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. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today 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. -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,».