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Section 31 Years Ago In Kings Mountain e Taking A Stroll Down Memory Lane ° \_ Population Greater Kings Mountain City Limits City Limits 21,914 (1966 Census) 8.256 (Estimate 1968) 9,300 «a¢ Graater Kings Mountain figure is derived from the specicl United States Bureau of the Census report © January 1956. and Includes the 14,930 population © Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 from Number § Tawmnchin. tn “laveland ~nunty and Crowder’ *tavntoin Township in Gaston County. Tw Pages A Today Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspuries .) VOL. 70 No. 3 * Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 22, 1959/4 PRICE TEN CENTS Seventieth Year City Office Elective Terms May Be Lengthened, Staggered | Commi Mas. Pollock Fi At Wok | Resigns City On Proposal (Faculty Post The city board of commisston- . ers is considering Sesling a Sh The city board of education diseussed without action Mon- charter amendment result in election of ie a day night the report of an ap- 0 praisal board which valued pro- the Local News Bulletins Herndon Funeral Rites Thursday 2 BUILDING PERMIT | City Inspector J. W. Webster , issued a permit Wednesday to H. E. Lynch to alter a 2-story Businessman, frame ose on Chores St Former Mayor 5 Le six room residence ‘is Dies Tuesday MEETING Members of the board of di. and city commissioners to four penties education board requires to make an addition to West Schoo! With two members, Dr. P. G. Padgett and A. W. Kincaid ab- sent, the board declined to take action on the appraisal report. The appraisal team had as- signed an aggregate value to the four properties of $7894. Pending obtaining the proper, ty, the board has stated it will construct a three-room addition to the West plant. In other actions, the board: 1) accepted the resignation of Mrs. T. A. Pollock, sixth grade teacher at Central, and elected Miss Rosa Lee Carlyle, who will graduate Saturday at Lenoir- Rhyne college, to replace Mrs. Pollock. Miss Qarlyle is a Gard. ner-Webb college graduate and has taught in Cleveland and Rutherford county schools. Miss Carlyle will begin her duties Monday. 2) Appropriated $2100 to school sioneps elected lat ‘the end of one biennium and three commission. ers at ithe end of tthe mext bienni- Am. To effect ithe change, legisla- tion would be required by the North Carolina General Assem- ".| bly, which: convenes February 3. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said he thought terms of office should be staggered and commissioners fail- | so commented in favor of the change. Subsequently, the com- missioners voted tio authorize the Mayor ito appoint ia committee to investigate Ithe idea and to.file a report with tthe board. Mayor Bridges named to ithe | committee Comms. Ben H. Brid- | ges and Boyce Gault, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, land ‘City Attorney J. R. Davis. The. committee met | Wednesday Scns i Should the General Assembly enact tthe change proposal in time for tthe forthcoming May 1959 election it would be 1961 before Funeral mites for James E. Herndon, Sr., 65, will be held rectors of the Junior Chamber |Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock of Commerce will meet at the [at St. Matthew's Lutheran chur- office of George Thomasson, |ch. president, Monday evening at Mr. 7 o'clock. Herndon, four times a CAKE SALE Circles 4 and 6 of Central Methodist church will conduct a cake sale Saturday morning at Fite’s Shoe Service, begin- ning at 9 a. m. business- man, died at 11:30 Tuesday night at Presbyterian hospital in Char- lotite. He Had been (ll four mon- ths. CITY OFFICES CLOSED eRe at City Hall will be" closed Thursday afternoon i _ KIWANIS-MEETING during the funeral of J. E. \ Jiggepy Members of the Kiwanis | Herndon, former mayor, it was p will hear a program on | announced by Mayor Glee A. olics Anonymous at their | Bridges. Thursday night meeting at the | ——m——————— In Yeu of flowens, the family Kiwanis club. The local organ. ization is sponsoring the out- |has requested that gifts be made SUCCUMBS — J. E. Herndon, Sr., businessman and fromer Kings Mountain mayor, died Tuesday night in a Charlotte hospital. Final rites will be conducted Thursday afternoon. ; bands for instrument repair and EI ay et i baie To) ar Be omy va A a iub. . American Cancer Society. Auto-Train Kings Mountain school band and | JAYCEES PRESENT AWARD — B. F. Mamer, presented the distinguished service award as 0) ive Om pan wos ; : 1A Kings Mountaih native, Mr. em to the Davidson school| pictured at right is shown receiving from a highlight of the Bosses’ Night banquet Tues. |whe other for four year hoi i . CITY TAG SALES Herndon was a son of the) late Cr ash F t al er } Grady Howard, left, the “Young Man of the day of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The mechanics on which, offices A total of 646 city auto licen. | George C. and Eliza Bind Hern- a 3) Voted tio deposit $10,000 of| Year” award for 1958 as Jaycee President (Photo'by Paul Lemmons, Sheiby Star) | would be filled Sor thie shot term se tags had been sold through Tuesday, City Clerk Joe Mec- Daniel repomnted. The tags are on sale at the city clerk's of- fice, at the tax listing office, and in the police station. They cost $1 each. ————— ATTEND MEETING Cameron Ware, Lamar Hern- don’ and Myers Hambright, of the Bethware Progressive Club, attended the annual meeting of th North Carolina Fair : on held in Dur. ham last e k end. TO INSTITUTE Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harmon will go to Chapel Hill Thurs. day where they will attend the annual mid-winter North Car: .olina Press Institute sponsored by the University of North Carolina, Duke University and the state press association. William Tevi Merritt, 38-year- Herndon, @ | 15" truak N : driver, became Kings guetisne cle agent Jor SoupeTn Mounitain’s first highway tatality Ratives FR J Fie for 1959 Monday night. pirestid erndon | a. Merritt was killed instantly Company, brokers in textile ©Y-'ot 13:15 p. m. when his car a prioduats, 1955 model Ford, smashed into ae. Elerion served as mayor| ithe side of a freight train back- my a oi | ing morass N. C. 216 at the Super. ‘mations that the present City|city Hmfts, ye ne ws City Police Officers William prides ui vue sitoot and Battle) paper and Paul Sanders who in- oa, ii Wi Constructed vestigated said Merritt apparent- eteran # orld ary or, ly did mot See Southern Freight Herndon os I Past train No. 52 across fhe highway stew ye Yorn Hs AF &|@s he headed morith on N. C. 216 Mase! rview Lodge & toward his home on Landi AM, a Shriner, and Kiwanlan, | 52% Sy ne J Suviving are his wife, MIs.| "po mites for the accident ore, Jaines T, Herndon, Jr, and| Victim were held Wednesday. af zhek an Bi of |ternoon at 2:30 from Antioch Kings Mountain, too brothers, | SapUSt church. in. Bryson. City Elmer Herndon, Charlotte, and G. Bird Herndon, Columbia, S. C., and four sisters, Mrs. J. O. Bla- lock, Baskerville, Va., Mrs, W. P. A native of Knoxville, Tenness- ee, Merrit was a son of the late Simpson Meritt and Mrs. Dovie the school’s capital outlay fund at Home Savings & Loan Asso- ciation. i 4) Heard a report from Supt. B. N. Barnes showing the schools has collected $2,135 in dividends from savings and loan invest- ments and that end of year fto- tals were $67,000 at Kings Moun- tain Savings & Loan association Loan association. Wrecker Call Check Ordered checking on the method, if any, by which city policemen sum- mon wrecker service. Lawrence Putnam, of Putnam board : felt the policemen should tthe calls on a regu- —— and $62,000 at Home Savings & A city commission committee is| | Brothers Garage, had told ithe] George Thomasson looks on. Mr. Maner was Maner Is Winner| Of DSA Award Insuranceman . Fifth Citizen {To Win Honor . Maner, Kings Mountain Mmsyranceman, is “Young Man of the Year” for 1958. Presentation of the distin. guished service award to Mr. IN NEW POST — Joe Hedden, of | sionens ‘obtaining highest totals might take the fouryear would be requested to introduce B charter amendment fn the Gen- enal Assembly land obtain enaict- ment. Concurrent with ithe staggered term proposal, City Clerk McDan- iel had suggested that ithe taking of office of new candidaltes be de- layed fto June 30, last day of the fiscal year, valther thamitwo days. following the | al election. He agreed Ithalfsidoption of the would minimize necessity for ithe change of date in seating newly elected officials. Mr. McDaniel said budget work is already well i P.TA MEETING : Thompson who survives, He was lar rotating basis. Maner was a highlight of the|Kings Mountain, Monday willl. q AN d > rway b: i Sam Swliing will, at gin I a ne a driver for : ‘Aker Motor Lines. 5 1 membens said they didn’t Bosses’ Night banquet Tuesday |assume duties in the personnel kiln 4 y thie fine no coe " the program, “Maturity |gdon, both of South Hill, Via. Four He is' ‘survived by this wife, | know whether the policemen have of the Junior Chamber of Com-|department of Carolina Fibre| ona would facilitate city office Through Guidance” at the Monday night meeting of West P-TA at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium. Baby sitter ser- vice is available and parents may bring their children with them, a spokesman said. J : Norma Wiggins Merritt; @ son, grandchildren also Survive. They. William Merit, Jr., two daugh-! : HI, Ann and Linda Car- James E. Herndon III, Virginia | ters, Wanda Ann Gaither Herndon and Patricia rol Merritt; two sisters, Mrs. Jeff Liou Herndon. ’ Isenhour, Hickory, Mrs. Hester Dr. W. P. Gerberding will con-| Nations, Bryson City, one broth er, Lawrence Merritt, Kings duct the final rites and burial, in, and one half-brother, will be in Mountain Rest ceme- ;@ policy and suggested that it would be the owner of a wrecked car who could specify particular wrecker service. The committee to investigate included Mayor Glee Bridges, Chief of Police Martin Ware, and Comm. Coleman Stroupe. merce. Cited: for outstanding com- munity achievement by a com- mittee lof prominent citizens over 35, Mr. Maner is the fifth winner of ithe Jaycees’ Distinguished Service award in Kings Moun- tain. Shelby. Mr. Glass Company, the new Pitts. burgh Plate Glass subsidiary at Hedden has been personnel manager for Bost Ba- past 18 Inc., for the Hedden Joining budget work. City Attorney Davis objected that a later office-seating date would create a ‘‘a Jame duck” sits uation, and he expressed doubts that ‘a lame duck commissioner would take much interest in tthe work: of the city. terms. Should the commission’ seek staggered term’ of four years: = ON DEAN'S LIST tery. Edward Thompson, of Bryson) &oH i GROVER PHYSICIAN—Dr. Char- | “Ive found my roots in this ne Four Kings Mountain stu- City, Tennessee. Jim Reichert, of Victory CheV-|jes Adams will begin the practice | community,” the recipient said| y= u ] dents qualified for the honor | Savings & L rolet Company, later commented |of medicine in Grover in the near | in accepting the handsome DSA Fibre lass Im aynes, hy | roll at (Appalachian State Tea- M nas 1 Tue: od Ro ad Bid Tot al that Putnam brotuys ip 1adio| future, He will become the com. | plaque from Gedy Jan, a- . : cher’s college for the fall quar- eeting Is luesday meceiver “presumably to MONO munity’s first resident doctor | ward winner fin 1955. Mr. How- SOT 7 Di I F d ter. They include Mrs. Hilda 4 9 police calls.” EY ard commended Mr. Maner for Joo Hedden, personfiel mana es n on a B. Goforth, Dean B. Westmore- larid, James R. Layton, gnd Martha Ann Baker. P.TA MEETING Ben F. Moomaw, superinten- Annual meeting of sharehold- ers of Home Savings & Loan As- sociation will be held Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the as- sociation offices. A. H. Patterson, secretary-trea- mu ‘. Over Million Low bids for structures and grading of the 9.13 mile section of Interstate 85 from the South Carolina state line to a point ‘The board: from Gaston 'to Deal. od, Amo veuton, te oer (Grover To Get 2) resones trom resents » R@gident Doctor business area a 50-foot lot on his numerous church, civic, and community activities during the past year and for his interest and promotion of the Little League baseball program. Virgil Weathers, Shelby Insur- ger of Bost Bakeries, Inc., Shelby plant, has accepted a position in the personnel department of Carolina Fibre Glass Company, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass subsi- diary which will soon begin pro- duction. Hal Reed Haynes, 33, former Kinge Mountain resident, died at Tampa, Fla. General Hospital Tuesday. The body has been shipped to Harris Funeral Home, where fu- dent at Kings Mountain Na. |Surer, said principal business of| near ithe present convergence of| Broad street from mesidenti- anceman, challenged the Jay- ; . neral rites will probably be held tional Military Park, will show | the shareholders will be heaning|U. S. 20 and 74 totaled over a|a] to ae trading re Dr. Charles Adams, NOW COM- | cees to “preserve those fredoms TR assume his Friday a! y slides featuring the Battle of |Teports of officers on 1958 oper-| million dollars. a 50-foot Jot in the 300 block of [Pleting an interneship at Cone |of friendship, worship, speech A Kings Mountain citizen, Mr. A native of Lincoln county, he Kings Mountain at Monday's Park Grace P-TA meeting. The group meets at 7 p. m. ih the school auditorium. ations and election of directors for the coming year. LIONS MEETING The State Highway. commis- sion opened the bids Tuesday and reported these low bids: Roadway, William B. Dillard N. Gaston street. Memorial hospital, Greensboro, 3) Approved trensfer of @ taxi'will begin the practice of medi- franchise from Coley Freeman cine in Grover in the near future. and choice of profession which he pointed out are enjoyed by all Americans and not enough appreciated. Hedden for 12 years was city schools band director. He resign- ed from the city faculty to join was la son lof thie late Mr. and Mrs. William C. Haymes. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Shytle Haynes, a son, Rou Regular meeti of nstruct | to Weldon (Smug) Morris, provi- Sd H ined. “Wi 1d| Bost Bakeries more than 18 mon- NO FIRES Rise Mountain one cmb rem Fine ded Marris ices reoar fer " Dey 2 Wa ale St. ae ths ago. He is a gaduale gw esr or Sin Haynes, City firemen report they | Will be held Tuesday night | Structures,” Crowder Construc- dlise Temqéireme a > Jong. effort by Grover | Was speaking of when he said tern Carolina College and holds 105 0h“ Frmest Haynes, Kannap- have had no calls since Jan- ary 12. Credit Union Pays Dividend Margrace Employees Credit union declared a five percent di- vidend lat thie annual meeting held last Satunday, The diviidend total paiid ito mem- bers on ithe basis of $5 as one share totaled $4,873.35, President Hugh D. Ormand said. Directors elected att ithe annual meeting were Mr. Ormand, F. W. Davis, Luther Camsler, R. R. Plonk, Hubert Davidson, J. W. Gamble, and J. IC. Arnette. Mr. Davis was elected vice-president and Mr. Cansler, secretary. Assets lat December 31 totaled $126,241, ‘including loans of $76, 981, cash of $22,000, savings and loan association shares of $25,000, and, other laissetts of $2,179. Liabilities induded $108,874 in share deposits, reserves of $1d,- Se a of at 7 o'clock at the Woman's Club. The program is being arranged by George H. Houser. tion Company, Charlotte, 363,290. The commission Thursday to let bids. convenes 4) Approved investment of $4,- 000 in savings and loan associa- tions, including. $2,000 of utility deposits, $1,000 gas deposits, and citizens to obtain a medical doc- tor. An office bulding will be constructed for Dr. Adams and efforts are underway to obtain to seek to console, to understand, and to love—because in giving in pardoning one is pardoned, and in dying one is one receives, a master’s degree from Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. He is a navy veteran of World War II and a member of St. Matthew's olis, Rev. Howard Haymes, “Wil mington, and Roy Haynes, Kings Mountain; and four sisters, “Murs, Dorus Whitesides, Kings Moumn- : : Sean 4 heran church. | $1,000 in cemetery funds. The de- A born to everlasting life.” “We |Lut ; tain, Mrs. Clyde Dills, Gastonia, Town of Grover Almost Named Boaz, DD ot a chould feel”, he added, “that| Mrs. Hedden is the formerinne yr "Plier, Pineville, and of city funds in in focal| pp Adams is a native of Glen- : i 2 Octogenarian Hambright Recalls BY ELIZABETH STEWART [gested the Biblical name las the “We're living tin the good old proper one for the new commun- believes. days now,” Ross Hambrighit, > ‘Mr. Ross”, las He is known {in Mr. Hambmight was reminiscing the Grpver sedtion where he has on early history and growth of been a farmer all his life, gave the ‘Grover community to d group ‘the young people this formula for of Kings Mountain and Grover|a long and happy life: “Practice young people lat Shiloh Presby-|honesty land self-respect.” Mr. Hambright's formula has Of particular interest was his|evidently been the correct one account of ithe naming of the town | for him. His quickness of mind, of Grover when the postoffice| hearing, and sight belie his 85 (them: located tin Whitaker, S. C.) | yelars. He will celebrate hiis 86th was moved lacross ithe state ‘Hne {Birthday in June. to North Carolina and subse-| An active member of Antioch quently mamed Grover during| Baptist church, Mr. Hambright the ‘administration of President|is married to the former Minnie {Grover Cleveland (18551259 ari) Hatiness, also a futive of Cleve (1893-97). They have three Jand County. “This town (speaking of Gro-| children, W. A. Hambright, of ver) almost became the Town of | Grover; Mrs. Robert C. Collinge, Boaz”, Mr. Kansas City, Mo., ang Mrs, Char Hambbright pointed out. He said the Masons had sug-| les J. McCallum, of Roland. savings and loan associations. Training Course Series Launched Presbyterian church. byterian church, TO RALEIGH Carolina Federation of Wo- dressed the group on “Inter- national Clubs” A training course series on church membership was launch. ed Wednesday night at First The course, to be conducted on Wednesday evénings at 7:30 by the pastor, Dr. Paul K. Ausley, will include history on the Pres- its doctrine, functions and responsibilities. . Mrs. Aubrey Mauney and Miss Margaret Goforth went to Raleigh Wednesday where they attended a meeting of the board of directors of the North men’s Clubs. Mrs. Mauney ad- ville, W. Va, and graduated! from Glen ville State college. He | holds a masters of arts degree from University of West Virginia University of Virginia. He served with a surgical research team in Korea and subsequently at Wal- ter Reed hospital, Bethesda, Md. Grover has not had a resident physician since ithe retirement of the late Dr. George Oates. Rev. Trent Howell, who spearheaded the effort to obtain a physician, said it had been about 20 years since Dr. Oates retired. Since that time Dr. E. V. Moore, of Shelby, Dr. T. A. Campbell, dr. of Blacksburg, S. C., and Dr. Robert Jones, of Shelby, have maintain- ed part-time office hours in Gro- ver, but it has been about two years since Dr. Jones discontin- ued the service. Dr. Adams and his wife have -l an infant child. and. a medical degree from the | (Continued on Page Eight) { live in Crescent Hill. Citizens Are Paying Assessments For Streets; Current Balance Low Kings Mountain citizens are| paid assessments totaling about paying ‘their street improvements assessments. This fact was apparent in the repont last week by City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., Who told the | doption of the cash basis for that | gtreet improvements, and 2) a Street assessments outstanding! vigorous collection policy. totaled only $4,194.25, including $1471.35 confirmed by the board id low Ci > SR 1 yeals from confirmiation date to not due to lack of assessments. At June 380, 1957, the unpaid as- sessment thotal wias $9,294. Since that dale, assessments for more street work totaled $40,937. Tyne board of commissioners in a period of slightly more 18 months, De $46,000. : Mayor Glee ‘A. Bridges credits the much-improved payment rate situation to two factors: 1) a- Contrary to the former method, when citizens were allowed three pay ‘their assessments, petitioners for street improvements agree ito pay their portion lof the cost on Sorption of tthe work. Majority now pay prtior to advertising of a public hearing ion: the confirma. Mrs. Jack Jenkins, Cherryville. 58 Blood Report Shows Red Ink Kings Mountain area citi- zens showed a 115-pint blood giving deficit for 1958, Bob Ma. ner, Red Cross blood program chairman, said this week. During 1958, Kings Moun- tain area citizens gave 261 pints of blood via the Red Cross Bloodmiobile. But citizens required 378 pints of blood during the same per- iod. Mr. Maner pointed out the de- ficit and urged a big turnout of blood donors when the Bloodmobile makes it forth- coming February 2 visit to Kings Mountain, “We're behind and we need’ to catch up.” Mr. Maner com- mented. (Continued on Page Eight) The Bloodmobile will be at the Woman's Club. a o Textile Week 1990 - See Special Edition In Today's Herald ¢ eGrover Industries eBaco Machinery, Inc. eCity Of Kings Mountain e Bridges Textiles eTultex Yarns eParkdale Mills, Inc. e Anvil Knitwear, Inc. eSpectrum Dyed Yarns, Inc. oT & W Textiles Machinery eHenry Fibers, Inc. es Artee Industries, Inc. eClevemont Mills RARE A als i PRI Reg e Dicey Fabrics, Inc. eHoechst Celanese e Preparation Machine Service oe Minetfte Mills, Inc. eStedman Knit Products = eDixie Yarns, Inc. IE ey omen, 5 Yelm erat er a te
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