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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 4 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. Sixty-Ninth Year 1 P Pages 10 Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL 69 No. 35 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 28, 1958 All Township Schools Open New Session Next Week Job Situation Here Is Still Improving Local News Bulletins ASSUMES NEW DUTIES Former secretary at Central Methodist Church, Miss Faye Robbs assumed duties Monday at American Commercial Bank in Charlotte. KIWANIS MEETING Kenneth C. Gibbons, of Charlotte, North Carolina, dis trict sales manager for Akers Motor Lines, will address Kings Mountain Kiwanians at their meeting Thursday at 6:45 at the Woman’s club. REUNION Annual Peter and Polly Lail reunion will be held Sunday at Bethlehem Community club house, Mrs. Tessie L. Bridges, has announced. Picnic lunch will be served at 1 p. m. ATTEND MEETING Mrs. C. Q. Rhyne, Miss Essie Marie Foster, and Miss Mary Ann Foster returned Monday from Hickory where they at tended the annual convention of United Lutheran Church women. IN PLAY HOLE William H. Cochrane, of New York, husband of the for mer Margaret McLarty of Kings Mountain, has been cast in the role of a sailor in the Broadway play, “Life Of Suzie Wong”, by Joshua Lo gan. ONE FIRE City firemen were called to the home of Clyde Connor on W. Kings street to douse a blaze in his garage last Thursday. C. D. Ware report ed only minor damages to the building. METER RECEIPTS Receipts from city parking meters totaled $117.85 for the week ending Wednesday at noon, City Clerk Joe McDaniel reported. Included were $100.55 from on-street meters and ano ther $17.30 from off-street me ters. "Polio" May Be ECHO Viius Report from State health au thorities on investigation of re ported Cleveland County polio cases was not available this week due to slow lab processes. The high Cleveland county total of infantile paralysis victims in cluded six from Kings Mountain. County health officer, Dr. Z. P. Mitchell said, “We all feel that some were not polio” and reports case history talks with doctor's diagnosing polio were held to determine if the virus could have been ECHO infection which produces symptoms similar to polio but leaves no paralysis The county health board re ceived a letter Tuesday from the state health board member in vestigating the cases requesting more data. Senior Clubwomen Set Bazaar Workshop Senior Woman's club mem bers will conduct a second ba zaar workshop Thursday night, September 4, at 8 p. m., Mrs. Haywood Lynch, president, has announced. Meeting at the Woman’s elub Wednesday, some 25 women discussed plans for meeting at specified times to gather ma terial for the 'bazaar, a feature of this year’s fall floral fair. Interested women of the com munity are invited to furnish samples or patterns at the next workshop for doll clothes, place mats, golf covers, bean bags, children’s dresses, um brella covers, ash trays, coat hanger covers, dried arrange ments, ceramics, aprons, and any other bazaar Item. “We urge all women in the community to coooera+e in this workshop,” Mrs. Lynch said. Ware Reports Jobless Pay Claims Off Unemployment compensat ion claims dropped to 457 for the week ending August 22, and the trend was continuing this week. Franklin L. Ware, Jr., man ager of the Kings Mountain office of the North Carolina Employ ment Service, said he was enheart ened by the trend. The total for the week ending August 22 was less than half the peak number of claims this year. A1 Maino, manager of Mas sachusetts Mohair Plush Com pany’s Neisler division, said busi ness continues to improve for this firm. He said, “Orders for the Pauline plant continue nip-and tuck. We are oversold on our W-3 looms at the Margrace plant and orders on C-4 and Jacquard looms are increasing at the rate of about six percent per week.” Mr. Ware said major shortage in the job order market is for plush loom weavers. He also said he has firms seeking a journey man plumber and a journeyman electrician. Waco Industries, Inc., starting into production, did their first hiring last Friday. Gregory Fund Gilts Reported Contributions to the fund for Rev. John Gregory increased by $48.50 this week. Mr. Gregory, Kings Mountain minister suffering from a condi tion diagnosed as a “hole” in the heart, is expected to undergo surgery at Baptist Hospital, Win ston Salem, in several weeks, the operation date postponed from last Friday. The Nazarene minister has been in ill health for sometime, and his funds depleted, friends had started a fund to aid him in financing the operation. Contributors this week in clude: Mrs. Paul Patterson.$ 5. Mrs. Andrew Jenkins . $10. Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church . $25. A. V. Nolan . $ 5. Miss Mary Nolan . $3.50. HOMECOMING Faith Baptist church will hold Homecoming Day services Sun day. Following services at 11 a. m., picnic dinner will be ser ved at the church at 12:30. Spe cial singing will be heard at 7:30 p. m., the pastor. Rev. Flay Payne, announced. Village Smithy To Bow Out Soon, Victim Of Automotive Horsepower By LINDA BISER Under a hole-filled sheet of tin the village smithy still stands — but not for long. In 30 days Realtor B. D. Ratterree informs Smith J. W. Whisnant one of the few survivors of the trade, the blacksmith will have to bow out. A modern service station will replace an industry of a bygone era. "Ain’t many horses”, the soft spoken Negro proprietor stated. "Not much work”. Shoeing and sharpening are about the extent of the services now offered by the W. King Street business. Sometimes the horses come to him, sometimes he goes to the horses. If he were a young man now, Whisnant says he might object to the horseless carriage putting him out of business. The Gaston county resident doesn’t possess a car but neither does he have a horse. He hitches au tomobile rides to and from his home on the Gastonia highway near the Tia Juana club. Reared in Kings Creek, S. C., Whisnant learned his romantic ally remembered profession a bout 50 years ago in Blacksburg, S. C. After quitting his trade in 1934, he tried farming and con struction work but “so many folks had complained about not having a place to get things fix ed” he resumed blacksmithing in the present location on high way 74 when Hazel Gill remOv ed his hauling business from the site. After the retirements of Blacksmiths, McClain, Falls, and Otto Ware the nearest smithy was in Shelby. His only son, now married and living in Baltimore, Md„ did not follow in his fath er’s footsteps. One of the last horseshoes Whisnant plans to forge profes ionally was given a final tap with the hammer as it lay on the anvil and dropped into a bucket to cool. From his seat at the anvil, Whis nant pointed out the equipment housed in his open air shop. The black, grease-coated bellows led into the forge where a fire was sending up curls of smoke in the intense heat of a hot summer af ternoon. Once upon a time the volume of work was so great that up to two fires were kindled weekly. Whisnant banked them at night and“blowed” them in the morning. Now a fire is built when the occasional work war rants it, mostly in the summer time. The rest of the time Whis nant says, “I just piddle around. Ain’t able to do any steady work.” Removing his hat, Whisnant beams, “Why chile, how old do you think I am?” and chuckles at the youthful guess. He’s sixty eight. The hiss of the cooling horseshoe is lost amid the noise of diisdainful automotive horse power speeding by the Smithy. W.S. Fulton. Jr. Plans To Open Retail Store O. W. Myers, veteran Kings Mountain merchant, announced Wednesday sale of his remaining inventory and fixtures to W. S. Fulton, Jr., who soon will open Fulton’s Department Store in the same building. Mr. Fulton is in New York this week on a buying trip. He was accompanied by Mrs. Fulton and Mrs. O. W. Myers. Until its clos ing in May Mrs. Myers was man ager of Myers’ Dress Shop. The building in which the new firm will be located is owned by W. S. Fulton, Sr., and was form erly the home of Fulton’s Depart ment Store, a business operated for many years by the late W. P. Fulton. The transaction whereby the new firm acquires the fixtures and inventory of Myers’ Depart ment Store will be effective as of September 1. The building is currently being painted and renovated. Mr. Fulton is a native of Kings Mountain and has been associat ed with Ware & Sons, Kings Mountain feed manufacturers and wholesale grocers. He is a graduate of Erskine College and a veteran of overseas service during World War H. He is a Ki wanian and treasurer of Boyce Memorial ARP church. Mr. Myers opened Myers’ De partment Store on November 18, 1938. He announced he would li quidate this business last Janu ary. Temple Pastor Assuming Duties Rev. Jack Weaver, of Ellerbe, is assuming pastorate duties at Temple Baptist church. He suc ceeds Rev. Harvey McElroy, re signed. Mr. Weaver, his wife, and three children are to move to Kings Mountain next week, a! church spokesman said Wednes day. The new minister was former ly pastor of Ellerbe’s First Bap tist church. Little To Join Home S & L Firm Frank Little, of Raleigh, will join Home Savings & Loan asso ciation Here next week. He will replace Joe H. McDan iel, Jr., who resigned to resume the city clerkship. A native of Hickory, Mr. Lit tle had been a Raleigh resident for more than ten years and has been associated with a Raleigh supply company. Mr. Little is a son of W. H. Lit tle, executive vice-president and secretary - treasurer of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan asso ciation, of Hickory. Gene Ware Acting Clerk Of Court . ::7 t WINS AWARD—Miss Mary Hel en Logan, nursing student, was awarded the Stroup Memorial a ward at Gaston Memorial Hospi tal in recent exercises. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law- ! rence Logan. Miss Logan Wins Award Miss Mary Helen Logan, rising' senior at Gaston Memorial Hos pital School of Nursing, was a warded the Stroup Memorial a ward as the student with the highest scholastic record last week. The award is given annually ‘by Dr. M. A. Stroup, of Gastonia, as a memorial to his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Stroup, of Cherryville. Miss Logan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Logan of Kings Mountain.1 During her freshman year, Miss j Logan was secretary - treasurer of the class and manager of the; ball team. She was class secre tary, business manager of the yearbook, and manager of the basketball team last year. The award was presented at a breakfast given by the hospital’s executive faculty. Special guests; were head nurses, supervisors, and house mothers together with the group of rising senior stu-; dents. Lloyd M. Ormand Rites Conducted Funeral services for Lloyd Meek Ormand, 55, who died Sat-; urday morning at 10:30, were held Sunday at Central Metho dist church. Mr. Ormand Had been ill for several weeks. An employee of Neisler divis ion of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, Mr. Ormand was a Kings Mountain native, son of Beatie Meek and Lillian Allison Ormand. He was a member of Central Methodist church. Surviving, in addition to his i parents, are his wife, Mrs. Leona Ross Ormand, two sons, Joe Meek Ormand, with the Air Force in France, and Lloyd Ormand, at; home, and two daughters. Miss Jane Ormand, of Raleigh, and Miss Rebecca Ormand, at home.j Also surviving are a brother, Hugh Ormand, and two sisters, Mrs. C. T. Carpenter, Sr., and Mrs. O. P. Lewis, all of Kings! Mountain, and one grandchild. The final rites were conducted by Rev. J. B. McLarty, the pas tor, and Rev. P. D. Patrick, pas tor of First Presbyterian church. Active pallbearers were Hall Goforth, Jim Trammell, Curtis Houser, Meek Carpenter, C. T. Carpenter, Jr., Ralph Ware, John Butler Pk>nk and John Dilling. Honorary pallbearers were; members of the men's Sunday school class of Central Methodist church. Retail Firms Plan Labor Day Holiday Majority of Kings Mountain retail and service firms will close Monday for the annual La bor Day holiday, according to announcement by the Kings Mountain Merchants associa tion. The retail firms customarily observing the Wednesday half holiday will also be closed next Wednesday afternoon. Other firms will operate on regular schedule. Bridges Audit: 39 Case Records Said Mis-handled City Policeman Gene Ware was appointed acting clerk of city Re corder’s Court Wednesday tby Ma yor Glee A. Bridges and auditors checking the accounts of former Clerk E. W. ( Buck) Bridges, sus pended last week, said they ex pected to complete their work Thursday. Mr. Bridges was suspended, Mayor Glee A. Bridges said, af ter admitting to the board of commissioners that he had been pocketing certain monies of the court. Representatives of A. M. Pullen & Company, Charlotte account ing firm, are O. T. Lingerfelt and Billy Watkins. Mr. Lingerfelt said Wednesday that the audit, thus far, indicated 39 cases may be involved in the shortage of funds involving the suspended court clerk. These date from (February 24, 1958. Included are 28 cases not dock eted from the monthly arrest re ports. The other 11 are docketed cases on which the monies in the jackets do not conform with the docket numbers and judgments. The suspended court clerk has been a desk sergeant for the city police department since 1953. He became court clerk last Septem ber. A cripple as a result of an at tack of polio suffered in 1945, he walks with the aid of braces or crutches. He is married and has two children. Mr. Lingerfelt, who superinten-j ded the annual city audit in July, I said the audit showed numerous cases with balances due, result-1 ing from credit terms given these defendants. He said it was sug gested to the Mayor that these be cleared. Subsequently, af the, Mayor’s suggestion, Judge Jack White announced that all debts overdue to the court would have to toe paid and ordered capiases issued for the particular defend ants. In the course of checking on these overdue balances, one de fendant produced a non-regula tion receipt. This event resulted in the preliminary check by city officials which resulted in the court clerk’s reported admission to the city commission last week, j Dixon Service To Honor Patrick Rev. and Mrs. P. D. Patrick, moving next Wednesday to De catur, Ga., will be honored at Homecoming Services Sunday at Dixon Presbyterian church. Mr. Patrick, pastor here of First Presbyterian church for 23 years, has been pastor of the Dixon church since its organiza tion in 1944. The Dixon congre gation moved into its new build ing June 26, 1949 after utilizing Dixon Schoolhouse for a number of years. Rev. Mr. Patrick will deliver the morning message at 9:15 a. m. and Sunday School will be followed by song service prior to the 1 o’clock dinner on the grounds. Singers from various churches havfe been invited to participate in the afternoon pro gram which begins at 2 p. m. Among the former members expected to attend are Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Darracott, now of Woodruff, S. C. Mr. Darracott ser ved as Sunday School superin tendent for many years. Rev. James Frazier, assistant minis ter of Grover’s Shiloh Presbyter ian church, has also been invit ed to participate. Rev. Trent Ho well, Shiloh pastor now in sum mer school at Columbia Semi nary will serve as Dixon supply pastor. Women of the Church, of which Mrs. Wayne Wells is president, is in charge of ar rangements. All members, form er members, and the public are invited to participate. KINDERGARTEN Jack & Jill Kindergarten a - cross from West school Will open for the fall term Tues day, Mrs. Coman Falls, the di rector, has announced. Giover, Bethware Compact Schools To Open Monday Area county school goers, ma jority of which will be operating for the first time on non-split term basis, will observe fall term opening Monday. Added courses, teachers, and bigger en rollments are slated for matri culation day. Principal James C. Scruggs said Wednesday 550 students are expected to enroll at Grover School. Opening bell will ring at 8:15 a. m. and the abbreviated schedule will run through 2:15. Lunch will not be served the first day, but lunchroom facili ties will be available Tuesday. Two new courses, physics and driver’s education, have been added to the Grover High school curriculum. High school teachers include Mrs. Theresa Holt, ninth grade homeroom teacher and teacher of home economics and biology; Mr. Glenn Hawkins, tenth grade home room teacher, math, scien ce; Preston Holt, holder of elev enth grade homeroom and tea cher of physical education and social studies; Miss Lillian Quinn, English teacher and sen ior class homeroom advisor; Paul Hambright, agriculture; and James C. Scruggs, principal and teacher of world history and e conomics and sociology. Elementary department teach ers for Grover schools include Mrs. Elizabeth Cooksey McGill and Mrs. Edith Jones, first grade; Mrs. Nell Biser, second grade; Mrs. Patsy Whiteside and Mrs. Carolyn Roark, third grade; Miss Aileen Mullinax and Miss Piccola Blalock, fifth grade; Mr. William Kiser and Miss Dorothy McCraw, sixth grade; Miss Sarah Cooksey and Miss Lowell Ellis, seventh grade; and Mrs. Mar garet Crocker, eighth grade. Principal Scruggs also pointed out a well rounded mathematics and science program offered for the first time this year. Chemis try lab and library remodeling are slated to start before school opens, and possibly the adding of another classroom, to be made from the old cannery. He has also announced that teachers will be in their rooms from 2:00 p. m. until 3:30 p. m. Friday, August 29, and invited parents to drop by to register their children, pay book fees, and talk with the teachers. Compact school expects some 515 students to enroll Monday, according to the school principal L. L. Adams. A new course in typing and j the addition of physics to the high school curriculum are major changes made this year. School convenes at 8:30 a. m. Monday and will be dismissed at 3:00 p. m. Lunches will be served beginning Wednesday. High school faculty members include J. E. Sanders, science and math; C. T. Pass, physical education, social studies, and athletic coach; Miss M. R. Adair, home economics; Mrs. H. C. Wil son, English and French; and M. L. Campbell, agriculture. Teaching in the elementary department will be Mrs. I. V. Couser, Mrs. S. P. Adams, Miss L. W. Wellman, Miss L. C. Mc (Continued on Page Eight) ( Annual Bethwaie Community Fair Two Weeks Away; Officers Listed Bethware Community Fair dis tributed premium catalogs and served barbecue to fair support ers Wednesday, as the annual preliminary to the 11th! annual Fair. This year’s fair, a Number 4 Township event, will open for a four-day run on September 10. The anual Bethware Fair Bar becue was scheduled for 6 o’clock at Bethware school. The event an nually attracts some 200 or more persons. The premium catalog lists com plete rules and regulations for the 11th annual fair, and prizes for the wlners of the many entry lists. Children’s Day will be observ ed this year on Thursday, Septem ber 11. Frank Hamrick is president of the fair this year, and other of ficers are Thurman Warlick and Jim Yarboro, vice-presidents, My ers Hambright, manager, Stokes Wright, secretary, Edwin Moore, assistant secretary, Menzell Phi fer, treasurer, and Buford Ware assistant treasurer. Other officers include Lamar Herndon, grounds superintendent, Grady Seism, parking superin tendent, Tom Hamrick, assistant parking superintendent, Mearl Seism, superintendent of parking admissions, Garrison Goforth, as sistant superintendent of parking admissions, Charles Spearman and Jim Yarbro, superintendent of tickets, D. P. Putnam and Dale Volbracht, assistant superintend ents of tickets, T. L. Warlick, pur chasing agent, and William Pow ell, assistant purchasing agent. Construction superintend e n t s are: Ladies department, Boyd Harrelson and Eugene Patterson; agriculture department, Marion Dixon, Grady Seism, Holland Horn, A. L. Putnam and J. W. Rayfield. Department directors and as sistants are: Agriculture, Wayne L. Ware, Jr., director, Willis Har mon, Jim Yarbro, Joe Craver and Eugene Patterson; Horticulture, Cameron Ware, director, and Boyd Harrelson, Frank Ware and, Edwin Moore; Farm and Ma-i chinery, Holland Dixon, director, and Charles E. Goforth and La-j mar Herndon; School exhibits,; Mrs. Hugh Ormand, chairman,! and Mrs. Randolph Lowery; Women’s Department, Mrs.J Charles M. Fisher, director, and Mrs. Hill Lowery. Mrs. Hal Mor ris, and Mrs. Ed Yarbro. INDUCTED — Charles D. Blan ton, Jr., has been inducted into the North Carolina Academy of Pharmacy. Pharmacy Group Inducts Blanton Charles D. Blanton, Jr., Kings' Mountain druggist, has been in ducted into membership in the North Carolina Academy of i Pharmacy. The Kings Mountain pharma-1 cist was inducted into the organ ization at a meeting of (District 7, North Carolina Pharmaceuti cal association, held at Gastonia August 20. Membership of the academy totals about 30 North Carolina pHarmacists is and awarded on basis of participation in church and civic affairs, other public service activities, and work of the county, district and state! pharmaceutical groups. Mr. 'Blanton is a graduate of, the University of North Carolina, in 1953. He spent two years In | the army before returning here: to become a pharmacist at Kings j Mountain Drug Company. '58 City Taxes One-Third Paid j i City Tax Collector J. W. Web ster reported Wednesday pre payments on 1958 city taxes at a ; total of $51,834.51, about one- j third of the estimated $150,000 levy for last year. Mr. Webster anticipated furth er heavy payments during the forthcoming weekend, as the end of August will end the period for the maximum allowable two per cent discount. Since the beginning of the fis cal year, collections of 1957 and prior taxes have totaled $7,784. 49, Mr. Webster said. By paying their taxes early, city business firms and residents have already earned $784.78 in i discounts. BUILDING PERMIT J. W. Webster, city build ing inspector, issued a per mit Friday August 22 to Horace Ross to build a one story frame house on Sec- j ond street between Blanton | and Margaret streets. Estima ted cost of the 4 room residen ce is $5,500. City, Paik Grace Units To Begin Work On Tuesday Kings Mountain city schools and Park Grace school in the county system will open the 195S 59 term Tuesday morning at 8:30. Both B. N. Barnes, superin tendent of city schools, and Mrs. J. C. Nickels, principal of Park Grace school, said the first-day schedule will be limited to a half-day, ending at noon, and that full-day classwork will get underway on Wednesday. First graders will be at school for only a half-day until Septem ber 15. School cafeterias will o pen on Wednesday. Faculty meetings will be held on Monday. A general teacher’s meeting for all teachers in the white schools will convene at 10:30 a. m. at Central auditorium, to lx? followed by a covered dish dinner lit.W RESIDENTS Parents of school age children entering school here for the first time and are not assigned to a particular school due to this fact should make inquiry at the of fice of Supt. B. N. Barnes or to the several school principals, Mr. Barnes said Wednesday. with the Kings Mountain NEA unit as host at 12:30 p. m. at the Central cafeteria. At 2 p. m. unit teacher meetings will be held at the respective schools. Park Grace teachers will con vene for a teacher’s meeting at the school at 10 a. m. Davidson teachers will meet at Davidson school at 1:30 p. m. Supt. Barnes reported city schools faculties near complete. The board was still awaiting school board was still awaiting a recommendation for a Bible teacher from the committee on teaching of Bible in the public schools. However, Dr. W. L. Pressly, a member of the sub group on recommending a teach er, said that his three-man com mittee will recommend Mrs. Da vid W. Smith, Route 3, Kings Mountain. Other members of the sub-group are Rev. P. D. Patrick and Rev. J. W. Phillips. It was anticipated action will be taken prior to school opening. Otherwise, it appeared school was ready to open with a mini mum of difficulties. Pupil transfers, a major prob lem of the past, both to school officials and to parents, appear ed at a minimum, Mr. Barnes said that only eight formal trans fer applications had been recei ved through Wednesday, follow ing last week’s board of educa tion pupil assignment resolution. Mr. Barnes noted that trans fer applications must be made on official forms available at his of fice. The forms meet require ments of the North Carolina at torney - general’s office. He also noted that the state pupil assign ment law provides that transfer applications must be filed within ten days from August 28, final publication date of the assign ment resolution, to be considered by the board of education. Mrs. Nickels said the six-mem ber Park Grace faculty is un changed and includes, in addi tion to herself, Mrs. M. C. Pos ton, Miss Fannie Carpenter, Mrs. Pauline Weaver, Mrs. Nevette Hughes, and Mrs. J. H. Page. Plonk Retiring From Revenue Post T. Motley Plonk, Kings Moun tain native and manager of the Charlotte office, United States Bureau of Internal Revenue will retire September 1. Mr. Plonk was honored for his 23 years of service to the bureau at a banquet in Charlotte last Friday night. Freak Accident Injures Carroll Home accidents via the lawn mower can be dangerous, Wil liam Curtis Carroll, 29, will quickly agree. Mr. Carroll, hospitalized since Thursday when a piece of steel picked up by the lawnmower his brother was operating struck him in the back, under went two operations at Kings Mountain hospital this week. His wife reported his condi tion improving Wednesday. Mr. Carroll, according to Mrs. Carroll, was sitting in the yard outside their home on Benfield road with his back to the lawn mower being used by his bro ther, Harold. The three inch piece of steel injured his lung, muscle, and heart.
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