Population
Greater Kings Mountain in,320
City Limits 7,206
D» figure fox Greater Tings Mountain l> derived from
Uie 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City
Limits flense Is from the United States census ol 1950.
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL. 66 44
Kings Mountain, N. CM Thursday, November 8, 1956
1 Q Pages
1 0 Today
Established 1889
Sixty-Seventh Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Ike Landslide Victor; Democrats Retain Congress
Mayor Flays County’s Grant
For Shelby Plant Water Line
9
local News
Bulletins
COURT OF HONOR
Regular Court of. Honor for
Kings Mountain district Soy
Scouts will be held Thursday
evening at 7:45 at City Hall. A
cub leader's training course
will toe conducted at the same
hour at Central Methodist
church.
HOLIDAY MONDAY
Two Kings Mountain gov
ernment agencies will be clos
ed Monday, in a delayed ob
servance of the annual Armis
tic Day holiday. The state em
ployment office on Railroad
avenue and Kings Mountain
postoffice will be closed for the
holiday.
LODGE MEETING
Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AM
will hold its regular meeting
Monday night at 7:30 ip. m. in
Masonic Hall, it was announc
ed toy James Simpson, secre
tary.
DIXON SERVICE
Dr. Harold G. Dudley will
-speak at morning worship
services Sunday morning at 9
o'clock at Dixon Presbyterian
church, acording to announce
! ment by the pastor, Rev. P. D.
Patrick.
INDUCTED
Miss Peggy Jean Gunnells,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. T.
Gunnells, was among the mem
bers inducted into the Alpha
Iota Sorority of Howard Busi
ness college, Shelby, last
Thursday.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $197.29, including
$162.61 from on-street meters
and $34.68 from off-street
meters.
IN WHO'S WHO
Miss Bobbie Barrett, of Kings
Mountain, is one of 16 High
Point college seniors selected
to represent the school in
membership in “Who's Who
in American Colleges and Uni
versities.” An elementary edu
cation major, Miss Barrett is
preparing for foreign mission
work in Africa.
ONE FIRE
Fireman C. D. Ware reported
City Firemen were called
Thursday November 1, to ex
tinguish a blaze that ignited
waste yarn on a Neal Hawkins’
truck. The truck was parked on
Grover road in front of Silver
Dollar Grill, he said.
MOOSE MEETING
Kings Mountain members
of Kings Mountain Moose
Lodge 17-18 will hold their
regular weekly meeting Thurs
day night at 8:15 at the lodge
on Bessemer City road, Secre
tary Curtis Gaffney announc
ed.
ELECTED
Lambert (Burt) Voet, senior
at Appalachian State Teacher’s
college, Boone, was among
eight superlatives recently se
lected toy the senior class. He
was named most likely to suc
ceed and was among seniors
chosen in the national organi
zation, “Who’s Who In Ameri
can Colleges and Universities.’’
He is the husband of the form
er Miss Faylene Falls, of
Kings Mountain.
FESTIVAL
Fall festival at Bethware
school will be held November
17, it has been announced by
Mrs. Myers Hamibright. Games
and contests plus a talent pro
gram will feature the tradi
tional program to be sponsored
■by the PT-A. Tickets for
chicken pie plates are on sale
at one dollar for adults and 50
cents for children. Menu in
cludes chicken, green beans,
slaw, baked apples, and des
sert.
Bumgardner:
Expense Legal,
Justifiable
Mayor Glee A. Bridges took
advantage of last Thursday’s
board of commissioner meeting
to blast the county board of com
missioners for subsidizing the
laying of a Shelby water line.
City Attorney J. R. Davis con
curred with the statement, “It’s
not legal.’’
Mayor Bridges first read to the
board a news account he said had
been clipped from the Shelby Dai
ly Star, in which it was reported
that the county would furnish
$10,000 of the cost of installing a
10-inch water line to serve a new
industry (the Wood Company) lo
cating in Shelby. The news story
reported that the City of Shelby
was installing the line to the city
limits at a cost of about $19,000,
with Cleveland County to bear
the remainder of the expense
from the Shelby city limits to the
plant site.
Mayor Bridges complained that
“they’re using our tax money to
run Shelby’s water lines,” and
Mr. Davis followed with his “il
legal contention.
County Commissioner Hazel B.
Bumgardner, when queried by
the Herald, defended the appro
priation for the water line on the
grounds that the new company
would re-pay the county in tax
es in a “matter of a couple
years.” “It looked like good bus
iness to me and the rest of the
commissioners” Mr. Bumgardner
commented.
On the question of legality, Mr.
Bumgardner added, “Of course,
it’s legal. The county attorney
(C. C. Horn) checked with the at
torney general of North Caroli
na before we approved the ap
propriation. The appropriation
was not made from tax money,
which would have been illegal,
but from a declared surplus from
feed and other non-tax monies
which the county receives.”
Mayor Bridges noted that Mar
grace Mill had recently installed
a water line from the city limits
to its plant at its own expense.
He said he had contacted “the
county about paying that expense,
but they said no, it had already
been done.”
Mr. Bumgarder said he didn’t
know who the Mayor had con
tracted. “Certainly not me,” he
added.
LIONS PROGRAM
Martin Harmon. Herald edi
tor, will present an analysis of
the .November 6 general elec
tion results at the Tuesday
night meeting of the Kings
Mountain Lions club, it was
announced by Jonas Bridges,
program chairman. The club
will meet at the Woman's Club
at 7 o’clock.
KING'S TEACHER—Carl B. Moss,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sroadus
Moss, has recently assumed his
duties as a faculty member at
King's Business college in Char,
lotte. He is a graduate of King's,
as well as the Bowling Green
College of Commerce, Bowling
Green, Ky.
Moss Member
King's Faculty
CHARLOTTE. — Carl B. Moss,
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Moss,
has been appointed to the'factulty
| of King’s Business college here,
j He is teaching in the accounting
; and business administration de
I partment.
Mr. Moss, who ranked in the
| top ten percent of his class when
! he graduated from Kings Moun
tain High School in 1950, is a
graduate of both the junior and
senior accounting courses at
King’s. His academic record earn
ed for him the Honor Award for
each course.
Following graduation from
King’s, a short stint with Geor
ge Scott Company, C. P. A., Moss
entered the army. His accounting
background qualified him to at
tend the U. S. Army Finance
school at Fort Benjamin Harri
son. He was released from active
duty in August 1954.
In September 1954, Moss enroll
ed at Bowling Green College of
Commerce, Bowling Green, Ky.
While at Bowling Green, he was
student manager of the college
book store, treasurer of the Senior
Class, and president of the Pi Tau
Mu Fraternity. He also taught
one course in mathematics. In Au
gust, 1956, he completed the re
quirements for a B. S. degree in
Business Administration, and also
the requirements for a B. S. de
gree in Higher Accounting.
Mr. Moss is married to the for
mer Miss Jean Owens, R. N„ dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Owens. They live at 145 Holton
Avenue, Charlotte.
City Schools Plan Observance
For American Education Week
Formation of a special com
mittee to plan the 36th annual
observance of American Educa
tion week in Kings Mountain was
announced today by the chair
man, Miss Helen Logan.
Purpose of the observance,
scheduled for November 11-17, is
to bring the needs and achieve
ments of the schools before the
public and to spotlight the im
portant role education plays in a
democracy.
“During American Education
Week,” said the chairman, “our
community’s schools extend a
special invitation to the public to
visit classrooms, to see the
schools in action. Wishing for
good schools is not enough. Com
munities have good schools when
the people want them enough to
take an interest in them, to work
for them, and to cooperate with
them.”
The general theme of this
year’s observance is "Schools for
a Strong America.” The local pro
gram is part of a nationwide ob
servance which is expected to
bring more than 20 million per
sons into the schools. Millions
I more will be made school-consci
ous through the newspapers,
magazines, radio, TV, and numer
ous special events.
Beginning Monday and extend
ing through Friday, November 16,
special radio programs will be
presented from 9:15—9:30.
Monday, Nov. 12, Meet the Stu
dent Council.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, The N. E. A.
■ in Review, a panel discussion.
On the panel will be Mrs. Eu
gene Roberts, John Gladden, Dr.
Paul Hendricks, Lawson Brown,
! B. N. Barnes, and Mrs. Wilson
| Griffin. William George will
serve as moderator.
' Wednesday, Nov. 14, The Fu
ture Teachers.
Thursday, Nov. 15, Meet Your
School Principals.
Friday, Nov. 16, Musical pro
gram by faculty.
The NEA’s feature - length mo
tion picture "A desk for Billie”
will be shown in the respective
schools during the week. The
public is invited to attend these
i showings. Special notices of time
j and place will be sent by school
pupils to the homes Friday.
Paul Limerick
To Speak Heie
About C. of C.
Paul Limerick, secretary of the
Shelby Chamber of Commerce,
will speak here Monday night
and outline advantages to a
community of having a chamber
of commerce organization, as
well as means of forming such
an organization.
Announcement was made by
Dan Weiss, one of a number of
Kings Mountain businessmen in.
terested in forming a Chamber
of Commerce or similar-type.
Mr. Weiss, on behalf of the 15
businessmen who held an initial
meeting ten days ago, issued an
invitation to all interested citi
zens to attend the City Hall ses-'
sion.
‘We are particularly anxious
for all business and professional
men — including industrialists,
merchants, lawyers, doctors and
others — to attend this meeting,”
Mr. Weiss stated.
Need for such an organization
was pointed out at the previous
meeting by Mayor Glee A. Brid
ges who said his office was not
in a position to give the timely
attention required to many re
quests for information, including
the inquiries of industries seek
ing new sites for expansion.
The Mayor reported at that
meeting he was compiling infor.
mation for an unnamed but ap
parently large outfit, which was
querying four North Carolina
cities for information on sites,
facilities, and other pertinent in
formation.
Mauney Will
Is Probated
The last will and testament of
Dorris C. Mauney, prominent
Kings Mountain industrialist
who died last month, provides
that his entire estate be be
queathed to his two surviving
children and to two grand-chil
dren by his late son, Joe Mauney.
The children are Mrs. George
H. Houser and Carl F, Mauney,
both of Kings Mountain, who
were named co-executors of the
estate, and the grandchildren are
Miss Nell Mauney, of Spindale,
and Mrs. W. L. Moses, of Raeford.
Mr. Mauiiey’s will was actually
executed on February 1, 1950,
prior to tHle death of his wife,
Mrs. Sadie F. Mauney, and the
will provided that his wife re
ceive a life interest in his entire
estate.
It further provided that, in
event his wife had pre-deceased
him, the estate would go to his
three children, or to their sur
viving children.
The will was witnessed by D
R. Mauney, Lura P. Mauney and
Julia R. Hall, all of Cherryville.
There was one exception, in
that the 129-acre farm at the
corner of York Road and Floyd
street, was given to Mrs. Houser.
It was specified, however, that
the farm and buildings on the
farm erected by Mrs. Houser's
husband, George H,. Houser, not
be included in the otherwise
equal division of the estate.
Mr. Mauney was a co-founder
of Sadie Cotton Mills and had
extensive realty holdings here,
as well as other interests.
The will was filed for probate
in Cleveland Superior Court Oc
tober 22.
Moss loins
I. P. Stevens
Charles B. Moss, Jr., for sev-.
eral years a designer at Margrace
Mil! here, left Tuesday for New
York, where he has accepted a
similar position with J. P. Stev
ens Company.
Mr. Moss said he expects to
move his family to New Yok in
the near future.
The Kings Mountain native, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Moss, Sr.,
is a graduate of North Carolina
State College.
Ciaftspun Wages
Also Increased
Craftspun Yams, Inc, has rais
ed wages, too.
In a news story in last week’s
edition, the Herald reported Li
thium Corporation’s announced
wage increase as the seventh for
Kings Mountain area firms.
Actually, Lithium’s was the
eighth, with Craftspun inadver
tently omitted from the resume.
The increase had been previously
reported in the Herald.
Township Voters Liked [Ike
Better Than Four Years Ago
President Got
502 Majority
In Four Boxes
Number 4 Township, as it did
in 1952, returned a Republican
majority in the presidential elec
tion Tuesday. This year, however,
the Republicans made a clean
sweep.
President Eisenhower and Vioe
President Nixon swept each of
the townships’ four precincts,
with a combined vote of 1893 to
the 1391 recorded for the Demo
cratic ticket of Adlai Stevenson
and Estes Kefauver.
Most folk were surprised at the
result in the township: the GOP
supporters at the fact of the 502
vote majority and the Democrats
at losing the Grover and East
Kings Mountain boxes. Bethware
is traditionally Republican and
West Kings Mountain is consid
ered close.
Othewise, the day was Demo
cratic for state offices and, of
course, for the unopposed county
and township Democratic slates.
All opposed Democrats received
majorities of 2 to 1 or better in
Grover, East Kings Mountain, and
West Kings Mountain. But not in
Bethware. The vote in Bethware
of 209 for Republican Governor
candidate Kyle Hayes, compared
to 159 for Luther H. Hodges ( the
incumbent Democrat, was typical
of the Bethware voting in all of
the state contests.
Emblematic of its solid, give
no-quarter Republicanism, Beth
ware was equally sparing with its
votes for the unopposed county
and township slates. County Com
missioner Hazel Bumgardner was
given 1S4 votes by Bethware cit
izens for the highest total com
piled by a Democrat in this box.
The same thing happened, but
in less degree, in both East Kings
Mountain and West Kings Moun
tain, where many Republican vo
ters — in spite of the blanks on
the GOP side of the ticket — nev
ertheless marked a “X” in the
Republican circle. Since these bal
lots were voided automatically,
they were not counted. However,
it was estimated some 350 to 400
of these solid GOP ballots were
cast in West Kings Mountain and
at least 300 in East Kings Moun
tain.
Cleveland county stayed in the
Stevenson - Kefauver column by
some 1400 votes, unofficial totals
showed and returned heavier ma
jorities for all opposed Demo
cratic candidates, all of whom
were elected.
Hospital Plan
Talked Tuesday
Approximately 200 Cleveland
County citizens heard a discus
sion of the proposal to change
the method of operation of Shelby
and Kings Mountain hospitals.
The group — including legisla
tors, county commissioners, hos
pital trustees, former trustees,
doctors, and other interested citi
zens — gathered at Fellowship
Hall in Shelby’s Presbyterian
church to hear Marshall Pickens,
of the Duke Endowment, and R.
J. Thomas, administrator of
Charlotte Memorial hospital out
line details of operation of “non
profit hospitals."
The basic change proposed by
County Hospitals Administrator
George W. Laycock is technical.
He suggests that the hospitals be
leased to non-profit corporations
for operation.
The other two features of
change would therefore include:
1) elimination of the current 15
man board of hospital trustees :
and 2) use of tax money (in
operations) only for payment of
hospital bills for welfare patients.
The principal benefit of the
change would be the hospital ad
ministrator’s hope that operation
by a non-profit corporation would
qualify the hospital units for
grants from charitable founda
tions such as the Ford Founda
tion and the Hartford Founda
tion. Mr. Laycock estimates that
had the hospitals been operated
in this manner they would have
received about $60,000 in the re
cent Ford Foundation grants.
Both Mr. Pickens and Mr.
Thomas supported the Laycock
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LANDSLIDE WINNER — President Dwight D. Eisenhower easily
won re election Tuesday to a second term in the White House, as
he swept to victory with a record number of votes. Kings Mountain
area citizens agreed with the national decision, returning the Presi
dent a majority in every precinct in the township. The edge for the
President was 502 votes in Number 4 Township.
Employment Gains
During Past Month
Unemployment
Pay Claims
Showed Decline
Kings Mountain’s employment
situation improved markedly
during October, according to re
port this week by Franklin L.
Ware, Jr., manager of the Kings
Mountain ‘branch of the North
Carolina employment service.
There were these evidences:
1) The active file of persons
seeking employment dropped to
397, first month recently the
number had been below 400, and
in spite of the fact that 90 new
applicants were added during the
month.
2) Unemployment compensa
tion claims aLso dropped heavily
for the month from 1431 in Sep
tember to 1176 in Octoiber. The
weekly average of claims was
thus 269, compared to 364 the
previous month.
Mr. Ware credited the pick-up
to improved textile production in
the Kings Mountain area. He not
ed that Margrace mill, of Massa
chusetts Mohair Plush Company,
had added a number of workers
during the month, including ‘both
experienced workmen and train
ees.
The trend was continuing into
November, Mr. Ware added.
During October, the employ
ment service referred 102 persons
for 92 job openings and 63 were
reported as placed in jobs.
PROMOTED
Cpl. Jack Sims, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Sims, has
been promoted to the rank of
sargeant iby the Marines. He is
stationed in Japan. .
John McAulay
Soldier-oi-Month
John McAulay, husband of a i
former Kings Mountain area cit-'
izen, was chosen soldier-of-the!
month at the Ordance School,
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Mrs. McAulay, the former Su
zanne Arrowood, was recently |
notified of the award by Lt.-Col. J
James Maloney, the commanding I
officer.
“Such an honor is hard - earned
and signifies that he has excelled
in such matters as appearance,
soldierly bearing, knowledge of I
military subjects and general co- J
operative spirit,” the colonel!
wrote.
Mrs. McAulay is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Arrowood,
the latter a teacher at West
school.
Aiiman Wins
Flying Cross
CWO Howard L. Proctor, 811
Rhodes ave., Kings Mountain, was
among seven airmen awarded j
the distinguished flying cross in j
ceremonies at Ft. Devenss,
Mass., Monday.
Seven members of the 93rd
Transportation Company at New >
England’s largest military instal
lation received this second high
est Army award for “extraordi- j
nary achievement while partici
pating in serial flight.’
The occasion was the rescue
and identification work perform
ed by the crews of the Army hel
icopters which flew into the maw
of the Grand Canyon last July 1
through 11, following the worst
disaster in the history of commer
cial aviation.
UNOFFICIAL NO. 4 TOWNSHIP
PRESIDENTIAL RETURNS
Adlai Gets State
But Victory
Margin Is Slim
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er won re-election to a second
four-year term in Tuesday's gen
eral election.
The victory for him and Vice
President Nixon was forecast as
a potential landslide early after
the returns started coming in, and
the continued reports on Wednes
day, as late - reporting officials
sent in their reports, continued
the trend.
But the election for the Con
gress was a quite different story,
as Democrats were credited with
retaining complete control of both
the U. S. House of Representati
ves and of the United States Se
nate.
Kings Mountain’s Radio Sta
tion WKMT United Press reports
early Wednesday afternoon cre
dited the Democrats with having
captured their 49th Senate seat
with the election of Senator Alan
Bible, of Nevada, over Cliff
Young, his GOP opponent. The
United Press said the Democrats
were expected to gain one more
seat in which the results were not
yet final. It would give the De
mocrats one more Senate seat
than they held in the last Con
gress.
In the House, radio reports gave
the Democrats 233 seats to the
Republican’s 202, sufficient for
the necessary 218 control in spite
of the death shortly after the
election of Congressional Candi
date, Antonio Fernandez, of New
Mexico, who led the Democratic
ticket in that state. With election
of a GOP governor, it is assumed
a Republican will get the interim
appointment.
The United Press at 2:02 p. m.
Wednesday gave Eisenhower
Nixon 31,306,202 votes, against
22,869,726 for Stevenson - Kefau
ver. Eisenhower was leading In
41 states having 457 electoral vo
tes, while Stevenson led in only
seven, with 74 electoral votes. The
percentage was 57.8 for the GOP
national ticket, and 42.2 for the
Democratic ticket.
North Carolina, again as in
1952, appeared to be one of the
states the Democrats could claim,
though by a shrunken margin.
Stevenson carried North Caro
lina by more than 94,000 votes
four years ago, held a slim lead
of only 18,000 with returns seem
ingly conclusive, but yet incom
plete.
Among the hard - fought Se
nate battles, Wayne Morse, the
one-time Republican Senator
from Oregon turned Democrat,
defeated Douglas McKay, former
governor and Secretary of the In
terior in the Eisenhower cabinet.
It was a bitter pill for Republi
cans who applied to him the ha
ted political label of "turncoat.”
Election
SIDELIGHTS
Grover precinct voted Republi
can Tuesday for the first time in
the memory of J. B. Ellis, veteran
Grover election registrar.
W. D. Weaver posted an elec
tion prediction in the office of
the Herald several days prior to
the voting and with the notation
“to he opened November 7.” Mr.
Weaver was right on the results,
wrong on the actual electoral
total. He gave Adlai Stevenson
13 states and 139 electoral votes.
Voting did not reach the totals
of the 1952 general election in
any Number 4 Township pre
cinct, However, lines at some
times during the day extended
well into the streets at the Kings
Mountain precincts.
Mayor dee A. Bridges, out-of
town on election day, cast an ab
sentee ballot for Stevenson.
At the West Kings Mountain
precinct, Mrs. J,. H. Arthur, regi
strar, delayed counting of the
presidential ticket until after the
state and local tickets were tabu
lated. Mrs. Arthur reasoned her
counting teams would vanish if
the interesting presidential totals
were tabulated first.
Election officials here reported
numerous queries on where the
name of Charles Raper Jonas ap
peared on the ballot. Of course,
the name did not appear, as
Cleveland county is in the
eleventh Congressional district,
to >be represented by Basil White
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