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2*"^* ^ V\,*. ? 1 >? Population 7.206 __ IM ?? 1.7 ptnwi p?r fwn, '?'? 1?S4 popal<rtto? (konld annul a? ON popdollM k IMS, kaMd towa^ieeUUetle-s M Um Kiaw MouatoU VOL 64 NO. 45 Established 1 889 ? J ' Kings Mountain's BEL I ABLE Newspaper Pages Today ? Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 1 1, 1954 Sixty- Fourth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins OPTIMIST CLUB < Members of the Optimist club, at their regular meeting Thurs day night at 6:45, will attend the supper and open house be ing held as an observance of American Education Week at Central school at the school eafeterla. METER RECEIPTS Net receipts from the city's parking meters for the week anding Wednesday at noon were $158.77, Joe McDanJel of ?he city clerks office reported. MOOSE MEETING The regular meeting of . Moose Lodge No. 174# will be held Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodse on Bessemer City road. All members are urged to attend. BUILDING PERMIT A building permit was issu ed Friday to Coleman Stroupe by Building Inspector L W. Webster. The permit, which was approved at a board of commissioners meeting Thurs day night, was for a house e rected on Morris street, at an estimated cost of $3,000. CHURCH OF GOD The Church of God will pre sent a weekly program from 4:30 until 5 o'clock Sunday af ternoons over Radid Station WKMT, according to an an nouncement by the pastor, Rev. E. E. Salter. ? JOINS STAFF 1 Mrs. Ruth Smith has joined the staff of Kings Mountain Beauty Shop, Miss Winifred Fulton, owner and operator of the Shop announced this week. " Mrs. Smith la a graduate of Gastonla Beauty School, Gas tonla.-- >-.< * ? 1 STORY HOUR Story Hour at Jacob S. Mau ney Memorial library will be , resumed the ' first Saturday morning In December, Mrs. W. t*. Mauney announced Wed nesday. BLANTON ILL J. Kennon Blanton, manager of Sterchi's, was hospitalized last week with an attack of kidney stones. Mr. Blanton was discharged from Shelby hospi tal over the weekend, but has been recuperating at his home In Shelby since. He was repor ted improved Wednesday. CUKE HOSPITALIZED A. E. Cline Is a patient atj Kings Mountain hospital where he was admitted.Monday for treatment and observation. TO BOWMAN GRAY Frank Barkley Sellers, son of Mrs. Edgar Sellers and a sen ior at Ersklne College, . has been acccpted as a student at Bowman Gray School of Medi cine, according to recent noti fication from the Winston Salem medical school. Mr. Sel lers will begin his worti at Bowman next September. HAMBURGER BALE The Willing Workers band of the Church of God will sell hot dogs and hamburgers Firiday, November 13th, at 111 Parker street. The sale begins at 9:30 . a. m. LICENSE BUREAU * The local driver's license bu reau will clode Thursday (to day) In observance of Armis tice Day, Wi C. Willis, exami ner, announced this week. SUITE BS ATTACK Paul Sanders, city policeman, was hospitalized at Kings Mountain . hospital after suf-.. / fertng a heart attack Monday , night Dr. John C. McGill, at tending physician, said Wed nesday Mr. Sanders was Im proving but would be hospi talieed at least another week. . . Dinner Scheduled On Sunday At Club ?- ? The Welfare and Intfernatlonal '? . Relation* Department of the Wo man's club will serve a chicken pie and ham dinner at the Wo ? man's Club Sunday at 12:30. c Plates are $1.25 and 75 cents each, and proceeds from tins din ner go to the department for use la sending boys to fresh air camps during the summer, an annual club project. Advance tickets may tfe pur chased by telephoning Mrs. J. A. Cheshire at telephone 331 or Mrs. C. A. Butterworth at tel* . phone SOW. 4y iTOP?is*** DEDICATION RITES SET ?The handsome St. Matthew's Lutheran church building at the corner voI Piedmont avenue and Ridge street will be dedicated during a series of nine religious festivities the week of November 21-28. (Photo by Wood row Wilson, Winston Salem.) Lutherans Set Dedication Bites , November 21-28 Members of St. Matthew's Lu-j theran church will celebrate dedl-| cation of their new church build ing with a week of religious fes tivities November 21-28, it was announced this wetek by the pAs tor, Dr. W. P. Gerberdlng. i The nine-service series will in clude special programs conduct ed by several former pastors of the church. Dr. H. B. Schaeffer, Lteesville, S. a, pr. C. K. Der rick, Atlanta, Ga., and Rev. W. H. Stender, Cameron, S. C., by Dr. F. L. Conrad, president of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod, Dr. Voight Cromer, president of Lenoir - Rhyne college, Dr. E. C. Cooper, of Kings Mountain, re tired Lutheran minister, Dr. Ro bert Roth, of Columbia; S. C., and Dr. Walter Nau, Lenoir-Rhyne professor, and one-time supply pastor for St. Matthew's. The series will also include a pipe organ recital by Ernest White, New York, N. Y., onte of the nation's foremost organists, and a special program of bless ing by Kings Mountain pastors of other denominations. Open house and tea will follow two of the services and the No vember 26 event will be a supper and social event. > The public is invited to attend any or all of the services. BROTHERHOOD According to announcement by Horace Easom, state secre tary for the Baptist Brother hood, the Annual State Broth erhood Convention Banquet will be held in Charlotte, Fire man's Hail, Monroe (Road (at edge of Charlotte) Monday, November 15, at 6 o'clock. A barbecue supper will be serv ed. ' : Lions To Visit With Gfover Club Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club will be quests of theGrover Lions club at the reg ular Monday night meeting of the Grover organization at the Gro Ver school cafeteria. The meeting is one. of several inter-club meetings being held throughout this Lions zone. Thb GroVer Invitation wap formally accepted by the Kings Mountain club Tuesday night. The Joint session at Grover, to convene at 7 p. jsu, will cpplace. the regular Lions meeting here which ordinarily ? would hehfr on November 23. Hilton Ruth's Mothei Dies Mrs. Jennie T. Ruth, mothter of Hilton Ruth, ot Kings Mountain, died at her home In Salisbury at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. She was 82. Mrs. Rath has been In declin ing health for the past several yesvrs, and became seriously ill two months ago. Shte had been hospitalized much of the time since. Bom on Christmas Day, 1871, Mrs. Ruth was the oldest living member of Salisbury's First Bap. tUt church. She was the widow of W. M. Ruth. Surviving are four children, Miss Vera Ruth and Mrs. R. B. Davis, both of Salisbury, V7. H. Ruth, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Hilton Ruth, Kings Mountain. Funeral arrangements had not beten made early Wednesday af ternoon. XtWAMlS MEETING Thursday evening's meeting of the Kings Mountain Klwanls club Will a>e held in conjunc tion with a program of the Central P-TA, in observance of National Education week, at Central school. Supper will be served at the school cafeteria at 6:45. ? ? . - ? . ' Former Police Chief Fan Blasts Logan On Cotton Case "Cracking" Formfer Chief of Police N. M. Farr issued a statement Tuesday In which he declared the . four year - old cotton theft at King* Mountain Bonded Warehouse was solved in 1660, during Fair's ten ure as chief of police, not last week, as Mr. Farr contends new* accounts of the arrests indicated. Mr. Farr said the theft, for whloh three Negroes, Toy Wil liam*, Jack Camp, and Kerry Ratchford wer4 sentenced to pri son in Clevela id Superior Court Monday, wa? iol^ed by SBI A lent R. W. Turkieson, after pre' iimlnary investigation by Chief Farr'. .'-''-V Warrants In the files of Clerk of Court E. A. Houser. show that the one againet Williams was Is sued June 30, 1300, and signed by Afltec Turkieson, while thoee a- ' gainst Camp and Ratchford were issued oo November X M04, and signed by Polk* Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr. George W. Mauncy, operator of the Kings Mountain Bonded Warehouse, did not agree fully with Mr. Parr's version. He ac know! edged that eacn of the three convicted Negroes were un der suspicion in 1960, after tic. keta off the cotton bales wtere found at Ratchford'a place of business tn Gaffney, S. C. How ever, he said, Agent Turkleson swore out the- warrant, or war rants, on Information and belief and ihlnus unquestionable proof that the threfe were the thieves of ten bales of cotton. Justice of the Peace J. Lee R berts told the Herald he recalled the incident and was under the impression he drew three war rants an the matter In 1950, but could not remember "for sure". Mr. Roberta said he did remem ber conversation at the time with Agent Tur kelson 111 which the SBI agent remarked he had sufficient evidence againet Williams to le* sue a retainer on him. but might have to noi pross the charges a gainst Camp and Hatch ford "un less he could get Williams to talk". * . Mr. Fair's statement was: "The theft was solved In 1960. We OamUmmtd On Pope MigM City Pumps From Davidson Reservoir Rites Conducted For E. T. Plott Lithium Fun Official Dies Of Heart Attack Funeral services for Edward j rhomas Plott, 44, business man ager of Lithium Corporation of , America's now-building Bessemer wity plant, wer& conducted Sun iay afternoon from First Pros- j uyterian church. The rites were conducted by j Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of the i shurch. Interment was made in I the Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Plott succumbed suddenly Friday night at 10:30 en route to the hospital, after suffering a heart attack at a Gastonia high- ] way restaurant. He and several ; friends had just ordered a late , dinner when ii,e attack occurred. | A native of Cabarrus county, a ] son of the late Henry Thomas and Anne Garmon Plott, Mr. Plott had lived in Kings Mountain for the past 11 years, coming here in 1943 with Solvay Process Com- 1 pany, at that time mining spo dumene in thb properties now Dwned and operated by Foote Mineral Company. Mr. Plott join ed Lithium Corporation of Amer ica in 1946 and spent several years in the advance work of thai; company, securing property and mineral rights to spodumene ? bearing properties in the area, in preparatory work for the botiding of the huge Bessemer City processing plant. Mr. Plott >.vas also active in the huildlng trade and constructed numerous low-cost homes in Kings Moun tain. He was also active in other phases of the city's commercial Ufe. A member of First Presbyteri an church, he was a member of the Gastonia Eagles club and the newly-organized Moose Lodge here. H. W. Rogers, president of Lithium Corporation, termed Mr. Plott's sudden death "a personal loss", and G. A. Munson, Lithi um's general manager, said his dteath meant an "irreplaceable vacancy". Mr. Rogers wrote the Herald; "I should like the people, of Kings Mountain and vicinity to know that Lithium Corporation of America shares with them a feeling of personal loss in the sud den death of Mr. Ed Plott. "The Corporation is not a large and lmpfersonal organization as may be indicated by the size of Its projects. Rather It is a group of individuals highly specialized in the fields of. mining, geology, . Continued On Page Eight Milling Firm Incorporated Incorporation certificate for Carolina Mines, Inc., a new Kings Mountain mining enterprise, was filed last week at the office of the Secretary of State. The corporation certificate spe cifies that the firm is incorporat ed to ^arry on mining enterprises with An authorized capital stock of $1,000,000, of which $304 was initially subscribed by J. E. Hern don and J. J. Mullinax, of Kings MMmtAjn, / and A. S. McCulloch, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Mr. Heriidon told the Herald Wednesday the firm has not yet organized as tar as election of of ficers and adoption of by-laws la1 concerned, but that the firm Is primarily interested In the mbi-. ing of kyanite, an aluminium sili cate, used for a half-hundred in dustrial purposes, Including man ufacture of heat-resistant brick and other heat resistant substan ces, including some (teed In Jet plane exhausts. Mr. H?=rndon said the firm holds property and mineral rights in Gaston county and is continu ing drilling operations for assay ing purposes. He said the Cana dian, Mr. McCullough, is the min ing expert and promoter of the new mining ventuite. Kyanite, Is the substance being mined by the firm operating on Henry's Knob. Mr. Herndon said further s#! nouncement concerning plans and operations of Carolina Mines, Inc. would be forthecTing later. I RITES CONDUCTED ? Edward T. Plott, business manager ol Li thium Corporation of America's Bessemer City plant, died last Friday night following a heart attack. He was 41. Final rites were conducted Sunday. Condemnation - ? ? ? , Award Appealed By City Board The city board of commission erg voted unanimously last Thurs day night to appeal the $6,500 a ward of an appraisal team to Paul Mauney for 2.56 acres of property for use in building a sewage treatment plant. City Attorney J. R. Davis said he filed the notice of appeal with the Clerk of Gaston Superior Court on Monday. The city contends that the a Ward of the appraisal team ? ! which Included Wray A. Plonk, Kings Mountain farmer, F. J. Noblett . and Hoke Coon, Besse mer City businessmen was e\jes slve. The litigation will be tried in Gaston Superior Court. George Thomasson, Kings Mountain attorney representing Mr. Mauney in the condemnation matter, said Wednesday he had received a copy of the appeal pe tition, but had not conferred with his client on what action the de fense would take. In condemnation proceedings, both parties have right to appeal the appraisal board decision. The litigation will not delay the build ing of the sewage treatment plant for which contract has already been let. Thte city has posted with the Gaston court clerk a viheck for $6;500t amount of the award, and is in position to proceed with the work, City Attorney J. R. Davis stated. Flags To Honor Veterans Today Kings Mountain citizens are' planning a quiet observance of the nation's first Veterans Day Thursday, November 11, formerly known as Armistice Day. All business firms will be open as usual, including First Nation al Bank, but firms and individuals a He being urged to fly the Ameri can flag In honor of veterans of the Korean conflict. World Wars I and n and other wars, on the new national holiday Veterans Day combines obser vance of Armisticc Day, I Am An American Day, Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. American Legion Post 135 has t &-minute program scheduled on WKMT Thursday at 10:15 a. m., with (Vorge B. Thomasson, Paul Mauney and Mrs. C. L. Jolly listed on the script President Elsenhower Issued a proclamation October 8, 1954 in Denver, Colorado, calling upon all citizens of the United States to obafcrve Veterans Day. President Eisenhower said "Let us solemn ity remember the sacrifice of all those who fought bo valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconse crate ourselves to the task of pro moting an enduring peace so that efforts shall not have Ween in vain." Gifiri-jl Guess j New Source Has 15-Day Supply The city's abbreviated water supply is now being augmented from the new Davidson Creek auxiliary reservoir, which fur nished its first water Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock. VV.. G. Grantham, water com missioner, said city public works officials estimate the Davidson reservoir now contains a, 15-day supply, and that plans call for pumping this water into the main York Road reservoir as long as the supply is available. Mr. Grantham reported that the water level at the main re servoir had heightened by about six inches during the first day of pumping from the Davidson source, and he estimated the dep th of the Davidson lake ? aided by release of small dams at the Scout camp site and the former Lynch-Gratuham lake ? at 18 feet. . The city Is still pumping the Gold Mine shaft and the flow is "holding". Mr. Grantham added, and he also reported that a very small flow has resumed in the creek coming from Lake Monton ia, one of two streams, both dry for weeks, which ordinarily serve the York Road reservoir. The building of the Davidson reservoir, being constructed by j O. O. Walker, was reported vir- ; tually completed last weekend, with only a few more fleet of dirt to be addeu to the 65-foot dam. j Restrictions on the consump tion of water, enacted by the city board of commissioners, remain in effect. Mr. Grantham said hea vy rainfall would be necessary be fore any thought could be given to relaxation of restrictions. Bank To Show G-E Displays First National Bank will have on display Monday the first of a series of three by General Elec tric Company showing modern lses of electricity. First National Is the first bank ing institution in the area to re ceive the display for exhibit, F. R. SumYners, president^ has been Informed by the General Electric public relations services division. The first of the series is a lamp display and will be shown at the Kings Mountain bank from No vember 15 - December 6. The se cond is an electrical living dis play, scheduled for Kings Moun tain December 13 - January 3, and the third Is an atomic sub marine display, scheduled here January 10-31. The theme of the three displays is "Invested Savings Pace Ameri ca's Industrial Progress". Currently on iisplay at the bank is another of the bank's min eral displays, on mica, as furnish ed by the Kings Mountain Mica Company, Inc. Large rocks containing mica concentrates are Shown, together with bottled samples of water ground mica, used in oil paints, plastics, chemicals and rubber goods, and dry ground mica, used in water paints,, plastics, and rubber manufacture. Both water ground and dry ground mica are Continued On Page Bight NEW GOVERNOR, LATE GOVERNOR ? North Carolina had a new governor at 4:07 Tuesday afternoon, as Luther H. Hodges, left, of Leaksville, took the oath of office. Funeral services for Governor William B. Umstead. right, Vho died Sunday morning, were conduc ted Tuesday in Durham. Governor Hodges is the first North Carolina chief executive to succeed to the office from the lieutenant-governor ship since 1891. Industrial Payroll At $175,000 Week Masons To Attend Baptist Service Members of Fairview Lodge 339, AK & AM, will launch a quarterly program of attending a church of the community in a body on Sunday night, it was an: nounced this week by Joe Mc Daniel, Jr. Mr. McDaniel said members of the, lodge, on Sunday evening, will attend services at First Baptist church. Services will begin at 7:30, but Mf. McDaniel said all Masons should be at the front of the church at 7:15. A special sec ! tion of seats will be reserved for I the Masons. Doll Show Set At Woman's Club The Fine Arts Department of the Woman's club will sponsor a idol! festival at the Woman's iclub Tuesday. Deadlinb for en ! tries is Monday at 8 p. m. Entries 1 will be accepted from 4 p. m. The show is open to the public. ; It will be held from 1 to 8 p. m. on Tuesday, and admission will be 25 cents for adults and ten cents for children. iSvo dolls With complete ward robes are on display in the win dow of Keeter's Department store and doll clothing which will be on sale at the show, is being dis played in the window at Belk's Department store. Contestants may display any doll, doll accessory, collection of dolls, or unusual doll furniture. II* ARMY Pvt. Carl H. Mauney, form-, erly of Albuquerque, N. M , and son of Mr. 4"d Mrs. C. F. Mau ney, of Kings Mountain, was inducted into the army last week. He is receiving 'basic training at Fort Jackson. S. ?.. Ware Reports Unemployment Total Decline Kings Mountain's current in dustrial payroll approximates $175,000 per week, comparable to the highest payroll peak during World War II, F. R. Summers, president of First National bank said this wei'k. Mr. Summers said he bad sur veyed the payroll accounts of Kings Mountain's major indus trial establishments, averaged the figures to correct for bi monthly pay periods, and arrived at the $175,000 weekly total. He said thte figure inc.-Jes payrolls of all Kings Mountain textile firms, the city's mining industry (Foote Mi neral Company, Superior Stone Company, Kerns Brothers, and Kings Mountain Mica Company), and also Elmer Lumber Company and Bennett Brick and Tile Com pany. Thfe figure does not include sev eral large payrolls, including the City of Kings Mountain, Ware & Sons, Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company, nor those of mercan tile establishments. I Meantime, Franklin Ware, manager of the North Carolina Employment Service office, said that unemployment has declined and that total unemployment is at what he termed a normal low point, or slightly less than five percent of the estimated work force of 5,250 persons. Mr. .Ware said October unemployment i claims averaged about 350 per week. He said all textile firms are in regular operation with the exception of Bonnie Cotton Mills, and that the employment service placed 63 persons in jobs during October. Mr. Summers also noted that approximately $20,000 of weekly payroll money is spent in other communities, this figure obtained from payroll checks of local firms cleared from out-of-town banks through the Federal Reserve sys tem. City Boaxd Waives Zoning Rules, Halts Recreation Gioup Payments In a busy session last Thursday night, the city board of commis sion ;rs waived zoning restrictions as they pertained to a house built by Coleman Stroupe on Morris street, and voted a $50-per-month appropriation for the civilian re lief agency. The action of the Stroupe mat ter was unanimous, after no pro perty owner appeared to protest waiver of the" provisions, closing a matter hanging fire for stveral week*. Appropriation for the civilian relief agency followed plpa by Rev. P. D. Patrick, Dr. W. P. Gerberding and ether ministers of the dty.for restoration or,^n appropriation of $600 ver year for tWe civilian relief fund. Mr. Patrick explained that only $134 left- fn fund arlminlw. ed toy Mrs. P. G. Ratteme, as treasurer, >nd that many i pie Would suffer If the aid were not gnun led. In the formal action, this board declared a surplus In the utilities accounts, with the $50 monthly appropriation to be paid out of that surplus. City Clerk Joe Hendriek had reported a $9,000 surplus In t^e account for the current fiscal year. In another action, the board votfed to withhold any further ap propriations to the city recrea tion commission, wtych had been receiving a weekly portion of parking meter receipts. Mayor Glee A. Bridges told the board that completion of current con tracts for recreation projects Would over-spend bond money a vallable, and that the weekly pay ments should be withheld to in sure settlement of the contracts. Two swimming pools are now un der construction. In other actions the boauS: 1) Passed a resolution inror poratlng Into the 1954-55 budget unspent bond monlM. 2) Voted to rebuild the Lake Montonia Road power line serv ing some 2H out-of-dty customers, after REA representatives had told the board REA was willing to take over the customers but Continued, On Pag* tight 1954 Seal Sale Began Tuesday Cleveland County's " annual Christmas seal sale for the bene fit of the county Tuberculosis as-, sociation, with a goal of $10,000 began Tuesday with the mailing of letters containing the familiar Christmas seals, 1954 models, to 1,100 business men and firms and to 52 clubs and organizations. Mass mailing of the seals to individuals will be made on No vember 22, it was announced by Mrs. B. M. Jarrett, of the county association. Prodeedg are used to finance the operation of the T B X-ray mobile unit, to foster preventive education on tuberculosis, and to aid indigent tuberculars. Paul Walker and Grady Ho ward are co-chairmen of the sale campaign for Kings Mountain.