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65
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^ Population
GrC'^ter Kings tvtouritain 10,320
Cil-y Linnits 8,008
This Itgurc foi Greater KlD9« Mountain 's dorlvod Irom
the Kings Mouo.olo city diiuctory Cwoeos. Tlia city
Uml'i llguro ii trom tho Unltod States census of tHO.
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VOL 76 No. 34
Established 1889
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 26, 1965
c
Seventy-Sixth Year
PRiCb C.bNT*
ings Mountain Area Schools
7*0 i
Plonk Chairman
Zoning Board
Zoning Board
Members Named
By Mayor Moss
NAMED Fred W. Plonk has
been named chairman of the
reactivated Kings Mountain
zoning commission.
laynes Details
Bus Schedules
With exception of additional
runs, the i9o5-66 school bus
schedules differ very little from
tiinse of the 19B-1-65 term, High
St hool Principal Harry Jaynes
said Wednesday.
'I'he additions provide for
transpfu'tation of in-city pupils to
iyw Kings M untain High School
P/.iacent to the city limits, as
w(?ll as Grover, Bethware. and
Pai’k Grace seventh and eighth
F'^ed W. Plonk, Kings Moun
tain oil dealer, has been named
chairman of the reactivated city
zoning commission.
Other members named by May
or John Henry Moss are J. I-<ee
Roberts, justice of the peace,
George beBroile, superintendent
of Craftspun Yams, Ine., L. L.
Benson, retired railwayman, and
J. Wilson Crawford, realtor.
Chairman Plonk and Magis
trate Roberts were named to
three-year terms, DeBrule and
Benson to two-year terms, and
Crawford to a one-year term.
Future appointments will be
for three-year terms.
Under terms of the initial zon
ing act, adopted in 1948, three-
year terms were specified with
exception of initial appointments
to arrange staggered term situa
tion.
For many years, the board of
commissioners has served as its
own zoning board.
The initial board was named
by then-Mayor H. Tom Fulton on
Decern cr 14, 1948, including
Haywood E. Lynch, chairman.
W. W. Parrish, Jahn D. Gantt, J.
Wilson Crawford and Moffatt
I 4. Ware
! The zoning commission has the
I authority to recommend changes
;n the zoning ordinance, to hold
public h(*arings concerning pro
posed changes, and to hear ap-
' oeals on zoning rulings by the
Tax Discount
Deadline Neai
gra(l.'r,s to Central. , „„
Superintendent B. N. Barnes : ,ixy building inspector,
noted, “Pupils will hoard buses '
bound for the .schools to which
they are assigned,”
Here arc the schediules:
Grover, seven incoming buses,
with throe disembarking Grover
pupils, and proceeding express | _. , ^
to Kings Mountain high school, t countj tax e'en .
Twa buses will proceed express anticipate a heavy rush of us -
both during the weekend and
Kin«Ts I through Tuesday, as citizens pay
® 198,5 lax bills and take advantage
of the fully allowable two per
cent discount.
The discount rate drops to one
percent in September.
City Tax Collector Joe McDan
iel, Jr., reported advance pay
ments through Wednesday of
$18,382, with anticipated tax rev-
to
will transport pupils
Mountain high school.
Bethware. eight incoming
bu^es. Three buses proceed ex
press to KMHS, two ,>uses pro
ceed express to Central, where
one takc.s on pa.ssengers for
KMIIS One bus takes on KMHS
pupils at the corner of W. Gold
and Cansler streets. Two buses
proceed to North empty, to load enue during the year of $162,000.
i
pupils for KMHS
Park Grace, two incoming
buseo. One then proceeds express
to KMHS, the other express to ‘
Central v.nth Central pupils, !
thence to Fast school to take on j
pupils for KMHS. |
Richie Installed
ARP Pastor
Rev. L. ThciT-as Richie was in-
.'‘tailed as pastor of Boyce Me
morial AR Presbyterian church
at the 8 p.m. Sunday service'
Dr. Randall Ruble. Erikine
college professor of Old Testa
ment studies, delivered the ser
mon and Rev^ Charles L. Mitchell,
pastor of Crowder’s Creek ARP
church near Gastonia and Rob
ert elder in the Crowder's
church, charged the minister and
congreg-ation. Dr. Ruble was
chairman of the installation com
mittee.
Rov. Richie comes to Kings
Mountain following graduation
from Erskino college and Ers-
kino Theological Seminary. He
was ordained by his Iiotp
chuiTh. Providence ARP of
.Spottswood. Va. in Jtme follow'-
ing his gv^duation from semi
nary in May.
Mrs. Richie U the former Har
riett Vandiver of Al)beville. S. C.
She (Completed a two-year secre
tarial coui'se at Erskine college
and formerly worked in the eol-
l(‘ge business office at the Due
West, S. C. sohonl.
The Richies have occupied the
new ARP parsonage on Sher
wood Drive.
LAIL REUNION
The 14th annual Peter and
K olly Lai! reunion will bo held
unday at Bethlehem fellow
ship center. Picnic lunch will
be spread at 1 p.m. and rela
tives and frittnds are invited
to attend.
County Tax Collector Robert
S. Gidney reported advance pay-
t.nents at approximately $450,000,
with anticipated collections dur
ing the year of about $3,000,090.
Many discounters have the
habit of waiting until the final
day to take discounts.
Both collectors said payments
mailed under August 31 post
marks would be honored for the
discount.
TRAFFIC SIGNAL
A new traffic signal was in
stalled by the electrical de
partment this week at the cor
ner of East Gold and South
Gaston streets.
Mis. Goforth
Is Piindpal
At Park Grace
Kings Mountain district sch-'ots
will open Thuisday, though the
faculty is four members short.
Still needctl in soite of the
fact nine teachers v.^ere employ
ed this week in addition to 15
last week are four elementary
teachers, one at Grover, one at
Central, one at Bethware and a
“traveling** teacher to relieve
elementary school principals for
administrative duties.
Mrs. Thelma GrJorlh is the
new Park - Grace school princi
pal. Already on the Park Grace
staff as a part-time teacher and
with her other c’ Jtics in the re
lief-of-principals category, Mrs.
Goforth has accepted the princi-
palship.
Jack Street, of Athens. Ga., who
had accepted the principalship of
Park Grace late last week, re
signed Monday morning efore
his formal election that evening.
The nine teachers and their as-
signitents are:
Mrs. Goldie D. Owens, Kings
Mountain, Central.
Mrs. Mary L. Myers, Gastonia.
Kings Mountain high scho:;!, as
library aide and teacher of his
tory.
Miss Barbara Wilburn, Union,
S. C., Central.
Miss Miriam Moller. Kings
Mountain, Central.
Mrs, Mary W. Plyler. Kings
Mountain, North.
Mrs. Maude W. McGill, Kings
Mountain, West.
Mrs. Lela C. Braswell, Central,
Gastonia.
Mrs. Mary White, Henderson
ville, Compact elementary.
Mrs. Ethel M Crook. King-
Mountain. relief teacher for
Bethware and East schools.
List Of Fees
For KMHS Students
Fees for Kings Mountain high
school students for the school
term .beginning Thursday were
announced yesterday by Princi
pal Harry Jaynes.
They will include:
High school locker rental fee,
$5.
Physical education fee for boys
and girls, $2 per year.
Scienc*e fee for science students
50 c'ents
Library fee $1.
Hcire Economics fee for home
economics students, $2.
Typing fee for typing students
$6 per year or $1 per' month.
Bookkeeping fee for bookkeep
ing students. $4.50.
Insurance fee, optional, $1.75
per year.
Agriculture fee for agriculture
students, $2.
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nSegraiion,
jQwIligh School
I'iew Kings Mountain inga bcnool lo wpen x nursaay
Gorment Workers
May Still Apply
Fifty Kings Mountain area
citizens have filled out appli
cation forms for garment
workers and 80 more are need
ed, Harold Phillips, chairman
of the new'ly • named mayoral
industry committee, said Tues
day night
Chairman Phillips said the
application blanks are availa
ble at the office of the Kings
Mountain Chamber of Com-
rmerce.
The job opportunity ct>mmit-
mittee of the C of C is handl
ing the application forms.
Giovei Postanastei Fain Hambright
Is 'Tar Heel Postmaster of Year"
Grover Postmaster Fain Ham-
bright was named Postmaster of
the Year by the North Carolina
Branch of tho National League
of Postmasters and was re-elect-
cd the group’s president for a
second term at the 1965 annual
convention at Carolina Beach last
weekend.
Kings Mountain Postmaster
Charles L. Alexander was elect
ed executive vice-president for
1965-66.
Other officers will include Glenn
Pasour of Bessemer City. vic*e-
preaident; Audrey Cashatt of
Randleman, vice-president; John
Hammond of Rockingham, vice-
president; Allen Jobe of Forest
City, vice • pi"csident; Vennio
Swanson of Bn'^fner. secretary-
treasurer; and Hftrveleigh White
of Method, editor of the stale
newsletter.
The award to Hambright was
conferred at the close of the
three-day session held in Bame
Hotel.
(Continued On Page Eight)
City-Dickson
Will Contract
For Engineering
By MARTIN HARMON
The city board of commission
ers this week authorized contract
with W. K. Dickson Company,
Inc., civil engineers, for engineer
ing for the new sewage disposal
plant to serve western Kings
Mountain and for additions to
the McGill treatment plant,
which serves eastern Kings
Mountain.
The formal contract is *0 in
clude-timetable for completion of
the several phases of the engi
neering work to meet the city's
contractual obligaHons with the
State Stream Sanitation commit
tee. ..
Specifically, the Dickson Com
pany will contract to file a pre
liminary report on October 15,
with work to begin immediately
on flow studies and drainage sur
veys of both the Potts and Bee
son’s Creek areas, and to file a
complete report (final plans and
specifications) by January 15,
1966.
Fee to the Dickson firm will
be six percent of accepted con
struction contracts, with three
percent payable on acceptance of
contracts and the three percent
balance on basis of contractor’s
percentage monthly completions.
The sewage disposal projects
are expected to cost in excess of
one million dollars and will re
quire bond issue authority.
Mayor John Henry Moss noted
Wednesday, however, that he is
already beginning work on ap
plication for a federal grant
which could recoup for the city
from federal funds up to 30 per
cent of the total outlay, exclu
sive of site costs, easement costs,
engineering fees and other ex
ceptions.
The Dickson firm, the city’s
consulting engineers for many
years, has been in charge of the
project, but on a consulting,
rather than a contractual basis.
Failure to supply final plans for
the projects by last April 1 meant
that the city failed to comply
with its initial contract with the
State Stream Sanitation commit
tee, which has .since granted a ^
one-year extension.
The revised contractual obliga
tions of the city to the State
Stream Sanitation committee are:
1) Final plans and specifica
tions to be filed with the com
mittee not later than April 1,
1966.
2) Construction to start not lat
er than October 1. 1966.
3) The plants to be in service
not later than December 31, 1967.
Maj’or Moss said the Dickson
firm had indicated tho contract
would be ready for signing be
fore week's end.
All members were pre.scnt for
Tuesday’s special board meeting,
except Ray Cline. The action was
unanimous.
New High School Iiam Humphrey
Longtime Project
lirea Merger
A*as Approved
.11
m
It lakes a lonu while to obtaki
a S1.5'.riliion high M-hool.
Back in spring J9!)() a majority
•f cilizi-ns in former county dis-
liicf area-: adjacent lo Kings
Moiniain voted lo merge with
To Invitation
Vice Presidemt Hubert H Hum-
plirey has not yet ropIie<rt(> the
inviiufion to mak * liie prnT'iprd
address at the isrith an!U\ ci sar;,
^ celebration of the Ualtlcof King.'-^
Mountain in O-’tober.
' Whether Vice-Piesident Hum-
J 'irey find? he is able to accept
, the invitation to visit K.ng.
Mountain and Klnzs Mountain
‘ Xaiional Miliiarv PaiK. he ha-
• been vvell-urgcd lo attend.
Actively suppornng the in\’i:a-
tion of .^iayor J‘»!in Heni'y M.'js;^
arc Norili aiui South Carolina'.-
, rnitiHt .Stall’s Senat ;rs, area
; Cnllcd States Cn:igrossm3n. tlov.
{inor Dan K. Mooic and Govern-
IN NEW POST — Harold Pear
son will join the sports staff
cf the Richmond Times-Dis-
patch in Richmond, Va., Mon
day. The Kings Mountoin men
leoves for Richmond Friday.
Pearson To loin
Bichmond Paper
Harold D. Pearson, former
Kings Mountain Herald spoils
editor, will join the sp-trts staff
of the Richmond, Va., Timos-Dis-
patch Monday.
Mr. Pearson, for the past 28
months a sports department
writer for the Gastonia Gazidte,
completed his duties at the Gaz
ette Wednesday.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Glland
the Kings Mountain district. The ! or Robert McNair, and imih
maioriiy, at least, felt the Jie.xt states’ DoTincraiic p.tny (-hair-
step was the new school : man. Tar Heel J. .'^dville
Opponents adopted the die-hard Broughton. Jr., and Baj.-lkippcr
attiaide and fought tin? merger , Yancey McLeod,
in the rourts a-nd otherwise. . Senator Ervin, serving as
Fi’ciily. he opposition lost, and 'chairman of a nine-member Con-
next step was a bond issue elec- gression.al ('ommittce. wv'te the
lim it> provide funds for build-; virc-Presidenr aftei- talking to
iig the new plant. The board of j irlni personally, “I wish to urge
education, via tho county com- 'with all emphasis possible tliat
mission, used the fi.gure Sl-l mil- i you accept this Invitaimn.’’
Mon. within about ^1 1" Go\'ernors Moore and McNair
the broadened district's legal I .sent telegrams to the V'iccPns-
loan limit. j ident supportin,^ tlie invitation.
The bond issue was favored by' indicative of the . y-pai ti.-an
a 2 lo 1 margin. i interest in bringing the Vicv--
There followed hoard '*f o<lu- j president h('’*e w:ts the letter
calir.n disagrc'emcnt as to site, j supporting the invitation by Seti-
wiih two otJiers more favored | Strom Thurmond, South
by a mahu'ity of tlie loard. j Carolina Republican. With a con-
rivcntually. the Phlf -r Road site fiu-ting speaking date on p. lo-
w:is chosen by \o!(’ of 3 to 2. ■ p^r 7 in the Mid-West, Senator
Planning of the inamm'iuth | Thun.aTond said he would endeav-
school building requited more ar- or lo re-schedule his engagement
duous and ledi ais effort and jn order to be at home for the
time. I Viet President's vii^it.
let m the ' Meantime, governors of neigh-
ihc hoard of porin:: states, Virginia. Tonnes-
education squeezed r»;ii every in* and Georgia, have been in-
: dicrtli'd pie<-e of '‘fat" to gei tlu'to attend the balilo aiim-
! low bids and availabi funds to | versary celebration
match. !
I Thursday tlu' new plant will j
house siudeTils.
Contracts were
sprin_’ of as
Pearson of Kings Mountain. liar- ^
old Pears^)n is a cum laude grad- | The new high school .. ..
uato of Appalachian StateTeacli- | percent fimslied, t ut the one-
ers College and of Gardnor-Webb ; tenth of one percent will cau.se
'some m.mientary problems.
! (Centinued On Page Eight*
4*:'’
HONORED — Graver Poitmos-
ter Fain Hambright has been
named North Carolina Post
master ol the Year. He was al
so re-elected president of the
state bra&cb of postmemters.
PRESBYTERIAN
Chalmers Hope, Jr., will de
liver his final sermon as sum
mer assMstant at First Presby-
terian church Sunday, using
the subject, “Medicine of Life.
college. He spent 23 months in
the an.my, inchuiing months 1
seivioe in Germany, iie taught •
school both in Reidsville and in
St. Mary’5 County. IHd.
For 13 months, Mr. Poaison
was Herald sport-s eciitor imme- |
diately prior to his joining the ,
Gazette. : Kuncrai rites for Dr. William
Ho is a former district vice- ' p. Gcrberding. 73. will bo held
commander of the Veterans of Thursday iroruing at 11 o'clock
Foreign Wars and a pa.'^t com- , from Redeemer Lutlternn cliurch
mandor of tho VFW post hore. : of St. Petci.-bur:;. Fbi.. interment
-— . following in Si. Petersburg.^
Canton Woman !wo.>iiaw., conu-u-.-y. ,
'riK' f-Tincr K.!\'S -.lountain
I900KS iSEOIRGY minister, pastor oi St. Matthew s
Rose Gibson. 28 Painter street, ! Lutheran church fropi
Canton, is seeking the wherea- until his ivtiromcnt June 1. LkH,
bouts of her brother. Tod iMackt ’died M mday at his home in si.
LUTHERAN SERVICE
Holy Communion will bt' ;id-
ministered at St. Matthew's
lAUhoran church during the l'>
a.m. woi.-^lnp h o u r .Sunday
morning. Rev. Charles Easley,
pastor, said.
Funeral For Dr. W. P. Gerberding
In St. Petersburg, Fla., Thursday
Franklin. 62.
^Jrs. Gibson said she last saw
her brother five years ago and
he is believed to have moved to
Kings Mountain and working m
the Kings Mountain area.
I Petersburg.
Born April I. 1S92 at Fargo,
North Dakota. Dr. Gerberding
was for 13 years pastor of Holy
Trinity Lutheran church in St.
Paul, Mitine.sota. and was vice-
He will enter Medical College ! notify me at my address,
of Charleston, S. C., after com- 1
pleting one year at Union I
Seminary, expects to return to 1
seminary after receiving his
“I am anxious to find him”, j president of the Hoard of For-
Mrs. GibS'on said this week. She oign -Missions, I'niltHi Lutheran
continued, “I would appre:,*iate it .church in Ameri.'a. for 12 years,
if anyone knows where he may lu Kings .Mountain he was ac
tive in civic and coir.'runiiy af- ,
fairs, a Kiwanis Club president,
and a past president of the Kings
ATTEND CLINIC
Mrs. Joe Neisler. Jr, and Mrs.
Martin Harmon attended a pi-
] Mountain Ministerial Association.
! In St. Petersburg, he had serv-
M.D. and becoming a medical \ ano clinic in Charlotte Wed- i cd as assistant pastor of RtHieem-
missionary* • nesday* (Coiitinuod On Page Eight)
SUCCUMBS — Dr. W. P. Ger
berding died Monday in St.
Petersburg. Fla., at the age of
73. Funeral rites will be held
Thursday ot 11 aan. from Rc-
deemw Lutbeion church*
Kings Mountain riot schools
.. Jl tjpiM 'Ll'i.r -! ly ’0: FialOo.o-
■> i( rm. wiili .10 )1 ot" ' :\lj pre-
l.. i;.ig ap);. „;.,m:L('ly t’oe .-ame
.,i. - day ( ni .:k .1? as last
.eir which wa^ l:K5.
'i'liuisday \\i!i mar'K iw) miV-
■’oi'.cr; in Ku.-.s 'L:u;ii
.-•hf ol hiriory, as Kin. Moun-
■\\r, dist-lct >ch ols open for the
uiG.oKti i(”m.
1) Area schools will be for.mal-
y in’eg’.a'cd with some I'-T Ne
ro r ghN enrolling at previous-
'y all-whiti 'cho.)D,
2' About l.hnh area hi di schofjl
•tudenr,' u-ill enroll at the new
S1.5 mllliun Kin.'s )untain
high school on Phiier R a'l.
Supr'i’inlendenl H. N. Barnes
u on- d ou:;
!• Excej)’,!?!': the 12 students
; ssigneri out < f West M*h.)nl
due to known ootcntial n\erload.s
a) .Ml pupils arc assgncd and
shculd attend Thurscl ■> the
-'(•ho :1 listed as fird choice last
spring, excepting
h» Th .se pupils who changed
their min(D within the legal ten-
day limit following initial assign-
menr, and asked ne^v assign
ments. Those requost.s have been
approved.
Supt. Barns noted that the
hoard of education took no ac
tion on ai.slgnmeni change re-
cpiests made after the ten-day
period expired. lie addcM that
the board will reconvene shortly
after school npens and will con-
•Jlder these eliang(’ re(}ue.st.s in
ilig’nt of definite nop.ilation
counts in ad of all
<chools. I: is tradiii-mal. he add
'd that the board of (’ducaliun
aci ommeJau'.-' all change re-
1 qiu.srs possible where v.did sup-
! porting rer -on.-j are g-ven.
! Sv''h iJ openin ^ hour at all tlie
j nin^- >)1 ds K s’;.ao a.ni.
j Thursday vvjll be orientation
(i-ay and pupils will be dismissed
at 11:30 a.P). in order that all
Imay he able to reach their homes
' in time fei- a late lunch,
i Friday will he fiist day of the
’ offiv'’ial ISftday schnol teim. with
ja full day's schedule in store,
! Exeinlion here is for Insi grad-
: er.«. As is customary, first grad-
■ ers will he on half-da.v sihedule
I for an acclimation periovd during
Ahe initial 11 s h ;nl d.ay.s. It will
j he full schcfiule for fir.-^l greders,
j too. beginning Sen:emi''e!' 13.
1 Present pl.ans fi)r all elemen-
I tary pupils (grades 1 81 to end
j the school day at 3 p.m.. with
j high school scheduh s. both at
t Fompact and KMHS. to contiiKue^
! to 3;l.'i.
i All I ;ifeterias will be in ojxm-
; ation Friday with llie exception
I of Kings M nintain high school's.
; Lunch fees at Gro\er, Compact
j high school and Kings Mountain
j high school will be 25 cents^ Cen-
i iral's lunch fee (housing only
■ si.xth and scvcmlh gradeis this
jlerm) will be 20 cents or 25
1 cents, the ind -ated fee not yet
: vonfirmed by the depart'T.ent of
I cdiK'ation in Raleigh. T.unch fees
I at all other plants will be 20
' cents.
Grace Davis'
Brother Passes
William A. Davis. ."9. of Biu'-
! ling)on died .August 15 in a Bur-
! lington hospital.
I Mr. Davis, a native of Mont-
I gomeiy County, is the son of
• Mr.s. Sarah Saundei's Davis and
■ the late N. W. Davis. He was the
' brother of Miss Grace Davis of
• Kings .Mountain.
Mr. Davis had been a rt'sidcnt
of Burlington for 33 years and
associate manager of \Vcstv’'rn
and Souiiteni Life Insurance for
nearly 30 years
He was n member of Front
Street Methodist ehureh. Burling
ton.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Lessie T,. Davi.s. two sisKu's Mrs.
Roy Diffee 'f Route 1. Elon Cf:!-
lege and Miss Grace Davis of
Kims Mountain, and two bro-
tlmrs Alton Davis and Clyde Da
vis both of Route 2, Troy, N. C.
Funeral ser\ iees were hebl on
Tui'sday at 3 o'clov'k at Front
Street Methodist church. The
Rev. Jesse V. Bone .Associate
oastor and Dr, T. B. Ha’jgh.
superintendent f the Burlington
District the Methodist church,
conducted the .service. Burial
was in Pine Hill cemetery.
Honorary pdUn\arers were
' momboi'S of the "Men's Bible
. Class of Front Stnx't Metliodist
I ehureh and membrs oof the staff
j of We.sunn and Southern Life In-
1 burance Counpaiiy,