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I 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. Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September I I, 1958 1 (J Page,1! 10 Today PRICE TEN CENTS ~ VOL. 69 No. 37 Established 1889 Sixty-Ninth Year Local News Bulletins SCHOOL BOARD Regular monthly meeting of the city board of education will be held Monday evening at 7:30 at the office of Supt. B. N. Barnes. PRESBYTERIAN Dr. T. F. Clark, of the David son College faculty, will deliv er the sermon at the 11 o’clock morning service Sunday morn ing at First Presbyterian chur ch. BAND BOOSTER SUPPER The Band Booster Club will hold a covered dish supper Monday evening at 7 o’clock at Central school cafeteria, it was announced by Charles Ballan ce, band director. STUDENT TEACHER Mrs. Hilda B. Goforth is do ing her student teaching in the fourth grade of West school during the fall quarter ending November 26. Mrs. Goforth is a student at Appalachian State Teacher’s college. AT CENTRAL Dean Westmoreland, senior at Appalachian State Teach er’s college, is doing student teaching at Kings Mountain high school. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Westmore land of Grover. He graduated in 1953 from Grover high school. REUNION Annual Love family reunion will be held Sunday at Anti och Baptist church, with pic nic dinner to be spread at 12: 30 on the church grounds. All friends and relatives are invit ed* ONE FIRE City fire department report ed one fire during the past week. An automobile blaze was doused at the home of Dr. Hendricks on W. Mountain street Friday afternoon at 2:35. No damage was reported. BUILDING PERMIT J. W. Webster, city inspector or, issued a permit Thursday to Kelly Dixon to build a one story frame house on N. Gantt Street extension. Estimated cost of the 5-room structure is $5000. TO CONVENTION Postmaster Charles Alexan der and Mrs. Alexander leave Friday for Cincinnati, Ohio, where they will attend the an nual National Association of Postmasters convention in ses sion next week. Knittei Making First Shipment Waco Sportswear, Inc., was to make its first shipment of sweat ers Wednesday. The new knitting enterprise has recently gone into production and now has 30 employees, Production Manager Jack Hauser reported. Brought to Kings Mountain to occupy a new building construct ed 'by Kings Mountain Business Development, Inc., the knitting firm hopes to increase its pro duction employment to about 100 persons within a year. Mr. Hauser reported orders “too good” in relation to the firm’s present production. He said the immediate production goal is 60 dozen sweaters per day. Barry Awarded Lions Trophy C. P. Barry, recently retired secretary of the Kings Mountain Lions club, was presented a tro phy Tuesday night emblematic of his qualifying as a ‘TOO percent secretary,” during 1957-58. Mr. Barry and other secreta ries of District 31-C met all re quirements of district and inter national officials, meeting dead lines for reports and other ser vices, J. W. Webster, zone chair man, told members of the Kings Mountain club in making the presentation. 200 Season Grid Tickets Available About 200 reserved seat sea son tickets remain available for Kings Mountain high school home football games, Princi pal Lawson Brown said Wed nesday. The Mountaineers open their home schedule Friday night against Granite Falls. The season ducats sell for $5. Bethware Fair Is Underway, ContinuesThrough Saturday Township Event Is Expected To Set Records I He 11th annual Bethware Com munity fair opened Wednesday; afternoon and will continue! through Saturday at midnight.' The fair opens daily at 1 p. m. Thursday will be children’s day, j with young folk getting special rates on riding devices and at the sundry amusement concessions. Numerous prize drawaings will be conducted daily and fireworks displays will be fired nightly. The fair is set up at Bethware' school grounds, four miles from Kings Mountain on Shelby Road. R. C. Lee Riding Devices again are a midway feature and nu merous concession stands dot the area. Bethware senior class again is operating a booth, serving sand wiches cold drinks and other re freshments. Profits will be used for next spring’s senior class trip to Washington, D. C. With warm days and cool nights, it appeared the fair would again be blessed by ideal harvest season weather. There is no general admission charge to the fairgrounds. Frank Hamrick, president of the Fair, which is sponsored by the Bethware Progressive club, said Wednesday he anticipated new records will be set, both' for attendance and in the many com petitive divisions. "We issue a cordial invitation to all area citizens to visit the fair,” Mr. Hamrick said. Manager Myers Hambright said judging of all exhibits and in ail departments will be conducted Thursday. Cash prizes await the winners. Blanton To Head Seal Sale Drive Charles ‘Blanton, Kings Moun tain druggist, will head the 1958 seal sale campaign in Kings Mountain. Announcement was made by Mrs. B. M. Jarrett, executive sec retary of the Cleveland County Tuberculosis Association which sponsors the fund - raising effort. Mr. OBlagiton is a pharmacist at; Kings Mountain Drug company. I In Shelby, the <Jrive will be headed by H. Eugene LeGrand. The effort to raise funds to fight tuberculosis will get underway in November. KIWANIS PROGRAM A musical program, featur ing the Clary Girls from Gaff ney, S. C., will be a feature of the Thursday meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. The club will meet at 6:45 at the Woman’s Club. Harold Cog gins arranged the program. TO HIGH POINT — Rev. J. J. Thornburg has resigned as pas tor of Patterson Grove Baptist church to accept a new pastorate in High Point. Rev. Thornburg In New Post Rev. J. J. Thornburg, pastor of Patterson Grove Baptist church for the past seven years, will as sume new pastorate duties in High Point in October. Mr. Thornburg is resigning to become pastor of Albertson Road Baptist church and he and his family are moving to High Point September 30. Mr. Thornburg attended Gar dner Webb and Limestone coll eges. Band Schedules Two Fall Trips The city schools band has al ready booked two trips during the fall, Director Charles Ballancej said this week. On September 20, Kings Moun tain’s band will be the lone high school band at the Wake Forest Maryland football game at Win sto-nSalem. On October 11, the band will take part in the eighth annual Southeastern Band festival at Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia. At the Bristol festival, the band will be judged for excellence in both marching and playing. First held in 1951 with 23 bands participating, the festival last year attracted 58 bands from Virginia, Tennessee, North Car olina, West Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky and Florida. The Bristol event will mean an overnight stay for the Kings Mountain band. Bristol’s three colleges are col laborating in serving as hosts to the visiting band organizations. Enforcement Of UN Agreement Held Key To Arab Friendship Enforcement of the provisions of the United Nations in creating the Israel state is necessary to restore close relations between the United States and the Arab nations, Musa Marto, native A rab, told members of the Lions club Tuesday night. Mr. Marto’s statement came in a question-and-answer period, in which he charged that former president Harry Truman was re sponsible for setting up the Is raeli state “in spite of the ob jections of his advisers and for personal reasons’’. He also char ged that Secretary of State Dull es has continued the policy of creating distrust between the A rab nations and this country, pointing to his use of loan funds for the Aswan dam as a ham mer in an abortive effort to force compliance with American aims in the Middle East. “The Arabs had always trusted America until the Israeli state was created”, he declared. Mr. Marto’s family was eject ed from Jerusalem by the Israeli in 1948. He said that the United Na tions set-up provided that Arabs could stay in their homeland. “The UN should require that Israel take us back or provide reparations,” he declared. Speaking on the topic “Aspira tions of a Nation”, Mr. Marto credited present misunderstand ings between the Arabs and the West to fact there are few Arabs available to present to America the Arab viewpoint and the fact that the Arabs for centuries liv ed under the heel of big powers, first, for six centuries under the Turkish Ottoman Empire, and subsequently under the French and British. He termed the French “stu pid”, but said the British ruled better. “The Arabs are just like any other civilized people. They want to establish a place for themsel ves,” the speaker declared. He noted that there are some misconceptions about the Arab civilization, stating that history shows the Arabs were educated and had developed a high level culture when Europe still lived in the Dark Ages. He pointed to the development of algebra and chemistry by Arabs and the con tributions of Arab culture to Spain and other European coun tries. He also noted that many A rabs, like himself, are Christian and had been for generations. “1 am not a convert,” he said. “My parents, grand parents and great grandparents were born Christ ians." He suggested that Mr. Dulles, and many Americans, tend to think that any nation not heavi ly pro-American is an enemy. “The black or white idea is not right, for there is a neutral side. Millions think so.” Mr. Marto guessed that Nasser, of Egypt, is too smart to be dup ed by the Russians. He noted that Egypt’s arms are furnished by Russia and are necessary to repulse ambitious, expansion hungry Israel, which is furnish ed weapons by the United Sta tes. Tlfe long-term dream of Arabs is an Arab nation of 80 million of people, modeled on the do (Continued on Page Eight) Board Endorses Pullen Ideas On City Court The city’s auditors, A. M. Pui ien Company of Charlotte, have made suggestions for tightening the city recorder’s court system to preclude future mishandling of funds. The recommendations were ap proved by the board of commis sioners last week and forwarded to Judge Jack White with recom mendation that the court insti tute the suggestions. 1) That no partial payments on either fines or court costs be ac cepted. 2) That citation .slips be issued on all arrests and that the case docket number be inscribed on both the arresting officer’s copy and on the court copy. 3) That all monies, including cash or checks for appearance bonds, be deposited daily, with names of the persons bonded listed on the deposit slips. 4) That no checks be cashed out of cash on hand. The recommendations followed the special audit of accounts of former Court Clerk E. W. (Buck) Bridges. It had been a court practice to allow a guilty defendant time to pay his debts to the court and to accept partial payment. It has also been a practice not to cash appearance bond checks and to return them to the defendant and/or bondsman when the de fendant appeared in court. Commission Was To Meet The city board of commission er was to meet Wednesday even ing at 8 o’clock for the regular September session. Among the items of business was a public hearing on a peti tion of the R. S. Plonk Estate to re-zone property on West King street to business designation. The property is bounded by Country Club road, King street and the west city limits. City Recreation Meeds Building, Plonk Contends Fred W. Plonk, onetime chair man of the city recreation com mission. told the board of com missioners last week that the city needs a recreation building. He said the city had made stri des recreationally in its present plant, including swimming pools, playground areas and ten nis courts, but that a recreation building is needed badly. Mr. Plonk spoke to the board informally, as he appeared as a member of a citizens committee [ reporting on plans to add seat ing capacity at City Stadium. Mayor Glee A. Bridges replied that such a building would re quire a bond issue, and Commis j sioner Ben H. Bridges suggested that a concurrent requirement would be voting of an additional j recreational ad valorem tax for ; operations. Comm. Bridges noted that the recreation commission, with its present facilities, find paying its bills a touch-and-go ■ matter. Mr. Plonk said he would favor a bond issue for a recreation building. He was recreation com mission chairman at the time the city swimming pools were constructed. He also said he would donate property for building of city ten nis courts in the Crescent Hill area. Oif-To-School List Now Totals 141 Addition of nine to the area’s off-to-school list brings to a to tal of 141 the students who are leaving for post-high school training. They include: Sylvia West, ! Western North Carolina college: Tommy Smith, North Carolina State college; Herman Stewart, Howard Business college; Tom my Gilbert, Brevard college; Dale Gilliand, Clemson College, Donald Dixon, Gardner Webb college, and Rev. Harley Dixon Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Ky. Also Vicky Jenkins, University of Florida, and Jerry Jenkins. Belmont Abbey. COURT OF HONOR Court of Honor f' r Kings Mountain district Boy S routs will be held Thursday’ night at 7:45 at City Hall courtroom. WHAT A TOMATO! — Jack, of the famous Bean Stalk tale, likely would be proud to add the plants grown Ijy Eugene McSwain to his j collection of horticulture giants. The tomatoes are of the Bigboy Hybrid variety, and according to Mr. McSwain are not a tree type. He planted the seedlings In early April and the plants are now a bout 11 feet tall, have been bearing fruit since .early summer, and are still growing and blooming. Wanting to find out about shavings basket gardening, said McSwain. "I shot the Juice to them. Brucei" Plant nutrient used was a preparation called Nutri-sol, which Mr. McSwain observed, “worked pretty good." McSwain, when not g.owing giant tomatoes, is manager of Joy Theatre. Fifth Day Enrollment Up 37 Over Comparable 1957 Date RECEPTION HONORS PASTOR — Rev. and Mrs. Jack Weaver are pictured above at the reception given in their honor Sunday by the ongregation ol Temple Baptist church. Mr. Weaver assumed duties ia;t week at Temple church after having served as pastor of Eller be's First Baptist church. A large crowd attended the event which was planned by the Women's Missionary Society. (Photo by Pennington Studio) City Is Building Seats At Stadium 1024 Seats May Be Ready By Chenie Game City football fans will have bet ter seating accommodations, ap parently by the opening confer ence home game with Cherryville on September 19. The city appropriated last week up to $6,000 for adding 1,024 seats at the stadium and for ma king improvements to the press box. The new bleachers are being built South of the present perma nent bleachers on the West side. Work on the additional seats is already underway and Jack Rayfield,. in charge of the con struction, thinks they’ll be ready for use by September 19. The seats will be 2 x 8 pre treated wood, mounted on con crete block supports. The blocks, in turn, will be laid on concrete foundations. The board of commissioners acted on recommendations of a citizens committee which had been appointed to gather plans and specifications for the stadi um improvements, the committee including C. T. Carpenter, Jr., Fred W. Plonk, and Fleete Mc (Continued on Page Eight) Lutherans Resume Regular Schedule St. Matthew’s Lutheran church has resumed its regular service schedule, after summer seasan changes. They are: Sundays — Sunday school at 9:45, morning worship at 11 a. m. and Luther League at 6 p. m. Mondays — Cub Scouts 3 p. m. and Boy Scouts 7 p. m. Wednesday — Choir practice 7:30 p. m. Confirmation instruction class es are being held at the church at 10 a. m. Saturdays for youths 12 years of age and older. On Sunday evening, the Luth er League members will elect of ficers for the coming year. McGill Clinic To Be Constructed Construction of the McGill Cli nic on S. Watterson street be tween W. King and W. Moun tain will begin soon, evidenced by the issuance of a building permit by J. W. Webster, city in spector, to the McGill brothers. The clinic will be a modern 14 room sttucture and will be con structed by Seth Construction Company of Lincolnton. Estimated cost of the building listed on the permit form was $29,000. Warsaw Still Shows Scars 01 War; Bumgardner Finds Food Reasonable By HARVEY BUMGARDNER (Ed. Note. This is second of a series of articles by Mr. Bum gardner, Kings Mountain native, on his trip to Poland as Ralei gh’s Community Ambassador, t Mr. Bumgardner is due home, next week.) Warsaw, the capital of Poland, has a history which dates back, to the 13th Century when it was a simple village. In 1596 King Sigismund III moved the capital of Poland from Cracow to War saw. By 1937, the population of, the city was 1,300,000. More than ! 600,000 of the residents of War-1 saw lost their lives in the battles for the city during World War II. Almost 85 percent of prewar pro perty was razed. Destruction of industry came to 90 per cent. To day Warsaw’s population has a gain grown to over 1,000,000. It is shocking for an American - to me from Kings Mountain, North Carolina where no bomb has even fallen — to see even now, so many years after World War II, a large number of war destroyed buildings. The reconstruction of Warsaw has been almost heroic. Despite this there is still a considerable housing shortage here. Toward the center of the city the situation is most critical. Often a family of several members must live in a one-room apartment. As one moves toward the outskirts, hou sing become somewhat more ad equate. My Polish family lives about 13 miles out of Warsaw in an area where little fighting occurred. The home in which they live has three 'bedrooms which are ordi (Continued on Page Eight) I Gain Is 49 Over Opening Day's Total Additional city schools enroll ment since opening day brought total enrollment through the fif th day of the school session to 2282, Supt B, N. Barnes reported Wednesday. The total was up 49 over open ing day and up 37 over the fifth day enrollment of 1957. Major gains were recorded by all school divisions except Cen tral high school, where 18 less pupils were enrolled than last year. The total high school popu lation gained one from opening day to 519. Biggest gain showed in the white elementary schools, with 1481 pupils, up 29 from last year’s fifth day. .Second largest gain was at the colored elementary school, with 212 pupils, up 19 over last year’s comparable school day. Davidson high school enroll ment jumped to 70 pupils, a gain of eight over last year’s fifth-day 62. Other elementary school popu lation totals on Monday were: Central 361; East 409; North 425; and West 286. Supt. Barnes said the schools are operating smoothly and with a minimum of overload problems. He reported that the board of education met on Monday and found it necessary to rescind three transfer requests, original ly approved tentatively. These were; Sarah Frances Mauney was returned from West school sixth grade to Central; Thomas H. Black was transferred from West school sixth grade to Cen tral (the pupil would normally have been assigned to North school >; and Mary Beth Ramsey, fourth grade, was returned to East school from Central. In each instance, the changes re lieve overloads. The board approved application for transfer of Michael Huffstick ler from the East third grade to West school. “The board of education con sidered other transfer requests but was prevented in granting them due to problems of space and grade population,” Mr. Barnes reported. He said only one overload prob lem remains. The West school fourth grade still listed 37 pupils on Tuesday. He said it would be helpful if two West fourth grad ers would volunteer for transfer to Central. Other than West fourth grade, no class has a population greater than 35. Heart Operation For Gregory Soon Rev. John Gregory has recover ed nicely from what his doctors thought to be a slight cerebral hemorrhage, and plans for a heart operation to close a natal hole in a heart chamber will not be altered. Dr. Paul Hendricks said Wed nesday Rev. Gregory is awaiting an appointment at Baptist Hos pital in Winston-Salem. Dr. Hen dricks pointed out that the first step will be cautherization. of the heart to examine its interior and then determine if an operation will be successful. If the examination indicates the operation will be a success, the operation will proceed as planned. Dr. Hendricks reported Rev. Gregory to be “status quo” in all respects. A fund to aid Rev. Gregory in his financial difficulties, which have resulted from the long du ration of the illness, has been set up by Frank Rippy, friend of the heart patient. Contributions are still needed. Any donations should be referred to Mr. Rippy of Rippey Jewelry. Contributions made will be ac knowledged in the HERALD. Woman's Club Held Bazaar Workshop Woman's club members were meeting Wednesday afternoon to gather bazaar items for the 1958 floral fair, “Autumn Har vest,’’ scheduled here in Oc tober. The worshop is one of sev eral being planned prior to the show which is being presented by the Woman’s Club and Garden Council of the city. Fair booklets are being dis tributed this week which list the schedule of competitions and other information.
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