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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Units 7,206 »• Ague* lor Gnatoi Diqi Mountain U derived Iron tko IKS King* Mountain city directory ceneue. The aty Unlti figure to Iron the United Staten eenitu of 1950. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper IQ Pages | 0 Today VOL 66 NO. 20 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday May 17, 1956 Sixty-Seventh Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Candidates Head For Home Stretch Local News Bulletins ONE FI BE Kings Mountain Fire depart ment answered a call Tuesday night to the residence of John Dalton, Negro, to extinguish a small blaze which had ignited in a sofa pillow, Warren Elli son, city fireman, reported. HEADS JAYCEES Bab Allran, Kings Mountain native and Mt. Airy (banker, was recently elected president of the Mt. Airy Junior Cham ber of Commerce for the com ing year. He is a son of Mrs. A. 9L. Allran. METHODIST Missionary Methodist church on Second street will hold an all-day service Sunday with dinner to toe served on the grounds at 12:30 following morning church service. Rev. J. M. Dufham, pastor, invited the public to attend. Revival services are being conducted nightly at.7:30 p. m. REVIVAL Rev. E. O. Gore, pastor of Zionville Baptist church, Boone, will (begin a week’s revival Sunday at Gamble Hill Baptist church, it was announced toy Rev. W. P. Bumgardner, pastor. Services are at 7:30 p. m. night ly. The church is located on US Highway 29 between Kings Mountain and Gastonia. WOMAN’S CLUB Board of directors of the Wo man’s cluib will meet Monday afternoon at 3:30 p. m. at the Woman’s clubhouse, it was an nounced by Mrs. George Hou ser, president. THIRD DEGRE An emergent communication will toe held toy Fairview Lodge 339 Friday night at 7 ip. tin. at Masonic Hall for work in the third degree, it was announc ed toy James B. Simpson. PRESBYTERY Rev. P,. D. Patrick and Dr. P. G. Padgett represented First Presbyterian church and 'Dan Stewart ’ represented Dixon church at the meeting of Pres bytery Tuesday at First Pres byterian church, Belmont. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipt* for the week ending npon, Wed nesday totaled $210.40, ac cording to a report by Miss Gtace Carpenter of City Clerk’s office. Miss Carpenter said street meters accounted for $166.94, while off-street me ters returned $43.46. MOOSE MEETING Kings Mountain Moose Lod ge 1748 Will hold their regu lar weekly meeting Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road, accord ing to Curtis Gaffney, seere try. Visitor Card System In Use At Hospital Kings Mountain Hospital touch ed its new card system for visit ing patients Monday, with the “Pink Ladies” division of the hospital auxiliary in charge. The new system was launched quite smoothly and satisfacto rily, It was reported by Mrs. P. G. Padgett, woman’s auxiliary chairman, and by Grady Howard, hospital business manager.» Under the new system, a pa tient is allowed no more than two visitors at any time. A visi tor is issued a card, which he re turns to the Pink Lady at the lobby desk when he leaves. Visitfng hours are 10:30 to 11:30 a. m., and 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. The Pink Lady ^roup which is ha ndling the visitor detail, includes 90 Kings Mountain wo men. In addition, other auxili ary groups are the stewing divi sion, with 31 members, the land scaping division, with five mem bers, and the nurse’s activities division, with three mbmbers. There are 21 inactive members of the auxiliary. Registration Ends; Primary Nine Days Off Area Democratic candidates for nominations were nearing the political short rows this week, after a long-season of plowing, prior to the May 26 primary. Registration activity was com pleted last Saturday with busi est day of three registration Sat urdays. This Saturday will be Challenge Day. The registrars will be at their posts for any in terested Democrat to check the books. Challenge Day, customa rily, is a thumb-twiddling day for the registrars. Chief interest in this area re mained the thrtee-way race for the 11th District Congressman nomination between two Cleve land County entries, Ralph Gard ner and Hugh Wells, both of Shelby, and one Gaston county entry, Basil Whitener, of Gas tonia. Each of the three were work ing 15 to 18 - hour days at the business of corraling votes, and each seemed to be thriving on the arduous duties. The publicity staffs of each were grinding out statements and advertising material designed to woo the voters to the particular candidates. The county-wiae races remain ed rather quiet, in spite of three contests for county commissioner nominations, another for regis ter of deeds, and a sweepstakes affair for the five county board of education spots in which one of six candidates can’t make the grade. One of the county commission er races is in District 2, which includes Number 4 (Kings Moun tain) and No. 5 (Waco) town ships. J. D. Harmon, Shelby feed salesman who lives near Buffa lo creek, is challenging Hazel B. Bumgardner, who is completing his second full term. George Leukhardt is challenging Zeb. V. Cline for county commissioner in District 1, and Ben P. Jenkins, Sr., onetime commissioner, is challenging John P. White in Dis trict 4. White edged Jenkins two year ago. A former Kings Mountain citi zen, Wilbur Wright, is challeng ing Register of Deeds Dan Moore. The. six school board entrants include Edwin Moore, Kings Mountain, Walter Davis, B. Aus tell, W. H. (Coot) Lutz, C. D. Forney, Jr., and Dr. Richard May bin. Both Forney and Maybin are from Lawndale. In Number 4 Township a big field seeks the constable nomi nation to which Incumbent Gus Huffstetler seeks re-nomination. The six challengers are Ben Sessoms, William Huffstckler, Robert Ruff, Elmer G. Ross, Has kel Bumgardner and J- W. Wil son. Three of the six (Sessoms, Bumgardner and Wolson) are City of Kings Mountain employ ees. Voting day is nine days hence, j on Saturday, May 26. Kings Mountain area citizens will help to determine a four man race for governor, and oth er races of lieutenant-governor, secretary of labor, and commis sioner of insurance. Kings Mountain Kiwanians To Hold Ladies' Night Banquet Thuisday The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club will hold its annual Ladies’ Night banquet Thursday night at the Woman’s Club at 6:45, with a lull entertainment program scheduled. Featured! the evening will be an address by Dr. J. S. Hiatt, superintendent of Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital Elkin, and a former Methodist district super intendent, who has a reputation as a humorist. He is e\1so a Ki wanian and a Mason. Dr. W. P. Gerberding will serve as toastmaster. Special music will ble present ed by The Carolinians, a Char lotte quartet. B. S. Peeler, Jr., club presi dent, will welcome the guests and Mrs. William Herndon will res pond. Members of the ladies night committee are Harold Coggins, chairman, Dr. Gerberding, W. T. Weir, J. C. Bridges, Ben H. Bridges, and J. H. Patterson. Honor guests especially invited to attend include widows of club members, thte division lieutenant governor, Dr. Robert Owens, presidents of the Lions club and BANQUET SPEAKER — Dr. J. S Hiatt, of Elkin, will be the lea tured speaker at Thursday night's annual ladies' night ban quet of the Kings Mountain Ki wants club. Junior Chamber of Commerce, and president and president elect of the high school Key Club DAVIDSON DAM OVERFLOWING — Pictured is the edge oi the spillway at the 65-foot Davidson Creek dam. the city's auxiliary water reservoir, which recently overflowed for the first time since it was constructed. The dam impounds at overflow 175,000,000 gal lons of water. Engineer W. K. Dickson estimates. Built after two successive years of water shortages here, the reservoir has yet to be tapped by the city water system, will be used when shortages occur at the York Road reservoir. Korean Accident Fatal To Amette Kings Mountain Airman Killed In Truck Crash Airman Stecond Class Julian Ranny Arnette, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Arnette, of Kings Mountain, was killed in a truck crash in Korea, his parents were notified Saturday. In formation has bteen received that the body will be flown to j the United Sta tes for burial, but date of ar rival had not been confirmed Wednesday. Fu neral rites will be held hfere. Airmanv A r lette would have been 20 years old Monday. The Kings Mountain youth, former high school football star, was almost instantly killed, Col. ElliottH. Reed, Washington, D. C., wrote, when a quarter-ton truck he was driving on official business was struck by a large dump truck. The dump truck had been attempting to pass another vehicle. Arnette’s truck was for ced off the road and over an em bankment. it carried two passen gers, a civilian employee of the air force, who was critically in jured, and A2/c Ben P. Vlassick, a close friend of the Kings Moun tain youth, who was not badly hurt. Airman Vlassick is accom panying the body here. Young Arnette was among nine high school graduates, Class of '54, who enlisted together in the Air Force in June of that year. He took basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas, was trans ferred to Denver., Colo., then or dered to duty in Korea in August 1955. An outstanding high school football tackle, he was also an adept golfer! Last April, Airman Arnette was among a group ol Continued On Page Ten 500 Citizens Tour Hospital Plant A half-hundred area citizens attended the open house held Sunday by county hospital trustees at Kings Mountain Hospital. The event marked formal ope ning of the ntew wing and the visitors were taken on a guid ed tour of the hospital by 25 members of the Pink Ladies di vision of the hospital auxili ary. Following the inspection, refreshments were served at the nurse’s home on Edgemont avenue. Grady Howard, hspital busi ness manager, said he was pleased with the "excellent at tendance.” Carpenter Wins Scholarship Rev. James A. Carpenter, son of Clarence E. Carpenter of Kings Mountain, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for a year’s study in theology at St. Andrew’s College, Scotland, he has been notified by the State Department. Rev. Mr. Carpenter, currently serving an Episcopal parish in Pittsboro, will sail for England on September 12 and will be in London for 10 days of orientation prior to going to Scotland. He notified his father Wednes day morning that he would spend the interim period in Episcopal work in Elkin. The award to the Kings Moun tain native was one of 900 going to 4600 applicants. Funds are supplied by the State Depart ment through act of the 79th Congress, under a bill introduc ed by Senator Fulbright, of Ark kansas. Rev. Mr. Carpenter’s mother is Mrs. Bess W. Carpenter, of Shel by. Auditors Begin Interim ^Check Members ftLlbeTStlrff of A. M. Pullen & Company, certified public accountants of Charlotte, arrived here Monday to conduct an interim audit of the books of the tax office and recorder’s court. The audit will cover the period from July 1, 1955, to April 15, 1956, date the two officers werte vacated toy Clarence E. Carpen ter, who was granted a leave of absence toy the (board of commis sioners due to ill health. The in terim audit was requested by the board of commissioners!. Boy Slightly Hurt In Bicycle Mishap Jerry Whetstine, of 517 Baker st., was reported to have receiv ed slight injuries Friday after noon in all auto bicycle accident on Baker st. According to the police, acci dent report, the Whetstine boy refused medical treatment. Driver of the car was listed as William B. Wray, of 407 Wal nut st., operating a 1949 Ford. The report stated both the car and the bicycle were traveling west on Baker st. The driver of the car was attempting to pass the bicycle and had already pul led over in an effort to clear it when the youth suddenly made a quick turn into the side of the car. Heiald To Begin Moving Chore On Thursday The Kings Mountain Herald expects to begin moving into its 'new building on South Piedmont avenue Thursday morning. Mann Transfer Company of '■ Gastonia, will handle the moving job under the superintendence of J. Dean Styers, veteran machi nist of the Gastonia Gazette. The Herald, Editor Martin Harmon said, will publish on re gular schedule next week, though the moving job may require ten days. The plan is to move type setting machinery and job print ing equipment first, then follow with the large and heavy news paper press and its allied equip ment. All equipment, with the excep tion of the newspaper prtess and newspaper folding machine, will be housed on the main floor, with the newspaper press to be housed -in the basement. The building virtually was ready for occupancy on Wednes day, with one machine—a ntew Hammond gas-fired casting box for mats—already in use. in the new building. City Electrical Superintendent Hunter Allen and his crew cut in “hot wire’’ Tues day morning. Telephone equip ment was being installed Wed nesday. The job printing department of the Herald will do its best to meet commitments to customers, Mr. Harmon added, stating that this department shouldn’t be out of operation more than two days. The new Herald building, lo cated just south of the present quarters, is a brick-block-con crete structure with about 5,700 square feet of floor space. C. D. Hunt, of Shelby, held the general contract, L. A. Hoke, Kings Mountain, the electrical contract, Sam Davis, Kings Mountain, the heating-cooling contract, and Ben T. Goforth, Kings Mountain, the plumbing contract. Architects were Van Wageninen and Cothran, Shelby. Cline Property To Be Auctioned Six properties of the A. E. Cline Estate will be sold at pub lic auction on May 26, according to legal notice being published by J. R. Davis, commissioner fn the action, and also executor of the Cline Estate. The Cline properties being of fered at auction include two busi ness buildings on North Piedmont avenue, and four houses, one a duplex on Parker and Carpenter streets. The business buildings are currently occupiel by Weaver Cleaners and Dilling Heating Company. Mr. Davis said the auction will be “absolute.” High bids for the particular tracts will remain open for ten days after the auc tion. If the bids are raised the required amount of five percent, the particular tracts will be re sold. Music Festival Is Set Thursday The Kings Mountain City Schools will present their an nual Spring Music Festival Thursday night at 8:15 o’clock in High School Auditorium. Miss Margaret Cole and Mr. J. C. Hedden will direct four mu sical groups during the program. These groups include the Sen ior Band, Eighth Grade Chorus, Junior Band, and High School Mixed Chorus. Twenty-seven selections will be presented by these groups. Mr. Hedden will direct the Sen ior Band and Junior Band in their selections, while Miss Cole will direct the Eighth Grade Chorus and High School Mixed Chorus. laycees To Buy Pool Bleachers Kings Mountain Junior Cham ber of Commerce will purchase a set of bleachers, with a 132 seating capacity, for the Deal street pool, the organization vot ed Tuesday night. Cost of the bleachers was quo ted at $501. The organization also voted to continue the awarding of a medal to the high school girl ad judged best in the annual read ing contest. Two men, Walter Harmon and ; Gordon Williams, were inducted as members by David D. Saun ders. Reports were received on the recent waste paper pick-up and from Treasurer Bob Maner. Kings Mountain Man Saves Bomber From Crash Landing AT GROVER — Rev. Wayne Hay nes, above, and Ollie Harris, be low, will be the principal speak ers at graduation exercises tor Grover high school seniors. The Grover exercises will be held on Sunday and Monday evenings. Gxover Finals Start Sunday Grover High School will hold graduation exercises Monday in the school gymnasium. Ollie. Harris, well-known Kings Mountain businessman, will de liver the graduation address. Nineteen seniors will receive their diplomas. They are: Wayne Appling, Gene Carner, Jerry Cooke, Jack Lail, Dickie Owens, O’Leary White, Mitchell (Mickey) Robin stfn, Danny Sides, Catherine Hambright, Howard Goforth, Ca rol Ann Herndon, Shirley Hughes, Rebecca Johnson Wright, Annie Laura Huffstetler, Sue Melton, Peggy Watterson, Joyce Ross, Joyce McGinnis Tucker, and Ro bert Peterson. The Rev. Wayne Haynes, pas tor of Bethany Baptist church of Grover, will deliver the bac calaureate sermon Sunday night, May 20, at Grover’s First Bap tist church. The Rev. W. F. Mon roe, the Rev. Trent Howell, and the Rev. R. E. Robbins will also take part in the baccalaureate program. Kenneth Tessner, Bobby Wat terson, Phillip McMurray, Dale Gold, and Elaine Pruitt have been chosen as marshals for the graduation exercises. Teresa Howell and Mike Mc Daniel are mascots for the year’s senior class. Mr. Harris will use ‘Take Ad vantage of Your Opportunities” as the topic of his graduation ad dress. Ramsey Supplies Method to Unjam Landing Gear WACO, TEXAS. —Quick think- ! ing on the part of A/lc Robert Ramsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ramsey of 210 Maple Street, Kings Mountain, North Carolina, saved the day at James Connally Air Force Base here last Thursday. Ramsey was largely responsible for the safe landing of a B-25 which had a jammed landing gear. The plane circled the field for about three and a half hours try ing to release the gear so it could be landed. A pin in the hydrau lic system was twisted, and the hand pump, which is used in e mergencies When the hydraulic system isn’t working, did not have enough pressure to get the landing gear down,. Airman Ramsey, on the ground, came up with the idea of releasing the pressure on the valve until the hand pump was putting out more pressure than the main hy draulic system. His idea was ra dioed to the pilot. This is believed to be the first time that this procedure has been used to release a landing gear. Ramsey said it was just a wild chance but nothing would be lost by trying it, since all earlier attempts to get the gear down had failed. The pilot of the plane, Captain Marvey L. Foster, landed the ship ten minutes after getting the gear down. It locked as they came in for the landing. Airman Ramsey has been in the Air Force two years. He had four and a half years prior ser vice in the reserve. He came in on a short enlistment and re-en, listed for a term of six years on May 9, the day before the inci dent. Ramsey js assigned to the ■8566th Field Matnienahce Squad ron and has been at James Con nally Air Force Base since De cember, 1954. Except for the pe riod he was in technical school, he has never done any work in this field before coming to James Connally AFB. He is the only hy draulic specialist for the B-25 bombers on this base. The B-25 Mission was a famili arization flight to check out ra ted pilots from other bases who are now Aircraft Observer Train ing Pilot Students. The students on this flight were Major Donat Dauteuil and 1st Lt. Lyle W. McNeely. Airman Ramsey is a native of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and is 26 years of age. He and his wife, the former Hazel Mor gan, and one son, age 9, reside in the Tate-Lax Trailer Park on the New Dallas Highway in Wa co, Texas. One Auto Accident Reported By Police Kings Mountain Police depart ment reported investigating one automobile collision this week. Wednesday, around 2:35 p. m., a 1939 Ford and 1954 Pontiac collided at the intersection of W. King and Railroad avenue. Drivers were listed as Mary Ste phen, of Belmont, operating the Pontiac, and Batie Meek Orma’nd as operating the Ford. The ac cident occurred under the traf fic signal, police stated. Proper ty damages were estimated at $450. Voluntary Auto Inspection Lane To Operate Here May 21 To 26 Kings Mountain’s vehicle in spection lane will set up for a one-week operation beginning Monday morning and all citizens are being urged to avail them selves the opportuity for the free safety-check. The inspection lane will be stet up hi front of City Hall on S. Piedmont avenue. John B. Smathers, chairman of the committee arranging the week’s check-lane service, said virtually all details are complete and offered the hope that at least 1500 vehicles would pass through the lane during next week. Mechanics from garages of the city, aided by the city’s service station personnel, will staff the lane and check all cars for de fective brakes, front and rear lights, steering, tires, glass, windshield wipers, exhaust sys tern, rear view mirrows, and horns. At the end of the inspection, drivers will receive free cold drinks, compliments of Double Cola Bottling Company. A voluntary inspection lane was operated here last year and proved quite successful. Chairman Smathers called at tention to the high accident rate in North Carolina and said, “Some of the accidents on the highways of this state are the result of defective integral parts, such as brakes or lights, and the operation of the inspection lane here is designed to find these de fects, if they exist, in advance of accidents which can cost both life and property loss.” Other members of the steering committee are Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Mayor Glee Bridges, Martin Harmon, Jonas Bridges, Louis Sabetti, Mrs. George Houser and W. G. Gran tham. AT BETHWARE — Dr. Doras P. Rudisill, above, and Rev. James B. McLarty, below, will make the principal addresses at annual graduation exercises to be held beginning Sunday night at Beth ware high school. Diplomas will be awarded Tuesday night. 22 To Graduate At Bethwaie Bethware high school will hold commencement exercises for 22 seniors from Sunday through Tuesday evening. The activities begin with the baccalaureate sermon on Sun day evening, with Dr. Dorus P Rudisill, professor of philosophy a’nd Bible at Lenoir-Rhyne col lege, delivering the sermon. Commencement exercises will be held Tuesday night with Rev. Jambs B. McLarty., pastor of Cen tral Methodist church, delivering the. graduation address. Both programs will begin at 8 p, m. Monday night will feature Class Night activities. Also taking part in the Sunday evlent will be Rev. J. J. Thorn burg, Rev. J. M. Barber, and Rev. N. S. UYi tuesday mgnt, Joe Chap man will present the speaker and addresses will bfe made by Nancy Bell and Sara Mae Hamrick, co valedictorians. Principal John H. Rudisill will present awards, a'nd Claud V. Harmon, chairman of the school committee, will pre sent diplomas. Special music will bfe sung by the girls’ chorus. Marshals are Fairylee Davis, Jessie Putnam, Rachel Hamrick, and Lane Dixon. Class mascots are Martha Lavi’nia Rudisill and Jeffrey Curtis Bell. Members of the graduating class are Nancy Louise Bell, Eli zabeth Jane Bolin, Frances Vir ginia Cash, Sonyia Elaine Go forth, Marilyn Jo Ann Greene, Mona Hamrick, Sara Mae Ham rick, Betty Ann Moore, Doris Jean Sanders, Bonnie Mae Welch, Helen Ava Yarbro, Jimmy Kay Bell, Delbert Joe Chapman, Leo nidas Hal Falls, David Kirby Hferndon, Kenneth Ray Mayes, Emmett Lee Moss, Kenneth Brown Randall, Douglas Calvin Sparrow, David Robert Whet stine, Kenneth Edward Yarboro. Greene Wins Davis Medal Bill Greene, high school senior, was declared winner of the an nual Davis Declamation contest, held at Central auditorium last Friday. Green'e declaimed “Knute Rock ne,” by Shedd. Other contestant was Bobiby Early, ninth grader who declai med Fosdick’s “The Personality of Jesus.” Judges of the contest were Rev. J. B. McLarty and Rev. A. J. Argo. * J. R. Davis, Kings Mountain attorney and school fustefe, an nually awards a medal to the winner of the high school de clamation contest.