Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10.320
City Limits 7.206
n» Sg«n for Greater Sega Mountain It derived from
the IKS Kluge Mountain city directory census. The City
limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950.
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VOL 66 NO. 41
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday October 18, 1956
Sixty-Seventh Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
53rd Floral Fair
Winners Listed
Local News
Bulletins
AT KING'S
Timothy C. Gladden, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gladden,
Patricia A. Miller, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. iR. Miller, and
Judy A. Owens, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Owens, are
among the 170 new students
enrolled at Kings’ Business
College in Charlotte.
HOSPITAk GIFT
Members of the Missionary
circle of First Wesleyan Metho
dist church have donated linen
to Kings Mountain hospital,
according to announcement toy
Grady Howard, hospital busi
ness manager who acknow
ledged the gift.
TEACHING COURSE
The Rev. James McLarty,
pastor of Central Methodist
Church, is teaching an accred
ited course for a Christian
Workers Training Schopl at
First Methodist Church, Laur
ens, S. C.„ this week. Rev. Mc
Larty is teaching a course on
Music In Christian Education.
SUPPER
Ladies alub of Carson Me
morial church will sponsor an
•oyster supper Friday, October
26, from 5 until 8 o’clock p. m.
Tickets are being sold toy mem
bers of the class.
CENTRAL PT-A
Mrs. James T. Logan will
show a film on “United Forces
for Education at the regular
meeting of Central Parent
Teacher association Tuesday
night at ,7:30 p. m. in the school
auditorium.
SUPPER
Young Adult class of Grace
Methodist church will sponsor
an oyster supper at the church
Saturday afternoon with plates
to Ibe sold Ibeginning at 5
•o’clock in the new building.
Proceeds will go to the build
ing fund.
LIONS PROGRAM
Hague Sisk and his five
piece musical organization will
present the program at next
Tuesday’s meeting of the Kings
Mountain Lions club, accord
ing to announcement by Jonas
Bridges, program chairman,
The club meets at the Woman’s
Club at 7 o’clock.
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 Gaffney, secretary, an
nounced.
MAUNEY ELECTED
Aubrey M a u n e y, Kings
Mountain textile manufactur
er, was ejected last week as a
lay member to the foreign mis
sions 'board of the United Luth
eran Church in America. Mr.
Mauney was elected by dele
gates attending the biennial
meeting of the church in Har
risburg. Pa.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $167.06, City Clerk
Gene Mitcham reported. The
total included $139.50 from on
street meters and $27.56 from
off-street meters.
All Mountaineers'
Top Grade Hurdles
Kings Mountain Mountain
eers will go after their second
straight Southw e s t e r n AA
crown at full strength.
Wednesday was report-card
time for city,school students,
and Coach Shu Caflton ann
nounced happily that all of
his football players came
through with flying colors. A
student must pass all but one
subject in order to be eligible
for athletic competition.
Losing iboys in mid-season
is always a blow, and some
times dooms a team’s cllfences,
but the Mountaineers are
ready and eager to get their
hands on the loop champion
ship again in 1956.
Annual Event
Held Wednesday
At Woman's Club
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Mrs. C. E. Cash, Mrs. Caa-l Mau
ney, and Mrs. A. W. Kincaid won
top honors In Wednesday’s floral
fair of Kings Mountain Woman’s
club. •
Sweepstakes award to holder
of the most blue ribbons in the
show went to Mrs. Cash, the tri
color award for the best entry in
the arrangements division went
to Mrs. Mauney, and the tri-color
award for the best horticulture
entry was received by Mrs. Kin
caid.
Cash awards for best junior en
tries went to Sara Rose Lennon,
whose arrangement was judged
best in the group of entries of
students in grades 5-8, and to
Linda Roberts, whose entry was
judged best in the group of en
tries by pre-school to fourth
grades.
Blue ribbons went to first place
winners, red ribbons to holders
of second - place awards, yellow
ribbons marked third - place win
ners, and white ribbons denoted
honorable mention.
Judges for the annual event
were Mrs. J. V. Stewart, of New
ton, Mrs. K. M. Estep, of Lenoir,
and Mrs. Robert L. Cody, of Hick
ory who judged entries in the ar
rangements division, Mrs. P. W.
Deaton, of Hickory, Miss Marian
Kuhn, Miss Dorothy Ervin Eaton,
both of Newton, who judged en
tries in the Junior category, and
Mrs. Clifford Huffman, of Hick
ory, Mrs. E. F. Yoder, of 'Newton,
and Mrs. O. E. Koeberling, of Le
noir, who were judges in the hor
ticulture division.
Theme of the fair-, expected to
attract record crowds, was “Au
tumn In Carolina.” Among entri
es were six arrangements by
Kings Mountain Garden clubs,
which were not judged, but re
ceived special merit awards1.
Other winners in various di
visions of the show follow:
Division 1, Section A
Arrangements ,
Class 1 — Autumn Brilliance—
An arrangement featuring warm
:olors, Mrs. Ennis Jackson, 1st;
Mrs. C. E. Cash, 2nd; Mrs. Carl
Mauney, 3rd; and Mrs. Ruth Wil
liams, honorable mention.
Class 2 — Indian Summer —
An arrangement of fruits and/or
vegetables with foliage, Mrs. En
nis Jackson, 1st; Mrs. Ruth Wil
liams, 2nd.
Class 3 — Seasonal Gaiety —
Informal composition using sea
sonal material with one or more
accessories, Mrs. Clyde Kerns,
3rd: Mrs. John L. McGill, award
of merit.
Class 4 — Roses of Autumn —
An arrangement using only ros
es, Mrs. Carl Mauney 1st (tri-col
or); Mrs. Ruth Williams, 3rd.
Class 5 — Study in Green — A
green arrangement in neutral or
green container — Mrs. M. A.
Ware, 1st; Mrs. Carl Mayes, 2nd;
Mrs. Phil Jackson, 3rd: and Mrs.
Ennis Jackson, honorable men
tion.
Class 6 — Fall Simplicity — A
composition in the modern man
ner (bold, geometric, clean-cut
lines) — Mrs. P. G. Padgett, 2nd; :
Mrs. M. A. Ware, 3rd; Mrs. John
L. McGill, honorable mention.
Class 7 — Time Stands Still —
A dried arrangement using exhi
Continued On Page Four
E. R. GOTER
RALPH FLOW
T. J. ALBRECHT
R. W. ROSBERG
Four Promoted
By Foote Mineral
Goter, Rosberg,
Flow, Albrecht
In New Posts
Four executive promotions at
Foote Mineral Company, were an
lounced this week by Neil John
son, general manager . of the
Kings Mountain plant.
They are:
E. R. Goter has assumed the
position, of general superinten
lent, being promoted from the
positions of mine superintendent
and assistant operations mana
ger.
Ralph C. Flow, formerly as
sistant mine superintendent, has
been promoted to the position of
mine superintendent.
T. J. Albrecht, formerly assis
tant mill superintendent, has be
come mill superintendent.
Robert W. Rosberg, formerly
metallurgist, has been promoted
to assistant mill superintendent.
The promotions were effective
Monday.
Mr. Goter joined Foote here
in February 195i and helped
launch the company’s Kings
Mountain operations in July of
that year. He holds a B. S. de
gree from the University oi
North Dakota school of mines
and he has held positions with
Anaconda Copper Company, Gol
ien Age Mining Company, Gilt
Edge Mines, Inc., American
Manganese Company, American
Rutile Company, and the Na
tional Lead Company.
Mr. Flow joined Foote here in
1954 as mining engineer, later
Continued On Page Eight
North School Cost Is $269,155
Schools Buying Paikei Street Lot
The Kings Mountain Board of
School Trustees held its regular
monthly meeting Monday night
in the office of Supt. B. N. Barnes,
with only a few minor business
matters coming before the board.
Supt. Barnes gave a tentative
cost report on the new North
Elementary School plant./He re
ported that the total cost to date
on the building and grounds to
talled $260,155.53.
A break-down of this figure
showed that $237,751.81 of the
amount was spent on the build
ing itself; $4,139.73 on classroom
equipment; $4,796,45 on cafeteria
and office equipment; and $3,
638.98 in improving the grounds
of the school.
Mr. Barnes said he hoped a fi
nal report on the total cost could
be made soon.
The board discussed at length
the possibility of constructing a
sidewalk from the street to the
front entrance of West School.
Mrs. Paul Neisler, Jr., president
of the West School PTA, had
requested this sidewalk earlier,
and the board had postponed ac
tion pending further investiga
tion.
Board members, in discussing
this project, seemed to feel that
a one-way circular drive leading
in from West Mountain street
would be a better solution to the
problem. No action was taken
I but the board said it would ask
j the PTA group to appoint a com
! mittee to help study the prob
lem.
Supt. Barnes reported that Mrs.
Henry Jones had accepted the
board’s offer of $4,850 for proper
ty adjoining Central School lands
on Parker street 'Hu? plot being
obtained from Mrs.. Jones is ap
proximately 76% feet by 161 feet.
The board accepted the resig
nation of Mrs. Nell Gold Ham
rick, fourth grade teacher at
Central Elementary School, and
elected Mrs. Sarah B. Dedmon,
of Shelby, to fill this vacancy.
Mrs. Hendrick resigned her posi
i tion to move to Boone in order
j to join her husband, who is in
Continued On Page Eight
ELECTED F3ESIDENT — Harold
Coggins, Cooper's Inc., official
was elected president of the
Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club for
1957 at the club's last meeting.
Mr. Coggins succeeds B. S. Peeler,
Jr., as head of the organization.
The newly elected president serv
ed as first vice president of the
club this year.
Kiwanisns Elect
Hazold Coggins
Harold Coggins, secretary-trea
surer of Cooper’s, Inc., local fur
niture firm, was elected presi
dent of Kings Mountain Kiwanis
club for the coming year at the
organization’s weekly meeting
Thursday night.
Mr. Coggins will succeed B. S.
Peeler, Jr., as president of the
club.
Other officers elected includ
ed John Cheshire, first vice-presi
dent; and George H. Mauney,
second vice-president and pro
gram chairman.
Directors elected for one-year
terms included Glee E. Bridges,
James B. McLarty, William L.
Mauney, J. A. “Bud” Neisler, Jr.
Dr. Paul Nolan, John C. Smath
ers, and Bob Hoffman. The past
president, Mr. Peeler, will be an
ex-officio director.
Mr. Coggins is a charter mem
ber of the*Kings Mountain Ki
wanis club successor to the Busi
j nessmen’s Club of Kings Moun
tain when the Kiwanis Club was
organized in 1940.
He has served in many official
1 capacities in the club. He was a
director in 1947, served as sec
retary 1948rl954; was second vice
president in 1954: and was elected
first vice-president in 1955.
The newly elected president is
a native of Greenville County,
S. C. He came to Kings Mountain
in 1935, and has been connected
with his present firm since that
time. He came here from Gaff
i ney, S. C., and considers it home.
He married the former Miss
Octavia Crawford of Kings Moun
tain. They reside at 501 West
Continued On Page Eight
Craftspun, Lambeth and Slater
Boosting Hourly Pay Scales
ASC Election
To Be Conducted
Next Tuesday
Township ASC committeemen
will be elected in a county-wide
election Tuesday, October 23.
In the local area, voting for No.
4 Township will be held at Beth
ware School, and Number 5
Township voting will ibe at Waco
School. Voting hours are from 8
a. m. until 6 p. m.
Farmers in this area will select
a township committee chairman,
vice-chairman member, and two
alternate members. The person in
each township polling the most
votes will ibe designated chair
man, second highest vote-getter
will be vice-chairman, and the
man receiving the third highest
total will be committeemen. Al
ternate members will be the men
polling the fourth and fifth high
est totals in the voting.
Township chairmen will serve
as delegates to the October 25
county convention, and will elect
county officals to serve for the
coming year.
'Members of the county elec
tion board are H. R. Clapp, chair
man, Joe Craver 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, Al
vin Barrett and A. S. Kiser.
Registration
Activity Brisk
Registration activity for the
November 6 general election was
reported fairly brisk Saturday by
Kings Mountain area registrars.
Mrs. Nell Cranford, East Kings
Mountain registrar, said she add
ed the names of 33 voters to the
registration books, with 27 list
ing themselves as Democrats and
six registering at Republicans.
At Grover, six new voters were
added to the scrolls. Mrs. J. M|
Ellis, wife of the registrar, re
called that at least five were De
mocrats.
Mrs. J. H. Arthur said she had
a brisk day, but didn’t have the
total immediately available. In
cluded were numerous transfers
from other polling places.
Mrs. H. A. Goforth at Bethware
was not available, but was re
ported to have added several new
voters.
Both Mrs. Cranford and Mrs.
Ellis said the new registrants ac
cented "youth”, including several
who will cast ballots for the first
time on November 6.
The pollbooks will be open at
all precincts again Saturday and
also on Saturday, October 27.
All persons expecting to vote in
the November 6 election must be
registered.
Mauney Selected
For Eagle Rank
Jacob P. Mauney. Jr.., son of Dr.
and Mrs. Jacob P. Mauney of
fCngs Mountain, was recom
mended to the National Court of
Honor for the Eagle Bank Scout
ing award at the Kings Mountain
District Court of Honor October
11.
Tommy Bennett of Troop 1,
Kings Mountain received the
First Class Scouting Badge! which
was the only other rank advance
ment recorded during the Court
of Honor meeting.
The following merit badges
were awarded during the meet
ing: Cooking, J. Conway Jolly,
Troop 5; Finger Printing, Noel B
Wabater, Troop 1; Leatherwork,
Robin Whlsnant, Troop 1; and
Scholarship. Bill Shuford and
James Panther, both of Troop 5.
Rites Conducted
For D. C. Mauney
FUNERAL HELD — Dorris Carl
Mauney, textile manufacturer
and lifelong citizen here, died
last Thursday. He was 75. Funer
al rites were conducted last Fri
day..
Kimmell Gets
Hickory Post
James W. Kimmell, former
Kings Mountain high school ath
lete, has been named director of
the Hickory Community recrea
tion program, it was announced
this week by Henry W. Brown,
Community Center manager.
Mr. Kimmell, the Hickory Rec
ord reported, is a Lenoir-Rhyne
college senior who will graduate
in January.
Mr. Brown said the program
would begin on a part-time basis
next week, with Mr. Kimmell
supervising a varied program of
athletics—including volley ball,
badminton, basketball and indoor
tennis—for all age groups.
Mr. Kimmell is the husband of
the former Miss Cornellia Ware,
of Kings Mountain: His parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kimmell, are
former citizens.
Mis. Knox Heads
Bible Teachers
Mrs. June Rogers Knox cif
Kings Mountain was re-elected
secretary - treasurer of the Bible
department of the South Pied
mont District of the North Caro
I lina Education Association. The
j election was held at the Annaul
; District Convention held in Char
lotte last Friday.
Mrs. Knox has been active in
affairs of the department.
The Annual District Convention
was addressed by Dr. William H.
Plemmons, President of Appala
chian State Teachers College. 2,
000 school personnel attended the
day long meeting.
Kings Mountain
Manufacturer
Succumbs At 75
Funeral services for Dorris
Carl Mauney, 75, lifelong Kings
Mountain citizen and ;—tninent
textile manufacturer, v^-re con
ducted last Friday afternoon
from St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church. ,
Mr. Mauney died last Thurs
day morning at 7 o’clock at Char
lotte Memorial hospital of a heart
condition. He had been a patient
for three weeks and in declining
health for several months.
Bom here July 24, 1881, he was
a son of the late Jacob S. and
Margaret Rudisill Mauney, a
mong the community’s founders.
He was secretary-treasurer of
Sadie Cotton Mill, of which he
was cofounder, president of Bon
nie Cotton Mills, a director of
Kings Mountain Manufacturing
Company, and a director of Mau
ney-Steel Company, Providence,
Ft. I. A former city school trus
tee, Mr. Mauney was active in
supervising the building of the
present Central school plant in
1933.
A member of St. Matthew’s
Lutheran church all his life, he
was liberal in support of the
church and its agencies, includ
ing Lenoir-Rhyne college. In 1947,
he collaborated with his brothers
and sisters in giving to the city
Jacob S. Mauney Memorial lib
rary, honoring their late parents.
More recently, he made a large
contribution to the Kings Moun
tain Woman’s Club, making
possible the extensive addition of
the building.
The family requested that flow
Continued On Page Eight
Democrats Ante
For Vote Drive
Mrs. J. E. Lipford, county
Democratic vice-ehairman, said
Wednesday she has met “excel
lent response” in her fund-rais
ing effort for the current Demo
cratic national campaign.
Mrs. Lipford is Kings Moun
tain area chairman of the Demo
crats “Dollar Day” effort to ob
tain a minimum dollar contribu
tion from registered Democrats.
“I have met with excellent
response,” Mrs. Lipford commen
ted, "and have received nume
rous contributions by mail from
local citizens interested in sup
porting the Democratic ticket in
the November 6 election.”
She added she hoped to com
plete her solicitation within the
next week, if possible, and again
invited Democrats to mail in
their contributions.
Senator Albert Gore To Address
Democrats At Five-District Rally
Senator Albert Gore, of Tennes.
see, will be the featured speaker
at a gigantic rally of area Demo
crats, to be held in Shel.by at City
Park next Wednesday.
The Tennessee Senator will
speak following a barbecue din
ner.
Prior to the gathering a parade
will form in Shelby and proceed
to City Park, where Red Bridges
will serve as caterer,.
Clyde Nolan, of Shelby, former
state senator, and Tom Hord, of
Lawndale, president of county
Young Democrats, are co-chair
men of the rally committee and
were in Kings 'Mountain Monday
encouraging attendance at the
Shelby rally.
Charles Dixon and Jack White
are handling ticket sales in the
Kings Mountain area. Tickets for
the dinner are selling at $1.50.
The co-chairmen and ticket
vendors said they hoped the
Kings Mountain area would be
well-represented at the rally, to
which all Democrats from five
congressional districts have £>een
Continued On Page Eight
TO SPARK RALLY — U. S. Sena
tor Albert Gore, of Tennessee,
will be the feature speaker at c
five-district Democratic rally tc
be held in Shelby at City Park
next Wednesday night. The Sena
tor will speak following’a barbe
cue dinner.
Hikes To Effect
490 Employees
In Three Plants
Three more Kings (Mountain
textile plants reported this week
they have adjusted wage scales
upward.
The three are Craftspun Yarns,
Inc., Lambeth 'Rope Corporation,
and Slater Brothers, employing
an aggregate of about 400 em
ployees and raising to approxi
mately 1700 Kings Mountain tex
tile employees who have, or will,
receive wage rate boosts.
None of the firms spelled out
the exact amount of the wage
(boosts, though all said the in
creases would meet the increases
initiated locally by Phenix Plant
of Burlington Industries.
One textile firm estimated the
average increase at seven cents
per hour, another said his firm’s
raises would be from five to eight
cents per hour, for an average of
six or seven cents over-all.
Previously announcing wage
increases were Burlington, Neis
ler division of Massachusetts Mo
hair Plush Company, and Park
Yarn Mills.
J. P. Stevens Company, one of
the nation’s largest textile organ
izations, announced two weeks
ago it was upping wages ten
cents per hour and upward ad
justments have followed through
out the industry.
Several other Kings Mountain
textile officials reported no ac
tion as yet, and several added,
"We’re still figuring.’’
Lambeth’s raise was effective
Monday and will be reflected in
next week’s paycheck. Craftspun
employees will, be notified of
their raise with this week’s pay
checks which are distributed be
ginning Thursday night. Slater
increases were effective last Fri
day morning.
Textile Union
Held Meeting
The AFL-CIO Textile Workers
Union of America held a meeting
at their office in Gastonia last
Sunday afternoon to discuss or
ganization of the Margrace plant,
Margrace workers were invited
to attend by circular, tout how
many attended could not toe
ascertained. All reports were
third and fourth hand. One man
said he had understood a large
number of Margrace employees
had attended but he did not know
anyone personally who did. An
ther person said the attendance
was “negligible.”
Another said he had noted no
union circularizing activity at
the plant since Sunday.
The circular distributed last
week by the union organizers
was addressed to Margrace work
ers and asked if the employees
had received “the 10c raise.” It
further inferred that the raise, if
granted, would be followed by a
"stretchout,” union terminology
for upping of production sched
ules.
William Ford, Margrace and
Neisler division general manager
of Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company, pooh-poohed the
stretchout inference.
“We haven’t had a complete
time study since we toought the
plant,” he said, adding, “We’ve
done some shifting and re-organ
izing, but we’ve conducted no
complete time study.”
Under the headline “Sign Your
Blue Card,” the union circular
made the following memtoership
appeal:
“The First Step toward win
ning a Union at Margrace is by
every worker signing a Blue Card
of the Textile Workers Union of
America.
“Unless, and until, a great
majority DO sign the Blue Card
stating they want the Union to
represent them we will not peti
ion for a National Labor Rela
tions Board election.
“The cards ard held confiden
tial. But you must sign one before
-m election wiili toe held. So, the
first thing for Margrace workers
to do is to sign a Blue Card of
TWA, AFL-CIO.”
KIWANI.S PROGRAM
Robert Aldrich, of Green
wood, S. C., will conduct his an
nual quiz program at the
Thursday evening meeting of
the Kings Mountain Kiwanis
cluto. The club convenes at the
Woman’s Cluto at 6:45.