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Population Greater Kings Mountain i 0,320 City Limits 8,008 Thi» flgun for Greater Xtaigt Meostofo U derived bom tk* 1955 Bags Mountain dlj awton ceaaus. Tbe ottg MM figure la bom tb# United stotaa renew at IKO. Established 1889 VOL. 72 No. 25 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 29, 1961 Seventy-Second Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENT County Grange To Hear Caldwell Local News Bulletins ON DEAN'S LIST f Robert B. Early has been named to the Dean’s List for the second semester at Belmont Abbey college, Belmont, N. C., recently announced by the Rev. Anslem Biggs, O. S. B., Acade mic Dean. A rising junior at the Abbey, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake W. Early of 403 East King street. AT CONFERENCE Sam S. Weir, Jr., representa tive of Metropolitain Life In surance company, is in Virginia Beach, Va., for a business con ference with officials of the Compnay at the Cavalier Hotel. Mr. Weir, had an exceptional sales and service record last year and is among the top-ran king members of the Metropol-. itan’s staff of almost 30,000 field representatives in the U nited States and Canada. FAMILY NIGHT Dixon Presbyterian church wifll hold family night Thurs day with supper to be served at 6:30 p. m. A meeting of Piresbyiery’s Church Extension committee will follow. BIBLE SCHOOL Vacation Bible School, for children, young people and a dults, will be held at Dixon Presbyterian chiirch Monday and continuing through Fri day. Classes will be held from 6:30 until 8:30 each evening. Rev. James Mann, pastor, will serve 'as superintendent of the school. AT BOTC CAMP James Allen Pnessly is a mong 1550 ROTC cadets who reported to Fort Bragg June 17 for a six-week training session. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pnessly and a pre-medi cal student at Davidson coll ege. NO FIRES City Fireman C. D. Ware said Wednesday morning the Kings Mountain Fire Depart ment had no alarms during the past week. _ ON DEAN'S LIST Miss Norma Kay Hamrick, rising senior at Guilford Coll ege, was listed on the dean’s list for the semester just end ing. Miss Hamrick is the dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. David Hamrick. City Police Nab Escaped Convicts Two escaped convicts, Gerald Blakenship, 19, and Douglas Cul pepper, Jit., 22, were taken inby city police officers Enos F'^e' man and R. R. Carrigan Friday night as the two escapees walk ed aflong the road on W. King r. R. Carrigan said Wednes day he and Mr. Freeman were patrolling and noticed the two, clad in prison khaki, and bur dened with cigarette and other articles, and stopped to inquire. The two gave false names at tirst and denied having escaped from a road gang, but Saturday admitted theiir escape from state Comp No. 24 in Virginia. Blankenship was serving 10 10 years for breaking and enter ing, larceny, and previous es cape. Culpepper, who reportedly has a long record, was serving 10-13 years for breaking and en tering. They were arrested near the Wishy-Washy lauderette just in side the Kings Mountain city li mits. Questioned about the supply of cigarettes, chewing tobacco, as pirin, cigars, razor blades, and shoe strings they had, the two admitted taking them from a store in Virginia near the prison camp. However, they said, they did not break in. Someone had already entered the store before they arrived. They merely took advantage of the situation and made off with the aforemention ed supplies. The two men tottd Desk Ser geant William Roper they were headed for California when cau ght Township Group Host To County At Bethware Harry B. Caldwell, Master of the North Carolina State Grange, will address members of Cleve land Pomona Grange at Bethware school Thursday night. Numlber 4 Township Grange will toe host for ithe event, begin ning at 8 o’clock. The county’s unit includes three other community sub - groups Belwood, Number 1 Township, and Palkville. Mr. Caldwell, of Greensboro, is also chairman of the federal ad visory committee on agriculture. Also here for the Tuesday night event will be Virgil Settle, of Elkin, State Grange special dep uty. The Number 4 Township group was organized last spring. . The Grange is a fraternal or der emlbracing the whole family. It was founded in 1867 by seven Masons. According to the National Grange brochure, the Grange serves as a legislative force, as an education too, as a voice for rural citizens, as a community service organization, and as a social and recreational organiza tion. The Grange is politically non partisan and non-sectarian. Plans For Aging To Be Formulated Representatives of Kings Moun tain civic and service organiza tions and Kings Mountain minis ters will meet at the Woman’s Club Thursday night at 8 o’clock to discuss plans far participation in a county organization to al leviate problems of the aging. Civic and service organizations have been asked to send two representatives to the meeting, which is being sponsored by the Woman’s Club. Members of the Woman’s Club committee are Mrs. George H. Houser, Mrs. Paul Hendricks, Mrs. Paul Mauney, Mrs. O. W. Myers and Mrs. Aubrey Miauney. Club Picnic On July 4th Annual Lake Montonia club picnic for members, their fami lies and guests will be held July 4th. The all-day event will feature numerous contests for children and adults, including swimming, fishing, horseshoe pitching and shuffleboard. Picnic supper will be served at 7 p.m. at the picnic area. One feature of the July 4th party will be a contest which will award trophies to the person catching the largest bass (by weight count) from the lake. This contest will be open from 5 a.m. Tuesday until 6 p. mi. when win ners will be announced. The event customarily attracts a large crowd. Palmer Says Assembly Did Excellent Job I On balance, the 1961 Genera Assembly did a very excellen job, Rep. Jack Palmer, of Cleve land, told members of the King: Mountain Lions club and thei guests Tuesday night. Summating the work of the recent session, Rep. Palmer de tailed the major legislation en acted, pointing out items he fav ored and opposed, and noted some legislation he felt should have passed which didn’t. He termed the legislature “a public education Assembly,” but noted that the program, in the main, is long-term. Immediate benefits, he noted, aire provisions for 1407 additional teachers for the coming year, provision for increased clerical assistance to schools, and adoption of a tea cher merit pay pilot plan. Rep. Palmer, noting he had served on the Appropriations committee and its sub-commit tee, said he opposed the sales tax on food at every opportunity, and late in the session favored exemption of milk and bread ef fective in 1962. He felt, he said, the estimate of $50 million in come from the food tax low hy $15 to $20 millions and had pre ferred a tobacco tax. He support ed a crown tax ‘'reluctantly”, he noted, pointing out that coffee tea and other beverages are com petiitive. After all amendments were beaten, he favored the fi nal bilL On other matters: 1) The House met its re-ap portionment mandate and it was passed by the Senate, while the Senate re-apportionment action was only token. 2) The alternates on Congress ional re-districting were to a) pare the districts by one or b) let all 11 Congressmen run state wide. The Par Bast and Far West said nay to 'the at-large plat and it was quickly apparent that GOP Rep. C. R. Jonas would be assigned to Reps. Kitohin, White ner, “The House would have wel comed Lincoln in this district, but the Senate declined,” he added. 3) Small loan legislation he supported pared the interest and service charges from a maxi mum of $54 per $100 to $26.10 on the initial $100, with declining rates on additional amounts. 4) Highway safety laws were tightened through the point sys item bill and plugging loopholes in the compulsory liability in surance law. At the same time, he praised the section which will provide cheaper rates for safe drivers and decried the Assem bly’s failure to adopt the drunk ometer bill and the mechanical inspection hilL He commented, “I regard a driver’s license as a pri vilege, not a right." 5) He urged support of the a mendment, to be considered this autumn, for count system im provements. Provisions will re quire the Assembly, by 1971, to set up a uniform system of low er courts with comparable court costs throughout the state, and magistrates will be appointed by the Superior Court judge on re commendation of the clerk of court. The magistrate would be come salaried, rather than fee basis. 6) The “blue law” won’t make much difference in Cleveland county or elsewhere, wasn’t meant to pass before 1963, its introducers thought Guests at the meeting included (Continued On Page Eight) Record Semi-Annual Dividend Kings Mountain's two savings and loan associations Friday will pay record semi-annual dividends of $130,159 to shareholders. Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association will distribute $56,344.50 to 1,460 holders of op tional savings accounts and full paid shares. Dividends to share holders at the rate of four per cent per year include $29,034.62 to holders of optional savings ac counts and $26,309.88 to hold ers of full-paid shares. Home Savings & Loan asso ciation will distribute dividends to approximately 2,500 investors to taling $74,815, including $38,773.33 to optional savings accounts hold ers and $36,041.67 to holders of full-paid shares. Dividends are payable at the rate of four per cent per annurn Payments on savings accounts since July 1, 1960 at the two fi nancial institutions will total $255,015.65 to over 3,900 investors. First Union National Bank will also distribute semi-annual divi dends to savings account holders on Friday but these figures were not available Wednesday. AT BAYLOR _ Dr. Bob Potter son, formerly of King* Mountain and son o( Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Patterson, is foining the staff of Baylor University as professor in the Department of Religion. He and Mrs. Patterson are now re siding in Eustis. Ha. where Dr. Patterson is completing pastor ate duties at First Baptist church. Moody Rules Valid Petition Would Be For Full District GRADUATES_Guy Allan Mur ray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyer Murray, graduated recently with B. S. Degree in business admin istration from Bowling Green U niversity. He also studied at Western Kentucky State college. Mr. Murray has accepted a pos ition as Epidemiological Investi gator for Public Health, State of Tennessee. City Tentative Budget §697,213 The city board of commission ers last week adopted tentatively the 1961-62 budget calling for receipts and expenditures ol $697,213. . The commission ratified tenta tively the recommendation of its study committee by 4-0 vote. Commissioner Ben H- Bridges, who along with (Mayor Kelly I>ixon, City Clerk Joe McDaniel and Public Works Supt. .Grady Yelton, serving on the commit tee, was absent. Anticipated receipts include these major estimates: sale of utilities $415,000; current taxes $136,500; prior years’ taxes, $15, 000; Powell street aid fund $31, 433; intangible taxes $9,190; priv ilege licenses $5,500; street im provements assessments $9,000. Carried forward as a receipt item is $40,000 in cash surplus. The profitmaking electrical de partment is expected to spend $192,897. Next major department al expense is for capital outlay work, such as streets, equipment, water and sewer lines, curbing and guttering, and sidewalks, at $106,446- The water and sewer department is expected to spend $62,333 and the general depart ment $57,479. The city expects to spend $79,862 for streets and $44, 780 for operation of its police de partment and recorder’s court. A contingency fund of $33,199 is also included. The tentatively adopted budget provides no increases or de creases in salaries and wages. Salaries of city officials and de partment heads follow (portion of the gross salaries of the may or, city clerk, and assistant clerk are paid by the natural gas sys tem): Mayor, $4,200 with $600 auto expense allowance; commission ers, $300 each; city attorney $1, 200; city clerk $4,280; assistant clerk $3,355; billing clerk $2,775; chief of police $4,280; fire chief $300; superintendent of public works $4,891; recorder judge $2, 100; solicitor $1,200; electrical su perintendent $4,891; cemetery su perintendent $3,669. The budget for capital outlay includes $2,100 for an electrical (Continued, on Page Eight) Aroma Of Mash Costly To Pair The officers were taking a Sunday ride and the mash had an aroma, which wafted into the officers’ nostrils. They turned around at first chance, went the other way, but there wasn’t any odor. Then they turned around again end picked up the irich smell. That’s the reason Fred Ware, 49, and Fletcher Johnson, 50 year-old Negro, both of Route I, lost their 800-gallon copper still and wour*l up under arrest and booked for manufacture and possession of utensils for manufacturing illegal whiskey. Ware and Johnson were ar i rested at the site of the still, on i Dixon road about six miles south of Kings Mountain about ! 8:30 Monday night. Taking part in the raid were Constable Charles W. Ford, and Deputies C. A. Huffstetler, B. A. Williams, Dale Costner, and J. W. Norman. Holiday Nearing For Many Here Many Retailers Get Two Days For Fourth Kings Mountain merchants and industries have completed July 4 vacation schedules and the announcements show Kings Mountain employees will have a variety of “time off”. Financial institutions will ob serve the July 4 holiday but will be open for business Wednesday morning, Judy 5. Grocery supermarkets of the community will close all day Tuesday, July 4, but will be op en all day Wednesday, July 5. Other merchants plan to be closed July 4 and 5, opening for business Thursday, July 6. The Herald will be published on July 4 and production facili ties of the plant will be closed Thursday through Saturday. Many Kings Mountain indus trial employees will celebrate the “Fourth of July” during a vaca tion period running July 1-10, but some won’t, a survey of. firms showed this week. Closing for the week are Neis ler Division of Massachusetts Mohaiir Plush Company, Maun cy Hosiery Company, Lambeth Rope Corporation, Bonnie Cotton Mills, Mauney Mills, Inc., Slater Brothers, Inc., Phenix Plant of Burlington Mills, Sadie Cotton Mills and Kings Mountain Mica Company. Plans are indefinite at Caro lina Throwing Company and El mer Lumber Company. •Crafitspun Yarns, Inc.., still in the process of re-equipping, ex pects it)6 operate on regular sche dule. Park Yalrn Mills will close (Monday and Tuesday, but reopen Wednesday, July 5. Several firms plan vacation pay. Lambeth Rope Corporation will provide a week’s piy and vaca tion payment at Massachusetts Mohair will total $40,000, accor ding to comptroller James Amos. Phenix Plant of Burlington Mills employees are to receive vaoation pay based on length of service with the firm. Kings Mountain Mica Com pany will also provide a week’s pay. New Surplus Guess $60,000 City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., took a new look at potential ac counts payable in the fiscal year ending Friday and found some pleasant news. The city should end the fiscal yeair with a cash surplus of a bout $60,000, rather than the ear lier estimated $40,000 which the commission used in its budget deliberations. As is required by law, surplus is carried forward into the forth coming budget, already tenta tively adopted, and which must be adopted finally not later than July 28. Mir. McDaniel declined to guess what purpose the additional $20,000 might be put to use. Herald To Publish luly 4 Next Week The Herald will publish one day earlier than usual next week, due to the fact majority of Kings Mountain business firms will be closed for a two day holiday on Tuesday, July 4, and Wednesday, July 5. Next week’s advertising dead line will be Monday ait 4 p. m., society and sports news dead lines an Tuesday at 10 a. m., and news deadline at 3 p. m. on Tuesday. Advertisers and news sour | ces are requested to observe | these deadlines. | The Herald will be on news i stands the night of July 4, I with mail distribution the fol I lowing morning. IN CHURCH POST _ R. Allen Jolley of Shelby assumes duties next week as director of music education at First Baptist church. Baptists Call Music Director R. Allen JoMey of Shelby will assume new duties Monday as director of Music-Education at First Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Jolley, who are both natives of Cleveland Coun ty, have lived in Shelby and vi cinity for some years. Mr. Jolley is a graduate of Gardner Webb and Limestone colleges and holds a B. A. degree in music. He has also made additional studies in (this field, served for one term as music instructor in the Gard ner Webb Extension School, and as minister of music at Mount Pleasant and Zion Baptist chur ches He served as minister of music at Shelby’s Calvary Bap tist church for two years whili attending Gardner Webb. Mr. Jolley comes to Kings Mountain from Calvary church which he has served the past six years. He is now serving as As sociational R. A. leader, director of Graded Choir activities for the Kings Mountain Baptist Associa tion and as associational super intendent of training. He has distinguished himself in youth camp work and is serving on the Region Eight Camp committee. The Jolley’s have two daugh ters, Alicia Gay, age 16, and Joy Ann, age 10. Mrs. Jolley is the former Betty Simmons. The fam ily will reside at 701 W. King street. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $115.80, including $84.95 from on-street meters, $21.00 from over-parking fees, and $9.85 from off-street meters City Clerk Joe McDaniel re ported. Fourth Of All Voters Required For Tax Vote Ralph Moody, assistant attor ney-general has informed attor ney for the Kings Mountain board of education that 25 per cent of the voters in the full con solidated district must petition for an election on the supple mental tax, if the petition is to be valid. J. R. Davis, the attorney, said the attorney-general referred to the General Statutes 115-120 and added that the Moody ruling ji bed with his own opinion. Some 900 dissidents to the school merger have petitioned for another election on the dis trict supplemental tax of 20 cents per $100 valuation, but re quest the election in the annex ed areas only. Mr. Davis said he understood the board of education might convene Thursday to act on the petition. However, Chairman Fred W. Plonk, nor Supt. B. N. Barnes couild be reached late Wednesday afternoon. Speculation continued on what action the dissidents might pur sue. Supt. Barnes said Tuesday that, when presenting the peti tion was presented, A. A. Powell, one of the dissidents’ attorney’s, indicated no particular haste in the Kings Mountain board’s ac tion. Since, however, George Hamrick, another of the dissi dents’ attorneys, -had- called re questing action prior ito July 1. On July 1, beginning of the fiscal year for all the state’s governmental units, state law prescribes physical consolidation of any merged districts. Last year, the dissidents ob tained a temporary injunction late in June. The result was to forestall physical consolidation last July 1, though the injunc tion was squashed. Troop 91 Scouts At Schiele Camp Twenty-seven Troop 91 Boy Scouts left for a five-day stay at Schiele Scout Reservation on Lake Lanier Monday. Family vacations and Little League baseball lowered the number attending, Scoutmaster Otis Falls, Jr., said. Accompanying the group is Bill Cash ion, former assistant Scoutmaster and recently ap pointed Kings Mountain’s first Explorer Post advisor. Accident Fatal To Ind C. Beason Jud Clay Beason, 44, of (Mis soula, Montana, father of Mrs. Marshall Lockridge of Kings Mountain, has died in a hit-and run accident. Full details of the accident were not available Wednesday. Survivors besides Mrs. Lock ridge are four other daughters in cluding (Mrs. Frank Holtzclaw and Mrs. Otis Green of ClifTside; one son; his mother, Mrs. Pink Beason of ClifTside; three sisters, including Mrs. Lee Harrison of Mooresboro; and one brother. Sandy Myeis Trains For Pageant: One Lass Of Seven At Davidson Sandy Myers, Miss Kings Mountain of 1961, is preparing for her entry in the Miss North Carolina Contest at Davidson College. She is one of seven girls attending summer classes with some 185 boys art the school. And, she reports, three of the seven girls are married, making the competition less stiff. “It has been quite an exper ience, so far," the perky five foot, three inch beauty noted last week. “Everybody (the boys) are so attentive. They treat us girls like queens _ carrying our cafeteria trays, books, and opening doors for us. I’m afraid Woman’s Col lege jusrt won’t’ be the same for me this fall.’’ Sandy will be a sophomore at WCUNC next term. She is study ing elementary education. Her summer course at David son is French. While in high school in Europe, Louisiana, she copped the French medal in aj class which was predominantly of French descent, Creole, and Cajun. Of course, one of the Cajun French boys took the English medal,” she reported. The state pageant is slated for July 18-23 ait Guilford College. Summer school leaves the brown-haired, hazel-eyed Miss Myers little time for preparation for the Miss North' Carolina event. She dashes back and forth from College on the weekends to make harried plans. “She’s really an efficient girl,” Mama Myers reported Tuesday evening. “She has things pretty well under control, is passing hei summer schol course with score* of A and B, and really hasn’t gotten flustered yet” Mrs. Myers wears a counten ance of concern, though. Sandy’s mother reports she usually takes things in her stride well, having had to move about the country so very much and (Continued on Page Eight) RETURNING TO CITY _ Corbett Nicholson will re-join the city as natural gas system superin tendent. He will resume his du ties not later than August 23. City Rehixing Nicholson CorhPtt Nicholson will return to the city as natulrul gas system superintendent not laiter than August 23. The board of commissioners voted fto re-employ Mr. Nichol son at a special session last Fri day by 4-0 vole, Comm. Ben H. Bridges being absent. The motion was to re-employ Mir. Nicholson at $4800 per year wiithin 60 days or otherwise at a date at (the discretion of Mayor Kelly Dixon. Mayor Dixon said Wednesday no earlier date has been set. Mir. Nicholson resigned last October 15. A conjunctive motion by the commission was that no city employee engage in the profess ional bonding business. Subsequent to his resignation, Mr. Nicholson entered the rest aurant. business and also did part-time gas service work. Grady Yel.ton, superintendent of public works, also currently holds the position of gas super intendent. Mr. Nicholson was a candidate for Ward 3 commissaoner at the May 9 election and was a close second in a four-man field. How ever, he declined to call a run off against the ftont-runner, T. J. Ellison, who was subsequently seated as a commissioner, suc ceeding Luther T. Bennett. Man Abandons Cai On Tracks (An unidentified man drove his ear some 20 feet up the north bound railroad tracks at the Lin wood Road railroad crossing Friday at 8:50 p. m. and when witnesses to the strange occur ence at the scene asked him why, he turned and walked a way. Police arrived on the scene shortly after and called out the dogs to give chase. The man was tracked almost to Bessemer City where his trail was lost. R. R. Carrigan, investigating officer, said Wednesday the de partment has sent a check in to Raleigh to find the registered owner of the car, a 1950 Cadillac, but have yet to receive an ans wer to his knowledge. Jim Rikard, wrecker man from Victory Chevrolet Co., Inc., pull ed the oar off the tracks. The car had not been Claimed late Wed nesday afternoon. Board To Set 1961 Tax Bate The city board of commission ers wil convene in special session Friday night to set the 1961 ad valorem tax rate and to con sider for adoption the 1961-62 natural gas system budget, May or Kelly Dixon said Wednesday. It is anticipated the tax will be maintained at gross of $1.50 per $100 valuation, including five cents per $100 for recreational purposes. It is the same rate in vogue since 1957-58. City Clerk Joe McDaniel said consideration of the gas system budget largely means endorse ment of the budget prepared by the city’s gas engineering firm, Barnard & Burke. Bond agree ments require engineering ap proval of gas system budgets, rate arrangements, and other de tails. PERMITS ISSUED City Building Inspector M. H. Biser issued permits this week to J. Willson Onawford to build a one-story brick and wood, six-room house at Sher wood Lane at a cast of $20,000 and Harry Barrett to build a one story hrick and wood, five room house on Groves Street at a cost of $12,400. Contractor for the Barrett house is Caro lina Building & Development Co., Gastonia.
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