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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 IMS figure for Creator Dug* Moan tala to derived from •to 1*SS dags Mountain city directory conaua. Tha city Holts figure to front tto SUM Statue conaua of 1M0. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 26, 1962 Seventy-Third Year g jB * m 'j&M. 16 Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS PLAY TWO-NIGHT STAND HERE - The Knights of Music. 16-piece Shelby dance band, will play for dances here Friday night and Saturday night, both at the American Legion Building. On Friday, the Knights will play for the high school Junior-Senior prom, and on Saturday night they play for a Legion Post dance. The band is led by Manager Dick Busse (in white suit). Wendell Phifer, of Kings Moun tain. plays bass fiddle and Joe Hedden, high school band director, is one of the saxphon ists. ON MEN'S COUNCIL - Jerry Wright. Kings Mountain sopho , more at Erskine college in Due West, S. C. has been elected sec retary-treasurer of the Men's Council, one of two governing bodies that go to make up the Erskine Student Government As sociation. Mr. Wright, son of Rev. and Mrs. Ray Wright, is also treasurer of the Block E club at Erskine and a pitcher on the baseball team. Action Is Mil On School Site There was plenty of conversa tion, but no action, on the mat ter of site for the area high school this week. Superintendent B. N. Barnes, exofficio secretary of the board of education, said no report has been received from the three man team from the State De partment of Public Instruction school planning division, which surveyed five possible sites last week. The report is expected momen tarily and Supt. Barnes said the board of education anticipates meeting when the report is re ceived. Meantime, Architects Associ ates, Inc., retained to plan the new plant, has been asked for a report on relative development costs of the several sites. Under consideration are the Goforth-Plonk properties west of the Kings Mountain Country Club Estates, the Phifer-Neisler site on Phifer road, a Neisler tract at the south comer of Phi fer and Fulton roads, and the Houser property on York road. Several other sites have also been observed. The board of education has a vailable borrowing authority of up to $1,100,000, voted in March, for the purchase of sites and building of schools, most of which is expected to be required for the building of a new high school plant. Safety Film Features Meeting Showing of films on water safety and first aid featured Monday night’s executive board meeting of the Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter. Don Crawford showed the films entitled, “Boats, Motors and People,” which stressed wa ter safety and first add. Treasur er L. L. Benson presided at the meeting held at Kings Moun tain Baptist church. Blood Program Chairman John A. Cheshire reported on response to the recent bloodmobUe visit at Grover. Seventy-three area ci tizens visited the Uoodbank. Legion Books 16-Piece Band Foi Saturday Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, will hold a dance Saturday night for members and guests, from 9 to midnight, with the Knights of Music, Shelby dance hand, furnishing the mu sic. Prior to the dance, dinner will be served from 6:30 to 8:30. Din ers will have a choice of chicken or steak and can make reserva tions by calling the Legion build) ing daily after 2 p. m. Dinner prices weren’t announ ced. Admission to the dance is $2 per couple. The Knights of Music, led and managed by Dick Busse, were or ganized last fall. Says Busse, “We Te-creaite the sounds of the great bands. We have orchestrations from the li braries of Les Brown, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and a host of others. Many of the 14 instrumenta lists have long experience. Inclu ded are five saxophones, three trumpets, two trombones, and four rhythm instruments. Among the members are Wendel! Phifer, Jr., and Joe Hedden, of Kings Mountain. Lewis Cathey and Reggie Norris, of Gastonia, play ed with the Cathey band, a one time favorite here. Planning Bum-OH? Call Fire Chief Citizens desiring to burn dead grass off vacant lots, or to ge quantities of refuse, or to light any outdoor fire which might get out of hand should call Fire Chief Pat Tignor first The twin reason is to prevent fire hazards and to save the city cash, Mayor Kelly Dixon says. Tuesday firemen answered an alarm at the Melton Hope property near the power sub station. Mr. Hope informed the firemen he was burning grass off a Got and they weren’t needed. Sometime latei, Mr. Hope called back. The fire was about to get out of hand. Penalty is provided for fail ure to get the Chief’s permis sion, the Mayor noted. NO PERMITS No building permits were is sued by city officials during the past week. HONORED - Mrs. E. W. Neal, veteran teacher and librarian, has been honored by the Bess emer City schools. The library has been named and dedicated in her honor. Library Named For Mrs. Neal The Bessemer City high school library has had its name chang ed to the Helen G. Neal Library, surprise tribute by the Class of ’62 to veteran teacher, Mrs. E. W. Neal of Kings Mountain. When the hew high school is completed, the handsome bronze plaque with inscription and a framed portrait of Mrs. Neal are to foe moved with the present library into the new quarters. Mrs. Neal retired in 1960 as a member of the Bessemer City high school faculty and as li brarian. Of her 20 years teaching career, 20 had been served in Bessemer City. She was librarian When the school burned in 1942 and when the school was rebuilt in 1947, the library had to be completely rebuilt. In 1960 there were 5,000 volumes in the li brary and school officials noted that Mrs. Neal had worked in building the library with a “per sonal interest.” A native of Due West, S. C., Mrs. Neal was graduated from Erskine college. The former Hel en Galloway, she moved to Kings Mountain after her marriage to Mr. Neal and began her teach ing career here. She also served as principal of Bethware school and before going to Bessemer City taught in the Tryon system. She is presently a member of (Continue On Page Eight) Lions International Emphasizing World Peace Via Many Avenues Principal emphasis of Lions International currently is on world peace, T. Henry Wester field, of Charlotte, governor of District 31-C, told Kings Moun tain members Tuesday night. The emphasis has taken three principal directions, he said, in cluding 1) affiliaton wth CARF, the organzation which supplies food, medicines, farm machinery! and other needs to starving poo- j ole in under-developed nations;! 2) through cooperation with the. Peace Corps, to which Lions In-! ternational has contributed $100,000 this year; and 3) coop eration in the foreign student ex change program. He praised the student exchange program and told of a German boy wrho came to this country reluctantly, re turned to inform his kin and friends that the United States de sires peace, has war widows and war maimed, too. He offered the hoDe that some day Russian and Chinese youth will be able to visit hem and spread the hope of peace in their nations. Mr. Westerfield outlined the Lions program at the state level! as majoring in aid to the blind,! through the support of the Whitej Cane drive, sight education,! glaucoma clinics and boosting the eye bank. “Talking about wills, particu larly bequesting one’s eves isn't pleasant. But all you’re doing is passing along God’s gift to some one else when you no longer need it,” he declared. Another major activity is youth work, including promo tion of Boys’ Home, where the Lions will socn bum a mortgage on a $60,000 home for 16 boys, aid to Boy Scout organizations, and sponsorship of youth ath letic programs. Hp said the Lions organization doubles in number of members and activities any two compar able service organizations. Mr. Westerfield appeared on a program aranged by Dr. George Plonk. He was presented by George Thomasson, Lions zone chairman. Club Opposes Goforth - Plonk Site Books Will Open For May Voting Registering To Get Underway For Primaries Registration books for the May 26 primaries will open Saturday in each of the county’s 28 voting precincts. While registration activity, in the absence of a new registration, isn’t expected to be too 'busy, re gistrars reminded that citizens who have moved from one pre cinct to another must obtain transfers and those who have become 21 years of age since the books were last opened, or who will be 21 by the date of the No vember general election, are el igible to register. Some interest is being eviden ced in whether Republicans now registered as Democrats will change registration in view of the candidacy of some Republi cans for county office. There is no county level Re publican contest, but there is a Republican primary, there being two candidates for the GOP nom ination for the United States Se nate. At the local level the Demo crats have four contests. For clerk of Superior Court, Craig D. Falls, Kings Mountain grocer, is opposing Incumbent J. W. Osborne, Shelby attorney. For Judge of Recorder’s Court, two Shelby lawyers, Crawley B. Cash and Joe F. Mull, seek to succeed Judge Rueben Elam, re tiring. For solicitor of Recorder’s Court, two more Shelby lawyers, Lyndon Hobbs and Norris (Dick) Lackey, seek to succeed Solicitor Bynum Weathers, also retiring. In a sweepstakes affair for the five county school board nomi nations, Charles Elliott and Bob by Gene Austell are Challenging the members of the board, who are Walter Davis, chairman, J. D Ellis, Buford Cline, Edwin Moore, and C. D. Forney. Sr. Registrars will be at the poll ing places from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. for three consecutive Saturdays. In this area, precinct polling places and registrars are: East Kings Mountain, City Hall courtroom, Mrs. Nell C. Cran ford. . ,,, . West Kings Mountain, West school, Mrs. J. H. Arthur. Bethware, Bethware school, Mrs. J. D. Jones. Grover, Grover fire station, Mrs. J. B. Ellis. Patrick Wins Neisler Medal Lawrence Patrick, Jr., Park Grace student, won the city-wide Neisler declamation medal in fi nals competition Wednesday af ternoon. Other contestants represented the various schools of the city system and had heen their school winner in earlier contests. Young Patrick, son of (Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Patrick, used the top ic, “The Central Idea.” Other students competing were Jimmy Ware from North school, "What Is An American?”; Scott Kelly from East school, “The Flag and Patriotism”; Stevee Crosby from West school, "The Dog”; Mike Goforth from Central school, "The Eternal En graving”; Gaither Bumgardner from Grover school, “Your Bill of Rights”; and Nelson Connor from Bethware school, “What Shall We Defend?” Judges were Dr. W. L. Press ly and George B. Thomasson, 'both of Kings Mountain, and A. V. Nolan of Shelby. The declamation finals were held at Park Grace school. City Will Extend Sloes Street Soon The city expects to extend Sines street soon. Mayor Kelly Dixon said Wed nesday right-of-way deeds by property owners are being pre pared conveying to the city 40 feet of right-of-way for a street from Sipes street to Edgemont avenue. He estimated the distan ce of the proposed street at about TOO feet. The board of commissioners approved the street extension se veral months ago WINS DEGREE - Lawrence L. Lohr, Jr. has received his mas ter's degree in chemistry from Harvard University at Cam bridge. Lohi Wins Master's Degree Lawrence L. Lohr, Jr., Kings Mountain student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., has earned his master’s degree in inorganic chemistry. Mr. Lohr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lohr, will receive his diploma at June exercises, al though he completed require ments for his master’s in March. He is working toward his doc torate in chemistry. He is a 1959 graduate of the University of North Carolina with B. S. degree in chemistry. Motley Plonk's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Thomas Mot ley Plonk, 72, native of Kings Mountain and a Charlotte citi zen since 1935, were conducted Friday at Charlotte’s Myers Park Presbyterian church, interment following at Mountain Rest cem etery here. Mr. Plonk died at his home Thursday morning. He had suf fered from a heart condition. Born January 20, 1890, he was a son of the late Rufus S. and Mary Motley Plonk, of Kings Mountain. He attended Staunton Military academy in Virginia and was graduated from Roanoke college in 1910. He was subsequently in the textile business ait Elberton, Ga., Cherokee Falls, S. C., at Sadie Cotton Miils here, and at Spin dale before joining the Internal Revenue service in 1935. He was supervisor of the Charlotte audit divsion. He was a member of the My ers Park church and of St. An-| drew’s Masonic lodge. Surviving are his wife, the former Louise McGuire of Frank llin; two daughters, Mirs. William L. Anderson and Miss Mildred Plonk, both of Charlotte; two sons, T. M. Plonk, Jr., Orlando, Fla., and Rev. William M. Plonk, Columbia, S. C.; seven sisters, Mrs. W. E. Alexander, Robbins, Miss Eva Plonk, Miss May Plonk, and Mrs. Hugh Ormand, j all of Kings Mountain, Miss Eth-j el Plonk, Winston-Salem, Mrs.' Claude Hager, Hickory, and Mrs.' W. M. Hite, Atlanta, Ga.; and a brother, Rufus S. Plonk, of Bess-: emer City. The rites were conducted by Rev. James E. Fogartie and Rev. A. Clarke Dean, ministers of the Myers Pack church. Pallbearers were Warren Way, J. C. Watts, Rufus Plonk, Jr., Martin Boyer III, Dr. George Plonk, and J. O. Plonk, Jr. Friends desiring may send memoriafls to the Lowman Home,j Lutheran Orphanage or Barium Springs Orphanage. SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE Open House will be held at Park Grace school Monday night as a feature of the reg ular P-TA meeting. Classrooms will be open to visitor® and a ■octal hour will be held after the program. Golf Course Said Hazard To Children The Kings Mountain Country Club board of directors has writ ten the North Carolina State Board of Education opposing the location of a consolidated area high school on the Goforth-Plonk site, one of several under con sideration, and which lays west of the club golf course. The club board, by unanimous action, adopted a resolution op posing location of the school near the golf course on grounds that school children walking to and from school would take short cuts through the course, at some hazard of being struck by a golf ball. It was noted that on some holes of the nine-hole course, vision of the golfer is not dear due to variances in terrain. Copies of the letter were de livered to the five members of the board of education and to B. iN. Barnes, superintendent of schools. Text of the letter, as provided by James Gibson, secretary to the country club, follows: “At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Kings Mountain Country Club on April 10th, 1962, unanimous action was taken op posing location of the consolida ted High School on the Goforth Plonk property, west of the golf course. “If the school is located on this site, there will be a number of students walking across the golf course as the nearest route to and from school, as well as play ing and loitering on the grounds. This, of course, would create a dangerous and hazardous condi tion as the terrain of the course is such that, when hitting a golf ball, one cannot be sure the area ahead is clear. “There is no way school offici als can control movements of students after they leave school property. “The Board of Directors strong ly urges you to consider the a bove in your decision.” Melton To Speak To Rotarians Ervin T. Melton, Jr., news di rector of WBT-WBTV Charlotte since June 1956, will address Kings Mountain Rotarians at their Thursday noon meeting at the Country Club. Mr. Melton will speak in a program arranged by Rotarian Thomas L. Trott, at one-time as sociated with Mr. Melton in the theatre business in Bennetts ville, S. C. A native South Carolinian, Mr. Melton entered the newspaper field in 1939, was a motion pic ture cameraman assigned to General Joe Stillwell’s Far East Forces during World War II in the China-Burma-India theatre of operations. He was subsequent ly news director for Radio Sta tion WBCS, Bennettsville, Radio Station WDSC of Dillon, and Radio Station WJMX of Floren ce. Mr. Melton is president of the Radio-TV News Directors Asso ciation of the Carolinas and of the Woodlawn Community club of Charlotte. He is vice-president; of United Press Broadcasters of North Carolina and immediate past president of the Carolinas Press Photographers Associa tion. He is also currently serving as national chairman of the As socited Press Wire Photo Oom mfittee. Booze, Machines Found In Raids SBI And County Officers Made Raids Friday Managers of private clubs charged with gambling and sale of intoxicants as a result of sweeping raids by State Bureau of Investigation and local officers last Friday are to appear in County Recorder's court Thurs day morning. Four clubs were raided in the Kings Mountain area, along with 11 others in Shelby and Cleve land County, a major part of a three-county raid. Of the four raided here, two were "clean.” Officers found no evidence of gambling devices nor illegal booze at either the Kings Mountain Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9811, nor at Kings Mountain Country Club. At the Otis D. Green Post 155 on East Gold street, officers con fiscated four slot machines, seven cases of beer, a draft beer bar rel, 30 half pints and five fifths of whiskey. Manager Clyde San ders was arrested. This raid was conducted shortly after 5 p. m. It was about 10 p. m. before the raid on the Moose Ix>dge off the York Road. Fore-warned, the Moose cache of beverages and other illegal items had been mo ved from the building, tout offi cers moved directly to the hiding places. One member said a depu ty sheriff later confirmed the building had been under serveil lance. Confiscated at the Moose Lodge were three slot machines, over three cases of beer and three cases of whiskey. Manager Ray Alexander was arrested. Both he and Sanders made bond of $1,000 Saturday morn ing, after 'being released Friday night on their own recognizance. Value of the Cleveland County haul was estimated at $30,000. It compared with a raid con ducted May 10, 1960, when SBI, and local officers made raids re-j suiting in a $50,000 haul. Dr. McCormac Here Sunday Dr. Earl McCormac, assistant professor of Bible and philoso phy and an administrative assis tant at Davidson college, will speak at First Presbyterian church Sunday as the church ob serves National Christian Col lege day, it was announced by Dr. Paul K. Ausley, minister. Dr. McCormac holds bachelor, master and doctor degrees from Yale university and attended Un ion Theological seminary in 1955-56. He spent three years with the Hazen foundation and joined the Davidson faculty last year. He first won a degree in elec trical engineering in 1955, won his divinity degree in 195K. He is in the inactive naval re serve, Chaplain corps, holds the rank of lieutenant. Needed: Churches, Other Groups To Sponsor BSA Troops In Area Kings Mountain needs some, more Boy Scout troops, says Otis j Falls, J'r., Scoutmaster of Troop 91, which, under special dispen sation of the parent Piedmont Council numbers more active members than is customarily al lowed. A Biy Scout troop requires a sponsor, either a church, civic or. service club, which will take re sponsibility for adult leadership, some financial aid, and supply a regular meeting place. Scoutmaster Falls commented: Troop 91, B. S. A., celebrated its birthday with a hike to Lake; Davidson Tuesday, where the! boys cooked hamburger, potatoes and carrots in tin foil. Sixty-five I boys and five leaders made the trip. “Last year troop 91 registered 96 boys. Five boys passed Ten derfoot tests but could not re ceive their badges because of the tremendous overload already al lowed the troop by Piedmont Council. (Customarily troop membership is limited to 42.) “The five boys will get their awards in May because troop 91 is registering only 60 of its most active boys. Whether this troop will be able to accept new boys in the near future is a real pro blem for troop leaders and for Piedmont Council. “Boys and leaders of troop 91 urge Kings Mountain churches who do not sponsor troops to get; in the swing. Scouting reaching a: previously unknown high in both boy and adult interest. This was reflected Tuesday night when 15 cars showed up at Lake Dav idson at 9 o'clock to transport the Scouts home. “Churches who do not sponsor Scout troops are missing a real opportunity for Evangelism. Scout leaders insist their boys at tend their own churches regular ly and never attempt to bring a boy to the sponsoring institution unless he is unchurched. Last Sunday nine previously unchur ched boys, and one of their sis ters attended St. Matthew’s Lu theran chinch. Two new boys and another sister have promised to attend next Sunday.” OPTIMIST PRESIDENT - Harold Phillips was named president of the Optimist Club of Kings Mountain Thursday night. Optimists Elect Harold Phillips Harold Phillips was named president of Kings Mountain Op timist Club as the group met in regular session Thursday at Cline’s Restaurant on Shelby | Road. j First vice-president is W. J. | Cantrell and second vioe presi I dent is Bob Hurl but. Ken Roberts was named secre tary-treasurer by the group and Bill Bennett, sergeant-at-arms. Directors include Marion Sex ton, Gerald Valentine, Robert Fleming, and John Dilling. At the meeting plans were al so made for observance of La dies’ Night on Saturday, April 28. The annual Ladies' Night Ban quet will be held at Cline’s Res taurant at 7 p. m. Featured speaker for the pro gram will be John Gris-op, Lt Governor of the Zone 6 Opti mists. Door prize drawings for the ladies will be held. Father-Child Event Thursday Thursday is Father-Child Night at the Kiwanis club. Kings Mountain Kiwanians are invited to bring their children or grandchildren as guests. The club convenes at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman's club. Members of “The Accents,” a local band composed of students, will present the musical pro gram. Band members are Wen dell Phifer, Jr., Kenneth Barnes, Tommy Bennett, Buz Shuford Joe Fite,, George Wilson, Lya Cheshire and Billy Belt. Plans will also be completed for the club's annual ladies’ night banquet to be held on May 3rd. Soft Heart Saves Possum John Lutz, Kings Mountain High School science instructor, is now papa to a 'possum, thanks to the Herald 'possum adoption agency. The opossum, of indeterminate age, was the lone survivor of an attack by an unidentified prowl er, on the ‘possum family re siding in the churchyard of Firs* Presbyterian Chu-reh. Airline Barrett, church secre tary, took the orphan in Wednes day morning after finding its mother and seven brothers and/ or sisters dead in the church yard. After half a day of playing “Mama” to the little marsupial, Mrs. Barrett gave up in despair, shortly after lunch trying vainly to anonymously deposit the "bundle of joy” on the Herald counter. She was caught in the attempt by Editor Martin Har mon and staffer David Baity. "I can’t take it home. What would I do with a baby ‘poss um,” was her explanation. Staffer Baity became tempor ary custodian, some 15 minutes lateir making a gift of the animal to the high school science de partment. Humanitarian Lutz reluctantly accepted the foundling, agreeing to make a project for his science classes of keeping the youngster alive.
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