Kings Mountain Merchants Observing Dollar Days This Weekend
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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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 14, 1958
Sixty-Ninth Year
Of) P ages
L U Today
VOL 69 No. 33
Established 1889
GIANT SIZE CANTALOUPE — J. D. Jones, of the El Bethel com
munity, and his son Johnny, show off the mammoth sized canta
loupe they grew to Elizabeth Stewart, Herald society editor. The
Cantaloupe tipped the scales at 13 pounds, three ounces, and the
Jones team says it has harvested several like it. Also on record for
the Jones team is a 49-pound watermelon.
Bumgardner Finds
Poland Friendly
Local News
Bulletins
AT CONFERENCE
B. N. Barnes, superintendent
of city schools, is attending
the annual conference of school
superintendents at Mars Hill
college. Mr. Barnes will return
to his office on Friday.
SCHOOL BOARD
Regular August meeting of
the city board of education
will be held Monday night at
7:30 at the office of Super
intendent B. N. Barnes.
CITY BOARD
The city board of commis
sioners will hold its regular
August meeting Thursday
night at 8 o’clock at City Hall.
Mayor Glee A Bridges was out
of-town Wednesday and the a
genda for the session was not
available.
COURT OF HONOR
Court of Honor for Kings
Mountain district Boy Scouts
will be held Thursday night at
7:45 p. m. at City Hall. Scout
leaders roundtable will be a
feature of the court.
KINDERGARTEN
Jack and Jill Kindergarten
will open for the fall session
on September 2nd, Mrs. Coman
Falls, the director, has an
nounced. Parents who wish to
< enroll their children should
contact Mrs. Falls at phone
number 198.
COMPLETES STUDY
Miss Martha Ann Baker will
arrive Monday from Louis
ville, Kentucky where she
has been a summer stu
dent missionary under the
supervision of the Baptist
Home Mission Board the past
ten weeks. Daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Baker, she is a
senior at Appalachian State
Teacher’s college.
AT MEETING
Miss Rebecca Crawford and
Miss Carol Jean Goter attend
ed the state convention of the
Luther League of North Car
olina at Lenoir-Rhyne college,
Hickory, August 7-9. Miss
Crawford, who is secretary of
the Luther League of Resur
rection Lutheran church, at
tended as a delegate and Miss
Goter as a vistor.
BEAM REUNION
The 34th annual Beam Re
union will be held at New
Prospect church five miles
Northeast of Shelby Thursday,
August 14. Hugh Beam, super
intendent of Marion City
Schools, will be the speaker.
Picnic dinner will “l>e served
on the church grounds, Mrs.
Hugh Bettis, secretary, an
nounced.
Kings Mountain,
Poland, Is Now
His Residence
By HARVEY BUMGARDNER
(Ed. Note: Dr. Harvey Bum
gardner, N. C. State College pro
fessor, is in Poland as Raleigh’s
community ambassador, repre
senting the capitol city in an in
ternational exchange program.
Today's is first in a series of ar
ticles Dr. Bumgardner is writing
about his experiences. The arti
cles are exclusive to the Kings
Mountain Herald and Raleigh
News and Observer. Dr. Bum
gardner is a son of Mrs. H. B.
Bumgardner and the late Mr.
Bumgardner.)
From the first meeting in Que
bec City, Canada, on the night
before sailing for Europe, it was
obvious that the two Experiment
groups to Poland were not ordi
nary tourists. Eighteen young
Americans were going to spend
the six weeks in Poland living
with Polish families and travel
ing throughout their country.
We sailed to Europe aboard the
Arosa Sun. Majority of the 1,000
passengers were students going
on organized tours of Europe.
There were a few independent
travelers. The Polish Experi
menters were asked many times,
“But why are you going to Po
land? Why not Rome, Paris, Lon
don, or Brussels?” We were going
to Poland with the desire to know
the people of that country. We
hoped to come to understand
Mis. Neill Had "Wonderful" Trip;
Found Denmark Worth Re-Visiting
By LINDA BISEB
"It was just wonderful”, Mrs.
B. S. Neill exclaimed, inspite of
blistered feet, souvenir of her re
cent tour of Europe.
The 28-day tour was conducted
by her son, Buren S. Neill, Jr„
manager of Wide World Travel
Service of Gastonia. A sister-in
law, Mrs. Frank McCombs, of
Bluemont, Va., was among the
six tourists as well as the society
editor of the Hickory Daily Rec
ord.
Nine countries, Ireland, Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, Germa
ny, Switzerland, France, Belgium
and England were visited, but
Mrs. Neill said a return to Co
penhagen and thle stores there
was the only place she would
care to revisit.
"Don’t tell them I got lost at
the World’s Fair,” Mrs. Neill
pleaded, recalling the Brussels,
Belgium, incident when she and
Mrs. McCombs were to meet the
group in the Russian exhibit aft
er an extended stay in the U. S.
pavilion. Throngs of people pre
vented the planned meeting and
the two Americans faced the
prospect of finding thte right exit
to return to their hotel. A disa
greement between the two los1
Americans on Which way to g<
was finally settled and Mrs
Neill's direction proved correct.
Snow was encountered in the
Scandinavian countries. In Nor
i way the sun shined day and night
Kings Mountain Recession Appears Waning
Dollar Days Sale
To Start Thursday
Retail Firms
Set Three-Day
Sales Event
Majority of Kings Mountain
retailers will observe Dallar
Days this week end.
The three-day trade pro
motion, Paul McGinnis, a
member of the Kings Moun
tain Merchants association
trade promotion committee,
said will feature both speci
al purchase bargains and
back-to-school attractions.
The three-day event begins
Thursday and continue
through Saturday.
Richard Barnett, Merchants
association president, said he
was pleased with the evidence of
participation in the sales event
by Kings Mountain retailers.
“The participating firms have
been at work getting special
merchandise for this weekend's
Dollar Days sale for several
weeks. They have been success
ful, with ample stocks at the
right prices.’’
Virtually all types of retail
firms are participating in the
sale—drug stores, department
stores, furniture firms, jewelries,
variety stores and others.
Donations Given
Rev. Gregory
Hospitalized in Kings Moun
tain hospital, Rev. John Gregory
awaits word to come to Baptist
hospital in Winston Salem some
time this month for surgery to
close a hole in his heart.
Rev. Gregory told Fund Chair
man Frank Rippy that he’d been
trying to stay at his Linwood
Road home to keep down hospi
tal expenses prior to his opera
tion. An eight week conditioning
period was required before Greg
ory undergoes the delicate sur
gery.
Receipts of donations this week
to help Gregory meet medical
bills after personal funds were
nearly depleted total $229.14.
Contributors this week include
the following:
Mrs. John W. Ham, $1.00.
A Friend, $10.00.
First Baptist Church, $155.00.
Ben Short, $5.00.
El Bethel Methodist
Church, $16.89
B. S. Neill, $25.00.
Men’s Bible Class of Central
Methodist church, $11.25.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Patterson,
$5.00.
Calendar Work
Beginning Monday
Kings Mountain Junior Wo
j man’s club members will begin
the annual house-tohouse can
vass to sell birthday calendars
in the community (Monday.
An annual project, the cal
! endars sell for 50 cents each,
\ while listing are 25 cents each.
The calendars list birthday
and wedding anniversary dates,
advertising from the commu
nity merchants, and lodge list
ings for civic club meetings.
Mrs. Dee Jackson is chair
man of the fund - raising effort
; and she urged members to
complete their canvassing as
soon as possible.
but failed to provide temperatur
es familiar here. Mrs. Neill said
the sun provided enough light to
read at night. The ice blue Briks
dal glacier impressed Mrs. Neill
as “something out of this world."
i She told of walking through a
hollowed cut in the Rome Glacier.
A letter awaited Mrs. Neill in
; Paris from Mrs. Tommy Harper,
! the former Maude Plonk, presen
tly residing in France. Mrs. Har
per is the daughter of Mrs. Neill’s
,W. Gold street neighbor, Mrs. J,
O. Plonk. A telephone talk with
jMrs. Harper was the last Mrs
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TO BE HONORED — Rev. P. D.
Patrick will deliver the sermon
at the community-wide union
service Sunday night at First
Presbyterian church planned to
honor the minister and his wife.
Rev. Mr. Patrick
To Be Honored
Rev. P. D. Patrick, for more
than 23 years a Kings Mountain
minister, will be honored by his I
congregation and the community
at Sunday night’s union service
at First Presbyterian church.
The sermon, final in the sum
mer series of union services, will
be delivered by Mr. Patrick at
7:30 p. m., and immediately fol
lowing, a reception honoring the
pastor and his wife will be held
in the fellowship hall. Women
of the Church will serve as hos
tesses for the event to which the
public is invited. A nursery will
be provided for all children under
12 in the recreation building.
Rev. and Mrs. Patrick will
move to Decatur, Ga. September
1, where Mr. Patrick assumes
duties as field representative for
Columbia Theological Seminary.
Since becoming Kings Moun
tain-citizens, both Mr. and Mrs.
Patrick have endeared themsel
ves to the community, as both
have been active in the com
munity life and have been noted
for service work outside the
church.
During the Patrick pastorate,
First Presbyterian church, not
only has grown in membership
and physical plant, but has com
pleted a handsome manse and
occupied a large recreation
building addition. At Dixon
church, which Mr. Patrick also
serves as pastor, the congrega
tion, formerly utilizing Dixon
schoolhouse, occupied in 1949
their new church building.
Mr. Patrick has served on the
board of trustees for both David
son and Peace Colleges, is a past
president ot the Home Mission
Association of the General As
sembly, has served on numerous
committees throughout the Kings
Mountain Presbytery and North
Carolina Synod and >n 1349 wasj
moderator of the Synod of North;
Continued On Page Twelve
Mrs. Garrett's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Sarah
Amanda Garrett, 88, who died
Saturday night after an illness
of five weeks, were conducted
Monday at 4 p. m. from St. Mat
thew’s Lutheran church.
Mrs. Garrett was a native of
Gaston county, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. John T. Car
penter. She was first married to
Julius M. Deal. Her seoond hus
band was the late Joe H. Gar
rett.
She was a member of St. Mat
thew's Lutheran church.
Survivors include a son, Rich
ard Garrett, San Francisco,
Calif., two daughters, Miss Al
da Deal, Mrs. G. O. Moore, both
of Rings Mountain, a sister, Mrs.
T. E. Plonk. Hardin, seven grand
children, and three great-great
grandchildren.
The final rites were conduct
ed by Dr. W. P. Gerberding. In
terment was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
It's Now Time
To Discount
Local Tax Bills
The City of Kings Mountain and
County of Cleveland tax collec
tors are accepting advance pay
ments on 1957 tax bills.
Benefit to the taxpayers is the
maximum allowed discount of two
percent.
City Tax Collector J. W. Web
ster said Wednesday a total oj
$18,880 on the current year’s bill
had already been paid and he pre
dicted heavy payments before Au
gust 30—last day to earn the two
percent discount.
Mr. Webster said the city’s to
tal valuation approximates $10,
011,000, up just slightly from last
year’s total. All figures are in
except the value on Southern
Bell Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, a figure obtained from a
state agency. Mr. Webster used
the 1957 Bell valuation in arriv
ing at his 1958 total.
Principal factor preventing a
larger increase, Mr. Webster
noted, was removal from the tax
scrolls of First National Bank,
on the books last year at $100,000.
Removal was effected by the 1957
General Assembly’s enactment of
a new revenue law. Banks were
removed from local ad valorem
tax, but some state taxes on banks
were added.
Williams Rites
Held Sunday
Funeral services for Aviation
First Class Clark H. Williams,
46, were held Sunday afternoon
at 4 p. m. from Grace Methodist
church, military burial rites fol
lowing in Mountain Rest cem
etery.
The graveside service was con
ducted by Legionnaires of Otis
D. Green Post 155, American Le
gion.
Stationed at Maxwell AFB.
Montgomery, Ala., a member of
the Supply Department, Wil
liams died Friday morning in
the Air Force hospital following
an illness of three months. He
had been in the Air Force 19
years. He was a member of
Grace Methodist church.
Survivors include his wife,
Pauline Ballard Williams whom
he married in 1938; his mother,
Mrs. Mae Fisher Williams; two
brothers, E. F. Williams, Colum
bia, S. C„ Brooks Williams, Gaff
ney, S. C.,and three sisters, Mrs.
Eugene Wall, Hickory, Mrs. Dar
vin Farris, Gastonia, and Mrs.
W. D. Bennett, Kings Mountain.
A native of North Carolina,
Williams was the son of the late
John Williams.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. W. C. Sides.
Final Sites Held
For Mrs. Wells
Final rites for Mrs. Pamelia
Jane Wells, 88, widow of Aaron
Lee Wells, were conducted Tues
day afternoon at 3 p. m. from
Antioch Baptist church.
Mrs. Wells succumbed Sunday
night at 8 o’clock at the home of
a son, Quinn Wells, with whom
she resided on Dixon road. A
native of York County, S. C., she
married the late Mr. Wells in
1931. She had been in declining
health for sometime but her
condition had worsened the last
several months.
She was a member of Antioch
Baptist church.
Surviving are seven sons,
Whitney, Earl, Wayne, Hunter,
and Quinn Wells, all of Kings
Mountain, Harley Wells, Wash
ington, D. C., Dailey Wells, New
port News, Va., and two daugh
ters, Mrs. Basil Francis, Blacks
burg, S. C., and Mrs. Verne Cor
ey, of Lake Worth, Fla. Also sur
viving are 19 grandchildren, 28
great-grandchildren, and two
great-great grandchildren.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. A. C. Martin, Antioch
pastor. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
BUILDING PERMIT
City Inspector J. W. Webster
issued a permit Monday to J.
Wilson Crawford to build a
one-story brick and weather
board residence on Cleveland
avenue between Stone street
and Woodside Drive. Esti
mated cost of the 5-room house
is $9500.
Students To Get
History Via T-V
ELECTED — Arnold W. Kincaid,
of Kings Mountain has been e
lected chairman of the board of
trustees of Gardner Webb Jun
ior college. He was appointed to
the post Monday.
County Schools
Open Labor Day
Bethware, Grover, and Com
pact schools, as well as all coun
ty schools, will open Monday,
September 1, it has been an
nounced by the Cleveland Coun
ty Board of Education.
County principals will begin
their duties two weeks prior to j
the opening.
This marks the first year that j
Kings Mountain area county
schools have operated on a non - ;
split-term basis.
Students at King Mountain
city schools will resume class
work September 2, City Schools
Supt. B. N. Barnes announced
last week.
Principals of the various city
schools together with the city
schools teaching consultant will
resume work on August 19.
CHURCH BENEFIT
The Woman’s Society of
Christian Service of Penley’s
Chapel Methodist church will
Wold a hot dog dinner and cake
sale at Grace Methodist church
Fellowship Hall, beginning
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock.
Fred Withers
To Instruct
T-V Course
More than 100 high school jun
iors will absorb facts via televis
ion 'beginning September 1.
Principal Lawson Brown said
Wednesday that 'Fred Withers,
high school history teacher, is
attending a clinic at Chapel Hill
on education-by-television meth
ods and will be the on scene in
structor for a television - beamed
course in United States history.
Current plans call for carving
a television instruction room
from the high school cafeteria.
A partition will be built and two
to three television sets will be
installed, if present plans jell,
Mr. Brown said.
He noted that the decision of
the city board of education to
join the experimental education
by-television program will help
the high school with both its
space problem and teaching load
problem.
Education television was laun
ched last year by several North
Carolina schools in a program
financed by the Ford Foundation.
Educators, Supt. B. N. Barnes
previously reported, had mixed
reactions to the first-year re
sults.
The instruction is beamed by
television from Greensboro andi
Chapel Hill.
ARP's To Hear
Dr. Romein
Dr. Tunis Romein, of Erskine
College, Due West, S. C., will
speak at Boyce Memorial ARP
clfueh Sunday morning at the 11
o’clock morning service.
Dr. W. L. Pressly, ARP minis
ter, is attending lectures at
Massanette Springs, Va.
Boyce Memorial will unite i
with other churches in the com
munity-wide union service at 8
p. m. at the Presbyterian church.
McGill reunion
Annual McGill reunion will
be held Wednesday, August 20,
beginning at 11:30 a. m. at Be
thel Church Arbor. Picnic din
ner will be spread at 12:30.
Champion's Hardware Gamble Aim;
Shelby, Tackle "If's" Big Hurdles
By MARTIN HARMON
“We play to win that
championship hardware,” High
School Football Coach John Gam
ble told Kings Mountain Lions
Tuesday night, as he gave a res
ume of prospects —both for Kings
Mountain and her forthcoming
ten opponents.
Coach Gamble inferred his
charges just might bring home
the big trophy emblematic of a
conference championship.
He mentioned two big “if’s”:
< 1) the performance of inex
perienced men at the two big tac
kle vacancies created by gradua
tion of Steve Wells and Dave
Marlowe and (2) old arch-rival
Shelby.
Coach Gamble didn’t wail
about his tackle situation, not
ing that Max Lee and Gilbert
Brazell are leading candidates
and tip the scales at 197 pounds
each. Harold Crawford is anoth-j
er hefty likely to succeed andj
several other candidates may
provide 'both heft and depth,
Coach Gamble foresees.
Shelby’s Lions, winner of last
year’s loop gonfalon via a 14-13
decision over the Mountaineers
in game hard-fought on the field
and afterward, lost just two
backs from their strong 1957 ag
gression.
Other Gamble pronouncements
for 1958:
Granite Falls, newcomer to
the schedule, will be a tough op
ponent.
Cherryville should be the most
improved team in the loop.
Junior Quarterback Don Fish
er is without peer as a quarter-,
back and “is as far along at this |
1 time as was George Harris when!
fie was a junior." Gamble also
noted that Fisher, like Harris, is
1 brain with the books, com
piling a high scholastic average in
the “A” area.
The day of the dumb football
player is about, over. (Kings
Mountain gridmen take tests just
like they do in scholastics. Last
year, no player on the'squad made
skull practice grades less than
_ ( 061
Ooach Gamble said defense will |
be a problem this year, as more
teams switch to single wing for
mation offenses, multiple of
fenses, and combinations of the
two.
The Mountaineers will gam
ble its fortunes on the T-system
in vogue here for several years.
Seven 'basic running plays and'
three pass plays will be the diet I
opponents will have to stop.
“Most 'urns have too many
plays,” Coach Gamble com
mented. “We aim at perfection
and believe we do better to be
expert at a few basic plays than
to spend too much time trying
to confuse our opponents with
more plays.”
Coach Gamble was particular
ly happy that Jimmy Blanton, in
jured early in the season last
year, will return to the grid wars.
He and Wray Plonk will provide
experience and depth at fullback.
Another question mark con
cerns the end situation, but Coach
Gamble thinks Mike Ware, Gary
Blanton, Chip Thorbum and Jim
my Littlejohn, among others,
will handle these spots adequate
ly
Carl Moss' take-over of the
(Continued on Page Twelve)
Jobless Pay
Claims Drop
Below 500-Mark
By MARTIN HARMON
Kings Mountain, apparently,
is turning the recession corner.
Two major items of evidence
were available Wednesday.
1) Unemployment compensa
tion pay claims had dropped by
196 in two weeks.
2) A1 Maino, general manager
of Neisler Division of Massachu
setts Mohair Plush Company, re
ported this company’s Kings
Mountain payroll up 15 percent
from the May low point and
added, “We’re getting business
and I think that by September it
will be liveable."
Franklin Ware, Jr., Manager
of the Kings Mountain employ
ment service office, said claims
for unemployment compensation
pay last week totaled 498, down
from the 544 of the previous
week and the 694 of two weeks
previously.
Mr. Maino said that business
had been attracted for the Paul
ine plant sufficient to put 30 of
the plant's 37 looms on two
shift, five-day per week opera
tion. He anticipates continuing
improvement in sale for the
company’s novelty fabrics.
Firestone Textiles, Inc., of
Gastonia, is also reported con
tinuing to increase production
and recalling laid off workers.
Numerous Kings Mountain citi
zens are employed at Firestone.
Mauney Hosiery Company has
reported orders for men's hose
increasing.
Building activity continues
high.
Kings Mountain’s recession
began about two years ago. Tex
tiles, the community’s bread
and-butter industry, continued
to be plagued by low demand
for goods even at less-than-cost
prices. The decline worsened un
til the recent pick-up beginning
after July 4.
Rites Conducted
For Mis. Oimand
Funeral services for Mrs. Lau
ra Z. Ormand, 92, were held
Wednesday at 4:30 p. m. from
Harris Funeral Home, interment
following in El Bethel cemetery.
Mrs. Ormand, widow of Char
les T. Ormand, succumbed Mon
day night. A native of Columbus,
N. C., she was a daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. James Weir.
Surviving are two sons, James
F. Ormand, Columbus, N. C„
Dewey W. Ormand, Lomita, Cal.,
and five daughters, Mrs. O. O.
Baber, Gastonia, Mrs. Mason
Goins, Asheville, Mrs. J. E.
Browning, Charlotte, Mrs. G. G.
Grigg, Kings Mountain, and Mrs.
Frank Boyd, Miami, Fla. Also
surviving are her brother, Char
les P- Weir, her sister, Mrs. E. L.
Campbell, both of Kings Moun
tain. 29 grandchildren, 59 great
grandchildren, and three great
great-grandchildren.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. James B. McLarty. pas
tor of Central Methodist church.
Grid Season Tickets
On Sale Next Week
Season tickets for the Kings
Mountain High Mountaineers
five home football games this
fall will be placed on sale at
Principal Lawson Brown's of
fice next Wednesday, August
20.
The tickets for the five gam
es to be played in City Sta
dium will sell for $5 and will
entitle the holder to a special
ly assigned seat in the con
crete section of the stands.
Mr. Brown said that he ho
pes to sell some 500 of the sea
son ducats. About half that
number were sold last year,
proved popular with fans who
were assured of their same
seat for each game.
The five home games this
season include two Southwest
ern Conference foes, Cherry
ville and R. S. Central. The
other three games here are a
gains* non-conference foes,
Granite Falls, West Mecklen
burg, and Mt. Holly.
The home opener is set for
September 12 against the new
comer to the card, Granite
Falls.
All home games are sche
duled for 7:30 p. m. —