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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7,206 The figure lot Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. 1 Q Pages I 0 Today VOL 65 NO. 38 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 22, 1955 Sixty-Fifth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS U. S. 29 By-Pass Expected To Open Next Month -<S> V Bfl Local News Bulletins ACCEPTS POSITION Mrs. James Leinster, daugh ter of Mrs. Rosa Medlin, has accepted a teaching position in the commercial department of Owen high school, Asheville. Mrs. Leinster is the former Miss Mary Medlin. RALLY DAY First (Presbyterian church Sunday school will hold (Rally Day at the regular Sunday morning service at 9:45. A spe cial program has (been .plan ned, officials announced. AT BELK'S Sam Mitchem has joined the sales staff of Belk’s men’s de partment, succeeding Bill Ruth •who returned to school at Wes tern Carolina-college Monday. LIONS MEETING The Kings Mountain Lions Club will hold its regular meeting Tuesday night at 7:00 o’clock at Masonic Hall. The Rev. R. D. Fritz, program chair man, announced that ‘Training With The Cardinals,” a base ball film will be shown. WOMAN'S CLUB The International Relations and Public Welfare depart ment of the Woman’s club will serve dinner at 12:15 Sunday at the Woman’s club, Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch, the chair man, announced. Tickets are available at Stroupe Drug company at $1.25 for adults, and 75 cents for children.. KIWANIS J. C. Bridges and B. S. Peel er, Jr., will report on the Ki wanis International conven tion held at Cleveland, Ohio, at the regular meting of the Kiwanis club Thursday (to night) at 7:45 p. m. at Maso nic Hall. GRASS FIRE City firemen answered one fire alarm Tuesday at 11:05 a. m., to extinguish a grass fire on Carpenter street. No dama-^ ges were reported. MOOSE MEETING The regular meeting of Moose Lodge No. 1748 will be held Thursday night at the lodge on Bessemer City road. Warlick Gets City Contract . The city board of commission ers m’et in a called session Mon day afternoon at 5 o’clock, and let a contract for 1160 feet of curb and gutter and 366 feet of sidewalks. A. P. Warlick of Kings Moun tain was low bidder on the job with a bid of $1.10 per foot of sidewalks and $1.88 per foot of curb and gutter. Spangler'& Sons, the only oth er bidder, estimated a price of $1.16 per foot for sidewalks and $2.25 per foot for curb and gutter. The board also agreed to rent Warlick the concrete forms own ed by the city for $25, providing that he would clean and oil them both before and after the job is completed. Mr. Warlick said work would start on the project in about one week. The contract allows 30 days in which to finish the job. The sidewalks and curbing will be installed on Gaston street, be tween East Mountain street, and East Gold street. The board also agreed to ex tend the paving in Belvedere park, new development, to Waco road, a distance of 189 feet from where the paving had been au thorized. Mayor Glee Bridges told the board members that petitions requesting the paving have been signed by residents of the area. The Board voted to install 50 feet of 24-inch pipe near Shock ley’s Store on Second street to divert drainage water which is undermining the building. This water falls from a field in which the city recently made drainage changes, and the board members took this into consideration when approving the installation of the pipe. A request for a street light on First street, at Craftspun Mill, was approved by the board. Com missioner O. T. Hayes reported that the area needed the light very badly. School Board Invites Bids On New North School Plant PROMOTED — David M. NeiU, formerly of Kings Mountain, has been promoted to the position of assistant trust officer of Ameri can Trust Company, Charlotte, according to announcement this week. Charlotte Bank Promotes Neill David M. Neill was elected as sistant trust officer of Charlotte’s American Trust Company at a meeting of the board of directors held recently, according to an nouncement by Chairman Torren ce E. Hemby. Mr. Neill has been with the bank since June 1953, as an ope rations assistant in the Trust de partment. He previously was an examiner with the North Caro lina Banking Department and for 30 months was in the general in surance field. B. W. Barnard, se nior vice-president and senior trust officer of the bank, in com menting on the election, said, “This promotion will give Mr. Neill wider scope for his abilities, particularly in the field of new business development. He is a valuable addition to our officer staff”. A native of Kings Mountain, Mr. Neill is a graduate of David son college. He has taken an ac tive part in numerous Charlotte YMCA activities, is a member of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club, is a participant in courses with the American Institute of Bank ing, and will graduate next sum mer from the Financial Public Relations Association school which is affiliated with the Amer ican Bankers Association at Northwestern University. He is a member of Providence Methodist church. Mr. Neill is married to the for mer Miss Jean Webb. They have two young daughters, Kathy and Elizabeth, and reside at 1242 Chandler Place. \He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Neill, of Kings Mountain. Woikeis Offered Park Yam Houses Park Yarn Mills Company wrote 39 employee-tenants Tues day offering to give them, for re moval, the houses in which they reside. J. C. Smathers, general man ager, said Park Yarn Mills is “planning to go out of the house business”, in line with a general trend in the textile industry. How the plan will work, he did not guess, remarking that the re sults depend on availability of real estate to employees. The company will retain seven houses, as well as the real estate occupied by the 39 other dwell ings. Mr. Smathers said the company action does not portend any plans for expansion of the firm’s manu facturing plant. Bethware School Closed Last Friday Bethware school completed its summer term last Friday and will resume regular schedules on or about October 24, Principal John Rudisill said this week. Bethware customarily clostes during cotton harvesting season. Mr. Rudisill said the resump tion date would depend on weath er conditions, but that he antici pated the October 24 date would find the cotton harvesting com pleted. August IS, 1956 Completion Date To Be Required Final plans for the new propos ed North Elementary School were approved by the Kings Mountain Board of Education at its regular meeting Monday night. However, the board specified that these plans are subject to ap proval by state school authorities, and to any changes that the board might wish to make prior to the netting of the contract. . Bids will be received until 0<U tober 10, and the bids will be opened at 3 p. m. on that date. T. W. Cothran, of Van Wagen ingen & Cothran, architectial firm of Shelby, reports that 10 contractors already have obtain ed plans to prepare bids. The board also voted to insert a penalty clause in the contract. This clause would require that the building be finished by Au gust 15, 1956. For every day re quired past this date, the gener al contractor would be penalized $50. The electrical, plumbing, and heating ' contractors would be penalized $25 per day required over the time limit. Mr. Cothran attended the meet ing and told the board that tenta tive approval of the plans has been received from state school officials. Legal notice inviting bids on the North plant is published in today’s edition of the Herald. It is noted that plans and specifi cations on the 14-classroom ele mentary plant, to contain approx imately 30,000 square feet, are available from thte architects, that bid b*nds of five percent and performance bonds of 100 percent must be deposited by all bidders. Separate bids will be taken for the general contract, plumbing contract, heating contract and electrical contract. The school trustees retain the right to reject any or all bids. B. N. Barnes, superintendent ot schools, gave a report on the ad visibility ol constructing a new band-industrial arts building at Central school. Mr. Barnes reported that state officials ,do not recommend this action until further study has been given. He added that a com mittee dealing with these recom mendations would come from Ra leigh and investigate the situa tion, if the board desires. The board voted to offer Con solidated Textiles $300 for a house now standing on property which the board seeks for expand ing East school playground. This offer for the house is tentative, pending Consolidated’s accepting an offer of $500 per acre for the land, which measures approxi rnately five acres. The board had taken steps to start condemnation action again st the company, but halted this action until the new offer has bben considered. The board authorized Mr. Bar. nes to contact C. E. Warlick In surance Agency to see if Mr. War lick would have an adjustor from his company inspect and set a value on the contents of all city schools. At'their last meeting, the board Continued On Page Eight WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Charles F. Mauney, N. C. State College junior, has been named first re cipient of a $250 scholarship gi ven by the Greater Charlotte Tex tile Club. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Mauney. Mauney Wins $250 Scholarship Charles F. Mauney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Mauney of Kings Mountain, has been award ed a $250 scholarship at N. C. State college. He is the first re cipient of a scholarship being a warded by the Greater Charlotte Textile club. Mr. Mauney was recently noti fied of the award by Charles H. Connor, Jr., president of the Tex tile club. Selection was made by the Scholarship committee of the State college School of Textiles. A junior, Mr. Mauney expects to complete by June 1957 require ments for two degrees at N. C. State, one in textile chemistry and dyeing and another in tex tiles. Since entering N. C. State col lege, Mr. Mauney has maintained an “A” average in his academic work. His father is secretary treasurer of Mauney Hosiery Mills, Inc. The scholarship was establish ed by the Textile club to be given annually to a student residing within a 30-mile radius of Char lotte. Book Fair Here Ends Thursday Kings Mountain Woman's club began a two-day book fair yes terday, the book sale being held in conjunction with the annual fund campaign for 'books for Ja cob S. Mauney Memorial library. It is being held at the Wo man’s club Thursday from 10 a. m., until 9 p. m. All types of books are on dis play, including best-selling fic tion, children’s books, biography, religious and historical works. Officials have suggested that books be purchased as gifts for the library, for Christmas gifts, or for home libraries. No admission will be charged, and Mrs. W. L. Mauney and Mrs. J. N. McClure are co-chairmen of the project. Ministers Circulating Petition Asking Blue Law Reconsideration Kings Mountain Ministerial as sociation began Sunday the cir culation of petitions in the ma jority of Kings Mountain church es asking the city board of com missioners to reconsider its ac tion of July 7 amending the blue laws to permit showing of mo tion pictures during specified hours on Sundays. The petitions will be presented to the city board at an learly meeting, Rev. P. L. Shore, asso ciation president and pastor of Central Methodist church, said. Likely date for the presentation is October 6, next regularly sche duled meeting of the board. The text of the petition follows: “We, the subscribers hereto, re spectfully request a reconsidera tion by our City Council of their ordinance of July 7th, 1955, wherlein they authorized the com mercial showing of moving pic tures In Kings Mountain on Sun days. “We request this procedure in that its paramount importance to our community and equitable treatment of all concerned war rants a public hearing wherein both sides shall be represented, prior to a final passing of an or dinance concerning this matter. We believe that this would be pro per and democratic “ Motion picture deatres have been operating iihin the city sincfe the board ion permitting the operation o heatres between the hours of 2 :n 6 p. m. and 9 p. m, to mldnigh: on Sundays. The board >f commissioners acted on re- v; u of S. E. Tutor, manager of 2 and Dixie Thea tres here. The request was first advanced last spring, tabled, and then approved on July 7. W. F. Thomson Rites Conducted Heie Wednesday Funeral services for William Francis Thomson, 63, former Kings Mountain citizen, were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Boyce Memorial ARP church. Mr. Thomson died suddenly of a heart attack Monday at 12:05 p. m. following a minor operation at a Hendersonville hospital. He had been in outward good health and his sudden death came as a shock to his family and to friends in this community. Mr. Thomson, husband of the former Miss Nina Hunter, resid ed here in the early thirties. A lawyer, he joined Certainteed Pro ducts Company, Inc., as a sales man and subsequently was ad vanced to sales manager of the company. He spent approximate ly 20 years with Certainteed be fore establishing a new firm, La minated Walls, Inc., in 1950 with headquarters in Tampa, Fla., where he had resided for many years. Last year Mr. Thomson went into semi-retirement. He and Mrs. Thomson only last year completed a summer residence at Bon darken, near Henderson ville. A native of Abbeville, S. C., he was the son of the late Thomas P. and Sarah Bradley Thomson. He attended Erskine college and was graduated from the Univer sity of South Carolina law school. While in Kings Mountain he was an active member of Boyce Memorial ARP church. In Tampa, he was an elder of First Presbyterian church. He was a navy veteran of World War I, past commander of Otis D. Green Post 155, Kings Mountain Ameri can Legion post, and an Elk. Surviving are his wife and a daughter, Mrs. George E. Shep pard, of Laurens, S. C. Funeral 'rites were conducted by Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, and Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church. Inter ment was in Mountain Rest ceme tery here. Active pallbearers were M. A. Ware, B. W. Gillespie, I. Grady Patterson, N. F. McGill, G. E. Sheppard, and Boyce Wideman. Lions To Sell Fiuit Cake The Kings Mountain Lions Club has announced the organi zation of teams and chairmen for the cake sale to be held this fall. The club is making an initial order, and each Lion will be re sponsible for selling five cakes. Team captains have been ask ed to organize their teams and be ready to start selling when the cakes arrive. W. K. Mauney, Jr., is project chairman for the sale, and lists the following organizational chart to be followed during the project: Inventory and distribution — F. A. McDaniel and Dr. N. H. Reed Publicity and Advertising — Jonas Bridges and Martin Har mon. Business and industry team— Blake McWhirter, captain; J. W. Webster, Carl Mauney, Rev. R. D. Fritz, Sam Weir, H. D. Bum gardner, and Jacob Cooper. Team 1 — Sam Stallings, cap tain; Gene Timms, Hal Plonk, Howard Jackson, S. K. White ner, and E. E. Marlowe. Team 2 — Ed Moore, captain; Horace Hord, Lee Roberts, Hugh Logan, Gene Patterson, George Houser, and Jack Mercer. Team 3 — Wilson Crawford, captain; C. D. Ware, Ollie Harris, John Lewis, and William Plonk. Team 4 — J. C. McKinney,’cap tain; D. L. Saunders, Richard Barnett, C. P. Barry. Phil Shore, and George Thomasson. Team 5 — James Houser, cap tain; Charlie Moss, Charlie WaT lick, B. T. Wright, Sr., Hubert Davidson, and S. E. Tutor. Gentle Receives Twa-Year Teim Clyde Gentle, Statesville fair worker, received a two-year road sentence in Cleveland Recorder’s Court Friday when he was con victed of molesting a child. The defendant was arrested last week by Sheriff Haywood Al len, and admitted that he enticed an eight-year-old Bethware girl into his house trailer at the Beth ware, Fair. Sheriff Allen was the only wit ness to appear against Gentle. 5HR1NERS GREET HIGH OFFICIALS — Kings Mountain Shriners turned out in force last Saturday morning to greet two visiting Shrine delegations, the uniformed Divan and the Oasis Temple band. Standing, left to right, are T. W. Grayson, Denver King, Fred Wright, Jr., N. F. McGill, E. W. Griffin, Paul A. Jones, of Winston Salem, Potentate of the North Carolina Shrine, Sam Collins, D. L. Saunders, Mayor Glee A. Bridges, George W. Mauney and J. Lee Roberts. Kneeling at front are J. H. Thomson, S. Casper Chandler, of Charlotte, Shrine Recorder, and John Smathers. (Herald photo by | Faye Meacham.) Reporter Agrees Fair “Greatest” Recoid Crowds Are Expected At Fairgrounds By Bob Hoffman Approximately 100 newspaper, radio and television representa tives were guests of the Cleve land County Fair and the South ern States Fair at a press party Tuesday. A royal welcome and grand tour of the fair grounds and their facilities were given to the visit ing newsmen. The tour started with the rodeo, where the visitors were special guests of Burr Andrews. This world’s championship event pre sented many thrills with its rid ing and roping contests. Following the rodeo, the news men were loaded on a “tram bus” and taken around the entire mid way, with points of interest being pointed out. After taking a one-hour break to inspect the midway and its many stands and shows, the visi tors were taken to “Red” Bridges Barbecue stand on the midway for supper. A delicious supper of the famous Bridges’ barbecue was enjoyed by about 60 press and radio people present at that timle. At 8 o’clock, the group filed into special seats on the infield of the grandstand to see the. Variety Iee-Ettes, a George A. Hamid pro duction. . Featuring a cast of 21 skaters, the show olfered two hours of top-notch Entertainment to a packed grandstand. The ensemble consisted of girls Continued On Page Eight Off-Street Meters Swell Parking Take City parking meter receipts swelled to $194.02 for the week ending Wednesday. It was the first weekly count ing for the parking meter re ceipts since the city initiated use of the off-street Cherokee street lot last Thursday. The old meters returned $155.78. The Cherokee street parking i lot returned $38.24, City Clerk Gene Mitcham reported. Kiwanis to Sell Soap Packages The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club is launching this weekend a soap-selling project for its youth service work. Particularly, President J. C. Bridges said, the proceeds from the soap sale will be used to augment funis already in hand for building tennis courts at the city's Deal street recreation plant. The Kiwanians are vending a four-bar package of soap called “Packer’s Charm,” which sells for one dollar. The soap is a de odorant type, containing hexa chlorophene, and the label con tends it is “fragrant, safe, econ omical, protects clothing.” NEW MANAGER James T. Tart, of Dunn, as sumed the duties Friday of Ro ses Five and Ten Store mana ger, succeeding R. E. Vickers, who has opened a similar bus iness in Newton. AFL Unions Seeking To Represent Lithium Corporation Employees The National Labor Relations district board was holding a hear ing in Charlotte Wednesday to determine whether a union re presentation election will be held at Lithium Corporation of Ameri ca’s Bessemer City plant. The hearing was called after two American Federation of La bor unions, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Warehousemen union, filed a petition asking that they be de signated employee representa tives for all production and main tenance men at the Bessemer City plant. Lithium Corporation denied the union ."negations that it, in fact, has sufficient memberships to be designated employee representa tives. Actually, Lithium Attorney Jack White said, the NLRB will rule on the question of calling an election at the Bessemer City plant to determine whether the unions shall have bargaining rights for the specified employ ees. Attorney J. R. Davis, senior member of the Davis & White firm, was representing Lithium Corporation at Wednesday’s hear ing. held in the Charlotte post office building. The union petition specifies that it would exclude Lithium’s miners, office and clerical work ers, guards, professional and su pervisory employees. Lithium corporation was struck for several days last year while the big plant was under construc tion in what was termed a wild cat strike. Employees of Foote Mineral Company, the area’s other lith ium producer, last October voted heavily against designating the CIO Steelworkers as their bar gaining agent. upening uxeiy By October 22. Kemper Thinks The new U. S. 29 Highway by pass south of Kings Mountain is expected to be opened for traffic about October 22. District Highway Engineer Ed Kemper, of Shelby, said this week that the paving contractor, Bly the Brothers, of Charlotte, is cur rently applying the "matting” to the roadbed and will likely finish this job ahead of the October 1 deadline. Two weeks are subse quently allowed for applying the "seal coat”. After a week’s cur ing. Mr. Kemper continued, the strip should be ready to accom modate traffic. Barring an unusual course of had weather, he woresees that the schedule will be met. The strip to be opened will leave present U. S. 29 at Arch dale Farms and link with U. S. 74 east of Kings Mountain. The by pass is of modern engineering design with cloverleaf entrances and exits. It is a limited access highway. Large portion of the new by pass is „four-lane, from the inter section with U. S. 74 to a point south of Highway 161. From that point the road is two-lane for a distance of 4.7 miles. Already under construction is a second two-lane strip from Arch dale Farms to the north city lim its of Grover, and Mr. Kemper said he had hopes that the state highway commission will allot sufficient funds to provide for an additional two-lane strip on the 4.7 miles betweten Acchdale Farms and the Richard Owens farm. The problem of continuing the four-lane road through Grover re mains, Mr. Kemper said, the Town of Grover declining to ac cept responsibility for furnishing one-third of the right-of-way cost, which Mayor C. F. Harry has said that Grovler cannot afford. Gro ver could unincorporate the por tion of the town effected, but the action would require legislation by the General Assembly, next scheduled to convene in 1957. Youth Struck By Car Sunday Billy Melton, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Melton, of 209 E. King street, was pain fully injured Sunday afternoon when struck by a car on E. King street. He was admitted to Kings Mountain hospital for treatment. Charged with speeding and free under a $200 bond as a re sult of the accident is James Mon roe Freeman, of 613 Floyd street. Trial for Freeman has been sche duled for City Recorder’s court next Monday afternoon. Police stated the Melton youth, while attempting to cross from the north to the south side of E. King street, ran from behind a tractor trailer truck into the path of the Melton vehicle. Melton was traveling east on King street ope rating a 1955 Ford, while the trac tor trailer was traveling west on King street, police reported. Dr. John C. McGill, attending physician, stated Wednesday the youth’s condition is not serious at the present time and he would re cover barring complications. The youth sustained four broken ribs, head injuries,, multiple contusions and painful brusies, the physician stated. Ofi-To-Schcol List Now Totals 156 Addition of^seven to the area’s off-to-school list brings to a total of 155 the number of students at tending colleges, universities, pre paratory and specialized institu tions. Opiitted last week in the off to-school listings were the names of Jim Caveny, John A. Seisin, and Fred Kiser, who have enroll ed at North Carolina State col lege, Raleigh, W. P. Fulton, who is a student at Uenoir-Rhyne col lege, Hickory, Rev. Boyce Huff stetler, who is a student in the divinity school of Emory Univer sity, and Kenneth Hamrick, who is attending Gaston Technical In stitute. Gerald Lovelace left Monday to enroll in the freshnjan class of King’s Business college, Char lotte. ELECTED Carl B. Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Moss, has been nam ed treasurer of the senior class of Bowling Green College of ! Commerce. Bowling Green. Ky... | Mr. Moss is majoring in ac I counting.