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VOL. 71 No. 31
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C„ Thursday, August 4, I960
Seventy-First Year
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Bulletins
NO ACCIDENTS
duty Police Desk Sgjt. Earl
Stroup reported no auto acci
dents within the city limits of
Kings Mountain during the
past week.
NO FIRES
City firemen received no
calls to douse fires during the
past week. Fireman McKee
said, “Tt seems we’ve gone out
of the business — butt I’m
glad.”
PERMIT ISSUED
City Building Inspector M.
H. Riser (issued a permit Thurs
day to Percy Card to build a
one-story garage on Edgemont
Drive. Contractor far the struc
ture, to cost an estimated
$350, is Marion Dixon.
FAIRVIEW LODGE
Regular communication of
Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
will be held Monday night at
7:30 at Masonic Hall, Secretary
T. D. Tindall has announced.
KIWANIS CLUB
' Report of delegates to the i
Key Club convention will fea- I
ture ithe program to be given j
by the Kiwanis club Thursday |
at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s i
club. Advisor B. S. Peeler, Jr. j
will lead the program.
JUNIOR CLUB
Members of the Junior Wo
man’s club will gather Tues
day evening to complete h
house-toJiouse canvass in
the current calendar project.
Members should gather back
at the clubhouse to give re
ports at 9 a. m.
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APPOINTED
■Mrs. Luther Joy, Merchants
Association secretary, has been
appointed a member of the -at
tendance and publicity com
mittee of the Southern Con
sumer Credit Clinic to be held
In Charlotte September 13-14.
LEGION MEETING
Otis D. Green Fast 155, the
American Legion, will hold its
-regular meeting Friday night
at 8 o’clock ait the Legion Hall,
acoandiing to announcement by
Commander J. T, McGinnis, Jr.
COMMUNION
St Matthew’s * Lutheran
church will observe full com
munion on Sunday at the 11
o’clock hour. Dr. W. P. Ger
berding, pastor, will bring the
message. “Feeding -the 'Dee.”
CAKE SALE
Wives of members of the
Cleveland County Rescue
Squad will sell homemade ca_
kes Saturday beginning at 9
a. m. alt Bridges Hardware.
Proceeds will go to ithe current
building fund of the Rescue
unit
LEGION MEETING
Regular meeting of Otis D.
Green Post 155, American Le
gion, will be held at 8 o’clock
Friday evening, it was an
nounced by Commander J. T.
McGinnis, Jr.
HOMECOMING
Members of Antioch Baptist
churah near Grover wall obser
ve Homecoming Sunday" after
worship services. A revival will
follow beginning on Monday.
Rev. A. C. Martin is pastor of
the group. Visiting evangelist
at (the revival services, to be
held nightly at 7:30. is Rev..
Vernon McAbee, pastor of
Piedmont Baptist churah. Spe
cial music will be directed by
Ed Neal, choirmaster.
AT CONFERENCE
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, mem
ber of the Governor’s Commit
tee on Education and Recre
ation, attended the Governor’s
Conference on Aging held last
Thursday and Friday in Ra
leigh.
McGills of gaston
McGills of Gaston will hold
their annual reunion Wednes
day, August 17th, beginning at
1T:30 a. m. at Bethel Church
Arbor. Picnic lunch will be
sn-ead at 12:30. George McGill
of Wallace is president of the
clan.
UNDERWENT OPERATION
Franklin Harry, Grover ma
yo-, underwent an operation
Ir t week at Charlotte’s Pres
byterian Hospital and, accord
ing to a Minette Mills spokes,
man, is doing wettL Mr. Harry
is expected to be released from
from 'the hospital within a
week or ten days.
Plans Are jelling
For Bethware Fair
Annual Barbecue
Preceding Event
To Be August 17
A Community Barbecue will be
held as a kick-off feature to the
Bethware fair on Wednesday,
August 17, at 6 p. rn. at Bethware
sdhool. Tickets are on sale at $1.50
each from Stakes Wright, fair
secretary, at Rt. 3, or at phone
793-R-2.
The 13th annual Community
Fair will begin at Bethware
school grounds on Shelby High
way September 14. To run throu
gh September 19, the fair will in
clude its usual features of ex
hibits, booths, rides, games, and
fireworks.
Official fair catalogue^ will be
released soon and distributed to
patrons and advertisers in the
event. Wright is also sending
complimentary tickets to each
advertiser. The Bethware Fair is
approved by the N. C. Depart
ment of Agriculture, and is a
member of the North Carolina
Association of Fairs.
The fair will open on Wednes
day, September 14 at 4 p. m,, fea
turing games and contests espe
cially for children. Drawings for
prizes and firework displays will
be regular nightly features.
On Thursday, Children’s day
will be observed and judging
classifications of all exhibits and
departments will be determined.
Midway rides and shows will fea
ture in the Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday festivities.
The fair will open at 1 p. m. on
each day except the initial one.
Drawings will be held after 9:30
on each night. The fair will close
at midnight.
Fair officers are Dale Voll
bradht, president, Harold Hord,
second vice president, Myers
Hambright, manager, Cameron
Ware, assistant manager, Stokes
Wright, secretary, (Mrs. Lamar
Herndon, assistant secretary, Bill
MCDaniel, treasurer, Buford
Ware, assistant treasurer, La
mar Herndon, superintendent of
grounds, Grady Seism, superin
tendent of parking, Tom Ham
rick, assistant superintendent of
parking, Stokes Wright, superin
tendent of parking admissions,
E. G. Lovelace, assistant super
intendent of paridng admissions,
Jim Yarbro, superintendent of
tickets, D. P. Putnam Dale Voll
bradht, assistant superintendents
of tickets, R. G. Franklin pur
chasing agent, William Powell,
assistant purchasing agent; su
perintendents of construction,
Ladies Department: J. W. Ray
field and Eugene Patterson; Ag
riculture Department, Grady
Seism, and A. L. Putnam; Board
of Directors: J. W. Rayfield,
Garrison Goforth, Holland Horn,
Ben Hamrick, Lamar Herndon,
E. G. Lovelace, Frank Hamrick,
Eugene Hoyle, Tom Hamrick;
Department directors: agricul
ture department, Boyd Harrel
son, Willis Harmon, assistant di
rector, Jim Yarbro, assistant, De
witt Randall, assistant, Eugene
(Patterson, assistant; Horticulture
department, Cameron Ware, di
rector, J. W. Patterson, assistant,
Tom Hamrick, assistant, Edwin
(Moore, assistant; Farm and ma
chinery department, Holland Dix
on, director, Charles Goforth and
Lamar Herndon, assistants;
school exhibits, Mrs. Hal Morris,
(Continued On Page Eight)
Tax Advertising
Will Start Soon
Advertising of sale of real es
tate for unpaid 1959 tax bills
by the city and county will be
gin soon.
County Tax Collector Robert
M. Gidney said ithat tax adver
tising for the county will begin
August 10, with sale date to be
September 6.
City Tax Collector M. H. Ri
ser said that tax advertising
for the city will begin on Au
gust 17, with sale date to be
September 12.
Both Mr. Gidney and Mr.
Biser urged citizens who hav
en’t* paid their 1959 tax bills
to pay them prior to ithe sche
duled- advertising dates.
• They noted that payment in
advance of the advertising
date will save additional ex
pense.
Lake Write-In
Interest Weak
At least two leading Kings
Mountain supporters of Dr. I.
Beverly Lake in the Democratic
primary take a dim view of the
movement to make him a write
in candidate in the November
general election.
Harold Phillips, superintendent
of Craftspun Yarns, Inc., said
'He’d first learned about the move
ment from the newspapers and
commented, "I don’t believe Dr.
Lake will allow it. He pledged
he wouldn’t Neither do I believe
sufficient monies could be ob
tained to finance such a cam
paign. Besides, he’s already been
defeated twice.”
W. K. Mauney, Jr., general
manager of (Mauney Hosiery
Company, Inc., commented on a
question about the write-in,
‘That’d be like not voting.”
(Boyce Hanna, Shelby radio
station operator, announced the
write-in movement last Thursday.
He claims to have voted for Ter
ry Sanford in the primaries, in
dicates he didn’t like Sanford’s
action in supporting Senator
John Kennedy for the president
ial nomination.
Hanna was quoted in Raleigh
by Associated Press Wednesday
as admitting he voted the Repub
lican national ticket in the 1952
and 1956 general elections.
County Democratic leaders
have been quoted as opposing
the write-in movement, as have
state party leaders.
Comment has been varied.
Some charge the movement, em
barked under the label of Citizens
for Honest Government, as a
thinly-veiled effort to elect a Re
publican Governor, while others
say the write-in movement would
assure the election of Mr. San
ford, the Democratic nominee.
LIONS MEETING
Kelly Dixon, candidate for
Congress and delegate to (the
(recent Republican National
convention, will report on the
convention at a meeting of the
Kings Mountain Lions club
Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at
(the Woman’s Club.
Dixon: Nixon And Other Leaden
May Advance GOP Cause In Kate
BY MARTIN HARMON
Republican Presidential Can
didate Richaird M. Nixon may
make as many as two addresses j
in North OaioMna during the up- j
coming campaign, Kings Moun-|
tain GOP Congressional Candi-J
date Kelly Dixon said this weeki
on his return from the Republi-!
can National convention.
Mr. Dixon said state party j
leaders anticipate three major
speeches by party leaders in
North Carolina with President
Dwight Eisenhower, Vice-Presi_
dent Candidate Henry Cabot
Lodge, Rep. Waiter Judd, the
convention keynoter, and Sena
tor Thurston Morton, the nation
al chariman, are on the state’s
list of passible speakers.
. Candidate Dixon, who opposes!
Democratic Incumbent Basil L. j
Whitener, of Gastonia, for the
11th Congressional seat, said he
hoped to announce soon the I
dentity of his district campaign
manager.
“Then we’ll organize down to
the precinct level,’’ he added.
The GOP has already sche
duled a district rally for Gas
tonia and expects to announce
the date and arrangement de
tailfe soon. GOP Governor Candi
date Robert Gavin, of Sanford,
has been asked to make the
principal address.
Commenting on his convention
trip, Mr. Dixon, who had guessed
Mr. Lodge would be the vice
presidential candidate well ini
advance of the convention, said, j
“The North Carolina delegation
was very well pleased with the
choice of Mr. Lodge. Two or three
delegates favored Senator Gold !
water, but pulled over when they i
heard Mr. Nixon’s choice.
“The North Carolina delega
tion was delighted with the plat - j
form in its final form,” he oon_
tinued. “We really got more than
we thought we might.
Mr. Dixon will make a report
on the convention at a water
melon slicing of the Young Re
publican Club, to be held Thurs
day night at 7:30 at the home of
his son, Jake Dixon, chairman, at
205 N. Sims Street. • I
Barnes Reports
Two Teachers
Post Resignations
City Schools Supt. B. N. Bar
nes announced Wednesday mor
ning two more resignations from
the school system’s teaching
staff.
Charles A. Helms, teacher of
driver’s education and social
studies at Central high school,
this week tendered his resigna
tion.
Mr. Helms is resigning to en
ter Appalachian State Teachers
college for work on a Master’s
degree.
Davidson School also has an
other vacancy, with the resign
ation of Mrs. Mae Shuford, third
grade teacher.
In her letter of resignation to
Supt. Barnes, Mrs. Shuford sta
ted that due to “physical condi
tions, I feel that I can no long
er teach.”
Mrs. Shuford’s resignation is
effective August 29.
Supt. Barnes said the school
board has not yet had a chance
to meet since Chairman F. W.
Plonk in on vacation. However,
Mr. Barnes is busy lining up
prospects to fill the teaching va
cancies and has some definite
recommendations to make to the
board ip a few cases.
He said the board would meet
soon to elect teachers and do
school budget work.
Board Sets
Dumping Fees
The city board of commission
ers met in brief special session
Wednesday afternoon and set
fees for use of the city dump
by outside city citizens.
The board voted to offer use of
the ciity dump, off Highway 29-85,
to Park Yam Mills for $50 per
year, and proffered use of the
dump for three families at (Kings
Mountain National Military Park
for $25 per year.
The board also revised slightly
its agreement with J. Wilson
Crawford concerning provision
of city facilities for Mr. Craw
ford’s planned residential devel
opment in West Kings Mountain.
In a stated effort to speed the
project, the board deleted its prior
agreement to install curb-and
guttering.
The board further authorized
the Mayor to 1) obtain right-of
way deeds to streets in the devel
opment, 2) push out street rights
of-way, 3) obtain cut sheets on
cuts and fills, and 4) obtain oth
er necessary information prior
to letting of contract for grading
the streets.
The board explained it has a
problem of raising money for the
project. The city previously had
agreed to grade and surface
streets in the Crawford develop
ment.
Trinity Sets
Bible School
Trinity Episcopal church on
Phifer road, will begin its Vaca
tion Bible School next week, with
classes from August 8-17.
The School will be held Mon
day through Friday the first
week and Monday through Wed
nesday the second week. Classes
will begin each day at 9 a. m and
end at 11:30 a. m. All children
beginning at the age of four
years will be welcome.
The Lord’s Prayer will be the
theme for study. Work will be
done to gain understanding of
Christian prayer and worship.
Hie daily program will include
a short service of prayer and
worship, classes, refreshments,
games and songs.
The School will be under the
direction of the two student
preachers at the church this
summer: James Nako and Ster
ling Mintum. Mr. Nako is a Mid
dles art: the Seabury - Western
Theological Seminary, Evanston,
Illinois; Mr. Mintum is a Mid
dler at The General Theological
Seminary in New York City.
Both men have 'been trained for
Bible-school work at the South
ern Town and Country Institute,
Valle Crucis, N. C.
Merchants Set
Annual Picnic
Kings Mountain merchants and
their employees will gather for
the annual picnic Wednesday ev
ening at 7 p. m.
Tickets, at $1.50 for adults and
75 cents for children, are on sale
in the association office.
Women of Bethany ARP chur
ch will serve the meaL The chur
ch is located on York road near
McGill's store. >
The picnic attracts a large
crowd of merchants and their
employees.
Tentative City, Park Grace
School Opening Is August 30
I ranster Request
Deadline Set
By County Board
In the wake of several appli
cations for release from county
district schools to attend Shelby
and Kings Mountain district
schools, the county board of edu
cation this week deferred action
on all applications until August
15. v
In addition, the county board
set August 15 as the final date
for accepting applications for
transfer 'to other districts.
Of the applications for trans
fer received by the county board
this week, 14 were from Number
4 Township schools, including
eight from Grover district and
six from Beth ware district. One
sought transfer to Shelby dis_
trict and the other 13 to Kings
Mountain district.
Of the total seeking to attend.
Kings Mountain schools, an esti
mated seven want to attend :
Kings Mountain high school. j
J. Horace Grigg, county schools
superintendent, raid two of the
applications were to attend
schools already heing attended
by brothers and sisters,” Mr.
Grigg commented.
Under previous informal a
greement among the three dis
trict superintendents, transfer
applications have been approved
almost unanimously, on thesis
that a child should attend the
school of his choice, where possi
ble. Mass transfer applications
might prevent continuance of
this policy, Mr. Grigg indicated,
adding that the county board
would seek to treat all transfer
applications by the same yard
stick.
He termed the present number
of transfer applications "about
normal”, said all of the Kings
Mountain area applications did
not indicate discontent over the
school merger election, now pen
ding final decision in Superior
Count.
Bethware FFA
At White Lake
Twenty members of the Beth
ware chapter of Future Farmers
of America are at White Lake
FFA camp this week.
The White Lake establish
ment, near Whiteville, is owned
and operated by the North Car
olina FFA, under the supervision
of (the state Department of Voca
tional Agriculture.
Leaving for White Lake by bus
Monday were William Wright
Jerry Marlowe, Dennis Beaty]
Gene Graham, Ricky Goforth,
Stan Queen, Robert Ledford,
Steve Queen, Bruce Seism, John
ny Jones, Bill Sparrow, Kenneth
Rayfield, Norman Webster, Ar
nle Horn, Nolan Seism, Paul
Seism, Bill Lail, Kenneth Cash,
Eddie Herndon, Principal R. G.
Franklin, Agriculture Teacher
Myers Hambright and the Ham
bright family.
The group will return home
Saturday afternoon.
Taxes Cheapest
During August
Cleveland County citizens may
prepay 1960 taxes in August and
obtain the maximum discount of
two percent.
However, the tax collector’s
aren’t anxious to receive pay
ments for the nexit few days.
Both the county board of com
missioners and the city board or
commissioners adopted budgets
and taxrates near the end of Ju
ly and both tax offices are rac
ing to prepare fax notices.
County Tax Collector Robert
M. Gidney said the county office
will follow its usual policy, mail
ing notices by August 10 to all
persons and firms which prepaid i
1959 taxes. Meantime, advance1
payment will create a double -1
bookkeeping situation, requiring
both temporary and permanent:
receipts.
He noted that taxpayers who \
didn’t prepay ifcax bills last year
and who wish to prepay 1960
bills should call his office. No- i
tices will then be mailed.
M. H. Biser, Kings . Mountain
tax collector, said his office will
continue the custom of mailing
ail tax notices as quickly as they
are completed. The city office
has already accepted some pre
payments.
MS CHAPTER GIVES GIFT — Pictured above as they presented a
wheelchair to W. F. (Billy) Houser are two representatives of Multi
ple Sclerosis Chapters in Cleveland County and North Carolina. At
left is Mrs. C. H. Mullls of Charlotte, chairman of the state chapter
of the National Foundation, and Mrs. Margaret Meagher of Shelby
of the County Chapter. Mr. Houser is one of five Cleveland COun
tians who are victims of this dread disease. The Margaret Meagher
Woman's club of Shelby has been instrumental in fund-raising for
MS during the three years the state and county chapters have been
organised. Kings Mountain recently participated in a fund drive for
multiple sclerosis.
Bloodmobile Back
For Visit Monday
Sow Gives Birth
To Litter Of 18
A Yorkshire sow owned by
Marvin Goforth gave birth to
a litter of 18 pigs last week.
Mr. Goforth, who said he ac
ited as veterinarian during the
births, said the four-yeair-old
Yorkshire was in labor six
hours.
Sixteen of the pigs lived.
“Looks like she could have
had two more,’’ Mr. Goforth
laughed.
Watterson Clan
Reunion Sunday
Descendants of the late John
W. Watterson and other related
families will gather at Lake
Grawfbrd Sunday for their an
nual reunion.
Picnic lunch will be served.
Committee on ' arrangements
iftdudes Mirs. W. O. Carter, Gas
tonia, Bun Watterson, Bessemer
City; and W. L. Watterson, Kings
Mountain.
Officials Say
Need For Blood
Continues Acute
The Red Cross Blood mobile re
turns to Kings Mountain Mon
day, with local officials hopeful
the new fiscal year will find
Kings Mountain area citizens
keeping ahead of quotas.
Mrs. O. W. Myers, chapter
Wood recruitment chairman, com
mented, “I hope we can keep a
head, certainly abreast, of our
quotas, rather than lagging be
hind. While there is customarily
a summer slump in giving of
blood, there is no slackening of
need and demand for blood.”
The Bloodmobile will be in op
eration at the Woman’ Club Mon
day from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Minimum quota is 125 pints.
There is a particular shortage,
Red Cross blood bank officials
have reported, in three of the
rarer types of blood, including
"A” negative, “AB” positive, and
(Continued On Page Eight)
Businessmen Want Free Telephone
Service On Their Gastonia Calls
BY MARTIN HARMON
Some Kings Mountain busi !
nossmen would like, and feel
the community should have, free
telephone service to Gastojiia.
W. K. Mauney, Jr., general
manager of Mauney Hosiery
Company and Carolina Throwing
Company, said Wednesday,
“Most of the mills do much bus
iness with Gastonia suppliers.” |
He further contends that Gas
ton county telephone subscribers;
have much more non-toll service
than do Cleveland County tele
phone subscribers and added It
appears that, with the forthcom
ing advent of dial operation and
fact that Kings Mountain’s long
distance calls are handled from
the Gastonia exchange, it should
be a relatively simple technical
matter to effect free service to
Gastonia from Kings Mountain.
John Cheshire, Jr., president of
the Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce, agreed with Mr.
Mauney on assessment of the
volume of commercial traffic be- j
tween Kings Mountain and Gas-1
tonia, and added that he felt
free service to Gastonia would
be highly beneficial.
Floyd Farris, manager of the
Southern Bell Kings Mountain
exchange, said he had no auth_
ority to make firm statements
regarding the proposal.
He continued, however, “I re
gard the possibility of free ser
vioe to Gastonia from Kings
(Continued cm Page Eight)
County Schools
To Begin Term 1
On Septembei 1
Kings Mountain and Park
Grace schools tentatively will
open for the 1960-61 term on Au
gust 30.
Counity schools, other than
Pairk Grace, and including Beth
ware, Compact, and Grover, will
open on August 31.
Kings Mountain and Park
Grace school operate on identi
cal schedules.
B. N. Barnes, Kings Mountain
superintendent, said the open
ing date likely will be formaliz
ed at an anticipated board of
education meeting next week.
Tn the county schools, teachers
will gather for the first time at
their respective schools on Au
gust 30, with children reporting
for a “short” day to draw books
and initial assignments on Au
gust 31. The first full school day
will be on September 1.
The anticipated city and Park
Grace schedules will be one day
in advance of the county school
schedule.
J. Horace Gragg, superinten
dent of county schools, said his
faculties are virtually complete.
“There are many teachers we’d
like to be abie to place and
can’t” Mr. Grigg commented.
“This county has always pro
duced a good supply of teadhers.
We seldom have a shortage ex
cept in some particular subject.
At the moment, for instance, one
principal is seeking a commer
cial teacher.”
Alexanders
Bound Over
Dieie Lou and John Alexander
were bound over to Cleveland
County Superior Court after a
preliminary hearing Monday in
City Recorder’s Court on charges
of laroeny of money and larceny
of an automobile.
The plaintiff, Virgil L. Camp
bell, charged that the brother
and sister team on July 27 had
Stolen $127 from him and forced
him out of his car. Both Alexan
ders entered pleas of not guilty.
Campbell fold the court that
he had asked the Alexanders to
accompany him to South Car
olina to get some beer and that
after the return to Kings Moun
tain he was robbed by the Alex
ander woman and shoved out of
his car. He said he proceeded to
call the police and did not see
hife car again until 11 o'clock the
next morning.
John Alexander, acting as his
own defense, charged that
Campbell was drunk on the dav
of the alleged robberies and that
he had asked Alexander to drive
him, along with the Alexander
woman, to get some beer. Alex
ander said that Campbell be
came hostile and when he was
threatened by Alexander, he
jumped from the car and ran a
way, leaving the car at Alexan
der's disposal.
Alexander testified further
that he had (taken the car home
because he could not find Camp
bell to return it. He said that he
had not driven it since the af
ternoon Campbell left him.
Mrs. Peggy H. Alexander, wife
of the defendant, testified that
she had driven the car to South
Carolina later the same evening
and had left it there when itj
failed to operate.
Campbell had charged that his
car was not only stolen but also
damaged in excess of $40
Alexander, age 22, was freed
on $1000 bond. His sister was re
leased on a $500 bond.
Privilege License
Penalty Applicable l
Penalty of five percent ap
plied Monday on 1960-61 city
privilege licenses.
City Clerk Joe H. McDaniel,
Jr., said $355 in privilege lic
ense purchases were made last
weekend in advance of the
penalty date, bringing (total
purchases through last week
ito $4250.25.
The city budget anticipates
income of $5600 from this sour
ce during the current fiscal
year. Mr. McDaniel said that
some of the current $1350 de
ficit could be attributable to
transients, but he guessed a
bout $1100 of 'the total repre
sented un purchased licenses
by local firms.