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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure for Greater Xing* Mountain la derived from the 185S King* Mountain dty directory ceuur. The dty limits figure U from the United State* census ol i860. OL. 73 No. 4 Reliable Newspaper Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 25, 1962 Established 1889 Seventy-Third Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS It’s Official: School Bond Election Will Be March 1C I Local News Bulletins LEGION AUXILIARY Otis D Green Post 155, the American Legion Auxiliary, will meet Thursday night at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. W. D. Whitesides. Mrs. Paul Maun ey will present the 7 >gram on “Legislation.” TAG SALES SLOW Sale of city auto tags was ! slow during the past week, on- 1 ly 70 being purchased. City ; Clerk Joe McDaniel said total sales through Wednesday were 573, only about one-third of the anticipated total. Tags are required to be purchased and displayed on autos not later than February 15. METER RECEIPTS Parking Meter receipts were $145.80 lor the week ending Wednesday at noon, including $99.80 from on-street meters, $35 from over-parking fees, and $11 from off-street motors, City Clerk Joe McDaniel said. ON FISHING TRIP Mayor Kelly Dixon and Lloyd Hardin of Spindale left Wednesday morning for Flori da on a fishing trip. Mr. Dixon expects to be away a week or ten days. SAFETY COUNCIL MEETS “The Blue Ridge Safety Coun cil will hold a dinner meeting Thursday (tonight) at 6:30 p. m. at Wray Junior high school in 'Gastonia, Joe Austin, for merly of Kings Mountain, has announced. A program and e lection of officers will follow the supper. TO MICHIGAN Herman (Buck) Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Ste wart, has re-enlisted in the Air Force and is now stationed at Kineheloe AFB in Michigan. A/3C Stewart had previously served a tour of duty with the Air Force and since his dis charge, graduated from How ard Business college and was employed toy Sadie Mills. P-TA MEETS Schools Supt. B. N. Barnes will present the program at Monday night’s Park Grace school Parent-Teacher Associa tion meeting. The P-TA meets at 7 p. m. at the school audi torium. HOTARY CLUB Otis Palls, Jr., recently na med Kings Mountain’s Young Man of the Year for 1961, will present the program on “Scout ing” at Thursday’s meeting of the Rotary Club. Rotarians con vene for lunch at 12:15 at the Country Club. FROM VIRGINIA Rev. James Mann, pastor of Dixon Presbyterian church, has returned from Richmond. Va. where he was one of 84 Presbyterian ministers partici ting in the Tower Room Scho lars program for 10 days at Union Seminary. HOT DOG SALE The Women’s Society of Christian Service will sponsor the sale of hot dogs and home made cakes and pies at the fel lowship hall of Grace Metho dist church Saturday from 11 a. m. until 7 p. m. Delivery ser vice may be obtained by call ing 739-5391. CLUB TO HEAR GARY Kays Gary, Charlotte Observer columnist and feature writer, will speak to Rings Mountain Kiwanians at their Thursday night meeting ait 6:45 p. m. at the Woman's club. Mr. Gary, a native of Fallston, will speak on a program arranged by Sherman Perry. Penalty On Taxes Applies February 2 Penalty on unpaid 1961 city and county tax bills applies | February 2. All tax accounts paid throu gh next Thursday, February 1, are payable at par. Acting City Tax Collector Joe McDaniel, Jr., this week ur ged payment of the accounts to avoid the upcoming one per cent penalty, required by state statute. Books Are Open For Grover Vote $148,030 Water Bond Election February 17 By ELIZABETH STEWART Registration books will be o pen again Saturday in Grover at two polling places for citizens who wish to register to vote in the Feb. 17 $148,000 water bond election. "A new water system is badly needed for the Town of Grover and town aldermen are busy con tacting voters this week, distri buting pamphlets encouraging ci tizens to register and vote for this proposal,” Grover Mayor C. F. Harry, Jr., said Wednesday. Alderman W. W. (Bill) M'cCar ter noted that registration books will be open from 6:30 a. m. un til 6:30 p. m. at Grover Fire Sta tion and City Hall this Saturday and again on February 3rd. In addition, citizens may register on weekdays at the homes of Mrs. James Scruggs and Mrs. J. B. El lis, registrars. February 10th will be Challenge Day and Elec tion Day is Saturday, Feb. 17th. The Town of Grover began this water project more than a year ago, Mr. McCarter said when blueprints and plans were drawn up by Mayor Harry and the Town Board: Aldermen Mc Carter, R. E. Hambright, Jr., and M. H. Camp. Site of a proposed 100,000-gallon elevated water tank for the system is portion of the D. J. Keeter estate purchased from T. G. Sullens. Options are held on property of Jack Hern don for drilling of deep wells, Mr. McCarter continued. If Grover citizens favor the issuance of $148,000 in water bonds, a new system will supply water to all citizens of Grover and will supply fire hydrants and give complete fire protection, Mr. McCarter said. Insurance rates would be reduced. Grover now has a volunteer fire department, one 500-gallon pumper. Hydrants on the mill property (Minette Mills 'has a good water system) are available in case of fire. Financing agent is Home & Housing, an agency of the feder al government, and engineering firm for the proposed project is John R. Edwards of Raleigh. Rites Conducted For Mr. Lovelace Funeral rites for James Osbia Lovelace, 58, were held Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. from Oak Grove Baptist church of which he was a member. Mr. Lovelace died Friday night at his home on route three after suffering a heart attack. He was a native of Cleveland County, son of the late Mr. and Mrs, Da vid Lovelace. He was an employ ee of Noisier Mills Division of Massachusetts Mohair Plush (Continued On Page Eight) Hsrae Savings & Loan Association Had Big Year; Directors Re-named Shareholders of Home Savings & Loan association met in annu al meeting Tuesday at the asso ciation offices, re-elected direc tors, and heard officer reports showing the association at new records for its 39-year-history. Following the meeting, direc tors convened and re-elected all officers. Secretary - Treasurer Tom Tate reported the association, at De cember 31, had record assets of $4,715,912, up $590,573 during the year, mortgage loans of $3,976, 281, up $424,752, savings accounts of $4,269,582, up $516,970, and paid record dividends of $154,141. He also reported: The association’s liquidity fac tor was 8.73 per cent and teserv es of $409,745, including a more than nearly $45,000 transferral 1 approved by the Shareholders | Tuesday. The federal insurance : reserve is $91,313. reserve for con : tingencies $316,931, and the un | allocated reserve $1,500. The association's Kings Moun i tain office opened 1,111 new sav ings accounts during the year and granted 292 loans, including 48 for new construction and 64 for purchase. He noted the occupation of the association's new building In Oc TO STUDY ABROAD — Dr. Ben nett R. Willeford. son of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Willeford, of Kings Mountain, has been awarded a science faculty fellowship for study at the University of Mun ich, Germany. Dr. Willeford To Study Abroad 'Dr. Benneitt R. Willeford, pro fessor of chemistry at tBucknell University in Lewisburg, 'Pa., and son of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Wille ford of Kings Mountain has been awawied a-seienw^famlty fellow ship by the National Science Foundation for study abroad dur ing the 1962-63 academic year. Under the Foundation’s cooper ative research program, Dr. Wil leford will attend the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Munich, Germany, where he will engage in research on pi complexes of transition me tal ions with Professor E. O. Fischer, a world authority in the field. A member of Bucknell’s facul ty since 1950, Dr. Willeford join ed the teaching staff as assisant professon of Chemistry and was named associate professor of that department four years later. He was promoted to his present po sition as professor of chemistry last June. | An alumnus of Emory Univer I sity, where he received his bach jelor of arts degree in 1943, Dr i Willeford also holds the master j of science and Ph. D. degrees in j chemistry from the University ol Wisconsin. In addition to being the recipient of numerous under graduate and graduate awards, he was elected to membership in Phi Belta Kappa and Sigma Xi During the past two years. Dr Willeford has served as visiting scientist of the American Chern cal Society. In 1960 he was co chairman of a special conference which brought leading chemistry professors throughtout the coun try to the Bticknell campus to discuss tl>e undergraduate train (Continued On Page Eight) tober ana sale or the lormer oi fice building on December 31 tc Dr. D. M. Morrison lor $15,000. Jacob Dixon, manager of the firm’s four-year-old Bessemer City branch, reported assets up to $868,979, up $79,187, loans up by $61,083, and savings accounts up by $75,803. The branch office now has 306 loans outstanding and has 341 savings accounts. J. R. Davis praised the mana gement for “a highly successful year”, and George Thomasson noted the “excelent report for the Bessemer City branch. Th shareholders were served punch and cookies. Vice-President G. A. Bridges, presided. Re-elected directors were Dr J. E. Anthony, G. A. Bridges, J H. Thomson, A. H. Patterson Tom Tate, J B. Mauney, I. G Patterson, B. D. Rafcterree, Jaci White, Dr. Paul E. Hendricks ant R. S. Plonk, of Bessemer City. Officers are Dr. Anthony, pres ident; Mr. Bridges, vice-president J. H. Thomson, vice-president; A H. Patterson, vice-president; Mr Tate, secretary - treasurer; Mrs Emily A. Herndon, assistant secretary - treasurer; Miss Phyl lis Smith, teller; and Jacob Dix on Bessemer City branch mana ger. Annual Meeting OfCOfC Tuesday Night Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting at the Country Club Tuesday night at 7 o’clock, accor ding to announcement by Charles 'Blanton, president. The dinner will be free to the membership, at one ticket per member. Additional tickets may toe obtained at $2.25. Reservations are requested. President Blanton said the din ner and a short business session will feature the meeting. Chief items of business are pre sentation of annual reports by officers, election of officers and directors for 1962, and discussion of future plans of the organiza tion. The stockholders will also be asked to approve recommenda tion of the directors for changing the by-laws to provide for stag gered terms for directors. 'Nominees for officer positions are dee A. Bridges, president; Fred J. Wright, Jr., vice-presi dent; Bob Maner, second vice president; and L. J. Hinnant, secretary - treasurer. Director nominees are James E. Amos, William Herndon, Charles Mauney, Tom Tate, Bob South well and B. S. Peeler, Jr. CftHins Named GE Semi-Finalist Gary Collins, 16-year-o'ld Kings Mountain High School junior, is one of 200 semi-finalists in the annual General Electric Student j Chemistry Research project. Prom the group, 20 will be | chosen to attend a six-week’s j SUBH»er ses»i®n*«t Union Oollbge ' in Schenectady, N. Y., under ; sponsorship of the General Elec i trie Corporation. Collins, the son of Mns. Alfred ! Collins of Grover and the late | Mr. Collins, along with more than 600 other high school jun iors in the projedt area was nom inated by his science instructors. The resa.reh project area cov ers 11 states from Maine to North Carolina. Young Collins has shown out standing interest and ability in chemistry, science and physics. Finalists will be chosen after written examinations Saturday. Collins will travel to Davidson College to take the ted. Results will be announced in March. Grange Favors School Bonds Number 4 Township Grange, meeting Tuesday night, adopted a resolution endorsing the forth coming district school bond issue and also urged full attention to maintaining and strengthening the vocational agriculture pro grams. The resolution read: “The Number 4 Township Gran ge, in keeping with the policy of ! the North Carolina Grange which is a member of the United Forces ■ for Education, and in keeping with its aims for quality eduea tion, endorses the Kings Moun tain school district construction bond issue. "The Numbber 4 Township j Grange urges the presentation oi ! a capsule statement of facts con cerning the bond issue, and fur ther urges that the vocational ag riculture program, both for adults land day students, be maintained and strengthened to the point it will be equal In quality to any other department of the school system. “We further urge that funds for facilities and equipment be pro vided to expedite attainment of these goals and to carry out a progressive program in all pha ses of the vocational agriculture program.” Gary To Speak To Kiwanians Kays Gary, Charlotte Observer columnist and feature writer will address Kings Mountain Ki wanians at their Thursday night meeting at the Woman’s club, f The civic club convenes at 6:4f p. m. Mr. Gary joined the Observer staff 10 years ago. He is a native of Fallston, has won numerous awards for writing and was re cipient last weekend of first pri ze among feature writers in the state press contests. .] Sherman Perry, program chair man, will present Mr. Gary. GOPChairmanCassedyAsks NewRegistration,FullTicket GOP Precinct Committees Will Be Named The Kings Mountain area’s four Republican precincts are expect ing to name officers in meetings scheduled within the next few days. Wray Williams, member of the West Kings Mountain precinct, said this group will gather Mon day night at the home of Doras Littlejohn to name a chairman, vice-chairman (who must be aj woman), secretary, and appoint two other members. Ed Smith, member of the East Kings Mountain precinct, said a temporary slate of officers has been named by this group. Mr. Smith is temporary chairman, Palmer Huffstetler is secretary, and other precinct committeemen, are Harold Glass and R. H. (Doc) Burton. Stough Wright, member of the: Grover precinct, said the group is to meet within a few days to name officers. Frank Ware, member of the Bethware pre cinct, said Republicans from this area are also to meet to name committee representatives with | in a few days. Tentative date for the Republi can Party’s Cleveland County con vention is Saturday, February: 10th, at 2:30 p. m. at the court j | house in Shelby. The Republican j state convention is in Durham on ! March 3rd. United Fund Hits 70 Percent Mark Pledges and cash collected in the current United Fund cam paign stand ait some $10,860. representing roughly 70 percent of the $16,446 goal for the year. United Fund officiate nroiect a hoped for additional $725, but this amount is unofficial. Several lairge pledges, included in the $10,860 figure, are expected to enter the cash column present - iy United Fund Treasurer Tom Burke said Wednesday he will pay out $5400 by the end of the month in partial payments to participating agencies. Mr. Burke noted the $2000 climb from the last reporting of $8,778 were pledges other United Fund campaigners had received but not renorted to him. He noted the campaign still lags, but is hopeful of eventu 1 ally achieving the goal. The nine participating agen cies of the United Fund are the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Kings Mountain Band Association, Kings Mountain Chapter of the American Red Cross, Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library, Com pact-Davidson School Bands, Cleveland County Life-Saving and Rescue Squad, and the State Association for the Blind. Officers of the fund are Booth Gillespie, president; J. Ollie Harris, vice-president; W. S. Ful ton, Jr., secretary; and Tom Bur ke, treasurer. ARP's Plan Special Service Religious Education Day will be observed in special programs planned Sunday by Boyce Memo rial ARP church. John L. McGill, chairman of the local church’s committee on Christian Education, will explain the purposes and goal of the Board of Education and religious education in the local church during the Sunday School hour at 9:45 a. m. All members of the Sunday School will meet in the cafeteria at West school. Dr, W. L. Pressly, pastor, will deliver the morning message at 11 o’clock on the subject, “How to Read and Study the Bible.” The emphasis on religious edu cation will be continued at Ves per services at 5 p. m. Mrs. B. D. Ratterree and Lewis Hovis will speak on the subject, “What the Sabbath School Means to Me”; Don Crawford will speak on, "What the Sunday School Expects of Me As A Parent”; Frances Owens will talk on "What the Christian Education Prograin of Our Church Means To Me As A (Continued On Page Eight) K .. Tax Listing Ends Next Wednesday Tax listing for 1962 ends next Wednesday, January’ 31. City and number 4 Township listing officials said Wednes day they’ve had a busy three weeks, but they’re expecting a Jam-up during the final week beginning Thursday. The listing afficials are at City Hall daily except Saturdays, when Conrad Hughes, Number 4 Township listing official is at Hambright’s Store in Grover. Penalties are assessed for failure to list or for late list- i ting. Lead. Unions, Dowd Urges The aim of employers should be to eliminate any need for a union, Edward J. Dowd, of Char lotte, executive secretary of an industrial trade association, said in an address to members of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tues day. He added, “My philosophy is based on miserable (manage ment) failures in the North.” Mr. Dowd, who has done simi lar worlc in the North and in Toledo, Ohio, said all the mone tary war chests are to no avail where management has not stay ed out front in providing good working conditions. Mr. Dowd declared the South’s attractiveness to industry (par ticularly North and South Caro lina) is due to its low percentage of union organized employees. He added that the movement doesn’t include cities, such as Gadsen, Ala., and Rock Hill, S. C., Which have a heavy prepond erance of union labor. He charged that President Ken nedy is especially friendly to la bor and had arrogated unto him self unusual executive authority. He claimed that the National La bor Relations board, with two Kennedy appointees and a “Nor thern Democrat Holdover ap pointed by Eisenhower” is quite pro-labor and that the Federal Communications commission is harassing radio and television stations which editorialize in conservative vein. Other statements of Mr. Dowd: 1) Some big companies prefer union labor, claiming their oper ation is easier due to the union’s feeling “security.” 2) Toughest problem of mana gement with unionized shop is "co-management”, via the union steward, in matters of hiring, firing and promoting. 3) Some Chambers of Commer ce (he named Charlotte) are ov er - enthsiastic in seeking new industry. 4) The union offers labor sen iority benefits, a workable griev ance machinery, and individual recognition — all of Which en lightened management can do better. ) Right-to-work laws assure freedom: the right to work. Mr. Dowd, manager of Central Piedmont Industries, Inc., said his firm is a non-profit trade as sociation including 140 industries from the Catawba river to Sal isbury thence south to the South Carolina border. He spoke on a program arran ged by Dr. George Plonk. Past President Gene Timms welcomed John Seism as a new member of the organization. Cassedy Terns Local Lethaigy "Crying Shame" “The facts show there is no interest in the Republican Party in Cleveland County-I don't believe it.” Pierce Cassedy, Cleveland Oonnty Republican chairman Who describes himself as a neophyte in the field of politics, was ad dressing a gathering of No. 4 Township Republicans here Thur sday night at City Hal) “There is a need in this elec tion year for our party to step forward and assert itself, he told a group of 28 Republican men and two women who had just set a two-fold party goal for 1962: 1) a Republican candidate for every post on the ballot and 2) a new county - wide registration. (At Chairman Cassedy's call for a new registration, J. Worth Sil ver, former GOP county chair man and Shelby postmaster re marked aloud, “No recopying, please, Mr. County Commission ers, as in 1938.) In 26 precincts of the county there are 2800 registered Repub licans and 30,000 registered De mocrats, Mr. Cassedy pointed out, as he expressed his belief that these figures don’t represent the true feeling of the people. On the national level Mr. Cassedy said 8,254 Cleveland voters sup ported the Republican party at the polls and 10,500 the Democra tic party in the 1960 election. Five precincts are “definitely” Republican, he added, and in one-half the others margin is “very thin.” Many voters who vote Repub lican hide behind what Mr. Cas sedy calls a “Democratic label.” A new registration would enable these people to register Repub lican and would bring some new comers "into the fold,” he be lieves. “Some of our party s oest sup porters are registered Democrats, maytoe because of business rea sons, I don’t know,” the county chairman added. “Our candidate Gavin gave Governor Sanford a dose race,” Mr. Cassedy continued, and “he (Gavin) would have carried the now-new 11th district.” “I am a Republican because I believe in faith in the individu al, free enterprise, and freedom of individual initiative and in centive,” Mr. Cassedy added as he called on the Republican Par ty in this county to show “Cleve land County what the Republican Party really is in 1962.... En courage your friends to register Republican for fair representa tion" Prior to his address, Kings Mountain Mayor Kelly Dixon told the group “a great opportun ity lies before us this year and it is good to see the interest shown by you tonight. Before me is one of the greatest challenges in my lifetime .. Our people are waking up to the fact there is a need of a minority party and challenge you to show the coun ty and township there is ‘some thing up our sleeves that’s never been before.” In Cleveland County, there was not one name on the Republican ballot in 1960 and Chairman Cas sedy labeled this fact, "a shame ... a crying shame.’’ Junior Woman's Club To Aid Polio Drive; Mother's March Tuesday Junior Woman’s club members will conduct the annual Mother’s March for benefit of the 1962 March of Dimes campaign on Tuesday night, weather permit ting. Members are asked to meet at the Woman’s club at 7 o’clock to canvass the community during a two-hour period. Kings Mountain citizens who wish to contribute to the drive should leave their porch lights burning, Dimes Chairman Harry Jaynes said. Donors who nay be missed may still forward their contributions in care of Mr. Jay nes at Kings Mountain high school. Sale of March of Dimes “crut ches” has been postponed from Saturday to next Saturday, Feb ruary 3rd. due (to illness of school children who were to con duct the street sale. Goal of the New March of Dimes campaign in Cleveland County is $14,000. Bob Barnette is county director. “There are many youngsters hel ped in this country today by the National Foundation of infantile Paralysis,” Mr. Jaynes said. He added “Almost 700 babies are bom each day in this country with significant birth defects, ac counting for more than 21,000 deaths each year. Cripplying rheumatoid arthritis affects 30, 000 children and adolescents — apart from the overall toll of 11 million American victims of rhe umatic diseases. The New March of Dimes helps all these....’’ Registration Books To Open February 10 Kings Mountain district citi zens will vote March 10 on the question of issuing $1,100,000 in bonds to build a new high school plant to serve the enlarged dis trict. ' The county commission form-/ ally called the election Monday/ filling in the date and electior official blanks in the fornj pr< vided by the school district's bond attorneys. •' ’ Specifically, the resolution provides that the funds, if;voted, together with any other, availa ble funds may be used fdr erec ting, enlarging, altering and c qulpplng school buildings and for purchasing sites. A new registration is called, with the registration books at the eight district polling places (same polling places used in last May’s trustee election) to open for the first of three consecutive Saturdays on February 10. Sat urday, March 3, wall be Challenge Day. Tiie registration books will be open each registration day from 0 a. m. to sunset. Election officials named are those who served in the trustee election, with exception of those unable to serve. The polling places and election officials are: Polling Place Ward No. T — Fire Station, Kings Mountain, N C., Registrar — C. I,. Black — Judges — Eugene Stef fey, Mrs J. Frank Cranford, Polling Place Ward No. II— City Hall, Kings Mountain, N. C. Registrar — R. D. Goforth, Jad ges — Mrs. Ruth C. Thomasson Mrs. S. H. Ware. Polling Place Ward III — Phenlx Store, Kings Mountain, N. C., Registrar — Mrs. Rtdh Po wers, Judges — Rachel Conno . Mrs. Bertie McDaniel. Polling Place Ward No. IV Kings Mountain Mfg. Co. (Club room), Kings Mountain, N. C., Registrar — Mrs. Paul Cole, Jud ges — Mrs. Vera C. Cash, 13. R. Tate. Polling Place Ward No. V — West End School, Kings Moun tain, N. C.. Registrar — Mrs. J. T. McGinnis. Jr., Judges Mrs. Charles E. Ballard, Mrs. Paul Patterson. 'Polling Place Park Grace School, Kings Mountain, ‘N. C., Registrar — Mrs. James C'onin ger, Judges — June Cloninger, (Continued On Pope Eight) r An ©Misery Fcr 'Whitey" BY DAVID BAITY Funeral services for “Whitey,” faithful friend and companion of James and C'yde DuBose, were held Friday, the Rev. Marion Du Bose officiating. ‘ “Whitey,” a wooly cocker span iel, died from strychnine poison ing. ’ . Numerous young friends and neighbors attended the ' special ceremony. 1 ''' “Whitey” was found 'deed in the creek behind the DuBose's Meadowhrook Road home- He was found by 10-year-old, ,plyde after the youngster had returned from School and was searching for the dog to have a “romp.” “Whitey” was one of several Crescent Hill canine victipis of a dog-poisoner. Another victim was a lame and blind "mutt” which roamed the neighborhood and was beloved by the children. Jack Hauser, resident of the area, luckily found his dog in time. A trip to Dr. L. G. Yarboio, Shelby veterinarian, saved the dog’s life. The doctor’s diagnosis was poisoning. Two other cases have been re ported in the neighborhood. The poisoner is unknown, but Kings Mountain Police department is checking drug, feed, and hard ware stores for purchasers of poison. Chief Martin Ware said Wed nesday a state law prohibits poi oning animals and the poisoner, if caught, will be prosecuted. He noted there were 12 to 15 dog poisonings in the area last summer. Strychnine poison is deadly to any animal bom with its eyes closed, and Is usually used on baited meat. Death does not come to the animal until it drinks wa ter. Jack Hauser, pleased to have his dog home and well again, said Wednesday, “The incident is a most cruel display. Our dog is Just a mongrel — a mutt — but we love him just the same. So did the DuBose boys. Whi tey left a host of tearful mourners.