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Section B
Thursday,
January, 17, 1991
The Way We Wer
34 Years Ago In Kings Mountain
e Taking A Stroll Down Memory Lane °
Greater Kings Mountain
City Limits
Population
The figure for ‘Greater Kings Mountain is derived from
the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City
Limits figure i8 from the United States census of 1950.
10.328
7.206
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
YOL 68 No. 42
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 17, 1957
Sixty-Eighth Year LE
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
SERVICE SUNDAY
Rev. P. iD. Patrick will close
the series of services at the
Presbyterian church which
have emphasized the period of
Prayer and Self-Denial Sun-
day night at 7:30 p. m.
PLANT SALE
Members of the Azalea iGar-
den club are offering for sale
daisy plants at one dollar per
dozen, a spokesman for the
group has announced. Interest-
ed persons should contact any
member of the club or Mrs. E.
R. Goter, project chairman.
VFW MEETING
Kings (Mountain post 9811,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
hold a regular business meet:
ing Thursday night at 7:30 p.
m. at City Hall, it has been an-
nouced. ¢
LIONS TO MEET
Regular meeting of the Kings
Mountain Lions Club will be
held on Tuesday night at 7 o’-
clock at the Woman's ‘Club.
Program for the meeting "has
not yet been announced. J. Ol-
lie Harris, program chairman,
said Wednesday he was await-
ing confirmation. :
TTEND MEETING
Dr. rt Baker and Dr. D.
F. Hord attended the district
dental meeting in Asheville in
session Sunday and Monday,
METER TAKE
City Parking meters returned
$327.12 for the two weeks end-
ing Wednesday. The total in-
cluded $273.34 from on-street
meters and $53.78 from off-
street meters, City Clerk Gene
Mitcham reported,
222 KILLED
A total of 222 stray: degs-were-
kifled in Kings Mountain dur.
ing the 30-day dog quarantine
imposed on No. 4 Township.
The quarantine began Septem-
ber 10 and closed Uciover 19.
REVIVAL
Rev. Jeff IChastian, pastor of
Bethel church, Gastonia will
begin a revival series Sunday
at Gamble Hill Baptist church,
according to announcement by
Rev. W. P. Bumgardner, pastor.
The services will continue
through October 26.
P-TA MEETING
Central school P-TA will hold
its regular meeting MWednes-
day afternoon at 3 o'clock in
the school auditorium. The pro-
gram will be on safety and
will feature an address by Sgt.
J. B. Kuykendall, of the State
Highway Department,
Yule Parade
Plans Mapped
The Kings Mountain Merchants
association will stage its annual
Christmas opening parade on De.
cember 4, Charles Blanton, chair.
man of ‘the committee on arran-
gements, said Wednesday.
Mr. Blanton said his commi‘tee
met Tuesday and that it is antic.
ipaed a 40-unit parade will be
staged.
Plans call for bands, national
guard units, beauty queens,
floats and other units,
Mr. Blanton said the parade
budget is set at $900. Fund-rais.
ing work is scheduled for Octo-
ber 28,
Other members of the commit.
tee are John Warlick, Ross Alex-
ander and Charles Dixon,
Jaycee Paper Drive
Scheduled Sunday
Kings Mounain Jaycees will
conduct a scrap paper drive on
Sunday.
Members of the civic organi.
zation will conduct the pick-up
beginning .gt-2 o'clock Sunday
afternoon, B. [F."Maner, spokes-
man for the club said Wednes-
day. ,
“We urge all citizens of the
community to notify any Jay-
cee or leave the paper outside
their residences”, Mr. Maner
said. ' ;
(All citizens of the community
are invited to participate in the
drive, it was noted, .by having"
the paper they wish -to have:
collected ready Sunday or by
informing Mr. Maner or any
member of the sponsoring club
on the date they wish the was. .
te paper collected.
The paper drive is a project
of the local club.
City Contemplates Employing Women Patrolmen
Get Salk
Says Dr.
307 In Schools
0f City Haven't
Had Vaccine
1A total of 307 city schools pu-
ipils ‘have not received any Salk
vaccine to immunize them again-
st infantile paralysis, Dr. Z. P.
Mitchell, county health officer
said Wednesday.
(Another 315 of the more than
2000 pupils have either had one
or two Salk.“shots”, bnt not the
complete set of three.
“These children should be im-
munized and they can get the
vaccine for nothing,” Dr, Mitchell
said. “We and the state have Salk
vaccine going begging and, un-
less it is used, it is going to die
on our hands.”
Dr. Mitchell explained that an.
ti-polio vaccine has a limited
life. He examined the expiration
label on the (Cleveland County
health office supply and noted it
SALK VACCINE
The county health department
begins Round 2 of its Salk vac-
cine shots for adults next week,
offering the waccine to adults
at 75 cents per dose. A team of
wvaccinators will be at Mauney
Hosiery Mills next Tuesday at-
ternoon. At the same time, an-
other health department team
will be administering the vac-
cine at Shiloh Presbyterian
church in Grover. Dr. Z. P. Mit-
chell, county health officer,
pointed out #hat Shot 1 in the
three-dose seriés will be avail.
able to any who wishes to start
the immunization series. os
will not be usable after January
The county health department
is at City Hall in Kings Moun-
tain each Friday afternoon from
2 until 4 o'clock. “But we'll stay
later ‘if necessary”, Dr. Mitchell
said.
The tabulation on non-vaccin-
ated children were made by city
school officials.
(Dr. Mitchell urged all parents
of non-vaccinated children to at.
tend the Friday afternoon clinic,
“You probably do not know,”
Dr. Mitchell continued, ‘that
there were ‘more polio cases in
1956 than 1946. This thing runs
in cycles and we don’t know
when it'll hit again. Last year
there was little paralysis. We
fhitk the Salk vaccine prevented
1
Bethware Opening
Set For Monday
With the harvest in, Monday,
October 28 8:30 school bell will
set the opening of Bethware
school for the regular, full-day
winter schedule.
Classes will begin at 8:30 a.
m, and will run through 3:00
p.m.’
The Bethware cafeteria will
not be in operation Monday,
but will ‘operate thereafter.
©
We
Vaccine,
Mitchell
DAR CITIZEN--Miss Polly Page,
Central high school senior and
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Harry
Page, has been selected DAR
Good Citizen by Kings Mountain's
Col Frederick Hambright
chapter, Daughters of the Ameri.
can Revolution.’
Book Fund
Totals $433
The appeal for funds to buy
books for Jacob S. Mauney Me-
morial library is bringing a good
response, Dr, W. L. Pressly,
chairman of the library operating
committee reported “his week.
‘A total] of $435 has been receiv.
ed to date Dr. Pressly said.
“We hope the fund will grow
into the four-figure category,” he
commented.
The city . owned library oper-
ates on a meager budget of funds
furnished ‘he room rentals at the
teacherage and small appropri-
ations from city and county gov.
ernments, These funds are in-
sufficient to leave money to buy
books, the library committee has
pointed out.
All members of the library
committee (who serve without
pay) have donated to the fund,
Dr. Pressly reported.
Donations for the library book
fund should be mailed to or
handed to Mrs, Charles Dilling,
librarian, Dr, Pressly, or any
member of the library operating
committee, Other members are
Haywood E. Lynch, Grady How.
ard, Mrs. J, N. McClure, Mrs.
Hunter Neisler, Mrs. John Ches.
hire and Mrs. Tolly Shuford,
Three-Month Gas
Sales $15,967
Sales of the city natural gas
department for ‘the first quarter
of the fiscal year beginning July
1 totaled $15967, while expen-
ses totalled $10,769.
Report was presented by Gene
‘Mitcham to the city (board of
commissioners last Thursday
night. 5
The gas system budget anti-
cipates annual sales of $115,252.
Anticipated expenditures are
$76,451.
Longtime Citizen C. T. Cornwell
Logs 80th Birthday Anniversary
By ELIZABETH STEWART
C. T. Cornwell, well-known
Kings Mountain citizen, gbserved
his 80th birthday Sunday.
A long-time resident of the
community, Mr, Cornwell says he
only wishes he could remember
things like he used to. “When
you get to be 80,” he said, “you
forget things.” pli
Retired since 1947, Mr. Corn. |:
wel] attends First Baptist church
regularly, is an active Mason and
Shriner, He became a mason 55
years ago and has been a Shriner
for 34 years,
Prior to 1947, Mr. Cornwell
worked as a clothing salesman
for Matthews-Belk Company in
Gastonia and prior to that time
was a traveling salesman for 30
years. Prior to 1922, when he ope-
rated a furniture store here, Mr.
Cornwell was in business with
his brother-in-law in Charlotte in
the operation of Turner and Corn.
‘I'well Furniture company.
Mr. Cornwell said He could Te.
‘call a number ‘of humorous inci-, (Continued on Page Night) [ clo. .
OCTOGENARIAN—C. T. Com.
well, well-known s Moun.
tain man, observed his 80th birth.|
day on ‘Sunday.
No Better,
No Worse,
Horvath Says
“Business is no better but no
worse,” Ernest Horvath, president
of Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company said Wednesday.
iMr. Horvath was here confer:
ring. with company executives Al-
fred Maino, general manager of
the Neisler Mills Division, Tho-
mas A. Roberts, and others.
‘Also here wag, J. W. (Mike)
Milam, Neisler' division sales
: | manager.
Mr. Horvath said orders are
needed, added he hoped results
at the upcoming High Point mar-
ket would be favorable.
Whitener Flays
GOP Farm Plan
“The Soil Bank program is im-
moral and improper and should
be stopped as soon as possible,”
said Basil Whiener, 11th District
Congressman, in addfessing ‘he
Kings Mountain Kiwanis club
last Thursday.
He explained that profi‘eering
had developed from the program,
with a few persons cornering the
markets in cotton ginning, ° The
ginning industry has dropped
from a former 28 plants to four
in Cleveland and surrounding
counties.
Mr. Whiiener said he opposes
the huge sums appropriated to
foreign aid, reporting that 69.4
billion dollars has been alloted
through the years to aid foreign
industry. This, he reported, is
equivalent to all the money and
real property combined in the 17
largest cities in the United Sta.
tes.
“People would not appropriate
tsuch for themselves here in the
{United States,” Whitener said,
| tating *hat these appropriaions
{
I’ merican manufactured goods. Tn
| reality the Americans are putting
themselves out of jobs to this
compeition,” he contended.
Lampooning appropriations to
foreign lands to reduce their na-
tional debt to another country,
Whitene stated that all other na.
tion’s deb*s combined are not as
great as that of the United Stat-
es. He went on to say that “hese
countries would report they can
‘not pay the interest on former
{loans and then demand another.
He also said theese appropriations
were nted in many instances.
i The 11th District Congressman
took a stand against the amend.
ment of the Agriculture Act by
the 84th ‘Congress which provided
100,000 additional acres to cotton
growers, bringing the allo‘ment
up to four acres per farmer.
He said this practice is ruining
the cotton industry for farmers
who depended on it and had life
savings invested in cotton farms,
Mr. Whitener reported he in-
troduced a bill in February to at-
lot 157,000 more acres to cotton
farmers, but the Committee on
‘Agriculure voted 16-16 on the bill,
thereby tabling it.
He reported that the present al-
loment program has placed an
unjust handicap against North
Carolina farmers, centering the
cotton industry in Arizona and
California, Present value of the
(Continued on Page Eight)
Webb To Join
Morgan Mills
IR. Halbert Webb, head of dye-
ing and finishing operations at
Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company's (Margrace plant here,
{ has tendered his resignation to
| accept a similar position with
Mongan Mills in Laurinburg,
Morgan Mills is constructing
currently a new finishing plant,
Mr. Webb said.
Ms. Webb said his departure
date is not yet set, but that he is
working a notice and expects to
be free to join the Laurinburg
firm no later than November 1.
Mr. Webb is a long-time Kings
Mountain citizen, He is a native
of Concord and came to Kings
Mountain in August 1930, when
he joined Neisler Mills, Inc.
He and his wife, the former
Mary Belle Cannon, expect to
move to Laurinburg as soon as
housing accommodations can be
obtained. A son, Dick Webb, is a
graduate student at North Caro-
lina State College.
The Webbs. are . members: of
First Presbyterian church, . Mr.
Webb is a member
are destroying the market fo
of the Kiwanis
SURGEON--Dr. George W, Plonk,
Kings Mountain native, will re-
turn to Kings Mountain early
next month for the general prac.
tice of surgery here.
Surgeon Plans
To Open Office
On November 15
surgeon and Kings Mountain na-
practice of surgery,
Dr. Plonk has made arrange-
Harbison,
don Sinclair, since August 1952.
He was graduated from Kings
Mountain high school in 1936 and
was awarded the Bachelor of Arts
degree in Chemistry from Univer.
spent his first two years in med.
ship at Lankenau Hospital, Phil.
adelphia, Pa., until October 1944,
the army until January 1947, ser--
ving a year on surgical service at
months in general practice at
Murphy, before returning to stu.
surgery a¢ University of Pennsyl-
vania. He subsequently spent
three years in surgical residency
at Lankenau hospital before go.
ing to Raleigh.
In June 1952, Dr. Plonk ¢om-
pleted successfully the examina.
tion of the American Board of
Surgery and in 1954 was elected
to fellowship -in the American
College of Surgeons.
Proposed Firm
Has New Name
Kings Mountain Business De-
velopment, Inc, is the new name
chosen for a Champper of Com-
merce-fostered industrial devel-
opment. conporation for Kings
Mountain. i
The original choice, Kings
Mountain Industrial Develop-
ment, Inc, was rejected by Sec-
retary of State Thad Eure, due to
the fact another comporation with
a similar name—Kings
tain Industries, Inc.—was already
registered in Nofith Carolina.
|George B. Thomasson, attorney,
said Wednesday the new certifi-
‘cate of incorporation is prepared
and ready to forward to the Sec-
retary of State for registration
and approval.
Under the charter, the business
development firmwill have auth-
orized ‘stock of $100,000. with par
value of $10 per share. - :
“The firm will seek to attract in-
dustrial nies to ~Kings
Mountain, :
pon Ls Neill, Ben H.
k gees; ry, W. K. Mauney,. and
Glee A, Bridges.
Dr. George W. Plonk, general
tive, will return to Kings Moun-
tain early in November for the
ments to open offices November
15, in the George W. Mauney
ilding on W.. King street, in|. wu
Rade, Bal aS Dr, player:
A, W. McMurry and Dr, J. W.|D avers
Son of Mr. and Mrs, Clarence
S. Plonk, Dr. Plonk, 38, has been
a practicing surgeon in Raleigh,
in partnership with Dr. L. Gor.
sity pf North Carolina in 1940. He
ical school at the university, then
won his medical degree at Jeffer.
son Medical college in January
1944, He served a rotating intern;
when he became an ‘army medi.
cal corps officer, He remained in
Camp Picke‘t, Va. and another
year as a battalion surgeon in
Italy, He subsequently spent 21
dy for a post-graduate course in
Moun- |'
Inconposators are. J. | Wilson
Neisler Enterprises Report
30 Looms Are Now Installed
New Plant
Now Beginning
To Make Samples
Neisler Enterprises, Inc., the
new Neisler novelty fabric plant
in Shelby, has a dozen employees
on scene, 30 looms on the floor,
and is beginning to make fabric
samples.
Paul M, Neisler, St., head of the
firm, declined to estimate an “in
production” date.
[He said machinery is still being
installed and that the firm, when
it gets in production, will employ
approximately 100 persons.
Paul M. Neisler, Jr., formerly
with Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company here, has joined Neis-
ler Enterprises.
The new plant is located west
.|of Highway 74 near Shelby Ra-
dio Station WOHS
Construction of the new ibrick-
block building is’ complete, Mr.
Neisler said.
Homecoming Set
For Friday
Pat Rice, the former Patsy Led.
ford, will hold the office of Queen
of the Homecoming fes‘ivities to
be held in Kings Mountain Fri-
day, October 18. ]
sors for ‘senior football
included in the home-
‘|coming activity are Phyllis Dean
sponsoring Tony Goins: Phyllis
Henderson, Bill Herndon; Caro.
lyn Wright, Keith Layton; Paula
Johnson, Steve Wells; Maude
Owens, Bil] Ware; Diane Cansler,
| Davia Marlowe; Linda Mikeal,
Vick Smith; Mikie White, Ken
Baity; and Jean Hicks sponsor-
ing Jerry Wilson.
- These beauties will be only a
few of the girls taking par: in
the annual homecoming parade
to be held Friday afternoon at
3:45.
Originating in the Centra]
school parking lot, the parade
will wind it's way through 'the
business district of Kings Moun.
tain, :
« Among participants in the pa-
rade will be a police escort, color
guard, band, Jane Byars as car-
Tousel princess, the homecoming
queen, cheerleaders, sponsors,
twelve floats and cars, plus other
attractions, ,
Floats will be judged before the
parade, a cash prize of $5 for the
beg: car and float each being do-
nated by: the Kings Mountain
Merchants Association.
The parade will be followed
Friday night with the finale of
festivities in City Stadium be-
fore the Kings Mountain—Lin.
colnton football game.
Pat Rice will be crowned queen
|by Kings Mountain High school
principal E, Lawson Brown with
Dwight Dixon and Karla Smith,
senior class mascots, participat.
ing as crown-bearer and flower
girl.
Jto Kings Mountain from Provi.
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ASSUMES DUTIES--Rev. ond
Mrs, Alvin K. Morgan, formerly
of High Point, recently moved to
Kings Mountain where Mr. Mox-
gan is pastor of East Gold Street
Wesleyan Methodist church. Mrs.
Morgan is gq fifth grade teacher
at East school,
Morgan Fills
Wesleyan Post
Rev. and Mrs. Alvin K. Morgan
recently moved from High Point
to Kings Mountain where Mr.
Morgan has assumed “he pasto-
rate of East Gold Street Wesle-
yan Methodist church. }
Mrs. Morgan is a member of
the faculty of Eas® Elementary
school. Coit
The minister and his wife come
£8
dence Wesleyan Methodist church
in High Point where they were
residents for five years, Mr. Mor.
gan replaces Rev, Hoover Smith
here. Mr. Smith has accepted the
pastorate of a Wesleyan Me*ho-
dist church in Long Shoals.
Mr, Morgan studied at Central
college, Central, S. C., received
his AB degree 'from Marion coll-
ege in Marion, Indiana, and his
master of education degree from
the University of North Carolina:
Mrs. Morgan, the former Miss
Treva Brown, received her degree
from High Point college,
City Quarterly
Report Is Given
“First quarter report of the
City of Kings Mountain shows a
total of $239,476.92 collected and
$119,675 expended, indicating col.
lections are normal‘ and that
spending is well within the bud.
get.
It was noted by City® Clerk
Gene Mitcham that revenues are
heavier in the first part of the
fiscal year, accounting for the
bulge in receipts.
At September 30, citizens had
paid $86,049 in taxes against the
$134,277 levy.
Utility receipts totaled $81,099
against a budget estimate of
The city has received several
(Continued on Page Night)
BY ELIZABETH STEWART
Winning flower show ribbons
seems to run in the family at one
Kings Mountain household.
Mr. and Mrs, Charlie Cash won
two of three top awards in Wed.
nesday’s floral fair of Kings
Mountain Woman's club.
It is the 54th annual presenta.
tion of “Autumn Harvest,” and
the event was attracting large
crowds,
Mrs. Cash won the sweepstakes
award for having the most blue
ribbons in the fair. Her blue rib.
bon winners were all in the ar-
rangements division. Her hus
band entered an exhibition bloom
of dahlias in the horticulture sec.
tion and his ‘entry: copped the
tri color seal for he most out
standing entry in that category. .
(Mrs, Carl Mayes, also a long-
time winfier in flower shows, won
the tri-color seal given to the
‘entry judged moe: outstanding in
the arrangements division. "
Judges for the event included
Mrs, Paul Kincaid, Mrs. Ennis
Mis. Mayes, Mr. And Mrs. Cash ~~ |
Cop Top Honors At Floral Fair
Jackson, Mrs. Phil Jackson, and
Mrs, W. B. Garrison, all of Gas-
tonia, Mrs. Van Randall, Mrs.
D, M. Eaton, Mrs. J. V. Stewant,
and Mrs. Earl Yoder, all of New-
ton, and Mrs. W, L. Pressly, of
Kings Mountain, Mrs. Pressly
was among judges In the Junior
division of the fair,
Outstanding entries in the
show, though not judged, were
arrangements by six Kings Moun-
tain garden clubs, all of which
received awards of merit.
General chairman in the flow.
er division was Mrs. W, S. Fulton,
Jr. 5
‘Format of the oneday show
followed that of previous events,
Members of the club served both
the noon and evening meal, and
on display were aprons, other
handmade articles, ang items in
the bazaar section.
Lis of winners of prizes in the
flower division follows:
Division 1--Arrangements
Section A (Invitation Class)
{meeting of the commission.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Part-Time School
Patrol Duty
Being Talked
- The city may invite some of its
female population fo serve on
school traffic patrol posts.
Action on employment of wo.
men to man school boy patrols
was tabled at Thursday night's
regular session of the city board
of commissioners, as councilmen
also delegated another employ.
ment question to a committee
with a called meeting to be held
when the group’s work is com.
plete,
The suggestion of employment
of women to assist in the traffic
program during school hours was
brought to the board’s a‘tention
by Commissioner Luther Bennett
who reported that many cities
‘| hire women to work at least two
hours daily as school traffic pa.
trolwomen. :
“Lots of grown ups just don’t
pay any attention to the young.
sters on .school patrol duty”,
Comm. Benne‘t declared.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges agreed
to investigate and discuss with
surrounding town officials their
methods of school patrol duty
and to report his findings to the
board. :
Otherwise, the board, on re.
commendation of Mayor Bridges,
elected ' Commissioner Ben
Bridges a representative of the
commission on the board of Jacob
S. Mauney Memorial Library, The
mayor reported the paving pro.
H.
‘gram “in high gear” and com.
mented “Hat City Clerk Gene Mit.
cham’s report for the first quar.
ter was “interesting” and “a little
early in the year to get a definite
picture.”
In other actions, the board:
1) Tabled request by the city's
radio serviceman for a’ $10 in.
crease in pay. The city pays $50
per month for service on its radi.
0S. : ” :
2) Voted to replace the traffic
light at the corner of Wes* King
and Watterson streets with a four
way signal s*op device to be used
on a trial basis. Recommendation
was made by Chief Hugh A. Lo.
gan. The light now in use at the
West King-Watterson street in.
tersection will replace the signal
at the corner of Piedmont ave-
nue and Ridge streets.
i ’
3) Discussed the water prob.
lem of some citizens on Shelby
road, who were to have me* Mon.
day night to form an organiza.
tion’ for building of a water line,
C. E. Blalock, representing the
Shelby ‘road residents, met with
the board and invited a represen.
tative of the board to attend the
meeting, Mayor Bridges was to
report to the board the decisions
made by the group.
4) Instructed the city clerk to
have compiled in the tax office
an accurate list of delinquent
taxes and authorized the tax col.
lector to use whatever means a.
vailable to ‘collect delinquent tax.
es and privilege taxes in arrears.
They also asked the tax collec
tor *o make a report at the next
Bloodmobile Here
On October 28th
Kings Mountain Red Cross
Chapter was some 50 pints short
of blood of its quota at the last
visit of the Red Cross regional
blood collecting unit.
The Red Cross Bloodmabile
will come to Kings Mountain
again on Monday, October 28,
and officials are hopeful that
more citizens will visit the unit
and that more who recejved
flood with no credit cards will
furnish Jacements at that
visit.
During July and 'August, the
record was: 121 pints of ‘blood
used, 106 pints of blood col-
lected. At the last visit only
106 pints of blood was colkect-
ed. The quota at each schedul-
ed visit during the year is 150
pints of blood. ; ih
Donors will be processed at
Central Methodist church from
11 o'clock a. m, to 5 o'clock Pp.
m.
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