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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 nw figure tot Greater Klngt Mountain U derived lrom tho 1955 nags Mountain dtf directory ceneus. The city Uadtn figure la from tne Onlted State* eoaaut of 1950. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper N. C., Thursday, December 8, I960 Kings Mountain, Pages Today VOL 71 No. 49 Established 1889 Seventy-First Year PRICE TEN CENTS PROPOSED GROVER POSTOFFICE — Pictured above is cm artist's sketch of the proposed Grover postoffice. Bids for building the struc ture on a lease axrangementhave been invited by the postoffice department. Deadline for bids is January 9. Grover Postoffice Bids Are Invited Local News Bulletins KIWANIS CLUB Gilbert V. Durham of Duke Power Company will address Kings Mountain Kiwanians at their Thursday meeting alt the Woman’s Club. The club con venes alt 6:45 p. m. * COURT OF HONOR Regular Court of Honor for Kings Mountain district Boy Scouts Will be heild Thursday night at 7:45 at Central Metho dist church, according to an nouncement from Piedmont Council headquarters. AT CONFERENCE B. N. Barnes, superintendent of schools, is attending a con ference of North Carolina school superintendents at Dur ham. He will return Tuesday. NO PERMITS City Building Inspector M. H. Biser issued no building permits during the past week. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $166.10, inclu ding $110.40 from on-street meters, City Clerk Joe McDan ieB reported. • Two Receive King's Diplomas Mr. and Mrs. Garth Von Haw kins oil Charlotte, daughter and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard Gamble of Kings Mountain, received diplomas last Wednes day in finals exercises art King’s Business College, Charlotte. Mrs. Hawkins, the former Bar bara Gamlble, completed the gen eral business course. Her (husband completed the two-year advanced business course. , I In Charlotte, Mrs. Hawkins is employed in the offices of Gener al Motors Acceptance Corpora tion and Mr. Hawkins art the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. City Board To Convene CKy commissioners will have a shout agenda at Thursday night’s regular December meeting, May or Glee A. Bridges' said Wednes day. (Principal item of business is opening of bids for a truck for the city electrical department. !A request by the owners of Joy Theatre for an ordinance change to allow Sunday opera tion, twice tabled, may or may not be discussed further, the Ma yor said. Further discussion will be in the province of the oom ndssion, he said, adding he didn’t expect to include the matter on his agenda for the meeting. Students Win In Poster Contest Carolyn Williams, fourth gra der, and Elaine Williams, sixth grader, won top honors in the fire prevention poster contest sponsored at North School by the (Public Affairs Department of the Woman’s Club. OasH prizes of $1 went to first place winners in the two divis ions. Honorable mentions also went to: Debbie Plonk, fourth grader; Kathy Tesseneer, sixth grader; and Danny Greene, sixth grader. Awards will be presented at the assembly period Friday at North school. January 9th Is Deadline For Bidding Grover Postmaster Robert B. Keeter, Sr., said today he has been advised by the Office of Postmaster General Arthur E. Sumfmerfield that the Post Office Department is now askinf for bids to build and lease to the De partment the new Post Office for Grover. - Closing date for the bids is January 9, 1961. “This proposed new building,” Postmaster Keeter said, “will re place existing facilities located on State Line Avenue between Stonewall and (Bob Vance streets. Specifications call for a structure containing approximately 2,568 square feet with an outside load ing platform and adequate space for parking and truck maneuver ing.” , V Postmaster Keeter said he has been advised that the Post Office Department will enter into a lease agreement with the success ful bidder which will run for 10 years With two 5-year renewal options. Bids Should be submitted, the Postmaster advised, to the Real Estate Officer, (Marvin W. Clem, Box 272, Postoffioe Charlote, Nor th Carolina, who will supply in formation with regard to bidding forms, building specifications, lease provisions, etc. Postmaster Keeter quoted Re gional Operations Director W. L. Crawford, for the Post Office De partment’s Atlanta Region, as saying that "Significant pro gress now is evident in the pos tal modernization program begun by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield.” Under the Post Office Depart ment's unique Commercial (Leas ing Program, the resources and investment funds of private en terprise are utilized to obtain needed postal buildings. More than 4,200 new structures have been erected during the past five years. Yale Shopping Pace Increases The pace of retail business is expected to continue to increase this weekend, as the traditional Christinas holiday nears. Only 15 shopping days remain before Christinas. | / (Majority of merchants say Christmas buying began the weekend following Thanksgiving and continued last weekend. They think the pace will continue up ward through Christmas Eve. Merchants say their inventories this year are better than ever in all lines of goods, including (both staple merchandise, and Christmas specialties. Anthony Grows Mammoth Turnip The recent growing season has been ideal for turnips, producing some king-size specimens. (Local size-champion to date is the 7.5 pound turnip, measuring 26.5 inches in circumference grown by Dewitt Anthony, who lives on Shelby road, Ted Led ford, of Kings Mountain Farm Center reports. Mr. Ledford's firm annually runs a “biggest turnip” contest with a prize of $15 going to the grower of the biggest turnip. Prizes also go to second and third placers. Deadline for entries is Decem ber 15. Lions To Honor Gridmen Tuesday Dole Address, Awards Feature Of Annual Event The encore appearance of Da vidson Coach Bill Dole and the presentation of two coveted foot ball trophies will highlight the Kings Mountain lions Club annu al football banquet at the Wo man's club Tuesday night. Coach Dole has just completed one of the most successful ox his nine seasons as Davidson head football coach, including the “up set-of-the-year” in the Southern Conference over Virginia Tech, one of the perennial powers in the circuit The Wildcats’ 9 7 win over the Gobblers, in fact, was one of the nation’s shockers for the grid campaign. It was one of three wins for Davidson in its eight game schedule. Other victories were over Catawba and an inter sectional win over Lehigh, ano ther triumph which attracted na tional attention. 1 (Four of Davidson’s five de feats were by the margin of a touchdown or less. Dole also spoke to the Moun taineer gridders at a Lions’ Club fete several years ago and joins Coach Clarence Stasavich. of Le noir-Rhyno as an encore speaker for the annual affair. Two handsome trophies will be awarded to Mountaineer gridders for outstanding performances during the past season when the local gridders won nine of ten games and finished second in the Southwest Conference. The Pred Plonk Blocking Tro phy will be awarded for the eigh th straight year, and Dr. George Plonk Most Valuable Player Tro phy will be given for the second season in a row. Eight players have received the blocking trophy in the seven sea sons since the award was inau gurated in 1953. Two players were named to share the award last season. The list of blocking trophy re cipients down tlirough the years I shows that a lineman has won | the award every season. By the ; years, the winners have been: 1953— 'Ronnie Layton, end. 1954— Charles Yelton, guard. 1955— Joe Meek Ormand, cen ter. 1956— David Marlowe, tackle. 1957— Bill Herndon, guard. 1958— David Plonk, guard. 1959— Mike Ware, tackle and end, and Gary Blanton, end, tied far award and received identical trophies. The t>r. Plonk Most Valuable Trophy was given last year for (Continued On Sports Page) TAX LISTERS NAMED Conrad Hughes was appoint ed itax lister for Number 4 Township and -A. A. Barreto itax lister tor Number 5 town ship by the county board of commissioners Monday. HERE SUNDAY — Dr. Samuel Rankin, missionary on furlough from Hong Kong, will speak at morning worship services Sun day at Kings -Mountain Baptist Church. Baptists To Hear Missionary Here Dr. Samuel Rankin, medical missionary to the Hong Kong area, will speak at morning wor ship services Sunday at Kings (Mountain Baptist church. Appointed toy the Southern Bap tist Foreign Mission Board in 1947, Dr. Rahkin served for one year on the staff of Scout Memo-! rial hospital, Wuchow, China un-j til 1949. (He has served in the Hong Kong Baptist Association Clinic, soon to toe replaced 'by a hospital, since 1955. A native of Sandy Hook, (Mis sissippi, Dr. Rankin attended Pearl River Junior college, Pop larville, Miss., and received the bachelor of science degree from Louisiana State University, Ba ton Rouge, and the doctor of me dicine degree from the Louisiana State Universiay School of Medi cine in New Orleans. Before appointment for mis sionary service he was an intern at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., a medical offi cer in the U. S. Navy, a resident physician at Grace Hospital of Richmond, Va., and a general, practitioner in Bamberg, S. C. At the present time'he is on a one year furlough and is taking spec ial training on a residential level at North Carolina Baptist Hospi tal, Winston Salem, in prepara tion for work in the new Hong Kong Baptist Hospital which should be completed by early 1962. “Dr. Rankin will bring to us a wealth of information on com munist China and foreign mis sionary work throughout the Orient," Rev. Marion DUBose, pastor, said, and We continued, the cmomanunlty is invited to worship with us.” FAIRVIEW LODGE Regular communication of Fail-view Lodge 339 AF&AM will be helld Monday at 7:30 p. m. ait Masonic Hall, Secre tary T. D. Tindall has announ ced. New officers will be elec ted. Construction Of Hospital Wing On Schedule; Laboratory Expanded Construction of the 25bed ad dition to Kings Mountain hospital; is proceeding on schedule, Mana ger Grady Howard said this! week. Completion date required in the basic contract, February 8, may not be met, however, due to subsequent additions approved by State Medical Care commission officials which involve electrical tieins. Initial bids left sufficient mon ies to install an emergency pow er generator and to permit piping of oxygen and re-vamped air conditioning of the operating room. Bids are to be let for the addi tions in the near future. Until this work is complete, fi nal tie-in of the elwtrical system can’t be completed, Mr. Howard said. A sideline addition, being paid from special local funds, is Con struction of a chapel, to the nor th of the present main lobby. Already virtually completed is an expanded hospital laboratory. The expanded laboratory employs the former nurse’s lounge, Which has been relocated. The new lab oratory Is more than twice (the size of the former laboratory, which had not been expanded since the initial construction of a 22-bed (hospital. Need for the 25-bed addition continues apparent, Mr. Howard noted. Average dally census for (the hospital year ending on Sep tember 30 was 48, against the hospital’s 50bed rated capacity.! Tuesday night patient census was 41 adults. Total dost for the addition and renovations, including complete furnishings and equipment, will: approximate $250,000. (With the exception of the cha pel addition, the project is a joint one, with the federal and state governments supplementing local funds supplied by a $100,000 coun ty bond election last year. BethwareHas Homecoming Party Friday Carolyn Whetstine will be crowned queen in the fourth an nual BetHware High • School Homecoming to be held at the school Friday night. The senior will be crowned by the 1959 queen, Kim Cashion, during the halftime of the boys game of a basketball double header with Burns High of Polk ville. The 1959 queen will place the crown on the new queen’s head since the 1960 queen, Janet Hamrick, can not be present. Four attendants, one from each of the four grades, will also take part in the coronation cere monies. They are Rae Falls of the senior class, Earleen Lemons of the junior class, Frankie Ham rick of the sophomore class, and;, Pat Hoopaugh of the freshman class. i The Homecoming Committee which has planned the affair con sist of: Lawrence Bolin, Jerry Morris, Sheila Gantt, Carolyn Whetstine, Linda Herndon and Rickey Goforth'. The program will honor the 1960 graduating class of Beth ware High School, and the pro gram is sponsored by the Beth ware High block “B” Club. Carolyn Whetstine is the four th in the line of Homecoming Queens to be crowned at Beth ware, following Faye Bolin in 1958, Kim CaShion in 1959, and Janet Hamrick for 1960. The Homecoming program is scheduled for the halftime of the boys game against the Bums High of Polkville team. The Burns team is a consolidation of the Polkville, Piedmont and Ca sar schools. Billy Hallylburton, formerly of Casar, is the Burns coach, ahd R. M. Durham is the Burns principal. (Frank Hamrick will be master of ceremonies for the Homecom ing ceremonies and an honor guand will be on hand from the Kings Mountain National Guard unit. i The Rev. N. S. Hardin will de liver the invocation and the ad dress of welcome will be made by Bethware Principal R. G. Franklin. A Homecoming dance will be held in the school gymnasium following the basketball games. The girls half of the double-head er starts at 7 o'clock on Friday night. As a part of the Homecoming celehration, the Bethware basket-1 beill teams, managers and cheer leaders will go to Charlotte on Saturday night to see the double header involving Duke, Wake Forest, West Virginia and Penn State. J. Grady Sellers Passes Tuesday J. Grady Sellers, 71, died at his home alt Kings Mountain, Route 3 at 10:45 pm. Tuesday after an extended illness. Mr. Sellers, a retired farmer, was born In Gaston County and was the son of the late John B. and Barbara Byrd Sellers. He Is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cleo Sellers; two sons, Mar vin and Ben, both of Charlotte; and seven daughters, Mrs. Colin Smith and Mrs. W. A. Hamrick, both of Route 1, Mrs. Earl Eaker and Mrs. Alonzo Eaker, both of Cheroyville, Mrs. Carl Haynes of Stanley, Mrs. Allene Leonhardt , of Charlotte and Mrs. A. E. Stev ens of San Francisco, Calif. Also surviving are three bro thers, Blaine and Marshall, both of Charlotte and D. A. of Kings Mountain, Route 3; three sisters, Mrs. Worth Hoyle of Fallston, Mrs. Ed Howell of Route 1, Miss Emma Sellers of Kings Moun tain, Route 3; 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mr. Sellers was a member of Mary’s Grove Methodist Church where the funeral service will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. Inter ment will be In thee hurch cem etery. The body will lie In state at home and at the church for 30 minutes prior to the funeral hour. BAKE SALE The Young People’s Chris tian union of Boyce Memorial ARP church will sponsor a bake sale at -Phifer Hardware, beginning at 9 a. m. the morn ing of December 17. Official Census Report Off 224 From Unofficial Count Mis. Doyt Falls Wins Herald Guessing Contest Mirs. Doyt Falls, of 202 Dil'ling street, is the winner of the Kings Mountain Herald’s $25 award for guessing most correctly tfie city’s 1960 official census. Official figures, , announced by the Bureau of the Census this week showed Kings Mountain’s population 8,008. Mrs. Falls guessed in the Her ald contest that the total would be 8,010, just two more than the actual official count. Second closest guess was made by Mrs. Dorothy Tignor, 111 Deal street, who thought the popula tion would be 8,013, a mere five off the official total. Third closest guess was made by Mrs. J. N. Gamble, 410 West Gold Street who was long by 13, at 8,021. Fourth spot weht to E. F. Far ris, Box 112, who was short by 48 at 7961. The official report lowered the unofficial preliminary total by 224. Mirs. C. J. Gault, Jor., 104 N. Goforth street, had proved clos est to the preliminary total of 8,230. IA total of 136 persons entered the Herald guessing contest with the majority posting guess es in the 8,000 to 9,000 bracket. Farmers To Vote On Cotton Quotas Cotton farmers will decide on Tuesday whether to continue marketing quotas for their 1961 upland cotton crop. The referendum on marketing quotas will be held throughout cotton producing states. Persons who produced cotton in 1960 or those who had cotton acreage in the soil bank in 1960 are eligible to vote. A two-thirds vote in favor of marketing quotas will be re quired for their continuance, which means that a farmer who complies with the quotas wi'U be eligible for price support on the 1961 crop. If the marketing quotas aren't approved, no marketing quotas or penalties will be in force, al lotments will be assigned and parity support will drop to 50 percent. Last year more than 95 percent of farmers voting approved quo tas on the 1960 crop. Farmers in Number 4 township will vote at Beth ware schooll. Conducting the election will be Otto Williams, Nevette Hughes, Alex Owens and Ben Hamrick, alternate. Cotton farmers in Number b township will vote at Wray Stirewalt’s stare, where the vo ting officials are T. Z. Hard, Clifford Hamrick, W. A. Wright and Coleman Goforth, alternate. Farmers unsure about their qualifications to vote in the e lectlon should call the county A SC office at Shelby. ' ROTARY SPEAKER — Jack H. Cooke, chaplain at Carolina Freight Carriers Corporation oi Cherryvllle, will address Kings Mountain Rotarians at theii 12:15 meeting Thursday at Long Bow Restaurant. His program, arranged by Tom Trott will fea ture the topic, 'The Challenge ol Industrial Chaplaincy." UF Budget IS Percent In Percentage-wise Kings Moun tain United Fund , will likely show a better record this year than last, Treasurer R. S. Len non said Wednesday, though dol larwise donations and pledges to date are less than the final 1960 total. Mir. Lennon said that it ap pears cash and pledge totals now approximate 85 percent of the $17,000 budget, against an 83 per cent collection of 1960’s $18,000 budget. 1 (Mr. (Lennon’s report indicates cash and pledges to date of a W $14,450. t Chairman Bob Maner, out 61 town Wednesday, had previously indicated little other than clean up work would be done prior to January 1. Some textile firms have delay ed making employee solicitations due to a slow d6wn in operating schedules and have suggested they withhold their campaigns until early 1961. Eight service, civic and charit able organizations are -participa ting in the current campaign. (Included are Jacob S. (Mauney Memorial library, Kings Moun tain Red Cross chapter, City Re creation comimission. Girl Scouts, (Boy Scouts, Cleveland County Life-Saving Squad, Inc., Kings Mountain school band, and Dav idson school band. Red Cross Bloodmobile To Return Monday; Legion Sponsoring Visit The Red Cross Bloodmobile AdII be in Kings Mountain lor its final 1960 blood collection Monday, with the collection to be made ait the American Legion' building on Bast Gold street and with Otis D. Green Post 155 spon soring the collection. (Hours ol operation will be from' 11 a. m. to 5 pi n*. FREE TRANSPOHTATION Any person needing trans portation to the American legion Building to give blood at Monday’s colledtion should call any Kings Mountain taxi company. Free transportation will be provided and arrange ments will also be made for the donor’s return home. It was noted that American le gion members have a special In terest in the blood collection pro gram. as communities participat ing in the blood program share blood demands of Veterans hos pitals in the area. Kings Moun tain share for the current year is 1444 pints of blood. In addition, Kings Mountain's Red Cross chapter area (which includes Number 4 township) must supply blood needs of all Kings Mountain area citizens, whether the blood is administer ed locally or in other hospitals. Mirs. O. W. Myers, chairman of the Kings Mountain blood pro gram, pointed out there is no let up on demands for blood. 'We are approaching the holi day season when accident rates customarily zoom upward," Mrs. MJyere said, “and use of blood af ter accidents has saved many liv es.** 1 Whole blood and blood deriva tives are used in treating numer ous illnesses and diseases. t “I want to urge everyone to support the Otis D. Green Post al Monday’s visit,” Mrs. Myers continued. “Giving of blood is an opportunity for almost ail ci tizens to make an invaluable Christmas gift.” Goal of the collection is a min imum of 125 pints. Population Of Township Is 14,724 Kingis Mountain’s official 1960 population, according to the Bureau of the Census is 8,008. The official figure shows a gain of 8Q2 over 1950’s popula tion of 7,206, but is short by 224 of the preliminary unofficial re port supplied last May by the district census office in Gastonia. The percentage gain over the 1950 nose-count was 11.13 per cent, Slightly below the rate of increase in North Carolina, which was 12.2 percent. The Town of Grover posted a 1960 population figure of 538, three more than the 1950 popu lation and almost three more than the unofficial report of last spring. Number 4 township population is 14,724, or 22.29 percent of Cleveland County's 66,048. The City of Shelby population is 17,698, and Number 6 Town ship lists 26,024 people, or 39.4 percent of the county’s popula tion. Number 9 (Double Shoals) township is third in population with 6,071 persons. Lawndale, the only incorporated community in Number 9, has 723 people. Boiling Spring® is Cleveland’s third largest town, with 1311. Lawndale fourth, at 723, Grover fifth at 538, Lattimore sixth at 257, edging Waco in last place at 256. North Carolina’s population was 4,556,155, a gain of 494,226. Clevel!and County is regarded as a rural county, with 38.9 per cent of its population urbanized, and 61.1 percent living in rural areas. Armory Answer Indicated Soon Answer from the county board of commissioners on a request ; that the county furnish a portion j of local funds for construction of a national guard armory is an ticipated on December 19. Sgt. Charles Wilson, of the Kings Mountain engineering company, attended Monday’s session of the board and renew ed the fund request. He was in vited by Chairman Knox Surratt to return ito the commission ses sion of December 19. Sgt. Wilson showed members of the commission plans for the $140,000 “A” type armory which has been approved by the North ; Carolina National Guard and for j which the federal share of funds I has been appropriated by Con gress. Sgt, Wilson told the com mission the plans he had been furnished were drawn In 1955, and were subject to modifica tions ordered since. Asked the minimum funds needed for the project, Sgt Wil son told the commission estima tes are that an absolute mini mum of $35,000 in local funds willl be required. He noted that initially it was anticipated the local fund re quirement, of which the City o£ Kings Mountain has pledged! $20,000, would be $25,900. Since that time, he added, the National Guard has upped its aareage requirement on armory sites to five acres, two less than the present national guard site , contains. He told the commission firm quotations on additional i property requirements haven’t 'been obtained completely. City and national guard offi cials had asked the county to match the city’s $20,000 pledge, j city officials pointing out that property purchases by the city already total more than $6300 for the site. Mayor Glee A. Bridges also ap peared before the commission Monday in support of the armory appropriation request. ADVENT SERVICES Sunday morning services during the month of December will be broadcast via Radio Station WKMT from St. Matt hew’s Lutheran church. Dr. W. j P. Gerberding, pastor, will de liver the message at the 11 o’ 1 clock services.