Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Tte Agon lor Creator Kings Mountain Is derleed Iran
tte IMS Kings Mountain city directory census. Tbs city
UnsHs figure to Irani tun United States census ot 1850.
VOL 70 No. 25
Established 1889
Kings Mountain,.N. C., Thursday, June 25, 1959
Seventieth Year
14 Pages
14 Today
PRICETEN CENTS
Legion Juniors
Face Forest City
Local News
Bulletins
LIONS DIRECTORS
Directors elf (the (Kings (Moun
tain Lions dulb will! convene at 7
o'clock Thursday eventing lat Ra
dio Station WKMT, President
Edwin Moore hias announced.
KIWANIS CLUB
The Kings Mountain Life
Saving Crew will provide a
demonstration for members of
the Kiwanis club alt the civic
club’s regular Thursday night
meeting. The club convenes at
6:45 at the Woman’s club.
FAIRVIEW LODGE
The Masons of Fairview Lod
ge 339 AF & AM are requested
by the Master T. Frank Ballard
to meet in a tody for service at
the Grace Methodist church
Sunday night, June 28, at 7 p.
m.
INTER-CITY AA
An inter-city Alcoholics A
nonymous meeting will be held
alt Belmont Saturday evening
at 8 o’clock ^at Belmont’s East
school auditorium. It will be
the Belmont chapter’s first in
ter-city meeting since its or
ganization.
TO CONVENTION
Dr. Nathan H. Reed, Kings
Mountain optometrist, will fly
to Dallas, Tex., Saturday,
where he will attend the an
nual convention of the Ameri
can OpftometMc association. His
office will he closed through
Wednesday.
NO LEGION DANCE
Otis D. Green Post 155, Amer
ican Legion, has cancelled the
previously scheduled Saturday
night dance. Post Commander
J. T. McGinnis, Jr., said the
dance was cancelled due to
Saturday night’s upcoming
home Legion Junior baseball
game with Forest City.
AT MEETING
Mis. M. H. Riser and Mrs.
David Hamrick represented the
Women’s Society of Christian
Service of Central Methodist
church aft the Western North
Carolina Conference held at
Lake Junahtska Hast week.
FROM CONVENTION
Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas
son have returned from Al
bany, N. Y., where they attend
ed (the Jaycee Convention; took
a vacation trip with the R. G.
Bargars of J almost own through
Canada, and visited in Wil
liamsburg, Va. Mrs. Bargar is
the former Jeanne Griffin.
■ TWO FIRES
“ City Fireman Farr said Wed
nesday the department receiv
ed (two calls lastt week, one to
douse a fire in a tree house
in wooded area on N. Waiter -
son street last Saturday art 1:45
p. m. and another to douse an
automobile blaze which flared
up after a wreck on W. King
street Sunday night at 8 o’
clock.
BOILDING PERMITS
City Inspector J. W. Webster
issued a permit Tuesday to
Paul Ware and R. H. “Doc"
Burton to build a one story
block structure on Waco Road
to be used as a grocery store.
Estimated cost is $4,000. A per
mit was also issued to J. Wil
son Crawford to build a five
room, one story brick veneer
house on Katherine Avenue at
an estimated cost of $10,000.
Royal Restaurant
Has New Managers
Sale of Gateway Restaurant by
Rex Boone was announced this
week, and the firm is bing opera
ted again as Royal Restaurant,
the fojtmer name of the business.
Mrs. Dora Hamrick and Mrs.
Mary Spearman are preparing
food, and the firm, which is
conditioned and located on
Shelby road, also caters to pri
vate parties, civic club and brid
ge club gatherings. The private
dining room will accomodate 75.
The restaurant will be open
from 6:30 a. m. to 10 p. m„ the
management announced.
Dinner music Sunday will be
t'C'wed by Adele Jenkins, of Falls,
ban. ..»i.
Juniors Shared
First-Round
Lead; Won Eight
di ntnLL rAiniun
Kings Mountain’s title-sharing
Legion juniors open the second
round of play in Area Four here
Thursday night, meeting the For
est City entry at 8 o’clock in City
Stadium.
The game will be the first of
the besit-of-five series in the sec
ond round of play. The second
game will be played in Forest
City on Friday night, and the
third game returns to Kings Mt.
on Saturday evening.
Subsequent games will be
played next week, depending on
the outcome of the first three. If
a fourth game is necessary, it
will be played at Forest City on
Monday night, and the fifth and
deciding gamp, if needed, will be
played at a site to be agreed up
on between the two clubs.
Admission prices to the games
during the elimination series
have been raised to 75 cents for
adults and 35 cents for children.
The raise is in effect throughout
the Area Four at a uniform rate,
as ordered in the meeting of offi
cials here Sunday.
Kings Mountain tied for the
top spot in the Southern League
A during the first round, with a
record of eight wins and four
losses, a mark matched by Mt.
Holly-Pawereek, which defeated
Gastonia, 10-4, on Tuesday night
to move into (the deadlock.
Commissioner Charlie Carpen
ter (then contacted officials of
both clubs on a dual telephone
hookup and flipped for (the top
position for pairings purposes.
Mt. Holly won the flip and
gained the number one position
for elimination schedule pur
(Cont’d on Page 2, Section B)
tour injured
In Sunday Wreck
Scott Hovis, 7 month-old son df
IMr. and Mrs. Henry F. Oowis of
Landing street, is in satisfactory
condition ait Kings Mountain hos
pital following an auto accident
Sundlay night in Which he sus
tained a ibncvken leg and head in
juries.
Also 'injured in the crash on W.
KSmg street at the intersection
with Goforth Stretet, were Henry
P. Hovis, Mrs. Hovis, and Edgar
IB. Horn.
Mr. HO vis sustained Chest in
juries and a fractured rib; Mrs.
Hovis, a broken leg, bruises, and
cuts on the right arm; and Mr.
Horn, lacerations of thle right leg.
'Property damage was 'also
’high, both oars being demo®shed.
Police 'investigators stated on
their report Horn was ’going east
on King street and driving a 1954
Ford While Hoviis headed west on
King street. Hovis Was driving a
1952 Ford. \
Hovis attempted to make a left
turn onto Goforth Street, turning
in front of the oncoming Horn
car. A head-on collision resulted.
Hiovts Was charged with failure
to yield the right of way and Horn
was charged with speeding 55 m.
p. h. in a 35 m. p. h. zone.
Legion Cops
Welfare Award
Second Year
Otis D. Green Posit 155, Ameri
can Legion, captured the state
department’s W. Coburn Alexan
der 'award for the second consec
utive year tat the department con
vention held in Greensboro last
weekend.
The Alexander award, a huge
trophy, is given to .the state post
adjudged most active land effec
tive im child welfare work.
Post Commander Ray Cline
commented, "The Post gets the
Manor, tout credit should go to the
Past Auxiliary, who diiid the toulk
Of the work.” Mr. CMne said the
Auxiliary, working through the
Mings Mountain Red Cross and
the Cleveland County Welfare de
partment, along with Legionnair.
es compiled the winninig record In
child welfare work for the second
consecutive year.
A large delegation of Legion
naiirtes attended the Greensboro
convention. Among them were
Mr. Cline, Commander J. T. Mc
Ginnis, Adjutant Joe McDaniel,
Jr., David Delevtte, George Hull,
Clyde SandCrs, Ball MoSwain,
Glee A. 'Bridges, Charles E. Dix
on, EJarll Stroupe, Clyde Whet
Stine, C. T. Carpenter, Jr., and
Robert Goforth.
Mr. CMne said a departmental
ruling nullified last year’s ivoite
wh'idh would have consolidated
ithe 3dodd district department in
to 15 districts. Otis D. Green Post
therefore Will remain in District
27, which includes Cleveland and
Rutherford counties. The depart
mental oomlmander ruled that the
1959 convention resolution was
unconstitutional On grounds it
Was Improperly phrased, failing
to identify the amendment the
resolution would Wave Changed.
Textile Firms -
Set Holidays
Majoritj* of Kings Mountain
(textile firms will Observe a July
4 holiday a Herald survey re
vealed last week.
Several firms will grant a
week’s vacation, while others
will take less time off.
Massachusetts Mohair ‘Plush
Company will suspend operations
Friday, July 3, and will resume
on Wednesday, 8. Vacation pay is
contemplated but not yet finally
detailed, it was stated.
•Mauney Mills, Inc., Bonnie Cot
ton Mills, and Mauney Hosiery
Company will take a week’s sur
cease, closing on June 26th and
resuming on July 6th.
Phenix Plant of Burlington In
dustries will suspend at 10 p. m.
July 2 and resume at 10 p. m. Ju
ly 8. A vacation bonus is con
templated.
Sadie Cotton Mills will suspend
July 3 and resume on July 13.
Carolina Throwing Company,
Kings Mountain Manufacturing
Company and Waco Sports Wear,
Inc. will operate on regular sche
dule. #
Craftspun Yarns, Inc. will sus
pend operation for July 4 only.
UNDERWENT* OPERATION
Marshall Gore, Sr., Kings
Mountain service station oper
ator, underwent delicate heart
surgery at University of Penn
sylvania hospital, Piwladelphia
Wednesday at 12:00 noon. A
family spokesman announced
Wednesday afternoon the sur
gery was completed and Mr.
Gore “came through it okay.”
He said word had just been re
ceived, but he had no doctor’s
comment as yet.
Mark Kid, Area Folk's Ancestor,
Had Furnace Now National Shrine
ANCESTOR OF MANY CARO
LINIANS HONORED BY HIS
TORIC SITE DEDICATION IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
ELVERSON, PA. — In 1778,
Mark Bird lost his southeastern
Pennsylvania iron empire and
moved to Rutherford County, N.
C. In 1938, his Hopewell Furnace
became a National Historic Site.
A new Visitor Center will be de
dicated ait the Site on Sunday,
June 28. Invitations have been
received by many Bird descen
dants living in North and South
Carolina.
In the Shelby area they in
clude: the families of R. P. and
Carl D. Randall; J. A. McSwain,
Mrs. Gertrude Allen, Mrs. Inez
Justice, Fred, J. E., Luther R.
Matthew, Veitas, Howard, and G.
Thurman Blanton; Ed and Ce.
land Humphries; Albert: Lookado,
R. B. and Max Wallace and A. B.
Greene.
In the Charlotte area the recei
vers included the families of Dr.
John Marcus Kesfer, Frank Jenk
ins, Miss Dorothy Killian, R. S.
Dickson, Robert G. Bunn, Harry
C. Rhyne and R. T. Hasty.
Bird descendants in ithe Grover
area include the families of Ben
jamin Bird, Misses Elizabeth and
Annie Bird, Clyde and Ed Ran
dall and Bob White.
Other North Carolina families
descended from Mark Bird are
those of J. H. D. and Mr. D. Y.
McWhirter of Fuquay Springs
and Walerboro, Mrs. Joe Gault
of Avondale, the late J. E. Hern
don, J. R., E R. and F. S. Roberts
of Kings Mountain and Gastonia,
W. D. Killian of Gastonia, Dr.
Frank Weir, «f Winston Salem
and J. D. Sheppard of Grover.
Families 8n Sooth Carolina in
clude those of Grier S. Keefer,
Esq., and Will Hardin of Colum
bia, Mre. Effie Bird Kirby of
Gaffney, Jim Kiser of Bock Hill,
Robert Roberts and John Love of
Kings Creek, Fay C. Bobbins of
('Continued On Page Bight)
Bondsman Hayes
Infers Collusion
Hayes Wants
Daytime Man
At City Hail
A scheduled informal, non-offi
cial budget session at dty Hall
Tuesday night 'turned into an of
’ffifaiai session in which the com
mission heard Earnest Hayes,
'Kings ‘Mountain 'businessman and
'professional bondsman, tell the
commission he wanted a city em
ployee to serve as Ms daytime
bopding representative.
Mr. Hayes thinks the fact that
Corbett Nicholson, city igas su
perintendent and also a profes
sional bondsman, is Closely con
nected alt Oity Hall and, as gas
superintendent, maintains an of
fice there Is questionable compe
tition and inferences of collusion.
Mr. Hayes said Wednesday,
"His (Mr. Nicholson’s) main in
terest is 'bonding, -lending money
and paying fines. The Mayor
makes all kinds of excuses, but
nothing is done about it. ODt ap
pears to me that Mr. Nicholson
has a pension at the taxpayer’s
expense.”
Mr. Hayes guessed the weekly
gross in the city 'bonding business
at $500 pbr week and added that
Mr. NldhOlson gets "98 percent”
of the business, -though there are
four licensed bandsmen in Kings
Mountain. Others ate Dewiltte
Cornwell and Hazel Gill, accord
ing to City Hall records.
‘The Chief (Martin Ware) says
a prisoner gets his Choice, but it
doesn't seterni -possible.”
'Mr. Hayes Charges that Mr.
Nicholson spent 45 minutes after
-Monday’s court session arranging
a fine payment and commented,
“He couldn’t ‘have bteen running
the gas department then” x -
Mr. Hayes said he sometimes
-gets Calls on -persons from ou-tof
town Who ate charged with city
law violations.
Thb commission heard Mr. Hay
es’ complaints without action.
Henson Named
Police Officer
In a special session Tuesday
night, the city board of commiss
ioners:
1) Employed Garland Henson
as a city policeman on recom
mendation of Chief Martin Ware
and Police Commissioner Luther
T. Bennett.
2) Heard a request from J. E.
Herndon, Jr., for a new water
line Ito provide sufficient pressure
to serve a waiter sprinkler system.
No action was taken.
3) Approved installation of
curb-land-gutter o n Benfield
Road, from N. Piedmont avenue
to Ithe city limits, and on Dilling
street, from Parker street to E.
King, if and when funds are a
vailable.
4) Authorized Mayor Glee A.
Bridges to retain an engineer to
map air-conditioning of City
Hall. f
5) Approved order of 1800 city
auito licenses for 1960.
Hungry Thieves
Raid Deal Pool
Unidentified vandals, apparent
ly hungry, raided the Deal street
Swimming 1*0101 'Monday night
carrying off an estimated $6S
worth of loot.
Waken were 42 bags of potato
chips, and popcorn, a box of head
adhte powders, 200 pennies, 60 bars
of candy, and one CioCk radio.
According to Jake Early, recre
ation director and manager of the
pool, the thieves evidently climb
ed the pool 'fence and entered the
buildings through a narrow open
ing 'between the wall and the
roof. Early farther commented
that It would have taken a slend
er person to climb through the
opening. He said that there must
have been more than one vandal,
for the loot would have been too
mudh for one individual to carry.
Investigating officers in the
•theft are Sergeants Bud and Gene
Ware. As yet there have been no
leads and no arrests in the case,
they repoatt
Bids Are Asked
On Servicing lob
Bids are now open for servicing
contract of the Post Office truck,
for fiscal year ending June 1960.
All commercial garages are In
vited to place bids. Closing time
for bids is Saturday, June 27 at
2 p.m.
Bid forms may be obtained
from Postmaster Charles Alexan
to.
Chief Ware Warns
Of Gun Ordinance
Police Chitef Martin Ware ask
parent's this week to put a
check-rein on their youngsters
who own air rifles and .22caili
ber rifles. ,
Chief Ware noted that par
tents are responsible for the ac
tions of their children and
pointed out that instances of
vandalism are being noted “all
over town.” It is against the law
to fire .22-caliber rifles within
the city limits.
He said vioators will bte nab
bed and their parents charged
with misdemeanors.
Mrs. Hords
Rites Thursday
’Funeral rites for (Mrs. Sarah
Elizabeth (Miss Sally) Hord, 76,
of 117 Pulton street, will Ibe held
Thursday at 4 p. m. from Temple
(Baptist Church, with interment
following in Mountain Rest cem
etery.
Widow of Robert Hoyle Hord,
Mrs. Hord >suocumbed Wednes
day morning at 5:30 (in the local
hospital 'following a week’s ill
ness. A native of Cleveland Coun
ty, shte was the daughter of the
ialtle Mr. and Mrs. William Styers
and was a member of Temple
Baptist church.
Mrs. Hard is survived by two
sons, Jerry of Portsmouth, Va„
and Robert O. Hord of Cleveland,
Ohio; four daughtters, Mrs. Euni
ce Falls, Mrs. Elizabeth Kirby,
ibdth of GreenSboro; Mrs. Earl
|Ledford, (Kings Mountain; and
I Mrs. Inez Spencer of Winston 9a
i ten; one brother, .WStofield Styers,
f Kings Mountain; three half bro
thers, Fred M. Bridges and Sin
I clair Bridges, both Of Shelby, and
Charles Bridges, Kings Mountain;
and two sisters, Mrs. (Bud Oattes,
York, S. C., and Mrs. Charles
Hard, Gastonia. Also surviving
are 13 grandchildren and 12
grteat-grandchlildren.
Rev. Jack Weaver, Rev. Bomar
L. Raines, and Rev. H. G. McE
roy will officiate.
Union Sendee
At ARP Sunday
Sunday nigWfis union service
Will Ibe held ait IBoytce Memorial
AiRP church With Dr. W. L. Press,
ly, the pastor, to dbMver the ser
| men at 8 ip. m.
'Five church congregations loin
in the summer schedule of servi
ces, and visitors are welcome.
Special music Will Ibe presented
by the church dhiolir.
Astronomy Club
Is Organized
j The Cleveland Amateur Aslmn
omy club was organized (Monday
■night at the home of Banks Cash
ion on the Oak Grove road.
Purpose of the club,- according
to Mr. OashSon, is for a general
discussion and Study of Astrono
my and related subjects as tele
scope making. The group meets
thie first Wednesday of each mon
th at the Oashion home, and Oth
er interested citizens arb invited
to join.
Members of the new dub, in ad
dition to Mr. Oashion, are Buzz
CaShion, Houston Wolfe, Furman
Wilson, P. F. DiQling, David D.
Saunders, all of Kings Mountain,
and Hugh Weills and John Elliott,
both of Shelby.
Old Time Picnic
To Be At Grover
An Old time community picnic
will be hdld July 4, at Grover
high sahodl sponsored toy the Gr»
ver Community Development
Council. Festivities will begin at
9:30 ia. m.
HighMghtrng the program wili
be an address by North Carolina
state Lieutenant Governor Lufth
er EL Ramhsandt at 11:00 a. m. Mr.
Bannhandt will be introduced by
state Senator Robert F. Morgan.
Morning bnttertalnmerrt Wttl con
sist of loot races, sack races, and
other contests such ais greasy pole
climbing. The picnic lundh will be
wfrved on (the hi gh school grounds,
Featuring the afternoon’s bn
tertalnmeret Will toe two softball
games in Which Minatte Mill’s
State softball champions of 195$
will oonteet Knowles Electri
Company's team of Atlanta, Ga.
National Guard
Gets Top Rating
At Encampment
__ Kings Mountain's National
Guard Unit walked away with
top honors in the two weeks of
summer encampment which end
ed Sunday.
The 71 members of Company D
racked up the highest score of
any company-sized unit in the
state, ias (they ranked high in ap
pearance of personnel, military
courtesy, appearance of quarters,
and-general conduct.
The company, headed by Cap
tain Humes Houston, only be
came a member of the 105th En
gineer Battalion Of the 30 th In
fantry Division on April 1 and
converting of the infantry into
an engineer company is descri
bed in a separate account written
by a member of the Guard which
appears elsewhere in the paper.
He also describes the two-week
camp.
The 105th, which also includes
Shelby, Charlotte, Belmont, Lin
coln ton, and Statesville, was jud
ged Ithe most outstanding batta
lion-sized unit in the entire di
vision and took top honors in the
annual 30th Division parade. Lt.
Col William E. Moss commands
ithe battalion.
Captain Houston expressed
pleasure ait the record achieved
by the Kings Mountain group
during ithe encampment.
Tax Valuation
Jumps S256.000
'Kings Mountain’s fax valuation
will show a $256,000 gain over
1958, Tax Supervisor J. W. Web
ster said Wednesday.
Tabulations, exclusive of new
figures for two public utilities,
these supplied by the State Board
of Assessment, total $10,307,070,
compared to the $10,050,711 listed
j for 1958.
The nbw total employs 1958 val
uations on the public Utilities.
Mr. Webster credited new con
struction land same gain in auto
mobile values with the quarter
million gain.
The city commission customar
ily uiSbs 90 percent of the valua
tion as an estimate on forhoom
ing year’s tax collections. In bud
get work, now underway, the city
11s guessing it will receive $140,
000 'from taxes during thie next
fiscal yOar, employing the current
$1.50 ralte.
Mr. Webster said tax collections
for the current year are just
'Slightly ahead of the total far the
same period last year. Collections
through Wednesday at 4 o’clock
were $133,650.49 on the 1958 levy.
Through June 25 last year ithe to
tal was $133,389.57.
Schott To Speak
To Lutherans
Dr. George F. Schott, professor
of Apologetics and Dogmatics at
Lutheran Southern Seminary,
will be the guest minister at St..
Matthew’s Lutheran church Sun
day.
Dr. Schott will fill the pulpdt
in the absence of Dr. W. P. Ger
berding, pastor, who is on vaca
tion.
The guest minister’s stermon
will be based upon the Gospel for
the Fifth Sunday after Trinity.
Morning worship services are
held ait 10 a. m. following the
Sunday School Which begins at
8:45.
City Expenditures
Likely To Drop
Mayor “Grounded"
On Wednesday
'Mayor Glee A. Bridges, licen
sed pilolt and jeep operator, was
flying less than low Wednes
day,
In fact, he was In a borrowed
ear from his son, J. C. Bridges.
He has sold his old familiar
jeep with the orange-painted
Bridges Airpoirt sign to Warren
Ellison, 'former city policeman,
Unit is scheduled to pick up a
new, enclosed modefl Thursday.
Meantime, he’s solid His air
plane, too.
“I’m getting a little ripe to
fly,” the Mayor laughed.
Local Students
Enroll At King's
Sevten students from Kings
Mountain are among the 140
freshmen who enrolled at King's
Business College in Charlotte for
the summer term. Mary Lou Wri
ght, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin Wright, Cora Jane Hayes,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E.
Hayes, Barbara Gamble, daugh
ter of Mr. and1 Mrs. Leonard Gam
tae, and Betty Sue Kirby, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Stowe,
aill are taking the General 'Busi
ness Course.
Joseph Campbell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Campbell, and
Billy Crawford, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Crawford, are both
talking the Junior Accounting
Course.
Martha Houser, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Houser, is ta
king the Advanced Secretarial
Course.
Sinclair Ads
To Feature Park
Kings (Mountain National Mild-!
tary Park will 'bte featured toy Sin- \
ola'ir Odl Oorapany in its July
American Conservation series
published in Time, Newsweek,
Saturday Review, and National
Geographic Magazines.
In color, the full pagte feature
calls attention to Kings Moun
tain as one Of the South’s most
scenic vacaltlonlanidis 'and bears
the caption: “Visit Kings Moun
tain — where the Mountain Men
Made You Flree.” It is complete
with picture of eight area citi
zen's who posed for photogra
phers on the top of the ridge near
'the park reservoir. Park Histori
an Sherman Perry is costumed as
'a Redcoat and Irvin (Tootle) Al
len, Jr., wears the costume of a
mountain man. Also pictured are
Mrs. Wesley Bush 'and small son,
Mrs. Perry and small daughter,
Billy Gene Neisiler, and Park Su
j perintendent, Ben Mobrpaw.
I Sinclair features a unit, of the
I National Park Service each
; mionth in its advertisements and
| the summer series is devoted to
| the Paries ais an accompanying
j article describes the typical histo
i ric spots and vacation areas. 'Pie
Hermitage at Nashville, Term.,
was featured several months ago.
(The Park feature will appear in
'the July 20 issue of Time Maga
zine, the July 13th issue of News
week Magazine; the July 18th is
sue of Saturday Review; and the
July issue of National Geographic
Magazine.
County Board Member Moore Says
Merger Would Mean Better Schools
Edwin IMoore, member of the
county school board, outlined pro
posals and hurdles to a Number
4 (township school merger for his
fellow (Lions 'at Tuesday night’s
meeting. 1 ,
Mr. Moore said the Number 4
mergter would put the Kings
Mountain system on a par with
that of the Shelby district, with
Oaich having about 24 percent of
school papulation of the county.
The remaining 52 percent would
be in he county district.
Mr. Moarte txild the club that
some of the folk he’d talked with
in the BOthware Community have
reservations about the 20-cent
school tax supplement (pbr $100
valuation) which a merger re
quires. To a question on BetJv
Ware's feeling, Mr. Moore com
mented, "Bethware 1s like a pen- j
ulum, and I don’t know how it’s
swinging today.” Mr. Moore re
sides in the Bethware district.
Mr. Moore made these points:
1) His home is dloser to schools
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PRESIDENT — Edwin Moore was
installed as president ot the
Kings Mountain Lions club Tues
day night He succeeds Richard
Barnette.
McDaniel Says
Alternative
Upped Taxes
The City of Kings Mountain
Willi spend albout $75,000 less dur
ing (the fiscal year ending June
30, 1960, or thtey’ll have to get
some more money from some
source, City Clerk Joe McDaniel
'told the Herald Wednesday.
'Budget work is underway, with
virtually all departmental de
partment requests in hand, and
already the commissioners have
held sessions with the paring
knife in Wand.
The city clerk estimates that
the dty will have spent, at June
30, about $675,000 — well over the
$590,675 budget the commission
initially adopted for the current
fiscal year and virtually all ithe
$85,000 cash surplus shown at
June 30, 1958.
Twice during the year, the com
mission has amended its original
budget, using a large portion of
'the surplus carry-over from the
previous year.
"There will be a surplus carry
over for the year beginning July
1,” 'Mr. McDaniel stated, “but .the
surplus will 'be much umjpr last
year’s.’'
While final determination of
the su rplus will 'await the annual
City audit, (Mir. McDaniel guesses
that only about one-third of it
will be in cash and therefore im
mediately spendable.
The City has a surplus in sever
al 'income accounts this year, Po
wer sales, a city profit-making
Item, increased about $15,000, Mr.
'McDaniel noted. Also, dty eflforts
at keeping Street-paVing and oth
er street .improvements on a cash
'basis have resulted in income
greater than anticipated.
Mr. McDaniel said the surplus
expenditures during -the past elev
en-plus months ihaVe been for cap.
ital expenditures, much of it for
the City’s share In street improve
ments.
I Budget adoption is anticipated
in July.
New Gas Budget
Adopted Tuesday
The city board of commission
ers adopted i)ts 1959-60 gas bud
get Tuesday night and antici
pates a net profit of $18,459 on
operations for the coming year.
The city anticipates gross re
ceipts of $121,500 with sales to re
sidential customers to return
$58,672. Other estimates on re
ceipts arp: commercial sales $14,
652, industrial sales $14,813; sa
les to customers with interrupti
ble contracts $27,264; public
building sales of $4,587, and
other income of $1512.
Disbursements will include for
the first time payment of princi
pal on the $400,000 revenue bonds
the natural igas system issued to
build the distribution system. The
payment will be $10,000, while
in terest payment for the year wilL
be $14,112.50.
The city expects to purchase
$59,367 in gas from Transcon
tinental Gas Pipeline Corpora
tion, its supplier, expects to spend
$5,000 for labor, $4800 for the ser
vices of Supt. Corbett Nicholson,
add $3,000 for administrative sal
aries. Engineering is expected to
cost $1,500, equipment mainten
ance $1,000, operating supplies
$1,000, while all other categories
of expense are in the three-figure
range, and less than the $755
budgeted fo auditing costs.
Former Resident
Honored In Florida J
Cyrus T. Palls, former Kings
Mountain resident now of Dun
edin, Fla., has made quilte a
record in church aitttendance.
Mr. Falls, who now attends
•the Dunedin Methodist church, '
has a 46 year perfect attendan
ce record. He was honored by
(the ‘ Good Fellowship class of
which he is a member
The class of which Mrs. John
Cooke is teacher and Mrs. Tho
mas Ingram is president, a
greed to call the first Sunday
in June "Anniversary Day’’ in
Mr. Falls’ honor.