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VOL 72 No. 31 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 10, 1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS Popnlation Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 TUI figure tot Oreoter Xlngs Mountain U derived bom the IKS Kingt Mountain dry directory ceesut. The dtf limit* figure t* bom the United State* censu* o{ 1160. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today FUN AT CAMP _ Jane Yates, North Carolina's 1961 Easter Seal Child is shown with camp counselor Larry Oldham as they enjoy "Coffee Break" at the Easter Seal Camp for physically handicapped children in the William B. U instead State Park in Wake County. Jane is from Kings Mountain and Larry is from Clayton. Camp ac tivities include swimming, fishing, heating, cook-outs, athletic games, and arts and crafts. Bloodmobile Here For Visit Friday ■. <1. v m r ► Local News METER RECEIPTS Parking mater receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $13735, in cluding $102.65 from on-street meters, $19 from over-parking fees and $15.70 from off-street meters, City Clerk Joe McDan iel, Jr., reported. ATTENDS MEETING R. H. Bryant, principal ©< North school and president of the Kings Mountain unit of ithe North Carolina Education Association, attended an NC EA lepdens conference held at Mars Hill ooQlege Saturday, Sunday and Monday. SPEAKER A seminasy student from Gastonia will conduct worship (services Sunday at Dixon Pres byterian church in the absence of the pastor, Rev. James Mann, on vacation. COURT OF HONOR Court of Honor for Kings Mountain district Boy Scouts will be held Thursday night, August 10th, at 7:45 p. m. at Central Methodist church. IN NEW ORLEANS Andrew Jenkins, well-known Kings Mountain citizen is un dergoing treatment at Ochsner Foundation hospital in New Orleans, La. Mr. Jenkins is a patient in Room 606 on the Sixth Floor and friends may write him in care of Ochsner Foundation Hospital, 1516 Jeff erson Highway, New Orleans, 21, La. TO ALABAMA Mr. and Mrs. W. D. (Johnny) Kerns, formerly of Kings Mountain, have moved from Vienna, Ga„ to Valley Head, Ala. Mr. Kerns continues his association with Korns Broth ers, Kings Mountain - based firm. KIWANIS PICNIC Kings Mountain Kiwanians and their families will picnic Thursday aft 7p.ra.ait Bethany ARP church, with women of the church to serve the meal. Band Rehearsal Sel For Monday Pre-school band rehearsal has been scheduled for Monday night at 7 p. m. in the school bandroom at Kings Mountain ' high school. • >&K*. j Band director Joe 0. Hedden I inverted all high school stu dents and eighth graders ift tcrested in bond to be present tor the organizational meeting. Ah-. Hedden said purpose of the pre-school rehearsal is to prepare for the coming march ing setsbh. Scene OH Call The.Red Cross bloodmobile will .return here lor . a. oneway collec tion on Friday rfnom U a. m. un til 5 p. ra. at Kings Mountain Baptist Church. Goal of the .visit is 200 pints oi£ blood, enough Red Cross chap ter officials are hopeful to erase a 116-pint deficit from last year and furnish the 30-needed for a Kings Mountain man to under go open heart surgery. Blood Program Chairman Ma rion DuBose again stressed this week the need tor a successful visit of the bloodbank Friday. 'Further commenting, Mir. Du Bose noted that last year Kings Mountain area citizens gave a total of 673 pints of blood and required 789 pints of blood from usage at Shelby, Gastonia, Char lotte and Kings Mountain hospi tals. Mr. DuBose listed these re quirements tor a bipod donor: 1) Age 21 through 59. Minors (18-21) will be accepted with written consent ©f parents or guardian. Married minors or servicemen do not require consent from parents. 2) Weight: at least 110 pounds. 3) Frequency: Honors may give every 8-10 weeks but not more than five times ajyear. 4) Nourishment: It is impor tant that a donor have food prior to giving blood, not a fat or fat containing food as dairy prod ucts, mayonnaise, peanut blitter, Bam, bacon, nuts or chocolate. Mr.. DtiBose added, "You can save a life with the blood you .can spare.’’ Top Band Hays Sunday At Fade The Brooklyn - Oayce high school band, of Columbia, S. C., will play a free public concert at Lake Crawford bathhouse in Kings Mountain State park be ginning at 3 o’dlock Sunday af ternoon, it was announced this week by Ray Sisk, superinten dent. The 91-piece band, conducted by Thomas Thomly, ia the offi cial South Carolina state band and last year was winner among competing bands at the National Cherry Blossom festival, Wash ington, D. C. The band also per formed at’ a Washington Red skin football game test season. It has been adjudged top South Carolina high school band tor the past several years. The band is in camp at the Kings Mountain park. AT WHITE LAKE Members of the Beth ware and Grover chapters of Future Fawners of America are at the FFA camp at White Lake. They were accompanied by their ad visors, Myers Hambright tend Paul Hambright. City Electrical System Survey Is Likely Hilton L. Ruth Retiring At Belk’s Bill H. Brown Will Manage Belk's Run Hilton Ruth, manager of Belk’s Department Store since June, 1940, is retiring, according to announcement Wednesday 'by A. C. Craven, of Mooresville, sec retary - treasurer of the Kings Mountain Belk’s Store. Mr. Rath is being succeeded by (Bill H. Brown, who assumed management Wednesday. Mr. Brown comes to Kings Mountain alften ten years of service in Bedk stores at Concord and Moores ville. (Mr. Craven said, “I am sure I speak for all the store officials in expressing regret at Mr. Ruth’s statement. Mr. Ruth serv ed Belk’s during an era of great progress.” (Mr. Ruth1 'joined the Belik’s or ganization in 1938, earning to Kings Mountain from the Char lotte store. He has been in ill health the past three years, suf fering from a serious vision ail ment, which has severely impair ed his sight. The Ruths, who live at 802 Rhodes avenue, expect to continue to reside in Kings Moun tain. Active in civic affairs, Mr. Ruth is a former lion, member of Lake Mlontonia chib, the Mer chants association and other or ganizations. He and Mrs. Rath ale members of First Presbyter ian church. (Mr. Brown, age 30, spent two years at the Concord store, be fore joining the (Miooresville or ganization. He worked in the shoe and men’s wear departments before becoming manager of the boy’s department. He subsequent ly served on the shoe committee of Belk’s Buying service Mr. Brown studied three years at Catawba college. He and his wife, the former Betty Horton, are both natives of Mt. Ulla. They are naamibers of Amity Lutheran church Where Mr. (Brown is a member of the church council and a Sunday school teacher. They have two daughters, (Debor ah Brown, nine, and Cynthia Brown, three. The Browns ex pect to move to Kings Mountain as quickly as a stotable residence ean be obtained. (During 'Mr. Ruth’s manage ment, Belk’s purchased the S. (Battleground avenue building* the firm occupies and extensive ly remodeled them, including in stallation of air-coruStionin g. Sweet Potato Vine Found 'Blooming' Mayor Kelly pixon discover ed an unusual sweet potato vine in his garden this week. The Mayor found the vine blooming with lavender and white flowers. Only one vine of this type was ’ visible in the otherwise normal "sweet potato patch.” RETIRING _ Hilton L. Ruth, manager of Belle's Department Store since June. 1940, is retiring. He is being succeeded by Bill H. Brown, formerly with Belle's of Mooresville. Lions Heard Mayor Dixon The Dixon administration has n<ot forgotten requests to re-light (the city, Mayor'Kelly Dixon told members of 'the Lions club Tues day night, but (regards distribu tion system improvement asboth mandatory and first priority. "Our system ;is in bad need of reworking," he declared. “There is low voQifcage in several areas and we feel the first job is tto conduct a survey to determine what work must be done and in which areas first.” The Mayor also reiterated his interest in expanding public rec reation program to a year-round program for all age groups. He commended the 'Woman’s Club for its leadership in effecting •» program for the Golden Age group. The Mayor also told the Lions he would welcome advice, posi tive or negative, “to make our City fair, worthy of attention, and w' lhy of attraction.’’ He declared. “We have the •same advantages, natural re sources and other assets as our neighboring oomimmities_and in some ways better ones.” | He had first reviewed his life as a farm bsy, carpenter, de pression-dictated railroader and textile worker, to builder, lay minister, and candidate for the United States Congress. He said his experience in the 1960 cam paign, even though unsuccessful, dictated his entry into the may oral race last spring. Mayor Dixon spoke on a pro gram arranged by Wilson Craw ford. Guests at the meeting were City Commissioner J. 'E. Rhea, William Wright, Frank Case, Charles Woodward and .John Seism. County Polio Chapter Officials Smile As $17,000 Gift Received Officials of the Cleveland Co unty Chapiter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis were smiling this week on re ceipt of a check for $17,000 as an emergency contribution torn the National Foundation. Announcement of receipt of the check was made here by J. OlKe Harris, chapter vice-chairman. The emergency contribution will enable the county chapter, Mr. Harris said, to wipe out a $11,000 deficit, exclusive of 1961 fund drive receipts, resulting lar gely from last year’s high inci dence of polio in Cleveland Co unty. Cleveland recorded 41 cases of polio in 1960, Remainder of th£ funds will provide operational cash for the remainder of the year. Though no Cleveland county' patients currently are hospital ized, the foundation is providing medicines and other essentials to several polio victims, Vice-Chair man Harris added. I TO RECEIVE DECREE _ Jean Hicks. dmifhtK of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hicks, of Kings Mountain, will receive her bachelor of sci ence degree in commenced cn t exercises next Friday at Appa lachian State Teacher's college i at Som Agriculture Commies loner I. T. Ballentine of Bcdelgh will address the graduating class. - Ralph Canigan Suspension Is On Agenda The board of city commission ers will consider two proposals from neighboring firms for con ducting surveys of the city elec trical distribution system at rhursday night’s regular August meeting, Mayor Kelly Dixon said yesterday. The board has proposals from Southeastern Consulting Engin- j eers, Inc., and Henderson, Dust- i ham & Richardson, Inc., 'both with offices in Charlotte. Representatives of these firms are expea-od to be present for the session to clarify certain terms of the survey proposall. The com mission budgeted $5,000 for this purpose and Electrical Superin tendent Hunter Allen says, with the advent of very hot weather, overload situations have devel oped in several areas. Another item on the agenda will be commission action on the recommendation of Chief of Po lice Martin Ware to discharge Officer Ralph Ganrigan. Chief Ware suspended Officer Carrigam last weekend. Mayor Dixon com mented “That’s about all I know about it.” Also on the agenda will be proposals to paint the exterior wood trim of the Deal stlreet wa ter filter plant and for painting the large water tank. Mayor Dixon said he would al so renew his request to the board of commissioners to authorize him to appoint a city stadium planning committee, a request tabled at the July meeting. Also scheduled is a public hearing on street improvements assessment on Mjji street, Rid ge street and Railroad avenue. The board convenes at 7:30 at City Hall courtroom. Hiatt To Fill Baptist Pulpit -Dr. John Hiatt, dean of stu dents at Gardner Webb Junior college in Boiling Springs, wi'll fill the pulpit at services the next two Sundays at Kings Mountain Baptist church. Mr. Hiatt will preach at both morning and evening services each Sunday 'in the -absence of the pastor, Rev. M. D. -DuBose, on vacation. Dr. Hiatt, a native of Pickens, S. C. graduated from Baylor Uni versity and New Orleans TheOlo gical Seminary. He and his wife, the former Mary Cares of Louis iana, organized the first South ern Baptist mission work in the state of New York at Niagara Palls in 1954. He also served a* pastor of Byhalia Baptist church ih Mississippi 'before joining the Baptist junior college. IThe Hiatts have three children Kennedy loins Staff At Paik Soe Kennedy, of Sheltiy, has joined Ithe' Staff of Kings Moun tain National Military 'Park as admhustrative assistant, accord ing to announcement tins week by Superintendent Ben H. Moo maw. Mr. Kennedy is a graduate Of Belmont Abbey in business ad ministration and previously gra duated from Gardner-Webfc coll ege. He, his wife the former aayne Smith and four-month-old (dau ghter have occupied a home at flhe park. He succeeds Eddie Campbell Barbecue Set For August 23 •Plans are underway for stag ing the fourteenth annual Beth ware Comunity Fair Barbecue on Wednesday, August 23 at 5:30 p. m. at Beth ware school. -The, annual! barbecue is the kickoff for the Bethware Com munity Flair, held annually on , the Bethware school grounds. Tickets far the barbecue can be obtained at Bethware school from 5:30 to 7:30" p. m. pn Au- , gust 23 or by contacting Frank, j Hamrick, secretary of the fair. Barbecue plates will cost $1.50 , each, and Mr. Hamrick noted, , will he available for delivery at , 7:30 p. m. Hamrick noted plans for the ] annual fair are nearing comple tion and that fair catalogs con- i taining information about the e- i vent and advertising by county merchants are now being print ed. Board Considers Pupil Assignment SPEAKER _ Rev. James Moss. missionary on furlough, will speak at services Sunday at First Presbyterian church. Mr. Moss is a Kings Mountain native. Moss To Speak Here On Sunday Rev. James Moss, home on fur lough from the Presbyterian mis sion field in Brazil, will conduct services Sunday at First Presby terian church. Mr, Mass,' Kings Mountain na tive, will fill the pulpit at the 11 o’clock worship hour and Will speak previously to combined a duit Sunday School classes of his work daring the past SSve years. Rev. and Mrs. Moss will show elides to Ithe young peopite el the church at their regularly sche duled 6 o’clock meeting. Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor, invites the interested public it® attend services. Three Teachers Are Employed The board of odumtwi approv ed employment of three new .teachers. They are: (Mrs. Margaret Ha r r e 1 svr Baird, qualified to teach eighth or ninth grade level. She is <a daughter' of Boyd Hanrelaon, Route 3, Kings Mountain, and now resides in Gastonia. Evan J. Evans, Worth Caro lina native, now af Orlando, Florida, teacher of L^tin, who comes to Kings .Mountain from Oak Ridge High School, Orlando. (Miss Alice Elaine Falls, teach er of eighth grade/ oS Morg«nton. Among vacancies remaining are a teacher of girls’ physical education and a teacher of ’-the oducable retarded. ARFs To Heai Building Plains Plans for the new educational building of Boyce Memorial ARP thruroh will be presented to (the congregation at Sunday morning services, August 20th, the pastor, -Dr. W. L. Piressly, has announced. Architect J. L. Beam of Cherry ville will present plans for the first part of the building pro gram underway by the church on Edgemont drive. Eleven o'clock worshib services will npt be^held this Sunday In the abfienceof the pjtettt*. Dr. and Mrs. Pre.sSlyi on vaoaliofc, will re turn for the -morning ' sendees; Aug. 20. . \ Improvements Are Ordered At Davidson The board of education dis cussed without action (Monday night adoption of the legally re quired pupil assignment resolu tion for the term beginning late this month. Vice-Chairman H. O. (Toby) Williams said the discussion cen tered on 1) teacher loads and 2) potentially over loaded situations in particular grades based on 1960-91 grade populations. Mr. Williams noted there are always "bulges’’ in some grades, such as 40 sixth graders at a particular school creating an over load for one teacher but two few for two grades. In the past, these "budges” have generally been handled by volun tary transfers. These factors, however, in crease the difficulty of drawing the pupil assignment resolution for which the board has already adopted the generic plan: Com pact and Davidson high schools will be merged at the Compact plant; former Washington ele mentary pupils, Davidson ele mentary pupils, and possibly a few former Compact elementary pUpWs Will be assigned to the Davidson plant; Central plant will house eight eighth grades plus all grades 9-12; last year's West School sixth grades will at tend Park Grace. Mr. Williams said he anitici pated the board would re-con vene in the near fixture to adopt the formal resolution. The board also took two.steps to improve the former Davidson High School plant and to expand facfiSWes at new Davidson ele mefttbary plant. > At the former high school/plant, the hoard ap proved architect's plans for in stallation of interior rest rooms and authorised finishing a class room, formerly unused, at the n*ew elementary plant. (Both proj <eots, Mr. Williams said, are to be completed to time for school opening. • / . Appointed 1» the Grover school advisory committee were John Sold, BUI Camp, Stough Wright, P, A. PraaKis and H. IK. Dixon. The hoard named S. L. Fliegel, Ohpiilotte, audiittng firm, to «oon duca the 2W0-61 audit of local funds. Retaflei Onting Set Wednesday Kings Mountain merchants and their esnployeer, will gather Wed nesday fdr the annual employer Iemplpjtee praise. The -outing will .be held at 7 o\iock an Oakdale Presbyterian 1 Church arid women <©f the church will prepare the picnic style meal. * * 1 Merchants Should make ticket W*erv*t«ms .with Mrs. Ida Joy, aawxmtion secretary . ■ Students Asked To Register'Early Kings Mountain area stu-'. ‘ dents entering the area high scStool tot the fall tern Should , register during the period Au gust 15-25, Principal Harry . Jaynes said this week. * Sir.. Jaynes said 1“ - ts most . . important, that ■ new students |j .register as early as possible., j , Hours’ of registration .a^e from 9 tunMI 12 noon daily ill |. the office of the principal , Sights For Safety Among Efforts To Pare Labor Day Weekend Toll \ Turn. on your lights for saf ety _ day or night when driv ing __ September 1-5! It’s . pant of . Che effort of -the state highway patrol and Che state’s voluntary traffic safety county coordinators to pare the acident toll during the Labor Day weekend. Major C. A. Speed, director of the highway patrol safety divi sion, wrote Ollie Harris, Kings Mountain area chairman: "We are requesting each mo torist who is genuinely concern edl over our traffic safety problem and who will voluntarily pledge to comply with aUl safety rules and regulations to bom his mo tor vehicle lights continuously while driving from 6 P. M„ Fri day, September 1 to 8 A. M., Tuesday, September 5. This would indicate to the other mo torists using our street and high way system that he is not only conscious o< the traffic safety problem but has pledged to do| his part in reducing motor vehic-1 le accidents.” BAR GRADUATE _ Palmer E. Huffstetler was amay the 153 low school graduates successful ly passing North Carolina bar examinations August 1-3. Huffstetler Passes Exams Palmer E. Huffstetler, of Kings Mountain, was among 153 appli cants successfully taking the stale law examination, according to announcement Monday by the North Carolina Board ot Law Examiners. Mr. Huffstetler underwent the examination August 1-3 in Ra leigh. On receipt of his license, he will join the Kings Mountain firm of Davis and White in the general practice of law, accord ing to 3. R. Davis, senior mem ber of the firm. Mr. Huffstetler attained the Bachelor vi Laws degree from Wake Forest oodtege in June, af - ter winniing Uie Bachfejrat of Arts degree at Wake Forest in 1958. He is Ithe son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan HuffeWtler. His wife is the former Mary An ne Beam, also of Kings Moun tain. The Huffstetiers are residing at the home of the Ber> F. Beams, 202 S. Goforth street. A Myron Rhyne Now Colonel Graham Mayor Myron A. Rhy ne has received.hte eagles from a U. S. Army genera 1 in being pro moted to the position of colonel in the Army Reserve. Col. Rhyne’s promotion ' was presented to him- by Brig.- Gen. O. I. Wrenn (U.aAR. Ret.) of Greensboro during special core monies held at (the U. S. Artny Reserve Armory in Graham. Col. Rhyne has served 28 years in the Army and Army Reserve, beginning tins career in the Quar termaster General’s Office in Washington, D. C., during World Waar. II. He served in the African and Middle Eastern Theaters during the war, holding posts as post quartermaster for Alexan dria and Suez, Egypt At the end of the war, he was serving ais assistant theater quartermaster. During his service with the re serves, Col. Rhyne has spent most of his time with the unit station ed in Graham. At first, the unit was a USAR school, in which he was commanding officer and In structor. At present, he is commanding Officer of the 3278th Civil Affaire Group, which would have charge of civil • administration of occu pied areas in time of war. He holds the Legion of Merit and. (Continued On Page Eight) Grigg Commended l For Academic Work ' j Gaither Glenn: Griggs, Jr arm ' of Mr. and Mrs. G. G Gri& of • Kings Mountain, has been £>m. mended by North Carolina State :ooUege officials for bis 1960-fii aoademifi record. ■j Mr. Grigg, a. rising senior mai oru»g in <Av* engineering, was commended for “attainment of an ^outstanding scholastic record dUrinVhe, 1960-6! academic year. -Mr. Ongg compiled an av jerage of 3.04 or av McGills Of Gaston To Meet Wednesday Annual reunion of McGills of Gaston will be held Wed nesday, August 19th, m Bethel Church Arbotr. * Program and business ^!l1 ^in at 11:30 fallowed by picnic lunch at 12:30, spokesman for the clan has announced. Miss Jean McCarver of Gas tonia is president of the clan.