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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Th« figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. Sixty-Ninth Year Pages | U Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL 69 No. 23 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 12, 1958 Job Picture Here Slightly Brighter Local News Bulletins DEMOLAY Kings Mountain Chapter, Or der of DeMolay, will hold a regular meeting Thursday night at 8 p. m. at Masonic Hall. The organization meets weekly. FAMILY NIGHT Boyce Memorial ARP church congregation will hold a fa mily night picnic at the chur ch Wednesday evening at 7 p. m. The supper gathering will mark the close of the Bible School exercises at the church. COMMENCEMENT Commencement exercises for First Baptist churoh Bible school will be held on Friday night at 7:30, according to an nouncement 'by Mrs. Howard Ware. COMPLETES COURSE Miss Rachel Hamrick, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hamrick, has completed the general business course at King’s Business college, Char lotte. She has been placed with the Sample and Moore Com pany, Charlotte. Miss Hamrick, a 1957 graduate of Bethware high school, enrolled at King’s in June, 1957. KIWANIS CLUB Max Hamrick, of Shelby, county auditor, will address Kings Mountain Kiwanians at their regular Thursday night meeting. Mr. Hamrick will speak on County Government on program arranged by B. N. Barnes. The club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. BUILDING 1ERMITS City Inspector, J. W. Webster issued two building permits during the past week; one to Haywood E. Lynch to build a 5 room house on Stowe acres at an estimated cost of $4,000, and one James B. Hord to build a 6 room house at 527 Kather ine Avenue at an estimated cost of $12,000. WEIR IMPROVED Sam Weir, Kings Mountain grocer, was reported improved by members of his family. Mr. Weir is a patient in Gaston Memorial hospital, where he is receiving treatment for a back injury. AT DRUG COMPANY John L. Kennedy, of Char lotte, has joined Kings Moun tain Drug Company as regis tered apprentice. A summer employee of the firm last year, Mr. Kennedy has completed his freshman year at the Uni versity of North Carolina School of Pharmacy. EMPLOYED Miss Phyllis Henderson, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Henderson, has been employed in the offices of Davis & White attorneys. Miss Henderson . as sumed her new duties on Mon day. DEMONSTRATION Mrs. John H. Gamble, Home Economics teacher in the city schools, will give a demonstra tion on making drapes in Cen tral school Home Economics de partment Thursday night at 7 p. m. Sewing of cafe-style, straight, and pleated drapes will be included. IN CHAPEL HILL Miss Alice Averitt, city schools teaching consultant, is in Chapel Hill attending North Carolina School Week being held June 10-12 at the Univer sity of North Carolina. Miss Averitt will also participate in a reading conference sponsor ed by the Duke University summer school at the Durham school. Jobless Pay Claims Drop 150 Last Week Unemployment compensation j claims declined in Kings Moun tain last week by 160, but the total number of claims filed were j 694, Franklin L. Ware, Jr., man ! ager of the Kings Mountain branch of the state employment ; service said Wednesday. However, there were a couple : of bright spots in the employ | ment news. Lambeth Rope Corporation, | manufacturers of electrical ta pes, reported an improved tone in the trade and also resumption ! of some third-shift production. Manager Frank Burke said he regarded the improvement as a trend and hoped his firm would be able to recall even more em ployees in the near future. Another bright spot was re ported resumption of some third shift operations at Firestone Tex tiles in Gastonia. Numerous Kings Mountain area citizens are employed at Firestone, and sev eral Kings Mountain citizens, who had been laid off, have been recalled to work. Meantime, from Raleigh came an improved report covering North Carolina. “For the first time during a normal week in 1958 the num ber of continued weeks of unem ployment benefits claimed by cov ered workers in North Carolina has dropped below the 60,000 mark,” Henry E. Kendall, chair man of the N. C. Employment Security Commission said Tues day. “The current figures for the week ending June 7 show 59,543 continued weeks claimed. This is a 2.4 percent decline for the peri od. More Women Jurors Urged "What the courts need are more women jurors”, Grady Scott, 14th District Solicitor and Gastonia lawyer, told a group of Kings Mountain and Gastonia women Wednesday. Speaking before a meeting of the Kings Mountain and Gas tonia Credit Women’s Breakfast club, the solicitor pointed out that only recently have more served on jury duty in the courts and this he laughingly noted “a pet project” in Gaston and Meck lenburg counties. Developing his statement that “jurors should represent all walks of life”, Mr. Scott credited i the woman juror with being at tentive, conscientious, and of having the advantage over the juror of “new experience.” “Jury duty is good experience and he continued that “courts for anybody”, the solicitor added and law are not confined just to the breadwinner but to the lady of the household as well.” He declared that all citizens, (Continued on Page Eight) ELECTED — Eugene Roberts, Kings Mountain grocer, has been elected president of the newly organized Kings Mountain Band association. Roberts Heads Band Association Eugene Roberts has been nam ed new president of the Kings Mountain Rand association. Other officers elected at the meeting of the group fast week are: J. H. Patterson, vice-presi dent; Mrs. Tolly Shuford, secre tary; Mrs. Wanza Davis, treasur er; and Jonas Bridges and Mar tin Harmon, publicity. Committees for the Band As sociation will be established next fall. The association plans a fund drive to obtain new uniforms for the High School band in the fall. The Band Association member ship is open to any person in terested in the band program of Kings Mountain high school. Life-Saving Crew Elect? Office s Cleveland County Life Saving and First Aid Crew elected offi cers and directors at an organiza tional meeting attended by 25 men Monday night at City Hall. Elected to head the non-profit organization were Corbet Nichol son, captain; Bud Ware, first lieu tenant; K. E. (RedI Morrison, second lieutenant; E. L: Putnam, sergeant; J. W. Webster, treasur er; Delbert Dixon, secretary, and Glee A. Bridges, Pat Tignor, Mar tin Ware, Fred Plonk, Harold Hunnicutt, and Haywood Allen, directors. The crew voted to purchase a 1948 model Cadillac ambulance from Harris Funeral (Home and instructed Joe Hedden, Don Craw ford, and Bill McDaniel to pre pare a course of instructions in life saving and first aid for the members. The members are re quired to take and pass the in structions. Painting of the ambu lance is to be provided by 'Putnam Brothers Garage. Pledges totaling $160 and cash donations totaling $40 were re ceived, and other pledges should be forwarded to Mr. Webster, treasurer. COMMENCEMENT Daily Vacation Bable School commencement exercises will be held at Second Baptist chur ch Sunday night at 7:30 p. m., according to announcement by Mrs. Ila Fipps. First Baptist Conference Group To Hold First Session Thursday A conference committee rep resenting two wings of thought in First Baptist church will con fer for the first time Thursday night. The meeting is scheduled for the church office at 8 o’clock. Members of the conference committee representing the ma jority group—which favor build ing a new church on a new site— are Wray A. Williams, James E. White, and Dr. Paul Nolan. Mem bers of the committee represent ing the minority group — which iniated court action to retain the church at its present site—are j W'. T. Weir, Glee A. Bridges and Harold Crawford. This minority i group named two alternates, O. j O. Walker and F. A. (Pete) Mc Daniel, Jr. Mr. Weir said the committees would gather Thursday for initi al talks. Attorneys for neither side will be present, he added. The church authorized the con ference committee discussions recently. The joint committee is instructed to confer and to bring a report to the church. The chur ch members would have final authority on adopting, or reject ing, any report which the con ference committee might bring. Differences of opinion among church members became open immediately preceding and fol lowing last October’s church vote, when the church voted 235 163 to accept a gift site together with the stipulation that a new church be under construction within five years. The site, at the corner of W. King and Sims streets, was given by some 50 members of First Baptist church. After the voting, a suit was filed in Cleveland Superior Court seek ing to abrogate the voting on various grounds. In a prelimi nary hearing on the election, j Judge Dan K. Moore declined to '■ grant the minority group’s mo tion for dismissal. Trial of the ! civil action is still pending in Superior Court. The case has not been calendared. Sgt. Kuykendall Asks Drunk Test And Traffic Court Sgt. J. E. Kuykendall, head of the state highKvay patrol in this area, urged support of a state wide system of traffic courts and scientific tests to determine whe ther drivers are drunk as a means to cutting the state’s highway accident toll. Sgt. Kuykendall spoke to mem bers of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night. He also said some workable form of auto mechanical inspec tion would be a boon to cutting the accident toll. Referring to the short-lived in spection system of a decade ago, Sgt. Kuykendall said its poor ad ministration, with long lines oi autos and delays for motorists re suited in demise of the auto in spection law. He also declared that North Carolina’s safety pro gram will be just as stringent or lax, as North Carolina’s citi zens demand. Concerning traffic courts, Sgt, Kuykendall contends that “we have outgrown the magistrate system”. He said motorists who make errors should be cited to a traffic court which is as con cerned with educating the driver to safety as with determining his innocence or guilt. “Most folk balk when they have to do something,” he commented. “They're usually quite coopera tive when they’re shown why.” A total of 1,063 persons were killed, 19,062 injured in 47, 705 reported accidents on North Car olina highways in 1957, the ser geant reported, with one of every 20 registered vehicles having been involved in an accident. One of 26 licensed drivers in this state were involved in accidents. Statistics show that failure to grant right-of-way was the lead ing cause of accidents, but that speeding was the leading cause of fatal accidents. “Education, engineering and en forcement are the three routes to highway safety,” Sgt. Kuyken dall concluded. Other comments of the ser geant, some of them in an open forum following his address, in cluded: 1) The hours 3 to 6 p. m. are most dangerous on the highways, but the hours fro 6 to 9 p. m. are most dangerous in rural areas. 2) The sergeant thinks North Carolina is fast coming to the point it will replace majority of stop points to yield-right-of-way points. He said that change west of Shelby, at the intersection of U. S. Highways 74 and 74-A, had cut accidents at this intersection toy 50 per cent. 3) People have demanded the scientific test whether a driver is drunk. 4) North Carolina’s accident rate in 1957 declined to 6.2 per 100 million miles of travel, com pared to 21.84 in 1930. 5) The North Carolina patrol w?s rated best in the 48 states in 1956 by a judging group of na tional associations. Sgt. Kuykendall was presented by Ollie Harris. Inlia Ribet Resigns Post Miss Julia Ribet, minister of music at First Presbyterian chur ch, is resigning her position ef fective July 7. Miss Ribet has accepted the position of minister of music at Zebulon Baptist church at Zebu lon where she will direct the musical program for seven chur choirs. A graduate of Flora Macdonald college at Red Springs, Miss Ri bet is a native of Valdese. She came to Kings Mountain last summer as the youth director and minister of music at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Robertson With ESC Here Mrs. Zerma S. Robert-on, of Bessemer City, has joined the Kings Mountain (office of the Employment Secu-ity Commiss ion as an interviewer, it was an nounced by Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manager. Mr. Ware said Mrs. Robertson is classed as an itinerant inter viewer, but will be at the local office for several ensuing weeks. A former employee of the com mission, Mrs. Rcbertson is the wife of Rev. George Robertson, Bessemer City Lutheran minister. Bank Directors Elevate Neill NEW PRESIDENT — B. S. Neill was named Monday to be presi dent of First National Bank, suc ceeding the late Frank R. Sum mers. He thereby became the fourth president in the bank's 58-year-old history. Hall Urges Unity Among Churches By ANNE HARMON *'A churah that is conscious of its unity is the kind of church that our Lord sought to build, through which He can effect his I saving mission.” This was the comment of Dr. Warner Hall, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Charlotte at the opening service of Kings Mountain’s -twenty-third annual series of union services at First Presbyterian Church here Sunday evening. Commanding various world church alliances and the local de nominations (Presbyterian, A. R. P,, Methodist, Lutheran) for hav ing union services, be said, “We have so much more in common than in our separateness. It is good for us to be together be cause it shows our oneness in Christ.” According to Dr. Hal 1, the church has no greater stumbling block, especially in the mission field, than its devisions. “And the church which can accomplish His redemptive purpose is one which worships, prays, and serves to gether.” Other characteristics which Dr. Hall said are needed by the church “worthy of tomorrow” 1 are: 1) A church that is modern, that is constantly brought up-to date. Dr. Hall said that the Jews 1 of Jesus’ time couldn’t "get out of the past tense, so God passed them by. They needed to, and we must, constantly change our ideas I about money, people and pres tige.” 2) A church that cares. “How much it would mean if all of us 1 would put the mantle of our con i cern around those right around us desperately in need of human ! concern—of being loved, of being I cared for!” Dr. Hall said. 3) A church which has the “E 1 ternal Word that sDeaks of for giveness and of mercy, which ! says, “New lives for old. You don’t have to be like you are.” Musical features of the service were a solo by Miss Julia Leo Ribet, minister of music of the church and an anthem by the combined Chancel and Junior choirs. Miss Ribet, a soprano, sang “My Heart Ever Faithful” by Bach, and the choir sang “Blessed are They” by Staley. Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of the church, introduced Dr. Hall and read the Scripture from Acts 13. The congregation was led in prayer by Rev. Harry Petersen, assistant pastor. Churchworcen Heard State Official Mrs. B. Frank Hall, of Wrights vllle Beach!, president of United Churchwomen of North Carolina addressed Kings Mountain chur chwomen Wednesday afternoon. Speaking at a meeting of some 30 women at St. Matthew’s Lu theran church. Mrs. Hall pointed to the projects and activities sup ported by churchwomen over the state. Pointing to the three-fold pro gram of local church'women, Mrs. (Continued on Page Eight) F. A. Summers New Director; Lennon Promoted Buren S. Neill, veteran execu tive vice-president of First Na tional Bank, was elevated to the presidency Monday. He succeeds the late Frank R. Summers. In other actions, the directors meeting in regular monthly ses sion, elevated R. S. (Dick) Len i non, formerly vice-president and | cashier, to the position of execu j tive vice-president and cashier, j and named to the board of direc j tors vacancy Frank A. Summers, of Atlanta, Ga., son of the late president. | Other directors of First Na tional Bank are Glee A. Bridges, Dr. L. P. Baker, M. A. Ware, W. | K. Mauney, R. L. Mauney, P. M. ! Neisler, Sr., and President Neill. Mr. Neisler was named to the finance committee vacancy cre ated by Mr. Summers’ death. Mr. Neill, who came to Kings Mountain as First National's cashier in 1931, is the 58-year-old firm’s fourtH president. First pres ident was W. A. Mauney, succeed ed at his death by the late D.. M. Baker. Mr. Summers succeeded Mr. Baker in 1942. Mr. Neill is a native of Iredell county and grew up at Oxford Orphanage. He was a hotel clerk at Hickory and subsequently at Charlotte before joining Inde dependence Trust Company, Charlotte, in 1918. He remained with this firm until he joined First National Bank here as cashier on December 15, 1931. Married to the former Elizabeth McComb of Hickory, Mr. Neill has„been active in the affairs of Central Methodist church, the Kiwanis club, Red Cross, Boy Scouts and. other civic enterpri ses. Mr. Lennon joined First Na tional Bank on December 1, 19 54, succeeding L. E. Abbott. Mr. Lennon previously had been with the Bank of Mullins, Mullins, S. C., for ten years, and with the Bank of Rowland, Rowland, N. C., for 11 years. He is a member of First Presbyterian church and the Kiwanis club. Mrs. Lennon is a member of the city schools fac ulty. Frank A. Summers is associa ted with an Atlanta, Ga., engin eering firm. He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and served in the Orient in the army as a lientenant in the corps of engineers. Summer Band Classes Start Summer band classes began Monday under the direction of Charles Ball-ance, high school bandmaster. The class is open to both stu dents who have and those who have not previously taken band lessons and participated in band activities. The fee for the six week course is $10. Beginners’ band is scheduled at 1:30 p. m. until after Bible School is completed, when the group will meet at 8:30 a. m. The intermediate band will meet at 11 a. m. SPEAKER — Dr. Jchn Brokhoff. Charlotte minister, will address members of five city church con gregations Sunday night at Union services at St. Matthews's Lutheran church. Brokhofi Sunday Service Speaker Dr. John R. Brokhoff, pastor of St. Mark’s Lutheran church of Charlotte, will speak at Sunday night’s union service at St. Matt hew’s Lutheran church. Members of the five city chur ch congregations are gathering for the services which began last Sunday. The service begins at 8 p. m. Dr. Brokhoff, popular church man in this area whose writings appear on Sunday in the Char lotte Observer and who conducts a regular youth forum television program, is in much demand as a speaker. The Charlotte minister is a graduate of Muhlenberg college and Philadelphia Seminary. He has been the principal advisor i for the observance of Religious ! Emphasis Week. Area Ministers Are Reappointed Area Methodist ministers will serve another year in Kings Mountain churches, it was an- | nounced at the annual Western North Carolina conference at Lake Junaluska. Rev. James B. McLarty will preside at Central Methodist for a fourth year while Rev. W. C. Sides, Jr., starts his fifth year as pastor of Grace Methodist chur ch. This term will mark Rev. Frank Blalock’s third year at El Bethel Methodist church. John C. Smathers, Mrs. J. E. Manuey, and Pete Heavner were lay delegates representing Cen tral Methodist, Grace Methodist, and El Bethel Methodist church es respectively at the Junaluska conference. loyce Simpson To Entei Emory Miss Joyce Simpson, director of Christian Education at Central Methodist church, is resigning her position effective Sunday. Miss Simpson, who came to the Methodist church here last sum mer after graduating from Win throp college at Rock Hill, S. C., will enter Emory University for graduate work in Christian Edu- I cation. Miss Simpson is a native of' Gray Court, S. C. McDaniel Estimates City Surplus For Year Will Be About S50.000 The City of Kings Mountain is expected to show a 1957-58 fis cal year surplus of about $50, 000, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., guessed Wednesday in comment ing on the May 31 statement of operations. The surplus will accrue from a surplus of collections, already $15,000 over the estimated in come for the year of $563,000. To May 31, expenditures were $510,000 against anticipated out go of $563,000. Mr. McDaniel says the $53,000 margin should allow the city to pay its June expenses and still live within the budget. The board of city commission ers is currently at work on the budget for the upcoming year, will probably convene in special session later this month to adopt a new budget tentatively. Titus far bugetary figures have been fixed on the premise that all current city rates and charges will remain as in the present year. No endeavor has been made to guess the surplus, pend ing the May 31 financial report ■ which the board was to receive Wednesday night. Income items already in the | plus category include these ma jor ones: street assessments, by S15.000, water and sewer taps by $2900, and prior years’ taxes bv $7700. Also showing an over-budget ! surplus will be the city natural gas system. Receipts through ! May totaled $120,000, almost SI,000 more than was expected | | and with one month’s receipts, to come predominantly from in- j dustrial users, to be added. Mr. McDaniel commented. “The gas system has done real, well, much of it attributable to I the unusually cold weather dur- ! ing the recent winter.’’ linger Ahead By 149 Votes In First Race A second county-wide Democra tic primary election was ordered Monday, when J. .Broadus Ellis, the Grover county commissioner candidate and first primary' sec ond-runner, notified the county e lections board he wanted a second race. Ellis trailed Kings Mountain’s Carl P. Finger, the incumbent commissioner, by 149 votes in the May 31 voting. Finger failed to attain a majority by 365, as Alvin A. Barrett, of Waco, polled 919 votes. Only one other race is to be settled on June 28, date of the sec ond primary voting. In Shelby (No. 6) township, C. E. Fisher, second - runner for constable, called for a second primary a gainst Joe Moore, the incumbent constable. The June 28 encounter will set tle finally a continuing political struggle between Finger and El lis which began in late January', following the death of Hazel B. Bumgardner, veteran county com missioner from Kings Mountain. Mr. Ellis, veteran 'Grover polit ical leader, was the nominee of Grover citizens for the appoint ment to succeed Mr. Bumgardner. Mr. Finger was the nominee of Kings Mountain citizens and was appointed by Clerk of Court, J. W. Osborne. Finger later filed for re election and Ellis put his hat into the ring the subsequent day. Though Finger, before Ms com missioner service, had no politi cal experience, the backgrounds of the two candidates are other wise similar. Both are natives of Cleveland County and both are businessmen. Both are service veterans, Ellis of World War I (navy) and Finger of World War II (air force). Due to Ellis’ long-term associ ation with politics in the county. Finger’s showing in the May 31 first primary occasioned some surprise among political observ ers who had felt he was insuf ficiently known to lead a veteran like the Grover citizen. The first campaign was mark ed by a paucity of issues and was waged on personality lines. Observers, in view of the light vote in the May 31 primary, are predicting an even smaller vote tn June 28. Slightly less than 3,000 persons went to the polls in May, when six county-wide races and numerous township af fairs tended to increase the vot ing. Elections Board Chairman Joe F. Mull thinks 2500 votes will be a top total for the June 28 voting. Others guess the total will reach 3500. There will be no new registra tion period prior to the second primary. Scot Lass Plans Journey Home BY ELIZABETH STEWART With vacation season at hand, at least one Kings Mountain fam ily is anticipating a long and pleasant trip away from home. Mrs. Jessie Watterson, wife of Erskine Watterson, and daugh ters, Linda, 10, and Vicky, 4, are going via plane in August to Glas gow, Scotland, for a six month’s stay with Mrs. Watterson’s fam ily. Mrs. Watterson, who hasn’t seen any of her Scot kinfolk in the 11 years since she came to this country to be married, a grees she’s getting excited about the trip home, as are her youngs ters. Fifth grader Linda Watterson will stay a major part of the time away in the home of her aunt in London, England. She will attend school in either Scot land or England in September. Some 15 friends of the popular Kings Mountain citizen, among them her co-workers at Kings Mountain Drug company, gather ed Sunday for a picnic supper at the hom<j of Mrs. Gene Tignor to present her with going-away gifts. Mrs. Watterson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McCourtie, live in Glasgow. In addition to her sister, Mrs. Watterson also expects to visit her four brothers and their families, all of whom live in Scotland. Mrs. Watterson says she ex pects some changes in the coun try in the 10-plus years she’s been away. She is especially anxious, she says, to have her children be in Scotland at Christmas time. Daughter Linda is already plan ning another trip when she’s old er.
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