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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 The figure lor Greater Hng« Mountain U derived from the 1955 king* Mountain city directory censue. The dry Uadta figure in from the United Staten ct 1950. VOL 70 No. 11 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 19, 1959 Seventieth Year 1C Pases ID Today PRICE TEN CENTS P-TA s Query City Fathers: Why No Fluoridated Water? Board Is Urged To Implement *57 Vote Result By MARTIN HARMON City schools Parent-Teacher Association representatives took the city board of commissioners to task last week for not imple menting (the 1957 informational referendum instructing the city to fluoridate its water supply. Appearing for the P-TA’s at the March 11 commission session were Mrs. John C. McGill, who acted as spokesman, Mrs. Ken neth McGill, Bruce Thorbum and Clavon Kelly. A petition was presented to the commission signed by the sev eral members of the P-TA health and welfare committees. In 1957, citizens voted 1193 to "576 in favor of fluoridating the city’s water supply, said by pro ponents to prevent tooth cavities, particularly in children. The 1957 referendum was “in formational” in that it was not authorized by the General As sembly. The administration has not fluoridated the city's water supply. Cost estimates on fluoridation in 1957 were $4200 (to $5000 for (the first year, and $1800 to $2000 In operating costs in subsequent years. Mayor Pro Tempore Ben Brid ges, presiding in the absence of Mayor Glee A. Bridges, suggest ed that a check be made, both on the results of the referendum and requirements for fluoridating water supply. Comm. Boyce Gault said he had been told by Mayor Bridges that certain forms had to be filed by the community’s doctors and that this had not been done. Mrs. John McGill replied, 'T can’t understand that The medi cal staff unanimously supported fluoridation of the city’s water supply.” City Clerk Joe McDaniel, on query, said he was sure the forms are in hand, as he had seen them, and Mr. Kelly re marked, “I think the point is to keep this matter out of the pig eonhole.” Mrs. McGill had previously (Continued on Page Eight) Local News Bulletins AT CONVENTION Mrs. O. O. Walker, Mrs. F. A. McDaniel, Jr., Mrs. Harold Crawford, Mrs. J. B. Keeter, Mrs. J. B. Falls, and Mrs. G. A. Bridges represented Kings Mountain Baptist church at the State WMU convention in Dur ham Tuesday. CAKE SALE ' The Young People’s Christian Union of Boyce Memorial ARP church is selling homemade cakes at Phifer Hardware com pany Saturday morning begin ning aft 9 o’clock. X-RAY MOBILE HERE The Cleveland County Tuber losis Association X-Ray mobile will be operating Thursday in front of Belk’s Department store -from 10 12 in the morn ing and 1-4 in the afternoon. AT CONFERENCE Fred Falls, Kings Mountain sophomore aft Pfeiffer college, aitftended the annual state Methodist student movement conference held in Winston Sa lem last week end. BROADCAST Dr. W. P. Gerberding, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, will conduct dally de votions next week, Monday through Friday, at 9 a. m. via Station WKMT. NO MEETING Park Grace school P-TA will not hold a regular* meeting Monday night, March 30th, as ix*hools will be closed the Mon day following Easter. HOSPITALIZED J. C. Keller, director of Kings Mountain Savings and Loan A soeiation, was hospitalized at Kings Mountain hospital following a stroke Sunday. Re latives said he was resting well Wednesday. SECRETARIES GIVE AWARD -1 City Schools Supt. B. N. Barnes is pictured receiving from his secretary, Mrs. Wtnua Y. Davis, the "Boss of the Year" award presented last weekend in Durham as a feature of the annual convention of the Department of Educational Secretaries of the North Carolina Education Association. Mrs. Davis was re-elected president of the organization. SPEAKER — Dr. J. Owen Smith, of Spartanburg, S. C.. will lead a week of special Holy Week ser vices beginning Sunday night at Central Methodist church. Methodists Set Special Series Dr. J. Owen Smith, superinten dent of the Spartaniburg district Of the Methodist church, will con duct Holy Week services begin ning Sunday evening at Central Methodist church. The week’s services, to be held nightly at 7:30 p. m., will also include Maundy - Thursday com munion and special music by the church choir. Rev. J. B. McLarty, the pastor, will lead congrega tional singing, and the Women’s Society of Christian Service will serve as hostesses for the fellow ship hour to be held Sunday fol lowing the evening service. Born at Johnson, S. C., Dr. Smith was graduated from Wof fard college and Yale Divinity School. He subsequently received the honorary D. D. degree from Wofford in 1946 and did graduate work at Emory and Duke univer sities. From 1926-54 We served churches in Leesville, Clem son, Laurens, Columbia, Greenville, and Spartanburg, S. C. Dr. Smith, who has served in numerous posts in the Methodist conference, was president of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Pas ters’ conference and was vice chairman of the Superintendent’s conference. He was an accredited visitor at the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Holland in 1948 and Was also tra veled extensively in the United States and Europe. He and Mrs. Smith, the form er Mildred Brown of Manning, S. C., have two married daughters. Stores To Close On Eoster Monday Kings Mountain retail mer chants will be open all day next Wednesday, Mrs. Luther Joy, association secretary re ported this week. Stores will be closed Easter Monday, as customary, in ac cordance with by-laws of the association. Re-elected Mrs. Wanza Y. Davis, city schools secretary, was re-elected president, and City Schools Supt. B. N. Barnes was named "Boss of the Year” at the annual conven tion last week end of the [De partment of Educational Secre taries of ithe North Carolina Ed ucation association. The Convention, held Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday in Durham, also featured numerous workshops in which Kings Moun tain area citizens participated, including Mr. Barnes, J. H. Grigg, county school superintendent, E. Floyd Farris of Southern Bell ! Telephone Company, and Rev. Gordon Weekley a former pastor now of Charlotte. Presentation of the first annual award was made to Mr. Barnes at the banquet which featured an address by Charles E. Cullen of Charlotte. In addition ito Mrs. Davis, other officers elected included: Mrs. lone P. Whitehead, Wilmington, elevated from second vice-presi dent to first vice-president; Mrs. Ruth Phillips, Kanapolis, second vice-president; Mrs. Mary Jane Kistler, Charlotte, corresponding secretary succeeding Miss Mary Hester Lewis of Tarboro; Mrs. Berta Piland, Winston Salem, re cording secretary; and Mrs. Nina Tenuta, Wilmington, treasurer. Members, at the regular busi ness session, also adopted a con stitutional revision providing for two-year terms for the president of the organization. Theme of the eighth annual state meeting was “Better Listen er-Better Secretary." Mis. Jackson's Bites Conducted On Wednesday Final rites for Mrs. Leila Falls Jackson, 82, Who died of a heart attack Tuesday morning, were held Wednesday afternoon at 4 p. m. from Boyce Memorial ARP Church, interment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mis. Jackson, widow of Thomp son Jackson, had been in de clining health the past several months. A Gaston County native, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Tracy Palls. Her husband died In 1930. She was a charter member of Boyce Memorial ARP church. Mrs. Jackson lived here all her life. She was a granddaughter of the late Robert Falls, 'pioneer Kings Mountain citizen and donor of property on which Kings Mountain’s first church, Kings 'Mountain ARP, was erected in 1876. Mr. Falls also gave two ac res of land for a cemetery, a tract now a part of Mountain Rest cemetery. She was the test surviving child of the William Tracy Falls fam ily. Surviving are four sons, B. P. Jackson, T. W. Jackson, and Ho ward B. Jackson, all of Kings Mountain, and W. C. Jackson of Lowell, lwc daughters, Miss Janie Jackson, Kings Mountain, and Mrs. John Hoyle, Shelby; and two stop-daughters, Mrs. M. S. Barn ette, Charlotte, and (Miss Lila Jackson of Clover, S. C. Fourteen grandchildren and, 11 great-grand children also survive. The final rites were conducted by Dr. W. L. Pressly and Dr. Paul Ausley. (Pallbearers were N. F. McGill, I. G. Patterson, M. A. Ware, (Mar riott D. Phifer, Don Crawford and John L. McGill. • Wow, lodge Says, Those Uniforms! “Wow — how abouit those uni forms!" This was the closing comment of Dr. Paul Bryan, the Duke Uni versity bandmaster, after he’d judged the Kings Mountain high school band at last Friday’s dis trict contest in Hickory. The band came home with a rating of excellent (II), which qualifies the band for participa tion in the North Carolina high school band festival ait Greens boro next month. Dr. Bryan was in Kings Moun tain last spring to conduct a band clinic. At a band associa tion re-organization meeting he heard considerable discussion on the aged uniforms the band members were wearing. Musically, Dr. Bryan wrote in his comments, the band had a good feeling of musicality, show ed nice style in the march and had generally good tone. .r Jaycees Planning Beauty Pageant Interested in a beauty pageant here probably in June? JCings Mountain Jaycees hope to sponsor a “Miss Kings Moun tain" contest this summer if e nough contestants show interest. Unmarried girls — ages 18-28— are eligible and are invited to contact Ed 'Smith, contest chair man, at Phone No. 1790. Young ladies desiring to enter the con test should be 18 years old by September, Mr. Smith pointed out. Meek Ormand, Sometime Trader, Joins Ranks Oi Nonogenarians By DAVID BAITY Batie Meek Ormand, “Captain Meek” to Kings Mountain folk, celebrated his 90th birthday Wednesday, entering the ranks of the Kings Mountain nonogen arians. Mr. Ormand is a retired rail road conductor. During his early life he has been a schoolteacher, a farmer, and he “used to trade around.” “Mule .trading was my special, ty,” he recalls, “'but the tractor ran cme out of business”. Mr. Ormand was bom March 18, 1869, in the Long Creek Chur ch community about four miles from Kings Mountain. He resides ait 311 W. Mountain street In a house he bought in 1911. He re calls the house was about half finished when he bought it and cost about $1200. He has seen lo cal property values skyrocket to the place “you can hardly buy a nice lot for the same price/’ Mr. Ormand was married to the former Miss Lillian Allison on iDecember 30, 1896. They have been married 62 years. The Ormands had four child ren, two daughters, Mrs. O. P. Lewis and Mrs. C. T. Carpenter; and two sons, Hugh and Lloyd. Llovd succumbed last August Nine grandchildren and 10 great-'grandchildren complete the progeny. “Captain Meek” remembers on ly one cotton mill and a few sto res in Kings Mountain in his younger days. He also lived in Greenville, S. C. and Charlotte. After teaching school art the age of 17, he started work with Southern Railway in the depot in 1889. He then served as flag man and finally in 1893 became a conductor on the Central, S. C., to Charlotte route, a 133-mile run. The world has changed a lot since he was a youngster, he says, and he observed that “peo ple just can’t gett along togeth er now.” ‘ Let everybody mind his own business and the world would be a better place,” he says. Though he lived during the (Spanish American War in 1898, World War I and World War II, Mr. Ormand says about world conditions. “I’m not much of a philosopher," he says. “I just read the papers.” He subscribes to three daily newspapers. He noted himself as a younger member of his family. “My bro ther, W. L Ormand, in Bessemer City, celebrated his 92 birthday (Continued on Page Sight) IH JS m 11 - Si llfet I Ben Bridges, Blalock, Gault, Peeler Enter Political Arena DRACE M. PEELER BEN H. BRIDGES BOYCE H. GAULT Overflow Crowd At ARP 60th Anniversary Program Pageant Shows Denomination's History, Tenets By MARTIN HARMON Boyoe Memorial Associate Re formed Presbyterian church cele brated its 60th anniversary year Sunday with a two-service pro gram and picnic dinner. More than 300 persons attend ed the celebration and the chur ch, erected iin 1897-98, was filled to overflowing The morning service was a pageant ‘‘A Goodly Heritage”, written and directed by Mrs. M. A. Ware, Sr. Her daughter, Tftrs. Jean Ware LeGrand, now of Shel by, was narrator. The pageant depicted both the history of the ARP denomination and of Boyce Memorial church. Local History Boyce Memorial ARP church was the successor to Kings Mountain ARP church which was the first church building erected in Kings Mountain (1876). The original frame structure stood at the southwest corner of what is now the 200 block of E. King street. It was erected at a cost of $700. Lee Kamseur, father of Dr. W. L. Ramseur, built the present church structure at a cost of $7,000. There were 14 charter mem bers. On Sunday all were living and seven attended the Sunday service. On Tuesday, Mrs. Lei a Falls Jackson one of the 14, suc cumbed. She had not been able to attend the celebration. Char ter members present for the cel ebration were Mrs. Avalon a White McGill. Mrs. Minnie Ware Phifer, Miss Freelove Black, Ro bert (Bob) McGill, and M. L. Harmon, all of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Mary Hicks Richardson and Mrs. Ida Ware Hambright, both of Grover. Other charter members are Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer, Gastonia, Mrs. Blanche McGill Ross, Charlotte, Mrs. Sara Black Lamon, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Leo Beatty, T. P. Mc Gill and F. Luther Ware, Sr., all of Kings Mountain., The 1876 church was built to succeed Mt Nebo church which divided to form the Kings Moun tain church and Bethel church five miles north of Kings Moun tain. jviit. iNeoo naa r>een rormea m 1855, a church child of Pisgah ARP church. Particular attention was given in the service to the former ARP beliefs of strict adherence to singing Psalms without instru mental accompaniment. It was customary for a true-voiced member to lead the singing and his only aid was a tuning fork. Bright D. Ratterree served as song leader for non-instrumental congregational singing of "The Lord Is My Shepherd." Pageant scenes depicted the trials and tribulations of the First church leaders, the entran ce of the denomination into for eign mission work, the early ac tivities of the women’s organiza tions and the formation of Er skine College (1939) and the Fe male college (1859). The Denomination The pageant narration declar ed that the ARP label as “seced ( Continued on Page Eight) REVIVALIST — Rev. Demcnith Blanton, Kings Mountain native, is conducting revival services this week at First Baptist church. The services will continue through Sunday night. Blanton, Willie Lead Revival Revival services are toeing held at 7:30 ealdh evening this week in the First Baptist church with Rev. Demauth Blanton preaching. The services began Sunday. Mus ic is directed by Norman Willie. Rev. Blanton, a native of Kings Mountain, is the son of (Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Blanton. He is pres ently serving as associate pastor in the University Baptist church of Baltimore, Md. (Mr. Willie, who is married to the former Barbara (Matthews of Kings Mountain, is a student at Limestone College, Gaffney, and is serving as minister of music and education in the Second Bap tist church of Fort Mill, S. C. Hamilton Says Denomination To Grow larger Dr. B. L. Hamilton, moderator of the General Synod of the ARP church, declared here Sunday he did not consider it the destiny of the ARP denomination to remain small. He spoke at the afternoon ses sion of Boyce Memorial ARP ehurch’s 60th anniversary year celebration, stating that the de nomination, in the past few years, has discovered its financial po tential. . "We have not yet discovered our spiritual reserves,” he declar ed. Bars to growth he labeled as temptations spiritual laziness and the feeling that Christ’s bless ings “terminate on us." ‘We have steam . heated homes and churches,” he said, “but our hearts haven’t been warmed up.” 'Dr. Hamilton, for 30 years a missionary to Pakistan, commen ded the Boyce Memorial church for its loyalty in the work of the General Synod. Dr. W. P. Gerbenling, pastor of St. (Matthew’s Lutheran church, broungbt greetings from other churches of the community and declared, “while we are not one organically, we are one in the ecumenical spirit of unity in Christ.” He facetiously referred to the fact that both the Lutheran chur ch and the ARP church have a dopted new somgbooks during the present year. “You ARP’S once sang only the Psalms you consid ered divinely inspired. We Luth erans sang only inspired songs, too, but we thought only Ger mans could write them. Now we’re both learning to sing good Baptist hymns and will soon be able to join with them in Tkted Kindly Light’ ”. J. L. McGill gave a resume of I Continued on Page Eight) Board Reverses Held Too Late; Tenure Bill Will Be on Ballot The city board otf commission ers tried to delete the four-year term question from the May 12 ballot last week, but the effort was a few hours too late. Comm. Luther T. Bennett made the deletion motion with the statement, ‘I’ve heard a lot of comment on it and I’d like to see it deleted from the ballot.” City Attorney J. R. Davis sug gested that legislative enactment of the balloting permission would mean that the commission had no alternative and suggested furth1 er that the motion should be to instruct Cleveland County Repre sentative Jack Palmer to kill the bill in the House of Representa tives. "It passed the Senate last week,” Mr. Davis added. The motion to instruct Rep. Palmer was passed 3-0 on Mr, Bennett’s motion and Boyce Gault’s second. Mayor Pro Tem pore Ben Bridges was in the chair, due to Mayor Glee Bridges' absence and therefore didn’t vote. Comm. Coleman Stroupe voted “aye” and Comm. Ross Alexand er abstained. | Mr. Alexander had previously i commented, "Let ’em vote. I don’t think anybody will be elec I ted for four years.” Some four hours before the city commission met, Mayor Bridges, in Raleigh on industry - seeking business, had chanced into Rep. Palmer, Mayor Bridges reported on his return. After greetings, Rep. Palmer said, 'TBy the way, Mr. Bridges, your bdld passed this morning.” In spite of the city commis sion’s efforts to reverse its field, citizens will vote on May 12 to determine Whether they want their mayor and/or city commis sion elected for two or four-year terms The ballot win read: Yes No Mayor 4 years . Commissioners 4 years . It will be possible to name the mayor for four years and the commission for two, or vice versa. Should the voters decide to change the present biennial elec tion system, their decision will be effective immediately. Candidate List Now Totals 18 For Seven Posts (Four more candidates entered the city political arena during the past week. Ben H. Bridges, mayor pro tem pore and Ward 4 commissioner, filed Wednesday afternoon for re-election. Charles E. Blalock, Kings Mountain grocer, filed Tuesday for Ward 5 commissioner. Boyce H. Gault, incumbent Ward 2 commissioner and anoth er Kings Mountain grocer, filed Monday for re-election. Drace M. Peeler, lumber com pany president, filed Saturday for election to the city board of education. If there was any surprise in the week’s activity, it; was Blalock’s decision to seek a commission seat, rather than the mayor’s chair. Comm. Bridges’ candidacy ma. kes the Ward 4 contest a three man affair. Other candidates are Paul W. Ledford, former commis sioner, and J. Clyde Gladden. Mr. Blalock’s candidacy poses a three-man race in Ward 5, where R. Coleman Stroupe, the incumbent and Curtis V. Gaff ney, had filed previously. Both Mr. Stroupe and Mr. Gaffney are N. Piedmont avenue barbers. Mr. Gault became (the first can didate for the Ward 2 seat he now holds. Mr. Peeler’s candidacy adds another three-person race. Mrs. F. lA. (Pete) McDaniel, Jr., and Mrs. John L. McGill also seek the school position which J. R. Da vis is vacating. Eighteen candidates have now posted filing fees for the six of fices at City Hall and the lone school board post. Ma^or Glee A. Bridges, seeking a fourth term, is being opposed by David L. Saunders, dry clean er and laundryman, and by Gar land E. Still, a former mayor. In Ward I, Comm. Ross Alex ander is being opposed by C. H. (Cat) Houser. In Ward III, Comm. Luther T. Bennett, asking a second term, is being opposed by C. Glenn White, textile superintendent and T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, a grocer. Mr. Ellison has served four terms on the commission, while Mr. White is a former member of the board of educa tion. Mr. Peeler seeks public office for the first time. A Kiwanian, he is a member of Central Methodist church and president of his Sun day school class. He is president of Elmer Lumber Company and its subsidiary, Eloo Industries. His wife is the former Louise Flowe. They have a son, Joseph Scott Peeler. Mr. Blalock, veteran Kings Mountain grocer, lives at 511 W. Mountain street. He is a Wood man and a member of First Bap tist church. His wife is the form er Dorothy Miller. They have four children. Mr. Gault is a member of First Baptist church and a Past Master of Fairview Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Mrs. Gault is the former Edith Bennett. They have two children. Mr. Bridges, a Kings Mountain native, -is a savings & loan as sociation secretary. He is a mem her of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church and secretary-treasurer of Kings Mountain Business Devel opment, Inc. Mr. Bridges made the following (Continued on Pape Eight) Bonding Business Can Get Twisty Clarence Myers Is ithe repre sentative of Ernest Hayes in Mr. Hayes’ sideline as a licen ed bondsman. Last week, Mr. Myers had a customer and was prepared to pet him free of the City Hall jail. Meantime, Policeman War ren Ellison was doubled up with poorly contained laugh ter. Finally, Officer Ellison had to suggest that Mr. Myers check the warrant. The jailed one had been ar rested on a bad check charge and the signer of the warrant was one Ernest Hayes. Mr. Myers choked, grabbed the telephone and called his boss. It was o. k. with Mr. Hay es to get in deeper, but Mr. Myers couldn’t stomach It. An cither bondsmen freed the guy.
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