Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
Thia figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived lxoxn
tbe 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. Ike city
■nits figure Is from the United States census oi 1960.
»
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June I, 1961
Pages
Today
VOL 72 No. 21
Established 1889
Seventy-Second Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
PERMIT ISSUED
City Building Inspector M. H.
Biser issued a permit last
Wednesday to J. Wilson Craw
ford 'to build a one story frame
and brick residence at 913
Sharoh Drive. Estimated cost
of the six-room structure is
.$12,500.
HEADS COMMITTEE
Thomas L. Kesler, Chief Geo
logist of Poote Mineral Co., has
been named chairman of the
nominating committee of the
Society of Mining Engineers of
the American Institute of Min
ing, Metallurgical and Petro
leum Engineers. He also is a
member of the Institute’s Hal
Williams Hardinge Award
Committee. The Society is the
professional Organization i n
the United States for engineer
and geologists in the mines is
industries.
CLASS REUNION
The Grover high school
(graduating class of 1951 will
Wold a class reunion Saturday
evening at 7 o’clock, with din
ner to be served at Renn’s Ca
feteria in Grover.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday
noon totaled $131.61, includ
ing $96.01 from on-street me
ters, $23 from over-parking
fees and $12.60 from off-street
metotfs, City Clerk Joe McDan
iel reported. - 4
BIBLE SCHOOL
Vacation Bible School at
Chestnut Ridge Baptist church
begins Monday and continues
throughout the week with cla
sses ito (begin at 9 a. m. Pre
paration Day will be held on
Saturday with a parade to
feature the activities.
Craig Sheppard's
Bites Conducted
, -
Final rites for Craig A. Shep
pard, 73, were held Friday at 4
p. m- from Second Baptist chur
ch of which he was a member
and former deacon. Interment
was in the Antioch cemetery near
Graver.
(Mr. Sheppard died suddenly of
a heart attack Wednesday at 7
p. m. at his home at 717 Gantt
street. He was returning from the
funeral of a brother-in-law in
South Carolina and the attack
occurred as he entered his home.
Sheppard was a native of Cher
okee County, S. C., and a retired
employee of Mauney Mills. He
was the son of the late Mr. and
(Mbs. Thomas Sheppard.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Florence Beba Limlbaugh Shep
pard. His first Wife, Mirs. Katie
Mobs Sheppard, died in 1946.
' Other survivors include three
eons, Earner of Shelby, James
Limibaugh of Kings Mountain and
Robert Limibaugh of Greenville,
S. C., and six daughters, Mrs. Ge
neva Arrowood of Cherryville,
(Mrs. Maude Proctor, Mrs. Ruth
Rigdon and Mrs. Nettie Kim
brough, all of Greenville, S. C.,
Mrs. Texie Hicks of Danville, Va.
and Mrs. Ellen Aiken of Norfolk,
Va.
(Also surviving are three sisters,
Mrs. Minnie Harry and Mrs. Sal
ly Neal of Bessemer City and
Mrs. Rhode Hayden of Laurens,
S. C., 11 grandchildren and sev
en great - grandchildren.
Mis. Dixon's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Dessie
Blanche Dixon, 70, wife of W. E.
Dixon of route two, were held
Tuesday at 4 p. m. from Bethle
hem Baptist church of which she
was a member.
(Mrs. Dixon died Sunday after-!
noon after an illness of over a I
year. She was a native of Cher-,
okee County, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Mike Mauney
Stewart. She was a member of!
Bethlehem Baptist church.
She is survived by her husband, j
three daughters, Miss Oveda Dix- \
on and Miss Mlary Dixon, both **f
the home; and Mrs. George For- j
tenberry of Grover; and two sons'
^Robert Dixon of Charlotte and
tfloyce Dixon of the U. S. Army
Stationed in Hawaii; two broth -
|||«, Forrest Stewart of Charles
Ion, S. C, and Edward J. Stew
art of Kings Mountain; and 13
apandchildren. »
tr’The final rites were conducted
Igr Rev. Norman Brown, assisted
Hf Rev. W. G. Camp. Interment
in the church ocmetry. |
RECEIVES DEGREE_The Kings Mountain college students pic
tured above are receiving diplomas this week. At top. left is Rich
ard Spencer who is graduating with BA degree in sociology from
Limestone college at Gaffney, and at top, right, is Curtis George,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John George, who graduated with BS degree
from Erskine college. Below, left, is John McGinnis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul H. McGinnis, who won his AB degree in business from
Lenoir Rhyne college at Hickory, and, below right, is Dennis F.
Troutman, awarded the degree of doctor .of dental surgery from UNC
School of Dentistry at Chapel Hill. Dr. Troutman is married to the
former Patsy Harmon of Kings Mountain.
Armory Low Bids
Totaled $135,368
Kings Mountain
Finn Is Low
On Plumbing
Bids were opened ait the Kings
Mountain Armory site of the
Kings Mountain National Guard
Unit on Thursday. The new Ar
mory will toe built on the site of
the present Armory at the comer
of Phifer Road and Mountain
Street.
Mayor Kelly Dixon, Commiss
ioner Ben Bridges, and Ciity Clerk
Joe McDaniel, representing the
City of Kings Mountain were
present and approved the bids
on behalf of the city. Captain
Samuel H. Houston, company
conmmander approved the bids
for ithe National Guard unit.
' Lt. Elbert MePhaul, state en
gineer for the Adjutant General's
Department and Donald Hollo
way, of Lt. McPhaul’s office, ap
proved the bids lor the State of
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Word “Facade"
Eliminates Glynda
Glynda Lynn, 13, Kings
Mountain spelling champ, miss
ed the word “facade’’ Wednes
day and was eliminated in the
fifth round of competition in
the National Spelling Bee in
Washington, D. C.
The East school seventh
grade, as regional spelling
champ, is sponsored by the
Charlotte Observer. She and
her mother flew to Washing
ton for the contests on Satur
day.
Seventy-three contestants are
entered in the national contest
and 43 were still in the running
after the fifth round. The first
56 who stumble during the 34th
annual contest win $50 each
and other prizes total over
$5,000.
Commencement Exercises Friday;
Pfeiffer President Is Speaker
Dr. J. Xem Stokes, president of
Pfeiffer college at MSsenheimer,
will address the 1961 graduating
class of Kings (Mountain high
school in commencement exera
ses Friday.
The program, which will fea
ture presentation of diplomas to
104 seniors, will begin at 8 o’
clock in the school auditorium.
Principal Harry Jaynes will
award diplomas and Herman
Campbell, Jr., will introduce the
speaker. Class president Clifford
Kircus, Jr., will present the class
gift to the school. A group of stu
dents, Priscilla Williams, Rebec
ca Powers, Marcia Moore, Paula
Almond, Glenda Stroupe, Char
lene Yates, Clifford Kircus, Jr.,
Jerry Adams, Billie Jones, Larry
Smith, Herman Campbell, Jr.,
and James Fisher, will sing “No
Man Is An Island.” Diana Ham
rick will sing "The Lord’s Pray
er” as the benediction.
Dr. Stokes became Pfeiffer
president in July, 1953. During
his administration the school has
increased in enrollment from 150
to nearly 900 and has moved
from a junior college status to an
accredited senior college. During
this time more than $2 million
have been expended in the erec
tion of new buildings and in the
expansion of the old ones, and
approximately $1 million have
been added to the endowment
SPEAKER — Dr. J. Lem Stokes,
president of Pfeiffer college, will
be commencement speaker at
finals exercises Friday at Kings
Mountain high school.
Faculty and staff have increased
from 27 to more than 100.
Bom in Songdo, Korea, the son
of missionary parents, Dr. Stok
es’ early schooling was pursued
under the tutelage of his nkrther.
He was graduated from the Seoul
Foreign School, earned Ms A. 'B.
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ARP-Catholic
Transaction
Is Completed
‘ The Boyce Memorial ARP
church property ait Piedmont
avenue and King Street became
the property of the Roman Ca
tholic church Wednesday.
Check for the balance of the
$50,000 purchase price was de
livered to N. F. McGill, ARP trus
tee, and deed to the plant was
conveyed.
Rev. Thomas Clement, already
alt work on the former manse,
said the new Catholic church
will be called Christ the King
Catholic church. He has been as
signed responsibility for the
church, along with St Mary’s in
Shelby, and Church of the Im
maculate Conception, Forest
City.
Meantime, Rev. Andre Corbin
will' come to Kings Mountain
June 5 to serve as assistant pas
tor.
Rev. Clement said he hoped it
would be possible to hold initial
services in the church by mid
month.
Meantime, the .ARP church has
removed all of its retained per
sonal properties with the excep
tion of the organ, which is to be
removed on Friday, and will
hold services Sunday for tihe first
time in West School, which it is
renting from the board of edu
cation as temporary quarters un
til it constructs a new plant on
Edgemont avenue.
Plans for the new structure
are nearing ithe completion stage,
church officials said this week
•J. L. Beam and associates, ol
Cherryville, is architect.
Bloodmobile
Back June 13
Kings Mountain Baptist churcl
will again be host to the Rec
Cross, bloodmobile when it re
turns for a June 12 collection.
On the recent visit, King!
Mountain Baptist church was tin
collection center and more thar
200 persons donated blood.
‘•We are most appreciative o:
the invitation to use .the church’s
air-conditioned quarters,” Mrs
O. W. Mlyers, Kangs Mountair
Red Cross chapter blood program
chairman, said.
Goal for the upcoming visit i:
180 pints. .
In spite of the recent large col
lection, the community was still
tagged with a 59 pint deficit
through April 30. Use estimates
indicate that a collection of 180
pints would assure the chapter
of completing the year with the
blood books balanced.
“This would 'be an outstanding
achievement for Kings Mountain
and should be a challenge to ev
ery individual, every industrial
and civic organization to put for
th every effort. It is not only a
matter of civic pride, but com
munity responsibility. Last year,
a number of chapters reached
the yearly quota, while many
others attained a 96 percent
goal,’ Mrs. Myers said.
Mrs. Harmon's
Uncle Succumbs
Funeral rites for J. Archie Wil
lis, 69, of Woodruff, S. C.. uncle
of Mrs. Martin Hannon, of Kings
Mountain, will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o’clock at
First Presbyterian church In
Woodruff.
Mr. Willis, a veteran news
paperman, died early Tuesday at
Charlotte Memorial hospital.
He had retired from the Char
lotte Observer, where he served
as farm editor, in 1952 due to ill
health. Since he had served as
part-time advertising aid to a
Charlotte bank.
In 1912, he was elected to the
S. C. House of Representatives
rrom Laurens County while he
was 20 years old. He had to wait
until his 21st birthday to take
his seat because of the consti
tutional age requirement.
A graduate of Wofford College,
Willis also studied at Heidelberg
University in Germany. He be
gan his newspaper career in Key
West, Fla., and later served in
Atlanta. Birmingham, Albuquer
que, N. Mex., Greenville, S. C..
Chicago and New York. He came
to Charlotte as farm editor of
the News and then moved to the
Observer in 1948.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Annie Lou Irby; sisters,
Mrs. Osteile Owings and Mrs.
Lola Moore of Greyoourt, S. C.,
and Mr®. Maud Willis of Owings.
S. C,; brother, 1Ternon Willis of
Owings.
IN NEW POSITION
Robert H. Goforth, hookeep
er at Hoke Electric Company,
joined the staff of Shelby Sup
ply Company Monday. He is
succeeded at Hoke Electric by
Bob Huttmder,
Board Of Education At Work
On Arrangements For 61 ’62
NEW ADMINISTRATION _ The six men in
the picture above will manage City of Kings
Mountain affairs for the ensuing two years.
The picture was taken shortly after oath-ta
king by the May 23 run-off winners. Left to
right are T. J. Ellison. Ward 3, Eugene M. Go
forth. Ward 2, Ben H. Bridges Ward 4, Mayor
Kelly Dixon. J. E. (Zip) Rhea, Ward 5, and,
Ray W. Cline, Ward 1. Mr. Rhea was elected
mayor pro tempore.
(Herald Photo by Carlisle Studios)
Administration
Sworn, Organized
Graduation Day
v Continuous Here
1 i For the past seven years, ev
, ery graduation season has been
31 one of personal importance to
| the Paul H. McGinnis family.
.; In 1955, Anita McGinnis was
j graduated from Kings Moun
; i tain high school and four years
jj later won an A. B. degree in
,! sociology at Lenoir-Rhyne eol
,j lege.
Paul McGinnis, Jr., received
i| a B. S. in chemical engineering
from North Carolina State in
1956, won the M. S. degree at
1 State in 1958, and 'added a doc
torate in chemical engineering,
also at State, in 1960.
John MdGinnis, junior mem
ber of the family, got his school
diploma in 1957, picks up his
i college diploma, an A. B. in
business administration, at Le
noir-Rhyne this weekend.
Union Sendees
To Start Sunday
:! Union services to be held at
I various Kings Mountain church
| cs Sunday mights during the
summer are to begiif this week,
j Seven churches will .serve as
hosts lor the successive weekly
services art 8 p. m.
| The first service this Sunday,
IJune 4th, will be held at the
First Presbyterian church. Dr.
j Paul K. Ausley, pastor of the
j church, will deliver the message.
The following churches will
| participate in the series: First
; Presbyterian, Kings Mountain
! Baptist, Srt. Matthew's Lutheran,
Central Methodist, Trinity Epis
1 copal, Boyce Memorial Associate
Reformed Presbyterian, and Res
! urreortion Lutheran.
Although the schedule has not
been completed, services for the
; first six weeks are as follows:
June 4 _ Find Presbyterian
June 11 _ Kings Mountain
Baptist.
June 18 __ St. Matthew’s Lu
theran.
June 25_Central Methodist.
July 2_Trinity Episcopal. |
July 9 __ Boyce Memorial A.:
R. P. (service at Kings Mountain
Baptist Church).
ELECTED
David N. Smith has been e
lected president of Chi Lambda j
Chi at Appalachian State Tea
chers College. It is one of the
highest student offices on the j
Boone compua Chi Lambda
Chi is composed of all presi
dents of campus clubs and or
ganizations at Appalachian.
Smith, a senior at ASTC, la the
son at Mr. and Mrs. D. L.
■ Smith at Gastonia.
!!. E. Rhea
Is Elected
Mayor Pro Tem
Remaining members of the
newly elected city administration
took office last Thursday morn
ing.
A large crowd assembled to
see Mayor Kelly Dixon and Com
missioners Ben H. Bridges, Eu
gene M. Goforth and J. E. (Zip)
Rhea sworn into office by Judge
Jack White and, later, to be pho
tographed. Hubert Carlisle, for
mer Kings Mountain photogra
pher now of Shelby, also took
'movie film of the new commis
sion in session for the Greenville,
S. C., television station. These
films were used on news broad
casts later in the day.
After the formalities, the com
mission met in brief special ses
sion.
Since the law specifies that
city employees are unemployed
from the moment a new commis
sion is sworn, the commission
acted immediately to retain all
employees at same pay rates for
an indefinite period.
(Later, on motion of T. J. Elli
son and Ray Cline’s second, the
board voted to pay Mayor Dixon
for 30 days at the rate Mayor
Bridges was paid, a gross of $600
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WINS SCHOLARSHIP __ Mar
garet Jackson is recipient of an
Honor Scholar scholarship from
Mary Baldwin college.
Margaret Jackson
Wins Scholarship
Margaret Ann Jackson, high
school senior, is one of eight
Honor Scholars recently awarded
scholarships t*» Mary Baldwin
college in Staunton, Va.
All high-ranking students, the
eight winners were chosen on
merit as indicated by school re
cords, college entrance examina
tion scores, character, and qua
lities of leadership.
Miss Jackson will be among
190 freshmen enrolling at the
Presbyterian institution in Sep
tember.
The Kings Mountain student is
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.
Wood Jackson.
An examination for Rural Car
rier lor the post office at Kings
(Mountain, wiii be open for accep
tance of applications until June
20, 1961, the United States Civil
Service Commission announced
today.
Postmaster Charles Alexander
said he anticipated two appoint
ments will be made, to succeed
Carriers Lloyd Phifer and W. B.
Logan, retired.
Substitute Carriers Ervin Hu
ghes and Edwin Moore have been
handling these routes for sever
al months and have indicated
they will take the examinations.
Armed services veterans will
get a five-point advantage, while
disabled war veterans will get a
ten-point advantage.
Postmaster Alexander said law
requires that the appointments
be made from the persons plac
ing the first three on the written|
qualification examination. Should
the two appointments be made,1
it would have the effect of as
auring that the appointments!
must be made from the top four
qualifiers, as the exams will es
tablish an eligible list.
Congressman Basil L. White
ner will make the appointments
and has previously indicated he!
will endorse recommendations of
the Democratic precinct commit
tees in the Kings Mountain area,
which includes Bethware, East
and West Kings Mountain.
The precinct committees sever
al weeks ago declined to approve
transfer recommendations of
Postmaster Alexander, a Repub
lican appointee.
Applicants must take a writ
ten test. They must have resided
within the delivery of the office
for one year immediately preced
ing the closing date of the exam-i
ination. In addition, they must
have reached their 18th birthday
on the closing date for acceptan
ce of applications. There is no
maximum age limit. Howeverj
persons who have passed the age
of 70 may be considered only for
temporary renewable appoint
ments of one year.
Complete information about
the examination requirements
and instructions for Cling appli
cations may be obtained at the
post office for witch this exami
nation is being announced. Appli
cation forms must be filed with
the U. S. Civil Service Oommis- :
soon. Washington 25, D. C., and >
must be received or postmarked
not later than the closing date. i
State Team
To Give Advice
On Problems
Kings Mountain^ board of ed
ucation, already coming to grips
with the physical problems of
consolidating the expanding dis
trict system, wild get some ad
visory help next week from a
team from the state department
of public instruction.
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
said he had been notified by Dr.
Charles Carroll, state superinten
dent, that a group of officials
wil/l come here either June 8 or
9 to survey the situation and of
fer recommendation^ on the ba
ciS of pirioir experience in other
parts of the State.
“We'd requested help several
weeks ago and are glad they’re
coming,’’ Supt. Barnes said.
Basie problems, Mir. Barnes no
ted, aire:
1) Assignment of pupils;
2) Utilization of facilities for
best use; and
3) Concurrent transportation
problems.
An early idea of the board of
education warn that the Grover
plant would be utilized for all
district eighth graders. L. W. Al
exander, of Newton, airea bus
route supervisor, in two visits
here during the past week ex
pressed doubt the plan would be
feasible, both from a; and point of
available buses and operating
costs. He also pointed out that
the plan might prove unsatis
factory to patrona, particularly
Grovers, due to too early depart
ure hours.
Negro leaders have also asked
the 'board of education for an
early meeting to discuss plans
for assignment changes in their
schools, which include the Com
pact' and Davidson units. Addi
tionally, by the area merger, a
bout 90 pupils now attending
Washington school) are effec‘ed„
Supt. Barnes said.
Under the present school
transport atlon arrang ement,
school districts are required to
buy their own buses. After the
initial purchase, the state pays
maintenance expense and re
places them. The Kings Moun
tain district will inherit the bus
es previously assigned to the a
rea by the county dirt riot and..
Mr .Alexander has indicated will
require a minimum of three ad
ditional buses.
Under the state statute, the
physical merger of the district
will occur July 1, beginning of
the state’s new fiscal year.
All Is Quiet
At City Hall
In contrast to a week ago, all
; was quiet yesterday at City Hall,
; the biennal election a matter of
history, and the regular routine
of city business resumed.
■Mayor Kelly Dixon was out and
a'bout with Grady Yeiton, public
works superintendent.
Though the administration ■
i numbers only one holdover, there •
hadn’t been a commission meet
ing since inauguration day and
none had been scheduled.
This won’t last long, said City
Clerk Joe McDaniel, as work on
the forthcoming year’s budget
is progressing to the point it de
mands commission attention.
To aid the commission the
clerk Was prepared a folder for
the mayor and each commission
er containing some Important fi
gures on departmental revenues
and expenses for 1950-60, estima
ted receipts and expenses for the
year ending June 30 on basis of
11 months’ operation, as well as
a digest of commission duties, re
quirements and prerogatives. The
folder also includes a chart of
the city’s bonded indebtedness
outstanding.
Mis. Smith's
Fathei Passes
(Funeral rites for D. M. Mc
Guire, 87, father of Mlrs. Vernon
Smith of Kings Mountain, were
held Saturday morning at 11 o’
clock from Brown Funeral Home
of Seneca, S. C. i
3V$r- McGuire had been a fre
quent visitor here of the Smith
family on Meadowbrook road. He
had also visited with other mem
bers is his family in Augusta, Ga.
The Smiths went to Senca Sat
urday for the final rites.