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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 TMs Bgnn tor Greater Kings Mountain Is derived bom MW 1*99 Bags Mountain city directory census. The city Ms figure is bam tbs United States census at 1960. Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 22, 1962 Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL 73 No. 8 Established 1889 Seventy-Third Year Local News Bulletins DISPLAY FLAG THURSDAY Colonel Frederick Hambright Chapter, DAR is urging Kings Mountain business firms to display ithe flag on George Washington’s birthday Thurs day, February 22nd. ON DEAN'S LIST Three Kings Mountain stu dents at Lenoir-Rhyne college are on the dean’s list for the first semester at Lenoir-Rhyne college. They are: Martha Ju lia Cooper, senior; Charles D. Sellers, sophomore; and Joyce E. Plonk, freshman. WINS PROMOTION A/2e Jerry Huffstetler, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Huffstetler of the Bethlehem community, recently received his promotion while stationed at Dover AFB in Delaware. Airman Huffstet ler is attending the University of Delaware. His address: AF 14750684 1607th FMS Box 886, Dover AFB, Delaware. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanians will hear the 1961 achievement report at the regular meeting Thursday nigut at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s Club. Harold Coggins will give the program. CHURCH SUPPER The Youth Choir and Meth odist Men of Penley’s Chapel Methodist church will serve ham plates fotr both lunch and Supper Sa+ifrday-at t+re church. Serving begins at 11 a. m. In the recreation building. Plates are $1.25. P-TA MEETS The Park Grace P-TA will meet Monday night at 7 p. m. in the school auditorium. A program concerning libraries will be presented by Mrs. Ja cob P. Mauney, district 2 dir ector. CHORUS TO HICKORY The’Kings Mountain high school Mixed Chorus won a rating of III or good in choral contests at Hickory on Satur day. Mrs. J. N. McClure accom panied the group of students. TO CONVENTION Rev. J. W. Phillips, pastor of F i r r. t Wndjoyan Mo! hodisit church, will leave Monday for Central, S. C., where he will attend the Southern Area Min isterial convention at Central Wesleyan college. Ha will re turn March 1. Bible Fund ' r Needs $737 The Bible-in-the-Schools pro gram still faces a deficit oi $737.45 in the 1961-62 'budget, Dr Paul K. Ausley, chairman of the committee in charge of the pro gram, said Wednesday. He noted a $25 eontributioi from the Women’s Organ izatioi ' of EJ1 Bethel Methodist Churci was received- by him this week. Meantime, the Optimists o: Kings Mountain Thursday nighi pledged $25 to the Bible Fund. Dr. Ausley said the 1961-62 hud get calls for expenditures of $4, 627.45. Pledges to the fund bj the 19 supporting churches oJ the consolidated school area to tail $3,890, leaving the $737.4; deficit. He noted there are 29 churches in the consolidated school area. “This amount must be raised t< meet current expenses for this school year," Dr. Ausley said. H< noted the aforementioned pledges are to date. He said he is counting heavily on 100 percent payments of church pledges, since some ar< still outstanding. He commended organizations and churches for their support up to this time, but noted the de fieit is still a problem and must be met. Other members of the Minis terra! Association’s Bible-in-the Schools committee are Rev. J W. Phillips and Dr. W. H Press Jy. The Bfole-in-the-schools pro gram is wholly supported - bs churches and chdc organizations. NO school tax money is used for this purpose, whatever, Dr. Aus ley noted. Allen And Osbcrne Seek Re-election CANDIDATE_Sheriff Haywood Allen has announced he will seek re-election. The Sheriff is completing 12 years in that of fice. Dixon Prefers Not To Offer Mayor Kelly Dixon said Wed nesday he had informed state Republican leaders he prefers they obtain another candidate to seek Ithe United States Senate seat Confbrririg wfth 'stale Chair man Cobb, Congressman Char les R. Jonas and other leaders following the tenth district con vention in Morganton Saturday1 ithe Mayor said he told the party leadership he’d come to the con clusion he should not make the race. “The off-hand answer was that I might be the nominee any- j way,” Mayor Dixon added, “but I gave them my reasons for feel-! ing another should be the nomi-'i nee.” ' The Mayor said he noted he holds elective office and that he will be 60 years of age in a few months. j The incumbent Ls Senator Sam Ervin, a Morganton Democrat : and former member of tire state Supreme Court. He is seeking re nominatio'n and has no opposi-j tion to date. It is anticipated the GOP can-' didate will be nominated at the state convention in Durham March 3. The district convention took no action on a nominee for the tenth district House of Represen-j Natives nominee, as it did at Gas tonia two years ago when Mayor Dixon was-the nominee. The Ma yor subsequently opposed Rep. i Basil Whiteneir, Gastonia Demo crat, losing by about 25,000 votes in the former eleventh district, though polling more than 41,500. District leaders are urging Billy Joe Patton, Morganton lum berman to accept the GOP nom : ination, but Mayor Dixon said J his inquiry left considerable dpu-. j bt that Mr. Patton, ace amateur| j golfer, would seek the office. Dick Lackey Is Candidate For Solicitor 'Democratic primary political announcements increased this week, as 1) Nt Dixon (Dick) Lackey, Jr., paid his filing fee for solici tor of Cleveland Recorder’s Court; 2) Clerk of Superior Court J. IW. (Bill) Osborne announced he would seek another four-year term; and 3 Sheriff Haywood Allen an nounced he would seek to retain the office. 4) Recorder Judge Rueben E lam was quoted by the Shelby Star as saying an article publish ed -by the Star had made Elam’s offering for re-election manda toiy. The Judge had previously indicated he wouldn’t seek re election. The Star had reviewed at length Monday an article by Chester Davis in the Winston Salem Journal and Sentinel which Judge Elam charged con tained false Information and in ferences of corruption in his court. J. Ollie Harris, veteran county coroner, had announced Iasi week he would seek re-election. Lackey seeks the position held for many years by Bynum Wea thers, now a patien t at Western North Carolina sanitarium'. Lackey is a Shelby lawyer and native,—graduate--of -the Universi ty of North Carolina and the UNC law school, is an army vet eran, and worked in the state at . tomey-general’s office prior to 'returning to Shelby. Osborne has been clerk of ! court Since October, 1955, when ! lie was appointed to the post va cated by Clerk E. A. Houser, Jr. | He ran in the November election of that year, and in 1958. The clerk was a practicing at torney before he assumed his ■ present duties. He is a former ■Deputy Clerk of Court, serving under the late A. M. Hamrick and studying laiw. He was admitted j to the bar in 1937. ! Osborne is a son of the late Dr. Ruffin and Texie Lattimore Osborne.. He is married to the former Minnie Warlick, a teacher in Morgan School in South Shcl | by. He is a member of Central Me ! thodist Church, past Chairman of its Board of . Stewards, Sunday school teacher for 24 years, a sMa json, a charter member of the Shelby Lions Club, and a mem ber of the N. C. Bar Association. I Sheriff Alien, son of former Sheriff I. 8ML Allen, won Demo cratic nomination as sheriff in 1950, has never been opposed in a general election, and is com pleting 12 years in the office. A former Kings- Mountain police man, Sheriff Allen said in an nouncing, “We’re on the climb, as far as Cleveland County law enforcement is concerned, though we still need to improve our fa cilities to cope with modern-day crime. The Sheriff points to the elim i (Continued On Page Eight) Carol Gofer Merit Scholarship Finalist, A. B. Duke Semi-Finalist MERIT SCHOLAR _ Carol Joan Gofer, high school senior, is a Motif Scholarship finalist and is ahe a sstni-finalist tor cm An gler B. Oaks scholarship. £2 Carol Jean Goter, high school senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Goter, is a finalist for a Merit Scholarship award and a semi-finalist for an Angier B. Duke scholarship. The Kings Mountain student was notified this week. Students ranking in the upper 10 percent on the merit tests are selected as candidates. Several thousand students compete each year for the substantial financial awards given through the agen cies sponsoring the competition, finalists receive a scholarship. Winners are notified about March 20th tout announcement is not made uryil the latter pant of May. Miss Goter was among: 20 rfoa students going to Asheville Mon day for personal interviews by an examining board for coronet titicm for an Angier B. Duke scholarship. This board will select five finalists who will meet at Duke University on March 15th. The five winners will be announ ced on that date. Funeral Held Wednesday For Mrs. Oates 'Funeral services for Mrs.Floye Cottrell Oates. 45, former Kings ■Mountain citizen and Kings! Mountain Herald society editor,! were held Wednesday afternoon at Boone’s First Baptist church, t (Mrs. Oates was found dead in her car in a doctor’s parking lot in the Boone business section a bout 5 p. m. Monday afternoon. Coroner Richard E. Kelley said she had been dead since about 10:30 a. m., victim of a self-in flicted .38-calibre pistol wound in the right tenaple. She had been the object of a wide-spread search covering most: of Watauga county, after her brother, Harold Cottrell, with : whom she resided, had found a suicide note when he went home to lunch shortly after noon. Mrs. Oates had visited in Kings Mountain at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Oates and Mr. and Mrs. j W. B. Logan recently, having: returned to Boone on February j 14. Mrs. Logan said Mrs. Oates did not appear despondent when ! here, but rather the opposite She had not been in the best of i health recently. Mrs. Oates was divorced from C. C. (Bus) Oates, another for mer Kings Mountain citizen, last August. She had previously moved | to her native home in Boone to care for her late mother. i The suicide note merely indica | ted her intentions, giving no clue | as to the reason or reasons. f Mrs. Oates was Kings Moun tain Herald society editor from 1946-48. During World War II, ; she worked in an aircraft factory as a production employee in Ohio. Before the war, she and he husband operated a service-sta tion restaurant here. | In Kings Mountain, she was an active member of First Baptist church, and was also active inj numerous civic-service projects, i Surviving are three brothers,. Harold and Raleigh Cottrell, both | of Boone, and Dallas Cottrell,; Felton, Calif., and a sister, Mrs.: William Wilhelm, Memphis, Tenn. I Final rites were conducted by, Rev. Boyce Brooks, pastor pfj Boone's First Bapti t church, as sisted by Rev. J. K. Parker, Jr., | pastor of Boone Presbyterian. Burial was in the community cemetery. Bites Conducted For lames Byars Funeral rites for James Rafe Byars, 4-4, were held Wednesday at 3 p. m. from First Wesleyan Methodist church, interment fol lowing in Memorial park of Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Byars, Who had been in ill health for several morlth-s, died Monday morning in the local hos pital. He wais a native of Chero kee County, S. C., son of Mrs. Mattie Moore Byars of Grover and the late William R. Byars. He was an employee of City Floor Service and a World War II veteran. Surviving besides his mother are his wife, Mrs. Dorothea Wal ker Byars; four sons, James Dou glas Byars of Pamona, Calif., Terry Louis Byars of Flint, Mich., James Arnold Byars and Edward Keith Byars, both of Kings Mountain; two daughters, Mrs. Jane Freeman of Pamona, Calif., and Mrs. Sandra Sweet of Flint, Michigan. Also surviving are four broth ers, Paul Byars of Grover, Mar vin Byars and W. D. Byars of Kings Mountain and Evans By ars of Las Vegas, Nevada; one half-brother, Delbert Byars of Ellenboro; and two sisters, Mrs. Vance Falls of Gastonia and Mrs. Clarence E. Smith of Kings Mountain. , 4 , Rev. J. W. Phillips officiated at the final rites. Herald Will Print E,eclion Ballots Herald Publishing House was low bidder on the printing of m oon ha tots for the fodheeming. Mar^h 10 school bond election. WAs opened Mondav by Ralph Gilbert, chairman of the county j eled'iom boa/rd, and J. R. Davis, j attomev for the board of educa-; ♦ion. showed the Herald low at JT*2 P8 to the $27 bid of Shelby Printing Combany. O'he; bidders included The Cleveland Time* and Star Press.. Gilliland Commends City, Says Stadium Developable TO SYMPOSIUM Robert Plonk top, and Gary Collins will at tend a Science Symposium beiw sponsored by three North Car olina colleges at Durham. They are high school juniors. Local Students To %!mpasium Two Kings Mountain high high school juniors have been re tooled to attend the fourth North Carolina Junior Science Sympos ium at the North Carolina Re search Triangle March 15, 16, 17. They are Robert Plonk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Plonk of Kings Mountain, and Gary Collins, son of Mrs. Alfred Collins and the late Mr. Cdllins of Grover. Both boys are members of the Junior class at Kings Mountain high school. The symposium will meet on the campuses of Duke University, Dtrham; North Carolina State College, Raleigh; and the Univer sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, ft will be attended by ap proximately 180 North Carolina high school sophomores and jun iors, accompanied by about 4.i science teachers from thol schools. One of the main pur poses of the Symposium is to search for scientifically talented youth of high school ago in the stale. Duke, N. C, State, and the Uni versity are supplying the facili ties and will lend eo>no.-alion to the Symposium. The U. S. Army Research Office (Durham) is providing logistic management and is financing transportation, housing and meals. The North Carolina Academy of-Science is assisting in over-all planning and direction of the Symposium. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is providing valuable science programming assistance to the sponsors of the Symposium. The theme for the 1962 se'"v'"> is ‘"Research in Progress — Suc cess in the Making.” Bethwaie Club Endorses Bonds Both war a Progressive Chib vo ted by secret ballot Mmduv night to endorse the $1,100,000 bond issue for school contra ction, to be determined in an e teotion March 10. The vote was taken fallowing a forum discussion, led by Sunt B. N. Barnes, Harry Jaynes, high school principal, and Fred W Plonk Mid H. O. (Toby) Wil Hams, members of the board of education. Minor Leagues Representative Makes Survey By MARTIN HARMON G. Edward (Eddie) Gilliland, field representative of the Na tional Association of Profession al Baseball Leagues, thinks Kings Mountain a very civic minded community. (Here working with John H. Moss, president of the Western Carolina League, for the past 12 days, Mr. Gilliland, 26 • year veteran of baseball management, surveyed City Stadium and de cided, “It has possibilities.” Noting he was a devotee of “doing things right,” Mr. Gilliland suggested the city ball yard needs box seats along the pres ent permanent bleachers, a grand stand which would curve behind home plate, and a ‘better arran gement inwhat is now left field, as well as dugout for baseball teams. iHe said elimination of the left field bank would make the dis tance 320 feet and effectively e liminate “cheap home runs”, in addition to decreasing the haz ards of the left-fielders. i “Remem'lrer file comfort of the •i'f^ns,” he advised, “by providing :^corrFortuMe .seals. and ample res* j room facilities. Good rest room 'facilities are most Important.” Mr. Gilliland is a one-time se mi-pro athlete, former president of the Florida State League, a Stetson University graduate and onetime assistant to the president of Stetson. He joined the Detroit Tiger organization two weeks before | George Trautman, then with De | troit, became president of the mi i nors, also associated with the j St. Loui e Browns when the (Browne won the pennant in 1941. He managed the ticket sale for 'the Cincinnati Reds for his for mer boss Bill Dewitt for last au tumn’s World Series. ' His knowledge of stadium (building? ’ Say : Mr. Moss, chairman of the . city ‘ stadium r'uiiy committee, “He built the Miami, Fla., stadi um, acknowledged as the bgst de signed in the country, including the major league parks.” ! Mr. Gilliland expanded on his praise of the city’s civic-minded ness. "I’ve never seen as many beau tiful churches is a community of this size, not to mention your hospital, library, new armory and schools,” he commented. Cameron Ware Mamed TOC Feep - Cameron Ware. BVhwaro com munity farmer and busine ■smart was elected vice president of the Cleveland County Young iDem'o ", crats Friday. Elected president to ' succeed i outgoing John Brock was George Hamrick, attorney in the office: of Falls, Falls, and Hamrick. Newly elected secretary is Nan Arrowood. The new officers were each e lected by acclamation of the some 22 Young Democrats pre-j sent at the 4:30 p. m. meeting in the courthouse. Their terms of two-year ten-j urc, begin March 1. OPENS FIRM_K. E. (lied) Morrison has opened a now bus inear. firm, Morrison Loan Com pany, which will specialize in of fering small loans. Morrison Opens Loan Him Here (Morrison Loan Company, a re cently chartered and licensed small loan company, opened for busness this week in the building formerly and occupied toy Home Savings & Loan association at the corner of W. Mountain and Cherokee streets, r General manager ancT part owner of the corporation is K. E. <Red> Morrison, for five years manager of KM Loan and Fi nance Company here and for the past three years for Nationwide Finance, parent company of KM Loan & Finance. The new firm is licensed by the State of North Carolina under the supervision of the state bank ing commission. Authorized capital stock is $100,000. with $25,000 subscribed. (Mr. Morrkon said the firm will offer small loans in amounts as low as ten dollars. A Shelby Road resident, Mr. Morrison was formerly associa ted with Cooper’s, Inc. The former Home Saving'- & Loan bn '.Tng is now owned by Dr. D. M. (Morrison of Shelby. BY DAV77) B MTV The eves and ear?, of Kings Mountain folk were g’ued to television and radio .sets To-—, day as they anxiously avc’trl the word of Astronaut Jr'vi Glenn’s safe re‘",rn Co earth a Ft • his histc-v rn’k*"" fr> r'!‘ e’-space aboard his “Friendship 7” spacecraft. Lb Cob Glenn was lifted a board the destroyer U. S. S. Nm | at 3:02 p. m.. canning a for: hour; and fiSJtv minute flight that .sew America’s first orbiting aMronauit complete three circuits of the earth at a speed of some 17,500 .miles per .hour. Virtually all business estab • Fitments' in the downtown Kings Mountain area had radio nr television sets on, covering thej h. ’oric flight step-by-step. The streets in the business sec tion of town were almost empty. Students at Kings Mountain High school at 8:30 a. m. were told no time would be taken from classes to listen ito radio coverage of the soace flight, but were a.sked to report to the audi torium just before lift-off at 9:47 fContinued On Page Eight) Humorist Feature 01 Lions Club Fanner's Night Banquet Tuesday The Kings Mountain Lion* club will entertain area farmers | at the club’s annual Farmer’s | Night banquet Tuesday. Feature of the banquet will be I an entertainment program by S. i 0. Brissie. superintendent of Dis '4 riot 4 schools of Woodruff, S. C. | Mr. Brissie, well-known humor - ! 1st, was the featured sneaker at the Lions Ladies night banquet ; in 1950. J. Oliie Hairrls. chairman o? the I event, said about 175 guests have * been invited to attend the event. Tn addition to area farmers, oth er invited guests include mem bers of the county ooara or com-i missionors, and members of thel «taffs of the county extension, farm home administration andj agricultural stabilization and; conservation departments. Other member? of the club’s farmer’s night committee are William Lawrence Plonk, Edwin Moore and Eugene McSwain. “We always- look forward to Fa Trior’s Night as one of the out standing events of any Lions club year." Chairman Harris commented. The banquet will be at the Wo man’s Club, beginning at 7 p. m. I Registrars Have Logged i 1820 To Date Registration for the upcoming March 10 school bond election was brisk Saturday, registrars adding 1,568 names to poll books and bringing the tote! of persons registered to 1,920. Of this figure 918 are from Be thware, Grover, and Park Grace districts and 1,002 from within the city limits c*f Kings 'Mountain. Only one Saturday, February 24, remains for registering. Per sons not listed by the dose of books at sunset Saturday will not be eligible to vote in the March 10 election to decide whether Kings Mountain administrative school unit will 'borrow $1,100,000 for ischool construction. Challenge Day will be March 3. Registration to date, according to polling places, includes: Ward I, 117; Ward FI, 142; Ward III, 169; Ward IV 154; Ward V, 414; Bcthware, 382; Grover, 296; and Park Grace, 240. Precinct boundaries for citizens living within the city limits of Kings Mountain conforms- .to the city’s five wards. Citizens of the Grover county precinct will register and vote at Grover Fire station. Voters residing in 'the former Bethware school district will reg i iter and vote at Bethware school. All other voters outside tire Kings Mountain city limits will register and vote at Park Grace school. Registrars on duty at the poll ing places Saturday from 9 a. m. until sunset will include: Bethware, Mrs. J. D. 7 ones;' ; Grover, Mrs. W. Fred Cockrell ; I Park Grace. Mrs. James Clonjn ger; Kings Mountain Ward I, jetty fire station, C. L. Biaek; Ward- if, city courtroom. R. -£>. • Goforth; Ward III, Phenix Store, Mrs. Ruth Bowers.; Ward IV, Kings Mountain Manufacturtnsr Company club mom., Mrs. Paul Cole; and Word V7. West R’emen tary school. Mrs. J. T. McGinnis. Bites .* Funeral rites for Rufus Ers k:ne Utters. 44, iv®re held Sunday at 4 r>. m. from U) Bethel Meho dist church of which he w’s a member. Ma'-on'c bu'1*! rites followed in the chinch cemetery. T.'■. Fi'ters d!ed Thursday aft ernoon i" a Fr>”*iston, O,o. 1■■ i. tal of a heart attack suffered ‘10 day ago. A driver for C realms' Freight Carrier's of •Oberryvoile; he was enronie t:i‘T inpj. -FIa:. with a truck when he suffered the heart attack. He was a St five of Cleveland County, non of Mrs Print Utters Barber of Kings Mountain and the late John Ut ters. Mr. Ffters was an Army veter an of World War II and a mem ber of Fair view Lodge 339 AF & AM. Surviving, in addition to his mother, is his wife. Mr. Mary Rue Herndon Utters; a son. Glenn Utters of Kings Mountain; two brothers, Thomas Utters of M ami, Fla., and Zeb Utters of Bes (Continue On Page Eight) Mountain consolidated school district favor the issuance of S1.100,000 in bonds for school construction even though the “pro” side of the icsti» h"« ap peared more in the limelight. The negative po rtion to th-"1 bond question is evidenced in an advertisement in today’s 'I"-?1 ' on pace one of section R. The ed was placed by a taxpayer's com - mittec which maintains it v. not against bet'e* school buiMinm better education, and our sche-t children but is a~sinst the $1 mo 000. bond issue.” Aulacenit to the ad is aner’-e reminding that on1’' o"'> d'>" Saturday, February 24, remains in which to r°gi~ter. The advertisement is a P’’1'’ service annonnceme"t f"om Timms S‘oo & Sbon end »« *u wav a tie-in with the “flogist 'r r and Vote NO” ad. Tho ads wee pieced tlwo in advertently by makebp ptroce- . Camonigoing for th" m-se-r' of the bond v'te hs« b°ou out wardly ouiet, the l^ue K»in« en do-*ed by virtually a'l winm Mountain. Crover and Bethware civic organizations.