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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 n* flgurs tot Greater Ting* Mountain U dortred from ttt IMS Kings Mountain city diroctory cans us. Th. city UmM> Agate U from tho Dnitod Stato* census of 1950. VOL 66 NO. 10 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 8, 1956 Sixty-Seventh Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Sadie Will Deed City Utility Lines ■9, local News Bulletins ONE FIRE Fireman C. D. Ware reported that city firemen extinguished a grass fire Tuesday around 7 ,p. m. at the corner of King street and Battleground ave. MOOSE MEETING Regular meeting of Kings Mountain Moose lodge 1748 will foe held at the lodge Thur sday night at 8:15 >p. m., ac cording to announcement toy Curtis Gaffney, secretary. JAYCEES VOTE Kings Mountain Junior Cham ber of Commerce joined other civic clubs Tuesday night in voting to contract with the Woman’s Club for meeting place quarters, it was reported by George Thomasson. KIWANIS MEETING Harry Golden, of Charlotte, editor and publisher of Caro lina Israelite News, will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis cluib Thurs day evening. The club meets at Masonic dining hall at 6:45. SENIOR PLAY Certral high school seniors ■will resent their annual play March 22 and 23 at 8:15 p. m., in the school auditorium. D. W.. Swink is directing the play, •Varsity Varieties.” Admission is 50 and 75 cents. TO HEAR HENDRICKS Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, Kings Mountain physician, will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Lions club at their Tuesday night meeting at Ma sonic 'Dining hall. Dr. Hend ricks will discuss “Heart Dis eases.” The club convenes at 7 o’clock. HOSPITAL GIFT Grady Howard, business man ager of Kings Mountain hospi tal, has acknowledged a $50 gift of Margrace Woman’s club to the hospital which is to toe added to the hospital’s equipment fund. MASONIC MEETING "Fairview Lodge No. 339, A. F. 4A.M. will hold a stated com munication Monday night at 7:30 o’clock at Masonic Hall. COURT OF HONOR Regular monthly Court of Honor for Kings Mountain dis trict Boy Scouts will be held at 7:45 Thursday night at City Hall courtroom. At the same hour a cub leader’s training course will be conducted at Central Methodist church. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending noon, Wednesday, totaled $207.77, ac cording to a report toy City Clerk Gene Mitchem. He said that the off-street meters re turned $38.86, while the street meters accounted for $168.91. PRESBYTERIAN George E. Nickels, of Bristol, Tenn., student at Columbia Seminary, Decatur, Ga., will speak at 11 o'clock morning services Sunday at First Pres byterian church and at 3 o cloek services at Dixon Presby terian church. Hold Wins Top Photo Awards Timm Hqrd, former Kings Mountain citizen and now a Charlotte photographer, captured two first place awards and five honorable mentions in annual competition at the Southeastern Photographer’s association in At lanta, Ga., last weekend. The Awards were made during ^ the association’s annual conven 1 tion. Mr. Hord won the Reeves trophy for best portrait of a child on submission of a portrait of John Irvin, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. John Irvin, of Charlotte, and the Warlick trophy for toest ipor ► trait of a man, for submission of a portrait of Rev. hoy Wither spoon, Charlotte minister. The Southeastern association includes membership from elev en southern states. City To Assume Sadie Village Service Soon The City of Kings Mountain is taking over water and power dis tribution lines in the Sadie Mill village and expects to begin giv in service about March 18. The city is taking over, the ser vices at the request of the tex tile firm, which Is giving its lines to the city. After discussing the proposal at last Thursday’s March board session, the city commissioners held a short ses sion Friday morning and voted 'to accept the lines. Work is already underway by the city electrical department on setting necessary poles and in stalling proper lines for the elec trical take-over to serve the 28 residences effected. City Clerk Gene Mitcham said it would be a “simple job” for the city, requir ing setting of eight poles and stringing of wire to provide 220 volt service, kind of power ser vice required for electrical stoves and other heavy appliances. On ly three of the residences are now sered with 220-volts, the remain der being on 110-volt,lines. Mr. Mitcham noted that the cost of providing the Sadie com munity service is minor, whereas the city faces rather large out lays on its scheduled take-over of services in the Consolidated Textiles community. The board, last Thursday night, voted em ployment of an engineer to draw plans for serving Consolidated community homes. This take-over probably won’t be made before July 1, board discussion indicat ed. Sadie Mill community water customers will be billed at the monthly minimum of $1 until the city public works department in stalls meters for the residences, Assistant Clerk Joe McDaniel said. Heart Fond Gifts Reach $682.93 Heart fund campaign dona tions reached $682.93 Wednesday morning, according to announce ment toy Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, Kings Moyntain physician and treasurer of the 'heatt fund drive. Dr. Hendricks said he expect ed several more donations dur ing the remainder of the week. The Woman’s Club has con ducted a mail campaign in be half of the heart fund. Dr. Hendricks said he was well pleased with the response to the appeal for funds, which will be used in research to improve techniques in discovering and treating heart conditions. O'Shields Named Personnel Chief At Neisler Firm Joe O’Shields, recently with El celsiorx Finishing Plant, Pendle ton, S. C-, joined Neisler division of Massachusetts Mohair and Plush Company Monday,. Mr. O’Shields will serve as personnel manager of Kings Mountain plants, according to statement by William (Bill) Ford, Neisler division general manager. A Spartanburg, S. C-, native, Mr. O’Shields was formerly as sociated with Judson Mills, Greenville, S. C. He is a gradu ate of Furman university and at tended graduate school at the University of North Carolina. He is a former semi-pro baseball pitcher. He is married and has one child. He and his family expect to move here as quickly as hous ing accommodations can be ob tained. Religious Count Clean-Up Sunday Ollie Harris, religious census committee chairman, reported Tuesday that approximately 1500 homes in the Kings Mountain a rea were contacted toy 310 per sons Sunday in an effort to get a complete religious census of the city. Mr. Harris added that some 380 homes were missed in Sun* day’s campaign due to the fact that none was home. He said that 50 workers will conduct a “clean-up" campaign Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 o’clock in another effort to interview the residents of the homes missed. Complete figures for the cen sus should toe available next week, the chairman said. This census is sponsored by the inter - denominational Kings Mountain Ministerial Associa tion. Workers from all churches in the city took part in the cam paign. The drive is designed to record the denominational preference of every citizen of the area. Mr. Harris is urging persons missed during the first census taking to remain at home until someone can call Sunday afer noon. Dixon Named GOP Precinct Chief Kelly Dixon, Kings Mountain builder, was elected chairman of the West Kings Mountain Repub lican jprecinct committee at a meeting last Thursday night. Other officers named were Mrs. B. O. Weaver, vice-chairman, and W. A. Williams, township com mitteeman. Reports were not available from other township precincts. Several area Republicans, are planning to attend district and state conventions this weekend, Mr. Williams said. The congres sional district convention is sche duled for Friday in Gastonia, with the state session to follow in Durham on Saturday. JOINS LITHIUM — Bruce Thor burn, former Kings Mountain ci tizen, has joined the Bessemer City plant of Lithium Corpora tion of America as personnel manager. Brace Thorburn loins lithium Bruce Thorburn, former per sonnel manager of Burlington Industries Phenix plant, assum ed the duties Monday of person nel manager of Lithium Corpor ation’s Bessemer City plant. Announcement was made by fi. L. Nielson, plant manager. Mr. Thorburn, . a native of Greensboro, came to Kings Mountain with BurMil in Febru ary 1951. Three years later he was transferred to Burlington as a group personnel manager, and subsequently was transferred to Green Cove Springs, Florida, as BuiMil's industrial engineer and training engineer. Mr. Thorburn said Wednesday he and his family are most hap py to be returning to Kings Mountain. The Thorburns, who have three children, expect to move to Kings Mountain about mid-month. While in Kings Mountain, Mr. and Mrs. Thorburn were active in civic, social, and religious ac tivities of the community. North Piedmont Plans Received Engineering specifications for improving of North Piedmont avenue were received by the city Wednesday, City Clerk Gene Mit cham reportd. The plans, which call for widen ing of the street from Linwood Drive to Stowe’s Store, also pro vide for curb-and-gutter installa tions and sidewalks on both sides of the street. With the exception of the side walk. installations, the expense of the work wi - be borne by the State Highway department. How ever, contracts will be let by the city, with the state agency to re imburse the city on completion of the work. The engineering work was done by W. K. Dickson, Charlotte en gineer, Mr. Mitcham said, and plans are available for inspection at City Hall. N. Piedmont is a part of N, C. Highway 216. German Student Speaks No English! But Teacher AndStudents Having Fun By BOB HOFFMAN You would never think that the slim, brown-haired girl could cause anyone any difficulty, but Miss Louise Kiser, fifth-grade teacher at West School, finds dif ferently. Elizabeth Boess created quite an uproar in the class two weeks ago when she first came in as a student. Elizabeth is a German girl who recently moved to Kings Moun tain and most of her teacher’s: problems arose from the fact that the child could speak no' English when she first entered the classroom. With the aid of two students and a thick pile of first-grade readers, the teacher’s situation is a little better today. Elizabeth has read eight of the books and now can recognize the words in a mild sort of way. The students in the class wel comed the German girl from the beginning, and have done a great deal to remove any fears that accompained Elizabeth on her first day of school. Physical activities come easy to the little German fraulein. She can square-dance with the best of the fifth grade students, and has picked up the game of basketball nicely, Miss Kiser reports. The real problem comes in academics, Reading, being the basis of all education, is the first subject to be developed. Miss Kl Continued On Page Ten STUDENTS FROM ABROAD — The three students above represent the German-student population of West Elementary School here. From left to right the students are Gerhard Piet who Is pointing at their native land of Germany on a globe, Klaus Kopruch, second grade student* and Elisabeth Boess, fifth-grade pupil and newest of the foreign-born students. Elisabeth has been in Kings Mountain for about two weeks and can speak little English. The two boys have been here nearly two years and are Braking fine progress in their studies. Truant Boy Threatens Mother And Officers With Loaded Gun Crypt-Building Gets Attention Of City Board The city board of commissiqn ers conducted a variety of rou tine business at the- regular March meeting last Thursday night. The commissioners deferred for investigation by the mayor and cemetery superintendent, request by a Charlotte crypt salesman, for an option on a tract in Moun tain Rest cemetery. Walter Schyte, who described himself as a representative of an Illinois firm, said he wanted an option on property for the build ing of an 84-place crypt, which he would try to sell in advance to local citizens at $300 per crypt. He said the crypt would be of concrete and marble construc tion and would be approximately 25 x 50 feet. Mayor Bridges and Cemetery Superintendent Sam Suber plan a trip to Pineville Thursday to inspect a crypt of comparable type. Mr. Schyte told the Herald he was a salesman for R. H. Harrill & Company, Louisville, 111., whom he said are architectural specia lists in the building of burial crypts and mausoleums. In another action, the commis sioners authorized Mayor Bridges and Electrical Superintendent Hunter Allen to retain an electri cal engineer to survey and map necessary installations for the city’s scheduled take-over of po wer facilities in the Consolidated Textiles community. Mayor Brid ges said the lines are now being deeded to the city, witftdui Cost. In other actions the board: 1) Voted that bond for the treasurer of the fireman’s relief fund be paid from the fund, if j such payment is legal. z) looK no action on a request of volunteer city firemen to al low them to buy an auto tag reading "fire department.” in lieu of purchasing city auto licenses. 3) Voted transfer of $400 from the cemetery operating fund to capital outlay fund for purchase of a power lawn mower for the cemetery department, as request ed by Supt. Suber. 4) Approved charge-off of ac counts erroneously charged to A. P. Warlick ($25) and to Mrs. W. S. Dilling and a $25 account to Robert Ruff, the latter deemed uncollectible since Ruff had sold his residence 5) Authorized tax refunds of $15.68 and $2.98 to Byron Keeter, both due to double changing on property previously sold, and $4.50 to the H.' J. Plonk Estate, due to error in figuring. 6) Heard a report from Chief of Police H. A. Logan, Jr., who said state highway department of ficials had informed him a stop signal at the entrance of Kings Mountain hospital would be in advisable. 7) Took no action on a previous request by John Cheshire for partial relief from a paving as sessment on Country Club Road. Mayor Bridges told the board he had sent a copy of the city’s privilege license schedule to the Institute of Government at Cha pel Hill, with request that the schedule be studied for illegalities and omissions. He also told the commissioners they should be considering letting of contract for the annual city audit, in order that book-closing work could be facilitated at June 30. Commissioner Paul Ledford mentioned a water service com plaint on Benfield street. He said the customers complained the wa ter tasted bad and could not be used for washing clothes. The Ma yor said if appeared the trouble was caused by insufficient water usage from the six-inch main and that tests of the water for sani tation showed it fit to drink—if not to taste. He promised to re check the situation. Lions Schedule Annual Broom Sale The Kings Mountain Lions club will conduct its annual broom sale for the benefit of the blind the weekend of April 5, according to announcement by J. W. Webs- i ter, chairman. The club has ordered 600 j brooms which it will offer for I sale at $1.50 each. Proceeds benefit the blind, both in the state and the Kings Moun tain area. The brooms are manu factured by North Carolina In dustries for the Blind at Greens boro. RED CROSS DISPLAY — Officials of the Kings Mountain Red Cross Chapter are inviting citizens of the community to note a Red Cross display in the windows of Local Loan and Finance company on Mountain street. Mrs. J. A. Neisler and Mrs. John L. McGill prepared the two exhibits which show progress of the fund drive now under way. Annual appeal for funds for the Red Cross began last week. (Photo by Carlisle Studio.) Red Cross Drive Progressing Well Jaycees To Collect Waste Paper Sunday Kings Mountain Jaycees will conduct a waste paper ipick-up Sunday afternoon, beginning at 2 o’clock. Delbert Dixon and Clinton Jolly, co-chairmen of the pro ject, are requesting that citi zens have their waste paper on the curbs in front of their homes by the 2 p. m. start of the pick-up. Revenue from sale of the paper aids Jaycee civic projects. Persons not planning to be at home Sunday may make ar rangements to have their waste paper collected in ad vance iby telephoning either of these numbers: 756-J, 113, or .896. Honor Society Inducts Seven Seven Central high school jun iors were inducted by the Nation al. Honor Society of Kings Moun tain high school in exercises Wed nesday afternoon. Inducted were Sybil Blanton, Jane Osborne, Doris Sellers, Peg gy Joyce Reynolds, Pat Owens, Mary Ann Beam, and Curtis George. The program featured a page ant by members of the society who outlined the four qualifica tions of membership which in clude character, scholarship, ser vice, and leadership. Campaign Oil To Good Start Officials Say Red Cross fund drive officials said Wednesday that Kings Moun tain’s campaign to raise $5,545 was off to a good start during the past week. Actual figures on the amount of money raised have not been tabulated and returned to James E. Herndon, chairman of the campaign. But indications were that the amount raised was en couraging for the first few days of the drive. Mr. Herndon was out-of-town Wednesday and could not be reached for a comment on the drive’s progress. Mrs. J. N. Gam ble executive secretary pointed out that the city’s citizens can keep tab on the amount raised by watching the window of Local Loan & Finance Company on West Mountain street. A display has been placed in this window, and the drive’s pro gress will be noted there week by week. Workers, participating in the drive, were scheduled to begin the canvassing 'of busines firms and individuals in the city in the past week. Mr. Herndon remarked earlier thfct the quota for Kings Moun tain is set as the minimum re quired for operations and any thing short of the goal wilt re strict some of the work that the Red Cross is doing in the city and surrounding area. Edwin Mooie Seeks Renomination; Candidate Whitenei Visits City Political activity continued, though at a seemingly quiet pace, here this week. Basil Whitener, who has a dis trict - wide campaign manager here in the person of Jack White, brought his campaign to Kings Mountain for personal hand shaking and a “non-politicaj" add ress at the Jaycee meeting. Edwin Moore, of Kings Moun tain, and the four other members of the county school board, an nounced they would sek Democra tic re-nomination. Three county commissioners— leaving only Chairman Zeb Cline of District 1—announced they would sek re-nomination and re election. Other members of the county school board are Walter Davis, Shelby, Charles D. Forney, Jr., of Lawndale, B. Austell, of Earl, and W. H (Coot) Lutz, of Waco. The three commissioners who announced Monday are Fitzhugh L. Rollins, of Lawndale, John D. White, of Casar, and Knox Sur ratt, of Earl. Hazel Bumgardner, Continued On Page Ten CANDIDATE — Edwin Moore. Kings Mountain farmer and vet eran member of tbe 'county board of school trustees, announ ced this week he would seek De mocratic renomination at the May 26 Democratic primary. Mike Dover. 14 Held By Sheriff After Incident Mike Dover, 14-year-old boy who lives near Park Yarn Mill, is being held by Cleveland Coun ty Sheriff’s department on char ges of assault with a deadly wea pon with intent to kill. These charges were placed against the local youth Wednes day morning after he held two deputies at bay and threatened his mother with a 20-guage shot gun at his home. The trouble started when Mike did not attend school this week. His previous attendance record had not been good and the local truant officer, M. C. Poston, cal led at his home Tuesday. Mike’s mother was reported to have talked to the boy about not attending school and he becam angry. Sheriff Haywood Allen said the boy took the shotgun and went to Margrace Store to buy shells for it. His mother called the store, instructed the store not to sell the boy shells, .The boy was refused when he tried to purchase them. leaving this store, he went to another where he purchased three shells for the 20-guage bolt ac tion gun. He returned home and threat ened to kill his mother and “any one else who gets in my way,” Sheriff Allen reported. Mrs. .Dover got the gun away from the enraged boy, and he at tempted to attack her with a pair of scissors. Meanwhile, Sheriff’s Depart ment officers had been summon edg and Deputy L. L. Hamrick [arrived. The boy was said to have pointed the gun at the officer and told Hamrick to stay out of the yard. The officer radioed back for additional help and several cars were dispatched. Deputy George Allen arrived on the scene shortly after the radio call, and he also was con fronted by the threatening shot gun In the youth’s hands. The boy suddenly ran into the house, and the officers were preparing to use tear gas to smoke him out, when he surrendered. Sheriff Allen said Wednesday that Mike is being held on the assault charges and for obser vation by doctors In regard to his sanity. He added that no bond had been set for the youth. Young Dover is enrolled in the eighth grade at Central School. The boy has no previous police record, and has been in no trou ble here according to police de partment records. The boy had been absent from home the night before, to the alarm of his mother, Mrs. Em mett Dover, Mr. Poston reported, and had considered asking po lice to put out an alarm for him. She decided to wait and the lad returned home Wednesday morn ing, saying he had been to his grandmother’s. Whitener Hits Japanese Imports Solicitor Basi’. L. Whitener, of Gastonia, candidate for the De mocratic nomination to Congress from the Eleventh Congressional District, called upon the Jaycees of Kings Mountain to take the lead in staving off the Japanese threat now being experienced by the textile industry. Speaking Tuesday night at the regular meeting of the organiza tion in Kings Mountain, White ner stated that the problem is area and calls for concerted ef fort if it is to be successfully met. “Every citizen of our area should be disturbed about the .present threat to the economy of our section which the importa tion of Japanese textile products presents,” he stated. “Unless Immediate protective measur"1. are taken by our gov ernment, many of our people will find their employment curtailed or destroyed and the textile in dustry of the Carol inas shatter ed,” Whitener continued. "This is a matter of vital im portance to each of us. We are entitled to have immediate re strictions placed upon these Ja panese imports as a matter of se if -preservation.” Whitener’s address followed a day of intensive campaigning in Clevelartd county.