Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
ThU figure for Greater King* Mountain U derived front
the 1855 King* Mountain city directory census. The city
Hmlti figure U from the United State* census of I960.
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VOL. 73 No. I
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 4, 1962
Seventy-Third Year
Camp Boy Winner
Of ’62 Baby Derby
Local News
Bulletins
INDUSTRIAL FIRES
Fireman N. M. Fair reported
'the city fire department receiv
ed two alarms lor industrial fir
res Tuesday within 45 minutes
of each other. The first was at
J. E. Herndon Company at 3:00
p. m. and involved a blaze in
a waste pile. The seoohd was
at Margirace Mill in the slash
er rbom at 3:45 p. m. Fireman
Farr reported damage was
logged in each blaze, but could
give no estimate pending in
surance adjustment
PERMITS ISSUED
A permit was issued Fri
day to Roy L. Barnes to build
a one-story structure on Mit
chell Street for use as a knit
ting mill. Estimated cost of the
building is $75,000. A permit
was issued Wednesday to Has
kell Blackwell to annex a gar
age to his 521 Katherine Ave
nue residence at a cost of $300.
TO HOUSTON
Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Harris,
Jar., and son John Harris left
Wednesday afternoon for Hou
ston, Texas, where they will
make Itheiir home. Mir. Harris is
associated with an uncle in the
realty development business.
SHERIFF ON ROSTRUM
Sheriff Haywood Allen will
address members of the Kings
Mountain Lions , dub at their
meeting Tuesday night aft 7 o’
clock at the Woman’s Club.
Sheriff Allen, a former member
of (the club, will speak on a
agiram arranged by J. Ollie
LIONS DIRECTORS
Directors of the Rings Moun
ln Lions club will hold a
dinner meeting Thursday night
aft 7 o’clock alt "line's Restau
rant, President .martin Harmon
announced.
INSTALLED
The following men were in
stalled Sunday as deacons of
the Boyce Memorial Associated
Reformed Presbyterian Church:
Donald Crawford, Brown Ware,
W. G. Grantham, and Paul
Ham, Jr.
J. H. McDaniel's
Rites Thursday
Funeral rites for Joseph M. Mc
Daniel, Sr., 58, will be held
Thursday afternoon at 3 p. m.
from Harris Funeral Home Cha
pel, masonic burial following in
Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mr. McDaniel, Kings Mountain
native now of Chartolfcte suc
cumbed Tuesday morning at 9:45
^Rfter an illness of several mon
Mrhs. He was a son of the late Mr.
4 and Mrs. Marcus W. McDaniel
and a member of Kings Moun
tain’s First Baptist church.
He had retired as an engineer
for Standard Oil Company of
Charlotte. A World War II vet
eran, he was a member of Fair
view Lodge 339, AF&AM and of
Otis D. Green Post 155, American
Legion.
Mrs. McDaniel was thfe farmer
Ida Styers of King® Mountain,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Win
field Styers. She died in', 1932.
The final rites will be conduct
ed by Rev. Marion DuBos?,' pas
tor of Kings Mountain Baptist
church.
Surviving are his son, Joe H.
MtDaniel, Jr., Kings Mountain
City clerk; his daughter, Mrs. Joe
Bii Eids:m of Gastonia; three
grandchildren; two brothers,
John and Woodrow McDaniel of
. Uuaington; and three sisters,
■ tsi Edna Lanier of Charlotte,
rs. Pearl Setzee of Lenoir and
js. George Sellers of Kings
;untain.
ilty Auto Tags
Now On Sale
auto tags went on sale
. -vzw; city tags, which sell for
’ a dollar, harmonize with the
color of the new North Caro
^Al^^thtte abate, the city
require* that in-city oar owners
buy and display the 1962 tags
not later than February 15.
Penalty ior failure to purchase
ia $5. i
First '62 Baby
In Township Bom
New Year's Day
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Kings Mountain’s newest citi
zen, James Curtis Camp, greeted
the New Year ait 1:28 p. m. Mon
day to (become winner of the
Kings Mountain Herald’s eighth
annual baby derby.
The Kings Mountain area’s
first baby, a seven pound, seven
ounce boy, was born to (Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Camp, Jr., 825 Floyd
street. Mrs. Camp entered Kings
Mountain hospital early Monday
morning. Dr. John C. McGill was
attending physician.
A baby boy was born to Gas
tonia parents Mr. and Mrs. James
Martin at 3:59 a. m. New Year’s
morning at Kings Mountain hos
pital. The Martin child arrived
while New Year’s parties may
have still been continuing and
revelers were Still singing “Auld
Lang Syne.”
The Martin child was not eli
gible for the Herald Baby Derby
as rules specify the winner must
be bom to Number Four Town
ship area parents. Kmgs Moun
tain merchants annually shower
the first arrival with many val
uable gifts.
The Camps are parents of one
other child, a 22-month-old dau
ghter, Norma Jean, bom March
2, 1960, the day of that season’s
first big snow. \
The father is an employee of
Arlington Mills, Gastonia.’ Mrs.
Camp is the former Nancy1! Fite,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hen
ry Fite of Kings Mountain.
The Camp children may feel
they’re in a position to claim a
record for grandparents. Their
13 living grandparents ate Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Camp, Sr., (Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Fite, Mr. and Mrs.
M. D. Fite, Kings Mountain; Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Melton, Mrs. E.
L. Gossett, York, S. C„ Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Entrekin, Georgia, and
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Mite, Latfi
more. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fite
and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Camp,
Sr., are the grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Melton/ Mr. and Mrs.
M. D. Camp, Mr. and Mrs. En
trekin and Mr, and Mrs. N. J.
Fite are great-grandparents and
Mrs. Gossett is a great-great
grandmother.
OTHER NEW ARRIVALS
The new son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Crdwford, of 301 Battle
ground avenue, arrived Sunday
at Garrison General hospital,
Gastonia, eight hours too soon
to compete in a baby derby. How
ever, the father can count young
William Scott Crawford as an
income tax deduction. for the 12
months of 1961.
Barbara Jean Johnson born to
Negro parents of Lawndale, was
the first baby bom «>fter mid
'night Sunday in a Cleveland
County hospital. She arrived at
Cleveland Memorial hospital at
12:08 the morning of New Year’s
Day.
Are a Citizens
Welcome 1962
Kings Mountain area citizens
welcomed a New' Year Monday.
A white blanket of snow which
began falling in Ithe early hohrs
of the day covered the ground
for some Kings Mountain citi
zens’ first look at the new year.
The snow continued until mid
afternoon, was followed by ice
and slush which closed schools
on Tuesday, opening date follow
ing the Christmas holiday vaca
tions.
• The first snow of the winter
season, however, caused less than
the usual hardships for Kings
Mountain business and schools,
most of which were closed for
the New Year’s Day holiday.
'Some employees worked to com
plete 1961 inventory chores and
one firm opened briefly for some
customers in need of footwear.
Schools were open Wednesday.
At least five churches ushered
in the New Year with special
watohnight services and Christ
the King Catholic church held
tpedail mass on the evening of
New Year’s Day.
A wide number of private par
ties and group gatherings were
scenes of gaiety on Saturday as
friends Joined a day early to
sing “Auld Lang Syne” and cele
brate the arrival of 1962.
Others waited and celebrated
the i»-aoming year traditionally
on Sunday evening.
TO BE INSTALLED — B. N. Bar
nes. superintendent of schools,
will be installed as president of
the Kings Mountain Kiwanis
club Thursday night. He will
succeed Charles A. Neisler.
Craig To Install
Kiwanis Officers
Rev. Gus Craig of Rutherford
ton, past lieutenant governor of
Oarolinas District 1 of Kiwanis
International, will install new
officers of the Kings Mountain
Kiwanis club Thursday night.
New officers will be installed
in a program at 6:45 p. m. at the
Woman’s Club.
B. N. Barnes, superintendent of
Kings Mountain consolidated
schools, will be installed as pres
ident succeeding Charles A. Neis
ler. Other officers to be installed
include: Grady K. Howard, first
vice-president; Sherman Perry,
second vice-president; Charles
Alexander, secretary; and John
L. McGill, treasurer.
New directors to be installed
are W. C. Ballew, Jack T. Bar
ham, J. C. Briiges, Dan CM. Fing
er, Henry P. Neisler, B. S. Peeler,
and S. R. Sulber, Jr.
Wives of Kiwanians will
special guests.
A president’s report will
a review of chib adKvftfeS'
projects during 1961. >
be
WBTs Ty Boyd
Jaycee Speaker
Ty Boyd, replacement for Gra
dy Oole on WBT Radio from 6:30
until! 9:00 a. m. daily, will be
featured speaker January 16 at
the Annual Jaycees Bosses’ Night
Banquet to be held at the Wo
man’s Club ait 7:00 p. m.
Also a feature of the night’s
program will be the presentation
of the annual Distinguished Ser
vice Award to Kings Mountain’s
“Young Man of the Year.”
The search for the 1961 young
man is still underway and DSA
Committee Chairman Charles
Blanton Urgently requests that
nominations for the award be
made.
Nominations are asked from
the general public. "I would 'like
to emphasize that a person need
not be a Jaycee to be eligible to
post a nomination, and a person
need not necessarily be a Jay
cee to receive the award,” Mr.
Blanton said.
Requirement for a nominee are
that he be between the ages of
21 and 36, of good moral char
acter, have made outstanding
contributions to the welfare of
the community through civic,
cultural, and religious activity,
and show evidence of progress in
his chosen field of endeavor.
A nomination blank is carried
on the sports page of this week’s
Herald for convenience of per
son’s wishing to submit a nomi
nation. The blank should be
filled in, any additional informa
tion attached, and forwarded to
Charles Blanton at Postoffice box
262.
Deadline for nominations is
6:00 p. m. Wednesday, January
10.
Employers of Jaycees and spe-|
cial guests will gather to see the
presentation and to hear Boyd’s
address.
Boyd, hailed as a “buffon, wit,
and funny man, and the liveliest
character in Eastern North Car
olina”, was formerly with WCHL
(Continued On Page Eight)
Snow Produced
Art Work, Fun.
Some Damage
By DAVID BAITY
New Year’s Eve revelers were
surprised as they came forth in
the wee hours (Monday to find
the covering of the main win
tain regions of North Carolina.
Some made it home, others got
stranded. (Driving conditions
were bad and traffic was at a
near standstill until early Mon
day afternoon.
The white fallout also wreaked
snow on the Piedmont and Moun
havoc with awnings, damaging
the covering of the main win
dows at Belk’s Department store.
Harris Super Market’s York Road
store was among others where
awnings were giving a ground
ward tilt.
(Ben Moo-maw, Superintendent
Kings Mountain National Milita
ry Park for 10 years, saw his first
five years elapse with no trace
of the white stuff. His last five
years have more than made up
for the first’s absence of snow.
He has decided he will include
snow removal costs in his next
year’s budget request. 1
’’Frosty, The Snowman” dotted
the Kings Mountain landscape,
children’s imaginations running
wild and artistic creations run
ning the -gamut from gargantuan
on W. Mountain Street to nude
female ice sculptures on N. Pied
mont Avenue.
Kings Mountain Police depart
ment reported only one automo
bile accident within the city lim
its caused by the icy street condi
tions.
A Norris Packing Company
(Shelby) truck, driven byjjayid
Joe F-OitercbctTy, '13 Whitner
Street, Shelby, approached the
-signal light at the intersection oi
E. King Street and Cleveland Av
enue, the driver applied brakes
and the vehicle skidded into a
telephone pole.
Damage to the vehicle was es
timated at $125 .
No one was injured in the ac
cident.
Students got a day of grace
from the January 2 return to
school, conditions being too risky
for bus transportation.
Richard Etheridge, 10-year-old
son of Mrs. Dorothy Patterson
Etheridge, when asked wasn’t he
sorry the snow had kept him a
way from his school labors re
plied, “Heck no, I hope it snows
again tonight.”
It didn’t.
School resumed -with the 8:30
bell Wednesday morning.
Tax Listing Off
To Brisk Start
Tax listing in Kings Mountain
ana Number 4 Township was off
to a brisk start this week.
City listing official Glee A.
Bridges remarked Wednesday
afternoon, “We haven’t sat down
in two days.”
The annual tax listing chore
began Tuesday, With Conrad
Hughes again handling the town
ship work for the county board of
commissioners.
Mr. Hughes said that Marshall
VanDyke will join the listing
team. Monday to list the annual
farm, census. Meantime, he’s get
ting a part-time assist in this
department from his son Ervin
Hughes.
Farmers are asked to note the
number of acres they plant to
particular crops and also to note
their production of poultry, hogs
and other livestock.
In Number 5 Township, W. L.
©rowne is doing a eireut this
week, before settling down for
the rest of the month at Crown
Service station in Waco. His
schedule for the remainder of
the week is Thursday at Short’s
Grocery, Friday , at Horace Eak
(Continued On Page Eight)
James Byrd Kennedy, 49, bro
ther of Robert M. Kennedy, East
school principal, was suffocated
to death ait his home in Burling
ton Monday night.
(An executive of Burlington In
dustries, firemen found Mr. Ken
nedy in the living anoom floor, un
successfully tried resusitation via
moufth -to-mouth. He was pro
nounced dead at a Burlington
hospital an hour after firemen
arrived.
Cause of the fire wasn’t imme
diately known but firemen found
damage heaviest around an up
Bond Election Date To Be Designated
hoLstared chair.
Mrs; Kennedy and their two
daughters were out tor the even
ing.
Manager of the true* and ware
house department ot Burlington’s
transportation, Mr. Kennedy on
Monday completed 25 years ot
service with his firm.
Funeral details weren't known
here Wednesday night
In addition to his wife, daugh
ters and his brother here, two
other brothers and a sister sur
vive.
Funeral Rites Held Tuesday
For Pritchard W. Ferguson
Herald Logs
100 Percent
UF Donation
Kings Mountain Herald em
ployees were logged as 100 per
cent United Fund contributors
Saturday, treasurer Tom Burke
reported today.
Total cash collected during the
United Fund campaign now
stands at $5,300. Pledges amount
to $3,278. The total $8,578 repre
sents about half of the $16,446
goal for the year.
"The campaign is going very
Slowly,” Treasurer Burke said.
Chairman B. W. Gillespie had
formerly reported inactivity in
the soliciting department He had
voiced hopes for completion of
the drive in January.
Mr. Burke reported that contri
butors to date have 'been gener
ous. He added that he would
have a comprehensive report on
the campaign to date next week.
Stressing one goal, one dona
tion, (the drive seeks what it
terms a fair donation from all
citizens. Hourly workers are ask
ed to contribute 12 hours pay for
the year. Salaried workers are
asked to contribute one percent
of their annual salary.
The United Fund has nine par
ticipating agencies, the greater
portion of tile money collected
staying in Kings Mountain for
charitable purposes.
The agencies include Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Kings Moun
tain Band Association, Kings
Mountain Chapter of (the Ameri
can Red Cross, Jacob S. Mauney
Memorial Library, Compact - Da v -
idson School Bands, Cleveland
County Life-Saving and Rescue
Squad, and the State Association
for the Blind.
No door-to-door solicitation is
being made, UF officials feeling
most breadwinners will be con
tacted in the industrial and bus
iness district campaign.
However, Chairman Gillespie
notes that anyone not contacted
wishing to make a contribution
should forward it to the United
Fund account at First Union Na
tional Bank.
Other officers of the United
Fund are J. Ollie Harris, vice
president, and W. S. Fulton, Jr.,
secretary.
Barnes Reports
Attendance Good
School officials, who found it
necessary two years ago to order
Saturday schooling due to missed
days caused by snow, were com
mending themselves (this week on1
decision to shorten slightly the
Christmas holidays.
The New Year’s snow dictated
an extra Christmas holiday, but
the extra holiday — minus more
inclement weather — won’t leng
then this year’s term.
Meantime, Superintendent Barn
es, with school pupil bus trans
portation a major factor in
school operation here for the first
time, and much snow still linger
ing, said he was pleased with
Wednesday’s attendance reports.
Percentage of students present
was unusually low only at David
son school, and Principal Connie
Allison reported an unusual a
mount of sickness among his pu-|
pils.
Both Park Grace and Central)
elementary schools reported 95
percent attendance, closely fol
lowed by East school and Kings;
Mountain high school with 94 per
cent present.
Other Wednesday attendance
percentages:
(Compact elementary 81; Com
pact high school 91; Bethware
91; West elementary 92; Grover
89; North 91; and Davidson 67.
County Auditor:
No. 13 Unlucky
County Auditor Max Hamrick
isn’t sorry to see 1961 history.
Mr. Hamrick had more than
his share of sickness during
the year and remarked, “But
that’s not all the reason I’m
glad to see that whacky year
pa*t. 14 happened to be my
13th year as county auditor
and I really believe that bus
iness about Number 13 being
unlucky is right"
CHAIRMAN — Neil O. Johnson
of Foote Mineral company is
chairman of the Carolinas Sec- \
tion of the regional division of
the American Institute of Mining.
Metalurgical and Peroleum Engi
neers.
Johnson Heads
AIME Section
Neil O. Johnson, manager of
Foote Mineral Company’s Kings
Mountain operations, has been e
lected chairman of the Carolinas
Section, American Institute of
Mining,- 'MettaTurgical and Pe
troleum Engineers, Inc.
Other officers are L. J. Hash,
Zonolite Company, Enoree, S. C.,
first vice-president; R. B. Lane,
Southern Corporation, Charles-,
ton, S. C., second vice-president;
and F. W. MMlsaps, Tungsten Mi
ning. Corporation, Henderson,
secretary-treasurer.
The Carolinas Section is com
posed of 131 members and asso
ciates located in North and Sou
th Carolina. Its members are ge
ologists, mining, mettalurgical
engineers, and other technical
people associated With the miner
al industry in these two states.
This Section is one of 98 local
sections distributed among seven
regions located throughout the
United States and foreign coun-!
tries. There are approximately j
40,000 members including asso-j
ciaites and student members in
the A. I. M. E. national organiza-l
tion, which headquarters in New
York city.
At a December 15th regional
meeting held in Birmingham,
Ala., Mr. Johnson was e
lected one of three southeast re- ■
gional delegates. This region,
which includes the Carolinas Sec
tion, is composed of eleven sec
tions extending from Washingt
on, D. C. to New Orleans, La. j
There are approximately 3,500
mineral engineering members lo- '■
cated in the southeastern United
States.
Most mineral activity in the
Carolinas is in the first state in 1
the nation in producing lithium 1
minerals, feldspar, sheet and i
scrap mica, and livenite. It ranks
second in tungsten and third in 1
talc production. South Carolina
ranks second in the nation in out- '
put of koalin, kyanite, and ver- ]
(Continued On Page Eight) I
Atlantan Dies
Aftex Sunday
Morning Fall
By MARTIN HARMON
Funeral rites for Pritchard W.
Ferguson, 57, of Atlanta, Ga.,
husband of a former Kings
Mountain citizen, and uncle of
another Kings Mountain citizen,
were held Tuesday afternoon at
Harris Funeral Home chapel.
Mir. Ferguson, husband of the
former Mrs. Helen Ridenhour Mc
Gill and uncle of Mrs. W. S. Ful
ton, Jr., died at 2:30 p. m. Sun
day afternoon, shortly after ar
riving at Greenville, S. C. General
hospital.
He had suffered a fall at the
Fulton home, where he and Mrs.
Ferguson were house guests, at
5 a. m. Death, the attending phy
sician Dr. T. G. Durham said,
was caused by a cerebral hemor
rhage and a skull fracture.
Dr. Durham arrived at the Ful
ton residence minutes after he
was summoned. Meantime, Mr.
Ferguson had been carried back
to his upstairs room by Mr. Ful
ton, and H. D. McDaniel, a neigh
bor who had been summoned for
help.
Dr. Durham said Mr. Ferguson
was sitting on the side of th;
bed and showed no signs of cen
tral nervous disorder. Aboult 11
o’clock, Mir. Fulton returned from
Sunday School ito find Mr. Fer
guson paralyzed and in a coma.
'He was rushed to Kings Moun
tain hospital where x-rays reveal
ed the skull fracture,
i Arrangements for treatment (by
la Greenville neurosurgeon were
made quickly and he was rushed
there toy amlbulance.
Dr. Durham said Wednesday
such a delayed development is
not unusual. Depending on the
degree of bleeding accompanying
an aneurism, he noted, coma can
follow in minutes or in hours.
Mr. Fulton related this sequen
ce of events:
The two couples had attended
the dance at Kings Mountain
Country Club, leaving about 12:
30 a. m. and retiring prior to 1
a. m. Mr. Ferguson, who had oc
cupied the same room many
times previously, apparently was
seeking the bathroom, when he
fell down a flight of seven stairs.
Mrs. Ferguson, who had awaken
ed before her husband fell, reach
ed him first. Mr. Fulton, awaken
ed by the noise of the fall, was
dose behind. Mr. Ferguson’s feet
were extended up the stops, his
buttocks on the landing and his
head aaginst 'the wall. He said,
“Helen, what am I doing here?”
■Later, indicating he was nau
seated, he remarked, "It doesn’t,
look Like me and that roast beef
are going to stay together.”
J. Ollie Harris, county coroner,
who manned the ambulance to
the Greenville hospital, deemed
no inquest necessary.
Mrs. Ferguson ordered the au
topsy.
Mr. Ferguson, a native of Hay
wood county, was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ferguson.
(Continued On Page Eight)
Mayor Dixon To Decide On Senate
Bid This Month; Support Reported
By MARTIN HARMON
Mayor Kelly Dixon will decide;
by .the end of January whether
to accept the Republican nomin
ation for United States Senator, j
Reporting favorable reaction to.
his possible candidacy both loc-1
ally and from other areas of
North Carolina, Mayor Dixon
said he has not completely dis
carded the possibility of seeking
the GOP district Congressional
nomination, but added, “Right
now I’m leaning toward the sen
atorial race.’’
The Mayor opposed Congress
man Basil L. WhUener, Gastonia
Democrat, in 1960, polling more
than 41,500 votes in his unsuc
cessful bid. •>
Jt was his first time to offer
for public office.
Subsequently, Mayor Dixon
unseated four-time Mayor Glee
A. Bridgets in last May’s city e
lections.
Should he become the GOP
Senate nominee, the Mayor likely
wiBl oppose United Stages Sena
tor Sam J. Ervin, Morganton
Democrat, who has already an
nounced he will again seek the.
nomination in the May Demo-,
cratie primary. Thus far Demo-*
cratic opposition to Senator Er
vin is not apparent.
Should Mayor Dixon again
«eek the Congressional seat, it is.
likely that it would be a re
match between him and Con
gressman Whitenc. While Mr.
Whitener hasn’t officially an
nounced he’ll seek to stay in |
Washington, political observers
expect the announcement mo
mentarily. As with Senator Er
vin, a Democratic opponent to
Mr. Whitener is not yet apparent, j
Mayor Dixon sc id a Conover
citizen wrote that Catawba coun
ty would give him a good major
ity, and said he'd had encourag
ing AKXfds from both Charlotte
end Belmont.
A lifelong Republican, Mayor
Dixon is 59 and nine times a
grandfather.
Senator Ervin is seeking his
second six-year term, having
been appointed to succeed the
late Senator Clyde R. Hoey, of
Shelby.
Ji. : __
Commission
Likely To Call
Vote This Month
By MARTIN HARMON
The board of education is ex
pected to designate a desired data
for the forthcoming school bond
election prior io January 15, mid
month meeting of the county
comimissdon.
The county commission is the
agency which will actually call
the election.
IMax Hamrick, county auditor,
said the board adjourned its mid
month December meeting to con
vene at 9:30 a. m. January 15,
thereby meeting legal technicali
ty on bond election calls and in
anticipation of calling the Kings
Mountain district $1,100,000 elec
tion.
| Superintendent B. N. Barnes,
jvictim of the "flu” bug during
, the 'holidays, said he hasn’t con
■ versed with hoard of education
members, but feels the board will
; convene to designate the desired
date prior to January 15.
It requires a minimum of 40
days from the date the election
is called by the county combiis
j sion before the election can be
j held. In prior discussion, board
■ members have indicated they
hope the election can be held
j either in late February or early
March.
A new registration will be re
j quired, the school district bound
aries not coinciding wwth the
boundaries' of the regular coun
ty voting precincts.
The hoard of education is also
expected to designate desired
polling places.
■Funds from the bond issue, if
approved by the electorate, will
be used for the 'building of ar a
rea high school.
'Architects Associates, of Shel
by, has already been retained.
Several possible sites have been
visited by a state board of edu
cation planning group.
'An option on a 73-plus acre site
on Phifer road expired In De
cember, but is beinig renewed for
| six months, a representative of
i one of the owners said Wednes
day.
W. F. Upchurch
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for William F.
Upchurch, €4, of 402 Cherry
street, were held Tuesday at 3 p.
m. from Faith .Baptist church, of
Which he was a member.
Mr. Upchurch died Sunday mor
ning in Broughton Memorial hos
pital.
A native of Cherokee County,
S. C., he w^ts the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Uuchureh.
He was formerly employed by
Burlington Mills.
Surviving are his wife, Mr*
Grace Patterson Upchurch; three
sons, Ernest C. Upchurch of Ral
eigh, Marvin W. Upchurch of
Kings Mountain and Willard H.
Upchurch of Winston Salem; two
daughters, Mrs. C. M. Edwards
of New Eagle, Pa., and Mrs. Cur
tis Bell of Kings Mountain; two
brothers, Rhett Upchurch and
Calvin Upchurch of Blacksburg,
S. C.; and 11 grandchildren.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. Flay Payne and inter
ment was in Mountain Rest cem
etery.
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A Poem: Day |
0! New Year i
By DAVID BAITY
’Twas the day of the New Year
And all through* the town
Not a creature was stirring,
All were snowbound.
Some Mamas and Papas
Lay snug in their bods
While green and pink elephants
Bounced on their heads.
The kiddies squealed gleefully,
Happy to know
King Winter had blessed them
With four inches of snow.
Cars were immoble
Stuck in the slush
Snow, white while falling,
Was now dreary mush.
Snowplows were grinding
The streets to get clear,
Road men were praying,
Please, no more till next year.
Old Sol, not to be conquered
The Sun showed its face
With rays warm and brilliant
The white stuff erased.
Tomorrow’the landscape
Will show not a Reek, i "
The kiddies’ one comment, , *
“Darn, shucks, oh heck!" . t