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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
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limits figure Is from tn Dsited states census of 1SS0.
VOL 71 No. 25
Established 1889
IP Pages
| u Today
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 23, I960
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Democrats Make Gubernatorial Choice Saturday
BY NEALE PATRICK
Kangs Mountain voters will
join their fellow-citizens across
North Carolina in their second
turn-ait-thc-plate Saiturday to se
lect the next Governor of North
Carolina.
Itta the second runoff of the
Democratic primary between the
two top vote-getters, Terry San
ford and Beverly Lake, and the
winner is a virtual certainty to
be the next governor of the state.
The winner Saturday still must
faee Republican candidate Robert
Gavin in the November general
•election, but the Democratic no
mination As tantamount to elec
tion In the Ole North State.
The gubernatorial ticket car
rying the names of Sanford and
Lake will be tthie only one Kings
Mountain voters will be required
to mark in Saturday’s primary.
All 'local and other state-wide
nominees were decided in the
May 28th primary.
Polls will be open here from
6:30 a. m. until 6:30 p. m. and
election officiate are prepared for
a vote as large or larger than the
first primary.
In the May primary, a total of
1,428 voted in the gubernatorial
race in Kings Mountain’s two
boxes, at City Hall and Victory
Chevrolet.
The Cleveland County vote in
the governor race In May totalled
9,834, and the state-wide vote
was a record over 630,000.
Although only a few races are
on the (tickets elsewhere in the
State, election officials predict a
big vote due to the heated guber
natorial campaign.
Kings Mountain and Cleveland
County helped Sanford, a 42-year
old Fayetteville attorney, roll up
his first primary lead of 87,771
votes, although he lacked a ma
jority in the four-man race.
Sanford’s program of progress
attracted over a quarter of a mil
lion votes in May, his state-wide
total reading 269,463.
Segregationist Lake, running
strong in Eastern North Carolina,
polled 181,692 votes and called
for the second primary although
his deficit is Ithe largest any can
didate has tried to overcome in
North Carolina political history.
Malcolm Sea well was third in
the state race in May and John
Larkins fourth.
In the county tabulation across
the state, Sanford was the leadei
in 65 counties, Lake in 26, Lar
kins eight and Seawell one.
Kings Mountain and Cleveland
county helped give Sanford his
lead.
Tally Table In First Primary
Here is how the voting went in Kings Mountain,
Cleveland County and the state in the first gubernatorial
primary in May:
Sanford Lake Seawell Larkins
East KM
West KM
Bethware
Grover
Cleveland Co.
State
256
414
70
113
4046
269,463
120
129
55
72
2585
181,692
190
222
27
47
2211
101,148
47
50
10
26
1292
100,757
Sanford picked up 670 voltes in
Kings Mountain’s two boxes,
with Sea well second (412) and
Lake a bad third (with 249 vo
tes). Larkins counted 97 here.
The Number Four township
voting, adding Bethware and
CJrovor to the Kings Mountain
boxes gave Sanford 853, followed
by Sea well (486), Lake (376) and
Larkins (133).
The Cleveland County voting
in 28 boxes also was heavily in
Sanford’s favor. He was the
choice of 4,046 voters, Lake sec
ond with 2,285, followed by Sea
well with 2,211 and Larkins
1,292.
While the issues have not ch
anged for the two candidates
their proposed programs havt
been placed in sharper focus due
to the most-heated gubernatorial
race in years, perhaps in history
of the state.
Sanford stands firm on his
“Program of Progress”, calling
for an improvement of public ed
ucation, an effort to advance
business and industry in the st
ate, to improve industrial and
farm income, and to improve
roads.
He also stands on the North
Carolina approach to segregation
in the schools, the Pearsall Plan
and pupil assignment law. The
man for whom the Plan was na
med, Thomas Pearsall of Rocky
Mount, has endorsed Sanford to
backing the program which is
being copied in other Southern
States.
Lake lias altered his campaign
tactics in various sections of the
state. In the East he has called
for a “climate of public opinion”
in regards to segregation in sch
ools. In the West he has labeled
Sanford’s program too ambitious
and charges it will cause new
taxes.
He also has made a campaign
issue of the charge that the
much-discussed TV debate be
tween the candidates was limited
to a half-hour instead of an hour.
Lake also has leveled charges at
other side issues and persons,
such as Governor Hodges, Tho
mas Pearsall, Col. W. T. Joyner
and Millard Barbee of the AFL
CIO.
National Guard
Gains Top Honor
TO BOYS' STATE — Kenneth
Charles Rayfield, son of Mr. cold
Mrs. J. W. Bayfield, is Bethware
representative to Boys' State. Lo
cal delegates are sponsored by
Otis D. Green Post 1SS. the Amer
ican Legion.
Three Delegates
At Boys State
Three high school youths from
the Kings Mountain area are rep
resenting Kings Mountain and
Kenneth Charles Rayfield is the
Beithwaire High representative.
The three delegates from this
area, are sponsored by the Otis
D. Green Post 155 of the Ameri
can Legion and the local youths
are among the 350 at the week
long event held on the campus
of the University of North Caro
lina.
The delegates attend lectures
on the workings of the legisla
ture, judicial and executive bran
ches at the government A high
light of the annual event will be
the mock state election on Sat
urday, the same date as the sec
ond primary in North Carolina,
The Boys State election is pat
terned aflter Ithe state system.
Frank Glass
Rites Tuesday
Funeral rites for Frank B.
Glass, 66, were held Tuesday at 4
p. m. from Grace Methodist
ahurdh, interment following in
Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mr. Glass, veteran Kings Moun
tain grocer, succumfbed of a heart
attack Sunday night at 12:30. He
was rushed to Kings Mountain
hospital after suffering the at
tack suddenly at his home on
Grover road. Mr. Glass had been
in ill health the past several
years. He and mis sons operated
Glass Grocery, a family business,
on Grover road.
A native of Burke County, Mr.
Glass was the son of the late Mr.
and 'Mrs. John Glass. He was an
active political leader in Kings
Mountain, a member of the Vet
irans of Foreign Wars, the A
merican Legion, Fairview Lodge
339 AF & AIM, and a Methodist.
He was a veteran of World War
1.
He managed Phenix Store for
29 years before buying Glass
Grocery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Etta Mclntire Glass; two sons,
Harold M. and Donald D. Glass,
both of Kings Mountain, and two
grandchildren.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. W. C. Sides.
Active pallbearers wore Fred
Ram bright, Lloyd Patterson,
Floyd Payne, Olland Pearaon,
Roy Boheler, and John Cheshire.
Kings Mountain’s National
Guard, members of Headquarters
& Headquarters Company D of
th"? 120th Infantry Division, cop
ped top honors at the recent “sum
mer encampment at Fort Bragg.
The 71 enlisted men of Compa-:
ny D, along with Capt. Humes
Houston and Charles Wilson,
were among the 9,000 North Car
olina Army National Guardsmen
returning to home armories, con
cluding two weeks of summer
training.
The Guards rating of "super
ior” was announced following the
training program which is de
scribed by Sgt. Wilson.
“The main convoy left the Ar
mory here at 530 hours on Sun
day and joined the rest of the
105th Engineer Battalion at the
Parking lot at the Coliseum in
Charlotte for religious services
conducted by the Battalion Chap
lain. After the services, the unit
departed on its final leg of the
trip to Fort Bragg.
“Upon arrival, wie company es
tablished the company area, and
personnel assumed the life as
“soldiers of Bragg.” Monday’s
training consisted of the con
struction of military roads and
airstrips. At Tuesday’s training
the unit was responsible for the
construction of two culverts and
two bridges. Capt. Houston and
his crew of demolition personnel
were called on, once again, to
conduct the class on the proper
use of demolitions and explosives.
Wednesday and Thursday the u
nit built another bridge and cul
vert. Several personnel from the
unit were assigned to the firing
of the 30 and 50 caliber machine
guns, and the 3.5 Rocket Laun
cher of the unit Friday's training
consisted of inspection of per
sonnel by the staff, and the job
of building of the various bridges
and culverts.
"Saturday, the unit participat
ed in the Division Review. After
the parade, the personnel of the
company were given week-end
passes.
“The company assembled at
Fort Bragg at 6 p. m. on Sunday
to make preparations for the
movement from Fort Bragg to
the Field Training Site on the
post of Fort Bragg. Monday
morning came and the company
departed for the field site which
had 'been given to them. Immedi
ately the company began to dig
in and make preparations for an
attack.
“The Regular Army personnel
assigned as “evaluaters” were
pleased with the way the Com
pany had dug its gun implace
ments and its field fortification,
including all phases of camou
flage. On Monday night, there
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CATHERINE HAMBRIGHT
NANCY BELL
DWIGHT WARE
jerry McCarter
Public Hearings On Annexation
Scheduled Next Tuesday Night
Second Primary
Facts, Figures
Polls will be open from 6:30
a. m. until 6:30 p. m. in Satur
day’s second Democratic pri
mary at the following locations
in Number Fouir Township:
West Kings Mountain box at
Victory Chevrolet.
East Kings Mountain box at
Cilty Hall.
Grover at Grover Fire Sta
tion. i
Beth ware at Bethware sch
ool.
Local voters will mark Only
the gubernatorial ballot bear
ing the names of Terry San
ford and Beverly Lake in the
primary.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts this
weeks, as listed by Mrs. Grace
Wolfe at City Hall, were on
street meters, $106.13, off-street
meters, $12.28, and over-park
ing envelopes, $27.00.
Di. Durham, Robert Green Win
Promotions In National Guard
Two Kings Mountain men have
won promotions as first lieuten
ants in the North Carolina Army
National Guard.
Appointments, announced by
Governor Luther Hodges, include
the promotion of Dr. Thomas
Garrison Durham and Robert
Yates Green.
Now a second lieutenant, Mr.
Green joined the National Guard
in February 1949 as a member of
Company K of the 120th Infan
try Reg. in Shelby and served
with that organization until April
1959. At that time, due to the re
organization of the North Caro
lina Army National Guard, he
was transferred to Company B
of the 105tft Engineer Battalion
in Shelby, the unit of his present
assignment Green was commis
sioned a second lieutenant in
May 1957. He is a native of Shel
by, now resides with his family
by, and now resides with his fam
ily at 709 Linwood road here. He
is a radio announcer for Station
WKMT.
Dr. Durham was born in Clar
emont and now resides with his
wife and two daughters at 50S
Crescent Hill. He graduated from
Landrum high school, received
his B. S. degree from Furmar
University and his meditcal de
gree from the Medical College
of South Carolina. He has beer
a meiriber of the Army Reserve*
since May 1955. As a lieutenant
in the National Guard his new
assignment will be with the 106tl
Engineer Battalion in Charlotte
Dr. Durham is associated wit!
Dr. Paul Hendicks in the practia
of medicine.
Public hearing on the annex
ation of the old R. S. Plonk es
tate into the city limits is slated
for Tuesday night at 7:30 in the
Court Room at City Hall.
The 33-acre tract was request
ed annexed by Realtor Wilson
Crawford.
Extensive engineering work
and land planning to develop a
restricted area and housing de
velopment are underway on the
property whidh is located west of
the present city limits and north
of U. S. 74.
Mr. Crawford said his line be
gins near the Country Club road
and extends west 1,822 feet to a
rural road, then follows the rur
al road over 300 feet south to
the Bun Goforth property on U.
S. 74 and falls behind the prop
erty owners on the highway and
parallel to the highway back to
the present city limits.
Mr. Crawford said, “We antic
ipate this development to be one
of the nicest in our community
and something the city can be
proud of.”
Crawford and his wife are the
sole owners of the property,
three acres of which already lies
within the city limits.
Union Service
At ARP Sunday
D.r W. L. Pressly will deliver
the sermon at the fourth city
wide Union Service Sunday at 8
p. m.
The service will be held at
Boyce Memorial ARP church.
Seven Kings Mountain church
es are participating in this sum
mer series.
Dr. Pressly’s sermon topic is
“Who Is Like Unto Thee?” and
the three choirs of the church
will sing special music.
COMMUNION SERVICE
There will be a Communion
Service at Shady Grove Baptist
. Church Sunday evening at
7:30.
SARA MAE HAMRICK
Five Students
Receive Degrees
From Colleges
Five Kings Mountain area
students received college degrees
in commencement exercises re
cently.
Thy are:
Sara Mae Hamrick, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben C. Hamrick,
was graduated cum laude with a
B. S. degree in grammar grade
education from Appalachian
State Teacher’s College, Boone.
She was a member of the Greater
Council of tire Baptist Student
Union and secretary of the As
sociation of Childhood Educa
tion.
Nancy Louise Bell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Bell, was
graduated cum laude with a B.
S. degiree in elementary educa
tion from Appalachian State
Teacher’s college. She was a
member of the Association for
Childhood Education and the
Young Woman’s Auxiliary.
Jerry McCarter, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar McCarter, received his
degree from Erskine College at
Due West, S. C„ where he was
active in a number of extra cur
'ricular activities.
Lemuel Dwight Ware won his
doctor of dental surgery degree
from Emory University, Atlanta,
Ga. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lemuel Ware.
Catherine Hambright, of Grov
er, was graduated from Florida
State University at Tallahassee
She is the daughter of Mrs, F. B
Harrib right.
Bridges Fined
On P. D. Charge
Mayor Glee A. Bridges was ar
rested around 8:45 p. m. last
Wednesday on a charge of public
drunkenness as he sat in his
jeep which had run into a ditch
near the depot on Railroad Ave
nue.
Arresting officers were J. D,
Barrett and Ellis King. They had
received a telephone call report
ing the situation.
The jeep was involved in mi
nor collisions with two cars be
fore going into the ditch, but of
ficers said Bridges was not un
der the wheel of the vehicle
when they arrived. Owners ol
the cars were contacted concern
ing damages -totalling about $25.
The mayor paid $18.70 in fine
and costs.
In a statement Wednesday, Mr,
Bridges said, "I want to offer my
sincere apologies to the citizens
of Kings Mountain for the recent
episode. I will say it was the first
mistake of this kind in my life
time. Some little personal worries
and I tried the easy way out. II
is no fault of anyone except my
self, I didn’t have the will power
to resist. But wiith your help and
the help of (the Lord, I sincerely
promise that I can muster the
will power and determination
that it will never happen again
Once mare, I offer my apologies.'
School Officials To Answer
Consolidation Plan Protest
nearing lieset
For Next Week
In Gastonia
By DAVID BAITY
Allegations made in a com
plaint against the Kings Moun
tain School Board, Cleveland
County School Board, and Cleve
land County Board of Commis
sioners will be answered by at
torneys for the defendants at a
hearing in Gastonia before Su
perior Court Judge P. C. Frone
berger next week.
The hearing was originally
scheduled for Friday, but coun
sel for all parties involved agreed
to continue the action. Judge
Froneberger will set a new date
for the hearing.
The allegations, listed in the
complaint against the boards by
1 a committee of Grover and Beth
ware school patrons protesting
the May 14 consolidation election,
must be answered giving just
cause for the restraining order
to be dissolved- If just cause is
not given, the *rder will be made
permanent.
J. R. Davis, attorney for the
Kings Mountain School Board,
discussed the complaints with the
board Monday night as it met in
regular session.
He outline rebuttals to the al
legations, but was not optimistic
for settlement of the matter un
til the next session of Superior
Court in Septemlber.
, “Whatever decision is made on
the temporary restraining order,
it seems likely it will be appeal
ed,’’ Mr. Davis said.
However, he said, none of the
(complaints listed show that if
I the election had been conducted
j differently, the result would have
! been different.
Attorney for the county board
of commissioners is C. C. Horn of
! Shelby. D. Z. Newton, of Shelby,
! is attorney for the county school
: board.
It seems, Supt. B. N. Barnes
stated, consolidation of No. Four
Township schools cannot be ef
fected for the upcoming school
year. Both Barnes and Davis a
greed the restraining order, if
left permanent or the decision
appealed, would keep the Kings
Mountain board from operating
Grover, Bethware, Compact, and
Park Grace schools. The schools
would then be back under county
operation temporarily.
In other action the school
board:
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Rev. DuBose Named Chairman
Of Kings ML Red Cross Chapter
Rev. Marion DuBose, pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist church,
has been elected chairman of the
Kings Mountain Red Cross Chap
ter for the coming year.
Officers were elected at a lun
cheon meeting Wednesday at
Renn’s Cafeteria in Grover.
Other officers are L. L. Benson,
secretary; and Mrs. Mary Lou
Collins, Mrs. Glenn Rountree,
Fain Hambright, Rev. Don Cab
aniss, and J. Ollie Harris, dir
ectors.
Mr. Harris is the outgoing
chairman and presided.
Mrs. O. W. Myers, blood pro
gram chairman, called attention
to the Monday visit of the Red
Cross bloodmobile. She said a
quota of 165 pints of blood is be
ing asked at the regional visit
of the bloodbank.
Mrs. Marion Ritzert, of Lincoln
ton, Red Cross field representa
! five was present as a visitor.
Trott Named
Rotaiy Head
j Thomas L. Trott, Kings Moun
i tain insuranoeman, has been e
| iected president of the Kings
j Mountain Rotary club for the
| coming year.
He succeeds Charles E. Dixon.
Other officers, elected recently,
I are: Ben F. Moornaw, vice-presi
| dent; Rev. Marion DuBose, sec
retary; and Tom Tate, treasurer.
Directors are Dorus Bennett, Fred
Wright, Myers Hambright, and
Hoyle McDaniel. O. O. Walker is
sergeant-at-arms.
The new officers will assume
their duties on July 1.
Mr. Trott came to Kings Moun
tain from Statesville • where he
operated an insurance business.
A native of Salisbury, he later
moved to Kannapolis and was
membership secretary for the
Kannapolis YMCA for a number
of years, subsequently managed
a theatre in Bennettsville, S. C.
and began the insurance bus
iness in Statesville. He was pres
ident of the Bennettsville Rotary
club in 1948 and was instrumen
tal in the organization of the lo
cal club here over a yeaT ago.
The Trotts are members of St.
Matthew's Lutheran church. Mrs.
Trott is the former Salena Parton
of Kings Mountain. They have
two daughters, Libby and Ann
Trott.
Bloodmobile Seeks 165 Pints
In Visit To Kings Mt. Monday
Kings Mountain area citizens
wil be asked to donate 165 pints
: of blood at Monday’s visit of the
■ Red Cross bloodmobile.
Unless this quota is met Kings
Mountain will be "in debt” to the
j Charlotte regional blood center
■which means that Kings Moun
. tain citizens have used more
blood than donated during the!
fiscal year now ending.
Mrs. O. W. Myers, blood pirog
! ram chairman said Wed., “Com
| inunity-minded citizens will re-1
^ spend to the call for blood don
ors on Monday. She added that
Red Cross officials are hopeful
that this area will end the year
with a balanced sheet, having gi
ven as much blood as it has re
I ceived. To do this, it is estimated
that 165 donations will be nec
essary.”
“Kings Mountain is fortunate”,
Mrs. Myers continued, “in having
so many loyal repeat donors who
five as often as they are eligible,
jut new donors are badly needed
o boost the total, and to replace
:he regular donors who cannot
five each time, or who may
nove elsewhere.
“The Red Cross blood program”,
Vlrs. Myers pointed out, “gives
iny healthy person between the
iges of 21 and 60 the privilege
ind opportunity to make a con
iribution toward saving a life,
md Bloodmobile Day becomes a
sent of special day for those who
oake the unselfish gift of their
alood to save life and shorten
suffering”, she added.
"It is our hope,” Mrs. Myers
xmtinued,” that individuals will
ioin with industry in making
this a successful visit. “It means,
she added, setting aside a short
ame, less than an hour, to share
the blessing of your health with
iomeone less fortunate.”
CHAIRMAN — Rev. Marion Du
Bose will head the Kings Moun
tain Red Cross Chapter tor the
coming year. He succeeds J. Ollie
Harris.
Mr. Yelton's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Joseph Hen
ry Yelton, 74, were held Satur
day at 4 p. m. from the Chapel
of Harris Funeral Home, inter
ment following in Oaklawn Cem
etery in Gaffney, S. C.
Mr, Yelton, a retired farmer,
succumbed at Kings Mountain
hospital Friday night at 8:30 p.
m. following a long illness. He
was a native of Rutherford Coun
ty, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard L. Yelton. A longtime
Kngs Mountain citizen, he lived
at 210 Carpenter street.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Jenny Sanders Yelton; one son,
Grady Yelton of Kings Mountain;
three daughters, -Mrs. Myrtle
Harmon of Charlotte, Mrs. I. C.
Davis of Kings Mountain and
Mrs. L. W. Carpenter of Be ssemer
City; three brothers, J. R. Yelton
cf Blacksburg, S. C., Leonard and
Albert of Shelby, and two sisters,
Mrs. Will Smith of Shelby and
Mrs. Maggie Hawkins of Miami,
Fla. Also surviving are three
grandchildren.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. B. L. Raines, pastor of
First Baptist church.
neper Named
To Mohair Post
I Clifford Pieper has been ap
pointed sales manager of The
Pile fabrics Division of the
; Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company, Inc., of Kings Moun
) lain, it was announced by Ernest
Horvath, president.
Mr. Pieper, formerly a sales
representative with Blackstone
Mills, Inc., will have headquar
ters in the company’s New York
I City office.
Mr. Pieper has been in uphol
stery fabric sales for the pas* 25
I years and prior to his last posi
tion was vice president and sales
manager of Joan Sales Carp.
Massachusetts Mohair, a major
manufacturer of upholstery and
drapery fabrics and rayon and
novelty yams for furniture manu
facturers and textile converters,
employs 1,500 persons in six
mills in North and South Caro
lina.