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> VOL. 70 No. 37 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C.. Thursday, September 17, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Population Greater Kings Mountain City limits 10,320 7,206 Today Local News Bulletins GARDEN CLUB The Magnolia Garden club will meet Tuesday at 3:30 p. <m. at the home of Mrs. M. D. Phifer on Wesit Gold street. DISCHARGED Mrs. Hunter Allen was dis charged Tuesday from Mercy Hospital at Charlotte where a she underwent a major opera f tion last week. She is recuper ating at her home. REUNION The annual Mitcham and Herndon reunion will be held Sunday afternoon at Lake Crawford. The program will begin at 1 o’clock NO FIRES City Fireman C. D. Ware said Wednesday ' the department had no calls during the past week. IN NEW HOME Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Tate have occupied their new home at 402 Hawthorne Road and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tate of Shel by have occupied the former Tate residence at 113 Wells street. REUNION The annual Haywood Har mon family reunion will be held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Badger in Gastonia. Clan descendants are invited to attend. OFF-TO-SCHOOL Don McCarter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McCarter, has resumed his Studies sat the Air Force Military Academy ait W Denver, Colorado. IN NEW POSITION Fred W. Kiser, recently re leased from active duty with the Transportation Research and Engineering Command ait Fort Eustis, Va., has accepted a position as field and labor - raitory test engineer of indus trial products With Minneapo lis Moffine Corip,, Minn.. Mrs. Kiser and son, son, Mark, will join him later. ROTARY MEETING Ed Goter,- assistant manager of Foote Mineral Company’s Kings Mountain operation, will address members of the Kings Mounltain Rotary club at their, meeiting Thursday at 12:15 at the Country Club. Mr. Goter will discuss the area’s natural resources. Paul McGinnis ar ranged the program. ATTENDED MEETING Supt. B. N. Barnes, Harry Jaynes, principal of Central school, and Miss Alice Averitt, city school’s teaching consul tant, attended a meeting Wed nesday ait Elizabeth School in Charlotte, -theme of which was • explanation of the National Student Defense Education Program. LIONS PROGRAM Members of the Rings Moun tain Lions club will hear an address on the Lions “White Cane’’ program, a program benefiting (the blind and oth ers with defective vision at their meeting at the Women’s Club Tuesday night at 7 o’ clock. John Ed Davis, of Shel by, is scheduled to address, ac cording to John Caveny, who arranged the program. BUILDING PERMITS City Inspector J. W. Webster issued a permit Monday to Grace, McDaniel to alter her home on Walker Street. Esti mated cost of a one-room addi tion to be made is $700. A per mit was also issued to Harmon OH Company to build a ser vice station on E. King Street between Cleveland avenue and Oriental avenue. Estimated cast of the block structure, contracted by R. H. Moss, is $2500. COfC Meeting of at Commerce, has called a mem bership meeting for (Monday night at City Hall at 8 p. m. Mr. Wteiss labeled the Mon day nigh*, meeting as "re-organ izational" and urged aM mem bers to attend. He said the Chamber of Commerce considers as mem be s all those Who initially pur chased memberships at $25 each.__ Jtfonday Night ™ Oan Weiss, vtcepmesident Kings Mountain Chamber Initial United Fund Campaign Budget $17,750 Banner Crowds Anticipated Event Features Exhibits, Rides, Fun, Fireworks The weather was smiling on preparations for the twelfth an nual Beth ware Communilty Pair Wednesday afternoon. The fair was slated to go in full sway a bout sundown. Bright sun made for perfect fair weather. Myers Hambrighlt, fair man ager, said the fair had been op en since about one o’clock Wed nesday afternoon, but mainly preparations for Wednesday night. 1 The Bethware school lot, site of the annnual fair, was buzzing with activity as students erected booths and R. C. Lee riding de vices set up rides and concess ions. The fair feautres 11 rides, five for the klidddes and six for adults. Among those erected are the Tilt-A-Whirl, Ferris wheels, the Octopus, the Ohair-O-Plane, and a carrousel. seniors at Bethware High School are sponsoring a booth featuring sandwiches, ice cream, candy, and drinks, while Ithe Monogram club will handle the bingo booth. Mr. Hambright said the Cleve land County Life Saving Crew is to feature its equipment in a display and Cleveland County will have its new fire equipment on (the grounds. Among the Other exhibits will be those by the Cleveland Coun ty Soil Conservation commission, the Cleveland County Foresters, and commercial exhibits by Kings Mountain Farm Center, McGinnis Furniture Company, Cooper’s Inc., Stanley Home Pro ducts, Hardin-Dixon Tractors, Allen’s Flower Shop, Murray’s Appliances, and World Book En cyclopedia. School exhibits will include work done in hobbies and crafts .by students. Others will be the FHA, FFA, French Club, and Monogram Club. A concession sponsored by the j FFA is a ‘tthrow a ball” dunk the boy” booth. The “dunk the boy” part will be handled by Kern Cash, who commented he volun teered for the job. Mrs. Charlies !M. Fisher, direc tor of the Women’s department, said the fair has miany exhibits of household arts executed by fe male citizens of the Beth ware community that are of special interest. She pointed out a special fea ture of the department is an old fashioned kitchen display by Mrs. F. F. 'Herndon. The kitchen is comprised of antique butter chums* dutch ovens, gourd dip pers, dkrved wooden rolling pin and dough bowl, kerosene lan terns, and antique furnishings. “Of course our cakes, pies, and pastries will bfe on sale again this year, and that’s always of inter est,” she said. Mrs. Carl Falls, working in the flower department of the wo men’s section, reported her hen has laid another odd egg. Tito Herald deported some months back that the hen had laid an egg-within-an-egg. This time It laid an egg-attach ed-to-am-egg — both hardshelled. The egg is not on display. They always seem to get broken by us handling them, Mrs. Falls said. Thursday will 'be Ohiildrten's (Continued On Page Eight) NEW PASTOR — Rev. Fred Hicks is the new pastor of Patterson Grove Baptist church. He assum ed his duties lent Sunday. He was recently pastor of Hardin Baptist church. Tuesday Series Features Gannon Rev! Herbert D. Garmon, pas tor of Central Methodist church, will be featured lecturer on the “This I Believe” series at Kings 'Mountain Baptist church, Tues day, September 22, at 7:30 p. m. “‘This I Believe” is the title of a series of lectures on various denominations, sects ‘and faiths given by the respective leaders. Each speaker gives his 'beliefs in a 45 minute lecture and, then, answers questions from the au dience the remaining 15 minutes. Prior to Mr. Garmon’s address Tuesday, he will be featured on the question-and-answer program over Radio Station WKMT Mon day at 6 p. m. The public is in vited to call their questions in to CMr. Garmon at radio WKMT, tel ephone 999, and the answers will he discussed over the radio Rev. M. D. DulBose, pastor of Kings Mountain 'Baptist church said, "this series has created a grteat deal of interest and, it is felt, that each individual who has attended Was had to come to a firm grop With themselves as to their belief. The World today is in great need for harmony in Chris, tianity so that the moral issues Of the day, such as, Communism, aldohoQism, delinquency, etc., can be met with a tremendous force by all of the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, joining hand and defeating its common enemies. We do not, advocate nor belie vie that denOminationalism is wrong but pray that through this seri« es of meeting that all the follow ers of Christ Can see there is a common ground to agree and stand on in the fade Of their ene mies.” The public is cordially invited to attend these meetings, Mr. Du Bose added. Vaycees To Sell . Soft Drinks Sunday The Kings Mountain Jaycees will sell soft drinks at the ov erhead bridge on King street Sunday afternoon. Pepsi Colas (preparted foun tain style), will be offered by the Jayoees all afternoon. Pres ident CB. F. (Maner said. . The proceeds have not been i earmaikted for any special pro ject but will help finance char itable work, long a project of the Junior Chamber of Com merce, ft was pointed out. Two Adams Units Bought By Harris Who Assumes Operations Monday Harris Super Markets, Inc., has purchased Adams Super Market Number 4 of Kings Mountain and Adams' York Road, Gastonia, store and will assume their oper ation on Monday. Ted Teagle, of the Harris firm, was in Kings Mountain Tuesday and made the announcement. Addition of the two Adams’ stores will expand the Harris op erataon to 11 outlettn, including ten food stores and one drug store and will add the fourth city to the chain. Harris currently has stores in Charlotte, Gastonia and Salisbury. In the past fiscal year, the Harris firm grossed $16,000,000 from nine outlets-■ Headquarters for /the Harris firm is Charlotte. The firm was organized in 1935. Mr. Teagie said plans for the Kings Mountain operation are as yet incomplete. However, he said Harris ‘in Kings Mountain will be operated much as its oth er outlets are, featuring national brand merchandise, including to bacco products. He said it is an ticipated the present Adams per sonnel will be retained. Adams opened the Kings Mountain store in April 195T. The York Road building the firm occupies *s owned toy War ren Reynolds. Ben Hardin Is manager of the Filth Day School Enrollment Up 26 Over 1858 \ (Fifth day enrollment figures in Kings Mountain City Schools werte up six over the first day’s registration. Superintendent B. N. 'Barnes reported an enrollment of 2302 j :the first day of the 1959-60 school term and the fifth diay total was 2308. Fifth day totals for the 58-59 term were 2282, 26 below this year. \ Enrollment in the white schools of the city now totals 2024 while Davidson school 'has 284 students enrolled lin grades 1-12. No classes are heavily loaded now. The fifth grade 'Situation at West'eleme n tary school, a 44-stu dent claiss, was eased When thte school board ruled ad our-of-dis trict students be transferred to Central school. Thte claiss load is now evenly balanced. Applications for transfer of 17 students was acted upon by the board at a called meteting last week, which helped in easing ov erload problems. “There have been no serious problems, and school opening has priooeedted very smoothly,” Supt. Barnes siaid. He also reported that the Kings Mountain City Schools Board Will meet in regular ses sion Monday, September 21, at Central school at 7:30 p. m. With school . opening problems ironed out, the metetiog will be routine, he reported. King Sheet Is Traffic Hazard Citizens and out-of-towners should beware of Kng street Wh^n driving as evidenced to/ the high number of accdebts that have occurred there during the past weeks. City police added an other thrlee to the Streets toll this week. s . Hast Wednesday at 6:20 p. m.. Donald Wayne Ray of route 2, Harriman, Tennessee, and Frank Tessesmeer of 401 E. King street were involved in .a crash when Tesseneer, advancing east on King, slowed down to make a ■right turn and the Other car tried to pass on the right side, striking Tesseneer's cAr on he right side. Ray, driver Of the 'first car, was charged with improper pass ing iby investigating officer ElMs King. Damage to Ray’s ear, a 1955 Ford, was to the entire left side and estimated at $250. Damage to Tesseneer’s 1950 model Chev rolet pickup truck was $150 to the right front fender and light. Tuesday at &30 p. m. ' William [ Conley SChronce of route 1, driv ing a 1949 Chevrolet, and Miney Denton Wehunt, drivng a 1954 Plymouth were involved in a crash at the Intersection of King stretet with (Battleground avenue which involved $100 in property damage. The first car struck the We hunt vehicle in the left side with the right fender. Damage was $50 to each Car. R. R. Caririgan investigated for dty pcfllice. Wednesday morning at 7:05 a 1959 Opel and a 1955 Ford col lided, resulting in $300 damage to each car. The Ford was driven toy Ema Loretta Helms, 3222 Campbell Drive, Charlotte, While the Opel was driven by John Robert Smith of Woodside Drive, dty. Mrs. Helms Stated she couldn’t toil the color Of the light at the Intersection of EL King street with Cleveland avenue because of the sun. She proceed'd on. Mr. Smith! said he stopped for the light, and when It changed in his favor entered the irctersee I tton, where the two cars collided. 'F. R. Sanders investigated for | city police. SUPPLY PASTOR Dr. Walter Baker, retired minister of Gastonia, will be come supoly pastor of Dixon Pre^iyterian church on Sep tember 27. He will serve the October, No Hospital Asking Bond Election For Addition Kings Mountain hospital will petition the county board of com missioners to call a bond election the local fund share of a propos ed 25-bed addition /to the hospi tal. ' The hospital directors passed a resolution to make the request last Thursday and expects to make the request formal at the Monday mid-month session of the commission. The bond issue request will be for a maximium of $100,000, per haps less. Plans for the 25-bed add ition have been drawn and architects estimate that the cost of the addition will be $275,000. On basis of former share for mula between county, state and federal governments, the county would provide 31.9 percent of the cost, tihe state would provide 13.1 percent and ithe federal govern ment would provide 55 percent. After examination of all possi ble rouites for providing the county share, the commission came to the conclusion that a bond issue would be the only means available in /time to meet a deadline of the State Medical Care commission, which has ask ed assurance county funds would be available not later than De cember 31. Conversations between hospi tal officials and the county com mission have been underway for several months. Hospital Manager Grady How ard reports an occupancy rate of 90 percent, with frequent over loads, inability to accept patients some of the time, and frequent necessity for use of passageways for patients. He and other officials have pointed out that the proposed ad dition for beds only will require no additional service facilities, ' noting that the hospital is al ready fully-equipped with opera ting rooms, kitchen and other fa- 1 cilities for a 75-bed establish ment. The local fund “if” Isn’t the only one. State funds will be a vailable only if the hospital con struction portion of a statewide $34 million bond issue is approv ed on October 27. In addition, while federal hospital construc tion iunds have been appropria ted, they have not yet been allo cated to the several states; Mr. Howard said. Smith Reported In San Antonio William Kenneth Smith, Kings ' Mountain life insurance sales man, Who left home fOur weeks ago, has heen reported employed in a retail store in Sian Antonio, Texas. Chief of Police Martin Wane said a local citizen, olbviously listed by Smith as a reference, had been contacted by a Mr. Syl via, a San Antonio retailer, who had Employed Smith. The inquiry was routed to Chief Ware. The Chief said We informed the inquirer of the situation. Chief Ware said Wednesday he’d had no other information on Smith. He had previously token traced via airplane ticket purchases from Charlotte to New Orleans, via. Atlanta'. At the time of his departure, Smith was a salesman for Sky land life Insurance Company, and had previously represented both State Capital Liife Insurance Company and Liberty Life Insur ance Company Mere. vHe and his wife lived on Mead oWbrook Road. DAB Sponsoring Constitution Week Colonel Frederick Hambright Chapter, DAR, lis calling altten ition this week to the observan ce of Constitution Week Sep tember 17-23. Business houses in the city are being asked to fly the A merican flag and schools and churched are being asked to note the observance at pro grams or during the regular ‘ Sunday service. Citizens are also invited to read again the United States Constitution. The local chapter, Daughter!? of American Revo lution, featured the Constitu tion In the regular monthly program held recently. Tolly Shufbrd is chap - Nicholson To Quit Bending Business commissioner Ross Alexander Buys License By MARTIN HARMON Corbett Nicholson, cilty gas su perintendent and a licensed bandsman, is retiring from the bonding 'business by agreement with the city board, Mayor Glee A. Bridges aind City Commission er 'Ben Bridges said Wednesday. Meantime, City Commissioner Ross Alexander bias purchased a city privilege 'license permitting him to become a 'bondsman. (Both Mayor Bridges and Com missioner Bridges said Mr. Nich olson agreed Monday to retire from the business of providing bonds for folks lodged in dity jail. For several months, Mr. Nich olson’s rolle as a city employee and a licensed bondsman has oeen under fire by Ernest Hayes, mother licensed 'bondsman, who inferred collusion on the part of Mr. NidhJblsan and members of >f the police department. Mr. Bayes, before the city commis sion, Wad charged that the re quests for licensed bondsmen were channteLed to Mr. Nichol son, with exception of a few poor risks from out-of-town or out-of state. These charges were denied by Mr. Nicholson, 'by Chief of Po lice Martin Ware and by police iepartment desk sergeants. Mr. Nicholson and the poli ee rier contended that Ihiis Obtaining majority of the bonding bit sines's was fact that (Mr. Nicholson made himself available at City fall during evening hours. In :um, Mr. ’Nicholson contended halt he seldom did any bonding work dining his regular daily schedule, denied he (had neglected ris gas department duties in any way, and always handled any emergency service calls night and lay. Comm. Ben 'Bridges saiid Wed replay Chat, without threats, memtors of the commission had old Mr. Nidholson that his side ine bonding (business didn't ‘look well” due Co his city hall smployrment as gas superinten dent and fact that his office in Dity Hall is adjacent to the po lice department office. He and Mayor (Bridges said Mr. Nicholson had informed the commission he would retire from his bonding activities. As city natural gas department superintendent, Mr. Nicholson is being paid $4800 per year. Currently, the three licensed bondsmen are Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Hayete, arid (Mr. Alexander, who purchased his city licence (cost £20) Monday. City Clterk Joe McDaniel, Jr., said Wednesday he had received other inquiries concerning the x*st of the bondsmans license but no other purchases. KIWANIS CLUB Ernest J. Dowd, Jr., executive secretary of Central Piedmont Industries, of Charlotte, will be the speaker at Thursday night’s Kiwanis club meeting. The club convenes at 6:45 at the Woman’s club. * Please Remember Picture Deadline Citizens who desire use of pictures in the Herald are ask ed to remember the new pic ture deadline, which is noon on Tuesdays. • The deadline had to be ad vanced four hours due to a change in bus schedule. The Herald gets picture engravings in Spartanburg, S. C„ and the last usuable Tuesday bus lea ves shortly after noon. Society pictures, if possible, should be at the Herald not la ter than Monday afternoon. Quebec Firm Suing Lithium Lithium Corporation of Ameri ca is defendant in a $4,447,000 suit for damages, lodged in Minneapolis, Minn., oy Quebec Lithium Corporation for alleged damages following notification of cancellation by Lithium Corpora tion of a contract to buy lithium ore. Pierre Beauchemin, president of Quebec Lithium, was quoted as saying the damage suit was lodged due to refusal of Lithiuip Corporation to accept delivery each month, until March 1962, of 17;000 “units” of lithium ore, as required under terms of a con tract signed by the two compan ies last March. Lithium Corporation announ ced in August it had informed Quebec Lithium the raw mater ials contract between the two firms was being terminated, that it would accept no more deliver ies, and concurrently announced plans for consolidating its oper ations at the nearby Bessemer City plant aind plans for resum ption of lithium mining in this area. ! When tthe August announce ment was made, Richard Neilson, Bessemer City plant manager, declined comment on Lithium’s contract with the Quebec firm except to acknowledge that the termination date did not coincide with the January 1, 1960 wind-up of the Lithium Corporation con tract with the Atomic Energy commission. He added, “We’re rather sensitive about the (Que bec) contract.” Lithium Corporation had dis continued its own mining opera tions months ago and subse quently sold itis mining equip ment at auction. Two other United States firms. Aluminum Company of America and Kaiser Aluminum Company, were reported some two years a go, to have had similar difficul ties due to contracts with Cana dian suppliers of aluminum ores. With aluminum momentarily in plentiful supply, both these com paniess were reported to have ne gotiated stretch-outs on their contract committment for raw ores. Quebec Lithium contends that the contract with Lithium Corp oration is firm, with no escape hatches. It sent shipments to the i United States for about 90 per- j cent of its production. Motorists Bewaie! City Police Again Operating Old Whammy Motorists beware!' Put wings on the elevator loot! The ole dity whammy’s out again — or was Wednesday afternoon. Officers Ralph Oarrigain and ©ud Ware had the whammy duty and set up shop on West King street, just a few feet east Of the Goforth street Grossing. The radio timing device logs a car's speed in all of 66 feet erf travel. ft Is an ingenious device, can ble geared to catch ’em east bound or Westbound (hut not bath alt the same time). The of ficer tn the control oar pushes a button, and therefore has the timing machine all ready for the next customer headed in the particular direction for which the machine is set . When the car’s wheels hit the first rubber hose a tittle wheel begins to move, along with an other hand which records the wheels tuit the second hose, the miles per -hour indicator hand stops on 30, 33, or (and this is tough!) 36. Speed limit on King street <U. S. 74) is 35 miles per hour, legal state limit on all its high ways. Some city streets Carry lower limits. The whammy went hack into (business Shortly after 2 o’clock Wednesday. By 3:15 the record showed three motorists called on the carpet. The first two, only slightly exceeding the speed limit, had been let off with warnings. Conversations were underway between the third and the hailing officer. Court costs lor a whammy conviction are slightly over 514, or were when it was last put in use. In addition, a speed ing Oonvtiotia v costs points in the new North Carolina sys tem governing driving inlrac- j tions. Enough points result in Eight Groups Participating, In United Drive Kings Mountain's first United Fund campaign will be launched in October with a campaign goal of $17,750. President Sam Stallings said ■the United Fund directors adopt ed the budget last week and List ed eight participating funds, with their individual budgets, as: Girl Scouts $1500. Cleveland Counity Life Saving Crew $2200. Kings Mountain Red Cross $5354. Boy Scouts $2266. Kings Mountain School Band $2500 City Recreation Commission $2000. Jacob S. Mauney Library $1000. Special Education Fund $ 500, Approved budgets of the eight participating organizations to tals $17,320 and the United Fund directors estimated their opera ting expenses for advertising materials, postage, and supplies will require $430, bringing the total to $17,750. "We expect to launch the fund campaign about October 1," Mr. Stallings said. Though not affiliated with Carolina® United Fund, Mr. Stall lugs said the local group will seek to coincide the Kings Moun tain fund campaign with Others throughout ithe itwo states and will use Carolinas United Fund advertising materials and other campaign tools. , “Though we’re not affiliated, Carolinas United Fund officials have been very helpful in help ing Kings Mountain organize a United Fund appeal. Twice rep resentatives of United Fund have visited with the local board to advise us in getting underway— all free of charge—and, in addi tion, campaign advertising ma terials have been supplied aft the same costt charged affiliated groups.” Mr. Stallings said there are 114 affiliated groups in Carolinas U nited Fund. “The directors here have met regularly each -Cveek for the past eight. They have carefully exam ined the budgets of the partici pating organizations and feel that the budgets are most valid, based on need for the coming years operations.” The group meets again Thurs day night to further plan for the fund campaign. Mr. Stallings noted that one mammoth campaign will replace eight individual campaigns, as the participating organizations agree to make no other solicita tions during the year, minus U nited Fund approval. Numerous industrial and bus iness firms have indicated they will offer employees payroll de duction method of giving to the combined campaign. “The budget of $17,750 appears, face, a large amount. However, the directors of United Fund are confident that the combined campaign means a lower total budget, much lower operating expenses than eight separate ap peals would require, and a vast sbving of fund-soliciting man power. We feel the budget is rea listic and will be attained.” Board Session i Shorts, Sweet The city board of commission ers held a short 30-minute ses sion last Thursday. Actions were routine, including 1) Approving of parking on the East side of S. Battleground ave nue, from Falls to Gold street, on request of Dick McGinnis. 2) Approval of a petition for curb and gutter on Ganitt street, from Fulton to Walker street, if the petition is in order, and when funds are available. 3) Cancellation of a $6.30 char ge made in error to William Z. Cajshion. 4) Confirmed paving assess ments on E. Parker aim Baker streets. 5) Voted to advertise a curb and-gubter improvements scroll on Wattereon, Deal, Lackey, Par ker and E. Gold street and Benfield road. 6) Voted expenditures of $600 co $700 for purchase of transfor mers and other needed electrical hardware to Improve power ser vice to Cherryvllle road custo mers outside the corporate Mmitis. 7) Appoved installation of a