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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 ^ City Limits 7,206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from tire . 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950. VOL 69 No. 31 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 31, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Postal Charges Increase Friday Local News Bulletins METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $123.53, Mrs. Grace Carpenter, acting city clerk reported. The total in cluded $16.63 from off-street meters and $106.90 from on street meters. PERMITS No building permits were is sued this week according to J. W. Webster, city building in spector. NO COURT Monday’s City Recorders court session will be postponed until the following Monday, August 11, due to vacationing Desk Sgt. Buck Bridges. LIFE SAVING DEMONSTRATION The Cleveland County Life Saving crew will give a demon stration at Maple Springs at 3 o’lock on Saturday afternoon. The demonstration will be un der the direction of Don Craw ford, Red Cross water instruct or here. The public is invited to attend. AT CONVENTION Fire Chief J. P. Tignor and P. D. Fulton of Kings Moun tain are attending the 71st an nual State Fireman’s conven tion in Lumberton. About 1,200 are expected to attend. KIWANIS CLUB Horace Easom, of Shelby, vice-president and director of public relations at Union Trust Company, will speak at Thurs day night’s meeting of the Ki wanis club. The club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. FOOTBALL PLAYERS Varsity football players should report for physical ex aminations Wednesday, Au gust 13th at 2 o’clock p. m. at the high school, Football Coach John Gamble said Wednesday. WARLICK HOME A. P. Warlick, Kings Moun tain businessman, returned home Wednesday from Gaston Memorial hospital where he has been a patient for several weeks. Mr. Warlick was receiv ing treatment for blood poison ing. DANCE A tennis court dance can be held possibly on Saturday nights at the Deal St. pool if enough people express interest. Recreation Director Jake Early noted that the juke box in the concession area can be moved onto the tennis courts. Interes ted dancers should notify Early. COMPLETES DUTY Rev. Harry Petersen complet ed his duties this week as sum mer supply pastor at Dixon and First Presbyterian churches. Mr. Petersen, a graduate of Davidson college and Columbia Seminary will enter «Princeton Seminary for graduate work this fall. SEEKS ADDRESS The Selective Service Board is seeking the address of James Edward Rose boro who failed to report for armed forces physi cal, Mrs. Clara Newman, clerk to the board said. ALUMNI MEETING Alumni of Bethware high' school will hold the sixth an nual alumni picnic at seven o’ clock Saturday at Maple Springs Lake. All alumni of the school are invited. AT MONTREAT Rev. and Mrs. P. D. Patrick, Rev. Harry Petersen, Steve Keeler, and Miss Polly Page went to Montreat Wednesday •> evening to attend the commiss ioning of missionaries’ service held during the Missions confer ence at the Presbyterian Assem bly Grounds. PANEL MEMBER Ted Ledford of Kings Moun tain will participate in a panel discussion at the third annual Cleveland County poultry day Thursday (today) at No. 3 high school. Most Letters Will Require Four-Cent Stamps If you mail a letter Friday morning it’ll cost you an extra penny. Thursday is D-day for sending mail at the old postal rate, and Kings Mountain Postoffice was readying this week for the price changeover. The nation’s new schedule of postal rates goes into effect Fri day, August 1, and there’ll be no "grace” period for customers to get used to the change, Postmas ter Charles Alexander reminded. After midnight July 31, mail must bear postage at the higher rates. This means the cost of mailing a letter will be upped a penny (from three to four cents). Domestic first class mail will up the price of postcards from two to three cents, for airmail letters from six cents to seven cents, and for airmail postcards from four cents to five cents. If customers don’t comply with the ruling, the postoffice will handle the mail on a postage due basis, Mr. Alexander said. The recipient will be required to pay the extra cent. If he refuses, the sender will be billed for the penny. If nobody pays, the letter will be dispatched to the dead letter office. Still another little wrinkle which had cost the recipients money has been suspended until November 1. A new provisio un der which mail with insufficient postage is subject to a special additional charge of five cents, plus the postage due, has been suspended temporarily begin ning August 1, until patrons be come familiar with the new ra tes, Mr. Alexander said. Effective July 1, a five cent penalty char ge was to be added to the a mount of postage due recipients when correspondents were care less in weighing their letters. “The new postal rate law will enable the department to forward all mail with insufficient postage and collect postage due at the oth er end”, the postmaster added. “This will eliminate”, he said,” “the many delays of the old sys tem under which “short paid” mail often was returned to the sender.” “New postage rates passed by Congress will go into effect start ing promptly at 12:01 a. m. Friday and under the new law, the post office department has no alterna tive but to collect postage due on mail bearing insufficient postage when the new rates begin after midnight Thursday,” Mr. Alexan der continued. Some rates go up on August 1. and some others advance effec tive January 1. Here are the rates as they will be Friday morning: First-class mail, four cents per (Continued on Page Eight) Griffin Buys Cline Building; Benovating Starts E. W. Griffin, owner of Grif I fin Drug Company, announced | this week the purchase of the J. i Raymond Cline Building on W. Mountain street and the launch ing of remodeling work prepar atory to its occupancy. Mr. Griffin said the building will be completely renovated, with a new front, new floor cov ering, new fixtures, and a cen tral gas-fired heating system. The system will be arranged for installation of air-conditioning prior to next summer. Marion Dixon is supervising the rebuilding job. Fixtures are being purchased from Bulman & Company, Chica go. Mr. Griffin said it is hoped the new building will be ready for occupancy not later than Sep tember. Griffin Drug Company is the second oldest commercial bus iness operated continuously un der the same trade name in Kings Mountain, Mr. Griffin no ted. He purchased the drug firm 38 years ago on October 20, 1920, and has operated it as Griffin Drug Company since. A native of Union county, Mr. Griffin first entered the drug business in Wingate in 1910. He subsequently attended Atlanta College of Pharmacy before com ing to Kings Mountain. The former Cline building fronts 30 feet on Mountain street and is 100 feet deep. It is a two story building, second floor 'of fices being occupied by Dr. L. P. Baker and Dr. R. N. Baker, den tists. Griffin Drug Company will va cate the adjacent building it has occupied continuously during its 38 years of operation. This build is owned by Mrs. B. S. Peeler and Mrs. C. F. Thomasson. Lange To Speak At Union Service Dr. Melvin S. Lange, pastor of Hickory’s Holy Trinity Lutheran church, will deliver -the sermon at Sunday night’s community wide union service at St. Mat thew’s Lutheran church. The ^services Will begin at 8 o’clock p. m. Dr. Lange, pastor of the Hick ory church since 1953, served from 1937-1941 as board mission ary (American Missions) in Cleve land.and Columbus, Ohio, and sub sequently became pastor of Christ Lutheran church, Staunton, Va. In the Virginia Synod, he was -chairman of the committee on stewardship, director of the CHEY: appeal, dean of Massanetta sum mer assembly and president of the Community Welfare League. He is currently chairman of the Western Conference committee' on stewardship. The Hickory Church congrega tion completed a $650,000 building program in January and accupied the new edifice. City Audit Confirms Surpluses; City Net Value Said S1.3S5.745 The audit report for the City of Kings Mountain, received this week by city officials from A. M. Pullen Company, Charlotte, con firms the surplus figures previ ously reported, and showed the city’s total assets at $2,202,430, an increase of $110,262 during 1957 58. The cash surplus of $86,096 compared with a cash surplus of $55,494 at June 30, 1957, up $30, 601. The cemetery perpetual care fund increased by $2,979 during the year to $21,238. Net value of the city properties at June 30 was $1,355,745. Operating liabilities totaled on ly $25,953, including $25,557 in consumer deposits h<eld as reserv es assuring collection of utility accounts and $395 of recreation commission funds. Major liability item was $669, 000 in long-term bonded debt, a drop of $31,000 during the past fiscal year. The city’s properties are carri ed on the books at either cost or estimated value and no provision for depreciation is included. The bonded debt schedule show's that the city will retire one old bond issue, a water, sewer and street improvement issue, during the coming year. A $2,000 pay ment in January will wipe out this $40,000 issue of 1924 which bore interest at 5.25 percent. To tal debt service requirement dur ing the current year is $30,000 principal and $21,212.50 in bond interest. Revenue during the past year totaled $609,244, some $42,500 more than anticipated. Major items were on utilities, which re turned $326,077, or $22,077 more than expected, and street assess ment collections Which totaled $22,214, or $12,214 more than an ticipated. Capital outlay revenue totaled $127,779, including $97,256 from 1957 taxes. Report of expenditures by de partments showed that all but two departments underspent their budgets and the overages in the two were small. The sanitation department required $402 more than budgeted and the water and sewer department overage was $135. Most underspent was the light and power department, which spent only $150,796, against a budget of $155,460. Included in the expenditures were power pur chases from Duke Power Com pany of $110,122. Other departments underspent and the amounts were: adminis trative, $2,036; street, $306; po lice, $1,692; fire, $1,520; record er’s court, $370; cemetery, $122; general, $1,266. The audit lists the insurance coverage of the city. The City Hall fire coverage is $50,000 for building and $15,000 for contents. Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li brary is covered for $30,000 on the building and $5,000 on con tents. The audit report is available for public inspection at the office of the mayor and city clerk. Welfare Branch Office Opens Monday Dixon Purchases Williams Stock In Auto Firm Charles E. Dixon, veteran sales manager of Victory Chevrolet Company, has purchased the stock holdings in the firm of T. A. Williams of Greensboro, it was announced this week by W. G. Grantham, president. Purchase of the Williams hold ings by Mr. Dixon was effective June 1, but the transaction was completed finally this week. By the stock transfer, Mr. Dix on succeeds Mr. Williams as vice-president of the auto deal ership. Mrs. Grantham is secre tary-treasurer. The officers are the sole stockholders. Mr. Dixon has been associated with Victory Chevrolet since 1951, when he joined the firm as sa lesman. He became sales man ager in 1953. Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Dix on of the Bethlehem community, Mr. Dixon is a past president of the Kings Mountain Merchants association, an active Jaycee, and a navy veteran of World War II. Mrs. Dixon is the former Mabel Herndon. They have two daugh ters, Joyce and Connie Dixon. They are members of Resurrect ion Lutheran church. Victory Chevrolet Company was organized in October 1943 to purchase the assets of Cleveland Motor Company. With exception of 18 months prior to that time, Mr. Grantham has spent most of his adult life in the automobile business, beginning in 1933. He was a Liberty auto dealer before joining with Mr. Williams to form Victory Chevrolet Company. Authorized capital stock of Victory Chevrolet Company is $100,000. lames Pressly Polio Victim Kings fountain’s third report ed polio victim, upping the coun ty total to six, is James Allen Pressly 17, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pressly. Pressly, a lifeguard at Deal Street Pool, was stricken with the virus July 18 and was report ed a polio victim to county heal th authorities, July 23. Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, county health officer, reported there was no connect ion between Pressly’s college-re quired polio booster shot taken just prior to his illness. Pressly was amply vaccinated against polio, according to Dr. Mitchell, who reported administering of the Salk vaccine series and two additional booster shots. No fever, paralysis, or notice able signs of muscular weakness were noted in the county health office description of Pressly’s condition. Dr. John McGill, attending phy sician, stated Pressly was "doing real well and having a normal convalescence.” No quarantine signs are posted at the Piedmont Ave. home where Pressly is re cuperating. Filling the pulpit in Dr. Press ly’s absence Sunday morning at Boyce Memorial ARP Church was Rev. Harry Peterson, summer supply minister of First Presby terian church. Gifts To Gregory Are Continuing A total of $56 was received this week to aid Rev. John. Gregory,1 whose lengthy heart ailment has! depleted his financial resources. | Rev. Gregory has received word that everything is ready for the delicate heart operation, with Au gust 22 tentatively set as the date, of his entry to Baptist hospital in! Winston-Salem preparatory to surgery. Gregory reported, however, that he might be called to Winston Salem before that date. Lengthy penicillin treatments were necessary to overcome blood bacteria which weakened the heart, arteries, and veins. A natal hole, in the inner chamber of the heart, present since birth but na turally healed during youth, has reopened within the past two years. Contributors this week include the following: Mrs. Edith F. Olive, $5. Colonial Nazarene Church of Orlando, Fla., $15. Charles Mil len $25. Mr. and Mrs. Olyde M. Jolly, $10. A friend, $1. Frank Rippy. of Hippy’s Jewel ry on Piedmont avenue, is accep ting contributions. Jobless Pay Claims Off 534 But 812 Still Seeking Work Keeter Firm Is Occupying New Quarters Keeter’s Department Store is moving this week and expects to be doing business in its newly renovated quarters on S. Battle ground avenue Friday, J. Byron Keeter, president of the firm, said this week. The Keeter firm is occupying the building owned by C. T. Ben nett and formerly occupied by City Auto & Home Supply. The building fronts 24 feet on S. Battleground and is 100 feet in depth. Mr. Keeter said last-minute work, including cabinet installa tion, building of dressing rooms, and painting was underway Tuesday and that the firm will have its inventory moved by Fri day. The Keeter firm is vacating the S. Battleground avenue building of Mrs. J. E. Herndon. Renovation of the Bennett building has included the build ing of a modern front, with mar quee, installation of a central cooling-heating system. Foote Earnings 44 Cents Share PHILADELPHIA — Foote Min eral Company reported Monday that sales for the first six months of 1958 were $11,656,521 compar ed to $12,971,402 for the same period last year. Earnings in the first half of 1958 were estimated to toe $1,039,477 compared to earn ings of $1,211,958 for the first six month of 1957. With 1,216,002 shares outstanding on June 30, 1958, this amounts to 85 cents per share. A comparison of earnings in the first two quarters of 1958 reveals that earnings for the past three month's were 44 cents per share compared to 41 cents per share in the first quarter. The Company is forecasting a mod erately larger sales volume dur ing the second half of 1958, the estimated increase being expected in the last quarter. The Company has repaid the entire bank loan outstanding at the beginning of 1958. With the retirement of the preferred stock last year, the Company’s capitali zation now consists solely of the common stock. Elco Industries Is Incorporated Articles of incorporation . for Elco Industries, Inc., have been filed in the office of the clerk of Cleveland Superior Court. The of fice of the proposed general brok erage firm and financial business will toe located in Kings Mountain, according to B. S. Peeler, Jr., one of the incorporators. The certificates have been ap proved, according to Peeler, but no stock has yet been issued, since plans are still "premature,” he said. The firm will also engage in related activities, such as buying and developing real property, con structing roads and streets, buy ing and selling for investment or otherwise. Mrs. Ruby M. Alexander and Drace M. Peeler were also named as incorporators. Mis. Luther Joy In New Post Mrs. Ida Fortner Joy, wife of Luther Joy, assumed duties Mon day as secretary to Kings Moun tain Merchants Association. Mrs. Joy succeeds Mrs. Elaine W. Queen who has resigned. Mrs. Queen, -wife of Dan Queen, held the position for five years. Mrs. Joy is a graduate of Mount Holly high school. Her husband is an employee of Coop er’s, Inc., Kings Mountain furn iture firm. They have two sons, Gary, 18, and Leslie, 10. The fam ily occupy a home at 11 Waco road. The Joys formerly operated Piedmont Washerette. City Weedy Lot Business Good The city reported good coop eration this week on weed-cut ting of vacant lots. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said numerous citizens have avail themselves of the city’s service offer to clean lots, overgrown with weeds due to the prevail ing wet weather. A city ordinance requires citizens to keep vacant lots clean and provides penalties for those who don’t obey it. Knitting Finn Chief Arrives Abraham I. Jacoby, head of the new knitting firm which is setting up machinery in the newly-built building on Waco Hoad, arrived here over the weekend. Mr. Jacoby estimates it will be at least two more weeks before installations are completed and the firm is ready to begin opera tions. One hold-up has been installa tion of water lines to serve the plant. Bad weather has slowed the work and some rock has been encountered. The city completed its gas line installation Wednesday. Mr. Jacoby said, when setting up operations are completed, the firm will begin work with about 30 employees. The firm will man ufacture knit sweaters, both plain and novelty numbers. All operations, with the excep tion of dyeing, will 'be done here. These include knitting, cutting,: sewing, pressing and shipping. The dye work will be contracted with a nearby firm. Both cotton and orlon yarns will be used in the knitting operation. Jack Hauser, production mana ger, said all employment matters1 will be handled through the Kings Mountain branch of the North Carolina Employment Service. License Sales Only $3843 Privilege license sales by the City of Kings Mountain totaled! $3,843 this week. The total — against a budget1 estimate of $6,000 revenue from! this source — indicated that priv- j ilege license sales will 'be heavy Thursday or that numerous Kings Mountain business firms will be' paying a minimum penalty of five percent. Thursday is the final day for' buying the licenses at par, with! the five percent per month penal ty to be operative Friday. All firms doing business within the confines of the City of Kings Mountain are required to pur-! chase privilege licenses. Textile Picture Some Brighter, Reports Show is. mgs mountains employment ! picture brightened slightly dur ing the month of July. Claims for weeks of unemploy ment compensation pay dropped to 3,019 from the previous month total of 3,554—off 531, and the active file of job seekers at the employment service office drop ped to 812, off 20, in spite of 141 new work applications. Franklin Ware, Jr., manager, said some of the new work applications repre sented persons formerly out of the labor market who hoped to obtain employment at the new knitting firm, just now setting up machinery. Two brighter spots showed a mong textile firms. Craftspun Yarns, Inc., had re called about 50 employees in re suming third shift operations. Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company’s Neisler division man ager reported production increas. ed more than 100 percent over the recent low point in May. “Things are on the upgrade for the first time since I've been here,” A1 Maino, general man ager, told the Herald. Mr. Maino said the improvement has yet to make much difference in the total number of employees, but that employees are getting long er work weeks and therefore lar ger paychecks. Mr. Maino report ed activity at the Pauline plant “still quiet”. He said, however, that Tuesday was spent in ef forts to make products more at tractive, price-wise, to customers and he hoped to see some favor able results within the next two weeks. R. A. Johnson, of Slater Mills, said this firm now has one-sixth of its 96 looms operating on a five-day week basis. He, too, hop es for better business in the weeks ahead. Gridiron Schedule Posted Downtown A harbinger of the approaching football season appeared this week, as the high school 1958 schedule was posted on the bill board at the Mountain street rail road crossing. The schedule appears on both sides of the billboard and is pain ted in the Mountaineer colors of black and gold. It is also adorned by drawings of the “old Moun taineer”, in typical mountain garb and replete with slouch field hat and pipe. Billy Ramseur, 14-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Ramseur, did the art work. The Mountaineers open away; playing Bessemer City on Septem ber 5. Most City Employees To Get Raise; Stadium Rental Said Too Still Majority of employees of the Oity of Kings Mountain will get across-the-board pay increases of five percent, effective Friday. An estimated half-hundred em ployees are beneficiaries. The exceptions include the heads of departments, court offi cials, and the elected officials themselves. Other exceptions are employees of less than six months tenure. A possible pay increase had been mentioned at a previous meeting and the only discussion on tlie increase concerned making it retroactive to July 1, beginning of the current fiscal year. Comm. Ross Alexander said he favored the increase from the July 1 date, but Mayor Glee Bridges and Comm. Ben Bridges suggested the figuring would be both tedious and detailed. After the discussion, Mr. Alexander made the motion, with the raise to be effective July. The pay increase funds will come from the $85,000 cash sur plus the city had at the beginning of the fiscal year. Another budget amendment out of the surplus was appropriation of $4 098 to the capital outlay fund to pay for the unbudgeted portion of a city electrical depart ment line truck for which the commission recently contracted. In another action, the board vo ted to renovate and repaint traf fic signs on the approaches to the city. A representative of the Kings Mountain Tigers, Negro baseball team, made a plea for relief of the $15 charge for City Stadium for all events on which the ten ant charges admission. It was stated that a recent night game grossed about $30, insufficient to pay the $15 rental fee and power bill, not to mention defraying ex pense of umpires and baseballs ($24 per dozen). Mayor Bridges and other mem bers of the commission said that other tenants, including city sdhools and the American .Legion post had paid the rental fee, and that policy would have to be the same fotrall. Comm. Ben Bridges suggested it might be possible for the city recreation commission to incor porate the Negro baseball activi ty into its program. The recrea tion commission was to be con tacted, the board agreed. Mrs. Smith, William Eaker Assigned Here A Kings Mountain branch of fice of the Cleveland County Wel fare department will open here on Monday, Jack Hoyle, county welfare superintendent, said yes terday. The Kings Mountain office will be located in the George W. Maun ey building on West King street, adjacent to the Kings Mountain ; hospital property, and will be un i der the direction of Ben Carpen | ter, welfare office supervisor. Assigned to the Kings Mountain branch as case workers will be Mrs. Eloise M. Smith, of Kings Mountain, since 1950 a member | of the welfare department staff, and William Eaker, who has re cently joined the welfare depart ment staff. Miss Elizabeth Craw ford, of Kings Mountain, a re cent high school graduate, has been employed as secretary for the Kings Mountain office. Mr. Hoyle said that the branch office will cover an area general ly embracing Number 4 Town ship, though not quite all of it. All records of cases in the area are being transferred to the Kings Mountain branch. He said the office area will include all of Kings Mountain City limits to Grover, the Bethware and Oak Grove communities. The area was covered, he said on the basis of caseload. Mrs. Smith, joined the county welfare department in 1950 after taking graduate work at the University of North Carolina. Mr. Eaker is a Duke University grad uate and also took graduate work there. Recently he was in personnel work for J. P. Stevens Company. He Is a native of Lawndale and lives in Gastonia. The branch office; was approved by th!e county board of commis sioners several weeks ago, on plea of numerous local citizens and recommendation by Mr. Hoyle and County Commissioner Carl P. Finger. City Gas System Profit $53,742 The city natural gas system Showed an operating profit of $53,732 for the fiscal year ending June 30, audit report of A. M. Pullen Company, Charlotte, shows. The gas system had gross rev 1 enues of $129,581, against oper ating expenses of $75,849. Gas sales totaled $124,556, with "residential customers accounting for the largest portion or $59,204. Large commercial customers paid the system $28,750, an in terruptible service user paid $16,408, and small commercial users paid the system $14,911. Sales to schools and public buildings totaled $5,281. Largest item of expense was the $58,159 paid Transcontinen tal Gas Pipeline Corporation for natural gas. At year's end, the system had assets of $487,407. Owed on the system is the original $400,000 in revenue bonds. First payment on this issue of $10,000 is not due until 1959. , At the year’s end the system had $69,000 in its sinking fund, $29,000 in its revenue fund, and $50,000 in the renewal and exten sion reserve fund. Busman Missed Bus, Herald Misses Pics If today’s edition of the Her ald looks a bit black and un brightened by pictures, blame it on certain representatives of Atlantic Greyhound Corpora tion, more particularly the dri ver of the 4:17 bus. The Herald buys its engrav ings for picture reproduction from Spartanburg Herald-Jour nal. The engravings scheduled to be used today were deposited at the Spartanburg Greyhound Terminal at 7:15 a. m. Wednes day Though Greyhound pulled sev eral northbound schedules the Herald Journal shipper hadn’t been informed. At any rate, the engravlrigs should have arrived at 4:17 ]). m., but the driver failed to note the Kings Moun tain Herald package and gave it a long ride to Charlotte.
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