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Established 1889 PRICE TEN CENTS Seventy-Second Year Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 23, 1961 Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure lor Groator Kings Mountain U derived from the 1955 Xing* Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure Is Iron the United States census of 1960. Today Local News Bulletins SCHOOL CONTESTS The annual reading and dec lamation contests in Kings Mountain Elementary schools will be held at North school on April 12th at 1:30 p. m. PRESBYTERIAN A special meeting of the Session will be held Palm Sunday at First Presbyterian church for the purpose of re ceiving into Ithe church the Minister’s Oomaftunicant’s Class and others desiring to unite with the church. SERVICE A special Maundy Thursday Service will be held March 30th at First Presbyterian church at which time the con gregation will observe the sac rament of the Lard’s Supper. CHOIR TO SING The Cherub Choir of First Presbyterian church will ren der special music at the 11 a. m. service on Palm Sunday, the pastor Dr. Paul Ausley has announced. SPRING CONCERT The annual Spiring concert of the Kings Mountain high school band will be held on March 30th at 8 o’clock p. m. in the school auditorium. ROTARY CLUB Gary Allran, manager of IBM accounting of Carolina Freight Corporation of Cherry ville, will address Kings Moun tain Rotariams ait itheir Thurs day meeting at the Country club. The club convenes for luncheon at 12:15. PARK GRACE P-TA Showing of the film, “The Old North State” will feature Monday night’s meeting of Park-Grace P-TA in the school auditorium at 7 p. m. ARP PROGRAM Miss Florence Craig, director of Christian Education in the Associate Reformed Presbyter ian Synod, will speak to the committee of Christian Educa tion, officers and teachers of ithe church school and congre gation, Sunday evening at 7. p. m. in a special program at Boyce Memorial church. KIWANIS PROGRAM Band Director Joe Hedden will lead the city schools Pep Band in a program of music for Kings Mountain Kiwanians Thursday night. The club con venes at 6:45 p. m. at the Wo man’s club. ■-—- * WEST P-TA The West School P-TA will meet in the school auditorium on Monday night at 8 o’clock. Mrs. J. N. McClure will speak on the music program in the schools. PAPER DRIVE Methodist Men of Central Methodist dthuroh are current ly sponsoring a scrap paper drive and Kings Mountain citi zens are asked to keep their supplies of paper so that mem bers of the organization can collect it, the collection date to be announced later. METHODIST MEN W. T. iCIbrn) Lambeth, su perintendent of the Children’s Home at Winston Salem, will be the speaker alt the regular monthly meeting of the Meth odist Men at Central Methodist church Monday night. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. Kings Mountain Armory Project Now Assured Ellison Seeking Seat In Ward 3 CANDIDATE — Former Commis sioner T. J. (Tommy) Ellison filed Wednesday as a candidate from Ward 3 for the City Board. Negro Voters Plan To Name Board Candidate Negro voters are expected to name a candidate from Ward 5 to file for office in the city mun icipal election at a meeting Mon day night. William Orr, chairman of the Negro Voters League, said Wed nesday that, a meeting of this Organization has been called for Monday night at 7:30 at Bynum’s Chapel AME Zion church and that interested Negro citizens are urged to attend. “Our purpose is to select someone to run for city council from Ward 5, either the name or names of likely candidates.” Should more than one name be suggested, the Negro Voters Lea gue, it is understood, will select the candidate of that group’s choice who will file for city of fice in the May 9th election. Should a Negro file for a seat on the board of city commission ers, it will be the third time that a Negro has sought a commis sion post here. Rev. S. T. Cooke, Negro clergyman, sought the of fice in 1957, receiving a total of 283 votes. Roy Brown was defeat ed by R. Colem'an Stroupe in 19 59. Mr. Brown polled 305 votes. Mr. Orr had previously stated that one of the chief purposes of the Negro Voters League is to get “citizens out to vote.” The Negro League was organized here two years ago. Some speculative conversation listed as likely candidates Roy J. Brown and Hazel Gill. Mr. Orr didn’t give names of any "possi ble” candidates for the post. Lions Fanner Event Tuesday Kings Mountain Lions Club will hold its annual Farmer’s Night Banquet Tuesday night at 7:00 p. m. at the Woman’s club. S. S. Weir, Jr., chairman of the event, said the club has invited all area farmers to attend the annual banquet, along with nu merous specil guests. Program plans were not yet available Wednesday afternoon. Merchant Employer-Employee Banquet Scheduled For Friday Kings Mountain retailers and their employees will gather for the annual employee-employer banquet Friday night at 7 p. m. at the Woman’s Club. | i 1 /Frank Errigo, Atlanta district manager of Parke, Davis & Com pany will make the principal ad* dress and new officers of the association will be installed by Jonas Bridges, a past president. Mr. Errigo, a veteran enter tainer, was third runner-up in National Toastmaster’s club con tests. He will be presented by Eu gene Hood. Rev. B. L. .Raines, pastor of First Baptist church, will give the invocation and Tom Tate and J. C. Bridges will supervise presen tation of gifts to the ladies. Pres iiident Charles Blanton will pre side and give the annual officers’ report. Recently-elected officers who will be installed at the banquet will include: W. G. Jonas, presi dent, and Odus Smith, vice-pres ident. New directors, with terms [expiring in 1963, are W. D. Mor rison, Mrs. Mearl Beatty, Robert Southwell and Ollie Harris. Hold over directors are J. Kennon (Blanton, W. S. Fulton, Jr., Harry Page and Thomas Tate. The out i going directors are James Craw ford, J. C Bridges, Denver King and Eugene McSwaip. (Dinner will be served by Mrs. L 'B. Goforth, Sr. Ticket reservations should be made with Mrs. Luther Joy, as j sociation secretary. Hie affair annually attracts a ' large crowd. , . , Candidate List For City Board Stands At 16 T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, former city commissioner from Ward 3, was the lone entry in the city political sweepstakes during the past week. He is the 16th candidate seek ing one of the six Board seats. Mr. Ellison 'is one of four can didates seeking the Ward 3 seat which is now held by Luther Bennett, who is seeking reelec tipn. Mr. Bennett, completing his second term, edged Mr. Ellison by 132 votes after' a run-off in the 1959 municipal election. !An East Kings Mountain gro cer, Mr. Ellison has many years of service on the commission. He served in the position from 1947 5V. returned in 1953 for four more years after losing to Qlland Pearson. Like Mr. Bennett, he is a member of Grace Methodist church. He is a member of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM and is mar ried to the former Roberta Bal lard. He and his wife live with their daughter, Cathy, at 910 Church Street. Mr. Ellison, who posted his fi ling fee Wednesday, said, “At the request of many voters I have come to the decision to offer my self as a candidate for Ward 3 commissioner. If' I am ejected I promise to'represent all the citi zens and I favor, if possible cut ting of cost of water, lights, and gas rates.’’ Mir. Ellison’s entry into the race brings to four the number of candidates seeking the Ward 3 position, Corbett Nicholson, for mer city gas superintendent, and Clavon Kelly, auto store credit mapager, having previously fi led. Contests as yet haven’t devel oped for two eqmmission jobs. John W. Gladden is the only candidate to date for Ward 2 commissioner and J. Elmer Rhea is the lone candidate for Ward 5 commissioner. Incumbent Com missioners Boyce Gault, Ward 2, Ben H. Bridges, Ward 4, and R. Coleman Stroupe, Ward 5, had not offered for re-election. However, the rumor mill was still grinding out names of pos sible candidates for city offices. Chief speculation during the past few days centered on the Ward 5 seat, now held by R. Coleman Stroupe. The Negro League of Voters is expected to (Continued on Page Eight J Tom Trott Heads AFS Committee Tom Trott, Kings Mountain insuranceman, was elected chair man of the American Field Ser vice Kings Mountain committee at an organizational meeting Wednesday. iPlans for the year were also discussed at the meeting held in the office of Central School Prin cipal Harry Haynes. > Mrs. Jacob Cooper was elected vice-chairman and other commit tee chairmen include: George H. Mlauney finance; Mrs. P. G. Pad gett, committee for hemes; Mrs. W. T. Weir, school liason; Mrs. C. V. Gaffney, Americans abroad; Miss Elizabeth Stewart, publicity. Other members of the commit tee who represent the various ci vic clubs include Dr. George W. Plonk, Lions club; Bob Maner, Jaycees; Ray Cline, American ’Legion. Mr. Mauney represents the Kiwanis club, Mrs. Cooper the Woman’s club, Miss Stewart the Junior Woman’s club and M!r. Trott the Rotary club. Schools To Take Easter Holidays In spite of a January snow holiday, the Easter weekend will still spell schbol holidays for city schools and Park Grace school pupils. Supt. B. N. Barnes said this week that no change has been made in the school holiday schedule adopted by the board of education prior to school opening last September and he anticipates no change. It means that school bells won’t ring on Friday, March 31, nor on Monday, April 3. SUCCUMBS — Carl A. Plonk. 'Kings Mountain native, succum bed to a heart attack Sunday at his Asheville home. Funeral rites were conducted Wednesday mor ning. i Services Held For Carl Plonk IFuneraf services for Carl Alex ander Plonk, 64, of Asheville, were held Wednesday morning at St. Mark’s Lutheran church in Asheville. i Mr. Plonk, a Kings Mountain native, died early Sunday after noon of a heart attack. Though he had suffered from a heart ail ment for several years, he had been in apparent normal health until the day before his death. Mr. Plonk had retired four years ago. For 38 years he was a salesman for Ely & Walker Com pany and had previqusly been as sociated with Williams & Shelton Company. 1A son of the late William ^La fayette and RdginaWare Plonk, of Kings Mountain, Mr. Plonk had wide family connections here and retained business interests here. Until three years ago he was a partner in Plonk Brothers & Company. iHe attended Lenoir-Rhyne col lege and the Curry School of Ex pression, Boston. He was a member of Ashe ville’s St. Mlank’s Lutheran chur ch, and a long time trustee and (benefactor of the Plonk School of Creative Arts, Asheville. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Leontine Roberts, 84 Linden Avenue, Asheville, four sisters, Mrs. M. L. Harmon and Mrs. Mary Lovell, both of Kings Mountain, and Misses Laura and Lillian Plonk, of Asheville, and three brothers, C. S. Plonk, Sit. j R. L. Plonk, and W. L. Plonk, all of Kings Mountain. He had celebrated his 64th birthday on March 17. Nephews served as pallbearers1 and interment was in Asheville’s1 Roverside cemetery. Rites were conducted by Rev. Jack Smith. The family asked th'at flowers be omitted, requesting that me morials be sent to St. Miark’s Lu theran crurch. OPTIMISTS MEET Kings Mountain Optimists will hold an organizational meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at the American Legion Hail. A Dutch dinner will be served. School Board Election May 9 Broken Lock Foils Thief A broken lock may have foil ed a would-be thief Monday night. iBelk’s Department Store dis covered Tuesday morning thht a thief or thieves had gained entrance to a storage room back of the men’s store build ing, but hadn’t been able to manipulate the bar slide lock to the main store area. A key lock—long out of or der — had apparently claimed much attention and time of the culprit as be sought unsuccess fully to enter the main store area. Easter clothing apparently wasn’t on the culprit’s want list. The storage room contain ed quantities of clothing pur chases on layaway, but a cur sory check revealed nothing missing. . The outside alley door to the storage area had been stripped from its hinges.. _,_ 0 Country Club Names Directors Four new directors were elect ed for the Kings Mountain Coun try Club aft the annual stock holders meeting held at the A mariean Legion building on Tuesday night. 'The four new directors were named to serve for terms of three years, and eight of the pre sent board were reelected, four to serve for a year term and four for a two-year term. Club bylaws were amended so as to stagger the terms of the directors, whereby four new dir ectors will be elected each year to serve a three-year term. The new directors elected for three-year terms were: L. E. Hin nanft, P. A. Francis, Jamets Gib son, and W. S. Fulton, Jr. Directors who were reelected for a one-year term in order to set the new bylaws in motion were: Dr. George W. Plonk, Fred Wright, James Herndon, and Ja mes Lybrand. The directors named to serve for two years under the new ro tation system were: Paul M. Neisler, Jacob Cooper, Joe Mc Clure and George Houser. The current president of the club will call a meeting of the directors to elect the officers for the new year. Dr. George Plonk is the President. Stores To Close On Easter Monday Kings Mountain merchants will be open all day Wednes day, according to association bydaws. Stores will be closed Easter Monday and will resume the Wednesday half-day schedule on Wednesday, April 5. Palmer Bill Gives New District Two Members (hi School Board The Kings Mountain School] Beard will conltinue to consist of five members, three of whom will reside in the City of Kings Mountain and two from territorj outside the city. That was determined in a bill passed by the State House of Representatives in Raleigh last week. The bill was introduced by Cleveland County Rep. Jack Pal mer and called far amendment to Chapter 960 of the 1955 Sess ions Laws applying to the Kings Mounain School Board. The bill calls for the two new board members from outside the City to be elected at the Mlay 9 municipal election. They will represent territory which former ly belonged to the Kings Moun tain District and to territory an nexed by consolidation. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes will be elected for a six-year term, and the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes will be elected for a four-year term. It was also Stipulated in the bill that the city of Kings Moun tain establish voting places in Bethware school district, in Parkgirace school district and in the Grover school district, using the same boundaries used for the consolidation election for all vo ters outside the city. AH voters residing in territory outside cdtj which formerly belonged to Kings Mountain school distric shall vote in Bethware district. The City will provide for new registration of all voters outside corporate limits for the 1961 school board election.. Rep. Palmer introduced the bill upon request of the Kings Mountain School Board which passed a resolution calling for the bill on the grounds that the consolidation of Kings Mountain, Giover, Bethware and Parkgrace into one school district makes it essential that the area outside the city limits have representa tion on the board. Two members of the current board whose terms were not scheduled to expire volunteered to step down to allow the elec tion of the members from outside the city limits. Arnold W. Kincaid and J. W. Webster are the two board mem bers who agreed to leave the board in order that the outsiders could take seats in the election. The three members remaining on the board, representing the City of Kings Mountain, are Fred Plonk, Mrs. Lena McGill and Dr. P. G. Padgett. Commissioners Also Set Rules For City Vote Replacements for outgoing school board members Arnold W. Kincaid and J. W. Webster will be decided May 9, the same date of the Kings Mountain munici pal election. The two members of the school board, voted on by the entire City school district, will be e lected from the recently annex ed area of the city school district which includes Beth ware, Gro ver, Park Grace, and Compact schol areas. 'Resolution calling the election was passed at Tuesday night's j session of the city board. The city commission will act as elec tions board. Filing deadline for candidates will be April 24. Candidates will be vying for a six and a four year board term. The candidate (receiving the highest number of votes will be elected for a Six year term and the next high count will cop a four year term. The school board is presently on a staggered term plan. Voting places inside the cor porate limits of Kings Mountain will be the same as for the elec tion of town officials. At Tuesday night’s session the board also adopted rules for the municipal election. (Date of the election is May 9 with registration April IS, 22, and 29 and May 6 as challenge day. Registration and voting will be as follows: Ward 1 and Ward 2, City Hall, C. L. Black and Mrs. H. R. Parton registrars respec tively; Wlard 3, Phenix Mill Store, Mrs. Ruth Bowers, registrar; Ward 4, Kings Mountain Manu facturing Company, Mrs. Paul Cole, registrar; and Ward 5, West Elementary School, Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, registrar. Voting place in the Grover Dis trict will be the Grover fire sta tion while voting place for the Both ware District and Parkgrace District will be Bethware and Parkgrace schools respectively. Registrar for the Grover Dis trict is Mrs. J. B. Ellis and judges are Mrs. Margaret Scruggs and (Continued On Page Eight) Bank Group Attends Forum Three members of the staff of the Kings Mountain branch of First Union National Bank at tended First Union’s first Young Management forum held in Char lotte last weekend. . Attending from Kings Moun tain were L. E. (Josh) Hinnant, assistant vice-president; W. G. Jonas, assistant cashier; and Boyce Gault. Carl G. McCraw, president, welcomed young management personnel from the eleven field offices and senior officers of the bank presented a program cov ering the various areas of bank ing. At the conclusion of the for mal program, panel discussions were held by each department of the bank, vrith active participa tion by young management. E leeted to handle next year’s Young Management forum were Edwin R. Johnson, Charlotte, chairman; Buddy Anderson, Wil son, first vice chairman; and Bob Frantz, Asheville, second vice chairman. Ho Sessions Missed During 38 Years A. H. Patterson, veteran ex ecutive of Home Savings & (Loan association, marked ano ther milestone in a long atten dance record Tuesday. Mr. Patterson, longtime sec retary - treasurer and now ex ecutive vice-president of the association, was present as us ual at Tuesday afternoon’s reg ular monthly meeting of the board of directors. It marked the 38th year at which Mr. Patterson lias al ways answered “present” at both the director sessions and at the annual and special meet ings of shareholders. The association was founded In 1923. , , SPEAKER — Rev. H. D. Garmon, pastor of Central Methodist church, will deliver the message in the traditional community wide Easter Sunrise Service. Garmon To Speak At Easter Rites Rev. H. D. Garmon, pastor of Central Methodist church, will deliver the sermon at the com munity-wide Easter Sunrise ser vice April 2. Under sponsorship of the Kings Mountain Ministerial Association, the service will begin at 6 a. m. in Mlemorial Park of Mountain Rest cemetery. A prelude of music by the Kings Mlountain high school band will be under the direction of Joe C. Hedden and Mrs. J. N. Mc Clure will direct the Glee Club in the singing of traditional num bers. Full program for the service will be announced next week, I spokesmen for the minister’s I group said. Arrangements for the I Easter morning service will be under the direction of Sam Su ber, cemetery superintendent and the piano for the service is being furnished by McGinnis Furniture, the ministers continued. Ministers of the community joined in issuing an invitation to members of their congrega tions and the general public in worshiping together on Easter Morning. Young People To Be Confirmed Resurrection Lutheran church will receive 10 young people as adult members on Palm Sunday. The Confirmation Class in cludes those members who have completed two years of intensive religious training and it is made up of these members: Rebecca Dunn, Win Goter, Rodney Har din, Teresa Jolly, .Spencer Moore, Wayne Odell, Linda Plonk, Gail Price, Mark Slater and Debbie Smith. Members of the class will be presented with service books from the congregation and will be honored by the United Luth eran Churchwomen at a weiner roast at Lake Crawford Sunday evening. Rev. George Moore, pastor, no ted that the Confirmation class is the second largest in the hist ory of the congregation. Commissioners 1 Act Following Revised Ruling The Kings Mountain Armory project is assured.. Major General Claude T. Bo wers, adjutant-general of the North Carolina National Guard, has notified City Attorney J. R. Davis that deadlines for deposit of the estimated $24,500 in re quired local funds have been re vised. Gen. Bowers listed these revis ed requirements: 1) Earliest possible conveyan ce of deeds to the armory site. 2) Deposit of 7.5 percent of the cost, estimated to require a ibout $10,000, after construction bids are received. 3) Payable of the remaining local share of ten percent of to tal const i-uction cost by Septem ber 1. Current estimates are that the armlory will cost about $135,000, Gen. Bowers wrote. | The city board of commission ers, convening in special session Tuesday night, moved immedia tely to assure the project by au thorizing the mayor to obtain deeds for the site acreage and I convey them to the state Nation ! al Guard in Raleigh. Oty commissioners and other city officials felt the required funds are obtainable out of cur rent budget appropriations, botn | from surplus receipts already j consigned for capital outlay and from the contingency fund, | Previously the city had met va j rlous roadblocks in an attempt I to obtain all of the local funds ' by the former June 1 deadline, ! The new terms set by the ad ! jutant-general mean that the city | will not have to pursue a former route for funds, that of issuing ! bonds. There had been question whether itihe bonds oould be is sued without a citizens vote. The city is currently in process of obtaining deeds to additional site acreage from the Willeford and R. S. Plonk Estates. City At torney Davis said Tuesday the deeds have been drawn and are in the hands of the property owners for signing. ICost of the additional property is $7500. (Meantime, the county commis sion had indicated it will appro priate $10,000 for ithe Kings Mountain Armory project in the 1961-62 budget, with payment date indicated about September i I iln seeking to supply funds for ! the project, the county commis : sion met the same type of road blocks on providing the funds as Ithe city commission, has experi enced. Present for Tuesday night’s session were Mayor Glee A. Brid ges, Commas. Ben H. Bridges, Boyce Gault and Ross Alexander, LUTHERAN SERVICE A special service with palms and music will feature the 11 a. m. worship service Sunday at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. Mrs. Richard McGin nis will sing Faure’s "The Palms”, and Dr. W. P. Ger berding will bring the morning message. Kings Mountain Churches Plan Special Services For Holy Week The last week in the life of Jesus Christ is remembered by Christians with special church services the world over. In Kings Mountain, special ser vices will be held at most chur ches next week beginning with Palm Sunday, continuing throu gh Holy Week, a time of betray al and suffering that led up to the resurrection of the Son of God. The 25-voice Chancel Choir of Central Methodist church will present the Easter Cantata, “The Crucifixion,’’ a moving medita tion of the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer from Gethsemane to the Cross, Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Mrs. J. N. MoClura will direct the cantata, and fea tured soloists will be Mrs. Bill Allen, Mrs. Delbert Dixon, Wil liam Russell, Arthur Walker, Jacob Dixon and B. S. Peeler, Jr. Holy Week services at St. Mat thew’s Lutheran church will be held Sunday through Friday at 7:30 p. m. Dr. W, P. Gerberding, pastor, will lead the meditations and special music will feature the services. At Central Methodist church Holy Week services are schedul ed Wednesday through Friday at 7:30 p. m. with Rev. Herbert Garmon, pastor, to deliver the meditations. Rev. W. C. Sides, Jr., pastor, will conduct Holy Week services Sunday through Friday at 7 p m. at Grace Methodist church and Rev. George Moore, pastor, will conduct the medita tions Monday through Thursday at 7:30 at Resurrection Lutheran Church. Maundy Thursday services will be held at First Presbyterian church March 30th at 8 p. m. The observance of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will feature the service. lA three-hour Good Friday ser vice at Resurrection Lutheran church will feature the “Seven Last Words Of Christ” with Dr, E. C. Cooper, Rev. Moore, Rev. George Robertson of Bessemer City, and Rev. J. A. Harbison, Dallas, to lead the service. On Easter Sunday, the tradi tional Sunrise Service will be held at Memorial Park of Moun tain Rest Cemetry at 6 a. m. Res urrection Lutheran church has also scheduled sunrise services for 6 a. m. at the church in Cres cent Hill, a congregational break fast to follow the service.
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