Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits ■>- 8,008 This figure ter Greater Kings Mountain I* derived from the 1955 King* Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure Is tram the United States census ot i960. Pages Today VOL 72 No. 38 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 28, 1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS SAW CORNERSTONE LAID, OPENED _'The five member'? of El Bethel Methodist church pictured hold the distinction of seeing the lay ing of the church cornerstone in 1912 and also its opening on Sunday. They are. left to right, W. Avory Harmon, P. Key Harmon, J. T. Bar ber, Mrs. Frank Goforth and H. W. Gamble. (Photo by Wayne L. Ware, Jr.) HE-ELECTED D. B. Blalock. Dixon community farmer, has been re-elected chairman of the Cleveland County ASC committee. ASC Re-elects D. B. Blalock ID. B. Blalock, Dixon commun ity farmer, was re-elected chair man of the Cleveland County Ag ricultural Stabilization and Con servation committee at the annu al county convention last Thurs day. Re-elected, along with Chair man Blalock, were Charles J. Hamrick, vice-chairman; Camie Brackett, regular member; Odus (Royster, first alternate; and H. O. (Tolby) Williams, second alter nate. Delegates from ten of the 11 community committees were pre sent for the convention. (Ralph Harrill is ASC secretary. Hambright Reunion Set For Oct. 8th The annual reunion of descen dants of Colonel Frederick Hamlbright will be held on Oc tober 8th. Members of the elan will ga ther at Shiloh Presbyterian ehurch in Grover at 1 p. m. for picnic, dinner. Eugene Roberts, of Kings Mountain, is president of the clan. Charlotte Observer Is Raising Prices The Charlotte Observer will announce Thursday morning increases in the price of the pa per, tooth home-delivered and at n/jOjfistands, their circulation intatives have 'been in formed. Weekly home-delivered price Will be 50 cents, including Nor th Carolina sales tax, and the monthly home-delivered price will be $2.20, including North Carolina sales tax. Newsstands price will toe sev en cents daily The newsstand price of the Sunday edition will remain the same, 21 cents including North' Carolina sales tax. Average daily circulation of the Charlotte Observer, most circulated daily newspaper in the Kings Mountain area, was 1245 in Kings Mountain and Grover for tire year ending March 31. Average Sunday edi tion circulation for the same period was 1447 in King's Moun tain and Grover. The figures aare (totalled in the Observer’s annual audit by the Audit Bu reau of Circulations, of which the Kings Mountain Herald is a member. The increases are effective Sunday. El Bethel Church Opens Cornerstone Contents Fail To Reveal Date Of Organization By MARTIN HARMON *s El Bethel IMethodist church 129 or 149 years old? The wrnerstoi# 'of'the brick’ church built in 1912 was opened Sunday in the hope that a church history known 'to have been writ ten by the 1912 pastor, Rev. Mark B. Clegg, would be among the contents. It wasn’t. (Mrs. Grady W. King, a member off the church, relates that folk lore, based on Mrs. Rachel Har mon’s memoirs, also not found, gives the organization of the church at 1812, the members meeting in arbors in good wea ther and otherwise in homes of members. About 1832 the first church, a log structure, was built, to be succeeded in 1859 by a frame •building, predecessor to the pres ent structure built in 1912. Efforts to check deeds of the era have aiSo proved fruitless. Lincdln County officials say that all records of the Lincoln area which formed a part of Cleveland County on its organi zation in 1840 were sent to Shel I (by. (But Cleveland County affici ! a Is know nothing of these rec | ords. 'Among the approximately 75 present for the opening of the (cornerstone Sunday were five i members present for the laying ceremonies. They are Mirs. W. F. 'Goforth, W. Avory Harmon, P. K. Harmon, J. T. Barber and H. W. Gamble. 'Burgin Falls, son of C. iB. Falls, one of the masons helping to build El Bethel, gave his services (Continued On Page Ten) SPEAKER _; Rev. M. O. Owens, Jr.. Gastopia minister, will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thurs day night. Kiwanis Club To Heat Gwens The Rev. M. O. Owens, Jr., pas tor of East Baptist church, Gas tonia, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday night Rev. Mr Owens, a native of Aiken, S. C., will sipeak on a pro gram arranged by John L. Mc Gill. Mr. Owens has traveled widely in the course of his denomina tional work, including Cuba, Eu rope, the Near East,and Alaska. He is a graduate of Furman uni versity and the Southern Baptist Theological seminary. He has previously served pastorates in Myrtle Beach, S. C.., Polmc-tte, Fia., Marion and Lenoir. The club meets at the Woman’s Club at 6:45. Annual Cleveland Fair, Memorial To Dr. Dorton, Will Open Tuesday Cleveland County fairgrounds rre being preened for the October 3 opening of the 38th annual Cleveland County Fair with J. Sib Dor ton, Jr. masterminding the colorful! event which will me moralize his late father. Memorial services for the late J. S. “Doc” Dorton, co-ordinator and manager of the fair since its beginning until his April 17 dea th, will be held at the fair grounds Tuesday at 10:00 a. m. Anyone wishing to attend the service will be admitted to the ground without charge. Follow-j ing the rites, a motorcade will go to Sunset Cemetery to place a wreath on the late fair-man ager’s gtrave. A memorial booth, depicting Mr. Dorton’s 65 busy years, is be ing prepared and booklets, “In Memoriam”, are available. On hand for the opening day if the fair will be the Ghost Town Troupe from Maggie Vall ey who will perform without charge on the midway at 1:00 p. m. and again in the grandstand at 3:30 p. m. They will enact a real live shoot-out. Grandstand shows will be produced nightly by GAC Hamid, Inc., back to the Cleveland Coun ty Fair for .the first time in three years. Included in the Hamid show are the Manhattan Rock et tes, the Ebony Brothers, Joyce and her Parisian Cuties, the Two Liares, a talented xylophone ma rim bisit, two juggling and balance skill artists and a host of others. Joie Chitwood’s thrill shows will be seen Wednesday after-1 noon and at Saturday night’s late show, while Jack Kochman’s1 Hurricane Hell Drivers will be spotted in late shows Wednesday, and Friday nights. The Indianapolis type races of Sam Nunds will be held Satur day afternoon. The James E. Strate’s mile-long midway will be back for the five day event. Student days at the fair will be Tuesday and Friday, with students admitted free on passes to the grounds. Redheads will be admitted free ito the fair Thursday. Kings Mountain city schools will be among participants in Hie school exhibits, this year’s entry under the supervision of Grover School, James Scruggs heading the committee. Mrs. Rush Hamrick, Jr., pub licity manager of the fair, noted a press party will be held Tues day at 6:00 p. m. Rise* Resigning City Tax Office i On October 31 “ j M. H. Biser, city tax supervisor, j :ax collector and building in spector since April 1960, plans to resign effective October 31. He said he has accepted private employment with a local firm Dut is not yet at liberty to an nounce its identity. Mr. Biser, for many years as sociated with Ware & Sons, suc reeded J. W. Webster in the city position, for which he has been paid $350 per month. Mr. Biser said he had informed Comm. Ben H. Bridges of his plans and would address a let ter to the mayor and board of commissioners in the near future. | He also said he had informed j Comm. Bridges he would proffer off-hour aid to his successor, should it be needed. Mr. Biser commented, “I have, enjoyed my work with the cityj but frankly prefer private em ployment.” Comm. Bridges said he was very regretful to learn of Mr. Biser’s decision. He added, “He has done an excellent job in a very difficult position.” Jones Flays Communism “The ultimate Communist goal is complete world domination. It’s a fight we must wlin, if the free world is to survive,” Wood row W. Jones, former 11th dis trict United States Congressman told members of the Kings (Moun tain Lions club Tuesday night. Mr. Jones, a Rutherfordton at torney, reviewed the history of Communism from its beginnings with the writings of Karl Marx and Joe Engels, which became the Communist Manifesto of 184a Mr. Jones advised all citizens to read the document to learn the true Communist aims, which described as not only a political, but economics and religious the The conception of Marx-Eng els, he continued, was that civili zation advances only through a continuous struggle between those who own the means of pro duction and the working class. (He said these Communist the orists recommend subversion of all organizations, to toe followed toy open revolt. Reviewing history, he noted that it was 191? (before the Com munists were successful, with wlhdt he termed not more than 25,000 Russian Communists tak ing advantage of Russian Worid War 1 defeats and poverty at home to take over the govern ment. Today, he warned, Communism is a threat to all mankind, with Communist dictatorship domina ting 800 millions of the world’s citizens. Mir. Jones, former North Caro lina Democratic chairman, spoke on a program arranged by J. Wilson Crawford. (Charles Wloodward, organist at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, and Jack Hauser, superintendent of Waco Sportswear, Ina, were welcomed as members toy W. K. Mauney, Jr., past president. White Cane Sale To Be Conducted The annual White Cane sale for the North Carolina Associa tion for the Blind will be conduc ted here on Saturday and also on October 7, (A group of school girls will sell the familiar white canes in the business section, under sponsor ship of the Kings Mountain Lions club. Members of the Lions club committee on the project are •Harry Jaynes, chairman, Sam Weir and Ben T. Goforth. The association provides aid to the blind, alleviates sight prob lems at the needy, conducts glaucoma clinics, and sponsors eye banks. H. G. Clayton Nazarene Pastor Rev. H. G. Clayton, of Colum bia, S. C., moves to Kings Moun tain this week to assume the du ties of pastor of Firs* Church of the Nazarene. \ He Will deliver his first ser mon here on Sunday. Rev. Clayton, a North Carolina native, has served churches at Kannapolis, Miller’s Creek, Gib sonville, and Charlotte. He attended People’s Bible col lege (now John Wesley college*, Greensboro. Mrs. Clayton is the former Be thel Keneriey, of Landia. The Claytons have two children, Mrs. •Daniel X Patterson, Parts Island, S. C , and Jack Charles Clayton, a high sdrioc,’. student.. Mrs. Davis Requests Hearing On School Transfer Bid Denial IN GRADUATE SCHOOL_Miss Anita McGinnis has won educa tional grants lor further study in child welfare. She is a student at the University of Tennessee. Anita McGinnis Wins Scholarship Miss Anita McGinnis, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul McGin nis, has been awarded educa tional grants far graduate study and has enrolled at the Univer sity of Tennessee at Knoxville. Miss McGinnis, who has been employed for the past two years by the Catawba County Depart ment of Public Welfare, will study toward a master’s degree in child welfare. < , Her $2000 educational grant is frona tiie North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare and $1000 Qdmes from the Memorial Foundation of Newton-Conover Rotary club. Miss McGinnis will be a grad uate student for two years. She is a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne College. WBT Schedules Battle Drama Radio Station WBT will re broadcast next Wednesday night on its Project 60 series a drama tization of the '.Battle Of Kings Mountain and events connected with the battle, f The dramatisation was written by Ed H. Smith, of Kings Moun tain, and was first broadcast last year. •Hour of thte broadcast is 8 to 9 p. rrt The broadcast will precede by three days the 181st anniversary of the battle, fought October 7, 1780, and credited with turning the tide of war in favor of the colonies. Among voices to be heard in the broadcast are those of Mr. Smith, and J. W. (Buck) Timber lake, husband of the former Bet ty Lee Neisler. Gratioit Speaker At Park Sunday Dr. Paul Gratioit, professor of history at Limestone college, will speak at Kings Mountain Na | tional Military Park amphithe ater Sunday afternoon at 3:30, i in services commemorating the ! 181st anniversary of .the Battle of ; Kings Mountain. Mrs. James Chester is general ! chairman of this year’s event. Ben Moomaw, park superinten 1 dent, said the public is Invited | and suggested persons attending the seivices utilize the park faci lities for picnic lunch. Invitations to attend are being mailed to 60 governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Carol Gotei Is Semi-Finalist Carol Jean Goter, Kings Moun tain high school student and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Goter, was among seven Cleve land County Students and ap proximate!] y 10,000 high school seniors throughout the country! named semi-finalists in the 19- i 61-62 merit program. Miss Goter was given recogni-j tdon for high achievement hi the initial ‘itage of the seventh an ! nual competition In the National! Merit Scholarship Qualifying! Test of educational development given in more than 15,000 schools i last March. The semi-finalists group is composed oi the highest scoring (Continued On Page Ten) i School Stadium Plans Requested Stadium Study Group Meets; Moss Chairman The stadium study committee Weld its first meeting Monday, elected John H. (Moss chairman, and verted to ask the board of' education Whether it intends to include building of a stadium in its plans for a new high school, plant. Other members of the commit tee are City Commissioner J. E. (Zip) Rhea and School Trustee H\ O. (Toby) Williams. Chairman Moss wrote Fred W. Plonk, chairmarf of the board of education, “This is to report to you that the Stadium Committee —appointed by Mayor Kelly Dix on and the Kings Mountain City Board of Commissioners — held | a meeting Monday, September 29th, to study the present Stadi um facilities, its future needs and the feasibility of improving the Stadium in its present location. “The Committee is composed of the following — John H. Moss, Chairman, Otto Williams, and J. E. Rhea. After full study and con sideration the Board reached the following conclusion: ’ “Does the Kings Mountain city board of education expect to in clude in the upcoming bond elec tion Budget for the erection of the Kings Mountain District Con solidated High School specific funds for the erection of an all-1 purpose City Stadium? Before making a recommendation, the Committee felt that R should have information from the School Board as to its intentions regard ing an all purpose City Stadium, and particularly so as regards the taxpayer’s viewpoint.’’ Chairman Moss noted that the stadium committee Was scheduled another meeting for October 16th and asked an answer from the board of education at an early date. Chairman (Moss told the 'Herald that his committee feels the park ing facilities at City Stadium are completely Inadequate and added, “It is the committee’s desire to see the establishment of an all purpose permanent stadium, one available for use by all responsi ble businesses, industries, organ izations and individuals, as well as the schools.’’ 'He noted that the study com mittee is anxious to get the views of all interested citizens and ur ged them to write the committee their ideas on two principal questions: 1) improving the pre