Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This figure tor Greater nag* Mountain I* derived tram
the J9SS King* Mountain dry directory census. The dry
Units figure I* Iron the United State* census ol I960.
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VOL 72 No. 35
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 7, 1961
Seventy-Second Year
Local News
Bulletins
LIONS PROGRAM
Sherman Perry, historian of
Kings Mountain National Mi
litary Park, wilil discuss the
"Southern Campaign of the
American Revolution” for
members of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club Tuesday night
on a program arranged by Dr.
George Plonk. Mr. Perry will
also show slides illustrating
his address. The club convenes
ait 7 o’clock at the Woman’s
Club.
LIONS DIRECTORS
Dinner meeting of directors
of the Kings Mountain Lions
club Will be held at the Coun
try Club Thursday evening at
7 o’clock. Directors unable to
attend are asked to call Martin
Hairmon, not later than 10 a.
m. Thursday
OPTIMIST MEET
The Optimist Club of Kings
Mountain wll meet in regular
weekly session Thursday at
7:30 p. m. at Grace Methodist
church fellowshp hall.
NO FIRES
City Fireman C. D. Ware
said Wednesday morning the
department had no alarms
during (the past week.
PERMITS ISSUED
City Building Inspector M. H.
Biser issued permits to J. Wil
son Crawford Wednesday to
build a one-story, eight-room
brick home at 906 Sherwood
Lane at an estimated cost of
$20,000 and a one-story brick,
seven-room home at 112 Cais
tlewood Road at a cost of $17,
000.
KIWANIS CLUB
A tumbling team from Gas
tonia YMCA will present a
program and demonstration in
Karate at Thursday’s Kiwanis
club meeting. The civic club
meets at 6:45 p. m. at the Wo
man’s club.
IMPROVING
W. K. Crook, a patient in
Charlotte Memorial hospital
surgery last week, continues to
improve, his wife * •aid this
week.
TO ATTEND SEMINAR
Dr. Kenneth McGill, Dr.
George Plonk, and Dr. Fihilip
Padgett expect to go to Chapel
mu Thursday to attend a med
ical seminar on “Athletic Inju
ries to be conducted by the Ui
niversity of North Carolina
School of Medicine.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter a-eceipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $110.80 including
$88.25 from on-street meters,
$12 from overparking fees, and
$10.55 from off-sitreet meters,
City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr.,
reported.
MEMBERSHIP GROWS
Membership of Otis D. Green
Post 155, American Legion, for
1962 increased to 95 Wednes
day, Adjutant Joe McDaniel,
jr.,' reported. The Post seeks
membership of 361 by Novem
ber 11, Veterans Day. Vice
% Commander H. O. Williams is
^ membership chairman.
BAKER, BAKER & BAKER
Dr. Thomas Baker has joined
his father, Dr. L. P. Baker, and
brother, Dr. R. N. Baker, in the
practice of dentistry.
fairview lodge
Regular communication of
Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
.will be held Monday night at
7:30 at Masonic Hall, accord
ing to announcement by Secre
tary T. D. Tindall.
TAKES OATH
Palmer Huffstetler became
an official member of the
North Carolina bar on August
29, when he executed his oath
of ’office before Superior Court
Judge J. Frank Huskins in
Gastonia.
laycees To Hold
Kleenex Sale
Kings Mountain Jayeees wil
conduct a Kleenex sale thn
Thursday from 6:00 until 9:0(
D m and President Jim L/yibran<
urges all Kings 'Mountain foli
to respond to the sale. '
The proceeds from the sail
will go to the Jayoee dvfc fun<
which' is used to support Jaycw
charities in the community.
Kleenex will toe at
pnoe of five boxes for $1.00,
Baker Lot Sold
To Harris-Teeter
Super Market
Firm To Build
Major Outlet
BY MARTIN HARMON
Harris-Teeter Super Markets,
Inc., will build a new super mar
ket in the 100-block of East King
Street in the near future, W. T.
Harris, of Charlotte, president,
said Wednesday.
Min Harris said transaction was
completed Tuesday for purchase
of the Dr. L. P. Baker property,
fronting 178.5 feet on East King.
The lot is 275 feet deep. Addi
tionally, saM Mr. Harris, Dr. Ba
ker has agreed to provide ingress
and egress from the abutting
Baker lot which fronts on East
Mountain. •’ -
Mr. Harris declined to announ
ce the purchase price and Dr. Ba
ker could not be reached Wednes
day. However, Dr. Baker had
said several weeks ago that pur
chase agreement had been reach
ed at a figure slightly less than
the $50,000 Harris-Teeter had ten
dered for the former Boyce Me
morial ARP church property at
the comer of Piedmont and King.
Mr. Harris said his firm would
construct a new and modern su
per market of from 12,000 to 13,
000 square feet, with a possibility
that one or two small buildings
for adjacent shops. The building
contemplated will compare in
size to the 11,520 square foot
Winn-Dixie building on Cherokee
street.
Architects have not been con
sulted, pending completion of the
transaction, but the project will
be launched as quickly as possi
ble, Mr. Harris added.
Harris-Super Markets curren t
ly operate in the Warren Rey
nolds building on York Road, fol
lowing the firm’s purchase of the
former Adams Super Market op
eration about two years ago.
Mr. Harris expressed himself
as pleased with completion of ne
gotiations for a site, following a
bout 18 months effort to obtain
several 'suitable ones. He said the
transaction had been handled for
Harris-Teeter by W. L. Teeter,
the firm’s executive vice-presi
dent.
Though tabulations are incom
plete, he added, , Harris-Teeter
grossed approximately $24,000,
000 during its fiscal year just
ended September 1.
The firm operates 19 super
markets and three drug stores in
nine other North Carolina cities,
including Charlotte, Cornelius,
Kannapolis, iMooresville, Newton,
Linoolnton, Hickory, Morganton,
and Gastonia.
Rev. And Mrs. Julian
Now Residing Here
Rev. and Mrs. George Julian
have occupied Mrs. Julian’s York
Road residence.
Until recently pastor of Temple
Baptist church, Brevard, Rev. Ju
lian will represent John Rudin
& Company, publishers of “The
Book of Life” and will serve as
a supply and interim pastor.
Mrs. Julian is the former Mrs.
Myrtis Welch Plott.
Tall Grass Harbors
Snakes; Fire Hazard
An appeal to Kings Mountain
folk to keep their lots, vacant
or occupied, mowed was made
Wednesday by (Mayor Kelly
Dixon.
The request has a three-fold
purpose: 1) high grass and
weeds now harfoors rats and
snakes, 2) when autumn sets '
in it will be a fire hazard as
grasses dry out, and 3) un
kempt lots are unsightly and
Mayor Dixon feels they de
tract from the beauty of the
city.
Mr. Dixon urges all Kings
Mountain citizens to cooperate
in the clean-up campaign. City
mowing equipment is available
to aid in the job at a nominal
charge.
Arrangements for use of the
mowing tractor can foe made
with Grady Yelton at the city
garage.
United Fund
Names Dilectors
Participating agencies in the
1960-61 Kings 'Mountain United
i Fund campaign have 'been asked
'ito present budget requests lor
11961-62 at a meeting at Central
Methodist chtirch Thursday ev
i ening at 8 o’clock. I i '
Bob Maner, president, also is
sued an invitation lor other
charitable organizations interest
ed in becoming participating
members to attend the Thursday
j night meeting.
'Last week, contributing mem
! bers met at City Hall, re-electing
| three directors and live new di
j rectors. The holdover directors
are W. S. Fulton, Jr., J. Ollie
Harris and Rev. Herbert D. Gar
mon.
INewly elected directors are
Torn Burke, Ed Goter, W. F.
(Laughter, R. B. (Peck) Payne
and Robert Lowe. I
(Eight organizations participa
ted in the combined appeal last
year and have received checks
: tor 75 percent ol tWeir particular
| budgets. President (Maner says
additional collections should
1 push the payments to the 85 per
.cent range.
Last year’s participating or
ganizations were Jacob S. Mau
ney Memorial Library, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Kings Moun
tain Red Cross chapter, David
son school band, Kings Mountain
school band, Cleveland County
Life-Saving and Rescue Squad,
Inc., and the city recreation com
mission.
1 Ratterree Notes
His 96th Birthday
S. C. Ratterree observed his
96 th birthday Monday.
Born shortly after the end
of the Civil War, Mr. Ratter
ree, now living at Turner Nur
sing (Home, near Shelby, spent
Sunday and Monday with his
son B. D. Ratterree and
Mrs. Ratterree, with Capt. B.
M. Ormand, another nonoge
narian as guest at a birthday
dinner.
A retired school teacher, Mr.
Ratterree is a native ol the
Neely's Creek community, near
Rock Hill, S. C.
Numerous friends called to
convey greetings.
Cotton Specialist 1.0. Ware
Reports On Two Years In Egypt
BY MARTIN HARMON
(If ordering eggs for breakfast
in Cairo, Egypt, one should spe
cify “big eggs”, which, ait the
Nile-Hilton (Hotel, at least, means
an order for imported American
eggs.
This advice comes from Dr.
J. O. Ware, Kings Mountain na
tive, who has just returned from
two tours of duty in Egypt as an
agricultural advisor to General
Nasser’s (Ministry of Agriculture
i covering about two years. He
(was first retained as a cotton
! production specialist by the
I Egyptian government, then re
turned to the same work as a re
presentative of the Food and Ag
I ricultuml Organization of the
^United Nations.
There are no big native bhick
' ens in Egypt, therefore, no big
1 native eggs. With arable land at
‘ a premium, there is no grain for
(poultry, and the foraging chick
,1 en grows to what Dr. Ware de
I scribes as ‘"about partridge size."
. The uninitiated decry an order
! for a whole chicken, he says, then
! don't have any trouble eating all
rdf it i
I Egypt now has sue million ara
foie acres, plants virtually all of
it to cotton, Which produces 1.5
to 1.125 inch long staple with
production up to an average of a
little better than a bale to the
acre.
The Egyptians double-crop,
rushing a wheat crop between?
cotton plantings, which has ef
fect of doubling the arable land j
to nine million acres, very brief
for Egypt's 26 millions of people, i
Dr. Ware worked on cotton!
breeding (the cross pollenation
of strains) and seeding improve
ments, promoted regional plant
ing, sought to develope better
seed varieties, to multiply the va
rieties more rapidly, and urged
more attention to weed elimina
tion.
'1 thought they were leaving
too many weeds in the field. They
had the labor, but they were get
ting lazy," he laughed.
iHe said the yield per acre was
up last year over the previous
one, and would be up more this
year, barring undue insect dam
age. Heavy amounts of insecti
cides were imported from this
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Shows A-Plenty
In Local Area
September 13-23
Fun-minded fair and circus de
votees Should get plenty of en
tertainment in this area during
September.
Items:
1) The 14th Bethware Commu
nity Fair will open Wednesday
continuing through September
16. i I
2) A1 G. Kelly and Miller Bro
thers Circus has booked a Show
date here for September 16, last
day of the 'Bethware Fair.
3) The Kings Mountain lions
club has booked Hoxie Brothers |
circus for sponsorship here onj
September 23.
The Kelly-Miller Circus may
run afoul of heavy license fees,
Phil Hege, manager of the Shel
by office of the state revenue de
partment, and Robert Gidney,
county tax collector said. They
noted 'that General Statutes 105
38 contain a provision empower
ing the state revenue commis
sioner, or his agents, to grant li
cense only at $1,000 per perform
ance, in event a circus (or simi
lar attraction) shows in compe
tition within a county of an ag
learners, who have been paid $1
county is permitted to assess
half the license fee Charged by
the state. For a two performance
show, on booked date, the K-eMy
Miller outfit could 'be charged li
censes totaling $3,000.
School Transfer
Action Soon
It will be several days, Super
intendent B. N. 'Barnes guessed
Wednesday, before the Kings
Mountain district board of edu
cation acts on intra-system trans
fer applications.
He said the initial list of 18
has now been pared, as several
parents voluntarily have asked
that prior applications be with
drawn.
application of parents of itwo Ne
gro children for transfer from
Compact to Central.
Mr. Barnes said the board cus
tomarily awaits administration
results in solving load problems
before acting on transfer appli
cations. He said he anticipates
action on the transfer requests
prior to the September 18 regu
lar meeting.
L L Hutson's
Hites Conducted
'Funeral rites for L. L. Hutson,
51, were held Tuesday at 2 p. m.
from Swioegood Funeral Chapel
in Danville, Va., burial following
in the family cemetery at Axton,
Va.
Mr. Hutson, Park Yam Mill
overseer here the past 10 years,
died at his home here Sunday
morning of a heart attack. A
native of Pennsylvania County,
Va., he was the son of the late
Mir. and Mrs. William Hutson.
Mr. Hutson was a member and
superintendent of the Young Peo
ple’s department at Macedonia
Baptist church, a member of
BPOE, Elks Lodge No. 227 of
Danville and a Mason, member
of Rayma Lodge No. 70 of Dan
ville.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Beatrice Mountcastle; a
step-daughter, Miss Mary Brown,
of the home; one son, Herman
Hutson of Danvilie; one daugh
ter, Mrs. Adeline Brammer of
Danville; two brothers, George
Hutson of (Burlington and Eng
lish Hutson of Danville; two sis
ters, Mrs. Eva Hutchins of Bur
lington and Mrs. C. L. Jones of
Danville; and two grandchildren.
Rev. Wayne Ashe officiated at
the final rites.
Davidson School
Teacher Directory
Mrs. Addie Gibson Grier, Lake
Monltonia Road. Grade 1.
Yvonne Beam, 709 Buffalo St.,
Shelby, Grade 1.
Mrs. Pernell G. Bennix, 104 N.
Tracy Street, City, Grade 2.
Mrs. Juanita Herron, 1501
Whisnant Ave., Charlotte, Grade
2.
Mrs. Willie Marable, 407 Belve
dere Circfle, City, Grade 3.
Miss Garnell Dye, 1307 Sandor
St, Charlotte, Grade 4.
Mrs. Virginia P. Wiggins, Lake
Morotonia Rd., City, Grade 3 & 4.
Mrs. MaTy B. Cabbagestalk,
303 Watterson St., City, Grade 5.
Mrs. Margaret B. Leach, 506
Watterson St., City, Grade 6. j
Mrs. Adelaide M. Allison, 102
Watterson St, City.
Mr. Connie A. Allison, 102 Wat
terson St., City, Principal, Grade
8.
(Inadvertently omitted from
directory published in August 31
Herald). I
Enrollment In Area Schools
On Fifth Day Up 39 To 4203
Amoses Hoping
Beilin Tension
Soon To Ease
Capt. and Mrs. William E. A
mos and three-year-old daugh
ter Laura are sitting on the door
step of the Berlin crisis and find
it uncomfortable.
Capt. Amos, serving with the
U. S. Army, is chief dermatolo
gist at the 130th station hospital
in Heidelberg, Germany. Heidel
berg is approximately 400 miles
from Berlin.
The Amoses recently vacation
ed in Norway, Sweden and Fin
land. Their tour was started just
before the Berlin crisis reached
its current peak. They returned
to Heidelberg on Friday, just be
fore the iron curtain slammed
shut on Sunday.
In a letter to Mr. and Mrs. M.
C. Amos, parentis of Capt. Amos,
! the couple reported, “We hope
I the Berlin situation gets better
| soon. We are required to keep
I extra food in the house. In case
1 we should have to leave, we will
have the bare necessities with
us."
They reported they heard news
cf the Berlin situation and local
happenings via WBT Radio in
Charlotte on September 1.
Capt. Amos was stationed in
Heidelberg in December, 1960 for
a two-year tour of duty.
Prepayments
Of Taxes Heavy
August prepayments of counity'
taxes totaled $650,000 through
Saturday according to R. S. Gid
ney, county tax collector. How
ever mail containing prepayment
checks is still being posted.
Gidney guessed the August
figure could be raised from
$100,000 to $150,000 higer when
the posting chore is finished.
Prepayment of 1960 taxes to
taled 46 percent and to equal the
percentage of the $2 million levy
this year would have to total
from $850,000 to $900,000.
August prepayments for the
city of Kings Mountain Wednes
day totaled $71,282 of the esti
! malted $168,000 levy.
The 1960 August prepayment
total was $40,000.
Prepayment tax discount
through the month of September
will be one per cent for both
county and city.
Jaycees Hear
Maner Address
“If wo were (the same free en
terprise nation today that we
were 15 years ago, we would
have no problem with Soviet
Russia,” said Bob Maner in an
address to Kings Mjountain Jay
eees Tuesday night at Kings
Mountain Woman’s Club.
Mr. Maner was centering his
address on a statement of the
Jaycee creed, “We believe that
economic justice can best be won
by free men through free enter
prise.”
Maner stated it is his opinion
that the free enterprise system
of the United States has been
greatly dimmed by social legis-1
lation during the past decade
plus.
“Liberal elements in the con
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Hosiery, Throwing
Firms Expanding
ASSUMES POST _ Hev. M. C.
McGaha assumed on August 20
the Temple Baptist Church post
recently vacated by Rev. Jack
Weaver.
McGaha Temple
Baptist Pastor
i The Rev. M. C. McGaha, former
I pastor of Beaver Hills Baptist
| Church, Spartanburg, S. C., as
| rumed the Temple Baptist church
pastorate on August 20.
The Temple Baptist post was
vacated by Rev. Jack Weaver
who accepted a call to Chioola
Baptist Church, Honea Path, S.
C. The Rev. McGaha is a native
of Honea Path.
He is married to the former
Sybil McAlister of Hodges, S. C.
The couple have no children.
They reside at 611 Gantt Street.
Mr. McGaha is a graduate of
North Greenville Junior College,
Tigerville, S. C. and Furman Uni
versity, Greenville, S. C. At age
50, he has served in the ministry
for 20 years.
He was a member of the Spar
tan Association for 17 years,
serving in two South Carolina
communities. Hiis first call in the
association was at Enoree Bap
tist Church where he served for
nine years. The remainder of his
17 years he .served at Beaver
Hills Baptist Church.
Fieldhouse Project
Is Virtually Ready
(Mayor Kelly Dixon said Wed
nesday he virtually is ready to
recommend construction of a
26 by 56-foot field house at City
Stadium to the city commission
ers. *
tHe said the dty has found in .
its inventory a pump suitable!
for use in pumping sewage into i
either the Gaston or East King
street mains.
IHe added he will recommend
that the city contract the work
to individual contractors, minus,
a general contract, in order that!
the work may foe speeded.
Initial plans have been re
vamped slightly, calling for par
ing of four feet of the depth, but
retaining initial length.
Tentative construction of the
field house has been approved.
Bethware Fail Tc Open Wednesday
Foi 14th Annual Four-Day Bun
The Fourteenth annual Beth
ware Community Fair is slated
to be underway next Wednesday
when gates open at Bethware
School grounds at 6:00 p. m. It
will run .through midnight Sat
urday.
The fair will feature exhibits
of premium agricultural products
from the community, commercial
exhibits, school exhibits, handi
crafts, jellies, pies, cakes, and a
midway by R. C. Lee Riding De
vices.
Stokes Wrighft, president of the
fair, said Wednesday a host of
rides will be offered this year in
cluding the swings^ a carrousel,
Ferris wheell, roller coaster, Octa
pus. The Scrambler, and the Tilt
A Whirl.
Tentative plans have also been
made, he said, to add the Rain
bow Chimps, a troupe of trained
monkeys to the attractions.
Program of the fair is for fes
tivi/ties to begin Wednesday, Sep
tember 13 at 6:00 p. m. Opening
day will feature contests and
games far children. Closing wil^
be at 9:30 p. m., just before
which drawings for prizes will
be held, followed by a fireworks
display.
Thursday is Children’s Day
from hours 1:00 to 6:00 p. mJ
Judging of all exhibits in all de
j partmemts will be held. Closing
! hour is 10:00 p. m., proceeded by'
| drawing for prizes and fireworks.
The fair opens at 3:00 p. m.
| Friday. Closing hour is 10:30 p.
: m.
Saturday opening hour will be
1:00 p. m. and will feature prize
drawing and fireworks at 11:00
p. m. Closing hour is midnight.
Midway rides and shows are
featured each day.
President Wright noted some
changes and improvements have
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20 More Jobs
Envisioned
By Mauney
The 120-foot square one-floor
building, providing 14,400 square
feet, will provide about 9,000 ad
dition square feet for 'Mauney
Hosiery Mills, Inc., and about 5,
!500 for Carolina Throwing Com
! pany. 1
W. K. Miauney, Jr., general
manager of both firms, said the
; entire new building will provide
all-new quarters for the throw
ing concern, with the space va
cated by the hosiery firm essen
tially as a warehouse.
, The throwing firm now em
: ploys between 40-45 persons, will
i require from 55-60 when the ex
' pansion is completed.
The hosiery firm expects to
I require five to six more employ
|ees for its current 175-employee
j operation.
Mr. Mauney said throwing e
quipment has already (been pur
chased from Luray Textiles, ILu
I ray, Va., with some more pur
| chases anticipated.
| Plans for the hosiery concern
call for inventorying all hosiery
styles manufactured by the firm
in every size and color. “We hope
to ship orders for men’s hose no1
later than 24 hours after re
ceipt,” Mr. Mauney commented,
Noting the recent increase in
minimum wage, Mr. Mauney said
a few regular employees would
get five-cent per hour raises from
$1.10, the recent effective mini
1 mum, with exception of a few
liiip 'utni ui \nej ptiminou
' per hour while training.
■ •
Franklin Navy's
Bites Conducted
Military graveside rites for
Franklin Navy, 19-year-old Kings
Mountain native, were held Mon
day afternoon at 4 p. m. from
Mountain Rest cemetery.
Grandson of Mrs. J. A. Ly
brand and Frank Navy of Kings
Mountain, young Navy was kill
ed Saturday morning when he
apparently went to sleep at the
wheel of his car and it overturn
ed, throwing the driver from it
on NC 441 in Bladen County. He
was on military Heave from the
naval air base at Fallon, Nev
ada for a visit with his parents,
Mr. and Mns. James E. Navy of
Lumberton, formerly of Kings
Mountain.
Other survivors include two
brothers, Richard and George
Navy, both of Lumberton.
Funeral rites were held Mon
day morning from Biggs Funeral
Chapel in Lumberton.
Watlerson Clan
Reunion Sunday
Descendants of the late John
W. Watterson and related fam
ilies will hold their annual clan
reunion at Lake Crawford Sun
day. September 10, it was an
nounced by W. L. Watterson.
Picnic dinner will be served
about 1 o’clock.
About 200 members attended
the 1960 gathering at Lake
Crawford.
Mauney Hosiery
Gets Contract
Mauney Hosiery Company,
Inc., was successful bidder last
week for two million pairs of I
socks for the army and air force.
The firm was awarded a mil
lion pairs via formal bid, with;
another million under the small
business set-aside clause, W. K.
Mauney, Jr., general manager,
reported.
The successful bid was placed
at 32 cents per pair for a gross
contract of $640,000.
Contract calls for delivery toj
begin within 90 days and for!
completion within 240 days, to
Che Philadelphia, Pa., Quarter-!
master Depot.
Several Load
Problems Have
Been Alleviated
iKings Mountain urea schools
enrollment increased to 4203 on
■the fifth membership day, Mon
day, Superintendent B. N. Barn
es reported, a gain of 39 over the
4164 on August 29. i
Meantime, Mr. Barnes reported
some alleviation of overload pro
blems and of the split-grade sit
uation at Park Grace school.
As of 'Wednesday, only two
Park Grace teachers were as
signed split--grade teaching, as
compared to six of the seven
teachers on opening day. The
change was effected toy volun
teer transfers to 'Bethware, Nor
th and East schools. Mr. Barnes
said a few more transfers are
, needed to ease further the Park
j Grace seventh grade two-teacher
I overload, where there are still 74
seventh graders.
Three* other over-load situa
tions remain, he added, two at
East school, another at Davidson.
iAt East there are 72 second
] graders, with two teachers, and
: 75 fifth graders with two teach
ers. Mr. Barnes said he was wort
king Wednesday to obtain volun
teer transfers out of each grade
to other schools.
At Davidson, 42 seventh gra
ders were enrolled, which Mr.
i Barnes termed too many for one
j teacher, two few for two.
I (Failure to Obtain sufficient
transfers, might force setting
up split-grades to handle the
overloads, he added.
Still another not-complete);
solved problem was that o'
I transportation of educable re
i tarded children to (Bethwane. He
said pick-up spots for those chil
dren are the convergence of the
■Cherokee Ridge road at Highway
216 and at Jolly’s Amoco station
on W. King street.
“'If we hbd an extra room at
Central, we’d have no transpor
tation problem for this class, but
we simply don’t have it,” Supt.
Barnes commented.
High school population increa
sed to 1064, a gain of three at.
; Central and seven at Compact.
Elementary school popu lation
increased by 29 to 3139, including
2412 at Central, North, East,
West, Bethware and Grover
schools, and 727 at Compact and
Davidson elementary schools.
Mrs. Blanton's
Rites Conducted
■Funeral rites for (Mr*. Bessie
Lee La wing Blanton, 32, were
held Tuesday at 3 p. m. from
Harris Funeral Home Chapel,
with Rev. C. E. Oxford and Rev.
R. L. MeGaha officiating.
Mrs. Blanton, wife of S. A.
Blanton, foreman in the city wa
ter department, drowned Sunday
about 1 p. m.. in Davidson Lake.
Her death has been ruled suicide
by Coroner J. OUie Harris,
Corner Harris said his investi
gation revealed Mrs. Blanton
was apparently despondent over
her ill health. She drove to the
city reservoir and her car be
came stuck in mud along the
banks. Her shoes were
on the lake bank and Shelby men
canoeing at 4:15 on the lake dis
covered the fully-clothted body
floating about a yard from, shore.
She was a native of Jackson
County and a member Of Oak
View Baptist church.
Besides her husband she is
survived by her father, Thomas
C. Lawing of Dillsboro; one son,
Donald S. Blanton of the home;
and seven sisters, Mrs. Ray Sel
lers, Mrs. Julian Mills, and Miss
Juanita Lawing, all of Dillsboro;
and Mrs. Marshall Wilkoy, Mrs.
Frank Crisp, Mrs. Frank Home
and Mrs. Ross Taylor, all of
Gastonia.
Interment was in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
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