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ft Population Greater Kings Mountain ^ 10,320 City Limits ■go* fat Oraatar 8,008 I. j, 1,111 us aenroa uozn eta dtr tataetotr enm. Tha city tlte United State, nwu el ISM. VOL. 73 No. 18 PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins LIONS ELECTION Members of the Kings Moun Lions eiub will elect officers for 1962-63 at the Tuesday night meeting. J. Ollie Harris is program chairman. The club meets at the Woman’s Club at 7 o’clock. COUNTRY HAM SUPPER Ladies of El Bethel Metho dist chuirch will serve country ham suppers from 5 until 9 p. m. Saturday at Beihware school lunchroom. Proceeds will benefit the El Bethel church building fund. Tickets, now on sale from any member, are $1.50 for adults and 75c for children. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday noon totaled $167.15, including $110 from on-sitreet. meters, $42 from over-parking fees, and $15.15 from on-street me ters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr. reported. ALEXANDER FINED Ray Alexander, manager of Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748, was given a nine months suspended sentence on charges of possession of gambling de vices and whiskey for purpose of sale in Cleveland County Recorder’s court last Thursday. The sentence was suspended upon payment of a fine of $400 and count costs. He had plead ed nolo contendere. OPTIMISTS MEET The Optimist Club of Kings Mountain will meet in regular weekly session at 7:00 p. m. Thursday at Cline’s Restau rant. A short directors meeting will be held at adjournment of the regular sessdon. SARRATT ILL Knox Sarratt, chairman of the board of commissioners, is a patient at Mercy hospital], Charlotte, where he is receiv ing treatment for an intestinal disorder. GRASS FIRE City firemen were called to McGinnis Street Friday at 3:00 p. m. to douse a grass blaze at the edge of the old city wa ter works. No property damage was reported. A call Saturday at 11:15 p. m. to Carolina Cafe on Cansler Street proved to be a false alarm. 1-85 Rest Area Bids Are Ashed RALEIGH — The State High way Commission has advertised for bids on 228 road projects, to taling 297 miles Of road impro vements. Bids will toe opened at the Highway Letting to be held in Raleigh on May 23, 1962. Included in the call for bids are the following two Interstate projects: GASTON COUNTY — 2.77 mil es grading, base course, 9-inch concrete pavement and structur es on the east portion of Gasto nia By-Pass, from US 321, south east 2.77 miles on 1185. CLEVELAND COUNTY—road side rest area, buildings, and fa cilities on 1185, approximately 2 miles southwest of its intersec tion with 'NC 161. NewHalf-Holiday For City Office The city hall office will begin dosing at noon Wednesday, ef fective next week, Mayor Kelly Dixon announced yesterday. "Traffic is quite negligible on Wednesday afternoons,” the Ma yor said, "and no inconvenience to Che public is anticipated.” He also noted that the United States Postoffice has joined ma jority of retail merchants in ta king a midweek half-holiday. The city office also closes on Saturday afternoon, as does the postoffice. The future schedule of the city office will be: Monday. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday — 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. j Wednesday — 8 a. m. to noon.1 Saturday — 8:30 a. m. to noon. u Paint Bids Asked 9 On City Peels The city is inviting bids for the painting of both the Deal Street and Davidson pools, Mayor Kel-> ly Dixon said this week. i The Mayor said full specifica-j tions are obtainable at his office or at the office of the city clerk. The work is to be completed by May 25 and bids are to be posted not later than next Thursday, May VI. The Kings Mountain High School 1961 - 62 Band Band To Play Concert Sunday; Admission Free The Kings Mountain high school 50-piece marching band will play a spring concert Sun day afternoon at 2:30 p. m. in the school auditorium. There will be no admission charge. Memlbers of the band, playing recently in the Western State Band contests, won a rating of superior, highest given in the competition. They played in Shel by for the Cleveland visit of Governor Sanford, at Easter Sunrise services here at Moun tain Rest cemetery and at Park Grace P-TA meeting Monday night. On Monday the band plays at Grover school and on Wed nesday at Bethwane school. The group will play for high school assembly at Central school on May 11th. Included in the spring concert will be three numbers from the Scotch Polk Suite, three selec tions from Little Suite for Band, and three numbers from Little Norwegian Suite. Wendell Phifer will be featured on the bass solo In “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” and Kenny Barnes, Tom my Bennett and Jerry Ford will form a trumpet trio for “Bug ler’s Holiday,” There will be mo dern rhythm arrangements plus several overtures and marches with the National Anthem play ed as the final number. Members of the band are: Flutes: Susan Plonk, Gail Heavner, Eleanor Ware, Dora Kircus. Oboe: Connie Dixon. Clarinet: Carol Jean Goter, John Cleramer, Linda Walker, Sara Hendricks, Del Goforth, Becky Burton, Rita Bei'l, Lynda Mauney, Karen Wood, Danny Finger, Cindy Ware, Angela Ruff, Elaine Russell, Sheila God frey, Linda Watterson. Alto Clarinet: Alice Neal. Bass Clarinet: Lawrance Mau ney. Comet: Kenny Barnes, Tommy Bennett, Glenn Werner, Jerry Ford, Leslie Joy, Mike Goforth. Saxophone: Lyn Cheshire, Pat tie Howard and Spencer Moore. Bass: Wendell Phifer and Lar ry Wblls. Bassoon: Joan McClure. FYench horn: Johnny Bennett. Baritone: Gary Wilson. Trombone: Buz Shuford, Win Goter, Robert Phifer, Danny Walker. Bells: Mary Ann McCurdy. Drums: Vivian Wilson, Billy Belt, Billy Weaver, Jimmy Lew <Continued On Page Eight) Candidates Are Starting To Move; Outward Primary Interest Slight Democratic candidates for their party's nomination are beginning to put in appearance here and in various parts of the county. Thus far, great interest in the campaign ’hasn’t been evidenced among the voters. (Part of the reason is a limited number of contests. Kings (Mountain numbers two candidaes in the field, and a third locally connected. Craig Falls, York road grocer, seeks to unseat J. W. Osborne, clerk of Superior Court, and Ed win Moore, veteran member of the county board of education, rs seeking re-nomination. Buford Cline, also seeking re-nomination to the school body, is the husband of the owner of Cline’s Restau rant. In the school board instance, the contest is a sweepstakes af fair, with seven Democrats seek ing the five YitadtnaMons. Other incumbents in the race are Wal ter Davis, Buford Cline, J. D. El lis, and C. D. Porney, Jr. The two challengers are Bobby G. Austell: and Charles Elliott. The other two Democratic family fights involve the county; Recorder’s Court, where neither: Judge Rueben Elam nor Solid-1 tor Bynum Weathers are seeking re-election. 'For judge, Joe F. Mull and Crawley B. Cash, both Shelby at torneys, are candidates. For solicitor, two more Shelby attorneys, Norris (Dick) Lackey and Lyndon Hobbs, are candida tes. Clerk of Court Osfoorne was in Kings Mountain shaking hands Wednesday. Judge Candidate Cash was here on Saturday. Oth ers have made one or more trips in this vicinity. Voting day is Saturday, May 26, a Mt over away. Bible-In-Schools Prospects Dim IN NEW PASTORATE - Rev. Ray H. Condry, Kings Mountain native, will become pastor of Westside Church ot the Naza rene in Kannapolis on May 13th. Condry Accepts New Pastorate Rev. Ray H. Condry, Kings Mountain native and son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Condry of Kings Mountain, is assuming new pastorate duties May 13th in Kannapolis. He will become pastor of West side Church of the Nazarene, go ing to Kannapolis from South Carolina where he served the Pelion Nazarene church. Mr. Condry is a graduate of Kings Mountain high school and attended the University of South Carolina. He served as an Air borne military investigator with the U. S. Airmy and with the Ma rine Investigation section of the U. S. Coast Guard. Mrs. Condry is the former Jan Reynolds of Kings Mountain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Reynolds. The Condry’s have a son, Mike, age 11. RELEASED H. D. McDaniel, hospitalized at Oteen Hospital for observa tion, was released Saturday. A family spokesman said Wed nesday doctors could find no illness and Mr. McDaniel re turned to work this week. Only 12 Churches Have Indicated 1962-63 Support A final plea for financial sup port for the Bible-dn-the-schools program was issued this week by the Ministerial Association com mittee in charge. Deadline for pledges has been set for May 7. Dr. Ausley noted a letter was sent to all church treasurers and ministers in the Kings Mountain school district on March 28 re questing that each one consider a definite pledge for support of the Bible program in the schools for the 1962-63 school year. To date, 12 of the 30 churches in the area have responded and pledges amount to $1,609 The 1962-63 budget calls for an ex pediture of $4,765, a 27 percent hike over 1961-62. “The May 7 deadline is fast approaching and I’m afraid many of our ministers and chur ches have failed to aot on our request,” Dr. Ausley said. “We wish to make clear that unless the budget is underwrit ten iby the churches and pledges submitted to the Bible Com mittee by Monday, Bible will not be taught in the city school sys tem nexit year,” he continued. Dr. Ausley noted that, from the experience had during the cur rent school year of running short of funds before the end of the term, the committee is not willing to proceed with the pro gram on hap-hazard grounds. “‘If you want Bible taught, you will support it. If not, a 23 year tradition will come to an end,” he said. The teaching of Bible is finan ced wholly on a contribution ba sis, no state money being furn sihed for the project. Dr. Ausley noted the urgency of his request in that the com mittee must know if funds will be available to rehire the Bible instructor. Annual Lions Broom Sale Set The Kings Mountain Lions club will conduct its annual broom sale for benefit of the blind starting next week. Proceeds from the sale pro vide funds whereby the club supplies glasses for needy citi zens with vision deficiencies, and provides aid for the needy blind. Some of the blind aid work the Lions Club has done this 'year includes: 3) Payment for eye examina tions and glasses. 2) Cash emergency aid to a blind family afflicted by medical illness. 3) Gifts of food to needy blind families. The club also joins with other organizations in conducting glaucoma clinics and encourag ing bequest of eyes to the state eyebank. The brooms, a high quality household variety, sell for $1.50. A larger, industrial-type broom sells for $22 per dozen. W. D. (Bill) flennett is chair man of the broom sale commit tee. Other members include Wes ley Bush, W. K. Mauney, Jr.. O dus Smith, and Pete McDaniel. SPEAKER - Mrs. Cal Fisher, Bi ble teacher in the schools, will be guest speaker at Friday's community - wide May Fellow ship Day at service at First Pres byterian church. May Fellowship Service Friday Kings Mountain churchwomen will observe May Fellowship Day Friday with special services at 3:30 p. m. at First Presbyterian dhureh. The program is under sponsor ship of Kings Mountain United Church Women. Mrs. Cal Fisher, Bible teacher in the schools, as guest speaker, will lead the program, “Who Is my Family?’’ from the theme of National Family Week, "One Family Under God.” Mrs. Andy Huffstetler is program chair man. An assortment of items for Child Care Centers will be col lected as an annual project. Needed items include good usa ble toys, including wagons, tri cycles and trucks, plus nursery furniture, infant wear and cloth ing for all ages. Crib sheets and blankets are particularly needed, and blankets and sheets made from good, used ones will 'be ac cepted. Boxes will be provided at the churdh for these articles. Virtually all Kings Mountain churches are represented by the Council of Churchwomen and the service is expected to attract a large crowd. Area Churchwomen sponsor three programs annually—May Fellowship Day, World Day of Prayer and World Community Day. Cancer Gifts Reach $1700 Kings Mountain area citizen have contributed approximate! $1700 in the 1962 Cancer Cru sade, Mrs. J. E. Herndon, Jr Chairman of the fund campaign said Wednesday. She declared prospects for rea ching Kings Mountain’s seif-im posed goal of $2500 as “good”, and added she hoped to make a final report next week which would show the goal met, if no", surpassed. She urged citizens who haven’t yet contributed to make contri butions now. The funds are used to aid in j digent cancer patients and to continue research to find means of 1) preventing cancer, 2) im proving cancer detection, and 3) improving operative and treat ment techniques. ; NO PERMITS City officials issued no building permits during the past week. State Team Report Awaited By Board Consideration Of School Sites Awaits Report By MARTIN HARMON Kings Mountain board of edu cation is marking time on its prittcipal job at hand — selection of a site for building a new area high school. The delay is not a matter of choice, but due to the fact the report of a three-man team of officials from the planning di vision, state department of pub lic instruction, hasn’t been re ceived. The three-man team was here April 19, and with board mem bers accompanying, surveyed ex tensively five sites the board of education had listed as possible locales of the new high school plant. Schools Superintendent B. N. Barnes said he talked by tele phone with one of the team — W. L. Lathan, educational con sultant of the division of school planning — Monday. Mr. Lathan reported that he and other team memlbers had been away from their offices all of last week, bbut promised, Mr. Barnes, said, to forward the report "quickly.” Mr. Barnes declined Wednes day to define “quickly” but said he hoped the report would he in Kings Mountain by the end of this week. He added, “I checked the mail myself this morning, hoping the report would have arrived.” The board has indicated it won’t choose a site until the state team’s report has been consider ed, concurrently with estimates of the board's architectural firm on relative development costs ol the several sites. Other factors involved include cost of transpor tatSon of pupils, property cost, and utilities availability. Most prominently mentioned of the several sites are: 1) the Phifer-Neisler tract on Phifer road, Which is under option to the board of education; 2) the Ooforth-Plonk property lying north of U. S. 74 and immediate ly west of Kings Mountain Coun try Club golf course and Country Club Estates; and 3) a Neisler owned tract at the southwest corner of Phifer and Fulton roads. The board expects to convene as quickly as the report of the state team is received. In addition to Mr. Lathan, other members of the state group here were Marvin Johnson, chief architectural consultant, and Leon Thompson, engineer. Homecoming Day At Piedmont Sunday 'Homecoming Day will be held at Piedmont Baptist church on Sunday, May 6th. Special evangelistic services will begin that evening at 7:30 p. m. with Dr. J. L. Jenkins of Boiling Springs as visiting o vangelist for the week of revival services. Picnic dinner will be spread at 12 noon Sunday following the morning worship hour. Rev. James E. (Bud) Williams is pastor of the church. Kings Mountain Kiwanians To Hold Ladies Night Banquet Thursday Frank Errigo, drug salesmai and after-dinner speaker, wil.1 make the principal address at the annual banquet of the Kings Mountain Kiiwarris dub Thursday night. Mr. Errigo was heard here pre viously as a speaker at the an nual merchants association ban quet two years ago. A native of New Jersey, hr lives in Atlanta, Ga., Where he is associated with Parke Davis & Company, after previously ha ving held positions with the ('ompany in Charlotte and Miami, Fla. Mr. Errigo graduated to public speaking through activities of the Toastmaster’s club, winning speaking championships of the Charlotte club, taking area and district honors, and being recog rvized as state champion. Subse quently, be won the zone contest, representing GoOO members of 200 clubs in the Southeast. Mr. Errigo is a humorist. John L. McGill will present the speaker. Entertainment feature of the went Will be special music by a quartet, including Benthia Bum-j Gardner, Patsy Spencer. Curtis Floyd and Mike McSwain, ac companied -by Mrs. J. X. Mc Clure. Jack Barham will be toastmas ter, and Pattae Howard will play SPEAKER - Frank W. Errigo, of Atlanta Ga.. will make the fea ture address at the annual la dies night banquet of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thurs day night the piano during the dinner. Members of the ladies night committee are Grady Howard, ; chairman, W. S. Fulton, Jr., Har-,; o!d Coggins, Jo.'tn L. CucG-U, and i B. S. Peeler. Jr. |i The banquet will begin at the,: Woman's Club at 7 o'clock. JAYCEE PRESIDENT - John Warlick was installed as presi dent of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce Tuesday during Ladies' Night festivities of the group at the Woman's Club. Jaycees Install New Officers John Warlick was installed as president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce as a highlight of the annual Jaycee Ladies Night Banquet held Tuesday night at Woman’s Club. Warlick had formerly served as a director and treasurer of the group. Installed as first vice-president was Charles Blanton. David Kin caid, became second vice-presi dent. Also installed were Herman Greene, secretffty: John Lutz, treasurer;- Bob Hu Lender, Jay bird; and William Jonas and Hugh Lancaster, directors. Henry Whitesides, district Jay cee vice-president of Gastonia, made the installations. ‘‘Only by giving do you reap. We must stop a moment and in convenience ourselves for the good of mankind,” said Mt. Whitesides in challenging the new officers to their jobs. Using an illustration of a baby eagle raised with chickens in a chicken coop that had to be thrown from a cliff before it rea lized it was not a chicken, Whitesides noted people are much the same. "You can’t fly unless you try,” he said. He noted particularly in the president’s case, that the 1962 63 term was the opportunity to soar. "You won’t be in front of this group in the same capacity again next year," he said. Special guests, in addition to wives of Jaycees at the event in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Glee E. Bridges, representing the Kings Mountain Merchants association of which Mr. Bridges is presi dent; Mr. and Mrs. George Hou ser, representing the Woman’s Club, Mrs. Houser president;! Miss Elizabeth Stewart, presi-! dent of the Junior Woman’s Club; Mrs. Ida Joy, secretary of Kings Mountain Merchants As sociation; Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Bridge representing Radio Sta-1 tion WK.MT; and Mr. and Mrs. (Continued On Page Eight) Registration Tab Shows GOP, Democrats Even Registration activity in Num ber 4 township was negligible Saturday, first day of registra tion for the May 26 primary. The registrars reported, in aggregate, these totals: five new Democrats, three new Republi cans, two change-overs from De mocrat to Republicans. The activity was confined to three of the four boxes. Mrs. Nell C. Cranford, at East Kings Mountain, reported three new Democrats and one Repub lican. Mr's. J. H. Arthur, at West Kings Mountain, reported two new Republican registrants and two oharrige-overs from Democr at to Republican. Mrs. J. B. Ellis, at Grover, re ported addition of two Demo crats. Mrs. J. D. Jones, at Bethware, said two sought to register, but found they lived in West Kings Mountain precinct. Tile registration books will bo open for two more Saturdays, May 5 and 12, at all precincts. Saturday, May 19, Will 'be Challen ge day. The registrars will be at the ■precincts from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. They noted that un-registered citizens won’t be able to vote in the May 26 primaries. Democratic contests are limit ed to four county matters, while Republicans will settle a contest for their party’s nomination for the United States Senate seat held by Sam J. Ervin, of Mor gan ton. East Kings Mountain precinct is at Oily Hall, W’est Kings Mountain at West Elementary school, Bethware at Bethware school, and Grover at the Grover fire station. . . i Democratic Meetings Set Cleveland County Democrats will hold biennia] precinct meet ing's Saturday, at 2 o’clock. Qualified Democrats will choo se a five-member precinct com mittee and elect delegates to the biennial county convention to be held in Shelby at the county courthouse Saturday, May 12. After election, the precinct committees will elect a chairman, vice-chairman and secret ary treasurer. Party rules specify that either the chairman or vice chairman must 'be a woman. Recent changes in state party organization rules include: 1) Proxies will not be honored. 2) Both the precinct chairman and vice-chairman are exofficio members of the county executive committee. (Formerly only the i chairman was a member of the |county committee.) 3) Election officials (regis tras and judges) are ineligible for precinct committee member ship. 'Kings Mountain area precinct committees and their members are: Bethware — (to meet Saturday at Bethware school) — Cameron Ware, chairman, Willard Boyles, vice-chairman, H. A. Goforth, J. D. Jones, and Lonnie Butler. East Kings Mountain (meets Saturday at City Hall — J. Ollie Harris, Chairman, Mrs. J. E. Lip ford, vice-chairman, Leon ard Smith, S. A. Crouse and Otis Falls, Jr. Grover (to meet at Grover Town Hall) — J. B. Ellis, chair man, Mrs. Lois Gold, vice-chair man, Ed Bolin, Gene Putnam, and Bob Hamibright. West Kings Mountain (to meet at City Hall) — Hugh D. De mand, Chairman, Mrs. J. H. Ar thur, vice-chairman, Mrs. F. A. McDaniel, Jr.( Wilson Crawford and Martin Harmon. Mrs. Mauney’s Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Bessie Frantz Mauney, of Asheville, sis ter-in-law of Mrs. E. C. Cooper and W. K. Mauney, Sr., of Kings Mountain,, were held Sunday at 1:30 p. m. from Grace Lutheran Church of Hendersonville, grave side sendee and ■' -ment fol lowing in Mountain. Rest ceme te-v her". Mrs. Maine”, widow of Rev. John Dav'd Mnne-r, died Friday rooming after c.i illness of sev eral years. A native of Salem, Va., she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Petty Frantr. Surviving are three sons, Dr. J. Luther Mauney of Roanoke, Va., Rev. J. B. Mauney, Jr., of Fayetteville and Rev. Marshall F. Mauney of Columbia, S. C., and four daughters, Mrs. Ben G. Brown of Charlotte, Mrs. Den nis C. Blythe of Hendersonville, Miss Mary Vera Mauney and Miss Margaret L. Mauney, both of Asheville. A brother. J. Luth er Frantz of Ooral Gables, Fla, 13 grandchildren and three great grandchildren also survive.
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