Population
Great.)r Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Tha figure lor Greater King* Mountain to derWed from
th« 1W5 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
XiBits figure is from toe United States census of 1950.
VOL 71 No. 28
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 14, I960
Seventy-First Year
BAPTISTS SET OPEN HOUSE — Members of
First Baptist Church will hold open house in
their spacious new church building on King
street on Sunday. The community is invited
to inspect the new plant during the hours of 3
and 5 p. m. Superintendents and teachers in
the Sunday School departments will be in the
respective classrooms to help visitors tour the
plant. The above photograph shows a group of
members as they entered the church recently
on the opening of the church plant.
(Herald Photo by Carlisle Studio)
Local News -
Bulletins
COURT OF HONOR
Court of Honor for Kings
Mountain district Boy Scouts
will be held Thursday night at
7:45 at Central Methodist ch
urch.
HdT DOG SALE
The Methodist Youth Fellow
ship of Penley’s Chapel Meth
odist church is sponsoring a
hotdog and hamburger sale
Saturday from 11 a. m. until 7
p. m. at the fellowship hall of
the church.
KIWANIS CLUB
President John Smathers will
give a report of the Kiwanis
International convention held
in (Miami, Fla., at the Thursday
meeting of the Kiwanis club.
The club convenes at 6:45 p.
m. at the Woman’s club.
FROM CONVENTION
President Billie Ramseur,
Floyd Morris, and Advisor B.
S, Peeler, Jr., have returned
from the Key Club Internation
al Convention held in Boston,
Mlass. The local club is spon
sored by the Kiwanis club.
FAIRVIEW LODGE
An emergent communication
of (Pairtview Lodge 339 AF &
AM will be held Monday at
7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall, ac
cording to announcement by
Secretary T. D. Tindall.
AT WAKE FOREST
Mrs. iBillie G. Logan is at
tending iihe federal law classes,
eight hoar course on Saturdays,
far ten weeks, at Wake Forest -
college.
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
iSisk and his orchestra will pro
vide music.
FROM VACATION
Dr. and Mrs. Paul K. Ausley
have ’returned from a several
weeks’ vacation and Dr. Ausley
will fill .the pulpit at the Sun
day morning service this week
at First Presbyterian church.
PRESBYTERY
Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor. El
der Ralph lArrowood, and Dea
con Ben Grimes will represent
First Presbyterian Church at
a meeting of Kings Mountain
Presbytery Tuesday at Shelby
Presbyterian church.
TO MEETING
Rev. James Mann, pastor, El
der Dan Wells, and H. K. Ste
wart, member of the board of
deacons, will represent Dixon
Presbyterian Church at a
meeting of Kings Mountain
Presbytery Tuesday in Shelby.
METER RECEIPTS
Par icing meter receipts for
t-hr week ending Wednesday at
r.xsn totaled $161.93, including
$109.55 from on-street meters,
$1138 from off-street meters,
$38 from courtesy parking fees,
and $3 contribution to the city
recreation commission.
District Delegates
Solid For Johnson
Whitener Says
Seven Votes
Won't Waver
Balloting was to start Wednes
day night at Los Angeles, Calif.,
far (the Democratic nominee for
president.
Senator John Kennedy, of
Massachusetts, from press, radio
and television reports, was ex
pected to win the nomination
handily, tout seven 11th Congress
ional district delegates had pled
ged “unswerving loyalty” to Sen
ator Lyndon B. Johnson, of Texas,
Congressman Basil L. Whitener
wired the Herald this week.
Congressman Whitener, oppos
ed for re-election in November by
Kings Mountain Republican Kel
ly Dixon, is one of the 11th Dis
trict; delegates at Los Angeles, a
long with State Democratic
Chairman Woodrow Jones, Ruth
erfordton, Charles Reynolds,
Spindale, Clyde Nolan, Shelby,
Lee Powers, Lake Lure, Clyde
Norton, Old Fort, and Zeno H.
Ponder, Marshall.
Mr. Whitener commented,
“Their action was considered by
political circles as extremely
signification in view of recently
announced support for Mass
chusetts Senator John Kennedy
by a small segment of .the Tar
Heel Convention delegation."
Mr. Whitener further reported
that the llith district delegation
had held two conferences with
House Speaker Sam Rayburn and
Senator Johnson and were joined
by two Mecklenburg County dele
gates from the tenth district.
"Upon our separate arrivals in
Los Angeles each of us learned
for the first time /that the dele
gates from our district were each
convinced /that Senator Johnson
was the /best available candidate
for our party and for the nation.”
Congressman Whitener stated.
“Whatever other delegates may
do we are resolved to stand by
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Tax Valuation
Over $10,500,000
The city’s total taxable valu
ation for 1960 is now in excess
of $10,500,000, Tax Supervisor
M. H. Biser said Wednesday.
Figures aren’t yet fully com
plete, with some additional
checking to toe done and with
all figures not yet received
from the state board of assess
ment. This board supplies tax
able valuations on utilities
owning property within the
city limits.
Valuation for the year for
Southern Railway, received
this week, was $195,000, Mr.
Biser said.
Mr. Huffstickler
Died Wednesday
Walter Q. Huffstickler, 49,
Kings 'Mountain grocer and" ser
vice station operator, died Wed
nesday morning at 8:30 at Moore
General Hospital at Swannanoa.
Mr. Huffstickler entered the
hospital about three weeks ago.
Owner of Walter’s Service Sta
tion on Grover road, Mir. Huff
stickler was a Kings Mountain
native. He was the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Huff
stickler and a World War H vet
eran. He was a member of Res
urrection Lutheran church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Lillian Mullinax Huffstickler;
two brothers, W. W. and Stacey
Huffstickler, both of Kings Moun
tain; and three sisters, Mrs. John
Voelkel, Danville, Ind., Mrs. John
Walker, Granite Falls, and Mrs.
Ray Cline, Kings Mountain.
Funeral rites will be held
Thursday at 4 p. m. front Harris
Funeral Home, with Rev. George
Moore to officiate. Legionnaires
of Otis D. Green Post 156 will
serve as active pallbearers and
interment will be in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Congress Candidate Dixon Thinks
Kennedy Win Would Up His Chances
BY MARTIN HARMON
Should Democrats nominate
Senator Jack Kennedy for presi
dent, Republican Congressional
Candidate Kelly Dixon, Kings
Mountain building contractor,
feels his chances for defeating
incumbent Basil L. Whitener will
be enhanced.
After stating he felt a great
number of North Carolina citi
zens would leave Democratic
ranks due to the issue of Mr.
Kennedy’s Catholicism, he added
he felt that citizens in the 11th
district would feel more strongly
about the religious issue than
those in some other sections of
the state. ',,,
Candidate Dixon replied, “Yes
sir", when asked if he were
keeping, abreast o< Democratic
activities at Dos Angeles.
Mr. Dixon does not predict that
Senator Kennedy will be the
nominee of his opposition party.
He added that his prediction is
accentuated somewhat by the
friendly reoep/tion accorded Adlai
Stevenson, Democratic standard
bearer in 1952 and 1956, when
he entetred the convention hall
Tuesday night.
He said ori state’s rights: “I do
not favor the state’’s rights
plank, even though there are
southern objections, as interpre
ted by people of the Northern
states.”
He added, "I would be lenient.”
Mr. Dixon, a onetime Metho
dist lay preacher and now an or
dained Baptist minister, is mak
ing his first bid for political of
fice. He was nominated by the
district Republican convention;
several weeks ago, expects to at
tend the Republican convention
in Chicago.
Status Quo For School Operations
Formal Protest To Officials
Filed By Otis D. Green Post
Legion Junior
Team Ouster
Is Protested
BY NEALE PATHICK
Otis D. Green Post 155 Ameri
can Legion officials have sent a
letter of official protest to na
tional junior baseball commis
sioner Lou Brissie regarding
Kings Mountain’s disqualifica
tion from the area race last
week.
The letter went to Brissie over
the signatures of Otis D. Green
Post Commander J. T. McGinnis
and local Legion athletic officer
Otto (Toby) Williams.
The three-page letter recount
ed the series of events which led
up to ithe disqualification of the
Kings Mountain Legion junior
(team' because its birth certifi
cates had not been received in
state Legion headquarters in Ra
leigh by the June 30th deadline.
McGinnis and Williams declar
ed in the letter that the birth
certificates had been mailed on
June 14th, tout that no notice had
been given that the records were
not received until the Area Com
missioner disqualifed the local
team of 16-and-17 year old you
ths on July 5.
The local officials raised the
question with Brissie why they
had mot been notified of the
missing records, _ Jrfr
Copies of the letter also have
been sent to the National Ameri
can Legion Commander, the
State Legion Commander, State
Legion Adjutant Nash McKee,
State Legion baseball commis
sioner Bill Timmons, Area Four
Legion junior commissioner John
Yandle, and to the athletic offi
cers of all other teams in Area
Four.
The letter also raised the ques
tion whether a team involved jn
a playoff series should be dis
qualified •‘due to an administra
tive blunder, either on the part
of the American Legion Post or
on the part of the State Head
quarters.”
The complete letter is as fol
lows:
Mr. Lou Brissie, Commissioner
American Legion Baseball
Indianapolis, Ind.
Dear Mr. Brissie:
IWe, the Athletic Committee of
the Otis D. Green American Le
gion Post No. 155 of Kings Moun
tain, North Carolina would like
to enter an official protest to a
disqualifying ruling placed upon
our American 'Legion Baseball
team by the Commissioner of
Area Four of North Carolina and
by 'the North Carolina State Com
missioner.
As you so well know, the A
merioan Legion Baseball team is
sponsored by the American Le
gion Post, so that the young boys
of the community may be better
trained to be better citizens of
tomorrow. The main objective of
any American Legion Baseball
team is to further the spirit of
faiT play among the young boys.
As a natural result, American
Legion Baseball means a great
deal to these young boys and also
a great deal to the community
which sponsors them.
Kings Mountain American Le
gion Baseball team at the end of
its regular season was involved
in a play-off series with other
teams within this area. During
the month of June, 1960, the
team’s business manager was
notified of the faat that birth
certificates of all the young men
playing on the team had to be
mailed to State Headquarters, to
gether with a roster of the play- {
ers no later than midnight, June:
30. On June 14, 1960, the business!
manager of the American Legion
team mailed to the State Head
quarters of the American Legion
in Raleigh, North Carolina two en- j
velopes; one containing a roster,
of the players and the other con -:
taining the birth certificates of
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RESIGNS
City Policeman Charles E.
(Bud) Ware tendered his resig
nation Thursday to Chief Mar
tin Ware. With the department
the past 18 months, Mr. Ware
did not indicate to Chief Ware
what his future plans are.
Chief said a replacement has
not been named.
TO STATE BEAUTY PAGEANT — Miss Kings Mountain. Judy Kiser,
leaves Tuesday for Charlotte and competition in the Miss North
Carolina beauty pageant which gets underway Wednesday. A secre
tary, Miss Kiser won the local title from a field of eight contestants
in a recent Jaycee-sponsored contest.
(Photo by Pennington Studio)
Judy Kiser Ready
For Beauty Event
Kings Mountain
EntayToSing
In Talent Event
Miss Judy Kiser, “Miss Kings
Mountain of 1960”, goes to Char
lotte Tuesday for the state 'beauty
pageant which will crown on Sat
urday a new ‘tMiss North Caroli
na."
Is she excited?
“Very definitely,” the pretty
secretary said Wednesday. Miss
Kiser was at work in the county
manger’s office at the Gaston
Courthouse where she has been
a secretary the past two years.
“I’m really thrilled about next
week,” she commented on the
Tuesday-through-Saturday sche
dule Which will toe full of activi
ties leading to the big event of
Saturday when one contestant
from ten finalists will become
the state 'beauty queen.
Jaycee Harvey Bumgardner
and Mrs. Jacob Dixon will ac
company Miss Kiser to Charlotte
on Tuesday. Registration, orien
tation, and briefing toy judges
will fill the afternoon. In the
three groups of contestants, Miss
Kiser is No. 7 in Group A. She
will appear in evening gown on
Wednesday night, in bathing suit
competition on Thursday, and in
the talent division on Friday ev
vening.
For her talent performance
Miss Kiser will sing “Where Did
You Get Those Eyes?” the same
number She sang in the local
Jaycee contest. She will be wear
ing the blue flapper costume
complete with long beads, red
shoes and red garter. For the
other divisions she will wear a
formal white evening gown, with
full ruffled skirt and a black
bathing suit.
What of her future if she!
wins?
Miss Kiser says her ambition
is to further a musical career
and possibly major in sociology
and music. She has directed a|
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Mrs. Norman Hurt
In Freak Accident
Mrs. Roy Norman suffered
painful injuries to her right
foot Tuesday in a freak acci
dent at her home on Shelby
road.
While cutting the grass with
a lawnmower, Mrs. Norman
slipped, caught herself, her
1 right foot catching in the cut
ter. Several toes were mangled,
one toe of her right foot tom
off by the machine before it
could be stopped.
Mrs. Norman was treated for
injuries.
Hall Taking
New Position
Robert Hall, since September
1958 a mining engineer for Foote
Mineral Company here, has ac
cepted a similar position with
Tungsten Mining Company, Hen
derson.
He assumes his new duties on
Monday.
Mr. Hall, a native of Montana,!
is a graduate of Montana School;
of Mines, and a veteran of army
service in Korea. He has been an
active member of the Kings j
Mountain Lions club and Kings!
Mountain Junior Chamber of(
Commerce.
Same Operation
For 1960 - 61,
Judge Ordered
The county school district will
operate Grover, Bethware, Pairk
Grace and Compact schools few!
the coming year as in the past.
Judge P. C. Froneberger signed
an order last week in which he
1) dissolved the temporary re
straining order granted on peti
tion by a minority group challen-j
ging the May 14 election merging
these schools into the Kings
Mountain district, and 2) order
ing Ithe county board of educa- j
tion to operate these schools.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs had
given notice of appeal, from Jud
ge FronebeTger’s ruling, but have
since informed attorney’s for de
fendants they won’t fight it.
The original suit, to nullify the
election, will be tried in Cleve
land Superior Court. The trial is
scheduled for the October ses
sion.
The county board of education
■moved Monday to effectuate the
court order, adopting a third bud
get for the forthcoming year’s
operations County Superinten
dent J. Horace Grigg said.
Action by the minority group
plaintiffs had been brought a-!
gainst the county board of edu
cation, county board of commis
sioners, and Kings Mountain dis
trict board of education.
The court ruling and decision
of plaintiffs means that the sta
tus quo will be maintained. It
is possible a Supreme Court de
cision will be required to settle
the litigation finally.
The county hoard adopted a
re modeled budget Monday of
$765,225.50, with $331,783 for cur
rent expense, $186,000 for capital
outlay, and $247,442.50 for debt
service.
The debt service item includes
$179,000 in principal and $68,442.
50 in interest charges.
The county board anticipates
that it will spend about $30,000 of
its capital outlay fund for build
ing two classrooms at Lattimore
school and another at Boiling
Springs, with the remaining
$156,CIOO to be used for purchase
of sites, furniture and other cap
ital outlay items.
The county board also voted to
employ a guidance counselor for
which the federal government
supplies the salary and re-named
M<rs. Alma Newman attendance
officer on a nine month rather
than ten-month basis.
Blanton Gets
Suspension
Harold D. Blanton, Kings
Mountain man, drew a three to
five-year suspended sentence
Tuesday on charges of forgery.
The warrant against Blanton
was signed by his employer, Bon
nie Cotton Mills, of Kings Moun
tain.
Judge ‘Hugh Campbell of Char
lotte handed down the sentence
in the opening session of the
criminal term of Superior Court
in Shelby.
Conditions of the suspended
jail sentence were that the de
fendant pay $20 weekly for the
next five years to the office of
Superior Court for the use of
Bonnie Cotton Mills; that the de
fendant pay the costs of the
court action; and that the de
rendant,« by a further provision
on or for his behalf, will pay the
sum of $5000 to Bonnie Cotton!
Baptists Set
Union Service
Sunday night’s union service
will be held at Kings Mountain
Baptist church.
Rev. Marion DuBose, pastor,
will deliver the sermon at 8 o’
clock.
Large crowds have been at-1
tending the summer series of ser- i
vices, a local spokesman said, j
Sunday night’s service was held!
from Central Methodist church
with the Rev. H. D. Garmon de-,'
live-ring the message.
Temple Baptist Church Will Build
Education Plant, Renovate Church
Temple Baptist church has be
gun work on a $34,000 project de
signed to provide a new educa
tional building and to renovate
the present church plant on
Cansler and (Alexander streets.
Grading at the site and laying
of the foundation is well under
way.
The large addition, expected to
cost about $21,000, will adjoin j,
the present building and will be!.
a one-sitory structure. |(
A building permit was issued
by City Building Inspector M. H. j
Biser on July 11th. W. G. Holland
was awarded the contract. <
Members (ft the building com
mittee include Lane Putnam, C. <
L. Putnam, Lloyd Putnam, Paul i
Ledford and H- Hilliard. H
PROMOTED — Foote Mineral
Company has promoted Ted Al
brecht. above, to the plant su
perintendency of the Exton Op
eration. Robert VV. Ilurlbut will
come here as plant purchasing
agent.
Ted Albrecht
Gets Promotion
Two Kings Mountain men have
received promotions by Foote
Mineral Company.
Ted Albrecht, mill superintend
ent of the Kings Mountain oper
ation since November, 1954, is
joining Foote’s Exton Operation
as general plant superintendent.
Mr. Albrecht’s resignation was
effective July 1st and he and his
family are moving next week.
Robert Hurlburt, who joined
Foote’s Sunbright, Va., plant in
1954, will come to Kings Moun
tain as plant purchasing agent
after holding positions in the
plant engineering departments at
'both Sunbright and Knoxville.
Born in Waterbury, Conn., Mr.
Hurlburt was graduated from
Lewis high school. He worked as
a molder in a plastics manufact
uring plant before being inducted
in the armed forces where he
served in the Asiatic - Pacific
Theatre of operations for 34
months and was discharged as a
staff sergeant in 1945. He was
subsequently employed by the
Security department of the Mead
Fibre Corporation and later wor
ked as a sales clerk for the A
merican News Company, both in
Knoxville. In 1950 he won his
B. S. degree from East Tennessee
State college and before joining
Foote Mineral worked for nearly
three years in the Field Engineer
ing Department of the Tennessee
Valley Authority and in the re
habilitation program of the Hols
ton Ordnance Works of Kings
port for 16 months. He is marri
ed and the father of one daugh
ter. He is a memlber of a nation
al Geographic fraternity and his
chief interests and hobbies in
clude sports, landscaping, clirna*
tology and music.
Jackson Hurt
In Boat Accident
Howard B. Jackson, well
well-known Kings Mountain citi
zen, is a patient in Gaston Me
morial hospital after suffering
severe head cuts and a leg injury
in a boating accident last Satur
day.
Making a trip on the inland
waterway with W. K. Mauney,
Jr., and Wilson Crawford, Mr.
Jackson was thrown through the
windshield of the boat when the
Mauney craft hit a sandbar.
Several stitiches were required
to repair his facial injuries, but
ixtent of the damage to his right
leg was not yet known Wednes
day. Damaged ligaments and tis
sues might require surgery, he
dad been told, .