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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 Ml flgura tbs tass ta la from Baga Mountain U dertvad boo as dtj directory census. Tba dly tka United Stotaa census at ISM. Pages Today VOL 72 No. 37* Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C.t Thursday, September 21, 1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS School Officials Move To Speed Bond Election Newton Says 74 To By-Pass North Local News Bulletins " RALLY day First Presbyterian church will observe Sunday School rally day Sunday, with a spec ial program starting at 9:45 a. m. A total of 21 members will be promoted and 53 will re ceive perfect attendance a I wards, it was anriounced by Dr. Paul Ausley, the pastor. K .. BIDS WANTED 1 Mayor Kelly Dixon is seek ing bids from painting con tractors for painting of city hall courtroom and the police department offices. He said Wednesday only one bid has been received. > m ■ 11 TO TAX SEMINAR City Clerk Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., will attend a tax seminar at Fayetteville Friday. The seminar will be conducted by the North Carolina League of Municipalities. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday tdbafled $112.56, including $89.16 from on-street meters, $9 from over-parking fees, and $14.40 from off-street meters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., reported. JOINS FIRM Curtis George has joined ithe insurance firm' of Liberty Life Insurance Company. Mr. Geor ge is a graduate of Kings Mountain high school and Er kine college. He assumed his new duties this week. FIRE City firemen doused a blaze behind Modern Dry Cleaners on N. Piedmont Avenue Wednes dayabout 7:00 p. m. Some ash es had been dumped behind the firm and blazed up in the breeze. No property damage was reported. OPTIMIST MEET The Optimist club of Kings Mountain will meet in regular weekly session Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at Grace Methodist church fellowship hall. JOINS SHELBY FIRM A. C. (Red) Dellinger, sales man since 1955 with Victory Chevrolet Company, has join ed Crawley Chevrolet Com pany, Shelby, in the same pos | ition. He began his new duties Monday. ENLISTS James Edwin Odoms, son of Mrs. ASlene Miller of 216 N. Slims street, has enlisted in the regular Army for three years. Pvt. Odom attended Kings Mountain high school. REUNION Annual reunion of the des cendants of the late Robert B. and Frances Dixon will be heQd Sunday at Bethlehem fellow ship center. Picnic lunch will toe spread at 1 p. m. Raleigh, professor at N. C. State College, will report: on his trip to Peru at Thursday’s meeting of the Kiwanis Club. The dlub convenes at 6:45 p. an. at the Woman’s club. GOSPEL SINGING Methodist Men will sponsor a program of gospel singing Saturday night at 7 o’clock at Penley’s Chapel Methodist church. Various groups of singers will partdepatp and the -interested public is invited. WEST P-TA West School Parent-Teacher Association will hold the ini tial meeting of the fall at the school auditorium Monday at ;7:30 p. m. DOING WELL Little Linda Styers, 21-man L-old daughter of Mr. and in. Billy Styers struck by a it last week, was repotted in md condition by her mother at weekend. Commissioner Touis Rural Roads 0i Area J. Clint Newton, 12th division highway commissioner, said here Saturday that U. S. 74 definitely will by-pass Kings Mountain to the north. While plans aren’t yet final, there is no question but the one time idea to tie in the U. S. 74 by-pass with Interstate 85 to the south has been shelved. Comm. Newton said he hasn’t seen any of the several surveys, but guessed U. S. 74 would move northward in the vicinity of Carver’s service station and would connect <vith present U. S. 74 in the vicinity of David’s Bap tist church and Bethwaire school. He did not guess the time fac tor involved but said several sec tions are being scheduled by the highway commission in ad vance of the Kings Mountain by pass. Otherwise, Comm. Newton spent Saturday morning With a thorough auto tout through Number 4 and pant of Number 5 townships, checking on second airy roads to determine those most eligible for paving. He noted that the principal change in the highway set-up, as enacted by the recent General Assembly,, concerns secondary roads. “The General Assembly agreed with the Governor 'that traffic checks, number of homes, church es, schools and other factors are not the sole ones in determining the need for paved secondary roads,” Commissioner Newton noted. He added, “I feel the road-pav ing in a county should aliso be balanced. If we pave a road in the west, one should be paved in the east, and if one is paved in the north, then one should be paved in the southern part of the particular county.” Comm. Newton, prior to his appointment as a member of the highway commission, was a member of the Alcohol Board of Control. W. Gold Extension Work Will Begin Work to extend W. Gold street from Juniper street to Phifer road will begin within the next few days. Mayor Kelly Dixon said Wednesday. Mayor Dixon said that all rights-of-way deeds axe now in hanjd and have been recorded. The Mayor also reported ®e cetoit of a petition for the pav ing of Blanton street and added that playground equipment Dor both the Deal street and David son pttayground areas are being repaired and will be re-installed soon. ATTENDS CONVENTION Howard T. Scranton, Transco Pipe Line, Grover, attended the North Carolina UP Gas Asso ciation convention held at the Str Walter Hotel in Raleigh, September 10, 11 and 12. Dickson Report On Mauney Mill Line Expected (Field work on a 10 inch water line to Mauney Mills has been completed by W. K. Erickson, Charlotte water engineer and service to the firm is expected within days. The waterline was approved by city commissioners as they met in regular session Thursday night at Qty Hall. The waterline will service the old plant, plus a new addition fa cing on Cansler Street. Mauney Mills officials install ed a sprinkler system in the plant for fire protection, but found insufficient water pressure to operate it. The board was undecided as to route the waterline should follow, tout suggested more immediate service could be given the firm if the line were laid parallel to Railroad Avenue. (Wesley Bush, Kings Mountain insurance agent and resident Of the Oreeeant Hill section, told the board the Railroad Avenue route would not, in his opinion, allevi ate the low-pressure situation in Orescent Hill. He suggested the 'board consid er laying the line down Gold Street and out Cansler Street, tying the Mauney Mills line in on Cansler Street. This, he said, would give sufficient pressure to tooth areas. The board felt the same could toe achieved toy the (Railroad Av enue route, subsequently running the line down Pine Street and tying in the Cansler Street line. The Railroad Avenue route was approved, subsequent to ap proval by the water engineer. iHie low-pressure question pos ed in the aforementioned area3 prompted a statement from , (Continued On Page Eight) Mis. Paiton's Bites Conducted Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Woody Parton, 68, of E. King Street were conducted at 2:30 p. ni. Sunday from Central Metho dist church with the Rev. Her bert Garmon officiating. MJrs. Parton died at Kings Mountain Hospital Friday. Sihe had been in Hi health for some time and seriously ill for five weeks. She was a member of Central Methodist church, a leader of Circle 5, and: a life niember of the WISCS. She was a past mem ber of the Womari’s Club and tor many years she was an election registrar. Survivors include l*er husband, H. R. Parton; a daughter, Mrs. Tom L. Trott; a son, Stephen Un wood Parton, of Gastonia; three brothers, Horace L. Woody of Lake Jumaluska, Floyd W. Woody of Canton, and Jonathan H. Woody of Waynesville; two sis ters, Mrs. B. R. I>avis of Way nesvdlle, and Mrs. L. G. Welch of Sewell, N. J.; and three grand children. Interment was in Gaston Me morial Park. Pallbearers included Paul Wal ker, Eugene Goforth, Fred Wri ght, Jr., Arthur Walker, Hilliard Bladk, and Floyd Payne. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Men’s Bible Class of Central Methodist Church. Members of the Daughter’s of Wesley Bible class served as flower attendants. Process For Recovery Of Beryll Developed Here By Mine Bureau By MARTIN HARMON A new, two-;stage flotation method far obtaining usable concentrations of beryllium, lith ium and mica minerals from pegmatites is described by the United States Bureau of Mines in a recently-published technical report and is also detailed in an article by James S. Browning in the July issue of Mining Engin eering. Mir. Browning, supervising met allurgist of the Tuscaloosa, Alla., Metallurgy Research Center, Bur eau of Mines, has spent some two years working at Foote Min eral Company here and ettse where in developing the new process. According to Mr. Browning, the second stage flotation pro cess has beep developed to the point a 16 percent recovery of brylliuzn oxide is now possible Mr. Browning wrote in his by fine article in Mining Engineer ing that experiments began with Foote Mineral Company's tail ings. The pulp was conditioned with hydrofluoric add, With the conditioned pu]p subsequently1 washed. Next the washed sands were admixed with water, then conditioned with sodium silicate, sodium hydroxide and oleic add. liriple-deaning folowed. Batch re-treatment consisted of three stages: rejection at the mica, flotation of the spodumene and flotation of .the beryL The batch treatment employed sul furic add and coco amine ace tate to reject the mica. The mica! tailings were conditioned with magnesium lignin sulfonate, so dium fluoride and oleic add. In the final stage, the spodumene tailings were treated with hydro fluoric add, sodium hydroxide and oleic add. The Bureau of Mines has con structed at tire Foote Plant a two-ton-per-hour pilot plant and teste to determine final results and milling coat studies are con i'Continued On Page Eight) TWO MEMBERS OF CATHOLIC TEAM_Rev. Thomas P. Clements. left, is priest in charge, and Rev. John Wall are two of the three Catholic priests who are serving Kings Mountain's recently-created Christ the King parish. The third is Rev, Andre Corbin. The Kings Mountain parish is also serving several Catholic missions in Gaston county. (Photo by Carlisle Studios) Parish Also Serving Some Gaston Missions Establishment of Christ the King parish, effective September 1, was announced Hits week by Rev. Thomas Paul dements, priest in charge. For some yeans Kings Moun tain’s Catholic families attended Mass either at Gastonia of Shel by, but in recent years Kings Mountain has been a mission of St. Mary’s, Shelby, with Mass having been offered at the A merican Legion hall one day weekly. In July, following purchase oi the former Associate Reformed Presbyterian property, a mission ary apostolate center was estab lished here by the Rev. Vincent S. Waiters, D. D., Bishop of the Catholic diocese in Raleigh. Assisting Rev. Mr. Clements here are two recently ordained priests, Rev. John Wall, native of Greensboro, and Rev. Andre Cor bin, native of Springfield, Mass. Current schedule calls for use of the educational building Tuesdays for a school of religion and holding of Mass at 11 a. no. Sundays. Open house will be observed on October 28, feast day of Christ the King, Rev. Clements said. Rev. Mr. demerits has moved into the Piedmont avenue rec tory, which has been renovated. Outlying Catholic missions in Gaston oounity, now being ad ministered by the Raleigh dio cese, will be served also by Kings Mountain, as mission center. The priests will be in Kings Moun tain Sunday evening, Mondays, and Wednesday mornings in pre paration for the week’s work. Rev. Wall is serving the Dallas and Spencer Mountain churches, while Rev. Corbin works in the Cherryville mission. “The parish concept in the Catholic church is service to a designated area. Therefore, cen sus work, hospital visitation, in struction classes and Bible tea ching for children guides our time while on the Missions,” Rev. Clements noted. Water And Food Fall-out Musts J. Ollie Harris, Kings Moun tain civil defense director recent ly named chairman of the county civil defense council, had some specific ___ and comparatively non-costly_advice to give this week on defense against radio active fall-out The advice came against the background of Gastonia showing' highest incidence of radioactive: fall-out in the eastern United States, following the Russian re sumption of atomic testing. Said Mr. Harris: 1) all families should main tain in a sheltered place a five gallon demijohn of fresh waiter, changing it every six weeks. 2) alii families should main tain in a sheltered place a quan tity of canned foodstuffs, vita min pills, and other necessities. Mr. Harris has tone more ex pensive advice far those ready to embark on construction of fall (Continued From Front Page) Schools Ask City For Traffic Aid School traffic problems, par ticularly at West and East '.schools, produced a request from the board of education Monday night that the city in stall stop signs at the intersec tion of Mountain and Watter !SK»n and at the two street in tersections with Highway 161 at East school. It was suggested that traffic should be stopped, before pro ceeding, from 7:45 to 8:30 a. m. and from 2:15 to 3:45 p. m. Additionally, the board ask ed that the city police depart ment assign an officer for pa trol duty at these schools dur ing these hours if at all possi ble. Bert Bennett Still May Run BY MARTIN HARMON (Bert L. Bennett, Jr., Winston Salem Oil dealer and North Car olina Democratic chairman, said Tuesday night ihe ihasn’t complete ly forsaken the idea of opposing Senator Sam Ervin, of Morgan - ton, in next spring’s Democratic primary, i Senator Ervin announced sev eral weeks ago that he would seek re-nomination. There has been considerable •speculation in political circles that the death of iLt.-Govemor I Cloyd Philpott, considered a i front-runner for the 1964 guber natorial nomination, might mean that Chairman Bennett, manager of Governor Terry Sanford’s three successful 1960 campaigns, would stay out of the hustings until 1964 and seek the governor ship. (Mr. Bennett did not deny his interest in the governorship. Other observers have noted this week’s announcement that Malcolm Sea well, former attor ney-general and unsuccessful candidate for governor, is defi nitely out as a federal judge nom inee, and speculate that there may have developed an informal rapport between Senator Ervin and Governor Sanfordl 'Hie Sen ator has indicated he will give special consideration to President Kennedy’s nomination of Senator Spencer Bell, Charlotte attorney and Sanford supporter, for the new judgeship of the Middle Dis trict. Nominees for the federal ben ch must be approved by the Sen ate. . Dellinger's Bobbed Again Dellinger’s Jewel Shop was robbed again last Thursday nighit, this time evidently by a radio fan. Lewis Dellinger said be found the east side window of the middle show window smashed on opening houbr Fri day morning. The lone missing item: a $71.50 radio. Last April, a thief or thives smashed the Dellinger’s show window and made off with Jewelry «it retail value of about #4,000. Negro Transfer Bids Are Denied Youths' Mothei Hasn't Decided What To Do By MARTIN HARMON ’'I haven’t decided what to do yet”, Mrs. Mable Jackson Davis, mother of two Negro high school students denied transfer from Compact to Centra1] school, said Wednesday afternoon just as the postman was delivering the letter informing her of the board of education’s Monday night decis ion. Mrs. Davis, widow o€ Arthur Davis, late employee of Superior Stone Company, reiterated in part heir reasons for asking the transfer for Leroy Hasrtin Davis, 10th grader, and Lela Inez Davis, senior. “They’re crowded down there. They don’t like going to the country and they uont like ri ding the bus either.” In her formal request for her children’s transfer, she had con tended that Compact wasn’t the nearest high school, that it was unfair for her children to travel miles when another high school was nearer, that Central is a city high school and her children re side within the city, and that as signment of her children was based on race, not convenience. The board of education denied the transfer request unanimous ly, with all members present and voting. Trustee H. O. (Toby) Williams moved denial for these reasons: that the assignment plan was adopted for the orderly and efficient administration of the Kings Mountain public i schools, that the board is work- j ing at a disadvantage because of over-crowded conditions re sulting from the July 1 merger, that iit has been necessary to as sign many students to schools not nearest their homes, and that travel to and from school is fur nished fiom a point near the Da vis home at 112 N. Wafterson street. Mrs. Davis’ other three chil dren, Mable Lou, Euzellia and Harley Davis, attend Davidson elementary school and are quite happy at Davidson, Mrs. Davis .said. The board also declined to act on requests to release six stu dents (to out-of-district schools, as follows: B. C. Queen, high school senior,; who asked release to Number 3. Robert Williams, whose father, Willis Williams, asked his son’s release from Compact to Lincoln in Gaston County. Barbara White, who asked re lease to Number 3. Steve and Stan Queen, whose mother, Mrs. Jesse Johnson ask ed her sons’ release to Number 3. Brenda McSwain, who asked release to Number 3. Dr. P. G. Padgett commented, ‘•WeVe enough problems legally and no grounds on which to hon or these requests.” Mr. Williams and Mrs. J. L. McGill concurred. In other actions Monday night, the board 1) Deferred for further study (Continued On Page Eight) TO SPEAK HERE __ Woodrow W. Jones, former Congressman, will address members of the Kings Mountain Lions club at their Tuesday night meeting. Jones To Speak To Lions Club Woodrow W.. Jones, Ruther fordton attorney, former North Carolina Democratic chairman and United States Congressman, will address the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night. Recently mentioned prominent ly as a possible gubernatorial candidate in 1964, Mr. Jones re tired as Representative from the Tlth Congressional district after serving three full terms and a portion of another. He succeeded the late A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gastonia, in late 1950 and served until 1957. He was a member of the House ju diciary committee, i Prior to his Congressional ser vice, he was a memlber of the North Carolina House of Repre sentatives. He will speak on a program arranged by J>. Wilson Crawford. The club will convene at the Woman’s Club at 7 o’clock. Off-To-School List Now Totals 120 Addition of nine to the ar ea’s off-to-school list brings to 120 the number of students leaving tea colleges and uni versities. Haskell Seism and Philip Humphries are both students ait North Carolina State coll ege ait Raleigh and James H. Swansson is a chemistry stu dent at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Marshall Gore is also a stu dent ait University of North Caro lina. Jerry Cloninger has returned to Eastern Carolina college and Vindlle Phillips to Central Wesleyan college and Buddy Connor to the N. C. State Coll ege agriculture school. James Forrest has also resum ed his studies art N. C. State. Circus Coming! Cowboys, Animals, Trapeze Artists Here On Saturday Hoxie Brothers circus wil] show here twice Saturday at the Deal street bailyard under spon sorship of the Kings Mountain Lions dlub. The two-hour show will in clude both matinee and evening performances and features a three-ling arrangement under a Eig Top designed to seat 1500 persons per performance. In addition to clowns, jugglers, acrobats, aerialdst, and trapeze artists the Hoxie Brothers also have a family of animals from all parts of (the world, from men keys to elephants. Receiving top hilling this sea son is Evy Karoly, blonde bare back riding expert, direct from the center ring feature of Ring ling Brothers performance in New Yorks’ Madison Square Gar den. Another feature is the liberty act, with matched palomino hor ses. There’s * 'lOanine Capers” act. featuring performing doge. Col. . Chip Mooris and his congress of ; cowboys and cowgirls doing fan cy and trick riding, roping and j shairpshooting. An audience participation fea ture for kiddies is labeled, “Do you want to be a bareback ! rider?” In addition there are high school horses, dancing horses, jumping horses and educated mules. And there’s Jimbo, the perfor ming Brahma bull and Jumbo, the performing elephant. Tickets are now on sale by members of the Lions dub. Chil dren’s admission is 50 cents, a-j dults $1. Reserved seat, center ring seats may be purchased af ter entrance at 25 cents each. Proceeds from the show will be used by the Kings Mountain Lions dub in slight conservation work and civic projects. Committee in charge includes Wesley Bush, Odus Smith, Martin Harman and Grady Yel tOB, District Issue . Would Provide High School Plant By MARTIN HARMO I Kings Mountain board of edu cation will speed the offering of a bond issue for building of an area high school, board members indicated informally Monday night. Mrs. John L. McGill posed the question of "when”, meantime urging haste and obtained quick concurrence from other members. H. O. (Toby) Williams noted that the high school population will increase by about 180 pupils (169 seniors, 349 eighth graders) foir 1962-63 and Holmes Hanry, o' Grover, said he felt it time to move toward attaining a new high school pliant. Chairman Fred W. Plonk said, he felt selection of an architect should proceed immediately for advice in selection of possible sites. At the moment, the board of education has under option a tract of about 73 acres on Phifer Road. To the question of minimal time for building and occupying a new high school plant, Super intendent B. N. Bairnes said, “Not less than two years.” 1 e added it could require more time than that. The board of education, mon ths ago, retained the New Yoris bond attorney firm of Mitchell, Pershing, Shetterly and Mitchell. Legal roadblocks first delayed physical consolidation of aiea schools until July 1. Since that time, school officials have been pressed to effect the promised physical consolidation of the schools. Initially, there was hope that county-wide school constructrio 5 financing would be continued, but Shelby district officiate have indicated they feel county-wich' financing not feasible at this time, particularly in view of Shelby district's building their own recently-occupied plant on a district basis. Normally, Supt. Barnes noted, it requires about three months to complete legal details for a bond election, ag the election must be advertised and the reg istration books opened. Eartiest likely date, therefore, iis in December. Amount of the issue was not discussed Monday night hut a figure of $1,100,000 was mention ed months ago as likely cost of a new high school plant The board of education has an unexpended balance of about $250,000 in its capital outlay fund. McGill Seivice Held Monday : ’ (Funeral services for Thomas Pressley MlcGill, 83, were cwndue ted Monday at 4:00 p. m. from Harris Funeral Home Chapel, Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce [Memorial ARP church, officiat ing. Mr. MteGill, resident of 206 S. Gaston street, succumbed Satur day at 10:45 p. m. at Broughton Hospital 'after several years Ill ness. * A native of Gaston county, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John T. MieGill. (He was a member of Boyce. Memorial ARP church and a retired merchant. (He is survived by his wife., Mrs. Mary Elizabeth HarmOn Mc Gill; two sons, Ned A McGill, of Gastonia, and Earle McGill, of Blacksburg, S. C.; one daughter, Mrs. W. O. Weir, of Jacksonville^ Fla.; two brothers, N. F. McGill, of Kings Mbuntain, and J. D. Mc Gill, of Albemarle; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Carpenter of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. J. O. Ross, of Charlotte; and four grand children. 'Fallbearers included elders and deacons of Boyce Memorial ARP Church Lewis Hovis, J. L. Mc Gill, W. S. Fulton, Jr., Menzell Phifer, Garrison Goforth, and James Crawford. Interment was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Gilbert Graduates From Orlando School Tommy Gilbert graduated recently from the School of Medical Technology at Orlan do, Fla. and he and his wife and three-month-old son are now living in Kings Mountain. Mr. Gilbert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Gilbert of Qr lando, former Kings Mountain (reaidervts. He is a graduate erf Kings Mountain high school and la married to the former Jane Byars, also of King* Mountain.
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