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’ AT BR he Fria ie 1 po a Section B Thursday, August 1, 199] The Way We Were 34 Years Ago In Kings Mountain Taking A Stroll Down Memory Lane Population City Limits The figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directo: Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. | | Greater Kings Mountain i 10.320 7.206 ry census. The City VOL 68 No. 45 Local News Bulletins Kings Mouniain’s Reliable Newspaper Established 1889 HOSPITAL GIFT To Boyce Memorial ‘ARP Wo- men of the Church organiza- tion has made ‘a donation of $34 10 Kings Mountain hospital for the purchase of linens, Man- Grady Howard reported this week. KIWANIS CLUB Dr. Wyan Washburn, director of Gardner Webb Clinic, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club at the Thursday night meeting at 6:45 D, at the Woman's club. Dr. Washburn's topic will 'be “The Li-:le Black Bag.” Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1742 will hold a regular meet- ing Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the lodge on Bessemer City road. according to announce- men: by Curtis Gaffney, secre- rary. COURT POSTPONED ‘Monday's session of City Re- corder's Court was postponed in the absence of Judge Jack White. City officials announced the session will be held Thurs- day. November 7 at 2 p. m. LEGION MEETING Regular meeting of the Otis D. Green Post 135, American Le- gion, will be held Thursday (tonight) at 8 o'clock p. m. at the Legion Hall, according to announcement by Millard Prin- ce. adjutant. DANCE Ot: D. Green Post 155 will sponsor a dance for Saturday night beginning at 8:30 p. m. at the Legion Hall, according to announcements ‘being mailed to members. Mu- sic will be furnished by Hague Sisk and his band. CAKE SALE ; Daughters of the Wesley | class of Central Methodist church wil] conduct the sale of cakes, pies, and dried flower arrangements Saturday morn- ing beginning at 9 o'clock at Warlick Insurance Agency. VFW MEETING Kirzs Mountain Veterans of Foreizn Wars post will hold a i meeting 1 November 7, at m. at City Hall. :30 p. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for two weeks ending Wednesday total- ed $299.46, City Clerk Gene Mitcham reported. Included were 331.11 from off-street me- ters and $248.35 from on-street meters. CANDIDATE Jur: George, Kings Mountain fresnman at Erskine college, is a candidate for treasurer of the {reshman class, it was announ- cea by the college publicity board. Primary voting is sche- auied for Friday, with run-offs s2¢ for Tuesday. Tutor To Manage Stanly Theatre Eq Tutor, manager Theatre here, has been notified of his forthcoming transfer to Al couples . Thursday | of Joy period between ' GETS AWARD-.]. R. Davis, Kings 'Mduntain attorney. has been a- warded a certificate of apprecia- | tion for service to the nation as a government draft appeal agent. ‘Davis Receives Service Award The President of the United States has awarded to J. R. Dav- is, Kings Mountain attorney, a certificate of appreciation for 15 years of service to the nation as . Government appeal agent of the Cleveland County dralft board. | Mr. Davis is one of the 68 orig- ina] appointees to the North Car- olina Selective Service system under the World War I Act who are still serving in the Selective Service system. He has served zontinuously, without compensa. tion, with the exception of a brief termination of f the 1940 Act and the reorganiza- _. tion of the System under the pre- bemarle. where he will manage Sent Act, | Staniy Theatre in the Stewart & Everett chain. ’ Replacing Mr, Tutor hefe wil ~ be Eugene McSwain, ~ managing a theatre in Belmont. Hi The change will ~ November 11. The two theatres are compar. The able in seating capacity. Starniy can accommodate 750 per sons. ine Joy 767. Mr. Tutor has managed |. Stewart & Everet! since it was acquired by Stewar: .& Everett from David and Char. lie Cash. Extension Class Is Offered Here Registration for an extension class offered by Appalachian State Teacher's college will he held Wednesday afiernoon at North school. The workshop will carry six \ quarter or four semester hours "of graduate or undergraduate credit in education or physical education, Credit can also be used for teacher certificate re- newal. Interested persons should reg- ister Wednesday if they desire Kings Mouniain native, who has been: be effective, the enterprise J LIONS PROGRAM 1} Jimmy Chasteen, Bessemer City bariton, will present a mu- sical program at the regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night, it was anounced by Ollie Harris, program chairman. The club , meets at the Woman's club at . 'T o'clock, y t dum. The vote was 9 to 0. ition . currently employs -songhooks which : Psalms. i Ten years ago the general sy-! voting. Propo sED.— CHAPEL LOUNGE. Kins Mountain RospiTAL Opmancd ARCHITECT'S CONCEPTION OF HOSPITAL CHAPEL--Reproduced here is the architect's conception of a proposed addition for a chapel at Kings Mountain hospital. Plans for the addi. Hospital Projects Chapel Addition ® | 1 i i ceived from Ormand and Vaug- Vaughan Arche tion via funds Brrmerr—— Plans Drawn By Architects Are Approved Kings Mountain hospital's board of @irectors hopes to-bui within ‘he not-too-distant Sotire} a chapel at the hospital, | The board announced this which | a that plans for the addition--which the board hopes to build by pub- | lic subscription--have been re-| han, Shelby architects. i Cost estimate was not given| Manager Grady Howard said, due| ed inflated. Revised estimates are | being asked. | i ‘Boyce Memorial ARP To Determine Psaim-Hymn Question November 17 Members of Boyce Memorial official church songbook. Associate Reformed Presbyterian! , church will vote in congregation.’ be the first time the question has] :al meeting on November 17 to been advanced, on local level, in determine whether the church the Boyce Memorial church. will adopt a new songbook which] ‘includes both Psalms and hymns. {and moderator of the session (the Elders of the church, in session elder board), said the elders a- ‘Sunday afternoon, vo‘ed unani. greed mously to authorize the referen- would vote first on whether pro land con discussion would be au- i The Bayte Memorial congrega.! thorized at the November 17 meet. “The ing, with the voting to follow, He Psalter” and “Bible Songs”, two. said ‘he elders specified that the include ani to enroll in the course which .nod of the church voted to make will begin after Thanksgiving, singing of hymns optional with| titioned the session for a congre. a spokesman said, The class, | particular congregations. Since, a|gationa] vote on the question in new synod-approved songlwok,| September. The request was ta. employing both Psalms and|bled for action at the November hymns, has been designate anl!meeting. will meet once weekly. Registration time is 4 o' ‘clock to 5:30 p.m. to the fact initial figures Ca i Plans call for an 832-squarej foot brick chape] addition measur. | ing 18 x 24 feet, There would be.) a solarium-type front on the| south side, plus an open air patio and entrance corridor. Howard, commented, “A: real need for a hospital chapel exists. Currently, Kings Moun. | tain churches are holding Sunday School at the hospital each Sun. | day morning. There is also a need | for more space for ambulatory and semi-ambulatory patients for | seeing their families and friends and for their comfort and benefit in passing recuperative hours. | During these periods, patients lit. erally have “ime on their hands, yet they must remain hospitali- zed for both medical and nursing! attention.”. | The hospital currently has a-| vailable $200 in a fund given by citizens as memorials for friends, License Examiner " - i Needing Business i, oy, nome, fi, of raaon, dasghier. of Me. ona Does Kings Mountain need a|6 a. m. Wednesday morning at his: Mrs. Delbert Jackson, of Kings two-day per week driver's license | examiner visit or one? i Mayor Glee A, Bridges posed | +he question this week, noting that it was only a few weeks ago that a suspension’ of the driver license examiner's visit produced | considerable consternation and| (Continued On Page Eight) | The November 17 voting will) Dr, W, L. Pressly, the pastor that the congregation result determined by majority re. sult of those members present and A group of members had pe- tion have been drawn by Ormand & Vaughan, Shelby architects, and the Kings Mountain hos- pital board of directors hopes to build the addi- Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 7, 1957 7 subscribed from the public. RESIGNS.-Rev, Howard T. Cook. for the pust three years pastor of Second Baptist church, has ten- dered his resignation, effective January 1. Cock Resigns Pastorate : Rev. Howard T. of Second Bap'ist October 1954, has pastorate, effective Cook, pastor church since resigned the January 1. Rev. Mr. Cook tendered his res ignation at morning services Oc tober 27, The minister came Mountain from the pastorate of Flat Lick Baptist church, Barber. ville, Ky. Rev, and Mrs. Cook have six children. Two are married and reside here. The others are grade school age and reside with their parents. Mr. Cook has not announced his future plans. Dies Suddenly Rev. C, E. Fritz, D. D., father! of Rev. R, Douglas Fritz, of! home in Atlanta, Ga, : Dr. Fritz president of the Geor. | gia-Alabama synod of the Luthe.| ran church, had been in apparent good health. Relatives here as-| sumed he had suffered a fatal! heart attack. oak Funeral rites are to be held in| Atlanta Friday at Peachtree Road! Lutheran church. Interment willl be made at Eimwood cemetery in Columbia, S. C, Born June 25, 1891 in Holly; Grove, N. C., Dr. Fritz, 66, was! graduated from Lenoir Rhyne college in 1914 and subsequently gradua‘ed from Ilorthwestern | Lutheran Seminary and received | the honorary doctorate degree at| Lenoir Rhyne in 1937. He had! served Lutheran churches in Dal. | las, Greensboro, Indiana, Wiscon. sin, Columbia, S. C,, and Atlanta. Under his leadership 24 new con. gregations had been organized in’ the synod. } Dr. Fritz had recently purchas. ed a residence in Columbia in an. ticipation of retirement. Surviving, in addition to his son here, are his wife, and four children, Mrs. Donald Deal, Lin. colnton, a former teacher of pia. no in Kings Mountain city schools, and Mrs. E, L. Riley, Charles Jr., and Rev. Richard Fritz, all of Columbia. Also surviving are 13 grandchildren. ! night at City Hall at 8:30. May- 3 For Scholarship omes, Schools Ard Businesses Sixty-Eighth Year truck By Wave Of I i DRIVE CHAIRMAN .. George B.. Thomasson will serve as chair- man of the Kings Mountain cam- paign to solicit funds for the Girl Scout organization. The drive gets minderway Monday. Scout Drive Now Underway Annual appeal for funds for the Gir] Scouts will be conducted in Kings Mountain November 4-9, according to announcement: by George B. Thomasson. Mr, Thomasson will serve as Kings Mountain area chairman in the fund . raising effort. Other workers will be Mrs. George Hou- ser, Mrs. W. K. Mauny, Jr., and Mrs. Claude Hambright, the lat. ter neighborhood chairman. Solicitors expect to contact in. viduals anil’ business houses, and persons not contacted may forward contributions to Girl Scouts of America, Box 205, Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain’s membership in the Pioneer Girl Scout Council includes 50 Brownies, 57 Inter- mediates, and 51 adult workers. The council has a total member- ship of 374 adult volunteers and 1,274 girls. Purpose of the drive, according to Mr. Thomasson, is to seek ur- gently . needed funds for contin. uing and expanding services for young girls in this area “hrough the program of Girl Scouting. RECEIVES HONOR — Brenda Mountain, has been named “Miss Grover” by Grover high school’s student body and will represent Grover in the Shelby and Kings Mountain Christmas parades. A.| Junior, Miss Jackson is editor of the student paper and head cheerleader. BOARD TO CONVENE The cit. board of commission- ers will hold the regular No- vember meeting Thursday or Glee A. Bridges said he anti- cipated a routine agenda. Two Nominated The Morehead Scholarship com. mittee of Kings Mountain high school has been recommended two students as scholarship nom. inces for 1958-59. James Allen Pressly, son of Dr. and Mrs. W, L. Pressly, and Steve Kesler, son of Mr. and Mrs, Tom Kesler, were nominated by the teacher committee Monday. Bo‘h students are seniors. Applications are being received by the coynty scholarship com- mittee until November 15, Cen. tral Principal Lawson Brown re. ported. Mr. Brown said the com. mittee was asked this year to submit two recommendations in. (Continued on Page Eight) MAKES FIRST TREE PURCHASE--Mayor Glee A. Bridges, left, is "PRICE TEN CENTS nfluenza "328 Absences | On Wednesday In City Schools The big news in Kings Moun- { tain this week was sickness, Older folk, victims of similar ‘ailments before, said their brand elt like the “grippe”. Others said « was “flu”. Modernists called theirs “virus infection of the res. :-| piratory area’. Few organizations, business or otherwise, had failed to receive 1 a visit. Medical doctors were mov- pictured receiving from Delbert Dixon a receipt for one dollar good toward the purchase of a Christmas tree from the Javcee tree lot. ‘Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce are launching the drive here and will canvass the city Thursday night in their effort to sell more than 400 tickets. The trees will sell for $1.50 and $3. Mr. Dixon is president of the Jaycees. Business Group Names Officials : = CHAIRMAN — Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, Kings Mountain minister, has been appointed blood pro- gram chairman for the local chapter of the American Red Red Cross. Fritz Appointed By Red Cross Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, has been named ‘blood program chairman for the Kings Moun- tain Red Cross chapter, according to announcement by J. Ollie Har- ris, chapter chairman. Mr. Fritz succeeds as chairman B. F. Maner, local insuranceman. who has resigned. The next regular meeting of the Red Cross organization, ac- cording to the chapter chairman. has been sct for Decamber 30. “Crawford, Plonk, i Bridges Named ‘To Acting Posts J. Wilson Crawford. Kings Mountain realtor, has been named acting president of Kings Moun- Other acting officers. who will serve until a stockholder session is held, are Fred W. Plonk. vice- president. and Ben H, Bridges. Jr.. secretary-treasurer. Mr. Plonk is an auto dealer and fuel distributor. Mr: Bridges is secretary - ‘reasurer of Kings Mountain Savings and Loan as: sociation; The acting officers were named at a committee session held Mon. day night, Acting directors are the six in. corporators: the ‘three officers, W. K. Mauney, Glee A. Bridges and B, S. Neill. each of whom | subscribed $100 in common stock. The corporation certificate pro. vides that stock will be issued in jdenomination of $10 per share, {and in amount up to $100,000. i The officers contempla‘e a wide-scale stock sale and have voiced tHe hope that every per- | son in Kings Mountain wil] pur- | chase a minimum of one share. | Purpose of the corporation is |to expand Kings Mountain in- | dustry. TO CONVENTION i Mr. and Mrs. Drace M. Peeler leit last weekend for Philadel- phia. Pa.. where they were to | attend the annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers association. , tain Business Development, Inc. | ling ar top speed to handle the | calls, and druggis's were working at nigh speed to fill bottles with vari-colored pills and compound high-powered elixirs to combat the ailment. Kings Mountain's flu situation had hardly reached epidemic pro. portions, it appeared Wednesday from a tabulation of school at: tendance reports, Mrs. Wanza Davis, city schools secretary, said that 328 students were absent Wednesday of the total city schools population of 2279. Majority of the absences were ‘thought due to influenza. Davidson school appeared hard. est hit. with 56 of 269 pupils ab. sen‘. Next in line was the high school population, with 77 absent, East reported 42 absent, North had 74 vacant desks, West school reported 19 absent, . A few teachers were also on the ailing list, or had been, dur: ing the week. At City Hall. Mayor Glee A. | Bridges was back on duty Wed- nesday after a weekend tour in bed and was suffering from a heavy cough, Mayor Pre Tem: pore Ben H. Bridges was away from his desk at Kings Moun- tain Building & Loan association, and Grady Yelton, superintendent | of public works, was another Vic. | tim, CHarles Blanton, Kings Moun. tain druggist, said the flu tempo seemed to intensify Saturday and continued heavy Sunday. ®Kina« Moun ital, as of nesday af on. had no pa- {tients in the halls, bur ail beds ‘sera occupied and there was a waiting list. A renc 18 patients as havin 2 : It was not unusual for families to have two or more members anhed wita fiu. Medical men cauti expasure and majo their paiients not to Xious to id turn to duty. be 183 ised over-an- be K bhed= ror re. york or school, s ® HEADS MINISTERS—Rev. W. C. Sides, Jr.. Grace Methodist chur- ch pastor, has been elected ‘presi- dent of Kings Mountain Minis- City Schools Schedule Programs Noting American Education Week Kings Mountain city schools will join with others throughout the nation in observing ‘“Ameri- can Education Week.” Theme of this year's vance is “An Educated Moves Freedom Forward”. Plans for the observanceshere were announced by Miss Alice Averitt, city schools teaching su- pervisor. obser- People Bach of the schools in the city | system is inviting parents (0 visit the classrooms during the week. Kings Mountain Radio Station 9:00 the following program: {Monday — ‘Education for Re- sponsible Citizenship”, by Rev. James B. McLarty. Tuesday “Teaching Statix ‘N (Dramatics Club. Wednesday—" ‘Ways To Provide | McGinnis on “What Our School | chairman of the Better Education” by Superinten- . ters’ i yea. Sides Elected | dent B. N. Barnes. Thursday — “Our Community's | | Teachers" by Future Teacher As. | sociation Organization. Friday — “Our School Com- munity Relationship” by W. R. Gearge, principal of North Sehooll { The local unit of the Future. | Teachers of America will decor: | ate local store windows with ap- | | propriate exhibits. ! Special programs will be held al West School auditorium on! Thursday at 1 o'clock; Central! School Friday at 1 o'clock; celebrate Parent Visitation da Bast School will celebrate Par vember 15] and on November 12, der the direction of Mrs, Marnaret Should Achieve.” ony rT WKIMT will broadcast from 8:15-.( November Lith, North School will | | treasurer: Dr. WL LL Press lor ent Visitation day on ‘Friday, No- | church, chairman of the commit | tee on Bible instruction The | Tuesday, an assembly program | Mountain “Fundamentals”, by High School | will be presented at 9 o'clock un- f Rey R. Douglas iation for the coming By Ministers Rev, William C. Sides, Jr., pas. tor of Grace Methodist church, ‘was elected president of Kings Mountain Minister's. association Monday, Mr. Sides succeeds as president of the ministerial association Rov, Aubrey T. Quakenbush, pastor of Firs Baptist church. Other officers elected at the regular meeting were Rev. PD. Patrick, pastor of First Presby. rerian church, vice-president: Rev, A. Lincberger, pastor of Mave. donia Baptist church, secretary. pas ARDY of Boyee Memorial public sch Resurrection La mn; commitios . This page brought to J you as a public service By Jones Intercable JONES INTERCABLE,. Kings Mountain, N.C. E. King Street At Canterbury Road - 739-0164
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