Population
Greats)!-Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
tl» tigur* lor Greater King* Mountain U derived from
Uu IKS King* Mountain city directory census. The dty
Limits figure U from tno United States census of IS5S.
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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 7, I960
VOL 71 No. 27
Established 1889
Seventy-First Year
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PROPOSED NEW HOME OF KINGS MOUNTAIN NATIONAL GUARD — Pictured
above is an architect's drawing of the proposed new Kings Mountain National
Guard Armory, a 5100,000-plus building which will also be used by the city as a
community center. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved spending
SI04.000 for the armory which will be constructed on a three-way share plan be
tween the city, county, and federal funds. The City of Kings Mountain's share will
amount to some $20,000. Members of Hq. and Hq. Company D. headed by Capt. Hu
mes Houston, have for 11 years held meetings in an overcrowded building on Phifer
road, built originally to house army vehicles. The new armory will be built on the
present site.
Kings Mountain Celebrates Quiet
And Safe Fourth Of July Holiday
EVANGELIST — Rev. James
Mann is leading a week of e
vangelistic services at Dixon Pr
esbyterian church this week.
Dixon Revival
Is Underway
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Bites Conducted
Funeral rt» *« Spurg«
Funeral rites *?Lld Tuesday
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Mills.
{surviving are one brother, Ho
race Benfteld of Kings Mountain
and two sisters, Mrs. Kosa Short
of Kings Mountain and Mrs.
Maudie Harris of Morganton.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. Albert Hastings, assisted
by Rev. W. H. Redmond and Rev.
J. E. Williams, and interment
was in Mountain Rest cemetery.
Baptist Set
Revival Series
First Baptist dhuroh has sche
duled a week of special evange
listic services July 25-31.
The visiting minister will be
the Rev. R. N. CarrotU of Eden
ton. Allen Jolly of Shelby will
^direct the song service.
Members of First Baptist dhur
Jdh moved Sunday into a new
Implant on King street. The First
^Baptist office (in the former Her
»ki building on F'iedmont avenue)
vas readying for the moving
[chore this week.
Kings Mountain celebrated In
dependence Day with little fan
fare on Monday.
It was a holiday for the ma
jority of Kings Mountain citizens
and those who didn’t invade the
beaches and mountains found
other means of occupying them
selves in the free hours.
The weather proved ideal
(though hot) for treks to picnic
areas and local recreation spots
which did brisk business, with
the swimming pools well crowd
ed.
Others busied themselves with
a variety of home duties, catching
up in the house-and-yard-deaning
departments.
!Few business establishments
were open for the day, with ex
ception of service stations. Drug
stores operated on abbreviated
schedule.
Stores opened again Tuesday
morning and Kings Mountain
retail merchants ^ind their em
ployees could look forward to a
half-holiday on Wednesday. Up
town traffic was somewhat brisk
as housewives replenished larders
and visited the department stores
for clothing items to foil hot
weather.
For most, the holiday will be
about over on Thursday, though
textile employees of majority of
the city’s plants would not re
port for work until (Monday mor
ning. At least two plants operat
ed on regular schedule and some
employees of Mauney Hosiery
Mills worked a full week. At
'Grover, Minette Mills suspended
operations for a week’s holiday
last week.
The holiday was a quiet one,
according to report Tuesday by
City Police Officer Paul Sanders.
Safety efforts by highway pa
trolmen and city policemen ap
parently cut down on the usual
number of accidents. In Kings
Mountain a check point Saturday
night produced 18 arrests with
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Union Service
At Central Church
Sunday night’s union service
will be held at Central Methodist
church.
Rev. Herbert Garmon, pastor,
wifll deliver the message at eight
o’clock.
The summer series of services
began in June and is attracting
large crowds from the communi
ty and participating churches.
Last Sunday’s community-wide
service was at Trinity Episcopal
church, with Rev. Thomas Drop
pers delivering the evening mes
sage.
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Local News
Bulletins
ATTEND CLINIC
Mrs. Wilson Griffin and
Miss Myrtha Wright represent
ed Griffin Drug Company at
Clairol Company's hair color
ing clinic at Poinsett Hotel in
Greenville, S. C. on Thursday.
KIWANIS CLUB
Richard S. Buse, manager of
industrial relations of Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Company at
Shelby, will speak to Kings
Mountain Kiwanians at their
Thursday meeting ait the Wo
man’s club. The club convenes
at 6:45 p. m.
REPUBLICANS MEET
Cleveland County Young Re
publicans will meet ait the
Court Room of the City Hall
Thursday night art 8 p. m.
TO STATESVILLE
Tom Trott, president of Kings
Mountain Rotary club, repre
sented the club at the installa
tion program in Statesville
Tuesday honoring Russell Gor
don Henson, governor of Rotary
District 767.
LEGION DANCE
Otis D. Green Post 155, the
American Legion, is sponsoring
a dance Saturday from 9 until
12 p. m. at the Legion Hall. The
dance, for members and guests,'
is one dollar per couple. Hague
Sisk and Ms orchestra will pro
vide music.
AT HERALD
Bobby Early, student at Bel
mbnt Abbey, has rejoined the
staff of the Herald for the
summer months. iMr. Early is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake
Early.
ACKNOWLEDGES GIFT
Sam Sufber, cemetery super
intendent, hias acknowledged
donation by B. S. Peeler, Jr. of
water containers for use in the
cemetery. Containers, to be us
ed by the public, are to be re
turned after their use, Mr. Su
NO FIRES
City firemen said Wednesday
morning the department has
received no calls for the past
week.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts list
ed this week by City Clerk Joe
McDaniel were on-street me
ters, $104.52 and off-street me
ters, $11.78.
Rotary Club Installs New Officers
At Ladies Night Banquet Thursday
Walter Smith, Rutherfordton
insuranceman, will make the
principal address at the second
annual ladies night banquet
Thursday of the Kings Mountain
Rotary club.
Installation of new officers will
also be a highlight of the event
which! will be held at 7:30 p. m.,
at the Country Club.
Mr. Smjth, who Is associated
wich Jefferson Standard Life In
surance Company, will speak on
a program arranged by Charles
IMxon. i
Jack H. White will serve as
master of ceremonies and Mr.
Dixon, the outgoing president,
will introduce Mr. Smith. Hay
wood E. Lynch, first president of
the newly - organized civic club,
will install the new officers and
directors. Thte group will sing
“America,” and Rev. Marion Du
Bose will give the invocation.
.Thomas L. Trott, Kings Moun
tain insuranceman, will be in
stalled as president succeeding
Mr. Dixon. Other officers are Ben
F. Mooraaw, vice-president; Mr.
DuBose, secretary; Thomas Tate,
treasurer; and O. O. Walker, ser
geant-at-arms. New directors in
clude Fred Wright, Jr., H. D. Mc
Daniel, Myers Hambright, and
Dorus Bennett
The ladies night gathering is
expected to attract a large crowd
of members, their wives and oth
er guests.
Tentative Budget Of $650,918
Adopted For City In 1960-61
A tentative budget for tne city
for the ’60-’61 fiscal year of $650,
91S.28 has been submitted and
will be in the city (clerk’s office
for public inspection for 20 days,
Joe 'McDaniel, City Clerk, said
Wednesday.
A general breakdown of the
budget was given in last week’s
Herald.
Major capital expenditures for
the year will include some $96,
196 in public utilities improve
ments covering street paving,
curb and guttering, sidewalks,
street resurfacing, six inch wa
ter lines and fittings, hydrants,
and additional sewer line.
Another major capital expendi
ture itemi is $16,162.90 for a new
fire truck for the fire depart
ment and $3,000 for a line truck
for use by the electrical depart
ment.
Mayor Glee A. ‘Bridges said
Wednesday morning extension of
Railroad Avenue from Gold street
to Mauney Mills is underway, but
the city’s cost is not yet budget
ed. .
Mr. Bridges said right-of-way
has 'been obtained from Southern
Railway and that W. K. Mauney
agreed to do fill in work. He said
dirt from excavations at the (Mau
ney plant is being used to fill in.
When this is completed, the city
can start grading, he said.
Other expected expenditures
for the city includes $7,180 for
the cemetery; $22,520, administ
rative; $21,948.88 sanitary; $78,
585.52, street work; $48,460, po
lice and court; $19,080, fire de
partment; $56,408, general; $57,
709.88, water and sewer; $189,
034.60, electrical; and $48,367.50,
debt service.
The biggest money maker for
the city by large is utilities, ex-!
pected to net $390,000. Some
$135,000 in taxes are the second
money maker. Powell Bill funds!
are expected to net the city some1
$33,000 and back taxes some $17,
500.
'An unappropriated surplus of!
$19,668.28 is to be transferred to’
the revenue account.
McDaniel said the board of
commissioners has until July 28,
to adopt a budget, but feels nec-|
essary changes will be made to
the tentative schedule and ac-j
tion taken at the regular session!
July 14.
County Tax Bate Up Six Cents;
Local School Tax Remains Same
Record Crowd
Attends Opening
Of New Church
First Baptist Church held rib
bon cutting ceremonies as the
new church plant was . officially
opened on Sunday.
Rev. R. L. Raines, pastor, said
a record attendance marked the
formal opening.
Open house, to Which the pub
lic will be invited, is scheduled
for July 17th.
The service Sunday was marked
by presentation of a bronze pla
que, Which W. B. Logan accepted
as chairman of the building com
mittee. The plaque, which con
tains the names of the entire
committee, win do mountea in
the lobby of the church as a per
manent memorial. Mr. Logan cut
the ribbon officially opening the
church, Rev. B. L. Raines read
the scripture and Arnold W. Kin
caid offered the morning prayer.
The building committee^ deacons
Sunday school departmfn*;super
intendents, and church members
marched in the new sanctuary in
three columns to the tune of “On
ward Christian Soldiers.
After the Doxology and prayer
of thanksgiving, G. L. McDaniel,
president of the Brotherhood,
presented the plaque to Mr,*- Lo
gan. Regular Sunday School ser
vices and morning worship fol
lowed the brief special program.
iMorning church services are
being broadcast during the mon
th of July via Station WKMT.
Doc Evans Displays
First Cotton Bloom
I Doc Evans,-Kings Mountain
[ farmer of route 1, displayed the
first cotton bloom of the season
j on 'Monday, July 4th.
The Evans family lives on the
tenant farm of Mr. and Mrs.
R. G. Plonk.
Ed Evans, route 1 farmer,
displayed the first 1959 cotton
bloom.
Cleveland County’s tax rate
will be six cents more for the
current year, the board of coun
ty commissioners has estimated.
The Kings Mountain school
district tax rate will remain the
same, 20 cents per $100 school
supplement.
$100 valuation on a record bud
get estimate of $2 million ap
proved Tuesday by the board,
compares to $1.48 for 1959. In the
Shelby school district the rate
will be upped five cents, from 65
cents to 70 cents.
The additional county-wide
levy of six cents has no connec
tion with the county board of
education’s request for $60,000 for
consolidation In the 1960-61 bud
get, County Auditor Max Ham
rick pointed out. Commission
ers, in their budget session,
were considering avoidance of
this increase by issuing bond is
suance notes. This could be done
they said without an election. It
would be based upon the amount
of school bonds retired during
the past year. This plan would
be to retire the notes at the rate
of about $15,000 a year and
therefore wfould make the con
solidation program a pay-as-you
go project, they anticipated.
The commissioners were suc
cessful in holding the county
wide levy to $1.48 until they vo
ted to put aside some money
each year as a “nest egg" to erect
an office building for widely sca
ttered county agencies. It was es
timated that the six cents will
put about $52,100 in the building
fund this year. The same will be
done each succeeding year until
commissioners are ready to buv
a site and erect a building which
they think will take about five
years.
Mr. Hamrick said final budget
figures will not be available un
til a revised budget is submitted
by the county schools. Consoli
dation snags have caused Supt.
3. H. Griggs to (remake his bud
get twice. A $2 million budget
Hamrick said would represent
| an increase of about $115,000 ov
er the 1959-60 budget.
Citizens of Kings Mountain
will be taxed by the county at a
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Schools Still
In Dark After
Judge's Ruling
By DAVID BAITY
Patrons of Bethware and Gro
ver schools are still in the dark
as to how the schools will be op
erated for the ’60-'61 term.
Judge P. C. Fronefoerger, at a
hearing, Friday, dissolved a tem
porary order restraining the con
solidation of Grover, Betihware,
Compact and Park Grace school
units with the Kings Mountain
City Schools, but did not definite
ly commit himself to an order as
to who will operate the schools,
according to B. N. iBarnes, su
perintendent of Kings Mountain
City schools.
Mr. Barnes said Wednesday no
order has been signed by Judge
Froneberger and neither the coun
ty nor city school board as yet
knows which will operate the out
lying schools involved.
Barnes said Froneberger ven
tured the suggestion that Kings
Mountain operate the schools, but
on objection of the complaining
committee said possibly it would
be better for the schools to be
operated by the county. However,
he did not definitely commit him
self on either, Mr. Barnes said.
Judge Froneberger’s decision
to dissolve the order restraining
the city and county school boards
and the county hoard of commis
sioners from effecting the con
solidation of No. 4 Township
schools, approved in a May 14 e
lection, is expected to be appeal
ed to Superior Court.
However, A. A. Powell, attorn
ey for the outlying committee
trying, to void the election, said
■he will have 10 days after the!
signing of Judge Froneberger’s'
order to file an appeal.
Supt. Barnes said Wednesday!
he and F. W. Plonk and a com-'
mittee from the county board of
education made up by J. Horace
Grigg and Walter Davis are sche
duling a conference with Judge'
Froneberger in Gastonia. They j
will ask the judge to spell out!
the ruling and make clear who
the operator of the concerned;
schools will be. ,
I
Consolidation of the No. 4
Township schools seems to be de-j
layed for at least a year, but j
meantime both city and county
'board budgets are being held up1
until disposition is made, he said.j
The consolidation of No. 4
Township schools was to be ef
fective July 1,
At the Friday hearing Powell
spoke for the minority group and !
asked that the injunction be
made permanent. He said that
not enough time was given to the
petition requesting the election
by the county school, board and
by the county commissioners.
tie said that in a little over
three hours both boards decided
to approve ithe turning over of a
million and a half dollars’ worth
of property to the Kings Moun
tain unit. He also contended the
boundaries of the enlarged school
district were not sufficiently des
cribed and that the boards in
volved never agreed on the ex
act boundaries.
J. R. Davis, attorney for the
Kings Mountain school board,
and James Mullen, Gastonia at
torney ‘representing voters on the
majority side, argued that any
technical irregularities had no ef
fect on the outcome of the elec
tion.
They said the State Supreme
Court has overlooked irregulari
ties in similar cases where the I
outcome was not affected.
Other attorneys present were
B. T. Falls and B. T. Falls, Jr. ac
companying Powell; D. Z. New
ton of Shelby, representing the
county school board; and C. C.l
Horn, of Shelby, representing the
county board of commissioners. 1
Kings Mountain
Juniors Booted
BY NEALE PATRICK
Kings Mountain’s American Legion junior baseball
team has been disqualified from competition for the re
mainder of the 1960 season.
Area Four Commissioner John Yandle and state Le
gion Junior baseball Commissioner Bill Timmons, both of
Charlotte, notified Otis D. Green Post 155 officials Tues
day afternoon that the Kings Mountain team has been dis
qualified from the state race for what they termed as “in
sufficient records”.
As result of the ruling, Kings Mountain’s team has
been booted out of the Area quarter-finals and the series
awarded to Newton which was due to start the semi-finals
set with Cherryville on Wednesday night.
Kings Mountain coaches Bill Powell, Jerry McCarter
and Blaine Froneberger first learned of the disqualifica
tion when they went to Charlotte Tuesday morning to
make formal protest of the game played in Newton on
Monday night. Actually, the area commissioner upheld
Powell’s protest that the umpires, Canupp and Cresswell,
were in error in not allowing a Kings Mountain run in the
third inning.
But immediately on giving the decision the commiss
ioner told the local coaches that the Kings Mountain team
was disqualified, but would not elaborate.
Later the coaches and local Legion officials, Post
Commander J. T. McGinnis and past commander Ray
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G. W. Mauney Re-elected Chairman,
Gihson Member Of Hospital Board
George W. Mauney was re-e
leeted chairman of the Kings
Mountain Hospital Board of
Trustees at the annual meeting
of officers and directors Wednes
day night.
t The board also appointed Ja
mes Gibson, of Kings Mountain,
to the board of trustees. Mr. Gib
son is the only new member of
the hospital board.
Other officers, also reappointed
are Holmes Harry of Grover, vice
chairman, and R. S. Lennon, sec
retary-treasurer.
Mr. Gibson, the new board
member, came to Kings Moun
tain from Gastonia 23 years a
go. A partner in Center Service
Station, he is married to the for
mer Virginia Moss of Kings
Mountain. He is a JVfethodist.
Lohr To Attend
Sweden Institute
Lawrence L. Lohr, Jr., son of
Mir. and Mirs. Lawrence L. Lohr
of Kings Mountain, will attend
the International Institute for
Quantum Chemistry at Uppsala
University in Sweden, July 17
through August 21.
A graduate student in chemis
try at Harvard University, Lohr
will fly from Idlewild Airport to
Stockholm on July 14, and return
to the United States in Septem
ber. .
Optimist Club
To Reoiganize
Plans to reorganize a Kings
Mountain Optimist club are un
derway.
Hugh Prather, of Charlotte,
said in Kings Mountain yester
day that interested citizens sh
ould contact him at 4418 Park
Road in Charlotte about plans
for the club.
It has been several years since:
a Kings Mountain Optimist club
was active.
Local Financial Institutions Pay
Dividends Of $119,569 To Investors
A total of $199,569.23 in divi
dends and interest was paid June
30 by Kings Mountain financial
institutions to share and savings
account holders marking a ban
ner year for the groups.
Semi-annual dividends of the
two Kings Mountain savings and
loan associations were four per
cent. Home Savings and Loan
association marking the highest
dividend payment in its history.
Home Savings and Loan Asso
ciation distributed $66,168.19 to
investors including $34,632.16 to
optional shareholders and $31,
536.03 to full paid shares. The
December, 1959 dividend totaled
$61,522.81.
Kings Mountain Savings and
Loan Association made payment
of $48,584.05 to investors June 30.
The figure included $24,640.10 to
optional shares and $23,943.95 to
full paid shares. The association
dividend of December 31, 1959,
was somewhat higher, totaling
$48,793.55.
A payment of $4,817 to holders
of First Union National Bank
savings accounts brought the re
turns to local financial institu
tion investors to the $119,569.24
mark.
Home Savings and Loan Asso
ciation has 2100 investors while
Kings (Mountain Savings & Loan
association reports a total of
1409.
CHAIRMAN — George W. Mou
ney has been reappointed chair
man of the Kings Mountain Hos
pital Board of trustees for a five
year term.
Weekend Arrest
Tally High
Kings Mountain contributed
nothing /to the national tally of
July 4 traffic fatalities and ac
cidents, buit local folk obviously
celebrated, as shown by a high
tally of arrests, 31, in the city
from July 1-5.
Heading the arrest list were
14 counts of public drunkenness.
Other arrests included charges
covering no turn signals, no op
erators license, using profane
language, improper mufflers, vio
lation of prohibition laws, driv
ing under the influence, speed
ing, worthless check, improper
brakes, and resisting arrest
City police enforced a traffic
check on King Street Saturday,
accounting for many of the mo
tor vehicle violation arrests.
The arrests were announced
Wednesday by Earl Stroup, desk
sergeant at the city police sta
tion.
Rescue Squad Spent
Busy July 4th Holiday
The Cleveland County Rescue
Squad spent a busy July 4th
weekend.
The group operated a safety
roadblock on U. S. 74 west erf
Kings Mountain. Safety litera
ture was passed out to several
thousand motorists.
A demolished oar display set
up by the squad called drivers’
attention to a sign urging them
to drive carefully.
In addition, members of the
squad served as lifeguards at
Lake Montonia.