Rites Conducted
Fox Mis. Moss
Funeral services for Mrs, Lot
tie Turner'Moss, 81, for 24 years
a Kings Mountain citizen, were
held Sunday afternoon at 4 o’
clock at First Presbyterian chur
ch, of which she was a member.
Mrs. Moss died during her
sleep at 3 o’clock Saturday morn
ing at the home of her grand
daughter, Mrs. Eugene Goforth,
with whom she lived,. Death was
attributed to a heart attack.
She was a native of Monroe,
Ga.
Surviving, in addition to her
granddaughter, are a (brother,
Sam Turner, of Tallahassee, Fla.,
three sisters, Mrs. G. R. Burton,
White Plains, Ga., Mrs. B. R. Bar
rett, Monroe, Ga., Mrs. J,. J. Med
iin, Atlanta, Ga., and tow grand
children.
The (body lay in state at the
church for an hour prior to the
funeral rites, which were com
ducted iby Rev. P. D. Patrick and
Rev. James B. McLarty. Inter
ment was made in Mountain
(Rest cemetery.
Pallbearers were Harry Page,
Jim Page, Luther Cansler, Paul
Mauney, George W. Moss, and
James H. Houser.
Amos At Neislex;
McKee Resigns
James E. Amgs, Kings Moun
tain native, has ibeen named to
replace William ,F. McKee, in the
Neisler Division of Massachu
setts Mohair Plush Company.
McKee, who came here in De
cember as comptroller of the lo
cal division, resigned this posi
tion last week to return to Chi
cago, according to William Ford,
Neisler Division general mana
ger.
Mr. Ford reported Tuesday that
Amos had Ibeen employed to re
place Mr. McKee, but saldd that
a few title changes had ibeen
made, and that Mr. Amos will 'be
office manager for the division.
Mr. Amos, son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. C. Amos, of Kings Mountain,
graduated from Kings Mountain
High School in 1940, and Horn
Mars Hill Junior College in 1943.
Jle then went into service, and
served three years with the U. S.
Army.
He attended the University of
North Carolina in 1946-47, and
1947-48, graduating with a B. S.
Degree in accounting and busi
ness administration in 1948.
He was associated with Na
tional Cash Register Company,
in Charlotte, for four and a half
years after his graduation. He
was vice president and comp
troller of Driscoll Distributing
Company in Charlotte before ac
cepting the Neisler division po
sition.
He is married to the former
Miss Elizabeth Holland, of Gas
tonia, and they have two child
ren. Mr. Amos is residing in
Charlotte but expects to move
here as soon as housing accom
modations can be obtained.
Bailey Vs. McGill
Case Transferred
Trial of a $150,000 damage suit
against Dr. John C. and Dr. Ken
neth II. McGill of Kings Moun
tain and Dr. Thomas H. Wright
of Charlotte has been moved
from Mecklenburg to Cleveland
County.
Judge J. C. Rudisili ordered the
trial moved after hearing a re
quest from attorneys for the de
fendants Monday. The attorneys
•conjended that most of the wit
nesses are in Cleveland County,
and that it would be simpler to
try the case here.
William J. Bailey, plaintiff in
the case, is asking $100,000 dama
ges from the three doctors, as
well as $50,000 in punitive dam
ages from Dr. John C. McGill.
His complaint alleges that Dr.
John C. McGill persuaded Bailey’s
parents to committ him to State
Hospital at Morganton. He con
tends Dr. McGill acted on ill will
becausb the doctor wanted to get
rid of a patient he knew was suf
fering from incurable hemophi
lia.
Bailey also contends in his
complaint that the other doctors
gave him a hasty and superficial
examination prior to his commit
ment to the state hospital on Oc
tober 15, 1954,
Attorneys for Bailey fought
against moving the trial to Cle
veland County, arguing that it
would be difficult to get an “im
partial” jury in Cleveland.
Troop 5 Scouts
Held Banquet
A 'Mother’s night 'banquet was
!held Tuesday night at Pauline
Club house toy Scout Troop No. 5.
Speaker of the evening was
Rev. James McLarty, pastor of
Central Methodist church.
The program was presented iby
scouts of troop 5. Conway Jolly
lead the scout oath with invoca
tion Iby Jerry Weibster. Dewev
Bookout, scoutmaster, welcomed
the visitors. Billy Shuford spoke
on Tenderfoot rank, (Robert Lane
on Second Class rank, Bill Falls
on First Class rank, and Roger
Blackwell on Star and Eagle
Scout rank. Benediction was said
toy Robert Blackwell.
Primary Voting
SIDELIGHTS
Kings Mountain area voted
“light,” not reaching the total
of two years ago. It is axiomatic
in politics that sheriff’s contests
always attract the most votes.
Why? The sheriff is the guy who
deals with crime. The profession
al criminals have a stake, and
their kin have a stake. Is a’sher
iff tough in court, wanting the
full penalty, or Is he charitable
and will he testify that John
Bootlegger is a good fellow, oth
ef than his troubles with liquor?
At any rate, no sheriff’s race was
involved in last Saturday’s vot
ing and the total showed it.
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Gaston county had a couple of
| con tests of particular interest to
! Kings Mountain. Robert L. Rob
inson, Long Creek farmer, op
posed Bert Ormand for county
commissioner for Crowder’s
Mountain township. Bert*won, as
he has for many seasons. Both
have Kings Mountain connections
in kinship and friendship. The lo
cal folk figure a good man de
feated a good man.
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The other Gaston contest in
volved Charlie Falls, onbtime
Kings Mountain citizen and law
yer, who lost in his bid to go to
the North Carolina Senate. He
ran against Pat Cooke his room
mate of the 1955 General As
sembly stession, when Cooke was
in the Senate and Falls in the
House*. The word was out that
Falls would get a bad shellack
ing. Then the Gaston Dry Forces
got involved, pro-Falls, anti
Cooke, and it lookled like a new
race. But Cooke won, 2 to 1. To
reverse an old cliche, it is pos
sible Gaston voted wet and
drank dry, many have asked?
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Due to somebody’s hitting thb
adding machine wrong at the
Shelby Star, W. H, “Coot” Lutz,
of Waco, who married a Kings
Mountain girl, had a big bulge in
the county board of education
race. Coot was 600 votes ahead
of the pack fn the (early Star re
ports. Later the paper staff re
added and Coot’s total moved
back in line. It reminds that edi
tors, under pressure of hurry and
demands of election party enthu
siasts hungry for news, some
imes get the totals fouled. Coot
wo'n o.k., but it didn’t figure for
him to have that much bulge in
i five of six sweepstakes affair,
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Broadus Ellis, the Grovfer re
gistrar, has an explanation for
| Jie light vote, both at Grover and
■ountywise. Says Broad: “We
ised to vote twice as much as
now, but folks are too busy. They
vork hard all Week, get out of
he mill at noon on Saturday,
hen are ready to go fishing.
They’re not much interested in
/oting.”
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Mrs. H. A. Goforth, the Beth
ware registrar, is going to be
•ome a school girl again. Come
June she is matriculating at Appa
lachian State Teachers College
ind plans to complete work for a
legree. The plains will be for
warded in direct proportion to
how well Husband Hag can cook
for the son and daughter, the
latter a Bethware high school
graduate who is Lees-MsRae
I bound come fall.
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“Well, we got ’em both to
town,” Harold Falls commented
late Saturday afternoon. His ex
planatory remarks were that
both Basil Whitener and Ralph
Gardner visited Kings Mountain
Saturday aftternoon and met each
other at the two polling places.
Handshakes were in order along
with mutual good wishes for not
too many votes.
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Jack White, Whitener’s district
campaign manager, had a rough
lick the day before election. His
father-in-law died of a heart at
tack.
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Hazel Bumgardner said late
Saturday night: “I wouldn’t swap
this Kings Mountain vote for the
job.” Hazel was a 6-1 victor in
Kings Mountain and Grover, top
ped his opponent , J. D. Harmon,
in Harmon’s home box by a
“lucky” 13 vottes.
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East Kings Mountain was the
last precinct in the county to re
port Saturday’s election returns,
i'he ballots were long, and City
Hall is not ideally suited to coun
ting ballots. The doors are wide
open and there are many inter
ruptions. The final was reported
at 12:20 Sunday morning,
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Kings Mountain citizens stayed
up late into Sunday morning
watching the Congressional re
turns and got angrier by the mo
ment at the television reporter
who had “slow” information. Of
course, information is always
slow out of the mountain coun
ties, where it is not uncommon
for vote totals to vary four or
five times in the course of an
evening. Some skullduggery is
probably involved, undoubtedly,
product of old-fashioned strong
man policies, like the time the
prominent Albemarle business
man tried to carry off the ballot
box in 1944 because he thought
his party (Republican) was be
,ng robbed. The man was right,
but his party still won. It re
minds that Kings Mountain area
election counting, both city and
county, has been ’notably free of
chicanery in the past many years.
That’s as it should be.
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For result • speteding, Kings
Mountain, Cleveland County and
College Students
Continued From Front Page
nate, and the men’s student gov
ernment.
Bob Pattterson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dewitt Patterson, was gra
duated May 25 from Southern
Baptist Seminary at Louisville,
Ky. A ’48 graduate of Central
high school, he received the bach
elor of arts degree from Baylor
University in 1952 and will com
plete work on the master’s de
gree at Baylor this summer. He
plans to begin graduate work
for the doctor of theology degree
at the seminary in September.
Mrs. Patterson is a child welfare
worker for the state of Kentucky.
Their address after June 15 will
be 1021 Alta Vista rd., Louisville,
6, Ky.
Miss Margaret McLarty, daugh
ter of Rev and Mrs. James B.
McLarty, received the bachelor
Of music degree from Greensboro
college Monday where she was
active in the dramatics club, the
PK club, the GC Daughters, Glete
club, and president of the Emer
son literary club. Miss McLarty
will sing in the outdoor produc
tion of "The Lost Colony” this
summer.
Miss Evelyn Cline, daughter of
Mrs. Rufus Oates, will receive the
bachelor of music degree Mon
day from Guilford college where
she was in the college chorus four
years and active in other campus
activities. Miss Cline will teach
music in Titusville Fla., next fall.
Miss Nancy Plonk, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Plonk, was
awarded the degree of Master of
Arts in oratory from Staley Col
lee of Boston, Mass., on May 24.
Three Kings Mountain students
received degrees from Lenoir
Rhyne college Monday. Miss
Mary Rachel Plonk, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Plonk, re
ceived an A. B. degree in prl-.
mary education, while Richard
K. McMackin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. McMackin, and Wil
liam P. Fulton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Palmer Fulton, received A.
B. degrees in business adminis
tration.
Two Kings Mountain students
were graduated at Davidson col
lege Monday. John Lawrence
Still, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gar
land E. Still, received the degree
of B. S. in economics, and Rich
ard H. Webb, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Halbert Webb, won the de
gree of B. S. in psychology.
Two Kings Mountain students
won degrees at North Carolina
State college. Paul McGinnis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul McGin
nis, Sr., was awarded a B. S.
degree in chemical engineering,
and Louis Arnold Kiser, son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Kiser, won the
degree of B. S. in textiles. Both
Mr. McGinnis and Mr. Kiser con
template further work at State
college graduate school next fall.
Gene Raymond Welch, son of
[Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Welch
was graduated, cum laude, from
Western Carolina Teachers col
lege with at B. S. degree in math
matics. Welch spent two years at
Gardner-Webb college before
completing his undergraduate
work at Western Carolina.
MORE ABOUT
Lane Resigns
Continued, From Front Page
Force. A member of the Air Force
Reserve, Mr. Lane now holds the
rank of Lt. Colonel. He served
as administrative officer during
his active service career, work
ing on staff duty and staff sup
ply.
Mr. Lane is married to the for
mer Miss Hazel Asby of Beaufort
County. They have two sons, Ro.
bert H. and James B. Lane.
He is a member of Kings Moun
tain Kiwanis Club, immediate
past president of the Gardner
Webb College Alumni Associa
tion, a Mason, a member of East
ern Star, and White Shrine of
Jerusalem, as well as a member
of other organizations. Mr. Lane
is a member of First Baptist
church where is a deacon and
Assistant Superintendent of the
Sunday School.
MORE ABOUT
Democrats Favor
Continued From Front Page
!Jr„ each led by large majorities,
| here and state-wide.
Frank Crane, Commissioner of
Labor, edged Runner-Up H. D.
Lambeth, Jr., by only 163 votes,
and James R. Far low was only
some 700 behind. Crane holds a
thin clear majority in the official
returns.
For lieutenant-governor, with
five candidates in the field,
Cleveland liked Luther Barn
hardt, of Concord, giving him
3,634 votes. Kidd Brewer ran
second, A. C. Edwards third, Gur.
ney Hood fourth and J. V. Whit
field fifth. State-wide unofficial
returns give Barnhardt a long
lead, but Indicate Edwards has
the right to call for a second
primary run-off.
Shelby should make an invest
ment, many think, in a few vot
ing machines, particularly for the
seven large precincts (five at
Shelby, two in Kings Mountain),
or the present large "boxes”
should be split. Voting machines
slow the voting process, parti
cularly when a candidate wants
to split his vote in a general elec
tion. But the totals would be ava
ilable the minute the polls are
closed.
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Why the big Yancey County
vote? It was the first time Yan
cey Democrats had used the pri
mary method for choosing nomi
nees for county and township of
fices. Formerly, Yancey Demo
crats employed the convention
method.
Kings Mountain Military Park
Included In Park Expansion Plans
The National Park Service has
announced that Kings Mountain
National Military Park and Cow.
pens National Battleground Site
arfe included in a six-state park
expansion program for the next
10 years.
The local area parks are
scheduled to receive $150,000 for
parking areas, roads a’nd trails,
improvements to visitor centers,
construction of three employee
residences and three utility build
ings, and for expansion of utility
system.
,This program for the parks
commemorates phases and he
roes of the Revolutionary War.
The project is contingent upon
Congress voting the money for
rt.
Costs involved in the proposed
six-state projects will be approxi
mately $3,812,000, according to
National Park Service reports.
MORE ABOUT
K. M. H. S. Finals
Continued From Front Page
Scholarship medal.
Evelyn Wright, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wright,
Jaycete reading medal.
Steve Kesler, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. L. Kesler, Lenoir-Rhyne
college Forensic-Extemporaneous
division winner.
Dean Bridges, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Grady Bridges, Western Fo
rensic declamation medal.
Sandra Plonk, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wray Plonk, Baker
reading medal and Central PTA
reading medal.
Paul Rollins, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Rollins, Central PTA
declamation medal.
Cary Styfers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Styers,, East PTA
reading medal.
Barbara Ford, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wade Ford, East PTA
reading medal.
Elainb Burton, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Burton, First
National Bank spelling medal.
Robert Plonk, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Plonk, Neisler decla
mation medal and West PTA de
clamation medal.
Joycte Plonk, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hal Plonk, Ware read
ing medal.
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vessel mounts the Navy’s latest
developments in electronics, gun
nery, navigational, engineering
and anti-submarine equipment, as
well as the newest comfort fea
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of' Wednesday, Shelby’s Ralph
Gardner holds a 428-Vote lead
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Jack White, district campaign
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(Ralph Gardner, who expressed
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the unofficial outcome, said this
week he was assuming his op
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