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. Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 17, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year 1 c Pages 10 Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL 68 No. 42 Established 1889 Local News Bulletins SERVICE SUNDAY Rev. P. D. Patrick will close the series of services at the Presbyterian church which have emphasized the period of (Prayer and Self-Denial Sun day night at 7:00 p. im. PLANT SALE Members of the Azalea Gar den club are offering for sale daisy plants at one dollar per dozen, a spokesman for the group has announced. Interest ed persons should contact any member of the cluib or Mrs. E. iR. Goter, project chairman. VFW MEETING Kings Mountain post 9811, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold a regular business meet ing Thursday night at 7:30 p. qx at City (Hall, it has been an nouced. LIONS TO MEET Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions Club will be held on Tuesday night at 7 o’ clock at the Woman’s Club. (Program for the meeting has not yet been announced. J. Ol iie Harris, program chairman, ' said Wednesday he was await ing confirmation. ATTEND MEETING Dr. Robert Baker and Dr. D. F. Herd attended the district dental meeting in Asheville in session Sunday and Monday. METER TAKE City Parking meters returned $327X12 for the two weeks end ing Wednesday. The total in cluded $273.34 from on-street meters and $53.78 from off street meters, City Clerk Gene (Mitcham reported. 222 KILLED A total of 222 stray dogs were iciiled in Kings Mountain dur ing the 30-day dog quarantine imposed on No. 4 Township. The quarantine began Septem iber 15 and closed October 15. REVIVAL .Rev. Jeff Chastian, pastor of Bethel church, Gastonia will begin a revival series Sunday at Gamble Hill Baptist church, according to announcement by Rev. W. P. Bumgardner, pastor. The services will continue through October 26. P-TA MEETING Central school P-TA will hold its regular meeting Wednes day afternoon at 3 o’clock in the school auditorium. The pro gram will be on safety and will feature an address by Sgt. J. B. Kuykendall, off the State Highway 'Department. Yale Parade Plans Mapped The Kings Mountain Merchants association will stage its annual Christmas opening parade on De. cemtoer 4, Charles Blanton, chair, man of the committee on arran gements, said Wednesday. Mr. Blanton said his committee met Tuesday and that it is antic, ipaed a 40-unit parade will be staged. Plans call for bands, national guard units, beauty queens, floats and other units. Mr. Blanton said the parade budget is set at $900. Fund-rais ing work is scheduled for Octo ber 28. Other members of the commit, tee are John Warlick, Ross Alex ander and Charles Dixon. loycee Paper Drive Scheduled Sunday Kings Mounain Jaycees will conduct a scrap paper drive on Sunday Members of the civic organi sation will conduct the pick-up ■beginning at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, B. >F. Maner, spokes man for the club said Wednes day. *We urge all citizens of the community to notify any Jay cee or leave the paper outside their residences”, Mr. Maner said. All citizens of the community are invited to participate in the drive, it was noted, toy having the paper they wish to have collected ready Sunday or by informing Mr. Maner or any member of the sponsoring club on the date they wish the was te paper collected. The paper drive is a project of the local club. City Contemplates Employing Women Patrolmen Get Salk Vaccine, Says Dr. Mitchell 307 In Schools Of City Haven't Had Vaccine iA total of 307 oity schools pu pils have not received any Salk vaccine to immunize them again st infantile paralysis, Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, county health officer said Wednesday. Another 315 of the more than 2000 pupils have either had one or two Salk "shots”, ibnt not the complete set of three, “These children should ibe im munized and they can get the vaccine for nothing,” Dr. iMitchell said. "We and the .state have Salk vaccine going begging and, un less it is used, it is going to die on our hands.” Dr. Mitchell explained that an ti-polio vaccine has a limited life. He examined the expiration label on the Cleveland County health office supply and noted it SALK VACCINE The county health department (begins Bound 2 of its Salk vac cine shots for adults next week, offering the vaccine to adults at 75 cents per dose. A team of vaccinators will he at (Mauney Hosiery Mills next Tuesday al ternoon. At the same time, an other health department team iwill be administering the vac cine at Shiloh Presbyterian church in Grover. Dr,. Z. P. Mit chell, county health officer, pointed out that Shot 1 in the three-dose series will be avail able to any who wishes to start the immunization series. will not be usable after January 13. The county health department is at City Hall in Kings Moun tain each 'Friday afternoon from 2 until 4 o’cIook. “But we’ll stay later if necessary”, Dr. Mitohell said. "The tabulation on non-vaccin ated children were made by oity school officials. Dr. Mitchell urged all parents of non-vaccinated children to at tend the Friday afternoon clinic. “You probably do not know,” Dr. Mitchell continued, “that there were more polio cases in 1956 than 1946. This thing runs in cycles and we don’t know when it’ll hit again. Last year there was little paralysis. We think the Salk vaccine prevented it.” Bethware Opening Set For Monday With the harvest in, Monday, October 28 8:30 school hell will set the opening of Bethware school for the regular, full-day winter schedule. Classes will begin at 8:30 a. m. and will run through 3:00 p. m. The Bethware cafeteria will not be in operation Monday, ibut will operate thereafter. October 28 also sets the date for the opening of Compact and all Cleveland County rural Ne gro schools. DAB CITIZEN--Miss Polly Page, Central high school senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Page, has been selected DAB Good Citizen by Kings Mountain's Colonel Frederick Hambright chapter. Daughters of the Ameri. can Revolution. Book Fund Totals $433 The appeal for funds to buy books for Jacob S. Mauney Me morial library is bringing a good response, Dr. W. L. Pressly, chairman of the library operating committee reported this week. A total of $435 has been receiv. ed to date Dr. Pressly said. "We hope the fund will grow into the four-figure category,” he commented. The city . owned library oper ates on a meager budget of funds furnished the room rentals at the teacherage and small appropri ations from city and county gov ernments. These funds are in sufficient to leave money to buy books, the library committee has pointed out. All members of the library committee (who serve without pay) have donated to the fund,! Dr. Pressly reported. Donations for the library book, fund should be mailed to or handed to Mrs. Charles Dilling, librarian, Dr. Pressly, or any member of the library operating committee. Other members are Haywood E. Lynch, Grady How. ard, Mrs. J. N. McClure, Mrs. Hunter Neisler, Mrs. John Ches. hire and Mrs. Tolly Shuford. Three-Month Gas Sales $15,967 Sales of the city natural gas department ifor the first quarter of the fiscal year beginning July 1 totaled $15,967, while expen ses totalled $10,769. iReport was presented by Gene Mitcham to the city (board of commissioners last Thursday night. The gas system budget anti cipates annual sales of $L15,252. Anticipated expenditures are $76,451. John B. Ware, Veteran Engineer, Retires After 40 Years With PRR John B. Ware, former resident of the Oak Grove community section now residing in Washing ton, D. C., has retired after 40 years of service with Pennsyl vania Railroad. Mr. Ware iboasts he retired “right on schedule’’, Train No. 570 pulling into Washington Union Station from Harrisburg and Baltimore a minute ahead of schedule on September 30th. tion and his entry copped the tri color seal for the most out standing entry in that category. Mrs. Carl Mayes, also a long time winner in flower shows, won the tri-color seal given to the entry judged most outstanding in the arrangements division. Judges for the event included Mrs. Paul Kincaid, Mrs. Ennis Jackson, Mrs. Phil Jackson, and Mrs. W. B. Garrison, all of Gas tonia, Mrs. Van Randall, Mrs. D. M. Eaton, Mrs. J. V. Stewart, and Mrs. Earl Yoder, all of New ton, and Mrs. W. L. Pressly, of Kings Mountain. Mrs. Pressly was among judges in the Junior division of the fair. Outstanding entries in the show, though not judged, were arrangements by six Kings Moun tain garden clubs, all of which received awards of merit. General chairman in the flow, er division was Mrs. W. S. Fulton, Jr. Format of the one-day show followed that of previous events. Members of the club served bo*h the noon and evening meal, and on display were aprons, other handmade articles, and items in the bazaar section. List of winners of prizes in the flower division follows: Division 1—Arrangements Section A (Invitation Class) (Continued on Page Eight) ran-lime school Patrol Duty Being Talked The city may invite some of its female population >*-o serve on school traffic patrol posts. Action on employment of wo men to man school 'boy patrols was tabled at Thursday night's regular session of the city board af commissioners, as councilmen also delegated another employ ment question to a committee with a called meeting to be held when the group’s work is com. pie‘e. Commissioners had discussed petition by a group of Negro eiti zens of the community on hiring of b Negro policeman and passed that matter to a committee nam ed previously to screen applicants for the police officer job vacated by L. P. Cornwell, The suggestion of employment of women to assist in the traffic program during school hours was brought to the 'board’s attention by Commissioner Luther Bennett who reported that many cities hire women to work at least two hours daily as schbol traffic pa. trol women. “Lft’s of grown ups just don’t pay any attention to the young, sters on school patrol duty”, Comm. Bennett declared. Mayor Glee A. Bridges agreed to investigate and discuss with surrounding town officials their methods of school patrol duty and to report his findings to the board. Otherwise, the 'board, on re commendation of Mayor Bridges, elected Commissioner Ben H. Bridges a representative of the commission on the hoard of Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library. The mayor reported the paving pro. gram "In high gear” and com. mented ’Hat City Clerk Gene Mit cham’s report for the first quar. ter was “interesting” and “a little early in the year to get a definite picture.” In other actions, the board: 1) Tabled request by the city’s radio serviceman for a $10 in crease in pay. The city pays $50 per month for service on its radi. os. 2) Voted to replace the traffic light at the corner of West King and Watterson streets with a four way signal stop device to be used on a trial basis. Recommendation was made by Chief Hugh A. Lo gan. The light now in use at the West King-Watterson s‘reet in. tersection will replace thfe signal at the corner of Piedmont ave nue and Ridge streets. 3) Discussed the water prob. lem of some citizens on Shelby road, who were to have met Mon. day night to form an organiza tion for building of a water line. C. E. Blalock, representing the Shelby road residents, met with the board and invited a represen. tative of the board to attend the meeting. Mayor Bridges was to report to the board the decisions made by the group. 4) Instructed the city clerk to have compiled in the tax office an accurate list of delinquent taxes and authorized the tax col lector to use Whatever means a. vailable to collect delinquent tax es and privilege taxes in arrears. They also asked the tax collec tor to make a report at the next meeting of the commission. Bloodmobile Here On October 28th Kings Mountain Red v Cross Chaipter was some 50 pints short of blood of its quota at the last visit of the Red Cross regional iblood collecting unit. The Red Cross Bloodmoibile will come to Kings Mountain •again on Monday, October 28, and officials are hopeful that more citizens will visit the unit and that more who received iblood with no credit cards will furnish replacements at that visit. •During July ard ’August, the •record was: 121 pints of 'blood used, 106 pints of blood col lected. 'At the last visit only 106 pints of blood was collect ed. The quota at each schedul ed visit during the year is 150 pints of blood. Donors will be processed at Central Methodist church from 11 o’clock a. m. to 5 o’clock p. •m.