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VOL 71 No. 50
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 15, I960
Saventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
TO TAX SCHOOL
Mrs. W. B. Logan will go to
Raleigh next week to attend
Tax School. For the past two
weeks Mrs. Logan has studied
in Greensboro and Charlotte.
HOSPITALIZED
Hilton Ruth, Belk’s Depart
ment Stare manager, was hos
pitalized Friday at Kings
Mountain Hospital for obser
vation and treatment. Accord
ing to Mrs. Ruth. Mr. Ruth is
improving and should be re
leased soon.
CRITICALLY ILL
Fred J. Wright. Sr. under
went surgery at Gaston Mem
orial Hospital Monday and, al
though slightly improved
Tuesday, is listed critically ill.
NO WRECKS
City police officers reported
no auto accdents within Kings
Mountain city limits during
the past week.
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A Christmas Pageant, “O
Gome Uroto Me”, will be pre
sented at Grace Methodist
church on Sunday evening at
7 o’clock. The community is
invited t» attend the program,
according to announcement by
Rev. W. C. Sides, pastor.
IN NEW POSITION
Joe Campbell, a recent grad
uate of Kings Business College,
has accented a position with
Plonk Motor CompaViv. Mr.
Campbell is a son of Mr. and
Mips. H. L. CampbeOl.
KIWANIS PROGRAM
The Air National Guard of
Charlotte will be in charge of
the program Thursday for
members of the Kiwanis club.
The Civic club meets at 6:45
p. m. at the Woman’s club.
Macedonia Sets
Yale Program
Rev. Wayne Ashe, pastor, has
announced that Macedonia Bap
'tist church will have its Christ
mas program Sunday night, De
cember 18 at the regular evening
worship hour beginning at 7 o’
clock.
Title of the program will be
"Our Familiar Christmas Story”
and the activities will be under
direction of Mrs. Clarence Smith,
Training Union Director, and a
committee composed of Mrs. Ro
bert Champion, Mrs. Goldman
Spears, Tom Smith and Rev. and
Mrs. Ashe.
The play on the birth of Christ
Includes the prophecing of Old
Testament Prophets Isaiah and
Mlcah at the things that are to
come.
Approximately 35 members of
the congregation make up the
cast and the play will be shown
on colored slides with each char
acter attired in gaily colored cos
tumes.
Mrs. Jess Jenkins will be nar
rator for the program and the
church choir will render special
music.
The public Is cordially Invited
to attend this special Christmas
program which is entirely differ
ent from any ever presented at
the local church, the pastor add
ed.
Mr. Ashe also announced that
the annual Children’s program
and Christmas Tree will be held
on Christmas Eve beginning at
7 p. m.
White Christmas
Program Sunday
The Annual White Christmas
program will be held Sunday at
St Matthew’s Lutheran Church
at 4:30 p. m. A program by child
ren and youth, it is under the
direction of- Mrs. Don W. Blanton.
White Gifts axe brought for the
Lowman and Childrens Homes
and local charity.
Immediately following the
program in the auditorium all
will assemble in the Recreational
Hal! for refreshments and caxoll
singing. Santa Claus will make
a visit and bring a small gift
for each child. A11 members and
pro tective members are urged
to attend. • ' * ,
Parker, Burns
Trophy Winners
Awards Given
AtBanqnet
Tuesday Night
BY NEALE PATRICK
Punch Parker and Charles
Burns added more football hard
ware to their growing collection
in the annual Lions’ Club foot
ball banquet Tuesday night.
The Mountaineer halfback and
guard received the two coveted
trophies presented at season’s
end to the most outstanding
members of the Kings Mountain
High footbafll team, being honor?
ed at the Woman’s Club here.
Bums was the recipient of the
eighth annual Fred Plonk Block
ing trophy, and Parker was pre
sented the second annual Dr.
George Plonk Most Valuable
Player Trophy.
The handsome trophies were
.the fourth and fifth the pair of
Mountaineer stars have snared
together within the past few
weeks. Earlier, Parker won the
trophy as the most outstanding
back in the Lions’ Bowl Football
game at Forest City on Thanks
giving Day, and also won the a
rea scoring trophy in the Gas
tonia Gazette fete at Gastonia
(last week. Burns won the most
outstanding 3-A lineman award
at the same Gastonia affair.
Presentation of the trophies to
the pair of Mountaineer senior
stars shared the spotlight for the
annual Lions Club banquet with
Davidson football coach Bill Dole
who made the address to the
members of the football team,
Lions’ clubbers and guests.
Mountaineer football coach
John Gamble made the presen
tation of the blocking award to
Burns, on behalf of the donor,
Fred Plonk, school board member
and football enthusiast.
Gamble made the selection of!
the .team’s best blocker after a
thorough study of the game film,
and commented on naming
Burns as the winner.
"Our team, as a whole, had ex
cellent blocking this year and it
was hard to choose between sev
eral boys who did a good job of
blocking for us all year.”
Dr. Plonk made the presenta
tion of his trophy to Parker who
scored 122 points on the season.
Although the awards went to
players for offensive performan
ces, it’s fitting that the two re
I cipients represent leadership
: roles in both offense and defense
for the Mountaineers this season.
Parker, of course, was the fop
scorer and ground-gainer, and
Bums was the defensive "quar
terback”, calling the signals on
defense far the tough Mountain
eer defenders.
Gamble also introduced his
coaching staff of Don Parker,
Bill Bates and Fred Withers and
members of the Mountaineer
squad.
"I have never had a group of
boys with more character than
this team,” said the head coach
of the Mountaineers, “It takes
both character and work to win
football games, and these boys
(Continued On Sports Page)
JAYCEE PARTY
Kings Mountain Jaycees will
celebrate Christmas with a
Yule Party for themselves,
: wives, and other guests at the
regular bi-monthly meeting
Tuesday at Kings Mountain
Woman’s Club. Party games
and dancing will be a feature
of the meeting. The club con
venes at 7:00 p. m.
HEADS MINISTERS — Dr. Paul
Ausley has been elected presi
dent of the Kings Mountain
Ministerial Association for the
coming year.
Ausley Named
By Ministers
Dr. Paul Ausiey, pastor of First
Presbyterian Church, 'has been
elected president of the Kings
Mountain Ministerial Association
for the year 1961.
The new officers were elected
at a meeting of Kings Mountain
ministers Monday morning.
Dr* Ausley succeeds Rev. J. W.
Phillips, pastor of Firsit Wesleyan
Methodist Church. Other newly -
elected officers are Rev. Marion
Du Bose, vice-president, and Rev.
Thomas Droppers, secretary
treasurer. Mr. DuBose is pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist Church
and Mr. Droppers is pastor of
Trinity Episcopal Church.
(Named to committees were:
Rev. H. D. Garmon, pastor of
Central Methodist Church, radio
Chairman and Chaplain; Rev.
George Moore, pastor of Resur
rection Lutheran Church, chair
man of the committee on benevo
lences; Rev. C. .R. Goodson, pas
tor of E. Gold Street Wesleyan
Methodist Church', Chairman of
the committee on the County
Home; and Rev IB. L. Raines, Dr.
W. L. Pressly, Rev J. W. Phil
lips, and Dr. Paul Ausley, mem
bers of the 'Bible-in-SChools com
mittee. Mir. Raines is pastor of
First Baptist Church end Dr.
Pressly is pastor of 'Boyce Memo
rial ARP Church.
Plonk School
To Give "Carol"
ASHEVILLE — Three perform
ances of “A Christmas Carol’’ by
Charles Dickens will be present
ed this month by the Plonk
School of Creative Arts, In the
Plonk School auditorium.
This will be the Plonk School’s
27th presentation of the play.
Miiss Laura Plonk will read the
part of the narrator for the 25th
time.
A special performance for
school children will] be given at
3 p. m. Dec. 16, in addition to
the regular presentations at 8
p. m. on Dec. 17, and at 4 p. m.
on Dec. 18.
The play which has a cast of
60 characters in period costume,
will be under the direction of
Miss Lillian Plonk, assisted toy
Miss Nancy Plonk. Miss Laura
Plonk is consulting director.
(Bethware Club Christmas Banquet
Monday; Wright Is New President
Bethware Progressive club will
hold its annual Christmas ladies
night banquet Monday night at
■ Bethware school cafeteria art 7
o’clock.
Features of the program will
be an address by Rev. George
Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lu
theran church, and installation
of recently elected officers and
i directors of the club.
Dale Vollbraeht, retiring presi
dent. will preside.
The traditional turkey dinner
.
will be served by 'ladies of El
Bethel Methodist church.
Recently elected club officers
for 1961 are Stokes Wright, presi
dent; R. G. Franklin, vice-presi
dent; Frank Hamrick, secretary;
Hairold Hord, treasurer; and Bill
McDaniel, assistant treasurer.
Incoming directors are Grady
Seism. Johnny Patterson, Men
zell Phifer, and Boyd Harrelson
Mr. Vollbraeht will serve as a
director, ex officio.
Waco President
A. L lacoby
Dies In New York
Funeral services for Abraham
I. Jacoby, 60, president of Waco
Sportswear, Inc., were held in
New York at Park West Memor
ial chapel Friday.
Mr. Jacoby died suddenly in
New York city Wednesday night
when stricken by a cerebral
hemorrhage. He was pronoun
ced dead on arrivail at Queens
General hospital.
He had been in apparent good
health.
Mr. Jacoby came to Kings
Mountain in July 1958 to open
Waco Industries, which manu
facturers knit sweaters, an in
dustry with which he had been
associated most of his adult life.
The firm had been planning
an expansion and a meeting had
been scheduled for Friday to
complete details for doubling
floor space in the Waco Road
building, constructed by Kings
Mountain Business Development
Corporation.
He was a native of New York.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Hellen Jacoby, and two sons, Fred
Jacoby, of Kings Mountain, and
Gerald Jacoby, of New York.
Masons Name
NewOfficeis
New officers of Fairview Lodge
339 AF&AM will be installed
Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic
Hall.
J. Ralph Harrison will be in
stalled as worshipful master suc
ceeding I. C. Davis. Other elect
ed1 officers include: B. Manley
Hayes Jr., senior warden; Joe D.
Roberts, junior warden; Lester A.
Harmon, treasurer; Thomas D.
Tindall, secretary; Carl Ml Logan,
senior deacon; S. Houston Wolfe,
junior deacon; (Bobby C. Bridges,
senior steward; Melvin B. Nantz,
junior steward; arid T. Frank Bal
lard, chaplam. C. J. Gault Jr. was
named a trustee for a three-year
term and continuing trustees
are T. Frank Ballard and J. B.
Simpson.
Committees which have been
appointed for the new year in
clude: J. Ralph Harrison, B. Man
ley Hayes Jr., Joe D. Roberts,
charity; Paul W. Owens, C. J.
Gault Jr., O. Fred Weaver, ref
erence; I. C. Davis, James A.
Lybrand, Lymian Robbs, Oxford
Orphanage; A. W. Kincaid. Les
ter A. Harmon, George W. White,
Masonic education; and Lester A.
Harmon, James B. Simpson and
Ben T.' Goforth, finance.
Also: Emmett Ross, W. Odell
Lovelace, Alex D. Owens, T.
Frank Ballard, Carl M. Logan,
Advisory Committee; Glee A.
Bridges, J. E. Bumgardner and
Brunson W. Harmon, Eastern
Star; Fred J. Wright Jr., J. Ro
bert Dye, Ben H. Bridges, build
ing committee; and W. Clavon
[Kelly, O. O. Walker, D. E. Tate
I and 'Boyce Gault, ladies’ night
committee.
'Frank Ballard, a past master,
will Install the new officers and
Boyce Gault, a past master, will
toe acting marshal.
Mis. Mayes'
Brother Passes
(Funeral rites for Herbert
Franklin Clark, 43, brother of
Mrs. H.. Carl Mayes of Kings
Mountain, were held Sunday at
3 p. m. from Statesville’s First
Baptist Church.
Mr. Clark, until six weeks ago
a life-time resident of Statesville,
died Friday morning in a (Rome,
Ga. hospital. He had been serf*
ously ill for one week.
A furniture salesman, Mr.
Clark was active in the Elks
Lodge and other civic organiza
tions and fraternal groups in
: Statesville and a member of the
I Statesville Country Club. Son of
I the late Ohartes L. and Lessie
Booker Clark pf Iredell County,
he was a World War II veteran,
I having served as a first lieu
tenant in the United States Air
j Force.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Gay Drum of Newton to
j whom he was married in 1944;
three children, Beth, H. H. F. Jr.
and Eddie Clark, ail of the home;
four brothers, C. C. and F. B.
j Clark of Statesville, L. A. Clark
i of Chaiflotte and James L. Clark
i of London, England, and two sis
ters, Mrs. Miayes of Kings Moun
tain and Mrs. Jack Wagner ot
Statesville.
Dr. John Sykes officiated at the
| final rites and interment was
in Oakwood Cemetery.
CLEVELAND COUNTY GRADUATES — Four,
tern students from Cleveland County gradu
ated from Kings Business College recently.
Seated—From left to right Barbara Hawkins.
Becky Black. Meriel Sain. Martha Frances
Homer. Janice Moore, and Carolyn Bridges.
Standing—left to right Ann Falls, Joseph
Campbell, Gerald Thommasson, and Faye
Spangler. The exercises were held recently.
Merger Plans
On School Agenda
SPEAKER — Rev. Jack Cowsert
of Wingate will fill the pulpit at
Sunday morning services at
Kings Mountain Baptist church. j
Cowsert To Fill
Baptist Pulpit
Rev. Jack J. Cowsert, of Win
gate, retired director of the Bap
tist Publishing House in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, will fill the pul
pit at Sunday morning worship
services at 11 a, m. at Kings
Mountain Baptist church.
Mr. Cowsert has been associa
ted with the printing of Bibles
for nearly 20 years, serving as
an officer and member of the
Board of the Bible Press of Bra
zil and production director of .the
Publishing House. One of the
first persons to recognize the
need for the Bible Press, he has j
probably done as much or more
than any other individual tow-1
ard attaining the organization’s
goall of "a Bible for everyone
who wants one”. Rev. M. D. Du
Bose, pastor, said.
Appointed by the Foreign Mis
sion Board- in 1920, Mr. Cowsert
joined the Baptist Publishing
House on a part-time basis in
1928 while he directed evange
listic activities in the city of Rio.
In addition to his publication
work, he has pastored several
churches, held offices in .the
South Brazil Mission and served
on various committees and
boards of the Mission and of the
Brazilian Baptist Convention.
A native of Goodman, Miss.,
i he studied at Mississippi college
; and Southwestern Baptist Semi
nary at Fort Worth, Tex. He and
his wife, the former Grace Bag
by of Texas, live in Wingate
' where a daughter, Miss Helen
Cowsert, is head of the modem
language department at Wingate
College. Their other two children
are Southern Baptist missionar
ies in South America.
Preliminary
Work Begins
For Bond Vote
Members of the Kings Moun
tain board of education are ex
pected to discuss formally, for
the first time since the legal ef
fort to invalidate the May merg
er election was non-suited, plans
for effectuating the consolidation
of township schools at Monday
night’s board of education ses
sion.
Supt. B. N. Barnes said that
the boa id’s attorney, J. R. Davis,
is already at work on preliminary
work Which will lead to a bond
issue election for a new consoli
dated high school plant. He said
he expects to invite Mr. Davis
to give a report at Monday’s
meeting.
Mr. Barnes said it is possible
Chairman Fred W. Plonk will
have some information concern
ing possible sites for a consoli
dated high school plant. The
Chairman has been instructed to
obtain site information, M r.
Barnes added.
The superintendent said he an
ticipates the board will seek op
tions on several pbssible sites and
listed these basic desirable con
siderations:
1) A minimum tract of 50
acre, with 60 to 75 acres prefer
able; and
(2) Reasonable convenience of
location to public utilities.
It is also possible the board
will discuss election changes re
quired by the consolidation. Cur
rently, Kings Mbuntain school
district elections are held at the
same time and under the same
election machinery as Kings
Mountain city elections.
‘Expansion of the school district
adds an estimated 2,000 or more
eligible voters for the school dis
trict, who, in turn, live outside
the City of Kings Mountain and
are, therefore, ineligible to par
ticipate in city elections.
Kings Mountain
Students Get
King's Diplomas
Fourteen students from Cleve
land County were among the 258
graduates of King’s Oolilege in
Charlotte to receive diplomas at
graduation exercises held on
Wednesday, November 30.
The local graduates were:
Carolyn Bridges, Ann Falls, Mer
iel Sain, Becky Black, Jane Os
borne Burton, Joseph Campbell,
Bill Crawford, Barbara Gamble
Hawkins, Jane Hinson, Martha
Prances Houser, Janice Moore,
Faye Spangler, Gerald Thomas
son, and James P. Waters.
A special award was present
ed to Miss Martha Frances Hou
ser as she attained the highest
academic average in the Advan
ced Secretarial Course.
The speaker for the occasion
was Dr. Robert E. Slaughter, vice
president and a member of the
Board of Directors of the Mc
Graw-Hill Book Company, of
New York City. The subject of
his address was “The Interde
pendence of Business and Edu
cation.”
The graduates represented 34
counties in North Carolina, 10
counties in South Carolina, and
from the states of Florida, Texas,
and West Virginia.
Phenix Yule
Party Sunday
Christmas operating schedules
for the Phenix Plant of Burling
ton Industries were announced
today by W. B. Grimes, Jr., Sup
erintendent who also revealed
plans for the annual Children’s
Christmas Party.
Mr. Grimes said Christmas ho
lidays at the plant woulld be ob
served from the end of the third
shift on December 22 until the
beginning of the third shift on
Dcember 28.
Employees eligible by length
of service for vacation pay will
receive checks during the week
of December 19, it was announ
ced.
The annual Christmas party
for employees’ children will be
helld at 2 p. m. Saturday at Joy
Theatre. Santa Claus will be on
hand and gift bags containing
toys, candy, fruits and a variety
Continued on Page Ten
Commissioners Play Santa Claus,
Vote City Employees Yule Bonus
The city board of commission
ers voted Christmas cheer to city
employees Wednesday in the
form of a Christmas bonus.
Employees with one year or
more of service will be given a
week’s pay. Employees with less
than a year’s service with the
city will receive a half-week’s
pay.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges opened
the brief session by suggesting
the bonus payment and all com
missioners present concurred. On
ly R. Coleman Stroupe was ob
sent.
Comm. Luther Bennett asked
where the money would 'be deriv
ed and City Clerk Joe McDaniel
replied there are surpluses appar
ent in some accounts.
Mr. McDaniel estimated the
payment would approximate $2,
500.
It was the first Christmas bo
nus for city employees in many
years. Mr. McDaniel said the
Still Administration paid em
ployees a five-dollar bonus ir
(Continued On Page Ten)
’59 Statute j4:
Peimits Board t
To Call Election
BY MARTIN HARMON
Kings Mountain citizens may
have opportunity to decide in
the near future whether they
want to give the city commission
authority to employ a city man
ager.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges told the
commission informally last week
he favored calling an election on
the city manager question and
commented, “We need it bad.”
The Mayor made his remarks
during a discussion of police pay
in lieu of vacations not taken,
and other commissioners didn't
comment.
Ben H. Bridges, mayor pro
tempore and Ward 4 commiss
ioner, said this week he favored
holding the election, as already
authorized by the North Carolina
General Assembly.
Under provisions of an act
passed late in the 1959 session,
the Kings Mountain board of
commissioners is authorized to
call an election on the question.
However, a favorable vote
wouldn’t make employment of a
city manager mandatory, as the
statute empowers the com
mission to designate the duly
elected mayor as city manager.
The citizens would vote for or
against a modified “Plan D” city
manager system, in which the
board of commissioners would
retain their (rights to appoint the
city attorney, treasurer, clerk,
Judge and other employment au
thority.
While other commissioners
have not commented on Mayor
Bridges’ suggestion for an elec
tion, all were supporters of the
request to the county legislative
delegation to enact permissive
authority for holding the elec
tion.
Kings Mountain citzens have
twice declined ito approve a city
manager form of government,
first in 1948 and subsequently in
1953. The margin of defeat in
1953 was eight votes. Favorable
votes would have made the man
ager system mandatory.
Prior to 1947, several city com
missions had employed adminis
trators with the title of city
manager. In 1947, the state at
torney general ruled that the
commission did not have auth
ority, under the statutes, to em
ploy a city manager or use the
city manager form of govern
ment.
Subsequently, commissioners
employed administrators whom
they designated city engineers.
The title felll into disuse in 19
55 whn Mayor Glee A. Bridges
became a “full-time” mayor and
assumed full administrative du
ties.
Mayor Bridges said he would
recommend the city manager e
lection be held at the biennial e
lection in May. He noted, "That
way it would save expense of an
extra election.”
Baptist Choir
To Sing Cantata
The First Baptist ahunch. 23
voice choir will sing the cantata,
‘ILove Transcending” toy John W.
(Peterson Sunday at 5:30 p. m.
(Mrs. F. R. MlcCurdy, organist
and choir director, is directing
the Christmas program. The com
munity is invited.
James E. Amos will serve as
narrator and soloists are Paula
Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hord, (Mrs.
W. B. Logan, and Charles Wilson.
Herald To Publish
Earlier Next Week
The Herald, as it has done
for many years during Christ
mas, will publish its pre
Christmas edition earlier next
week.
Next week’s Herald will be
dated Wednesday, December
21, and will appar on news
dealer counters Tuesday, De
cember 20.
Next week’s edition will in
clude full news, sports and
social content, in addition to
ilast-minute shopping sugges
tions from business firms and
Christmas greetings from bus
iness and industrial firms.
News deadline will be Tues
day at 3 p. m., society news
deadline Tuesday at 1 p. m.,
and advertising deadline Mon
day at 3 p. m.
The Herald will resume its
regular publication schedule
for the December 29 edition.
The Herald will be closed for
a Christmas holiday from noon
Wednesday, December 21, until
Monday, December 2G.