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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Ifie figure lor Greater King* Mountain Is dortred from S tbs IKS Kings Mountain city directocy census. Tbs dtf Units figure Is Irom ton United States census at ISSO. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper 1C Pages ID Today VOL 70 No. 36 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 10, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS local News Bulletins GIRL SCOUTS The Kings Mountain Girl Scout Neighborhood will meet Tuesday afternoon at 1:15 at Sit Matthew’s Lutheran church, ocoording to announcement by Mis. Don Crawford, chairman. DIXON SERVICE Ray Howe, ministerial stu dent from Gastonia, will con duct Sunday morning warship services alt Dixon Presbyterian church. KIWANIS CLUB The coaching staff of Kings Mountain high school will pre sent a preview of high school foottball in Kings Mountain at the regular Thursday meeting of the Kiwanis club. The club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. ROTARY Rev. Thomas Droppers, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, will speak to members of the Rotary club at their 12:15 meeting Thursday at the Coun try Club, according to announ cement by Tom Troth CAKE SALE The Mary Kennedy circle of Boyce Memorial ARP church will sell homemade cakes Sat urday morning beginning at 9 o’clock at Phifer Hardware Company. Mrs. Wendell Phifer is chairman of the circle. P-TA MEETING Easit School Parent-Teacher Association will hol'd the ini tial meeting of ithe school year Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. in the school auditorium. NO FIRES City Fire Department report ed having no calls during.the past week. LODGE MEETING A regular communication of Fairview Lodge, 339, AF&AM will be held Monday night, Sept. 14, at 7:30, according to an annoucement by Secretary D. Tindall. IN MARYLAND Harold Dean Pearson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oland Pearson, is a member of the high school faculty at Leonardltown, Md., where he is teaching English and social studies. Mr. Pearson was a member of the Reids ville high school faculty last year. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday noon totaled $156.38, including $104.50 from on-sltreet meters, $27 from over-parking fees, and $24.88 from off-street meters. TO ATLANTA Mayor and Mrs. Glee A. Bri dges, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, and Charles Heath, manager of the Shelby gas system, went to Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday af ternoon where they were to at tend a meeting concerning gas rates with officials of Trans continental Gas Pipeline Cor poration. Transco has filed ap plication With the FPC for a rate increase. AT MEETING Rtev. A. C. Martin, pastor, Mr. And Mrs. Conrad Hughes, and Mrs. Joe Dixon represented An tioch Baptist church at Broad River Assooiartkmal meeting in Draytonvfllle, S. jC. Wednesday. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce will meet at City Hall Friday night at 7:30 p. m., a'ooardtog to announcement by Dt. L. T. Anderson, secretary. NEW METERMAN Jake Early, city recreation director, has taken over (the duties of parking imeter officer for the recreation commission, succeeding Roger Blackwell, who is assuming his studies at Brevard college. Clubwomen To Serve Sunday Dinner Here The Intemiaittonial Affairs De partment of the Wtoman’s club Will starve Sunday dinner at the clubhouse, according to an nouncement by Mrs. David Cash, chairman. Plates are $1.25 for adults, and 75 cents for children. Sor ing Will begin at 12 noon. Menu for the dinner includes: turkey, balked ham, chicken pot pie, rice and dressing, gra vy, green beam, candied yams, peas, carrots, salad, dessert and beverage, with holt roils. RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIP CHECKS — Four children of Foote Mineral Company employees received checks of approximately $500 each recently from Neil Johnson, center, Foote Man ager. The checks are first-semester Gordon Chambers Scholarships, given by the Foote board chairman to children of Foote employ ees. Thef cholarships are renewable until gra duation with two contingencies. The scholar ship recipient must maintain a “C" scholastic average and one of the parents must remain a Foote employee. Receiving the checks are, left to right, Andrew Dale Gilliland. Peggy Ann Black, Brenda Yvonne Thornburg, and Jerry R. Wilson. Gilliland and Wilson are beginning their second year at Clemson, while Miss Black will be a freshman at Woman's College, Uni versity of North Carolina, and Miss Thornburg a freshman at Western Carolina college. 12th Annual Bethware Fair Will Open Next Wednesday Preparations For Annual Fair Near-Complete It’s fair time , again and the 12th season for the Bath ware Commuruity Fair which gets un derway next Wednesday. The 'Bethware Progressive Club, which sponsors the com munity fair, was readying for the event this week and officials were terming the attraction "a FAIR PAHADE~” Kick-off for the fair will be a parade Saturday afternoon on downtown streets. Miss Bethware Fair, Judy Putnam, will lead the. parade which will form at 3:30 p. m. and in-, elude her attendants, Bethware school clubs, the Central school band, and city and fair officials. Format for the four-day fair bigger and 'better fair than ev er.” lit is the fourth year the fair will offer cash prizes to winning exhibitors in agricultural, com mercial, and industrial fields, follows that of former' ones. The fair will open at 1 p. m. September 16 and close at »mid (Continued On Page Eight) MISS BETHWARE FAIR — Judy Putnam, who will lead the para de Saturday to kick-off the op ening of the Bethware Fair" by the sponsoring Bethware Pro gressive club. TO HENDERSONVILLE The Frank Little family will move to Hendersonville Satur day, where Mr. Little will join the staff of First Federal Sav ings & Loan association. This firm is managed by Frank Hoyle, foilmer Kings Mountaip citizen. Mr. Little was former ly on the staff of Home Sav ings & Loan association. 'It Could Have Happened To Me..", Says Gamble Of Tayloisvflle Death BY MARTIN HARMON "It oould have happened to me or to anyone. I feel very sorry for the Coach.” John Gamble, Kings Mountain high school football coach, thus commented Tuesday night on the situation at Taylorsville, where a young football player suc cumbed to heat exhaustion, and where Tuesday night the school committee was still weighing decisions on fielding a telim this season and whether to dis charge Coach Vernon Morrison. Coach Gamble continued, “It’s not right to allow boys to play when they’re not in good condi tion. We have say 50 boys on ithe football field. They won’t get drowned, nor killed in a wreck.” The statements came in a for um period after Coach. Gamble addressed 'the Lions club at its Tuesday night meeting. In answer to other questions, Coach Gamble said: 1) He has no paiticluar aver-i sion to later-starting football practice except that pre-school drills in late summer compen sate for lack of spring practice; and, if delayed until school be gins, would be limited to one drill per day, rather than two. He said Ithe August 15 opening date is a state-wide regulation governing high schools and is generally followed by all schools elding football teams. He noted that a later starting date would tend to interfere with other sp orts in other seasons. 2) He thinks Liittle League football valuahle to the players “if properly supervised and kept within reason.” Previously, Coach Gamble had briefly summarized the 1959 entry as “'bigger, but slower” than the 1958 team and added the note, "We hope to improve as the season goes along.” He said the first team is experienced and strong, but the depith is lim ited to less experienced players. He said the 1959 aggregation is the “hardest working group we’ ve had” and that during pre season drills, in spite of the heat the coaches had had no com plaints from (the candidates. In his address, Coach Gamble gave the Lions some instruction on what (type of offenses they would see among college, .high school and professional teams during (the current season. The three favorite offenses, he said, would include the multiple offense, a combination of the ‘T’ and single wing, and wing “T”, which he labeled a modified sin gle wing, and the lonesome end, popularized last year by Army and unveiled in Army’s 45-0 shellacking of South Carolina. He said the lonesome ynd, if the end is fast and a capable pass an agger, tends to loosen the de Patterson Grove Has New Pastor, Rev. Fred Hicks Rev. Fred Hicks, recently pas tor of Hardin Baptist church in the Gaston association, has mov ed into the , newly-completed parsonage of Patterson Grove Baptist church and will begin his duties as pastor on Sunday. Rev. Mr. Hicks succeeds Rev. J. J. Thornburg, who resigned sev eral months ago to accept an other pastorate. A native of Hickory, Mr. Hicks attended Gardner-Webb and Wake Forest colleges, before go ing to Golden Gate seminary in California. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks have three children. Drug Company Is Renovating Kings Mountain Drug Com pany has begun a remodeling program designed to provide im proved facilities and additional floor space. C. D. Blanton, partner in the firm, said the interior of the st ore will be extended 25-feet, with the present prescription depart ment to be moved back ten feet. New air-condition-heating plant is being installed on the second floor. Removal of the staircase formerly leading to quarters of Drs. John and Kenneth McGill, will provide four-feet additional width at the front of the store. The rear entrance is being completely renovated and will have a new glass front. . E. R. Morgan, Gastonia, is con tractor for the remodeling for McKesson & Rbobins, drug firm which is supervising the renova ting. Mr. Blanton estimates the work will require six weeks. He said the firm wiU handle business as usual on regular schedule. ASC Voting Thnisday Cleveland County farmers will vote Thursday for ASC committ eemen. The voting which is to be con ducted from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. will be held for Kings Moun tain area township 4 and 5 at Beth ware School and Wray Stir wait’s Store respectively. The nominees in each commu nity receiving most votes will be elected chairman and delegate to the county convention. The nominee receiving the second largest u number of votes will be vice Chairman and alternate del egate to the county convention. (Continued On Page Eight) Letting Date On Improving 74 Fall 1961 In a meeting ait Washington recently, (the State Highway commission set target dates for contract letting on a long list of projects. Included was contract letting for improvements of U. S. 74 in the Kings Mountain a rea in fall or winter 1961. ■All of the projects have been approved previously by the pre sent Highway commission. W. F. Babcock, director, said it is not possible to schedule exact date of contract lettings, but that, in general, the projects would have engineering and right-of-way matters settled by the indicated letting dates. Other (target dates for letting of projects in this area included: 1) Interstate 85, by-passing of Gastonia, May 1960 letting. 2) U. S. 74, four laning from Cleveland County line to Ruither forditon, now in advance plan ning. 3) U. S. 29-74, improvements to Wilkinson Boulevard between Charlotte and Gastonia, now in advance planning, tentative let 'ting summer of 1960. 4) U. S.-74, dual laning from N. C. 26 to Washburn Switch Road, June 1960 letting. UF Completes Budget Talks King's Mountain United- Fund directors virtually have complet ed budget talks with organiza tions planning to participate i n tbits fall’s first composite Chari ta bleovic fund-raising campaign. Chairman Sam StallMngs said thte directors Will convene again Thursday night at First National Bank to begin work toward fi nal adoption Of an aggregate 'budget. The UF officials heard budget requests from the Kings Moun tain Red Cross chapter, the Boy Scouts and Cleveland County Life-Saving crew last wete-k, and also heard a plea from Bruce Thorburn, who asked for funds to supplement a local teacher for eduoatable 'handicapped children. Other organizations expected to participate in the United Fund appeal are the Girl Slcouts, City Recreaition commission, Kings Mountain school band, and Ja cob S. Mauney Memorial Library. Teacher likes Trip Abroad "It’s all like a fairy story and I’m having a wonderful time”. Miss Mary Nolan has written her father since her arrival abroad to teach in the dependents school of the U. S. (Army. Miss Nolan, who taught here at North Elementary school, is at Ellingin (American Elementary) school near Stuttgart, Germany. Also in Germany at Frankfort, is another Kings Mountain tea cher, Miss Louise Kiser, who is teaching in Fulda Elementary school. Miss Kiser, daughter of A. S. Kiser, formerly taught at West school. Still another teacher at Heidel burg, Germany, is Miss Cynithia Biggens, sister of Miss Ruth Big gers, who teaches here at Cen tral. School didn't officially open until yesterday, so the teachers who arrived in Germany the lat ter part of August had some free time for sight-seeing, “and th ere’s plenty to see”, Miss Nolan says. In her letters to A. V. Nolan of Shelby, Miss Nolan gave a vi vid description of her plane trip from New York to Paris and the subsequent trip by train to Stutt gart, which she says is “an old medevial city of 400,000 people.” Miss Nolan spent two days in Paris, France, and made a motor tour of the city. "We took in the city pretty well on foot, too”, she told her father. “The fine hotels have wine red carpets and drapes, and there were so many places to see”, she added. Miss Nolan may be written in care of American Elementary Schools, APO 46, New York. Miss Riser’s address is in care of Ful da Elementary School, APO 26, New York. County Board May Be Asked For Hospital Bend Election New Parts Him Sets Open House For Wednesday City Auto & Truck Pants, Inc., which opened for business in June, will hold open house Wed nesday, September 16. Bob Bridges, treasurer and manager, is extending an invi tation to the public,to attend ithe event, to be held at the firm’s home, 209 York Road, beginning at 10 a. m. and continuing until 9 p. m. Refreshments will be served and a drawing for door prizes will be held at the end of the party at 9 p. m. Other officens of the firm are J. M. Kerns, president; Clyde Kerns, vice-president., and Tom Propsit, secretary. Both Mr. Bridges and Mr. Pro. pst will be active in the busi ness. Others on the sales staff are Gordon (Buddy) Baity and Wil liam H. (Bill) Davis. Mrs. Bob by Bridges is bookkeeper. The firm’s regular hours are 7:30 to 5:30 weekdays, and 7:30 to 12:30 Saturdays. The firm offers leading brands of auito and truck parts and e quipment, including Autolite batteries, Anco wiper blades, Champion and AC spark plugs, other AC products, DuPont auto pain/ts, Gates belts and hoses, Wix filters, Marelmont mufflers and pipes, Pedrick and Sealpo wer piston rings, Quaker State motor oils, and Raybestos and Wagner brake linings. “We’re now ready with a full line of auto and truck parts,” Mr. Bridges commented, “and we cordially invite the public to inspect our facilities on Septem ber. 16. Numerous factory representa tives will be present for the op en house, Mr. Bridges said. Bell Resigns Bethany Post Rev. Arnold Bell, pastor of Bethany (Baptist dhunch to Grover the past two years, has resigned to become pastor of Old Fields Baptist church in Fleetwood. The Bell family is moving Thursday from Grover to Fleet wood. Mr. Bell attended Gardner Wfettb and Limestone colleges. He (is married to the former Ruth Oanlipe. The Bells have two chil dren. OFF-TO-SCHOOL Addition of Hunter Warlick and Steve Kiser to the off-to school list brings to 132 the number of area students who are enrolled at school for post high school training. Mr. War lick is a student at Duke Uni versity Law School and Mr. Kiser is attending Mercy Hos pital School of Technology, Charlotte. TO CHATTANOOGA — Dr. Paul V. Nolan, general practitioner here for the past four years, will leave next week for Chattanooga. Term., where he will become physician at a DuPont nylon plant. Nolan Accepts DuPont Post Dr. Paul V. Nolan, for the past four years a Kings Mountain medical doctor and associate of Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, will be come ’physician of the DuPont nylon plant at Chattanooga, Tenn., on September 21. Concurrently, Dr. Hendricks an. nounced that hie expects Dr. T.. G. Durham, now of Greenville, S. C., to join him as associate in the near future. Dr. Nolan said Wednesday he ; has long bean interested in indus trial medicine and that the Du Pont post gives him the oppor tunity to enter this field of medi cine. “It is jwit’h much regret that I make plans to leave Kings Moun tain," Dr. Nolan said. “My asso ciation in Kings Mountain, with the members of (the mbdiical pro fession, With my associate Dr. Hendricks, the staff of Kings Mountain 'hospital and other citizens has been most pleas ant. Kings Mountain is for tunate to have the higlh quality of medical care and the medical facilities it (hlas.” Dr. Nolan joined Dr. Hendricks in August, 1955, fallowing a four year tour of duty as flight sur geon With the Air Ftoroe. He had previously practiced generally for two years at Lawndale. He was graduated from medical school of the University of Maryland, at-1 tended the University of North Oaroina medical school, and is a graduate of University of North Carolina and Mars Hill college. Dr. Nolan is seanetary-treasur er of the Kings Mountain hospital medical staff, a deacon of First 'Baptist ohurdh and a Kiwanlian. Mrs. Nolan is the former Anne Lewis. They have three children, having recenty adopted a 14 month-old daughter, Louise Anne Nolan. The Nolans will move to’ Chattanooga as quickly as suit-i able housing is Obtained. Jimmy Plonk, Home From Germany, Says Germans Afraid Of Russians HOME — Jimmy Plonk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Plonk, arrived home Saturday from a summer's stay in Germany under the A merican Field Service interna tional scholarship program. TO UNCOLNTON Miss Martha Ann Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Baker, has joined the facul ty of Linoolnion high school where she is (teaching English. Miss Baker is a recenft gradu ate of Appalachian State Tea cher’s College. By DAVID BAITY '"The people of Germany de pend upon the United States. They have a great fear of the Russians and one of their great est fears is thait the United Sta tes will make some concession to the U. S. S. R.,” said Jimmy Plonk Wednesday afternoon. The senior class president of Kings Mountain High School re turned Saturday from a trip to Bremen, Germany where, he stay ed as a summer student through the American Field Service. He further reported Germans want very much to be an inde pendent country again, and sometimes spend a week discuss ing the time when they shall be reunited. "Berlin, to them, 'is a symbol of old United Germany. They fear losing it. From seeing and living with 'them, I feel that if we, as Americans, lose Berlin, we will lose Germany.” The Plonk youth left the day after President Eisenhower ar rived in Bonn, Germany. “Peo ple in Bremen were hoping the president would come through there and they would get to see him. They were very optimistic about the results of his talks in Europe, and seemed to like him very much,” he said. “I had a wonderful time, the trip was very exciting,” said (Continued on Page EightJ Legal Baniers Preclude Other Financing Means Kings Mountain hospital dir ectors will convene Thursday af ternoon to determine whether they will ask the county commis sion to offer a bond issue for a county's portion of cost for a proposed 25-bed addition to the hospital. Irtdications that this is the on ly method of financing the coun ty’s estimated $87,000 portion of he cost — by the time required by the State Medical Care com mission — were given to hospi tal officials Tuesday in conver sations with the county com mission. Attending the session were 1 George W. Mauney, president, George H. Mauney, director, and Grady Howard, business man ager, of the hospital manage ment, and Dr. Kenneth McGill, president of the hospital medi cal staff. It had been hoped initially, Mr. Howard said, that the county could issue bonds, without elec tion, under the law which provi des a city or county can issue up to two-thirds of the amount of net bond retirement during tire previous fiscal year. Bond attorneys, however, have pointed to a 1937 state Supreme 'Court decision which held that hospital operation and construc tion is not a necessary public ex pense. Since that time, the Gen eral Assembly has passed a res olution declaring hospital func tions necessary to the public welfare. However, this resolution I lias not been tested before the Supreme Court and the bond at torneys say they wouldn’t ap prove an issue, minus election, without Supreme Court susten tion of the Assembly resolution. In turn, County Attorney C. C. Horn told the group it won’t be possible to docket a friendly test case prior to February' 1960. Meantime, the State Medical Care commission wants definite assurance that the local fund share will be available by De cember 31. Another barrier to the project is fact that availability of state funds for hospital construction hinges on results of a $34.4 mil lion bond issue to be considered by North Carolinians on October 27. Hospital construction funds are included in the October 27 offering, along with consltrution iunds for buildings at state-own ed colleges and other public buildings. Meantime, Mr. Howard reports continually high occupancy rate for Kings Mountain Hospital with frequenit necessity to use hails and pasageways for tem porary bed space for patients. Gas Cut-On Orders Urged ! Gas system cut-on requests are being invited during the month of September at a bargain rate of $1. Corbett Nicholson, gas super intendent, said iit is imperative that the bulk of the gas cut-ons be made in September, if many customers are to avoid discom fort at the onset of winter wea ther. 'Numerous citizens who use gas only for home heating order summer cut-offs. Regular cut-on fee is $2. Herald Picture Deadline Changed A bus schedule change has forced the Herald to adopt earlier deadline for pictures to be used in forthcoming editions from 4 p. m. Tuesdays to noon Tuesdays. For newspaper reproductions, engravings must toe made, a Service the Herald obtains alt I Spartanburg, S. C. The Herald regrets the neces sity for advancing the deadline, and earnestly requests the co operation of our readers in meeting this schedule. If possi ble, pictures, particularly for the society department, should be turned In not later than Man day. NO PERMITS . City Inspector J. W. Webster said Wednesday he did no bus iness in the building permit line last week. Park Grace Added Nine Bark Grace Elementary school has added nine students five days aifter opening. . Enrollment now totals 176. Opening enrollment was 167. The ennollbnent fe still off from last year's total of 178. The school enrollment has been steadily (decreasing for three years. Last year’s enrollment was off 16 from 1957’s 194