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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 tka flffun for (treater Xing* Mountain U derlred Iran #» IMS Bng» Moantala city directory nun. The dty UbH* figure U from the United State* nun at 1850. Established 18#9 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 18, i960 Pages Today VOL 71 No. 33 Seventy-First Year PRICE TEN CENTS Township Schools Faculties Listed Local News Bulletins REUNION The Hullender Clan will hold its annual (reunion Sunday, August 14th, at the Hullender Graveyard in Cleveland Coun ty. Picnic lunch will be spread at 1 p. m. and a business meet ing will be held, Mrs. Pauline H. Harris, secretary, has an nounced. ICE CREAM SUPPER Young Adults of El Bethel Methodist church will serve homemade cake and ioe cream at the El Bethel Clubhouse Saturday beginning at 6 p. m. Donations will be accepted for the building fund of the church and the interested pu blic is invited. HOMECOMING Homecoming Day services will be held at Dix)on Presby terian church on August 28th, and plans are underway for the event Picnic dinner will be spread following the morning worship hour and song ser vices will be featured in the afternoon. BAKE SALE Rainbow Girls will sponsor a bake sale Saturday, August 20th, beginning at 9 a.m. in the vacant building adjacent to Griffin Drug Company. Funds will benefit the foreign student exchange program in Kings Mountain. KIWANIS CLUB Dr. W. Wyan Washburn of Boiling Springs will give a re port of his recent trip tto Africa at Thursday’s meeting of the Kiwanis club. The club con venes at 6:45 p. m. at the Wo man’s club. LODGE MEETING An emergent communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic Hall, accord ing to announcement by Tho mas D. Tindall, secretary. OFFICE CLOSED The offices of Dr. L. T. An derson, chiropractor, will be closed from Thursday until August 25th while Dr. and Mrs. Anderson are vacationing at Cherry Grove Beach. The office will reopen on August 26th. AUXILIARY The August meeting of Otis D. Green Post 156, the Ameri can Auxiliary, has been post poned, a spokesman for the group said Wednesday. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday alt noon totaled $162.57, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., report ed. Included was $110.97 from on-street meters, $36 in over parking fees and $15.60 from off-street meters. Activity Bus Order To Be Placed Soon Supt B. N. Barnes discussed bus body specifications with a representative of Thomas Body Works, High Point, Tuesday, an ticipating the purchase of a school activity bus. Mr. Barnes said several types of bodies are available and he anticipates the order will be pla ced within the next week, with delivery indicated about 30 days after receipt of order. He said the buses vary in price from $5,000 to $9,000. Fishermen Kill Big Rattlesnake A group of Kings Mountain folk went fishing Sunday after noon and returned with another kind of prize. The game was a four-foot rat tlesnake bearing 14 rattles. David - Lock ridge killed the snake, which he and his party had observed crossing Highway 1448 between Bessemer City and High Shoals. Others in the group were James Lockridge, Marshall Lock ridge and Dean Moore. Two Vacancies Remain; Opening Date August 31 School bells will ring for pupils of Grover, Bethware, and Com pact schools in the county sys tem on Wednesday, August 31st. The county school opening for the 1960-61 term follows by one day the beginning of the new term for pupils of Park Grace and Kings (Mountain city schools on Tuesday, August 30th. Teachers will report at Grover, Bethware, and Compact on Au gust 30th and students will reg ister, receive books and other supplies on August 31st. The first full-day session will be on Thursday, September 1st. Faculties were virtually com plete for the Kings Mountain area schools in the county this week, with the exception of Beth ware where two elementary tea cher vacancies exist. Some teach er contracts had not 'been return ed to the County Board of Edu cation yesterday but it was antic ipated all faculties near-complete. Principal R G. Franklin re ported two new elementary tea chers had been elected at Beth ware and two former elementary teachers had joined (the high school faculty. Newly-elected teachers are Mrs. Dorcus C. White, second grade, and Mrs. Norma Tyner, eighth grade. Mrs. Eddys L. Ware joins the high school staff as teacher of English and Mrs. Mattie B. Lowery be comes high school teacher of home economics and mathemat ics. Other members of the Beth ware faculty, in addition to the principal and the newly-elected teachers, include: Mrs. Katherine B. Moss and Mrs. Letha B. Mor ris, first grades; Mrs. Made Sou ther, third grade; Mrs. Hugh Or mand, third grade; Mrs. Jessie Lee Hond, fourth grade; Mrs. J. L. Hallman, fifth grade; Mrs. Ray Greene and Mrs. Ethel Crook, sixth grades; Mrs. Kate Willis, seventh grade, William (Bill) Powell, biology, chemistry, physical education and driver's education; Blaine Froneberger, sodal studies and girls’ basket ball coach; and Myers Hambri ght, vocational agriculture Mr. Powell is also coach of the boys’ basketball team. Prindpal James Scruggs re ported the election of two new high school teachers at Graver. Ben Lewis Poston of Shelby re places Preston Holt as teacher of social studies and physical edu cation and Mrs. Donald Crotts joins the faculty as high school math and science teacher. Mr Scruggs and W. C. Kiser, sixth grade teacher, will coach boys and girls basketball. Other members of the Grover faculty include: Miss Lillian Quinn, high school English; Mrs. Preston Holt, home economics and science; Paul Hambright, ag riculture; Mrs. Edith Jones and Mrs. Elizabeth McGill, first gra des; Mrs. M. H. Biser and Mrs. Patsy Whitesides, second grades; Mrs. Carolyn Roard and Mrs. Dessie Cox, third grades; Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, fourth grade; Mass Aileene Mullinax and Miss Piocola Blalock, fifth grades; Mr. Kiser and Miss Dorothy McCraw, sixth grades; Miss Lowell Ellis and Miss Sara Cooksey, seventh grades; and Mrs. Margaret Cro cker, eighth grade. iFrancipal L. L. Adams announ ced faculties complete at Com pact for the coming year. Mem bers of the high school faculty will include: M. L. Campbell, ag riculture; Miss M. R. Adair, home economics; Mrs. H. C. Wil son, English and French; Jaimes <Continued On Page Eight) | TO GEORGIA — Dr. Dwight j Ware has joined Dr. W. S. Thor pe in Austell, Ga. in the practice of dentistry. A recent graduate of Emory University School of i Dentistry, Dr. Ware is the son of | Mr. and Mrs. L, L. Ware of Kings | Mountain. * City Approves Street Work The board of city commision ers approved several street im provements petitions at last Thursday’s regular meeting, with an “if and when funds are a vailable” contingency. Approved for curb-and-gutter installations were: 1) About 200 feet on Baker street to Railroad (Burlington Industries property), and 2) Henry street, from Kath erine to Rhodes avenue. Approved far paving were these streets: 1) Monroe avenue, from Jack son to Groves street; 2) N. Carpenter street, from Parker north to dead end. 3) Fourth street, from Linwood to England Store. 4) E. Ridge street, from Orien tal east to house past J. C. Clary residence. Three rezoning petititions were presented and the board ordered public hearing on the petitions for September 14. Ab Yarbro seeks rezoning of a W. King street lot from residen tial to neighborhood trading a rea, and Fred Wright, Jr., seek ing same designation change on the corner lot at Tracy and Ellis streets. J. E. Herndon, Jr., asked rezon ing of several adjoining lots on Deal street, behind Bridges Auto Parts, to industrial designation. A group of citizens living near West school asked that four-way stop signs be erected at the in tersection of Piedmont avenue and Ridge street and at Gaston and Ridge streets. The petition ers termed the intersections “hazardous”. The commissioners ordered a 60-day trial for the four-way stop signs. The board, on advice of Grady | Queen, radio serviceman, voted to purchase a base station at an approximate cost of $360. Cemetery Superintendent Sam R. Suber said He felt he deserved a raise to $300 per month from the $265 he now receives, and a committee, including Ben H. Brid ges, Boyce Gault, and Coleman Stroupe was named to report and recommend on the matter of salaries of department heads. The board voted to purchase 3000 feet of two-inch galvanized pipe, when funds are available. Joe Cornwell, who’d paid a fine, for speeding in the Deal Street pool area, told the commissioners he felt speed limit signs should I be posted in the area uuns ntniu Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club, their families and guests will eat picnic din ner art Bethany ARP chlurch on the York Road Tuesday night B. T. Wright is chairman of the committee on arrangements. Guest reservations should be made with him. Bethware Fair Season Underway; Annual Barbecue Held Wednesday Plans for the annual Bethware Community Fair were going for ward this week, Fair Manager Mjyers Harribright announced. The 13th annual fair will be held September 14-17 on the grounds of Bethware School and is a community event, again un der sponsorship of the Bethware Progressive ClUb. Kick-off to the Fair, a commu nity barbecue attended by pa trons and other guests, was held on Wednesday. Fair booklets, official catalogs which list rules, regulations, pre miums plus advertisements and other information about the e vent, were being distributed this week. 4; Fair President Dale Vollbradht commented, “The fact that this is the 13th consecutive year that the Bethware Progressive Club has presented a community fair attests to its acceptance as a real community institution." He con tinued, “That’s what we have constantly strived to make it’’ The community fair includes a full program of events plus ex hibits, midway rides for the kid dies, and fireworks displays. The fair opens at 1 p. m. and closes at midnight. IMiss Patsy Ann Bolin is Queen of the 1960 Fair. Miss Bolin, a native of the Bethware Commu nity, will reign at opening fes tivities. School Assignment Plan Adopted Two Teachers Elected; Two Vacancies Left Kings Mountain board of edu cation elected two eighth grade teachers and lost one previously elected during the past week Elected to the city schools fac ulty thi6 week were: Mrs. Wilson Griffin, of Kings Mountain, a former faculty member, and Mrs. Johnnie M. Queen, of Shelby. Superintendent B. N. Barnes reported that Mrs. Donald Bridg es, elected an eighth grade teach er the previous week, Had declin ed to accept the proffer. The elections leave two faculty vacancies, one for the eighth grade, the other in driver’s edu cation. Though Supt. Barnes said he anticipated no difficulty In filling the positions, he suggested and was voted authority to employ teachers to fill the vacancies without prior 'board of education action. In other actions, the board: 1) Amended its local funds budget by increasing income and outgo $6,000. Supt 'Barnes told the board a $6,000 income item in savings and loan association di vidends from capital funds in vestments had been inadvertent ly omitted. The amount was bud geted for capital outlay in the spending column, bringing this figure to $220,574. The total lo cal funds budget, as amended, is $308,012. 2) Approved increase in salary of Fred Withers, high school fac ulty member, head baseball coach and junior varsity football team, of $100 per year. 3) Voted to accept an offer of Mrs. D. H. Houser of $1500 for a portion of her residential lot which adjoins the Central school plant, and voted erection of a fence between the property of Mrs. Henry Jones and Mrs. Hou ser and the Central plant prop erty. 4) Approved payment of about $160 balance due James Mullins, Gastonia lawyer, for legal work in connection with the school consolidation litigation. United Fund Sets Annual Meeting Annual meeting of members of Kings Mountain United Fund, Inc., will be held August 25 at 8 p. m. at City Hall Courtroom, it was announced (this week by Sam Stallings, president. Business of the meeting will include presentation of reports of officers and election of dir ectors for the coming year. The non-profit eleeraonsynary organisation is beginning its sec ond year. Last year, nine organizations participated in the joint fund raising effort Other officers of the organiza tion are J. C. Bridges, vice-presi dent; Wesley Bush, secretary; and R. D. Lennon, treasurer. Directors include the officers and Grady Howard, George H. Mauney, 3. A. Gihson and W. B. Grimes. Teachers Win Master's Degree Two Kings Mountain teachers recently won their master of arts degrees from Appalachian State Teacher’s College at Boone. Myers T. Hambrighit, vocation al agriculture teacher at Beth ware high school, completed the requirmenits in the spring for his master’s degree. Mrs] Rachel Ann Hardin Clime of Grower /rnd Kings Mountain received her master of arts de gree in commencement exercises Monday following the close of summer school. Lingle To Speak To Methodists Paul LingSe of Statesville will show slides as he gives a pro gram on Cuba at the Sunday ev ening service at Penley*s Chapel (Methodist Church. (Mr. Lingle will speak at the 7 o’clock service, the pastor, W. L. Huffstetler, has announced. As a member of the Cuban Mission, Mr. Lingle, a Statesville city councilman and member of the Boulevard Methodist Church, spent sometime in Cuba. “We invite the interested pub lic to hear (Mr. Lingle at this ser vice,” Mir. Huffstetler added. Two ’’Daughters” Expected At Hovis Home During W eek DANISH VISITOR — Kirsten Za cho is Kings Mountain's third visitor in the American Field Service Exchange program. She arrives from Denmark next week. Block Teaching Is Possibility Eighth grade students in Kings Mountain’s Central'school may get a sample of “block work”, or departmentalized tea ching, this year. To a question by school board members Monday night, Supt. B. N. Barnes told the board, “We don’t know whether we can do it, or not.” He pointed out that, with eight eighth grades in one plant it might be possible and that he had been discussing the possi bility with Miss Alice Averitt, teadhnng supervisor and with Harry Jaynes, Central principal. Under the "block” type of tea ching, teachers would specialize in particular subjects and teach specialty in several classes. Supt. Barnes explained further that departmentalization was in vogue at onetime for elementary grades, but fell into disrepute. Now, he added, the trend of thinking is to resume depart mental work In junior high school, though not in the lower elementary grades. Gold SL Church Sets Homecoming East Gold Street Wesleyan Me thodist Church will observe Homecoming Day at special ser vices on Sunday. i Rev. H. Y. Carter, pastor of Greensboro’s Broadview Wesley an Church and a former pastor of the host church, will deliver the morning message at the 11 o’clock hour. After the morning service, the church members and visitors will gather for picnic lunch. The Summitt Family of Gas tonia and the Meadheam Trio of Forest City are among special singers for the afternoon song service. Other singers from the community and area churches are invited to participate. Members of the Homecoming committee include Joe Wheeler, Fred Bowers, and Robert Pear son. Rev. Clyde R. Goodson is pastor of the church. I Legion Seeking 155-mm. Cannon Congressman Basil WhiiteneT has advised officials of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Le gion, that he is asking the chief of ordnance, Department of the Army, to do what he can to ob tain a 155-millimeter gun far the local Legion post. The Legion post wants to in stall the World War II piece in its yard in front of the Legion building. PIEDMONT ALUMNI Alumni of Piedmont School will gather for a reunion Sat urday, with registration from 3 until 5 p. m., followed by a buffet supper in the school ca feteria Claude Grigg, superin tendent of Albemarle city schools, will make the princi pal address. Danish Girl, Kirsten Zacho, ATS Student BY ELIZABETH STEWART The T. Lewis Hovises are ex pecting arrival home of two “daughters” next week. Miss Nancy Hovis, away from home for the past two months, will arrive in New York Wednes day from the Netherlands where she was Kings Mountain’s repre sentative in ithe American Field Sendee summer program. The other “daughter”, Miss Kirsten Zacho, 18, will arrive in New York Saturday from Ham mermum, Denmark, will live with the Hovis family this year while she, along with the Hovis es’ own daughter, finish high school. Miss Zacho is Kings Moun tain’s third exchange student and the first girl student to visit this eommumiity under ithe aus pices of the American Field Ser vice Exchange program. The five-foot-five brunette speaks five languages and has already finished high school in Denmark where her father is a manufact urer of knitwear. Correspondence from their daughter in the Netherlands has told the Hovis family more about the young Danish visitor. Al though Miss Zacho has written Mrs. Hovis, she has had more cor respondence with Nancy Hovis. Young Miss Hovis had told her mother, “I expeat to see Kirsten off when she leaves, Denmark.” In a letter to her mother Wed nesday Miss Hovis said, ‘‘Al though I didn’t get to see Kirs ten when she left Denmark, Mary Ke Brunt did get to talk with her. Miss Hovis has been Miss Brunt’s “big sister” in Arn hem, where she has lived with Dr. and Mrs. Gerritt Brunt. In Bussum, during part of her stay in the Netherlands, the Kings Mountain student lived in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Heirbrecht Verhagen. Miss Zacho has said she enjoys tennis, horseback riding and scouting activities. She has trav eled in Europe and spent vaca tions in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Other members of her family are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johannse Sahlhol dt Zacho, and a 13-year-old bro ther. Cassedy Named GOPChaiman Cleveland County Republicans 'have named Pierce A. Cassedy, sales manager for Grover’s Bax ter Corporation, as county chair man. (Mrs. E. Earle Moore, of Route 1, Shelby, was re-elected vice chairman, and Russell G. Laugh ridge, of Shelby, was named sec retary-treasurer. Cassedy resides in Shelby. Same 40 Republicans attended the county rally Saturday. Cassedy is a former navy pilot. AT CONVENTION Fire Chief Pat Tignor, Mrs. Tignar, Chaplain H. D. Gar mon, Mrs. Garmon, and P. D. Fulton are representing the lo cal fire department at a fire man’s convention at Carolina Beach this week. FROM NETHERLANDS — Nancy Hovis, who has been spending the summer in the Netherlands as a recipient of an AFS scholar ship, is expected home next week. County To Act On Transfers The county board of education will aat on irequesits far transfers to other district schools Thurs day. County Superintendent J. Hor ace Grigg said the board will convene at 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The board had previously set an August 15 deadline on trans fer applications. Mir. Grigg said (there had not been a great number of addi tional transfer applications and estimated the number of Grover and Bethware students asking to attend Kings Mountain schools at 18 to 20. Mr. Grigg saiid there had been no change in number of appli cants who wish to attend Kings Mountain high school. One more applied for transfer and another withdrew his application, leav ing a total of seven in this cat egory. Mr. Grigg said he wouldn’t predict board of education action but noted that past policy had found the board honoring trans fer requests. Norwood To Lead El Bethel Series Rev. Bruce A. Norwood, newly installed pastor of El Bethel Me thodist churdh, will (begin a week of evangelistic services at the church on Sunday. Services will continue nightly at 7:30 through August 28th. Mr. Norwood came to El Beth el from the Oak Grove St Paul’s Charge and recently completed his ministerial training at Duke Divinity School of Duke Univer sity. He and his wife and two daughters, Elaine and Barbara, have occupied the El Bethel par sonage. (The new El Bethel pastor as sumed his new duties in June succeeding the Rev. Frank E. Blalock. “We invite the interested com munity to join with us in these special services,” Mr. Norwood added. Big Jet "Buzzed" Kings Mountain But Not For Sport, Says Billing A big Eastern Airlines Lock heed Electra played hide-and-seek over Kings Mountain the early evening of August 9 before it fin ally put down in Greenville, S. C. (Many townspeople noticed the big plane and wondered if it was having mechanical difficulty. It wasn't, but there was some measure of air-to-ground connec. tion involved, as the pilot was R. F. (Buck) Dilling, Kings Mountain native who has been piloting Eastern planes for about 30 years. , Pilot Dilling wasn’t "buzzing” Kings Mountain for sport. Anelectrical storm had caused a power blackout at Charlotte’s Douglas Municipal airport and Pilot Dilling was using Dallas, Shelby, and Kings Mountain as navigational points for circling while he awaited the repair job. After the Greenville landing, he later flew to Charlotte to disem bark passengers at intended point of departure. Pilot Dilling only recently be gan flying the big jets, after a two-month training course. He told members of his family here that flying the big, fast jets, com pared to piston engine planes, is comparable to the difference in driving ancient Fords and mod em Cadillacs. Mr. Dilling, who lives in At lanta, Ga., is the son of Mrs. W. S. Dilling and brother of Mrs. B. W. Gillespie. Changes Minor From 1959 - 60 Assignments The city board of education has adopted its pupil assignment plan for the coming year and, except for providing for removal of a sixth grade from the Central plant, is virtually unchanged from the 1959-60 assignment plan. Under the plan, three seventh grades, eight eighth grades, and high school students will attend the Central plant. Central school students who attended the lone fifth grade at Central last year and who live in the area bounded by the west side of Gaston street and Child ers street, are assigned to West school. The board states, in a legal no tice appearing in today’s issue of the Herald, “The board realizes that transfers will be necessary to adjust the teaching load be tween the schools and reserves the right to change individual assignments (to meet this need." Supt. B. N. Barnes noted, in discussing the pupil assignment plan with education board mem bers Monday, that the principal apparent overload, will be in the fourth grade of Bast school. Last year’s pupil attendance records indicate there will be 78 fourth graders at East school, and 57 each at North and West schools. “1A few volunteers to attend North and West would be wel come," Mr. Barnes added. He continued, “The present outline of potential grade popu lation is the best we can get it today. There will be some chan ges, due to fact that some citi zens have moved from one area to another, and that new citizens have moved to Kings Mountain. Where parents prefer (that their children attend schools oth er than those to which they are assigned, they may ask that their children he transferred. Mr. Barnes said that transfer appli cation blanks may be obtained at his office in the Central build ing. Salient portion assignment res olution for 1960-61 follows: “Children are assigned to the same schools they attended last year. Pre-school children are as signed to the schools in which they are registered. The follow ing exceptions are made to this assignment: 1. Children having satisfactor ily completed the 7th grade at the North School and the 6th grade at the West School are assigned to the Central School. “2. Children in grades 1 throu gh 7 living on Railroad Avenue north of the Gaston Street inter section, Clinton Drive, Hill Street, Gillespie Street, Baker Street east of railroad, Cherry Street, Walnut Street, Chestnut Street, Bennett Drive, First Street, Second Street, Cleveland (Continued on Page Eight) Mauney Hosiery Gets US Contract CHARLOTTE — Mauney Hos iery Mills, Inc., of Kings Moun tain, was among North Carolina small business firms receiving 28 federal government contracts during July through Government Procurement officers located in North Carolina. The Mauney contract was for men’s socks and amounted to $278,820. In announcing these awards, R. B. Soming, Charlotte branch manager of the Small Business adminstration, stated that more than $200,000 in awards made as a result of SBA’s oo-opertive set aside program with Government purchasing agencies, will serve as a means of bringing dollars to the community and perhaps additional job opportunities. ■Under this set-aside program, SB A representatives, in coopera tion with purchasing officers of civilian and defense agencies, reserve proposed contracts for exclusive competitive awards to small business firms. School Holiday Calendar Approved The Kings Mountain board of education this week approved a 1960-61 calendar including 15 holidays. One holiday will be given for the district teacher’s meeting, two at Thanksgiving, and two at Easter. Christmas holidays will be for two weeks. It’s the same schedule of hol idays long customary here. This schedule calls for the term beginning August 30 to end about June 1, 1961.
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