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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 **• «*■» *M Creator Wtaq* Mountain b dortvet! boa «ho IMS «3n*» Mountain city directory eottxun. TUo city Maltt figure b bom tno noted Statu aim of list. VOL 70 NO. 46 1C Paffes IQ Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 19, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS WOMAN'S CLUB DRIVE UNDERWAY — Four members of the Junior Woman’s Club axe pic tured above as they map plans for the club’s annual Clothing £loset drive to secure clothes for the needy of the community. Left to right are Mrs. John H. Gamble. Mrs. Bill Bates. Mrs. Bill Jonas, and Mrs. Charles Alexander. Mrs. Jonas is chairman of this year's project. Last year, over 1000 garments were distributed lo cally via the appeal. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Kings Mountain United Fund Donations!op $10,000 Mark Local News Bulletins AT CONFERENCE Attending (the Dali conference of the North, Carolina Music Educators association held at Greensboro this week were Charles Ballance, City schools band director, Mrs. Richard McGinnis, public schools music teacher, and Mrs. Martin Har mon, piano teacher. CAKE SALE Kings Mountain Chapter No. 123 Order of Eastern Star will sponsor a sale of homemade cakes, pies, and cookies Satur day beginning at 9:00 a. m. in the building formerly occupied by Griffin’s Drug Oompamy and at Bridges Hardware Company. GIRL SCOUTS Members of the Girl Scout Neighborhood committee will gather for a regular meeting Tuesday at 10 a. im. at St. Matthew's Lutheran church. All Scout workers are invited to attend. KIWANIS CLUB Regular meeting of the Ki wanis club .will be held Thurs day night at 6:45 p. m. ait the Woman’s club. No program has been planned for the meeting. MAUNEY ELECTED Aubrey Mauney, qf Kings Mountain, was elected last week a Piedmont Council rep resentative to the Naltional Council, Boy Scouts of America. He was also named a member - alt-large on the Piedmont Coun cil executive board. THANKSGIVING MUSICAL Students of East Elementary school will present a musical program on the Thanksgiving theme Friday night at 7 p. m. in the school auditorium. The program is under direction of Mrs. Dick McGinnis, music su pervisor in the city schools. BUILDING PERMIT City Inspector J. W. Webster issued a permit Tuesday to Framk Adams to alter his one story frame house on York Road. Estimated cost of repairs to the dwelling is $200^. HARMON HOME M. L. Harmon, who under went an eye operation at a Charlotte hospital last week, returned home Friday. His physician said Tuesday his condition was satisfactory. GOLF LESSONS P. C. Card, manager of Kings Mountain Country Club, said group lessons for golf begin ners will begin Saturday room ing on the club course. A class for ladies will be conducted at 9:30 and for children at 10 o’* cvx'k. The classes will be con ducted each Saturday morning. Two Schools 100 Peicent Contributors kings Mountain’s United Fund, reported lagging last week in creased to $10,211 — past the halfway mark — according to reports compiled this week. The week’s gain approximated $2700. •Meantime, directors of the Uni ted Fund organization held a dinner session Monday with a Carolinas United Fund official to determine ways and means of 'bringing the campaign for $18, 000 to a successful conclusion. Sam Stallings, president of the United Fund organization and campaign chairman, announced figures Monday on divisions Which have completed their work. '’Same of the figures make very good reading,” he said, “and in dicate that citizens are quite wil ling to give. It appears that com pletion of solicitations would swell the total considerably.” Mr. Stallings had high praise for faculty and employees of East and North schools. (Both these schools became members of the "100 percent club” as all members of the staff, from prin cipal to cafeteria employees, made a donation to the United Fund. Most lagging of all divisions is the commercial firm group, with only $407 reported. Of the total, $275 came from service stations, oil distributors and their employ ees. Following is the latest compi lation on divisions and firms (Continued On Page Eight) MISS BETHWARE — Barbara Yarbrough, senior at Beth ware school, has been named "Miss Bethware" by the student body. Miss Yaibrough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Yarbrough, is a cheerleader, a homecoming at tendant, and member of the FHA, Monogram, and Science clubs. r SPAGHETTI SUPPER The Kings Mountain Catho lic church will sponsor a spag hetti supiper Sunday from 5 to 7 p. m. ait the American Legion Hall with tickets available at $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. The project is under ' the direction of the church’s building committee and yourig ladies of ithe Catholic Youth Group are serving the meal. Hospital Admits 18,000 Patients Since Door Were Opened In 1951 More than 18,000 patients, ex clusive of newborn babies, have been admitted for treatment at Kings Mountain hospital since it admitted its first patient on April 1, 1951. The average number of patients per year exceeds 2500. Now a fully-accredited 50-toed hospital, the institution opened as a 22-bed establishment, result of a county-wide hospital impro vements bond election which pro vided $160,000 for building the Kings Mountain plant and $240, for improvements to the Shelby plant. Since the original construction, three major plant expansions have been made. A year after it opened, a 12-toed addition was built and, in 1953, a nurse’s home was constructed. The last addi tion, including 14 beds and ex panded service facilities, was built in 1966. Business Manager Grady (Ho ward says the total plant invest ment now exceeds $600,000. The funds have come largely from tax sources, including coun ty. state, and federal govern ments, but numerous gifts have been made to the hospital. Major one was a bequest by the late Miss Lottie Goforth of her entire estate for the building of a hospital here. The bequest is credited as the Impetus for build ing Kings Mountain hospital. The second addition to Che hospital bears Miss Goforth’s name and her portrait is prominently dis played at the hospital. Other gifts included gifts of land, now a part of the hospital site. W. A. Williams, former county hospital trustee, gave two acres of the hospital site and a half-acre of the property was donated by Blackmer & Company. A more recent donation was a gift of stocks used in purchasing surgi cal equipment, toy Mrs. Kate Falls Frazier, widow of the .late Dr. O. G. Falls. Still other gifts have come from local industrial firms and individuals. Numerous hos pital rooms are “memorial rooms,” having been outfitted by various individuals, families and \ organizations. Kings Mountain hospital num i bers 70 employees with an annu al payroll of about $150,000. It showed a 90 percent census, exclusive of newborn, for the year ending September 30, which I hospital officials regard as an 1 unusually high occupancy rate. In contrast to majority of the nation’s hospitals, the Kings Mountain plant has seldom show ed deficits, and these have been small. On December 12, citizens of the county will consider a bond issue for a fourth plant addition which would provide 25 additional beds, increasing the plant to 75-bed ca pacity. Suicide Ruled In Booth Death By Pistol Shot Walter Robert Booth, 34, resi dent of route 1, died Wednesday at 12:45 p. m. in Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, of a self-in flicted pistol wound in the head. Booth allegedly shot himself between 1:30 and 2:30 p. m. Tues day at his residence and was found by his wife When she re turned home. Cleveland County Coroner J. Ollie Harris ruled the wound self inflicted Wednesday afternoon. Cleveland County Chief Depu ty Sheriff George Allen said the bullet lodged at a point back of the neck and entered through the top of the head. According to Al len, Booth had apparently clean ed the pistol prior to the shoot ing, Cleaning materials were found in the room next to Booth. Booth reportedly had been in a depressed state for several days. He did not work Monday or Tues day at his job at Bridges Texaco Service Station, suffering from a throat infection. Funeral services will foe held Friday afternoon at 3:30 from Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church with the Rev. Dale Thornburg of ficiating. The body will lie in state from 3:00 until 3:30 p. m. A native of Cleveland county, Booth was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Carl Booth. He was a member of Chestnut Ridge Bap tist church. He is slrvived iby Ihis wife, Mrs. Mary Lou Chambers Booth; a daughter, Patricia Ann of the home; and a brother, Arthur, oi Mooresboro. Bites Thursday For Frank White Funeral rites for Frank Mor row White, 39, of 212 Walker street, will Ibe held Thursday at 3:30 p. m. from Temple Baptist church. Mr. White died stsMehTy Tues day night at lip. m. while at work at Celanese Corporation of America’s Rock Hill, S. C., plant where he was a tester in the acid recovery department. He was for merly an overseer at Neisler Mills plant of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company. A native of Cherokee County, S. C., Mr.. White was the son of Haskell Howard White of Kings (Mountain and the late Mrs. Ma de Mitchell White. He was a member of the ARP Church of Blacksburg, S. C. He was recipi ent of the Silver Star while serv ing with the Army during World War H. Surviving are his father, his wife, Mrs. Grace Ledford White; one son, Richard Morrow White; two daughter, Vickie Kay and Trina Lynn White, of the home; three (brothers, Howard White of Forest City, Robert White of Gro ver, James White of Washington, D. C., and four sisters, Mrs. Mar vin Blackwell, Mrs. A. M. Shil linglaw, Mrs. Claybum Turner, all of Blacksburg, S. C., and Mrs. R. B. Turner of Gastonia. The body will remain at Harris Funeral tfiome until 30 minutes before the funeral. Rev. Jack Weaver, assisted by Rev. J. G. Brawley, will officiate at the fi nal rites. Interment will toe in Mountain Rest cemetery. Yule Club Checks To Total S90.000 First National Bank will mail 1959 Christmas club Checks to taling approximately $90,000 next j Tuesday. Mrs. Helen R. Blanton, assist | ant cashier in charge of the 'bank’s Christmas club, said the ! total payments will set a record. The Christmas Club checks will | go to 825 persons who joined the | club last year. Mrs. Blanton said j the completion rate on club con j tracts was high. The payment next week will j mark the ninth annual comple > tion of the bank’s Christmas j clubs, which began in 1950. The first club payment, In 1951, sll | ghtly exceed $6,000. It has con tinued to grow since, i Mrs. Blanton announced that j the 1960 club is now open. She ! said some 100 persons have al •ready enrolled for the coming year. A person joining the Christmas I club contracts to pay to the bank i a stated amount each week for 150 weeks. A person may join for as little ! as 50 cents per week. Other con i tracts are at $1, $2, $3, and $5 per week, or multiples thereof. | "We hope to top the 100,000 I mark In 1960, our tenth Christ mas club year,” Mrs. Blanton j said, “and we’d very much like to j see memberships reach 1,000 in 1 dividual accounts." (Continued on Page Eight) Slater Proceeding To Expand Operations With Dye Addition Cheshire Elected C of C President PRESIDENT — John Cheshire has been elected president of Kings Mountain Chamber ol Commerce. He succeeds Carl H. Swan. Board Ordered Bonding Change The city board of commission ers voted Monday night to allow police department desk sergeants to release persons arrested for misdemeanors on their own rec ognizance where bond normally does not exceed $50. The action specified that the desk sergeants use (heir own dis cretion on whether to release a person arrested. , The board action ot Monday’s special session apparently was an extension of the issue concerning 'bonding of persons arrested by city policemen. TWe action was taken in the absence of City Commissioner Ross Alexander, who, several weeks ago, purchased a bonding license, after the commission had told former Bondsman Corbett Nicholson, also the city’s gas su perintendent, that he should for sake one or the other function. Mr. Nicholson told the board at that time that he would relinq uish his sideline bonding activi ties. The bonding controversy was' projected last summer When an other bondsman, Ernest Hayes, charged that all of the city’s bonding business was being Chan neled to Mr. Nicholson. Mlayor Glee A. Bridges said there is some doubt that the ac tion of the commission will prove legal. He summoned Recorder Judge Jack White to the session and Judge White also expressed reservations concerning legality of the resolution. Judge White suggested, the Mayor said, that the North Carolina attorney gen eral be queried for an opinion. Desk Sergeant Ralph (Babe) Ware said Wednesday he and the other desk sergeants, Gene Ware and Jackie Barrett, haven’t yet had occasion to use itheir new board - granted discretionary au thority. Bob Hall. Miss Pak Set Wedding Date Wedding bells will ring next month tor Bob Hall, Kings Mountain mining engineer, and Miss Jae Seun Pak, of Ko rea, whom he met in Taegu in 1955. The four-year courtship, which began while Hall was Stationed with the Army in Ko rea and 'Miss Pak was a clerk typist there, has had several assists from Cupid. Both the U. S. Senate and U. S. House have passed special bills to permit Miss Pak to enter this country. The prospective bridegroom was notified this week that his fiancee, whom-he last saw in January 1957, will arrive in Seattle, Washington on Mon day where she will be met by his mother and accompanied to the Hall home in Deer Lod ge, Montana. The wedding will take place in the Presbyterian church there next month. Membership Names New Officers John Cheshire, Jr., Kings Mountain oil distributor, was e leoted president of Kings Moun tain Chaimber of Commerce at a membership meeting last Thurs day. Warren Reynolds, realtor, was elected first vice-president, B. S. Peeler, Jr., lumberman was na med second vice-president, and Dr. L. T. Anderson, chiropractor, was re-elected secretary -1 re as u r - e:. Seven directors were elected. They are: > B. F. Maner, insuranceman, Grady Howard, hospital admin istrator, Fleete R. McCurdy, dry cleaner, Glee E. Bridges, hard wareman, Jtohn H. Moss, owner of a public relations firm, J. Wilson Crawford, realty broker and builder, and Martin Harmon, newspaperman. Mr. Cheshire, in a brief talk following his election, said, "I believe we can work hard this year and show thait we can help the community.” He said he would like to see the community slogan ‘The Histori cal City" changed or expanded, perhaps to be ‘The Historical City with a Future.” He suggest ed that history alone puts too much emphasis on the past. iHe pointed to the advantages of the Kings Mountain area in climate, (transportation and other facilities and said he felt the Chamber of Commerce could earn its way in helping to build a better community. Dan Weiss, retiring vice-presi dent, presided at the meeting. The officers were elected by acclamation, the directors by ballot. Carl H. Swan is retiring presi dent. C. T. Bennett s Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Clyde Thomas Bennettt, 55, were held Friday at 3:30 p. m. from Resurrection Lu theran church, of Which he was a member. Mr. Bennett, Kings Mountain brick manufacturer and former contractor, died suddenly Wed nesday of a heart attack at his Phifer Road office. He was -the owner of Bennett Brick and Tile Company and a prominent Car olinas contractor until a year a go when he virtually suspended this business due Ito his health. He had been an active builder since the thirties. He formed the brick and tile concern in 1945 and had expanded it several ti mes since its formation. (Continued On Page Eight) SPEAKER — C. H. Touchberry of Charlotte, governor from District 31-C of Lions International, will speak to Kings Mountain Lions Tuesday night. lions Governor To Speak Here C. H. Touchberry, governor of District 31-C of Lions Interna tional, will speak at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions club. The club convenes at 7 p. m. alt the Woman’s club. Mr. Touchberry, Charlotte bus inessman's president of Marsh - Touchberry company, real estate brokers. He Is a native of Flor ence, S. C. and a veteran of Wor ld War II. He holds the rank of lieutenant colonel, ia thp Anny Reserves. A charter member and first president of the Charlotte East - em Lions club, he was Lion Zone chairman during 1953, 1956, and 1957 before being elected deputy district governor to 1957, has ser ved on a state-wide committee for promotion of North Carolina at the International Convention and was awarded Extension A wards No. 1 and 2 by Lions In ternational. Mr. Touchberry is a former director and officer of the Meck lenburg County Association for the Blind, member of the board of directors of the North Caro lina Asociation of Realtors, a Mason, and member of St. John’s Episcopal church, Charlotte. He is married and the father of three children. Retailers Suspend Mid-Week Closings Wednesday afternoon was Kings Mountain merchants last mid-week half-holiday until af ter Christmas. As is traditional, the retail ers will begin a full six-day week next week and continue this schedule through the Chris tmas shopping season. Majority of firms will be o pen next Wednesday afternoon. Some furniture firms said they would toe closed on the Wednes day prior to Thanksgiving, but will begin six-day schedules the following week. Financial in stitutions customarily continue the mid-week half-holiday. Mountaineers To Play HOltoppers In Loop Playoff Contest Thursday BY NEALE PATRICK The Mountaineers and R. S. Central Hilltoppers begin a “re play” of the Southwest Confer ence football season here to night These-two teams which finish ed in a three-way itle with Shel by for the top position in the league meet here In the first of two possible games which will determine the playoff champion ship of the Southwest Circuit for the 1959 season. Game time is 7:30 at Ci/ty Sta dium and a new admission price for adults will be in effect. The price of the ticket has been set at $1.50 by the WNC HSAA which is supervising this game. That price for adult tic ketss is in effeat for all post-sea son and playoff games conducted by the 'Association. Student tic kets will remain 50 cents. Sea son tickets here, of course, will not be aoeptable at the game tonight. Tonight^s playoff contest be tween the Mountaineers and the Hilltoppers is the first of a series of games involving the three teams which deadlocked for the league title. Shelby gained the righhit (by draw) to meet Northwest champ Hickory on Friday night. If Shel by loses that game, the Lions will return to play the winner of the KM-RSC contest next week. If a Kings Mt.-Shelby game develops, it will be played here at City Stadium next , Tuesday night ait 7:30. If the game is be tweeen Shelby and Central, it will be played Wednesday in Shelby. Tonight’s game pits two teams which are as close as Jayne Mansfield’s knit sweater. Kings Mountain and Central battled to a 6-all tie in Ruther fordton a couple of weeks ago, and they have Identical records against the other sux Conferen ce opponents. Both teams defeated the same four league foes — Forest City, Chase, Cherryville, and Belmont. Both lost one touchdown ga <Continued on Sports Page) City, Slatei Sip Contract F©i Service BY MARTIN HARMON Contract has been signed be tween the city and Slater Manu facturing Company for sewer service to Slater’s proposed dye ing and finishing plant. Albert J. Slater, owner and president of the firm, said Wed nesday his firm is moving ahead on plans for adding to its lungs Mountain operation and added, “In fact, we’re looking over the blueprints right now.” Mr. Slater and his family oc cupied over the weekend the res idence at 414 Hawthorne Road Which he recently purchased from Dr. Paul V. 'Nolan, former Kings Mountain physician. Slater will build an addition to its York Road plant to house the dyeing and finishing operation and will use both new equipment and equipment it now uses at its Patterson, N. J., plant. . Mr. Slater told the city com mission that moving of the dye ing and finishing operation here would up the employment potent ial of his firm to 150. He declined to estimate cost of the addition. The firm manufactures plush goods for the toy trade and also weaves casket linings. The city-Slater contract specifi es that the Slater firm will toe furnished city sewage service-and, in turn, will build a holding tank to. regulate the flow of affluent into the city disposal system leading to the new sewage dispo sal plant on McGill creek. Slater contracts to pay certain addition al necessary costs to the city for handling the Slater outflow. In another action at the Mon day night session, the commission voted to make a 1955 Ford form erly used toy the police depart ment to the fire department and to advertise for sale the 1949 Plymouth which Fire Chief Pat Tignor has been using. C. T. Bennett Will Probated The late Clyde T. Bennett be queathed a major portion of his estate to his wife, Etta Bell Ben nett, and to his minor sons, ac cording to His will filed for pro bate Wednesday. To Mrs. iBennett, her husband bequeathed all of his personal property, excepting IBennett Brick & Tile Company personal proper ty, all his real estate, excepting Bennett Brick & Tile Company real estate, and Bennett Brick & Tile Company until his sons reach 21 years of age. Special provisos were made for Dorus L. Bennett, a nephew, and J. R. Dixon, both close business associates. Specifically stating his wish that Bennett Brick & Tile Com pany continue in operation, Mr. Bennett directed that Mr. Dixon, as long as he remained associat ed with the company, receive one fourth the net profit of the firm, or his present salary, whichever proves to he greater, and that he receive $100 per month for life at such time as he may leave the company, as long as the profits attain $600 per month. He would receive a pro-rata payment should the profits be less than $600 per month. Doras L. Bennett is to receive one-fourth the firm’s net profits, or his salary, Whichever is the greater, as long as he remains with the firm. If he remains with the firm until the Bennett child ren are 21, he is to receive one third undivided interest In the firm and real estate, with the re mainder to go to the children at that time. Should he leave the ! firm prior to the youths’ reaching 21, the firm will 'become the pro perty of the children. Named as co-executors were Mrs. 'Bennett and B. S. Neill, pres ident of First National Bank. The 1 value of the estate was estimated | at $150,000. The will was dated i May 10, 1951, and witnessed by J. E. Stowe and Joe H. Withers, METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $113.02, includ ing $9S.95 from on-street meters and $14.07 from off-street me ters. Another $21 was derived from over-parking fees, City Clerk Joe McDaniel said.
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