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VOL. 71 No. 47 Population Greator Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 tor Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from Mountain dir directory census. TUe dty Is from tns United States census ol 1950. Kings mountain s Reliable Newspaper Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 24, I960 Seventy-First Year PRICE TEN CENTS School Consolidation Hearing Set For Tuesday Local News Bulletins DAR PROJECT Colonel Frederick Hambright Chapter, DAR, has available the new 50-staff U. S. Flag for lawns, curbs, schoolrooms, and window or porch displays and is receiving orders for the flags. Interested persons should contact Mrs. Toflly Shu ford or any DAR member. ARP SERVICE The annual Thanksgiving Service and breakfast was be ing held Thursday at Boyce • Memorial ARP church, the ser vice at 7:30 a. m. and the breakfast following. Men of the Church are in charge of serving the meal. MUSICAL PROGRAM Members of the Kings Moun tain high school mixed chorus, under direction of Mrs. J. N. McClure, presented a Thanks giving program in music at Tuesday’s noon meeting of the Kiwanis club. NO PERMITS City Building Inspector M. H. Biser issued no building per mits during the past week. SINGING Second Freewill Baptist church located on Piedmont Avertue will sponsor B special singing service Sunday after noon at 2:00. The program will be conducted? by Rev. L. C. Campbell. Mr. Campbell issued B a cordial invitation for The p public to attend. Mi. Roberts' Rites Conducted Funeral rites for James Albert Roberts, 84, were held Saturday at 4 p. m. from Harris Funeral Home Chapel, interment follow ing in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Roberts succumbed Friday . afternoon in Kings Mountain hospital following an illness of several years. He was a retired Kings Mountain merchant and a member of Central Methodist church. His wife, Mrs. Mamie Louise Bumgardner Roberts, survives, in addition to one son, James C. Roberts, and two daughters, Miss Ethel Roberts and Mrs. Nina Wolfe, ail of Kings Mountain. Two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also survive. The final rites were conducted by Rev. H. D. Garmon, pastor of Central Methodist church. Postal Workers Hear Trott ^ Employees of ithe Kings Moun ■ tain Fostoffice and their wives w gathered for dinner Tuesday ev ening at Long Bow Restaurant. Highlight of the affair was an address by Tom Trott, Kings Mountain insuranceman who in terspersed his remarks with "Bits of Wit and Wisdom” in an assertion of "Money Isn’t Every thing.” In addition to employees, oth er guests were Miss Freelove Black, a former postal employee, and Mr. and Mirs. Boyd Haarel son. Mir. Hartrelson is a former rurffi carrier far the Kings Moun tain postoffice. Postmaster Charles Alexander presented Mr. Troth Right-Of-Way Is Insufficient Lack of right-of-way will pre vent erection of a sidewalk on the East side of Dilling street. Mayor Glee A. Bridges told the city commission Monday night that a survey by Butler Falls showed only 3.5 feet of right-of way available, where six feet is required, including four-feet for sidewalk and a two foot utility strip. The board voted to purchase an advertisement in State Mag azine in a forthcoming issue fea turing Cleveland County and ^ Kings ^fountain, and ito buy ex tra copies of the issue for distri bution in libraries and other wise, total cost not to exceed $100. The board approved a bid of $2100 for paving of Park Drive and Ramseur street extension. County Defers Armory Request Decision Awaits Seating Of Two Board Members The board of county commis sioners was asked for monetary aid Monday in supplying local funds for a Kings Mountain Na tional Guard armory Attending the county board’s Monday morning session were Capt. Humes Houston, command ing officer, and Sgt GhaiUes Wil son, of the Kings Mountain Na tional guard company, Mayor Glee A. 'Bridges and Comms. Ben H. Bridges, R. Coleman Stroupe and Luther Bennett. The county commission took no action on the request, stating they preferred to delay action un til two recently elected commis sioners, Hugh Dover and David E. Beam are seated on December 5. Chairman Knox Sarratt and other commission members, how ever, expressed sympathy toward the project and the Chairman said the major problem wold be in finding the necessary cash. MJayor (Bridges told the county commissioners that the City of Kings (Mountain, in addition to furnishing the present three-acre Armory site, has committed it self to providing an additional $20,000, which it expects to ob tain by issuance of bonds. Chairman Sarratt said he an ticipated county funds would have to he obtained by the same route. Capt. Houston outlined the plans for the armory, as approv ed by the North Carolina Nation al Guard, and summarized the Guard company’s activities and service. i Capt. Houston told the board that from $15,000 to $20,000, in addition to the city appropriation will be needed to provide the lo cal Share of funds. The federal appropriation for the armory made toy the recent Congress was $104,000. City Gas Users At Record 825 Customers of the city natural gas distribution system reach a record high for the mid-No vember billing period. City Clerk Joe McDaniel said the November monthly report shows 825 natural gas custo mers. Previous high customer total was last March, when 802 gas buyers were listed. BANQUET SPEAKER — Coach W. E. (Bill) Dole, of Davidson college, will speak at the annual Lions club football banquet on December 13. The banquet honors the Mountaineer grid squad. Dole Football Banquet Speaker W. E. (Bill) Dole, Davidson college football coach, will be principal speaker at ithe 1960 Kings Mountain Lions club foot ball banquet. The banquet has been sche duled for December 13, it was announced this week by Harry Jaynes, chairman of the commit tee on arrangements. For many years, the Lions club has honored members of the high school football team and their coaches at the annual ban quet. The banquet is also the occa sion for award of the Fred Plobk trophy and the George Plonk trophy to the Mountaineer play eir adjudged most valluable to the team. Coach Dole will be returning to the Lions banquet rostrum. He was the featured speaker here several years ago. Howard Bryant is also a mem ber of the committee on arrange ments. SPECIAL PROGRAM Miss Nancy Hovis, who spent the summer in the Neth erlands as an AFS exchange student, will speak on “Re ligion in Holland’’ at the even ing service Sunday at Boyce Memorial ARP Church. Miss Hovis willl show slides of the countries she visited. Board Again Tables Sunday Movie Question; Ordinance Is Reviewed The city board of commission ers Monday again tabled the re quest to permit Sunday movies as two eofmfmissianers were ab sent at the brief special session. The commissioners tabled the question until the regular De cember 8 monthly meeting. {Absent were Ross Alexander, w<ho favors rescinding the city ordinance prohibiting Sunday mo vies, and Ben H. (Bridges, who hasn’t stated his position. Ooleman Stroupe suggested that the board might want to con duct an election on the question, but Mayor Glee A. Bridges point ed out a special election would be quite expensive. Owners of Joy Theatre recent ly asked the board to rescind the ban on Sunday movies. E. G. Stellings, of Charlotte, vice-pres ident of Stewart & Everett Com pany, said ms nrm operates mo vies in 85 cities, shows on Sun days in 82 of them, and noted that Sunday movies are available at Gastonia, Shelby and near-by drive-in theatres. He also said the theatre owners regards the city’s operation of swimming pools on Sundays as both com petitive and discriminatory. He suggested the city rescind its 'ban on a trial basis, stating that, if valid complaints about the operation occurred, his firm would be happy to remain closed on Sundays. Following Monday night’s ses sion, Comm. Luther Bennett said he was present and prepared to vote against Sunday movies. He said he wasn’t personally oppos ed but that numbers of (his con stituents are. According to the codification of city ordinances of 1952, showing of motion pictures on Sunday are specifically prohibited, whether or not admission Is charged. Section 1 of the Sunday regu lations ordinance provides that no store be opened on Sunday, ex cept filling stations, cafes and drug stores. These, in turn, are required to toe closed from 9:30 a. mi. to 12:30 p. m. and from 6:30 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. The provision doesn’t apply to Grade “A" cafes. It is legal, under the city or dinance, for an owner or his per sonnel to go into a store on Sun days tout unlocked doors are to toe regarded as primia fade evi denoe of being open for business and therefore a violation of the ordinance. In the codification book, no penalty is provided for violation of the ordinance. Whether the original ordinance provides pen alties for violations has not been determined. Currently, in Kings Mountain, service stations, drug stores, cafes, and some fruit stands and small groceries open all or part of the day on Sundays. Sunday movies were legal here briefly in 1955. After about three months of Sunday operation, the city camtmission, under heavy pressure from some Kings Moun tain ministers and citizens, re versed the initial decision remov ing the ban on Sunday movies. Thanksgiving Last Holiday Til Christmas Many Kings Mountain citizens were looking forward to Thanks giving Day as a final holiday before Christmas. Merchants and retail store personnel, particularly, anticipa ting a busy season guessed that Thanksgiving Day would be a final respite. Another group with a holiday before a peak season is pos toff ice personnel, and school children throughout the township wild get a long week end before returning to books until Christmas holidays begin. Majority of Kings Mountain industry will work on regular schedule. City hall offices will be closed. Churches will hold traditional Thanksgiving services. Early morning church services are scheduled at Central Metho dist and Boyce Memorial ARP churches, ito be followed by breakfast St. Matthew's Lutheran church and Kings Mountain Baptist church will hold Thanksgiving morning services. Two football games hold par ticular interest for local fans, in cluding the Catawba-Lenoir Rhyne encounter at Catawba, and the Lions bowl high school all-star flash at Forest City, where five senior Mountaineers will play for the east team with Coach John Gamble sharing in the coaching duties. The weather was drippy Wed nesday, promising questionable Thanksgiving comfort for hunt ers and travelers. Turkey and the trimmings pro mised to be Kings Mountain’s favorite Thanksgiving Day feast. United Fund Mow 313,200 Kings Mountain United Fund donations increased past the $13 OOO-mark this week. Chairman Bob (Maner said the total of donations and pledges reached $13,200. “There are several clean-up spots which should return some additional funds,” Mr. Maner ad ded. These include business firms and special gifts classifications. Goal of the campaign is $17, 000„ less by $1,000 than last year, first time Kings Mountain adop ted the joint method of raising funds to provide operating cash for several charitable, service, and civic groups. Under the United plan, partic ipating organizations share re ceipts on the basis of a percen tage of their United Fund appro ved budgets. several textile firms, operating on slack schedules, Shave inform ed United Fund officials they will delay their employee solicitations until after January 1, when, they hope, operating schedules will be better. Participating in the 1960 Unit ed Fund campaign are eight or ganizations, Including Kings Mountain chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Kings Mountain school hand, City Recreation com mission, Davidson school hand, and Cleveland County Life-Sav ing and Rescue Squad. Seven Glaucoma Cases Discovered Last week’s glaucoma clinic, sponsored by the Shelby Lions club and Co-sponsored by other Lions clubs of the county, may save the sight of *5 Cleveland county citizens. During the two-day clinic at Shelby, seven new cases of glau coma were diagnosed, and an other 28 persons were listed as border-line cases, J. Edwin Spangler, chairman of the pro ject, has reported. During the two-day clinic, 1505 persons underwent examina tions. Glaucoma is an eye disease that, if undetected and untreat ed, will cause blindness. Impor tance of early discovery of the disease is that lost vision caused by glaucoma cannot be recover ed. ATTENDED MEET Supt. B. N. Barnes and Fred W. Plonk represented the Kings Mountain school board at the meeting of the North Carolina Association in Chapel j Hill Tuesday. * Preliminary Plans Approved For New Country Clubhouse Directors Hope Swimming Pool Can Be Included Directors of Kings Mountain Country Club have approved ba sic plans for a new clubhouse. Meeting Tuesday, the directors authorized the building commit tee to instruct the architects to proceed with detailed drawings and specifications for the new building, Which will replace the clubhouse destroyed by fire sev eral weeks ago. (Dr. George Plonk, president, said a letter to stockholders will go out soon, outlining progress to date on re-building and giving full details on plans for a new clubhouse. I Preliminary plans, drawn by Holland, iBrieze and Revere, Shel by architects, call for three main room®, including a large lounge dining room, snack bar, central kitchen, and service rooms. En trance would be from a sheltered portico. Architects estimate cost at $41,000. The design will per mit expansion in the future, as needs dem|and. The planned build ing will be a one-story structure. It is anticipated that the burned out pro shop will be rebuilt and utilized. i ur. jprionK saia the plans will also call for construction of a ] swimming pool in the area now j occupied by a putting green and he said the directors, which were projecting a swimming pool prior to the fire, feel that a swimming pool can be constructed with the new building. The pool is not in-! eluded in the architect’s $41,000 cost estimate. II . Dr. Plonk said he and the board are very appreciative of the efforts of the building com mittee in the work thus far com pleted. Its members are Paul M. Neis ler, Sr., chairman, Fred W. Plonk, Fred Wright, Jr., Hunter R. Neis ler, William Herndon and Mrs. George Houser. School Board Approves Clinic The proposal of a mental hea lth clinic foir Cleveland County was unanimously approved Monday night by Kings Moun tain school board members as they met in regular monthly ses sion at Central school. The clinic proposal was made Monday to Cleveland County Board of Commissioners by a delegation headed by Worth Morris of Shelby and would cost an estimated $47,000. Tlie clinic would be an expan sion of the present public health service and would also provide psychiatric and psychological services to county residents with mental and emotional disturb ances. Such a clinic, it was pointed out to the commissioners by a delegation including Shelby School Supt. Malcolm Brown, County Health Officer Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, Rep. Jack Palmer, and Judge Jack White of Kings Mountain, would help In the schools, courts, crime prevention, and welfare cases. The Kings Mountain board approved the clinic proposal on the motion of Dr. P. G. Padgett, who expressed the wish that the boards action be channeled to the county board of commission ers. In other actions the board. 1) Heard a report from Supt B. N. Barnes that ithe Central school roof has been completed. Total cost of the project could not be reported at the meeting. Supt. Barnes said the contract had originally been let for $3,115.65 to Kings Mountain Sheet Metal Works, but stipula tion had been made that addi tional work might be needed to replace rotted 'timbers in the roof. Mr. Barnes said Mir. Childers of the firm had not yet presented a bill to the board for payment. 2) Unanimously endorsed the proposed Cleveland County Citi zens Committee for Better Schools. Supt. Barnes reported the board had approved the com mittee at a county-wide School Board meeting in Shelby last (Continued On Page Eight) IN WHO'S WHO — Dr. Paul K. A us ley, minister of First Presby terian church, has been selected to appear in the 1960 edition of "Who's Who in America", ac cording to announcement by Jackson Martindell, publisher. Mis. Lackey's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Mairy Ellen Lackey, 78, widow of J. C. Lackey, were held Tuesday at 3 p. m. from St. Matthew’s Luth eran church, of which she was a member. Mrs. Lackey, who had been visiting her daughter in Graham, died Sunday at 1 p. m. in a Bur lington hospital. She had been ill for a week and had been vis iting for a month with the L. W. Turner family. In addition to Mrs. Turner, she is survived by five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A Cleveland County native, Mrs. Lackey was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John David Plonk. She was a life member of United Church Women of St. Matthew’s church. The final rites were conducted by Dr. W. P. Gerberding, assist ed by Rev. Robert Edsell. Inter ment was in Mountain Rest cem etery. Free Dinner At Legion Post A free turkey dinner for mem bers of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, and their wives, will be held at the Legion building Saturday night from 5 to 8:30 p. m. J. H. McDaniel, Jr, adjutant, said the Legion committee in charge of the event anticipates a crowd of 500 for the Saturday evening feast. The dinner will also mark the kick-off of the post’s annual membership campaign, Mr, Mc Daniel added. ' • Yule Lights Will Go On Thursday Night Kings M/ountain merchants will open the Christmas shopping sea-, son Friday. Thursday night Christmas lighting decorations in the up town business section will be lighted for the first time and ma jority of the retailers have been especially busy this week decora ting store windows and interiors for Christmas. (Another major chore has found the merchants unpacking special ly purchased Christmas gift items. As usual, the retailer plea is “shop early.” 1 Charles Blanton, president of the Kings Mountain merchants association, said this week that Kings Mountain citizens will have j best shopping opportunities in history during the current Christ mas season. “The stores are well-stocked in all lines,” he commented, “and prices are quite favorable.” Aiding the Christmas opening here this weekend will be First Union National Bank's mailing of 1960 Christmas Club checks. This year’s dub of about 1,000 mem bers received or will receive checks totaling more than $90, 000. It was the club’s tenth year of operation. The (Merchants association a gain dispensed with a parade this year in order to improve its Christmas lighting display. Mission Speahei Here On Sunday Dr. C. Darby Fulton, executive secretary of the Presbyterian Board of World Missions in Nash ville, Tenn., will conduct a World Mission Workshop at First Pres byterian Church Sunday after noon. Ail cnurcnes in Kings Mountain Presbytery have been invited to send members to the meeting from 2:30 until 5 p. m. In making the announcement,' Dr. Paul K. Ausley, the local pas tor, noted that those particular-1 ly interested in World Missions and the Missions program in the local churches are invited, in ad dition to the general public. Lead-i ers in the Sunday School, in men1 and women’s work and in all phases of the Church program are also invited to participate, Dr. Ausley continued. “We feel very fortunate in se curing Dr. Fulton for a work shop leader and are confident many people will avail themsel ves this opportunity to learn more about World Missions”, Dr, Ausley added. PARK GRACE P-TA Park Grace P-TA will meet Monday at 7:00 p. m. in the Park Grace School auditorium. Miss Mary Nolan will be guest speaker. She will show slides concerning her recent teaching experience in Germany. Lenoii-Bhyne College Dedicates Manney Music building, dona ted (to Lenoir Rhyne oollege by Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney of Kings Mountain, and sons was dedicated Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p. m. The dedicatory order was con ducted by Dir. F. L. Conrad of Salisbury, president of the North Carolina synod of the United E vangelicai Lutheran church, which owns and operates the liberal arts institution. Miles Mauney, part-donor of the $352,000 structure, and his wife Dorothy Phillips Mauney, noted piano-violin team present ed a public dedicatory concert of classieail music following (the formal presentation of the build ing by his father, Mr. Mauney, and its acceptance by Dr. Volght R. Cromer, president of Lenoir Rhyne. Dr. H. E. Isenhour of Salisbury, chairman of the college board of trustees, brought greetings. De votion als were conducted by Dr. W. P. Gerberding, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church of Kings Mountain, and Dr. Albert H. Keck, Jr., pastor of St. An drews Lutheran church, Hickory, and college pastor. From 5:00 to 6:30 p. m., Maun ey Music building was open for inspection. All friends of the college were invited to attend the open house. Members of the Mauney fam ily who are giving the building are Mr. and Mrs. Maun ey, and sons George H. Mauney, William K. Mauney, Jr., David Mauney, Miles H. Mauney, and Ernest J. Mauney (deceased). All are from Kings Mountain ex cept Miles, who is now living in New Hyde Park, New York. The dedicatory order and con cert were given in P. E. Monroe auditorium on campus. Suit Seeking To Abrogate May flection Litigation to invalidate the May 14 election in which Grover, Beth ware, Park Grace and Compact school patrons voted to merge with IKings Mountain district schools is scheduled tor trial in Cleveland Superior Court Tues day. The suit, brought toy citizens opposed to the consolidation, finds as defendants tfhe Kings Mountain 'board of education, board of -county commissioners, and county (board of education. Attorneys for the defendants are J. R. Davis, for the city 'board, C. C. Horn, for the county com mission, D. Z. Newton, for the county board of education, and James Mullen, who has (been re tained by citizens supporting the consolidation. However, the coun ty board of education has indica ted it will take a neutral position in the litigation. Attorney Davis said defendants will urge trial of the litigation and prefers that Judge James E. Farthing, who will preside, de cide the suit on basis of the facts. In turn, he anticipates plaintiffs’ lawyers, B. T. Fails, Jr., and A. A. Powell, will seek a jury trial, i The litigation, which began shortly after last May’s election, was twice not calendared by the county bar association for two previous sessions of Superior Court civil terms. Defendants then requested that the court set a date for trial, which was order ed by Judge Hugh Campbell for Novemlber 29. Citizens of township schools areas to be merged into the Kings Mountain district voted 1120 to 874 in favor of the con solidation proposal. First legal effort of the dissi dents was Obtaining of a tempor ary restraining order to prevent the consolidation. Judge P. C. Froneberger, who granted the temporary order, subsequently dissolved it, but ordered 'the coun ty board of edcation to continue operation of the schools until the litigation was settled. The complaint of the plaintiffs charge various technical arrors, among them the charge that for mal notice of the election did not provide a registration challenge day, that the boundaries of the proposed new district weren’t de finite, that no disposition was made concerning school proper ties, that the Kings Mountain school unit appointed the election officials, and the election result imposed an undue hardship on Kings Mountain citizens, and that the county board of education never requested the merger elec non. The plaintiffs also contend that the Kings Mountain district sup plementary school tax of 20 cents per $100 valuation would “become burdensome and unbearable.” 'At the hearing on the request of plaintiffs ,for permanent in junction against the merger, de fense attorneys said the com plaints were either insupporta ble or incapable of upsetting the election result, citing as prece dent several prior North Caroli na court decisions comparable lit igation. lions Selling Fruit Cakes Members of the Kings Moun tain Lions club are conducting their annual fruit cake sale. The three-pound fruit cake, baked by Cl ax ton Bakery, of Claxton, Ga., is identical to the cake sold by the Lions last year. The cakes sell far $3. Proceeds from the sale are u sed for various Lions club pro jects, including aid to the blind, sight conservation, and other club functions. F. A. (Pete) McDaniel, Jr., is chairman of the project Merchants Suspend Mid-Week Closings Kings Mountain merchants will be open on a six-day week basis next week and will con tinue the schedule through the Christmas shopping season. The retailers’ will suspend the Wednesday half-honday for December 7, 14 and 21, as they annually do to accomo date Christmas season shop pers. Since Christmas is on Sun day this year, the stores will be closed on Monday, Decem ber 26, in observance of the holiday, members of the Kings Mountain Merchants associa tion have voted.
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