Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This figure for Greater Kings Mountain It derived from
the 195S Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
limits figure Is from the United States census of I960.
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VOL. 73 No. 51
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C. Monday, December 24, 1962
Seventy-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENT
Area Citizens Planning For Christmas
GIFTS TO COUNTY HOME — Pictured is an
array of gifts given by East school children
»for residents of the Cleveland County home.
The children were invited to bring gifts on a
voluntary basis as a Junior Red Cross project.
The gifts were delivered on Tuesday by But*
faculty members, Mrs. Garland Still, Miss Jack,
ie Blanton and Miss Marjorie Anglin.
(Photo by Truett Moore)
Local News
Bulletins
KIWANIS CLUB
Kings Mountain Kiwanians
I will hold regular meeting Thurs
I day, Dee. 27th, at the Woman’s
| club. Program for the meeting
| was not announced.
STUDENT DAY
College students who ere
members of First Presbyterian
jchurch will lead the worship ser
vice on Sunday, Dec. 30th at 11
Lb. m., the pastor. Dr. .Paul Ausley
lias announced.
AA MEETING
9
The Kings Mountain chapter of
Alcoholics Anonymous will hold
•egular meeting next Friday at
p. m. at First Presbyterian
church.
Christ The King
Services listed
I Christ the King Catholic
Church will celebrate the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, Christmas
Eve at midnight. Beginning at
$1:30 p- m. the congregation,
Quests and visitors will be in
vited to sing Christmas carols.
Robert Early will direct the mu
sic and play the organ.
This first Mass of the Christ
mas Season, traditionally cal’ed
Christ-Mass, ends the four Ad
vent weeks of prayerful penance.
The purple candles of the Ad
vent wreath are replaced by four
•white candles.
For the spiritual preparation
of Christmas Mass and Commun
ion, the Sacrament of Penance
was available on Sundav evening
and also will be on Christmas
Eve 7:00 to 8:00 p. m
, *u'’
oly Sacrifice of the Mass will
be celebrated at 11:00 a. m.
Father Robert Lawson, assist
ant at Christ the King Church,
will celebrate the Masses. Fath
er Clements, the paster, is substi
tuting for Father Regan of Shel
by during his Ikoayl-si con vales
Kings Mountainj
S & L Ups Rate
Dividend Rate
Hike Intended
For Year '63
As had been anticipated, Kings
Mountain Savings & Loan as
sociation directors passed a reso
lution of intent Thursday to in
crease the annual dividend rate
on savings accounts by? one
quarter of one percent per an
num.
* The increase/from the current
rate of four percent per year is
to be effective January 1, 1963.
The Kings Mountain associa
tion’s action followed a similar
one on Tuesday by Home Sav
ings & Loan association.
Ben H. Bridges, secreiary-tre
asurer, estimate that the in
crease will mean more than
$3,000 additional dividends to the
association shareholders. Thom
as A. Tate, secretary-treasurer
of Home Savings & Loan as
sociation said the increase would
mean about $12,500 annually to
shareholders of that association.
Both association’s pay divi
dends semi-annually, on June 30
and December 31.
Today's Herald
Final One Of '62
Today’s Herald is the final
edition of 1962.
Published in advance of the
regular edition, which would
have appeared on regular sche
dule on December 27, this issue
replaces the regular one.
Regular schedule will be re
sumed the following week,
With the next edition to be pub
lished on the evening of Jan
uary 2 under date Of Thursday,
January 3.
The Herald, as it customarily
does, will close Monday at 1
p. m. and will re-open on Mon
day, December 31.
Today's edition is the tradi
tional Christmas issue, featur
ing Christmas greetings from
business firms, special Christ
mas feature material and regu
lar news coverage.
SPECIAL SERVICE
Dixon Presbyterian church will
hold the traditional Christmas
Eve candlelight musical service
at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Paul Mauney
will direct the choir and Miss
Joan McClure will be accompa
nist. Santa Claus will be present
to distribute gifts and treats
around a Christmas tree in the
fellowship hall following the
worship service.
Postoffice Still Busy on Sunday;
Tuesday Tops For Outgoing Mail
Kings Mountain citizens con
tinue to post Christmas mail a
trifle earlier each year, Post
master Charles L. Alexander
says, but the Kings Mountain
tv' '"office was sHU a very busy
place Sunday afternoon.
Incoming mail remained quite
heavy and virtually all employ
ees were on duty, sorting the in
coming mail for Monday deliv
ery.
Kings Mountain citizens’ 'heav
iest mailings were on Tuesday,
December 18, when 17,913 can
cellations were logged. The day
before 15,607 pieces of mail were
posted.
The outgoing mail today has
declined since, with 12,306 pieces
on Wednesday, 111,631 Thursday
, and 9,362 on Friday.
The Postmaster says that a
.normal day’s mailing totals 3,
000 to 3,500 pieces outgoing.
A late incoming train was
! causing the postal folk some
l worry Sunday afternoon. Reports
were that it was from six to ten
hours late and contained large
quantities of Christmas mail.
,,But we mean to deliver every
thing we possibly can by Christ
mas , Mr. Alexander said
And he again stated apprecia
tion for Kings Mountain citi
zens’ cooperation in posting mall
early. “The load has been spread
materially," he oommented.
Gas System
At New Peak
December 12
The city’s and customer gas
meters ran hot on the cold, cold
day of December 12.
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corporation informed the city by
telegram Saturday that, on De
cember 12, the city used 1,676,000
cubic feet of natural gass, a heal
thy 25 percent greater consump
tion than the previous peak day
when the city's master meter re
corded consumption of 1,211,000
cubic feet.
The new peak was set with
all industrial firms buying on
interruptible service contracts
not receiving service.
Kings Mountain Mica Com
pany, which buy’s gas on firm
contract found the weather too
cold to permit successful process
ing on that particular day, Gen
eral Manager Paul Lancaster
said.
Temperatures neared the zero
range.
The new peak in gas consump
tion is 276,000 cubic feet greater
than the city’s former maximum
daily gas allotment, In Npv-gjn,*
bee,■■-the Federal' commis
sion approved the city’s applica
tion for 500,000 cubic feet daily
additional.
City Clerk Joe McDaniel ob
served that FPC approval “came
in the nick of time.’’
The new peak likely will prove
ot benefit to interruptible ser
vice customers, as the city will
no longer need to suspend service
as quickly, with an additional
margin of more -than 400,000 cu
bic feet daily.
Under the city’s contract with
Transco, the city pays a demand
charge based on SO percent of
prior peak consumption.
_
Weatherman Off,
Spring Returns
Weather predictions to the con
trary, spring-in-winter returned
to the Piedmont area Sunday
morning, banishing fog and
making topcoats non-necessary
apparel Sunday afternoon.
The weather prediction, on the
heels of the Friday-Saturday
morning icing of trees and roads,
had indicated snow flurries in
the mountains, showers in the
Piedmont, and temperatures in
the forties.
Fanis ChOd's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Wesley Far
ris, three-months-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Calvin Farris of the
Dixon community, were held
Sunday, December 16th, at 2:30
p. m. from Dixon Presbyterian
church.
Rev. James Mann, pastor, of
ficiated, and interment was
made in the cemetery of Oak
View Baptist church.
The child died of pneumonia.
Other survivors include a sis
ter, Connie, of the home; the pa
ternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter C. Farris; the ma
terial grandmother, Mrs. B. R.
Moore; the paternal great grand
mother, Mrs. J. W. Farris.
Most Retailers
Often Wednesday
Majority of Kings Mountain
r'otail firms will be open for bus
iness on Wednesday, day after
Christmas.
Major exception in the retail
! ing community will be furniture
J stores, which will be closed both
■Christmas Day and Wednesday,
re-opening Thursday.
Also planning to be closed
both Christmas and Wednesday
are the city's financial institu
tions. ‘ • ' >■ •
Apparel variety, grocery and
jewel-y stores have announced
they will be open and several j
;are scheduling day After Christ-1
mas sales.
New Year’s Day will be a holi
day.
PAINTING DEPICTS STORY OF CHRISTMAS
—':And there were in the same country shep
herds abiding in the field, keeping watch over
their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the
Lord came upon them, and the glory of the
Lord shone round obout them: and they were
sore afraid. And the angel said unio them,
fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings
of great joy, which shall be to all people."
(Luke 2:8-10)
Churches Plan Special Rites
In Observance Of Christmas
Tax Listing
Will Begin
January 2
Annual city and county tax
listing will get underway Wed
nesday, January 2.
Former Mayor Glee A. Bridges
will again serve as tax lister for
the city, having been appointed
to the position at a special ses
sion of the board of commission
ers Thursday, and Conrad Hugh
es, veteran Number 4 Township
tax lister, will again attend to
the county listing chore.
Mr. Hughes said Saturday he
wasn’t yet sure who would assist
him in taking the farm census.
Both Mr. Bridges and Mr.
Hughes will be at City Hall daily,
from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1
to 4:30 p.m., excepting Saturdays.
As is customary, Mr. Hughes
will be in Grover on Saturday, at
R. E. Hambright’s Store, to ac
commodate citizens in that area.
The law requires that all per
sons who own property of any
kind to list the property for tax
es. Practically, the listing is of
personal property, as real estate
is carried forward on the books
from year to year. Persons who
have acquired or disposed of real
estate during the year should in
form the officials to assure cor
rect billing for taxes.
Owners of business and in - i
dustry are required to file state
ments of inventories with Max
Ham-iek, county tax supervisor, i
not later than January 31. The!
law requires that actual values
be reported. However, inventories
are taxed at 32.5 percent of value.
Automobiles are listed at
wholesale value taken from the
National Association of Autom"1
bile Dealers* “blue book.”
W. L. Browne, tax lister for
Number 5 township, has an
nounced the following li'ting
schedule: On January 2. D. S. I
Waters Store, 8 to 5; January 3,
Tiedford’s Grocery, 8:30 to 5;
January 4 and 5, Crown Service
Station, Waco, 8,to 5; January 7,
Short’s Grocery, 8 to 5; Jahuary
8, Akers Super Market, 8 +r> 5;
January 9, B. E. Bess Store, 3;.10
to o; all the remainder of Janu
ary, daily except Sundays, -t (
Crown Service Station, V» a >, 8
to 5.
Phillips' Addressees
On Charred Letter
The mail train which caught
fire in the East with southbound!
Christmas mail contained at i
least one item for Kings Moun- !
tain.
It was a letter addressed to !
Mr. and Mirs. Harold Phillips and
postmarked Scranton, Pa.
The letter was well-charred at
the top flap, but the contents
were discernible.
Whether any mare mail with
Kings Mountain as destination
was aboard isn’t known, Post
master Charles Alexander said.
Mi. Bridges'
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Marcus Hoyle;
Bridges, 70, of Shelby, were held
Friday at 2 p.m. from Shady
Grove Baptist church near Cher
ryvil'le, interment following in
the Shady Grove cemetery.
Mr. Bridges was father of Mrs.
Connie Warlick, Mrs. Melba Wil
lis and Mrs. Betty Lingerfelt, all
of Kings Mountain.
Other survivors include seven
sons, three daughters, a step-son,
two brothers and a number of
grandchildren and great-grand
children.
Christmas Eve,
Christmas Day
Services Set
Numerous Kings Mountain
churches will hold traditional
Christmas services Christmas
Eve and on Christmas day.
First Presbyterian church will
hold its traditional Candlelight
Communion Service at 11 p. m.
Christmas Eve, with special mu
sic being featured.
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
will hold its annual Midnight
Musical at 11 p. m., with music
by the church choir and Miss
Frances Summers as soloist.
Christ the King Catholic
church will oberve the Sacrament
of the Penance from 7 to 8 p. m
Christmas Eve, followed by Ho
ly Sacrifice of the Mass at 11:30,
also to be celebrated Christmas
morning at 11 o'clock.
Dixon Presbyterian church will
have a musical program Christ
mas Eve at 7:30.
■Resurrection Lutheran church
will hold its traditional Candle
light service at 11 p, m. Christ
mas Eve. The junior, youth and
senior choirs will collaborate in
singing the cantata “Noel, Noel”,
with Susan Plonk flutist, M^rs.
George Moore soloist, and Mrs.
Aubrey Mauney organist. The
(Continued On Ff'ne Eipht)
(Sty Board Names Floyd Thornburg
Fire Chief, Succeeding Pat Tignor
Floyd Thornburg, veteran vol
unteer member of the depart
ment. will succeed Fire Chief J.
Pat Tignor, who is retiring effec
tive January 1.
The city board of commisison
ers, in special session Thursday,
elected Mr Thornburg and also
ratified recommendations of the
fire department for other oficers.
Also named were:
Eugene Tignor, assistant chief,
who will succeed Hunter Allen.
Mr. Allen had asked to be re
lieved of the assistant chief's
du iie’
Winifred Russell, captain.
John White, lieutenant.
Earl Stroupe, Jr., secretary -
treasurer.
C. D. Ware, engineer.
Mr. Thornburg, a member of
the city’s electrical department,
became a member of the fire de
partment ip May l£Ml and has
bo"'i a member sin re.
Mr. Tignor is retiring after
serving with the department
since it was organised in 1931
The chiefs position pays $300
per year.
The department personnel re.
mains largely volunteer, with
seventeen volunteers comple
menting .the four regular-duty
firemen, Palmer D. Fulton, also
with the department since its or
ganization, C. D. Ware, T. C
(Red) McKee and N. M. Farr.
In other actions, the commls
sion re-named Glee A. Bridges
as city tax lister, and confirmed
a prior agreement to pay police
man extra duty time during the
holiday season normally paid for
school traffic patrol duty.
The commlss'on approved a
petlt.'on fo >! 1 n l gutter on
Hawthorn Lane, from Crescent
Hill road to Marion sheet.
Last-Minute
Preparations
he Underway
Kings Mountain area citizens
will spend Monday making final
preparations for observing
Christmas.
The final preparations will in
clude a variety of activities.
Last-minute shopping is ex
pected to be brisk. Merchants,
alread'* tired f-om late-hor
schedules, rested on Sunday and
prepared for a vary busy pre
Christmas sales day Monday.
Many were already enioying
Ch 'istmas holidays. Virtually all
college students are home from
school and city district schools
completed 1962 schedules Wed
nesday. City schools rename reg
ular schedules January 2. Many
industrial f rms have su-oended
nooration until Wednesday or
i later.
Religious celebrations claimed
the interest and participation of
a maior seomprit of the com
munity on Sunday and will con
tinue th-oagh Christmas Eve
and Christmas day.
Maioritv of citizens plan tra
ditional Chrisfmac Day celebra
j lions, either visiting or enter
taining at family gatherings here
and away.
Bright-eyed children have the
I look of anticipation. The annual
; visit of Santa Claus is finally at
hand.
Christmas D^v will be a holi
day fer virtually everyone ex
ceoing service stains.
King* Mounfa'n Drug Com
fContinued On Page Eight)
Christmas Story
By St, Luke
And it came to pecs in those
days, that there went out a de
cree from Caesar Augustus, that
all the world should be taxed.
And this taxing 'wag first made
whan Cyrenius ivas governor of
Syria.
| And all went to be taxed, every
one into his own city.
And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of Nacn
roth into Judaea, unto the city
of David, which is called Beth
lehem; (because he was of' the
house and lineage of David:)
To be taxed with Mary his
espoused wife, being great with
child.
And so it was, that, 'while they
! were there, the days were accom
| plished that she should be deliv
ered.
And she brought forth her
| first born son, and wrapped him
l in swaddling clothes, and laid
him in a manger: because there
was no room for them in the inn.
And there were in the sot p
country shepherds abiding in t'a
field, keeping watch over iheir
i flock by night.
| And, lo, the angel of the J.ord
1 came upon them, and the glory
| of the Lord shone round about
them: and they were sore af raid.
And the angel said unto them.
Fear not; for, behold I brino
good tidings of great joy, which
shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day
in the city of David a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall bp a sign unto
you; Ye shall find the babe ■wrap
ped in swaddling clothrs. ' • •
in a manger.
And suddenly there tins with
the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and
saying,
Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth, peace good will
toward men.
And it came to pass, ns the
angels were gone away from
them into heaven, the shephen ■
said one to another. Let us
go even unto Bethlehem, and see
this thing which the Lord hath
made known unto us.
-<nd they Ct- w. n ho. ■ V. g.>d
found Mary, gnu J rpJ -e,t
the babe tying in << ,,u.
And When they had v* it
they made kyrtwi r ' tfu’
saying which tog- \i , -:rnt . ,m.
j cerning this child.
' And all they tha h •' w,».
<tpred at thr.^e f) ;„ns r h ,^
told them by the shepherd*. cSt
Luke Z.l-tS)