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Population City Limits. 7.206 III* population li from the a. S. Gorernment ceneui report Jor 1950. The Census Bureau estimates the nation's population gain since 1950 at If percent per year, which means Kings Mountain's 1854 population should approxi mate 7609. The trading area population In 1945. bated on ration board' registrations at the Kings Mountain office, was 15.000. 1 t’f' H' 10 Pages 10 Today VOL 65 NO. 15 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 14, 1955 Sixty-Fifth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins _ _ WINS AWARD Miss Patty Parrish, student at Ringlinig School of Art, Sar asota, Fla., won an award for outstanding merit for a paint ing she exhibited in the 24th annual exhibition of student work at the art school last week. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Parrish, of Kings Mountain. COURT OF HONOR Regular Boy Scout Court of Honor for Kings Mountain dis trict .boy scouts will ibe 'held Thursday night at 7:45 p. m„ at City Hal) Scout leader’s round table will be held. IN VIRGINIA Rev. P. D. Patrick, .pastor of First Presbyterian church, is conducting revival services this week in Ashland, Va. Hugh Arrowood, of Shelby, mo derator of Kings Mountain Presbytery, will conduct Sun day morning church services. DIXON SERVICE J. Neal Grissom will Ibe the speaker at Sunday morning church services at Dixon Pres byterian church, it has been announced. Services will be held at 9 a. m. for several mon ths beginning Sunday.. PRESSLY IN GEORGIA Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, has been conducting a week’s preaching series at Louisville, Ga., ARP church during the past week. The Boyce Memori al pulpit will be filled for Sunday morning services by James Cannon, Erskine Semi nary student. ON BLOOD COMMITTEE Hunter Warliek, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Warliek, was chairman of the Sigma Phi Ep silon fraternity committee on the recent two-day Red Cross blood donor drive at Davidson college, according to informa tion from the college news bu reau. CENTRAL 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 morning at 9:15 a- m. Last Thursday’s program was can celled because of a electrical power failure in the radio sta-' tion area. OPTIMIST CLUB Regular meeting of the Op timist club will be held Thurs day night at 7 p. m. at the Woman’s club, Neal Grissom, the president, made the an nouncement. WOMAN'S CLUB Board of Directors of the Wo man’s club will meet Monday at 3:30 p. m. in the club office In the Woman’s club building, Mrs. George Houser, the presi dent, has announced. METER RECEIPTS Net meter receipts from city’s parking meters for week end ing Wednesday at noon were $195.15, Miss Grace Carpenter, of city clerk’s office reported. NO FATAL ACCIDENTS As of Wednesday afternoon the city of Kings Mountain had gone 1,220 days without a fatal traffic accident, Kings Mountain Police department reported. Lions Broom-Mat Sale Is Extended The Lions club will continue its broom-and-mat sale lor a nother weekend, it was an nounced at the meeting of the club Tuesday night. Sale of the brooms and rub ber doormats — manufactured by blind persons in Greensboro has been slowed due to the busy Easter season, and club mem bers are being urged to com plete their work this weekend, by Fred Wright, Jr., chairman. The brooms sell for $1.50 and the doormats for $2.50. Proceeds from the sale are used by the Lions club for sight conservation work in the Kings Mountain area, i , Examination For Postmaster Is Called By Civil Service Closing Date Fox Applying Set At May 3 Competitive examination for Postmaster at Kings Mountain has been called by the Civil Ser vice commission, according to an nouncement from Washington, D. C. Closing date for applications has been set at May 3. Notice of the examination call was received by Acting Postmas ter W. T. Weir and posted last Friday at the Kings Mountain postoffice bulletin board. The official bulletin setting forth full details and require ments for taking the examination for the $5,470 per year federal civil service position are obtain able at Kings Mountain postof fice. It provides for a written test to be given at Gastonia. It will include 1) an 80-question test covering verbal abilities (vocabu lary and reading comprehension of material adapted from post office issuances), practical judg ment, and arithmetic; and 2) a 45-question test on post office business management. Veterans preference, based on honorable separation from the armed services will apply as fol lows: five points added to the earned rating of an applicant who is a veteran of any war on any creditable campaign; ten points to the earned rating of an applicant who establishes claim to preference as a) a disabled veteran or a Veteran who has been awarded the Purple Heart; b) the wife of a disabled veteran who is disqualified for appoint ment because of his service-con nected disability; c) the un-re married widow of a deceased ex service veteran who served dur ing a war or creditable campaign; d) the mother of certain deceased or disabled ex-service sons or daughters when the mother is widowed, divorced, or separated or when her husband is perma nently and totally disabled. Requirements of applicants in clude at least two years experi ence in occupations wfiich would qualify them for handling the postmastership, evidence that they can deal agreeably with em ployees and patrons, that they are reliable citizens of the com munity, that they have physically resided within the delivery area of the Kings Mountain post of fice since May 3, 1954, they they are citizens of the United States, and that they are physically able to handle the duties of the office. Applicants must have attained the age of 25 and be no older than 63 at May 3, 1955. A person who attains the eligi ble list cannot assume charge of the post office if he is the hus band or wife of a rural carrier, if he is concerned with a contract Continued On Page Ten Bargain Gas Tap Deadline Friday Friday at 4:30 p. m. is the deadline for buying natural gas taps at the “construction” price of $10. The city board of commis sioners set the deadline at the meeting of last Thursday on advice of Barnard & Burk, the city’s gas engineers. The board did not set the post-deadline fee for gas taps, but indications have been that it will be established at from $50 to $75. For the tap fee, the city taps the street main and installs a line 50 feet on the customer’s property. Supt. of Public Works E. C. Nicholson said Smith Welding Company, which has been in stalling the gas system, ex pects to leave Kings Moun tain early next week. Bell, Greyhound Still Struck Two strikes continued to ef fect the pattern of life of Kings Mountain area citizens this week. The strike of Communications Workers of America (CIO) en tered its 31st day Wednesday, and the strike of Division 1493 of the Motor Coach Employees (AFL), which has halted the movement of Atlantic Grey hound Corporation buses, enter ed its seventh day. There were few new develop ments in either work stoppage, at least as could be learned from on-the-scene persons here. All of the striking group of Southern Bell workers at the Kings Mountain exchange were still out, including 22 switchboard operators and three service-main tenance men. Southbound bus traffic was be ing routed through Shelby via Queen City Trailways, which meant that no bus service was available for Kings Mountain citizens to or from Grover or Blacksburg, S. C., Mrs. Edith Car rigan, manager of the Kings Mountain bus terminal said. The Kings. Mountain telephone exchange had additional person nel, imported from other Bell exchanges, but was still under manned. On Tuesday, some citizens no ticed that no pickets appeared in front of the Fulton Building where the telephone exchange is quartered, and wondered if the strike were over. However, one citizen close to the source thought the picketing had stopped to al low the pickets to attend a union local meeting in Gastonia, home office of the CWA local to which Kings Mountain members be long. Southern Bell had issued a new appeal Sunday for its striking employees to return to work. City Board Checking On Legality 81 Curlew Law; Comments Invited The city board of commission ers last Thursday night tabled for a legality check its proposal to adopt a curfew ordinance re stricting children under 16 years of age. Mayor Glee A. Bridges advised the hold-up after City Attorney J. R. Davis advised the check and said he would request a rul ing from North Carolina Attor ney-General Harry McMullan. Mr. Davis said Wednesday he had not yet received a reply. The commissioners had origi nally adopted a curfew ordinance — forbidding children under 16 on public streets after 10 p. m. unless accompanied by parent or guardian — on March 30 by 3-0 vote. However, no peanlty for vio lation nor effective date was in cluded and Mr. Davis subsequent ly ruled the action a resolution with no effect. Pending receipt of the attor ney - general’s opinion, the mat ter could come up at any special meeting of the board or stay in the pigeonhole until the May reg ular meeting, or forever. Mayor Bridges added that he and the board members would appreciate expressions from clti zens concerning the proposed cur few. In other actions the board: 1) Granted Tom Barnette con cession rights at the city picnic grounds off Cherryville road and agreed to pay him $15 per week (from parking meter receipts) for janitorial duties at the park. Mr. Barnette had declined a $10 offer. 2) Voted to reimburse Wood Jackson for a portion of $400 ex penses he said he made to repair damages resulting from city street work, on N. Goforth street during the Still administration, the reimbursement to be on the same basis the city had spent, in repairing the Grier Sipes proper ty. 3) Cancelled, due to deaths and removals from the city, $168.17 in city accounts charged against nu merous citizens. The accounts were of small denomination and most of them represented ba lances on utilities accounts. 4) Approved reduction to $579 in the street assessment against Sadie Cotton Mills. Public Works I Supt E. C. Nicholson said he had made a footage error in compil i Continued On Page Ten Ten Siien Blasts To Signal Start 01 "Minutenan" Ten ^hcrt iblasts on the city fire siren •will signal the begin ning of "Operation Minuteman” in Kings Mountain. Though it is known the opera tion is to toe called in April, date and time are not known. The “blue” alert has been scheduled to test readiness of National Guard units throughout the 48 states and all territories. Capt. Humes Houston, com manding officer of the 75-man Kings Mountain National Guard unit, cautioned residents not to be alarmed when they hear the unusual alarm sounded. City rire alarms customarily get not more than five blasts. Mission of the National Guard unit is to defend all key civilian public service establishments, such as water supply, sewage disposal plants, communications establishments, highway arte ries, bridges, and other key posts. Announcement of the start of the operation will toe flashed ov er radio, television, and through the press. “Soon the residents of this community will see their Nation al Guardsmen mobilize quick ly,” Capt. Houston said, “and carry out duties assigned to them in case of an emergency. “We ask our fellow citizens not to be disturbed in the slightest by this Guard activity, which is simply a training exercise to test the speed and efficiency with which local Guardsmen can be mobilized in case of a disas ter, or other emergency calling for our services. "Please remember that this is only a test alert. One purpose is to give our fellow citizens an op portunity to see the Kings Moun tain headquarters company in training and to learn more a bout the important mission as signed to our Guardsmen in peace and war.” Exact time and date of the test alert, to be known as “Operation Minuteman,” will toe secret until just a few hours before it is sounded, Capt. Houston explain ed. The “go ahead” order will be issued toy the Adjutant General and transmitted to all North Car olina Army and Air National Guard units. Meanwhile, Capt. Houston ad ded, nearly 400,000 Guardsmen in more than 2,200 other commu nities in the remaining states and in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska will be alerted by their own Gov ernors and Adjutants General. The green light for “Operation Minuteman” will toe given toy Major General Edgar C. Erick son, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, from his office at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C. General Erickson and his staff are coordinating the test alert. Finance Forum .Ends Thursday By Elizabeth Stewart “A strong banking system keeps a community strong,” a Charlotte banker pointed out at Tuesday night’s Women’s Fi nance Forum at the Woman’s club, first of a two-night pro gram being co-sponsored by the Woman’s club and First Nation al Bank. Thursday evening’s closing pro gram will feature discussions by Thomas Grant, Jr., vice-president and trust officer of Charlotte’s Union National Bank, who will discuss, ‘‘Your Estate”, and Ja mes E. Cashatt, of Gastonia, Jef ferson Standard Life Insurance Company district manager, who will discuss “Life Insurance.” A question and answer period follows' each discussion and re freshments are served. Valuable door prizes will be presented to women holding lucky numbers at tonight’s program. Winners must be present to win the prizes, which are donated by local busi ness firms. A large crowd attended Tues day night’s forum which featur ed discussions by L. D. Brooks, Continued On Page Ten GROUND BROKEN FOR HOSPITAL ADDITION— County Commissioner Hazel B. Bumgardner dug the first shovelful of dirt Tuesday afternoon as ground was broken for the forthcoming 14-bed addition to Kings Mountain hospital. Others pic tured. left to right, are Gene Clark, from the office of Ormand 4 Vaughan, the architects, Lewis Ho vis, hospital trustee, Coronor J. Cllie Harris, Rev. P. L. Shore, president ol the Kings Mountain Min isterial association. Dr. ?. G. Padgett, of the hos pital Medical staff. Hospital Business Manager Grad* Howard, County Hospital Administrator R. 1.. Moser, Fred E. Graham, general contractor, and L. A. Hoke, electrical contractor. Myers Enters Ward 2 Race; Candidates Now Total 16 Mayor Candidate OUand Pearson Lists Platform The candidate list for six city and two school elective offices, to be determined at the annual city election less than four weeks away, increased by one during the past week. The new candidate is Clarence G. Myers, Kings Mountain sign painter, who posted his filing fee for Ward 2 commissioner short ly after noon on Wednesday. Mr.. Myers opposes J. H. Patterson, the incumbent seeking a second term, and Tilman Pearson, who have previously filed notices of candidacy for the office. \ir. My ers lives at 101 N. Cleveland av enue. Otherwise, formal political ac tivity was limited to the third file-and-withdraw sequence of the current political campaign, when a third member of the Pearson family — Stanley Flay Pearsor. — became h candidate for Ward 3 commissioner. Flay Pearson, brother of the candidate in Ward 2 and also,of Olland R. Pearson, who is seeking the ma yor’s office, paid his filing fee last Friday afternoon. He called the Herald Saturday morning to say he was withdrawing. Previously two other citizens had posted filing fees, then withdrawn. They were Neal Gris som, in Ward 5, and F. R. Mc Curdy, in Ward 3. Meantime, mayoral candidate Olland Pearson issued a five point platform. Mr. Pearson said, if elected, he would seek the dis charge of Police Chief, Hugh A. Logan, Jr., would seek to broad en the city's recreation program, would s»eek a formula based on unimproved street mileage for use of Powell Bill road monies in each of the city’s ward, and would recommend purchase of city materials and supplies direct from manufacturers and whole salers. Major rumor of the week con cerned the Ward 3 race, with B. R. Carrigan, a former city police man, indicating he might try to unseat Incumbent T. J.. (Tommy) Ellison. Mr. Carrigan said he was receiving “heavy encouragement’’ to offer. Mr. Carrigan is manager of Ballard’s Grocery. Mr. Ellison thus far has no opposition for re election. ■Effort of some Ward 5 citizens to get a candidate in the field a gainst Incumbent W. G. Gran tham had not yet produced re sults, with another group of “no’s” added to the field. Mr, Grantham, like Mr. Ellison, is also unopposed. Also unopposed are Arnold W. Continued On Page Ten I Jaycee Scrap Paper Drive Set Sunday Members of the Jaycee At lanta Convention Club will conduct a scrap paper drive on Sunday afternoon. Citizens wishing to contri bute old magazines, newspa pers or other paper to the drive are ibeing urged to notify any Jaycee this week, prior to Sun day noon, and to place their bundles on the curb by 1 p. m. Sunday. Persons who desire to have collection made prior to* Sun day are requested to notify Wilson Griffin at Phone No. 8, Bill Jonas at Phone No. 33 or to leave messages at Phones 167 or 283 as soon as possible. Proceeds from the sale of scrap paper collected will ‘be used by the club to assist in sending a large delegation to the organization’s national convention in Atlanta in June. Friday, April 15 T-Day Deadline Friday is T-Day. New deadlines for paying state and federal personal income tax bi.ls (without penalty) are mid night, April 15, which means that all tax returns, both to the Dis trict Director of Internal Reve nue, and to the North Carolina Department of Revenue, should bear postmarks prior to mid night. Since Kings Mountain post of fice closes at 6 p. m., last-minute taxpayers playing safe will mail their returns not later than 5:45 p. m. Friday. The Tax Day deadline was ad vanced this year for the first time to April 15. MOOSE MEETING The regular meeting of Moose Lodge 1748 will be held Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road. Mrs. Mauney Is Chairman Oi Cancer Appeal Mrs. Jacob P. Mauney has ac cepted chairmanship of Kings Mountain’s 1955 fund appeal for the American Cancer society, it was announced this week. Goal of the campaign is $1, 000, up from $700 asked last year of Kings Mountain citizens. The campaign, a project of the Kings Mountain Woman’s Club, will get underway this weekend, with the following soliciting chairmen and committees at work : Co-chairmen: Mrs. P. G. Rat terree and Mrs. J. N. Gamble. Civic clubs — Martin Harmon. Schools — Miss Helen Logan. Industries (co-chairmen) — Mrs. W. E. Rosenstengel and Mrs. M. C. May. Residential and commercial — Mrs. J. E. Herndon, Miss Eliza beth Anthony, Mrs. James Rol lins, Mrs. J. A. Cheshire, Mrs. Haywood Lynch, Mrs. James Castle, Mrs. J,. E. Mauney. Radio chairman — J. Carroll Spencer. • Kings Mountain’s $1,000 quota represents its share of a nation wide goal of $24 millions. “Our population in growing older, people are living longer, an<j as a result the incidence of cancer cases in the United States is rising,’’ Mrs. Mauney explain ed. “More and more men and women are entering the ago group most susceptible to that disease. Hence the Cancer socie ty must intensify its nation-wide program of service to patients, sponsoring of research toward finding new methods of cure, and educating the public in ways to detect evidence of cancer ear ly enough to enable effective treatment. “Lives saved in this country last year through early detection Continued On Page Ten Dr. Charles Armstrong Will Speak At Kiwanis Club Charter Night Dr. Charles M. Armstrong, of Salisbury, past president of Ki wanis International, will deliver the principal address Thursday evening at the 15th anniversary banquet of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. The Charter Night event will be a ladies night affair. Past presidents of the organi zation who no longer live in Kings Mountain have been invit ed to attend and perfect atten dance awards for the past year will be made. Dr. Armstrong, a medical doc tor, served as president of Ki wanis International in 1947. As Carolinas district governor in 1940, he presented the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club -with its charter from the international organization. The event will be held' at Ma sonic Dining hall, beginning at 6:45. Children To Get Polio Preventive With the official announce ment that Dr,. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine has been proven highly effective, tentative plans were announced Wednesday by Coun ty health officials to begin vac cinations of first and second grade students in the county on Monday. Vaccination of Kings Mountain and Park Grace school pupils is set for Friday, April 22. Or. Z. P. Mitchell, county health officer, announced the following sched ule for that date: 9 a. m. — Central school. 9 a. m. — West School. 11 a. cm. — Park Grace. 1:30 p. m. — Davidson School. 1:30 p. m. — East School. The vaccine, termed the most important medical development in recent years will be adminis tered free of charge to first and second grade students whose parents signed applications for the service prior to the deadline March 29. Some 483 parents ask ed “shots” for their youngsters. Kings Mountain medical doc tors will administer the vaccine to the first and second grades as a public service. Dr. Mitchell said the vaccine would toe administered in three "shots”, according to recommen dations of Dr. Salk,. The second dosage will ibe administered from two to four weeks following the first, while the third dosage will ;be administered six to seven months after the second. As quickly as the vaccine is a vailable, it can Ibe obtained for regular fees by any person from their medical doctor. Registration Books To Open Registration books for the May 10 city election will open for the first time Saturday, with regis trars to be at the five ward poll ing places from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Registrars and the polling pla ces are: Ward 1, C. L. Black, at City Hall fire station. Ward 2, Mrs. H. R. Parton, at City Hall courtroom. Ward 3, Mrs. Ruth Bowers, at Phenix Store. Ward 4, Mrs. Ralph Hullen der. Kings Mountain Manufac turing clubroom. Ward 5, Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, Jr., Victory Chevrolet company. Citizens, to vote, must be regis tered. Citizenship requirements are one year residency of North Carolina and four-month residen cy in the particular ward. Election officials have called attention to the requirement for correction of registration, where a citizen has transferred his re sidence from one ward to anoth er. The books will be open on con secutive Saturdays through May 7. Challenge Day will also be on May 7. Mauney Hosiery Adding Space Excavation began April 4 for a new warehouse for Mauney Hosiery Mill, Inc., located on S. Railroad ave., Sam Stallings, of ficial of the mill said Wednesday. Mr. Stallings reported the new building, which will be 70 by 50 feet, is being built at an estimat ed cost of $10,000 to $12,000. The building is expected to be com pleted in about 90 days, he said, and will be used for the storing of socks and yarns. C. E. Carpenter Has Operation Clarertce E. Carpenter, city tax supervisor, was reported early Wednesday afternoon to he rest ing satisfactorily after undergo ing an operation at Charlotte Me morial hospital Wednesday mor ning. Mr. Carpenter has been seri ously ill for the past two weeks and was taken to the Charlotte hospital from Kings Mountain hospital Monday night. Mr. Carpenter’s spleen was re moved and a ruptured blood ves sel near the diaphram was re paired. Mr. Carpenter had suffered a series of internal hemorrhages prior to his removal to Charlotte.