Merchants Collaborating On “Crazy Days” Promotion —
Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10.3*20
City Limits 7,206
The figure for Greater Kings Mountain -Is derived from
the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City
Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950.
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VOL. 68 No. 34
Established 1889,
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 22, 1957
Sixty-Eighth Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Public Is Invited To Inspect
Foote Mineral Plant Sunday
Local News
Bulletins
KIWANIS MEETING
Reports from Harold ICoggins
and John L. McGill of the Ki
wanis national convention
held in (Atlantic City will fea
ture the regular Thursday
night meeting of the Kings
'Mountain Kaiwanis club. The
clulb convenes at the Woman’s
clulb at 6:45 ip. m.
SUPPER
Women of the Church df Dix
on Presbyterian church \yll
sponsor an ice cream supper
Saturday beginning at 6 o’
clock p. ’m. at the church. (Mrs.
Wayne Wells is president of
•the Women Of the Church.
REUNION SUNDAY
Annual Weathers-IDedmon
family reunion will be held
Sunday at iRoseoe Baiptist
church in Shellby. Dinner will
toe .served picnic-style at the
noon hour, and the (business
session Will follow..
AUTO FIRE
IFire damaged the wiring and
interior of a car owned (by
Lloyd Peterson Monday morn
ing, City IFireman N. M. IFarr
reported. City firemen answer
ed the call dbut 8:30 to Baker
street, where the car had (been
parked, he said.
ONE PERMIT
Building inspector J. W. Web
ster issued a building permit
Tuesday to .Frank IMitchum to
erect a one story frame house
on N. Watterson street, at an
estimated cost of $4,000.
REUNION
Annual 'Herndon -Mitcham re
union will (be held Sunday,
September 1st, at Lake Craw
ford picnic area. (Picnic will Ibe
served at 12 noon, and all rela
tives are invited to attend.
WARE REUNION
Descendants of James Gri
mes and (Edilda Hamrick Ware
will hold their annual reunion
Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. (Frank 1C. Ware in the Oak
'Grove community. A business
meeting will follow the noon
meal. Mrs. Jake Hord, of Kings
(Mountain, is clan president,
and Miss Estelle (Barber, of
Charlotte, is clan secretary.
REUNION
Annual 'reunion of descen
dants off Maljor Hugh Borders
will be held Sunday, August 25,
at Kings Mountain State Park.
The clan will gather at New
Shelter (No. 2 for a picnic at 12
noon. J. Austell Graham, elan
president, will preside.
REUNION
Annual Harmon family reun
ion will foe held September 1st
at El Bethel Methodist church,
and all descendants of Hey
iwood and Polly Branton (Har
mon are 'being invited to at
tend. Dinner will ibe served at
1 o’clock.
UNION SERVICE
Sunday night’s union service
for five city church congre
gations will ibe held at St
(Matthew’s (Lutheran church
with Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor
otf Boyce [Memorial iAIHP church,
to deliver the 8 o’clock ser
mon. The service will mark
the last in the .summer series
of union services.
ATTENDS MEETING
iMrs. Wilson Griffin, of Kings
Mountain, attended the lunch
eon meeting Thursday of the
(Women’s (Auxiliary of the
'North Carolina Pharmaceuti
cal association in session in
Chapel Hill. The meeting was
attended by committee mem
bers and officers of the aux
iliary. Mrs. Griffin is on the
committee on resolutions.
Farmers To Cast
Ballots Friday
"If cotton is to remain the
number one money crop of
Cleveland County, then we must
“roll up our sleeves’’ and do
the job of promoting ourselves;
otherwise we can see cotton de
creased further,” said James
Cornwell, chairman of the coun
ty committee for the promotion
and holding of the cotton re
ferendum.
He particularly stresses the
importance of the Cotton Re
ferendum since our county is
“cotton minded.”
“We need everyone to help
put this program across,” he
said.
Roundtree Hardware in Gro
ver, Midway Service Station,
Bethware School, and Kings
Mountain Farm Center will
serve as polls for Township No.
4 when the referendum is held
Friday.
Polls will be located at Wray
Stirewalt’s Store in Waco,
Bess’s Store in St. Paul, and
Eaker’s Store in Mary’s Grove
to take care of Township No. 5.
Polls will be open from 6:30
a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Rites Thuisday
For Perry Child
Funeral rites for Richard Scott
Perry, eight-yearold son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sherman Perry, will toe
held Thursday morning at 11 o’
clock from Resurrection Luthe
ran church.
Rev. Douglas Fritz will con
duct the final rites, and interment
will be in Mountain Rest ceme
tery.
Young Perry died Monday night
at 8:15 p.m. at his home at 605
Crescent Circle after an illness
of seven years. 'He is survived,
in addition to his parents, by a
sister, Paula Christine Perry, of
the home.
Death was attributed to ne
phirtis. Young Perry’s father is
historian at Kings Mountain Na
tional Military Park.
The body will lie in state at
the church 30 minutes before the
service.
Pallbearers will toe Robert S.
McDaniel, Gene Mitcham, Richard
H. Jackson, and Robert A. Perry.
Child'TFimeral
Conducted Monday '
Funeral services for Martha
Ann Randolph, four year old
-daughter of Hudie and LaVern
White Randolph, of Gaffney, S. C.,
were conducted Monday afternoon
from Shuford and Hatchers’
Chapel on East 'Frederick Street
in Gaffney.
The Rev. Malcom M. Bullock,
of Beech Street Presbyterian
church, officiated and burial was
in Frederick Memorial Gardens.
The child died of lukemia after
a two months illness.
She is survived toy Wer parents
and a sister Susan Marie Ran
dolph. Also surviving are her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
L. White, of Kings Mountain, and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Randolph, of
route 1, Gaffney.
Open House
To Feature Tour,
Refreshments
Foote Mineral Company will
show its Kings Mountain opera
tion to area citizens at a mam
moth open house on Sunday af
ternoon.
The Sunday open ) house, to
which all citizens are invited, will
culminate a series of smaller
showings, which will include an
advance press tour on Friday af.
ternoon and a tour for families
of employees on Saturday after,
noon.
The Sunday afternoon event
will begin at 1 p.m. and continue
to 5 p.m.
Neil Johnson, Kings Mountain
manager, commented, “For the
past six years, Foote Mineral
Company has been extremely
busy in developing the operation
for production of a lithium pro.
duct which has become very im
portant, botH to the federal gov
ernment and to industry. During
the six years, the Kings Moun
tain operation has grown consid.
erably and, at the same time, has
increased its contribution to the
community in many ways. Dme to
certain restrictions, our plant has
not been open to the public and
we could not be as neighborly as
we would have liked. We are now
in position to better acquaint our
neighbors with what has been
accomplished and with the work
in progress now.”
For Sunday’s open house, Foote
is chartering several buses and
tours of the plant, mine area, and
other facilities will be conducted
by supervisory employees. Re
freshments will be served to all.
It was first planned to conduct
tours on foot, but it was deter
mined that too much time would
be required to accommodate all
persons. The bus tour was the
answer.
Friday’s press premiere will be
gin at 5 p. m. More than 20 rep
resentatives of newspapers, wire
services, and radio and television
stations, and trpde publications
are expected to attend the press
tour. Following the showing, the
visitors will be entertained at
dinner at Kings Mountain Coun.
try club.
Saturday’s employee family
party will also 'be from 1 to 5 p.m.
Invitation to attend the Sunday
open house is issued in a full
page advertisement appearing in
today’s edition of the Herald.
Photos show phases of the
'Foote mining process and details
are listed on points of interest
the visitors will sfee.
The Foote plant may be reached
from the N. C. Highway 216
south by the road leading past
Park Grace school. The Foote en
trance road is marked.
Foote Mineral Company’s Kings
Mountain plant employ- approxi.
mately 250 persons, has a payroll
including bonuses, of about $1,
000,000 annually.
REVIVAL
'Revival services are continu
ing at IFirst Nazarine church
with services held nightly at
7 o’clock. Visiting evangelists
are Rev. and Mrs. Eddie Burn
em, of Ashland, Kentucky.
40 Pine Bidge Community Pupils
Seek Admission To Park Grace
Approximately 40 county sys
tem school pupils, now attending
Grover school, are seeking to at
tend Park Grace school. The pe
titioners live in the Pine .Ridge
community.
County Board of Education Su
perintendent Horace Grigg and
Board of Education (Memlber Ed
win Moore were to confer with
parents of the students Wednes
day afternoon.
(Mr. Grigg said he didn’t know
what arrangements the hoard
could make, particularly for the
school term (beginning in Sep
tember.
Principal problem, 'he gussed,
would hinge on transportation,.
Originally, !Mr. Grigg noted, the
Pine Ridge area rwas in the Park
Grace school district. However,
it was vacant property. Mean
time, the route of one Grover
school (bus was changed in order
that it would cross the Southern
(Railroad at the Margraoe under
pass, rather than the Southern’s
double tracks. When the Pine
(Ridge area (became residential,
the Grover Ibus transported these
children to Grover school.
Mr. Grigg said classroom space
at Park Grace would ibe no bar to
the change, since Park Grace, due
to a school papulation drop, lost
a faculty member at the close of
the recent school term. Park
Grace will be a six-teacher school
in the term (beginning September
3.
Grover school will open for the
coming term a day earlier, on
Soptemtoer 2.
OFFICERS PLAN ACTIVITIES—Officers oi the Kings Mountain high
school chapter. Future Homemakers of America, recently met with
the chapter advisor. Mrs. John Gamble, to plan the year's activities.
Pictured, seated, left to right, are Mary Sides, vice-president Jean
Hicks, president and Mrs. Gamble, and standing, left to right, Di
anna Neal, historian. Kay McCarter, secretary, and Becky Blanton,
treasurer. Other officers present but not pictured are Janice Glad
den, Brenda Bridges, and Elaine Burton.
Merchants Ready
For “Crazy Days”
Giazy Prices
Will Prevail;
Mayor To Sell
Kings Mountain merchants will
collaborate Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday on a weekend “Crazy
Days” sale.
With 21 firms actively partici
pating, in addition to non-partici
pating sponsors, the merchants
are adding several “new wrink.
les” to the customary run of sales
promotions.
All participating firms, in ad
dition to featuring many bargains
on their counters and shelves, are
featuring “Crazy Days” extra |
specials at unusual giveaway
prices.
Purchase of the giveaways is|
not to be 'by normal means of
storming the particular place of
business to be the first in line at
opening time. By prior agree
ment, Moyor Glee A. Bridges will
serve as the salesman for the
giveaway articles. He will visit
the participating stores during
the weekend, some on Thursday,
some on Friday, some on Satur
day. To obtain the giveaway item,
a customer must be first to ask
the Mayor for the particular item.
In event more than one customer
asks the Mayor to sell the "Crazy
Days” special, a drawing for the
buying opportunity will be con
ducted on the spot.
It has also been announced
that free parking will prevail in
the city for the “Crazy Days” pro
motion. The parking meters will
be covered and the meter police,
man will be off duty.
Members of the committee ar
ranging the event were Jonas1
Bridges, chairman, Dick McGin-i
nis, and Odus Smith.
Here are “Crazy Days” specials:
the participating merchants are:
offering:
Alexander’s Jewelry, a man’s'
Gemex watch'band for 97c and
a new universal percolator at
$1.03.
Baird Furniture, a Jenny Lynn
spool-type bed at $3.49.
Belk’s Departmen Store, an
Heirloom woven bedspread at 77c.
Bridges Hardware, a used ro
tary lawn mower for 89c.
Cooper’s Inc., a used 4-piece
chrome dinette for $1.89.
Dellinger’s Jewel Shop, a used
ladies Bulova watch for 88c.
Dixie-Home Store, a 20-pound
turkev for a nickel.
Eagle Stores, a seven-piece kit
chen set for Sic.
Keeter’s Department Store, a
Golden Key bedspread for 99c.
Kings Mountain Drug Company
a protekto-pac big for 29c.
Myers Department Store, a
man’s $24.50 suit for 49c.
McGinnis Department Store, a
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GETS DEGREE .. Miss Patsy
Greene, of Kings Mountain, dau
ghter of Mrs. Kilby Greene and
the late Evans B. Greene, receiv
ed her nursing degree from
North Carolina Baptist hospital,
Winston Salem, on Sunday. The
graduation exercises were held
in Wait Chapel at th Wake For
est college campus.
Frye Stitched,
Gregory Jugged
Claude Gregory, of 319 Walnut
street, is 'being held in Cleveland
County jail under a $1000 bond
on charge of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to
kill.
.The charge against Gregory
resulted from a cutting scrape
which hospitalized Arthur IFrye,
of Baker street, with severe lac
erations of the head, ear, nose,
neck and chest, iAbout 100 stitch
es were required to mend IFrye’s
wounds.
Acoording to investigating of
ficer Paul Sanders, a call was
received Friday night around
11:30 to investigate a disturb
ance on Walnut street. Officer
Sanders said he found IFrye at
319 Walnt street on the porch
bleeding severely from cuts.
Frye, the officer said, related he
had been cut by Gregory, The
cutting, Frye was quoted by San
ders, occurred at Gregory’s home
and had stemmed -rom an argu
ment between him and Gregory.
Gregory later was arrested at
Kings Mountain hospital where
he had gone for treatment for a
lacerated arm and finger, the of
ficer said.
IFrye's condition was reported
Wednesday as good by his phy
sician. IFrye, who is at Kings
‘Mountain hospital, will proba
bly be discharged in a day or
two, his physician also said.
.Preliminary hearing for Gre
gory is scheduled for Monday af
ternoon at City Recorder’s court.
Schools Retain
Same Student
Assignment Plan
The city board of education
'Monday adopted the same pupil
assignment plan it used last
year.
In effect, it means majority
of pupils will attend the same
schools they attended during
the 1956-57 term excepting
those who enter high school for
the first time and those who at
tended other than assigned
schools last year, either due to
requested or voluntary agree
ment toy the Iboard of education.
Commenting on the assign
ment action by the (board of ed
ucation, Superintendent K. N.
Barnes said:
“In solving the annual prob
lem of teacher overloads, we
can foresee at least three over
load points and will welcome
volunteers for change of school
assignment from these grades.”
(Mr. Barnes said the fbrseeatole
teacher overloads are:
1) Too many pupils for the
one teacher assigned to first
grade at West school.
2) Too many pupils for the
one teacher assigned to third
grade at West school.
3) Too many pupils (for the one
teacher assigned to teach fifth
grade at Central school.
Under the .state statute govern
ing school assignments, parents
of pupils have u'p to ten days af
ter final publication of the as
signment notice to ‘file requests
for change of assignment for
their children. The legal notice
appears for the first time today,
will be finally published on lAu
gust 29.
IMr. Barnes said the same
forms used last year, first year
the new assignment law was op
erative, will ibe used again this
year,. The forms are available at
the superintendent’s office at
Central school.
Mr. Barnes said that parents of
pupils who have moved to Kings
Mountain since the last school
term should register their child
ren with the respective princi
pal of the school the assignment
resolution dictates they attend,
or at his office at Central school.
Text of the school assignment
resolution .follows:
“Children are assigned to the
same schools they attended last
school year. Pre-School children
are assigned to the school in
which they are registered. The
following exceptions are made to
this assignment:
“1. Children having satisfactor
ily completed the 8th grade at
the North School and East School
are assigned to the Central
School.
“2. Children grades 1-6 living
on (Railroad ‘Avenue north of the
Gaston Street Intersection, Clin
ton Drive, Hill Street, Gillespie
Street, Baker Street, Cherry
Street, Walnut Street, Chestnut
Street, iBennett -Drive, (First Street,
Second Street, Cleveland (Avenue
and east of Cleveland 'Avenue,
Owens Street, Bennett Street,
Floyd Street, York Road and all
territory east of York .Road who
have not Ibeen attending or have
registered at Central School,
West School, or (North School are
assigned to Bast School.
"3. Children grades 1-6 living
on Childers Street and north of
Childers Street who have regis
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CHAIRMAN--Paul Walker has
been named chairman of the
1958 Red Cross fund drive here, it
was announced yesterday by Red
Cross chapter Chairman Ollie
Harris.
Walker Named
Fund Chairman
Paul Walker, assistant mana
ger of Myers’ Department Store,
will serve as chairman of Kings
Mountain’s 1958 Red Cross fund
drive campaign.
Announcement was made this
week by Ollie Harris, Kings Moun.
tain chapter chairman.
Mr. Harris said the fund drive
chairman had been named earlier
than usual due to request from
national headquarters.
Mr. Walker was appointed at
I last Friday’s executive 'board
meeting.
Members of the board also nam.
ed Mrs. Grady King as secretary
of the organization.
Other officers are Rev. P. D.
Patrick, vice-chairman, Mrs. Pride
Ratterree, treasurer, Mrs. J. N.
Gamble, executive secretary, and
J. H. Thomson, auditor.
Mr. Walker, a member of the
Lions club, is a past president
of the Kings Mountain Merchants
association and an active mem
ber of Central Methodist church.
Principals
Now On Duty
Kings Mountain city school
principals have assumed their du
ties and are maintaining regular
office hours at the respective buil
dings in preparation for school
opening September 3.
Lawson Brown, high school
principal, has invited previously
unregistered high school students
(principally those students who
have moved to Kings Mountain
during the summer) to visit his
office to register for the 1957-58
term. He has also invited pre
viously registered students who
desire schedule changes to con
fer with him on Thursday or Fri.
day of this week.
Principals of other schools in
the system are: West, I. Ben Go
forth, Jr.; North, William George;
East, Robert Kennedy: and
vidson, J. A. Gibson.
Also assuming her duties on
Tuesday was Miss Alice Averitt,
city schools teaching supervisor.
Bethwaie Fair To Hold Tenth
Pre-Fair Barbecue On Wednesday
The tenth annual Bethware i
Community 'Fair Barbecue, fore
runner of the fair season in
Cleveland County, has 'been set
for Wednesday, Augast 28, ac
cording to an announcement by
Stokes Wright, secretary of the
Bethware Community .Fair.
The event, a barbecue party
honoring advertisers in the Beth -
ware (Fair catalog and other sup
porters, is the opening gun of
the 1957 season for Cleveland
county fair goers.
Tickets were mailed out this
week to catalog advertisers and
supporters.
Additional tickets for guests
and friends may he obtained toy
writing (Mr. Wright at (Route 3, or
by calling 793-R-2 and making
reservations. The price of addi
tional tickets is $1.50 and reser
vations must toe made no later
than noon lAugust 27.
The official fair catalog was
slated to'be mailed to advertisers
this week end. The catalog con
tains various information about
the fair organization, program,
exhibits, and prizes.
Officers of the tenth annual
Bethiware event Include: presi
dent, Tom IHamrick; first vice
president, Willard Boyles; sec
ond vice-president, 'Marion iDix
on; manager, Myers 'HarrJoright;
assistant manager, 'Edwin
Moore; .secretary, Stokes Wright;
assistant secretary, Mrs. La.-nai
Herndon; treasurer, Menzell Phi
fer; assistant treasurer; HaJ idor
rris; superintendent of grounds,
'Frank Hamrick; superintendent
of parking, Crady Seism; assist
ant superintendent of parking
Ben Hamrick; superintendent ol
parking admissions, Meari
Seism; assistant superintendent
atf parking admissions, Clyde
Short; superintendent of .tickets.
Dale Vdllibracht; assistant super
intendent of tickets, Lamar
Herndon and Jim Yarboro; Pur
chasing agent, T. L. Warlick; and
assistant purchasing agent, Wil
liam Powell.
Seventh Giade
To Be Returned
To West School
The city board of education,
after deliberating for 90 minutes
Monday night, voted unanimous,
ly to defer for another year the
establishment of a junior-senior
high school at the Central plant.
The plan finally adopted has
one change only from the four
school grade scheme followed last
school year. A seventh grade is
returned' to West school. Last
year, only six grades were taught
at West school.
Included in the action by the
board of education was a state
ment of intent toy the board to
lay plans now for effectuating
the junior-senior high school ar
rangement by the beginning of
the 1958 term.
Initially, statements toy the
board members indicated the new
plan would be adopted, but ex
amination of physical problems,
including insufficient classroom
space at West school, split-up fam
ily schooling situations,teacher
assignment, and distance of some
areas from North school, caused
members of the board to change
their minds.
Prior to the action, Superinten.
dent B. N, Barnes had outlined
tin detail the potential arrange
ments under both plans. He said
either plan could be effectuated,
but that the 1956-57 arrangement
appeared easier. He said the jun
ior-senior high plan could toe ef
fectuated toy 1) retaining a sixth
grade at Central school, or 2) by
i utilizing West school auditorium
for a classroom. He added that
numerous pupil transfers would
be required, however, and said
! state school officials, while will,
ing to “go along”, had suggested
the system may be better able
j to handle the change a year hence.
Mr. Barnes explained that new
S assignments lines under the pro.
I posed junior-senior high plan
would be: west of the southern
railway, West school; east of Gas.
ton street, East school; Southern
Railway to Gaston and north of
Waco road, North school.
All members expressed them
selves as favoring the adoption of
the junior-senior high school plan
on the principal grounds of sepa.
rating younger students from old
er ones.
But discussions brought these
objections:
J. R. Davis said he didn’t feel
it right for the board to require
pupils from the south portion of
the city to travel thto long dis
tance to North school. He said
many would not have private
transportation and that“walking
would be a hardship on many of
the little fellows”.
J. W. Webster objected to any
plan wHich would return class
room instruction to school audi
torium.
A. W. Kincaid, who had first
advanced the idea of utilizing the
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Wolfe Heads
McGill Clan
L. A. Wolfe, general manager
of Sunrise Dairy of Gastonia, was
elected president of McGills of
Gaston at the annual reunion of
the clan held at Bethel Arbor
Wednesday.
Other officers elected were Mrs.
Earl E. Carpenter, Kings Moun.
tain, vice^J resident; and Mrs.
Wray Plonk, Kings Mountain,
secretary-treasurer.
Miss Willie McGill, Kings
Mountain, is the clan’s permanent
keeper of vital statistics.
Ned McGill, retiring president,
presided at the reunion, which
featured an address by Dr. W. L.
Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memo
rial ARP church.
Named to serve on the nomi
nating committee for 1958 were
Mrs. Martin Harmon, M. D. Phi.
fer, and Mrs. Norman McGill, all
of Kings Mountain.
Merchants Observe
Labor Day Closing
Hilton IRut'h, in charge of (poll
ing merchants for decision on
(Labor ©ay observance, an
nounced their decision Wed
nesday
Labor Day Monday, Septem
iber 2, will be observed as a
holiday ‘by Kings 'Mountain
merchants. Stores will ibe clos
ed all day Monday and mer
chants will also observe the
half day closing the following
Wednesday.