Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10.320
City Limits r 7.206
Dm hum* to. Creator Ting* Mountain is derived Iron,
tbs IKS Kings Mountain dig directory census. The City
Units ttguis Is from tb. United States census oi issn
Kings Mountains Reliable Newspaper
VOL 68 NO. 3
Established <889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 17, 1957
Sixty-Eighth Year
PRICE FIVE CENTS
JfE ./ h.A -.a .i.AWT — Picuuaa .a the uaw plant
of Kings Mountain Mica Company. Inc., located on
the Charlie Moss property off Grover Road. Com
pany officials expect to put the new plant into
production before the end of the week. Paul Lan
cciu.Ji, geiij<ul manager. says the new plcnt will
produce scrap mica. It is of latest design. The
company holds leases to some 200 acres and esti
mate the ore reserves at a conservative 25 years'
supply. (Photo by Pennington Studio.)
Local News
/
Bulletins
BUILDING PERMITS
Inspector J. W. Webster is
sued a permit Tuesday to Slat
er Bros., to build an addition to
the plant on York road, at an
estimated cost of $15,000.
LICENSE BUREAU
Kings Mountain officers of
the Drivers License Bureau are
open each Thursday and Fri
day, Examiners are here from
8 a. m. until 5 o’clock p, m.
TWO FIRES
KingsMountain Fire depart
ment answered two calls this
week. Saturday, a blaze caused
tby an overheated stove pipe
was extinguished in a house
on Chestnut street. Monday, a
grass fire near the John Bum
gardner residence on York
road, was extinguished by fire
men.
MOOSE MEETING
Members of Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge 1748 will hold
their regular weekly meeting
at 8:15 at the lodge on Besse
mer City road, according to an
announcement by Curtis Gaff
ney, secretary
HERE WEDNESDAY
'Miss Antionette Beasley, Red
Cross area field supervisor, will
he in Kings (Mountain next
Wednesday to discuss .plans
with local Red Cross officials
for the 1957 fund drive. Miss
Beasley, of Atlanta, Ga., visits
the chapters regularly.
CENTRAL P-TA
Regular meeting of the Cen
tral school Parent-Teacher as
sociation will he held Wednes
day, January 23, at 3:30 p. m.
in the school auditorium. The
program will feature the topic,
"Mental Health.”
ANNUAL MEETING
Annual meeting of share
holders of Home Building &
Loan association will he held
at the office of the association
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock,
according to announcement by
A. H- Patterson, seentary-treas-,
urer. The shareholders will
hear annual reports from offi
cers and will elect directors
for the coming year.
KIWANIS MEETING
Dr. W. P. Gerberding will
give the annual achievement
report of the cluto at the Thurs
day night meeting of the Ki
wanis club. The club convenes
at 6:45 at the Woman’s Cluh. ..
LODGE MEETING
An emergent communication
of Fairview Lodge A. F. & A. M.
339 will be held Monday night
at 7:30 at the Lodge hall for
work in the third degree, it was
announced by T. D. Tindall,
master, and D. O. King, secre
tary.
JAYCEE MEETING
Kings Mountain Jaycees will
attend a district meeting at
Rankin Lake Lodge near Gas
tonia next Tuesday night. J. T.
McGinnis, Jr., president, said
Jaycees will leave here from
Griffin Drug Store at 6:30. The
meeting will .begin at 7 o’clock.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $165.30, including
$13818 from on-street meters
and $27.12 from Cherokee park
ing lot meters. City Clerk Gene
Mitcham reported.
Meeting Monday
On Tax Proposals
Chamber To Hear
Shelby Group's
Ideas Outlined
The Kings Mountain Chamber
of Commerce will hold an open
meeting at City Hall courtroom
Monday night to hear a discus
sion on proposals made Tuesday
by Shelby Chamber of Commerce
to the county board of commis
sioners.
Mai Spangler, president of the
Shelby organization, and other
Shelby organization officials,
will be on hand to outline the pro
posals which are: i
1. A reduction In the county’s
inventory tax.
2. A bond election for the pur
pose of securing funds to run util
ity lines to the site of the propos
ed Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
plant
o. A two-cent levy to furnish
funds for utility lines to future
industries in the county.
The meeting will convene at
7:30.
Hazel B. Bumgardner, county
commissioner from this district,
urged civic and business leaders
to attend the meeting, hear the
discussion and make known their
feelings concerning the propos
als.
He said the commissioners
merely took the proposals under
advisement. He added that the
commissioners took a dim view
of the inventory tax reduction,
since it would upset the "pres
ent equitable scale” of valuations
'or tax purposes.
The proposals for a bond issue
.o furnish utility lines for Pitts
burgh Plate Glass company
< should it decide to locate in
Hhelby) and the proposed two
cent utility line tax levy would j
have to be decided by vote of the
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ELECTED — J. C. Bridge*. Kings
Mountain business man, has
been named chairman of the 1957
Red Cross fund drive for the
Kings Mountain Red Cross chap
ter. it was announced by J. Ollie
Harris, chapter chairman.
Response Good
To Scout Letter
Rev. James B. McLarty, Kings
Mountain Boy Scout offieal, said
Wednesday that approximately
40 men attended the District
Court of Honor held at City Hall
Thursday night.
A letter, explaining that King
Mountain was in danger of los
ing "he Court of Honor unless in
terest picked up in the city, wa
mailed to business and civi<
leaders of the city urging them to
attend.
Mr McLarty said he was well
pleased with the response. He
added that no definite arrange
ments had been made, but that
t^e Court of Honor will be held
■here next month at the regular
time.
Sral, Lmeberner To Speak Here
At Lutheran Evangelism Mission
Kings Mountain’s two Luthe
ran churches, Resurrection an
St. Matthew’s will be among 50
Lutheran churches of the Char
lotte area participating next
month in an intensive week-long
evangelism.
In Kings Mountain, Dr. Paul L
Graf, pastor of Holy Trinity
Lutheran churCh, Minneapolis
vill conduct services at St. Matt
hew*s and Rev. Corley R,. Line
merger, pastor of Grace Lutheran
church, Hendersonville, will con
duct services at Resurrection.
To toe toeld .simultaneously in
all the churches the week of Feb
ruary 10-14, the Charlotte arer
program will toe a part of the
continent-wide Lutheran Evan
gel ism Mission of the United
Lutheran OhurCh In America
launched last year to mobilize
the lay leadership of the church’s
more than 4,350 congregations,
and to stimulate their local mis
slonary outreach.
Preliminary plans and dates
for the Charlotte area mission
were projected and developed
last year by the Rev. J. A. Keisle:
DD., of Columbia, S. C., south
eastern regional director, in con
sultation with pastors and la\
leaders of the Charlotte area The
Rev. W. Leo Smith, of Dallas, la
chairman of the central are'
committee, which is giving locr
lirection to the program in the
Charlotte area.
Established by the 1954 foien
nial convention of the Unitec’
Lutheran dhurch, the total mis
slon will include more than 2O'
“Area Missions” throughout th
United States and Canada.
The evangelism mission has f
three-fold emphasis: Preachin'
services in each local congrega
tion by a visiting clergyman, in
structlon sessions for lay worker
and congregational officers, and
the development of a year-roun'
nronrarh of evangelism in each
congregation.
Though church attendance am
interest in religion is at an all
t'me high. United Lutherar
Church in America leaders have
pointed out that there are stil’
approximately 82,000,000 Ameri
cans completely outside the
church.
Local Lutheran pastors stre=
that Lutheran Evangelism Mis
sion is not a membership cam
palgn. It’s purpose, as stated V
the Rev. Robert W Stackel. D.D
national director, is “to stimulate
the Christian faith of our own
people, and to equip and inspire
them to do a better job of evan
gelism In their every day lives.”
Mis. Goforth's
Funeral Bites
Held Monday
Funeral services were held
Monday at 11 a- m. at Boyce Me
morial ARP Church for Mrs. Eliza
Bradford Goforth, 76, who died
Friday , in Youngstown. Ohio
where she was visiting her chil
dren.
A native of Cleveland County
and a resident of route 2, Kings
Mountain, Mrs. Goforth had been
ill for one week prior to her death.
She was the daughter of the lete
Thomas C. and Carolyn Kerr
Black. ^
Mts. Goforth was first married
to W,. T. Bradford, who died in
1915. Later she married J. T. Go
forth, who died in 1951.
Survivors include two sons, W.
Thomas Bradford, Charlotte, and
John K. Bradford of Ohio; two
step-sons, Herman and Timmons
Goforth, both of Kings Mountain;
three daughters, Mrs. Sarah B.
Cornwell of Akron, Ohio, Miss
Virginia Bradford, and Miss Re
becea Bradford, both of Cleve
land, Ohio; two sisters, Miss
Freeiove Black and Mrs. Grady
Patterson, both of Kings Moun
tain; seven grandchildren, and
four great-grandchildren.
Dr. W. L. Pressly and Rev. P. D.
Patrick officiated. Burial was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Pallbearers were M. A. Ware,
Boyd Harrelson, Hall Goforth
Rufus Doster, Jasper Ware, and
Wendell Phifer.
Board Talks
Civil Defense
A special called meeting of the
«city board of commissioners
Tuesday afternoon resulted in the
ooard giving Mayor Glee Bridges
authority to appoint a civil ivc
fense 'board for the city.
This motion was made by Com
missioner Jay Patter -on and sec
o-v’ed. ’ v Sam Collins.
Dr. IR. P. Anstett, Cleveland
County civil deiense director, and
Dick Marble, civil defense direc
tor for Motorola Company, were
also on hand to discuss setting
up another radio communication
system in the city.
Mr. Marble toid the commis
sioners that equipment might
toe obtained through a "matching
fund” set up with state civil de
fense authorities.
He suggested that the city in
stall another base station and
buy three additional' mobile re
ceivers for use In the city utility
trucks. This .system would toe the
civil defense communication set
up in case of an emergency.
The city’s part of the expense
would be approximately $1,700,
according to Mr. Marble.
Dr. Anstett told the commis
sioners that Kings Mountain had
“failed miserably” in civil de
fense work and organization. H<
cited the need for ground obser
ver towers and other phases o.
the work in the city,.
The commissioners tabled the
suggested radio equipment pur
chase.
The commissioners cancelled
an $8.71 street-paving assessment
charged to M. G. Carpenter, of
dhird street. Mr. Carpenter, the
board determined, had been as
sessed for 13-feet frontage more
chan he owned.
LIONS MEETING
Regular meeting of the Kings
Mountain Lions club will be
held at the Woman’s Club Tues
.is” ni,TM -t 1 o’clock.
Carlton Young Man Of Year;
Jaycees Held “Bosses Night”
Bell Outlines
Ways To Get
New Industry
Cecil Bell, Gaston county na
tive and official of the commerce
and industry division of the state
department of Conservation &
Development, outlined -basic “pri
mer” requirements for a com
munity to obtain new industries
at the Bosses Night banquet of
the Junior Chamber of Commer
ce Tuesday.
Basic requirements listed by
Mr. Bell were: 1) a community'
ability to handle new industry;
2) full community support in
eluding that of present indusfrial
citizens; 3) a full inventory of
community assets and liabilities,
including a listing of available
industrial sites; 4) a factual ad
vertising brochure, which, he
said, need not be ‘fancy’.
Mr. Bell said many communi
ties are hurt in their efforts to
obtain industries because their
enthusiasm is not supported -by
factual knowledge. He said the
state department would help any
community in Its efforts to nego
tiate directly and exclusively
with prospective Industrial citi
zens, and he suggested that thi
community seek to clean u
“blighted approaches.” Many in
dustrial engineers say "don’
stop,” Mr. Bell related, when the;
enter a community with rundown
shacks on the main arteries lead
ing into a city.
He praised the local eMdrts to
form a Chamber of Commerce.
He said North Carolina’s tax
structure is poorly competitive
with that of a number of other
southern states and endorsed the
tax revision recommendations of
the special tax commission. He
also said North Carolina is defi
cient on schooling its citizens in
some directions considered very
important by industry. The de
riciencies he listed in mathema
tics, general science and techni
cal training.
Declaring that the state needs
said, “There’s no question but
to diversify its industry, Mr. Bell
that textile, tobacco, and furni
ture are going to our industrial
backbone for many years in the
future, but we’ve got to get so
called modern science industries
to keep our talented young folk
at home.”
Mr. Bell was presented by Bill
Eldon,.
Mrs. Dixon Resumes
ESC Post Here
Mrs. Marlon Dixon, former in
terviewer at the Kings Mountain
office of the state Employment
service, has resumed that no,si
tlon, replacing Everett McNeilly.
Mr. McNeuiy resigned to be
come veterans employment rep
resentative at the Shelby branch
Of the employment service.
A native of Casar, Mr. McNeilly
joined the Kings Mountain office
about 18 months ago.
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American Legion, presented a flagpole and American flag to Kings
Mountain hospital this week in ceremonies Monday. John Gladden
xist commander, is about to raise the flag for the first time. Others,
left to right, dze Grady Howard, hoep'tal business manager. D. D.
launders, W. D. Morrison, post commander. Dean Payne, and Mayor
Glee A. Bridges, also a past Legion Commander. (Photo by Penning
ton Studio.) V
CARLTON YOUNG MAN OF YEAR — Everette (Shu) Corltoa. left
high school football coach. Is being presented the Kings Mountain
Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service award plaque
for 1956 from Ed H. Smith, project chairman, (Photo by Pennington
Studio.)
Three Are Killed
In Sunday Wreck
Six Injured
Are Reported
Improving
A two-car collision near Clover,
S. C., Sunday resulted In death
for three occupants of the vehic
les, while six others were injured.
According to reports by South
Carolina Patrolman Billy Poore,
Raymond S. Crawford, 54, and
his son, Mike, age 7, were occu
pants of a car backing out of a
family drive when it was struck
from the rear by a car operated
by Lee G. Gibson 16, of near Clo
ver.
Crawford and his son were
killed instantly, and a passenger
of the Gibson vehicle, Charles A.
McCarter, 16. died a short time
later in the hospital.
Lee G. Gibson and Horace Gib
son are in Kings Mountain hos
pital. Reports from the hospital
indicate that the boys are im
proving. However, both were
said to be on the critical list
when admitted Sunday.
Other injured passengers of the
Gibson car included Rooney
Crawford, 16, who was taken to
Clover hospital. Taken to the hos
pital at York were Gerald Coop
er, 15, Nelson Mathias, 15, of
Shelby, and Larry Smith 13, of
Kings Mountain. Young Smith is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Smith of route 2, Kings Moun
tain. The boy is reported to be re
covering satisfactorily.
Double funeral rites were held
Monday at Oakdale Presbyterian
Church for Raymond Stevenson1
Crawford, and his seven-year-old
son Richard Bruce Crawfo-d.
Burial was to be in the church
cemetry, with the Rev. William
Cale officiating.
Mr. Crawford was bom in York
-ounty on May 7, 1902, the son
of the late Alexander Galloway
and Sara David Crawford.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Edith McCarter Crawford; five
tons, Eugene, of Charlotte, El
mer and Rooney, of the home,
Edward with the U. S. Marines
on Okinawa and Jerry, student at
Presbyterian College; a sister,
Mrs. Waler Hines of Clover; four
brothers, T. L„ W. M., and H. D.
C'awfo-d, all of Clover; and John
3. Crawford of Ft. Lawn; and
three grandchildren.
His son, Michael Bruce, was
born on April 1, 1949, in York
county.
Funeral for Charles Albert Mc
Carter, 16, was held Monday at
3 p. m. at Bethany A. R. Presby
terian Church, with the Rev.
George Lauderdale officiating.
Bnr’al was In Oakdale cemetery,
etery.
Charles Blanton
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Two Nominated
Foi AF Academy
Two Kings Mountain young
men, Donald E. McCarter and
Charles DeWitt Blanton, Jr., have
been nominated for appointments
to the United States Air Force
Academy by Congressman Basil
L. Whitener.
The two men, within the next
few weeks, will compete with
nominees throughout North Car
olina for two of the seven vacan
cies now open at the Air Force
Academy to North Carolinians.
Mr. Whitener made the an
nouncement from Washington
last weekend.
McCarter is the son of Mr. and
M-s. Oscar McCarter of 608 West
Gold street, Kings Mountain. He
is a student of mechanical engin
eering at Georgia Tech in At
lanta, Ga., at present, having
graduated from Lees-McRae Jun
ior College with honors in 1956.
While a student at Kings Moun
tain High School McCarter was
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Football Coach
Wins DSA Award
Plaque For *56
Everette (Shu) Carlton, King:
Mountain high school footbal
coach, is Kings Mountain’s
Young Man of the Year for 1956.
Emblematic of his selection.
Coach Carlton was presented the
1956 Distinguished Service award
of the Kings Mountain Junior
Chamoer of Commerce at a spec
ial Bosses’ Night gathering Tues
day night.
Mr. Carlton is the third reci
pient of the award. Previously
Chosen were B. 3. Peeler, Jr., 1954,
and Grady Howard, 1955.
The award was presented by
Ed H. Smith, chairman of the
Jaycees DSA committee, who said
Coach Carlton was chosen 'by at
committee of Kings Mountain
citizens from eight nominees. As
in former years, Mr. Smith did
not identify the members of the
committee nor the other seven
nominees.
Mr. Smith said the committee
chose Mr. Carlton, not only for
his work during 1956, but for his
work in previous yeans. He noted
that the coach had won football
championships in both 1955 and
1956, had not only fielded win
ning but sportsmanlike teams
during ail his coaching tenure,
and had been an inspiration to
Kings Mountain youth, through
his coaching activities, his church
work, and his direction of the city
recreation program.
In a brief talk of appreciation
Mr. Carlton credited his gridirot
successes to complete coopera
tion from “a fine coaching staf
the players, the school admini
stration, and the community.”
Mr. Carlton is a native of Lex
ington. He attended Duke univer
sity and is a graduate of Lenoir
Rhyne college. He is a reserve
officer of the U. S. Marine Corps,
and saw duty In the Korean War.
He is also a veteran of World
War II. He has been head football
coach here since 1947, with the
exception of his service during
the Korean hostilities. He is a
member of First Baptist church.
He has been chosen to coach the
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Martin Buys
Logan Cleaners
E. C. (Abie) Martin, for many
years an overseer in cloth dye
ing at Margrace mill here, an
nounced this week purchase of
Logan Cleaners, on N. Piedmont
avenue, from W. Lawrence Lo
gan.
Mr. Logan launched the busi
ness more than eight years ago.
Mr. Martin said he would con
tinue to operate the business un
der the same trade name, and
would continue connections with
both Bill Baker’s Pick up station
on W. Mountain street, and with
Finger Laundry, for which both
establishments serve as pick-up
stations.
Mr. Martin said he fs adding
new equipment and personnel tf
provide efficient dry cleaning ser
vice.
Mr. Martin, a native of Span
tanburg, S. C., has beep a citize*
of Kings Mountain since 1930. His
wife is the former Louise Hughes
and they have a son, Bobby Mar
tin, in the Air Force at Wrights
Patterson Field, Ohio.
The transaction was effective
January 10.
Mr. Logan has, not announced
his future plans.
WV#«7HitS
W'tH Fry Blest
King Winter showered Kings
Mountain and the Carelinas
with his iciest blasts of the cur
rent winter this week
A light snow fell early Tues
day morning, but it was insuf
ficient to satisfy the school'
youngsters who anticipated!
some hot snowball battles and,
better still, maybe enough
snow to force suspension of!
school fo” a few days.
The light snow turned1 to ice'
during the day and Tuesday
night was no night out for man
no-- beast. Service stations were
kept busy checking anti freeze
and defrosting clogged wmd
shields.
Temperatures were in the
"early twenties” Tuesday night
and the same was predicted for
Wednesday night. Gray ciotids
8till hovered and there was stilt
some chance of snowball