Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from tire 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. VOL. 69 No. 41 Established 1899 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 9, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper 1C Pages 10 Today PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins HAMBRIGHT REUNION Annual reunion of descen dants of Col. Frederick Ham bright, Battle of Kings Moun tain hero, will be held at An tioch Baptist church near Gro ver Sunday, beginning at 12:15. Picnic dinner will be ser ved. The reunion attracts a bout 150 persons. BUILDING PERMIT City Inspector J. W. Webster issued a permit to J. Wilson Crawford Wednesday to build a one-story brick veneer house at 602 Woodside Drive. Estima ted cost of the 5-room struc ture is $10,000. COURT OF HONOR Regular Curt of Honor for Kings Mountain district Boy Scouts will be held Thursday night at 7:45 at City Hall courtroom. TO CONVENTION J. Ollie Harris, owner of Har ris Funeral Home, expects to leave Sunday for Cleveland, Ohio, where he will attend the annual convention of the Na tional Funeral Directors asso ciation. METER TAKE Parking meter receipts for two weeks ending Wednesday at noon totaled $259.22, City Clerk Joe McDaniel reported. Included were $36.88 from off street meters and $222.34 from on-street meters. 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 roundtables will be held during the court. GIRL SCOUTS Girl Scouts in Senior Troop 25 of First Presbyterian church have pillows for rent at all home football games here, Mrs. T. L. Kesler, troop leader, has announced. The Girl Scouts began the project sev eral weeks ago. PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE Regular 11 o’clock services will be held Sunday morning at First Presbyterian church. The pulpit will be filled by a minister from Davidson col lege. iJfca. LION MEETING Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions club will be held Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s Club. George H. Houser is program chairman for the meeting. Committees Named Foi ASC Cleveland County farmers chose ASC committeemen last Thursday in annual balloting in 11 county communities. Area committeemen named were: Number 5 community — Glenn Sperling, chairman and county convention delegate; Charles E. Goforth, vice-chairman and al ternate delegate; Earl Eaker, regular member; and William A. Wright and William Lawrence Plonk, alternate members. Number 4 community—Stough Wright, chairman and delegate; Willis Harmon, vice-chairman and alternate; Nevette Hughes, member; and Otto Williams and Alex Owens, alternates. The county convention will be held at 9 a. m. October 21 in the basement of the county agricul ture building at Shelby for the election of the county committee for the coming year. Current county officers are D B. Blalock, Kings Mountain chairman, Warren Warlick Lawndale, vice-chairman, anc Ralph Harrill, office manger. Grigg To Speak At Bethware P-TA J. H. Grigg, Superintendent o County Schools will be speaker a the first meeting of the Bethwan PTA, to be held Friday night, Oc tober 10, at 7:30 in the school au ditorium. Mr. Grigg will speak on th proposed consolidation of rura high schools. oore Ruling Is Sustained In First Baptist Case C Of C Plans For Election Of Directors Plans were initiated Tuesday : night for an election of directors of Kings Mountain Chamber of: Commerce, Inc. Directors of the association, at . a supper session at Cottonwood Restaurant, agreed to a plan whereby a committee of seven will nominate 30 members for the board of directors. Mail balloting will determine the 15 winners. As is customary, the 15 directors elected will name the officers of the organi zation. President Carl Swan named to the nominating committee War ren Reynolds, chairman, Dan Weiss, vice-chairman, Fleete Mc Curdy, Wilson Crawford, W. K. Mauney, Glee A. Bridges and Dr. L. T. Anderson. The nominating committee has scheduled a meeting for City Hall courtroom Monday at 7 p. m. The directors also voted not to bill members for 1957 dues. Dr. T. L. Anderson, secretary treasurer, reported the current bank balance of the Chamber of Commerce at $2353.40 and re ported total expenses of the organization to date at $342.85, a gainst total receipts of $2696-25. Dr. Anderson said most of the money expended had been in the Chamber’s assuming of or ganizational expenses of Kings Mountain Business Development, Inc., the industry-seeking organ ization fathered by the Chamber of Commerce. NEPH Week Is Underway The nation is currently obser ving national Employ the Phy sically Handicapped week. Promoted through the employ ment service and other organi zations, numerous posters and other publicity materials call at tention to the neeed for employ ing physically handicapped. Em phasis is one use of skills still available. Locally, F. L. Ware, Jr., man ager of the employment service branch, said, “In this community we have 25 applicants now re gisteredfor work and able to per form suitable jobs. Many of these workers have valuable training and experience that can be used as cashiers, billing clerks, sales men, machine operators, and machine fixers. “Due to the increase in automo bile and industrial accidents the number of handicapped will in crease. Bast records show that the handicapped worker adds to the efficiency of your work for ce. They can be restored to eco nomic independence. They help the community as a contributing member. They can help make the state and nation stronger. We urge each employer to measure the requirements of the job and hire a handicapped person where possible.” KIWANIS PROGRAM G. R. Babcock, president of a Charlotte dental manufactur ing firm, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwan is club at their meeting Thurs day night at 6:45 at the Wo man's Club. Ausley Accepts Presbyterian Call Elizabeth City Pastor To Take Post November 1 Dr. Paul K. Ausley, for 13 years pastor of Cann Memorial Presby terian church in Elizabeth City, will assume pastorate duties at First Presbyterian church here November 1. He succeeds Rev. P. D. Patrick, who resigned in September to be come field representative for Co lumbia Theological Seminary. Mr. Ausley announced his re signation to the Elizabeth City congregation Sunday. In Elizabeth City, Dr. Ausley has served as president of the Ministerial Association, as a Boy's Club director, a member of the Red Cross, T. B. Associa tion, the Lions Club, and the Civic Council. He and his wife organized the Protest ant Kinder garten during their first two years in Elizabeth City. Dr. Au sley served as moderator of Albe marle Presbytery, as a member of Presbytery Council, and on many Presbytery and Synod committees. During his pastor ate, over 500 members were re ceived into Cann Memorial chur ch, more than one third upon profession of faith. The new church debt has been liquidated, a new brick manse erected, and the church air conditioned. Plans for a new educational building have been approved by the con gregation. A native of Greensboro and Franklinville, Dr. Ausley was graduated from Florida South ern college, attended Hartford Seminary, and received the B. D. degree from Duke University where he did work in clinical psychiatry. He subsequently stu died at Union Seminary, Colum bia University, and American College where he received the Th. D. and D. D. degrees. His major work was in Theology. His dissertation was “A Comparative Study of Calvinism by William Adams Brown and Benjamin J. Warfield.” Mrs. Ausley, a native of Tup elo, Miss., was graduated from Mississippi State College for Wo men', received her M. S. degree from Yale University with hon ors and wa£ a Kellogg Fellow. She did graduate work in Phy sical Chemistry as a General E lectric Science Fellow at Union College and completed pre-medi cal training at the University of Mississippi. She taught science in the Elizabeth City high school and in Pasquotank County. Pre viously, she served with the U. S. Health Service and the Miss issippi State Board of Health. IN CHARLOTTE SHOW Meek A. Carpenter, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Carpenter, is a member of the cost of the Charlotte Little Theater pro duction, "The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker”, opening tonight at 8:00 P. M. and running through Oct. 18. Pepfest, Parade, Football, Dance Top High School Homecoming Event Kings Mountain high school students are eagerly awaiting the 1958 Homecoming festivities, which will be held Thursday and Friday evenings. The whole affair will begin Thursday night with a bon fire pep rally to be held at the city j pool recreation area. Cheerlead ers will lead the group in a snake-1 dance from the gymnasium to the pool. The Kings Mountain pep band will render music and the cheerleaders will give their latest yells. Friady will arrive boasting a number of phases of the event. Students will be working all day decorating floats, putting up post ers, stringing crepe paper for the big evening parade which will be ! gin at the gymnasium ,go through j t town, and terminate back at the ■ gym. Seven organizations to en-| ■ ter floats and cars in the event. - are The National Honor Society.' Future Teachers, Student Council, j Future Homemakers, K Club,1 ’ Statix 'n Dramatix and the Moun-' (Continued on Page Eight) QUEEN — Miss Pat Brooks, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Brooks, will reign over the 1958 Homecoming festivities Friday at Kings Mountain high school. Miss Brooks is a senior. NEW PASTOR — Dr. Paul K. Ausley, of Elizabeth City, will assume pastorate duties at First Presbyterian church November 1. He has been minister of Cann Memorial Presbyterian church for 13 years. Employment Trend Up Kings Mountain’s branch of fice of the North Carolina Em ployment Service placed more persons in employment during September than in any month since November of 1955. The office referred 83 appli cants (to jobs, against 108 orders for workmen. “This is the kind of service and report we like to make,” Frank lin L. Ware, Jr., manager, said in givng the September employ ment office figures. He said the trend is continuing into October, with more job or ders being received from em ployers and with a consequent drop in active applicants for work and a continuing drop for unem ployment compensation pay. At the end of the September period, 717 persons were listed as active job seeks, a decline from the 900-plus figure of pre vious months, and in spite of listing in the work-seeking files of 187 new •applicants. Unemployment compensation claims for the month declined to 1841 weeks, an average of about 420 per week, compared to 2167 during August. Band To Compete At Bristol Event The city schools band will leave early Saturday morning for Bristol, Virginia-Tenn.. where they will participate in the an nual Southeastern Band festival. The Kings Mountain band will be entered in the Class C divi ion and will be judged for both marching and playing exeellen ce. First item on the busy one-day program will be a parade through Bristol. After lunch, served free to visiting band mmbers anc their chaperones by college cafe terias, the marching contest wil get underway. The band will bt judged against a standard of ex cellence, rather than againsl each other, in the evening perfor mance. The band members will stay overnight in private homes or at one of the three Bristol col leges. The band will attend church Sunday morning at Bristol, Tenn., high school in a service arranged by the Bristol Minis terial association. Judges for the festival will be Forrest McAllister, Ernest E. Ly on, Charles Minelli, and Shirley Crutchfield. Report Shows Gas Line Additions The city natural gas systerr has added 14.030 feet—more thar two miles—of two inch distribu tion lines to the city system sin ce the completion of initial con struct ion. The figure was tabulated b; Joe McDaniel, city clerk, in a re r>ort recently filed to the Stat< Utilities commission. Fritz Resigns Resurrection Lutherait Post Rev. Douglas Fritz, for the past five years pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, has tendered his resignation, effective Novem ber 16. Rev. Mr. Fritz will leave Kings Mountain to become pastor of a small mission church, Bethany Lutheran, in Memphis, Tenn. The Memphis church does not yet boast a church plant. Mr. Fritz said it is a congregation of 60 members, which hopes to build a plant next year and which ' currently uses a Seventh Day Adventist church on Sundays. Since his coming to Kings; Mountain, Resurrection church | has enjoyed a steady growth. Current membership includes j 166 confirmed members and 260 j baptized members. In addition to his pastoral ] work, Mr. Fritz has been active i in community civic affairs. He is I currently president of the Kings | Mountain Lions club, and Red Cross blood program recruitment | chairman. He has served as pres- j idenf of the Kings Mountain j Ministerial association and on, numerous committees of the j North Carolina Lutheran Synod. He is program chairman of the Southern Conference of the Sy- | nod. The son of a Lutheran minis- J ter, the late Dr. Charles E. Fritz, the Kings Mountain pastor is married to the former Ann Mc Clintock, of Winnsboro, S. C. They have two sons, R. D. Fritz, Jr., and David Allen Fritz. Nolan Urges Consolidation i A. V. Nolan, veteran Cleveland County school principal and tea cher, thinks that Cleveland ' County taxpayers would get more and better educational re I suits for their tax money by | ome judicious consolidations. Mr. Nolan, the father of Dr. i Paul Nolan, of Kings Mountain, | lias summarized a consolidation I plan which he feels would he ■ | oeneficial to all pupils of the, ' county. V He writes: “For once we should stop thinking of county children and city children as separate groups. "All over North Carolina city and county units are being com bined that the schools may be better and more economically administered. Thirty-five years ago Forest City and Rutherford - ton gave up their city school charters, each taking in great ru ral areas, thereby giving all the children equal opportunity. Now a large high school is in the pro cess in the southern part of Ru therford County. Likewise New Hanover County and Wilming ton set up one great high school for the entire county. Many of our leading c-ounties are fn this process now. Let us stop thinking of county and city children as such. Number 1 or Shelby should in clude the northern and western part of the county and Shelby; administered by state, county, I local school board and district superintendent. Following this j plan all local control would be retained. “Number 2 or Kings Mountain would include the schools of the eastern or southeastern parts of the county and Kings Mountain, and should be administered by state, county, local board and j district superintendent, and | the-eby still have local control. “Ample buses are already fur nished by county and state which could be used at little ad ditional cost to carry pupils to proposed high school centers. In fact, the distance would be neg ligible and with proper care of the buses, operating costs could be reduced. There would be no trouble in reaching centers. In the small schools over the county it is impossible to do good teaching. Each teacher has too many different classes of subjects to teach and in addition to this too many activities to do their best work. No teacher can make five or six preparations daily to teach and his job is de feated before it begins. It cannot be well done. The large school as proposed would have enough pupils in each grade to have 3 or 4 teach ers for each subject in every high school grade. For example, the ninth grade English would have three or four teachers, each teaching ninth grade English all day. One would have a group of (Continued on Page Eight) Calvin Black Dies When Hit By Car PRINCESS — Miss Judy Medlin, Kings Mountain high school sen ior, will represent the city in the Carolinas Carrousel in Charlotte Nevember 21-22. She is the dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Med lin. Brace Thorbum P-TA President Bruce Thorburn has been elect ed president of Central school Parent-Teacher association for the current year. Other officers named were Mrs. Jacob Mauney, vice-president, and Mrs. Dan Finger, secretary, and Mrs. George Plonk, treas urer. Following the election of offi cers, the P-TA voted to hold reg ular meetings at 8 p. m. on third Mondays at Central auditorium. '”'":t meeting will be on October President Thorburn has an nounced 1 he following commit tee apenmfments (first-named is chairman).' Membership — Mrs. F. R. Mc Curdy, Mrs. Scarr Morrison, Mrs. R. S. Lennon and Mrs. T. A. Pol lock. Legislative — B. N. Barnes, Dr. G. W. Plonk, Frank Little. Program — Mrs. Paul Hend ricks, Mrs. Juanita Logan and Miss Marie Lineberger. Publication — Mrs. Paul Neis ler, Jr., and Mrs. Kelly Bunch. Character and Spiritual Eduea tion — Dr. W. P. Gerberding, Rev. W. C. Sides, Rev. J. B. McLarty, and Mrs. Jeanette Mann. Budget and inance — Mrs. J. N. McClure, Mrs. George Plonk, Mrs. F. W. Plonk, Bruce Thor burn, Lawson Brown. Hospitality — Mrs. Jim Rollins, Mrs. Fred Wright, Jr., Mrs. Jacob Cooper, Mrs. Kathleen McCluney, and Miss Pat Hayes. Publicity — Mrs. J. H. Patter son, Miss Margaret Mclver, and William Poston. Ways and Means — Mrs. Jacob Mauney, Mrs. J. H. Patterson, Mrs. Carl Swan, Mrs. Brown Ware, Mrs. Lawson Brown. Room Representatives — Mrs. B. N. Barnes, Mrs. Dan Finger, Mrs. Lawrence Burton. AT CONVENTION Dr. W. P. Gerberding is at tending the 40th annual con vention of the United Lutheran Church in America in Dayton, Ohio. Also representing St. Matthew’s Luheran church at the week’s convention are Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Cooper and Aubrey Mauney. Dr. Gerber ding will return for services on Sunday. Coionor Terms Tuesday Tragedy Rs Unavoidable Calvin Fred Black, eight-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Coy E. Black, of the Dixon community, was killed instantly Tuesday af ternoon about G o’clock, when he was struck by an oncoming auto. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Kings Mountain hos pital. He had sustained head and chest injuries. The car was driven by Miss Elizabeth Stewart, Herald So ciety editor, as she was enroute to a Margrace Woman’s Club meeting. Coronor J. Ollie Harris Wed nesday morning termed the acci dent unavoidable and said he felt no inquest was necessary. Highway Patrolman A. D. Kimbrell, who investigated the accident along with Sgt. J. B. Kuykendall, said investigation showed that the child, a Grover' school primary pupil, had dart ed into the road from between a car and pick-up truck parked a longside the road. Members of the Black family had been picking cotton and were leaving the field when the accident occurred. A sister wit-, nessed the tragedy. The boy’s father is an employ ee of Margrace mill. Funeral rites will be held I Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock j at Antioch Baptist church, with interment in the church ceme tery. Rev. A. C. Martin and Rev. E. M. Redden will conduct the services. Surviving, in addition to the parents, are 11 brothers and sis ters, they are Coy Black, Jr., D. C. Black, Elmer Black, Darrell Black, Jean Black, Alma Black, Jane Black, Miss Shirley Black, and Mrs. Billie Dean Styers, all of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Lawrence Owensby and Mrs. Ed win Mabry, both of Kannapolis. Giegory Waiting For Hospital Call Rev. John Gregory, former pastor of Park Grace Nazarene Church, is waiting for word from Baptist Hospital in Winston-Sa lem which will make possible a delicate heart operation to close a hole in his heart which has re opened recently. Rev. Gregory said Wednesday the delay is caused by the hbart machine or blood pump used in the operation. At last word the machine was needing repairs and Gregory said the doctors told him, “As soon as we get the bugs out of the machine, then we’ll go ahead.’’ Extensive tests made several weeks ago confirmed former diag noses and revealed Chances would be good for recovery for the Rev. I Mr. Gregory. Rev. Gregory's finances have ; been depleted from the long te nure of the illness and medical bills have piled high. A close friend, Mr. Frank Rippy, has or ganized a Gregory Fund and i encourages all who can to con i tribute. Contributions should be sent to i Mr. Rippy and will be acknow I lodged in the HERALD. | Contributors this week were: David Burton.$2.00 j A Friend .$1.00 $4,000 Sought For Band Uniforms; Money Drive Will Start On Monday A fund campaign to purchase new uniforms for the Kings Mountain city schools band will get underway Mnday. Director Charles Ballance said the fund drive committee seeks $4,000, minimum necessary to re outfit the band members, and hopes to complete the campaign in two weeks. He reported advance contribu tions now total $760. Campaign committees include: Professional — Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, R. S. Lennon, and Dr. W. L. Mauney. Business — Sam Weir, Tolly Shuford, J. W. Webster. W. D. (Bill) Bennett, D. L. Saunders, G. E. Bridges. Industry — E. R. Goter, Fred Wright, Jr., H. L. Campbell, and Ben H. Goforth. Service Station — Norman Mc Gill. Clubs — Charles E. Dixon. Mr. Bai lance pointed out that the present uniforms were pur i chased in 1938, just 20 years ago. “They've been sewn and re-sewn, , patched and re-patched, and I they’ve had it,” Mr. Ballance j said. “Frankly, the band mem bers are afraid to stoop over.” Persons who wish to forward I checks should make them pay able to Kings Mountain High School band and noted that the donations are for the uniform ! fund. Restraining Order Against Disposal Of Assets Upheld First Baptist church's minority group won a round in court Wed nesday in their effort to abro gate a church vote whereby a new plant would be built on a new site. The North Carolina Supreme Court handed down a ruling up holding a decision of Judge Dan K. Moore in Cleveland Superior Court last May. In his decision, Judge Moore had continued a temporary injunction restrain ing church officers and officials from disposing of any of the church’s real property or its building fund assets of about $90,000. Judge Moore had also over ruled a petition of the majority group asking dismissal of a civil action lodged by 216 members of the church which sought to abrogate the year-old church vote whereby members voted 235-163 to accept a gift site, con tingent on launching of constru ction of a new plant within five years. The Supreme Sourt ruled that Judge Moore was correct in over ruling the motion and in contin uing the restraining order until the dispute is settled or decided. The Supreme Court noted that it was not ruling on merits of the minority suit to abrogate the vote and that if plaintiffs could show at the trial “that the re sults of the election complained of was brought about by undue Influence, coercive or fraudulent means, as alleged, the election should be set aside.’’ The Supreme Court also said that the restraining order does not prevent the church from holding another election on the question of the church’s removal and at such an election “the church is free to approve or res cind” the October 1957 action. There was no comment imme diately available from members of the majority or minority groups. Meantime, the two-service for mat in vogue for the past two weeks was scheduled to continue on Sunday. A second earlier service, to be conducted by Rev. W. P. Bum gardner, will be held at 9 a. m. It will be a half-hour service, ending at 9:30, W. T. Weir, spokesman for the minority dis sident group said. Rev. Mr. Bumgardner, pastor of Gamble Hill Baptist church, has been conducting the early ser vices. In addition, a second prayer service was held this week, the service being held on Tuesday night at the church. The min ority group had been holding cottage prayer services in indi vidual homes and Tuesday’s was the first prayer service at the church. Falls Homeplace Razed By Fire Trte (Pat) Falls homeplace on York Road, owned by Craig Falls, was completely razed by fire Fri day night at 9 o’clock. Cause of the fire was not known. The house was vacated earlier in the day by the J. D. Size-more family and had been locked, and the key given to Mrs. Falls. Mrs. Falls said Wednesday the fire must have started inside from a loose connection or faulty wiring. She also reported that 23 years ago the former house burned to the ground and was rebuilt by Mr. Pat Falls by wood he had cut out alone. City firemen were called to douse the blaze, but succeeded only in keeping the fire from spreading. No outbuildings or sur rounding houses were harmed. City firemen also answered a call to the Clyde Goins home on 2nd Street Saturday morning at 7:05 to douse a blaze. C. D. Ware reported that a bed was on fire and was carried out. No damage was listed, other than to the bed and bedclothing. Yankees Even Series, 4-3 The New York Yankees scor ed two runs in the tenth inning Wednesday afternoon, then staved off a Milwaukee rally, to win 4-3 in the sixth game of the 1958 World Series and schedule a seventh and deciding contest for Milwaukee Thursday. Yankee home runs by Bauer in the first and by Gil McDour gal in the tenth helped the New Yorkers to victory.