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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 OTty Limits 7,206 Jhm figure tor Creator ring* Mountain 1* derived bon the IMS Klago Mountain city directory census. Tbs city Until fig are to bom too United States census ot ism. 1P Pages ID Today Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 7, I960 VOL 71 No. I Established 1889 Seventy-First Year PRICE TEN CENTS PHENIX GROUP SUPPORTS UNITED FUND — Pictured above are three employees of Phenix Plant of Burlington Industries as they present the employees’ United Fund contribution to Sam H. Stallings, right. United Fund chairman in Kings Mountain. The check, which Mrs. Margie Murray of the Spining department is -- r I presenting to Mr. Stallings, represents a gilt from Burlington employees and officials of $775.50. Looking on are Mrs. Sadie Neal of the Winding department and C. H. Owens of the Carding department. (Photo by Pennington Studio) Local News Bulletins BOUND FOB TURKEY • A3c Karl Moss, of Kings Mountain, will leave Saturday Dor Turkey for duty with the air force. He has been home on leave from Amarillo AFB, Tex as. HAS OPERATION Ollie Harris, Kings Mountain mortician, underwent a minor operation a|t Kings Mountain hospital! Tuesday. He was dis charged Wednesday morning and his condition is reported satisfactory. LEGION DANCE Amlerican Legion Post 155 will hold a dance Saturday night from 8 to 12 p. m. at the Legion Hall, according to an announcement Wednesday mor ning by J. T. McGinnis, post commander. City And County Credit "A" Grade Credit rating of the City of Kings Mountain is "A” grade, ac cording to the judgment of Moo dy’s, a firm specializing in credit ratings. The designation of “A” means that the rating house considers investments in Kings Mountain securities as holding "favorable investment attributes, with ade quate security,” Cleveland County holds a simi lar “A” rating. According to Moody’s Kings Mountain rates a better credit risk than do Asheboro, Asheville, Lenoir, (Lexington, Limcolnton, or Sanford.. .m The State of North Carolina Bras rated "Aa” which Moody’s Perms "high quality.” The state’s rating prompted State Treasurer Edwin Gill to note that a govern mental credit rating is (based on several factors, including ratio of debt to aggregate property val uation, previous performance in discounting bonded indebtedness, and adequate provision to pro vide revenue for new bond issues. The City of Kings Mountains general obligation bonded debt will be $610,000 at June 30, 1960, about six percent of its taxable valuation of slightly more than $10,000,000. The city’s re-payment schedule approximates $30,000 per year for film next several years. I. A. Powell Superintendent J. A. Powell has been named plaint superintendent of the Kings Mountain Division of Su perior Stone Company, succeed ing J. H. Arthur, who retired De cember 31. Mr. Powell was (transferred to the Kings Mountain plant in Oc tober from Superior Stone’s Ba ker’s Quarry at Monroe wliere f he had served as plant super ' intendent. Powell has been with Superior Stone Company for 12 years. Powell family occupied a ^P*me at 601 Gold Street in Oc tober. Mrs. Powell is the former Eve lyn Brewer of North Wilkeaboro. The Powell family includes two children. Jay, age 12, and Steve, age 6. Phenix, Old Mill Checks Swell UF stallings Says Total $13,000; Oean-Up Begins Total cash and pledges to Kings Mountain United Fund totaled $13,000 this week, as two indus trial firms conveyed checks rep resenting gifts of the firms and their employees. Kings Mountain Manufacturing Company and its employees con tributed $798, Chairman Sam Stallings reported, and Fihenix plant of Burlington Industries contributed $775.50. 4‘I am; very pleased at the re sponse of these two firms and their employees to the United Fund appeal," Mr. Stallings com mented. He noted that the United Fund campaign committee, after a Christmas season surcease, has resumed its efforts to complete the $18,000 campaign successful ly He urged all campaign solici tors to re-cfheck their assign ments and to make final reports as quickly as possible. This year’s was Kings Moun tain’s first joint appeal for char itable and service agencies. Participating organizations in clude the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Jacob S. Mauney Me morial library, Davidson school band, city schools band, Cleve land County Life-Saving crew, city recreation comjmission, and the special education fund for retarded children. Of the $13,000 cash and pledg es, Mr. Stallings reported $8,000 in hand. City Reports 217 Auto Tags Sold The city has sold 217 new auto license tags through Tuesday, City Clerk Job McDaniel, Jr., re ported. The tags cost $1 and are on sale both at the City Hall office and in the police department. Mayor Glee A. Bridges pointed out that all in-city citizens who own motor' vehicles must display city license tags February 16. 'The law requires both purchase and display,” the Mayor pointed out. I PROMOTED — E. E. Marlowe, Kings Mountain citizen, has been promoted to the position of Charlotte branch manager by Lee Tire & Rubber Company. Lee Promotes E. LMarlowe E. E. Marlowe, Kings Moun tain citizen and former merch ant, has been promoted to Char lotte branch manager of Lee Tire & Rubber Company. The promotion was effective January 1. Mr. Marlowe, for many years a distributor of Lee tires here, joined the company as a sales man three yeans ago. F. M. McDaniel Died Tuesday WILMINGTON — F. M. Mc Daniel, 79, resident of Wilming ton, died Tuesday. Survivors are his wife; two daughters; three sons; two bro thers, Including Giles McDaniel of Kings Mountain; and eight sisters, including Mrs. Ed Stew art, Mrs. Pink Herndon and Miss Bessie McDaniel, also of Kings Mountain. i Funeral plans are incomplete. C of C Mans Membership Dinner; ‘Tree Ride" Voted On 1960 Dues The Kings Mountain Chamber , of Commerce will hold a general membership dinner meeting late In January. Plans for the dinner, which will be free to • members and (their wives, were formulated Monday as the directors met at a luncheon session ait La Royal restaurant. Bob Maner, B. S. Peeler, Jr., and Grady Howard are the com mute for the arrangements. The directors also voted to assess no due? for 1960 member I ships. It was noted .however, that the membership committee will seek to enroll for 1960 rep resentatives of business firms, professional men and others who have never bten affiliated with (the Chamber of Commerce. In other action Monday, the directors adopted a general statement of policies, stenting purpose of (the organization to be promotion of commerce in Kings Mountain, Number 4 Township and Cleveland county and listing regular or standing committees and their functions. Standing committees will in clude budget and finance; in dustrial development; education; civic affairs; me>nlbership; state and national affairs; agriculture and forestry; highways, tourists and conventions; transportation; and pdblic relations. The director also voted publi cation of an up to date snmma tion of facts about the area it serves. President John Cheshire, Jr., presided at the session. New School District Petition Drawn Tax Listing Underway; Pace Reported Brisk City and County tax listing got off to a brisk start here Monday and was continuing Wednesday. Conrad Hughes, Number 4 township tax lister, laugh ted, “We threw these big books a round all day Monday. Tuesday our muscles were sore and we had to take it a bit easier.” The annual tax lifting period will continue through the month of January. I All property owners are re quired to list their properties for taxes. Particularly required are personal properties, including jewelry, autos, guns, household furniture and appliances, dogs and other articles of value. Real estate is automatically carried forward on the (tax books. How ever, the listing officials pointed out that much confusion and in correct billings are prevented when persons who have acquired or disposed of real estate during the year note the transfers with the tax listing officials. Men between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to list for pall taxes. Listing is underway at City Hall courtroom Mondays through Fridays from 8:30 a. m. to noon, and from 1 to 4:30 p. m. On Saturdays, Mr. Hughes will be at R. E. Hambright’s store, to accommodate citizens of the Grover area. Water Billings Up 54 Percent The city's water billings were $8,041 for NovemberjDecember billing period, as reflected in statements customers received December 31. The total was over 54 percent more than for the same month last year, When water billings were $5,205. The large increase represented both increased consumption and water rate increases recently made effective 'by the city board of commissioners. In December the commission raised rates of in-city customers: 25 percent across the 'board. Aft-! er installing this rate schedule, the commission raised the out side - city differential to 50 per cent. It had formerly been ten percent. Currently, the city’s biggest water customer is Margrace Plant of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, which is outside the city. The Number 2 outside user is Superior Stone Company. Leading inside-city consumers of water are Mauney Mills, Bon nie Mills epid Sadie Cotton Mills, City Clerk Joe (McDaniel said. Russ Payseur s Bites Conducted Funeral rites for Miss Eva Payseur, 59, of Cleveland ave nue, were held Friday at 3:30 from Grace Methodist church, of which she was a member. Miss Payseur died at 4 p. m. last Wednesday at Kings Moun tain hospital. She was a daugh ter of the late Royce R. Payceur and Sarah Baxter Payseur who survives. Other survivors include two brothers, Baxter and Glenn Pay. seur, both of Kings Mountain. The final rites were conducted by Rev. W. C. Sides, pastor, as sisted by Riev. H. D. Gannon, pastor of Central Methodist church. Interment was in Moun tain Rest cemetery. Cousins of Miss Payseur served as active and honorary pallbear ers. Building Fund Speed-Up Set iBoyice Memorial Associate Re formed Presbyterian church plans a speed up in its building fund campaign. Members of the building fund committee will hold a supper meeting Friday evening at the church to map plans for a con centrated $150,000 campaign to ena/ble the church to build a new plant in 1964. The church purchased a site: for the proposed new plant last! spring. It now owns more than fouri acres fronting on Edgemont ! Drive and bounded by Kings I Mountain Country Club on the ! east Some of the site fronts on IW. King street Hie church launched its build | ing fund campaign several years ! ago, with an annual goal of $5, 1000. ii 1 'in ii mu ill11 ill BABY DfcRBY WINNER — Ricky Eugene To -lor. winner of both the Kings Mountain and Cleveland County baby derby title for 1960. is pictured above with his mother, Mrs. Eppson Taylor, after his ar rival just 50 minutes after the New Year on Friday. The youngster and proud parents are receiving congratulatory gifts from numer ous business firm3. (Photo by R. C. Nanney) Ricky Taylor Cops I960 Baby Derbies NEW PASTOR — Dr. Eugene! Poston has accepted a call as in terim pastor at Macedonia Bap tist church. He succeeds Rev. T. A. Lineberger who has assumed pastorate duties in Morganton. Poston Accepts j Macedonia Call Macedonia Baptist church has called Dr. E. Eugene Poston as interim pastor, succeeding Rev. T. A. Lineberger who resigned November 15th to accept tne pas torate of Pleasant Hill Baptist church at Morganiton. Dr. Poston is head of the de partment of religion at Gardner Webb College and is also teach er of Bible and Greek in the Baptist junior college. He is in his first year there where he succeeds Dr. Stephen Morrisett who retired from that position last year. ' Prior to going to Gardner Webb Dr. Poston held pastorates at First Baptist church, Wallace,! N. C„ and First Baptist church, Jonesboro, Ga. He is a graduate of Gardner-Webb, Wake Forest college and Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Ky. Dr. Poston, native of Shelby is married to the former Dorothy Jenkins, a one-time resi dent of Kings Mountain. She was a grand daughter of the late C it*. Goforth of Kings Mountain., The Pastorus have three children j Steve, 13, Gloria, 10, and Beth, : 8. The family will continue to re side at Boiling Springs. FAIRVIEW LODGE Regular communication of Fadrview Lodge 339 AFAAM will be held Monday night at 7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall, ac cording to announcement by T. D. Tindall, secretary. Hindis Mountain Lad Firstborn In County, City Ricky Eugene Taylor, Kings Mountain’s first citizen of 1960 and also winner of Cleveland County’s baby derby, arrived just 50 minutes after the New Year on Friday. The youngster, who weighed in at seven pounds, one ounce at Kings Mountain hospital, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eppson Tay lor of 114 City street. The attend, ing physician was Dr. John C. McGill. As winner of both the Kings Mountain and Shelby contests, numerous congratulatory gifts a wait the parents from business firms in both Kings Mountain and Shelby. The Kings Mountain derby of 1960 was ithe fifth an nual contest sponsored here by the Herald and contest prizes are listed in today’s edition. The new baby, according to the proud father, is reported in good condition, with a healthy set of lungs and head of hair Mr. Taylor, who manages Me 'non tinned on Page Eight) Consolidated District lines Are Delineated A sample petition calling for the establishment of a consolidat ed Kings Mountain area school district and a bond election for the building of a high school plant to serve the new district is ready for presentation to the school committees of the propos ed new district. J. Horace Grigg, county school superintendent, said Wednesday that the new district would em brace virtually all of Number A township and a small portion ol Number 5 township which now lies within the IBethware school district. A small strip of Number 4 township, now in the Number 3 school district, is excluded. Mr, Grigg said the petition will be presented Thursday to Hill Lowery, chairman of the joint school committees in the county system, for admendmont or ac ceptance. Schools in the county system which would he ef fected by the consolidation with the Kings Mountain city schools include Bethware, Grover, Park Grace, and Compact The petition will be filed under a 1935 North Carolina statute which empowers a county board of education to establish bound ary lines for a special school bond taxing district. Before the county board woult he empowered to act, the petition must bear the names of ten per cent of the proposed district’s qualified voters, an estimated 650 to 700 citizens. Under present plans, citizens of the proposed district would vote on a $1,100,000 bond issue propos al for a new consolidated high school plant. This would include the Whole area, including the cit izens of Kings Mountain school district. Also under state statute, a con solidation can 'become effective only at the beginning of a fiscal year on July 1. Some schoolmen have expressed the hope that the legal requirements can be met by June 30, 1960. Text of the petition Mr. Grigg will present the county school committees on Thursday follows: "We, the undersigned, being more than ten percent of the qualified voters residing in the territory hereinafter described respectfully petition and show: “L That the present school buildings, sites, arid equipment of the various schools located in this area are inadequate to serve the ! pupils of these schools. There is great need for a new high school, as well as, additions, remodeling of existing plants. "2. That the needs of these schools mentioned in paragraph (1) can be more economically provided and financed if the schools of this area are included in one public school bond taxing unit. “3. That the financing of an ad equate school building program may necessitate the issuance and sale in the future of school bonds in the amount of $1,100, 000. "4. The Board of Education ol Cleveland County is hereby re quested to establish, by authority of HB 1213, Chapter 559 of the Public Local Laws of 1935, a special school bond taxing dis fCryntinneut on Page Eight > Alleged Rapist Robert Lee Case Nabbed In Attic <H Peavy Home Robert Lee Case, 29, one of the two armed men who allegedly forced their way into a Crouse home Sunday afternoon at gun point, robbed C. G. Black of his money and kidnapped his wife, later raping her, was arrested in Kings Mountain at the home of Herbert Peavy on Oriental Ave nue Wednesday mioming at 2 a. m. Kings Mountain police were notified early Wednesday morn ing that Case was here. Case was found hiding in the aittic of the Peavy home. He was taken into custody by three Kings Mountain officens. Bud Ware, Ellis King, and William Roper, two Cleveland County officers, four Gaston County officers, and two state highway patrolmen. He surrendered with no trou ble, Desk Sergeant Gene Ware said Wednesday morning. Peavy had once known Case, Sgt. Ware said, but was in no way connected with harboring the criminal. Willie (Billy) Shedd, Jr., 25, an accomplice in the crime, was captured and jailed an hour and a half after the pretty young blonde mother of two boys was. released Sunday near Lowell, about 7:30 p. m., after being raped five or six (times by the bandits. Officers said she was set free near the home of a man they identified as Coleman Porter, who brought her to the Lowell police station. After Rural Police were notified, Mrs. Black was ta ken to Gaston Memorial -Hospi tal for -treatment. Mrs. Black said she was driven from her home and family to an abandoned house on a country road somewhere in the Spencer Mountain section and then to a spot behind the no longer exist antfish camp on the Spencer Mountain road. She said she was criminally assaulted several ti mes and that both of the men at tacked her. Shedd was charged in Lincoln county, said Gaston County Sheriff Frank He-avner, with rob bery with firearms and kidnap ping. Case was apprehended on a rape warrant. Bath men are well known to Gaston polioe, having a record of assorted offenses, officers said. PRESIDENT — John C. Smothers will be installea as president of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday night. He will succeed George H. Mauney. Kiwanis Officers To Be Installed Fred W. Alexander, past lieu ! tenant -governor of the Carolina^ distriat of Kiwanis International, division one, will install officers of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club at a ladies night meeting Thursday. The meeting will be convened at the Woman’s Club at 6:45. Mr. Alexander recently resign ed as senior vice-president of First National Bank, Shelby, to accept the presidency of a large High Point bank. John C. Smathers will be in stalled as president. He will suc ceed George H. Mauney. Other officers to be installed are Charles Neisler, first vice president; B. N. Bafnes, second vice-president; Charles Alexan der, secretary; and John L. Mc Gill, treasurer. Directors to be installed in clude Joe Austin, L. E. Hinnant, R. S. Lennon, Grady Howard, Harold Hunnieutt, B. S. Peeler, Jr., and Harold Coggins. Mr. Smathers, secretary-treas urer of Park Yarn Mills, has been a Kings Mountain citizen for the past eight years. A na tive of Canton, he attended Tennessee Wesleyan college at Athens, Tenn., and studied ac : counting at King’s Business col ! lege, Charlotte. He joine 1 John ston Mills, parent company of Park Yarn Mills, in Charlotte in i 1927 and has been associated with Johnston interests continu i ally since. He is a Mason and i Shriner and member of Central I Methodist church. Mrs. Smathers j is the former Thelma Patterson, ; a Kings Mountain native. i - City Dividends Totaled $3,226 ! The City of Kings Mountain shared in ithe reeenlt semi-an nual dividend payment of local savings and loan associations to the extent of $3,226. The income comes from funds derived from three escrow ac counts which the city has in vested. Surplus over the initial bond issue for the gas system return ed $2210, with $1426 being ear marked for the sinking fund, $683 for the renewal and exten sion fund, and $100 for the rev enue fund. Investment of customer depo. sits for water and power sendee returned $536. Receipts from this source now total $2,354 and have been earmarked by the city commission as a sinking fund to be used in rebuilding of the city electrical distribution sys tem. Investment of half the funds derived from sale of the cem etery lots—by statute to be maintained for perpetual care of the cemetery — returned $80. Visitors To Park Set New Record Visitors to Kings Mountain 'National Military Park set a record in 1959, iBen F. Moomaiw, superintendent, has reported. Mr. Moomaw noted that some 172,387 visitors from 50 states, 25 foreign countries, and two territories came to the paric during the year just ended. Travel during the month of De .cemlber was 4,998, a record of 18 percent over last year. The yearly figure was 11 percent a head of the 1958 total. Park officials noted that the visitor traveling the greater distance was from Tasmani. be low Australia.