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j* Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 CHy Limits 7,206 t»* Ogan let Grader Kind. Mountain U derived (ram a* IMS King* Mountain dty directory cmuui. The dty Uidt* figure U Iron Um United StatM cam ol 1850. .... ..—__ Established 1889 1 C Pages ID Today VOL. 70 No. 3 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 22, 19591 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS City Office Elective Terms May Be Lengthened, Staggered Local News Bulletins BUILDING PERMIT City Inspector J. W. Webster issued a permit Wednesday to H. E. Lynch to alter a 2-story frame house on Cherokee St. Estimated cost of remodeling of .the six room residence is $3,000. MEETING Members of the board of di. rectors of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet at the office of George Thomasson, president, Monday evening at 7 o’clock. CAKE SALE Circles 4 and 6 of Central Methodist church will conduct a cake sale Saturday morning at Fite’s Shoe Service, begin ning at 9 a. m. KIWANIS MEETING Members of the Kiwanis club will hear a program on Alcoholics Anonymous at their Thursday night meeting at the Kiwanis cluib. The local organ ization is sponsoring the out of-town speaker. The club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. CITY TAG SALES A total of 646 city auto licen se tags had been sold through Tuesday, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel reported. The tags are on sale at the city clerk’s of fice, at the tax listing office, and in the police station. They cost $1 each. ^ ATTEND MEETING Cameron Ware, Lamar Hern don and Myers Hambright, of the Bethware Progressive Club, attended the annual meeting of th North Carolina Fair association held in Dur ham last week end. TO INSTITUTE Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harmon will go to Chapel Hill Thurs day where they will attend the annual mid-winter North Car olina Press Institute sponsored by the University of North Carolina, Duke University and the state press association. P-TA MEETING Sam Stalling will present the program, “Maturity Through Guidance” at the Monday night meeting of West P-TA at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. Baby sitter ser vice is available and parents may bring their children with them, a spokesman said. ON DEAN'S LIST Four Kings Mountain stu dents qualified for the honor roll at Appalachian State Tea cher’s college for the fall quar ter. They include Mrs. Hilda B. Goforth, Dean B. Westmore land, James R. Layton, and Martha Ann Baker. P-TA MEETING c Ben F. Moomaw, superinten dent at Kings Mountain Na tional Military Park, will show slides featuring the Battle of Kings Mountain at Monday’s Park Grace P-TA meeting. The group meets at 7 p. m. in the school auditorium. NO FIRES City firemen report they have had no calls since Jan ary 12. Credit Union Pays Dividend Mar grace Employees Credit union declared a five percent di vidend at fflhle annual meeting held last Saturday. The dividend (total paid to mem bers ton the basis of $5 as one share totaled $4,873.35, President Hugh D. Ormand said. Directors elected att the annual meeting were Mr. Ormand, F. W. Davis, Luther Canister, R. R. Plonk, Hubert Davidson, J. W. Gamble, and J. C. Arnette. Mr. Davis was elected vice-president and Mr. Canister, secretary. Assets at December 31 totaled $126,241, including teams of $76, 981, cash of $22,000, savings and loan association shares of $25,000, and other assets of $2,179. Liabilities included $108,874 In share deposits, reserves of $31, 419 and undivided earnings of 16,94a : f Herndon Funeral Rites Thursday Businessman, Former Mayor Dies Tuesday Funeral rites for James E. Herndon, Sr., 65, will be held Thursday afternoon, at 3 o’clock at St. Matthew’s Lutheran chur ch. Mr. Herndon, four times a Kings Mountain mayor and prom inent Kings Mountain business man, died at 11:30 Tuesday night at Presbyterian hospital dm Char lotte. He Wad been ill four mon ths. CITY OFFICES CLOSED Offices at City Hall will be closed Thursday afternoon during the funeral of J. E. Herndon, former mayor, it was announced by Mayor Glee A. Bridges. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested (that gifts bo made to the St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church Memorial Fund or to the American Cancer Society. A Kings Mountain native, Mr. Herndon was a son of the late George C. and Eliza Bird Hern don. He had 'hived here for\ the past 32 years. Mr. Herndon, a onetime claim agent for Southern Railway Company, was founder and president of J. E. Herndon Company, brokers in textile by products. Mr. Herndon served as mayor from 1933-39 and from 1949-51. It was during his tisirties adminis trations that the present City Hail was built and the overhead bridge at King street and Battle ground avenue was constructed. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Herndon was a member of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, Past; Master of Fairview Lodge AF &l AM, a Shriner, and Kiwanian. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Virginia Maumey Herndon, two sons, James E. Herndon, Jr., and William.M. Herndon, both of Kings Mountain, two brothers, M. Elmer Herndon, Charlotte, and G. Bird Herndon, Columbia, S. C., and four Sisters, Mrs. J. O. Bla lock, Baskerville, Va., Mrs. W. P. Blalock, Union Level, Va., Mrs. C. W. Vick and Mrs. E. W. Gor don, both of South Hill, Va. Pour grandchildren lalso survive. They are William M. Herndon, Jr., James E. Herndon HI, Virginia Gaither Herndon, and Patricia Lou Herndon. Dr. W. P. Gerberding will con duct the final rites and burial will be tin Mountain Rest ceme tery. SUCCUMBS — J. E. Herndon, Sr., businessman and fromer Kings Mountain mayor, died Tuesday night in a Charlotte hospital. Final rites will be conducted Thursday afternoon. Auto-Train Crash Fatal William Levi Merritt, 38-year old truck driver, became Kings Mountain's first 'highway fatality for 1959 Monday night. Mr. Merritt was killed instantly at 11:15 p. m. when his car a 1955 model Ford, smashed into the side of a freight train back fag across N. C. 216 at the Super far Stone crossing just inside the city limits. City Police Officers William Rioper and Paul Sanders Who in vestigated said Merritt apparent ly did not see Southern Freight train No. 52 a^oss the highway as he headed north on N. C. 216 toward his home on Landing street. Funeral rites for the accident victim were held Wednesday af ternoon at 2:30 from Antioch Baptist church in Bryson .City, Tennessee. A native of Knoxville, Tenness ee, Merrit was a son of the late Simpson Merritt and Mrs. Davie Thompson who survives. He was a driver for Aker Motor Ones. He is survived by his wife, Norma Wiggins Merritt; a son, WilMam Merrit, Jr., two daugh ters, Wanda. Ann and Linda Car rol Merritt: two sisters, Mrs. Jeff Isenihour, Hickory, Mrs. Hester Nations, Bryson City, one broth er, Lawrence Merritt, Kings Mountain, and one half-brother, Edward Thompson, of Bryson City, Tennessee. Savings & Loan Meeting Is Tuesday Annual meeting of sharehold ers of Home Savings & Loan As sociation will be held Tuesday afternoon ait 5 o’clock at the as sociation offices. A. H. Patterson, secretary-trea surer, said principal business of the shareholders will be hearing reports of officers on 1958 oper ations and election of directors for the coming year. LIONS MEETING Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions club will be held Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s Club. The program is being arranged by George H. Houser. Road Bid Total Ovei Million Low bids lor structures and grading of the 9.13 mile section of Interstate 85 from the South Carolina state line ito a point near the present convergence of U. S. 29 and 74 totaled over a million dollars. The State Highway commis sion opened the bids Tuesday and reported these low bids: Roadway, William B. Dillard Construction Company, Ruther fordfton, $691,336. Structures, Crowder Construc tion Company, Charlotte, 363,290. The commission convenes Thursday to let bids. Town of Grover Almost Named Boaz, Octogenarian Hambright Recalls BY ELIZABETH STEWART | “We’re living in the good old days now,” Ross Ham bright, 85, believes. Mr. Ham bright was reminiscing on early history and growth of the Grover community to a group of Kings Mountain and Grover young people lait Shiloh Presby terian church Sunday night. Of particular interest was his account of the naming of the town of Grover when the postoffice (then located in Whitaker, S. C.) was moved across the state line to North Carolina and subse quently named Grover during the administration of President Graver Cleveland (18851889 and (1893-97). “This town (speaking of Gro ver) almost became the Town of Boaz”, Mr. Hambright pointed out He said the Masons had tug gested the Biblical name las the proper one for the new commun ity. "Mr. Ross”, as Me is known in the Grover section where he has been a farmer all his 'life, gave the young people this formula for a long and happy life: “Practice honesty and self-respect” Mr. Hamibright’s formula has evidently been the correct one for him. His quickness of mind, hearing, and sight belie his S5 years. He wild celebrate Mis 86th birthday in June. v An active member of Antioch Baptist church, Mr. Hambright is married to the former Minnie Hiartineas, also a native at Cleve land County. They have three children, W. A. Hairihright, of Grover; Mrs. Robert C CoRinge, Kansas City, Mb., and Mrs. Char les J. McCollum, of Holland Mrs. Pollock Resigns City Faculty Post The city board of education discussed Without action Mon day night ithe report of an ap praisal board which valued pro perties the • education board requires to make an addition to West School. With two members, Dr. P. G. Padgett and A. W. Kincaid ab sent, the board declined to take action on the appraisal report. The appraisal team had as signed an aggregate value to the four properties of $7894. Pending obtaining the proper, ty, the board has stated it will construct a three-room addition to the West plant In other actions, the board: .1) accepted the resignation of Mrs. T. A. Pollock, sixth grade teacher at Central, and elected Miss Rosa Lee Carlyle, who will graduate Saturday at Lenoir Rhyne college, to replace Mrs. Pollock. Miss Carlyle is a Gard ner-Webb college graduate and has taught in Cleveland and Rutherford county schools. Miss Carlyle will begin her duties i Monday. 2) Appropriated $2100 to school bands for linstmment repair and replacement, with $1500 to the Kings Mountain school band and $600 to the Davidson school band. 3) Voted to deposit $10,000 of the school’s capital outlay fund at Home Savings !& Loan Asso ciation. 4) Heard a report from Supt. B. N. Barnes showing the schools has collected $2,135 in dividends from savings and loan invest ments and that end of year to talis were $67,000 at Kings Moun tain Savings & Loan association and $62,000 at Home Savings & Loan association. Wrecker Call Check Ordered A city commission committee is checking on the method, if any, by which city policemen sum mon wrecker service. Lawrence Putnam, of Putnam Brothers Garage, had told the board he felt the policemen should share the Calls on a regu lar rotating basis. Board members said they didn’t ! know whether the policemen have | a policy and suggested thait it would be the owner of a wrecked car who could specify particular wrecker service. The committee to investigate included Mayor Glee Bridges, Chief of Police Martin - vflaire, and Comm. Coleman Stroup i. Jim Reichert, of ’’utory Chev rolet Company, later commented that Putnam Brothers use a radio receiver “presumably to monitor police calls.” The (board: 1) Approved petition to install curb and gutter on Parker street, from Gaston to Deal. 2) Rezoned from residential to business area a 50-foot lot on Broad street and f rom residenti al to neighborhood trading area a 50 foot lot in the 300 block of N. •' iaston street. 3) Approved transfer of a taxi franchise from Coley Freeman to Weldon (Smug) Morris, provi ded Morris meets regular fran chise requirements. 4) Approved investment of $4, 000 in savings and loan assoda: tions, including $2,000 of utility deposits, $1,000 gas deposits, and $1,000 in cemetery funds. The de posits brings to $140,000 atnount of city f unds invested in local savings and loan associations. Training Course Series Launched A training course series on church membership was launch, ed Wednesday night at First Presbyterian church. The course, to be conducted on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 by the pastor, Dr. Paul K. Ausley, will include history on the Pres byterian church, its doctrine, functions and responsibilities. TO RALEIGH Mrs. Aubrey Mauney and Miss Margaret Goforth went to Raleigh Wednesday where they attended a meeting of the board of directors of the North Carolina Federation of Wo men’s Clubs. Mrs. Mauney ad dressed the group on "Inter national Clubs’*. JAYCEES PRESENT AWARD — B. F. Mcmer, pictured at right is shown receiving from Grady Howard, left the "Young Man of the Year" award for 1958 as Jaycee President George Thomasson looks on. Mr. Maner was presented the distinguished service award as a highlight of the Bosses' Night banquet Tues day of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. (Photo by Paul Lemmons, Shelby Star) Maner Is Winner Of DSA Award ELECTED — Dr. P. G. Padgett has been elected a comtnissionei from Kings Mountain Presbytery to a meeting of the General As sembly of the Presbyterian Church in April. Chureh Group Elects Padgett i j Dr. P. G. Padgett, Kings Moun j tain physician and elder at Firsi Presbyterian church, was elected j a commissioner to the Genera] I Assembly of the Presbyterian Church Tuesday. Kings Mountain Presbytery which convened at East Belmont church, named two elders and two ministers to represent chur ches in this Presbytery at the assembly meeting in April in Atlanta,#Ga. Dr. Paul K. Ausley, pastor oi First Presbyterian church, was e. lected to the Christian Educa tion committee of the Presby tery (class of 1961) and was al so named chairman of the com mittee which selects places oi meetings. . Dr. Ausley and Elder S. S. Weir, Jr. represented the Kings Mountain church at the meeting. Classmates Lose Fathers Same Day Death hit Mrs. W. F. Powell’s West school second grade twice on Monday. Fathers of (two students died on the same day. Fred Junior Williams, father of pupil Gary Williams, died Monday afternoon. Wi Uiam L. Merritt, father of pupil WHltain Merritt, Jr., died in a car-train crash Monday Insuranceman Fifth Citizen To Win Honoi ; ■ B. F. Maner, Kings Mountain! insuranceman, is “Young Man of the Year” for 1958. Presentation of the distin guished service award to Mr. Maner was a highlight of the Bosses’ Nigh> banquet Tuesday of the Junior Chamber of Com merce. Cited for outstanding com munity achievement by a com mittee of prominent citizens over 35, Mr. Maner is the fifth dinner of the Jaycees’ Distinguished Service award in Kings Moun tain. “I’ve found my roots in this community," the recipient said in accepting the handsome DSA plaque from Grady Howard, a ward winner in 1955. Mr. How ard commended Mr. Maner for his numerous church, civic, and community activities during the past year and for his Interest and promotion of the Little League baseball program. Virgil Weathers, Shelby Insur anceman, challenged the Jay cees to preserve those fredoms of friendship, warship, speech and choice of profession which he pointed out are enjoyed by all Americans and not enough appreciated. He continued, “We should have that attitude St. Francis was speaking of when he said to seek to console, to understand, and to love—‘because in giving one receives, in pardoning one is pardoned, and in dying one is bom to everlasting life." “We should feel”, he added, “that (Continued on Page Eight) . . ... wmm * mmmmmmmmm IN NEW POST — Joe Hedden, of Kings Mountain. Monday will assume duties ic the personnel department of Carolina Fibre Glass Company, the new Pitts burgh Plcte Glass subsidiary at Shelby. Mi. Hedden has been personnel manager for Bost Ba keries, Inc., for the past 18 months. Hedden Joining Fibre Glass Firm Joe Hedden, personnel mana ger of Bost Bakeries, Inc., Shelby plant, has accepted a position in the personnel department of Carolina Fibre Glass Company, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass subsi diary which will soon begin pro duction. Mr. Hedden will assume his new duties Monday. A Kings Mountain citizen, Mr. Hedden for 12 years was city schools band director. He resign ed from the city faculty to join Bost Bakeries more than 18 mon ths ago. He is a graduate of Wes tern Carolina College and holds a master’s degree from Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. He is a navy veteran of World War II and a member of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. Mrs. Hedden is the former Frances Crouse. The Heddens live in Crescent Hill. Citizens Are Paying Assessments For Sheets; Current Balance Low Kings Mountain citizens are paying their street improvements assessments. This fact was apparent in the report last week by Cttty Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., who told the board of commissioners that: street assessments outstanding1 totaled only $4,194.25, Including $1471.35 confirmed by the board of oornmiaskmers on January 34. The low total outstanding is not due to lack of assessments. At June 30, 1957, die unpaid as sessment total was $9,294. Since that date, assessments for more Street work totaled $40,937. Thus, tai a period of sKghtly more than 18 months, property owners have paid assessments totaling about $46,000. Mayor Glee A. Bridges credits Che much-improved payment rate situation to two factors: 1) a doption of itlie cash basis for street improvements, and 2) a vigorous collection policy. Contrary to the former method, when citizens were ailiowed three yeais from confirmiation date to pay their assessments, petitioners for street improvements agree to pay their portion of the cost on Completion at the work. Majority now pay prior to advertising of a public hearing on the canfirma (Continued on Pago Sight) Committee j Now At Work j On Proposal The city board of oommission ers is considering seeking a city Charter amendment which would result in election of the mayor and city commissioners (to four year terms. If the plan is adopted, a stag gered term arrangement, similar to Shelby’s, would 'be employed, with the mayor and two oommis stoners elected at the end of one biennium and three oommfesian ers at the end of the next bienni um. To effect the change, legisla tion would be required by the North > Carolina General Assem bly, which convenes February 3. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said he thought terms of office should be staggered and commissioners al so commented in favor of the change. Subsequently, the com missioners voted to authorize the Mayor to appoint a committee to investigate (the idea and to file a report with the board. Mayor Bridges named to the committee Oomms. Ben H. Brid ges and Boyce Gault, City Cleric Joe McDaniel, and City Attorney J. R. Davis. The committee met Wednesday afternoon. Should the General Assembly enact (the change 'proposal in time for the forthcoming May 1959 election it would be 1951 before the new arrangement becomes fully operative. One group would be elected in May 'for two years, the Other for four year terms. The mechanics on Which offices would be filled for tile short term and which for 'the long term were discussed only inferenltially at the January 21 board session. One commissioner suggested commis sioners Obtaining highest vote totals might take the four-year terms. Should the commission seek the Change, the county’s legisla tive representative, Sen. Robert Morgan and Rep. Jack Palmer, would be requested to introduce a charter amendment in the Gen eral Assembly and obtain enact ment. Concurrent wit h the staggered term proposal, City Clerk McDan iel had suggested that the taking of office of new candidates be de layed to June 30, last day of the fiscal year, rather than two days following the biennial election. He agreed that adoption of the staggered term of four years would minimize necessity for the change of date in seating newly elected officials. Mr. McDaniel said budget work is already well underway by (the time a new com mission is seated and that the change would facilitate city office budget work. Oiity Attorney Davis objected that a later office-seating date Would create a “a lame duck” sit I uatdon, and he expressed doubts that a lame duck commissioner would take much interest tn the work of tlie city. Hal Haynes, 33, Dies In Florida Hal Reed Haynes, 33, former Kinge Mountain resident, died at Tampa, Fla., General Hospital Tuesday. The body has been shipped to Harris Funeral Home, where fu neral rites will probably be held Friday afternoon. A native of Lincoln county, he was a son of this late Mr. and Mrs. William C. Haynes. 'Surviving are hlis wife, Mrs: Ruth Shytle Haynes, a son, Rocky Haynes, both of Kings Mountain; four brothers, Russell Haynes, Hudson, Ernest Haynes, Kannap olis, Rev. Howard Haynes, Wil mington, and R-oy Haynes, Kings Mountain; and four sisters. Mrs. Dorus Whitesides, Kings Moun tain, Mrs. Clyde Dills, Gastonia, Mrs. H. A. Pyler, Pineviile, and Mrs. Jack Jenkins, Cherryville. *58 Blood Report Shows Red Ink Kings Mountain area citi zens showed a 115-pint blood giving deficit for 1958, Bob Ma ner, Red Cross blood program* chairman, said this week. During 1958, Kings Moun tain area citizens gave 261 pints of blood via the Red Cross Bloodmobile. But citizens required: 378 pints of blood during the same per iod. : Mr, Maner pointed out the de ficit and urged a big turnout of -blood donors when the Bloodmobile makes it forth coming February 2 visit to Kings Mountain. “We’re behind and we need to catch up." Mr. Maner com mented. The Bloodmobile wil1 be at the Woman’s Club.
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