Population
Greater Kings Mountain i0,320
City Limits 7.206
n» figure lor Greater Kings Mountain Is derived Iron
the 1905 Kings Mountain city directory census. Tbs city
Units llgvre Is from tne United States census of 1950.
Pages
Today
VOL. 71 No. 37
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 15, I960
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
MAYOR PUSHES DIAL SERVICE BUTTON — Mayor Glee A Bridges
is pictured pushing a button to convert Kings Mountain's telephone
operation to dial service. The cut-over, accomplished at midnight
Saturday, was made with a minimum of difficulties. Southern Bell
officials said.
Cut-Over To Dial
Termed Smooth
Local News
Bulletins
AT BEAUTY SCHOOL
Miss Peggy Ross, Mrs. Ersk
ine Watterson and Mirs. Gene
Tignor represented Kings
Mountain Drug Company
Tuesday at Helena Rubinstein
Beauty School held in Char
lotte.
HOSPITALIZED
Miss Kittie Lou Sutton, math
instructor at Kings Mountain
High School is convalescing at
Kings Mountain Hospital
where- she underwent emer
gency surgery Thursday. Dr.
George Plonk, attending physi
cian, said Wednesday Miss
Sutton is doing well.
KIWANJS CLUB
Kings Mountain Kiwaniaris
will hear a program by a re
presentative of Southern Bell
Telephone Company at the
Thursday night meeting. The
dub convenes at 6:45 at the
Woman’s club.
FIRES
City firemen were called to
douse a fire in the cotton gin
at Kings Mountain Cotton Oil
Company on Hawthorne Road
Monday afteroon. Cause of the
fire was unknown and only
slight damage was reported.
ACTIVITY BUS
Supt. B. N. Barnes said Wed
nesday he will be comparing
some new model buses this
weekend to select a new activi
ties bus for the city schools. He
said the purchase will proba
bly be made next week.
TRAINING SCHOOL
A leadership training school for
officers, and circle leaders of
women’s groups in Kings Moun
tain Presbyterial will toe held at
Olney Presbyterian church, Gas
tonia, September 25th at 3 p. m.
Women of area Presbyterian
Churches are invited to attend.
FAMILY NIGHT SUPPER -
Dr. Margaret White, returned
missionary to Pakistan, will speak
Monday night at a family night
picnic to be held toy Boyce Me
morial ARP church art 6:45 p. m.
The ehurdh will toe holding its
annual JUbilee Birthday Party.
NORTH PTA MEETS
The North elementary school
PTA will meet Tuesday night
at 7:30 in ithe school auditor
ium. A back-ito-school program
has been arranged and all par
ents are invited to attend and
visit the classroom.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
ithe week ending Wednesday
at noon totaled $125.20. On
street meters returned $84.80,
courtesy parking fee payments
$28, and off-Street meters
$12.40, City Clerk Joe McDaniel
said.
Bell Officials
Say Problems
At Minimum
Kings Mountain telephone us
ers wasted no time in sampling
dial operation early Sunday
morning.
Manager Floyd Farris, Engi
neer Jack Barham and out-of
town Southern Bell officials
termed the heavy influx of calls
—'beginning as quickly as the
dial system cut-over was made —■
heavier than they’d witnessed at
other cut-overs. i
Engineer Barham termed the
cut-over “very successful.’’ He
added, “It was about the smooth
est I’ve ever participated in and
I”ve been in a lot of 'em.” Mr.
Farris, veteran of five cut-overs,
echoed Mr. Barham’s remarks.
Mr. Barham said change-over
difficulties were at a minimum
and credited most of them to lack
of knowledge of some subscrib
ers on how to dial.
He listed them:
1) Some subscribers were con
fused about the area code num
ber appearing on their new
number discs. This number (704)
currently is of no use to the sub
scriber, will come into use in the
future in connection with direct
long distance dialing.
2) Some subscribers, desiring
the operator, dialed the “MNO”
slot, rather than the “Operator O"
slot, while others dialed “©HI”
when they needed instead the
numeral “1”.
3) Subscribers on four-party li
nes had difficulty distinguishing
rings. Mr. Barham explained for
benefit of these subscribers:
Phones 1 and 2 get one long
ring, while Phones 3 and 4 are
buzzed with two Short rings. Hp
added that phones 1 and 3 ring
together, and 2 and 4 ring toge
ther.
Mr. Farris said therd were 18
service complaints early Sunday
morning and a few more on Sun
day and MIonday.
IA few folk who rent two phon
es and thought they had ordered
rotary ringing (if one line is
busy the second phone rings au
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Insurance Firms
Would Guarantee
$100 Alarm Fee
Only 13 houses in the adjacent |
city areas formerly enjoying j
"protected suburban” fire insur- j
ance rates are not covered with |
the insurance rider guaranteeing
payment to the city for answer-1
ing fire alarms to these areas.
Wesley Bush, spokesman forj
Kings Mountain insurance a-1
gents, reported results of a sur-1
vey on this coverage to the board
of commissioners last week and
told the board that the agents
would guarantee payment of the
fire-fighting fee if the commis
sion would furnish blanket prp-1
tedtion to these areas.
The commission indicated
sympathy with thd" agents’ ap
peal but deferred aoticm pending
information on whether, with
blanket fire protection of these
areas, the North Carolina Fire
Rating bureau would restore the
“protected suburban” rate res
cinded effective August 25.
The order by the rating bureau
meant a large increase in costs
at fire and extended coverage in
surance to some 140 Kings Moun
tain residences outside the city
limits but within 1,000 feet of a
fire hydrant. _
The city requires posting of a
fee, either by cash or endorse
ment on fire insurance policies,
that a $100 fee will be paid by
the property-owner if the city
answers an alarm outside the
city limits.
The commission approved
3 re-zoning petitions as fol
lows: 1) to business zone, prop
erties of Warren Reynolds and D.
-C. Mauney Heirs at the north
corner of Cleveland avenue and
East Ring Street; 2) to neighbor
hood- trading areas, Wright pro
perty at the corner of Troy and
Ellis streets; 3) to industrial
zone, Herndon property on the
eastside of Deal street.
The board also;
1) Accepted low bid of $3450
by Kings Mountain Landscaping
Company for cutting grades and
fills in Country Club Estates.
2) Approved installation of 650
feet curb-and-gutter on Chest
nut Drive in Crescent Hill and
on Sims street from W. Mountain
to King.
3) Approved paving of 766 feet
on Polar Courts, 375 feet on
Landing street, and Bridges
street, from Ramseur to the city
limits.
4) Declined a request from Bob
Smith, Benfield drive, for release
from city taxes, pending certi
fication by the county surveyor
that the property in question is
outside the city.
5) Approved charge-off of tax
es for two years on B. B. Phil
lips property which was found
outside the city.
6) Ordered a no parking zone
on City Street, from the city’s
garage to Mountain Street.
7) Declined a request from Jim
Kerns for reimbursement of $137
Mir. Kerns expended in paying
for a water line to his home off
Edgemont Drive. Mayor Glee
Bridges said minutes of the city
showed Mr. Kerns was due re
imbursement when as many as
four houses are using the line, j
8) Took no action on a request
by Mir. and Mrs. W. K. Crook for
an anti-smoke ord inance.
9) Heard a request from Put
nam Brothers Garage for natural
gas service and indicated it
would be provided if sufficient
neighboring customers could be
obtained. Line installation cost
was estimated alt $2500.
10) Purchased a letter openeT
from Garland E. Still, for $39.50.
Miss Hoffman Hopes To Make Ghana
Tribal Dialed Written Language
BY DAVID BAITY
Miss Margaret Hoffman, for
mer teacher at Kings Mountain
High school, leaves next week
for a year's stay in Ghana where
she will be conducting an inves
tigation of the language of the
Akposo, a small African tribe on
the (border of Gnana and Togo
land.
Miss Hoffman’s research pro
ject is under a Ford Foundation
West African language survey re
search fellowship. She will be
conducting a survey of neighbor
ing related languages in addition
to studying that of the Akposo.
She studied techniques of lang
uage analysis at Indiana Univer
sity and the University of Okla
homa. She taught linguistics from
1966 until 1959 at the Nyack Mis
sionary college in Nyack, New
York, and at the Kennedy School
of Missions in Hartford, Connec
ticut, during the 1959-60 term.
She is presently a candidate
for a master’s degree in linguis
tics at the Kennedy school.
She taught English at Kings
Mountain High school during the
1953-54 term.
Since 1956 Miss Hoffman has
been employed for part of each
summer by the National Council
of Churches on the staff of the
Meadville Missionary Training
conference, teaching fundamen
tals of language study to new
missionaries.
She has done similar teaching
at the Toronto Inatitue of ling
uistics for Canadian missionaries
of all denominations.
She holds an A. B. degree from
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BOOK PUBLISHED — Dr. James
A. Carpenter, Kings Mountain
native, is the author of a theo
logical study on the writings of
the founder of the Anglican
church. The book was recently
published by a London firm.
Dr. Caipentei's
Book Published
A book by a Kings Mountain
native, Rev. James A. Carpenter,
has been published recently by
a London, England, publisher.
The work is a study in theolo
gy, entitled “Gore, a Study in
Liberal Catholic Thought.”
It was Dr. Carpenter’s thesis,
requirement for his attaining the
degree of doctor of philosophy at
Cambridge university.
Now rector of St. Timothy’s E
piscopal church, Alexandria, La.,
Dr. Carpenter served two years
as an armyi chaplain in Japan,
subsequently studied a year at
St. Andrew’s university, in Scot
land under a Fulbright scholar
ship before completing work for
a doctorate at Oxford and Cam
bridge.
A comment on Dr. Carpenter’s
book stated.
“This work, which in the opin
ion of several experts is not on
ly likely ito become the standard
work on Gore’s theology but is
in its own right an important
contribution to Anglican divinity,
gives a very full and well docu
mented account of the thought
of Bishop Gore, perhaps the most
outstanding Anglican figure of
his time, and a seminal influ
ence in our (Anglican) Church
today.
.Mr. Carpenter, who is the first
person to have made an exhaus
tive study of all his writings, ex
amines successively Gore’s idea
of Catholicism, of the relation of
Prophecy ito Philosophy, his con
cept of the historical nature of
Christianity, his view of Author
ity, his doctrine of the Incarna
tion and Redemption, the Chur
ch and its mission to society.”
Dr. Carpenter is married to the
former Mary Louise Dunbar, a
graduate of St. Catherine school,
Richmond, Va., and Vassar col
lege.
He is a son of Clarence E. Car
penter, of Kings Mountain, and
Mrs. Bess Webb Carpenter, of
Shelby.
Weaver 60-Year
Church Member
Sunday was a special day for
W. D. Weaver.
“Mr. Will'', who attended
church as usual with his fam
ily, was celebrating what he
calls “my anniversary.”
Mr. Weaver joined First Bap
tist Church 60 years ago on Sun
day. Baptized at age 16 he is
still an active church member
and former Sunday School tea
cher.
Mrs. Weaver, the former Geor
ganna Moss, joined ithe First
Baptist church one year after Mr.
Weaver.
The same minister who bap
tized ithe Weavers also perform
ed their wedding ceremony 55
years ago last December.
Mir. Weaver came to Kings
Mountain in 1900, worked in a
textile mill and subsequently be
gan ^his carpenter trade. He is a
native of Cleveland County,
reared near Grover. Mrs. Weaver
grew up in a community near
Earl Station.
The Weavers have one daugh
ter, Mrs. W. F. McGill. They live
on Gold street.
AT CREDIT CLINIC
Mrs. Luther Joy, Merchants
Association secretary, attend
ed the Southern Consumer Cre
dit Clinic held at Hotel Char
lotte on Wednesday.
13th Annual Bethware Fair
Opens; Three Days Remain
Exhibits, Rides,
Fireworks
On Fair Bill
Three full days remain at the
13th Annual Bethware Com
munity Fair Which opened Wed
nesday.
Exhibits will be on display
through Saturday at midnight at
the Bethware high school agri
culture building and cafeteria.
Prizes are being offered exhibi
tors in all divisions.
Thursday has been designated
as Children’s Day. As a special
attraction, lowered rates for
rides in the midway will be of
fered the kiddies Thursday aft
ernoon. Prize drawings and fire
works displays will be featured
again on Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday evenings.
The Fair opens at 1 p. m. and
closes at midnight.
An expanded list of exhibits
should make for a bigger and bet
ter Fair, Bethware Progressive
Club spokesmen pointed out. This
year’s version of the Community
Fair has been further designed
to reflect the many advances and
Changes in agriculture and the
commercial and industrial fields,
it was noted.
There is no admission charge.
The Fair is under sponsorship
of the Bethware Progressive
Club and is held each year on the
grounds of Bethware school.
Miss Patsy Ann «olin is
Queen of the 1960 Bethware Fair.
Craftspun Sale
May Be Near
Craftspun Yarns, Inc., Kings
Mountain yarn-manufacturing
firm, may be sold in the near fu
ture.
James D. Johnson, president
of Craftspun’s parent firm,
Scranton Corporation of Scran
ton, Pa., has told the manage
ment committee of the Kings
Mountain firm that agreement
for ithe sale has been completed
but that the principals desiring
to purchase the firm have not
been revealed.
The sale is dependant on ap
proval of federal court, as Scran
ton Corporation is bankrupt and
being operated under Chapter X
of the federal bankruptcy laws.
The Herald was unable .tocon
tact Wednesday J. C. Levy, of
Scranton, one of the Scranton
Company’s trustees in bankrupt- j
cy.
Scranton Corporation, among
numerous others, went info
bankruptcy, after revelations of
financial manipulations of one
time president, A. L. Guterma,
now serving a term in federal
prison. Craftspun Yarns, not in
bankruptcy, is, nevertheless, a
wholly owned subsidiary of the
parent firm.
Craftspun currently employs,
about 245 persons.
It is being managed by an ex
ecutive committee including
Harold Phillips, superintendent,
and Robert Lowe, accountant and
manager of the firm’s novelty di
vision.
No operational changes are
anticipated, Mr. Johnson told the
Craftspun officials.
School Board
Meets Monday
Kings Mountain City School |
Board will meet In regular ses-|
sion Monday at 7:30 p. m. in the
superintendent’s office at Cen
tral school.
The meeting will be, in Supt
B. N. Barnes words, a routine
session.
Mr. Barnes could outline no
definite agenda, but said the
board would discuss the propos
ed purchase of the Houser pro
perty adjoining Central school.
The board for some time has
been trying to acquire a strip of
land from Mrs. G. E. Still and
Mirs. D. H. Houser adjoining the
school yard which would be used
as a service road for buses and
; oars.
MISS BETHWARE FAIR — Miss Patsy Ann Bolin is Queen of the
1960 Bethware Fair which opened Wednesday under sponsorship of
Bethware Progressive Club.
Local Democrats
To Hear Kennedy
Constitution Week
Observance Set
Colonel Frederick Hambri
ght Chapter, DA1R, is calling
attention this week to the ob
servance Sept. 17-23 of Consti
tution Week.
The week-long observance is
conducted nation - wide and cel
ebrates the birth of the Consti
tution.
Members of the local DAft
organization asked Kings Moun
tain citizens to remember those
personal rights, opportunities,
and freedoms that "live forever
in the minds of the founders of
the nation and In the building
of the government.”
FILM
The missionary film, "Beyond
the Bells” will be shown at serv
ices Sunday night at the local
Four Square Church located at
the comer of Church Street and
Linwood Drive. .
I
Kings Mountain
To Take Part
In Motorcade
Cleveland County Democrats
expect to form a mammoth mo
torcade to Charlotte Saturday
afternoon to greet Presidential
nominee Jack Kennedy and to
hear him speak at Charlotte’s
Coliseum.
Plans mapped by the county
Democratic Executive committee
call for a minimum 50-car mo
torcade.
Ollie Harris, chairman of East
Kings Mountain precinct, says
Kings Mountain participants in
the motorcade will gather at the
National Guard Armory area on;
Phifer road and join the car car-;
avan proceeding from Shelby at
the intersection of Phifer with
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Octogenarian Logue Ramsey Climbs
Roofs And Takes 18-Mile Strolls
By MARTIN HARMON
A Kings Mountain citizen for
many years was in process of
shinnying up a ladder.
“A youngster,” he explained,
‘‘had propelled a toy airplane to
his roof and he had to retrieve
It"
To a suggestion he might be
a little old for climbing escapa
des, Logue Ramsey, age 84, lau
ghed, "I do this all the time. I
was up here yesterday patching
the roof.”
Mr. Ramsey may well lay
claim to toeing a world's champ
ion walker, especially among oc
togenarians.
On September 5, he deckled to
walk to Cherokee Falls, S. C.. to
see relatives and reached Blacks
burg, S. C., where a daughter
Intervened and forced him to
iride the remainder of the way. A
nephew had told him he’d bring 1
him home on Saturday with the
admonition, “You’re not going to
walk.’’
Mr. Ramsey left Friday.
“You see I like to walk,” he i
grinned, “adding that some
years ago a medical doctor told
him to walk as a means to good
health.”
The prescription obviously
works.
He walks, he says, from three
to four miles daily and appears
to be the picture of health. A
doctor told him We had “the
heart of a young man."
Except for brief excursions to
Cherokee Falls, where he was
bom, and to Gastonia, Mr. Ram
sey has been a Kings Mountain
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Budget Less
Than 1960's
By $1,000
Kings Mountain’s United Fund
budget for 1961 is $17,000, off by
$1,000 from the initial United
Fund budget last year.
President Bob Manor said the,
1961 budget, approved this week'
will include eight participating
organizations.
The fund drive will got under
way October 1, following a kick
off supper and organizational
meeting on September 29.
“Bulwarked by last year’s ex
perience, I feel confident the
budget will be met, if not ex
ceeded,” Mr. Maner commented.
Under the United Fund plan,
fund-raising drives of several
charitable organizations share in
the total gifts on a pro-rata ba
sis, depending on the approved
budget. Exception in those gifts
specifically ear-marked by don
ors for particular organizations.
The approved budget includes:
Girl Scouts, $1500.00; Boy Scouts,
$2,265.50; Kings Mountain chap
ter American Red Cross, $5,306;
Cleveland Counity Life Saving
and Rescue, Inc., $3,000; Jacob
S. Mauney Memorial library,
$1,000; Kings Mountain Recre
aation commission, $1,250; Kings
Mountain high school band,
$2,000; and Davidson high school
band, $400.
Omitted from this year's bud
get is a special education fund
for handicapped children. The
Red Gross asked $50 less than
last year, the recreation commis
sion $750 less, the high school
band $500 less. Davidson band
asked $25 more and the Life Sav
ing and Rescue squad budget is
up $800.
Mr. Maner said that the United
Fund direators approved plans
of the recreation commission for
lighting two softball grounds,
one for white, the other for Ne
groes. Last year the recreation
commission felt it might be able
to promote the building of a
Recreation building by public
subscription but has since aban
doned those plans.
Budgets of thb participating
organizations total $16,721.50,
with the remainder earmarked
for fund-raising promotional and
other supplies.
“We’re real pleased with the
low total of operational expen
ses last year,” Mr. Maner com
mented* "They totaled only $140
and won’t go too much over that
figure this year, we don’t antici
pate."
Swan President
Oi Yam Firm
Carl H. Swan, of Kings Moun
tain, is president of a new firm
Designer Yarns, Inc., Which re
cently purchased a Forest City
mill for the manufacture of nov
elty twisted yarns.
The firm will produce yarns
designed for the curtain, drapery
and apparel trades.
Full schedule employment, Mr.
Swan estimated will be from 35
to 40 with an annual payroll of
about $75,000 to $80,000.
Another Kings Mountain man,
Coley Guyton, is superintendent
of the new firm.
The firm began part-time oper
ation on August 1.
President Swan, formerly of
Craftspun Yams, Inc., here, said
yarns will be designed according
to customer specification and will
be marketed both directly to cus
tomers and through a sales or
ganization.
1___ K
Nicholson Urges
Gas Cut-On Orders 1
City gas heating customers
who order summer service cut
offs are being urged to order
cut-ons now.
“With a small staff, it will
be impossible to give everyone
immediate cut-on service when
cold weather hits,’” Corbett
Nicholson, dty gas department
superintendent, said this week.
“Naturally, we’ll have to pro
cess calls to resume service in
the order they are received,”
he added.