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. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper STS mt 1 h 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