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i!» s 10.320 7.206 llgtue for Greater Tings Mountain u derived from IMS Kings Mountain etty directory census. The aty ts figure Is (run the United States oensus el 1SS0. Population Greater Kings Mountain Limits VOL. 68 No. 25 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 20, 1957 Sixty-Eiqhth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News i Bulletins I_ I SCHOOL BOARD The city board otf education •will hold its regular meeting Monday night at 7:80 p.m. in the Office olf Suipt. B. IN,. Barnes. Last Monday night’s regurarly scheduled meeting iwlas post poned. SEWING CLASS Kings Mountain wotaen in terested in registering in sum mer sewing classes are being invited to contact the school of fice (Iphones 212 or 487). If a sufficient number registers for the course, a beginners sewing class will Ibe conducted Iby the city schools. PLAYGROUND OPEN The city playground is being operated for children daily dur ing the hours of 9 and 12 noon, according to announcement by Jake Early. Mikie White and Bud Bumgardner are supervis ing the program and parents are invited to have their chil dren participate. YOUTH CARAVAN A caravan otf church youth workers will visit two Kings Mountain Lutheran churches July 28-30, according to an nouncement iby church officials. The youth workers will 'be at (both St. (Matthew’s and Resur rection 'Lutheran churches here. UNION SERVICE Sundayfgmnion service (or five city church congrega tions will (be held at Resurrec tion Lutheran church with Rev. James B. MdLarty, pastor of (Central Methodist church, to deliver the 8 o’clock sermon. Open house will (be held follow. * ing the service for. visitors to see imiproivements being made_ in the Sunday school annex. MERCHANTS Kings Mountain merchants will be open all day Wednes day, July 3rd, and will close for the July 4 holiday on Thursday, July 4th, according to an nouncement by Mrs. Elaine Queen, association secretary. SMALL BLAZE Kings Mountain Fire depart ment answered a call 'Friday to the home of Mrs. Vera Ware, 401 E. (Ridge street, where a small (blaze was extinguished on a deep well cooker. A second call was aaswered this week, to Belvedere circle where a car (blaze was extinguished. > I 1 TO CONVENTION Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harmon will .go to Nags Head Thursday for the annual convention of the North Carolina IPress asso ciation. Mr. Harmon will lead a panel discussion on news cov erage Friday morning. He has also been appointed .a memlber of the resolutions committee. les McGinnis ill (Leslie McGinnis, former Kings Mountain citizen, is re iported seriously ill in a Rich mond, Va., hospital', following a coronary thromlbosis he suf fered on June 10. Mr. McGin nis is a onetime Herald printer, visits here annually,. METER RECEIPTS 'Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $175.75, including $148.21 from on-street meters and $27.54 from Cherokee park ing lot meters. Foote Official On Eastern Trip 1 Tom L. Kesler, Foote Mineral Company geologist, is in Wash ington, D. C., this week, where he is doing work for the (National Academy of Sciences. He first went to New ‘York on Sunday for a directors’ meeting of the American Institute olf Mi ning, Metalurgical and Pe'role. urn engineers. Mr. Kesler is na tional chairman of the industrial minerals division of this 27,000 memlber professional organiza tion. While away, Mr. Kesler is to visit Foote Mineral’s new divis-j ion at Cold River, N. H., to assist in mine planning for feldspar production. KINGS MOUNTAIN BRANCH WINS TROPHY — Kings Mountain branch office of Liberty Life In surance Company has been awarded the Statue of Liberty trophy in the company's central region for May. The Kings Mountain office had the best i u ■■ ■ iiuuii -*WW«55-:*H record among 20 branch offices in May produc tion totals. Admiring the trophy, left to right. ca Ken Smith, Keith Franklin, Gene Taylor, Manager George Hampton, Staff Manager Vardell Neal. Clarence Jones and Ed Hamrick. Commissioner Department Chiefs Named Mayor Glee A. Bridges has ap pointed commissioner depart ment heads for the coming year. 'He listed the appointments as follows: Commissioner of electrical ser-. vice — BoyCe H. Gault, Ward 2. Commissioner of public servi. ces (streets, sanitation, water)— ] Luther T. Bennett, Ward 3. Commissioner of fire and po lice protection services — R. Cole man Stroupe, Ward 5. Commissioner of administra tion — Ben H. Bridges, Ward 4. The commissioners named will supervise the activities of the several city departments in con junction with the mayor, in ac cordance with the city's commis sioner - mayor form of govern ment, M&yor Bridges comment ed. NCEA Officers Attend Meeting Two officers of the Kings Mountain chapter, NCEA, have returned from Blue Ridge where they attended a leaders confer ence for NCEA officials June 16. 19. Mrs. W. F. Powell, president of the local NCEA chapter, and Mrs. John H. Gamble, secretary of the chapter, attended the conference conducted on the theme, “ To gether We Build.” The convention is sponsored by the North Carolina 'Education as sociation and is attended by NCE. A and NEA officials from all over the state. Discussion groups on building dynamic local units and profess, ional, legislative, and public re lations growth techniques were features of the program. NYSE Approves Listing Of Foote PHILADELPHIA—Aipp 1 ica t io n for listing of the common stock of Foote Mineral Company on the New York Stock Exchange has been approved toy the Exchange’,? Board df Governors. Certification toy the SEC iwill require about thirty days, and trading is ex pected to begin in the middle of July. Monday’s Storm Wreaked Havoc Whirlwind's Damage Total Not Yet Added A gale-proportion whirlwind whipped through the Crescent Hill- West Mountain street sector of Kings Mountain Monday aft ernoon wreaking damages not yet tabulated. No injuries to individuals have been reported, which many say they consider miraculous. Numerous chimneys were top pled off roofs, W. F. Osborne’s garage was demolished, ana ga rages of Otis (Falls, Sr., and James iRotan lost their roofs. The steeple roof of 'Resurrection Lu theran church was whipped off its moorings and swirled in the air until it landed near the home oi Joe MdClure on Crescent Circle. The storm arose suddenly albout 4:30 Monday afternoon and was accompanied by heavy rain, thunder and lightning. The light ning resulted in one fire alarm. The wind evidently crossed the wires leading to the home oi Mrs. <Ed Hord and the fire de partment Was summoned. How. ever, the fire did not ignite the home. [Chimney and roof damage was consideraole and many trees were uprooted. Mrs. OUs Falls, Sr., moved to the 'back room of her home where a grandchild was playing. Look ing through the window, she saw the garage roof swirling through the air toward the house. She grabbed her grandchild and headed for the front. The flying roof struck a corner Of the house Mrs. Harry Page said a front yard pecan tree was 'bent to the ground by the force of the gale, but it did not (break off its trunk. The gale was strong uptown. Andrew Jenkins, veteran film op erator, wias In his Ibooth at the Joy Theatre. He said he felt this brick, steel and concrete build ing tremor. Glenn Grigg, trying to .shut a big garage door had to fight to (Continued on Page Eight) Sewage Fee Out For; This Board, Two City Commissioners Report A city sewage fee won’t be en acted by this board otf commis sioners, two mem'bers otf the iboard said Tuesday. Comm. Ben H. Bridges and Comm. Luther T. Bennett com mented following Tuesday night’s budget session.. Both said they had heard plen ty otf complaints concerning a city sewage fee, which had oeen contemplated by Bridges Admin istration il to provide tax relief. The commission currently has indicated it will pare the tax rate by 20 cents per $100 valua ; tion without imposing a sewage fee. / Original plan was to add a fee of 50 cents per toilet per month which would have been foilied a long with other monthly utility services. Both commissioners said they had came to the conclusion that the fee would impose a hardship on many citizens and indicated that other commissioners agreed. Imposition o# a sewage fee has not been considered in budget discussions to-date, Comm. Brid ges remarked ' if iff WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Hunter Warlick, of Kings Mountain, re cent Davidson college graduate, is one of five persons chosen for a $14)00 regional scholarship to Duke law school. Warlick Wins Law Scholarship Hunter Warlick, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Warlick of Kings Mountain, has 'been awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Duke Uni versity laiw school. Mr. Warlick was among five winners of the scholarship, a warded by Duke to regional com petitors in the Southeast. The scholarship, though gran ted only for one year, is twice re newable if the student maintains a "B” average. <Mr. Warlick expects to enter Duke law school in September. He recently iwas graduated from Davidson college with a de gree of Bachelor of Arts in econ omics. Lions Banquet To Be July 8 Charles El ledge, Marlon school principal, will make the principal address at the annual ladies night (banquet of the Kings Mountain Lions clu'b on July 8. Announcement was made toy Sam Stallings, chairman of the committee on arrangements, who said other plans for the event are virtually complete. Mr. Etledge is also a veteran ■member of the cast of ‘ Horn in the West," the summer drama at Boone which opens Friday night for its sixth season. Mr. Elledge plays this year the role of Prea cher Sims a robust • riding fron tier minister. ON DEAN'S UEST Miss Carol Herndon of Kings Mountain has been named to the Dean’s List just released for the spring term at King’s College in Charlotte. She en rolled in the general business course at King’s in June 1956. Most Industrial Employees Get Week's Holiday Majority of Kings Mountain textile employees will take week of July 4th holidays via annual vacation schedules of local plants. An exception is Phenix Plant of Burlington Industries, which has scheduled its annual week's va. cation for employees the last week in August, J. S. Rotan, su perintendent, said yesterday. Bonuses of four percent based on annual earnings are paid to employees with less than five years service, and bonuses of two percent, based on annual earn ings, are paid to employees hav. ing five years service. Craftspun Yarns will close Fri. day, June 28, for a week, Carl Swan, president, reported. Em. ployees of Craftspun holding five years or more service with the company receive four percent of annual earnings, or an equiva lent of two weeks wages, Mr. Swan said. Employees of Crafts, pun who have been with the com. pany less than five years receive bonuses of two percent of annual earnings, or an equivalent of one week’s wages. Neisler Mills division of Mas. sachusetts Mohair Plush Co. will shut down next Saturday, June 29, for a full week, reopening on July 8, an official said. Mauney Hosiery Mills will close next Friday, reopening on July 8th. Carolina Throwing Company will not observe a vacation, an official said. Sadie Cotton Mills will close on June 29 and remain out of op eration the entire week, reopen, ing on July 8. Notices are ,to be poste4 in Bonnie Cotton Mills on Monday and in Park Yarn Mill and others when final plans are complete. Lambeth Rope Corpor ation and Kings Mountain Man ufacturing Company may oper ate on partial schedules. Minette Mills, of Grover, ceas. ed operations Saturday to give their employees a full week’s va. cation. The city’s dry cleaning indus try will be closed from July 1-6, re-opening on July 8. Red Cross Meets Monday Election of officers and reports of service chairmen will feature the annual meeting Monday night Of the Kings 'Mountain Red Cross chapter. Members of the chapter are urged to meet at 7:30 at City IHall courtroom. To ibe elected are chapter Officers and directors for the coming year. Reports will Ibe given Iby J. C. Bridges, fund drive chairman; Bob Manor, blood program chair, man; Don Crawford, life saving program chairman; Bill MODan iel, first aid program chairmail; and IBen H. Bridges, disaster chairman. J. Ollie Harris is president of the Red Cross organization here. By-Pass Hearing Next Wednesday Public hearing on the proposed new construction of U. S. High, way 29 for Gaston and Cleveland county residents will be held next Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock in the Gastonia circuit courtroom, according to an announcement by E. L. Kemper, 12th division en gineer. Contemplated location of U. S. 29 will by-pass Gastonia and Bel. mont to the north and Kings Mountain and Grover to the east. McAdenville and Lowell will be by passed, while the road will be near Ranlo and Flint Grove com munities. The addition of a double lane to the present two-lane strip from the Richard Owens farm to the Archdale Farms intersection is also anticipated. Several over passes are tentatively scheduled. Definate information as to ad. ditional right-of-way along the present U. S. 29 by pass route was not learned but an unofficial guess by highway office employ, ees was that more than the 260 foot right-ofway would be re. quired where overpasses and clo. verleaf entrances are constructed. LIONS MEETING •Program iplans are incom plete tfor Tuesday, June 23 meeting of the Lions Club to be held at the Woman’s Cluib at 7:30, according to an an nouncement iby program chair man Jonas Bridges. - Who Will Succeed Rep. B. T. Falls? Kings Mountain Area Would Like Representation ■Appointment by Governor Hod ges of Rep. B. T. Falls, Jr., as i6th judicial district solicitor posed immediate speculation on who would .succeed the veteran Cleveland courtty legislator in the House of Representatives. The appointment also had Kings (Mountain area citizens commenting that it’s about time Kings Mountain has a recipient of tne county elective honor. Attorney J. R. Davis occupied Cleveland's House of (Represen tatives seat in 1923 and tne late H. Torn Fulton, Sr., served in tne Senate, 1925-21. Most folk can’t remember Kings Mountain s having repre sented me county in Raleigh since. Who would the candidate be? Majority of political observers listed J. Ollie Harris, mortician and currently coutny coroner as the Kings Mountain man most likely to succeed in next spring’s Democratic primary. Mr, narris admits he would like to serve in Raleigh. Other names have been men tioned, among tnem Attorney Jack vVnite, Realtor J. Wilson Crawford, and Arnold W. Kin caid. Charles Dixon, aulo firm sales manager, has expressed county political ambitions. Most acknowledge mat Mr. Vvmte, ao manager of Congressman Basil wmter.er’s campa.gn against Clevelands Ralph .Gardner, thereby damaged temporarily, u not peimanenuy, his county-iwide political popularity. Most agree tna. a Kings Moun tain area candidate would have to be politically palatable to county seat citizens uwho cast albout 40 percent of the Democra tic primary vote total), and wouid also have to (be reasonably well-known throughout tne coun ty,. Shelby likely will iiave candi dates, too. Already mentioned Its the name of Virgil Weathers and there are a large numoer ol Shelby attorneys who figure to oe interested in a legislative trip to Raleigh. Currently, Democratic Chair man 1C. C. Horn says, appoint ment of a replacement to Rep. Falls is in the hands ott the Gov ernor. However, he doubts the Governor will make the appoint ment, barring a special session of the North Carolina General Assembly prior to next spring’s primary. Mr. r ails replaces James Farth ing, of Lenoir, who was named by the Governor to serve as a Superior Court judge. Raleigh newsmen say Falls' excellent handling of the state's new tax bill won him the solicitorial ap pointment. The post pays $10, 000 annually, including $2,000 travel expense. APPOINTED Bep. B. T Falls. Jr., was appointed by Governor Hod ges this week to become solicitor of the 16th judicial district, suc ceeding James Farthing, of Le noir. elevated to a Superior Court judgeship. Injuries Slight In Fall From Car Nancy Bagwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bagwell, was released from Shelby hospi. tal Monday after receiving treat ment for injuries caused from a fall from a moving automobile late Sunday afternoon. The three-year-old girl, who is still under doctor’s observation, apparently escaped with only scratches and bruises. Mrs. Bagwell, who is employ, ed at Kings Mountain Drug Com pany, stated she and her husband were traveling east on U. S. 74 west at a speed of approximately 50 miles per hour. As the car ap. proached Bridges Barbecue, the child fell from the left rear door into the left traffic lane. By the time Mr. Bagwell had stopped the car, the daughter had arisen and was walking toward the Bagwell car crying, “Daddy, daddy!” OES Elects Mrs. Kincaid Mrs. Arnold W. Kincaid, of Kings Mountain, was elected dis trict deputy grand matron of the 17th district, Order of the East, em Star, at the Grand Chapter session in Wilmington last week end. She succeeds Mrs. B. E. Callis, of Bessemer City. Kings Mountain delegates to the meeting attended toy OES members from all over the state included Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid, Miss Helen Logan, Miss Kittie Lou Sutton, and Mrs. Emmett Ross. Nineteen chapters are included in the 17th district. It's Not Haid To Leam Driving, Mother Of 13 Shows With License Youngsters having trouble, or imaginary trouble, trying to ob tain their driver licenses should take a cue from Mrs. Hinkle Me. Ginnis. Mrs. McGinnis, married over half a century, a mother 13 times and a grandmother 19 times, has been whisking a green - and . white auto aibout town in quite acceptable fashion in the past tfwo weeks. She acquired her state driver license after less than two months otf training. Mrs. McGinnis credits her in structor, Bruce iRaynor, a member of the Shellby fire department, with being an excellent instruc-. Mr. IRaynor, she said, had a course in teaching people haw to drive and gives driving instruc tion as a sideline activity* ‘"He’s very good,” Mrs. M'JGin nis said. As for Tdcense Examiner Leo Nolan, Mrs. McGinnis laughs, “I thought he was pretty tough the first time 1 tried it, or maybe he was a little scared. But the second time I tried the driving test a week later, he was •better.* Why did Mrs. McGinnis learn to drive an auto? All her children (12 living) have married and left home. “They'd help me out, of course, but they've got to live their own lives. Besides, I needed to know how to drive,” Mrs. McGinnis added. Mrs. McGinnis confides she is not the “Ibest driver yei”, but is willing to brag on her parallel parking. A nice neighlbor, she said, kindly parked his car across the street and she was aible to do much practice. However, the new driver didn’t go by the states driver license training manual, which dictates hotwparallel park, in'g should be accomplished. In stead of making a 45-degree an gle steering wneel turn when starting the first back-up, Mrs. McGinnis splits the angle to a '.xiut 22.5 degrees. “I told Mr. Nolan 1 wanted to try it my way,” she notes, “and he approved,. When I got through, he said I could parallel park as well as he.” Mrs. 'McGinnis exhibits a dry sense oif humor. She thinks she frightened the license exa-minei on one of the tests with a quick (Continued on Page Eight) Board Paring Police Budget Nearly $10,000 Kings Mountain’s city commis sion tentatively set the 1957 tax rate at $1.50 iper $100 valuation this week, The total, i! finally adopted (as anticipated), will represent a*cut of 20-cent,s per $100 valuation. The board vote specified $1.45 per $100 for regular city opera tions, another five cents for re creation activities. It anticipates .spending $5G1,000 about $45,000 less than the cur rent budget estimate. In spite of the cut, the board was able to up its contemplated expenditures for capital outlay. The board has added $5,000 for re. [ building of the North Piedmont avenue pdwer line, $1,000 for the purchase of surplus federal equipment, if available, $1,200 for re-roofing leaky City Hall, and more funds for providing a sidewalk at North school, should the city 'board of education peti tion for it. The action came as the com missioners, completing their third long session on the torthcoming fiscal year budget, slashed £9, 995 off the police department’s estimate of needs for the year beginning July 1. The board, in its paring, con templated the discharge of two policemen, also reduced to $1,200 the amount of salary it expects to pay the chief of police, chief of Police Hugh A. 'Logan, Jr., currently receives $4,200 per year. IHe had asked $5,000. There was no indication con cerning the identiy of the two po licemen who will lose their joos, either from the board or from Chief Logan, ‘Mr. Logan was not present at the session, said he would have to await the commis sion’s ideas before formulating plans under the abbreviated set up. The other half of the tax rate slash was arrived at toy a series of .small deductions in numerous areas. Among them is continued inclusion in the revenue estimate of full receipts from parking me ters. Bridges Administration 11 had indicated it would appropri ate $3,500 from this revenue item for use of the recreation commis. sion. Another $2,600 paring was ac complished in the administrative department budget. The commis. sion left the mayor’s ipay at $3, 600 for the year against the ma ximum payable df $6,000. It slashed another $200 oifif the a mount it thought would be re quired for telephone expense. In it’s economy efforts t h e board hit one snag. Comm. Cole man Strouipe suggested that the commissioners leave their pay at $10 per month. It was the opinion of' the mayor and the city cleric that the recently enacted Gener. al Assemlbly statute requires pay ment of commissioners $25 per regular meeting attended. A le gal cheek was ordered. Comm. Ben 1H. Bridges made the motion tentatively setting the tax rate at $1.50. He com mented, “I’ve been waiting a long time to make that motion,.” Considerable help iwas provid ed in the estimate at the clerk that the debt service fund will have at end of the current year a $25,000 surplus. Mr. Mitchem declined to estimate whether there will be surpluses in other departments. He said the city will make an edlfort to pay all 1957 bills not later than June 30, in order that there will be no car ry-over olf accounts into the new fiscal year. In other actions the board, meeting in special session fol lowing the informal budget ses sion: 1) Appropriated from funds ex ceeding revenue estimates a total of $1,036 to take care of over expenditures in three depart ments. The over-spent depart ments are Recorder's Court, $36; cemetery, $200; and police, $800. 2) Authorized the clerk to transfer certain receipts for sale of capital items during the year from the general to the capital fund, also to compensate for over-ibudget expenditures. * 3) Changed the date of the board’s regular monthly meet ing to second Thursdays in each month at 8 p.m. 4) Approved petition for pav ing a portion of Wilson street and for providing sidewalk on one side of the street. The item was included in the budget estimate. 5) Voted a 20-minute parking limit in Stroupe Alley, off Waco Road.
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