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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 S™*1" *?oml,ala «• d«rt*»d tram Mountcdn city directory emus. Tbm city Baaltt figure U from the United States census nf i960. Pages Today VOL 72 No. 27 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 13, 1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS TO MISS NORTH CAROLINA PAGEANT_ Sandy Myers, Miss Kings Mountain of 1961, goes to Greensboro Tuesday to represent Kings Mountain in the Miss North Carolina Pageant. The state event will continue through Satur day night when finalists are announced and a winner chosen. Sandy is the 18 year-old-daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon D. Myers of Route 2. She is pictured above in the evening dress and bathing suit she will wear in the state e vent. Sandy Myers Off Tuesday To Seek State Beauty Title Local News Bulletins FAIRVEEW LODGE An emergent communication erf Fairview Lodge 339, AF&AM will be held Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic Hall, Secretary T. D. Tindall has announced. COURT OF HONOR Boy Scout Court of Honor will be held Thursday (to night) alt 7:45 at Central Meth odist church, scouting officials have announced. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending at noon to taled $138.15, including $105.45 from on-street meters, $14.70 from off-street meters and $18 from over-parking fees, Citty Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jir., . re ported. FIRE CSty firemen doused a small blaze in the attic of the Silver Villa Restaurant at 8:10 p. m. last Thursday. The blaze re sulted when a neon sign trans former shorted out. Fireman C. D. Ware said Ithe only damage listed was to the sign. NO PERMITS , 5, Ci<ty Building Inspector M. H. Biser issued no building per mits during Ithe past week. HOSPITALIZED N. M. Farr, city fireman, is a patient at the Veterans Ad ministration hospital alt Oteen, where he is receiving treat ment for a kidney ailment GRIFFIN IMPROVING E. W. Griffin, Kings . Moun tain druggist, is a patient at Kings Mountain Hospital fol lowing a slight stroke of para lysis he suffered Monday. His condition is reported improving. BUSES ON ORDER Three new schol buses, two 54-passenger models and one 48-passenger model, have been ordered by the Kings Moun tain board of education and delivery has been pro vised well-ahead of school opening, Supt- B. N. Barnes said Wed nesday. LUTHERAN SERVICE United Lutheran Church Wo men of Resurrection Lutheran church will present life mem berships and in memoriams at special services Sunday morn ing at 10 o'clock at the church. Mrs. Clarence Plonk, Jr., will make the awards presentation. Annual State Beauty Event At Greensboro Sandy Myers, Miss Kings Mountain of 1961, will cany | Kings Mountain’s beauty-talent banner to Greensboro Tuesday for a try at the Miss North Caro lina title. The brown-haired beauty, last weekend, was well-composed, finishing her plans and rounding up final wardrobe necessities. “I love Kings Mountain and its friendly people,” she commen ted, “and I’ll do my best.” She will be chaperoned at the pageant by her mother, Mrs. Gor don D. Myers. Her escort will be David Baity, chairman of the Jayoees 1961 Miss Kings Moun tain Pageant. In Greensboro, Miss Myers will 'be following a rigid schedule of parades, rehearsals, performan ces, luncheons and parties. “It will be hectic, but, I think, enjoy able,” she said. She has chosen a wardrobe of varied cotton frocks of simple de sign. She favors skirt and blouse sets and shirtwaist designs to more high fashion apparel. “Something comfortable and plain,” she says. In the evening dress competi tion, Miss Myers will appear in a pink strapless formal gown, featuring a front apron drape caught with a bow in the back. The ensemble will be completed with dyed-to-match shoes, form al white gloves, and her dazzling (Continued on Page Eight) APPOINTEE — Carl G. McCraw, Kings Mountain native and pres ident of First Union National Bank of North Carolina, was ap pointed by Governor Terry San ford last week to the State Board of Conservation and Develop ment. Board WU1 Set School Opening The Kings Mountain board of education likely will set opening date of the 1961-62 term at Mon day night's regular meeting, Supt. B. N. 'Barnes said Wednes day. j (An otherwise light agenda is expected to include further con versations on the physical con solidation of the expanded dis continued On Page EightJ Three Scouts, Scoutmaster Perry To Join Sante Fe Country Trek Three Kings Mountain Eagle Scout* and Scoutmaster will be among a group of eight Scouts and two Scout leaders leaving Gastonia by train Friday for Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimar ron, N. M., for two weeks or rou ghing it along the old Sante Fe Trail where Kit Carson made his tory. Taking the trek from Kings Mountain will be four represen tatives of Resurrection Lutheran Troop 9 will be Scoutmaster Sher man Perry, Eagle Scouts Billy and Joe Patterson, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Patterson, and Tommy Plonk, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Plonk, Jr. Life Scout Plonk has qualified for the Ea gle rank and is to receive the a ward at tonight’s Court of Honor. Others making the tour are Dennis Cloninger, assistant Scoutmaster at Pumpkin Center, life Scouts David H. Brothers, Morganton, William H. Heafner, Lincoln ton, and Dennis G. White ner, Lenoir, Eagle Scout Robert L. Wehunt, Lineolnton, and Star Scout Robert L. Seila, Lenoir. The group will travel by train and arrive Philmont July 17. Feature of the trip will be a trip over Philmont's Central trail, wHich reaches an altitude of 11,000 feet. The local group will travel alone along the trail. However, staff members are sta tioned at trategic points to aid the campers in various activities, including archaeology, geology, nature study and forestry. Much of the trail-trek is on foot, thou gh at some spots horses and bur ros are available. TWe campers will carry their own gear, 24 pounds excluding food, on their backs. The Kings Mountain Scouts are first cousins and virtually the same age. Tommy Plonk turned 14 in April, and the Pat terson twins will observe their 14th birthday Sunday. All will be ninth graders in September. City’s 1960-61 Cash Surplus Is $55,318 School Lawyeis Are Preparing Monday Reply BY MARTIN HARMON Attorneys for the Kings Moun tain board of education and su perintendent of schools, defend ants in a suit lodged by dissi dents to the school merger for a writ of mandamus forcing the board to order a supplemental school tax election in the annex ed areas, were thiis week prepar ing an answer to the action filed June 30. In addition to J. R. Davis, vet eran board of education attor ney, the board has retained Ja mes Mulllen, of Gastonia, pre viously in company with Mr. Da vis in previous litigation on the merger as 'attorney for merger proponents in the annexed a reas. The dissidents seek a court or der to force the board of educa tion to approve a special election on the 20 cents per $100 valu ation supplemental school tax in the areas annexed. It is anticipated, Supt. B. N. Barnes said attorneys had indi cated, the salient points of the board of education answer to the court will be based on General Statutes 115-120, quoted by As sistant Attorney-General Ralph Moody, in offering the opinion that petition for a tax eleation in the annexed areas only is not valid. The dissidents presented, first to the county board of education, subsequently to the Kings Moun tain board, a petition allegedly bearing names of 935 bona fide voters of the annexed areas. wnne me suaie siaiuues ai&u provide that such an election must be called in event 25 per cent of the bona fide voters pe tition, Mr, -Moody wrote the Kings Mountain board that Gen eral Statutes 115-120 would be the section of school law under which petition is filed. He re viewed the history of the merger election wherby a majority of the voters of the annexed areas ap proved on May 14, 1960, a pro posal for (the enlargement of the Kings Mountain school district and for the levying of the special supplemental tax. Mr. Moody concluded: ‘It is now my opinion that the Kings Mountain Administrative Unit is one complete, cohesive unit, and as to all elections in the future, the whole unit must be consider ed.” It is anticipated that special Judge H. L. Riddle, Jr., presiding over this week’s Cleveland Su perior Court, or Judge Frank Huskins, the regular judge, will be on the bench next week. Jud ge Huskins was detained in Ma dison county, where he is pre siding over the libel action in which (three Madison election of ficials seek $90,000 in damages from William Cobb, state repre sentative and GOP state chair man. A. A. Powell and George W. Hamrick, attorneys for the dis sidents, filed the action in be half of W. A. McSwain and H. A. Dover and other citizens, tax payers and voters of the areas annexed to the Kings Mountain district. Pledging to pay the $200 sur ety required of plaintiffs in civil actions were J. D. Jones, John Williams and Butler Dixon. Dixon Revival Is Continuing Rev. Archie McNair, pastor of Goshen Presbyterian church at Belmont, is conducting evange listic services through Sunday evening at Dixon Presbyterian church. Services are being held nightly at 7:30. John H. Caldwell is directing the song service, and visiting churches are providing special music throughout the week. Rev. James Mann, pastor of the church, issued an invitation to the community to join in the spe cial series of services. Privilege License Sales Total $2493 Kings Mountain business and industrial firms subject to the city privilege license tax have bought licenses totaling $2493 through Wednesday, Mrs. Grace Wolf, assistant city clerk, said. The city anticipates $5500 from this source during the current year. The license fees were due July 1 and are payable at par during the month of July. Pen alty of five percent per month applies August 1. Mayor Dixon To Recommend Stadium Study Commission MINISTER _ Rev. Hoyle L. Whiteside, of Montgomery, Ala., will deliver the sermon Sunday morning at St. Matthew's Luth eran church. Rev. Mr. Whiteside is a Kings Mountain native. Hoyle Whiteside To Pleach Here The Rev. Hoyle Lee Whiteside, STM, of Montgomery, Alabama, will preach in St. Matthew’s Lu theran Church Sunday, July 16, at 11 a. m. Dr. W. P. Gerberding the pas tor, will conduct the service. Mr. Whiteside is a son of this congregation, being Confirmed and trained Were whitle attending Lenoir Rhyne College and Sou thern Seminary at Columbia, S. C. He began his ministry near Hickory, then went to Lutheran Chapel in Gastonia, where he led the construction of a Sunday School Building and receiving more members than any church in the North Carolina Synod. He will also talk on Sunday and will report on the Freedom Riders in Montgomery. lob Placement Efforts Upped The Cleveland county employ ment service 'branch will launch efforts to expand job placements in the Kings Mountain area Tuesday, John Fleming, man ager, said Wednesday. Mir. Fleming said Mrs. VioQet Dixon, of Kings Mountain, will be in City Hall on Tuesday mor nings from 8 to 9:30 a. m. to 1) li'tt for employment new workers entering the job market and those out of work and not list ed for employment, and 2) to visit employers in an effort to increase job openings. Mr. Fleming noted there will foe no claims-ftaking for unem ployment compensation here on Tuesdays, with this function li mited to Thursdays, as formerly, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Mr. Fleming noted that em ployees with any employment business may visit or call the ESC office, 210 S. Washington street, Shelby, Mondays through Fridays, from 8 to 5 p. m. DeBnde Is Mill Superintendent George P. DeBrule has assum ed the superinrtendeney of Craft spun Yarns, Inc., succeeding R. J. Stewart. Mr. DeBrule, a Rutnerford co unty native, came to Kings Mountain from Taylorsville, where he was associated with Irene Mills division of Botany Cottons. Before his transfer to Taylorsville, he had been associ ated w.»th Botany Cottons in Gas tonia for 15 years. Mrs. DeBrule is the former Nellie Head, a'iso of Rutherford county. They have three children, two daughters, Mrs. Gray Helms, Ra leigh, and Mrs. James Pryor, Gastonia, both employees of Sou thern Bell Telephone & Tele graph Company, and a son, William J. Pryor, of Atlanta. Ga„ an employee of Monsanto Chemi cal Company. The DeBrules aire residing at 709 Lin wood Drive. SUNDAY MASS Sunday Mass at Chrisit The King Catholic Church has been changed to 7:30 A. M. for Sunday morning. Dixon May Also Ask lady School Traffic Police BY MARTIN HARMON Mayor Kelly Dixon wall ask the board of city commissioners Thursday night to authorize him to appoint a three-man stadium study commission, he said Wed nesday. Mayor Dixon said, if authoriz ed, he would invite the board of education to appoint a member, he would name a member of the city board of commissioners and a public member. The commission would be ask ed, he added, to study feasibility of further improving the present City Stadium between Carpenter and Gaston streets or comparable feasibility of building a new sta dium at a new site. Interest in stadium improve ments, he said, is an outgrowth of efforts by the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club to get a fieldhouse j built at the present stadium. The: Kiwanis club told the Bridges Ad-1 ministration several months ago it could furnish $1500 toward the1 project which, Kiwanis represen tatives thought could be built for $3500 to $4000. Final cost estima tes ballooned the project to more than $8,000. Another recommendation May ! or Dixon said he will make to the commission is city handling of school traffic patrols for the conning school year. The Mayor said he may suggest the employ ment of women patrolmen for school traffic duty. Mayor Dixon said it is possi ble the commission may finally adopt the 1961-62 tax rate, at $1.50 per $100 valuation as ten tatively set, and City Clerk Joe McDaniel said Comm. Ben H. Bridges, Chairman of the budget committee, had indicated he might recommend final adoption of both the city budget and the gas system budget. Mayor Dixon listed these other items on the agenda for Thurs day’s regular July meeting: 1) Receipt of bids on lockers' for city policemen. 2) Discussion for arrangements! with State Prison department for, manpower for cleaning banks of streams flowing through the city.! 3) Request by Grady Queen,' city radio maintenance man, for certain testing equipment. 4) An electrical system engi neering survey. EVANGELIST _ Dr. Leo Green of Wake Forest will begin a week of special services Monday at First Baptist Church. Green To Lead Baptist Services Dr. Leo Green, Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary of Wake Forest, is to be visiting evangelist at First Baptist church beginning Monday for a week of revival services. Dr. Green has served on the faculty at Southern Seminary at Louisville. He served as a pastor for some time before coming to Southeastern in 1951 in the first year of its founding. The semi nary opened that year with ap proximately 100 students and has grown to more than 700 in 1961. Mr. Green is in great demand for revivals and lectures. This week he is delivering a series of lectures at Mercer University and is scheduled to arrive Sunday, July 16, in time to bring the 11 o’clock morning message which will be broadcast over station WKMT of Kings Mountain. Allen Jolley has just assumed his duties as Music Education Di rector of Firt Baptist church and will be directing the music. Ser vices will be held each night dur ing the week at 7:30 p. m. The Sunday night worship hour is 8 p. m. Dr. Green will bring his fi nal message Sunday, July 23, at the 11 o’clock hour. "Friends of the community and the surrounding area are cordial ly invited to attend,’’ the pastor. Rev. B. L. Raines, said in making the announcement. Airman Moss, Home From Turkey; Turks Compare Russians To Poison BY DAVID BAITY Karl Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Moss of Route 2, cares little for Turkey, where He has just returned from an 18-month tour of duty in Adona with the United States Air Force. "All I gained in Adona was 40 pounds of weight,” he said. Adona is about 90 miles from the Mediterranean Sea and about 180 miles from Ankara, the Turk ish capital. Moss says the town, and nation as a whole, is dead according to American standards. He estima ted the Turkish living standard is about 20 years behind the Uni ted States. Predominant transportation is via horse and bugg, notwithstan ding an occasional camel cara van. There are some automobiles, mostly American make, and the wealthy have them. If an ordinary Turk purchases a car, it is invariably for use as a taxi and not for private use, Moss said. "The GI’s stationed in Turkey, mostly try to get passes to get out of the country to visit other lands”, he said. It is convenient by air to world renowned sites in surrounding nations. The climate is somewhat like Florida’s, Airman Moss Reports. However, in the summer the tem perature ranges from 100 to 125 degrees on the flight line. January, February, and March are the months of the rainy sea son. and "you'd better have a canoe handy when it starts,” he says. The lowest temnerature the air man recalls was about 40 de grees. A bachelor G1 has a rough time —no dates with the native girls. The religion prohibits the girls to speak to a stranger. I Turkey is predominantly Mos lem or Islam. The Islam religion is akin to Christianity, except that Moham med is their Christ.. Moss reports Islamites believe that Mohammed will be bom a gain, and will be born of a man * hence the picturesque bloused pants of the Turkish male attire. When the Mohammed is bom which they feel will be unexpect edly, he should not fall to the ground, they feel. Marriages are still contracted by the parents involved. In the household, the man’s word is law and women are con sidered inferior. If a man is irked by his wife, for virtually any reason, he can have her thrown into a jail, call ed the compound. Turkey is not a progressive land, Moss feels. The capital city is slowly becoming westernized, but he noted the people of Adona are apathetic to progress. Turkey has little or no sewage control. Meats are displayed for sale in market stall® in the open, subject to flies and filth. Mar kets are not refrigerated. He noted there were, he was told, about 25 millionaires who resided in the town where he was stationed and the only way you could tell they were of a higher station was by their brand new American automobiles. Prestige of the United States; is high in Turkey and the armed I fContinued on Page Eight) Surplus Figure 'Final"; Budget To Be $712,000 The city oompleted 1960-61 with a cash surplus of $55,318.47, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., said Wednesday. He said Ithe figure is “final” having been certified by th city’s auditors, A. M. Pulton t Company, of Charlotte, now a work on last years accounts. The amount is $15,318 moi_ than included in the city's more than $697,(XX) tentatively adopt ed 1961-63 budget. The addition al surplus will have the effect of pushing the new year’s budget to more than $712,000. He guessed the surplus would be added either to the capital outlay or contingency funds, no ting that firm estimates on cost to the city of the newly enacted three percent state sales tax have not been made. He had al ready guessed the tax will cost Hie city a minimum of $7,500 during the current fiscal year. Whatever sales tax is paid by the city will be refundable in the 1962-63 fiscal year. The surplus accrued to these accounts: general department, $33,390; debt service, $7,632; and capital outlay account, $14,295. Meantime, Mr. McDaniel said the tentatively adopted 1961 tax rate of $1.50 per $100 valuation ii finally adopted, will be pro rated as follows: general 29.' cents, debt service 38.8 cents capital outlay 76.5 cents, am recreation (statutory limit) five cents. Clubhouse Opening Near “If everything goes as it’s sup posed to the Kings Mountain Country dub clubhouse will open on the weekend. If not, it’ll be sometime next week,” Paid M. Neisler, Sr., chairman of the club building committee said Wed ns day. Completion of floor work, which had delayed completion of the building, was resumed this week. Chairman Neisler said that kitchen equipment has been de livered but must still be placed and connected on completion of the floor work.. Dishes are due to be delivered on Friday. Additionally, some electrical fixtures must be installed. 'Mrs. George H. Houser, chair man of the house committee, said some of the furnishings have been delivered but other ship ments are still to arrive. The new facilities — with ad dition of a swimming pool —will replace the old colonial-type frame structure used for a club house since 1947 until it was raz ed by fire last November. The new clubhouse is modem in both design and construction. The swimming pool was open ed for the first time last Satur day and was crowded with swim mers both Saturday and Sunday. Bob Maner, chairman of the pool committee, announced addi tion of Polly Page to the life guard crew. In addition to tlie main pool, which has a maximum depth of eight feet, there is adjacent a circular baby pool. The baby area is fenced off from the big pool. Dressing rooms are on the sour th side. * Bridges Proud •' Of Widest Street Former-Mayor Glee A. Bridges was smiling Wednesday on com pletion of the York Road paving project. Contractors for ifche State High way commission, delayed by bad weather, moved in early Tuesday and completed the black-topping of York Road, from E. King street to the southern ciity limits in one day. Former-Mayor Bridges, who praised the State Highway com mission for its cooperation on the project, commented, “I am highly pleased at the completion of this project. I worked hard to obtain right-of-way for what is now Kings Mountain’s widest street. '“Highway Commission Direc tor W. F. Babcock told me that York road is the longest city street in North Carolina for which property owners gave needed right-of-way one hundred percent.” KIWANIS PICNIC Kings Mountain Kiwanians and their families will gather for a picnic Thursday at 7 p. m. at Oakdale Presbyterian church.
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