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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1965 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Units figure Is from the United States census of 1950. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today VOL 68 No. 44 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 31, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE TEN CENTS North And West School Additions Recommended City Board Asking Widening Of U. S. Highway 74 / Local News Bulletins EWAN IS MEETING Lawson Brawn, high school principal, will address mem tbers of the Kings Mountain Ki •wanis clutb Thursday night on the subject "Management of School Lunchrooms”. The cluib convenes at 6:45 at the Wo man’s Club. RETURNS TO WORK J. Lee 'Roberts, Kings (Moun tain barber, returned to his shop this iweek after Ibeing con fined to his home for several weeks due to an accident suf fered in a fall. Mr. (Roberts is proprietor of Phenix Barber Shop. ATTENDS SCHOOL Dewey iBookout, Stowe’s Ra dio-TV Service employee, is at tending a school of instruction on advanced color television, in Charlotte this week. Timms Stop-n-Shop, local RICA 'Dealer, is one of the sponsors for the advanced school. Twenty firms throughout the state were in vited to send representative^. MEETING The annual meeting of the Women of the Church of Kings Mountain Presbytery will be held at the First Presbyterian church in Belmont on Novem ber 7-8. The 1958 emphasis, “The (Nature and Mission of the Church” will be presented by Dr. Harry Moffett. The meet ing 'Will ibegin with supper Thursday, November 7 and end with the afternoon session Fri day, November 8. LIBRARY FUND Contributions to the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library book fund neared $700 this week. (Dr. W. L. Pressly, chair man of the library operating committee, said he hoped to close the 'book fund cafnpaign next week, asked that donors (forward checks either to him or the librarian, Mrs. Charles Dill ing. Martin Waie Acting Chief Sgt. Martin Ware, member of „ the city police force since March 2, 1953, will 'become acting chief of the department on Friday. Sgt. Ware was named acting chief by the city commission which met in special session Tues day night. He succeeds in the temporary capacity Hugh A. Lo gan, Jr., who resigned effective November 1. As acting chief, Mr. Ware will receive a salary of $275 per month, $20 more than sergeant’s pay. Comm. Ben H. Bridges voiced publicly at Tuesday night’s meet ing his ideas concerning possible employment of a city director of public safety—a man who would direct activities of the police de partment, the fire department, the civil defense department, a to be-created department of traffic control and any other function of the city in the public safety category. He also suggested in vestigation of police civil service plans employed by other cities. The commission endorsed the Ben Bridges proposal to the ex (Continued On Page Eight) Seceders vs. Bears Here November 26 Kings Mountain basketball fans will get an early taste of college action this season when Lenoir-Rhyne and iErskine meet in the high school gym nasium on November 26. The college aggregation will meet here in a benefit project sponsored by the Kings Moun tain Lions club. In a preliminary’ game, Gas ton Memorial Hospital nurses will play the Howard Business college aggregation from Shel by. Admission will be $1 for adults and 40 cents for students. Tic kets iwill be on sale in the near future. RECEIVES COLLEGE HONORS--Two Kings Mountain students at Western Carolina college. Gene Ellis, leit, and Sherrill Spears, have been elected to membership in the national organization. "Who's Who In American Colleges and Universities*" EVANGELIST--Bar. A. Howard Wilson, pastor ol Duncan Baptist church, of Graonrille, S. C, will begin a revival series Monday night at Bethlehem Baptist church. Bethlehem Sets Revival Series Rev. Howard Wilson, pastor^ of ■Duncan Baptist church, Green ville, S. C., will begin a revival series Monday night at Bethele. hem Baptist church. Services will be held nightly through November 10th at 7:30 p. m. the pastor, Rev. Norman F. Brown, has announced. Bill McDaniel will be song leader and Mrs. Jack Lail will be pianist for the song service. Mr. Wilson attended Wofford college at Spartanburg, S. C. and was graduated from New Orleans Theological Seminary. Logan Accepts Retiring Police Chief Hugh A. LOgan, Jr., has accepted employ, ment with the North Carolina Prisons department, he said this week. He will begin his duties on Fri day. Mr. Logan said he would re tain residences in Kings Moun tain. Mr. Logan, his wife and three children, live on N. Piedmont avenue. CAKE SALE Daughters of the Wesley class off Central Methodist church iwiti sell cakes and pies at C. E. Wartkk Insurance Agency Sat urday morning at 9 o’clock. Ellis, Spears Are Elected To Who's Who Two Kings Mountain students at Western Carolina college have been chosen for listing in “Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges”, it was learned here this week. They are Gene Carlisle Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dar win C. Ellis, of Lackey street and Sherrill Spears, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Spears, of route 2. Students are selected on the basis of scholarship, citizenship, leadership, and effective partici. pation in campus activities. Ellis is president of Student Union, president of the College Band, and music director of the Baptist Student Union. He is a member of the College Chorus the Baptist Choir, and the cam pus chapter of Music Educators National Conference. In addition, he is featured trumpet soloist with the band, leader of the Mark VT Combo, campus dance band, and last summer served as as sistant on instruments in the Summer Music Camp. Spears is president of Alpha Phi Sigma, national honorary scholastic fraternity; president of thle Baptist Student Union and member of the Baptist Choir; past president of the Student English Seminar; vice-president of Alpha Psi Omega, national drama fraternity; chairman of thfe Little Theatre Board. He has won wide acclaim for his star; ring performances with the Lit tle Theatre at Cullowhee, as well as in writing, directing, and stage (Continued on Page Eight) mayor Bridges Wants Widening Or New Street The city board of commission ers has voted to*ask the State Highway and Public Works com missioner to consider widening of a. S. 74. The unanimous vote, taken at a short special session Tuesday night, was taken at the sugges tion of Mayor Glee A. Bridges. Mayor Bridges explained Wed nesday morning he would confer with Engineer' E. L. Kemper on possible widening of U. S. 74 from North Piedmont avenue east to the city limits and intersection with the four-lane section of high way to Gastonia. The Mayor pointed out that, on completion of the widening of the western portion (from the hos pital' entrance to the West city limits) W. King street would be" a four-lane street. He said wide ning is needed on the east por tion. The Mayor told the Herald Wed nesday morning, “Widening is needed, or a new route through the city is needed, such as was discussed before. The city will suffer if it is not touched by a major U. S. highway.” The Mayor referred to the con.! struction of the U. S. 29 by-pass and the removal of U. S. 29 from the city, and 2) to the surveys j conducted prior to the death of; Engineer L. B. Peck which pro- ; jected a new U. S. 74 through a, new area of this community south of Gold street and entering the four Jane Gastonia strip from be. hind the McKelvie property on W. King street. Mayor Bridges explained to the commission that the city would have to defray 20 per cent of the right-of-way costs on any wide ning project. This percentage, he noted, was formerly one-third, but was changed by act of the 1957 General Assembly. Rites Conducted For J. C. Cudd Funeral rites lor James Calvin Cudd, 84, were held Tuesday after noon at 4 o’clock from First Bap. tist church, interment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. ^ Mr. Cudd succumbed Monday morning at 1:30 a.m. at his home on West King street after several months illness. A deacon emeritus of First Baptist church and a mason, Mr. Cudd moved here with his family eight years ago from Union, S. C. A native of Union, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Cudd and was a retired mill superintendent. Surviving are his wife, Hanna Kidd Cudd, a son, John E. Cudd, of Arlington, Va„ two daughters, Mrs. T. A. Pollock, Kings Moun tain, Mrs. C. H. MaHood, New Boston, Mass., a brother, Sims Cudd, of Millbury, Mass., and *wo sisters, Mrs. Minnie Meadors, of Alexandria, Va. and Mrs. Theo dora Hendricks, of Columbus, Ga. Also surviving are three grand, children and five great-grand, children. Final rites were conducted by Rev. A. T. Quakenbush. j Pallbearers were B. N. Barnes, W T. Weir, Fred Weaver, A. W. Kincaid, Joe Hord, and W. B. Lo. gan. Members of the 'board of deacons served as honorary pall, bearers. Mountaineers In Big One Friday Against Arch-Rival Shelby lions Arch rival Shelby and Kings Mountain battle lor the county ‘football championship at City Stadium tFriday night. It will be the third successive annual Shelby-Kings (Mountain battle Which may crown a Southwestern AA conference champion. Game time is at 7:30 p. m. Currently leading the confer ence with four victories against orte defeat, Shelby will go into the game with a handicap. Wednesday afternoon. Coach Pearly Allen was moaning the blues. A telephone interview dis closed that seven linesmen and backfielders were absent from school, presumably with flu. Al len expressed hope that they will be able to play in the game, but stated they would be weak. Jim Grice, guard, left school yesterday along with Max Hicks, tackle. Both were running tem peratures and had headaches, both .bad signs of the flu. Allen reported iRonnie O’ Shields, guard, had been out all week. 'Halfbacks Hubert !Me Swain and Thomas Berger were also reported out of school. Ace tackle Glenn Williams iwill not be in. Williams was injured in the Shelfby -Li n col nton tilt last week. Kings Mountain trails in sec ond place with a conference re cord of three wins, one loss, and a victory would leave Belmont as the chief stumbling Iblock in the way of a third successive loop Continued On Page Two Third Union Representation Election Expected At Foote DRIVE CHAIRMAN - George B. Thomasson will serve as chair man of the Kings Mountain cam paign to solicit funds for the Girl Scout organization. The drive gets underway Monday. Scout Drive Now Underway Annuai appeal for funds for the Girl Scouts will be conducted in Kings Mountain November 4-9, according to announcement: by George B. Thomasson. Mr. Thomasson will serve as Kings Mountain area chairman in the fund - raising effort. Other workers will be Mrs. George Hou ser, Mrs. W. K. Mauny, Jr., and Mrs. Claude Hambright, the lat ter neighborhood chairman. Solicitors expect to contact in. dividuals and business houses, and persons not contacted may forward contributions to Girl Scouts of America, Box 205, Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain’,s membership in the Pioneer Girl Scout Council includes 50 Brownies, 57 Inter mediates, and 51 adult workers. The council has a total member ship of 374 adult volunteers and 1,274 girls. Purpose of the drive, according to Mr. Thomasson, is to seek ur gently . needed funds for contin uing and expanding services for young girls in this area through the program of Girl Scouting. ARP Considering Songbook Vote Elders of Boyce Memorial ARP church are scheduled to act Sun day on a ipetition 'by some mem bers of the church to conduct a church election on the question of adopting a new song (book which would include 'both Psalms and hymns. 'Boyce Memorial ARP church, built in 1898, and dating its ori gin to other ARP churches of many years before, has used only Psalms in its services, as did all ARP church until 1947. In 1947, the General Synod, ruling ibody of the Associate 'Re formed Presbyterian Church, au thorized the singing of hymns in AiRP worship services. (While some iAiRP churches adopted the new songbook, Boyce Memorial church previously has not consid ered making the change. Petitions by the pro-hymn members was made to the elders in September, and the elders vot ed to table the proposal until the Novembers regular meeting. Members of the session are Dr. W. !L. Pressly, moderator, T. (Lewis Hovis, clerk, M. A. Ware, (M. L. Harmon, Oscar McCarter, !W. S. Fulton, Sr., T,. P. (McGill, C. L. Black. Campbell Phifer, R. IA. Mc Gill, J. E. Gamble, J. IL. McGill, I. G. Patterson and (N. !F. McGill. BACK TO DUTY Capt. Robert G. Cox, hospital ized by the air force for obser vation and treatment, was re turned to duty October 21. Capt. Cox is Hie son of Mir. and Mrs. B. F. Cox, of Kings Mountain. He is stationed at (Port Eustis, Va. Cement Workers Claim Majority Oi Employees The United ICement, Lime and Gypsum Workers, AiFL-CIO, is seeking to organize employees of Foote Mineral Company’s Kings Mountain plant. Ben iH. Goforth, Jr., personnel manager, said this week the u nion had notified Foote officials they had petitioned the National Labor (Relations 'board for union representation election. The u nion also stated it has signed .sufficient employees to represent a majority. Mr. Goforth anticipates the1 customary NLRB pattern will 'be the result. The NILRB will conduct a hear- I ing, in which the company will deny the union claim. The NLRB tnen will JiKely order an election and the question of union repre sentation will be settled at the iballot ibox. Mr. Goforth and other company officials say they are “sure” the Cement, Lime and Gypsum work ers do not now represent a ma i jority of the Kings Mountain era ! ployees at (Foote. Should an election (be ordered it will ibe the third time since 1954 that organized labor has en deavored to organize the IFoote plant here. On Both previous oc casions, the unions were soundly trounced in their bid to speak for Foote employees. un August 8, iyob, roote em ployees rejected toy 140 to 40 the organizing 'bid of the Operating Engineers union of theiAlFL. In October 1954, -Foote employ ees rejected by 131 to 21 the or ganizing toid of the United Steel workers of lAmerica, CIO. John Donahey, of Philadelphia, Pa., public relations directors olf 'Foote, said that the ICement, iLime and Gyipsum Workers are origi nally an American 'Federation of ■Labor union. 'However, since the merger of the AIFL-CIO, the peti tioning union wears the(AlFL-tHO banner. The ICement, (Lime and Gyipsum workers represents iFoote em ployees at the Sunbright, Va., plant, Mr. Donahey said. TO MIAMI Dr. and Mrs. 1L. P. Baker and Dr. R. iN. Baker will leave Thursday for Miami, Fla., where they will attend the an nual convention of the Nation al Association of Dentists. mmmmmmm mmm. mmm SERVICES HELD--Final rites for J. D. Harmon, well-known citizen of the Eethware community, were held Monday from David's bap tist church. J. D. Hamon's Rites Conducted Funeral services for J. D, Har. mon, 54, were held Monday after, noon at 4 o'clock from David’s Baptist church, masonic burial rites following in Cleveland Me. morial Park. Mr Harmon, resident of the Bethware community, succumbed at Cleveland Memorial hospital Friday at 4:40 p.m. Death was j attributed to heart failure. An employee of Eagle Roller ; Mill, Shelby, for 31 years, Mr. i Harmon was a member of Cleve l land Lodge 202, AF & AM and \ was a member of David's Bap ! tist church. He was married to Miss Selma Williams in 1928, who \ survives. He was a son of the late ; Fannie Etters and Edgar Har 1 mon. Other survivors include a son, Brunson Harmon, Kings Moun. tain, five brothers, Preston Har. mon, Kings Mountain, Alex Har mon, Fred Harmon, Yates Har mon, all of Shelby, and Flay Har mon, of Spipdale, and six sisters, Mrs. William Bell, Mrs. Jack An. thony, Mrs. Pearl Black, all of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Jack Sher. rer, Erwin, Tenn., Mrs. Henry Fitz, Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. Stacy Dedmon, Shelby. Final rites were conducted by Rev. N. S. Hardin, Rev. T. W. Bray, and Rev. E. B. Hicks. First Baptist Votes Acceptance Of New Church Site by 235 -163 First Baptist church members voted on October 23 to accept a site offered Iby 54 members, with the stipulation that a church ibe under construction on the site within five years. The vote was 235 to 163 in fav or of accepting the proffered site. The vote tabulations were com pleted about 9:30 p. m. The voting conducted against a .background of internecine po litical strilfe, attracted an over flow crowd to Wednesday night’s meeting. Talks by proponents and opponents were limited to one minute and only a few a vailed themselves of the oppor tunity. (Following the voting, several members stated they were adam ant against seeing their church moved Off the comer of Mountain street and Piedmont avenue. There was difference of opinion on whether the dissidents would solve their problems and join in erecting a new church on the Sims-iKing street site which the majority voted to accept. One member of the group opposing the move estimated 100 of the 163 would toe a ‘'hard-oore" group which would establish another church rather than join the.ma jority. This member said a free site for another dhurch ibuilding had been offered, but there was some doubt its location (on Bess emer City (Road) would toe ac ceptable. 'Rev. Aubrey Quakentoush, the pastor, estimated not more than 25 of the 163 opponents would fail to join the majority. Rev. Mr. Quakenbush spearheaded the campaign to accept the new site. At stake in the election was $80,000 which the church has ear marked for a 'building fund, as well as the church property, which includes approximately $42,000 in realty and 'building,s purchased in the past three years. Question of entailment of pro perty of part of the present iFirst Baptist site was also advanced. Proponents of the move say the entailment, from the Craig fam ily of Gastonia, won’t hold up legally, while some opponents of the move think the entailment would be sustained. Rev. (Mr. Quakentoush delivered a conciliatory sermon at the Sun day morning service, a sermon that was rebroadcast via Station WKlMT. Mr. Quakenbush told the 'Her ald, shortly prior to the voting, that a survey of the King-Sims site had revealed it contained 36 acres, rather than 2.6 acres. This site was purchased toy the 54 'First Baptist members, via ex ecution of option, from Dr. p. D. Padgett for $12,000. Phys-Ed Plant Is Suggested Foi Davidson The division of school 'plan ning, state department of (public instruction, has recommended to the city (board of education 1) Construction of six additi onal classrooms at North school; 2) Construction of a physical education budding at Davidson school; 3) Addition Of three classrooms to West .school, provided the ■board of education can obtain property adjacent to the school site and bounded by W. King street. , The state planning group also suggested consolidation ol Park Grace school into the city dis trict, as weli as tne bheroy tiioad area, "if the Kings (Mountain unit cannot be extended to include all of Number 4 Township.” The report:, signed iby W. iL. La than, stated that the inclusion of Park Grace school in the city district .would eliminate the need for building an elementary .school in the southern or south eastern portion otf the city. Another recommendation was for "improvement to the high school situation.” Mr. Dathan wro.e that transfer of elemen tary students from Central to otoer senools would make avail a-olt oasement space for instruc tion in tile vocations and band. Making the survey, along with * Mr. ‘Lathan, was John IL. Camer on. Mr.. La th an said they had studied statistical data available, as well as spot maps of pre school and elementary school populations, and had visited the sites of existing schools and ad jacent residential areas, i ne both addition of classrooms to the West plant and acquisition of adjacent real estate. Three tracts sought include the Laney Dettmar and the W. A. 'Karp residences as well as a strip fronting on King street owned iby the S. S' 'Weir Estate. (Fred W. Plonk, hoard of educa tion chairman, said at a recent meeting that prices quoted by Mr. 'Dettmar and the 'Weir Estate “are too high”. He stated Mr. Earp had said he did not wish to sell his residence. 'Mr. Plonk commented that the board should acquire, if possible, certain portions of property at the hack of the residences of Mrs. Lona MdGill and Mrs. George Cansler. He further said he had come to the conclusion that the hoard should not hesitate to use con demnation legal procedure where prices were unreasonably high for needed 'property. Trustee J. W. Webster said he did not a gree, and Trustee J. R. 'Davis sug gested a “go-slow” policy on con demnation action. The 'board had previously a greed that additional classrooms are necessary at (West school if the indicated ipian to aibolish Central elementary school (by the 1958-59 school year's to be implemented. Still Small World In Kings Mountain Fred Weaver’s dry cleaning establishment was site of a high-grade confab Saturday af ternoon, as Mr. Weaver played host and handed customers their week-end cleaning pick ups. One customer was Mrs. Clyde Kerns. When her freshly-cleaned garments were brought up, she addressed Mr. Weaver, “Fred, did you ever find the blouse to that brown skirt?” No, Fred hadn’t. But Paul Cole who was a party to the talkfast found his interest piqued, went over to take a look at the brown skirt with twinkling sequins. “I know where your blouse is,” Mr. Cole remarked. “My daughter Paula found it on the street. She’s called all over the high school trying to locate an owner.” Mrs. Kerns was amazed. On the day the blouse was lost, afternoon of the homecoming football game parade, she’d made only one stop between Her home on Edgemont and Mr. Weaver’s establishment. That was at First National Bank. Mrs. Kerns is pleased to find her blouse, and is still amazed at the coincidence of her pick ing up her cleaning at just the right time. Paul Cole is amazed, too.