Population
Seventieth Year
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Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 26, 1959
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COMMUNION
St. Matthew's Lutheran chur
ch will observe a full Advent
Communion Sunday at 11 a. m.
This will be the last full com
munion service of the year,
and all members are invited to
jMuttake.
BROADCAST
Sunday morning worship
services during December
will be broadcast from St.
Matthew's Lutheran church
via Radio Station WKMT. Dr.
W. P. Gerberding will deliver
the messages.
KIWANIS PROGRAM
Use Kingis Mountain high
school choral group, under dir
ection of Charles Ballance, pre
sented a musical Thanksgiving
program at Tuesday’s meeting'
otf the Kiwanis club.
NO PERMITS
City Inspector J. W. Webster
issued no building permits
during the past week.
LEGION DANCE
Alrmerican Legion Post 155
will sponsor a dance Saturday
evening from 8 until 12 p. m.
at (the Legion Hall, according
Ito lannounoemenit by J. T. Mc
Ginnis, Jr., commander of the
Otis D. Green posit.
PARK GRACE P-TA
Park Grace school Parent
Teacher Association will hold
its regular meeting Monday
night at 7 o’clock at the school
auditorium.
ATTENDS MEETING
George Thomasson, Kings
Mountain attorney, attended
ithe estate planning seminar of
the 26th Judiaial Bar associa
tion held in Charlotte last Fri
day and Saturday.
300 Have Tuned
1900 Yule Club
First National bank’s tenth an
nual Christmas club—just open
ing — numbers already about
300 (members, Mrs. Helen R.
Blanton, assistant cashier report
ed Wednesday.
(Mrs. Blanton said that numer
ous new members, Individuals
not members of the 1959 club,
have 'become members of the I9
60 ciub.
(First National mailed checks
to 1959 club members this week.
A total of $90,000 went to 825
members. v,’’ ^ ';- "" ’
The bank has set goats of 1,000
members and aggregate 1960
payments of 100,000 and Mrs.
Blanton noted' that opening
memberships Indicate the goals
are realistic.
Members make weekly depos
its at the bank and are mailed
checks in late November next
year.
Minimum membership is 50
aeantis per week.
“First National is very pleased
with the'results of its 1959 club.
Aggregate payments to members
set a new record. We believe our
tenth anniversary dub will be
our biggest and best”, Mrs. Blan
ton said.
Page Men's Store
Opens Next Week
Base’s Men’s Store expects to
open next week.
Slurry Page, head of the firm,
said this week the firm’s open
ing inventory is virtually com
plete, with only a few shipments
of goods, majority in transit, yet
to he received.
The firm is occupying the Mor
rison building on W. Mountain
street, until recently the home of
McGinnis Department Store. Fix
tures are installed and the build
ing has been renovated, with
central heating and air-condi
tioning, a tile floor and new
lighting installed.
Retailers Suspend
Mid-Week Closings
Kings Mountain retailers
Will be open six days each
week through Christmas.
Majority of the retailers sus
pended mid-week half-holi
day® Wednesday. Some furni
ture stores were closed Wed
nesday afternoon but will join
other merchants In the full six
day schedule next week.
Merchants annually susnend
the mid-week half-holidays
for the Christmas shopping
PROPOSED ADDITION — Above is on architect's drawing of the
proposed 25-bed addition to Kings Mountain hospital. The new
construction will be an addition to the present wing which
fronts on Edgemont avenue. The drawing shows at right the
existing hospital plant. Construction of the addition depends on
outcome of the December 12 hospital bond election. If approved,
the construction will be paid for by county, state and federal
funds. Architects are Ormand & Vaughan, of Shelby.
Community
To Celebrate
Thanksgiving
Kings (Mountain will join the
nation in Observing Thanksgiving
on Thursday.
It will be a holiday for major
ity of retail stores. Financial in
stitutions, city hall offices, and
the postoffice will be closed for
the day.
City school children bade fare
well to books Wednesday after
noon for a long weekend holiday.
Schools will resume regular
schedules Monday morning.
Most industrial firms will op
erate, but Foote Mineral Com
pany will take a holiday.
Thanksgiving Day will give
heavy fare for football fans. At
Hickory, the Lenodr-Rhyne Bears
will be seeking to post Coach
Clarence Stasavdch’s 100th vic
tory, as the Bears meet Catawba
in a traditional Turkey Day bat
tle.
At Durham, Duke will be host
to arch-rival University of North
Carolinlfe in a game advanced
from Saturday in order that it
can be nationally televised. The
game will mark the collegiate
football finale for George Harris,
Kings Mountain quarterback for
Duke,
In addition to the customary
holiday, turkey dinners, and oth
er activities associated with the
annual observance, some church
es In the city have scheduled spe
cial services during the morning
while many congregations held
Wednesday evening Thanksgiving
services.
Three churches in Kings Moun
tain and Shiloh 'Presbyterian
church at Grover have scheduled
Thanksgiving Day services.
Boyce Memorial ARP church
will hold its annual morning ser
vice at 7:30 to be followed by a
breakfast at 8 o’clock which is to
be served toy men of the Neil
Baird Bible class of the church.
Garrison Goforth is chairman of
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Bond Registration
To Close Saturday
Hospital Plant
Addition Hinged
To Bond Election
County registration (books for
the forthcoming $100,000 bond is
sue to provide funds for a 25-toed
addition to Kings Mountain hospi
tal will be open for the final reg
istration day Saturday.
A few persons added their nam
es to the pollbooks Saturday.
Mrs. J. H. Arthur, West Kings
Kings Mountain precinct regis
trar, said 12 persons Were added
to the pollbooks last Saturday,
while Mrs. Nell Cranford, regis
trar at East Kings Mountain, said
she added three names to the
pollbooks.
It was not anticipated that reg
tration would toe toriSk.
The county’s $100,000, if voted,
will make possible an estimated
$275,000 addition and increase the
(hospital to 75-bed capacity, a third
larger than Its present 5CWbed fa
cility. (Remainder of the funds
w4H toe furnished toy the state and
federal governments.
For the past year, the hospital
has had an average dally patient
load of 45 persons, and many oc
casions emergency patients had
to toe treated in the hallways.
Fully accredited as a hospital
toy the Joint Accreditation Com
mittee, a nation - wide agency,
the hospital medical staff num
toers 13 active mlemtoers and 22
consulting members. Among them
are five surgeons, three Obstetri
cian - gynecologists, a urologist,
three radiologists, a pathologist
and three orthopedic surgeons.
The registrars will be at the
polling places from 9 a. m. to 5 p.
m. for the final registration day
Saturday.
Mrs. Fallslogs 86th Birthday,
Recalls Community's First Auto
BY DAVID BAITY
Mrs. A. P. Palls, route 3 resi
dent, celebrated her 86th birth
day Wednesday. It’s an old cli
che, but Mrs. Falls is 86 years
young.
Art: 86, she is quite active, does
her own housework, and a dau
ghter-! n-law, Mrs. Oarl Palls,
said, "She gets around better
than I do.”
Mrs. Palls is the mother of 10
children, nine of whom are still
living. She herself was one of 10
children born to the laite Ira and
AngeMne Patterson.
Born on November 25, 1873,
Mrs. Falls has lived through
many world crises, two world
wars plus the Korean action,
several depressions, and She ev
en recalls the Charleston earth
quake in her youth.
“My memory isn’t whait it on
ce was,” she commented, “but I
remember the first automobile in
this area. It belonged to Dr. Mc
Coy. He came out to see Grand
mother Falls in it, and had to
park it down the road so he
wouldn’t upset her."
Mrs. Palls has seen the auto
mobile develop from a four
wheeled horseless carriage to to
dayte streamlined models, but
has never driven. "I have never
bad the desire to be behind the
wheel of *ow," she said. She
doesn’t mind being a passenger,
though, if a good driver is in con
trol.
She has also seen the airplane
develop into a stream lined jet,
but has never flown in one.
When queried as to her longevi
ty, she chuckled concerning her
view on cars and planes, "That
might be why."
As aforementioned, Mrs. Falls
was one of ten children. Surviv
ing brothers and sisters (include
Grady, Dewitt, Hunter, Price, Lee
and Bun Patterson, Mrs. Claren
ce Plonk, and Mrs. Laura McGill.
Her children ranging in age
from 65 to 43 are Butler, who is
a surveyor; Wade, an employee
of the Quaker Oats Company for
33 years in Akron, Ohio; Cyrus, of
Dunedin, Florida; Rufus, also a
surveyor; Mrs. Eunice Palls Ware
of Wilmington; Miss Janet Falls,
North School elementary teach
er here; Coman, the owner of the
Friendly Billard Parlor; Carl, an
overseer at the Pauline Mill; and
Hugh Falls, a farmer.
When asked her advice to the
younger generation on how to
reach a ripe old age, she said, "I
won’t give any. Yk>u young peo
ple will just have to live and
leam.” i
When asked about changes in
world conditions and the world
wars, she declined to comment.
Her only statement was, "I’ve
seen two world wars, and I just
hope there won* toe another.”
Until recent years, Mrs. Falls
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Putnams Report
Large Egg-Oddity
Ever seen a hen egg that
measures 7% x 9 inches and
weighs seven ounces?
The Wayne W. Putnam
family on route 1 found ithis
unusual-size egg in a regular
morning visit to their hen hou
ses last week. The Puitnams
have 800 layers on their chic
ken farm.
Mrs Putnam reported this
particular egg was from a
Harco Red hen. She said eggs
with double yolks are familiar
products from the Putnam hen
houses but this is the first oc
currence of an egg of this type
Rites Thursday If
For C.E. Byers
Charles Edgar Byers, 71, retir
ed grocerymain and farmer of
Grover, died Wednesday morning
at 4:45 a. Jn. in Cherokee County
Memorial hospital at Gaffney af
ter a several months illness.
Funeral rites will be held
Thursday at 3:30 p. m. from Gro
ver’s First Baptist church ot
which he was a member. Burial
will be in Grover cemetery.
•Mr. Byers, a citizen of (Jrover
for over 40 years, was a native
of Cherokee County, S. C., son Of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bed
ford Byers. He *»as a former sup
erintendent of the Cleveland
County Home. He was married to
the former Miss Daisy Helen
(Blanton an 1920.
He is survived by his wife, a
son, Gilmore Byers of Grover; a
daughter, Mrs. Sam Houck of
Jacksonville, Fig., .three brothers,
R. B. and L. G. Byers, both of
Gaffney S. C., Curtis Byers of
Chester, S. C„ four sisters, Mrs.
J. B. Martin, Mrs. C. 1. Moss, Mrs.
Claude Mulliniax, all of Gaffney,
S. C., and Mrs. E. E. Rippy of
Grover; nine grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren.
The final rates will be conduct,
ed by Rev. Don Cabaniss, assist
ed by ithe Rev. Trent Howell.
New Phone Books
Being Delivered
New telephone directories
were delivered ih Kings Moun
tain tihis week.
‘If our custodiers are happy
they should see the smiles on
the faces of our information
operators". Floyd Farris, local
Southern Bell Telephone man
ager, said in making the an
nouncement, who noted infor- j
mation operators handled as I
many as 800 calls In one day.
Listings are deleted as custo
mers move away and others
are added as new customers
take service. In addition, many
changes occur on existing list- 1
tings.
The new directories, of
course, have all the new num
bers up through the closing
date of October 16, Approxi
mately 15,500 new books are
going to homes and business
houses in Cleveland County,
Mr. Farris pointed out TWs to
tal compares with 14,250, when
the last delivery was made. Mr.
Farris urged that all o«|
be destroyed and apw
Bloodmobile
Retains Here
December 7th
People are the only source of
human blood, and ill and injured
Kinos Mountain area citizens us
ed more than they gave last
year.
Mrs. O. W. Myiers, chairman of
the Kings Mountain Red Cross
chapter’s blood program, said
this week that Kings Mountain
area citizens gave only 564 pints
of blood during the year ending
June 30, 102 pints less than the
656 required by Kings Mountain
area patients.
"The Red Gross Bloodmobile
returns to Kings—Mouatadn on
Monday, December ? and I cer
tainly hope Kings Mountain will
meet its 125-pinit quota,” Mrs.
Myers commented.
She noted that use of blood is
charged to Kings Mountain,
where a Kings Mountain citizen
is being treated in out-of-area
hospitals.
But whole blood and al burned,
a blood derivative, are widely
used to treat various illnesses, as
well as to save lives of injured
persons.who have lost blood.
“It requires large quantities of
whole blood to make very small
amounts of albumen,” Mrs. My
era noted.
Calling attention to the huge
quantities of blood required by
some patients, Mrs, Myers said
she had been told by hospital of
ficials a recent wNksk: victim re
quired 21 pints of bJOcid. He did
not Mve. Another pattertt, Victim
of electrical burns, waisi given
quantities of albumen. He' lived
add will recover. Still another
patient underwent a serious sto
mach operation. Large quantities
of blood were credited with sav
ing his life. A hospital official
remarked, "I’m pretty sure he
has a whole new course of
blood.”
The Bloodmobile will set up
ft>r operation on the December 7
visit at Central Methodist chur
ch, rather than the Woman's
Club. It will be operated on cus
tomary schedule, from 11 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
Mis. Herndon's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Ottie
Bell Herndon, 68, widow of Lee
Herndon, were held Sunday at
3 p. m. from Bethlehem Baptist
church, interment following in
the church cemetery.
Mrs. Herndon suocumbed Fri
day afternoon at Kings Moun
tain hospital. She had been in
ill health the past several
years. A native of Randolph
CJounty, she was (the daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. James
Hamilton. Her husband, Arthur
Lee Herndon, died In 1956. She
was a member of Bethlehem
church.
She Is survived by her dau
ghter, Mrs. 3. V. Pressley, with
whom she made her home, and
three grandchildren.
The final rites were conduct
ed by Rev. Norman Brown, as
sisted by Rev. W. G. Camp.
PARKING ]
Parking meter
the week ending
noon totaled $111
Driver Unscathed As Crane
Cut 44,000-Volt Power Line
Woods Youth
Shoots Father
With 22-Rifle
Rufus Woods, 53, drunk on can
ned heat, was shot by his 16-year
old son at the Woods residence
on Ellison street early Tuesday
nigpit.
Shot with a 22-caliber rifle,
Woods was wounded in the right
shoulder and was given treat
ment at Kings Mountain hospital.
His wounds were not considered
serious.
Chief of Police Martin Ware
said the youth, Donald Woods
told him he intended to shoot his,
father but not to kill him. He
was charged — over his wounded
father’s objections — with as
sault with a deadly weapon and
released on $100 bond.,
The wounded, man is brother-!
in-law of W. <3, Rippy, who died'
Sunday,
Chief Ware said he accused
Woods after the shooting of hav
ing been drunk on canned heat,
Which Woods denied.
The Chief then said he told him
he has established the fact the
man had purchased nine cans
Sunday afternoon.
“No, that's not right," the Chief
said Woods replied. 'Tt was only
eight cans.”
Chief Ware said a quart of the
diluted canned Meat was found at
the Woods home after the shoot
ing and that his was poured out.
The Chief said the Woods you
th was in reform school several
years ago.
‘IBut he’s been all right since
he's been back home,” Chief
Ware commented.
Penley's Chapel
Revival Set
The pastor ahd singers from'
the Salem Methodist church in
Weaverville will lead special
services to be held at (the Pen
Chapel Methodist church on
Cherryviu? Boad Sunday
Rev. Boyce Muffstetler, son of
Penley’s pai$tor, Rev. W. L- Huff
stetler, will preach at /the 11 o'
clock service. The young Rev.
Huffstetler is pastor of the Wea
verville church.
A picnic dinner will be served
in the Church Fellowship Mall at
12 o’clock, and at 2 o'clock a
singing service wifi be held at
the church, featuring singers
from the Salem church in Wea
verVille.
ON DEAN'S LIST
Mary Rebecca Rollins was
among eight sophomores at
Lees - MdRad College to qua
lify for the deart’s list during
the first quarter Of this year.
To appear on the list, a Stu
dent must make a “•B" aver
age, must have no grade low
er (than “C”,and must be ta
king a minimum of 13 credit
}ioure.
ELECTED — William Herndon
was recently elected to the 18
mcfn board of directors of the
Cleveland County Cancer Society.
Herndon Heads
Cancer Survey
Citizens of Kings Mountain
and Cleveland County will par
ticipate in a nationwide family
cancer survey, a project which
will cover a sixyear period, with'
in the next few weeks.
William! Herndon, Kings Moun
tain businessman, and a newly
elected director in the Cleveland
Cancer society, said some 500 Cle
veland County families will be
asked to participate in the sur
vey which will require approxi
mately 70,000 volunteer workers
on a national level,
Cleveland County is one of 30
North Carolina counties selected,
to take part in the survey" which
will include 18 immunities.
Mr. Herndon called for volun
teer researchers to help in the lo
cal project. He noted that each re.
searcher will call on approxi
mately ten families and that all
Ig^axwtlpn receive^ will be con
fidential and used directly in the]
study to prevent the dread dis
ease.
Cancer Society officials «re
asking volunteers from this area
to contact Mr. Herndon at J. E.i
Herndon Company, Interested
families who particularly desire
to complete the cancer question
naires should also contact Mr
Herndon.
"Almost everything we know
about the cause of cancer in hu
man beings has come from studi
es of groups of people with par
ticular exposures or particular
habits,” Mr. Herndon pointed out.
He added, "The plan of this study
is to learn as much as possible a
®°ut the exposures and habits of
a very large number of people.
These people will then be follow
ed for six years to determine
which of them develop cancer,
with the final goal to prevent
cancer insofar as possible by re
ducing exposure to the responsi
ble factors," he continued.
Charles D. Robertson of Shel
by heads the County Cancer Soci
ety.
Piel Family, Now Citizens, Say
Working Man Is Rich In America
BY DAVID BAITY
"America is a wonderful coun
try. People born here don’t real
ize how well off they are. Liv
ing conditions are so much higher
here. The life I lead now as an
average American is what only
the upper class and rich in Ger
many enjoy," said Alex Piel in an
interview Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Piel, his wife Herta, and
16-year-old son Gerhard became
citizens of the United States last
Wednesday, November 18. Their
citizenship papers were issued
from the Western District Court
in Asheville.
They have lived in Kings Moun
tain for five years and nine mon
ths. They came to America from
the western sector of Germany.
"We had nothing to loose, and
everything to gain,” Mrs. Piel re
calls. "We had twice lost our
home in Berlin during the war.
living conditions were had there,
and we had such good reports a
bout life in America. They told
us we could get good jobs and
make a good living.”
The Piel’8 immigration to this
Country was sponsored by Rev.
Gordon Weekly, one-time pastor
of First (Baptist Church here. Mr.
Weekly at the time of the arran
gement for their immigration,
w&s pastor of a church in Wil
mington. The Piels came to this
sountry expecting to live there,
hut .Weekly had accepted the
IGret Baptist church pastorate
here prior to tiheir arrival.
In Kings (Mountain, Mr. Piel
obtained employment at Foote
Mineral Company and Mrs, Piel
was employed by Mauney Hosiery
Company. Their son, Gerhard,
was enrolled at West Elementary
school in the fourth grade. Piel
now works at Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Co., Shelby.
The Piels could speak no Eng
lish on their arrival. Gerhard,
now a sophomore at Central High
School, recalls that on being sent
to the blackboard in the fourth
grade, he would just write what
ever he wanted to, since he didn’t
know what was going on anyway.
*1 didn’t get on too well with1
the other children at first,” he
said. “They just ignored me. I
tried to get their attention any
way I could—which got me into a
lot of fights.”
Gerhard is now 5 feet and 10
inches Sail, fair haired with fair
complexion, and drawls English
like any Southerner. Mr. and Mrs.
Piel, although they speak with an
accent, are now quite adept at
English.
Mr, Piel has no relatives in the
United States, his three brothers
and mother still live in Germany.
His mother, Mrs. Paula Piel, is 72
yeans old and lives in Hamburg.
She hasn’t been too well for
about two years, he said. She
toil during a soccer game with
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Power Blackout
Stops Operations
At Several Firms
Wet air brakes on a big Foote
Mineral Company crane tailed to
hold briefly Tuesday morning
and the crane out a 44,000-volt
Duke Power Company line.
None was injured, but the line
break caused production suspen
sions at several neighboring
manufacturing establishments.
Rubber tires on the vehicle sav
ed the operator from likely
death.
Ed Ooter, assistant manager at
Foote, said Gerald Lee, the crane
operator was maneuvering the
hig machine to get it in the com
pany shop for an engine over
haul. The machine had (to be
backed into the^shop, with crane
up. Two imen Were guiding the
operator in the tight maneuver
ing. When they signaled a stop,
(the operator jammed on his bra
kes, but nothing happened quick
enough to prevent the big crane
arm from snapping the high vol
tage line.
Foote operations were suspen
ded about 90 minutes as a result
of the line break,
Mr .Gofer said Duke Power
Company workmen were on hand
quickly for the emergency call.
He also said Duke plans to raise
the line to prevent passible re
peat breakages.
Other firms reporting work
stoppages as a result of the line
break were Park Yam Mills, Mar
grace plant of Massachusetts
Mohair Plush Company, Minette
[ Mitts of-Grower, and Carolina
| Throwing Company.
' The stretch-yarn making Car
olina Throwing Company was
still cleaning up and getting
back into production Wednesday.
This manufacturing process re
quires continuous operation. Sam
Stallings said stoppage of long
i er than one-minute is too long.
Had the company been in full
[production, he said, the clean-up
'would have required nearly a
; week.
James E 8*nos' ”f Massachuf:
t . ■ "»Comply. saw
etts Mohair Plus,. was
ithe firm's Margrace _ two,
out of action completely lo.
hours and that it required more
than five hours to get the firm’s
dyeing and finishing plant back
in operation.
Park Yam Mills was out of op
eration for one hour, forty min
utes, Manager John Sipathers
said. Minette Mills was stopped
completely for about 35 minutes.
None attempted to estimate
cost of their loss in time or in
damaged goods.
The line snap occurred about 8
o’clock Tuesday morning.
Hairs Betrothed
Reaches America
“Somebody told me they saw
in tonight’s paper that my gtLrl
had arrived in Seattle,” Bob
Hall, who expects to wed a Ko
rean girl, Jae Suen Pak, re
marked Tuesday night.
He had heard right and he
anticipates that a three-year
long distance courtship win be
consummated soon, before a
Presbyterian minister, Deer
Lodge, Montana.
Mr. Hall, mining engineer at
Foote Mineral Company, knew
his bride-to-be was ennoute
and admits to some nervous
ness in recent days as he read
some of the newspaper head
lines. Several air crash reports
made him shudder as did news
of heavy snow-slides In areas
near his Montana home.
The wedding would have
come sooner; except tor the re
strictions on immigration pos
ed by this nation.
It required a special Oon
gessional act, waiving immi
gration requirements to get the
bride-to-be to America. Sena
tor James Murray of Montana,
introduced the special bill.
Miss Fade was met by Mr.
Hall’s mother.
The wedding will take place
“sometime before Christmas”,
says the prospective bride
groom.