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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 th* flgnre ter Greater Enyi Meuntate U derived Ires the IMS lh|i Mountain dt} dtraeterr cenras. The city llalte SfOM U tnm the Dotted State# ceuun of 1150. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper f -Sfe. ] K. |p 1 ■ m ft ft R IP Pages ID Today VOL. 70 No. 52 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 31, 1959 Seventieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins MBS. NEILL IMPROVED Mi®. B. S. Neill is a patient at Charlotte Memorial Hospi tal. She became ill on Satur day. Her condition was report ed improved Wednesday. MRS. KENNEDY IMPROVED Mrs. R. M. Kennedy is recu perating at home from a ma jor eye operation. She was re ported improved on Wednes day. CHURCH PROGRAM Midview Baptist church will sponsor c program of gospel singing 'aft the church January 2nd at 7 o’clock p. m. Eastside Baptist Trio, Brackett Trio, and others will participate and oth er interested singers are wel come. The pdblic is invited. ON DEAN'S US.” Miss Janice Moore, student at King’s Business College, made the dean’s list for the past quarter. Miss Moore is the daughter of Mr. and Mr®. Ed win Moore of Kings Mountain. MASONS An emergent communication Of Fairview Lodge 339 AP&AM ter v^ork in the second degree will he held Monday night at 7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall, Secretary T. D. Tindall (has an nounced. LEGION MEETING Regular meeting of Otis- D. Green Post 155, American Legion, will be held on Fri day evening aft 8 o’clock ait the post building, it was announc ed toy Commander J. T. Mc Ginnis, Jr. METER RECEIPTS Harking meter receipts for «he week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $113.31, in cluding $91.80 from on-street meters and $21.51 from off street meters. Over-parking tee payments totaled $37, City Clerk Joe McDaniel reported. * : :■ _____ MEW PLANT MANAGES Jade Barham, formerly Sou thern Bell Telephone & Tele graph company plant man ager, at Lincolnton, has be come plant manager here, suc ceeding W. F. Love, who has transferred to Gastonia, it was announced this week by E. Floyd Farris, manager. * New Tax Bites To Start Frida; Paychecks Issued subsequent to Thursday will be snipped by new lax totes: 1) Federal social security lax rales advance by one-holt-per cent tor both employer and em ployee, bringing the total tax to six percent on all wages and sa laries up to $4800 annually. The rate has been a total of five per cent 2) North Carolina’s new in come itax withholding plan be comes effective January 1, and employees will find this bite added to their customary tax ac counts withheld. P. F. Hege, of the Shelby of fice of the state Department of Revenue, said this week that employers who have not been assigned state identification numbers should contact the of fice in the county courthouse, or call Huxley 7-4591. Withhold ing tax tables are also avail able, Mr. Hege added. He said efforts had been made to con tact all employers directly. Kings Mountain To Welcome New Year, Decade Thursday Citizens Plan Traditional New Year Fetes 'Kings Mountain area citizens will celebrate the demise of one decade and the beginning of an other Thursday, as 1959 expires at midnight. The event will Ibe celebrated at numerous semi-public and private parties. At least two churches, First Baptist and Central Meth odist, will hold New Year’s Eve watch services. Kings Mountain Country Club will hold its traditional New Year’s Eve party, featuring an 8 p. m. dinner, dancing until 1 a. nt, with an early breakfast to follow. Music will be furnished by the Delmonicoes, a Shelby dance band. The American Legion post will hold a New Year’s Eve dance, be ginning at 9 o’clock. Hague Sisk and his orchestra will furnish the music. Though Hardly a majority, some Kings Mountain area citi zens will enjoy a New Year’s day holiday. Majority of retail stores, finan cial firms and governmental offi ces will be closed On Friday. Most grocery firms will be open on regular schedule, they have an nounced. City hall offices will be closed, as will the postoffioe. Also closed will be Kings Mountain Military Park. Some retail firms indicated they would be at work, even though not open for regular bus iness. January 1 is traditional in ventory - taking day, and some firms said they would utilize the day to complete the Chore. Majority of industry will be op erated on regular schedule. Jaycee Contest Nearing End > Kings Mountain's Young Man of 1959 will be named at the Jan uary 19th meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce which is still accepting nominations. Any young man of the commu nity — 21 through 36 years of age — is eligible and any citizen may make a nomination. A Judg ing committee will base its decis ion on three points: contributions to the general community wel fare during the year; evidence of leadership ability; and evidence of personal or business progress. The winner need not be a mem ber of the Jaycees. The winner is announced at the Jaycees’ annual Bosses’ Night banquet in January. Bob Goforth is receiving nomi nations and his address is route 3, Box 416. IB. F. Manor is Jaycee presi dent. Baptists To Hear Horace Easom Horace Easom, vice-president of Union Bank and Trust Compa ny of Shelby, and past state Bro therhood secretary, will speak to the Brotherhood of First Baptist dhurah and men of other church es in the Kings Mountain area Monday night, January 4, at 7:30 p. m. in First Baptist church fel lowship hall. Mr. Easom will launch the First Baptist Brotherhood motto for year of 1960, ‘Tift Christ Up in I960.’’ Mr. Easom is well known for his endless work in instigating and organizing many Brother-, hoods throughout the State. He is active, not only in Brotherhood work, but in various religious and civic activities and organizations and is on the board of directors j of the Kiwanis club of Shelby. "We cordially invite all men of the Kings Mountain area to at tend,” Rev. B. L. Raines said in announcing the program. Moose Distributed Baskets To Needy Members of Kings Mountain Moose 'Lodge 1748 distributed Christinas 'gift baskets to 11 needy families. Charlie McCarter, chairman of the project, said the Christmas charity project was cleared throu gh the Cleveland and Gaston county welfare departments. Other committee memibers were Will Grice and Charlie Randall. New Year Watch RHes Planned Two Kings Mountain churches are arranging watdhnight servi ces on New Year’s Eve. , Both First Baptist church and Central Methodist church are scheduling special services, with the (Baptist prayer service for all age groups to begin at 7:30. A special program will be held at 11:30 p. m. at the Baptist church and Methodist youth have arrang ed a program to begin at 11 p. m. at Central Methodist church. Groups which Will participate in the season of prayer at First (Bap tist church will include: Bun beams from 8:15 to 8:40; Junior GA’s from 8:40 to 9:05; Junior FlA's from 9:05 to 9:30; Women’s Missionary Society from 9:30 to 10 p. m.; Brotherhood from 10 to 10:30 p. m. and Intermediates and Young People from 10:30 to 11 p. m. Showing of a film, “All For Him” will begin the service at 11 p. m. after Which all age groups will participate ' in the program, "Old Year Out -r- New Year In’’ from 11:30 to 12:05. At Central Methodist, the ser vice is under sponsorship of the youth of the church and all young people of the" community are especially invited to attend. Rev. Herbert Garmon, pastor, and Rev. W. C. Sides, pastor of Grace Methodist dhurdh, will have char ge of the services which begin at 11 p. m. and continue until mid night when a service of commun ion will conclude the program. The interested public is invited to both programs Thursday even ing. Lutherans Set Special Service St Matthew’s (Lutheran church will begin the New Year with, the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper Sunday at H a. m. The medita tion will be on “Provisions for our Journey” based on the sever al journeys of the Holy Family surrounding Christ’s birth. All Christmas services at St Matthew's had record attendan ces. Thirteen new members were received the past two Sundays, two adults and four children by Baptism. . The annual meeting of the con gregation will ho held January 10. City, County Starts Monday Annual city and county tax listing will begin in Kings Mountain and Number 4 Town ship on Monday. Due to the fact the New Year’s holiday falls on Friday, the tax listers in this township won’t begin their work until January 4. Schedule will follow that of former years, it was announced jointly by J. W. Webster, city tax lister, and Conrad Hughes, Number 4 Township tax lister. Both Mr. Hughes and Mr. Webster will be at City Hall courtroom from 8 a. m. to noon, and from 1 to 5 p. m., Monday through Fridays for the month of January. On Saturday’s beginning Jan uary 9,. Mr, Hughes will he at R. E. Hambright’s store in Grover to accommodate citizens of the Grover area. Both listing officials asked ci tizens to attend their listing business early. They noted that it is custo mary for many citizens to wait until the enid of the listing per iod, with consequent jam-ups and longer-than-desired waits. Early listers usually can accom plish the chore in a matter of minutes. All citizens are required to list properties for taxes. Though real property valuations are au tomatically carried forward, sa les and other transfers of pro perty should be noted, it was pointed out In addition, persons are required to list personal pro perty, including automobiles, furniture, jewelry, household furniture and appliances, dogs, guns, and other articles of value. Men between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to Mst for poll taxes. KO WRECKS The National Safety Coun cil's prediction that 350 per sons would be killed in high way accidents during the Christmas holidays proved it rue, but Kings Mountain con tributed not even a minor au to bump to the tally. No auto accidents were recorded with in the city limits since Decem ber 21. Members Of Life-Saving Crew Pay Dues For Privilege Of Giving Aid Members of the Cleveland County Life-Saving and Rescue squad, based in Kings Mountain, pay weekly dues for the “privi lege" of helping to alleviate tra gic and disastrous events. A voluntary, nonprofit organi zation, the life-saving crew had no direct means of public support until it was included as a partic ipating organization in Kings Mountain’s first United Fund campaign. Even with this finan cial help, Capt* Nicholson says, funds would be insufficient to operate “on call”, as it is the policy of the organization to do. in effect, the dues of members furnish automotive operational expenses for a vast variety of e mergency activities — from rush ing a patient to a hospital, deliv ering blood for a critically ill pa tlent, or rescuing well-diggers. The report of the county's civ il defense director summarizes the work of the organization as follows: 1) Answered 183 calls for aid. 2) Traveled 6.374 miles. 3) Boasts 17 regular members jin addition to reserve men. 4) Has given 1,359 houns emergency service, in acMition 1,632 man hours in training class jes. *V • Funds have come from individ ual gifts, from promotions (sup < pers, etc.,) served hy the organ I ization, in additicn to members’ dues. Victory Chevrolet Company Is furnishing the life-saving crew ! an ambulance and has told the j organization it will provide a new i one each year. tfv Headline Review Shows 1969 Was Busy Yeaz Here A survey of news events of the past 12 months reveals a busy year for Kings Mountain area ci tizens, amid the customary mix ture of work, play, success, fail ure and tragedy. Major events including the let ting of contract on the Kings (Mountain - Grover section of Highway Interstate 85, announce ment by Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph company that the community could-expect dial ser vice in September 1960, and the approval by the county of bonds to provide a 25-bed addition to Kings Mountain hospital. Employment improved consid erably during 1959, but niggardly appropriations by a federal bu reau forced closing of the Kings Mountain office of the State Employment security commis sion. It was a successful year in sports, with the American Le gion Juniors advancing fartherest ever into elimination play and with the high school Mountain eers getting a one-third claim on the conference championship. A continuing news story — and still unsettled — is possible con solidation of Number 4 Town ship high schools. A Kings (Mountain citizen, (Bob Hall, got a wife via Congression al aid, when a special bill was passed waiving bars to his fi ancee’s immigration from Korea. In spite of the curtailments necessitated in lithium produc tion due to wind-up of govern ment contracts and thb bankrupt cy of Scranton Lace Corporation, parent of Craftspun Yams, Inc., business generally was prosper ous. Lithium Corporation began consolidation of all its operations at the nearby Bessemer City road plant, and Slater (Manufacturing Company began consolidating all of its operations here. Winn-Dix ie Stores and MJcGinnis Furniture Company occupied new buildings and there were numerous other business renovations and expan sions. City politics, a spring season event, found citizens retaining the city administration in toto, but disapproving longer and staggered terms of office for e leotive officials. Citizens also turned thumbs down on a pro posal too flouridiarte the city’s wa ter supply. J. R. Davis retired as a school trustee and was suc ceeded by Mm. Lena W. McGill. The city observed its 85th cor porate birthday and Aubrey Mauney was elected president of the Brotherhood of the United Lutheran Church of America. Feature Herald headlines ol the year were: JANUARY Bide Asked On Local Section Of Interstate 85 Expressway; Moore Baby Boy Is Derby Win ner; Mr. and Mrs. Mauney Give Building To Lenoir-Rhyne; Sch ool-Desired Property Valued At *7894; Jayeees Will Make DSA Award At Bosses Night Banquet Tuesday; City Office Elective Terms May Be Lengthened, Sta ggered; Maner Is Winner of DSA Award; Political Winds Are Still Chilly; Ernest J. Mauney, 34, Died Wednesday Of Leukemia; Mother's March Thursday Night; Red Cross Bloodmobile Will Pay Visit On Monday, Donors Need ed. FEBRUARY Mayor Glee A. Bridges la Seeking Re-Election; Davis Re tiring From School Poet; Fruit Grower Cameron Ware County Farmer Of ’58; Moore Accepts Lutheran Call; Political Rumor Mill Beginning To Grind Out A Pew "Probables”; Election Sys tern Change Hearing To Be Thursday; Alexander Asks Re election, Mrs. McDaniel School Post; College, Church Benefici aries Of Mauney Will; Inquest Set In Shuford'B Death; Youth Pound Dead At Home Monday; Vote Likely On Pour-Year Terms At May Election; Still Enters Mayoral Race, Ellison, Bennett Lock Horns; Values Of Apprai sals Group Accepted by School Board; Maner Wins City Insur ance Fight, One Agent To Write All Coverage; Religious Census To Be Conducted Sunday; Gro ver To Get Resident Doctor; (Continued On Page Bight) S & L Dividends Again Set Record Auto License Tags To Go On Sale State auto license tags will go on sale Saturday and city auto licenses will go on sale Monday at City Hall. The new 1960 tags lor both state and city feature black let ters on a yellow background. City tags sell for $1. All North Carolina vehicles must exhibit the new tags by February 15. The city follows the same schedule. The city sold bout 1700 auto license tags during 1959. Local Exchange Has 3225 Phones If telephone business is a bar ometer of business generally, as it is usually considered along with post office receipts, parking meter receipts and other baro meters, Kings Mountain and Cleveland County established new records for business activi ty in 1959. E. Floyd Farris, Southern Bell manager, reported a gain of 1400] telephones in the county during 1959. The year end total showed 3225 telephones on the Kings Mountain switchboard and a to tal of 15,815 in the county. In 1938, Kings Mountain had only 397 telephone subscribers. Two years ago the number had reached 2721, up from 1839 in 1952. To expand and improve ser vice, an average of over $172,000 was spent every working day of the year on telephone construc tion In North Carolina, Farris said. In meeting the state's tele phone needs the company gain ed more telephones in 1959 than in any previous yeans, adding approximately 53,000 phones. This is an increase of nearly 10 per cent over 1958. Southern iBeU’s total outlay on construction and expansion in the State was over 28-million in 1959. The payroll for its approx imately 5,500 employees in the state amounted to 26-milIiDn. Cleveland County came in for its part. Conversion of Kings Mountain to the dial system, now underway, will require an expenditure of over $440,000. Many new cable projects have been completed during the year at an expense of around $325, 000. with more than 135,000 feet of cable placed. Ad valorem taxes amounted to qver $30,000 for the year in this county. During the year the company paid nearly 18-million In taxes on its North Carolina operations. Over 6-million of this total was paid locally to the state, cities, and counties with the balance being paid to the Federal Gov ernment in income taxes. The company also collected from telephone users an addi tional 6-miliion for the Federal Government in excise taxes on telephone service in North Car olina. Hamrick Buys Bridges Interests David Hamrick has purchased the undivided interest of Glee A. Bridges in several business prop : erties in which he and Mr. Bridg ; es were co-owners, it was report ed this week. I 'Mr. Hamrick purchased the interest of Mr. Bridges in a ware house on Gold street, in the touild ! ings on Cherokee street occupied by Saunders Cleaners and Stowe Radio and T-V, and in two lots I adjacent to the Cherokee street j buildings. Transaction was completed last week. Consideration was not an nounced. December 31 Payments Up By $23,335 Kings Mountain financial firms are paying year-end semi-annual dividend and interest payments totaling $115,108, up by $23,735 over the $91,373 paid last Decem ber 31. The increase reflects both in creased savings accounts at the city's three financial institutions and increased dividend and in terest rates. Both savings and loan associa tions are paying dividends at a four percent annual rate for the final six months of the year. For both of these firms, both year end and 1959 payments to savings Shareholders set new records. Payments of $61,502 toy Home Savings & (Loan association com pared with dividends of $51,030 in June, and the annual total of $112,533 was well ahead of the association’s 1958 total of $91, 842, Secretary-Treasurer A. H. Patterson reported. Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association reported year end dividends of $49,106, compar ed to payments of $42,572 in June, Secretary-Treasurer iBen H. Brid ges, Jr., reported. Aggregate pay ments of $91,678 for 1959 com pared with total payments of $79,236 for 1958. First National Bank said total interest payments on savings ac counts for the year ending Thur sday approximated $9,000, slight ly up over last year’s payments, Vice-Fresident R. S. (Lennon re ported. Masons Install New Officers Installation of new officers of Fairview Lodge 339 AF4AM was a feature of the regular Monday night meeting at Masonic Hall. Frank Ballard, past master, assisted by Fred Weaver, as in stalling marshal, .conducted the installation services. Installed were: I. C. Davis who succeeds Mr. Ballard as worship ful master; W. B. Thorbum, sen ior warden; J. R. Harrison, jun ior warden; T. D. Tindall, secre tary; L. A. Harmon, treasurer; B. M. Hayes, Jr., senior deacon; Joe Roberts, junior deacon; Carl M. Logan, senior steward; Bob by C. Bridges, junior steward; H. B. Herndon, tyler; T. F. Ballard, chaplain; Frank Ballard, trus tee; and J. B. Simpson and Den ver King, continuing trustees. Arthur Barrett's Bites Conducted Funeral rites for Arthur Bar rett, 60, were held Saturday at 3 p. m. from First Wesleyan Me thodist dhurdh, interment follow ing in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Barrett succumbed Christ mas Eve at 4:10 a. m. at Kings Mountain hospital after an ill ness of nine months. A Kings Mountain native, he was the son of James Luther 'Barrett whb sur vives and the late Fallie Jane Neal Barrett He was formerly employed at Minette Mills in Gro ver and a member of the First Wesleyan church. . He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Ward Barrett; two sons, James Richard Barrett of Wash ington, D. C., and Arthur Barrett of Kings Mountain; one daughter, Mrs. Clyde J. Bridges of Kings Mountain; five brothers, Charles, Theodore, Austin, and Gene Bar rett all of Kings Mountain, and James Barrett of Georgia; and two sisters, Mrs. Lackey Navey and Mrs. Yates Blanton, both of Kings Mountain. Two grandchild ren also survive. The final rites were conducted by Rev. J. W. Phillips, pastor of First Wesleyan church. Prospects Better Than Year Ago, Man; Comment Kings Mountain citizens can anticipate a prosperous year, a spot survey of business and in dustry officials indicated Wed nesday. Merchants, majority of them smiling after an excellent retail sales holiday season, anticipate continuing good business well in to 1960. The construction industry looks askance at the tight money situa tion and auto dealers, already once victimized by the steel strike, are wary of a late Janu ary resumption of the strike. Tex tile managers, however, look for better sailing this year than they anticipated a year ago. Some of the comments: A1 Maino, general manager of the (Neisler division of Massachu setts Mohair Plush Company: “The outlook is good. Orders are still being booked and we are try ing to develope expansion plans. We also hope the City of Kings Mountain won’t do anything to hurt us, and we shall operate on the assumption the city will be reasonable.” (Mr. Maino alluded to recent talk concerning annex ation of the Margrace plant into , the city limits and recent increas es in water rates.) W. K. Mlauney, secretary-treas urer of Mauney Mills: "Prospects look much better than they did a year ago. Of course, none of us know how long the situation will last. While demand is generally better for synthetic fibres than for cotton, there is strong de mand for some counts of cotton fibres.” John Smathers, secretary treasurer of Park Yam Mills: "The outlook generally is better than it was 12 months ago.” Ben H. Bridges, Jr., secretary treasurer of Kings Mountain Sav ings & Loan association: "Money tight nationally will have some effect locally. However, we an ticipate making quite a few loans for new construction and other building and are expecting a good year. Our increase of dividend rate on savings Should increase savings accounts and we have a good influx of money via pay ments on loans.” R. S. Lennon, vice-president of Firat National Bank: “Business prospects look good. Industry re. ports several months of orders in hand and anticipates good bus iness for at least six months. De mand for loans is good, but we have a good 'loan ratio and are not as top-heavy as some of the banks In larger cities.” John Cheshire, president, Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce: "My conversations with merchants and industry, plus location inquiries from out. of-state firms makes it appear this area will prosper.” TV Bowl Action Schedule Given Three of thie country’s first ten college football teams — includ ing top-rated Syracuse — will toe seen in Bowl game action on WBTV New Year’s Day. Seventh - ranked Georgia, Sou theastern Conference champion, takes on Missouri in the Orange Bowl from Miami, Florida, at 12:45. Following the Orange Bowl clash, Syracuse’s undefeated Orangemen collide with the na tion’s foUrth - ranked team, Tex as, in the Cotton Bowl from Dal las at 3:30. Missouri finished regular sea son play with a 6-4 won-lost rec ord, Georgia posted a 9-1 mark, Texas lost once, winding up with a 9-1 season and Syracuse boast ed the only unbeaten and untied team in the country. On Saturday, January 2, Geor gia Teqh and Arkansas meet in the Gator Bowl from Jackson ville, Florida, at 2 o’clock, in a game to be carried on Channel 3.
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