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> Population VOL. 68 No. 33 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain la derived from the 1965 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950. Established 1889 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 15, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE FIVE QENTS Greater Kings Mountain City Limits 10,320 ,206 U Pages Today Local News Bulletins UNION SEHVICE .Rev. Douglas IFritz, pastor of (Resurrection (Lutheran church, will preach at Sunday night’s union service for five city church congregations at (First Presbyterian church at 8 o’ clock. LEGION DINNER (Legion (Post 155 will give a dinner in honor of the Babe (Ruth 'League (Friday night at 7 tp. m. af the Otis !D. Green Post. TENNIS TOURNAMENT (Registration far the [Deal St. Tennis Tournament ends 'Fri day. Applicants should con tact Jake Early at the Deal Street Recreation area. Age limit is 18 years or older. Tournament completion twill be around September 1. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $164.87. Of the a mount, $139.28 represented on street meters and $25.59 repre sented of!f-street meter collect ions, according to report from the office of the city clerk. BOARD SESSION •Regular August meeting of the city (board of education is scheduled to ibe held at the superintendent’s office on Monday evening at 7:30. KIWANIS MEETING The regular Thursday meet ing of Kiwanis will Ibe a pic nic at Bethany A. R. P. church on the York Road, convening at 7 p. m. ATTEND MEETING Mrs. Fred Cockrell and Mrs. J. B. Ellis, both of Grover, with Mrs. J. N. Gamble attended the Charlotte regional blood committee meeting Tuesday at Charlotte’s new public library. Mrs. Gamle is executive secre tary of the local Red Cross chapter. VFW MEETING Plans to organize a VFW in Kings Mountain will ibe discuss ed at a meeting Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at thle Legion Hall. All eligible men are invited to attend the re-organizational meeting. HOMECOMING Gamble (Hill Baptist church on Highway 29 will observe home coming at church services Sunday, August 18, according to announcement by the pas tor, Rev. W. P. Bumgardner, A. special song serviqp will .be held in the afternoon, Mr. Buimgardner safd. BE UNION Annual reunion of the des cendants of Nathan and Susan McGinnis will Ibe held Sun day, August 18, at Carlton club house in ICherryville. Picnic lunch will ibe served at the noon hour and a program is ibeing planned, it was an'noun-' eed by Paul McGinnis. TO MEETING Aubrey Mauney is among 22 Official visitors of the United Lutheran Church in America who will attend the Lutheran Federation meeting for two weeks in Minneapolis, Minn. The Lutheran World Federa tion, composed of 57 Lutheran church bodies in 29 countries, convent* each five years and this is the federation’s first meeting in the United States. Last meeting of the group was in Hanover, Germany. VOICE LESSONS Miss Julia Lee Rilbet, minis ter of music at First Presby terian church, will conduct voice lessons ibeginning about September 1. Interested per sons should contact (Miss iRilbet at the church office or at the city schools teaeherage. She is a graduate of Flora MacDon ald college where she major ed in voice. AT CONVENTION Judy Cooper, JoAnn Lackey, Jackie Dixon, Jane Gosey, Chip Thorburn, and Phil Mauney are representing the Luther League of St. Matthew's Luth eran church at the national Luther League convention in session in Lawrence, Kansas. Some 75 North Carolinians letft Iby chartered bus last Friday for the week’s session. ON RADIO PROGRAM Miss Linda Riser, Kings Mountain student who was one of three winners in a contest sponsored recently by Jeffer son Standard Broadcasting Company, appeared with the group of winners on a radio broadcast last Monday. Funeral Rites Are Thursday For Hendricks Final rites for Frederick Byron Hendricks, of Shelby, vice-presi. dent and manager of Kings Moun tain Mica Company, Inc., will be held at Shellby’s Central Metho dist church Thursday afternoon at 3:30. Mr. Hendricks died at Shelby Memorial hospital Tuesday night at 11:30. In declining health and suffering from a heart condition for the past year, Mr. Hendricks suffered a stroke of paralysis three weeks ago. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Hendricks, of Greensboro, he was a graduate of Guilford college and lifetime president of the college alumni association. He also held a degree in civil engi neering from the University of North Carolina. A onetime en gineer for the State of North Ca rolina, Mr. Hendricks was in the road construction business prior to World War II. Subsequent to the war, he opened mica mining operations here in 1948, was one of the organizers at Kings Moun. tain Mica Company in 1950. Kings Mountain Mica Company operates two plants adjacent to Kings Mountain. For many years he was locating engineer for Sou them Power Company (Now Duke Power Company). He helped to locate and con struct the Winston-Salem South bound Railroad from Winston Salem to Cheraw, S. C. He was resident engineer for building of the N & N Railroad from Char lotte to Gastonia and from Green, ville, S. C„ to Spartanburg, S. C. On completion, he was engineer in-charge of maintenance of way. He later organized the contrac ting firm of Hendricks and Ken. nedy in the early 1920’s, and was connected with this firm until 1945. Surviving are his wife, the for. mer Miss Edna Blanton, a son, Frederick B. Hendricks, Jr., of Hawthorne, Calif., a step-son Or. rhond Champion, Anderson, S. C., and a step-daughter, Mrs. Carlos Young, of Shelby. Also surviv ing are' a brother, Joe Hendricks, of Wilmington, and four sisters, Mrs. Dan Sharpe, Durham, Mrs. R. L. Elkins, Liberty, Mrs. Fred A. Summers, Richmond, Va., and Miss Edith Hendricks, Greensbo. ro. Dr. James Stokes will conduct the funeral service and interment Will be made in Shelby’s Sunset cemetery. Morgan Reviews Assembly Actions Major accomplishments of the 1957 North Carolina General As sembly were summarized iby State Senator iRofoert Morgan be fore the Kings Mountain ILions cluib Tuesday night, as he prais ed several changes in laws which he declared would save the state much money. Senator Morgan, of Shelby, had praise for the administra tive changes, the change where by the highway commission iwas abbreviated to seven men from 15, the change in formula of tax ing corporations which have plants tooth in Worth Carolina and other states, and changes designed to enhance the welfare of Cleveland County farmers. Administrative changes inclu ded setting up a department of property control and manage ment to supervise the state's many properties and naming of a director of the budget whom Senator Morgan termed an “as sistant governor’’. Morgan noted that the University of North Car olina, for example, didn’t hold deeds to some lands on which its buildings are constructed. Other cost-saving changes, he added, were setting up of clerical pools whereby “-floating” stenograph ers, file clerks and typists work in particular departments at peak seasons. He said a motor pool for certain departments would save the state much in (Continued on Page Eight) Davidson Lake To Be Opened For Fishing The city will open Davidson Lake to fishermen on Septem ber 1, and will offer year-round permits for sale at $12. The day rate will be $1. Action to open the lake was taken by the board of commis sioners la^t Thursday night. There are some prohibitions attached, among them: 1) fish ing is not allowed from the banks; 2) fishermen must fur nish their own boats; 3) gas driven motor boats are ruled out by state regulations. The lake has been stocked with bream and bass, which, City Clerk Joe McDaniel guess es, should now be good-sized. Gunnells Rites To Be Thuisday Funeral rites for Robert I Gun nells, 57, will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock at Mace donia Baptist church. Mr. Gunnells, in ill health the past five years, died Tuesday night at 7:30 at Kings Mountain hospital. A former textile employee, Mr. Gunnells was a son of the late Robert S. and Ossie Stroupe Gun nells. A native of Gaston coun ty, he was born March 6, 1903. Surviving are his wife, the for. mer Lela Gladden, a daughter, Mrs. Juanita Blanton, four sons, Clarence B. Gunnells, Charlotte, Jack H. Gunnells, of New Jersey, James F. Gunnells, Bessemer City, Peter S. Gunnells, in the Air Force at Langley Field, Va., and one brother, O. T. Gunnells, Kings Mountain. Burial will he in Shady Grove cemetery. The rites will be con ducted by Rev. T. A. Lineberger and Rev. Dale Thornburg. The body will remain at Sisk Funeral home until 3 p.m. It will lie in state at the church for an hour prior to the final rites. White Elected To Grid Post Richard O. White, of Kings Mountain, 1957 graduate of Le. noir-Rhyne college, has been e lected assistant football coach at Taylorsville high school. In addition to serving as assis tant coach, Mr. White will be an instructor in physical education. Son of Mr. and Mrs. George White, He holds the A. B. degree in physical education. He is a for mer Kings Mouhtain high school halfback, did not participate in organized sports at Lenoir-Rhyne, His wife is the former Barbara VanDeWater, of Danbury, Conn. Head coach at .Taylorsville is William (Bill) Cashion, Kings Mountain native. TrafficHazard Action Taken The city hoard of commission ers took several actions Thurs day flight designed to remove ■motor traffic hazards. The (board: 1) Voted to limit parking on W. Gold street to one side of the street, with the Mayor to poll citizens to learn which side oi the street will ibe for parking. 2) Voted to install a traffic signal at the corner of Mount ain and Cherokee streets. 3) Voted to prohibit parking on Cherokee street from (Mount ain street north, with exception Of three'15-minute limit zones to accommodate Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph custo mers. 'Mayor Glee A. Bridges said Wednesday he had not yet polled the W. Gold residents. TO FLORIDA Thornton S. 'Harrill will leave /Friday for Tallahassee, Fla., (where he has accepted a posi tion of eleectrical engineer in charge of design of (power plant (for Miami Construction I (Company. City Board Declines Power Rate Relief To Commercial Customers The city board of commission ers voted 5-0 last Thursday night to retain its present power rate schedule, thereby refusing to grant relief from the February 1 rate increase in the ibase com mercial schedule. (Last 'February, the commission had raised the Ibase schedule rate by 59 percent, from .88 cents per kilowatt hour to 1.4 cents per kilowatt hour. Commissioner Ben IH. Bridges remarked after the session it might be possible that the city would adopt additional rate breaks other than the four now used and Commissioner Bpyce Gault, electrical commissioner, acknowledged next day that this (possibility has been discussed, hut not decided. Currently, com mercial firms ibuy (power from the city on this ibasis: first 100 KWH @4.8 cents; next 900 @ 2.56 cents; next 1,000 at 1.6 cents; and all over 2500 KWH @ 1.4 cents. iMr. Bridges said, “Its pos sible we should have further breaks in rate, say at 5,000 KWH and another at 10,000 KWH." At Thursday night’s session, the commission turned a deaf ear to pleas of some of the 18 custo mers effected (by last 'February’s increase. {Continued On Page Eight) McKelvie Rites To Be Conducted On Thursday Funeral rites for Henry M. Me. Kelvie, 56, who died suddenly Monday at 5 p.m. of a heart at tack, will be held Thursday mom. ing at 10:30 from First Presby terian church. Rev. P. D. Patrick will officiate, and burial will follow in Moun tain Rest cemetery. The body will be taken to the church 30 minutes before the service. A prominent textile executive and electrical engineer, Mr. Mc Kelvie wa sa native of IFall River, Mass., son of the late James and Annie Rennie McKelvie. His wife, Ruth May Campbell McKe'vie, died suddenly two weeks ago. Mr. McKelvie, a graduate of Brown University in 1922 where he was High Alpha in the Lamb da Chi Alpha fraternity, moved to Gastonia in 1923 as general manager of the Loray and later the Firestone Mills, subsequently was general manager of Hunts ville, Ala., Manufacturing Co., manager of Aragon, Ga. Mills, ow. ner of McKelvie Machine Shop, and superintendent of Valdese Manufacturing Co., when he re tired in April 1956. Active in a number of church and civic organizations, Mr. Mc Kelvie was holder of the Silver Beaver, highest award in scout ing, served on the Gastonia city council, was a president of the Gastonia Rotary club and a past master of Gastonia’s Masonic lodge and a past president of the Piedmont Boy Scout Council, A SME, president of the Rotary club at Huntsville, Ala., president of the Alabama Boy Scout Coun cil, a member of the Huntsville, draft board and founder of the Huntsville community chest. He was an active member of First Presbyterian church here, serving as a teacher in the Boys and Mens Bible classes. He taught a Sunday School class at the local hospital. Surviving are three sons, Hen. ry R. and Gilbert McKelvie, Kings Mountain, and Milton McKelvie, Marietta. Ga.. three daughters, Mrs. Robert C. Carlson, Westco vinia, Calif., and Misses Anne Janet and Mary Duke McKelvie, Kings Mountain, a brother, Eve rett McKelvie, Tiverton, R. I., and five sisters, Mrs. James Allar dice and Mrs. James Roseigh, Somerset, Mass., Mrs. David Ham ilton, Wellesley, Mass., Mrs. Mary Greenhalgh, Tiverton, R. I., and Miss Jessie McKelvie, New Lon don, Conn. Four grandchildren also survive. Active pallbearers will include Wilson Stratton, Vem Carver, L. Arnold Kiser, Sam King, Harry Page, and Dr. P. G. Padgett. Honorary pallbearers will in. elude deacons and elders of First Presbyterian church and Carl Mauney, J. W. Webster, Gordan Hughes, Lawrence Patrick, Cla rence Jolly, Paul Mauney, Hall Goforth, B. W. Gillespie, H. R. Hunnicutt, all of Kings Moun tain, Dr. D. R. LaFar, Jr„ W. G. Hensen, R. M. Schiele, Ed Spen (Continued on Page Eight) Prepayments Total $21,000 City coffers were swelled this week as numerous citizens be gan paying their 1957 tax ibills to obtain the two percent dis count, and as collections zoom ed on 1956 taxes prior to adver tisement of their properties for sale due to non-payment. City Tax Collector J. W. Web ster reported receipts of $21,000 on 1957 taxes and an additional $6,800 on 1956 taxes. Current year taxes are payable during the month of August at a discount of two percent. The discount rate drops to one per cent in the month of September. Notices have been mailed to all taxpayers. Meantime, county tax notices were received by mail Wednes day by those citizens who pre paid county taxes last year. The .same discount schedule applies. Lynch Raises Bid Foi School Haywood E. Lynch has raised the bid of Patterson Grove Bap. tist church for the Patterson Grove school property, now being sold at public auction by the coun ty board of education. The church bid of $700 for the four-room building on August 5. Mr. Lynch raised the bid the le gally required ten percent. Re sale will be conducted at the county courthouse in Shelby on September 3. Bidding will begin at $770» Legal notice is being published today by J. H. Grigg, secretary to the county board of education. Patterson Grove school has been consolidated with Beuiware school. No Additional Appropriation Is Granted Recreation Group ' "w: H BIG VINES FROM SHAVINGS BED AND CHEMI | CALS--Frank Hamrick and his daughter, “Frank ie" Hamrick point with pride to the 10 and 12-ioot j high tomato vines which are providing juicy, ripe i tomatoes lor the Hamrick family of six. The tig t vines and tomatoes come from a bed of shavings, laved regularly with a plant nutrient. The Ham ricks think they’U have plenty of tomatoes off ten vines until frost. (Photo by Pennington Studio). . - ■ ■ ■ —. - . “Shavings” Soil Grows Big Crop Frank Hamrick Tries Nutrients Has Good Results IFrank Hamrick, the auto me chanic, can point with pride to his truck-farming ability, tout he doesn't claim the credit. Mr. Hamrick, as others have done before, experimented with “shavings” soil and food nutri ent last (April, and for the pas: several weeks his family of six have been enjoying all the toma toes they can eat and expect to eat them until frost. Other (fresh products are also out of the shavings Ibed, Mr,. Hamrick bragging particularly about his tasty green bell pep pers. Mr. Hamrick describes his shavings toed as follows: two concrete blocks high, 20 feet long and four feet wide. (He planted ten tomato plants on April 13, mixing them be tween three brands, Rig jBoy Hy brid, Potato (Leaf, and Jimtoo Po tato Leaf. The vines are now ten to 12 feet high, likely will reach 18 to 20 feet I before frost toites and kills them. The tomatoes harvested are mammoth size, Mr. Hamrick re. porting one which weighed one and three-quarters pounds. Mr. Hamrick uses in addition to his “shavings' soil, a plant nutrient called Wutri-lSol, applied to the shcfvings toed at the rate of one teaspoonful to one gal lon of water. Another product is a foliage spray called Minoral, applied on the formula of one teaspoonful to ten gallons oIf wa | ter. The cost is negligible. A seven - pound package of Nutri-Sol sells for $2.75. Mr. Hamrick has used nine pounds to date. The foliage spray is similarly reasonable in cost. Numerous Kings Mountain gardners have begun to use plant nutrients for their garden ing operations and all of them have reported success in growing tomatoes, beans, peas and other table delcacies. — MOOSE MEETING Regular meeting Of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will be held Thursday (to nights at 8:15 p. m. at the lod ge on Bessemer City road. Billing Machine On Bum, Says Clerk If your power bills have seem ed out of kilter, you may be right. City Clerk Gene Mitcham, in support of a request for a new billing machine for the city of fice, remarked: “One machine is shot, and it requires two to handle the vol ume of monthly utility billings in the required time. The worn out machine has been known to add $1 and $2 and get $7,” The Clerk’s statement brou ght laughter from audience and commission. The latter voted immediately to authorize re ceipt of bids for a new machine. Drewes Makes Up "Simple" Tax Form Fred H. Drewes, has originated a simplified federal income tax return form which he is submit ting to 'Russell C. (Harrington, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D. C, for consideration and possi ble adoption. The plan is the outgrowth of Mr. Drewes’ work as an account ant in the tax field and in cost I accounting over the past 18 years as well as his recent association with Robert H. Cooke, C.PJA. of Shelby. His plan would eliminate the short form 1040 A and he (Continued on Page Eight) School Boaifd Names Sandman, Bible Teachei The city board of education, in a brief called meeting, held Tues day, elected a bandmaster and a city schools Bible teacher. The bandmaster, who will fill the position vacated by the res ignation of Joe Hedden, is Mr, Charles A. Ballance, of Galax, Va. The schools Bible teacher, who will succeed Mrs. June Rogers Knox, is Miss Julia Abernathy, of Shelby. The elections cut to three the vacancies in city schools faculty for the coming term which opens September 3. The 'board still seeks two elementary teachers and a teacher of special education for the handicapped. Mr. Ballance, a native of Cum. berland County, attended the Shenandoah Conservatory of Mu sic, Dayton, Va., and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Music at the University of North Carolina. He subsequently earned a Master of Arts degree at Ap palachian State Teacher’s college. He has taught at Canlford, in the Forsythe county schools and has been bandmaster at Galax, Va., since 1954. He is married, He and Mrs. Ballance have two children. Miss Abernathy, daughter, of Mrs. W. E. Abernathy and the late Mr. Abernathy, of Shelby, is a 1957 graduate, magna cum laude, of Meredith college, where she mojored in Bible. She was recommended for employment by the committee for teaching Bible in the public schools. Miss Aber. nathy is a member of the Bap tist church. Sister Of Mrs. Putnam, En Route For Visit, Dies In Auto Crash Mrs. Dorothy Hazel Rickman, 38, enroute from Rockville, Md. Friday night for a vacation with relatives in Dunn and Kings Mountain, was one of the two persons killed in the head-on col. lision of two cars near Raleigh. The victim is the sister of Mrs. E. L. Putnam, of Kings Moun tain. Funeral rites were held Mon day in Dunn, N. C., where Mrs. Rickman’s mother and family re side. Also killed in the wreck was a negro man, passenger with two others in a 1951 Oldsmobile invol ved. Mrs. Rickman's husband, Samuel Rickman, was critically injured, and an aunt of Mrs. Rickman was also injured but not critically. They are patients at Rex hospital, Raleigh. Investigating officers reported that the accident occured when the vehicles struck head-on on a sharp curve. The Oldsmobile ope. rated by the Negro man was reportedly on the wrong side of the road and in direct path of the 1956 Buick. The Rick man car was demolished. Mrs. Rickman had been a mem ber of the Lone Oak school facul ty at Rockville, Md., for the past 11 years. Active in church acti vity, she was superintendent of the primary department of Rockville Baptist church. Maner Named To Replace Dean Payne In a busy session last Thursday the city board of commissioners took no action on a request to provide additional funds for the city recreation commission. City Clerk Gene Mitham, also ex officio secretary of the recrea. tion commission, had previously told the board that failure to ap. propriate more funds would mean the demise of the recreation pro. gram with the end of summer Several board members com mented favorably on the work of Director Jake Early, suggested he be employed by the city in some capacity during the winter, if possible. Otherwise, the board had a busy night, hearing several dele gations. The commission named B. F. Maner, insuranceman, to the rec. reation commission replacing Dean Payne, resigned, and de clined to rezone two properties from residential to neighborhood trading area. Adjacent residents had protested the re-zoning. In addition, the board declined to grant a public hearing for re-zo ning of the lot at the intersection of Country Club road, Mountain and W. King, streets. Arey Oil Company requested the re-zoning, but Mayor Glee A, Bridges re ported several objections had al ready been lodged. Properties not re-zoned were those of George W. Allen, E. King and Dilling streets, and a lot at the corner of W. King and Tracy streets. On request of Charles E. Dix on, Kings Mountain merchants ■ association president, the 'board agreed to alter its schedule of garbage collection in the business district. Henceforth, the garbage department will collect trash at 2 p. m., Mondays through Fri days, and at 10 a. m. on Satur days. Mr. Dixon said it would en. able the merchants to keep dean er surroundings. In addition, the board passed an ordinance set ting a fine of $10 on person, or persons, who fail to properly con tain trash or who willfully scat ter trash. I 2) Told a delegation of citizens seeking paving of Hawthorne Road that it coudn’t expect pav ing of the road until 51 percent of the property was represented on a paving petition. Charles Blan ton and Bill Eldon spoke for the group, asked if an old petition, bearing the name of Hal Plonk didn’t meet the 51 percent test. Mayor Bridges said it did not. (Mr. Blanton reported last week end that the petition had been completed with signatures of Hal S. Plonk and Fred W. Plonk.) 3) Referred to its committee on {Continued On Page Eight) Fanners To Vote On August 23 (Cleveland County farmers will vote on August 23 in two state wide elections. One election will determine whether the iNichols-for-Knorw How fee of five cents per ton of seed and fertilizer sold in the ' state. The other election is a cotton ! referendum, whereby farmers will vote “yes" or "no” on a fee of ten cents per bale of cotton ginned, these funds to 'be used by the North (Carolina Cotton Pro motion association, a trade or ganization to conduct research in developing more uses for cotton and to promote use of cotton. The county AisC committee has announced this week polling places and election officials. Ail farmers are eligible to vote in the tiwo elections. Officials and voting places in the Kings Mountain area are: Jtoundtree Hardware, Grover - Conrad Hughes, J. B. Ellis, and Paul Hamibright. (Midway Service Station, Claude Harmon, J. D. Harmon and Willis Harmon. Bethware school--J. C. Handle, Boyd Harrelson, Cameron Ware. Kings Mountain ‘Farm Center Ted Ledford, Hazel Bumgardner, and Alex Owens. Wray Stirewalt’s Store, Waco - - Wray Stirewak, George Dover, T. Z. Hord. Bess’s Store, St. Paul’s -- La mar Cline, Cline Wright, James Elliott. Eaker’s Store, Mary’s Grove - Louis Sellers, John Black, A. S. Kiser.