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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Tbs figure Jor Greater Kingi Mountain U derived from the 1955 Kingi Mountain city directory census. The city limit! figure U from the United State* census of 1950. 1 D Pages ID Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. 69 No. 52 Established 1899 Sixty-Ninth Year local News Bulletins KIWANIS CLUB Dr. Harvey Bumgardner, State College professor, will address Kings Mountain Ki wanians at their Tuesday noon meeting at the Woman’s club. Dr. Bumgardner is at 'home to spend the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Hazel Bumgardner. BUILDING PERMIT J. W. Webster, city inspector, issued a permit to SalJie Neal Early Monday to build a 8 room brick house on York road at the estimated cost of $14,000. Band Members Hear Hendricks Members of the high school band held thir annual 'banquet at the American Legion building last Wednesday evening. Feature of the program was an address by £>r. Paul E. Hendricks, former high school 'band director, now a Kings Mountain physician. Dr. Hendricks told the band members they could expect sup port from Kings Mountain in di rect proportion - to the band’s quality of performance and theiir ability to 'do a job of which the community can be proud. He said every band member should have the desire and wil lingness to work to make first chair in the particular instrument classification he plays. Carol Goter said an invocation, and Sara Rose Lennon welcomed students and guests. Mac Lennon recognized special guests. Bobby Early gave a toast to waiters and waitresses, and Billie Jones pre sented Dr. Hendricks. The party was adjourned for dancing by Doug Burton. The banquet theme was “Christ mas Around the World.” Band officers are Doug Burton, president; Mac Lennon, vice president; Sara Rose Lennon, secretary; Gale Kircus, treasurer; Susie Davis, librarian; and Char les Ballance, director. Wreck Victim's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Fred Smith Neal, 37, were held Sunday at 3 l p. m. from Concord Methodist * church. Mr. -Neal was killed Friday af ternoon when the car he was dri ving went out of control and wrecked . on Kings Mountain Cherryville highway. County Coronor J. Ollie Harris said Neal, the county’s 16th traf fic fatality of the year, died of a ■broken neck. Mr. Neal was alone in the car. The accident victim was an em ployee of Mauney Hosiery Mill. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Betty Starnes Neal; two children, Teresa and Jeff Neal of the home; five sisters, Mrs. Mae Hou ser, Kings Mountain; Mrs. Ferry (Littlejohn, Mrs. Lanie Bridges, Mrs. Ada Helton, and Mrs. Myr tle Lingerfelt, all of Bessemer City; and two -brothers, Howard and George Neal, -both of Besse mer City. Next Week's Herald Will Appear Tuesday Today's Herald is published in advance of the regular Thur sday publishing date and next week’s edition will be early, too. but by only one day. Next week's edition, which ordinarily would be published under date of New Year’s Day, will be published one day in ad vance, under date of December 31. It will appear on news k stands on Tuesday night. * Following publication of to day’s Herald, the office will be closed to give employees a Christmas holiday from Wednes day through Saturday. Christmas Eve Church Rites To Climax Yule Celebration Three Church Services Set For 11 O'clock Kings Mountain churches were arranging some special obser vances of the Christmas season this week. At numerous area churches the traditional programs were held on Sunday with other Christmas activities he 1 d in the various Sunday School groups earlier in the week. Christmas Eve services will be held in at least three Kings Mountain churches — First Pres byterian, Resurrection Lutheran, and St. Matthew's Lutheran churches. At First Presbyterian church, the 11 o’clock Christmas Eve Ser vice will feature special music by the three choirs of the chur ch, with Miss Derice Weir, solo ist. Dr. Paul K. Ausley, the min ister, will conduct the scripture readings and meditation and ad minister the sacrament of com munion. The candlelight service at 11 p. m. at St. Matthew’s church will feature familiar carols and anthems by the choirs, under the direction of Charles Woodward, organist-director. Dr. W. P. Ger berding, the pastor, will lead the congregation in the reading of scriptures and meditations. Three choirs of Resurrection Lutheran church will present a traditional midnight Christmas musical under the direction of Mrs. Aubrey Mauney and Mrs. J. N. McClure. The 60-voice cho rus will sing familiar Christ mas selections significant of these countries: Eastern Europe, Germany, Balkan countries; Po land; Russia, and the United States. The children’s Christmas pro gram will be presented on Christmas Eve at Grace Metho dist church at 7 o’clock. Dixon Presbyterian church will also hold the annual Christmas Eve program at 7 o’clock, with a three-act play to be presented by the young people. Central Methodist church will hold a Watchnight service at 11 o’clock p. m. on New Year’s Eve, the pastor, Rev. James B. Mc Larty announced. Choirs of the church presented a musical pro gram on Sunday morning as a feature of their Christmas-sea son activities. Dimes Drive To Start Soon The March of Dimes opens its 1959 campaign next month, with the effort to raise polio funds to start here January 2. Area committee heads have already been appointed by Wes. ley Bush, Kings Mountain chair man in the fund-raising cam. paign which seeks this year to receive money for polio aid and for support of a greatly expand ed health program launched by the National Fountation for In fantile Paralysis. "We urge the community’s co operation in this drive for such a worthy cause”, Mr. Bush add ed. Following Truck Will Bring Fine Fire Chief Pat Tignor said Monday persons following city fire trucks to fires are Jamming firemen in and hereafter will find themselves facing a cita tion for doing so. Following a fire truck or even parking within 500 feet of the trucks on call Is against the law,” Tignor said, “and al though it hasn’t been enforced strictly in the past, we’ve got to cut some of this out.” Mr. Tignor said the fine is anywhere from $5 to $50. NAMED OFFICER — Alexander J. Maino, southern division manager ot Massachusetts Mo hair Plush Company, has been elected a vice-president of the company, it was announced by Ernest Horvath, president. Maino Elected Mohair Officer NEW YORK. — Ernest V. Hor vath1, president of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, Inc., has announced election of Alexander J. Maino of 211 Nemasket Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Shelby Road, Kings Mountain, North Carolina, as vide president in charge of the Southern (Divis ion of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, Inc. Massachusetts Mohair Plush Co., Inc., is the largest stockhold er of the Buckeye Corporation (American Stock Exchange.) The Southern Division consists of the Margrace, Patricia, Patty X and Pauline Plants in Kings Mountain, North Carolina; the Ellenboro Mills in Ellenboro, Nor th Carolina; the Belmont No. 1 Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, the Belmont No. 2 Mill in Double Shoals, North Carolina; and the Mayo Mills in Mayo. South Caro lina. Prior to his promotion as vice president, Mr. Maino was serving as General Manager of the Sou thern Division of Mass. Mohair Plush Company, Inc. A former vice-president of Wauregan Mills, Wauregan, Connecticut, he has also held positions as president of the Wauregan Bonded Ware house Company, Treasurer of Quinebaug River Sales and Re search Company, Inc., in addition to having served on the board of directors of Wauregan Mills, Inc., and Quinebaug River Sales and Research Company, Inc. Atlas Near Size Of Park Obelisk In event local area citizens have not grasped a tangible idea of the size of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile launched last week and now circling the earth every 100 minutes, here’s a comparison. Ben Moomaw, superintendent of Kings Mountain National Military Park, says the adver tised size of the Atlas approx imates the dimensions of the obelisk monument at Kings Mountain park. The Atlas is 10 feet wide and 85 feet long. The National Park obelisk is 10 feet wide and 88 feet long. Mr. Moomaw made no weight comparisons. The Atlas missile weighs nearly 8,800 pounds and is a bout four times as heavy as Sputnik III, third of the Rus sian rockets which is now also girdling the earth. Bulldozer Rig Crunches Span, Falls In Ravine A Kings Mountain man esoap ed injury Thursday afternoon when he jumped from a 17-tor bulldozer when it tumbled ovei a 100-foot drop-off at the Mill pond bridge in the Dixon com munity. Fred A. Mosely, of route 1 who was operating the equip, ment for Kings Mountain Land, scaping and Grading Company told Patrolman R. E. Shaney his brakes failed as he rounded e bend and started down an in cline toward the bridge. He saic he saw the "3 ton limit” sigr ] and jumped. The vehicle went off the roac just before it reached the bridge and plunged into the stream 10( feet below. Yule Program Held Monday First Presbyterian church held a Christmas Candlelight service “Let There Be Light”, on Sun day evening. Mrs. P. G. Padgett and Mrs. George Thomasson are co-chair men of the committee on annu ities and relief in charge of ar rangements for the annual Joy Gift program, E. Lawson Brown was narra tor for the program which fea tured special music by the Jun ior, Chancel, and Youth Choirs of the church under the direction of Mrs. James Pagee and Mrs. B. F. Maner. Mrs. Musa Marto sang two solos, “O Holy Night”, and “I Wander As I Wander”. Miss Shirley Falls was organist. Church Group To Give Play The Youth Fellowship of Dixon Presbyterian church will present a three - act Christmas comedy “Home For Christmas”, Christ mas Eve at 7 o'clock at the chur ch. Following presentation of the play, gifts and treats will be dis tributed in the fellowship hall. The east includes: Hid Baker, a hardworking salesman, L. H Stewart: Alice Baker, the ambi tious mother, Elizabeth Stewart; Betty Baker, a daughter, Mrs Kenneth Cloninger; Laura Baker, a domineering sister, Linda Stew art; Jack Baker, a college boy Gary Stewart; Billy Sears, a riel boy, David Hughes; Tommy Lar kin, a businessman, Phillip Hum phries; Sally Gregg, a pretty nei ghbor, Armittie Farris, and Kat> Kraft, a neighborhood pest, Vic k*e Jackson. Yule Holiday Is Underway For Many Folk With few exceptions, Kings Mountain citizens looked forward this week to some surcease from work during the Christmas sea son. For many, the Christmas holi days had already begun. Major portion of Kings Mountain tex tile plants are closed this week and will resume regular opera tions Monday. There are a few exceptions. Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company will close Thursday and Friday only and will resume operations Saturday. Craftspun Yarns, Inc., and Foote Mineral Company will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, resuming opera tions Friday. Added to the list of the week’s surcease is Elmer Lumber Com ! pany. Lithium Corporation of I America will suspend December | 23 and resume operations Janu ary 6. Several firms made cash gifts I to employees. Added to this list i are Mauney Hosiery Company, Inc., which repeated its 1957 Christmas gift of four percent of earnings to employees with five and more years of employment and two percent of earnings to 1 employees of less than five years of service. Craftspun Yarns is giving its employees a day’s pay. Majority of retail personnel will get a 1 two-day respite, most retailers planning to re-open on Saturday. First National Bank and other financial institutions will follow the same schedule. City Hall offices will close | Wednesday at noon and will re open on Monday. However, stand by personnel in service depart ments will be on duty. Finger ! Laundry will follow the same schedule. Kings Mountain Drug Company will be open from 10 a. m. to noon and from 3 to 5 p. m. on Christ mas Day. The management said I it hopes to observe the same sche j dule on Friday, barring increased ' incidence of sickness. Griffin Drug Store will offer | prescription service only on ' Christmas Day and will 'be open 1 on regular schedule Friday. ! Stroupe Drug Company will be | closed all day Christmas but will be open as usual on Friday. The Employment Service will be closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, re-opening Monday. Mis. Gilbert Wins Scholarship Mrs. Jane Byars Gilbert. Kings ! Mountain student at Brevard I college, is one of four winners i of the National Methodist Scho i larships awarded by the board of j Education of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Gilbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Byars, is mar ried to Tommy Gilbert, also a ! student at Brevard. National Methodist Scholar ship awards cover tuition and fees up to $500 and are granted on the basis of superior academ ic standing, leadership ability, ! active churchmanship, charact I er, personality, and need. About j 500 such awards are given an. ; nually by the Methodist Board of Education in its nationwide scholarship program. Chuich And Civic Groups Plan Merry Christmas For Indigent Kings Mountains spirit of Christmas giving is transcending the familiar pattern of purchases ; for family and friends. No estimate was available or ! compilable on the amount of gift , which will go to indigent families and their children as church cir cles and Sunday school classes and civic clubs play Santa Claus during the next few days. The total will be large. On Sunday, Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, played host to indigent children at the annual post Christmas party. A total of 217 children were given a sumptuous dinner (all you can eat) and gifts at the Legion Building. Santa Claus was on | hand to distribute the gifts and Legionnaries provided transpor | tation. Kings Mountain Lions club, | which accents aid to the blind, ; will use its regular Tuesday ev I ening meeting night for the dis tribution of food baskets to blind j persons and other needy folk, j Kings Mountain Kiwanis club’s Christmas giving will include gifts to 16 needy families. Joe | Neisler, Jr., is general chairman of the project. Kings Mountain Junior Cham ber of Commerce is holding its annual buy-can-leave-can project and will distribute baskets to the needy. Man, Woman Found Dead At Motel Sunday Afternoon Realtor Charged Alter Argument At Poker Table A disagreement in a poker game resulted in a charge of arm ed robbery last Wednesday a gainst Warren E. Reynolds, Kings Mountain realtor. Preliminary hearing for Mr. Reynolds, free under $500 bond, was continued in city court Mon day until the session of December 29 on request of E. A. Harrill, at torney for Reynolds. The warrant was signed by A. E. Nowlan, 1145 Brighton Place, Charlotte. Attorney Harrill, late Monday afternoon, said Reynolds and sev eral others were playing poker. Reynolds thought the game “crooked” and demanded $90 in winnings back from Nowlan. Har rill termed the incident an unfor tunate squabble that got out of hand.” The case was set for hearing by Judge Jack White for 2:00 p. m. next Monday. Attorney Harrill represented Earl Eugene Matheson in Mon day’s session on a count of speed ing and temporary larceny of an automobile. The case had been continued from the previous ses sion. Harrill produced papers show ing Matheson’s ownership of the car, which he had allegedly stol en and Matheson was cleared of the charge. He was given a 30-day sentence suspended upon payment of a $5 fine and the costs of court on the speeding charge. A warrant was then drawn for Matheson on a no financial res (Continued on Page Eight) Lutherans Set Special Service St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will hold the traditional Christ mas Eve Musical and vesper ser vice Wednesday night at 11 p. m., the pastor, Dr. W. P. Gerber ding has announced. Music by the two choirs will include these anthems: "Lo, A Voice to Heaven Sounding”, Bort niansky; “What Child Is This”, Candlyn; “LetAll Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”, Holst; “In Natali Domini”, Gesangbuch;' “Jesus Was Born In Bethlehem," Mar shall. The Junior choir will sing “Un to Us Is Bom A Son”, Cantiones; ‘^Gloria In Excelsis Deo”, Canti ones; and the organist will play “In dulci jubilo”, Zachau; “Ades te Fideles", Thomas Adams; "Greensleeves”, Richard Purvis; “Noel”, (Grand Jeu et Duo) D’Aquin; “Pastoral Symphony”, Handel; and “Carillon,” Louis Vierne. Dr. Gerberding will conduct a short meditation. Students Set Sunday Program College students Will present 1 the program at Sunday morn j ing’s worship service at First j Presbyterian church. The service has been design ! ated “College Student Day” with | special emphasis being placed on the day’s church activities. Included in the program will be Steve Kesler, student at Uni versity of North Carolina; Polly Page, student at Agnes Scott college; and Derioe Weir, stu dent at Flora Macdonald col lege. ! HEADS MASONS — Frank Bal lard has been elected master of ; Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM in Kings Mountain. The new offi cers are to be installed Monday. Masons Name New Officers New officers of Fairview Lod ge 339 AF&AM will be installed Monday might at Masonic Lod ge Frank Ballard, Kings Moun tain grocer, will be installed as lodge master succeeding Fred Weaver. Other officers, to be installed by Mr. Weaver, are: I. C. Davis, senior warden; Rrue Thorbum, junior warden; Ralph Harrison, senior deacon; Manley Hayes junior deacon; Danny Webster, senior steward; Joe Donald. Ro berts, junior steward; Thomas Tindall, secretary; L. A. Hannon, treasurer, and H. V. Herndon, tyler. D. E. Tate will serve as in stalling marshal for the cere monies. The new master has been a mason the past seven years and has been active in the Fairview Lodge organization. Mr. Weaver, outgoing master, has been appointed chaplain for the year 1959 and elected trus tee for a term of three years was James B. Simpson. Other trus tees include L. A. Harmon and Denver King. The committees include: Char ity—T. Frank Ballard; I. C. Da vis, and W. Bruce Thorburn; Fi nance—Lester A. Harmon, How ard V. Herndon, H. K. Dixon; i Reference, Samuel R. Suber, Joe | H. McDaniel, Jr., and J. W. Web | ster; Eastern Star, Emmett Ross, I J. E. Bumgardner, and L. L. Benson; Oxford Orphanage, Fred Weaver, J. Ollie Harris, George ! D. Webster; Building Committee, Glee A. Bridges, Fred Wright, I Sr., and O. O. Walker; Masonic Education, George W. White; J. Ralph Harrison, and C. J. Gault, Jr.; Ladies Night Banquet — James B. Simpson, D. E. Tate, Ben H. Bridges, Jr., and Denver King. Garden Club Lists Contest Winners Winners in the Christmas | door decorating contest spon sored by the House and Gar j den club were announced Fri ! day by Mrs. Jack Arnette, of ! the sponsoring club. Mrs. Henry Neisler copped first place award, and the sec ond-place prize went to Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr. Judges in the contest were Mrs. C. V. Elrod, Mrs. W. A. Lindsay, and Mrs. Bob Lewis, all of Bess emer City. Carbon Monoxide Cause of Death, Says Pathologist A man and woman were found dead at Royal Motel on the Shel by highway at 5:50 Sunday after noon. Cause of death was carbon mo noxide poisoning, Dr. R. C. Hen ry, Shelby hospital pathologist, said after makihg an autopsy on the two bodies. The dead are J. B. Mackey, 31, formerly a resident of Baker street, and Mrs. Margaret Cars well Hamrick, 28, of Shelby. Mackey was single. Mrs. Cars well and her husband are report ed estranged. I. M. Allen, Jr., operator of the motel, said the two registered at the motel at 12:20 Sunday morn ing as married, under the name of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Haper, 401 Walker street, Wilmington, N. C. Mr. Allen said he was given an incorrect license number for Mackey’s Mercury. The dead bodies were discover ed by Mr. Allen and his brother in-law, W. M. Hord, late Sunday afternoon, after Mrs. Hord had knocked on their door about 3 p. m. to say that it was check-out hour. The partially dressed body of Mrs. Carswell was lying at the door on the floor of the motel room. The nude body of Mackey was lying on the bed. Coronor J. Ollie Harris ruled that death had occurred between 5 and 6 a. m. Sunday morning. Meantime, William Edwards of Greenwood, S. C., gas engineer ing consultant to Barnard & Burke, of Baton Rouge, La., ar rived here Sunday night at 11 p. m. and checked the gas heater installation in the motel room. He was quoted by Coronor Har ris as saying the heater was working properly. Mackey was an employee of Smitty’s Service Station on U. S. Highway 74 near Shelby. His employer told Coronor Harris that he had been due to report (Continued on Page Eight> — i I Christmas Story By St. Luke And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of \ Syria. > And all went to be taxed, every j one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from | Galilee, out of the city of. Naza . reth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; | (because he was of the house and ' lineage of David). To be taxed witft Mary his es I poused wife, being great with child. And so it Was, that, while they were there, the days were accom plished that she should be deliv ered, And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same I country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. i And, lo, the angel of the Lord ! came, upon them, and the glory i of the Lord shone round about I them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, J Fear not; for, behold, I bring you I good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all peop'e. For unto you is bom this day (Continued on Page Eight)
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