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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 The figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from tlie 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. U Pages Today VOL 69 No. 26 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 26, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENTS To Settle er-Ellis Race Mohair Financial Status Said Not Serious - Popma Horvath SPEAKER — Rev. Harry Schutte, of Gastonia, will deliver the ser mon at the union service Sunday night at 8 o’clock at Boyce Mem orial ARP chruch. Schutte Speaker At Union Service Rev. Harry Schutte, pastor of First Gastonia ARP church, will deliver the sermon Sunday night at the community-wide union service. The service will be held at Boyce Memorial ARP church at 8 p. m. Mr. Schutte, described by Dr. W. L. Pressly, Boyce Memorial pastor, as an interesting and in spiring speaker, has spoke at numerous summer conferences for young people. He has held pastorates at Doraville, Ga. and Bartow, Fla. Special music will be rendered by the youth, chancel, and carol choirs of the church. Rev. Schutte’s sermon will be the fourth in the summer series of union services. Second Race Cost $3,000 To $3,500 Cost of the second Cleveland County primary to determine a winner in the District n com missioner contest will be from $3,000 to $3,500, according to Max Hamrick, county auditor. An issue in the second primary race, the estimated sum is up considerably over the $1,607.29 j cost of the second primary of! 1956. Cost of the first 1958 primary was $4,472.53 up from $3,477.72 in 1956. The election costs escalated when the 1957 General Assembly voted to increase election offi cials’ salaries. Nothing Done, Talk Peaceful First Baptist Church’s joint conference on the church dispute regarding building on a new site held its second meeting last Thursday night. W. T. (Ted) Weir, member of the dissident or minority group reported, “Noth ing was done, but conversation has been peaceful.’’ Dr. Paul Nolan, member of the majority group was absent and no decisions were made. A third meeting will be held Thursday night at the church of fice. At an informal meeting of the majority group Tuesday night, some proposals that had been made were discussed. Yates Har bison said Wednesday, “We were just feeling out opinions, but really didn’t discuss anything pertinent.” Stores To Close For July 4 Holiday Stores in Kings Mountain will close Friday for the July 4th holiday, according to announce ment by Mrs. Elaine Queen, Merchants Secretary. Under by-laws otf the associa tion, stores will remain open all day Wednesday, July 2, Mrs. Queen said. By MARTIN HARMON Conversations on Wednesday with Ernest Horvath, president of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, Alexander Maino, Mohair’s Neisler Division general manager, and John Popma, recently elevated to the presidency of Textile Banking Corporation, of New York, revealed these facts: 1) The rumored bad financial condition of Mass achusetts Mohair Plush Company’s Neisler Division is not as advertised. Mr. Popma, head of the banking company said the situation is “not serious”, Mr. Hor vath said, “As I’ve said before, we are masters of our own ship.” 2) the roeisier division payroll in Kings Mountain has increased 15 percent in the past three weeks. 3) The payroll for the full Neis ler division has increased from $32,000 weekly in early May to $43,000 for the most recent pay roll week. 4) Orders resulting from sale of a particular frieze upholstery material at the recent Chicago furniture show have been suffici ent to enable Mohair to place 32 looms on a five-day week produc tion basis. 5) Of the 317 looms in Kings Mountain’s Margrace and Pauline plants, 80 looms are now operat ing on a three-shift basis. 6) Flat goods continue very slow. 7) Of the 317 Kings Mountain looms, 248 are flat goods looms. 8) Kings Mountain employment totals on Wednesday approximat ed 400, and the maximum potent ial for a five-day, three-shift op eration, since removal of yarn spinning operations to Pageland and Mayo, S. C., plants is 550, Manager Maino said. Questions concerning the Neis ler division operation were posed by the Herald to determine whe $4,000,000 Sale Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company paid $4,000,000 for the seven-plant Neisler Mills, Inc., Ernest Horvath said Wed nesday. The purchase price had not been announced at the time of the sale in 1955. Mr. Horvath mentioned the four-million figtire inadver tenly Wednesday in this man ner: “Textile business has been worsening since our purchase of the mills and there are times I’ve wished I had the four million back. But the transaction was complete and we hope now that business is going to be on the upturn.” ther rumors concerning sale, li quidation, financial distress, and/or further curtailments at the Neisler plants were valid or unfounded. President (Horvath spoke furth er concerning the full operation, stating that the Ellenboro plant is operating three Shifts six days per week, and that orlon yarn op erations, transferred from the Dana division in Maine last Jan uary, have improved heavily dur ing the past three weeks. These operations are now housed at Mayo and Pageland and at Shel by’s Belmont plant. “Results of the yam operations transfer have lived up to our ful lest expectations,” Mr. Horvath said. Meantime, he added that the firm's other yam operations have improved in the past four weeks. Mr. Poprna, formerly executive vice-president of Textile Banking Corporation, was elevated to the presidency about six weeks ago, on resignation of T. R. Steams, Mr. Steams has joined Reliance Manufacturing Company as exec utive vice-president. Mr. Poprna made his “not serious” comment on the Mohair financial situation via telephone from New York Wednesday afternoon. He said novelty fabrics business has beer ! bad throughout the textile trade “We should know much more ir j about three months,” he commen ! ted, saying that trade circles an I ticipate a considerable pick-up ir ! orders during that period. When sale of the seven-plam ! Neisler Mills, Inc., to the Horvatt I interests was announced on Octo ; ber 29, 1966, Neisler reported a i bout 1250 persons listed on theii I payroll in Kings Mountain. The (Continued on Page Eight) Bible In Schools In Jeopardy By Love Opinion? Is Kings Mountain’s church-sup ported program for teaching of the Bible in the public schools in jeopardy due to Tuesday s state ment by Assistant State Attorney General Claude Love? Love made his statement at j the opening session of the school law conference at Duke univer sity, reporting he had replied to an inquiry from a Belmont Meth odist minister that, “ It is the view of this office that the proposal .... would be in direct violation of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the McCollum case . . .” The letter added however, that “if a plan similar to the New York City plan discussed in the Zorach case should be employed, I can see no legal objection to such procedure.” Moreover, the letter explained that “the distinction drawn by the Supreme Court ... is that public school facilities may not be used for the purpose of giving religious instruction in the school even though the salaries of teachers are paid by some re ligious organization; but the mere release of public school pupils to attend classes in re ligious instruction in the chur ches of the community, when no coersion is employed to com pel students to take these cour ses, is not in violation of the constitutional provisions above referred to.” Kings Mountain Supt. B. N. Barnes explained that, in the Kings Mountain schools, the Bi ble teacher is employed and paid in full by the committee for tea ching Bible in the schools, and that the teacher conducts class es in Biblical history for sixth and seventh grade elementary students and a five-hour full year elective course in Biblical history in high school for which i one unit of credit is granted. He said the 80-minute per week of Bible instruction Bible class in the elementary schools is also elective to the point that several students have declined to enroll for the course, on parental request. Mr. Barnes added, “Miss Julia Abernethy, our Bible teacher last year, and former Bible teachers, were instructed to teach factual ly and not doctrinally.” He said one of the elementary I courses was in Old Testament I history, the other in New Testa j ment history. ____ SPEAKER — Harold E. Welborn. special agent in charge of the Charlotte FBI office, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday night. Kiwanis To Hear Harold Welbom Harold E. Welbom, assistant special agent in charge of the Charlotte office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will ad dress members of the Kings Moun tain Kiwanis club at their regu lar Thursday night meeting at the Woman’s Club. Mr. Welbom, a native of Ken tucky, holds bachelor and mas ter’s degrees from Western Ken tucky State college and was sub sequently a member of the faculty from 1936-42. He joined the FBI in 1942 and served as special a gent in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, El Paso, and Memphis, before going to Washington in 1952 to be an assistant to Director J. Ed gar Hoover at the Washington, D. C., headquarters. He assumed the duties in Char lotte in July, 1956. He is married and the father of two children. Mr. Welbom’s address was ar ranged by the club attendance and membership committee, of which Dr. W. L. Mauney is chair man. The club convenes at 6:45. Linda Mauney Bitten By Hoise Linda Mauney, 11, discovered the hard way that playing with horses when the animals are eat ing won’t work. The youngster, vacationing with her parents and three brothers at Dixie Dude Ranch), in Bandera, Texas, near San Antonio, was bit ten by a horse last week as she attempted to pat the animal while he was eating his dinner. The youngster is hospitalized in a San Antonio hospital. Flesh on her shoulder was torn considera bly, her grandmother, Mrs. W. K. Mauney reported, and the ugly wound required some 70 stitches. Patrick Resigns Pastorates Here, Began Duties Over 23 Years Ago Rev. P. D. Pat TICK, tor mure than 23 years pastor of First Presbyterian church here and al so pastor of Dixon Presbyterian church, tendered resignations to both congregations Sunday. They will be effective September 1. Mr. Patrick is resigning to be come field representative of Co lumbia Theological Seminary, De ! catur, Ga. The Patricks will make their home in Decatur. Mr. Pat ; rick said his work in promoting j the work of the seminary and in furthering its development wall require him to travel considerab ly. In announcing his resignation J ! Sunday morning, Mr. Patrick told 1 the First Presbyterian congrega- j tion his decision to leave, after, 23 years of happy association,; was comparable to the job of (Continued on Page Eight) REV. P. D. PATRICK Negro Youth Wanted To Take Typing Course By MARTIN HARMON A federal judge last weekend granted Little Rock, Ark., school officials a reprieve on abiding by the Supreme Court de-segregation ruling of 1954.' Announcement of the federal court order followed by two days a request here 'by a young Negro girl to enroll in a fee-basis sum mer typing class. The class is not going to be tau ght, because of insufficient regis trations. The Negro youth, a girl named Ellis (the teacher said Wednesday she did not recall the girl’s given-name) was the four th prospective pupil for the typ ing class. A minimum of 15 was required to offer the class. Mrs. Grady Howard, the teach er, said she told the prospective enrollee that it was very doubt ful the class would be taught, due to insufficient registrations, and that the Negro girl, who had re ceived one year of typing instruc tion, would not need the course, since only a beginner's course was anticipated. Would Mrs. Howard have ob jected to teaching the Negro youth? "Not a bit personally,” Mrs. Ho ward said. "However, I would want authorization from school authorities.” Supt. B. N. Barnes said Wednes day he had been informed of the requested registration, had given it little consideration since regis trations were insufficient. He said question of accepting a Negro en rollee for the fee-basis class would have been in the province of the board of education and/or the instructor. Mr. Barnes did add, however, that such an instance would not have been the first in Kings Moun tain city schools in which a white teacher had instructed Negro pu pils. Miss Julia Abernethy, city schools Bible teacher during the past school year, and preceding Bible teachers, have instructed classes in Bible at Davidson school in the city system. In addition, Mr. Barnes noted that, in Shelby, the city schools teaching >superviser, a white wo man, supervises the Negro teach ers of the Shelby Negro schools. Kings Mountain schools have an arrangement with the county schools whereby the Negro coun ty supervisor supervises Negro teachers. Were this arrangement not intact, Mr. Barnes added, the duties would be assigned to Miss Alice Averitt, the Kings Mountain teaching supervisor. Mr. Barnes declined comment on the ruling of the federal jud ge in the Little Rock action. He said that he did not deem a com ment necessary, in the absence of formal applications for admittan ce to white 'schools by Negro pu pils. Mr. Barnes said last year that the city board of education has never received a formal ed mittanee' application to white schools by Negro pupils. Mills Schedule July 4 Vacations Most textile workers in the i community will get vacations I during the July 4th week, with the exception of Mauney Hosiery Mills which will shutdown June ! 28 to give its employees a holi day until July 2nd. Virtually all firms will follow past procedure in making vaca tion pay. Craftspun Yarns, Park Yarn Mills, Burlington, and Neis ler Mills Division of Massachus etts Mohair Plush company are paying bonuses. At Craftspun Yarns, bonuses of two percent and four percent are paid accord ing to service of employees, Massachusetts Mohair Plush company is paying two percent of earnings as bonuses to em ployees who have been with the company since June 6th of last year. Sadie Cotton Mills will shut down on the morning of July 3rd and resume operations on July 9. Bonnie Mills will also cease operations on July 3rd and re open on July 16. Employees oi Park Yarn Mill will get a vaca tion from June 28 to July 6, and employees of Craftspun Yarns will get vacations from July 1 to July 11th. At the Pauline Plant, the mil] will stop off on June 26 and will resume operations on July 8th unless orders are received prioi to that date, mill officials said. (Continued on Page Eight) DALE GILLILAND BUDDY CONNOR JERRY WILSON Chambers Awards Are Announced Footo Mineral Company has a warded Chamber scholarships to four children of Kings Mountain plant employees. The Chamber Fund, establish ed by Gordon H. and Marjorie D. Chambers, provides scholar ships to worthy students, and Kings Mountain recipients are : Dale Gilliland, son of Henry Gill i iland, shipping foreman at I Foote; Jerry Wilson, son of Carl | Wilson, maintenance supervisor ! at Foote; Buddy Connor, son of ! Jim Connor, Foote group leader, I and Ann Gordon, daughter of George Gordon, mill maintenan ce foreman. With the exception of Miss Gordon, all winners are recent | graduates of Kings Mountain 1 high school. Miss Gordon is a re cent graduate of Clover, S. C, high school. Scholarships to Gilliland, Wii son, and Connor will total $100C each to apply on the cost of each year’s schooling. Gilliland ex pects to study engineering at Clemson, and both Wilson and Connor are enrolling at State college, Connor to study forestry and Wilson to study engineering ! Miss Gordon’s scholarship totals i S800 annually for four years. She i expects to enroll at Winthroj I college to study business admin istration. Mr. Chambers, now chairman of the Foote board of directors is a former president of the or ganization, Ben H. Goforth, Jr. personnel manager of the loca operation, noted in announcing the scholarship winners. Rev. John Gregory. Cash-Short, Facing Delicate Heart Operation By DAVID BAITY Rev. John Gregory, resident of 808 Linwood Road and former pastor of Park Grace Nazarene Church here and First Nazarene Church in Gastonia, faces a deli cate heart operation in the very near future, after an illness of many years, which has depleted his financial assets to the van ishing point. Gregory suffers from an ar terial septal defect, or heart leakage, complicated by subti cute bacteria endocarditis, a germ in the blood which has weakened the heart, arteries, and veins. The weakening cau sed a natal hole in the inner chamber of the heart to re-open. The latter defect has, accord ing to X-ray studies, been ex tant since birth, but nature heal ed it during Gregory’s youth. The hole opened again about two years ago. Extensive treatment to over come the blood bacteria has been necessary. Mr. Gregory was ad ministered 4,120,000 units of penicillin per day for six weeks. Heart surgery to close the re opened hole can be attempted only after a negative test' on the bacteria. Gregory is now awaiting a letter from doctors to deter mine if further penicillin treat ment is necessary. Doctors at Baptist Hospital in W*inston-Salem will administer heart cautherization in July. This will determine the possible suc cess of the heart operation. Concerning the financial status of Rev. Gregory, the Herald re I ceived the following letter: June 16, 195S Hudson, N. C ! Dear Sir: I am writing to you becausi I am interested in securing hel) for Rev. John L. Gregory. He has been ill the hospita for around three months a Kings Mountain and Winstoi Salem. The bills are considerabl; high. July 22 he is to have ai operation at Winston to close ai opening in his heart that ha been there since birth. I wrote t< Dr. Hendricks about this matte and he said he wasn't in a posi tion to do anything about it, bu sent me your name and sail funds for this sort of thing ha< been raised through the loea paper. Rev. Gregory is a fine mai and has helped many people ir Kings Mountain to have a bette life by helping them to find God I am sure some of them wouli like to help him back if given ; chance. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Mrs. Isaac Gantt Box 23 Hudson, N. C. Herald investigation foum Gregory submerged in unpaii hospital bills totaling $2,742. Th operation is tentatively slated ti be performed in ten weeks, am similar operations are reportei to have cost $1,000. Dr. Lloyd B. Bryon, Distric Nazarine supervisor of Charlotte said Wednesday all the aid, to taling $250 the district organize (Continued On Page Bight) Kings Mountain And Grover Men Vie For Oiiice Cleveland County De mocrats will go to the polls again Saturday to complete their biennial se lection of party nominees with the one major chore choice of Carl P. Finger, of Kings Mountain, or J. Broadus Ellis, of Grover, for District II county com ! missioner. It is the only eount.y i wide contest. j In Shelby Township, Shelby vo ters have a local race and will de cide whether John Moore, the in cumbent and first race leader, will remain the constable. Hie is I challenged by C. E. Fisher. County political observers are predicting a small vote, due to the I paucity of races. In the May 31 first primary, Mr. Finger, serving on the com mission by appointment since February, led Mr. Ellis by 149 vo tes, but he failed to attain a ma jority, as A. A. Barrett, of Waco received 919. Mr. Ellis exercised 1 his right to ask a second primary. I j Campaigning for the second j race has been much more intense !! between Ellis and Finger than be i fore the first election. However, ; the campaigning still has been li |1 mited largely to personalities. Finger forces have charged j i that Ellis is causing the county j considerable expense in conduct | ing a second primary. Ellis for ! ces say they don’t like the me thod whereby Finger was ap pointed to the board. Clerk of Court J. W. Osborne named Fin ger after a group of Kings Moun tain citizens recommended the laundryman. Grover citizens, particularly, say they object to a recommendation meeting be ing held and their not being in vited. Mayor Glee A. Bridges, who helped arrange the meeting, said Wednesday that Democrats from all District II precincts were invited by him. county elections Board tnair man Joe Mull has predicted a total vote in Saturday’s primary of about 2500, but other obser vers have been escalating their figures. In the first primary, Comm. Finger polled 2428 votes to Mr. Ellis' 2279. Mr. Ellis was a home favorite, getting 393 votes at Grover while Barrett was accorded three and Finger was goose-egged. But Kings Mountain gave Finger a 446-vote majority over both Ellis and Barrett. Predictions among interested Democrats are that the Kings Mountain vote will be greater at the second primary than on May 31. The predictions vary be tween 1,000 minimum and 1,500 maximum. Both candidates are natives of the county and both have war service records. Recheck Shows Hay Agency Low Recheck of insurance bids on two city coverages showed The Arthur Hay Insurance Agency low bidder and B. F. Maner Agen cy, initially awarded the cover age, relinquished the two policies | to the Hay Agency, City Clerk Joe McDaniel said yesterday. Mr. McDaniel said the 20 per cent dividend indication included in the Hay Agency bid had been overlooked in the bidding at the June 11 bidding. The coverage was 1) for a scheduled property float er coverage on a cemetery tent, and 2) $10,000 fire insurance co verage on City Hall. Saturday Primary Facts Are Listed Following are thumbnail facts about Saturday’s Demo cratic primary election: Polls open 6:30 a. m. Polls close 6:30 p. m. Eligible voters: registered De mocrats. Voting places in Number 4 Township: four, East Kings Mountain, at City Hall court room; West Kings Mountain, at Victory Chevrolet Company; Grover, at Grover Fire Station; Bethware. at Bethware school. Number of county voting pla ces: 28. Number of ballots for town ship voters: one for county-wide race for District II county com missioner. The Herald’s predicted eoun i ty - wide vote: 3,500. 4
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