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' •*T9. ,v#yv Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Tbs figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from thn 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure b from the United States census ol 1950. 1C Pages 1 0 Today VOL 70 No. 10 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 12, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins ON DEAN’S LIST ' Ediward Ledford, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Ledford, was lifted on Ithe dean’s list for the fail term at Wake Forest col lege where he is a freshman. KIWANIS CLUB Dr. Avery McMurray of Shel by will discuss the Red Cross blood program ait the Thurs day night meeting of ithe Ki wiands club at 6:45 at the Wo man’s dub. Dr. W. P. Gerber ding has arranged the pro gram. PRACTICE TEACHING Miss Martha Ann Baker, sen ior alt Appalachian State Tea cher’s college, is doing her pra ctice teaching at Cherryville high school in (the English de partment. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Baker. HOSPITALIZED Dr. P. G. Padgett has been undergoing observation and treatment since Thursday at Memorial Hospital, Charlotte. AT MEETING Ben F. Beam, associate man ager of the Gastonia district of Western Southern Life Insur ance Company, is attending an insurance meeting at Sheraton Hotel, High Point, this week. ATTENDS MEETING Mrs. Jessie Pennington has returned from the annual con vention of the North Carolina and South Eastern Photograph ers association held three days last week in Ch arlotte. REHEARSAL Members of the cast of the Womanless Wedding will hold i rehearsals Thursday night at 8:30 pr. m. in the aining fbom of the Wamgn’s club where the show will be held Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 o’clock. *# BENEFIT PROGRAM The harvesters Quartet and Arthur Smith and his Cracker Jacks will perform at Grover school auditorium Friday night, March 20th, at 8 p. m., with proceeds to go to the School tor the Handicapped, Shelby, a Grover spokesman has announced. ROTARY SPEAKER Col. Avery W. Masters, com - manding officer of the 2£nd Ar tillery Group (Air Defense) of Or land Park, Dlinois, will be the featured speaker before the Rotary Club at its meeting Thursday at 12:15 at the Royal Restaurant. Fred Wright, Jr., is in charge of the program. » NO P-TA MEETING Park Grace school P-TA will not hold a meeting the first Monday. night dn March, a school spokesman has announ ced. Schools will be closed on Easter Monday and members voted ito postpone the regular ly scheduled meeting. SPEAKER Dr. J. O. Smith, district sup erintendent of the Spartanburg district of the Methodist chur ch, will lead the Holy Week services March 22-27 at Central Methodist church. The services will be held nighitly at 7:30 p. m. CENTRAL P-TA Central school P-TA will hold its regular meeting Monday night at 7:30 p. m. in the school auditorium, with open house to follow. Special em phasis is being placed on sci ence exhibits. TO DURHAM ‘ ««i Sondra Gilbert, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Gil bert, has assumed the duties of dental assistant to Dr. Dan iel A. Carr and Dr. James A. Leggette, Jr., in Durham. Miss Gilbert was formerly dental as sistant to Dr. D. F. Hord. Mrs. W. F. Houser has succeeded Miss Gilbert AT SYMPOSIUM Jimmy Plonk, son of Mr. aind Fred W. Plonk, and Paul Hen • d ricks, son of Dr. and Mrs. ^aul E. Hendricks ane at 'Cha pel Hill where they are among 377 high school students and n teachers attending the North Carolina Junior Science Symposium. Thes tu dents rep resent 130 state high schools rend is a Joint project oi the University Oi North Carolina, N. C- State collegfe, and Duke university. . Sag PINEWOOD DERBY WINNER—Tommy Finger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Finger, is shown a bove as he received the Pinewood Derby award from Pack Two Cub Scouts by George H. Manuey, Cubmaster. The boys carved their own models and raced the cars as a feature of the blue and gold banquet at St. Matthew's Luth. eran church recently. Neil Cooper's car placed second, and models of Carl Wiesener and Bill Bridges were third. Other Cubs who competed were Peter Houser, Douglas Mercier, Scott Cole. Sandy Mauney, and Clark Mauney. (Photo by Pennington Studio) ARP Anniversary Program Sunday Church Noting 60th Birthday With Pageant Boyce Memorial ARP church will celebrate its 60th anniver sary in special all-day services at die church on Sunday. (Beginning at 11 a. nr., the morn ing service will be featured by a pageant "A Goodly Heritage”, written by Mfs. M. A. Ware, Sir., which will depict the history of the Associate Reformed Presby terian denomination, with em phasis on the history of SBoytce Memorial church. Numerous church members will participate in the pageant and Mrs. Dick Le Grand, of Shelby, a former mem ber, will be the narrator. Following picnic lunch in the Sunday school building at 12:30, an afternoon service will begin at 2 p. m. (Dr. W. P. Geilberding, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, will bring greetings from other Kings Mbuntain churches, and Dr. IB. L. Hamilton, moderator, will bring greetings from the ARP Synod. Honor guests will be recognized, including charter members of (the church1, and an other group, which will include members for the past 30 years or more. J. L. McGill will present a brief history of (Boyce Memo rial church, 1948-58, and Mrs. R. M. Kennedy, Jr., will discuss the history of the anniversary year. Invitations to farmer members to attend have been issued and a large crowd is exnected for the anniversary celebration, i ■ (M. A. Ware, Sr., is serving as general chairman of the event. Committees include: invitations, I. G. Patterson and Paul Ham; lunch, Lewis Hovis and Marriott Phifer; hospitality, J. L. McGill and Ben H. Goforth, Jr., music, Mrs. N. (F. MCGlll, Mrs. Kenneth McGill and Mrs. J. E. Gamble; and flowers, Mrs. Wilson Craw ford and Mrs. Claude Hambright. Special music will include an thems by the three church choirs. Bed Cross Negro Group To Meet Hilliard Hunter, chairman of the Negro division of the 1959 Red Cross fund drive, has called a meeting of leaders from all Ne gro chluidhes, schools and lodges within the Kings Mountain chap ter area to attend a meeting at City Hall Monday evening at 7:30. The meeting has been called for a discussion of quotas and for distribution of campaign supplies. J. A. Gibson, Davidson school principal, is secretary of the group. EAST SCHOOL The regular P-TA meeting at Bast school will be held Tues day afternoon ait 3:30 p. m. in the school auditorium. Jerry McCarter Erskine Nominee Jerry McCarter, Kings Moan tain student at Erskine college, is a candialte for president of the student body In the spring elec tions. Two other candidates are In the field. They are Dwight Pear son, Gastonia, and Rowland Hawthorne, Anderson, S. C. Primary balloting will be Fri day, with the final balloting on Tuesday. State Office Approves Plans State school officials have ap proved architect's plans for con struction of a gymtorlum ait Da vidson school, Supt. 'B. N. Barnes reported this week. (Mr. Barnes and John MeClurd, associate of Architect J. L. Beam, of ChenyviHe, went to Raleigh last Thursday to confer with state department building officials on the Davidson project. (Mr. Barnes said notice of ad vertisement for bids will be plac ed by the architect in the near future. (Intent of Che board of education is to have the new gymtordUm available for use during the 1959 60 school term, board members have indicated. Market For Used Boy Scout Duds Outgrown Boy Scout uniforms around the house? There’s a market for them. Otis Falls, Jr., Troop II Scout master, Says he has seven newly inducted Boy Scouts who would •like to purchase used uniforms. Mr. Falls adds there are others in other troops. Citizens having used uniforms aavilable should call (Mr. Falls tat 208, or Ellis King at 254. False Pretenses Suit Charges Dan Mitchem Dan Mitchem, whose company, The Dan Mitchem Construction Company, built some of Gas tonia’s plushest homes has been charged by several Gastonia citi zens wilth obtaining money un der false pretenses with intent to defraud. He was named In warrants drawn by Mr. and Mrs. Osborne Sherrill and Mrs. J. C. Westbrook, The Sherrill warrant charges the builder with taking $200 from Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill in Septem ber of last year to obtain a loan on a new home. They allege he never did so. Mrs. Westbrook, in bringing a similar charge, alleges Mitchem took $300 from her in July of last year under the same pretense. Another warrant, drawn by Mrs. A. D. Howard, also of Gas tonia, has brought a similar charge aigatnst Mitchem. A suit filed by Bryant Supply Co. charges that the Mitchem company executed a promissory note for $1,174.27 of which only $500 has been repaid. The Mitchem construction firm is also named in a notice of lien, an announcement that attaches strings to property and sets it up for possible sale to get money to pay debts. The notice of lien was filed by City Electric and Plumbing Co. of Gastonia to seek payment of a $1,400 bill. Six other notices of liens have been filed by the electric firm on homes on which the Mitchem company was the contractor and subcontracting work handled by City Electric and Plumbing Com. pany. The electric company claims that over $6,000 has never been received for work if performed on Mitchem constructed homes. Pending a preliminary hearing, Mitchem is free under $1,000 bond. DISTRICT MEETING Board of Education members Fred Plonk and A. W. Kincaid, Supf. B. N. Barnes and Princi pals Lawson Brown, I. Ben Go forth, Jr., William George and R. M. Kennedy will attend the annual District 14 school board association to be held at Lin colnton school Thursday night Retailers To Hold Annual Banquet Monday Night .Smith Will Speak A crowd of over 150 Kings Mountain retailers and their em ployees is expected to attend Mon day night’s annual banquet of the Kings (Mountain Merchants as sociation, officials of the associa tion reported Wednesday. 'Advance reservations for the event—to be held at the Woman’s club Monday at 7 p. m.—indicate a record crowd, Mrs. Ida Joy, sec retary, said. 'Highlight of the event will be an address by Walter W. Smith, Rutherford ton insurance man. Charles E. Dixon will present the speaker. „ Retiring President Richard Bar nette wiH ^reside over the meet tng, recognize special guests, and; make the annual president's re port. Paul Walker, a past presi dent, win install the new officers, and Rev. George Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, will give the invocation. J. T. McGinnis, Jr. and Glee E. Bridges will make distribution ctf gifts, to the ladies. TY> toe installed are: Jonas Bridges, president; Menzell Phi fer, vice-president; and Jfmes Crawford, Denver King, Eugene MlcSwain, and J. C. Bridges, di rectors. Hold-over directors are Fleete MdGurdy, J. T. McGinnis, Jr., Paul McGinnis ,and K. E. Morrison. The outgoing directors are Wes ley Stash, Eugene Timms, Odus Smith, and Richard McGinnis Craftspun Yams Hasn't Been Sold To Mohaii Firm Craftspun Yams, Inc., Kings Mountain yam manufacturers, has not been sold to Massachu setts Mohair Plush Company or any other firlm, President Carl H. Swan said Wednesday. Mr. Swan acknowledged that Massachusetts Mohair has made overtures concerning purchase of Craftspun, but, he added, “No papers have been signed; no deals have been completed.” A1 Maino, general manager of Massachusetts Mohair’s Neisler division was out of town Wed nesday and could not be reached for comment on the possibility his firm would purchase Craft spun. Commenting on recent court litigation involving the Securi ties and Exchange commission and E. L. Guterma, until recent ly preseident of Scranton Com pany, parent company of Craft spun, Mr. Swan said the federal court has denied an SEC petition to appoint a receiver for F. L. Jacobs Company, also headed until recently by Guterma. The Jacobs Company, an aulto parts manufacturer, was controlling stockholder of the Scranton Com pany. The courts approved, in effect, the new management set-up whereby Hal Roach, film pro ducer, succeeded Guterma, Mr. Swan said. Country Club Meeting Tuesday Stockholders of Kings Moun tain Country Club, Inc., will hold their annual (meeting Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at the dub. As customary, It will be a din ner session. President J. E. Rhea said Wed nesday theb usijiness session will include reports from officers and committee chairmen and election of directors for the coming year. Other officers who will make reports are Dr. N. H. Reed, Sec retary, and Charles E. Dixon, treasurer. Bruce Thorbum will make the house committee report and J. A. Neisler will report for the greens committee. Fred Wright, Jr., will make the nominating committee report. Other members of the committee are Paul McGinnis and R. S. Len non. Heavenex loins Durham WTVD Jimmy Heavener, Kings Moun tain .sophomore at the University of North Carolina, has accepted a position as staff announcer at television State WTVD Durham. He expects to continue his schooling at UNC, Where he is majoring in radio-television. iWTVD is a 316,000 watt station and covers Che eastern Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Plato Heavner, 818 Cleveland avenue. Senate Passes Bill On Tenure Senate Bill 57, designed to amend the city Charter to pro vide four year terms of office for city officials should the voters approve at the May 12 election, passed the Senate last Thursday and is now in the House for ac tion. Senator Robert Morgan, who introduced the bill, said Wednes day it would likely be ratified by the House by the end of this week. Under terms of the bill, “yes” or “no” answers will be provid ed to tiwo questions on tile May 12 ballot: 1) Will the mayor be elected to serve for two years or four years? and 2) will the board of commissioners toe elected to serve two years or four years? Th results of the election will apply to the mayor and five com missioners elected May 12, or sub sequently. It would be possible for the citizens to Choose a mayor for a four-year tenure and the com mission for two, or vice versa. TO BALEIGH Central Principal Lawson Brown and Miss Alice Averitt, teaching supervisor, will at tend a conference on National Defense called by the State Board of Education for Raleigh on Friday. Houser Lone Entry Of W eek In City Political Campaign CANDIDATE — C. H. (Cat) Houser filed candidacy this week for the board of commissioners j from Ward 1. He opposes Ross | Alexander, incumbent. Mis. Alexander Head* Committee Mrs. Charles (Alexander was named chairman of the Kings Mountain committee of (the A merican Field Service at a re organization meeting held Tues day. The committee is responsible for sponsoring the foreign ex change student program and is comprised of representatives of the town’s civic clubs. Mrs. Alexander is a represen tative of the Junior Woman’s Club. Named to the vice-chair manship was B. S. Peeler, Jr., Kl wanis Club representative. Other members of the commit tee and clubs represented are Mrs. Jacob Cooper, Woman’s Club; Miaitin L. Harmon, Jr., Lions Club; Ollie Harris, Sr., A merican Legion; and Charles Blanton, Jr., Jaycees. A representative for Kings Mountain Rotary Club has not been announced. School liason for the commit tee are Mrs. W. T. Weir and E. Lawson Brown. Present at the meeting was Mrs. Porter Byrum of Charlotte who was instrumental in secur ing the present exchange student at Kings Mountain High School, Graeme Reeves of New Zealand. Reeves is residing with Dr. and Mrs. Phillio Padgett. Lawson Brown, in reporting the reorganization, said the purpose of the group is to look into con tinuance of the exchange pro gram in Kings Mountain. He said Kings Mountain Is now eligible to send a local student abroad and four students have applied. He said a waiting period to learn the results of the applications is now being undergone. District Music Event At Hickory Kings Mountain area musicians will go to Hickory this weekend j for annual district music con-; tests. On Thursday, the Kings Moun-1 tain high school mixed chorus, dis-1 rected by Charles Ballance, will go to Hickory. On Friday, the high school band, also directed by Mr. Bal lanoe and with a concert on Tues day night as a recent success, will play at Hickory. Competing in district piano contests on Saturday will be Sara Rose Lennon. Pattle Howard, Sa ra Hendricks, Joan McClure and Linda Walker, Kings Mountain, and Jerry Patterson, Bethiware, students of Mrs. Martin Harmon, and Vanelle PWlllips, Susan Lock ridge and Marilyn Dixon, Kings Mountain, pupils of Charles Woodward. The district event will be held at Lenoir-Rhyne college. Houser Opposes Ross Alexander InWardlRace C. H. (Oait) Houser, bowling al. ley owner, was (the lone entry in the city political sweepstakes during the past week. Mr. Houser’s candidacy assures a race for the Ward 1 city com mission post. He opposes Ross Alexander, incumbent, who seeks a second term. Still vacant is the Ward 2 city commission spot, where no can didates have yet filed. Incumbent Boyoe Gault is expected to seek re-election. Other than Mr. Houser’s entry, political activity during Ithe past week was limited to conversa tion, which was flavored increas ingly by the subject of politics. Another incumbent not yet fil ing for the spring campaign is Mayor Pro Tempore Ben H. Brid ges. Prominently rumored as a mayoral Candidate several weeks ago, Mr. Bridges has told friends he now expects to seek re-elec tion to the Ward 4 commission ship. This would pit him against two candidates who have al ready filed for his position. They are ex - Commissioner Paul W. Ledford and J. Clyde Gladden. Speculation continued on other board candidates. In Ward 5, friends listed George W. Mauney as an "almost sure” candidate and another possible is Charles E. Blalock. Mr. Blalock, who has acknowledged interest in the mayoral race, was reported this week to be thinking about offer ing instead for the Ward 5 seat Already seeking this position are Incumbent R. Coleman Stroupe and Curtis V. Gaffney. Thus far the three-man may oral race, which includes Miayor Glee A. Bridges, D. L. Saunders and ex-Mayor Garland E. Still, has been devoid of outward activ ity. Another three-man race has already been posed in Ward 3, where Incumbent Luther T. Ben nett is being challenged by T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, four-term vet eran at City Hall, and C. Glenn White, onetime school board member. Jaimes E. Herndon, Jr., is a name which has cropped up as a Ward 1 possible. Ray Cline, Le gion commander, said he won’t seek the office. Speculation continues on wheth er any other candidates will file for the sdiool trustee post being vacated by J. R. Davis. Thus far (Continued on Page Eight J Eastei Buying Rush Starling Kjngs Mountain merchants an ticipate the Eastter buying rush will get into full swing this weekend. Many merchants, particularly in (the apparel trades, said a pick-up was apparent last week, as citizens began investing In Easter wardrobes. The merchants, along with their customers, would like to see some consistent weather of the balmy spring type. Of course, Easter Sunday weather traditi onally is tricky and It hasn’t been too many Easters ago that church-gores came out from Eas ter rites to find snow falling. (Kings Mountain merchants re port their stores well-stocked with Easter season goods, Inclu ding apparel for young and old, boy and girl, as well as novel ties for the children. Retailers generally expect better business this season than last due to two principal factors; industrial op erating schedules are much bet ter this year than LaSt, meaning higher employment, and Easter arrives earlier, requiring earlier than-1958 buying for Easter. Businessmen, Properly-Costumed, To Perform In Womanless Wedding ; The Woman’s club’s Special Projects committee was ready ing this week for the clUb-spon sored Womanless Wedding to be staged Friday iand Saturday. Clubwomen were hard at work an costumes and other details of the show which will get under way each evening at 8 p. m. fax, the clubhouse. A cast of over 60 men will hold rehearsals Thursday nigfht at 8:30 Mrs. Charles Blawon, publicity chairman, ansnotUiced Wednesday. Mrs. Fred Withers is directing the program. Admission is 50 cents for adults and. 15 cents for children. Included in the large cast of wedding participants will be Jack White who has the bride’s role arid Joihn C. Smathers who will portray the bridegroom. The wed ding party also features a long list of bridesmaids and other at tendants, plus other attractions and entertainment. Proceeds from the event go in to the club building fund. HEADS RAINBOWS—Nancy Mc Clure. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. McClure, was recently in stalled as worthy advisor In the new Kings Mountain organiza tion. Order of Rainbow for Girls. The Order of the Eastern Star sponsors the group. Huffsticklei Rites Thursday Funeral rites for Mrs. Kathryn Croker Huffstickler, 30, will be held Thursday afternoon a/t 4 o’ clock from Central Methodist church. Mrs. Huffstickler, wife of Hazel Edward Huffstickler, died sud denly Tuesday night at 7:45 in Kings Mountain hospital. She had been ill four weeks. Rev. James B. McLarty, the pastor, will officiate, and inter ment wiU be in Mountain Re^t cemetery. The body will remain ait Harris Funeral Home until taken to the church 30 minutes before the funeral. A Kings Mountain native, Mrs. Huffstickler was the daughter of Mrs. Ellen Petrosino of Kinigs Mountain and Richard T. Croker of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Sur viving, in addiiton to her hus band and parents, are three dau ghters, Elaine, Pamela Jane, and Teresa Huffstickler, one son, Michael, all of the home, a bro ther, Richard Croker of the U. S. Navy in San Diego, Oalif., and a sister, Mrs. Charles Edwards of CherryviUe. Hoyle Resigns Montonia lob Dallas Hoyle, Lake Montonia Clulb caretaker, has resigned. Mr. Hoyle had resigned effec tive April 30, but the board of di rectors, in session Monday night, accepted the resignation effective March 31. Lawrence Patrick, secretary treasurer, said a committee of di rectors named to recommend a replacement includes Carl F. (Mauney, chairman, and J- Pat Tignor, of Kings Mountain, and Walter Carroll and Lee Spencer, of Gastonia. The stockholders, in annual meeting here in January, had passed a resolution suggesting that the directors consider a raise for Hoyle. He had been paid $30 weekly, plus profits on the club concession stand, and was fum ed a house with water and power. Mr. Patrick said improvements are being made at the lake swim ming area. An additional pier, with diving board, is being insta' led and a sliding board added to the existing pier. Variety Show Here Saturday The Cleveland County Life Saving Crew will sponsor a var iety show Saturday night at 8 p. m. in Kings Mountain high school auditorium. Singer Martha Carson and The Casuals, rock and roll combo from NashviUe, Tennessee, will feature the show. Admission is 90 cents for adults and 40 cents for children. Now flying the Dot Records la. be Is, The Casuals are veterans of more than 150 showdaties throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama, topped off by nu merous television and radio ap pearances. Miss Carson, who records on the Cadence label, Is billed as the nation’s No. 1 singer of spi ritual songs. Besides her many concert tours, she has been guest star on many of the nation’s top televirion 6hows and has written over 100 songs.
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