Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
The figure for Greater ring* Mountain U derived from
toe 1955 King* Mountain city directory cen*u*. The city
Limit* figure I* from tne United State* ceniu* of 1950.
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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 23, 1959
U Pages
Today
VOL. 70 No. 29
Established 1889
Seventieth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEEK FIRST AID TEAM SPOTS — A dozen
Foote Mineral Company employees are in
training and competing for seven places on a
first aid team to represent Foote in a contest
among mining companies to be held at Spruce
Pine August 15. Front row, left to right, are
Newell Thornburg, Frank Hollifield, Dale
Hardin, Gerald Lee, George Gordon and Hill,
iard Black. Back row, frfcm left, are Jack Eaker,
Tommy Bryant. Paul Bennett. Marion Johnson.
Dennis McDaniel, Burle Berry, and Johnny
Martin. Bureau of Mines first aid instructor.
Local News
Bulletins
NO ACCIDENTS
Rings Mountain Police De
partment reported no auto ac
cidents during the past week.
BUILDING PERMIT
Cilty Inspector J. W. Webster
(issiued permits Ittois week to T.
F. Bridges to build two one
story brick veneer houses on
Jackson street. Estimated cost
of the 5-room structures fs
.$8,000 each.
FAIRVIEW LODGE
There will be an emergent
communication of Faiirview
Lodge 339 AF & AM Monday
might alt 7:30 p. m. for work
in ithe first degree, according
to announcement by T. D. Tin
dall, secretary.
MRS. DAVIS ILL
Mrs. J. R. Davis is a paltient
ait Charlotte Memorial hospital
where she is receiving treat
ment for an inner ear aalmemt.
She was reported improving
Wednesday.
WARLICK HOME
A. P. Warlick, who under
went an operation recently at
Gaston Memorial hospital, ar
rived home this week. He
• said he is feeling better and
was discharged more quickly
than he anticipated.
CONCERT
The Kings Mountain ele
mentary summer school band
will he presented in a concert
this evening at 7 .p. m. on the
lawn of Central High school.
A program of varied numbers
is planned.
KIWANIS CLUB
Kings Mountain Ktwanis
Will hold an Inter-Club meet
ing at Shelby Thursday night
at 7 o’clock at Hotel Charles.
District Governor Sam. Roane
of Greenville, S. C. will address
ithe group.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
moon totaled $136.47, with $118.
97 from on-stretet meters amd
$17.50 from off-street meters.
McCleary Case
Is Bound Over
William (McCleary, Kings Moun
tain (Negro, was (bound over to
Superior Court on a murdter
Charge Thursday following pre
liminary hearing in Cleveland Re
corder’s Court.
The defendant was released
under .bond of $3,000.
MdCleary is charged with tfhte
total shooting of Joe Jamison, an
other Kings Mountain Negro, in
the Galilee community off York
Hoad July 12. Investigating Offi
cers said MdCteaay shot and k4J4
h ed Jamison following a Sunday
laifitemoon brawl. Wltnessbs said
Jamison grabbed a pick handle
land hit MeCHeary with ft, Me
Oteairy then drew (the 12-gauge
shotgun from his beSt Mrs. Mag
gie Falls said the Negiefes strug
gled for possesion «f the gun
and ended up In her yard with
Jamison shot in the chest at|
ctpae range. She said she did not!
know who had possession of the ;
gun at the time.
PROMOTED — Jack Ruth, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton L. Ruth, has
been promoted from assistant
treasurer to assistant vice presi
dent of American Commercial
Bank of Charlotte.
Ruth Gets
Bank Promotion
H. L. (Jack) Ruth, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ruth of Kings
Mountain, has been advanced
from assistant (treasurer Ito assis
tant vice president of American
Commercial Bank, Charlotte.
Mr. Ruth, who joined the sitaff
of the former American Trust
Company, now American Com
mercial, in 1953 following gradu
ation from Davidson college, is
in the correspondent bank rela
tions department.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruth, with itheir
three children, reside ait 2610 Id
lcwood Circle lin Charlotte.
School Board Set
School Schedule
School hells will ring for Kings
Mountain school cliildren Tues
day, September 1, according ito a
schedule adopted toy Kings
Mountain City School Board in
regular session Monday night at
Kings Moumtaiiin High school.
September 1 will be matricu
lation day for school goers and
it will be a half day session,
Supt. B. N. Barnes itold the board.
September 2 will get school com
pletely underway, it being a full
day session with cafeterias In
operation.
Teachers will report Monday,
August 31 for teachers’ meetings
to be held at Central school and
at Davidson school.
Holidays were listed as: one
day for the Southwestern Teach
er’s meeting on Friday, October
2 in Hickory, two days for
Thanksgiving, two weeks for
Christmas, and two days for
Easter.
School will close Tuesday, May
31.
In other action the board:
1) Employed Mrs. Rutth P.
Beam of Lawndale to fill an e
lementary school teaching posi
tion. Mr. Barnes reported the tea
cher vacancies in the school sys
tem are almost filled and the sit
uation is good. A girl’s physical
education teacher and a guid
ance counselor have not yet been
iound.
2) Voted to continue member-,
chip of the Kings Mountain
board in the North Carolina
School board Association.
3) Sett a meeting for Friday at
12:15 p. m. 1» discuss the school|
budget.
4) Upon recairnnendation of
the Bible committee, employed
Miss Jeanne Easterling of Rock
fContinued on Page Eight)
Foote Team
Will Enter
State Contest
A dozen Foote IMlnteral Compa
ny employees are training for sev
en spots on a company first aid
team which will compete at
Spruce Pine August 15 in a first
aid contest 'between major mining
■companies of the state.
The dozen in training now will
dhoose among themselves the
seven they think most qualified.
Two of the remaining five will
be named as alternates or substi
tute team members.
The dozen include: Newell
Thornburg, Frank Hollifieid, Dole
Hardin, Gerald lee, George Got
don, Hilliard Black, Jack Eaker
Tommy Bryant, Paul Bennett,
Marion Johnson, (Dennis McDan
iel and Burle Berry.
The Spruce Pine con test will be
the first statewide competition
among mining 'companies for
team and individual awards in
first aid. It is being sponsored by
the 'Industrial commission, the
United States Bureau of Mines,
and thrtee safety councils in* wes
tern North Carolina.
Mr. Kennedy's
Bites Conducted
Final rites for George Ernest
Kennedy, 59, were held Tuesday
at 3 p. m. from Grace Methodist
Church.
Mr. Kennedy died suddenly
Sunday night while watching tele
vision at his home on linwood
road. Death was attributed to a
heart attack.
(He was a former employee of
Ells Lumber Company and the
son of this late Kells J. and Sa
rah Jane Bell Kennedy. He was a
native of Gaston county. *
Survivors include Wis wife, Mrs
Iia Petty Kennedy; a brother
Charles Kenntedy of Galveston,
Texas, and 'two sisters, Mrs, O
M. Vernon of Mount Holy and
(Laban Falls of (Bowling Greeen,
IS. C.
Rev. W. ,C. Sides conducted the
funeral ritee. Interment was in
the Presbyterian Church ceme
tery at 'Bowing Green, S. C.
WARE REUNION
The annual T. M. Ware fami
ly reunion will (be held Sunday
at Oak Grove Baptist ehurdh.
(Picnic lunch will be served on
the church grounds. A program
is planned 'for the afternoon.
Babcock Sees 74 By-Pass To South
Nothing New
Latest Report
On School Merger
r Whether and When county
school district committees in
Number 4 Township will petition
the county hoard of education for
an election on question of merger
with Kings Mountain school dis
trict is not. known.
Copies of petitions for an elec
tion — embodying the twin ques
tion of merger and the 20-cent per
$100 valuiation school supplement
'tax — are in the tends of the sev
eral committees, hut if 'any action
has 'been taken it is not known by
Kings (Mountain district school
officials.
Fred Plonk, chairman of the
Kangs Mountain hoard of educa
tion, reported "nothing new” at
Monday night’s meeting.
The petition form also sets for
th that the petition is authorized
with the understanding that as
soon as 'possible a bond issue
Shall be considered for the pur
pose of 'building necessary build
ings “and particularly a consoli
dated high school building.” •
Stokes 'Wright, a mfember of
the IBethware oommiittee, said
there had been a minor objection
to two phrases in a proposed Gen
feral Assembly hill which would
create the governing arrange
ment for the merged district. Mr.
Wright said he felt sure the minor
Objection's could he cleared and
also thought it possible — from
I 'Bethware’s standpoint — a mer
j ger vOte can be called in advance
| of General Assembly adoption of
, the bill creating the governing ar
j rangement, (Barring a special ses
j sion, thought unlikely, it he Gen
eral Assembly won’t reconvene
liinltdl February 1961.
I The proposed merger would
I find IBethware, Grover, Park
(Grace and Compact districts join
ing the Kings Mountain district.
Text of the merger petitions
which the four county district
committees have in hand follows:
“Wherfeas, the Bethware School
District, the Grover School ’Dis
trict, the Park Grace School Dis
trict and Compact School District
are all contiguous and are loCted
(Continued On Page Eight)
Robert Bryant
New Principal
Robert Howard Bryant of Rox
boro was unanimously elected ito
the North Elementary school
principal ship, vacated by W. R.
George, at a called meeting of
Kings Mountain Oiity School
Board Thursday night.
Mr. George accepted the prin
cipalshdp of a Fayetteville
school.
Bryant, age 35, is a native of
Spartanburg, S. C. He attended
New Prospect High School (there
and received his A. B. degree in
social studies from Wofford Col
lege in 1947.
Mr. Bryant took his Master of
Education degree alt Furman li
nt versity aind received his prin
cipal’s certificate after port gra
duate work at the University of
North Carolina.
He was acting principal of
Duncan (High school, Duncan, S.
C. in 1947; taught mafhetmatics
at Wray Junior High school in
Gastonia from 1948 until 1953;
taught eighth grade a year at
Central school of Belmont; was
principal of Hurdle Mills School
in Roxobopo for a year, and then
succeeded Ito the principaiship of
Allensville Elementary school in
Roxboro where he served for the
past four years.
Mr. Bryant s married and the
father of three children.
Kings Mountain Baptist To Hold
Series On Beliefs Of Other Sects
Kings Mountain Baptist chur
ch will launch a series of week
ly programs starting Tuesday
night, in which ministers of oth
er sects will summarize the be
liefs of their particular faiths.
Dr. -W. P. Gerberding, pastor
of St. Maitthew’s Lutheran chur
ch, will open (the series Tuesday
evening ait 7:30 in which he will
delineate the beliefs of the mem
bers of the United Lutheran
church.
The pastor, Rev. Marion Du
Bose, In making the announce
ment, commented, "I think we
should ail want to understand
each other aajd our religious be
liefs.'1
Each representative of the sev
eral sects will speak on the sub
ject “This I Believe.”
Future speakers will discuss
the beliefs of the Baptist church,
the Episcopal church, the Pres
byCeraan church, (U. S.), the As
sociate Reformed Presbyterian
church, the Methodist church
and possibly others.
Each program will be limited
to an hour and will be held each
Tuesday evening at Kings Moun
tain Baptist church.
As a corollary, Radio Station
WKMT will present a religious
program “Question and - Ans
wers", each Monday evening
from 6:45 to 7 o'clock, beginning
Monday. The public is invited to
telephone questions to the
WKMT (Phone 999) during that
time, whlich will be answered by
the minister conducting the pro
gram.
Dr. Gerberding will conduct
Monday night's “Question and
Answer" program .which will be
continued each Monday through
September 21.
Juniors, With 1-2 Deficit;
Had To Win Wednesday Test!
I WINS AWARD — A/2c Lorry K.
■ Carpenter, recently won the Air
! man's outstanding achievement
| award while stationed with the
! Air Force in Spain.
Carpenter Wins
Airman Award
A/2c Larry K. Carpenter, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Carpenter
of Kings Mountain, has been a
warded Ithe Airman’s Outstand
ing Achievement Award by the
USAF 3973D Operations Squad
ron.
Captain Harold L. Standi, who
notified (the Carpenters, said:
“Carpenter was selected for .the
manner in which he performed
his duties as a Mobile Strike
Force leader. This efficiency of
the Mobile Strike Force has en
abled our organization to be a
more effective power for peace.’’
The outstanding Airman’s A
chievememt Award is presented
ito the airman semi-annually,
who on the basis of individual
effort, considering the perform
ance of duty, loyalty to unit, ac
ceptance of responsibility, ad
herence ito the customs of the
service, appearance and on and
off duty combat. These factors
are evaluated in relation to their
contribution to the accom
plishment of 'the mission of this
organization.
Carpenter’s address is: AF
14663327 3973rd Oper. Sqdn., Box
6181, APO 282, New York, N. Y.
Union Services
To End August 16
Sunday night’s Union Service
will be held at First Presbyterian
church at 8 o’clock, with Dr. Paul
Austey delivering the message.
Six Kings Mountain churches
are participating in the summer
schedule of services, which will
continue through August 16, ac
cording ito announcements by the
Kings Mountain Ministerial As
sociation.
“Attendance has been much
improved over the past few
years,’’ a spokesman for the
spnsoring Ministers’ Group said
this week. He continued, “All
people of our community have
been given an oppirtunity to see
and hear Ithe ministers of the
| various denominations. Six min
isters have preached, including
four new ministers. Services
have been well attended.
Participating churches are As
sociate Reformed Presbyterian,
First Presbyterian, Kings Moun
tain Baptist, Central Methodist,
and Resurrection and St. Matt
hew’s Lutheran churches.
Schedule of services Include:
August 2nd at St. Matthew’s
Lutheran with Dr. W. P. Ger
berding to deliver the sermon.
August 9th at First Presbyter
ian church with Rev. M. D. Du
Bose, pastor of Kings Mountain
Baptist church to deliver the ser
mon.
August loth ait Resurrection
Lutheran church with Rev. Geor
ge Moore to deMver the sermon.
GANTT IN HOSPITAL
W. M. Gantt, Kings Moun
itain businessman, is still list
ed in critical condition at
Kings Mountain hospital
where he is a patient since un
dergoing a heart attack about
7:30 Saturday morning. He
was reported slightly improved
Wednesday, but is permitted
t no visitors.
One Bad Inning
Spelled Doom
In Third Game
BY NEALE PATRICK
For the second time this sea
son, the Kings Mt. juniors had
heir backs to the wall as they
headed into the fourth game of
Area finals series with Mlt. Holly
ait Oiity Stadium on Wednesday
night.
Coach Fred Withers never-say
die youngsters fell behind two
games to one in the area cham
pionship series, losing at Mt.
Holly, 5-2, on Tuesday night.
The local lads, however, have
faced an uphill climb before and
maneuvered At. Kings Mt. also
trailed Newiton in the quarter
finals series f)y the same margin
which now exists, but battled
back to l ake the set.
Jerry Wright, the curve-balling
right-hander who started the
comeback again;! Newton, was
due to get the pitching assign
ment against Ithe visitors Wed-'
nesday might. Jimmy Cline, the
only pitcher to beat Kings Mt.
twice this season, was the sche
duled tosser for Mlt. Holly.
If a fifth game in the series
is needed, the two teams will
determine the site following
Wednesday’s affair. Athletic of
ficers will either flip for home
site, or the teams will play on a
neutral field.
Gene Stowe, the rangy right
hander, who has been nursing a
sore arm for the past couple of
weeks, dodtored Kings Mt. with
a four-hit performance Tuesday
night.
i
Our side managed all four hits
in the first four, innings, and ap
peared to have Stowe on the
brink of departure several times.
But some atrocious base-running
wrecked two potential big inn
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Dixon Revival
Begins Sunday
Revival services and Vacation
'Bible School will Ibeglin next webk
at Dixon Presbyterian dhurch.
The special evangelistic servi
ces will get underway Sunday
night, wfth the week's Bible
School (to be held Monday throu
gh Friday,
George Harper, Jr., student at
Columbia Seminary who is serv
ing as summer supply pastor, will
conduct the risvftval services at
8 p. m. each night. The (Bible
School, tor all age groups, will
begin at 7 ip. m.
TO SPEAK HERE — Rep. Jack
Palmer, of Shelby, will review
the recent General Assembly
session at Thursday's meeting of
the Kings Mountain Rotary Club.
lotary To Hear
Rep. lack Palmer
Rep. Jack Palmer, of Shelby,
Cleveland county’s House of Rep
resentatives member in the Gen
eral Assembly, wll review the
recent session for members of
the Kings Mountain Rotary club
at itheir meeting Thursday at
12:15 at Kings 'Mountain Coun
try Club.
Mr. Palmer will speak on a
program arranged by Jack
White.
The Cleveland legislator is a i
Shelby mortician. He was a
freshman at the recent session.
R. G. Franklin
Named Principal
R. G. Franklin, Marshal native,
has been named principal of
Bethware school, succeeding
Thurman Warlick.
Mr. Franklin was principal at
Walnut School of Madison coun
ty last year. He is attending Pea
body Cllege for post graduate
work this summer.
Mr. Franklin, wife Sylvia, and
two boys, age 2 and 5, have rent
ed the Leonard Hamrick home
near the National Guard Armory
on Phifer Road and will locate
in Kings (Mountain soon.
Kings Mountain Man To Get Bride
If House Approves Senate Action
TO AMERICA — Joe Seun Pak.
22-year-old Korean bride-elect of
a Kings Mountain man, may get
to came to America pending ac.
tion by the U. S. House of Repre
sentatives. The special bill to al
low Miss Pak to come to this
country has already passed the
Senate.
The U. S. Senate played “Here
Cotnes the Bride" last week for
Robert Lewis (Bob) Hall of Kings
Mountain and Miss Jae Suen
(pronounced Jason) Pak of Tae.
gu, Korea.
But if the wedding is to get
through the “I do’s”, the U. S.
House will have to finish what
the Senate has started.
The prospective bridegroom, a
mining engineer at Fate’s Kings
Moun ain plant, was serving
with the Army’s lath Ordinance
Company in Taegu in November
1955 when he met Miss Pak (last
names first in Korea). She was
a clerk typist ait the base and
also sang in the KMAG (Korean
(Military Advisory Group) choir
They became engaged. And!
they ran into red tape.
Hall was returned to the U. S. i
for discharge before they could;
be married. He last saw the pre-1
tty Korean National in January
1957 when he left for Deer Lod
ge, Mont., “because of too much
red tape” and still a single man.
He was graduated from Mon
tana School of Mines aft Butte in
1958 and 10 months ago came to
Kings Mountain to work. He has
occupied an apartment alt Mrs.
George Cansler’s on Mountain
street, land while herfe has been a
leader of a (Boy Scout Troop at
Resurrection Lutheran church, a
member of First Presbyterian
(Continued On Page Eight)
"Nothing Final"
Pending Survey,
Official States
E MARTIN HARMON
H'Sgitfway commission Director
W. F. Batooock envisions a U. S.
74 by-pass of Kings 'Mountain to
the 'South, Me indicated to the
Herald in Kings Mountain Mon
day. .
Accompanied by E. L. Kemper,
division engineer of Shelby, Mr.
Babcock pointed out that “noth
ing is fixed, nor finalized” and
said that the highway commis
sion, in committing 'funds for a
survey, or surveys, for a Kings
Mountain toy-pass of U. S. 74
needs to know the feasibility of a
tie-in with Interstate 85. Should
a tie-in prove feasible, he said,
changes in thb 85 plan to route
U. S. 74 traffic on and off should
be known in advance to save con
struction money before Interstate
85 construction progresses too far.
While Mr. Babcock diid not com
pletely write-off a widening of
King street, present U. S. 74, has
comments Obviously supported a
by-pass, barring prohibitive cost
due to engineering problems and
an unfavorable cost-time ratio, a
complicated formula whereby
savings to motorists can be effec
ted in 'both time and mileage and,
therefore, cost to motorists.
“The whole theory Of federal
road 'building today is based on
getting a -motorist from Point A
to Point B in the -shortest possible
time by safest means,” Mr. Bab
cock commented.
Where would a southerly cut
off be possible?
(Mr. IBabcock and Mr. Kemper
penciled a road map -to a possible
cut-off to the east of the present
Dtocon road, to move northwest
and enter 'the present four-lane U.
S. 74 to Shelby. The highway di
rector emphasized that the pen
ciling is mere guess work, subject
to both preliminary and detailed
engineering surveys.
He also said a quick tooksee at
the terrain to the north of Kings
Mountain indicates a northern
by-pass unsuitable.
Mr. Kemper month's ago recom
mended the widening Of King
street as the Shortest and most
economical means of improving
what Mr. 'Babcock terms the
Kings Mountain “'Bottleneck” on
U. S. 74. .
Other items in the determina
tion, Mr. 'Babcock listed as:
1) Estimate of right-of-way
costs along 'both routes.
2) Possibility of controlled, if
not limited, access along an ad
jacent by-pass. ('Limited access
means entrance-exit only at over
-passes and cloverleafs. Controlled
access means ten1 trance-exit com
parable to that on the present
Sheiby-Kingis Mountain highway.)
3) Results of a traffic check to
determine What percentage of
present King street traffic is
"through” and What percentage
is “local,” a key factor in arriv
ing alt the cost-time ratio.
Earliest possible date factual
information Will toe available is
three months, likely longer. Mr.
IBabcock volunteered the commis
sion will kteep Kings (Mountain cit
izens informed on progress of the'
survey and highway commission
determinations as thfey occur.
Smiths FQe
Accident Suit
Raymond Earl Goforth of Kings
Mountain is defendant in a $100,
000 damage action 'filed 'in Meck
lenburg Superior Count.
Plaintiff is Thurman S. Smith,
father of Michafel Steven Smith,
who was struck toy a oar driven
toy Mr. Goforth on April 25th. The
afcddent occurred on York road.
Smith claims his son suffered
a (brain injury which may incapa
citate him the rest of 'his life as
a result of ithe accident.
Highway Thinking
In Million Class
"We seldom speak of in ma
jor highway section anymore
without thinking 'in terms of
millions of dollars,” W. F.
Babcock, director of the State
Highway commission said here
Monday.
Present day construction,
calling for four and six-lane
boulevards, equal-width spans
over rivers and crevices, expert
engineering, and costly over
passes, underpasses and elo
verleafs, make the smallest
projects hit the million-mark
and more, he said.
Customarily, he noted, sur
vey costs are about three per
cent of a major road link’s to
tal oodt. In other words, a mil
lion dollar link would Include
about $30,000 in survey costs.