Jay Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits , 7,206 Xk* figure tor Greater lings Mountain Is derived from the 1965 Kings Mountain city 'll rectory census. Tbs City Limits figure Is from the United States eensus of 1950. cees Sponsoring Religion In America 1 C Pases | 0 Today VOL 68 No. 4 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 24, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins AT RICHMOND Ben Moomaw, Kings Moun tain National Military park superintendent, and Mrs. Moo maw, are in Richmond, Va., where they are attending a regional conference of nation al park superintendents. ARP SERVICE Mrs. June Knox, teacher of Bible in the city schools, will speak on the subject, “Best “Method to Study the Bible’’ at the vesper service Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock at Boyce Memorial ARP church. PRESBYTERIAN Dr. George Staples, minister to students at Davidson college, and several Davidson students will present a program at Dix on Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. YOUTH SUNDAY Sunday is Youth Sunday in the Presbyterian Church, U. S. At % the First Presbyterian church, Dr. George Staples, minister to students at David son college, will be assisted by several college students in pre senting a Sunday morning pro gram. MOOSE MEETING Secretary Curtis Gaffney an nounced members of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will hold their regular weekly meeting Thursday night at 8:15 at the lodge on Bessemer City road. Gift To Hospital Memorializes Dr. Falls METER RECEIPTS City parking meters return ed $149.88 for the week ending Wednesday noon, according to a report by Gone Mitchem, city clerk. Mr. Mitchem said off street meters accounted for $28.03, and street meters (brought in $121,85. LISTING PACE GOOD Annual tax listing continues •brisk, city and county listing officials said this week. How ever, they noted that the Jan uary 31st deadline leaves only another week for citizens to complete the chore without penalty. ^ • WHITE TO SPEAK Jack White, Kings Mountain attorney, will speak at the reg ular meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club Thurs day night at 6:45 at the Wom an’s clulb. Mr. White Will speak on his recent trip to Washing ton to observe .swearing in ceremonies of the Senate and Congress. Dimes Projects Have Raised $953 Charles Dixon, school solicita tion chairman lor the 1957 Mar ch of Dimes campaign, reported Wednesday that two of the city’s schools have reported funds rai sed in the drive. West School reports that $229.54 was raised among the students and teachers, and North ' School had $158.68 in contribu tions. East, Central and David son schools have not filed re ports. The drive is under the di rection of the principals at East and Central while Mrs. Johnny Leach is in charge of the David son campaign. Co-Chairman Jonas Bridges reported Wednesday that $953.84 has been turned in thus far in the drive, which runs through Janu ary 31. Kings Mountain’s quota this year is $3,535. Mr. Bridges reported that the Kiwanis and Lions clubs will hold a radio auction sale on Wednes day, January 30, from 3 to 4 p. m., at Radio Station WKMT. The Lions club is collecting goods to be auctioned, and the Kiwanians will handle the selling end of the project. He also said the Kings Moun tain Jaycees will hold a road block Sunday afternoon to aid the drive. This project has been handled by the Jaycees in previ ous drives also. The Junior Woman’s Club will hold its annual Mothers’ March on Polio on Thursday night,, Jan uary '31, from 7 until 8 o’clock. Mrs. James Alexander is in charge of the March this year. Concerning this March, persons having donations for the project and who are not solicited are asked to call the Woman’s Club, telephone 9135, between 8 and 8:30 p. m. Thursday night to have their contributions picked up. 1 Religion Month To Be Launched By laycees Kings Mountain Jaycees, in collaboration with the Kings Mountain Ministerial associa tion, is sponsoring a four - week program to promote here religion in American life. B. F. Maner, chairman of the Jaycee project, said attention to the four - week observance will toe called by use of prayer cards in restaurants, placards, toumper stickers, and other publicity. Churches are planning special •bulletins and will supply the Jaycee committee with atten dance records for the four Sun days beginning January 27 and continuing through February 17. Mayor Glee A. Bridges official ly opened the local observance with a proclamation. Calling on all residents to par ticipate in the program, Mayor Bridges in his proclamation de signated the period as Religion In American Life Month for Kings Mountain. Community activities are toeing planned during the month to emphasize the impor tance of religion in personal and community life. The proclama tion states: "Our world today calls for men and women of good will to exer cise their faith toy consistent, pos itive action. We must toe strong and uncompromising'in holding to the spiritual principles on which our nation was founded. “Faith in Divine power was stamped on this nation’s first money with the words, “In God We Trust.’ Our religious beliefs have steadfastly endured as the foundation of our way of life. “The freedoms we enjoy today are the gift of God, no matter in what terms or creed we worship Him. It is our great privilege to exercise this freedom toy giving thanks at our houses of worship. “Religious Faith stabilizes the family and holds it together. By attending regularly the worship services of our choice, we build moral character for the individ ual, the community and the na tion.’’ Parks May Get Over $105,000 More than $75,000 in monies for new construction, in addition to a $30,000 operating fund, is provided for Kings Mountain and Cowpens National parks in the budget presented to Congress toy President Eisenhower. Ben Moomaw, park superin tendent, said "it’s what we ask ed,” and added the hope the monies would toe appropriated. At Kings Mountain park the $68,000 in construction funds would provide quarters for two or more employees and land scaping of the area, water sys tem improvements, add drive ways, and would enlarge or pro vide new rest room facilities. The $6,800 recommended for the Cowpens facility would pro vide new trails and roads, a flag pole, museum display cases, and landscaping. The Kings Mountain staff su perintends the Cowpens, S. IG, facility. Spangler Speaks On Tax Proposals Local Students To Attend Clinic Six members of the Kings Mountain school band will attend the Central district band clinic at Ashley high school, Gastonia, Friday and Saturday. Students to participate include Louise Owens, bassoon player; Gary Joy, trombone player; Jan ice Gladden, flute player; Geor ganna Moss, saxophone player; Bobby Early, French horn player; Judy Ehrly, clarinet player, and Larry Carpenter, trumpet player. Members of the clinic will pre sent a concert at Ashley high school Saturday night at 7:45 p. m., and will attend a banquet on Friday evening. Concert band di rectors will perform at a concert on Friday evening. Myers' Showing Cora Lee Product One product of a new Kings Mountain industry — Cora Lee Fabrics, Inc. — will be on dis play and offered for sale to the public this weekend. Myers’ Department Store is featuring a special display of Windalure net curtains, made of filament rayon in a variety of colors and lengths, as manufac tured by the new firm, which is operating on Childers street in the D. C. Mauney Estate building one time used by Kings Moun tain Laundry. The curtains come in lengths from 45 to 90 inches and are only one of the many knitted products being brought off the Cora Lee machines. Carl Swan, president, has an interesting sample kit, which not only includes • orlon polishing rags (quick rinsing makes ’em ready to use again), draperies, and many other items. Mr. Swan tossed out a few samples of brilliantly colored knitting and asked a guess on what these products might be and what they might be used for. The answer was that they were knitted paper. Strip - type knit ted paper was bound for sum mer sandal manufacturers, while larger samples were to go to makers of ladies' summer bags, sunhats and for lampshades. Mr. Swan says the paper isn’t hard to knit. Cora Lee Fabrics, Inc., is a wholly - nvned subsidiary of Craftspun Yarns, Ino. Jack Cross is secretary - treasurer and Al bert Huffstickler is superinten dent. Cora Lee first began pilot oper ations in a portion of the Craft spun lunchroom. Later the com pany leased half the floor space in the former laundry building. Early this year it leased the com plete building. TWO FIRES City Fireman Ted Gamble reported firemen extinguished two grass fires Saturday, one on York road, the other on Blanton avenue. High Schooled Take To Politics With Vim, Vigor, And Imagination Ambitious citizens anxious for success at seeking political office might do well' to visit Central high school this week to take a look-.see at how the young folk manage the politicking business. It’s election time for Student Participation officers and the high schoolers are giving the chore the full treatment. An ex amination season didn’t seem to slow the steam much. There are three candidates for each of the three elective offices, and the timetable calls for cam paign .speeches on Friday (a la South Carolina), with the final results to be made known on Monday. There are campaign managers galore but there seem to be few cohesive tickets. There’s nothing too unusual about this either. Each candidate would like to come home with as near 100 per cent of the votes as possible. Then there are money prob lems. One campaign • managing team was down to beggar’s row Tuesday. All available funds had been spent for posterboard, paint, and the other tools necessary to proper publicizing a campaign. And beggihg wasn’t too bad,. Sev eral citizens had chipped in stock-in-trade tools in lieu of funds. The candidates are outwardly less excited than .some of the sup porters. Seeking the presidency of the student organization are Keith Layton, James Pressly and Steve Kesler. Candidates for vice-president include two lads and one lass, Pfcggy Black, David Plonk and Freddie Hambright. The secretaryship fight is a strict female affair, with Polly Page, Jane Byars and Judy Coo per vying for the spot. Citizens Hear Shelby Group's Ideas Explained Members of Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce heard Mai Spangler, Sr., president of Shel by Chamber of Commerce, out line Monday night tax proposals made to the county board of com missioners which the Shelby group feels will help the county ACTION “DEFERRED On request of the endorser, the county board of commis sioners deferred action Tues day morning on proposals of the Shelby Chamber of Com merce to reduce the county’s inventory tax valuation, to hold a bond election to pro vide a water line for the pro posed Pittsburgh Plate Glass plant, and to hold an election on the question of levying a two - cent tax to furnish a fu ture fund for furnishing indus tries with utility lines. Shelby Chamber officials told the commissioners they were hold ing another consultation with Pittsburgh officials soon and wanted their reaction to the proposals. The Shelby organi zation contends the proposals, if adopted, would put the coun ty’s tax structure in line with neighboring states. attract new industries to the county. Mr. Spangler discussed at length the advantages of halving the basis of the county’s tax val ualion of inventories and the pro posal to levy a two-cent tax to provide the county with a fund to (Continued On Page Bight) J Whammy Take Fee Is Waived Attorney George Thomasson, fee basis city solicitor, helped the city of Kings Mountain pay for its “whammy” in the first three days of its operation here. Mr. Thomasson and Mayor Glee A. Bridges confirmed they made an agreement that the solicitor would receive no fee on speeders who submitted guilty pleas outside court. This agreement was to be in effect until the “whammy”, costing in the neighborhood of $400 was paid for. Forty - four persons were caught toy the electrical speed timer in the fir.st three days of operation, and the city was re turned a gross of $620.40 on its $400 investment. Mr. Thoma sson said Wednes day that he understood that he again would receive his fees on submissions after the machine was paid for. The lowest court cost possible under the present scale is $14.10, of which $3.50 is earmarked as a solicitor’s fee. The Mayor acknowledged that the city board of commis sioners, which set the fee basis pay schedule of the solicitor, had not acted on the agreement to waive fees of Mr. Thomas son. Among the 44 speeders ar rested and submitting at $,.4.10 each were: E. D. Moore, Georg£ Ervin Brown, Thurman Ram sey, William D. Ivey, Thomas O. McCurry, Christopher Park er, George A. Mitchem, Austin Lee Bumgardner, Benjamin F. Moomaw, Jr., Hattie Lee Patter son 'Roberts, William W. Mc Dowell, Joan Carroll, William Byars. Max Dean Eaker, Harold S. Falls, Billy H. Greene, Lillie B. Whitworth, Jessie O. Bar bour, Jack David Carpenter, and Calvin D. Crawford. Also, James H. Branger, Jet Edward Parker, Hugh M. Nels ler, Warren Byars, James D. Stewart, William Paul Allen, Herman Lee Greene. Charles L. Phillips, Larry B. Wilson, Rich ard K. McMackin, Carl Edward Rhodes, Edward Eugene Kale, Estelle Hope Tessener, Harold R. Michaels, Margaret Neisler , Hunnicutt, J. D- Short, Charles F. Stowe, Carl Mitchem, Ken neth M. McDowell, and Wil liam Ralph Mauney. —-- part, an improvement over older models which were about 120 feet and allowed the motorist suffi cient braking time to cut speed between the cables. Measuring the distance care fully, the officers stretch their cables and weight them. One man operates the clock and usu ally two other police cars are used to stop speeders. The man operating the clock watches the speed of each car. If a speeder comes by, the dock er radios the police car patrol man the make, color and type of car. The patrolman halts the speeding vehicle and writes out the citation. Chief Logan said the "wham my” would .be used primarily in school and residential sections where reports of speeding cars have been received. He added that the electrical speeding tim er was purchased primarily as a result of citizens’ complaints a bout speeding inside the city limits. “We don’t want to arrest any one for speeding, but it is a hab it that a lot of people have got ten into, and one that is going to have to stop. I’m sure anyone who drives at a reasonable rate of speed will have no trouble with the ‘whammy’,’’ Chief Lo gan reported. Beer-Selling Rap Beat In Court; Mahoney Lashes Officer Cornwell Monday's session of City Re corder’s Court saw quite a bit of action in an illegal possession of beer for re-sale charge against Daisy Schenck, local Negress. Attorney John Mahoney and Officer L. P. Cornwell engaged in a bitter question - answer ses sion concerning the circumstan ces leading up to the arrest of Mrs. Schenck. Mahoney asked why a search warrant had not been presented when Cornwell took the beer from the Schenck establishment. He was told that the place was a public cafe. However, it was later established that the cafe had been turned into a private club some two or three weeks prior to the raid. Officer Cornwell testified that , he went into the place and ask ed Mrs. Schenck’s husband if there was any liquor around. He said he was told that they did not have any liquor, hut that there was some beer in the ice box. Cornwell took the beer and brought Mrs. Schenck to police offices. This occurred on Decem ber 28, but formal charges were not brought until January 8, a nother point hit hard by Attorney Mahoney. Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., testi fied that Mrs. Schenck told him she had been selling the beer, but that she thought she was al lowed to in a private club. Mrs. Schenck denied this later on the witness stand and said she told the chief that the beer was there for the members of the club. Attorney Mahoney asked Offi cer Cornwell how many persons he had “had to beat up” while making arrests in his three years as an officer. Cornwell said he Continued on Page Bight Widow Conveys Railway Stock To Hospital Mrs. Katherine Falls Frazier, of Statesville, widow of Dr. Oliver Green Falls*, late Kings Mountain physician and industrialist, has presented Kings Mountain Hos pital a gift valued at more than $2200 in memory of Dr. Falls. Receipt of the gift—50 shares of common stock of Southern Railway Company — was an nounce