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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7.206 Ik* ttgui* foe Greater King* Mountain 1* derived from «k* 1965 King* Mountain city directory consul. The City Uarits figure t* from the United state! ensue of 1950. nmgs mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL 66 NO. 41 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October I I, 1956 1 £ Pages 10 Today Sixty-Seventh Year PRICE FIVE CENTS • Massachusetts Mohair, Park Yarn Hiking Wages Local News Bulletins SERIOUSLY ILL C. Mauney, well-known Kings Mountain manufacturer, is seriously ill at Charlotte Me morial hospital. ' TO MEETING Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, presi dent of the State Federation of Women’s Clubs, leaves Thurs day for Washington, D. C., to attend a board meeting of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in session there. SCRAP PAPER DRIVE West School PT-A is begin ning a year-long scrap paper drive. Citizens may deliver their scrap paper to West school or if they desire pick-up service may telephone 737-W and Mrs. Paul Neisler, Jr., will arrange for the paper to be picked up at the residences of the donors. PRESBYTERIAN Rev. Ludwig R. Dewitz, direc tor of the work among the Jews of the Presbyterian Church will speak at Wednesday evening services, October 17, cit the First Presbyterian church ac cording to announcement by :Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor, who invited the public to attend. KINDERGARTEN North Carolina kindergarten teachers will meet in 'Raleigh Friday and Saturday for a two day meeting, according to an nouncement by Mrs. Coman Falls, who said that Jack & Jill Kindergarten here would 'be closed all-day Friday while Mrs. Falls is attending the meeting. ONE FIRE City Fireman C. D. Ware re ported Wednesday firemen ex tinguished a fire Monday morning around 3 o'clock which had ignited paper in a flue at the home of Eunice Southern land, 912 First street, fto dam age was reported. MOOSE MEETING Curtis Gaffney, secretary of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748, reported members of the local lodge will hold their regu lar weekly meeting Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road. SCHOOL BOARD MEETS The Kings Mountain Board of School Trustees will 'hold its regular monthly meeting Mon day night in the office of Supt. B. N. Barnes^ A report from Mr. Barnes’ office indicated that only a few routine matters of business are scheduled to toe heard. BROWN TO TALK Lawson Brown, principal of ■ Central High School, will 'be the guest speaker at the week ly meeting of Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club Thursday night at 6:45 o’clock at the Woman’s Club. Mr. Brown will give a program pertinent to the Amer ican educational system. JAYCEES TO MEET The Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting at Buffalo Fish Camp Tuesday night. A program dealing with fire prevention has been ar ranged, Program Chairman Bill Eldon reported Wednesday. Mis. Lipford S Day Leadei ,v * Mrs. J. E. Lipford, Cleveland! County Democratic vice-chair- ] man, is conducting the Democrats Dollar Day drive in this area. On October 16th Democrats are ; being asked to subscribe a mini mum of $1 to the party campaign chest. Mrs. Lipford said Tuesday she’d been doing some advance work and meeting with ‘‘excellent re sults.” “I will contact personally as many Democrats as 1 can,” Mrs. Lipford said, “but I won’t be able to see all of them. I hope as many : as can will either bring or mail' their contribution.” ASC Election Airangements Aie Complete Nominees for township ASC farm committeemen for the com ing year have been announced by the ASC election board. The elec tion will be conducted on October 23. Local area ASC voting will be at Bethware school for Number 4 Township and at Waco school for Number 5 township. Voting hours will be 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Members of the county elec tion board are H. R. Clapp, chair man, Joe Carver and John Ed Davis, all of Shelby, and Edwin Moore, of Kings Mountain. The number 4 Township elec tion committee includes Tom Hamrick, chairman, Conrad Hughes and Cameron Ware. No minees for the five elective posi tions are: Alex Owens, Nevette Hughes, Clyde Randall, Willis Harmon, Howard Herndon, La mar Herndon, Otto Williams, Hugh Falls, Bert Westmoreland and Stowe Wright. The Number 4 township elec tion committee includes F. C. Ware, chairman, Frank Harmon and Wray Stirewalt. Nominees for ASC committeemen are: Coleman Goforth, Dewitt Ran dall, William Wright, Kenneth Wright. Zeno Hord, George Do ver, Earl Eaker, Giles Sellers, Alvin Barrett, and A. S. Kiser. Township farmers will choose a township committee chairman, vice-chairman member, and two alternate members. The person in each township polling most votes will be chairman, second high est will be vice-chairman, third highest will be committeeman, and the fourth and fifth highest, alternates. Chairmen will also serve as delegates to the October 25 coun ty convention, which will elect county officials to serve for the year beginning November 1. Union Claims Wake Hike Credit The ^FL-CIO Textile Workers Union of America bought radio time on several area stations this week to claim credit for obtain ing a wage increase for employ ees at Neisler Division of Massa chusetts Mohair Plush Company. The union has been conducting an organizing effort among Mass achusetts Mohair employees here. The company had posted no tices over the weekend announc ing that wage increases would be made. , Though he did not comment on the TWUA claim, William Ford, general manager, said, in com menting on the wage increase, it was a company effort to meet the increases announced by some oth er textile firms last week. Mr. Ford also reported his firm hiked operating schedules to six days last week. He hoped, he said, sales of the company’s products would enable a continu ance of this production schedule. Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company purchased the former Neisler Mills last December 15. During the period, the company has been making numerous equip ment changes, junking some looms it considered worn out and replacing them with newer looms of a different type. Pollbook: Here On Registering For November 6 Voting To Start Registration books open on Saturday fOr the November 6 general election. It will be the first of three re gistration days, with registrars to be at the several voting pre cincts throughout each day. Mrs. J. H. Arthur, West Kings Mountain registrar, said she an ticipates a busy registration pe riod, noting that she had already had many inquiries concerning the opening of the pollbooks. The registrars will be at the polling places on October 13, 20, and 27. Saturday, November 3, will be Challenge Day. Principal voting interest will hinge here on the national presi dential election, as there are few state contests and no local con tests. Only Democrats will appear on the township and county dis trict ballots, the Republicans hav ing failed to nominate candidates for these offices. However, there are several con tests for state offices. Prime interest, well-publicized already by newspapers, radio, television, outdoor advertising, match covers, campaign buttons and placards is in the effort of Democratic Challenger Adlai Ste venson to unseat GOP President Dwight D. Eisenhower; To vote, a person must be re gistered. While two registration periods have already been held this year (prior to the May Demo crane primary ana tne rearsan plan voting), many citizens eligi ble to vote are unregistered. As recently as the Pearsal] Plan vot ing, registrars reported numerous citizens sought to vote but didn’t have their names listed. There is some confusion, chronically, be tween the city and county regis trations requirements. Separate registrations are required and maintained. A person who regis ters on the county books is not I eligible to vote, without separate registration, in a city election, and vice versa. Number 4 Township went Re publican, nationally, in the 1952 election, though the city remain ed Democratic by a narrow mar gin of 15 votes. The township to tal was Eisenhower 1918, Steven son 1854. Registrars in Number 4 Town ship and the polling places are: East Kings Mountain, Mrs. Nell Cranford, at City Hall. West Kings Mountain, Mrs. 3. H. Arthur, at Victory Chevrolet) Company. Grover, J. B. Ellis, at Grover Fire Station. <>Bethware, Mrs. H. A. Goforth, at Bethware school. ARP MEETING Men of the Church of Boyce Memorial ARP church will meet Monday evening at 7 o’clock p. m. Supper will be served by the Sabbath evening circle. Winner Or Loser, Many Local Folks Glad Exciting Series Is History The World Series ended Wed nesday afternoon with the New York Yankees again world cham pions by virtue of a smashing 9-0 victory in the seventh and fi nal game of the series. While it was sad news to a host of Kings Mountain Brooklyn Dodger fans it was good news for the Yankee fans—and even a measure of good news for some of the Dodger rooters. What started out to be a not too-interesting World Series war med up, effective with the first Yankee win Saturday, but didn’t get really hot until the fifth and sixth games, both sterling pitch ing duels, with the fifth game marked by Yankee Don Larson’s perfect pitching and the sixth by Dodger Jackie Robinson’s tenth inning, game-winning hit. But game time was rough on many folks? who were torn be tween loyalty to their work and desire to see the action via tele vision or listen to it by radio. Paul Walker, Merchants asso ciation president, noted that busi ness was at a standstill during the game — enough so that he slipped off to visit at McGinnis Furniture Store, where a TV set was in action. Hilton Ruth, Belk’s manager, paid a lingering call to Sterchi’s, where a television set was also going, and Jeweler Wood Grayson also made this spot his port of call. City court opened a little late Monday, as Judge Jack White found himself unable to pull him self away from the television re ceiver. Otis Falls, service station ope rator, remarked, “I’m glad its over. Folks working for you either stay overlong for lunch or fail to show at all.” Dr. W. P. Gerberding, St. Matt hew’s Lutheran minister, followed the pattern of many, as he coax ed his wife to serve lunch close to the television set. Mrs. Jack Arnette, supervisor at Southern Bell telephone ex change, said telephone traffic dropped to virtually nothing dur ing the baseball game. With the final out, the switchboard start ed lighting up with “impossible to keep up with” rapidity, she re ported. > To Open Saturday EVANGELIST — Rev. James Chrispell, of Michigan, will con duct a week of revival services at First Wesleyan Methodist church here beginning Friday with serv ices to be held nightly at 7 p. m. through October 21- Rev. Hoover E. Smith will direct the music. Kesler To Lead Geologists' Trip Thomas L. Kesler, Foote Mine-1 ral Company’s chief geologist, I will lead a two-day field trip of the Carolina Geological society , in Kings Mountain area this weekend. The Saturday-Sunday meeting is expected to attract 100 Caro linas geologists who will gather for a dinner and short business session at Hotel Carroll in Gaff ney Saturday night. Four active mining operations in the Kings Mountain area will be on the fall meeting tour. The geologist swill inspect the kaynite mining operation at Henry,'s Knob, the barite mining opera tion of Commercial-ores, Inc., at Kings’Creek, the limestone pro duction operation of Campbell Limestone Company at Grover, and the lithium ore"-mining of Foote Mineral Company here. Mr. Kesler, noting that the society held two previous field trips in this area in 1946 and 1953, pointed out that the pre vious ventures covered the reg ion west of Kings Mountain. He continued, “The Kings Mountain belt proper trends northeasterly along the south east side of the Southern Rail way and includes metamorphosed sedimentary and pyroclastic rocks flanked on the northwest and southwest by intrusive quartz monzonites. The monozo nite to the southeast is known as the Yorkville ‘granite’ and that to the northwest as the White side ‘granite (now divided into the Cherryville and Toluca quartz monozonites), but the field trip stops are the older rocks, between them.’’ in all, the geologists will make seven stops in its two-day tour, at Crowder’s Mountain, Stepp’s Gap, Henry’s Knob, King’s Creek, Dixon Gap, Campbell Quarry and Foote Mineral Com pany. Denglei Rites Held Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Eli zabeth Rhea Dengler, 60 were conducted Monday morning at 11 o’clock from Harris Funeral Home with interment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church, offi ciated. Mrs. Dengler succumbed Satur day morning at 10:45 at her home on route three following a long illness. A native of Cleveland county, she was the daughter of the late James Rhea' and Lenora Dover Rhea. She was a member of First Presbyterian church. Surviving are her husband, Charles E. Dengler, one daughter Mrs. Maude MeSwain, and three sisters, Mrs. George Barber, Mrs. L. E. Deese, and Mrs. O. O. Wal ker, all of Kings Mountain. Pallbearers were Charles Neis ler, Hall Goforth, W. J. Fulker son. Luther Cansler, Hubert Da vidson, and J. W. Webster. City To Build Unpaved Walks On Cleveland The Board of City Commis sioners held its regular meeting Thursday night. City Clerk Gene Mitcham pre sented a first-quarter financial statement to the board for in spection and study. The report shows that the city has spent $142,442.30 of a $566,958.38 bud get during the first three months of the fiscal year. This is just a shade over 25 percent of the to tal year’s budget. On the revenue side of the led ger, the city has taken in $230, 427.30 during the first quarter. This represents some 40 percent of the estimated income for the year. Pre-paid tax payments are res ponsible for the big portion of in come during this period, with $78, 036.72 for the 1956 levy being collected through September. Al so included in the income figure was 9,818.05 collected from 1955 taxes. The light and power depart-! ment of the city led in expendi- j tures during the first three j months with a total of $28,118.65 spent. The administrative depart ment came next with a $12,731.87 total, and the general department1 was third, having spent $16,601. 84. The report showed a city bank balance of $129,244.08 on Sep tember 29. A long discussion was held by board members on the grading and paving of Rhodes avenue, this item having been tabled at the previous meeting. Mayor Bridges reported that the city adopted a policy charg ing 75 cents per lineal foot for paving some time ago, but he added that the policy also provid ed that property owners pay for excess grading. Property owners on Rhodes avenue had requested that the I street be paved, and specified in ; the petition that the street be j graded down 18 inches prior to the paving. This would require the city to lower gas, water and i sewage lines in this area, and the commissioners had balked at j this expense to the city. Since the last meeting, Mayor'1 Bridges said a majority of the property owners had asked that their names be removed from the petition, because the area had been petitioned some time back for work, and thy are almost next in line to get paving. Under the newest petition, the Rhodes avenue paving job would be put at the bottom of the paving list, therefore several of the proper ty owners arewanting to use the prior petition. The board decided to see what action the property owners would take on the next petition before making a decision. Mayor Brid- j ges said a special meeting might! be called to take care of this item. Board members voted to change i the system for billing water to j Consolidated Textiles, Inc. Under the present set-up, the water is billed directly to the company on a central meter system. TheNcom pany is asking the city to bill Continued on Page Eight Kings Mountain j To Be Reenacted The Battle of Kings Mountain, fought 176 years ago, will be re enacted this weekend as two U. S. Marine Corps reserve units in vade the battleground area for a quarterly field training exercise. The two units to participate are the Greenville Marine Reserve; and Charlotte’s Third Cargo' company. According to the Greenville News, the reserve Leathernecks will march over the same terrain i and routes followed by the men : of Col. Patrick Ferguson, com- j mandcr Ferguson, commander of the British scouting party sent out by Lord Cornwallis. In addition, many of the men will forsake modern marine com-: bat fatigues for the earlier day' buckskin models used by the Mountain Men in their battle for i freedom from British domina tion. The marines will be schooled in the historical account of the battle as well as the tactical em ployment of terrain. Captain William Kent is in structor of the Greenville unit, while Maj M. J. Melton will com mand the Charlotte unit on the Saturday and Sunday training chore. 4 53rd Floral Fair To Be Wednesday Womans uub Will Present Annual Event Annual floral fair of Kings Mountain Woman’s club will be held next Wednesday, October 17, at the clubhouse and members of the club were hard at work this week readying for the event. The show, Autumn Harvest, will be open to the public dur ing the hours of 12:30 and 9:30 p. m. with dinner to be served both at noon and in the evening. Members of the club will serve the noon meal from 11:30 until 1:30 p. m. and the evening meal will be served from 5:30 until 7 p. m. As is customary, competition is being invited from anyone in terested in both the horticulture and flower division. Winners will be announced at 7:30 p. m. the day of the show. Among awards to be offered will be a sweep stakes seal to the winner of the most blue ribbons in the show and tri-color seals to the best en try in the horticulture and ar rangement divisions. Theme of the flower show, of which Mrs. P. G. Padgett is gene ral chairman, is “Autumn In Carolina.” Other chairmen in the flower division are Mrs. J. C. Bridges, schedule; Mrs. W. S. Fulton, Jr., staging; Mrs. R. S. Lennon, Juniors: Mi's. J. E. Hern don, entry and classification, arid Mrs. J. L. McGill, judges. Mrs. Wilson Crawford is pub licity chairman, Mrs. Carl Mayes is chairman of the committee on hospitality, Mrs. John Cheshire heads the committee on adver tising, Mrs. Sam Davis is chair man of the committee on cash iers, Mrs. W. L. Mau'ney is bazaar committee chairman, Mrs. F. A. McDaniel, Jr., and Mrs. James White, candy committee chair men, Mrs. Paul Hendricks, chair man of dining room committee, Mrs. Harold Crawford, chairman of the committee on cakes and pies, and Mrs. George Houser, kitchen chairman. Baptist Oppose Tract Purchase Members of First Baptist church voted Sunday not to exer cise an option for the purchase of property of Dr. P. G. Padgett at the corner of Sims and W. King streets. The church had orginally vot ed to execute the option toy a margin of 60 percent. However, after the original vote, the dea cons felt the lack of a preponder ant majority dictated further cor» sideration. The hoard asked the church to rescind the initial vote, and it did. Subsequently a new vote, pre ceded by discussion sessions on the merits of the proposal, was scheduled. * The vote not to execute the option approximated 60 percent of the membership voting at last Sunday’s session. DRIVE CHAIRMAN — Jonas Bridges, Kings Mountain radio man, has been named chairman of next January's March of Dimes campaign. Mr. Jonas manages Station WKMT. Bridges Polio Fund Chairman Jonas Bridges, manager of Kings Mountain Radio Station WKMT, will head the 1957 March of Dimes fund campaign in the Kings Mountain area, it was an nounced this week by the county j campaign co-chairmen, Max But ! ler and Hugh Dover, of Shelby. ♦Proceeds from the fund drive, to be conducted in January, are used for treatment of infantile paralysis victims and for re search to improve means ofpre vention of the disease. Mr. Bridges is a Boiling Springs native who joined the Kings Mountain station when it opened in 1953. He subsequently spent a year with a Newton sta tion and returned here as mana ger of WKMT. He had previous ly been a radioman at Shelby, Forest City and Brevard and spent two years in the radio television public information branch of the army during 1951 53. He is a native of Boiling Springs, a director of the Kings Mountain Lions club and a mem ber of First Baptist church. His wife is the former Doris Summer lin, of Clover, S. C. First Baptist Offices Moved The First Baptist church offices were being moved this week to the former Herald building, now owned by the church, on South Piedmont avenue. The offices of Rev Aubrey Quakenbush, Miss Ellen Daniel, and Mrs. W. B. Logan, will oc cupy the front portion of the building, while the back portion is being utilized for a combina tion youth recreation room and kitchen. Rev,. Mr. Quakenbush said the transfer of offices will free three rooms in the educational build ing for Sunday School class rooms. Mis. Summers Retires liter Long Tenure With Lutheran Bible Class A veteran Kings Mountain Sun day School teacher has resigned after 35 consecutive years teach ing the men’s class she organized and the class has voted to dis band. Mrs. Frank R. Summers, better known as “Miss Bonnie" to a host of Kings Mountain citizens, completed the 35 years recently. Officially known as the Mis sionary Bible Class of St. Matt hew’s Lutheran church, it was better known as “Miss Bonnie’s class,” and it was not the ordi nary run of Bible classes. It ma jored in evangelism and once em ployed a bus to bring its mem bers to the Sunday morning ses sions. But is also majored in secular education, too. Thirty five ago there were numerous Kings Mountain adults who had little, or no formal schooling. When it developed that some of the members of the class could not read, Mrs. Sum mers began classes in reading. Mrs. Summers was highly prai sed for her work in a resolution adopted by the class when it voted to disband. Also praised in the resolution was Dewey Randall, Bonnie Mill production boss, who compiled an enviable record. He joined the class when it was first organized and never missed attending a single session. The class honored him five years ago with a watch, given in commemorating his 30 years of perfect attendance. He has added five years since. In the resolution, signed by President Rov Howard and Sec retary Ray W. Clire, the class said, “We here record our heart felt thanks for her 35 years of faithful service. She has been a constant source of inspiration and high wisdom in matters of the Spirit. Her knowledge of the Bi ble and her example have helped hundreds of men to lead better I Christian lives ...." wihei Finns Also Planning Adjustments Up Wage increases are already in effect or are just around the cor ner for a large number of Kings Mountain textile employees. Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company and Park Yarn Mills have posted notices in their plant's that upward wage adjust ments are being made, effective October 8. These two firms thus join Bur lington Mills in wage increases effective Monday past, which will be reflected in paychecks of next week. Other firms are figuring pay scales and expect to announce details of the increases soon. The Massachusetts Mohair and Park Yarn announcements will effect nearly 1200 employees here. Massachusetts, recently, was employing 850 persons at its Neisler division plants here, and Park Yarn Mills employs 280. A partial survey by the Herald of other Kings Mountain textile firms revealed the following: W. K. Mauney, official of Mau ney and Bonnie mills which em ploy between them some 240 to 250 persons, said, "We’re work ing on it. Our intention is to up pay scales.” Frank Burke, general manager of Lambeth Rope Corporation’s plant here, now employing 75 persons in narrow fabrics manu facture, said, "I don’t have any thing to announce yet, but I know we’re going to be adjusting wag es upward.” a simuar report came irom Ralph A. Johnson, superintendent of Slater Manufacturing Com pany with 110 employees. Slater headquarters are in Patterson, N. J. Mr. Johnson said raises will he made, though he had not yet learned details. G. C. Kelly, Craftspun Yarns vice-president reported, “We’re still figuring.” Big J. P. Stevens Company an nounced last week it was raising wages ten cents per hour. Bur lington Industries and numerous others were quick to follow. Summers Joins Atlanta Firm Frank A. Summers, Kings Mountain native, has joined an Atlanta, Ga., industrial engineer ing firm, John M. Avant & As sociates. Mr. Summers for the past 18 months has held an engineering position with DuPont de Ne mours, Inc., at Aiken, S. C, ato mic energy plant. He joined the Avant firm Mon day. He will be headquartered in Atlanta. Mr. Summers holds both under graduate and graduate school de grees from Georgia Tech and served in Korea with the army corps of engineers. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Summers. Steelwoikers Active Again At Lithium Fiim The CIO Steelworkers are re ported again seeking to orga nize Lithium Corporation’s Bes semer City plant. The CIO union polled most votes in a National Labor Re lations Board election at Lith ium Corporation last November in a joint, ftut losing organiz ing effort with the AFL Teem sters union. In the 1955 voting, employ ees voted 70 to 63 against nam ing either union as employee bargaining agent. Of the 63 fa voring a union bargaining a gent, 61 favored the CIO Steel workers while only two cast votes for the AFL Teamsters. The Steelworkers were active in 1954 seeking to organize Foote Mineral Company, but were soundly trounced in the NLRB voting. Under NLRB regulations, pe tition for a labor election can’t be filed until a year from date of a prior election. Last year’s voting was conducted on No vember IS. Under usual procedure, the union files a petition with the NLRB claiming it has suffi cient members to justify its designation as bargain i n g agent for employees. The com pany customarily denies the claim, requiring the NLRB to hold a hearing. Results of past hearings have been the order ing of elections.