Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
I The figure lot Onotn ring* Mountain l« derived from
tlw 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
limits figure Is from tne United States census et 1950.
VOL 11 No. 24
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 16, i960
Seventy-First Year
Established 1889
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Temporary Order Restrains Consolidation Plans
Annexation Hearing Set June 28
BEAUTS’ PAGEANT FINALISTS — Pictured a
bowe are "Miss Kings Mountain of 1960" and
runners-up iii the Jaycee - sponsored beauty
pageant on Saturday night. Judy Kiser, center,
was crowned as the reigning beauty queen. •
Kun Cashion, left above, was second runner-up
and Sarah Cox, right was first runner-up. The
three tied in the first round of judging.
(Photo by Paul Lemmons)
i
Miss Kings Mountain
Wins Two Trophies
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TO ASTC — Dianna Need. Kings
Mountain student has won a
scholarship to Appalachian State
Teachers College where she will
study heme economics.
Dianna Neal
Wins Scholaiship
Miss Dianna Neal, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Neal, has been
awarded a scholarship to Appa
lachian State Teacher’s College,
Boone.
The scholarship is based on
scholastic achievement in high
school and recommendations
judged by the Board of Trustees
of ASTC. The scholarship is re
newable each year.
Mias Neal has been a member
of the National Honor Society,
President of her school and coun
ty FHA, a member of the Kings
Mountain high school yearbook
staff, a representative in the
Mis Hi Miss delegation, Worthy
Adviser of the Order of the Rain
bow for Girls, and recent recipi
ent of the KiwanLs Citizenship a
ward. She is also a member of j
the First Presbyterian church. j
Miss Neal, a recenft graduate
of Kings Mountain high school, j
E'*” enter Appalachian in the:
where she will study home
vomiias.
BIBLE SCHOOL
First Baptist church will be
g;n Bible School June 27 and !
continue through July 1st,
wi‘h clashes for children three
fo age 15 being held daily from
8.30 to 11:30. '
Judy Kiser, former Little Miss
Bessemer City at age 4 and Miss
Bessemer City at age 16, was
crowned. Miss Kings Mountain in
the Miss Kings Mountain Pa
geant held Saturday night. Miss
Kiser, a beaming brunette, also
copped the Miss Congeniality
title.
A 22-year old Brevard College
graduate, majoring in business,
the lovely Bessemer City lass was
crowned before an audience of
some 400.
She was named on tne basis
of her answer to a surprise tie
breaking question posed by the
judges, “Why would you like to
be Miss Kings Mountain?”
Miss Kiser answered she loved
everyone in (this county and
would love to represent them in
the Miss North Carolina contest.
She also stated she would deem
it quite an honor to be chosen.
First runner-up in the pageant
was Miss Sarah Cox. Second run
ner-up was Miss Kim Cashion.
In an interview Miss Kiser sta
ted:
1) She had no idea she would
be chosen winner of the pageant,
but was completely thrilled she
had been chosen Miss Kings
Mountain.
2) She has had voice lessons,
but not to any great extent, but
would like !to continue her edu
cation in music, which she has
found quite fascinating since her
graduation from college.
3) She is hot engaged, nor does
she “go steady”, in fact she
doesn't believe in going steady.
4) She wants ultimately to find
her man, get married, and raise
children, and has no hopes for
a theatrical career.
5) Her immediate plans were
to spend a week at the beach and
bask in the sunshine. She left
Sunday morning at 4:00 o’clock
to fulfill this plan.
Miss Kiser is secretary to the
county manager of Gaston Coun
ty
Her eight-year-old brother,
Mike, commented he thought his
sister’s winning was “great” and
now maybe she would quit para
ding around the house in a bath-j
Ing suit, posing in front of mir
rors propped against chairs.
The beauty pageant, which Jay
cees said was utter chaos at the
final practice Friday night, went
smoothly — at least outwardly.
Behind the scenes there ware
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Sanicrd And Lake
Alone On Ballot
For 2nd Primary
Though the state’s second pri
mary, ordered to determine De
mocratic nominees in races not
settled by the first voting on May
28, is only 10 days away, surface
excitement did not appear too
great in Kings (Mountain as the
voting day approached.
This did not mean that work
for the various candidates was
I not underway.
Kings Mountain, along with its
neighboring county citizens, will
help determine on June 25 re
sults of the governor’s race be
tween front-runner Terry San
ford and L Beverly Lake.
Local, as well as county Dem
ocrats, will have a short ballot
for the June 25th run-off election
with no local or county races sla
ted for the second primary.
Kings Mountain workers for
both Sanford and Lake were busy
this week distributing campaign
literature.
Crawford Plans
New Housing
On Plonk Estate
The city board of commission
ers approved Thursday public
hearing for June 28th on request
by Realtor Wiison Crawford that
33 acres of the old ft. S. Plonk
e-tate be annexed into the city
limits.
Extensive engineering work
and land planning 'to develop a
tv ‘rioted area and housing de
velopment a-e underway on the
properties which are located west
of the present city limits and
north of U. S. 74. Mr. Crawford
said his line begins near the
Country Club road and extends
west 1,822 feet to a rural road,
then follows the rural road over
300 feet south to the Bun Goforth
: roperty on U. S. 74 and falls be
hind the property owners on the
highway and parallel to the
highway back to the present city
limits.
City Attorney J. R. Davis says
a recent bill provides for the ad
mission of an area into the city
when all owners ask for the
move.
Commenting on the proposed
development Mir. Crawford said,
“We anticipate this development
will be one of the nicest in our
community and something the
oiity can be proud of.”
Mr. Crawford had explained
that three acres of the property
(a 36-acre tract) already lies
within the city limits. He and
his wife are the sole owners of
the property.
Oomms. Ben Bridges and Ross
Alexander made the motions to
advertise for public hearing on
the DroDOsal.
The commission also adopted
the coming year’s privilege licen
se ordinance. H. R. Parton, Kings
Mountain businessman, queried
the board on whether adjust
ments could be made on privi
lege licenses for small businesses
and for those businessmen like
himself who only operated on
small scale. He said he sells us
ed furniture and some gas appli
ances and only remains open
three days weekly.
Electrical engineers from the
firm of B. Q. Vannort recommen
ded a survey of the city’s electri
cal system. They pointed out
that a survey “would plan where
your electrical system is going
and analyze and make recom
mendations for impromements.’’
In other actions the board:
1) Approved sewer installa
tions on Stone street from Brid
ges to Stroupe streets and on
York road for 300 feet.
2) Authorized Mayor Bridges to
write letters to residents of Par
ker street from Piedmont to Deal
calling for a vote on which side
of the street will be designated a
“no parking” area.
3) Advertised for objections to
request to rezane from residen
tial to business the entire block
around the A&P Pood Store and
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City Amends Budget To Cover
Added Income And Expenditures
The City of Kings Mountain
has received more money and
will spend more than originally
was anticipated in drafting the
budget for the 1959-60 fiscal year.
An amended budget, approved
by the city board of oommission
eirs in meeting last Thursday
night, indicates that revenues
from all funds and also disburse
ments for the year ending on
June 30, 1960, will be some $28,
000 mare than expected.
The amended budget reports ■
expected revenues and disburse-1
meats of $652,500, an income ov-1
er the proposed budget of $624,-!
567.77.
City Treasurer and Clerk Joej
McDaniel said that the raise in j
water 'rates during the year and j
the subsequent additional work!
on water and sewer lines account j
for the biggest portion of the in
creased budget.
The hike in the cates during
the year brought some $40,000,
extra to the city, for the largestj
single increase in revenue overj
the original budget. Income from j
utilities jumped from an expect
ed $340,000 to $380,000.
There were sight increases in
other revenue funds, such as an
Increase of Street Assessments
from $12,000 to $14,500. Several
other slight increases helped off
set the drop in revenue from
taxes during the year, from $150,
000 to 130,000.
Capital Improvements <receiv
ed the biggest boast in ithe in
crease in disbursements in the
amended budget.
The city has spent or will
spend by June 30th, $94,602 for
capital improvements, a large
increase over the proposed $80,
531.
McDaniel said that a large
portion of the increase in expen
ditures were for new and impro
ved water and sewer lines.
The water and sewer depart
ment also received an increase
in proposed expenditures during
the year, from $58,574 up to $62,
519.
The light and power depart
ment also shows a large jump in
expenditures, from the originally
budgeted $169,285 to $183,052.
One department spent nearly
$8,000 less than the planned ex
penditure. The street department
has a new disbursement figure
of $85,545, compared to the ori
ginal budgeted total of $93,045.
McDaniel said that the street
department has been unable to
finish all of its planned work
durihg the year. He said that the
weather during the winter pro
bably caused part of the delay.
He said that the street work will
be completed as soon a* possi
ble.
PROMOTED — Charles A. Gofor
th, Jr. has been promoted by Li
thium Corporation of America to
the position of supervisor of the
Bessemer City plant.
Lithium Promotes
Charles Goforth
Charles A. Goforth, Jr., Lithi
um Corporation employee since
1955, has been promoted by the
company to supervisor, it has
been announced by Charles Bal
lard, personnel manager.
Mr. Ballard said the promotion
became effective June 1.
A Kings Mountain native, Mr.
Goforth is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles A. Goforth, Sr. He
joined Lithium Corporation of
America’s Bessemer City plant
as an operator, was subsequently
promoted to foreman and lead
operator.
Mrs. Goforth is the former
Jacqueline Harper of Gastonia.
They have three children, Mark,
i Scott, and Keith Goforth. The
| Goforths attend Central Metho
; dist church.
$100,000 Damage
Suit Is Filed
A $100,000 damage action has
been filed against Ben F. Ses
soms and the City of Kings
Mountain by the mother of a
young Negro child crushed tc
death last November by a citj
garbage truck.
City Attorney J. R. Davis said
Wednesday no answer has been
filed by the defendants.
The plaintiff, in her complaint
says that .Mr. Sessoms, the truck
; driver, drove the city garbage
truck over a large cardboard bos
in which her child was playing
and that her child was still alive
after the truck passed over the
box, lying on the shoulder of the
road, but was killed when the
truck passed over the 'box a sec
ond time. The driver was negli
gent, Mrs. Black further claimed,
in driving recklessly and driving
on the wrong side of the road.
The accident occurred Novem
ber 27, 1959, on a service road to
the city dump, and highway pa
trolmen at the time of the acci
dent had reported that Sessoms
was apparently trying to crush
the box, which had blown off
the truck, so that it would not
blow off again.
Another Negro child, 11-year
old Edgar Moore who was also
playing in the box, was seriously
injured.
El Bethel Pastor
In New Pastorate
Rev. Frank E. Blalock will
move to Lowell, and the Rev.
Bruce Norwood will come to El
Bethel from Oak Grove-9t. Paul
Charges as a result of new as
signments made at the annual
meeting of -the Western North
Carolina Conference of the Meth
odist Church.
All other Kings Mountain
Methodist ministers were -return
ed to their pastorates for another
year.
Mr. Blalock came to Kings
Mountain as pasrtor of El Bethel
Methodist church four years ago.
Red Cross Sets
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the
Kings Mountain Chapter, A
merican Red Cross, will be held
Wednesday, June 22nd.
J. Ollie Harris, chapter chair
man, said the meeting will be
a dutch luncheon at 12:30 at
Renn’s Cafeteria in Grover.
All chapter members are In
vited to attend.
Kings Mountain School Officials
To Answer Charges On June 24
Consolidation
Complaints
Are Listed
Allegations aimed at discount
ing the No. 4 Township consoli
dation election of May 14 were
listed in a complaint presented
before Superior Court Judge P. C.
Froneberger.
The complaints include:
1) That the order of the Board
of County Commissioners passed
on April 4, 1960 and published
April 9 was defective in that no
j Challenge day was specified dir
| eoting the registrars to attend
j the polling places on the- last
Saturday before the election.
2) That no petition for election
was filed and that the filing of
such a petition is jurisdictional
and, therefore, the election order
made by the Board of Commis
sioners of Cleveland County was
without authority and void.
3) That the metes and bounds
of the new school district were
indefinite and are void for un
i certainty. That the petition for
its boundary is indefinite and in
capable of being ascertained
with certainty.
4) That the petition signed by
the School District Committees
bears no endorsement thereon by
either the City or County Board
of Education.
5) That no disposition was
■ made concerning school property
| in the outlying area.
I 6) That the petition by the
: school committees of the affectec
| areas was not given due consid
eration by the County Board ol
Education, the petition being pre
sented at 2:00 P. M. April 11 anc
approved immediately withoui
deliberation as to the ultimate ef
feet on other school districts ir
Cleveland County.
7) That the election officials
were proposed and appointed up
on the recommendation of the
proponents of the City Schoo:
Administrative Unit of Kings
Mountain and the appointments
were made without petitions frorr
the governing boards of the dis
tricts.
8) That the election was sc
conducted as to thwart and pre
vent a free expression of the vo
ters in the affected areas in thai
parties residing in the Kings
Mountain City Administrative U
nit purporting to speak with au
thority threatened the voters ir
the fringe areas that if they die
not vote for annexation thej
would be denied the privilege ol
j sending their children to sChoo
, in the Kings Mountain Citj
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BY DAVID BAITY
A temporary order restraining
Kings Mountain School Board,
the Cleveland County Board ol
Education, and (the Cleveland
County Board of Commissioners
from effecting consolidation of
No. 4 Township schools
was granted a committee of Gro
ver, Belhware, Park Grace and
Compact school patrons Friday
by Superior Court Judge P. C.
Froneberger of Gastnoia.
The defendants named in the
complaint are scheduled to ap
pear before Judge Froneberger
June 24 to answer the charges
and give just cause for the re
straining order to be dissolved. If
just cause is not given, the order
will be made permanent.
Superintendent of City Schools
B. N. Barnes said Wednesday
morning J. R. Davis, the school
system's attorney, is working on
answers to the allegations made
in the complaint.
I
I He lurther stated the restrain
ing order was issued at a crucial
time since so much work needs
i to be done toward successfully
| effecting consolidation.
i He reported agriculture teach
; ers, the regular teachers, were al
| lotted officially by the state
Tuesd ay, But Wednesday
j morning he was advised nothing
' could be done to officially em
i ploy them.
“The main argument (outlying
school patrons alleged the city
system would not teach agricul
ture) was answered with the al
lotment of agriculture teachers,
i and now we can do nothing a
! bout hiring them", he said.
Barnes also pointed out tern
porary structures to house the
special departments need to be
constructed, but, here too, noth
’! ing can be done until decision on
the restraining order June 24.
(Plans for bus schedules needed
to arrange conveyance of incom
i ing students to the high school
are also tabled temporarily.
The injunction against the
boards was instigated by a com
mittee of school patrons headed
by Stough Wright of Grover. Oth
er leaders are Luther McSwain
Jr., of Bethware, secretary; and
Jim Yarbro of Grover and Odell
Barrett of Bethware, treasurers.
The complaint, drawn up b>
Falls, Falls and Hamrick and A
A. Powell, Shelby attorneys, was
signed by Luther McSwain, Jr.
Horace Dover, B. P. Dixon, and
Lorander Moore.
The ultimate goal of the com
mittee is declaration of the May
14 consolidation defective anc
void.
Dr. Foeisch, Seminary President,
To Speak At Two Services Sunday
Dr. Charles. B. Foelsoh, presi
dent of the Pacific Lutheran
I Theological Seminary, will speak
at two services Sunday at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran church.
I At tile 11 o’clock hour, Dr. Foel
sch will bring the morning mes
sage and at 8 o’clock he will de
liver the sermon in the communi
ty - wide union service.
A native of Iowa, Dr. Foelsch
was reared in the middle west,
the son of of a clergyman. He
was graduated from Wartfburg
college and Chicago Lutheran
Seminary, was subsequently or
dained by the Pittsburgh Luth
eran Synod and won his Ph. D.
degree from the University of
of Pittsburgh and his honorary
doctorate from Carthage and
Newberry colleges. His early pas
torates included parishes in Pitts-j
burgh, Washington, D. C., and
Charleston, S. C. From 1949-47 he
was president of Chicago Luther
an Seminary and was pastor of
Holy Trinity church in mid-town
Manhattan from 1947-52, then be
came first president of the new
Pacific Seminary at Berkeley,
Calif.
He served the United Lutheran
Church as chairman of its Com
mittee on Moral and Social Wel
fare; as a member of the Board
of Social Missions and Chainhan
of its Department of Evangelism;
as a member of the Church’s
national Executiwe Board; and
past president of the Board of
American Missions, church cor
poration with millions of dollars
invested in the 400 new mission
congregations under its care in
the United States, Canada, Alas
ka, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is
lands, and Hawaii, also as a re
presentative on the National Lu
theran Council, and inter-church
SPEAKER — Dr. Charles B. Foel
sch, will fill the pulpit at St.
Matthew's Lutheran church at
Sunday morning and at Sunday
evening union services.
agency of the several national
bodies of Lutherans. He is now
a member of the Church’s Divis
ion of American Missions and of
the United Lutheran Executive
Board. .
He frequently preaches at col
lege and university services and
at baccalaureate and commence
ment convocations, and has been
guest preacher and lecturer for
various groups in many cities of
this country and Canada. He
prepared and edited a book of
daily devotions, titled “The Days
Worship”, which is in popular
demand, is co-author of “The E
pistle Messages,” and has publish
ed articles in numerous weekly
and monthly journals.
HEADS CLUB — George Thomas
son has been elected president of
the Kings Mounta:n Lions club
for the coming year.
Lions Eled
Mr. Thontasson
George Thomasson, Kings
Mountain attorney, was elected
president of the Kings Mountain
Lions club Tuesday night.
Mr. Thomasson succeeds Ed
win Moore.
Other officers include Jonas
Bridges, first vice-president; Otis
Smith, second vice-president;
Paul Walker, third vice-president;
Gene McSwain, treasurer; Gene
Gladden, secretary; Robert Hall,
tailtwister; Ben Goforth, lions
tamer; and J. M. McGinnis, Ho
ward Broadwater, and Wesley
Bush, directors to serve a two
year term of office.
Prior to the elections, the club
heard an address by Robert Max
well, executice secretary of the
Cherryville Shamlber of Commer
ce as he detailed the functions of
; a city planning board.
Bloodmobfle ilsks
165 Pints Here
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will return to Kings Mountain
on June 27th and officials are
hopeful the quota of 165 pints
will be met in this final visit of
| the fiscal year.
Mrs. O. W. Myers, blood pro
gram chairman for the Kings
Mountain Red Cross chapter, said
this week “unless our quota is
met we will be in debt to the
Blood Center.” This means that
I the chapter will have used more
blood than was donated by Kings
Mountain citizens to the blood
bank.
Several industrial plants are
working toward industrial cover
age, Mrs. Myers pointed out, and
it is anticipated She said that
more will try for coverage, to
the mutual benefit of the em
ployees, the plants, and the blood
program.
Citizens of Kings Mountain
and No. 4 Township were urged
to respond to the appeal and
make the forthcoming visit a
"successful one by bringing the
blood collection up-to-date.”
Donors will be processed at
the Woman's Club from 11 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
Chileans Need Help*
Funds Being Asked
The local Red Cross office is
still accepting contributions to
assist an estimated two million,
homeless Chilean men, women,
and children.
Mrs. Charles Neisler, Kings
Mountain chairman of the e
mergency appeal, said What the
Chileans need “desperately" is
financial assistance. Homes
were destroyed, property dam
aged and almost 5,000 killed in
the earthquake which shook
the country violently for about
two weeks.
Red Cross officials ask that
contributions be clearly earmar- -
ked for Chilean relief and sent
directly to the office here at
City Hall or to Mrs. Neisler at
her home on Phifer road.
“We are confident that Kings
Mountain area citizens will re
spond generously to this ap
peal, as they have in similar
instances,’’ Mrs. Neisler said.
AUXILIARY
Otis D. Green Post 155, the
American Legion Auxiliary,
will hold a regular meeting
Thursday a. 8 p. m. at the
home of Mm. Hubert Aderholt
on Gaston street.