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. 1 Q Pages 10 Today 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. : mmm 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 -