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Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS 10.320 7.206 from Unctory eaasiu. T)m atj Unlt«<l Statu euun* oi 1»50. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Established 1060^ Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 14, 1957 1C Nes ID Today Local News Bulletins TAX ASSISTANT A representative of the De partment of Revenue will 'he at City Hall here March 21, 28, and April 4 to assist taxpayers in filing State Income tax re turns, an official of the depart ment said this week. DIXON SERVICE A quartet of students from Davidson college will present a musical program at Dixon Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, accord ing to announcement 'by the pastor, Rev. P. D. Patrick. WEST SCHOOL Regular meeting of V^est school P-TA will be held Wed nesday afternoon, March 20, at 3 o’clodk in the school audi torium, it was announced by Mrs. Charles Ballard. VETERANS World War I Veterans are be ing asked to attend a meeting at the VFW Hall, Shelby, Sun day afternoon at 2:30 p-m., ac cording to announcement here yesterday. EAST SCHOOL •East school P-TA will hold its regular meeting Tuesday after noon at 3:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. The program will •be an art exhibit with exhibits to be on display in each class room. BILL PASSES HOUSE House Bill 61, a local bill ad vancing the filing deadline for city and school board offices in Kings Mountain from five days prior to the election to 15 days prior to the election was passed by the House of Representa tives on March 8. ONE FIRE City Fireman C. D. Ware re ported Kings Mountain Fire Department answered a call Monday to Katherine street, to extinguish a grass fire. MOOSE MEETING Members of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will hold their regular weekly meeting Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road, Secretary Curtis Gaffney, an nounced. INTANGIBLES TAX The city has received a check from the State of North Caro lina for $878.83, representing third quarter intangibles tax refund, it was reported by As sistant City Cleric Joe McDan ' iel. METER RECEIPTS The city’s .parking meters re turned a total of $168.08 for the week ending at noon Wednes day, with $150.77 from on street meters and $17.31 from the Cherokee street parking lot meters. SCHOOL BOARD MEETING The Kings Mountain Board of School Trustees will meet Monday night in a regularly scheduled monthly meeting in the office of Supt. B. N. Barnes. Mr. Barnes said Wednesday that only a few matters of rou tine business are on the agen da. Kiwanis To Hold Fanners Night Graham (Morrison, former Lin coln County farm agent, will be principal speaker for the annual ' Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club Farmer’s Night program to (be held tonight. ' 'Mr. Morrison, well - known in farming areas in this section of the state, served as farm agent of Lincoln County for many years. He now resides near Stan ley. He is highly regarded as a hu morous speaker, and Is much sought after for program of this type. Glee E. Bridges, chairman of the Agriculture and Conservation committee of the Kiwanis Club, reported Tuesday that approxi mately 50 to 60 farmers of the Kings Mountain area have indi cated that they will attend this program,. Invitations were issued to some 100-150 farmers by mail. Members of the Agriculture Committee, other than Mr. Brid ges, are: Sage Fulton, I. B. Go forth, W. G. Grantham, Meek Or man, and Moffiatt Ware. The program will be held at Kings Mountain Woman’s Club at 6:45 o’clock. Four Add Names To May City Election Ballot List Election Called; Meter Take May Go To Recreation Fund City Election Officials Named; Voting May 14 The city iboard of commission ers has set the biennial city elec tion lor May 14 and has appoint ed virtually all the officials who Will conduct the election. The five ward voting places will be the same as those used in previous elections. Still to be named are one judge in Ward 1 and one judge in Ward 2. Registration books will open on April 20. They will Ibe open with registrars at the polling places, on three consecutive Saturdays, with May 11 to ibe Challenge day. ■Following are the election of ficials named, together with the polling places’: Ward 1 — City Hall courtroom, C. L. Black registrar, Mrs. Nell Cranford, judge (one judge to ibe named). Ward 2 — at City Hall fire sta tion, Mrs. H. R. Parton, registrar, R. D. Goforth, Judge, (one judge to be named). Ward 3 — at Ballard’s Grocery, Mrs. Ruth Bowers, registrar, Ro chel Conner and H. R. Murray, judges. Ward 4 — at Kings Mountain Manufacturing Company cluto rodm, E. O. White, registrar, Brooks Tate and Mrs. Herman Yawn, judges. Ward 5 — at Victory Chevrolet Company, Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, Jr., registrar, Mrs. F. A. McDan iel and Mrs. Charles Ballard, judges. The election will be conducted to choose a mayor, five commis sioners, one from each of t h e city’s five wards, and two .school trustees. Gamble Grows Huge Rutabaga A1 Capp’s comic strip com munity of Dogpatch is not the only spot where turnips grow big. 'Leonard Gamble of the Beth ware community produced a giant size rutalbaga measuring 28 inches in girth and weigh ing nine and three-quarter pounds. The ibig turnip is available for inspection at the Herald of fice. APPOINTED — Harold R. Hunni cutt has been appointed the city's deputy director of civil de fense. J. Ollie Harris is civil de fense director. City May Buy Radio Equipment The city is weighing the expen diture of about $1,900 for more than $5,000 in new radio equip ment, which it can get at the bar gain via the federal government’s civil defense program. Included In the package pro posal of Dick Marable, Motorola salesman from Monroe, would be a base station and seven mobile units, among other equipment. Marable said, a«d Mayor Glee Bridges said he had confirmed, thalt the federal government .will pay half the cost of radio equip ment, plus installation costs, and a five percent additional fee for paper-work. The proposition has already consumed a portion of one city board meeting, a special city board meeting, and carried May or Bridges and other city officials to Monroe for a look-see into the radio operation there and into other civil defense activities. Marable appeared at the regu lar monthly meeting last Thurs day. The Mayor and his party went to Monroe Friday. The board convened again Monday afternoon, this time with Bob Hil'ker, Belmont radioman and the city’s radio trouble shooter, (Continued On Page Eight) Recreation Body Presents $11,000 Budget For Year The city board of commission ers indicated by resolution at last Thursday’s meeting it will give the City Recreation commis sion parking meter “profits” dur ing the next fiscal year. The recreation commission may get some funds earlier, if the funds are available. Paul Ledford’s motion was sec onded by Sam Collins and unani mously passed, after Charles E. Dixon and Fleete McCurdy, mem- I ibers of the recreation commis sion, had appeared to request the funds. Mr. Dixon, who acted as spokesman, told the board, “We have very little money, but we've figured what we’d like to do if we did have some.” He presented a proposed bud get for fiscal 1957-58 totaling $11, 000 and /with income of only $7, 500. He said parking meter “prat its” were estimated at $3,500 per year. (A bill passed several years a go by the General Assembly made parking meter monies expenda ble for recreation purposes.) The recreation commission budget estimated it would re ceive $3,000 from swimming pool fees and another $4,500 from ad valorem taxes. It anticipated these expenses: salaries, $3,000; chemicals, $1,500; utilities, $1,000; baseball program, $200; football program, $175; playground ,pro /gram, $800; social security taxes, $125; miscellaneous expenses ol $600; and salary of the director at $3,600. (Jake Early has been employed as full - time city rec reation director, effective April 1.) The commission also voted to assign the recreation director a city -owned car for official busi ness use, with the provision the director is to file a mileage re port. The car assigned was a 1952 Chevrolet, maintained by the city as a "utility” vehicle. (Mayor Glee A. Bridges remark ed he wanted the recreation com mission to take over the opera tion of City Stadium, bringing a suggestion from J. W. Webster, city tax supervisor and member of the school board, that the rec reation commission, city commis <Continued on Page Eight) C. Of C. To Organize Monday, Has Two Location Inquiries Acting officers of Kings Moun-i tain Chamber of Commerce have called a general membership meeting for Monday night at 7:30 for formal organization. ' Dan Weiss, acting president, said the members will be asked to elect a president, vice-presi dent, and twelve directors. A nominating committee will present the following recommen dation: ' For president, Carl H,. Swars, president of Craftspun Yarns, Inc. For vice-president, Dan Weiss, owner of Relba’s Dress Shop. For directors: J. Wilson Craw ford, B. S. JNeill, W. K. Mauney, Martin Harmon, Clyde Bennett, Warren E. Reynolds, F. R. Mc Curdy, Sam Collins, Glee A. Brid ges, Fred W. Plonk, and Bruce Thoifbum. Mr. Weiss emphasized that nominations for all positions’will be invited from the general mem bership and urged full atten dance.’ The organization will get un derway with a membership list of approximately 100 individuals and business firms. “The membership work is not complete,” Mr,. Weiss said, "but our minimum goal of 100 mem bers has been reached and the persons active in promoting the organization of Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce think it time to complete the formal or ganizafoon. At the moment, two Industrial firms have indicated interest in locating in Kings Mountain which means that the Chamber of Commerce needs to be at work.” 4 > Financial Finns Get New Names Corporate name changes of both Kings Mountain’s 'building and loan associations were effec tuated this week, according to announcement iby the associa tions. Home Building & Loan associa tion will henceforth he known as Home Savings and Loan associa tion. Kings Mountain Building & •Loan association will henceforth he known as Kings Mountain Savings and Loan association. The name changes were auth orized at recent annual meetings of both associations on recom mendation of the respective boards of directors. For several years a trend a mong associations has been de veloping to adopt names better describing the principal func tions of these mutual financial firms, a spokesman for the as sociations noted. Approval of the corporate name changes has been received from W. C. York, state deputy commis sioner of insurance in charge of the building and loan division and the name changes have been recorded at the office of the coun ty clerk of court Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce has received inquiries from two industries interested in locating in or near Kings Moun tain, it was announced Wednes day toy Dan Weiss, acting presi dent. Mr. Weiss did not announce full details on the two firms but described one as a foam rubber and plastic manufacturer and the other as an apparel manufactur er. The latter, he said, is already operating in North Carolina and elsewhere and is anticipating ex pansion. He said this firm indicated 11 would employ from 80 to 100 per sons, majority of them women. The firm requires an air-condi tioned building of approximately 18,000 square feet, asks that the building toe constructed toy local capital. The company would lease the building with purchase option to come due in three to five years. Mr. Weiss described the firm as “reliable and solid." The firm would require only ser vice water. The foam rubber - plastic man ufacturer desires $200,000 of lo cal capital In the form of nine percent bonds, payable in t w c years. It Indicated a beginning employment of 35-50 and up to 130 in three years. Mr. Weiss said he and mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce are processing the inquiries. Dollars Can Be Kept At Home, Dixon Declares Charles Dixon, newly installed president of the Kings Mountain Merchants association, urged members at the annual associa tion banquet Monday night to made a more active effort to “keep Kings Mountain dollars in Kings Mountain.” Mr. Dixon also urged the mer chants to regard neighboring communities as their “real com. petiitors” and urged the retailers to combat the trade-out-of-town trend with expanded inventories and increased promotion, both in. store and via advertising media. “Some may find it glamorous to visit other communities to buy, but these are in (he minori. ty. The majority of folk would much prefer going around the comer to buy if they are assured they will find comparable quali ty, selection and value, “Mr. Dix on declared. Mr. Dixon noted that postoffice money orders here totaled $206,. 000 in the final six months of 1956 and C. O. D. shipments av erage $1,000 daily. He also noted that First National Bank is a “customer” for currency from the Federal Reserve Bank, indi cating dollars which should be spent in Kings Mountain are go. ing elsewhere. He also urged credit . granting merchants to adopt scientific credit-granting methods as a fa vor “both to themselves and to the customer.” “Most people are honest,” he added, “but some are poor managers.” Mr. Dixon’s address was one of the highlights of the annual association banquet which attrac ted 175 retailers, salespeople, and guests. Entertainment feature was a program of rock-and-roll and Gospel music by Joe Franklin and his Mimosa Boys, of Bristol, Tenn. Retiring President Paul W. Walker presided, and new offi. cers and directors were installed by J. C. Bridges, a past president. Mrs. Gene Austin outlined ac tivities and purposes of the Cre dit Women's Breakfast Club, a merchant . sponsored organiza tion. Richard Barnette supervis ed a prize drawing for the ladies. New officers and directors in stalled, in addition to Mr. Dixon, were Jonas Bridges, vice-presi. dent, and John Warlick, Eugene Timms, Odus Smith, Richard Mc Ginnis, directors for terms ex piring in 1959. Hold-over direc tors, with terms expiring m 1958, are Charles Blanton, Yates Har bison, Menzell Phifer, and Ed Tu tor. Paul Walker is an ex officio member of the board. "Right-To-Work" Tax Opposed Jay Jenkins, Charlotte Observer Raleigh reporter, reported Wed nesday that members of the Joint Finance Committee sharply questioned the $10 “right-to work” tax as proposed by the Tax Study Commission. This proposed tax would allow municipalities the right to levy j a tax of up to $10 per person who worked in the city and earned $2,000 or more, even though the worker might live outside the corporate limits. In fact, according to Mr. Jen kins, the Finance Committee drew admissions from the Tax Study Commission members that the commission was not “wedded to the iproposal”. One legislator, Rep. B. I. Satter field of Person said, “Taxation without representation. You wouldn’t have a chance to vote against the officials wlho levied It.” iRep. Satterfield was referring to the fact that persons outside the city limits would be taxed the same as those eligible to vote in city elections. Sen. James Poyner of Wake another commission member, seemed to sum up the feelings of the commission by saying, “Of all the recommendations, this is the one we are least likely to cry albout if you take it out.” The "right to work” tax propo sal has 'been under steady fire from various sources ip the state. The Herald recently ran an editorial in which it* asked citi zens of this area to contact Cleve land County representatives in protest of the proposed tax. Among other newspapers op posing the proposal are the Shel by Daily Star, Gastonia Gazette, Statesville Daily Record, and nu merous others. Ellison Asking Re-Election; Still Files For Mavoral Post GARLAND E. STILL Mayor Candidate T. J. (TOMMY) ELLISON Ward 3 Candidate CHARLES W. FORD BEN H. BRIDGES, JR. vonaiaai.es lor wara 4 commissioner BRYANT WELLS J. C. CLAHY candidates for Ward 2 Commissioner Brothers Wounded Tuesday Night In Grovei Shooting; Payne Jailed Two brothers were seriously injured by gunfire in an affray in the weave room of Minette Mills of Grover Tuesday night. The wounded men were identi. fied by Sheriff Haywood Allen as James Hayes, 24, Minette Mill! employee, and his brother, J. C. Hayes, 40-year-old construction worker, both of Grover. Julius Payne, also a Minette Mill worker, was in the county jail Wednesday facing two char, ges of assault with a deadly wea pon with intent to kill as a re sult of the shooting. According to Sheriff Allen, wit nesses of the battle said Payne j and his wife reported to work a. I bout 9:30 p. m. to find the Hayes brothers waiting at the gate. The brothers called Payne, but he did not heed their call. Both of the Hayes men then followed Payne into the weave room of j the mil! and started a fight. By-standers 8aid they attempt, ed to separate the men, but fail ed. During the fight, Payne was! said to have pulled a .32 caliber j pistol from his pocket and fired five shots at his attackers. One of the bullets hit James j Hayes in the right side of thei chest, collapsing a lung and lod. ging in his back. Another bullet pierced the right arm of J. C. Hayes, entered his body and al so lodged near the spinal cord. Payne reportedly told Sheriff Allen that he carried the gun in. to the mill with him. He said the gun was in his car, and that he slipped the weapon into his poc ket when he saw the brothers waiting at the gate. Dr. Philip Padgett, Kings Mountain physician, is said to have termed both men's condi tion as serious, but added that he expected them to recover, barring unforseen complications. Both are patients at Kings Mountain Hospital. Sheriff Allen said there had been "bad blood” between the three men before. He added that James Hayes already faced a charge of assault in Gaffney, S. C., as the result of a warrant signed by Payne. The Sheriff also added that an assault with a deadly weapon count would be filed against James Hayes, who, witnesses said, had a knife in his hand at the time of the shooting. A simple assault charge is expected to be brought against J. C. Hayes. Bond for Payne had been set at $2,000, and he was still in jail Wednesday afternoon. However, a sheriff department source said bond was expected to be made late Wednesday. When Sheriff Allen arrived at the mill Tuesday night, Payne had gone home. He was arrested at his home. PROMOTED Nelson Bridges, Kings Moun tain native and son of Mr. and Mrs. Glee A. Bridges, has been profnoted to the position of technical .engineer by Lock heed Aircraft, Inc., and has been transferred to the com pany’s plant at Marietta, Ga. ■Mr. Bridges had been associat ed with Lockheed at McGregor, Texas. Bridges. Ford Oppose Ledford In Ward 4 (Four additional candidates en tered the city .political arena this week, creating contests for all city hall positions except one. The added entrants are: Garland E. Still, restauranteur and former mayor, who seeks to regain the position he held from 1951-53. Mr. Still filed Wednes day morning. Ben H. Bridges, savings and loan association secretary, who filed Wednesday morning for Ward 4 commissioner. Charles W. (Rocky) Ford, tex tile employee, who filed Tues day, also for Ward 4 commission er, a position he sought in 1955. T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, grocer, incumbent commissioner from Ward 3, who seeks re-election to a third consecutive term. Two “won't run” announce ments were made by citizens mentioned as possible candidates previously. Hal D. Ward inform ed the Herald he would not seek the mayoral .post “in spite of considerable encouragement of many friends’’. Tilman Pearson, mentioned frequently as a candi date for Ward 2 commissioner, told the Herald he had decided not to offer. Currently in the held are 15 candidates for the six city hall {Hosts, with only the Ward 3 com missionership without a contest. No candidates have yet filed for the two school hoard posi tions. Incumbent Trustee Fred W. Plonk has been quoted by friends as indicating he will seek re election. Dr. P. G. Padgett, whose term is also expiring, has made no announcement as to his inten tions. Ben H. Bridges and Charles Ford seek to unseat incumbent commissioner Paul D. Ledford, now filling the vacancy created by the death of O. T. Hayes, Sr. Mr. Still, defeated by Mayor Glee A. Bridges in 1953 and also a candidate two years ago, made a detailed filing statement in which he promised lower taxes, lower power bills, and less spend-' ing by the city government. Ben H. Bridges, .son of the late B. Hudson Bridges, a former city commissioner, made no formal statement but said he was run ning "independently”. He said, if elected, he would strive to serve all the people of the community (Continued On Page Eight) Police Finally Trap "Houdini". The Kings Mountain Police Department must feel like giv ing Fred Daves a great big “E" for effort. Daves, 22-year-old resident of 207 Dilling street, led the local officers on a merry chase Tues day (before finally being cap tured. According to Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., a call was received that Daves was forcing cars off the highway with his vehicle. A police car was sent to appre hend the driver. Daves led the officers on a wild high - speed chase, then suddenly stopped in front of the police car on a dirt road in East Kings Mountain. The police ve hicle, driven by Officer Paul Saunders, rammed into the back of Daves’ car, resulting in approximately $275 in damages to the city vehicle. Daves was handcuffed and put into the backseat of the wrecked police car to await ad ditional transportation to po lice headquarters. In some manner, the youth slipped the cuffs from his hands, bolted out the back door and was free once again. Bloodhounds were brought in and used in an attempt to trail the fugitive, but they failed. However, Daves was recaptured some two hours later following a tip as to his whereabouts. This time he was detained and lodged in city jail. He is facing charges of reckless driv ing, resisting an officer, and hit and run driving, according to Chief Logan. Bond has been set at $1,000.
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