Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Tho 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.
Sixty-Ninth Year „
PRICE TEN CENTS
VOL 69 No. 21
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 22, 1958
Bethware Exercises To Start;
GroverGraduationThursday
Grover School
To Graduate
Class Oi 20
Grover high school will award
diplomas to 20 seniors in com
mencement exercises Thursday
(tonight) at 8 o’clock in the high
school auditorium.
Four members of the gradua
ting class will present the pro
gram. The speakers will include
Mary Ann Herndon, salutatorian,
Doris McGinnis, Jack Leigh, and
Sylvia West, valedictorian.
Members of the high school
chorus, under direction of Mrs.
F. B. Hambright and accompanied
by Betsy Shaw, will sing “Soldiers
Chorus” and “Bless This House.”
Medal presentations will be
made by W. C. Kiser, Preston
Holt, Miss Sara Cooksey, Paul
Hambright, and County Superin
tendent J. Horace Grigg. Princi
pal J. C. Scruggs and J. B. Roys
ter, chairman of the school board,
will award the diplomas.
Marshals include Brenda Jack
son, chief; Mary Mullinax, assis
tant chief, Jeanette Blackburn,
Nancy Bolin, Aileene Trull, and
Jerry Huffstetler. Kay Camp and
David Borders are class mascots.
The class colors are red and
white, and the class motto, “Not
Finished, Just Begun.”
Class officers are Annie Bell
Stroupe, president who will in
troduce the program; Larry App
ling, vice-president; Mary Ann
Herndon, secretary, and Brenda
Robinson, treasurer. Miss Lillian
Quinn is class advisor.
Members of the graduating
class are William Larry Appling,
James Kenneth Bell, Hayward
Dean Bullock, Kenneth Malone
Byers, Larry Alfred Collins, Nan
cy Victoria Fortenbury, Paul Her
j man Green, Mary Ann Herndon,
Jack Converse Hutchins, Jack
Leigh, Doris Dean McGinnis,
Thurman Peterson, Russell Lee
Pinkelton, Brenda Lou Robinson,
Donald Richard Smith, Phyllis
Ann Smith, Annie Belle Stroupe,
Richard Carveth Wells, Sylvia
Annette West, and Norma Kay
Watterson.
Treasury Calls
Two Bond Issues
The Treasury Department last
week issued official notices call
ing for redemption oh September
15, 1958, two issues of United
States Treasury Bonds.
The two issues are: 1) All out
standing 2% percent Treasury
Bonds of 1956-59, dated February
1, 1944, and due September 15,
1959; 2l All outstanding 2 3-8 per
cent Treasury' Bonds, dated March
1, 1952 and due March 15, 1959.
Attention to the Treasury De
partment announcement was cabl
ed by R. S. Lennon, cashier of
First National Bank, who said
he wac certain some Kings Moun
tain area citizens and firms had
invested in each of these govern
ment bond offerings.
The l>ank can furnish informa
tion on surrender of th'e bonds
for cash redemption, details of
which are included in Depart
ment Circular No. 300, Revised,
dated April 30, 1955.
Rhyne Leases
Bridges Airport
Ned Rhyne, of Bessemer City,
has leased Bridges Airport, it was
announced this week by Glee A.
Bridges.
Mr. Rhyne assumed manage
ment of the airport on May 15.
Mr. Rhyne comes to Kings
Mountain from Municipal Air
port, Gastonia. He holds a license
as airplane engine mechanic and
also a pilot’s license. Flight in
struction will be available.
The airport will be open seven
days weekly.
Seniors To Handle
Graduation Rites
Members of the high school
graduating class will conduct
the graduation night exercises
on June 2.
The city board of education
approved the request of the
class at Monday night’s ses
sion.
Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pas
tor of Resurrection Lutheran
church, has accepted the
board’s invitation to deliver,
the baccalaureate sermon on
June 1, Supt. B. N. Barnes re
ported to the board.
Local News
Bulletins
BUILDING PERMIT
J. W. Webster, city building
inspector, issued a building per
mit Tuesday to J. Wilson
Crawford to construct a 5 room
residence on Katherine street
at an estimated cost of $9500.
HOSPITALIZED
Sam Weir, Jr., Kings Moun
tain grocer, entered Gastonia
Memorial hospital Tuesday for
treatment and observation.
IMPROVING
Cicero Ware, Marine Chief
Warrant officer hospitalized at
Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital,
was reported steadily improv
ing by a family spokesman
Wednesday afternoon.
HOLDING OWN
Irvin Allen, long time resi
dent, is reported by a family
spokesman to be holding his
own following a cerebral hem
orrhage suffered last Sunday
at 2:30 p. m.
KIWANIS
James D. White, trust officer
at American Commercial Bank
of Charlotte, will speak on
“Your Property and Heirs” at
the Thursday night meeting of
the Kiwanis club. Mr. White,
a graduate of the University of
North Carolina where he stu
died law, has been associated
with the Charlotte bank since
1954. The club meets at 6:15 p.
m. at the Woman’s club.
DEMOLAY MEETING
Gastonia Chapter of DeMolay
will give the Flower Talk for
newly-organized Kings Moun
tain chapter of DeMolay at a
public ceremony Sunday at 2:30
p. m. at Masonic H a 11. All
Master Masons, their wives,
and friends are invited to at
tend.
LODGE
An emergent communication
of Fairview Lodge 339 AF &
AM will be held Saturday at
7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall for
work in the second degree. On
Monday at 7:30 p. m. lodge
members will meet for work
in the first degree, Secretary
T. A. Tindall announced.
ELECTED
K. E. Morrison has been elect
ed to fill the unexpired two
year term of J. C. McKinney
on the board of directors of
Kings Mountain Merchants As
sociation, Mrs. Elaine Queen,
j association secretary, announ
[ ced.
—
Charlie Harmon
Clan Has Reunion
The family of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Harmon, of the Beu
lah church community, held its
annual reunion at the church re
creation building Sunday.
Picnic dinner was served with
Claude Henderson saying the in
vocation.
A total of 52 members of the
i family and kinfolk were present.
Special guests included M. L.
: Harmon, Mrs. T. P. McGill, and
I Mrs. Minnie H. Crawford, of
j Kings Mountain, last surviving
uncle and aunts of the Harmon
j branch of the clan.
27 To Graduate
At Bethware;
Sermon Sunday
Commencement exercises for!
27 Bethware high school seniors
will begin Sunday, with the bac
calaureate sermon to be deliver
ed by Rev. Norman F. Brown,
pastor of Bethlehem Baptist
church.
Diplomas are to be awarded
at graduation exercises on Fri
day evening, May 30, when the
graduating class will hear an
address by Dr. P. L. Elliott, pres
ident of Gardner-Webb Junior
college, Boiling Springs.
Both programs will be held in
the Bethware school auditorium
at 8 p. m.
Other ministers on the Sunday
night program will include Rev.
Frank Blalock, who will read the
scripture, Rev. J. J. Thornburg,
who will give the invocation,
Rev. N. S. Hardin who will offer
the evening prayer, and Rev.
James Holder, who will pronoun
ce the benediction.
The Girls’ Chorus will sing
“The Lord’s My Shepherd” and
“Dear Lord and Father of Man
kind.” The chorus will sing
“Graduation Day” and “Prayer
ful Hour” at the finals exercises.
Junior marshals include Nor
ma Jane Hamrick, Carolyn Love
lace, Jerry Webster, and Luther
Edwards. Class mascots are Kay
Ware and Larry Randall. Faye
Woods is valedictorian and Bec
ky Falls, salutatorian.
Members of the graduating
class are Patsy Ann Bridges, Ma
cie Beatrice Bridges, Magel Ar
lene Dixon, Melba Rebecca Falls,
Nancy Jean Fite, Margaret Pat
rica Hamrick, Frances Daphne
Lovelace, Hazel Annette Neal,
Sadie Madge Seism, Patsy Ann
Short, Phyllis Inell Welch, Selma
Faye Woods, Patricia Ann Yar
bro, Harold Dean Blanton, Paul
Daniel Camp, Jr., Johnny Eugene
Chapman, Jerry Henry Edmon
son, Ray Butler Herndon, Eugene
Hovis, Tommy Ray Ledbetter,
Morris Ellis Mayes, Richard E
vans Ross, Moffett Albert Seism,
Robert Ray Seism, James Howard
Turner, James William White,
and Rufus Henry White.
Open-Out Club
Met OnTuesdoy
The Cleveland County Open-Out
Club met in regular monthly ses
sion Tuesday morning at the O.
Max Gardner Foundation House
in Shelby.
The meeting began with a pe
riod of fellowship during which
light refreshments were served,
consisting of date nut loaf, mixed
nuts, lime ice cream, and hot cof
fee.
The Treasurer’s report reveal
ed a balance of $49.93 in the bank
and the club unanimously voted
to contribute $25 to the current
Multiple Sclerosis campaign.
The program chairman, Mrs.
James Phillips, had invited as
speaker, the Rev. Trent Howell,
pastor of the Shiloh Presbyterian
church of Grover, who was pre
sented to the Club by Charlie Har
ry, HI.
Mr. Howell’s subject was
“Love.” He described the love
needed to solve our personal and
world wide problems. His remarks
were based on th!e verses found
in the 13th chapter of I Corinthi
ans and the First Commandment.
Mrs. Sally Mauney informally
showed the members how to make
attractive gifts from everyday ar
ticles found in the home. The Club
disbanded for the summer months
to reconvene in September for its
next meeting.
Naming First National President
Not Expected Before June Meeting
It is unlikely that a successor
to Frank R. Summers, late presi
dent of First National Bank, will
be named prior to the regular!
June meeting of the board of di
rectors, scheduled for June 9.
B. S. Neill, executive vice-pres
ident, said it would be the prero
gative of the board of directors to
name a successor to the late ivfr.
Summers, both as a director and
as president.
By-laws require that a director
must own stock in the corpora
tion. An officer is not required to
hold stock.
Mr. Neill said he had no idea
: who would be named to either the
I board or officer vacancy.
Mr. Summers died of a heart
attack on May 12, after serving
as president of First National
Bank from 1942, when he suc
ceeded the late D. M. Baker. Mr.
Summers was third president of
the 58-year-old institution.
Interest in identity of a succes
sor to Mr. Summers has been con
siderable among both individuals
and in the business community.
Present directors are Mr. Neill,
R. L. Mauney, Dr. L. P. Baker, W.
K. Mauney, P. M. Neisler, Sr.,’ M.
A. Ware and Glee A. Bridges.
Ownership of the 10.000 shares
of $10 par value stock outstand
ing Was not been announced. How
ever, Mr. Neill said there is no
majority stockholders.
Police Hosts
To Aison-Theit
School Friday
Kings Mountain police depart
ment wilt be host on Friday to
an area theft and arson school,
with some 75 policemen from
Cleveland and five neighboring
counties planning to attend.
Majority of the 6essions will be
held at the American Legion build
ing off East Gold street, Chief
of Police Martin Ware said.
After a 30-minute orientation
period, starting at 8:30 Friday
morning, A. M. Gilbert, director
and T. S. Secrest, assistant direc
tor, of tile state theft bureau, will
conduct a three-hour session.
A two-hour session beginning
at 1 o’clock has been scheduled
for a demonstration in which an
automobile will be destroyed by
fire.
Beginning at 3 p. m., Cecil Dun
can, chief of investigation divis
ion of the state insurance depart
ment, will discuss arson, motives,
unlawful burning and fraud law.
An evening session, beginning
at 7 o’clock, will include methods
of interrogation and preservation
of evidence, to be conducted by
W. G. O’Neill, supervisor of in
vestigation for the state insurance
department. The session will be
concluded with a motion picture
on arson.
Adjournment is scheduled for
9p. m.
Both lunch and dinner will be
served the visiting policemen at
the Legion Building.
Chief Ware said advance regis
trations include a large number
of police officers from Gaston,
Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford, Ca
tawba and Lincoln counties.
Tax Collection
Total $130,009
Less than $4,000 remains to be
collected of the 1957 city tax
levy, tax collector J. W. Webster
reported to the city commission
last Thursday.
Mr. Webster said collections to
May 12 totaled $130,009.04 a
gainst the 134,000 the city guess
ed it would collect from the ad
valorem and poll tax levies.
He also reported that the city
had collected $10,102,.66 in taxes
for prior years, another $2187 in
ldnd sales, had allowed 1781 in
pre-payment discounts, and had
collected $747 in interest on ov
erdue taxes.
He also reported the following
receipts from collections of fees:
$2940 in sewer taps, $2500 in wa
ter taps, and $299 for building
permits.
Kiwanis Stages
Talent Event
The Kiwanis club presented a
wards to seven Kings Mountain
students in the club’s annual
school talent show Friday night.
Participating in the talent e
vent were winners of prelimin
ary contests in the various
schools of the city who perform
ed before a capacity crowd.
Adjudged winners were Jo
Bridges and Mary Leigh Mauney
who performed via tap dance
and song, “I’ve Got Talent” in
division I, third and fourth gra
ders; Vinelle Phillips, piano solo
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”, di
vision II, seventh and eighth
grades; Gary Myers, solo, “He’s
Got The Whole World", first and
second grades; Susan Plonk and
Tommy Black, novelty act, “Folk
Song Melody”, fifth and sixth
graders; and Julie Floyd, solo,
“Autumn Leaves”, in the high
school division. Miss Mary Nolan
was accompanist for young My
ers, and Bobby Early was accom
panist for Miss Floyd.
Engraved trophies are to be a
warded at the various schools of
the community, Kiwanis Presi
dent John Cheshire noted.
Kiwanian B. S. Peeler, Jr. in
troduced the numerous contest
ants and their acts.
Pullen Firm Again
To Audit City Books
A. M. Pullen & Company, Char
lotte auditors, were awarded the
city’s auditing contract for the
current year at a brief session of
the city board of commissioners
Tuesday night.
The commission was convened
briefly for formal action after a
long informal session on the 1958
59 budget.
The city will pay the auditors
$5 per hour for the c. iiting work,
same cost as last year.
In another action, the board or
dered a change designed to speed
northbound traffic on Battle
ground avenue. Henceforth, it
will be permissible for north
bound motorists turning into East
Gold street, to stop, then turn
right on red into E. Gold, provid
«d right-of-way is available.
'mSSSBggUWISS
MOOSE GOVERNOR — Horace
Brown was installed recently as
governor of Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge. He succeeded K. E.
Morrison.
Horace Brown
Moose Governor
Horace Brown was recently in
stalled as governor of Kings
Mountain Moose Lodge 1748, fol
lowing annual lodge elections.
Other officers elected were
Gaither Ledbetter, junior gover
nor; Willie Grice, prelate; Dennis
Goforth, treasurer; Jake Carpen
ter, one-year-trustee; Melton Ki
ser, two-year trustee; Bud Mor
gan, three-year trustee; and Curt
is W. Gaffney, secretary. K. E
Morrison serves on the board
as past governor.
The lodge held a fish supper
for members and their wives last
Friday night.
Regular meetings of the lodge
are held each Thursday evening
at 8:15.
City Schools
Ask 43c Levy
The city board of education will
join Shelby city schools and the
county unit in requesting the
county board of commissioners tc
levy a 15 cents per $100 valuation
tax rate next year for capital out
lay.
Action on the tax matter was
taken at Monday night’s board
session. The board also approved
the other school unit’s action in
agreeing to ask a 28-cent rate for
operating expenses, same rate as
prevailed last year.
The board also completed com
mencement plans, authorized ap
propriations for city school and
Davidson scWool bands, and adopt
ed a calendar for the 1958 • 59
school term.
It was reported via the minutes
of prior special meetings that
Mrs. Edith F. Bridges had been
elected an elementary teacher for
the 1958-59 term.
On motion of J. R. Davis, sec
onded by J. W. Webster, the board
voted a $1,000 appropriation to
the city schools band and a $500
appropriation to the Davidson
school band for instrument re
pair. The action had the effect
of upping -prior appropriations, at
a special meeting May 9, when
the board had voted amounts of
$500 and $200 for the two bands.
The 1958-59 calendar provides
that the session will open on
Tuesday, September 2, and will
end on June 1, 1959. Holidays will
include one day for the South
Piedmont district teacher meeting,
two days for Thanksgiving and
two days during the Easter week
end. Christmas season holidays
will be from December 19 to Jan
uary 5.
The board authorized a com
mittee, including Vice-Chairman
Arnold W. Kincaid and Supt. B.
N. Barnes, to purchase a filing
cabinet for Davidson school and
several pianos for various
schools. Mrs. Barnes had ex
plained that Central school
pianos are in poor repair, and
1hat both Davidson and East
schools needed additional pianos
The board deferred, pending
receipt of a survey, request of
the city for street right-of-way
through North school property.
Tom H. Watson
Heads Park Yam
Tom H. Watson, of American
and Efind Mills, Inc., Maiden, has
accepted superintendentship ol
Park Yam Mills effective May 1.
He succeeds M. A. Enloe whc
resigned April 30.
Mr. Watson is married and has
two sons. He plans to move her<
in the near future.
Mr. Enloe said Wednesday h<
| hadn’t accepted any position t<
date.
METER RECEIPTS
1 Parking meters receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $135.48, Assistant
City Clerk Mrs. Grace C. Wolfe
reported.
Candidates Speeding Wcrk;
Primary Ten Dayts Distant
Improvements
To 12 Streets
Are Approved
i The city board of commission
ers has approved a long list of
street improvements for the for
thcoming fiscal year, provided
petitions in hand or being ob
tained prove valid on the basis
of front footage xepresented.
Included, for hard-surfacing
were:
Cranford Drive, from Third to
Fairview street;
Fourth street, from Fairview,
to Linwood road;
Walnut street, from Phenix to
Chestnut;
Cherry street, from Phenix to
south end of Cherry (a dead
i end);
Baker street, from Clinton
j drive to Hill street;
Gillespie street, from Clinton
■ drive to Hill street;
Hill street, from Clinton Drive
j to Dilling street;
Morris and Gantt streets, from
North Piedmont avenue to Gantt,
thence to Walker street;
Carpenter street, from Parker
to north end of Carpenter;
i Bennett Drive, from Phenix to
Chestnut;
N. Katherine avenue, from
Woodside drive to Stone street,
j The board also approved in
stallation of curb-and-gutter and
sidewalk, north side only, on
Waco road, from N. Piedmont
to Gantt street.
The board awarded contract to
Spangler & Sons, Kings Moun
tain and Shelby, for grading of
sidewalk strip on West Mountain
street at $150 and for paving of
four-foot sidewalk at $1.09 per
lineal foot.
In other action the board:
1) Approved use of City Sta
dium, at a date to be set, for a
baseball tryout school to be con
ducted by Eddie Lyons, of the St.
j Louis Cardinals.
2) Called a re-zoning hearing
I for June 11 Ion a petition to
| change designation of one side
' of Cansler street, from Oak to
J Elm street, to industrial zone.
Pryor Has Success
With Basket Garden
Will Pryor, resident of 118 E.
, Gold street, tried the modern me
| thod of growing vegetables, via
(liquid fertilizer and bushel bas
kets.
His shavings garden of “Big
Boy” tomatoes, are just that.
Planted the latter part of April,
the young plants have now attain
ed a height of 14 inches and a
; good number of blossoms.
Mr. Pryor says that his plants
I are open for inspection, so that
j people may see what can be done
with a tomato seed, a bushel bas
! ket, a gallon of water and a few
J tablespoons of fertilizer.
Incurable Multiple Sclerosis
Disease Hit Houser Years Ago
By MARTIN HARMON
“I sleep well. I feel as good as
I ever did, but I just can’t get a
bout,” says William F. (Billy)
Houser, 45, for the past 14 years
| a multiple sclerosis patient.
I Multiple sclerosis, medical
| name for hardening of the nerv
i es, claims some 300 victims in the
: Piedmont area of North Carolina.
{It is currently receiving state
wide attention for the first time,
as business and civic leaders are j
j conducting a fund-raising cam-:
I paign to obtain funds to determine
i causes and treatment of the dis-:
j ease.
j “Nobody knows much about it,”
i Mr. Houser says.
He guesses he had symptoms
I of the disease at least three years
before his trouble was diagnosed
which occurred at Baptist Hospi
tal, Winston-Salem, after Mr. Hou
ser had been to a number of med
ical men here and elsewhere with
varying diagnoses and treatments.
He credits Dr. W. L. Ramseur for
sending him to Winston-Salem.
Dr. Ramseur had reported him
self “not satisfied” with prior di
agnoses nor with treatment re
■ suits.
Mr. Houser says the disease ef
fects parts of the body most dis
tant from the heart. He must hold
to some object for balance, but
has no difficulty driving an auto
mobile. Last year, he was able to
renew his driver's license, after
undergoing the same close-tn
spection tests to which the exam
iner’s subject beginning drivers.
At a recent meeting of multiple
sclerosis patients in Charlotte, Mr.
Houser was the only victim pres
ent who was still licensed to drive.
The steering wheel, he says, pro-!
vides the balance support.
It is his personal theory that
movement prevents or slows de
terioration. He comments, “Exer
cise has proved better for me than
just siting around.’’
Mrs. Houser, a former nurse,
says the disease is regarded as a
debilitator rather than a killer.
The only medicine Mr. Houser
currently takes is nicotinic acid,
which speeds heart action and
thereby improves circulation.
Mr. Houser had high praise for
O. Max Gardner, Jr., another
Cleveland County victim of mul
tiple sclerosis. He said Mr. Gard
ner had done much in bringing
attention of medical men and
others to the problem of a dis
ease pronounced “incurable".
"We victims are hopeful that
enough funds will be raised to
make research into causes and
methods of treatment success
ful." he added.
Persons wishing to make con
tributions should mail them to
Mrs. O. Max Gardner, Jr., Shelby,
N. C.
The Housers live at 208 E.
Parker street. A daughter, Miss
Sara Elizabeth Houser, is a stu
dent at Wake Forest college.
CANDIDATE — Earnest A. Gard
ner is one of three candidates for
the Democratic nomination for
the House of Representatives. He
opposes George Thomasson. of
Kings Mountain, and Jack Pal
mer, Jr„ Shelby.
Budget Requests
Record 8655,000
Departmental requests, if hon
ored in full, would result in a rec
ord $655,144 city 'budget for the
forthcoming fiscal year, City
Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., report
ed to the board of commissioners
at last Thursday’s meeting.
Ben H. Bridges, mayor pro
tempore, who presided at the ses
sion, invited the report as infor
mation.
Mr. Bridges also noted that the
board would have to consider in
its budget deliberations possible
revision of the privilege license
schedule, paring of the commerci
SURPLUS EXPECTED
The city will have a surplus
in all categories during the
current fiscal year, present fig
ures indicate, City Clerk Joe
McDaniel told the board of
commissioners last week. He
based his estimates on the city ;
financial report at the end of
ten months of operation April
30. Appropriations will be un
derspent and receipts will be
over the amount anticipated,”
Mr. McDaniel commented.
al power rate, an/) request of the
recreation commission for park
ing meter receipts.
Mr. McDaniel explained that
one department, debt service, is
fixed at $51,265 for the coming
fiscal year, with $30,000 to defray
city bonds and the remainder as
interest.
He said department heads had
asked for a total of $140,000 in
capital outlay expenditures. A
mong the items: the fire depart
ment asked a new truck at an es
timated cost of $18,000; the ad
ministrative department asks a
calculator and adding machine;
the electrical department asks a
system survey to cost $1200; the
water department would spend
$4500 for fluoridation, another
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Six Major Races
To Be Decided
By Democrats
Candidates were stirring this
week, with voting day in the bi
ennial Democratic primary only
ten days away.
A common comment among all
of them was, "You can’t see ’em
all.”
But each candidate was doing
his quick-moving best to do the
impossible anyway.
In Kings Mountain this week
were Mrs. Lillian E. Newton,
seeking renomination as county
treasurer, John D. White, of
Lawndale, seeking renomination
as courny commissioner from
District IV, and J. Broadus Ellis,
Grover neighbor, who opposes
Carl P. Finger, incumbent, and
A. A. Barrett for the District V
commissioner nomination.
There was a quickening tone of
interest among the voters, too, as
politics appeared to gain as a
conversation piece, over such
more regular-fare items as the
weather, favorite television shows,
and major league baseball.
A lack-luster registration sea
son ended last Saturday, with ma
jority of registrars reporting no
great influx of new registrants.
However, a great rush' had not
been anticipated, since no new
registration was ordered.
Major interest in Kings Moun
tain attends the Barrett-Ellis
Finger contest.
Mrs. Newton is opposed by
John C. Anderson, Shelby citizen
and advertising salesman for
Radio Station WKMT Kings
Mountain. Mr. White is opposed
by William A Hastings.
Another three-way contest in
volving a Kings Mountain can
didate pits George Thomasson,
Kings Mountain lawyer, against
Jack Palmer, Jr., and Ernest A.
Gardner for the House of Repre
sentatives nomination. Palmer is
a Shelby mortician, Gardner a
three-time representative and
Shelby attorney.
Other county commission con
tests arc:
District I—Mai A. Spangler, Sr.,
vs. Tilden Queen.
District V — Knox Sarratt vs.
Kester Hamrick.
Spangler and Sarratt are in
cumbents.
In Number 4 Township, Rich
ard E. Ware is challenging Vet
eran Constable C. A. (Gus) Huff
stetler, in a purely local matter
involving voters of four pre
cincts, East Kings Mountain,
West Kings Mountain, Grover
and Bethware.
Kid Pet Show
Has 77 Entries
Some 77 youngsters of the com
munity exhibited their pets in the
annual children’s pet show Wed
nesday of the Junior Woman’s
club. '
Prizes, awarded via a drawing,
went to 24 children and exhibits
included cats, dogs, birds, rab
bits, fish, and a horse, the latter
exhibited by Sarah Frances Mau
ney.
Youngsters who received prizes
donated by merchants of the com
munity were Linda Mauney, Bil
ly Patterson, Libby Trott, Flip
Jackson, Brenda Huffstetler, Ho
ward Weiss, Sarah Frances Mau
ney, Tommy Wells, Larry Logan,
Corky Fulton, Ruth Clippard,
Charles McLarty, Diane Holli
field, Martha Weiss, Mike McEl
roy, Brenda Crawford, Linda
Plonk, Carolyn Alexander, Sara
Beth Simpson, Myra Mauney,
Kenny Steffy, Jimmy Mauney,
Sherry McDaniel, and Charles
Ramsey, Jr.
Miss Margaret Goforth was
general chairman of the show'.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges served as
master of ceremonies for the pet
shk>w sponsored annually by the
women’s organization.
A, large crowd of youngsters
and adults attended.
Suber Loses Toe
To Power Mower
Sam Suber, veteran city cem
etery superintendent, lost a toe
Monday afternoon in an acci
dent at his Piedmont avenue
home.
Mr. Suber was mowing the
lawn, and was endeavoring to
stop the machine when it rolled
over his left foot, decapitating
a tpe. Ho'spitaJized, Mr. Suber
expects to be discharged Thurs
day.