Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Th* figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from
tbo 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950.
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VOL 69 No. 17
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 24, 1958
Sixty-Ninth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
BENEFIT
Tickets for the benefit card'
party being sponsored Thurs
day (tonight) by the Woman’s
club may be obtained from
Mrs. Henry Neisler, project
chairman, or any member of
the dub. Players are requested
to furnish cards and tallies.
Proceeds will go into the club
student fund.
TO PRESBYTERY
Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor,
John L. McGill, elder, and M.
D. Phifer, deacon, represented
Boyce Memorial ARP church
at a meeting of First Presby
tery Tuesday at Bessemer City
Associate Reformed Presbyter
ian church.
MIXED CHORUS
Six members of the Kings
Mountain high school mixed
chorus and their director, Char
les Ballance, will go to Greens
boro Thursday to attend a cho
rus music festival Thursday
and Friday. The group includ
es Sherry Kelley, Elizabeth
Brown, Louise Owens, Polly
Page, Jerry Laughter, and Er
vin Houser.
MEN'S RALLY
Men of Kings Mountain
Presbyterian church will hold
their rally Sunday afternoon at
2:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian
church, Gastonia. First Presby
terian church here will be rep
resented at the rally.
CHURCH PROJECT
A fried chicken dinner will
be served Saturday from 11 a.
m. to 8 p. m. at Grace Meth
odist church Youth Fellowship
hall, it was announced this
week by Rev. Leonard Huff
stetler, pastor of Penley’s Cha
pel Methodist church. Price
will $1.25 per plate.
NOMINATED
Miss Annette Lawrence, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Lawrence, has been nominated
to compete for the title of Miss
Soft Ball Queen at Kings Bus
iness college, Charlotte. Miss
Lawrence is a general business
major, who enrolled in Sep
tember, 1957. The Queen Is to
be elected on the night of the
“Soft Ball.” She will act as the
official hostess for the King’s
soft ball team for the season.
Talent Show
Set Thursday
Students of West school will
participate in a talent show and
contest Thursday (tonight) at
8 p. m. in the school auditori
um.
The public is being invited to
the event which will determine a
winner to be entered in the city
wide contest in May being spon
sored by the Kiwanis club.
Students representing the gram
mar grades will participate, Ad
mission is 35 cents for adults and
10 cents for children.
The contest is being sponsored
by the West school P-TA.
First Baptists
To Hear Hudson
Dr. E. V. Hudson, of Lowell,
a retired Baptist minister, will
conduct services Sunday at First
Baptist church, according to an
nouncement by L. L. Benson,
chairman of the church’s supply
pastor committee.
The pastor, Rev. Aubrey Quak
enbush, was to complete his du
ties with the church Wednesday
night at the regular monthly
congregational meeting.
Dr. Hudson is a former pastor
of First Baptist church of Cram
erton.
Other members of the supply
pastor committee are Arnold W.
Kincaid and Ollie Harris.
Mr. Quakenbush resigned re
cently to accept the pastorate of
First Baptist church in Clinton.
Red Cross Gifts
Reach $4900 Figure
Contributions to the 1958
Red Cross fund drive in Kings
Mountain in cash and pledges
have reached a total of $4900,
Chairman Paul Walker report
ed Wednesday.
The total is $725 shy of the
$5625 quota.
Mr. Walker said that he
hoped the remainder could be
obtained, and he asked that
any person or firm which
might not have been contact
ed during the campaign for
ward their donations to the
Red Cross office in City HalL
Patrons Vote
To Abolish
Split Term
Patrons of Bethware and Com
pact schools turned out in record
numbers Thursday and voted ov
erwhelmingly to abandon the
split-term schedule.
Both schools in the county sys
tem had been operating on split
term session which takes children
to school during the summer
months and brings a holiday dur
ing harvest season.
At Compact school, at least
one voter still fovored the split
term. The vote was 348-1 from a
possible vote of 485, Principal L.
L. Adams reported. Compact
school will be the only county
Negro school to be operated on
a straight term basis next year.
Bethware patrons, who failed
to abolish the split term in a vote
last spring because a majority
of voting patrons favored the
change but insufficient number
participated in the voting, voted
273-52 in favor of the straight
term schedule to go into effect
in September.
In the Thursday voting con
ducted in three communities in
the county, there was one de
feat for the advocates of a
straight term school year. In
Fallston 26 2 patrons voted a
gainst and 201 patrons voted for
the straight term.
Cancel Fund
Donations Lag
Annual campaign for funds for
the American Cancer Society is
underway in Kings Mountain.
Workers have already begun
canvassing of the the city in the
drive which seeks to raise S2700.
Goal of the campaign in Cleve
land county is $18,000.
Lagging campaign collections
have made it necessary, drive of
ficials said, to extend the cur
rent cancer crusade until next
Monday when full reports are
expected.
John Warlick, Kings Mountain
chairman, invited solicitors to re
port collection as soon as possi
ble. Co-chairmen of the drive in
the county are Charles Heath
and Edward Shuford.
Local volunteers were busy
this week calling on business
firms and individuals. Citizens
who may not be contacted and
who desire to contribute to the
drive should contact Mr. Warlick
at C. E. Warlick Insurance A
gency.
Drive officials pointed out that
failure to reach the goal would
mean that staggering demands
from local cancer victims would
not be met and research just
now beginning to make head
way in the fight against cancer
would be hampered.
E. W. Blanton
Died Tuesday
Edgar Wooly Blanton, 75, died
Tuesday morning at 5 a. m. in
Kings Mountain hospital follow
ing an extended illness.
Mr. Blanton was the son of
the late W. B. and Rebecca Well
mon Blanton.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Florence Thomas Blanton, four
daughters, Mrs. Varla 'Henderson,
Burlington; Mrs. Marcel Navey,
Raleigh; Mrs. Dean Myers, Las
Vegas, Nevada; Mrs. Sylvia Dog
gett, Pensacola, Fla., two sons,
Jack Blanton, Burlington, Bill
Blanton, Dentura, California, two
sisters, Mrs. Sally Fortenberry,
Mrs. Lucia Brackett, both of Bess
emer City, and 11 grandchildren.
Sisk Funeral Home has charge
of arrangements which were in
complete Wednesday.
Baptists Were Voting Wednesday
Whether To Consider Compromise
Members of First Baptist
church were scheduled to vote
at Wednesday night’s congrega
tional meeting whether to con
sider the dissident compromise
offer on a split-up of church
property.
It was expected that Rev. Au
brey Quakenbush would mod
erate the meeting in his final of
ficial connection with the
church. He has resigned to ac
cept a pastorate in Clinton.
Members of both the major
ity and dissident factions declin
ed to predict whether the church
membership would “vote to vote”
or would table for future action.
Indications were there are
differences of opinion in both
factions on the proper action.
Yates Harbison, a member of
the majority faction, said,
“Neither group seems too in
terested in voting on the com
promise at this time.”
W. T. Weir, member of the dis
sident faction which opposes
building of a nevir church plant
on a new site, said his group had
divided opinions on the proposal.
A favorable vote to consider
the dissident compromise offer
would bring a vote on the offer
itself at a subsequent congrega
tional meeting.
In the formal compromise of
fer, the dissidents, in return for
quashing a civil suit challenging
legality of the church vote to
build on a new site, offered to
relinquish its right to all church
real properties except' the present
plant at S. Piedmont and Moun
tain street, and to convey to the
majority group the $88,000
church building fund, plus the
right to use the name "First Bap
tist church".
Lions To Conduct
AnnualBroomSale
Project Set
For Weekend;
Blind Benefit
The Kings Mountain Lions dub
will conduct its annual broom
sale lor benefit of the blind this
weekend.
The Lions are offering two
items for sale, one a household
broom for $1.50 and the other a
whisk broom at 75 cents. In addi
tion, a limited quantity of heavi
er commercials brooms are avail
able at $2.
Richard Barnette and Grady
Yelton are serving as co-chairmen
of the broom sale.
“We mean to complete our work
in one weekend,” Mr. Barnette
commented, noting that the big
sales push would be on Friday
afternoon and evening.
As in former years, members
of the Lions club will conduct a
house-to-house sale on Friday.
Each of the products is manu
factured in Greensboro by blind
persons, at Greensboro Industri
es for the Blind. Profits from the
sale are used locally to aid child
ren and adults with defective
sight.
The following sales assignments
have been made:
Lawson Brown and Hal Plonk,
Crescent Hill area; Rev. Douglas
Fritz and Eugene Timms, Gold
street; J. C. McKinney and Paul
Walker, Mountain street; Pete
McDaniel and Dr. Nathan Reed,
West King street; Odus Smith
and W. D. Bennett, Railroad ave
nue; R. G. Whisnant and Gene
Gladden, Piedmont avenue; C. P.
Barry and Edwin Moore, Waco
Road and cross streets; Ollie
Harris, Fulton street; J. W. Web
ster and Grady Yelton, Linwood
area; Baxter Wright and Wilson
Crawford, Walker and Parker
streets; C. D. Ware and James
Jonas, Gaston street; Jacob Coop
er, Bonnie Mill; George Houser,
Sadie Mill; Carl Mauney and Sam
Weir, Mauney Mill; W. K. Maun
ey, Jr., and Sam Stallings, Maun
ey Hosiery Mill; Lee Roberts,
Phenix Mill.
“We anticipate a successful
sale,” Mr. Barnette commented.
“We have quality products at
competitive prices.”
Jaycee Minstrel
Ticket Sale Good
Advance ticket sale lor Jaycee
Minstrels of 1958 is progressing
nicely, according to a report by
Jaycee Delbert Dixon Wednesday.
This year’s show, a revival of
a former Jaycee function is sche
duled for two nights, May 2 and
3, at Central school auditorium.
All proceeds from the show
will be donated to the Kings
Mountain High School band for
purchase and repair of instru
ments and costumes, which
Charles Ballance, band director,
says is a dire need.
Gate admission to the event
will be $1 for adults and 50 cents
for students.
Advance tickets, at lower prices,
are available from any member
of the city schools band or from
any member of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
NEW MEMBER
Ben Grimes, Jr., superinten
dent of Phenix Plant of Bur
lington Industries, was induct
ed Thursday as a member of
Kings Mountain Kiwanis club.
The Grimes family resides on
W. Mountain street.
Pastor Gets Record,
Officer On Hand
Against a background of chur
ch strife, First Baptist Pastor
Aubrey Quakenbush visited a
member’s house Sunday >,— with
a peace officer accompanying
him — to obtain certain Sunday
school records.
No search warrants were
drawn, Constable Gus Huffstetler
reported, and he merely “stood
around", while Mr. Quakenbush
talked for about ten minutes to
Odell Benton, secretary of the
First Baptist Sunday school.
The constable said Mr. Benton
gave the minister the records and
that their nature was not men
tioned on the return trip to Kings
Mountain from the Benton home.
W. T. Weir, a member of the
First Baptist dissident group, said
the record was a compilation of
numerical records of the Sunday
school, including attendance and
contributions by departments. No
individual records were involved,
he added. He said it was in Mr.
Benton's province to have the
record books, since it was the
secretary’s duty to compile them.
Constable Huffstetler said city
officers Had called him and said
Mr. Quakenbush had reported cer
tain church records stolen and
in the custody of a man outside
the city limits. He said he told
the minister a search warrant
would be needed to obtain them.
Mr. Quakenbush, the constable ad
ded, then asked him to accompany
him without a warrant, which
the constable did.
Mohair Pares
Work Schedules
Neisler Mills division of Mass
achusetts Mohair 'Plush Company
shortened its production schedules
in its Kings Mountain plants this
week.
Alexander Maino, general man
ager, said Monday the curtail
ments are temporary and “be
cause of a seasonal decline in
orders”.
Both Margrace and Pauline
plants were ordered on a three
day work week and the Pauline
plant employees, subsequently
notified the plant would not oper
ate next week.
Mr. Maino said Wednesday that
the suspension would stand bar
ring receipt of orders by Friday.
He guessed it might be six
weeks before the situation im
proved, but thought the Pauline
plant would operate three days
weekly on an alternate week sche
dule.
Otherwise, textile news was
little changed, with a few plants
operating on full schedule, others
with spotty production situations.
Craftspun Yarns, Inc., contin
ued on a two-shift, five-day week
schedule. Slater Manufacturing
Company was on a week-on, week
off schedule.
L. Arnold Kiser, of Sadie Cotton
Mills, reported ‘‘business good.”
Charles Neisler, of Blackmer
and Company, cotton dealers,
said inquiries are heavier for
cotton, protending a possible up
swing in textiles.
Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manager
of the Kings Mountain branch
of the employment service, said
his staff had experienced a “rough
week” in taking claims for un
employment compensation.
School Capital Trips
May Be In Jeopardy
The city school may withdraw
its sponsorship of annual trips
of the senior class to Washing
ton, D. C.
Board of Education Trustee
J. R. Davis mentioned it at
Monday night’s meeting. Re
marking that he understood
there were instances of bad con
duct by members of the group
which made the Easter week
end bus trip to the nation’s cap
ital, he added, “I don’t know
whether the reports are cor
rect, but, if they are, we should
stop the practice.”
Supt. B. N. Barnes replied
that he didn’t think the reports
as unpleasant as advertised,
and Chairman Fred W. Plonk
said he imagined the reports
had been expanded and worsen
ed with re-telling He also said,
“You know how youngsters
brag."
Consensus of the board mem
bers present was to agree with
Mr. Davis’ contention that the
conduct improve or the trips be
stopped.
School Board
Elects Faculty;
Three Retiring
The city board of education e
lected faculty members for the
1958-59 term at Monday night’s
session.
Elected were Miss Alice Ave
' ritt, city schools teaching super
I visor, and all other present mem
bers of the city schools faculty,
l with the- exception of six teach
|ers, none of whom were candi
dates for election.
These included three teachers
, who h'ad notified Superintendent
B. N. Barnes they will retire at
the end of the present term. They
are Miss Jettie Plonk, East school,
Miss Marjorie Hord, West school,
and Miss Mattie Gidney, Davidson
school.
The school trustees voted u
nanimously a resolution of appre
ciation to the retiring teachers.
Others not candidates for e
lection were Miss Julia Aberna
thy, city schools Bible teacher,
Mrs. Marguerite T. Plonk, West
school, and Daniel H. Norris, high
school teacher of science.
All city schools principals were
elected last month.
In other actions the board:
1) Authorized Supt. Barnes
and Central Principal Lawson
Brown to make arrangements for
conducting summer schools, in
cluding summer band instruction.
?) Heard a report from Supt.
Barnes that it is anticipated the
Shelby and county school districts
will request the county commis
sioners to levy a five cents per
$100 valuation increase for school
capital outlay funds for the com
ing year.
3) Took no action on the ques
tion of auditorium rental fees for
schools other than Central. The
beard had formerly adopted a
scale of fees for the Central audi
torium rental of $12 when heat
is required, $8 during non-heating
season.
Hungry Vandals
Break In School
West and Central schools were
subjected to pillage by vandals
this week, according to police
reports. Also hit by the breakers
in was a drink stand in City Park.
The chain of break-ins follow
a definite pattern, and it would
seem that the parties involved
are always hungry.
Buck Bridges, desk sergeant at
city police department, said Wed
nesday that West school was hit
Monday night or early Tuesday
morning. Nothing was missing,
but some windows were broken
where the cafeteria was entered.
A try by the burglars to light
the stove failed and the gas was
left on. A few classrooms were
entered, but nothing was taken.
Report from the Central school
break-in was similar. The school
was entered late Tuesday night
or early Wednesday morning, the
cafeteria being the favorite spot.
Bridges said a box of weiners
was opened and partly eaten.
Ten classrooms were entered,
as was the principals office, and
a small amount of money was
taken.
•Nine boxes of candy were stolen
from the drink stand in City Park,
an estimated loss of between
eight and nine dollars.
Sgt. Bridges reported that the
police department has an idea
who broke into the buildings but
is not at liberty to devulge any
information.
Fingerprints were left by the
parties involved, and this should
help in the elimination of sus
pects.
Lions Nominate
Foi 1958-59
J. C. McKinney, assistant cash
ier of First National Bank, has
been nominated for president of
the Kings Mountain Lions club
for the year beginning July 1.
Other nominees recommended
by the club nominating commit
tee are: Rev. Douglas Fritz, Rich
ard Barnette and Edwin Moore
vice-presidents; Jonas Bridges
secretary; F. A. (Pete) McDaniel
treasurer; B. T. Wright, Sr., Lion
tamer; and W. K. Mauney, Jr.
tail twister.
Director nominees for two-year
terms are Grady Yelton, Charles
Ballance and Sam Weir.
Directors with one year terms
remaining are Hal S. Plonk, Law
son Brown and Odus Smith.
Annual club election will be
held on May 27.
Members of the nominating
committee were George H. Hous
er, Jacob Cooper, Eugene Timms,
Sam Stallings, and Dr. Nathan
Ree, all former presidents of the
club.
Thomasson In House Race;
County Office Contests Set
RICHARD (DICK) WARE
GEORGE B. THOMASSON
Vernon P. Crosby
Dies In Accident
Service Station
Accident Fatal;
Rites On Sunday
Funeral rites for Vernon Perry
Crosby, 41, prominent Kings
Mountain citizen and service sta
tion operator, were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock
from First Presbyterian church,
interment following in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Mr. Crosby died last Thursday
of internal injuries sustained at
5:30 p. m. at East King Service
Station, which he owned and'
operated, when a truck tire ex
ploded and the flying rim struck
him and knocked him to the
pavement. He died shortly after
the fatal accident enroute to the
hospital in an ambulance.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Vernon Crosby, he was a
native of Gaston county and a
veteran of World War II assign
ed as a tech sergeant with the
10th Air Force in Burma.
Mr. Crosby was a member of
First Presbyterian church and a
graduate of Kings Mountain
high school.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ottie (Pat) White Crosby, a son,
Christopher Stevenson (Stevee)
Crosby, his stepfather, A. S. Lyn
ch, and his parents-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. C. Glenn White, of
Kings Mountain. Two sisters-in
law, Mrs. John Edd Queen, of
Shelby, and Mrs. Ernest Mauney,
of Syosset, Long Island, New
York, also survives.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. P. D. Patrick.
Active pallbearers were Will
iam Davis, John Cheshire, James
Jonas, of Kings Mountain, Carl
Biggers and Boto Weathers, Char
lotte, and Earl Willis, Gastonia.
LIONS DIRECTORS
Directors of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club will convene
Thursday night at 7:30 at the
office of Dr. N. H. Reed.
Hospital Auxiliary
Meeting Scheduled
Annual business meeting of
the Kings Mountain Hospital
Auxiliary will be held Tuesday
night at 7:30 p. m. at City Hall
courtroom, Mrs. Carl Mayes,
president, has announced.
New officers of the organiza
tion of hospital volunteer work
ers will be installed and all
members are being invited to
attend, Mrs. Mayes said.
Presentation of chevron a
wards denoting 200-300 hour ser
vice to women in the Pink La
dies division will feature the
meeting. Co-chairmen in the
Pink Ladies division are Mrs.
Howard Jackson and Mrs. W.
G. Grantham.
Kiwanis Show
Plans Underway
Kings Mountain Kiwanians are
completing plans to hold their
first annual Kiwanis Talent Show
the evening of May 16th.
Preliminary contests in the var
ious elementary schools are be
ing scheduled, with winners from
each school to represent their
schools in the finals.
East school’s talent show was
held last week. The contest at
West school has been set for
Thursday evening (tonight* at 8
o’clock, the talent show at North
school will be held the evening
of May 2nd at 7 p. m., and the
contest at Central school will be
held the afternoon of May 9th
at 1:30 p. m. Winners from each
school will participate in the Ki
wanis-sponsored event.
City Schools Supt. B. N. Barnes
is chairman of the committee on
arrangements.
P-TA MEETING
High school band members
will present a musical program
at the regular Monday night
meeting of Park Grace P-TA
at 7 o’clock p. m. in the school
auditorium.
High School Considers Education
Via Television For Coming Year
by MARTIN HARMON
Will Kings Mountain high
school students get to be guinea
j pigs in testing the efficacy of
learning via television next
year? They may.
Possibility of Kings, Mountain
high school participating in tne
experiment next year was dis
cussed at Monday night’s session
of the city board of education.
Chairman Fred W. Plonk ex
pressed himself in favor of the
school’s joining 20 others
throughout North Carolina now
beaming on educational chan
nels for courses in history, math
matics and science.
Supt Barnes said he wasn’t
sure, reporting that some of the
officials of the 20 schools now in
the program expressed reserva
tions about it. He h&d learned
this attitude at a meeting at
tended by himself and Principal
Lawson Brown recently at
Greensboro. Some students ob
jected, they reported, to impossi
bility of posing questions to the
lecturers.
Mr. Barnes explained that the
1 lectures are beamed from Chapel
Hill and Greensboro branches of
the Greater University of North
Carolina and that “the teachers
are excellent”. He said schools,
must guarantee a minimum of
100 students for each class with
150 preferred. In addition, the
school must assign two teachers
to each class. Mr. Barnes said
the hour class is divided into 30
minutes for the lecture, with an
other 30 minutes of "local” test
ing and by the teachers assigned
to the course. He noted that the
teachers have advance outlines
of the subject material projected.
Cash for the experimental edu
cational television is furnished
by the Ford Foundation, a non
profit trust. He said cost to the
school system here would be
purchase of necessary television
sets.
Action of the board of educa
tion was approval of the project,
provided Schoolmen Barnes and
Brown recommend it, after fur
ther investigation.
Neartoy schools in the educa
tional television program this
year include Shelby and Albe
marle.
Richard Ware
Is Candidate
For Constable
George B. Thomasson, Kings
Mountain attorney, added his
name to the list of candidates
for the Democratic nomination
for the North Carolina House of
Representatives on Saturday,
shortly before the filing deadline.
The Kings Mountain man s en
try made the contest a three-man
affair. Other candidates are Jaok
Palmer, Jr., Shelby mortician, and
Ernest A. Gardner, Shelby at
torney and former house member.
Another last-minute candidate
produced a race for Number 4
Township constable. Richard
(Dick) Ware, 31, Pauline Mill em
ployee, opposes C. A. (Gus) Huff
stetler, incumbent, for Number 4
Township constable.
Four contests are involved for
the five seats on the county board
of commissioners. They are:
District I — Mai Spangler, Sr.,
incumbent, who is opposed by
Tilden Queen.
District II — Carl P. Finger,
incumbent, of Kings Mountain,
who is opposed by J. Broadus El
lis, Grover, and A. A. Barrett,
Waco.
District IV — John D. White,
incumbent, who is opposed by
William A. Hastings.
District V — Knox Sarrratt, in
cumbent, who is opposed by Kest
er Hamrick.
Only Chairman Fitzhugh Rol
lins, of District HI, is without op
position.
In another major contest, Mrs.
Lillian Newton, veteran county
treasurer, has opposition from
John C. Anderson, of Shelby ^ who
is a radio advertising salesman
for WKMT, Kings Mountain.
Incumbents unopposed for re
nomination in county races are
J. Ollie Harris, coronor, Haywood
Allen, sheriff, J. W. Osborne,
clerk of Superior court, Robert
Morgan, state senator, Rueben
Elam, judge of recorder’s court,
and Bynum Weathers, solicitor
of recorder’s court.
All of the five members of the
county board of education are
unopposed for renomination.
They are B. Austell, J. Edwin
Moore, C. D. Forney, Jr., W. H.
(Coot) Lutz, and Walter Davis.
J. Lee Roberts had no opposi
tion for Number 4 Township jus
tice of the peace. However, other
candidates would not have dic
tated opposition, since the law
permits nine justices for Number
4 Township.
Mr. Thomasson, the Kings
Mountain candidate for the
House of Representatives, is so
licitor of Kings Mountain record
er’s court. He is a graduate of
Davidson college and Duke Uni
versity law school. He is a vet
eran of World War II, seeing ser
vice in Europe. Recently elected
president of the Kings Moun
tain Junior Chamber of Com
merce, he is also a member of
the Lions club and a director of
Kings Mountain hospital. He is
a member of First Presbyterian
church. Mrs. Thomasson is the
former Marion Groome Arthur.
Mr. Thomasson is a son of
Mrs. Ruth Thomasson and the
late C. F. Thomasson.
Mr. Ware is a native of Kings
Mountain and was formerly as
sistant manager of Winn-Dixie
store here. A navy veteran, he
served in World War II and the
Korean War. He is a member of
the naval reserve electronics di
vision at Shelby. Mrs. W'are is
the former Gloria Caldwell.
The primary election will be
conducted on May 31.
Churchwomen Set
May 2 Program
Annual May Fellowship Day
program of the Kings Moun
tain Council of United Church
women will be held the even
ing of May 2nd at 7:30 p. m. at
Resurrection Lutheran church.
Mrs. Robert Rosberg is pro
gram chairman for the observ
ance, and other members of the
committee are Mrs. Charles Bal
lance, Mrs. Earl Ledford, and
Mrs. Dorus Bennett.
Showing of a film by B. S.
Peeler, Jr., will feature the pro
gram, and special music will be
rendered by the children's choir
of Resurrection church.
A fellowship hour will follow
the program. All churchwomen.
in the community are being in
vited to participate in the pro
gram, one of three annual ob
servances orf area church worn
' en.