Kiwanis Karnival
Population
City Limits.7.206
Ikl population U from the V. S. Government census
report for 1850. The Census Bureau estimates tbs nation's
population gala since 1850 at 1.7 percent per rear, which
means Kings Mountain's 1854 population should approxi
mate 7808. The trading area population in 1845. based
on ration board registrations at the Kings Mountain
unite., was 15,000.
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Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 16, 1955
Sixty-Fifth Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
GASTON CHOIR TO SING HERE SUNDAT — The
75-voice Gaston county choir, directed by Donald
Deal, will present a program of sacred music at
Resurrection Lutheran church Sunday afternoon
at 4 o’clock. The proceeds from a free will offer
ing will be devoted to the organ fund for the Lu
theran assembly grounds at Arden. Mrs. Aubrey
Mauney, Resurrection church organist, is general
chairman of the fund-raising project.
Local News
Bulletins
ACCEPTS POSITION
Miss Janice Stogner has ac
cepted a position in the offices
of Selbels and Bruce Insurance
company, Columbia,IS. -C.v and
begins her new duties Thurs
day. She is a 1955 graduate of
Kings Mountain high school.
CltURCH PICNIC
The Bible school and Sunday
School of First Presbyterian
church will hold its annual
picnic at Lake Montonia Fri
day at 6 p. m. Members are
asked to meet at the church
Friday afternoon at 3:30.
AT CAMP
Jane Houser, Kay Cansler,
Betty Lee Jackson, Gail Morri
son, and Gail Ham'bright are
attending a week’s camp for
Juniors at Kings Mountain
Presbytery camp, Flat Rock.
METHODIST CAMP
Linda Bennett, Patty Huff
• stetler, Mary Sides, and Becky
Bowers are attending Metho
dist Youth camp at Camp Te
koa, Hendersonville. Andy Ho
ward and Wister Nance, also
of Grace Methodist church,
will attend a week’s camp next
week at Lake Junaluska.
METER RECEIPTS
Net meter receipts from city’s
parking meters for week end
ing Wednesday at noon were
$173.90, Miss Grace Carpenter,
of city clerk's office, reported..
IN SUMMER SCHOOL
Carl (B. Moss, sen of Mr. and
Mrs. M. 8. Moss, of Kings
Mountain, is enrolled for the
summer semester at the Bowl
ing Green College of Commer
ce, Bowling Green, Ky. He at
tended King’s Business Col
lege, of Charlotte, .before en
tering this institution. He is
pursuing a course in business
administration.
ON SEAN’S LIST
BANNER ELK. — Jane Or
mand, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Ormand, and Don
McCarter, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar McCarter, were listed on
the Dean’s list for the second
semester 1955. To qualify for
this listing a student must
make B or above in all cours
es.
CHURCH SUPPER
The Young Married Ladies
classes of Patterson Grove Bap
tist church will hold an ice
cream supper at the church
Saturday at 7:30 p. m. with
proceeds to go to the church
building fund. Homemade ar
ticles as well as cakes and pies
will be on sale.
MASONIC MEETING
An emergent communication
for work in the first degree
will be held toy Fairview Lodge
A. F. A A. M. 339 on Monday
night at 7:30 at the Masonic
Lodge, Secretary J. H. McDan
iel, Jr has announced.
LEGION COMMANDER — W. D.
(Red) Morrison, above, was in
stalled as commander of Ameri
can Legion Post 155 at a meet
ing at the Legion Hall last
Thursday night.
Legion Installs
New Commandei
Walter D. (Red) Morrison, 32
year-old air force veteran, was
installed as commander of Otis
D. Green Post 155, the American
Legion, at the regular June meet
ing of the organization held at
the Legion Hall on last Thursday
night.
He succeeds James Bennett
and was installed, along with the
new 1955-56 officers, by John W.
Gladden, veteran Post 155 mem
oer and past district and post
commander.
Otftejr officers installed includ
ed Wiiour G. ^mnn ana rieete K.
McCurdy, vice commanders; C. i.
carpenter, Jr., adjutant; Mr. uen
neu, finance officer; * 10yd Hover
and x. C. oavis, sargeants-at
,auns; Gene uidsoh, Historian;
ana nruce istcHamei, Nelson Lea
oener, Hubert Adernoldt, James
Alexander and John Lewis, mem
oers ox uie executive committee.
Junior Baseball Coaches Fred
miners and vius Hartsoe were
present at uie meeung and Hugh
a. Logan, Jr., atnieuc officer, an
nounced that uie committee had
purchased a bus to transport the
team. He reported on progress
of the club and appealed for
more members to assist with the
program.
iviemoersntp puis were present
ed Coacn Wnners, John ueorge,
Jr., and Marvin tuddlx.
Commander Morrison, service
manager at Victory Chevrolet
Co., served as a flight engineer
wun the ranK ot technical sar
geant aurmg World War H. He
entered the service on January 7,
and was discharged on Oc
tooer t>, 194o alter serving 14
months in the Pacilic theatre. He
has been a member of the post
since 194$ and in 1939 played ju
nior’baseball on the Kings Moun
tain team. v
The new commander is marri
ed to the former Miss Christine
Gallant. They have three children
—Mary Ann, seven; Cecelia,
four; and Butch, three — and
reside at Mauney apartments on
W. Mountain st Mr. Morrison is
the son of Mrs. Robert Flowers
and the late John J. Morrison.
/9-voice thou
To Give Program
Here On Sunday
A choir composed of 75 voices
from the Lutheran Choirs of the
Gastonia area, will give a pro
gram of sacred music Sunday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock at Resurrec
tion Lutheran church. '
The choir, under the direction
of Donald Deal, will repeat a
concert given at an earlier date
in Gastonia. Selections will be
rendered which ane suitable for
♦arious seasons of the church
year. Guest soloist for the pro
gram will be Jimmy Chasteen, of
Bessemer City.
The joint choir was organized
last fall in the interest of fur
nishing a pipe organ for the Lu
theran Assembly grounds. The
free will offering at Sunday’s
concert will be given toward this
project. Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, of
Kings Mountain, is general chair
man of the Lutheridge Organ pro
ject, and has been instrumental
in promoting Sunday’s concert.
Mr. Deal, director of the choir,
is director of music in the public
schools of Dallas. He is also di
rector of two of the choirs par
ticipating in the- program. Mr.
Chasteen, the soloist, has sung
on several occasions in Kings
Mountain, at civic clubs and at
several churches of the communi
ty
Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor
of Resurrection church, has ex
tended a cordial invitation to all
the people of the community to
be present. ’
“This program should have spe
cial appeal in that it is not com
posed of trained voices, but rath
er is a composite of the volunteer
singers of our churches,’’ Rev.
Mr. Fritz stated.
Gaffney Kiwanis
To Visit Here
The Kings Mountain Kiwanis
club will be host to the Gaffney,
S. C., Kiwanis club Thursday
night at an an inter-club meet
ing.
Harold Coggins, program chair
man, said Dr. Andrew Jackson
Eastwood, president of Lime
stone college, will present the
feature address*
The two clubs will convene a*
Masonic Dining hall at 6:45.
Kiwanis Project
Features Listed
Entertainment,
Auction, Dance
On Full Program
The Kings Mountain Kiwanis
club will stage an old-fashipned
community carnival Saturday,
beginning at 5:30 p. m.
Named the Kiwanis Karnival,
the event will feature a “mid
way” on the Baker lot across
from the Woman’s Club, a gi
gantic auction, and a street
dance.
Features of the mid-way will
>be pony rides for the children, a
golf-driving booth, a picture
taking booth, and refreshment
stands.
J. C. Bridges, general chairman
and Kiwanis president, said that
the merchandise auction will be
gin shortly after 6 o’clock, with
Otto (Tolby) Williams as chief
auctioneer,. Business firms here
and in nearby communities have
contributed many valuable items
of merchandise which will go to
the highest bidders.
The street dance will be held
in the evening with a good band
furnishing the music. The dance
area will .be staked off on East
Mountain street.
Club committee chairmen in
clude Ed Goter, refreshments, W.
T. Weir, street dance, Georg# H.
Mauney, pony rides, John Ches
hire, golf driving booth, William
Herndon, picture booth, Harold
Hunnicutt, lighting and B. S.
Peeler, Jr., sound equipment. The
refreshment stands will open an
hour prior to the other sections
of the Karnival.
Proceeds irom tne event nave
been earmarked for two Kiwan
is club projects, tennis courts for
the city recreation area, and the
Kiwanis club student loan fund.
“We invite all citizens to visit
and have fun at the Karnival,”
Chairman Bridges said. “We
have an interesting program ar
ranged, bargains await the bid
ders at the auction, and a very
good band has been obtained to
furnish music for the street
dance. We have plenty of enter
tainment planned for young, old
and in-between. Make it a fam
ily outing Saturday.”
Valuable merchandise to be
auctioned will include every
thing from a Davy Crockett bra
celet to an electric popcorn pop
per. Among some of the items
are roofing, dry cleaning certif
icates, pressure cookers, flour,
auto seat covers, men’s sock’s, ice
cream, furniture, fuel oil, vases,
lamps, tires, mixmasters, jewely
and light fixtures.
Jackson Pleases
Lions Audience •
Club members and guests at
the eighteenth annual ladies
night banquet of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club enjoyed a fun
filled program Tuesday night at
the Woman’s Club, as Graham
Jackson, Atlanta entertainer, pre
sented a full hour’s program of
music.
Jackson, performing on the
electric organ, piano, and accor
dion — singly and in conjunction
— announced he would try to
play any and all requests by the
audience and did. His selections
ranged from classical favorites
to boogie, and from semi-classics
to "Dixie’’, which he presented
as “our national anthem.”
Jackson, billed as "entertainer
of Presidents’’, interspersed his
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Swimmers Flocking To New Pool;
Pump Defective At Negro Pool
Swimmers were flocking to the
city’s Deal street pool Wednesday
and had been all weekend in spite
of unseasonable weather, but the
opening of the Negro pool, off
Watterson street, was delayed
due to a pump failure which oc
curred Tuesday.
Douglas Salley, city recreation
director, said he thought the
pump would be repaired and the
pool in use before the end of the
week.
The Deal street pool opened on
schedule last Friday and attract
ed 182 swimmers, though temper
atures were at low points for
June. A total of 116 swimmers
were accommodated Saturday
and another 110 Sunday after
noon. On Wednesday, 180 had
been logged through the check-in
station by early afternoon.
Mr. Salley said swimming
classes, scheduled for Monday
and Wednesday mornings, will
begin Monday, and also said that
the pool would be available even
ings (after the 9:30 closing) for
private parties. Me said group
rate discounts would be avail
able to groups during regular
hours.
The pool is open for three pe
riods daily and one period Sun
day. Hours sue 9:30 a. m. to 12:30
p. m., 1:30 to 6 p. m. and from
7 p. m. to 9 p. m. Sunday hours
are from 1 to 6 p. m.
Swimming fee is 15 cents for
children, 35 cents for adults.
RECEIVE DEGREES — Miss Hil
da King, daughter at Mr. and
Mrs. Paul M. King, received a
bachelor of arts degree in church
music from Furman University
on May 29, where she was on the
dean's list and president of the
A Cappella choir. She is a mem
ber of the church staff of Eastlan
Baptist church, Greenville, S. C.
Frank R. Summers, below, re
ceived the degree of Master of
Science in Industrial Engineer
ing at Georgia Tech last week
end. He has accepted a position
with E. I. du Pont de Nemours,
at Augusta, Ga.
Summers Gets
Mastei's Degree
Frank A. Summers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. R. Summers, received
the degree of Master of Science
in Industrial Engineering at
Georgia Institute of Technology
in annual graduation exercises
last weekend.
Mr. Summers, who received the
degree of Bachelor of Industrial
Engineering from the Atlanta
school in 1952 and returned to
Tech last year, after serving with
the army corps of engineers in
Korea for 16 months. He holds
a first lieutenant’s commission in
the army reserve.
After completing a vacation in
Daytona Beach, Fla., Mr. Sum
mers will report for work at the
Atomic Energy commission Sav
annah River plant at Augusta,
Ga., where he has accepted a po
sition with E. I. DuPont de Nem
ours.
During the past year, Mr. Sum
mers was elected to associate
membership in Sigma Xi nation
al honorary society for promot
ing scientific research. He is a
member of the Society for the Ad
vancement of Management, the
Society of American Military En
gineers, and of the American In
stitute of Industrial Engineers.
Neill Graduated
At Trust School
David Neill, former Kings
Mountain citizen, now of Char
lotte, was among the recent gra
duates of a 30-day school in trust
work conducted by The Hanover
Bank, of New York.
Mr. Neill holds a position in
the trust department of American
Bank & Trust Company, Char
lotte.
Mr. Neill was among the gra
duates receiving top grades for
the month’s work. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Neill. His
wife is the former Miss Jean
Webb.
ACCEPTS POSITION
Mrs. Elizabeth Gamble, wife
of Ted Gamble, has, accepted
a position as executive secre
tary with Gaston County Heart
Association.
I
Aii Rifle Fires
Shell, Wounds
Boy In Chest
Jimmy Miller, about 10 years
of-age, was painfully wounded
about 2 p. m. Wednesday when
he exploded a rifle cartridge
with an air rifle. A fragment of
the shell casing struck the youth
in the upper left chest above the
heart.
Dr. Paul Hendricks reported
shortly after 3:15 ip. m. that
young Miller was admitted to
Kings Mountain hospital earlier
“in a mild state of shock". After
a study of X-Kays he reported
that the youngster’s general con
dition was “pretty good.” He
said that there was considerable
bleeding, 'but that an operation
to remove the fragment was not
needed.
Dr. Hendricks said the frag
ment penetrated the youth’s
chest wrall and was lodged in
the lung. The wound was "super
ficial,” he said, and the young
ster was responding to treat
ment.
The accident took place near
Miller’s residence in the McGin
nis Apartments at 402 W. Gold
street. Several youths were play
ing in the yard, it is understood,
and Miller is said to have 'bal
anced the shell on the end of the
air rifle and pulled the trigger,
exploding the cartridge.
The youngster is the son of
Mrs. Aileen Miller.
Jaycees Planning
To Attend Meeting
Eight Kings Mountain Jaycees
are delegates to a. national con
vention for Jaycees in Atlanta,
Ga., on May 20.
The Kings Mountain delegation
includes Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jonas,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sabettie, Her
bert Mitchem, Wilson Griffin, K.
E. Morrison, Dean Payne, Del
bert Dixon, and R. G. Plonk, Jr.
Kings Mountain Jaycees are
asking area citizens to greet all
delegations passing through the
city enroute to the convention bn
Sunday and Monday.
The Connecticut delegation is
expected Sunday at 5:45 p. m.
with a 70-car group of about 250
persons, followed by an 80-car
Maryland and District of Colum
bia delegation on Monday at
10:45 a. m.
Drama Casting
Now Underway
Casting for “The Sword of Gid
eon’’, annual outdoor drama com
memorating the Battle of Kings
Mountain, was begun Wednesday
with rehearsals scheduled tb be
gin next week.
Dan Bly, of Asheville, who is
directing this year’s production,
was in Kings Mountain yesterday
and expects to be here all week
for try-outs and castings. Bly
has replaced Arnold Colbath, who
resigned.
Opening performance of the
drama by the Kings Mountain
Little Theatre will be on July 14
with performances scheduled
through August 13. Persons in
terested in taking part in the pro
duction are asked to notify the
Little Theatre office.
The new director assisted Ber
nard Szold in the production sev
eral years ago of "Thunder
Land”, and before coming to
Kings Mountain was on the staff
of an Asheville radio station. He
attended the Plonk School of
Creative Arts, Asheville.
Board To Convene
Thursday Morning
NEW DIRECTOR — Paul John
son, of Houston, Texas, arrived
Tuesday to assume summer du
ties as promotional director at
First Baptist church. A student
at Eaylor University, he is a
graduate of Mars Hill college
and served in the army four
years. IIs is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Johnson.
Bites Conducted
For R. H. Hold
Funeral rites for Robert Hoyle
Hord, 74, were conducted Sunday
at 3 p. m. from Temple Baptist
church, interment following in
Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mr. Hord succumbed Friday
morning at 3:10 a. m. at his home
on Fulton street following an ill
ness of two weeks. Death was at
tributed to a cerebral hemor
rhage.
A retired master mechanic at
Pauline Mill, he was the son of
the late Richard and Matilda
Parker Hord. He was a native of
Cleveland County and a charter
member, deacon, and teacher of
the Young Men’s Sunday School
class at Temple Baptist church.
His wife, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth
Styers Hord, survives in addition
to three sons, Richard W. Hord,
Valdese, Robert O. Hord, Cleve
land, Ohio, and Gerry E. Hord,
Portsmouth, Va., and four daugh
ters, Mrs. Roland Falls and Mrs.
Elizabeth Kirby, both of Greens
boro, Mrs. Earl Ledford, Kings
Mountain, and Mrs. John W.
Spencer, Winston-Salem.
Two half - brothers, Bynum
Hord, Charlotte, and Clifford
Hord, Los Angeles, Calif., one
half-sister, Mrs. Mary Webber,
Lincolnton, 12 grandchildren, and
nine great-grandchildren also sur
vive. A fourth son, Arthur Hord,
of Concord, died in 1953.
Final rites were conducted by
Rev. H. G. McElroy, the pastor,
and Rev. W. F. Monroe, pastor of
Grover First Baptist church.
Active pallbearers were Paul
Ledford, E. B. Cooke, C. H.
Owens, J. L. Putnam, Fred Mc
Falls, James Webster, and Mil
ton Hope.
MOOSE MEETING
Members of the Moose Lod
ge will hold their regular
weekly meeting Thursday
night at 8:15 at the Moose
Lodge on Bessemer City road.
E. C. Nicholson Resigns Position
As Public Woiks Superintendent
RESIGNS — E. C. Nicholson, city
superintendent of public works,
has resigned his position and
said Wednesday he hoped to
complete his duties Thursday.
E. C. Nicholson, for the past
two years city superintendent of
public works, has tendered his
resignation and said Wednesday
he hopes to finish his duties here
Thursday.
Mr. Nicholson did not announce
his future plans, but said he has
offers for similar work in both
municipal and private employ
ment.
Mr. Nicholson became the
city’s public works superinten
dent on August 28,1953, in charge
of the sanitary, water, and street
departments. He came to the city
position as successor to Tom Hen
ry, now in Cherryville, and had
previously been associated with
Barge - Thompson Construction
Company in Alabama, a firm
handling installations for South
ern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph Company.
Mr. Nicholson is a partner with
J. H. Patterson in P. & N. Appli
ance company, gas appliance
firm.
The city board of commission
ers is expected to accept formally
the Nicholson resignation at a
special meeting Thursday.
City May Begin
Consideration
Of New Budget
The city board of commission
ers will hold a special session at
10 o’clock Thursday morning
with a varied agenda, Mayor
Glee A. Bridges said Wednesday.
The board will consider the re
signation of E. C. Nicholson as
superintendent of public works,
will consider enactment of the
1953-56 privilege license schedule,
and may tentatively accept the
new sewage disposal plant on Mc
Gill Creek.
Mayor Bridges said it is possi
ble the board will consider the
1955-56 budget, previously sche
duled for first consideration on
July 7, and may set tentatively
the 1955 tax rate.
Mayor Bridges said it is possi
ble Mr. Nicholson may be replac
ed with a "local man”, though he
added he had no particular pros
pects in mind.
Asked if the question of set
ting a sewer fee, proposed and
tabled at the regular June meet
ing, will be discussed further.
Mayor Bridges replied, “I doubt
it”. At the June session, Commis
sioner Sam Collins made a mo
tion to set a $1 per month sew
age fee, but withdrew his mo
tion after failing to obtain a se
cond. Subsequently, Commission
er W. G. Grantham’s motion to
table carried.
Also left unsettled was a ques
tion of paring the police depart
ment roster.
i Minor ei»»ges may he adopted
in the upcoming privilege license
schedule. The city clerk and of
fice staff have been perusing the
schedule for possible changes in
accordance with state statutes.
The board is expected to make
an effort to hold the tax rate at
currenjt levels of $1.70 per $100
valuation, with possible excep
tion of imposition of the five
cents-per-$100 tax for recreation
al purposes voted in a special
election by the citizens in 1954
but not levied by the commission
ers during the past year.
Department heads have been
working on budget estimates and
requests for the past month.
Plonk School
Opens June 27
The Plonk School of Creative
Arts, of Asheville, will open its
thirty-second summer workshop
session on June 27, Dr. Laura
Plonk, director, announced this
week.
Dr. Plonk was here this week
interviewing prospective stu
dents.
The school offers training in
diction, vocal modulation, dal
croze, vocal expression, public
speaking, creative English, sing
ing, piano, drama and other sub
jects.
The faculty will include, in ad
dition to the director, Dr. Lillian
Plonk, assistant director, Mrs.
Anna Lee Styles, Miss Patricia
James, Miss Nancy Plonk, Ber
nard Szold, Charles W. Hart,
Kenneth DuBois, Mrs. Mabel
Snowden and Mrs. John Stevens.
Dr. Plonk said, “The session of
six weeks will give those who at
tend better diction, a more pleas
ing voice, an awareness of vocal
modulation, a fi^eer body, a rich
er and more express phraseology,
a deeper appreciation of litera
ture, a*d a more alive, magnami
mous spirit.”
Recreation Group
Pool Managers
The city recreation commis
sion has full charge of the ope
ration of the two new city
swimming pools, Mayor Glee A.
Bridges noted this week, add
ing that all matters concerning
the pools should be directed to
the commission.
Particularly, he said, numer
ous people have called the ma
yor’s office concerning employ
ment at the pools. These should
be directed to Fred W. Plonk,
recreation commission chair
man, the Mayor suggested.
Other members of the com
mission are Jack White, secre
tary, H. L. Kindred, Hunter
Neisler, and W. K. Mauney, Jr.