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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 l*a Agon 1m Omitsr Klngrt Mountain 1* dsrlnd faom Ms 1996 Sag* Mountain city dUnetory consus. Th* city Uadis fignrs is Iran las MM Status consul of 1950. IQ Pages 10 Today VOL 70 No. 39 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October I, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Architect Ormand & Vaughan's Conception of New Kings Mountain Episcopal Parish House Local News Bulletins REUNION Descendants erf William Ran dle will gather for (heir annu al reunion Sunday, October 4th at Bethlehem Community Cen ter. Picnic dinner will be spread at 12:30 and all friends and relatives are invited. AMERICAN LEGION Regular meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion, will toe held Thursday night at 8 o’clock alt the Legion Hall, according to announce ment by J. T. McGinnis, Jr., commander. DIXON SERVICE Rally Day will he held by Dixon Presbyterian church Sunday during the Sunday School hour. Communion will also be held during the morn ing worship hour at 10:30. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Riwanians will see the film, “Points” par tic ulairiy of interest tx> hunters and dog lovers at their Thurs day night meeting. The club convenes at 6:45 at the Wo man’s club. ON RADIO PROGRAM Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, will conduct morning devo tions via Radio Station WKMT next week. Rev. Jack Hein sohn.who will be leading e vangeiistie services at Boyce Memorial, will speak on Tues day and Friday mornings. TO CONVENTION Mayor Glee A. Bridges and Ciity Clerk Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., attended the annual con vention of 'the Noitth Carolina League of Municipalities held at Asheville from Monday through Tuesday* WESLEYAN SERVICE Finst Wesleyan Methodist church will hold Rally Day services Sunday, with the pro gram to be presented during the Sunday Sehool hour alt 9:45 a. m. -j ATTENDED MEET Teachers of grades 3-8 in the city school system, along with Supft. B. N. Barnes, attended gathering Wednesday after noon alt Shelby High school Ito hear a discussion on the pro per teaching method of the new mathematics courses put Into use in North Carolina schools this year. Color Day Thursday At Central School High School cheerleaders will sponsor “Color Day” at Central school on Thursday, and all students will wear the school colors, black and gold. The reason: to promote “school spirit” for the football game Friday night between Kings Mountain and Shelby. Paper pennants will also be a vailable. Other “school spirit” promo tions planned for the day will j include a pep rally to be staged Thursday afternoon, followed by a bon fire that night. A snake dance will begin at the high school gymnasium at 7 p. m. and end at the city pool where the bon fire will be made. High school students will have a special cheering section re served at city stadium on game night. EVANGELIST — Rev. Guy Over, cash, pastor of First Baptist church, LaFrance, S. C., will con duct revival services at Second Baptist church beginning Octo ber 7 and continuing through Oc tober 18. Services will be held each evening at 7:30, it was an nounced by the pastor Rev. Al bert R. Hastings. Special music will be conducted by visiting choruses. 1 Grade Hit Here; Daoiage Nominal Hurricane Gracie, a bit weary from her long trip frotm the tro pics, Struck this area early Wed nesday morning, bringing gusty winds and torrential rains, but little property damage. Gracie, by the time of arrival, had subsided to a heavy storm, but only after wreaking havoc with Ithe city of Charleston on the South Carolina coast. Kings Mountain officials said Wednesday morning (tree limbs had been broken toy the force of the winds, leaves and garbage had blocked culverts causing flooded streets, and porch furni ture had been overturned but no great amount of damage had been done. . The city had /three trucks cl earing debris from the streets. Insurance agencies reported assureds had kept them busy through (the morning with small claims, but (the claims were a bout the same as those caused by any windstorm. Kings Mountain citizens lis tened attentively to radio and television bulletins Tuesday, (Continued On Page Ten) Episcopal Church To Begin Building Construction To Get Underway Within Month Trinity Episcopal church will begin work within a month on a parish house and educational building at cost of $25,000, mem bers of the Missions committee of the church have announced. The parish house will include a hall, kitchen, clergy study, and temporary location of a sanctu ary plus a wing of class rooms. Built primarily for parish ac tivities and educational purpos es, the structure makes use of up-to-date school construction and will toe located on the chur ch’s property at the comer of Phifer Road and Landing street. It will toe used for services of Worship until a church proper can be built. The green-light to go ahead with final preparations was giv en on September 17 when the Ex ecutive Council of the Diocese of Western North Carolina voted to provide the parish with $22,000, part of Which is in the form of a loan and part of which is an out-right grant. This allotment will toe available as soon as the parish raises the balance of $3, 000. For this the parish is receiv ing pledges and gifts from friends within the community of Kings Mountain and outside of it. As soon as the goal is reached, building can begin. The main building will be ap proximately 30 feet toy 70 feet. The wing of class-rooms will be approximately 45 feet toy 15 feet. The exterior walls will toe 10 inch cavity walls with brick outside and concrete block on the inside. The heating plant will toe made to permit air-conditioning in the future. In addition to obtaining an, ad equate building for as little Cost as possible, two concerns have governed the design of the pres ent structure: educational needs and future expansion. Sunday School rooms can be added in at least two directions with the pre (Continued On Page Ten) Dr, Frontis Johnson To Speak At Battle Anniversary Rites October 7th is a banner day in American history, marking as it does the anniversary of the Bat tle of Kings Mountain, and next Wednesday marks the 179th an niversary of that battle. Kings Mountain’s Colonel Fred erick Hambright Chapter, DAR. is collaborating with’ chapers from York, S. C., and Gastonia in sponsoring a public celebration Sunday at 3:30 p. m. at the Park Amphitheatre of Kings Moun tain National Military Park. Dr. Frontis Johnston, of the Davidson College faculty, will make the principal address. Spec ial music will be rendered, and Miss Susan Moss of Kings Moun tain will read Mrs. Clare Dar gan MadLean’s “Ode to Kings Mountain.” Picnic supper will be spread. Ihe museum af the Park Visi tor Center will be open both be fore and after the program, Mrs. Tolly Shuford, the local chapter regent, said in making the an nouncement. Mrs. W. Gist Finley of York, S. C., is chairman of the commemoration program, and she issued an invitation to the community to attend and bring picnic baskets. "The program committee cor ] dially invites you to attend the 179th anniversary celebrating the Patriot Victory over a superior enemy force and by so doing pav ed the way to final victory at SPEAKER —- Dr. Frontis John ston of Davidson College will make the principal address at Sunday's celebration oi the 179th anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain. Yorktawn,” Ben F. Mooraaw, parte superintendent, said in an nouncing the program. The Battle of Kings Mountain on Octoftter 7, 1780, was termed the turning point of victory to ward the struggling American colonies in their fijtit to get free from the yoke of the British. Advance Ducat Sale For Shelby Contest School officials are planning for the expected large crowd ait (the Kings Mounitaim-Shelby football game here Friday niighlt with a pre-game ticket sale 'this week, as well as the gate sale the night of the con test Adult tickets went on sale at the Kings Mountain Drug Co. Wednesday, and students can purchase tickets ahead of time art the high school. Tickets will also be sold at two gates at City Stadium Fri day night, at the ticket win downs, and also at the pass gate which previously has 'been used only t>y season tic ket holders. Adult tickets sell for the us ual price of $1. Game time also is the cus tomary 7:30 p. m. Business Firms Are Expanding Numerous Kings Mountain business firms are in process of renovation - expansion programs or are just completing them. Victory Chevrolet Company, Inc., expanding its garage, is de molishing the old service station at the corner of City and Moun tain. The main (buildings, Presi dent W. C. Grantham said, will be extended to provide more space for the garage and body shop. McGinnis Department Store will move, sometime in October, to the MoGinnisjLipford build ings recently vacated by McGin nis Furniture Company when the furniture firm occupied its new S. Battleground avenue building. A new floor is being installed in the McGinnis building. It will be repainted and will provide the department store more floor space, better lighting and air conditioning, Owner Paul McGin nis said. ' Harris Funeral Home, which recently completed a major ex pansion of its building to include a large chapel, show room, fami ly room and other facilities, an nounced plans to hold open house on October 10 and 11. Fulton’s Department Store is building a modern back entrance adjacent to its Cherokee street parking lot, recently acquired from First Baptist church. Plonk Brothers & Company has announced it will expand in to the adjacent building being va cated by the branch office of the Employment Service commission. Sterchi’s was putting the fin ishing touches this week on a ma jor renovation program, which in cluded extensive redecorating, a new front, new lighting, and in stallation of air-conditioning. Work progresses toward com pletion of the new Winn-Dixie building fronting on Cherokee street. laycees To Hold Scrap Paper Drive Kings Mountain Jayoees will conduct a paper drive Sunday, October 4th, beginning at 2 o’ clock p. m. Paper to be collected should be placed outside the residen ces so members of the organi zation can pick it up during the afternoon, a spokesman said. Other citizens who have lar ger quantities of paper and de sire it picked up at another time should contact Bob Gofor th at Phone 723-J or any other member of the sponsoring or ganization. LEADS REVIVAL — Rev. Alvin D. Wall of Anderson. S. C. will lead a week of evangelistic ser vices at Bethlehem Baptist chur ch beginning Monday. Bethlehem Sets Revival Series 'Rev. Alvin D. Wall, pastor of Concord paptist Church of An derson, S. C., will (begin a week of evangelistic services Monday at Bethlelhem Baptist dhurclh. Services will be 'held nightly at 7:30 p. m. through October 11, the pastor, Rev. Norman F. Brown, said in making the an nouncement. Mr. Brown said the church is using the “Pack The Pew Plan” for attendance each night. On Sunday morning October 11, there will be a unified service of Sun Jay School and worship service :omlbined into one, beginning at 10:10. The goal for Sunday morn ing is 350 in Sunday School. (Mr. Wall is a graduate of Fur man University and Southeastern rheological Seminary. "Everyone is invited to wor ship with1 us at Bethlehem during this special emphasis in the spir itual life,” the pastor added. Final Report One Of Best The final monthly report of the Kings Mountain office of the state employment service is one of its best — from the standpoint of placing people in jobs and! economic well-being of the com munity. iFranklin L. Ware, Jr., mana ger, listing details of the 22-day work of the office ending Sep tember 25, said the office placed 129 persons in employment dur ing the month, including 125 on local jobs and another four in out-of-town employment. Though there were 121 new ap plicants for employment during the month, the total of persons seeking jobs dropped slightly to 362 at month’s end. Meantime, claims for unem ployment compensation dropped heavily to a new low for the past several years. Only 664 claims for jobless pay were filed during the month, an average of about 160 per week for the 22-day eriod covered. The Kings Mountain branch will be closed after Friday. It was opened about 14 years ago. Card To Manage Country Club J. P. Card, of Gamer, a Ralei gh suburb, was to arrive in Kings Mountain Wednesday where he will assume management of the Kings Mountain Country Club ef fective October 1, Mr. Card will succeed Ross Alexander as club manager. He will serve as golf profes sional and offer golf instruction, a spokesman for the club said. Mrs. Card will manage the clubhouse and dining room. . "We feel fortunate in obtain ing the services of Mr. and Mrs. Card as clUb managers,” Presi ient Ollie Harris said this week. Protest Fails To Get Change In Close Order The Kings Mountain branch of the state employment service will close ait the end of opera tions Friday, in spite of strong efforts of Kings Mountain citi zens to prevent its closing. Mayor Glee A. Bridges and Saim Stallings presented the Kings Mountain protest to the Employment Security Commis sion at a hearing in Raleigh last Friday in a two-hour session,, but the commission endorsed the prior decision to close the Kings Mountain office immediately af ter (ttie hearing. |Roth Mayor Bridges and Mr. Stallings said on return (that it appeared the commission could do little else, due to a cut In fed eral appropriations for opera, tions by more than $300,000. Mr. Stallings said ithe commis sion members appeared most sympathetic to the Kings Moun tain protest, but isadd the bud j get cut meant that 31 employees had to be pared. The commission pointed out that Kings Moun tain’s was the only office of its size in the state serving only one community’s area. Other offices of Kings Mountain’s size serve a minimulm of three and a maxi mum of five counties, the Kings Mountain delegation was told. Some of these comparably sized offices are at Murphy, North Wlilkesboro, tBryson City, and. Morehead City. The commission said it was corning within its budget by givim lay-off notices to about 20 persons and otherwise not re placing some 11 positions vaca ted or soon to he vacated by for thcoming retirements and/or vol unteer resignations. Lay-offs will be based on seniority. Mr. Stallings said, "I’m con vinced the commission can do nothing else.” Grade Rough On Fair Opening Grade, the Hurricane, though well - dissipated before reaching inland Cleveland County, was rough to a Cleveland county in stitution Tuesday, as it reduced normal first-day crowds at the 36th annual fair to an estimated 50 persons. First-day attendance usually is a minimum of 15,000, has climbed into the 20,000 range. Grade, the Hurricane, brought heavy winds and rains, but did little physical damage to the fair trappings. Mrs. Grace Hamrick, fair pUblidst, said a few flags were ripped by the winds, and a couple of flagpoles felled, but that was the only apparent dam age. Meantime, the office staff, from Dr. J. S. Dorton, veteran fair manager, were grinning and bearing the untoward weather, Continued on Page Ten REVIVALIST — Rev. Jack Hein sohn will lead a special week ol evangelistic services at Boyce Memorial ARP church beginning Monday. Heutsohn Leads ASP Services Rev. Jack Heinsohn, New Lift Movement preacher in the Asso date Reformed Presbyterian de nomination, will lead a week ol special services at Boyce Memo rial AiRP Church 'beginning Mon day. The services will be conducted nightly through October 11th a1 7:30 p. m. The visiting minister will also conduct Sabbath morn ing and evening services on. the closing day of the revival. Mr. (Heinsohn, the son of vau deville performers, turned down an offer to woric for Ringling Brothers to complete his senior year in high school and subse quently, through the help of a friend, went to Erskine College and graduated from Erskine Sem inary at Due West, S. C. A native of Long Beach, Calif., he made ihis first stage appearance at the age of six weeks when his par ents carried him out for a bow. As a youngster, he worked in cir cuses as an acrobat, trapeze per former, and down. For two years he was pastor of Hickory Grove and Smyrna ARP dhurdt His wife is the for mer Miss Martha Lauderdale and the couple has three child ren. "We invite the interested pub lic to any or all of these serv ces," the pastor, Dr. W. L. Press ly, said. Friday Lively Day For Students Friday will be a busy day for school personnel and situ dents. Teachers will be off to a dis trict meet of Ithe NCEA, school will be closed, and students will have a chance to take in ithe Cleveland county fair dur ing School Day there. Climaxing ithe free day for, students will be ithe Shelby vs. Kings Mountain football game to be played in City Stadium at 7:30 p. im. United Fund Kick-Off On Thursday Goal Raised Slightly To $18X100 Kings Mountain's Hirst United Fund campaign will be launched Thursday with a kick-off meet ing set for 8 o”clock alt City Hall courtroom. President Sam Stallings is heading the fund campaign and five other chairmen were ap pointed this week to conduct a month-long effort to attain a campaign goal of $18,000, ap proved budget of nine participa ting organizations. Mr. Stallings announced addi tion of a ninth participating or ganization, the Davidson school band. Appropriation for the Da vidson (Band will be $350. (Mr. Stallings, In announcing Thursday’s meeting of Kings Mountain United Fund, Inc., also said one new member has join ed the board of directors. He is J. A. Gibson, principal of David son schools. Mr. Gibson will head the Negro division of the fund drive. Other chairmen include: B. F. i Manor and R. S. Lennon, bust-! ness houses other than industry;: J. C. Bridges and Grady Howard, schools; George H. Mauney, spe cial gifts; and Mr. Stallings, in dustrial. Other citizens who will j aid this group include. John Cheshire, Paul Walker, George Thomasson, Dr. N. H. Reed, W. G. Jonas, B. S. Peeler, Jr., Dr. D. f. Herd, Rev. M. D. DuBose, Char les Neisler, Charles Blaonton, F. A McDaniel, Jr., Joe H. McDan iel, Bruce Thorbum, B. N. Bar nes, J. E. Herndon, Jr., William Herndon, James Amos, M. L. Campbell, and Rev. R. L. Garvin. Mr. Stallings noted fhat one mammoth campaign will replace individual campaigns, as the participating organizations agree to make no other solicitations during the year, minus United Fund approval. Numerous industrial and bus iness firms have indicated they will offer employees payroll de duction method of giving to the combined campaign. “The budget of $18,000 appears to be a large amount. However, the directors of United Fund are confident that the combine cam paign means a lower total bud get, much lower operating ex penses than nine separate ap peals would require, and a vast saving -of fund-soliciting man power. We feel the budget is realistic and will be attained during this mouth-long effort which begins today”, the chair man pointed out. Other beneficiaries of the cam paign will toe the Kings Moun tain Red Cross chapter, Cleve land County Life-Saving crew Jacob S. Mauney 'Memorial 11 brary, Kings Mountain Boy Scouts, Kings Mountain Girl Scouts, City Recreation commis sion, a special educational fund designed to aid employment of a teaxher for retarded children, and the Kings Mountain city schools band. Shelby Office To Handle Work Here Thursdays Effective Monday, Kings Moun tain citizens will handle their employment 'business through the Shelby office of ithe sitate em ployment service. John Fleming, manager of the Shelby office, was in Kings Mountain this week, and said he and his staff would "do every thing possible” to give Kings Mountain area citizens the best possible service. He said Wednesday that Mrs. Violet Dixon and Mrs. Virginia Gibson, until Friday’s closing members of the Kings Mountain office staff, are being transfer red to the Shelby office and will be assigned as much of the Kings Mountain area work as they can handle. Specifically, they will be the itinerant mem bers of the Shelby staff who will visit Kings Mountain each Thursday to handle claims for jobless pay and to accept work applications. Otherwise, Mr. Fleming said: 1) Spot points on jobless pay claims (.where 20 or more em ployees are temporarily laid off alt any ne plant will be han dled as needed, with the employ, menf service staff visiting the particular plant ito accept claims. 2) Employers needing work men should call the Shelby of fice ait any time. Present plan is for Mrs. Gib son and Mrs. Dixon to be at City, Hall courtroom each Thursday, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Persons now filing claims for jobless pay will be asked ito file their claims Thursday morning. Afternoon hours, beginning at 1 p. m. will be devoted to persons filing new clams for jobless pay and other work, such as job applications by persons entering the labor market. It had been originally antici pated 'that Mrs. Gibson would be transferred to the Gastonia of fice. However, Mr. Fleming said a Shelby office employee tender ed resgnation last week, effect ive October 9, which made it passible for him to request the services of Mrs. Gibson, as well as Mils. Dixon. Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manager of the Kings Mountain office, said Wednesday, he is accepting proffer of transfer ito the Gaston ia office. The Shelby office has eight staff members. Fleming Heads Shelby ESC Long, lanky John Fleming, manager of the Shelby office of the state employment service, is a veteran of war service in both the army and navy. A native of Williamston, Mr. Fleming did navy duty as an en listed man in World War n. By the time the Korean War opened, he was a first lieutenant in a National Guard unit summoned in active duty and he now holds a captain’s commission in the Na tional Guard. Mr. Fleming living much of his life in Greenville, N. C., graduat ed from Pactolus high school, and attended the University of North Carolina. Except for Korean War army duty, he has been with the North Carolina Employment Security commission since 1945, when he. •became an interviewer at the Washington, N. C., office. He l^ter was veterans employment representative at the Greenville branch. Before succeeding John Wilson as manager of the Shelby office in February 1958, he was manager of the Roanoke Rapids office for four years. Mrs. Fleming is the former El wanda Coker, of Enfield, in Edgecombe county. The Flemings have three sons. Mr. Fleming is a member of the First Baptist church and an Elk. In preparing to assume the du I ties of the Kings Mountain bran ch of ESC, Mr. Fleming said, i "We’ll do everything possible to 1 give Kings Mountain area citi zens the best service possible, i We’re as near as your telephone. If you need us, call us.’’ .. Churches Planning Communion Services Kings Mountain churches will Join with others around the world Sunday in the observan ce of World-Wide Communion. 'Virtually all Kings Moun tain area churches will ob serve the sacrament of the Lord's Supper at worship ser vices on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.