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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Ih* figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from
M IMS Kings Mountain city directory census. Tbs City
Units figure Is from tbo Uni tad States census of 1950.
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ID Today
Sixty-Seventh Year
VOL 66 NO. 39
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 27, 1956
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
PLAN REVIVAL
Dr. A. M. Rogers, of Chester,
S. C., (will conduct a revival
series October 8-14 at Boyce
Memorial ARP chuurch with
services each evening at 7:30
A children’s service will be
held on Saturday morning of
She revival week at 10 a. m., ac
cording to announcement toy
Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor.
EAST SCHOOL
Using the theme, ‘The Best
Investment in Life is Time
Wisely Used”, East school won
second place in the display of
school .booths at Cleveland
County Fair last week.
ENROLLS
Jack Floyd, of Kings Moun
tain, has enrolled as a second
year law student at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, at
Chapel Hill.
CORRECTION
iMiss Frances Franklin repre
sented Kings Mountain in the
1955 C a r 01 i n a s Carrousel
parade in Charlotte and not
Miss Jean Arthur, as was er
roneously stated in the Herald
last week. iMiss Arthur was the
1954 princess.
TRANSFERRING
Clavon Kelly, credit sales
manager of City Home & Auto
Supply in Kings Mountain, has
ibeen transferred to the Lin
colnton B. F. Goodrich Store.
Mr. Kelly said he .would assume
his duties Septemlber 26. He
added that he will continue to
reside at 702 Woodside drive
here.
BEING RELEASED
Mrs. Don Parker, wife of
Coach Parker, is expected to be
released from Mercy Hospital,
Charlotte, Wednesday, Mrs.
Parker has been a patient at
the Charlotte institution for the
past eight days, during which
time She underwent surgery
there.
MEETING SET
The Kings Mountain Recrea
tion Commission will hold its
Tegular monthly meeting in
City Courtroom Monday night,
at 7 o’clock, according to an
announcement toy Gene Mitch
em, secretary of the organiza
tion. Dean Payne, Jaycee repre
sentative, is chairman of the
commission.
TO SCHOOL
Jimmy Short, of,Kings Moun
tain, has enrolled as a student
for the fall term at Western
Carolina college, at Cullowhee,
N. C.
X-RAY UNIT HERE
The county’s mobile X-ray
unit will Ibe in Kings Mountain
Thursday and will be parked in
front of Belk’s Department
Store to provide free chest X
rays. The unit will be open
from 10 a. m. to noon, and from
2 to 4 p. m.
e THv
COMMISSION MEETING .
The city recreation commis
sion is scheduled to hold its
regular monthly meeting Mon
day night at 7 o’clock at City
Hall.
TO SEE FILM
The Kings Mountain Kiwanis
Club will hold its weekly meet
ing Thursday night at the
Woman’s Club. John Cheshire,
■program chairman, announces
that the program will be an
Esso Oil Company film on New
York City.
TO FRANCE
Mrs. Thomas Harper and
three children left Saturday for
Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and for
air transportation to France,
where they are joining Major
Harper, air force pilot stationed
at Dreux.
BUY RESIDENCE
Chief of Police and Mrs.
Hugh A. Logan, Jr., have pur
chased the S. A. Lowery resi
dence on North Piedmont ave
nue and expect to occupy it af
ter renovating it. Renovation is
now underway.
MOOSE MEETING
Curtis Gaffney, secretary of
Kings Mountain -Moose Lodge
1748, reported members of the
lodge will hold their regular
weekly meeting Thursday
night at 8tl5 at the lodge on
Bessemer City road.
Wheat Soil Bank
Total Reaches
2,687 Acres
Cleveland county farmers
through Tuesday had soil-bankted
2,687 acres of 1957 wheat, accord
ing to report from the Cleveland
County ASC office.
Deadline for farmers to soil
bank the 1956 wheat crop is Oc
tober 5.
ASC officials said there was
little liklihood the county would
usie all of its $94,800 allocation
for soil-banking wheat. Through
Tuesday, potential soil bank
wheat payments to county farm
ers totaled $68,953.99.
Under the soil bank agreement
farmers agree not to plant any
1957 wheat. They are to bte paid
approximately $25 per acre for
their total wheat allotment. In
turn, the farmer agrees to leave
the wheat allotment acreage fal
low, or to plant it in cover crops,
which he is not permitted to har
vest.
Regardless of allotments, far
mers who don’t soil-bank wheat
are permitted to market wheat
from 15 acres. Their wheat is not
eligible for government loans if
the 15 acres planted exceeds the
allotment. Under the soil bank
plan, a farmer who soil banks,
for instance, an eight-acre allot
mtent, can plant no wheat for
1957 harvest. The soil bank agree
ment on wheat is for one year on
ly
The county’s 1957 wheat allot
ment is 11,300 acres.
Neisler Offers
Houses For Sale
Neisler Brothers, Inc., succes
sor corporation to Neisler Mills,
Inc., has made formal sale of
fers to occupants of 76 residences
at Margracfe and Pauline mills.
The residences have been
individually appraised by Drew
Brothers, Anderson, S. C., apprai
sal firm, which, P. M. Neisler,
Sr., said, is handling all details of
the transactions.
Houses are being offered to
present occupants, with base
terms of five percent down pay
ment with up to 12 years to pay
the balance.
This week the Drew firm has
bteen explaining the sale terms
and have asked the prospective
buyers to indicate whether thye
wish to purchase the homes on
Friday.
Mr. Neisler said that houstes not
purchased by the occupants will
then be offered to others employ
ed at the Margrace and Pauline
plants.
Of the total of 76 residences, 55
arte at the Margrace community
and 21 at the Pauline community.
Blakely House Bid
Was Not Increased
' Franklin L. Ware’s bid of $13,
965 for the Blakely residence on
West Mountain street was not
raised at last Saturday’s re-sale.
The bid stands open -through
ntext Tuesday, Attorney J. R. Da
vis said. A raise of five percent
of the present high bid would be
required to cause a second re
sale.
METERS UNCHECKED
Due to "he heavy rains, city
polictemen passed the custo
mary Wednesday chore of col
lecting parking meter money.
City Clerk Gene Mitham said
the money won’t run through
the counting apparatus when
it’s wet.
CHURCH MEETS IN BASEMENT — Eastside Baptist church, organized five years ago, meets in the
covered basement on York Road pictured above. T he church has designated October 7 as homecoming
Sunday and hopes to raise sufficient funds to com plete the edifice now underway. The church i allows
a pay-as-you-go-basis, has part of the brick and block on hand for the remainder of the construction
job. (Photo by Pennington Studio.)
ELECTED — Dr. P. G. Padgett,
Kings Mountain physician, was
elected president of the Men of
the Presbytery of Kings Mountain
Presbytery at the fall rally held
in Shelby Sunday.
McDaniel Rites
Held On Tuesday
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. at Harris
Funeral Home for Alonzo Baxter
McDaniel, 63, of 24 Walker
strtet, who died in Kings Mountain
Hospital Sunday night.
A son of the late Morgan and
Elizabeth Hardin McDaniel, he
had been a resident of Kings
Mountain for 40 years. He was
employed by Kings Mountain
Manufacturing Company.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Eunice Arrowood McDaniel; a
daughter, Grach McDaniel of the
home; an da sister, Mrs. Annis
Wilson of Gastonia.
The Rev. J. W. Phillips and the
Rev. N. H. Kelly officiated. Bu
rial was in Mountain Rest Ceme
GRASS FIRE
City fireman C. D. Ware re
ported Wednesday firemen ex
tinguished a grass !blaze Satur
day on Parker street.
Poultiyman Bumgardner Develops
New Breed, White, Meaty Chicken
Hazel B. Bumgardner started
breeding poultry for exhibition in
1925, switched to breeding pro
duction types in 1940-41, and soon
will be ready to market the first
chicks from his flock of Domi
nant White Cornish chickens.
The project, in which his son,
poultry expert Dr. Harvey L.
Bumgardner, is chief adviser, has
required ten years.
What’s the total to be availa
ble? Mr. Bumgardner says he has
about 350 breeders, out of 2,000
hatched, coming into production
now and says chicks from them
will be ready to market about
December 1.
Effort to produce the Domi
nant White Cornish results from
the heavy demand for meat-type
poultry which not only produces
big, tender bbeasts, but which is
also easy to clean and dress via
mass production methods.
It was about ten years ago a
West Coast breeder produced a
new breed, Red Cornish. It was a
bout this time, too, that the de
mand trend for white feathered
breeds was noted. •
Mr. Bumgardnfer’s is not the
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POULTRY BREEDER — Haze
B. Bumgardner, Kings Mountair
poultryman, is pictured feedinr
a portion of his flock of Domi
nant White Cornish, a new bree
devoloped by Mr. Bumgardner t<
provide a white, yet meat*,
chicken. %
Eastside Baptist
Sets Homecoming
For October 7
East Side Baptist church on
York road will observe Homecom
ing Day next Sunday, October 7,
as the congregation marks the
fifth anniversary of organization
of the church and makes plans
to complete a new building.
Singing by the Gospeliers,
First Baptist church quartet, Cal
vary quartet, Broad River quar
tet, East Side singers, and other
adult and youth choirs from the
area churches will feature the af
ternoon program which begins at
2p.m.
J. Ollie Harris will be master
of ceremonies for the song pro
gram. An offering will be receiv
ed with funds to be used to fur
nish a roof for the new edifice.
East Side church, organized
as a mission on July 15, 1951 by
Second Baptist church of Kings
Mountain, now has Sunday School
enrollment of 123 and a Sun
day offering of $200. It was be
gun with total enrollment of 62
with Sunday School collection of
$50.77.
Organization of the York road
church was completed on October
7, 1951 and Rev. R. L. Chaney
was called as pastor. The church
elected five deacons, Woodrow
Bridges, Grady Chaney, B. T.
Brooks, Theodore Bennett, and
Buell Humphries. Mr. Brooks was
named Sunday School superinten
dent. Mr. Chaney served as pas
tor of the church until September
1954 and Rev. Don H Wilson ser
ved as the church’s pastor until
April 1956. Rev. Carl W. Greene
was called as pastor of the
church in June.
A building committee, with
Ralph Johnson as chairman, was
appointed in August, 1954, and
on January 1, 1955, the church
voted to move the building so
work could begin on a new
structure. Plans were secured
from the State Baptist Conven
tion, it was reported by Pastor
Greene, and “unable to secure a
loan, the building was started on
faith.”
“Basement has been complet
ed,” Mr. Greene continued, “and
it is being used for Sunday School
rooms, blocks have been paid
for to finish the building, and a
bout half of the bricks on the
yard have been purchased."
Mr. Greene estimated cost of
the building at $10,000 to $12,
000 but noted that “an average
of $526 monthly is paid on the
building but local expenses have
been cut to a minimum since
church members are doing the
work themselves.”
‘The church has made much
progress in five years,” Mr.
Greene added, “and we invite the
public, as well as all members of
the church to visit and attend the
Homecoming Day service.”
City Tax Notices
Mailed On Tuesday
City tax notices for 1956 were
mailed Tuesday to Kings Moun
tin taxpayers.
Tax Collector J. W. Webster
said all notices are in the mails
and pointed out that taxes are
due, net, November 1. Persons
paying city tax accounts in Oc
tober will receive a discount of
one-half of one percent. Tax bills
paid before the tend of September
will be discounted one percent.
NOMINATE — J. W. Osborne,
Shelby lawyer, was nominated
lor the position of Clerk o 1 Su
perior Court by the Cleveland
County Democratic executive
committee last Saturday.
J. W. Osborne
Clerk Nominee
J. W. (Bill) Osborne, Shelby
lawyer, was nominated by the
Cleveland County Executive com
mittee Saturday for Clerk of Su
perior Court of Cleveland county.
Mr. Osborne’s name will appear
on the November 6 general elec
tion ballot lor the two years re
maining of the term of E. A. Hou
ser, Jr., resigned. Judge P- C.
Frcxneberger has indicated he
would appoint the executive com
mittee nominee to the interim
term. Mr. Houser resigned effec
tive October 1.
The Saturday session was at
tended by 27 of the 28 Democratic
precinct chairmen, with only
Bethware not represented. The
vote was 21-6 for Mr. Osborne ov
er Roy Price, clerk of county re
corder’s court. These Were the on
ly nominees. Following the initial
balloting, the committee made
the Osborne nomination unani
mous.
The clerk’s position pays $373
per month, ihcluding $25 for his
ex officio services as judge of
juvenile court.
The executive committee also
empowered Chairman C. C. Horn
to recommend a replacement for
Mr. Osborne as a member of the
county elections board. Mr. Horn
has since recommended Joe Mull,
another Shelby attorney, and
former elections board chairman.
Mr. Osborne is a former deputy j
clerk of court (1932-38). He is an
active Methodist and Lion, and
is a Shelby native. He and his
wife, the former Minnie Warlick,
live at 208 Osborne street, Sltelby.
Motoric 2 Booked
Tot Drunk Driving
Roy D. Crockett, Blacksburg, S.
C., Negro, was%arrested by Kings
Mountain Police department
Tuesday night and charged with
driving while drunk.
Crockett’s arrest stemmed from
an automobile accident of thp
same night. According to police
accident report, Crockett, driv
ing a 1952 Oldsmobile, lost con
trol of the car on Waco road, and
ran into a side ditch.
Trial for the Negro, who had
not made $200 bond Wednesday
afternoon, has been scheduled
for City Recorder’s court Monday
afternoon.
CIO Union Making Efforts
To Organize Textile Firm
Mauney Sells
Blackmer Stock,
Buys Bealty
George W. Mauney has sold
his stock interests in Blackmer &
Company, Kings Mountain cotton
brokerage firm, and Charles A.
Neisler has succeeded Mr. Mau
ney as secretary-treasurer of this
firm in a transaction effected re
cently.
In the transaction, Mr. Mauney
purchased the West Mountain
Street real estate of Blackmer &
Company, including the firm’s of
fices and Kings Mountain Bond
ed Warehouse.
Blackmer & Company contin
ues its functions as cotton mer
chants and brokers and has open
ed new offices in the Herndon
building on Battleground avenue.
Mr. Mauney said he is also con
tinuing in the cotton business,
operating under the trade name
I of George W. Mauney & Com
pany.
Announcement of the transac
tion was made this week by Mr. I
Neisler and Mr. Mauney.
F. E. Blalock
El Bethel Pastor
Only one pastoral change was
made in the Kings Mountain area
by the Western North Carolina
Methodist Conference, which con
cluded its session Sunday.
The Rev. F. E. Blalock will
succeed the Rev. J. M. Barber
as pastor of El Bethel Methodist
church.
The Rev. James McLarty re
turns to his pastorate at Central
Methodist Church for the second
year, and the Rev. W. C. Sides re
turns to Grace Methodist Church
for his third year.
The Rev. Mr. Barber announced
that he plans to retire, and will
move his residence to Morganton.
He has been an active Methodist
pastor for the past 40 years.
The newly appointed El Bethel
pastor is a native of Stanly Coun
ty, and has been at the Ivy
Charge in the Asheville District
for the past six years. He and
his family Is expected to move
here on or around October 3, and
he will assume his duties as pas
tor the following Sunday.
Flossie Brings
Heavy Rainfall
The sideiash of Hurricane
Flossie produced considerable
wind and heavy rains in the
Kings Mountain area Wednes
day.
The rains broke a drought of
several weeks.
C. J. Gault, Jr., said he had
measured a fall of 4.75 inches of
rain during a 24-hour period.
Winds, though blustry, appar
ently did little damage. The city
electrical department had to ser
vice calls, one on Tracy street to
repair a line on which a tree had
toppled, the other to refuse a
transformer.
The driving rain caused nume
rous citizens trouble with leaks
in homes and business establish
ments. The passageway at City
Hall had three buckets stationed
at strategic spots to catch the
drips. One citizen said he heard
a leak at his residence last night,
but couldn’t locate it this morn
ing.
PROMOTED — W. R. (Bill) Huds
peth, Foote Mineiai Company
mill superintendent here, has
been promoted to general super
intendent and assistant opera
tions manager of the ?oote plant
at Sunbright, Va.
Foote Promotes
Bill Hudspeth
W. R. (Bill) Hudspeth, Foote
Mineral Company mill superin
tendent here, has been promoted
to the position of general super
intendent and assistant opera
tions manager of Foote’s Sun
bright, Va., works.
Mr. Hudspeth said he is to as
sume his new duties in Sunbright
on October 15 and that he and
his family expect to move to
Kingsport, Teiin., on October 8.
Mr. Hudspeth joined Foote
Mineral Company here six years
ago after the company acquired
the Kings Mountain spodumene
plant of Solvay Processing Com
pany. He had previously lived in
Asheville, where he was a mem
ber of the staff of the State’s
Mineral and Research Labora
tory.
A native of Winston-Salem, Mr.
Hudspeth is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina,
The Hudspeths have two child
ren, Billy, 10, and Nancy 5.
Lutherans Elect
Aubrey Mauney
Aubrey Mauney, Kings Moun
tain textile executive, was named
first vice-president of the Broth
erhood of the United Lutheran
Church at a meeting in Kitche
ner, Ont., Friday night.
Mr. Mauney has been very ac
tive in the Brotherhood for the
past several years and was nam
ed acting executive secretary of
the organization last January. He
is also a member of the executive
committee of the Brotherhood
of the Lutheran Synod of North
Carolina, Synod Director of
Scouting, and a member of the
National Lutheran Scout Commit
tee.
He is general manager of
Kings Mountain Manufacturing
Company.
Mr. Mauney attended the On
tario meeting of the Brotherhood.
FALL RE-ENLISTS
Douglas Falls, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Otis Falls, has re-enlisted
for a second hitch in the air
force. A jet mechanic, he held
a sergeant’s rating on his dis
charge last summer. He is to
repoF for duty Thursday at
Blytheville Air Force Base,
Blytheville, Ark.
Lions To Conduct White Cane Sale
For Benefit Of Blind Saturday
The Kings Mountain Lions club,
assisted by Girl Scouts, will con
duct its annual White Cane Sale
for the benefit of the blind on
Saturday.
Sam Weir, Kings Mountain
merchant, is chairman of' the
White Cane Sale project. Girl
Scouts will vend the white cane
bangles.
The annual White Cane sale is
a major feature of the local club’s
sight conservation program, as it
is in North Carolina. The state’s j
first Lions club was chartered
34 years ago, and sight conserva-1
tion work, ojje of the major pro
jects of Lions International be
came a major project of North'
Carolina Lionism. It was in 1934 j
that North Carolina Lions orga
nized the State Association for
the Blind and it resulted in the
chartering by the General As
sembly of the North Carolina
State commission for the Blind in
the following year. Thousands of
blind citizens and other visually
handicapped have been aided by
these two agencies as well as in
dividual Lions clubs.
The local club conducts sight
clinics and purchases glasses fe;
needy children and others.
This year’s statewide White
Cane sale goal is $40,C00.
In North Carolina there arc
11,600 blind persons.
A portion of the proceeds frorr
Kings Mountain’s White Cane
sale goes to the state associa
tion, while a portion is retained
here for local sight conservation
work by the Kings Mountain
Lions club.
CIO Organizers
Reparted Active
At Neisler Plant
The CIO is making efforts to
organize Neisler Mills Division •
plants of Massachusetts Mohair
Plush Company.
Union employees have been dis
tributing anti-company circulars
to employees going to and from
work and have also passed out
membership application cards,
the Herald has learned from mill
employees.
On Sunday, a meeting was held
at Gastonia, but the Herald has
been unable to learn how many
persons attended. The telephone
of the CIO Textiles Workers un
ion in Gastonia was not answer
ed Wednesday, indicating the of
fice was closed.
Two circulars distributed by the
union attempted to caricature the
Massachusetts Mohair Plush firm.
One lampooned the company’s
Christmas gift to employees last
December. The other portrayed
a workman trying to manage five
jobs at one time.
Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company purchased the Neisler
division last December 15. When
it suspended operations for
Christmas, the company present
ed a bag containing five silver
dollars to all employees.
Company officials declined
comment on the organizing effort
though they acknowledged a
wareness of the union effort.
One company official said he
understood the textile union is
active throughout this area, with
other plants in other communi
ties also getting organizing art
tetntion.
Currently the Kings Mountain
(or Neisler) division of Massa
chusetts. Mohair Plush Company
employs 850 persons, and its pay
roll ranges from $-10,000 to $45,
00 per week. The company is
replacing and changing equip
ment in both the Margrace and
Pauline plants, a project begun
several weeks ago. William (Bill)
Ford, general manager, said he
anticipated the payroll to increase
to $60,000 weekly when the ma
chinery installations are comple
ted.
Most recent union organizing
effort here was at Foote Mine
ral Company. Foote employees
voted against making an AFL
union its bargaining agent.
Fixe Damage
To Mill Slight
Damage was relatively slight
last Thursday morning when fire
threatened Mauney Mills, Inc.
Firemen spent well over an
hour at their work, with the prin
cipal difficulty finding the source
of ihe blaze in the mill basement.
Acrid smoke welled out of the air
holes and basement door and in
to the spinning room above.
Arthur Sanders donned a mask
and, with a rope tied to his body,
moved into the smoke. Overcome,
he was pulled out. Later he en
tered again, as did Dutch Wilson,
city electrician and volunteer fire
men. Finally firemen and work
men sledge-hammered an aper
ture in the* basement wall on the
east side.
When the source of the blaze
was spotted, it was extinguished
quickly.
W. K. Mauney said damage was
slight.
The fire is thought to have
started from a spinning frame
fire, previously extinguished with
a carbon dioxide hand extinguish
er. Mr. Mauney theorized that a
spark fell through the mill deck
ing into the basement, ignited
some lint and blazed up.
George H. Mauney, at work in
the company office, saw smoke
billowing out of the basement and
summonded the city fire depart
ment.
Work was suspended in the
main floor departments until the
fire was put out. The plant was
back in full production with regu
lar secondshift schedules at 2
o’clock.
The loss was covered by in
surance.
Santa Claus Visit
fie! For December 5
Santa Claus will make his
pre-Christmas visit to Kings
Mountain on December 5.
This is the date directors of
the Kings Mountain Merchants
association have set for the an
nual Christmas parade and cele
bration.
Charles H. Dixon, Victory
Chevrolet sales manager, is
chairman of the Christmas pa
rade committee.