North Carolina Newspapers

* ? , ...v \ ? VOL. 64 NO. 4$ Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 18, 1954 i I Sixty-Fourth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins ON HONOR ROLL Vicki Jenkins, of Kings Moun tain, a Junior at Sacred Heart Academy in Belmont, was a inong eight students listed on the school's honor toll for the first six-week semester, ac cording to announcement from the school. r ? ' ? AT CONFERENCE Miss Alice Averitt, city schools teaching consultant, attended the conference of state supervisors which con vened Sunday at Southern Pi nes. CAKE SALE Members of the Magnolia Garden club will conduct a pie and cake sale in. front of Ree fer's Department Store Tues day morning. The sale begins 9:30, a spokesman for the club said. CAKE SALE The Open Gate Garden club will hold a cake sale Saturday beginning at 8:30 a. m. at C. E. Warlike Insurance Agency, a spokesman for the club an nounced Tuesday. BOOK WEEK National Book Week ends November 20th, and the pub lic is being invited to visit Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li brary here during the week, Mrs. Charles DJJHng, librarian, said. TO CONFERENCE Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Blanton will attend the state Pharmacy conference scheduled for Cha jple Hill oh Sunday and Mon day. Mr. Blanton Is a vice president ot the NortlrCffrollna Pharmacy fssoeUtlon. REVIVAL . (Revival services at Ylctorys . , Baptist church on Grover road begin Sunday night at T. p. m. . with services to continue throughout the week. Rev. Ray Barry is the visiting preacher. . HOS VITALIZE D Everett W. (Buck) Bridges, desk sergeant with the Kings Mountain Police Department, entered Kings Mountain hos pital Sunday for treatment bf a sinus condition. S TELLINGS NAMED Ernest Sellings,- of Charlotte, officer of the corporation which owns Joy and Dixie Theatres here, was elected a di rector1 of the Carol inaa Motion Picture Owners association In annual convention this week at Charlotte. HE-ELECTED Aubrey Mauney, of Kings Mountain, was re-elected Sou them, district representative on the executive committee of the North Carolina Lutheran Brotherhood in annual session this week at High Point. W. K. Mauney, of Kings Mountain, Is a holdover 'member of the ex ecutive committee. ATTENDS CONVENTION j S. E. Tutor, manager of Joy and Dixie Theatres, attended the annual convention of the Carollnas Motion Picture Own ers association held in Char lotte this week. FA1SV1EW LODGE Emergent Communication of Fairvlew (Lodge No. 339 A. F. * A. M. will be held at Maso nic Hall Monday at 7:30 p. m., for worfc 'n first degree, Joe H. McDaniel, secretary, an nounced. . METES RECEIPTS Net receipts from city (talk ing meters :-jt week ending Wednesday at noon were. according to Miss Grace Carpepter, of city cleric's ! offlbe. ... . Thanksgiving Breakfast &9t Boyce Memorial ARP churcn will hold its regular Thanksgiv ing morning setvjrf* and break fast, it wss announced this week by the pastor. Dr. W. L. Preisly. The service will be held at 7:30, with a tesaktsst to be served im mediately following in the Sun day school dining rod m at 8 o'clock by Men of the Church. The committee in charge will include W. L. McMackin, C. L. Black, Os car McCarter, W. O. Grantham, W. a Pulton, Srn Marvin Goforth, George Morrow and L G. Patter Gold Mine Shaft Went Dry; Bain Of Little Help In spite of Tuesday's welcome rain. Kings Mountain's water sup. ply was still short this week. Though some water was being pumped into the York Road main reservoir from the new auxiliary reservoir on Davidson creek, the Gold Mint shaft, which had been the principal auxiliary source through two dry summers, was pumped dry last Thursday and has been pumped only intermit tently and for short periods since. City officials were hopeful that more rains would arrive to alle viate the shortagte. Meantime, consumption re mained at low levels. George Moss, water plant operator, said the daily average of consumption by city customers remains just short of 400,000 gallons per day. The York Road reservoir water level, aided by the Davidson Creek pumpage and Tuesday's rain, was reported up about four inches, but city officials were not expected to rescind current re strictions on water consumption until heavy rain arrives. The city board, in a brief spe cial session Tuesday morning, au thorized some changes in the York Road reservoir dam rais ? to conform to original 1928 plans for the building of the dam ? City Clerk Joe Hendrick reported. The board agreed to P?y A. P. Warllck an additional $461.40. Mr. Warlick already held contract for raising the dam level four feet The changes provide for certain reinforcements, Mr. Hendrick said. Charlotte's Tuesday rainfall was reported at one-fourth inch, which some citizens thought com parable to the total falling here. Foote Changes ' Are Announced / . ***?*! Theodore J. Albrecht, of Brew ster, fja., has accepted "the po sition of assistant mill superin tendent at Foote Mineral Com pany and he and his family ex pect to move to Kings Mountain in the next few weeks. Mr. Albrecht is a graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology. Other changes in the main tenance department personnel at the plant include the appoint ment of Carl Wilson as mechani cal foreman, Fred Thornburg as chief electrician, Laney Dett_ marr, head of the welding sec tion, George Franklin, working foreman in charge of piping, steam, and water services, and Ernest Maples, in charge of ve hicle repaid ; : Mr. Maples is attending a two week dlesel engine school in session at Salisbury. Bethware School To Hold Festival jyfoe fiethware school PatfUlfe Teacher Association will sponsor a Fall Fesdval at the school Fri day with doors to open at 5 p. jft. dogs, hamburgers, and oth er foods will be available to the public, and cake walks, a pro gram in the auditorium, and square dancing arte included in the program. Proceeds from the festival will be used to purchase a school acti vity bus. - Lutheran Rites ? * t ' -*'? 'l * ?* -i i ??'* ? .. , . 'y . * - ? ; ;? , " , r - ./* -.1 To Begin Sunday St. Matthew's Is Dedicating New Building St Matthew's Lutheran church will begin a nine-service, week long series of festivities on Sun day, dedicating the new church building. Dr. F. L. Coarad, of Salisbury, , president of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod, will speak at Sunday morning 11 o'clock ser vices, blessing the new church's altar and font. On Sunday evenr ing, at 7:30, Dr. H. B. Schafeffer, of L^esvllle, S. C., former St. Matthew's pastor, will conduct a service blessing the entrance. A service* of especial interest to the community will be held Monday evening at 7:30, as min isters from five neighboring churches participate in "Commu nity Night", and Dr. E. C.. Coo per, retired Lutheran minister, reads the blessing of the pulpit and lectern. Taking part in the rites will be Dr. W. L. Pressly, Boyce Memorial ARP, Rev. Doug las Fritz, Resurrection Lutheran, Rev. Gordon Weekly, First Bap tist, Rev. Phil Shore, Jr., Central Methodist, and Rev. P. D. Patrick, First Presbyterian. An open house and tea will follow this service. Tuesday evening's service will feature blessing of the organ and bells, with Dr. C. K. Derrick, another former pastor of St. Matthew's, now of Atlanta, Ga., conducting the service, and with Ernest White, well-known New York organist, presenting ? reci On Wednesday night, At Ti30, Rev. W. H. Stendejr, of Cameron, S. C.., another former pastor, will give the service blessing the pews. On Thanksgiving morning, at 10 o'clock, Dr.. Robert Roth, of Columbia, S. C., will bless the tower and steeple cross. On Fri day . evening, November 26, at 6:3p, a supper and social will be held at the church for visiting pastors and local officials. On November 28, Dr. Walter H. Nau, Lenolr-Rhyne college professor and former supply pastor for the St. Matthew's church, will con duct the morning 11 o'clock ser vice blessing the memorial win dows. A service at 3 o'clock Sun day afternoon, November 28, will ? climax the series, with Dr. Volght Cromer, president of Lenoir Rhyne college, formally dedicat ing the church building. An open house and tea will follow this service. Dr. W. P. Gerberding, pastor of the church, is issuing an invi tation to the public to attend any or all of the services. Girl Scout Drive Now Underway Here Annual Girl Scout drive in the Kings Mountain area is under way this week. Goal of the cam paign is $1,000. J. C. McKinney is treasurer of the fund drive, and contributions may be forwarded to Mr. Mc Kinney at First National Bank. The annual Negro Girl Scout drive haa been completed, scout lng officials reported Wednesday. Central Methodist Choii To Sing "The White Pilgrim" Sunday Night | -N ? ? -- - - ' Thi C<mtr*l Methodist cfiurob senior choir, under the direction of.Mlss Bonnie Mcintosh, will present * Thanksgiving cantata "The White Pilgrim" on Sunday evening at 7:30. The 20- voice choir Includes Ann Byers, Sue Dixon, Shirley Falls, Winifred Fulton, Dorothy Joforth. ^ Jean Hicks, Mozelle Masters. Mary Alice McDanlel and Mildred McDanlel, sopra iop; Margaret Cole, Mrs. Baxter Payseur, and Mm.' Y. F. Ttirone burg, altos; Jacob Dixon, Buddy 1 A?yes, Phil Shore, Jf, and Artii ix Walker, tenors; and Meek ' CJSrpenter, Oron Fulton, Earl Marlowe, Jr.. and 8. 8. Peeler, Jr., fMuapi. The cantata/fey Lewis Horton and Bueli H. 1 ll'TflllV ip . ^Tolk-jiong style. Titles and |0?mral ? figure of the rantata point to a man named ?dar;Jo *eph Thomas, an Itinerant pftta cher of a century ago. Little else is known of htm except what the song reveal and that he always dressed In white, Mies Mcintosh says, the latter fact giving the song its name. Author of the words 1< unkt own. The tune is a variant of the old Scottish Braes o' BakjuluUder,' '? folic- i tune formula long widely surj and adapted in America. I Commenting on the develop ment of music through folk jf?giga> Mis* Mcintosh said. "There seems to toe one well-; spring of good tunes ? folk song Martin Luther drew from it as did John Calvin, bringing up the powerful chorales of Western Europe. The musiciu of those times used them an foundations of contrapuntal compositions: The sixteenth cen tury -thus became a period of i Rreat choral music. Ifow a^ain , musicians Have become atten tive to the melodic beauties of foNc song. Lewis He y Carroll Is the first to ease material of thla sort in ontME form, cre ating out of a dozen of the beet religious folk songs an artistic whole. He has used 'live song* as he heard them in bis eastern Kentucky home.** . <?' ORGANIST ? Ernest White, New York organist, will present an or. gan recital at St. Matthew's Lu theran church here Tuesday night, as one ot the several fea tures of dedication rites for the new St. Matthew's church build ing. White To Play Tuesday Night Ernest White, musical director of the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, in New York, and research consultant on tonal design for Moeller Organ company, will pre sent an organ recital at St. Matt hew's Lutheran church Tuesday evening, as one of the feature pro grams of the church'? dedicatory festivities. The program will begin at 7:30 and 'will include thte blessing of the organ by Dr. C. K. Derrick, a former ppstor of the church. Mr. White will play Bach's "Sehmucke dlch, o liebe S^ele", Bach's "Partita: O Gott due from mer Gott". Sigrid Karg-Elert's "Legend of the Mountain", Cesar Franck's "Choral in B Minor", Martini's "Aria con varazlonfe", Flocco's "Adagio", Kimberger's "Herzlich thut mich verlangen", "Handel's "Allegro moderator (Concerto IV)", and Pachelbel's 'Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne". Mr. White is a veteran of con cert and radio organ recitals. During the first year of the New York World Fair he gave twice daily recitals from the Temple of Religion and continued them the following year from the Brooklyn Museum. He was formerly on the staff of Pius X School of Liturgi cal music, Bud and Swarthmore colleges. NEW THAFriC SIGNAL The city electrical depart ment installed a new traffic control signal at the corner of Cherokee and Gold streets last weekend. The installation was ordered several weeks ago by the board of city commis sioners. f Merchants Lay i Further Plans For Yule Parade #? "9 The Kings Mountain Merchants association furthered plans for its Christmas parade, scheduled lor December 8. at a meeting of the board of directors Tuesday. Committees for the event wfcre named as follows: floats, Fred W, Plonk and Sam Collins; bands, ;Jbe Hedden; food for band mem Ibers, J. C. Bridges and Paul Wal jker; lighting, B. S. Peeler, Jr., I Hubert McGinnis, Martin Har ;mon. I It was stated that a minimum | of three bartds are expected for 'the parade, in addition to other j special features. I The Merchants association is 1 also obtaining funds from chur ches and civic groups for the pur chase of a permanent - type Christmas scene to be displayed on the lawn of Jacob S. Mauney Memorial library. B. S. Peeler, Jr., is in charge of erecting the .display. Lions Visited Grover Club Members of the Grover Lions j j club were hosts to members ol j :the Kings Mountain Lions club j Monday gight In another of sev-j eral inter-club meetings In the j zone. The Grover % club served a] sumptuous turkey dinner and presented a program featuring an address by Dr. R. A. McFar land, retired minister of Gaff ney, S. C., who discussed "Water", 'and suggested that attention to I problems of supply are increas- 1 ing dally. * . " . Glenn Roimdtree and Hunter Ramsey did the tail-twisting du ties for the evening and managed to relieve majority of the Lions ol both clubs of maximum fines. President Fred CockrplJ,, of the Grover club, presided, and Kings Mountain President Jacob Coo per thanked the Grover club for Its hospitality. Dr. McFarland was presented by Paul Ham bright, who described the retired minister as a hobby astronomer and naturalist. Dr. McFarland noted many sci- : entitle facts about water, pointing out that three-fourth of the earth's surface Is covered by wa ter, that the world's wettest place Is Northern Island of the Hawa iian group with an averagte rain fall of 429 inches annually, and that the dryest place is northern Chile, with an average rainfall of ftiur-tenths of one inch per year. He said the United States has an average rainfall of 30 Inches an nually, with the Carolinas getting 40-54 inches each year, Washing ton state 150 and Utah very little. He described the sun as the great "water carrier", taking up water by evaporation for re-distribution thrbugh rainfall, snow and hail, and he declared that the working of the tides plus sa?t of the oce ans keep the world's water sup ply constantly purified. He pointed out that New York City uses 900 million gallons of water daily, but that this total Is ? Continued On Page Eight Walkout At Lithium Slows Work On Processing Plant Citizens Plan Thanksgiving Holiday Menu i _ ? ? Kinj;s Mountain citizens were ! preparing this week for the an nual Thanksgiving holiday sea 'son. Majority of churches were plan-' ning special' programs for the sea !son. and grocers- were increasing inventories with Thanksgiving | menu items. Meantime, school children and teachers were looking forward to the long weekend holiday which will begin with the end of regu lar schedules next Wednesday. Retail- store personnel were al iso anticipating 'a one-day respite, prior to the t>eginning of thfe Christmas shopping season rush. Central Methodist church will present a Thanksgiving cantata Sunday evening at 7:30, and St. Matthew's Lutheran church will start .Sunday a nine-service chur ch dedication series which will continue throughout the week and the Thanksgiving weekend, with one service scheduled for Thanks giving morning. Boyee Memorial ARP church will again hold its traditional Thanksgiving morn ing service and breakfast; Sportsmen are also anticipat ing the day, a traditional heavy day in the field with rifle, gun, and hunting dog. Football in nearby cities will j also be on the day's menu. Some Kings Mountain fans will Jour ney to Ashevillof where two high school stars, Ken Cloninger and Dewitt Blanton, will play with the East team in the annual Opti mist Bowl game. Mauney Files Coonter Appeal Paul Mauney. defendant In a civil suit whereby the city has taken condemnation action to obtain a sewage treatment plant site, filed a counter appeal in Gaston Superior Court last Fri day. The city had previously ap pealed the decision of a three man appraisal board awarding Mr. Mauney $6,500 for 2.56 acres of land lying north of Highway Mr. Mauney's attorney, Geor ge Thomasson, said that the counter appeal petition contends that the amount of the apprai sal team pward was inadequate rather than excessive as the city contends. | Mr. Thomasson said the next civil term of Gaston Superlpr court is scheduled to start De cember 6, but that the city and Mauney actions have not yet ?been docketed. He did not know, he s^ld, whether the suits would be heard in the December term. Members of the appraisal team wei*t Wray A. Plonk. . Kings Mountain, and Hoke Coon and F. J. Noblett, both of Bessemer city.. MOOSE MEETING , The regular meeting of Moose Lodge No. 1748 will be held Thursday night at eight o'clock at the lodge on Besse mer City road. ixmmmi: mamm ELECTED,? George B. Thomas- | son, above, attorney and solid- : tor of Recorder's court, was elect ed secretary of Cleveland Coun. j ty Bar Association at an associa tional dinner held recently at Fallston Woman's Club. Littis Theatre Play Postponed Postponement until December 9-11 of the Little Theatre play, "Act Your Age," previously sche duled for Friday and Saturday at the Woman's Club, was an nounced Wednesday by Mrs. M. A. Ware, director. Mrs. Ware sftid the play was postponed because of illness of members of the cast. The three act comedy will be presented at 8 p. m. each evening.. Admission will be 25, 50, and 75 cents. Members of the cast include ? Becky Tutor who is cast in the role of Angie, Billie Gibbons as Jerrie, Mrs. Franklin Pethel who portrays Cora, H. L. (Red) Feim ster, Jr., who plays Archibald Hoffenflugel, Jeff Wells, as James MaLson. and Winifred Fulton, as Helga. Peggy Mauney plays Sandra Stone and Elsie, Donna Cheath am is the Western Union mes senger, and Dr. P. G. Padgett is cast in the role of Commander Stone. j Wesleyans Hold Meeting Monday Regular bi monthly ministers I meeting of the western district of j the Wesleyan Methodist church j will be held at First Wesleyan J church, with Second Wesleyan as co-hosts, on Monday. Rev/ Hoovter Smith made the announcement and listed two ses sions, wit,h Rev. Carl W. Johnston, of Spartanburg, S. C., the guest speaker at< each. On Monday at] 10:30 a. m., he will apeak on "Thanksgiving" and at 2 p. m. he j will talk on "Solving Problems of | | the WYPS". j Rev. Johnston is general prfcsi | dent of the national WYPS orga nization. A missionary play by members of First and Second <-ongrega tion% will be presented to the WMS section, he said. School Trustees Discussing North School Building; Site Undecided The Kings Mountain school board discussed two proposed sites for location ol a north ele mentary school building at its regular monthly meeting Mon day night and on Wednesday af ternoon at 4 p. m. continued the talks. No decision between the two sites was made but Superin tendent B. N. Barnes reported that he was Instructed to meet with state school board officials [to seek approval of a building program. Mr. Barnes said that a bare quorum was present Wednesday laid the members continued the site discussjon without taking ac The proposed sites, both listed In a survey team report of July 7, are: Pulton property, located at the corner of Walker and N. Cansler street* and Stowe pro perty, located south ol McGln nis street between Ramseur street and N. Piedmont ?ve. The survey report listed the Stowe site as "much more desirable" "since It ta near the center of pupil population lor this see tion of town." Thomas W. Cothran of Van Wageningen & Cothran, Shelby architects who have been retain ed by the board for the North elementary project, was present at the Monday meeting and read a preliminary site report in which the firm evaluated the?two pro posed sites but did not recom mend either, stating that the pro posed plant could be constructed at either place. After hearing the report, the [board agreed to meet Wednesday afternoon after several trustees requested additional time to walk over and study the two sites. Mr. Barnes presented Chair man Kincaid a copy of the 1953 54 school audit prepared by Ro bert H. Cooke, Shelby auditor, and announced that a copy is on file at hia offWfe. In other actions Monday the board: 1) Voted to give a school bell to Faith Baptist church "If they want it". 2) Extended Miss Gusale Huff Oontmumd On Pay Might , ? ' Pickets Also Interfering With Pit Work ,\i An undetermined number of construction workers were out on strike at Lithium Corporation of America's now-building Bessemer City processine plant this week, in what management termed a wildcat strike. Labor trouble was also report ed at Lithium's Murphy-Houser mine near Cherryvllle, where ore digging operations are underway. Pete Heavener. delivery man for Plonk Oil Company, said he was turned away Monday from the Houser mine by pickets. However, he returned Tuesday, ho said, and made his -deliveries. " ? A Lithium spokesman Wednes day said that the difficulties at the plant ? ? located about equal distant between Kings Mountain and Bessemer City ? involved workmen for Hicks & Ingle, a Charlotte piping, firm, a sub-con tractor ? for - Southeastern Con struction Company, which holds the contract for building the sev en-million dollar plant. When the . piping crew walked out, union members of other sub-contrac tors, principally electricians, as well as some nonunion carpen ters. honored the picket lines;. Herald Reporter Lafaye Mea cham visited the Lithium plant, gate Tuesday and talked to the three pickets thenVm duty in raw, rainy weather. They gave their names as W. Eugene Allen, Kings Mountain, Bun Martin, Grover, and Scott Hall, Murphy. They gave various reasons for the strike including 1) desire for in creased wages, and 2) desire for a closed shop. The pickets also said further information on the strike could be obtained from a Charlotte telephone number, which the Herald callfed Wednes day. J. L. Allen, who answered the telephone, said a Mr. Dixon, who was directing the Lithium strike, was in Plymouth. J. L. Allen stat ed only that the strike involved an American Federation of La bor union, that the strike was against Southeastern Construc tion Gompany, not Lithium Cor poration, and that the trouble at the Houser pit had no connection with the plant walkout. Lithium office manager Fred Dixon doubted that the labor dif ficulties are unconnected. He said that Lithium Corporation tem porarily laid off employees min ing ore at Indian Creek on No vember 5 and that W. Eugene Al len, one of the Lithium plant pic kets, was among the Indian Creek crew laid off. Mr. Dixon said the layoff was ordered be cause ore-mining operations had got ahead of the construction schedule and to await road and bridge - building work in the In dian Creek area. Pete Heavener said he was stopped at the entrance to the Houser pit area Monday by about 20 pickets, who "cussed and rais ed cain and appeared to be a bunch or drunks". Mr. Heavener said he was advised not to enter the pit area by one man, who told him he didn't know "what would happen if I went in". When he ?xnd Fred Price, another delivery man for Plonk Oil, made their Tuesday deliveries, they drove on through, without incident, except that some of the pickets shook their fists at them, Mr. Heavener related. ' The Gastonia Gazette reported Tuesday the following statement from -G. A. Munson, Lithium'? Continuad On Page Eight Merchants Suspend , Wednesday Closings Merchants will be open all day next Wednesday and will continue the full six-day week schedule through Christmas. By laws of the Kings Moun tain Merchants association, amended several months ago, now provide that the customai'y Wednesday half-holiday, be sus pended on the Wednesday im mediately preceding Thanks giving. Under present rules, the mer Wednesi _ ough Christmas and will resume their Wednes day afternoon closings on De cember 29. The merchants wUl be closed December 25 and 26, but. In another change voted by the membership, will be open on New Year's Day. chants open all day