Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
TMs figure for diulii Kings Mountain Is derived from
— ■"* ”r‘-gs Mountain etty dlroetory census. Tho dty
is from tho United States census ol I960.
VOL 72 No. 17
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 4, 1961
Established 1889
Seventy-Second Year
Pages
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW BUILDING_Pictured above is an archi
tects sketch of the new building which will
house Home Savings & Loan Association. Con
struction on the plant is scheduled to begin
Monday morning. The general contract has
been let to Laxton Construction Company of
Charlotte and the building is expected to be
completed in 120 days. Overall cost of the new
plant is approximately $80,000. The new quar
ters will feature drive-in windows, a large
parking area, air-conditioning, and completely
modern interior and exterior. Tom Tate, secre
tary-treasurer of the association, said Wednes
day the association will be in the new quarters
by October 1.
Local News
Bulletins
OPTIMISTS MEET
Kings Mountain Optimist
Club will meet Thutnsday at
7:30 p. m. in the fellowship
hall of Grace Methodist church
for the regular weekly sess
ion.
PERMITS ISSUED
Two permits ware issued
Tuesday by City Building In
spector M. H. Biser, the first to
B. S. McCullough to build a
one-story fouir-troom dwelling
on Bennett Street at a cost of
$6,000, and the second to J.
Wilson Crawford to build a
one-story, six-room dwelling at
106 Sharon Drive at an estima
ted cost of $12,600.
P-T-S-A MEETS
Central school Parent-Teach
er-Student Association will in
stall new officers at the regu
lar meeting Monday night at
8 p. m. in the school auditor
ium. Monday’s meeting will be
final one of the school year.
PICTURE PAGE
As is customary, the Herald
in this pre-election edition pre
sents on Page 1, Section B, all
the pictures for candidates to
city and board of education of
fices, in addition to news star
ves detailing the several races.
FHA TEA
The FHA Mother-Daughter
tea and freshman fashion show
will be Weld at the high school
home economics department
Wednesday beginning at 3:30
p. m. The tea honors mothers
of FHA members. i
PARKING METERS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday
totaled $106.67, including $90.27
from on-street meters, $4 from
over-parking fees and $12.97
from off-street meters, City
Clerk Joe McDaniel reported.
TO NEW JERSEY
S/Sgt. and M|rs. Philip My
ers have returned to McGuire
AIFB, N. J., after spending a
furlough with their parents,
Mir. and Mirs. Foley Cobb, Sr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Myers.
The Myers’ recently returned
Home from Newfoundland. Af
ter re-inlisting, the Myers will
spend a 30-day furlough at
home. Mrs. Myers is the form
er (Bonnie Cotob.
Chestnut Ridge
Revived Continues
Revival services aft Chestnut
Ridge Baptist church, which be
gan Monday, will continue night
ly at 7:30.
Rev. Wayne Haynes, of Cal
vary Baptist church, Llncolnton,
is conducting the services.
Rev. Dale Thornburg is the
pastor.
i_
Heart Attack
Proves Fatal
To Attorney
•Funeral rites for Ector A. Har
rill, 77, prominent Kings Moun
tain lawyer who died last Wed
nesday night of a heart attack,
were held Friday at 3 p. m. from
Harris Funeral Home Chapel.
Mr. Harrill had been in poor
health the past several weeks
but his death was unexpected.
He was a native of Earl, son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt L.
Harrill. He was graduated from
Wake Forest college in 1911 and
in 1913 became superintendent of
Kings Mountain city schools for
several years. He served as judge
of city recorder’s court from 1950
to 1955.
Mr. IJarrill was a former dea
con and teadher of the Men’s Bi
ble Class at First Presbyterian
church and was a past president
of the Cleveland County Bar As
sociation.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Martha Simonton Harr®; one
son, Thornton Harrill of Kings
Mlountain; and one daughter, Mrs.
J. W. Dorian of Atlanta, Ga. Al
so surviving are two grandchild
ren; one brother, C. V. Harrill of
Shelby, and four sisters, Mrs.
Thurman Hamrick and Misses
Essie, Mingon and Ocie Harrill
all of Shelby. I
The final rites were conducted
by Dr. Paul Ausley, First Pres
byterian pastor. Interment was
in Mountain Rest cemetery.
'Hie family has designated Cle
veland County Heart Fund for
memorials.
•Active pallbearers were Mal
colm Patterson, Jack Amette,
Harry Page, Hall Goforth, Har
old Hunnicutt, all of Kings Moun
tain, and Harold Moore of Shel
by.
SPEAKER _ Rev. Tom Droppers
will be speaker at May Fellow
ship Day Services Friday after
noon. The service is being spon
sored by Kings Mountain area
churchwomen.
Fellowship Day
Program Friday
Rev. Tom Droppers, pastor of
Trinity Episcopal church, will
make the principal address at,
Friday’s May Fellowship Day!
service at 3:30 p. m. at Resurrec
tion Lutheran church.
The program is under sponsor
ship of United Church Women'of
Kings (Mountain and virtually all
churches will be represented.
Theme of this year’s observan
ce is “Our Churches Free and
Responsible." Mrs.. Paul Hend
ricks will lead the call to worship
with voices from the various
churches participating. Resurrec
tion’s Junior choir, under the di
rection of Mrs.. Aubrey Mlauney
(Continued On Page Teh) j
Final Registration Day Saturday;
Over 250 New Registrants In City
Registration books far the city
and board of education elections
will be open far the fourth and
final day Saturday.
Un-registered citizens will not
be eligible to participate in the
voting next Tuesday, nor in the
May 23 run-off elections, if
these are required.
Registrars in adjacent areas to
the city have reported some con
fusion among voters in these
| areas. A new registration was or
dered by the General Assembly
in its amendments to the Kings
Mountain voting law. Also, both
inside city and outside city citi
zens will have a voice in voting
far the school trustees.
I Registering activity increased
considerably last Saturday.
'Though the Ward 4 final re
port was not obtained, it was
estimated that about 150 new vo
tetns added their names to the
poll books lost Saturday, well ov
eir the 112 registered the first two
registration Saturdays.
Ward 5 led with 35 new voters,
followed closely by Ward 4,
where 37 new voters had regis
tered by 5 p. m. Ward 3 had 30
new voters, with 15 transfers into
■the ward. At drover, Beth ware,
and Park Graoe 243 registered.
Totals*0 date In these precincts
Saturday will also be challen
(Continued On Page Ten)
Former Citizen
Wills Churches
$10,000 Each
A former Kings Mountain citi
zen has bequeathed $20,000 to two
Kings Mountain churches,
$10,000 to EH Bethel Methodist
church and $10,000 to Central
Methodist church.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson Thorne,
a stepdaughter of I. Ben Gofor
th, Sr., of Kings Mountain, who
died last year ait St. Petersburg,
Fla., also bequeathed $10,000 to
the church which she 'belonged
in St. Petersburg and made oth
er charitable bequests to the A
merican Cancer Society and the
Heart Fund.
Her husband had predeceased
her by a few months.
The Thornes were St. Peters- j
burg hotel owners. They had no
children.
Mrs. Thorne was a daughter of
the late Mrs. Rossic Dixon Jack
son Goforth. She was reared here
and intially belonged to El Beth
el Methodist church. When Cen-|
tral Methodist church was form-;
ed, she transferred her member
ship to this church and subse
quently was married in this
church.
The bequests were announced
recently by Attorney J. R. Davis.
Kiwanians
Honor Ladies
Members of the Kiwanis club,
their wives and other guests en
joyed a fun-filled evening last
Thursday at the club’s annual
ladies night banquet.
fy Program faefruMwas aVatmdr
ous address by Alex Clafk, rep
resentative of Armour & Com
pany, a brother of Mrs. Carl May
es, of Kings Mountain.
Mr. Clark regaled his audience
with witty tales and jokes for
the major part of his address,
then closed on a slightly more
serious note in which he dis
cussed the “high price of meat.”
He suggested costs of meat are
higher than they might be due
to feminine demands for pre
packaging, best cuts, butcher
shop trimming and other time
saving features.
He predicted that the course of
meat prices is a one-way street
“up", noting that producers with
draw their animals from the
market with small price fluctua
tions, and pointing out the trend
of population increase.
President Charles A. Neisler
presided and B. S. Peeler, Jr., ser- j
ved as toastmaster.
James E. Amos welcomed the!
ladies and Mts. Charles Alexan
der responded.
Invocation was said by Rev. j
Herbert Garmon and Dr. W. L.
Pressfy presented Mir. Clark.
Legion Election
Set For Frida;
Members of Otis D. Green Post
155, American Legion, will elect
officers for the coming year at
the annual post election Friday.
Nominees are:
For commander__W. D. (Red)
Morrison, Ross Alexander arid
David Delevie.
Fir first vice-commander_Ho
barnt Dye and H. O. (Toby) Wil
liams.
For second vice-commander_
Eugene Goforth and Carl Wies
ener.
For adjutant and finance offi
cer _ J. H. McDaniel, Jr. and
Hubert Adarholdit.
For sergea n t - at - a rms_ Geor
ge Hull.
For chaplain — John W. Glad
den.
For historian — Wesley Bush,
Floyd Dover and Franklin Ware.
For executive committee (vote
for five) _ Frank Blanton, O
dell Lovelace, W. L. Plonk, Jay
Powell, Gene Gibson, John Weav
er, T. W. Bryant, James Alexan
der, Bob Lynn, E. C. (Abie) Mar
tin and James Bennett.
Voting hours will be from 2 to
8 p. m., with presentation of 1961
membership cards a pre-requi
site to voting.
At Waco Finn
Jacoby has resigned as
general manager of Waco Sports
wear, Inc., It was announced this
week.
Jack Hauser, production mana
ger, will be in charge of the op
eration, the firm announced.
Jacoby Resigns
County Board Of Education
Wants County-wide Merger
Public Meeting
For Discussion
Set For May 22
The county board of education
has launched a movement for a
county-wide school consolidation
under a lone administrative sys
tem.
The proposal will be discussed
at an open meeting in Shelby’s
new high school plant on May 22,
the program to be arranged by
the sub-committee on administra
tion of the Cleveland County Ci
tizens committee for public
schools.
Meantime, Harold Love, of'
Shelby, chairman of the citizens
committee, labeled as a misim
pression his appearance before
the county board of education
Mjonday.
(Mr. Love said, “I appeared be
fore the board of education on the
board’s invitation. I was told the
'hoard unanimously favored a
county-wide school consolida
tion.”
IHe said his position today, and
in the future, will be that the
function of the Citizens Commit
tee for Better Schools is Informa
tional.
At the May 22 meeting, he ad
ded, "We hope to give the pro’s
and con’s, costs, advantages and
disadvantages of a county-wide
school consolidation.”
* He told the board of education,
he added, that an election on
the question Would require a spe
cial enabling act of the General
Assembly and he said it appear
ed earliest passible date for hold
ing such an election would be in
late October.
The possibility of county-wide
consolidation was advanced by
Cqunty Superintendent J. Horace
Grigg and Chairman Walter Da
vis at a meeting of Number 3 pa
trons Mbmday night.
Mis. Heavnei's
Rites Conducted
Funeral Rites for Mrs. Minnie;
Mauney Heavner, 74, were held
Wednesday at 4 p. m. from Girace
Methodist church, interment fol
lowing in Mountain Resit cem
etery.
Mrs. Heavner, widow of Lonzo
Heavner, died Monday night at,
her home on N. Ramseur street, j
She is survived by two da ugh-;
tors, Mrs. Ray Owens and Mrs.
Harold Almond, both of Kings
Mountain'; two sons, Plato J.
Heavner of Kings Mountain and;
Lonzo Heavner of Flint, Mich., 15
grandchildren and 13 great
grandchildren. Also surviving
are two brothers, John B. Maun
ey and Irvin Mauney, both of
Kings Mountain.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. W. C. Sides.
TO BOYS' STATE “ Claire Gil
stad, at top, and Bill Ramseur
are delegates to Boys' State. The
high school juniors are delegates
from American Legion Post 155.
Boys' State
Delegates Named
■Claire Gilstad and Bill Ram
seur, Kings Mountain high school
juniors, have been selected to at
tend Tar Heel Boys’ State in Cha
pel Hill June 11-15.
The students are delegates
from Otis D. Green Post 155, the
American Legion, which sponsors
local students to Boy’s State an
nually.
Both Gilstad and Ramseur are
active in numerous extra-curric
ular activities. The school photo
grapher, Gilstad is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Gilstad, Phifer
road. He is a newcomer to Kings
Mountain.
Ramseur, president of the stu
dent body, is a son of Dr. and
Mrs. W. GL. Ramseur. He is a
member of the Mountaineer foot
ball team- \
■At the 1961 North Carolina A
merican Legion Boys’ State, the
Tar Heel youths will participate
(Continued On Page Ten)
Saunders Endorses Utility Cuts;
McAbee Would Expand City Limits
Mayoral candidates made
these statements on Monday’s
"Race for Mayor” program broad
cast over Station WKMT:
Brooks McAbee would expand
the present city limits by a dis
tance of three-quarter mile from
the present boundaries.
D. L. Saunders said he would
favor even greater utility rate
MONDAY PROGRAM
Negro, William Qt, will
be a member of the question
ing panel Monday in the final
of the five-program series "The
Race for Mayor” to be present
ed Monday at 6 p. m. over Sta
tion WKMT. He will join Jud
ge Jack White, who appeared
on the initial program, and
Martin Harmon, regular mem
ber of the panel, it was an
nounced by Jonas Bridges, sta
tion manager and the pro
gram’s moderator.
cuts than initially advanced by
Garland E. Still, charged the
city is penalizing Massachusetts!
Mohair Plush Company on water
charges, and said the utility rate
cuts could be managed by cut
ting city appropriations for long
term improvements, paring ex
cess city labor and through pur
chasing savings. , .. , .
Mayor Glee A. Bridges charged
that some campaign propaganda
aimed at him “'is .stretching the
truth to the breaking point” and
added, “some of my enemies
don’t tell the real treason _the
fact that I forced them to pay
back taxes and street assess
ments.” The Mayor reminded
that his administration had pro
vided a continuing program of
long-term improvements, and
had initiated and maintained
tax rate cuts.
Garland Still gave a resume of
his campaign promises to pro-;
vide free water and power “to all
customers” for the month of No
vember and pointed out revenue
increases of the city during the
past eight yearns.
Kelly Dixon criticized what he
termed the city’s “miscellaneous”
gap and Tenfwed his pledge to
seek new Industry for the area.
All candidates said they felt a
new white way system could be
installed, (Mr. Dixon felt sure It
could be started) during the com
ing fiscal year, and all said
they’d like to see the traffic bot
tleneck between Battleground
Avenue and Cherokee street alle
viated.
All candidates said they fav
ored dty participation in a city
(Continued On Page Ten)
200 Number 3
Patrons Talk
Future Course
Patrons of No. 3 Township
schools met (Monday night at No.
3 High school to discuss the fu
ture of the school now that a con
solidation with Grover and Beth
ware schools cannot be effected.
Present for the session was
County School Superintendent J.
Horace Grigg and County school
memibers Walter Davis, J. D. El
lis, and C. D. Forney to answer
questions concerniHg the school,
and some 200 school patrons.
IMr. Grigg explained to the
group that there exists “three al
ternatives: they may remain as
they are, they may consolidate
with Shelby City schools, or they
may wait for a county-wide
school consolidation.
At the close of the session a
standing vote was taken to de
termine feeling of members pres
ent and one voted to maintain
No. 3 school as is, a small major
ity favored consolidation with
Shelby schools, and the rest, dis
counting parties who did nut
vote, favored waiting for a coun
|ty-wide consolidation vote.
Iln reply to a question as to
where the school would go if a
county-wide icpnssolidation were
'effected, Walter Davis told the
group their Children would prob
ably by consolidated with Shelby
schools.
Davis reported the county
■school board had, Mtonday after
noon, voiced hearty approval of a
county-wide school consolidation
to Harold Love, member of the
Cleveland County Citizen's Com
mittee for Better Schools.
Citizens present were interest
ed in the supplementary school
tax rate and bond tax they would
assume if they consolidated with
Shelby schools and Mr. Grigg ex
plained that Shelby patrons cur
rently are under a 35 cents per
hundred valuation supplementary
school tax and a 35 cents per
hundred valuation bond issue
tax.
One patron asked if the bond
tax would be lessened if No. 3
Township, with Fiber Industries
tax valuation, were consolidated
with Shelby. Mr. Grigg could not
furnish the information and re
ferred the group to courthouse
tax records for the answer.
Davis pointed out the turmoil
of the recent No. 4 Township;
school consolidation and said;
that he hoped that whatever the;
group decided to do, to vote their
individual convictions, but stand
by the results.
Mr. Grigg and members of the
bounty school board present voic
ed interest in a county-wide
school system and said the coun
ty-wide arrangement could be
effected at the same time as a
consolidation with Shelby city
schools.
Grigg, explaining the voting
(Continued On Page Ten)
Bids On Aimory
Are Invited
Bids are toeing invited for con
struction of the Kings Mountain
National Guard Armory.
Bid notice is published today
in the Herald.
Bids are to be received on four
different contracts: general,
plumbing, heating and electrical.
Bids will be received until 2 p.
m, May 25, by the North Caroli
na Armory commission, and
should be addressed in care of
Company D, 105th Engineering
Battahon, Box 748, 'Kings Moun
tain, N. C. i
Complete plans and specifica
tions are available at the Nation
al Guard adjutant general's de
partment, Raleigh; at the Ralei
gh, Charlotte and Greensboro of
fices of Associated General Con
tractors; and at the Durham,
Charlotte and Raleigh offices of
the Dodge Plan room.
Performance bonds in the e
mount of 100 percent will be re
quired and a deposit of $25 re
quired for the use of plans.
Cost of the structure, to be
built adjacent to the National
Guard motor pool building on
Phifer road is estimated at from
$135,000 to $140,000. Federal
funds in the amount of $104,000
will be supplemented toy state
and local funds. . >
Record Field
Vying Tuesday
For (Sty Posts
Kings Mountain citizens will go
to Che polls Tuesday to settle, at
least partially, the identity of the
six men who will manage the
city during the coming two years.
There are 23 candidates.
With at least three candidates
seeking each position, many ob
servers think that few, if any,
candidates will win election on
Tuesday.
Many predict a record Tuesday
Vote total.
Runners-up to those with plur
alities, but not minorities, have
until five days after the election
to issue a call for a run-off,
which they must request in writ
ing.
Kings Mountain citizens, along
with voters at Be-thware, Park
Grace and Grover, will vote for
two boarl of education candida
tes. Heie there is no contest, with
only H. O. (Toby) Williams and
Holmes Harry seeking the two
seats, tout the front-runner will
toe elected for six years, while the
candidate placing second will be
elected for four years.
For the past ten days, all can
didates have been actively seek
ing votes, quickening a campaign
that, until that time, had been
largely limited to activity toy the
five candidates for mayor, Glee
A. Bridges, the four-term incum
bent, former Mayor Garland E.
Still, David L. Saunders, a one
time commissioner by appoint
ment, Kelly Dixon, builder and
former Republican candidate for
Congress, and late-comer Brooks
MjcAtoce.
Several issue have developed
in the mayoral jousting, includ
ing utility rates, city purchasing
policies, utility rates charged
outside city customers and natu
ral gas system rates, along with
the question of who is best qual
ified to serve as the city’s elect
ed spokesman and executive of
ficer.
Campaigning for the five city
commission positions has been
largely devoid of issues, with
most of the candidates waging
a personality campaign.
All the five commission incum
bents seek re-election to third
terms.
iRoss Alexander, in Ward 1, is
challenged by C. H. (Cat) Hou
ser and Ray W. Cline.
Boyce H. Gault, in Ward 2, is
challenged by Eugene Goforth
ahd John W. Gladden.
Luther T. Bennett, in Ward 9.
is challenged by Corbet Nichol
son, former Comm. T. J. (Tom
my) Ellison, and Clavon Kelly.
Ben H. Bridges, in Ward 4, is
challenged by Norman King, for
mer Comm. Paul W. Ledford,
Clinton Wood and Willis Bag
well.
R. Coleman Stroupe, in Ward
5, is challenged by J. Elmer (ZipV
Rhea and Hazel L. Gill.
The polls will foe open at all
voting precincts from 6:30 a. in
to 6:30 p. m.
Facts Are Listed
On City Election
Following are faots on Tues
day’s city and school board
elections:
Polls open 6:30 a. m.
Polls close 6:30 p. m.
Offices to be filled by all
in-city voters: mayor, and five
ward commissioners.
Offices /to be filled by all
school district voters (includes
Kings Mountain citizens and
citizens of areas of district ad
jacent to city limits): two trus
teeships.
Number of ballots: .two, one
for city offices, one for school
district offices.
Voting places: Ward 1, City
Hall; Ward 2, City Hall; Ward
3, Frank Ballard’s Store; Ward
4, Kings Mountain Manufac
turing Company clubroom;
Ward 5, West School; Park
Grace, Park Grace school;
Bdthware, Bethware school;
Grover, Grover fire station.
Basis of decision: majority
of votes cast.
Run-off provisions; candida
tes qualified for a run-off elec
tion have five days in which to
file request for run-off election
with the city clerk.
The board of city commiss
ioners serves as the elections
board and will convene Wed
nesday morning at 10 o’clock
to canvass the returns. Candi
dates elected next Tuesday will
be sworn into office on Thurs
day, May 11. J