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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. i O Pages fO Today VOL 69 No. 23 Established 1889 Sixty-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Finger Leads; Ellis Weighs Run-Off Decision Local News Bulletins DEMOLAY MEETING Kings Mountain chapter of DeMolay will meet Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at Masonic Lodge. Election of officers will be held. All Master Masons are cordially invited to attend. BIBLE SCHOOL Vacation Church School will open at First Presbyterian chur ch Monday at 8:30 a. m. with classes to be held through June 20th. Theme of the school is “Jesus Christ’’ and songs, games, and projects will relate to the theme. Commencement has been set for Sunday morn ning, June 22. ASSUMING DUTIES Rev. Harry Petersen, recent graduate of Columbia Semi nary in Decatur, Ga., is as suming duties Sunday as sum mer assistant pastor to Rev. P. D. Patrick at First Presbyterian church. Mr. Petersen was the assistant minister here last summer at the Presbyterian church. BAPTIST SCHEDULE Schedule for summer services at First Baptist church begins on Sunday, with Sunday School to 'he held at 9 a. m. and the morning worship to follow at 10:15 a. m. The schedule will be in effect throughout the sum mer. CHURCH WOMEN United Churchwomen will hear Mrs. B. Frank Hall, State president of United Churcl'Avom en, at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church next Wednesday after noon at 3:30 p. m. The public is being invited to the program. KIWANIS CLUB Winners in the recent city wide talent show sponsored by the Kiwanis club will perform for the Kiwanlans at the Thurs day night meeting at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. The win ners and their parents will be special guests. AT LITTLE CREEK Grady Howard, manager of Kings Mountain hospital, is at little Creek, Va., for two weeks of active duty. Mr. Howard is a Marine Corps Reserve offic er. TO CONVENTION Postmaster and Mrs. Charles Alexander went to Winston-Sa lem Wednesday where they are attending the annual conven tion of the North Carolina Post masters association. They will return on Friday. LEGION MEETING Regular June meeting of the Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, will be held Fri day night at 8 o’clock at the Legion Building. Officers will be installed for the coming year by Department Com mander Dud Robbins. Steppe, Machine In Hell Driver Act Ken Steppe, city employee, did a hair-raising driving job Tuesday afternoon with little damage to himself or vehicle. Steppe was chauffering the city’s six-ton paving-packer toward the city garage, ap proaching from the north on City street. Ken’s version of events are that the gear shift accidental ly jumped out into neutral at the crest of the City street hill and the heavy paving-packer started “Cadillacing”. Driver Steppe stood on the brakes but they were defective and insuf ficient to hold the heavy ma chine on the down grade. An accident appeared imminent, but Ken maneuvered the ma chine around the several parked autos, swirled into the gate, then abandoned ship. The machine hit the garage gate, slowing its speed, then crashed into the wall of the garage. Damage to property: a bent gate and a crashed window. Damage to Driver Steppe: a sore back. Did he land on his feet ? No, Ken acknowledged, he landed aft. PRESENTED GIFT — Pictured above, B. N. Barnes, city schools superintendent, presents an inscribed silver bowl to Miss Marjorie Hord on behalf of West Elementary P-TA as I. Ben Goforth, Jr„ West school principal looks on. Miss Hord is retiring after 32 years' service as first grade teacher at the schbol. Originally from a farm near Shelby, she is the oldest of the 11 children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe S. -, Hord. She started her teaching career in 1911. her first school being in Waco. She taught at Cliffside and Mt. Holly, then came to Kings Mountain where she has spent the past 32 years teaching at West school. She is holding a bouquet of a dozen roses, presented by her class. Mr. Goforth, her last principal, started school with "Miss Margie'^ as his first grade teacher. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Record 104 Seniors Receive Diplomas; Awards Listed Sue lean Wright Is Top Scholar For Past Year Twenty-one high school stu dents were presented awards at the Awards Day ceremonies at Central school Monday, June 2, rounding out a year of scholastic achievement. Sue Jean Wright was present ed the coveted Plonk Scholarship medal, while Pauline Page was the recipient of the D. A. R. Cit izenship award and the Kiwanis Citizenship award. The Danforth award was pre sented to Pauline Page, Stephen Kesler and James Pressly while National Merit Scholarship Corp oration finalists were noted to be Sherry Kelly and Stephen Kesler. Certificates of Commen dation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation were presented Linda Biser and James Pressly. Foete Mineral Scholarships were awarded to Buddy Connor, Jerry Wilson, and Dale Gilliland. The Baush & Lomb Honorary Science award was received by Stephen Kesler and the First Na tional Bank Spelling medal by Donald Champion. Recipient of the Jaycee Read ing Medal was Jean Hicks while Richard McDaniel was awarded the National Math Exam medal. Donald Gladden was presented the Davis Declamation Medal (Continued on Page Eight) ELECTED — Hunter Warlick, Kings Mountain student at Duke Law School, has been elected secretary of the Duke Bar Assoc iation, student governing body of Duke Law School, and Delta The. ta Phi legal fraternity. Mr. War lick, a first year law student, was also elected to the board of governors of the bar association at the university. He is the son of Mrs. C. E. Warlick. CITY BOARD Regular June meeting of the city board of commissioners will be held Wednesday, June 11, at 8 o’clock at City Hall courtroom. Mayor Glee A. Brid ges reported a light agenda. Seventh Graders Get It Straight On Definition of "Well-Dressed" By ANNE HARMON “The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face.” This was the advice of Mrs. O. W. Myers, given to a group of 12 and 13 year-old girls from Mrs. R. S. Lennon’s seventh grade class at West School Monday. Mrs. Myers, herself the epi tome of charm in an immaculate ly tailored yellow dress, talked on clothes and manners to the girls who, she said, looked too appro priately attired to need her ad vice. “To be well-dressed, be well groomed, well-poised and avoid extremes in make-up and cloth es.” Worse fault Mrs. Myers has ob served in the too-tight skirt and sheath. Alos wrong for school is the too-bouffant skirt. “Save all those petticoats for your parties,” she advised. “And don't try to grow up over night. Enjoy your pre-teens and don’t imitate older girls. What looks good on the so-called gla mour girl wears may look ridic ulous on you.” Manufacturers now put on the market a variety of pre-teen lines, and girls in the in-between ages have more variety of choice than in the past. ‘‘When I was a girl, all I re member wearing was skirts and middy bouses.” (A very up-to date style, at that.) Mother knows best. In her shop, Mrs. Myers said she has seen violent arguments between I pother and daughter on the sub- j ject of taste. “And usually, Mrs. Myers said, “Mother is right. No one loves you more or cares more that you look well than your Mother. Listen to her.” Another family problem often occurs when daughter insists on buying clothes she can’t afford. “Any dress—even a $3.95 one, ! can look like a milion if proper ly worn. If you can’t have a new dress, have the one you own cleaned, wear a new flower, wash your hair, hold up your shoulders. It’s the way you wear your clothes that counts.” (Continued on Page Eight J Overflow Crowd Attends 1958 Graduation Event Kings Mountain high school pre sented diplomas to 104 seniors Monday night. It was a record sized graduation class and first time in history Kings Mountain high school has ever graduated a class of at least 100 members. The high school auditorium was filled to more than capacity with many standees. Members of the senior class were in charge of the exercises, with students speaking on the general theme “Faith in Tomor row”. The senior speakers and their subjec+s were Norma Ham rick “Through Education”; Steph en Kesler, “Through Science”; Pauline Page “Through Social I deals”; Linda Biser “Through Re ligion"; and Jean Hicks “Faith in the People”. Kay McCarter gave an invo cation and Jane Gilbert gave an address of welcome. Kenneth Baity, president, pre sented the senior class gift to the school, a check for $226 to be ap plied to tHe purchase of an activ ity bus. Principal Lawson Brown pre sented diplomas and James Press ly said the benediction. The senior class octet sang Morgan’s “Ours Is The World”. Other class officers were An thony Goins, vice-president, and Bill Herndon, secretary. Treasur (Continued on Page Eight) Methodists To Conference Majority of Methodist church es in this area will not have morning worship services Sunday as pastors attend the annual Western North Carolina confer ence at Lake Junaluska. Rev. James B. McLarty, com leting his third year at Central Methodist church, and John C. Smathers, lay delegate, will rep resent this church at the confer ence. Rev. W. C. Sides, Jr.., pastor, and Mrs. J. E. Mauney, delegate, will represent Grace Methodist church. J. E. Mauno' is alternate delegate. Rev. M>- ' ies is com pleting his four*1' year in the Grace charge, b>> said he antici pated returning there for a fifth year. Rev. Frank Blalock, pastor, and Pete Heavner, lay delegate, will represent El Bethel Methodist church. Mr. Blalock is completing his second year at El Bethel. The conference will continue through Sunday. Monday Second Race D-Day; Incumbents Won Nomination Huffstetler Retains No. 4 Constable Post Incumbents fared well in Satur day’s Democratic primary voting, all of those holding county-wide offices leading for re-nomination. Five of the six won, and Carl P. Finger, Kings Mountain business man, was a 149-vote leader in the three-man race for the District n county commission nomination. Four of the incumbents had easy sailing, but Knox Sarratt, county commission vice-chairman, had to come from behind through heavy support at Shelby No. 2 precinct to overtake and defeat Kester Hamrick for the District V nomination. Balloting was light, with only about 6,000 persons going to the polls. In Number 4 Township, Constable Gus Huffstetler had easy sailing in defeating Richard E. Ware. The official canvas on Tuesday revealed these final totals, Elec tions Board Chairman Joe Mull reported: For District II Commissioner: Carl P. Finger 2428, J.. Broadus Ellis 2279, Alvin A. Barrett 919. For House of Representatives Jack Palmer, Jr., 3927, George B. Thomasson 1193, Ernest A. Gard ner 762. For District I Copimissioner: M. A. Spangler, Sr., 4059, Tilden Queen 1652. For District IV Commissioner: John D. .White 4205, William Hastings 1273. For District V .Commissioner: Knox Sarratt 2863, Kester Ham rick 2734. For Treasurer: Mrs. Lillian E. Newton 4331, John C. Anderson 1555. For Number 4 Township Consta ble: , C. A. (Gus) Huffstetler 981, Rich ard E. Ware. 292. Union Services To Start Sunday Dr. Warner Hall, pastor of Charlotte’s Covenant Presbyteri an church, will speak at the union service Sunday evening at 8 p. m. at First Presbyterian church. Summer schedule of union serv ices for five city church congre gations is beginning, with other participating churches to invite visiting ministers from their de nominations to speak during the series. Dr. Hall, described by Rev. P. D. Patrick, Presbyterian minister, as one of the outstanding men in the Christian world, has serv ed on numerous denominational and inter-denominational commit tees. He is a graduate of South western University in Memphis, Louisville Seminary, and has com pleted post-graduate work at Ed inburg University, Scotland. He has served pastorates in Missis sippi, Kentucky, and Alabama, and under his leadership the Cove nant congregation has erected one of the most beautiful and commodiest church plants in A rnerica. Special music will also be a feature of the union serives. Of ferings will be received at each service to defray expenses, spokes men of the Ministerial association said. Participating congregations in the summer schedule of services include, in addition to the Presby terian church, St. Matthew's and Resurrection Lutheran churches, Central Methodist, ind Boyce Me morial ARP churches. Merchants Outing Set For lune 18 Members of the Kings Moun tain Merchants association will hold their annual employer employee summer picnic at Bethany ARP church June 18, according to announcement by Richard Bar ett, nresident. Price of dinner tickets will be $1.50. Dinner will be prepared by women of the church. CARL FINGER BROADUS ELLIS Conference Group Mamed By Baptists ,*%si AMP RENOMINATED — Gus Huffstet ler, candidate lor No. 4 Township constable, was renominated in Saturday's Democratic Primary election by an overwhelming majority. Accident At Well Hospitalizes Two Two men were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after an ac cident while digging a well in the Oak Grove community. The in jured were David Gibbons and Louis Philbeck. Reports indicated Gibbons, while heing pulled up fell about 40 feet into the well.. Philbeck went in to rescue. Then, on com ing up himself, Philbeck fell. Keever Hamrick rescued P h i 1 beck. . Members Ask Six-Man Group To Make Report A conference committee is be ing named to iron out differences between warring factions of First Baptist church. The church members voted last week (May 28) to name the conference committee, to include three members from the majority group, which wants to build a new church on a new site, and three members fiom the dissi dent group, which wants to maintain the present church structure. The joint committee is instruc ted to confer with attorneys for both groups and to return to the church a report. The church would then vote to accept or re ject the report. This action is the first joint one indicative of a possibility of compromise. The strife came in to the open immediately preced ing the following last October’s 235-163 church vote to accept a new site for building of a new church within five years. Subsequently, the dissident group filed suit in Cleveland Superior Court to abrogate the vote. After a hearing in which the majority group failed to have granted a motion for dismissal, the suit remains docketed for trial but has not been calendar ed. The dissident group met Tues day night and named Harold Crawford, Glee A. Bridges, and W. T. Weir as representatives, (Continued on Page Eight) Kings Monutain National Guard Oil Sunday For Two-Week Training Seventy-three National Guards men, under command of Capt. Humes Houston, will leave the Kings Mountain armory Sunday morning at 5:10 for Fort Bragg, where they will join over 9,600 members of North Carolina’s his toric 30th infantry division for 15 days of active field training. This will be the fourth encamp ment at Ft. Bragg for the Old Hickory Division since it was reorganized in October, 1954, as an all-North Carolina unit. The first week of the encamp ment includes unit exercises for the infantry companies and range firing for the field artillery and AAA batteries, Hq Hq Co will be gin training early Monday morn ing. Climax of the first week win be the colorful 30th Infantry Di vision Review Saturday morning, June 14, when he Tar Heel Na tional Guardsmen march past for Governor Luther H. Hodges, their commander-in-chief. Following a day and a half of rest, the Guardsmen move to the vast west ranges of the Ft. Bragg reservation for four days of ma neuvers. The Guardsmen will return to the RTC cantonment area Friday, June 20, to clean and pack arms and equipment. Pay call sounds Friday after noon, and after resting through Saturday, the Guardsmen will re turn home Sunday, June 22. Kings Mountain’s unit, official ly known as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Bat talion, 120th Infantry' Regiment, has been innoeulated against ty phoid and tetanus infection by’ Dr. P. G. Padgett. Kings Mountain business firms and industries Were praised this week by Capt. Houston for theirj cooperation in permitting Nation al Guardsmen in their employ to undergo ttte 15-day tour of active duty. . Among these firms are Mass achusetts Mohair Plush Com pany, Mauney Mills. Lithium Cor poration of America, Craftspunj Yams, Inc., and Herald Publish ing House. Finger Compiles 149-Vote Lead For Commission J. .Broadus Ellis was still in communicado Wednesday after noon concerning his decision on calling a run-off for the District II county commission nomination. Mr. Ellis trailed Carl P. Finger hy 149 votes in last Saturday’s Democratic primary, while A. A. Barrett picked up 91.9. Mr. Finger, the incumbent, failed to attain a majority by 385 votes. Mr. Ellis indicated before the polls closed he felt the second runner, in absence of a majority, shouldn’t ask a second race, bar ring a second race in the three man House of Representatives contest. However, Mr. Ellis was quoted by the Shelby Star on Monday as saying he hadn’t yet made a decision, awaiting a close analysis of the election returns. Mr. Ellis was not availabble by telephone in either his Grover office or residence Tuesday nor Wednesday morning and Mrs. El lis said she had no idea what her husband’s decision would be. The Grover citizen has until Monday to file notice he wants a second primary. It would be con ducted on June 28. One other race, for constable of Shelby township, was not set tled. Incumbent Joe Moore topped a field of five candidates handily, but failed to attain a majority over C. E. Fisher, his nearest competitor. There was no clear indication Wednesday whether Candidate Fisher would ask a second race. Mr. Finger said Wednesday he was highly pleased at the support he received in Kings Mountain and, with exception of Grover, throughtout the county. He said he was “still running" on as sumption Mr. Ellis would exer cise his right to call for a second primary. Both Mr. Finger and Mr. Ellis were accorded heavy support from their home precincts. Grov er racked 393 votes for Ellis and goose-egged Finger. Candidate Barrett tallied three votes. Kings Mountain precincts weren’t as u nanimous for Finger, but more than made up the Grover margin for Ellis. The combined totals for East and West Kings Moun tain precincts were: Finger 626; Ellis 163; Barrett 29. It was a clean majority for Finger of 434 votes. Mr. Ellis is a longtime Grover citizen and long active in Demo cratic party councils. He has man aged the Grover precinct for 35 years. A Grover businessman, he is a veteran of World War I. Mr. Finger is a Kings Moun tain native and laundryman. He is a veteran of World War II. He succeeded the late Hazel B. Bumgardner as a member of the county commission. Primary Election SIDELIGHTS Kings Mountain citizens voted lightly, if orderly, in last Satur day’s election. About the only persons steamed over the elec tion were the candidates them selves. Only 800-plus persons went to the polls, which means Kings- Mountain will have to doff its hat to Grover, where 396 citizens cast ballots in the District II commissioner race, e-s Carl Finger, the Kings Moun tain laundryman, was being teased about his whitewashing at Grover. The teaser, “Broad Ellis had three political enemies at Grover, it appears, and Mr. Barrett found out who they were while you didn’t.” It turn ed out. so the reports go, that Mr. Ellis did not necessarily have three political enemies but that three Grover residents had been employed as drivers for Barrett. 0'S The counting job ran a little slowly for a short ticket. Fing er, who had trailed in early re fContinued on Page Eight)
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