Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This figure for Grater Doffs Mountain Is derlred from
the 1955 Dogs Mountain city directory census. The city
limits figure Is trom the United States census ol 1960.
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VOL 72 No. 33
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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 24, 1961
Seventy-Second Year
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Local News
Bulletins
APPOINTED
Mrs. Luther Joy, Merchants
Association secretary, has been
appointed a member of the at
tendance and publicity com
mittee for the Southern Con
sumer Clinic. The Clinic’s an
nual meeting will be Septem
ber 12-13 at Hotel Charlotte.
SCOUT TROOP
Girl Scout Troop 4 of First
Presbyterian church will re
sume meeting schedules Mon
day with the first session to be
held at 3:30 p. m. at the
church.
UNITED FUND
The annual meeting of the
Kings Mountain United Fund
will be held Thursday, August
24th at 8 p. m. at City Hall,
President Bob Maner has an
nounced.
QUARTET HERE
The Taylor Quartet will sing
at morning worship services
Sunday at Piedmont Baptist
church. Rev. Wray Barrett will
fill the pulpit at both morning
and evening services.
PERMITS ISSUED
Permits were issued this
week to Mauney Mills, Inc., to
make a $15,000 addition to
Carolina Throwing Company
on S. Cansler Street and to
Frank Eugene Gladden to bui
ld a five-room brick and wood
dwelling on Bridges street at
an estimated cast of $11,000.
FIRE
City firemen were called to
Cleveland Avenue Tuesday at
9:30 p. m. to douse a trash fire.
The blaze was in some rubbish
on the site where the old Blue
Lantern building was recently
torn down. No property dam
age was reported.
FAIRVIEW LODGE
An emergent communication
of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
will be held Monday night at
7:30 at Masonic Hall, Secretary
T. D. Tindall has announced.
AT SAINT MATTHEW'S
The Rev, Edgar Cooper will
deliver the sermon at the 11
a. m. worship service Sunday
at St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church. Rev. Cooper is pastor
of the Oldest United Lutheran
church in America in Potts -
town, Pa. Rev. Cooper is the
son of Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Coo
per and is visiting them onhis
vacation here.
LUTHER LEAGUE
The Ltiither League of St.
Matthew’s Lutheran church
will have a farewell supper for
those going away to school
this fall, Sunday at 6 p. m. All
students of the church going
away to school this fall as well
as the regular leaguers are in
vited to attend.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $123.45, including
$94.25 from on-Street meters,
$16 from over-parking fees, and
$13.20 from off-isfereet meters,
it was reproted by Mrs. Grace
Wolfe, assistant city clerk.
J. G. WARE REUNION
Descendants of James Gra
ham Ware will gather for the
annual family reunion Sun
day at the residence of Clyde
Barber in Concord. Dinner will
be served at 12:30. Last year
the reunion was held at the
Jake Hord home here, with a
bout 200 members of the clan
present.
OPTIMIST MEET
The Optimist Club of Kings
Mountain will meet in regular
weekly session Thursday at
7:30 p. m. in Grace Methodist
Church fellowship hall.
City Asking Bids
| On New Truck
The City of Kings Mountain is
advertising for bids this week for
purchase of a three-quarter ton
truck far use of the water and
sewer department.
Bids are to be received until 7
p. m. at the office of the Mayor
or City Clerk on Thursday, Sep
tember 14. Complete specifica
tions may be obtained at the of
ftaa of «m Clark.
Davis Successor To Mauney
As Savings & Loan President
NEW AND RETIRING PRESIDENTS _ J. R. Davis, left Tuseday
succeeded W, K. Mauney as president of Kings Mountain Savings
and Loan assoication. Mr. Davis becomes fourth president of the
association founded in 1907. Mr. Mauney has served as president
for more than 22 years, assuming the office in February 1939.
City-Wide Sales
Event Uuderway
HEADS DEMOLAY _ Emmett
Edison (Eddie) Ross, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Ross and
a high school senior, will be in
stalled Thursday night as Mas
ter Councilor of Kings Mountain
Chapter, Order of Demolay. The
DeMolay meets at 8 p. m. at Ma
sonic HalL
Bell Mailing
Phone Books
Subscribers to Southern Bell
Telephone services here and
throughout the county should
receive new telephone directories
within the next few days, Floyd
Farris, manager said this week.
New directories are to be mail
ed on Thursday from Atlanta,
Ga.
About 3500 directories will go
to Kings Mountain exchange
subscribers, Mr. Farris said, a
record. Kings Mountain listed
only 397 telephones in 1938 and
1839 in 1952. By 1959 the total
was 2989. Grover, with only 44
telephones in 1938, now has more
than 450 telephones.
The new directory will be lar
ger than the expiring, with three
columns of numbers per page
and an over all size of 9 x 11.
Direct long distance dialing, to
become operative in Shelby on
October 1, is anticipated for
Kings Mountain during 1962, Mr.
Farris added.
Pressly To Fill
ARP Pulpit Sunday
Dr. W. L. Pressly will fill his
pulpit Sunday at Boyce Memor
ial ARP church. Services will be
held at West School, the Sunday
School hour at 10 a. m. and the
morning worship service follow
ing.
Dr. and Mrs. Pressly will re
turn the latter part of the week
Irani a two weak'a vaeadBon.
18 Retailers
Collaborate
In Sellarama
'Kings Mountain 'Merchant’s Au
gust Sellarama got underway
Monday and continues until close
of business Saturday.
The Sellarama is a sale offer
ing bargains to Kings Mountain
and area shoppers with tie-in
goods for back-to-school.
Special Sellarama radio broad
casts by WKMT Radio from the
window of C. E. Warlick Insur
ance Agency on W. Mountain
Street have been in progress
since Monday and will continue
through Saturday.
'WKMT is offering a free gift
to all who drop by the studio at
the Warlick Agency and present
a sales slip from any participat
ing store.
(Participating in the Sellarama
are StercM’s, Inc., Kings Moun
tain Drug Company, McGinnis
Department Store, Bridges Hard
ware, Cooper’s Inc., Dellinger’s
Jewel Shop, Pulton’s Department
Store; Medical Pharmacy, Inc.,
Page’s Men’s Store, Plonk Broth
ers and Company, Plonk Motor
Company, Belk’s Department
Store, McGinnis Furniture Com
pany, Victory Chevrolet Com
pany, Winn-Dixie Stores, Eagles’
5-10-25c Stores, and Rose’s 5-10-25c
Stores.
Associate sponsors of the event
include Herald Publishing House,
WKMT Radio, First Union Na
tional Bank, and Home Savings
and Loan Association.
Directors
Carl Manney,
Crawford Resign
J. R. Davis, Kings Mountain
attorney, succeeded W. K. Mau
ney, veteran president, of Kings
Mountain Savings & Loan As
sociation Tuesday.
Action by the board of direc
tors came after President Mau
ney and Directors Carl F. Mau
ney and J. Wilson Crawford re
signed from the board of direc
tors.
Elected vice • president were
Dr. L. P. Baker, Kings Mountain
dentist, and R. Lee Lewis, Besse
mer City dairyman, both veteran
directors.
The three directors resigned, it
was announced by Ben H. Bridg
es, secretary-treasurer, in order
that corporations in which the
Messrs. Mau ney are stockhold
ers, and purchasers of homes
constructed by Mr. Crawford,
realty developer and builder,
could obtain mortgage loan funds
from the savings and loan asso-j
ciation.
Some 18 or more months ago, j
the association board of directors
had adopted a resolution, at the
insistence of the Federal .Hcmc.
Loan Bank, declaring the asso
ciation would make no loans to
officers or directors expect in
financing their personal residenc
es.
Mr. Bridges said Federal Home
Loan Bank officials stated the
policy was being “suggested” in
line with the general policy of
the federal government in re
quiring officials to avoid conflict
of interest in specific duties ver-|
sus personal economic activities.!
While the Kings Mountain)
Savings & Loan Association is j
not a federally chartered savings!
and loan association, the Federal
Home Loan Bank is the super
visory authority for the federal
savings and loan insurance cor
poration, which insures each as
sociation savings account up to
$10,000.
Mr. Bridges said the Messrs.
Mauney intend to use savings
and loan financing in connection
with the current expansion pro
gram, already underway, of
Mauney Hosiery Mills, Inc., and
Carolina Throwing Company,
Inc. Mr. Crawford, hte added, will
now be able to recommend sav
ings and loan association financ
ing for homes he is constructing
in Country Club Estates.
Mr. Bridges commented, “I
speak for the board of directors
and, I feel assured, for the asso
ciation’s many shareholders, In
stating regret at the loss of
these directors who have given
loyal and excellent service in
managemnt of th association’s
affairs. How'ever, the decision of
these directors seems beneficial
to all concerned and to the asso
ciation particularly. Frankly, the
association feels it should keep
Kings Mountain business at
home, if at all possible.”
Retiring President Mauney be
came director and president of
the association In February 1939.
He was the association’s third
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Early Yet, Bnt Three From Area
listed As *64 Governor Possibles
BY MARTIN HARMON
Though Governor Terry San
ford has been Governor only
since January, political specu
lation on those who might vie
for the Democratic nomination in
1964 was produced this week fol
lowing the death of Lt.-Gov.j
Cloyd Philpott,
The lieutenant-governor had;
been widely considered as a
leading candidate for the gover
nor’s nomination in 1964.
Several possibilities have been
mentioned from this immediate
area, including U. S. Represen
tative Basil L. Whitener, of Gas
tonia, ex-U. S. Representative
and past state Democratic Chair
man Woodrow W. Jones, of Ruth-1
erfordton, and State Senator Ro-1
bert F. Morgan, of Shelby, five
term member of the Senate and
from 1959-61 the Senator’s pro
tempore.
Sources close to Mr. Jones, who
retired from Congress in 1956,!
report he waa giving eonsidera-,
tion to the 1964 race prior to Mr.
PhMpott’s sudden passing.
Rep. Whitener has consistently
refused comment on possible’
gubernatorial aspirations.
Senator Morgan, here Tuesday
night, was disinclined to com
ment seriously on possibilities he
might seek to occupy the Gover-!
nor’s Mansion.
Another name mentioned as a
likely possible is that of State!
Representative Joe Hunt, of
Greensboro, speaker of the
House.
One or more of the candidates;
could be encouraged, or vice ver
sa, with the outcome of next;
spring’s U. S. Senate primary1
fight, if any. Senator Sam Ervin j
has already announced he’ll
seek re-nomination and rumors,
ere extant in political circles
that Bert L. Bennett, state Demo
cratic chairman and Sanford’s!
campaign manager last year,
will oppose him.
TO RECEIVE DIPLOMA - Miss
Peggy Joyce Reynolds will re
ceive the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from the University of
Tennessee, Knoxille, Thursday.
Peggy Reynolds
To Be Graduated
(Miss Peggy Joyce Reynolds,
daughter of Warren Reynolds, of
Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Gene
A. Ware, of Knoxville, Tenn., will
receive the Bachelor of Arts de
gree in mathematics, with minor
in French, from the University of
Tennessee Thursday morning.
After graduation from high
school here, She 9pent two years
at Woman’s College, University
of North Carolina, and attended
summer school at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. She transferred to Univers
ity of. Tennessee 'toer-junior yeat.
iShe is employed toy Union Car
hide Nuclear Company, Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
■Next June she expects to leave
for Europe, where she will be a
foreign exchange student to
France.
At Tennessee, she was a dor
mitory vice-president and mem
ber of Pi Delta Phi honorary
fraternity.
Senator Says
State Is Sound
State Senator Robert Morgan,
of Cleveland, five-term veteran,
told members of the Kings
Mountain Lions club Tuesday
eight that the state is in excell
ent financial condition and that
the record biennial budget of
more than $1,100,000 should give
no citizen cause for alarm.
He noted that the state’s credit
gets top rating, that bond pay
ments are met on schedule and
that the state operates with a
balanced budget.
“The record budget represents
a state government willing to
provide the sendees the citizens
want,” he declared, but added
that there would be less state
spending if more counties and
cities accepted a proper share of
their local responsibilities.
“Cleveland County is not one
of them,” he said.
Speaking on a program arran
ged by J. Ollie Harris, Senator
Morgan reviewed the 1961 Gen
eral Assembly session. He prais
ed the movement for court re
form, to be submitted to the peo
ple in an amendment election,
and the expansion of the state's
educational program, which, he
said, will claim 76 percent of the
State’s expenditures during the
coming two years.
He expressed disappointment
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Poston To Speak
To Kiwanis Club
Dr. Eugene Poston president
of Gardner Webb Junior college
at Boiling Springs, wil'l speak to
Kings Mountain Kiwanians at
■their Thursday night meeting.
Mr. Poston will uise the topic,
“Danger of Communism” in the
6:45 p. m. program at the Wo
man’s club.
Dr. Po ton began a study of
communism, ways and means of
combating communism, in 1944
under Dr. O. T. Binkley, now
dean of Southeastern Seminary
at Wake Fores*.
A native of Cleveland County,
Dr. Poston attended Gardner
Webb and Wake Forest colleges
and Southern Baptist Seminary.
He had held several pastorates
in eastern North Carolina, Ken
tucky, and Georgia before com
ing to Gardner-Webb where he
taught Bible and Greek prior to
his appointment to the presiden
cy. He has served as interim pas
tor at Macedonia and Temple
Baptist church.
4300 Students
Are Expected
Opening Day
BY DAVID BAITY
It’s back-to-sehool for 4,300
Kings Mountain area students
when the bell tolls Monday at
8:30 a. m.
Students will have a short day
Monday—orientation day. Plans
call for students to be out as
soon after 10:30 a. m. as possi
ble.
Monday activities will include
school fee collections and text
book distribution.
Tuesday will be a full school
day, first day of the 180-day term.
All cafeterias will be in opera
tion.
Meantime, teachers were to re
port to their assigned schools for
duty Thursday at 8:30 a. m.
Teachers will undergo a two-day
orientation program with an
agenda of explanations of school
philosophy, policy, procedure and
requirements; organizational pat
terns and schedules; explanation
of the grading system; and dis
tribution of suppliers, curriculum
guides and record books.
Teachers at Kings Mountain
High, Bethware, Grover, North,
West, East, and Park Grace
schools will be guests at an
NCHA luncheon Thursday at
North Elementary school.
I Supt. B. N. Barnes will con
duct a general meeting after
dinner.
Teachers at Davidson and Com
| pact Elementary schools, grades!
; 4-8, will meet at Compact ]
I school Thursday at 2 p. m. to
[hear , a discussion, of health edu
cation by Miss Alice C. Averitte,
supervisor of instruction.
I Teachers of grades 4-8 at
SNorth, Wet, East, Central, Grov
er, Bethware, and Park Grace;
schools will meet at Bethware
School Friday at 2 p. m. to
hear the same siminar by Miss
Averitte.
'Classes conducted at the Kings
Mountain High School building
will be grades 8-12; East Ele
mentary, 1-7; North Elementary,
1-6; Bethware Elementary', 1-8;
Grover Elementary, 1-8, and Da- I
vison Elementary 1-8.
School officials list school fees!
Elementary: $1.:>0 general fee
collected for supplementary read
|rs, instructional supplies, and li
brary use.
High school: $4.50 textbook
[rental fee; $1.00 library fee; $6
per year typing fee, or $1.00 per
month; 50 cents science lab fee
for all science classes; $1.50 fee
for physical education students;
and a bookkeeping course fee
that has not yet been set.
Optional school child accident
insurance is available from Pilot
Life Insurance Company for
$1.75 per year.
Students will use the following
entrances on Monday to secure
registration information at the'
Kings Mountain High School
plant.
Seniors; will enter the front
door.
Juniors: will enter the East’
j student door.
Sophomores: will enter the!
West student door.
Freshmen: will use the center
entrance in the vestibule of the
auditorium.
Eighth graders: will enter
through the North entrance
doors near the playground.
REUNION
Annual Dedmon • Weathers
reunion will be held Sunday at
Ross Grove Baptist church on
route 1, Shelby. All relatives
and friends are invited to ga
ther for picnic lunch and for a
program.
FALLS FAMILY AT PHILMONT _ Mr. and Mrs. Otis Falls, Jr. and
tehir family are pictured above at Philmont Boy Scout Ranch in
Cimarron, New Mexico. Mr. Falls, a Lutheran Scoutmaster, won a
two-week scholarship for Scouter training, and he and his family
were among many Scouters participating. Linda and Ricky Falls
are standing in front of their parents and young Kenny Falls, age
four, is shown as he begins his ride
City Postoffice
Has New Schedule
Kings Mountain Postoffieo
will bo dlosed on Wednesday
afternoon, effective next week.
Postmaster Charles Alexan
der said ithait windows will be
open for business until 1 p. m.
The Postoffice also closes on
Saturdays at 12 noon.
He said t h at other hours of
operation will remain the
Silica Finn
Incorporated
A new Kings Mountain cor
poration, organized to mine,
process and manufacture silica
and silica products, has been
chartered by the Secretary of
State and corporation ch&rter
has been filed in the office of
Cleveland Superior Court Clerk J.
W. Osborne.
'Paul A. Lancaster is the lone
Kings Mountain citizen listed as
an incorporator and director and
said Wednesday he was not at lib
erty to make detailed announce
ment on the new firm’s plans at
this time. He did say the firm
is working on formulation of
operational plans.
IMr. Lancaster is general man
ager of Kings Mountain Mica
Company, Inc., which operates
two mica mines and refineries, its
Moss and Patterson plants.
Silica and silica products are
used by the glass industry, ini
fibre glass manufacture, by the
chemical and paint industries, in
steel-making, and in foundry op
erations, among others.
Silica is a chemical compound,1
more customarily found as sili-1
con dioxide or silicon anhydride. )
Silica is more commonly known
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West, Davidson Pick-Up Points
Foi Transported In-City Pupils
West school and Davidson
schools will be pick-up and let
out points for students assigned,
respectively, to Park Grace and
Compact plants and not previ
ously provided transportation to
and from school, Superintendent
B. N. Barnes announced Wednes
day.
Pupils effected are members of
two graduating West ,school six
Ih grades and former Davidson
students assigned to Compact
high school.
The former West pupils now
assigned to Park Graee seventh
grades should report to ithe bus
®top at West school not later
than 8 a. m. Monday, and farm
er Davidson pupils now assigned
to Compact high school should
report to Davidson school bus
stop not later than 8 a. m. Mon
day, Supt. Barnes said.
Departure will be not later
than 8:10 a. m„ he added.
Another slight variance in po
licy is posed due to the transpor
tation problem, Mr. Barnes add
i ed, involving some first grade
11 upi'is for the first two weeks of
school. Customarily, first graders'
are dismissed at noon for the
first two weeks of the term, a pq
licy that will be in vogue this
year. However, first graders at:
Beth ware, Grover, Compact, Dav- j
idson and Park Grace who use
i the school bus transportation ■
will remain for the full school:
day, effective Tuesday, unless
their parents wish to call for
them art noon.
All buses wil operate on Mon
day. pupil orientation day, wfth
all students to be dismissed as,
' soon as possible after 10:30 a. m.'
Honored Scoot
Leader Returns
From Philm /rot
A Kings Mountain Scoutmaster
and his family return* f home
Monday after participating for
two weeks in a special prog'ram
of activities for Shout leaders at
Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimar
ron, New Mexico.
“It was fun and we came pome
with a deepen- omrueCatioa for
Scouting," says Otis Falls Jr.
Scoutmaster Falls, his wi* f, De
lores and their children, Linda,
age 10, Ricky, age seven, and
Kenny, age four, were among 119
other Lutheran families awarded
Boy Scouter Lutheran Leaders’
Training Course .scholarships by
the Lutheran Brotherhood frater
nal life insurance society.
(Mr. Falls, a Scout ‘leader here
the past 7 years, received .the
honor after recommendation by
the Piedmont Council, Boy Scouts
of America, and by the National
Lutheran Committee on Scout
ing. He is Scoutmaster for the
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
troop.
Camping at the 139,000—acre
Philmont Ranch was fun not only
for the Scout leaders but also for
their families, the Falls family
report.
The children enjoyed hand
crafts, nature studies, horseback
riding and varied activities from
morning until suppertime. Tours,
games, handcrafts and spoils,
were among activities arranged
for the ladies.
The Scoutmasters met for
training and conference sessions
with some 600 other Scoutmas
ters to compare notes and learn
more from Scouting instructors.
The families lived in “tent cit
ies” grouped in three plots around
a $300,000 residence used by in
structors, three dining areas and
a headquarters building. The can
vas tents had wooden floors with
two single beds in each, a ward
robe and occasional tables and
chairs.
CnM Chief Tagnor
When Burning Trash
Citizens burning trash, oth- ’
er than in contained trash
burners are asked to telephone
Fire Chief Pat Tig nor before -
igniting the trash
Mayor Kelly Dixon said
Wednesday tha* several a
larms have been called by
neighbors when trash fires
weren’t out-otf-haml, resulting
in loss of time and trouble to
the volunteer firemen and cost
ing the city unnecessary ex
pense.
When the fixe department is
informed in advance, the Ma
yor added, it would honor a
larm calls only from the prop
erty owner and ignore those of
well-meaning neighbors.