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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 Rte figure lot Greater tlagi Mountain It derived from tne 1955 King* Mountain city directory census. The City Units figure Is trout the United States census oi 1950. VOL 66 NO. 30 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 26, 1956 Sixty-Seventh Year Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper 1P Pages ID Today PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins PETRELS LEAVE Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Pethel left Tuesday for Auburn, N. Y., where Mr. Pethel will assume duties August 1 as minister of music at Auiburn’s First Pres byterian church. ATTEND BANQUET Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Blanton went tp Winston-Salem Tues day where they attended the annual Mortar & Pestle award banquet of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical association. Wade A. Gilliam. Winston Salem druggist, was recipient of the award. Mr. Blanton is first vice - president and pres ident-elect of the pharmacy as ciation. X-RAY VISIT The mobile X-Ray unit of tht Cleveland County Tuberculosis Association will be in Kings Mountain Thursday, August 2, from 10-12 a. m. and 1-4 ip. m. The unit will locate at Belk’s Department Store on South Battleground avenue. METER RECEIPTS City parking meter receipts for the week ending noon, Wednesday totaled $187,15, ac cording to a report from City Clerk’s office. The report indi cated that the street meters returned $157,.90, while off street meters accounted for $29.25 CLUB PICNIC The Lake Montonia Club will have a picnic at the lake Wed nesday, August 1, at 7 ip. m., according to announcement toe ing sent to members. Members are toeing urged to ibring their families and a picnic supper for this event. SALE Margrace Woman’s Club will sell hot-dogs Friday beginning at 10:30 a. m. at the clubhouse, according to announcement by Mrs. J. B. Foster, publicity chairman. The sale is an an nual club, project. CHURCH SUPPER Young Adult Fellowship class of El-iBethel ,Methodist church is sponsoring an ice cream supper and cake sale Saturday night at 7:30 p. m. at El-Bethel clubhouse for church toenefit. ONE FIRE Kings Mountain Fire depart ment answered a call Friday to Ware and Sons to extinguish a small blaze, Warren Ellison, city fireman, reported. MOOSE MEETING Members of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will hold their regular weekly meeting Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road, Curtis-Gaffiney, secretary, an nounced. W. M. Moorhead Still Improving W. M. Moorhead,,Kings Moun tain Southern Railway clerk who suffered a mild stroke of para lysis about 10 days ago, is re ported improving. Mrs. Moorhead reported Wed nesday that her husband is mow able to be up, and is regaining the use of his left arm and leg, which were effected by the stroke. Mr. Moorhead became ill while he and Mrs. Moorhead were en route to Kings Mountain from a wedding jn Easley, S. C. When the car reached Greenville, S. C., Mr. Moorhead found himself unable to get out of the vehicle’s rear seat. March. April Papers Needed By Herald The Herald is offering ten cents per copy for any edition of the Herald, issues of March 8, March 15, March 22, March 29, and Ap ril 26, 1956. Several copies of each issue are needed to complete newspaper files for the He-ald and for Ja cob S. Mauney Memorial library which annually receives a bound file of newspapers from the Her ald. File copies of several week’s editions in March and April were inadvertently destroyed recent ly when the newspaper plant mov ed into its new quarters. Citizens who may have copies of these issues may telephone the Herald (167 or 283) or visit the -----.- "" J Slater Building $35,000 Addition ACCREDITED — John Smith, an esthetist at Kings Mountain hos pital, was notified recently he had passed examinations accre diting him as an anesthetist by the Board of the American Asso ciation of Nurse Anesthetists. Smith Passes Board Exams John Smith, Kings Mountain hospital anesthetist, has been no tified of his successful standing of the examinations of the Board of American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Mr Smith, who jointed the hos pital ' staff April 10, underwent the examinations in Raleigh last month. " ‘ ■ T **• ' A native of California, Mr. Smith is a graduate of the Orange County hospital" school of nurs ing, Calif., and of the McLeod Infirmary School of Anesthetics, Florence, S. C. He and his wife, the former Norma Frisbete, and two children, live at 204 S. Sims street. Offering To Aid Handicapped A free-will offering will be ta ken at Sunday nights union ser vice for the benefit of the Gas ton County Center for Handi capped Children, an organization including Gaston, Cleveland and two other surrounding counties. Dr. W. P. Gerberding, St. Matt hew’s Lutheran pastor, will de liver the sermon at the Sunday night service, which will be held at 8 o’clock at Boyce Memorial ARP church. Kings Mountain citizens are be ing asked to contribute $500 of a $15,000 fund to provide quarters for the handicapped children’s center. Bruce Thorbum is chair man ofy the fund-raising effort here. The Gaston County Cbnter for Handicapped Children was or ganized as a school at Trinity Me thodist church in Gastonia, Sep tember, 1953, by parents of crip pled or mentally retarded child ren for whom no other group training was available. It was incorporated in 1954 as a non-profit organization with a Board of Directors, to provide transportation, training, educa tion, and other necessary rehabi litation services for the handi capped of Gaston County and neighboring communities. It has been supported entirely by per sonal, civic club, industrial and religious organization gifts. Plush - Maker Says Production At Record Peak A $35,000 addition to Slater Brothers, Inc., Is expected to be completed in the next few weeks. The View addition, about one third completed, will be used as a preparation room, Ralph A. Johnson, manager of the plant, stated Wednesday morning. Future plans for the addition call for its use as a weaving room, housing 54 modern plush looms, Mr. Johnson further said. Slater Brothers, Inc., with pa rent office in Patterson, N. J„ began operation in Kings Moun tain in 1950. The operation in Kings Moun tain begun with 12 looms hous ed in a small plant still part of the present mill, and purchased from Haywood Lynch and D. C. Mauney. Since the original plant was purchased, two other additions have been added, one in 1953, the other in 1955. With the comple tion of the present addition, Mr. Johnson said, overall floor space will l?e 35,280 square feet. Mr. Johnson also said eight new Guskin automatic double plush looms will be installed in the west mill in September. This will provide Slater at total of 72 looms. Employment at the mill is now roughly estimated by Mr. John son at 100, with employment stea dily rising. As for business rioto, Mr John, son said, “The company is in bet ter- shape now than it has ever been.” He further stated last week was a record-breaking pro duction week with 2,387,000 picks. Mr. Johnson also said the plant would reach it’s height of production in August, and was optimistic adding “I don’t expect a slump in business during the next year.” The plush material which is woven at the Slater plant is main ly used in the manufacture of toys such as teddy-bear cover ings. Instrument case linings and casket linings are also being wo ven on a few looms. Postal Change Date Not Set Date has not yet .been set for Charles L. Alexander to assume the duties of Kings Mountain postmaster. Mr. Alexander said he had con ferred with the district postal in spector and that current indica tions are that he will assume the office about August 24. Acting Postmaster W. T. Weir said he had not yet conferred with the postal inspector.. Mr. Alexander, an Elmer Lum ber Company employee, said he suggested the August date, rath er than the previously indicated July date, due to the illness of the late B. S. Peeler, Elmer Lum ber Company president. Mr. Peel er succumbed Tuesday night. After appointment by Presi dent Eisenhower on recommen dation of the Number 4 Township Republican executive commit tee, Mr. Alexander was confirm ed as Kings Mountain postmast er appointee three weeks ago. Bethwaie, Compact Schools Open;; Enrollment Reported Up Slightly ; Bethware and Compact schools in the county system opened lor the summer split term Monday, with both reporting slightly higher enrollments. John Rudisill, Bethware prin cipal, reported total enrollment of 458, including 309 elementary pupils and 150 high school pu pils. He said the opening day figures showed the elementary population off slightly from the previous year, while the high school population increased by 25. He said the school is asking the state board of education for an additional high school teacher to handle the additional load in the high school. Patterson Grove school’s open iig day enrollment was only 62 and was the same on the second day of school Tuesday, indicat ing the school will not have suf arrangement. Previously the Bethware school committee had indicated it would transfer one of the teachers to Bethware, a long with two grades of this three-teacher, seven-grade school, should the enrollment be below minimum requirements. Mr. Rudisill said he anticipa ted a final decision on the Pat terson Grove situation will be forthcoming Thursday, when the district school committee mteets. Compact school showed total first day enrollments, Principal L. L. Adams said, of 435, up 25 from opening day 1955. The to tal includes both elementary and high school pupils. Compact has 18 teachers in all departments. Both Bethware and Compact anticipate an eight-weok summer term, then a six-week suspension for the autumn harvest season. An early harvest would force a APPOINTED — George B. Thom asson. Kings Mountain lawyer, has been appointed a member of the county hospital board of trustees, representing Number 4 township. He succeeds Howard B. Jackson, who resigned. Thomasson Is Hospital Trustee George B. Thomasson, Kings Mountain lawyer, was appointed last Friday by the county board of commissioners to a three year term on the coftnty hospi tal board of trustees. Commissioner Hazel B. Bum gardner made the recommenda. tion. Mr, Thomasson was named to represent Number 4 Township and succeeds Howard B. Jackson, who resigned last week. The new appointee was to- be sworn into office Wednesday might along with other recent ap pointees, as the board organized for the coming year. The dinner meeting was to be held at Brack, ett’s Cedar Park, near Casar. Mr Thomasson is a Kings Mountain native, and a graduate of Davidson college and Duke University law school. He is so licitor of city recorder’s court and a member of First Presby terian church. Mrs. Thomasson is th^ former Marian Arthur. Mr. Thomasson is a son of Mrs. C. F. Thbmasson, Sr., and the Mr. Thomasson. Other Number 4 Township members of the board are Lewis Hovis of Kings Mountain, and R. Burris Keeter of Grover. Two Bids Upped On Cline Tiacts Bids for two of three proper ties of the A E. Cline Estate were raised at last Saturday’s re sale with Warren E. Reynolds, Kings Mountain realty dealer, high bidderr Mr. Reynolds was high at $4, 200 for a duplex house at the corner of Carpenter and Parker streets, and was also high, at $2,000, for a five - room house on Parker street. On the duplex, the bidding be gan at $3885. On the five room house, the bidding began at $1, 585.50. Bid on the third tract, another five-room house on Carpenter street, was not raised from the starting price of $1879.50. Mr. Reynolds’ bid also stands high on this tract. The bids stand open for ten days front date of sale. If raised five percent, the property will be re-sold again. If not, the sale of the property will be confirmed. Three tracts of the Cline Es tate property have already been confirmed. The sale prices totaled $7,405. Hams Funeral Held Wednesday Funeral services were held Wednesday at 11 a. m. lor Mrs. Alphonsin Miller Harris, 94, wid ow of Frank Harris and grand mother of Ollie Harris oi Kings Mountain, who died in Shelby Hospital Tuesday following an illness of three days. Mrs. Harris was a native of Forsyth County, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Miller. She had lived in Shelby for the past 50 years, and was a devoted member of Central Me thodist church. Survivors include three sons, W. C. Harris and Miller F. Har ris. both of Shelby, ar.d J. Frank Harris, Jr., of Troy, S. C.; one daughter Mrs. Terry Moore of Marion; 11 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Ollie Harris made his home with his grandmother from the time he was 12-years-old he re ported Wednesday. The Rev. J. G. Huggins, pastor of Central Methodist church, and thfe Rev. John Lawrence officiat ed The services were held at the City Board Votes To Revamp Set-Up Of Recreation Board City Budget Of $566,958 Is Adopted The board of city commission ers has adopted a record budget of $566,958.38 for fiscal 1956-57 and set the 1956 tax rate at $1-70 per $100 valuation. Also set was the $2 poll tax for men ages 21 to 50. The budget and tax rate actions featured last Thursday’s special session. The budget finally adopted for the year was changed only slight ly from the tentatively estimat ed budget approved in June. The budget estimate of receipts and expenditures was increased some $9,000, with more than $7,600 of this amount essentially a book, keeping transaction. Under a pri or agreement, Gantt and Craw ford, Inc., had stated they would advance total costs of paving a portion of Watterson street and Belvedere Circle. In turn, the city agreed to reimburse the building firm for its on-third share of the total cost. Since the city will han. die the work, the cost had to be included in the budget, both as income and outgo, Mayor Glee A. Bridges pointed out. The other addition was appro ximately $1,610, which the city added to its contingency fund. This money (already in hand) came from the city schools, which said it found it owed the city this! amount to discharge a final bond payment, an obligation of the city but assumed by the county when schools became a county function. The current year tax rate is the same that prevailed in 1955 and includes five cents per $100 valua tion for recreational purposes. The same $2 poll tax prevailed last year. Anticipated expenditures by particular funds are: general fund, $416,647.60; capital fund, $87,457.81; debt service fund. $50, 400; contingency fund, $12,452.95. General fund departmental ex penditures include: Administrative, $21,300.00; Ce metery $6,525.00; Street, $46,. 650.00; Sanitary, $25,333.60; Po lice, $45,145.00; Fire, $19,175.00: General, $51,550.00; Water & Se wer $53,909.00; Recorder’s Court, $2,460.00; Light & Power, $144, 600.00. in other actions the boaro: 1) Voted to rezone to neighbor hood trading area a lot at Alex ander and Walker streets, provi. ded the owner erects a “decent” building and keeps the premises clean. Mayor Bridges said he had received one protest on the re zoning, but that the citizen did not wish his name divulged. 2) Authorized Tax Collector J. W. Webster to deposit all taxes received and to convey the a mount Monthly to the city trea surer. Mayor Bridges said this procedure was suggested by the city’s auditors and by First Na tional Bank. 3) Voted a tax refund of $30.70 to George Thombs, an overcharge on 1954 and 1955 taxes. Mayor Bridges said Thombs’ house was burned in 1953, but that its value was never removed from the tax •scrolls. 4) Voted refund of $14 to Ed Dill, on grounds of lowered as sessment by the county tax ap praisers. 5) Confirmed appointment of William Roper, Jr., Fairview st., as a city policeman. Hunnicutt Wins Service Award Harold R. Hunnicutt, Kings Mountain amateur radio opera tor, has received a public service award from the American Radio Relay League, Inc., for his ser vice in maintaining radio com munications during the August 1955 Hurricanes, Connie and Diane. Mr. Hunnicutt went to Crescent Beach when he heard the hurri canes were expected, and main tained short-wave radio commu nications from the Crescent Beach, S. C., town hall. Mr. Hunnicutt operates station W4UJR. The award certificate, signed by F. E. Handy, Radio League communications manager, states In part, "This certificate is pre sented to the individual amateur named above in recognition of his contribution to the public ser iiUMrtUiUiiUaii Funeral Thursday For B. S. Peeler SUCCUMBS — B. S. Peeler. Sr.. Kings Mountain lumberman, died in a Charlotte hospital Tuesday after a five-week ill ness. Funeral rites will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Central Methodist church. Barrett Services Held Sunday Funferal services were held Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at Temple Baptist church for L. W. Barrett, 64, local groceryman, who died in Kings Mountain Hos. pital Friday afternoon. A native of Cleveland County, he was thie son of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. L Banpett, and was a member of New Prospect Baptist church. Mr. Barrett was a part ner in Barrett’s and Huffstet ler Stores in Kings Mountain. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jennie Bridges Barrett; three daughters, Mrs. Roy Huffstetler, Mrs. Gus Huffstetler and Miss Bobbie Barrett, ali of Kings Moun tain, and a foster daughter, Mrs, C. B. Costner, also of Kings Mountain; six brothers, Qdus, A. A., and Earl Barrett, all of Waco, Ralph Barrett of Kannapolis, Er nest Barrett of Charlotte, and Everett Barrett of Cornelius; and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Lewis of Gastonia and Mrs. Tracy Wells of Charlotte. The Rev. H, G, McElroy, the Rev. Leonard Huffstetler, and the Rev. Flay Payne officiated. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Moose burial rites were conducted at grave-side. Elmer Lumber President Died Tuesday Funeral services for B. S. Pee ler, Sr., 62, prominent Kings Mountain lumberman and a Kings Mountain citizen since 1920, will be held at Central Me thodist church Thursday after, itoon at 4 o’clock. $ The body will lie in state for a half-hour prior to the final rites. Mr. Peeler died at 6:30 Tues day afternoon at Charlotte Me morial hospital, where he had been a patient for the past five weeks. His illness was originally diagnosed as a cerebral throm bosis. and, though he rallied se veral times after entering thfe hospital, his condition had been regarded as critical for most of this period. President and general manager of Elmer Lumber Company, Inc., Mr. Peeler had joined this firm in i928, after serving as Southern Railway stationmaster here from 1920. A native of Rowan county, he was born December 11, 1893, a son of the late George D. and Carrie Miller Peeler. He was married on December 23, 1915, to the formpr Pearl Drace, of Greer. S. C. He joined Southern Railway the same year, serving in numerous stations, including Albemarle and Granite Falls. He attended Catawba college. Mr. Peeler was long active in the civic, commercial and reli j gious life of Kings Mountain. He was chairman of the board of ! stewards of Central Methodist j church, a past president of the j Kings Mountain Kiwanis club, a | director of Home Building & Loan association and of the Caro lina Lumber and Building Supply association. He was for many years an active Scouter and was identified with many charitable activities. Surviving, in addition to his wife, are two sons, Drace M. Peeler and B. S. Peeler, Jr., both of Kings Mountain, three broth ers, H. A. Peeler, and Harry Pee ler, both of Salisbury, and George j Peeler, of Kannapolis and, six : sisters. Miss Eula Mae Peeler, i Mrs. George Coleman and Mrs. I. : M. Shoe, all of Salisbury, Mrs. j C. H. Wetmore, Woodleaf, N. C., | Mrs. Frank Meyer, Brentwood, N. ' Y., and Miss Helen E. Peeler, of I Continued on Page Eight Mack Fanis, Charged With Arson, Is Bound Over To Superior Court i. Max * arris, ou-year-oid tex. tile worker, was bound over to Superior Court Monday by Judge Jack White on charges oi arson. Judge White found probable cause in a Recorder’ sCourt hear ing Monday and ordered Farris bound over to the higher court on a $500 bond. Joe Mull, Shelby attorney, rep resented Farris in Monday’s hearing, and moved that the case be dismissed. This motion was denied by Judge White. Farris is accused of setting fire to his 119 McGinnis street dwelling on Saturday, July 14. A warrant charging him with the felonious charge was filed last week by R. H. Dillard, state in surance investigator. R. M. Smith, also a special in surance investigator, took the stand Monday to reveal results of his investigation. Mr. Smith testified that he found rags, which smelled of ke rosene or some other oil, outside the closet door of the Farris home. He added that he thought the fire started in the'closet. Mr. Smith also said he found a book of safety matches, with one match missing, in the vicinity of the rags. The one missing match was found nearby, he reported. Fire Chief Pat Tignor said added that Paul tails, a mem ber of the volunteer fire depart ment, had tossed through the burned wall a three-gallon oil can, from within the closet after the fire had been brought under control. Chief Tignor said this incident caused him to conduct an investigation. Police Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., reported that he sent a car to pick up Mr. and Mrs. Farris after the investigators, Smith and Dillard, reported that they wishfed to talk to them. Logan said a two-hour questioning was conducted in his office and in an upstairs room of the fire de partment. This same questioning session had been brought under fire by Attorney Mull in his cross-exa mination of Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith took the stand a gain, at his own request, to tell the court that “rubber-hose” nor any other form of mistreatment had been used in obtaining ans wers to questions. Solicitor George Thomasson brought out in his questioning that Mr. Farris had been alone at the house a short while before the fire started, and endeavored to establish the fact that the de fendant was drunk a the time. No defense winesses were pre f I Civic Groups Will Suggest Appointments The city board of commission ers voted last Thursday to re vamp its city recreation commis sion set - up. In its action, the board follow ed Mayor Glee A. Bridges sug gestion that the board ask re commendations of civic and ser vice organization presidents for board appointees. In addition, | the board named Gene Mitcham, j city clerk, as secretary-treasurer | of the recreation commission. The new arrangement is to be j come effective August 2. i Mayor Bridges said he confer red with heads of civic clubs last weekend, and that each agreed to cooperate in the new arrang ment. However, on Wednesday none had yet forwarded recom mendations for appointments.. The organizations invited to make recommendations for recreation board appointments were the Lions club, Kiwanis club, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Woman’s club and Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion. ii uie plan is iuiiuwcu, as ap pears sure, it will mean the end of terms of office of present board members (unless they are | reappointed via civic club recom j mendations.) ! Mayor Bridgles remarked he | didn’t want to be in the position I of discharging the present board, ! but also added he understood the I present members want to be re lieved of their duties. Present members arte Fred W. Plonk, Jack White, who has been serv ing as secretary-terasurer, W. K. Mauney, Jr., and Hunter R. Neis ler. A fifth board post has been vacant since H. L. Kindred was transferred from Kings Mountain by Burlington Industries. Discussion on the handling of City Stadium preceded the ac tion. Mr. Bridges pointed out that the stadium operation technical ly has been under jurisdiction of the recreation commission for several years, but that all inquir ies concerning stadium use us ually were routed to City Hall. City Electrician Hunter Allen re ported that he frequently did not know in advance of games scheduled, and said he'd had some difficulty in persuading stadium users to turn out lights in the concession stand. Action to invite the civic club presidents to make recommenda tions for board appointments was adopted on motion of T.. J. Elli son, seconded by Sam Collins. Under present arrangements, the recreation commission oper ates the city swimming pools and the summer recreation pro gram. Its funds derive from a five-cent per $100 valuation pro perty tax, plus receipts from pool fees and concession sales. Blakely Home To Be Auctioned The residence of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Blakely, killed in an auto accident several weeks ago, will be sold at pub lic auction on August 25, accord ing to legal notice published in today’s issue of the Herald. The sale is provided in special proceedings against Union Trust Company, trustee for the Blakely estates. Olan R. Speagle, of Shel by, is commissioner, with Davis & White, of Kings Mountain, at torneys. The Blakely home is located on a lot fronting 130.5 feet on Moun tain Street. It is 225 feet deep. The lot is occupied by a brick re sidence and garage. Privilege License Sales Still Slow With deadline day next Tues day, purchase of city privilege licenses continued to lag dur ing the past week. Through Monday, only $2, 31G.75 in privilege licenses had been sold at City Hall, which is much less than half the $6. 500 the city expects to be sold during the year. Penalty of five percent per di ont> .AQSM<vt’ ”
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