Newspapers / The Kings Mountain Herald … / March 6, 1958, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Ttoe 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. Pages Today VOL 69 No. 10 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 6, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENTS FORMAL OPENING SET SUNDAY — The Con gregation of Penley's Chapel Methodist church will open it new edifice to the public at special services on Sunday. The handsome new church, which also includes an educational plant, is lo cated on Cherryville road. The church was e rected at an estimate cost of $40,000. Open House will feature the Sunday afternoon acti vities, and a series of evangelistic services will begin on Sunday night. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Penley’s Chapel Rites On Sunday New Church To Be Occupied Sunday Morning Pen ley’s Chapel Methodist chur ch on Cherryville road will for mally open its new sanctuary and educational building on Sun day. Rev. C. W. Kirby, superinten dent of the Methodist Home, Charlotte, and formerly district superintendent of the Gastonia District of the Methodist Church, will preach at the morning wor ship hour at 11 o’clock. He will be assisted in the service by Leon ard IHuffstetler, lay pastor of the! church, and Paul A. Howard, charge lay leader for Grace and Henley's Chapel Methodist chur- j ches. There will be a song service in! the afternoon beginning at 2 o’ clock. Open house will be observ ed from 3 to 5 o’clock that after noon. A revival will begin at the evening worship hour, at 7 o’ clock, with Mr. Huffstetler doing the preaching for the revival Worship services and Sunday School had been terminated at Pehley’s Chapel for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Huffstetler were asked by District Superin. tendent C. W. Kirby and the pas tar of Grace Methodist church, WUHam C. Sides, Jr., to go to this one room frame building and conduct religious services, to see if theTe were any hope of reacti vating the church. After the Huff stetter’s had given the proposi tion much thought and prayerful consideration they decided to go, so on Sunday, September 16th, 1955 they went along with some eight or ten people from Grace church, and some four or five people from the community. The church has grown in num bers and interest. The small con gregation of less than 75 adult members, with the Gastonia Dis trict Mission Society, Dr. James G. Huggin, Jr., now district super intendent of the Gastonia dis trict, Grace Methodist church un der whose sponsorship the pro ject has begun and continued, and friends of the church aiding in prayer and financial support have completed the handsome sanctu ary and educational unit with iew pews installed and new light ing fixtures. "The church is now ready to serve the community for Christ and His church”, a spokes man for the church said. Approximate cost of the build ing and equipment was $40,000. Morgan Speaker At FFA Event Senator Robert Morgan, of Shel by, will present the principal ad dress Thursday night at the an nual father-son banquet of the Betbware Future Farmers of America. Myers Hambright, Bethware ag riculture teacher, said 100 chick ens have been prepared for the occasion. 'Ihe group will convene at Beth ware school at 7:30. FUND ESTIMATE Heart Fund chairman, Char les Neisler reports his commit tee is in the process of total ing the receipts from the recent fund drive. The present total is estimated at $1,000 with mom money to come In. Local News Bulletins XIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanians will see the film showing the Darlington 500 Stock car race last year at their regular week ly meeting Thursday night. The club convenes at the Woman’s club at 6:45 p. m. merican, and for a considerable time Marsh devoted his study to the complete works of Liszt under Sauer’s supervision. While in Europe, Marsh also worked with the great Robert Casadesus in Paris and at Fontainbleau where he was graduated “magna cum laude” as Fontainbleau’s most outstanding student. Through his training with Cas-j adesus and Sauer, Marsh develop ed a special affinity for the piano music of Chopin and Liszt. His October 1954 Town Hall recital, was devoted entirely. COUNTRY CLUB Annual meeting of stock holders of Kings Mountain Country Club, Inc., will be held Tuesday, March 18, at 7 o’clock. Secretary Sam Stallings has announced. The meeting will be a dinner session, featuring annual reports and election of directors for the coming year. LEGION MEETING Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, will be held Fri day night at 8 o’clock at the Legion Building, according to notice by the adjutant, James Bennett. SUPPER Westover Baptist church will sponsor a chicken pie supper at the church recreation build ing Saturday night, a spokes man for the church has an nounced. Serving will begin at 6 p. m. and will continue until 9:30 p. m. BUILDING PERMIT J. W. Webster, City Inspector, issued a building permit Mon day to H. E. Lynch for a one story frame house on Stowe Ac res between Margaret and Blanton street to be used as a residence. Estimated cost of the four room structure is $2000. ANNOUNCEMENT Mrs. Evelyn Caveny Graham, of route two, wife of Allan Graham, is not the Mrs. Evelyn Graham, who appeared Monday in city court on charges of dis posing of mortgaged property, she asked the Herald to state. COMPLETES COURSE Mrs. Maybelle Gordon, of 503 N. City street, completed last week a six-month course in cosmetology at Shelby Beauty school. This included a two week advanced course in hair styling and cutting. VFW MEETING The V. F. W. Post will hold their regular meeting Thurs day (tonight) at 7:30 p. m. at their new headquarters on the Grover road formerly known as Kate’s Gift Shop. Split Term Vote For Bethware, Compact April 17 Patrons of Bethware and Com pact schools will vote April 17 to determine whether the schools will abandon the long-in-vogue split term schedule. Election on the question for these two Number 4 Township schools, and also for Fallston school, was set by the county board of education Monday. Patrons of each of the schools had petitioned for the voting. Compact will be the first Ne gro school in the county system to vote on the question. Bethware voted last year, and a majority of those voting appro ved a consecutive nine-month term. However, less than the re quired number of eligible patrons cast ballots, nullifying the deci sion. The two elections were called after receipt of petitions from school patrons. Rules governing the April 17 voting are: Patrons (parents with children enrolled in the respect ive schools) will be eligible to vote on the basis of one vote per child enrolled in grades 1 through 11. The result will be declared void unless 50 percent of the eli gible voters participate. Only Compact and Bethware in Number 4 township retain the split term arrangement. Park Grace school has long coincided its schedule with city district schools and Grover school aban doned the split term several years ago. Other straight term schools in the county include Dover, No. 3, Boiling Springs, Lattimore and Piedmont. P-TA STUDY COURSE A city wide study course for all school P-TA’s will be held at West school Thursday and Friday nights from 7 until 9 o’clock. Thursday night’s topics are “Juvenile Delinquency” discussed by Superior court clerk, J. W. Osborne and “Rec reation” by Jake Early. Friday night Mrs. Janie Spencer will discuss the school lunch pro gram and Mr. John Gamble will speak on physical educa tion. The public is invited to at tend. Welfare Branch Office Is Likely Here -A Wiring Law Details Listed Far City Board North Carolina law requires that all electrical wiring must be done by a state-licensed contrac tor, unless a person does his own wiring 1) for his personal resi dence, or 2) for a business build ing he’s going to use himself. The details of the law were pointed out to the city beard of commissioners last Thursday night by Marvin Williams, state electrical inspector from the of fice of tile Commissioner of In surance. Mr. Williams explained that the law designates the fire chief as the local electrical inspector in all communities of 1,000 people or more, but that city commissions are allowed to designate others to handle the duties, in lieu of assigning the chore to the fire chief. In Kings Mountain, Electrical Superintendent Hunter Allen is the electrical inspector. Mayor Glee A. Bridges explain, ed that complaints had been re ceived from Mr. Williams and others that certain city employees are actually doing electrical wir. ing in off-hours and that he want ed the commission informed on the law and its requirements. He said Mr. Allen wants support of the board in requiring compliance. Mr. Williams said violation of the law is a misdemeanor, sub ject +o a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $50 and that both the unlicensed electrician and the local inspector are subject to fine for non-compliance. Several questions were posed by board members concerning the employment of helpers. Mr. Wil jliams said the practice is illegal. It was pointed out that some folk claim they’re doing their own personal work, but actually em ploy an experienced, if unlicensed, electrician to handle the work, with the employer serving as helper. In other actions the board: 1) Voted to request use of Central auditorium for a police department-sponsored show on April 24. 2) Calling a hearing for March 12 on rezoning of property on Landing street from residential to industrial zone. 3) Told Mr. Stevens, the palm-1 ist, he would get an answer March 12 on his request to purchase a city privilege license. City Auto Tag Sales at 1333 Sale of city auto license tags moved at a fast pace during the past week as the city launched a drive to see that all in-city auto owners purchased the $1 strip. Sales totaled 1333 Wednesday, almost 400 over the total reported sold last week. The boom caused the city to or der 200 additional tags — which a check on car registrations shows should be purchased by known Kings Mountain car owners who haven’t yet complied with the law. First Baptist Deacons To Consider Compromise Offer By Dissidents Yates Harbison, chairman of; the board of deacons of First Bap tist church, said it is likely a special session of the board will be called eary next week to con sider the compromise offer pre sented by the church’s minority group. The minority group opposes the majority decision to build a new church plant- on a new site and has offered to quash two legal actions now pending provided the church approves the compromise offer. The dissident or minority group wants to retain the present chur ch site at W. Mountain street and S. Piedmont avenue. Tt is willing to relinquish other church prop, erties, including the parsonage, the Cherokee street real estate, the church building fund of more than $80,000, and the new site at W. King and Sims streets. Mr. Harbison said the formal compromise offer was received last Saturday. On Sunday, the deacons and trustees were called in special session, and Chairman Harbison read the terms of the offer to members of the two groups “for information”. He eaid he asked that no comment be made and that none was. The two legal actions brought by the minority group and still pending are: 1) seeking of a per manent injunction against the board of deacons, trustees, min ister and other church employees to prevent disposal of any of the church’s real property or its build ing fund asset; 2) seeking of court decision to abrogate the October vote whereby the church decided 235 to 163 to accept as a gift the W. Klng-Sims site, with the stipulation that a new church plant be under construction on this site within five years. Currently, the deacons, trustees, minister and other officials are temporarily enjoined from dis posing of the church’s real prop erty or building fund asset. Hear ing on the petition to make the injunction permanent was con tinued until March 24, after it was begun In Gaston Superior Court last month before Judge Dan K. Moore. The hearing is to be resumed before Judge Moore in Cleveland County Su perior Court. Mr. Hartrison had previously painted out that any decision of the deacons would have to be ratified by the church member ship before it could be effective. 4 CAMPAIGN WORKERS — Two volunteer work ers in the Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter who boast a long record of service are pictured in the campaign headquarters located in the Haywood E. Lynch building between Baird Furniture company and Helen's Beauty Shop. Mrs. Estelle W. King, left, excepting one year, recording secretary of the chapter since 1937, worked 2000 hours rolling bandages and mak ing surgical dressings during World War II and knitted 773 hours under the Hed Cross war program in addition to volunteering services for the blood program. Mrs. Ledford, also active in the chapter, will receive soon her two-gallon pin for having donated blood to the Red Cross bloodbank. (Photo by Pennington Studio) -$> Knitting Company May Locate Here Expansion Firm Getting Estimate On Building Cost Kings Mountain Business De velopment, Inc., is planning to contract for the construction of a new building of approximately 11,000 square feet to house a knitting industry. J. Wilson Crawford, president, said directors of the corporation conferred during the weekend with three representatives of the knitting firm and expects pre liminary figures from an engin eering firm Thursday on cost esti mates. “These figures will enable us to draw a lease-purchase con tract for proffer to the knitting firm,’’ Mr. Crawford said. “On agreement and subsequent con clusion of the contract, Kings Mountain Business Development, Inc., will be in position to launch construction on completion of fi nancing arrangments.’-’ The knitting firm has indica ted it will place in escrow a good faith deposit, that it will employ , initially 80 persons, and that it! expects to require additional floor space in the future. Meantime, Fred W. Plonk, chairman of the business group stock sale committee of the in dustry expansion corporatiion, reported continued progress on sale of stock. "We are selling stock, and, al most uniformly, meeting with an excellent reception,” Mr. Plonk commented. “We aren’t close to being through and will continue our stock sales work.” Stock in Kings Mountain Bus- | iness Develpoment, Inc., sells for $10 per share. Authorized capital ization is $100,000, or 10,000 shar- j es. Scout Sunday To Be Observed Girl Scouts in Kings Mountain will join with others throughout the nation Sunday in the obser vance of Girl Scout Sunday. Scout Sunday is held during the annual ooservance of Girl Scout Week. In Kings Mountain, the Girl Scouts will attend Sunday ser vices at the various churches and will sit in a body at the worship services. At St. Matthew’s Luth eran church, Girl Scouts will sing “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross” as special music during the wor ship service at 11 o’clock. Girl Scoi.ts and Brownie Scouts of First Presbyterian church will also be recognized and will ren der special music at the Sunday morning service. Girl Scouts in Kings Mountain, along with other Scouts in sur rounding areas, have begun their annual sale of Girl Scout cookies,, an annual project of Girl Scouts. Blanton Shoots Eagle On No. 2 Winter rust didn’t affect Don Blanton’s golf game greatly, at least on the Number 9 hole of the Country Club course on Wednesday. The Kings Mountain druggist was receiving congratulations about 3:30 yesterday for his eagle two on the 288-yard, par 4 hole. Playing with Blanton were William Plonk, Paul McGinnis, Rev. C. M. Lankford, Louis Sabettie and Pat Hovis. Residential Rates Haven't Changed As expected, city utility bills, which zoomed upward for Janu ary-February due to record low temperatures, produced some irate customers some of whom in ferred in hardly uncertain lan guage that the city was, at least, careless in its own favor, had es calated rates without advertising them, or was just plain crooked. “Isn’t so,” says Mayor Glee A. Bridges. “Residential rates haven't been changed in the past five years,” the Mayor relates, “and they were lowered at that time. Some folk can’t seem to under stand that cold weather causes more power consumption by e lectric hot water heaters and e lectrically - powered automatic heating systems.” Last residential revision, that one downward, was made in 1952. The city board upped its com mercial power schedule in 1957, which did not affect residences but did affect some business firms which buy power from the city. Water and power billings ap proached $29,000 for the period. Gas system billings were a record at more than $19,000. CONDITION Mrs. C. E. Neisler, recupera ting from pneumonia, at Kings Mountain hospital is reported improving. Annual Dnve For Red Cross Funds Begins Kings Mountain’s fund cam paign for the Red Cross, which seeks $5,625 in the 1958 appeal, is officially underway. Paul Walker, chairman of the fund-raising effort, said the cam paign is "going pretty good” and noted “it is still too early to have full reports on any solicitation work.” The campaign got underway in rural areas on Sunday and work ers are canvassing the residential areas this week. Solicitation in the business area and outlying business district will be completed this weekend. Already at work has been the advance gifts com mittee, headed by George Houser. Stokes Wright is chairman of rural solicitation. Campaign headquarters will be open from 1 to 5 p. m. daily. Mon day through Saturday, in the Hay wood E. Lynch building between Baird Furniture Company and Helen’s Beauty Shop, Chairman Walker added. In Kings Mountain, the Red Cross aids many needy families plus its help to the suffering and displaced persons, the offical add ed. The Red Cross blood program and the chapter’s assistance to servicemen and their families are also major functions of this im portant organization”, he stated. "The campaign goal is badly needed”, Mr. Walker added, “and it should be met by citizens of the community.” Firemen Get Fire Each Day City firemen started the current week with a fire a day. A Monday call was to Ridge street where a grass fire was dou sed with no damage on a vacant lot. Electrical wiring in a washing machine served as impetus for a call to the Hicks residence at 204 Juniper street Tuesday. The small blaze was extinguished with no damage to the home. A Wednesday afternoon call to the home of “Buddy” Medlin at 504 Cansler street found a fur nace motor furnishing the blaze. The fire was doused without damage to the home. American Legion Is Co-Sponsoring Tuesday Bloodmobile Collection The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Kings Mountain Tues day from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m., with blood program officials hoping to exceed the 150-pint quota and thereby to recoup a 13-pint defi cit on the December visit. Co-sponsor of next week’s bloodmobile visit is Otis D. Green Post 156, American Legion. Commander Ray Cline is urging all Legionnaires to make arrange ments to donate blood and asks that they bring at least one extra donor with them. The bloodmobile will be in op eration at Central Methodist church. Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, chairman of the blood program, has an nounced that the industrial group plan will be operative again. Un der this plan, if 20 percent of an industrial firm’s employees con tribute blood, the full list of em ployees and their families receive blood donor cards for a six-month period. Mr. Fritz has also ashed that persons with blood use debits make arrangements to meet their committments at the Tuesday visit. Check Underway To Determine II Cash Available Establishment of a branch of fice of the county welfare depart ment in Kings Mountain is a near, future possibility. Jack Hoyle, county welfare su perintendent, discussed plans for opening a full-time branch here with the county commission Mon day and, currently, is seeking in formation from the North Caro lina Board of Public Welfare on availability of funds 1) to open a Kings Mountain office before the end of the fiscal year June 30, and 2) for operation of an office here in the new fiscal year be ginning July 1. Mr. Hoyle said a preliminary cheek by County Auditor Max Hamrick indicated funds are a vailable in the welfare depart ment's administrative budget to establish the branch prior to the end of the fiscal year. But, he said, it is necessary to obtain con firmation from the state’s office. Welfare funds are derived from three sources, county, state, and federal funds. Mr. Hoyle said preliminary check on available quarters in Kings Mountain has been made, but no decision has been reached pending approval from the state office and the board of county commissioners. The commission ers indicated approval would be forthcoming at their Monday meeting. The county welfare board has already given the “go ahead” signal. Mr. Hoyle told the commission ers the setting up of a Kings Mountain branch had some ad ministrative disadvantages, but that he felt the advantages out weighed the disadvantages eon I siderably. Mr. Hoyle estimated the cost ' of setting up a Kings Mountain branch would be $3,500 for the first year's operation and would decline to $2500 in the second year. County Commissioner Carl F. Finger said he feels the com mission will endorse the branch set-up unanimously. “A Kings Mountain branch should help our operations,” Mr. Hoyle told the Herald. “It would bring us closer to the community, expanding our source of infor mation to determine more ac curately those needing and eligi ble for welfare services.” Choral Club To Give Program The Choral Club of Flora Mac donald college will present a sac red-secular program at First Presbyterian church fellowship hall on the evening of March 19 at 8 o’clock. A highlight of the program will be the authentic Scottish dances featuring the Highland Fling and the Sword Dance presented by the girls who will don kilts or tar tans to depict bonnie lassies in the hills of Scotland. “This unique entertainment is something different and enjoy able”, a spokesman for the church said, "and the public is invited to attend.” An offering will be taken to defray the expenses of the tour. Members of the Choral club will I spend the night in Kings Moun tain. County Politics Starts To Stir Four of the five members of the county board of education filed notice of candidacy for renomi nation Monday and the fifth, W. H. (Coot) Lutz, of Waco, said he would seek renomination. The filings were the first of the political season leading up to the May primaries, though two offi cials District Solicitor B. T. Falls, Jr., and State Senator Robert Morgan, both Democrats, have | announced they will seek renom j ination. Majority of county officials? must seek re-nomination at the May primary. These include the five - member board of county commissioners, the sheriff, and clerk of court. The House of Representatives post is vacant, due to the resigna tion of B. T. Falls, Jr., to accept the solicitor appointment. Haywood E. Lynch, of Kings Mountain, and Hugh Wells, otf Shelby, have indicated they will seek the Democratic nomination. BOARD TO CONVENE The city board of commis sioners will convene for its reg ular March session on March 12 at 8 p. m. at City Hall court room.
The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 6, 1958, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75