Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7 206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain is der»eed from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city l£arits figure is from the United States census of 1950. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Established 1889 U Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS 'VOL 69 No. 8 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 20, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year Community Slowly Thawing Snow, Cold Local News Bulletins KIWANIS CLUB Three Science students of Miss Odessa Black will display exhibits they plan to enter in The district Science fair at Queens college March 29th at the Thursday night meeting of the Kiwanis club. Kiwanians will meet at the Woman’s club at 6:45 p. m. VFW MEETING The Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold their regular meeting Thursday at City Hall at 7:30 p. m. Business on hand will be the selection of a per manent time and place to meet. WEST SCHOOL P-TA West School P-TA’s Found er's Night program will be held Wednesday night at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. The P-TA meeting was scheduled for February 19 but was post poned because of bad weather. DIXON SPEAKER Stewart Bridgman, student Davidson college and son of missionaries to China, will speak at Sunday afternoon ser vices at 3 o’clock at Dixon Pres byterian church. Mr. Bridgman will also speak at Sunday School assembly and at meet ings of the fellowship groups of First Presbyterian church on Sunday. SUPPER Showing of a film on mis sions will feature the family night meeting Wednesday at First Presbyterian church. A covered dish supper will be served at 6:30 p. m. The pro gram will be followed by a meeting of the Women of the Church. IN FLORIDA Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, presi dent of North Carolina Fede ration of Woman’s Clubs, is in Tampa, Fla., where she is at tending the meeting of the Southeastern council, American Federation of Woman s Clubs. The meeting concludes on Thursday. ON HONOR ROLL Miss Anita McGinnis, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mc Ghitiis, and Miss Donna Chea tham. daughter of !> and Mrs. W P Gerberding, have oee-r listed on the semester honor roll at Lenoir-Rhyne college, Hickory. MUSICAL PROGRAM Students of East Elementary school will present a musical program Tuesday evening a 7*30 p. m. in the school aucli torium. Mrs. Richard McGin nis, city schools music instruc tor, is directing the program. The public is invited to attend. SCIENCE PROGRAM Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club will sec a de monstration of science work in Kings Mountain h.!gb school at their Tuesday night meeting. Steve Powell, Mac Lennon and Paul Hendricks will discuss re cently completed projects and projects of other students, in science, biology and chemistr> will be displayed. The club meets at 7 o’clock at the \\ o man’s Club. Funeral Is Held For Mrs. Brooks Funeral rites for Mrs. Margie Nichols Brooks, 36, were conduct ed last Friday at Temple Baptist church, Celriv^r, S. C. Mrs Brooks, a former Kings Mountain citizen, was the wife of Aaron Brooks, now of Celriver, and mother of Mrs. Bill Myers, of Kings Mountain. Sho died last Thursday morn ing at 3:15 at York County hos pital. She had been ill for the past four months. She was a native of Clover, S. C., daughter of Mrs. Charles H. Nichols and the late Mr. Nichols. Surviving in addition to her mother, her husband and her daughter here, are three c'hll. T. Cox, of Greenville, S. C. was engineer and R. L. Miller, of Charlotte, was the conductor on the locomotive due here Sun day at 1:35 p. m. Other survivors include a son, Bobby Franklin, of Winter Park, Fla., and a daughter, Miss Fran ces Franklin, of the home. Also surviving are two broth ers, Wallace Franklin, Cherry ville, James Franklin, Henderson ville, and seven sisters, Mrs. Mae Black and Mrs. Rachel Neal, both of Cherryville, Mrs. Sara Key, Spartanburg, S. C., Mrs. Jessie Davis, Greer, S. C., Mrs. Blanche Thompson, Mount Holly, Mrs. El sie Baxter, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Miss Kittie Franklin, Char lotte. Final rites were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock in Cherryville’s First Presbyterian church by Rev. George Riddle, the pastor. Burial was in Cherry - ville’s City cemetery. Rites Conducted For Mrs. Falls Funeral rites for Mrs. Ethel Eunice Falls, 52, wife of Herman Falls, were held Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. from Central Methodist church, interment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Falls died Monday morn ing in Kings Mountain hospital after an illness of five weeks. She was a daughter of the late Lince and Annie Huffstetler Pat terson Falls and a member of Central Methodist church. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are a son, Don Falls, of Kings Mountain, two daugh ters, Mrs. Arvey McCall, Kings Mountain, Mrs. Basil Welchel, Gaffney, S. C a brother, Boyce Patterson, Kings Mountain, and a sister, Mrs. Kelly Dixon, of Kings Mountain. Three grand children also survive. Rev. James B. McLarty, assis ted by Rev. Floyd Hollar, con ducted the final rites. ATTEND MEETING Mrs. J. N. Gamble and Mrs. B. W. Gillespie represented the Kings Mountain Rod Cross chapter at a joint meeting spon sored by the Department of Public Welfare and American Red Cross in Morganton Thurs day. Representatives of chap ters in 20 counties attended. GIFT TO POLIO FUND — In spite of the fact no fund drive was made for the March oi Dimes in Cleveland County this year, employees of Phenix plant of Burlington Mills presented a check to Co-Chairman Ollie Harris for S155. Mrs. Eula Mae Cobb, of the winding depart ment. is handing the check to Mr. Karris, as Zeb V. Waters, of the carding department looks on. (Photo by Pennington Studio) IT SNOWED — While there is none who would question the fact of Saturday's heavy snowfall, first heavy one here in several years, the photographic evidence above provides portraits of how the snow turned Kings Mountain white. Photo top is the snow-enshrouded home of Mrs. Fred Finger on S. Battleground. The white-laden land scape below was snapped from York Road and is a portion of the Richard Owens farm. (Herald photos by David and Linda Baity) Day Oi Prayer Rites Friday At First Baptist Kings Mountain citizens will | join with others throughout the nation Friday in the observance of World Day of Prayer. United Churchwomen of Kings Mountain, an intenienomination al organization representing all churches in the community, is sponsoring a community • wide service Friday at 3:30 p. m. at First Baptist church. Mrs. William Herndon will; serve as narrator for the pro- ’ gram, and presidents and repre- j sentatives of the various church (Continued, on Page Eight) Macedonia Sets Hymn Festival Macedonia Baptist church is sponsoring an inter-denomina tional hymn festival Sunday afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 p. m. The one-hour service will fea ture group singing of favorite hymns and special numbers by various quartets from the com munity churches. Announcement was made by Dan Huffstetler, Macedonia choir director, who invited the community’s church congrega tions to participate in the pro gram of singing. Mayor Has Troubles; Air Rifles Garbage Pails, Utility Cut-Offs The Mayor, the city official charged with responsibility for operating the city efficiently, has his problems. Part of them accrue because some of his stockhold customers don’t conform to regu larly prescribed practices. Thus, Mayor Glee A. Bridges has addressed a letter to all cit izens and utility customers in which he asks for cooperation in several different phases of city, operation, among them: 1) The Mayor wants a few cit izens to cease and desist from the practice of cutting into meter boxes after service has been dis continued for non-payment of bills. The Mayor says anyone caught 'breaking this rule will bi subject to a $25 fine, if convicted in city court. 2) Some citizens have been cut ting off water during the cold weather at the city tap, rather than at their own. The Mayor says no citizen has a right to tam per with the city tap without per mission and adds that all should have their own cut-offs on their own property. 3) Utility accounts are actual ly due on the first of the month. The ten-day period following is a grace period. 4) Some youngsters are using street light bulbs for air rifle tar get practice, a fact that has cost the city 300 bulbs since Christ mas. Unless the practice ceases, says Mayor Bridges, some areas of the city “will be in the dark for a time.” 5) Some motorists haven’t bou. ght city auto tags, though the due date is past. After March 1, the city will go to work to assure that every car owner swaps a dollar for a bright new city tag. 6) The Mayor again urges all citizens to forswear use of the old familiar 55-gallon oil drum as a garbage can. He asks use of a standard 20-gallon garbage can, with lid and handles. This will ease and speed, the task of the garbage collecting crew and help the city meet its twice-weekly collection schedule. Brush, he adds, shouldn't be put in garbage cans, but should be piled on the street. Bruch removal is a spec ial job, not done along with the regular garbage pick-ups. "Your help will make your tax dollar go further and will get you better servioe,” Mayor Brid ges concluded. Six-Inch Snow, Sub-Freezing Temperatures Are Recorded The weather, that topic which can be discussed but not changed thereby, was the big news in Kings Mountain this week, as cit izens variously enjoyed a six-inch snow, decried the record low cold temperatures, and laughed or cried through any number of in conveniences. Saturday’s snow started in the w'ee hours and kept falling for the better part of the day. It put the Kings Mountain Merchants association's Dollar Days promo tion into virtual deepfreeze sev eral hours prior to schedule, ex cept for shoe dealers wIlo had rubber footwear. By Monday, these stocks, which had enjoyed little play for years, were reduced to odd lots of broken sizes. Busy men of the season have been the garage men, service sta tion operators, fuel dealers, and plumbers. Car radiators not only steamed with the unusual low tempera tures, but the batteries froze, too. One service station operator re ported several cars still on his list which "hadn’t started in three days”. Brief stocks of chains got a quick play, even at $13.25 and $16.50 prices, up considerably from the prevailing prices of the last cold wave several seasons ago. On Sunday night, there was a minimum of available anti freeze. r uei oeaiers worseo overcame, as coal and fuel oil S. O. S. calls were put in. And the plumbers’ work was just starting. Pluml>er Ben T. Go. forth said Tuesday morning he had TO calls on frozen pipes- fait the pipes hadn’t yet thawed. Many homes had been without water since Monday morning, and oth ers reported shorter term difficul ty with frozen water pipes. City schools operated on regu lar schedule, though absenteeism was heavy Monday when only a bout 55 percent of the city’s school children answered roll calls. At tendance improved considerably Tuesday was up to 85.05 percent Wednesday. It was noted that the absences weren’t solely due to cold weather. Measles, mumps, and chicken pox are prevalent, along with the common cold and influenza. Utility rrfen said their jobs hadn't been too difficult South ern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company’s service department had some toll line breakage, but regarded it as normal. Hunter Allen, city electrical superinten dent, said city power difficulties were limited to traffic signal freeze-ups. How cold was it? Kings Mountain is without an official weather observer, and many amateurs took a crack at (Continued on Page Eight) Snow Scenes BY LINDA BISER A monstrous snowman guard ing the comer of Fred Thom - burg’s home on King St.. A sled run on the number four fairway of the Country Club golf course, with Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Dean, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Page, Mr. and Mrs. Will Herndon, Dr. and Mrs. Bill Ramseur, Miss Le thia Lankford, and Mr. and Mrs. James Herndon among the sled ding participants. Houses tracked with snow. Youths with snowballs in hand, practically frozen feet and fing ertips. Dick Hunnicutt on skis. A nonchalant snowman witfc legs crossed sitting calmly sur veying snow-covered W. Gold St., from the Robert Rosberg resi dence. More sledders at the battle ground. Rabbit tracks. School children complaining of the resumption of school. Snow cream-filled people. Fires warming and drying a« odd assortment of boots, gloves and kerchiefs in preparation for another venture into the cold. Amateur weather predictors with superstition-based warnings of more snow to come. Inexpert thermometer readers. People digging for the morn ing paper. Chains jingling as cars made their laborious way along tibe road. Upcoming — slush — slush —< slush — and more slush.