Endowment, representing one
dollar per day of charity care
given iby the hospital during
the past year.
ARP MEETING
The Men’s cluib of Boyce Me
morial A1RP church meets
Monday at 7 p. m. at the chur
ch for a suipper meeting. J. L.
Maloney will toe the speaker,
* and the Minnie Alexander cir
cle will serve the meal, it was
announced.
LEGION
Regular monthly meeting of
Otis D. iGreen Post 155, the A
merican Legion, will toe held
at the Legion Hall on Friday
at 8 p. m. All members and
eligible veterans are invited
to attend.
NEW DIRECTOR
Dan Weiss, owner of Retoa’s
Fashions, has been named a
director of the Kings Moun
tain Merchants association,,
filling the vacancy created \
when Fred Haithcox, former '
manager of Rose’s 5 and 10
Store, was transferred to Leb
anon, Tenn.
Sunrise Service
Details Listed
Full program for the annual
community-wide Easter Sunrise
service, scheduled for Mountain
Rest cemetery at 6:30 Easter
morning, was announced this
week by or, W. L. Fressly, chair
man of the committee on arrange,
ments.
Prior to the program, the high
school band will play a program
of Easter music, and a choral
group, directed by Thomas Eanes,
will sing the call to worship.
Rev. H. E. Smith, pastor of Se
cond Wesleyan Methodist church,
will pray the invocation and lead
the Lord’s Supper, and Rev. P. E.
Shore, pastor of Central Metho
dist church and president of the
Ministerial association, will give
a mesage of welcome.
Rev. W. C. Sides, pastor of
Grace Methodist church, will read
the Easter message from the
Scripture, and Rev. H. T. Cook,
pastor of Second Baptist church,
will give the morning prayer.
Rev. Douglas Fritz, pastor of
Resurrection Lutheran church,
will deliver the Easter sermon,
and Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of
First Presbyterian church, will
say the benediction.
Congregational singing will in
clude the hymns “Holy, Holy Ho
ly", and “Christ the Lord Is Risen
Today”.
'Little Theatre
Play Feature
Of Palm Sunday
The Kings Mountain Little
Theatre will present “Family
Portrait” Sunday evening at 7:30
at the high school auditorium.
The drama is a religious play
by Lenore Coffee and William
Cowen, and is being presented at
the request of the Kings Moun
tain Ministerial association in
commemoration of Palm Sunday.
It is the third consecutive year
the Little Theatre has presented
a Palm Sunday drama. No ad
mission will be charged. In 1953
and 1954, me' grorip presented
“The Robe”.
This year’s production is being
directed by Mrs. Aubrey Mauney.
The cast:
Mrs. P. G. Padgett is “Mary",
Sandy Stallings is “Daniel”, Gor
don Beaver is “Joseph”, Peggy
Rippy is “Naomi”, Flem Mauney
is “Juda”, Mrs. M. A. Ware is
“Mary Cleophas”, Billie Gibbons
is “Reba”, Tommy Owgns is “Si
mon”, Dr. R. N. Baker is “Janies”
and Buck Early is “Mordecai”
and “Mendel”.
Mrs. Lawrence Warlick is cast
in the role of “Selima”, Melba
Tindall is “Lydia”, Gene Mitcham
is “Mathias”, Douglas Swink
plays the role of a disciple, Peggy
Mauney is “Hepzibah”, Meek
Carpenter is “Appius Hadrian”,
Patsy Wright is “Anna” and R.
G. Plonk is “Rabbi Samuel”.
Mrs. Tommy Owens has the
role of “Mary of Magdala”, Cur
tis George is “Daniel — age 16”,
Derice Weir is “Esther,” Lawren
ce Warlick is “Leban”, Philip Pad
gett is “Joshua”, Winifred Fulton
has the roles of “Woman of Jer
usalem” aqd “Beulah”, Phil Mau
ney is “Amos”, Dave Wray is the
fisherman and Bob Rosberg is
the customer, and "Mary, mother
of Mark”, is Mrs. Merle Beatty.
Two-Night Program Is Announced
For Women's Finance Forum Here
Should you have a joint bank
account with your husband?
Can you keep a business-like
record of finances?
Do you know how to invest
money?
How much insurance should
you carry?
Who are your heirs if you make
no will?
These and other pertinent to
pics will be discussed by business
specialists at the two-evening Fi
nance Forum for Women to be
held at the Woman’s club at 7:30
on April 12 and 14. Following
each discussion will be a period
for asking questions orally or in
writing.
The specialists who will dis
cuss four important phases of
business are: Louis D. Brooks,
executive vice-president of Union
National Bank, Charlotte, who
will discuss “Women, Money and
Banking”: William B. Scott, of
Merrill Lynch, Fierce, Benner &
Beane, Charlotte, who will dis
cuss "Investments”; Thomas
Grant, Jr., vice-president and
trust officer of Union National
Bank, Charlotte, who will dis
cuss "Your Estate”; and James
E. Cashatt, district manager of
Jefferson Standard Life Insur
ance Company, Gastonia, who
will discuss “Life Insurance.”
The series of meetings is being
offered free to all women of
Kings Mountain and the sur
rounding area, with the First Na
tional Bank defraying all expen
ses.
Other features planned include
an intermission each evening be
tween the two discussion periods,
during which refreshments will
be served; favors for all ladies
each night; and a valuable door
prize to be awarded the second
night to the holder of the lucky
number among all the numbers
issued at both meetings. The win
ner must be present to receive the
gift.
This Finance Forum, co-spon
sored by the Kings Mountain Wo
man’s Club and the First Na
tional Bank of Kings Mountain,
a member of the American Bank
ers association, is a type of ser
vice being offered by banks
throughout the nation to instruct
women in fundamental business
principles. The need for such in
formation is evidenced by statls
tical reports that white women
outlive white men by 5% years
and that women spend about 80
percent of the money in the na
tion.
Pipeline Break
Kept City Crew
Busy On Friday
The Kings Mountain water
system suffered a breakdown
la-t Friday afternoon, when a
16-inch section* of pipe gave way
and broke on the York iRoad.
The ipipe leads from the York
Road reservoir to the Deal street
filter plant
E. C. Nicholson, superinten
dent of puiblic works, said that
the toed under the (big line had
not ibeen *ufficiently “tamped”
when the installation was made
toy Gilbert Engineering Compa
ny. When traffic was turned
onto the new road and bridge
over the new U. S. 29 toy-pass the
load proved too heavy, resulting
in ibreaking of the line.
City workmen and a Gilbert
Engineering crew worked from
3:30 p. m. Friday until 4 a. m.,
the following morning before the
line was repaired and again car
rying raw water to the filter
plant.
Mr,. Nicholson said the break
cost the city 180,000 gallons of
raw water — amount customar
ily carried in the pipe. After the
pumps were shut off, the line
had to toe drained before it could
toe repaired.
It was a rough job, Mr. Nich
olson noted, as the weather
turned cold to add to the diffi
culties.
I. L Mitcham
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites lor Junious Lee
(June) Mitcham, 56, were con
ducted Friday at 3 p. m. Irc-m
Resurrection Lutheran church, in
terment following in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Mr. Mitcham succumbed last
Wednesday night at 9:15 p. m. in
Kings Mountain hospital follow
ing a heart attack suffered early
Wednesday morning.
A life-long resident of Kings
Mountain, he was the son of the
late Luther and Rachel Herndon
Mitcham. He was a World War H
veteran and a charter member
of Resurrection Lutheran church.
He was an overseer on the third
shift at Bonnie Mills.
Rev. Douglas Fritz, Resurrec
tion pastor, conducted the final
rites. The body lay in-state at the
church 30 minutes prior to the
services.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Lillie Guyton Mitcham, four dau
ghters, Mrs. Howard Haynes,
Georgetown, S. C., Mrs. Mildred
Bowman, Charlotte, Mrs. Cobie
Lee Dunn and Mrs. Margaret
Williams, both of Kings Moun
tain, a sister, Mrs. Robert Morri
son, Kings Mountain, and four
brothers, Rufus Mitcham, John
Mitcham, and Lloyd Mitcham, all
of Kings Mountain, and Leo Mit
cham, of Ellenboro.
Twelve grandchildren and one
great - grandchild also survive.
Active pallbearers included
Gaither Ledbetter, Maynard O
dell, Dorus Whitesides, Laney
Dettmarr, Hal Plonk, and Dorus
Bennett.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the church council at
Resurrection Lutheran church.
NO FATAL ACCIDENTS
As of Wednesday afternoon,
the City of Kings Mount^n
had gone 1,206 days without a
fatal traffic accident, Kings
Mountain Police department
reported. %
A. W. Kincaid Files For Re-Election;
/
Paul Ledford Enters Ward 4 Contest
SENIOR CLASS PLAY — Shown above are four members of the
Kings Mountain High School senior class who will appear in the
production of "Charley's Aunt/’ annual class play, at Central audi
torium on Thursday and Friday at 8 p. m. Pictured, left to right, are:
Jimmy Short, Joyce Owens, Janice Stogner and Earl Marlowe.
Senior Class
Will Present
Comedy Drama
The curtain opens Thursday
evening (tonight) at eight o’clock
on the senior class play, “Char
ley’s Aunt” which will also be
presented again on Friday night
A comedy, “Charley’s Aunt’’,
was recently seen on Broadway
with Ray Bolger as the star. It
was also a movie hit of a few
years back with Jack Benny in
the leading role and has always
been a favorite of high schools
and little theatre audiences all
over the country.
Set in England, “Charley’s
Aunt” presents a bit of a mixup
which produces comic situations
and entanglements enough to
provide an evening of entertain
ment for the entire family.
Apart from the cast and the
backstage crew who have worked
tirelessly and exacted their best
efforts on “Charley’s Aunt” are
other members of the senior
class who will be included on the
production staff. Rachael Jolly,
Etha Hawkins and Mary Stone
will be in charge of tickets, while
ushers for both performances will
be Mary A. McDaniel, Nancy Bis
hop, Louise Tucker, Valiree Wat
terson, Christine Still, Martha Ba
ker, Hazel Nance, Betty Biddix,
and Betty Cable.
Dewitt Blanton and Fred Falls
will handle the composition of
the program. Marilyn Tessener
is prompter.
Tickets are now available for
purchase from any member of
the senior class or they may be
obtained at the door.
Doug W. Swink is directing the
production.
Match Gas Bills
Total $607.70
March 'billings of the city’s
natural gas department, to be
received by customers on Friday,
will total $607.70, compared to
$417.88 for the first month’s bil
lings for February.
Assistant City Clerk Joe H. Mc
Daniel, Jr., said 58 customers
will receive bills for gas service,
compared to 27 for the previous
month.
Mr. McDaniel noted that the
bills for a full-month’s service
are generally lower than for the
first month, due to warmer wea
ther. in the billing period.
Next month’s billings are ex
pected to jump considerably,
with addition of Bennett Brick
& Tile Company and Mauney
Hosiery Company to the indus
trial customer group.
BARBECUE SUPPER
Moose Lodge No.' 1748 will
sponsor a barbecue supper for
members only Thursday night
at 7 o’clock at the Moose
Lodge on Bessemer City road.
No regular meeting will be
held that night.
OPERATION
Clavon Kelly underwent a
minor operation Wednesday
morning in Gastonia for remo
val of a small foot bone.
t>
Ov-er-Pciikeis Shcsld
Return Cash In Tabs
Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan,
Jr., issued a request Wednesday
to all motorists who receive cour
tesy envelopes for over-parking to
return the “nickel” in the enve
lope left for that purpose, or eith
er return with the “nickel” the
citation number listed on the en
velope.
Chief l!ogan noted that over
parking envelopes are anly re
corded by citation numbers list
ed on the envelopes. Motorist who
return the “nickel” without the
envelope and without the citation
number, can not be given credit.
483 Youngsters
Want Salk Shots
Plans to administer Salk polio
vaccine to some 483 first and
second grade children of Kings
Mountain city schools were be
ing formulated this week by
Cleveland County Health depart
ment, according to an announ
cement from the office of Dr. Z.
P. Mitchell, county health offi
cer.
Since Tuesday was the dead
line for the return to the school
of signed application blanks toy
parents who wish their children
to be inoculated, Mrs. Elizabeth
Scruggs, of the county health of
fice, said, late requests will not
be honored. Mrs. Scruggs said It
was necessary to set a deadline
for the return of the blanks to
determine the exact number of
children to be innoculated since
the supply of vaccine is limited
and the correct amount only will
be sent to each county from
headquarters in the state.
Mrs. Scruggs said, although,
use of the vaccine hinges on the
approval by the National Insti
tute of Public Health, U. S. Pub
lic Health Service, which is ex
pected April 12, plans must now
be formulated in order that the
vaccine may be administered be
fore the end of the school term.
Although the vaccine will ibe
given free now to children of
first snd second grsdos th^
cine will be available later to
other age groups from thir fami
ly phisician, Mrs. Scruggs said.
The private service will not toe
free, Mrs. Scruggs noted.
Blythe Brothers
Low On By-Pass
Blythe Brothers, of Charlotte,
was low bidder on paving and
grading of the U. S. 29 by-pass
from Grover to the intersection
with Gastonia highway, accord
ing to results of bid-opening by
the State Highway & Public
Works commission in Raleigh
Tuesday.
Crouch Brothers, of Moores
ville, was low bidder on moving
of buildings and structures, at
$27,960.
The commission will review the
bids on Thursday.
The U. S. 29 by-pass specifica
tions call for grading and sur
facing 9.7 miles of road.
Four Candidates
Now In Running
For Ward 4 Post
Two candidates added their
names to the May 10 city and
school district ballots during the
past week. Arnold W. Kincaid,
as was expected, tiled his candi
dacy for re-election as Ward 3
school trustee, and Paul Ledford
filed his candidacy for Ward 4
commissioner.
Mr. Ledford’s entry into the
Ward 4 race brings the number
of candidates for this position to
four. Previously filed for the of
fice were George W. White, O. T.
Hayes, Sr., and Charles (Rocky)
Ford.
Mr. Ledford posted his filing
fee Tuesday.
Mr. Kincaid posted his filing
fee last Friday.
Otherwise, political activity
was quiet. Several of the candi
dates noted that “it’s a little ear
ly” for heavy political activity.
Through Wednesday at 2 o’
clock, a total of 15 candidates
were seeking the six city and two
school board offices to be filled
at the May 10 election.
Contests existed for four of the
eight positions.
Whether the filing of candi
dates was over was not known
but there had been a rash of "I
won’t run” statements from many
citizens mentioned as prospective
candidates.
Still to be completed is the list
of election officials, with all ward
posts filled except in Ward 4.
Registration books are to open
on April 16.
Mr. Kincaid, now completing
his eighth year on the school
board, is completing his first full
term of six years, after filling an
unexpired term of Glenn White.
Currently chairman of the school
board, Mr. Kincaid is active in
the work of First Baptist church,
is a trustee of Gardner-Webb col
lege, and an active Mason. He is
a member of Kings Mountain Ki
wanis club and is president of a
textile machinery company in
Bessemer City, Ideal Machine
Shops.
Mr. Ledford is a weaver at Pau
line plant of Neisler Mills, is a
native of Kings Mountain who
has lived here all his life. He is
a deacon of Temple Baptist
church.
* The 15 candidates to date in
clude:
For Mayor — Glee A. Bridges,
incumbent, Baxter T. Wright, Sr.,
and Olland R. Pearson.
For Ward 1 Commissioner —
W. S. Fulton, Sr., incumbent, and
Sam Collins.
For Ward 2 Commissioner —
J. H. Patterson, incumbent, and
Tilman Pearson.
For Ward 3 Commissioner —
T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, incum
bent.
For Ward 4 Commissioner —
George W. White, O. T. Hayes,
Sr., Charles W, (Rocky) Ford,
and £aul Ledford.
For Ward 5 Commissioner —
W. G. Grantham, incumbent.
For Ward 2 School Trustee —
J. W. Webster.
For Ward 3 School Trustee —
Arnold W. Kincaid.
METER RECEIPTS
Net meter receipts from city’s
parking meters for week end
ing Wednesday at noon were
$171.88, Miss Grace Carpenter,
of city clerk’s office, reported.
Phone Service Here Near Normal,
As Strike Continues For 17th Day
There was little outward
change in the nine-state telephone
strike this week, as the walkout
of members of the Communica
tions Workers of America (CIO)
continued for the 17th day.
In Kings Mountain, a small
corps of supervisory and non
striking employees were provid
ing telephone service through the
manually-operated switchboard in
the Fulton Building.
Meantime, Southern Bell Tele
phone & Telegraph Company pla
ces n advertisement in the Kings
Mountain Herald inviting appli
cations for "occasional” work at
the switchboards, and Floyd Far
ris, manager, said more employ
ees are on the Job — but he didn’t
know hew many.
Striking employees were still
pulling three-hour picket duty
and Tuesday added a new pla
card to their offering. The reason
the strike is still on, the placards
state, is that the company refuses
to submit the dispute to arbitra
tion. Another placard being borne
by the pickets details the “scab”
list, local employees either union
members or eligible for union
membership who failed to honor
the strike call.
Service was neare ■ normal this
week than it had been, as the su
pervisory workers learned their
new jobs.
Negotiations toward settlement
of the strike wen* reported con
tinuing in Atlanta.
CANDIDATES — Pictured are Anold W. Kincaid, left, who filed can
didacy this week for re-election as Ward 3 school trustee, and Paul
Ledford, right, who filed his candidacy for Ward 4 city commission
er. Fifteen candidates now seek the eight positions to be filled at
the biennial election May 10.
Lions To Conduct
Broom - Mat Sale
Retailers To Open
All Day Wednesday
Majority of Kings Mountain
retail merchants will be open
next Wednesday afternoon,
suspending the mid-week
half-holiday to accommodate
!pre-Easter shoppers.
Under a recent change in
holiday schedule of the Kings
Mountain Merchants associa
tion the merchants will Ibe o
:pen on the Wednesday prior
to Easter, rather than the Wed
nesday folllowing.
Easter Monday will be a hol
iday for majority of the firms,
again in conformance with the
association’s by-laws.
Two Pre-School
Clinics Today
West and East Elementary
school clinics will be held in their
respective school auditoriums
Thursday, according to an an
nouncement by Miss Alice Ave
ritt, city schools teaching con
sultant.
East school clinic is being con
ducted from 9:30 a. m. until noon,
while West school clinic is to be-,
gin at 1:30 p. m.
Miss Averitt is requesting all
parents who have children who
will enter first grade next fall
to enroll them at this time.
Children must be six years old
by October 15 to be eligible for
enrollment in the 1955-56 school
term.
Central school clinic was held
Tuesday morning at First Bap
tist church. Seventy prospective
first graders were enrolled, ac
cording to statistics from the of
fice of Principal Rowell Lane.
CITIZENS CLUB
The Junior American Citizens
club in Miss Margaret Gofor
th’s sixth grade at Central
school will broadcast a pro
gram over WKMT Thursday,
March 31, at 9:15 a. m.( it has
been announced.
Profits To Aid
Club Projects
In Blind Work
The Kings Mountain Lions club
will conduct its annual broom and
mat sale for the benefit of the
blind beginning this weekend and
continuing through April 9.
Fred Wright, Jr., chairman of
the Lions committee in charge
o,f the project, said the club’s in
ventory includes 1200 brooms and
100 rubber door mats and added,
“We want to sell ’em all”.
The products are manufactur
ed by the Lions - sponsored In
dustries for the Blind at Greens
boro. Brooms sell for $1.50 and
the mats sell for $2.50.
Profits from the sale will be
retained here for use of the Kings
Mountain club in sight conserva
tion work.
Warlick Insurance Agency is
the club’s “warehouse” and the
following assignments have been
made for the two-weekend sale:
Burlington Mill employees and
village — Paul King.
Crescent Hill Drive, Landing
street, Gold street. — Rev. Doug
las Fritz, Dr. Nathan Reed, Er
tle Powers.
Superior Stone and Kerns Bro
thers — Carl Mayes and C. D.
Ware.
Craftspun Yarns employees —■
C. P. Barry, Richard Barnette. <
Mauney Hosiery Mill employ
ees — W. K. Mauney, Jr., Sam.
Stallings. Mauney Mill employees
and village — Carl Mauney, Sam
Weir.
Sadie Mill employees and vil
lage — George Houser.
Cansler, West Mountain, West
King and intervening streets —
| Baxter Wright, Sr., James Hou
ser, John Lewis.
Margrace Mill employees and
village — Charlie Moss and Hu
bert Davidson.
North Piedmont avenue and
side streets in area — Hugh A.
Logan, Jr., and J. C. McKinney.
Bonnie Mill employees and vil
lage — Jacob Cooper and Rev.
P. L. Shore.
East King street, East Ridge
street and Cleveland avenue —
J. W. Webster.
York Road" and side streets —
Hazel Bumgardner and E. E. Mar
lowe.
Grover Road — Gene Timms.
Elmer Lumber Company — W.
L. Plonk.
Oak Grove community — Ed
win Moore and Eugene Patter
son.
East Parker and Dilling streets
—George Thomasson.
N. Gaston street and Duke Po
wer company — James Rollins.
Sims street — Tolly Shuford.
Consolidated Textiles — Lee
Roberts.
Waco Road — Otto Williams.
Linwood Road, Church street
and side streets — D. L. Saun
ders, Horace Hord, Ollie Harris.
Uptown business section — T.
W. Grayson, Martin Harmon,
and Hilton Ruth.