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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Th» figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Units figure is from the United States census of 1950. VOL 69 No. 2f 1 2 Pages Iy Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 10, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins FROM CONFERENCE Mrs. W. L. Pressly has re turned from a 10-day stay at Bon darken where she was a counselor and teacher for a group of 10-year-olds in the Intermediate conferences at tended by some 450 young peo ple. ASSUMES POSITION George Hord, of Kings Moun tain, has assumed summer du ties at the Iredell Morning News in Statesville. Son of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Hord, he will be a senior in journalism at the University of North Car olina in the fall. HOMECOMING Annual Homecoming at Bet hany ARP church will be held Sunday, with Sunday School to be held at 10 a. m. and the morning worship service at 11 a. m. Picnic dinner will be spread at 1 o’clock. All mem bers and former members are invited to attend. PARK STATISTICS Kings Mountain National MHitary Park recorded a total of 5219 visitors for tihe Fourth of July week-end. Independence Day topped the statistic, con tributing 2475 celebrant visi tors. Saturday rainfall reduced the number to 525 while Sun day guests totaled 2219. LODGE MEETING Regular communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AM for work in the second degree will be held Monday night at 7 p. m. at Masonic Hall, T. D. Tindall, secretary, has announc ed. JOINS STAFF Miss Derice Weir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Weir, has joined the staff of First Pres byterian church, replacing Miss Julia Ribet, who has resigned. Miss Shirley Falls will replace Miss Ribet as church organist and director of the choirs. KIWANIS PICNIC Thursday night’s Kiwanis meeing will be a family picnic at Oakdale Presbyterian church, in the Bethany, S. C., commu nity. Dinner will be served by women of the church and will be served at 6:45. TO CONVENTION J. W. Webster, recently retir ed president of the Kings Mountain Lions Club and cur rently chairman of Lions Zone 1, District 31-C, is in Chicago this week where he is attend ing the annual convention of Lions International. LICENSE SALES Mrs. Grace Wolfe, assistant city clerk, said Wednesday sale of privilege licenses through Tuesday totaled $2557. The ' city expects this income item | to bring in $6,000. The licen ses expired June 30 and are purchaseable without penalty during the month of July. Hayes Opening New Tire Firm Ernest Hayes, King's Mountain native, announced this week the forthcoming opening of Hayes Tire & Recapping, a B. F. Good rich agency, in the Reynolds Building, 507 East King street. Mr. Hayes said his recapping e quipment Should be installed and ready for operation toy the ®nd of the week. Mr. Hayes said his firm will be able to recap all sizes of passen ger tires and expects to add e quipment for handling truck tires in the near future. Son of Mrs. O. T. Hayes, St., Mr. Hayes returns to Kings Mountain after spending 16 years at Char leston, S. C., where he was em ployee of an electrical contractor handling heavy industrial instal lations. He was graduated from Kings Mountain high school in 1932. His wife is the former Ag nes Cornwell, also a Kings Moun tain native. They have two child ren, Miss Patricia Hayes, of Wil mington, and Rebecca Hayes, at home. Area Unemployment Soared During June; 823 Seek Jobs lobless Pay Claims 3554; Some Rainbows BY MARTIN HARMON In June, Kings Mountain wrot, what was probably its worse un employment month on record. A total of 3554 weeks of un employment compensation pa; was claimed by out-of-work citi zens, and, at month’s end, 83: citizens were actively seeking work. There were these threats o rainbows Wednesday. 1) Alex Maino, general manage: of Massachusetts Mohair Plusl Company, said business was “uj a hair”. He said production is ui about ten percent over the pre vious month, but is still some 4< percent below the March-Apri production of this novelty fabri< manufacturer. A managemen conference is scheduled for Thurs day to explore means of increas ing the firm’s flat goods sales which have been describe; throughout the trade as very sof for several months. 2) Ralph Johnson, manager o Slater Mill, which has been ope rating at a 25 percent of oapaci ty rate on alternate weeks, saic the alternate basis has been sus pended. It amounts to a doubling of production, but still leave; much production idle. Mr. John son said indications in the trad< are for somewhat improved con ditions during the remaining months of the year. The firn lists about 50 employees, woulc employ up to 175 on a full pro duotion schedule. Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manage] of the Kings Mountain employ ment service office offered foot notes on the job-wanted and un employment claim figures. He said the unemployment claim fig ures was inflated slightly be cause the ESC reporting figure covered 23 days, rather than the usual 20. He said the job-wantec figure had been swelled by the inclusion of recent high schoo graduates. Another minor key bright spol was reported by Mr. Ware. *Lasl July was a rather heavy lay-ofl month in Kings Mountain. Some of these citizens have not workec since and weeks ago exhaustec their 26-week-per-year unemploy ment benefits. As of the begin ning of July, numerous citizens are again eligible for 26 weeks of unemployment pay. In general, Mr. Ware says, the amount of benefit is halved, but, he notes, half-a-loaf is better than no loaf at all. COURT OF HONOR The Boy Scout Court of Hon or for Piedmont district Boy Scouts will be held Thursday night, July 10, at 7:45 p. m. at City Hall. Beauty Nominee Off To Contest ' Phyllis Dean, Kings Mountain’s1 ■ contribution to the Miss North ! J Carolina contest, left Wednesday ^afternoon for Charlotte and reg istration at the three-day beauty : pageant. Accompanied by her mother, • Mrs. Amos F. Dean, the Kings Mountain entrant will reside at i i the Coliseum Court, quartered i with some 62 other North Caro ■ lina lovelies vying for top honors i in the contest. ! Miss Dean, a five-foot-seven brunette beauty whose vital sta tistics are 34-22-35, will be wined and dined in regal style, but re layed a rigorous schedule to be , followed by all the entrants. Registration was from 1-6 p.m. :; Wednesday afternoon, followed by a buffet supper at Carmel : Country club. Thursday’s itinerary calls for breakfast at the Stork Restau l rant, a news conference, rehear • sals, then lunch at Wachovia ; Bank and Trust Company cafe i teria downtown. Rehearsals follow Thursday aft 1 ernoon with dinner at the Elks ■ Club with the judges. i The beauties will report for their first performance before the judges at 8:15 p. m. Thursday. Friday’s schedule is much the same with breakfast at the Stork ' restaurant, interviews with re porters, rehearsals, and lunch at the S & W cafeteria at Park Road ; shopping center. A parade featuring all the en trants will be staged through the streets of Charlotte at 2:30 p. m., followed by a session with pho tographers at Ovens auditorium. Dinner Friday will be at the Dogwood Room of Airport 77 Restaurant, and the second per formance will follow at 8:15 at Ovens auditorium. The Saturday schedule calls for breakfast at the Stork Restau rant, interviews by reporters, re hearsals, and a box lunch at the auditorium courtesy of the A & P stores of Charlotte. The third performance before the judges will 'be staged at 2:15. Entrants will be dined at the Ming Tree Restaurant at 5:30, p.m. and the final performance is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. Miss North Carolina will be •named and crowned later Satur day night. Miss Dean will don a white satin Charleston dress with lace overskirt and red satin sash forj her talent division. She will pan- j (Continued on Page Eight) Postmaster Gets Yule Card Early; Mail Rates To Advance On August 1 Postmaster Charles Alexander received a letter from friends in Richmond, Va., this week and ig nored the notation "Do not open until December 25”. It was a Christmas card. Postmaster Alexander guesses there might be more, as some citizens choose to outdo the post man’s' annual ‘'post Christmas mail early” dictum and also out do the upcoming increase in post al rates. Some rates go up on August 1, and some others advance effective January 1. Postmaster Alexander says some folk have bden trying to over-pay on mailings already, mis takenly thinking the postal rates were to escalate on July 1, start of the United States fiscal year. But it’s August 1. Another little wrinkle is going to cost recipients money if their correspondents are careless in weighing their letters. Currently, a letter mailed with insufficient postage costs the recipient mere ly the amount of the postage. After August 1, a five-cent penal ty charge will be added to the amount of postage due. Here are the rates as they will toe the morning of August 1: First-class mail, four cents per! ounce. Single postal and post cards, three cents each. Double postal cards and post cards (reply portion of double post card does not have to bear! postage when originally mailed) three cents each portion, total of [ six cents for the postoffice vend ed double postal card. Business reply cards, five cents each, payable on delivery. Mail enclosed in business reply envelopes, four cents per ounce, plus two cents per piece, collect ible on delivery. Airmail (letters not over eight ounces) seven oents per ounce. Air mail postal and post cards, five cents each. New rates effective January 1 include: Third class mail, without per mit, 2)4 cents per piece, (now two cents). Third class mail permits, $20 (now $10).' Third class mail, with permit,; two cents per piece (now 1)4 cents). Second class mail (newspapers, magazines, certain other publica tions) increased poundage rates on a progressive scale upward for three years. wx mm GETS PROMOTION — W. A. El don, plant engineer at Foote Mineral Company here the past six years, has been promoted to the position of project engineer in Foote's Central Engineering Department. Foote Promotes W. A. Eldon W. A. Eldon, plant engineer of Foote’s Kings Mountain operation and six years resident of Kings Mountain, has been promoted to the position of project engineer in Foote’s Central Engineering Department, according to an nouncement by Neil O. Johnson, Operations Manager. The position of Project Engineer was recently created by Foote Management as part of present and future expan sion plans, including a multi-mil lion dollar Research Center soon to be built by the company. Mr. Eldon has been with Foote Mineral company for eight years, having joined the company in 1950 as Project Engineer and Con struction Foreman at Foote’s Ex ton, Pennsylvania Operation. In 1952, he was assigned to the Kings Mountain Operation as PJant En gineer responsible for engineer ing, maintenance and construct ion. Since that time, he has par ticipated in two major expansions of the Kings Mountain plant fa cilities. A graduate of Drexel Institute of Technology, he is a registered Professional Engineer, a member of the National and North Caro lina Professional Engineers Socie ty, and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mr. El don is active in many social, chur ch and civic organizations in Kings Mountain and the area. He, his wife, Rosemary, and their five children reside in the Cres cent Plill area. Mr. Johnson said that Mr. Eldon will assume his new duties within the next few months, after plans for his replacement at the Kings Mountain operation have been completed. Birthday Fete For Home S & L Home Savings & Loan associa tion will take note of its 35th anniversary and its recent at tainment of $3,000,000 in assets Friday night. Officers, directors, their wives and friends of the association have been invited to dinner at the Woman's club at 7 o'clock. A. H. Patterson, executive vice president and an officer of the! association since it was founded; in 1923. will give a history of the! association and chart its growth luring the past 35 years. BUILDING PERMIT City Inspecto- T W. Webster ! issued a permit Tuesday to J. ! Wilson Crawfcd to build a one j story residon -<> on Woodside I drive. Estimate^ cost of the 5- j room structure is $10,500. Former Pastor Here Urges Gregory Aid Rev. W. Blanchard Horne, forrr er pastor of First Church of th Nazarene here, now of Orlande Fla., has written the Herald urg ing aid to Rev. John Gregory i seriously ill with a heart ailment Mr. Horne wrote: “I have jus read a clipping from your pape: regarding Rev. John L. Gregor; and want to say that I appreciati the effort that you have put forth in his behalf. I have known Johi for many years and have fount him to be a friend to everyone : not limiting his service to those of his own parish, but to every one in need. "I wish to thank our good Bap list and Wesleyan Methodis friends and all who have contri buted to this worthy cause, understand that several local or ganizations Have helped. “ I want to appeal to all m; friends .... to think over thi matter and make some dispositiai of this urgent need. Let us al give him a chance to live. If fo: ! any reason this matter can’t h taken up in your Church, you cai send your contribution personall; to the Gregory fund which is be ing published in your paper week jly." Gregory Gilts Reach S226 Kings Mountain friends of Rev John Gregory reported additional gifts of $78 received this week by the minister who has been ill for sometime and who faces a very delicate heart operation. Mr. Gregory was at onetime pastor of Park Grace Church of the Nazarene here and of First Nazarene church, Gastonia. His illness is described as a heart leakage complicated by weakening of the heart, arteries, and veins which has caused a hole in the heart to re open. He is receiving treatment to build his strength for undergoing the operation. Friends also report him under emotional tension due to his fi nancial condition, his assets de pleted to the vanishing point and more due to his long illness. Contributions reported include: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Carpen ter . $10 Frank Hippy ... $ 4 A Friend . $ 5 Myers’ Department Store .. $10 R. S. Lynn . $10 Doc Wright .. $10 Mrs. Ardie Meacham . $ 6 Mr. & Mrs. Junior Hipps .... $ 1 John W. Ham.$ i Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Martin .. $ 5 Broad River Bap. Church ... $ 6 Rev. W. B. Horne . $10 T. W. Smith . $ 1 E. Gold Wesleyan Church . . $ 6 Gifts previously made .. $141.35 Persons or firms wishing to aid Mr. Gregory should forward cash or check to Frank Rippy, of Rip py’s Jewelry. Gift will be ac knowledged through this news paper. Paper Drive Set For Sunday Kings Mountain Jayoees win collect scrap paper on Sunday afternoon, Wilson Griffin, a mem ber of the projects committee, said yesterday. Citizens should deposit paper for collection outside thteir resi dences for the pick-up scheduled from 2 o’clock to 6:30 p. m., Mr. Griffin said. Others who may have larger quantities of stored paper should contact Bob Goforth (phone 368) Tracy McGinnis (phone 138) or George Thomasson (phone 571) and Jayoees will make prompt collection. Funds derived from the Sun day collection will aid the num erous projects supported by the civic organization in the commu nity. SING HERE SUNDAY — The Barnett Brothers, youthful radio and television singers from Spartanburg, S. C., will sing here Sunday morning at 9:45 at First Wesleyan Methodist church. The brothers, left to right, are Roger, age 10, Jerry, 12, Wayne, 13, and Larry, 14. Life-Saving Crew Will Seek Funds L [ A fund campaign for the Cleve land County Life-Saving Crew, of Kings Mountain, will be launched ■1 this weekend. The Life-Saving group is al ; ready in action, though, technical - ly, it will not be in business offici ally until its potential members complete successfully Red Cross - First Aid courses now being con ; ducted by Don Crawford. The life-saving group seeks a 11 minimum of $2500. Already it has obtained equip !| ment and is answering calls. On 1: Sunday, the crew made a trip to ' Charlotte to obtain blood for a ' patient at Kings Mountain hospi ' j tal. It participated with other groups in the abortive search for a drowning victim at Lake James, and it helped rescue two men sev eral weeks ago after they had fal len into a well. Last weekend, the group helped the Jaycees and State Highway Patrol in the West ; city limits safety promotion. Corbett Nicholson, city gas de partment superintendent, has been elected captain of the crew. The intention of the group is to answer summons for help princi pally in Cleveland County. How ever, it will be available, when not busy locally to answer out side calls. The organization is completely volunteer, with no paid employ ees. “We believe this group can be of much help to Cleveland County citizens in preventing both per sonal and public disaster,” Capt. Nicholson commented. Funds are needed to defray costs of equipment. The group will stage a benefit dance at the American Legion on July 25. HONORED RALEIGH—Miss Susan Moss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geor ge W. Moss, 100 South Gaston Street, Kings Mountain, was honored at the recent Mere, dith college Awards night pro gram for the high excellence of her work in the department of English during the spring term. Complete Rainbow Radiates Over Area Two rainbows straddled the eastern King's Mountain area skies Monday at sunset. Caused j by sun shining through rain drops, the vivid display of colors ! followed a 'local storm. A distinct primary bow at the outside of the arch had a hazy background rainbow call ed the secondary bow. The two compose what is scientifically known as the complete rain bow. The belief that a rainbow means no immediate rain was drowned that night and the fol lowing day by torrential rain storms in the area. Mis. Howard Dies In Wreck Funeral rites for Mrs. Betty Mitchell Howard, sister-in-law of Grady Howard, of Kings Moun tain, were held Monday in El Paso, Texas. Mrs. Howard, about 37, was killed almost instantly when the car her husband was driving wrecked. According to her hus band's report, he was passing a car, his wheels touched the left shoulder of the road, and wreck ed. He, Mrs. Howard, and their three children were all thrown clear of the car. None of the oth er occupants were seriously hurt. The accident occurred near Or regrunde, N. M., as the Howard family was en route for a va cation in their mountain cabin in the New Mexico mountains. Grady Howard attended the funeral rites in El Paso, where his brother is a building contrac tor, on Monday. The accident victim was a na tive of Baton Rouge, La. Surviv ing, in addition to her husband, Herbert A. Howard and three chil dren, Jimmy, Neva, and Johnny, are her father, a sister and three brothers. Independence Day Holiday Busy, But Sale And Sane In Township King’s Mountain shut down Uight for Independence Day holi [day Friday. With the majority of textile i work ceased for a week, some families were already on treks to the mountains or seashore and still others were enjoying a one day surcease from regular duties. Most retail stores closed all day Friday to give their employes a one-day holiday. Drug firms ! operated on abbreviated schedu ; les, some grocery stores and all I service stations remained open. Pools and parks did a rushing i business for hot July 4th, the light j rain which fell in the Lake Craw | ford area failing to dampen the : Holiday crowd flocking to the i park and lake. At the Maple Springs (Shelby road) pool, the city’s small fry enjoyed the water while others, youngsters and adults, sunbathed and picnicked. Crowds filled the city swimming pool and park fa cilities and Lake Montonia club held its annual membership pic nic-outing. As customary, most places were overtaxed with July 4th visitors. The community of Grover held its first community-wide picnic to the delight of the large crowd present for the meal and ball I game. Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park recorded a total of [ 5219 visitors during the July 4 weekend, park officials said. Of this total, a crowd of some 2475 jammed the park on Friday. Rain reduced the park visiting Satur day to 525. Some 2219 visitors made trips to the national park Sunday. City police reported no acci dents occurring on the- holiday. Motorists were reminded to drive safely via a safety display erected at the Mountain St.-Highway 74 intersection which depicted a wreck scene complete with car and dummies. A 22-year-old Shelby textile worker, Alfred M. Allison, hus band of a former Kings Moun tain girl, was Cleveland County's first violent death victim of the holiday weekend. Mr. Allison shot and killed himself early Saturday morning at his home on route' three, Shelby, near Patterson Florists. The suicide victim’s fun eral was held Monday from Dav id’s Baptist Church. Crawford Says New Industrial Building Ready Kings Mountain's newest in dustry—a knitting firm which will occupy the recently comple ted Waco Road building erected by Kings Mountain Business De velopment. Inc.,—is in transit en route to Kings Mountain. J. Wilson Crawford, acting president of the development firm, said Jack Hauser, an offi cial of the firm, telephoned from New York on Tuesday to say that the firm s knitting machines were loaded and ready to be transported to Kings Mountain. He also said he and his family were prepared to leave for Kings Mountain and should arrive by Thursday. Name of the firm has not been announced by the owners, who said originally they would form a new corporation incorporated under the laws of North Carolina. The development firm has e rected a building with 11.200 square feet of floor space. Mr. Crawford pronounced the build ing ready, even to the polishing • it the asphalt tile floor covering. The building is equipped with five rest rooms, a ladies lounge, and an office room and boiler room. Mr. Crawford said land scaping work has been delayed due to bad weather. Under terms of the lease-pur chase arrangement under which the knitting firm will occupy the building, the firm will pay the development corporation a” $600 monthly rental, with option to purchase during a five-year per iod, the rental fees to apply to the purchase price. As evidence of good faith, the knitting firm has placed in escrow $2400, cov ering the rental cost for the first six months of oectipany. The firm decided to locate here through efforts of the North Car olina Department of Conserva tion and Development, working in cooperation with the Kings Mountain Business Development Inc. Stock sales to Kings Mountain citizens and business firms pro vided equity capital for purchase of the site and construction of the building. The knitting firm has indica ted it will employ about 1(K) per sons when it gets into operation. Bites Thursday For Mr. Mauney Augustus Mauney, 63, of 82l Church Street died Monday nigfit at 11:35 in Veteran’s Hospital, Salisbury, following a long ill ness. Funeral rites will be held Thurs day at 4 p. m. from Missionary Methodist church, with military burial rites following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Rev. Floyd Hollar, assisted by Rev. Spurgc-on Scruggs, will of ficiate. Legionnaires of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, will conduct the military rites and serve as pallbearers. Mr. Mauney was a veteran of World War I and a native of Burke county. He is survived by his wife, Hesta Cooke Mauney; seven sons, Augustus Mauney, A laska; William Mauney, Scott AFB, 111.; Willard Mauney, Val dese; Ernest, Horace. David, and Lester Mauney, all of Kings Moun tain; two daughters, Mrs. George Barrett, Grover, and Mrs. Betty Leech, Kings Mountain. Also surviving are two brothers, George Mauney, Gastonia, Ralph Mauney, Concord, one sister, Mrs. Etta Dellinger, Cherryville, and nine grandchildren. The body will lie in-state at tlie church 30 minutes before the funeral. Ex-Horn Tooters Invited To Play Calling all ex-band members and horn tooters! The caller is Charles Ball ance, high school band dir ector, who wants all former band members to bring their horns to a trio of practices and help his beginners group play a concert on July 11th. Prac tices will be conducted Thurs day night, Monday night and July 10th in front of Central school. Mr. Ballance guarantees the music will be of the simplest variety, thinks the three prac tices will get elderly lips in sufficient shape. NO FIRES City firemen reported having no calls during the past week.
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