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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
Dntjs Mountain Is derived from
——-1 city directory census. Tbs city
<Mm tbs United States census at I960:
VOL. 73 No. 9
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C„ Thursday, March I, 1962
Seventy-Third Year
16
Pages
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW DANCE BAND_ Pictured core "The Ac
cents" recently organized dance heard which in
clude!*; seven high school band members. The
band has been practicing in homes of members,
are 'pictured ' during an engagement at the
Country Club Ictst' week, and have several en
gagements upcoming. The band is available
for engagements at parties and dances. Back
tim
row. left to right are Wendell Phifer, bass fid
die. Tommy Bennett, trumpet, Gary Wilson,
piano, Ken Barnes, cornet and Buzz Shuford,
trombone. In foreground are Billy Belt drums,
and Lynn Cheshire, saxophone. T. M. Shuford,
father of the trombonist, is the band's business
manager.
Local News
KINCAID TO SPEAK
Arnold w.» Kincaid, former
school t.ru ’ 63, -will speak to
Kings Mountain Jayeees on
the upcoming bond Section as
the group meets in regular ses
sion Tuesday at 7:00 p. m, at
Kinga~.»'-ate«Rta«* , .Roman’s
ciub.""
SQUARE DANCE
A square dance will be held
Saturday between . 8:00 and
12:00 p. m. in tire Grover school
gymnasium,, sponsored, by the
Grover Rescue Squad. Music
will be by The Fairlanes. Ad
mission is $1.00 per couple.
AUTO FIRE
City Firemen were called to
Battleground Avenue Saturday
at 7:10 p. m. to douse a blaze
in an automobile in front of
Kings Mountain Drug. The
car was registered to William
Darwin Byers. The blaze ig
nited in the carburetor and
damaged a filter and the hood
of the vehicle.
PERMIT ISSUED
A permit was issued last
Wednesday to J. WLson Craw
ford to build a one-story, six
room residence on Jackson St.
Estimated cost of the structure
is $11,500.
JOINS STAFF
Mrs. Roselle. Ford has join
ed the staff of Bessie’s Beauty
Shorn. . ac~>oling tr> announce
ment hv Mi«s Bessie Bumgard
ner. Mrs. Ford assumed her
new duties Tuesday.
CHURCH SUPPER
A Mard’rnroe Chicken
OUC Sun.ryvr will be f-e-e-ea C1. irt -
(Jav. 4 ite 7 n m. at the »tWv
ehin TTall ot ( niri't the King
CathrCie fnrw^h. Th« women
end men of th° n-jfioh joiner
the eoeVtn a wit1 al=o serve
takeout o-'fe-s on Baturdav af
ternoon. Price wtP he $1 for
adults. 50- fn» children. Rev.
Thomas F. Clements said.
LEGION MEETING
(ytt; tt Omen . tss a,
fnor’mn T-emon. will hold their
reontls- nnonehltr rnnetilT" Fr<
dav night at 8 o’clock, accord
ing to announcement J»v .Toe
McDanfpl. Pr.. most adjutant.
T IONS nrnrr-rogci
of F>n«»a Men.
tain T-ions club will convene for
a dinner meeting Thu-sdav
night at 7 o’clock at Cline’s
restaurant.
mrym? stnr.
V i ra rro f»~00 c^nrr/we
f’-rv-ft fy-Vi<eo> y>b» nrp
*-» in » hv**v» «nnp
c-rdav-afternoon
Wd at the Legion building
night from 9 to mW
Bond Issue Fight
Is Waxing Warmer
Opposition
Effort Goads
Tor" Forces
BY DAVID BAITY
Campaigning tor the March 10
election to decide whether Kings
Mountain school district issues
$1.1 million in school construc
tion bonds waxed warmer this
week, pro and con forces working
hard to spread the doctrine of
their various sides of the issue.
lire of supporters was raised by
declination of the so-called oppo
sition “Taxpayer’s Committee” to
reveal' its identity in an ad pla
ced in last week’s issue of the
Herald.
The same committee has pur
chased six advertisements in the
current Herald edition.
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce, an organization sup
porting the bond issue, is run
ning two advertisements, one
branding the allegations of the
taxpayer’s committee as “half
truths”.
Another committee, headed by
Charles T. Carpenter, Jr., is cir
culating a petition for signatures
of persons who “favor the bond
issue and who will sign their
names.”
Pastors Favor
The Kings Mountain Minis
terial association endorsed the
school bond issue election at
its recent meeting.
Meantime, Butler Dixon, Gro
ver farmer, spoke to a meeting
of the Oompact-Davidson school
P-TA Thursday night, urging the
schol patrons to register and
vote “No” on the issue.
Mr. Dixon told the group of
some 60 patrons that taxes con
stitute a first lein on homes and
failure to pay the tax would
rniean their homes would be sold
to' their delinquency.
In discussion following Dixon’s
appeal, 'William Onr said regard
ing the building of a high school,
"They’re asking us to pay tor
baking them a cake, when we’ll
only get the crumbs.”
Several patrons are resentful of
an alleged statement by Bupt.1
B. N. Barnes that Oomnact-Dav-1
idson high school would get only!
two classrooms from the bond is
sue.
One Negro patron noted Friday
that, contrary to general opin-1
ion; he does not think the Negro
vote constitutes a solid "No”;
bloc.
He noted, however, a good|
many are diPbrrrsed that a Negro;
high school will not be built.
Mnd- »re issued, no school can
tw built .
(Vontnum On Png* Might*
Glee A. Bridges, former mavrv,
attending the P-TA meeting with
Bob Maner and S. R. Suber, Jr.,
sookc briefly to the group, out
lining the fact that if no bonds
aro voted none will get any
thin?;
“t feel that the board of edu
tWion; which you helpqd elect,
wm-tffc&Mt yon, get yffin just
ASSIGNED HERE _ Rev. Rober
Thomas Lawson has Joined the
stall of the Catholic Mission A
potalate Center of Christ the
King here.
Lawson loins
Catholic Staff
The Reverend Vincent S.
Waiters, Bishop of Raleigh, has
appointed Rev. Robert Thomas
Lawson as assistant to Rev.
Thomas P. Clements at the Ca
tholic Mission A postdate center
of Christ The King in Kings
Mountain. He will also be in
charge of Saint Vincent’s Catho
olic Chapel in Dallas, and will o
pen a Catholic information cen
ter in North Gastonia.
Four priests currently are as
signed to the members of the
Church in Gaston county-and sur
rounding area.
Rev. Mr. Lawson was a teach
er of business and history before
beginning studies for the priest
hood. He taught in college and
high spchocl for eight years. He
has undergraduate degrees in
philosophy, history, and business,
and a graduate degree in history.
He is a candidate for a Master’s
degree in Sacred Scripture. He
has studied at Catholic Univdrsi
ty of America in Washington, T>.
C., Saint John’s University in
Br ooklyn, New York, New York
University in New York City, Se
ton Hall University Jr South O
tleground" Wednesday evening.
College in Maryland. He comple
ted hi* theological studies at
Saint John’s ^rchdiocean Maior
•emftnary in Boston, Massachu
setts- He holds an education cer
tificate in aerodynamics grant
(Continued On Page Eight) I
3595 Register For Bond Election
No New School
Minus Bonds,
Board Says
“We vote the bonds necessary
to finance the construction of the
proposed high school, or we do
not get it,” Board of Education
members said Tuesday in a pre
pared statement to which the
full board concurred.
In the statement, the board re
iterated its position on the is
suance of construction bonds for
building a high school to house
students of the consolidated
Kings Mountain school district.
The statement reads:
"It is very important that there
be no misunderstanding about
the school bond issue.
"It is a known fact that our
school^ are extremely overcrow
ded and the condition will get
much worse wit'hln the next two
years.' Additional school con
st ruction is a must if our chil
dren are to have classrooms to
attend school. A new high school
is our number one need.
"The pronosal for this new
High school has not been made
suddenly. It was a part of the
olan from the beginning of con
solidation. For several years the
Brard has studied the needs of
ouir schools and has gotten all
help passible from the State
School Planning Board and oth
er available sources: All the rec
ommendations have been to con
solidate ithe area and to build
a new high ischbl.
■ -“Theboaird lias been very care
ful in spending school building
funds which have come into its
care until consolidation became
a reality, so that every penny
would be spent wisely. The $250,
availaMc jfo. to. be
useawnth trie proposed bond is
sue for additional canstruct'on for
our present buildings, especially
‘Davtdoon and Compact, and for
the construction of the new high
school.
“The only way .the board
knows to get the money fo- the
buildings needed IS through a
dis‘riot bond Issue and the a
mount has been determined after
careful study of .the needs. Over
ten per cent of the,qualified, vo
ters residing in the terfcfpry com
prising the school di trkit peti
tioned this 1.1 Million Eond Is
sue.
"If the needed ronutrurtion, e
quipmenit and sites could be fi
nanced through funds on hand
o- through existing atrwpri
ations of any kind the bond issue
would not have been requested.
"The 20c special tax and coun
ty and state taxes levied for the
current expense budget to oper
ate our schools oanhot be used
for construction of buildings. The
problem simply stated is this:
We vote the bonds necessary to
finance the construction of the
proposed high school or we do
not get it.’ ”
Being Expanded
Timm's Stop-'n’-Shop, Kings
Mountain furniture firm, is ex
panding its “building to provide
2.000 additional feet of floor
-space.
Mr. Timms said the additional
space wifi provide the firm about
10.000 square feet of display
space.
Marion Dixon, Kings Mountain
builder, is constructing the addi
tion, which is scheduled to be
completed in about three weeks.
Penalty On Taxes
0n Aaain Friday
Penalty on city and county
taxes escalates bv an addition
al one percent Friday, March
2.
Penalty of one percent pre
vkvrjtly aordicd on February 2.
City Collector Joe McDaniel
said collections the oast mon
th wore approximately $6,000.
Bennett Brick & Hie Will Double
Capacity With New Tunnel Kiln
Bennett Brick & Tile Company
will begin pirodtycftion soon of a
new tunnel kilty *djich will do»i
Hin the nlsntts cfctyacitv to 70.000
brick per day/' General Manager
Dorus UBwmntt said Wednes
built, the firm razed its old-Jtypel
ov*I kilns. Mr. Bennett »aid it is'
hope to have the neew kiln pro-'
ducing by August 1.
Bennett Brick * TOe Company1
fal9* by the late
K U rooated on Phifer road.
'>*** ibw »anttfa»jtupe* *» ty
jusnbq.
Beam Is Seeking Re-Election;
Two County Posts Contested
CANDIDATE _ Joe F. Mull
Shelby lawyer, is seeking the
Democratic nomination for judge
of county recorder's court. Judge
Rueben L. Elam is retiring.
M. E. Herdon's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for M. Elmer
Herndon, 78, of Charlotte, Kings
(Mountain native, were held Sun
day at 2 p, m. from Harry &
Bryant Chapel In the Oaks,
graveside rites at 3:30 p. m. in
Mountain Rest cemetery here.
l . ,Mx. Herndon succumbed Fri
day in a Charlotte hospital after
several years of declining heal
th.
Bom January 16, 1884, he was
a son of the late George C. and
Liza Bird Herndon. He lived for
many years in Kings Mountain
where he organized and operatei
one of the town’s first banks
People’s Loan & trust Company
In 1935 he moved With his family
to Charlotte and joined R. S
Dickson Investment Company. A
few years later he became an of
ficial of the Southern Investment
Company Where he remained un
til his retirement.
He was a member of St. John’s
Baptist church, the Scottish Rite,
the Red Fez club and the Oasis
Temple.
Surviving are two sons, M. E.
Herndon, Jr., of Charlotte and
George A. Herndon of Asheville;
one daughter, Mrs. F. Milton Fry
er of Atlanta, Ga.; four sisters,
Mrs. James Blalock of Basker
ville, Va.. and Mrs. William Bla
lock of Union Level, Va., Mrs. C.
W. Vick and Mrs. E. W. Gordon,
tooth of South Hill, Va.: one bro
ther. Bird Herndon of Columbia,
S. C., and nine grandchildren.
Dr. Claude U. Broach conduct
ed the final rites, and Rev. Mar
ion DuBose officiated at graveside
rites.
Pallbearers were Gene W. Me
Garity, John S. Pritchard, C.
Mack Murphy, Richard L. Oow
hig, William L. Felts and Edgar
Jones, Jr.
5360 Collected
For Heart Fvi.d
Kinf’s Mountain Heart* Fund
collection stood at $360 Wednes
day, the fiewe not including
moifies collected during the Heart
Sunday campaign on February
25.
Thomas D-oopem, chairman,
said Wednesday that the cam
paign is still on due to bad wea
the* Sunday. Solicitors should
finish collections th's week and
a tr'Cal accounting be given next
week. -
Charman Dropnetrs u-c»d all
who were not at home Sunday
and we« not canttafVed to nut a'
'Wit’dhut'n*’ in the He^ri Fund
i«f)v»t(wv> left at the deo» and
mail it to the Kings Mountain
Heari: Fund.
The Kincs Mountain drive did
not reeV a goal. b"t honed to ton
*h-> f«i700 collection made here
I a of vear.
•Fro-eeds (mi the He’ri Fund
drive go to the national organi
zation for research into the catr-e
of heeri disease and its medica
tion.-Heart dkease im AmvH’s
number ore killer and affects
Heart Fund campaign aJ?o go
the public., tend to flVf, jp .ilrea^
for adueairior. both ot dorions and
mart ot tfi« di—ace on the local
leu*.
Constable Hies;
Elliott Seeks
Sanatt's Seat
County political activity warm
1 ed with the weather during the
past week, producing two sure
Democratic primary contests —
both for tile two elective posi
tions in the county recorder’s
court.
Joe F. Mull and Crawley B.
Cash, Jr., both Shelby lawyers,
are seeking to succeed Judge Rue
ben L. Elam, while L. L. Hobbs,
another Shelby lawyer, filed his
candidacy for recorder’s court
solicitor, a, post also being sought
by Shelby Attorney N. Dixon
i (Dick) Lackey.
Judge Elam announced he is
retiring and Solicitor Bynum
Weathers is hospitalized.
Other developments:
David Beam, Incumbent county
commissioner from District 3, fil
ed for re-election Wednesday.
Ralph S. Elliott, mink rancher
and ginner, announced he would
seek the District 5 county com
missioner post, now held by
Chairman Knox Sa craft. Mr. Sar
ratt, from Earl, hasn’t indicated
Ms intentions.
In Number 4 Township, Char
les (Rocky) Ford filed for re
election:- as constable.
Adoption -pf the staggered four
jyear tcaffi^.^rrangemenit for the
comml aHujK * at the November
i general eledtton means that Beam
[and Elliott are seeking four-year
terms. ' ’
Mr. Beam, a farmer, was in
Kings Mountain Wednesday aft
ernoon, and Said, “X feel the
county government is for the
benefit of the whole county,” ad
ding, “I appreciate the very fa ;
vorable majority Kings Moun j
tain gave me two years ago ant
regard it as instrumental in my
nomination."'
Mr. Beam- is a poultry farmer
and hatcher, resides between
Lawndale and Fallston, belongs
to New Bethel Baptist church,
the Upper Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, Farm Bureau, and is
a director of the Lawndale Lions
club. His wife is Ruth Spurting
Beam and they have three chil
dren.
Mr. Mull, for six years chair
man of the county elections
board, sought 'the 'soMeltorship un
successfully in 1954. He holds an
accounting degree from Bowling
Green Business university, a law
degree from Wake Forces!, and
is licensed to practice before the
United States Supreme Court. He
served in the army from 1943-46,
is legal officer of Warren Hoyle
(Continued On Page Eight)
Deleoation
To GOP Meet
Mayor Kelly Dixon wil] give
the invocation at the state Re
publican convention, meeting in
Durham Saturday morning.
The Mayor said he expects to
go to Durham Friday afternoon.
He said he’d been informed
that six to seven other Kings
Mountain Republicans will at-1
tend the convention Saturday,;
including Wayne Ftw^ythe, coun
ty secretary. Ed H. Smith and
Bob Manor, precinct committee
chairmen.
Feature address of the conven
tion will be brought by U. S.
Congressman William E. Miller,
national chairman.
Billed for Saturday evening is:
a GOP raPIy, when U. S. Sena
tor John Tower, of Texas, will de
liver the principal address.
CONSTABLE _ Charles (Bosky)
Ford, Number 4 township con
stable, is seeking re-election. He
paid his tiling fee this week.
Lions Regele
Area Fanners
Kings Mountain area farmers,
under the direction of a South
Carolina school superintendent,
helped entertain themselves at
the annual fanner’s night ban
quet of the Kings Mountain
Lionis Club Tuesday.
Sam C. Brissie, superintendent
of District 4 schools, Woodruff,
S. C., presented an audience par
ticipation program, in" Which the
farmers were scored in jokes,
harrassed in a quiz program, and
suffered the indignities of con
tests in which the farmer ap
plause determined which one of
the group had prettle t legs and
who of another made the most
seductive lady.
Tom Hamrick was selected as
the possessor of the prettiest
gams, defeating Melvin-Wright,
Alex Owens, Martin-. Harmon,
County Commissioner David
Beam and others.
Jack Morgan, Shelby feed deal
er, won the "lady” contest, over
Myers Hambrighlt, Ben Hamrick,
Ralph Hare-ill, Senator Robert
Morgan, and others.
Mr. Brissie closed his program
on a serious note.
He declared that the nation to
day needs the human products
of its farms, men who willing to
accept responsibility, who are
willing to go forward and “who
do not whine when they don’t
get their way."
Ollie Harris, program chair
man, was toastmaster. Bill
Plonk presented distinguished
guests, Edwin Moore pre~erted
Mr. Brissie, and Eugene Me
Swaln, club tail twister, and W.
K. Mauney, Jr., collaborated In
entertaining the farmers.
Wforqan likely
To Bun Auam
S'at» Senator Robert F. Morgan
has indicated he will seek re-el
ec-ion to a sirth term.
Here Tuesday night at thr
Lions farmer’s night banquet,
Sen. Morgan indicated he would
be seeking his Final term as
senator, adding he would either
seek state-wide office in 1964, or
nothing.
He did not indicate his 1964
ambitions.
The Senator hasn’t yet made a
formal announcement.
Judge Jack White, of Kinrs
Mountain, who opposed Senator
Morgan two years ago, has In
dicated he may'test (he Senator
again.
Phenix Of Burlington To Raise
Wane Scales Effective Monday
Burlington Industries’ Fhenix
plant will raise wages effective
Monday, it was announced this
Burlington becomes the second
Kings Mountain area firm to an
nounce a forthcoming wage fai^e,
a movement slowly gaining head
way ■} the textile industry. Mas
sachusetts Mdh®r Plush ppTn^a
ny arsnounoed two weeks ago it
Was boosting -vt-ages, though, ft
dM not give the elective d^J^|
Announcement of the Burling
ton-increase was made by James
D. Baste, vteegpwrirtem, who
said the wage increases would
apply to Burlington plants in cn.s
area
(Mr. Barbee sa!J “upward wage
adjustment* are being made in
this area in line with the genera)
patterns now toeing ’
and in prtfca• to pay
will tmahrtaih the
:s of our
Wn»5narees «t Jewels equal tpor
SKBWS??afV,-5&«Jf
Mr. Barbee said rate increases
would wary according t© specific
occupations and in relation to
Challenge Bay
For Bond Vote
Is Saturday
Registration for the March l©
■school bond election ended at
'■unset Saturday, with registrars
kept very busy all day as 1675
citizens visited the eight polling
places to get their names an the
voting' books.
Saturday's total compared with
1920 having registered previous
ly. Tin? total registration w
1595.
Meantime, registrars were pH
ing ready for Challenge I>ay
which will bo Saturday.
In view of the opposition to
passage of the bonds by a so
•ailed Taxpayer’s Committee
and in view of some Challenge
Day activity in May 1960 at the
■on Sol illation election, it was con
sidered possible the registrars
might have another busy da*
Saturday. 1
In event of challenges of regis
tered names, it is the duty of the
registrar and two judges to ex
amine the complaints and nils
whether the challenger citizen
bray vote, or whether his name
must be stricken from the not!
book.
The registration by preeiruts;
Ward 1 (City Hall) 201
Ward 2 (City Hall) 272.
Ward 3 (Parkdale Stone) '291
Ward 4 (Kings Mountain Man
ufacturing Company clubroomf
305.
Ward 5 (We t school) 702.
Bethware (Bethware school)
'Park - Grace
school) 484.
Grover (Grover
487.
(Park - Grace
fire station)
Analysts on both sides of the
bond question busied themselves
with guessing how the total*
would be cant.
A total of 1821 citizens logged
j their names from the areas for
merly outside the Kings Mon retain
school district, while 1774 were
listed on the in-e'ty boxes,
Bethware ho’ds the distinction
of registering mo~t voters, at 850,
leading We -t Kings Mountain^
at 702, by 148 potential voters.
Tax Rate Won't
Rs Over 40c %
The proposed $1.1 million bond
issue will co>‘ the tax pavers of
the Kings Mountain school! dr>
triet not more than 40 cents per
$100 valuation, Supt. B. N. Barn
es and F. W. Plonk toid Board
of Education members Tuesday.
Supt. Barnes and Mr.
were reporting reautits of a talk
with W. E. Easterling, fluredWr
of the Local Government Com
mission, last week.
Supt. Barnes said Mr. Easter
ling assured h’m that whatever
| stems are necessary may be taken
to hold the tax rate dawn to that
rn^rk if the bond Is ue passes.
He said the bowls will prdbn
bly be .sold on a 20-year-term ba
sis, but the favomb'e tax rate oan
be acquired by selling the bonds
, in smaller Woes over a oerhsl
i of time, rather than selling the
entire is no the Put year.
| “'rhe school will not be com
; pleted in ore year and wPl not
be paid for in one vear.” Smt
i Barnes said, “therefore we don’t
have to put the entire $1.1 mil
lion on the market at once."
j Supt. Barnes noted too ttvat
On Pnrje Pinht >
t -
lirls vs. Newton
Saturday at 6
If Kings Mountain boys snake
the Southwest - Northwest tourn
ey at Shelby they will engage Le
noir Friday night at 9 o’clock.
The Ki"ss Mountain gbffln will
engage Newton Saturday at t
p. m.
Pairings for the first round «*f
el ay in the Southwest-Northw«*i
division WNCHSAA at Shrtfcy
are:
Fr*dav:
6:00 Lineolnton girls vs Val
dese.
7:30 Chase girls vs. Marion or
Ilud on.
9:00 Lenor bovs vs. Lincolnian
or Kinc" Mountain.
Saturday:
6:00 Kings Mountain girls v#
Newton
7:30 TaylorsvMle pirJ* v»s.
thjarford:. - Swindate Cewtrl
* ft00 boys vs. Hk^oiy
PT VaJdese. . . .
* (Mo*? A?ty *
Po «fVS<*r*r*I.boys vs. »*
kocrv or
Defeikifti'Mv* vs. Nestor
*Hlckorv and Val iew bov'- tied
(of second place in