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VOL 71 No. 3
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday. January 21, I960
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
YOUNG MAN OF YEAR PRESENTATION —
Charles Dixon, right center, is presenting to
Sam Stallings the Kings Mountain Junior
Chamber oi Commerce Distinguished Service
Award for 1959. At left is Robert H. Goforth.
Chairman of the Jaycee DSA committee, and at
right is Bob Maner, Jaycee president. Both Mr.
Dixon and Mr. Maner cere previous DSA win
ners.
Local News
Bulletins
NO FIRES
City firemen received no a
Larms since last Wednesday.
NO WRECKS
City police reported Wednes
day morning they logged no
automobile accidents during
the past week.
I hospitalized
Hunter P. Nedsier is conva
lescing at Kings Mountain
Hospital where he underwent
a surgical operation this week.
KIWANIS CLUB
Kdwaruan Joe Austin, who
is also a member of the Gas
tonia Toastmasters club, will
conduct the program Thursday
at the regular meeting of the
Kiwanis club. The club con
venes at 6:45 at the Woman’s
club.
SUPPER
The Senior class of Beth
ware school is sponsoring a
chicken pie supper Saturday
from 5 until 8 p. m. at the
school cafeteria. Plates are $1
for adults and 50 cents for
children.
LEGION DANCE
Otis D. Green Post 155, the
American 'Legion, will sponsor
a dance Saturday evening
from 9 to 12 p. m. at the Le
gion Hall, it was announced
by Commander J. T. McGinnis,
it.
WEST P-TA
Miss Alice Averitt, city
schools teaching consultant,
will present the program,
"Reading for Every Child—
Good Books", at Monday night’s
West school P-TA meeting. The
group meets in the school au
ditorium at 7:30.
GIRL SCOUT MEETING
The Kings Mountain Girl
* Scout Neighborhood will hold
its regular meelting Tuesday
morning at 10 a. m. ait St.
Matthew’s Lutheran church.
All Girl Scout leaders are In
voted to attend.
BUILDING PERMITS
J. W. Webster, ctlty Inspector,
issued a permit Friday to Hay
wood E. Lynch to build a one
story frame house on Blanton
Street. Estimated cost of the 5
room structure is $3,000. A per
mit was also issued to J. Wil
son Crawford Tuesday to build
a onerstory brick veneer house
on Meadowbrook Road. Cost of
the Broom residence is estima
ted at $15,500.
641 TAGS SOLD
A total of 641 city auto lic
ense tags had been sold
through Wednesday ait 3 o’
clock, it was reported by Mrs.
Grace Wolf, assistant city
cleric. The number is slightly
more than onenthird the num
ber sold in 1959.
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TO INSTITUTE
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harman
will attend the mid-winter
North Carolina Press Institute
to be held at Chapel Hill and
Durham Thursday through
Saturday.
Stallings Named
Young Man Of ’59
Bumgardner Boy
Hit By Car
Don Bumgardner, 14, was
struck by a car Wednesday af
ternoon at 3:45 in front of Cen
tral High School wihen he ran
from the front of a parked school
bus into the path of an oncom
ing oar.
The oar was driven by Herman
Queen.
Bumgardner, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Bumgardner,
was taken to Kings Mountain
Hospital.
Injury was listed as multiple
bruises and contusions to his leg
and hip.
$16,800 In UF
Donations Seen
Kings Mountain United Fund
officials hope to complete the
1959 fund campaign Thursday
night, with not less than 90 per
cent of its budget — or $16,000
in hand or pledged.
Sam Stallings, campaign chair
man, said Wednesday that last
week’s clean-up gathering indi
cated about onethird of (the
city’s commercial establishments
hadn’t been contacted. In addi
tion, he said one textile firm is
meeting success while contin
uing the drive and reports are
lacking from two other indus
tries.
“Wie feel the clean-up will re
sult in at least $16,000, or 90 per
cent of the $18,000 goal and we
hope the final total will be even
closer to the budget.”
A meeting of the committee
has been scheduled for Thursday
night.
CORRECTION
Rev. Floyd Pinch, rector of
Holy Comforter Episcopal ch
urch of Charlotte, assisted in
the recent groundbreaking at
the site tor the new parish
house of Trinity Episcopal ch
urch.The Herald, through typo
graphical error, reported it as
Holy Comforter Lutheran
Annual Awaid
Is Presented
For Sixth Year
Sam Stallings, general man
ager of Maumey Hosiery Com
pany and Carolina Throwing
Company, was named Young
Man of Kings Mountain for 1959
at the annual Distinguished Ser
vice Award presentation ban
quet of Kings Mountain Junior
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
night.
Charles Dixon, a former DSA
Winner, made the presentation
to Mr. Stallings, citing his long
term work in civic, religious and
charitable affairs of the com
munity, for his work with the U
nited Fund and efforts to retain
an employment branch in Kings
Mountain.
Mr. Stallings replied, "I don’t
know what to say, I don’t think
I deserve it, but I certainly do
appreciate it.”
Prior to the presentation, Wil
liam F. Jonas presented honor
ary memberships to the organi
zation to Jonas Bridges, of Radio
Station WKMT, and to Martin
Harmon, Kings Mountain Herald
editor. Mr. Jonas cited the reci
pients lor their long-term and
continuing aid to the Junior
Chamber of Commerce in its var
ious projects.
Tuesday night’s qffafr was al
so Basses’ Night for the Jaycees.
The group heard an address
by Robert Maxwell, secretary of
the Cherryville Chamber of Com
merce, on ‘'Business”.
"Everyone wants to win,” Mr.
Maxwell said, but asked, "How
much is each willing to put in to
winning?"
“You can’t let John do it, be
cause it won't be done.”
He praised the Piedmont Car
olinas as an area where the vast
majority cooperate to make bus
iness and progress and he decla
red, "Man is bom to serve others
If he doesn’t, he isn’t really liv
ing."
,, Mr- Stallings is chairman of
the board of stewarts of Central
Methodist church, a former pre*
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Chamber Of Commerce Membership
Dinner Monday; Kelly Will Sneak
Kings (Mountain Chamber of
Commerce will hold a general
membership dinner meeting (Mon
day night at 7 o’clock at the Wo
man’s Club. It will toe a ladies
night event
Paul Kelly, veteran assistant
director of the North Carolina
Department of Conservation and
Development, will speak at the
meeting.
Mr. Kelly, a veteran of over 30
years with the department, is re
garded as an expert in directing
activities attracting outside in
dustries to North Carolina. He
several times has been to Kings
Mountain in recent years concern
ing possible location of industry
here.
Arrangements committee for
the program includes Bob Maner,
Grady Howard, and B. S. Peeler,
John Cheshire, Chamber of
S**"*"* President, will preside
a; _5r **onday evening meeting.
Kelly1* ^armon Will present 'Mr.
Monday's dinner will be the
first full-dress general member
sfl*P meeting of the organization.
The dinner will be free to mem
bers and their wives.
FROM HOSPITAL
Mrs. J. Vernon Phillips, Sr.
of Gaffney, S. C„ injured in an
automobile accident recently
in Charlotte, has been dischar
ged from Memorial hospital
there and is recuperating at
her home in Gaffney, S. C.
Mrs. Phillips is a sister of Miss
Fanny Carpenter, Troy Carpen
ter, and Clarence Carpenter of
Kings Mountain.
City Garnishees For Overdue Taxes
t
London Buying
Half-Interest
In Drug Firm
Lawtton (Woody) London, of
Cherryville, has made arrange'
ments to purchase a half-interest
in Stroupe Drug Company, and
assumed management of the
firm Monday.
He said the firm name will be
changed to Medical Pharmacy,
Inc.
W. H. Houser, Jr., of Cherry
ville, is the other member of the
corporation. Mr. London said, he
is purchasing the quarter-inter
est of L. S. Stroupe and another
25 percent from Mr. Houser.
Mr. London is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lawton London, Jr., of
Cherryville. A registered pharma
cistJMr. London was graduated
from itlie University of North
Carolina in 1949 and spent two
years in the army, serving in
Korea. Since, he has served as
pharmacist at Mooresville, Con
cord, and Lineolnton. His wife
is the former Barbara Branch, of
Mooresville. They are members
of the Baptist church.
The Londons expect to move
here in the near future.
Mr. Stroupe, who opened the
drug firm five years ago, said,
“I appreciate very much the pa
tronage and loyalty of Kings
Mountain citizens, to the firm, to
my family and me. We have ma
ny friendships here which we
cherish very much.”
Mrs. Tidwell's
Bites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Effie
Franklin Tidwell, €9, wife of
Freeland Tidwell, were held Sun
day at 3 p. m. from Kings Moun
tain Baptist church, of which she
was a member.
Mrs. Tidwell died Saturday
morning in the Kings (Mountain
hospital after an Illness of sev
ered years. A Kings Mountain na
tive, she was a daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. William Frank
lin.
Surviving, in addition to her
husband, are two daughters, Mrs.
J. T. McGinnis , of Kings Moun
t.-'n and Mrs. Robert Cabaniss
of Shelby; and two sisters, Mrs.
Vada Hilton of Winston Salem
and Mrs. Alice WelSbach of
Gastonia. Two grandchildren al
so survive.
Thle final rites were conducted
by Rev. Marion DuBose and in
terment was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Hunter
Allen, Floyd Thornburg, S. A.
Blanton, Arthur Sanders, Boyce
Ware, and Harry Wilson.
Mis. Bennett's
Rites Thursday
Funeral rites for Mrs. Rejena
Lynch Bennett, 87, will be held
Thursday at 2:30 from Harris
Funeral Home Chapel, interment
following in Mountain Rest cem
etery.
Mrs. Bennett succumbed Tues
day at her home on Deal street
following an illness of several
months. A native of Gaston
counity, she was the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lyn
ch. She was the widow of Joseph
Wilson Lynch who died in 19
52. She was a member of Grace
Methodist church.
Survivors include one son, Gra
dy Bennett of Beissmer City; four
daughters, Mrs. J. B. Ellis of Gro
ver, Mrs. Ed Queen of Shelby,
Mrs. Boyce Gault, and Mrs. Lau
ra Harmon, both of Kings Moun
tain, and three sisters, Mm C.
F. McGregor of Gastonia, Mrs. M.
M. Creasman of Union, S. C., and
Mrs. R. T. Bennett of Bulls Gap,
Tenn. Also surviving are 17
grandchildren and 16 great
grandchildren.
The final rites will be conduct
ed by Rev. B. L. Raines, pastor
of First Baptist church.
Jaycees To Host
District Meeting
Kings Mountain Jaycees will
be host to the District 3 meeting
of the North Carolina Junior
Chamber of Commerce here next
Wednesday, January 27th.
The district meeting will be
convened at the Woman’s club
at 7:30 p. m.., Jaycee President^
Bob Maner said in making the
announcement.
Clubs which are expected to be
represented include those froinj
Bessemer City, Shelby, Forest!
City, Rutherfordton, Spindale,!
Mount Holly, Gastonia, Lincoln-!
ton, and Polk County. I
Grover,Compact Plans Meet
To Discuss Merger Petition
wnuta x £. a i uuuiv — james
Throneburg, Kings Mountain na
tive, has recently completed copy
for a general science textbook,
designed for use in the seventh
and eighth grades.
Former Citizen
Writes Textbook
James Throneburg, formerly of
Kings Mountain and now a teach
er at St Luke’s Episcopal school
in New Yoi-k’s Greenwich Village,
has recently completed copy for
a general science textbook to be
published by D. C. Heath Com
pany.
Mr. Thronebucg’s text is de
signed for use in the seventh and
eighth grades.
A teacher at the New York pri
vate school for the past four
years, Mr. Throneburg wrote the
text on assignment by the Heath
Comjpany, schoolbook publishers.
Mr. Throneburg is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Y. F. Throneburg of
Kings Mountain. He was graduat
ed from Kings Mountain high
school, Duke university, and did
graduate work at Columbia uni
versity, New York. During a sum
mer in Europe he did research
work at Florence university, Flor
ence, Italy. He is a navy veteran,
having spent 17 months in the
South Pacific.
School Board
Approves Plan
Kings Mountain City Schools
Board Monday night unanimously
approved and authorized distribu
tion in the city administrative
district of the petition calling for
the establishment of a special
consolidated school bond district
and bond vote to furnish funds
for the construction of the propos
ed consolidated high school for
No. 4 Township and sections of
adjacent townships.
The petition was circulated in
the rural areas of the proposed
district last week, and progress,
according to a report by Supt. B.
N. Barnes, is good.
Seven hundred names, 10 peri
cent of the qualified voters in|
the proposed district, are needed;
on the petition. When the names
are obtained, the county school
board will ask the county board
of commissioners to call the spec
ial school bond election.
iHill Lowery, chairman of the
school - merger committee, thinks
the petitions will be ready for
presentation to the county educa
tion 'board at it’s regular monthly
meeting February 1, Mr. Barnes
reported.
J. W. Webster and Mrs. Lena
McGill were appointed as a com
mittee to supervise the distribu
tion of the petitions to key points
in the city and to superintend
canvassing.
In other action the 'board:
1) Let a contract to Pied Piper
Exterminating Company for ter-i
mite control work at East Ele
mentary School for $315. The
company also submitted a renew
al contract for both East and
West Elementary schools for $50.
2) Voted to allot money for re
pair or replacement of band In
struments in both colored and
white school systems. Mr. Barnes
was appointed to supervise the
program.
3) Heard report from Supt
Barnes that the city school sys
tem is working on the equipment
for science, mathematics, and mo
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Bethware, City
Aie Calculating
Vote Request
BY DAVID BAITY
Petitions calling for the estab
lishment of bounds of a consoli
dated area school district and a
bond election for funds to build
a high school plant to serve the
new district have been distribu
ted among residents of the Beth
ware and Kings Mountain school
districts.
Compact school-committeemen
have not yet started circulation
of the petition through the color
ed community serviced by Com
pact school, however Roy Bell,
a committeeman, said Wednes
day the group plans to meet Sat
urday and the distribution will
start then.
The Grover community will
have its ouestions answered by
County School’s Superintendent
J. Horace Grigg and Kings Moun
tain City Schools Supt. B. N. Bar
nes at a meeting of the Grover
Community Development Coun
cil next week, according to Mrs.
John Gold.
The petitions will then be st
arted in circulation.
Bethware citizens are canvass
ing house-to-house to obtain na
mes for the petition. School com
mitteemen and otheroitizens are
conducting the campaign. Al
tough no estimate of the number
of petitioners could be given,
Mrs. Hill Lowery said she feels
the program is progressing.
The petition was released in
Kings Mountain Tuesday and is
being circulated. J. W. Webster,
a school board member, said
Wednesday he did not know how
many names had been obtained
yet, but feels there Is a great
interest in the consolidation
plan here.
The petition must be signed
by 10 per cent of the qualified
voters in the special school bond
district before the county board
of education can ask the oounty
board of commissioners to call
for a special school bond vote.
Present plans call for a $1,100,
000 bond issue proposal for a
new consolidated high school
plant. Existing school plants
will be improved to meet the
needs of the new district.
New Gas Rates
Up Slightly
The city board of commission
ers has adopted new gas rate
schedules which will be reflected
in February 1 billings tQ custo
mers.
With little comment, the board
adopted *he revised rate schedule
recommended by Joe Register,
city gas engineer with Barnard &
Burk.
The new schedules are design
ed, on basis of present consump
tion, to return $4,715 annually,
all but $99 of the rate increase
the city has accepted through
compromise agreement with
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corporation, Initially, Transco
had sought from the Federal Po
wer commission rate increases
approximating $7R00 per year.
All schedules are raised slight
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RITES THURSDAY — Funeral
lot Mrs. Edith Stine Kincaid
Beach, of Kings Mountain, will
be held Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock.
Rites Thuisday
For Mis. Beach
Funeral services for Mrs. Edith
Stine Kincaid Beach, 78, will be
held at First Baptist church,
Bessemer City, Thursday after
noon at 4 o’clock.
Mrs. Beach, who lived at the
home of her son, Arnold W. Kin
caid, 921 Church street died at
Kings Mountain hospital Mon
day night at 9 o’clock after a
brief illness.
Bom May 27, 1881, Mrs. Beach
was a daughter of the late Wil
liam and Sarah Palmer Stine.
She was twice married, first to
Samuel Calhoun Kincaid, who
died in 1930, and subsequently
to Merritt A. Beach, who died
several years ago.
Surviving, in addition to her
son here, are two daughters, Mrs.
B. V. Taylor and Mrs. Rhea Lew
is, both of Bessemer City, two
sisters, Mrs. Pearl Gross, Hender
sonville, and Mrs. Amanda Wea
therall, Glendale, Ore., nine
grandchildren and 15 great
grandchildren. Also surviving
are four step-children, Mrs. Ed
ith Hawkins, Hudson, Zernie
Beach and Wayne Beach, both of
Gastonia, and J. C. Beach, of
California,
The body will be at Sisk fun
eral home until an hour prior to
the final rites.
She was a member of First
Baptist church, Bessemer City.
The rites will be conducted by
Rev. A. A. Bailey, the oastor, as
sisted by Rev. George Willis and
Rev. B. L. Raines. Burial will be
in Bessemer City Memorial com -1
etery.
Pallbearers will be Floyd Nob
lett, F. W. Lowe, Dwight Matt
hews, Hoke Coon, A. F. Bridges,
and E. C. Sisk.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday
ait noon totaled $114, Including
$101.75 from on-sitreet meters
■and $13.25 from off-street me
ters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel
reported. In addition, $39 was
received from over-parking
fees.
Dr. Jackson Developes Technique
Said Maior Medical Breakthronah
Dr. Benjamin T. Jackson, son-'
in-law of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Da-!
vis, of Kings Mountain, is credited
as the developer of a new medical
technique for studying the grow
ing animal within the mother.
The development of the tech
nique is described as a major
breakthrough in experimental
surgery.
Dr. Jackson is the husband of
the former Jean Davis and is on
the sitaff of ithe Medical College
of Virginia.
A news story by Fletcher Cox,
Jr., in a Richmond newspaper de
tails the new technique.
The news account follows:
“A major breakthrough in ex
perimental surgery has bean ac
oomplished at the Medical Col
lege of Virginia, it was learned
today.
“This, is a method for studying
the growing animal baby within
the mother—and even operating
upon the unborn animal—with- i
out causing premature birth or
death of the baby or disturbing
its environment. 1
"The technique is so new that '
doctors involved are coming up
on possible new applications* al- i
most daily.
“It already Ss obvious, though,
that the way is now open to
brand-new research into the my- I
stories of the way a baby ani
mal grows from conception to
birth.
‘‘The technique consists of
sewing the animal fetus to the
wall of the mother’s uterus, then
cutting 'through the uterus to the
baby.
‘‘Actually,’' paid the techni
que’s innovator," it is simple,
but so far as we know It has
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Papers Issued
For Over SO
Delinquents
The city has instituted gar
nishment proceedings against
more than 50 delinquent tax
payers, City Tax Collector J. W.
Webster said Wednesday.
Under state law, the city (or
any state governmental agency)
may garnishee wages tor the
payment of delinquent taxes.
The law specifies that not more
than ten percent of a person’s
wages per pay period may be
garnisheed.
The itax collector began gar
nishment proceedings after the
city commission had passed a
resolution approving the collec
tion effort last Thursday. Mayor
CJlee A. Bridges had told the
board the tax collector was
ready (to proceed and asked an
approving resolution.
One commissioner laughed,
“Isn’t this about the third time
we've passed this resolution?”
The Mayor replied he wanted
a renewal.
Mr. Webster said further gar
nishments would be instituted
as quickly as the papers can be
drawn.
The delinquencies represent
old tax accounts on personal
property.
“We regTet the necessity of
garnishing wages for taxes,”
Mayor Bridges said, “tout these
taxpayers have been contacted
repeatedly in an effort to clear
the records.”
Mayor (Bridges had told the
city commission last week that
about $20,000 is outstanding on
the city’s books in delinquent
personal property taxes.
Minor Miscues
Will Cost less
The city commission last week
voted a bargain rate to motorists
submitting to routine traffic of
fenses, but increased to $5 the
penalty on those who fail to pur
chase and display city auto tags
by the February 15 deadline.
The action on minor traffic vio
lations means that a .person ar
rested for such an offense will
have to pay $7.30, just half the
former amount. The change was
adapted on recommendation of
Recorder Judge Jack White and
Chief of Police Martin Ware.
Mayor Glee Bridges asked for
the increased penalty on non-tag
buyers.
The board approved several
street improvements petitions,
with the usual “if and when funds
are available” contingency, a*
mong them:
1) Paving of an 18-foot road
on one block of Juniper street;
2) Installation of curto-and-gut
ter on Henry street, from Kath
erine to Rhodes.
3) Installation of curto-and-gut
ter and paving of Henry street,
from Katherine avenue to Wood
side drive.
The board also approved re
quest of George McClain and oth
er S. Cherokee street citizens for
Installation of a dead-end sign at
the end of the street and for
straightening of the street. It
was explained that the present
road-toed is not on the right-of
vay.
me board accepted deed for a
50-foot right-of-way to extend
Sims street to Hillside Drive and
approved, when funds are avail
able, paving of Sims extension to
dawthome road. Mayor Bridges
.aid the city would lack budgeted
'unds for pipe purchases to cut
he road and the board agreed to
•eirrvburse him for advancement
)f funds necessary for this pur*
hase.
The board tabled for investiga
Jon:
1) Request of H. R. Parton for
:ewage service on Carpenter
itreet;
2) Request for fire hydrants in
leveral areais, a waiting report
“rom Fire Chief Pat Tignor; and
3) Request of Jake Summers
'or a taxi fanchise.
The board voted to charge-off
5147 in utility bills deemed un
rollectible and voted to install a
street light at the Deal street
xx>l.
BONDSMAN
Ken Jenkins has purchased
necessary licenses from the
city, county and State qualify
ing him as a professional
bondsman. His city license
was Issued on January &