Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This flox.r» for Creator Singe Mountain It derived from
the 1955 Singe Mountain city directory census. The city
limits figure Is from the United States census of i960.
Pages
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VOL 73 No. 50
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 20, 196 2
Seventy-Third Year
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Local News
Bulletins
RADIO SERVICE
The Sunday morning service at
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
will be broadcast over WKMT at
11 o’clock. Dr. W. P. Gerberding,
pastor, will deliver the sermon,
and special Christmas music will
be sung by both choirs.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for the
week ending Wednesday totaled
$229.65, including $154.45 from
on-street meters, $48 from over
parking fees, and $27.20 from
off.street meters, City Clerk Joe
McDaniel reported.
CANDLELIGHT SERVICE
The annual Christmas Eve
candlelight communion service
will be held Monday, December
24, at 11 p.m. at the First Pres
byterian Church.
COLLEGE STUDENT DAY
The entire 11 a.m. service De
cember 30 at First Presbyterian
Church will be conducted by col
lege and professional students.
NO PERMITS
No building permits were is
sued by city officials during the
past week.
MOOSE PARTY
The annual Children of the
Moose Christmas Party will be
held by Kings Mountain Moose
Lodge 1748 Sunday afternoon,
December 23, at rhe Moose home.
IN STUDENT UNION
Mis Mary Delores White,
Kings Mbuntain student at AS
TC, is among six Cleveland
County .students active in the
Baptist Student Union at Boone’s
First Baptist church. A junior,
Miss White is daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Obreen White, She is
a business education major.
REGISTERED ANGUS BOUGHT
Archdale Farms, Kings Moun
tain, recently purchased an Ab
erdeen-Angus bull from Carol and
Angus Farms, Landrum, South
Carolina.
LIONS MEET FRIDAY
Members of .the Kings Moun
tain Lions club will meet Friday
evening at 7 p.m. at B & B Food
Stores for distribution of Christ
mas gifts to the indigent blind.
Episcopalians
Set Yule Rites
Christmas Day will be the high
point of the Season’s observance
at Trinity Episcopal Church, Phi
fer Road. The celebration of the
Birth of the Christ Child will
take place with the Holy Com
munion Service at 10 a. m.
In advance of this celebration,
Sunday’s Service will mark the
fourth and last Sunday in the
Season of Advent. The prepara
tion for the coming of the
world’s King and Savibur will
end with the theme of St. John
the Baptist’s preparation for the
coming of the Messiah.
Sunday evening at 5:30 the
young people of the Church will
sing Christmas carols in the
neighborhood, this second annual
neighborhood Christmas carol
sing.
On Christmas Eve at 7:30
there will be a special Evening
Prayer Service of Scripture read
ings and prayers. The story of
Jesus’ birth in the first chapter
of St. Matthew will be read.
Christmas music will be sung for
the first time in the Church, and
this will mark the end of the
preparation Season of Advent.
Evening Prayer will look for
ward to the Communion of the
next day which will be the be
ginning of the twelve-day Christ
mas observance made known
again by the popular song, “The
Twelve Days of Christmas’*.
At the service on Christmas
Day, Scripture readings will in
clude the section from the Pro
phet Isaiah: "For unto us a
child is bom, unto us a son is
given.” From the New Testament
frill be read the statement in the
first chapter of Hebrews about
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Next Herald Issue
To Appear Sunday
> The Herald Will advance its
next issue to appear on Sunday
<jvening under date of Decem
ber 24.
The traditional pre-Christ
mas Herald will include special
LChristmas feature material,
to-the-minute news hap
•nings, Christmas greetings
•n business firms and regu:
„ advertising content.
■ Advertising deadline will be
urday at 4 p. m., society
tws deadline Sunday at noon.
The December 24 edition will
►lace the regular Pecember
edition.
EAGLE SCOUT — George H.
Mauney, Jr., was awarded the
badge of an Eagle Scout, Scout
ing's highest award, at last
Thursday's Court of Honor. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. George
H. Mauney. Sr.
Geoige Mauney
Eagle Scout
George H. Mauney, Jr., of
Troop 91, was awarded the Eagle
Scout badge, highest award in
scouting, at last Thursday’s
Court of Honor.
Age 14, he is an eighth grade
student at Bethware school, and
eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Mauney, Sr. His fath
er, too, is an Eagle Scout, having
been a member of the same troop
when it was designated as Kings
Mountain’s Troop 3.
Qualifying for Star rank at
the recent Court of Honor were
Ned Bridges, Pat Cheshire, Eddie
White, and Douglas Sessoms.
Earning First Class rank were
Keith Hullender, Tom Blanton,
and David Leftwich.
Earning Second Class rank
were Stanley Laughter, Mike Bo
heler, James Dubose, Robert
Hullender, and Lynn Bennett.
Qualifying for Tenderfoot rank
were Harold Lingerfelt, Steve
Bell, Tommy Tindall, Steve
Crosby, Gary Cooke, Ronnie Mil
ler, Billy Johnson and Floyd
Sanders.
These merit badges were
awarded:
Animal. Husbandry — Peter
Hauser and Jim Pressley.
Art — Alex Moore and Paul
Dunn.
Bookbinding — Philip Bunch.
Camping — Kenny Plonk.
Citizenship in the Nation —
Jimmy Hope.
Citizenship in the Home —
Wayne Mullinax, Morris Timms
John Melton, Peter Hauser.
Cooking r— Clark Mauney and
Larry Adams.
Electricity — Jerry Patrick.
Fingerp Tinting — Ronnie
Timms.
Firemanship — Rocky Haynes
and Brad Bush.
•First Aid — Michael Brown,
Ronnie Davis and Keith Carrol
Fishing — Gene Putnam and
Oliver Grant.
Home Repairs — Larry Wood
and Mike Sanders.
Music — Clark Mauney.
Nature — Keith Carroll.
Nature — Keith Carroll.
Pidslic Health — Charles
Sparks.
Public Speaking — Richard
Etheridge, Scott Kelly, Eddie
White, Eugene Wayne White,
Ray White and Oliver Grant.
Reading — Wendell Bunch,
Jimmy Eaker.
Safety — Michael Brown.
Scholarship — Vic Laughe
ridge, Douglas Sessoms, Eddie
White, Terry Spencer, Keith
Hullender.
Stamp Collecting — Ronnie
Timms.
Swimming — Doyt Phifer.
Woodcarving — Danny Wilson.
Nazarenes Plan
Program. Pageant
Rev. H. G. Clayton, pastor of
the First Church of the Naza
rene, has announced the annual
Christmas program at the
church, to be given Sunday eve
ning at seven o’clock.
Small children of the church
will give recitations and songs,
the young people will present a
pageant, “The Night After His
Birth”, and all will sing carols
and receive treats from the
Christmas tree.
Many Citizens Anticipating Long Holidays
Court Is Asked
To Seat Putnam
JP Candidate
Brings Action
Against Board
Elzie Lee Putnam, Gap candi
date for Number 4 Township
Justice of the peace, filed action
in Cleveland Superior court Tues
day seeking a judicial order to
require his certification by the
county board of elections.
The action follows notification
by the State Board of Elections
that the state board does not
regard itself as having jurisdic
tion in the case and suggesting
that Mr. Putnam’s relief, if any,
is in the courts.
Secretary Raymond Maxwell
wrote County Republican chair
man Pierce Cassedy that the
state board had considered the
seating request on December 4.
The action stems from the
county board's declination to cer
tify Mj\ Putnam following the
November 6 general election, in
which he and J. Lee Roberts,
Democrat, were the only two
candidates.
Plaintiff Putnam, in his com
plaint, and Chairman Cassedy,
in his letter to the state elections
board, base their case on General
Statutes 7-113, which, they con
tend, provides for the election of
up to 11 justices of the peace in
Number 4 Township.
Specifically, Mr. Putnam seeks
a writ of mandamus against the
county elections board to require
his certification.
In the election, Mr. Roberts,
who was certified, won 1073
votes while Mr. Putnam was ac
corded 651 votes.
Secretary Maxwell had pre
viously offered the opinion that
the candidates were opposing
each other as a “ticket” and that
only the winner should be cer
tified.
As early as June 14, James F.
Bullock, assistant attorney gen
eral, had offered a contrary
opinion, stating in a letter to Cle
veland Eleotions Board Chairman
Ralph Gilbert, “. . . .if GS 7-113
is applicable each nominee runs
on his own party ticket and both
can be elected.”
Mr. Putnam said Wednesday
hearing on the petition has been
set for, January 12 before Judge
P. C. Fortenberger in Gastonia.
Mr. Putnam is represented by
William Puett, Gastonia attorney
and Republican leader.
Kiwanians To Have
Christmas Proqram
A special Christmas program
will be featured at the Thursday
night meeting of the Kiwanis
club.
Rev. George T. Moore, pastor
of Resurrection Lutheran church,
will give a brief meditation on
What’s for Christmas” and the
junior choir of the church, di
-ected by Mrs. Aubrey Mauney
and Mrs. Moore, will sing a pro
gram of Christmas music.
The program was arranged by
club committee on Support of
Churches in their Spiritual Aims,
of which Mrs. Aubrey Mauney is
chairman.
The club meets ai the Wo
man’s club at 6:45.
CHrEF OF STAFF — Dr. T. G.
Durham will assume the duties
of chief of staff of Kings Moun
tain hospital on January 1. He
will succeed Dr. Charles Adams.
Durham Elected
Chief Oi Staff
Dr. T. G. Durham was elected
chief of staff of King's Mountain
hospital at a staff meeting held
Monday.
He and other new officers Will
assume their duties January 1.
Dr. Durham will succeed Dr.
Charles Adams, of Grover.
Elected vice-chief of staff was
Dr. P. G. Padgett, who succeeds,
Dr. Durham.
Dr. Paul E. Hendricks was
elected secretary-treasurer, suc
ceeding Dr. Kenneth H. McGill.
Firemen Average
Fire Call A Day
A fire a day leaves the firemen
little time to play could well be
the sounding call for Kings
Mountain firemen after the rash
of firecalls they received during
the past sevenday period.
f Little damage was recorded,
but city firemen hastened to an
swer seven calls in seven days.
Five of the fires were of the
grass-fire variety with the re
maining two being a slabpile
fire and a waste fire.
Thursday, December 13, was
the only day without a blaze of
note.
Wednesday, December 12, fire
men rushed to Guyton Loop to
douse a grass fire near the home
of Virginia Short.
Friday, December 14, the fire
call was to the C. S. Plonk, Sr.,
property where a slab pile had
caught fire.
Saturday, December 15, the
grass fire was on Parker Street.
Sunday, December 16, Dilling
Street was the scene of another
grass fire.
Monday. December 17, the
grass fire extinguished was on
Chesryville Road.
Tuesday, December 18, ithe
calls doubled and a waste fire
was doused at the J. E. Herndon
& Co. warehouse and a grass fire
near Fulton Road was extingu
ished.
Allen Thinks. "White Way” May Be
Whites, In Part, By Mid-February
Hunter Allen, city electrical
superintendent, thinks the first
phase replacement of the city's
business district “white way”
may be completed by mid-Feb
ruary.
Mr. Allen aid the city electri
cal crew will begin preliminary
work on the project—authorized
by the board of commissioners
last week—as quickly as the
Christmas lights aTe dismantled
after December 31.
First step will be installing
temporary lights, already in
hand, and cutting of circuits on
the present white way, which has
been in service more than three
decades.
Next step will be dismantling
of the present standards and
laying of a new underground ca
ble to serve the new system.
With shipment of the new fix
tures anticipated in approximate
ly six weeks, Mr. Allen guesses—
other work and the weather per
mitting -that the blocks from
West Gold to Mountain streets
and East Gold to Mountain will
be wearing a new and much
brighter evening look before
February wanes.
The new “white way” project
will be continued within limits
pf the city’s available cash on a
continuing basis, according to
the commission's action.
1 Mr. Allen says savings in use
of electricity and -cost of equip
ment will cut the initial outlay
of about $375 per unit (not in
stalled) considerably. The pres
ent cable is an obsolete, one
wire lead model which, when
cut, costs $50 to splice. The class
ic present standards sel] for $135,
minus light fixture and glass
protector, which moves the cost
to more than $200.
‘*We'll have light for less
money," Mr. Allen puts it.
Floyd Thornburg
Recommended
For Fire Chief
The city board of commission
ers may name a new fire chief,
to succeed Chief J. Pat Tignor,
who is retiring December 31, on
| Thursday.
Mayor Kelly Dixon said the
board would convene if the meet
ing can be arranged.
Floyd Thornburg, veteran vol
unteer fireman, is expected to
be named chief, in accord wiih
recommendations of the fire de
! partment, which also made these
organizational recommendations
at a meeting Friday night:
For assistant chief, Eugene
Tignor.
For captain, Winifred Riussell.
For lieutenant, John White.
For engineer, C, D. Ware.
For secretary-treasurer, Earl
Stroupe, Jr.
In addition, at the Friday night
meeting, the firemen elected Jim
Leigh, Sr., and John Hardin as
volunteer firemen. The two will
replace vacancies created by the
retirement of Charles Dilling
several months ago, and by
Chief Tignor.
The regular complement of the
department includes four regu
lar-duty firemen, T. C. (Red)
McKee, N. M. Farr, C. D. Ware,
and Palmer Fulton, plus 17 vol
unteer members.
Assistant Chief Hunter Allen
has asked to be relieved of these
duties.
At the Thursday meeting, the
commission is also expected to
name the city’s 1963 tax listing
official, an action deferred at
last week's special meeting.
Low Switchgear
Bid Accepted
The city voted to execute con
tract With Mill Power Supply
Company, of Charlotte, for elec
trical switchgear equipment at
last Thursday’s meeting.
By its action, the commission
accepted low bid on the equip
ment of $24,495. The firm was
bidding on General Electric
equipment.
Informed the planned electri
cal system re-building will re
quire considerable tree-trimming,
the board asked its engineer Don
Lampke, of Southeastern Con
struction Engineers, and Electri
cal Superintendent Hunter Allen
to give a report and recommen
dation at the January session.
The board voted to pay all
employees a week’s pay as a
Christmas bonus and declared
December 24 and 25 holidays for
majority of city employees.
No action was taken on a re
zoning request of Mrs. H. T.
Fulton, Sr., who sought change
of a lot at Gansler and Walker
streets to business zone. The
Mayor reported a petition re
ceived in opposition, with 32 sig
natures appended, and Rev. R.
L, MoGaha, pastor of Temple
Baptist church, and several mem
bers of the church also expressed
opposition.
The Mayor and electrical sup
erintendent were instructed to
make street light installations
where they deem lights are need
ed.
The board called a public hear
ing for its January meeting on a
request to re-zone the N. Battle
ground avenue lot adjacent to
the Purol Service station from
residential to business designa
tion.
Petition for installing curb and
gutter on Jackson street, from
Cleveland avenue to Rhodes ave
nue.
Thornburg Takes
Winston Charge
Rev. J. J. Thornburg, pastor of
the Albertson Road Baptist !
church in High Point, has accept
ed a call to the City View Baptist
church in Winston-Salem.
Rev. and Mrs. Thornburg and
their two children David and
Franoene are now residing at
411 Mt. Vernon Ave., in Winston
Salem.
Mr. Thornburg said he feels
that the work of City View Bap
tist church is a great challenge,
with its plans to build a contem
porary building which will be ad
equate to accommodate its po
tential growth to 1,000 church
members. The church now has
565 members.
The cost of the new building
will about $230,000. The church
now has $77,000 in the building
fund. Plans will be made to start
this construction in the near fu
ture. ,J
Rev. Mr. Thornburg is a for
mer pastor of Patterson Grove
Baptist church, Kings Mountain.
Home S & L Ups
Dividend Rate
Directors Act
To Raise Rate
For Coining Year
Directors of Home Savings &
Loan association adopted unani
mously Tuesday afternoon a res
olution of intention to increase
the regular association dividend
by one-quarter percent per year.
The association’s action applies
to the year starting January 1,
and will raise the annual divi
dent to four and one-quarter
percent, which the association
pays semi-annually.
Kings Mountain Savings &
Loan association is expected to
take the same action at a board
of directors meeting Thursday
afternoon. Ben H. Bridges, sec
retary-treasurer, said he would
recommend the increase to his
board.
Tom A. Tate, secretary-treas
urer of Home Savings & Loan
association, said his board dis
cussed the "pros and cons’’ at
length, then adopted the resolu
tion unanimously.
The increase will mean addi
tion-al return to association
shareholders will have aggregate
increased payments of about
$12,500 annually. Mr. Bridges
said his association’s sharehold
ers would have increased divi
dend payments of about $10,000.
The Home association’s action
follows similar action by Gas
tonia’s two savings and loan
associations.
'Part of the action stems from
a reviser federal tax law effec
tive January 1, which changes
materially the formula under
which savings and loan associa
tions have been subjected to fed
eral income tax. Another reason
is the fact commercial banks can
now pay up to four percent in
terest on savings accounts.
School Roard
Didn't Meet
December meeting of the Kings
Mountain Board of Education
schedulade for Monday night,
December 17, was cancelled due
to commitment conflicts of mem
bers.
Indications Wedne-day were
that the meeting would not be
rescheduled until January.
Chief among the items on the
board agenda was expected to
be the location of the new high
school on the Phifer Road pro
perty site.
With first phase planning —
auricula and class . load require
ments — virtually complete, lo
cation of the plant on the site is
the only step remaining before
architects proceed with plans
and specifications.
MASONIC MASTER — Joe D.
Roberts was installed as master
of Fairview Lodge A.F. & A.M. at
a Monday night meeting of the
lodge.
Joe D. Roberts
Masonic Master
Joe D. Roberts and other new
officers of Fairview Lodge 339,
A. F. & A, M., were installed
Monday evening at the Masonic
Hall.
Past Master Manley Hayes,
Jr., conducted the installation,
with Past Master I. C. Davis
serving as marshall.
Other officers installed were:
Houston Wolfe, junior warden;
Thomas D. Tindall, secretary;
David S. Dellinger, tyler; How
ard Bridges, senior deacon; Boh
Raines, senior steward; Lloyd
Putnam, junior steward; and B.
M. Hayes, Jr., chaplain.
Elected but not yet installed
are Carl M. Logan, senior war
den; Ralph Harrison, treasurer;
Bobby Bridges, junior deacon;
and Alex D. Owens, three-year
trustee.
Most Retailers
Open Evenings
Majority of retail stores will
be open later each evening until
Christmas, excepting Saturday.
Most stores are staying open
until 8:30 p.m. to accommodate
gift-buyers. A few are open un
til 9 p.m.
Apparel merchants, varie.y
store.?, and some others will be
closed only on Christmas day,
re-opening Wednesday, Decem
ber 26.
Furniture stores will be clos
ed both December 25 and 26 as
will financial institutions.
Tignor Looks Back On Many Years
As Smoke-Eating City Fireman
By MARTIN HARMON
Pat Tignor genial Kings Moun
tain barber and one of two fire
chiefs in city history, will hang
up his metal helmet, rubber boots
and slicker New Year’s Eve, as
he retires after nearly 32 years
as a Kings Mountain fireman.
“It was a hard decision to
make. Nearly 32 years is a long
time,” Chief Tignor commented,
adding, “'but I’m not as young
as I once was and I can’t with
stand smoke as I once did.”
Smoke, incidentally, had Chief
Tignor down for the count some
years ago when the First Pres
byterian church was damaged
by fire. “I almost made the door
and they dragged me rest of the
way,” he recalls.
Chief Tignor gets teased about
his one serious injury. Returning
from a fire at a time Bast King
street was graveled in prepara
tion for re-surfacing, Chief Tig
nor leaped off the moving f.re
truck near his home arid main
tained a semblance of balance
for several hundred feet, before
falling into a head-first slide.
“My chest looked like it’d been
peppered with shot,” he recalls,
••and I was away from work a
week.”
As a charter member of the
city's volunteer fire department,
Chief Tignor has battled virtu
ally every fire—large and negli
gible—since. The coldest he re
members was last winter’s which
razed the Tolly Shuford residence
on West King street. “Everybody
looked like walking icicles”, he
says.
There were many others which
were rough ones, and potentially
threatening to surrounding pro
perty, among them the Thomas -
son-Peeler building, the Hol'd
building occupied by Eagle’s 5
■and 10 Store, and the Bridges
Hardware building.
The biggest fire during the
period was the November 1932
blaze which gutted Central
school. The Kings Mountain de
partment with neighboring fire
fighters answering the S. O. S.,
saved the auditorium section.
Yet another major one was the
fire which destroyed Kings
Mountain Country Club.
Chief Tignor succeeded the
late Chief Grady King on Janu
ary 5, 1954. A native of Rogers
ville, Tehn., Mr. Tignor had
been a power plant employee at
Pressman’s Home Sanitarium,
Tenn., before coming to Kings
Mountain in 1927 as an employee
of the old Phenix Mill (now
owned by Craftspun Yarns). Sub
sequently he attended Atlanta
Barber college and his being ply
(Contiitued Oh Fage Eight)
Holiday Period
Varies; Several
Paying Bonuses
A largo segment of Kings
Mountain area citizens will en
joy a several - day Christmas
holiday.
A partial survey of area in
dustrial firms Wednesday did
not reveal a set holiday pattern
as sometimes prevails. Some
firms are suspending operations
for a week, while others will ob
serve a "long weekend ' holiday.
Several firms have announced
they will give employees holiday
pay and many have held or will
hoid Christmas parties.
Mauney Mills, Inc., Mauney
Hosiery Company, and Carolina
Throwing Company will suspend
operations Friday morning.
Mauney Mills is making holiday
payments on basis of second -
half earnings, with all employ
ees to receive two percent of
earnings and those with five
years employment four percent.
The hosiery firm’s annual Christ
mas parity will be at the Armory
at noon Friday, the throwing
company’s at .the armory that
evening. These firms will resume
operations December 31, while
Mauney Mills won’t resume ope
rations until January 1.
Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company will suspend opera
tions Saturday morning and re
sume at 11 p.m. December 26.
Waco Sportswear suspends
operations Friday, holds a Chritt
mas party at the Country Club
Friday evening, and will resume
operations December 31.
Slater Manufacturing Company
will suspend operations for a
week and is making a bonus
payment.
Park Yarn Mills will be clos»
ed Monday through Wednesday.
Lambeth Rope Corporation,
which gave employees blankets
at a company party December
15, has scheduled two long week
end holidays. Lambeth won’t
operate Monday and Tuesday,
nor Monday and Tuesday, De
cern 31 and January 1.
Burlington Industries Phenix
Plant will suspend operation;
Friday night and resume with
the thrid shift operating on De
cember 26. Employees will re
ceive holiday pay on basis of
longevity with tile firm. Burling
ton held its Christmas party Sun
day.
Foote Mineral Company plans
to close only on Christmas amj
New Year’s Day.
Legion To Tele
Needy Children
Tile Ons D. Green Post, Amer
ican Legion, will entertain three
to four hundred needy children
at a party at the Legion Hall
Sunday afternoon beginning at
one o’clock.
The youngsters, all under the
age of ten, will be served a
lunch of hot dogs and soft drinks
and will be presented g.fts.
Carl Weisner is chairman of
:he committee on arrangements
for the party.
East Gold Church
Announces Services
The East Gold Street Wesleyan
Methodist Church has announced
some special Christmas services.
On Sunday morning, Dec. 23rd,
at the Sunday school hour the
Jr. W. Y. will give a playlet antic
gifts will be given to those pres
ent.
Sunday evening at seven o'
clock there will be a play as the
feature of a Christmas program.
Those participating are Franks
Biddix, Sandra Adams, Alvin El
lison, Eddie Gladden and Larry
Adams. Becky Bowers and San
dra Adams are stage managers.
Communion will be served on
Christmas day from nine until
ten o’clock.
The public is invited to worship
at any of these services,
City Street Lights
No Suitable Targets '
In spite of the inclinations of
youthful marksmen, the city
does not agree that street light
bulbs and lamps are suitable
targets.
Mayor Kelly Dixon said1
Wednesday the city is being'
plagued with a rash of broken
street lights, proved on exam
ination to have been ruined by
air rifle and other shot. He
said the Linwood section irt
East Kings Mountain is provid
ing the most trouble, though
other areas show shooting
damage.
Noting the cost in both time
and materia], Mayor Dixon
said the police department has
instructions to apprehend of
fenders and to take corrective
action necessary.