Population . Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1955 Kings >10001010 city directory census. The City Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950. 1 S? Pages ID Today VOL 68 No. 43 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 24, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins I. new books The Magnolia Garden club has presented Sour books to the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li brary. These include “The Gar dener’s Reference Guide", Slo wer iArrangement Workbook’’, .“The Handbook On IFlower Shows”, and 'Woman’s Home Companion Garden Book.” FLOWER SHOW In the Herald's report of win ners in the floral fair last week, it was stated that ap entry iby Mrs. George Morrow received a red ribbon,. Mrs. Morrow enter ed flori'bunda in the horticul ture division and received the (blue ribbon. P-TA MEETING Park Grace Parent-Teacher association will hold its regu lar meeting Monday night at 7 o’clock in the school auditor ium. AT CONVENTION Mr,, and Mrs. Ollie Harris will return (Friday from Atlanta, Ga., where they are attending the annual convention of the National (Funeral Directors as sociation. Mr. Harris returned here briefly for a funeral Wed nesday, returned to Atlanta by air Wednesday afternoon. ARP SPEAKER Mis. Dale White, missionary to Pakistan, will speak at two services Sunday at Boyce Mem orial uMRP church. Mrs. White will show pictures of her work at the evening service at 7:30 p. m., the pastor, Dr. W. L. Pressly said. COMPLETES COURSE Miss Carol Ann Herndon, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Herndon of Kings Mountain has completed the general Ibus ness course at King's Business College, Charlotte. She has (been placed with Brook Bark ley, attorney. Miss Herndon, a 1956 graduate of Kings Moun tain high .school, enrolled at King’s in June, 1956. PARK Ben F. Moomaw, superinten dent of Kings Mountain Na tional Military Park, invites visiting at the park this week end and next if citizens wish to “see the color at the park at its 'best.” During this season Mr. Moomaw reported the park was attracting crowds of visi tors. INCORPORATED Application of Kings Moun tain Business Development, Inc., the Chamber of Commer ce fostered company which aims to expand Kings Moun tain industry, has 'been approv ed by the Secretary of State, Attorney George Thomasson reported Tuesday. HOSPITALIZED Mrs. Erkine Watterson, Kings Mountain Drug Company em ployee, is in Kings Mountain hospital for treatment and ob servation. Mrs. Watterson was hospitalizec^ Saturday. HOSPITALIZED Dr. W. L. Ramseur, Kings Mountain physician, entered Kings Mountain hospital Tues day for Observation and treat ment. LIONS MEETING Directors of Kings Mountain Lions cluib .will meet Thursday night at 7 o’clock in the olffice of Dr. N. H. Seed. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $155.35, including $132.14 from on-street meters and $23.21 from off-street me ters, City Clerk Gene Mitcham said. PUBLIC HEARING The city (board of commission ers, in special session Monday voted to hold a public hearing on certain street improvement assessments at the regular meeting on November 14. The vote was unanimous. Chief Logan Resigns Effective November 1 RESIGNS—Chief of Police Hugh A. logon. Jr., resigned the office Monday. The resignation will be effective on November 1. Chief Logan has held the position sin ce 1953. Wazd Property Auction Set Receivers for Ward’s Seed and Feed Store, Inc., are advertising for sale this week personal prop erty of the firm to be sold at pub. lie 'auction on Saturday, Novem. ber'2, at 10 a.m. The sale notice is published un. der an October 18 order of Judge P. C. Froneberger, of Gastonia. Items of equipment to be sold include two trucks, counters, shel. ving, desks, filing cabinets and all other personal property be longing to the corporation. J. R. Davis, attorney, and J. Wilson Crawford, co-receiver, said the sale does not mean that the firm will cease to do business. Mr. Crawford said three flocks of chickens are still to be “fed out” and that arrangements have been made to complete the feed contracts. Mr. Davis said books of accounts of the firm will be maintained at the office of Davis & White, attorneys, and that ef. fort will ibe made to collect all accounts owed the firm, (which has been operated in receivership during the past several months. Both Mr. Davis and Mr. Craw, ford pointed out that sale of per sonal property and subsequent closing of the Cherokee street store will enable the receivers to pare operating expenses from $400 to $500 monthly. According to Mr. Davis, the Ward firm, when it went into re. ceivership, showed debts of $65,. 000, exclusive of $30,000 shown on the 'books of the company as an obligation to Hal D. Ward, founder of the firm. About 90 percent of the $65,000, Mr. Craw ford said, is owed to feed com panies. • The co-receivers, Mr. Crawford and C. B. Cash, Jr., Shelby attor ney, are retaining the right to sell the personal property of the firm either separately, or as a whole. No Unanimity Among Board On Successor Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr., resigned Monday, effective November 1. The resignation was unani mously accepted by the board of commissioners and ended the chief’s tenure for Mr. Logan, for. mer sheriff of Cleveland County, which began near the end of the Garland Still administration in 1953. Coleman Stroupe, police com. missioner, moved acceptance of the resignation and Commissioner Boyce Gault seconded. Suggestion of Mayor Glee A. Bridges to name an acting chief was not accepted, when commissioners suggested another special session toe held prior to November 1. Speculation immediately arose as to the identity of a successor to Chief Logan, but there was unanimity of opinion among the several commissioners. Comm. Stroupe said the names of three men currently members of the police department had been mentioned to him, but he declined to name them. Another commissioner said later he’d heard the names of Officers Mar. tin Ware and H. L. (Tom) Glad den mentioned for the chief’s post. Comm. Ben Bridges said he was toying with the idea of combining the police, and fire departments, together with a to-be-created de partment of traffic control under a -< School Board Adopts Budget; Pay Scales Set The city board of education a dopted a local funds budget Mon. .day night providing for expendi ture of $101,797.67 in current ex penses and $131,507.22 in capital outlay. In other actions, the board vo ted slight salary increases to its corps of seven janitors, to Mrs. Wanza Y. Davis, secretary to the superintendent, and to Miss Gay. nelle Scruggs, secretary to the Central school principal. The raises bring the monthly pay scales (both state pay and local supplements included) to: Mrs. Davis, $280; Miss Scruggs, $200.; L. A. Grier, $185.80; Eu gene, Williams, $165; Janie Ad ams, $96.80; John Gist, $165; Na thaniel Thomas, $165; John Jack, son, $147.95; and I. J. D. Jamer son, $147.95. In another action, the board j voted to enroll the first grade child of a Mr. Jones, who lives on Floyd street, at Central school.! Mr. Barnes explained the child' was seven years of age, should j have been in school last year, would ordinarily attend East. He pointed out that the East first grade already numbered 36 pu pils, compared to 34 at Central, and that a fourth grade child of Mr. Jones was attending Central through volunteer transfer. In other actions the board: 1) Accepted admission appli. cations for several pupils outside the city district, who are already attending city schools on release from the county but who had not been admitted formally. 2) Authorized Chairman Fred j Plonk to sign a paving petition j for Ramseur street, on which i North school fronts. 3) Authorized a 20-day exten sion for substitute employment by Mrs. George Moss, who has been ill. Mr. Barnes said Mrs. Moss expects to resume her duties on October 28. 4) To comply with new state legislation requiring schools to purchase extended coverage insu. ranee, voted to purchase the cov erage when required. There was question whether the effective date is November 1 or January 1. Cost, if the coverage is not re quired until January 1, will be $1,717 on existing fire insurance policies. 5) Authorized the superinten dent to make classroom space available for the teaching of cer tain college extension courses. 6) Authorized payment of ex penses of Mrs. Wanza Davis to attend the S. Piedmont district secretary’s meeting October 26 at Hickory. 7) Voted reimbursement of in. cidental expenses incurred by school officials when attending meetings at the order of the state board of education. 8) Voted to pay cost of em ploying substitutes for principals who attend the November 5-6 principal’s meeting at Asheville. 9) Voted to include in the bud. get a $100 appropriation to de fray expenses of Principal Law. son Brown, should he attend a forthcoming meeting of the Sou thern Association of Schools at Richmond, Va. ONE CALL City Fireman C. D. Ware re ported Kings Mountain Fire Department answered a call Sunday morning around 7:15 to iRadio Station WKMT. No dam ages were reported. DRIVE OFFICIAL — William G. (Bill) Jonas has been named Kings Mountain chairman in the county-wide seal sale campaign which gets underway on Novem ber 15. Jonas Named Seal Chairman William G. (Bill) Jonas has been named chairman of the 1 f>57 seal sale campaign in Kings Mountain. Chairman of the Shelby and ! county division of the drive is Julian Hamrick. Announcement of drive offi cials was made Wednesday by Mrs. B. M. Jarrett, official of the county tuberculosis association. Mrs. Jarrett said the drive will Ibegin on November 15th. Kiwanis Club Names Cheshire John Cheshire has 'been elected president of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club for the calendar year 1958, according to report of the club bulletin this week. 'Also elected for 1958 was Geor ge H. Mauney, who will serve as first vice-preseident. These results were reported from last Thursday’s primary balloting (by cluib members. 'On Thursday night the mem bership will hold its second vo ting to determine identy of 1958’s second vice-president and seven directors. Nominees for vice-president are Ben H. Bridges, Jr., I. B. Go forth, Jr., and John Smathers. The members will vote for sev en directors from this group of 12 nominees: James E. Amos, B. N. Barnes, John M. Cross, W. Gur ney Grantham, J. E. Herndon, Sr., R. M. Kennedy, 'J. T. Nance, Char les Neisler, 'Hugh Ormand, D. 'M. Peeler, J. H. Thomson and W. F. Young. Bethwaie School Opening Monday School Ibells will ring again Monday at Bethware school, the 8:30 bell will herald the October 28 opening 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, but ope ration will be in full force there after. October 28 also has been set as the date for the opening of Com pact and all Cleveland County (Rural Negro schools. Miss North Carolina Will Appear In Kings Mountain Yule Parade Pretty Elaine Herndon, of Dur ham, Miss North Carolina, has ac cepted an invitation to appear in the Kings Mountain Christmas parade on December 4, Charles Blanton, chairman of the com mittee on arrangements, said this ’ week. Mr. Herndon has notified the i Merchants Association committee ! she will come to Charlotte iby plane, where she will ibe met by a committee of welcomers and will be brought to Kings Moun tain for the annual Christmas opening event. “We are naturally very pleased Miss Herndon could honor our request,’’ Mr. Blanton comment ed. (Miss North Carolina will be one of many personages appear ing in the 40-unit parade the Merchant group is planning. Retailer President Charles Dix on has notified the membership a fund-raising campaign to de fray expenses of She event will be conducted (beginning next week. ueoate mixer In Arguments On Proposal Members of the First Baptist church were voting Wednesday night on whether to accept a pro ffered gift from 54 members of a 2.6 acre ‘tract bounded by W. King, Sims and Mountain streets, with the stipulation that a church building be started on the site within five years. The voting was being conducted against a background of acrimon ious church political activity and produced predictions from some members on both "aye” and "nay” sides of the question that, re gardless of the outcome, a new Baptist church would be a result. Rev. Aubrey Quakenbush, the pastor, did not agree with this opinion. He felt the group which seeks a new church site, if out voted, would remain members of First Baptist church as now con. stituted. Rev. Mr. Quakenbush fa vors accepting the proffered gift. Both groups were predicting victory. One factor in the election de cision, both factions acknowledg. ed, is the $80,000 in cash which the church has designated for a building fund. What will happen to this money, regardless of the outcome? One member of the stay-where-we-are faction said court litigation is anticipated in event the new site group loses the election and tries to get con trol of this fund. Wednesday night’s vote was to be the third on questions related to a new First Baptist church site. Some months ago, deacons of the church executed an option on the King-Sims-Mountain site of Dr. P. G. Padgett at the time an Episcopal group allowed its op. tion to lapse. Subsequently, the church membership voted to exe cute the option, but the majority favoring purchase was not great and participation in the voting was small in comparison to the membership. Two weeks later a second vote was taken and the first decision to execute the op tion was rescinded. After this action, ten members of First Baptist church obtained another option on the same site, an option which was to expire Wednesday, day of the voting. However, the option was not al lowed to expire, as 54 members of the church subscribed the $12, 000 purchase price and executed the option this week. The proffer of the tract, with building requirement stipula tion, has the endorsment of a majority of the 15-member (board of deacons, (both factions agree. There is insufficient agreement on the majority of endorsement. One stay-as-is proponent says the deacons are split 11 to 4 in favor of accepting the site, while a new-site proponent says there is doubt as to the position of one deacon and the split could be 12 to 3 in favor,. Members of the board of dea cons are Yates Harbison, chair man, Fred iRuth, W. (F. iMdGill, W. T. (Weir, I. A. McGill, Harold Crawford, John Beam, James White, W. B. Logan, Dr. D. F. Hord, John (H. Gamble, Jr., Joe L. Hord, Fred Weaver, 'L. L. Benson, and Dr. Paul Nolan. The votes were to be taken by secret ballot, with the board of deacons serving as a eommittee on-the-whole to canvas the re sults, Rev. lMr„ Quakenbush said. He said that approximately 730 members of First Baptist church were eligible to vote. The upcoming vote had attract, ed mailing pieces, both pro and con, to the church membership. Community Day Service Planned Kings Mountain will observe World Community Day on No vember 1, with a religious ser vice at First Presbyterian chur ch, it was announced 'this week by Mrs. B. N. Barnes, publicity chairman of the sponsor, Kings Mountain Council of Church women. Mrs. Barnes said seven chur ches are participating in the service, which will be featured by an address by Rev. R. Doug las Fritz, pastor of Resurrec tion LutHeran church. Theme of the observance is "The E merging Peoples”. Ano'her feature will be music by a 100-voice youth choir, rep resenting youth choral groups among the participating chur ches. Mrs. Claude Hambright i s program chairman for the ser vice.