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Population Greater Kings Mountain City Limits 10,320 8,008 i Igm fee Greater Kluge Mecmuds U derived bea 1S55 Kluge Mouut<dn dtjMBrectei* mm. The city Smite figure la from the oS IMS. Established 1889 VOL 72 No. 26 Kings Mountain, N. C., Wednesday, July 5, 1961 Seventy-Second Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENT Local News 1 Bulletins1 AT INSTITUTE Mayor Kelly Dixon, City Clerk J. H. McDaniel, Jr. and Coram James E. Rhea attend ed the School for Mayors and Counoilmen held at the Insti tute of Government in Chapel Hill June 25-27. The School co vered the full scope of duties of Mayors and Councilmen and was designed especially for Mayors and Councilmen just elected to office. PRESBYTERIAN Dr. Paul Ausley will return from vacation Sunday and will fill the pulpit at First Presby terian church. Holly Commun ion will be observed during the morning worship hour. UNION SERVICE Boyce Memorial ARP church will conduct union services for six city church congregations Sunday night at 8 o’clock. Dr. W. L. Piressly, pastor, will de liver the message. The service will be held at Kings Mountain Baptist church. The Chancel Choir, under direction of Mrs. N. F. McGill, will sing “The Lord Is My Shepherd.’’ ATTEND MEETING Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Childers have returned from Myrtle Beach, S. C. where they attend ed a five-day Roofers and Sheet Metal convention. JOINS STAFF Mrs. Fred Bridges, a recent graduate of the Cleveland Me morial Hospital School of Prac tical Nursing, has joined the nursing staff of Kings Moun tain hospital. NO FIRES City Fireman C. D. Ware said Tuesday morning the depart ment has had no alarms dur ing the past week. NO WRECKS City police officers reported no automobile accidents with in ithe Kings Mountain city ’bmfrte during tile past week. IN NAVAL RESERVE Jerry Cloninger and Jimmy Blanton, both of whom are Kings Mountain students al Eastern Carolina college, flew to Pensacola, Fla. Sunday for a month’s duty with the U. S. Naval Reserves. AT CAMP MEETING Mayor Kelly Dixon attended a two-day camp meeting dur ing the past weekend at John Wesley Camp near High Point. COURT OF HONOR Couxtt of Honor for Kings Mountain district Boy Scouts will be held at Central Meth odist church July 13th at 7:45 p. m. Mi. Goforth's Rites Wednesday Alonzo Butler Goforth, 72, of 101 Morris street, died Monday morning of a heart attack. Fun eral rites were to be held Wed nesday at 3 p. m. from Penley*s Chapel Methodist church, with in terment following in Mountain Fest cemetery Mr. Goforth, a native of Cleve land County, was the son of the( late Mr. and Mrs. John K. Go-1 forth. He was a member of Grace Methodist church and an employ ee of Burlington Mills. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. ttii« Mae Caldwell Goforth; three sons, Kelly Goforth, Alonzo Go forth and Theodore Goforth, all of Kings Mountain; two daugh ters Mrs. Myrtle Ledbetter andj Mrs. Chester Jones, both of Kings Mountain; two brothers, Grady Goforth of Grover and Dixon Go forth of Kings Mountain; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Carroll and Mrs. Essie Burton, both of Kings. Mountain; and Mrs. Bea Lattl more of High Shoals; 16 grand-1 children and 16 great-grandchil dren. The Rev. Leonard Huffstetler, assisted by Rev. Frank E. Bla lock, were to officiate at the fi nal rites. _ -f. • ^ Country Club To Open Pool Clubhouse May Open By Mid-July BY MARTIN HARMON The new Kings Mountain Country Club swimming pool will open Saturday and officials are sunning at a July 15 date for opening of the new clubhouse. Mrs. George Houser, a member of the house committee, said there had been a slight delay in floor work in the clubhouse but it is still possible the building will be open to members about mdd-mon th. Formal open house will be held later, she added. Bob Maner is in charge of life guards at the pool Who are Jim my Plonk, Turk Falls, and Bob Munson. The new plant replaces the frame colonial structure which had been renovated in 1947 and which was razed by fire last November. Operating rules of the club were mailed to members recent ly. The clubhouse will be open dal ly except Mondays, unless 'Mon day is a holiday. Then the club house will be closed on Tuesday. The golf shop will be open dai ly, opening Sundays at noon Mondays at 1 p. m., Tuesdays through Fridays at 9:30 a. m. •and Saturday at 8:30 a. m. The club dining room will be open on Sundays from noon to 2 p. m., and from 6 to 7:30 p. m. It will be open, Tuesdays throu gh Saturdays, from noon to 1:30 and from 6 to 7:30 p. m. The Jamaica room snack bar will be open on Sundays from 3 to 9:30 p. m., and Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 5 to 11 p. m. Accident Fatal To W. A. Harmon W. Alex Harmon, 52, Kings Mountain farmer, died of suffo cation last Thursday when a trac tor-mower he was riding tilted on a bank and overturned, pinning him under it. Mr. Harmon was operating the mower on his sisten-in-laiw’s farm. Mrs. J. D. Harmon’s farm is in the Midway Community sec tion. The accident occurred about 3:30 p. m. The farmer was at tempting to dear a bank when the vehicle turned over. The seat of the tracton struck him in the chest, pinning him to the ground A youth in a nearby lake saw th< accident and ran to a farmhouse for help. Harmon died before as sistance arrived and Coroner J. OlHe Harris said death resulted from suffocation. Mr. Harmon, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Harmon, was a former employee of Eagle Hoi ler Mill. He was a member of Shtelby First Baptist church anr Cleveland Masonic Lodge No. 202 The funeral rites were hek Saturday at 3 p. m. from Webb Chapel of First Baptist church Interment was in Cleveland Me mortal Park. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mildred Williams Harmon; four brothers, Fred and Yates Harmon of Shelby, Preston Harmon of Gastonia and Flay Hannon of Spdndale; six sisters, Mrs. Stacy Dedmon of Shelby; Mrs. Gladys Sheer of Erwin, Tenn., Mrs. Nina rie Fite of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Lela Anthony and Mrs. Pearl Black, all of Kings Mountain. Herald Will Close From fuly 6 To 10 Today's Herald is published one-day early, under date of July 5. The Herald will be closed July 6-10 to provide employees a long weekend vacation. The Herald will publish on regular schedule next week, publishing early Wednesday, under date of July 13. RE-ELECTED _ George W, Mauney, re-named to the board of directors of Kings Mountain hospital, was also re-elected president for a sixth consecutive term. Also elected to the board of directors was Hill Lowery, ol the Bethware community. Maur.ey, Lowery On Hospital Body George W. Mauney has beer re-elected president of Kings Mountain hospital for the sixth consecutive year. Also re-elected were the othei officers, Holmes Harry, of Grover vice-president, and R. S. Lennon secret ary-treasurer. President Mauney, along with Hill Lowery, of Beithware, were named to five-year terms on th« hospital board of directors. Mr Mauney was elected to his sec end five-year term, while Mr Lowery was named to succeec Lamar Herndon. Other members of the ten member board and dates theii terms expire are: Charles Nelsler and George H Mauney, 1962. Jack Herndon, Grover, and A A. Barrett, Waco, 1963. Mrs. George H. Houser and R S. Lennon, 1964. Holmes Harry and James Gib son, 1965. The hospital 'board operates the hospital under doGhar-per year lease from Cleveland Coun ty. Mis. Plonk's Sister Dies Funeral rites far Mrs. Lula Umberger Crowd] 1, 52, sister ol Mrs. Hal S. Plonk, Kings Moun tain, were held at New London Merthodist church Monday morn ing at 11 o’clock. Mrs. Crowell, widow of Otha Crowell, died ait 3 p. m. Saturday in a Lexington Nursing Home. She had been bedridden for six month and in ill health for more than eight years. Surviving are heir mother, Mis. Jennie Ludwig Umberger, ol Concord, three other sisters, Mrs. Frances Fisher, Concord, Mrs. Anita Cathey, Salisbury, and Mrs. Mary Belle Godhey, Chris tiansburg, Va., and two brothers, Wiley Umberger and Charles K. Umberger, both of Concord. Dissidents Seek Writ TeFoiceVote Supt. B. N. Barnes and mem bers of the Kings Mountain School Board are to appear in court July 17 to file answer to a complaint brought against them Friday by dissident school pa trons call fcr a writ of manda mus. The writ, if granted, would for ce the group to call an election on abolishing the 20 cents per $100 valuation supplementary ■school tax in the area annexed to the city school unit on May 14, 1960. The suit was filed after action toy the board Thursday rejecting a petition by the dissident group calling for the election. The board ruled the petition invalid, acting on advice from the state attorney general, T. W. Bru ton. Thb petition, containing signa tures of 93 alleged residents of the area, called fror an election only in the outlying area and al leged to show the signatures of 25 per cent of the qualified vo ters of the district. The attorney general, in a let ter ito Supt. Barnes,ruled that the Kings Mountain administrative unit is one complete, cohesive unit and any election must con cern the entire unit. iHe further stated that 25 per cent of the voters of the entire unit must petition for such an ■ election to make an election or der mandatory. The suit was filed in Superior Court Friday by*W. A. McSwain and H. A. Dover for themselves and residents in the former Gro ver, Bethware, Park Grace, and Compact school districts who favor abolishing the 20 cents sup plementary school tax. Defendants listed are Supt, Barnes and school board mem bers Fred W. Plonk, H. Otto Wil liams, Phillip Padgett, Holmes Harry, and Mrs. Lena W. McGill. It asks the court to issue a writ of mandamus to force the school board to call the election. A writ of mandamus is an order of the court requiring public of ficials to perform an act. The complaint alleges that the defendans refusal to call an e lection deprives plaintiffs and petitioners of fundamental rights essential to the concepts of justice and violates the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution and also Article One, Section Seventeen, of the North Carolina Constitution, depriving them of equal protection of the laws, subject to their rights of self-government as to taxation. The petition rejected by the ■board Thursday was first presen ted to the county board of edu cation. The county board turned it down on the grounds that the annexed area was no longer un der county jurisdiction. It was filed with the Kings Mountain Board on June 13. The board declined action on the pe tition until legal advice could be sought from the attorney gen eral and from school attorney J. R. Davis, who was then ill. Mr. Davis presented a resolu tion of denial of the petition to the board Thursday after sum ming up the attorney general’s comments. Supt. Barnes Tuesday was op timistic about a denial of a writ by the court, noting the attorney general’s ruling in the matter. LIONS DIRECTORS Directors of the Kings Moun tain Lions club will meet at the Kings Mountain Herald Thursday night at 7:30. Garland Still Says City Surplus Proves Utility Bate Cuts Possible Garland E. Still, former mayor and recent candidate for the of fice addressed a letter to the Her ald this week in which he points to the city’s anticipated surplus and re-contends the city could make cuts in utility charges. He also says that Mayor Kelly Dixon, during the period prior to the election, along with some of the elected commissioners, a greed to pare utility rates in e vent the oily could afford the cuts. The letter follows: "I noticed in last wreck’s Her ald that the city will probably end up with a $60,000 surplus. Lots of people said I was fool ish for offering a 6 percent cut on utilities which would have amounted to $35,000 per year. At that time, I knew there would be i enough surplus to take care of thait and more_In other words the $60,000 or more surplus shows the amount the taxpayers were overcharged last year. “In a conversation with Mr. Kelly Dixon before the Run-off, he promised me that if I sup ported him that he would call a vote for a 6 percent reduction on! Utilities. On this basis I suppor-j ted him. Before election he said he did not know whether the city could afford it or not_nowj he knows it can be done with half of the surplus. So we’ll soon know how good campaign pro mises are for present administra tion by July 28th or adoption of Budget. This also applies to a number of Commissi oners that were also committed.” Reaction Mixed On Food Tax But Complications Are Many LIONS SPEAKER __ Mrs. Devere Smith, of Kings Mountain, reg istered agent for Thomson & Mc Kinnon. stock brokers, will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night. Ollie Harris, Sr., arranged the program. The club meets at the Woman's Club at 7 o'clock. 1: Aging Program Is Organized Plans to organize a recreation al program for senior citizens of Kings Mountain were formulate* last Thursday night by represen tatives of numerous civic and service organizations. The project is being spear headed by the Woman’s Club ant the first meeting at the Woman’s Club was attended by represen tatives of virtually all clubs and other organizations In the city Mrs. George*5^ouser, Woman’s club president, presided. After voting Unanimously t< begin a recreational program for senior citizens, the group pre sent set the date of a second or ganizational meeting for July 2> at 8 p. m. at the Woman’s Club The Woman’s club will provide the meeting place, refreshments and games for a recreational pro ; gram until the program becomes enlarged and future plans are developed. (At the July 20 meeting of the organizational group, report will be heard from Golden Ag< clubs in other towns and slides showing these clubs at work wil be a feature of the program. Names of "prospective” mem bers for a local "Golden Age” club are being given to pastor of the various churches and they in turn are reporting their lists to the committee. Members of the Woman’s elu> committee-foraging are Mrs George Houser, Mrs. Paul Hend ricks, Mrs. Paul Mauney, Mrs. O. W. Myers and Mrs. Aubrey Mauney. B. A. Harry's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Benjamin Audy Hanry, 70, of Grover, were held Monday at 4 p. m. from Shiloh Presbyterian church, of which he was a member. Mr. Harry died Saturday night in the Kings Mountain hospital after suffering a heart attack a bout 5 o’clock that afternoon. A native of Cleveland County, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David F. Harry. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bessie Howard Harry; five sons, Donald Harry of Charlotte, Tho mas Harry of Grover, B. A. Har ry of Miami, Fla., J. F. Harry of Tampa. Fla., and Philip HaTry of the USAF in Germany; and two daughters, Mrs. W. W. McCarter of Grovetr and Mrs. Don Woods of, Myrtle Beach, S. C. Also surviv- j ing are a sister, Miss Margaret) Harry of Greenville, Ga., a half-; sister, Mrs. Edwurd Erwood of Valdese, and a brother, Rev. W. G. Ham- of Warm Springs, Ga. Fourteen grandchildren also sur-j vive. The final rites were conducted by Rev. Richard Hobson, assisted by Rev. Fred Crisp. Interment was in the Grover cemetery. Businessmen Busy Studying Sales Tax Law Every agency, the State itself, public schools which are the the chief beneficiary, as well as citizens, began paying the state’s three percent sales tax Saturday, but principal talk among individuals was the new tax on foods. Actually, the tax on foods isn’t completely new, but sales tax “on the home table’’ was remov ed just 20 years previously. From 1933 to 1941, all foods were tax able except a few items, meat, lard, coffee, sugar and flour. The Herald was unable to con tact many grocers Tuesday, due to the July 4 holiday, but these reactions were gleaned: Said one grocer, “I’ve had only a few complaints, in fact, less than I thought I would.” Yet another reported, “It’s a bout 50-50 with me and, of cour se, some accused me. On previ ously taxable articles we stock ed, we’d been absorbing the tax. It should save us a little money to be now charging it on virtual ly everything we sell.” From the business manage ment standpoint, it appears druggists have the more compli cated problem. Drugs sold on prescription aren’t taxable, but drugs sold to physicians for their own use, Ito hospitals, or drugs compounded but not on medical prescription are taxable. Grady Howard, hospital ad ministrator, said he was looking for some clarifications on how to bill patients for drugs sold them on doctors’ instructions. At City Hall, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., said the principal difficulty there will be on sup plies and equipment purchased from out-of-state firms. The law appears to require that the city pay this tax on its own_then apply for refund next year on both this amount and sales tax paid to North Carolina firms. Chutrch treasurers will have another chore upcoming next year in applying for refunds, as will managers of orphanages, non-profit corporations and non profit private schools. The city clerk said it appeared to him that agencies and institu tions previously exempt and now in the refundable class will re quire an extra invoice of all bill ings to facilitate substantiation of /their sales tax refund claims. live Nurses Win "Caps" Five Kings Mountain women received “caps” from the Shelby Hospital School of Practical Nur sing on Thursday, June 29th. They were Mrs. Howard Smith, Mrs. Bruce Norwood, Mrs. Gene va Neal, Mrs. Sarah Ivey, and Mrs. Mary Martin. The School of Practical Nurs ing is affiliated with Cleveland Mlemorial Hospital School of Nursing. HEADS ROTARIANS _ Jack H. White, attorney and judge of city recorder's court, is president of the Kings Mountain Rotary club for the coming year. White Elected To Head Rotazy Jack H. WMte, Kings Mountain attorney and judge of city re corders court, was installed as president of the Kings Mountain Rotary club last Thursday. Mr. 'White succeeds Thomas L. Trott. Mr. Trott installed officers and directors and those serving with Mr. White are: A. J. Slater, vice-president; Thomas A. Tate, secretary - treasurer; and Tom Trott, Fred Wright, Jr., and Fen ton Larson, directors. iPresident White has announced these chairmen of committees: Thomas A. Tate is overall chairman of Club Service Activi ties and working with him will be these chairmen: Tom Trott, attendance; Fred Wright, Jr., classification; O. O. Walker, fel lowship; Tom Trott, magazine; Ben Moomaw, membership; Wil son Griffin, program; Marion Du Bose, public relations; and O. O. Walker, sergeant-at-arms. Serving as Vocational Service chairman will 'be Fred Wright, Jr., and other chairmen under this committee are: Wilson Grif fin, buyer-seller relations; Char les Dixon, competitor relations; Lewis Dellinger, employer-em ployee relations; and Lewis Del linger, trade associations. Fenton Larson is chairman of the Community Service commit tee which Includes Charles Dix on, chairman of community safe ty, and Mlarion DUBose, who heads the committee for aid to crippled chidren. Mr. Larson is also chairman of the committee on scholarships, awards and stu dent loans. Wilson Griffin is Chairman of the committee on youth and Tom Trott is chairman of the committee on internation al service. RESUMES DUTIES Corbett Nicholson resumed the duties of superintendent of the city’s natural gas system Monday. He had resigned last October. During his absence Grady Yelton was in charge of the gas system. Frank Blanton will continue as assistant. Gas Revenue Guess $13,000 Off Present Revenue; Hot Winter Due? The city’s natural gas system engineer predicts a hot winter upcoming and thinks the sys tems receipts might be $13,000 less than for the year just ended last Friday.' Joe Register, of Barnard & Bur ke, Inc., listed the hot winter guess as one of the reasons he ■ feels gas system revenues for | 1961-62 wiil be $154,678, rather I than the $167,000 revenue of 19 ! 60-61. Other reasons included fact of : less consumer attachments than anticipated in the year just end ed and possibility of less indus trial gas sales due to current ec onomic conditions. Another tea ; son he listed is an increase inj cost of gas which he estimates j at $5400. The board of commissioners inj special session June 30 accepted! the recommendations of the en-1 1 gineer in tentatively adopting the new gas system budget. The budget anticipates sales to residential customers of $82,328; to commercial customers of $20,342; to industrial customers $6,109; to industrial customers buying on interruptible con tracts $38,326; and to public building customers $6,373, with other income of $1,200. Disbursements It is anticipated that the city will pay Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corporation $82,609 for gas. Other anticipated costs are labor $5,000, superintendent’s salary $4,892, administrative sa laries, $3,000, engineering fees, $1,800, operating supplies $800, with the total operating disbur sements $103,739. Debt service will cost $23,112.50, including $10,000 principal, leaving a $27, 826.50 surplus for transfer to oth er accounts. City Board Has Assumed Operating Costs By MARTIN HARMON The Kings Mountain area is married schoolwise, consumma tion of a courtship which began ten yeairs ago and which witness ed (the formal ceremony on May 14, 1960. Physical consummation be came effective Saturday. Plans caM for consolidation of Kings Mountain, Bethware and Grover high schools for the term beginning September at Kings Mountain’s Central plant, and for Compact and Davidson high schools at one of the other plants. Indications are that the Compact plant will be utilized. Involved in the merger are the five plants of the former Kings Mountain district and the mer ging aireas. Geographically, the Kings Mountain city school dis trict now includes virtually all of Number 4 Township as well as a portion of Number 5 Township. Also effected by the merger are more than 100 Negro students who have been attending Wash ington school near Waco. State statute provides that deeds to the several properties in the annexed aireas be conveyed within ten days after the merger, Supt. B. N. Barnes said. Mean time, the county superintendent, J. H. Grigg, has notified insuran ce carriers and utility companies that Kings Mountain board of education is responsible for these accounts effective July t Following a state survey team recommendation in May 1951 and prior to subsequent school construction bona issue in 1953, Grover school officials suggested a marriage of area schools. The movement proved abortive when Bethware patrons declined by a large margin to abandon the split term summer session and Compact patrons voted against a merger. , , ^ iBethware later abandoned the split term, with the demise of cotton production in the area, and subsequently re-launched April 20, 1959, the marriage movement which resulted in pa trons of the adjacent county ar eas voting themselves into the Kings Mountain district May 14, by 1120 to 873. The voters also accepted ithe district’s supple mental school tax of 20 cent's per $100 valuation. Litigation by dissidents to the merger was quick to follow and, though a temporary injunction was quashed, the July 1 legal requirement to effectuate the merger physically had passed and Judge P. C. Fronebergetr, with additional legislation pending, ordered maintenance of the sta tus quo, as far as operations were concerned. Up until the 1932-33 term, school board minutes show, Bethware high school students came to Kings Mountain high school. The minutes of July 31, 1932 read, “The Bethware school board met with tile local board, in the interest of a high school at Bethware. Mr. Wayne L. Ware presented the matter to our board, stating they could not have a high school student with out the cooperation of our board These minutes also quote from a letter then-city Supt Claude Grigg was to write the Kings Mountain high school patrons of the Bethware area, which said: “The Trustees of the Kings Mountain City School are in sympathy with the movement for the simple reason that we cannot continue to serve indefi nitely surrounding territory as we have done in the past. We soon will have reached the capa city of our building. “We are therefore cooperating with the County Board of Educa tion and with the Bethware board to the extent that we are suggesting that you attend the newly organized district for the school year 3932-33. Tentative Tax Rate Again $1.50 Kings Mountain’s 1961 tax raite has been set tentatively at $1.50 pea- $100 valuation, same rate in vogue since 1957. Breakdown of the tax rate for specific funds, capital, gen eral, and debt service, has not been indicated, pending final results of 1960-61 operations and final adoption of the cur rent year's $697,000 budget, though the rate is suae to in clude the five cents per $100 tax for recreational purposes, city officials say.
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