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» Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Tbs figure for Greater King* Mountain 1* derived bom tbo 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The dty limits Agar* Is from tbs United States census of 1950. Kings Mountain N. C., Thursday, April 9, 1959 on Pa9es ZU Today VOL 70 No. 14 Established 1889 t Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Swan: Craftspnn Will Operate I Local News Bulletins ATTEND MEETING Mrs. J. N. Gamble and Mrs. Ruth Thomasson represented (the local Red Cross chapter at the bi-monthly meeting of the Charlotte regional blood com mittee Tuesday in Charlotte. LODGE MEETING Regular communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held at Masonic Hall Monday night at 7:30 p. m., ac cording to announcement by Thomas D. Tindall, secretary. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanians will hold an inter-club meet ing with the Rutherford ton Ki wanis club Thursday night at 6:45 p. m. Members of the visit ing club will furnish the pro gram. CAKE SALE Wives of members of Cleve land County Life Saving Crew will sell homemade cakes at Bridges Hardware April 18th beginning at 9 a. m. Proceeds will go to the life saving crew and its program. • PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC A pre-school clinic for child ren who will be attending Bast Elementary school next year will be held Monday, April 13 at 1:30 p. m. in the Recreation Hall of Grace Methodist chur ch. HOSPITALIZED Mrs. LaFaye Meacham was improving Wednesday after having been hospitalized sin ce Monday with pneumonia. She is a patient at Kings Mountain hospital. CHOIR FESTIVAL Junior choirs from Boyce Memorial ARP church and St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will participate in the 300-vofce Junior choir festival to be held at Gastonia’s First Baptist church April 19 at 4 p. m. Clinics and rehearsals will pre cede the performance. Comity Schools Appointees Listed District committeemen for county schools were announced ithis week by Counity Schools Sup erintendent J. H. Grigg. Tam Hamrick succeeded Eu gene Patterson in the Bethware group holdover members are W. Will Lowery, Stokes Wright, • Charles Spearman and Harold Herndon. Holmes Harry and John Gold succeed Frank Royster and G. R. Roundtree in Grover, while M. H. Camp, Stowe Wright and Broad us Matthews remain on the com mittee. In the Compact District Elijah Ross and Clarence Adams suc ceed Lonnie Whismanlt and Israel Goode. Holdover members are Andrew W. Brown, Sr., Luther Jamerson and Roy Bell. The committeeman act as a school board and serve a tenure of two years. Bethware FFA Sets Banquet Members of the Future Farm ers oi America club of Bethware school will hold their annual fa. ther-son banquet Thursday night at ithe schopl oafeteria. Harold Hord, a former FFA member, will speak on the sub ject “Rural Advantages of North Carolina.” A chicken dinner will be served and members of the club were hard at work Wendesday slaying and dressing the poultry for .the banquet fare. The poultry was a donation of Ted Ledford. Numerous special guests have been invited to attend the ban quet. FFA officers are Jerry Webker, president; Jerry Wright, vice president; Jerry Patterson, secre tary; Jerry Morris, treasurer; Cly. de Oomrwdll, reporter; Ted An thony, sentinel; and Myers Ham bright, advisor. Parent Him InVoluntary Bankruptcy Craftspun Yarns, Inc., wild con tinue to operate on full schedule and wild not be solid in the imme diate future, in spite of the fact that its corporate,parent is in re ceivership. , This was the statement this week of Oarl H. 'Swan, president, as he commented on last week end’s developments whereby Scranton Company received court permission ,to reorganize under Chapter 10 of tlhe Federal 'Bank ruptcy Act. Mr. Swan said he had talked via telephone with ithe court-ap pointed receiver, J. Julius Levy, Scranton, Pa., and that hie tod been told :to operate Craftspun. Mr. Swan said that Craftspun and another subsidiary firm in Texas are the only two in the Scranton Company family which will continue to operate as form erly. Mir. Swan said he knows Mr. Ltevy, a farmer United States Dis trict Attorney, personally, and that he expects him here for a conference in the near future. ‘'With the assists of Scranton tied under receivership, there won’t be any immediate sale, if any. Mr. Levy ordered me not to send pne piece of It, only our pro duction," Mr. Swan said. Mr. Swan said 265 employees were 'listed on last week’s pay roll. * "It is possible ,we can now in crease operating Schedules to six days,” Mr. Swam added, as we need to do.” Scranton’s petition in bank ruptcy was signed toy the com pany president Jambs B. Johnson Also getting 'permission to reor ganize was Hal Roach Studios, another Scranton subsidiary. IA company official was quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying that ScilanitOn Company is ‘‘not insolvent”, tout that the re cteiverShip was necessary to un tangle Scranton's complex finan cial picture. For some weeks, prior to last j FrtHlay’s aation, Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company ha<^ been inventorying Craftspun physical equipment and checking financial records in view of possible pur chase. Manei Elected By Jaycees B. F.' Maner, Kings Mountain insuranceman, will head the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce for the coming year. Mr. Maner, who succeeds Geor ge Thomasson as president was elected along with other officers Tuesday night. Officers will be installed at the ladies’ night banquet May 5th. Other officers include: Robert H. Goforth, first vice-president; Jim Lybramd, second vice-presi dent; Jake Dixon, secretary; Wes. ley Bush, treasurer; Gene Patter son, Jaybird; George Thomasson, state director; and Bill Childers, Otis Palls, Jr., and Robert Hall, directors. The hold-over directors include Bill Allen, Raymond Go forth, and Manley Hayes. 'SPEAKER — Charles A. Harris. ' past Grand Master of North Car ' olina Masons, will make the principal address at the annual Ladies Night banquet of Fair. I view Lodge, AF A AM, Saturday | night Masons Banquet Saturday Night Charles Anderson Harris, 104th Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina, will deliver the address at the annual ladies’ night ban quet of Fairview Lodge No. 339 AF & AM to be held Saturday April 11 at Masonic Dining hall ait 7:00 p. m. Dinner will be served by the Kings Mbuntain chapter of East, ern Star. T. A. Harmon, Sr. and M. L. Harmon will receive 50-year Ma son awards at the banquet. Harris, to be presented by R. Fete Dudley, master of Shelby Lodge, was born July 27, 1900 in Roxboro. He attended public schools there and graduated from Roxboro high school in the class of 1917. He attended Trinity Col lege (Duke University) as a member of the class of 1921. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Roxoboro City ! Schools from 1937 to 1955; was secretary of this board from 19 39 to 1943 and its chairman from 1943 to 1955. iLong interested in youth work, he has been a registered Boy Scout or Scouter since 1916. He was a member of Region Six Ex ecutive Board for the years 19 49-1955, a member at Large of the National Council since 1950, and was awarded the Silver Be- - ver Award for distinguished ser vice to boyhood in 1944. His Masonic history starts with his initiation February 5, 1924 and since he has risen to Grand Master of North Carolina for the 1957-1958 term. His life-long hobby has been that of collecting friends, which as he says, makes him much happier than any accumulation of material objects. Tafit S. Putnam, Distriat Deputy Grand Master of the 37th Mason ic distriat is also expected to at tend. Rotary To Meet At Country Club Kings Mountain Rotary club, will meet Thursday for its reg ular weekly luncheon at Kings Mountain Country Club. Club members voted last week to change their meeting place from La Royale Restaurant. Dick McGinnis, program chair man for Thursday’s meeting, said Jonas Bridges, of Radio Station WKMT, will present a humorous recording of radio oral lapses and miscues. The club convenes at 12:15. AFS Group Is Completing Details On Getting Second Foreign Pupil The Kings Mountain American Field Service committee will meet again next Tuesday in an effort to complete arrangements for bringing to Kings Mountain next year a foreign student. Mrs. Porter Byrum. of Char lotte, area representative, met with the committee Tuesday and was told by Ollie Harris, finance chairman, that sufficient funds! are *‘fai sight” to assure Kings; Mountain’s participation in next year’s program. Still to be arranged is designa tion of a home, in which the ^u dent will live, as an adopted member of the family, during his stay here. Cost of participation in the pro gram is $650. 'Mrs. Byrum, a voluntary rep resentative who defrays 'her own travel expenses, explained that the organizers of the AFS feel the program the best means of international understanding. She explained that foreign stu dents get to come to the United States free of charge because of moneary exchange problems. A well-to-do family in another country would find American prices bankrupting, she noted. Foreign students come here for a nine-month term after they have finished secondary school in their own country. American students (who pay their own way) go abroad, as Jimmy Plonk will be doing, only for the sum mer because American youth don’t have the linguistic school ing to take up ciasswork in for eign high schools. All of the for eign students who come here can speak English passably well. Graeme Reeves, an adopted membaer of the P. G. Padgett family for this school year, is Kings Mountain’s first foreign visitor under the AFS program. He comes from New Zealand. Mrs. Byrum said the AFS can not include Russia in the pro gram because the Russians, thus far, have not agreed to choose their students on ttye same basis the U. S. chooses here. , City Re - Considering Fluoridation Kings Mountain Folk Own Stock In Burned Mill Lang Shoals Manufacturing Company, Which was destroyed 'b> fire, wais partly owned by sever al Mings ’Mountain citizens. C. E. Noisier is president of the company and William Herndon is a director. Pounder of the concern was the late Hunter Mauney, a brother of Mrs. C. E. Neisler, Sr. Stockholdings in the concern are held by Mr. Noisier, Mrs. C. E. Neisler, ‘Sr., Mrs. J. E. Hern don and 'her family, Mrs. F. R. Summers and her family, and by members of the R. S. Plonk fami ly Operating heads of the compa ny are D. . iH. (Buck) , Mauney, vice-phesident and superintendent, and W. A. Mauney, shcretary treasurer, 'both of Lincolnton, and sons of the late Hunter Mauney. Mr. Herndon said Wednesday that plans are indefinite for re placement of the 197-employee yam-making firm, Which, though boused in a building e parts of which was more than 100 years old, was one Of the most modem plants in the 'trade. Mr. Herndon said he did not knc-w the extent to Which the loss — placed at more than $1, 000,000 — Iwas insured, but guess ed that increased cost of machin ery means that the insurance would not cover replacement cost at today’s prices. Thfe fire broke out in a com pressor , room - shortly after 1 o' clock Mtoniday afternoon. Firemen were hampered in fighting the (blaze by high wind® and inability to get ‘sufficient water onto the blaze. i Supervisory employees of the Long Shoalls firm included Clar ence Jolly and John Floyd. —i-—i- , Candidate list Remain At 19 Affairs political simmered a gain itihiis Week, .with no additional candidates in Dhte field and the subject proving Do be an (increas ing conversational topic. It was the second consecutive week that Dhfe Candidate list had remained at 19 and gave further support to opinion of many obser vers that ithe filing activity is done. (Deadline for filling is 15 days prior to the Mlay 12 election, Which wodld be an April 27. Only definite political matter 'handled this week was appoint ment of two judges Do serve in the election. Mrs. Jackie Barrett was named Do serve as a judge in Ward 1, and Mrs. Vera Ode Cash to serve as a judge in .Ward 4. Candidates, meantime, were bte -ginning Do work in earnest in an effort to obtain the particular magical number of votes which would assure their election. Thus far, -majority of the cam paigning has been confined to personal contact With prospective voters. More candidate campaign material 'is appearing, but it has largely been limited to “Calling” cards. Only mayoral Candidates Dave Saunders and Garland Still have thus far used mass commu nication media to give their post Dions and tfeOlings about questions effecting -the' voters. The candidates already filed in clude: iFor Mayor — Mayor Glee A. Bridges, David L. Saunders, . nd farmer Mayor Garland E. Sti l. Par Ward 1 Commissioner — Comm. Ross Alexander and C. H. (Cat) Houser. Par .Ward 2 Commissioner — Comm. Boyce Gault and Dewitt Cornwell., For Ward 3 Commissioner — Comm. Luther T. Bennett, former Comm. T. J., (Tamimy) Ellison, and C. Glenn Wbdltte. (Par Ward 4 Commissiianer — Comm. Ben H. Bridges, former Comm. Paid W. Ledford and J. Clyde Gladden. Far Ward 5 Commissioner — Comm. R. Coleman Stroupe, diaries E. Blalock and Curtis V. Gaffney. , Por Board of Education,— Mrs. F. A. (Pette) McDarWL, SSfU. Lcrta W. McGill and Brace M. Peeler. Burlington’s Phenix Plant Has Made Pay Adjustments IN NEW POST — William J. (Bill) Briggs has resigned as physical director ol the Salisbury and Rowan County YMCA to ac cept a similar position with the YMCA, Spartanburg, S. C. He be gins his new duties May 1. Briggs Accepts YMCA Position William J. ('Bill) Briggs, form erly of Kings Mountain and now of Salisbury, has resigned his po sition at tihe Salisbury and Rowan County YMCA for a similar posi tion in Spartanburg, S. C. Mr. Briggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Briggs of Kings Mountain, will movp ihis family to Spartan burg about the middle of April. First physical director of the Salisbury Y, Briggs had develop ed the Salisbury . Rowan YMCA physical department into one of the most outstanding in the Car oliinas. He served as the men’s program director and organized both the Church-YMCA basket ball and volleyball leagues and the Piedmont basketball league with over 230 boys and men now participating in this program. He also Charted responsibility ifor the Y aquatic program last summer at which time over 750 boys and girds learned to swim. The Parent Night program is be ing presented by 150 boys and girls in the physical department on Thursday night in Salisbury. The Kings Mountain man is married to the former Joyce Jen kins of Gastonia. They have a daughter, Julie, and are members of Havten Lutheran Church. Central Crowns Spelling Champ Steve Carperater of Mrs. Mor rison’s eighth grade room is the Central School spelling champion l'or 195S. He won the school honors Mon. day, although he was not eligi ble to compete in the city-wide championships for the First Na tional Bank medal. He won the city spelling championship two years ago while a sixth grade student at East School, thus ma king him ineligible to seek a sec ond championship. However, he was permitted to compete for the right to represent Kings Mountain in the district spelling bee at Charlotte. Moose Election Set Thursday Officers of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 will be elected i in club balloting Thursday from 11 until 8 o’clock p. m. All members arte asked to par i ticpate in the voting at the lodge j on Bessemer Oilty road. The nom : iraations are: For governor — Gaither Ltd better and Thomas (Bearden. 'For junior governor — B. F. | Henderson and George Newton. For iprelate — Dennis Goforth, | James E. Woodward, and John Higher. Far treasurer — G. B. Bridges and Daw Russ. For three-year trustee — J. M. Queten and Willie Grice. The membership will also vote on sending (Horace Brown, alter nate, and Fred Dixon to the na tfesnaS,ySStirnttogy in Pa, to Augitst. Local Employees Among Majority Getting More Pay Phenix Plant employees of Burlington Industries are among the “vast majority” of Burling ton's 55,000 workmen who have received upward wage adjust, ments. Supt. Ben Grimes confirmed the fact, following a statement by Vice-Chairman J. C. Cowan, Jr., in Gastonia Tuesday night, in which he said his company had been making adjustments since the wage increase move ment was launched by Cannon Mills. Mr. Oowan explained that Bur lington’s vast 31-division textile operation actually includes 12 separate textile businesses. Using as an example the full-fashion ed hosiery industry, he comment ed that much of the industry is being liquidated, as seamless hose take top place in women’s apparel taste. Obviously, he said, none of these full-fashioned hose manufacturers can raise wages. Mr. Cowan spoke at a press dinner which his company gave at Gaston Country Club. He reviewed Burlington’s 1958 operations, which showed a three percent decline in sales, but a 25 percent drop in profits. The outlook is brighter for 19 59, he said, and predicted that profits for the first half of the fiscal year will be better than the comparable period last year. Be said the profits dip was due to heavy competition within the industry resulting in low profit margins and mentioned wistfully the cartel nature of the steel in dustry which can regulate pro duction to demand more readily than others and can control pri ces. “Tjiere’s no danger of such a situation in textiles,” he noted. “Burlington sales represented on ly about five percent of the na tional total las year.” Attending the dinner from Kings Mountain were Supt. Ben Grimes and Personnel Manager R. B. Payne of the Phenix plant, Martin Harmon and Neale Pat rick of the Herald staff. THREE FIRES City firemen doused three fires last week, two grass fires of no damage on Wells street and Landing street. The other was a trash fire on the Dean Buick parking lot Sunday at 3:55 p. im. It started when the Jaycees, conducting a paper drive, set fire to some paper collected that could not be used, the fire spreading to an oil dump. Fireman C. D. Ware said it amounted to nothing and no damage was reported. BANQUET SPEAKER — Dr. Har vew Bumgardner, Kings Moun tain native, will be featured speaker at Tuesday's Lions club Farmer's night banquet. Lions To Fete Area Farmers ‘D)r. Harvey .Bumgardner, N. C. State College professor, will Make the principal address at .the an nual Farmer’s Night banquet of the Kings Mountain Lions dub Tuesday night. A native of Kangs (Mountain, Dr. Bumgardner, a poultry speci alist. will relate Ms experiences in Poland last summer , and will also Show slides (hie made in hiis travels. Edwin Moore, chairman at the Farmer’s Night committee, said he expected some 100 guests for ■the gathering. The meeting will begin at 7 o'clock. No New News On Gymtorium No final word has yet 'been re ceived on efforts by Architect J. !L. Beam to pare thfe proposed Da vidson school gymtorium to spec ifications to 'meet the City schools building budget. Supt. B. N. Barnes said he had talked with .the .architect on Tues day and that he had not received replies from the low general con tract bidder, ,A. A. Ramsey & Son, of Shelby. (Mr. Bamecs noted that the school board has 30 days in which ito make a decision, tout texpress «i hope the full 30 days would not be required. The schools bad budgeted $73, 000 for the Davidson project, and low bids on the desired plan to taled $107,000., Over-Crowded Hospital Asks Aid Of County For 25-Bed Expansion Kings Mountain hospital offi cials took their problem of over, crowding to the county board of commissioners Monday and felt they found a sympathetic ear. The hospital board of directors says it needs 25-addiitional beds which would be contained in a wing estimated to cost $225,000. Specifically, the delegation at tending Monday’s session, which included George W. Mauney, president, Grady Howard, admin -1 istrator, George H. Mauney, a director, and Dr. George W. J Plonk, staff member, asked the county to underwrite between $55,000 to $60,000 of the estima ted cost. President Mauney said the North Carolina Medical Care. association has indicated it will view an application for state matching funds with sympathy. It is anticipated that the federal government would also share a sizeable porion of the construc tion costs. President Mauney told the commission that Kings Mountain Hospital has available some $15, 000 to 20,000 for building. These are funds originally given by Kings Mountain industries for building a hospital and were left unspent when the county built | the original 24-bed plant via bond funds. Both President Mauney and •2£r. H-.v'ard testified to so fact that many times patients must be housed in ithe passageways, and both pointed to the fact that kings Mountain hospital has never asked the oounty lor more than its pro-rata share of funds. It was pointed out that the county spent extra funds at Shelby hospital to restore its poor financial status and Comm. Knox Sarratt was quoted as saying that Kings Mountain hospital, had if asked, would have been entitled to its share of the money derived from sale of the former Shelby hospital administrator’s home. Several methods of financing were suggested, including possi ble levy of a two-cent tax (with in the limits of the currently le gal eight-oent limit) for the pur pose of defraying the county’s pant of the proposed new con struction. Question of legality a rose,% and County (Attorney C. C. Horn was instructed to obtain an opinion. Some $17,000 per year would be derived from this sour ce. Kings Mountain Hospital was opened in 1951 and has grown swiftly through three plant ex pansions, including two addi tional wings and a nurse’s home. Tentative plans for the propos ed expansion call for the new wing to extend f.om the Lottie Goforth wing toward Kdgemont avenue. Likely Action: Referendum Oi Reversal The dity board of commission ers was to meet Wednesday night at 8 o’clock With the question , of fluoridating the city’s water 'sup ply a major item on the agenda. The board Mad scheduled a pub lic hearing on the question after Dr. J. E. Anthony 'had stated une quivooall opposition to fluoridat ing the water ..supply and r.timer ous citizens 'h!ad Stated opposition to board miemlbers. Whether the hearing would at tract a large crowd was not known. Expected ito attend was Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, county health officer. Dr. Anthony said Me didn’t ex ptect to attend, as his views , had already been mlade' public. ■ Meantime, board members were still getting comments, 'largely in opposition. It was likely the board would take one of two actions Wednes day night: 1) to reverse the pre vious decision 'to proceed to fluor idate; or 2) take another inform ational poll, as was conducted in 1957, on the question of fluorida tion at the May 12 election. In 1957, Kings (Mount aiin citi zens voted about 2 to 1 in favor of fluoridation.. Local Musicians In Choial Group Five high school students will participate in the state musici ans, meet for choral directors and students to be held in Greens boro during the weekend. Charles (Ballance, band and cho rus director at Kings Mountain high school, said the local musici ans will leave Thursday and be In GreenSboro for rehearsal and concerts. , Don Oraiig is directing the cho rus, Which will include ithe follow ing local students and chorus members: Patsy Foster, first so prano ; (Martha Raines, second so prano; Frankie Gladden, alto; Darriel Sperling, tenor; and J. W. GOines, bass. Jerry Patterson, Bethware high school piano student of Mrs. Mar tin Harmon, will go to Greens boro Saturday to participate in ithe sbnior high school state piano contest. 4 Former Foote Men Now At Pittsburgh Some 20 former Foote Mineral Company employees are now em ployed at Pittsburgh Plate Glass’s Shelby subsidiary, one of them told the Herald Wednes day. The total would be about 25 percent of the number dischar ged by Foote recently due to for thcoming expiration of the com pany’s contract with he Atomic Energy Commission. Air Express Can Be Slow Freight Like program chairmen who get fidgiity when a speaker is late, businessmen expecting special shipments for sales promotions get fidgiity, too. “Did your orchids come?” Humes Houston was asked Monday morning, a couple hours after the beginning of Kings Mountain Drug Com pany’s annual pre-inventory sale. I "Just don’t mention orchids”, Mr. Houston muttered under his breath. Not on time, but better late than never, the orchids sche duled to be given to the first 300 lady customers during the sale, arrived from Hawaii in the afternoon. Late in the morning, a Dou glas Airport air expressman called to ask what the drug firm wanted to do about an orchid shipment. He was in formed to “put 'em on a bus”. Then he didn’t know whether he could do that or not. He was told, “Find out”. Yes, he could. The orchids had been at the airport for well over 24 hours. “I don’t believe air express Is so good,” Druggist Charlie Blanton opined.
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