Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10.320
f City Limits 7.206
The figure for Greeter Kings Mountain is derived from
the 1956 Ktngs Mountain city directory census. The City
Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950.
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VOL 68 No. 45
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. CM Thursday, November 7, 1957
Sixty-Eighth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
HOSPITAL GIFT
The Boyce Memorial 'ARP Wo
men of the Church organiza
tion has made a donation of
$34 to Kings Mountain hospital
for the purchase of linens, Man
ager Grady Howard reported
this /week.
KIWANIS CLUB
Dr. Wyan Washburn, director
of Gardner Webb Clinic, will
address members of the Kings
Mountain Kiwanis clulb at the
Thursday night meeting at 6:45
p. m. at the Woman’s club. Dr.
Washburn’s topic will 'be “The
Little Black Bag.”
MOOSE MEETING
Kings Mountain Moose Lodge
1748 will hold a regular meet
ing Thursday night at 8 o’clock
at the lodge on Bessemer City
road, according to announce
ment by Curtis Gaffney, secre
tary.
COURT POSTPONED
'Monday’s session of City Re
corder’s Court was postponed
in the absence of Judge Jack
White. City officials announced
the session will he held Thurs
day, /November 7 at 2 p. m.
LEGION MEETING
Regular meeting of the Otis D.
Green Post 155, American Le
gion. will be held Thursday
(tonight) -at 8 o’clock p. m. at
the Legion Hall, according to
announcement toy Mi]lard Prin
ce, adjutant.
DANCE
Otis D'." Green Post 155 will
sponsor a dance for couples
Saturday night beginning at
y8:30 p. m. at the Region Mali,
■^Wording to announcements
mailed to members. Mu
g|B ' be furnished by Hague
jj^Bk $nd his band.
CAKE SALE
jghters of the Wesley
of Central Methodist
|fi will conduct the sale of
pies, and dried flower
gements Saturday monn
eginning at 9 o'clock at
|lck Insurance Agency.
VFW MEETING
lgs Mountain Veterans of
fign Wars post will 'hold a
Ignlar meeting Thursday
Ight, November 7, at 7:30 p.
at City Hall.
¥ METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for two
weeks ending Wednesday total
ed $290.46, City Clerk Gene
(Mitcham .reported. Included
were $51.11 from off-street me
ters and $248-35 from on-street
meters.
CANDIDATE
'Curl George, Kings Mountain
freshman at Erskine college, is
a candidate for treasurer of the
fraslhman class, it ,was announ
ced by the college publicity
(board. Primary voting is sche
duled for /Friday, with run-offs
set tor Tuesday.
Tutor To Manage
Stanly Theatre
Ed Tutor, manager of Joy
'Jheatre here, has been notified of
his forthcoming transfer to Al
bemarle, wher^ he will manage
Stanly Theatre' in the Stewart &
Everett chain.
Replacing Mr. Tutor here will
be Eugene McSwain, Kings
Mountain native, who has been
managing a theatre in Belmont,
The change will be effective
November 11.
The two theatres are compar
able in seating capacity. The
Stanly can accommodate 750 per.
sons, the Joy 767.
Mr. Tutor has managed the
Stewart & Everett enterprise
since it was acquired by Stewart
• & Everett from David and Char
lie Cash.
Extension Class
Is Offered Here
Registration for an extension
daes offered toy Appalachian
' State Teacher’s college will toe
held Wednesday afternoon at
North school.
Tbe workshop will carry six
quarter or four semester hours
of graduate or undergraduate
credit in education or physical
education. Credit can also be
used for teacher certificate re
newal.
Interested persons should reg
ister Wednesday if they desire
to enroll In the course which
will begin after Thanksgiving,
a spokesman said. The class
wiil meet once weekly.
Registration time is 4 o’
clock to 5:30 p.m.
PpLOp O S E-Cx —
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ARCHITECT'S CONCEPTION OF HOSPITAL
CHAPEL--Reproduced here is the architect's
conception of a proposed addition for a chapel
at Kings Mountain hospital. Plans for the addi
tion have been drawn by Ormand & Vaughan.
Shelby architects, and the Kings Mountain hos
pital board of directors hopes to build the addi
tion via funds subscribed from the public.
Hospital Proiects
Chapel Addition
GETS A WARD-J. R. Davis, Kings
Mountain attorney, has been a
warded a certificate of apprecia
tion for service to the nation as
a government draft appeal agent.
Davis Receives
Service Award
The President of the United
States has awarded to J. R. Dav
is, Kings (Mountain attorney, a
certificate of appreciation for 15
years of service to the nation as
Government appeal agent of the
Cleveland County draft board.
Mr,. Davis is one of the 68 orig
inal appointees to the North Car
olina Selective Service system
under the World War I Act who
are still serving in the Selective
Service system. He has served
continuously, without compensa
lion, with the exception of a ibrief
period between termination of
the 1940 Act and the reorganiza
tion of the System under the pre
sent Act.
LIONS PROGRAM
Jimmy Chasteen, Bessemer
City ibariton, .will present a mu•
sical program at the regular
meeting of the Kings Mountain
Lions club Tuesday night, it
was anounced by Ollie Harrfe,
program chairman. The club
meets at .the Woman's club at
7 o’clock.
Plans Drawn
By Architects
Are Approved
Kings Mountain hospital’s
board of directors hopes to build
within the not-too-distant future-1
a chapel at the hospital.
The board announced this week
that plans for the addition—which
the board hopes to build by pub.
lie subscription—have been re
ceived from Ormand and Vaug
han, Shelby architects.
Cost estimate was not given
Manager Grady Howard said, due
to the fact initial figures appear,
ed inflated. Revised estimates are
being asked.
Plans call for an 832-square
foot brick chapel addition measur.
ing 18 x 24 feet. There would be
a solarium-type front on the
south side, plus an open air patio
and entrance corridor.
Mr. Howard, commented, “A
real need for a hospital chapel
exists. Currently, Kings Moun
tain churches are holding Sunday
School at the hospital each' Sun
day morning. There is also a need
for more space for ambulatory
and semi-ambulatory patients for
seeing their families and friends
and for their comfort and benefit
in passing recuperative hours.
During these periods, patients lit
erally have time on their hands,
yet they must remain hospitali
zed for both medical and nursing
attention.”
The hospital currently has a
vailable $200 in a fund given by
citizens as memorials for friends.
License Examiner
Needing Business
Does Kings Mountain need a
two-day per week driver’s license
examiner visit or one?
Mayor Glee A. Bridges posed
the question this week, noting
tHat it was only a few weeks ago
that a suspension of the driver
license examiner’s visit produced
considerable consternation and
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Boyce Memorial ARP To Detennine
Psalm-Hymn Question November 17
Members of Boyce Memorial
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church will vote in congregation,
al meeting on November 17 to
determine whether the church
will adopt a new songbook which
includes both Psalms and hymns.
Elders of the church, in session
Sunday afternoon, voted unani
mously to authorize the referen
dum. The vote was 9 to 0.
The Bayce Memorial congrega.
tion currently employs "The
Psalter" and “Bible Songs”, two
songbooks which include only
Psalms.
Ten years 'age the general sy
nod of the church voted .to make
singing of hymns optional with
particular congregations. Since, a
new synod-approved songbook,
employing both Psalms and
hymns, has been designated an
official church songbook.
The November 17 voting will
he the first time the question has
been advanced, on local level, in
the Boyce Memorial church.
• Dr. W. L. Pressly, the pastor
and moderator of the session (the
elder board), said the elders a
greed that the congregation
would vote first on whether pro
and con discussion would be au
thorized at the November 17 meet
ing, with the voting to follow. He
said the elders specified that the
result determined by majority re.
suit of those members present and
voting.
A group of members had pe
titioned the session for a congre
gational vote on the question in
September. The request was ta
bled for action at the November
meeting.
RESIGNS--Rev. Howard T. Cook,
for the past three years pastor of
Second Baptist church, has ten
dered his resignation, effective
January 1.
Cook Resigns
Pastorate
Rev. Howard T. Cook, pastor
of Second Baptist church since
October 1954, has resigned the
pastorate, effective January 1.
Rev. Mr. Cook tendered his res.
ignation at morning services Oc.
tober 27.
The minister came to Kings
Mountain from the pastorate of
Flat Lick Baptist church, Barber,
ville, Ky.
Rev. and Mrs. Cook have six
children. Two are married and
reside here. The others are grade
school age and reside with their
parents.
Mr. Cook has not announced his
future plans.
Fritz' Father
Dies Suddenly
Rev. C. E. Fritz, D. D., father
of Rev. R, Douglas Fritz, of
Kings Mountain, died suddenly at
6 a. m. Wednesday morning at his
home in Atlanta, Ga.
■Dr. Fritz, president of the Geor.
gia-Alabama synod of the Luthe
ran church, had been in apparent
good health. Relatives here as
sumed he had suffered a fatal
heart attack. -
Funeral rites are to be held in
Atlanta Friday at Peachtree Road
Lutheran church. Interment will
be made at Elmwood cemetery
iri Columbia, S. C.
Born June 25, 1891 "in Holly
Grove, N. C., Dr. Fiijz, 66, was
graduated from Lenoir Rhyne
college in 1914 and subsequently
graduated from Northwestern
Lutheran Seminary and received
the honorary doctorate degree at
Lenoir Rhyne in 1937. He had
served Lutheran churches in Dal.
las, Greensboro, Indiana, Wiscon.
sin, Columbia, S. C., and Atlanta.
Under his leadership 24 new con
gregations had been organized in
the synod.
Dr. Fritz had recently purchas.
ed a residence In Columbia In an.
ticipation of retirement.
Surviving, In addition to his
son here, are his wife, and four
children, Mrs. Donald Deal, Lin.
cointon, a former teacher of pia
no in Kings Mountain city schools,
and Mrs. E. L. Riley, Charles Jr.,
and Rev. Richard Fritz, all of
Columbia. Also surviving are 13
grandchildren.
Homes, Schools And Businesses
Struck By Wave Of Influenza
4
Neale Patrick
To Be Herald
Sports Editor
Staff changes, effective No.
vember 14, were announced this
week by Martin Harmon, publish,
er of the Kings Mountain 'Herald.
David Baity, sports editor, will
assume the duties in the adver
tising and bookkeeping depart,
ments currently being handled by
Mrs. Thomas Meacham, who has
resigned.
Neal Patrick, of Gastonia, for.
mer sports editor of the Raleigh
Times and Gaston Citizen, will
take over the Herald sports re
porting assignment. Mr. Patrick
is currently special correspondent
for International News Service
and will continue these duties, in
addition to editing Kings Moun.
tain Herald sports.
Mrs. Meacham said Wednes
day she will join the advertising
sales staff of Radio Station
WKMT, with sales assignments
in Bessemer City and 'Gastonia.
Mr. Patrick, a Gastonia native,
was graduated from the Univer
sity of North Carolina with an
A. B. degree in journalism in
1939.
Drane Child
Hit By Auto
' Charles Drane, seven year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Drane,
received slight injuries Wednes
day morning around 8:15 when
struck 'by a car on Cleveland ave
nue.
'POiiWvterM Mrs: Martin'Wil
son, Jr., operating a 1949 Chev
rolet, as the driver of the car.
According to police, Mrs. Wil
son was traveling north on Cleve
land avenue. The child had got
ten out of his grandfather’s car
on the east side of the street. The
child, the report stated, waited
for an oncoming car to pass, then
dashed across to the west side
into the path of Mrs. Wilson’s
car.
'Dr. John McGill stated Wed
nesday the child's injuries were
slight and that he should recov
er satisfactorily barring compli
cations.
Herndon Rites
Held Saturday
Funeral rites for Ernest B.
Herndon, 64, were conducted Sat
urday afternoon at 4 o'clock from
the Herndon home in Grover, in.
terment following in the Grover
cemetery.
Mr. Herndon, prominent retir.
ed farmer of Grover, died of self,
inflic'ed gunshot wounds Friday
afternoon about 1 o’clock. Mr.
Herndon had been in ill health
for several years. He was the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. John
Herndon and a member of Gro
ver’s First Baptist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Re.
na Bookout Herndon, three sons,
Warren H. Herndon, Kings Maun,
tain, Dee Herndon, of Atlanta,
Ga., and Bobby Herndon, of Kan.
napolis, two daughters, Mrs.
Charles Dixon, Kings Mountain,
and Mrs. James Kirk, of Whea
ton, 111., two sisters, Mrs. Hugh A.
Logan, Sr., and Mrs. J. L. Barker,
both of Shelby, and a brother, O
tis Herndon, of Grover. Six
grandchildren also survive.
Final rites were conducted by
Rev. Don Cabiness and Rev.
Wayne Haynes.
Active pallbearers were Jack
Herndon, Bud Herndon, A1 Hem.
don, Hugh A. Logan, Jr., Evans
Logan, and Randolph Logan,
Two Nominated
For Scholarship
The Morehead Scholarship com
mittee of > Kings Mountain high
school has been recommended
two students as scholarship nom.
inees for 1958-59.
James Allen Pressly, son of Dr.
and Mrs. W. L. Pressly, and Steve
Kesler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Kesler, Were nominated by the
teacher committee Monday. Bo‘h
students are seniors.
Applications are being received
by the county scholarship com
mittee until November 15, Cen
tral Principal Lawson Brown re
ported. Mr. Brown said the com
mittee was asked this year to
submit two recommendations in.
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MAKES FIRST TREE PURCHASE--Mayor Glee A. Bridges. !e!t. is
pictured receiving from Delbert Dixon a receipt for one dollar good
toward iive purchase of a Christmas tree from the Javcee tree lot.
Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce are launching the
drive here and will canvass the city Thursdav night in tj r r effort
to sell more than 430 tickets. The trees will sell for 31.53 a,: ' $3. Mr.
Dixon is president of the Jaycees.
CHAIRMAN — Rev. R. Douglas
Fritz, Kings Mountain minister,
has been appointed blood pro.
gram chairman ior the local
chapter of the American Red
Red Cross.
Fritz Appointed
By Red Cross
Rev. IR. 'Douglas Fritz, pastor of
Resurrection Lutheran church,
has been named blood program
chairmhn for the Kings Moun
tain Red Cross chapter, according
to announcement 'by J. Ollie Har
ris, chapter Chairman.
Mr. 'Ftitz succeeds as chairman
3. F. Maner, local insuranceman,
who has resigned.
The next regular meeting of
the Red Cross organization, ac
cording to the chapter chairman,
has been set for December 30.
Crawford, Plonk,
Bridges Named
To Acting Posts
.7. Wilson Crawford, Kings
Mountain realtor, has been named
ao‘ing president of Kings Moun
tain Business Development, Inc.
Other acting officers, who will
serve until a stockholder session
is held, are Fred W. Plonk, vice
president, and Ben H. Bridges,
Jr., secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Plonk is an auto dealer and
fuel distributor. Mr. Bridges is
secretary - treasurer of Kings
Mountain Savings and Loan as
sociation.
The acting officers were named
at a committee session held Mon.
day night.
Acting directors are the six in
corporators: the three officers,
W. K. Mauney, Glee A. Bridges
and B. S. Neill, each of whom:
subscribed $100 in common stock.
The corporation certificate pro.
vides that stock will be issued in I
denomination of $10 per share,
and in amount up to $100,000.
The officers contemplate a,
wide-scale stock sale and havej
voiced tHe hope ■ that every per-!
son in Kings Mountain will pur
chase a minimum of one share.
Purpose of the corporation is
to expand Kings Mountain in
dustry.
TO CONVENTION
Mr. and Mrs. Drace CM. Peeler
left last weekend for Philadel
phia, Pa., where they were to
attend the annual convention
of the National 'Retail Lumber
7>ealers association.
City Schools Schedule Programs
Noting American Education Week
Kings Mountain city schools
will join with others throughout
the nation in observing •‘Ameri
can Education Week."
Theme otf this year’s obser
vance is "An Educated People
Moves Freedom Forward’’.
Plans for the oibservance here
were announced toy Miss Alice
Averitt, city schools teaching su
pervisor.
Each of the schools in the city
system is inviting parents to visit
the classrooms during the w&ek.
Kings 'Mountain Radio Station
WKiMT will broadcast from 8:45
9:00 the following program:
Monday — “Education for Re
sponsible Citizenship”, toy Rev.
James B. MdLarty.
Tuesday — “Teaching The
‘’Fundamentals", toy High School
Statix ‘N (Dramatics Club.
Wednesday—"Ways To Provide
Better Education" toy Superinten
dent iB. N. Barnes.
Thursday — “Our Community’s
Teachers” by Future Teacher As
sociation Organization.
Friday — "Our School Com
munity Relationship” by W. R.
George, principal of North School.
The local unit of the Future
Teachers of America will decor
ate local store windows with ap
propriate exhibits.
Special programs will be held
at West School auditorium on
Thursday at 1 o’clock; Central
School Friday at 1 o'clock; On
'November 14th, North School will
celebrate Parent Visitation day;
East School will celebrate Par
ent Visitation day on Friday, No
vember 15, and on November 12,
Tuesday, an assembly program
will ibe presented at 9 o’clock un
der the direction of Mrs. Margaret
McGinnis on "What Our School
Should Achieve.”
'328 Absences
On Wednesday
In City Schools
The big news in Kings Moun
tain this week was sickness.
Older folk, victims of similar
ailments before, said their brawl
felt like the “grippe”. Others said
it was “flu”. Modernists called
theirs “virus infection of the res
piratory area”.
Few organizations, business or
otherwise, had failed to receive
a visit. Medical doctors were mov
ing at top speed to handle the
calls, and druggists were working
at high speed to fill bottles with
vari-colored pills and compound
high-powered elixirs to combat
the ailment.
Kings Mountain’s flu situation
had hardly reached epidemic pro.
portions, it appeared Wednesday
from a tabulation of school at
tendance reports,
Mrs. Wanza Davis, city schools
secretary, said that 32K students
were absent Wednesday of the
total city schools population of
2279. Majority of the absences
were thought due to influenza.
Davidson school appeared hard
est hit. with 50 of 269 pupils ab
sen*. Next in line was the high
school population, with 77 absent.
East reported 42 absent, North
had 74 vacant desks, West school
reported 19 absent.
A few teachers were also on
the ailing list, or had been, dur
ing the week.
At City Hall, Mayor Glee A.
Bridges was back on duty Wed
nesday after a weekend tour in
bed and was suffering from a
heavy cough. Mayor Pro Tem
pore Ben if. Bridges was away
from his desk at Kings Moun
tain Building & Loan association,
and Grady Yolton, superintendent
of public works, was another vie.
tim.
Charles Blanton, Kings Moun.
tain druggist, said the flu tempo
seemed to intensify Saturday and
continued heavy Sunday.
Kings Mountain hospital, as of
Wednesday af'ernoon, had no pa
tients in the halls, but all beds
were occupied and there was a
waiting list. A report listed 16
patients as having the flu,.
It was not unusual for families
to have two or more members
a'bed with flu.
Medical men cautioned against
exposure and majority advised
their patients not to be over-an
xious to Iforsake sick beds for re
turn to duty, be it work or school.
Weisenei Lad
Hit By Auto
Robert Wiesener, six-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wiese,
ner, was hospitalized Wednesday
afternoon after being struck by
a ear at the intersection of King
and Gaston streets.
Young Wiesener was reported,
ly returning home from school
with another brother and step
ped from the curb in the path of
an automobile. W. A. Childers,
Kings Mountain man, was ope
rating the vehicle.
The Wiesener boy is a first
grader at Cehtral school. Dr. Paul
Nolan and Dr. Paul Hendricks,
attending physicians, said X-rays
were being made late Wednesday
afternoon at Kings Mountain hos
pital to determine the extent of
injuries.
Kings Mountain Police Depart,
ment reported the accident oc
curred about 3 o'clock. Acting
Chief Martin Ware, Paul Sanders
and E. W. Bridges investigated.
Did Baity Make
Shrine Bowl Team?
Shrine Bowl letters are out.
iDid Kings Mountain's left half
sensation Ken Baity get the
nod? That’s a question puzz
ling Kings Mountain folk.
The Gastonia Gazette tiwice
has made mention of Baity’s
possible selection in the last
two days, mentioning also Ash
ley high’s Jimmy Smith. Are
they in the know?
Baity said Wednesday after
noon that in the event he knew,
he couldn’t tell before the offi
cial press release scheduled for
■November 24.
An alliance between Charlotte
newspapers and the Shrine
committee permits the Char
lotte papers to break the story
first.