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3 Section B Thursday, on 3.1991 The Way We Were 32 Years Ago In Kings Mountain Taking A Stroll Down Memory Lane Greater Kings Mountain City Limits Population 10,320 7,206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from the 1855 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. RO a ta A Kings Mountain's Reliable N ewspaper Today VOL. 70 No.5 Established 1889 Mayor Glee A. Bridges Is Seeking Re-election Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 5, 1959 — Local News Bulletins LODGE MEETING . r communication © Pan Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held Monday night at Masonic Hall, according to an- nouncement by T. D. Tindall, secretary. Special business will be conducted. ROTARY CLUB : Graeme Reeves, Kings Mountain exchange student, will address the Kings Moun- tain Rotary ‘club at their meet- ing Thursday at 12:15 at La Royal Restaurant. The pro- program has been arranged by Thurman Warlick. COURT OF HONOR Court of Honor for Kings | Mountain district Boy Scouts will be held Thursday night, February 12, at 8 o'clock at Central Methodist church edu- cational building. ON DEAN'S LIST Miss Martha Judy Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Cooper, has been named to the first semester Dean's List— scholastic honor roll — at Len- oir Rhyne college, Hickory. ‘Miss Cooper is a freshman at the college. ON HONOR ROLL Miss Anita McGinnis, dau. ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mc- Ginnis has been named to the first semester Dean's am — scholastic honor roll — at Len. Sth ah te! “Hickory, where she is a senior. LEGION DANCE Otis D. Green Post 155, A- merican Legion, will hold a dance at the Legion building Saturday night. There will be both round and square danc- ing, beginning at 9 o'clock. . TO CONFERENCE Mayor Glee A. Bridges will go ito Chapel Hill Thursday, where he will attend the Gov- nor's Conference on Occupa- tional Health. Honor Society Inducts Members Three seniors at Kings Moun- tain high school were inducted recently into the National Honor | Society. | They include Carolyn Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ro- bert Walker; Martha Houser, daughter of Lloyd Houser, and Don Tignor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Audley Tignor. Participating in the exercises were Mrs. Clarence Plonk, Jr, who was the speaker, and Mrs. James Logan, who presented the music. Both are former members.’ Mrs. Plonk (the former Julia® Pollock) is the only sophomore’ student ever to be inducted into ithe organization. ) Members of the society who presented the program were Bob- by Early, David Plonk, Gertrude| Pearson, Mickie Lynn, and Peggy? Black. Mrs. Josephine E. Weir is the faculty advisor. ¢ Kings Mountain S&L Meeting Tuesday Annual meeting of sharehold- ers of Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock . in the offices of the association. Ben H. Bridges, secretary-trea- surer, said principal business will include election of directors and presentation of officer re- ports on 1958 operations. One directorship has been va- cant since the death of R. L. Mauney. Jaycees Schedule Sunday Paper Drive Kings Mountain Jaycees will conduct a paper drive Sunday afternoon from 2 until 5 o’- clock p. m. Citizens may leave their bundles of old ‘newspapers on the curb in front of their re- sidences and members of the organization will conduct the pick-up. “We invite the community to participate in the drive”, a spokesman said. The Jaycees use the funds from the drive to support regular projects. Textile Men Here Indicate They Won't Follow Cannon Cashion, center, above, will reign as queen of the Bethware High School Homecoming cel- ebration Friday. She is shown with her court for the program at the halftime of the Beth- basketball game that night. Other girls in the court.’left to right, are: Roe ware.Lattimore ell will Falls, Faye Bolin, the queen. Jeanette Ham- rick, and Carolyn Whetstine. Boys who will ser. ve as escorts are shown on the back row, in the same ‘order, Tom Goforth, Paul Dover, Glenn Harrelson, and Arnold Huntsinger. Coach Pow- serve as escort for the queen. : (Heri Photo by Péunington Stulite)’ FruitGrower C County Young Farmer Of ’58 CHAIRMAN — Fred W. has been named Kings Mountain area Boy Scout chairmen for the coming year. Plonk Fred W. Plonk Scout Chairman Fred W. Plonk is the new chairman of Kings Mountain Boy Scouts, and Fred J. Wright, Jr. will serve as fund campaign chairman, Other newly-named officers are C. D. Blanton, vice-chairman, and Dr. N. H. Reed, secretary. W. B. Grimes will serve as co-chair. man of the fund campaign. Chairman Plonk called atten- tion to the fact that February 8-15 is National Boy Scout week and listed several activities which will co-incide with the launching of the annual fund campaign. Sunday will be Boy Scout Sunday, and next weekend Boy Scouts will take over reins of the city for one day, as Boy Scouts serve as mayor, city com- missioners, and other official posts. On February 12, the Kiwanis club will be hosts to Boy Scouts of the city for the annual area Boy Scout banquet. KIWANIS MEETING Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club will be held Thursday even- ing at 6:45 at the Woman's Club. Program for the meet- ing wasn’t announced. Kings Mountain Farmer Wins Jaycee Award Cameron Ware, Shelby road fruit grower, is Cleveland Coun- ty's Young Farmer of the Year and winner of the annual award given by the Kings Mountain and Shelby Junior Chambers of Com- | f merce. Mr. Ware received the award at a joint meeting of the organ- izations held here Tuesday night at the Woman's Club. Mayor Glee A. Bridges pre- sented the award and described the honor winner as a success ful grower of “apples, peaches and grapes”. Mr. Ware operates Mountain View Orchard. He is currently president of Bethware Progressive Club and a depart- ment chairman of both the Beth- ware and Cleveland County fairs. Also a feature of the award night meeting was an address by Henry Simmons, vice-presi- dent of the agriculture division of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company. Mr. Simmons declared the South is one area of the nation which does not produce agricul. tural products at capacity, though he lauded progress of recent years and predicted glow- ing agricultural health by 1975. He noted that the nation is ameron Ware (Continued on Page Eight) City's Partial Blackout Not Due To Enemy Threats, Penny Pinching The West Kings Mountain nightly blackout, begun January 23, has no connection with civil defense, threat of enemy action, nor indicative of a city economy wave, And the blackout may end| Thursday, if weather doesn’t pre- vent plane take-offs from Indian- apolis, Ind., airport, nor landings at Charlotte’s Douglas. = Cause of tthe brackout is a faul- ty transfer regulator control in: the Westinghouse regulator on! the big transformer which pow- ers the street lights in the bus iness section and West Kings Mountain, The blackout area, Electrical Superintendent Hunter PASTOR—Rev. George T. Moore, recently returned missionary to Liberia, has accepted the pastor- ate of Resurrection Lutheran church. He will arrive here Tues- day. Moore Accepts Lutheran Call Rev. George Truett Moore, @ Lutheran missionary recently re turned from Liberia, has accepte the pastorate of Resurrection Lu theran church. He will arrive here Tuesday and will begin his duties on Wednes- (Uontimued on Page Eight) Allen says, is the general area from Piedmont avenue west. It happened like this, Mr, Allen reports. ; The regulator was hit by light- ening and, as previously was sent to a Gastonia electrical firm for mepair, normally a two-hour job. This time the Gastonia firm couldn’t do tthe job, sent it on to a Charlotte firm. Meantime, the Charlotte firm contacted West- inghouse for a necessary part, on- ly to be informed that Westing- house didn’t make the particular part, but purchased fit from a mans in Indianapolis, (Continued on Page Bight) Several Say They Favor Love Proposal Incomplete check of Kings Mountain textile manufacturers indicates a wait-and-see atti- tude concerning last week’s an- nouncement by Cannon Mills that this firm will raise its min- imum wage to $1.25 per hour on February 15. Al Maino, of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, termed the $1.25 minimum “premature” and said his company has no immediate plans to follow Can- non’s lead. W. K. Mauney, of Mauney and Bonnie Mills, said, “We want to pay higher wages, but two of our three mills lost money last year.” (Mr. Mauney heads the NuWay Mills at Cherryville.) Mr. Mauney said, however that he favors federal adoption of a $1.25 minimum wage, a proposal ad- vanced several weeks ago by J. Spencer Love, president of Bur- lington Industries. Mr. Love has said Burlington won't follow the Cannon lead at this time. Mr. Mduney noted that yarn manufacture is a “one process” operation, whereas weaving con- cerns, like Cannon, produce a wide wani 14ble ‘cost W. K. Mauney, Jr., of Mauney Hoiisery Company, Inc., and Car- olina Throwing Company, said no wage increases are contem- plated. He, too, said he favored federal wage legislation to raise the minimum wage to $1.25 per hour, but added he didn’t want to be a trail blazer on a volun- tary move as Cannon has done. He noted that many Mauney Hosiery employees work on piece rate basis and that wages vary according to an employee's pro- ductivity. The Herald was unable to con- tact other manufacturers but learned that Shelby textile firms have expressed no inclination to follow Cannon. There has beeen trade talk of! a general wage raise throughout the industry, but the talk was for the third quarter, Textile Buying is usually less brisk in the second or spring quarter, in- dustry sources relate. City Tag Sales Increase To 1093 Salle of city auto license tags totaled 1093 Wednesday, City Clerk Joe McDaniel ‘reports, He added, “We've got obout six boxes of 100 each we still need to sell by February 15.” Mr McDaniel based his esti- mate on sales of 1958 tags. The city has pointed out that city ordinance requires not only purchase but display of the tags and that the ordinance will be en- forced, with penalties to be as- sessed motorists who don’t dis- play the tags on their cars by February 15, deadline for display- ing the North Carolina license tag, too. Scarlet Fever Not Epidemic Four cases of scarlet fever have been reported in Kings Mountain since January 1, two of them in the same home, But Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, county health officer, says there appears little danger of an epidemic. It is customary policy to quar- antine scorlet fever patients, but the quarantine period is now lim- ited to the duration of the pa- tient’s illness, Dr. Mitchell noted. It was once three weeks. Dr. Mitchell said that new drugs used in treatment now re- store the patient to health with- in a few days and he noted that the incubation period for scarlet fever is not more than a week. “An exposed person will have scarlet fever within a week, or he won't have it from that ex- posure,” Dr. Mitchell said. Jimmy and Susan Littlejohn were reported Wednesda: as “nearly well” by their physi- cian, Dr. Paul Hendricks. of products of var. y|in 1951.53, and lost to Mayor Seventieth Year NOT RUNNING — J. R. Davis, veteran school trustee, said yes. terday he won‘t seek re-election. Mr, Davis will: complete ten years of service on the board of education in May. Davis Retiring From School Post J. Roan Davis, veteran member of the city board of education, will not seek re-election, he said this week. Mr. Davis will complete this year, his tenth year on the five- member education board. He said, “I've been on the board long enough. The Kings Mountain attorney became a member of the board by appointment in 1949, replac- ing A. H. Patterson, who resign- ed to become a member of the city board of commissioners. Mr. Davis was elected in 1953 to the six-year term he will complete in May. .. School board. positions, since 1957, have been open to any citi- zen of the city school district. A 1955 General Assembly act scrapped the ward system for- merly in vogue. The six-year term was retained. Mr. Davis’ is the only term ex. piring this year, Students Make "A" Grades Thirty-three high school stu- dents made the “A” honor roll for the: third six-week's period just ended. Honored by the National Hon- or Society of Central high school at -a party Tuesday night were the following: NINTH GRADERS — Sarah Hicks, Billy Ramseur, Rhea Line- berger, Gail Morrison, Dianne McDaniel, Kay Cansler, Sandra Bumigardner, Linda Bennett, Ca- tol Goter, Brenda Herndon, Jane Houser, and Sara Rose Lennon. TENTH GRADERS — Margaret Jackson, Mary Lillian Lewis, Bil- ly Jones, Sue Jean Wright, Mary Ellen Stroupe, Martha Sue Wel- ch, Glenda Stroupe, Marshall Gore, Nancy Hovis, Susie Kesler, and Patty Huffstetler. ELEVENTH GRADERS — Jim- my Plonk, Beatrice Moss, and Carole Plonk. TWELFTH GRADERS — Bobby Early, Gertie Pearson, Mary Frances Bridges, Virginia Wall- ace, Martha Houser, Graeme | Fourth Term Mayor C First Of Bridges Seeks At City Hall Mayor Glee A. Bridges filed notice of candidacy for re-elect- ion Wednesday morning. The Mayor seeks election to a fourth term. His candidacy is the first in the forthcoming May city elec- tion and opens what, thus far, has been a late-starting political season, As of Wednesday, Mayor Brid- ges seeks a two-year term. It could be for four years, depend- ing on whether the board of commissioners seeks to change length of city elective terms via act of the General Assembly. Mayor Bridges is completing his third term, and his second as | full-time mayor. In his first| term, he was a $50 per month he has devoted his full time to administering city operations. The Mayor has received for his services during his present term of office $4100 per year, plus $600 per year travel allowance. | Of the total, $3600 is paid by the! city and $500 from the city gas, system. By law a city commis- sion can pay the mayor as little as $50 per month or as much as ($500 per month. « ey Mayor Bridges made no formal statement in filing for re.elec- tion. Mountain hardwareman, Mr, Bridges has long been active in business, political and civic af. fairs. He is a former school trus- tee and a former chairman of the county board of commission- ers. He is a member of the Ki- wanis club, a Mason and Shri- ner, a navy veteran of World War I, and a member of Kings Mountain Baptist church. Mrs. Bridges is the former Ad- die Mae Hamrick. They have four children, two of whom, J. C. and Glee E. Bridges, are Kings Mountain businessmen. McGills Occupy New Offices Dr. John C. McGill and Dr. Kenneth H. McGill are announc- ing today removal of their of- fices to the new building they have recently completed at 103 South Watterson street. The new offices are in a mod- ern brick concrete block build- ing, with spacious lobby and ample patients rooms. The building was constructed by Seth Construction Company of Lincolnton. The two brothers have occu- pied offices on the second floor of the Kings Mountain “Drug Reaves, and Mickey Lynn. Company building. There were two city political developments this week. 1) Mayor Glee A. Bridges filed for re-election. 2) School Trustee J. R. Davis announced he would retire at the end of his present term in May. Otherwise, the political rumor mill was beginning to grind in what has been a late-starting bi- ennial city election season. Though all the incumbent city commissioners are expected to seek re-election, none have made formal announcements. Ben H. Bridges, mayor pro tempore, has been toying with the prospect of seeking the mayor's seat, but hasn’t yet decided. Friends think he’ll seek to retain his Ward 4 commission seat. Indications were this week an. other familiar name will be on the ballot as mayoral candidate. Garland E. Still, former mayor and five-time candidate for the office, was reported ready to file again. Mr. Still was mayor Bridges in a run-off two years ago. J Political Rumor Mill Beginning To Grind Out A Few “Probables” There has been no recent statement of intention from D. L. Saunders, who said several mon- ths ago he would definitely run for mayor. There were additional names added for the ward posts. Listed as ready and willing to seek the Ward 4 commissionership are W. L. Bagwell, Clyde Gladden and former Comm. Paul Ledford. Most observers think T. J. Ellison will seek to regain the Ward 3 seat he lost to Luther Bennett in 1952 and the name Charles E. Dixon, auto dealer, is being projected as a possible candidate against R. Coleman Stroupe, the Ward 5 commission- ioners, both completing their first terms, are Ross Alexander, The other incumbent commiss- er, Ward 1, and Boyce Gault, Ward a There has been little specula- tion concerning the school board post, though Mrs. F. A, McDaniel, Jr, said several weeks ago she expected to seek the position. Candidates for city office must file notice of their = board chairman. Since that time|{ Until 1955 a veteran Kings|' PRICE TEN CENTS andidacy Season (a RUNNING—Mayor Glee A. Brid., ges has filed notice of candidacy for re-election. He is completing his third term, having been first elected in 1953. Heart Fund drive in the H Mountain area. Donations vide funds for research td prove techniques in tre heart ailments. Bridges Heads ‘Heart Campai J. C. Bridges, chairman of Kings Mountain area heart drive for 1959, announced nesday his soliciting organizati for the February campaign. Mr. Bridges said the solici organization is virtually comple and noted that Kings Mountail area citizens contributed mol will include Charles Blanton, re tail business; Mrs. Jack White, wha will superintend Heart Sun: day activities; and Dr. D. F. Hord, professional. 3 Industrial and employee chair- men are: W. B. Grimes, Burlington In- dustries; Dr. W. IL. Mauney, Bon- nie Cotton Mills; B. S. Peeler, Jr., Elmer Lumber Company; Jack Mercier, Ellis Lumber Company, W. M. Herndon, J. E. Herndon Company; Mrs, Clyde Kerns, Kerns Brothers; J H. Patterson, Kings Mountain Manufacturing Company; Paul Lancaster, Kings * Mountain Mica Company; Frank Burke, Lambeth Rope Corpora. * tion; James E. Amos, Massachu- © setts Mohair Plush Company; |Georee H. Mauney, Mauney Mills and Mauney Hosiery Company;| | John C. Smathers, Park Yarn|: Mills; George H. Houser, Sadie | Cotton Mills; Ralph Johnsom, ¥ {Slater Brothers; Mrs. George | Thomasson, Superior Stone Com- pany; and Jack Hauser, Waco Sportswear. Chairman Bridges pointed out that diseases of the heart and blood vessels claim 800,000 lives in the United States annually, cand effect another ten million | annually. Heart trouble is by far | the largest killer. claiming more than twice the total than cancer, its nearest competitor for he du- i bious honor. | | SUNDAY DINNER The International Affairs Department of the Woman's club will serve Sunday dinner at the clubhouse beginning at 12 noon. Tickets are $1.25 for | adults and 75 cents for chil: i dren. 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