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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 It, figinv tot Greater Tinge Mountain I* derived from Ike 1955 Tinge Mountain city directory ceneue. The City Lknite figure I* from the United Statee ceneue of 1950. VOL 66 NO. 40 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C. Thursday, October 4, 1956 1 Q Pages 10 Today Sixty-Seventh Year PKICE FIVE CENTS Foote Mineral, Burlington Post Wage Increases •4 Local News Bulletins FAIR VIEW LODGE Stated communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AIM will toe held Monday night, Oc tober 8th, at 7:30 p. m. at Ma sonic Hall, according to an nouncement by J. B. Simpson, secretary. ENROLLS John Seism, of Kings Moun tain, has enrolled in the sopho more class of North Carolina State College, at Raleigh, for the fall term. RE-ELECTED James McLarty, pastor of Central Methodist church has been re-elected to the Brevard College Board of Trustees. The college is located at Brevard, N. C. KIWANIS MEETING The weekly meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club will be held Thursday at the Woman’s Club. Dave Kelly, Charlotte zone Chevrolet dis tribution manager, will be the guest speaker. After a short talk, Mr. Kelly will show a film entitled “Fishing For Fun." Primary election of club officers for 1957 will also take place. KARNIVAL OFF The Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club Karnival, which had been scheduled for Saturday- night, has been called off, according to an announcement by B. S. Peeler, Jr., president of the club, Wednesday. Mr. Peeler said the directors of the club had decided not to hold the Karnival this year,. METER RECEIPTS The city’s two-week take from parking meters totaled $336.99, City Clerk Gene Mit cham reported Wednesday. The total included $56.84 from off-street meters and $280.15 from on-street meters. IN COLLEGE CHOIR HICKORY — Miss Donna Cheatham, of Kings Mountain, a second alto, has been chosen for membership in the Lenoir tRhyne College a capella choir. Miss Cheatham, a freshman, is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Geriberding. SALE CONFIRMED Sale of the W. E. Blakely residence on' West Mountain street to Franklin L. Ware at $3,965 was toeing confirmed Wednesday,. Deadline for rais ing the Ware bid was Tuesday and was passed without any further increases, Attorney J. ! iR. Davis said. WORLD COMMUNION Majority of Kings Mountain churches will observe rites of j Holy Communion on Sunday, .participating in annual World wide Communion Sunday, it had been announced by sever al Kings Mountain ministers. BOARD TO MEET * The city board of commis sioners will meet in regular session Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at City Hall courtroom. City Clerk Gene Mitcham said the commissioners apparently will find a short agenda. WORK NEAR COMPLETE The road work on North Piedmont avenue is near-com plete, city officials said this week- Final black-topping of the street, from Linwood Drive to end of improvements, is un derway and Mayor Glee Brid ges said should toe complete by the weekend. Cost of the work is to be paid toy the State High way & Public Works commis sion. LIONS MEETING Voris Brookshire, district Governor of Lions District 31C, will toe the guest speaker for the Kings Mountain Lions Club meeting scheduled Tues day night at Kings Mountain Woman’s Club. Mr. Brookshire is a resident of Charlotte. >' Funeral Rites For Mrs. Wolie To Be Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. Laura McGill Wolfe, 54, will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o’ clock at Oak Grove Baptist church. Mrs. Wolfe died Wednesday morning about 5 o’clock of a pistol wound in the head, which Conoron J. Ollie Harris ruled was self-inflicted. Mrs. Wolfe, a well-known prac tical nurse, was at the home of her brother, Will McGill, who lives at the former McGill family home. She was attending Mrs. Mc Gill, who had been ill. The .38 caliber pistol had bteen the pro perty of Mrs. Wolfe’s late fath er. Members of the family said Mrs. Wolfe had not appeared des pondent. She made her home with hler daughter, Mrs. Stokes Wright who survives. A member of the Oak Grove Baptist church, Mrs. Wolfe was well-known throughout the com munity. In her profession, she was in constant demand to at tend mothers of new-born child ren. She was a daughter of the late Isaac and Mary Fulton Mc Gill and had lived here almost all her life. Surviving, in addition to her daughter, are six brothers and three sisters. They are W. F. Mc Gill, Isaac McGill and Mrs. R. L. Plonk, all of Kings Mountain, Gteorge McGill, James McGill, and Leland McGill, all of Wallace, Fla., Mrs. G. A. Spake, Shelby, and Mrs. P. P. Rumple, Wilming ton. Four grandchildren also sur vive. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. James E. Hol der and Rev. H. B. Alexander. The body will lie in state for 30 minutes prior to the final rites. Deacons of the church will serve as pallbearers and burial will be in the church cemettery. Eldon To Head T-B Seal Sale Bill Eldon, Foote Mineral Com pany plant tengineer ,has been named chairman of the 1956 Tu berculosis Christmas Seal drive in Kings Mountain. Hugh Wells, Shelby attorney, has been named to head the drive in Cleveland County this year. A goal of $10,000 has been set for the county. . Mr. Eldon has been with Foote Mineral Company in Kings Moun tain for the past four years, and was associated with the firm for two years before being transfer red here. Hie is a native of Phila delphia, Pa. He is married to the former Miss Rosemary Salvesen, also a Pennsylvanian and they have four children. The Eldons residfe on Hawthorne road. Mr. Eldon is a registered en gineer in North Carolina, and Is a member of several national en gineering organizations. Hie is an active member of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce. Employment Here Holding Steady .mm - m mm -- September saw Slight Fall-Off In Pay Claims Unemployment in Kings Moun tain showed an infinitesimal drop during the month of Sep tember, but may increase slightly in October, Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manager of the North Carolina Employment Service office here, said Wednesday. Mr. Ware said at least 50 claims for unemployment pay have been processed by the local office for Kings Mountain per sons who had been working at Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company. A long strikfe was re cently settled at the Rock Hill textile mill, removing from jobs a number of Kings Mountain peo ple who had been employed at the Rock Hill plant during the strike. The mill never ceased operations during the strike, continuing with fill-in temporary employees such as those from Kings Mountain. These claims do not appear in the September employment re port which shows 435 persons seeking employment including 128 new applicants during the month. Unemployment compensation claims for September totaled 1415 weeks, down 13 from the previous month. Thfe weekly ave rage of claims was 363. Mr. Ware noted there are la bor shortages for some specific jobs and he mentioned among them speeder tenders and spin nig doffers. Commenting on the designation of Kings Mountain and Shelby as labor surplus areas by the fede ral government, Mr. Ware guess led that Kings Mountain drew the designation due to the fact of being in Cleveland County and due to heavier unemployment ‘‘west of Buffalo Creek.” The labor surveys art conduc ted on a county basis and a labor surplus area is designated, Mr. Ware said, when a county's un employed numbers six percent or more of the normal working force. “Kings Mountain has some un employed,” Mr. Ware remarked, “but the total is far short of the six percent figure.” Brown's Car Stolen And Found Gutted A 1953 Bel Air Chevrolet, own ed by Lawrtence Brown, First street resident, was stolen last Thursday and found—burned— near Chester, S. C., the following day. The thieves, before' applying gasoline and lighting a match to thfe auto, had stripped the car of tires, the back seat, and bat tery. The car was stolen in York, S. C., where Mrs. Brown was work ing. When she left work to go home, she found the car stolen, it was reported Were. The loss was covered by insur ance. Recreation Commission Gets Assist From Volunteer Lady Grid Mentor Kings Mountain City Recrea tion Commission met in regular session Monday night at city hall, with Commissioners Dean Payne, Mrs. J„ N. McClure, and Charles Dixon attending. Mr. Dixon has been recommen ded as American Legion repre sentative succeeding William Plonk, who has resigned. The city (board of commissioners is expected to appoint Mr. Dixon Thursday night. 1 Mrs. Rufus Falls appeared be fore the commission requesting permission to use the football uniforms belonging to the recre. ation program for a boys team consisting of boys 12 to 15 years of-age. Mrs. Falls told the board that several (boys from three of Kings Mountain’s elementary schools had requested her to organize a footbail team. She added that the boys had been practicing, and that some 60-70 boys had been working out. The Commission voted to al low Mrs. Falls to use the uni forms and equipment, and also agreed to sponsor the program as a part of its winter recreation i program. Mrs. Falls will be in charge of the football team, and the com missioners are trying to get sev eral boys or men to work with her in connection with this pro gram. Bruce Thorburn was pres ent in the interest of this same program, and he agreed to as sist Mrs. Falls. The Commission issued a sta tement asking all Iboys who have uniforms or equipment belong ing to the recreation commisssion to turn them in as soon as pos sible. Secretary Gene Mitcham is sued a financial statement to the commission showing that cash on hand totalled $2,288.01. while outstanding debts amoun ted to $1,326.03, leaving a bal ance of $962.01. The Commission members voted to pay the out standing bills and Instructed Mr. Mitcham to send checks as seon as possible. In the only other action, the commission authorized Mr. Mit cham to set up a permanent ly pf bookkeeping system for Commission funds. How Many Days Free Oi Traiiic Death? How many consecutive days has Kings Mountain gone with out a traffic fatality? The question was posed in a letter signed “L. B.” to the Herald, and the police depart ment, which posts the daily record on the big safety sign at Battleground and Mountain. “L. B.” contends the city has gone 1803 days without a traf fic fatality through September 6 and the big sign read 1762 days Wednesday. Herald files of December 1951 indicate the correct fig ure is 1757 days Wednesday. Will Briggs, Kings Mountain Negro, died December 12, 1951, at Shelby Hospital, after being struck by a car three days earlier. Figuring the two extra leap year days during the interven ing period, the Herald adding machine brought the 1757 fig ure. “L. B." wrote on October 1: “I don’t know who is responsible for putting up the number of days without a traffic fatality. Someone needs some glasses or someone needs to get their glasses changed. On Sept. 6, Kings Mountain had gone 1803 days without a traffic fatality, now it is 1760.” Kings Mountain Program Set The 176th anniversary ol the Battle of Kings Mountain will be celebrated Sunday afternoon at Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park amphitheatre. A program, arranged by the Kings Mountain Chapter, Daugh ters of the American Revolution, will begin at 3 o’clock, featuring an address by Robert W. Hemp hill, South Carolina Democratic Congressional nominee. Ben Moo maw, park superintendent, will review the history of the park. On Wednesday afternoon, Col. Frederick Hambright Chapter, DAR, of Kings Mountain, held their monthly meeting at the Park Museum. Three members of the Kings Mountain chapter presented to Supt. Moomaw a Revolutionary War canteen for use at the mu seum. The canteen,, owned by an ancestor of David Mauney, was presented by Mrs. C. E. Neisler, Mrs. J. E. Herndon and Mrs. F. R. Summers. The national military park commemorates the Battle of Kings Mountain, fought on Oc tober 7, 1780, on the ridge which is now part of the national park. In the battle, backwoodsmen at tacked and defeated British for ces under command of Col. Pat rick Ferguson. Ferguson was kil led in the battle and his grave is one of the landmarks of the park. Historians credit the battle with turning the tide of the war in fa vor of the colonies. Most Neislei Houses Sold Virtually all Neisler-ownfed re sidences at Pauline and Margrace mills have been sold to present occupants, P. M. Neisler, Sr., said Wednesday. He knew, hie said, that all but seven of the 76 residences had been sold, but had not conferred with Drew Brothers, the Ander son, S. C., firm handling the transactions this wteek, and therefore had not learned wheth er the remaining houses had been sold. He said the Drew firm’s representatives would return to Kings Mountain Friday. Also sold were the clubhouse at both Pauline and Margrace plants, which, Mr. Neisler said, would be remodeled for residen ces. J. Pat Tignor purchased the former Pauline clubhouse, while M. D. Caldwell purchased the for mer Margrace clubhouse. The houses were retained by the Neisler family when the Mar grace and Pauline plants were sold last December, along with other Neisler textile plants, to Massachusetts Mohair Plush Com pany. Other Textile Firms Weigh Wage Policy Burlington Industries' 285 hour ly-rated employees at the King. Mountain Phenix plant can look forward to fatter paychecks as a result of announcement Tuesday that Burlington would join J. P Stevens Company in increasing pay of textile workers. What form the BurMil raises would take was not known here. Supt. Jim Rostan was out-of town and -R. B. Payne, personnel manager, said details of the an nounced increase had not been received. The big Stevens Chain announced it was raising wages 10 cents per hour. Burlington said merely that increases would ibe made and would vary with particular plants. What the wage pattern would he for other Kings Mountain tex. tile employees was not known. The Herald contacted manage ment of a half-dozen Kings Mountain textile firms and none had made decisions concerning the new wage development. All were considering the matter. Some guessed the Stevens - Bur lington increases would trigger r general wage increase, whfi< others looked askance at the in cie«se in the face of recent weak piices in textile products. G. C. Kelly, of Craftspun Yarns. Inc., said President Carl Swan was out-of-town and he did not know what their result would he. He noted, however, that i; had been company policy to “go along” on wage policy with oth er firms. He said a 10-cent raise would mean about two cents per pound on Craftspun’s yarn pri ces. J. C. Smathers, of Park Yarn Mill, owned ,by Johnston . Mills of Charlotte, had received no word from his company, and Frank Burke, of Lambeth Rope Corporation, said “It’s too early to say yet what we’ll do.” Mr. Burke’s statement was sim ilar to those made by William Ford, Neisler division of Massa chusetts Mohair Pluh Company, George H. Houser, Sadie Cotton Mills, and Jacob Cooper, of Bon nie Cotton Mills. Most textile officials here were surprised by the Stevens - Bur lington announcements, only one saying he had heard rumors of the projected wage increase “a bout a week ago.” Meantime, prices of textile pro ducts had firmed slightly and Continued On Page Ten Mauney To Head Scout Drive George H. Maunty will serve as chairman of the annual Girl Stout fund campaign in Kings Mountain, according to announce ment by Girl Scout officials. Co-chairmen for the campaign include R. S. Lennon, Mrs. J. N. McClure, and Mrs. Luther Mor rison. The drive begins here on October 15, and will continue through October 20. ‘‘We have a membership of 85 girls, ages seven through 14 in Kings Mountain,” officials I pointed out. “Through the Girl ! Scout program of fun, service, I and training in good citizenship, they are growing up to be better i qualified to undertake the Res ponsibility that will be theirs in j the home and as active citizens of their community,” officials con tinued. Goal of $28,035. has • been set for Girl Scouts in the Piedmont Pioneer Girl Scout council, Mrs. W. P. Dunson, president of the council reported.* Fire Prevention Week To Beginj Fire Chief Pat Tignor announ. ced Wednesday that October 713 ' will be National Fire Prevention ! Week. Chief Tignor said that the lo- j col fire department is putting up posters, and handing out cards 1 and pamphlets in connection with this national observance. “We are urging every citizen of Kings Mountain to do his share during the coming year to prevent fires,” Chief Tignor sta ted. “A major portion of the fir es in our nation today are the results of carelessness on some ones’s part, if we can prevent even a small percentage of these fires it will amount to a savings of thousands of dollars, not to mention the human lives that could he lost,” he added. COMPLETE FIRST AID COURSE — The eleven pictured above have successfully completed an 18-hour Red Cross course in first aid conducted recently at Kings Mountain hospital by Bill McDaniel, firstaid instructor- Front row, from left, are Mrs. W. P. Sweezy, Mrs. Howard Champion, Mrs. Anderson Hambright, Mrs. Carl Childers.' Mrs. Charline Lovelace, and Miss Juanita Lovelace. Back row, from lefft, are Charles E. (Bud) Ware, Henry Lee. Walter Johnson, Lewis Curry, and Grady Howard. Ex-Citizen Faces Charge Of Murder Cecil Cook. 33, Wife Chaiged In Holloman Case A former Kings Mountain man, George Cecil Cook, 33, has admit ted the September 10 murder of Daniel Z. Holloman, a Highway 74 grocer. Cook, who grew up here and attended Kings Mountain schools, and his wife were arrested in Tulsa, Okla., last Thursday, and both are charged with the mur der. Cook admitted to Tulsa au thorities, and subsequently to Sheriff Haywood Allen that he killed Holloman but sought to ab solve his wife. Co6k said she had nothing to do with the crime. Sheriff Allen reached Shelby with the two prisoners Tuesday night. They are held in the coun ty jail and as yet have been al lowed no visitors. Sheriff Allen said Cook was making a statement Wednesday, giving details of the murder. Should the defendants want, a pre liminary hearing, it will proba bly be held in Cleveland County Recorder’s court next Wednesday, the Sheriff added. Should hear ing be waived. Cook and his wife wjll be tried at the next term of Superior Court. It is likely Cook will be tried fdr his life, though it is in the discretion of the court to accept a guilty plea with mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. Should the court refuse to accept the plea, Sheriff Allen explained, the defendant would be tried for his life. As a young boy, Cook lived at i thje residence which once stood at 109 E. King street. He grew up near IJast school and two of hijs former teachers have describ ed him as a good boy who gave no trouble. One of his former teach ers said, “I remember nothing un pleasant about thb boy. He was always well-groomed and minded Continued On Page Ten Chief Gets Chill. Alarm His Shop Pat Tignor, Kings Mountain barber and chief of the city’s volunteer fire department, is accustomed to moving in high gear when a fire alarm sounds. But Monday morning he mov ed with a bit of extra speed. The 7:30 a. m. alarm brought the usual quick Tignor question, "Where is it?’’ The answer: "Your barber shop!’’ , Chief Tignor and the other members of the department sped to Central Barber Shop, where they went to work on a blaze caused by an oil heater explosion. Will Seawright, the shop’s shoe shine man and janitor, had lit the oil heater and the burn er blew off. Damage was slight, but it meant the Fire Chief had to buy a new heater. Sea wright was not hurt. It was the only alarm of the week. East Side Church Sets Homecoming East Side Baptist church will mark its fifth anniversary of or ganization Sunday with home coming ceremonies at the church on York road. The congregation of the church is making plans to complete the new building as a part of the fifth anniversary celebration. Special music will also be fea tured during the Homecoming Day program, which is scheduled to be held at 2 p. m. Ollie Harris will be master of ceremonies for the song program, which will feature several well known quartets as well as choirs of other churches. The church was organized as a mission of Second Baptist church in 1951, and later that year organized as a separate church. The Rev. Car] W. Green is pastor of East Side church. High School Homecoming Friday To Feature Parade. Football, Hod A full day of homecoming ac tivity has been planned for the 1966 Central High School Home coming football game Friday. The festivities will get under way Friday afternoon at 4 o’ clock when a homecoming pa rade will weave its way through the Kings Mountain business dis trict. Some 10 to 15 units, plus the high school band, are expected to appear In the parade. Various high school clubs are constructing floats for the parade, and they will be competing for a $10 prize bejlng offered for the best float by the Kings Mountain Merchants association. Mayor Glee A. Bridges and Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., will lead the parade. A color-guard unit will be furnished by the Na tional Guard. An added attraction has been scheduled for Friday night, when Mies Sotndra Gilbert, homecom ing queen, will reign over the festivities. Miss Gilbert’s court will be made up of the sponsors of the senior football players. Co-Captain John McGinnis will have as his sponsor, Annette Law rence; Co-Captain Charles Brid ges will be sponsored by Mikie White. Other seniors and their spon sors are Curt George, Dot Ware; Tommy Gilbert, Jane Byars; Frank Hinson, Phyllis Dean; Hoyle Burton, Jane Osborne; and J. L. Stewart, Rachel Bridges. The Queen and her court will wear evening dresses with white chrysanthemums as an accessory. The flowers will be gifts of the Monogram Club. Arriving at City Stadium at 7 p. m., in cars furnished by towns people, the girls will pin a chry santhemum corsage on the moth ers of the players they sponsor. Following the bail game, a dance will be held. It ijas been tentatively scheduled for the high school gymnasium. The dance will be sponsored by the “K” Club. A small admission fee will be col lected at the door. Foote Ups Pay Six Cents Hour On October 1 Footle Mineral Company in formed its Kings Mountain em ployees this week it is raising pay rates six cents per hour, ef fective October 1, and is also pro viding company-paid sickness and accident insurance coverage for all employees. The announcement was made by Neill O. Johnson, Kirtgs Moun tain plant superintendent. He said the increase for all hourly rated employees followed an area wage survey, underway for weeks. The fully company-paid insur ance coverage will provide Foote employees pay of $25 per week in event of accident or sickness, for a period up to 13 weeks. The benefits will not be payable for the first week of the sickness ue riod. Mr. Johnson noted that the in surance coverage is for sickness or accidents occuring off-the-job. As before, on-the-job accidents will be covered by regular work men’s compensation insurance. It was also noted that plans are going forward for a new dres sing room for f’oote employees. The building, when erected, will have lockers and shower facili ties for all employees. “We are naturally happy to an nounce both the wage increase and the addition of sickness and accident insurance coverage,’’ Mr. Johnson commented. “It has al ways been Foote policy to follow good rates of pay for the area in which the company operates.” Foote Mineral has 182 hourly rated employees. Mr. Johnson said the increase to the company payroll here would amount to approximately $25,000 per year. Rites Thursday For Isenhour funeral services for Arthur Houston (Bob) Isenhour, 60, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock at Central Methodist church. Mr. Isenhour died Tuesday af ternoon at Kings Mountain hos pital. He had been ill since Jan uary. A former employee of Margrace Mill, Mr. Isenhour was a native of Cabarrus county and a son of the late William and Rbbecca Cole Isenhour. He was twice married, first to Addie Lula Rogers Isenhour, who died in 1932, and second to Vil lur Davis Isenhour, who survives. Two children survive, Mrs. J. B. McManus, of Monroe and Hoyle Isenhour, also of Monroe. Also surviving are two grandchildren and a brother, Comer Isenhour of Kannapolis. The funeral rites will be con ducted by Rev. James B. McLarty and Rev. N. S. Harding, with bu rial following at Huntersville cemetery. ARP Members To Hear Rogers Rev. A. M. Rogers, of Chester, S. C., will conduct a series of special services beginning Mon day evening at Boyce Memorial ARP church here. The services will be held each evening at 7:30 Monday through Friday, and will include a special service for children on Saturday morning, October 13. The services will be concluded otn Sunday even ing October 14. Rev. Mr. Rogers is a graduate of Erskine college and the Pres byterian seminary of Richmond, Va. He has held pastorates in Memphis, Tenn., and Bartow, Fla. Special music will feature each service. Mr. Rogers’ sermon topics will be: Monday. “The Inevitable Ques tion.’’ Tuesday, “Cross-Bearing.” Wednesday, “The Blessing of Tears.” Thursday, October 11, “Behold, the Man.” Friday, October 12, "Behold, Your God.” Saturday, October 13 (Child rein’s service at 10 a. m.) “The Mouse Trap.” Sunday, October 14, 11 a. m., “Behold, the Lamb of God.” Sunday, October 14, 7:30 p. m., “Behold I Stand at the Door.”