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» Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 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. 1 0 Pages 8 0 Today VOL. 68 No. 40 Established 1889 Kihgs Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 3, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Unemployment Pay Claims Gain TO SPEAK HEBE-Basil L. White ner, 11th district Congressman from Gastonia, will address members of the Kings Mountain Lions club at their Tuesday night meeting at the Woman's Club, The club will meet at 7 o’clock. Local News Bulletins TO CONVENTION Mayor Glee A. Bridges, City Clerk Gene Mitcham and As sistant City Clerk Joe McDan iel attended the annual con vention of the North Carolina League of Municipalities held held in (Raleigh this week. ^ HOMECOMING Chestnut iRidge Baptist Church has scheduled (Homecoming services on Sunday, it has (been announced. Picnic dinner will be served following the morn ing worship service. A song service will feature the afte. - noon program. KIWANIS MEETING Paul Kincaid, official off Kin caid Cotton Co., of ..Gastonia, will review his summer tour of Euroipe for members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club at the civic cluib’s regular Thursday night meeting. The club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. REUNION Annual Hugh Karr Roberts reunion will :be held Sunday at Antioch 'Baptist church near Graver. Picnic lunch will be served following the morning worship service at the church, and in the afternoon a busi ness and fellowship session will 'be held. (Mrs. Coleen M. Rhyne is clan secretary. fires P„ ID. Fulton, city fireman, re ported Kings Mountain 'Fire department answered two calls this week. Saturday, firemen answered a call to a residence on Gaston .street. No damages were reported. Wednesday Mor ning, an oil stove blaze was ex tinguished at a residence on N. Piedmont avenue. TO SALISBURY Mrs. R. R. Yaiibro, Mrs. Paul McGinnis, and Mrs. Margaret W'ard wall go to Salisbury Fri day to attend a meeting of lun ch room managers and super visors. Seventy-One Fall; Thirteen Days Left, An unlucky 13 days remain in the dog quarantine imposed on No. 4 Township. Seventy-one unfortunate members of Kings Mountain’s dog (population fell under the hot pursuit of the law during the first three weeks of the 30 day quarantine. An increase from the 34 at last count. Kings Mountain dog owners have "been warned to keep their dogs in or the ani mals will i>e shot on sight. • The masses of stray dogs in Kings Mountain and No. 4 Township haifbor favorable con ditions for the contraction and spread of rabies. Job Oiders Also Advance In Septembei Unemplayment compensation ciaims in Kings Mountain in creased slightly in September. The total weeks of unemploy ment claims was 1710, compared to 1548 for August. There was some indication of a change in this trend in the num ber o(f job orders processed by the Kings Mountain branch of the state employment service, iwhich reported a total of 90 open ings and 51 persons placed in jobs. At month’s end, 21 of these orders were still active, majority of them for loopers trainees at Mauney Hosiery Company. „ iDuring September, the employ ment office reported 155 new ap plicants for employment, bring ing the active job-seeker file to 593. The employment service report ed other industrial firms’ employ ment situation little changed, though some additional lay-offs were reported at Neisler Mills di vision of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company this week. Six were designated total, with ser vices completely terminated. Some ten of 12-were designated as partial, with the employees expected to return to work.. The employment service listed no “spot points”, which occur when a firm has more than 20 lay-offs. When “spot points” oc cur, the employment service per sonnel visits the plants to take claims. Gas Price Off Two More Cents Gas prices dropped two cents Monday as local stations were posting signs advertising regular grade gasoline at 27.9 cents per gallon, five cents off the pre-war j price. Virtually all stations in the city are pumping gas at 27.9 per i gallon for regular grade gasoline and 30.9 for high test with the exception of one independent dealer. McCoy’s, uptown indepen dent, is pumping regular grade gasoline for 26.9 and highest test for 29.9 per gallon. Three Grover road dealers had signs last week advertising gas for 25.9 for regular and 29.9 for high test gasoline. Those prices were .still in effect on Wednes day afternoon at Glass Grocery, Inc., Esso dealer, Battleground Service Station, Shell dealer, and Smith Grocery, Gulf dealer. LEGION MEETING (Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Rost 155, the A merican (Legion, will toe held iPriday night at 8 o’clock at the Legion (Hall. Charles H. Grove, division four commander, will toe a guest olf the local post, according to announcement toy IM. A. Prince, adjutant. 5415.000 Bond Issue Supported In Light Voting Cleveland County voters Sat urday re-aftirmed their June 8th decision to iput the county into the water and sewer utility bus iness by a margin of 65 to 1, as 3,444 citizens braved cold and biting rain to favor a $415,000 bond issue proposal while only 53 opposed. The total vote was only albout half the total cast on June 8, when the county voted 35 to 1 in favor the same issue, later helo of questionable legality due to technical errors in the phrasing of the bond resolution. Question of legality still re mains, ibut county officials think the North Carolina Supreme Court will find the issuing of the bonds legal. Before the court is a “friendly” suit, (brought by a Shelby citizen, which 1J sought to restrain the holding of the election and 2) seeks to restrain the issuing otf the bonds on grounds the pur-, poses are not legal under the state constitution. C. C. Horn, county attorney, told the Herald a ruling is ex pected next Wednesday. The court did not hand down any rulings this week, (Mr. Horn said he was informed, but is expected to announce some opinions next week. Kings Mountain which voted a bout 4 to 1 for the bond issue on June 8, returned a more prepon derant majority last Saturday, even though only 119 persons visited the polls to register their opinions. The vote in Kings Mountain was 99 to 20, a margin of 5 to 1. Purpose of the bond issue is to supply water and sewage lines to serve a prolposed multi-million dollar plant of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, and intervening. Site options are held on tracts north of Shelby. The company would manufacture fibre glass and would employ from 800 to 1.000 persons. The Pittsburgh board Of direct ors did not act on the building of the plant at its September meeting, but has expended con siderable sums in making en gineering surveys of the Shelby •site to obtain construction cost estimates. Officials Of the Shelby Cham ber of Commerce think an early decision will be made by Pitts burgh on building of the plant. St. Matthew's Names Oiganist (Miss 'Rachel Farris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Farris, of West Cramerton, has assumed the duties of organist and choir director at St. Matthew’s Luth eran church. Miss 'Farris is a senior at Cra merton high school and is an or gan student of Douglas R. ®reit mayer of Covenant Presbyterian church, Charlotte. She has served as organist of West Cramerton Methodist church and during the summer was assistant organist at Belmont First Presibyterian and Charlotte Third Presbyterian churches. Miss Farris assumed her duties here on Wednesday. i Veteran Cobbler Henry McGinnis i Plans Retirement at Age Of 87 Henry W. McGinnis, Kings* Mountain shoe repairman for the past four decades and a citizen since 1906, is planning to retire at the age of 87. “Yes,” IMr. (McGinnis said, “a fellow was here yesterday who said he would 'buy my equip ment at the price I offered if he could find a suitable Ibulding to operate in. If he doesn’t take it, i’ll store it in my garage at the house.” IMr. MCGinnis went into the shoe repair business as an indi vidual owner the year Warren G. i Harding was elected president. He had (previously 'been a partner with Am'brus Groves and had trained -under Mr. Graves, who shared a building with the tin smith partnership of the McGin nis Brothers, Hinkle and 'Henry. Mr. Groves did his repairing from an old-fashioned ‘bench, minus machinery. When not busy put ting on tin roofs, making pots, pans and coffee pots, and doing guttering work, Mr. McGinnis tried his hand at shoe repair. Mr. Groves skid he would buy a stit cher, cut his helper into a half partnership. It 'began a long ten ure of keeping shoes on the feet of Kings Mountain citizens for Mr,. (McGinnis, who remembered his personal venture launching date from the Harding election. This ties in, too. A lifelong Re publican, Mr. McGinnis says, "1 k City To Enforce Trash Ordinance The recently enacted city trash ordinance will be enfor ced, Mayor Glee A. Bridges warned merchants this week. (While the ordinance applies to everyone, (Mr. Bridges said some firms are not cooperating in housing their trash until the daily garbage collection is made at 1 p. m. (10 a. m. on Saturdays). (Failure to abide 'by the ordi nance is punishable Iby a $10 •fine. was born that way and stayed that way.” In 1898, before he came to Kings Mountain, he at tended President William McKin ley’s first inauguration in Wash ington. He is also a lifelong Lutheran, halving joined originally St. Mark’s Lutheran church near ICherryville. When he came here, he transferred his membership to St. Matthew’s Lutheran and still attends the church regularly. • On Wednesday, the cdbbler was working at his trade, chat ting with a customer, and yank ing a defective sole off a pair of shoes. At 87, he finds he can still do a full day’s work if it involves (Continued on Pago Eight) Sanford Succeeds Rotan At Phenix COMMANDED--Charles L. Alex ander, Kings Mountain postmas ter, was elected commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9811 at the organizational meet ing Thursday night. Alexander Is VFW Commander Kings Mountain veterans of ov. erseas service elected Charles L. Alexander, Kings Mountain pos*:. master, as commander of the newly formed Kings Mountain Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9811. The voting was conducted at last Thursday’s organizational meeting. Outer officers named were Hugh Falls, quartermaster; and J. Ollie Harris, service offi cer. It was announced that a senior vice-commander, junior vice com mander, and adjutant would be named at the next meeting of the organization. Regular meetings will be held on first and third Thursdays at City Hall at 7:30 p. m. Next reg. ular meeting will be on October 17. Hullender Rites Held On Monday (Funeral rites for Charlie W. Hullender, 76, were conducted Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock from Central Methodist church, interment following in Mountains Rest cemetery. Mr. Hullender succumbed Sun day afternoon at 2 o’clock fol lowing an illness of ten days. A native of Cleveland county, Mr. Hullender formerly operated Hullender's Garage. He was a son olf the late Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Davis Hullender. » Surviving are his wife, Mrs. •Nellie Webb Hullender, four dau ghters, Mrs. Page Lawireg, Gas tonia, Mrs. Odell Long, of Char lotte, Mrs. George Gaskey, of Chester, S. C., and Miss Louise Hullender, of Kings Mountain, and four sons, Clyde Hullender, Kings Mountain, J. D. Hullender and Charles Hullender, both of Cherryville, arid 'Paul 'Hullender, of Chester, S. C. Fourteen grand children and 12 great-grand children also survive. iRev. James B. McLarty, pastor of the church, conducted the fun eral rites. Yankees Take Opener 3 -1 Kings 'Mountain ’baseball fans tuned radios and television sets to the annual World Series Wed nesday, as the New York Yankees took a 3 to 1 victory in the first game of the series. The Yankees wrapped it up in the sixth inning as they scored two runs, off the combined offer ings of Warren Spahn and Ernie Johnson, then staved off the principal Milwaukee bid in the seventh. The Yankees Whitey (Ford pitched a neat five-hitter to put the Yankees off to a one game advantage. Braves 000 000 100 1 5 0 Yankees 000 012 OOx 3 9 0 (Batteries: Spahn, Johnson, Mc Mkhan and Crandall; Ford and Berra. METER RECEIPTS Parking ineter receipts for the <wek ending Wednesday totaled $148.80, including $125.25 from on-street meters, another $26.55 •from Cherokee street parking lot meters, Assistant City Clerk Joe MaDaniel reported. Rotan Promoted To Mooresville Superintendency Charles Sanford, of Lincolnton, assumed duties this week as su perintendent of Phenix plant of Burlington Industries. Mr. Sanford succeeds James S. Rotan, who has been promoted in the Burlington organization to superintendent of spinning and carding at the company’s Moores ville operation. Both Mooresville and Kings Mountain plants are in the Cramerton division. Mr. Sanford joins the Burling ton organization after serving as j superintendent of D. E. Rhyne I Mills in Lincolnton. He had pre viously been associated with A merican - Efird Mills in Mt. Hol ly. A Methodist and Jaycee, Mr. Sanford is a native of Laurinburg and attended N. C. State college, j where he studied textiles. Mrs.! Sanford is the former Thelma; Pate, of Laurinburg. They have1 two children. The Sanford fami. ly expects to occupy the Waco Road residence recently vacated by the Bruce Thorburn family. Mr. Rotan, who became Phe nix plant superintendent in Jan uary 1956, has already assumed his new duties. He and his family, who live at 601 W. Gold street, expect to move to Mooresville as quickly as living accommodations are obtained. Corporation Bid Delayed Approval of Charter request for I Kings Mountain Industrial De I velapment Corporation, Inc., a firm being organized to expand Kings Mountain’s industrial com munity, was denied by Secretary of State Thad Eure on grounds the name was too similar to an other corporation. The other firm is named Kings Mountain Industries, Inc. Customarily, effort Is made by the Secretary of State to avoid I corporate names which might prove confusing. George Thomasson, who pre pared the charter application, said a new name would be cho sen and charter re-applied for, as quickly as the Chamber of Com merce committee handling the project is convened. He said Chairman Fred Plonk indicated he woufd summon his committee within the next few days. Incorporators were Mr,. Plonk, Ben H. Bridges, lW. K. Mauney, J. Wilson Crawford, B. S. Neill and Glee A. Bridges. NOTICE Police Chief 'Hugh A. Logan, Jr. requests that persons who have articles missing from their automobiles'and suspect rigling, please come by City Hall to identify an assortment taken in the arrest of a Kings Mountain Negro. Spangler & Sons Win City Jobs In Tight Bidding Spangler and Sons, Kings Mountain concrete firm and con tractors, edged other bidders on two city public street improve ment projects in bidding last week. Bids were opened by the city commission on September 25, at a special session. Bidding was particularly close. Spangler and Sons were low at $24,113 for improvements, inclu ding street widening, installation of curb-and-gutter and sidewalk, from the hospital entrance to the west city limits. The Spangler bid was low by $54.50 to that of Blythe Brothers and Company, of Charlotte, which bid $24,167.50. Crowder Construction Company, Charlotte, bid $25,292.50. Spangler also was low on a number of curb-and-gutter and sidewalk installations, edging Dedmon Transit Mix Concrete, Company, of Shelby. Spangler bid $1.80 per lineal foot for curb-and gutter, two oents per foot over Dedmon’s $1.78, but Spangler bid $1.09 per foot for sidewalk a gainst the Dedmon bid of $1.25. The widening and curb-and-gut. ter of the West King work will be paid for by the State High way commission. City Clark Gene Mitcham said Wednesday th'at the bids and engineering had been approved by the division engi neer and that work will proceed. Only other action at the ses sion was tabling of a request, for further examination of a Mr. Lin. gerfelt, who lives outside ci‘y limits on York Road, for water service. The request had been ta. bled previously on grounds -the distance was too great and num ber of outlets too few to conform to water line installation policy. White Cane Sale Set For Saturday Annual White Cane sale for benefit Of the blind postponed last week because of rain, will be conducted Satuulay, under Sponsorship of the Lmas Club, ac cording to Jonas 'Bridges, man ager of Station WKMT and chair man of the local project. Proceeds from the sale will be used both locally and state wide to aid the blind and for sight conservation work. Girl Scours of the First Presby terian church troop, under the leadership of Mrs. R. S. Lennon and Mrs. Tom Kesler, will con duct the street sale. “We urge citizens to buy the White Cane.s and to help us bring light to those in darkness,” Bridges commented. The principal project of Lions clubs is sight conservation. HAMBRIGHT REUNION Sherman Kelly, historian at Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park, will be the guest speaker at the October 13th re union of descendants of Col onel Frederick (Hambright. The clan will gather at Antioch Baptist church for picnic din ner at 12:15 with the business session and program to follow. Fuel, Heater and Apparel Dealers Rushed As Sunshine Takes Holiday The clouds were still spewing drizzles Wednesday as Kings Mountain area citizens sought vainly for rays of sunshine after a several -day sequence of cold and nasty weather. It was the first cold wave of the season and caused inconven ience, not to mention financial loss, to many citizens. Farmers saw white cotton in the fields being drenched to the tune of four or five cents per pound and had little hope left for much re turn on the customary second picking. Mayor Glee A. Bridges report ed the inclement weather had not only halted the city’s street-pav ing program, but would cost the city some cash. Pre-paving shap ing will have to be done on seve ral roadbeds before the paving crews can move in. Before the rains came, the Neal Hawkins paving crews completed hard-top. ping of Hawthorne road, Hillside drive and Juniper street. Others found themselves caught short on home-heating, placed rush calls to heating plant servicemen and to fuel and heat ing unit dealers. The servicemen couldn’t get one heating plant fired, until four others hit the waiting list. One serviceman said he worked all day Sunday, beginning a 6 a. m., to get the “ox out of the ditch,” Communion Sunday To Be Observed World Wide Communion Sun day will be observed in many Protestant churches on Sunday, October 6. The Churches of Kings Moun tain will unite with churches around the world in th^eadmin istering of the sacrament of Holy Communion at the morn ing worship services on Sun day. An altar offering will be re ceived for overseas relief, a spokesman for the Kings Moun tain Ministerial association no ted. but he was stil moving on the double on Monday. The poor heating arrangements at home bred colds and influenza for some, kept druggists busy in their prescription departments, apparel merchants busy selling rainwear, jackets, new shoes and other warm clothes. Heater deal, ers reported a busy weekend with the boom continuing into this week. When will the weather change and rosy Indian Summer return? There was hope for some relief by the weekend, but, as usual the weatherman didn’t wax too spe. j cific. 200Adults Receive Anti-Polio Shots SPEAKER .. Rev. W. C. Lauder dale, of Troutman, will begin a series of special services at Boyce Memorial ARP church here Mon day evening. Service Set At ARP Church Rev. W. C. Lauderdale, of Troutman, will begin a series of services at Boyce Memorial ARP church on- Monday evening. Services will be held each eve. ning at 7:30 p.m. except Satur day. A children’s service will be held Saturday morning at 10 o' clock, Dr. IW. L. Pressly, Boyce Memorial pastor, has announced. Mr. Lauderdale, a native of Lexington, Va„ and son of a Lexington ARP minister, Rev. David Lauderdale, was graduated from Erskine college and served in the infantry as a radio opera tor in the U. S. Army for three years. He is a graduate of Er skine Theological Seminary, and he and his wife and two children reside in Troutman, N. C. “We invite the public to attend this series of special services”, Mr. Pressly added. ASC Elections To Be Tuesday Cleveland county farmers will elect their County ASC communi ty committeemen next Tuesday, in county - wide voting to be con ducted from 8 a. m. to 6. p. m. Delegates to the county con. vention will elect county commit. eemen to serve Cleveland County for the coming year. The community committeemen will set payment rates per acre for farmers wishing to partici pate in the soil bank as well as review listing sheets for adjust ment on allotment crops. The person receiving the most votes will be declared to be elec, ted as community committee chairman and delegate to the county convention; the person receiving the second highest num ber of votes will be declared elec, ted vice . chairman and alternate delegate; the person receiving the third, fourth, and fifth high, est number of votes will be de clared elected regular commit teeman, first alternate, and sec ong alternate. Number 4 Township farmers will vote at Bethware school while Number 5 township farm, ers will vote at Wray Stirewalt’s Store. Number 4 Township committee men nominees are: Stowe Wri ght, H. K. Dixon, David ft. Ham rick, Clyde Randle, Hugh Falls, David Smith, Leonard Gamble, Otto Williams, Hugh Dover, Wil. lis Harmon, P. K. Harmon, and Alex Owens. Number 5 Township nominees are T. Z. Hord, Kenneth Wright, William Wright, Charles Gofor th, John Black, Alvin Deal, Glenn Spurling, James Elliott, Clifford Hamrick, Dewitt Randall, Am brose Cline and Earl Eaker. ^ CHURCH PROGRAM Rev. Walter Passiglia, Ylbor City minister, will speak at Di xon Presbyterian church Satur day night at 7 o’clock at a Cov ered dish supper sponsored by the Women of the Church. Mrs. ■A. <L. .Tait, secretary of church extension in Kings Mountain Presbyterial, has arranged the program and will present the speaker.. ir.ns Anti-Polio Drive Continues Thursday, Friday More than 200 Kings Mountain | adults have received first of three Salk vaccinations in the Lions club drive for mass immunization against infantile paralysis. Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, chair, man of the Lions club committee on the project said Cleveland County Health department repre sentatives already have visited several industrial points and ex. pect to add considerably to the total this week. On Thursday afernoon, the health officials will be at Mar. grace Mill from 1 to 2:30 p. m. to administer Salk vaccine and will he at Craftspun Yarns, Inc., on Friday afternoon from 2 to 3 p. m. The rest of Friday ts scheduled for individuals for innoculations at City Hall basement. The heal th officials will be at the City Hail basement office from 9 a. m. to 11:30 p. m., and from 3 to 5 p. m. Cost of the vaccine is 75 cents per shot, with 'hree shots estima ted as the recptired amount of vaccine to assure immunization against infantile paralysis. The county • wide Lions club drive seeks to obtain virtual 100 percent immunization of the 20 to 40 age group. “We feel the Kings Mountain drive is going well, invite indivi. duals who desire the Salk vac cine immunization to visit City Hall on Friday,” Rev. Mr. Fritz commented. Jaycees Hear DuPont Manager Progress never “just happens’’ but: must 'be created, and devel opments created in research lab oratories need the entire force olf 'American .business enterprise, large firms and small, to make them commercial realities, John H. Noyes, southern district man ager for the Du Pont Company’s extension division, said in a speech here Tuesday to Kings Mountain Jaycees. Mr. Noyes* who makes- his headquarters in Atlanta, called the American business system a ‘'business-' community’’, pointing out the interdependence of con cerns of at: sizes—large, medium and small. iHe said the Du Pont Company risked $80,000,000 during many years of research and plant con struction before “IDacron” was introduced as a commercial pro duct. “That is the function of the big concerns,’’ he continued, “to do the big jobs, the jobs which re quire vast resources of money, or personnel, or know-how, or e quipment — jobs which entail great risk — the jobs which con sume so much time that it is fre. quently years before you get any return on your investment, if in deed you ever get a return-the jobs which require huge plants facilities to mass-produce a pro duct so that its price can be low (Continued On Page Eight) Paving Fun, But Oh, Those Bills! Joe McDaniel, the assistant city clerk, could be classified by some citizens as a kill-joy. It’s Mr. McDaniel’s duty to keep dollars moving into city coffers in order that the city’s bills may be met on schedule. Neal Hawkins’ paving crews were expected to complete pav ing of Hawthorne Road about 10 a. m. last Friday morning, and Mr. McDaniel was posting bills for the property owner’s paving assessments on Thurs day afternoon. "I guess,” Mr McDaniel guessed, "that these statements will be delivered by the post man just a few minutes after the paving contractor finishes his work.” Word from property owners is that this happened. Under the city’s current "cash” paving policy, the pe titioners sign paving petitions agreeing to pay for their share of the work "on completion”. At least one citizen, a lady, didn’t complain. "We’re glad to pay to be out of the dust and the mud,” she was quoted as saying. Mr. McDaniel hopes the checks will flow in, notes, “The contractor doesn’t wait for his but bills us weekly for the work done.”