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p (• > Population Greoter Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7,206 the Sgm lot Greater Itaqi Mountain u dertred from lb* IKS King* Mountain city directory census. Tbs City Units figure Is from the United Statee census of 1950. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday September 6, 1956 1 c Pages | D Today VOL 66. NO. 36 Established 1889 Sixty-Seventh Year PRICE FIVE CENTS HYPNOTIST HERE NEXT WEEK—Preston, the Hypndtist, is pic tured above pulling a rabbit out ol Charlie McCarthy's top-hat, as Edgar Bergen, the ventriloquist looks on. Preston will bring his show of magic and hypnotism here to the Dixie Theatre Monday and Tuesday nights under auspices of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce. Local News Bulletins JOINS BAIRD Miss Etha Hawkins has joined Baird Furniture, Inc., as bookkeeper, it was announ ced toy Ken Jenkins, manager. Miss Hawkins will succeed Mrs. A. B,. Falls, Jr., who is re signing. HAS OPERATION Carl A. Plonk, of Asheville, former Kings Mountain citi zen. Ainderwent an emergency appendectomy in North Wilke sboro last week. He was re ported improving satisfactori ly. HOMECOMING East Side Baptist church an nounces annual church Home coming service will toe held October 7th, and the pastor, Rev. Carl Greene, invites all singers and church groups who wish to participate in an after noon program of singing to contact the pastor. LEGION MEETING Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, will toe held at the Legion Building Friday even ing at 8 o’clock, it was an nounced by Millard Prince, ad jutant. MOOSE MEETING Members of Kings 'Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will hold their regular Thursday night meeting at 8:15 at the lodge on Sessemer City road, accor ding to Curtis Gaffney, secre tary. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending noon, Wednesday, totaled $181.18, according to a report iby Miss Grace Carpenter of City Clerk’s office. Miss Carpenter reported that street meters returned $148.87, while off-street meters accounted for $32.31. COMMISSION TO MEET The recently appointed City Recreation Commission is scheduled to hold its second meeting Monday night at 7:30 o’clock in city courtroom. Dr. W. P. Gerberding resigned as chairman of the commission, and Mrs. J. N. McClure, vice chairman, will preside. KIWANIS MEETING Program Chairman John Cheshire was very skimpy with information concerning the weekly meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club set for Thursday night. All Mr. Cheshire would reveal was that the speakers would be two representatives from the San Francisco Convention, and that the program would be the most expensive one of the year,. TAKES POSITION . Mrs. B. A. Goforth of route 2, Kings Mountain, has accep ted a position as fourth grade teacher at Stanley School in Gaston County. Mrs. Goforth attended summer school this summer to get her teacher's certificate. She reports that she will live in Kings Moun tain and commute to her teaching job. Jaycees Present Hypnotist Here September 10,11 Prteston, the hypnotist, will come to Kings Mountain for two shows, to be held Monday and Tuesday evening at the Dixie Theatre. Curtain time each evening is 8 o'clock Kings Mountain Junior Cham ber of Commerce is sponsoring the appearance of the showman. Preston expects to hypnotize two Kings Mountain area citizens, one for each show. The hypno tized citizens will “go to sleep” on the afternoon of each show and will repose in comfort in the show window of Cooper's, Inc. Preston will also invite volun teers from the audiencfe to be hypnotized. Prior to thle show hour, the sleeper will be taken by stretcher to thle stage of Dixie Theatre, where Preston contends, he will put the patient through many in triguing stunts and gyrations. Harris Ambulance. Service will provide the stretcher service. Admission will be 50 cents for children and students, and $1 for adults. Proceeds from the shows will be used by the Jaycebs for Kings Mountain civic projects, it was stated by William Eldon, Jaycee publicity chairman. Preston holds an honorary doc trate from Union college,'has bebn commissioned a Kentucky colonel, and has served as president of the International Magicians associa tion. He is listed in “Who’s Who on the American Stage.” Ware Raises Logan's Bid Franklin L. Ware, Jr., Tuesday raised the ibid of Hugh A. Logan, Jr., on the residence of the late W. E. Blakely. Mr. Ware raised the bid by the required five percent in the amount of $665. The raised bid forces resale of the property, be ing offered at public auction to settle the Blakely Estate. The bidding will begin at $13,995. Resale of the property will be conducted on Saturday, Septem ber 22, according to legal notice published in today’s Herald by Davis & White, attorneys. JOINS GRAYSON'S Mrs. _J. T. McGinnis, Jr., has joined Grayson’s Jewelry and will be in charge of the firm’s record shop and also handle other sales duties. Trustees Postpone Action To Monday Kings Mountain city district school trustees will meet Monday night at the Central school office of the superintendent at 7:30. The board, at the special ses sion, will consider pupil reassign, ment requests, which, school of ficials reported Wednesday, have thus far been few. Supt. B. N. Barnes said his of fice had received only 30 assign ment “exception” requests. Deadline for applying, for ex ception to the school trustees 1956 1957 assignment plan is Saturday. The board made its assignment plan in conformance with the state statute adopted in 1955. The law provides reassignment rte Bloodmobile Here Monday; Quota IS Pints Kings Mountain’s ministers are being asked to cooperate in the coming Red Cross Bloodmobile visit Monday at Kings Mountain Woman’s Club, Bob Maner, blood program chairman, announced Wednesday. Mr. Maner said that letters arte being sent to each ot the city’s ministers asking them to remind their congregations during Sun day worship services of thte Bloodmobile visit, and to urge them to help put Kings Mountain over the top in its quota. Blood donors will be able to ride in style to the Woman’s club to give blood Monday. Each of thte city’s taxicab companies has agreed to furnish free transpor tation to the Woman’s club for anyone wanting to give blood. "Mr. Maner announced that do nors may call either of the taxi cab lots for free transportation. Monday’s quota has been set at 125 pints, and Bill Young, newly appointed recruitment chairman, says that every effort is being made to top this'mark. This visit will be the first for the Bloodmobile in Kings Moun tain since the Red Cross adopted the “blood credit-card” system for blood donors. Under this system, a person giving a pint of blood is eligible to rteceive blood from the Red Cross for himself, his family, or dependent parents over age 65 for a six-months period. Any blood releasted by the Red Cross other than to card-bearing donors will be on a strict re placement basis. The mobile blood collecting unit will set up shop at the Woman’s club from 11 a. m. until 5 p. m. Legion Building Being Improved Work is underway on expansion and improvement of facilities of the American Legion building. Officials of Otis D Green Post 155 said this week the plans call for construction of an auditorium, with seating capacity for 500 per sons in the center of the build ing, building of a kitchen in he west wing, ’»and construction of three rest rooms, two large ones in the main area, and one to serve kitchen personnel. W. D. Morrison, post comman. der, said the work is not being let to contract but estimates the cost of the improvements will approximate $5,000 to $6,000. The Legion post rectently cele brated the completion of pay ments on its building debt and held a mortgage-burning certe mony. The post committee in charge of the improvements program includes Fletet McCurdy, chair, man, Dean Paynte, Sam Collins, James Bennett and John Lewis. Commander Morrison said, “We plan ah auditorium which will be available to other groups for use for many purposes.” Baptist Revival Starting Sunday Evangelist Don Austin ef Greensboro will conduct a series of revival services at Second Baptist Church starting Sunday night and lasting through Sep tember 16. (Mr. Austin was formerly asso ciated with Evanglist Billy Gra ham, and traveled abroad with the noted minister. Services will be held each evening at 7:30 o’clock, the Rev. Howard T. Cook, pastor of Sec ond Baptist Church, reported. Spepial singing will also be a feature of the revival series. ! Reassignment Requests Few quests must be received from parents withfin ten days after fi nal formal notice of publication, which occurred August 30. The school board has indicated it will approve reassignment re quests insofar as possible, per customary practice. Definitely scheduled for reassignment are some seventh and eighth grade pupils at East school where teach ing loads are too heavy, school officials have said. The board originally had sche duled a mteeting far Friday night but changed the date to Monday due to conflict with the high school’s opening football game at Bessemer City. Schools Enroll 2,292 Pupils Pupil Total Slightly Less Than Last Year Opening day enrollment in Kings Mountain schools Tuesday totalled 2.292 pupils, off 45 from opening day of 1955 and the first drop in opening day school en rollment in several years. Kings Mountain city schools listed 2,108 pupils, off 24 from the 2132 last year, and Park Grace school in the county system had enrollfnent of 184, off 21 from I 1955’s first day. Both B. N. Barnes, city district superintendent, and Mrs J. C. Nickels, Park Grace principal, said optening^day ran smoothly and that the schools were “sett- : ling down’’ Wednesday to normal schedule. Mrs. Nickels said second day enrollment was up from first-day enrollment and attributed part of the first-day deficit to misin terpretation on the part of some patrons who live outside the city school district and east of York Road. Notices by the city district on school assignment did not ap ply to outside-city district pat rons, but some thought they did and thought they were to attend East school, Mrs. Nickels said she had learned. Supt. Barnes reported comple. tion of the city schools faculty with employment of three ele mentary teachers. Added to the Central elementary staff were Mrs. William F. Young, of Kings Mountain, who will teach the seventh grade. Mrs. Young is a graduate of Greensboro college. Also added to Central was Mrs. Nell Gold Henrick, of Shel by, who will teach fourth grade. Robert B. Bailey, of Plymouth, a 1956 graduate of Elizabeth City State Teacher’s college, will teach eighth grade and serve as band instructor at Davidson school. Mr. Barnes also announced that renovation of the Davidson cafe, tferia is virtually complete and the cafeteria is expected to begin serving meals on Monday. Other cafeterias will serve lunch for the first time Thursday. For the first time, this year, all elementary school pupils will be expected to eat lunch at school cafeterias, the school employing a “closed” lunch period for ele mentary pupils. The “closed” lunch period has been in vogue Continued On Pane Eight Freak Clash: Man Rams Auto James W. MeCraw, an Ed, neyville, N. C., pedestrain, left some puzzled people in Kings Mountain, following a freak automobile accident on West King street Tuesday. Police reports indicated that MeCraw was running across King street from Union Bus Terminal and crashed into the side of a 1953 Chevrolet operated toy Mrs. Annie Brid ges Blanton, oi 109 McGinnis street. The impact of the collision ibroke an outside mirror and a glass in the Blanton car. *MUQh to the surprise of Mss. Blanton and other persons around the scene of the acci dent, the “’victim” jumped to his feet, left his fully-packed suitcase in the middle of the road, and started running again.. MeCraw ran across the King street bridge and hailed and boarded a passing westbound bus. The Kings Mountain Po lice department did a little checking and found that the man left the bus in Chimney Rock. It seems that MeCraw was trying to hail a truck from his home town, and when the col lision caused him to miss con nections he caught the first transportation headed west. Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., got the man’s side of the story toy telephone Wednesday. Mc Craw, a magazine salesman, called from Chattanooga, Tenn., asking that his suitcase be released and sent to him. He said he was not injured in the accident. The police de partment has forwarded Mc Craw’s bag. NEW MEMBERS OF CITY SCHOOLS FACULTY— Pictured are 18 members of the city schools fa culty who greeted students Tuesday. 16 of those pictured being new facuty members for 1956-57 and two principals in new roles in the city sys tem. Front row, left to right, are Carroll Ham bright, East principal, Mrs. William George, Mrs. James Yarbro, Mrs. Carl Finger, and Lawson Brown. Central principal. Middle row, left to right are William George, former West school princi pal who is serving as North school principal this I year. Mrs. T. W. Grayson, Mrs. W. L. Ramseur, Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, Mrs. Dan Finger, and 1. Ben Goforth, Jr., who assumes the West princi palship after serving as high school faculty mem ber in previous years. Back row. left to right are Miss Carolyn Pennington. Jerry Hill. Mrs. W. F. Powell, Carl McWhirter, Mrs. Wilson Griffin. W. F. Powell, and Mrs. Eugene Mitcham. The picture was made at Monday's NEA reception for new teachers. (Photo by Carlisle Studio.) Ninth Annual Bethware Fair Will Open Next Wednesday SHOW ON T-V—Miss Frances Goforth, Kings Mountain native, hq? co-authored a drama “Ark of Safety/’ which will be tele vised nationally by NBC on the Goodyear Playhouse Sv.u/67 evening. Goforth Drama To Be Telecast A play “Ark of Safety,” co authored by Miss Frances Go forth, former Kings Mountain citizen, will be presented on the Goodyear Playhouse via televi sion on Sunday. The play, starring Beula Bondi, veteran stage and film star, will be telecast coast to-coast via NBC and can be seen in this area on Channels 10 and 12 at 8 p. m. Sunday night. Collaborating with Miss Go forth in writing the drama was Howard Richardson. He and Miss Goforth have befen co-authoring dramas for several years, but "Ark of Safety” is the first of their products to be televised. Mr. Richardson is a native of Black Mountain. Both now live in New York. Setting for the television drama is Tennessee, the time im mediately following World War I. Miss Goforth is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. R. D. Goforth. Both Miss Goforth and Mr Richardson are graduates of the University of North Carolina ' Fair Officials Predict Event # To Top Records The ninth annual Bethware Community Fair, sponsored by the Bethware Progressive club, will open at 1 o’clock next Wed nesday. The four-day event, imemdiate ly preceding the annual Cleve land County fair, will continue through Saturday, September 15, Lamar Herndon, fair president, said this week he expects the Bethware Fair to break all pre vious records, both for atten. dance and for quantity and quali ty of exhibitions. “Farmers generally have en joyed a better season in the Kings Mountain area this yeas and the quality of crops is cor respondingly improved,” Mr Herndon commented. For the first time, cash prizes a’-e being offered winning exhibi tors and this addition to the fair format is expected to increase competition in the various class es. In addition, several divisions have been expanded to include more products. R. C. Lee riding devices will again be a midway feature, and numerous other games and at tractions will adorn the midway. Numerous area firms are plan, ning commercial exhibits. Fireworks displays will be fir Continued on Page Eight SCHOLAR — Charles F. Mauney. son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Mau ney. of King Mountain, has been awarded a $400 scholarship in the School of Textiles at N. C. State College. Mr. Mauney is a State College senior. Mauney Wins Scholarship RALEIGH — Charles Mauney of Kings Mountain has been a warded the $400 Carbide and Car bon Chemicals Company Scholar ship in the School of Textiles at North Carolina State College for the 1956-57 academic year. Continued on Page Eight City Tax Prepayments Set Record For August; County's Heavy. Too Kings Mountain citizens'have pre paid 1956 city tax bills in record amount this year, accord ing to report of J W. Webster, city tax supervisor. Mr. Webster said total pay ments through the close of busi ness last Friday totaled $76,977. 21, up nearly $10,000 from the $67,283 paid during the month of August last year. « Pre payments are still possible, though the discount rate drop ped on September 1 to one per cent. All persons paying taxes last month received a two per cent discount. The first month’s pre-payments represented slightly more than 47 percent of the city’s 1956 levy, including the $1.70 per $100 valua lion property levy and the $2 poll tax for males between the ages of 21 aiid 50. Meantime, prepayments had clogged the desk of County Tax Collector Robert Gidney, who had not completed totaling August pre-payments Wednesday morn ing. With $545,000 already logged, Mr, Gidftey estimated the final August prepayment total would near $600,000, against the county’s levy of $1,253,279.91. Favorable Vote On Amendment Would Change School Laws Kings Mountain area citizens will join their neighbors throughout North Carolina Sa turday in a general election to determine whether four amend ments to the North Carolina con stitution will be adopted. Principal interest hinges in the first question on the ballot on ' which citizens will vote "yes” or 1 "no”—on adoption of the so called Pearsall Plan concerning I public schools. The Pearsall Plan, as adopted by a special session of the Gen eral Assembly several weeks ago, makes several changes in the constitutional provisions re garding schools. Essentially, the enactment of the amendment would provide tuition grants for pupils not wishing to attend de segregated public schools and would allow school patrons to close particular school units. The Pearsall Plan attempts to obviate, if not to circumvent, the May 1954 decision of the United States Supreme Court, which ruled contrary to the federal constitution segregated public schools. * North Carolinians go to the polls against a (background of unrest in Tennessee, Texas, Ala bama, and Virginia, as a result of efforts to integrate Negro and White pupils in schools and col leges. The National Guard was called out to maintain order in Clinton, Tenn., last week as mobs sought to prevent integra tion. Texas had a similar pro blem. Alabama had its Authe rlne Lucy case of last year, though the court recently did not force readmission of the Ne gro woman to the University of Alabama. Charlottesville was or dered to integrate its schools by the federal court, later got a stay of judgment pending action on an appeal to a higher court. Meantime, the legislature re ceived a bill requiring the cutt ing off of all funds for any school which integrated Negro pupils with whites. The Pearsall Plan has the en dorsement of virtually all North Carolina’s legislators, of Gove rnor Luther Hodges, State Su perintendent of Public Instruc tion Charles Carroll, and of Uni ted States Senators Sam Ervin and W. Kerr Scott, among others. The plan has been described as a "safety valve” to obviate the de-segregation order of the Su preme Court, Opposing the plan are some elements of the Parent-Teacher Congress of North Carolina, and American Association of Ulniver ity Women, and other groups and individuals. Other amendments North Car olinians will consider in Satur day’s voting include: 1) Change of the convening date of the General Assembly from January to February of each biennium. 2) Change of the constitution to allow a husband to convey power of attorney to his wife. 3) Change of the constitution to allow increased pay of legis lators, and expense allowances for members of the General As sembly. (The legislators now re ceive $15 per day for each day of the legislative session, up to 90 days. Should the amendment pass, the legislators would re ceive $15 per day up to 120 days.) Facts Are Listed On Saturday Voting Facts on Saturday’s general election follow: Polls open—6:30 a. m. Polls close—6:30 p. m. Eligibles to vote: All regis tered voters, regardless of par ty affiliation. Kings Mountain area voting places—East Kings Mountain precinct at City Hall, Mrs. Nell Cranford, registrar; West Kings Mountain precinct at 1 Victory Chevrolet Company, Mrs. J. H. Arthur, registrar; Bethware precinct at Bethware school, Mrs. H. A. Goforth, re gistrar; Grover precinct at Grover fire station, J. B. Ellis, registrar. Ballots: one, containing four questions on amendments to North Carolina Constitution, on which voters will answer “yes” or “no” on question of adopting the several amend ments. Predicted vote: in Number 4 Township, 800; in Cleveland county, 6,000.
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