! - Population Greater Kings Mountain . 10.320 City Limits 7.206 Tlw figure foe Greater Ting* Mountain I* derived from ttn IMS Xing* Mountain eitr directory centra*. The City limit* figure I* from the United State* o*n*u* of 1950. VOL 66 NO I 1 C Pages ID Today Kings Mountain N. C. Thursday, January 5, 1956 Sixty-Sixth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS local News Bulletins LICENSES Drivers licenses examiners will toe at City Hall each Thursday during the hours of g a. m. and 5 o’clock p. m., ;t has been announced. One exa miner will be on duty during lunch hours, it was noted. ONE PERMIT 7 Building Inspector J. W. Web ster issued a building permit Wednesday, December 28, to Gantt & Crawford, Inc., to erect a one story house on Bel vedere circle, at ah estimated cost of $6,500. .COMMUNICATION A stated communication and an emergent communication for work in the first degree of Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AM will be held at the lodge Mon day night, Jimmy Simpson, secretary announced. MOVE HERE Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weiss and family have occupied the Cres cent Circle residence recently occupied toy Mr. and Mrs. O. Glenn Florence. Mr. Weiss is operator of Reba’s Fashions. AT CONFERENCE Rev. Howard Cooke, Second Baptist church pastor, and Ri chard Barnette attended a two •day Sunday School teacher’s conference December 29-30 in Memphis, Tenn. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednes day noon totaled $173.33, ac cording to a report from the city clerk’s office. On street me ters accounted for $148.77, while off-street meters return ed $26.56, it was reported. THREE FIRES Kings Mountain Fire depart ment answered three calls this week to extinguish grass fires. Monday, a call was answered to Cansler street, and Wednes day two calls were answered, one to Gaston street, the other to Battleground avenue. SOCIAL SECURITY A representative of the Gas tonia district social security of fice will ibe at City Hall in Kings Mountain at 9:30 a. m. January 16 to provide social se curity information to Kings Mountain area citizens, it has toeen announced by the Gas tonia district manager, J. P. Walsh. Motorcyclist Crash Victim A 24-year-old Traveler’s Rest, S- C., man, Fred W. McClurte, was Cleveland County’s first highway fatality of 1956. McClure was fatally injured three miles south of Kings Moun tain on Highway 29- early Sunday afternoon. He died at Kings Mountain hospital There were no wltntesses to the accident, but Patrolman C. D. Fortune, the investigating offi cer, said that the motorcycle which McClure was riding had skidded more than 200 feet on the pavement. Fortune added that the victim might have lost control of his vehicle while trying to dodge a car or truck. McClure’s body was found in the renter of the busy highway by a passing motorist. Another accident, this one ear ly Sunday morning, resulted in one person being hospitalized and two others requiring first aid treatmtent for their injuries. Cars driven by Alfred Lee Bum gardner of Shelby and Olan Ray Love of Kings Creek, S. C-, col lided at the intersection of Dixon Continued On Page Eight Retailers To Resume Mid-Week Closings Majority of Kings Mountain retail establishments will re sume Wednesday half-holidays next week. Customarily the merchants {Resume their mid-week half | Mondays following Christmas, ': ut the calendar oreak this ; ear resulted in holidays on 1 ifonday, December 26, and ;j londay, January 2, and the i nerchants remained open for he full day on succeeding Wed lesdays. / i Undlr !a4so t^is: gre^t Afrieriijan fi naceif. The Lutheran Brother-■ hood has been assigned a suite of three large rooms well furnished on the third floor. Segregation Letter Unexciting To Local Group Action or tne North Carolina Advisory Committee on Educa tion — suggesting that local committees studying segregation cease their activities — is expect ed to have little effect here. B. N. Barnes, superintendent of city schools and secretary of the three-memiber committee, of fered the opinion as merely an opinion. He noting that the com mittee, which also includes A. W. Kincaid, chairman, and Fred W. Plonk, vice-chairman, will follow the orders of the city district school board. Action, if any, concerning the state com mittee suggestion likely will come at the board’s mid-month meetings. Mr. Barnes said the Kings Mountain board's segregation study committee has been con cerned principally with obtain ing and sifting information on the results of the Supreme Court decision of last year ordering de segregating in the public schools. The Kings Mountain committeemen have attended meetings on the subject, but 'have formulated no recommen dations, nor made any formal reports to the city district board, Mr,. Barnes added. The state committc-e, in its ‘confidential” letter to 174 school groups last week, recommended suspension of the activities of the local committees and prom ised legal aid from the state should local school 'boards ibe faced with legal action seeking pupil admittance to particular schools. Tax Listing Start Is Brisk Annual tax listing for the city and Kings Mountain township was reported off to a brisk start Wednesday by city and county lis|ing officials. City Tax Supervisor Is handlin' the city property listing, while Conrad Hughes is handling the township listings for the county. Charlie Ware is again collecting the farm crop census information. Mr. Carpenter said response to the new city plan, whereby listing blanks were mailed both individuals and business firms, is off to a good start. Several listings have already been made via this method and telephone in quiries have been numerous, Mr. Carpenter reported AH citizens are required to list property for taxes during the month of January. Penalties are provided by state law for those who fail to list or who fail to list within the regular listing period. Citizens are required to list their personal properties of all kinds, from household goods to dogs, and business firms are re quired to report inventories at actual value January 1, plus addi tions during thfe past year of equipment and fixtures. Real es tate transfers should also be not ed, the listing officials pointed out. As usual, the officials are urg ing all citizens to list early in or der to avoid a last minute jam-up with resulting inconvenience. The listing officials will be at City Hall courtroom daily, from 8:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., except on Saturdays. On Saturdays, Mr Hughes and Mr. Ware will be at Carley Martin’s Store in Grover to accomodate Grover area citi zens. For Number 5 Township citi zens, Stough Miller, of Waco, is thte listing official, and will be at Odell’s Store Thursday and Eaker’s Store Friday from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. For the remainder of the month, he will be at his home in Waco. Retailer Group lasts Nominees in the Kings Mountain merchants association were named Tuesday by current directors of the asso ciation. Officers of the association f|r the coming year will be elected through mail balloting Nominated for president wtej F. R. McCurdy and Paul Welkar, Nominated for vice president were Paul H. McGinnis and Char iiuiiuoun, v/iiunco uwmuH, T* ard, Spencer, J. T. McGinnis, Bert H. Bridges. Menzeir Phif4r, Ed Tittor and B. E-rtpiokie) T»te.f The direfetor* alfeo Initiated plans for the forthcoming annUa! employer-employee banquet pf the association, tentatively sched uled for early February.' Nominees for 1956-57 positioi Eight nominees for four t\t year directorships are: Yai Harbison, Charles Blanton, Rii les H. Dixon. Postal Receipts Show $683 Dip; Money Oideis Up Post office receipts for the Kings Mountain postoffice during 1955 totaled $5° 133.69, according to a report m: e Wednesday toy Acting Postmaster Ted Weir. Receipts for 1955 were $683.40 below the $59,817.09 reported for 1954. A .break-down of the receipts shows that in 1955, $14,986.54 was reported for the March quarter; $13,779.48 for the June quarter; $13,614.24 for the September quarter; and $16,753.43 for the December quarter. In 1954, the quarterly reports showed $15,431.32 for the March quarter; $14,053.66 for June; $13, 605.23 for September; and $16, 726.79 for December,. The deficit for the year came in the first two quarters, with both September and December reports showing slight increases over the same periods in 1954. Postal money orders issued in the local postoffice during the year totaled $445,605.28, an in crease of $23,947.81 over 1954’s total of $421,657.47. Frank Cox, money order clerk, reported that the December quarter showed the largest total of money orders with $115,950.41 toeing issued. The 1955 quarterly money order issue was $113,910.27 for March; $113421.87 for June; $102,422.73 for September; and $115,950.41 for December. In 1959 the money order issues were $125,498.12 in March; $101, 833.87 in June; $99,081.73 in September; and $105,243.75 in be r ^ Kiwanis Officers Will Be Installed J. J. Tarleton, Rutherford coun. ty schools superintendent, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club, their wives and guests Thursday night at the annual installation night banquet of the civic organization. New officers of the Kiwanis club will be installed for the com ing year. Mr Tarleton has been identifi ed with Rutherford county schools since his graduation from Wake Forest college in 1925, first as a principal, then, since 1934, as county superintendent. He is also an active Kiwanian, having been a past president of the Rutn erfordton club, and district gov ernor of Division I, Carolinas dis trict. He is a former trustee of Wake Forest college and in 1948 seryed as chairman of the trans portation committee on the Gov ernor’s Education commission. B. S. Peeler-, Jr., will be instal led as president, succeeding J. C. Bridges. Other new officers and directors will also be instal led. The club meets at 6:45 at Ma sonic Dining Hall. DEVOTIONS Rev,. P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church, is conducting the 9 a. m. morn ing devotions program over Station WKMT this week. Nicholas A. Moss Rites Thursday RITES THURSDAY — Funeral for Nicholas A. Moss will be conduc ted at the Moss residence here Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Moss was suffocated in a fire early Tuesday morning at his Staten Island, N. Y., apartment. Laughtei Buys Marlowe Interest W._F. Laughter , has acquired the 52-percent stock interest of E. E. Marlowe in Marlowe’s Inc-, iCipgs Mountain Hodge-riymouth dealer, it was announced this week. Mr. Marlpwe, head of the firm organized more than two years ago, has joined Lee Tire & Rub ber Company as area salesman. Minority stockholders in the motor firm are Howard B. Jack son and W. K. Mauney, Jr. Mr. Laughter said Wednesday the firm will continue to offer all its former services, including au to repairs, with the exception of tire recapping. He said Basil Lovelace will continue to serve as office manager and that Lloyd Ferguson will continue the repair department as body repair spe cialist- Jack Arnette, former parts manager, has resigned. The transaction was effective Monday. Mr. Laughter, a salesman for the firm for the past 18 months, is a Kings Mountain native, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Laughter. He is a veteran of World War II, having served as a bomber pilot in the 8th Air Force, based in England, from 1942-46. Following the war he was secretary of the Kings Mountain Merchants asso ciation and subsequently was an auto parts salesman until joining Marlowe’s, Inc. He is a member of First Baptist church, a Mason, and an air force reserve officer. Mrs Laughter is the former Miss Martha Littlejohn. AMERICAN LEGION Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, the A merican Legion, will be held Friday night at 8 p. m. at the legion hall. Johnson Due Here On January 16; Foote Operation World's Largest Neil O. Johnson, newly appoint ed plant manager of Foote Mine ral Company’s Kings Mountain works—described by Foote Mine ral officials as the largest lithium ore producing operation in the world—will arrive here to assume his duties about January 16. Currently, Mr. Johnson, who joins Foote after long servicq With E. I. duPont de Nemours, is 8t Foote’s homle office in Phila delphia, Pa., and at the Eiton Pa-,r Plant, familiarizing himsel: With Fbote operations there . ; 'A former Birmingham, Ala bqma- resident, Johnson, leaves the explosive department of du Pont de Nemours, of1 Wilmington Pelaware wherb he Jrad sefve< iince 1939 as technical represent a tivq. In this capacity he acted an Consultant and advisor on demoli tion and blasting problems in mlnei quqrry and constructioi i operations. > A World War 11 Major in th< I torts pf Engineers, Johnson ser yed in Alaska on the famous A • can highway project. Later he b« • came a project officer on the En gineering Board of the Joint Army-Navy Board and served as consultant on advanced design equipment. Johnson has had extensive min ing experience, and was associat ed for a number of years with the Hog Mountair* Gold Mining and Milling Company of Birmingham, Ala. He has also served as an en gineer on the staff of the Dorr Company, Inc., of New York, a Consulting firm specializing dn (he erection and operation of che mical processing equipment. \ He is a graduate of the Colora do School1’of Mines and received his degree as Ifngineqr of Mines in 1933. He is a member of Tau feeta Pi scholastic honorary and Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fra ternities. The Kings Mountain plant Which Johnson will head supplies lithium ore concentrates to Eoote Mineral’s lithium chemical pro cessing operations at Sunbright, Virginia and Exton, Pa, Moss Suffocated In Tuesday Fite In Staten Island Funeral services lor Nicholas Allison Moss, 49, accidentally suffocated in his Staten Island, N. Y„ apartment early Tuesday morning, will be held at 3 ocloek Thursday afternoon at the Moss home on South Battleground av enue. The body is expected to arrive from New York by train at 9:30 a. m Thursday and will be at the Moss home until the funeral Mr,. Moss, professor of speech and dramatics at Wagner Col lege, a Lutheran institution on Staten Island, was found dead at 8:30 Tuesday morning when Sta ten Island firemen answered an alarm at Mr. Moss’ second-floor apartment, 522 Castleton Avenue. John A. Matey, chief clerk to the chief medical examiner (cor oner) of Staten Island, told the Herald by telephone that the medical examiner had determine ed that death resulted from suf focation, caused by carbon mon oxide poisoning. Mr. Matey said it was not his office’ function to determine the cause of the fire, but quoted a New York Daily News report as saying the fire “may have been started by a cigarette.” Mr. Matey said the firemen made efforts at resustitation,. The body was found in the bathroom of the apartment. Mr. Matey said the medical exami ner speculated that Mr. Moss tried, without success, to reach the bathroom window. Mr. Moss was a Kings Moun tain native and member of a longtime Kings Mountain fami ly. He was a son of the late Hen ry Nicholas and Mildred Allison Moss- Born on October 17, 1906, he attended Kings Mountain schools and was graduated from Davidson college. He subse Continued. On Page Eight Employment Situation Stable December was a vfery stable employment month in Kings Mountain, according to a report by Franklin Ware, Jr., manager of the Kings Mountain Employ ment office. Mr. Ware pointed out that very few people leave their jobs dur ing the Christmas season and for that reason job openings showed a drop over previous months Mr. Ware reported “the situa tion looks pretty good, and we ex pect no high number of claims during the next three months since the textile industry seems to be pretty stable at this time.” There were only 63 openings reported to the office during the month, Mr. Ware said. Of these openings, 45 were filled by place ment of local workers. New applications during the month totaled 83, while initial claims for unemployment pay numbered 106. Continued claims showed 547 for the month, an average of 137 per week during the 30-day period. Mr. Ware said that he and his staff gave general aptitude tests to 36 high school seniors during the month of December, along with counseling as requested by thesfe seniors. Of the placements, Mr. Ware reported that eight persons were placed in construction work; 11 in manufacturing including textiles; 14 in wholesale and retail trade: and 12 in domestic work. Lutheran Meeting Set For Sunday The annual congregational meeting of St. Matthew’s Luth eran church will be held Sunday, at 7:30 p. m. Reports will be giv en by all officers of the church and its auxiliaries. Four . new coqncilmen and delegates to Synod and Conference are to be elected. , Deacons whose terms expire are Jacob Cooper, Clyde Kerns, A. S. Kiser and James Simpson. Jaycee Project Sunday; Quota Here Is $5,000 The 1956 March of Dimes cam paign is underway in Kings Mountain. Several clubs and organizations have announced projects to aid in reaching the $5,000 quota. A Blue Crutch sale will be held Saturday with the American iJe gion as the sponsoring organiza tion. The Legion will be aided by the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts of Kings Mountain in this sal?. Sunday afternoon, the Kings Mountain Jaycees will hold a “roadblock” to solicit funds for the infantile paralysis fund. The Kings Mountain Lions Club will be in charge of business firm solicitations for the campaign. Curtis Kuykendall, co-chairman of the drive, will be in charge of industrial solicitations. The annual Mother’s March on Polio will be held later in the campaign, which will run through January 31. The Junior Woman’s Club will be in charge of this pro ject. Thle Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club also plans to aid in the drive, but their plans have not been announced. Last year, the Kiwanians held a radio auction to help raise funds Charles Dixon and Curtis Kuy kendall are co-chairmen of this ytear’s campaign in Kings Moun tain. Money raised in this annual drive is used by the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis to fight polio throughout the nation-. It was mainly through the Use of March of Dimes money that the Salk polio vaccine was perfected and the innoculation of a portion of America’s school children was accomplished last year. American health educators point to the development of the Salk vaccine as a great step in the defeat of polio, but they al so point out that many thousands of our citizens are already affec ted by the disease and that they must be treated now as in the past. White Assumes Textile Position C- Glenn White, well-known Kings Mountain citizen, has ac cepted a supervisory position with LinnCorriher Mills, of Landis. He assumed his new duties Monday. The veteran textile man, for 12 years superintendent of the former Phenix Mill plant here, has, for the past nine months been a salesman in this area for Redman Card Clothing Company, f of Andover, Mass. He had previ ously spent some eight years as superintendent of Alma Mills, Gaffney, S. C. Mr. White is a former member of the city school board. He Is a deacon of First Baptist church and a director of Kings Mountain Building & Loan association. Her is a 32nd degree Mason and ar* official of Kings Mountain’s Or-j der of the Eastern Star. Mrs. White said it is anticipated' the family will maintain its reJ sidence here. Press reports from Landis yes- < terday said the LinnCorriher plants are being put back into production after a year’s idleness-. Park Visitors Set New Record Kings Mountain National Military park has set its tenth consecutive annual attendance record. Figures reported yesterday for 1955 'by Supt. Ben Moomaw showed that 148,272 persons wpre logged through the park, ari increase of 4,568 over the ; previous record 1954 total. Of . the total number of visitors, 28 , percent visited the park muse- | um. Addresses of the visitors in- { eluded all of the 48 United Sta-} tes, the U. S. territories of Alas- i ka and Hawaii, the DLcrict of ji Columbia, and these foreign j countries: Puerto Rico, Canal: Zone, Argentina, Cuba, Colum- \ bia, five provinces of Canada, 1 the Belgian Congo, Egypt, Ni-1 geria, Scotland, England, Po-1 land, Holland, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, j Portugal, Korea, Saudi Arabia,! Japan, Thailand, Formosa, Jor- , dan, and India.