Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
«%• figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from
tbo 1965 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
Units figure Is from toe United States census of 1950.
Established 1889
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VOL 71 No. 39
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 29, I960
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
P-TA PLANNING COMMITTEE — Pictured a
bove are representatives of Kings Mountain
Parent-Teacher Associations as they plan a
District 2 meeting to be held here October 28.
Seated, from left to right, are Mrs. Eugene Bo
berls, Mrs. J. P. Mauney, Mrs. Harold Crawford,
and Mrs. J. B. Falls. Standing are Mrs. James
Dover, Mrs. Otis Falls, Jr., Mrs. M. D. Phifer,
and Mrs. Clyde J. Bridges.
Local News
Bulletins
KIWANIS CLUB
Kings Mountain Kiwanians
meet Thursday night at 6:45
at the Woman's club. Program
for the meeting was not an
nounced.
PRAYER BAND
The Kings Mountain Prayer
Band will meet Saturday night
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Yaties Smith, Jr. in the Pine
Ridge community. Bob Hope
will he the speaker.
PRESBYTERIAN
Sunday is Promotional Day
for the Sunday School and
World Wide/ Communion Sun
day alt First Presbyterian chur
ch. The Session will meet at
10:30 a. m. to receive new
members dnito the church.
TEACHERS
Richard Culyer has been e
lected an assistant teacher to
Pioneer Boys and George Tho
masson has been elected an
assistant teacher in the West
minister Class at First Presby
terian chuirch.
LEGION SUPPER-DANCE
Otis D. Green Post 155 of the
American Legion will host
members and guests at a sup
per and dance on Saturday
night Chicken or fish dinners
will be served from 5 until 8
p. m., and a dance will begin
at 9 p. m. The plates sell for
$1 each and dance tickets are
$1 per couple.
REUNION
The William and Susan Ran
dle Reunion will* be held Sun
day. October 2 at the Bethle
hem Fellowship Center. All re
latives and Mends are invited.
Picnic lunch will be spread at
12:30.
HEADS FLORISTS
Bill Talley, Gastonia florist,
was recently elected president
of the North Carolina Florists
Association. Mr. Talley, asso
ciated with Talley’s Florist of
Gastonia, is married to the for
mer Annie Lou Blalock of
Kings Mountain.
School Merger
Trial Date Set
Trial of litigation to prevent
the Number 4 Township school
consolidation has been set to
begin on November 29. J. R.
Davis, city board of education
attorney, said Wednesday.
Superior Court Judge Hugh
B. Campbell, of Charlotte, hon
ored the request of Attorney
Davis to fix a date for trial of
the suit, whereby some citi
zens in the areas to be merged
seek to abrogate results of the
May 14 election approving a
merger of township schools
with the Kings Mountain dis
trict
Now Who's This
Firm Favoring?
Sensitive politicians, both
| Democrats and Republicans,
could wax both pleased and
wounded from the inscription
on a truck seen in Kings
Mountain recently.
Democrats, noted with some
revulsion the red pick-up
truck with a big “NIXON” em
blazoned on the hood.
Then they got a pleasant
tickle as they continued to
read: "Exterminating Com
pany.”
Plan To Sell
Mill Detailed
Details concerning the court
! petition for sale of Craftspun
Yams, Inc., appeared this week
in advertisements in the Wall
Street Journal and Charlotte Ob
server.
(According to the notice, the
trustees in bankruptcy for the
parent company, The Scranton
Corporation and Hal Roach Stu
dios, Inc., estimated that they
woul' receive for the Kings
(Mountain firm about $260,000 for
sale of all outstanding stock to
E. Stanley Marks, of New York
City, wouldbe buyer.
Contracts between the trustees
and Mr. Marks, which have been
agreed to, are subject to appro
val of federal court for the mid
dle district of Pennsylvania.
According to the contract a
greement, the fixed assets of
Craftspun Yams are calculated
at $350,000 against book value of
$736,000, and accounts of Crafts
pun to the parent company and
of the parent company to Crafts
pun are listed at zero. ( Balance
sheet at December 31, 1959, show
; ed thd parent company owed
Craftspun $239,281 while Crafts
pun owed the Scranton Compa
ny $25,011.)
In the contract, the trustees a
gree to place $100,000 in escrow
for up to two years to provide
protection to the buyer under
(covenants of the sellers.
Another statement in the ad
vertisement shbws that Craftspun
has shown net losses in every
year since 1954, with the excep
tion of 1956, when the company
recorded a net profit of $51,437.
i In 1959 the company’s net loss
| was $132,546.
Hearing on the sale petition
has been scheduled in federal
court in Scranton for 2 p.m. Oc
tober 7.
Harold (Phillips, member of the
executive committee in charge of
Craftspun operations, said he
understood Mr. Marks is a New
York attorney. .
Pending the hearing and sub
sequent action by the court, if
| any, Craftspun will continue to
j operate as it has been,' J. J. Levy,
one of the trustees, said last
week. The firm manufactures
yam and has been maintaining
a five-day and six-day work week.
BALLY DAY
Dixon Presbyterian church
will observe Rally Day during
the Sunday School hour on
Sunday. A special program has
been planned, according to
Superintendent Thomas Hum
phries.
District P-TA
To Meet Here
October 28th
Kings Mountain parents and
teachers will be (host to District
Two of the North Carolina Par
ent Teacher Association on Fri
day, October 28.
Mrs. Fred Rash of Lenoir is di
rector and Mrs. Jacob Mauney of
Kings Mountain is vicedirector.
'Eleven counties and over 18,
000 members make up District 2.
These include: in addition to Cle
veland, Ashe, Avery, Burke,
Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell
Polk, Rutherford, Watauga, and
Yancey, i
Plans are well underway for
the event. Mrs. Harold Crawford
is Chairman and Mrs. Eugene Ro
berts is co-chairman of the plan
ning committee from the various
school P-TA organizations.
Mrs. Crawford asks that all lo
cal parents and teachers who
plan to attend the conference
make reservations with her by
October 18.
Blood Deficit
Is 175 Pints
Kings Mountain area citizens
have a 175-pint blood-giving def
icit for the period beginning July
1, Mrs. O. W. Myers, Red Cross
blood program chairman, said
Wednesday as she announced
the forthcoming October 7 visit
of the Red Cross 'Bloodmohile.
M!rs. Myers pointed out that
blood quotas are based in amount
of blood used, which means that
Kings Mountain citizens in four
months, have used 175 more
pints of blood than donated by
local area citizens.
The Rloodmobile will be at the
Woman’s Club on October 7, an
niversary of the Battle of Kings
Mountain.
Mrs. Myers continued:
“Because Kings Mountain has
a blood program, AUL. citizens
have access to blood in event of
illness or accident without neces
sity to find donors whose blood
matches that of the patient, nor|
are they faced with having to
pay the high cost of blood when
it is purchased from private!
blood banks.
“We have not been carrying
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United Fund Drive To Begin
umcials Plan
Concentrated
One-Week Effort
Kings Mountain’s second Unit
ed Fund campaign will begin
Monday in wlhat officials hope
will foe a one-week successful
fund - raising drive for $17,000.
Bob Maner, president of the
organization and ex officio chair
man of the fund-raising campai- j
gn, said Wednesday final plans
for the solicitation will foe map
ped at a kick-off meeting Thurs
day night at 8 o’clock at City
Hall. ’ ' \
“We hope to wrap up the cam
paign as quickly as possible.
Campaign solicitors will call on
business and industrial firms
Monday and Tuesday of next
week, and we hope to report
a week later that the campaign
is successfully completed.’’
Concurrently, Mr. Maner an
nounced a 15-man team will con
duct the campaign to provide
funds for eight civic, service and
charitable organizations.
They are J. C. (Bridges, Wesley
Bush, J. Ollie Harris, W. S. Ful
ton, Jr., Charles Neisler, Charles
Blanton, Jonas Bridges, Clyde
Whetstine, Tom Trott, Grady
Howard, Bill Parsley, Jerry Ross,
Dr. George W. Pflonk, Robert H.
Goforth and Sam Weir.
Chairmlan Maner expressed
confidence that the $17,000 goal
will be met. .
“‘Several industrial firms, which
did not participate in last year’s
campaign have stated they will
participate this year,” Mr. Maner
said.
Many industrial firms have
made available to their employ
ees a payroll deduction plan of
giving.
Eight participating organiza
tions will benefit from the cam
paign, including Kings Mountain:
Chapter of the American Red
Cross, Jacob S. Mauney Memorial
library, Kings Mountain high
school band, Davidson school
band, Cleveland County Life-Sav
ing & Rescue Squad, Inc., Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, and the City!
Recreation commission.
Under the United Fund plan
of operation, participating or
ganizations reoeive funds based;
on approved budgets. Last year,'
the budget of $18,000 was 78 per
cent met.
By combining several fund-rai
sing campaigns into one, the Uni-j
ted Fund eliminates several
fund-raising efforts.
Lions Enjoy
Picture Trip
DVIemlbers of the Kings Moun
tain lions club took a picture
trip to Europe and the Middle
East Tuesday night
Miss Mary Nolan, last year a
teacher at an army school nearj
Stuttgart, Germany, presented
colored photos of scenes in Ger
many, France, Italy, Lebanon,!
England, Liberia and Tangier. |
Miss Nolan is a member of the'
North School faculty.
Guests at the meeting included
A.. V. Nolan and Jerry Munson.
SERVICES
Church services during the
month of October will be
broadcast each Sunday mom
ning from First Presbyterian
church. Dr. Paul Ausley, pas
tor, will bring the messages.
S50.000 Could Bring 100-Employee
Him As New Industrial Citizen
$50,000 could get Kings Moun
tain a 100-employee industry.
J. Wilson Crawford, president
of Kings Mountain 'Business De
velopment, Inc., told the board
of directors of Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce Monday
that a reliable Eastern firm,
founded shortly after the Civil
War, wants to move to the South
and desires to lease a building of
about 23,000 square feet.
Mr. Crawford said he had con
ferred with officials of the Nor
th Carolina Department of Con
servation and Development and
that they indicated the state’s
Small Business (Development
Corporation might supply up to
two-thirds of the money required
to construct a building.
In turn, Mr.. Crawford estima
ted that such a building would j
require about $150,000, including
land.
He said he and Fred W. Plonk,1
another official of the Kings i
Mountain development firm, had
been invited to Raleigh to dis
cuss the project further.
'‘The question," he declared, “is
whether we can raise $50,000 in
stock to finance our part of the
construction.”
Kings Mountain Business De
velopment, Inc.., owns the build
ing occupied by Waco Sports
wear, Inc., under a lease-purdfciase
agreement
'President John Cheshire ap
pointed a Chamber of Commerce
nominating committee to include
Martin Harmon, chairman, Wil
son Crawford and Bob Maner.
Opening Of Fair
Marred By Rains
PROMOTED — W. F. (Bill)
Laughter has assumed the du-j
ties of personnel manager of
Ne^ler Division. Massachusetts
Mohair Plush Company, succeed-;
ing Joe Austin, who has joined
Burlington Industries.
Mohair Promotes
Bill Laughter
William F. (Bill) Laughter,
Kings Mountain native, has been
promoted to personnel manager
of Neisler division of Massachu
setts Mohair Plush company.
Mr. Laughter, previously the:
firm’s supervisor of outside!
maintenance, assumed his new
duties last week. He succeeds Joe
Austin, who resigned to accept
a position with Burlington In
dustries. Mr. Austin was tempor
arily assigned to Burlington’s
Oramerton plant for a three
month period.
Mr. Laughter has been with
the Mohair firm for more than
four years. Previously, he was
associated with Marlowe’s, Inc.,
and was onetime secretary of the
Kings Mountain Merchants as
sociation. During World War II,
he served as an air force pilot,
flying both bombers and trans
ports with the Eighth Air Force
and transports with the transport
command.
Mrs. Laughter is the former
Martha Sue Littlejohn. They
have four sons, Donald, Stanley,
Christopher, and Steven Laugh
ter. The Laughters are members
of First Baptist church.
Gavin Visits
Kings Mountain
Robert L. Gavin, Republican
candidate for Governor, visited
Kings Mountain briefly Saturday
and made a quick hand shaking
tour of the uptown business dis- i
trict.
The Kings Mountain visit was
one among many in the county, |
as the Lee County Republican
brought his campaign to Cleve
land County.
Local Republicans set up a card
table at the First Union National
Bank corner, for the distribution
of Gavin-for-Govemor buttons
and other Republican' campaign
literature. Mr. and Mrs. Don
Hamlbrfght manned the booth. i
Accompanying Candidate Gavin
on his county tour were Pleiad
Sassedy, county Republican chair-'
man, and Mrs. Earle Moore,!
county Republican vicechairman.!
Kelly Dixon, Kings Mountain
builder and Republican candi
date for the 11th. district Con
gress seat, also accompanied Mr.1
Gavin on his Cleveland tour and
presented him to Kings Moun
tain citizens.
INSTRUCTION
Jim Baily of Asheville and !
Roy Rogers of Atlanta, repre
sentatives of the American La
France Company, were visiting
Kings Mountain Firemen this
week to give instructions in
the use of the new fire truck.
Big Crowds
Logged In
Opening Day
It rained again, dampening
for the fourth consecutive year
the opening of the annual Cleve
land County fair.
However, fair officials report
ed that Tuesday’s out-pouring of
people attending on opening day
was very good, in spite of the
fact that early evening rains for
ced cancellation of the Tuesday
night rodeo events.
Fair officials admitted they
were praying for sunshine Wed
nesday morning, as the rain
continued, but Wire. Rush Ham
rick, Jr., fair publicist, said offi
cials agreed that, if rain had to
come, Wednesday was the best
day for it.
Wednesday crowds are custo
marily smallest, regardless of
the weather, for the five-day e
vent.
Tuesday’s opening found Betty
Feezor, the television ’home e
conomist, getting top attention.
She was the star of an exhibit of
the Cleveland County Poultry
council.
The fair continues for the big
push with the rodeo nightly at
8 p. m., with Jack Kochman’s
Hell Drivers billed for a Friday
night 9:30 performance, and with
big car races on the bill for 2:30
Saturday afternoon.
Friday will be school day for
Kings Mountain and Shelby chil
dren, with admission tickets gi
ven free toy the fair.
The James E. Strafes shows
and rides fill the mile-long mid
way. i ,
Judging results announced
Tuesday Showed that Bethware
high school placed third in school
booth exhibits. Theme of the
Bethware exhibit is "America Is
Blest, Natural Resources.’’
It was announced that W. T.
Weir, of Kings Mountain, Showed
the grand champion Hereford
bull in the livestock exhibits.
Terry Sanford, Democratic
candidate for Governor, is sched
uled to visit the fair Friday. He
is due to arrive at Shelby Air
port about noon and will be
transported to the fairgrounds by
helicopter.
IN COLLEGE
Robert Neil Munson, 709 Gro
ves street, iKngs Mountain, is
among 598 freshmen enrolled
at St. Olaf college, Northfield,
Minn., according to announce
ment by the college.
LEADS SERVICES — Rev. W. R.
Echols of Rock Hill, S. C. is be
ginning a week of evangelistic
services next week at Boyce
Memorial ARP church.
Echols To Lead
ARP Services
Dr. W. R. Echols, pastor of
Neely’s Greek ARP Church of
Rock Hill, S. C., will begin a
week of special services Monday
at Boyce, Memorial ARP church.
The visiting minister will
speak at evening services Mon
day through Friday at 7:30 p. m.,
a)t a special children’s service at
10 a. m. Saturday, and at both
Sunday services next week.
Dr. W. L. Pressly, Boyce Mem
orial pastor, commented on the
services: “A rich experience a
waits us as we look forward to
this week of spiritual enrich
ment. Mr. Echols is one of our
best ministers, having served the
church in many ways.”
Recently Dr. and Mrs. Echols
spent a year of study in Scot
land.
Dr. Pressly invited the com
munity to join in the fall series
of services.
'60 Tax Discount
To Drop Saturday
Friday will be the final day
to pay 1960 city and county tax
bills and obtain a one percent
discount.
The pre payment discount rate
drops to one-half of one percent
on October 1.
M. H. Biser, city tax super
visor, noted that 1960 taxes are
due October 3. If paid during Oc
tober, one-half of one percent
discount is allowed.
CLARIFICATION
The John Gladden listed in
last week’s court record is John
C. Gladden of 201 Lackey
Street, not John W. Gladden of
213 Parker Street.
Democratic Coffee, Nixon Speech,
Johnson Shelby Speech Upcoming
Kings Mountain and Cleveland
County are witnessing more gen
eral election politicking than they
have in many years.
Items:
1) Numerous Kings (Mountain
and Cleveland County women
will go to Charlotte Thursday
for a coffee, at which they will
meet Mrs. John P. Kennedy, mo
ther of the Democratic presiden
tial candidate, and Mrs. Lyndon
Johnson, wife of the Democratic
vicepresidential candidate.
2) Republican women of the
area will go to Charlotte Monday
night to hear Republican Presi
dential candidate Richard Nixon
and, as particularly, according
to Mrs. Earle Moore, of Shelby,
county Republican vice-chairman,
to participate in "Pat Week” Oc
tober 3-10, in which they are pro
moting Nixon’s wife "for First
Lady.”
3) Senator Johnson himself
will come to Shelby October 10
for a major address as a feature
of the 11th Congressional dis
trict rally of Young Democrats.
Meantime, members of both
parties were trying to remember
when a Republican gubernatori
al candidate had invaded long
Demiocratic Cleveland County for
a county-wide tour. Robert Gavin
did that last Saturday.
(Mrs. J. E. Lipford, of Kings
Mountain, who is vice-chairman
of Cleveland Democrats, said
Wednesday a big delegation of
Cleveland women will attend the
coffee in Charlotte honoring 'Mrs.
Kennedy and Mrs. Johnson. The
event will begin at Ovens audito
rium at 10 a. m.
Senator Johnson will speak
at the Shelby community park
center, and his Shelby speech is
•being hilled as his principal cam
paign address in North Carolina.
The rally will begin at 7:45 p. m.,
with the Senator scheduled to
speak at 8:30.
It will be a part of a Johnson
whistle - stopping trip through
the Piedmont Carolinas.
Governor Luther Hodges, Gu
bernatorial Nominee Terry San
ford, Senators Sam Ervin and
Everett Jordon, Lieutenant - Gov
ernor Candidate Cloyd Philpott,
Congressman Basil L WWitener
and other North Carolina Demo
cratic Congressmen will aecom
i pany Senator Johnson on the
tour.
Union Trust
Asked To Put
Branch Here
BY MARTIN HARMON
A group of Kings Mountain
citizens has invited Union Trust
Company of Shelby to establish
a branch bank in Kings Moun
tain.
The group met at Bonnie Mills
Company office Wednesday mor
ning and W. K. Mauney, spokes
man, said that considerable in
terest was expressed in the es
tablishment of a Union Trust
branch here. He added that
Union Trust Company’s board
of directors is to consider the in
vitation at a meeting next Tues
, day.
Clyde L. Stutts, president of
the Shelby bank, and J. O. Lutz,
board chairman, declined com
ment other than to verify the
fact that Kings Mountain citi
zens have asked Union Trust to
consider seeking establishment
of a Kings Mountain branch.
Mr. Mauney, a director of First
Union National Bank’s Kings
Mountain branch, declared that
“Kings Mountain needs competi
tive banking.”
He further commented that po
licy changes since the merger of
Kings Mountain’s First National
Bank into First Union National
of North Carolina has meant a
restriction of banking function,
(rather than expansion.
“Before the merger, it was sta
ted that one of the principal ad
vantages of the merged bank
would be raising of the legal li
mit of lines of credit. Now it ap
pears impossible to establish a
line of credit at all,” Mr. Mau
ney said.
He added that First Union Na
tional Bank appears to decline to
grant any credit without colla
| feral, whereas the former First
National Bank issued lines of
credit, on signature, up to
$30,000.
It was explained that the local
group seeks a branch bank, not
merely a despository.
Approval for establishment of
a branch bank must be obtained
from the state banking commis
sion and from the federal deposit
insurance corporation, it is un
derstood, with the state banking
group having authority to speci
fic requirements for the estab
lishment of a branch.
Mr. Mauney, Kings Mountain
industrialist, is secretary-treas
urer of Mauney Mills, Inc., and
an official of the Bonnie Mills
Company and Nuway Mill, of
Cherryville.
Union Trust Company, with
eight branches in Cleveland and
Rutherford counties, had assets
on June 15 of $16,663,778. It
showed capital stock of $400,000,
surplus of $400,000, undivided
profits of $211,648, and reserves
of $282,423.
Union Trust, headquartered in
Shelby, also has branches in
Boiling Springs, Ellenboro, Falls
ton, Forest City, Lawndale, Ru
therford ton, and Spindale.
Mis. Hold's
Fathei Passes
Funeral rites for Herbert B.
Rhyne, 83, of Shelby, father of
■Mrs. Horace Hord of Kings
Mountain, were held Wednesday
at 3 p. m. from Beulah Metho
dist church of which he was a
member.
(Mr. Rhyne succumbed Monday
night in the Kings Mountain hos
pital after an illness of several
months. <
A native of Cleveland County,
he was a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Bunyan Rhyne and a prom
inent farmer of the Beulah com
munity near Shelby.
Surviving in addition to his
daughter are his wife, Mrs. Ada
Goode Rhyne; three brothers,
Claude Rhyne and Charles Rhyne,
'both of Shelby, and Robert Rhy*
l ne of Gastonia; and two sisters,
! Mrs. J. R. Killian and Mrs. M. E.
| Smith, both of Shelby. A grand
i daughter, Mrs. Don Carpenter of
Bessemer City, and a great
grandson also survive.
The final rites were conducted
by the Rev. H. O. Huss. Inter
nment was in the church ceme
tery.
RAINBOW MEETING
Kings Mountain Rainbow
Girls who plan ito attend a
district meeting Monday in
Gastonia should contact Mrs.
D. E. Tate. The meeting will
honor the Grand Worthy Ad
visor of North Carolina Rain
bows.