Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10.320
City Limits 7.206
figure for Greater Tlngr Mountala U derived tram
the 1955 King* Mountain city -tlrectory census. The City
Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950.
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VOL. 66 NO. 42
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 25, 1956
Sixty-Seventh Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Slater Is Building
$85,000 Addition
Local News
Bulletins
DIXON SERVICE
(Robert Osborne will conduct
Sunday morning services at
Dixon Presbyterian church in
the absence of Rev,. P. D. Pat
rick, who is speaking at church
services in Florence, S. C.
TAUGHT COURSE
Dr. James B. McLarty, pastor
of Central Methodist church,
taught a course in church mu
sic last week at Laurens, S. C.
First Methodist church.
IN CHOIR
Miss Sara Elizabeth (Butch)
Houser, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Houser, of Kings
Mountain, has been chosen a
second soprano in the Wake
Forest college choir. Miss Hou
ser is a freshman at the insti
tution.
FAIRVIEW LODGE
Members of Fhirview Lodge
339 AF & AM will attend even
ing services Sunday at David’s
Baptist church. Masons are re
quested to meet at the church
at 7:45 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN
Dr. Lawrence Harris Chewn
ing, Jr., member of the faculty
of Queens college, Charlotte,
will speak at morning services
Sunday at First Presbyterian
church in the absence of Rev.
P. D. Patrick, pastor, who will
conduct Homecoming services
at Hope w e l l Presbyterian
church in Pee Dee Presbytery,
Synod of South Carolina.
METER RECEIPTS
City parking meter receipts
for the week ending noon Wed
nesday totalled $177.62, accord
ing to a report by City Clerk
Gene Mitcham who said street
meters accounted for $148.09,
while off-street meters return
ed $29.53.
ATTENDS CONFERENCE
Ollie Harris, president of the
North Carolina Association of
Emibalmers, has returned from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where
he represented the state organ
ization at the national confer
ence of Embalmers of America.
KIWANIS PROGRAM
Bob Penegar, of Charlotte,
will address members of the
Kings Mountain Kiwanis cluib
Tuesday night on the subject
■“The Magic Barrel.” Mr Pene
gar is associated with Esso
Standard Oil Company. The
club meets at the Woman’s
Club at 6:45.
TEEN-AGE DANCE
Kings Mountain Moosfe
Lodge 1748 will sponsor a teen
age Hallowe’en dance Tuesday
night at the lodge on Bessemer
City road, Dean Payne, member
of the lodge, announced. The
dance will be held between the
hours of 8 and 11 p. m.
MOOSE MEETING
i Members of Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge 1748 will hold
their regular meeting at the
lodge on Bessemer City road at
8:15 Thursday night, Curtis
Gaffney, secretary, announced.
AT CONVENTION
Mayor Glee A. Bridges, City
Clerk Gfene Mitcham and Assis
tant City Clerk Joe McDaniel
represented the city at the an
nual convention of the North
Carolina League of Municipali
ties held in Asheville Sunday
through Tuesday.
GFWC President
On Home Show
Mrs. R. I. C. Prout, president of
the General Federation of Wom
an’s Clubs, will announce details
of a new GFWC television pro
gram on next Tuesday’s Arlene
Francis Home Shbw.
Notification of Mrs. Prout's ap
pearance was received here this
week by Mrs. J. P. Mauney, chair
man of the North Carolina Fed
eration of Woman’s Clubs pub
licity committee.
The Arlene Francis show js
he&rd at 11 a. m. EST over the
NBC television network.
Mrs. Mauney said she had also
ibeen informed that a regular pro
gram of Woman’s Club news
would be telecast over the Home
Show beginning' Monday, No.
vem'ber 5.
Plush-Maker
Building Second
Addition Of '56
Slater Brothers, Inc., manufac
turers of plush fabrics, has
launched construction of its sec
ond major 1956 addition to its
Kings Mountain plant.
Currently underway is a two
story briek-and-block addition to
provide an additional 21,440
square feet of floor space, Super
intendent Ralph A. Johnson said
Wednesday.
The addition will measure 99
feet toy 112.75 feet.
Mr. Johnson declined to esti
mate what the addition will
mean in additional employees
for the plant Which launched
operations here in 1950 with 12
employees. The firm now em
ploys 110 persons in its plush
weaving operations.
Parent office of the firm is in
Patterson, N. J.
The current addition, estimat
ed to cost $85,000, will toe the
fourth for the firm since it pur
chased the former Betty Yarn
Mill plant from Haywood E.
Lynch and D. C. Mauney. The
current addition! will increase
floor space to 56,720 square feet,
compared to the present 35,280.
A portion of the new addition
will toe used for office space.
Among end-point uses of Slat
er’s production are toys, such as
animal coverings, instrument
case linings and casket linings.
Ware Property
To Be Auctioned
According to legal.notice pub
lished by Attorney Jack White
this week, a public auction to sell
properties of the W. Calvin Ware
estate will be held November 25
at 10 a. m.
J. R. Davis, senior partner of
Davis & White law firm, is com
missioner for the sale*
The properties to toe sold in
clude some 138 acres of land and
four houses complete with .barns.
Mr. White said the property
would be auctioned off in build
ing lots and small tracts. This
land is located one mile west of
Kings Mountain on U. S. High
way 74.
The auction will be absolute
The property is being sold under
order of the clerk of court to set
tle the Ware estate.
HOSPITALIZED
John Mitcham, of 25 Elm
street, who had been hospital
ized at Kings Mountain hospi
tal for several days, has been
transferred to the Veterans
hospital, Swannanoa. Mr.
Mitcham, suffered a liver ail
ment, was reported improving
satisfactory.
ASC Township
Committees
Aie Named
Interest .lagged very .badly in
No. 4 and No. 5 Townships Tues
day as farmers went to the polls
to elect ASC committeemen.
Only 16 votes were cast in each
of the two townships in Tues
day’s balloting.
Clyde .Randall was elected No.
4 Township Chairman, while oth
er representatives elected were
Stowe Wright, vice-chairman;
Hugh Falls, regular member;
Willis Harmon, first alternate;
and Nevette Hughes, second al
ternate.
Members named in No. 9
Township were Coleman Goforth,
chairman; William Wright, vice
chairman; Zeno Hord, regular
member; 'Dewitt Randall, first al
ternate; and George Dover, sec
ond alternate.
Township chairmen will serve
as delegates to the county con
vention being held today, and
will elect county officers to serve
during the coming year.
Township members are named
with the man receiving the
chairman, second highest vote
getter, vice chairman, and so on
highest number of votes elected
through the five ASC positions.
Rites Are Held
For Mrs. Houser
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 4 p. m. at First Pres
byterian Church fdr Mrs. Sarah
Katherine Houser, 45-year-old
resident of 208 North Piedmont
avenue, who died in Kings
Mountain Hospital Sunday night
following an illness of two years.
A native of Catawba County,
Mrs. Houser was the daughter of
Mrs. Hattie Elizabeth McGee,
who survives. Other survivors in
clude her huslband, .Robert Lloyd
Houser; three daughters, Martha,
Jhne Elizabeth and Mary Ann
Houser, all of the home; and five
brothers, Marvin McGee, Clyde
McGee, both of Newtoft, joe and
Noah McGee, both of Conover,
and Lee McGee of Maryland.
Pallbearers were June Clonin
ger, Hall Goforth, Arnold Jack
son, J. W. Webster, Harry Page,
and Ben Goforth.
The Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor
of First Presbyterian Church, offi
ciated. Burial was in Mountain
Rest cemetery,.
Hord Has Role
In School Comedy
Donald Hord, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. R. Hord of Sandson, Va.,
a freshman at Richmond Profes
sional Institute Department of
Dramatic Art has been cast in the
role of a sailor in the first major
production entitled “Gris Gris.”
Mr. Hord, who recently graduated
from Kings Mountain High
School, was seen in their produc
tion of Varsity Vanities.
“Gris Gris” is an original musi
cal comedy written by Miss Lucy
Nes, a member of the drama
faculty and is directed by Ray
mond Hodges.
Irish Family Finds Southerners
long On Friendship, Hospitality
Patrick J. Heffernan, an immi
grant to Kings Mountain by way
of Brooklyn and previously from
Dublin, Ireland, is much impress
ed with the genuine “Southern
hospitality” practiced by his
Kings Mountain friends.
Mr. Heffernan, who is in his
employ of Textile Banking Cor
poration of New York and assign
ed to Margrace mill here since
its asquisition by Massachusetts
Mohair Plush Company last De
cember, suffered a heart attack
October 1, has been hospitalized
since and is now recuperating at
hiis home near Shelby.
Since that time, Mrs. Heffer
nan told the Herald Wednesday,
a whole hast of business and so
cial acquaintances here have col
laborated to make life much eas
ier for him and his family. Spec
ifically, Mrs. Heffernan mesa
ed William Ford, W. J. Fulker
son, James E. Amos, Archie Wil
banks, Joe O’Shields a Mr. Baker,
Zeno Wright, Charlie Campbell,
Paul Opinsky and the “whole of
fice staff of the Margrace plant.”
The three Heffernan children,
Rosaleen, Frances and James
West, are attending school at Bel
mont Abbey. They had been com
muting. The Heffernan friends
have been helping with the trans
portation detail. In addition, they
have been continuously soliciti
ous of the family’s welfare since
Ml-. Heffernan, sociably known
to some of his friends as the
“Wild Irishman,” became ill.
Though both Mr. and Mrs. Hef
femail were bom in Ireland,
there are some prior close con
nections with America.
Mr. Heffernan’s grandfather
came to America and lived in the
South. An engineer, he served
under the banner of the Confed
eracy In the Civil War with Gen
eral Stonewall Jackson. Heffer
nan’s father was born in Ameri
ca but returned to the old coun
try.
Mrs. Heffernan also had A
merican kin. Her maiden name
was Nancy Digges, and the late
Dudley Digges, famous stage and
screen actor, was her uncle.
But Mrs. Heffernan wasn’t so
sure about forsaking the friend
ly home soil of Ireland for Amer
ica.
“Pat’s whole family always ex
pected to make America their
home and was delayed by the De
pression in the Thirties,” Mrs.
Heffernan said. “I wasn’t much
for it. I’d always heard that you
had to keep out of the way of A
mericans in New York or get
trampled.”
Finally, the move began. Two
brothers of Mr. Heffernan came
to America first and Pat Heffer
nan followed three years ago.
Mrs. Heffernan has been an A
merican resident for the past
two years. They have taken out
citizenship papers, first .step to
becoming American citizens.
“I didn’t know anyone could
be as kind as our many friends
have been,” Mrs. Heffernan said,
when she asked that a statement
of appreciation be published in
the Herald.
Mr. Heffernan is recuperating
satisfactorily and hopes to be
back at his work in about six
weeks.
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FLORAL FAIR WINNERS — Among winners in the Junior division of
the floral fair conducted last Wednesday by the Woman's club were
four fifth grade students of North school. Left to right are Michael
Smith. Betty Jean Ledbetter. Sandra Camp, and Henry Butler. Twelve
fifth graders of North schoolentered arrangements in the Junior divi.
sion of the show.. (Photo by Mrs. Lafaye Meacham. See story page 10.
section 1).
Schools In Area
Reopen Monday
-<s
Jaycees To Collect
Paper November 4
Kings Mountain Junior Cham
ber of Commerce will conduct a
waste paper pick-up on Novem
ber 4, it was announced this week
by J. T. McGinnis, president.
The Jaycees conduct regular
waste paper pick-ups and use the
money from waste paper sales for
civic prejects.
Persons wishing to make ad
vance arrangements for the pa
per collection, either because
they eicpect to be away from'
home on November 4 or other
wise, .should call Mr. McGinnis at
138 or Delbert Dixon at 25.
Baxkley Plans
Policy Change
H. G. (Pete) Barkley, owner of
Barkley Grocery, said this week
he was closing this firm on or
about November 1.
Concurrently, Mr. Barkley said
he will re-open the business on a
new basis about November 15.
“When we re-open, we will
operate on a strict super market
basis,’’ Mr. Barkley said. “We will
sell only for cash and will offer
no delivery service.”
Mr. Barkley addressed a letter
to patrons this week in which he
stated he had found it impossible
to operate successfully his gro
cery Jirm employing the modern
plan of broad inventory and com
petitive prices, concurrent with
credit sales and delivery service.
“We shall re-open as "a strict
super market and will not offer
the services of credit or delivery.”
Mr. Barkley stated.
Hp said the firm would be clos
ed for about two weeks to re
stock.
The Barkley firm is located on
York Road in a large, modern
building owned by Warren E.
Reynolds. Mr. Barkley first open
ed his grocery here 10 years ago.
He has occupied his present loca
tion for the past three years.
Van Dyke Riles
Held Wednesday
Funeral rites for James Peter
Van Dyke, 71, were held Wed
nesday afternoon at Love Valley
Baptist church, burial following
in Concord cemetery near Besse
mer City.
Mr. Van Dyke died Monday
night at 8 o’clock at Kings Moun
tain hospital. He had been suf
fering from a kidney ailment the
previous four weeks.
A Gaston County native, he
was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John S. Van Dyke and operated
the Van Dyke Store.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Lether Smith, three sons,
John D. Van Dyke, Robert Lee
Van Dyke and James C. Van
Dyke, all of Kings Mountain; four
daughters, Mrs. Bill Lovelace,
Grover, and Mrs. Grady Queen,
Mrs. Ben Leonhardt and Miss
Sara Ann Van Dyke, all of Kings
Mountain; a brother, Dave S. Van
Dyke, Kings Mountain; and a
sister, Mrs. R. W. Harlow, Kings
Mountain. Tell grandchildren sur
vive.
The rites were conducted by
Rev. E. M. Redding, Rev. Hugh
Borders and Rev. P. D. Patrick.
Harvest Season
Holidays Ending
For County Unit
Bethware, Patterson Grove, and
Compact schools in the county
system will re-open Monday, re
suming the present term after
closing for fall harvest season.
Announcements were made by
the respective principals.
Patterson Grove will continue
to-operate until completion of the
Bethware ibuilding program.
When the Bethware addition is
complete, the Patterson Grove
school will be consolidated with
Bethware, according to previous
ly announced decision of the
Bethware district school commit
tee. It had been hoped to effect
the consolidation with the re
sumption of the term. The Beth
ware addition is nearly complet
ed, it was reported.
John Rudisill, Bethware princi
pal, said a full schedule would
be observed opening day Beth
ware opens at 8:20 a. m. and the
school day will end at 3 p. m. The
school cafeteria will be in opera
tion, with lunches to be served at
20 cents per plate.
Compact School will also ope
rate on full schedule, Principal L.
L. Adams said. Compact opens at
3:25 a. m., and closes at 3:05.
Compact is without a cafeteria
this year, the cafeteria having
been converted into classroom
space. A new cafeteria building
is currently under construction
and will .be available for use
next year.
Principal Adams said the
school is offering its regular
group insurance accident policy
for school children and hopes to
complete .sales of this coverage
during the first two weeks of the
resumed term. He said coverage
is available at $1.50 per student.
Beam Funeial
Held Satuiday
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 3:30 p. m. from Bethle
hem Baptist Church for Marvin
Leonidas Beam who died Satur
day morning at his home on route
3, Kings Mountain.
He was the son of the late John
Beam and Mrs. Amanda Bookout
Beam, who survives.
Other survivors include his
wife, Mrs. Ella J. Blalock Beam; a
brother, Grady Beam of Badin;
and a sister, Mrs. W. C. Crump of
Badin.
Mr. Beam was a member and
deacon of Westover Baptist
Church. The Rev. N. S. Hardin,
pastor of Westover Baptist
Church, officiated assisted by the
Rev. Wayne Haynes and the Rev.
Paul Whitworth. Interment was
in the church cemetery..
His Sunday School class at
Westover served as active pall
bearers. Deacons of Westover
Baptist Church were honorary
pallbearers.
STUDY COURSE
Women of St. Matthew’s
Lutheran church will sponsor
a studi' course on Southeast
Asia at St. Matthew’s church
Monday night, October 29, from
7:30 until 8:30 p. m. Women of
Resurrection, Grace Methodis.t
and Central Methodist church
es have been invited to Join
with the St Matthew’s church
in the program. *
Cook And Wife
Sound Over
(Without Bond
George Cecil Cook, Jr., and his
wife, Joanne Cook, were hound
over to Superior Court without
bond on a murder indictment Fri
day following a preliminary
hearing ibefore Judge .Reuben
Elam in Cleveland Recorder’s
Court.
The Cooks are charged with
killing Daniel Z. Holloman,
Mooresboro grill and filling sta
tion operator, on September 10.
Cook is a former resident of
Kings Mountain and attended lo
cal schools.
Sheriff Haywood Allen was the
lone witness for the state. The
sheriff related a story told him
:by Mrs. Cook after the couple
were arrested in Tulsa, Okla
homa. He said Mrs. Cook told him
that she and her husband and
baby left Salem, Va., and came to
Shelby arriving about nightfall.
She said they spent the night in
their car, and went to the Moores
boro grill the next morning.
Finding no one there, they drove
around and returned. She said
her husband entered the grill
and- that she heard several .shots.
Her husband came out, filled the
gas tank of their car and they
left, she added.
The couple drove to Rock Hill,
S. C, and traded cars then pro
ceeded to travel to Florida and
finally to Tulsa, Okla., she re
Mr. Cook is represented by At
ported.
torneys A. A. Powell and C. C.
Horn. John Mahoney is represent
ing Mrs. Cook,.
Clinic Branch
Opened Here
Two Shelby Pediatricians have
opened a branch of their Chil
dren’s Clinic in Kings Mountain.
Dr. Paul Sarazen, Jr., and Dr.
Richard Bowles are maintaining
regular office hours six mornings
weekly in the medical offices at
the George W. Mauney & Com
pany building, near Kings Moun
tain hospital. They are sharing
the offices with Dr. J. W. Harbi
son and Dr. Avery MoMurray,
Shelby surgeons, who maintain
office hours in the afternoon.
The Children’s Clinic branch
will be open daily, except Sun
day, from 9 a. m. to noon, Dr.
Sarazen .said.
The pediatricians opened their
Shelby clinic two years ago.
Botht doctors are native New
Yorkers and graduates of both
Duke university and Duke medi
cal school.
Dr. Sarazen, native of White
Plairts, N. Y„ received his medi
cal degree from Duke in 1948,
subsequently held a rotating in
terneship at Bryn Mawr, Pr., and
was a medical interne at Bow
man Gray hospital, Winston
Salem. He spent two years in
special work in pediatrics at
Duke and served in the army at
Ladd AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Recently certified by the Ameri
can Board of Pediatrics, he was
notified of his acceptance as a
fellow in the American Academy
of Pediatrics on Monday of this
week. Mrs. Sarazen is the form
er Jo Patton, of McMinnville,
Tenn.
Dr. Bowles receives his medical
degree from Duke in 1951, and
also received special training in j
pediatrics at Duke. He served in
the army prior to entering medi
cal school. A native of Garden
City, N. Y., his wife is the former
Phyllis Impey, also of Garden
City.
ACCEPT POSITIONS
Miss Hazel Nance, of 937
Grace street, and Mi.ss Doris
Sanders, of route 3, have ac
cepted positions with K. M.
Loan and Finance Company.
Miss Nance is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nance, and
Miss Sanders is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd F. Sanders.
Miss Katy Jones recently re
signed to accept a position with
American Trust Company,
Charlotte.
One Saturday Left
To Get Registered
4
Evening Telegraph
Service Offered
Kings Mountain Drug Com
pany announced this week it will
provide evening Western Union
telegraph service six days week
ly
The drug firm, C. D. Blanton
said, will provide tooth incoming
and outgoing service from 6 p. m.
to 10 p. m., daily except Sundays.
Daytime Western Union service
will be provided as usual toy the
Western Union office located in
the Bus Terminal.
Lions Selling
Fruit Cakes
Members of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club are conducting
their second annual fruit cake
sale for the benefit of the club’s
sight conservation and public
welfare fund.
Members of the club drew their
quotas at Tuesday night’s meet
ing.
Again this year, the club is of
fering for sale Benson’s Old
Home Fruit cake, which was suc
cessfully vended last year. The
three - pound cake sells for $3.25.
Odus Smith Is chairman of the
sale 'project, and other members
of the committee are Bichard
Barnett, Gordon Williams and
Paul Walker.
At Tuesday night's meeting,
the club heard a program of hill
billy music as played by Hague
Sisk and his band.
Goie Supports
Bomb Test Ban
Senator Albert Gore addressed
cheering Democrats from this a
rea Wednesday night in Shelby
and strongly supported Candi
date Adlai Stevenson’s proposal
to halt H-Bomb tests.
Criticizing the Eisenhower ad
ministration for “vacillating”, the
Tennessee Senator told the Dem
ocrats that scientists had defi
nitely established the danger of
radioactive fallout from H-Bomb
blasts and that they had also
said “only small concentrations
can cause cancer of the bones.”
Previously, Senator Gore char
ged that the Eisenhower admin
istration had been weak in for
eign policy.
“Somehow or other the Admin
istration considers we won a vic
tory in Indo-China because only
half of that unfortunate country
was lost to Communists, The
problems that brought a shooting
war to Indo-China remain unset
tled,” the Senator contended,
adding, “the net result was a
weakened position for the West
in Southeast Asia.”
Senator Gore commented on
the Suez situation, “. . . . it be-!
gins to appear that the best we
can hope for is another stale
mate.
The Tennessee lawmaker, who
polled third highest in the Dem
ocratic race for the vice-presiden
tial nomination, spoke to a rally
of Democrats from 38 counties of
Western North Carolina. Many
party leaders and office-holders
attended. Clint Newton, of Lawn
dale, was master of ceremonies,
and Congressman Woodrow Jon
es presented the visiting senator.
Prior to the speech, the Demo
crats ate barbecue at City Park.
Concluding his remarks, Sen
ator Gore said:
“America’s world position is
'built upon a moral foundation.
No weapon can restore our posi
Continued. On Page Ten
Trick Ox Treat? School PT-A's
Plan Annual Hallowe'en Parties
Traditional Hallowe’en carni
vals will be held in various
schools of the community next
Wednesday.
Festivities are being planned
at East, West, and Central
chools in the city .system, and at
’ark Grace and Grover schools, in
.he county system. North school
‘arent-Teacher association, re
ently organized, will not sponsor
i program this year.
Grover school’s Hallowe’en par
y will he held Friday (beginning
at 6 o’clock while other schools
tave .scheduled Hallowe’en acti
vities to begin at 5:30 Hallowe’en
night.
Crowning of popularity win
ners will feature the activities at
several of the schools. Winners
of the Central king and queen
contest will receive a number of
prizes froip the PT-A. East .school
will also crown popularity con
test winners as a feature of its
annual program.
Entertainment, including grab
bags, country stores, fortune tell
ing, dart games, and other grade
projects will be available for
children in school classrooms at
each of the schools. West school’s
bazaar will offer handmade arti
cles for sale suitable tot gifts,
among other attractions.
Cafeterias will be open with
assortment of food available to
| the public.
Registration
Totals Presage
Heavy Voting
Registration continued brisk
here last: weekend and led regis
trars to expect the final registra
tion day on Saturday to be an
other busy one.
Books close on Saturday at all
precincts, meaning that all un
registered persons who expect to
vote in November 6 general elec
tion must accomplish registra
tion this Saturday.
Busiest registration activity
last week was at East Kings
Mountain precinct at City Hall,
where Mrs. Nell Cranford logged
in 58 new voters, including 48
Democrats, nine Republicans and
one Independent.
Mrs. J. H. Arthur, West Kings
Mountain registrar at Victory
Chevrolet Company, added 42
voters to the election scrolls in
cluding 35 Democrats and five
Republicans.
At Bethware, Mrs. Hilda Go
forth reported addition of 12
voters during the two previous
Saturdays. However, she said a
half-dozen voters had been trans
ferred to other precincts.
Mrs. Arthur said the 42 new
registrants in West Kings Moun
tain included some voters who
had just reached voting age, oth
ers who had established citizen
ship here recently, and some
middle-aged persons who had
never voted previously.
She expressed the opinion
there is considerable interest in
the forthcoming election and that
this interest would be reflected
ill a large vote.
J. B. Ellis, Grover registrar,
could not be reached Wednesday
for a report from this Number 4
Township precinct.
Prime interest in the November
G voting concerns the contest for
President, as Democrats are un
opposed for township, county and
district posts. Governor Luther
Hodges faces GOP opposition as
do some other .state office candi
dates, but the GOP is given little
chance of winning these posts.
The Democrats are also favored
to win for the national ticket of
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Ke
fauver. However, the Democratic
majority in 1952 was only ap<
proximately 93,000.
Local interest revolves, too, on
the tenth district Congressional
race betyveen Congressman
Charles A. Jonas, Lincolnton Re
publican, and Ben E. ,Douglas,
former Democratic mayor of
Charlotte. While local citizens
don't get to help decide this elec
tion, many Kings Mountain area
folk know iboth candidates and
are partisan concerning the out
come.
Basil L. Whitener is the 11th
district Democratic Congressional
candidate.and he has no opposi
tion.
Rites Conducted
Foi Mrs. Hamm
Funeral rites for Mrs. Amanda
Allen Hamm, 78, of Grover, were
held last Friday afternoon at
Pleasant Hill Baptist church, in
terment following in the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Hamm succumbed at 8:45
p. m. October 17 at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. L. G. Bowen. Mrs.
Hamm had been ill for two mon
ths
A native of this couiity, Mrs.
Hamm was the widow of Clint
Hamm and a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. James Allen. She
was a member of the Pleasant
Hill church.
Surviving are three sons, Amos
and Jethro Hamm, both of Kings
Mountain, and Landrum Hamm,
Salisbury; five daughters, Mrs.
Lizzie Cox, Kings Mountain, Mrs. -
Rena Branton, Shelby, Mrs. Stell
Hill, Belmont, Mrs. Georgia Hin
son, Gastonia, and Mrs. Lizzie
Bowen, Grover; two brothers,
Jake Allen, Shelby, and Grier Al
len, Lincolnton; and Six sisters,
Mrs. Julia Leigh, Kings Mountain,
Mrs. Davie Bowen, Mrs. Sallie
White, and Mrs. Viola Camp, all
of Shelby, and Mrs. Lula Love
lace and Mrs. Mollie Bowen, both
of Grover. Also surviving are 45
grandchildren and 35 great
grandchildren.
Funeral rites were conducted
by Rev. Ernest Mahaffey and
Rev. Wray Barrett.