Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 Gity Limits 8,008 TbU figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure Is bom the United States census of 1960. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL 72 No. 32 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 17, 1961 Seventy-Second Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins REGISTRATION New studenfts who will enter the high school this fall are encouraged toy Principal Har ry Jaynes to register prior to opening day, particularly those who have recently moved into the community. OPTIMIST The Optimist Club of Kings Mountain will meet in regular weekly session Thursday at 7:30 P. M. ait Grace Methodist Church felowship hall. NO FIRES Oily Fireman T. C McKee said Wednesday morning the department had no alarms du ring the past week. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter reoeipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $122.45, including $96.15 from on-street meters, $14 from over-parking fees, and $12.30 from off-street me ters, City Clerk Joe H. McDan iel, Jr., reported. AUXILIARY MEETING Officers of Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion Auxiliary, will be Installed at the regular Thursday night meeting at the home of Mrs. P. G. Bafcterree, 404 West Gold Street. AT MONTREAT Dr. and Mrs. Paul Ausley are attending the Bible Conference at Montreat this week. Dr. Aus ley is pastor of First Presbyiter church. SESSION MEETING New members will be receiv ed at First Presbyterian church Sunday morning in a special meeting of the session at 10:30. BROADCAST Sunday morning worship ser vices during the month of Au gust wll be broadcast via Ra dio Station WKMT-Jram Gold Street, Wesleyan Metho dist churdh. Hedden, Phifei In Dance Band Joe C. Hedden, city schools band director, :and Wendell Phi fer, Jr., string bass, are members of a newly organized 15-piece dance orchestra wearing the title “Knights of Music.” The orchestra, organized by Dick Buse, personnel director of Pittsburgh Plate Gloss Company, will specialize in featuring the (rythms of the thirties and early forties. The Kings Mountain band dir ector is an aita saxophone play er and two members of the ag gregation are well-known in Kings Mountain. Lewis Cathey, of Gastonia, is a veteran band master himself, remembered here with his orchestra at Stag Club dances In the late thirties and early forties, and Reggie Norris, trumpet, was a member of the Calthey band of that era. The orchestra, claiming to pro duce "The Best Sound in Town by the Best Band Around”, made its debut last Friday night .at the Cleveland Country Club. Buse himself is not a musi cian. Other members at the band are Homer Hawoitth; Shelby hand director, trumpet, Don Dead, Bessemer City band director, al to saxophone; Bill McKee, Gas tonia, tenor saxophone; Tony Anthony, Gastonia; baritone sax ophone; Leary Cloer, Gastonia, trumpet; Frank Putnam, Shelby, trumpet; Ted Gregory, Gastonia, trombone; Clyde Moss, Gastonia, piano; and Bob Trevarthen, drums. Future booking far the band is an August 25 public dance, [ at Shelby’s city park, a fund raising project of the Shelby Jay cees. Linda Biser With D. C. Paper Miss Linda Biser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Biser, is in Washington, D. C., where she is employed by the Washington Post and Times-Herald as a copy girl. Miss Biser, a rising senior at University of North Carolina School of Journalism worked part-time at the Herald during her senior year in high school and during the following sum mer. Until she went to Washing ton, she had been a reporter for the Shelby Daily Star. Miss Biser will return to Cha-j i pel Hill In September, her fath-, |er said. 1 >. i . -i ____ BETHWAKh FAIR QUtFN —_ Miss Judy Watterson has heen named Miss Bethware Fail of 1961. Miss Watterson, an honor student at Bethware high school, is a rising senior. She is a daughter of Mrs. Will Watterson and the late Mr, Watterson. LIONS SPEAKER_Senator Ro bert Morgan of Shelby will ad dress Kings Mountain Lions at their Tuesday night meeting at 7 o'clock at the Woman's club. The program has been arranged by J. Oliie Harris. WIN .BERMUDA TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Trott have won a trip ito Ber muda in October, result of a contest conducted by Maryland Life Insurance of Baltimore and won by Mr. Trott, insur ance agent for the company. Other insurance agenits qualify ing and their wives will join ■them on the trip. Annual Event Is Prelude To 14th Fan Members of Beihware Jhsogres si vie Club will be host* next Wed nesday at the annual pre-Fair barlbeeue to catalog advertisers and other friends of the fair. (Barbecue dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 at BetlAvare school, Secretary Frank Hamrick announced. The Progressive Club, sponsor of the fair, have entertained at barbecue dinners each fair year. This will be the fourteenth. IMr. Hamrick also announced that the Cleveland County Life Saving and Rescue Squad, Inc., will he in charge of food conces sions at the September 13-16 event, and that the Cleveland County Auxiliary police squad will be in charge of auto parking 'Mr. Hamrick also urged area farmers to make plans for ex hibiting at the fair and for com peting for the long list of prize awards and he invited would-be commercial exhibitors to contact him for space reservations. 'Miss Judy Watterson, Beth ware High School honor student and a rising senior, has been named Queen of the forthcom ing fair. She is a daughter of Mrs. Will Watterson and the late Mr. Watterson. Until his death, Mr. Watterson was a member of the Bethware Pro gressive Club and frequent fair official. City Contracts Electrical Survey, Completion Date Is Mid-December A survey of Kings Mountain’s electrical distribution system was approved by city commissioners Thursday night and will begin immediately. The survey is scheduled lor completion by mid December. Mayor Kelly Dixon comment ed, in presenting the proposal lor the survey, “The city’s elec trical system is in critical condi tion and we are in the position that we must Wave someone toi tell us what to do about it." The survey, contracted to1 Southeastern Consulting Engi neers, Inc., of Charlotte, will cost the city $3,500. Kay D. Conn and Frank Stone, representing the engineering firm outlined a detailed survey proposal. .The survey will in clude: 1) Plotting present facilities on a map, outlining circuits, sec ondaries and loads carried. 2« A study report ol the en tire present electrical system, noting overloads and weak areas. The consulting engineers will then map out as many as six or more functional systems which jrouid solve the city’s electrical (Continued On Page 8J CHAPLAIN _ Iter. H. -5. Gar mon, pastor of Central Methodist; church and chaplain of the Kings Mountain fire department was elected chaplain of the North Carolina Firemen's Asso ciation and of the Fire Chief's Association at the 74th conference of Fire Chiefs in Goldsboro last weekend. School Pupil Assignment Plan Detailed C Of C Supports Water Rate Cut Blanton Says ! Industry-Getting Would Be Aided BY DAVID BAITY Reduction of water rates to outslide-city industrial users was requested of city commissioners Thursday night by Paul Ledford, j former city commissioner and employee of Massachusetts Mo Hair Plush Co., and Charles Blan ton, president of Kings Moun tain Chamber of Commerce. (Mr. Blanton, in presenting his request, noted that he did not know (Mr. Ledford would be present for the same purpose. I Blanton said he was present to promote a favorable industrial climate for the Kings Mountain business comanunity—-for present industries and also for prospec tive ones. Noting the 50 per cent higher rate for wafer sold outside the city, he commented ‘‘Kings Mountain hasn’t a particularly low rate in city or out, compar ed with neighboring communi ties.” He said, according to a survey made recently, a new business locating in a Kings Mountain sub urban community would pay practically twice the water bill it would, if .it located outside Shel by. Mr. Ledford, in his comments, noted amply that he felt outside dty rates were excessive and would like to see them pared. He said the rates are not conducive to obtaining new industry and added that new industry would bring more revenue to Kings Mountain than water profits. City Clerk Joe McDaniel lists the principal outside-city indus trial water user as Massachu setts Mohair Plush Co. with a consumption rate ranging from tour to nearly six million gallons per month. He notes the firm’s water bill ranges from $1200 to $1800 per month. 'A one-time good customer-was Foote Mineral Company, but Mc Daniel said, the ta now con sumes only from r. Pressly will fill the pulpit at Sunday services. Eight Faculty Members Employed; Schools Purchase Still Property Kings Maintain School Boar< members voted at a called meet ing Tuesday to purchase a trao of land adjoining Kings Moun tain .High School property from Mrs. Garland E. Still for $1900. The board lias been negoti sting with MrS. Still for the plo for some montns and could no agree oh price. A plat adjoinin' both the Still and school proper ty was purchased from Mrs. D H. Houser for $1500 and Mrs Stfll was offered the same foj her lot. 'Negotiations failed and the board instigated condemnation procedures against the property Jtfree months past. Chairman Fred Plonk noted at he meeting Tuesday that Mrs. still has agreed to sell for $1900 md has produced a registered Jeed for an additional triangu ar plot which she feels merits he additional $400 in price. Chairman Plonk told the board he condemnation procedure, if >ursued, would cost the taxpay ers the additional sum and the school needs the property now. He said the lot is a proposed site for the pre fabricated build ngis which will be used to house (Continued On Page 8) BELK'S MANAGER _ Bill H. Brown assumed management oi Belle's Department Store here last week. The ten-year Belk's veteran came to Kings Mountain from the Mooresville store, where he managed the boy's wear de partment. He succeeds Hilton L. i Ruth, manager of the Kings Mountain firm since 1940. Advisory Group Includes Moss, Rhea. Williams BY MARTIN HARMON Mayor Kelly Dixon appointed a three-member city Stadium ad visory committee Wednesday. He named John Henry Moss, president of the professional Class D Western Carolina Lea gue, J. E. (Zip) Rhea, Ward 5 city commissioner, and H. O. (Toby) Williams memlber of the Kings Mountain district board of edu cation to serve as a committee to study stadium needs, and pos sibilities, and to recommend im provements, if feasible, to City Stadium. Possible improvements to City Stadium would 'be in addition to construction of a small fieldhouse, which the city Commission has already approved as a coopera tive project with the Kings Mountain Kdwanis Club. (Mayor Dixon said Wednesday that work on tire stadium field house plans and specifications is well underway. When ready, the Mayor is au thorized by the commission to advertise for bids. Mayor Dixon said the three member stadium study commit tee, authorized by the dity com mission last week, will name its own chairman. He noted that Mr. .Moss is experienced in stadium manage ment in several cities, that Mr. Rhea is a construction special ist, and that Mr. Williams, in ! addition to his longtime interest ; in sports, is also a member of the board of education, which contemplates in the reasonably near future building of a new high school plant, with conjunc tive Stadium facilities. lOity Stadium was begun as a Works Progress Administration project prior to World War II. Initial plans called for a field house and permanent stands, but the advent of the national emer gency and subsequently United States entry into World War IT caused a cancellaitlon of the fed eral appropriation and suspen sion of work, with1 little more than the playing field complet ed. Several city administra tions have made improvements, including erection of permanent and temporary bleachers. Short ly after World War 13, the Ki wanis Clulb made the city schools a gift of the present stadium lighting facilities. The city rents the stadium on a virtual cost-of-lights basis, with the high school accorded first rental priority and the Otis D. Green Post 155, American Le gion, second rental priority. Dr. Plonk Heads' Gaston McGills *'* Dr. George W. Plonk, Kangs Mountain surgeon, was ele< ’t<'t president of McGills of Gaston at the clan’s annual reunion Wed nesday at Bethel ARP Church arbor off Cherryville road. The clan re-elected Norman F. McGill Jr., vice-president, and Mrs. Marriott D. Phifer, secre tary. Both ax-e of Kings Moun tain. Dr. Plonk succeeds Miss Jean McArver of Gastonia. Rev. George Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran Church, addressed the clan and declared" ‘A sense of belonging is one of the most important needs of the soul” Jle suggested that all need to feel the clan relationship, par ticularly in the current times of need and distress, and not merely annually. Mr. Moore said the family is the basic dan unit, that the church is the next dan and the state the third clan. Mrs. Bari Carpenter, chair man of a committee to revise and up-date a clan historical book let, said work is underway on the revision of the booklet which was published in 1940. Other members are Miss MtaArver, Miss Ava Ware. Miss Annie Lee Wolfe and Miss Nancy Plonk. Members of the clan are de scendants of the late John Thom us McGill.