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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7,206 The figure for Greater Tings Mountain is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City limits figuxe is from the United States census of 1950. VOL 65 NO 47 Established 1889 Kings Mountain N. C., Thursday November 24, 1955 Sixty-Fifth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins CORRECTION In the Herald’s summation of ■Gaston street improvement as sessment payments of last week, one name was inadver tently omitted. Mrs. Lela Jack son paid the city $67.21 for curb-and-gutter fronting her lot of 71.5 feet. LIONS SEE FILM (Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club saw a film “A Matter of Time” at the Tuesday night meeting. The film, in col or and with sound tract, de monstrated research toeing done to determine cause of heart diseases and offered the prediction that this medical problem would !be solved :<<in 9. matter of time.” KIWANIS MET TUESDAY Due to the Thanksgiving hol iday, the Kings Mountain Ki wanis club met Tuesday at noon to hear an address toy Rev. James B. McLarty, pastor of Central Methodist church. The Tuesday meeting replaces the regular Thursday night session.t PARK PAY STATION Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company installed a public pay phone station at Kings Mountain Military Park, it was reported by Floyd Far ris, local exchange manager. Mr. Farris said the pay station number is Grover 9202. MEMORIALS Mrs. Herbert Plonk and bro thers and sisters of the late J. Calvin Plonk have established memorials at Kings Mountain hospital to Mr. Plonk and the late Herbert Plonk of Raleigh. A hospital room has been furn ished by the families, according to Grady Howard, hospital bus iness manager. PLEDGED COLLEGE CHAPTER Charles Yelton, of Kings Mountain, has pledged the Le noir-Rhyne College chapter of TauKappa Epsilon, it was an nounced this week by the col lege. Yelton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Grady Yelton and a freshman at Lenoir-Rhyne. RED CROSS Mrs. J. N. Gamble, executive secretary of the local Red Cross chapter, said Tuesday that the chapter needs a double bed to give to a needy family of the community. Interested citizens community. Interested citiens may contact Mrs. Gamble at 247-M. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts totaled $177.36 for the week ending Wednesday at noon, in cluding $145.42 from on-street meters, and $31.94 from the Cherokee street parking lot, City Clerk Gene Mitcham re ported. JOINS STAFF Mrs. Helen Bowen has joined the staff of Kings Mountain Hospital. She replaces Mrs. Margaret Blodes, anesthetist, who has resigned. Mrs. Bowen was formerly a member of the staff of Mercy Hospital at Charlotte. Business Manager Grady Howard made the an nouncement. ON COMMITTEE Mrs. Aubrey Mauney has been appointed a member of the Cleveland county Morehead Scholarship committee, a group that also includes William Green, of Shelby, chairman, and Dr. Phil Elliott, president of Gardner-Webb college. The committee processes applica tions for the scholarships from Cleveland county students and may recommend to the district committee. A Morehead schol arship is granted for one year, renewal privilege, to the Uni versity of North Carolina. COLLECTING TOYS Kings Mountain Police de partment is collecting toys so that needy children may re ceive a visit from Santa Claus this year, Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., announced. Persons wish ing to donate either monies, new toys, or broken toys, should call the police depart ment, he said. WINNERS IN BABY CONTEST — Pictured are win ners in the American Legion Auxiliary sponsored baby contest crowned Thursday in exercises at the Woman's club. Seated are Ellen Goforth, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. Goforth, and Jeff Maun ey, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Mauney, winners in the contest. Sue Ann Murray, standing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Murray, was runner-up, as was Stanley Yarbro (not pictured), son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Yarbro, Jr., Third and fourth place win ners were Pamela Arrowood. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Arrowood, Mike Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, Pam Mitcham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mitcham, and David Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Collins. (Photo by Carlisle Studio.) Herndon To Head Red Cross Drive New Blood Plan Voted Approval 01 Directors The Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter approved a “donor cred it” plan as one of three suggeste ed methods of improving its 1956 blood program and named James E. Herndon, Jr., as 1956 fund drive chairman at Tuesday night’s meeting of chapter offi cials. A visit of the Charlotte region al ibloodmobile collecting unit is scheduled at the Woman’s club December 1st with donors to be processed from 11 a. m. un til 5 p. m. Chairman J. Ollie Harris ex pressed the hope that the new plan, if approved by the board of directors of the Charlotte region al center, would strengthen the blood program. Mrs. J. N. Gamble, executive secretary, told the group that Miss Antoinette Beasley, Red Cross area field representative, had suggested the three methods to chapter officials at her regular visit to the chapter recently. Mrs. Gamble noted that the donor credit system is being us ed successfully by the Asheville blood'center and other regional blood centers throughout the area. “This plan puts the program on an individual basis,” officials pointed out, explaining that when a person donates blood he would be given a card showing Continued On Paae Ten Retailers Now Open Full Six-Day Week Kings Mountain merchants will be open six full days each week through Christmas. Majority of the firms suspen ded the customary Wednesday half-holiday yesterday, though a few firms (principally furni ture dealers) took Wednesday after non off as usual. Retailers here customarily suspend the mid-week half-holi day during the Christmas shop ping season to better accommo date their customers. T-B Seal Sale Receipts $1,230 Kings Mountain and Cleveland county citizens are responding to the annual Christmas seal sale appeal, it was reported by cam paign officials Tuesday. Total received on Tuesday was $1230, something over 12 percent of the $10,000 goal. Conducted almost entirely by mail, the campaign to date includ es mailing of 7,000 packets of Christmas seals to individuals, another 1,230 to business and in dustrial firms, and 235 to organi zations. Jaycee organizations of the county are assisting in the cam paign and will do follow-up work it was announced by Grady Ho ward, Kings Mountain chairman of the drive. Funds derived from the seal sale are used for prevention and treatment of tuberculosis Churches, Reids, And Stadiums To Be Busy Places Thanksgiving Church services, hunting, foot ball, and plain old relaxation will be the order of the day for Thanksgiving in Kings Mountain. Thanksgiving services will be held Thursday morning in many Kings Mountain churches, while others hold their special services in connection with the regular Wednesday night prayer meet ings. Boyce ARP Church will hold its traditional Thanksgiving mor ning services at 7:30 to be fol lowed by breakfast in the church educational building at 8 o’clock. This breakfast is prepared by the men of the church. St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church will have a matin service at 9 o’clock. This service will feature a program of special music by the church choirs. Central Methodist Church will have a breakfast at 7:30 in the church fellowship hall, to be fol lowed by worship services at 8 o’clock. Grace Methodist Church also plans an early morning worship service at 9 a. m., with a pro gram of special music. Most of the city’s business firms will be closted tightly for the holiday, but a few such as drug stores, service stations, and restaurants will operate. Hunting season opens in Cle veland County and other adjoin ing counties, and many hunters are expected to take to the woods in quest of game. Safety rules in hunting are being stressed for this opening day of the 1955 sea son. Football fans will either go to see Lenior-Rhynfe and Catawba tangle in their annual scrap at Hickory or depend on radio and television for their action. No lo cal gridiron activity is planned. All schools in and around the city will observe their usual long week end, resuming classes Mon day. C. E. Carpenter Seeks To Form Patriotic Group Clarence E. Carpenter, city tax supervisor, reported Wednesday plans tor organization of a “The Battle of Kings Mountain Club, Inc.”, designed to promote and foster the area’s historical promi nence. Mr. Carpenter said he had dis cussed the proposed organization with a number of citizens, that all had expressed interest in the project and the need for promot ing the area’s historical asset. He said fhe idea originated af ter he learned from Mrs. M. A. Ware of the decision of the Kings Mountain Little Theatre, Inc., to abandon its five-year production of a drama commemorating the Battle of Kings Mountain. Mr. Carpenter was a key figure in the 1930 organization which handled the sesqui-centennial ce lebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain in that year. In 1930, then- President Herbert Hoover spoke at the battle site and more than 30,000 people attended the two-day celebration. Mr. Carpenter said a banquet organization meeting is anticipat ed, probably to be held in Jan uary 1956. Further details will be announced latter. — Little Theatze To Give Gcaiedy Kings/ Mountain Little Theatre will present the three-act comedy, “The Campbells Are Coming” by Jay Tobias on December 2-3 a: 8 p. m. at the high school audi torium. Mrs. Ed Tutor is directing the production. The hillbilly comedy was presented here three years ago by the Little Theatre group. Included in the cast 'are Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, who has the role of Ma Brannigan, Mrs. Ed Dill, who portrays Catalpa Tapp, Pat Owens, who has the role of Betty Brannigan, Jimmy Heavener, as Dick Brannigan, D. W. Swink, who portrays Bildad Tapp, B. S. Peeler, Jr., as Cyrus Scudder Becky Tutor, as Kaye Brannigan, Tommy Owens, who has the role of Kingston Campbell, Mrs. M. A. Ware who portrays Mrs. Au gusta Campbell, and Sam Mitch am, as Jeff Scudder. Tickets may be purchased from any member of the Little Thea tre. Mrs. Eisenhower Thanks R. L. Mauney R. L. Mauney, of Kings Moun tain, received a card of thanks from Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower recently as a result of a card he wrote to the President during Mr. Eisenhower’s illness. Mailed November 9th at Den ver, Colo., the card read: “The President and I are deep ly grateful for your expression of good wishfes and prayerful con cern in his illness and I assure you your message has been help ful to him.” The card was signed Mamie Dowd Elsenhower. School Trustees Vote To Purchase Two Properties The Kings Mountain district board of School Trustees held its regular monthly meeting Monday night at Central School with Chairman A. W. Kincaid, J. R. Davis, J. W. Webster, Fred Plonk, and Supt. B. N. Barnes at tending. The major item on the agenda was the discussion of the possibi lity of purchasing small plots of land adjoining Central School playground from Mrs. H. B. Jones and Mrs. D. H. Houser. After a discussion, the board voted to go ahead with negotia tions to purchase the property. Fred Plonk and B. N. Barnes, who had investigated the matter, reported that Mrs. Jon'es was ask ing $4,750 for a Parker street lot aproximately 74 feet by 161 feet, a house is situated on the lot. Mrs. Houser was reported to be asking $1000 for her lot which measures 75 feet by 88 feet. This property, if acquired, will serve as additional playground space for Central School. The board discussed social security coverage for the school cafeteria workers. Mr. Barnes re ported that all of the 14 cafe teria workers were in favor of coming under social security, but that they differed on the effecti veness of this coverage. Three of the workers wanted the coverage to be retroactive to September 1, five wanted the co verage to start now, and the oth er six wanted to wait until Jan uary 1 to begin. The board agreed to split the difference and to start the cove rage retroactive to October 1. Under this set-up, the cafeteria workers will pay their two per cent of Wages to the plan, and this will be matched by another two per cent to come from cafete ria proceeds. Board members pointed out that this way it would be costing the tax-payers no additional mon ey. In another matter, the board voted to allow band instruments not being used at Central School to be rqoved to Davidson School for the use of a new band being formed at Davidson school. Utility Billings At Record High Thie city’s water and power bil lings for -November (to be re ceived by customers December 1) set an all-time high record, Assis tant Clerk Joe McDaniel said Wednesday. This total of the billings for the reading just ended is $24,231.65, including $19,906 for power and $4276 for water. It compares with previous high recorded in June of $23,637. Figures for last November, as supplied by Mr. McDaniel, show consumption of $21,806.23 for po wer and water, with the break down $17,977 for power and $3, 829.23 for water. Mr. McDaniel attributed the majority of the increase to in creased number of customers. Union Service Set To Welcome McLarty Several Kings Mountain chur ches will suspend regular Sun day evening services to join in union service of welcome to Rev. James B. SMcLarty, new pastor of Central Methodist church. Rev. Mr. McLartjf will fill the pulpit at regular services at the Central Methodist church Sun day evening at 7:30. Churches to participate in the union service are First Baptist, Boyce Memorial ARP, First Pres byterian, St. Matthew’s Lutheran and Resurrection Lutheran, it was reported by Dr. W. P. Ger berding. Revival To Start At Local Church A revival service will begin at Church of God, 111 East Parker street, Sunday, December 5. A former pastor, the Rev. Glenn Easom, will conduct these services. Services will be held nightly at 7 o’clock. Special music will be part of the programs. Pastor of the church is the Rev. W. Lankford. Jones Is Charged In Gordon Hold-up Small City Spells Good Samantanism Hilton Ruth, manager of Belk’s, says you can’t heat a small city for neighborliness and friendliness and he has a case in point. On Monday, Mr. Ruth was en route Charlotte when a tire blew. It was the first tire trou ble he’d ever had between Charlotte and Kings Mountain and the work involved in chan ging to the spare weren’t con ducive to happiness. However, since no service station was near, he started unpacking tools and getting about the job. He'd hardly removed his coat until 3. truck sped by, slowed, then turned around and came back. It was L. A. Hoke, the Kings Mountain electrician, wanting to know what trouble had occurred and ready to pit ch in and help. The two went to work and hadn’t progressed too far, until another passerby stopped to lend assistance. The second Good Samaritan turned out to be Jim Kerns, the Kings Moun tain trucker, an especial expert in tire matters. Mr. Ruth admits Trucker Kerns did the lion’s share of the job. “But it just goes to show how nice it is to live in a communi ty where everybody knows ev erybody,” Mr. Ruth philoso phizes. “If I’d have been a Charlotte resident, or from some other big town, I’d have had to change that tire myself.” Lithium Workers Vote "No Union" Production and maintenance workers of Lithium Corporation of America’s Bessemer City plant voted 70-63 against union repre sentation Friday. The election at the chemical plant was held by the National Labor Relations Board. The results of the election show ed that 70 persons voted against any union representation; two voted for the AFL Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers; and 61 voted for the CIO United Steelworkers of America. Of the 139 workers eligible to vote, 137 cast ballots. Two ballots, were voided and two were chal lenged. Richard L. Nelson, plant mana ger, said that he felt the workers had made the right decision. He said, “I am sure that cir cumstances will bear that put dur ing the next year. There was no justification for a union'at the plant, the workers do not need one now, and I don’t think they will at any time in the future.” Neilson added that he under could not be held for a year, stood that another union election MEETING CANCELLED The regular weekly meeting of Moose Lodge No,. 1748 has been cancelled for this Thurs day night, acording to an an nouncement made by Curtis Gaffney, secretary. "Postal Employee Identifies Negro As Knife Wielder Johnny Jones, 56-year-old Kings Mountain Negro, is being held in the Cleveland County jail on charges of highway robbery and burglary. These charges were brought against Jones after he was iden tified as the man who took over $100 from Yates Gordon, Kings Mountain post office em ployee, at Gordon’t home early Friday morning. Gordon told officers that he left the house about 6 a. m. 1 ri day to take his wife to work and failed to lock his door. Upon his return, Gordon said, he felt that another person was in the house and Logan a search. The hold-up man then stepped from a closet with a knife in his hand and took Gordon’s wallet containing approximately $100. The Negro was then said to have backed Gordon out of the house into the road, where the holdup victim broke and ran. Jones, who has a long and var ied criminal record, was picked up Friday by local officers and was questioned at length about the crime. However, he was relea sed when Gordon did not make postive identification at that time. Chief Hugh A. Logan said Jones was taken into custody again Sunday, when he was re ported to be spending large sums of money and when Jones accused a Negro woman of stealing $100 from him. Gordon was called in to look at Jones for the second time, and identified him as the hold - up man. Jones’ beard had grown out, and this, according to Chief Lo gan, was the reason Gordon was able to identify him. The victim also identified a knife taken from Jones as the weapon teed in the robbery. Jones is reported to have serv ed 17 years in prison on a bur glary charge brought against him in another county some years ago. He also has a ease pending against him in Cleveland Coun ty Superior Court now. He is charged with assault with a dead ly weapon with intent to kill. This charge was brought agai nst Jones for the shooting of Calvin Cornwell, another Kings Mountain Negro, about six weeks ago. Chief Logan said Wednesday that Jones had been charged with both highway robbery and bur glary. Since the breaking and enter ing occurred while Gordon’s teen-age son was asleep in the house, the death penalty could be inflicted, if Jones is found guilty. Chief Logan added that no bond had been set for Jones. ONE FIRE Kings Mountain Fire depart ment answered a call Thurs day to extinguish a small blaze at Quality Sandwich Company, Fireman C. D. Ware, reported. Dismissed Officer Davidson Says Logan "After My lob Since '53" In a statement this week, S. R. (Pop) Davidson, recently dismiss ed city policeman and onetime chief of the force, denied he had ever failed to cooperate in any matter of duty with Chief of Po lice Hugh A. Logan, Jr. Chief Logan, in recommending Mr.. Davidson’s dismissal, had charged him with ‘never cooper ating with the department or with me.” 'Mr. Davidson said a campaign to “get his job” had been under way since December 1953, when a letter addressed to the mayor and referred to him for informa tion charged him with being a poor policeman and citing speci fically that he and another offi cer failed to remove their caps while a fuperal procession was passing. Mr. Davidson says the signer of the letter was not revealed to him, >but that he has been able to establish through comparison of hand-writing, by a hand-writ ing expert, that “the letter was written toy a man, then and now, a member of the city police de partment and one of Chief Lo gan’s pets.” “Since the campaign to get my job started,” Mr. Davidson said, “I have been falsely accused of many things, even including theft of parking meter monies. Also Mr. Logan made the state ment in City Hall to another of ficer, when dividing up AWOL reward money that I was to get no part of it.. On two divisions of this money, he saw to it I was left out.” “I never failed to cooperate with Logan in a matter of duty, and the only argument we ever had concerned Logan’s cancel ling of tickets issued by me for parking meter violations. I ask ed why he was cancelling them, and he said he’d cancel as many as he liked, that he would run the department as he pleased. I said no more.” Division Play-off Set For Hickory On Friday Night The Kings Mountain Mountain eers and the Valdese Tigers will invade a neutral field at Hickory Friday night to decide a Western North Carolina Activities Associa. tion champion. Lenoir-Rhyne College’s stadi um is expected to see a capacity crowd as the two gridiron pow ers square away for action. Kings Mountain won the right to represent the South group’of the conference by knocking off a strong Forest City team, 19-13, last wek in Shelby. Valdese had less trouble top ping its division and spent last week watching and waiting for a Southern champ to be crowned. Wilkes-Central and Valdese were neck-and-neck until the two teams met. The Tigers took a 20-14 vic tory from Wilkes and went on to capture the flag with no further trouble. Information concerning the Ti gers has heen scarce, but the Kings Mountain coaching staff reports that Valdese has a team about the samle size as Forest City. The coaches also say that Val dese has a good aerial game in addition to a rugged ground of fense. Doug Cline, Shrine Bowl player, will be the big gun to stop for the Tigers. Kings Mountain will counter with George Harris, the Moun taineer contribution to the Shrine Bowl, John McGinnis, who has scored 84 points this season, Ken Baity, speedy fullback, and Jerry McCarter, a dangerous runner at all times. VALENTINE ELIGIBLE The Mountaineers will also have additional defensive stren gth since Mearl Valentine re-join ed the team Monday. Valentine was ruled ineligible to participate in football actio/i at the end of the first six weeks of school. However, Valentine burned the midnight oil and his second term report card returned him to eligibility, and he will play defensive right end for the Moun taineers in this all-important game, Coach Shu Carlton said. Valentine will come in handy. He will replace Charles Bridges, who has an injured knee and will see mostly offensive action. Offensively, the Mountaineers look like the stronger team, hav ing rolled up 278 points against 40 for their opponents this season. Valdese has scoped 159 points in their nine games, but has allowed their foes to tally 90. The Tigers could hold only two teams away from their goal line during the season, while the Mountaineers managed to pre vent six of their opposing teams from scoring. SINGLE WING Valdese runs from the single Continued On Page Ten Board Defers Salley Decision The Kings Mountain Recreation Commission held a called meeting at the Country Club Wednesday at noon. Chairman Fred Plonk reported that no action was taken on the resignation submitted two wieeks ago by Doug Salley, city recrea tion director. The principal business at Wed nesday’s meeting was the discus sion of a budgtet for the coming year, and of the programs that have been carried out during the past months, Plonk said. Mr. Plonk added that the Com mission was planning a meeting with city government officials sometime during the next two or three weeks to discuss financial matters for the coming year. Members of the Commission de cided to withold action on Sal ley’s resignation for the time be ing. Salley turned in his resigna tion on November 8, but later an nounced that he had reconsidered and did not wish to resign. Miss Beam Takes Chuich Position Miss Rebecca Beam, of Fall ston, has accepted the position of choir director and organist at First Presbyterian church. She is a graduate in music from Converse College, Spartan burg, S. C., and has done gradu ate work in music at Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., and in the School of Sacred Music, Co lumbia Theological Seminary, New York.
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