Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits » 7,206 n. flgiu« foe Gnator flugt Mountain Is derived from the 1CS5 Xing* Mountain city directory census. The City limits figure Is from the United States census of 19S0. Kings Mountain, N. CM Thursday, Novemebr 15, 1956 on p*9cs £y Today VOL 66 No. 45 Established 1889 Sixty-Seventh Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Mountaineers To Meet Lenoir For Conference Flag Slater Acquires 29-Loom Plant Local News Bulletins 4 BUREAU CLOSED Offices of,the driver’s license bureau in Kings Mountain will Ibe closed Thursday and Friday, November 15 and 16, while the examiners are attending a re fresher course in Chapel Hill. Regular schedules will be ob served next week. GRADE MAKES TOUR Children in Mrs. W. L. iRam seur’s third grade at West School visited Foote Mineral Company and the Kings Moun tain Herald last Thursday, con tinuing a tour of Kings Moun tain industry. The Herald re ceived thank-you notes on Ibe helf of the grade from Sallie Fulkerson, Danny Walker, and Vickie Petty. AT CONVENTION Kings Mountain Baptist min isters are attending the Baptist State convention in Winston Salem this week.. The session, Which began Monday, closes Thursday. .Rev. T. A. Lineber ger, Rev. A. T. Quakenbush, Rev. Carl Greene, Rev. Flay Payne, Rev. S. T. Cooke, and Rev. H. G. McElroy are amoung ministers there. EAST SCHOOL East school will hold its reg ular P-TA meeting Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p. m. in the school auditorium. Program on flower arranging by Mrs. W. L. Pressly will feature the meeting. DINNER The Ladies’ and Mens’ Bible class of Grace Methodist church are sponsoring a chick en-dumpling dinner Saturday, November 17. Serving will be gin at 5 p. m. The public is in vited. AT MEETING Mrs. Douglas Fritz, Mrs. Clarence Plonk, Jr., Mrs. Jim Smith, and Mrs. Claude Rhyne will represent Resurrection Lutheran church at the South ern Conference missionary din ner in Lincolnton Friday night. ATTENDS MEETING D. B. Blalock attended the ASC area meeting in session in Asheville last Thursday and ^Friday,, ait filalook is chair man of the Cleveland County ASC committee. ATTEND MEET School Trustees Arnold Kin caid and Fred Plonk, along with Supt. B. N. Barnes, attend ed a meeting of the Delegate Assembly of N. C. School Boards Association in Chapel Hill Tuesday. It was the an nual meeting of this organiza tion. BOARD TO MEET The regular monthly meet ing of the Board of School Trustees will toe held Monday night in the office of Suipt. B. N. Barnes. Mr. Barnes reported Wednesday that only routine matters of business were scheduled to be heard. NO FIRES City Fireman Ted Gamble reported Kings Mountain Fire department answered no fire alarms this week. MOOSE MEETING Curtis Gaffney, secret a rjf of Kings Mountain Lodge 1748, announced members of the lodge will hold their regular weekly meeting Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road. CITY BOARD The city board of commis sioners will meet Monday aft ernoon at 4 o'clock to open C. Mr. Howe was the son of the late Joe and Lucy Milkel Howe. The ®ev. M. P. iRhyne, pastor, officiated. Burial was In Gaston Memorial Park. ASSIST IN INSPECTION — Officers of the Third Army Inspection Team of Fort Bragg who conducted an inspection at Kings Moun tain National Guard recently include, left to right. Major James G. Evans, regular army advisor for North Carolina National Guard, Major Louis H. Davis, state maintenance officer. Captain A. A. Gleason, officer in charge of the Third Army Inspectional team, and Lt. Paul B. Barbee, staff assistant of the Third Bn. 120th Inf., North Carolina National Guard. Merchants Suspend Mid-Week Closing Wednesday afternoon was the final half - holiday for Kings Mountain retail mer chants until after Christmas. The Kings Mountain Mer chants association announced that business firms, according to association by-laws, will re main open next Wednesday and on subsequent Wednes days until Christmas to accom modate Yule-season shoppers. Virtually all firms, with ex ception of service stations, will be closed for Thanksgiving November 22. Mis. Everhart's Rites Wednesday Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 p. m. at Central Methodist Church for Mr,s. Elizabeth Jane Everhart, 79, who died at her home, 710 West Mountain street, Tuesday follow, ing an .illness of several years. A daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Fulton of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Everhart was a native of York County, S. C- She was the widow of William Riley Everhart, who died in 192-1. Survivors include four sons, and Daniel Everhart, the latter of Shelby; five sisters, Mrs. Char les Fulton, Mrs. W. C. Putnam, Mrs. E. B. Olive, Mrs. Grier Mc Daniel, and Mrs. A. L. Allran, all of Kings Mountain; 13 grandchil dren, and 10 great - grandchild ren. Twod aughters, Mrs. Clyde Cole, of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Lloyd Watson, of Deep Gap, also survive. Mrs. Everhart was a member of Central Methodist Church. The Rev. James B McLarty, pastor of Central Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in Mountain Rest Cemetery. Harmon Reviews Voting Results . The Republican party scored a landslide victory for the presi dency last week because of a “glamour boy" candidate, and Kings Mountain’s contribution to the Republican vote total was a partial expression of long-time hard-core Republicanism, Mar tin Harmon, Herald editor, told members of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night. Assigned the task of analy zing the November 6 election, Mr. Harmon attributed the universal popularity of President Eisen hower as the major factor con tributing to the big Eisenhower Continued on Page Bight National Guard Again "Superior" In Inspection Hq. and Hq. Co., 120 Ini., Regt. Kings Mountain National Guard, received a rating 0f “all-superior” at a recent inspection here, Capt. Humes Houston has been in formed. A National Guard bureau a ward for. efficiency in mainte nance will be awarded to the unit on the basis of the ratings re ceived through the State of Nor th Carolina, the commanding of ficer pointed out. It is the seond year that the local guard has won an award of “all superior.” Inspecting of ficers complimented the unit "for the splendid display and the maintenance and operational sta tus of the equipment.” Captain A. A. Gleason and men of the Third Army Inspection Team of Fort Bragg supervised the inspection. The team includ ed regular army personnel, each a technician in his own field. Two men checked engineer pro perty, three men checked unit’s weapon’s, two men checked ve hicles, one man checked Quarter master property, one man check ed chemical property, and one man checked Signal property, it was reported. Assisting the in spection team were Major James G. Evans, army advisor for the Continued From Front Page New Portion To Be South 01 Present 29 The state highway locating team is surveying ar oute for a new portion of U. S. 29 south of ' Kings Mountain. H. B. MidgeCe, locating engin eer and chief of the nine-man crew working here, said Wednes day the proposed new four-lane section of 29 likely will start some 1400-1500 feet south of pres, ent 29 at Grover, will proceed northward and intersect with present 29 at the Dixon fioad in tersection. From this point a second dual lane will be built to make a four lane toouvelard of the Kings Mountain by-pass to N. C. 161. Also anticipatded is relocation of the Dixon Road. It will inter sect with present U. S. 29 (thence to become an alternate U. S. route or state highway) some 2000 feet south of the current in tersection. Mr. Midgetfe said his crew lias completed work on four miles of a 12-mile assignment to "survey for interstate system (relocation of U. S. 29) 'beginning at the South Carolina line near Grover and terminating at the intersec tion of U. S. 321 south of Gas tonia, excluding the Kings Moun tain toy-pass, which has 'been completed.’’ Mr. Midgette pointed out that the present locating plans are “mere proposals,” which must be approved by the State Highway Commission and the federal Bu. reau of Roads. However, he add ed, he anticipated the proposal likely would toe approved. The new road, as weii as al ready-constructed portions of the by-pass, will 'be s'rictly “limited access.” Mr. Midgette says over passes and underpasses Will be employed as will, in some intan ces, he anticipates that many crossovers between the two duals lanes will be eliminated, with a corresponding decrease in num ber of access points, to be ob tained by lengthening present off-highway access raods. According to Mr. Midgette, the new section of U. S. 29, would start near Grover, proceed north of Shiloh AMZ church (about 300 feet), cut through lands of David Hamrick and intersect with pres ent U. S. 29 at the Dixon Road in tersection. The state will require right-of ways from 260 feet up. Mr. Mid ge'te said, adding the opinion way will be sought along the present U. S. 29 roadbed. Mr. Midgette, a native of Cape Hafterras, now lives at Morgan ton. Hi.s office is located behind j Horseshoe Grill and is nextdocr to Cleveland Builders Supply. The U. S. 29 project is one of the federal-state roads to be built from the recently launched fed eral highway building program. The federal governmenf pays 90 percent of the costs, *he state 10 percent. Petition Signatures Asked Here For State-Wide Liquor Election A number of Kings Mountain churchmen are collaborating on an Allied Church League effort which seeks signatures of one million North Carolina citizens on a petition to obtain a state wide liquor referendum. Dr. D. F. Hord, Kings Moun tain dentist, who helped circulate one of the petitions last Sunday, said he met with near 100 percent success among those persons he saw. However, he added, about half the folk in his area were not at home. Dr. Hord said he understood seven denominations are spark ing the movement to present the owe million requests to the 1957 General Assembly, which con venes in February. Rev. P. D. Patrick, pastor of, First Presbyterian church, said that Rev. H. G. McElroy, pastor. of Temple Baptist church, and Rev. Jake Thornburg, pastor of Patterson Grove Baptist church, are co-chairmen of the local area movement. The Presbyterian! Synod, he added, took a dim view j of the Allied Church League ac tivities at its most recent session. Mr. Patrick did not know whe ther the signatures are sought merely to impress the members of the General Assembly or whe ther they are sought to require a mandatory referendum. In the past, the Allied Church League has asked the General Assembly for a state-wide liquor vote at each session. Bills are in troduced but usually are not re ported out of committee. Also, in the past, the Allied Church League has sought an election whice would retain the present county option system or make the state bone-dry. The prohibi tion group has formerly opposed an election which would make the state completely wet, or com pletely dry. Rev. R. M. Hauss, of Shelby, is executive director of the Allied Church League. Dr. Hord said the circulation of petitions is a project of the First Baptist church Brother hood. Game Is Set Far Hickory Friday Night By BOB HOFFMAN (Herald Sports Editor) Kings Mountain's Mountain eers will journey to Lenoir-Rhyne Stadium Friday night to meet the Lenoir Bearcats in the Western North Carolina High School Ath letic Association championship contest. This will mark the second con secutive year that the Mountain eers have made this trip. Last season, the local squad dropped a thrilling 14-6 battle to a strong Valdese team, sparked by Doug Cline. Local fans feel the story will be different this season. The 1956 team will go into the contest with almost an identical record as the 1955 Mountaineers carried to Hickory. The 1956 record shows nine wins, no losses, and one tie. Last season, the mark was 10 wins, no losses, and a single tie. The extra win came when Forest City was defeated in a play-off game for the Southwestern title. The Bearcats will also be put ting an impressive record on the line with eight wins, one loss, and one tie. Shelby handed the Lenoir team its only tie of the season in a 0-0 thriller. Lexington defeat" ed the Cats in the opening game by a 27-7 margin for their only loss. Kings Mountain has racked up a total of 183 points in 10 games, while holding opponents to 58. Lenoir has scored 136 points and allowed 75. Both teams shut out four op ponents, but Lenoir also failed to score in one of these contests. On the other hand, the Mountaineers scored in every game. Each team won five of its games by one touchdown margains. Shu Carlton’s boys are sparked by the running of Ken Baity, John McGinnis, Curt George, and Doug Rathbone. McGinnis has also been known to toss a few touchdown passes, with Charles Bridges his favorite target. Lenoir also believes primarily in a ground game, with Glen Wilson, Jud Spainhour, Dennis Rash, and Frank Maynard car rying the brunt of the attack. The teams are about even in (Continued On Page Tivo) Wailick Rules In Mine Case Federal Judge Wilson Warlick, of Newton, has ruled in favor of A. S. MacCulloch, of Vancouver, Canada, in his legal action con cerning issuance of Carolina Mines, Inc., common stock. J. E. Herndon, vice-president of Carolina Mines, was not in Kings Mountain Wednesday but his attorney, J. R. Davis, said he anticipated an appeal from the Warlick ruling will be filed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Warlick signed judg ment in the case on November 5. According to Mr. Davis, a month is allowed in which to file an appeal. At issue was trial of a suit lodged by MacCulloch in which MacCulloch, president of Caroli na Mines, disagreed with | Mr. Herndon and others on the a mount of common stock he was to receive. Mr. MacCulloch con tended, under his interpretation of the stock agreement that he was to receive about 120,000 shares, while the defendants con tended he should receive only about 70,000. MacCitfloch lodged suit in fed eral court to restrain sale of Car olina Mines, Inc., stock and to obtain a ruling on his contention. Meantime, the Securities and Ex change commission also restrain ed sale of the stock, charging vi olation of SEC regulations in promotion and sale of the stock. Judge Warlick ruled that Mr. MacCulloch is to receive 35 per cent of all stock issued, which was the MacCulloch contention. Carolina Mines, Inc., was or ganized last year for the purpose of mining kyanite in the Crowd er’s Mountain area. REVIVAL ■Rev. Charlie Farris will be gin a week’s revival Sunday night at Gamble Hill Baptist church, according to announce ment by the pastor. ,Rev. W. P. Bumgardner. Services will be held nightly at 7 p. m. through November 25 with special .sing ing to feature the meeting. The church is located on Highway 29 between Gastonia and Kings Mountain.