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Popnlati J Greater Kings Mountain City Limits \ 0,320 / 7,206 She figure fee Greater King* Mounted It MM IMS King, Mountain city directory UtaitM figure U from the United Slate, * fderlred from true. The city ana of 19S0. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper IP Pages I 0 Today VOL 70 No. I Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 8, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS BABY DERBY WINNER — Guy Warren Moore, First Baby of 1959 and winner of the Baby Derby sponsored in Kings Mountain, is pictur ed above at Kings Mountain hospital with bis mother. Mrs. Carlyle Moore. Young Moore was bora Friday, January 2nd, at 10:20 a. m. and weighed in at seven pounds, eight ounces. The attending physician was Dr. Kenneth McGill. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Local News Bulletins EAST P-TA Father’s Night will be held by feast School Parent-Teach ers association at ithedr regu lar meeting on January 20th. Further program plans will be announced next week. CHURCHWOMEN New officers of the Kings Mountain Council of United Churchwomen will be elected Friday night at 7:30 p. m. at Grace Methodist church. All churchwomen of the commun ity are invited to participate. FAIR VIEW LODGE Regular communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held at Masonic Hall Monday night alt 7:30 p. m., it was announced by T. D. Tindall, secretary. TO ST. LOUXSS John Plonk, Jr. and Paul Walker are in St. Louis, Mo. this week on a buying trip for Plonk Brothers and Company. WOMAN'S CLUB New officers of the Wo man's club will be elected Thursday at 3:30 p. m. at the general business meeting at the clubhouse. Graeme Reev es, exchange student, will be the speaker, Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch, president, said. COURT OF HONOR Regular monthly Court of Honor for Kings Mountain dis trict Boy Scouts will be held at City Hall Thursday night at 7:45. ROTARY MEETING Charles Bryant, Gastonia e lectrical contractor and former legislator, will address mem bers of the Kings Mountain Rotary club at their meeeting Thursday at 12:15 p. m. at La Royale Restaurant, it was an nounced by Tom Trott. AT PARK \ Bruce Myers, landscape ar chitect, will supervise the landscaping project at Kings Mountain National Military Park for the next six weeks, Ben Moomaw, superintendent, has announced. PARK VISITORS Visitors to Kings Mountain National Military Park during 1958 topped 155,856 and set a record over the 1955 statistics. Of this number, over 60,000 vi sitors toured the miiseum. Vi sitors were from all states, ex cept Nevada, and from most European and (Asiatic coun tries. Young Man Ol 1958 Nominations Asked Nominations for Kings Mountain’s Young Man of 19 58 are being accepted by the Jaycees through January 16th. The winner will be announ ced and the distinguished ser vice award presented at the annual Bosses’ Nighit banquet of the Junior Chamber of Com merce on January 20th. Nominations should be ad dressed to William G. (Bill) Jonas and men, ages 21-36, are eligible, Mr. Jonas noted. Moore Baby Boy Is Derby Winner first Arrival In New Year Bom Friday The proud parents of this area’s first 1959 arrival were con tenders in the 1958 Baby Derby as well. Guy Warren Moore, bom Fri day, January 2nd., at 10:20 a. m., to Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Moore, has a young sister, bom just\nine days after the New Year of 1958. Young Cynthia Ann Moore, who will be one-year-old Friday, tip ped the scales at birth at Kings Mountain hospital at 11 pounds, 111-2 ounces, a record for the lo cal hospital. “She doesn’t weigh too much more now,” her mother laughingly remarked. The Moore family, now resid ing with Mrs. Moore’s mother, Mrs. Viola Berry on route three, have a home on route two, Besse mer City. Mrs. Moore is the for mer Mary Grace Berry. Her hus band is also a Kings Mountain native, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Moore, Bessemer City. Dr. Kenneth McGill was the at tending physician. The couple have two other chil dren, Frankie Carl Moore, age 10, and Gary Russell Moore, ago 2. As winner of this year’s Baby Derby, the Herald’s fourth annu al contest, numerous congratula tory gifts are being presented the parents by Kings Mountain busi ness firms. Propst Funeral Held On Monday Funeral for Theodore G. Prop st, 68, 406 Parker St, were held Monday afternoon from Grace Methodist church. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Propst, a Burke county na tive, died at his home early Sat urday morning. He had been ill for 14 years. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Prop st and a onetime employee of Burlington Industries. He was a member of - Grace Methodist church. Surviving aie his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Quinn Propst, three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Vaughn, Anadarko, Okla., Mrs. Lois Pay ne and Mrs. Faye Horn, both of Kings Mountain, and three sons, Clyde, Gaither and Donald Pay ne, all of Kings Mountain. An other son, Elmer Propst, was killed in action in Burma in 19 44. Also surviving are a brother, Doss Propst, of Casar, and 15 grandchildren. Rev. W. C. Sides conducted the rites. Seal Sale Fund lagging Kings Mountain Seal Sale con tributions totaled $4,840.90 on Wednesday, Charles Blanton, drive chairman reported. The Cleveland County Tubercu losis Association is short about halt of its quota in the appeal which seeks $8000 to fight tuber culosis. Citizens are asked to forward their con tributions ms quickly as possible to the county office. Pork Visitor Falls. Suffers Broken Leg lA Kings Mountain National Military Park visitor suffered a broken leg Sunday after noon. Wesley Turner, of Gaffney, S. C„ was gamboling with a juvenile niece on a path near the monument when he trip ped, fell, and snapped his ’eft leg above the knee. A Harris Funeral Home Am bulance was summoned and Turner was en route Cherokee County hospital within 23 minutes after the accident, Park Superintendent Ben Moo maw said. Mr. Moomaw said it was the first accident to a park visitor in his memory. Rites Conducted Foi Mr. Phillips Funeral rites for Daniel E. (Pop) Phillips, 76, for ten years caretaker at Lake Montonia, were held Saturday at 3 p. m. from Chestnut Ridge Baptist church. Mr. Phillips succumbed last Thursday morning in Kings Mountain hospital following an extended illness. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marion Phillips and a member of the Chestnut Ridge church. He was a Mason and member of Lodge 413 at Griffin, Ga. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mollie Roberts Phillips; one son, James L. Lockhart, of Jackson ville, and one sister, Mrs. Alice Peak, of Winnsboro, S. C. The final rites were conducted by Rev. Dale Thornburg and Rev. J. W. Phillips. Interment was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Funezal Held Foi Mis. Fold Funeral for Mrs. Anne Blan che Ford, 50, route 3, Kings Mountain, were held Sunday af ternoon at Oak Grove Baptist church, with ourial in the chur ch cemetery. Mrs. Ford died Friday evening at 7:30. She had been ill a year. A daughter of David A. Bell and the late Ollie Lovelace Bell, she was the widow of Everett Ford, who died In 1946. She was a member of the Oak Grove church. Surviving are four sons, David H. Ford, with the artmy tin Ger many, Robert E. Ford, Mrs. Ric hard E. Spencer and Mrs. Bobby Porter, all of Kings Mountain, a sister, Mrs. C. T. Bennett, Kings Mountain, and five brothers, Charles S. Bell, Gastonia, Mon roe Bell, Charlotte, and Edgar, William and Claude Bell, all of Kings Mountain. Two grand children also survive. Rev. James Holder and Rev. Harry G. Alexander conducted Che rites. Tax listing Chore Begins; Listers Busy The pace of city and county tax listing was heavy during the first week, with only minor breathing spells Wednesday afternoon — normally a light period with bus iness firms closed for the mid week half-holiday. Both J. W. Webster, city tax listing official, and Conrad Hugh es, Number 4 Townshiu tax list er, said they had been kept very busy since the listing period be gan January 2. State law requires all citizens to list their properties for taxes during the month of January. Both real and personal property must be listed for ad valorem lo cal taxes. In Cleveland County, real property is automatically carried forward at same values assigned by the tax appraisal board. However, transfers of real estate should be noted when list ing taxes. .Personal property moiuaes household goods, jewelry, dogs, automobiles, television and radio sets, guns, and other personal possessions. Men. between the ages of 21 and 50 must list for poll taxes. Penalties are provided for pro perty owners failing to list for taxes or for listing late. Both Mr. Webster and Mr. Hughes are at City Hall court room daily from 8:30a. m. to 4:30 p. m., except Saturdays. On Sat urdays, Mr. Hughes is at R. E. Hambright’s Store, in Grover. Decision Deiened In Reynolds Case After a detailed defense read by E. A. Harrill, Judge Jack White told defendant Warren E. Reynolds, charged with armed robbery after a December 17 po ker game, to appear next Mon day at 2:00 p. m. for judgment. Mr. White stated he wished to give It some thought and look up several laws in line with the Reynolds case. “We were in Reynolds’ office playing poker. He knocked the cards out of my hands and said, ‘Give me back my money!’ I told him I wasn’t giving him back anything and for hiim to pay me the $50, he owed me ... I went to the rest room, and when 1 came out he fired a pistol be tween my feet and demanded back the money. Jake (Rey nolds) told him not to do any thing crazy ... I put 90-some dollars on a table and got out of there,” testified A. E. Nowlan, prosecuting witness in prelimi nary hearing in City Recorder’s Court Monday. Jake Reynolds, witness for the prosecution, said Reynolds left the room to get the pistol, de claring ‘I’m going to get my money back’. “I saw no cheating from either side,” Jake Reynolds said. He al so testified he was not playing poker. Delbert Paimsey, present, but not playing, testified, “I saw this guy (pointing to Nowlan) cheat twice on him (Warren Reynolds) I know.” Ramsey said Npwlan ‘looked at Mr. Reynolds’ card as he dealt it.’ He further stated Nowlan dealt a six off the bottom of the deck. ‘I don’t know if it was the same six, but a black six was on bottom and the card that came up for Nowlan was a black six. He bet $23 before he had his last card.’ E. <A. Harrill, attorney for the defense, told the court he wish ed to move for dismissal. Quo ting a statute, he showed that armed robbery consists of seven elements. He listed 1) felonious taking, 2) asputation, a carrying away of the property, 3) property must be personal, 4) must be taken from the person of another, 5) and against his will, 6) by vio lence or put in fear of life, and 7) aimin'-* fernandi, with intent to steal. Harrill commented, “They don’t say he took anything off anybody, he didn’t carry it a way.” He further quoted passages from AMERICAN JURISPRUD ENCE to the effect that 1) a per son cannot be guilty of robbery if he believes the property be longs to him, and 2) one can not be found guilty of robbery in forcibly taking his own pro perty or that which he honestly thinks to be his property. Other Dispositions: Edward Brown, speeding 60 m. p. h. in a 35 m. p. h. zone, 30 days suspended upon payment of a $5 fine and the costs of court. Roosevelt Williams, violation of prohibition law and public drunkenness, 90 days, suspend ed upon the conditions he not violate any prohibition laws for (Continued on Pag* Bight) Bids Asked On Local Section Of Interstate 85 Expressway PRESIDENT — George H. Maun ey is the new president of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. He will be installed at the club's Thursday night meeting. Hyatt To Install Kiwanis Officers New officers and directors of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club will be installed Thursday at the annual installation night banquet of the organization. Carl B. Hyatt, Jr., of Asheville, a past lieutenant governor of Kiwanis division I, will install the new officers. He is past-pres ident of the Asheville Kiwanis club. The meeting will be a ladies night party. To be installed as president will be George H. Mauney, a director of Mauney Mills, Inc., who will succeed John A. Ches shire, Jr. Other recently-elected officers who will be installed are John C. Smathers, first vice-president; Charles Neisler, second vice president; W. S. Fulton, Jr., sec retary; J. L. McGill, treasurer; and William R. George, Hugh D. Qrmand, W. B. Grimes, Robert M. Kennedy, Dr. D. F. Hord, and Harry E. Page, directors. ,The club will convene at the Woman’s Club at 6:45. Wreck Victim's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Eurmine Mackay Allison, 33, of Shelby, were held Wednesday af ternoon at Ell Bethel Methodist church, with burial in the church ceme tery. Mrs. Allison^ a former Kings Mountain resident and mother of eight children, was killed about 8 o’clock Monday morning in an auto crash while en route to work at Cherry Knit Mills, Cherryville. She was a sister of J. B. Mackay, found dead recently in a Kings Mountain Motel. Her husband, Otis Allison, is an employee of Burlington Industries’ Phenix She attended Kings Mountain high school. A native of trail County, Ga, she was a daughter of Mrs. Ear ly Cash, of Kings Mountain, and the late Thomas Mackay. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are three sons, Frankie, James, and Clarence Allison, and five daughters, Lola, Frieda, Jeannie, Patsy and Norma Alli son, all at home. A sister, Mrs. Florine Whittle, also of Kings Mountain, survives. The final rites were conducted by Rev. Frank Blalock and Rev. Solon Moss. LIONS TO MEET Members of the Kings Mountain Lions club will meet Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s Club. Dr. George W. Plonk is in charge of pro gram arrangements. Interstate 85 9.13 Miles Strip Will Be Built The State Highway commission has asked bids on a Kings Moun tain area link on Interstate 85, the fully-limited access interstate route abuilding and which al ready by-passes Charlotte. TWe commission asks bids on 9.13 miles of grading and struct ures frorji the South Carolina state line to a point south of Kings Mountain. According to E. L. Kemper, di vision highway engineer, the bid request covers grading and struc tures from the South Carolina state line to a point near the pres ent convergence of U. S. 29 and 74 east of Kings Mountain. Mr. Kemper said that Interstate 85 will apparently be co-terminal with U. S. 29 to a point near Arch dale Farms, where 85 will veer southwest to link with the South Carolina section south of Grover. Grading and structure work on the South Carolina section is well underway. Plans call for double-laning present U. S. 29 from a point south of the Highway 161 bridge to the point where Interstate 85 veers behind Archdale Farms. State Highway representatives have been contacting property owners concerning service roads along the route. Property owners in the York Road bridge area will get access only from the York road, they have been told. The commission will receive the bids on January 20 and will review them on January 22. Waie Funeral Held Wednesday Funeral rites for Ben T. Ware, 58, 109 Margrace, were held Wed nesday afternoon at Macedonia Baptist church, with interment following in Mountain Rest ceme tery. Mr. Ware, a former employee of Margrace Mill, had been ill for the past five years. He died Mon day morning at his home at 5:35 a. m. A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Alexander Ware, he was a native of Gaffney, S. C. Surviving are his wife, Mrs Hattie Summitt Ware, two sons Ben T. Ware, Jr., and Richard E Ware, both of Kings Mountain a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Me Tver, Port Wayne, Ind., three sis ters, Mrs. Ocie Mauney, Jackson ville, Flla., Mrs. Laura Harrill Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Bessie Hawkins, Charlotte, and a bro ther, Josh Ware, Gaffney, S. C. Rev. T. A. Lineberger conduct ed the final rites. City Auto Tags Selling Well The pace of city auto tag buy ing was good, city officials re ported this week, but a total on number of tags sold wasn’t im mediately available. Three sale spots are being used by the city in an effort to mini mize the annual tag selling chore. Tags are available at the City Hall office, and, when the office is closed, at the police depart ment. Busiest sales point thus far, however, has been at the tax list ing tables, where Mayor Glee A. Bridges is inviting citizens who own motor vehicles to buy the dollar tag while listing their au tos for property taxes. March Of Dimes Drive Underway; "Blue Cruthch" Day Is Saturday Blue Crutch Day, another ef fort by Kings Mountain volunteer workers to secure funds for the March of Dimes, will be held on Saturday. Legionnaires of Otis D. Green Post 155 will conduct the street sale, Wesley Bush, local chair man of the drive, said Wednes day. The little Blue Crutch lapel tag is the symbol of the needs of po lio patients, Mr. Bush declared. The tags this year will identify donors to the expanded National Foundation program of continued polio aid plus a new medical as sault on arthritis and birth de fects and basic research aimrd at improvement of man’s health. They will be sold by volunteers at busy Intersections, other street comers, shopping areas, and else where. “While March of Dimes contri butions made the Salk polio vac cine a reality, our chapters still have 50,000 of the polio-crippled still on their rolls,” Mr. Bush continued. "And now we are fac ed with at least 11 million peo ple who suffer from arthritis and rheumatisnt, and 250,000 infants botn each year malformed." HONORED—Mrs. Aubrey Maun ey has been listed in "Who's Who Of American Women" pub lished recently. She is active in civic, church, and clubwork. Mis. Mauney In Who's Who Mrs. Aubrey Mauney of Kings Mountain has been listed in Mar quis of Chicago’s first edition of “Who’s Who of Amercan Wo men.” The publication came off the press recently. Women’s Archives at Radcliffe College assisted the publication in their selections. The book is to be published bi-annually. Mrs. Mauney, active in church, civic, and club work in Kings Mountain and throughout the state, recently completed a two year term as president of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Ciubs. Sam Ballard Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Samuel G. Ballard, 43, who died Saturday afternoon at 1:30 p. m. at Kings Mountain hospital, were held Monday afternoon at Grace Meithdist church. He had been ill for several months and in declining health previously. Son of Mrs. T. F. Ballard and the late Mr. Ballard, he was a former employee of DuCourt Mills, a Kings Mountain native and a member of Grace Meth odist church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ina Green Ballard, and two chil dren, Tommy Ray Ballard and Shirley Ballard. Also surviving are six sis ters, Mrs. Carrie Guyton, Great Falls, S. C., and Mrs. John Geor ge, Mrs. Gertie Roper, Mrs. T. J. Ellison, Mrs. Pauline Williams and Miss Mildred Ballard, all of Kings Mountain, and a brother, Charles Ballard, also of Kings Mountain. Rev. W. C. Sides and Rev. Leo. nard Huffstetler conducted the funeral. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Champion Rites Held On Tuesday Funeral rites for Thomas Al bert (Ab) Champion, 71, farmer and former cotton ginner, were held Tuesday at Oak Grove Bap tist church, burial following in the church cemetery. Mr. Champion, a Cleveland county native and son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Champion, was found dead at his home at 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon. He had been dead since 1 p. m. and death was attributed to a heart attack. Surviving axe his wife, Mrs. Bessie Reynolds Chlampion; four daughters, Mrs. Robert Ware, Kings Mountain, Mrs. Henry Barnes, Grover, Mrs. Neal Por ter, Shelby, and Mrs. C. B. Clary, Orlando, Fla.; six sons, J. Thomas and Floyd Champion, tooth of Kings Mountain; J. D. Champion, Wilmington, T. A. Champion, Jr., and Kugene Champion, ootft of Orlando, Fla, and Howard Cham pion, Sanford. Also surviving are ! 31 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Mr. Champion was a member of the Oak Grove Baptist church. Final rites were conducted by Rev. James Holder, Rev. Hoyle Alexander, Rev. Richard Spencer, and Rev. Wray Barrett Lake Montonia Stockholders To Meet Tuesday Annual stockholders meeting of Lake Montonia Club, Inc., will be held at City Hall Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. Principal business will include election of officers and two direc tors for three-year terms, as well as hearing the report of President Frank A. Young, of Gastonia, and standing committee-chairmen. Other officers are Harry E. Page, Kings Mountain, vice-pres ident; Lawrence Patrick, Kings Mountain, secretary - treasurer; and Jim Wilson, Gastonia, assist ant secretary-treasurer. Directors with expiring terms are Carl F. Mauney, Kings Moun tain, and Bill Todd, Gastonia. Im mediate Past-President R. Lee Spencer, Gastonia, is an honorary director. Directors with unexpired terms are Bob Crockett and Walter Carroll, Gastonia, and Dr. O. P. Lewis and J. Pat Tignor, Kings Mountain. Published report of the secre tary - treasurer has 'been mailed to members and shows that the club’s finances improved during the past year. During 1958, the club paid a $1,000 bank note and deposited $1,000 in a savings and loan association account End of year bank account was $499 com pared to $42 the previous year. Memberships included 137 reg ular members, 24 child member ships and 26 associate membrer ships. Receipts were $5,221, a gainst expenditures, including the capital account, of $4,805. Six lot transfers were recorded to J. P. Tignor, Dr. Craig Jones, Mrs. Annie L. Neisler Wilford B. Boney and Ralph Goforth. Board To Meet Next Wednesday The city board of commission ers will hold its regular January meeting next Wednesday night. Thus far, Mayor Glee A. Brid ges said, the agenda is short Included are public hearings on two zoning change requests and another on several street improvements assessments. A mount of the assessments and the property owners is given public notice in an advertise ment appearing in today’s issue of the Herald. The board will meet in City Hall courtroom at 8 p. m. Waco Reports Sweateis Gone The disappearance of $900 wor th of ladies’ sweaters was being investigated today by the sher iff’s department. Sheriff Haywood Allen said that the loss Of 30 dozen sweaters from Waco Sportswear Co., plant on Waco Road, near Kings Moun tain city limits, was reported Tuesday. Officers have been unable to discover how thieves entered or left the building. Refailers Resume Mid-Week Closings Kings Mountain retailers re sumed their regular mid-week half-holiday Wednesday. The merchants customarily observe the mid-week half-holi day year-round, except for spec ial holiday situations and the period beginning Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving. The next regularly scheduled holiday will be on Easter Mon day. _ Mercury At 13 Early Tuesday It’s still cold, or was Wed nesday morning. The cold wave which put in appearance Sunday afternoon in the path of an icy wind, caused plenty of shivers Sun day night and the shivering continued. Meantime, fuel dealers’ tele phones were showing frequent busy signals and heating plant repairmen were on the run, as the cold temperatures put heavy strains on heating systems. How cold was cold? The closest officially main tained station is at Kings Mountain National Military park, where Ben Moomaw, superintendent, reports a Tuesday morning low of 13 de grees. It was warmer early Wed nesday morning, as the mer cury in the thermomerter ed ed up to 15 degrees. Tuesday's high at the park was 42 degrees, Mr. Moomaw reported. \
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