Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.208 n* agar* f« Cmtn Tioga Mountain U dnitond from tea IKS Klaga Mountain city -Uroctorj cansua. Th# City U from to# United Stain* oenaua of 1950. i Pages |j £ Today Established 1889 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL 68 No. 27 Kings Mountain, N. C. Thursday, July 4, 1957 Local News Bulletins COMMUNITY SING There iwil-l Ibe a singing Sat urday night at 7:30 ip. m. at East Side Baptist church and all church congregations of the community are invited. W. C. Waters is choir director at the East Side church. UNION SERVICE Sunday night’s union service for five city church congrega tions will he held at Boyce Me morial ARP church, with Rev. James B. McLarty, pastor of Central Methodist church, to de liver the message at 8 o’clock. ARP SERVICE The sacrement of the Lord’s Supper will be observed at Sun day morning 11 o’clock service at Boyce Memorial ARP chur ch, according to announcement by Dr. W. L. Pnessly, pastor. LODGE MEETING Regular communication of Fairview (Lodge 339 A. IF. & A. M. will toe held Monday night at 7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall, according to announcement made yesterday. ' JOINS RALEIGH FIRM William F. (Sill) iRuth left for Raleigh Monday to join tBelk - Hudson. Mr. Ruth, a re cent student at. Western Caro lina College, is the son Of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton L. Ruth. SUPPER Women’s Society of Christian Service of El Bethel Methodist church will serve a Ibarbecue and hotdog supper Saturday night at the El Bethel club house. Serving begins at 7:30 p. m. NO MOOSE MEETING There will not be a regular meeting Of Kings (Mountain Moose (Lodge 17148 Thursday night. The regular Thursday night meeting will not be held, Dean Payne, ipulblicity chair man reported, due to the July 4 holiday. cmr audit Charles Ezell and Omar Lin gerfelt Of A. M. 'Pullen & Com pany, Charlotte accountants, have (begun the annual audit of the books oif the City olf Kings (Mountain. CO-SPONSORED Mike Dixon, son off Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Dixon, who finished third in last week’s Carolina Soapbox Deilby was co-sponsor ed by Phifer Hardlware Com pany and C. E. Warlick Insur ance Agency. BRACKETT RENUXON A (Brackett (Family reunion will be held Sunday at the old homeplace of Ben Brackett on Briar Creek in Rutherford coun ty, it was announced by Mrs. R. G. Brackett of Bessemer City. Picnic dinner will ibe sertved at 12:30 p.m. TO CHAPEL KILL J. C. McKinney, assistant cashier off First National Bank, * will go to Chaipel Hill Monday for next week's North Carolina Banker’s conference, co-spon sored by the N. C. Banker’s as sociation and the University of North Carolina. IMPROVING Mis. (Andrew Jenkins re mains a patient in Charlotte (Memorial hospital where she is recuperating (from an operation. Her condition is reported as sat isfactory. HAS OPERATION Miss Mary McGill is recuper ating from an operation she un derwent last Thursday* at Gas ton Memorial hospital. She re turned home over the weekend and her condition is reported .satisfactory. Course Offered For Non-Swimmers A swimming class for adult non-swimmers will be conduct ed at the Deal Street pool begin ning Monday. Swimming instruction for persons over 18 will be given from 6 t® 7 p.m. for the week of July 8-12, it was announced by Jake Early, recreation di rector. Mr. Early said non-swimmers should register at the pool. Harris Says He Won’t Offer For State Legislature Post Harris Thinks No. 4 Candidate Could Win Job County Coroner J. Ollie Harris won’t be a candidate to succeed State Representative B. T. Falls, Jr. Mr. Harris, who had been pro minently mentioned toy tooth Sheltoy and Kings Mountain citi zens as a possible House candi date, made the statement to the Herald Wednesday morning. Projection of Mr. Harris’ candi dacy had toeen advanced toy nu merous Kings Mountain citizens, and others, who have expressed the opinion Kings Mountain should obtain a county elective honor it has not enjoyed since 1927. Last General Assemblyman from Kings Mountain was the late Senator H. Tom Fulton. Last representative was Attorney J. R. Davis. Mr. Harris, in his declination statement, said he hoped Kings Mountain would unite 'behind a strong candidate. He added he felt other citizens of the county would support a man from Kings Mountain township if they felt his homefolk united. Others mentioned for the post have ibeen J. Wilson Crawford, W. L. Plonk, and Arnold W. Kin caid, all from Kings Mountain, and Virgil Weathers, Of Sheltoy. Weathers was county campaign manager for Rallph Gardner in Mr. Gardner’s losing toid for the U. S. House last year. Text of Mr. Harris’ statement follows: “After careful consideration I have decided that I shall not run for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives. I want to thank those who thought that I might make a good representa tive and I also want to thank those who advised me not to run. I sincerely hope that a citizen of Kings Mountain will run for the position and that the people of Kings Mountain will unite be hind his candidacy. If this is done, I believe' that the folks in our county would like to see Kings Mountain represented in the Legislature.” NCPA Official Heie Foi Talks V W. J.. Smith, executive secretary Of the (North Carolina Pharmaceu tical association, was in Kings Mountain Monday ^conferring with C. D. Blanton, Kings Moun tain druggist and association president, and with Wilson Grif fin, also a Kings Mountain drug gist who was chairman of the (board of tellers in the recently conducted election of association Officers. > Mr. Smith, of Chapel (Hill, was accompanied by his wife and his son, Allen Smith. IHe and Mr. Blanton discussed committee aippointments and plans for association activities during the coming year. Airman Cook Is Commended lAU/c Kenneth E. Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. iP. Cook, of Kings Mountain, has Ibeen recommend ed for airman of the month hon ors at Forlbes Air Force base, Kansas. In the letter of recommenda tion, the field maintenance offi cer commended the Kings Moun tain service man for “his aibility to learn, retain and use the tech nical knowledge offered to him . . He said airman Cook be came proficient in.all phases of jet engine handling procedures, oecame an excellent forklift op erator and made himself avail able for any duty he could per form without regard to hours of work or personal inconvenience. Stolen Truck Found, Second Auto Missing Oscar Stallcup, Pine Kidge, re ported to city police Tuesday night theft of his 1954 Chevrolet. The car, a tiwo-toned green, Mr. Stallcup reported, was stolen from the Kings Mountain Manu facturing Company parking lot sometime between 9 and 1:45 p. m. Tuesday. A truck, stolen from McGinnis Furniture Company sometime a round 11:30 Sunday night, was returned Monday to the firm. The truck was found abandon ed in a ditch near Hal Herndon’s residence at Grover. GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES HELD — Penley’s Chapel Methodist church on Cherryville road held groundbreaking exercises Sunday morning for a new church building. Dr. James G- wuggin, Jr., superintendent of the Gastonia district of the Methodist church, W. Leonard Huffstetler, Penley*s lay minister, and Rev. V/. C. Sides, Jr., pastor of the sponsoring Grace Methodist church, assisted in the ceremonies along with members of the official board *nd building committee. The new building will include a sanctuary and educa tional unit. Construction is under supervision of C. T. Bennett Con struction company. Ward Seed & Feed In Receivership Wilson Crawford, C. B. Cash, Jr. Co-Receivers Superior Court Judge P. C. Froneberger Tuesday granted a voluntary petition tor receiver, ship to Ward’s Seed & Feed Store, Inc. J. Wilson Crawford, realtor and former Kings Mountain mer chant, and C. B. Cash, Jr., Shelby attorney, were appointed co-re ceivers and have posted bond of $20,000. Mr Crawford commented on Wednesday morning, “This busi. ness has more assets than liabil ities and the business will contin. ue to operate with the same pro. ducts and services offered as in the past.” The order will be in force until January 1, 1958, and, according to Attorney J. R. Davis may be continued in the discretion of the court. Mr. Davis said Ward’s Seed & Feed Store, Inc., has 27,202 shares of stock outstanding, with 27,200 in the name of Mrs. Margaret Ward, and one share each in the names of Hal D. Ward and Earl Spearman. Mr. Davis described the busi ness as “a little different from the averse business” in that the feed firm furnishes feed for lay ing chickens, accepts eggs in pay. ment for the feed. He said Ward’s is currently furnishing feed for some 22,000 chickens. Mr. Ward founded the firm some ten years ago, operated the firm individually before the firm became a corporation several months ago. Mr. Davis said Mr. Ward is in Florida. Mr. Crawford said over 50 per. cent of Ward’s Seed & Feed, Inc., creditors were represented at the Tuesday hearing before Judge Froneberger. Kings Mountain Lions Will Hold 18th Annual Ladies Night Monday Kings Mountain Lions club will hold its eighteenth annual ladies night banquet Monday night, with Charles Elledge, long-time “Horn in the West” cast memlber, to give the feature address. Mr. Elledge is billed as a hu morous speaker. In the winter months Mr. Elledge is a McDow ell County school principal. President J. W. Webster will serve as toastmaster for the event. Rev. R. D. Fritz will give the invocation, Dr. Nathan H. Reed, recently retired president, will welcome the ladies and Sam Stallings will present special guests. Lawson Brown will pre sent Mr. OElledge. Mr. Elledge, in the Boone dra ma, plays the role of Preacher Sims, a robust, hard-riding fron ier preacher. The Lions clufo was organized in 1908 at a charter night ban quet. It’s first ladies night event was held the following year and subsequently since. Members otf the committee on arrangements are Sam Stallings, chairman, L. S. Stroupe and Mar tin Harmon. »-— First '57 Cotton Bloom Reported The Kings Mountain Herald was brought its first 1957 crop cotton Ibloom Monday,. (Byron Keeter, Kings (Moun tain merchant, said the bloom was found Monday morning by Robert Parker, Negro tenant on, the Keeter farm near Grover while Parker was dusting his field to prevent .'boll weevil da mage. “He surely was tickled,’’ Mr. Keeter said. "IHe’d been saying he would have iblooms toy July 1 and he was right.” Disaster Belie! Funds Are Asked The Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter, though still $500 short of its 1957 fund drive goal, is ceas ing solicitations for the regular operating budget and is asking Kings Mountain citizens to make donations to the disaster relief fund. The Red Cross has moved into (Louisiana in force to relieve the suffering caused by Hurricane Audrey. Ollie Harris, chapter chairman, said he is requesting ministers of the community to ask their mem bers for special collections for (Red Cross disaster relief, is ad. dressing a similar appeal to civic clubs and individuals. “All future monies received will go to the disaster relief fund,” Mr. Harris said. ONE FIRE Kings Mountain City Fire de partment answered a call Sat urday to Cleveland avenue, to extinguish a blaze that had ig noted in a Burlington Mill truck. City Fireman C. D. Ware reported that there was no da mage except to the wiring of the truck. B. 0. Weaver Dies Suddenly After Attacks JBuron Odus Weaver, 62, died suddenly at 12:45 Wednesday shortly after he had been admit ted to Kings Mountain hospital. Cause of death pended results of an autopsy. Mr. Weaver (became ill while working with Davis Mechanical .Contractors on the construction of Homelite Chain Saw’s new plant in Gastonia. He wras sen+ by ambulance to the hospital, .seemed to ibe better on arrival. A few minutes later he succumb ed. Funeral arrangements were in complete Wednesday afternoon. (Mr. Weaver was a son Of the late Richard Winfield and Flor ence Hamrick Weaver. He was a member of First Baptist church,. Surviving are his wife, Avalo nia Hambright Weaver, to whom he married in 1917, two daugh ters, Mrs. Warren Roberts, Gas tonia, and Mrs. James H. Miller, Elizabethtown, Fa., and a son, 'Fred Weaver, Kings (Mountain. Also surviving are five brothers and three sisters. They are Vetis, .Buford, Clement and Gordon Weaver, all of Shelby, and Tom Weaver, Greenwood, S. C., Mrs. Ray Green, Mrs. Buford Padgett, and Mrs. Kendrick Hamloright, an of Shelby. Three grandchildren survive. Logan Returns Safety Anto Chief of 'Police IHugh A. Logan, Jr., Tuesday returned to Victory Chevrolet Company the city safe ty car. For the past four years, the chief of ipolice has used a new car each year through courtesy of First National 'Bank, which (furn ished money for the car without interest, and Victory Chevrolet Company, which furnished the car, then replaced the retiring model iwith a new one. Cost to the city was only the cost of operation. Chief Logan now will use one of the city’s police cars. He said he appreciated the ef forts of these firms, plus others which contributed funds for ra dio and other allied equipment, in contributing to calling atten tion to .safety. Right-Of-Way Policy Changed A netw edict from the federal government concerning right-of way for the federal fund inter state roads has 'been reported toy E. !L. Kemper, highway depart ment engineer. Mr. Kemper said the new rul ing which he just received on June 26 instructs the highway de. ipartment to dbtain right-pf-way only the width required. Tf 230 feet is enough, tha* .will Ibe o. k.,’’ Mr. Kemper remarked. “Originally the federal policy called for minimum right-of-way of 300 feet. Mr. Kemper noted that much .more than 300-foot rights-of-way are customarily required for ov er-passes and cloverleaf-type in tersections. He said an over-pass currently under construction near States ville required 69 acres, while still another toeing touilt in (North Car. olina required 120 acres. High t-olf-way originally ob tained for the U. S. 29 by-pass south of Kings Mountain was 260 feet. A numlber of Kings Mountain citizens attended the pulblic hear ing on t he proposed improve ments to U. S. 29 on June 26. Two Firms Pay Holiday Bonuses (Among Kings Mountain firms paying holiday - week bonuses to employees were Mauney Hos iery Company and Carolina Throwing Company, it was an nounced by officials of these firms. Both firms paid employees of (five-year or more tenure fourper cent