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.
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|Q Today
Sixty-Ninth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
VOL 69 No. 32
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 7, 1958
School Will Open
On September 2
Local News
Bulletins
BUILDING PERMIT
J. W. Webster, City Inspect
or, issued a permit to J. C.
Clary Monday to build a one
story brick veneer residence on
Second street between Mar
garet and Blanton streets. Es
timated cost of the 5-room
structure was listed at $5000.
AT FOOTE
Shuford K. 'Peeler, Jr., of
Charlotte, has joined Foote
Mineral Company here as a
chemist. Mr. Peeler, who re
cently received his discharge
from the Army after serving
in Zama, Japan, received his
bachelor of science degree in
Chemistry from Duke Univer
sity.
LODGE MEETING
Regular communication of
Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
will be held Monday night at
7:30 p.m. at Masonic Hall. Taft
S. Putnam, of (Lawndale, 43rd
district deputy grand master,
will 'be special guest.
AT PARRIS ISLAND
Pvt. William A. (Ton y)
Goins, who entered the Ma
rine Corps July 7, is at Parris
Island, S. C., for four months
of basic training. His address
is PLT 274, "I” Oo., 2nd Bn.,
MCRD, Parris Island, £> C. Pvt.
Goins is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Goins, 603 Phenix street.
TO GREENWOOD
Mr. and Mrs. George Hamp
ton and family will move Mon.
to Greenwood, S. C. where Mr.
Hampton has assumed duties
as manager of the Greenwood
office of Liberty Life Insurance
company. The Hampton^ will
occupy a residence at 1117 S.
Main street.
REUNION
Kings Mountain high school’s
graduating class of 1948 will
hold a reunion Saturday from
5 until 10 p. m. at Lake Craw
ford. Picnic dinner will be
spread.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Kings Mountain’s Life Sav
ing crew has expressed appre
ciation to the following who
assisted in the benefit dance
recently sponsored: (Ray Sisk,
Ross Alexander, Wood Gray
son, Sam (Davis, Sue Sanders
S'troupe, Mrs. Arthur Sanders
and Frank Blanton.
HOMECOMING
Bethlehem Baptist church
observed its 116th year as an
organized church last Sunday
at the annual homecoming at
tended by members and former
members. A musical program
by the church choir, under di
rection of Bill McDaniel, fea
> tured the afternoon service.
YOUTH PARTY
A come-as-you-a r e party
will be held for intermed
iates and young people of
First Baptist church Friday
night at 8 o’clock at the Youth
Fellowship hall. Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Logan will be hosts.
DR. BERT DIES
Dr. Mary Berts, 79, of Spartan
burg, S. C., died within the past
two weeks. Dr. Berts taughl
through the extension division ol
the University of South Carolina
and her pupils included manj
Kings Mountain people.
TWO FIRES
City firemen were called to
the home of John Plonk at 118
Piedmont avenue at 5:45 Wed
nesday. July 30 to extinguish
a fire caused by a hot wash
ing machine motor. A second
call was answered Wednesday,
August 6 to the DeWitt Corn
well apartments at 103 Car
penter street to douse an oil
stove blaze. No one was in
jured and no damage was re
ported.
HOMECOMING
Homecoming Day services
will be held Sunday, August
10th, at Oak View Baptist chur
ch on York road. Dinner on the
church grounds will follow the
morning service after which
special singing has been plan
ned. The revival services be
gin on Sunday night.
Barnes Reports
West Overload
In Sixth Grade
School bells will ring for
! Kings Mountain students on
| September 2, as classwork will
be resumed after summer holi
i days.
City Schools Supt. B. N. Barn
es said Wednesday that all prin
cipals of the various schools in
j the city system together with the
! city schools teaching consultant
! would resume work on August
; 19th.
School teachers will gather for
a teacher’s meeting on Monday,
September 1.
Meantime, the school official
reported several teacher vacan
cies still existing. He noted that
one new elementary teacher had
been elected, reported “good”
prospects for two other positions,
and addressed letters yesterday
to some 60 West School patrons
explaining what he termed “a
problem’’ in that elementary
unit.
Mr. Barnes wrote: “We have a
problem facing us concerning
the sixth grade at West School.
We expect approximately fifty
eight children and have only
one classroom available. We
had hoped to get three new
classrooms built to the school
before September but due to dif
ficulties in securing the neces
sary land, building has been
delayed.” The only satifactory
solution we know is to provide
another sixth grade classroom
at Central School for half of
these children. We believe a suf
ficient number of parents will be
willing to send their sixth grade
children to Central. We are en
closing a form which we hope
parents will use to notify us of
their willingness to send their
sixth grade children to Central.
We need this information imme
diately.”
The state board of eduoation
tentatively has approved building
of three new classrooms at the
West unit and necessary funds
have been alloted. However, the
addition is contingent upon the
securing of the land adjacent
to the present school site. The
land the school seeks to obtain
is owned by Mr. George Cansler,
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gamble,
and the S. S. Weir Estate.
Kings Mountain’s board of edu
cation, in meeting Monday, nam
ed George B. Thomasson, Kings
Mountain lawyer, as the 'board’s
agent in the land negotiating. It
also approved finally the ope
rating budget for the current
yedr.
Previously, the board had em
ployed Miss Patricia Hayes, of
Charleston, S. C., as an elemen
tary teacher.
Supt. Barnes reported no pros
pects for the Bible teacher va
cancy but noted several "good
prospects” for both the science
teacher vacancy and speech ther
apist positions. In addition to the
need for a teacher of Bible, there
also is a position open for a driv
er’s education instructor. Two
teacher vacancies remain in the
elementary grades.
Supt. Barnes and J. L. Beam,
Jr., the school’s architect, will
go to Raleigh Thursday to carry
tentative plans for a new David
son School gymtorium to the di
vision of school planning of th
state board of education.
I 1
DERBY WINNER INTERVIEWED — Freddie Foster, 13-year-old
Kings Mountain youth who won the Charlotte Soapbox Derby last
Saturday, is interviewed shortly alter his victory by Bob Provence,
commentator for Charlotte WSOC-TV. The Foster lad goes to Akron,
Ohio, next Wednesday to participate in the national finals August
17. (Photo courtesy WSOC-TV)
Freddie Foster
SoapboxChampion
Foster Youth
OH To Akron
Next Wednesday
Freddie Foster, 13-year-old
soapbox derby entrant, made it
two consecutive wins for Kings
Mountain Saturday as he raced
to victory in the Charlotte soap
box derby and again will repre
sent the area in the national fi
nals at Akron, Ohio.
Young Foster, raced to victory
and three trophies in the 13th: an
nual running of the event, jointly
sponsored 'by Charlotte’s WSOC
TV and Chevrolet dealers.
Placing second in the Class B
division for 11 and 12 year olds
was another Kings Mountain ra-,
cer, Jimmy Falls, son of Mr. and j
Mrs. Jonah Falls. Falls' race with
Paul 'Mauney, Jr., of Gastonia, in
the Class B finals was literally a
photo finish. The print showed
that Mauney was only a hair’s
breath in front of the Kings
Mountain lad.
-A total of 58 youngsters com
peted in the event.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Foster, who live on Cherryville
Road, young Faster in 'his sleek
car named “White Lightning”
won his final heat going-away
with the best time of the day at
30.2 seconds. He also won the
award for best designed car in
the field.
■
Young Foster credited both his
sponsor Gene Austin of Piedmont
Washerette, and Tony Hampton,
last year’s Charlotte winner, with
considerable help in his victory.
Young Hampton, not eligible to
compete this year, served as his
unofficial coach.
Foster leaves next Wednesday
for Akron and will be accompan
ied by Gene King, of Charlotte,
director of the Charlotte Derby.
All the Kings Mountain en
trants, Foster, Falls, and Bill
Ware, along with Tony Hampton,
were guests of the Jaycees, at
their Tuesday meeting. Hampton
did the talking, as the 1958 wan
ner was out-of-action with a sore
throat.
Planning to attend the Akron
races, to be run on August 17.
are young Foster’s parents and
the Hampton family.
Bloodmobile Returns Here Monday;
Blood Use Outstripped Donations
Kings Mountain Jaycees are
sponsoring the Monday area Red
Cross bloodmobile unit visit for
the beginning of the new fiscal
year.
A quota of 150 pints is needed
to launch the new year’s cam
paign which began July 1. Don
ors will 'be processed at the Wo
man’s club from 11 a. m. to 5 p.
m.
Officials at the blood center in
Charlotte report Kings Mountain
Red Cross Chapter oversubscrib
ed last year’s quota by 12 pints
but used up 22 pints more than
contributed. A total of $562 was
announced as Kings Mountain’s
share of the costs for obtaining
biood products from the regional
center which processes blood con
tributions. Recruiting of at least
five eaoh rare type O negative
and A negative donors was stress
ed for the chapter.
Mrs. J. N. Gamble, the chap
ter’s executive secretary, report
ed that the 1958-59 blood quota
has not yet been set by the Kings
Mountain chapter.
The Jayoees urge all conscien
tious citizens to support the blood
mobile unit, quoting Grady Ho
ward, Kings Mountain hospital
manager, to quell rumors of high
charges for donated blood. Mr.
Howard said the hospital gives
necessary transfusions as freely
as the blood is given.
However, three tests at a char
ge of $2 each are required before
administering the blood. A flat
fee of $2 is charged for use of
hospital equipment and time.
The mobile unit offers donors
a free medical check-up, cookies!
and drinks. The finger of the do
nor is pricked to determine the
blood type and blood is removed
at the elbow.
Prospective donors desiring:
transportation to the Bloodmo- j
bile center should call 644-R or j
9135.
TO MISSION FIELD—Miss Bob
bie Barrett, of Kings Mountain,
will go to Japan in the fall for
a three year term as an educa
tional missionary for the Metho
dist Church.
Miss Barrett
Going To Japan
Miss Bobbie Barrett, daughter
of Mrs, OL. W. Barrett of Kings
Mountain, will begin a three
year term of ov^seas mission
service as an educational worker
in Japan for the Methodist chur
ch this fall.
Miss Barrett is among 46 young
men and women who will be lea
ving the United States as short
term missionaries to the 18 coun
tries of Africa, Asia, Europe, and
North °_nd South America.
The missionaries represent 22
states, Hawaii and Canada and
will be engaged in various types
of work, including agricultural
demonstration, evangelism, you
th and student counseling, and
teaching from the kindergarten
through university levels.
For six weeks this summer, the
group studied and worked toge
ther in special training courses
at Searritt College for Christian
Workers, Nashville, Tenn., de
signed to prepare them for mis
sionary service. They attended
classes in linguistics, anthropo
logy, the Bible, basic Christian
beliefs, arts and crafts, Christi
anity and communism, and the
missionary heritage and vocation.
Born in Wgco, Miss Barrett at
tended Kings Mountain high
school and studied four years at
High Point college. She was gra
duated in 1957 with a bachelor of
arts degree in elementary educa
tion. While in college, Miss Bar
rett was elected to “Who’s Who
in American Colleges and Univer
sities”, was vice-president of the
Pan-Hellenic Council and was a
member of Lambda Alpha Phi
sorority and Alpha Delta Theta,
women’s religious organization.
She was an elementary school
teacher one year and is a mem
ber of El Bethel Methodist chur
ch.
Clubwomen Begin
Calendar Drive
Kings Mountain Junior Wom
an’s club has designated August
18-30 as Birthday Calendar Em
phasis Week.
The Junior Woman’s dub
sponsors annually the sale of
community birthday calendars
which list birthdays of individ
uals as well as anniversary
listings, lodge listings, and ad
vertisements.
The attractive calendars sell
for 50 cents each. Listings are
25 cents each.
Carolina Throwing To Double
Fhiflon Production Capacity
Joe McDaniel
Will Resume
City Clerkship
Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., who re
signed July 15 as city clerk, will
resume his former post on Au
gust 18.
The city board of commission
i ers, in special session Tuesday
■ night, voted to return Mr. Me
Daniel to his former position.
Mr. McDaniel had resigned tc
become assistant secretary-treas.
urer of Home Savings & Loar
association.
He said he had decided he was
not suited for the position anc
tendered his resignation to tin
Home Savings & Loan board ol
directors.
By the city action of Tuesday
Mrs. Grace C. Wolfe, acting city
clerk since Mr. McDaniel resign
ed, will resume her former pos
ition as assistant city clerk anc
treasurer.
Mrs. Dean McDaniel, who had
been employed as d, city office
clerk, resigned last week end.
Mr. McDaniel spent eight
years at City Hall before his re
cent resignation. He was first a
clerk and for many years was
assistant clerk, before assuming
the clerkship on the resignation
last year of C. E. Mitcham.
A Home Savings & Loan dir
ector said no action has been
taken on replacing Mr. Mc
Daniel.
City Awarded
Safety Honor ,
King? Mountain has been cited
by the American Automobile as
sociation and the Carolina Motoi
club for having eliminated pe
destrian traffic deaths from its
streets for the last six years.
The AAA “No Pedestriar
Death” certificate was presentee
to Mayor Glee A. Bridges toj
Warren L. Downie during cere
monies at City Hall Monday
Kings Mountain was selected foi
the award on the basis of its
report submitted to the 1957 AAt>
Pedestrian Program appraisal, ir
which cities and states vie foi
awards in their activities to pro
i tect. the man afoot.
“The residents of the city —
both pedestrians and drivers —
I deserve considerable credit foi
: making this award possible,” Mr
t Downie told the Mayor during
I the presentation. “This recorc
! was achieved despite the facl
' that traffic exposure for pedes
; trians has experienced tremend
ious increases — population, mo
: tor vehicle registration and miles
of travel.
“The marked reduction that
has taken place in pedestrian fa
I tali ties over the years is th«
brightest spot in the entire traf
fic accident picture. Pedestrian
J fatalities in 1957 totaled 7.S00, a
reduction of 50 per cent from
the high point reached in 1937.
During this same period of time,
all other traffic fatalities in
creased 27 per cent.”
Mr. Downie said this city was
selected for citation from 170S
competing cities of all sizes. The
real reward, however, he stress
ed, was in pedestrian lives saved.
“Almost every pedestrian acci
dent," he pointed out, “results
in serious injury or death. This
makes it essential to place great
er emphasis each year on pe
destrian safety activities.”
Conrad To Speak
At Union Service
The president of the North
Carolina synod of United Luther
an churches of America, Dr. F
L. Conrad, of Salisbury will speak
at the last regularly - scheduled
community - wide union service at
Resurrection Lutheran church
Sunday night.
During the presidency of Dr.
Conrad, the Lutheran church has
grown in mission activities and
mission congregations, Rev. R.
Douglas Fritz pastor of the host
church noted.
Dr. Conrad attended Lenoir
Rhyne college, has served Em
manuel Lutheran church in High
Point and has three sons in the
Lutheran ministry.
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney will di
rect the junior and senior choirs
of the church in singing “Come
Christians Join To Sing”.
Williams Rites
Held Tuesday
Funeral rites for Mrs. Sara A
lison Williams, Kings Mountaii
: native and schoolteacher her
and in Bessemer City for man;
years, were held Tuesday at 4:31
p. m. from Harris Funeral Hom<
Mrs, Williams, wife of J. C
Williams who owns and operate
Central Drug Store in Besseme
City, succumbed Monday mom
' ing at Charlotte’s PreSbyteriai
j 'hospital.
I Daughter of the late Mr. an<
| Mrs. James F. Allison, Mrs. Wil
liams was a member of the Pres
byterian church at Besseme:
City, active in the women’s or
( ganizations of the church and al
so active in the Woman’s club
I She was married to Mr. William:
I in 1942.
Surviving, in addition to he;
husband, are a sister, Mrs. J
j Harvey Williams, of Gastonia
and three aunts, Mrs. J. G. Jack
son, Gastonia; Mrs. Sam J. Mat
(thews, Clover, S. C., and Mrs. El
la Youngblood, of Clover, S. C.
The final rites were conducte<
| by Rev. J. H. Pruitt and Rev. A
! A. Bailey.
reiati
leal
ror Rev. Gregory
Rev. John Gregory, Kings
Mountain minister, will undergo
major surgery in Winston Salem
August 22nd, if not earlier.
The Kings Mountain man's
condition, diagnosed by doctors
as a “hole” in the heart, will re
quire a delicate operation.
Much needed treatment and
Gregory’s long illness have de
pleted his finances, and area
citizens have started a Gregory
Fund to aid the minister, former
pastor here of Park Grace Naz
arene church.
Contributions to the Gregory
Fund may be directed in care of
this newspaper or in care of
Frank Rippy, Rippy's Jewelry, a
friend of the minister. Gifts will
be acknowledged in the Herald.
Mr. Gregory said Tuesday his
operation has been scheduled
for August 22nd but noted he
may be called to Baptist Hospital
earlier for the necessary treat
ment three or four days prior to
the final stage of the operation.
Gregory Fund contributions re
ported this week include:
Fellowship Class, Central
Methodist Church.$21.75
Young Men’s Sunday School
Class, Second Baptist .. $ 7.10
Rev. R. J. Essary . $10.00
El Bethel Methodist
Church . $16.89
HOSPITALIZED
' i J. H. Yelton, improving from
j an operation in Gastonia,s Gas
i ton Memorial hospital, is still
l allowed no visitors, Kings
; 'Mountain relatives reported.
Mr. Yelton is the father of
Mrs. I. C. Davis and Grady Yel
I ton.
Size Of United States Impresses
Aussie Exchange Student Reeves
I “The size of everything in the
' United States" is most impressive
to Graeme Frank Reeves, Kings
Mountain’s first international
exchange student.
Arriving Sunday afternoon in
Charlotte, the New Zealander
was greeted by Dr. and Mrs.
Philip Padgett in whose 'home he
will reside for the coming school
year.
The 20- day trip from his Auck
land, New Zealand home in the
land down under required boat
transportation to California, a
plane to New York and finally a
bus to Charlotte. In Cockney ac
cent, Reeves said he’d " ’ad too
much to do to get ’omesick.”
A rising twelfth grader, Reeves
is sponsored at a cost of $650 by
the Woman’s club aided by vari
ous civic clubs, individuals, and
organizations of the community
under the American Field Service
; International Scholarship pro
! gram.
Reeves commented enthusias
tically that he’d like to play on
the high school football team
1 but doubted that he could since
i (Continued on Page Eight)
STUDENT — Graeme Frank
Reeves, Kings Mountain's first
international exchange student,
has arrived in this country to
study one year. He will be a
senior at Central high school
this fall.
Company Also
Adding Saaba
Yarn Spindles
Kings Mountain Carolina
Throwing Company, Inc., has
purchased equipment which %vill
virtually double its production of
nylon Pluflon yarn and hopes
lo have it in operation here about
August 25.
W. K. Mauney, Jr., secretary
treasurer of Carolina Throwing
Company, which is currently ex
panding its plant facilities with
a large addition, announced pur
chase of all the FIufIon machin
ery and equipment of Blackweld
er Textile Company, Inc., of
Cherryville.
Mr. Mauney said the purchase
was concluded by the signing of
contracts last week. The con
tracts were signed by Joseph
Immerman, president, and Irvin
Brower, secretary, of the Black
welder firm, and toy Carl F.
Mauney, president, and W. K.
Mauney, Jr., for Carolina Throw
ing Company.
Pluflon is a trade name for
nylon stretch yarn used in t'he
manufacturer of hosiery, knitted
sportswear, bathing suits, danc
ing tights, sweathers and many
other products.
Mr. Mauney said it is antici
pated the machinery will be mov
ed to Kings Mountain about Aug
ust 25.
He also announced purchase
from Universal Winding Com
pany, Inc., machinery manufac
turers, 200 spindles for the pro
cessing of nylon into Saaba yarn,
a textured yam used primarily
in the sweater trade.
Cooking School
Begins Monday
The Junior Woman’s club and
the high school Home Economies
department will sponsor a cook
ing school, with 'the first of three
demonstrations to be held Mon
day night.
The courses, free and open to
the public, will be held at 7 p. m.
on the evenings of August 11, Au
gust 18, and August 25th in the
high school auditorium.
Duke Power Company demon
; strators, and Mrs. John H. Gam
ble, high school Home Economies
! teacher, will conduct the classes.
The first class will feature in
struction in party refreshments,
the second class in oven meals,
and the third class in preparing
| budget meals with small appli
ances.
Members of the Woman’s club
committee on arrangements in
clude Mrs. Charles Wilson, chair
man, Mrs. James Gibson, Mrs.
Bill Bates, and Miss Mary Alice
McDaniel.
Barber Resigns
fts VFW Head
Rhea Barber, of Kings Moun
tain, has resigned as command
er of Kings Mountain Post 9811,
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Barber said he is resign
ing because “other committ
ments will not permit as much
time to this position."
Officers have called a special
meeting of the post for Tuesday
night at 8 p. m. at the VFW
building on Grover road.
Local Boys Fire
Three Foot Rocket
Tonie Hughes and James
Swannson, Kings Mountain
1-ocket enthusiasts, recently fir
ed successfully a three foot
rocket.
According to the boys, the
rocket changed its course short
ly after leaving the platformat
at a 50 degree angle to a near
verticle one in which it wept
out of sight approximately
600 yards.
They report a low humming
sound was heard as the missle
began its descent, the humming
sound becoming louder as the
rocket neared. The rocket was
found 880 yards from the
launching site.
The total trajectory of the
rocket was about three quar
ters of a mile. The fuel was a
solid in the form of a dust.
-Future plans include a roc
ket capable of obtaining a l
titude of more than a miie.