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Population City Limits.7.206 TO* population I* iiom the O. S. Government census report for 1950. The Census Bureau estimates the nation's population gain since 1950 at 1.7 percent per year, which means Kings Mountain's 1954 population should approxi mate 7609. The trading area population In 1945. based on ration board registrations at the Kings Mountain office, was 15.000. Kings Monnftaln's RELIABLE Newspaper OH Pages LU Today Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 7, 1955 VOL 65 NO. 14 Established 1889 Sixty-Fifth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Kings Mountain Preparing For Easter Observance Local News Bulletins METER RECEIPTS Net imeter receipts from city’s parking meters for week end ing Wednesday at noon were $171.70, Miss Grace Carpenter, of city clerk’s office reported. MOOSE MEETING The regular meeting of Moose Lodge 1748 will toe held Thursday niight at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road. BUILDING PERMITS Building Inspector J. W. Weto ster issued a permit Thursday March 30, to R. H. Sparrow to erect a shed on York road, at an estimated cost of $300. MASONIC MEETING Regular communication of Fairview Lodge 339, A. F,. &A. M., will toe held at the (Lodge Hall Monday evening at 7:30. AT CONVENTION Flem Mauney, Dick Hunni cutt, Mike Houser, Jerry Mc Carter, and John McGinnis, members of the Key elnto at Central high school, attended a Key cluto convention in Col umbia, S. C. recently. They were accompanied toy B. S. Peeler, Jr. DIXON SERVICE James Moss, senior at Col umbia Seminary, Decatur, Ga., will conduct services at Dixon Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m., it has been announced. LIBRARY Jacob S. Mauney Memorial library will toe closed Monday, it has been announced toy Mrs. Charles Dilling, librarian. The library will open as usual on Tuesday. IN ASHEVILLE D. B. Blalock, Floyd Beam, of Lawndale, and John B. Hamrick, of Boiling Springs, are attending an ASC confer ence in three-day session in Asheville this week. ATTEND MEETING Dr. P,. E. Hendricks, Kings Mountain physician, and Mrs. Hendricks attended a medical meeting In session in Augusta, Ga., last weekend. NO FATAL ACCIDENTS As of Wednesday afternoon, the city of Kings Mountain had gone 1,213 days without a fa tal traffic accident, Kings Mountain Police department reported. AT MEETING Dr. L. T. Anderson, local chiropractor, is attending the Western District meeting of the North Carolina Chiropractor’s Association in session Thurs day (today) at Charlotte’s Barringer Hotel. Dr. Andersen’s office here will be closed, he announced. PRESBYTERIAL Mrs. W. L. Pressly, Mrs. I. G. Patterson, Mrs. W,. E. Blakely, Mrs. N. F. McGill, Mrs. P. G. Eatterree, Mrs. J. A. Cheshire, Mrs. Lewis Hovis, Mrs. J. L. McGill, Miss Ava Ware, Mrs. iLona McGill,- Mrs. W. L. Me Mackin, Mrs. N. M. Farr, and Mrs. J. C. McGill represented Boyce Memorial AEP church at a PreSbyterial meeting in Sta tesville Tuesday,. DEACONS ORGANIZE Garrison Goforth was elect ed chairman and Ben H. Go forth, Jr., was named secretary of the Boyce Memorial ARP board of deacons for 1955-56 at an organizational meeting last Sunday. Hoyle Mabry is retiring chairman and Martin Harmon is retiring secretary. Lions Continuing Broom-and-Mot Sale The Kings Mountain Lions club’s annual broom-and-mat sale will continue this week end. Members of the club are sel ling brooms, at $1.50, and rub ber door mats, at $2.50, for the benefit of the blind. Fred Wright, Jr., chairman of the club committee on the annual project, urged all Lions sales committees to complete their work this weekend. Jimmy Plonk, Connie Padgett Medal Winners Two seventh graders won the Baker Reading medal and Neis ler Declamation medals lor the current year in finals contests held at Central auditorium Wed nesday afternoon. Winner of the Baker medal was Connie Padgett, Central school, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. P. G. Padgett, who gave the read ing “Carrie Becomes an Ama teur Actress.” Winner of the Neisler medal was Jimmy Plonk, West school, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Plonk, who declaimed “The Earth Is the Lord’s”. Other contestants in the read ing contest were Carolyn Jonas, East school, and Nancy Hovis, West school. Other contestants in the declamation contest were George Franklin, Jr., Central, and Wayne Laughter, East. Each had advanced to the fi nals by winning respective school contests last week. Margaret Faye Wells won the Central P-TA reading contest me dal. Connie Padgett, a previous winner, was not eligible for this award. The Baker medal is awarded annually by Dr. L. P. Baker, Kings Mountain dentist, and for many years chairman of the city school board. The Neisler medal is awarded annually by Mrs. C. E. Neisler. No Change Here In Phone Strike The strike of Communcations Workers of America (CIO) a gainst Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company continued for the 24th day Wednesday and found the Kings Mountain ex change walkout still solid. Two strikers on picket duty Wednesday said they knew of no Kings Mountain returnees, same report given toy Manager Floyd Farris, of Shelby, on Tuesday. Mr. Farris said there had Ibeen a number of returnees to the Shellby exchange and also re ported heavy applications for “occasional” work at the Shelby exchange as a result of a “help wanted” advertisement. Mr. Far ris did not know, he said, how many applications had Ibeen re ceived in response to similar ad vertisement in Kings Mountain. Southern Bell meantime step ped up its efforts to encourage a return to work by striking em ployees. In newspaper advertise ments throughout the Southeast, the company praised the non striking corps of workers for their “Spirit of Service,” and formally welcomed returning strikers. Kings Mountain exchange o riginally reported 22 operators and three service department employees out. Pickets are still on duty on three-hour shifts. Local service was slower than normal, but all calls were toeing placed, and long distance service had improved, several callers re ported, -since the early days of the strike. List Of Candidates Fails To Increase CANDIDATE — Charles (Rocky) Ford is one of four candidates for Ward 4 commissioner at the May 10 city election. Mr. Ford, a World War II veteran, is seek ing political office for the first time. Other Ward 4 candidates are George W. White. O. T. Hay es, Sr., and Paul (Slinky) Led ford. A&PBuilding To Begin Soon Construction on a modern su per market for Atlantic & Paci fic Tea Company here is expected to begin soon, on the lot at the corner of Falls street and Battle ground avenue. D. W. Royster, purchaser of the lot in late 1953 for Western Carolina Properties, Inc., said the lot has been sold to Tom Moore, his brother-in-law, who will de velope it for A & P. Haywood E. Lynch has pur chased the frame dwelling for removal and has already begun work on tearing it away. Mr. Royster announced several months ago that the lot was pur chased for construction of an A & P super market in the course of requesting the city board of commissioners for re-zoning of the property. Postal Receipts Up, Reversing Trend Postal receipts at Kings Moun tain post office increased in Mar ch over the comparable month of 1954, reversing a two-month trend. • Acting Postmaster W. T. Weir said March receipts totaled $5,367.12, for a gain of $354.30 over March 1954 receipts of $5, 013.83. First quarter totals were slightly below last year, at $14, 986.54, compared to $15,431.32 for the first quarter of 1954. Favors. Food, Prizes, Learning Await Finance Forum "Students" All Kings Mountain area wo men are being invited to attend next week’s two-night Women’s Finance Forum, Ibeing co-spon sored iby the Kings Mountain Woman’s Club and First Na tional Bank. Favors and door prizes await those Who attend the forum, scheduled for Tuesday and rhursday evenings, April 12 and 14, in addition to refreshments and instruction on four matters of finance. There will . be no admission charge. Both programs will begin at 7:30 p. m. ' On Tuesday night, LouiS D. Brooks, executive vice-president of Charlotte’s Union National Bank, will discuss "Women, Money, and Banking,” and Wil liam B. Scott, of the Charlotte of fice of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane, investment brokers, will discuss “Invest ments.” On April 14, Thomas Grant, Jr., dee-president and trust officer of the Union National Bank, will liscuss "Your Estate” and James 2. Cashatt, of Gastonia, Jeffer son Life Insurance Company listrict manager, will discuss 'Life Insurance.” A question-and-answer peri od will follow each discussion, with a refreshment “break” scheduled between the discus sions. Favors will ibe given the ladies each night, and on April 14, sev en valuable door prizes will be presented women holding lucky numbers among those given both evenings. The winners must he present the second night to re ceive the prizes. The door prizes and the busi ness firms donating them are: Kings Mountain Drug Com pany — Sunbeam automatic Mix • Master with juice extract or, bowls and beaters (Model 10.) Cooper’s Furniture Company— One pair foam rubber pillows. Belk’s Department Store —One Bates spread, double bed size. Bridges Hardware — One Py rex dinner set in color. Phifer Hardware — White en amel two-piece step-on waste can. Victory Chevrolet Company — Automatic spot light. Plonk Brothers & Company — Pair fitted double bed sheets. The committee from the Wo man’s Club, working in conjunc tion with Frank R. Summers, president of First National Rank, are Mrs. W. T. Weir, Mrs. Vernon Crosby, and Mrs. P. E. Hendricks. \ Wright Favois Free Curb, Gutter With Powell Cash There were no new candidates for city political office during the past week, leaving the total of formal candidates for six city and two school district offices at 15. Contests existed for only half of the eight offices to be filled, and political observers were di vided in their opinions on whe ther all candidates expecting to run are now in the field. One group was reported seek ing a candidate in Ward 5 to op pose Incumbent W. G. Grantham, but had found only declinations to offer. Mentioned as possible candidates were Harold D. Craw ford, Robert Osborne, who sought the mayor’s seat two yeats ago, D. L. White, who sought the Ward 5 post two years ago, and Arthur Barrett. There was a noticeable quick ening of political talk among citizens and politicians, both can didates and otherwise, and B. T. Wright, Sr., candidate for mayor, placed an advertisement in to day’s Herald advancing what may be the first formal issue of the mayoral campaign. Mr. Wright, in his statement, said he would favor city adoption of a policy to provide free curb ing and guttering for city streets from annual Powell Bill refunds from ihe state for street work. Mr. Wright contends that the construction of curb-and-gut ter would quickly pay for itself in street maintenance savings. Under present city policy, curb and-gutter installations are made on a share-cost basis, with the city paying part of the cost and the property owner a part. The candidate list for the May 10 city election at 4 o’clock Wed nesday afternoon was: 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 Paul 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. Lutheran Gifts Top $44,000 Kings Mountain Lutheran churches have reported contri butions and pledges in excess of $44,000 for the Lenoir-Rhyne Col lege fund campaign to raise $1, 500,000 for new buildings and en dowment. St. Matthew’s Lutheran church has reported gifts of $42,390 with the statement it has exceeded its “fair share” of the total being sought through the Lutheran Sy nod of North Carolina. The St. Matthew’s campaign was headed by Jacob Cooper, chairman, with W. K. Mauney chairman of the special gifts committee. Resurrection Lutheran church has raised $2,400 for the fund and Fred W. Plonk, chairman, said the solicitation has not yet been completed. Scrap Paper Drive Scheduled April 17 Citizens were again reminded of the Jaycee scrap paper drive scheduled for April 17. Bill Jonas, chairman of the club’s Atlanta Convention com mittee, issued an appeal to citi zens to save scrap paper and no tify him or any Jaycee to insure collection during or before the scheduled drive. Proceeds from the sale of scrap paper collected is to go to con vention group. EASTER SPEAKER — Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor of Resur rection Lutheran church, will de liver the sermon at the city's an nual community-wide Easter Sunrise service to be held at Mountain Rest cemetery Sunday morning at 6:30. Sunrise Rites Begin At 6:30 Kings Mountain will -begin its Easter observance at 6:30 a. m. at the annual community - wide inter - denominational Easter Sunrise service at Memorial ipark of Mountain -Rest cemetery. Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, will deliver the sermon. In event of inclement weath er, the service will be held at Central school auditorium. Prior to the program, the high schbol 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 Sec ond Wesleyan Methodist church, will pray the invocation and lead the Lord's Prayer, and Rev. P,. L. Shore, pastor of Central Metho dist church and president of the Ministerial association, will give a message of welcome. Rev. W. C. Sides, ipastor 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! P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church, will say the benediction. Congregational singing will in clude the hymns “Holy, Holy, Holy,” and “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today.” Election Officials And Data Listed Formal publication of the no tice calling the May 10 city elec tion is made in today’s Herald. The notice specifies that the deadline for filing for city or school elective office is May 4, at 4:30, at the office of the city clerk, and lists the following ward voting places and elective officials: Ward 1 — City hall fire sta tion, C. L. Black, registrar, Mrs. Lloyd Houser and Mrs. Nell Cranford, judges. Ward 2 — City Hall courtroom, Mrs. H. R. Parton, registrar, and C. R. (Dick) McGinnis and R. D. Goforth, judges. Ward 3 — Pheniv Mill store. Mrs. Ruth Bowers, registrar, Ro chel Connor and Mack Murray, judges. i Ward 4 — Kings Mountain Manufacturing Company club room, Mrs. Ralph Hullender, re gistrar, Brooks Tate and Mrs. Herman Yawn, judges. Ward 5 — Victory Chevrolet Company, Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, Jr., registrar, and Mrs. Charlie Ballard and Mrs. F .A. McDaniel, Jr., judges. * The voting will be conducted from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. on May 10. Regis’ -stion books will open on Saturday, April 16. The registrars will be at the polling places each Saturday from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m, to accept new registrations and transfers. Saturday, May 7, has been de signated as Challenge Day. Filing fee for all offices is five dollars. Under the city's charter and subsequent amendments all citi zens may vote for mayor and five ward commissioners. Only voters of the particular wards may vote for school trustees. City May Adopt Curfew Ordinance rroposca Law Would Restrict Those Under 16 The city board of commission ers may make effective Thursday night an ordinance it intended to adopt last week to set a 10 p. m. curfew for children under 16 years of age. The board, meeting in special session Wednesday night, March 30, voted to set a 10 p. m. curfew for children under 16 unless ac companied by their parents, but it failed to adopt an effective date and to set penalties for vio lations. City Attorney J. R. Davis, who was not present at the special meeting, ruled subsequently that, without the penalty and effective date inclusions, the intended or dinance had no effect. The action by the board —with the Commissioners present, W. S. Fulton, Sr., Harold Phillips, and J. H. Patterson, voting unani mously was taken after only minor discussion. Mayor Glee A. Bridges indicated the curfew pro posal was at the suggestion of Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr. Mayor Bridges referred to the wave of break-ins by youthful vagrants which have occurred in Kings Mountain recently and in ferred the police chief wanted the ordinance to better control the teen-age population. City Clerk Gene Mitcham said the curfew ordinance matter would be on -the agenda for Thursday night’s regular month ly meeting of the commissioners, which is scheduled to convene at 8 o’clock. Mr. Mitcham said a number of street-paving petitions are to be considered at the April meeting and that the board will be asked to determine a few street assess ment complaints, arising from the recent assessment action. ARP Easter Rites Planned Boyce Memorial ARP church will hold its annual candlelight communion service on Thursday evening at 8 p. m. Prior to the administering of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Sup per, an appropriate musical pro gram will be given by the church choir and organist. Mrs. Claude Hambright is in charge of church decorations for the Thursday service, and Mrs. Eugene Steffy is in charge of decorations for the Sunday ser vice. All members of the church are being urged to attend the Thurs day evening service as well as the Easter morning service, Dr. W. L. Pressly, the pastor, said. I Shutdown Rumor Not Confirmed Rumor of an impending com plete shutdown of the Consoli dated Textiles, Inc., Kings Mountain plant, a 250-employee mill, was not confirmed Wed nesday by management of the Kings Mountain plant. However, Franklin Ware, manager of the Kings Moun tain branch of the North Caro lina Employment service said his office had processed ap proximately 50 claims this week for unemployment com pensation from laid-off Consoli dated employees. A Kings Mountain employee, who asked not to be identified, said officials here are awaiting definite instructions from the firm’s home office in New York. Lester Martin is president of Consolidated, a large textile chain. Bobby Eaily Best Speller Bobby Early, eighth grade stu 3ent at West school, won the First National Bank’s annual grammar grade spelling contest in contests conducted Monday. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Ear ly, he also won the opportunity to represent Kings Mountain in the forthcoming Charlotte Obser ver Spelling Bee. The grammar grade contests were conducted early this year, in order to sup ply a contestant for the Char lotte Observer contest, Miss Alice Averitt, city schools teaching con sultant said. High school con tests will be conducted later. Second place in the grammar grade contests went to Margaret Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Jackson, also of West school. Other school winners were Joyce Mullinax, East school, and Linda Mitcham, Central school. Others competing, representing fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades at each of the three grammar schools, were: West — Jimmy Plonk, Carol Jean Goter, and Dianne Flowers. East—John Larry Baity, Steve Carpenter, Judy Hollifield, Ruth Jones, Roy Hollifield, Harold Downey and Steve Owens. Central — Elaine Burton, Sha ron Goins, Mickey Lynn, Paula Cole, Steve Barrett, Wayne King, Ruth Wright, Judy Early, Martha Sue Etters, Carey Shore, and Ja mes Forrest. The faculty committee in char ge of the contest included Miss Willie McGill, Central, Mrs. R. D. Arrowood, West, and Miss Jette Plonk, East. The First National Bank an nually awards medals to best spellers in white and Negro schools of Kings Mountain. City Thinks Its Gas Revenues Will Total $93,953 For 1955-56 The city .board of commission ers, meeting in sipecial session March 30, tentative}/ adopted the 1955-56 fiscal year budget estimate for the city natural gas system. The estimate, as it now stands, anticipates the city gas system will have gross revenue for the year beginning July 1 of $93,953, operating expense disbursements of $62,956, and net revenues (ex clusive of costs of interest, bond amortization, and system ex pansion) of $30,997. The revenues are expected to be received as follows: from res idential customers $36,790; com mercial customers $10,124; in dustrial customers $29,276; cus tomers on interruptible con tracts $16,532; from the city it self $1,231. Disbursement estimates are: cost of 129,990 million cubic feet of gas $49,176; labor - mainte nance $2,400; superintendent’s salary $3,900; administrative salary $900; stationery $420; en gineering costs $2,400; legal ex pense $600; equipment main tenance $480; lights and power $120; telephone $60; supplies $300; insurance $1,440; auditing $200; POAB taxes $120; postage $120; travel expense $200; and miscellaneous expenses of $120. The board took the following1 actions on improvement peti tions of citizens: 1) Approved, if signatures pro ved in order, a petition to pave Gantt street, between Fulton and Walker streets. 2) Approved, when funds are available, installation of curb and-gutter and sidewalk on Meadowbrook Road. 3) Approved paving of First street and Blanton street. 4) Approved paving of Oak street and Elm street in the Mauney Mill community. 5) Approved installation of eunb-and-gutter on Gaston street, from Mountain to Gold. 6) Approved installation of 260 feet of sidewalk on Gaston street, from Mountain to Gold. 7) Authorized paving of a drive at Dean Buick Company on a cost basis, the motor firm to defray the cost. The board instructed Public Works Supt. E. C, Nicholson to investigate the condition of Third street for possible re-surfacing. Comm. Harold Phillips said a paving job of a few years ago had ‘broken up”, amd that some citizens were reluctant to defray assessments with the street in Continued On Page Eight Chuich Services, Holidays Feature Celebration Kings Mountain was readying this week for the annual observ ance of Easter. Virtually all of the communi ty’s churches were holding spe cial services, and the Kings Mountain Ministerial association had readied its Good Friday ra dio service, to ibe broadcast from noon through 2 o’clock via Radio Station WKMT. School children were anticipa ting a long weekend holiday, plus the traditional Easter egg hunts and other activities of the season. City and Bethware schools will suspend at the close of the day on Thursday and resume regular schedules Tuesday morning. Merchants reported brisk bus ness this week as the Easter weekend approached. Apparel merchants were especially busy and grocers were stocking their shelves heavily in anticipation of supplying plenty of delicacies for Easter dinner menus. Florists were swamped with orders, the more so because of the recent freeze which heavily damaged gardens of the area. Uniformly, the citizens were hoping for a repeat of the balmy weather of Palm Sunday and ho ning that the mid-week showers Continued On Page Eight Eastei Story From Si John The first day of the week come th Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepul chre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepul chre, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Pe ter, and came first to the sepul chre. And he stooping down, and looking in saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter fol lowing him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin, that was a bout his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped to gether in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and be lieved. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and look ed into the sepulchre. And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou ? She saith un to them, Because they have tak en away my Lord, and / know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was-Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou f Whom seek est thou f She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence tell me where thou hast laid him, and 1 ivill take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith un to him, Rabboni; which is to say Master. Jestis saith unto her, Touch me not, for I am not yet ascend ed to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto n\y Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (St. John 20:1-17J. KIWANIS MEETING Members of the Kings Moun tain Kiwanis club will hold their regular weekly meeting at Masonic Dining Hall Thurs day evening at 6:45 p. m. The meeting will be short in order that those who wish to attend lent sendees may do so. Lt. Governor Early G. Lee, of di vision 1, will be a guest at the meeting.