North Carolina Newspapers

VOL 72 No. 47 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C.( Thursday, November 30, 1961 Seventy-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS 1£ Pa9es 10 Today Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 8,008 Gitv Limits Dsgi Mountain la derived from city director; saasus. The city Did ted Statee aeasue e< i960. $132,800 Electrical Construction Recommended i SCHOOL RECEIVES FLAG — Kings Mountain high school has a new United States flag, com* pliments of Otis D. Green Post 155. the Amer ican Legion. Legionnaire J. T. McGinnis, at right is shown above presenting the flag to Principal Harry Jaynes. (Photo by Claire Gilstad) > Local News Bulletins BAKE SALE Kings Mountain Garten ' ctoft> te sponsoring a Christmas *w»ir» sale on Saturday, * Dec. 9th., town 9 until 11:30 a. pi. alt Plonk Brothers. The club -will offer a variety of Christ EOTARY CLUB <' BB Henry Smith will present ' ithe program at Thursday’s meriting of the Rotary club. The civic club convenes ait 12:15 tor lunch ait the Country COtib. OPTIMIST MEET Rev. C. O. Green, home miss ionary tor the Baipitistt Assocd aition in the North Carolina district, will be featured sp eaker as the Optimist Club meets in regular weekly ses sion Thursday alt 7:30 p. m. at First Bapti t Church Fellow ship hall. CHURCH SUPPER Christ the King Catholic church is sponsoring a spag hetti supper Saturday from 4:30 until 6 p. m. in the church educational building. Plates will be $1.0ff tor adults and 50 cents for children. AT CLASSES Mrs. Billie G. Logan is in Charlotte this week attending (federal, state and social secur ity tax classes under sponsor ship of federal and state agen cies and N. C. State college. SUNDAY DINNER Sunday dinner will be serv ed by ithe International and Public (Affairs Department of ithe Woman’s club Sunday be ginning at 12 noon.. Proceeds Will go to the Exchange stu dent Fund Ham, chicken and oountxy-stty'e steak plates are $1.50 for adults and 75 cents far children. TO VIRGINIA Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Moo maw leave Friday morning for Roanoke, Va. where Mr. Moo maw, superint endent of Kings Mountain National Military Park, will ^ leak-at a DAR din ner meet!"g at the Roanoke Country Club. McGinnis improved W. Hinkle McGinnis, Kings merchant was improved Wed nesday tor owing his hospital isation Sa' irday for pneumon ia, members of his family said. CRASS FIRE City fire nen were called to to She corner of Harmon Road and Bridges Street Monday af ternoon to douse a grass fire. No property damage was re ported. LEGION TO MEET Regular monthly meeting of OOs D.Green Poet 155, Ameri can Lagfc>-\ will be held Fri day night ait 8 o’clock at the Poet build ng, according to Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., adjutant. Methodist Choir To Sing Cantata Central Choir Will Present •’Bethlehem" The annual Christmas Cantata, “Bethlehem” will be presented Sunday afternoon at 5 p. m. by the Central Methodist church 30 voiae chair under the direction of Mrs. J. N. McClure, organist and director, assisted by Miss Mary Alice (McDaniel at the pia no. This moving Christmas cantata features the traditional Christ mas story in scripture and song with special soloists Mrs. Dellbert Dixon, Mrs. Bill Allen, B. S. Peel-] er, Jr., Michael McSwain andi Jacob Dixon. A cordial invitation is extended by the Church and its minister, 'Rev. Herbert D. Garmon, to (Sbe people of Kings Mountain to at tend the five o’clock service and hear once again, the beautiful Christmas Story in scripture and song. Members of the choir are: Sopranos: Mrs. Delbert Dixon, ] Mrs. Jacob Dixon, Mrs. Bill Par i sley, Miss Mary Alice McDaniel, ] Mtes Winifred Pulton, Mrs. Bill ;AUen, Miss Pattie Howard, Miss ( Marilyn Dixon, Miss Ann Mc-j : Cluney, Mrs. Eddie Campbell, and Miss Joan McClure. Altos: Mrs. Y. F. Troneburg, Mrs. W. H. Dillingham, Mrs. Bax-j ter Payseur, Mrs. W. A. Russell,] Miss Mary Wright, Mrs. M. H. j Biser and Mrs. Betty McCarter. Bass: B. S. Peeler, Jr., Delbert (Dixon, Bill Allen, I. B. Goforth, j Jr;, Carleton B. Harris and Mi chael McSwain. Tenors: W. A. Russell, William C. Parsley, Gene Patterson, Ja cob Dixon, Arthur Walker and John Warlick. Mis. Kellei's Rites Conducted iFuneral rites lor Mrs. Julia Ann Keller, 87, widow of J. C. Keller, were held Saturday aft* 'emoon at 3 p. m. from Kings ! Mountain Baptist church of which | she was a member. Mrs. Keller died just after mid night Thursday after becoming ill suddenly Wednesday. Her husband died in October 1960. A native of Cleveland County, Mrs. Keller was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hord. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. E. W. Hord, and by several nieces and nephews. 1 The final rites were conducted toy Rev. Marion DuBose, assisted by Dr. Zeno Wall. Interment was in Elizabeth Baptist cWurch ceme tery to Stoel t>> , Active paHbearers were Eu gene Roberts, W. T. Weir, Har old Coggins, Ben Bridges and Ttom Tate and G. A. Bridges. Christmas Gtab - Membership Gains (Membership in First Union National Bank's ±968" tatrtatnjaB Club increased past idle 850 pisark during the past week, a gain of More than 150 during the past week, Mrs. (Helen ft tBlanton, as sistant cashier, reported. Mrs. Blanton said she hadn’t •completed tabulations sufficient ly to be able to estimate the po tential aggregate payment next November to Christmas Club members. The membership rolls remain open and Mrs. Blanton said she hoped the memlbensMp would top the thetpand mark. Compact School 100 Percent UT Teachers at Compact - David son consolidated school contribn ed in the 100 per cent category to the Kings Mountain United Fund this week with a total of $412.50 The sum brought the U nited Fund collection total to $3, 801.06 The figure represents an aver ) age contribution of $20.62 per teacher at the school. Tom Burke, treasurer, said in reporting the donation, “This is the best record of any group con tribution to the fund since its founding:” Stressing one goal, one dona tion, the United Fund campaign seeks what it terms a fair dona tion from all citizens. Hourly workers are asked to contribute 12 hours pay for the year. Salar ied workers are asked to con tribute one percent of their an nual salary. • The United Fund has nine par-! ticipating agencies. They are:' {Continued On Page Eight) 1 Mayor Asked To Compile Fieldhouse Bill Oi Costs BY DAVID BAITY Materials for construction of a-j fieldhouse alt City Stadium willj cost $5,000, according ito figure : compiled by Mayor Kelly Dixon Wednesday. Labor costs on the construction were not yet avail able. Mayor Dixon compiled the fig ures on instruction of the board of cilty commissioners Tuesday nighit as they melt in special ses sion to consider recommenda tions for improvement to the stadium by the stadium study commission. The committee stressed the immediate need of. a fieldhouse. ■ • — - The stadium committee sug gests the fieldhouse facilities be constructed alt ground level behind homeplate at the sta dium. In the event a grandstand should be erected, the structure could be built atop the field house. The sewage would be dumped from the proposed fieldhouse to the Gaston Street sewage line. Mayor Dixon said the city has a pump d*n stock. Mir. Dixon also said a proposal from H. R. Parton, as reported by chairman John H. Moss, of the stadium committee, that Mr. Parton will deed a strip of land adjacent to the northside of sta: dium to the city for use as a road in exchange for a sewer line from Carpenter street, the line tying into the fiefldhouse line. Cost of these lines, with manholes, would be $1525. The access road would con nect with a strip of land owned by the city whichoouid be used as parking area. The long-range improvement plan also calls Dor a consistent program of construction based .on annual appropriations for a five year period. H. Otto (Toby) Williams pre sented the recommendation for the committee in the absence of chairman Moss. Aliso on the com mittee is J. E. Rhea. The commissioners took no for mal action on the proposal, but instructed Mayor Kelly Dixon to compile the cost report of con struction of the fieldhouse for presentation at the next board session. “Wo have too much m the pre sent stadium to throw it away," said Mr. Williams in presenting (Continued On Page Bight J Highway Chiefs Time Not Own J. Clint Newton, Jr., State Highway commissioner, gave a humorous description of the fact a highway commissioner's time isn’t his own in an address at the Lions club Tuesday night. Referring to citizens living on one of Cleveland County's 537 miles of unpaved rural roads, he laughed, “You know these hard - working Cleveland County farmers get up about 4 o’clock in the morning and they think that by 7 to 8 o’clock it’s nearing lunchtime. They want an audience and I give them one. "However, I ask them if I can say my piece first and they almost uniformly grant my ¥P (Continued On Page Bight!) Meter Plan Working Well, But 14 Getting Summonses To Pay $1 Fee Summonses to pay one dollar | fines for parking their cars too •long at city parking meters were being posted yesterday to 14 mo- i torists who had declined to payi the basic quarter fee, allowable if paid within 72 hours of the infraction. Meantime, the required quar ter over - parking fee swelled, coffers of the City recreation commission, which manages the meters and hope-: to operate at a profit for benefit of the public recreation program. Receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon totaled $161. 55, including $104.35 from on-; street meters, $43 from over-: parking fines and $14.20 from off j street meters. Principal increase derived from the fine depart-; ment. 1 One motorist, a lady, will get summons to pay for two infrac tions, all on the same day, total charge $2. CSty Clerk Joe McDan iel, Jr„ commented, “nils lady has long flaunted the honor sys tem request to make a ten-cent contribution.” - Under the n<j-w. city ordinance, effective 'November 20, motorists who park too long are subject to a quarter fine, if paid within 72 hours of the infraction. Tile fine escalates to $1. if paid within the subsequent seven days. Failure to pay, after due no tice, makes the offender liable to citation to court. On submis sion, his pocket-book damage will be half the costs of court $7.30. Failure to submit makes him liable to full costs of court plus a fine. Mr. McDaniel, also secretary treasurer of the City Recreation commission, said he regarded the new system to be “working very well.” He said he was pleasant ly surprised to find the consid erable degree of compliance ex hibited toy motorist during the tkmt ten day*. m imt or peace III time or iTPiri IN TIME OF MEED TO SAVE A LIFE f ME JOliISfi ili CROSS THOU® TOONS III HE AIT IS EVER REACT TO 00 ITS PART. JUNIOR RED CROSS DISPLAY — East School students who are members of the recen'.ly-or ganized Junior American Red Cross in Kings Mountain prepared a window display on downtown streets last week and their exhibit pictured above is also on display at the school. Junior Red Cross chapters have been organized in each of the nine township schools. Overall theme of the organization is printed on the posterboard between the two dolls representing Junior American Red Cross workers. (Photo by Claire Gils tad) Majority off Kings Mountain retail stores and some other firms will toe open for business Pedemiber 26, indications were this week. Most department store and ap parel merchants have indicated they won’t abide toy -a narrow margin vote of the Kings Moun tain Merchants Association in which the members voted to close from Saturday night, De cember 23 until Wednesday mor ning December 27. Also to be open tor business on (the day following Christmas are (the community's grocers. A & P Tea Company has al ready notified Manager Tom Da vison that holidays will be ob served Christmas day and New Year’s day, Mr. Davison said. Yates Harbinson, Winn-Dixie manager, and Bob Mincey, man ager of Rarris-Teete., indicated the firms would observe the same schedule. Savings and loan associations are also expected to work or regular schedules December 26 and drug stores traditionally ob serve only one day for Christ mas. The fact that Christmas occurs on Monday this year created the unusual situation off a possible three-day suspension of busi ness. Directors of the Merchants As sociation are scheduled to. meet Thursday afternoon. It was not indicated Whether any further action on the holiday schedule will be taken. At least one firm will take the long ho’iday. The Governor de clared December 26 a legal holi day. First Union National Bank could open only by special per mission of the State Banking commission. liras Have FruitCakes j i The Kings Mountain Lions club, after posting the “stfld out” | sign, is back in the fruit cake i selling business, a new ship i ment having been received Wed- ( j nesday. Several club members reported i orders for the Claxton fruit ca-j kes, vended on franchise by th» | Lions club, after the initial stock was exhausted, and other! members - reported their indivi-l dual supplies over-sold. Persons desiring cakes should contact J. M. McGinnis, chair man, W. D. (Bill) Bennett, or H. M. Broadwater, of the fruit cake sale committee, or President < Martin Harmon. Delivery will be < made. The three-pound on has sell at W Kiwanions Suagesl Christmas "Gilt" ;T King® Mountain Kiwanians want to suggest a Christmas gift which they describe as ‘'perfect for all ages." What is it? A pint of blood. ThC Red Cross blood mobile Will be collecting these Christmas presents next Monday, Decem ber l'lth, from 12 noon until 6 o’clock p. m. at the Woman's Clitb. The Kings Mountain Kiwan is club is playing Santa Claus and sponsoring the one-day vis it Ktwanian John Cheshire is general chairman for the visit and is contacting donors from various local industries. Mr. Cheshire invited area citi zens to give a gift this Christ mas that’s especially needed and for which there is no sub j stitifte. Four Students j Win Diplomas Four Kings Mountain students 'were among tWe 245 graduates of King’s College, Charlotte,, who received their diplomas a* the re cent 61st annual commencement. They weie Brenda K. Bridges, junior accounting; Norman Bum-1 gardner, junior accounting; Cu-; mie Jean Moore, general busi-; ness; Martha Louzelle Smith, ju nior secretary. This year’s graduating class was one of the largest in the history .of the Cbtarlotte institu-i tion By-Pass North to Be Included BY MARTIN HARMON A four-lane U. S. Highway 74 to the Hendersonville • Ashevill area, including a 'by pass of Kings (Mountain, is badly needed and should be strongly supported throughout the counties effected J. Clint Newton, Jr., district high way commissioner, told members of the Lions club Tuesday night “I’ve pleaded hard with my fel low commissioners at Raleigh,” Mr. Newton added, "and this road project is tagged No. 1 priority 'But it isn’t tagged as urgent.” Comm. Newton said the fact that only one Interstate road tou ches this county and none of some other counties of his district, plus the potential of the mountain counttps as “a coming area,” ma joring in the tourist industry, dic tates support of the U. S. 74 pro ject by every county along the potential route. He reiterated a prior state ment. to the Herald that the U. S. 7-4 by-pass would veer north near Carver’s Service Station, by-pass the city to the north and re-enter present U. S. 74 in the vicinity «f Bethware school. “The exact route is not final and won't be, pending public hearings. Complaints of hard ship will be honored where al temately feasible from Standpoint of cost and engineering,” Comm Newton added. Cleveland County is getting a CContinued Ok Page Eight) ! Pending Text Democratic Leaden Like Plans To Up Party Strength BY MARTIN HARMON A .“.sampkng of Democratic po Rtical leach*rs indicates general approval of plans, to strengthen the party throughout the state, though all say they want to read the text of the proposals before making definite statements on the particular proposals. Mrs. 3. E. Lapford, of Kings Mountain, vicechairman of Cleve land County 'Democrats, commen ted, "I feel that recommendations approved by the party's leaders, Governor Sanford, Chairman Bennett and Secretary of State Eure are designed to benefit the party. I particulary like the idea of going to the ‘grass roots’ for party strength.” Representative Jack Palmer, of Shelby, noting he would await the text for final decision, said. “I feel there is room for impro vement in the party organdza-Ji tion.” He wondered aloud a# to; what range the recommendations to “purge” members who stray would extend and also whether women with sufficient political i interest could be Obtained to fur- i nftab half of the 100 county exec- ; «Hasv» committees. J. Ollie Harris, Cleveland cor ©ner and chairman of East Kings Mountain precinct,, said many ol the recommendations “look good on face." Some, he said, would require the full text before his final decision. Secretary, of State Thad Eure served as chairman of a special committee and said copies of the recommendations, to be consid ered at next May's state conven tion, would be mailed to party leaders as quickly os obtained from the printers. The revised plan would: 1) Retains the present form of, the State Executive Committee. | 2) Sets up a new 22-meiriber state campaign committee. 3) Provides methods for “purg ing” local party officials who fail to perform their duties or who go , wer to the opposition. 4) dves women equal repre sentation on county executive 'omamittess. 5) Gives the delegates to the state party conventions a voice ini ■hanging the party plan of on1' puiimtton. I, Improvements Would Meet Power Demand Through 19/0 BV MARTIN HARMON A Charlotte engineering fiiyn . recommends that the city $132,800 as soon os'-posable tq provide adequate power, sarvipe to its customers and to ijake wart' of anticipated 'power derfidrtd1* 1 through 1970. ' • i ■ •*<> • 'Immediately (required on • a piecemeal cons! ruction ba**is u expenditure of $75,600 ; SoCdh-’ eastern Consulting Engineers, Inc., says in itfe report received by the city this we^k and cv’-"* -• minating a survey the enginee.; •. Trig firm began several months,, ago. Basic construcrtion record m<*n' •' daltions are: 1) Installation of cenirail de livery equipment ■ with outdoor metalclad switchgear, estin*tted ... to cost $46,700. 2) Conversion of ithe sydtorn from 2400 to 4160 watts, addition of an eighth circuit and addition, of a fourth (neutral) wire on throe of the existing seven cir* cuirts, plus other branch Tine Mrm-i provements, estimated to oosjt $78,600. Engineering fee ,at six pdrefenlj' ‘ of the constructiow oast, would be $7,500. ; . The engineers- commenied: "The present system loading .is such that the primary voltage drop will exceed the.(recommend-' ed limits even if all conductor * increases proposed, for the 157ft system are installed immediate- M ly without: converting1 the system to 4160 volt operation. Artd Bur-"”’ ther Increases in <tondudto(r^^9j^ge'• -< will not significantly pds$io«hr» necessity of converting to volts and will result in. * syste -' C - whose conductors will be ovami.. ed after the conversion has tbecn accomplished . . . . It is reoam- • mended that the City's distribu tion system be converted to 4160 volt opera! ion with increased conductor sizes and the prppased •'* protective equipment at the ear- , lies* date.” .. I The,-- proposed construction' would raise the city’s peak load kilowatt hour maximum' from 4000 KW to 9500 KVV, say thd en-. •. gineers. ■ Estimated tire'' of ctvnstTudtton . from authorization by the' cily ’ commission is 3' weeks. On the necessity fer the faiviu * '■ tchgear construe ion. the engin eers wrote, “This arrangerhfent exposes the Ciity’s entire dastri- •'* button system to service inter- • » ruptions as a remit of f ropbl'eion. . any of the distribution circuita l. The engineers added that tbi* switchgear installation .Wioul^ be designed to become, in futon* up-buildings, a low-voltage sec tion of master unit station^ On a piecemeal basis, the en gineers recommend, "Install swi tchgear and perform line work las required to increase the sys tem capacity without exceeding (the conductor requirements for • 1 the long-range system.” | The remaining portion of the ; work should be started not I pater i than two years after opmpjeUon of the initial work, it Was added. The engineers considered two ! alternate systems to produce hi gher voltage systems, found that. I 22,000 voLt transmission would cost $363,000, while 44,000 volt transmission would cost $405,000. ' Both were rejected on grounds''! that improvements recommended could,be built into whatever | lure subtransmission s'yfetc/n "' ‘ .need might dictate, >*.ii.A,t yut-fc . Ten-Year Power Vt r v* f ■A'^I‘age monthly peak load or»t [ trical distribution, system ban *£T ***' kn^tts in 1%0 1 3564 WIowatts j* the year tJUPnis the report of Southeas iT^»?>,?Sulti,lg Engineers. Ine., <*r_PTarlotte’ in a corollary re port to its preliminary survey for improvements to the system, j rhe report and accompanying graph details annual peak load increases at an average per year of 87. percent. Biggest jump occurred be tween the years 1950 and 1951, a gain of 15.8 percent. Next big in SSJ** _waB between 1953 and 1954 when the peak load demand percent- The next year tbe increase was 11 percent. (Between 1958 and 1969 the jump was 9.2 percent end be tween 1969 and 1960 it was 102 percent. The engineers estimate the peak load demand at 5740 in 1965 ■nd 9240 kilowatts in 1970.