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VOL 71 Wo. 46
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Today
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
MAUNEY BUILDING TO BE DEDICATED —
Lenoir-Rhyne College will dedicate its new
$352400 Mauney Music Building, gift of Mr.
and Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Sr., and family of
Kings Mountain on Sunday. In addition, the
Mauney family gave a pipe organ for the
building, in memory of the late Ernest
Mauney. concert pianist.
Local News
Bulletins
Liotos SUPPER
T^ie Grover Lions club will
sponsor a Bair-B-Q Saturday,
November 19, from 11:30 a. m.
untill 8 p. m. in Grover School
Cafeteria. Call the school cafe
teria for take-out orders. Adult
plates are $1 and Child plates,
50 cents.
SPECIAL SERVICE
Thanksgiving Day Service
will be held at 10 a.m. Thanks
giving Day at St. Matthew’s
Lutheran church. Dr. W. P.
Gerberding, pastor, will biring
k the mediation and music will
f be by both choirs. The Adult
choiT will sing “Give Thanks’’
by Frances Williams, and the
Junior Choir will sing “My
God I Thank Thee” by Fred
erick Maker.
IN FRATERNITY
Ranee Henderson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Henderson, of
Kings Mountain, has been in
ducted into Theta Delta frater
nity, honorary society scholas
tic fraternity of Oregon College
of Education, Salem, Ore. A
junior, Mr. Henderson is mar
ried to the former Betty Led
ford. They have two children,
David and JuHie Henderson.
SPECIAL SERVICE
Young People of First Pres
byterian church will have
charge of the mid-week service
at First Presbyterian church
Wednesday. They will present
a Thanksgiving program at
7:30 p. m.
KIWANIS CLUB
Joe Bilden, Industrial Rela
tions manager of Fiber Indus
tries, will discuss their opera
tion at Earl for member of the
Kiwanis club Thursday night.
The dub convenes art 6:45 at
the Woman’s Club.
AT SYMPOSIUM
Miss Georganna Moss, Kings
Mountain student at Winthrop
Ccfllege is attending a Civil
Wax symposium at Woman’s
College art Greensboro Thurs
day. Miss Moss, two other
Winthrop students, and a
member of the faculty are a
mong the representatives pre
sent.
ATTENDING STUDY
Mans. Iva Lovelace of B. F.
Mainer Insurance Agency at
tended a study course of in
land-marring insurance spon
sored by the Gastonia Associa
tion of Insurance Women in
Gastonia Tuesday night. Speak
er was J. B. Johnson of the
Firemen’s Fund Insurance
Company, Charlotte Branch.
HOSPITALIZED
John Cheshire, Sr., is resting
well at Kings Mountain Hos
pital after suffering a heart at
tack Monday.
THANKS LIONS
Mrs. J. H. Arthur this week
expressed appreciation to
members of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club who aided e
lection officials in counting
and tabulating the record vo
tes in West Kings Mountain
precinct for the November 8
general election.
PARKING METERS
Receipts from city parking
meters totaled $122.80 last
week, including $100 from on
street meters, $13 from over
parking fees and $9.80 from
off-s treet meters, City Clerk
Joe McDaniel reported.
Mauney Building
To Be Dedicated
Mauney Family
Gave $352,000
Gilt To College
When Mauney Music building
is dedicated Sunday, Lenoir Rhy
ne college will have reached an
other high mark in facility pro
gress — five new buildings dedi
cated within four years.
The $352,000 structure is a gift
of the W. K. Mauney family of
Kings Mountain. Tt was occupied
partially during the second ses
sion of summer school, and, ac
cording to Harry S. Livengood,
colllege business manager,
should be fully occupied by Jan
uary.
This Sunday’s formal building
dedication will begin with a 3:30
p. m. dedicatory service and con
cert in the P. E. Monroe Auditor
ium, and will be followed by an
open house alt the music build
ing between 5:00 and 6:30 p. m.
Students majoring in music
will now have specially constru
cted teaching studios, class
rooms, practice rooms for indi
vidual and ensemble work, and
an organ studio. The music
building is of concrete slab and
beam structure to minimize
sound transmission, with non
parallel interior walls and ceil
ings to prevent "flutter.’’
Clemmer and Horton, Archi
tects, of Hickory designed the
structure, and Guy Prye & Sons,
Inc., general ■, contractors from
Hickory, did construction work.
The Mauney family, in addi
tion to the building itself, has
donated a two-manuel Moller
pipe organ (to be used for teach
ing purposes, in memory of Er
nest Mauney, well-known con
cert pianist and part-donor of
the building. Fpur Steinway
grand pianos were also included
in 'the gift.
Specifically, the two - floor
building, which joins the P. E.
Monroe auditorium viz covered
walk-way, contains a bandroom,
a choral room which seats 175
and may be used for small stu
dio recitals, nine individual stu
dios, 26 practice rooms, a student
organization office, a music li
brary, a recording studio, an or
gan studio, lounge, and lobby,
which can be utilized for small
receptions.
When completely furnished,
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St.MI-FINALIST — Billie Jones.
Kings Mountain high school sen
ior, was one of three Cleveland
County students named to the
semi-finals in Morehead Scho
larship competition.
lones Nominated
For Scholarship
Billie Wall, Jones, Kings Moun
tain high school senior, was one
of three Cleveland County high
school students selected as semi
finalists in the Morehead Scho
larship competition.
Jones along with Ed Kouri ol
Shelby high school and Neal
Spangler of Orest high school of
Boiling Springs, will participate
in semi-finals competition in
Charlotte later in the year.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Jones, Jones is a member of Mrs.
Laura Gentry’s homeroom and
an honor student. He was re
cently commended by the Na
tional Merit Scholarship founds:
tion for high marks in the math
division of tests given high
school students.
He was winner of the band di
vision drum major award of the
Southwestern, District competi
tion held last spring in Bristol,
Tennessee.
Extra curricular activities
Jones participates in at school
includes toeing drum major of
the band, a member of the Sci
ence Club, French Club, student
council, the National Honor So
ciety, and the Dramatics Club.
'He attended Boy’s State last
(Continued on Page Eight)
Bank To Mail Checks Wednesday
To 1000 Christmas Gob Members
An estimated 1000 members of
First Union National Bank’s ten
th annual Christmas Club will
be mailed checks next Wednes
day.
Mrs. Helen R. Blanton, assist
ant cashier in charge of the
Christmas Club, said payments
to members are expected to ex
ceed last year’s $90,000.
The club will set a new rec
ord, both in aggregate amount
and number of members.
First Christmas Club payment
was made by the Kings Moun
tain Bank in 1951. It totalled
slightly more than $6,000.
Mrs. Blanton said that several
firms* offered employees payroll
withholding deduction service
for Christmas Club members.
Payments to Mauney Hosiery
Company employees, for instan
ce, will total about $25,000. Oth
er firms and institutions offer
ing the payroll deduction ser
vice included Kihgs Mountain
Mica Company, Burns Hosiery
Company, Kings Mountain Hos
pital, Carolina Throwing Com
pany, Victory Chevrolet Com
pany and Herald Publishing
House.
Concurrently, Mrs. Blanton
announced that (the 1961 Christ
mas Club wil open on Monday,
slightly earlier than Hast year.
Under the plan, members pay
a fixed amount as little as 5C
cents per week, for 50 weeks
Memberships may be taken in
amounts of $1, $2, $5 per week
and increments thereof.
“We are very pleased with th«
results of <th 1960 Christmas
Club," Mrs. Blanton commented,
“and hope next year’s club wil]
be bigger and better."
Kings Mountain Armory Approved
Sunday Showings
Asked By Theatre
City Blue Law
Discriminatory
Official Says
Owners of Joy Theatre have re
newed a request for city relaxa
tion of its ordinance against
showing motion pictures on Sun
day.
E. G. Stellings, of Charlotte,
vice,- president of Stewart &
Everett, Inc., presented t!he re
quest to the commission last
week. He pointed out that the
theatre is a business citizen and
major city customer for utilities.
In turn, he noted the city pro
vides Sunday entertainment
through its swimming pools, yet
outlaws Sunday movies.
“We feed we’re being discrim
initiated against,’’ Mr. Stelling
told the commission.
He also said that his firm
i operates 85 theatres, only thbee
of which aren’t operating on Sun
days.
(Officially, the commission tabled
the request for study.
Commissioner Ross Alexander
suggested a 90-day tryout to “see
how it works,” and Commission
er Coleman Stroupe commented,
“I wouldn’t be for opening the
m|ovie on Sundays, but he’s right,
we’re discriminating.”
Commissioner Boyce Gault
merely said he wasn’t ready to
act on the request Thursday
night and Commissioner ' Ben
Bridges made no comment. Com
missioner Luther (Bennett was
absent.
Showing of motion pictures on
I Sunday was legal here for a brief
j period in 1955, from July 7 to Oc
tober 6.
After the board action, there
was a heavy immediate complaint
from the Kings Mountain Minis
terial Association.
Then, at the commission ses
sion of October 6, the Rev. P. L.
Shore, then pastor of Central
Methodist Church and president
of the ministers’ association, pre
sented the commission with a pe
tion bearing 1650 names and ask
ing restoration of the blue law
against Sunday movies.
(He was supported by a large
delegation of citizens who over
flowed city hall courtroom.
The blue law was restored by
a 2 to 0 vote.
An initial motion to call a
referendum on the matter by
then-ComimSssioner J. H. Patter
son brought howls of “no” from
the audience. Then Commissioner
T. J. Ellison then moved restora
tion of the blue law ban on Sun
day mlovies, Mr. Patterson sec
onded andd the vote was 2 to 0.
Then-Comims. W. .G. Grantham
and the late O. T. Hayes Sr.,
were absent due to illness and
the quorurnfmaking third member,
ex-Com|m. Sam Collins abstained.
Otherwise, last Thursday’s
board session was largely rou
tine. The board:
1) Ordered a survey on Dill
ing street to determine whether
the city owned sufficient right-of
way to install sidewalk on the
east side.
(Continued On Page Might)
Bank Expanding
P.M. Service
First Union National Bank
will offer expanded afternoon
teller service on weekends be
ginning Thursday.
R. S. Lennon, cashier, said in
side-bank teller service will be
offered from 2 to 4 p. m. on
Thursdays and Fridays for cash
ing of payroll cheeks, making
change for business firms, and
related services.
Outside-window teller service
will be continued on Mondays
and Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p. m.
Two tellers will be on duty
on Thursdays and Fridays.
Mr. Lennon said increased use
of the outside window service
in the afternoon dictated the ex
pansion of this service. The in
creased volume has made it diff
icult fdr one teller to handle the
service on weekends and it is
not unusual for long lines to
farm at the outside window. ....
First Union National (then
First National) was one of the
first banks in this area to launch
the outside-window teller ser
vice. Since, numerous banks in
the area have installed the out
side windows.
EAGLE SCOUTS — Billy Patter
son, above, and Joe Patterson,
twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Patterson, were presented Eagle
Soout awards at last week's
Court of Honor. They were a-1
mong 17 sets of twins in the U
nited States qualifying for the
top Boy Scout award last month.
Patteison Twins
Win Eagle Rank
Joe Patterson and Billy Patter
son, 13-year-old sons of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Patterson, were the
17th set of twins in the United
States to apply for the Eagle
Scouting Award in October.
The Kings Mountain Boy Scouts
received the Eagle award, high
est award in Scouting, at last
Thursday's district Court of Hon
or.
Members of Central Methodist
church, they joined Troop 9 of
Resurrection Lutheran Church 2
years ago, became life Scouts to
gether, and won the same num
ber of merit badges -during their
two years of scouting. They also
made their rank advancements to
j gether.
Eighth grade students at Oerr
i tral school, they are grandsons
of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Plonk, Kings
| Mountain, and of the late Dr. and
Mrs. G. !B. Patterson of Fayette-j
ville.
Joseph A. Brunton Jr., chief j
scout executive, in oongratulat-j
j ing the Patterson twins in their
| sooutlng achievements, said it is j
noteworthy that the two broth
j ers started in scouting together, j
; subsequently became Eagle
Scouts after two years’ active par
j ticipation in a Boy Spout troop.
CAR WASHING PROJECT
• “Troop 96, 'Boy Scouts, will
conduct a’car-washing project
Saturday at East Gold Street
Wesleyan Methodist church
beginning at 9 a. m. Persons
desiring their cars to be pick
ed up should call 739-3215.
Price of the wash job is $1.
Local Funds,
More Site Area
Are Problems
Kings Mountain is on the
verge of attaining a long-term
dream in the form of a National
Guard Armory.
The Kings Mountain Armory
project has been approved by the
North Carolina National Guard.
Plans call for a Type “A” armory,
virtually identical to one recently
completed in Statesville, another
underway in Linoolnton and one
for Belmont, for which bids are
to be opened on Monday.
Two problems must toe sur
mounted to fissure the armory
here:
H) Raising the 17.5 per cent lo
cal share of the cost of the Armo
ry.
Q) Obtaining additional adja
cent property to the West King
and Phifer ftoad site for a mini
mum of five acres.
|Capt. Humes Houston, com
manding officer of the Kings
Mountain company, told the city
commission last Thursday that
he estimated from $35,080 to $40,
000 would be required as the lo
cal share of funds.
The-city commission is on rec
ord as pledging up to $20,000 foi
the project, in addition to the
property investment of $6,300
which the city has already ex
pended for the three acres in
the present site.
Estimates of ‘building cost for
the one-unit building are $140,
000.
State and federal funcls sup
plement: the local funds in ‘build
ing an armory.
Previously, the county boand of
commissioners has been asked to
provide a share of the local
funds. At the time, the county
commission indicated sympathy to
the appeal but made no definite
committment.
National Guard and city offi
cials are expected to report prog
ress toward obtaining the armory
at the mid-month meeting of the
county commission Mlonday and
to renew the request for mone
tary aid for the project.
Capt. Houston said it was an
ticipated that the armory con
struction -could 'begin within the
current fiscal year.
Should the city desire to ex
pand on the basic Type “A”
plan, city funds would be re
quired.
Capt. Houston reminded the
city board that the armory would
be available for use as a public
auditorium and for other func
tions at a very nominal rental.
He also said that some prop
erty near the armory can be pur
chased, the owners have indicat
ed. He added that the National
Guard upped its minimum acre
age requirements for parking
areas and possible use in national
or local emergencies.
Kings (Mountain’s Nation a 1
Guard unit was activated in June
1948 with 13 officers and men.
Present strength is 71 officers and
mien. Capt. Houston said that
the aggregate payroll for the 12
year period has exceeded $400,000.
FIRE
City Firemen were called to
Marion Street Sunday morning
to douse an auto blaze in a car
owned by Ray Oliver. Fireman
McKee said the ignition wires
of (the auto were damaged by
the blaze.
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HERE FOR TUESDAY BROADCAST — Dadio Station WBT's mobile
unit will be in Kings Mountain Tuesday, where the Tuesday broad
casting will originate. The station honors Kings Mountain for being
voted it's October community pride award.
WBT To Originate
Broadcast Here
Next Wednesday
Last Hall-Holiday
Wednesday half - holidays
will be suspended by Kings
Mountain retail firms next
Wednesday.
Mrs. Luither Joy, Merchants
association secretary, said
that, effective November 30,
the merchants will begin full
six-day per week schedule for
the duration of the Christmas
shopping season.
The freak of 'the calendar
will pare Christmas holiday
schedules. Christmas will fall
on Sunday this year and the
merchants plan to observe
Monday, December 26, as a
holiday. No holiday has been
scheduled for Monday, January
2.
Glaucoma Clinic
Continues Today
Kings Mountain area citizens
may get a free eye-test for glau
coma at the clinic in Shelby
which will continue Thursday at
the Shelby Armory from 10 a. m.
to 4 o’clock.
Persons 40 years of age and
oHder are urged to avail themsel
ves to the service, at the clinic
being sponsored by the Shelby
Lions club and other Lions clubs
in the county.
Glaucoma is a blinding dis
ease, if undiscovered in time,
and it frequently occurs without
warning to the patient. In lay
terms, it is known as hardening
of the eybalUs, increasing pres
sure on the eyeball until the
retinal nerve is slowly crushed.
First, the patient’s side vision
is destroyed, then his front vi
sion. Lost vision can’t be re
gained.
Both medical and surgical
techniques are used in treating
the disease.
One of the principal projects
o< Lions clubs is sight conserva
tion and aid to the blind.
County Board Plans Neutrality
In Township School Merger Trial
By MARTIN HARMON
Litigation questioning validity
of the Nurrfber 4 township school
consolidation election of last May
is scheduled for trial in Cleveland
Superior Court on November 29.
Defendants in the litigation,
brought toy a group of citizens op
posing consolidation of outside
city areas, are the Kings Moun
tain board of education, county
board of education and county
board of commissioners.
J. R. Davis, attorney for the
city board, said Wednesday he
had been informed 'by D. Z. New
ton, attorney for the county board
of education, that the county
board of education will take a
neutral position in the litigation.]
C. C. Horn represents the
county board of commissioners
and James Mullen, of Gastonia,
represents a group of citizens in
the adjacent areas favoring the
consolidation with the Kings
Mountain district. B. T. Falls Jr.,
and A. A. Powell are attorneys
for the plaintiffs.
Judge James Farthing, of Le
noir, will preside over the up
coming civil term of court.
live litigation may, or may not
be, tried before a jury.
Mr. 'Davis said the defendants
will ask that the judge rule on
tiie facts of the case.
(In an election last May 14, cit
izens of the county school area
voted to be merged with the
Kings Mountain district. Dissi
dents obtained a temporary in
junction to prevent the merger,
but the temporary order was dis
solved. Judge P. C. Froneberger,
however, ordered the schools to
be operated by the county board
of education until pending litiga
tion on the validity of the elec
tion is settled.
(North Carolina law provides
that any consolidation of schools
must occur at the beginning of
the schools’ fiscal year. (July 1.)
It was after July 1 that the
temporary injunction was dis
solved.
Should the consolidation be ef
fected, the city district anticipates
building of a new consolidated
high school plant.
Mobile Unite
Will Salute
Community
CHARLOTTE — Kings Moun
tain poured in a flood of votes
during thie latter stages of Octo
ber to capture WBT’s “Communi
ty Pride Award” for the month
of Novemlber.
Mountaineer townsfolk filled
the mail boxes in the last few'
days of voting to edge MarShville,
last month’s winner.
As a result, Kings Mountain
will be visited on November 22 by
WBT’s remote unit for a full day
of broadcasting from, “the town
of the month.”
tWBT announcer Bill Curry will
operate from the mobile radio
station, interviewing business and
political leaders on the progress
and plans of Kings Mountain.
In winning the “Community
Pride Award” for November,
Kings Mountain becomes eligible
for the giant WBT Cup and $1,
000 in cash which goes to the
town receiving the most votes
over the year, based on percent
age of population. |
The $1,000 in cash will be turn
ed over to the community’s gov
erning body for whatever civic
purpose the community decides
upon.
Previous winners in the Com
munity Pride contest are China
Grove, York and Kershaw (which
have won twice each) and Marsh
ville, last month’s champ..
The contest ends December 31,
at which time the year’s votes
will be tabulated and the year
ly "Community Pride Award” an
nounced.
Voters are invited to send in
votes for their towns to “Com
munity Pride Award,” WBT,
Charlotte. Individuals may vote
as they wish.
School Board
Meets Monday
Kings Mountain School Board
will meet in Tegular session
Monday night ait 7:30 in ithe Su
perintendent’s office at Central
School.
In the absence of Supt B. N.
Barnes, Mirs. Wanza Y. Davis,
secretary, reported no definite a
genda is slated thus far and the
session will be one of routine
business.
Mail Subscribers
To Get Herald Late
Next week’s edition of the
Kings Mountain Herald will
reach mail subscribers a day
later than usual.
Though the Herald will pub
lish on regular schedule and
will be on sale at the Herald
office and at newsdealers on
Wednesday night, however,
the Thanksgiving Day postal
holiday will mean that mail
subscribers, other than post
office boxholders, won't get
the edition until Friday deliv
* eries.