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.
VOL. 69 No. 47
Established 1899
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Local News
Bulletins
LODGE MEETING
An emergent carmmunioation
of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
for work in the first degree
will be held Monday night at
7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall.
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AUXILIARY
Members of the Otis D.
Green Post 155, American Le
gion Auxiliary, are urged to
collect gifts for veterans and
bring them to their Thursday
night meeting at the home of
Mrs. W. D. Whitesides on Rail
road avenue.
KIWANIS CLUB
Kiwanians will view the
Western Electric film, “Build
ing the DEW Line” at their
Thursday night meeting at
6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s
club.
MEETING TUESDAY
Next week's regular meeting
of the Kiwanis club will be
held on Tuesday at noon at
the Woman’s club. The club
will not meet on Thanksgiv
ing Day.
NEW MEMBER
, Tom H. Watson, Park Yarn
superintendent, recently join
ed the Kings Mountain Kiwan
is club. The club welcomed
him as a new member at their
recent meeting.
) NO COURT MONDAY
Monday’s session of City Re
corder’s Court was postponed
until Thursday, November 20
in the absence of Solicitor
George Thomasson.
ELECTED
Mikie White, Kings Moun
tain freshman at WCUNC, has
been elected to the faculty ad
visory committee and was ap
pointed to the nominating
committee for commercial stu
dents. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James White.
WINS CONTEST
The community of Grover
won first place in the Cleve
land County community de
velopment contest. Rev. Trent
Howell, Jr., pastor of Grover’s
Shiloh ’ Presbyterian church,
was chairman of the program.
HOSPITALIZED
John A. Cheshire, wiho writes
a weekly column for this
newspaper, is a patient at
Duke Hospital, Durham. Read
ers will note Mr. Cheshire’s col
umn is in this edition but be
cause of his illness the column
will not appear in next week’s
paper.
CAKE SALE
Frances Garrison circle mem
bers of Boyce Memorial ARP
church will sell homemade
cakes and pies Saturday morn
ing at 9 o’clock at Phifer Hard
ware Company.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $134.72, including
$21.80 from off-street meters
and $112.92 from on-street me
ters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel
reported.
TO KANNAPOLIS
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Trott will
go to Kannapolis Thursday
to attend the 50th anniversary
celebration of the Cannon Me
morial YMCA. Gen. Mark Clark
Will address the 6:30 meeting.
Mr. Trott is a former member
ship secretary of the organiza
tion.
P-TA MEETING
A. M. Sherlin, of Shelby, will
show a filmstrip on the state
school bus program at the reg
ular Monday night meeting of ,
Park Grace school P-TA. The
group meets at 7 p. m. in the
school auditorium.
ELECTED
Aubrey Mauney, of Kings
Mountain, was elected one of j
seven national council repre
sentatives on the Piedmont
Coundl, Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, at Scouter-Cubber Round
up held recently at Gardner
Webb •• liege.
Meeting Is Set Tc
West School Prope
Property Owners
Asked To Attend
Monday Session
The city board of education has
invited owners of property adja
cent to West school to a meeting
on Monday night in what mem
bers term a “final effort’’ to ac
quire the desired property by ne
gotiation.
Alternative, members’ state
ments indicated, will be launch
ing of condemnation proceedings.
The Monday night meeting will
be held at the office of Supt. B.
N. Barnes at 7 p. m.
Decision to invite the property
owners to a meeting was made on
suggestion of Supt. Barnes after
two members had indicated they
believed further efforts to nego
tiate fruitless.
Owners of the property sought
by the board of education —which
state school officials have made
prerequisite to adding three
rooms to the West school plant—
are the S. S. Weir Estate, Mr. and
Mrs. John E. Gamble, and Mrs.
George Cansler.
For several months the schools
have been seeking property on W.
King street from the Weir Es
tate, seven lots from Mrs. Cans
ler on W. Kings street, and por
tions of the residential lots of
Mrs. Cansler and Mr. and Mrs.
Gamble.
In reporting on the lack of pro
gress in the negotiations Chair
man Fred W. Plonk reported to
the board:
1) Mrs. Cansler had declined
to state an asking price for the
desired portion of her residential ]
lot and had withdrawn the prof
fer of the King street lots at $3,
500. (The board had offered $750
for the garden plot and $1500 for
the W. King lots.)
2) Mr. and Mrs. Gamble had a
mended a proffer of the portion
of their residential lot from $1500
to $20 per square foot, or an es
timated $1560. (The board had of
fered $750.)
3) The Weir Estate, which had
originally offered to accept $2500
for a 25-foot strip fronting on W.
King street and an additional 50
foot lot on W. King, had agreed
to accept $2000. (The board had
offered $1,000.)
Mr. Plonk commented, "We are
at the end of our rope as far as
negotiation is concerned.”
Mr. Webster- commenting on
the figure asked for the Gamlble
Cansler tracts off W. Mountain,
said, “$20 per lineal foot would
be high enough for all of the lot.
We have been patient and it’s
time to go to something legal.”
A. W. Kincaid said, “$20 would
be high enough unless it were an
exceptionally deep lot.”
The education board made only
one step toward legal action when
it retained Attorney George
Thomasson to aid in the negotia
tions.
The board has taken the posi
tion that the West school plant
will be used for many years for
a school building. It finds the ad
ditional classrooms necessary to
accommodate increasing school
population in the West school
area, officials haye stated.
Herald To Publish
Early Next Week
The Herald will Advance its
publishing schedule day one
day next week in order to get
full distribution prior t o
the Thanksgiving holiday.
This means that the Herald
will appear on newsstands the
evening of Tuesday, November
25, with mail distribution on
Wednesday, November 26.
Under regular publishing
schedule, the postal holiday
would prevent mail subscribers
from receiving the edition un
til Friday. Persons desiring
news items in next week’s is
sue and advertisers are asked
to note the change of schedule.
The December 4 edition will
appear on regular schedule.
ELECTED — Charles DeWltt
Blanton, Jr., senior at Western
Carolina college, has been elect
ed to membership in the nation
al organization. "Who's Who In
American Colleges and Universi
ties.”
Blanton Elected
To Who's Who
Charles Dewitt Blanton, Kings
Mountain senior at Western Car
olina College, has been chosen
for listing in the publication
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and Col
leges”. Dr. A. K. Hinds, dean of
WCC, said the students are notn.
inated for this honor on the basis
of scholarship, leadership, char
acter, and effective participation
in extra-curricular activities.
Blanton is a member of Alpha
Phi Sigma, national honorary
fraternity for those who main
tain high scholastic standards; a
member of the Student Senate;
and a junior affiliate of the A
merican Chemical Society, of
which he was formerly chair
man.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
DeWitt Blanton of Kings Moun
tain. He will receive the bach
elor’s degree at WCC next spring,
with a major in chemistry and
mathematics.
Miss Medlin
In Carrousel
Judy Medlin, Kings Mountain
high school senior, will represent
the city in the Carolinas Carrou
sel in Charlotte Saturday.
The parade at 11 a. m. will fea
ture the big event which will in
clude entertainment for the whole
family, including Captain Kang
aroo, giant balloons, 50 clowns
and Santa Claus for the young
folk; Metropolitan Opera tenor
Richard Tucker for Mom; the
Boston Celtics vs. the Minneapo
lis Lakers pro basketball for Dad;
36 beautiful princesses and 50
floats plus a new carrousel cham
pionship talent show to be held
at the Coliseum that .evening at
8 p. m.
Top winner in the talent show
will receive an audition for the
Ted Mack show in New York.
Announcement of Queen Car
rousel XIII will be made imme
diately following the parade dur
ing the Carrousel Presidents'
lunch at Hotel Charlotte and then
presented at the Davidson . Fur
man game at 2:30 p. m. Frances
Hambright, of Clover, S. C., is the
1958 queen.
Twenty-five top bands from
the Carolinas will appear in the
parade to be led by the U. S. Air
Force Drum and Bugle Corps, and
the 9th Air Force Band, Shaw
Field, S. C., and two national
championship bands, Winyah
high school band, Georgetown, S.
C., and Washington high school
band, Washington.
NEED MAGAZINES
Magazines for patients are
badly needed at Kings Moun
tain hospital, 'members of the
Pink Ladies, volunteer group
of women, have reported. The
magazines, including funny
books for children, may be
placed In the lobby or «#itri
butors should call 698 and i
tems will be picked up.
The
quested use of
itorium, a requestT&bled by the |
board at a previous meeting. It
had been renewed last week by
Bruce Thorburm, DeMolay Adult
advisor.
In commenting on the request,
Dr. Padgett said he had been as
sured the granting of permission
to rent the gymnasium would be
quite acceptable.
Supt. B. N. Barnes, who had
opposed the rental of North
school auditorium, said after the
meeting that the gymnasium
would prove most suitable from
all standpoints since the gym
nasium is a self-contained build
ing with its own heating plant
and ample parking facilities.
In other actions the board:
1) Granted Miss Willie McGill,
Central teacher hospitalized with
a broken ankie, an additional 20
days leave of absence.
2) approved defraying of ex
penses for E. L. Brown, Central
principal, to attend the South
ern Association of Secondary
Schools meeting in Louisville,
Ky.
3) Heard a report from Supt.
Barnes that bids have been in
vited for erection of flagpoles at
all schools which don't have
them.
McGinnis Plans
New Building
McGinnis Furniture Company
anticipates building of a new re
i tail furniture building on S. Bat
tleground avenue on property it
now owns.
Richard McGinnis made the an
nouncement last week, when he
asked re-zoning of the lot now oc
cupied by an apartment house for
business development.
In calling a re-zoning hearing,
the commission stated it will act
on re-zoning of all property in
the block bounded by S. Battle
ground, Falls and Cherokee
streets which is now not in the
business category.
Lots fronting on W. Gold are
currently zoned for business.
Tbe hearing is scheduled for
December 10.
New Four-Lane Boulevard Linking
Kings Mountain And Shelby Opens
Minus public ceremonies and
concurrent ribbonraising, the
new four-lane Kings Mountain
,Shelby highway has been open
ed to traffic.
The opening marks virtual
completion of the $1,500,000 four j
lane boulevard which has par-!
tial control of access.
Division Engineer E. L. Kem-^
per says some clean-up work
and landscaping remain to be
completed but that the road is
ready for safe transit.
Originally scheduled for com
pletion earlier this year, constru
ction work was delayed by bad
weather last winter and more
th an-expected rock formattons
in the vicinity of Buffalo Creek,
where a new bridge was install
ed.
Contractors on the project,'
underway more than a year,!
were Burns & Spangler, of Shel
by, grading; Dickerson Construc
tion Company, Monroe, struc
tures; and Propst Construction
Company, Concord, paving.
The road measures 11 miles.
While portions of the old two
lane roadbed were used, many
of the sections are completely
new. The changes materially
straightened the roadway be
tween Kings Mountain and the
county seat commimity.
the uarden“lub council, for plac
ing of shrub boxes and shrubs on
the business district sidewalks.
The board voted promotion of
Policeman Jackie D. Barrett to
sergeant. It was stated tha Sgts.
Barrett, Bill Roper and Gene
Ware will handle desk sergeant
duties.
Street paving assessments on
Monroe avenue, Chestnut and
Walnut streets were confirmed,
and the board called a public
hearing for December 10 on street
improvements assessments for
Benfield Drive, Fulton. Hill and
Gillespie streets and Waco road.
The board reduced the paving
assessment of H. L. Grigg' Ben
field road, by $12.50, on evidence
that Mr. Grigg has been charged
for a 75-ft lot. rather than a 50
ft. lot.
Mayor Bridges told the board
water line projects are being
handled in order of their approv
al by the commission.
Mayoi Bridges
In Philadelphia
Mayor Glee A. Bridges is in
Philadelphia, Pa., this week, a
member of the 100-man team of
Governor Luther H. Hodges in a
hid to invite industry location in
North Carolina.
Mayor Bridges joined a West
ern North Carolina group for a
flight to Philadelphia from Char
lotte Airport Monday.
He will return Thursday night.
BUY TICKETS HERE
Kings Mountain Football fans
are reminded that the local
Lions Club will receive 60-per
cent of the proceeds from the
tickets which are sold here for
the Lions Bowl grid game in
Forest City on Thanksgiving
afternoon. The tickets are on
sale at all drug stores for $1.50
for adults and $1 for students.
The Kings Mountain Lions
Club will not receive any pro
ceeds from the tickets sold at
the game, and local members
urge fans planning to attend
the game to purchase their tic
kets here before next Wednes
day. Six Mountaineers will
play in the prep all-star game
which alsp has John Gamble
as one of the coaches.
from the kitchen stove over
and callad dty fire depart- j
ment.
Firemen rushed to the scene i
immediately after the 8:40 call
to douse the blaze.
No blaze, just smoke.
Mrs. Falls had placed some
flash light batteries in the
oven to heat them and bring
them back to life. She forgot,
the batteries got hot, and
thence came the smoke.
Firemen reported no damage
to house or stovb.
Meterman Given
Mere Time Tag
Motorists who have been tak
ing liberties successfully with red
flagged parking meters will do
well to insert coins henceforth.
On request of Police Chief Mar
tin Ware, the board of commis
sioners has approved use of off
duty city firemen for part-time
desk duty to enable arranging of
a schedule whereby Ellis King,
meter officer, can give more reg
ular attention to this duty.
Under the action, City Fireman
C. D. Ware and T. C. McKee, on
off-duty days, will handle the po
lice desk duties for two hours,
from G a. m. to 8 a. m. A rear
ranged police duty schedule will
free King for attending to the
meter chore- Chief Ware said.
There was evidence that this
week that the plan was already
at work. Several motorists found
the bargain-priced, but unwanted,
courtesy tickets on their wind
shields.
And several picked up the high
er-priced $1 ticket for parking in
loading zones.
Mrs. Mont joy's
Rites Conducted
iFnal rites for Mrs. Janie
Maude Montjoy, 69, who died
Saturday night in Kings Moun
tain Hospital after a year’s ill
ness, were held Monday afternoon
at 4 p. m. from Harris Funeral
Home.
Mrs. Montjoy, widow of Eu
gene B. Montjoy, was a native of
Spartanburg County, S. C„ dau
ghter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John Baynes.
Surviving are three sons,
Franze M., Burlington, Cecil, Ra
leigh, and James Montjoy, Kings
Mountain; four daughters, Mrs.
L. W. Painter, Kings Mountain;
Mrs. Jack Bridgman, Red Spring;
Mrs. Russell Hall, Lexington,
Mrs. T. H. Moss, Augusta, Ga.;
one brother, Furman Baynes,
Spartanburg, S. 11 grand
children, and seven great-grand
children.
Russell Rimmer officiated.
Burial was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Active pallbearers included
Jackie Bridgman, Reginald
Painter, Bobby Montjoy, Gene
Hoykx Tommy Millen, and Bill
Adair*.
Jexander Harmon, 85, is pic
membership pin from Fred
No. 339 AF & AM. Mr. Har
lethware community and has
1 former Ollie Belle Whisnant
Iher of five children. He join
ts a retired farmer and mer
emony at his route 2 home
Cole, H. V. Herndon, and T.
loto by Pennington's Studio)
Irs. Hord's
ites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Bertha I
Allen Hord, 75, widow of Gen
eral Wayne Hord, were held
Monday morning at 11 a. m.
from First Baptist church, inter
ment following in Mountain'
Rest cemetery. .
Mrs. Hord succumbed Satur
day night at 7 o'clok at the home
of a daughter, Mrs. James Blan
ton, in Cherryville.
A native of Cleveland county,
she was a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. David Allen. She
was a member of First Baptist
church, General Hord died in 19-j
2(i.
Surviving are five sons and
seven daughters: G. E. Hord, At
lanta, Ga„ J. W. Hord, Red
Springs: R- H. Hord, Raeford; T.
R. Hord, Richmond, Va„ T. K.
Hord, Alta Vista, Va., Mrs. Wil
liam Jenkins, Mrs. J. W. Blan
ton, Cherryville, Mrs. R. L.
Smith. St. Petersburg, Fla,, Mrs.
H. T. Cornwell', Portsmouth, Va.,
Mrs. R, W. Foster, Spartanburg,
S. C., Mrs. Bill Howard, Titus
ville, Fla., and Mrs. Crowder
Ware, Kings Mountain.
A sister, Miss Zulie Allen, of
Grover, also survives. Thirty-one
grandchildren and 33 great
granchildren also survive.
The final rites were conducted
by Dr. C, A. Kirby, Rev. J. W.
Phillips, and Rev. Lee Smith.
P-TA Festival
Set Friday
Annua] fall festival at Central
school will be held Friday night,
with serving to begin in the cafe
teria at 5:30.
The event is sponsored by Cen
tral P-TA and will feature games
for the youngsters, a sock dance
for both elementary and high
school grades, an art exhibit,
showing of movies of the football
games, and other activities.
The Lil’ Abner theme will be
carried out in the dance activity,
a spokesman said.
Hamburgers, hotdogs, cold
drinks coffee, cakes, and pies will
be available in the cafeteria.
Formal Opening
For New Firm
Kings Mountain Amoco Service
will hold its formal opening on ;
Friday and Saturday.
The recently constructed service
station is being operated as aj
partnership by Lindsay McMack-j
in and Ben H. Goforth, Sr. Mr.
McMackin is a veteran of 11
years’ experience in service sta- i
tion management. Mr. Goforth
has spent four y \irs in service
station work and for many years
as an automotive mechanic for
Neisler Mills, Inc.
The station is located on W.
King street at the city limits.
BARBECUE
West school P TA will spon
sor a barbecue and bazaar
Monday, with serving to be
held from 5 until 9 p. m. in the
school cafeteria. Supper plates
will be $1.25 for adults, 60
cents, children. Free entertain- j
ment will feature the program.
Church Members
Will Consider
Report Nov. 26
First Baptist church members
will vote at the November 25
monthly business session on a
joint compromise committee re
port, which, if accepted, will set
tle the 13-month dispute and
quash pending litigation.
The six-member joint compro
mise committee agreed to terms
of the report last Thursday
night.
Salient points of the agree
ment are:
1) The minority or dissident
group (which opposes building
of a new church on a new site)
would receive the existing chur
ch and education buildings, and
furnishings of these two build
ings.
2) The majority group (which
favors building of a new church
at the corner of W. King and
Sims street) would retain the
name of First Baptist church and
the remaining First Baptist prop
erties, including present ehuch
office building, lots on Piedmont
avenue and Cherokee street, the
King-Sims tract, and the build
ing fund of about 90,000.
3) The minority group would
immediately organize a new
church and apply for admission
to the Kings Mountain Baptist
association with the deed to the
property it is to receive held in
escrow until such admission is
obtained.
4) The majority group would
agree to launch construction of a
new plant within one year and
to complete it within a reason
able period of time.
5) Both groups would continue
to use the present plant with the
following Sunday service sche
dule: majority group would hold
Sunday school from 9:45 to 10:45
a. m. and morning worship ser
vice from 11 a. m. to noon; the
minority group would reverse the
schedule, with worship services
from 9:45 to 10:45 a. m. and
with Sunday' school from 11 a.
m. to noon.
6) A joint committee, includ
ing trustees of bolh churches,
would handle any operational
difficulties which might arise
until the majority group occu
pies its projected new plant.
Complete text of the report is
to be mailed to each First Bap
tist family within the next few
days, a November 18 notice to
members said.
Jack White, attorney for the
minority group, said he antici
pated the report would be in the
hands of the membership by
Sunday. The joint compromise
committee, when adopting the
report, named Mr. White as in
formation spokesman for the
committee, Yates Harbison, the
non-voting chairman, told the
Herald.
Voting members of the com
mittee were Dr. Paul Nolan, Ja
mes E. White, and W. A. Wil
liams, representing the majority
group, and W. T. Weir, Harold
Crawford and O. O. Walker, rep
resenting the dissident group.
Mr. White said adoption of the
committee report by the church
membership would result in a
consent decree settling litigation,
now pending in Superior Court,
whereby F. A. (Pete) McDaniel,
Jr., and other church members
seek to abrogate the October 19
57 vote by which the church ac
cepted the King-Sims site as a
gift of some church members.
Stipulation with the gift, accept
ed by a 235-163 vote, was that a
church plant be under construc
tion within five years.
The dispute has already taken
the members to the North Car
olina Supreme Court. Former
Superior Court Judge Dan K.
Moore had granted the dissident
group an injunction prohibiting
church officers from disposing of
real property or building fund
assets of the church, pending
settlement of the McDaniel suit.
The majority appealed to the Su
preme Court, but the high court
upheld Judge Moore's ruling.
Merchants Suspend
Mid-Week Closings
Kings Mountain merchants
enjoyed their last mid-week
half-holiday Wednesday until
after the Christmas season.
Virtually all Kings Mountain
retail firms will be open next
Wednesday all-day and for
the remaining Wednesdays
through Christmas to accomo
date Christmlas-season shop
pers, Mrs. Luther Joy. secre
tary of rhe Kings Mountain
Merchants association said.
Most of the firms will be
closed November 26 for the
Thanksgiving holiday.