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 <Continued On Page Eight) 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. (Continued c* Page Bight) 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 <Continued On Page Sight) 1 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.

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