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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 AAA U11V j/vrk>v« 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 (Continued On Page Ten) '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 (Continued On Page Ten) 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: (Continued On Page TenJ 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 (Continued On Page Ten) 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.