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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
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VOL 71 No. 7
1A Pages
I / Today
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 18, I960
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Loyalty Campaign
Purposes Listed
Local News
Bulletins
NO PERMITS
No building requests were
requested or issued from the
city inspectors ofice during the
past week.
ON DEAN'S LIST
Miss Norma Kay Hamrick,
sophomore at Guilford College,
was listed on the Dean’s list
lor the past semester, Miss
Hamrick is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. David Hamrick of
"Kings Mountain.
BROTHERHOOD
Sam Stallings will be guest
speaker at the supper meet
ing of the Men’s Brotherhood
of Resurrection Lutheran chur
ch. The meeting will be held at
the church at 6 p. m.
DISTRICT PARTY
Presbyterian young people in
the Central district which in
cludes the Kings Mountain a
rea, will hold a district get
to-gether Saturday nighlt at
7:30 at First Presbyterian
church, Lincolnton.
KIWANIS CLUB
Rev. George T. Moore, pasitor
of Resurrection Lutheran ch
urch, will present a program
• on hobbies at the Thursday
meeting of the Kiwanis club.
Mr. Moore will speak particu
larly on astronomy. The club
meets at 6:45 p. m. at the Wo
man’s club.
CENTRAL P-TA
B. F. Manor, Kings Mountain
businessman, will speak on
the schools consolidation pro
gram at Tuesday’s meeting of
Central P-TA. The group is al
so holding its annual Found
er’s Day Program and meets
in the school auditorium.
SPEAKER
Mrs. John Combs, who ser
ved in the Congo Mission
Fields for three years, will be
guest speaker at the Sunday
School hour Sunday at 10 a. m.
at First Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Combs is the mother of
Mrs. Park Moore, formerly of
Grover and now of Gastonia.
TO MEETING
Rev. George Moore, pastor,
and E. K. Whitener will be de
legates from Resurrection Lu
theran church to the Southern
Conference meeting of the
the Lutheran Church at Holy
Comforter church, Belmont, on
Tuesday. k
ON DEAN'S LIST
Robert B. Early has been na
med to the Dean’s List for the
first semester at Belmont Ab
bey College, Belmont, recently
announced by the Rev. Jude
Cleary, O. S. B., Academic
Dean. The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jake W. Early of 403 East King
street, he Is a member of the
freshman class.
TO MEETING
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney of
Kings Mountain and Mrs. Ray
mond Dent of Spruce Pine will
go to White Sulphur Springs
Thursday ito attend a three
day Southeastern Council
meeting of the General Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs. Mrs.
Dent was house-guest Wednes
day of the Mauneys.
Ministers Urge
Domestic Court
A Kings Mountain Minister
ial association committee on
juvenile delinquency will ask
cooperation of Shelby and
Cleveland Oounity ministerial
associations in urging the coun
ty commission to establish a
county court of domestic re
lations.
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The committee reported to
the Kings Mountain associa
tion at Monday’s meeting and
eir recommendation was ap
'proved.
Members of the committee
are Rev. J. W. Phillips, pastor
of First Wesleyan Methodist
church; Rev. B. L. Raines, pas
tor of First Baptist church;
and Rev. Thomas L. Dropper".
p-iMor of Trinity Episcopal
church.
Church Loyalty
To Be Stressed
During March
Plans for the observance dur
ing March of “Church Loyalty
Season” among the churches of
the Greater Kings Mountain area
were furthered at Monday’s
meeting of the Kings Mountain
Ministerial association.
Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of
Boyce Memorial ARP church,
and Rev. Herbert D. Garmon,
pastor of Central Methodist
church aire co-chairmen of the
campaign.
Purposes of the joint effort
are:
1. To promote greater interest
and attendance to all church
meetings such as Sunday School,
Morning and Evening Worship,
Young People’s services, Women
and Men’s organization, Mid
week services, Scouts and all
other church activities.
2. Stimulate new life, enthusi
asm and activity in all our ch
urches.
3. Develope stronger ties with
the people (church members and
non-church members) of the
community to create more con
structive attitudes and positive
action in combating juvenile de
linquency.
4. Create a spiritual atmos
phere in our churches that will
spread into community thinking,
living and planning.
5. Participate in a program of
personal evangelism to contact
and introduce the unchurched to
the benefits of belonging to a
church.
Present the demands of Christ
far every individual as to what
he should do with his time, ta
lent and possessions.
Dr. Paul Ausley, vice-president
of the Ministerial Association
said, “These aims have always
been the program of the church
but during March the people of
the community led by the civic
clubs, will join hands with the
Ministerial Association to work,
talk, pray and personally parti
cipate in this program. We firm
ly believe that where “there is
unity” many wonderful things
can be accomplished.
“As a minister of one of the
churches (First Presbyterian), I
shall urge every member of my
church to give of his or her time,
talent and energy to make this
venture far Christ rewarding. Al
though I have not lived here very
long, nevertheless I have I come
to know and love the fine people
of this community and believe
that ithe citizens are deeply in
terested in their churches and
will cooperate whole-heartedly
in this program tor Christ and
His Kingdom.”
Retailer Banquet
To Be March 21
Annual banquet of the
Kings Mountain Merchants as
sociation will be held on Mar
ch 21 at the Woman’s Club.
As customary, the banquet
will he an employer-employee
affair.
Reservations are now being
.accepted at fife office of the
association. Tickets are $1.75
per person.
Members of the committee
on arrangements are J. T. Mc
Ginnis, Jr., chairman, James
Crawford, Richard Barnett and
J. C. Bridges
Newly elected officers and
directors will be installed at
the banquet.
, STUDENTS WORK ON PROJECTS — Students
in the Science Department of Kings Mountain
high school conduct various experiments and
projects in connection with their studies. Some
members of the chemistry class are pictured a
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bove in the school laboratory as they begin a
project. At the present, 289 high school stu
dents study general science, biology, chemistry
and physics this school year.
(Photo by Pennington Studio)
Schools Short
$2500 Foi New
Activity Bus
The school board discussed
Monday what members termed a
crying need of the eilty schools
for an activities bus.
The board has been investiga
ting avenues for acquiring mon
ies Ito purchase one, but have
found no legal means thus far,
Supt. B. N. Barnes pointed out.
Some $2,500 has been placed
in a special activities bus fund
by pa^t graduating classes and
school clubs and supplemented
by civic organizations. The a
mount will have to be matched
before a bus can 'be purchased.
Supt. Barnes said the Riwanis
Club is investigating a means to
acquire money Ito finish out the
amount for the purchase.
He reported to the board that
taxpayer’s money cannot be sp
ent on an activity bus, since it
would be used for extra-curricu
lar purposes.
In other action the board:
1) Appointed Supt. Barnes to
select and ask an out-of-town
minister to deliver the baccalau
reate sermon to the senior class.
2) Agreed to handle the job of
getting a speaker for the senior
class graduation ceremony.
3) Heard a report from Supt.
Barnes that Ithe city schools sys
tem has invested at Kings
Mountain Savings and Loan As
sociation $77,000 and at Home
Savings and Loan Association,
$82,000, totaling $159,000.
Mis. Gault's
Sister Succumbs
Final rites for (Mrs. Elda Buff
Lucas, 73, of Columlbia, S. C., sis
ter of Mrs. C. J. Gault, Sr., of
Kings Mountain, were held Mon
day at 3 p. m. from Columbia’s
First Baptist church, interment
following in Elmwood cemetery.
Mrs. Lucas, widow of Arthur
Lucas of Columbia, died Satur
day night in a Columlbia hospital.
Besides Mrs. Gault here, Mrs.
Lucas is survived by two sons,
Carl Lucas of Chester, S. C., and
Cleveland Lucas of Columbia,
and one daughter, Mrs. Willou
ghy Ross of Casey, S. C. Also
surviving are four grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
Two brothers and another sister
also survive. They are W. A. Buff
and Mrs. W. B. Newton, both of
Concord, and Vance Buff of Bur
lington.
BY ELIZABETH STEWART
Citizens who called the ma
yor’s office Saturday may have
been surprised to hear the voice
which answered them say, “This
is Mayor Pressly speaking”.
On the othef hand, had they
remembered that last week was
Boy Scout Week they would
have recognized their Mayor-for
a-day as Jimmy Pressly, Troop
2 Boy Scout.
Young Pressly and other
Scouts from Kings Mountain had
a good time Saturday rooming.
i They enjoyed their temporary
roles as the Mayor, Police Chief,
the Fire Chief, and as other city
officials.
Police Chief Billy Pattereon of
Troop 9 assisted a state trooper
*in carrying a jxattem^tojyflgg,
Mountain hospital but Fine
Chief Larry Hord of Troop 8
missed a thrill by being out to
lunch when the fire alarm
sounded.
Mayor Pressly had ,to operate
with a stmall board vi commiss
ioners Saturday, Boy Scouts
| Troops 5, 92, and 96 were not
notified to elect a commissioner
from their troop and therefore
did not participate in the day’s
activities.
"The boys had a busy day
Saturday”, Troop 2 Scoutmaster
Otis Falls, Jr. said, and those
boys who didn't paricipate miss
ed one erf the highlights of the
Boy Scout program in town.”
Scouts serving as city officials
Saturday were elected by their
Science Classes
List 289 Students
Teachers Say
Interest High
In Subjects
The study of the sciences a
pears to 'be one of the more .pop
ular subjects offered the student
at Kings Mountain high school.
In addition to a regular text
book, the average science course
includes a numlber of projects
designed to relate to the particu
lar phase being studied.
One student may choose soil,
erosion or conservation for a sub
ject. He may be required to study
a particular erosion spot, draw
one and label it.
Another may Choose insect col
lection and this is mounted and
labeled on large pieces of card
board. A teeth study is still ano
ther project, and after a student
draws the teeth his drawing is
also mounted on poster board
for a science display. There are
still other projects and many ex
periments which require work in
the laboratory.
Mrs. Paul Ausley, teacher in
the chemistry and physics class
es, estimated that about one-half
of the student body is studying at
least one of the four science cour
ses. General science and biology
are (both required subjects and a
student needs one unit or year of
each for a high school diploma.
(Physics and chemistry are col
lege preparatory courses and
some colleges require a student
to have a year of each of these
subjects in order to enter col
I lege. Some students want to take
| a course of each!, if their schedule
j permits. *
A total of 289 high school stu
dents study one or more of these
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Dye Licensed
As Buildei
Hobart Dye, Kings Mountain
building contractor, has been li
censed as a contractor (limited)
by the State of North Carolina
Licensing Board for Contractors.
Mr. Dye was notified of his li
censing early this week.
Limited licensing means that
Mr. Dye can accept building con
tracts not exceeding $75,000 for
the general contract Non-licensed
contractors are limited to con
struction contracts not exceeding
$20,000 for the general contract
A veteran Kings Mountain
builder, Mr. Dye entered the con
struction business in 1951, after
previously working with Crescent
Hill Development Company. He
is a navy veteran of both World
War n and the Korean War. In
World War IT, he served in both
Atlantic and Pacific operational
areas, first with the armed guard
and subsequently with the am
phibious forces.
He is the son of Mr. and Mra.
Sam Dye and married to the for
mer Ruby Smith. They have two
children, a boy and a girl.. The
Dyes are members of
HONORED — Dean Spearman,
Kings Mountain salesman, re
ceived a certificate of merit for
outstanding salesmanship by
the Atlanta, Ga. Executives'
Club.
Spearman Wins
Sidesman Honor
Dean Spearman, Kings Moun
tain salesman for Thomas Paint
Products Company of Atlanta,
Ga., won Jihe award given Friday
by the Atlanta Sales Executives
Club for “distinguished sales
manship.”
Mr. Spearman was cited for
outstanding work and leadership
as a salesman. He compiled the
largest number of sales for the
1959 year.
The award included an engrav
ed plaque and certificate of mer
it in addition to a dictaphone ma
chine from the sponsoring or
ganization.
Mr. Spearman, well - known
Kings Mountain man, has been
associated with Thomas Paint
Products'the past five years. The
distinguished salesman award is
an annual one given in recogni
tion of outstanding sales work by
men in the Atlanta area.
Local Latin Club
Plans Bake Sale
Central High school students
who are members of the Latin
club are sponsoring a bake
sale Saturday from 9 am. to
12 noon at the vacant building
adjoining Griffin Drug Compa
ny.
Proceeds from the sale will
'be used for transportation of
the Latin students to the Junior
Classical League state conven
tion in Chapel Hill March 5th
at, the University of North Car
olina. A meeting of all Latin
clubs from North Carolina will
feature the convention and the
group will also hold a luncheon
and make a trip to Morehead
{Planetarium.
Local students will bake the
Hearing On School Merger
Proposal Will Be Wednesday
Piedmont Baptist
Dedicatory Bites
Will Be Sunday
Dedication of a new educational
unit will feature the Sunday ser
vices at (Piedmont (Baptist chur
ch, at the corner of Piedmont av
enue and Benfield road.
Members of the congregation
will gather for Sunday School at
9:45, the morning worship ser
vice at 11, picnic dinner at the
noon hour, and special dedicatory
rites in the afternoon, with open
house to follow.
The Sunday service will also
begin a week of special evange
listic services at the church, it
was announced 'by Rev. James E.
(Bud) Williams, the pastor.
Rev. Albert Hastings, pastor
of Second Baptist Church, will
make the dedicatory address at
2 p. m. Sunday afternoon. Rev.
Mr. Williams will preach at the
11 o’clock morning service, and
i Rev. B. F. Austin, a former pas
| tor of 'Second Baptist Church, will
'begin the revival series at 7 p. m.
Sunday evening. Special music
during the week’s revival will be
under direction of Ed Powell of
Gastonia.
The picnic dinner will be spread
in the church fellowship 'hall.
Mr. Williams issued an invita
tion to the community to partici
pate in any or all of these speci
al services. ‘"We invite the inter
ested public to see our new edu
cational unit," Mr. Williams poin
ted out, “and to worship with us
Sunday and join in the fellow
ship.”
Bites Conducted
Foi Mi. Owens
Funeral rites for James Flay
Owens, 78, were held Friday at
4 p. m. from Macedonia Baptist
church, interment following in
Ross Grove cemetery near Shel
by.
Mir. Owens, a retired farmer
and textile worker, succumbed
Wednesday night at 9 p. m. at
the home of a son, Paul Owens
here. He had been seriously ill
the past several weeks and had
previously been hospitalized for
several weeks.
A native of Cleveland County,
Mr. Owens was a son of the late
Alfred and Ann Patterson
Owens.
He is survived by his wife, Lo
ra Stewart Owens; two sons,
Paul Owens of Kings Mountain
and Frank Owens of Blacksburg,
S. C., and two brothers, Zollie
Owens of Asheville and Melvin
Owens of Shelby. Also surviving
are nine grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Rev. T. A. Lineberger of Mor
ganton, a former pastor of the
church, officiated at the final
rites, asisted by Rev. Thomas E.
Moore of Gaffney, S. C.
Active pallbearers were T. W.
Smith, J. R. Champion, Obrien
White, T. E. Moss, Wade Hartsoe,
and Herman Blalock.
FIRES
City firemen were called out
in the snow Saturday to two
blazes which caused no dam
age. The first call, at 1:40 p.
m., was Ito the home of Bill
Simpson on Rhodes Avenue
where a flue was stopped up
and the soot started burning.
The second was of the same
type and the call to 204 Dill
ing street. No damage was re
ported in either case.
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STEWARDESS — Miss Jean Cash
has completed training as a ste
wardess for Eastern Air Lines.
She is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. David Cash.
Miss Cash
Is Stewardess
Miss Jean Evelyn Cash of
Kings Mountain has graduated
from Eastern Air Lines flight at
tendant training school in Mi
ami, Florida, and has started her
career as an EAL stewardess.
Mias Cash is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. David E. Cash of
Kings Mountain. She is a grad
uate of Central high school here
and Stephens College at Oolum
bia, Missouri. She was a medi
cal secretary for Dr. E. J. Dun
ning at Charlotte before joining
the airline.
Upon completion of the five
week training course in Miami,
Miss Cash (reported to Atlanta
where she will be based. From
there, she will fly to many ci
ties Eastern serves in 25 states,
the District of Columbia, Cana
da, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and
Mexico.
—
Fashion Previte
At Woman's Club
BY ELIZABETH STEWART
If Wednesday’s fashion show is
any indication of what the lady
folk will foe wearing this Spring,
Kings Mountain women should
be at the top of the fashion pa
rade.
In fact, “Spring Fashions On
Parade", was the theme of yes
terday’s Woman’s club card par
ty-lunoheon-and fashion show
which attracted a crowd of 125.
There were no men at the aft
ernoon showing of spring apparel
but they weren’t left out. The
'housewife who watched the pa
rade of fashions for herself and
her children could also go home
with new ideas in clothing for her
hr-Sband as well. Robert H. (Bob)
Goforth and Boyce Gault, Jr., did
the modeling.
And, those housewives who
came in winter frocks to the
Spring fashion preview could do
their shopping in February for
summertime cottons and dress-up
costumes for all occasions.
Clothing designers are stress
ing the more feminine look in
costumes to go everywhere, it
was pointed out by Mrs. Henry
Neisler, the commentator. Smart
outfits, with black and white pre
dominating, were three-piece en
sembles, including a jacket dress
or one worn with checked coat.
One popular eyecatcher was a red
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Grievances Of City Electricians
Aired At Board Session Tuesday
Members of the city electrical
department expressed disgrun
tlement to the city board of com
missioners Tuesday night.
Supt. Hunter Allen said he
was unable to continue to give
emergency service as was re
quired during Saturday’s snow
ioe visit “without help.”
Other employees said they
should have extra pay for off
hour emergency service.
Supt. Allen spoke first and in
ferred he had a minor-scale mu
tiny on his hands when he told
crew members Sunday morning
he was going to lay down some
rules about off-hour emergency
service. He said the electricians
said they wouldn't accept any
rules before they talked to the ,
demand, but complained that his
Saturday efforts to find Crew
man Floyd Thornburg and Ar
thur Mauney had been unsuc
cessful. He said he and Lineman
Dutch Wilson had worked late
both Saturday and Sunday
nights to maintain service.
Mr. Thornburg countered that
he had answered three service
calls whieh had been placed dir
ectly to him. Both he and Line
man Wilson then mentioned
their pay ideas.
Mr. Wilson said he made $67
per week, much under the pay
of men in similar work in nearby
towns, with no pay for off-hour
duty. Mr. Thornburg said Rock
Hill, S. C., crewmen are paid* $80
per week and get extra pay for
County School
Board To Sit
For Objections
Public hearing on setting up a
special school bond tax district
and a bond issue to supply funds
for the construction of a high
school plant for a proposed No.
4 Township consolidated school
district will be held Wednesday,
February 24 at 4:00 p. m. in the
office of the County Board of
Education in Shelby.
The hearing is preparatory to
calling a bond issue vote to de
termine if citizens of the propos
ed new district will issue bonds
for the construction of the new
high school.
The petition was submitted to
the county education board on
February 1 and was Signed by
some 1,500 qualified voters in
the district.
F. W. Plonk told the city
school board Monday night J.
Horace Grigg, superintendent of
county schools, said the hearing
is a legality and Ithe large num
ber of names on the petition is
sufficient to call the vote.
Only 700 signers were needed
on the petition. The tptal was
over twice that number.
The petition was presented the
county board by Mr. Plonk and
Holmes Harry, Grover district
school committeeman. On Febru
ary 1. A 21-day waiting period
was required before the hearing.
Mr. Plonk reported to the city
school board th at Beth wa re had
some 300 signers on the petition
and Grover some 120. He declined
comment on those submitted by
Compact and Park Grace dis
tricts. However he stated Park
Grace citizens are very much for
the merger and submitted a
great many names.
Consolidation plans worked out
by the city school board, county
school board, and the school dis
tricts involved and approved by
the late Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Claude Love calls for a bond
issue vote first to provide money
for construction of a new school.
If the bond issue vote is “yes"
an election will then toe held con
firming consolidation.
Original plans called for a sin
gle vote, which (Mr. Love said
would not work. He pointed out
that the consolidation vote could
toe “yes" and the ‘bond vote “no.”
In this case, the district would
be consolidated without money to
build the new school, defeating
the purpose of the merger.
Ware Pressured
To Quit Crew?
Was Policeman Charles
(Bud) Ware pressured into re
signing from the Cleveland
County Life-Saving crew? And
by whom?
The question was posed at
Tuesday night’s board of com
missioners meeting by Comm.
Ross Alexander.
From comment of commiss
ioners they had had inferences
that Chief of Police Martin
Ware had suggested it might
be better policy if the police
man resigned.
But Policeman Ware told
Comm. Boyce Gault, said Mr.
Gault, that the Chief didn’t
ask him to resign.
Had there been complaints
that Policeman Ware was
working with the Life-Saving
arew in other than off-duty
hours?
Comm. Ben Bridges com
mented, "It goes back to the
bonding business.”
Comm. Alexander replied,
"There isn’t any more bonding
business. You boys took care of
that." (Comm. Alexander is a
licensed bondsman. Recently,
the commission gave police
department desk sergeants au
thority to use their own jud
gment In requiring bond fur
misdemeanors.)
Comm. Lulther Bennett said
a Life-Saving Crew member,
Wilson Ledford, told him he
(Ledford) had understood that
Chief Ware had talked to Po
liceman Ware and implied he
should resign.
Comms. Bridges and Gault
said they thought Chief Ware
had a perfect right to make
such a suggestion.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges, like
Comm. Alexander, said he had
several calls on the matter,
too.
There m no action.
The Life-Saving Crew is a