Population
City Limits.7.206
Tbs populctlon Is from the V. S. Government census
repost for 1950. The Census Bureau estimates the nation's
population gain since 1950 at 1,7 percent per year. which
■***"■ Kings Mountain's 1954 population should approxi
mate 7609. The trading area population in 1945, based
op ration board registrations at the Kings Mountain
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VOL. 65 NO. 33
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 18, 1955
Sixty-Fifth Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Established 1889
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Local News
Bulletins
WITH HARRIS FIRM
Bill Bell, former city police
man, has joined the staff of
Harris Funeral Home, it has
been announced toy Ollie Har
ris.
PRIVILEGE LICENSES
Purchase of city privilege li
censes for the current year to
taled $5,265.58 through Tues
day, City Clerk Gene Mitcham
reports.
ARP SERVICE
Rev. J. G. Brawley, of Blacks
burg, S. C., will speak at 11:00
o’clock morning services Sun
day at Boyce Memorial ARP
church, Dr. W. OL. Pressly, the
pastor, has announced.
WOMAN'S CLUB
Members of the Woman’s
club will serve Sunday dinner
at the Woman’s club Sunday
beginning at 12:15, it has been
announced by Mrs. J. M. Coop
er.
LEGION AUXILIARY
Annual family picnic of Otis
D. Green Post 155, the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary, will be
held at the city picnic area
Thursday evening at 7 o'clock.
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CAKE SALE
The Intermediate department
of Central Methodist church
will hold a cake sale at P & N
Appliance Center Saturday
morning at 9 a. m. Proceeds
will be used to buy choir robes
for the group.
BAPTIST PICNIC
Annual First Baptist church
picnic will be held next Wed
nesday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Keeter. J. Ollle Har
ris is chairman in charge of
arrangements, and swimming
facilities at the city recreation
park Vaill be available to the
group from 4 until 6 p. m.
prior to the 7 ip. m. meal.
NEW RECRUITER
Sgt. Stuart H. Coleman, of
the Air Force, has been assign
ed to recruiting duty in Kings
Mountain. Sgt. Coleman suc
ceeds Sgt. C. H. Strickland in a
split of territory. Sgt. Coleman
will be at Kings Mountain
postoffice each Friday morn
ing from 9 o’clock to noon to
interview prospective Air Force
recruits, he said.
UNION SERVICE
iRev. Douglas Fritz, pastor of
Resurrection Lutheran church,
will preach at Sunday night’s
union service to be held at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran church.
Special music will be rendered
by Mrs. Miles Mauney, violin
ist, and by the church choir, it
was announced by Dr. W. P.
Gerberding, pastor of the host
church.
MORROW REUNION
The annual Morrow reunion
will be held Saturday after
noon at Pisgah ARP church
beginning at 5 o’clock, accord
ing to announcement of Mason
Robinson, of Gastonia, presi
dent of the clan. Group singing
will precede serving of picnic
dinner at 7 o’clock. The histo
rian, Agnes Bell, will report on
vital statistics of the cl^n.
ONE FIRE
Kings Mountain Fire Depart
ment answered one call this
week. Saturday around 11:18
p. m. the department was call
ed several miles outside the
city limits on Highway 161 to
extingush a truck blaze, C. D.
Ware, city fireman reported.
LICENSE PLATES
Two North Carolina car li
cense plates, Nos. 344-43355
and R-l-286055, have 'been
turned in at Kings Mountain
Police department, Chief of'Po
lice Hugh A. Logan, Jr., report
ed. Owners may claim the li
cense plates at the police de
partment, he said.
METER RECEIPTS
City parking meter receipts
for the week ending Wednes
day at noon totaled $175.92,
Miss Grace Carpenter, of city
clerk’s office, reported.
LIONS MEETING
Members of Kings Mountain
Lions Club will attend a picnic
supper Tuesday night at Beth
ware High School. The picnic
will be held at the regular
meeting time, 7 p. m.
MOOSE MEETING
The regular meeting of Moose
Lodge No. 1748 will be held
Tuesday night at the lodge on
Bessemer City road.
Macedonia To Break Ground
For Church Plant Sunday
New Edifice
To Be Built
Will Seat 600
Macedonia Baptist church will
break ground Sunday on a new
church plant.
Formal ground - breaking ser
vices will ibe held immediately
following regular Sunday morn
ing 11 a. m. services, ®ev. T. A.
Lineberger, the pastor, announc
ed yesterday.
Actual construction on the
church building, designed to ac
commodate 600 persons, will be
gin in mid-September, with .Ral
ph Webber, of Shelby, to super
vise construction. Also included
will be an educational building,
to enable the church to operate
a completely graded Sunday
school.
The new plant will be built
of brick-and-block on property
recently purchased from Mr. and
Mrs. James Fowler. This property
is a lot immediately adjacent to
the present Macedonia site. The
new site fronts 150 feet on the
Park Grace school road and va
ries in depth from 225 to 240 feet.
The old residence which occupi
ed the lot is currently being de
molished.
The church building committee
includes Charles Alexander. Otto
Kiser and Lester Welch.
The planning committee in
cluded the pastor, chairman of
the board of deacons, training
union director, and representa
tives from each department of
the Sunday school.
When the new plant is com
pleted, the present edifice will
be demolished, Mr. Lineberger
said in making the announce
ment.
Plonk President
Of McGill Clan
William Lawrence Plonk was
elected president of McGills of
Gaston at the annual reunion
held Wednesday at Bethel church
arbor.
Mr. Plonk succeeds Will Mc
Gill.
Other officers named were
Mrs. C. S. Plonk, Jr., vice-presi
dent, and Mrs. Stokes Wright,
stecretary-treasurer.
Rev. T. L. Cashwell, Jr., of Le
noir, former pastor of First Bap
tist church here, gave the devo
tional address, and Miss Willie
McGill, keeper of vital statistics,
reported the clan had numbered
16 births, a wedding, and a dteath
during the past year.
Named to the nominating com
mittee for the coming year were
Mrs. R. B. Keeter, chairman, M.
D. Phifer, and Mrs. Earl Carpen
ter.
promoted — Commander Wil
liam F. Brewer, USN, husband of
the former Miss Pauline Neisler,
of Kings Mountain, has been
promoted to the rank of captain.
Capt. Brewer is currently serving
as executive officer of the USS
Valley Forge, Essex-Class air
craft carrier.
Brewer Promoted
To Captain Rank
USS VALLEY FORGE, AT SEA
—A Navy Board of Selection an
nounced this week the promotion
of Commander William F. Brew
er, USN, to the rank of Captain.
Commander Brewer, who is pres
ently serving as the Executive
Officer of the 33,000 ton Essex -
Class carrier Valley Forge, is a
native of Henderson, North Car
olina and a graduate of Hender
son high school and Davidson
college, class of 1935.
Commissioned as an ensign
and designated as naval pilot in
1937, he has seen extensive duty
throughout the world. During
World War II he served as oper
ations officer of Fleet Air Wing
7 and as Executive Officer of
VPB-1Q3 'based in England. Sub
sequently he served as officer-in
charge of B-24 Crew Training, at
NAS, Hutchinson, Kan., and as
commanding officer . of Patrol
Bombing Squadron 107, also in
England. The end of World War
II found him on duty in Okinawa
as land plane group commander,.
A graduate of the general line
school, Newport, Rhode Island,
he served on the staff of the Na
val War college before coming
to the USS Valley Forge.
The son of Mrs. Eva Hart Brew
er of 107 Clark Street, Henderson,
N. C., Captain Brewer is married
to the former Miss Pauline Neis
ler of Kings Mountain. They re
side with their three children at
5808 Upper Brandon Place, Nor
folk, Va.
Trustees Vote Condemnation Action
For Expansion Of East School Site
Kings Mountain school board
voted to condemn a tract of land
for playground space for East
Elementary school and adopted
a local funds budget for 1955-56
totalling $468,644.85 at the regu
lar monthly meeting held Mon
day at 7:30 p. m. at Central
schoqj.
The board also voted to adver
tise a house for sale for removal
located on West Elementary
school property and also included
a building it wants removed
from the North Elementary pro
perty.
The board authorized Superin
tendent B. N. Barnes to retain
Attorney Gfeorge B. Thomasson
to begin condemnation proceed
ings to secure the East school
land from Consolidated Textiles,
Inc., after failing in repeated ef
forts over a long period to pur
chase the land from the firm. The
land, about five acres, is located
west of the East school building
and is adjacent to the present
property.
The board also voted to in
crease Supt. Barnes’ local supple
ment from $821 to $1,200 annual
ly after Chairman A. W. Kincaid
pointed out that the superinten
dent had not had an increase in
the past eight years or more. The
board made the increase effec
tive as of last July 1.
The 1955-56 local funds budget
is some $24,000 less than the one
for 1954-55 and includes $86,356.14
for current expenses, $380,664.28
for capital outlay and $1,624.43
for debt service. Mr. Barnes
pointed out that a copy of the
budget is on file in his office and
is available for anyone who wish
es to study it. Hie reported the
following figures: $82,067.38
spent last year against at budget
ed figure of $85,767.45 for cur
rent expenses; $36,299.87 spent
last year against a budget of
$402,987.68 for capital outlay; and
$3,165 spent against a budgeted
figure of $3,917.90 for debt ser
vice.
The board voted to execute an
option held with Mrs. C. F. Stowe
for a little more than an acre of
land for the new elementary
school in the north section of
town. The board has held an op
tion on the tract since the origi
nal purchase of land from Mrs.
Stowe and voted to purchase it
after a study revealed the tract
is needed at the site. Architect T.
W. Cothran, of Shelby, had pre
viously advised the board to buy
the property, which lies at the
south edge of the site.
It was reported that Mr. Co
thran had advised the board that
plans for the new school would
be completed next week.
The committee studying the
Supreme Court ruling on segre
gation reported that a special
committee appointed by Gover
nor Hodges had advised local
boards to operate on the same
basis as last year and the board
agreed to follow the state com
mittee’s advice. Mr. Barnes, a
member of the local board com
mittee, reported that he had at
tended a superintendent’s meet
ing at Mars Hill at which Wil
liam B. Bodman, new state at
torney general, Was a speaker.
The board instructed the com
mittee to continue it's study and
to report from time to .time.
The board voted to relight Da
Continued On Page Eight
Drama Completes
1955 Run, Plays
To 4,000 People
The curtain fell on “The Sword
of Gideon” — perhaps perman
nently — Saturday night, as the
Kings Mountain Little Theatre
completed its fifth season of pre
senting a battle drama commem
orating the Battle of Kings
Mountain.
Ed Smith, Little Theatre pub
licist, reported attendance of 120C
persons for the final weekend oi
performances, with 550 present
for the final show Saturday.
Total season’s attendance of a
.bout 4,000 was less than in pre
vious years, with the attendance
drop attributed to unfavorable
weather for several performan
ces. Though the performance was
never cancelled by rain, on sev
eral evenings nearby rains in the
Piedmont area cut the crowds..
Again for the fifth year, the
drama was able to defray its ex
penses.
The Little Theatre had previ
ously voted to discontinue its
production of the drama at the
end of the 1955 season, though it
offered the hope that some way
would be found to continue a
dramatic commemorative pro
duction,.
In a statement, Meek Carpen
ter, Little Theatre president and
general manager of the 1955 pro
duction said:
“The Kings Mountain Little
Theatre, Inc., wishes to express
its thanks, publicly, to the many
citizens of this community who
have assisted in, or taken an ac
tive part in, the production of
its historical dramas in the Kings
Mountain National Miliary Park,
The organization has voted to
discontinue production with the
season just concluded, unless
some more advantageous means
of production can be arranged.
This should not be taken as any
measure of a lack of success of
the venture, however. During the
five-year period, the dramas a
bout the Battle of Kings Moun
tain played to a total of nearly
25,000 people. While no profit has
ever been realized from the ven
ture, it was never necessary to
enter a red figure in the books.
Many American citizens have
been made aware of the existen
ce of Kings Mountain, both as a
city and as an historical land
mark of the American scene.
“It would have been impossi
ble for any volunteer organiza
tion to have achieved such suc
cess without the generous sup
port of a great many citizens in
this area. While it is not possi
ble to list each by name, all
should feel a sense of pride in
having helped put our Kings
Mountain more firmly on the
man.”
Mrs. Gibson
loins ESC
Mrs. James Gibson, of Jackson
street, acctepted a position Tues
day as interviewer - stenographer
with the Kings Mountain Employ
ment Security office.
Mrs. Gibson replaces Miss An
nie R. Randall, of Grover, who
resigned Monday to accept a po
sition as foreign service secre
tary with the Civil Service com
mission. On completion of two
weeks of indoctrination training
in Washington, D. C., Miss Ran
dall will be assigned for work in
Taipei, Formosa.
Mrs. Gibson formerly held a
position with Consolidated Tex
tiles, Inc.
Fail Barbecue
Date Wednesday
The annual Bethware Commu
nity Fair barbecue, for sponsors
program advertisers and friends
of the Bethware Fair, will be held
next Wednesday, beginning at
5:30 p. m., at Bethware school.
Tickets were mailed advertisers
and others last week by Stokes
Wright, secretary, inviting atten
dance.
Mr. Wright said additional tic
kets may be obtained at $1.50 and
said all reservations should be re
ceived not later than noon on
Tuesday.
An annual event preceding the
Bethware Community Fair, the
barbecue customarily Is heavily
attended.
Huffstetlei
To Face Charge
In Wreck Case
Palmer Huffstetler, 17, was in
dicted for involuntary manslau
ghter Tuesday in connection with
the August 4 death of four per
sons in an auto smash-u-p on the
new Highway 29 by-pass.
Huffstetler immediately made
bond of $500.
Also charged with an offense
in connection with the accident,
is Thomas R. Kearns, allegedly
the starting official in a race be
tween Huffstetler and two of the
four killed in the accident.
Kearns is charged with aiding
and abetting in the unlawful en
trance on a road closed to traffic.
Wednesday morning, the war
rant indicting Kearns had not
yet been served. Sheriff’s Deputy
J. L. Osborne said. Both warrants
were signed by Sgt. J., B, Kuyken
dall, State Highway patrolman
who investigated the accident.
Killed in the accident were
Paul Kenneth Furr, 19, and Ron
nie L. Blackvvelder, 21, 'both of
Stanly county, Lyman A. Cham
pion, 40, of Kings Mountain, and
Mrs. Mary Sansing Grigg, 41, of
Bessemer City.
Sgt. Kuykendall previously had
reported receipt of a signed
statement from Palmer Huffstet
ler stating that Huffstetler and
the Stanly County youths, all
employees of Blythe Brothers
Construction Company at the
time, were racing on the uncom
pleted by-pass. Huffstetler, in
the statement, said he was a
head, realized no car was behind
him, and returned to find the
accident, which occurred about
1.7 miles south west of Highway
161. The Furr and Champion cars
had crashed head-on.
Hearing for Huffstetler has
been tentatively set for August
26 in county recorder’s court. He
will be represented by two legal
firms, Davis & White, of Kings
Mountain, and Horn & West, of
Shelby.
There had been some question
whether any indictments would
result from the accident due to
the fact that the by-pass was still
under construction and not yet a
North Carolina highway.
Sgt. Kuykendall said he based
his decision to file the warrants
on an opinion from the North
Carolina attorney general, in
which the attorney general opin
ed Huffstetler could be charged
on the theory that persons were
killed while he was engaging in
the unlawful act of tentering a
barricaded road. Kearns’ charge
is merely a misdemeanor.
Huffstetler, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Huffstetler, is a 1955
graduate and former athlete of
Kings Mountain high school. He
expects to enroll as a frteshman
at Wake Forest college in Sep
tember.
Wesleyan
Conference Held
Rev. Hoover E. Smith announc
ed yesterday change of name of
Second Wesleyan Methodist chur
ch to Gold Street Wesleyan Meth
odist church and reported on the
annual conference.
Rev. Smith attended the an
nual North Carolina Wesleyan
Methodist Church conference at
Colfax August 8-12 and said that
all area pastors had been return
ed to their charges.
Officials elected to head the
state-wide conference for the
coming ytear included Rev. B. H.
Phaup, of High Point, president;
Rev. E. L. Henderson, of Thomas
ville, vice president; Rev. W. M.
Phaup, of Troy, secretary; and
W. W. Kiser, of Charlotte, trea
surer.
The Gold Street church Wo
man’s Missionary Society won a
finance award for highest aver
age gain in the conference during
the past year. Mrs. William H.
Morgan is president of the local
WMS.
Rev. Smith also reported that
the church is building and equip
ping a recreation field behind the
church building. Badminton, vol
ley ball and basketball courts are
planned and a barbecue pit had
been constructed. Sadie Cotton
Mill has provided a building to be
used for indoor games and a
softball field is located behind the
mill, he said.
Appliance Center
In New Quarters
Appliance Center moved Tues
day into the building formerly
occupied by City Auto & Home
Supply at 243 South Battleground
avenue.
The firm has been located at
243 Cherokee street since it open
ed for business last May.
Appliance Center specializes in
natural gas heating equipment
and is owned and operated by
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. (Hub) Mit
cham.
Workman Is Instantly Killed
In Accident At Brick Plant
Judge Dissolves
Order Restraining
Minerals Firm
Superior Court Judge P. C.
Froneberger recently ordered dis
solved a restraining order grant
ed July 5 against J. J. Mullinax
and Cleveland Minerals, Inc., in
a civil action brought by heirs of
Mrs. Bertha Parker Shelton.
Result of the order meant that
Carolina Mines, Inc., which has
obtained the mineral rights of
Cleveland Minerals, Inc., was
able to proceed with their work
toward readying for production
a kyanite mine.
The Shelton heirs had obtained
a restraining order on July 5 fol
lowing their lodgment of suit
charging the defendants with fai
lure to fulfill a mineral rights
contract executed by Mrs. Shelton
before her death.
The judgment of Judge Frone
berger vacating the restraining
order follows:
inis cause coming on to be
hleard before his honor, P. C.
Froneberger, Resident Judge of
the Twenty-seventh judicial Dis
trict, holding the courts of Gas
ton County in said District, on
July 27, 1955, upon return of the
Order directing the defendants to
show cause why the restraining
order heretofore granted should
not be continued until the final
determination of this action; and
being heard upon the complaint
and affidavits submitted by the
defendants, all of which will ap
pear of rtecord; and it appearing
to the Court upon such hearing
that the plaintiffs are not entitl
ed to the said restraining order:
“IT IS NOW ORDERED that
the restraining order granted in
this action on July 5, 1955, be and
the same is hereby vacated and
dissolved and that the plaintiffs
will pay the cost thereof.”
Lutheran Women
To Attend Meeting
Annual convention of the Wo
man’s Missionary society of the
North Carolina Synod of the
United Lutheran church will be
held at St. Andrew’s Lutheran
church of Hickory, beginning Sat
urday and continuing through
Monday.
Representing Kings Mountain
Lutheran women at the conven
tion will ble Mrs. Carl Mauney,
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney and Mrs. E.
C. Cooper, of St. Matthew’s Lu
theran church, and Mrs. C. Q.
Rhyne, Mrs. Paul McGinnis and
Mrs. John Rudisill, of Resurrec
tion Lutheran church.
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney will serve
as convention organist.
B. S. Peeler, Jr., of Kings Moun
tain, will be featured soloist at
title Sunday evening session.
Theme of the convention will
be “God’s S. O. S.”.
Stolen 1940 Ford
Recovered Tuesday
A 1940 Ford, stolen sometime
over the week-end from Kings
Mountain Used Car Company,
has 'been recovered, according to
a report from the office of Chief
of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr.
Chief Logan stated an Oak
Grove community resident re
ported Tuesday an abandoned
car near Oak Grove Baptist chur
ch. Investigation proved the car
to be the stolen Ford, the officer
said.
No arrests have been made.
KIWANIS SPEAKER — Jeff B.
Wilson, of Raleigh, official of the
North Carolina Motor Carriers
association, will address mem
bers of the Kings Mountain Ki
wanis club Thursday night.
Wilson To Speak
To Kiwanis Club
Jeff B. Wilson, of Raleigh, a
trucking industry official, will
address the Kings Mountain Ki
wanis club at its meeting Thurs
day night at 6:45 at Masonic Din
ing hall.
Announcement was made by
Harold Coggins, club program
chairman.
Mr. Wilson, who spoke here
several years ago at a meeting of
the Lions club, is editor of the
truckers’ monthly magazine "Tar
Heel Wheels”, a member of the
board of directors of the 14-state
Southern Safety conference, and
director of information and safe
ty of the North Carolina Motor
Carriers association. Mr. Wilson
is a native of Jones County and
attended Durham high school,
New York university and Wake
Forest college.
Wesleyan Pastors
Returned Here
Kings Mountain Wesleyan Me
thodist pastors have been return
ed to their pastorates by the Wes
leyan Methodist Conference,
which met during the weekend in
annual session.
Rev. A. J. Argo returns to First
Wesleyan Methodist church and
Rev. Hoover E. Smith returns to
Second Wesleyan Methodist
church.
Mrs. Page's Father
Dies In Greenville
Funeral services for Robert C.
May, 52, of Greenville, N. C., will
be held Thursday afternoon at
Greenville’s First Methodist
church.
Mr. May, father of Mrs. Wil
liam Page of Kings Mountain,
and a relative of Milton May of
Kings Mountain, died early Mon
day morning. He had been ill
several weeks.
He was associated with Scott
Motor Company, of Greenville.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs.
Page, are his wife and a son, Ro
bert May, Jr., naval aviator sta
tioned in Texas. Mrs. May was
the former Miss Clara May.
The funeral rittes were first
scheduled for Wednesday after
noon but were postponed due to
weather conditions resulting
from Hurricane Diane.
Must Stieet-Paving Assessments
Be Paid? City Attorney Says "Yes"
“Do you have to pay street
paving assessments?’’
The answer to this question,
which has 'been asked more or
less openly by many citizens in
the past, is “Yes,” says City At
torney J. R. Davis.
Once a street-paving or other
public improvements assessment
is confirmed by the city board of
commissioners, it remains on the
books — bearing interest at one
half of one percent per month
until paid or until ten years have
elapsed. Meantime, it prevents
the particular property assessed
from being sold or otherwise
transferred under clear title.
There is one loophole Attorney
Davis says, but it is not too like
ly to occur and potentially ex
pensive for the assessed property
owner to chance it.
The street assessment expires
at the end of.ten years (unlike a
tax lien), unless the board of
commissioners obtains judgment
against the property to keep the
street assessment bill in force.
A person who does not pay his
street assessment — against
chance that a slip of procedure
will free him from the debt —
risks eventual payment of an in
terest bill totaling 60 percent or
more of the original amount of
assessment. k
Currently the city’s oldest as
sessments in force were confirm
ed on July 1, 1953.
Meantime, many citizens have
paid and are paying their public
improvements assessments. Since
July 1, City Clerk Gene Mitcham
reports, a total of $7,616.29 has
been paid on the outstanding
June 30 balance of about $31,000.
Sammy Moore, 22,
Dies As Hopper
Topples On Him
Sammy Lee Moore, 22-year-old
Negro, was killed instantly Wed
nesday morning at 8:25 when he
was pinned underneath a clay
hopper in an accident at Bennett
Brick & Tile Company.
Moore was working near the
hopper and was crushed as the
heavy hopper, which weighed
several tons, canted over and fell
upon him. Doras Bennett said
their were no eye-witnesses of
the accident. Another Negro em
ployee, working nearby as con
veyor - 'belt operator, heard
Moore cry out and hurried to the
scene to find Moore pinned be
neath the heavy hopper. Moore
had been an employee of the
Bennett firm since Feb. 21. Mr.
Bennett said cause of the acci
dent had not yet been determined.
C. T. Bennett, head of the brick -
and-tile manufacturing firm,
said it was the first fatality a
mong his employees in 33 years
of general contracting and man
ufacturing.
Moore, who lived in the Beth
ware community, was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Moore, of
Route 2. He is survived toy his
wife, Mrs. Lillie Mae Moore, and
two young daughters, Derice and
Dorothy Moore. Also surviving
are his parents, six sisters and
eight brothers.
Funeral rites with Gill & Brown
Funeral Home handling arrange
ments, will toe held at Vestibule
Methodist church on Sunday aft
ernoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. S.
T„ Clement officiating. Burial
will be made in the church cem
etery.
Webster Issued
Four Permits
Four building permits estimat
ed to total $26,000 wlere issued
this week by Building Inspector
J. W. Webster.
Two permits were issued Mon
day. One to L. L. Ramseur to
erect a one-story house on Ben
field road, at an estimated cost
of $5,000; thle other to George
McClain to erect a house on S.
Cherokee street, at an estimated
cost of $3,500.
Saturday, a permit was issued
to I. B. Goforth, Jr., to erect a
house on Goforth street, at an es
timated cost of $10,000.
D. M. Peeler was issued a per
mit Friday to erect a brick ve
neer house on Grove street, at an
estimated cost of $7,500.
Quakenbush
In Pulpit Sunday
The new pastor of the First
Baptist church will fill the pulpit
for the first time Sunday.
Rev. Aubrey T. Quakenbush
will use the subject, “Lost Oppor
tunities”, for his first sermon. He
will take his text from First
Kings 20:40.
Before accepting the First Bap
tist pastorate, Rev. Mr. Quaken
bush served as pastor of Stoney
Creek Baptist church in the Dor
tches community near Rocky
Mount. He has also served chur
ches in Oklahoma and Burling
ton.
Rev. Mr. Quakenbush, a native
of Burlington, attended Brown
University, Moody Bible Institute
and Southeastern Baptist Theolo
gical Seminary. He, Mrs. Quaken
bush and their three small chil
dren occupied the parsonage
Monday.
He succeeds Rev. Gordon Week
ly, who resigned December 12,
1954, to accept the pastorate of
Providence Baptist church, Char
lotte.
Tax Pre-Payments
Reach $20,636
Prepayments of 1955 city
taxes totaled $20,636.07 through
Tuesday.
Prepayments on 1955 tax
bills are now being accepted by
both the city and Cleveland
county tax collectors at the full
two percent discount. The dis
count rate will drop to one per
cent on September 1.
The total city levy is expect
ed to approximate $165,000,