Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits . 7,206
n> figure lot Greater Clogs Mountain Is derived from
the IKS Kings Mountain city directory census. The City
Limits flguie Is from th,. United States census of 1850.
Pages
Today
VOL. 66 NO. 46
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 22, 1956
Sixty-Seventh Year PRICE FIVE CENTS
MOOSE AUXILIARY OFFICERS INSTALLED —
Officers of the newly-organized Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge Auxiliary 1307 were installed in
ceremonies at the Moose Lodge Sunday afternoon.
Pictured, front row, left to right are Mrs. Elizabeth
Cline, Mrs. Curtis Gaffney, Mrs. Thelma Carpenter.
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Mrs. Mary Pearson, and Mrs. Mamie Grice. Back
row, left to right, are Mrs. Ann Huss, Mrs. Thomas
Meacham, Mrs. Montez Harris, and Mrs. Horace
Brown. Mrs. John Lewis and Mrs. Martha Cornwell,
other charter officers were not present when the
picture was made. (Photo by Pennington Studio.)
Local News
Bulletins
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
will hold special Thanksgiving
services at 9 a. m. Special mu
sic will be presented by 'both
the junior and senior choirs.
MOOSE MEETING
Members of King.s Mountain
Moose Lodge 1728 will ‘hold
their regular weekly meeting
Thursday night at 8:15 at the
lodge on Bessemer City road,
according to an announcement
by Curtis Gaffney, secretary.
MEETING POSTPONED
The scheduled'meeting of the
City Board of School Trustees
set for Monday night of this
week was postponed until
Monday, November 26. Reason
for the postponement was the
illness of Supt. B. N. Barnes,
school superintendent, spokes?
men announced.
MUSICAL PROGRAM
A musical program by a quar
tet from Bob Jones University,
at Greenville, S. C., will feature
the Sunday evening service at
Carson Memorial church in the
Crowder’s Mountain communi
ty. The 7:30 p. m. service will
also feature special music by
the young people of the church,
it was announced by Rev.
James Avey, pastor.
METER RECEIPTS
City parking meter receipts
totaled $179.33 for the week
ending Wednesday at noon. Re
ceipts from on-street meters to
taled $149.59, while receipts
from the Cherokee Street party
ing totaled $29.74.
Bites Frida;
Foi Mis. Bailey
Funeral for Mrs. Nancy Oliver
Bailey, 76, wife of H. G. Bailey,
403 Waco Road, will toe held Fri
day afternoon at 3 o’clock at First
Church of the Nazarene. The toody
will lie in state for a half-hour
prior to the funeral and inter
ment will be in Mountain Rest
cemetery..
Mrs. Bailey died Wednesday af
ternoon at 3:30 at Kings Moun
tain hospital. She had been ill
Several months.
A native of Georgia, Mrs.
Bailey had lived here the past 19
years. She was a daughter oft he
late Mr. and Mrs. William P. Oli
ver.
Surviving are two sons, Lee
Roy Bailey and C. T. Bailey, Kings
Mountain, *hree daughters, Mrs.
Junios Boles, Greenville, S. C.,
and Mrs. Albert Hicks and Miss
Ruth Bailey, Kings Mountain,
two .brothers, C. R. Oliver, Kings
Mountain, and C. P. Oliver,
Gainesville, Ga., and five sisters,
Mrs. Clifford Phillips, Kings
Mountain, Mrs. A. L. Lee, Atlan
ta, Ga., Mrs. W. L. Wallace, Vale,
and Mrs. Hubert Wilson and Miss
Martha Oliver, both of Winder,
Ga. Thirteen grandchildren and
two greatgrandchildren also sur
vive.
The rites will be conducted by
the pastor. Rev. R. J. Essary, as
sisted by Rev. John Gregory. .
Moose Auxiliary
Officers Installed
Ceremonies
Were Held
Here Sunday
Officers of the newly formed
Kings Mountain Moose Lodge
Auxiliary chapter 1307 were in
stalled Sunday afternoon at 2:30
at the lodge on Bessemer fcity
road.
The auxiliary formed under the
auspices of Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge 1748.
Officers installed were Mary
Helen Pearson, Gastonia, senior
regent, Ann Huss, Gastonia, re
corder, Thelma Carpenter, Besse
mer City, junior regent, Mamie
Grice, Kings Mountain, chaplain,
Helen Gaffney, Kings Mountain,
junior graduate regent, Montez
Harris, Gastonia, treasurer, Vi
vian Lewis, Kings Mountain, ar
gus, Martha. Cornwell, Kings
Mountain, sentinel, Elizabeth
Cline, of Kings Mountain, guide,
LaFaye Meacham, Kings Moun.
tain, assistant guide, and Lucille
Brown, Kings Mountain, Pianist.
The appointed officers were in
stalled by Burlington Moose
Lodge Auxiliary chapter 1330. In
stituting officers were Gladys Jen.
kins, senior regent, Helen Hud
gins, junior graduate regent, Ila
Gasner, guide, Gladys Lee, assist
ant guide, Gladys Scott, acting
chaplain, Betty Donley, junior
regent, Pauline Patillo, pianist,
Julie Apple, and Rose Semiklose.
Continued On Page Eight
S2.026.50 Raised
In TB Seal Drive
Bill Eldon, Kings Mountain
chairman of the annual TB
Christmas Seal Sale drive, re
ported Wednesday that $2,026.50
has been received on the $10,000
quota in Cleveland County.
Last week, the Tuberculosis As
sociation sent out approximately
8,000 letters to business firms
and individuals throughout the
county. Each of these letters con
tained 300 Christmas Seals.
Mrs. B. M. Jarrett, executive
secretary of the Cleveland Coun
ty TB Association, is urging that
any donations be sent in as soon
as possible, in order that the
quota might be raised early this
year.
Firemen Popular
At Thompson Home
Fire struck again in the same
spot Wednesday afternoon, as
city firemen were called to ex
tinguish a blaze in an oil stove
at the home of Frank Thomp
son, Negro, of 118 South Can
sler street.
Firemen recalled that they
had answered a similar alarm
about a month ago.
It was the same address, the
same stove, firemen noted.
The Wednesday alarm was
answered at 3:15. Fire Chief
Pat Tignor reported no damage.
Scranton Plans
Diamond Jubilee
Scranton Lace Company, of
Scranton, Pa., parent company
of Craftspun Yams, Inc., of Kings
Mountain, announced details this
week of its plans for an allout
merchandising drive in 1957 —
the drive to celebrate Scranton
Lace Company’s diamond jubilee.
Plans for the 1957 celebration
were revealed by H. J. Megargel,
Scranton president, at a two-day
sales meeting held in New York
Sunday through Tuesday.
Craftspun Yarns, acquired by
Scranton in 1946, will tie in with
the Diamond Jubilee promotion,
Carl Swan, Craftspun president,
said yesterday.
Scranton will be 60 years old
next year. The company claims
it is the largest producer of Not
tingham lace in the world. It was
incorporated on June 15, 1897.
One of the promotional plans
calls for introduction of a new
anniversary line of curtains and
draperies.
The draperies will fea’ure three
new designs, with Scandivavian
style influences to be added to
the Silhouettes, dimen s i o n a 1
casement cloth draperies intro
duced at the market .last summer.
Silhouettes represent an interest
ing departure from Scranton's
traditional late table cover, cur
tain and shower curtain busi
ness, in which it has been the
dominant factor for several de
cades. Silhouettes are woven on
the frame Nottingham lace
looms, to which certain operating
Continued On Page Eight
Chuich Rites, Hunting, Football,
Paiade, Food On Turkey Da; Menu
Kings Mountain citizens will
observe Thanksgiving in the tra
ditional manner.
Majority of retailers will close
for the day, as will financial
firms, the postoffice, local and
state government offices.
Principal retail firms which
will be open for business will be
service stations and theatres.
Majority of industry will follow
regular schedules. However, El
mer Lumber Company will ob
serve the holiday as will the
Kings Mountain Herald.
Barkley’s Grocery and Blalock’s
Park-Inn have announced they
will be open on regular .schedules
to accommodate last-m i n u t e
needs for Thanksgiving dinners.
Drug stores will operate on
very abbreviated schedules.
Kings Mountain Drug company
will be open for prescription serv
ice only from 10 a. m. to noon and
from 4 to 6 p. m. Griffin Drug
Store also will offer prescription
service only.. Stroupe Drug Com
pany will be closed all day.
Thanksgiving will feature
church services, football, hunting
and sumptuous dinners.
(Majority of Kings Mountain
churches held Thanksgiving serv
ices either on Wednesday night
or will hold services on Thanks
giving morning. St. Matthew’s
Continued On Page Eight
Kelly Resigns
At Craftspun,
To loin Textiles
G. C. Kelly, vice-president of
Craftspun Yarns, Inc., has resign
ed this position, effective Decem
ber 1.
Mr. Kelly is accepting a posi
tion with Textiles, Inc., of Gas
tonia.
The resignation was jointly an
nounced Wednesday by Mr. Kel
ly and Carl Swan, Craftspun
president, who said Craftspun’s
production operations will be un
der the management of Superin
tendent Harold J. Phillips.
Mr. Swan said, “It is a promo
tion for Mr. Kelly and we could
not expect him to turn it down.”
Mr. Kelly assumed the super
intendency of Craftspun in Au
gust. 1947, after prior textile man
agement with Lola Mills, of
Stanley, and Dixie Mercerizing
Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mr. Kelly said he and his fam
ily would continue to reside in
Kings Mountain.
Mr. Phillips has been associa
ted with Craftspun Yarns since
its purchase by Scranton Lace
Company in 1946 and was previ
ously with the firm when it was
known as the Cora plant of Tex
tiles, Inc. A onetime shipping
clerk, he was named superinten
dent when G. C.. Kelly was ele
vated to vice-president. Mr. Phil
lips is a former city commission
er.
Church Noting
80th Birthday
St. Matthew's Lutheran church
will 6bserve its 80th anniversary
at Sunday morning services at 11
o’clock, it was announced by the
pastor, Dr. W. P. Gerberding.
In addition to the Sunday
morning services, another com
memorative gathering is sched
uled for Wednesday, November
28, When church members gather
for a covered dish supper. A spec
ial program toy children and oth
er members will feature the so
cial. ■ • v ■ ■ .
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
was organized in 1876 and is one
of the community's oldest
churches. Services were first held,
even prior to 1876, in a frame
school house, now the site of
Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li
brary.
Subsequently the congregation
held services in the old school
which has now been replaced toy
the modern Central plant, and
the cornerstone for the original
church bunding was laid in 1878.
The charter membership includ
ed the Baker, Mauney, Carpenter
and McAllister families and the
first pastor was iRev. J. R. Peter
son. The church was erected at
the corner of Ridge and Mountain
street. In 1904, the church build
ing was enlarged and in 1921 a
parish school building was erect
ed. In 1939, the parish school
building was enlarged.
The present structure — stand
ing at the same site as the origi
nal church — was built in 1952
54. It was completed in 1954 at a
cast of $260,000. Meantime, a new
church parsonage was erected
(1951).
Dr. Gerberding reports the con
gregation continues to grow, with
153 new members received into
the church during the five-year
tenure he has served as pastor. *
The church is currently engag
ed In two major projects, he re
ports. They are stewardship and
evangelism.
Pauline Plant
On Two Shifts
Neisler Mills of Massachusetts
Mohair Plush Company 'has com
pleted installation of 32 looms at
the Pauline plant and is running
a two-shift operation at the Paul
ine plant.
William Ford, general mana
ger, said work is progressing on
the re-equipping of the Pauline
plant, which was stripped of ma
chinery .several weeks ago to pro
vide for the installation of new
type looms.
Mr. Ford said current plans are
to install eight more looms at the
Pauline plant, bringing the total
to 40. More looms will probably
be added therafter, he indicated.
Retailers Suspend
Mid-Week Closings
Kings Mountain merchants
will now he open six full days
each week, a schedule that will
continue through January 2
(with exception of Christmas and
New Year’s holidays).
As *hey annually do, mer
chants suspended Wednesday the
customary mid-week half-holi
day for the duration of the Christ
mas shopping season which be
gins traditionally after Thanks
giving.
The merchants will resume
their half-holiday on January 9.
Cook Murder Trial Top Case
In Session Opening Monday
PRESBYTERIAL PRESIDENTS — Thirteen past
presidents of women of Kings Mountain Presby
tery who attended the two-day session here last
week at First Presbyterian church include, front
row, left to right, Mrs. Ennis Jackson, Gastonia,
Mrs. R. L. Ellis, Spindale. Mrs. S. A. Robinson, Mrs.
W. G. Rhyne, Mrs. G. V. Patterson, all of Gastonia,
Mrs. J. H. Carpenter, Rutherfordton. and Mrs. C. E.
Neisler, of Kings Mountain. Second row, left to
right, Mrs. Paul Mauney, Kings Mountain, Miss
Corinne Pruitt, Dallas, Mrs. Motley Plonk, Char
lotte, Mrs. W. A. Dixon, Belmont, Mrs. Coit Robin
son, Lowell, and Mrs. J. G. Walker, of Forest City.
Mrs. Park Moore, Jr., of Gastonia, formerly of
Grover, succeeds Mrs. R. L. Ellis as president.
(Photo by Pennington Studio)
Yule Opening
Paiade To List
Over 50 Units
»
Kings Mountain’s 1956 Christ
mas parade will number more
than 50 units, it was announced
Wednesday by the Christmas
parade committee.
Charles H. Dixon, chairman of
the committee, said advance en
tires to date indicated that 1956’s
Christmas opening parade would
be the largest and best in the
history of this longtime annual
event.
Mr. Dixon reported that the
units will include 12 floats, nine
bands, and numerous other at
tractions.
Vicki, the elephant, object of a
manhunt when she escaped at
Charlotte, will be among the at
tractions, as will trick cars,
clowns, ponies and horses.
Carrousel princess from Kings
Mountain and surrounding com
munities will appear in the pa
rade.
Mr. Dixon said the 12 floats
would be entered by Neisler Mills
division of Massachusetts Mo
hair Plush Company, Mauney
Textile Interests, Elmer Lumber
Company and Craftspun Yarns,
Inc., Southern Dairies, of Char
lotte, Queen City Coach Com
pany, and others.
"We intend for the 1956 Christ
mas opening parade to be the best
ever," Mr. Dixon said.
Top feature of the parade will
be the annual pre-Christmas ap
pearance of Santa Claus himself.
The parade will be staged the
afternoon of Wednesday, Decem
ber 5.
Full details on final arrange
ments for the eveint will be an
nounced next week.
Other members of the commit
tee are Ed Tutor and Bill Jonas.
Zoning Change !
Hearing Oideied
The board of.city commission
ers in session Monday afternoon,
voted to call a public hearing on
a request to re-zone a West King
street lot and accepted a low bid
for a half-ton truck.
The iboard will hold a hearing
on the ne-zoning request of B. D.
Ratterree, who wants the King
street lot re-zoned from residen
tial area to business zone. Mr.
Ratterree ^as indicated he wants
to erect a service station.
Low bid on the half-ton truck j
was Smith Chevrolet Company,'
of Gastonia, at $1413.10 for a 1957
truck. Other bids were: Plonk,
Motor Company, Kings Mountain.
$1425 on a 1956 truck, and Craw
ley Chevrolet Company of Shelby,
at $1477.90 for a 1957 truck.
The truck is being purchased
for the city electrical department.
Bank Is Mailing
Yule Club Checks
Retailer Group
Sets Yule Holidays
Directors of the Kings Moun
tain Merchants association
adopted Christmas holiday
schedules Tuesday.
The directors voted to recom
mend that Kings Mountain
merchan's close two days for
Christmas, as is customary,
with the holidays to be Christ,
mas Day and December 26.
The directors also recom
mended that the retailers ob
serve New Year’s Day as a holi
day.
In view of the Tuesday New
Year’s day as a holiday, the di
rectors voted to postpone re
sumption of the regular Wed
nesday afternoon half-holiday
until January 9.
F. S. Morrison
Resigns Post
F. S. Morrison, for the past sev
eral years purchasing agent for
Foote Mineral Company’s Kings
Mountain plant, has resigned his
position.
Neil Johnson, Foo*e general
manager, said Mr. Morrison com
pleted his duties with Foote last
Friday.
“We regret his resignation,"
Mr. Johnson commented.
Mr. Morribon, a native of
Statesville, has not divulged his
future plans. Mrs. Morrison is a
member of the ci*y schools facul
ty.
Mr. Johnson said -Glenn Oates,
former assistant to Mr. Morrison,
is currently acting as buyer.
Christmas Club
Total lor '56
Over $70,000
Exactly 827 checks will 'be
mailed Friday by First National
Bank to members of the 1956
Christmas Club. The payments
will aggregate more than $70,000.
Announcement was made yes
terday by Frank <R. Summers,
First National president, who
said the checks would be dated
November 24.
Mr. Summers said this year’s
Christmas Club, the bank’s sixth,
compares favorably to the 1955
Christmas club, in spite of the
fact that one group club member
from another city did not partici
pate during fhe past year.
Mr. Summers concurrently an
nounced the forthcoming open,
ing, on December 1, of the 1957
Christmas Club. Actually, numer
ous persons have already joined
the 1957 club.
Payments to the club can be
made for as little as 50 cents
weekly, as well as larger deno
minations.
“We are prou<} of the results of
the 1956 Christmas Club and are
happy to be mailing these checks
just a.s the Christmas shopping
season opens.
"We also invite all Kings
Mountain area citizens to join
the upcoming 1957 Cfiristmas
Club. The customary comment we
receive is 'I never missed it,,*’ Mr.
Summers continued. "The Christ
mas Club continues to grow and
we look forward to the 1957 club
*o be another large one, both in
number of persons participating
and in dollar amount.”
Red Cross Bloodmobile To Be Here
Monday: Collection Goal 145 Pints
The Red Cross foloodmobile will
make a one-day visit in Kings
Mountain Monday with donors to
be processed at the Woman’s club
from 11 o’clock until 5 p. m.
Goal of the collection is 145
pints of blood, it was reported by
B. F. Manor, blood program chair
man.
Kings Mountain area citizens
donated 128 pints of blood at the
last visit of the Charlotte regional
blood collecting unit here, though
the quota was short at a previous
visit in Grover.
The local Red Cross chapter is
among other chapters of the area
who have adopted the “donor
credit plan” in its blood pro
gram whereby credit cards arc
issued.
.Reports from area hospitals arc
received by the local chapter o'
patients who are hospitalized
and receive blood through the
Red Cross program. Reports were
received from Kings Mountain
hospital, Garrison General hospi
tal, Gaston Memorial hospital
Presbyterian hospital, Charlotte
Memorial hospital, Mercy hospi
tal, and Cherokee county hospi
tal, of Gaffney, S. C.
City cab drivers will assist in
the drive by furnishing free
transportation to any dono*, Mr.
Maner noted.
Numerous Other
Area Citizens
To Face Trial
Numerous Kings Mountain
area citizens are scheduled to
.stand trial in the November crim
inal term of Cleveland Superior
Court which opens Monday.
A former Kings Mountain resi
dent, Cecil Cook, is involved in
the most important case listed on
the docket, is facing charges of
murder in connection with tire fa
tal shooting of Daniel Z. Hollo
man on September 10.
Cook and his wife were re'.urn
ed from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the
latter part of September, and
have been lodged in the county
jail since that time. Cook is said
to have-admitted his part in 'he
murder, but also added that his
wife knew nothing about the
crime.
Another case with much local
interest is 'hat or Horace G. Tate
and Dewey H. Moore, who are
accused of robbing a safe in the
home of C. S. Plonk of about $12,
500 in cash and jewelry on March
11, 1956.
Both men are currently serving
prison terms in Central Prison,
Raleigh, for another safe robbery
in Smithfield earlier this year.
Some $76,000 was reported taken
in the Smithfield robbery.
The defendants are accused of
battering open a safe in the
Plonk home on Sunday, March 11,
while Mr. and Mr.s. Plonk were
attending church services. A
quality of cash and two diamond
rings belonging to Mrs. John But
Jer Plonk were taken.
The SBI picked up Tate and
Moore on a liquor violation
charge and found *he two rings
in their possession. The rings
were identified by Mrs. John But
ler Plonk and the two men given
a hearing on charges of robbery.
This case was scheduled to be
heard in July, but was continued
until the November session.
Max Farris, 50-year-old Kings
Mountain textile worker, will be
facing charges of arson in this
session. Farris was bound over *o
Superior Court by Judge Jack
White in Kings Mountain Record
er’s Court in July. Judge White
found probable cause against the
defendant on a warrant signed
by R. H. Dillard, state insurance
investiga*or, who accuses Farris
of setting a fire that destroyed
the Farris home.
Insurance investigators and
local firemen say kerosene soak
rags and burnt matches were
found in a closet of the'fire-gut
ted home. The house was owned
by Gene Roberts, local grocery
man.
Reginald Painter will be fac
ing charges of larceny and, in a
companion case, David Benfield
will be charged with accessory
after the fact of larceny. Both
boys were bound over Monday in
Kings Mountain Recorder’s
Court on charges that Painter
stole some $500 worth of U. S.
Savings bonds from his parents
and that Benfield helped him cash
the stolen bonds.
Reggie Aller Brakefield ap
pealed a conviction on a no oper
ator’s license charge in Record
er’s Court and this cast is doc
keted to be heard during the cur
rent session.
T. C. Harrill, Bessemer City
salesman, will also be facing for
gery charges in the November
session. Harrill is accused of
forging his brother’s name to a
check for approximately $200
and cashing it at Oates’ Shell
Service Station in Kings Moun
tain. The defendant was bound
over from Recorder’s Court here.
Judge Hugh B. Campbell of
Charlotte will be making his first
appearance in a Cleveland Coun
ty court as presiding jurist this
term.
Bethware P-TA
Stages Festival
A successful Harvest Festival
was staged af Bethware School
last Saturday night by the Beth
ware Parent-Teacher Association,
Mrs. Myers Hambright, president,
reported this week.
Numerous events marked the
program including a womanless
fashion show.
Mrs. Hambrigh* expressed her
appreciation to Kings Mountain
department stores for the use of
wigs, to Griffin Drug Store for
make-up, and to Mrs. Richard
Spencer for handling the make
up, and to other merchants for
furnishing prizes.