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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 Gity Limits 8,008 TU* figure tor Greater Kings Mountain is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of i960. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today Established 1889 VOL. 72 No. 24 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 22, 1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins IMPROVING Judy and Michael Coxey, children of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Adam Coxey, critically injur ed in an automobile accident June 13 which proved fatal to their parents were said much improved ait Kings Mountain Hospital Wednesday morning. ON DEAN'S LIST Judy Cooper and Charles David Sellers, Kings Mountain students ait Lenoir Rhyne coll ege, were listed on the dean’s list for the semester just end ed. fairview lodge Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AM wild hold an emergency com munication Monday, June 26 «t 7:30 p. m. alt the Masonic Hall, according to secretary T. D. Tindall. OPTIMISTS MEET The Optimists Club of Kings Mountain will meat for its reg ular weekly session Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at Grace Metho dist Church Fellowship Hall. Speaker for the evening will be nevMy elected Mayor of Kings Mountain, Reilly Dixon. ON DEAN'S LIST Two Kings Mountain stu dents at Appalachian State Teacher’s college have been listed on Ithe dean’s list for the spring term. They are Mitchell Ann Lynn, junior, and William Clyde Gorrell, freshman. NO WRECKS City Police officers reported no automobile accidents with in the city limits during the past week. NO PERMITS City Building Inspector M. H. Riser issued no building permits the past week. FALSE ALARM City Fireman C. D. Ware said Wednesday morning the department had only one a lairm, it a false one, during the past week. SALE The Young Adult class of Penley’s Chapel Methodist Church is sponsoring the sale of hot dogs with accessories and homemade cakes Saturday from 10 a. m. until 6 p. m. in the church fellowship hall. De livery service may be obtained toy caling 739-2127. KIWANIS CLUB Miss Louise Kiser, a former Kings Mountain teacher, will show slides of her trip to the Hofly Land at Thursday night’s Kiwanis club meeting at 6:45 alt the Woman’s Club. Miss Ki ser, who now teaches in the Mecklenburg County Schools, is the daughter of A. S. Kiser of Kings Mountain. BIBLE SCHOOL CONTINUES j Vacation Bible School is con- I tinuing at Macedonia Baptist church through Friday. The Macedonia school Is held daily from 5 to 8 p. m. Rev. Wayne Ashe, pastor, has announced that commencement exercises will be held Sunday evening at 7 p. m. at the regular wor ship hour. TO INSTITUTE Mayor Kelly Dixon, Comm. ' J. E. Rhea, and City Clerk Joe McDaniel will go to Chapel Hill Sunday afternoon for an institute for municipal offi ’ cials. JOINS STAFF Mies Norma Kay Toms of Forest City will join the staff of Bessie’s Beauty Shop on Monday, according to annouoe ment by Miss Bessie Bumgard ner. Miss Toms was formerly employed as a beautician in CHffside. Twelve Scouts Seek 'Sponsors* Want to sponsor a Boy Scout at camp? If so, Otis C. Falls, Jir., Troop 91 Scoutmaster, will be happy to furnish all details. Twenty-seven of the 50-plus Scouts in Troop 91 are plan ning summer camp activities. Of this group, 12 will need fi nanc&aa assistance in order to , attend camping sessions. Sponsors may contact Mr. ‘ Falls or Jack Hauser. Newton Rumored On Highway Board N & 0 Newsman Says Shelbian Will Be Named Clint Newton, of Shelby, is be ing appointed a member of the newly-created 16-man State Highway and Public Works com mission, the Herald learned ear ly Wednesday afternoon. Woodrow Priice, of the Ralei gh News & Observer-Times staff, had just learned from what he termed “the horse’s mouth” the names of the 16 the Governor is expected to appoint when he re turns from the National Gover nor’s conference at Honolulu. •Paul Younts, of Charlotte, is also to be a member of the new commission. Mr. Newton was an area man ager for Governor Sanford in the I960 primary and general elec tion campaigns. Mr. Newton’s a rea included five counties. Mr. Newton resigned several weeks ago from the State Alco holic Board of Control, a position to which he had been appointed by Governor Luther Hodges. He was replaced by Jack Mabry, of Shelby. Board Names Committeemen 'Members of the district school Advisory Committees were ap pointed by school board mem bers at Monday night’s session at Central High School. The ac tion was virtually a reappoint ment of present members. The Bethware school commit tee consists of Hill Lowery, Tom Hamrick, Stokes Wright, Gene Hoyle and Harold Herndon. Two members of the Park Grace committee, James and Harold Cloniinger, were reap pointed and Alec Owens was e lected to fill the post of J. T. Malcolm who resigned when he moved to Florida. Luther Jamerson, Andrew Brown, Sr., Roy Bell, Elijah Ross, and Clarence Adams were reap pointed as the Compact School advisory conmrrtittee. The board deferred action on appointment of members to the Grover school committee in the absence of Holmes Harry, board member from Grover. In other action the board: 1) Heard a report from Supt. Barnes that Dr. J. L. Pierce, Dir ector of the State Division of School Planning and Dir. Proffitt, principal of Western Carotin Col lege Bab school have made a sur vey of the entire physical setup of the city administrative unit and upon formal request will make a recommendation of, in their opinion, the 'best organiza tion of the newly consolidated schools. Mr. Barnes reported he filed formal request for the recom mendation June 12 in a letter outlining all considered plans for the consolidation. Plans list ed for white schools are: Plan A: Transfer all high school pupils from Grover and Bethware High Schools to the Kings Mountain High School jlant and transfer from the Kings Mountain High School building the 7.th grade (2 sec tions) and whatever number of (Continued On Page Plight) New Books Given To Local Library AutograpWed copies of Janies j Throneburg’s "Man on the Moon" ahfl Dr. Allan E. Ban in's "Httnealand” have been presented to Jacob' Mauney Memorial Library. Mr. Throneburg is a Kings Mountain native, son of 'Mir. and Mrs. Y. F. Throneburg. Dr. Banik autographed his i gift copy as a gift from Dr. N. H. Reed, Kings Mountain opto metrist, and from 'himself. Synod Appoints Mis. McGill Mrs. Lena Ware McGill, Kinw Mountain school trusitao -mimmmmswm Mrs. McGill has been ap pointed to the board of .trus tees of Erskine college by the Synod of the Associate Re formed Presby terian church. Mrs. McGill was named to a five - year term expiring in 1966. She naa setvea a previous term on the board several years ago and retired only recently as president of the college’s Alum ni association. A former school teacher and home agent with the one time Farm . Security administration, Mrs. McGill is the wife of John L. McGill, partner in Kings Mountain Drug company. Mrs. McGill was elected to the Kings Mountain board of educa tion in 1959. School Bill Is Ratified Senate Bill 426, amending .Chapter 559 Of Public-Local laws of 1935, was ratified into law Monday night. The (Bill, introduced by Senator Robert Morgan on June 5, was requested by the Kings Mountain board of education on advice of bond attorneys. It was labeled an ‘'insurance” bill to assure the board of educa tion it will be legally empowered to offer a school construction bond election on a district basis, in event county-wide bond finan cing is not continued. The statute applies to Alaman ce, Burke, Franklin, Gates, Oran ge and Pitt counties, as well as to Cleveland. Friday — Busy Day At City Library Friday, June 9th was a rec ord “check-out” day at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library, Librarian Mrs. Charles Dilling reported. Mrs. Dilljng noted that on Friday some 224 'books were “checked out” from the book selves to Kings Mountain area readers. Many citizens are using the library facilities, Mrs. ’Dilling added Fine Arts Painter-Adman Onto BY MARTIN HABMON Karaite is Japanese. It is kin to }u jiltsu or "judo” only by the fact it is rougher and more effective ais a means of self defense. It is described by Hiroshi Onto, 26-yeair-o4d Japanese native, as he trained use of the body _ fingers, shins, brow, and Other n embers_to create mayhem on an assailant. Mr. Orito teaches the art in New York as a sideline to his principal duties as a layout ar tist for William Douglas Mc Adams Advertising Agency, spec ialists in drug advertising. He is also a painiter. He has been in Kings Moun tain the past few days as the guest of Bill Neisler, a karate client Mr. Orito came to the United States four years ago to do grad uate work in art at a school near Detroit, Mich. In aoming to the United States to study, he foll owed his father’s footsteps, his father having schooled at the U i niversity of Washington In the j thirties. About World War OT Mr. Orito, age 11 when his na tion surrendered, remembers World War II quite well. He re members aerial dogfights and e vacuaition, along with other youngsters, from Tokoyo. His fa ther’s home was bombed out and subsequently the apartment re sidence of his father was, too. 44At the end of the war we had nothing left, except two trunks - ful of goods,” he recalls. His father is in an interest ing business, publishing books on how to speak English and how to expand English vocabu lary. Mr. Orito, says his host, is a fourth degree Black Belt mem ber of the karate cult, the high est ranking karate teacher in A merioa. Recently he was a guest on the Jack Paar show. The brick-cracking stunts pop ular with some devotees of the art are described as “mere show.” Brown Doubts Shelby Support For School Bonds Malcolm Brown, superintend ent of Shelby city schools, told the 'Herald Wednesday he and members of his board of educa tion are of the opinion that Shel by district citizens would be like ly to vote against any school con struction program, county - wide or Shelby district. “I would certainly be unhappy to see Kings Mountain and coun ty district citizens supporting a county-wide bond issue, only to see Shelby folk defeat it. It would delay Kings Mountain and the county at least a year,” Supt. Brown said. Mr. Brown was commenting on a story in the Tuesday Shelby Star, in which Max Hamrick, county auditor, had projected some figures on possible tax ra tes under a $4.5 million county wide bond issue for school con struction. Asked to explain his thinking on the “why” Shelby district should receive $170,000 more than a student per capita share of the funds, Supt. Brown said Shelby district citizens will have pared their $1,250,000 debt by that a mount and feel they should be re-imbursad. He also noted the interest tab will have reached $100,000 by the projected voting date, guessed other election ex penses totaled about $2500. “We have only recently voted bonds and my telephone has been jangling enough to convince me that it is going to be hard to ex plain to Shelby citizens why they should support another sizeable bond issue,” Supt. Brown contin ued. Supt. Brown does not like the student per capita agreement be tween the three school units on capital expense. He says that cap ital funds should be expended on basis of need. Supt. B. N. Barnes of Kings Mountain district likes the per capita sharing, thinks it both practical and fair. The current student population division is: Shelby, 26.26 percent; Kings (Mountain, 24.48 percent; county, 49.26 percent. Per capita division of $4.5 million would give Shel by $1,181,700, Kings Mountain $1,101,600; and the county $2, 216,700. Auditor Hamrick gave these estimates: On a $4.5 million bond issue the county tax rate could be ex pected to escalate 40 cents in th< first year principal payments came due. He estimated that Kings Mountain’s rate, on a $1, 100,00 bond issue might require a 50 cents rate. Supt. Barnes said he ‘had not penciled tax rate possibilities on Kings Mountain district financ ing, but that Trustees Fred W. Plonk and Holmes Harry had (Continued on Page Eight) lames Ware's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for James Crow der Ware, 59, were held Wednes day at 3 p. m. from El Bethel Methodist church of which he was a member. Mir. Ware succumbed Tuesday morning in the Kings Mountain hospital following a several mon th’s illness. He was a native of Cleveland County, son of the lat» Mir. and Mrs. Miles H. Ware. He was a former employee of Mau ney Mills. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. O veda Hord Ware; -two sons, Jam es K. Ware of Charlotte and Ral ph E. Ware of Kings Mountain; five sisters, Mrs. J. G. Hord, Mrs. Thomas Roberts, Mns.e,S Virginia Bush, all of Kings Mountain, Mrs.. Charles Wright of Earl and Mrs. Cyrus Falls of Dunedin, Fla., one brother, Herman Ware of Kings Mountain, and four grandchildren. The final rites were conducted by Rev. Bruce Norwood, assisted by Rev. R. J. Essary. Interment, vas in the church cemetery. Bank Aiding Ship Fund Drive The First Union National Bank announced today all of its offices «ill promote the '“Let’s Bring the S'orth Carolina Home” Drive. R. S. Lennon, vice president, said today that the First Union Vational Bank is making availa ble its state-wide facilities to as sist the USS North Carolina Bat - j tleship commission. The public is invited to support the drive here in Kings Mountain [ through the facilities of the bank, j rickets may be purchased in the lobby of the bank which will al-j ow admission to the memorial j when completed. The proceeds; from the sale of tickets will be’ used to help establish the battle ship memorial. Committee Shears $110,000 From City Budget Requests Industrial Firms Announce Summer Holiday Schedules LIONS SPEAKER _ Rep. Jack Palmer, of Shelby, will summate the work of the 1961 General As sembly at the meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tues day night The club convenes a' the Woman's Club at 7 o'clock. Needed: Home For AFS Visitor Kings Mountain, it appears won’t have a foreign exchangt student during the 1961-62 schoo year. It’s not a question of money that has been supplied. It’s not a question of lack ol foreign applicants. It’s a question of finding a Kings Mountain family willing to open their home to a foreigr youngster for nine months. The location committee, includ ing Dr. George Plonk, Mrs. Phil lip Padgett and Mrs. Jacob Coo per have checked and re-checkec tout their closest success is “next year,” Mrs. Padgett told the Her aid Wednesday. 'Naturally, there are somt ground rules, based on prior ex perience. Childless couples don’t qualify, nor do couples under 36 years ol age. Also, it has been found pre ferable to have school-age child ren in the host family. 'For the past three years. Kings ;Mountain has enjoyed the com pany of foreign visitors. Graeme Reeves, of New Zealand, lived at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Pad gett. Pierre Dasen, of Switzer land, lived at the home of Mr and Mrs. Fred Plonk. Kirsten Zacho, of Denmark, lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ho vis. Aim of the program — opera ted under the name of American Field Service — is to touild in ternational understanding thro ugh living together. Tom Trott is current chairman of the Kings Mountain committee. Arthur Smith Show Saturday Arthur Smith and his Cracker jacks will appear in person at Central High School auditorium Saturday at 8:00 p. m. for a show sponsored by the Optimist Club of Kings Mountain. Proceeds from the program will go to further the Optimist Club boys work. The program will feature the entire cast of the WBTV program including the Crackerjacks, Bro ther Ralph and Cousin Phud, the Crossroads Quartet, Tommy Faile, Little Wayne Haas, and Ray and Lois Atkins in addition to songs and instrumentals by Arthur and Sonny Smith. Optimist President Dean Payne urges sill local citizens to attend the show, commenting the pro gram should afford a highly en tertaining evening and also no ted the proceeds go to the Boys Work fund. Admission to the program will be $1.00 for adults and 50 cents for students. Many Employees To Vacation luly 1 To 10 Many Kings Mountain indus trial employees will get vacations the week of July l-io — the tra ditional “Fourth of July” vaca tion — but some won’t, a partial survey of Kings Mountain firms shbwed Wednesday. IFirms closing for the week in clude Neisler division of Massa chusetts Mohair Plush Company, Mauney Hosiery Company, Lam beth Rope Corporation, Bonnie Cotton Mills, Mauney Mills, Inc., Slater Brothers, Inc., and Phenix plant of Burlington Mills. Carl F. Mauney, of Carolina Throwing Company, said plans I for this firm are still indefinite. ; Craftspun Yarns, Inc., still in ; the process of re-equipping, ex ! pccbs to operate on regular sche dule. At least three firms will pro j vide vacation pay. LarrVbeth Rope Corporation will provide a week’s pay, and James Amos, Massachusetts Mohair comptroller, said vacation pay ments will total $40,000. Phenix plant of Burlington In dustries will observe the week ! of July 2-8 as a vacation week, it was announced by Supt. Ben Grimes, Jr. The plant will close | at the end of operations on Sat urday July 1 and will resume op erations on Monday, July 10, he I said. Mr. Grimes said that all eli gible employees are to receive j vacation pay based on length of | service. Gilstad, Ramseur | At Boys* State | Claire Gi'lstad and Bill Ram I seur are at Chapel Hill this week, where they aire representing Kings Mountain at annual Boys i State, sponsored jointly by the i University of North Carolina, the i American Legion and the Insti j tute of Government. The representatives were dri ven to Chapel Hill Sunday by W. I D. Morrison, commander of Otis | D. Green Post 155, and Gene I Gibson. IN OES POST_Miss Helen Lo gon is newly-elected District Deouty Grand Matron from the 17th District, Order of Eastern Star of North Carolina. Miss Logan In OES Post Miss Helen Logan, of Kings Mountain, was commissioned as District Deputy Grand Matron of the 17th District, Order of the Eastern Star of North Carolina, at the Grand Chapter meeting in Raleigh last week. Miss Logan began her term of office on Wednesday, along with Dr. Ray Biddix of Belmont, the newly-elected district deputy grand patron. An active member of Kings Mountain Chapter 123, OES, Miss Logan is a past Worthy Matron | of this chapter and also of Ju dean Shrine No. 13, Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem. She : is a past Grand Representative I to the State of Pennsylvania.. Miss Logan is the daughter of | Mrs. L. M. Logan of Kings Moun j tain. She is a teacher in the Kings Mountain city schools. Others attending the 56th ses sion, Grand Chapter of North Carolina meeting were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Kincaid and Mr. and Mrs. Glee A. Bridges. DAVIS IMPROVING Attorney J. R. Davis, hospi talized with an ailing back, was discharged Sunday. He said he hoped to be out a bit this weekend. Education Board Defers Decision On Petition, Pending Legal Advice The Kings Mountain board oi - education deferred action Mon day on petition by some 900 per - sons who seek an election -to de ! termine whether the distriol : school tax supplement will bi continued. ! It is the same petition address ed to the county board of educa ' ion previously and follows actior by the county board in declining to consider the petition, on ad vice of Ralph Moody, assistant attorney-general. The petition was read to the board members present, F. W. Plonk, Mrs. Lena W. McGill, and H. O. (Toby) Williams, by Supt. Barnes. Chairman Plonk suggested the board needs legal advice on pro per action. The school attorney, J. R. Davis, is ilL Also, Supt. Barnes noted, a formal statement has been requested from the state attorney general but has not ‘been received. Supt. Barnes told the board he knows no more about the attor ney - general's ruling to the county board than newspaper re ports. He reported the Shelby Daily Star stated the Moody rul ing not only expressed opinion that the county board had no ju risdiction over the petiion, but that to be mandatorily valid, the petition should contain signatures of 25 percent of the registered voters within the consolidated district, not merely the annexed area, as the dissidents’ attorneys contend. The board would also like to know which school registration would validate petitioners, whe ther the initial consolidation vote or the totally new registration for the election of school trustees from the annexed area. In examination of the petition, the Herald found twenty-six pe titioners signing by their "X’1 mark. The North Carolina Elec tion Laws, Article 6, Section 28, concerning qualifications of vo ters states: “VOTERS MUST BE ABLE TO READ AND WRITE: EXCEP TTONS. Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any sec , ti°n of the Constitution in the i English language, and shall show to the satisfaction of the regis l trar his ability to read and write any such section when be ap plies for registration, and before he is registered: provided, how ever, that no male person who was, on January first, one thous j and eight hundred and sixty-sev , en, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any state in the United States j where he then resided, and no li I neal descendant of such person, shall be denied the right to reg , ister and vote at any election in this State by reason of his fail ure to possess the education qual ifications aforesaid: Provided, that said elector shall have reg istered prior to December 1, 1908....” The members present repre sented a quorum but said the is sue should be discussed fully and disposed of by full board repre sentation. Commission May Consider Badge! Friday The city 'board of eommisaiaei ers may convene Friday rsigft®. to adopt tentatively its 1961-62 budget, shorn by $110,000 from initial requests and in balance at $697,213. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, on. the paring committee along w&fo Mayor Kelly Dixon, Comm. Sana H. Bridges and Public Work* Supt. Grady Yelton, gave these estimates the committee will re commend to the commission r. Departmental disbursement*— Cemetery, $8,089, up about 11. 000 over the year ending next week; Administrative $22,560, off $250; Sanitary, $79,862. off $250; Police-court —■ $44,780, same ax 1960-6Q' 'Fire,’$19,979, up $250; General, $57,479, off $700; IWater & sewer, $62,336, up $3, 000; Electrical, $192,879, up $3,000; Debt service, $30,000 principal. $16,915 interest and commissions,, | off $1400; | Capital outlay, $106,446, up $fv ! 000; Contingency fund, $33,199, op | $13,000. Thie axe fell on $4980 in non paving, $3100 in sewer rirres. ! $32,000 in water lines; $8700 in •curb-and-gutter installations. ! $15,000 for a payloader, $5300 for ■an air compressor, $560 for at pavement breaker, $650 for a jackhammer, and $2100 of thr $5000 request for an electrical system survey. Also eliminated! were $31,000 asked for street re-surfacing and $300 in stone for paving. The police department had ask ed for about $62,000, In the capital account, addi tions were four hydrants, t«r<* radios for the police department and stone for Alexander street. ■Next year’s big money, as usu al, will come from sale of utiliti es, the committee estimating that this year’s $402,000 sales will in crease to $415,000. Estimated lav collections, at $1.45 per $100 val uation, are $151,000. Powell hill street money is pared slightly to $31,433. (Big item, too, is the es timated surplus of $40,000, the clerk foresees at June 30. Another item unbudgeted that may loosen the budget a bit « the $10,000 expected from the county as a re imbursement on. the National Guard Armory pro ject. / i In spite of the cut in request for an electrical system survey, the survey is anticipated. Ttve balance will come from dividends, on utilities deposits previously ear-marked for that purpose. It's Quietez With 85 Open Residents and business citizens* who live on Kings street awd SL Battleground avenue found it un usually quiet Monday morning The quiet was produced by the State Highway department, as it opened a two-lane strip of Inter state 85, eliminating the detour through Kings Mountain.. The quietude produced.' mixed emotions. Service stations along the route had found themselves back in fasit business for several, weeks, and other businesses sucfi\ as dirug Stores and restaurants also oould note a difference * theiirgross volume. For the average motorist, the highway paitrol and police de partment, there was consider able relief, the southbound turn at Battleground and King was a considerable .traffic hazard. All of (the increased business wasn’t free. One service station operator commented, “We’ve lost some of our hometown customers. The place was so clogged, they couldn’t get in.” Interstate 85 was closed to few er roadbeds three feet under tour bridges, a highway department spokesman said. It was a natur al defense order to assure hfgi* way accommodations of weapons. The spokesman deedined to es timate cost of the change.