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1 ► 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. VOL 69 No. 22 Kings Mountain's Reliable iievy .pt.jjer Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 29, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year Democrats To Cast Votes In Saturday Primary Local News Bulletins CHURCH SERVICES Summer schedule of church services at Resurrection Luther an church will begin Sunday morning, with the morning wor ship service to begin at 9:15 a. m., Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor, has announced. The schedule will continue through the month of August. LUTHERANS Sunday. School at St. Matt hew’s Lutheran church will be held during the summer months at 9:15 a. m. each Sunday, the morning worship service to fol low at ’la. m., Dr. W. P. Ger berding, pastor, has announced. The schedule will be effective Sunday. BUILDING PERMIT j City Inspector J. W. Webster issued a permit last Thursday to Haywood E. Lynch to build a one-story %-ame residence on Stowe Acres between Blanton and Second streets at an esti mated cost of $3000. BAND CONCERT The Kings Mountain high school band will play an out door concert in front of Cen tral school Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. There will be no ad mission charge. AUTO BLAZE City firemen reported extin guishing a muffler fire in an automobile at Kings Mountain Hospital last Saturday night at 11:30. The fire was caused when a rag, crammed into a hole in the muffler, ignited. No damage was reported. HOSPITAL GIFT Garden clubs in Kings Moun tain have collaborated with the Kings Mountain Hospital Aux iliary ia sponsoring and finan cing the project of planting 15 sycamore trees at the local hos pital, Business Manager Grady Howard reported. Phillips Joins Stowe At Belmont Harold Phillips, superintendent of Craftspun Yams, Inc., has join ed Stowe Spinning Company, Bel mont, as superintendent. Mr. Phillips began his new du ties Monday and was succeeded as superintendent at Craftspun by Norman Roper, veteran over seer under both its present own ership and under its predecessor owner, Textiles, Inc., it was an nounced by Carl H. Swan, presi dent. Mr. Phillips is a former city commissioner, representing Ward 4 from 1953-55. Jobless Pay Claim At Peak Here In May Unemployed Kings Mountain citizens filed claims for 3075 weeks of unemployment compen sation during the month ending last Friday. The figure is a rec ord for the past five years, top ping the 2800 filed in January 1954, Employment Service Mana ger Franklin L. Ware, Jr., said Wednesday. The average number of claims per week was 769 for the four week period. At month’s end, the Kings Mountain office listed 682 persons actually seeking work, a figure likely to increase considerably this week as some 150 jobless pay applicants currently listed as par-i tially laid off, become “total”. During the month, a total of 122 persons applied for work through the employment office. ! Only 29 job orders were recei ved, with 23 of them being filled. I Irvin Allen Is Improving Irvin M. Allen, Kings Mountain motel man and long time resident, was reported 'Wednesday after noon to be showing much impro vement in his condition as he convalesces at Kings Mountain Hospital. Mr. Allen suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday, May 18, and has been hospitalized since. He is a former sheriff of Cleve land county and a former county commissioner. Relatives reported that he can now have visitors. Walker loining Plonk Brothers Paul W. Walker, veteran sales man and assistant manager of Myers’ Department Store, will join Plonk Brothers & Company on Monday. The Myers’ firm is in process of liquidation. It was also announced that W. L. Plonk, operating manager of Plonk Brothers since January 1, is resigning effective Saturday. Mr. Plonk was managing partner of Plonk Brothers & Company prior to its sale to the J. O. Plonk family as of December 31. Welfare Branch May Open July 1 A branch office of the Cleve land County Welfare depart ment is expected to open here about July 1. Welfare Superintendent Jack Hoyle said Wednesday efforts are being made to open by that date, with two case workers and and a stenographer assigned to the office. He said a Kings Mountain area citizen will be employed as stenographer. Ap plications are now being pro cessed. Kiwanis Club To Hold Ladies Fete Thursday; Harding Is Entertainer ENTERTAINER — Edmund H. Harding, Washington, N. C., humorist, will be featured speak er at the annual ladies night banquet of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday. INTANGIBLES TAX The city received this week an $866.0i check from the state treasurer representing third quarter share of the state in tangibles tax, City Clerk Joe McDaniel reported. Edmund H. Harding, profess ional after-dinner speaker and Washington, N. C., citizen, will ! address the. Kings Mountain Ki wanians, their wives and guest? ; at the annual ladies night ban quet to be held Thursday nigh at the Woman’s Club at 7 o' clock. Mr. Harding, among the na tion’s top after-dinner speakers, is an entertainer of national note, having spoken for civic clubs and other groups in vir tually all of the United States He was a onetime employee for a mule dealer, later became a fertilizer salesman, had to devote full-time to making speeches when'the demand interfered with his selling duties. Dr. Phillip G. Padgett will ser ve as master of ceremonies and Dr. W. P. Gerberding will say an invocation. Rev. James B. Mc j Larty will welcome the ladies j and Mrs. J. C. Bridges will re I spond. President John Cheshire \ will present Mr. Harding. Miss Mary Alice McDaniel will 1 play dinner music. Honor guests will include wi dows of former club members. Members of the ladies night committee are George H. Maun ey, chairman, W. G. Grantham, J. T. Nance, J. L. McGill. J. C. Bridges and James Herndon. Over 100 Seniors To Get Diplomas Fritz To Deliver Sermon; Monday Is Diploma Night Kings Mountain high school's commencement exercises fora class of 10-1 students will begin on Sunday evening with the bac calaureate sermon and conclude on Monday evening'with gradua tion exercises. Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, will preach the baccalaureate ser mon Sunday evening, and on Mon day evening five members of the graduating class will bo the com mencement speakers. Both pro grams will be held at the high school auditorium and will begin at 8 p. m. Rev. W. C. Sides, pastor of Grace Methodist church, will off er the invocation, Dr. W. P. Ger berding, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, will conduct the scripture reading, and Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memo rial ARP church, will pronounce the benediction at the Sunday evening service. The mixed chorus will sing “Children of the Heaven ly Father”, Swedish folk hymn, and the audience will sing “Fair est Lord Jesus.” City Schools Supt. B. N. Barnes will present the speaker. Participating on the student program Monday night will be Norma Hamrick, Stephen Kesler, Pauline Page, Linda Biser, and Jean Hicks. Kay McCarter will give the invocation, Jane Byars Gilbert will make the ad dress of welcome, Kenneth Baity will present the class gift, and special music will be rendered by a senior octet, “Ours is the World." Central Principal Lawson Brown will award the diplomas. Class mascots are Dwight Dix on and Karla Smith, the class colors are red and white, the class flower is a red rose, and the class motto, “Look to the future and forget the past.” Officers of the Class of 1958 are Kenneth Baity, president; Tony Goins, vice-president; Bill Herndon, secretary, and Linda Biser, Ann Falls, Jane Gilbert, and Guy Anne Hullender, treasur ers. The sponsors are Mrs. Carol Finger, Miss Helen Logan, Miss Janet Scoggins, and Mrs. Jose phine E. Weir. TO NEW BERN Miss Jerry Lea McCarter, a graduate o f Kings Mountain high school and Mercy Hospital School of Technology is an em ployee of Bastern Carolina Hos pital in New Bern, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Grady McCarter of E. King street are the parents of Miss McCarter. s> Jaycee Paper Drive Set For Sunday Kings Mountain Jaycees will conduct a scrap paper drive on Sunday, Jaycee spokesmen have announced. The paper collection will be held during the afternoon from 2 until 5 o’clock, and citizens of the community are urged to notify the Jaycees or to deposit the paper, as customary, outside their residences. “We urge citizens who may not have their bundles ready to notify Jaycee members when they desire their paper picked up”, a spokesman continued. Temple Baptist Pastor Resigns Rev. H. G. McElroy, pastor of Temple Baptist church, resigned his pastorate Sunday night, the resignation to take effect July 1. Mr. McElroy told his members he had accepted a call to become pastor of Mt. Beulah Baptist church, Wadesboro. The minister completed four years as Temple pastor this month, having come to Kings Mountain from Mull’s Chapel church, Shelby. The Wadesboro church is a 400-member church. Temple has approximately 300 members. Mr. McElroy was educated at Gardner-Webb and Limestone colleges. Mrs. McElroy is the former Mildred Humphries. They have four children, Mike, Bobby, Gail and Teresa McElroy. Summer School Plans Announced Summer instruction in numer ous high school subjects will again be available at Kings Mountain high school, City Schools Supt. B. N, Barnes has announced. Mr. Barnes said English, Biology, History, and other subjects, as needed, will be taught. Instruction will also be available in piano and band. If there is sufficient demand, make-up work will also be of fered in the elementary grades. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Barnes, Cen tral Principal Lawson Brown, Charles Ballance, bandmaster, and Mrs. Musa Marto, piano teacher. Lions Sponsor Bloodtnobile Monday Visit The Red Cross Bloodmobile will return to Kings Mountain Mon day for a one-day visit, with the I goal of the visit a minimum of 1150 pints of blood. The visit is being co-sponsored by the Kings Mountain Lions club. Rev. Douglas Fritz, Red Cross blood recruitment chair man said. The Bloodmobile will be in op eration at the Woman’s Club from II a. m. to 5 p. m. “We. are hopeful,” Mr. Fritz said, "that we can compile a col lection as good as the last visit, when the quota of 150 pints'was heavily exceeded. The demand for blood and blood derivatives con tinues heavy and its is impera tive that the area blood bank havej good inventories of all types of blood. This blood inventory helps save many lives, almost daily.” ; Spears Wins Assistantship Kenneth Sherrill Spears, senior at Western Carolina college, has been awarded an assistantship in dramatics at the University o£ Ohio for next school year. While studying for the master’s degree in dramatics, he will teach two classes in the fundamentals of speech. The 'award is based on his scho lastic record at WCC, his out standing performance in the Little Theatre, and his personality and character traits. Spear’s dramatic achievements date back to his high school days, when hie received the best actor’s award in the Kings Mountain high school senior play in 1954. At WCC he has served as presi dent of the Student English Semi nar, the Baptist Student Union, and the campus chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, national honorary scholastic fraternity. He is a past president of tWe Little Theatre, director for a district drama fes ival, and Chairman of the Little Theatre Board. In addition, he has written several creative works which were published in the coll ege newspaper. Spears is now completing his student teaching at Gastonia high school, and will receive the bach elor of science degree with a major -in English at the June Commen ceme nt. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Spears of Route 2. CHURCHWOMEN Mrs. Frank Hall of Wrights ville Beach, president of U nited Churchwomen of North Carolina, will be the speaker June 11th at a program plan ned at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church at 3:30 p. m. EL BETHEL HOMECOMING SUNDAY—Home coming Day will be observed by members of El Bethel Methodist church on Sunday. Rev. Frank E. Blalock, pastor, will deliver the mor ning message at 11 a. m. alter the Sunday School program which begins at 10 a. m. Pic nic dinner will be spread at 12:30 after which a program of singing featuring visiting quo tets will be held. El Bethel, one of the coun ty's oldest churches, was organized in 1812. The first log church is situated behind the present brick edifice constructed in 1912. El Bethel, be ginning as a church on the She’.by circuit, was subsequently added to the Concord, Mary's Grove and Penley’s Chapel charge and in 1353 declared a station church. m ^ ti KINGS MOUNTAIN MAN STAR'S "BOSS" — Sgt. Glenn A. Barrett, Kings Mountain native, is pictured above at Fort Hood, Tex., with his new "employee" Pvt. Elvis Presley, stage, television, and movie rock-and-roll star prior to his being drafted by the army. Presley was assigned to Sgt. Barrett's armored division unit at Fort Hood, Elvis Presley In Barrett Unit Kings Mountain Sergeant "Boss” To Singing Star A grandmother visited the Her ald last week in a condition somewhat akin to excitement. Could the Herald help her? E veryone was bothering her to death to see picture her army sergeant son had sent her. Would the Herald publish it? The Her ald could and would and there would be no engraving charge. The photo subject: Sgt. Glenn A. Barrett, of Kings Mountain, with a recently added new “em ployee” Elvis Pressly, rock-and roll singing star extraordinaire and currently an army private at Fort Hood, Tex. Elvis, modern-age successor to Frank Sinatra as the darling of the bobby sox set, was assigned to Barrett’s group with the sec ond armored division at Fort Hood. What kind of soldier is Elvis Pressly? “Best guy and best friend any one could have,” was Sgt. Bar rent’s comment in a letter to his mother, Mrs. J. O. Vines. Mrs. Vines lives in a trailer off Pied mont avenue behind Gault's Store. Twice a widow, Mrs. Vines is a native of White Plains, S. C., but has lived much of her life here. Sgt. Barrett is a son by her first marriage. The Kings Mountain army ser geant, a “pro”, wilf be eligible for retirement next year at the age of 39 but intends to build another ten years of duty to make his army hitch total 30 years. He has served in World War II and the Korean War and has been assigned to duty out side the United States seven tim es. He is married and has two children. Mrs. Vines says her son ex pects to visit her here soon. But nothing was said about El vis’ accompanying him. Lite-Saving Crew May Be Organized Persors interested in form ing a Kings Mountain Life Saving Crew are being invited to meet at City Hall Monday night at 7:30 p. m. Bud Ware said yesterday that several citizens have dis cussed possibility of forming a life-saving crew with the Gaston Life-Saving Crew and that the Gaston group will come to Kings Mountain next week to demonstrate their e quipment and to discuss plans for a Kings Mountain unit. Interested citizens should contact Mr. Ware or Corbett Nicholson. Bethware Finals Friday Night Dr. P. L. Elliott, president of Gardner Webb Junior college at Boiling Springs, will address the Bethware high school graduating class in commencement exercises Friday night. Diplomas are to be awarded to 27 seniors in the exercises which begin at 8 p. m. in the high school auditorium. Speaker for the baccalaureate service on Sunday evening was Rev. Norman F. Brown, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist chunch. The valedictory address will be given by Faye Woods, and Becky Falls will make the salutatory ad dress. The Girls Chorus will sing “Graduation Day” and “Prayer ful Hour." Marshals for the program will include Norma Jane Hamrick, Carolyn Lovelace, Jerry Webster, and Luther Edwards. Class mas cots are Kay Ware and Larry Randall. Members of the graduating class are Patsy Ann Bridges, Mac ie Beatrice Bridges, Magel Ar lene Dixon, Melba Rebecca Falls, <Continued On Page Ten) New Zealander Graeme Beeves, 16, Is International Exchange Student By ELIZABETH STEWART Kings Mountain’s first exchange student will be Graeme Frank Reeves, 16-year-old New Zealand lad. Young Reeves will arrive here in August to live with Dr. and Mrs. P. G. Padgett while he is completing his senior year at Kings Mountain high school, the Woman’s club, which sponsors the student exchange project, has been notified. Eldest son in a family of four, Reeves is recommended as an “excellent student” by the head master at St. Kentigem college, where he has been a student the past four years. The recipient of the flying scholarship given in March by the Air League of New Zealand, Reeves has excelled in other activities and was appoint ed last .year as “school prefect”, responsible with staff members and fellow “prefects” for disci plinary policy at the school. The headmaster said Reeves had maintained an excellent aver age scholastically, speaks French fluently, has a good command of the English language, and has re presented his school in swimming, rugby football, and cricket. He plays tennis, sails his own yacht in races held by the Glendowie Boating club, plays golf and the piano and is interested in scientif ic subjects and in mechanics of aircraft and motor cars. Frank Andrew Reeves, the boy’s father, Is a native of New Zealand. He is assistant general manager (technical) of Tasman Empire Airways and has visited the United States twice. Mrs. Ree ves is a native of England. Young Reeves will come to Kings Mountain via the American Field Service International Schol arship program and under spon sorship of the Woman’s club aid ed by various civic clubs, indivi duals, and organizations of the community. Mrs. Aubrey Mauney is chair man of the community - project committee, and other committee members are Mrs. Clyde Bridges, Miss Margaret Goforth, Mrs. Ja cob Cooper, Lawson Brown, John Cheshire, and Charles Blanton. Numerous fund - raising proj ects Wave been held with monies earmarked “student fund" and other donations are being receiv ed by the Woman’s club and may Ire forwarded to Mrs. Cooper. Voters To Settle Six County-Wide Party Contests t Cleveland County Democrats go to the polls Saturday to settle six county - wide and numerous town ship contests for nominations to public offices. In effect, the results of the pri mary voting will determine who. will hold these offices for forth coming terms, for no representa tives of the Republican or other faiths are candidates in the No vember election. Particular interest in the Kings Mountain area attends the Dis trict II race for county commis sioner, and the contest for the House of Representatives. The commissioner race is a three-way affair between Carl F. Finger , incumbent commissioner and Kings Mountain businessman, J. j Broadus Ellis, Grover business | man, and A. A. Barrett, Waco contractor - farmer. Consensus of ' opinion is that Finger and Ellis are the leading candidates. Both have conducted active campaigns. District II includes Number 4 and 5 Townships, is bounded by : Waco, Buffalo Creek, South Car olina state line and Gaston coun ! ty line. For the House of Representa tives, to succeed B. T. Falls, Jr., in a post which has been vacant a year, George B. Thomassor., Kings Mountain lawyer, opposes Jack Palmer, Jr., Shelby mortici an, and Ernest A. Gardner, Shelby lawyer and three-time former re i presen tative. These are the only two county wide contests involving three can didates and therefore possible of 1 of a run-off, should one candidate fail to attain a clear majority. Three other county commission two-man races will be determined, j In District I. Mai A. Spangler, Sr., j Shelby realtor and incumbent is I opposed by Tilden Queen, Shelby miller. In District IV, John D. White, incumbent, is opposed by William A. Hastings, of Lawndale, and in District V, Knox Sarratt, incumbent, is challenged by Kes ter Hamrick. District II citizens have town ship constable contests to settle. In Number 4 Township, Richard E. Ware challenges C. A. (Gus) Huffstetler, and in Number 5 Township L. D. Beattie locks Horns with Yates Bridges. In the other county-wide race, John C. Anderson, .advertising salesman for Kings Mountain Ra dio Station WKMT, challenges Mrs. Lillian E. Newton veteran of 26 years as county treasurer. It is the first time Mrs. Newton has been opposed for the office. Predictions on the total vote are that it will be less than nor mal. due to several factors, in cluding paucity of races, the late planting season which finds far mers busy in their fields, and lack of issues. Saturday Primary Facts Are Listed Following are thumbnail facts about Saturday’s Democratic primary election: Polls open 6 a. m. Polls close 6 p. m. Eligible voters: registered De mocrats. Voting places in Number 4 Township: four, East Kings Mountain, at City Hall court room; West Kings Mountain, at Victory Chevrolet Company; Grover, at Grover Fire Station; Bethware, at Bethware school. Number of county voting pla ces: 28. Number of ballots for town ship voters: two — one for county - wide races include four for the county commission, for the House of Representatives, and for county treasurer; town ship ballot, for township con stable. Predicted county - wide vote: 6,000. Bobo Sccepls New Position Edwin Bobo, accountant at Neisler Mills division of Massa chusetts Mohair Plush company, has resigned his position effect ive June 4. Mr. and Mrs. F>obo and daugh ters, Glenna Ann, Margaret, and Willie Faye are moving Wednes day to Winston Salem where Mr. Bobo will become assistant to the business manager at Baptist Theological Seminary of Wake Forest college. Mr.Bobo will assume his du ties at Wake Forest on June 9. The Bobos are members of Kings Mountain’s First Baptist church.
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