VOL 72 No. 44 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 9, .1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS Popnlation Greater Kings Mountain City Limits XMs figure tot Qnatn Xing* Mountain mo IMS Kings Mountain city directory (faults Sim is from ths Units* Statss 10,320 8,008 Is dsitrsd tram census. Ths city csasus of I960. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Today Elections Chairman Outlines Ideas For Improving System Optimist Club Is Promoting Youth Week Kings Mountain Optimists are calling attention tliis week to the observance beginning Monday of "Youth Appreciation Week.” Dean Payne, president of the local club, notes that over 2000 Optimist clubs in the United Sta tes and Canada will attempt dur ing the week ending November 19th to “give praise and under standing where they are over due” to young people who abide toy the rules of juvenile decency. (Mr. Payne called on Kings (Mountain area citizens “help the Optimists give today’s young people the pat on the back they need and deserve.” Further commenting on Youth Appreciation Week Mr. Payne said: “What is a Teenager Made Of?” “A teenager has passed the “sti cks and snails and puuy-dog's tails” stage. By the time he rea ches his teens, he’s a loosely wrapped bundle of mature thou ghts and desires in a suddenly Shooting up body. He finds him self in a new world, no longer fenced by the school playground and the backyard sandbox. The world of a teenager is bonded only by the limits of his imagina tion. iln this boundless life of plea sures and problems of growing up shines one star to which ev ery teenager hitches bfts wagon— the star of adult recognition, ap preciation and understanding. Each youngster wants to be ac cepted toy his pear*; -each young ater worries about belonging. “Some teenagers are unusually gifted: they achieve their star of recognition by excelling on the football field or by making honor roll grades. But less than five per cent of the millions of teenagers of today are thus gifted. "At the other end of the scale, a youth, frustrated in his desire because he isn’t mentally or phy sically equipped to compete with quiz kids or sports stars, achiev es the recognition he craves by breaking the law. Fortunately, less than five per cent of today’s young people seek recognition so violently. "But what of the majority of young people in the 'middle? Ov er 90 percent of today’s teenagers, hungry for recognition and ap preciation, are passed by because ■their names don’t make news. Consequently, this huge middle majority often carries the bur den of the bad name that a few misguided teenagers have earned for themselves. "Give youth a confident start in the long journey to tomorrow with a gesture of appreciation to day.” 1 Local News Bulletins COURT OF HONOR Court of Honor for Kings Mountain district Boy Scouts will be held on November 16th * at 7:45 p. m. at Central Metho dist church. The Court will be held one week later due to the annual business meeting. COMPLETES TRAINING Marine Pvt. Donald Wayne Burton, son of B. T. Burton of 518 Phenix street and Mans. Le ona Anthony of Pompano Bea ch, Fla, has completed recruit training at Parris Island, S. C. He entered the service in Oc tober. KIWANIS CLUB Col. Joe Speckman, retired Colonel in the Marine Corps, will address Kings Mountain Riwandans ait (their Thursday night meeting at the Woman’s club. Coll. Speckman will speak on a program arranged by Booth Gillespie. AT CONFERENCE Rev. George T. Moore, pastor ot Resurrection Lutheran church, is in Washington, D. C. this week representing the Lutheran Synod at a regional conference on church occupa tions. The meeting is under di rection of the Board of Higher Education of tile Untied Luth rmn Church in America. GOOD CITIZEN — Jean Harlow, high school senior, was chosen Good Citizen of the month by her senior classmates. Jean Harlow Good Citizen 'Jean Harlow, Kings Mountain high school senior, was named Citizen of the Month by her classmates for October. 'Miss Harlow makes her home here with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Arrowood. She is an honor student, member of the National Honor Society, Mountaineer staff, French club, Future Teacher’s and the annual staff. She expects to become an art teacher or English instructor. Mrs. Williams' Bites Conducted (Final rites for Mrs. Emma Mae Ware Williams, 79, wife of Wray A. Williams, were held Monday afternoon at 3 p. m. from Central Methodist church of which she was a member. Mlrs. Williams died suddenly Sunday morning of a heart at tack. Though! she had 'been hos pitalized for two weeks in the local hospital, her death was un expected. She was1 a native of Cleveland County, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ware. iln addition to her husband she is survived by one son, Hugh (Otto) Williams; three daughters, Mrs. Francis O. Hunt of Lexing ton, Mrs. Elmer McGill of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Welford S. Bill lock of Seaboard; two sisters, Miss Leone Ware of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Jasper L. Brinson of Pelham, Ga.; two brothers, Robert Ware of Kings Mountain and Wright Ware of Newton; and one granddaughter, Jan Williams. The funeral rites were conduc ted by Rev. H. D. Garmon, assis ted by Rev. IB. L. Raines. Inter ment was in Mountain Rest ce metery. Sanford Urges Defense Work Mayor Kelly Dixon has receiv ed a letter from Governor Terry Sanford urging the active cooper ation of the city with state and county governments in non-mili tary defense. The Governor wrote, “Local government officials share an e quail responsibility with the fed eral and state governments in survival planning . . . " He added, "In North Carolina we believe in doing everything we can to help ourselves. The' dangerous aspects of major dis aster are greatly Increased Where there is no plan to cope with it and where workers are not train ed in emergency services ...” Two Kings Mountain firemen have already attended the Civil] Defense school at Brooklyn, N. Y.J C. D. Ware studying rescue work, j and T. C. McKee studying fall.! out shelter construction. Index System, Less Precincts Possibilities B>- MARTIN HARMON Ralph Gilbert, chairman of the county elections hoard, was doing some thinking aloud Wednesday ; morning in the wake of Tuesday’s I statewide 'bond election on poss ibilities of making the county e ; lection system more efficient, ' easier for the voter and less cost ly Specifically, Chairman Gilbert is thinking along these lines: 1) Recommending to the coun ty commission a new registra tion, largely for the purpose of establishing a card index system In the heavily - populated pre cincts of Kings Mountain and Shelby to avoid jam-ups such as | occurred in Kings Mountain dur ing the 1960 general election. 2) Immediate consolidation of i six small precincts into three, Queens with Dover, Sharon with Boiling Springs, and Delight with Folkvilie. Chairman Gilbert no ted that Queens, Sharon and De light cast small vote totals and that the consolidations would I leave one precinct per township, I rather than two. He said there would be no geographical prob j lem. This consolidation he guess ed, would enable the county to cut its election expense by $1500 per election. 3) Experimentation with voting machines at one or two precincts, with eventual possibility of redu cing the number of precincts, now 28, to one per township, 11. County Auditor Max Hamrick has previously noted it requires a manimum to $3500 tq $4000 to hcfld a Cdbrity-^ide election. Chairman Gilbert added these details: minimum salary cost for election officials, whom he con siders underpaid, for each pre cinct is $140; the election books are expensive; there are mileage allowances, rents for voting pla cs, and other miscellaneous ex penses. The voting machine and con | solidation to 11 precincts he re gards as a long-term experiment, i “It is well-known that voting : machines, particularly with long ballots such as in a general elec tion or long-ticket primary, tend to slow actual voting,” Chairman Gilbert said, guessing that it would require up to five machin es to handle the voting in the large precincts of Shelby and (Continued On Page Eight) Shelby Architect Flint U Chosen To Design School Architeats Associates, Shelby architectural firm, was chosen by Kings Mountain Board of Ed ucation members Thursday to doesign and engineer the pro posed $1 million consolidated high school. The firm consists of four arch itects and an engineer. Robert S Ormand, Fred Van Wageningen, Thomas W. Cothran, C. L. Vaugh an, architects, and Engineer Marion Packard compose the firm. Widely experienced in school plant construction, the firm is presently engaged in planning the proposed new Crest High school for the Boiling Springs a rea. ' The firm recently completed a new building at Jackson Training school and are now engaged in building an industrial arts build ing at Appalachian State Teach ers College. A million and a quarter dollar high school in Moeksvillle, in Da vie County, opened this fall, was designed by the firm. Supt. B. N. Barnes noted the architects wil start work imme diately toward selection of a site and working up preliminary ske tches. fn other action the board: 1) (Authorized Supt. Barnes to secure an elementary school li brarian. 2) Awarded a contract for a new roof at East Elementary School to Norman Harris and Son, of Shelby, ait a price of $2325. May Cherry Tree Yields Two Crops Clyde Bumgardner, route 1, York Road resident, has a crazy mixed-up cherry tree. It bare fruit twice this year. And who's "to blame? The weatherman, naturally. Mr. Bumgardner dropped a twig by' the Herald Fid day to furnish proof of the phenomen. Attached were two plump, red cherries. Bumgardner said the tree is (the May variety, produces only one yield per year normally. He said he noticed the tree wias blooming again sometime back, and discovered ripe cher ries on its branches last Thurs day. He feels the warm October and November weather crossed the tree up. But weather wizards promis ed to set matters straight Wed nesday, calling for a cold front to pa^s through this area, bringing chillly temperatures. New Meters Installed, Recreation Body To Ash Honor System Demise The city installed 160 new par king meters over the weekend, and motorists got their first look —and business — with them on Monday. Meantime, the recreation com mission anticipates renewing its recommendation to the city board of commissioners, probably at Thursday night's regular meet ing, that it abrogate the honor system on parking at meters and again put teeth' into the enforce ment of the meter system. Many over-parkers ignore the request to pay, officials report. 'At the time the new meters were purchased the recration commission (which benefits by receipts from the meters, but provides for their superintenden ce) recommended: 1) an over parking fee of 25 cents, if paid within 24 hours; 2) an over-park ing fee of $1 if paid after 24 hours but within 72 hours; and 3) a summons to city court, if the fee were not paid within 72 hours.. City court costs approxi mate $19. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, al so secretary-treasurer of the rec reation commission, acknowledg ed there had been some criticism of the recreation commission’s; proposals, particularly the one giving only two days In which to pay the $1 fee prior to summons to court. He said this reeommen-l dation might be eased. Additnon ly, he said it might be possible the court would make an arran gement where only half the court costs would be assessed, as the practice of handling cases in volving certain other minor traf fiv violations. Under the recreation commis sion plan, coin boxes would be placed on the meters at intervals to facilitate the quarter pay ments by over-parkers. This system is similar to that used by Shelby and Monroe. The new meters represent an investment of $7744, at $44 net each, including seven spare heads to use as replacements should others need repair. The seller, Mc Gee-Hale Park-o-Meter Company, price their meters ot $57 50, al lowed the city $13.50 each for the replaced group bought in 1948. Meters in the Cherokee parking lot, .bought in 1955, were not re placed and were termed “in good condition.” The city made no cash outlay for the new meters. They will be paid for by sending the metar company GO percent of each mon th’s receipts. A slight bargain is in stone for some motorists at some of the meters. On suggestion of the sal esman, a traffic engineer, City Clerk McDaniel said, met»rs giv ing two-hour parking for five cents were installed in areas where parking is relatively light. Number 4 Township For Lone Bond Issue, County Only Two County Favors Mental Hospital, Hospital Issues Olpwlansl _ Cleveland County citizens riif S?w!thhfhy and nam>w CarolfoL^I^ n^Jority of North Carohm voters Tuesday as about J500 citizens supported two of | ten statewide bond issues wml ^afe^de vote was opposing «^Sal to issue $2.S nWhon in tends to build to cap itol area buildings, defeated in Cleveland by 679 votes. Chairman Gilbert said the vote fotel surpriseti him, thoug h *dn t approach the total of the th^ ?o^£aI election when more than 18,000 cast ballots. . The official vote canvas will be Unof^ 1Thursday morning Unofficial county returns on each of the ten is sues ™ eoS ***** & Qhaimian Gilbert, were: il On issuance of $2.8 million KrasSJS'*’6 1350 "’t^TSSSSi^S '00rreofcional institu tions, 1711 for> 1712 against. ,vJL°? issuance of $31 million ro«d® ^Tjtoto educational instl I644 for- 1774 against. boJdJ of 5148 milhon SfJ i7^™nUnlty ullages, roiy for, 1796 agaanst. bonL°rLiSSUance of $2 57 million bonds for archives and history Sr^raiy tondS' 1306 for’ 2056 br,nL°fJSSUanc'e of $13-5 million bonds for state ports, 1510 for, 1863 against. JL°'LiSSUanc'e of $7A million ^ls,^or1 mental institutions, 1868 for, 1553 against. 8), issuance of $500,000 hos pital bonds, 1726 for, 1696 a gaanst. . 9). °" issuance of $961,000 bonds for natural resources can 1433 for’ 1928 against. hrvnHc ^ issuance of $289,000 “mto® fur agricultural researo} improvements 1477 for, 1895 against. Lutherans Host For Conference Rings Mountain’s two Luther an Churches will be host next Thursday, November 13th, to the So,ftlleTr'n Conference of the U CarolingUth*ran Synod of North wi'theih0nf