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Population ^greater Kings Mountain 10,320 ^Uity Umits 7,206 nm mm tor Gmm King* Mountain U dorlTBd boa to* IMS King* Mountain city directory email*. Tha city Unlto figure to from too Dal ted Store* coaraa of 1SS0. Established 1889 M Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS OL 71 No. 5 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 4, I960 Seventy-First Year Local News Bulletins FAIRVIEW LODGE A regular communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held Monday night at 7:30 ait Masonic Hall, accord ing to announcement by T. D. Tindall, secretary. TO AIR FORCE Jimmy Bennett, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bennett, left last Monday to enter the Air farce and is undergoing basic training ait Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. MAYOR HAS OPERATION Mayor Glee A. Bridges is re cuperating satisfactorily from an operation he underwent Mionday ait Gaston Memorial hospital, members of his fam ily said Wednesday. UONS TO FALLSTON Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club will go to Fallston Thursday night for a joint meeting with the Falls ton Lions club. Kings Moun tain Lions will leave from the Woman’s Club at 6:15. The Fallston gathering will take the pldce of tflxte customary Kings Mountain meeting of February 9. LEGION MEETING Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, will be held Fri day night at 8 o'clock at the post building, it was announ ced by J. T. McGinnis, Jr., Com mander. SINGING The Davis Trio of Gastonia will lead a program of special singing Sunday night at 7 p. m. at Penleyls Chapel Metho dist church. Special music by the choir and various other groups of singers will feature (the program to which the pub kldc ts invited. KIWANIS CLUB Pierre Dasen, Kings Moun tain exchange student from Switzerland, will present Thur sday’s program at the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. Young Dasen will highlight his pro gram by showing slides. The duo convenes at 6:45 at the Woman’s club. APPOINTED Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor of First Presbyterian church, has been appointed by a commis sion of Kings Mountain Pres bytery to deliver the sermon at installation services Sunday at 5 p. m. for Re\* Paul Throw er, new pastor of Lin wood Presbyterian church, Gastonia METER RECEIPTS Parking imeter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled only $94.75, City Clerk Joe McDaniel re ported, including $86.35 from on-street meters and $8.40 from off-street meters. An ad ditional $22 was received from fees paid for over-parking mo torists. > PERMIT ISSUED A permit was issued Warren Goforth this week to make re pairs to a room of his home at 606 E. Gold Street. Estimated cost of the work is $100. FIRE City firemen were called to the home of Frank Ballard on Lynn Street Tuesday evening at 4:30 to douse a blaze which started from a floor furnace. No damage was listed. WEBSTER IMPROVING J. W. Webster, city tax su pervisor, is reported improving satisfactorily following an op eration for an ulcer at Kings Mountain hospital last week. He expects to be discharged from the hospital Thursday. Godwin To Speak To Rotary Club Joe Godwin, director of guid ance and psychology at Gardner Webb College in Boiling Springs, will make the address at Thurs day’s meeting of the Kings Mountain Rotary club. The club convenes at 12:15 at Kings Mountain Country Club. Mr. Godwin attended State College of Alabama, Southwest ern Seminary at Fort Worth, Tex as. and the University of North Carolina. Announcement of the program was made by President Charles Dixon who invited all members to attend. Epidemic Of Flu Appears Waning Much Sickness Still Reported In Local Area Indications are that Kings Mountain’s itwo-week influenza epidermic is abating, though con siderable sickness continues. One Indication of improvement was contained in school attend ance figures, Wednesday’s re port showing best attendance of the past two weeks. Supt. B. N. Barnes said Wed nesday’s figures showed 91 per cent present in the white schools, though attendance was only 79 percent in the Negro schools. He also said improvement has been noted daily this week. Attend ance remained about four per cent below average Wednesday. Druggist C. D. Blanton said in dications of flu is less, though flu-type prescription orders con tinue ito arrive sporadically. “It was real heavy Tuesday night, buit much lower Wednesday mor ning,” he commented. Grady Howard, manager of Kings Mountain hospital, re ported continued use of all the hospital capacity and with a waiting list for non-emergency patients. He said doctors tell him the epidemic is waning, though there are still many ills persons to the community. Monday and Tuesday’s bright sunshine was credited with help ing ito alleviate the situation. Practical Nursing Class To Begin A new class in practical nurs ing will begin at the Shelby School of Practical Nursing on (February 15, it has been announ cer by Mrs. Dortha C. Turner, coordinator-instructor. Persons wishing to enroll for the class should make application to the school immediately-. Instruction is open to appli cants ages 17-50 who have com pleted a minimum of a year In high school or the equivalent, and who are in good physical health. A registration fee of two dollars should be enclosed with the application. Tuition for the 12month course is $50 and includes uniform ren tal, laundry and one meal daily during the first four months of the course. During the second four months, students are paid $25 per month less $10 for subsisten ce, and during the third four months, are paid $35 per month, less $10 for subsistence. On successful completion of the course, a diploma is awarded. During the pre-clinical period, students study a variety of sub jects, including fundamentals of nursing care, ethics, personal hy giene, elementary anatomy and physiology, elementary microbi ology, common drugs, first aid and bandaging, home nursing and home housekeeping, nutrition and cooking, family living, psy chology and mental hygiene, me dical nursing and surgical nurs ing, obstetrical nursing and gynecological nursing, pediatric nursing, and communicable dis eases. A seven-day sick leave is al lowed during the 12-month cour se limmy Plonk Named Alternate Jimmy Plonk, high school sen ior, is an alternate nominee for a Morehead scholarship to the University of North Carolina. Six other candidates from the 15-countty district were named nominees for ithe scholarship a wards, after interviews conduct ed in Charlotte. Plonk is the first Kings Moun tain student Ito get a chance to advance past district elimina tions. He will become a nominee in event one of the six should be unable to complete or decide against competing. HERE SATURDAY — Miss Judith Lynn Klipfel of Asheboro, Miss North Carolina of 1959, will come to Kings Mountain Saturday to appear in the Junior Woman's club fashion show at 2 p. m. at the Woman's club. Beauty Winner Here Saturday Miss Judith Lynn Klipfel, Miss North Carolina of 1959, will come to Kings Mountain Saturday to (be featured in the Junior Wo man’s Club-sponsored fashion show to be held at 2 p. m. at the Woman’s cldb. The state beauty queen will mo del, along with 15 Kings Moun tain women. Miss North Carolina will be guest of the sponsoring clifb at an 8:30 breakfast at the Country Club and representatives of other civic clubs are being in vited to attend. Mrs. Henry Neisler will be commentator for the fashion show. Other models will include: Mrs. J. H. Arthur, Mrs. Carl May es, Mrs. Amos Dean, Miss Phyllis Dean, Mrs. Joe Hedden, Mrs. Bill Allen, Mrs. Draco (Peeler, Mrs. Bruce McDaniel, Miss Kay Maun ey, Miss Claudia Goforth, Miss Carole Plonk, Mrs. George Thom asson, Mrs. Dan Finger, Mrs. P. D. Herndon, and Mrs. P. G. Pad gett The fashion show will include a preview of spring fashions for 1960 from the Lynbrook line of casuals and sportswear from Fulton’s Department Store. The Lynbrook company, in coopera tion with their dealer here and the Junior club, has arranged the visit of the state beauty queen. Miss Klipfel will also be in the dress department of Fulton’s both prior to and following the 2 p. m show. Tickets are on sale at one dol lar each and proceeds benefit the Junior club’s community projects. (Miss Klipfel, 19, is a 1959 grad uate of Asheboro high school. A talented pianist, She also sings and plans to continue her musical training at Elon college. The five foot-five beauty has brown hair blue eyes and statistics of 36-24 36. Swimming and water skiing are her favorite sports and her favorite color is blue. The Klip fel family moved to North Caro lina about 2 1-2 years ago fron Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Miss Klip fel won the state beauty crown a I Durham City Auto Tag Sales Now At 1019 Sale of city auto license tags topped the 1,000-mark this week 1,019 having been sold through Wednesday noon, City Clerk J« McDaniel reported. The sale total to date compares with more than 1700 bought by city vehicle owners last year Deadline for purchase of tht tags without penalty (recently increased to $5 by city ordinance) is February 15. The tags are or sale both at the City office and at the police department al $1 Poultry And Sweet Potato Grower Km Yarbro Runner-Up For Award Uim Yarbro, iBethlehem com munity farmer, was second run ner-up for the Young Fanner of the Year award, given jointly by the Kings Mountain and Shelby Junior Chambers of Commerce. It was the second time Mr. ! Yarbro had qualified for runner up honors. , lie is a poultry farmer, with an important sideline as a sweet po I tato grower. He operates a 52 jacre farm. Mr. Yarbro is a member ol Bethlehem 'Baptist church ark the Bethrware Progressive dub Mrs Yarbro is the former Flore Herndon, cashier at Belk’s De partment Store. The Yarbro’s have two children. First place winner was Harolc , Pruett, of Polkville, and the firsi runner-up was Andrew Elmore i of Casar. Surplus School Funds Local, Plonk Reports The city schools haven’t piled up surplus state funds which had to be returned because they weren’t expended, Fred W. Plonk, chairman of the city board of ed ucation, said this week. “I know,” Mr. Plonk said, “for I’ve been countersigning the checks for the past three years.” Mr. Plonk guessed that the er roneous impression had been gained from publication of the local funds audit for the year ending last June, in which a surplus of some $19,000 was re ported. “These are local funds,” Mr Plonk said, “which come from county and district taxes and on •which the state has no call. These funds were carried forward for use into the current year’s local funds budget.” Qty district school funds are derived almost wholly from three sources, the State of North Car olina, Cleveland County, and the Kings Mountain school district. County funds are appropriated to each of the three county school divisions on the basis of pupil population. Additional funds are derived from a special school district tax of 20 cents per $100 valuation, as voted by the district I in the thirties. County and dis trict funds are termed "local funds.” Mis. Mauney WinsArard Mrs. Aubrey Mauney was a warded a citation of merit by the North Carolina Council of Chur ches at its three-day annual meeting in Charlotte last week. The award recognized her ser vice to the organization while serving in the capacity of record ing secretary, a post she held for eight years. Morton Kurtz, executive direct or txf the Council of Churches, presented the plaque ito Mrs. Mauney. It read: “The North Carolina Council of Churches proudly presents this citation of merit to Mrs. Aubrey Mauney for distinguished service through the years in the cause of ecu menical Christianity.” Attending the meeting from Kings Mountain were Mr. and Mrs. Mauney, Mrs. Lawrence Lohr, Mrs. O. W. Myers, Mrs. C. A. Butterworth, and Miss Maude Gardner, all of whom represent ed the Kings Mountain Council of United Churehwomen Schools Science Project Approved The city schools will receive a $4,000 matching appropriation from the federal government for purchase of science and mathe matics teaching equipment, Supt. 'B. N. Barnes said this week. Mr- Barnes, Principal Harry Jaynes and Miss Alice Averitt, teaching supervisor, were in Ral eigh Monday and obtained appro val of the city schools project from state officials. Mr. Barnes said the federal ap propriation is nationwide and that amounts are determinalble on basis of pupil population. R. C. Etheridge Dies Suddenly Funeral rites for R. C. (Scooty) Etheridge, 45, former’ Kings Mountain citizen, were held Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church at his home, Back Bay, Va. Mr. Etheridge, husband of the former Dorothy Patterson, ol Kings Mountain, died early Mon day morning, presumably from a heart attack. He had been ill Sunday, but had not been ill pre viously. Mr. Etheridge joined Neisler Mills here in the late thirties on graduation from N. C. State col lege and lived at the home ol Mrs. C. Q. Rhyne. He was a navy veteran of World War II and as sumed management of his fam ily's poultry farm at Back Bay at the death of his father. Surviving, in addition to his wife, are a son, Richard Ether idge, age nine, his mother who resided with him, and a sister, Mrs. Virginia Williams, of Back Bay. Funeral Thursday For S. H. Philbeck 14 PT Funeral Thursday seMc Funeral rites for Spurgeon Hollifield Philbeck, 72, of Moor esboro, will be held at 3:30 Thur sday afternoon from Polkviile Methodist church, burial follow ing in the church cemetery. Mr. Philbeck was the father oi Mrs. James Matheny, of Route 2, Kings Mountain. erger Petition is Approved; Hearing Set For February 24 High School Students Elect SPO Officers Sandy Campbell, son of Mr- and Mrs. H. L. Campbell of 408 E. King street, was elected president of the Student Participation Or ganization of Kings [Mountain High School Tuesday. Other officers elected were Sammy Houston, vice-president and Margaret Jackson, secretary. Campbell is a junior and a memiber of Mr. Purvis’ home room- He is vice-president of the band, a member of the band coun cil, co-editor of the MOUNTAIN EER, a member of the tennis team, a DeMolay Club memiber, and won the Davis Declamation medal and the Western Forensic Declamation medal last year. He was pitted in the presidenti al race against Chip Thorbum and James Robbs. Vicepresident Houston is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Humes Hous ton of Deal Street A member of Don Parker’s sophomore home room, he is active in athletics and has been a member of the football, basketball, and tennis teams. He is a member of the Key Club. Running mates for the vice preside, icy were Kay Broadwater and Sarah Rose Lennon Miss Jackson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Jackson of 105 N. Goforth Street and is a member of Miss Kittle Lou Sut ton’s junior homeroom. She has been a representative to the S. P O. for the past two years, was president of the Latin pub last year, is a member ofTfoe K Club, has been basketball team mana ger for two years, and was nam ed citizen of the month. Miss Jackson ran against Gail Morrison and Peggy Plonk for the secretarial post. Tuesday’s election climaxed a week of campaigning which1 star ted after the nomination conven tion last week. The new officers will serve in the posts for a year and will take office this spring. Tax Listing Again Extended The tax listing deadline in the county and city has been extend ed through Monday, February 8. The county hoard of commis sioners ordered the extension at its recent meeting, due to the heavy incidence of influenza in the county during recent weeks City Clerk Joe McDaniel said the city listing period had been extended, too. Conrad Hughes, Number 4 Township listing official, said Wednesday afternoon he felt the major tax listing chore has beer done. However, he added, the books still Show a few people haven’t listed their taxes. Mr. Hughes and Miss Beth Ro berts, who has been handling the city books, will continue on duty Penalties are provided for late listing or for failure to list. Savings & Loan Firm Meetina Is Tuesday Annual shareholders meeting of Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association will be held at the association offices Tuesday afternoon ait 2 o’clock. Ben H. Bridges, secretary-treas urer, said the meeting will be featured by annual reports of of ficers and by election of direct ors for the coming year. Following the shareholder’s meeting, directors will convene to elect officers. Hope Not Guilty On Tag Charge A Kings Mountain citizen was found not guilty in Sup erior Court Tuesday on a char ge of falling Ito display a city auto license. George Hope, who had ap pealed the case from city re corder’s court, freely admitted he had not displayed the tag, though stating he’d bought one. Both the solicitor and Chief of Police Martin Ware pointed out the city’s ordinance requir ed bath purchase and display of the tags. The jury verdict didn’t re quire long deliberation. The foreman reported the jury had ruled not guilty. Ben Sessoms Free On Murder Charge No True Bill Is Judgment Of Grand Jury Ben F. Sessoms, city garbage truck driver, was freed of charg-! es of murder and reckless driving I Tuesday, as a Cleveland County grand jury found no true bill Highway patrolmen had char ged Sessoms following the death of a nine-year-old Negro child on the service road to the city dump last November. Another Negro1 youth, Edgar Moore, age 11, suf fered broken legs when the truck: Sessoms was driving ran over a! cardboard box under which the children were playing. Sessoms said after the accident the box had blown off his truck twice. The first time, he stopped and retrieved it. He was not a ware he’d lost it again until the return trip from the city dump. He decided to crush it before re turning it to the truck bed. To his horror, he found the two chil dren had been playing under it 'Bound over from Kings Moun tain Recorder’s Court, he had been free under bond and has continued his work with the city sanitary department-. The grand jury ruled "no true bill” after hearing witnesses to the accident give their versions of what happened. Fold Funeral To Be Thursday Funeral rites for William Le roy Ford, 73, of 405 Walnut street, will be held at Faith Bap tist church Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Mr.Ford died at 3:55 Tuesday afternoon at Kings Mountain hospital. He had been in ill health for several years. He Wets a former employee of Burlington Industries. A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Ford, he was a member of the Long Creek Baptist chur ch, of Dallas. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lillie Davis Ford; three sons, Wade Ford, Robert Ford, and Charles (Rocky) Ford, all of Kings Mountain; and five dau ghters, Mrs. Roberta Whitaker, Mrs. Louise Short, and Mrs. Bet ty Hollifield, all' of Kings Moun tain, and Mrs. Grady Martin, Hickory, Grove, S. C. Also sur viving are 18 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Rev. Flay Payne will conduct the final rites. Burial will be in the Long Creek Baptist church cemetery, Dallas. NEW CHAIRMAN — Knox Sor rcrtt. of EarL is the new chair mem of the county board of com missioners. He wees advanced from vice-chairman. Sanatt Named Knox Sarratt, of Earl, oldest member in polntt of service on the county board of commission ers, was elected chairman at Monday’s regular meeting. Formerly vice-chairman, he is succeeded by Mai A. Spangler, Sr., of Shelby. Mr. Sarratt succeeds Fitzhugh Rollins, who resigned effective February 1, due to ill health. Sworn in at Monday’s session, to succeed Mr. Rollins as com missioner, was B. P. Peeler, Bel wood farmer, who was appoint ed to the commission by Clerk of Count J. W. Osborne. Other members of the commis sion are J. Broadus Ellis, of Gro ver, and John D. White. Tax Payments Topped $14,000 City Tax payments during the month of January totaled $14,212, Assistant Tax Collector joe McDaniel said Wednesday. } Majority of the amount, $13, 215, represented 1959 ad valorem tax payments, as taxpayers paid in time to avoid the one percent penalty which applied on Febru ary 2. Remainder of the amount was for 1958 and prior taxes, some of it collected as a result of the city’s recent garnishment pro ceedings launched against delin quent taxpayers. Total 1959 tax payments to : date weren’t available Wednes 1 day. Red Cross Bloodmobile To Retmn Monday; Goal Is Again 125 Pints The Red Cross Bloodmobile will return here Monday. Goal of ithe upcoming visit is again 125 pints of blood. The bloodmobile unit will set up fpr operations ait the Wo man’s Club from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. Kings Mountain area citizens donated 127 pints of blood at the December visit to top the quota by ttwo pints, and officials hope a similar good showing will be made on Monday. The Bloodmobile has been scheduled for six visits to Num ber 4 Township this year—due to failure to meet last year’s quota. Mrs. O. W. Myers, chairman of the Kings Mountain chapter’s blood program, commented, “E veryone was highly pleased at the showing made by Kings Mountain at the recent Bloodmo bile visit We realize that, with the recent influenza epidemic, It may be more difficult to meet the quota on this visit. That means we need as many donors as we can possibly get. "The need for blood continues unabated and is even more in demand in the so-called sick seasons," she continued. But whole blood and blood de rivatives are used in treating numerous illnesses, as well as for accident victims and others suffering sudden loss of quan tities of blood. Mrs. Myers again called at tention to the need for first-time donors, saying that a broadening of the donor base would assure the community of meeting its quota. George H. Houser, co-chairman of the Red Cross blood program, has been seeking to broaden in dustrial coverage. Under the cur rent Red Cross arrangement, em ployees of an Industrial firm get full coverage when as many as 20 percent of the total employ ment give blood. There were 45 volunteers who 'helped with the program doing such things as registering, re ceiving, directing, and operating the canteen .These were in addi tion to six nurses and sdx doc tors. About 1500 Ask Election On Bond Issue Plana for a school bond vote and subsequent consolidation of schools in No. 4 Township were approved Monday by the Cleve land County school board. i The board received and appro ved a petition from the area composed of Kings Mountain, Grover, Park Grace, Betthware, and Compact school districts asking that a special bond dis trict be set up and bonds issued to finance a proposed school con solidation. The petition was presented the board by F. W. Plonk, chairman of Kings Mountain City Schools board and Holmes Harry, Grover district school committeeman. The petition contained approx imately 1,500 names of citizens from the consolidated area, 300 of which were from Beth ware district. This is over 20 per cent of the 6.550 qualified voters in No. 4 Township. Only 10 percent were required. County Schools Superintendent J. Horace Grlgg said a 21-day waiting period is required before a public hearing is held on the matter of setting up the special bond district. This hearing is set for 4 p. m. February 24 in the office of the county board of education in Shelby. Pinal action of the board will be taken after this hearing. If the board is still in favor of the request following the hearing, the bond district will be set up and the county commissioners reouested to call a bond election. If the bond election receives a favorable vote, the next step will be a consolidation election. The procedure leading up to consolidation of the schools was outlined by Supt. Grigg and Supt B. N. Barnes by Claude Love assistant North Carolina Attorney General. , Members of the county board of education do not anticipate placing any roadblocks in the way of the proposed consoli dation. Their announced inten tion is to let the issue be decided by a vote of the people who will be affected by the move. J. D. Bennett Rites Thursday Funeral rites for James Dil worth Bennett, 84, who died at 9:15 Tuesday night at Kings Mountain hospital, will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock at Grace Methodist church. Mr. Bennett had been in ill 1 health for several years. He was a retired carpenter. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Bennetlt and a na tive of Cleveland county. He was a member of the Grace Metho dist church. Surviving are his wife, the former Minnie Jones Bennett; three sons, Rev. John C. Ben nett, Albemarle, Theodore Ben nett, Kings Mountain, and Bur ton Bennett, Gastonia; five dau ghters, Mrs. Winifred Russell, Mrs. Henry Godfrey, Mrs. Wood row Wise, Mrs. Dewey Allen, and Mrs. Foley Cobb, all of Kingis Mountain; two brothers, Gus Bennett and Wade Bennett, both of Kings Mountain; and two sis ters, Mrs. John Ford, Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Ollie May field, Ranlo. Sixteen grand-chil dren and 15 great-grandchildren also survive. The body will lie in state at the church for a half hour prior to the final rites. Burial will be in Mountain Rest cemetery. Rev. W. C. Sides and Rev. Wil liam Shytle Will conduct the fi. nal rites. $300 Damage In Wilson Crash Joseph Howard Wilson, Shelby salesman, was involved in an au to accident on Henry St. Satur day at 8:15 p. m. Which netted $300 damage to his car. Wilson was driving a 1959 Dodge and started in to the traf fic lane on Henry street when a car ran him into a ditch and he crashed into a pole. Damage to his car was estima ted at $300 to the hood, grill, and bumper. Enos Freeman Investigated for city police department