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> Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 n» Stun lor Greater Kings Mountain la derlred irom tko 1(55 Kings Mountain dty dtrectOTT census. The dty limits figure Is from toe United States census of 1150. VOL. 71 No. 15 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 14, I960 Seventy-First Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS School Merger Vote Books Are Open! Local News * Bulletins PRESBYTERIAN The annual Birthday Party of the Women of the Church of First Presbyterian church will be held Monday night alt 7:30 at the church. SESSION MEETING A special meeting of the session of First Presbyterian church will be held Sunday morning at 10:30 a. m., the pastor, Dr. Paul K. Ausley has announced. BREAKFAST The Senior High Fellowship of First Presbyterian church will meet for breakfast at 6:15 a. m. Sunday immediately fol lowing the community-wide Surmise Service. Breakfast will be served in the church recre ation hall. HOSPITALIZED R. S. Thornburg, retired Cleveland County farmer, is a patient at Presbyterian Hospi tal in Charlotte. Mr. Thorn burg, suffering from leukemia, makes his home with his dau ghter, Mirs. Odell Steele, route 332, Box 779, Charlotte. COURT OF HONOR Court of Honor for Kings Mountian district Boy Scout* will be held Thursday 6 n m. at Central Metb~j: ''Viur ch. A Scout loafers' roundta ble will feature <tht court FAIRVIEW LODGE An emergent communication of Paiirviiew Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held Monday might at 7 p. in. ait Masonic Hall, ac cording ito announcement by Secretary T. D. Tindall. AUXILIARY The annual business meet ing of Kings Mountain Hospi tal Auxiliary will be held at Temple Baptist church on Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p. m. New officers will be elected and installed. Service awards will be presented. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanians will hear a religious program Thursday alt their meeting alt 6:30 p. m. alt ithe Woman’s club. -Rev. Marion DuBose will be in charge and special music will be by >B. S. Peeler, Jr. ON DEAN'S LIST Miss Peggy Wren Craig, dau ghter of Mr. and Mis. W. R. Craig, formerly of Kings Moun tain, was on ithe dean’s list for Ithe first semester at Wesleyan college. A freshman, Miss Oraig is a member of the Glee club, which recently made a ten-day tour of Florida and on Balm Sunday collaborated with the Emory University Glee club in a program of sac red music. FIRES City Fire Department was called out itwdoe Friday to douse grass fires. The first call came ait 12:45 p. m. to douse a blaze on Owens Street The second call was at 3:30 p. m. to extinguish a giraas fire on Fourth Street. No property da mage was reported in either case. Stores To Open On Easter Monday Kings Mountain merchants will be open all day Easter Monday. Association officers, at a meeting Tuesday, voted to close Wednesday afternoon prior to Easter but to remain open on Easter Monday. Retail business firms in the e'Cy customarily operate on half-day schedule on Wednes days. First National Bank, Kings Mountain and Home Savings and loan Associations will be closed on Monday. Consolidation Election Set Foi May 14 Decision on whether Number 4 Township county schools will merge with Kings Mountain city district schools will be made by citizens of the oounity school dis tricts on May 14. A special registration is re quired and books ajre now open The three voting places for ci tizens in ithe bounds of the coun ty schools districts are at Beth ware school, for voters residing within the present Bethware school district; Grover fire sta tion, for voters (residing within the present Grover voting pre cindt; and Park Grace school, for all other voters residing in the area of proposed consolidation with (the Kings Mountain city district. Registrars will be at the re spective polling places from 9 a. m. to sunset ito accept registra tions on three consecutive Sat urdays, April 16, 23, and 30. Sat urday, May 7 will be challenge day. Registrars will also accept regisitiration during the same hours, daily except Sundays, al their homes. The voting will be conducted between the houirs of 8 a. m. and 6 p. m. on May 14. The official ballots will read: ‘‘For Ithie enlargement of the Kings Mountain City Admiinis | trafcive Unit and school tax of thr same irate.” ■ ’"Against ithe enfergbhiettr' d the Kangs Mountain City Admin istrative Unit and school .tax oc the same raite.” The tax to be approved or dis approved is the Kings Mountair city district supplement of 2( cents per $100 valuation, levied on city district citizens since the mid-thirties. Election officials are: Grover, Mrs. Fred Cockrell, re gistrar, and Mrs. Martha Scruggs and Miss Ethel Martin, judges. ©ethware, Mrs. Will Warterson .registrar, Otto Williams and Leo nard Gamble, judges. Park Grace, Mrs. James Cion inger, registrar, Mrs. Tom Smith and L. June Cloninger, judges. Goforth Heads Moose Lodge Dennis Goforth, Foote Min era Company employee, was electee governor of Kings Moumtair Moose Lodge 1748 in post elec itions Thursday. Mr. Gofowth succeeds Gaither W. Ledbetter. Other officers elected were: Irwin Schulman, junior gover nor. Jaimes E. Woodward, prelate. Dan Queen, treasurer. Arthur Sanders, three-yeai trustee. Past Governor Ledbetter war named delegate to the national convention and Curtis Gaffnej was named alternate to tl\e con 1 ventiom. Board Meeting Set For 8:45 The city board of commission i ers will meet for the regular A |pril session Thursday night a j 8:45 at city hall courtroom. 1 Mayor Glee A. Bridges said thi later-than-usual meeting is beinj ! held to avoid conflict with nu i rperous Thursday evening Churcl ! services. IPrincipal business will be re j oeiving of bids for a new fin | truck. / Ausley To Preach Sunrise Sermon Community Rites To Start At 5:30 a. m. Kings Mountain’s annual com munity - wide Easter Sunrise Service will be held at Memorial i Park of (Mountain Rest cemetery Easter Morning, beginning at 5:30. The program is presented and sponsored by the Kings Mountain Ministerial Association. TRAFFIC DIRECTIONS Citizens attending the an nual Easter Sunrise service at Mountain Rest cemetery should follow parking direct ions of Kings Mountain Boy Scouts wh will direct motorists at the Suber gate on East Gold street and at the Dilling street entrance. Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor of Firsi Presbyterian Church, will delivei the Easter message. His splbjecl will be “Peter’s Easter — Anc Ours.” - The service will open with t prelude of music by the King! Mountain school band, under di reetion of Charles Balia nee, anc will feature special Easter mu sic by the band and a solo,, *Hr the End of the Sabbath” by B S. Peeler, Jr., baritone. Rev. Jack Weaver, pastor oJ Temple Baptist church, will leac the responsive call to worshif and Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor o] iBoyce Memorial ARP church will say the invocation. The con gregational singing of “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” will be followed by the scripture reading by Rev. H. D. Garmon, pastor o: Central Methodist church, anc the morning prayer by Rev. B L. Raines, pastor of First Bap tist church. • Rev. Thomas Droppers, pastoi of Trinity Episcopal church, will pray the benediction and Rev. J W. Phillips, pastor of First Wes leyan Methodist church, will pre side. Mr. Phillips is president oi the ministers’ organization. In event of rain, the service will be postponed. A large crowd is expected tc attend the traditional Easter ser vice. Lions Broom Sale Starts Thursday The annual Lions Clulb Broom Sale is slated to get underway Thursday according to an an nouncement this week by W. D Bennett, chairman of the project The group annually sells house hold and industrial brooms man ufactured by the North Carolina Industries for the Blind at Green siboro. Proceeds will be split be tween the Boys Town project ai Whiteville and the Lions Clut Blind Fund. j Prices for brooms this yeai , are: household, $1.50; wiiist brooms, 75 cents each; and indus ' trial brooms, $20 a dozen. t Lions Club members will b« canvassing from door to door. I: you are not contacted and wist : to purchase a broom, contact Mr [Bennett at telephone 692. Wright Foui-Gallon Blood Donor; Three "loin" Three-Gallon Club Troy Lee Wright, (Mauney Hos iery Mill employee, has become a member of the "Four-Gallon Club,” meaning that he has giv en four gallons of blood via the Red Cross Bloodmobile. (Mr. Wright joins Yates Harfoi son, super market manager, as Kings Mountain's champion blood donors. They hold exclusive membership in the "Four Gallon Club.” Three Kings Mountain citizens joined the “Three-Gallon Club" at i Monday’s visit of the blood bank. / They are Grady Howard, -Tame Bennett, and George H. Mauney I Another three have- ioined tin elite ‘Two-Gallon Club." They an Robert L. Wilson, George Hou ser, and Gharlie Ballard. New members of the “One-Gal Ion Club” are: Mrs. R. W. Cline Gaither W. Ledbetter, Mrs. Evs George, Prank G. Holli field i Frances Edens, Lee Absher, Stew Rath/bone, Garlis Johnson, Clyd< McDaniel, Roy Huffstetler, am i Hubert Bowen. COMMANDER — Paul Dover has been elected commander oi Kings Mountain VFW Post 9811 He succeeds Marion Dixon. j Paul Dover VFW Comraandei Paul Dover, Kings Mountaii automobile salesman, is the new ly - installed commander of Kings Mountain Veterans of Foreigi Wars Post 9811. j He succeeds Marion Dixon. ' Other officers installed Mondaj night are Jack Smith, senior vice commander; Robert Camp, junioi vice-commander; Harold Glass quartermaster; Carl Moss, chap lain; Marion Dixon, post advo cate; Nelson Ledbetter, Stacj | Huff stickler, and J. W. Saunders ‘ trustees; and Marvin Goforth .; surgeon. Clinics Set Fot Y oungsters Schedule of pre-school clinics for next week were announced this week. Pre-school clinic for students who will enter North school firsl grade in September will be helc on Thursday. April 21st, at 9 a ! m. in the school health room. On May 3rd at 9 a. m. a pre school clinic for prospective firsi graders of West Elementary school will be held in the .Cen tral Methbdist church education al building. Health check-ups and vaccines will (be offered to children. Mauney Wins Scholarship Phil Mauney, son at Dr. and Mrs. Jacob P. Mauney of King! Mountain, has been notified he has been awarded a scholarship from Lenoir Rhyne college. | Mir. Mauney, a freshman ait the I Hickory' school, has learned the scholarship was awarded for hfc freshman year. Dr. Voight R. Cromer, college president, made the announce ! ment. — Income Tax D-Day (Doom Day) Friday D-Day is Friday and some refer to it as Doom-Day. The latter reference indicates doom to the pocket book and/or bank \ account. Friday, April 15, is the final * day tor filing federal and state ■ income tax repasts, to pay ba ,| lance due and, in the instance ,! of the self-employed to pay at least a quarter of the estima ted tax for 1960 to both fed eral and state departments of revenue. l Self-employed persons have an added federal bill in their ; 1959 social security tax pay t mentis. This year the rate Is ! 3.75 percent on the first $4800 of each individual’s income. Resurrection Good Friday Service Set I Resurrection Lutheran church j will climax the Lenten season j with a three hour Good Friday ; service. This service will begin; ; at noon and continue to 3 p. m»,; , in remembrance of the three hours of darkness during which Jesus hung on the Cross, i The Service will he divided in to seven parts, based on the “Se ven Last Words,” of Christ. Out of-town Lutheran pastors will join with Resurrection Pastor George Moore in leading the de- j votional periods. The schedule for the service is: First Word: Noon, 12:25 — Pastor Paul Cobh, Shelby. Second Word: 12:30 - 12:50 — Pastor Hoyle Whiteside, Gaston ia. Third Word: 12:55 - 1:15 — Pastor Moore. Fourth Word: 1:20 - 1:40—Pas tor George Robertson, Bessemer City. Fifth Word: 1:45 • 2:05— Pas tor Moore. Sixth Word: 2:10 - 2:30 — Pas I tor J. A. Harbison, Dallas. Seventh Word: 2:30 - 3:00 — Pastor Moore. Members of the Senior and Youth choirs will sing in special music for the Service. Mrs. Au brey Mauney will be the organist. “All residents of the community are invited to come and worship 1 for any or all parts of this Ser vice," Rev. Mr. Moore said. : Memer Facts Meeting Set No. 4 Township citizens have ' scheduled an open meeting for ' April 22 tto again talk oveir the county schools consolidation pro gram. The announcement was made by Hill Lowery, chairman of the Bethware district school com mitted. Mr. Lowery said the meeting will be held at BethwaTe school auditorium ait 7:30 p. m. Open to all groups involved in the school merger proposal, the meeting will be led by J. Hor ace Grigg, superintendent of Cl eveland County schools who will present views on “County Con solidation.’’ Citizens will be given an op portunity to ask questions con cerning the merger proposal. The merger question is whether Kings Mountain area schools will merge to become Greater Kings Mountain schools. Only those 'persons living outside the present Kings Mountain district but otherwise within the bounds' of the newly created district, which includes almost all of No. 4 Township and a portion x>f No. 5 Township, will be eligible to vote. County schools which will be affected by the merger are: Park Grace, Bethware, Grover and Compact. Both white and colored citizens of the community are being in vited to attend the Aprill 22 meeting. Work Underway (hi Addition Construction of a 25-bed addi tion to Kings (Mountain Hospi tal begam Monday. Because initial bids were far below cost estimates, Administra tor Grady Howard said, a few additions to (the Initial building plan have been approved by the Staite Medical Caire commission. These include 1) installation of an emergency power unit, a 100 kilo wait generator type unit, 2) installation of an underground electrical system and humidi fier in the two operating rooms; and 3) piping of oxygen to the laboratory, emergency room, and operating rooms. The additions will cost about $25,000, it is estimated, bringing the total project to about $225, 000. Low bids, architects fees and other costs approximated $200, 000. Mir. Howard said work will be gin at once on enlarging the main parking lot as the Edge mont parking lot is being used for the new construction. The Edgemont annex entrance has already been closed.. CANDIDATE — Constable Char les W. (Rocky) Ford filed his candidacy this week for the De mocratic nomination. He suc ceeded C. A. (Gus) Huffstetler by appointment last June. Constable Ford Files Candidacy Charles W. (Rocky) Ford, Numiber 4 Township constable, filed his candidacy for nomina tion and election, subject to the Democratic primary, Tuesday. (Mr. Ford is opposed toy Elmer G. Ross, also of Kings (Mountain Constable Ford was appointed to the position last June toy the 'board of county commissioners to fill the unexpired term of C A. (Gus)) (Huffstetler, who re signed to becore a deputy sheriff Mr. Ford is a navy veteran oi World War IT, having enlisted and served for the duration. Ht is a memlber of the Ameri-m Le gion. He, his wife and son at tend Grace Methodist church They live at 200 Linwood road. Women Elect Mis. Manney Mrs. Jacob P. Mauney was e lected chairman ofithe communi ty division in the public affairs department of the North Caro lina Federation of Women's Clubs ait the annual convention in Raleigh. Election of new officers and department chairmen featured the four-day convention. A delegation from the Senior Woman’s club went to Raleigh for the convention. Attending the sessions were Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch, president; Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, Mrs. Charles Blanton, Mrs. Wilson Griffin, and Mrs. Sherman Perry. The new diviison chairman is the wife of Dr. Jacob Mauney, Kings Mountain veterinarian. ■ Sixth-Graders Took Top Honors Billy Davis, and Marsha Bal lance, 12-year-old members of Miss Anita Vaughan’s sixth grade, copped first place in dec lamation and Teading compe tition held at West School Friday morning. Young Davis, a ison of Mr. and Mrs. George Hullender, took first place over Mike Albrecht, Brent Goforth, and Ricky Grahl. He won the Mauney Declamation Miedal presented by Dr. W. L. Mauney in memory of his father, R. L. Mauney. Yoilng Miss Ballance is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ballanoe and copped the girl’s reading medal presented annual ly by Miss Carlyle Ware. She won in competition over Joyce Dixon, Heidi Koprueh, and Paulette Patterson. Kings Mountain Lawyer Opposing Robert Morgan Jack H. White, Kings Moun tain attorney and judge of eilty recorder’s court, announced Wed nesday he would be a candidate for the North Carolina Senate seat to which Senator Robert F. Morgan is seeking re-election, j Mr. White is seeking elective office for the first time. In announcing his candidacy, Mr. White said, "If nominated and elected, 1 shall do my ut most: to represent the wishes of citizens of Cleveland County and the other counties of the 27th Senatorial district. I will not let j the opinions of small cliques or; i groups ouitside the district in ! fluence my thinking contrary to 5 | the interests of citizens of Cleve- j I land county and the 27th dis- | I trict.” The 27ith district includes | Cleveland, McDowell and Ruth or lord counties. By agreement a mong Demoorats, Cleveland fur nishes a nominee for each bi ennial session of ithe Genera] As sembly, with the other two coun ties furnishing nominees for al I tern ate Assemblies. Mr. White is a partner in ithe law firm Davis & White. He at tained his law degree at Wake Forest law school in 1950, after : erving some 30 months in Wor ld War II in ithe army infantry, including 18 months of duty in the Phillipines and Korea, j He is a deacon and Sunday school teacher of Kings Moun tain Baptist church, an officer j and director of the Rotary club, and a director of Home Savings & Doan association, j Mrs. White is the former Dor | cas Cline, of Fallston. They have j two children, Jack H. White, Jr., and Nancy Love White. Candidate list to date in the county commissioner race in cludes: District 1: William Hugh Do ver and U. L.. Patterson, Jr. District 2: J. Broadus Ellis, in cumbent. District 3: B. P. Peeler, incum bent, and David E. Beam. District 4: Gene Turner, District 5: Knox Surratt, in cumbent. Democratic commissioner nom inees are elected in county - wide voting, but candidates must re side within the,district they seek to represent. Candidates for the county board of education to date are i Buford Cline, J. Edwin Moore, Walter Davis, W. H. Lutz, J. D. Ellis, and Charles Forney, Jr. School board voting is county wide. The top five men in the; May 28 primary will be the nom I inees. Mr. Cline is the lone chal lenger to date. Candidates for constable of No. 4 Township are Charles W. "Roc ky” Ford and Elmer Ross. Candidate for constable of No. 5 Township is L. D. Beattie. ■Registrar of deeds candidate is Dan Moore, incumbent. Candidate for Justice of the Peace of No. 4 Township is J. Lee Roberts, incumbent. Candidate for the state House of Representatives is Jack Pal mer, incumbent. Lions Ladles Night April 26 Annual ladies night banquet of the Kings Mountain Lions club will be held on the evening of April 26, it was announced this week. S. C. Brissie, superintendent of Woodruff, S. C., schools, will mjake the principal address. Members of the arrangements comb-pit tee are Martin Harmon ' and Sam Stallings.. Elizabeth Stewart Is Hist Award Winner In Women's Press Contests I Miss Elizabeth Stewart, Herald staff member, won first place in news writing among non-daily! newspapers of the State in 1959, North Carolina Press Women ( contests. The awards were presented at a luncheon Saturday at Chapel Hill. Miss Stewant was also elected District 1 chairman from the | Western -area of ithe state. Mas.; Rerun Drum, of -the Shelby Star, • was elected president of the as- j | sooiartion. The prize-winning entry of Miss Stewart’s was a story of Kings Mountain mining engineer; Bob Hall’s plight in getting his! fiancee (now wifie) to this coun try from Korea. The U. S. Senate, and subsequently House of Rep resemtatives, passed a special bill allowing Jae Suen Pak to enter the states. The judge commented: “I chose (this entry for first de spite its being the shortest piece among the entries. I believe it Is the most deserving of honor be cause of the pungent style of writing that has told a poignant ritory in a few words. Vet, the style certainly should arouse the interest of the reader and set his imagination to work on men tal pictures of a real life episode. The writer should do well on most any news assignment.” Second place in the news con test went to Mrs. Virginia Big gerstaff of the Forest City Cour ier. CANDIDATE — Jack H. White. Kings Mountain lawyer, announ ced Wednesday he would be a candidate ior the Democratic nomination as 27th district Sen ator. He opposes Robert F. Mor gan, incumbent. Bbsd Gifts 122 Pints Kings Mountain area citizens gave 122 pints of blood at Mon day’s Bloodmobile call. Actually 158 donors reported to tihe Bloodmobile, but 36 were rejected. A total of 19 peisons re placed blood. Blood Program officials ex pressed themselves as pleased with the result. They had pointed out that Kings Mountain is in debt to the regional blood bank in Charlotte, having used more blood than given, and that a suc cessful Monday collection was i imperative. Monday donors included John ' C. Smathers, Dr. P. G. Padgett, Clyde D. McDaniel, Dr. D. F. Hord, Roseoe E. Cox, Elmer G. Ross, B. F. Maner, James Hern don, Jack E. Hardin, Paul D. Bell, John M. Blanton, Howard Roberts, Ben E. Page, Ray W. Cline, Thomas A. Tate, Robert W. Whitesides, Thelma Dellinger, Leland Rowland Robert P. Ware, and Hubert Bowen. Also Roy Lee Huffstetler, Neil A. Spangler, Leonard A. Smith, Emmett E. Ross, John L. Phil beck, Wayne H. Anderson, Grady K. Howard, Wade G. Guest, Sto kes Wright, Frank Hollifield, Newell Thornburg, Paul Ham, Jr„ Jack Collins, Carl F. Wilson, Floyd K. Goforth, Frances Edens, Converse Hutchins, J. V. Press ley, Otis Shelton, Cecil H. Camp? bell, James Fletcher, Hoover Hil liard, Curtis D, Floyd, Forrest R. Burton, Furman L. Sprouse, Hazel Sprouse, Lawrence Lovell, John Cheshire, Jr., and Paul H. Biddy. Also Robert L. Wilson, Peggy Wells, iMfs. Norman Brown, Shirley Mullinax, Mary Elizabeth Gantt, Martin Wilson, Jr., Nellie Moore, William C. Hutto, Wil liam E. Greene, Bobby Page, Ja mes H. McKee, Otis Falls, Jr., Mary Lou McDaniel, Carl F. Mauney, Elva Nicholson, James Bennett, Sam H. Stallings, Har old A. Gilstand, Gary R. MdMur (Continued on Paaft EiahtJ r i St. Matthew's Easter Story In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like light ning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keep ers did shake, and became as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the Women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goeth be fore you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you, And they depdrted quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. f8t. Matthew 88:1-8).