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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. 1 C Pages ID Today VOL 69 No. 9 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 27, 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS -- Established 1889 Sixty-Ninth Year STUDENTS SHOW SCIENCE WORK — Harold Coggins, Kiwanian, ex amines the scientific project of Paul Hendricks, Jr„ on the "Effect of Stimuli on Living Tissue" at last week's Kiwanis club meeting, as Miss Odessa Black, high school biology teacher looks on. In back ground is Steve Powell, who presented a display on the "Three Pri mary Races of Man-*. local News Bulletins discharged Grady Patterson, oil distribu tor, has been discharged from Memorial hospital in Charlotte after undergoing surgery there and is recuperating at his home on West Gold Street. hospitalized Margrace Mill employee, Jimmy Dickey is in Kings Mountain hospital due to a virus which affected his ner vous system. Attending phy sician, Dr. Paul Nolan stated Dickey’s condition as serious. IMPROVING Mrs. C. E. Neisler, a patient at Kings Mountain hospital is improving according to an nouncement by Dr. Paul Nolan. A family spokesman said Mrs. Neisler had had pneumonia. SUPPER The chicken pie supper sched uled last Saturday at El Bethel clubhouse was postponed be cause of bad weather. The Methodist WSCS will tegm serving this Saturday at 5 o clock p. m. at the clubhouse, it has been announced. SALE Hot dogs and homemade cake will be on sale Saturday March 1 at the Grace Metho dist Fellowship Hall beginning at noon and continuing until evening. Delivery service can be obtained by phoning 1324. The project is sponsored joint ly by the Friendship and Phil athea elesses of the church. GUEST AT CEREMONY Mayor Glee A. Bridges was a platform guest at the Pitts burgh Plate Glass ground breaking ceremonies in Shelby Tuesday. He also attended a luncheon for out-of-town guests at the Hotel Charles. building permits City Inspector J. W. Webster issued a building permit Tues day to Thomas L. Blanton to build a_one-story, five room, frame house on Ramseur street between Bridges and Park street to be used as a residence. Hunter Ware was listed as the contractor. Estimated cost is $4200. COOKIE SALE Area girl scouts will hold the annual girl scout cookie sale beginning Saturday, March 1. Cookies will be sold at 50c per box with proceeds to go to the Girl Scout fund. Miss Youngue Succumbs At 73 Miss Selina Youngue, 73, a re tired nurse died Sunday at her home on Ridge street. Funeral services for Miss Youn gue were conducted Monday at Sisk Funeral Home with Rev. S. L. Lamb supply pastor of Second Baptist church and Rev. W. H. Redmon officiating. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Surviving is one brother, Sam uel Youngue of College Park, Ga. Students Give Demonstration Of Science Work Members of two Kings Moun tain civic clubs had a looksee in the past week on what high school youngsters are learning in science courses. A group of students demonstra ted “protects” on scientific sub jects to the Kiwanis club and Lions club at their recent meet ings. After brief outlines of their subjects, the high school students stood by for explanations of their projects to club members. On Tuesday night at the Lions club, Billy Simpson lectured on his scale-model display of “Pre historic Animals”. Steve Powell explained the results of two months of work to show in pot tery clay the “Three Primary Races of Man”. Mac Lennon an swered enough questions to give himself a husky voice on his ex hibit of “Vanguard”, which dia grammed the components of the navy’s Sputnik-type missile. Paul Hendricks’ display was entitled “Effect of Stimuli on Living Tis sue”. The display employs a not long-dead turtle, and battery charged stimuli produce reactions which one onlooker labeled “the salted frog legs effect”. Also at the meeting were high school students-of-the-month, Georgiana Moss and Sherry Kelly. High School Principal Lawson Brown presented the student scientists. — City Will Invite Insurance Bids The city will invite bids on five insurance policies to be op ened at the March 12 meeting. City Clerk Joe McDaniel said Wednesday. Bids will be inviited on the ba sis that all policies will expire March 2, 1959. The five policies and their most recent annual premiums are: Fleet liability, $1316.83; mon ies and securities protection, $69.80; a $400 fire insurance po licy on the house at City lake, $8.68; the volunteer firemen’s J blanket accident policy. $88.50; | $5,000 fidelity bond for Tax Col lector j. W. Webster, $50. Compromise Offered By Baptist Minority Expansion Firm’s Stock Sale Good Plonk Pleased With Response By Businessmen Sale of stock in Kings Moun tain Business Development, Inc., the newly-formed corporation de signed to spur Kings Mountain area industrial expansion, was proceeding satisfactorily Wed.! nesday, Fred W. Plonk, chairman of the 'business group solicitation committee reported. Chairman Plonk and President J. Wilson Crawford were at work Tuesday and Wednesday, visiting business firms and individuals, to collect cash for stock pledges. By Wednesday, the cash-in hand figure had topped the five figure mark and, Mr. Plonk com mented, “We’re just getting started.” Mr. Crawford said, ”We are very well-pleased with the re ception we are receiving. Kings Mountain and the surrounding area needs the economic help of additional job opportunities and the businessmen we have seen a gree that, together, we can help ourselves. We have many more business people to see. I share Mr. Plonk’s confidence that we shall be fully successful.” Stock in Kings Mountain Busi ness Development, Inc., sells for $10 per common share. Common stock is the only issue and the corporation is authorized to issue up' to 10,000 shares. The stock certificates are in hand and are ready for issuance. Currently, the corporation is ne gotiating with a garment manu facturer, who has told the direc tors to seek a lease on a building which would be constructed by the Development firm. President Crawford said he hoped to arrange a director’s meeting this weekend to further plans toward contracting the in dustry prospect. Mrs. Smith's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Mary Louise Smith, 39, wife of Walter Smith, were conducted Friday af ternoon at 3 o’clock from St. Mat. thew’s Lutheran church, inter, ment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Smith succumbed Wednes day night in Kings Mountain hos pital after an illness of two months. She was a native of Cleveland County', daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Onslow Bennett who survive. She was a member of St. Matthew’s Luther an church. Surviving in addition to her husband and parents, are two sons, Jerry Keith Smith and James Ronald Smith, and two brothers, James Bennett and Dor us Bennett, both of Kings Moun tain. Dr. W. P. Gerberding, pastor of the church, conducted the rites Countv AS€ Needs Million To Meet "Overdrafts" On Cotton Soil Bank Plans of many Cleveland Coun ty farmers to soil bank cotton ac reage for the 1958 crop depend on action of the Congress on a cur rent bill before the House of Rep resentatives to appropriate an ad ditional $175 million dollars for soil bank payments, Ralph Har rill, county ASC secretary, said Wednesday. Of the proposed $175 millions, Cleveland county will require a bout 1 million to assure all farm ers equal treatment under the soil bank set-up. Mr. Harrill said the House ap propriations committee has ap proved the bill. He also reported that Cleveland farmers sought to bank 23,100 ac res of cotton acreage, or about two-thirds of the 35,335-acre 1958 cotton allotment. As the situation now stands, 9,500 acres, banked-on a first come-first-served basis, qualify for Cleveland’s allocation of $725,249. Currently left high and dry, with no payments in pros pect barring further appropri ations, are 13,600 acres. North Carolina’s 11th district Congressman, Basil L. Whitener, has been pressing the Department of Agriculture for action to “chart a course of fair play for the farm ers’’. After a letter from Assistant Secretary Marvin McLain, in which Congressman Whitener said he noted “a total absence of any expression with reference to plans for eliminating the inequi ties”, he addressed a tart letter to Secretary McLain. Noting that he had been a sup porter of the soil bank program, Congressman Whitener wrote, “Whatever our attitudes with re ference to continuing the pro gram, it seems to me that the U nited States government is now morally and ethically obligated to provide sufficient funds to make payments to those farmers desiring to participate in the 19 58 acreage reserve program. It hardly seems consistent with de mocratic principles top lace any program upon a ‘first-come-first served’ basis/’ The cotton acreage soil bank sign-up period has ended. ASC policy has been to accept appli cations for banking from all eli gible farmers and to complete agreements if and when addition al monies are forthcoming. EDITOB —. Cecil Prince, editor of the Charlotte News, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club at their Thursday night meeting. Prince To Speak To Kiwanians Cecil Prince, editor of the Char lotte News, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday night. Mr. Prince will discuss “Free dom of Information,” emphasiz ing a newspapers’ obligation to tell the whole story about today’s “tormented old world.” John C. Smathers arranged the program. Mr. Prince became editor of the Charlotte News about four years ago. He had previously been on the staff of the Florida Times-, Union, Jacksonville, Fla., and the Greensboro Record. A native of High Point, Me was graduated from the University of North Car olina with a degree in journalism in 1948. The club meets at the Woman’s Club at 6:45. Jones Infants' Burial Here Bodies of Jeffrey and Arlinda Jones, allegedly smoothered to death February 18 by their Moth er, Phyllis Byers Jones, Negress formerly of Kings Mountain, are scheduled to arrive in Kings Mountain Friday for burial. Mrs. Jones, wife of a service man now stationed at Okinawa, is still being detained in Newark, (N. J.) Parental home in conjun ction with the death of her two infants. The young mother allegedly signed a confession- stating: “I smothered my two Kids with pil lows” after officers arrived at the house she shares with her father, Archie Byers, also a former Kings Mountain citizen. Investigators first opined the tragedy was-accidental but Mrs. Jorr., Was alleged to have asked for pen and paper to write her father "to ask forgiveness.” Mrs. Robert Byers of 303 N. Watterson street and grandmoth er of Mrs. Jones returned Tues day from a visit to Newark. She said she was not allowed to see her granddaughter, did not know when a hearing will be held. Kings Mountain relatives of the Jones children were notified late Wednesday of their schedul ed arrival. Funeral arrangements haven’t been made, Gill and Brown Funeral Home reported. City To Push Auto Tag Sale The City Police Department will begin citing motorists for failwre to buy city auto license tags sub. sequent to March 1, Mayor Glee A. Bridges said Wednesady. Registration lists are being ex amined to determine which car owners haven’t yet bought 1958 tags and clean-up wor kwill begin as quickly as the delinquent list is completed, the Mayor added. Through Wednesday, a total of 964 city auto tags had been sold, some 450 less than were sold last year. The tags cost one dollar and are on sale at the city hail of fice. “Buy now and avoid penalty,” the Mayor advised. Employment Service Lists 626 lobless . February unemployment fig ures continued at about the same total as January’s, Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manager of the Kings Mountain branch of the North Carolina Employment service said Wednesday. However, he noted an insuffi ciency of plush weavers and plush loom fixers here, saying the office has been unable to fill job orders for these skilled workers. A. G. Maino, general manager of Massachusetts Mohair Flush Company’s Neisler division, con^ firmed the shorjgge.^ajiine4^--' paper advertisements are being placed seeking plush weavers and loom fixers. He reported some improvement in business, with plush materials orders heavy, but with flat goods still quite soft. The textile production picture otherwise was not greatly chang ed, with production schedules generally firm on a four to five day week basis, several firms re. ported. Majority of the industry expressed optimism that larger and more frequent orders will appear in the near future. Mr. Ware's report showed that 626 persons were seeking work via the Kings Mountain office and that an additional 144 persons (average number for the month) did not enjoy full-time work dur ing the past four weeks. A total of 2456 weeks of un employment compensation claims v as filed during the past month. The total included 108 claims labeled "interstate”, made by cit izens who have been working in other states. Final totals on job orders and placements for the past month hadn’t been compiled, but Mr. Ware estimated the picture was about the same, with a paucity of openings and a comparable pau city of placements. Compact Asks Split-Term Vote Compact school patrons will petition the county board of edu cation Monday asking for an e lection on whether to abolish the so-called ‘‘split term" schedule. Principal L. L. Adams said Wednesday that more than 30 parents signed a petition at a re cent P-TA meeting when "the parents voted 100 percent to pe tition the county board to change the split term session of school to a straight term." The petition was being circu lated in the community this week and was being signed by parents who were not present for the P TA meeting, he said. Principal Adams noted that the petitioq will be filed wffh the county board of education Mon day. A regular meeting of the board is set for Monday. In Cleveland county schools re taining the split term are Beth ware, Compact, Polkville, Moriah, Casar, Bel wood, Fallston, Waco, Mooresboro, Green Bethel Camp, Vance, Philadelphia and Wash ington. Bethware, which failed to ab olish the split term in a vote last spring, will vote again this spring. Petitions bearing signa tures of 62 Bethware school pat rons has already been filed and the county board of education has indicated an election will be called, though the board expects there may be more schools desir ing to vote on the same question and inferred it would like to hold all the voting at the same time. Bloodmobile Visit March 11 The Red Cross Bloodmobile will return to Kings Mountain March 11 for a one-day visit, with blood collection officials seeking to ex ceed the 150-pint quota. Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, Kings Mountain Red Cross blood pro gram chairman, said this week that Otis D. Green Post 155, Am erican Legion, will sponsor the visit. Again Mr. Fritz said, the indus trial group arrangement will al so be employed. “Those who have used blood since the December 30 visit should arrange to fulfill their re placement commitments on Mar. 11,” Mr. Fritz said. He noted that the Decamber 30 visit resulted in collection of 137 pints of blood, 13 pints under the quota. “We hope to make up thi; deficiency,” he added. $5625 Red Cross Drive To Start Solicitation Organization Is Announced Annual fund campaign for the J American Red Cross will get un- j derwav th's week end, Chairman j Chairman Walker said iii'aCtnei campaign will get underway in i rural areas Sunday, Rural Chair man Stokes Wright has informed j him. The campaign in Kings j Mountain and Grover will begin formally on Monday. Already at work has been the I advance gifts committee, headed j by George H. Houser. Campaign headquarters will be j opened Monday at the building on S. Piedmont avenue formerly occupied by Helen's Beauty Shop and adjacent to Haywood E. Lyn -Aveao uoshm. SJW ^ucdutoo ip ford and Mrs. J. H. Arthur will be in charge of the office, which will be open from 1 to 5 p. m. daily, Monday through Saturday. Other group chairmen are: Business area, F. R. McCurdy; business employees, W. G. (Bill) Jonas; Industrial employees, Charles E. Dixon; outlying bus iness areas, J. T. McGinnis; resi dential areas, Mrs. Haywood Lyn ch; professional men, Dr. Nathan H. Reed; clubs and organizations, Wilson Griffin; schools, Mrs. Wanza Davis; city employees, J. W. Webster; Negro division, Otis Tomes; and Grover, Bob Ham bright. "The Red Cross does a great amount of work in aiding the needy, the suffering and displac ed, not to mention its consider able services to men in the armed forces and its blood program,’’ Mr. Walker commented. "The campaign goal is not a great one and it should be met." City Board Meets Thursday Night A called meeting of the city board of commissioners will be held Thursday night at 8 o’clock. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said Marvin Williams, assistant state electrical inspector for North Carolina, would discuss with the board complaints concerning al leged irregularities in electrical installations in th!e city. The inspector is attached to the office of the Commissioner of Insurance the Mayor said. -7-1— GRASS FIRE City firemen reported one call at 3:30 p. m. Monday to douse a grass fire blazing in a vacant field between Dilling and Deal streets. No damage was listed. Possible Playoff Set For Cherryville Kings Mountain will play Belmont at 7:30 Saturday night in the now Cherryville Gym, if such a game is needed to de termine the fourth-place finish er in the Southwest Conference onsVeiV.t; ^ ^ <•« •>-**. ».>j-**•'+?_ ■'V’T*' TZ* *.*’ * "Tiveiy sc tied uled in 'event' "th<s I two teams deadlock for the fourth-place position in the Western Conference tourna ment at Lincolnton next week. A tie for fourth would arise if Kings Mountain beats Cliffside here Friday night and provided Belmont loses to Shelby. Any other outcome in those two games would give fourth place to Belmont, for instance, a Kings Mountain loss or a Red Raider win would clinch the tournament berth for Belmont, and, thus, would not require a playoff. Lt. Oliver Dies In Auto Crash Military funeral rites for Sec ond Lt. Ernest Raymond Oliver, 25-year-old Kings Mountain ser viceman killed early Sunday morning will be held Sunday at 3:30 p m. from Westover Baptist church. Relatives here were notified Sunday that Oliver died in an automobile accident Sunday a bout i2:33 a. m. enroute to Fort Ord, army 'base near Monterey. Calif., where he was to report for duty at midnight. The acci dent reportedly occurred on the base when the vehicle operated by Oliver overturned. Robert C. Woodworth, of the army base, will escort the body ! to Kings Mountain Saturday ! night. An army chaplain will as sist Rev. N. S, Hardin, pastor of Westover Baptist church, in con. ducting the military ries. Pall bearers will be men of the Kings Mountain National Guard Unit and the graveside service will be conducted by men from Fort Bragg, army post. The body will lie-in-state at the church 30 minutes before the fune ral. Sisk Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Surviving are his wife, Peggy Davis Oliver; two sons, Ernest Ray Oliver, 'Jr. and Lawrence H. Oliver, both of the home, his fa ther, Vernon O. Oliver, of Wash ington, D. C., and two brothers, Andrew Oliver, of Baltimore, Md., and Frederick Oliver, of Pitts burgh, Pa. L. L Benson Tc Retire Friday Alter 52 Years With Southern BY ELIZABETH STEWART L. L. Benson, veteran railroad employee and Southern Railway agent here for 20 years, is re tiring Friday. “I’m just going to enjoy stay ing at home and visiting my chil dren and grandchildren”, the 69 year-old railroad man remarked. Mr. Benson, who observed Feb. ruary 23rd his 52nd year with the railroad, notes he has “worked all over this line between Salis bury and Greenville" and has witnessed .many changes" espec ially in the official family of the railroad.” A native of Elizabethtown, Mr. Benson worked as a telegraph operator from 1906-1918 after graduating from high school in Cary. He came to Kings Moun tain as a telegraph operator in 1908, subsequently married a Kings Mountain girl, Alice Hern don, was transferred to Taylors, S.C ., then to Charlotte, Gaffney, S. C., Paris, S. C., and back to Taylors where he remained as an agent there for 15 years. He was transferred to the Kings Moun tain post from Kannapolis where he was agent for Southern Rail way for seven years. “The railroad s been good to me”, Mr. Benson said, and “I’ve ! always tried to give them an hon est day’s work.” As an agent, Mr. Benson has been responsible for the whole operation of the station. In ad RETIRING—L. L. Benson, South ern Railway agent here for 20 years, is retiring Friday. The vet eran railroad man observed this rncnth his 52nd year as an em poiyee of the railroad. dition to preparing passenger schedules, he also handles freight, is responsible for all accounting for both Southern Railway and Railway Express Agency and is the agent in charge of all tracks within the switching limits of his station. Mr. Benson reminisced that dur (Continued On Page Eight) Dissident Group Would Keep Only Present Plant First Baptist church's minority group- which opposes rebuilding of the church on a new site—is offering a compromise proposal to representatives of the church's majority group. W. T. Weir, a member of the minority group, said Wednesday his group is offering to quash its suit in Cleveland Superior Court on this basis: the minority group will retain the present First Baptist property lying at the corner of Mountain street and S. Piedmont avenue, with the maioritv group to ve-v'". ■ f" pVr f.-j >—t r • i *&•»''t **n ■»* \ 'lV , _'VC. ivi/ig a)5Q Sims streets, 'he $so,ouo-phitr- Jaui Iding fund, and the N, Gaston street parsonage. Yates Harbison, chairman ot the board of deacons and a mem ber of the majority group, said Wednesday morning he hadn’t hdard of any compromise pro posal and said he would await receipt of a formal proposal to make comment. He did say, however, that what ever proposals might he offered could be accepted only by a ma jority vote of church members. Mr. Weir said some 25 to 30 members who want to retain the present church site attended a meeting last Thursday in which the compromise proposal was formulated. He said that the de cision was shared by the vast majority of the 216 who previous ly had signed a petition to retain the present church property. Currently, on petition of F. A. (Pete) McDaniel, the church of ficers, employees, trustees, and minister are restrained tempo | rarily from disposing of either the real assets of the church or its building fund. Hearing on the petition to make the injunction I permanent was adjourned b> | Judge Dan K. Moore until March 24. Meantime, a civil action seek ing to declare illegal the church j vote to build a new church on tht W. King site within five years awaits docketing in Cleveland Superior Court. Judge Moore, at the initia hearing, advised the groups tc settle their difference outside th( courts. Utility Bills Total S48.803 The weather man isn’t calling for snow again on Saturday, bui it still promises to be a bleak daj for most Kings Mountain resi I dents. Saturday’s the day the post man will bring the latest dt> ; utility bills, and the totals wii | be a painful reminder of the en I joyment and pain produced by th« ' heavy snow of February 8. The city office will post 2561 j utility bills Friday totaling $48, 803, a record high! for the year ! The total will include $28,941 ir 1 water and power billings, and a Iwhopping $19,862.42 in gas sys tern billings. The big jump billings were up but not too greatly over the Jan uary - February period, which saw this category at $28,341. Gas was another story. Febru ary 1 bills totaled $15,157. Th« increase is approximately $4,800 December billings furnish a warmer - month comparison, with water and power totals $26,446 and gas system billings $14,629. City officials loo kforward to relief for their customers at the April 1 billing. Temperatures have soared since the deepfreeze, with high points for the recent days in the high 60 range Day light is lengthening, and the April 1 billing, covering the February March period, will have two less days, thanks to February’s ab breviated 28-day month. Water billings for the previous month are estimates, since the meter housings were frozen and couldn’t be removed by the me ter readers. They’Ll balance out next month. Water, however, is a negligible portion of the utility total. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, fret ting over a $6.61 increase in his upcoming utility bill, looks for ward to the decline, both person ally and work-wise. “Most folk don’t bother to compare consump tion totals,” he notes. “They jusl see the dollor figures and think we’re charging them too much.” WALKER ILL O. O. Walker, general contra tor, suffered a mild heart at tack and is reported by Dr. P. G. Padgett to be in good condi tion. Mr. Walker is recupera ting in Kings Mountain hospi tal.
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