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Population City Limits .. 7,206 n* population Is from the U. 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 SSI lotion board registrations at the Kings Mountain office, was 15.000. Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper OO Pages LL Today VOL 65 NO. 18 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 5, 1955 Sixty-Fifth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins ON HONOR ROLL Miss Faylene Falls, daugh ter of Me. and Mrs. Craig Falls, was listed on the honor roll for the winter term at Appalachi an State Teacher's college, Boone, where ^he is a senior. Miss Falls is doing her prac tice teaching at Appalachian high School. CHICKEN PIE SUPPER There will toe a Chicken Pie Supper Saturday, May 7, at .David Baptist church parson age from 5:30 to 9 p. m. Adults S1.00 and children 50c. Pro ceeds go for the building of the new church. BANK HOLIDAY First National Bank will be •closed Tuesday in observance of Confederate Memorial day, a bank official said on Wed nesday. MEETING POSTPONED Mayor Glee A. Bridges said yesterday the regular May meeting of the city tooard of commissioners, which would normally toe held Thursday night, 'has been postponed un til next week. He said several commissioners expect to toe toe out-of-town Thursday night. LIONS MEETING •Regular Lions meeting will toe held Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at Masonic hall. Guest speaker of the evening will Ibe Sam Lattimore of Sheltoy. KIWANIS MEETING Regular Kiwanis meeting will be held Thursday night at 6:45 at Masonic hall dining room. Howard IR. Clapp, Cleve land County farm agent, will be guest speaker. METER RECEIPTS Meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon to taled $190.88, Miss Grace Car penter, of the city’s clerk offi ce, said. MOOSE MEETING Regular meeting of Moose Lodge 1748 will toe held Thurs day night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road, it was announced. AT CONVENTION Dr.. L. T. Anderson, Kings Mountain chiropractor, is at tending a three-day session beginning Thursday of the North Carolina Chiropractor association in Winston-Salem and ha§ announced that his •offices will reopen on Monday. IMPROVING Condition of C. E. Carpenter, city tax supervisor, was mueh improved on Tuesday night. Mr. Carpenter underwent ma jor surgery at Charlotte Memo rial hospital on April 13 and a liver condition has (been im peding his recovery. GLASS ILL Harold Glass, rural mail car rier, is recuperating from pneumonia at Kings Mountain hospital. He entered the hos- ‘ pital Sunday night. Edwin Moore has been substituting for Mr. Glass at .Route 1 carri er. • i , Fellowship Day Seivice Thursday Kings Mountain church women will observe May Fellowship Day at services Thursday evening at 6:30 at Resurrection Lutheran church. The observance, held annually in churches throughout the na tion, is sponsored here by the Kings Mountain Council of Chur chwomen, of which Mrs. J. B. Simpson is president. 1 Thursday’s program will fea ture a playlet, “Point of Begin ning”, under the direction of Mrs. Tommy Owens. The cast includes Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, Tommy Owens, Kenneth Barnes, and Mike Houser. Mrs. P. D. Patrick is program chairman. A covered dish supper will be seiVed. "This is a family program,” Mrs. J. C. Bridges, publicity chairman noted, "and we invite ail families of the community to join in this observance." REVIVALIST — Dr. J. Cloy Mad ison, of Morganton, will conduct a series of revival services from Sunday through May 13 at Cen tral Methodist church. The ser vices will be held each evening at 7:30. Methodist Series To Begin Sunday Dr. J. Clay Madison, pastor of First Methodist church, Morgan ton, will conduct revival services at Central Methodist church be ginning Sunday. The services will be held each evening at 7:30 and will continue through May 13. Next Wednesday evening’s services will be directed especially to youth, it was an nounced by Rev. P. L. Shore, Jrn Central Methodist pastor, who an nounced the revival series. Dr. Madison is an Iredell coun ty native and a cumJaude gradu ate of High Point college. After studying at the divinity school of the University of Chicago and at Duke university, he received his doctorate from High Point col lege in 1952. He was ordained in to the Methodist ministry in 1934 and served as a chaplain in the army during the same year. He has served Lebanon Metho dist church, High Point, First Me thodist church, High Point, First Methodist church, Waynesville, and First Methodist church, Con cord. In the Methodist conference, he has served as a member of min isterial training and conference relations committees, as a mem ber of the board of missions, and currently is a member of the board of conference calimants, chairman of the board of evange lism, and a trustee of High Point college. In 1947, he attended the centennial celebration of Metho dist missions in China. Rev. Mr. Shore extended an in vitation to the public to attend the revival series. CAP To Practice Air - Rescue Work Gastonia Municipal Airport will be the scene Friday and Satur day for the take-off of the an nual state-wide Civil Air Patrol air rescue practice mission, Don Shields, of Shelby, captain in the Patrol, said Tuesday. Mr. Shields noted that more than 200 Civil Air Patrol person nel will take part in the practice mission which is under the direc tion of the U. S. Airforce. During the two-day exercises, Capt. Shields said, planes will be flying over this area at a mini mum 500 feet altitude. First Baptist Buys Davis Property Cherokee Street Lot Is Sold For $10,006 First Baptist church voted on Wednesday night, April 27, to purchase for $10,000 the 100 x 120 foot lot on S. Cherokee street owned by J. R. Davis for .the past 35 years. The property purchase is the third real estate acquisition by First Baptist church since Decem ber. Previously, First Baptist has completed arrangements to ac quire the Kings Mountain Herald building and an adjoining 22.5 foot lot from D. C. Mauney on N. Piedmont avenue, in an effort described by church members and trustes to obtain adjacent proper ty to its present church plant for future expansion. The Davis property fronts 100 feet on S. Cherokee street. It ad joins property of C. S. Plonk and Mrs. J. O. Plonk on the north, property of Glee A. Bridges on the south, and property of Mar tin Harmon on the east. Byron Keeter, one of the First Baptist trustees, said the Davis property would be used most im mediately for parking area. Mr. Davis said he acquired the property almost 35 years ago from the late W. F, Logan in trade for a farm. Sigma Xi Group Elects Summers Frank A. Summers, of Kings Mountain, graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been elected to associate membership in the Georgia Tech chapter of the Society of the Sig ma XI. * The letter of notification read: "This is the highest honor our in stitution can bestow in recogni tion of excellence in studies and aptitude for research in the fields of pure and applied science.” Mr. Summers returned to Geor gia Tech for graduate studies af ter serving on active duty with the army engineers. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Summers. Pedestrian Hurt !n Car Mishap Mary Burton, of 800 Third st., received slight injuries when she was struck by a car Friday. The accident occurred on Third street. Police stated that Barney Ran dolph, of route 1, while backing his car, struck Mrs. Burton, knocking her into another vehi cle. Friday, cars driven by John Henry Carroll, of Brice street, and Ned S. Williams, of route 1, Huntersville, collided on Battle ground ave., police reported. Da mages as the result of the acci dent were estimated to total $28. 70. Kings Mountain Over-Subscribes Cancel Fund Goal; Gifts $1192 Kings Mountain exceeded its $1000 quota for the National Can cer fund, Mrs. J. P. Mauney, said Tuesday in reporting donations had reached $1,192.46. Mrs. Mauney thought it possi ble the total would top $1200. In a statement commenting on the campaign, Mrs. Mauney said, “I am naturally highly pleased that Kings Mountain has over subscribed its quota on this wor thy fund campaign, especially in view of the fact that the goal was higher than in any previous year. The success of the campaign would not have been possible without the hard work of many people, nor the liberal donations of many individuals, business and industrial firms, and organiza tions.” Funds derived from the nation wide campaign are used to fur ther research on ways and means of treating cancer and in treat ment of patients. The drive was a project of the Woman’s Club organizations. Retailers Schedule Dollar Days Event Kings Mountain merchants have scheduled a spring Dollar Days event for the weekend of May 19-21, Richard Barnett, chairman of the trade promo tion committee of the Kings Mountain Merchants associa tion announced Wednesday. Mr. Barnett said he anticipat ed participation by all retail merchant members of the asso ciation and predicted that the sales event would be. a highly successful one. Details for the event were concluded Tuesday. Work has been underway on the Dollar Days event for the past month. Mr. Barnett said further an nouncement, including plans > for a prize drawing, would be i announced later. MASCOTS — Donna Ann Craw ford, at top, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Crawford, and Tom my Gerberding, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Gerberding, will serve as mascots for the 1955 Central high school graduating class. Logan Named Rural Carrier W. B. (Bill) Logan has been appointed permanent rural car rier at Kings Mountain postoffice effective May 14, Acting Postmas ter W. T. Weir was notified by the post office department last Thursday. Mr. Logan will fill the vacancy created by the transfer of A. F. Collins, former Kings Mountain rural carrier, to the Grover post office. Actually, Mr. Logan will replace Harold Glass, who has served as temporary rural carrier for the past 13 months. The position pays $3,718 per annum, plus mileage allowance of nine cents per mile. Mr. Logan, a registered Demo crat, placed first in a competi tive civil service examination last summer. He is a “ten-point veter-1 an”, having been wounded in ac tion near Nancy, France, during World War II, in which he serv ed as an infantry lieutenant, af ter entering the army August 28, 1942 and attending Officer Can didate school. He was discharged from the service on September 1, 1947. On the examination, Mr. Logan actually placed second to Millard Prince, but his status as a dis abled veteran placed him at the top of the group taking the exam ination. A native of Kings Mountain, Mr. Logan is the son of Mrs. Su san Sellers Logan and the late John J. Logan. He is 42 years of age. Since being released from ac tive duty in the army, Mr. Logan has operated Logan Supply Com pany, first a partnership, and subsequently a sole proprietor ship, after he purchased the in terest of Bob Gamble. Mr. Logan said he plans to sell this business. April Postofiice Receipts Lower Postoffice receipts here drop ped in April under the total for April 1954 by $833.33. Assistant Postmaster George Hord said receipts for the month just ended totaled $4118.21, com pared to receipts of $4941.54 for April 1954. He attributed the drop to a drop in purchases for postage me ter machines, from $1795 last April to $1250 this year, and the changes in regulations preventing delivery of unaddressed third class mail on city carrier routes. City Election Registering Ends Saturday Names of more than 200 citi zens have been added to the city’s registrations books during the first three weeks of the biennial pre-election registration period, a check of registrars revealed this week. Meantime, voters had left only through Saturday to get their names on the books in time to vote in next Tuesday’s municipal election. Registrars will be at the five ward polling places again all day Saturday to accept registrations and also to open the books for challenge to any candidate or citi zen who wishes to peruse them. Saturday is officially known as Challenge Day — customarily a quiet function. In event any name should be challenged, the election officials would determine wheth er the name was valid or whe ther it should be erased from the pollbooks on Monday. Election officials consider the registration activity fairly brisk, in view of the fact no new regis tration was required. Largest number of new regis trations, in an incomplete survey made by the Herald Wednesday, was in Ward 5, where Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, Jr., has registered 107 new voters during the three-week period. Of this total, 57 were add ed last Saturday. Mrs. Ruth Bo wers, in Ward 3, said she had registered 80 new names, includ ing a few transfers, since the books opened, and Mrs. Ralph Hullender, in Ward 4, had her busiest day last Saturday. At 2:30, her total shotted a net gain of 50 for the registration period. Mrs. H. R. Parton, Ward 2, and C. L. Black, Ward 1, said regis trations approximated 20 each last Saturday, about double the total of the previous two weeks. Total registrations will approx imate 4,000, election officials es timate, after the close of the books. laycees Hold ladies Night Installation of new officers and an address by J. Graham Morri son, former Lincoln County farm agent, highlighted the annual la dies’ night banquet of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, held at Masonic Hall Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. William G. (Bill) Jonas was installed as president of the club, succeeding Wilson Griffin. In stalling officer was Edgard “Red” Garganus, North Carolina na tional director of Williamston, who also installed the following officers: Clavon Kelly, first vice presi dent. Herbert Mitcham, second vice president. R. G. Plonk, Jr., secretary. Louis Sabetti, treasurer. Delbert Dixon, sargeant-at arms (Jay Bird). Charles Dixon, William Hern don and Clinton Jolly as two-year directors and Dean Payne, one year director. Mr. Morrison kept the over flow crowd of some 100 in stitches with his wit and humor in an ad dress full of philosophy. Special guests of the club were Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. McCurdy, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr., Dr. L. T. An derson, Emmett Matthews and Hugh Wells, of Shelby, Mr. and Mrs. Warren E. Reynolds and Continued On Page Six Junior Women Set Pet Show The Junior Woman’s club will sponsor a children's ipet show at City Stadium next Wednesday afternoon at 3:45. Mrs. F. A. McDaniel, Jr., gen eral chairman, said Wednesday that all children of the commun ity are Invited to enter pets in the show. Prizes will be given to the winners in each division and prizes will be awarded to child ren entering the most unusual pets, She noted. Admission is 10 cents for a thild and one pet and 25 cents for adults. If more than one pet is entered by a child, an addi tional 10 cents will 'be charged. Tickets are on sale from any member of the club Mayoral Candidates Total 4; Still Is Last-Minute Entrant Full-Time Job Being Asked By Ex-Mayor Garland E. Still, mayor from 1951-53 and second - runner in 1953’s four-man mayoral cam paign, ibecame a last-minute candidate for mayor again Wed nesday when he posted his five dollar filing fee Shortly after noon. Deadline for filing was 4:30 Wednesday. Mr,. Still told the Herald, “I’ve had it on my mind for the last month, and I just filed.” He operates Horseshoe Grill. In a filing statement deposit ed, along with his fee, with City Clerk Gene Mitcham, Mr. Still said he wanted to be a full-time mayor. One of the city’s most contro versial mayor’s, he was elected in a run-off race with George W. Allen in 1951, after leading Mr,. Allen by two votes in the first race. He placed second to Mayor Glee A. Bridges, in 1953, deman ded a run-off as Mr. Bridges fail ed of a majority toy a few votes, then, a day later, announced his withdrawal and concession to Mr. Bridges. The filing statement he hand ed Mr. Mitcham read: “I, Garland E. Still, ck> hereby file for full-time Mayor. The reasons I think any Mayor should devote his entire time is — to keep a check on all de partments at all times, especial ly the purchasing department. When I run my business, it op erates at a profit. When 1 leave it to someone else it operates at a deficit. The same is true with any business or institution, large or small. "It is true that the board pass es on all major purchases. Major leaks are quickly detected. It is the minor purchases and minor leaks that break many major corporations. It is not the seen but the unseen that drains the treasury. “There is an old saying, but a mighty true one — “When the cat is away the mice will play.” And it’s just too bad if they are playing with taxpayers’ dollars. “If elected to this high office, a financial report will be pub lished every thirty days in order that the taxpayer will knpw the financial status of the city at ail times. I will endeavor at all times to see that the city govern ment is run on a sound, efficient and economical basis, with each taxpayer getting value received for his tax dollars — which in itself will make the Historical City of Kings Mountain a better place in which to live.” LEGION ELECTION Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion, will be held at the Legion Hall on E. Gold street on Friday at 8 p. m. E lection of officers will be the major item of business and all Legionnaires are invited to at tend, Commander James Ben nett said. CANDIDATE — Garland E. Still filed Wednesday, shortly before the deadline, for mayor subject to next Tuesday's biennial city election, Mr. Still, a former may or, became the fourth candidate in the field. Bobby Eaily Cops Spelling Contest Bobby Early, a 14-year-old West school eighth grader who says he wants to be a Methodist mis sionary to Africa, won the Char lotte .Observer’s five-county area spelling bee last Friday night and with it the right to compete in the National Spelling Bee at Wash ington, D. C., on May 16. Young Early out-stood eleven other candidates who were school champs from Union, Mecklen burg, Lincoln, Gaston, and Cleve land counties. At Washington, he will com pete with 60 other boys and girls in the national contest, with a trip to New York and $500 cash award awaiting the winner. Early, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Early, of Kings Mountain, defeat ed Richard Berryhill of Love’s Grove in Lincoln county. Berry hill had stumped his toe on “bois terous". Early successfully spell ed that word then copped the championship by reeling off “tempestuous”. The contest was over in 30 minutes. Early outlined his ambition to i be a missionary to Randolph I Hancock, Charlotte Observer staff writer here ’Tuesday, He al so said that his chief hobbies are stamp and coin collecting, along with music. W. R. George, principal of West school and Early’s home-room teacher, described him as an ex cellent student. Bobby’s father, Jake Early, is a former major league catcher for the Washington Senators and is now groundskeeper for the Charlotte Hornets. MASONS TICKETS Tickets to Fairview Lodge’s annual Masonic ladies night banquet, to be held May 16, may be purchased from Paul Walker at Myers' Dept. Store or from D. E. Tate at Keeter’s Dept. Store, it was announced yesterday. All Masons and their wives are invited to at tend. Pilot Plant Knitting Operations Will Begin At Craitspun Yarns Craftspun Yarns, Inc., Kings Mountain yarn manufacturers ex pects to begin pilot plant opera tions next week on two knitting machines which may lead to ex pansion of the company in this field in Kings Mountain. G. C. Kelly, official of the firm, said two Cidega knitting ma chines have been received and are being installed in the Craft spun recreation room. One ma chine will be used in the pilot operations for making net cur tains, while the other will be used in experiments to produce one or more of the estimated 25 diffe rent types of production available from the particular machines. Mr. Kelly said the machines are capable of producing pocketbook material, dress goods, and nu merous other textile cloths. Johnny Chaney will be produc tion manager of the pilot plant operations. He has recently re turned from several weeks in struction at Scranton Lace Com pany, Scranton, Pa., which is the parent company of Craftspun. Mr. Kelly also said that Carl Swan, Jr., last week elevated to president of Craftspun, will be here next week to superintend the new operations. If the pilot plant operations justify it, Craftspun expects to add ten more of the machines to its regular operations. Mr. Kelly said the new machines will pro duce about four times faster than the knitting machines now em ployed by Scranton Lace Com pany. Setting up the operation here will “verticalize” the orga nization by putting end-point ope rations at the source of yarn manufacture, Mr. Kelly noted, with considerable savings in transportation costs. School Boaid Candidates Have No Opposition Twenty-one candidates will be listed on city and school board ballots next Tuesday, as citizens go to the polls for the biennial city election. Former Mayor Garland Still was an under-the-wire entrant into the race for mayor, making it a four-man affair, including Mayor Glee A. Bridges, the in cumbent, Baxter T„ Wright, Sr., and Olland R. Pearson, both for mer city commissioners. The two school board candi dates, J. W. Webster, in Ward 2, and Arnold W. Kincaid, in Ward 3, get a free ride. They have no opposition in the strict ward vo ting for six-year terms as school trustees. In the City Hall contests, only two races are virtually sure of settlement in next Tuesday’s vo ting, the Ward 1 contest for city commissioner between W. Sage Fulton, Sr., the incumbent, and Sam Collins, the challenger, and in the Ward 5 race between W. G. Grantham, the incumbent, and R. Coleman Stroupe, the challenger. In each of the other races for City Hall elective jobs, all of which are chosen for two-year terms, more than two candidates seek the positions, which could result in run-off races. Generally the campaigning this year has been at much less heat ed temperatures than in 1953 or 1951, and some observers say even quieter than the 1949 cam paign. The observers predict that the voting total will not be as great as either of the two “hot” years. Record for total votes in city elections was set in 1951, when citizens cast 1875 votes for four mayoral candidates, closely followed by 1953, when citizens cast 1809 votes for four mayoral candidates. For the most part, candidates have been content this election season to throw their barbs by word of mouth, rather than by public medium, though a hint of heat was noted in an exchange last week between Mayor Brid ges and Challenger Wright. In a mailing piece, Mr. Bridges infer red there was skullduggery in a cu bing job, installed at the Wright residence when Mr. Wright was a city commissioner. In an advertisement in last week's Herald, Mr. Wright infer red Mr. Bridges was trying to Continued On Page Eight Facts On Tuesday's City Election Given Here «are facts concerning next Tuesday’s city election: Polls open at 6:30 a. m. Polls close at 6:30 p. m. Ward voting places are: Ward 1, City Hall fire station; Ward 2, City Hall courtroom; Ward 3, Phenix Store; Ward 4, Kings Mountain Manufacturing Company Clubroom; Ward 5, Victory Chevrolet Company, Inc. Offices to be filled by ballots of all voters: mayor and five ward commissioners. Offices to be filled by ballots of voters in the particular wards: Ward 2 school trustee and Ward 3 school trustee. Basis of decision: majority of the votes cast. Run off provisions: should no candidate receive a majority of the votes cast for any particu lar office, the candidate plac ing second has the right to de mand a run-off election. De mand for a run-off must be fil ed in writing within five days following May 10. In event a run-off election is called, it will be held on May 24. The board of commissioners, which serves ex officio as the city election board, will meet Wednesday at 10 a. m. to canvas the vote and to certify the re turns. Candidates elected will take their oaths of office on Thursday, May 12. In event an office is not filled, due to fail ure of a candidate to obtain a majority on May 10, the incum bent will continue to hold of fice until hjs successor is elect ed and qualified.
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