Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7,206 The figure foe Greater Zings Mountain is derived from the 1965 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City Limits figuxe Is from the United States census of 1950. s Reliable Newspaper Established 1889 U Pages Today VOL 66 NO. 7 Kings Mountain N. C. Thursday, February 16, 1956 Sixty-Sixth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins *. COMMUNICATION An emergent communication of Fairview Lodge for work in the first degree will be held Monday night at 7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall, according to an nouncement made Iby J. !B. Simpson. BOARD MEETING The regular monthly meeting of the Kings Mountain City School board will be held Mon day night at 7 p. m. Supt. B. N. Barnes reported Wednesday that only routine busines mat ters are scheduled to be dis cussed at that time. APPRECIATION Two Kings Mountain organi zations, Otis D. Green Post 155 American Legion, and Kings Mountain Lions club, have re ported receiving letters of ap preciation from George Lay cock, county hospitals admini trator, for $250 gifts for furn ishing rooms in the new wing of the Kings Mountain hospi tal. The new wing is nearing completion. NAMED CHAIRMEN J. W. Webster and Dr. Blake McWhirter will serve as co chairmen of the annual Lions club broom sale to Ibe conduc ted soon, it was announced Tuesday by Gene Timms, Lions president. Proceeds benefit the blind. HOSPITALIZED Dallas Hoyle, Lake Montonia caretaker, is in Kings Moun tain Hospital for treatment and observation' following an ill ness this past weekend. Dr. Paul Nolan reported Wednes day that Mr. Hoyle is getting along well. QUARTET TO SING * The Melody Quartet of Kings Mountain will present special music at the regular Sunday evening service at Penley’s Chapel Methodist church, it was announced by Leonard Huffstetler. The service will be gin at 7 o’clock. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending noon, Wednesday totaled $150.46, ac cording to City Clerk Gene Mitchem’s report Wednesday. Mitchem said the street me ters returned $116.96, while the off-street meters accounted for $33.50. MUSICAL PROGRAM „ The Lutheran Seminary Choir of Columbia, $5. C., will pre sent a musical program at Res urrection Lutheran church here on Sunday evening, March 4. The Rev. Richard Fritz, broth er of Rev. Douglas Fritz, of Kings Mountain, will conduct the program. The Lenoir-Rhyne Choir will also be in Kings Mountain Afcril 8, for another program of music at the chur ch. - ON HONOR ROLL Miss Anne Dilling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dilling, has been listed among the hon or students at Limestone col lege, Gaffney, S. C., for the first semester of the 1955-56 ses sion by Dean Harold P. Wheel er. To merit the classification, A student must have grades of A on at least half of her subjects and an average of at least B on the other half. HONOR STUDENTS Donald Eugene McCarter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McCar ter, and Jane Kathryn Ormand. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ormand, both of Kings Moun tain were Included in students making the Dean’s List at Lees-McRae college for the first semester of the 1955-56 school year. To be placed on the Dean’s List, a student must have made no grade of less than a “B” for the semester. Webstei Issued Huee Permits Three building permits tdtal ing $15,200 were issued this week by Building Inspector J- W. Webs ter. Wednesday, a permit was issu ed to Plato Heavner to remodel a house on Patterson circle, at an estimated cost of $700. Norman King was issued a per mit Monday to build a house on N Piedmont ave., at an estimated cost of $8,000. Friday, Crawford & Gantt, Inc., was issued a permit to erect a house on Belvedere circle, at an estimated cost of $6,500. Retailer Banquet Set For Monday SPEAKER — Sam D. Bundy, Farmville school superintendent and humorist, will address Kings Mountain retail merchants and their employees at the annual banquet of the Merchants asso ciation Monday night. ISO Attended Scout Banquet A near capacity crowd of ap proximately 150 Boy Scouts, their fathers and friends flocked “ to Kings Mountain Woman’s club Monday night for the annual Scout-Father banquet. Principal speaker for fhe occa sion was Alfred Boyles, publicity director for "Horn in the West.” Much to the delight of the crowd, Boyles turned out to be a former professional magician, who thril led the boys with his feats of magic for some 30 minutes. In the serious portion of his speech, Boyles said, “I am distur bed about the indifference con cerning the principles that have made this country great. The Communists are hitting at our weak spots every day, and have caused great disturbances in this country in our churches, schools, and in many cases in our government.” He added, “Scouting is a thorn in the side of Communism, and they know it. The Boy Scouts of America give them one less weak spot to hit, and Scouting is based on the fundamental principles of our way of life.” Boyles called upon the men pre sent to see that Scouting does not die, and that the program is carried on in the same fine man ner. that has been experienced in years past. Unaries lv. Jtsryam, presmem of the Piedmont Council, brought greetings to the group from the Council. Bryant added that of the many Father-Scout, banquets he had attended, Kings Mountain’s was the finest he had witnessed. He also gave high praise to Aub rey Mauney for his fine work in preparing the programs present ed to each Scout and father at tending. Bryant also said that this was the most promising thing in the way of scouting to take place in the city during the past three years. Booth Gillespie, chairman of the Kings Mountain District, al so had praise for the fine res ponse shown the banquet, and for the many workers that made it possible. Aubrey Mauney, district com missioner, gave a report on Scouting in Kings Mountain to day as compared with 1937-38-39. He said that during the three year period, when Scouting reach ed its peak here, the city had 10 troops and 150 active Scouts. Today’s figures show just five troops. A comparison of the Piedmont Council showed that during the late 1930’s, the Council had 3,500 Scouts. Today that number is set at 5,000, with another 1,000 active Cub Scouts. Mr. Mauney urged everyone present to do their part to see Continued On Page Eight Reservations Reported Heavy For Annual Fete A record attendance is being predicted by officials of the Kings Mountain Merchants asso ciation for Monday night’s annu al Employee - Employer banquet. The event will ibe held at Ma sonic Dining hall at Y o’clock, with Sam D. Bundy, Farmville humorist, to make the featured address. Tickets are now on sale at $2 per person and Mrs, Elaine Queen said advance reservations are largest in history. She asked that association members deter mine their ticket requirements and telephone her office as quickly as possible. Sam Collins, the association’s retiring president, will preside at the session and will make the annual president’s report to the association. New officers and directors for 1956-57 will Ibe installed and spe cial favors will be given the la dies. Mr. Bundy, the principal speak er, is superintendent of Farm ville public schools, a post he has held since 1947. He was previous ly a principal of schools in Dup lin, Edgecombe and Martin counties and secretary of the Farmville Chamber of Commerce and Tobacco Board of Trade. He is an active Mason, a member of the Disciples of Christ, and a Ki wanian. He holds an A. B, degree from Duke University and ob tained an M. A. degree at East Carolina college in 1948. Jaycees Extend Stock Sale Time Kings Mountain Jaycees will have North Carolina Business 'Development Corporation stock for sale until after Monday, Feb ruary 20, Wilson Griffin, shies project chairman, announced Wednesday. > North Carolina’s 107 Junior Chamber of Commerce organiza tions are attempting to sell some $200,000 of the stock for the business development corpora tion. The stock sells for $10 a share and may be obtained from any member of the local Jaycees. He also reported that the sale has been brisk in Kings Moun tain, but that it has not yet met the club’s expectations. The corporation is being estab lished to encourage and offer financial assistance to persons wishing to start new industries or to enlarge old ones, in suitable locations in the state. Governor Hodges and other state officials say this project would be a big boost in locating new industries in the state. It will also make capital for these industries available. Full information on the stock in-the Business Development Cor. poration, can be obtained from Bill Jonas, phone 33, Wilson Grif fin, sales chairman, at phone 8, Bill Eldon, at Foote Mineral Co., phone 1000, William L. Plonk, phone 1133-W, or Charles Dixon, Victory Chevrolet Co., phone 49, Junior Women, Mill Will Aid Hospital The Junior Woman’s club and Neisler Mills division of Massa chusetts Mohaif and Plush com pany are furnishing draperies for the new wing of Kings Mountain hospital. Members of the club had vo ted at a recent meeting to inves tigate a project at the hospital and members voted approval of the drapery project yesterday. Neisler Mills is furnishing ma terials for the drapes, and mem bers of the club are to do the sewing on March 1st. Churchwomen To Observe Annual World Day Of Prayer On Friday Kings Mountain churchwomen will hold World Day of Pray dr on Friday, joining other churchwo men all over the world in the an nual observance. Mrs. W. L. Mauney is chair man of the Kings Mountain World Day of Prayer rites, which will be held at two services, one at Boyce Memorial ARP church at 5 o'clock, and the other, a Ne-_ jgro service, set for 7:30 tfc St.' j Paul’s Methodist church. 1 Taking part in the service at Boyce Memorial ARP church will be Mrs. Fred Wright, Jr.. Mrs. J. E. Mauney, Mrs. L. P. Baker, Miss Elizabeth Anthony and Mrs W. T. Weir. An offering will be taken for Christian missions and women are alsot asked to bring old nylon hose to'be sent to Japan for use in making special items A business session will be con ducted to consider the organiza tion’s 1956 budget. Auto Tags Can Cost Up To $2 Thursday The pric that viola tors may still find themselves in court on improper muffler charg es. Morgan, Moore Running Again Two Cleveland County Demo cratic incumbents — State Sena tor Robert Morgan and [Register of Deeds Dan Moore — have an nounced they will seek re-nomi nation in the May 26 primary. Meantime, a Marion citizen with both Cleveland and Gaston county kinship, issued a trial balloon to determine whether sufficient support is available for him to offer for 11th district Congressman. The Marion citizen is Hugh Beam, a Gaston native, who is superintendent of schools in Mc Dowell county. He also holds a law degree. Should he enter the race, he would oppose Cleveland candi dates Ralph W. Gardner and Hugh Wells and Gaston candi date Basil Whitener. Beam is Mc Dowell county Democrat chair man. State Senator Morgan seeks a third two-year term. Register of, Deeds Moore seeks a second four year term. Lenten Services To Start Sunday St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will hold three services each week during Lent. On Sunday morning at 11 o’clock the theme will be “Jesus and our Choices.” In the evening at 7:30 there will be a service be ginning annual Week of Prayer. Other prayer services will be held Monday, Tuesday and Thurs day afternoons and Friday even ing at 7:30. Wednesday evening Lenten Service at 7:30 will be on “Washing Dirty Feet.” At these services the Passion history is read, Lenten hymns and prayers are used, with brief meditation by the pastors. Kings Mountain Mica Plans Expanding Mining Operations Kings Mountain Building & Loan Had Record Year Stockholders of Kings Moun tain Building & Loan association held their annual meeting lues day afternoon, heard reports showing J.955 the association’s most prosperous year, and re elected all directors. Following the stockholders directors convened and re-elect ed all officers, who are: W. K. Mauney, president; J. d Keller, vice-president; W. M. Gantt, vice president; Ben H. Bridges, secre tary-treasurer; Mrs. Ruby H. Ba ker, assistant secretary - treas uer; Mrs. Louise H,. Martin, clerk; and J. R. Davis and Jack H. White, attorneys. Directors re-elected are Dr. L. P. Baker, Ben H. Bridges, J. R. Da vis, W. M. Gantt, Clyde Jolly, J. C. Keller, :R. L. Lewis (of Besse mer City), J. E. Mauney, R. L. Mauney, W. K. Mauney, T. C. Summer (of Cherryville), and G. G. White.' Secretary Bridges presented a printed report to stockholders showing both activities and sum maries for 1955 and comparisons in assets and liabilities for the period 1952-55. During the four year period, the report showed, total assets of the association have virtually doubled, as have savings accounts, and mortgage loans increased during the peri od from $765,000 to $1,337,039. During 1955 association assets jumped 36.95 percent to $1,680, 877.41, while savings increased by 47.78 percent to $1,570,778.39. Dividends paid during 1955 total ed $26.722 94. During 1955, the association made 254 loans totaling $552, 83V.58, including 60 for construc tion of new homes, 30 for pur chase bf homes, and 164 for re modeling and other purposes. At year-enti, the loan portfolio showed 745 loans, averaging $1, 794.68 each. Mr. Bridges reported the savings total included 665 optional savings accounts and 243 full-ipaid stock accounts, at an average of $1,729.93 per ac count. During 1955, the associa tion opened 296 new savings ac counts. Association reserves at year end were; $75,583.60 contingency reserve, and $28,287.69 reserve for-bad debts. Financial Firms To Close Wednesday Kings Mountain financial in-. stitutions will join others in the area next Wednesday in observ ing the George Washington birth day anniversary as a holiday. First National Bank, Kings Mountain Building & Loan and Home Building & Loan officials said they would be closed for the full day. F. R. Summers, president of First National Bank, said banks and other financial firms in Shel by, Gastonia and other surround ing communities have also an nounced they would take Febru ary 22 as a holiday. Herndons Son Fatally Stabbed Albert Herndon, 38-year-old Negro of Charlotte, and a son of Rev. Fred Herndon of Kings Mountain, was stabbed to death at his home last Friday night. Charlotte police reported that Janie Brewer Thomas, 22-year old Negress of 612 West Tremont avenue, has admitted stabbing Herndon. She told the officers that Herndon had been slapping her children. The girl is being held without bond in the Charlotte jail on charges of murder. The murder weapon, according to officers in Charlotte, was a butcher 'knife. The fatal wound was beneath Herndon’s left shoulder blade, where the girl said she stabbed him in the back. Local survivors include his fa ther, his step-mother, Bessie Herndon; a brother, Robert Heri\ don; and a half-sister, Eloise Jackson. A sister, Lucille Hern don, of Charlotte, also survives; along with Herndon’s wife and two small sons. Funeral services were held in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon, with burial following in Bynum Chapel cemetery here. C. L. Alexander Postoffice Nominee Nomination Sent To U. S. Senate By President Charles L. Alexander, 34, Kings Mountain native and World War II veteran, was nominated for! Kings Mountain postmaster by | President Eisenhower last Fri day. Alexander’s nomination was sdht to the U. S. Senate for con firmation, along with names of 17 other Carolinas postmaster nominees. The Kings Mountain position currently pays $5,904 per annum. On Wednesday, Mr. Alexander said he had received no formal communication regarding his no. mination, though at least two postmaster trade associations had written congratulatory mes sages and had invited his mem bership application. If confirmed, as anticipated, Mr. Alexander will succeed W. E. Blakely, who resigned 13 months ago. W. T. Weir is serving as act ing postmaster. Mr. Alexander pieced third in competitive civil service examina tions for the postmastership last May, He won the endorsement of the township Republican execu tive committee in . December. Though a registered Democrat, Mr. Alexander is a practicing Re publican and himself was a mem ber of the township executive committee until he resigned to take the postmaster examination. A son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Alexander, the postmaster nomi nee is a veteran employee of El mer Lumber Company, where he has been employed for the past nine years. He is payroll clerk, handles general bookkeeping du ties, and does part-time estimat ing work. He is chairman of Ma cedonia Baptist church building fund, a former deacon of the church, and a past director of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce. In World War II, he served as a yeoman aboard amphibious type vessels in the Atlantic. Mrs. Alexander is the former Miss Ruby Moss. They have two children, a boy, age 7, and a girl, 2. Youth Faces Two Larceny Charges Thomas Jenkins, 17-year-old youth of route 2, Kings Mountain, will face charges of temporary larceny of an auto and larceny of property in Cleveland County Recorder’s Court Friday. Young Jenkins is accused of taking a 1950 Mercury automobile belonging to Mrs. Gene Jenkins without permission Monday night. He is also charged with stealing a metal serving tray from the Silver Dollar Grill on Grover highway on the same night. AT DAVIDSON Rev. P,. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church, at tended a meeting of the 'board of trustees of Davidson college held at the college Wednesday. NOMINATED — Charles L. Alex ander was nominated last Friday by President Eisenhower to be Kings Mountain postmaster. The appointment awaits confirmdtion by the United States Senate. Ersldne Singers At ARP Sunday The Erskine College Choral eers, under the direction of Ar thur Tennent, will present a wor ship program in songs at Boyce Memorial ARP church Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock ser vices. Sunday’s services will be the fourth annual presentation of a musical program here by the cho rus composed of 21 students. The Choraleers will present as their selections: "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee” by Bach, “Hear My Prayer,” Arkhangel sky, “God So Loved the World," Stainer,” “Cimond,” Grant "Were You There,” Negro spiri. tual, “Lonesome Valley,” White spiritual, “For All the Saints,” Vaughn Williams, and “Allelm jah,” by Thompson. Vocal selections by Miss Fran ces Gettys, soloist, will include “My Task” by Ashford and “My Heart Ever Faithful” by Bach. Mr. Tennett, the director, is head of the music department of the Due West, S. C., institution. Miss Ann Patrick will be accom panist for the group. Dimes Drive Reaches $3,000 Kings Mountain’s March of Dimes campaign has netted only 60 per cent of its $5,000 quota, according to co-chairman Charles Dixon. Mr. Dixon reported Wednesday that only $3,000 of the quota has been reached. The Kiwanis club auction at station WKMT last Wednesday raised some $310, Kiwanis Presi dent Sonny Peeler reported this week. Dixon indicated that the $3,000 figure would include money that has been raised and not turned in. He added that any further donations for the campaign would be welcomed. Tony Anthony Is Still Unconscious Aftei Being Hit By Car On Monday Tony Anthony, seven year-old Bethware School student, who was struck by an automobile Monday afternoon as he left a school bus, has been transferred to Charlotte Memorial hospital. Reports are that the boy’s condi tion is serious, and that he had not regained full consciousness Wednesday. Tony, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Anthony of Shelby road, was struck by a car driven by Thomas G. Bowen, 22, of Forest City, as he crossed the road about one mile west of Kings Moun tain Highway 74. Bowen was reported to have been traveling west on Highway 74 at the time of the accident. He was meeting the school bhs when it stopped to put off some child ren, Patrolman D. W. Spratt re ported. Spratt added that Bowen tried to stop, but struck the child and then drove his car into a ditch. The driver was charged with failing to stop for a school bus and with reckless driving. He will be given a hearing in Cleveland Recorder’s Court Monday. The school bus driver, Charles Ray Seism, 17, told Patrolman Spratt that his stop sign was out and displayed at the time of the accident. turn to mine Moss Property Foi Scran Mica By MARTIN HARMON Kings Mountain Mica Com pany, Inc., is moving toward ex pansion of its production of scrap mica for which there now is un precedented demand. Paul Lancaster, manager, said Wednesday his company is be gin.».ng initial construction of fa cilities on the Charles H,. Moss farm on Grover Road, on whiclj leases were obtained about six years ago. Mr. Lancaster said tests show very heavy deposits of hi^h grade scrap mica on the 150-acre tract and said work is progressing on the building of an 18-acre lake—first requirement in launching mica operations in a new area. Kings Mountain Mica, formed in 1950, and its predecessor, have been mining scrap mica on the J. Bun Patterson property north of the city since 1948. Mr. Lan caster says conservative estima tes of reserves are placed at 25 to 30 years and he says the Moss property is equally rich in mica deposits. Peak demand for scrap mica, both wet and dry ground, is re sulting from its uses in manu facture of high-grade paints, plastics, welding rod coatings, rubber goods and in joint ce ments, the last a relatively new use, Mr. Lancaster noted. Kings Mountain Mica current ly is operating on a three-shift, six-day week and employing 42 persons. In 1948, Mr. Hendricks, an ex-road building contractor, acquired leases and began min ing the Patterson property. He formed Kings Mountain Mica Company, Inc., in 1950. Officers are: James B. Preston, Jr., otam ford, Conn., president; Mr. Hen dricks, of Shelby, vice-president; Hamilton Douglas, Atlanta, Ga., secretary; and Roy H. Gunter, Spruce Pine, treasurer. Mr. Lancaster terms the cur rent operation “one of the larg est and most modern scrap mica recovery plants in North Caroli na, and that means the United States.” Kiwanis Club To Heai laycock George W. Laycock, Cleveland County hospitals administrator, will address the Kings Mountaii^ Kiwanis club on Thursday even ing, it was announced by John Cheshire, program chairman. The speaker will be presented by Grady Howard, business man ager of Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. Laycock is a veteran hospi tal administrator who assumed ihe duties of managing Cleve land County hospitals late last November. He came to Cleveland from Conway, S. C., and had pre viously served hospitals at Char lotte, Asheboro, and in Guam. , During World War II, he was interned in Shanghai, China, for four years by the Japanese, after going to China in 1940 as treasur er of the Episcopal Diecese of China. The club convenes at 6:45 at Masonic Dining hall. Mis. Wilkinson Dies In Newton Mrs. Hoyle A. Wilkinson, 64, mother of Mrs. Kenneth Delling er of Cherryville, died in New ton Hospital, February 1, follow ing an extended illness. A native of Catawba County, Mrs. Wilkinson resided on route 1, Maiden. Funeral services were held at First Baptist church in Maiden, and burial was in St. Matthew’s Reform church cemetery. Bus Station Grill Closes; Hours Alter Kings Mountain’s Bus Station Grill, operated hy Ernest Ray, of Gastonia, closed Tuesday. The Bus Station and Western Union office will continue to operate under the management of Mrs. Edith Carrigan on the following schedule: daily, 8 a. m.. to 8 p. m.; Sundays, noon to 6 p. m. Since the grill had opened the bus station had been open until midnight.