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.