Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 The figure lor Greater King* Mountain i* derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Units figure is from the United States census of 1950. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper jpr,-■«=: ■_■ —— On Pages ZU Today VOL 65 NO. 39 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 29, 1955 Sixty-Fifth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins LIONS DIRECTORS Directors of the Kings Moun tain Lions club will hold their regular monthly dinner meet ing Thursday evening at 7 o’clock at Kings Mountain Country Club. PRESBYTERY Annual meeting of the Men of the Church of Kings Moun tain Presbytery will be held at Belmont First Presbyterian church Sunday. Harry Page, president of the Men’s group of First Presbyterian church, in * vited all men interested in at tending to meet at the church here at 3:15 p. m. OFFICIALS TO MEET A meeting of all Scouting officials will ibe held Thursday night at 8 p. m. in the City Hall courtroom. All Scoutmas ters and committeemen are asked to attend. Officers for the coming year will be elect ed at this time. STOCK DIVIDEND MINNEAPOLIS. — Lithium Corporation of America, Inc., has announced an initial stock ‘dividend of 5 percent payable December 1, 1955, to stockhol ders of record November 1, 19K5. Scrip certificates will ibe paid in lieu of fractional shar es. ROSS REUNION Annual MoseS Ross reunion will be held at New Prospect Baptist church, Earl, Saturday with dinner to be served pic nic-style at the noon hour. All relatives and friends have been invited to attend. TO TEXAS W. T. Clary, son of Mt. and Mrs. George Clary, leaves Mon day to report to Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, for (basic training in the Air Force. Be fore entering tHe service, he attended Kings Mountain high school. SpCIAL SECURITY A social security representa tive will be.at City Hall at 9:30 a. m. next Tuesday and again on October 17 to serve area residents with social security information, it has been an nounced toy the Gastonia dis trict manager. BUILDING PERMITS Two ibuilding permits were issued last Thursday (by Build ing Inspector J. W. Webster. One permit was issued to Pau / line Thrift to alter a house on Dilling street, at an estimated cost of $2,000. The other permit was issued to Ivey it. L. Davis ,to alter a house on E. Ridge street, at an estimated cost of $4,000. James Littlejohn, owngr of King Street Gulf Service, was reported by his physician to he improving satisfactorily Wed nesday. He has been a patient at Kings Mountain hospital since he became ill Saturday. RECREATION GIFT Stewart & Everett, Inc., Char lotte theatre firm and opera tor of Joy and Dixie Theatres here, has made a gift of 'SlOO to .the city recreation commis sion, it was announced this week. LITTLEJOHN BOBERTS REUNION The annual Hugh Karr Rob erts Reunion will :be held Sun day, October 2, at Antioch Bap tist'church near Grover, Fol lowing a morning worship ser vice at the church, a picnic lunch'will be served. In the afternoon a business and fel lowship session will toe held, it was announced by Miss An nie Roberts, secretary. Memorial Service Planned At Park Kings Mountain Chapter, Daughters of the American Re volution, of York, S. C., will conduct a memorial service at Kings Mountain National Mil itary Park on October 7, com ' memorating the 175th anniver sary of the Battle of Kings Mountain. DAR chapters from through out the surrounding area have ibeen invited to attend the ob servance, and a number of members of the Col.-Frederick Hamtoright chapter, of Kings Mountain, are expecting to at tend. The memorial service will beheld at 11 o’clock, Friday morning, October 7. Kings Mountain Officials Attend School Meeting Ten persons from Kings Moun tain attended the White House Conference on education which was held in Charlotte Tuesday afternoon. School board members, A. W. Kincaid, P. W. Plonk, and J.. W. Webster; principals Rowell Lane, Mrs. J.dL Thomson, W.'R. George, and J. A. Gibson; Superintendent B. N,. Barnes, Supervisor Alice C. Averitt, and Robert Byers, Lay man representative, were the lo cal persons attending. The three main topis discussed at the meeting were the acute shortage of school buildings, the heed fcr more trained teachers, and the question of asking for additional federal aid for schools. Some 500 delegates from the South Piedmont region attended the meet to discuss these needs. The group emphatically call ed for sufficient buildings to eliminate double sessions, which are now being held in many ci ties, further agreeing that a 12 months’ attendance plan, with staggered terms, would not be a satisfactory answer to the prob lem. The group also agreed that “low cost buildings with high maintenance costs’’ nor an “ex pensive building with low main tenance costs” would not be a solution. A middleg round can be reached, it was said. Dr. William Cartwright of Duke University was spokesman for the group discussing the shortage of qualified teachers in the state. He said, “The state needs 3,200 new teachers each year, one-third of which are needed for new enrollment and two-thirds to replace teachers who are resigning and retiring” He added, “By 1965, there will be five high school students for every two we now have.” Superintendent B. N. Barnes commenting on the last state ment said, “If these figures hold true, we will not have adequate space in Central School to take care of high school students a Continued On Page Eight Lions Club Sets White Cane Sale The Kings Mountain (Lions Club will hold its annual White Cane Drive October 2-12. This drive is put on each year by the Lions Clubs of North Car olina in cooperation with the North Carolina State Association for the Blind. Funds raised during this cam paign are used in various ways to help the 11,600 Iblind persons in the state. Over 300 clubs in the state participate in this an nual event. The local club will hold a street sale of White Cane badges on Octolber 7 and 8. Dr. Blake McWhirter is chair man of the drive in Kings Moun tain. 0 Some ok the many services fur nished to .blind persons are: ra dios for shut-in blind persons; glasses for indigent persons; eye care, such as examinations, treatment and surgery where other funds are 'not available; White Cane walking sticks'to all the blind in North Carolina; clo thes; hearing aids; dental, med ical and hospitalization servi ces; .pre-school institutes for mo thers of blind children-and fol low-up clinics and materials for educational programs on pre vention of blindness. ARP PREACHER — Rev. J. F. Heinsohn, onetime circus work er and performer now an ARP minister, will conduct a week's series of services beginning Mon day evening at Boyce Memorial ARP church. ARP Services To Begin Monday A former circus worker, now an ordained minister, will conduct a week’s series of services at Boyce Memorial ARP church beginning Monday. Rev. Jack Heinsohn, Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister appointed last summer the church’s New Life movement preacher by the General Synod, will preach the series of services here, which will be held each evening at 7:30. Rev. Mr. Heinsohn was born in Long Beach, Calif., in 19?7. His parents were vaudeville perform ers and he made his first stage appearance when he was six weeks old. His parents carried him out for a bow. In his early youth he worked as an acrobat, trapeze performer and clown, and subsequently worked for numer ous circuses, including Wallace Brothers, Hamid & Morton Shrine, Clyde Beatty, Barnes Bro thers and Sello. In his last year in high school he declined a job with Ringiing Brothers in order to get his diploma. He went to HrsKine college through the influence of a friend, found himself financially unable to continue his final two years, but was aided financialy by a man he has nevter met, nor whom he does not yet know, to complete college and three years of work at Erskine seminary. For two years he served as pastor of the Hickory Grove and Symrna, S. C., ARP churches. His wife is the former Miss Martha Lauderdale. They have three children. The services will continue through Sunday, October 9. Shore's Fathex To Fill Pulpit Rev. P. L. Shore, Sr., of Grleens boro, will preach at the 11 o’clock service of Central Methodist chur ch Sunday morning. Mr. Shore, father of the present pastor of Central church, retired last year after a ministry of 45 years. In that time hte served a number of churches in the West ern North Carolina Conference of the Methodist church, including pastorates in Charlotte. Salis bury, Greensboro, and Asheville. He has servted on various boards and commissions of the Conference and was a delegate to the last General Conference of the Methodist church held in San Francisco. Rites Conducted Sunday Afternoon For Samuel Sylvester Weir, Age 88 Funerall services for Samuel Sylvester Weir, 88, retired busi nessman and former Kings Mountain postmaster, were held Sunday afternoon at First Bap tist church. Mr. Weir, who had been in de clining health for the past three years, died at his home Friday night at 10 o’clock. Mr. Weir was a native of this county, a son of the late Alexan der Franklin and Martha Falls Weir. He was born on April 27, 1867. He was onetime bookkeeper at the Klotho Mill (now Mauney Mills, Inc.,) and subsequently managed the Klotho Mill com pany stote. He maintained a life long interest and activity in far ming and for many years was a well-known Kings Mountain dairyman. He served as Kings Mountain postmaster for more than nine years in the period 1923-31. Years prior to his ser vice as postmaster, he had been an employee of the Kings Moun tain postoffice. An active member of First Baptist church, Mr. Weir was an honorary deacon at the time of his death. He .was a former clerk of the church and a past super intendent of the Sunday school. He was a Mason and a Woodman. Funeral rites were conducted by Rev. Aubrey Quaken'bush, First Baptist pastor, assisted by Rev. T. A. Lmeberger, pastor of Macedonia Baptist church. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Miss Sallie Wells, two dau ghters, Miss Veatrice Weir, of Charlotte, and Mrs. T. A. Ham bright, of Grover, four sons, A. F. Weir, Gastonia, L. C. Weir, Long Beach, Calif., and W. T. Weir and S. S. Weir, Jr., both of Kings Mountain. Also surviving are 18 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren. Another son, D. F. Weir, died in 1944. Active pallbearers were Gold man Spears, Broadus Barber, Cline Barber, Nevette Hughes, John Weaver and James Logan Honorary pallbearers were J. C. Keller, Ross Roberts, W. A. Wil liams, J. E. Herndon, M. A. Ware, Campbell Phifer, Ross Ham'bri ght, W. M. Gantt and Dr- J. E. Anthony. City Budget Overspent By $91,486 Castle Will Join Chicago Company Kings Mountain * Foote Manages Resigns Post James E. Castle, general man ager ol Foote Mineral Company's Kings Mountain works, has re signed to accept the managership of the minerals division of Inter national Mineral & Chemical Cor poration, of Chioago, 111. Mr. Castle expects to complete his duties here about November 1. His family will live in Evans ton* 111., near Chicago. Mr. Castle joined Foote Miner al Company as Kings Mountain plant manager about 30 months ago, after holding a position with St. Joseph Lead Company. A native of Beverly, Mass., he received the degree of Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1935, then spent thrlee years in Korea with Oriental Consolidated Min ing Corporation. In 1942, he re ceived the degree of Master of Science from Colorado School of Mines. Annoui.cement has not yet be‘en made by Foote Mineral Company as to the identity of Mr. Castle’s successor here. During Mr. Cas tle’s management, the Kings Mountain plant has vastly ex panded its production facilities for thie extraction of lithium ore. Foreign Student Weekend PIqnned The Kings Mountain Council of Churchwomen is inviting Kings Mountain citizens to participate November 5-6 in a project desig nated “Foreign Student Week end.” Mrs. J. B. Simpson, the presi dent, made the announcement Tuesday, noting that the church women’s group is sponsoring the weekend event as “a better means of introducing foreign stu dents to Christian homes and fa milies.” Statistics show, Mrs. Simpson pointed out, that some 45,000 for eign students have entered the United States since 1945, many of thesle students at nearby col leges and universities, she added. Kings Mountain families inter ested in entertaining one or more students in their homes are asked to contact Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Paul Hendricks, or Miss Elizabeth Anthony not later than October 15. Other citizens who may be interested in contributing in any way to the event are urged to con tact any committee member, she added. Weekend plans for the group include a tour of the city, includ ing visits to city industrial plants, the military park, and other plac es of interest, Mrs. Simpson not ed. Committees for the event in clude Mrs. Martin Harmon and Mrs. O. W. Myfers, co-chairmen of the publicity committee; Mrs. Paul Mauney, Mrs. Tommy Ow ens, and Mrs. B. N. Barnes, who head the committee on transpor tation, Mrs. Aubrey Mauney who is chairman of the recreation committeg, and Mrs. Douglas Fritz, Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Mrs. Clarende Plonk, Jr., and Mrs. Tommy Owens who make up the committee on correspondence. Police Investigated Two Auto Accidents Kings Mountain City police re ported investigating two traffic mishaps this week. Both accidents were reported to have occurred Sunday. Around 4-1** p. m., a car unvcu by George McWhirter, of 205 Me Clurd street, Shelby, was Involv ed in an accident with a car driv en by James Will Hullender, of route 2. The cars collided at a traffic signal at the; intersection of King street and Railroad ave., poliefe reported Property damage wars estimated to total $450. A 1952 Ford or.d a 1953 Chev rolet were involved in an accident around 4:05 p. r on Battleground ave. Drivers we e listed by police as Bobby D. Byers, of Blacks burg, S. C.. r. d John B. Smith, of 505 Woodlawn street, Belmont. Both cars were traveling north. Property damages were estimat ed to total $110. RECEIVES DEGREE — Charles H. Gantt, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gantt of 13 Waco road. Kings Mountain, was one of 113 stu dents to receive degrees Monday at the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis. Gantt, who received a doctor of medicine degree, is a graduate of Bethware High School. Communion Day To Be Observed Majority of Kings Mountain churches wil join Sunday in the international observance of World Communion day. The observance, sponsored toy the National Council of Church es, will find the rite of Holy Com munion toeing administered in virtually every nation of the world, Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church said,. Mr. Patrick urged all persons to attend the church of their choice on Sunday to participate in the worldwide observance. It was noted that Communion services will be underway at al most every hour of the day, as World Communion Sunday dawns 18 hours earlier in the Pa cific areas than in America. Meter Receipts $195.02, Up $1 City parking meter receipts for the week ending noon Wed nesday totaled $195.02, a dollar more than reported the previous week. The report was the second for parking meter receipts since the city installed meters in the off street parking lot on Cherokee street. The street parking meters re turned $159.75. The Cherokee street parking meters returned $35.27, Miss Grace Carpenter, of city clerk’s office, reported. Wesleyan Church Sets Rally Day 'Rally Day will toe held Sunday at First Wesleyan Methodist church. Rev. A. J. Argo, the pastor, said a male quartet from the Wesley an college at Central, S. C., will render special music at tooth the Sunday school service at 9:45 a. m)( and at the youth service at 6 p. m., and at the evening ser vice at 7 p. m. On Sunday morning, J. Milton Panetti, Charlotte organist, will play an organ recital at the 11 o’clock service. Reports Unavailable On Movie Petitions Concrete reports on progress of a petition asking the city board of commissioners to reconsider its action in permitting Sunday mo vies here, were not obtainable this week. Several ministers said the pe titions are being circulated in their churches but that they did | not have a report on the number of signatures inscribed. Rev. P. L. Shore, Ministerial association president, said he an ticipates presentation of the peti tion to the board of commission ers at the next regular meeting October 6. MOOSE MEETING The regular meeting of Moose Lodge No. 1748 will toe held Thursday night at the lodge on Bessemer City road. Receipts Topped Budget Estimate By S48.656.49 The City of Kings Mountain underestimated tooth its income and outgo during the fiscal year ended last June 30, the report of examination by A. M. Pullen & Company, certified public ac countants shows. The report was received by the mayor and city commissioners Wednesday morning. The figures show that the city over-expended its actual revenue during the year by $-42,829.82, and its budget toy $91,486.31. It received during the year from all sources $521,387.49, while spending $564,217.31. The budget had called for balanced income and outgo of $472,731. Recommendations made toy the auditor concerned almost solely change of bookkeeping details of funds handled toy the clerk of recorder’s court and the police department. Specifically, Pullen & Company recommended 1) in stallation of more detailed book keeping on funds handled toy the two offices; 2) establishment of a separate bank account for funds handled toy the clerk of recorder’s court; and 3) pay ment of all disbursements from this office toy checks. It was sug gested also that $5,623 in ceme tery fund balances be invested at interest. The auditing firm stated that the city’s net worth, based on book or estimated values of cap ital assets with no depreciation provisions, $1,115,763.67. Total assets approximate two million dollars at $1,959,473.63, less bonded indebtedness, accounts payable and other liabilities of *843,710.06. The liabilities inclu ded: Bonds payable of $763,000, accounts payable of $58,857.94, and. consumer deposits (held as reserves to assure payment of utility accounts) of $21,852.12. The auditor noted that majority of the accounts payable were un paid invoices which were subse quently paid in July and Au gust 1955. Income General fund revenues return ed the city $409,610.82, with the major two categories being sale of utilities at $270,490.54, over $30,000 more than anticipated in the budget, and taxes, which re turned $69,628.66, just $371.34 shy of the expected receipts. Other receipts items showing a surplus over budget anticipa tions were privilege licenses, sale of auto tags (1,113 sold), sale of supplies, water and sewer con nections, intangible taxes, park ing meters, franchise taxes, parking space rent, fire protec tion, grave - digging, and street assessments Street assessment payments totaled $20,931.89. The budget anticipated only $2,500. Other departments, smaller in total figures, were more nearly in halance in the receipts cate gory, including debt service, capital outlay and cemetery per petual care. Spending Accounting for the major por tion of over-budget expenditures Continued On Page Eight City Gamisheeing For Old Tax Bills KIWANIS SPEAKER—A. L. Bech told, of Charlotte, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday riight. Kiwanis To Hear A. LBechtold A. L. Beehtold, personnel and public relations director of Char lotte's House of Lance, Inc., will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis cluib Tuesday night. Mr,. Beehtold will speak on “Sound Human Relations." The club meets at Masonic Di ning hall at 6:45. A former secretary of the Char lotte Merchants association and Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Beehtold has been active in Charlotte civic affairs for many years. He is a onetime staff mem ber of the Charlotte News and prior to that time taught school in Charlotte and Florida. He is a native of Columbus, Wis., and is a graduate of Stout Institute, Me nonomie, Wis. Associated with Lance for the past 12 years, he is a member of the firm’s board of directors. He is known for his development of the “Multiple Management Plan,” which Lance employs. Moomaw At Meeting Of Park Officials Ben Moomaw, superintendent of Kings Mountain National Mil itary Park, has returned from a conference of National Park ser vice officers held at Fontana Dam and Gatlinburg, Tenn. While at the conference. Mr. Moomaw said, he was demon strated automatic slide projector and recording equipment soon to be installed at the Kings Mountain Park museum. The ■ slide projeetbr will be used par ticularly as an aid to school groups visiting the national mili tary shrine. Wave Of Thefts, Attempted Thefts, Plagued Police During Past Week By Faye Meacham Kings Mountain police were plagued with a wave of break ing, enterings, and petty thefts during the past week. Targets of the intruders were churches, cars, a school and an attempted break-in of a Kings Mountain firm. No arrests had been made Wednesday at noon. Two of the bigger ‘jobs” pull ed by the intruders were the attempted cracking of the St. Matthew’s Lutheran church safe last Friday night, and the theft during the night of September 21. of an electric guitar, tan lea ther case and amplifier from the Parker Street Church of God. The thief or thieves, who entered the Lutheran church by an unknown means, police reported, attempt ed to open the safe by removing the hinges from the door of the safe, by removing the back plate of the safe, and by punching a hole through the insulation sur rounding the safe. Police pre sume the thief or thieves enter ed th& Parker Street Church of God either through the front door or basement door which are left unlocked. The amplifier was reported valued at $150. A third church, Faith Baptist, was also entered this week by intruders. Rev. Flay Payne, pas tor of the church, reported to po lice last Thursday. The 'burglars swiped $2.80 from a purse left at the church, and removed the door from the pulpit. Entry to the church was gained through a rear window and exit was made through a side door. Mrs. Joe Thomson, principal of East Elementary school, reported to police Saturday the school had been entered by intruders. Entry was gained through a window on the east side of the building. Police reported nothing was taken by the culprits, tout they had rumaged through ev ery room of the building Police reported a hub cap was swiped sometime during Satur day night from a 1955 Buick own ed by Miss Margaret Ratterree. Mrs. Henry Neisler, of Phifer road, reported to police Tuesday that Monday night between 7 p. m. and 6 p, m. two pairs of dark glasses and a pair of optical glasses were stolen from the glove compartment of her 1955 Ford station wagon. The station wagon was parked near the Joy Theatre at the time the theft oc curred. she reported. Culprits also attempted with out success to enter the Kings Mountain Herald last Friday night. Entry to the building was attempted toy cutting a screen of a window on the North side of the building. Papers Served On 22 Tuesday; More In Process The city tax collector began garnishee action to collect old tax accounts Tuesday. City Tax Collector Clarence E. Carpenter said garnishee notice was served Tuesday on 22 per sons delinquent in payment of personal property taxes and he had another sheaf of garnish ment papers ready for serving Wednesday. Garnishee action requires that the delinquent accounts be de ducted from an employee’s wages by his employer. Mr. Carpenter said he had been instructed by the board of com missioners to collect all over due tax bills and would proceed by all legal means, including garnish ment and attachment of personal property. The city audit report for the year ending last June 30 showed tax accounts outstanding from $37,581.28. While this figure has been materially reduced since June 30, Mr. Carpenter said a large amount is still outstanding. Battle History Going To Press A new historical handbook, published by the Government Printing office on the Battle of Kings Mountain, will he off the press on September 30, Ben Moo ma\y, superintendent of Kings Mountain National Military park has been notified. Mr. Moomaw said he hoped the initial order for the booklets will be received here by October 7 the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain, at which the colonists defeated the British for ces. The booklet was written by George McKenzie, Kings Moun tain park historian, who had pre viously co-authored an historical booklet on Fort McHenry. The booklet (s also profusely illus trated. It will sell for a quarter. Eventually, the booklets will be distributed by vending ma chines located at the park, Mr. Moomaw said.. Formei Club Pio Dies Suddenly J. H. “Buck” Pressly, former manager of the Kings Mountain Country Club, died of a heart at tack at his home in Clerksville, Tenn., on September 22. Mr. Pressley was serving as golf pro of the Clarksville Coun try Club. Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Doris Williams of Ft. Valley. Ga.; and a daughter, Mrs. Dick Williams of Eufaula, Ala. Burial was in Eufaula, Ala., on September 24. Lions Spelling Test Said Tie A two-team spelling contest ended in an official tie at the Tuesday night meeting of the Lions club, though both teams claimed victory. The contest was conducted Iby Rev,. Douglas Fritz, as a substi tue program after a scheduled film on baseball failed to arrive. Prior to the program, Dr. N. H. Reed welcomed 'Ed Tutor as a new member of the organization, and Dr. Blake McWhirter out lined plans for the clubs’ annual White Cane sale. BULLETIN The New York Yankees took a thrilling 6-5 victory from the Brooklyn Dodgers Wednesday to open the 1956 World Series. Outhit. by the Dodgers 10 to 9, the Yankees got three home runs to take a close decision. Joe Collins had two homers and Elston Howard had one for the Yanks. Duke Snider and Carl Furillo had four-baggers ; for the losers.