Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
U Serired from
cmuu*. Thm city
census at I860.
VOL. 73 No. 3
Seventy-Third Year
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 18, 1962
Pages
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
UNG MAN OF THE YEAR_Charles Blan
Jaycee DSA project chairman, presents the
rhth annual Distinguished Service Award to
Young Man of the Year Otis Falls, Jr. as Jay
cee President Jim Lybrand and Mrs. Falls look
on.
Iicing Costly
Many Ways
__ Larry
of Mr.
won
add
le at
for
V policemen read a headline
te Gastonia Gazette last
read, ‘'Rural Officer Tells
He's Leaving-He Can’t
xl to Be a Policeman”. They
fht they were reading about
selves, and they were, only
so.
i article, about Ex Gaston
1 Policeman Don Bradshaw,
anted the necessity to seek
ter pastures financially even
h he is devoted to police
>P pay for Gaston Rural pa
men is $345 per month. This
re compares with $425 a mon
m Mecklenburg county.
»kie Policeman’s starting
ry in Kings Mountain is re
edly $45 per week. Top sal
after fifteen months experi
t is $63.30 per week. i
*lmont Police Department
i $80 per week; Cherryvllle,
and Shelby rookies reported
tart at the top Kings Moun
officer’s scale.
policeman’s work is seem
Y never done. He works a
!ay week and on off-duty
t Is subject to call in emer
Jourt anoearames likely take
either his day off or off-duty
le during working days,
pid a policeman’s work is
Igerous, with the ever present
t of death in encounters with
Sr. Bradshaw recounted in the
ette article how fifty percent
the rural policemen hold
itional jobs to supplement po
pay.
e resigned to become assist
Oontmued On Page Bight) I
Scout Leader
Eighth Jayeee
DSAHoncree
By DAVID BAITY
Otts Palls, Jr,, recapdent of a
national scouting award last
summer, was named Young Man
of the Year in Kings Mountain
and presented the Distinguished
Service Award at the annual
Jayeee Bosses’ Night Banquet
Tuesday night.
Mr. Falls, the eighth recipient
of the award, was named one of
two outstanding scoutmasters of
America last summer.
(He is a memlber of St. Mat
thew’s Lutheran church and
scoutmaster of Troop 91. He also
serves as a Sunday school teach
er.
The 34-year-old award winner
is married to the former Delores
Bridges and the father of three
children.
A memlber of American Legion
(Post 155, he is also an active Ma
son. He served as a paratrooper
in Japan.
An active Jayeee, he is a for
mer officer and director of the
club. He attended N. C. State
college. He is an Bast Kings
Mountain Democratic precinct
committeeman.
In accepting the award, Mr.
Falls said, '"Thank you, I feel
this award must have been given
me for my scout work. There are
some 50 'boys and four other men
who should share in the honor.
‘Tve found the best way to
get a person to do anything bet
ter is to tell him how well he’s
already doing it. Thanks. I’ll
try.”
BOYD’S THEME
Ty Boyd, WBT Radio personal
ity and featured speaker for the
event, addressed the group of
Jaycees and special guests on
Americanism. Success depends
largely on enthusiasm, he said.
In discussing the threat of
communism to the free world,
Mr. Boyd stated, “We hold the
(Continued On Page Eight) \
Introduction Wry
At Bosses* Banquet
Employers were the order of
the day Tuesday as Jayoees
entertained at the annual Boss
es’ Night Banouet.
A feature of the program was
the introduction by Jaycees of
their separate guests, and wit
wan wry.
Quipped Otis Falls, Jr., who
was later to be named Young
Man of the Year, “I’d like to
introduce the working half of
the partnership I represent soc
ially, Otis Falls, Sr.”
The Fallses operate City Ser
vice Station.
Said Thomas Droppers in in
troducing Edward H. Smith.
Sr., “I couldn’t bring my boss,
so I invited the man who pays
my salary.”
Mr. Droppers is rector of
Trinity Episcopal church. Mr.
Smith is treasurer.
CHAIRMAN —_ Harry Jaynes,
high school principal, is 1962
chalrmap o{ the March of Dimes
Drive in\No. 4 Township.
Jaynes Heads
MaicKOf Dimes
Harry Jayiks, Kings Mountain
high school principal, will head
the Kings Maintain campaign
tor funds tor % March of Dim
es.
Goal of the ctonty-wide driv«
underway this m\nth is $14,000.
'Bob EBarnette, Cleveland Coun-1
ty campaign direcW, Shelby,1
said that coin collecVn; and Mar-1
oh Of Dimes scrolls Ire being dis
tributed this week Vto Kings
Mountain school chilWn. Eddie
Ross, president of tL Central
high school Key Clubtis chair
man of this phase of tHt 1962 po
The Kings Mountain^Junior
Woman’s dub will con<wct the
annual Mothers March vdjh a
tentative date set tor TWday,
January 26th. Kings Mount\n d-!
tizens should leave their
lights burning if they desir
contribute to the drive ani. * i
member of the women's
zation will call on them du
(Continued On Page Eight)
Participatin'! Organizations Seek
To Bulwark Laggirn United Fund
i
Representatives of Kings
Mountain United Fund partici
pating organizations will gather
Friday t» discuss ways and
means to bulwarking the contri
butions ito .this year’s United
Fund.
The meeting is being called by
United Fund officials, largely at
the instance of the Kings Moun
tain Red Cross chapter, which.
Chairman Marion DuBoso said
Wednesday, could lose its chap
ter charter.
Mr. DuBose said National Red
Cross has informed the local
chapter that failure to meet bud
get quotas the past year could
not be accepted In the future and
threatened withdrawal of the:
charter. i
ith this year’s fund totaling,
as V Wednesday, $8,778 in cash
and\ pledges —, only slightly
mareVianthalf the $16,446 quota
—r- t^toutlook far the Red Gross
an<^ <\er participating organi
zationsVc for a short-ration year.
Mr. •Mpse said. “There’s no!
feeling a the Red Cross to with-'
draw too* the United Fund. I
feel r
We’re
What we
can do 1
tioms.”
it lu be a tragedy,
iterwted in seeing
'Sgiaries of the fund
Jwark its con&ribu
Totn Burke, Vnlted Fund Tie a
surer, said Wlnecday he anti
clpates makjnA 50 percent pay
hTl^hKT1"8 agencies
«y nwMttft, s end. y |
City Acts To Protect Watershed
Easterling Says i
City Gas Bonds
Must Be Called
The city natural gas system,
blessed by a low system con
struction bid and profitable oper
ations, will have to use its $151,
000 redemption fund to call at a
premium bonds outstanding, W.
E. Easterling, secretary of the
Local Government oommissionf
has informed the City commission.
Mr. Easterling in his recent
letter calls attention to Section
509 of the natural gas system
covenant with bond-holders and
states, “There is no alternative
to calling all bonds possible at
$104 on April 1, 1962.”
Rather than calling the bonds
at a minimum four percent pre
mium, With maturities beginning
1959 and continuing through
1979, the city has been investing!
the redemption fund in local sav
ings and loan associations, which
currently', pay dividends of four
percent per annum.
Thereby, with the gas system
bonds carrying variable interest
coupons of from 3.5 to 4 percent
maximum, the gas system has
been able to show a small profit
on the exchange. (
Actually, the bond covenant re
quires that the city gas system
redeem outstanding bonds, with
in limits of its redemption fund,
at the most advantageous price
“after diligent effort to obtain
the lowest premium.’’
On Ocu>l~,,' 1, Htv through
its registrar and paying agern,
Ohemtal Bank New York Trust
Company, New York, N. Y., made
the $10,000 payment then due,
lowering to $370,000 amount of
| the bonds outstanding.
According to the letter from
Mr;% Easterlings .Mje great, portion
of the bonds outstanding* ($305,
; 000) are held by a large Eastern
, insurance company which is oth
[erwise unidentified. This com
pany, Mr. Easteriing Writes, is
willing to grant for redemption!
as many bonds as the city gas
system is in position to buy. He
adds that the company "would
take payment and forego accrued
interest at February 1/’. '
Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., city clerk
and treasurer, commented, j ‘T
Wonder why this matter is ad
vanced several years after it
might have been. Audits have
been In the hands of the Local
Government commission annual
ly.”
He continued, "The city com*
mission and I have operated un
der the impression that the bond
covenant requires that the latest
maturing bonds be first called.
This is what worries me. What
would happen a few years hence
if the gas system had a loss year
or years, with bond principal
payments due? While the pre
miums on called bonds would,
cost the gas system a few dollars, [
that is much less important than
the long-term picture.”
iMr. McDaniel expects to con- !
fer with the gas system accoun
tants, A. M. Pullen & Company,
Charlotte, Thursday, for the ao-!
counting opinion on the question.!
Meantime, Mayor Kelly Dixon
has acknowledged the Easterling
letter and told him he could ex
pect compliance in the future.
Resurrection
Officers Named
Resurrection Lutheran ciurchj
lay officers for the current year'
were elected recntly.
Thy ate: Pauli McGinnis, vice-i
chairman; John B. Plonk, sec-j
retary; Dorns Bennett, treasurer;’
Tommy Yarborough, financial
secretary; and Wesley Bush, ben
evolence treasurer. ,
Rev. George Moore, the pas
tor, 'is chairman ex officio.
No Bond Vote Call, But Date
Is Expected To Be March 10
Hamrick: Bonds'
Initial Tax Bite
45c Per $100
Max Hamrick, county auditor
and tax supervisor, in answer to
a question, told Kings Mountain
Jaycees Tuesday night a $1,100,
000 Kings Mountain school dis
trict bond issue would result in
itially an an ad valorem tax rate
increase from 45 to 48 cents per
$100 valuation.
(Explaining that county bud
gets presume tax collections of
90 percent of the levy, with ex
perience proving about 92-plus
preent of the levy is usually
paid, Mr. Hamrick added his es
timate is based on these addition
al suppositions:
1) The bonds will have a ma
turity of 20 years maximum;
2) An interest rate of four per
cent is anticipated for the first
year, with a lower average ma
turity;
3) Sale of all of the bonds the
first year they are issued.
The question was put to Mr.
Ha^nriek, Bosses Night guest of
President Jim Lybrand, when the
(Jaycees were discussing a fact
sheet on the upcoming school
bond election as presented by
John Lutz.
(Mr. Hamrick advised further,
‘Tell the folks the truth. You
have a problem and, it must be
xneL uf course, ifa-going to cosi
money to active it, hut- face it
reallstieaMy."
Mir. Hamrick also noted that
the (tax rate increase requirement
would be less if (longer term
bonds were issued, but that the
total cosit of the financing would
increase the length of term of
the bonds.
GOP Officials
To Be Elected
\ Republicans of Number 4
Township willl meet at City Hall
'Thursday to elect preainct offi
cials, according to an announce
ment b\\W. A. Williams, veteran
Kings Mountain Republican. The
meeting will begin at 8 p. m.
Pierce Cassidy, counity GOP
chairman, will speak at the
meeting. He invites all members
of the party, and others support
ing OOP policies, to attend.
Operational format of the Re
publican party, cals for election
of a minimum of three precinct
committee members, including a
chairman, vice-chairman and
secretary, one of whom shall be
a woman.
The Thursday meeting is with
in the organizational timetable,
calling for biennial precinct
meetings in January.' county con
ventions during the first half of
February, district conventions
during the final half of ‘"Febru
ary, and the state convention in
March.
The Republican State Conven
tion, will be held in Durham this
year on March 3.
GOP precinct committee serv
ing presently, as listed August
I960, include:
West Kings Mountain_D.
3. Littlejohn, chairman, W. W.
Parrish, and Russell Smith.
Grover — Brady Lail, chair
nan, T. Stough Wright, and J. L.
5hitkey.
Bethware — Prank C. Ware,
:hairtpan, H. B. Herndon, and
■Villiam Wright.
East Kings Mountain _R. H.
Doc) Burton and W. T. Weir.
Miller Bites
To Be Friday
Mrs. Ethelleanna Lindsay Mil
ler, 68, widow of Raymond W.'
Miller, died Wednesday after-!
noon at 3:00 at Kings [Mountain
hospKaJ following a long illness.
'Funeral rites will be held Fri
day afternoon at First Baptist
church at 3 o’clock. The body will 1
toe taken to the home, 305 VV. Gold j i
street, at 4 o’clock Thursday af- '
temoon.
A native of Cleveland county, <
she was a daughter of the late !
(Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lindsay and <
a member of First Baptist chur- n
oh.
Surviving are two sons, W. D. <
Miller, Radford, Va., and L. R. i
Miller, Kings Mountain; three 1
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'
RITES HELD — funeral rites for
Winfield S. Styers were held
Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Styers
died Sunday at the age of 81.
W. F. Styers'
Bites Tuesday
Funeral riites tor Winfield S.
Styers, 81, were held Tuesday af
ternoon at 3 p. m. from Kings
Mountain Baptist church of which
he was a memlber.
Mr, Styers died Sunday morn
ing at Kings Mountain hospital
after several years of declining
health.
(He retired in 1956 as master
mechanic of Neisler Mills after
j 54 years of sarviee. He was a na
tive of Cleveland County, son oi
the late Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Styers.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
;Pearl Long Styers; three sons,
Robert Styers of Arlington, Va,
John Styers of Hampton, Va.,
and 'Bruce Styers of Hagerstown,
Md., a foster son, Joe H. McEhm
iel, Jr., of Kings Mountain; two
daughters, Mrs. D. E. Tate of
Kings Mountain and Mrs. Carl
Lewis of Gastonia and a foster
daughter, Mrs. Joe Eidson of
Gastonia.
Two sisters, Mrs. 'Bud Oates of
York, S. C., and Mrs. Charles
Hord of Gastonia, and three half
brothers, Charles and Sinclair
Bridges of Kings Mountain, and
Fred Bridges of Shelby, 11 grand
children and five great-grandchil
dren also survive.
Rev. Marion DulBose, pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist church,
was assisted by Rev. R. L. Me
Gaha, pastor of Temple Baptist
church, in officiating at the final
rites. Interment was in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Active pallbearers were E. B.
Cooke, Jack White, Tom A. Tate,
H. V. Carver, Harry E. Page and
T. H. Davison.
Excmt Time Again
In School Sytem
Second semester officially
begins Friday at Kings Moun
tain Consolidated Schools.
Mid-term examinations were
in -full swing this week, follow
ing a schedule of one test on
Tuesday, three on Wednesday
and two on Thursday.
The examinations are held in
two-hour periods, Principal
Harry Jaynes said. -
Commission
To Act Monday
Says Attorney
Kings Mountain city schools
district will vote on the issuance
of $1,100,000 in bonds for con
struction of a new high school
on March 10, subject to pall by
the Board of County Commission
ers, J. ft. Davis, school's attor
ney, fold members of the board
of education Monday night.
He said the calendar was set
by New York Bond attorneys
Mitchell, Pershing, Shettefley,
and Mitchell.
The county commission will
j meet next Monday to call the e
lection formally, he reported.
Mr. Davis said a legal bond e
Tection draft, prepared by the
'bond attorneys, would be pre
sented the county commission
ers at that time.
(Polling places suggested by Mr.
Davis ifor the election are the
regular five in-city wards, Beth
ware and Park Grace schools, and
the Grover fire station.
'A new registration will be re
quired for the bond vote.
East May’s officials for city
Wards and the outlying areas
will 'be asked to perform the du
ties of election officials.
| Spt. B. N. Barnes, executive
secretary to the board of educa
tion, outlined progress to dlate on
the proposed new higto schaoLy
| Architects Associates, Inxt.,
Shelby architectural firm, has
. been retained by the board to de
: sign the proposed new building.
I The board holds an option on a
prospctive 73-acre site on Phifer
Road, but is investigating other
land tracts.
A delegation from the State
School planning commission has
talked with architects and inves
tigated prospective sites for the
new building. Supt. Barnes said
he is awaiting a written report.
'In other actions the board:
1) Received a letter of resigna
tion from Charles Woodward, pi
ano instructor in the city school
system. Mr. Woodward’s resigna
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Jackson Seeks
550,000 Damages
Howard B. Jackson has filed
suit in Cleveland Superior Court
against another Kings Mountain
Citizen, W. K. Mauney, Jr., for1
$50,000 for alleged personal dam
ages resulting from a boating
accident July 9, 1960.
Mr. Jackson alleges he was a!
passenger in a boat operated by!
Mr. Mauney on the Intercoastal
Waterway near Carolina Beach,
that he, the plaintiff, was seri
ously injured when the boat hit
a sandbar, and that the injury
producing accident resulted from
'Mr. Mauney’s negligence in op
erating the boat.
IMr. Jackson’s attorney is Paul
Ervin, of Charlotte.
Mr. Mauney said he was served
summons last week. Thirty days
are allowed to file an answer.
S. 0. S.: Bible-In-School Managers
In Red Budget-wise, Personally
By MARTIN HARMON
The BKMe-in-the-Schools ■com
mittee of the Kings Mountain
Ministerial association is in the
red, tooth budget-wise and person
ally.
The three-member committee,
Rev. J. W. Phillips, Dr. W. L.
Pressly and Dr. Paul Ausley, have
appended their signatures to a
bank note for the Bfble teacher’s
recent monthly salary, with an
other due soon and the funds in
sufficient.
Dr. Paul Ausley, committee
treasurer, said, ‘“Frankly we’re
seeking some help.”
Dr. Ausley said Wednesday that
the Bible-in-the-Schools budget is j
$980 in the red, result of the gen
eral teacher pay increase of 21
percent by the General Assembly
and by additional fart the teach
er. Mrs. Jeannine Easterling
Fisher, upgraded her teaching
certificate to “A”, both events
after the budget was prepared.
■Additionally, Mr. Phillips add
ed. some participating churches,!
which for the past several years
have been furnishing full support
to the program, are not current
with their pledges.
'Formerly, the city’s civic or
ganizations made contributions
to the fund.
Their withdrawal stemmed
from two factors: 1) some minis
ters felt the program was a
church matter and should be ful
ly church-supported; 2) some
civic clubs members felt that
support through the churches
and civic clubs meant double con
tributions from the civic club
membership of the community.
The committee is asking the
civic clubs to provide at least
temporary aid for the current
year.
IMr. 'Phillips noted the commit
tee is highly pleased with Mrs.
Fisher’s performance, stating
Mrs. Fisher teaches ecumenically
non-doctrinally. Next year, he|
added, the committee anticipates
offering Bible courses only in
high school as electives to assure I
completely meeting the test of
the Constitution’s “'separation of;
church and state” requirement.
Dr. Ausley said contributions!
from individuals, busines: and,
industry will be most welcome.'
Dickson Reieis
To 1954 Report
In Urging Action
The city acted Wednesday
morning to protect its privKipal
potential watershed.
On recommendation of its en
gineer, W. K. Dickson & Com
pany, Charlotte, the Mayor and
commission asked the slate De
partment of Water Resources,
state stream sanitation commit
tee, asking that Buffalo Creek
and Persimmon Creek, above the
junction with Potts Creek, be
classified for a potently} water
supply. ,
Mr. Dickson, in a letter to the
commission dated January 12,
wrote: i ’ i-.c > r •>
... t cl
% a letter X° '1ffc:Ntqy0r and
Board, March 4, 19&& 'fine iriloi
ma'tion was furnished' that the
Davidson Branch had a water
shed of approximately 575 acres
vtjtiich is approximately ninet en
tire of a square mile. The drain
age area of the old watershed is
approximately two square miles.
Therefore, the total drainage a
rea is less than three square
miles. It is estimated, with the
storage, that you could cbunt on
approximately two million gal
lons per day. Your present plant
has a capacity of treating two
million gallons per day.
"In this letter, it was recom
mended that studies be made
looking to the development <*l the
water-shed on Muddy Creek and
Buffalo Creek, Since that tame, 1
have done more studying on this
matter and am of the opinion
that only feasible watershed for
the future supply lies on Buffalo
Creek. I ant attaching a High
way map showing the watershed
on Buffalo Creek and Persim
mon Creek. The watershed of
these two creeks total 1B8 square
tpiles. XJiere, are very sttne in
pounding basin wrtes in ftutfa-n
Creek. A watershed of this are i
should provide an ample water
supply for Kings (Mountalit lor
the foreseeable future.
"The reason for this letter at
this'time is that the North Caro
lina Department of Water Re
sources, State Stream Sanitation
Committee, is preparing in clas
sification for the streams In both
the OataWba River Basin and the
‘Broad River Basin. The Co taw
bo River Basin classification will
go into effect March 1. 1962. ft
is anticipated that the Brood Ri
ver Basin will toe classified with
in a few months."
Jayceer Endwise
Bond Flec$i*n
Kings Mountain Jaycecs Tues
day night fi-mlv endorsed the
forthcoming hand election to
raise funds for the construction
of a new consolidated high
school and expect to take an ac
tive part 'in publicizing the ejec
tion.
The resolution to endorse the
measure was unanimously ac
claimed by members present at
the annual Bo- -•<*’ Night Ban
quet Tue-day night at the Wo
man’s Club.
John Lutz, chairman of the
civic affairs committee, present
ed following resolution, which
was approved:
We, the Kings Mountain Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce, be
lieve that each civic organization
should take a stand on civile is
sues. One issue we believe to be
most vital and deserving of
public support is the building of
a new Kings Mountain high
school.
Oif- club membership consists
of the young men of iohe corn
munity. We are now seeing (that
a good education is most impor
tant for our children. We think
that a good education requires
three things:
1. Good students.
2. A good faculty.
3. An adequate school plant.
The last of these three Is, in
our case, Obsolete, and much too
small for the student body. We
endorse and support the proposed
school bonds and new High
School as a remedy for our pro
blem, and encourage all inter
ested citizens to do likewise In
the interest of a nuality educa
tion for our children, wc must
achieve this new school for out
community.
Signed:
Kings Mountain Jayeees
TAX OFFICE O.PFI1
Offices of the Internal Re->
enue Service will be open in
Shelby for taxpayers’ assistan
ce in filing income tax rdtunrrs
every Friday until April 15th
during the hours of 9 a. m. un- ,
til 4:30 p. m. The office is lo
cated in the Peeler Building,
514 East Marion street,
* 1 r v. fr-ir