Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
The figure lot Greater Vugs Mountain U derived from
(He 1#SS Kings Mountain city directory census. The City
limits figure Is from tbe United States census of 1(50. „
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10 Today
VOL. 66 NO. 47
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 29, 1956
Sixtv-Seventh Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Carolina Mines
Meeting Is Set
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Local News
Bulletins
ONE PERMIT
Building Inspector J. W.
Webster issued a permit Mon
day to D. L. Bennett to add a
two room addition to a house
on Gold street, at an estimated
cost of $2,000. . U'ii
REJOINS COMPANY
A. C. (Red) Dellinger hras re
joined Victory Chevrolet Com
pany as salesman, it was an
nounced this week, toy Charles
Dixon, sales manager.
BOARD MEETING
The City Board of School
Trustees will meet in Supt. B.
N. Barnes' office Monday night
at 7:30 o’clock. This meeting
was scheduled for last Monday
but was postponed due to con
flicts in board memiber’s sched
ules, | „
MOOSE MEETING
Curtis Gaffney, secretary of
Kings Mountain Moose Lodge
1748, announced that members
of the lodge will hold their reg
ular weekly meeting Thursday
night at 8:15 at the lodge on
Bessemer City road.
NAZARSNE
Members of First Church of
the Nazarene afe offering free
transportation service to any
person who wishes to attend
Sunday church service and who
do not have transportation, it
was announced by Ben B.
Short. Interested per
sons should tlephone 120 or di
rect inquiries to Rev. R. J.
Essary, pastor
REVIVAL
iRev. W. L. Harkey, of Avons
dale, former ipastor of Grace
Methodis*: church here, will be
gin a week’s revival Sunday
night at Penley’s Chapel iMeth-'
odist church, it was announced
by Rev,. Leonard Huffstetler,
pastor. Services will be held
each evening at 7 o'clock.
COMMUNION SUNDAY
St. Matthew’s Luthern Church
will hold a Communion Service
Sunday at 11 a- m. Advent Sun
day marks the beginning of a
season of four weeks when the
church prepares itself for
Christmas by repentence. This
is done particularly by the
Service of Confession and Ab
solution, which precedes the
Sacrament of the Lord's Sup
per, Dr. Gerberding, the pastor,
said.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ended Wednesday at
noon totaling $164.18, includ
ing $135.50 from on-street me
ters and $28.68 from the Chero
kee Street parking lot. With re
tails open on Wednesday after
noons, the police department
is enforcing the parking rules
six full days each week, City
Clerk Gene Mitcham noted.
Groups Plan
Toy Collection
Kings Mountain Moose Lodge
1748, American Legiosn Post 155
and the Kings Mountain police
department will co-sponsor “Op
eration Santa Claus,” a cam
paign to obtain toys for needy
children, it was announced yes
terday by Dean Payne.
Plans for the collection of both
new and undamaged used toys
for children of the indigent will
be announced soon, Mr. Payne
said.
Mr. Payne added that a num
ber of collection spots will be
established throughout the com
munity. The members of the
three organizations will handle
the collection and the distribu
tion of the toys.
Names of needy children will
be obtained from welfare agen
cies and all the toys will go to
children in the Kings Mountain
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Stockholders'
Session Called
For December 8
Notice of annual meeting of
Carolina Mines, Inc., has been
mailed to stockholders. The meet
ing is scheduled for the company
offices at the mine site on Decem
ber 8.
The notice to stockholders ex
plained that the annual meeting,
customarily held in February,
was postponed !by federal court
order last January and that this
order was terminated by order of
the court on November 5.
The federal court involved liti
gation (between A. S. MacCul
lough, president, against the com
pany and concerned issuance of
Caroling Mines stock to MacCul
lough. The court ruled that the
president was entitled to the
stock he claimed was his.
The accompanying iproxy form,
which stockholders are asked to
execute if they are not planning
to attend the meeting, suggests
the names of six persons to be
designated to vote stock by
proxy: They are President Mac
Cullough, Vancouver, B. C., Cana
da; Secretary Peter E. Peterson,
Kings Mountain; Dr. Emil J.
Press, Chicago, 111., doctor; P. J.
Baugh, Jr., Charlotte coUon brok
er; O. S. Caldwell, Chicago insur
ance broker; and R. B. Shilling,
retired Chicago businessman. A
blank is provided for writing in
the name of any other person the
stockholder wishes to serve as
proxy.
The stockholders are asked to
give the complete proxy forms to
the person designated to vote
their stock, or to mail the com
pleted forms to Craighill, Rendle.
man & Kennedy, 609 Law Build
ing, Charlotte.
Mr. Peterson .said approximate
ly 227,000 shares of common
stock are outstanding.
Cpmmenting on the recent liti
gation, Mr. Peterson said, “We
anticipate no ippeal from the
federal court order will or can
transpire The case was Mr. Mac
Cullough vs. Carolina Mines Inc.
and a majority of the company
directors oppose an appeal in the
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Font Awarded
King's Diplomas
Four Kings Mountain area stu
dents were among the 217 a
warded diplomas by King’s Busi
ness College, Charlotte, last Fri
day night.
Receiving diplomas for the ju
nior accounting course were Ro
bert Littlejohn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Johnnie G. Littlejohn, and
Alfred Tate, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. G. Tate.
Curtis Wright, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Kossie Wright, was award
ed ai diploma in bookkeeping -
typewriting, and Marilyn Tesse
neer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
F. Tesseneer, was awarded the
executive secretarial diploma.
The ceremonies were held in
David Ovens auditorium.
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Bloodmobfle
Collection
Was 126 Pints
Kings Mountain area citizens
donated 126 pints of blood via
the Red Cross bloodmobile here
Monday. Goal of the collection
was 145 pints.
Lithium Corporation led indus
trial plants in blood donations,
reports from the Red Cross of
fice show. Lithium employees do
nated 29 pints of blood, Foote
employees gave 24 pints of blood,
donors from Burlington Mills
tataled 17, and 11 Mauney Hos
iery employees donated a pint
of blood.
Donors were processed at First
Presbyterian church.. The unit
was scheduled at the Woman’s
club but because of a faulty fur
nace, the bloodmobile was mov
ed to the church where it was
in operation from 11 o’clock un
til 5 p. m.
Donors included Charles A.
Neisler, James L. Bennett, Jas
per E. Wilson, Loyd McFalls,
John I. George, Jr., James Flet
cher, Campbell L. Lockridge, Sam
A. Ahsher, Jr., Roy A. Carter,
Gene Mitcham, William P. Mit
cham, Marion P. Sexton, Neil E.
Hullender, Russell E. Smith, Ed
gar E. Blackburn, Joe D. Rhea,
Lawrence E. Putnam, Edward L.
Green, Frank Pace, Carlee Jen
kins, Robert Brown, Thomas B.
Humphries, Dock H. Glascoe, Jr.,
Hubert Bowen, Roy Huffstetler,
James D. Jackson, and Paul D.
Bell.
Also James M. Bridges, Clyde
Adams, Jr., Bruce Thorburn,
John Howell, Frank Mitcham,
Samuel Starnes, Lee Whitworth,
Mrs. Erie L. Bryant, Annie M.
Bridges, Margaret Moore, Dr. O.
P. Lewis, Dr. W. L. Ramseur,
Clarence T. Dixon, Paul H. Bid
dy, C. J. Gault, Jr., Mrs. Eunice
Smith, Jimmie L. Dobbins, Carl
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Mis. Bridges'
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Gertie
Wright Bridges, 45, of 109 S. Wat
ter,son street, were held Wednes
day afternoon at 3 o'clock from
First Baptist church, interment
following in Pleasant Grove
cemetery near Fallston.
Mrs. Bridges, widow of Edgar
W. Bridges, succumbed Monday
morning at 7 o’clock in Kings
Mountain hospital after an ill
ness of several months.
A native of Cleveland County,
‘she was co-owner of Bridges Auto
Parts here. She was a member
of First Baptist church.
Final rites were conducted by
Rev. Aubrey Quakenbush, pastor
of the church, assisted by Rev. C.
C. Crowe, of Shelby.
Surviving are her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Wright, four
sons, Bobby C. Bridges, Reuben
Bridges, and Dennis Bridges, all
of Kings Mountain, Carroll Brid
ges, of Gastonia, and two daugh
ters, Miss Joanne Bridges and
Brenda Lou Bridges, bo*h of
Kings Mountain.
Three brothers, Ban Wright,
Yates Wright,a nd Wray Wright,
all of Shelby, three sisters, Mrs.
Leonard Wright, Mrs. Herman
Dawson, both of Shelby, and Mrs.
Alvin Cooke, of Hickory, and two
grandchildren, also survive.
Pallbearers were Charles Wri
ght, Tom Propst, Tommy Bridg
es, Arnold Wright, Dixon Brid
ges and Sammy Costner.
Lithium Is Tenned "Magic Metal"
By Article In Reader's Digest
Lithium, considered practically
useless for 125 years after its re
covery in 1818, may change the
course of civilization. A Ronald
Schiller describes it as “The Ma
gic Metal Called Lithium,” in a
December Reader’s Digest article
condensed from “Chemistry.”
Lithium, so abundant that
traces of it are found in every
spadeful of soil in your garden,
is the lightest solid in existence
and even among gases only he
lium and hydrogen are lighter. It
has such an affinity for air and
water, that it soon decomposes
unless immersed in oil or an air
tight container. A knife cuts it
like cheese. It ibums wi*h an in
tense white flame.
Until World War II, it had few
uses. Then it was found to suck
up noxious gases in submarines
de-ice airplane wings, and when
combined with water, to releas
hydrogen to inflate radio an*en
na balloons used in air-sea res
cue kits. However, most import
ant was *he discovery that lith
ium hydroxide in lubricants en
abled them to preform in the
wettest, coldest or warmest cli
mates.
At the war's end, the infant
lithium industry gave away
thousand* of dollars worth of
lithium compounds for experi
mentation. Much went into air
conditioning and refrigerating
equipment, a 11-purpose greases,
making of Vitamin A and anti
histamines and other veried uses.
But, again, a new and more
exciting use was found. The reac
tion of a light isotope of lithium
with neutrons from atomic fis
sion creates tritium, which fused
wi‘h deuterium causes a thermo
nuclear explosion. Now, if it de
velops that thermonuclear power
for .peace can ;be treated from
lithium and deuterium, man will
have to worry less about his re
sources of coal, gas, oil and even
uranium.
Cook Jury Is Being Chosen;
Safe-Crackers Are Sentenced
Farris Draws
Suspension
In Arson Case
Some 150 Burke County jurors
reported to Shelby around noon
Wednesday awaiting the after
noon session of Cleveland County
Superior Court and the expected
beginning of the George Cecil
Cook murder trial.
Judge Hugh B. Campbell order
ed the special Burke County ven
ire after Cook’s attorneys said
that their client would not toe
given a "fair trial'’ in Cleveland
County because of the amount
of publicity given the case.
The Grand Jury returned a true
bill against Cook Tuesday charg
ing him with the slaying of Dan
iel Z. Holloman on September 10.
Similar charges against Mrs.
Cook were dropped when a “no
true bill" verdict was returned
by the grand jury.
Cook is reported to have con
fessed the Holloman shooting to
officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
where he and his wife were ap
prehended on a worthless check
warrant from Cleveland Coun'y.
Holloman’s lifeless toody was
found in his combination filling
station-grill with five bullet
wounds in it. The cash register
and one compartmen' of his wal
let had been cleaned out.
Cook’s attorneys tried to get
the case postponed until the Jan
uary session of Supirior Court,
but the motion was refused toy
Judge Campbell. The judge also
denied a request by the attorneys
that Cook toe given phsychiatric
examination, which would have
required a postponment of the
trial.
Dewey H. Moore and Horace G.
Tate each had 8-10 years added
to long prison sentences they are
currently serving. Both plead
guilty to breaking and entering
and larceny charges in connec
tion with the cracking of a safe
in the C. S. Plonk home here on
March 11.
Both men had earlier been con
victed on charges of cracking a
safe in Smithfield.. In this case.
Tate had received a 10-20 year
sentence, and Moore had toeen
given 8-16 years. The Cleveland
sentences are to begin after the
expiration of any and all sen
tences now being served, Judge
Campbell ruled.
Mrs. John Butier Plonk’s dia
mond rings taken in the robbery
were returned to her. However,
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Diace Peelei
Elmer President
Drace M. Peeler, formerly sec
retary - treasurer, was elected
president of Elmer Lumber Com
pany, Inc., following the annual
meeting of stoockholders Mon
day.
He succeeds his late father.
Other officers are Mrs. B. S.
Peeler, vice-president, and B. S.
Peeler, Jr., formerly vice-presi
dent, secretary - treasurer.
The three officers were previ
ously named directors by the
stockholders.
All of the 150 shares of capi
tal stock were represented, either
in person, or by proxy.
B. S. Peeler, Jr., presided at
the session and told the stock
holders the company had been
operated "to the best of our abil
ity” and that expansion plans,
mapped by his late .father, were
being carried out.
He enumerated: the building
of a lumber shed, the acquisi
tion of a five-acre tract adjoin
ing the company property, pur
chase and installation of an end
trimmer and separator device,
and purchase of two fork loading
machines. He said the improv
ments would speed operations
and make the firm more compet
itive in pricing its products.
The stockholders also adopted
a set of by-laws which specified
the election of three directors
and changed the date of the an
nual meeting from November to
May. The latter will coincide
better, D. M. Peeler explained,
with the corporation’s fiscal
year, which ends in February.
KINGS MOUNTAIN PARADE ENTRY — Queen
City Trailways will enter its prize-winning float—
on the theme the “Book of Knowledge’* in the
Kings Mountain Christmas parade next Wednes
day. The float won first prize in the transportation
division of the Carolinas Carrousel at Charlotte.
Queen City's is one of a dozen floats entered in
the Kings Mountain parade.
Father Wounds
Son In Blast
With Shotgun
Dee “Bub” Ward, Jr., Gas*on
County Negro, is in Kings Moun
tain Hospital in “critical” condi
tion as the result of a shotgun
wound in the s*omach.
According to Gaston County
Sheriff Department .sources,
Ward was shot ;by his father, Dee
Ward, Sr., 50-year-old Chestnu*
Ridge resident, aibout 10:30 p. m.
Tuesday.
The injured man was said to
have been shot at a distance ot
aoout six-feet with a 12-guage
shotgun. Dr. Craig Jones, attend
ing physician, said Wednesday
that the 30-year-old Negro had
jeen receiving blood transfusions
since he entered the hospital, and
that his condition was definitely
“critical.*’
The elder Ward reportedly told
officers that *he shooting was an
accident, and that both he and
his son had been drinking. Offi
cers reported, however, that 'here
was no evidence that either of
the men had been drinking. They
added that a* least three shells
had been fired from the shotgun,
with two of the blasts hieing por
tions of the Ward home.
Mrs. Ward, who was a witness
to the shooting, told officers that
her husband and son had been
arguing prior to the shooting.
Assault with a deadly weapon
charges have been filed against
the elder Ward by *he Sheriff’s
department. This charge would
be changed to murder if the in
jured man dies.
The wounded man would not
talk about the shoo'ing Tuesday
night. Officers said he refused to
talk about the attack when they
questioned him.
HEADS CLUB — Charlie Harry, of
Grover, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Harry, Jr., is president of the re
cently-organized Cleveland Coun
ty Open-Out club. The club meets
in Shelby December 18.
Assessment
Hearing Set
The city board of commission
ers will hold a public hearing on
$1427.20 in street improvement
assessments at its December 6
meeting, according to notice
published today.
The notice covers unpaid as
sessments on Katherine avenue,
Rhodes avenue, Brice street, and
Watterson street.
Objections to the assessment
should be made at the December
6 hearing, it was stated.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges said
majority of the assessments for
the street - paving jobs have
been paid. On all streets majori
ty of property owners signed pe
titions agreeing to pay the as
sessments on completion of the
work.
Kings Mountain Employment Shows
Another Rise, ESC Report Says
Unemployment in Kings Moun
tain declined again during the
past month, statistics of the
Kings Mountain office of the
North Carolina Employment
service show.
Franklin L. Ware, manager,
said claims for unemployment
compensation dropped to 981 for
the four-week period, a drop of
nearly 200 weeks from October
is 1176. The November average
was 245 per week.
Principal segment unemployed
are women, some of whom have
exhausted their unemployment
benefits, Mr. Ware noted.
Principal needs in the Kings
Mountain labor market, he add
ed, are for twister tenders and
plush weavers.
During November, the unem
ployment office here received 61
lob orders and filled 51 of these
positions.
New applications for employ
ment during November totaled
78.
| Mr. Ware said the employment
! outlook is good, generally speak
ing, particularly in comparison
to the summer months when un
employment compensation pay
1 ment claims zoomed upward.
Acting Officers
Hope To Launch
C ol C Monday
A third meeting concerning or
ganization of a Chamber of Com
merce will be held at City Hall
Monday night at 7:30.
Dan Weiss, temporary chair
man of the organization, said
notices of the Monday night ses
sion have been mailed to some
200 Kings Mountain businessmen
and industrial leaders with in
vitations to attend.
Mr. Weiss said efforts will be
made to effectuate the oganjza
tion at the Monday session. By
laws will be offered for consid
eration.
"We hope to get organized for
mally on Monday," Mr. Weiss
said. “Much interest in the for
mation of a Chamber of Commer
ce has been expressed by many
Kings Mountain citizens and
there seems every reason to be
lieve the organization is now
ready to be formed,” he stated.
After the organization is for
med, a board of directors will be
chosen by the membership, he
added.
City Police Car
Has Smash-Up
A two-car traffic accident in
Gastonia resulted in damages of
approximately $300 to a Kings
Mountain City Police Department
car Tuesday night, Gaston Coun
*y reports indicate.
According to information sup
plied by Police Reporter Paul
Crooke of the Gastonia Gazette,
the accident occurred a* the Myr
tle School-Kings Mountain High
way intersection just inside the
Gastonia city limits about 10:30
p. m.
City Policeman William Roper,
Jr., was operating the police ve
hicle at the time of the mishap.
Crooke said Gastonia traffic ac
cident reports showed the patrol
car rammed into a 1940 Chevrolet
opera*ed by Wallace N. Spencer,
service station operator, as he
was stopped for a traffic signal.
Roper reportedly was enroute
to Kings Mountain after making
a trip to Charlotte to pick up
blood for transfusions .being giv
en Dee Ward, Jr., Negro who war
shot Tuesday nigh*. City Com
missioner Paul Ledford was said
to have been a .passenger in the
patrol car.
Damages to the Spencer auto
mobile were slight and were esti.
mafed at $25. No charges were
filed in the accident.
?bais, Queens,
Vicki, Clowns
To Be Featuies
Santa Claus will come to Kings
Mountain next Wednesday to
appear in the 1956 Christmas
parade being sponsored by the
Kings Mountain Merchants as
sociation.
The parade—to be the largest
in the long history of the event—
will include 49 units, including
12 floats, many of them supplied
by firms, which are cooperating
with the merchants in this event.
Eight bands, including Kings
Mountain high school’s band will
furnish music along the line of
march.
The parade will begin at 4
LINE OF MARCH
Next Wednesday's Christmas
parade will form on Wesf Gold
street and at 4 p. m. will begin
to move along the following
route: West Gold fo Railroad
avenue; north on .Railroad to
West King street; ea.s* on West
King to Gaston street; sou'h on
Gaston to Mountain street;
west on Mountain to .Battle
ground avenue; south on Bat
tleground t0 Gold street; east
on Gold street to Mountain
Rest cemetery entrance and
disband.
o’clock sharp, Charles E. Dixon,
chairman of the parade com
mittee said.
Another feature of the parade
will be appearance of ten high
school beauty queens. To appear
in the parade are Peggy Rey
nolds, Kings Mountain high,
Nancy Huffstetler, Shelby high,
Becky Marley, of Gastonia’s Ash
ley high, Joann Noblett, Besse
mer City high, Diana Long,
Cherryville high, Rachel Ham
rick, Bethware high, Phyllis
Denton, Dallas high, Annie Bell
Stroupe; Grover high, Cerelda
Yarbro Waco high, and Inez
Rayefield, Tryon high school.
Appearing on the several floats
will* be Ellen Baker, Jean Davis,
Debbie Carlton, and Debbie
Scruggs, Neisler Mil's float: Jean
Hicks and Charles Bridges, Mau
ney Mills float; Peggy Black,
Brenda Barnette, Annette Law
rence, Norma Kay Hamrick, Pat
Owens, Linda Biser, Mikie White,
Carolyn Wright, Faye Robbs,
and Kay Barnette, Queen City
Coach company float; Brenda
McDaniel, Jean Allen, Ann Falls,
and Brenda Kay Bridges, Bur
j lington Mi'ls; Sondra Gilbert
; and Phyllis Dean, Coca-Cola
j float; Judy Cooper, Nancy Ho
! vis, Dot Ware, Jane Byars, and
1 Becky Thornburg, Craftspun
(Continued On Page Ten)
Citizens Joining
Christmas Club
First National Bank’s Christ
mas Club for 1957 doesn’t open
officially until Saturday, but for
mer clubbers and other citizens
are rushing to join in advance of
the opening date.
F. R. Summers, First National
president, said Wednesday near
ly 300 persons are already listed
for 1957 and he anticipates the
total membership for the coming
year will be considerably great
er than the 827 persons who re
ceived 1956 Christmas Club
checks last weekend.
Mr.. Summers also anticipates
the aggregate total of club pay
ments next Thanksgiving will
increase over the $70,000 mem
bers of the 1956 club received
last weekend.
First National wil] launch of
ficially its seventh annual Christ
mas Club Saturday.
Joiners agree to pay a regular
sum into the club each week for
50 weeks. A person may join for
as little as 50 cents per week and
receive at the end of the club
year a check for $25. Other club
plans are weekly payments of
$1, $2, $5, and $10. The $10 week
ly payment returns a check for
$500.
“We at the bank are very
pleased with the growth of the
Christmas Club plan,” Mr. Sum
mers said. “More and more per
sons have found this the easiest
method to prepare for Christmas
gift-buying. We hope to have at
least 1,000 members for 1957 and
would like to see the club total
top $100,000.”
Not all of the Christmas Club
checks are used for gift-buying.
Mrs. Helen R. Blanton, assistant
cashier and officer in charge of
the Christmas Club, said she was
very busy last week, transferring
Christmas Club checks to U. S.
bonds.
Other persons use the checks
for bill-paying and various other
i purposes.