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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 B» figure tor Greater Dug* Mountain U derived from the l»S5 Kings Mountain dry directory ceneut. The city Unite figure le from me netted States census of H50. YOL. 70 NO. 48 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 3, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTb Amen Will Speak At Grid Banquet Local News Bulletins » I HO PERMITS City Inspector J. W. Webs ter had no requests tor build ing permits during ithe past ■week. STORY HOUR Stony Hour at Jacob S. Mau ney Memorial Library will be resumed on Fridays from 4 to 5 p. mu by the Community Af fairs Department of the Wo man’s club. All children, ages 5 to 10, are invited. Mrs. Geor ge Houser and Mrs. Jacob Coo per will tell the stories during the month of December. FORMAL OPENING Otis D. Green Post, American Legion, will open formally its newly renovated clubroom at a party Saturday from 5 to 9 p. m. Refreshments will be ser ved, Commander J. T. McGin nis, Jr., announced. JOINT MEETING St. Matthew’s young people will entertain the Luther Lea gue of Resurrection Church on Sunday evening at 6 p. m. There will be a light supper, devotional by the host league, and program by the visitors. The following Sunday a joint meeting will be held at Resur nedttan. AA MEETING Kings Mountain chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous will be host to an inter-city meeting to be held at First PreSbyterian church Saturday night at 8 o’ clock. KIWANIS Jonas Bridges, manager of Radio Staitkm WKMT, will pre sent a humorous program of "Radio Bloopers” at Thursday night’s Kiwartis club meeting. The club meets alt 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. LEGION MEETING Regular meeting of Oltis D. Green Post 155, (the American Legion, will be held Friday nighlt ait 8 o'clock at the Legion Hall, Post Commander J. T. McGinnis has announced. BARBECUE West school P-TA will spon sor a barbecue Saturday, De cember 12th, In the school aud itorium. Adult plates will be $1.25 and children’s plates, 50 cents. Delivery service may be obtained by calling thlt prin cipal's office. FIRES City Fireman C. D. Ware said the department has answered several calls during the past week, one Friday to a grass fire on Childers Street In wh no damage was done. A Tues day might call was for fire men to assist tthe Shelby crew in dousing a blaze at Shelby Cotton Mills. TO CHARLOTTE Mrs. W. B. Logan is attend ing an Incline Tax school be ing conducted this week in Charlotte. She will go to Ra leigh December 16th for a week of instruction on federal and state taxes at State Col lege. v BAZAAR Kings Mountain Garden club will offer for sale Christmas | decorations, candies, and oth er homemade foods and bazaar Means at the former Griffin Drug building Saturday, De cember 12, beginning at 10 a. m. Five Deacons To Be Installed Five newly elected deacons of First Presbyterian church wilj, be ordained and installed at services Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. The five, elected last Sunday by the congregation, are R. S. Lennon, J. W. Webster, L. D. Spearman and Henry P. Neisler, all elected to three-year terms expiring in 1962, and W. B. Grim es, who was elected to the unex pired term of Lawson Brown. Mr. Grimes’ term will expire next year. lions To Honor Mountaineer Co-Champions The appearance of an offen sive-minded coach and ithe pres entation of 'two handsome [troph ies to outstanding Mountaineer football players for 1959 will highlight the Lions Club's an nual grid banquet at 7 O’clock Tuesday night at Ithe Woman's Club. Paul .Altman, skipper of the of fensively-dazzling Wake Forest Deacons, will be the speaker, continuing .the policy of the local Lions bringing a successful col lege coach to Kings Mountain as speaker for the post-season fete. Sharing the spotlight with the Deacon coach will be the presen tation of two trophies Ito KM stars. A Most Valuable Player Award donated by Dr. George Plonk, will be given for the first time to the player adjudged the most valuable to the Mountaineer team which finished in a three way tie for ithe title in the South west Conference this season. The MVP Award will be an annual presentation at the Lions ban quet, which honors the local grudders after each season. In addition, ithe Fred Plonk Blocking Award, will be present, ed again Ito the player named the best blocker on the team. Coach John Gamble will an nounce the selection of the win ner of the most outstanding blo cker on the team. The trophy is given annually by Fred Plank, School Board, and an avid Sports member of the Kings Mountain fan. This will toe the seventh sea (Continued, on Sports Page) Church Sets Open House Patterson Grove (Baptist dhur dh will ihold open house in the new church parsonage on Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 o’clock. The public is invited to visit the new residence and to meet Rev. Fred Hicks, church pastor, who recently assumed the pastorate of Patterson Grove church. Rev. Mr. Hicks came to Patterson Grove from Hardin. The parsonage represents an investment of about $15,000. (Ma jority of the labor and materials were gifts. Members of the building com mittee were Edwin Moore, chair man, (Melvin Wright, Forrest Hord, J. W. Rayfield and Arthur Lee Patterson. VFW Poppy Sale On December 11,12 Annual Veterans of Foreign Wars poppy sale will be conduct ed Friday and Saturday, Decem ber 11 and 12, it was announced this week by Corrimander (Marion Dixon. Girl Scouts will sell the poppies in behalf of the VFW. Riley Jailed; Sessoms, Butlei Freed Of Charge Walter Jackson Riley, 28-year old Kings Mountain man, was given a six month sentence on a petty larceny charge by Judge C. V. Wolfe in Bessemer City Re corder’s Court yesterday. Riley, along with Benjamin F. Sessoms, Jr., and Wayne Boyce iButler, also of Kings Mountain, was charged Saturday morning by !L. E. Smith, Gaston county Negro, of robbing him of about $30 in cash, his cap, and his glass es. Sessoms and Butler were ac quitted of the crime. All three men were defended !by Bob Gaines, Gastonia attorney. They were arrested by Kings Mountain police Saturday and ta ken to Gastonia for questioning. Rural Police Det. Lt. J. R. Har ris said Smith told him he went to the home of Guy Butler, near Crowders Mountain, Friday night to buy some liquor. He said he left and discovered that he had been short changed. He returned, according to the story told to police. There, he said, he was forced into a car by the men, taken away, and robbed of his money, his cap, and his glasses. Smith was then put out of the car, he said, and left to find a house where he could telephone for transportation. In testimony during the trial, Riley admitted fault for the inci dent. . The elder Butler, father of Wayne, was later charged with violation of the prohibition law. Jaycees Ask Seivice Award Nominations Namiinaitions for the Jaycees Young Man of ithe Year to re ceive the club’s Distinguished Service Award for 1959 are now •being taken, according to an an nouncement Wednesday morning by Robert H. Goforth, chairman of the project The award ds presented an nually to an outstanding young man of the community for lead ership and service to the com munity during the calendar year. The winner need not be a member of the Jaycees to win. Any young man, 21 through 35 yeans of age, is eligible for nom ination. If the nominee reaches his 36th birthday before Decem ber 31 of the year for which the award is given, he becomes eli gible if the activities for which he is judged were performed when he was 35. The judging committee will be composed of distinguished citi zens of the community who are now over age 35. Their decision will be based on (1) contribu tions to the general community welfare during the year; 50 points. (2) Evidence of leader ship ability, 25 points. (3) Evi dence of personal or business progress, 25 points. All nominations for the award must be In by December 31. No minations should be mailed to Route 3, Box 416, Kings Moun tain. Yates Haibison Top Blood Donor; Six Citizens Three-Gallon Givers Yates Harbison, super market | manager, is Kings Mountain’s dhampion blood donor. Mr. Harbison is the lone Kings Mountain area member of the' “Four-Gallon Club,” meaning that he has given four gallons of blood via the Red Cross Bloodmo bile. At one pint per donation, Mr. Haibison has answered “present” at 32 calls of the Bloodmobile. He said Wednesday he expects to donate another pint Monday when the Bloodmobile returns to set up for operations at Central Methodist church. Six Kings Mountain citizens aren’t far behind Mr. Harbison, holding membership in the "Three-Gallon Club." They are Thomas A. Davidson, another su per market manager, two den tists, Dr. D. F. Hord and Dr/ O. P. Lewis, J. H. Patterson and Sam Stallings, textile managers, and Troy L Wright, textile oper ator. Another 19 are in the elite "TwOJGallon ClUb.” They are Wayne H. Anderson, Ray W. Cline, Mrs. Thelma I* Dellinger, Winifred Fulton, Robert *H- Gantt, (Continued on Page Twelve) TOP DONOR — Yates Harbison is Kings Mountain's top Blood donor, bolding exclusive local membership in the "Four-Gallon Club". Mr. Harbison expects to donate blood again Monday whan thf Bid Cross visits Kings Mountain. Sessoms Hearing Set For Friday HEAPS PROJECT — Rev. Tho mas Droppers is chairman of the annual Christmas for the needy project of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Christmas Cheer Project Begins Rev. Thomas Droppers, pastor of Trinity Episcopal church, is serving as chairman of the an nual Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Comimierae Christmas for ithe needy project. The annual drive begins this week, as the Jayeees ask citizens to donate foodstuffs and toys for the needy. Familiarly known as the “Buy A Can, Leave a Can,” project, the project includes as participants, in addition to the Jayeees, gro cery and toy merchants And the city schools. Depository baskets are located at all Kings Mountain groceries and toy stores. Rev. Droppers said, “Past rec ords show both the liberality of Kings Mountain citizens and the good accomplished by previous projects. Christmas connects the spirit of giving and we hope to do an even more complete job this year." Lee Beam's Bites Conducted Funeral rites for Henry Lee Beam, 68, Grover farmer and re tired merchant, were held Mon day at 3 p. m. from St Mat thew’s Lutheran church, inter ment following in the Grover cemetery. (Mr. Beam died at his home Sat urday of a heart attack. A native of Kings Mountain, he was the son of the late Michael Luther and Ma Carpenter Beam. He ser ved with the Army in France dur ing World War I, was treasurer of the Grover Masonic Lodge for 18 years, and was a memfber of St Matthew’s Lutheran dhurch. Mr. Beam is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lela Westmoreland Beam; three sons, Robert and Harry Beam, both of Grover, Tom Beam of Grover; two daughters, Mrs. Gilmore Richardson of Le noir and Mrs. Gene Ledford of Lincolnton and two sisters, Mrs. James Bell of Kings Mountain and Mrs. A. R. Bookout of Shel by. Seven grandchildren also sur vive. Dr. W. P. Geihending, assisted by (Rev. Donald C&toaniss of Gro ver, officiated at the final rites. Mrs. Robertson Rotary Speaker Mrs. J. K. Robertson of Spar tanburg, S. C., will toe the guest speaker for the regular meeting Thursday of the Kings Mountain Rotary club. The club convenes at 12 noon at the Country dub. (Mrs. Robertson is in great de mand as a luncheon speaker as she does excellent monologues of, a humorous nature. She will give! two sketches entitled "The Fight Before Christmas” and "Why Consider the Postman" and talk! of her other hobbies. A graduate of Converse college Mrs. Robertson has been active in Little Theater plays given in ! Spartartburg. Until his death, Mr. j Robertson was a leading druggist ! in Spartanburg. GROVER BARBECUE The Grover Lions club is sp onsoring a barbecue all day Saturday in the Grover school cafeteria. Adult plates are $1 and children plates are 50 cents. Free delivery service in and around Grover is offered. Gill Killed. Boy Injured In Accident Beal F. Sessoms, city employee and former city policeman, will face charges of murder and reck less driving lodged against him following the death of nine-year old Rosa Olivia Black. Preliminary hearing has been set for Friday morning in Cleve land Recorder’s court, Shelby. Mr. Seasoons posted bond of $1500 following the Thursday morning accident which also injured an other Negro child, Edgar Moore, Jr., age 11. The two children, playing un der a cardboard box on an ac cess road to the city dump, were struck by a city garbage truck Sessdms was driving. Mr. Ses soms and itwo other city employ ees were enroute with a load of trash to the city dump when the large carton fell from the truck. They fold investigating officers they stopped their vehicle, put ■the box back on the truck and didn’t notice it had blown off the truck again until their return trip when they saw it on the left side of the road. Sessoms said he decided to flatten the container by running over it so that it wouldn’t blow off again when reloaded. The Negro girl and boy were inside the cardboard carton and hidden froim view, the three men told Highway Patrolman R. E. Shaney. Rosa Black was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Black who were visiting from Gaston Counity with the Moore family on route 1| York road. Young Moore is still a patient at Kings Moun tain hospital. Rosa Black’s mo ther, who was hospitalized wher she heard of the death of hei child, has been discharged from the hospital. Open House Set In Valley Park Carolina Building & Develop ment Company, Inc., will hole open house at one of its new homes in Valley Park, Kings Mountain’s new residential sub division, beginning Friday. The ten-day home-showing wil begin Friday morning at 10 o’ clock. It will continue through Sunday, (December 13. Dailj Showing hours will foe from 10 a m. to 9 p, m. Sunday hours wil foe from 2 to 6 p. m. Officers of the building firir are Charles Pope, Jr., president Donald R. Carpenter, vice-presi dent, and Samuel S. Sherman secretary - treasurer. The company expects to build 28 homes on the sub-division pro perty, which was formerly Brid ges Airport. Two have been built The homes already constructed are FHA approved and contain 912 square feet of floor space. They contain 5 1-2 rooms, includ ing three bedrooms, a kitchen, li ving room and utility room. Oth er features include ample closet space, built-in kitdhen cabinets, hardwood floors, gas heat, built in ovens and surface units. The grounds have been landscaped. Street on which the homes are lo cated is to foe paved at no ex pense to the purchasers. Refreshments will foe served individuals attending the home Showing and Children will receive favors. A prize drawing will foe conducted with the winner to re ceive a high fidelity set. Bond Election Books Closed Registration books for the forthcoming county • wide bond election, which will determine whathet funds will be provided for an addition to Kings Moun tain hospital, closed Saturday. Registration activity continued light. Mrs. Nell Cranford, Bast Kings Mountain registrar said she added the names of two cit izens to the pol l hooka Mrs. J. H. Arthur, West Kings Mountain, registrar, was out-of-town Wed nesday. It was not anticipated that registrations would ge gieat, the poll books having been open in October. Saturday will be Challenge Day, with the balloting to be conducted on December 12. The $100,000 bond issue, if ap proved, would provide the coun ty's share of funds for the ’25 bed addition. Remainder would be provided by state and federal government agencies. Page Men's Shop Formal Opening To Be Thursday Page’s Men’s Store will hold its formal opening Thursday. The new Kings Mountain ha berdashery will feature quality merchandise for men, offering many nationally - advertised lines. The grand opening promotion will feature drawings for 30 priz es at a gross value in excess of $300, Harry Page, general mana ger and partner in the new firm announced. Visitors to the store are invited to register for the prizes. No purchases are re quired and the registrants don’t have to be present to win. The drawings will be conducted Sat urday, with registrations through out the weekend. Page’s (Men’s Store is located in the building at 133 West Moun tain street, owned by Dr. D M. Morrison and recently vacated by McGinnis Department Store. The building has been exten sively renovated. (Year - round weather conditioning has been in stalled, show windows have been modernized, the interior has been repainted and asphalt tile floor installed. Modern fixtures display the merchandise. Associated with the firm is Joe Lee Woodward, Kings Mountain citizen and recently a salesman for Warren Gardner’s, Gastonia. Mr. Page, Lincolnton native and longtime Kings Mountain cit izen, has been employed by Neis ler Mills division of (Massachu setts Mohair Plush Company. A member of First Presbyterian church, Mr. Page is also a Ki wanian. “We expect to offer top qual ity apparel for men,’’ Mr Page commented, “featuring large se lections of nationally - advertised merchandise." Among major items the firm vail offer are Mayfield 4-Star and Wfyde Park suits, Crosby Square wad Flordheim shoes, the Van Heusen line of shirts, pajamas and other accessories, Knox and Dunlap hats, Rainfair outerwear, Swank Jewelry, Hickok leathter goods and jewelry, and numerous other brand-name lines. Life-Saving Crew Is Busy Cleveland County Life Saving and First Aid Crew is a virtually new organization in Kings Moun tain which has given countless man hours of volunteer service during its 17 months of operation United Fund giving this year will benefit the Life Saving Crew, in addition to eight other participating organizations which will be beneficiaries of the cam paign, the first in this communi ty. These include the Boy Scouts Girl Scouts, Jacob S. Mauney Memorial (Library, Davidson school band, Kings (Mountain school band, the Red Cross, spec ial education fund, and the city recreation commission. In addition to its aid to law en forcement officers in handling traffic during a funeral or wreck, the crew is on call 24 hours dai ly, seven days a week, for emer gency duty, in Kings Mountain and throughout the county. Dur ing November, Cleveland County Life Saving Crew answered 24 calls, gave a total of 66 man hours of work and traveled 702 miles. The crew owns a 1960 Chevrolet ambulance, fully equip ped, gift from Victory Chevrolet Company. Coibet H. Nicholson is captain of the life saving and first aid crew which maintains offices at City Hall. Citizens who need the services of this organization may call 254 or 1865, Mr. Nicholson said. Out- Of-City W ater Rates May Hike IN WHO'S WHO — Bud Mayes, Kings Mountain senior at Appa lachian State Teacher's college, was recently elected to member ship in “Who's Who In American Colleges and Universities." Mr. Mayes is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mayes of ICings Mountain. Lithium Lays Off 25 Employees Lay-off of 25 employees was announced by Lithium Corpora, tiem of America at tits Bessemer Ciity plant this week. Bruce Thorburn, personnel ma nager, said the lay-off marks co insides with the completion of the firm’s five-year contract with the Atomic Energy commission. "It’s a temporary situation while adjustments axe made to meet the demands of the Indus trial lithium market, "Mr. Thor bum commented. He said tthe re duction approximates 20 percent of the firm’s production person nel. ' Transfer of all promotion and research facilities of the parent plant in St. Louis Park, Minn esota to Bessemer City, recently announced by .the corporation’s president, Herbert W. Rogers, is proceeding on schedule, company officials report, and some of the added facilities are expected to be in operation by the end of the year with the balance ready for use early in 1960. The Company expects to resume mining opera, tions before the end of 1960 when present stockpiles are exhausted. “The expanding industrial use of lithium products plus reacti vation of our own mining opera tions indicates that employment at the Bessemer City plant should be on the increase during the coming year”, Mr. Thorburn stated. (Station Plan Is Held Legal It is the opinion of the state attorney-general’s office that magistrate’s have the power to set bonds for minor infractions where statutory bond require ments are not set specifically by law. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said the attorney-general’s office had thus informed the city on a query. The query followed a oity com mission action in which city po lice desk sergeants (also magis trate’s) were Instructed to re quire no bonds in cases where lo cal citizens had been arrested for minor misdemeanors. In such event, the persons arrested mere ly would receive citations to re corder’s court. Christmas Shopping Is Underway; Some Finns Open Later Fridays December 1 traditionally opens the Christmas shopping season here and this year 1s no except ion. Several merchants repent gii!t buying already underway and think the Christmas shopping surge will increase in tempo this weekend. (Already, Kings Mountain mer chants have trimmed "Christ mas” windows and have suspen ded the midweek Wednesday half-holiday until after Christ mas. In addition, several firms an nounced this week they would be open each Friday evening be tween now and Christmas until 8 p. m. to better accommodate holiday shoppers. Planning to follow this later Friday closing schedule are department stores and variety stores. All firms said they have good inventories of gift-type goods. Apparel firms, jewelers, var iety stores, drug stones, furniture stores, hardwares and others were showing their Christmas season specials (this week. Toy dealers say they are In good shape, inventory-wise, with a wide variety of play items de signed to please any boy or girl, from guns and trucks to dolls and cook sets. Christmas lights were turned on in the business district last week. The lights make a blan ket over the principal streets In the businens district and have been augmented this year by additions to the system on Rail road avenue. The lights are pur chased by the Kings Mountain Merchants association and are hung by the city electrical ae partmenlt. Board Studying Other Cities' Outside Rates The city commission is mulling an idea to increase water rates to customers outside the city li mits. Mayor Glee A. Bridges, who was asked (by the commission to gather information on charges of other North Carolina cities, said Wednesday he would present the information at a forthcoming session of the board. The report, covering a sampling of North Carolina cities and ga thered, in most part by the Nor th Carolina League of Munici palities, shows tnat a large num ber of North Carolina cities char ge outside city water customers much higher rates than their In side city customers. The most popular rate differ ential is 100 percent over inside city rates. Cities which double in city rates for outside customers include: Asheboro, Kinston, Lex ington, Raleigh, Reidsville, Rocky Mount, Winston-Salem and Gas tonia. Burlington increases the in-city rate by 200 percent Smaller differentials are char ged by Statesville (30 percent), Shelby (about 35 percent) and Goldsboro (50 percent). High Point’s differential is 110 percent. Kings Mountain charges a ten percent differential to outsidfe city water customers. City officials say water ser vice is among its major money losing services, though dose fi guring as to how much the loss is hasn't been done. City Clerk Joe H. (McDaniel, Jr., said, "It’s a good guess that in come does little more. If that, than pay for operational costs, exclusive of capital investment costs and interest charges.” Ynle Club Total Near 400 Mark Memberships in First National Bank’s tenth annual Christmas club, now being organized, near ed the 400-mark this week, Mrs. Helen R. iBlanton, assistant cash ier, said Wednesday. Mrs. Blanton said numerous joiners were not members of the 1959 clUb. The (bank hopes to enroll 1,000 persons in the 1960 club and wants to up the aggregate pay ment of late next November to $100,000. The bank paid 825 members of the 1959 dUb approximately $90, 000. (Minimum membership is 50 cents per week. Several firms which make a vailable a payroll deduction plan for Christmas club members are expected to join the new club this weekend, (Mrs. Blanton said. Bloodmobile Here Monday The Red Cross Bloodmobile re turns to Kings Mountain Mon day for a one-day visit The Bloodmobile will set up at Central Methodist church from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. Quota for ithe call is 125 pints of blood. Mrs. O. W. Myers, Kings Moun tain 'blood chairman, has point ed out that Kings Mountain is in arrears on its blood donations. Under the Red Cross blood bank “’bookkeeping” arrange ment, blood used by Kings Mountain area citizens is char ged to Ithe Kings Mountain ac count, just as donations of blood at the quarterly Bloodmobile visits are credited to the account. For the year ending last June 30, Kings Mountain area citizens us ed more blood than they gave by 102 pints. Blood is being used increasing ly, not only to replace loss of blood during operations or acci dents, but for therapeutic treat ment in many illnesses. “Increased use of blood and blood derivatives such as serum albumen,” make increased blood giving more imperative, Mrs. Myens commented. The blood given throughout the area is stored in the Char lotte regional blood bank, where it is available on call to parti cipating chapters .Shipments are made by bus and by special mo tor convoy. In Kings Mountain, iie Cleveland County Life-Sav ing and First Aid crew has made the delivery of emergency blood shipments one of its major ser vices.
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