Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Th» figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from
tbe 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950.
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VOL 69 No. 48
Established 1899
Local News
Bulletins
NO FIRES
City Fire Department reports
no fires inside the city limits
since November 14.
RETURNS HOME
J. E. Herndon is convalescing
at home after minor surgery at
Duke Hospital last week.
IN GALLON CLUB
In completing blood regis
ters for the last visit of the
bloodmobile Mrs. J. N. Gam
ble, Red Cross executive secre
tary, announced that John P.
Lackey had also joined the
* three gallon donor group. Mr.
Lackey has been a donor in
numerous emergency cases.
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
The annual Thanksgiving
service will be held at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran church at
10 a. m. Thursday. There will
be special music by both
choirs, Thanksgiving hymns,
the Matins service, prayers for
the nation, and a short medi
tation by the pastor. The pub
lic is invited to attend.
OYSTER ROAST
Otis D. Green Post 155, A
merican Legion, will hold an
oyster roast Wednesday night
at the post building. Serving
will begin at 7 p. m., it was
announced by W. D. Morrison.
GETS DIPLOMA
Carl Gore, bookkeeper at Vic
tory Chevrolet Company has
received a diploma in advan
ced acounting from the Inter
national Accountancy Society,
a correspondence school, of
Chicago, 111. Mr. Gore com
pleted his resident final ex
amination under Joe L. Jack
son, Clover, S. 'C., certified pub
lic accountant.
MEET AT SHELBY
Kings Mountain Rotary club
will forego its Thursday meet
ing this week duo to the
Thanksgiving holiday. How
ever, members-will attend the
meeting of the Shelby club on
Friday at 12:30. Members will
gather at Victory Chevrolet
Company for the trip to Shel
by,
BY MARTIN HARMON
ON HONOR ROLL
Elmer Norwood has been na
med to the honor roll at Bre
vard college, according to Mrs.
Brona N. Roy, Recorder. He is
a member of the freshman
class.
JOINS STAFF
Mrs. Doris Huffstetler has
joined the staff of Central
Beauty Shop as an operator,
the manager, Mrs. Hoyle Mab
ry, announces.
BUILDING PERMIT
Building permits were issued
this week by City Inspector J.
W. Webster to F. V. Webster to
build a one story frame house
on First street at the cost of
$3500 and to Mrs. Clark Wil
liams to build a carport to her
Jackson street home at the es
timated cost of $1000.
TO LINCOLNTON
Miss Susan Moss, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George Moss,
joined the faculty of the Lin
colnton city schools Monday as
an English teacher. Miss Moss
formerly employed at Ivey’s
of Charlotte, is a graduate of
Meredith' college.
IN NEW POSITION
Miss Lyna Baker, formerly
employed in the offices of
Lambeth Rope Corporation,
has assumed the duties of
secretary of First Baptist chur
ch, Mt. Airy. Mrs. Dick Mc
Mackin has succeeded Miss
Baker in the Lambeth Rope
position.
IN GLEE CLUB
Bud Connor k among mem
bers of the 45 member Men’s
club at North Carolina State
College, Raleigh. The Kings
Mountain man sings second
tenor. The club recently ac
cepted 23 new members.
MAKING TRACKS — Pictured above, crewmen
of Southern Railway complete a 7200 foot spur
to Foote Mineral company from the Southern
main line which runs parallel with Grover
Road. Under construction for the past several
months, the spur alleviates hauling of ores by
the mining firm to a loading station at the
main railway line. The track layer lays a span
of pre-assembled track some 20 plus feet in
length, leaving workmen the lone task of
putting in several bolts. The prefabricated
track is assembled in Atlanta, Georgia. Foote
officials report direct conveyor loading will
now be possible, saving much time and im
pairing expenses.
(Photo by Pennington Studio)
Stasavich Lions
Banquet Speaker
Civic Group
Again To Honor
High Gridmen
Clarence Stasavich, perennial
ly successful Lenoir-Rhyne col
lege football coach, will be the
featured speaker of the annual
Kings Mountain Lions club foot
ball banquet on December 9.
Jacob Cooper, a member of the
banquet committee, made the
announcement Tuesday.
The Lions club annually hon
ors the high school gridmen who
this year finished in a tie for
second place in their division of
the Western North Carolina high
school athletic association. A 3-0 j
Hallowe’en night loss to Shelby
cost the Mountaineers the flag.1
Coach Stasavich and his Len
oir-Rhyne gridmen have made it
a habit of capturing the North
State Conference flag. For the
past four years, Lenoir-Rhyne
has finished conference play at
the head of the standings and
their eight-year record shows six
conference championships.
Coach Stasavich himself is a
former Bear line standout of 19
32-33-34. He returned to the cam
pus as head coach in 1946.
He will not be new to the
Lions club football banquet ros
trum, having done the honors
several years ago.
Guy Fisher, of Kings Moun
tain, completed his Lenoir-Rhyne
football career this season after
two seasons as a regular end.
Ausley Speaks
To Kiwanians
“We are passing through a
time of self-competition, and the
rivalry we are enjoying is actu
ally with ourselves”, Dr. Paul
K. Ausley told Kiwanians Tues
day.
Speaking at a dinner meeting
of the civic club, the First Pres
byterian church minister pointed
to this age as one of “fear, sus
picion, and unrest.” He contin
ued, “We feel that the whole
world is wrong” and this tension
has “caused us to hate oursel
ves”, he added.
He offered prayer as the ans
wer to the everyday problems
! and not the "gimme” prayer but
' one of thanksgiving for all the
good things of life.
Dr. W. P. Gerberding introduc
ed Dr. Ausley. President John
Cheshire, who presided, announ
ced the club had voted to spon
sor the Lenoir Rhyne College
playmakers in their presenta- j
tion of ‘The Robe” the third
week in December.
CONDITION IMPROVED
John A. Cheshire, columnist
for the Herald hospitalized at
Duke Hospital, Durham, has
greatly improved and family
members expect his return
home this week.
Herald Published
Early For Holiday
Next issue of the Herald will
be published on regular sche
dule.
Today’s edition is published
one day early due to the
Thanksgiving -holiday.
Next week’s edition will ap
pear on the newsstands on
Wednesday night, under date
of December 4, and will re
ceive mail distribution Thurs
day morning December 5.
Chuiches Set
Special Seivices
A traditional observance is be
ing planned by Kings Mountain
folk for Thanksgiving Day as lo
cal chefs brush up on the cul
inary arts, preparing for a ma
terial and spiritual feast.
Thanksgiving Day will be ob
served with special services at
three of Kings Mountain’s chur
ches.
Other churches will add a
Thanksgiving note to mid-week
prayer services.
Boyce Memorial ARP church
will hold its annual Thanksgiv
ing Day service at 7:30 a. m.
with breakfast to follow at 8 a.
m.
Men of the Church will serve
the meal, with Garrison Goforth
and members of the Neil Baird
Sunday School class in charge.
Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor, will
conduct the worship service.
Annual Thanksgiving services
at St. Matthew’s Lutheran chur
ch will be held at 10 a. m. with
meditation by the pastor, the
Matins service, prayer, and mu
sic by the two choirs to feature
the program.
Central Methodist will hold its
annual breakfast service at 7:30
a. m. Thanksgiving Day at the
church. The entire membership
is urged to attend by Rev. J. B.
McLarty, pastor.
Minus the Carolina’s Carrousel
parade, traditionally scheduled
for Thanksgiving Day but run
early this year, football will fill
the bill, televised and otherwise.
The National Traffic Safety
Council forsees numbers of traf
fic accidents and deaths and ur
ges all to dflve safely, if at all.
Rotary Charter
Night Is Set
The recently-organized Kings
Mountain Rotary club will hold
a charter night banquet Decern- ■
ber 15 at the Woman’s Club.
Date for the charter presenta
tion was set at a director’s meet
ing held at Kings Mountain
Country Club Monday night.
President Haywood E. Lynch
said somplete details concerning
plans for the event will be an-,
nounced soon.
Mayor Called
On 18 Firms
In Philadelphia
Mayor Glee A. Bridges, mem
ber of a two-man team along
with L. B. Pate, an Eastern
North Carolina tobacco farmer,
called on 18 Philadelphia area
business firms last week, as a
member of Governor Hodges’
group inviting Pennsylvania in
dustry to consider North Carolina
for locating any projected ex
pansions.
Mayor Bridges said the princi
pal emphasis was to seeing food
processors, an effort .to interest
processors in effecting the trans
portation and other savings a
vailable in locating plants close
to sources of supply available in
North Carolina.
North Carolina has already
had success in this direction.
Gerber Company, processors of
baby foods, has erected a large
processing center in the Ashe
ville area, and Armour & Com
pany recently opened a large
meat processing plant in Char
lotte. Other firms have located
in eastern North Carolina.
“It was a state wide effort and
we weren’t supposed to toot our
own horns,” Mayor Bridges com
mented.
He did, however, present the 18
executives he visited with sev
eral brochures outlining the var
ious facilities of Kings Moun
tain. They included the First
National Bank’s golden anniver
versary brochure, the brochure
developed by the city’s gas en
gineers, and the Kings Mountain
Military Park Brochure.
Mayor Bridges said that the
Philadelphia industrialists, with
only a couple of exceptions, were
quite cordial and friendly. Only
two suggested that the North
Carolina invasion should be re
pulsed by Pennsylvania loyal
ists.
All of tiie firms contacted,
however, had previously made
inquiry about the state to the
Department of Conservation and
Development, of which William
J. Saunders, onetime Kings
Mountain citizen, is director.
Mayor Bridges said he had re
ceived one inquiry since his re
turn from a Philadelphian inter
ested in locating a small concern
in this area.
Approval Vote
Would Settle
Long Dispute
Members of First Baptist chur
ch will vote Wednesday night to
determine whether a compromise j
report which would settle a long- j
term dispute will be adopted.
Terms of the compromise re-j
port, recommended for adoption
by a committee of six members
including three from both major
ity and dissident groups, were
mailed to members last weekend.
If adopted, the agreement
would end pending litigation in
Superior Court and would result
in formation of a new Baptist
church.
Under terms of the report, the
majority group would begin
building a new church at the W.
: King-Simms street site within a
; year and would retain the name
1 of First Baptist church.
The dissident or minority group
would form a new church and re
tain the First Baptist property
now occupied by the church audi
torium’ educational building,
Scout hut, and furnishing of these
buildings. ,
The majority group would re
ceive building fund assets of a
bout $90,000, and remaining real
property of the church, which in
cludes the office building and ad
jacent lot on S. Piedmont avenue,
lots on Cherokee street, and the
Gaston street parsonage, as well
as the W. King-Sims building
site.
The dispute concerns the Octo
ber 1957 church election, whereby
members voted 235-163 to accept
a gift site from several church
members. The gift was contingent
on the church’s launching con
struction of a new building with
in five years.
Whether the compromise report
would be adopted remained a
question. Spokesmen for both the
majority and dissident groups ac
knowledged that “there is some
misunderstandings, regarding de
tails in the compromise report.
Both said they hoped the report
would be adopted and the long
dispute ended.
Members of the comoromise
committee were W. A. Williams,
Dr. Paul Nolan and James E.
White, representing the majority
group, and W. T. Weir, Harold
Crawford and O. O. Walker, rep
resenting the dissident group.
Yates Harbison was non-voting
chairman.
text or the report which the
membership will consider Wed
nesday night follows:
The following suggestions are
recommended by the Committees
of both the Minority and Majority
groups of the First Baptist Chur
ch of Kings Mountain as a sug !
gested compromise, which will
eventually be incorporated in the
form of a consent judgment in the
pending legal action between the
two groups, in the event that the;
suggestions listed below are ap
proved by the First Baptist Chur
ch congregation:
I. That the Minority Group will'
immediately form a new church
and appoint Trustees, Deacons
and other officers and apply for i
membership in the Kings Moun
tain Baptist Association.
II. The Majority Group shall
continue as the First Baptist j
Church Of Kings Mountain, North
Carolina.
IH. Any member of the First;
Baptist Church of Kings Moun
tain who wishes to transfer his or
her membership from that church
to the new church will be requir
ed to request in writing his or her
letter, and the transmittal of that
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Turkey Day Holiday Plans Include
Food, Hunting, Church, Football
Kings Mountain citizens were
readying this week for the annu
al Thanksgiving holiday.
Though for many the day will
be a work day as usual, majority
will get a cessation from normal
activities.
Major group holidaying will
be school pupils of the township.
All schools in the township will
suspend schedules Wednesday af
ternoon, giving the pupils a long
weekend free from the school
books until Monday morning.
Major portion of retail business
•will shutdown for the day. Ser-|
! vice stations will be an exception,'
1 and drug stores will offer partial
: service. Kings Mountain Drug
l Company will open from 10 a. m.
; to noon and for two hours in the
’ afternoon. Stroupe Drug Com- j
pany will observe Sunday hours
| and Griffin Drug Store will offer
prescription service only on a
| call basis.
The postoffice, employment
service and city offices will be
closed.
Majority of manufacturing es
tablishments will operate on reg
ular schedule. An exception here|
will be Phenix plant of Burling- '
ton Industries, which will take a !
one-day holiday Thanksgiving
Day.
Activities of holidaying citizens
will include football, hunting, af
tending church services, and fam
ily get-togethers for Turkey Day
feasts. Turkey will be a popular
dinner feature- grocers report.
Football fans have three near
by choices. Numerous citizens will
attend the Lions Bowl game at
Forest City, pitting two high
school all-star teams against each
other. On the East squad will be
six Mountaineer gridmen. Other
fans will go to Columbia, S. C.,
for the annual Wake Forest-Sou
th Carolina game and to Salis
bury for the traditional Catawba
Lenoir-Rhyne contest.
INVITE INDUSTRY LOCATION — Governor
Luther H. Hodges, Kings Mountain Mayor Glee
A. Bridges, and William P. Saunders, director of
the North Carolina Department of Conservation
and Development, are pictured during the
North Carolina excursion seeking new indus
tries in Philadelphia last week. Mr. Bridges,
member of the 100-man team of Governor
Hodges in a bid to invite industry location in
North Carolina, returned home Thursday night.
Appraisal Group Will Value
Property Wanted For School
Stolen Car,
Accident Nets
Road Sentence
Willie C. Hayes, Negro, may
have a long time to decide why he
took a used car Saturday night
from a parking lot at Victory
Chevrolet company.
The young defendant, who re
plied “I don’t know” to that ques
tion of Judge Jack White in Mon
day’s session of recorder’s court,
drew a 21-month road term on
charges of driving after revoca
tion of license and hit-and-run
driving. He was bound over to
Superior Court on the larceny
count.
Hayes allegedly wrecked the
1949 model Ford he admitted
stealing when he hit another ve
hicle driven by L. C. Burris, Ne
gro. The wreck occurred late Sat
urday night. The defendant says
he returned the stolen car to the
lot about 9:30. Burris testified he
was unable to recognize the dri
ver of the car which failed to stop
after heavily damaging his 1955
model Ford.
The defendant, who admitted
a long line of offenses ranging
from theft of shoes to motor ve
hicle violations, said he took a
bus back to the Friendly Six on
Bessemer City road after he re
turned the car. Burris was return
ing home from the club, he told
the court, when the accident hap
pened.
Hayes testified Furman Wilson
(Negro from Waco) accompanied
him home from Bessemer City.
Wilson was not in court to verify
this story.
OTHER DISPOSITIONS:
Joyce Byars, 16, Negress, as
sault with a deadly weapon, nine
months jail sentence suspended
on two-year good behavior condi
tions- payment of a $25 fine and
court costs.
John Cooke, public drunkenness
and resisting arrest, 60 day sen
tence suspended upon payment of
$5 fine and court costs.
Harold Lee Page, violation of
prohibition laws, 90 day sentence,
suspended upon payment of court
costs.
Clarence Eugene Wise, stop
light violation, 30 day sentence
suspended upon payment of court
costs.
Alton W. McDaniel, violation
of prohibition laws, 60 day sen
tence suspended upon payment of
court costs.
George Belk King, following
another car too closely, 30 day
sentence suspended upon pay
ment of court costs.
James David Biddix, speeding
15 miles per hour in 35 mile zone
30 day sentence suspended upon
payment of court costs.
Sam Hutton, Negro, improper
brakes, 30 day sentence suspend
ed upon payment of costs of court.
Donald F. Thompson, reckless
driving, 90 day sentence suspen
ded upon payment of $5 fine and
court costs.
Gerberding Heads
Red Cross Drive
Dr. W. P. Gerberding, pastor
of St, Matthew’s Lutheran
church, will serve as chairman
of the 1959 Red Cross fund
campaign, it was announced
Tuesday by Chairman Oilie
Harris.
“We are very appreciative of
Dr. Gerberding’s agreement to
acept this responsibility,” Mr.
Harris said.
The fund effort will be con
ducted in March.
Retailers Set
Yule Schedule
Directors of the Kings Moun
tain Merchants association Mon
day adopted a special hourly
schedule for the Christmas sea
son.
The directors voted that retail
firms will remain open unitl 8
p. m., to accomodate Christmas
season shoppers, on Friday even
ings, December 12 and 19, and
on Monday and Tuesday even
ings, December 22 and 23.
No hours were set for Christ
mas Eve.
In addition, it was announced
I a roving Santa Claus will visit
Merchant association member
stores on the evening the mer
chants observe the late schedule.
Christmas lights in the bus
iness section will be lighted for
the first time Friday.
Merchants have also enjoyed
their last mid-week Wednesday
half-holiday until after Christ
mas is past. They will be open
all day Wednesday, prior to the
Thanksgiving holiday, and will
follow a full six-day schedule
thereafter until Christmas.
Dr. Ausley
To Be Installed
Dr. Paul K. Ausley will be in
stalled as pastor of First Presby
terian church at Sunday morning
worship services at the church.
Installing officers, appointed
by Kings Mountain Presbytery to
form a commission, include Dr.
Harry Moffatt, pastor of Gasto
nia’s First Presbyterian church
who will deliver the sermon; Rev. j
Hoyt Pruitt, pastor of Bessemer
City’s Presbyterian church who
will preside; Rev. James Womack,
pastor of Lineolnton’s Presbyter
ian church who will charge the
minister; and Elder Hugh Arro
wood, Shelby, and Elder Ennis
Jackson, Gastonia, who will char
ge the congregation.
Dr. and Mrs. Ausley moved
from Elizabeth City on October
27th where Mr. Ausley had been
minister of Cann Memorial Pres
byterian church the past 12
years. A Greensboro native, Dr.
Ausley is married to the former
Helen Louise Bowen of Tupelo,
Miss.
Owners, Board
Ideas Of Value
Are Far Apart
BY MARTIN HARON
The city board of education
has reached agreement to pur
chase one of four desired tracts
adjacent to West: school, but it
doesn’t yet know what the price
will be.
John L. McGill, representative
of the owners of one tract, agreed
to an education board proposal,
formulated by School Trustee J.
R. Davis, whereby both parties
wil accept an appraisal of a
three-man committee.
Sam and W. T. Weir represent
ing the S. S. Weir Estate, said
they would recommend accept
ance of the proposal to other
estate heirs.
Luther Cansler said he could
n’t speak for the other owners of
the two Cansler tracts but com
mented, "It seems fair to me.”
Under the board proposal, Mr.
: McGill, for the property owners,
and Mr. Davis, for the board of
education, will invito A. H. Pat
terson and Ben H. Bridges, secre
taries for the city’s two savings
and loan associations, to n, me
one appraiser each from the rt
speetive associations. The two
savings and loan association ap
praisers will name a third and
the three will present a report of
| value of the four tracts. The
board of education stipulated
that none of the appraisers are
to be kin to any of the parties
(property owners or school offi
cials) involved in the transaction
and that identity of the apprais
ers is to remain secret until the
report of values is filed.
The action came after conver
sations between representatives
of property owners and school
trustees revealed buyer and sell
ers quite far apart on their ideas
of worth of the properties.
The aggregate asking price
was $9850, against the education
board’s aggregate offering price
of $4,000.
Mr. uavis naa nrst suggested
a difference-splitting arrange
ment, but this brought a strong
“no” from Mr. McGill, represent
ing Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Gamble,
and a $100 deduction offer by the
Weir Brothers from their $2250
asking price.
The Weir tract (two lots, 25x
150 feet, and 48.5x100 feet) had
been reported as offered at
$2,000. The Weir Brothers said
this was in error. Sam Weir said
the misunderstanding might
have arisen from a statement he
had made to School Board Chair
man Fred W. Plonk that the
school offer would have to be
doubled before his estate would
even consider an offer.
All owners said they had ob
tained the services of savings &
loan association appraisers in
arriving at the proffers they
made originally. In addition, W.
T. Weir noted that the original
asking price was the figure ori
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