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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. IS Pages y Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL 69 No. 45 Established 1899 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 6, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year Local News Bulletins ATTEND MEETING City school Principals Law son Brown, I. Ben Goforth, Jr., and W, R. George attended the annual meeting of North Car olina school principals in Ra leigh Tuesday and Wednes day. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanians will view the film, “Man in Space” at their regular Thurs day night meeting. The club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’ club. LEGION MEETING Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, will be held at the Post Building Thursday night at 8 o’clock, it was announced by Ray Cline, commander. FALL FESTIVAL DATES The annual Fall Festival at Central School will be held on Friday, November 21. The Fes tival will begin at 5 p. m. on that date and will include a turkey dinner and a sock dan ce. Additional details regard ing the Festival will be made at a later date. ARP Services Are Continuing Special services at Boyce Mem orial ARP church featuring the oratory of Rev. Harold S. Mace, pastor of York, S. C., ARP church began Monday and are being well attended, according to chur ch pastor Dr. W. L. Pressly. Rev. Mace is a native of Lin colnton and lived five years in Charlotte where he was in bus iness with Southern Dairies. He graduated from Columbia Semi nary in Decatur, Georgia. Rev. Mace was raised as a Methodist, married a Baptist and united with the Presbyterian church in Charlotte. His first work was the McElroy Memorial ARP church in Atlanta, Georgia Where he preached for two years. He has presided at York ARP church for two years. Special music is a feature of all the services conducted and is being presented by the chan cel choir under the direction of Mrs. N. F. McGill; the youth choir under the direction of Ben H. Goforth, Jr. and Mrs. J. E. Gamble, and the carol choir dir ected by Mi's. Kenneth McGill. Evening services are conduct ed at 7:30, the Saturday service ait 10 a. m. 1 Rev. Mr. Mace's sermon topics Will be: Thursday, “God Plus Man.” Friday, "Have Gospel — Will Travel”. Saturday morning, “Children’s Message.” Sunday, November 9, rhorning, “The Argument of the Empty Tomb"; evening, “God’s Love Story.” “Rev. Mr. Mace is a young man who speaks interestingly to both children and adults," Dr. Pressly commented. Heart Surgery Said Successful For Rev. Gregory Rev. John Gregory, former pas tor of Park Grace Nazarene church, underwent heart surgery early Tuesday morning at Bap tist Hospital, Winston Salem to close a hole in his heart which ltad been there since birth. The hole healed in childhood but re opened some months ago. The operation was scheduled for 7:30 a. m. Tuesday and his surgeon, Dr. Frank Jahnson, sta ted the operation was success ful. Fresh blood was necessary for the operation. Stored blood can not be used in heart surgery. Sixteen Kings Mountain don ors, transported by Life Saving Crew went to Winston Salem to provide blood for Rev, Gregory’s operation. The family of Rev. Gregory wish to express their thanks to the donors who provided the es sential blood, the Life Saving Crew for the transportation, the Red Cross for its assistance, and to Foote Mineral Company for permitting donors for the plant to leave work without loss of pay. Rev. Gregory related to the Herald several weeks prior to the operation he was glad that fin ally the lone wait was over. Rotary Affiliate Is Organized Here Haywood Lynch Is President; 21 Members A Kings Mountain Rotary club has been organized, it was an nounced by Haywood E. Lynch, who has been elected president. Mr. Lynch said that 21 busi ness and professional men have joined the organization. Other officers named are Tho mas L. Trott, vice-president, Jack White, secretary, Dick Mc Ginnis, treasurer, and Charles Dixon, sergeant-at-arms. Directors named are George W. Mauney, Carl P. Finger, Wil son Griffin and Jack Mercier. Other members are Paul Mc Ginnis, Clyde Bennett, Dorus Bennett, Fred Wright, Jr., Ralph H. Johnson, T. L. Warlick, Myers Hamibright, Dr. Paul K. Ausley, W. D. Byers, E. C. Martin, Hoyle D. (Snooks) McDaniel, J. E. Childers and Jack R. Mercier. The Rotary club will become Kings Mountain’s third affiliate of international civic organiza tions and its fourth of nationally affiliated organizations. The others are the Kings Mountain Lions club, Kings Mountain Ki wanis club, and Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce. At a meeting Tuesday it was voted to hold weekly meetings at 12:15 p. m. at La Royale Rest aurant. The Shelby Rotary club has been instrumental in organiza tion of the Kings Mountain club, which has voted to apply to Ro tary International for charter. Rotary numbers affiliates in tions. §,900 communities and in 110 na. A number of Shelby Rotarians were present for a -meeting last week and again at the Tuesday session, including President Ed win Ford and Past President Clyde Short. Other nearby Rotary clubs are in Gastonia and Cherryville. Leading the organizing effort here were Mr. Trott, a Rotary past president in another city, and Mr. Lynch. The new Rotary Club of Kings Mountain has the same general objectives as all other Rotary clubs in North and South Amer ica, in Europe, Asia and Africa— to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, tc encourage and foster: 1) The development of ac quaintance as an opportunity for service; 2) High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness oi all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian oi his occupation as an opportunity to serve society; 3) The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian tc his personal, business and com munity life; 4) The advancement of inter national understanding, good will and peace through a world fellowship of business and pro fessional men united in the ideal of service. ER3KINE ALUMNI Ambrose Wylie, of Chester, S. C., will show slides made on his recent trip to Spain, at the Monday night meeting of Er skine College Alumni Associa tion at Boyce Memorial ARP church. The group Will meet at 7:30 p. m. in the church base ment, with Mrs. John Cheshire, chairman of the hostess com mittee. PRESIDENT — Haywood E. Lynch, Kings Mountain busi nessman, has been elected presi dent ot the newly-organized Kings Mountain Rotary club. Community Day Service Friday Kings Mountain’s annual World Community Day service will be held Friday afternoon at 3:30 in Central Methodist church fellow ship hall. The program is one of three observances sponsored annually by the United Council of Church women, an inter - denomination al organization representing vir tually all churches in the com munity. Women of the various churches will participate in the program, i “This Is Your Life”, written by | Mrs. J. B. Simpson. (Mrs. R. M. j Kennedy, Jr., will conduct the de votional and others on the pro gram are: Mrs. William Herndon, announcer; Mrs. M. D. Phifer, sponsor; Mrs. Sam Stallings, i World Community Day; Mrs. O. W. Myers, Beginning; Mrs. B. F. Maher, Foreign Policy; Mrs. Paul i Nolan, United Nations; Miss Es j sie Foster, UNICEF; Miss Leona | Fite, World Health Organization; i Mrs. Charles Dixon, Disarma ment; and Mrs. Andy Huffstet j ler. World Trade. The offering will benefit wo men in the South Sea Islands and support educational work of Uni ted Churchwomen for peaceful world relations, Mrs. M. D. Phi fer, publicity chairman pointed out. v Women are asked to collect j yarn and yardage, any length and size, and give it at this meet ing. These goods will go to refu gee mothers awaiting settlement. “We invite the community to participate in this observance,” Mrs. Phifer added. Police Report Rtrest Tally City police processed a total of ! 99 arrests during the month of October as revealed by the mon thly arrest tally sheet released this week. Heading the list were 48 motor vehicle violators and 31 counts of public drunkenness. Other Violators were VLP, 4; driving drunk, 3; capias, 3; non support, 2; affray, 2; and one each for resisting arrest, failure to pay for gasoline, worthless check, assault on a female, da mage to city property, and dis ! charging firearms in city limits. ______ LODGE MEETING Regular communication of j Fairview Lodge 339, AF & AM, | will be held at the Masonic | Hall Monday night at 7:30. j Work will be conducted in the third degree. Red Cross Bloodmobile To Return Here On Monday; Goal 150 Pints The Red Cross bloodmobile will set up for a one-day operation in {Kings Mountain, with officials hoping the 150-pint quota will be surpassed. Donors will be processed, as customary, at the Woman’s club from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. Mrs. J. N. Gamble, Red Cross executive secretary, noted that with usage of blood upped in this area she is hopeful that more donors will visit the bloodmobile. Replacement of blood is necessary in meeting patient needs, she em phasized. Sadie Cotton Mills will fly the flag at Monday’s visit. Industrial employees give blood under the industry credit plan inaugurated several months ago and Sadie is leading the other industries in boasting the highest percentage of blood donors. Grayson, Saunders Lease Building Grayson’s Jewelry and Saun ders Cleaners and Laundry have leased the S. Battleground ave nue building formerly occupied by Rose’s 5-10-25 cent Store. T. W. Grayson, owner of the jewelry firm, said he expected to move his business to the new loca tion this weekend. D. L. Saunders, of the cleaning firm, said he expected to install rapid service laundry equipment in a portion of the building and would also use the establishment as a pick-up station for dry clean ing service. The building is owned by W. K. Mauney and Carl F. Mauney. Board Names Phillip Dye Policeman Phillip Dye will join the Kings Mountain police force on Sun day, replacing Joe Lee Harmon who resigned last week. Dye was named to the force by the board of commissioners on Monday, after the board had ac cepted Harmon’s resignation. Dye will draw rookie pay ol $49.43 per week. In otherwise routine business the board ordered a property check and survey on Fourth st extension to determine whethei a portion of the roadway is city property. Property owners had requested repair to the street. The board took no action on request of Ken Jenkins, of the Cleveland County Life-Saving crew, fq|r use of an old city ra dio. The board also agreed to leave “as is" present policy of trash - hauling. Currently, the city will haul from residential premises bush, shrub and tree-trimmings on small quantity. However, il does not give the haulaway ser vice to persons with large quan tities of debris, resulting from re-roofing or clearing of lots for construction. In a meeting last Thursday night, the city approved for pav ing, when and if funds are avail able, the following streets: Ellis street, from Cansler to Watterson; Chiilders street, from Tracy to Watterson; Parker street, from Tracy to Watterson; Ridge street, from Cansler to Watterson. The board also voted to install a water line to serve the Clar ence Smith property, off Floyd street, provided Mr. Smith furn ishes the pipe and at time convenient to the city. Mrs. Aderholdt s Rites Thursday Mrs. Mamie Crouse Aderholdt, 78, wife of J. E. Aderholdt, died Tuesday night at 11 o'clock a1 Kings Mountain hospital aftei a 10-day illness. Funeral rites will he conduct ed Thursday morning at 11 o' clock from St. Matthew’s Luth eran church. Dr. W. P. Gerber diing, the pastor, will officiate and interment will be in Moun tain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Aderholdt, a native ol Gaston county, was a daughtei of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. S Crouse. She was a member of St Matthew’s Lutheran church. Surviving, in addition to hei husband, are two sons, Huben Aderholdt, Kings Mountain, Er nest C. Aderholdt, Atlanta, Ga. one daughter, Mrs. Pearl Adams Gastonia, and one brother, S. A Crouse. Kings Mountain. Alst surviving are two grandchildrer and two great-grandchildren. Active pallbearers will include Dr. W. L. Mauiney, John Lackey Jacob Cooper, Ray Cline, Car Mauney, and Otis Falls, Jr. Giii Scout Fund Now §200 Shy Some $200 is being sought foi the Kings Mountain area G i r Scout fund, in order that a min imum goal of $1,000 can be reach ed. Report was made this week bj W. K. Mauney, Jr., chairman ol the fund drive. Funds contributed to the Girl Scouts are all expended locally t< conduct Girl Scout activities. Kings Mountain Girl Scouts are members of the Pioneer Area Council, which includes Gaston Lincoln and half of Clevelane counties. Persons who have not donate* are asked to forward checks t< Mr. Mauney, PO Box 628. King: Mountain. Bridges Buying Into WTYC Jonas Bridges, manager of Ra dio Station WKMT, is among ; group of three men who hav< purchased a 75 percent interes in Radio Station. WTYC Rocl Hill. Mr. Bridges and R. H. White sides, of Rock Hill, have bough the 50 percent interest of Lin coin Faulk, while E. L. Barnwell station manager, has purchase< half of the 50 percent interest o Lamar Simmons. The transactions are subjec to approval of the Federal Com munications commission. Mr. Briges said that no per sonnel changes are contemplate! at either station. He will contin ue to manage the Kings Moun tain station. The Rock Hill station went o the air in 1949. Results Of Light Tuesday Vote Coincide With County. State wmm iT -"fflT’-TI TEACHERS HONORED — The Junior Women’s | Club honored new teachers in the city schools at their annual banquet Monday night. John Roberts, associate director of public relations at Gardner Webb College, made the address. In the photograph above Mr. and Mrs. Roberts ■ mm are pictured with William Ray Cleere. right, driver's education teacher at Central high school. The Woman's club event is tone of sev eral being planned to honor school faculties during American Education Week. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Education Week Will Be Observed PASTOR — Rev. J. D. McClellan, formerly of Gaffney, S. C. has as sumed the duties of pastor of Westover Baptist church. McClellan New Westover Pastor Rev. J. D. McClellan assumed the duties of pastor of Westover i Baptist church last Sunday. ij Mr. McClellan, formerly pastor ’ of Beaver Dam Baptist church ! near Gaffney, S. C., becomes full time pastor, succeeding Rev. H. , | E. Waldrop, who has been serving [ j as supply pastor. Mr. McClellan previously serv 11 ed as pastor of Stone Station Bap i; tist church, Spartanburg, S. C., 'and Love’s Springs Baptist church, Cowpens, S. C. j Mrs. McClellan is the former Pauline Pritchard, of Shelby. The McClellans have two daughters, | Mrs. Jack Ramsey, Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Jack Ames, Hol lister. laycees Plan Light Bulb Sale Kings Mountain Jaycees will t conduct a door-to-door light bulb • sale on November 13 and 14, it . was announced by Jim Lybrand, 1 chairman of the sale project, f A package of four bulbs of vary. ing wattage will be sold for $1. t Other members of the eommit - tee are Bill Jonas and Bob Go \ forth. 1 ATTENDS MEETING D. B. Blalock, ASC Chairman in the county, attended a two day area staff meeting held in t Salisbury Monday and Tues day. Schools Set Daily Programs For Observance Kings Mountain society schools will join with others throughout the nation in observing American j Education Week. As is customary, each of the schools in the city system is in 1 viting parents to visit the class rooms during the week. Radio broadcasts will begin Monday, and special programs to be held in the various schools beginning' Tuesday will feature the observ ance. New teachers in the city sys tem will be honored by the Wo man’s club Tuesday night at a re ception with all school faculties invited to participate. Television in-the-schools will be the program theme. Otis D. Green Post 155, Amer ican Legion, has secured various speakers for the school programs. Tuesday at East school J. Ollie Harris and Rev. J. W. Phillips will speak at 9:30 a. m. and Jack White will speak at 1 p. m. at Central. The Future Teachers chapter at Central will present a program at 3:30 the same day. Central Principal Lawson Brown will conduct the 1 o’clock program at West school. At Central school Wednesday, Dr. W. L. Pressly will speak at 1 p. m. and at North, seventh graders will present a program at 1:30. Thursday’s pro gram will include an address by George Thomasson, 9 a. m., East; on Friday Rev. Carl Greene will speak at 10 a. m. at East and Rev. Paul Ausley at 1 p. m. at (Continued on Page Eight) SPEAKER — Manly I. Clark, of Lawndale, will address members of the Lions club Tuesday night. Mr. Clark is governor of Lions district 31-C. Lions To Hear Manly 1. Clark Manly I. Clark, governor of Lions district 31-C, will address members of the Kings Mountain club Tuesday nigh't at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s club. Mr. Clark is owner of a Lawn dale drug store. Lion Clark is one of the 315 District Governors who supervise the activities of the 13,834 Lions clubs. Lions International was founded in 1917 at Dallas, Texas, and during the past 41 years has become the largest, most active, aftd fastest growing service club organization in the world. There were on June 30, 1958, Lions clubs in 91 countries and geographical locations of the world with a membership of over 579,383. Dur ing the fiscal year of 1957-58, 931 new Lions clubs were organized. The Lions club special mission is the promotion of greater good and greater citizenship, the de velopment of civic, educational, social and moral welfare of the community and nation, and to help create and foster “a spirit of generous consideration a m <yn g peoples of the world.” Popping "Crackerjacks" Must Go, Chief Ware Warns Dealers. Kids Craekerjaek—at least the non edible poping kind — must go, Chief of Police Martin Ware warned both dealers and custo mers this week. The little pyrotechnic pellets, much in evidence during the Halloween weekend, look like small candy balls, but, in fact, are juvenile cousins of the “tor pedo”, a sand-covered ball-type of noise-maker and once a fav orite at fire-cracker season. The “torpedo” made a loud bang and was also dangerous, as the sand pellets could wound. The little torpedoes are called ' “crackerjacks” and, like f i re I crackers, their sale and use is a I violation of North Carolina law. Chief Ware said he had receiv ed numerous complaints con eerning “erackerjacks” and had insturcted his men to crackdown on violators. A jokester, he said, doused the aisles of the Joy Theatre last weekend, and then sat back to enjoy the fun as la ter-arriving theatre patrons stepped on the noise-makers and caused them to pop. In Shelby, seven youths were tapped in the shoulder by city policemen for shoooting the de vices. Four were juveniles, undei 16, and got a citatioin to juvenile court. The other three were “booked" 'in regular court foi trial on charge of violation oi the state law. Voters Oppose Amendment, Favor Iordan Majority of Kings Mountain area citizens ignored the polling booths Tuesday in the biennial general election, but those who did vote return-'d majorities which coincided in result with those of the county and state. U. S. Senator B. Everett Jordan was heavily favored over his Re publican opponent Richard Clarke, and Kings Mountain cit izens also returned a majority aginst a proposed constitutional amendment which would have given justices of the peace addi tional authority in handling claim and delivery matters. These were the only two con tests or questions at issue. In Kings Mountain, only 444 persons were logged on the poll ivmifc tie having cast ballots, 259 voting at West Kings Mountain and 185 at East Kings Mountain. Majority of the voters took the straight-party Democratic route, marking an “x” at the big circle at the top of the ballot. But there were some exoepions as, obviously, a few Republican voters-min us candidates of their own party — cast votes for a particularly favored Democratic candidate. For example, J. Ollie Harris, re-elected county ooronor, led the West Kings Mountain balloting with 239 votes, while Sheriff Haywood Allen was ac corded 235. Mrs. J. II. Arthur, registrar, said there were 220 ballots marked straight Demo cratic. Vole totals at the four Num ber 4 Township voting precincts were: West Kings Mountain — Jor dan 212, Clarke 27. Against j. p. amendment 132, for 102. East Kings Mountain — Jor dan 153, Clarke 26. Against j. p amendment 106, for 62. Beth ware — Jordan 30, Clarke 16. Against j. p. amendment 27, for 10. Grover — Jordan 109, Clarke lO.Against j. p. amendment 82, for 34. The election results will mean only one change in identity of j County office-holders, and it was i dictated by results of the Demo ! cratic primary run-off. J. Broad us Ellis was elected to the coun ty commission and will succeed Car] P. Finger, whom Ellis had (Continued on Page Eight J __ I Distressed Damsel Laughs At Rescuer BY DAVID BAITY Ambidexterity is a key need in service businesses and its need is felt especially at Her ald Publishing House. Here we get, and welcomie, requests far all types of services, all of which we try to fulfill. The most unusual yet came Wednesday afternoon with a phone call from Mrs. Phyllis Carpenter, secretary of First Baptist Church, requesting a "big favor." She had trapped a rat in a waste basket and wished its disposal. I agreed. Armed with a pair of scissors, | I made for her office. The wea ; pon came in handy. "It’s in the waste -basket,’’ says she. "This one?” queried I. Up jumped the rat. “This one!” “Where do you want it put?” “OUT! Just out!" A gentle tap with the sharp edge of the scissors brought a squeal from the rat and much animated movement, to wit, high jumping which was only inches short of placing the rat I on the floor. I remembered someone once said a rat will fight—and bite —when hurt. The rat was defi nitely hurt. The rat jumped, and with the aforementioned thought in mind, so did I. Peals of laughter emerged j from the damsel in distress, to which I replied “from now on, kill your own mice!” A more decisive blow laid the mouse low and with only min or kicks I was able to remove him to the yard. "Thanks," said the secretary. "You’re welcome," I replied and went on my way to wash away the blood from the mur der weapon.