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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Th» ligure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1935 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950. *j Pages | £ Today VOL 69 No. 27 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 3, 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS Ellis Defeats Finger For County Commission Post Local News Bulletins RED CROSS Annual business meeting of the Kings Mountain chapter, American Red Cross, will be held Friday, July 11th, at 8 p. m. at the Red Cross offices at City Hall. New officers are to be elected, and reports from service chairman will feature the meeting, J. Ollie Harris, chairman, announced. JAYCEE DISPLAY Kings Mountain motorists are being invited to view the safety display at US 74-Moun tain St. intersection constructed by the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. “See what can happen unless you drive safe ly”, the Jayoees point out. COMMUNION The Sacrament pf the Cord’s Supper will be observed at both the morning and evening wor ship hours Sunday at Central Methodist churCh, the pastor, Rev. J. B. McLarty has an nounced. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanians will see a film on Fontana Dam at their regular meeting Thursday night. The club con venes at 6:45 p. m. at the Wom an’s club. PAPER DRIVE Kings Mountain Jayoees will conduct a scrap paper drive on Sunday, July 13, from 2 to 6:30 p. m. Citizens are urged to deposit their paper outside their residences for the pickup. Persons who have quantities of stored paper should contact Boa Goforth (368) Tracy Mc Ginnis, (138) or George Thom asson, (571). GUN CLUB Boys,age 11-16, Interested in joining a Junior Rifle club sponsored by the University Gun club are being urged to meet with that group July 13th at 2 p. m. at the rifle range in Grover. Further information may 'be obtained from T. W. Bryant, phone 650, Kings Moun tain, or from Hambright’s Ser vice Station, Grover. BUILDING PERMIT Mauney Mills, Inc. was is sued a building permit Tues day by City Inspector J. W. Webster to build a two story brick and block structure on S. Cansler street for storage and machinery use. T. F. Bridges was listed as the contractor. Estimated cost of the building is $20,000. ELECTED J. W. Webster, recently re tired president of the Kings Mountain Lions club, has been named chairman o f Zone 1, District 31-C, in this year’s Lions organization. Zone 1 in cludes seven area clubs. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $145.42, according to report of City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel. Off-street meters return ed $19.47. and on-street meters $125.95. Ellis Pledges Aid To Kings Mountain “I want all you Kings Moun tain folk to feel that I’m your county commissioner. I will do anything I can to serve the people of the Kings Mountain area,” J. Broadus Ellis, newly nominated District II county commissioner told the Herald Tuesday. Mr. Ellis, who defeated In cumbent Carl P. Finger in Sat urday’s run-off primary, has no opposition in the November general elections and will as sume office shortly thereafter. District II includes Number 4 and Number 5 townships and is bounded by Waco, Buffalo Creek, the South Carolina state line and the Gaston County boundary. NOMINATED — J. Broadus Ellis, o{ Grover, overcame a first pri mary deficit Saturday to score an 804-vote victory over Carl P. Finger for District II county com missioner. Foote Mineral To Up Wages All hourly employees of Foote’s receive a 15 cent per hour wage Kings Mountain operation will increase effective September 1, Neil O. Johnson, plant manager, announced this week. “Our Kings Mountain opera tion has become increasingly more efficient and more produc tive over the past several years. We are now operating on the highest efficiency we have ever enjoyed. Beyond any question, this has been made possible by the hard work and loyalty of our Kings Mountain employees. I feel very gratified that we are able to express our appreciation of this fine job through'a wage increase to our people.” Johnson said that the plant will go on a six-day week for the first time in its history, ef fective immediately. Heretofore certain operations within the plant, particularly in the mill, required around-the-clock opera tion. In the future, no scheduled : work will be done on Sunday and | it should be possible to eliminate scheduled work on most of the holidays. Productivity of the Kings Moun tain operation has been raised substantially over the past two years, Johnson said. This makes it possible for the local mining operation to provide the Com pany’s requirement for lithium concentrates in shorter working weeks, Johnson pointed out that the requirements of Foote’s lithi um processing plant at Sunbright, Va., have also increased over the years. The ability of the Kings i Mountain operation to keep pace i with Sunbright demonstrates the j increased efficiency which has been achieved, he pointed out. The wage increase of 15 cents : is the largest which Kings Moun tain employees have enjoyed. In ! September, 1957, the employees j were gran ted an eight-cent gene j ral increase. The upcoming wage increase will add about $40,000 ' to Foote's annual payroll. -- Grover Citizen 804-Vote Winner In Second Race J. Broadus Ellis came from behind Saturday to win going away in the Democratic primary run off for District II county commissioner. Ellis, who trailed Carl P. Finger, the Kings Mountain incumbent, by 149 votes in the May 31 primary, piled up an 804 vote victory in an election which attracted 4751 vo ters for the two candi dates. The vote total exceeded by more j than a thousand advance predic-1 tions. The voting was conducted un der favorable June sunshine, and numerous rural area precincts re corded higher vote totals than on May 31, when the farmers were struggling to come from be hind on spring planting delayed by foul weather. -A - .T 11 ship of both candidates;-cast 1777 of the total. It remained for Grover to go allout and to provide Mr. Ellis, the hometown favorite, a clear! majority of 532 votes, a major por- J tion of his majority. Only other second primary race was in Shelby township, where j Constable Incumbent Joe Moore barely retained his seat in a close contest with C. E. Fisher. Finger serves on the board by appointment, succeeding the late' Hazel B. Bumgardner. He will servo the remainder of Mr. Bum gardner’s term through the No vember general ele' ions. Ellis, as other Dcmt ats. has no opposition in the November voting. Kings Mountain accorded its hometown candidate a majority of 513 votes, up 67 from the first ! race, but not enough to match the Grover surge. Mr. Ellis was the favorite in 17 of the county’s 28 precincts. Gen erally, Mr. Finger was the favor ite in the northern parts of the county and Mr. Ellis carried hea vily the southern portion. An ex- j j ception was Waco, where Ellis i edged Finger by ten votes. In five-precinct District II, El lis carried three precincts, Beth-1 ware, Waco and Grover, while Finger won both the Kings Moun-! tain precincts. Mr. Ellis is a 64-year old navy veteran of World War I. He has long been active in Democratic j politics, serving several terms as! mayor of Grover and for 20 years | serving as chairman of the Gro ver school district committee. He is a member of First Baptist j church, of Grovercand a son of, the late John A. Ellis, a former! j member of the county commis | sion. He is a member of the Shel | by Kiwanis club. Mrs. Ellis is the former Inezj Bennett Black Ellis, a Kings ; Mountain native. A son by a first! ! marriage to the late Mrs. Myrtle i Falls Ellis was killed in an air (Continued on Page Twelve) First Baptist Majority Declines Compromise Offer Of Dissidents Members of the First Baptist ] church majority group who favor building a new plant on a new ; site met Tuesday night to dis j cuss the proposal made last Thursday by minority members j of the church’s joint conference ! committee on the dispute, and | rejected it. The proposal maintained that the minority group retain the old church plant on the corner of W. > Mountain street and Piedmont avenue, keep the church office in the old Herald building, and retain the church name. Yates Harbison, spokesman for majority members of the church said Wednesday the proposal i was discussed and rejected, the ! keynote of discussion being pla ' ced on the church name. He voiced hope that the dis ; pute will draw to a satisfactory j close soon. A fourth meeting of the joint conference committee will be held Thursday night at the chur ch office. RE-ELECTED — George W. Mau ney was re-elected last week to serve as president of King Mountain Hospital, Inc. Other officers elected were Holmes Har ry. of Grover, vice-president, an'’ George B. Thomas son, secretary NAMED "MISS KINGS MOUNTAIN" — Phyllis Dean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Dean and named “Miss Kings Mountain" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will represent the city in the three day beauty pageant July 10-12 in Charlotte which will select a Miss North Carolina from a field of G2 beauties. Miss Dean and her mother will go to Charlotte Wednesday for the pageant activities. Phyllis Dean Beauty Entrant Phyllis Dean, “Miss King"' Mountain of 1958”, will be the city’s first beauty contender for the Miss North Carolina crown in a number of years. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A mos Dean, Miss Dean was select ed by the Junior Chamber c. Commerce to represent King. Mountain in the three-day beau ty pageant next Thursday, Fri day, and Saturday which will name “Miss North Carolina” fo; 1958. The contest will be held in Charlotte, the top beauty to be chosen from 62 other lovelie Saturday night at Ovens Audi torium. Barely 18 (Miss Dean's birth day Thursday just one week a way from the contest), the Kings Mountain beauty will enter the competition with some experi ence gained from other contests. Named May Queen in recent high school activities, she was also first runner-up in the county contest recently which selected a dairy princess. She expects to en ter Greensboro college in the fall. In the talent division of the beauty pageant, Miss Dean will pantomime and Charleston to the Jill Corey recording of “I Love My Baby”. She will be coached for this part of the competition by Shirley Cauthen, of Bessemer City, herself a former performer on the television show, Span norama. ^ Contestants will be judged for poise, personality, beauty, and talent. They will appear both in evening dress and bathing suit. For the bathing suit division, the five-foot-seven brunette beauty, (whose statistics are (34 22-35) will wear a black Cata lina swimsuit complete with rhinestone clasp. Miss Dean will wear a white evening dress in the evening dress competition, and a Charleston costume for the talent part of the pageant. College scholarships plus num erous 'other prizes including a complete wardrobe plus a vaca tion trip will be among the pri zes awarded to Miss North Caro lina and runners-up. Kings Mountain merchants who are presenting Miss Dean with a number of gifts she will take with her to the state con test are Kings Mountain Drug, Griffin Drug, Stroupe Drug, Dell inger’s. Grayson's, Alexander’s Jewel Shops. Plonk Brothers, My ers’, Keeter's, Belk’s, McGinnis Department Stores. Reba’s, He len’s Beauty Shop, 1 ..vers, Mc Curdy, and Sauna. .■ Cleaners. In recent years, • evious hold ers of the Miss ”:ngs Mountain title include: Joan Cash, 1951; Frances Summers, 1952; Barbara Matthews Willie, 1953, and Nor-' ma Lee Sipes Atkinson, 1954. Members of the Jaycee com mittee on arrangements for se lection of a Kings Mountain en try were Ed Smith, chairman, R. G. Plonk, Jr., and George Thom asson. SPEAKER — Dr. J. A. Keisler of Columbia, S. C. will deliver the sermon at the union serviec Sun day night at 8 o'clock at Resur rection Lutheran church. Keisler Speaker At Union Service Dr. J. A. Keisler of Columbia, S. C. and Regional Director of E vangelism in the United Luth eran Church of America, will de liver the sermon Sunday night at the comm unity-wide union ser vice. The service will be held at Resurrection Lutheran Church at 8 p. m. Mr. Keisler is a frequent speaker in this community, often conducts Preaching Missions in South Carolina and neighboring i,states, and has served as Religi ous Emphasis Week speaker on college campuses. He has served pastorates in Pamoria, S. C.; Toms Brook, Va., | Radford, Va.; West Columbia, S. C., and Charleston, S. C. Dr. Keisler’s sermon will be on the topic, “The Church’s Contin uing Task.’’ Special music will be present ed by the three Resurrection Lu theran choirs. Cheshire Cp’umn New Herald Feature The Herald is publishing for the first time this week a per sonal column by John Allyn Cheshire, Sr., veteran news paperman. Actually, the column is a re vival of "Along Life’s High ways and By-ways”, which Mr. Cheshire syndicated for many years until laid low by a heart ailment < til years ago. The Herald is g!.-.d to have Mr. Cheshire back . a n at his typewriter and believe' Herald readers will enjoy til. new leature. S & L Dividends Set Record High Home Savings Assets Top §3.000.000 Kings Mountain savings and loan associations made record semi-annual dividend payments at June 30, the city’s two firms paying their sharehoiuers $80,980. * In another record, Home Sav ing's & Loan association reported its assets had topped $3,000,000 for the first time in its 35-year history. Dividend payments by Home Savings & Loan association were $44,990.94, including $22,066.47 on optional savings accounts and $22, 924.47 on full-paid shares. The total compares with $37,761 paid last June and $41,603 paid December 31. Payments by Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association were $37,990.22, including $19,178.93 on optional savings accounts, and $18,811.29 on full-paid shar es. The total compared with $32, 218 paid last June and $34,606 paid in December. A. H. Patterson, secretary treasurer of Home Savings & Loan, said total assets topped the $3,000,000 mark for the first time, with mortgage loans total ing $2,522,5T4, cash assets of $264,288, government bonds of $107,000, and savings account loans of $56,823. Obligations of Home Savings & Loan included $2,744,208 in savings share accounts and a contingencies reserve of $215,254. Undivided profits were listed at $14,125. Semi-annual statement for Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association had not been com pleted. MostToGet July 4 Holiday With many Kings Mountain citizens already vacationing, ma jority of the others will join them this week end, though for many a one-day surcease from regular chores will be the max imum holiday. Many textile firms are closed this week, while a few others are (Continued on Page Twelve) RESIGNS — Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., city clerk, resigned effective Ju ly 15 to become assistant secre tary-treasurer of Home Savings & Loan association. Mr. McDaniel will succeed W. F. Young. McDaniel Resigns City Clerk Post Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., city clerk for the past several months and veteran city official, has resigned effective July 15 to become as sistant secretary-treasurer of Home Savings & Loan associ ation. Mr. McDaniel tendered his resignation to the board of com- j missioners at a special ,-ession last Friday. The resignation was accepted with regret. The board promptly named Mrs. Grace Car- j penter Wolfe, formerly assistant clerk and treasurer, as acting clerk and treasurer. Mr. McDaniel will succeed W. j F. Young, who resigned to ac- t cept a position as high school English teacher at Dallas high ! school. Mr. Young joined Home Sav ings & Loan some 30 months ago He said he will continue to re side in Bessemer City Mr. McDaniel, son of J. H. Mc Daniel, Sr., of Charlotte, and the late Ida Styers McDaniel, is a | graduate of Gardner-Webb col- | lege. He attended the University of North Carolina in 1949-50i studying business administration j (Continued on Page Twelve) Mayor Bridges Conjectures End To Outside-City Fire Protection Will the City of Kings Moun tain, as the City of Shelby de cided this week, discontinue fire protection to outside city resi dents?. Mayor Glee A. Bridges, in talk ing informally about rural fire protection at Wednesday night’s gathering of the city fathers, said he had written S. Leigh Wilson, assistant executive director at the North Carolina League of Mu nicipalities for information con cerning rural fire protection dis tricts. "We must pass on our infor mation for public opinion of this matter of rural fire districts”, the mayor commented. The City of Raleigh, according to Wilson’s reply, was successful in having a rural fire protection district created after effecting a polity no longer to provide fire service to areas adjacent to the city limits. When this policy was announced to the voters, Mr. Wil-, son noted, they petitioned the board of county commissioners to call an election to give them the opportunity to establish a special fire district. “In order for rural fire pro tection district to be created, it is neoessarj- for 15 percent of the resident freeholders living out side an incorporated city or town to petition the county board of commissioners to call an election within the district described in the petition,” Mr. Wilson pointed out. The statutes do not limit the area that can be included within such district. Text of the procedure outlined: in Article 3, chapter 69, of the General Statutes follows: “Election to be held upon pe tition of voters. — Upon the pe tition of 15 percent of the resident freeholders living in an area lying outside the corporate limits of any city or town, which area is described in the petition and des ignated as “. Fire District”, the board of county commissioners of the county shall call an election in said district for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters therein the question of levying and collect ing a special tax on all taxable property in said district, of not exceeding ten cents (10c) on the one hundred dollars (S100) valu ation of property, for the purpose of providing fire protection in said district.” Under present city policy, the city fire department furnishes fire protection to outside city resi dents at S100 per call. Alarms from outside residents are ans wered only if 1) the outside resi dent has purchased an insurance policy rider guaranteeing the city payment, or 2) the resident has; posted a $100 cash bond with the city. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., i says that all outside coverage is via insurance rider. No citizen has yet posted a cash bond. City Anticipates Spending Hike For Fiscal 1959 By ELIZABETH STEWART The city board of com missioners has approved a tentative budget of $590, (375 for the fiscal year be ginning July 1, up about $27,000 over the past year. Meeting for a budget session last Wednesday night, the commissioners also unanimously set the same tax rate as last year, $1.50 per $100 valuation, the rate including $1.45 for the regular fund with five cents earmarked tor reqreation. Distribution of the tax dollar will include: debt service, 57 cents; capital outlay, 88 cents; recreation fund, five cents. All commissioners were pre sent together with the mayor and city clerk. Anticipated revenue for the fis cal year 1958-59 includes: cur rent taxes, $135,000; Prior years taxes, $9685; penalty on taxes, $1,000; utilities, $325,000; privi lege licenses, $6,000; intangible taxes, $7,500; franchise taxes, $3,400; auto licenses, $1,600; wa ter and sewer taps, $3800; sta dium lights and rent, $300; court costs, $6300; parking meter col lections, $6,200; traffic violations, $40; jail costs, $200; permits $800; sale of scrap, $600; street assessments, $38,500; street as sessment penalty, $100; Powell street aid funds, $32,000; cem etery income, $2,000; miscellan eous income, $250; accounts re ceivable, $8,500; fi lling permits, $400; and gasoline tax rebate, $1,500. In the disbursement column, the budget estimate of the board includes: General fund—admin istrative, $21,870; cemetery, $6, 350; street, $88,170; sanitary, $20.. 118; police and court, $38,635; fire, $18,098; general, $53,560; water and sewer, $53,044; and ulectric, $155,030. Capital improvements, accord ing to budget figures will ap proximate $85,700 and for bond principal and interest a total of 114,800 was earmarked debt ser vice fund w'hile $4,500 will be ?xpended for recreation. Primary Election SIDELIGHTS Mrs. J. H. Arthur, registrar at West Kings Mountain pre cinct, was worried after the votes were counted, as the vote total exceeded by one the num ber of names tallied on the pollbook as having voted. By Sunday, Mrs. Arthur’s exami nation of the books had brought success. When Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dye cast their ballots, the log keeper wrote only Mr. Dye's name. It’s an easy error to make during the rush voting periods. At East Kings Mountain, the vote total was 11 over the num ber of names inscribed. Most political observers were glad the margin of the Ellis victory exceeded heavily these minor discrepancies. Grover supporters of Mr. Ellis working at the West Kings Mountain box were un happy because the election of ficials had accommodated a few elderly and or infirm citi zens by allowing them to mark their ballots in their cars. But election officials said they had permission of the county board chairman, Joe Mull, to accom modate these citizens. Only eight votes were recorded in this manner, one of them the vote of Former Sheriff Irvin M. Allen, paralyzed on the right side, but predicting to the many friends who greeted him, “I’m coming back.” At Bethware, Herman (Hag) Goforth substituted for his wife, Hilda, as registrar. Mrs. Go forth i s attending summer school at Appalachian State Teachers college, arrived at the polls late in the afternoon with textbook and homework in hand. Candidate Carl Finger visited the Grover box in mid-afte~ noon, found his opponent pres ent. They shook hands wamily, thanked each other for the gen (Continued on Page Twelve)
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