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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
Ita figure lor Cheater Zings Mountain Is Itrirsd from
tbo 19SS Bugs MoantalA city directory census. The city
Units figure Is from tne Del ted states census of Its*.
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December I, I960
Pages
Today
VOL 71 No. 48
Established 1889
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Kin«s Fountain Countiy Clua
Pao
NEW CLUB FROM ARCHITECT'S VIEW — Above is a sketch
ol the proposed new Kings Mountain Country clubhouse, as
envisioned by Breeze, Holland and Riviere, Shelby architect
ural firm. The basic plan for the new clubhouse, to replace
the building razed by fire several weeks ago, has been ap
proved by the club's directors and the building committee
has been authorized to obtain detailed plans and specifica
tions for the new structure. Architects guess the new build
ing will cost about $40,000.
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Local News
Bulletins
FAIRVIEW LODGE
An emergent communication
of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
will be held Monday at 7:30 p.
m. at Masonic Hall, with sup
per to be served at $1.25 per
plate. A degree team from
Cleveland Lodge 202 of Shel
by will perform, according to
announcement by Secretary T.
D. Tindall.
SCOUTERS
Scouters and Cub Scout
leaders aire invited to attend a
Scout Leaders Rountable Mon
day at 7:30 p. m. at Shelby
Junior high school. The Hun
ter-Safety theme and the cud
Scouting theme for January
will be featured.
from hospital
Charles Harrill has been dis
charged from the Veterans
Hospital art Durham and is re
cuperating satisfactorily after
undergoing heart surgery,
members of his family report.
WHITE CROSS PROGRAM
Mrs. Tolly Shuford will pre
sent the White Gross Christmas
Program for women of Boyce
Memorial ARP church when
the Women’s Society meets
Sunday at 3 p. m. at the
church.
P-TA MEETS
The Central School P-TA will
meet Tuesday night. December
6, at 8 o’clock in the school
auditorium.
OPTIMIST MEET
Jake Early, chairman of the
proposed Optimist Club, said
Wednesday the group will
hold another organizational
meeting Monday at ^mgs
Mountain Womans Club ait
7:00 p. m.
DAB FLAG SALE
OoQonel Frederick Hambnght
Chapter, DAR, is promoting the
sale of the 50-star American
flags and they may be pur
chased by contacting any DAK
member, according to announ
cement by Mrs. W. L. Fressly.
legion dance
Stooge Glenn and his or
chestra will play for a dance
for members of Otis D. Green
Post 156, American Legion, and
their guests Saturday evening.
Admission is $1 per couple.
Craftspun Buyer
Still Incognito
It will probably be ten days
or two weeks before a transfer
of ownership of Craftspun Yarns,
Inc., stock is effected.
E. Stanly Marks, an attorney
for a buying syndicate which
bid successfully for purchase of
the Kings Mountain yarn-ma
ker’s outstanding stock, indicated
after federal! district court ap
proval of the sale that his
client’s take-over would prob
ably be about December 1.
An auditor, representing the
buying syndicate, was here Wed
nesday.
Fallout Shelter
Will Be Shown
Sanders Builds
Refuge; Sunday
Is Open House
An unusual social event will
take place here Sunday after
noon.
Open house will be held Sun
day afternoon, from 2 to 6 o’clock,
at the Darthia Sanders family
faillout shelter, designed to offer
refuge to the Sanders family in
event of atomic attack from ra
diation fall-out. i ,
Ckwhosts with the Sanders fam
ily will 'be Eton Shields, chairman
of Cleveland County’s Civil defen
se organization, J. Oliie Harris,
Kings Mountain chairman, May
or Glee A. Bridges and other ci
vil defense officials.
^ VVe hope a large numlber of
citizens will see this fallout shel
ter. It’s the nicest in the county,”
Chairmlan Shields commented.
Mr. Sanders said he decided to
build the shelter after seeing one
demonstrated at the Cleveland
County Fair. He did the work
himself, with the help of his 13
year-old son Steve Sanders, and
the family now has, within a half
dozen feet of their side door, a
safe spot to wait out the demise
of radiation after an atomic
blast, should one occur by enemy
action or accident.
Essential (building ingredients
in the fallout Shelter are concrete
blocks and dirt, tooth regarded as
best protection against radio ac
tive fallout. The walls are three
feet Wiiok and the major portion
of the shelter is imbedded in a
dirst bank. Dirt covers the top.
Inside, the Sanders family of
four has installed a battery ra
dio, two cots, and are stocking
the shelter with first aid supplies,
food and other necessities. A 70
gallon tank in the ground will
supply water needs. Air intake
ventilaitor is connected to a pumip,
which can he turned according to
the numlber of people within the
shelter.
Mr. Sanders got his plans from
a civil defense publication, giving
plans for various kinds of fallout
shelters.
Many Japanese in the Hiroshi
ma and (Nagasaki areas, appar
ently unharmed toy the 1045 ato
mic blasts, subsequently died due
to lethal atomic radiation.
(Protection against radiation is
a major precaution of scientists
working in atomic energy proj
ects. i i l
earned toy the winds, radiation
front an atomic blast could per
meate many parts of the nation
far removed from the scene of
the ihit. i
Chairman Shields says a two
week period is required to assure
safety from radioactive fallout.
The Sanders shelter is at their
htonve on Dixon Road off High
way 216.
JAYCEES MEET
Boh Scoggins Southern Bell
telephone Company represen
tative, will present a program
on direct long distance dialing
at ithe regular bi-monthly
meeting of Kings Mountain
Jaycees Tuesday night at 7:00
at the Woman’s Club.
Retailers Now Open
All Day Wednesday
Majority of Kings Mountain
retail firms are now open a full
six days eadh week and will ob
serve tihe schedule until Christ
mas.
Wednesday marked the first
suspension of the mid-week
half-holiday, an annual custom
to accommfodate Christmas sea
son Shoppers.
Jake Early, city parking me
ter officer, reminded that the
holiday is suspended for park
ing, too. Motorists over-parking
on Wednesday afternoons will
'be tagged for the infraction un
til the half-holiday is resumed.
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Paul J. Beam's
Rites Conducted
'Funeral for Paul J. Beam, 57,
of Charlotte, former Kings Moun
tain citizen, was 'held Tuesday at
2 p. m.. from (Harris Funeral
Home Chapel.
(Mr. Beam, a Charlotte ticket
agent for Seaboard Railway, suc
cumbed of a heart attack Sunday
afternoon. A native of Rutherford
County,, he was the son of the
late (Mr. and Mrs. John L. Beam.
He was a member of Sinclair
Lodge 154 AF&AM of Charlotte,
The Beam family moved to Char
lotte about two years ago.
He is survived toy his wife, Mrs.
Bessie Frills Dickey Beam; one
step-son, Jirrtmy Dickey of Kings
Mountain; two step-daughters,
Mrs. Kenneth Fink of Kannapolis
and Mrs. Kenneth Dickenson of
St. Louis, Mo.; two brothers, T.
T. Beam of Valdese and Herbert
Beam of Moorestooro; and a sis
ter, Mrs. Dennis McKinney of
Ellentooro.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. Jacob Lackey, assisted
by Rev. Herbert Garmon. Inter
ment was in the Beam Cemetery
near Ellentooro.
Methodist Choir
To Give Cantata
"Bethlehem"
The initial program of Christ
mas Music for Kings Mountain
will he presented Sunday after
noon, December 4th, at 5 o’clock
by the Central Mjethodist church
Choir under direction of Mrs. J.
N. McClure.
Featured soloists for the Christ
mas Cantata “Bethlehem” by
Maunder will be Mrs. Bill Allen,
Mrs. Delbert Dixon, IB. S’. Peeler,
Jr., I. Ben Goforth, Jr., and Jacob
Dixon, with some 25 voices of the
church' making up the choir.
IA cordial invitation is extended
the people of Kings Mountain to
hear, once again, the beautiful
Christmas Story in Scripture and
Song, Rev. Herbert Garmon, pas
tor, said in making the announce
ment. i
New High School
Is Merges Aim
•Next major effort on the Kings
Mountain area school front is to
endeavor to obtain a new high
school plant to serve the pupils
of the expanded Kings Moun
tain school district.
Estimates, based on (recent
cost of school construction are
that a new high school pliant,
adequate for anticipated grow
th, would cost perhaps $1,000,000
to $1,100,000.
It is anticipated that a district
bond financing arrangement, as
used by the Shelby district,
would be sought.
Currently, the Kings Mountain
district has available for con
struction use about $250,000.
There is also a possibility that
either federal funds or state
funds, or both, are in the offing
for local school construction.
President-elect John Kennedy
paramounted school construction
needs during his campaign, and
Governor-elect Terry Sanford has
indicated he will ask a $50 mil
lion state bond issue for class
room construction. Both branch
es of Congress approved school
construction appropriations last
year, but the House-Senate com
promise bill was not reported
out by the House Rules com
mittee before the end of the ses
sion.
Bloodmobile Returns December 12;
Legion Post Sponsoring Collection
Otis D. Green Post 155, Amer
ican Legion, will sponsor the for
thcoming December 12th visit of
the Red Cross Bloodmobile, Mrs.
O. W. Miyers, Kings Mountain
Chapter blood program Chairman,
said this week.
The iBloodmobile will set up for
operation ait the Legion Building,
on East Gold street, rather than
at the Woman’s Club.
Hours of operation will toe 11 a.
m. to 5 p. m
Mrs. Myers commented, “The
American Legion post recognizes
the fact that the Charlotte re
gional blood center supplies all
tMe blood needs for Veterans’
Administration hospitals in this
area and the additional fact that
Kings Mounain’s assessed share
of serving the veterans’ hospitals
is 144 pints of blood per year.
“The Legion is seeking to make
this visit one of tiie most success
ful Kings Mountain has had, and
Legion members earnestly ask
the cooperation of industry, bus
iness establishments, Legion
members, other veterans and in
dividuals who can give.
“It is our hope,” (Mrs. Myers
continued, “thait citizens of Kings
Mountain, Grover, and Number
4 township will join with the Le
gion in making this Christmas
month a time of sharing a very
precious gift which could mean
life itself to someone requiring
blood.. Give a Christmas gift to
the blood program. It will cost
nothing but an hour of your
time.” i
Kings Mountain shows a slight
deficit on its blood quota for the
current year.
Barnes Ready T o Start Work
On Details Of Consolidation
High School
Consolidations
Are Anticipated
B. N. Barnes, superintendent of
Kings 'Mountain district schools
said Wednesday he assumes the
township school consolidation is
effected (by Tuesday's court re
sults and is starting to work on
the assumption township high
schools will be merged for the
1961-62 term. i 1
(Will the two Negro high
schools, Davidson and Compact
be merged?
"I would hope so,” Mr. (Barnes
replied. 1
On the basis of 1959-60 figures,
Supt. B. N. (Barnes will become
chief administrative officer for
an additional 1823 school pupils,
and of additional school proper
ties which! had a June 30, 1900,
audit value of $1,008,000.
lAilso accruing will be numerous
additional problems and func
tions, among them: 1) expansioi
of vocational education; 2) trans
portation of pupils; 3) politica
changes for the expanded dis
trict.
None of the problems appear
particularly insurmountable, Mr.
Barnes said, noting that state of
ficials have already approved
preliminary plans for adding ag
griculture vocational instruction
to the Kings Mountain district
curriculum.
Bus transportation of pupils to
and from their assigned schools
will be a new city district func
tion, in the province of the sever
al school principals. Initial pur
chase of buses will be a district
responsibility.
Political arrangements for the
new district may require special
legislation by the General Assem
bly. j i '
Informal agreements be tweet
county school district committee
men and the city board of educa
tion called for three school trus
tees from the city district and
two from the area to be annex
ed. It is also anticipated the
school district election will have
to be a separate one. Currently,
the school district elections are
conducted jointly with the City of
Kings Mountain elections.
Another question concerns next
spring’s election. Terms of Trus
tees A. W. Kincaid and J. W. Web
ster expire in May. Could two
new members elected from the
outlying areas take their seats on
election, or would they have to
wait until July 1?
‘We’re starting to work now
and will invite state officials to
help us,” Supt. Barnes declared
Hippy Succumbs
While Hunting
J. K. Rippy, resident of 812
Third Street, died at 8:00 a. m
Wednesday of a heart attaci
suffered while he and three com
panions were squirrel hunting in
a wooded area across from Lith
ium Corporation on the Bessemer
City Highway in Gasiton County.
Hunting In a group which in
cluded Wade Strange and Clar
ence White, Mr. Rippy reportedly
complained of nausea and not
feeling well, then became unable
to continue. His companions car
ried him to a creek and wet his
lips with a handkerchief mois
tened in the water.
He succumbed berore tney
could gelt an ambulance to him.
The Cleveland County Life
Saving Grew was call led for aid,
but arrived after Rippy’s death.
He was pronounced dead by the
Gaston County coroner on his ar
rival.
Mr. Rippy was reportedly a
bout 45 years of age.
The son of Mrs. Louise Mc
Daniel Rippy and .the late W. G.
Rippy, he is survived by his mo
ther; two children, Louise and
Clifford Rippy; a brother, Oalee
of Gastonia; and two sisters,;
Mrs. Alma Snyder of Dallas and
Mrs. Beatrice Woods of Kings.
Mountain.
Funeral services will be con-,
ducted Friday at 4:00 p. m. from
Second Baptist Church with thej
Rev. Albert Hastings and the
Rev. W. H. Redmond officiating.
Interment will follow in Moun
tain Rest Cemetery.
TO CHERRYVIIXE — Dr. L. T.
Anderson, for the past 11 years
a chiropractor here, has moved
his practice to Cherryville. open
ing new offices there Wednesday
Dr. Anderson
Moves Offices
Dr. L. T. Anderson, a practic
ing chiropractor here for the past
11 years, has moved his practice
to Cherryville, opening his new
offices there Wednesday.
His new offices are located in a
new building on Cherryville’s
West First street.
A native of Omaha, Nebraska,
Dr. Anderson is a graduate of
Lincoln chiropractic college, Indi
anapolis, Ind., and spent a year
in post-graduate study at Logan
college, St. Louis, 1M0. He is a
past secretary of the Kings
Mountain Junior Cham/ber of
Oomlmerce, and is resigning as
secretary-treasurer of the Kings
Mountain Ghamiber of Commerce.
He is allso a MJason.
Mrs. Anderson is the former
Janet HOHbs, of Oherryville.
Dr. Anderson said he regrets
to leave Kings Mountain and sta
ted appreciation to Kings Moun
tain citizens for their friendship.
He will maintain office hours
from 9 a. m. to noon and 2 to 5
p. m. daily, except Thursday,
when he will close his office at
noon.
Appointments for out-of-town
patients won’t be required, he ad
ded:
IN FRATERNITY
Robert Munson,. Kings
Mountain student at St. Oiaf
college, Northfield, Minn., was
among 35 pledges initiated in
to Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity, recently.
Iota Tau Chapter at St. Oiaf
directs its efforts at perform
ing a variety of service pro
jects on the campus.
Consolidation
Movement Began
Decade Ago
Effectuation of the consolida
tion of Number 4 township
schools with the Kings Mountain
district will culminate a move
ment which began initially in
1951.
A survey report of the state
schools planning division in May
1951 recommended either that
the Kings Mountain district
join the county district, or that
the Kings Mountain district be
expanded to include the south
eastern areas of the county dis
trict.
It was in February 1953 when
the county and Kings Mountain
boards of education first discus
sed a consolidation and the
boards favored the southeastern
consolidation, provided the sev
eral district school committees a
greed.
Several meetings were held
beginning in May 1953, but the
movement ended when Beth ware
school patrons soundly disfavor
ed abandoning the split term,
rangement then in vogue, which
found Bethware school operating
several weeks in the summer,
then suspending for4he fall har
vest season.
Bethware patrons later approv
ed abadoning the split term,
with the demise of cotton as a
major Cleveland county crop.
The current consolidation
movement began officially on
April 20, 1959, when the chair
man of the Bethware district
committee telephoned the Kings
Mountain board of education,
which was in meeting, and ask
ed whether Kings Mountain dis
trict would agree to re-opening
the school consolidation matter.
The Kings Mountain board a
greed unanimously and a year of
discussions, explanations and
work on legal and technical de
tails followed, leading to the
May 14 election, when county
disfiriat citizens in the Compact,
Park Grace, Bethware and Gro
ver areas voted 1120 to 873 in
favor of consolidating with the
Kings Mountain district.
Miss Falls
Wins Diploma
Miss Ann Cansler Falls, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Coman
Falls, was graduated Wednesday
with a medical secretarial cer
tificate from King’s Business Col
lege at Charlotte.
IMiss Falls has accepted a posi
lion with the Charlotte Health
Department and will begin her
new duties within the next few
weeks, i
Mfss Falls is a graduate of
Kings (Mountain high school.
Postmaster Reminds Early Mailing
Guarantees Gifts Arrive On Time
Mail your Christmas packages
early!
That’s a reminder from Post
master Charles Alexander, as he
called attention this week to the
Christmas season rapidly approa
ching and as he listed 10 “point
ers" on Christmas mailing.
1) Mail Christmas cards and
parcels for distant places in ad
vance of December 10, and for
local delivery not later than De
cember 16, and remember the
best time to avoid the crowds is
before 10 a. m. or between 1:30
and 3:30 p. m.
2) Address mail correctly, in
cluding full name and address
and your return address. Write
or print clearly. •
3) Although Christmas cards
may be sent unsealed for a 3-cent
stamp, the 4-cent first class seal
ed rate is desirable because it
automatically assures forwarding
if the addressee has moved and
left a new address, or the card is
returned if it is undeliverable
(provided you have included your
return address on it)
41 Don't mail money in Christ
mas gifts or packages.
5, When making a large mail
ing of Christmas cards, separate
them into “local” and “out-of
town” bundles, using adhesive
bands which may toe obtained
from the postoffiee.
6) Pack and wrap securely
Cushioning should toe placed on
all sides of the Christmas gift,
and the carton should be wrap
ped in heavy paper and tied with
strong twine. (Also, place a card
with your own reitum address
as well as the destination ad
dress inside the parcel to aid in
delivery of the outside wrapper
should it be lost.)
7) Parcels containing delicate:
gifts must be marked “fragile”
and foodstuffs should be marked I
“perishable” if they are subject
to spoilage.
8) Insure parcels and register
letters of real value. Where only
proof of delivery is desired or
letters of no intrinsic value, cer-i
tified mail is useful.
9) Use combination mail where!
a letter or message (other than aj
gift tag) is to 'be enclosed inside!
a Christmas package.
10) And finally, if you don’t
know the answer to a mailing
problem, ask. Postal employees
are happy to help you by answer
ing your questions on mailing
regulations.
Consolidation
Opponents Asked
Compromise
Plaintiffs seeking ito invalidate
the Number 4 township school
consolidation election took a
voluntary non - suit in Cleve
land Superior Count Tues
day, apparently ending the in
validation effort and effectu
ating the consolidation.
J. R. Davis, attorney for the de
fendant Kings Mountain board
of education, commented, “That
ends it.”
However, Attorneys far the
plaintiffs were quoted as saying
that their action in taking vol
untary non-suit entitles their
clients to renewing the action
via new proceedings during the
forthcoming 12 months.
The non-suit motion came
when the case was called Tues
day afternoon. No witnesses
were call led, but Mr. Davis said
the non-suit motion followed a
morning ante-room discussion by
the opposing attorneys, in which
A. A. Powell and B. T. Falls, Jr.,
plaintiffs’ attorneys, first sought
a compromise agreement in
which some areas would con
tinue in the county school dis
trict.
'Mr. Davis said this request
was refused on grounds that the
defendants had no legal right or
privilege to compromise, the de
cision of the voters who elected
on May 14, by 1120 to 873, to joih
the Kings Mountain administra
tive unit.
Defense attorneys ithen threat
ened secession from the consoli
dated district, to be to'ld there
are no legal provisions covering
withdrawal from a city school
district.
The final contention was that
the plaintiffs would obtain a
special act of the General As
sembly to permit a secession.
On basis of Tuesday’s result.
Grover, Bethware, Compact and
Park Giace school in the county
district are consolidated with the
Kings Mountain administrative
unit. Under court order, they will
be operated by ithe county dis
trict through June 30, 1961, with
physical and operational con
solidation to occur on July 1, 19
61.
Litigation begun by plaintiffs
shortly after the May 14 consoli
dation election resulted in a
temporary restraining order to
prevent the consolidation. Judge
P. C. Froneberger granted the
temporary order, later declined
to make it permanent, but, with
the July 1 effective date passed,
ordered the county schools to
continue operation of the four
schools joining the Kings Moun
tain district.
When the citizens of this area
voted to join the Kings Moun
tain district, they also voted to
accept the Kings Mountain dis
trict’s supplementary school tax
of 20 cents per $100 property val
uation.
This tax returned about
$21,500 to the Kings Mountain
district during the past fiscal
year and is budgeted for $22,000
during the current year.
B. N. Barnes, superintendent of
Kings Mountain schools, declin
ed to estimate additional re
ceipts from this source under the
consolidated system.
utner defendants in the litiga
tion were the county board of
commissioners, represented by
C. C. Horn, and the county board
of education, represented by D.
Z. Newton. James Mullen, of
Gastonia, was also a defense ait*
tomey, (representing citizens sup*
porting the consolidation.
Mrs. Carpenter's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Hattie
Lee Carpenter, 74, were held
Sunday at 2 p. m. from First
Wesleyan Methodist church, in
terment fallowing in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Carpenter, widow of Ro-t
bert Lee Carpenter, died Thurs
day night in the Kings Mountain
hospital after a three week’s ill
ness. A native of Gaston County,
she was the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John Lem asters
and a member of the First Wes
leyan Methodist church.
She is survived by one son,
Hugh Carpenter, of Franklin;
three daughters, Mrs. 3. T. Mc
Ginnis, Sr., Mrs. Lloyd Fite, and
Miss Haze] Carpenter, all of
Kings Mountain, and three
grandchildren.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. J. W. Phillips.