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Population Greater Kings Mountain , 10,320 City Limits S 8,008 TMi flgure let Greater Dagi Mountain te domed tram tte 1855 Uegi Mountain city directory ceneun. The dlj «trite figure U tram the United Ststea eenrat et I960. VOL 74 No. 24 16 * Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins i GLASS 'REUNION Members of the Kings Moun tain high school Class of ’58 who haven’t contacted Mrs. Ann Falls Davis about reservations for the reunion June 29th are asked to do so by June 21. Mrs. Davis may be contacted at 739-2750. ON DEAN'S LIST Mrs. Lossie Lynch Kincaid has “been listed on the dean’s list for the quarter just ended at Win fhrop college, Rook Hill, S. C., where she is a freshman. Mrs. Kincaid is majoring in English ■with minor in library science. HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE James Allen Pressley, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pressly, is in Charlotte, where he is an em ployee for the summer at Pres byterian hospital. Mr. Pressly is a University of North Carolina medical student. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $212.25, including $134.10 from on-street meters, $61 in over - parking fees, and $17.25 from off street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel, Jr., reported. Jet Parker Free Ota Bond Jet Parker, 40-year-old Kings Mountain .Negro, was released /from city jail Monday afternoon St.fi o'clock after posting a cash bohcL | ■. Police Chief F’aul Sanders ■ said Parker is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with in tent to kill in connection with Thursday night’s pocket-knife stabbing of Vernie Mae Gill, 34 year-old Negress, of Childers street. Preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for July 1 in city recorder’s court before Judge Jack H. "White. Chief Sanders said Parker had been held in city jail since 9:30 p. m. Thursday night on an open charge pending the condition of Vernie Gill who had been in criti cal condition. Chief Sanders said the woman’s condition is satis factory. She remains a patient in the Kins Mountain hospital. Officers who investigated, Chief Sanders, Robert Greene and Charles Wallace, said Park er had admitted inflicting the knife wounds following an argu ment at the Negro Woman’s club on Morris street Thursday night. Union Service At St. Matthew's Sunday night’s union service lor seven city church congrega-j tions will be held at St. Mat thews Lutheran church at 8 p.1 m. with Dr. W. P. Gedoerding to deliver the message. Dr. Gerberding’s sermon will be “The Unseen Preached” Initial service of the summer series was held at First Presby terian church lat Sunday even ing with Dr. Paul Ausley lead ing the service. Other services on the summer schedule in which seven congre gations are participating in clude: June 23 at Kings Mountain Baptist church with Rev. Marion j DuBose to deliver the message. June 30th at Central Methodist church with Rev. Herbert Gar-1 mon to deliver the message. July 7th at Trinity Episcopal; church with Rev. Thomas Drop pers to deliver the message. July 14th at Boyce Memorial ARP church with Dr. W. L. Pressly to deliver the message. July 21st at Resurrection Lu theran church with Rev. George Moore to deliver the message. Dr. Laura Plonk Here This Weekend Dr. Laura Plonk, director of the Plonk School of Creative Arts of Asheville, will be in Kings Mountain during the weekend. She will be at the home of iter brother, W. L. Plonk, from Fri day evening through Sunday, to interview prospective students lor summer term of the school, which begins in late June. Busy Session Fox City Board Is Scheduled Thursday night’s Tegular monthly meeting of Bridges Ad ministration V promises to be a busy one, advance agenda indi cates. Mayor Glee A. Bridges was out of-town Wednesday, but had previously indicated he will rec ommend a downward revision of water charges for out-of-city in dustrial users. He also has indicated he will appoint Commissioner Norman King as a member of the Maun ey Memorial Library board and two commissioners as the city's representatives on the Fireman’s Relief fund. The Mayor has not offered any details of his planned water rate recommendations. Other scheduled items include public hearings on a petition by Marvin Goforth for annexation of a portion of his property at the western city limits to the city and a public hearing on several street improvements assessments. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., said he will recommend that the commission consider adoption of the privilege license tax schedule for 1963-64, and that the com mission tentatively set the up coming year’s tax rate at $1.50 (including the five cent levy for the recreation program), same Bate Which .has prevailed since 1957. He expects the commisison to take several actions he labeled as “technical," among them: 1) designating a depository for city monies; 2) adapting of an Interim appropriation ordinance for the period trim July 1 until the new dty budget is adopted; and 3) adoption of an amended budget for the current fiscal year ending in June. The commission will convene at City Hall courtroom at 7 p.m. Rites Conducted For Mis. Roth Funeral rites for Mrs. Dorothy Meroney Ruth, 58, wife of Fllton L. Ruth, were held Saturday morning at 11 o’clock from the Chapel of Harris Funeral Home. Dr. Paul K. Ausley, pastor of First Presbyterian church, offi ciated at the final rites, and in terment was made in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Ruth, in ill health for sev eral months, died Thursday morning in the Kings Mountain hospital. A native of Mocksville, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meroney. She "was a member of First Presbyterian church. She is survived, in addition to her husband, by two sons, Hilton L. (Jack) Ruth, Jr. of Charlotte and William R. (Bill) Ruth of Raleigh and four grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, C. F. Meroney of Mocksville and Kim Meroney of Atlanta, Ga. and four sisters, Mrs. Cooper Edwards of Columbia, S. C., Mrs. Silas Me Bee of High Point, Mrs. R. S. Mc Neill of Mocksville and Mrs Mary Morrow of Atlanta. Moomaw Advises: Review For Course “Sometimes you need to look back to see where you’ve been to know where you’re going,” Ben Moomaw, Kings Mountain Mili tary Park superintendent, con cluded a talk before the Kings 'Mountain Lions club Tuesday night Mr. Moomaw had reviewed changes in the community during the 12 years he has been a Kings Mountain area citizen. He noted the building of sev eral churches, tripling of the ca pacity of Kings Mountain hos pital, construction of North school and expansion of others. Other addtiions, he noted, were three new super markets, other business improvements, the com ing of television and dial tele phones, the new National Guard Armory, the double-laning of U. S. 74 to Gastonia and the Inter state 85 opening. Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park attendance during 19 51 was 4c.OOO, compared to last year’s more than 270,000. Already th's year. 128.000 persons have visited the park. Mr. Moomaw’ spoke on a pro gram arranged by Howard Bry j ant. Herald To Install Newspaper Press Herald Buys Eight-Page Goss Cox-o-Type The Kings Mountain Herald has purchased a Goss Cox-o-Type newspaper press which it expects to install within the next three to four weeks. The press was purchased from the Richmond County Journal, at Rockingham, which recently increased publication of its paper from three to five days per week. The Goss press will replace the Miehle newspaper press used to publish the Herald since 1950. The Goss press will print up to eight pages in one impression, employs roll rather than flat newsprint, and produces a fold ed newspaper. It will operate at speds up to 3,500 impressions an hour. It has a color attachment. The press weighs approximate ly eleven tons. In contrast, the newspaper press now in use can print only four pages at one impression and operates at about 1500 impres sions per hour. Folding of a newspaper section requires use of a folding machine. The Herald is currently mak ing preparations for installation •of the press In the basement of the Herald building. A required pit is being dog and concreted and chainfall for unloading newsprint rolls is to be installed at the basement entrance. The press will be moved and erected by Jack R. Harrison, of Columbia, S. C., veteran press dealer and mechanic. "The Herald has projected the purchase off a modern newspaper press for several years, in ac cordance with the paper’s policy to publish a continually Improv ing newspaper serving the Kings Mountain area,’’ Martin Harmon, Hciald publisher, commented. “The new press should enable the Herald to produce an Improv ed newspaper more quickly.” Classes Begin In Typing, Math Summer school officially be gan at Kings Mountain high school last Thursday with stu dents registering for classes in U. S. History and English. Principal Harry Jaynes said students interested in register ing for classes in mathematics and typing may do so by call ing the school office. Classes in these two subjects start this morning (Thursday) at 7:30 a. m., Mr. Jaynes continued. Students not registering prior to opening classes in math and typing may register Thursday morning. TO LEAKSVILLE — Rev. Herbert D. Garmon is moving to Leaks ville where he will be pastor of First Methodist church. His suc cessor at Central Methodist here is Rev. Howard Jordan. loidan Succeeds Herbert Garmon Rev. Howard Jordan, newly assigned pastor of Central Meth odist church, will move here Thursday and will conduct ser vices at the church Sunday. He succeeds Rev. Herbert p. Garmon, pastor for the past four years, who was assigned to the First Methodist church of Leaks - ville. Rev. Mr. Jordan, 51, comes to Kings Mountain from Pleasant Garden Methodist church, Char lotte, which he has served as pastor for the past five years. His wife has been a teacher in the Charlotte city schools. They have two grown sons, the young er now in medical school. Rev. Mr. Jordan is a chaplain in the active army reserve. School Board Must Formulate Rules What is the cost of renting Cen tral school cafeteria? Can funds be solicited in the schools, from students and facul t;’| members for the United Fund? These and other related ques tions are involved in recent amendments to the North Caro lina school law. One, eliminating the provision which made use of school lunch rooms for other than school pur poses, denies the board of edu cation the right to rent school cafeterias, auditoriums, or build ings unless the board adopts rules and regulations for govern ing and permitting rentals. Rules and regulations on the collection of fees from students or conducting of solicitations is mandatory, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles F. Carroll, has written superintend ents. Funeral Rites Conducted Friday For I. Ben Goforth, Sr., Age 87 Funeral rites for Isaac Benja min Goforth, Sr., 87, were held Friday at 3:30 p.m. from Central Methodist church, of which he was a member. Mr. Goforth died Thursday morning at 4:45 in the Kings Mountain hospital following a long illness. A native of Cleveland County, ton of the late 'Mr. and Mrs. Beatty Goforth, Mr. Goforth re tired as a rural mail carrier in 1933. He was a charter member and •ield a life membership in the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club, was active in civic, church and community affairs. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth McCarter Goforth; two sons, I. Ben Goforth, Jr., of Kings Mountain, and Robert T. Goforth •>f Charlotte; a brother, Ormand Goforth, of Kings Mountain, five •randchildren and five great grandchildren. A steward of Central Methodist church, he had been a member of the choir for over 50 years. He a as also a former scoutmaster Rev. H. D. Garmon, his pastor, assisted by former pastors Re T. G. Winkler and Rev. P. L. RITES HELD — Final rites tor I. Ben Goforth, Sr- who died Thursday morning at the age of 87, were held Friday afternoon from Central Methodist church. Shore, Jr., officiated at the final rites. Interment was made in , Mountain Rest cemetery. City Revenue To Top Budget By $3X000 By MJUmN HARMON As is customary near the end of its fiscal year, the board of city commissioners will adopt an amended 1962-63 budget Thurs day night to adjust actual fig ures to last year’s educated esti mates. The amending chore will be a pleasant one, the new figures re flecting increased receipts over estimates of about $33,000. Mean time, expenditures have been vir tually within the budget adopted by the commission a year ago. The amended budget will be balanced at approximately $794, 000, rather than $761,000. Biggest factor in the increased receipts has been collections of taxes for the current year, up $17,500 over the budgeted amount Utility sales will return $7250 more than anticipated and miscellaneous receipts $4475. Much of the miscellaneous item, slightly over $4,000, represents the city’s sales tax rebate, which had not been budgeted. Other “up” items include court costs $3,000, Powell bill street funds $1000, prior year taxes $1500, intangible taxes $1700, privilege license taxes $315; auto licenses $50. Principal item over - estimated was for water and sewer tap fees, now estimated to return to $2,000 less than anticipated. The “excuse” funds in the amended budget will be appropri ated largely to the capital out lay fund. This figure will be up ped by $38,000 and will spell a carry-over for use in the coming fiscal year. General fund expens es get $1250 and the recreation fund $300. lions Elected Odus Smith Odus Smith, owner of Western Auto Associate Store, has been elected president of the Kings Mountain Lions club for 1963-64. He will succeed Jonas Bridges. Mr. Smith and other club of fricers were elected unanimously at the Tuesday night meeting of the organization. Other oficers are: Wesley Bush, first vice-presi dent; C. P. Barry, second vice president ; Dr. George W. Plonk, third vice-president; Howard Bry ant, secretary; W. D. (Bill) Ben nett, treasurer; Peter Mason, Lion tamer; and Dr. Nathan Reed, tail twister. Directors elected included Wil liam J. Kay, for a one-year term, and Carl Goforth, Sam Weir and Hal Plonk for two-year terms. The retiring president is an ex offijcio officer. The new oficers will be in stalled on June 25. Hannon Rites Aie Conducted Funeral rites for Thomas Alex ander Harmon, 90, were held Tuesday at 4 p.m. from David’s Baptist church, masonic burial rites following in the Bethlehem cemetery. Mr. Harmon, prominent retired farmer and former owner of Har mon’s Store on Shelby road, died Monday morning at 5:30 In the Kings Mountain hospital followig an illness of several months. He was a native of Cleveland County, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. Wilson Harmon. He was a 59-year-i.Mason, having received his pin for long service several years ago. He was a member of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM and of Oak Grove Baptist church. His wife, the former Ollie Whis naot, died in 1945. Mr. Harmon is survived by two sons, Claude and Hubert Harmon, ahd two daughters, Mrs. R. M. Wilson and Mrs. Thomas E. Wil son, all of Kings Mountain; nine grandchildren and 12 great • grandchildren. Rev. N. S. Hard'n, assisted by Rev. James A. Hudson, officiated at the final rites. Masons of Fair view Lodge conducted the mason ic burial ritea. RECUPERATING Mrs. W. K. Dellinger, of Cher •vville. is recuperating satlsfac-; orUy from an operation she un- I derwent last week at Charlotte j Memorial hospital, her son. Lewis “ellinger of K.ngs Mountain, re ports. Grover Physican Joining McGill Adams Becomes McGill Associate On luly 1st Dr. Charles Adams, Grover medical doctor, will join Dr. John C. McGill as an associate in the general practice of medi cine on Jiuly 1, Dr. McGill an nounced this week. Dr. Adams, practicing in Grov er since the spring of 1959, will replace Dr. Kenneth H. McGill, who leaves next week for Chat tanooga, Tenn., where he will be gin a three-year residency in sur gery at Baroness Erlanger hos pital. Dr. John McGill said he under stands Dr. Adams plans to move his residence here. Dr. Adams became Grover’s first resident physician in two decades when he set up practice there in 1959, after completing an internship at Cone Memorial hospital, Greensboro. A native of Glenville, West Vir ginia, he is a graduate of Glen ville State College, won a master of arts degree at the University of West Virginia, and a medical degree at the University of Vir ginia. He was subsequently a member of a surgical research team in Korea and at Walter Reed hos pital, Bethesda, Md. He is a member of the staff of Kings Mountain hospital. M-S Canvas Friday Night The Kings Mountain Jaycees and Junior Woman’s club will conduct a house-to-house canvass Friday night for benefit of the 'Multiple Sclerosis drive in Kings j Mountain. Goal of the campaign is $1500, chairman Robert (Bob) Goforth' said Wednesday. Members of the two civic clubs are asked to gather at the Worn- j an’s clulb at 7 p. m. to begin the canvass. Citizens who wish to contribute should leave their porch lights | burning, solicitors ask. Mr. Goforth said the Rainbow Girls will conduct an MS balloon j street sale Saturday and Jaycees, with president Bill Allen as! chairman, will sell Father’s Day 1 cigars on downtown streets Sat urday for benefit of the MS cam-j paign. Citizens not contacted Friday evening via Jaycees and Junior clubwomen may forward contri- , butions to Jaycee Robert Go forth, 209 S. Roxford Road,. Kings Mountain. “In the state there are an esti mated 2,000 suffering from MS”, Mr. Goforth pointed out. “Many are young parents and become victims at the early age of 20 40.” Sixty percent of the funds i remain in North Carolina, Mr.! Goforth added, while the remain-, ing goes to the National Society j for support of research pro grams. KIWANIS CLUB M. R. Macomson, president of Macomson Machine company of Shelby, will speak on “Rocket Power” at Thursday’s Kiwanis club meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the j Woman’s club. JOINING McGILL — Dr. Charles Adams of Grover will Join Dr. John C. McGill as an associate in the general practice of medi cine July 1. Southwell Motor In New Building Southwell Motor Company is occuping new quarters this week on Shelby road; Robert O. (Bob) Southwell, owner of the auto firm, said the new building, of permanent, all steel construction, approximates 10,000 square feet of floor space on two acres of land. There are two entrances, one on Shelby road and one on Cas tlewood road, at the city limits. All-new interior furnishings in matching decor are expected to be installed within a few days, as well as air conditioning, Mr. Southwell said yesterday. Features of the building in clude individual doors for each service stall and an enclosed paint and body shop; explosion proof lighting and exhaust fans in the paint shop; no inside driveways; the use of skylights; all-paved driveway and used car lot; ;a large showroom and receptionist office and two pri vate offices. The building is in sulated with fibre glass. Industrial Construction com pany was general contractor and other firms holding contracts were Kings Mountain Sheet Metal Works, heating and air- j conditioning;; L. A. Hoke, electri al; Ben T. Goforth, plumbing; Neal Hawkins, paving. Southwell Motor company, Kings 'Mountain Ford dealer, was formerly located on Battle-1 ground avenue in the Fred Plonk building. , Local Scoutei I To '64 Jamboree i W. Donald Crawford, Kings Moutnain scoutmaster, will serve as leader of Troop No. 2 of 74 Boy Scouts and Explorers to the sixth national Jamboree at Val ley Forge, Pa., in July 1964, Leaders for the Jamboree were named today by the Activit es committee of the Piedmont Coun cil, Boy Scouts of America. Dennis Cloninger of Lincoln County will serve as scoutmasie; for Troop 1. His assistants will be A. Don Brinton of Lenoir and Jay Confirmed On Page Eight Last Bloodmobile Visit Thursday; Kings Mountain 250 Pints Short Kings Mountain is 350-pints of blood behind in its 1962-63 blod program, Mrs. J. N. Gamble Red Cross executive secretary said this week. Last visit of the fical year is today (Thursday) when the bloodmobile will set up operation from 11 a. m. until 5 p. m. at Kings Mountain Baptist church Goal of the collection is 250 pints of blood, Mrs. Gamble pointed out. Mrs. Gamble said the local chapter has written letters to Kings 'Mountain industrial firms this week asking them to fulfill their industrial contracts for the year. Industries furnish many donors annualiy. Kings Mountain Jayeees arc urging 100 percent participation by its membership and went on record as officially endorsing the blood program. Red Cross officials were antici pating the quota weald be met ( Thursday and that a record col- j lection would be made. At the last visit of the. Char-; lotte bloodbank, Mauney Mill empoyees led all industrial don ors in blood-giving. Mrs. John Cheshire, blood program chairman, called on all . citizens to help make Thursday’s visit of the bloodmobile success ful. "VVe anticipate a real stood showing at today’s vis't and ere j confident that the 250-pint de : ficit in our program will be eras ed”, she added. Columbia Finn Is Retained As Engineer By MARTIN HARMON Final preliminary pi ns lor the new Kings Mountain high school building were approved by the board of education Monday night and will be forwarded, ar chitects said, to Raleigh official! for checking on Thursday. Meantime, the architects, r-t recommendation of the board ol education, have retained Maicus L. Durlach & Associates, of Co lumbia, S. C., -as engineer. The Durlach firm will plan and su pervise heating, air-conditioning and plumbing installations in the new high school. Mr. Durlach, head of the firm, was interviewed by the archi tects and board of education 'Monday night. Under the con tract with Architects Associated, the board reserved the right to designate he engineer. Vote for retention of the Purlaeh firm was 4-0, trustee Holmes Harry being absent. The final preliminary plans provide for a building contain ing 116,893 square feet. Princi pal paring of the prior plan — considered too costly for monies available — was the gymnasium stage. Present plans call for a gymnasium of 100 by 112 feet with a seating capacity of 1500 Another cut was a choral room, and yet another was a north wing ground floor student cent er. The basic design of the build ing has not been altered with a two-floor north wing designed : for classroom instruction, j Concurrence on the prelimi j nary plans by officials of the school planning division, State Department of Public Instruction, j will mean that the architects can : proceed with working plans and , detailed specifications. Architect Fred Van Wagenin gen declined to guc~s a possible datefor receivin'? bids on the high school building, but hnd previouslv indicated about 90 days would be required to com plete working drawings and specifications. Advertising for bids requires a month. On request of the City of Kings Mountain, the board of ed ucation authorized easement for a power line across Davidson school property, provided 1) the line follows a straight line from the south side of Elils street, and 2) the school property is spanned without use of a pole. Mis. Mauney's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy Mauney, 78, wife cf William Irvin Mauney, were held Friday at 4:30 p.m. from Grere Methodist church, of which she was a member. Mrs. Kennedy died Wednesday night about 8 o’clock in Turner Convalescent Home at Shelby. She had been in ill health fer several months. A native of Gaston County, Mrs. Mauney was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ed gar Kennedy.' In addition to her husband she is survived by three sons, Ralph Mauney of Kings Mountain; James and Everett Mauney of Gastonia; one brother, Charles W. Kennedy of Kings'Mountain; and five sisters, Mrs. James P. Tav’c ■ of Dallas, Mrs. Dewitt Watters r, Mrs. Andy Turner and Mrs. Vir gie Farris all of Charlotte; a id Mrs. W. A. Burnette of Hartford, Michigan; and five grandchild ren. Rev. N. H. Pusey, assisted by Rev. H. D. Garmon, officiated at the final rites and interment was made in Mountain Rest cemeteiy. Clerk To Suggest No City Poll Tax City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., said Wednesday he will recom mend to the board of commis sioners. when they begin bud get deliberations that they cease levying the two-dollar poll tax. “The city can afford it,’’ Mr. McDaniel commented. The tax, levied only on men between the ages of 21 and 50, returns the city about $1200 per year. Mr. McDaniel ha; labeled the tax as an admini strative headache. HOSPITALIZED W. S. Fulton, Sr., retired Kings Mountain businessman, is a j fl uent in Kings Mountain hospit >' where he is receivng treatment followng a heart attack in t veei;.
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