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ft Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 The figure for Greater Ring« Mountain ia derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Units figure is from the United States’census of 1950. QJ Pages U\ Today VOL 68 No. 39 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 26, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Citizens To Vote Again Saturday On Bond Questions Local News Bulletins HOSPITALIZED James 'Logan, (Margrace IMil'l finishing plant employee, is in Kings Mountain hospital re ceiving treatment for a stroke of paralysis suffered Monday. (Mr. Logan’s condition was re ported Wednesday as fair toy ihis wife, (Mts. Juanita Logan, •who is a teacher in the city school system. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter collections for two weeks ending Wednesday at noon totaled $322.41, with $272.45 coming from on-street meters, another $49.96 from Cherokee parking lot meters, City Clerk Gene Mitcham re ported. IMPROVING Earl E. Carpenter, Who suffer ed a stroke several weeks ago, was said Wednesday 'by his wilfe to toe showing some im provement in his general con dition. Mr,. Carpenter recent ly retired after being employ ed several years as bookkeeper for Ben T. Goforth, Plumlbing. TO BOONE Miss Martha Ann Baker, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ba ker, has enrolled for the fall term at Appalachian State Teacher’s college, Boone, Miss Baker was graduated last year from Mars Hill Junior college. YOUTH MEETING The young people Of Grace Methodist church will be host to the Gaston suib-district of the Methodist Youth (Fellow ship at a meeting here Thursday evening, September 26, at 7:30 d. m. METHODIST MEETING The Young Adults of Grace Methodist church will toe host to the Gaston Young Adult Suto-district on Friday night at 7:30 p. m. Or. James G. Hug gins, Jr., district superinten dent of the Gastonia district, will toe present to install the new officers. SALE SATURDAY Grace Methodist Church is sponsoring sale of hotdogs, hamtouigers, french fries, homemade cakes, coffee, and ^ott drinks at the church fel lowship hail Saturday Ibegin ning at 11 a. m. and continu ing throughout the afternoon and evening. Orders will toe de livered toy telephoning 1325. JOINS STAFF Mrs. Fat Malcolm Howard has joined the staff df Sudie’s Beauty Shop, according to an announcement by Mrs. Andrew Jenkins, manager. Mrs. How ard is the wife of Avery How ard. SUPPER Seniors of Grover high school will, serve a Ibaiibecue supper Saturday night from 5 o’clock to 8 p. m., at the school cafe teria. Tickets are one dollar for adults and 60 cents for child ren. TO GREENVILLE Second [Lieutenant 'Joe Donald (Roberts, son’oflMr. and Mrs. [Lee Roberts, wi'll report IFriday to Donaldson Air [Force Base, Greenville, S. C. for a tour oif duty with the air (force. iA Rally Day program will Ibe ipresented at the Sunday School hour at First Presbyterian church Sunday. The program will ibe supplemented with music by children of all ages. A tenge attendance is expect ' ed. KIWANIS CLUB Thomas L. Trott, Kings (Moun tain insurance agent, will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club at the “gular meeting * Thursday 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s Club. AT GARDNER - WEBB L Charles (Ray Bridges, son of I (M!r. and Mrs. Everette T. >Brid I ges, has enrolled in the fresh i man class at Gardner-Webb I Junior college, Boiling Springs. RALLY DAY The club convenes at Industry-Boosting Firm Asks Charter 10,000 Shares To Be Authorized At $10 Per Share Six incorporators filed applies, tion for state Charter for Kings Mountain Industries Development Corporation, Inc., this week. The corporation certificate, be. ing formed under the sponsorship of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce, 'bore the signatures of F. W. Plonk and W. K. Mauney, members of the Chamber of Com. merce committee to launch the industrial development company, and G. A. Bridges, B. S. Neill, J. Wilson Crawford and Ben H. Bridges. The certificate of incor poration was approved by the Chamber’s board of directors last Thursday night. The certificate stipulates that authorized capital stock be $100,. 000 divided into 10,000 shares of $10 each. The six incorporators will serve as temporary directors of the cor. poration until a stockholders meeting is held to adopt iby-laws and to elect officers. Objects of the corporation are: a) To aid in the stimulation and promotion of industrial de. velopments in the City of Kings Mountain and the County of Cleveland. North Carolina. to) To purchase and sell any buildings, lands, rights of way, easements, or anything pertain ing to the location and establish, ment of Industry in the vicinity of 'Kings Mountain, or Cleveland County, North Carolina. c) To construct or cause to toe constructed by contract any build, ing or site for industrial or com mercial purposes and to own, lease or hold the same, or to con struct and sell the said toulidings or sites to any party, firm or cor. poration. d) To borrow money or loan money and secure the same by the issuance or acceptance of chattel mortgages, deeds or trust, mortgages or other commercial papers as required and to issue debenture bonds or other evidence of indebtedness securing an ob ligation. e) To use any funds in the said corporation for the promo tion of industry and the encou ragement to industries to locate in Kings Mountain of Cleveland County, North Carolina. f) To carry on such other ac. tivities as the Board of Directors may determine necessary to ac complish the purposes of this cor poration and in order to properly prosecute the objects or purposes above set forth, the corporation shall have power and authority to purchase, lease, and otherwise ac. quire, hold, mortgage, convey and otherwise dispose of all kinds of property, both real and personal, both in this state and in all other states, territories and dependan. cies of the United States, and generally to perform all acts which may be necessary or ex pedient for the proper and suc cessful prosecution of the objects and purposes for which the cor poration is created. >■ T Weather, Court Give Whammy Truce Motorists had a whammy (free week, city police Chief Hugh A. iLogan, Jr,., reported, compliments of the foul wea ther and a civil court term. It had been intended to use the electric speed-timing de vice Wednesday, 'but two of ficers were involved in dam age cases in Superior Court. Chief Logan commented, "I’ve less complaints from citizens concerning speeding in resi dential areas and feel traffic has slowed somewhat. We’ll use the whammy on city streets more than on highways through the city. We do want to slow in-city traffic for the safety of (pedestrians and play ing children. That’s the point, rather than hailing folk to court.” Gas Wai Hottest On Groves Road The local area gas price war remained steady this week, ex. eept for an especially localized battle on Grover Road, where three establishments posted signs advertising regular grade gas for 25.9 cents per gallon. A distributor said the battle e rupted due to personal difficulties between Glass Grocery, Inc., Esso dealer, and Blalock and Wells Grocery, a Shell dealer. Accord, ing to the distributor Blalock and Wells placed a sign close to the property line, having the effect of making entry to the Glass pumps more difficult. The Glass answer was the 25.9-cent price, four cents under uptown service stations. Smith Grocery, also a Grover Road Esso dealer pared his price to the same figure, and McCoy’s uptown independent, par. ed to 26.9 cents for regular grade gas. The distributor acknowledged that th^Grover Road outlets, left with a gross profit margin of only One cent per gallon, were pumping a considerable amount of gas. Some uptown stations are pumping less than normal, even with their lowered prices, he said his delivery records show. VFW Officers To Be Elected Officers of Kings Mountain VIEW Post 9811 will Ibe elected Tuesday night at a meeting of the organization at 7:30 p. m. at City Hall. Tuesday will Ibe the first of ficial meeting off the V1F1W here, Rhea Baitber, temporary chair man, said Wednesday. ‘We urge old members and any prospec tive new members to ibe present for the organizational meeting and election of officers,” he said. iFrank Glass, off Kings 'Moun tain, is serving as temporary ser vice officer. Coach Chastizes Self For Enoirs, Thinks Team Coming Along Nicely John Garni hie, high school foot ball head coach, had praise for his charges and some criticism of himself and his staff Tuesday night, as he reviewed for the Kings Mountain (Lions Club his team’s 1967 record to date df two victories and one loss. Coach Gamlble said he blamed himself and the staff for some of the mistakes which cost the loss of the West Mecklenburg game and noted, "We don’t blame the players when we haven’t told them something; we blame ourselves. We only blame the players when they make mis takes against which they’ve been warned.’’ 'He said, he called a pass play in the West Mecklenburg game which went awry when the de fense shifted. "I should have let the quarter back call the play,” he said, add ing, “we try to hold the opposing team to two and three yard gains, concentrating on breaking up the long run or pass ‘touchdown play’. Prior to the Mecklenburg game, we hadn’t worked hard e nough on pass defense.” He said the Bessemer City per formance was .satisfactory for “an opening game”, thought the sophomores in the line-up did well. (He was disappointed, he said, with the offensive perform ance against Cherryville. "I couldn't blame it on the muddy field, for, after all, the team gained consistently until it got into deep scoring territory.” Outlining for the Lions the manpower at the various posi tions, Coaeh»Gamble had high praise for Halflbaok Don Gladden, Whom he termed "the most im proved player on the squad” and for Fullback Wray Plonk whom he termed “second most improv ed”. He predieted Don Fisher, a sophomore filling the Shoes of departed Johnny MdGinnis, will (Continued on Page Bight) 9-< No Integration Applicants Here Baines Reports “No Negro pupils have asked for admission to whitp city schools—ever,” Superintendent B. N. Bames told the Herald Wed nesday. Mr. Bames was replying to a question put by the Herald on rumors that Negro pupils had sought admission and had been denied. “I wonder how those rumors start,” Mr. Barnes continued. Speculating, he thought it pos sible misimpressions were reach ed by pupils or citizens who might have observed Negro students in the Central building. “My office is in Central school,” Mr. Bames noted, “and Davidson pupils frequently come to my of fice to bring reports and to pick up supplies, as do pupils from the other schools in the city system.” Church Officers To Be Installed St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will resume the regular schedule of Sunday School at 9:45 and Worship at 11 a.m. Sunday. It will he Rally Day and Promotion Day. The children will give a pro. gram at the opening of Sunday School, and a memorial cross for their department will be blessed. The cross is the gift of Lawrence Mauney in memory of his wife. The Sunday School staff will toe installed at thle church service, and these include Ray Cline, gene ral superintendent; William Hern don, assistant superintendent; John Lackey and Hubert Ader holdt, secretaries; Louis Falls, assistant secretary; Mrs, Helen Blanton, superintendent of Pri. mary and Junior departments; Mrs. L. A. Kiser and Mrs. J. A. Cooper, Beginners; Mrs. Ben Bridges and Mrs. James Simpson, Nursery. Teachers in the various departments include Ben Bridges, Carl Mauney, A. S. Kiser, Bruce Thorburn, Jacob Cooper, George H. Mauney, J. E. Herndon, Jr., Mrs. William Herndon, Mrs. James Herndon, Mrs. W. K. Mau. ney, Sr., Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr., Mrs. Robert Rosberg, Mrs. Floyd Queen, Mrs. Charles Ramsey, Mrs. Hugh Yates, and Misses Grace, Carpenter, Louise Kiser, Joann Lackey, and Ruth Randall, and Aubrey Mauney. First Wesleyan To Bnild Manse First Wesleyan Methodist chur ch will receive ibids this weekend on the construction of a new eight room parsonage. The church has purchased a North Piedmont avenue lot for the ranch-style dwelling. Rev. J. W. Phillips, pastor off the church, said the parsonage project is part of a long-term plan to build a church educa tional plant. When the present Waco Road parsonage is vacated, it will be used for Sunday school classrooms, until the church has funds to raze the building and replace it with an educational building. 700 Attended BurMil Party Phenix Plant of Burlington fn dustries held its annual party for employees and their families Saturday, and some 700 persons attended the City Stadium event. Entertainment was featured 'by the appearance of Fred Kirby, WBT-TV performer. Games were arranged for all age groups and prizes were a warded the winners. Following the afternoon’s en tertainment, barbecue dinner was served. Belk Managers Met Tuesday 'Area managers of 'Bel'k Stores were guests of the Kings Moun tain store Tuesday at a dinner meeting held at the Woman’s Club. The meeting is one of five manager sessions held annually and attracted managers from Boone, Spruce Pine, Bryson City, Franklin, Batesburg, S. C.,. and intervening points. C. O. Armstrong, of the Char lotte Belk’s store, was principal speaker at the dinner. Hilton Ruth, manager of the' host store, presided. y Fred Smith Instantly Killed As Train Hit Car Wednesday City's Autumn Street-Paving Work Underway The city’s fall street-paving program got underway Wednes | day, as Neal Hawkins, Gastonia contractor, began dropping hot mix asphalt on Hawthorne Road in Crescent Hill. J<*; McDaniel, assistant city clerk, said approximately 2.5 miles of city streets will toe paved, with virtually all streets for which petitions have been ap proved, to be hard- topped. Ex ceptions are those where utility line installation work has not been completed. Listed for paving within the next few weeks, in addition to Hawthorne Road, are Henry street, Spruce street, Maple street, Ramseur street (serving North school), Mountain View street, S. Gaston street, from Gold street south, Slater street, Juniper street (from Mountain to King), Hill, side Drive (from Hawthorne to Marion), Katherine avenue (from Jackson to Groves), Monroe ave nue (from Linwood to Jackson), Jackson street (from Cleveland to Rhodes), Lackey street (from Gantt to Alexander) and a portion of Groves street. Mr. McDaniel said the total cost would approximate $29,000. The contractor bills the city separately for each 9treet. , Bid Receiving On Board Agenda The city board of commission ers was to meet Wednesday night at 7:30 to open and consider bids for several street improvement projects. ■They included: 1) Improvements to West King street, from the hospital entrance to the city limits, including wid ening of the road bed, install ation of curb-and-gutter and sidewalks on 'both sides olf the street. The state highway com mission will reimburse the city for expense of this project. 2) Sidewalk construction on Ramseur street and Mountain View street 3) Cubb-and-gutter construct ion on West Mountain street. NCEA Planning Education Week Plans for observance of Nation, al Education Week were laid at a meeting Tuesday of the execu tive committee of the Kings Moun. tain unit of the NCEA. I. B. Goforth, Jr., is chairman of the committee planning the annual observance in the schools and outlined the work of his com. mittee. Discussion was held in connection with a fund-raising project to assist teacher repre sentation from the local unit to the state meeting in Asheville in the spring along with opera ting expenses for the current year. Two projects will be underta. ken by the local group. The tea chers will play the high school basketball teams just prior to the opening of the regular basket ball season and a talent, or min strel show by the teachers will be presented later on during the cur. rent school year. A seven-member committee was appointed for the purpose of formulating plans for the show. ! I Mrs. W. F. Powell, NCEA president, conducted the meeting, and committee chairman gave re ports. Mrs. John Gamble, secre. tary, presented the financial re port. SINGING A program otf singing will be held at Gamble Hill Baptist church Sunday night at 7:30 p. •m., and all area singers and visitors are invited, according to announcement (by the pas tor, 'Rev. IW. P. Bumgardner. Barnette Brothers, off Spartan burg, S. C, will be among the i group od singers expected to at- I tend. iS SPEAKER—John H. Noyes, Du Pont company Southern district manager in the extension divi sion. will address Kings Moun tain Jaycees at the civic club's Tuesday night meeting. Noyes To Speak To Jaycees John H. Noyes, Southern dis. trict manager for the Du Pont company’s extension division, will address the Junior Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. Kings Mountain Jaycees will convene for the regular meeting at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s club. Mr. Noyes will discuss the role of industrial research and busi ness* enterprise in strengthening national economy and improving the American standard of living. The program, entitled, “Commu nity of Progress”, will be docu mented by display of a number of recent scientific developments, some so new as to be still in the experimental stage. He will cite examples of the inter-dependence of all segments of the American business establishment in creat ing today’s progress and seeking solutions to tomorrow’s problems. Mr. Noyes, who makes his headquarters in Atlanta, Ga„ joined Du Pont at Wilmington, Delaware, early in 1955 as a mem ber of the Public Relations de partment’s information division.) Later, he was transferred to the ) extension division where he serv.! ed as manager of the Eastern district before being appointed, manager of the Southern dis-1 trict. He was graduated from Wesle-) yan University in Middletown, Conn., In 1944. After three years in the Navy during World War II, he became a reporter for the Port Huron, Michigan Times Herald, subsequently was a re. porter, radio newscaster, and ed itor for five years at the Ohio Journal Herald in Dayton. From 1953-55, he was a member of the administrative staff of Wesleyan University. PURCHASE HOME Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Thorburn have purchased the William IFord residence. The eight-room brick residence is located out side the city limits, off Phifer Road. The Thorburn family has been living on Waco Road. Funeral Rites For Margrace Employee Friday Fred Smith, 43-year-old Kings Mountain textile worker, was kill, ed instantly Wednesday morning in the collision of his car and a northbound train No. 136 at a Margrace crossing. Mr. Smith was enroute Mar grace Mill, where he is a first shift employee. The accident oc curred about 6:25 a.m. at the Margrace dirt road crossing, near Macedonia church. The locomotive, after striking Smith’s car, carried the vehicle 3767 feet down the track, accord, ing to report of Engineer C. P. Holcomb, of Charlotte, and Con ductor C. W. Gibson, of Green ville, S. C. Mr. Smith, a bachelor, made his home here with a sister, Mrs. Troy Wright, and family who live on City Street. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Smith, of Lawn dale, and five brothers and six sisters. They include T. B. Smith, Clyde Smith, Guy Smith, all of Shelby, David Smith, Jr., Kings Mountain, Hubert Smith, of Lawn, dale, and Mrs. Troy Wright, of Kings Mountain, Mrs. E. L. Em. ory, Duncan, S. C., Mrs. Hobert Hipp, Shelby, Mrs. Carl Brady, Lowell, Miss Hedy Smith, Con cord, and Mrs. George Maida, of Long Island, New York. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock from Mt. Pleasant Methodist chur. ch near Casar, with interment to follow in the church cemetery. Rev. H. G. McElroy, of Kings Mountain will assist the pastor of the church in conducting the service. The body will be taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Smith in Fallston Thursday at 4 o’clock and will lie-in-state at the church 30 minutes before the service. White Cane Sale To Be Saturday Annual White Cane sale fo: benefit of the blind will be eon ducted Saturday, under sponsor ship of the (Lions cluib. Girl Scouts of the (First Prasby terian church troop, under thr leadership of (Mrs. It. S. Lennor and Mrs. Tom Kesler, will conduct the street sale. Jonas Bridges, manager of Sta tion WKMT, is chairman of the project. Proceeds Ifrom the sale iwill ibe used iboth locally and state wide to aid the (blind and for sight conservation work. Principal continuing project of Lions clubs is sight conservation. "We urge citizens to buy the White Canes and to help us bring light to those in darkness’’, Mr. Bridges commented. War Against Polio Is Underway, With Salk Shots Given En Masse A total of 88 adults, employees of Mauney Hosiery Company, got popped in the arms with Salk anti-polio vaccine Tuesday, as the Kings Mountain Lions club open, ed its drive for mass immuniza tion of adults against infantile paralysis. The Lions here are collabora ting with all Lions clubs of Cleve land County and the county health department in encouraging adults to take the shots, which are being offered for 75-cents per shot, or $2.25 for the three-shot series. The county health department contingent will be at Phenlx plant of Burlington Industries on Friday afternoon for a four-hour stint. R. B. Payne, personnel man ager, said he hadn’t completed a canvass of those who want the shots, guessed a large number would avail themselves of the ser. vice. ’ Rev. Douglas Fritz, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, is Kings Mountain chairman of the project. He said Wednesday he was contacting other industrial firms to determine who wanted the shots and he also invited any group interested in a Salk vac cine clinic to call him. Present schedule calls for the Cleveland County Health depart, ment to give first of three Salk shots here on Friday afternoon. Tuesday morning, Thursday af ternoon, October 3, and all day Friday, October 4, (9 to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.). The October 3 date calls for the health department folk to be at City Hall, when individuals are invited to come up for shots. The shots are being administer ed to adults from 20 to 40 years of age. “We’re anxious to stamp out polio," Lion Fritz said, ‘‘and this is a good opportunity for citizens to protect themselves and others." $415,000 Utility Issues At Stake In County Voting Cleveland County citizens will return to the polls Saturday in a second effort to determine whether the county shall issue $415,000 in bonds to furnish coun ty area water and sewer utilities. The voting at the 28 precincts will be conducted from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with the same elec, tion officials in charge Who con ducted the June 8th election on the same question. The second election was re quired due to legal technicalities in the June 8th bond resolution— which developed after the citizens had voted 35 to 1 in favor of the county bond issue. The bond resolution had specifi cally stated that the $415,000 in bonds—$310,000 for water lines and $105,000 for sewage lines— would be issued to serve the pro. posed multi-million dollar plant of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com pany, which the company has in dicated it will build near Shelby. The purpose of Saturday’s 'bond election is the same, to provide these utilities to serve the pro posed plant, but the bond resolu. tion is general in statement, ra ther than specific. Persons close to the North Carolina Supreme Court indicated this was the error in the original resolution and would have made the bonds un issuable. Shelby Chamber of Commerce has taken the lead in promoting approval of the bond issue autho. rity. While estimates are that the cost of the project would be in the neighborhood of $300,000, the excess authority was deemed nee essary in the absence of firm bids exact specifications. It has been pointed out that the proposed Pittsburgh plant would reurn the county a tax profit on its $415,000 investment, including interest payments. If Pittsburgh builds the Shelby plant it will employ initially from 800 to 1,000 persons. Site options obtained provide sufficient acre, age for expansion. Kings Mountain area precincts returned a margin of four to one in favor of the two bond ques tions at the June 8th election. Sponsors of the bond issue au. thority, 'being sought under a state-wide act enacted by the Gen. eral Assembly of 1957, have ex pressed confidence the citizens will re-affirm on Saturday their June 8th opinion. “We are very anxious for a large vote,’’ Mai A. Spangler, president of the Shelby Chamber of Commerce and recently ap pointed to the county commis sion, said this week. “A large vote with preponderant majority will show the Pittsburgh officials Cleveland County Will welcome Pittsburgh as a new industrial citizen. “With the fall of agricultural production and income, Cleveland County needs these jobs,” Mr. Spangler continued. Kings Mountain area polling places are: East King Mountain at City Hall courtroom. West Kings Mountain at Vic. tory Chevrolet Company. Grover at Grover firestation. Bethware at Bethware school. Thirty-Three Killed In War Against Dogs “No prisoners are taken, shoot the enemy on sight,” is the at titude of the Kings Mountain Police Department in their all out war against Kings Moun tain’s stray dog populace. City policemen added some 28 to the fallen ranks of dogs last week, making the total toll 33 during the first two weeks ctf the 30-day dog quarantine in No. 4 Township. The stray dogs are enemies to pu'blic health in Kings Moun tain, their masses provide fav orable conditions for the con traction and spread of the dread disease of rabies. No cases have been reported thus far, but the quarantine will continue through October 15. All Wo. 4 Township owners should keep their dogs in if they wish to keep them alive, because they will be Shot on sight toy city police, the coun ty dog warden, county depu ties.
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