Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
n» figure lor Creator Kings Mountain Is derived from
tko IS5S Kings Mountain dly directory census. The city
Units figure is from the United States census of 1SS0.
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, April 23
1C Pages
ID Today
VOL 70 No. 16
Established 1889
Seventieth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Bethwa re Initiates School Consolidation Discussion
Local News
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Bulletins
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TO PREACH
Rev. Marion DuBose of
Southeastern Theological Semi
nary, Louisville, Kentucky will
deliver the message at the
Kings Mountain Baptist Chur
ch worship service Sunday. ■,
X-RAY UNIT
The Cleveland County Mobile
X-Ray Unit will be in front of
Belk’s Department store Thurs
day from 10 to 12 noon and 1 to
4 p. m.
NO FIRES
City fireman C. D. Ware said
Wednesday the department re
ceived no alarms during the
past week.
NO BUILDING PERMITS
City Inspector J. W. Web
ster said Wednesday he has is
sued no building permits dur
ing the month of April.
SPEAKER
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney was
speaker Tuesday at the open
ing session of the South Car
olina Federation of Women’s
Clubs at Winthrop college.
Rock Hill, S. C. Mrs. Mauney,
past president of the North
Carolina Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs, spoke on, "An In
ternational Look at the General
Federation."
TO DAVIDSON
Aubrey Mauney represerited
Roanoke college at the inaugu
ration program Wednesday at
Davidson college honoring the
neW college presidents’
HOT DOG SALE
Ladies of Patterson Grove
(Baptist church will spon
sor the sale of hot dogs, cake,
pfie, coffee, and soft drinks Sat
urday beginning at 6:30 p. m.
at the schoolhouse. Proceeds
will go to the church.
TALENT SHpw
West School P-TA will spon
sor the annual talent show
Thursday night at 7:30 p. m.
in the school auditorium, with
all grades participating. The
concession stand will be oper
ated by the P-TA, with pop
corn, peanuts, candies, and soft
drinks available.
EAST TALENT SHOW
The annual talent show at
East School will be held Friday
night at 7 p. m„ with all grades
participating. Admission is 25
cents, adults, and 10 cents, stu
dents. The P-TA will offer
hamburgers, hot dogs and
other refreshments for sale
from 5:30 until 6:30 p. m. and
after the show.
BEST CADET
Charles O. Allen, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Allen of York
road, was selected best cadet in
his company drill in R. O. T. C.
at North Carolina State Col
lege, Raleigh.
SCHOOL SHOWS
The National Honor Society
of Kings Mountain high school
will sponsor two talent shows
this week. The high school di
vision will participate on
Thursday, and the grammar
school division on Friday.
Junior Clubwoman
To Conduct Canvass
The Junior Woman’s club
will conduct a house-to-house
canvass for benefit of the Can
cer Drive Monday night.
Members are requested to
meet at McGinnis Furniture
Company at 7 o’clock to con
duct a two hour campaign to
secure funds during the drive
in Kings Mountain and No. 4
Township.
William Herndon is Kings
Mountain chairman of the
drive.
Mrs. John Gamble, Woman's
club president, invited all Jun
ior clubwomen to participate.
Superior Merged
Into Large Firm
Stone Company
Now Division
Of Chicago Firm
Superior Stone Company, of
Raleigh, which operates a major
installation here, has merged in
to American-Marietta Company,
of Chicago, 111., major producer
of construction products and
building materials.
The merger was effective April
21 and implies no change in the
operation of Superior Stone Com
pany, now to be known as the Su.
perior Stone Company, division of
lAmerican-Marietta Company, ac
cording to a latter to customers
from W. T. Ragland, Jr., presi
dent.
Mr. Ragland has been invited
to become a director of Ameri
can-Mariefita Company, a large
firm which, has ‘been expanding
heavily in recent years and
which showed record sales and
earnings in its fiscal year ending
November 30, 1958. The balance
sheet of that date showed Amer
ican-Marietta’s net worth at $150
million and gross sales for the
1958 fiscal year alt $226 millions.
Mr. Ragland told the Herald
Wednesday the transaction was
consummated through an ex
change of stock arrangement. He
said he was not at liberty to com
ment on ithe details, having a
greed 'that such ‘information
would be announced from Chica
go. Amerioan-Marietta sells
paints, resins, concrete pipe,
mops, and other products and in
1958 expanded into dyestuffs,
inks, and adhesives. Mr. Rag
land said American-Marietta ac
quired Southern Dyestuffs and
Carolina Concrete Pipe, two Char
lotte concerns, in 1958.
American-Marietta stock is tra
ded over-the-counter and has
been selling in the $54-$57 range
in recent weeks, Thomson & Me.
Kinnon, stockbrokers, reported.
Mr. Ragland said the Superior
operation is the first of its kind
to be acquired by Amerioan-Mar
ietta.
Carl Mayes, a Superior district
ma nager, said employment at the
Kings Mountain works varies be.
"ween 65 to 72. In addition, Kerns
Brothers, independent haulers for
Superior, employs from 40 to 45
persons at the Kings Mountain
operation.
Superior has approximately 23
operations, including 20 in North
Carolina, two in Virginia, and
one in Georgia. It has operated
here since the late thirties.
Kiwanis
Kings Mountain Kiwanians
will hear the recording of Er
nest Knightengale’s world-fa
mous after dinner speech,
“Life’s Greatest Secret” at their
Thursday night meeting. The
club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at
the Woman’s club.
WINS CONTEST — Sandy Camp,
bell. Kings Mountain student,
was winner of the Western North
Carolina high school forensic
contest held in Hickory Monday.
Campbell Wins
Forensic Contest
Sandy Campbell, 10th grade
Central high school student, e
merged as winner in the decla
mationo division of the WNCHS
AA forensic meet held at Hickory
high school on Monday.
Using the selection, “Deathbed
of Benedict Arnold’’ by George
Lipford, the Kings Mountain
student won the judges’ decision
over contestants from Hickory,
Forest City, Valdese, Lincolnton,
and Shelby. Entrants were judg
ed on the basis of subject, deliv
ery, and staige presence.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. L. Campbell.
Other Kings Mountain partici
pants were Margaret Wells in the
dramatic reading division; Gale
Kircus in the poetry reading divi.
sion; and Bobby Early in the
original speech division. Seven
high schools were represented at
the contest.
Pint Aid Class
To Begin Here
First aid classes under supervi
sion of the local Red Cross chap
ter, will begin next Thursday
night, April 30th, art City Hall.
At 'least inline others may enroll
in the classes which will be held
on Thursday and Friday nights
for six weeks. Bill McDaniel and
Don Crawford, instructors, an
nounced.
Interested students may con
tact Mr. McDaniel at Harris Fun
eral Home. The course, open to 24
persons, is a standard Red Cross
10-hour course and will be fol
lowed by 4 16-hour advance cour
se.
Woman's Club Fine Arts Festival
Scheduled For Friday, Saturday
The 'Finfe Arts Department oif
the Woman’s club will offer a
wide variety of exhibits and oth
er attractions In its big two-day
festival Friday and Saturday.
Open to tlhe community free of
charge, the festival wfll get und
erway Friday at 2 p. m. at the
'Woman’s Club. The day’s events
wffiH include presenta tion of a one
act drama at 7:30 p. m. plus spe
cial music by the chib choral
group. From 5:30 until 7 p. m.,
the American Home Department
will servte pancake supper in. the
dining room, with proceeds to
benefit the Samtrataamd project
The show will he open Saturday
from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. Exhibi
tors are asked Do have entries at
thte taubhouste by 12 noon Friday
ar on Thursday from 6:301» 9 p.
, no.,.Mrs. E. W. Ortffbi, the chair
man pointed out Entries may be
removed from the clubhouse from
5 p. m. to 8 p. m. Saturday.
Featuring hobbies, crafts, act
work, and eriribfcs of chikhen ag
well as grownups, the show willl
not (be judgbd, Mrs. Griffin said.
"We hope,” she said, “that the
oorranunity will take advantage
otf this opportunity to show off
their hobbies and crafts as well
as vise the Show to see what oth
ers do in leisure time.”
Mrs. Fired Withers 'and (Mrs.
Charles Blanton are d&rectinig the
aneact play, "Thle Tea Cup,” eo
authoried by Dr. Harvey OBum
gardner of Kings Mountain, Mrs,
M. A. Ware, Sr., portrays the
doananteetring mother; Mrs. Walter
Griffin Was the role of the dau
ghter; Milton Huston plays the
young man; and Mrs. BUI Alien
hats the aunt’s role.
Mrs. J. N. (Medure is directing
the musical phase ctf the pro
gram. ’ V
A silver offering will be ac
cepted, the chairman added, but
on voluntary basis, and she con
tinued, “We anticipate communi
ty - Wide response to this show
which we hope wfitl prove both
eAwatttonad and worthwhile.
Township Groups
Invited Tc Talk
Consolidation
The Bethware school district
committee has initiated talks a
morag Number 4 Township school
officials which may lead to a
consolidation of township schools
into one, administrative unit.
Hill Lowery, chairman of the
Bethware committee, called the
Kings Mountain board of educa
tion while it was in session Mon
day night and suggested a get
together at the earliest practica
ble date.
Later in the session, the Kings
Mountain board passed a resolu
tion unanimously to participate
in the discussions, and all mem
bers expressed themselves as
highly pleased with the develop
ment.
'Mr. Lowery said Tuesday he
was in process of inviting (the
several other distriat committees
which include Grover, Park
Grace, and Compact He ajso said
that County Schools Supt. J. H.
Grigg and County Board of Edu
cation Member Edwin Moore,
who lives in (the Patterson Grove
community, will be invited to
pariticipate in the discussion.
Five years ago, Grover citizens
led a movement to consolidate
the Number 4 Township schools.
The movement proved abortive
when Bethware patrons resound
ingly declined to eliminate the
split term. Since that time, with
cotton production cut back heavi
ly in the county, Bethware has
adopted a regular nine-month
school term operated from Sep
tember >to May. Grover had eli
minated the split term in 1954
and Compact, too, has eliminated
it. Park Grace school’s schedule
conforms to that of the city
schools. Thus, all Number 4
Township schools are on the so
called straight, or regular term.
Mr. Lowery emphasized that
the initial 'talks are for explora
tion purposes, to see what must
be done to effect a township con
solidation into one administrative
unit and to determine whether
school officials think the legal
hurdles to consolidation can be
surmounted.
School officials here foresee a
consolidation vote as prerequi
site to consolidation.
Consolidation iis in the possible
future for Bethware and Grover
high schoolers in the not-too
disrtant future, if county school
patrons adopt a formula recom
mended by a state school board
survey team. Under this recom
mendation, Grover and Bethware
high school students would go to
Number 3 high school, while the
elementary pupils at Number 3
would be absorbed at Grover and
Bethware plants, pending hoped
for eventual erection of a high
school plant at Number 3.
tiddlers' Show
Set For Friday
The Bethware Progressive
Club’s 13th annual Fiddler’s Can
venttion will be held Friday night
at 8 p. m. in the Bethware school
auditorium.
Joint announcement was made
by Bill McDaniel and Stokes
Wright wiho said a big turnout is
expected for the songfest featur
ing groups from Kings Mountain
and surrounding areas.
Musicians who wish to com
pete should contact Mr. McDan
iel at 118 or 587-J.
iAn added feature of the show
will be the caowning of “Miss
Bethware Fair of ‘59” by Miss
Norma Jane Hamrick, Miss Beth,
ware Fair erf 1958.
Contestants for the title are
Miss Doris Cranford, sponsored
by !the FHA; Miss Jane Hayes,
FFA club; Miss Judy Putnam,
Girl's Chorus; Miss Ruth Blalock,
Beta Club; and Miss Janet Ham
rick, sponsored by the Monogram
Club.
Miss Beth ware Fair of 1958 will
be escorted by Mr. Cameron
Ware, president of (the Beth ware
Progressive Club. Miss Cranford’s
escort will J>e Jeny Wright, while
Mias Putnam’s escort wlH be No
lan Seism and the Misses Hayes,
Blalock, and Hamrick will be es
corted by Buddy Freeman, Gary
Fisher and Clyde Carroll respect
ively.
Admission is 60 cents for a
d uits and 30 cents for children.
Roy J.BrownNew Candidate
For Ward 5 Commission Post
SL25 Minimum
Is Established
By Lambeth Rope
Lambeth Rcxpe Corporation ad
justed wages upward effective
March 15 and established the
plant minimum at $1.25 per hour.
(Frank !Rurke, manager of the
tape manufacturing company,
said the $1.25 minimum pay plan
—launched !by Cannon Mills ear
ly this year — had 'been adopted
for all hourly rated employees
and that employees in higher ra
ted jobs had received pay boosts
upward on a comjparalble percen-!
tage basis.
Lambeth 'became the second j
Kings Mountain textile firm to
announce the $1.25 minimum.
(Phendx Plant of Burlington Indus
tries said it had established the
$1.25 minimum several weeks
ago.
Park Yam Mills adjusted wag
es upward 'by five percent effec
tive March 2, John C. Smathers
reported Wednesday.
Lambeth 'Rope Oorparattton has
60 employees.
Registrations
Brisk Saturday
Approximately 90 persons sign
ed on the books last Saturday as
registration for the May city e
leotions gat underway.
C. L. Black, registrar of Ward
1, registered 10, with two incom
ing transferrals and three trans
ferred to other wards. “It’s the
best I’ve done on opening day”,
Mr. Black commented “The fuori
dation issue is pretty hot and I
believe that will bring the voters
out.”
Registrar E. O. White of Ward
4 registered 17 with 1 transferral i
in from Ward 3.
Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, Ward 5,
singed in 32 as did Mrs. Ruth
Bowers of Ward 3.
Mrs. H. R. Parton, registrar at
Ward 2 could not be reached
Wednesday afternoon.
Books are open from 9 a. m. to
5 p. m. each Saturday through
May 9. May 9 will also be chal
lenge day.
Voting places are: Ward 1, City
Hall; Ward 2, City Hall; Ward
3, Phenix Mill Store; Ward 4,
Kings Mountain Manufacturing
Club Room; and Ward 5, Victory
Chevrolet Company.
Legion Getting
Face-Lifting
The American Legion building
on E. Gold street is getting an ex-1
terior face-lifting, which is vtr-l
finally completed.
Exterior pain'ting, now under-j
way, will complete a broad pro
gram which includes landscap
ing, eredtfon of a flagpole, im
provement of driveways, and in
stallation at concrete walkways.
Kings Mountain Landscaping
Company did the landscaping
work.
Committee on the project in
cluded W. D. (Rted) Morrison and
Ray SiSk.
Thiel Returns Mower,
Says It Needed Oil
Clarence Carpenter says that
if thfe guy who stotte his power
lawn mower from under his
house this past week wiM re
turn it and mow the ia,wn he
can have it for keeps.
Hte wonders if Jhe culprit is
the same guy who stolfe Car
peniter's push mower, then re
turned it with a note attached
on Oie handles: “OH ft and I'll
be hack.” i
The push mower has bebn oil
ed and tf lie wants that too, he
can come and get it, Mr. Car
penter contends. .
ELECTED — B. N. Barnes, veter
an superintendent of city schools
was elected Monday night to an
other two-year term. He first be
came superintendent in 1934.
Barnes Elected
To New Term
City schools Supt. B. N. Barnes
was elected for a two-year term
by the board of education Mon
day.
The board also elected all fac
uity members in the city system,
except Mrs. Margaret Blanton
Smith, teacher of Bible. Delay of
Mrs. Smith’s election was on a
technicality. Supt. Barnes ex
plained to the board that under
arrangement with the city com
mittee for teaching Bible in the
schools, the education board
doesn’t aot until it receives re
commendation from the commit
tee. The committee for teaching
Bible in the schools furnishes
funds for the salary of the Bible
teacher.
Mr. Barnes became superinten
dent of Kings Mountain cilty
schols in 1934, after serving as
high school principal for seven
years. His election was unani
mous, on motion of Trustee J. R.
Davis and A. W. Kincaid. All
members were present.
The board also unanimously
authorized ithe offering of a trade
and indusltrial class in sweater
beading and authorized the hold,
ing of a summer session.
Expense accounts were approv
ed including $6.94 to Lawson
Brawn for a trip to Raleigh and
$41.09 to Mrs. Wanza Davis for
expenses to the state education
al secretaries association meet
ing.
Negro Second
j 0! His Race
To Offer Here
Roy J. Brown, Kings Mountain
; Negro, filed Tuesday morning for
! candidacy in the Ward 5 com
missioner race. Brown is the sec
ond Negro ito date to seek city
elective office.
Rev. S. T. Cooke, Kings Moun
tain Negro clergyman, sought the
office in 1957, receiving a total
of 283 votes.
A member of Bynum’s Chapel
A. M. E. Zion Church, he has
served as chairman of the board
of Trustees for 30 years. He is al
so a member of D. A. McCoy Lod
ge 584 AF & AM.
Roy J. Brown
Mr. Brown,
born in Cleve
land county,
has been a eiit.
izen of Kings
Mountain for
45 years. A
painiter a n d
wall paper
hanger by
tirade, he work
ed for Neisler
Mills for 35
years.
Brown s candidacy brings to 20
the number of candidates seek
ing one board of education of
fice and six City Hall offices.
Brown’s candidacy makes 'the
Ward 5 race most crowded of the
seven. The other candidates are
R. Coleman Stroupe, the incum
bent. the Challengers Curtis V.
Gaffney and Charles E. Blalock.
FILING DEADUNE
Deadline 'for filling for city
or school district teiectdve offi
ces wiU be Monday at 4:30 p
m., City Olerk Joe McDaniel
said Wednesday. Candidates
are required to file in person
and to pay their filing fees. The
City Hall office doses alt 4:30
p. m.
Outward political activity re
mained quiet during (the past
week, with the added candidacy
the (major development. However,
some political observers wonder
ed at the quiet, with election day
less ithan three weeks away and
wandered when, and if, the cam
paign would explode into fire,
works.
One interesting note was the in.
terest in voting indicated by the
first day registrations last Satur
day, when at least 90 voters pla
ced their names on (the books.
Among ihe hardest working
candidates are the three seeking
election for mayor, including
(Continued on Page Eight)
Schools To Readvertise For Bids
On Davidson Gymtorium Project
The city board of education vo
ted unanimously Monday night
to readvertise for bids on the
proposed Davidson school gym
torium.
The action came after an
hour’s discussion witth Architect
J. L. Beam, Jr., of Cherryville,
who had revised the plans slight,
ly in an effort to obtain bids
more close to the board’s auth
orized expenditure of $75,000.
Actually, the education board,
after listening to Mr. Beam de
tail possible omissions on the or
iginal plan, pared the original
only slightly. Major potential
savings are elimination of a first
aid and principal’s room and the
enclosed passageway which
would have connected the pre
sent elementary building with
the proposed gymtorium. The en
closed passageway, on the new
plan, will be replaced by a cov
ered walkway. A concurrent po
tential saving was accomplished
in the heating plan by elimina
tion of the two service rooms. The
boiler now in use is deemed am
ple.
Details on the savings had
been obtained by Mr. Beam on
consultation with the several low
bidders, including A. A. Ramsey
& Son, Shelby, general contract,
L. A. Hoke, Kings Mountain, elec
trical contract, Robert F. Ham,
Mooresville, heating contract, and
L. R. Troutman, Hickory, plumb
ing contract.
The revised plan will provide
for a 70 x 90 foot gymtorium, in
cluding stage.
Chairman Fred Plonk said he
had hoped to be able to let con
tract, on the basis of the revi
sions, to the original low bidders,
but there were several legal
blocks. Supt. B. N. Barnes said
the law does not permit contract
negotiation where changes axe
“substantial” and he added that
an assistant attorney general had
told hiim any change exceeding
ten percent is usually considered
substantial. In addition, after
contract negotiation, he said,
other bidders may have legal
grounds for litigation against
ithe school board. He added that,
'before the contracts could be let,
the State board of education of
ficials would have to approve re
visions in the original plan. He
guessed that the re-advertising
for bids would cause little addi
tional delay in getting construc
tion underway.
Swan Says
Judge Okayed
Fund Set-Up
Late Monday
ICnafttpun Yam, Inc., is going
back into operation.
The yarn-making plant will re
sume operations at 6 a. m. Thurs
day, President Carl H. Swan said
Wednesday, and Coralee Fabrics,
the novely-makimg sub-division',
resumed operations Tuesday.
(M,. Swan said a federal district
court signed the necessary order
fe'te Monday for Orwftspun to re
sume operations. He said the
i funds necessary to meet payroll
I for the final week of operations
i before the Shutdown April 11
I were received here Wednesday.
Tfhe shutdown resulted from the
i foot that Scranton Company,
Scranton, Pa., parent of Craft
spun is in receivership, after vol
untary petition to federal court.
Craffspun is a wholly-owned sub
sidiary of Scranton Company.
Recently Mr. Swan reported
that the Onaiftspun firm, which
operates two plants 'here and one
in Gastonia, had 265 persons on
its payroll.
The yarn firm will resume a
five-day week operation with
hopes to go to a six-day work
week, Mr. Swan said.
'Sevteral weeks ago, before the
receivership akMon, Mr. Swan
said orders exceeded production
toy aibout 20,000 pound's of yarn
weekly.
The resumption of operations
camie as 'good news to Kings
Mountain which had decently suf
fered anidtiher major feyoff, as
Foote (Mineral Company restrict
ed 8tsr operations.
Fate Anowood
Died Wednesday
Fate Arrowood, wdlil-known
Grover Road resident, dated at
4:30 Wednesday afternoon at Cle
veland Memorial 'hospital in Shel
by.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete. i
Lions Broom Sale
Starts April 3G
The Kings 'Mountain Lions dub
will conduct its annual broom
sale for benefit df the blind the
weekend of April 30.
i President (Richard Barnette
said the club will conduct a three
day sale. As usual, the brooms
will sell for $1.50, with proceeds
to be used to Bid local area Citi
zens Whlo are blind or who halve
defective sight.
The brooms are manufactured
by (blind persons at Greensboro
Industries for Ithe Blind.
Mayor Gets Dunked
And Indicted, Too
Mayor Glee A. Bridges was
indicted last Saturday for
breaking the state law against
| swimming In the public waiter
supply.
According to the Mayor’s ver
sion, he had agreed for Patrol
man A. D. Kimbrell to use the
mayoral canoe the afternoon
previously for a fishing expedi
tion at Davidson Lake. In pro
cess of warning the patrolman
that a canoe Us tricky and easi
ly over-turned, 'he had jokingly
suggested, “iNow don’t be turn
ing over. If you get dumped
ytau’11 just have to drown for
sitate law forbids swimming in
the public water supply.”
Kimbreil managed the canoe
ail right.
Early nfexit morning, the May
or was doing the fishing, the
oanoe turned over land the May
or got dunked. He Changed his
mind abou t drowning and swam
out.
KimhreH’s warrant read that
One Glee A. 'Bridgets “did com
mit the crimle of swimming in
the new city water lake con
trary to th!e Jaws of public
heaiith and common decency,
To Wit: That on the morning
Of Saturday 18th day of April
1959 he did wash himself in the
drinking waiter of the City of
Kings (Mountain.”
P-TA MEETING
Park Graoe school P-TA will
hold its regular meeting Mon
day night at 7 o’clock In the
school auditorium. Monday’s
meeting will be die final of the
school year. j