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Population Greater Kings Mountain .10,320 City Limits 8,008 TMt flgm tot OnoM* Bagt MimnUilii If doitvod few Ow IKS Bag, ManKlf city dinetarr MM. IK flrj Omit* flfan It CraM tht uidtM ttatw mm at 1M0. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper 1 tx VOL 73 No. 19 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. CM Thursday, May 10, 1962 Seventy-Third Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS Shannon To Begin Production Soon Local News Bulletins LODGE MEETING There will be a regular com munication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM Monday night, May 14th, at 7:30 p. m. at Ma sonic Hall, Secretary T. D. Tin dall has announced. TWO FIRES ( City firemen were called to Cherryville road Sunday ait 9:00 p. m. to douse a brush blaze. A Tuesday call at 11:30 ■ a. m. was to extinguish a fire in an automobile on Cansler ' Street. No property damage was listed. COURT POSTPONED Kings Mountain Recorder’s Court will not be held Mon day ip the absence of Court Clerk Earl Sfcroupe. LEGION DANCE Otis D. Green Post 155, A merican Legion, has booked Dick Basse’s Knights of Music for a return engagement for May 26, Carl Wiesener announ ced this week. -Ls— ^Politics Quiet As Election Nears (Political activity continued at an apparent slow pace during the past weeks 'in spite of Demo cratic precinct meetings, open re gistration 'books and proximity of voting day on May 26, just slightly over two weeks distant. There are two primaries this year, both Republicans and De mocrat, but, in Cleveland County, neither party has a great num ber of contests. Indeed, the Republicans will go to the polls to help settle only one matter, Whether Claude L. Green, Jr., or Charles H. Babcock will contest U. S. Senator Sam Ervin, Miorganton Democrat, in Novem ber. The Democrats have four coun ty-wide matters to settle, with IQngs Mountain citizens partici pating in two of them. Craig D. Falls, York Road gro cer, is Challenging J. W. Osborne 4or nomination as clerk of Su perior Court. rawley B. Cash and Joe F. two Shelby attorneys, seek eed Judge Ruebe-n Elam Pjudge of county recorder’s court. ■Norris (Dick) Dackey and Lyndon L. Hobbs, also Shelby attorneys, seek to succeed Solici tor Bynum Weathers. Seven candidates seek the five nominations to the county board of educatian.Challenging five Incumbents are Edwin Moore, Kings Mountain, Buford Cline, whose wife operates Cline’s Res taurant here, Charles D. Forney, Jr„ Walter Davis and J. D. Ellis. There are no contests for town ship offices in Number 4 town ship Mrs. Nickels Is Retiring Mrs. J. C. Nickels, for 34 years principal of Park Grace school, 5# retiring ait the end of the cur rent year school term. Mrs. Nickels’ letter of intention to retire was read to the board of education at a special session Monday afternoon. The board elected for the com l!r Ing year Miss (Alice Averitte. ling supervisor in the school and other principals, are Harry Jaynes, Kings tain high school, L. L. A Compact school, I. Ben th, Jr., West elementary .... Robert M. Kennedy, East lentary school, Howard Bry North elementary school, 3& Scnjggs, Grover elemen sehool, R. G. Franklin, Beth elementary school, and Allison, Davidson elera schooL . -. New Industrial Finn To Make Knit Fabrics 'Production is expected to start on a double knit wool jersey pro duct at the new Shannon knitting mill within the next week or ten days. The modern new 16,000 square foot plant of Shannon limited, Inc., has been completed at a cost of $130,000. It is fully air conditioned and sprinklered. Some 20 knitting machines im ported from Germany are being installed toy trained personnel and the plant expects eventually to employ some 60 persons, some of whom will receive training in a program 'being set up by the Gastonia Industrial Education center. The plans call for the produc tion and finishing of a new style fabric which will bear the label of “Shannon Limited” and which will be an innovation in the knitting trade in this area. This is a double knit fabric Which is now very popular in Europe. A bout 50 percent of this cloth used in the United States is now imported. Sandor Tezzler, who is presi dent and treasurer of the new company says that the entire knitting industry is expecting a tremendous growth in this field. He said he believes that the ma terial is superior to any knit ting fabric in the past that it ■will 'be used more and more as a substitute for woven fabric, and further that it is the first cloth to be produced in the knit ting industry that is truly compet itive to woven goods, as it has the great advantage that it will not shrink and that it always retains its shape. The double knit cloth is used for making ladies’ dresses, for sportswear and Children’s wear. Mr. Tezzler said that Kings (Mountain was selected as the site for his new plant because of its proximity to spinning mills and dye plants in this area. The Kings Mountain Business Devel opment, Inc., obtained the seven acre tract in the northeast sec tion of the city from W. A. Wil liams for Mr. Tezzler. The plant was 'built by Roy Barnes of Gas tonia. New BSA Troop Being Organized A new Kings Mountain area Boy Scout troop is being formed under sponsorship of the Beth ware Progressive club, with a charter meeting to be held at Bethware school Tuesday night. Announcement of the meeting was made by Willard Boyles, chairman of the troop committee, who said he anticipates an in itial enrollment of about 25 boys. He said work toward organi zing a troop had been underway Other members of the troop for the past several months, committee are Cameron Ware, Jim Yarboro, Johnny O. Patter son, and Hal Morris. Prank Ham rick is institutional representa tive. Nolan, Newton Aie Contesting Foi Part; Post The biennial Cleveland County Democratic convention will be held at the county courthouse in S'helby, beginning at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Over-shadowing the convention itself, for which program details haven't been announced, is a contest for the party chairman ship between J. Clint Newton, division highway commissioner, and Clyde Nolan, former party chairman and North Carolina Se nator. Though he hasn’t made formal announcement, Chairman Virgil Weathers is reported not a candi date to succeed himself in the po sition to which he was elected two years ago. The party chairman is chosen by the executive committee, ex panded this year by new state party rules, which make both the Chairman and vice-chairman of each precinct ex officio members of the executive committee. For merly, only the precinct chair man were ex officio members, While other members were the chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary - treasurer of the coun ty organization. Mrs. J. E. Lipford, of Kings Mountain, is county vice-chair man, a position she has held since 1954. Observers close to the scene Wednesday were labeling Mr. Newton the favorite to succeed to the chairmanship. Howeever, Mr. Nolan was reported waging an active campaign in seeking the votes of the precinct repre sentatives on the county exeeu: tive body. Customary business oif the con vention includes recognition of candidates for Democratic nam inations and elected officials, at tacks on the Republican opposi tion, and election of delegates to the party’s state convention in Raleigh. Bridges Elected Lions President Jonas Bridges, general mana ger of Radio Statior WKMT, has been elected president of the Kings (Mountain (Lions club for 1962-63. Mr. Bridges, currently the club’s first vice-president, will succeed Martin Harmon in June. Other officers elected Tuesday night are: Odus Smith, first vice-presi dent; Wesley Bush, second vice president; C. P. Barry, third vice-president; Harry Jaynes, secretary; J. M. McGinnis, treas urer; Clyde Bridges Lion tamer; and Richard Barnette, tail twis Elected directors for two-year terms are Jack Hauser, J. T. McGinnis, Jr., and Joe McDaniel, Jr. Directors with one-year terms remaining are Dr. George W. Plonk. William Lawrence Plonk, and Howard Bryant. The club unanimously elected the nominations of the nominat ing committee, which included three past presidents, George Thomas son, chairman, Edwin Moore and Eugene Timms. OPTIMISTS MEET The Optimist Club of Kings Mountain will meet in regular weekly session Thursday at 7:00 p. m. at Cline’s Restaurant on Shelby road. Pledges Rain, Bible-In-Schools Program Apparently Is Assured The Bi ble-in - the-schools pro gram is assured for the 1962-63 school year, Dr. Paul K. Aa ley, chairman of ithe governing Min isterial Association committee, said Wednesday. Dr. Ausley reported response to his plea last week for support of the program was very good, pledges to the fund climbing from some $1600 to $4300 this week. The budget calls for expendi tures of $4,691 in teaching Bible in the citv schools system. JThe $4300 We have in hand j in pledges is not sufficient to I support the program, however, a number of churches still haven’t ! reported pledges to the commit j tee. I feel their pledges will send ; us over the top,” Dr. Ausley said. 1 The Bible program in Kings j Mountain schools this year tra veled a rocky road, the com mittee running short of funds in 1 ianuary The planned budget for the 1961-62 (term got out of kilter with the statewide hike in school teachers’ salaries. The Bible tea cher also, through summer school work, upgraded her tea ching certificate. The Bible committee, after the experience, felt It not wise to continue the program on a hap hazard basis and ruled that, un less completely underwritten be forehand by pledges, teaching of Bible in the schools of Kings Mountain would halt Deadline for pledges was May 7. “We are grateful for the res ponse of Kings Mountain and area churches to our plea and are well pleased with the re sult" Dr. Ausley said. “We are certainly happy that the 23 year traditon of having Bible taught in our public schools here can ARP’s To Occupy Building Sunday Rist Services Will Be Held In New Edifice Boyce Memorial S formed Presbytermu ^ 3g on Edgemont Drive for Sunday services The ^urch ^ ^conven^ tag, since vacatong King plaht atihe^ ayenue last be be held, wiui o ,the morn ginning a ^ j being held at s?r£%sr«evenins ser‘ vice at 7'.30. The mode™ »*» S rS »est side ot Ed8e mortt avenue. The educational first structure in plant, plan ,or a b“a’“ »J®‘S pastor’s Tody, church otnce, f ed hitch choir room, wel ^ £P17 class en and nursery, ana ifooms. Walls ofthe main painted j floor -bw «fS?eA With green- Futile Draperies are matching tile. and fUr Plan.n^ ft* ^jThmughout. niSSgLs1mblyWhall is air-con ditioned. When landscaping is J°™Pild. I SfnVSutmentwill approxi-i mite $170,000. 1 A special service ^^'tfmal; ignS ofThe building and op-: Rearchitect is J- U Beam, Jr.. of Cherryville- —.—_ lions Selling Biooms For Blind the blind Tu^ay g offering for Club members are houschold sale a high ^ large, heavy broom at $l-bO. for $2 or industrial broom $22 Per is broom W. D. , BUW other mem sale chairman, w Odus gS.h°’wSey S W- - “The sale ^ phased the good start. W ®eturn basis and brooms on a no u.out.'* anticipate a quick se^c^ds are He notedi that « e P blindness ?nddto £Sp the visually defici ent. Legionnaires Elect Rhea _ „ /-7i«0 ■Rhea. K J. E. (Z* "X*£3£ Ke tain builder and m«n^r city otls D. Green Post commander of tn post bal 155, America Legion, tr' loting last Friday. Morrl He^ will succeed^ are instal son when new officer* a led in June. elected were: Other officer®. vice-com second vice mander, Jay McDaniel, Jr., commander- Joe Ware histor adjutant; Franklmwa ^ offi. oer’- andR W- Gladden, chap mittee v^re<>r^Dan,el, GUie Dilling- ®nK* a Frank Blanton. Harris. Sr. ahd commander Stole Medical G«°"P Elect* president-elect of ss,oa. m-**1"1 “■ organlz***' Sms WINNER - Linda Falls, East school fifth grader, is winner of the annual reading contest in the seven schools of the district. Linda Falls Wins Contest Linda Falls, fifth grader at East school and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Falls, Jr., has won the Kings Mountain school dis trict reading contest* Title of her reading was “Bro therly Love." Finals in the reading compe tition were held April 26 at Gro ver school with seven contestants from West, Central, East, Gra ver, Betbware, North, and Park Grace schools participating. Miss Falls will receive the an nual Baker reading medal in school finals. Democrats Hold Meetings One new chairman and several new committeemen were elected at township Dmocratie precinct meetings on Saturday. At Bethware, Willard Boyles was escalated to the chairman ship of this precinct, while form er Chairman Cameron Ware, an Officer of the county Young De mocrats, remained on the com mittee as secretary - treasurer. Mrs. H. A. Goforth was elected vice-chairman, and other mem bers are J. D. Jones and Clyde Short. Retiring from the commit tee are H. A. Goforth and Lonnie Butler. At Grover, J. B. Ellis was re elected chairman and Mrs. Lois Gold vice-chairman, with Bob Hamlbright being re-elected. A. B. Davis and Mrs. James Scruggs were elected to suceed Ed Bolin and Gene Putnam. West Kings Mountain re-elect ed Hugh D. Ormand chairman, elected Mrs. F. A. (Pete) McDan iel, Jr., Vice-chairman, re-elected Wilson Crawford and Martin Harmon and named Mrs. Eugene Timms to succeed Mrs. Arthur. East Kings Mountain re-elected all members, J. Ollie Harris, chairman, Mrs. J. E. Lip ford, vice-chairman, S. A. Crouse, Leon ard Smith and Otis Falls, Jr., Replacement of H. A. Goforth at BethWare and Mrs. Arthur in West Kings Mountain was dictat-' ed 'by change in state organisa tion rules which specify that e lection officials cannot be mem bers of precinct committees. However, East and West Kings Mountain committees convened jointly before separate organiza tional meetings, and heard J. Oilie Harris outhne the business at hand, call attention to the for thcoming county and state con ventions, and list the candidates for county-wide offices. He noted there are no township contests for party nominations. Mr. Harris noted the change' in counties in the tenth Congres sional district and declared the1 increased Republican strength in | the district would mean heavier i work at hand for Democrats in November. KIWANIS CLUB Bill Kinnard of Charlotte, a rea supervisor for Western E leetric, will present a magic show at Thursday’s meeting of the Ktwanis club. The civic dub convenes at 6r45 p. m. at Use Woman’s club. Officials Seek Firm Prices On Five Sites School officials have been busy this week, since arrival Saturday of a report 'by a state survey team rating possible school sites, to get firm prices on the five sites under consideration. 'Neither Fred W. Plonk, chair man of the board of education, nor Superintendent B. N. Barnes could be contacted late Wednes day afternoon. (Mr. Barnes was in Cullowhee for an educational conference. However, the several asking prices known and previ ously reported on the five sites are: 1) The Goforth-Plonk tract west of the city limits, about $90,000, exclusive of several lots possibly desired in addition to the acreage of Marvin Goforth, (28 acres at $1500, 16 at $1000) and C. S. Plonk-J. O. Plonk Es tate (about 32 acres at $1000 per acre.) 2) The York Road site, about 67 acres, partially owned by Mr. and Mrs. George Houser (30 to 35 acres), Neisler Brothers and Aulbrey Mauney (about 32 acres). The Housers have quoted the board of education a price of $1250 per acre, Mrs. Houser said. 3) The Neisler tract at the cor ner of Fulton and Phifer roads, up to 60 acres available, at $500 per acre, total $30,000. 4) The El Bethel site, owned by Hill Lowery, H. A. Goforth, and others, indicated price $500 per acre. 5) The Phifer-Neisler tract on the west side of Phifer road, a bout 73 acres, under option to the school board at $500 per acre, with the Neisler portion of 20-22 acres proffered as a gift. Total cost $25,000 to $26,000. Registration Six Saturday Registration books for the May 26 party primaries will will close Saturday at 3 o’clock. Meantime, registration activity continued to be negligible last week, as only six new voters were listed in the four precincts of Number 4 Township. These are the reports of reg istrars: Mrs. Nell C. Cranford, East Kings Mountain, registered two Democrats and two Republicans and received one Democrat by transfer. Mrs. J. H. Arthur, West Kings Mountain, registered two Demo crats. Mrs. J. D. Jones, Bethware, transferred one Democrat to East Kings Mountain. Mrs. J. B. Ellis, Grover, re ported no registration activity. Registrars feel that Saturday’s final day of registration should be more brisk. They note that numerous citizens have moved into the county and township since the books were last open in October 1960 and that many have become 21 years of age since that time. A person who will be 21 by the general election in November is eligible to register for the pri maries. The registrars will be at the polling places from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Saturday, May 19, will be chal lenge day. WINS CONTEST - Sandy Camp bell has won the annual essay contest for freshmen students at the University of Tennessee. Campbell Wins Essay Contest Sandy Campbell, Kings Moun tain freshman at the University of Tennessee, has won first place in essay writing for freshman students. A political science major, he is the son of Mr. and Mi's. H. L. Campbell of Kings Mountain. The Student Government As sociation gives a casih award to the freshman student each year who writes the trest essay based on the winter quarter student forum lecture by Dr. Albert Bur ke. The essays were judged by the forum committee and Dr. Percy Adams, professor of Eng lish. Mr. Campbell was recognized on Tuesday evening at a lecture given by Lowell Thomas, Jr'., at the university. Bethware Party For GOT Tuesday Carroll M. Barringer, Republi can candidate for United States Congress in the new tenth dis trict, will speak at a covered dish supper at Bethware school Tues day night. Supper will be served at 7 o’clock. Bob Maner, GOP chairman of West Kings Mountain precinct, said all area Republicans are in vited to the party, which he de scribed as a family affair. “Bring the children, too,” he said. Mr. Barringer, currently a Ca tawba county commissioner, lives in Conover. He opposes Congress man Basil L. Whitener, of Gas tonia, in the November general election. Mrs. Gault's Rites Conducted Final rites for Mrs. Johnnie Homesley Gault, 33, wife Wil burn (Bill) Gault, were held Monday at 4 p. m. from First Baptist church, of Which she was a member. Mrs. Gault died Saturday at 10 p. m. in the local hospital fol lowing an illness of several mon ths. She was a native of Cherry ville, daughter of Mr. and Mins. Durant Homesley. She was a gra duate of Cherryville high school, (Continued On Page Eight) School Reports Indicate Board Dreams Of Stadium. Junior High By MARTIN HARMON Formal reports of the North Carolina Department of Instruc tion planning division team and of Architects Associated on site preferences for the new district high school plant indicate two previously unannounced inten tions of the board of education: 1) In the future, when demand requires, a junior high school would be built nearby on the same site. 2) Plans call for the building of a stadium in connection with: the school plant, in the near or I distant future. The junior high school futur-j istic idea had been mentioned informally, but the board of ed ucation declined to reply to a; query by the City Stadium ad-| visory committee on stadium plans in connection with the new plant. While the Junior high school possibility is years away, the stadium matter likely will de pend on 1) whether funds are a vailable after bids are let for the basic school building, and 2) on whether expenditure of theee (Continued On Pmfd JBiffMJ EVANGELIST -• Rev. B. C. Kist ler of Hendersonville, will be speaker for evangelistic services beginning Sunday and continu ing through May 20th at First Wesleyan Methodist church. Ser vices are at 7 p. m. nightly, the garter. Rev. |. W. MtflHps. has State Team, Architects Make Reports By MARTIN HARMON The Goforth-Plonk property west of the city limits and north of U. S. Highway 74 is the most favored site for the now high school plant by 1) a committee of the Division of School Planning, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and 2) Archi tects Associated, the architeetu al firm retained to plan and su perintend building of the new plant. The board of education con sidered ithe reports Monday af ternoon without action. The state team rates four oth er sites in this order: 1) The Houser-Neisler-Mauney property, lying on the east side of York road and partially with the city limits. 2) The El Bethel area property owned by H. A. Goforth, Hill Lo wery, and others. 3) The Neisler tract at the southeast corner of Fulton and Phifer road. 4) The Phifer-Neisler tract on the south side of Phifer road. Architects Associated rates the Noisier tract second, the Phifer Neisler tract third, the York road property fourth, and the B1 Be thel property fifth. The report, written by T. W. Cothran, a member of the firm, is more de TEXTS OF REPORTS Full texts of the two reports on schorl sites under consider ation for a new area high school are published on Page 8, this section. tailed than the report of the state team. The architects rate the York road property as cheap est of all sites to develope, down grade it for a school site due to its location in the easternmost side of the district. The El Bethel site is down graded ’because of lack of water and sewage disposal facilities (estimated to cost $25,000 at this location) and estimate that cost of transporting pupil’s to school would 'be treble that to the other sites. Principal Objection of the ar chitects to the Neisler tract is lack of adequate highway ap proaches. The architects estimate that the total cost of a completed high school plant at the first pre ference Goforth-Plonk site would approximate that of a completed plant at any of the other sites. with exceptional advantage in pupil transportation and availa bility of most city utilities. The Phifer-Neisler site is rated most difficult of developing sat isfactorily, due to topography, rock out-cropping and streams. The state team, which included W. L. Latham, educational con sultant, L. S. Thomson, engineer, and Marvin R. A. Johnson, de sign consultant, did not comment specifically on each site, said none of the sites is ideal from all the factors considered, and listed these factors as used in t'he com mittee’s determinations: Centrally located, if possible, for present and future. 'Removed from sources of ob jectionable noise, fumes, odors. Free of serious hazards to pu pils, staff, and visitors. Accessible 'by means of the nor mal means of transportation. Adequate in size for present and future needs. Well drained, not too level, not too steep. Topographically varied, if pos sible. Devoid of extreme outcroppings of rock. Attractive, with trees and oth er plant life. Endowed with good soil capa ble of producing good turf. Convenient to water supply, sewage disposal, utilities. Moderate in cost — but quality is more important than low cost. Free from easement rights and other encumbrances whidh limit freedom of planning and develop ment. Action On Compact Name Fs Deferred The board of education has deferred action on changing the name of Compact school. At a sneeial session Monday, the board voted to defer ac tion “tor further study". It was no.eii that a name chan ge at the present date would make senior class rings and graduation diplomas incorrect. There are several wings of thought among Negro school patrons on the name of the school. Some prefer to retain the name Compact, others ask the name be changed to Com pact- Davidson, and still oth ers have stated a preference far a completely new name.
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