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» Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7.206 m Agon ter OrwM King* Mountain la tatnd from tba IMS King. Mountain efty droctorf cum. Tbo dig UbM flgun la from too United Statu comaua oi ltSO. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 22, I960 Pages Today VOL 71 No. 38 Established 1889 Seventy-First Year PRICE TEN CENTS Five-Day Cleveland County Fair Will Open On Tuesday CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR FEATURE — One of the features of the annual Cleveland County fair, which opens Tuesday, will be the World Championship Rodeo, a nightly feature at the five-day event In the picture, a cowhand is astride a bucking bronco. Other rodeo features will include calf-roping, and steer wrestling. Local News Bulletins REUNION Annual reunion of the fam ily of the laite Robert B. and Frances Dixon will be held Sunday at the Bethlehem Fell owship Center. Picnic dinner ■will be spread at the noon hour. ROTARY CLUB Kings Mountain Rotarians will meet Thursday at 12:15 at Kings Mountain Country Club for a regular meeting. Charles Dixon has arranged the program. PARK GRACE P-TA Park Grace P-TA will hold its initial meeting of the school year Monday night at 7 p. m. in the school auditor ium. BAKE SALE The Future Homemakers of America at Central school are sponsoring a bake sale Satur day beginning ait 9 a. m. in the former Griffin Drug building. IN GRADUATE SCHOOL Rev. George Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran chur ch, is attending Tuesday ses sions in the Graduate School of Southern Seminary where he is working toward a mas ter’s degree in Sacred Theolo gy Mr. Beam's Father Passes Funeral rites for Elzie E. Beam 81, of Bessemer City, father of Ben F. Beam of Rings Mountain, were held Monday morning at 11 o’clock from Sisk Memorial Chapel in Bessemer City. Mir. Beam succumbed Sunday at his home. Surviving, in addition to his son here, are his wife; another son, Zen as Beam of Bessemer City; one sister, Mrs. Delilah Clark of Grouse; and one brother, John Beam of Cherryville. Also surviving are one grand daughter, Mrs. Palmer Huffstet ler of Winston Salem, and one grandson, Captain Paul Beam of the U. S. Air Force in Labrador; four step-grandchildren; Mrs. Charles Harrill of Clearwater, Fla, Miss Margaret Harmon and William (Bill) Marmon, all of Kings Mountain, 12 great-grand children. Here's Memory Aid For Phoning Thinking seven digits are too many to remember easily, at least one Kings (Mountain phone user has figured out a formula whereby he needs to remember wily the final four digits. He has converted (be initial three digits, 739, to a three-let ter exchange designation. This, he says, is the three-let ter exchange that few, if any, will trewe trouble remembering: S-E-X. Judgments To Be Hied Ca '58 Taxes Delinquent city taxpayers are being notified that judgment will be docketed against them for unpaid 1958 taxes. Under North Carolina law, the judgements may not be docketed until two weeks after the pro perty owner is notified. M. H. Biser, city tax collector saysthe judgment notices are being processed as fast as possi ble and being sent to property owners by certified mail. A judgment to satisfy a' tax lien may be foreclosed six mon ths after it is docketed, Mir. Biser added. The formal notice bears the notation “No further notice will be given.” The (tax collector urged citizens who owe taxes for 1958 and prior years to make arrangements to pay the accounts. “It'll save the taxpayer money to pay the accounts prior to doc keting of judgments,” he pointed out. Mrs. Anthony Big Winner Number 4 Township apparent ly has its share of good cooks. At the Bethware Fair, annual agriculture fair sponsored by the Bethware Progressive Club, more than half the entries were by women who displayed homemade cakes, pies, canned goods and garden products. Over 250 first place awards were made to competitors and some 200 red ribbons, or second place awards. Thus the biggest display of entries yet at the corrf miunity fair.. Cash prizes went to each first and second place entry. Entries by Mrs. Fred Anthony copped 22 blue ribbons and 20 red ribbons. First place ribbons marked her stringbeans, cucum bers, turnips, pork, chicken, cakes and pies, cookies, cheese straws, mfarmalade, jam, dill pickles, to mato catsup and her floral ar rangement for an invalid’s tray and a garden display. Several mother and daughter teams competed. Mrs. F. C. Ware won first .place for her calico quilt, her daughter (Mrs. Bobby Webster took second place. Mrs. Ware won the blue ribbon for the best quilted quilt and Mis. Web ster again copped the red ribbon. IP. K. Harmon won blue rib bons for com and wheat, both entered in the field crops’ cate gory. In horticulture, Cameron Ware won first place for die best display of apples, peaches and tomatoes. Complete list of prize winners begins on Page 4. LEGION SUPPER-DANCE American Legion Post 155 will serve supper to members and guests Saturday from 5 until 8 p. m. A dance, begin ning at 9 p. m., will continue until midnight. Dinner plates, either chicken or fish are $1 and dance tickets are $1 per couple Rodeo, Rides, Races, Exhibits Fair Features The Cleveland County fair op ens for its annual five-day run Tuesday, with a jam-packed schedule of entertainment e vents, along with educational and commercial exhibits. “We’ll have our best fair yet, if the weaitherman is good to us,” Dr. J. S. Dor ton, the fair's vet eran general manager, comment ed. Recent additions to fair attrac tions include an appearance Tuesday on opening day, of Betty Feezor, WBTV home econo mist, who will provide recipes and other practical kitchen in formation in connection with the exhibit of the Cleveland County Poultry council. It has also been announced that Terry Sanford, Democratic candidate for governor, will visit | the fair on Friday, Septem- j ber 30, which is also school day for Kings Mountain and Shelby school pupils. Scheduled nightly is the World Championship rodeo, featuring Such thrill acts as Bull Busch bohm and his famous Liberty Horse revue. The eight beautiful and per fectly matched black-and-white Morrocan horses that perform in a precision drill were a favorite attraction at the 1960 Madison Square Garden edition of Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Cir cus. They are coming to the Cleveland event along with cow girls performing on Texas Quar ter horses, Bull Fighter Buddy Heaton, Bunkie Boger, the dare devil clown. Rodeo events will include bull wrestling, bareback (Continued on tape Eight) Auto 200,000 To Visit Park Officials of Kings Mountain National Military park were look ing forward Wednesday to log ging in the 200,000th auto to vis it the park during 1960. Superintendent Ben Moornaw said the event would occur either Wednesday afternoon or Thurs day.. Already the park has set a new attendance record. As a sample of increase in public interest and attendance in the Kings Mountain battleground shrine, Mr. Moomaw noted that attendance during July was great er than the total attendance for the year 1950. The park , which comprises albout 4200 acres, commemorates the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain, called by his torians that turning of the tide in the war which found the Amer ican colonies winning freedom from Great BrSTian a few months later. At the Kings Mountain battle, Col. Patrick Ferguson, the British commander, was killed and his force annihilated by a band of mountain men on October 7, 1780. METER RECEIPTS OFF Parking meter receipts de clined to $88.85 for the week ending Wednesday at noon. Cifty Clerk Joe McDaniel said $79.45 was derived from on street meters and $9.40 from off-street meters. Area Democrats Attend Kennedy Charlotte Rally A large delegation of Kings Mountain area Democrats join ed Clevelanders in attending the Charlotte rally Saturday for pre sidential nominee Jack Kennedy. County Chairman Virgil Wea thers, expressing himself as well-pleased with the county wide turnout said each of the county’s 28 voting precincts were represented at Charlotte and ad ded he was “especially pleased with the Kings Mountain area turnout.” The Cleveland delegation pro ceeded to Charlotte by motor cade, wore red-white-and-blue streamer “Cleveland County for Kennedy” lapel tags, and appen theiir auto bumpers. > \ \ The crowd attending tmt raHjf was variously estimated affront 10,000 to 12,000 people. ^ Senator Kennedy was roifrid ly cheered by the crowd from the time of his entrance with Governor Luther Hodges, Demo cratic candidate for governor Terry Sanford, Senators Everett Jordan and Sam Ervin and other party leaders and officials. On leaving, he was almost crushed by a big crowd of well-wishers. In his address, the Senator hammered away at several favo rite themes. He said he,wanted ahis nation to be second to none in military strength to deter Communist aggressors and to revitalize its economic strength. He chided the Reupbliean par ty as not offering one piece of progressive legislation in the past eight years and declared if is the habit of the Republican party to profess friendship with the South “every four years”. He suggested that his Massachus etts heritage makes him well a ware of the problems of the tex tile industry and declared of the Democratic party, “We are a na tional party, a party that has multi-interests.” Among Kings Mountain area citizens attending the rally were Mrs. J. E. Lipford, county Demo cratic vice-chairman; Mayor Glee A. Bridges, Cameron Ware, Bethware chairman; Hugh Gr mand, West Kings Mountain chairman; Ollie Harris, East Kings Mountain chairman; County Commissioner and Mrs. Bioadus Ellis, of Grover; Mrs. J. H. Arthur, Miss Margaret Ken drick; Mr. and Mrs. Dean Spear man; Clarence Ledford; Willard Boyles; Wayne L. Ware, Sr.; Mr. and Mirs. William Lawrence Plonk; Hall Goforth; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Dixon; Mrs. Gene Timms; Mrs. Hunter Patterson; Miss Fanny Carpenter; Mirs. J. S. Norman; Dean McDaniel; and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harmon. Contest Planned Foi Kiwanians Robert Aldiioh of Aldrich Ma chine Works of Greenwood, S. C., will present the program at. tthe Kiwanis club Thursday even-! ing at 6:45 p. m. For a numlber of years Mir. Al-j drich has appeared annually be-j fore the Kiwanis club and each I time presenting a unique and! original contest. The winner is! rewarded in silver dollars and much interest has been centered in the contests, Kiwanians report. (Mr. Aldrich, himself, says of the contest prepared for Thurs day evening, “It’s the easiest one; yet.” Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich will ar rive from Greenwood pn Thurs day afternoon and will toe guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pressly while in Kings Mountain. Burlington Plant Off To Early ItartOn United Fund Campaign Burlington Industries’ Phenix plant will get an early start on its 1960 efforts for the Kings Mountain United Fund campaign. The fund-raising effort at the Burlington plant will begin Mon day—a week before the formal beginning of the $17,000 cam paign to support eight civic and service agencies. Contributions to the campaign will aid these groups: 1) Kings Mountain chapter, American Red Cross, which pro vides liason service between the armed forces and families of ser vicemen, sponsors the Red Cross blood program, gives emergency service to the indigent. 2) Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library. United Fund contribu tions enable broader purchase of the latest in reading material, Which is made available to the whole community. 3) Kings Mountain band asso ciation, enabling this group to purchase instruments and sup plies for the Kings Mountain school band. 4) Davidson school band, which will use the funds for instruments and supplies. 5) Boy Scouts of America, which uses funds to expand the program of Scouting in Kings (Mountain and the Piedmont coun cil. 6) Girl Scouts of America, which uses funds to extend the Girl Scout program in Kings Mountain and Pioneer area council. 7) Cleveland dCounty Life-Sav ing Crew, Inc., which uses funds i in answering calls for emergency aid to all citizens in case of dis aster. j 8) Kings Mountain Recreation] commission, which plans to use i money given last year and up coming donations to provide lights for two softball fields. I Final plans for the 1960 cam paign will be made at a kickoff ' dinner on September 29, President Bob Maner said this week, with j the campaign to begin formally on October 3. . - Federal Court Is Petitioned For Sale Of Craftspun Yarns SPEAKER — Mrs. E. W. Neal will lead a program on responsi bilities of citizens to vote at a meeting of the Woman's Club Monday nigbt Voting Topic At Woman's Club Women will hear about their (responsibilities to vote at the Woman’s Club Monday night at 8 p. m. The public affairs program, open to all citizens of the com munity and all departments of -the Woman’s Club, will be led by Mrs. E. W. Neal. Mrs. Neal and members of the sponsoring department have said the program will be for “infor mation” and “unbiased” on the November elections. Factual in formation about each of the can didates for president will be giv en and a question-answer sess ion is expected to follow the for mal program. The Monday night program is one of two public affairs pro grams planned as a community wide project of the women’s or ganization. In November, that group is planning a program on civil defense with the public again invited to participate. Car Collided With School Bus Harold Lee Hannon, 17, of 302 Lineberger Street, Shelby was in jured (Monday wfhen the car in winch he was a passenger smash ed into the rear of a Compand; School bus on U. S. 74 at 7:45 a. m. The car was driven by Norris Wilson Towery, 17, of 210 N. Mountain Street, Cherryville. Hannon was taken to Kings Mountain Hospital and then transferred to Cleveland Memo rial Hospital for treatment of a back injury sustained in thq craSh. The school bus was driven by Myrtle Davis Brown, 31, of Route 2, Kings Mountain. Patrolman R. E. Shaney charg ed Towery with reckless driving. He said Towery told him he had passed a truck on the dual lane highway, then skidded into the 'bus as he attempted to stop behind it. The school bus was loading passengers. ’ The Toweiy car was demolish ed by the impact, Patrolman Shaney reported, and the bus was damaged about $150. Shaney noted the collision marks the fourth school bus ac cident in the county since the school term began this year. He urged all motorists to be on the lookout for buses, particu larly before and after school each day. Restore Gas Service Now,Says Nicholson Gas heating customers should n't let this week’s warm weather deter ithem from ordering gas service restored at once, Corbett Nicholson, city gas superinten dent said this week. Gas department records indi cate 269 customers ordered ser vice suspensions at the advent of summer. “It would be physically Im possible to restore service to all these customers at one time,” Mr. Nicholson noted. “Somebody would be sure to get cold unless cut-on orders are placed in ad vance." Consolidation Suit Not On Calendar October Term Likely Date For Merger Suit Trial of litigation seeking to prevent the Number 4 township school consolidation won’t be heard before late October. J. R. Davis, attorney for the city board of education, said yes terday the suit, brought by citi zens seeking to abrogate the May 14 election which favored the merger, was not docketed by the county bar association’s calendar committee for the September! term which begins Monday. (Mr. Davis said he requested that the litigation be calendared, but that the calendar committee said a jam-up of prior civil cases indicated litle likelihood hat the suit would be heard in this term. Judge P. C. Froneberger, in his court order directing that the suit be heard in Cleveland Super ior Court, specified that the suit be tried as early as possible. Mr. Davis said he would seek setting of a preemptory date for trial of the case at the session be ginning Monday. . The eiy board of education is co-defendant in the suit, along with the county board of educa tion and the county 'board of com missioners. In the complaint, plaintiffs seek to have the election results, set aside. They question techni cal details of the election notice and other procedures leading tip to the May 14 voting, in which citizens of the area to be merged —including areas now served by Compact, Park Grace, Bethware and Grover schools—voted 1120 to 874 in favor of merging these county district schools into the Kings Mountain district District YDC Rally Planned Young Democratic presidents and counity chairmen from the 11th Congressional district were meeting in Shelby Wednesday night to lay plans for a district Young Democrats rally to be held in Shelby in October. Cleveland Chairman Virgil Weathers said Congressman Ba sil L. Whitener was to aittend the meeting and that the date for the rally has been set tentative ly for October 10. Chairman Weathers also an nounced that Terry Sanford, can didate for governor, will aittend the Cleveland County Fair on Friday, September 30, and said the biennial district rally of Democrats will be at Rutherford ton on November 2. The district includes Gaston, Cleveland, Rutherfordton, Polk, McDowell, Madison and Yancey ; counties. Meantime, Senator Jack Ken nedy,the party’s presidential no minee, wrote Democratic pre oinct officials recently: “This letter is to tell you how much your active support and influence as a precinct worker! for the Democratic Party in North Carolina will be apprecia ted in the November election. “We plan to wage an active campaign in North Carolina. Success in any national cam paign is dependent upon the work done on the precinct level. “To achieve our ultimate goal, support such as yours will be the keystone of a November victory.” i Ii No Fire, Call Number 739-5251 Using the telephone to ire part a fire? Call 739-2551. Calling the fireman’s quar ter? Call 739-5251. There’s a difference. When the fire number rings, it automaticlly sets off a loud ■buzzer which not only puts firemen to running on the dou ble, but policemen and electri cal men, too. Only the buzzer number is listed' in the new dial tele phone directory, which means all calls set off the buzzer. It it isn’t a fire, use 739-5251, Fire Chief Pat Tignor requests. McGinnis loins Research Staff Dr. Paul H. McGinnis, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. McGin nis, Sr., of Kings Mountain, has joined the technical staff of the Esso Research Laboratories in Baton Rouge, La. A graduate of Kings Mountain high school, he received a BS ChE, MS-ChE and PhD from North Carolina State College in Raleigh. Dr. McGinnis’ assignment at the Esso Research Laboratories will be chiefly in the field of ap plied mathematics. While a student Dr. McGinnis was tapped by Sigma Xi, nation al honorary research society, Tau Beta Pi, national engineering society and Sigma Phi Epsilon, national social fraternity. He is married to the former Miss Elizabeth Ann Wehunt of Cherryville. The Esso Research Laborator ies is located in the Baton Rouge Refinery of Esso Standard, Divi sion of Humble Oil and Refining Co. It is the development ground for such scientific break-throu ghs as Fluid Catalytic Cracking, a process making possible high octane fuels, Butyl synthetic rubber, and Escon polypropylene plastic. Macedonia Pastor Completing Work Rev. S. L. Lamm, who has been serving as supply pastor for Macedonia Baptist church the past several months, will com plete his work there Sunday. He will speak at both the morning and evening worship services. Mr. Lamm, also professor of Bible at Gardner-Webb College, is well-known in the Kings Mountain area where he has served numerous churches as in terim pastor. Rev. Wayne Ashe of Lilesville, N. C. has accepted the pastorate at the local church and will move to Kings Mountain Friday. He will assume his pastoral du ties here on Monday. DIRECTORS MEETING The directors of Kings Moun tain Merchants Association will meet Thursday at 2:30 p. m. in the association office to map plans for the local Christ mas promotion, Charles Blan ton, president, said Wednes day. Property Valuation $10,735,238; Pre-payments On '60 Bill $73,000 Total taxable valuation of the City of Kings Mountain increas ed to $10,735,258 for 1960, Tax Supervisor M. H. Biser said Wed nesday. Of the total, $8,132,041 is the listed valuation of real estate, with $2,603,217 the listed valu ation of personal property. With $2412 in poll taxes, the total levy for 1960 is 163,443, of | which $73,031 had been pre paid Wednesday afternoon. A $2 poll itax is assessed a gainst all males between the a ges of 21 and 50, indicating Kings Mountain has 1206 male citizens within those ages. Mir. Biser reminded that the pre-paymenit discount rate now one percent,will drop to one-half of one percent on October 1. Cur rent tax bills are due on Nov ember 1 and payable at par through January 1961. New Yoik Firm Has OHeied To Buy Firm BY MARTIN HARMON Petition for sale of Graftspun Yarns, Inc., to Marks & Company a New York concern, was filed in Pennsylvania’s Middle District federal court Tuesday. J. J. Levy, Scranton, Pa., attor ney, who is co-trustee in bank ruptcy for Scraniton Corporation, parent company of the Kings Mountain firm, told the Herald Wednesday that the petition is returnable October 7. During the interim, other firms or individuals have the oppor tunity of making proffers for the property. He added that at least two other firms have indicated an interest in purchasing the out standing stock of Craftspun, in cluding a Chicago firm which expectsto come here to inspect the property. Both Marks and the Chicago firm say they intend to operate the Kings Mountain yarn pro ducer, Mr. Levy added. Meantime, the firm will oper ate as it has been. Seveiral factors are involved in court consideration of a petition by trustees (to sell Craftspun, Mr. Levy added, among them: 1) atti tude of creditors of the bankrupt parent company; 2) attitude of the stockholders; and 3) inten tions of the would-be purchasers on operation of the firm. Craftspun is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scranton Corpora tion, which went into bankrupt cy after the arrest on charges of embezzlement, and others, of A. j L. Guterma, who is now serving a term in federal prison. Since resignation of Carl H. Swan as president of Craftspun, the firm is being operated by a management committee which includes Harold Phillips, super intendent, and Robert Lowe, ac counant and manager of the novelty division. The firm lists about 245 em ployess and is operating on a five-day week, with some six day work. Student List Now At 130 Addition of 17 brings it© 130 the numiber of Kings Mountain area students who are now at tending colleges, universities and specialized schools. They include: ASTC, Boone — Joy Hudson. LSU — Jimmy Crawford. University of North Carolina— Judy Hope. Clemson College — Mr. and Mrs. Jim Harry. WCUNC — Sandra Myers and Arlene Wright. N. C. State — Jimmy Shirkey. Wake Forest — Mary Ann Herndon. Western Carolina — Elaine Pruette and Sylvia West. Pfeiffer College —Betsy Shaw. Lenoir-Rhyne College — Low ranee Harry'. Brevard College — J. G. Goins. Gardner-Webb College — Bud dy Freeman, Doris Cranford, and Judy Putnam. Stork On Overtime During Past Weekend The stork did arduous duty over Kings Mountain last weekend, upping the area pop ulation considerably. At Kings Mountain Hospi tal's busy nursery on Sunday, 14 white bassinets held new born babies with only one em pty bed in the house. Twelve beds were filled on Saturday, eight were still occupied on Wednesday. Two babies were .in incubators and one small one was in isoletite. Had a 15th infant arrived on Sunday he or she would have had to double up with another baby, a smiling inurse com mented. Is the nursery always as busy? “No”, one nuirse whose duties are in the nursery, said. On the average, six to nine in fants are born weekly. The “newest” citizens gained attention or not only their nurses, but the visitor. The girls had the boys out*