Population
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Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
The figure far Greater Tinge Mountain le derived from
me IMS Tinge Mountain city •flrectory ceneue. The City
Umite figure ie from the United Statee ceneue of 1850.
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C.( Thursday, September 13, 1956
VOL. 66. NO. 37
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Local News
Bulletins
COURT OF HONOR
Regular Kings Mountain Boy
Scout district Court of Honor
will ibe held Thursday night
at 7:45 at City Hall courtroom,
according to announcement
from Piedmont Council head
quarters.
LIONS DIRECTOR
Jonas Bridges has been elec
ted a director of the Kings
Mountain Lions club to com
plete the unexpired term of
Howard B. Jackson, who re
signed due to leaving Kings
Mountain.
WHITE CANE SALE
Sam Weir will serve as
chairman of the annual White
Cane Sale conducted by the
Kings Mountain Lions club for
the benefit of the blind, it was
announced this week.
FRUIT CAKE SALE
The Kings Mountain Lions
club will conduct a fruit cake
sale beginning in November.
The sales committee includes
Otis Smith, chairman, Richard
Barnett, Gordon Williams,
Paul Walker and Grady Yel
ton.
TO CLINICS ,
Mrs. Gene Tignor and Char
les Blanton, of the Kings
Mountain Drug Company staff,
will spend Thursday in Spar
tanburg where they will at
tend respectively a cosmetics
and camera clinic.
FAIRVIEW LODGE
An emergent communication
of Fairview Lodge 339 AF &
AM will be held at Masonic
Hall Monday night, September
20, at 7:30 p.m. for work in the
first degree, it Was announced
by J. B. Simpson, secretary.
HOT DOG SALE
The public is invited to a hot
dog sale at Grace Methodist
church on Friday, Sept. 14 be
ginning at 4:30 p.m. The
Queen Ester Circle is sponsor
ing the sale, and proceeds will
go to tjie building fund for the
new fellowship building,.
WORSHIP SERVICES CHANGED
Beginning Sunday, Sept. 16,
Central Methodist church will
resume regular schedule of
services with church school at
* 9:45 a.m. and worship service
at 11 am.
METER RECEIPTS
City parking meter receipts
for the week ending noon,
Wednesday totalled $202.23,
according to a report from city
clerk’s office. Street meters re
turned $168.36, while Cherokee
street parking lot meters ac
counted for $33.87, the report
indicated. -
REUNION
The children of Luther, Jas
per, and Ervin Bridges will
. meet at Rankin Lake in Gas
tonia Sunday for the annual
family reunion. All members
and relatives of these families
. are urged to attend and 'bring
picnic baskets" Lunch will be
served at 1 p.m.
MOOSE MEETING
'Members of Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge 1748 will hold
their regular Thursday night
meeting at 8:15 at the lodge
on Bessemer City road, accor
ding to Curtis Gaffney, secre
tary.
CAKE, SALE
Grover high school’s Junior
class will conduct a sale of
homemade cake and ice cream
at the new store building of
Carley Martin in Grover Sa
. turday morning beginning at
10 o’clock.
City Not Paving
Outside Streets
Mayor Glee A Bridges said
Tuesday that there has been some
criticism of the city on the pav
ing of streets outside the city
limits.
Mayor Bridges poined out that
the city does not do any paving
outside the city limits. He said.
‘The street in question is Edge
mont Drive extension, but Wil
liam Herndon, Scarr Morrison
and C. E. Warlick engaged Neal
Hawkins of Gastonia to pave this
street at their own expense, ani?
the city did not have a thing tc
do with it.”
CLEVELAND FAIR OPENS TUESDAY—Scenes
like these will be repeated beginning Tues
day at the 32nd annual Cleveland County Fair
at the fairgrounds near Shelby. Billed as the
world's biggest county fair, the event is ex
pected to attract record-breaking throngs. It
County Event
Will Feature
New Attractions
Cleveland County’s 33rd an
nual fair will open with a full
program next Tuesday when a
queen of the fair will be crown
ed and NASCAR-sanctioned con
vertible races will ibe held in the
afternoon, marking the first such
event ever to toe staged at a fair
in this country.
Dr. J. S. Dorton, predicting re
cord-toreaking attendances for
the five-day event September 18
through the 22, said yesterday
he has mailed 2,015 free tickets
to Superintendent B. N. Barnes
of the Kings Mountain city
schools to Jbe distributed among
students and teachers to gain
free admittance tq the grounds
Friday of fair week. More than
70,000 tickets have ‘been distri
buted to students within a 60
mile radius of Shelby.
Announcement has also ibeen
made that beauty queens, who
will toe sponsored by Shelby au
tomobile dealers, will parade in
convertibles through Shelby at
10:30 Saturday morning and con
tinue their parade into Kings
Mountain, arriving here around
11 o’clock. The parade will con
tinue to Forest City and other
outlying towns. Anyone who
owns a convertible and wishes
to participate in the parade may
do so and will toe given a pass
to the fairgrounds to toe used
Tuesday.
Arthur Smith and his Cracker
jacks will perform before the
grandstand (beginning at 12
noon prior to the queen’s coro
nation at 1:30 on Tuesday.
First entries in the convertible
races were Curtis Turner of Ro
anoke, Va„ winner of the world's
richest stock car race at Darling
ton, S. C., and his teammate, Joe
Weatherly- Time trials for the
NASCAR races will get underway
at 2 p.m. and races at 3 o’clock.
First performance of “Ice Va
rieties of 1956” will toe seen from
the grandstand at 8 o’clock
Tuesday evening while Wednes
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will tun for five days. Kings Mountain school
day will be Friday, September 21. It will be a
half-holiday for city school pupils. Many new
events have been added to the attraction list
for 1956.
County Fair Opens Tuesday;
BethwareEventls'Underway
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Lodge To Observe
Second Anniversary
Members of Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge 1748 will observe the
club’s second anniversary Satur
day night with a free chicken
supper to be held in the dining
room of the lodge on Bessemer
City road. Curtis Gaffney, secre
tary of the club, said Wednesday.
The supper is for mtembers and
guests and will be served be
tween 5 and 9 p. m., he said.
Red Cross To Oiler
First Aid Course
Red Cross first aid courses will
be offered for two - weeks be
ginning Monday at Kings Moun
tain Hospital, according to an
nouncement by J Ollie Harris,
chairman of Kings Mountain Red
Cross chapter which is sponsor
ing the program.
Bill McDaniel, Harris Funeral
Home employee, will serve as
instructor for the courses, availa
ble to hospital nurses and em
ployees and other interested citi
zens. the two-hour course will be
conducted daily Monday through
Friday from 6:30 a. m. until 8:30
a m., Mr. Harris noted. It is
an 18-hour standard Red Cross
course, he added.
Mr. McDaniel a graduate of
Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary
Science, Dallas, Texas,
Children's Day
To Be Thursday
At Bethware
Bethware’s ninth annual Com
munity Fair opened Wednesday,
for what officials predicted
would 'be a record-'breaking
year.
Reporting the addition of
many features, Manager Myers
Hamibright called attention to
the change in regular schedule
which puts Thursday as Child
ren’s Day—formerly an opening
day event.
The. Midway will toe in full
operation Thursday and all rides
(will be ten cents for both adults
and children from 1 p.m. to 6 p.
m. Thursday. Eight rides will be
available, including a merry-go
round, ferris wheel, swings, tik
a-whirl, roll-o-plane, roller
coaster, small cars and small
boats.
Another added attraction is set
for Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Hamtoright said Johnny Plem
mons, with a Hollywood show
horse,' will give riding exhibi
tions on Saturday afternoon.
Three performances are sc'he.
duled, at noon, 2 o’clock and 4
o’clock. Plemmons told the Her
ald the horse will perform no
less than 117 tricks.
There is no admission to the
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Dean Payne Is Elected Chairman
Oi City Recreation Commission
Dean Payne, Jaycee represen
tative, was named chairman of
the city recreation commission
Monday night.
He succeeds Dr. W. P. Gerber
ding, resigned.
It was the chief business of
the commission' who conducted j
the remainder of its session to
a discussion of accounts the
commission owes.
Gene Mitcham, secretary
treasurer of the commission, i
said he had not determined as
yet the full amount of accounts
owed by the commission, some
of which are carry over accounts
from 1955. However, the commis
sion authorized Mr. Mitcham tc
pay 56 percent of these accounts
from monies recently received
via city tax payments.
Mr. Payne yvas elected chair
man after Mrs. J. N. McClure
vice-chairman, told the group
she could not accept the chair
manshijx
Five Cars Of Passenger Train
Jump Track In Accident Here
Billy Bridges
Killed Tuesday
In Connecticut
Billy Sutton Bridges, 24, son
of Mr,, and Mrs. Sinclair Bridges
of Kings Mountain, was killed
about 7:20 Tuesday morning in
an accident at a Connecticut
quarry.
The accident victim had left
Kings Mountain about two
months ago and was working at
the Traprock Company quarry
at Reed’s Gap, Wallingford.
Conn.
Details of the accident Were
not known here. One relative
said» all the family knew was
that “Bill was killed on the job.’’
The body is to toe brought here !
for burial and is expected to ar
rive at 9 o'clock Thursday morn
ing. 1
Surviving, in addition to his
parents, are his wife, Mrs. Betty
Lou Bell Bridges, two young
sons, Jimmy and Danny Brid
ges, two brothers and three sis
ters, Carl Bridges, Paul Bridges,
Carol Bridges, Virginia Bridges
and Barbara Bridges, all of
Kings Mountain. ’
Sisk Funeral Home will be in
charge of the funeral arrange
ments, which were still incom
plete Wednesday afternoon.
The accident victim was a i
Kings Mountain native.
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Moss En Route
To Mission Job
James Moss, Kings Mountain
native, and his wife, the former
uoromy tsaK
er, of Denver,
N. C., left re
cently via the
S. S. Brazil
from New
York to Cam
pinas, Brazil,
where they
will attend
language
school for otte
vear in pre
paration for
missionary work in West Brazil
Mission.
The Kings Mountain minister'
and his wife are rectent appoin-1
tees to missionary service by the
Board of World Missions of the
Presbyterian Church, U S.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Moss
of Kings Mountain, Mr. Moss is 1
a graduate of Central high school, j
of B r i s to 1,
T e n n,, and
Columbia
Theolo g i c a l
Seminary, De.
catur, Ga. He
served last
year as pas
tor of Fifth
Creek and Be
thesda Pries
byterian chur- .
ches in Concord Presbytery.
Mrs. Moss, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. R. T. Baker, of Denver,
in LoncoLn county, attended
Queens college for three years.
During her last two years at
Queens, she assisted with young
people’s work at Commonwealth
Presbyterian church in Charlotte.
The S, S. Brazil docks at Santos,
Brazil on Saturday From there,
the couple will go to Campinas,
Brazil, where they will be locat
ed at Caixa Postal 3F6 Campinas,
Este de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Neisler Gardens
Open For Tour
Dogwood, the J. A. Neisler
home on York Road, will bfe open
to the public Friday afternoon for
a garden tour.
The tour was arranged to coin,
cide with the meeting here of
District 3, North Carolina Fede
ration of Garden Clubs, which
convenes at the Woman's Club
Friday morning at 10 o’clock. * j
Admission to the garden tour
will be 50 cents, with proceeds
to be used by the Kin^s Moun
tain Garden Club for civic pro
jects, it was announced by Mrs
M. A. Ware.
The tour is open to the public.
The gardens will be open from
2 to 4 p. m
140 Area Students
Are Off-To-School
State College
Attracting 13
Mountaineers
The Kings Mountain area will
send 140 students to 61 colleges,
aniversities, nursing and business
schools or specialized institutions
for post high school training this
fall.
, North Carolina State college
neads the list with 13 area stu
lents enrolled, three of whom
are returning for graduate work.
Lenoir Rhyne college at Hickory
and Appalachian State Teacher’s
college, BooWe, are second with
"line students from the area en
rolled for the fall term at each
af the schools.
Seven area students are atten
ling Western Carolina college, at
Lullowhee, while Gardner-Webb
The Herald annually seeks
to list all the Kings Mountain
area students enrolling at col
leges and universities for post
high school training. Recogni
zing the possibility of omis
sions, the Herald invites any
student whose name may have
been omitted from the list to
notify the Herald.
Junior college, Boiling Springs,
and Erskine college, at Due West,
S, C„ lists five each. Four Kings
Mountain students are attending
the University of North Carolina,
and four are enrolled at the Uni
versity of South Carolina.
Fifteen area girls are attending
nursing schools, six students are
enrolled in business schools, and
fourteen students are enrolled in
graduate schools and specializled
institutions,
LENOIR - RHYNE — Tommy
Baker, Juanita Lackey, Richard
White, Donna Cheatham, Char
lbs Yelton, Robert Neisler, Bill
Mitcham, Anita McGinnis and
Jim lYimmeu
N, C. STATE — Mike Houser,
David Kincaid, Carl Cole, Ben
Hudson, Fred Kiser, Charles Mau.
iiey, Garland Still, Jr., Ivan Wea
ver, Charles Yawn, and Edwin
Smith.
ERSKINE — Billie Mabry, Shir
ley Warle, Jerry McCarter, Louise
Patterson, and Joyce Owens.
DAVIDSON — Flem Mauney,
Dick Hunnieutt, M A. Ware, Jr.)
and Hunter Warlick.
WESTERN CAROLINA — Ed
die Goforth, Gene Patterson, Jim
my Short, Dewitt Blanton, Jr.,
Bob Hullender, Bill Ruth and
Sherrill Spears.
ASTC (Boone) — Mr. and Mrs.
Bobby Ray Bush, Buddy Mayes,
Bob Goforth, Mr and Mrs. Tom
my Keeter, Rachel Hardin, Jane
Goforth, and Dean Westmore
land
GARDNER . WEBB, JR. COL
LEGE — Carolyn Brown, Ollie
Harris, Jr., Sarah Male Hamrick,
Virginia Cash, and Nancy Bell.
UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAR.
OLINA — Walter Griffin, Delvin
Huffstetler, Harold Jackson, and
Gene Roberts
UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAR
OLINA — John Houser, Ray Go
forth, Phil Gold, Jackie Bob Pink
elton
GREENSBORO COLLEGE —
Shirley Falls, Gary Allran, and
Jean Arthur.
vmn ‘nt; rm uncir tim, i i
Jgldbi .Ifld Linda Morris. '
WAKE FOREST — Butch Hou
ser, Earl Marlowe, and Palmer
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RECEIVES DEGREE — William
ft. Prince, Kings Mountain na
tive, recently received his degree
in business administration from
the University of North Carolino,
at Chapel Hill.
Prince Wins
UNC Diploma
William W. Prince, son of Mr
and Mrs. A, B Prince, of Shelby,
former residents, was recently
graduated from the University ol
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with
a degree in business administra
tion
Mr. Prince was a member ol
Alpha Tau chapter of Alpha Kap
pa Psi, national professional busi
ness administration fraternity. He
and his wife, the former Miss
Shirley Cobb, of Charlotte, have
moved to Danville Va., whbre Mr
Prince is employed as an indus
trial engineer at Dan River Mills
City Insurance
Split-Up Asked
The City of Kings Mountain’s
system of placing city insurance
was brought under fire by B. F
Maner again at the regulai
monthly meeting of the Board ol
commissioners Thursday night
Again the matter was tabled.
Mr. Maner, local insurance
agent, appeared before the
board with a request that the
city’s insurance coverage be spli
among the city’s various agents
and agencies.
Mr. Maner proposed a plar
whereby the insurance would be
placed with one or two agents
but with the commissions to be
split among all of the city’s full
time and part time insurance a
gents.
Under this proposal, submitter
in the form of a letter, Mr. Ma
ner had set up a system where
full-time agents would split 7i
percent of the commissions, while
part-time agents would share ir
the remaining 25 percent.
To be eligible to receive bene
fits from this system, an agern
would be required to have beer
in business at least one year.
The proposal suggested extra
compensation for agents who ac
tually serviced the city’s insu
ranee accounts.
Kings Mountain Tops Blood Quota
First Time Since November *54
Kings Mountain area citizens
topped a blood collection quota
for the first time in nearly two
years Monday, as volunteer do
nors contributed 128 pints of
blood to the Red Cross area bank.
The bloodmobile staff spent a
busy day at the Woman’s Club
from opening hour at 11 o’clock to
closing time at 5 p, m, t
The customary community quo.
ta is 125 pints. It was last exceed
ed here on November 1, 1954.
Conicidentally, , the same total
was given that date—128 pints.
B. F. Maner, blood program
chairman, said ho was pleased
very much at the , fine showing
Monday.
"Blood is an important com
modity for treatment of man>
diseases, as well as accident
victims It Is in critically shori
supply/’ Mr. Maner said. “Kings
Mountain really met the tesi
Monday and I express the appre
ciation of the full blood commit
tee of the Red Cross in thanking
each individual who made Mon
day’s collection most successful.’
One Injured
In Morning
Rail Mishap
Five cars of a southbound Sou
thern Railway passenger-mail
train were derailed in Kings
Mountain early Wednesday
morning.
Train 135, pulling nine mail
and express cars, and a single
passenger coach, was approach
ing the Kings Mountain depot
about 1:45 a.m. Wednesday,
when a broken steam line .part
fell into a switch causing the
last five cars of the train to
jump the tracks.
The passenger coach had pass,
ed over the switch, and was not
derailed.
Curch L. Coker, 65, of Toccoa,
Georgia, was slightly injured in
the wreck, and was sent to Kings
Mountain Hospital for examina
tion. Coker was one of four bag
gage and mail clerks in the five
wrecked cars. He was released
from the hospital following an
X-ray examination.
Southern Railway wreckage
crews moved into the city about
5:30 a.m. and had righted three
of the derailed cars by 9 a.m.
Two derricks, one a 75-ton and
the other 150-ton capacity, were
moved to the scene of the acci
dent, and were used to clear the
tracks of wreckage.
The derricks and wreckage
crews rushed to Kings Mountain
from Charlotte and Spartanburg,
S. C., when the alarm was soun
ded. •
J. D. Henley, Greenville, S. C.,
trainmaster, said the train had
almost come lo a stop at the
j Kings Mountain depot when the
| accident occurred.
“It’s bad enough, hut it lacks
a lot 'being as bad as the Gas
tonia and Cramerton wrecks in
recent months. And of course, the
1 one in Kings Mountain a couple
i of years ago was another bad
' one,” Mr. Henley commented.
A steadily increasing crowd of
| spectators converged on North
Piedmont avenue during Wed-,
nesday morning to watch the
trainmen clearing the area. City
police officers were being used
to direct traffic at the ibusy in
tersection.
Spectators had to be warned
to stay clear of electrical wires
in the vicinity of the derricks
several times during the morn
ing,. Railway detectives were pre
sent in great numbers, their big
gest joib 'being the protection of
the two mail and three baggage
cars involved in the mishap.
Train 135 was delayed about
two hours by the wreck. It was
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46 Pupils
Reassigned
Forty-six applicants for school
reassignment were honored by
the city board of school trustees
last weekend.
The board held a special ses
sion last Saturday and approved
42 applications, then reconvened
Monday afternoon to handle the
remaining four which had been
received during the weekend.
Though Sunday was the deadline
for reassignment applications, the
board granted an extra day on
grounds the Sunday deadline
might have been confusing. Each
application was processed indi
vidually and none was denied.
Chairman Arnold W. Kincaid
stated, “This turned out to be a
happy situation. Our principals
needed students moved, in some
instances, to relieve crowded
classrooms, and the applications
almost eliminated this problem.”
Even after the applications
wfcre approved, the board grant
ed permission to the various
school principals to ask for volun
teers for transfer in cases where
crowded classrooms were involv
TO.
Supt B. N. Barnes reported
Tuesday that volunteers had
been shifted in some cases in
order to balance classroom loads
in the various elementary plants.
Two students applied for their
release from the city schools in
order that they might attend
county schools. They were Mar
tha Rudisill and Katherine Ware.
Both requests were granted by
the board, upon the recommen
dation of Supt. Barnes
The city schools gained several
students in the process, how.
ever, as 13 students applied for
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