Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10.320
City Limits 7.206
The figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from
the 1958 Kings Mountain city directory census. The City
Umits figure is from the United States census of 1990.
Sixty-Eighth Year
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VOL 68 No. 46
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 14, 1957
PRICE TEN CENTS
American Education Week Being Observed - Teachers To Be Honored
Christmas Club
To Pay $85,000
RECEIVES HONOR — Brenda
Jackson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Delbert Jackson, of Kings
Mountain, has been named "Miss
Grover" by Grover high school's
student body and will represent
Grover in the Shelby and Kings
Mountain Christmas parades. A
Junior. Miss Jackson is editor of
the student paper and head
cheerleader.
Local News
Bulletins
NO PERMITS
J. W. Webster, city tax official,
said Wednesday he has issued
no building permits during the
past week.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for the
week ending Wednesday total
ed $147.43, including $123.63
from on-street meters and $23.
80 from Cherokee parking lot
meters, City Clerk Gene Mit
cham reported.
CAKE SALE
The Methodist Youth Fellow
ship of Grace Methodist church
will hold a cake sale on Satur
day, November 16, at Bridges
Hardware. Homemade cakes,
pies, cupcakes, and candies will
be sold.
RALLY
The Fall Rally for the Senior
High Fellowship of Kings
Mountain Presbytery will be
held at the First Presbyterian
church in Kings Mountain,
Sunday November 17, at 2:30
p. m. It will include a business
session, discussion groups, a
guest speaker, and conclude
with the supper hour.
COURT OF HONOR
Court of Honor for Kings
Mountain district Boy Scouts
will toe held at City Hall Thurs
day (nighft) at 7:30 p.m. Cub
leader, Scout leader, and explor
er advisor round 'tables will be
held during the court.
WEST SCHOOL P-TA
West school P-TA will observe
Father's Night at the regular
meeting Wednesday, Novem
ber 20, with turkey dinner to be
served from 5:30 to 7 o’clock p.
m. at the school cafeteria. Tic
kets are 75 cents for children
and $1.25 for adults.
KIWANIS CLUB
Sherman W. Perry, historian
at Kings Mountain National
Military Park, will address
Kings Mountain Kiwanians at
the club’s regular Thursday
night meeting at 6:45 p. m. at
the Woman’s club. Mr. Perry
will show slides to highlight
the program.
LODGE MEETING
Shelby Masonic Lodge will
confer the third degree at the
meeting Monday night at 7 o’
clock of Kings Mountain’s Fair
view Lodge 339 AF&AM at Mas
onic Hall here. Supper will be
served at 7 o’clock, the lodge
will open at 6 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN
B. F. Maner apd Charles Neis
Ier, deacons at First Presbyter
ian church, will present a ste
wardship program at Dixon
Presbyterian church Sunday af
ternoon as the church resumes
the winter service schedule,
Sunday School at 3 p. m. and
the worship service at 3:45.
Morning services are held dur
ing the summer months.
First National
To Mail Checks
On November 22
First National Bank will pay a
record total of more than $85,000
on November 22 to members of its
1957 Christmas club, seventh an
nual pay-off to Christmas Club
members by the Kings Mountain
bank.
Final payment on the 1957 club
are due Saturday.
Frank R. Summers, president
of the bank, said he was highly
pleased at the results of the 1957
club. Final figures can’t be tabu
lated until Saturday’s last pay
ment due date, but Mr. Summers
said, “We know already that the
total of payments will exceed
$85,000.
First-year payments totaled
slightly more than $6,000.
Mr. Summers credited the in
crease in Christmas club partici
pation to two factors: 1) added
interest among employers who of
fered wage withholding service to
employees, and 2) generally in
creased interest among indivi
duals, some of whom had ben
efitted from previous club mem
bership.
Mr. Summers pointed out that
numerous Christmas Club ac
counts had already been complet
ed and that some of the members
have already opened 1958 club
accounts—even though the new
club doesn’t officially open until
December 2.
Under the Christmas Club plan,
members pay fixed amounts into
the fund for 50 weeks during the
year, collect their checks as the
annual Christmas shopping sea-*
son begins.
A payment of 50 cents per week
if fully paid, brings the member
a Christmas season check of $25.
Six To Compete
Foi faycee Honor
Ken Pruitt, Voice of Democracy
contest chairman said Wednes
day that six contestants are com
peting in the Jaycee sponsored
contest opened to 40th, 11th, and
12th grade students. The contest
will be held Thursday afternoon
at 3:30 at Kings Mountain high
school.
All contestants are girls, Pruitt
said as he listed Linda Logan,
Paula Owens, Sherry Goins, Jane
Greene, Linda Biser, and Sherry
Kelly as vying for the trophy.
Contest entries will be judged
on basis of content, delivery, and
originality of five-minute scripts
on the subject, “I Speak for De
mocracy.”
The winner of the local contest
will receive a trophy from the
sponsoring club Tuesday night
at the Jaycees meeting at Kings
Mountain Woman’s Club. The
program will be on the Voice
of Democracy theme and the con
test winner and runner-up will
be asked to present thoir speech
es.
District eliminations will be
held in Shelby November 27:
State finals will follow in Forest
City.
BOARD TO CONVENE
The city board of commission
ers will hold the regular No
vember meeting Thursday
night at City Hall at 8:30. May
or Glee A. Bridges said he anti
cipated a routine agenda.
Woman's Club,
P-TA'sToFete
School Teachers
Kings Mountain area teachers
will be honored Thursday night
at an informal open house at the
Woman’s club sponsored by the
Woman’s club and the various
P-TA groups in the city schools
system.
Mrs. Vernon Crosby is chair
man of the National Teacher’s
Day observance here. The public
is invited during the hours of 8
and 9:30 p. m. Ail teachers are
requested to 'be at the clubhouse
by 7:45 p. m., Mrs. Crosby said.
“We are grateful for our
schools and teachers,” Mrs. Cros.
by continued, “and we welcome
the opportunity to express our
appreciation by having an infor
mal get-to-gether on National
Teacher’s Day*’
• She added, “We hope many ci
tizens will avail themselves of
tHe opportunity to gather with the
teachers for this event.”
Parent - Teacher associations
of East, North, West, and Cen
tral school are collaborating with
the Woman’s club in sponsoring
Teacher’s Day as Kings Moun
tain city schools joined with oth
ers throughout the nation this
week in observing American Ed.
ucation Week.
W. King Job
Progressing
West Mountain street, South
Sims and South Goforth street
residents can expect to hear a
round-the-clock traffic noise at
least another week, Mayor Glee
A. Bridges said Wednesday.
Progress on the widening and
other improvements to West King
street, (U. S. Highway 74) is pro
ceeding on schedule, the Mayor,
said, but is likely to require at
least another week, accompanied
by good weather, for completion.
While the new concrete paving
must "set up” for two weeks be
fore being opened to traffic, the
Mayor thinks it will be possible
to open the old section of the
street to traffic and block off the
newly-poured sections.
Paving of the south side of
West King is complete, excepting
the pouring of a few entrances
to residences, Mayor Bridges said.
Spangler and Sons, Kigns
Mountain contractors, are hand
ling the construction.
Mayor Bridges also said three
sidewalk jobs, on which Spangler
& Sons were also successful bid
ders, should be completed within
the week. These include: the side
walk at North school, sidewalk
on the east side of South Pied
mont avenue from the Herndon
property to Gold street, and side,
walk installation on Mountain
View street.
With the beginning of *he West
King improvement work, a de
tour was inaugurated. Eastbound
traffic on King is routed east on
Mountain to Goforth' and north
to U. S. 74. Westbound traffic
detours south on Sims, thence
west on Mountain.
The West 'King improvements
include widening and curb-and
gutter installation. In addition, a
section of side walk is being pour
ed from the hospital entrance to
Edgemont.
TICKETS ON SALE
Tickets are on sale for the Er
skine-Lenoir Rhyne basketball
game to be played here on No
vember 26. Tickets are avail
able at the City Hall office of
J. W. Webster, president of the
Lions club, and at the office of
Central school Principal Lawson
Brown. Admission is $1 for a
dults, 40 cents for students.
Influenza Epidemic Said Waning,
But Man; Still Shivei And Congh
Kings Mountain is “over the
hump" fluAvise according to re
ports Wednesday afternoon by
city and county school officials,
city doctors, and Kings Mountain
Hospital.
C. W. Warlick, Bethware school
principal, reported an absentee
list of 95 pupils Wednesday mom
ing, 6 out of the elementary sec
tion and 19 from the high school
department.
Mrs. Grace Nickels, principal
of Park Grace school, told the
Herald Wednesday afternoon that
31 of the school’s 196 enrollment
were absent from school.
A total of 516 of a total enroll
ment of 2287 in Kings Mountain
City Schools were absent Wed
nesday morning, a total down
from highs earlier in the week.
Mrs. Wanza Davis, secretary to
City School Superintendent B. N.
Barnes, said things are looking
better and it isn’t to the epidemic
stage.
A survey by the County Board
of Education Monday revealed
that the influenza peak has been
passed and absen*eeism is on the
decline.
County-wide surveys by the
County Health department pro
duced a total of 2120 flu cases,
down from a previously higher
mark.
Kings Mountain Hospital, filled
to overflowing last week wi*h
all beds filled and some patients
in the halls, reported Wednesday
afternoon that beds are available
and the hospital patient list num
bers 36, approximately nine of
which are flu cases.
Thirteen flu patients were re
leased Tuesday from the hospi
tal; 9, Wednesday. All reports a
gree that the “'flu-bug” is on the
wane.. .
ARP To Determine
Songbook Matter
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HEADS MINISTERS—Rev. W. C.
Sides, Jr., Grace Methodist chur
ch pastor, has been elected presi
dent of Kings Mountain Minis
ters' association for the coming
year.
Sides Elected
By Ministers
Rev. William C. Sides, Jr., pas.
tor of Grace Methodist church,
was elected president of Kings
Mountain Minister’s Association j
Monday.
Mr. Sides succeeds as president j
of the ministerial association Rev.
Aubrey T. Quakenbush, pastor of
First Baptist church.
Other officers elected at the
regular meeting were Rev. P. D.
Patrick, pastor of First Presby.
terian church, vice-president; Rev,
T. A. Dineberger, pastor of Mace,
donia Baptist church, secretary,
treasurer; Dr. W. L. Pressly, pas.i
j tor of Boyce Memorial ARP
I church, chairman of the commit
tee on Bible instruction in Kings
Mountain public schools, and
Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor of
Resurrection Lutheran ^.church,
chairman of the radio broadcast,
ing committee.
Oimand Rites
Held Sunday |
Funeral services for J. O. Or-1
mand, 79, of Charlotte, Cleveland!
county native, were held Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock from Char- j
lotte’s Harry and Bryant Chapel!
in the Oaks.
Mr. Ormand died at his home!
in Charlotte on Friday after a'
prolonged illness. Born June 20,
1878, he was a son of the late
Robert Dixon and Sarah Goforth;
Ormand. He was employed by
Southern Railway for 45 years,
serving as conductor at the time
of his retirement in 1946.
Surviving are his wife, three
daughters, Mrs. Brice H. Keller,!
Mrs. William J. Thrift, both of1
Charlotte, Miss Rita Ormand, ofi
the home, a son, John O. Ormand,:
Jr., of Duluth, Minn., a sister,
Miss Annie Ormand, Kings Moun
tain, three brothers, W. L. Or
mand, R. D. Ormand, both of Bes
semer City, and B. M. Ormand, of ^
Kings Mountain, and eigh* grand
children.
Dr. A. B. Montgomery conduct,
ed the final rites. Interment was
made in Elmwood oemetery.
Queen-Rites
Held Wednesday
Funeral rites for Mrs. Sarah
Margaret Queen, 87, were held
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock I
from First Nazarene church, in-1
terment following in Mountain i
Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Queen, widow of John
Benjamin Queen, died Monday
afternoon at 3:30 p.m. at the
home of a son, John Wesley
Queen, in Clover, S. C. She had
been in declining health for seve.
ral years.
A native of Gaston county, Mrs.
Queen was a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison, She
; was a member of First Nazarene
church.
Surviving are four sons and a
(daughter, Mrs. Jesse Carpenter,
of Kings Mountain, P. E. Queen
and Marvin Queen, both of Shel
by, W. A. Queen, of Bessemer
City, and John Wesley Queen, of
Clover. Also surviving are two
sisters, Mrs. Florence Connor, of
Grover, and Mrs. John OPruitt, of
Kings Mountain, 15 grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren.
Final rites were conducted by
j Rev. R. G. Essary and Rev. C. E.
1 McKenzie.
Members To Vote
Sunday Morning
On Policy Change
Members of Boyce Memorial
ARP church will vote Sunday to
determine whether they will sing
both Psalms and hymns, or whe
ther they will retain the present
policy of singing only Psalms.
The voting will be conducted
by printed ballot at the morning
service, beginning at 11 a. m.
Dr. W. L. Pressly, the pastor
said he would conduct a short
devotional service prior to the
congregational meeting and
would omit the i&imon.
Bryant Wells, chairman of the
congregation, will preside.
The voting was authorized by
the elders of the church at its No
vember 3 session. The elders spec
ified that the result would be de
termined by majority vote and
also specified that discussion on
the question prior to the voting
would be subject to vote of the
congregation. The elders have
recommended adoption, in event
the policy of singing only Psalms
is changed, of a Synod-approved
hymbook, which, members say,
contains 600 songs, including 88
Psalms.
Some members of the church
have indicated they also wish to
retain the one or both of the two
present songbooks used by the
church, one “The Psalter” and
the other “Bible Songs".
Boyce Memorial ARP church
has retained its policy of sing
ing only Psalms, though elders
voted last year to authorize sing
ing of hymns by children in Sab
bath school and for special pro
grams.
Prior to 1947, all ARP churches
had sung anly Psalms. At that
time, the General Synod made
the choice of music optional with
the several churches.
Suit Is Lodged
On Assessment
Indicative of current city policy
to force payment of street paving
and other public improvements
assessments, City attorney J. R.
Davis has filed suit judgment a
gainst John Riddle in the amount
of $30.37.
At least three more suits are
scheduled for filing next week,
unless the accounts tor balances)
are paid within the week. These
are to be lodged in Superior Court
against Leroy Camp for $72.34, a
gainst John Mauney for $17.14
and against J. E. (Doc) Mauney
for $71.
It has been probably 15 to 20
years, Attorney Davis recalls sin
ce similar action was taken by
the city.
The city board of commission
ers, in special session Monday
night, heard a report on collect
ion progress from Mr. Davis and
Mayor Glee Bridges. The instru
ction of the board was, “Proceed”.
The assessments and interest
involving John Mauney and J. E.
Mauney have been aired at sev
•eral city board sessions, ot which
both purotested validity of the
assessments. Each has paid sin
ce amounts equal to the assess
ments owed, but credited to prin
cipal and interest. Mr. Davis ex
plained that J. E. Mauney now
questions only $19 of the $71 bal
ance charged to him.
Mr. Davis said Wednesday that
suit for judgement, if ordered by
the court, enables the city to sell
the property involved for the bal
ance overdue, with accrued inter
est at six percent per annum.
Berry loins
Foote Mineral
Burle Berry, Tennessee native,
has joined Foote Mineral Com.
pany here as junior chemist.
Mr. Berry attended Lees-McRae
college, served three years in the
U. S. Air Force, worked as an
accountant with C. F. Bruin Con.
struction company, East Chicago,
111., enrolled at East Tennessee
Sta‘e college and was graduated
in 1957 with a bachelor ot science
degree in chemistry.
While at the Tennessee school,
Mr. Beriy was employed by
North American Rayon Company,
where he was assigned to the
chemical research laboratory in
the division developing and main,
tabling analytical procedures.
Leach Is Named
To Part-time
Police Duty
John Leach, Kings Mountain
Negro, has been employed by the
city for part-time police duty. I
The board of commissioners '
voted Monday night at a special
session to employ Leach for duty
on Friday night, Saturday after
noon and evening, and on Sun
day afternoon and evening. Offi
cer Leach is to be paid $23.08 per
week.
He is the second Negro police
man to become a member of the
city force. However, he served a
part-time hitch several months a
go, spelling Officer Laymon P.
Cornwell.
Action of the board was unani
mous on motion of Coleman
Stroupe and Luther Bennett's sec
ond.
Leach is an employee of Weav
er's Dry Cleaners, will continue
to work for the cleaning firm, he
said this week. His wife is a
member of the Davidson school
faculty.
Cloninger Riles
field Tuesday
Funeral rites for Marion Filo
Cloninger, 63, were held Tuesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock from Mace
donia Baptist church, interment
following in Mountain Rest ceme. I
tery.
Mr. Cloninger succumbed Sun.!
day at 5:30 p.m. in Charlotte’s!
Mercy Hospital. He had been ill
for several weeks.
A native of Gaston county, he
was a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Cloninger. He was an
employee of Margrace Mill and
a member of Macedonia Baptist
church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Miley Medlin Cloninger, a son,
Evere't Cloninger, three daugh.
ters, Mrs. Oliver Falls, Mrs. Paul
Ware, both of Kings Mountain,
and Mrs. Charles Price, of Ellen -
boro, five brothers, Will Clonin.
ger and Andrew Cloninger, both
of Gastonia, Wister Cloninger, of!
Stanley, L. June Cloninger and i
John Cloninger, both of Kings;
Mountain, and two sisters, Mrs.
Ben T. Lineberger, of Rocking.!
ham, and Mrs. Burtie Smi'h, of!
Los Angeles, California. Sixj
grandchildren also survive.
Final rites were conducted by
Rev. T. A. .Lineberger and Rev.
H. Gordon Weekley.
SCHOOL BOARD
Members of the city board 1
of education will convene Mon- 1
day night at 7 o'clock at the ;
office of Superintendent B. N. j
Barnes. Agenda for the meet
ing had no1; been formulated |
Wednesday, but Superintendent
Barnes guessed the board
would want to discuss the re
cently received school survey ,
report.
Foote-UnionNLRB
Hearing Scheduled
MANAGER — Eugene McSwain.
former manager of a theatre in
Belmont, has assumed manage
ment of Joy Theatre in the Ste
wart & Everett enterprise.
McSwain On Duty
In loy Post
Eugene McSwain, Kings Moun
tain native, has assumed dutic
here as manager of Joy Theatre
in the Stewart and Everett chain.
Mr. McSwain replaces Ed Tutor
who was transferred to Albemar
le where he will manage Stanly
Theatre. The changes became ef.
fective Friday and were announ
ced by Ogburn Hough, of Char
lotte, district manager of Stewart
& Everett Theatres.
Mr. McSwain has munaged
theatres in the Belmont area for
five years. A graduate of Kings
Mountain high school he was
graduated from Gardner Webb
college, attended Wingate col
lege, and "was graduated from
Appalachian State Teacher’s col
lege, Boone. He is married to the
former Miss Maude Dingier. They
reside on Shelby highway.
Wiesener Child
Is Improving
Robert Wiesener, six-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wiese
ner, struck by a car a* the inter
section of King and Gaston streets
last Wednesday* is still hospitali.
zed but his condition is satisfac
tory, according to Dr. Paul No
lan, attending physician.
Young Wiesener sustained a
severe concussion when he was
struck by an automobile, driven
by W. A. Childers, as he stepped
from the curb. Wiesener was re
portedly returning home from
school with another brother.
The Wiesener boy is a first
grader at Central school.
Shelby-Mountaineer Movie Check
Confirms Fan Charges of "Goofs"
Members of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club went to the Shel
by Kings Mountain football game
aga.n Tuesday night, as Coach
John Gamble showed motion pic
tures of the 14-13 contest, with
Shelby on the winning margin
and thereby conference cham
pions.
The movies proved quite inter
esting and —different from the
actual November 1 conflict —
could be reversed, then started
lorward again to show repeatedly
majority of the questionable de
clsions which caused irate Kings
Mountain fans to threaten the
officials with harsh words if not
physical mayhem and produced
a few heated, if non-damaging,
fist fights among fans following
the game.
The movies showed:
1) the officials (one was on top
of the play) ignored a first quar
ter clipping job, perpetrated on a
Kings Mountain player, after
Quarterback Don Fisher’s first
punt. The ball should have been
Shelby’s on the Shelby 18-yard
line. Instead, the receiver return
ed the punt another 17 yards. The
official’s failure was important to
Shelby's first touchdown.
2) In the second quarter, a
Shelby passer was rushed and the
ball was knocked out of his hand
just as he cocked his arm to
throw. The officials called it an
incomplete pass. The rules indi
cate this was a fumble, Which
Kings Mountain recovered.
3) The official may have re
turned a favor on Kings Moun
tain’s second touchdown. Fisher
kept the ball, appeared to have
his forward motion stopped, tlren
angled over right guard for two
yards to pay dirt. The official sig
nalled a touchdown. Coach Gam
ble remarked, "The movies say
it could have been no touchdown,
it was a question of judgement.'
4) Shelby completed a pass in
the third quarter for a good gain
into Mountaineer territory. The
pass-snagger was tackleu hard,
and the football caromed out of
the Shelby lads clutch. Movies
indicated a clear-cut fumble, but
the official ruling was a dead
ball. Coach Gamble said, "An
other question of judgement. Of
course, you know how I d have
called it.”
The movies did not show the
questionable decision on a Shelby
punt which was ruled out ol
bounds on the one-yard line. Par
isian Kings Mountain fans
thought the ball went into the
end zone, should have been hand
ed to the Mountaineers on theii
own 20.
Coach Gamble commented dur
ing the movie run that Soph
omore Fisher is among the team’s
best defensive players, said the
team used 9 to 12 basic plays
(each have both-side variations)
in the Shelby game. He wondered
out loud whether the number ol
plays wasn’t too many. "If you
have too many plays, it’s easy
for the boys to get confused.”
His final comment: "The score
is still Shelby 14, Kings Moun
tain 13.”
Labor Board
To Consider
Union Petition
The National Labor Relations
Board has scheduled a hearing
in Charlotte November 27, on the
contention by a labor union 'that
it represents a majority of Footo
Mineral Company’s Kings Moun
tain employees.
Neil Johnson, general manager
of Foote’s Kings Mountain ope.
rations, said his company had
been notified the hearing will be
held at ‘he post office 'building.
The hearing was necessitated
when Foote denied the contention
of the AFL-CIO United Cement,
Lime and Gympsum Workers.
According to past pattern, the
hearing will be devoted to argu
ments by both company and un
ion concerning the union claim of
majority representation, identity
of employees eligible for union
membership, and will resul* in
the ordering of an NLRB elect
ion.
Mr. Johnson commented: "This
matter is now going through the
usual procedures of the National
Labor Relations Board. Our em
ployees are, of course, entitled ‘o
an opportunity of voting their
wishes with regard to a union
coming in at our operation here.
We feel sure that af‘er they have
studied this matter from every
angle, they will decide that it is
to their own bes‘ interests not
to let this union come in here—
as they have previously decided
in two earlier elections.”
Mr. Johnson referred to pre
vious organizing efforts of the
operating Engineers union of the
AFL and of the United Steelwork,
ers of America, CIO.
On August 8, 1956, Foote em
ployees rejected by 140 to 40 the
organizing bid of the Operating
Engineers union of the AFL.
In October 1954, Foote employ
ees rejected by 131 to 21 the or
ganizing bid of the United Steel
workers of America, CIO.
The Cement, Lime and Gypsum
workers represents Foote em
ployees at the Sunbright, Va„
plant, Mr. Johnson said.
Moose To Join
In Gaston Rites
Members of Kings Mountain
Moose Lodge, as well as candi
dates for membership, will sus.
pend their regular Thursday
night meeting to attend an area
meeting of '‘he Gaston Moose
Lodge for enrollment in cere
monies Honoring Moose General
Governor Ralph D. Moor6,
Mr. Moore will be present for
dedication of the Gaston organi
zation’s new lodge.
The meeting will attract mem
bers and candidates from Char
lo'de, Kannapolis, Statesville, Al.
bemarle, Concord, Salisbury, Rock
Hill, S. C., and Kings Mountain.
Announcement of the session
was made by Horace Brown, who
said Kings Mountain members
will gather at the Kings Moun
tain lodge at 6:30 to make the
trip ‘o Gastonia.
New Research Boss
Has Many Local Kin
If there’s any priority ar
rangement on initial space
jaunts in satellites, Kings Moun
tain and Cleveland County citi
zens should have first call—in
even* kinship comes into play.
Dr. James Rhyne Killian,
newly-named boss of the na
tion’s missile development pro
gram and president of Massa
chusetts Institute of Technolo
gy, has numerous local kin
folk.
Dr. Killian is a native of
Blacksburg. S. C., and his moth
er was the former Jenny Rhyne,
daughter of the late Bunyan
Rhyne, who lived in the Beulah
church community near Muddy
Fork Creek. Dr. Killian’s uncle,
Herbert Rhyne, lives in the
Beulah community. His first
cousin is Mrs. Horace Hord.
wife of *he Kings Mountain
grocer.
There are numerous local
citizens who are kinfolk to
both the Rhyne and Killian
branches of the family
President Eisenhower an
nounced appoin*ment of Dr.
Killian as a soecial assistant,
in charge of scientific research,
in his radio address to the na
tion last Thursday night.