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Population Greater Kings Mountain , 10.320 City Limits 7.206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1950 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. 1 P Pages |0 Today VOL 68 No. 31 Sixty-Eighth Year Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August I, 1957 PRICE FIVE CENTS Arjea Textile Officials Report Firmer Market Tone Commercial Firms To Wince OnPowerBillsOut Thursday Local News Bulletins ARP MEN’S SUPPER Men olf IBoyce Memorial AIRP church iwill hold a .supper meeting at (Lake iMontonia ipic nic area (Monday ni'ght. Men of the Church will meet at the church at 7 o’clock, and supper will ibe served iby the Macie Stevenson circle. UNION SERVICE Dr. W. P. Gerberding, pastor of St. (Matthew’s (Lutheran church, will deliver the ser mon Sunday evening when the weekly union service is held at Boyce Memorial lAlRP church. The service will (begin at 8 o’clock. ! KIWAN1S CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanis club (Will hold an inter-club meet ing with the Shellby Kiwanis club Thursday night at 7 o’ clock p. m. at 'Lake Montonia. Club members and families will be served barbecue toy Red Bridges, of Shelby. LEGION MEETING 'Regular August meeting of Otis D. Green 'Post 155 Ameri can Legion will be held at the (Legion building on (Friday evening at 8 o’clock, it was an nounced by Millard (Prince, ad jutant. The announcement no tice noted that 1958 member - ship dues are now payable. 'McGinnis reunion Annual reunion off descend ants of .Nathan and Susan Mc Ginnis will be held on August 18 at the Carlton Clubhouse, Cherryville, on Sunday, Au gust 18. Picnic dinner will toe served at noon and a program will be held in the afternoon. Paul McGinnis. of Kings Mountain, Is president of the clan. McGlLL REUNION Annual reunion of McGills of Gaston will be 'held at iBethel church aibor, off Cherryville road, on Wednesday, August 21, according to announcement by Miss Nancy Plonk, secre tary. Picnic dinner will be ser ved at 112:30 following a pro gram and business session at 11:30 a. m. Ned McGill is presi dent of the clan. BUILDING PERMITS Building Inspector J. W. Web ster issued two building per mits this week. Monday, a per mit was issued to Sunnie San dL-s Greene for repairs, at an estimated cost of $500. Thurs day, a permit was issued to IHaywood Lynch to erect a one story house in Stowe Acres, at an estimated cost of $6,000. HOSPITALIZED Mrs. Charles Murphy entered Kings Mountain hospital Sat urday after sustaining injur ies in a fall at her home. Mrs. Murphy, well-known Kings (Mountain woman, has taught the Women’s Bible class at (First Presbyterian Church for a number of years. HOMECOMING Antioch Baptist church will hold homecoming services Sunday with picnic dinner to foe served on the church grounds following the morn ing worship service. Negro Child Hit By Auto Floyd Jerome Jenkins, three and one-half year-old Negro boy of Watterson street was released from Kings Mountain hospital Saturday after overnight obser vations for injuries received when struck by a car Friday, around 1:30 p.m., on N. Watterson street. Lisfed by police as driver of the vehicle was Collie IB. Adams, Negro of route 3, operating a 1956 Ford. According to police reports, Adams was traveling south on Watterson street, when the child jumped from behind bushes into the path of the car. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Jenkins was reported to have received bruises and lace rations of the face. Property damage to the Ford was estimated at $10. Tax Advertising Starts Next Week Advertising of real estate for sale due to non-payment of 1956 tax bills will begin next Mon day, it was announced by Coun ty Tax Collector Robert Gidney. The number 4 Township list of tax delinquents will appear in the August 8, edition of the Herald. The following Monday, Au gust 12, the city tax collector begins advertising city property for delinquent 1956 taxes. The city’s advertisement will be pub lished in the Herald of August 15. Both Tax collectors urged that citizens pay their accounts now to avoid further cost and penalty. McKelvie Rites Held Satuiday Funeral rites for Mrs. Ruth May McKelvie, 59, were conduc ted Saturday morning at 10:30 from First Presbyterian church, interment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. McKelvie, wife of Henry M. McKelvie, died suddenly at her home on East King street Thlirs. day morning about 11 o’clock. She was a native of West War ick, Rhode Island, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George M. Campbell. A resident of Kings Mountain for the past 12 years, she was a member of First Pres byterian church. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are three daughters, Mrs. Robert C. Carlson, of West, covinia, Calif., and Misses Mary and Ann MpKelvie, both of Kings Mountain, and three sons, Henry R. and Gilbert McKelvie, both of Kings Mountain, and Milton McKelvie, of Marietta, Ga. Three grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Annie Campbell McCombie, of Granville, Ohio, also survive. Final rites were conducted by Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of the church. Active pallbearers were L. Ar. nold Kiser, Hall Goforth, Booth Gillespie, J. W. Webster, Htfrry Page, and H. R. Hunnicutt. Homecoming Set At Bethlehem BethleHem Baptist church will observe its 115th anniversary at Homecoming Day services plan ned on Sunday. All fqrmer mem bers, former pastors, and inte rested friends are invited to par ticipate. A picnic dinner will be served from 12 noon to 2 p.m. after which services will be held in the audi torium. Special music will be ren. dered followed by an address by Rev. W. G. Camp, a former pas tor of the church. MOOSE MEETING Members of Kings Mountain ■Lodge 1748 will hold their reg ular Thursday night meeting 'at 8:15 at the lodge on Besse mer City road, according to an announcement. Aii-Conditioned Firms Complain At Upped Rate ‘ By MARTIN HARMON A small, tout annually growing segment of the conjmercial com munity, will complain heavily today when they receive their bills for power consumption dur ing the period approximating June 17- July 17. It’s been hot and the power bills reflect the electrical toll ta. ken toy air-conditioning units. Last summer wasn’t as bad, for the city, which sub-sells Duke Po wer Company’s wholesale pur. chases at a handsome retail pro fit, didn’t extract the rate of 1.4 cents per kilowatt hour in the summer of 1956. Effective last February, the city upped its base schedule of power charges from .88 cents per kilowatt hour (all over 2500 KWH per month) to 1.4 cents per KWH, an increase of approxi. mately 63 percent. Since June 1, the merchants and city industrial customers game enough to supply air-conditioning for their custo mers and employees have had progressively worse headaches. The city has contended it sold power in the base schedule too cheaply — even less than it cost from Duke. An investigation oi tne city s billings from Duke Power Com pany for the past 12 months re vealed: 1) The most the city paid for power during the past 12 months was .7981 per KWH, a bit lower than the -88 cents formerly char ged base schedule earners .and far lower than the 1.4 cents per KWH charged since February 1. 2) The city, which presents it self no bill, as it does for City Hall heating fro the natural gas system, uses about ten per cent of the total city consumption. 3) Top consumption by the city and its paying customers during the past 12 months jvas in Janu ary 1957. a total of 1.345.20 KWH, billed out by Duke Power Company at .7452 cents per KWH. 4) Prior to using the 1.4 cents •base rate schedule, the city char ges commercial customers as fol lows: 4.8 oents for the first 100 KWH; 2.56 cents for the next 900 KWH; 1.6 cents for the next 1500 KWH. While total receipts on power sales for fiscal 1956-57 were not immediately available, Assistant City Clerk Joe McDaniel said an estimate of $246,000 would not be a great miss, indicating an ope rating profit for the year of ap proximately $100,000. Biggest paying city customer, and most hurt by the rate raise, is Kings Mountain hospital, which uses up to 32,000 KWH per month. Other customers of the city which are financially “hurt” are ‘Elmer Lumber Company, taxed an extra $70 for the month billed on July 1, and Joy Theatre. Mana ger Ed Tutor said his company’s officials got on the telephone to inquire whether he’d been stupid enough to leave his air-condit ioning operating 24 hours per day. Other customers who have com. (Continued on Page Eight) Kings Mountain Citizens On Tour Missed Mexico Quake By 17 Hours Five Kings Mountain citizens arrived home at 5 a. m. Wednes day morning after a near-miss on Saturday’s Mexico earth quake. 'Dr. W. !L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial 'A1RP church. Mrs. Pressly, their son James Pressly, Mrs. E. W. 'Neal and Miss Elizaiaeth 'Anthony were some 400 miles north of Mexico City, focal point of the quake, when it tumbled buildings and wreak ed havoc in the chief city of Mexico. The Kings Mountain folk, a mong a group of 31 on a private ly conducted ibus tour ef Mexi co, were sleeping pJacefully at iiatillo, Mex. They were Just 17 hours away from the earthquake which tumbled ibuild ngs they had visited the ,p../:ous week in Mexico City. Only inference of earthquake tremors at Satillo was fact that Dr. Pressly’s bag ifell off its rack. Was there a small tremor there? i Others of the aouring 37 noticed nothing amiss, felt no tremor. The touring group made the trip by air-conditioned (bus. Mex ican bus drivers took over at La redo, Texas, and spelled each other for the rest of the tour, which was conducted by Paul Grier, Jr., .son of an A®P minis ter and a faculty member at University of Texas. Mrs. Pressly said language dif ficulties were managed easily. Mr. Grier is a language special ist, another memiber of the tour spoke Spanish, and a Spanish youth about James Pressly’s age joined the tour as official inter preter. In majority of restaur ants, she added, someone on the staff could speak English. “These aids, plus sign language, ena bled us to manage quite well,” she said. In spite of the near-miss on the earthquake, Mrs. 'Pressly hearti ly recommends the tour to any and all. agrees her party was quite fortunate to miss the tre mor which cost 42 lives, injured 1500. > Employment Said Steady During July Kings Mountain’s employment situation held steady during the month of July, Franklin Ware, branch manager of the Employ ment Security commission is re porting to the state commission. Franklin L. Ware, manager, reported the odd fact that the local office processed 2,046 weeks of claims for unemployment com pensation during July—exactly the same number processed dur ing June. During June, the ESC served two “spot points”, two different ones in July. “Spot points” occur when plant officials notify the ESC there will be more than a minimum number of lay-offs. The ESC takes claims at the plant, 'rather than requiring the employees to visit the ESC office. At the end of July the number of work applicants had increased slightly to 549, including 98 new applicants. During July, the branch office placed 39 persons in jobs. Mr. Ware said he had been in formed by officials of Minette Mills at Grover that this firm is planning to increase operating schedules and that Slater Manu. facturing Company had resumed production on a basis of about \\k shifts daily. He said the yam producers are “doing pretty well”. Foote Employs Hoist, Johnson William E. Horst, native of Normal, 111., and George H. Johr - son, of Gastonia, have joined Foote Mineral Company’s Kings Mountain -plant, according to an. nouncement by Ben H. Goforth, Jr., Foote official. Mr. Horst was transferred to Kings Mountain in June when the minerals division was relo cated here, and Mr. Johnson join, ed tHe local plant in June as as sistant plant chemist. A native of Gastonia, Mr. John son graduated from Ashley high school there in 1950 and attended The Citadel, at Charleston, S.C., where he received the bachelor of science degree in chemistry. Subsequently, he was employed by Celanese Corporation of A merica as a developmental work, er on Tri-Acetate Yarn and enter, ed the service, serving 16 months in Korea as a platoon leader. Johnson and his wife, the for mer Miss Helen Jenkins of Gas tonia, are members of Gastonia’s First Baptist church, He is active in several civic organizations. Mr. Horst attended schools in Glendale, Mo., and Kirkwood, Mo., and the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy where he obtain, ed the degree of bachelor of sci ence in metallurgical engineer, ing. He received an appointment from that school as a research fellow and received the Master of Science degree in metallurgi. cal engineering. He has recently furthered his graduate studies at Villancva University in applied statistics. Prior to entering the army where he was commissioned sec ond lieutenant in the Corps of En gineers and attended Of ficers candidate school, he ■was emoloved by the United States Smelting Refining and Mining Co., at Baynard, N. M., subsequently joined Foote as me tallurgical engineer in the re search and development labora. tories at Berwyn, Pa. In addition to research activities, he has writ, ten several technical articles and is a member of the American In stitute of Mining and Metallurgi cal Engineering, member of sev eral honorary engineering and graduate societies which include Tau Beta Pi. Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi. He is married to the former Miss Margaret Ann Mil lard, of Webster Groves, Mo. They have a son and daughter and reside in Shelby. HS$ Herald Files Given To Library Complete 1956 files of the Kings Mountain Herald are now available at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial library. Bound copy of the 1956 editions was presented to the library last week. Files covering the period 1947. 56 are now available at the libra. ry > Mining Firm To Withdraw Stock Bid A registration statement filed March 29 with the Securities and 'Exchange commission by Caro lina Mines, Inc., covering a pro iposed stock issue of 679,469 shar es of common stock at par value of $1 per share is to Ibe with drawn,. This was the report appearing in the July 122 issue of the Com mercial and Financial Chronicle, a publication featuring financial quotations and information. Information on the why of the withdrawal was not available in Kings Mountain, though both Peter E. Petersen, former official of Carolina Mines, and J. E. Herndon, a director of the com pany, guessed that the unsettled litigation between the Shelton -Estate IHeirs and Cleveland Min erals, Inc., dictated the with drawal. The Sheltons seek to void a mineral deed held by Cleveland Minerals, Inc. Mr. IHerndon said he failed to attend a February directors meeting of the company and was unaware the stock-issue propos al had been filed with SEC. Mr. Herndon added that com pany officials from Chicago, 111., including O. S. Caldwell, assist ant general manager, are ex pected here within the next few days and that more information should be available on the com pany’s plans for issuing more stock and mining kyanite. Mr. Petersen reported that stripping is underway on leased properties of IDr. J. E. ’Anthony. ‘‘Indications are there are enor mous deposits of kyanite off good grade, ibut only a few samples have ibeen taken as yet,” Mr. (Petersen remarked. (MoGill Bro thers are handling the stripping operation. Kyanite is a high-type refrac tory used in high temperature boilers, in metallurgical opera tion, in manufacture of cement and ceramics. (Current market price is about $44 per ton, Mr. 'Petersen said. Joint Session Foi Ki wanians Red Bridges will serve a bar becue dinner to members of the Shelby and Kings Mountain Ki wanis clubs Thursday night at Lake Montonia. Families of the Kiwanians will be guests. Short talks will be made by Mayor Glee A. Bridges, of Kings Mountain, and by County Com missioner Mai A. Spangler, of Shelby, it was announced by Clyde Nolan, of Shelby, who arranged the joint session. Plonk School Plays Friday The Plonk School of Creative Arts, of Asheville, will present two plays 'Friday evening at the school theatre, One Sunset Park way. Cast of the plays includes stu dents at the summer session which opened in June. The School will present "House of the Heart” and “The iRector”. Curtain time .will he 8:15 p. m. Admission will toe $1 for adults. Among memlbers of the casts are Joyce iPlonk, Sue Hunnicutt, Carol Goter, Beth Houser and Wray 'Plonk, Jr., all of Kings Mountain. City Parking Lot Business Brisk The newly-paved, and opened City Hall parking lot (behind City Hall and entered from Cher okee street) has 25 customers for the parking spaces offered at $2 per month. Only one space remains available for rent. .The other spaces are reserved for full-time city employees and city departmental automobiles and trucks. A large space is re served for the electrical depart ment and a three-car space is reserved for the police depart ment. Cost of the parking lot pav ing was $1405.58. Neal Hawkins, of Gastonia, was paving con tractor. Tax Discount Period To Begin Thursday City and county 1957 tax ac counts will be payable, begin ning Thursday, at the fully al lowable discount of two per cent City Tax Collector J. W. Web ster said he had already re ceived payment from a few early-bird tax account payers and noted that notices to all city taxpayers will be mailed by August 5. County Tax Collector Robert Gidney won’t mail statements to all county taxpayers, but merely to those who prepaid their tax accounts last year. The county notices will be mail ed by August 10. Both agencies allow discounts of two percent in August. Spotted Fever Patient Out Tommy Blackwell, a Blacks burg, £ IC. youth, was discharged from Kings Mountain hospital Tuesday alfter receiving several weeks treatment for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Blackwell, was admitted to the hospital iFriday, July 12. iDr. Paul Nolan, attending phy sician, stated this particular dis ease i,s carried 'by an infected tick which is rare in this section of the country. (He also said there was a possibility the dis ease was transported to the Blackwell child from a tick winch had been removed (from his dog several days prior to the boy’s illness. iA check with the Cleveland County Health department re vealed that this was the .second case reported to the department since 1948. >Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, County Health Officer, said the Blackwell child’s case would not be credited to North Carolina, since the child was living in South Carolina when he became ill. The other case. Dr. Mitchell said was reported in Shelby iMay 17. Dr. Mitchell further stated, the disease can prove fatal, ibut with modern drugs, the fatality rate has been cut heavily. Cline Property Bids Received Bids on the Sarah Isenhower Cline property will remain open ten days, according to report on the sale 'by George Thomasson, attorney for the estate, and Dr, J. P. Mauney, administrator. At Saturday's sale of the four tracts of land, Thomas Gilbert made a bid of $2,050 for the prop, erty at 206 Morris street and his bid of $2,000 for the 303 Parker street property was raised by five percent by Marion Jackson. Mr. Jackson was high bidder of $975 for the Duke street property, and Gilman Brown, of Shelby, made a bid of $6300 for the property at 943 East Marion street in Shelby. The properties were auctioned on the sites Saturday morning. Sixth Grade Would Be Kept For 1957 Term City schools Superintendent B. N. Barnes was writing members of the city district board of edu cation Wednesday that physical facilities of city school plants will make possible the teaching of Grades 6 through 12 only at the Central plant during the coming year. Mr. Barnes said he had sur veyed the physical plants in the light of potential grade enroll ments for 1957-58 and it is appa rent all these grades can be taught at Central, a prelude to making Central a junior-senior high school. “Interest was expressed in this idea last year,” Mr. Barnes re marked, "and several citizens since have expressed renewed in. terest in the change, I don’t know whether the board of education will want to effect the change or not.” He added th'at he thought it wise to maintain present sixth grade classes at Central for one year in order to avoid one-year changes for students who have been attending Central all their school lives. Under the plan, the sixth grade would be eliminated at Cen tral for 1958-59. Otherwise, Supt. Barnes report ed, five teachers are still required to complete the faculty for the coming year. They include two elementary teachers, a band in. structor, a Bible teacher and a teacher of special education for th>e handicapped. The Bible teacher will be em ployed by the board on recom mendation of the city schools Bible committee, which, Mr. Barnes said, had reported diffi culty in obtaining a teacher. At the moment, Mr. Barnes said, he has three prospects for the band instructor’s vacancy. Most difficult to obtain, he says, is the teacher of special educa tion. Though a teacher of special ed ucation has not been alloted for. mally, state school officials have indicated one will be alloted, pro. vided a teacher can be found. Ramsey's Condition Remains Unchanged Delbert (Duke) Ramsey, in jured July 14, in an automobile wreck at the overhead bridge on Railroad avenue, was reported still in serious condition by the attending physicians. Ramsey was the driver of the car which overturned, plunging 45 feet down an embankment be fore stopping beside the railroad tracks. Thrown from the vehicle onto the train tracks, Ramsey sustain ed serious injuries in the wreck and was reported in critical con dition up until last week. He is a patient in Kings Moun. tain hospital. Lions Club Staging Triple Bill Between Loop Leaders, All-Stars National Guard, Rebels, and Jaycees will fill the bill as the league leaders in Friday night’s Lions sponsored triple-header ball game at City Stadium. Lea gue leaders were determined Saturday, July 27 and All-Star teams comprised of the remain ing teams in the recreation loops were chosen. A hard-fought, close race for top honors in the Slow-Pitch softball league ended Tuesday in a play-tiff between Lithium and National Guard, with the Guard coming out the victor toy a nose. Slow-Pitch All-Stars were list ed as toeing Clyde Adams, Char les Hager, and D. Jackson from the Lithium Team. Osage con tributed Ken Metger, Reggie O' Brien, and John Cauthen. The 'Merchant’s team chopped in with Joe Cornwell, Lueo Falls, and Hunter Warlick. with George Harris, Boyce Weils,' and Bob Rosberg coming from Foote. Bob Herndon, (Roy Pearson, and Boyd Smith were listed as the All-Stars from the jMargrace team. The Rebels won too honors in the Babe ftuth League hands down. An outstanding record of only two losses for the whole season copped the first place slot. (Babe-lRuth ’All-Stars include Dean Fleming, Ronnie Pearson Punch Parker, Phil Mauney, and Larry Owens from the tMauney team. Margrace contributed Jer ry Wright, Boibby Smith, Jimmy White, Buddy Kircus, and Bill Sellers. Don iHorn. Joe Dean Champion. Paul Hendricks, Robert Rudisill, and Larry Pearson were the All - Stars chosen to represent the Moose Team. A close first-place' race in the Little League ended with a tie between the Jaycees and Besse mer City. A last minute decision finds the Jaycees representing the league, in the absence of the Bessemer City coach, who is on vacation. All-Stars chosen from the var (Continued On Page Eight) Most Optimistic Foi Improving Orders, Prices The hoped-for August pick-up in the textile industry hasn’t oc curred completely, several Kings Mountain textile officials report, but many indicate they detect a firmer tone in the market. All in, terviewed seem optimistic for fu. ture months. Most optimistic report came from Frank Harry; Minette Mills Inc., Grover, who commented, “We've been pretty fortunate and are about even with last year. We currently have about 75 per cent of our plant on a six-day week and therefore you might say the late-summer pick-up is here.’’ Minette employs about 330 persons at Grover, manufactu ring bedspreads and upholstery fabrics, and another 70 at Gaff ney, S. C„ manufacturing tufted bedspreads. Reporting “firm tone’ indica tions were George H. Mauney, of Mauney Mills, Inc., and Jack Cross, of Craftspun Yarns, Inc. Meantime, William Ford, general manager of Massachusetts, Mo hair Plush Company’s Neisler di vision, reported good demand for yarns and added “cloth demand is as good or better as it has been recently.” Mr. Ford was quick to say his firm could use more fabric or ders, added his information indi. cates that fabric customers don’t have large inventories, a fact he feels is borne out by efforts of customers to buy for immediate or “spot” delivery. Mauney Mills, Inc., has no com. plaint about orders, has declined some to ask a slightly higher price, which Mr. Mauney des. cribes as “too low” This firm is operating on a five-day week, as is Bonnie Cotton Mills, Inc. Mr. Cross says his firm is run ning a five-to-six day operation, adds that^small but growing Co ra lee Fabrics is enjoying its best production runs and orders in a long time. J. T. Malcolm, superintendent of Lambeth Rope Corporation, manufacturers of narrow fabrics, reports this firm operating at 90 percent of capacity. Phenix plant of Burlington In. dustries, vacationing this week, resumes production on Monday. Sam Stallings, of Mauney Hosi ery Company, said this company’s situation is “about the same, with orders firm, but prices weak”. Mauney Hosiery is operating on a full-five day week of three shifts. Billy G. Bates Is New Coach Billy G. Bates, currently of Lineolnton, has been elected as. sistant coach at Kings Mountain High School, according to school, superintendent B. N. Barnes. I Bates, twenty-five year old I graduate of Wofford College, at. tended Cowpens high school and I Gardner Webb Junior College I where he played football, basket, i ball, and baseball. His new duties will be to teach the eighth grade and assist in j coaching all Mountaineer sports j activities. Mrs. Betty Wise Bales, wife of j the new coach, was elected to teach high school English here. ! She is a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne j college. Present address of the Bates is 502 S. Ryan Street, Lineolnton. Seccnd Bond Vote Planned By County County Attorney C. C. Horn confirmed this week that a new bond issue election will Iba nec essary to 'provide water and sew er lines for the proposed Pitts burgh Plate Glass Company plant. 'He said the original resolu tions are currently being revised and that he anticipates present ing them to the county 'board of ' commissioners on Monday. The second election, necessita ted by a legal snag in the June 8 bond resolution, will loe held in September, perhaps as early as September 6. Mr. 'Horn is collaborating with the county’s (bond attorneys, Mit chell and Pershing, of New York, N. Y., on drawing the new reso lutions. - ONE FIRE City Fireman C. D. Ware re ported Kings Mountain IFir" department answered a call Wednesday around noon to C & P Scrap Iron & Metal Com pany, Gastonia Highway, to extinguish a blaze which had ignited grass, trash and "two junk cars. Mr. Ware reported that damage was minor. %