Population
City Limits . 7,206
The population Is Irom the H. S. Government census
report lor 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
cm ration board registrations at the Kings Mountain
office, was 15,000.
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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 25, 1955
VOL. 65 NO. 34
Established 1889
Sixty-Fifth Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MACEDONIA GROUND-BREAKING — Macedonia
Baptist church broke ground Sunday for a com
plete new church plant to be constructed on pro
perty adjacent to the present structure. Pictured
are church officers, members and department
heads who participated in the formal ceremonies.
They are, left to right, Mrs. Roy Spake, Curtis
Wright, Mrs. T. A. Lineberger, Rev. T. A. Lineber
ger, O. C. Kiser, Morris Timms, Henderson Hern- !
don. Jack Mercer, Lester Welch, T. E. Moss, K. J.
Hufistetler, Sr., T. W. Smith, J. R. Champion, and
Charles Alexander. Mr. Alexander. Mr. Welch, and
Mr. Kiser are members of the building committee,
while Mr. Huffstetler is chairman of the board of
deacons. The new plant will cost an estimated
$65,000. Present Sunday were 215 persons. (Herald
photo by Carlisle Studio.) '
Local News
Bulletins
( HEARING BATE CHANGED
Preliminary hearing in coun
ty recorder’s court for Palmer
Huffstetler, 17, on charges of
involuntary manslaughter, has
■been postponed from August
26 to September 2.
•PRIVILEGE LICENSES
Purchases of city privilege li
censes increased to $5,298.69
through Monday, City Clerk
Gene Mitcham"reports. Mr.
Mitcham reminded that the
penalty for late purchase will
advance to ten percent on Sep
tember 1. Under state law, li
censes are purchasable at par
in July, with penalty of five
percent per month applying
thereafter.
ASSESSMENTS PAYMENTS
Payments by Kings Moun
tain citizens on public im
provements assessments top
ped the $8,000-mark through
Monday, with a total of $8,
043.37 reported received this
fiscal year !by City Clerk Gene
Mitcham.
REUNION
Annual reunion of the des
cendants of the family of Jim
| my Grimes Ware will 'be held
Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Barber in Concord,
Mrs. J. G. Hord, of Kings Moun
tain, has announced. Dinner
will be served picnic-style at
1 o’clock.
SQUARE DANCE
The City Parks and Recrea
tion commission is inviting all
persons interested in forming a
square dance team and clinic
to meet Thursday, September 1,
at 7:30 p. m., in the high school
gymnasium, Doug Salley, city
recreation director, has an
nounced.
MORROW ELECTED
George Morrow, of Kings
Mountain, was elected presi
dent of the Morrow Clhn at the
annual reunion of the family
held on Saturday afternoon at
Pisgah ARP church. Attending
the reunion with Mr. and Mrs.
Morrow were Mr. and Mrs. M.
A. Ware.
Tax Discount Rate
Drops September 1
Next Wednesday is the final
day for paying city and county
taxes at the full two perctent "dis
count.
Citizens are being reminded by
the respective tax collectors of
the deadline, noting that the dis
count rate will drop to one per
cent on September 1.
Through Monday, city taxpay
ers had paid into city coffers $32,
836.44, City Clerk Gene Mitcham
reported. A rush of pre-payments
are anticipated prior to the Au
gust 31 deadline.
Dr. Nolan Joins
Dr. Hendricks
Medical Men
Will Practice
In Partnership
Dr. Paul V. Nolan has joined
Dr. Paul E. Hendricks here in
the general practice of medicine.
The two doctors have formed a
medical partnership and will
practice at the Hendricks-Nolan
clinic, corner of West Gold and
Cansler streets.
Dr. Nolan fills the vacancy
created when Dr. James M. Lane,
former partner of Dr. Hendricks,
was ordered to active duty in the
armed forces.
Dr. Nolan, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. V. Nolan, of Shelby, was re
cently released from active duty
with the Air Force after more
than four years of service at
Amarillo, * Tex., Berkley, Calif.,
and Langley AFB, Va. While at
Berkley, Dr. Nolan, a flight sur
geon and Air Force captain, re
ceived a masters degrefe in public
health.
Dr. Nolan attended Mars Hill
college and the University of
North Carolina before obtaining
his medical degree at the Univer
sity of Maryland in 1948. Hfe serv
ed an interneship at Tampa, Fla.,
Municipal hospital and subse
quently practiced medicine for
two years at Lawndale, before
entering the Air Force.
Mrs. Nolan is the former Miss
Anne J^ewis of St. Petersburg,
Fla. The Nolans moved here last
weekend, occupying the residence
at 304 South Sims street.
NEW DOCTOR — Dr. Paul V. No
lan has joined Dr. Paul E. Hen
dricks here in the general prac
tice of medicine. Dr. Nolan mov
ed here last Friday.
Cotton-Picking
Time Near Here
Kings Mountain area 1955
cotton is pearing the picking
stage •— somewhat earlier this
year th&n jn previous seasons.
Byron Keeterj Kings Moun- •
tain merchant and farmer,
brotfght the first boll of 1955
lint cotton to the Herald Wed
nesday morning and reports his
’farm near Grover is well-dotted
with the white crop and should
be ready for first picking soon.
Mr. Keeter said it was the
earliest cotton he’d found in
several years.
Man Thought Peeper Peppered Alt;
Jury Trial Ordered In Counter Suits
A young man thought to be a
Peeping Tom got a dose of shot
into his posterior last Thursday
night.
The result was a charge of vio
lation of the Peeping Tom act
against Ernest Weathers, who
lives near Fallston, and a coun
ter-charge of assault with a dead
ly weapon against Edward Stowe
Deveney, of Kings Mountain, who
lives on Kings Mountain highway
in the Bethware community.
Both cases are docketed for
trial in Cleveland Recorder’s
court September 13, Judge Reuben
Elam ordering a jury impaneled
on grounds he already knew too
much about the actions to try
them himself.
Previously the hearings had
been scheduled for last Monday.
Weathers was arrested Friday
on a warrant signed by Deveney
for violation of the Peeping Tom
act. The charge stemmed from an
incident last Thursday night in
which Weathers was sprayed
with bird shot after he was al
ledgely sden by Deveney peeping
through a window of the Deven
ey residence.
A counter charge of assault
with a deadly weapon was later
filed the same day by Weathers
against Dteveney.
Mrs. Edward Deveney said that
she and her husband were sitting
in the living room of their dark
ened house last Thursday night
around 9:30 watching television
when they heard a car stop near
their home on Shblby highway.
Mrs. Deveney stated her husband
looked through the window and
observed the car parked with
lights off. After observing the
parked car, she continued, her
husband rteseated himself, contin
ued to look at television, observ
ing the car at intervals for a pe
riod of time. Sometime later, Mrs.
kitchen, and her husband saw
Weathers peeping through the
kitchen window'. Her husband,
she continued, picked up his
shotgun, dropping it in the pro
cess. She said he then stepped to
the front door, saw the man run
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Paving Pay Policy Is Revised
Cherokee street
Lot Is Leased
For Auto Parking
The city board of commission
ers revised its previously appro
ved policy to require cash-in
advance for street, sidewalk, and
curb-and-gutter improvements
at a special session last Thurs
day night.
Under a unanimously adopted
resolution on motion by O. T.
Hayes, seconded by Sam Collins,
the .board voted to allow a two
year payment period, with half
the assessment due a year from
confirmation of assessments and
the remainder payable two years
from confirmation. Interest at
six percent per year is to apply
beginning 30 days after confirm
ation.
The board also voted, by 4 to 1,
to enter into contract with Bon
nie Cotton Mills and Bridges
Hardware for a five-year lease
of the parking area on Cherokee
street for a city-operated meter
ed parking lot. Under terms of
the contract, the property owners
will install necessary curbing,
with the city to furnish the me
ters and superintend their op
eration. Receipts from the meters
will be shared equally between
the city and the property owners.
At the end of the five-year peri
od, should the city lease not be
renewed, the meters would be
the property of the city.
The last provision brought the
..only discussion on the proposal,
the clause originally providing
that the meters would revert to
the property owners. Mr. Collins,
who was chairman of the city
committee effecting the arrange
ments, said this was a mistake,
and the motion to authorize
signing of the contract was pass
ed, subject to the necessary
change. Mr. Hayes opposed,
though he did not indicate rea
sons for his opposition.
Work on installation of the
meters was underway yesterday.
In another action, the board
voted to award Liberty Life In
surance Company the city’s em
ployee hospitalization group in
surance plan, effective Septem
ber 1.
This contract had been held
for 26 months by Equitable Life
Assurance society. Liberty Life
offered rates which indicated the
city would save approximately
$40 per month on the policy,
which pays death, hospitaliza
tion, accidental death and dis
memberment, surgical, and in
hospital medical benefits. The
city covers all its employees and,
in turn, allows employees to co
ver their families under the pol
icy, with these fees withheld
from their pay.
Other proposals had been re
ceived from Pilot Life Insurance
represented by S. A. Crouse, Aet
na Insurance Company., repres
ented by B. F. Maner, and Blue
Cross, of Durham. George Hamp
ton outlined the Liberty Life pro
posals.
Equitable had increased the
city’s rates on the basis of heavy
benefit payments last year.
At its August meeting, the
commissioners, on 3-0 vote, had
adopted a cash-in-advance poli
cy on public improvements in
which cost Is customarily shared
by the property owners. In mak
ing the motion to change the pol
icy to the two-year basis, Mr.
Hayes said he-had received num
erous complaints on the new pol
icy. T. J. Ellison said he, too, had
received complaints.
Under long-standing policy
the payment period had been
three years, with six percent in
terest from 30 days after con
firmation.
Boys To Be Tried
In juvenile Court
Two Kings Mountain minors,
ages 7 and 11 have.been placed
in the custody of welfare depart
ment for trial 'before Juvenile
Judge E. A. Houser, Jr., on char
ges of breaking and entering.
Chief Hugh A. 1 > a.i, Jr., stat- i
ed the youths were apprehended j
last Thursday Kings Moun- j
tain Police department shortly
after entering the resident of,
Mr,, and Mrs. George Morrow, on j
East King street The officer sta- I
ted Mrs. Morrow returned home
unexpectedly and saw the
youngsters fleeing from her
home. Entrance to the residence I
had been gained through an un- |
locked hack door, he said. r
NATIONAL GUARD ASSIGNMENT BOARD —
Keeping up with the officers anil 76 enlisted men
of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 120th
Infantry, is a big pert of the duties of the first
sergeant of the Kings Mountain National Guard
unit, now on summer training maneuvers with
other units of the 30th "Old Hickory" Infantry Di
vision at Fort Bragg. First Sgt. Preston A. Holt,
right, of the local company rigged up this black
board to keep track of Kings Mountain soldiers
during Hurricane Diane, which struck Fort Bragg
last Wednesday. Assisting Sgt. Holt, are left to
right. Sfc. Charles E. Wilson and Pfc. Martin L.
Wilson. The figures on the blackboard show two
local men (unnamed) assigned to the familiar
army detail — kitchen police. The unit will re
turn here Sunday.
PROFESSOR — Dr. Harvey L.
Bumgardner. of Kings Mountain,
will Join the poultry department
staff at North Carolina State col
lege on September 1 as teacher
and researcher. He received his
doetocate in poultry husbandry
on JtugM 5.
Di. Bumgardner
On College Stall
Dr. Harvey L. Bumgardner,
who received his doctorate in
poultry husbandry at the Univer
sity of Maryland on August 5,
will join the poultry department
staff of N. C. State college on
September 1.
Dr. Bumgardner will serve as
a teacher and researcher.
Completing four years of work
at the University of Maryland
early this month, he received a
doctorate in poultry husbandry
with a major in genetics and
physiology. He had received the
degree of Master of Science in
poultry husbandry in 1953. He
completed undergraduate work at
N. C. State college in 1951.
Dr. Bumgardner is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Bumgardner,
who live on York Road.
New North School
Plans Presented
T. W. Cothran, Shelby archi
tect, turned over a near-complete
set of plans and specifications
for the new north school build
ing Tuesday night.
Mr. Cothran presented the
plans to F. W. Plonk, chairman
of the school board’s building
committee, and to B. N. Barnes,
secretary.
Advertisements for bids for the
new project is expected next
week after the board makes a
study of the plans and state
school board approval is obtain
ed.
Funeral Rites
Are Conducted
For Moore Youth
Funeral services for Arnold
Wayne Moore, 11, who died in
Shelby hospital Sunday follow
ing a fall from a pick-up truck
Friday around 2 p. m„ were held
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock
from Gold Street Wesleyan Me
thodist church.
Rites were conducted by the
Rev. Hoover E. Smith, pastor of
the church, and burial was in
Mountain Rest cemetery.
The youth was riding on a
truck driven by Brymer McLean,
of Ranlo Station, in Gaston Coun
INQUEST TUESDAY
A coroner’s inquest to deter
mine how Arnold-Wayne Moore
came to his death has been
called by Cleveland County
Coroner Ollie Harris. The in
quest has 'been set for 7:30
Tuesday night, at Cleveland
County Courthouse, Shelby,
Members of the jury will be
Gene Blanton, Robert Rudisill,
Harold Ledford, Nina Rudisill,
Joe Hendricks, all of Shelby, E.
E. Marlowe and Theodore
Gamble, of Kings Mountain,
ty when the accident occurred
just east of the Cleveland Coun
ty Fairgrounds on Highway 74-A.
The lad died without regaining
consciousness.
Cleveland County Sheriff Hay
wood Allen reported McLean sta
ted he did not know the boy had
fallen from the truck until he
made a stop near Kings Moun
tain at a filling station to pur
chase soft drinks. On discovering
the youth missing, Sheriff Allen
said, McLean started back to
search for the youth and met of
ficers, who told McLean the boy
had been found lying in the road
by a school bus driver.
McLean, who deals in old
cardboard boxes and scrap pa
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MASTERS DEGREE — Everette
L. Carlton, Kings Mountain high
football coach, was awarded a
master of arts degree in educa
tion at exercises at Swat last
Thursday night. He attended
summer sessions at Appalachian
State Teachers College the past
three years in completing work
on the degree. Carlton has been
football coach here since 1948,
excepting 1951 when he was call
ed to duty with the Marine Corps
in Korea.
Retailers To Take
Labor Day Holiday
Labor Day will be a holiday
for the majority of Kings
Mountain retail stores, accord
ing to Mrs. Elaine Queen, secre
tary of the Kings Mountain
Merchants association.
Mrs. Queen said directors of
the association will endeavor
to adopt a workable policy next
Tuesday on whether the Wed
nesday succeeding Labor Day
will be a half-holiday. Present
by-laws call for the merchants
to be open on Wednesdays im
mediately following Monday
holidays, but a large number of
mecchants closed as usual fol
lowing the Easter Monday holi
day.
Lambeth Ups Wages Five Cents Hour;
Fabrics Firm To Add Eight Looms
Lambeth Rope Corporation an
nounced this week it was raising
wages of all hourly-rated employ
ees by five cents pier hour.
The wage increases were effec
tive Monday for Lambeth’s 75
employees, Manager Frank
Burke said.
Lambeth thus joins Burlington
Industries, Inc., and other area
textile firms which recently an
nounced a five-cent hourly wage
increase.
Concurrently, Mr. Burke an
nounced what he termed a “small
expansion” at Lambeth Rope,
manufacturers of narrow fabrics.
The company is currently adding
3,000 square feet of floor space
to make possible addition of eight
additional Crompton - Knowles
narrow fabrics looms.
C. T. Bennett Construction!
Company is building the addition.
Lambeth Rope is currently ope
rating a full three-shift schedule,
Mr. Burke said.
Pupil Totals
Are Expected
To Set Record
City and Park Grace schools
are to open doors Tuesday at
8:30 a. m. to receive an expected
2,410 students for the 1955-56
term.
i With classroom space still very
short, the expected increase of
157 over the 1954 opening day en
rollment of 2,253 at the seven
units is going to place an added
strain on present buildings.
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
announced general teachers
meeting at Central school at 10
a. m. Monday and also one at
Davidson school at thfe same
hour.
He also announced that all po
sitions in the city schools faculty
have been filled with the excep
tion of a piano teacher for East
school. Mrs. Julia B. Nail, of
Cherryville, has been elected to
tfeach the third grade at Centtal
school. Gordon Beaver, who has
applied for a piano teaching po
sition, was out of town Wednes
day and Mr. Barnes said he did
not yet have his signed contract
for the East position.
Mrs. J. C. Nickels, principal at
Park Grace Elementary school,
announced that her plant will
open on schedule on Tuesday. A
two-classroom addition at the
school is not Expected to be com
pleted by school opening.
“While indications are that the
new building will not be complet
ed by Tuesday, provisions are be
ing made to handle all students
reporting for the term,’’ she said.
The school is a county unit which
operates on the same schedule
as the city system.
Mrs. Nickels is expecting a
round 200 students on opening
day, with indications that the
number of first-graders will be
less than last year.
Two new teachers are listed on
the seven-teacher Park Grace fac
ulty, Mrs. Nickels reported. They
are Mrs. H. C. Alexander, of Gaff
ney, S. C., in the primary depart
ment, and Mrs. V. M. Roberts, of
Blacksburg, a grammar grade
teacher. They replace Mrs. T. W.
Grayson and Mrs. O. S. Walton,
who resigned.
The new Park Grace addition,
begun last spring, contains .Two
primary classrooms and a physi
cal education room. The building
project also includes remodeling
of two rooms to provide a lunch
room. Auditorium space has been
used as a lunchroom in the past.
The city school board has al
ready approved plans to provide
temporary quarters for the
school band in Central garage in
order to provide two more class
rooms at that plant.
The two rooms are needed to
house two additional sections in
the high school. School officials
are expecting 15 high school sec
tions this yfear as compared to 13
used during the 1954-55 term.
Plans call for one added 10th
grade home-room and one addi
tional 12th grade home room with
the totals reading five 9th grades,
four 10th grades, three 11th gra
des, and three 12th grades.
Central school housed 1,099 stu
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Grovei School
Opens Monday
Grover school will open Mon
day morning for the 1955-56 term,
Principal W. F. Powell announc
ed Wednesday.
The school will operate from
8:30 a. m, to 1 p. m. daily for stev
eral weeks and the lunch room
will be open the first day of
school, he noted.
New members of the high
school faculty include Mr. and
Mrs. Preston Holt and A. E. Mer
cer. Mrs. Holt replaces Mrs. Mary
Ann Hauss in the homle econom
ics department, while Mr. Holt
replaces Don Cheek as coach. Mr.
Mercer will teach English and
French. Returning high school
teachers include P. R. Hambright,
of Grover, agriculture, and Mr.
Powell, chemistry.
Mr. Powell reported addition of
one new elementary teacher, Mrs.
Iris Harmon Oehler, and listed
the other members of the 18
member faculty: Mrs. Edith R.
Jones, Hickory Grove, S. C., Mrs.
Marguerite T. Powell, Grover;
Mrs. Patsy Ruth Whitesides, Miss
Lowell Ellis, Mrs. Elizabeth Al
len, and Miss Dorothy McCraw,
all of Gaffney, S. C.; Miss Picco
la Blalock and Mrs. M. II. Biser,
Kings Mountain; Mrs. Jessie R.
Cox and Miss Dorothy Mechling,
both of Shelby; and Mrs. Marga
ret Crocker, and Miss Ailene Mul
linax, both of Grover.