Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Th* Uqut j lot Creator Elng» Mountain U derived lrom
th# 1*55 King* Mountain city directory census. The city
Until* flgv.ro 1* (tom tne Untied State* census of 1850.
Pages
Today
VOL 21 No. 16
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 21, I960
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
No Opponents
For Ellis. Sarratt
I
Filing Deadline
Passed; Othei
Offices Contested
County Commissioners J. Broa
dus Ellis and Knox Sarratt Shave
won Democratic renomination,
the only two incumbents in coun
ty offices to own this distinction.
Filing deadline passed at noon
last Friday. Since neither has
Republican opposition in the No
vember election, their re-election
appears a formality.
Mr. Ellis, Grover businessman,
is seeking (his second term as
District 2 commissioner. He de
feated Carl Finger, Kings Moun
tain laundry man, in the 1958
race.
Finger was seeking his first
full term, having been appointed
District 2 commissioner at the
death of Hazel Bumgardner.
Mr. Sarratt is the eldest in
cumlbent commissioner in service
and presently serves as chairman
of the fiveman board.
Other county commission posts
are contested, District 1 being a
three-way race between U. L.
iPatterson, Jr., William Hugh Do
ver, and Fred H. Grigg.
iBarney P. Peeler and David
E. Beam are vying for the Dis
trict 3 post, while John D. White
and Gene Turner are battling for
commissioner of District 4.
Mr. White, a Lawndale farmer,
is a native of Cleveland county.
Married to the former Lounez
Spangler, he is the father of one
son.
White is seeking his third term
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Mr. Turner, a Casar merchant,
farmer, and lumberman, is a
Cleveland county native. He is a
Mason, a member of the Clover
Hill Methodist church, a member
of the upper Cleveland Chamber
of Commerce.
Married to the former A'’;s
Hoyle, Turner is the father of
two boys.
Visiting Kir".' "i-'.'ain Wed
nesday. Mr. Turpcir said, “If e
tected I shall do my be^t to rep
resent the whole of Cleveland
county, rather than one parti
cular section.
Contesting for the five-man
county education board are J.
Edwin Moore, Charlies D. Forney,
Jr., Walter Davis, W. H. Lutz,
J. D. Ellis, and Buford D. Cline.
Ralph J. Tucker, vying again
st (incumbent Dan W. Moore for
register of deeds, is a native of
Cleveland county and has served
as assistant tax collector of the
county since 1949.
IA son of Jim Tucker of Char
lotte, he is married to the former
Elizabeth Borders. He is a mem
ber of Elizabeth Baptist church,
Shelby.
The register of deeds post has
a tenure of four years.
•State senatorial race is a con
test between Robert F. Morgan
and Jack H. White.
Candidate list for county-wide
offices includes:
State Senator: Robert F. Mor
gan and Jack H. White.
Register of Deeds: Dan W.
Moore and Ralph J. Tucker.
District 1 County Commission
er: U. 3U Patterson, Jr., William
Hugh Dover, and Fred H. Grigg.
District 3 County Commission
er: Barney P. Peeler and David
E. Beam.
District 4 County Commission
er: John D. White and Gene Tur
ner.
County Board of Education:
Charles D. oFmey, Jr., Walter
Davis, Edwin Moore, W. H. Lutz,
J. D. Ellis, and Buford Cline.
Lions To Honor
Ladies Tuesday
ilembers of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club will be hosts to
their wives and other special
guests Tuesday night at the
club’s 22nd annual ladies night
banquet.
S. C. Brissie, superintendent of
schools of Woodruff, S. C., will
be the featured speaker. Mr.
Brissie has informed the ladies
night committee he will make a
humorous address. In the forties,
he was an assistant at South
Carolina camp for boys at Camp
York, near here.
Lions President Edwin Moore
will preside at the banquet.
Members at the arrangements
committee are Martin Harmon
and Sam Stallings.
Club members are requested to
make reservations far the ban
quet not later than noon Mon
day by calling the office of the
Kings Mountain Herald, phones
167 or 283.
The banquet will be at the
Woman's Club at 7 o ’clock.
UNOPPOSED — J. Broadus Ellis,
above, and Knox Sarratt. county
commissioners. are unopposed
for renomination and re-election.
All other county-wide elective
offices have produced contests
for the May 28 Democratic pri
mary.
Bunch To Join
Fiber Industries
Kelly IBunch, for the past six
years associated with Foote Min
eral Company here as shipping
supervisor and purchasing agent,
hgp resigned to 'become plant
purchasing agent for Fiber In
dustries, Inc., at Earl. .
Mr. Bunch tendered his resig
nation Monday and will, assume
his new duties May 2.
A native of Big Stone Gap, Va.
Mr. CBundh was a franchised re
presentative of Southern Biscuit
Company before joining Foote.
Mrs. Bunch is the former Ber
nice Fraley, also of Big Stone
Gap. They have four children,
Elizabeth, Phillip, Wendell and
Johnny Bunch. They are mem
bers of Boyce Memorial ARP
church./
The Bunches will continue to
reside here.
Rotarians To Hear
District Forester
John Hf Weatherly, district
forester from 'Newton, will ad
dress members of the Kings
Mountain Rotary club at their
Thursday meeting.
The civic club convenes for
lunch at 12:15 at Kings Moun
tain Country Club.
Mr. Weatherly will use the
topic, “Care of the Forests
Helps Paper Have Its Day.”
ARP's Consider
Building Plant,
Super Market
Members of Boyce Memorial
ARP church will decide Sunday
whether to speed plans for a new
church plant on property pur
chased last year on Bdgemont
avenue.
Specifically, the congregation
will act on a proposal to erect a
super market for Harris-Teeter
Super Markets, Inc., on the site
of the present ARP property at
Piedmont avenue and W. King
street.
Elders and deacons of the chur
ch are recommending the trans
action.
Should the recommendation toe
accepted, the church will raze
its present properties and erect a
super market to cost atoout $100,
000 under a lease agreement witl
the Harris-Teeter firm.
Should the dhurch members
not elect to enter into the build
ing agreement, the members
may vote to sell the property to
individuals for $50,000, with un
derstanding the individuals would
contract with the Harris-Teeter
firm for erection of the super
m,arket
Last yean the church purchas
ed 4.7 acres on Edgemont avenue
for eventual erection of a new
church plant Early this year,
plans were made to build the
new plant in 1964. Subsequently,
Harris-Teeter, which operates a
super market on York Road
since its purchase from Bill A
darns, of Gastonia, became inter
ested in the ARP property as a
potential site for a larger Kings
Mountain outlet.
1 ___
Fire Wagon Bids
Prove Confusing
Four firms entered bids on thf
city’s advertisement to purchase
a fire truck at last Thursday’s
meeting and it appeared the cos,
to the city will approximate
$16,000.
However theta were, many
tables in the sevairl bids, and
the city tabled the matter for
further close study of the bid
proposals.
One bidder proposed a bronze
pump, another east iron, and
each argued the merits of his
machine versus the others.
One airea of difference arose
fiom the fact the city had invited
bids from local auto-truck deal
ers for the chasis. J. T. McGin
nis, Jr., of Plonk Motor Company,
bid with freight f. o. b. from each
of the four fire truck plants bid
ding. C. E. Dixon, of Victory
Chevrolet Company, bid f. o. b.
Kings Mountain. The Plonk -bid
was lower. After Mayor Glee A.
Bridges had announced the
Plonk Motor bid, he asked Mr.
Dixon, in the audience, what the
freight allowance would be.
His figure gave him a $20 edge
on the truck chasis bidding.
Mr. McGinnis then contended
that Mr. Dixon’s freight allow
ance was too high, noting that
all freight rates have been stan
dardized.
The board heard Dave Brant
ley, representative of Motorola,
Inc., tell them they must spend
about $5,000 for radio communi
' cation equipment in the near fu
ture to comply with new Federal
Communication Commission rul
ings which become finally ef
fective November 1, 1963. Certain
requirements for split channels
are effective August 1, 1960. Mr
Brantley told the board it would
save money to effect all the
changes now, rather than to
make them piecemeal.
Mrs. Pauline Thrift complained
to the commission that Mayor
Glee A. Bridges had declined tc
accept a partial payment on a
$45 street assessment. She quot
ed from a Herald legal adver
tisement showing some of her
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'The Woman’s Club Fine Arts
Festival on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday will offer a variety of
entertainment in what clubwo
men are billing “one of our big
ger and better shows.”
Free to tihe public, the festival
ENTRY DEADLINE
Mrs. Ben Grimes, publicity
chairman, said additional en
tries will bt accepted at the
Woman’s club Thursday from 7
until 9 p. m. and on Friday un
til 12 noon. In addition to
paintings, collections and art,
Mrs. Grimes said entries indi
cate that many will enter
crafts and hobbies.
will include exhibitions in three
divisions: crafts, hobbies, and
young people.
Doors will be open from lp.m.
to 9 p. m. Friday: from 10. a. m.
until after the entertainment
program Saturday night; an<j
from 2 until 5 p. in. Sunday.
A feature of the Saturday pro
gram will toe the evening enter
tainment at 7:30. Seventh grade
students in Miss Gussie Huffstet
tor's class at North school ' will
present the playlet, “Symbols ol
Our American ^Heritage” anc
winners in reading, declamation
and poetry contests and pianist*
who won superior ratings in dis
trict contests will perform. Spec
ial music will toe rendered by a
sextet from the Woman’s dut
and the high school choral club.
The afternoon program on Sun
day is also open to the public
Members of the sponsoring Fin«
Arts Department will act a*
hostesses for a tea which wit
close the threeday festival
Mrs. E. W. Griffin Is genera!
chairman of the show.
Kincaid Will Step Down To Provide
Outside City District Representation
Consolidation Vote
Bounds Defined
TO GIRLS' STATE — Miss Mary
Lillian Lewis, above, and Miss
Joyce Plonk will represent the
i American Legion Auxiliary at
I annual Tar Heel Girls' State in
I Greensboro June 12-18.
Two Named
To Girls’ State
Miss Joyce Plonk, daughter of
Mir. and Mrs Hal Plonk, and
Miss Mary Lillian Lewis, daugh
ter of Dr. and Mns. O. P. Lewis,
have been named delegates to
annual Tar Heel Girl's State.
Announcement was made by
Mrs. J. M. Rhea, of Otis D.
Green Post 155, ithe American Le
gion Auxiliary which is sponsor
ing ithe Kings Mountain stu
dents.
Both Miss Plonk and Miss Le
wis are rising seniors at Kings
Mountain high school.
Tar Heel Girls’ State wiU be
held on June 12-18 on the camp
us of the Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. Outstanding high
school girls from all over the
state will attend the annual pro
gram.
Misses Nolan,
Kiser Retaining
Twoformer teachers in the city
school system were elected to e
lementary school teaching posts
Monday night when the Kings
Mountain City School Board met
in regular session at Central,
school.
They are Miss Mary, Nolan and j
Miss Louise Kiser who have sp
ent the 1959-60 school term tea -1
ching in government schools for'
! children of occupational forces
in Germany. I
Supt. Barnes told the board the j
two are returning to the United
States and had inquired about ■
employment in the city schools, i
The board authorized Mr. Barnes!
to offer them two elementary j
teaching positions.
The hoard accepted the resign-!
ation of Charles Bailance as
band and mixed chorus director.
Mr. Bailance has taught here
far three years, replacing Joe H.
Hedden who resigned in 1957 to
accept the position of personnel
manager of Bast Bakeries in
Shelby.
Eighty teachers in Kings
Mountain City Schools were elee
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Registrars
It Precincts
On Saturday
Registrars far the May 14
Number 4 Township school con
solidation election will be at the
three polling places again Satur
day from 9 a. m. ito sunset.
iReports on actual registrations
since the books opened April 11
were hot available Wednesday,
but Mrs. Fred Cockrell, Grover
registrar termed aotivitiy at the
Grover hox greater than she had
anticipated for her first day at
the polling place.
Eligible voters have reported j
some minor confusion about'
where to register and vote.
The election notice specifies:
1) Voters residing in the pre
sent Both ware school district
will register and vote at Beth
ware school.
2) Voters residing in the pre
sent Grover voting precinct
will register and vote at the
Grover fire station.
All other voters residing in
the area proposed for consol i
datlon will register and vote
at Park Grace school.
Principal points of wonder con- j
corned the division between the
Grover precinct and the southern
boundary of the Bethware school
district. .
Records of the county board of
education office describe the sou
thern Bethware school district
boundary thus:
“BEGrNNING at the Southern
Railway at the Ralph Little Farm
and running northwest and in
cluding the farms of Charlie
Mullinax, Wood Byers, Randall,
T. H. Bridges, Katie Bell, Plonk
Brothers, Yyhatt Whistnant to
Season's Creek.”
This means that the people
living west of the Southern Rail
road and outside of the Kings
Mountain school district and nor
th of the Bethware district sou
thern boundary line would be in
the Bethware school district and
would register and vote at Beth
ware.
Less important from the stand
point of num|ber of eligible vo
ters is fact that the Kings Moun
tain school district boundaries
are not completely co-termina]
with those of the city limits.
Kings (Mountain school district
records show the metes ant
bounds of the city administrative
unit as:
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Zeb V. Cline
Rites Thursday
Funeral service® lor Zeb V
Cline, 74, for many years chair
man of the Cleveland County
board of commissioners, will be
held Thursday afternoon from
Elizabeth Baptist church near
Shelby.
Mr. Cline died at Cleveland Me
morial hospital at 3:30 Wednes
day morning after suffering a
stroke of paralysis a day previ
ously. |
Mr. Cline lived at his farm
near Shelby and was a promi
nent farmer and livestock dealer.
He was a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Ambrose Cline, and a
deacon of Elizabeth Baptist
church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Pearl Borders Cline, five sons,
Edwin Cline and Lamar Cline,
both of Gherryville, and Zeb
Cline, Jr., John D.. Cline, and,
Ambrose Cline, all of Shelby, a
daughter, Mrs. (Marvin Putnam,
Waco, two brothers. Z. O. Cline
and J. Raymond Cline, Shelby,
and a sister, Mrs. Mike Borders,
Shelby.
The body will lie in state for
an hour prior to the funeral.
The rites will be conducted by
Rev. Charles Surnmey, assisted
by Dr. Zeno Wall, Rev. Richard
Spencer, and Rev. C. S. Elliott.
Burial will be in Elizabeth chur
ch cemetery.
C. V. Henkel,
No. 2 Candidate
Here Wednesday
BY MARTIN HARMON
C. V. Henkel, Statesville busi
nessman and candidate for lieu
tenant - governor, visited Kings
Mountain Wednesday afternoon
on his first foray into Cleveland
County in search of votes for the
May 28 primary.
A state senator for four full
terms, Senator Henkel was to
be the guest Wednesday night of
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Padgett, of
Shelby. Mrs. Padgett and Mr.
Henkel are cousins.
Asked to make a statement,
Senator Henkel invited questions
on government but said, “It’s not
ordinary policy for a candidate
for lieutenant - governor to make
platforms, though there are ex
ceptions. Usually, though, candi
dates for this office are legisla
tive veterans and their records
speak for them.”
Senator -Henkel’s record is one
of opposition, in some instances,
to Governor Luther Hodges,
though like the Governor, he is
rated a conservative.
Should he be elected lieuten
ant-governor, Senator Henkel
would be the presiding officer of
the Senate, represent the Gover
nor when he is out-of-state, be
first in line of successor to the
governorship and would be the
officer to make Senate committee
appointments in the 1961 and
1963 sessions of the General As
sembly.
Onetime publisher of the sum
mer weekly, the (Blowing Rocket,
of Blowing Rock, Senator Hen
kel laughed, “On May 29, I ex
pect to go to those hills for a
rest.”
Reminded that two other can
didates, Dave McConnell, of
Charlotte, and Representative
Cloyd Fhilpott, of Lexington,
seek the same office, which
could produce a second primary,
he laughed again, “Oh, I expect
to win it in the first race.”
Then he said mere seriously,
“I don’t mean to be over-confi
dent or to be acting like I’m al
ready elected.”
Senator Henkel’s varied busi
ness experience includes farm
ing, manufacturing of textiles,
and merchandising of trucks,
automobiles, feeds, seeds and fer
tilizers.
Sara Hendricks
Is Poetry Winner
Sara A dele Hendricks was ad
judged winner of the Woman’s
club poetry reading medal in
contest ait Kings Mountain high
school auditorium last Friday.
Her rendition was Alfred Noy
es’ “The Highwayman”. Miss
Hendricks will represent the high
school in the poetry reading di
vision of the Western District for
ensic contest ait Lincolnton Mon
day.
Gale Kircus placed second,
reading, “White Cliffs of Dover”,
by Alice Duer Miller, and Nancy
HovLs placed third, reading “Pat
terns” by Amy Lowell.
Other contestants and their se
lections were: Paula Owens, who
read “My Lost Youth”, by Henry
W. Longfellow; Jane Hambright,
who read "The Barrel 1 Organ”,
by Alfred Noyes; and Joyce
Plonk, who read “The Creation”,
by James Weldon.
The contest was sponsored by
the Woman’s Club Fine Arts de
partment
iw nc.oxun — niuoiu w. mu*
caid announced Monday he
would vacate his school board
post, if No. 4 Township consoli
dation is approved to open a
post for an outside-city repre
sentative.
Retailers May
Change Carrier
Kings Mountain Merchants as
sociation directors are expected
to decide Thursday to change its
group hospitalization carrier.
Since (the group program was
inaugurated about two years a
go the carrier has been Hospital
Care Association of Durham, wh
ich recently informed the associa
tion its losses demanded a rate
| increase. Meantime, the associa
tion insurance committee obtain
ed /an offer for coverage from
Hospital Saving Association of
Chapel Hill to write the same
coverage for less money than the
Durham firm was willing to con
tinue (the contract. Both offer
Blue Cross contracts.
Finally, the insurance commit
tee ordered a poll of the 96 full
members in the group on these
questions: 1) Do you prefer rate
increases, with same coverage
(29c per month for individuals
and 53c per month for family
contracts), or 2) do you prefer
to maintain the same rates and
accept a $25 deductible rider.
About two-thirds of the mem
bers replied to the mail poll and
voted 3 to 1 for the rate increase.
President Charles Blanton guess
ed Wednesday that the directors
will order the rate increase, wh
ich means that the association
group policies will be transferred
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School Talks
Friday, Tuesday
Citizens of No. 4 Township
have scheduled two meetings
next week to talk over merger
facts on county schools consoli
dation.
J. Horace Grigg, superintend
ent of Cleveland County Schools,
will lead the first discussion on
Friday night at 7:30 p. m. at
Bethware school auditorium.
B. N. Barnes, superintendent of;
Kings Mountain City Schools,
will lead a second meeting on
Tuesday night, April 26th, at 7:30
at Bethware school.
Both meetings are open to all
groups involved in the school
merger proposal.
County schools which will be
affected by a merger to become
Greater Kings Mountain Schools
are: Park Grace, Bethware, Gro
ver, and Compact.
Citizens who attend will be
given an opportunity to ask
questions concerning the merger
proposal.
Candidate Sanford Here Thursday
For Informal Reception, 9:30 a. m,
lerry oaniora, canaiaaie lor
governor, brings his campaign to
Kings Mountain again Thursday.
The Kings Mountain Sanford-,
for-Govemor committee headed
by Glee E. Bridges, Cleveland!
County, co-chairman, will be host
to the public at an informal re
ception at the Woman’s Club
from 9:30 to 10:45 a. m. '
"We hope all eligible voters
will take this opportunity to drop
by the Woman's Club and shake
hands with the man we believe
is the qualified candidate to be
the next Governor of North Car
olina,” Chi^rman Bridges said.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served and Candidate Sanford
will answer questions about his
piauorm ana omer questions
pertinent 'to ,sta e government, i
Chairman Bridges said..
It will be Mr. Sanford’s first
trip to Kings Mountain since he
became an official candidate. He
was here last fall as an unoffi
cial candidate and stopped here
briefly last August.
Other members of the Kings
Mountain Sanfond-for-Governor
steering committee are J. E.
Herndon, Jr., Otis Falls, Jr., J. T.
MleGinnis, Jr., Charles E. Dixon
and I. Ben Goforth, Jr.
Mr. Sanford is a Fayetteville
lawyer and former state senator.'
H^lia graduate of the Universi-j
ty of North Carolina and of the,
UNC law school.
Kincaid Says
He'll Resign Ray
Merges Approved
By DAVID BAITY
Arnold W. Kincaid, veteran
<ings Mountain city board of ed
ication member, announced Mon
iay night his intention to resign
lis post “the day consolidation of
^o. 4 Township schools is voted
n" thereby opening a way for a
nemlber of the proposed incom
ng group to have immediate re
>resentation on the board.
Mr. Kincaid told school board
nemtoers in Monday night’s ses
sion he felt Bethware, Grover,
3ark Grace, and Compact folk
felt they were not going to have
nfluence on the 'board if retain
ed as is. He said his resignation
-vould leave a spot that could be
filled by one of their citizens.
Mr. Kincaid, a 13-year school
:>oard veteran, will be relinquish
ng an unexpired year of his
present term in the event the
merger is effective.
He was appointed to the school
board April 16, 1947, to complete
the remainder of the two-year
unexpired term of C. Glenn White
who moved from Kings Moun
tain to Gaffney, S. C.
Mr. Kincaid was re-elected to
the position for six-year terms in
1949 and 1955.
He served a total of six years,
from May 17, 1951, to May 20,
1957, as chairman of the board,
being elected for three consec
utive two-year terms.
Abrams To Speak
It NCEA Dinner
Dr. Amos Abrams, of Raleigh,
editor of ‘the North Carolina Ed
ucation magazine, will make the
address Friday at a dinner meet
ing of the Kiflgs Mountain Unit
of the North Carolina Education
Association.
Dinner will be served at 7 p.
m. at North school cafeteria.
The annual affair is attended
by representatives of the various
civic clubs, the press and radio,
and officials of Ithe schools In
addition ito P-TA presidents,
school board members, and retir
ed faculty members.
Mrs. F. R. McCurdy, pianist,
will furnish the music for the
occasion.
unei Ainvea
Two Days Late
Carol Jean Goter and Bill Ram
ieuT, tenth grade algebra II stu
dents of Miss Kiittie Iou Sutton,
gineers of America, Miss Sutton
announced Wednesday,
were among the top third stud
;nts nation - wide In a math con
test sponsored by the Future En
gineers of America Miss Sutton
announced Wednesday.
Miss Goter and young Ramiseur
were invited to attend a nation
al math tournament of the Fu
ture Engineers group held in
Chicago, 111. last Saturday, but
received ithe invitation Monday
—two days late. t The invitation
arrived late because of a mail
foul-up, Miss Sutton reported.
The students participated in a
local content some weeks past
and received top honors.
Ramseur is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. W. L. Ramseur. Miss Goter
s the daughter- of Mr. and Mrs.
Sd Goter.
Census Guessing
Gets Many Eunices
More than 100 citizens took
time out to file their guesses on
the City of Kings Mountain’s
population for 1960, in the Her
ald’s decennial guessing game.
Deadline was Friday at 5 p. m.
The guesses were quite vari
ed — from a low in the 2,500
range, to a top out-of-the ceil
ing guess of 19,078.
In view of the fact that the
official census of 1950 was
7,206, it can be assumed that
these guesses are unlikely win
ners, or that the community as
1) dried up, or 2) burgeoned
amazingly.
A close, but not official, ans
wer may be available next
week, census managers said
Wednesday. However, it will
probably be next year before
the final official Kings Moun
tain population count is releas
ed from Washington, D. C,
headquarters.
Meantime, the Herald will
husband its $25 prize for the
eventual winner.