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 1C Pages §0 Today l [ ---1 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 » » 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 (Continued on Page Sight) 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 (Continued on Page Eight) 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 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.