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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 Today VOL 72 No. 43 Estebfahed 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C.t Thursday, November 2, 1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS ■MB—— IN WHO'S WHO — Miss Judy Cooper. Kings Mountain senior at Lenoir Rhyne college in Hickory, has been named to “Who's Who In American Colleges and Uni versities." f Indy Cooper 10 s Who In Whi IMSss Judy Cooper, Kings Mountain senior at Lenoir Rhy ne college and daughter oct Mr. •nd Mlrs. Jacob Cooper; few bam named to membership in Whb’s Who In American Colleges and BMvemftie*.” Vies Cooper is among 17 Le noir Rhyne college students se lected oh basis of scholarship, ac tivity, promise of future success and service made to the school. At Lenoir Rhyne (Miss Cooper ta a member of Iota Epsilon O mega, honorary journalistic fra ternity, and an officer of Lamb da Alpha sorority. She is business manager of MAjOAWlA, the annu al Staff, member of the house council, president of :t£he Future TJeacher’s Of America chapter and a campus guide. She is Also a “dean’s list"’ student. (Lenoir Rhyne, and other colle ges and universities, select ‘’Who's Who” candidates for the national publication from a list of students compiled toy an anon ymous committee composed of four students, three fanaWynnem. hers and two administrative members. Each candidate is dis horned at length and voted upon by secret ballot. fOngs Mountain chtarchwomen wCl gather at St. Matthew's Lu theran church Friday afternoon | ji,f3:30 for their annual World Community Day service. Churchwomen of the commun ity are being asked to faring school bags for Latin American chAdren and the ottering will provide adult training scholar ships for education specialists In Peru, Brazil and Chile. Theme of the 1961 observance Is '^Christian Action For Free dom” and Mrs. Dorus Bennett is program chairman. Mrs. JJ. E. Herndon will show slides she made on a tour of the Latin A mer*can countries in connection —im. V.™. mn Tin h her program, “Freedom To low" featuring special concern ■ the children of Latin Amer f Other members of trie oom itee who will assist in pro (m details are Mrs. Jacob Ooo i, Mrs. Paul Ham, Jr., Mrs. jfcert Garmon, Mlrs. James gins, Mrs. Russell Smith, and s. B. T. Wright. f Krs. Lawrence Lohr, president the Kings Mountain Council (United Churchwomen, Inter joirdnational organisation insorirag the observance, said commenting on the Friday Igram. “It is our hope that the pday School Assembly Room at [Matthew’s will he fvdl to ov Idwing for Friday's service I that many Latin American fcugsters will he helped by age Mountain women in gain, f an education .to proclaim rw that our revolutionary fai ;te the answer to the needs of [Americas and to dedicate Is which express our concern u all may be free to known is f purpose of World Opmrounity Notice Of Intent To Ask Election Is Published The county hoard of commiss ioners is publishing today formal notice of intention to apply to the local government commission for approval of issuance of $1,100,000 school bonds in be half of the Kings Mountain school district. Issuance would be subject to approval of the voters of the dis trict and would be “ . . . for the purpose of providing funds, with any other available funds, for e reeting, enlarging, altering and equipping schol buildings and purchasing sibes in the Kings Mountain Special School Bond Taxing District of Cleveland County . . . . ” The notice of intent thus spells out the amount the school dis trict anticipates will be needed for the purchase of site for a new high school plant, and for con struction of the plant. The notice stipulates that any citizen may file with the Local Government commission at Ra leigh a verified statement setting forth objections to issuance of all or any part of the bonds within ten days from first publication of the notice. Copy bfthe legal no tice must be attached to the statement, ft is also required that the objection statement 'be filed with Dan W. Moore, clerk to the board of county commiss ioners. ff, R. Davis, attorney to the board of education, said Wed nesday, “I believe we’re begin ning to see daylight on calling the 'bond issue for the building of a new high school plant.” In -view off the fact the school district bounds are not co-termt nal with township bounds and, therefore with regular county voting precincts, Attorney Davis guessed the bond attorney, Mit chell, Pershing, Shetterly and Mitchell, of New York, would or der a new registration. When the election will be con ducted is not yet known. The board of education initial ly had anticipated a December date, but chances of oompietod mandatory legal details in time for an election prior to January appeared slim. (Meantime, the county board df education anticipates holding a similar election in the county <E» triot for construction of the pro posed (Bums and Orest consolidat ed high schools and are aiming at a January date. There has been some indication of interest in holding the two elections on the same day. (By embarking on the district method off bond financing, the Kings (Mountain and county dis tricts will duplicate the Shelby district method of financing its new high school. Shelby district board of education declined to agree to a county-wide election. 'Kings Mountain school dis trict, County Auditor Max Ham rick reports, has a taxable valu ation in excess of $22,000,000. There is no district debt outstan (Contmued On Page Eight) DAR CITIZEN — Judy Watterson. high school senior, has won the DAR Good Citizen award given annually by Colonel Frederick Hambrlght Chapter, DAR. Judy Watterson DAR Citizen Judy Watterson, a -eentor .at Kings (Mountain higlhsschool has been named E>AIR citizen of tile 'year,, ■ Only girts of and accredited public high school aneiOligible for this recognition. They must pos sess to an outstanding degree these qualities: dependability, service, leadership, and patrio tism. The recommended metthod of selection is that the Students of( the senior class elect: three girls possessing the required qualifi cations. (From these three the DAE committee selects one who becomes the Good Citizen of her school. After D. A. R. authorities have selected the Good Citizen she is to answer the State ' Question naire. 'Each chapter sends all com pleted questionnaires to the Dis trict Director. She will give each contestant’s entry number for identification and select three qualified judges to choose the dis trict winner by evaluating the entries which are identified'only' by number. Library Board Names Officers Mrs. John Cheshire was elected tohalrmlan of the Library Commit tee at Hits meeting alt the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Lft>nary Fri «day afternoon. Other officers elected were: Grade Howard, vice-chair man, and Mrs. Tolly Shuford, secretary. Dr. W. L. Pressly, past chair man, presided over the meeting. In her anmtall report, Mrs. Willie Dilllng, librarian, stated that there were 7,000 books catalogu ed and a large number non-cat alogued books in the library. She reported that during the year'26, 007 hooks had been issued to pa trons, -with an average of 83 per (Continued On Page Bight) \ Fallout 37 Not Dangerous; Kits For Survival Pushed By Shields How high was/is radioactive fallout in Kings Mountain, ir View of the weekend report that Gastonia had recorded the sec ond highest fallout in the nation? The answer is not apparent. The Gastonia reading of 37 mi cromicrocuries: 1) was taker prior to Russia’s explosion of a 50 to 75 megaton iwmib (Monday anc 3) was only half as heavy as a previous reading — high for the nation — on September 17. At any rate, tine Gastonia Ga zette reported Or. B. M. Drake county health officer, and Judsor Hardy a United State® Puhlh Health official as telling Gasto nia area citizens they were in n« danger and not to worry abou fallout. (Meantime, there were two de vetopments on the civil defensi fallout front: • 1 1) Harris-Teeter Super Mar kets this weekend will feature i display around canned water, which will dhow food and other necessary requirements of one I person, for a two-week stay in a fallout shelter. 2) J. Don Shields, county civil; defense director, announced launching of an effort to obtain 1,000 order at $5 each for individ . ual emergency-pak food and wa | ter survival kits designed to pro | vide sustenance to one person for two weeks. The civil defense kit contains a 4.5 pound tin of mul ti-purpose food, 14 pints of vac cuum-packed water, 14 tablets of 100 mifligraml Vitamin C, a can i opener, measure, utility can with plastic lid, a mixing can and to | struetion Sheet, altogether weigh - 1 ing 24 pounds and with a shelf > life of five years. (Mr. Shield* said a kft sells individually at $&98, but can be obtained in 1,000 ;' quantity lots at $5 each. Stadium Group, Board To Talk Improvements Mayor Kelly Dixon has sched uled tentatively lor Monday night alt 7 o’clock a spfccdal ses sion of the board of commission - ens for a discussion with the city stadium study committee of plans for the long-term, develop ment of City Stadium. The stadium committee, which includes John H. Moss, chairman, City Commissioner J. E. Rhea, and School Trustee H. O. (Toby) I Williams, has asked for a joint meeting with the commission. The request followed declina tion of the (board of education to commit itself formally on possi bilities of construction of an all purpose pnblic stadium in con nection with ‘the building ;of the proposed consolidated (high school plant. The study committee, in turn, recommended improvement of City Stadium facilities with the eventual aim an all-purpose sta dium. Chairman Moss said this week he and (Mayor Dixon had'dlacuss ed the matter at length. • lit is anticipated the. Study committee wHturger along-tertn city program of gradual Impro vement, -with attention to park ing space, additional seating for both (baseball and football, im proved access, and other arran gements. The study group has previous ly endorsed" the construction of a dressing room, noting that its lo cation should not interfere with long-term, plans. t Chairman Moss noted ‘specifi cally the dressing room should not be located along the north side of the field, a potential lo cale for choice third-base line baseball game seats. Mrs.Roberts' Sites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Della Frances Roberts, 83, widow of J. Ross Roberts, were hefld Saturday afternoon from Kings Mountain Baptist church, of which she was a member. Mrs. Roberts succumbed Friday morning in 'the Kings Mountain hospital after suffering a heart attack. She had been ill for seven weeks. Mr. Roberts died suddenly of a heart «fltack three weeks ago. Mrs. Roberts was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Farmer Moore. She is survived by two sons, Forrest Roberts of Gastonia and Eugene Roberts of Kings Moun tain; two daughters, Mrs. R. T. Hasty of Charlotte and Mass An nie B. Roberts of Kings Moun tain; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandch i ldren. Riev. Marion DurBose officiated at the final rites and Interment was in Mountain Rest cemetery. The family had requested that in lieu of flowers memorial con tributions be designated the Kings Mountain Baptist church building fund. (Active pallbearers were F. C. Roberts, Jr., John R. Roberts, Da vid Roberts, Ken Roberta, Robert Hasty and Thomas HaSfcy. Honorary pallbearers were dea cons of the church. Mrs.Speidel \ Club Manager Mrs. Frances Speidel was sche iuled to arrive in Kings Moun tain Wednesday to assume man agement at Kings (Mountain Country Club. i i Mrs. Speidel. onetime manager of the Kings Mountain Country dub, returns here after manag ing tooth the Starmount and Sed gefield Country Clubs in Greens boro. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Card and their family moved to Siler City Tuesday, where they are assum ing management of the Siler City Country Club, The New Grover Postoffice Dedication For New Grover Postoffice To Be On Sunday SPEAKER — Congressman Basil L. Whitener will deliver the chie address at dedication oi Grover'i new postoffice Sunday afternoon George Lovell Bites Conducted Funeral rites for George Bd wand Lovell, 83, of Charlotte former Kings Mountain cStizer were held Tuesday afternoon ai 4 p. m. from Harris Funera Home Chapel, interment follow ing in Mountain Rest cemetery (Mr. Lovell died Monday morn ing in Charlotte's Prestoyteriar hospital after an illness of sev eral weeks. A native of Providence, Rtiodi Island, Mr. Lovell had retired as bookkeeper for Academy Stee Drum Company of Charlotte. H< was a member of Charlotte’! First Baptist Church, ttie IBtPQE and Knight® of Pythias. Mir. Lovell was twice a King! Mountain citizen, first from 1911 23, and the second time subse quent to his wife’s death in De oemfber 1940. He was an employ ee of the former Finger Drug Company, later served as towr clerk. He then became Grant Keeper of Records and Seals ol the Knights of Pythias, living first at Charlotte, and subse' pquently .at Clayton. He later mo wi to North Harlow, returning here as an employee of Frieda Manufacturing Co. (His parent® were the late Mr and Mrs. George Edward Lovell Sr- His wife, Mrs. Marian Chand ler Lovell, died in 1940. Surviving are three sons, Ral ph Lawrence Lovell, of King! Mountain, Clarence H. Lovell ol Greensboro and Edward C. Lo vell, of Charlotte. Rev. Mlarion DuBose, pastoi of Kings Mountain Baptist chur ch, officiated at the final rites Active pallbearers were Cecil Yates, Joe Ray, Don Hill, Phil Wowser, W. N. Jones, Jr., and Clyde Thrower, all of Charlotte. Holiday Schedule Is Unchanged Holiday schedule, as previous ly accepted by Kings Mountair retailer®, Is unchanged. Mer chants Association President Bill Jonas said Wednesday. (Retailer* voted again or Christmas closing schedule and favored dosing the day following December 25th, a Tuesday. Stor es will be closed on December 25th and December 26th. Whitener Will Make Main Address Orover's new postoffice will ■be dedicated ]Sunday in a special ceremony beginning at 2 o’clock Acting Postmaster (Fain Hairibri ght said Wednesday. (Basil L. Whitener, 11th North Carolina District Congressman, will make the principal address. Senator Robert F. Mjorgan of Shelby will present Congressman Whitener and Grover Mayor C. F. Harry, Jr., will serve as mas ter of ceremonies. fW. T. Martin, postal field ser vice officer, will bring greetings during the service. He will be : presented by Jack Palmer, Jr., of Shelby, member of the North Carolina House of Represen ta |tives. William A. (Lattimore, Shelby postmaster, will introduce other special guests. Rev. J. Ri chard Hobson, pastor of Grover’s Shiloh Presbyterian church, will give the Invocation, v Virgil Weathers, chairman of the Cleveland County Democra tic Committee, will lead the flag presentation ceremonies, assisted by Tommy Hope, a color guard from the Kings (Mountain Unit of the National Guard and the Kings Mountain high school band. The' high school band, under direction; i of Joe Hodden, will play a pre lude of music and "The National Anthem.” Rev. Fred Crisp, pastor of Grover's First Baptist church, will pronounce the benediction. The new facility, located at Grover, is part of the Post Office Department’s unique commercial leasing plan Postmaster Hamlbri ght explained. Under this program, investment financing is used to obtain need ed facilities which remain under private ownership, pay local tax es to the community, and are leased to the Federal Government At the same time, the need for large outlays of money from the Federal Treasury for construction purposes is eliminated. The new local post office, inch (Continued On Page Eight) POSTMASTER —Fain Hambright is Grover's acting postmaster. He is a Grover native. Nine Registered For Bond Voting Numlber 4 Township citizens are either all registered or have little interest in whether the state borrows $61,665,000 for cap ital improvements. Registrars reported a total of nine new registrants for the ruesday voting, three at West Kings Mountain, six at East Kings Mountain. No new voters registered at Grover or Beth ware. A few changes were reported in election officials. Mrs. J. D. Jones, Bethware re gistrar, said W. A. Wright (R), and J. D. Jones, (Di, would re place Mrs. Leonard Gamble and Mrs. H. A. Goforth as judges. Mrs. J. H. Arthur, West Kings Mountain registrar, said D. G. Littlejohn (R), would replace Mirs. Warren Herndon as judge, rhe other judge is Mrs. Charles Ballard. Mrs. Nell Cranford, East Kings Mountain, said Mrs. Humes Houston will replace the late Mrs. H. R. Parton as judge. The sther judge is Mrs. Ruth Thom (Continued On Page Eight) MudentSf Like AnciGtii (iieekSf On Marathon—Promote Bond Vote Student* ol North Carolina’s ■dozen tax supported colleges, borrowing a chapter from tile marathoners 'of ancient Greece and from the modern-day Olym pic games, began Tuesday night a North Carolina marathon de 1 signed to encourage support ol next Tuesday's state wide bond issue election. I The students have a major stake in the success of the Tuee day election as $311X16,000 of the ■total of $61,665,000 in ten sepa rate issues will provide capital improvements at the 12 schools. Kings Moun tain is on the mar athon route. v ' ! A student from Appalachian ! State Teachers college was sche ; duled to pass through Kings Mountain, his Torch of Education held high, Wednesday night at ! 10:48. Western Carolina students launched the Marathon at Mur phy at 11:40 Tuesday morning, carrying the torch to Old Fort, where ASTC students took over, proceeded 'along Highway 26 through Marion and Polkville to Shelby, Kings Mountain, Gasto nia and Charlotte. Winston-Sal em State Teachers college then becomes the torch bearers, j From the East, Pembroke i State Teachers college students began the east-west leg at 8 o’ , clock Wednesday morning. A student from North. Carolina college and a student front tjorth 1 Carolina State college are sched S uled to converge at Raleigh about noon Friday. Eastward from Murphy and Westward from Wilmington, each of approximately 700 volun teer student runners, carrying the torch, will cover a male in 10 minutes. As the 70-hour run closes, finalists will meet in Ra leigh at 12 noon November 3. (Continued. On Page Eight) Sol,665,000 Being Ottered In Ten Issues Kings mountain area citizens will join Other citizens of North Carolina on Tuesday in heaping to determine whether the State will issue bonds for all or a por tion of $61,665,000 for various capital improvements, largely buildings. The voters will say “yes*’ Or “no” on ten proposals, mkjor a mong them $31,008,000 for capital improvements at the state’s .12 colleges and universities, .and $13,500,000 for expansion of port facilities at Wilmington arid Morehead City. ' Other issues include: 1) $2,858,000 for buildings fii the State Capitol area. 2) $1,110,000 for improvements at state correctional instttutiiwts. 3) $1,483,000 for improvements at community colleges. 4) $2,565,000 for a building to house the Department of Archi ves and History at state library. 5) $7,396,000 for improvements at state mental institutions. 6) $500,000 to provide state matching funds for local hospi tals. 7) $961,000 for capital impro vements In the conservation and development of the state’s natu ral resources. 8) $289,000 for capital im provements at the state’s agri cultural research stations. \As in all general elections, the polls will open at 6:30 a. m.. and will close at 6:30 p. m. (Regular comity precinct voting places will he used, with the ex ception of West Kings Mountain, where West school replaces Vic tory Chevrolet Company as the precinct voting place. United Fund Progress Slow The United Fund drive is pro gressing silowly, Chairman B. W. Gillespie reported Wednesday. He noted some $1200 has been pledged to the fund, some one fifteenth of the goal. Goal of the campaign is $16, 446. He noted only one of some (twenty canvassers has reported in. Stressing one goal and one do nation, the drive seeks what it terms a fair contribution from all citizens: for hourly workens, 12 hours pay for the year; for sal ( aried workers, one percent of an nual salary. A residential solicitation is not planned, Mr. Gillespie notes. He assumes the majority of bread winners witl be solicited via the business and industry cam paigns. However, he added, anyone not contacted who wishes to make a contribution should forward M to PO Box 267 or to the First Union National Bank. wThe sum asked is not a great amount for Kings Mountain citi zens to give, based on popula tion," Mr. Gillespie said. “The goal should be over-subscribed.” The United Fundhas nine par ! ticipating agencies. TTiey are: i Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Kings Mountain Band Association, I Kings Mountain Red Cross, Jacob j (Continued On Page Eight1 Planted Two Yean, "Baby Jesus" Blooms Mrs. L. B. Early, 115 Lack ey street, has something of * i reputation for a "green thumb." However, one plant, colloqui I ally known as the ‘'Baby Je ; sus,” though it grew well, waa long in blooming. Chi the night of October 23 excitement reigned at the Ear ly home, as the plant produced its first bloom. Both plant and bloom, grow ing inside the house, have a tropical appearance and from the bloom is derived its collo quial name. The exterior petals are white, with a slightly yel lowish tinge. The pistil is made up of a yellowish star at the front, with straw colored area 'behind It. It does not stretch the imagination to envision the traditional manger scene, with the star hovering above. The bloom opens only once, for a few hours. ( Mrs. Early said a neighbor gave her a piece of leaf, which she stuck Into a pot of dirt. From-.the leaf, roots formed and the"i#ant grew. Mrs. Early claims no special secret or effort in her horticul tural successes. She says, “I tell the Lord 1 put it here to beautify His ear th and I ask him to let tt grow.”