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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 fhs Sgm lor Onatw Bug* Hratdn Is derived from lbs lest Kings Mountain city 01 rectory census. Tbs city Units figure Is frost tbs United States census of 18S0. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper 16 Pages Today VOL. 71 No. 40 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 6, I960 Seventy-First Year PRICE TEN CENTS CITY PUTS NEW FIRE WAGON IN SERVICE— Kings Mountain has just put into service a new $16,000 American LaFrance lire truck, first major equipment addition for the fire de partment since 1938. Pictured with the new fire truck are, front row, from left. Chief Pat Tig nor, regular fireman C. D. Ware, T. C. McKee, N. M. Farr, P. D. Fulton, and Mayor Glee A. Bridges. Back row, left to right, are City Com missioners Boyce Gault Ben H. Bridges, Ross Alexander and Luther Bennett, Chaplain Her l>ert D. Garmon, and Comm. Coleman Stroupe. Assistant Chief HunteT Allen was absent when the picture was taken. (Pennington photo.) Local News Bulletins IN- STUDENT POST Jessie Putnam, senior in the School of Pharmacy at the U niversity of North Carolina, was recently eleceted vice president of hi* c] ass. ROTARY MEETING Dr. Lawson Allen, professor at Gairdner-Webb college, will address members of the Kings Mountain Rotairy club at their meeting Thursday at 12:15 at Kings Mountain Country Club, according to announcement: by Ben Moamaw, LEGION MEETING Regular monthly meeting of Otis D. Greene Post 155, Amer ican Legion, will be held Fri day night at 8 o’clock at the Legion Building, according to announcement bv J. T. McGin nis, Jr., commander. MIDGETS PLAY FRIDAY Midget football fans are re minded that the small-fry gridders will plav theiir double header ait City Stadium Friday night of this week, instead of Saturday, due to the Moun taineers having a Saturday game in Chairlotte. The first midget game starts at 7 o’ clock. PRAYERBAND The Kings Mountain Pirayer Band will meet Saturday night at 7:30 at the home of Bobby Hope. Yates Smith will be sp eaker for the evening. KIWANIS CLUB 1 Grover H. Bradley of Forest City will show color slides he made during a hunting trip in the Yukon at Thursday’s meet ing of the Riwanis club. The club meets at 6:45 p. m. at the Wbman’s club. DISTRICT MEET Agents Bill Parsley and John I. George, Jr. were among Cl eveland and Gaston County district Nationwide Insurance men who met in their monthly session at the Long Bow Rest aurant on the Shelby Highway last Wednesday night. RAINBOW GIRLS Rainbow Girls will meet Sunday morning at 10:45 at Boyce Memorial ARP church where they will attend the 11 a. m. church services in a body. WINS SHOTGUN Miss Tot Dellinger of Cherry ville won the Remington auto matic shotgun and complete hunting outfit in the prize drawing sponsored by the Uni versal Gun Club during the Cleveland County Fair last week. Faun Hambright of Gro ver has announced. POWELL CHECK IN The City of Kings Mountain received this week a check for S33.067 representing its 1959 60 pha"'? of gas tax receipts under the Powell Bill act. Fireman Pleased With New Truck JOINS LAW FIRM — Hunter Warlick has joined the Charlotte law firm of Dockery. Ruff, Perry. Bond and Cobb, following gradu ation from Duke University Law SchooL Warlick Joins Law Finn 11 Hunter Warlick has joined the law firm of Dockery. Ruff, Perry, Bond, and Cobb of Charlotte as an associate. Son of Mrs. C. E. Warlick of Kangs Mountain and the late Mr. Wlarlick, he graduated with hon ors from Duke University Law School in June. Elected to the order of the Coif, he graduated “with distinction” at the head of his class thereby winning the Willis Smith Award for the high est academic rating. Mr. Warlick is a graduate of Kings Mountain high school and Davidson College. He joined the Charlotte law firm on September 1 Which oc cupied on October 1 its new of fices in the Attorneys’ Building on East Trade street. . — NO FIRES City firemen received no a larms during the past week. Three Firemen - Charter Members 01 Department Three of the original charter: members of Kings Mountain Vol-j unteer Fire Department are still manning stations? and eating smoke. They are J. Pat Tignor, now chief of the fire fighting unit, P. D. Fulton, full time fireman, and Charles Dilling. The fire department will cele-"' torate its 30th anniversary on May 22, 1961. Mr. Fulton was the first driver of a Kings Mountain firetruck and still handles the job, assisted by C. D. “Red" Ware, T. C. “Red” 'McKee, and N. M. “Stormy” Farr. The department presently lists 18 volunteer members who in clude Chief Tignor, D. H. Allen, assistant chief, T. E. Tignor, en gineer, Corbett Nicholson, John White, W. A. Russell, engineer, J. D. Bridges, C. G. Dilling, lieuten ant, Harry D. Wilson, Neil Hull ender, Frank Blanton, Jim Ly brand, Floyd Thornburg, captain, Fred Thornburg, W. E. Stroup Jr., J. Ollie Harris, Charles Dixon, and H. D. Garmon, chaplain. The volunteers years of experi ence range from one to twenty nine. Organized May 23, 1931, the de partment answered its first alarm on May 23 to douse a blaze at the W. A. Morris house at the corner of Cansler Street and Waco Road. The second fire alarm was to extinguish a blaze at Bonnie Mills. The group started out with a 1931 American La France truck, still in use by the department, and about 1000 feet of hose. In 1938 ithe city purchased the 1938 Ford unit, which also is still in use. Since that time a 1948 Dodge ladder truck has been add ed to the equipment. The new $16,000 engine just purchased is completely modem, (Continued On Paae Eiaht.t Sunday Program To Commemorate 180th Anniversary Of Battle Dr. J. M. Lesesne, president at Brskine college, will speak at Kings Mountain National Mili tary park Sunday afternoon in ceremonies commemorating the I 180th anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain. The program will be held at | the park’s amphitheatre, begin j ning at 3:30. I Dr. Lesesne will be presented ; by Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of | Bcyee Memorial ARP church. Ben Moomaw, park superin tendent, will preside, and Dr. Montague McMillan of Lime stone college, Gaffney, S. C. will read the poem “Ode to Kings Mountain.” Supt. Moomaw announced that the park museum will be open both before and after the pro gram. Mrs. R. G. Finley, of York, S. C., is chairman of the program com mittee. On October 7, 1780, an inferior band of American mountain men annihilated a British force un der the command of Col. Pat rick Ferguson. Historians have labeled the battle as the turning of the tide of war in favor of the colonists in their fight to remove the shack les of Great Britian. Col. Ferguson was killed in the battle. The 4200-acre national mili tary park embraces the site of the battle. Bureau Lists Conditions For Lower Rates Conditions for resumption of ithe '“protected suburban area” fire insurance rates for citizens living adjacent to Kings Moun tain were outlined by the North Carolina Fire Rating bureau re cently in a letter to Mayor Gleej iA. Bridges. Chief Engineer R. Kenneth Scott, on inquiry from the mayor, wrote: “For us to extend Recognized Protected Suburban area rates outside the corporate limits, the fire department would have to answer all calls to a specified area so far as dwell ings are concerned or answer all calls to a distance of, say one mile, two miles, or three miles, or how far you are going. If you are going to one subdivision that can be described by boundaries and that alone, then we would extend Recognized Protected Su burban area rates to that area, the suburbs, by rate slip, just as we have withdrawn the credit by rate slip.” The rating bureau official wrote that Kings Mountain, with its newly acquired fire truck, is in position to serve a population not to exceed 13,000 persons. When this figure is exceeded, another pumper company would be required. It is estimated the fire depart ment is now serving a popula tion of about 11.500 persons, with the unofficial 1960 United States Census at more than 8,200, and with more than 800 citizens, rep resenting estimated population of over 3200, outside the city limits guaranteeing fire-fighting fees to the city, either through a $100 fee deposit or through In surance policy rider. The “protected suburban” rate was withdrawn August 25 from 135 Kings Mountain area homes outside the city, but within 1,000 feet of a fire hydrant. The rate withdrawal means a considerable increase in fire in surance coverage costs, local a gents report, with some costs al most tripling. The agents immediately sought means of getting the for mer rate resumed, took their problem to the city commission, and offered to guarantee pay ment of the fire-fighting fee for all the 135 residences. The city commission expressed sympathy with the agents and their clients but withheld action pending information from the rating bureau. Teen-Agers Plan Kennedy Club A group of Kings Mountain high school students were to meet with Congressman Basil L. Whitener Wednesday night to organize a Kings Mountain cha nter of Teen-Ace Democrats for Kennedy and Johnson. Leaders in forming the organi zation are Sandy Campbell, Billie Jones and Nancy Hovis. Campbell said 25 teen-agers had expressed interest in the or ganization in advance of the Wednesday night session and he said fie anticipated many others would want to join. "Our goal is to keep Kings Mountain Democratic and the solid South solid,” he added. He said the organizers got the idea from the active teen-agers at the mid-September Kennedy rally in Charlotte. A possible activities agenda would include: 1) A series of debates with Young Republicans of the area. 2) Opening of up town head quarters. 3) To promote the Kennedy Johnson ticket through adver tising, and getting-out-the-vote aid on election day. The Teen-Age group has the blessing of Democratic county officials. Virgil Weathers, county j chairman, said he was pleased to see young people of Kings Mountain evidencing interest in politics and government. United Fund Drive Is New Underway Kings Mountain’s second an nual United Fund campaign is underway. Chairman Bob Manor said the $17,000 fund drive is pro gressing well, with several of the 15-man soliciting team having completed their initial contacts. “We hope to have a good ini tial report next week,” Mr. Ma nor added. TO SING HERE TTie Barnett Brothers Quar tet of Spartanburg, S. C. will sing at the Sunday School Rally Sunday at First Wesley - an Methodist church at 9:45 a. m., according to announcement by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Phil 1 lips. Union Kings KIWANIS CLUB PRESENTS LIFE MEMBER SHIP Meek Ormond, center, is shown accept ing a life membership from the Kings Moun tain Kiwanis Club, of which John C. Smothers, ---- at right is president. }. R. Davis looks on as Mr. Ormand receives the honor. Mr. Ormand is an active Kiwanian and well-known citizen. (Photo by B. S. Peeler, Jr.) B. M. Ormand Kiwanis Club Life Member The Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club presented a life member ship to Batie Meek Ormand last Thursday evening. Mi-. Ormand, 96, is a well known Kings Mountain citizen andan active Kiwanian. He holds a record of 18 years of perfect at tendance in the Kiwanis club, a 50 year pin from Fairview Lodge 339, and a 16-year perfect atten dance pin from First Presbyter ian church Sunday school. He is an elder in the Presbyterian church and a Master Mason and member of the Oasis Temple Shrine. Born on March 18, 1869 at Old Furnace, N. C., ’“Captain Meek”, as he is familiarly known in Kings Mountain, taught school for three years, then joined Sou thern Railway Company as a conductor and retired after 50 years service. He is the son of the late Sara Goforth and Robert Dixon Ormand. His wife was the late Lillian Allison Ormand whom he mar ried December 30, 1896. The cou ple were the parents of five chil dren, Mrs. Troy Carpenter, Mins. O. P. Lewis pnd Hugh Ormand, all of Kings Mountain, and two sons, now deceased, Henry Or mand and Lloyd Ormand; nine grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Other members of Mr. Or mand’s family include two bro thers, Will Ormand, 98. and A. D. Ormand, both of Bessemer City, and a sister, Miss Annie Or mand. The Kiwanis presentation was made by President John C. Sma thers and Kiwanian J. R. Davis. Delegation At Nixon Rally A delegation of 25 or more Kings Mountain area citizens at tended the Charlotte Republican rally to hear an address by Vice President Richard Nixon Mon day nighit. The local delegation was led by Wray A. Williams, member of the state Republican executive committee, Kelly Dixon, candi date for Congress, and Jake Dix on, president of the Kings Moun tain Young Republican club. Candidate Dixon sat on the platform, along with other Re publican candidates for congres sional and state offices. Some 23 joined the county car-1 avan which went to Charlotte by special bus, while others drove to the rally. Among others at tending were Mr. and Mrs. Gene Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McDaniel, Grady Dixon, Mayor Glee A. Bridges, Mr. and Mrs. El mar M<*Jill, R. H. Burton, James E. Littlejohn, Paul McGinnis, William Herndon, James Hern don, David Kincaid. Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Eaker, and Mr. and Mrs. 1 Don Hambright. Bloodmobile Here For Friday Visit Regional Bank Reports Stocks 01 Blood Low “Blood collections for Septem ber have beeen phenomenally low for the month of September, a month When the mobile units are usually very productive.” The statement is from the re-1 gional Red Cross blood center, in Charlotte. '‘This report means,” (Mrs. O. W. Myers, Kings Mountain blood pro gram chairman, said, "that a full turn-out of donors at the Friday visit of the Bloodmobile is most urgently needed.” The 'Bloodmobile will set up for the oneway collection at the Wo man’s Club, and will operate from 11 am. to 5 p.m. Mrs. Myers noted that the blood center report continued, “While there is a Shortage of all types, FREE RIDES Kings Mountain taxi opera tors have offered their services to inarease blood collections at Friday’s upcoming Bloodmo bile visit. Citizens requiring transportation to the Bloodmo bile center at the Woman’s club should call any cab company. There will be no charge for the transportation. Return trans portation will be provided by Red Cross volunteers. there is a critical shortage of B Positive, O Positive and O Nega tive blood.” Mrs. Myers noted, “A pint of blood often means the difference between life and death for a pa tient.” Thirty-five Red Cross chapters and two military installations par ticipate in the blood bank pro gram of the Charlotte center, which serves 69 hospitals. (Continued on Page Eight) ELECTED — Mary Lillian Lewis will represent Kings Mountain in the Carolinas Carrousel. Thanksgiving Day parade and pageant, in Charlotte. She was chosen princess from Central high school. Lillian Lewis Carrousel Queen Miss Mairy Lillian Lewis, high school senior, has been elected Cairrousel Princess and will rep resent Kings Mountain in the Carol in as Carrousel at Charlotte on Thanksgiving Day. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. O. P.! Lewis, Miss Lewis will vie with j 36 princesses for the Queens1 Crown in 1961. The Carrousel; Pageant Parade at 3 p. m. No-1 vember 24th will feature the theme, “Tall Tales and True”! with 50 professional floats, 30 j bands, 36 Princesses and at least a dozen celebrity beauty queens, television and stage stars. Miss Lewis, a fjve-foot-four1 blonde, will attend the Knights (Continued on Pape Eiaht) Runaway Track Accident Fatal To Brad; Lee Adams Wednesday Brady Lee Adams, 38-year-old Kings Mountain Negro, was kill- [ ed instantly Wednesday morning’ alt 8:15 in a freak accident In which his head was crushed be-1 neath the wheel of a dump truck on Quarry Road, near the inter ! section with Battleground Avenue just inside the city limits. Adams, an employee of Fred J.i Wright & Sons, was approaching the intersection in the truck on a downgrade and apparently the brakes gave way. Highway Patrolman G. P. Blakemore said Adams swerved ! into a graveled area to keep the truck from crashing into cars on 1 the main traffic artery. He ap parently tried to jump clear of the | truck. The attempt failed and Adams’ head was cuShed toy the rear 1 Wheel of the truck against a spur , line of railroad track, Which bi-, ! sects the graveled area. The dump truck was loaded/ j City police officer P. R. Sanders, ! said the motor of the truck was' | still running when police arrived Had the truck entered the high-j way it might have collided with j a car in which Kings Mountain ! residents Ed Goter and Devere Smith were passengers. Adams, a son of Mr, and Mrs. Robert Adams is survived toy his parents; his wife, Mrs. Ruthay i Continued On Page Eight Application Could Be Filed ,! By January ’ BY MARTIN HARMON The board of directors of Union Trust Company Tuesday unani mously vcied bank officers per mission ito pursue conversations with Kings Mountain citizens concerning establishment of a branch in Kings Mountain. Clyde L. Stutts, president of the bank which has headquar ters in Shelby, said Wednesday, "The invitation of a group of Kings Mountain citizens to es tablish a branch in Kings Moun tain was well received by the Union Trust Company directors, who expressed themselves as flattered with the invitation. He added, "We think well of the possibility of establishing a Kings Mountain branch.” Meantime, there was no for mal comment concerning the bank movement from officials of First Union National Bank of North Carolina, which became a Kings Mountain banking citizen several months ago on merger with the former First National Bank. President Carl MeCraw said Wednesday he had no formal comment to make. However, he had remarked informally, fol lowing a director’s meeting hero last Friday, that he regretted the feeling of some concerning oper ational policies of First Union National. He noted that First Union National, immediately af ter the merger, raised the rate of iriiterest paid on savings ac counts from two to three per cent and stated that First Union National’s loan total at the i Kings Mountain branch is lar ger than it was when the mer ger was effected. W. K. Mauney. spokesman for j the Kings Mountain group of j citizens who expressed interest | in establishment of another bank here, is a director of First Union | National’s Kings Mountain bran ch. He attended last Friday’s dir ector's meeting. President Stutts said Wednes day no arrangements have been j made for futher talks with the i Kings Mountain group. He noted again that establish ment of a branch bank is sub | ject to approval by the North Carolina Banking commission and by the Federal Deposits fn | suirance Corporation, of which j Union Trust is a voluntary mem ber, as are virtually all banks in North Carolina. The banking commission meets quarterly and President Stutts said he anticipated a for mal application for approval of a Kings Mountain branch might be filed in time for the com mission's January 1961 meeting. “We assume, on basis of Kings Mountain’s population, that the city is large enough for two banks. It Is one of the few com munities of comparable size that Continued On Page Eight Sen. Smatheis YDC Speaker Senator George Smothers, of Florida, will make the principal address at Shelby Monday night at the 11th Congressional district rally of Young Democrats. The Florida Senator, a North Carolina native, will be substi tuting for Senator Lyndon John son, Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who found that train schedules did not permit his at tending the Shelby affair. However Congressman Basil T* Whitener announced, it is quite possible Mrs. Johnson will attend the rally. Another visiting dignitary scheduled to attend the seven county Shelby rally is Governor Buford Ellington, of Tennessee. While the Monday night rally is a Young Democratic affair, of ficials have made it plain that the rally is open to all Demo crats and their attendance is ur ged. John Brock, president of the host Cleveland County group, no ted, "We hope there’ll be stand ing room only for the Monday night rally.” The rally will be held at the Shelby community recreation building and is scheduled to be gin at 7:45. Congressman Whitener termed , Senator Smathers “one of the outstanding members of the U nited States Senae.”
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