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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 nm flgwro for Onatmr Bag* Mountain 1* duHad from tt* MU Bag* Mountain dty Bracterr cum. Th* dig Limits flgtua I* troan tan Oaltad Stotnn cnnjun of MSS. IQ Pages 10 Today VOL 71 No. 44 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 3, I960 Seventy-First Year PRICE TEN CENTS EDUCATION WEEK UNDERWAY — Mayor Glee A. Bridges signs proclamation designa ting the Week of November 6-12 as American Education Week in Kings Mountain as Cen tral Principal Harry Jaynes and North School teacher Miss Janet Falls look an. Miss Falls is Kings Mountain chairman for the nation-wide observance. Varous activities planned by the schools and the local unit of the N. C. E. A. will call attention to the week-long program. (Photo by Claire Gilstad) Local News } •' ' : ■ Bulletins LEGION MEETING The nSpUar meeting of the <Jas D. Green Post 155 of A rnerican Legion will meet Thursday at 8:00 p. m. at the Legion Hall. The meeting is generally held on Friday, how ever, Post Commander J. T Mc Ginnis said the change has been made because of the foot wall game Friday night. kiwanis club . Me Craw, Charlotte banker, will be guest speaker of the Kiwanis Club Thursday evening at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman's Club Kiwaman L. E. (Josh) Hinnant has arranged the program. RETURNS to work .J"‘ J- E- AmUiony, hospital azed last week with an abdom inal ailment was discharged last weekend and returned to nis office this week. PLONK IMPROVES c. S. Plonk, who suffered a seyere Ifg bum two weeks ago, is improving, but remains con fined to his home. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $123.28, in cluding $96.28 from on-street tneters, $16 from over-parking fees and $11 from off-street meters, City Clerk Joe McDan lei reported. LEGION SUPPEH-DANCE t S?Ppar will be served far 1 ?nd thelr lles at the Legion Building Sat urday night from 5 to 8 o’clock Both Chairmen Predict Win Both county leaders in the cur rent political campaign are pre dio.ing victory at the polls in Cle -’and County on Tuesday. lMnlS. a vote total WUl be beneficial to their cause. Pierce Cassedy, county Repub tioan chairman, said Wednes day ‘Nixon will carry Cleveland County.' He added that he felt the chief aid to a Republican vic tory would assure a favorable re suit far the national Republican ticket of Nixon-Lodge. Virgil Weathers, county Dem ocratic chairman, said, “The longer the campaign goes, the people realize that Kennedy possesses the qualities of leaderesiup that Nixon lacks.” berw8?141 £e ~i§'8'er the vote the be ter for the Democratic ticket. Education Week Will Be Observed SPEAKER — Carl McCraw of Charlotte will speak at Sunday night union services which will launch a week of special pro grams here in observance of A merican Education Week. UF Campaign Over Hall Mark Gifts and pledges to Kings Mountain United Fund neared the $9,000-mark this week, more than half (the $17,000 goal. Chairman Rob Maner said an accurate report wasn’t available due to the absence of R. S. Len non, United Fund treasurer, but reported minimum addition to the fund of $1500. The total of $8816 represents 51 percent of the $17,000 the U nited Fund seeks to support eight Kings Mountain civic, ser. vice, and charitable agencies. Chairman Maner said he con tinues to 'be pleased with the progress of the campaign and feels the goal will be reached. United Fund combines the eight fund-raising drives. Participating organizations are Kings Mountain Red Cross, Ja cob S. Mauney Memorial Library, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Davidson school band, Kings Mountain school band, City Recreation I commission, and Kings Moun I tain Life-Saving and Rescue Squad. Chairman Maner asked all I campaign solicitors to complete jtheir work as quickly as possi ble. IN GRADUATE SCHOOL Thomas Burke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burke of Kings Mountain, is in graduate school this fall at the Univer sity of North Carolina at Cha pel Hill. Schools Plan Daily Programs For Observance Next week will be American Education Week throughout the United States, and Kings Moun tain schools and other organiza tions are joining in the obser vance. Purpose of the observance, ac cording to the Kings Mountain Unit of the North Carolina Edu cation Association, is to remind American people of their duties to the schools. Teachers and schools cannot be effective with out publicsupport.the association points out. and the needs of ed ucation are constantly changing. Miss Janet aFlls, Kings Moun tain chairman, said the local ob servance will begin Sunday with a union service to be held at 7:30 p. m. at Kings Mountain Baptist church. Carl G. McCraw, Charlotte banker and Kings Mountain native, will make the educational address and all churches in the area are invited to participate. Mrs. Emma C. Austell, a former teacher of Mr. McCraw’s, now of Oxford, will Introduce the speaker. During the week educational exhibits following the theme, “Strengthen the Curriculum for the 60’s", will be displayed in these stores: Science—‘Fulton’s; French—Page’s; Language Arts (Continued On Page Ten) 1060 New Voters Are Registered In Township Registration activity peaked Saturday, final day of registra tion, for next Tuesday’s general election, as the names of 549 township citizens were recorded on the pollbooks. .The Saturday registrations brought to 1060 the number of new voters listed in the registra tion period. Registration for the Tuesday e lection is over. Saturday is Challenge Day, and the registrars will be at the polling places from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. to allow a perusal of the books by 'interested citizens. Of Saturday’s total, 414 declar ed themselves Democrats, 114 Republicans, and 21 Indepen dents. The total township registration was Democrats 791, Republicans 222, and Independents 47. The West Kings Mountain pre cinct was again the leader in new registrants, with 257. East Kings Mountain followed closely at 222. Bethware recorded 27 and Grover 43. Mrs. J. B. Ellis, Grover regis trar, and Mrs. J. D. Jones, at Bethware, said that many regis tered voters came in to check their registrations. Kings Mountain registrars were swautped all day. Lines of would-be registrants were the order of the day at West Kings Mountain and East Kings Moun l tain. Mis. McGinnis' Rites Conducted Funeral 'rites for Mrs. Minnie Carpenter McGinnis, 81, were held Tuesday at 4 p. m. from St. j Matthew’s Lutheran church, of which she was a member. (Mrs. McGinnis suffered a torok-j en hip in a fall Saturday and died Sunday night in the Kings Mountain hospital. iA naltive of Gaston County, she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carpenter. Her husband, the late Wiley H. Mc Ginnis, was a former Kings Mountain mayor. She is survived by two sons, J. M. McGinnis of Kings Moun tain and Gene McGinnis of Char lotte; three daughters^ Mrs. John C. Caveny of Kings Mountain, Mrs. C. C. Proctor of Spencer and Mrs. C. R. Edwards of Albemarle. Also surviving are two brothers, Clarence Carpenter of Hickory and Clayton of Elizabethtown, Tenn., two sisters, Mrs. M. M. Burke of Richmond, Va. and Mrs. Dave Webb of Shelby, 10 grand children ana fear great-grand children. The final rites were conducted by her pastor, Dr. W. P. Gerber ding, assisted by Rev. George Moore. Interment was in Moun tain Rest cemetery. Pallbearers were Jacob Cooper, J. M. Lackey, George W. Mauney, J. E. Herndon, Jr., Hugh Ormand and Carl F. Mauney. VETERANS DAY Post 155 Legionnaires will present a Veterans Day Mem orial Program at City Stadium Friday, November 11 prior to the ChenryvHle-Kings Moun tain football game. Comman der J. T. McGinnis said the ceremony will consist of a sa lute by the firing squad and the raising of the flag. Mis. C. E. Neisler Celebrated Her Ninetieth Birthday Saturday How does it feel to be 90 years of aige? fit feels like you can’t do noth-! ing,” Mrs. Laura (Mauney Neisler laughed this week. The Kings MJountain citizen, who has lived here almost all her life, had observed her nine tieth birthday October 29, cele brating at a surprise dinner given j by her daughters, and attended toy 70 members of Wer family. (Mrs. Neisler says she has diffi culty walking and remembering, but she reads considerably, us-’ ually without glasses. “I never wore glasses much,” she remarks. I Will she vote next Tuesday? "I never have missed," she re plied. Her first vote was cast in 1920,' first time women had the right to vote in this nation. Daughter of the late W. A. and Laura Ramseur Mauney, Mrs. Neisler was bom in Lincoln county. Her family moved here Continued On Page Five j ■■■■hhhh NONOGENABIAN — Mrs. C. E. Neisler, w ill - known Kings Mountain citizen, observed her ninetieth birthday October 23. REPRESENTATIVE — Mrs. De-j vere R. Smith has been accept-; ed as a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange. She is a member of the staff of Thomson & McKinnon Brokers in Shelby. Mis. Smith Wins NYSE License Mrs. Athlene G. Smith, mem-' ber of the staff of Thomson & McKinnon Brokers in Shelby, has been notified that she has been accepted as a registered repre sentative of the New York Stock Exchange. Wife of Devere R. Smith ofl Kings Mountain, the new regis-; tered representative becomes one of four in the Shelby office which she joined /a. year and a half ago. As a representative, she will be qualified to discuss and advise on investments. James S. LeGette, manager of the Shelby office of Thomson & McKinnon, said that (Mrs. Smith is the only registered woman rep-j resentative in Cleveland County j and may he the only woman with that rank between Asheville and Charlotte. Mrs. Smith, to qualify for the status, took a rigid ex amination administered by the stock exchange. She scored a per fect 100 on the test. (Mrs. Smith attended Winfthrop College and Belmont Abbey. A native of Clover, S. .C., she was employed formerly with Govern ment Services, Inc. in Wash ington, D. C. Her huSband is affiliated with Foote Mineral Company and they and their two children, Dana and 'Roger, live at 701 Marion street in Crescent Hill. The Smiths are memlbers of Resurrection Lutheran Church. Four-Month Tax Take S100.080 City of Kings Mountain tax collections since July 1, begin ning of ithe current fiscal year, totaled $100,080 through October' 31, Tax Collector M. H. Biser re ported this week. Included in the receipts were $87,031 on current 1960 taxes, more than half the $163,466 levy, $7672 in 1959 taxes, and $5385 in land sales certificates. Taxes far 1960 are due at par through January, with late pay ment penalty applying in Febru ary. Yule Lights Being Erected City electricians began erect ing Christmas lights in the bus iness district this week and Kings Mountain Merchants a galn are investing In decorations to improve the lighting display. Charles Blanton, association president, said the association is purchasing a half-do!zen star in-wreath decorations which will enhance this year’s Christmas season display. The big internal ly lighted stars are silver, and are contained within a tri-color garland wreath. The swinging bells will be re located in this year’s display. The Christmas lighting display will be lighted for the first time on the niight after Thanksgiv ing, marking the opening of the Christmas shopping season. BOOK FAIR The Library Club at Sacred Heart College at Belmont is holding a book fair at the Sac- I red Heart Gymnasium Satur day, and the. interested pub lic is invited to select books of all sizes and interests. Miss Ellen Burke, Kings Mountain junior at Sacred Heart, made the announcement. Township Total Vote Expected To Set Record Kings Mountain area citizens will join other Americans next Tuesday in choosing a president, governor and other officeholders in what is expected to be a rec ord vote both here and in the nation.. (Pre-election registration activi ty saw more than 1,000 new vot ers’ names recorded on the reg istraition hooks in Number 4 Township, indicating the previous record of 3,772, set in 1952, will fall. ' Registrars are urging early voting on Tuesday, as they antici pate a difficult time in accommo dating all would-be voters. The polls open at 6:30 a. m. and will close at 6:30 p. m. at all the! county’s 28 precincts. Voters here will have oppor tunity to mlark four ballots: the presidential ballot,'the state bal lot which includes the race for governor, other state offices and the contest for 11th district Con gressman, a county ballot and a ! township ballot. Prime interest here concerns | the presidential campaign with j Jack Kennedy and Lyndon John son the Democratic standard-bear ers, and Richard Nixon and Henry Calbot Lodge the Repub lican team. Another race attracting heavy attention is the contest between Terry Sanford, Democrat, and Robert Gavin, Republican, for governor. The third race of particular* local interest.is for 11th district United Stales Congressman, which finds Kelly Dixon, Kings Mountain t>uiddor and lay preach er as the Republican challenger who seeks to unseat the Demo cratic incumbent, Basil L Whin ner, of Gastonia. , The county and township bal lots have no Republican listings, ais there are no Republican can didates for county, or township offices. (However, some interest is be ing evidenced in the order of fin ish of the county commissioners. Under an act of the 1959 General Asserpfbly, the county commis sioners will henceforth serve staggered terms. The three com missioners polling highest num ber of votes will be elected to a four-year term, while the com missioners placing fourth and fifth will he elected to two-year terms. »' Commission candidates are In cumbents Knox Sarnatt, J. Broadus Ellis, and John D. White, and two newcomers, Victors in the May primary, Hugh Dover and David E. Beam. Other Democrats on the coun ty ballot are: for 27th district senator, Robert Mjorgan and Ben jamin H. Sumner; for county representative, Jack Palmer; for register of deeds, Dan W. Moore; for county board of education, C. F. Forney, Walter Davis, Edwin Moore, J. D. Ellis and Buford D Cline. On the township ballot are Democrats Charles W. Fond, for constable, and J. Lee Roberts, for justice of the peace. Only two Democrats for state offices are unopposed: they are Clifton L. Mjoore, for associate justice of the Supreme Court, and Rudolph Mintz, for judge of the fifth Superior Court district Continued on Page Ten CONGRESS CONTESTANTS — Kelly Dixon, left, of Kings Moun tain, is the Republican challenger who seeks to unseat Incumbent Basil L. Whitener. right as the 11th district United States Congress man in Tuesday's general election. Mr. Dixon is a builder, Mr. Whitenev a Gastonia attorney. Active PcSitical Season Near End ■■■■■■I.. WWH JOINS FATHER — OUie Harris. Jr., has Joined the staff of Harris Funeral Home. He began his new duties this week. Harris loins Father's Firm Ollie Harris, Jr., has joined Harris Funeral Home, it was an nounced this week. Mr. Harris, a district salesman for Laggett & Myers Tobacco Company, assumed his new du ties Monday He is a graduate of Kings Mountain high school and at tended Davidson college and the University of South Carolina. Mrs. Harris, is the former Jean Arthur, also of Kings Mountain. They have a son, Ollie Harris III. They have occupied the resi dence at 805 Groves street. Mr. Harris is the son of J. Ollie ; Harris, Sr., owner of the mortu ary, and Mrs. Harris. CLOSED ELECTION DAY Ci/ty hall offices will be clo sed election day, it was an nounced this week by Mayor Glee A. Bridges. Whitener Predicts Kennedy Win, Urges Foil Support Of Democrats Congressman Basil L. Whitener called on Kings Mountain area Democrats to support: the Demo cratic ticket Tuesday night, as h*e spoke at a rally (here sponsored by the Teen-Age Democrats. He predicted John Kennedy will win the presidency by a min fabum of 50 electoral votes. The Congressman said the Re publicans haven’t produced four outstanding presidents during the! past 100 years and termed Re publican Governor candidate Rob ert Gavin as "uninformed, un- [ known and unqualified.” IMr. Whitener spoke to some 200 persons at the high sohiool au ditorium. . Following the Whitener ad dress, State Senator Robert Mor gan, of Shelby, also urged full support of Che Democratic ticket. (Mr. Whitener said he knew Vcie-President Richard Nixon, a| law school classmate, more inti mately than We does Senator John Kennedy. He added, "You’ll find it difficult to find any good legis lation recommended from the Re publican side of the aisle. The legislation for the people comes from the Democrats. .The team1 of the Vice-President is not the team that can serve the best in terests of the people.” He pooh-poohed the Nixon con versations with textile leaders of the state, charging that the Re-, publicans have had 28 chances to alleviate the textile import prob-l lems in the past three years, and acted in only two of them. “Two avowed Republicans,” he* added, “came out from the meet ing and yelled rah-rah.” 'He termed Terry Sanford, Dem ocratic candidate for governor, as an intimate friend who is “cour ageous and honest..” Referring to Sanford’s support of (Mr. Ken nedy at tlie Democratic conven tion, he said Sanford did what het thought was right. (“Courage is a great trait,” he continued. i The Congressman said that the supposed rapport between South-' ern Democrats and Northern Re publicans is a figment of the imagination. "The Northern Dem- j oerats help us every way they, (Continued On Page Ten) Dixon Seeking To Unseat Basil Wihtener Kings Mountain citizens will culminate a 'busy season of poli ticking at the ballot boxes Tues day. It 'has been the most active campaign in modern history here, with *both Democrats and Re publicans vying for this area’s majority. One unique fact is that Kings Mountain has a candidate for the United States House of Repre sentatives in the person of Kelly Dixon, the Republican nominee, who seeks to unseat two-term veteran Basil L. WKitener, Gas tonia Democrat. |Mr. Dixon, who became his par ty’s nominee at the district GOP convention last ipring, is a Kings Mountain contractor and lay min ister. He has spent the majority of his time since nomination ac tively seeking votes and boosting the Republican party. He said several weeks ago he had been to each county in the seven-county district. Congressman Wiliitener is fa vored to retain his seat ,bulwark ed by the normal Democratic vote and fact that his home county of Gaston is m(ost populous in the district, which includes Gaston, Cleveland, MdDowefll, Rutherford, 'Polk Yancey and Madison coun ties. Mr. Whitener was unopposed in the general elections of 1956 and 1958. The campaign between the two has been gentlemanly, both can didates having concentrated on personal contacts, appearances at party rallies, and support of each party’s candidates for national and state offices. Otherwise, Kings Mountain has seen campaign headquarters open ed by both Democrats and Re publicans. The Democrats opened theirs first, with the newly-or ganized Teen-Age Democrats the moving force. Soon thereafter the Republicans, with the Young Republican organization spark ing the drive, opened headquar ters across the street.. In addition to partisan efforts, at least two organizations have been conducting “Get Out the Vote” campaigns. The Junior Chamber of Commerce has been the major mover in this direc tion, and Boy Scouts delivered ‘•Vote November 8” cards last week. Facts Are Given On Tuesday Election Fallowing are facts concern ing the upcoming general elec tion: Election day: Tuesday, No vember 8. Foils open 6:30 a..m. Polls close 6:30 p. m. To be elected: President of the United States, all state of ficers, llth district Congress man, all county and township officers. Number of ballots: four. Township polling places: East Kings Mountain, at City Hall; West Kings Mountain, at Victory Chevrolet Company; Beth ware, at Beth ware school; Grover, at Grover fire station. Predicted total vote in town ship: 4,000.