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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. Established 18 Sixty-Ninth Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May I, 1958 Local News Bulletins NO COURT Judge Jack White’s inability to attend City Recorder’s Court Monday caused the session to be postponed until next Mon day in City Hall courtroom. Judge White was involved in legal proceedings in Shelby. CAKE SALE A cake sale at Phifer’s Hard ware will be sponsored Satur day morning by the Young People’s organization of Boyce Memorial ARP church begin ning at 8:30 a. m. The money earned by the project is ear marked for summer camp ex penses. JOINS DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT Meek A. Carpenter, former ly plant chemist at Foote Min eral Company here, has assum ed the duties of process engi neer at Douglas Aircraft Com pany’s Charlotte division. The Carpenters have moved to Char lotte, where they live at lo2 Perrin Place. LOW BIDDER P r o p s t Construction Com pany of Concord, was low bid der at $758,326.38 for grading and paving of U. S. 74 between Kings Mountain and Shelby and Crouch Brothers, of Moores ville, was low bidder for mov ing of buildings at $1 (,538. it was announced Tuesday by the North Carolina Highway com mission. The low bids are to be reviewed by the commission next week. BOARD MEETING The city board of commission ers will meet at 8 o’clock Thurs day night at City Hall to open bids previously invited for wa ter pipe to serve the new indus trial plant being built on \Vaco Road. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said bids Have been invited for both asbestos - cement pipe and cast iron pipe in diameters of 10 and 12 inches. MAY DAY PROGRAM The North Elementary school fifth grade class of Miss Margaret Goforth will present a May Day program m^_the school auditorium May < at 1 o'clock. Parents and friends of students are invited to at tend. KIWANIS CLUB Tyree W. McIntosh, Jr., of Gastonia, representative of Ak ers Motor Lines, will speak on “Safety-A Frame of Mind at the regular Thursday night meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday night at 6:45 p. m. at the Womans club. TO CLINTON Rev. Aubrey Quakenbush and family moved Thursday to Clin ton where he will assume the pastorate of the First Baptist church. Mr. Quakenbush resign ed his Kings Mountain post Sunday, April 6. Hospital Auxiliary Elects Officers Service Awards Are Presented 20 Pink Ladies Volunteer hospital workers re ceived service awards from Kings 1 Mountain Hospital Auxiliary at | the annual meeting of the wom en’s organization Tuesday. The auxiliary also heard com mittee reports and elected new officers, including Mrs. W. L. Mauney, president; Mrs. VV. P. Gerbeixiing and Mrs. J. B. Keeter, co-chairmen of the pink ladies division; Mrs. Carl Mayes, cor responding secretary; and Mrs. ' Arthur Sprouse, recording secre-! tary-treasurer. In the president's report, Mrs. | ■ Carl Mayes pointed out that 78 members of the pink ladies divis-1 ion of the auxiliary serve regular-1 ly at the hospital and have volun teered a total of 12,100 hours duty! since the group’s organization in May 1956. Pink lady co-chairmen; Mrs. W. G. Grantham and Mrs. Howard Jackson announced eight awards to women for first 100; hours duty, eight awards for first' chevrons (200) and two awards to women who won their second; chevron (denoting 300 hours ser- | vice). Mrs. S. T. Cooke, chairman in! the 'Negro division of the auxili- j ary, reported that her group had | volunteered a total of 2,500 hours duty at the hospital. Grady Howard, Kings Moun tain hospital business manager, | announced winners of pins in cluding Mrs. J. P. Cook, 124 hours; | Mrs. Ben T. Goforth, 110 hours; Mrs. Ralph Goforth, 125 hours; Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, J r., 115 hours; Mrs. David Mauney, 105 htours; Mrs. Iva Lee Pearson, 100 hours; Mrs. Wilhelmina Sprouse, 127 hours. First chevron awards went to Mrs. Fay Bennett, 201; Miss Naomi Edens, 202; Mrs. W. P. Gerberding, 243; Mrs. L. Ar (Continued, on Page Eight) Baptist Members Fable Vote Action Members of First Baptist church voted preponderantly last week to table action on a proposed vote to determine ■ whether to consider a compro- ! mise proposal by a dissident i group on division of church as sets. The dissident group opposes building of a new church on a j new site and Was filed court ac- j tion to declare illegal the chur- j ch election on ttie question of accepting the gift site. The ac ceptance was made by vote of 235 to 163, with agreement that a new church would be construc ted on the site within five years. Democrats Gather Saturday Cleveland County Democrats will hold semi-annual precinct meetings for election of the sev eral committees Saturday. Major ity of the meetings will be at 2 p. m. S. A. Crouse, chairman of East Kings Mountain precinct, invited all East Kings Mountain Demo crats to attend this meeting at City Hall courtroom. Other East Kings Mountain committeemen are Mrs. J. E. Lipford, vice-chair man, J. Ollie Harris, John B. Mau ney, and Leonard A. Smith. Hugh D. Ormand, West Kings Mountain chairman, said the West Kings Mountain meeting will be Held at Victory Chevrolet Compa ny. Other members are Mrs. J. H. Arthur, vice-chairman, H. B. Jackson, Martin Harmon and Mrs J. N. Gamble. H. A. Goforth, Bethware chair man, said tile Bethware gather ing will be at Bethware school. Purpose of the gatherings is tc name five committeemen, pre cinot chairmen and vice-chair men, and to name delegates to the county Democratic convention Which will be held on May 10. Vote-Seekers Beginning To Stir; County Primary Only Month Away Activity among candidates for Democratic nominations to coun ty offices is expected to increase this weekend, as registration I books open for the month-distant primary. . _ . i Already, campaign literature, including window placards and personal cards, are beginning to I appear in public places and ^ome i candidates already are making the rounds toward getting ac quainted personally with as many voters as possible. Particular attention this voting season is focused on contests for ithe board of county commission ers, where four incumbent com , missioners face challengers, on j the three-man race for the House ! of Representatives nomination,; : and on the two-person for county j treasurer. I Ail these primary contests are, i county-wide, meaning that all ; Democratic voters have the op portunity of helping to decide them. Prime interest in the Kings Mountain area is devoted to the District II county commission con test, where Carl P. Finger, the in cumbent, is opposed by J. Broad us Ellis. Grover businessman, and A. A. Barrett, Waco contractor farmer. Thus far, the campaign ing has been quiet, though Mr. Barrett has made at least two visits to Kings Mountain in pur suit of votes. Another county - wide race finds George B. Thor.iasson. Kings Mountain lawyer and solicitor of city recorder’s court, vying with Jack Palmer, Jr., Shelby mortici an, and Earnest A. Gardner, Shel by lawyer and former House member, for the House of Repre sentatives.' The post has been va cant for almost a year, since the resignation of B. T. Falls, Jr., to accept appointment as district so (Continued on Page Eight) 701 Persons In This Area Seeking Work The Kings Mountain branch of; the North Carolina Employment: | service remained one of Kings Mountain’s busiest “businesses” during the past month. Manager Franklin L. Ware, Jr., j said the Kings Mountain branch j j office report for the month ending, ] April 25 showed that 701 persons ; are actively seeking work, upped ' by 117 new applications during the period. He reported total weeks of un- , employment compensation claims i at 2,393, for an average of ap proximately 598 per week. He said approximately 30 per sons exhausted their 26-week un employment pay benefits during April. The branch office filled 29 of 35 job openings reported during the four weeks. Currently, the branch is serving! :wo “spot points,” which occur vhen as many as 20 employees of i firm are temporarily laid off. I Hie two “spot points” are at Pau ine plant of Massachusetts Mo-; Hiair Plush Company and at Slater ' Brothers. Slater Brothers has ' been operating for several weeks ] on a week-on, week-off basis. Lions Continue Bioom Sale The Kings Mountain Lions club’s annual broom sale for bene fit of the blind will continue through Saturday. Richard Barnett, co-chairman of the civic club’s project, said Wednesday, “The sale has met with a good response arid we hope to post the sold-out tag by Satur day.” He reported sale thus far of some 45 dozen household brooms, in addition to a quantity of com mercial-type brooms and whisk brooms. Mr. Barnett said some mem bers of the sale committee found it impossible to handle their house-to-house sales assignments last weekend and would complete them this weekend. He also said members of the club will vend the | brooms) on the business district I streets during the weekend. “This year’s broom is improved i in quality and is a good buy at | $1.50,” Mr. Barnett commented. | The whisk brooms sell for 75 i cents. Profits from the brooms — all manufactured by blind persons at Industries for the Blind in Greens ! boro — are used by the Lions ; club here to aid the blind and others with defective vision. Chairman Barnett asked all club members to complete their work and 'balance accounts for brooms not later than Monday. ChuicitPlans Budget Slash First Baptist church deacons have proposed a 27 percent slash in the church budget for the cur- ; rent fiscal year. The total recom mended reduction on the $78,968 budget is $29,445. Mimeographed copies of the recommended changes were mailed to church members this week. Cuts are recommended in each of the four budget divisions, in cluding paring of the missions budget from $20,354 to $15,657; the administrative budget from $20,309 to $13,701; the operational budget from $13,305 to $10,160; and the building fund budgeti from $25,000 to $10,000. Mission cuts would reduce the anticipated $1,500 contribution to Gardner-Webb college to $750 and would wipe out anticipated ; contributions of $250 each to Mars Hill and Wake Forest col- j leges. Myers' Dress Shop To Close Saturday Myers’ Dress Shop, the second floor ready-to-wear department of Myers’ Department Store, will close at the end of business Sat urday, Mrs. O. W. Myers announ ced this wee.k The main floor department will : continue in operation, with Mrs. Tom Trott, ready-to-wear depart ment saleslady, joined the main floor sales force. O. W. Myers, owner of the firm, announced in January the firm would liquidate its inventory and close. He said the main floor op eration would continue "a few more weeks. Myers’ Department Store has been a leading business citizen of Kings Mountain for the past 20 years. Registration Books To Open Saturday For May 31 Voting WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Wayne Mayhue, Kings Mountain high school senior, has been awarded a S3.000 college scholarship by Firestone Textiles, Inc. He ex pects to enroll at N. C. State Col lege. Mayhue Wins Scholarship Wayne Mayhue, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pink Mayhue of 820 Cleve land Avenue, Has been awarded an A. G. Myers scholarship foi $3000 by Textiles, Inc., of Gas tonia, where his mother is ar employee. The scholarships are presented annually to children of employees by the company. Mayhue, a senior at Kings Mountain high school, plans tc attend State college next year He was a marshal at graduatior exercises last year, an honor a warded for scholastic achieve ment. He also attained Eagle Scout rank, the highest rank ir boy scouting. May Fellowship Service Friday Kings Mountain’s communitjt cvide May Fellowship Day pro gram will be held Friday night at 7:30 p. m. at Resurrection Lutheran church. The annual observance is spon sored by the Kings Mountain Council of United Churchwomen, an interdenominational organiza tion of women representing all churches in the community. Showing of the film, “A Place to Live” by Rev. Douglas Fritz, and presentation of special music by the children’s choirs of Resur rection church will feature the program. Mrs. Robert Rosberg is program chairman and other members of the program ar rangements committee are Mrs. Charles Ba-llance, Mrs. Earl Led ford, and Mrs. Dorus Bennett. Mrs. Earl Ledford will conduct a brief devotional prior to the, showing of the film. A fellowship hour will follow the program which1 is expected to be attended by a large number of citizens representing virtually all churches in the community. Other programs sponsored an nually by the local council of Churchwomen are World Day of Prayer and World Community Day. Music Week Piogiams Set Kings Mountain city schools musicians will observe National Music week. May 410, with a se ries of programs and radio broad casts, Charles Ballance, city schools band director, said this week. The broadcasts, to be made via Station WKMT will include: Monday, 5:05 to 5:30 p. m., mu sic by the high school mixed chor us. Wednesday, 5:05 to 5:30 p. m I music by piano pupils of Mrs Martin Harmon and Mrs. Musa : Marto. Friday, May 9, 5:05 to 5:30 p .m., concert by the city schools ! band. On Tuesday night, the band wil i present its annual spring concert ' at Central auditorium, and or | May 9. Mrs. Harmon’s pupils wil I be presented in annual spring re ' cital. Registration Pre-Requisite ! To Casting Vote Registration books for the May j 31 Democratic primary will open : Saturday. i New registration is not requir : ed, but all persons who expect to I vote in the county primary must be registered. Particularly inter ested in registering will bo per sons who have attained the legal voting age of 21 and citizens who; have moved into the county since the November 1956 general elec-; 1 tion. Persons who have changed res idences within the county should transfer their registrations to the precincts in which they now re-: side. County Elections Board Chair man Joe Mull said that the 28 reg istrars will be at the respective precinct polling places from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Saturday and for the subsequent two Saturdays. May 24 will be challenge day. The following registrars will serve at area precincts: East Kings Mountain (City Hall courtroom) Mrs. Nell Cran ford. West Kings Mountain (Victory 'Chevrolet Company) Mrs. J. H. Arthur. Bethwar* (Bethware school) ! Mrs. H. A. Goforth. Grpver (Grover fire station) Mrs. J. B. Ellis. Waco, George Murray. — _ Carroll Died 01 Hemorrhage James Wardell Carroll, 38-year old Negro and a Foote Mineral Company employee, died last Friday of natural causes, not be cause of drinking poison liquor. Coronor J. Ollie Harris said autopsy by Dr. C. Russell, Cleve land Memorial hospital patholo gist, revealed that death was due to a cerebral hemorrage. Carroll died at his Tracy street residence after friends had brought him home. He had work ed at his regular job Friday. Funeral rites were conducted | Tuesday at Mt. Zion Baptist i church, where Carroll was a! member, with burial at Bynum’s | Chapel church cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mattie McGill Carroll, his moth er, Mrs. Geneva Carroll, four i daughters, Willette, Carolyn, Hazeline, and Helen Carroll, three brothers, William Carroll, Kings Mountain, Henry and Tho mas Carroll, both of Salisbury, and five sisters, Mrs. Lucille Dar gan, Charlotte, Mrs. Odessa 'Coleman and Mrs. Catherine Jor dan, both of Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. Ollie Mae Gardner and Miss | Marie Carroll, both of Kings ( Mountain. Gill & Brown Funeral Home was in charge of funeral arrange ments. RESIGNS — J. C. McKinney, lot more than ten years assistant rashier of First »Iational Bank, has resigned to join Commercial National Bank of Spartanburg, S. Z. Mr. McKinney will manage the Spartanburg's branch at Jonesville, S. C. [. C. McKinney Bank Managei J. C. McKinney, assistant cash er of First National Bank, has resigned his position, effective1 May 15, to become manager of! i branch bank at JonegviUe, S. The branch is a subsidiary of Commercial National Bank of j Spartanburg, S. C. Mr. McKinney joined First Na tional here in November 1947. He first entered the banking bus iness with the Haynes Bank of Cliffside in 1935, served in World War II with the army, then be came a civilian employee of the army in the finance department at Fort Bragg in 1945. Mr. McKinney is currently ser ving as treasurer of Central Methodist church and treasurer of Kings Mountain Country Club. He’ is vice-president of the Lions club and was recently nominated for the presidency. He is a direct or of the Merchants association and a member of the American Legion. Mrs. McKinney is the former Sue McDaniel of Cliffside. They have a son, Don McKinney, a high school junior and football letterman. The McKinneys live at 204 N. Piedmont avenue. Whitener-Dom Debate On CBS Basil L. Whitener, 11th district North Carolina Congressman will debate with Francis E. Dorn, New ¥ork Republican, in a Columbia Broadcasting System radio d e bate to be heard over WBT Char lotte at 10:05 Thursday night, CBS announced. Subject of the debate will be President Eisenhower's proposal to liberalize immigration laws. Rep. Dom supports the Eisenhow er proposal. Rep. Whitener, a Democrat, opposes drastic liberal ization of immigration quotas. Fun, Frolic, Comedy, And Music Will Feature Jaycee Minstrels Kings Mountain Jaycees will stage Jaycee Minstrels of 1958 Friday and Saturday evenings at ' Central school auditorium. Both S performances will begin at 8 p. m. D. D. (Salty) Saunders, chair ! man of the Jaycee committee in I charge of the production, said the upcoming blackface minstrel show is shaping nicely. Full re hearsals were scheduled for ! Wednesday night and again on : Thursday night. Profits from the production will be given to the city schools band. Stars of the 1958 minstrel will j be Endmen Charles E. Dixon, I Otis Falls, Jr., Yates Harbison, ! Jim Lybrand, Joe Bill Cornwell, 1 Raymond (Whistle) Goforth, and 'Luco Falls. I. Ben Goforth, Jr., j will serve as interlocutor. Speciality acts will include a Charleston dance number from “the roaring twenties”, i Musical specialities will include a duet by Patsy Foster and Eliza beth Brown “Can’t Help Loving That Man”. Miss Brown will also sing ‘‘A Good Man’s Hard to Find” and Julie Floyd will sing “Birth of the Blues”. Members of the high school mixed chorus will be in the 50 voice minstrel chorus. A 14-piece band will furnish the music. Members are Bobby Early, piano, James Forrest, Er nest Payne and Billie Jones, clar inets, Kenneth Barnes, Tommy Bennett and Doug Burton, cor nets, Darviel Spurling and Mac Lennon, trombones, Linda Sand ers. Sidney Morrison and Billy Jenkins, saxophones, LeCompte Wright, bass, and David Adams, drums. Tickets may be purchased in advance from Jaycees or band members at 75 cents for adults and 35 cents for students. Gate admission will be $1 for adults and 50 cents for students. doutnern uen Seeks To Bioaden Base Perimeteis Some Kings Mountain and Grover telephone customers will get rate reductions if the North Carolina Utilities commission ap proves a current rate revision re quest of Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company. According to announcement Tuesday by J. M. Wasson, vice president and general manager, Southern Bell will expand its “basic rate area" in many com munities, which will reduce mile age chhrges now assessed custo mers outside the particular ex change’s base perimeter. Southern Bell currently makes a mileage charge of 10 cents iter month for each quarter-mile, or portion thereof outside the base perimeter. In 1954, Southern Bell posted with the North Carolina Utilities commission a schedule in which rates were based on number of toll-free telephones serving a par ticular exchange. Now in cate gory III, Kings Mountain nor Grover would jump to higher i rate Category IV until more tele ; phones are added. E. F. Farris, 1 Kings Mountain manager said. Shelby would be in a new cate ! gory, he said. Utilities commission approval is required on the proposal, he add 'd. Mr. Farris said the only custo Tiers in Kings Mountain or Grov ;r who would find their bills in rreased would be those who had paid less mileage charges (through measurement area) Chian they should have been pay ing. He said about 400 customers to the two exchanges would have mileage charges eliminated alto gether, while some 647 would re alize reductions, varying accord ing to their location. In addition to toll-free in-city service, Kings Mountain custo mers have free service to Shel by, Grover and Bessemer City. The Kings Mountain exchange lists approximately 2700 tele phones. In Cleveland County, Mr. Was son reported, telephones in ser vice increased by 2S1 percent from 1950 to 1955. The increase from 1955 to 1957 was another 20 per cent. Mr. Farris said gross receipts of the Kings Mountain exchange, including federal excise taxes, varies between $17,000 and $23, 000 per month. Legion To Elect On Friday Night Annual election of officers of Otis D. Green Post 153, American Legion, will be conducted Friday night at the regular monthly meeting at the Legion Building. Contests are involved only for commander and for membership on the five-man executive com mittee. Commander Ray Cline and John Gladden are on the ballot for commander. Mr. Cline is com pleting his first term in the of fice. For the executive committee, the official ballot lists ten can didates, including James Alexand er, Wilbur (Mutt) Smith, Dick McGinnis, Bryant Wells. Carl Wie sener, Ross Alexander, Otto i Toby) Williams, Kelson Led bet ‘ ter, Hubert Aderholdt and Ray Sisk. Nominees unopposed include: Eugene Gibson, first vice-com mander; W. D. Morrison, second vice-commander; James Bennett, finance officer and adjutant; Wil bur Roark, sergenat-at-arms; Charles T. Carpenter, Jr., his torian; and William Plonk, chap lain. Study Course Set By Baptist Groups A city-wide study course for Bible School workers in the Baptist churches will be held at First Baptist church on the evening of May 5, 8. 12, and 15. The two-hour course will be held from 7 o'clock until 9 o’clock p. m. beginning Monday night, May 5, Mrs. Howard ; Ware announced. It has been announced that the nursery will be open. Teach ers in the various departments are Rev. Carl Greene, superin tendents and secretaries; Mrs. W. B. Logan, intermediates; Mrs. Edwin Bobo, juniors; Mrs. Clarence Smith, primaries; Mrs. Carl Greene, beginners, and Mrs. Bill Hullender, nurse 1 ry.
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