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I Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7,206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is deriyed from the 19SS Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. Pages Today VOL 65 NO 46 Established 1889 Kings Mountain N. C., Thursday November 17, 1955 Sixty-Fifth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS TORNADO TAMERS — The Kings Mountain Mountaineers are hoping that they can tame the Forest City Golden Tornados Fri day night in Shelby to capture the Southwestern AA Conference championship. The two teams, who have tied once this year, ended the season with identical records, and must play to decide a loop winner. The winner of Friday's game will meet Valdese for the Western North Carolina AA crown. The Mountaineers have not been defeated this season, while Forest City has lost four non conference games. Coaeh Shu Carlton’s boys have gotten a sniff of the championship, and will be hard to handle. Forest City also has its sights on the crown and the game should be a thriller. A com plete story on the game can be found on page 12, section one, of today's Herald. Local News Bulletins FAIRVIEW LODGE Regular communication of Fairview lodge 339 AF & AM will be held at Masonic Hall Monday night at 7:30 p. m., according to announcement by Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., secretary. MEETING ADVANCED Regular Thanksgiving week meeting of the Kiwanis club will be advanced to Tuesday at noon'at Masonic Dining hail, according to announcement in the club bulletin. KIWANIS MEETING Hunter Stokes, district gov ernor of Carolinas Key Clubs, will address a joint meeting of the Kings Mountain Key club and its sponsoring organi zation, the Kings Mountain Ki wanis club at Masonic Dining Hall Thursday evening at 6:45. Mr. Stokes is from Florence, S. C. Key Club President Jerry McCarter will preside at the joint meeting. FISH RECEIVED The City of Kings Mountain eceived a shipment of 10,000 iblue gill fish Wednesday and poured them into the Davidson lake, City Commissioner Sam Collins reported. The fish came, free of charge, from the fed eral government hatchery at Rockingham. CAKE SALE First Presbyterian Senior High Felowship will conduct a house-to-house sale of home made cakes Saturday, it was announced by Bob Maner. He said phone orders would (be ac cepted at telephone 1380, and that deliveries would be made. AT CHAPEL HILL Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Blanton, Wilson Griffin, and L. S. Stroupe attended the Institute of Pharmacy at Chapel Hill several day this week. B. R. Lewis, of Lincolnton, is substi tuting for Mr. Griffin at Griffin Drug company. MOOSE MEETING The regular weekly meeting of Moose Lodge No. 1748 will toe held Thursday night at the lodge on Bessemer City road. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednes day noon totaled $180.85 ac cording to Miss Grace Carpen ter of city clerk’s office. Street meters returned $145.25, wihle off-strett meters accounted for $35.60, she reported. Retailers To Work All Day Wednesdays ^ Half - holidays for Kings Mountain merchants ended Wednesday until after Christ mas. Merchants of the city tradi tionally go on full six-day week schedules during the Christmas shopping season to accommodate Christmas shop pers and will be open next Wednesday all day. The half . holidays, accord ing to the by-laws of the Kings Mountain Merchants associa tion, will be resumed after Christmas. Flag-Seeking Mountaineers Recall Grid W arriors Of *26 By Bob Hoffman Is the 1955 Mountainteer team the best in Kings Mountain his tory? Most of the tans today will say it is. But some of the old-timers will scratch their heads and say, “I remember back in 1926.” It seems that the Mountaineers were loaded in 1926. The Herald files do not cover that year, stopping at 1925, but a few of the members of that old powerhouse are still around. These ex-Kings Mountain greats remember many details of that season, and folk-lore has added many more good yarns to ilile facts. Some of these tales, which have been handed down through the years, involve the Kings Moun tain-Shelby series, which was a heated affair even thfen. One old-timer said that Shelby put dope in the Kings Mountain water bucket that year, and it caused all the Mountaineer play ers to go to sleep. Asked about th'e results of the game he said, “We had the best team, but that dope got us and we had to settle for a lousy tie.” Another yarn concerning Shel by says the Lions switched balls on Kings Mountain every time the Mountaineers got possession. The tale has it the ball the 1926 Mountaineers had to use was fil led with bottle caps. This was re ported to have slowed down the Kings Mountain offense conside rably. As you have probably guessed, the rules and regulations govern ing the game were not as strict in those days. In fact, Kings Mountain is said to have had quite a recruitment system. The Old-Timers say that the ace back of the 1926 squad was taken off a freight train passing through town and was given a job as well as a place on the team. This move must have ben suc cessful because Skeeter Skates was a great player for the Moun taineers. Lawrende Logan, now a dry cleaner, operator, was a member of that talented team, and re members a great deal about the team and its activities. Logan reports that the team played 13 games that year, and won 10, while tying three. Quite a record! He also remembers that Kings Mountain and Asheville tossed a coin to see which squad would meet Charlotte. Asheville won the toss, but lost the game and Char lote went on to the state champi onship for 1926. Logan remembers the line-up of the ’26 team as Rob McDaniel and Skinny Jenkins at the ends; Marvin Cranford and Lawrence Logan, tackles; Ab White and Bub Barrtett, guards; Bill Mason, center; and Skeeter Skates, P. C. (Tater) Goforth, Arthur Hord, and Skimp Stowe, backs. Other members of the team included Elmer Logan, Lem Ware, Wilbur Wright and Hubert McGinnis. The coach that led the team to an undefeated season was C. C. Christenbury. Football has changed a lot in the past 29 years, said Logan. But he agreed that the 1955 Moun taineer squad was every bit as good as the ’26 team. He added that both teams were light, with just a couple heavy men, and that the backs ran the same way, hard and fast. So the argument will have to go on—at least for awhile. If the Mountaineers beat Forest City, it would give them a 10 victory skien, and they would tie the ’26 team in the number of w’ins. However, if they would possib ly beat Forest City and Valdese, that would give them 11 wins, a new all-time record for Kings Mountain. The 1926 gridders have long i abandoned the rough and tumble game of football, but they re member the thrills—just watch them at the Mountaineer contests , —their legs twitch just a little as Harris, Baity, McGinnis or Mc Carter crack for that extra yard or touchdown. City's Annual Christmas Parade Scheduled Thursday. December 8 i Santa Claus* will come to Kings Mountain for his annual pre-Christmas visit on December 8. This is the word of the Kings Mountain Merchants association, which sponsors the annual Christmas season festivities. Sam Collins, Merchants asso ciation president, said Wednes day that the association is going all out to give the community its “biggest and best" Christmas parade. He said numerous local firms and organizations will. enter floats in the parade and that many out-of-town floats will al so be entered. Big feature for the young folk, of course, will be the presence of Santa Claus himself. Merchants, meantime, are go ing ahead with their Christmas season plans and are shopping the markets for last-minute Christmas needs. Many mer chants report they have already gone all our to provide Kings Mountain customers with more goods than they ever have toe Program Man Coggins Makes Grade, Gets Pinch-Hit Speaker Pronto Harold Coggins, Kiwanis club program chairman, tasted the old program chairman’s nightmare last Thursday on thte occasion of a joint civic club meeting with the Kiwanis club as host. At 4:45, two hours before meet ing* time, Mr. Coggins had a tele phone call from a remote West Virginia town. Ed Wimmer, the Cincinnati trade association offi cial who was scheduled to be on the rostrum at 6:45, reported himself caught in snowy weather and unable to fill his engage ment. Mr. Coggins began to experi ence some of the qualms of a hos tess'who finds the turkey burned to a crisp just before the guests arrive. Luckily, local area representa-1 tives of the National Federation of Independent business, were at tending the meteting to hear the top mogul, Wimmer. With some not-to-be-denied forcefulness, Mr. Coggins demanded a substitute and got it. Velco Geist, of High Point, did the pineh-hit job and recapitulat ed a Wirraner spetech. His pitch was to the small business man, who, the speaker declared, is be ing driven to the wall by big business. He put in a boost for fair trade laws, which have been having hard sledding in the past three years, flayed the relaxation of tariffs which threaten the American textile industry, and cited the many mergers of the twenties as a considerable con tribution to the Great Depression of the thirties. He noted that mer gers are the order of the day at the moment. Mr. Coggins’ assignment was fulfilled and he felt better on re ceiving commendations from the audience for the come-through. But the tale of Wimmer him self was not over. On the follow ing day, Mr. Coggins learned that the Snow-slowed speaker ran off the road near Radford, Va., da maged his car, his wife and him self and was doing duty later in a Roanoke, Va., hospital. I fore. There will be a good toy selec tion in Kings Mountain, with several firms already boosting toy displays for early shoppers. Further details on the Decem ber 8 Christmas parade will be announced later, Mr. Collins said. Shirley Ware Injured In Wreck Miss Shirley Ware, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ware, was in jured seriously in an auto acci dent Saturday afternoon near Hendersonville.' Miss Ware, a freshman at Ers kine college, was with a group of young people on a weekend outing at the Boyce Memorial ARP church cottage at Bon dar ken. Riding with Pfc. John Yarbro, of Kings Mountain and Camp Polk, La., Miss Ware was driving the Yarbro Oldsmobile, lost con trol of it and suffered a fractur ed skull and fear injuries when the car left the road and over turned. She is a patient in Pardee hospi tal, Hendersonville. Reported im proving Wednesday, she is expec ted to arrivte home this weekend. Pfc. Yarbro suffered hand cuts and shoulder injuries. Miss Ware’s mother, a chape rone on the house party, was in a following car and reached the scene of the accident about five minutes aftfer it happened. Lions Get More Fruit Cakes The Kings Mountain Lions club has recfeived a second ship ment of fruit cakes which it is offering for sale to citizens, Pre sident Gene Timms reported this week. The cakes sell for $3.25. President Timms said the cakfes enjoyed good public reception during the first portion of the sale and are of the same quality. Proceeds go to the Lions club welfare fund. ' New $125,000 A & P Opening Heie Thursday Kings Mountain’s new A & P Super Market at 401 Battle ground avenue, one of the most modern food establishments in this area, will open Thursday morning at 8:30. Company officials say the new store represents a cost of over $125,000 and term it “one of the finest super markets in the Car oinas.” The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company is the nation’s oldest and largest food chain. This new store has over 13,000 square feet of free parking space, which will accommodate over 40 cars. It contains approximately 5,000 square feet with every foot having been scientifically plan ned to give the maximum amount of comfort and convenience to A&P customers. Three check-out stands at the front of the storfe speed the flow of traffic through the store. The sales area includes over 100 lineal feet of refrigerated self servicte cases for the display of fresh produce, frozen foods, pack aged meats and dairy products. All fresh fruits and vegetables, except such staples as oranges, onions, potatoes, etc., will be kept under constant templerature in this open-faced department. “Our svstem keept fruits and vegetables at the very peak of their freshness,” P. M. Bealer, Jr., vicfe-president in charge of A&P’s operations in the Carolinas, ex plained, “and the produce depart ment will also include a dried fruit section and a pre-packaged section featuring such packaged produce as potatoes, onions and oranges." This modern product department will be managed by Jack Hardin. There is an ultra-modern 100 percent self service meat depart ment. This department includes opbn-style refrigerated cases, and back-room coolers all of which contain the best available equip ment for this new type supermar ket. It also has the benefit of er perience that A&P has gained through its pioneer work in the food merchandising business. One of the many advantages of this new type meat department is that it makes the housewife’s shop ping much easier, quicker and more convenient. She is able to see the meats wrapped in trans parent packages with the weight and price plainly marked on each package. The housewife can quickly choose what she wants from the many sizes and cuts in the open-face refrigerated cases. By being able to see the pre-pack aged cuts of meats, the cus tomer can be sure she is getting just the kind of meat she desir es. If the shopper wants a special cut or odd quanitity of any mer chandise, store personnel will be readily available to take thfe or der and transmit it to the cutting room for prompt, personalized service. The meat department will be managed by C. M. Logan. He has had wide experience in the meat cutting business and is well known throughout Cleveland County. At the left of the store is the A&P coffee-dairy department, with the side walls painted in a Continued On Page Eight Miss Daniel Is Baptist Director Miss Ellen M. Darnel recently on the staff of the fruitland Baptist state assembly, has assumed the duties of educational director of First Baptist church. Miss Dahiel, reared in Salis bury, is making her home with Mrs. A. E. Cline, 205 N. Piedmont avenue. Since 1931, Miss Daniel has held numerous positions in the field of rteligious education. She has served as director of religi ous education at First Baptist church, Mt. Airy; First Baptist church, Elkin; First Baptist church, Lincolnton; Concord Bap tist church, Granite Falls; and First Baptist church, Vaidese. A vocal soloist, she has also di rected youth choirs in the several churches. Last spring she took special work at New Orleans Baptist se minary. She is a graduate of Sal isbury high school and Salisbury Business college. In 1934, she was graduated from the New Orleans seminary with a masters in reli gious education. CAKE SALE The Magnolia Garden club will conduct a pie and cake sale in front of Keeter’s Depart ment store and C. E. Warlick Iinsurance Agency Saturday morning with proceeds to go to beautification of the rail road property between Moun tain and Gold streets. STORE MANAGER — Tom H. Da vidson, manager of Kings Moun tain's A & P Tea Company Store since 1948, will serve as manager of A & P's new super market which opens Thursday morning. The new super market replaces the old store. Five Receive Kings Diplomas Five Kings Mountain students were awarded diplomas Monday night in graduation ceremonies held at Kings Business College, Charlotte. Receiving diplomas were Nan cy Joan Cranford, daughter of Mrs. Aionzo Goforth, who receiv ed a diploma in general business; Johnnie G. Littlejohn, son of Mrs. C. H. Litlejohn, who received a diploma in senior accounting; Lois Spake Jolly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Spake, who received a diploma for advanced secretarial work; James E. Wells, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wells, who received a diploma in book keeping and typing; and Kenneth M. Roberts, son of Tom W. Ro berts, who received a diploma in Junior accounting. Mr. Littlejohn is employed by George Sills, public accountant; Mrs. Jolly Is employed by South ern Radio Corporation, Charlbtte; and Mr. Roberts is employed by Bennett Construction company. County Contest Final Thursday The Cleveland County finals of the Voice of Democracy con test for 1955 will be conducted at Kings Mountain high school Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Announcement was made by William Eldon, of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce, joint sponsor with Radio Station WKMT of the con test in Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain entrants will include Jimmie Heavner, Carolyn Brown and Donald Herd, all of whom have been coached by Jo nas Bridges, of WKMT, and Miss Odessa Black, of the high school faculty. The winner of the Thurs day contest will toe awarded a $25 government bond and will also earn the right to represent the county in the North Carolina contest. Contestants write and deliver a five-minute radio script on the sutoject, “I speak for Democracy.” Local contestants will be honor ed by the Jaycees on December 6 and the winner will be heard over WKMT on Saturday’s “Tea Time” program, Mr. Eldon an nounced. BUILDING PERMIT Building Inspector J. W. Web ster issued a permit Monday to C. D. Hunt, general contractor, for the erection of a one story ibrick tbuilding to toe used as a newspaper building on S. Pied mont ave., at an estimated cost of $29,000. Board Dismisses Officer Davidson Officer Ellison ' Transferred; Bell, Harmon Named City policeman S. R. (Ppp) Da vidson was dismissed from the police force by the board of com missioners last Thursday in a split, vote. In another shift, Policeman Warren Ellison, was named a re gular city firbman, replacing James Lybrand, who had resign ed effective November 21 to take a position with the county tax de partment. As replacements, the board un animously approved the chief’s recommendations, returning to the force at once ex-Officer Bill Bell, dismissed in a personnel cut back a few weeks ago, and em ploying as an officer, effective on Officer Ellison’s November 21 transfer, Joe Lee Harmon, an As late as Wednesday, Mr. Bell had not accepted the apointment to return to the police force, though he had resigned his for mer position with Harris Funeral Home. Chief Logan said Beii is considering other employment and has until Monday to reach a decision. He added that Harmon had been put on duty to fill the Davidson vacancy, employee at the city garage. The fireman action was taken first. Mayor Glee Bridges said Chief Pat Tignor had not recom mended a replacement and repor ted five applications from Robert Herndon, N. M. Farr, T. C. Mc Kee, Charles E. (Budl Ware, and Warren Ellison. Commissioner Paul W. Ledford moved appointment of Ellison as the Lybrand replacement, Com missioner J. H. Patterson stecon ded, and the vote was 4-0 in facor. Commissioner Sam Collins ab stained. The Mayor then asked Chief Logan to report on the suspen sion of Officer Davidson. Chief Logan acknowledged the suspen sion and added, “He wouldn’t cooperate with the department or with me.” What you going to do about it?” the Mayor asked the board. Commissioner Patterson moved approval of the chief’s dismissal recommendation and W. G. Gran tham seconded. Commissioner T. J. Ellison in terpos'ed he thought both sides should be present end that David son, not present, should have a. hearing, too. The Mayor replied “Davidson is not here, and it (the scheduled meeting) was in the Herald.” He called the vote. Comm. Ledford joined Comms. Patterson and Grantham in providing three vot es for the dismissal of Davidson, effective immediately with pay to Dectember 1. Comm. Collins vot ed against and Comm. Ellison ab stained. Officer Davidson was onetime police chief during the Still ad ministration. Discharged near the end of that administration he was returned to duty as a policeman by the first Bridges administra tion. Warren Ellison is a brother of Commissioner T. J. Ellison. PRESBYTERIAN Dr.. Joseph Hopper, mission ary to Korea, will deliver the message at morning services Sunday at First Presbyterian church. ,He will also speak at 3 o’clock afternoon services at Dixon Presbyterian church. Majority Of Chuiches Schedule Thanksgiving Season Services Thanksgiving season services will be held by most Kings Moun tain churches, either on Thanks giving morning or at regular Wednesday prayer meeting ser vices. Boycte Memorial ARP Church will hold its traditional Thanks giving morning service at 7:30 to be followed by breakfast at 8 a. m. in the church educational building. This breakfast is pr^ pared by the men of the church. Members of the breakfast com mittee are Oscar McCarter, chair man, Clarence Black, W. G. Gran tham, Hoyle Mabry, Garrison Go forth, and John Cheshire. St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church will have a matin service Thurs day morning at 9 o’clock. This service will feature special music by both the Senior and Junior Choirs of the church. First Presbyterian Church will hold its Thanksgiving services at the regular Wednesday night prayer services. It will be a spe cial musical program. Central Methodist Church will have a breakfast meeting and an early Thanksgiving worship ser vice. The time for these services had not been decided Wednesday. Gract Methodist Church will have an early morning worship service at 9 a. m. Special music will also be a part of these ser vices. Much of the city will be locked up tight Thanksgiving. Those firms and offices to be closed in clude a majority of up town mer chants, First Ntl. bank, building and loan offices, post office, city, county and federal offices, and The Herald. City and Park Grace Schools will have their traditional long weekend, with classes ending Wed nesday and resuming Monday. Grover school will also take Thursday and Friday as vacation days. PRINCESS—Miss Frances Frank lin, Central high school senior, will represent Kings Mountain high school at the Thanksgiving Day Carolinas Carousel at Char lotte next Thursday. She was re cently elected Carousel princess by the high school. Assessment Tabs Quickly Paid City officials reported this week what they think is the first com plete cash-on-completion pay ment of assessments for public street improvements. The payments, totaling $1,242. 45, covered property owners’ 50 percent cost on curb and gutter installations on the 200 block of south •Gaston streets and side walk on the east side of S. Gas ton and a strip on the north side of E. Gold. Payments for curb-and-gutter, with lineal feet in parentheses, include: Miss Fannie. Carpenter (155) $145.70 B. S. Peeler (60) 56.40 Otis Falls (60) 56.40 Bonnie Cotton Mills (275) 258.50 J. E. Aderholdt (137.5) 129.25 T. P. McGill (75) 70.50 W. K. Mauney (266 ) 250.04 In addition, W. K. Mauney paid $208.45 for half the cost of 379 feet of sidewalk. • 3rd Safety Award Received By City The City of Kings Mountain now has gone 1436 days without a traffic fatality, according to a report toy the city police depart ment. £t the Kings Mountain Jay cee’s meeting Tuesday night, an award was presented to Mayor Glee A. Bridges for another year of fatality free driving within the city. This marks the third strai ght year that Kings Mountain has received this award. City government officials and Jaycees present at the meeting saw a program on highway safe ty presented by Sgt. J. B. Kuy kendall, of the State Highway Patrol, and Harry Matthews of the North Carolina Traffic Safe ty Division. Mr. Matthews presented the a ward to Mayor Bridges in behalf of the city. President Bill Jonas presided over the business portion of the meeting. Nan lean Gantt Talks On Speech Miss Nan Jean Gantt, of Kings Mountain, was featured speaker recently during a Buncombe County observance of “Better Speech Week.” Miss Gantt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gantt, discussed “Bettf.r Speech” in several of the Asheville schools, at a district meeting of the Asheville Toast mistress club, and on Radio Sta tion WWNC. The week’s observance was sponsored by the ten-year-old Bet ter Speech committee of Bun combe county. Originally formed to help children with particular speech handicaps, such as stam mering and stuttering, the com mittee’s program has been broad ened to include attention to im provement in general diction. Miss Gantt is a senior in the college department of the Plonk School of Creative Arts.