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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 <xf earnings and employees
of less than five-year tenure two
percent of earnings.
Mauney Hosiery Company was
idle this week. Carolina Throwing
Company is operating on regular
schedule.
(Majority of other textile firms
were closed for the traditional In
dependence Day vacation week.
Phenix Plant of Burlington In
dustries was the principal excep
tion. Phenix will take a holiday
week in August, the company
has announced.
City Tax Rate Set At $1.50;
Police Adopt W ork Schedule
WIN SCOUTING AWARDS—Sarah Rose Lennon, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. S. Lennon, and Mary Lillian Lewis, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. O. P.Lewis, have been awarded the curved bar, highest rank in
intermediate scouting, by Troop 4 of First Presbyterian church. Pre
sentation of badges and awards featured the Court of Awards held
Thursday night.
Curved Bar
Award Is Won
By Two Scouts
Girl Scout Troop 4 of First
Presbyterian church presented
badges and other scouting awards
at Court of Awards held last
Thursday night.
The curved bar, highest rank
in intermediate scouting, was pre
sented to Mary Lillian Lewis and
Sarah Rose Lennon. Second class
rank was won by Mary Ann Me- ]
Curdy, Priscilla Padgett, Laura
Page, Coral Ramseur, and Gloria
Hampton. Scouts receiving first
class awards were Marlene Weir,1
Jane Houser, and Mary Ellen
Stroupe.
Leaders of the troop are Mrs.
T. L. Kesler, Mrs. R. S. Lennon,
and Mrs. Lawson Brown
Potato Vines Give
Tomatoes, Too
A Kings Mountain Negro
family has reported the grow
ing of small green tomatoes
on two rows of Irish potato
vines in their garden.
Mrs. Georgia Bert brought
1 a large potato vine bearing
i both potatoes and tomatoes to
the Herald office Tuesday. She
I said she discovered the green
| tomatoes on the potato vines
Saturday.
The family lives on the farm
of Mrs. Bert’s father, Pink
Crawford, on route two.
TWO BUILDING PERMITS
Building Inspector J. W. Web
ster issued tlwo (building per
mits Friday. A permit was is
sued to 'Lela 'Bell to build a tiwo
room addition to a one story
house on W. (Ridge street, at an
estimated cost of $1,000. Dr.
Kenneth McGill was issued a
permit to build an addition to
his residence on Crescent Hill,
at an estimated cost of $3,000.
Carolina Mines Not To Opeiate
Until Pending Suits Are Settled
Carolina Mines, Ine., the kya
nite mining company, won’t go in.
to production until litigation
pending against Cleveland Min.
erals, Inc., is settled.
Peter E. Peterson, consulting
engineer for the mining compan.
ny, made the statement and said
he had been authorized to make
it by the board of directors.
Cleveland Minerals, of which
J. E. Herndon of Kings Mountain
is major stockholder, holds a min
eral deed to property owned by
the Shelton Heirs. However, the
heirs have lodged suit against
Cleveland Minerals charging that
the late Mrs. Shelton, for many
years a Gastonia restauranteur,
was mentally incompetent when
she signed the mineral deed.
Mr. Peterson said the company
would be in position to get into
production if the litigation were
settled. He said individuals are
willing to advance working capi
tal if and when the legal cloud
is removed from the mineral
deed.
Mr. Herndon commented, “Cle.
veland Minerals holds a mineral
deed to the kyanite properties
and it is a good deed. Mrs. Shel
ton was certainly competent. My
firm is quite ready for the suit
to be tried. Of course, it’s seldom
possible to dispose of law suits
overnight.”
Mr. Herndon also pointed out
that the Shelton Heirs have lodg.
ed suits against J. J. Mullinax,
also a stockholder in Cleveland,
Minerals, and against Carolina
Mines. Mr. Herndon said Mr. Mul
iinax obtained the original op
tion to purchase a mineral deed,
in turn sold it to Cleveland Min
j erals. The Cleveland Mineral^
contract with Carolina Mines stip
ulates that Carolina Mines pay
Cleveland Minerals .$10,000 min
imum per year, whether mining
; is underway or not.
Mr. Peterson said the Shelton
Heirs charge Mr. Mullinax with
obtaining the mineral deed under
false pretense. The deed, he said,
provides a 25-cents-per-ton roy.
alty on the kyanite ore processed
from the tract.
Mr. Peterson said Carolina Min.
es has leased mineral properties
of Dr. J. E. Anthony, and said
core-drilling and mapping is
j planned immediately. Dr. An.
thony’s property is also kyanite.
bearing, tests of out-croppings
have indicated.
Carolina Mines has been litiga
tion . harried for months. First
the president, A. S. McCulloch,
sued other officials in federal
court over differences in interpre.
tation of stock-grant contract
clauses. Meantime, the Securities
and Exchange commission order
ed the company to cease issuance
of stock for certain irregularities
in the sales prospectus and other
errors.
McCulloch’s position was sus.
tained and the company’s delay,
ed annual meeting was finally
held last December. One individ
ual advanced the company $75,
000 on loan to complete construe,
tion.
S3,500 Tagged
For Recreation
Plant Addition
Kings Mountain citizens will
pay this years taxes at a rate of
$1.50 per $100 valuation, action
was taken last Thursday night
by the city board of commissio.
ners.
Adoption of the tax rate, which
represents a cut of 20 cents per
$100 valuation, and discussion of
proposed work schedules for the
city police force featured the com.
mission’s “clean-up” agenda.
The board also went on record
as favoring a city recreation pro
gram and earmarked $3500 “and
more if possible” as a “sinking
fund” toward a permanent facil.
ity for a year-round program of
recreation in the city.
In its budget adoption discus
sion, city commissioners agreed
with Comm. Ben Bridges’ sugges
tion that “economizing should be
done in any spots' if the econo
mizing did not effect the services
rendered.”
The board had previously, in
its budget paring, discharged two
policemen and slashed $9,995 off
the police department’s estimate
of needs for the fiscal year which
began July 1.
Voting on the police work sche.
dule, eight of ten policemen favo
red adoption of Schedule 3, and
it was adopted on motion of Com
it was adopted on motion of
Comm. Boyce Gault, seconded by
Comm. Coleman Stroupe. Five
proposed schedules had been
drawn up by the commission and
the ten policemen, all present,
were asked to select the prefer,
red one.
Schedule 3 for first-shift po
licemen calls for one man to work
the desk, one man to operate the
meters, and the chief in the car.
On the second and third shifts,
two officers will be in the police
car and there will be one desk
man. Meter man and desk man
will be off one day, the swing
shift man will work 10-6 on Sun.
day, Monday, and Tuesday and
from 2-10 on Wednesday, Thurs
day, and Friday. The swing shift
officer will be off on Saturday,
one man will work vacations, and
one man will mann the swing
shift when vacations are over.
Officers on the police force are
Sgt. Tom Gladden, Sgt. B. P.
Cook, Sgt. Martin Ware, S. E.
Ware, Joe L. Harmon, E. W.
Bridges, P. ft. Sanders, , J. D. Bar.
rett, P. A. Hawkins, and Chief
Hugh A. Logah.
"We want a good police force",
Comm. Bridges commented,” and
we feel we have men who can
give us a good force."
The board also voted to create
a "sinking fund” for rebuilding of
the city electrical system on mo.
tions of Comm. Luther Bennett
and Comm. Ross Alexander and
voted to pay the mayor $500 per
yera for direct supervisory duties
in the city gas department, this
amount to be included in the city
gas system'foudget. Comm. Ben.
nett made the motion and it was
seconded by Comm. Alexander.
In other actions, the board:
(1) Set the salary of sergeants
in the police department at $255
monthly upon motions made by
Comm. Bridges and Comm. Cole
man Stroupe.
(2) Voted the following holi.
Continued. On Page Twelve
July Fourth
Closedown Set
Kings (Mountain will close
dawn tight for Thursday’s Inde
pendence Day holiday, which, for
those folk not a/way at (beaches,
mountains or other vacation
spots, promises to (be a quiet
holiday.
With many of the city’s tex
tile plants closed for the week,
many local folk are out-olf-tawn
on vacation.
Others iwill visit swimming
pools and other places for the
holiday, and numerous family
picnic outings are planned. Fish
ing is expected to get a 'big holi
day play in the numerous and
well-stocked lakes dotting the
area.
With exception of service sta
tions and amusement sipots, most
of Kings Mountain commerce will
be static for the day. Most mer
chants, who remained open Wed
nesday afternoon, will take
Thursday away from their busi
ness houses, re-opening on Fri
day morning.
The post office will be closed,
as will the Employment Security
commission office, the city of
fices, the Kings Mountain (Herald,
and all financial institutions.