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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 22, I960
Pages
Today
VOL 71 No. 38
Established 1889
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Five-Day Cleveland County
Fair Will Open On Tuesday
CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR FEATURE — One of the features of
the annual Cleveland County fair, which opens Tuesday, will be
the World Championship Rodeo, a nightly feature at the five-day
event In the picture, a cowhand is astride a bucking bronco. Other
rodeo features will include calf-roping, and steer wrestling.
Local News
Bulletins
REUNION
Annual reunion of the fam
ily of the laite Robert B. and
Frances Dixon will be held
Sunday at the Bethlehem Fell
owship Center. Picnic dinner
■will be spread at the noon
hour.
ROTARY CLUB
Kings Mountain Rotarians
will meet Thursday at 12:15
at Kings Mountain Country
Club for a regular meeting.
Charles Dixon has arranged
the program.
PARK GRACE P-TA
Park Grace P-TA will hold
its initial meeting of the
school year Monday night at
7 p. m. in the school auditor
ium.
BAKE SALE
The Future Homemakers of
America at Central school are
sponsoring a bake sale Satur
day beginning ait 9 a. m. in the
former Griffin Drug building.
IN GRADUATE SCHOOL
Rev. George Moore, pastor
of Resurrection Lutheran chur
ch, is attending Tuesday ses
sions in the Graduate School
of Southern Seminary where
he is working toward a mas
ter’s degree in Sacred Theolo
gy
Mr. Beam's
Father Passes
Funeral rites for Elzie E. Beam
81, of Bessemer City, father of
Ben F. Beam of Rings Mountain,
were held Monday morning at
11 o’clock from Sisk Memorial
Chapel in Bessemer City.
Mir. Beam succumbed Sunday
at his home.
Surviving, in addition to his
son here, are his wife; another
son, Zen as Beam of Bessemer
City; one sister, Mrs. Delilah
Clark of Grouse; and one brother,
John Beam of Cherryville.
Also surviving are one grand
daughter, Mrs. Palmer Huffstet
ler of Winston Salem, and one
grandson, Captain Paul Beam of
the U. S. Air Force in Labrador;
four step-grandchildren; Mrs.
Charles Harrill of Clearwater,
Fla, Miss Margaret Harmon and
William (Bill) Marmon, all of
Kings Mountain, 12 great-grand
children.
Here's Memory
Aid For Phoning
Thinking seven digits are too
many to remember easily, at
least one Kings (Mountain
phone user has figured out a
formula whereby he needs to
remember wily the final four
digits.
He has converted (be initial
three digits, 739, to a three-let
ter exchange designation.
This, he says, is the three-let
ter exchange that few, if any,
will trewe trouble remembering:
S-E-X.
Judgments
To Be Hied
Ca '58 Taxes
Delinquent city taxpayers are
being notified that judgment
will be docketed against them
for unpaid 1958 taxes.
Under North Carolina law, the
judgements may not be docketed
until two weeks after the pro
perty owner is notified.
M. H. Biser, city tax collector
saysthe judgment notices are
being processed as fast as possi
ble and being sent to property
owners by certified mail.
A judgment to satisfy a' tax
lien may be foreclosed six mon
ths after it is docketed, Mir. Biser
added.
The formal notice bears the
notation “No further notice will
be given.”
The (tax collector urged citizens
who owe taxes for 1958 and prior
years to make arrangements to
pay the accounts.
“It'll save the taxpayer money
to pay the accounts prior to doc
keting of judgments,” he pointed
out.
Mrs. Anthony
Big Winner
Number 4 Township apparent
ly has its share of good cooks.
At the Bethware Fair, annual
agriculture fair sponsored by the
Bethware Progressive Club, more
than half the entries were by
women who displayed homemade
cakes, pies, canned goods and
garden products.
Over 250 first place awards
were made to competitors and
some 200 red ribbons, or second
place awards. Thus the biggest
display of entries yet at the corrf
miunity fair..
Cash prizes went to each first
and second place entry.
Entries by Mrs. Fred Anthony
copped 22 blue ribbons and 20
red ribbons. First place ribbons
marked her stringbeans, cucum
bers, turnips, pork, chicken, cakes
and pies, cookies, cheese straws,
mfarmalade, jam, dill pickles, to
mato catsup and her floral ar
rangement for an invalid’s tray
and a garden display.
Several mother and daughter
teams competed. Mrs. F. C. Ware
won first .place for her calico
quilt, her daughter (Mrs. Bobby
Webster took second place. Mrs.
Ware won the blue ribbon for the
best quilted quilt and Mis. Web
ster again copped the red ribbon.
IP. K. Harmon won blue rib
bons for com and wheat, both
entered in the field crops’ cate
gory. In horticulture, Cameron
Ware won first place for die best
display of apples, peaches and
tomatoes.
Complete list of prize winners
begins on Page 4.
LEGION SUPPER-DANCE
American Legion Post 155
will serve supper to members
and guests Saturday from 5
until 8 p. m. A dance, begin
ning at 9 p. m., will continue
until midnight. Dinner plates,
either chicken or fish are $1
and dance tickets are $1 per
couple
Rodeo, Rides,
Races, Exhibits
Fair Features
The Cleveland County fair op
ens for its annual five-day run
Tuesday, with a jam-packed
schedule of entertainment e
vents, along with educational
and commercial exhibits.
“We’ll have our best fair yet,
if the weaitherman is good to us,”
Dr. J. S. Dor ton, the fair's vet
eran general manager, comment
ed.
Recent additions to fair attrac
tions include an appearance
Tuesday on opening day, of
Betty Feezor, WBTV home econo
mist, who will provide recipes
and other practical kitchen in
formation in connection with the
exhibit of the Cleveland County
Poultry council.
It has also been announced
that Terry Sanford, Democratic
candidate for governor, will visit |
the fair on Friday, Septem- j
ber 30, which is also school day
for Kings Mountain and Shelby
school pupils.
Scheduled nightly is the World
Championship rodeo, featuring
Such thrill acts as Bull Busch
bohm and his famous Liberty
Horse revue.
The eight beautiful and per
fectly matched black-and-white
Morrocan horses that perform in
a precision drill were a favorite
attraction at the 1960 Madison
Square Garden edition of Ringling
Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Cir
cus. They are coming to the
Cleveland event along with cow
girls performing on Texas Quar
ter horses, Bull Fighter Buddy
Heaton, Bunkie Boger, the dare
devil clown. Rodeo events will
include bull wrestling, bareback
(Continued on tape Eight)
Auto 200,000
To Visit Park
Officials of Kings Mountain
National Military park were look
ing forward Wednesday to log
ging in the 200,000th auto to vis
it the park during 1960.
Superintendent Ben Moornaw
said the event would occur either
Wednesday afternoon or Thurs
day..
Already the park has set a
new attendance record.
As a sample of increase in
public interest and attendance in
the Kings Mountain battleground
shrine, Mr. Moomaw noted that
attendance during July was great
er than the total attendance for
the year 1950.
The park , which comprises
albout 4200 acres, commemorates
the Revolutionary War Battle of
Kings Mountain, called by his
torians that turning of the tide
in the war which found the Amer
ican colonies winning freedom
from Great BrSTian a few months
later.
At the Kings Mountain battle,
Col. Patrick Ferguson, the British
commander, was killed and his
force annihilated by a band of
mountain men on October 7, 1780.
METER RECEIPTS OFF
Parking meter receipts de
clined to $88.85 for the week
ending Wednesday at noon.
Cifty Clerk Joe McDaniel said
$79.45 was derived from on
street meters and $9.40 from
off-street meters.
Area Democrats
Attend Kennedy
Charlotte Rally
A large delegation of Kings
Mountain area Democrats join
ed Clevelanders in attending the
Charlotte rally Saturday for pre
sidential nominee Jack Kennedy.
County Chairman Virgil Wea
thers, expressing himself as
well-pleased with the county
wide turnout said each of the
county’s 28 voting precincts were
represented at Charlotte and ad
ded he was “especially pleased
with the Kings Mountain area
turnout.”
The Cleveland delegation pro
ceeded to Charlotte by motor
cade, wore red-white-and-blue
streamer “Cleveland County for
Kennedy” lapel tags, and appen
theiir auto bumpers. > \ \
The crowd attending tmt raHjf
was variously estimated affront
10,000 to 12,000 people. ^
Senator Kennedy was roifrid
ly cheered by the crowd from
the time of his entrance with
Governor Luther Hodges, Demo
cratic candidate for governor
Terry Sanford, Senators Everett
Jordan and Sam Ervin and other
party leaders and officials. On
leaving, he was almost crushed
by a big crowd of well-wishers.
In his address, the Senator
hammered away at several favo
rite themes. He said he,wanted
ahis nation to be second to none
in military strength to deter
Communist aggressors and to
revitalize its economic strength.
He chided the Reupbliean par
ty as not offering one piece of
progressive legislation in the
past eight years and declared if
is the habit of the Republican
party to profess friendship with
the South “every four years”. He
suggested that his Massachus
etts heritage makes him well a
ware of the problems of the tex
tile industry and declared of the
Democratic party, “We are a na
tional party, a party that has
multi-interests.”
Among Kings Mountain area
citizens attending the rally were
Mrs. J. E. Lipford, county Demo
cratic vice-chairman; Mayor
Glee A. Bridges, Cameron Ware,
Bethware chairman; Hugh Gr
mand, West Kings Mountain
chairman; Ollie Harris, East
Kings Mountain chairman;
County Commissioner and Mrs.
Bioadus Ellis, of Grover; Mrs. J.
H. Arthur, Miss Margaret Ken
drick; Mr. and Mrs. Dean Spear
man; Clarence Ledford; Willard
Boyles; Wayne L. Ware, Sr.; Mr.
and Mirs. William Lawrence
Plonk; Hall Goforth; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Dixon; Mrs. Gene
Timms; Mrs. Hunter Patterson;
Miss Fanny Carpenter; Mirs. J.
S. Norman; Dean McDaniel; and
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harmon.
Contest Planned
Foi Kiwanians
Robert Aldiioh of Aldrich Ma
chine Works of Greenwood, S.
C., will present the program at.
tthe Kiwanis club Thursday even-!
ing at 6:45 p. m.
For a numlber of years Mir. Al-j
drich has appeared annually be-j
fore the Kiwanis club and each I
time presenting a unique and!
original contest. The winner is!
rewarded in silver dollars and
much interest has been centered
in the contests, Kiwanians report.
(Mr. Aldrich, himself, says of
the contest prepared for Thurs
day evening, “It’s the easiest one;
yet.”
Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich will ar
rive from Greenwood pn Thurs
day afternoon and will toe guests
of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pressly
while in Kings Mountain.
Burlington Plant Off To Early
ItartOn United Fund Campaign
Burlington Industries’ Phenix
plant will get an early start on
its 1960 efforts for the Kings
Mountain United Fund campaign.
The fund-raising effort at the
Burlington plant will begin Mon
day—a week before the formal
beginning of the $17,000 cam
paign to support eight civic and
service agencies.
Contributions to the campaign
will aid these groups:
1) Kings Mountain chapter,
American Red Cross, which pro
vides liason service between the
armed forces and families of ser
vicemen, sponsors the Red Cross
blood program, gives emergency
service to the indigent.
2) Jacob S. Mauney Memorial
Library. United Fund contribu
tions enable broader purchase of
the latest in reading material,
Which is made available to the
whole community.
3) Kings Mountain band asso
ciation, enabling this group to
purchase instruments and sup
plies for the Kings Mountain
school band.
4) Davidson school band, which
will use the funds for instruments
and supplies.
5) Boy Scouts of America,
which uses funds to expand the
program of Scouting in Kings
(Mountain and the Piedmont coun
cil.
6) Girl Scouts of America,
which uses funds to extend the
Girl Scout program in Kings
Mountain and Pioneer area
council.
7) Cleveland dCounty Life-Sav
ing Crew, Inc., which uses funds
i in answering calls for emergency
aid to all citizens in case of dis
aster. j
8) Kings Mountain Recreation]
commission, which plans to use
i money given last year and up
coming donations to provide
lights for two softball fields. I
Final plans for the 1960 cam
paign will be made at a kickoff
' dinner on September 29, President
Bob Maner said this week, with
j the campaign to begin formally
on October 3. .
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Federal Court Is Petitioned
For Sale Of Craftspun Yarns
SPEAKER — Mrs. E. W. Neal
will lead a program on responsi
bilities of citizens to vote at a
meeting of the Woman's Club
Monday nigbt
Voting Topic
At Woman's Club
Women will hear about their
(responsibilities to vote at the
Woman’s Club Monday night at
8 p. m.
The public affairs program,
open to all citizens of the com
munity and all departments of
-the Woman’s Club, will be led by
Mrs. E. W. Neal.
Mrs. Neal and members of the
sponsoring department have said
the program will be for “infor
mation” and “unbiased” on the
November elections. Factual in
formation about each of the can
didates for president will be giv
en and a question-answer sess
ion is expected to follow the for
mal program.
The Monday night program is
one of two public affairs pro
grams planned as a community
wide project of the women’s or
ganization. In November, that
group is planning a program on
civil defense with the public
again invited to participate.
Car Collided
With School Bus
Harold Lee Hannon, 17, of 302
Lineberger Street, Shelby was in
jured (Monday wfhen the car in
winch he was a passenger smash
ed into the rear of a Compand;
School bus on U. S. 74 at 7:45
a. m.
The car was driven by Norris
Wilson Towery, 17, of 210 N.
Mountain Street, Cherryville.
Hannon was taken to Kings
Mountain Hospital and then
transferred to Cleveland Memo
rial Hospital for treatment of a
back injury sustained in thq
craSh.
The school bus was driven
by Myrtle Davis Brown, 31, of
Route 2, Kings Mountain.
Patrolman R. E. Shaney charg
ed Towery with reckless driving.
He said Towery told him he
had passed a truck on the dual
lane highway, then skidded into
the 'bus as he attempted to stop
behind it.
The school bus was loading
passengers.
’ The Toweiy car was demolish
ed by the impact, Patrolman
Shaney reported, and the bus was
damaged about $150.
Shaney noted the collision
marks the fourth school bus ac
cident in the county since the
school term began this year.
He urged all motorists to be on
the lookout for buses, particu
larly before and after school
each day.
Restore Gas Service
Now,Says Nicholson
Gas heating customers should
n't let this week’s warm weather
deter ithem from ordering gas
service restored at once, Corbett
Nicholson, city gas superinten
dent said this week.
Gas department records indi
cate 269 customers ordered ser
vice suspensions at the advent of
summer.
“It would be physically Im
possible to restore service to all
these customers at one time,”
Mr. Nicholson noted. “Somebody
would be sure to get cold unless
cut-on orders are placed in ad
vance."
Consolidation Suit
Not On Calendar
October Term
Likely Date
For Merger Suit
Trial of litigation seeking to
prevent the Number 4 township
school consolidation won’t be
heard before late October.
J. R. Davis, attorney for the
city board of education, said yes
terday the suit, brought by citi
zens seeking to abrogate the May
14 election which favored the
merger, was not docketed by the
county bar association’s calendar
committee for the September!
term which begins Monday.
(Mr. Davis said he requested
that the litigation be calendared,
but that the calendar committee
said a jam-up of prior civil cases
indicated litle likelihood hat the
suit would be heard in this term.
Judge P. C. Froneberger, in
his court order directing that the
suit be heard in Cleveland Super
ior Court, specified that the suit
be tried as early as possible.
Mr. Davis said he would seek
setting of a preemptory date for
trial of the case at the session be
ginning Monday. .
The eiy board of education is
co-defendant in the suit, along
with the county board of educa
tion and the county 'board of com
missioners.
In the complaint, plaintiffs
seek to have the election results,
set aside. They question techni
cal details of the election notice
and other procedures leading tip
to the May 14 voting, in which
citizens of the area to be merged
—including areas now served by
Compact, Park Grace, Bethware
and Grover schools—voted 1120
to 874 in favor of merging these
county district schools into the
Kings Mountain district
District YDC
Rally Planned
Young Democratic presidents
and counity chairmen from the
11th Congressional district were
meeting in Shelby Wednesday
night to lay plans for a district
Young Democrats rally to be
held in Shelby in October.
Cleveland Chairman Virgil
Weathers said Congressman Ba
sil L. Whitener was to aittend the
meeting and that the date for
the rally has been set tentative
ly for October 10.
Chairman Weathers also an
nounced that Terry Sanford, can
didate for governor, will aittend
the Cleveland County Fair on
Friday, September 30, and said
the biennial district rally of
Democrats will be at Rutherford
ton on November 2.
The district includes Gaston,
Cleveland, Rutherfordton, Polk,
McDowell, Madison and Yancey ;
counties.
Meantime, Senator Jack Ken
nedy,the party’s presidential no
minee, wrote Democratic pre
oinct officials recently:
“This letter is to tell you how
much your active support and
influence as a precinct worker!
for the Democratic Party in
North Carolina will be apprecia
ted in the November election.
“We plan to wage an active
campaign in North Carolina.
Success in any national cam
paign is dependent upon the
work done on the precinct level.
“To achieve our ultimate goal,
support such as yours will be the
keystone of a November victory.” i
Ii No Fire, Call
Number 739-5251
Using the telephone to ire
part a fire?
Call 739-2551.
Calling the fireman’s quar
ter?
Call 739-5251.
There’s a difference.
When the fire number rings,
it automaticlly sets off a loud
■buzzer which not only puts
firemen to running on the dou
ble, but policemen and electri
cal men, too.
Only the buzzer number is
listed' in the new dial tele
phone directory, which means
all calls set off the buzzer.
It it isn’t a fire, use 739-5251,
Fire Chief Pat Tignor requests.
McGinnis loins
Research Staff
Dr. Paul H. McGinnis, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. McGin
nis, Sr., of Kings Mountain, has
joined the technical staff of the
Esso Research Laboratories in
Baton Rouge, La.
A graduate of Kings Mountain
high school, he received a BS
ChE, MS-ChE and PhD from
North Carolina State College in
Raleigh.
Dr. McGinnis’ assignment at
the Esso Research Laboratories
will be chiefly in the field of ap
plied mathematics.
While a student Dr. McGinnis
was tapped by Sigma Xi, nation
al honorary research society, Tau
Beta Pi, national engineering
society and Sigma Phi Epsilon,
national social fraternity.
He is married to the former
Miss Elizabeth Ann Wehunt of
Cherryville.
The Esso Research Laborator
ies is located in the Baton Rouge
Refinery of Esso Standard, Divi
sion of Humble Oil and Refining
Co. It is the development ground
for such scientific break-throu
ghs as Fluid Catalytic Cracking,
a process making possible high
octane fuels, Butyl synthetic
rubber, and Escon polypropylene
plastic.
Macedonia Pastor
Completing Work
Rev. S. L. Lamm, who has
been serving as supply pastor
for Macedonia Baptist church the
past several months, will com
plete his work there Sunday. He
will speak at both the morning
and evening worship services.
Mr. Lamm, also professor of
Bible at Gardner-Webb College,
is well-known in the Kings
Mountain area where he has
served numerous churches as in
terim pastor.
Rev. Wayne Ashe of Lilesville,
N. C. has accepted the pastorate
at the local church and will
move to Kings Mountain Friday.
He will assume his pastoral du
ties here on Monday.
DIRECTORS MEETING
The directors of Kings Moun
tain Merchants Association
will meet Thursday at 2:30 p.
m. in the association office to
map plans for the local Christ
mas promotion, Charles Blan
ton, president, said Wednes
day.
Property Valuation $10,735,238;
Pre-payments On '60 Bill $73,000
Total taxable valuation of the
City of Kings Mountain increas
ed to $10,735,258 for 1960, Tax
Supervisor M. H. Biser said Wed
nesday.
Of the total, $8,132,041 is the
listed valuation of real estate,
with $2,603,217 the listed valu
ation of personal property.
With $2412 in poll taxes, the
total levy for 1960 is 163,443, of
| which $73,031 had been pre paid
Wednesday afternoon.
A $2 poll itax is assessed a
gainst all males between the a
ges of 21 and 50, indicating
Kings Mountain has 1206 male
citizens within those ages.
Mir. Biser reminded that the
pre-paymenit discount rate now
one percent,will drop to one-half
of one percent on October 1. Cur
rent tax bills are due on Nov
ember 1 and payable at par
through January 1961.
New Yoik Firm
Has OHeied
To Buy Firm
BY MARTIN HARMON
Petition for sale of Graftspun
Yarns, Inc., to Marks & Company
a New York concern, was filed in
Pennsylvania’s Middle District
federal court Tuesday.
J. J. Levy, Scranton, Pa., attor
ney, who is co-trustee in bank
ruptcy for Scraniton Corporation,
parent company of the Kings
Mountain firm, told the Herald
Wednesday that the petition is
returnable October 7.
During the interim, other firms
or individuals have the oppor
tunity of making proffers for the
property.
He added that at least two
other firms have indicated an
interest in purchasing the out
standing stock of Craftspun, in
cluding a Chicago firm which
expectsto come here to inspect
the property.
Both Marks and the Chicago
firm say they intend to operate
the Kings Mountain yarn pro
ducer, Mr. Levy added.
Meantime, the firm will oper
ate as it has been.
Seveiral factors are involved in
court consideration of a petition
by trustees (to sell Craftspun, Mr.
Levy added, among them: 1) atti
tude of creditors of the bankrupt
parent company; 2) attitude of
the stockholders; and 3) inten
tions of the would-be purchasers
on operation of the firm.
Craftspun is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Scranton Corpora
tion, which went into bankrupt
cy after the arrest on charges of
embezzlement, and others, of A.
j L. Guterma, who is now serving
a term in federal prison.
Since resignation of Carl H.
Swan as president of Craftspun,
the firm is being operated by a
management committee which
includes Harold Phillips, super
intendent, and Robert Lowe, ac
counant and manager of the
novelty division.
The firm lists about 245 em
ployess and is operating on a
five-day week, with some six
day work.
Student List
Now At 130
Addition of 17 brings it© 130
the numiber of Kings Mountain
area students who are now at
tending colleges, universities and
specialized schools.
They include:
ASTC, Boone — Joy Hudson.
LSU — Jimmy Crawford.
University of North Carolina—
Judy Hope.
Clemson College — Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Harry.
WCUNC — Sandra Myers and
Arlene Wright.
N. C. State — Jimmy Shirkey.
Wake Forest — Mary Ann
Herndon.
Western Carolina — Elaine
Pruette and Sylvia West.
Pfeiffer College —Betsy Shaw.
Lenoir-Rhyne College — Low
ranee Harry'.
Brevard College — J. G. Goins.
Gardner-Webb College — Bud
dy Freeman, Doris Cranford, and
Judy Putnam.
Stork On Overtime
During Past Weekend
The stork did arduous duty
over Kings Mountain last
weekend, upping the area pop
ulation considerably.
At Kings Mountain Hospi
tal's busy nursery on Sunday,
14 white bassinets held new
born babies with only one em
pty bed in the house. Twelve
beds were filled on Saturday,
eight were still occupied on
Wednesday. Two babies were
.in incubators and one small
one was in isoletite.
Had a 15th infant arrived on
Sunday he or she would have
had to double up with another
baby, a smiling inurse com
mented.
Is the nursery always as
busy? “No”, one nuirse whose
duties are in the nursery, said.
On the average, six to nine in
fants are born weekly.
The “newest” citizens gained
attention or not only their
nurses, but the visitor.
The girls had the boys out*