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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. 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. <A large group of well wishers were gathered at the train to offer congratulations and best wishes. Among them were Mr. Ware’s wife, Mrs. Marguerite Ware, his employer, H. C. Guy ton, assistant road foreman of engines, and a fellow engineer, floss A. Brewer who also recently retired after 45 years of service. Mr. 'Ware remarked, 'IVe haul ed two Presidents, Mr. PDW and Mr. Truman :but I got a bigger thrill than that when 52 people met me at the station on my last run.” He recalled that the last time he operated a steam-driven eagine was in 1947. Pennsylvania Railroad has long used electrical ly driven engines. IFor the past four years Mr. Ware has made two round-trips on alternate days 'between Wash ington and Baltimore, Md. He Joined Pennyslvania Railroad in 1917. He is the son of the late W. G. H. and Virginia Beam Ware. Mr. and (Mrs. Ware live at 116 Sixth St., NiE, Washington. This Don Blanton Not Local Man Donald Blanton, tried in city recorder’s court Monday for theft of $42.50, was a Bessemer Citian and no kin to the several persons who live in Kings (Mountain and who answer to the same name. Specifically, Donald W. Blan ton, who lives on Canterbury (Road, called the Herald to re quest a clarification. The Bessemer City' resident plead guilty to the charge. No Better, No Woise. Horvath Says “.Business is no better but no worse,” Ernest Horvath, president of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company said Wednesday. Mr. Horvath sivas here confer ring with company executives Al fred Maino, general manager of the Neisler (Mills Division, Tho mas A. Roberts, and others. Also here was J. W. (Mike) Milam, Neisler division sales manager. Mr. Horvath said orders are needed, added he hoiped results at the upcoming High Point mar ket would be favoraible. Whitener Flays GOP Farm Plan “The Soil Sank program is im moral and improper and should be stopped as soon as possible,” said Basil Whitener, 11th District Congressman, m addressing the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club last Thursday. \ He explained that profiteering had developed from the program, with a few persons cornering the markets in cotton ginning. The ginning industry has dropped from a former 28 plants to four in Cleveland and surrounding counties. Mr. Whitener said he opposes the huge sums appropriated to foreign aid, reporting that 69.4 billion dollars has been alloted through the years to aid foreign Industry. This, he reported, is equivalent to all the money and real property combined in the 17 largest cities in the United Sta tes. “People would not appropriate such for themselves here In the United States,” Whitener said, stating that these appropriations are destroying the market for A merican manufactured goods. In reality the Americans are putting themselves out of jobs to this compeition,” he contended. Lampooning appropriations to foreign lands to reduce their na tional debt to another country, Whitener stated that ail other na. tion’s debts combined are not as great as that of the United Stat es. He went on to say that these countries would report they can not pay the interest on former loans and then demand another. He also said these appropriations were granted in many instances. The 11th District Congressman took a stand against the amend ment of the Agriculture Act by the 84th Congress which provided 100,000 additional acres to cotton growers, bringing the allotment up to four acres per farmer. He said this practice is ruining the cotton industry for farmers who depended on it and had life savings invested in cotton farms, Mr.- Whitener reported he in troduced a bill in February to at lot 157,000 more acres to cotton farmers, but the Committee on Agriculure voted 16-16 on the bill, thereby tabling it. He reported that the present al loment program has placed an unjust handicap against North Carolina farmers, centering the cotton industry in Arizona and California. Present value of the (Continued on Page Eight) Webb To loin Mofgait Mills |R. Halbert Webb, head of dye ing and finishing operations at Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company’s (Margrace plant here, has tendered his resignation to accept a similar position with Morgan Mills in Lafuriniburg. Morgan Mills is constructing currently a new finishing plant, Mr. Webb said. Mr. Welbb said his departure date is not yet set, but that he is working a notice and expects to be free to join the Laurinburg firm no later than November 1. iMr. Wefbb is a long time Kings Mountain citizen. He is a native of Concord and came to Kings Mountain in August 1930, when he joined Neisler Mills, Inc. 'He and his wife, the former Mary Belle Cannon, expect to move to Laurinburg as .soon as housing accommodations can be Obtained. A son, Dick Webb, is a graduate student at North Caro lina State College. The Wefbbs are members of First Presbyterian church. Mr. Webb Is a member of the Kiwanis club. Neisler Enterprises Report 30 Looms Are Now Installed DRUG OFFICER-Wilson Griflin. Kings Mountain pharmacist, is the secretary-treasurer of the newly-formed Cleveland County Druggists club. The druggists of the county organized the trade group at a meeting in Shelby Sunday. Griffin Officez Of Drag Group Cleveland County Pharmacists have organized a Druggist Club with membership open to all coun. ty registered pharmacists, asso. dated drug clerks and salesman, and drug store owners. The club was formally organ ized Sunday night at a meeting at Shel'by Elks club and officers were elected for the year. Officers of the new organi zation include Robert Kiger, of! Shelby, president; Carl Jolly, of Lawndale, vice-president, and Wil son Griffin, of Kings Mountain, secretary-treasurer. Directors are C. D. Blanton, of Kings Mountain, State Pharmaceutical association president, Hugh Lee Irvin, of Shel by, and Robert Beason, of Boil ing Springs. The club will meet each third Sunday night in the month for ■ forum-type meetings, Mr. Griffin noted. Occasional social functions will also be held, he added. Twelve pharmacists represent, ing 11 of the county drug stores attended the organizational meet, ing on Sunday and the group a. greed, Mr. Griffin added, that a club was important to the prog, ress of the county. “Pharmacists and drug stores”, Mr. Griffin con. tinued, “should keep abreast of modem trends and by meeting together may merge mutual in. formation of benefit both to the druggist and the customer.” "A pharmacist is the only re. tail businessman required by law to have a college degree before he can obtain a license to prac tloe his profession”, Mr. Griffin stated. “Response from all drug stores in the county for organi. zation of a club was evidenced”, he added. Prspective members may oon. tact Mr. Griffin here or any mem ber of the club. Proposed Firm Has New Name Kings Mountain Business De velopment, Inc., is the neiw name chosen for a Chamlber of Com merce-fostered industrial devel opment corporation for Kings Mountain. The 'original choice, Kings (Mountain Industrial Develop ment, Ino., was rejected by Sec retary of State Thad Eure, due to the fact another corporation with a similar name—Kings Moun tain Industries, Inc.—was already registered in North Carolina. (George B. Thomasson, attorney, said Wednesday the new certifi cate of incorporation is prepared and ready to forward to the Sec retary of State for registration and approval. Under the charter, the business development firm will have auth orized Stock of $100,000 with par value of $10 per share. » The firm .will seek to attract in dustrial companies to Kings Mountain. Incorporators are J. Wilson Crawford, B. S. Neill, Ben H. Bridges, Jr., W. K. Mauney, and Glee A. Bridges. New Plant Now Beginning To Make Samples Neisler Enterprises, Inc., the new Neisler novelty fabric plant in Shelby, has a dozen employees on scene, 30 looms on the floor, and is beginning to make fa'bric samples. •Paul M. Neisler, Sr,., head of the firm, declined to estimate an "in production” date. IHe said machinery is still being installed and that the firm, when it gets in production, will employ approximately 100 persons. Paul M. Neisler, Jr., formerly with (Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company here, has joined Neis ler Enterprises. The new plant is located west of Highway 74 near Shelby Ra dio Station WOHS. Construction of the new brick - block building Is complete, Mr. Neisler said. Homecoming Set Foi Friday Pat Rice, the former Patsy Led ford, will hold the office of Queen of the Homecoming festivities to be held in Kings Mountain Fri day, October 18. Sponsors for senior football players included in the home coming activity are Phyllis Dean sponsoring Tony Goins: Phyllis Henderson, Bill Herndon; Caro, lyn Wright, Keith Layton; Paula Johnson, Steve Wells; Maude Owens, Bill Ware; Diane Cansler, David Marlowe; Linda Mikeal, Vick Smith; Mikie White, Ken Baity; and Jean Hicks sponsor ing Jerry Wilson. These beauties will be only a few of the girls taking part in the annual homecoming parade to be held Friday afternoon at 3:45. Originating in the Central1 school parking lot, the parade, will wind it's way through the business district of Kings Moun tain. Among participants in the pa. rade will be a police escort, color guard, band, Jane Byars as car rousel princess, the homecoming queen, cheerleaders, sponsors, twelve floats and cars, plus other attractions. Floats will be judged before the parade, a cash prize of $5 for the best car and float each being do nated by the Kings Mountain Merchants Association. The parade will be followed Friday night with the finale of festivities in City Stadium be fore the King* Mountain—Lin colnton football game. Pat Rice will be crowned queen by Kings Mountain High school principal E. Lawson Brown with Dwight Dixon and Karla Smith, senior clpss mascots, participat. ing as crown-bearer and flower girl. ASSUMES DUTIES--Rev. and Mrs. Alvin K. Morgan, formerly of High Point, recently moved to Kings Mountain where Mr. Mor gan is pastor of East Gold Street Wesleyan Methodist church. Mrs. Morgan is a fifth grade teacher at East school. Morgan Fills Wesleyan Post Rev. and Mrs. Alvin K. Morgan recently moved from High Point1 to Kings Mountain where Mr. Morgan has assumed the pasto rate of East Gold Street Wesle yan Methodist church. Mrs. Morgan is a member of the faculty of East Elementary school. The minister and his wife come to Kings Mountain from Provi dence Wesleyan Methodist church in High Point where they were residents for five years. Mr. MorJ gan replaces Rev. Hoover Smith! here. Mr. Smith has accepted the pastorate of a Wesleyan Metho dist church in Long Shoals. Mr. Morgan studied at Central college, Central, S. C., received his AB degree from Marion coll ege in Marion, Indiana, and his master of educaMon degree from the University of North Carolina. Mrs. Morgan, the former Miss Treva Brown, received her degree from High Point college. City Quarterly Report Is Given First quarter report of the City of Kings Mountain shows a total of $239,476.92 collected and; $119,675 expended, indicating col. lections are normal and that spending is well within the bud get. It was noted by City Clerk Gene Mitcham that revenues are heavier in the first part of the fiscal year, accounting for the bulge in receipts. At September 30, citizens had paid $86,049 in taxes against the $134,277 levy. Utili*.y receipts totaled $81,099 against a budget estimate of $304,000. The city has received several (Continued on Page Eight) Mrs. Mayes, Mr. And Mrs. Cash Cop Top Honors At Floral Fair BY ELIZABETH STEWART Winning flower show ribbons seems to run in the family at one Kings Mountain household. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Cash won two of three top awards in Wed nesday’s floral fair of Kings Mountain Woman's club. It is the 54th annual presenta tion of “Autumn Harvest,” and the event was attracting large crowds. Mrs. Cash won the sweepstakes award for having the most blue ribbons in the fair. Her blue rib bon winners were all in the ar rangements division. Her hus band entered an exhibition bloom j of dahlias in the horticulture sec. > 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.