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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits ' 8,008 Mi Igm tec Greater Bi|• Montcda la derived treat the IMS tOmga MeaaMta city directory ceaaue. The city • at 1M0. — -.-city directory < Bum It boa the Veiled Stotee ■kings mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today VOL. 72 No. 30 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 3, 1961 Seventy>Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins OPTIMISTS MEET The Optimist Club of Kings Mountain will meet in regular weekly session Thursday night alt 7:30 at Grace Methodist Church fellowship hall. SPEAKER Rev. George Grissom of Gas tonia will conduct morning worship services Sunday morn ing at 9:30 at Dixon Presbyter ian church in the absence of the pastor, Rev. James Mann, on vacation. Rsev. Mr. Grissom is a former supply pastor of the Dixon church. FULL COMMUNION The first full communion service since May 28 will be celebrated art St. Matthew’s Lu theran church Sunday at 11 a. m. The pastor, Dr. W. P. Ger berding, will deliver a short communion meditation. REUNION Annual reunion of the Capt. William McGill Qian will be held at Smyrna ARP church, Thursday, beginning at 11 a. on. Frank McElwee is current chairman of the clan, of ■which numerous Kings Moun tain area citizens are members. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kdwanians will view a film at Thursday night's meeting art 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. Bud Neisler, program chairman, said the program is* being fur nished by Caplt. Stewart Sher man of the Strategic Air Com mand Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. MAYOR TO PREACH Mayor Kelly Dixon, in pri vate life an ordained Baptist minister, will deliver sermons twice Sunday. At 11 o’clock service, Mayor Dixon will de liver the sermon at Penley’s Chapel Methodist church, and alt 7:30 evening service, he will deliver the sermon at Sulphur Springs Congregational church near Forest City. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $12530, inclu ding $98.10 from on-street meters, $$17 from over-park ing fees and $10.20 from off street metters, Cilty Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., reported. Moomaw Logs 10th Year Here Ben F. MJoornaw, Jr., logged on July 22, his tenth anniversary as superintendent of Kings Moun tain National Military Park. Noting the anniversary, Supt Moomaw addressed a letter to the Herald in wtoidh he thanks Kings {Mountain area citizens for their cooperation. Supt. Moomaw's letter follows: "I would like tx> thank the com munity, through the Herald, for ten years of whole hearted co operation in my operation of the Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park. '“When I assumed the superin tendency of the Park on July 22, 1951, the Dramatic Program was juSt getting started. The mutual worts on this acquainted me with the people of our community and from that time on I could not have asked for better coopera tion, help, and encouragement from the good people of the sur rounding area. This has been and is being greatly appreciated and I wish to say — THANKS A GAEN.” Fieldhouse “Specs" Are Being Obtained Joe Neisler, Jr., member of the Kiwanis Club committee promoting a project to build a fieldhouse at City Stadium, has told Mayor Kelly Dixon the Ki ) warns Club is proceeding to ob tain revised drawings and spec ifications from an architect, the Mayor said Wednesday. The city commission voted last month to advertise for bids for a fieldhouse. Mayor Dixon then found that specifications had not been drawn. The Kiwanis Chib has pledged a gift df $1500 to the city for expenditure on the project 1 Mauney Hosiery Wins Award For Salety (Mauney Hosiery Mills, Inc., of Kings Mountain is among 82 hos iery mills in North Carolina a chieving top safety records dur ing the year 1960, according to Frank Crane, North Carolina’s Commissioner of Labor. Commissioner Crane send the 82 plants have been awarded the State’s highest honor for their effective work in accident preven tion — the joint State • Federal “Certificate of Safety Achieve ment.’’ Hudson Hosiery Company of Shelby won a similar honor. The coveted safety scroll Is offered each year as recognition of outstanding achievement in prevention of injuries on the job. It bears the Great Seal of North Carolina and the Signature of the Commissioner of Labor, and the seal of the United States Depart ment of Labor and the signature of the Secretary of Labor. The award is given to plants which 1) have no disabling in juries on the job dutringthe year, 2) maintain an injury rate 75 per cent or more below the State av erage tor the industry, or 3) re duce thfeir frequency rate 40 per cent or more compared with their rate the previous year. “The highest honor and praise are due the management, super visors and employees of these 82 hosiery mills”, Commissioner Crane stated. “Their remarkable safety record is one which Ithe entire hosiery industry should Strive to equal.. Much human suf fering, loss of life and limb, and economic waste have been pre vented through ithe safety pro grams of , these plants. The a chievement has had equal posi i thte benefits, such is uninterrupt ed maintenance of employee ear ning power and maintenance of the hosiery industry’s low rate for workmen’s compensation in surance.” Commissioner Crane said the group of 82 hosiery mills winning the award for 1960 achieved a disabling injury frequency rate of 1.0 per million manhours wor ked. The plants had 29 disabling in juries in the course of a total of 27,99,939 manhours, he stated. The 82 plants comprise one-six th of the approximately 490 knit goods establishments operating in the State. They account for a bout ten per cent of all award winning plants in North Carolina for the year I960. Commissio c«?t Crane pointed out that the injury rate of 1.0 a dhieved by the 82 award winners is only about one- fourth1 as high as the Statewide rate 3.8 for the entire knit goods industry during 1960. It was only one-fifth as high as the national knit goods rate of 5.0 for the same year. (Continued On Page EightJ Price Hannons Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Martin Price Harmon, 91, retired carpenter and farmer, were held Sunday at 3 p. m. from Bethlehem Baptist church, interment following In the chwrch cemetery. Mr. Harmon died Friday night in the Kings Mountain hospital after an illness of several mon ths. A native of Cleveland County, he was the son of ithe late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilkes Har mon. He was a member of the Bethlehem church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Laurel Williams Harmon; four daughters, Mrs. Ben Bar rett, Mrs. M. W. Leigh, Mrs. John Hovis and Mrs. John Etters, all of Kings Mountain; one brother, T. A. Harmon of Kings Mountain; 26 grandchildren, 32-great-grand children and two great-great grandchildren. The final rites were conducted by the Rev. W. G. Camp, assist ed by the Rev. James Hudson. MISS CASHION WELCOMES GOVERNOR _ North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford was welcomed to State 4-H Club Week at Raleigh by 4-H'ers Harold Vick of Nashville and Kim Cashion of Kings Mountain. They are pictured above 'with L. R. HarrilL state 4-H Club lead er. Miss Cashion, member of the Cleveland County delegation attending 4-H Club Week, was also selected one of two 4-H'ers to meet the governor and escort him to the speakers stand and was tapped for membership in the 4-H Honor Club for outstanding 4-H'ers. Four Teachers Are Employed, Two Resign The Kings Mountain distinct, schools faculty showed a net in* crease of two this week, the board of education employing four teachers and .accepting res ignations of two. Tendering resignations were William F (Bill) Powell, last year coach and teacher of scien ce at Bethware high school, and Mrs. Theresa M. Holt, last year teacher of home economics at Grover. Mr. Powell has accept ed a similar position at Number 3 high school and Mrs. Holt is joining her husband at Mt. Gil ead high school, which Mr. Holt will serve as principal. The new faculty members are: Mrs. Juanita Edgerton, of Ru therfordton, teacher of home ec onomics, who replaces Mrs. Holt. Mrs. Mardeeia E. Harrill, of Shelby, teacher of Rrench. John L. Blalock, of Kings Mountain, teacher of science and coach, to be assigned to the mer ged Compact - Davidson high school. Supt. Barnes said he couldn’t list iinally the number of teach ing vacancies until the teacher allotment is received from the State Board of Education. However, he added, the schools need a minimum of four addi tional teachers, including a high school teacher of t^atin, a teach er of girls’ physical education, an additional high school science teacher and a teacher of the ed ucable retarded. The state board already lias authorized the spe cial teadher for the ednsable re tarded. Baker licensed To Practice Dr. Thomas (Baker, recent gra duate of the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, is now licensed to practice in both North Carolina and South Caro lina, having passed examinations of Boards of Examiners of both states. He anticipates joining his fa ther, Dr. L. P. 'Baker, and broth er, Dr. Robert N. Baker, in prac ticing dentistry here in the near future. (Mrs. Baker is the former Mary Beth Herd, also of Kings (Moun tain. Chamber Of Commerce To Do Study On City Aid In Industry-Getting Kings Mountain Chamber cf Commerce board of directors vo ted Tuesday to make a study of municipal participation in Indus ! trial development and expansion, President Charles Blanton said following the meeting. Mr. Blanton noted specifically I that the neighboring cities of Gastonia and CherryviHe are ex- j amsples of municipal participants in industrial development and said he understood other North Carolina communities also pro mote industrial development. THe Chamber of Commence board also voted to withhold im mediate renewal of its request for modernization of business dis trict or “white way” lighting, pending completion of the city’s budgeted electrical system sur vey. Mr. Blanton said the Chamber of Commerce board endorses the electrical survey heartily and hopes the city will proceed with these plans. Privilege License Penalty For 73 Seventy-three grogs Mountain business firms, amending to last year’s records, haven't yet pur chased city privilege licenses lor year beginning July 1. >As a result of failure to pur chase the licenses, the limns are already the first Ifive percent penalty, the law providing penal ty of five percent per month for delinquent purchasers. Meantime, privilege license purchases climbed to $4445.75, a gainst 'anticipated receipts for the hill, year of $5,103. Fiank Hopei's Rites Conducted Final rites for James Frank Roper, 65, ware held Tuesday af ternoon at 4 p. m. from Grace Methodist church, of which he was a member and trustee. Mr. Roper suffered a heart at tack Saturday about noon and succumbed that night .about 10 o’clock in the local hospital. A native of Burke county, Mr. Roper was owner of City Cab Company of Kings Mountain. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Roper. He was a veteran of World War 1, serving with the U. S. Army. Surviving .are his wife, Mrs. Geneva Goins Roper; one son, Norman Roper; one brother, Ivey Roper and one sister, Mrs. 3Har vey C. Smith, all of Kings Moun tain. The funeral rites were con ducted by Rev. Norman Pusey, assisted by Rev. W. C. Sides. In terment was in Mountain Ran cemetery. loose Freight ' Cars Overturn Three renegade freight cars from a Southern Railway swit cher derailed on the Superior Stone Company spur line, two overturning and blocking traffic on Grover Road early Wednes day morning. Kings Mountain Police Chief Martin Ware said the cars broke from the switch engine about 4:00 a. m. and gained enough momentum traveling down the spur incline that they flipped from the track as they rounded a bend that takes the track ac ross the Grover Road. Chief Ware said no one was injured as a result of the acci dent and police cleared the tracks below the overturned cars, re routing automobiles through a graveled road which leads to Superior Stone Company turnoff. (Continued On Page 8) Oak Grove Girl Is One 0! 34 In Honoi Club Kim Cashion, Kings Mountain 4-lTer, was one'of 39 North Car iOlinians tapped for membership in the State 4-H Honor Club in Raleigh last week. Selection of the honor group, highest state honor for a 4-H member, was a Highlight of the week of 4-H Club activities at N. C. State college. Speaking before 1,400 top 4-H’ers, Governor Uerry Sanford reaffirmed his .pledge “to give farming its rightful place in building a greater North Caroli na." “Each of you .sitfling here,” he told the 4-HVrs,'“is a living tes timony to something that I have been .saying for years: farming is nett dead in North Carolina." He stressed the interdependence of agriculture arid industry in the state and nation arid pointed to the strengthened position the li mited States finds itself in today because of farmer efficiency. He called on Abe ■4-H’ers to "help prune outdated fanning practices" and -work for North Carolina's Agri guttural Opportu (C*m£im*ed On Page Eight) Cuithi Dixon's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Curtis Sims Dixon, 78, retired fanner and dairyman of the Bethlehem com munity, were held Mlondey after noon from Bethlehem Baptist church of which he was mem ber.. Mr. Dixon succumbed Saturday morning aft 10:45 a. m. iin the Kings Mountain hospital after aa» illness of several days. A native of Cleveland County,] he was .the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Dixon. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Addle Mae Wylie Dixon; three sons, H. K. Dixon and Charles E.j Dixon, both of Kings Mountains Graham Dixon of Newton and’ three daughters, Mrs. Lee Me-, Daniel of Kings Mountain, Mrs., M. I. Hardin of Grover and Mrs. Fred Ensley of Wilmington. Also surviving are four broth-j ers, Rush Dixon and W. E. Dixon, both of Kings Mountain, J. F.| Dixon of Caldwell, Idaho and T. B. Dixon of Dallas; and two sis ters, Mrs. John Bridgeman of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Earl McClain of Ptrincetcn, Mo., eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Rev. W. G. Gamp, Rev. George Moore and Rev. James Helvy of ficiated Interment was in the chhneh cemetery. First School Day For Pupils Of Area Schools August 28 Yule Holidays | Abbreviated By Two Days Kings Mountain district school children will begin the 1961-62 term on Monday, August 28, ac cording to the forthcoming year’s schedule adopted toy the board of education this week. August 28 opening day will be orientation day, when pupils will report to classrooms, be is sued books, and assigned les sons. It will be a half-day sche dule. School buses will operate.; First full day of dlasswork will i be Tuesday, August 29, for all students with possible exception of firat-graders. Supt. B. N. Bar nes said cafeteria wll be in op eration at all schools on August 29. Faculty members will begin work earlier than usual this year, result of legislation by the recent General Assembly. Faculty mmberts will begin work on Thursday, August 24. Other slight change from for-1 mer schedule is in the Christmas holiday schedule, which this year calls for only eight free school days, compared to me ten iorm erly granted. Supit. Barnes said the slightly earlier opening date and the sli ghtly abbreviated Christmas ho lidays were adopted by the board of education on grounds that, wilth Ithe district operating school buses for the first time, inclement weather is more likely to force school closings than formrty. The board also voted to pay teachers on the 25th of each month. The full schedule for the 1961 62 term follows: August 24 _ Faculty mem bers report. August 28_All pupils report to school for orientation day. August 29 __ All schools oper ate on full-day schedule. October (date not yet set) — One holiday for meeting of Southwestern district. North Carolina Education association. November _ Thursday and ■Friday holidays, Thanksgiving 'weekend. December 19 — January 1 — Christmas holidays. April 20-23_Easter holidays. May 24 _ Classroom work ends. May 28_Classroom teachers complete duties. Heavnei Finn Opens Friday Marshall Heavmer’s Goody Goody BarJB Q wffll open lor bus iness at 5 o’clock Friday after noon. The new establishment, located on U. S. 74 adjacent to Bettrware school, is successor to the former one Mr. Heavner operated on U. S. 74 east of Gastonia. The form er location has now become State Highway commm&on right-of way. The new establishment will be open daily except Tuesdays. It will be open from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and if ram 11 a. m. to midnight on Fridays, Sat urdays and Sundays. The firm will ser- pit-cooked barbecue, all kinds ol sandwiches Including shrimp and fish sand wiches. LIONS SPEAKER_Mayor Kelly! Dixon will address members of the Kings Mountain Lions club at their Tuesday night meeting at 7 o'clock at the Woman's Club. J. Wilson Crawford arranged the program. 200-Pint Quota Next Blood Call Goal of next Friday’s blood mobile is 200 pints of blood. And there’s a special reason, Red Cross chapter chairman M. D. DuBose says. “If the August 11th visit of the bioodbank is a success, Rev. Du Bose added, Kings Mountain blood donors will give 30 pints of blood needed by Clarence L. Elgin, who undergoes open heart surgery soon, and 116-plus to erase a deficit in the blood pro gram during the ’61 year. ’’’We’re behind in our blood giving,” Mr. DuBose pointed out as he called on citizens to “give of yourselves by giving a pint of blood.” Mr. DuBose gave these statis tics about the blood program: “The Piedmont Oaroldnas Re gional Blood Program was es tablished in September, 1948, for the purpose of collecting, proces sing and distributing blood to meet the needs of patients in the hospitals served by the program. ■"There are 35 Red Cross chap ters and two military installa tions — Fort Bragg and Camp ILejeune — participating. Blood and its derivatives are provided to hospitals served by the pro gram. . •’Kings Mountain Red Cross Chapter is a participating mem ber of this blood program and by being a member, no resident admitted to - member hospital is charged to. Red Cross blood. “Our community has a tremen dous responsibility to each per son. When we help someone else over a crisis, we give of oursel ves in the democratic way." The blood bank will set up for operation here from 11 a. m. un til 5 p. m at the Woman’s chib. Retailer Picnic Set For August 1G Annual employer - employee picnic of the Kings Mountain merchants Association will be held Wednesday, August 16th. i Women of Oakdale Presby terian uSiureh will again pre pare the meal. Serving will be gin at “7 o’clock, i Merchants Association Sec retary Mrs. Ida Joy asks that ticket reservations be made with her by August 10th. W. S. 'Fulton, Jr., is chairman in charge of arrangements for the annual outing. No, You're No! Nfis-reading: City Wants To Be Billed For Sales Tax The City of Kings Mountain WANTS to pay sales taxes due! As proof, CSty Clerk Joe Mc Daniel, Jr., exhibited a letter Wednesday which is being mailed to all of the city’s regular sup pliers. Of course, there’s a reason therefor. Under Mr. McDaniel's interpre-! tation of the sales tax statutes effective July 1, the city, by law, is required to pay direct to the State Revenue Department the three per cent sales tax should i vendor of tangible personal pro petty fail to Itemize the tax item.: “Some are billing us for sales tax and some are not,” Mr. Me-; Daniel explained, “and it would! be much simpler for all concern-1 ed if all vendors charged the tax themselves. Additionally, vendors who don’t charge the tax run the risk of having to absorb the a motmt of the tax.” The dty, of course, on submis sion of documentary proof sub sequent to June 30, 1962, will ob tain refund of aH sales tax paid. •Mr. McDaniel is also asking all vendors selling the city to furn ish a minimum of two copies of all invoices, listing thereupon the articles purchased and amount of the tax. He wants one invoice for: furnishing the state with the re-' quired “documentary proof and! the other to retain in the city fil es. All agencies of government, in i'Continued on Page Eight) Davidson Plant To Be Large Grammar School The Kings Mountain board of education voted unanimously at a Monday session to consolidate Davidson and Compact high schools at the Compact plant. The board had delayed deci sion previously due Ito opposition by some Davidson patrons. Superintendent B. N. Barnes commented on the decision, "In view of repeated recommenda tions by export survey teams, by sltate school officials and by the Kings Mountain board of educa tion's recent thorough surveys, the board fellt that in all fairness to the Negro high school stu dents of the Kings Mountain ad ministrative district, consolida tion of the Davidson and Com pact high schools at the Com pact plant was imperative for the year 1961-62.” Meantime, the Davidson plant will be utilized for a large ele mentary school, which Supt. Barnes said, would have a min imum of ten teachers and per haps 12. Davidson will bo the elemen tary school for students already attending Davidson, for former Washington school elementary pu pills now in the Kings Moun tain distract, and perhaps for a few Oompadt elementary stu dents who live nearer the Dav idson plant. Compact will be both a high school and elementary school, with majority of Compact ele mentary students resuming stu dies at that plant. Consolidation of the two high schools provides an enrollment potential of 185 to 190 high school students and, Supt. Barri es recently told a protesting Da vidson delegation, willl be ait eight-teacher school. replacing the former four-teacher Compact school and three-teacher David son school. Though officdall teacher allot ments have not yet been received from the State Board of Educa tion, Supt. Barnes reported to the protesting delegation that he had been verbally promised an eight-teacher allotment for the merged Negro high school. Ail pupils living sufficient distance from any school to which they are assigned willl be provided transportation to and from school. The board of education previ ously had voted to merge Beth ware, Grover and Kings Moun tain high schools at the Kings Mountain Central plant Central will house for 1961-62 up to eight eighth grades, plus the four high school grades, 9-12. As a means ito providing more classroom space at Central, tVe board on Monday authorised Supt. Barnes to vacate has pre sent office in Central building and to move himself and his staff to the school-owned frame. resident at 201 E. Ridge.street. Supt. Barnes said he and- his; staff will occupy the new- quar-. tars as quickly as possibles ' Mrs. Roberts' Rites Thursday Mrs. Mamie Louise Roberts 84, widow of James Albert Ro berts, died Wednesday morning at her home on West Mountain street after an Illness of several years. Funeral rites will be conduct «1 Thursday at 4 p. m. from Harris Funeral Chapel, inter ment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Rev. H. D. Garmon, Pastor of Central Methodist church, will officiate at the final rites. Mrs. Roberts was a native of Gaston county, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Calvin Bumgardner. She was a member of Central Methodist church. Mr. Roberts died in November, I960. Surviving are one son, James C. Roberts, and two daughters Mrs. Nina Wolfe and Miss Ether Roberts, all of Kings Mountain' and five asters, AOs Frank Mc Daniel of Wilmington, Mrs. Will McDaniel of Charlotte, Mrs Ger ard Sherer and Mrs. Herman Er mn of Erwin, Tenn., Mrs. Curtis Falls of Greenville, S. .a.iMCo grandchildren and five ereait grandchildren.