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9 Population Greater Kings Mountain 10.320 City Limits 7,206 Hie figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. Hie City Limits figure Is from the United States census of 1950. M Pages Today VOL. 68 No. 41 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 10, 1957 Sixty-Eighth Year PRICE TEN CENTS I Local News Bulletins HAMBRIGHT REUNION Annual meeting oif descend ants of Colonel Frederick iHam Ibright will .be held Sunday at 12:15 at Antioch iBaptist chur ch. Dinner Will he served fol lowing the morning worship service, and a program toy Sherman Perry will follow. Mr. Perry is historian at Kings 'Mountain National Military (Park. J. Ollie Harris, clan sec retary, made the announce ment. i LEGION DANCE Otis D. Green iPost 155, the American Legion, will sponsor a dance Saturday night from 8 o’clock to 12 p. m.. a* ,ne Legion !Hali, according to announce ment Wednesday. COURT OF HONOR The Boy Scout Court of Honor will meet at City IHall Thurs day night, October 10, at 7:30 o’clock. Cub leader, scout lead er and explorer advisor round tatoles will be held during court. NORTH P-TA North school Parent-Teacher association will hold its regu lar meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 p. m. at the school auditor ium. Sherman Perry, historian at Kings Mountain National Military Park, will present the iprogram. / EAST SCHOOL Bast school Parent-Teacher association will meet Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. in the school audi torium. The program will toe on safety, according to announce ment made yesterday. TO FLORIDA Rev. and Mrs. P. D. Patrick, Dr. P. G. Padgett, J. W. Webster, and Ben T. Goforth are repre senting .'First Presby t e ri a n Church at the Preslbyterian Men’s convention in session in Miami, Fla. CLOSED Offices of Dr. L. T. Anderson, chiropractor, will ' be closed Thursday, Friday, and Satur day. Dr. Anderson has announ ced that his office here will be open on Monday morning. TO MEETING T. L. Kesler, Foote Mineral Company geologist, and Mrs. Kesler will leave Sunday for Tampa, Fla., where they will attend the annual national convention of the American So ciety of Mining Engineers. LODGE MEETING iRegular communication of if airview Lodge 339 IAIF & AM will be held Monday night at (Masonic (Hall. Announcement .was also made of a school of instruction to ibe held toy the lodge on Thursday night. GOLFERS MEETING The foothills League Associa tion of (Women Golfers will toe guests of the local group at Kings Mountain Country Club for the regular meeting on Oc tober 29th. flay will .uegm at 9 o’clock a. m. SPEAKS SUNDAY Df. -Robert Gordon, Gastonia businessman and layman, will apeak at morning worship ser vices Sunday at Dixon and First ‘Presbyterian churches in the absence Of Rev. P. D. Pat ricks Mr. Gordon will speak at the Dixon church at 9 a. m. and at first Presbyterian Church at the 11 o’clock service. ONE FIRE C. D. Ware, city fireman, re ported Kings Mountain fire (Department extinguished a small oil heating stove 'blaze Monday at the home of Clar ence Woods, 805 Second street. BOARD SESSION The city board of commission ers will convene for its regu lar meeting at City Hall Court room Thursday night at 8 o’ clock. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said his advance agenda lists only routine business. Mountain-Cherokee Traffic Signal Up The city electrical depart ment installed a traffic signal at the intersection of Mountain and Cherokee streets Wednes day. The city board voted trie in stallation several weeks ago, hoping to eliminate a dange rous traffic problem. Mayor Glee A. Bridget said the signal is wired to change on 20-second intervals. RECEIVE SAFETY CITATION — Bruce H. Ellis, pictured at right, official of the Carolina Motor club, Carolinas affiliate of the American Auto mobile Association, is shown presenting a "No Death Certificate" to Mayor dee A. Bridges and Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr. in recognition of the city's pedestrian safety record of no pedestrian fatalities for five years. The award was made Tuesday at City Hall. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Pedestrian Safety Award Presented City Kings Mountain was awarded a “No Death Certificate’’ in rec. ognition of its pedestrian safety record of no pedestrian fatalities for five years by the American Automobile Association and the Carolina Motor club in a brief ceremony at City Hall Tuesday morning. The presentation was made to Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr. and Mayor Glee A. Bridges by Bruce H. Ellis, of the Carolina Motor club, only Carolinas affiliate flf the AAA. Mr. Ellis said that the board of judges of the 1956 National Pedestrian Protection contest se. lected Kings Mountain for cita tion from 1,650 competing cities of all sizes. The real reward to the city however he stressed, was in pedestrian lives saved and hu. man suffering thus averted. “The citizens of this city, both pedestrian and drivers, deserve considerable credit for making this award possible,” Mr. Ellis declared. “This record was achi. eved in the face of rising traffic exposure for pedestrians as a result of both an increase in ve hicle use and the number of mo tor vehicles." he continued. “The marked reduction in pe. destrian fatalities throughout the nation during the last 20 years is the brightest spot in the entire traffic accident picture today. The pedestrian death toll in 1956 was the lowest on record—a total of 7,950, a reduction of 49 per cent from the high point reached in 1937. During this same period all o':her types of traffic fatalities increased 33 per cent.” Ellis add. ed. STILL HOSPITALIZED iFred Shytle and A. G. “Mike” Everhart, injured last Sunday in a Cherryville iRoad automo bile accident, still remain pa tients at Kings Mountain hos pital. Whitener To Speak To Civic Clubs Basil LjWhitener, 11th district Congressman from Gastonia, will address members of two Kings Mountain civic clubs at their regular meetings Thurs day and Tuesday. Mr. Whitener will be speaker at the regular Thursday (to night meeting oft the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. The cluib convenes at the the Wo man’s cluib at 6:45 p. m. Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock Mr. Whitener will address members Of the Junior Oham iber Of Commerce at their regu lar meeting. The Jaycees also meet at the Woman’s club house. Mr. Whitener was the speaker Tuesday evening at the regular Lions Club meeting. Libiaiy Group Asks Book Funds The library committee of Ja cob S. Mauney Memorial Library is seeking funds for the’purchase of new books. * iDr. W. 'L. Pressly, chairman, said this week that citizens are toeing asked to donate to the 'book fund. “Many patrons ot the li brary have read virtually every book on our shelves,” he com mented. In August the members of the library committee contributed a minimum Of $3 each in order to provide expenses for conducting the book fund campaign. Dr. Pressly pointed out that the circulation of the library is con tinuing to increase and that the meager funds obtained for the li brary from governmental agen cies pay bare operating expenses. “We ask you as a citizen Of Kings Mountain to make a dona tion,” Dr. Pressly said. IFunds should 'be mailed to Ja cob S. Mauney Memorial library, or should 'be given to Dr. Pressly, Mrs. Charles Dilling, librarian, or other members of the library committee who are: Mrs. Hunter (Continued on \Page Eight) Longtime Citizen C. T. Comwell Logs 80th Birthday Anniversary By ELIZABETH STEWART C. T. Cornwell, well-known Kings Mountain citizen, observed his 80th birthday Sunday. A long-time resident of the community, Mr. Cornwell says Tie' only wishes he could remember things like he used to. “When you get to be 80,” he said, “you forget things.” Retired since 1947, Mr. Corn well attends First Baptist church regularly, is an active Mason and Shriner. He became a mason 55 years ago and has been a Shriner for 34 years. Prior to 1947, Mr. Cornwell worked as a clothing salesman for Matthews-Belk Company in Gastonia and prior to that time was a traveling salesman for 30 years. Prior to 1922, when he ope. rated a furniture store here, Mr. j Cornwell was in business with his brother-in-law in Charlotte in the operation of Turner and Com. well Furniture company. Mr. Cornwell said he could re call a number of humorous inci dents during the period he ped- j died featherbeds and pillows. He remembered, he remarked, telling the story many times of a ladyt customer who declined to pur-| chase a featherbed because she had “found a chicken bone” in a former purchase. She did take the bed, though, Mr. Cornwell said, and was one “of my best OCTOGENARIAN—C. T. Corn well, well-known Kings Moun tain man. observed his 80th birth - lay on Sunday. customers.” Mr. Cornwell’s mother, the late Mrs. Lucinda Cornwell, was cred ited as being the first 'Baptist in the community. Lou Cornwell circle of First Baptist church is named in her honor. A former deacon, church clerk, and Sunday School teacher, Mr. (Continued On Page Bight) ALCOA Reports Aluminum Alloy Using Lithium Lithium has provided the key to a new aluminum aircraft alloy which maintains high strength at elevated temperatures, American Metal Market, steel and metal industry trade publication, re. ported last week. The trade paper said the new alloy had been developed by the research department of the A luminum Company of America and marked it “a major scientific breakthrough in light alloy re. search”. Neil Johnson, manager of Foote Mineral Conmpany’s Kings Moun tain lithium mining operation, de clined to speculate on the effect of the discovery on his company’s sales. He said, "We know little more about it than the announce, ment by ALCOA.” Tom Kesler, Foote geologist, thought it possible that the alum, inum . lithium alloy probably’ would contain up to five percent lithium. If the alloy 'becomes the ‘ principal one used in the manu facture of jet plane fuselages, he' speculated, it could be a highly important development. Announced by G. W. Welty, ALCOA’s aircraft industry man. ager at the meeting of the Society of American Engineers in Los Angeles, the successful develop, ment will enable jet aircraft to travel at higher speeds at normal operating altitudes. Currently, Mr. Welty reported, jet craft speeds must be held to 1,300 -miles per hour due to the fact that conventional aluminum aircraft frames and fuselages be. gin to lose physical properties at 250 to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. If a jet reaches 1,600 miles per hour (Continued on Page Eight) Herndon Rites Held Monday Funeral rites for Mrs. Pratt Angeline Fulton Herndon, 87, were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Bethlehem Bap tist church, interment following in the church cemetery. Mrs. Herndon, widow of Walter Andrew (Watt) Herndon, died Monday at 5:45 p.m. at her home) on route two. She had been in declining health for several years. A life-long resident of Cleve. land county, Mrs. Herndon was the daughter of the late Horatio , D. and Sarah Baity Fulton. She was a member of Bethlehem Bap tist church. Surviving are four sons, Floyd, Theodore, and Frank Herndon, all of Kings Mountain, George Hem don, of Rock Hill, S. C., five daughters, Mrs. Clyde Randall, Mrs. John Yarbro, and Mrs. Em. mett Yarbro, all of Kings Moun tain, Mrs. Ralph Dover, of Cherry, ville, and Mrs. H. A. Dover, of Grover, and a brother, Charles Fulton, of Kings Mountain. Also surviving are 41 grand children, 45 great-grandchildren, : and one great-great grandchild. Rev. Norman F. Brown, Beth. ; lehem pastor, was assisted by l Rev. W. G. Camp in conducting ! the service —-; RADIO PROGRAM Or. W. L. Press!y, pastor di Boyce Memorial ARP church, and Rev. p. D. Patrick, pastor otf First Presbyterian church, will conduct morning devotlon als via Radio Station W5CMT next week. Mr. Pressly will speak on Monday and Tuesday morning and Mr. Patrick will conduct the devotional* the re mainder of the week. Whitener Flays Herb Brownell For Little Rock Distrubance Kincaid Says Color Barrier To World Peace "Color of the skin is a barrier to peaceful relations between countries of color and ourselves”, Paul Kincaid, Gastonia business, man, told Kings Mountain Ki wanians Thursday night. Mr. Kincaid, who painted a gloomy picture of Egypt in his account of a recent business trip, spoke on a program arranged by George H. Mauney. “The Egyptians”, the speaker said, “have a high moral stand ard of doing business”, adding “the cotton business is a peculiar trade and the moral part of a contract in cotton is the main part.” He commented that Egyptians “are people just like we are, and their main dislike of us is our handling of color.” Reporting on the living conditions in Egypt, Mr, Kincaid declared that “even the poorest American is a prince compared to thb Egyptians.” "Americans are smug and com placent”, the speaker continued, "and a trip to a foreign country tends to jolt the American and cause him to stop and think.” Prior to the address, Dr. W. L. Pressly inducted Robert Kenne. dy, Jr., as a new member. Mr. Kennedy, principal of East school here, comes to the local club on transfer from the Kiwanis club of Monroe. The Club voted a cash donation to provide hot lunches for Under, privileged children in the city schools. Vice-president John Ohes hire had reported that some 126 grammar grade students are not provided hot meals. President Harold Coggins rec. ognized two visitors, Bill Bailey, of Providence, Rhode Island, and James Allen Pressly, son of Ki wanian W. L. Pressly. New Industry Prospect Defers A Kings Mountain new indus. try prospect has deferred plans for its new plant, the company’s engineer has informed the North Carolina Department of Conser. vation and Development. However, C & D department of ficials think the company will continue its interest in expand ing in North Carolina when its expansion plans are taken off the shelf. The industry’s engineer wrote the C & D "... .We have unfor tunately 'been forced to defer ac. tion in this matter until some time after the firs* of the year. I will naturally keep the data turn, ished and it will assist me in formulating a decision when the proper time arrives.” Among the data received was full information, as requested on Kings Mountain, data which had been compiled by a Chamber of Commerce committee. When here, the engineer had told members of the Chamber of Commerce committee the firm he represented hoped to be building by January 1, 1958. Paul Kelly, development en. gineer of the State C & D depart, ment wrote when forwarding a copy of the engineer’s letter: “....We are still hopeful for this project when it is revived and believe the engineer will contact us again....” It had been indicated the com-1 pany had visited six to seven North Carolina communities. Yanks, Braves Face ”D-Day" It’s do or-die for the New York: Yankees and Milwaukee Braves at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. The Yankees knotted the World Series at three games each Wed nesday, edging the Braves in a tight pitching duel by 3 to 2. AM runs were gleaned by vir tue of four-baggers. Yogi Berra slammed a home with Enos Slaughter, the venerable Roxfoo ro outfielder on base, in the third inning, and Hank Bauer unknot ted the contest in the seventh with the gamewinning run. For the Braves, Torre put one out of the park in the fifth and Hank Aaron parked one in the seventh. Bob Turley went the full route for the Yankees, while Fred Han. ey called on Bob Buhl, Ernie Johnson, the loser, and Don Mc Mahon. ( 54th Floral Fair To Be Wednesday Annual Event Competition Open To Public Kings Mountain Woman’s 'Clulb will present the annual floral fair, “Autumn 'Harvest”, Wednes lay, and cluib mem'bers were hard at .work this week readying for the event. The 54th fair presentation will be open to the public from 12:30 to 9 ip. m., and format of the one day event follows that of former shows. Members olf the club will serve the noon meal from 11:30 to 1:30 p. m. Wednesday and the even ing meal from 5:30 to 7 o’clock p. m., Mrs. James Dickey, publi city chairman reported. .Theme of the show is “Autumn In Panorama”, and, as customary, entries are invited from the pub lic. Rilbtoons will designate first, second, third and honorable men tion awards, and a .sweepstake a ward seal will ibe given to the ex hibitor winning the most blue riibbons in the horticulture and arrangement divisions. Tri-color seals will toe award ed to best entries in both the hor ticulture and arrangements divi sion, and tiwo awards will be giv en in the Junior division—one for the most outstanding entry made by a junior in pre-school through fourth grade section, and one for the most outstanding entry made toy a junior in the fifth through eighth grade group. All awards will be presented at 7:30 p. m. the evening of the show. Mrs. W. S. Fulton, Jr. is gen eral chairman in the flower divi sion, and other chairmen of var ious committees are Mrs. J. E. Herndon, schedule; Mrs. Tolly Shuford, staging; Mrs. Henry Neisler, Juniors; Mrs. John iL. Mc Gill, entry and classification; Mrs. W. L. Mauney, judges; Mrs. O. W. Myers, hospitality; Mrs. John Cheshire, advertising; Mrs. Vernon 'Croslby, cashier; Mrs. Joe McClure, bazaar; Mrs. J. W„ Web ster, candy; Mrs. Paul Hendricks, dining room; Mrs. Harold Craw ford, cakes and pies, and Mrs. George Houser, kitchen. NEW ROOF City Hall is getting a new roof. The leaky slate roof, in stalled when the City Hall was (built in 1937, is being replaced with a composition roof. Mar ion Bridges in the contractor. CARROUSEL PRINCESS - Jane Byars, daughter of Mr. and Mrs R. M. Byars, has been elected Carrousel princess at Kings Mountain high school and will compete for the title of Carrousel Queen in the annual Thanksgiv ing Day parade in Charlotte. Frederick Gets 30-Month Term A former Kings Mountain foundryman has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for fail ure to pay social security and withholding taxes to the federal government. W. A. Frederick, 62, was sen tenced by Judge Wilson Warlick in federal court Monday after he told the court he hadn’t been a ble to raise the $5,500 he alleged ly owes the government. Previously arraigned in April, tried in June, and given until the October term of federal court to pay the bill, Mr. Frederick asked for an additional year to obtain and pay the sum. Judge Warlick was quoted as saying that the defendant, who plead guilty to using the funds to meet other debts, was actually’ using money held in trust and! that it was time to put a stop to the practice. A treasury agent had testified that numerous people are at tempting to plead bankruptcy as an excuse when the assets of the firm actually have been hidden. Mr. Frederick operated Kings Mountain Foundry from 1940 to 1952, when he moved the plant to Gastonia. He formerly resided on Grover Road. Sputnik Excites Local Area, Too; No Volunteers For Trip To Moon Sputnik, the Russian earth sat ellite grabbed the headlines a way from the exciting World Ser ies over the weekend and brought wonder, amazement and fear to virtually every nation on the globe. 'Excitement ruled the day in Washington, Moscow, 'London, and in Kings (Mountain, North Carolina. The incredible speed and height at which the earth sat ellite circled the globe defied the imagination of the layman. Kings iMountain radio ama teurs . tuned in on the "toeep ibeeps” put out toy the radio trans mitter in the satellite, which was traveling at 18,000 miles 'per hour at an altitude of 560 miles above sea level. iHaiold IHunnicutt, assistant director of civil defense here, said he thought tie was getting the missile signals, later wasn't sure, then thought he heard the ‘Ibeeps’’ jumlbled with other sig nals. T. W. Jackson, another radio amateur, thought he picked up the satellite’s signals at 20 mega cycles, but Carl iM. Logan, anoth er "ham", changed his mind after -thinking he’d also picked up the signals at both 20 and 7 mega cycles. (Reports in newspapers and via other communications media at tributed to scientific experts are that it is quite possible man will make a trip to the moon within six years, and Alton Slakes lee, veteran science expert of the As sociated Press, reported Wednes day morning that the principle of the earth satellite is quite “simple,” has long been known, and that the ibig test is in firing it accurately and under proper conditions. According to Mr. Bla keslee, control of speed of the earth satellite determines wheth er the pull of gravity will draw the airborne objecrt back to earth, 2) whether it will hang in suspension in outer space as the ‘Russian earth satellite i.s doing, or 3) whether the satellite would travel on to the moon or other planet. Kings Mountain citizens, along with other peoples of the world, have .been contemplating the many implications of the Russian development, agree that some are good, some bad, some terrify ing. Scientists have already report ed excitement, for instance, on expanding knowledge otf the ibreadth and intensity otf the magnetic fields at the Worth and South Poles and increased know ledge of the earth’s depressions. On Tuesday, the Russian gov ernment, through a statement by Khruschev, 'pointed to the devel (Continued on Page Bight) Cabinet Member Is Labeled "Dangerous Man" Congressman Basil L. White, ner attacked Attorney-General Herbert Brownell, in an address before the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night, for Brown, ell’s part in the recent Little Rock, Ark., integration distur bances. Mr. Whitener said he considers Brownell "very dangerous to our basic concempt of government”, added that Tile attorney-general had already showed his contempt for the legislative branch in both action and testimony and contend, ed Brownell is violating the con stitutional guarantee of the right of assembly in his support of sending federal troops to Little Rock. Previously Mr. Whitener had flayed the government’s eontin. tied giveaway efforts via the foreign aid program which' he said he voted against during the recent session. He said there are innumerable examples of govern, mental waste and listed a few of them: Item: A bus was purchased for the Infantile Paralysis organiza tion in Israel. Item: The State Department appropriation of $600,000 for en. tertaining, most of which goes for liquor purchases. Item: The building of a YMCA in Nazareth, Israel. Item: Sending on tour through South America as a good will gesture Dizzy Gillespie, trumpe ter, and through Europe of Tom my Two Arrows, archery expert. “I voted against the foreign , aid appropriation entirely," the Congressman declared. He said he was tired seeing federal tax money expended to create com petition, for example, for the A. merican textile industry. He said government gifts had 'been used to buy textile machinery for foreign nations. The Congressman bragged on the efforts of the Congress in gaining a $4,419,000,000 cut in President Eisenhower’s budget, said he couldn’t understand pro testations of the administration that the cuts hadn’t really been made. In his slashing attack on Brow, nell, Mr. Whitener had comment, ed, “If you were to cut open his head, you’d find nothing there except polities.” He labeled the appointment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, of the Supreme Court, “one of the dark days in the history of this country.” J. W. Webster presented the Congressman. j Prior to the address, Rev. R. Douglas Fritz welcomed A. B. Michaels as a new member of the organization. Handicapped Center Fund Drive Planned A fund campaign for the Gas ton Center for Handicapped Children will be conducted here and throughout the four-county area the center serves from Oc tober 27 to November 9, it was announced this week by Bruce Thoitburn, a director. Mr. Thorburn reported that Kings Mountain area boys and girls are noiw attending the Gas ton Center at Dallas, which is a joint local-state project. Of the $27,000 per year requir ed to operate the center, the state education department furnishes approximately one-third. Other funds must be supplied locally. Bloodmobile Visit Set For October 28 The Red Cross 'bloodmobile will come to Kings Mountain again on October 28th, accord ing to announcement by B. F. iManer, blood program Chair man for the Kings Mountain (Red Cross chapter. 'Blood donors will be process ed. as customary, at Central Methodist church during the hours of 11 a. m to 5 o’clock p. m. "'We’re falling down on our requirements,” the Red Cross official stated, "and aren’t col lecting as much (blood as we’re ■using. ’ Kings Mountain fell short In its quota at the last regularly scheduled visit of the regional (blood collecting unit. "We hope to have a much lar ger turnout for the visit”, the .spokesman added.