Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10.320
City Units 7,206
The Ogan tot Greater tingrs Mountain u dtrirM from
Ott IMS Kings Mountain city directory census. The City
Limit! figure Is from tbs United States census cf 1950.
Pages
Today
VOL 66 NO. 13
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March, 29, 1956
Sixty-Seventh Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Community Prepares For Easter Observance
Local News
Bulletins
1 DEGREE CANDIDATE -
gl Herbert Dale iDixon, of Kings
■Mountain, is among the can
didates for degrees at the May
|f 28 commencement at High
| Point college, according to an
f nouncement iby Dr. Harold Con
f rad, dean.
METER RECEIPTS
City parking meter receipts
for the week ending noon,
Wednesday totaled $198.71, ac
cording to a report toy City
Clerk Gene Mitchem. Street
meters accounted for $146.52,
while off-street meters return
ed $34.19, he said.
HOT DOG SALE
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Car
son Memorial church will sell
hot dogs and hamburgers at
the church Friday from 2 p. m.
until their supply is gone. The
church is located in the Crowd
ers Mountain section.
MOOSE LODGE
Kings Mountain Moose lodge
1748 will not hold its. regular
meeting Thursday night as
members are to attend a meet
ing with the Shelby cluto in
Shelby at 8 o’clock, it was an
nounced toy Curtis Gaffney,
secretary.
SOCIAL SECURITY
I A Representative of the Gas
jLtonia district social security of
fice ydll toe at City Hall in
Brings Mountain on April 2 and
Hpgaln on April 16 to provide so
cial security information to
| Kings Mountain area citizens,
I it was announced toy Joseph P.
f Walsh, manager.
ACTIVE DUTY
City Commissioner Sam Col
lins is currently on a two-week
tour of active duty with the
Naval Reserve at Charleston, S.
C. Mr. Collins, a first-class me
tal smith, will return this
weekend. James Dover, boat
swain’s mate, is also in Char
leston for Naval duty. 1
MAUNEY CORRECTION
Charles Mauney was listed toy
• last week’s- -paper as toeing
pledged to membership in Phi
Beta Kappa scholastic fraterni
ty at N. C. State College. Young
Mauney, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl F. Mauney, was pledged
to Phi Beta Phi fraternity in
stead. Phi Beja Phi is also an
outstanding scholastic fratern
|ty.
NAZARENE COUNT
i Due to a mistake in informa
tion toy The Herald, in the
[recent church census story, the
Nazarenes were not listed as a
separate denomination. The
SNazarenes have 122 persons
♦who designated .that faith in
census. This figure was
IHted under the Holiness de
nomination figures toy mis
take.
REVIVAL
Rev. J. G. Allred, of Polkville,
will begin a revival series Wed
nesday, April 4, at Penley’s
Chapel Methodist church on
Cherryville highway. Services
are at 7:15 p. m. and special
singing will be a feature of the
meeting..
HONOR ROLL
Dewitt Blanton, Jr., Sherrill
Spears, Lemuel Dwight Ware,
and Charles Yawn, all of Kings
Mountain, were among 48 Wes
tern Carolina college students
listed on the A honor roll for
the winter quarter.
duke grant
Kings Mountain hospital will
receive $1,937 from the Duke
endowment as a result of gifts
voted Tuesday by the endow
ment trustees. The payment is
In the basis of $1 per day for
larity patients. Shelby is to
give $5,547,. The awards to
/as $695,908.58.
METHODIST
Henley’s Chapel Methodist
arch will hold all-night
^er service Saturday begin -
at 6 p. m., it was an
aced by Leonard Huffstet
' ipastor. Kev. Kelly Dixon
1 begin the meeting which
—fll conclude with Easter s (In
prise service at € a. m. Sunday.
Funds for the building fund
are to toe received at Sunday
rooming services.
CHURCH TO BE OCCUPIED SUNDAY — Pictured
is the handsome new Macedonia Baptist church,
on Grover Road, which will fce occupied by the
church membership at Easter morning services.
In the afternoon, at 2:30, special dedicatory servi
ces will be conducted. Tfee new structure contains
an auditorium capable Qi seating 600. plus an ed
ucational department of 150 rooms. (Photo by Car
lisle Studio.)
.
Macedonia Baptists Occupy
New Church Edifice Sunday
OLD MACEDONIA CHURCHES — Pictured above are the two build
ings members of Macedonia Baptist church hare used since its
founding in October 1920. At top is the building'the church will a
bandon Easter Sunday. It was erected in 1928 and will be rased to
permit beautification of the grounds of the new Church. Below is the
first Macedonia Baptist church building, erected shortly after 1920,
and first church erected by the Macedonia congregation.
Community j
Service Set
For 6:30 a. m.
• . ■* *
The Kings Mountain Ministe
rial association will conduct its
traditional Easter Sunrise service
Sunday morning at 6.30 a. m at
Mountain 'Rest cemetery.
Rev. A. J Argo, pastor of First'
Wesleyan Methodist church, will |
deliver the Easter sermon, and |
the Kings Mountain high schoolj
band, under direction of J C- Hed-1
den, and choirs of Resurrection
Lutheran church, under direction
of Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, will pre- j
sent special music.
Rev. A. T. Quakenbush, pastor
of First Baptist church, will give
the invocation after three Bach
chorales, “Sleepers Atfrake,” “Je
sus, Joy of Man’s Desiring,”-and
“For Your Ascension, I Herewith”
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New Buildings Hit
$12,000 For Week.
Building Inspector J. W. Webs
ter issued building permits total,
ing $12,000 during the past week,
according to his records.
J. E Grigg received a permit
to construct a $4,000 frame
house on Second street.
Kings Mountain Manufacturing
Company received permission to
construct an addition to its pre
sent facilities at a cost of $8,000
Aubrey Mauney said the addition
al space would be used to make
some changes and rearrange
ments of the company’s present
setup.
The new addition will be of
one-story brick construction.
LIBRARY CLOSED ' i
Jacob S. Mauney- Memorial
library will be closed Mpnday,
April 2, for Easter holidays
according to announcement toy
Mrs. Charles Billing, librarian.
Dedicatory Rites
To Rle Conducted
Sunday At 2:30
■ Members of Macedonia Bap
tist chui,ph will occupy their
handsome! new brick church buil
ding on paster Sunday.
Regular services will be con
ducted in the morning, with a
sermon at 11 o’clock, and a spe
cial dedicatory service will bo
conducted at 2:30.
Rev. T. A. Lineberger, the pas
tor, issued an invitation to citi
zens and pastors of the commu
nity to attend the dedicatory ser
vice
Participating in the dedicatory
rites will tfe the pastor, Rev. T.
W- Bray, ^Cings Mountain asso
ciation secretary, and Charles
Alexander, chairman of the
church building committee.
The hew brick building—the
third Macedonia church struc
ture—repls/ces a frame structure
erected in [ 1928. The new build
ing contains 50 rooms, four clo
sets, and. a large auditorium
which wilyseat 600 persons when
the balcony is completed. The
educational building is designed
to accommodate 700 students
Mr.. Linberger places the value
of the building at $125,000. He
said it will cost $61,000, result 61
gifts of labor and materials by
both members of the church and
friends of other churches- Work
began October 1
In addition to Mr. Alexander,
the building committee includes
O. C Kiser, Sr., and Lester
Welch.
Mr Ltneberger paid tribute to
the building supervisor, R. F.
Webber, of Shelby, and to Elmer
Lumber Company and Kings
Mountain Lumber Company for
counsel and materials aid.
Church Records show that Ma
cedonia Baptist church was or
ganized in October 1920, with
the Rev J. J. Hicks instrumen
tal in the organization of the
church Mr. Hicks became the!
first pastor and T. E. Moss, W.
H. Moss, S- S. Jolley, and R- A.
Bookout were the first deacons.
Of the 13 original charter mem
bers, only T. E. Moss is still a
member of the church
In addition to Mr. Hicks and
the present pastor, the follow
ing have served as pastors: Rev
Wesley Davis, Rev. Clarence
Walley, Rev. Doyster, Rev. A. G
tyielton, Rev. J V. Fredrick, Rev
Clarence Bobbitt, and Rev. R. L.
Hardin Mr. Lineberger assum
ed the pastorate in July 1954
The first church building was j
also a small frame structure.
Current plans call for razing of j
the building which will be aban
doned Sunday morning.
Present membership of the
church is 286 and Sunday school
enrollment is 306. Occupancy of
the new building will enable the
departmentalization of the church
Sunday school, of which Jack
Mercier is superintendent.
‘The church that God led that
group of Christian workers of
1920 to organize has weathered
the storms of famine, prosperity,
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Godfrey Says
New FannBill
All Fouled Up
Criticizing the Congressional
committee conference report on
a new farm bill, H. B. Godfrey,
state ASC administrator, outlined
Tuesday night provisions of the
.proposed “soil bank” and other
features of the bill now advocat
ed by members of Congress.
‘The farm program is all foul
ed up”, Mr. Godfrey declared, as
he addressed area farmers and
Lions at the annual Farmer’s
Night banquet of the Kings
Mountain Lions club. He added,
“We may get a farm program
completely unworkable, as he
charged there is too much fac
tional politics in the ibill as it
now stands.
Declaring the farmer needs
help, he noted that farm income
has dropped heavily during the
past five years, and that the
price of the products he buys
have increased. He said less far
mers are getting record produc
tion but that his return is less
than it once was.
He cited as one of the reasons
the fact that ten men, or less, can
sit down at a table and determ
ine the price of every product
containing steel.
"Why don’t the farmers do the
same?”, he laughed, then ans
wered, "Imagine trying to get
five million farmers together to
agree on the price of anything.”
Mr. Godfrey said the “soil
bank" plan as new only In detail
and'&aid it includes two particu
lar plans, 1) an acreage reserve,
whereby a fanner will be paid
ijpt to plant all or part of his al
lotments of basic crops in over*
supply and 2) a conservation re
serve, whereby a farmer would
contract a portion of his acreage
to the federal government for a
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Lutheran Choir
To Give Cantata
The senior choir of Resurrec
tion Lutheran church will present
Stainer’s cantata, “The Crucifix
ion” Friday evening at 7:30 p, m.
as a part of the church’s Holy
Weak observance.
Rev. R- D. Fritz, pastor, said
that the program is a presenta
tion in music of the last events of
Christ’s earthly life from the Gar
den of Gethsemane through the
crucifixion.
Gene Gladden, tenor, and Rev.
Mr. Fritz, bass, will be soloists
for the program which is being
directed by Mrs. Aubrey Mauney,
choir director and organist
Mr. Fritz noted that the church
-1H observe the administration
lb'the Lord’s Supper on Holy
hursday night at 7:30 p. m. and
at 11 o’clock services Easter
morning. At Sunday’s service the
music will be sung antiphonally
by the 30-voice children’s choir
and the senior choir. The choirs
will sing “Ye Watchers and Ye
Holy Ones” by Riegger and
“Christ the Lord is Risen To
day” by Davis New Members will
be formally received at morning
services. Mr. Fritz added that no
evening service will be held at
the church on Sunday.
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Easter Report
Of St. Luke
Now upon the first day of the
week, very early in the morning,
they came unto the sepulchre,
bringing the spices which they
had prepared, and certain others
With them.
And they fpund the stone rolled \
away from the ,sepulchre.
And they entered in, and found j
not the body of the Lord Jesus,
And it came to pass, as they i
were much perplexed thereabout, |
behold, two men stood by them in j
shining garments:
And as they were afraid, and j
bowed dowk their faoes to the j
earth, they said unto them, Why!
seek ye the living among the j
deadf
He is not here, but is risen: rn- j
member how he spake unto you
when he was yet in Galilee,
Saying, The Son qf man must j
be delivered into the hands of \
sinful men, and be crucified, and i
the third day rise again
And they remembered his j
words,
And returned from the sepul- j
chre, and told all these things un \
to the eleven, and to all the rest, i
St. Luke I
ELECTED ■“ J< T. McGinnis* mo*
tor company sales manager, has
been elected president of the
Kings Mountain Junior Chamber
of Commerce for the coming
year.
Methodist Choii
To Give Program
The senior choir of Grace Me
thodist church will present thfe
Easter cantata, “Claudia and the
First Easter” at morning services
Sunday at Grace Methodist
church
Scriptural readings by Rev. W.
C. Sides, Jr., pastor, will provide
a background for the musical pro
gram which depicts the fevents in
the life of Christ, particularly the
crucifixion, burial, and resurrec
tion.
Choir members who participate
include Mrs- Clark Williams, Bill
Jonas, Mrs- Andy Huffstetler
Mrs. T. J. Ellispn, Miss Lorraine
Jonas, Mrs. Norman Lowery,
Mrs- Paul Howard, Mrs. Florence
Cline, Mrs. Bill Jonas, Mrs. June
Nance, Mrs. Gertie Roper, Miss
Jessie Jonas, Roy Pearson, Luth
er Bennett, Paul Howard, Don
Ellison, George Kennedy, Mrs.
Helen Carpenter, Mrs. Emmett
Ross, Miss Aileen Huffstetler,
and Mrs. George Kennedy.
Miss Margaret Huffstetler is
organ accompanist.
Peach Crop
Still Expected
Peach growers In the Kings
Mountain area contend that the
last icy ibreath of winter got a
bout 50 percent of their blooms,
but added that there are still
plenty left.
R. L. Plonk said Wednesday
that at least one-half of his
blooms had been killed. He add
ed however, that the trees had
morfe blooms this year than in
the past few seasons.
Miss Freelove Black reported
that the Wayne L. Ware trees
had suffered damages, but that
the apple trees had escaped
hurt, also that the trees still had
plenty of peach blooms left.
Overall, the reports seem to in
dicate that damages were less
than have been suffered in past
years.
CITY TAG SALES
City auto license tag sales
totaled 1278 through Tuesday,
City Clerk Gene Mitchem said
Wednesday. The total is a re
cord for city auto tag sales.
Church Jutes,
Other Traditions
To Be Observed
Kings Mountain citizens pre
pared busily this week for the
annual Easter observance.
For Kings Mountain, Easter
season plans had all the ear
marks of the traditional celebra
tion, with Easter church services
among the highlights, plus school
holidays, banquet-type dinners
for family gatherings, and the
traditional fashion parade
kings Mountain’s fashion pa
rade is quite informal, but local
apparel stores were anticipating
the customary last-minute rush
during the pre-Easter weekend.
At least three Easter sunrise
services will highlight tire dawn
ing of the anniversary of the
Resurrection. The annual com
munity-wide Easter sunrise ser
vice will be held at Mountain
Rest cemetery, featuring an in
terdenominational service and
special music by the school band
Members of Patterson Grove, Da
vid’s, and Oak Grovfe Baptist
churches are sponsoring an Eas
ter sunrise service at Oak Grove
church, and St. Matthew’s Luth
eran church will presient a special
6 a. m. Easter service
Otherwise, v'rtually all church
es of the area were conducting
Holy Week services. At least
three had scheduled Holy Thurs
day Communion services, includ
ing Boyce Memorial ARP, St.
Matthew’s and Resurrection Lu
theran churches Other churches
were featuring special musical
events.
City and Bethware school pu
pils were looking forward to a
long weekend holiday, with clas
ses scheduled to suspend at the
close of 'school Thursday and to
resume Tuesday morning
Majority of the city's retailers
anticipated the traditional Eas
ter Monday holiday.
Industry of the community an
ticipated operating on regular
schedules.
Younger mbmbers of the com
munity were agog and excited
with the traditional Easter sea
son activities, including egg
hunts, and other functions, and
many tugged at parents’ skirts
and trousers as they passed show
windows filled with Easter sea
son candies, bunnies and chicks.
Grocers were ready for the
rush of egg-buying for coloring,
in addition to the expected peak
season demand for Easter din
ner delicacies.
Wesleyan Church
To Present Play
First Wesleyan Methodist
church will present a three-act
Easter play, “My Son Lives,”
Sunday evening at 7 o’clock at
the church
In the cast are Calvin Payne,
who has the role of Dr. John
Reid, Lois Payne, who has the
role of Lillian Reid; Gaynelle
King, Charlotte Reid; Buck Ear
ly, Dr. Lindsay; Carolyn Dellin
ger, Barbara; Billy Jenkins, Ted;
Curtis George, Dr. Ben Silvers;
Myrtle Whetstine, Melba Silvers;
Patsy Wright, Miss Sullivan, Ed
die Henson, Tommy; and Betty
Ann Flowers, Evelyn.
Mrs. A- J. Argo is directing the
the program.
Women's Auxiliaries To Be Formed
To Aid Hospital Operations Here
Women in the Kings Mountain
area are invited to attend a coun
ty-wide meeting at Shelby High
School audiiorium on Wednesday
afternoon, April 4, at 4 p. m., for
the purpose of organizing Wo
man’s Auxiliaries for Kings
Mountain and Shelby units of |
the Cleveland County hospitals,
Mrs. Carl Mayes, organizing
chairman, said Wednesday
Over 200 letters have been
mailed to club and church groups
throughout the County, asking
them to send as many of their
members as possible to the meet-1
ing.
Following an explanation of
the purpose of an auxiliary, those
attending the general meeting
will divide into two groups to
form separate auxiliaries for
Kings Mountain and Shelby
units. The auxiliaries will be di
vided into four groups:
1 “Pink Ladies,” the volun
teers who will serve in the hos
pitals, manning the reception
desk, distributing mail, flowers
and magazines and acting as
guides.
2 Sewing group, to include
hose women and clubs who are
unable to serve inside the hos
pitals, but who will assist by
sewing linens for the institutions.
3 Gardening and landscap
ping group, to include women
whose chief interest is garden
ing, and who will be given the
task of beautifying the grounds
of the hospitals.
4- Student nurse group to in
cludte women who are interested
in assisting student nurses, and
helping to integrate them into
community life.
Following the explanation of
the purposes and duties of the
auxiliaries, as outlined by the
Woman's Auxiliary groups of
the American Hospital associa
tion, those attending will be ask
ed to sign membership cards.
Dues will be $1.00 per year for
active members and $2 per year
for inactive members.
Those who agree to serve as
“Pink Ladies” will be given an
orientation course at the hospi
tal, and will be taken on guided
tours of the institution “We hope
a large number of women from
this area will be present next
Wednesday afternoon,” Mrs.
mai* -,——
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CANDIDATE — Robert Ruff, 32.
filed notice of candidacy for
Number 4 Township constable,
subject to the May 26 Democra
tic primary.
Ruff Seeking
Constable Post
Robert Ruff, 32-year-old navy
veteran of World War II, has en
tered the No. 4 township consta
ble race for the Democratic nom
ination, bringing to three the to
tal of formal candidates.
Others are Gus Huffstetler, the
incumbent, and Ben Sessoms,
former city policeman.
All three have paid their filing
fees to county elections board
Chairman J. W. Osborne, of Shel
by.
Other activity of the week in
cluded formal filing by State
Senator Robert Morgan and State
Representative £. T. Falls, Jr.,
each of whom seeks re-election.
Morgan and Falls have no op
position to date.
In Number 5 township, Jack
Richard Page filed for constable
opposing Lemule Beattie.
Thus far, only one county-wide
contest has developed. Zeb V.
Cline, incumbent county com
missioner and chairman of the
board, is being opposed by Geor
ge Leukhardt. Both are of Shelby.
All incumbent commissioners
as well as incumbent county
school trustees seek re-nomina
tion at the May 26 primary.
Mr. Ruff has been an employee
of Burlington Industries’ Phenix
plant for the past seven years.
He reports he did shore patrol
duty in China and Japan while
serving the navy amphibious for
ces during World War II. He is a
Legionnaire. Mrs. Ruff is the
former Ruth Harrelson.
Seniors To Visit
Nation's Capitol
Members of the senior class of
Kings Mountain High School will
leave Thursday by chartered bus
for Washington, D. C-, for a
three-day stay.
Principal Rowell Lane said
Wednesday that some 31 of the
senior class members will make
the trip.
The students will rfeturn from
the Capitol Monday. Accompany
ing them will be Miss Kitty Lou
Sutton and Mr. and Mrs Ed
Early.
While in Washington, the stu
dents will take guided tours de
signed to show them points of
interest as well as a portion of
the workings of the federal gov
ernment.
Retailers To Close
On Easter Monday
Majority of Kings Mountain
retailers will take a holiday
Easter Monday, in accord with
by-laws of the Kings Mountain
Merchants association.
The retailers will also close
Wednesday afternoon for the
customary mid-week half-holi
day.
In a last minute change of
plans, the association recom
mended that the stores be o
pen yesterday (Wednesday) af
ternoon, reasoning, President
Paul Walker said, that custo
mers needed more buying time
before Easter than after. He
said the association would con
sider by-law action to make
the change permanent for the
Easter season.
Kings Mountain postoffice
will be open. The Kings Moun
tain office of the State Em
ployment service will observe
Monday as a ho’iday.
First National bank, Kings
Mountain and Home Buildinug
& Loan associations will also