YOL 73 No. 22
Established 1889
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 31, 1962
Seventy-Third Year
Today
Population
Greater Kings Mountain
City Limits
10,320
8,008
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Area Candidates
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Local News
Bulletins
OPTIMISTS MEET
Members of the Optimist
Club of Kings Mountain will
meet in regular weekly session
Thursday at 7:00 p. m. at the
Cottonwood Restaurant on
Highway 29.
JAYCEES MEET
Myers Hambiight, vocational
agriculture instructor at Kings
Mountain High School, will
discuss the city school sys
tem’s vocational education pro
gram before members of Kings
Mountain Junior Chamber of
Commerce as the group meets
in regular session Tuesday at
7:00 p. m. at the Woman’s
Club.
AT CONVENTION
Mrs. Iva Lovelace and Miss
Libby Camp have returned
from Greensboro where they
attended the -gyee-jjay 19th
annual convention of North
Carolina Insurance Women.
Mrs. Lovelace is president of
the Gastonia Association of In
surance Women and Miss
Camp is state historian.
TO INSTALL OFFICERS
Officers of Otis D. Green
Post 155 of American Legion
will be installed at the regu
lar meeting Thursday at 8:00
p. m. at the American Legion
hail.
KIWANIS CLUB
Cleveland County Sheriff
Haywood Allen will address
Kings Mountain Kiwanians at
their Thursday meeting at
6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s
Club.
CLASS REUNION
The 1951 high school gradu
ating class of Grover high
school will gather for a class
reunion and picnic Saturday ait
Lake Crawford. Picnic supper
will be spread at 6:30 p. m.
OMITTED
The name of Robert Whisnant
was inadvertantly omitted
from last week's list of gradu
ates of Kings Mountain high
school. Mr. Whisnant is among
103 seniors who received dip
lomas Wednesday night
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Hobart Dye was discharged
Sunday from Charlotte Mem
orial hospital where he had
undergone surgery. He is re
ported improving satisfactori
ly.
GOSPEL SING
A gospel sing, featuring mu
sic by the Southern Quartet of
Greenville, S. C. and singers
from Kings Mountain, will be
held at the Church of God on
Parker street Sunday begin
ning at 2 p. m. The interested
public is invited.
Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Somers
Funeral services lor Mrs. Noah
H. Somers, 70-year-old resident
of Buffalo Street, Statesville,
were conducted Sunday at 3:30
p. m. from the First ARP church
In Statesville.
Mirs. Somers died Friday after
noon at a Statesville Hospital.
She is the mother of Mrs. N. M.
Farr, of Kings Mountain.
Mrs. Somers is survived by three
other daughters, Mrs. Jay Ken
nedy, of Mooresvilie; Mrs. Aliene
Leagon, of Newton; and Mrs.
Jean Davis, erf Monroe; and two
slaters, Mrs. R. F. Reeves and
Mis.- Clarence Maore, tooth^of
Statesville.
Kings Mountain area fared
poorly in Saturday’s Democratic
primary, as Edwin Moore, ten
year veteran on the county board
of education, was defeated for
re-nomination and Craig D. Falls
was trounced soundly by Incum
bent Clerk of Superior Court J.
W. Osborne.
It was a light vote, only slight
ly more than 5,000 persons going
to the polls for both the Demo
cratic and Republican primary
voting.
Nominated for the board of
education were four incumbents,
Chairman Walter Davis, J. D. El
lis, C. D. Forney, Jr., and Buford
Cline, and Newcomer Bobby
Gene Austell. Joe Mull defeated
Crawley B. Cash for judge of re
corder’s court, and Dick Lackey
defeated Lyndon Hobbs for solici
tor.
o The official canvas of the
'board of elections on Tuesday
showed these totals:
For Clerk of Superior Court —
Osborne 4171, Falls 946.
For Judge of Recorder’s Court
— Mull 3461, Cash 1622.
For Solicitor of Recorder’s
Court — Lackey 3529, Hobbs
1429.
The school board tally was —
Forney 3597, Cline 3515, Ellis
3408, Davis 3296, Austell 3160,
Moore 2970, and Charles Elliott
2472.
In the GOP primary for the
United States Senate nomination.
Cleveland Republicans gave
Charles H. Babcock 50 votes, and
Claude Greene, Jr., 44 votes.
Number 4 Township cast only
461 votes in both primaries.
Falls carried both Kings Moun
tain precincts, but lost the Beth
ware and Grover boxes. It was
virtually the same story for
Moore, though he edged Charles
Elliott by two votes for sixth
spot in the school board voting
at Grover. However, Moore’s
leading vote in the two Kings
Mountain predicts made him
the township leader of the seven
candidates.
The township GOP vote gave
Greene a 11 to 9 margin over
Babcock, with one vote marked
for both and therefore void,
while there were two GOP write
in’s for Bob Maner, GOP school
board nominee, for this position.
In the township precincts the
first voters of the day were J. K.
Willis. Arthur Allen, J. D. Jones
and Walter Turner. The “back
breakers” who beat the 6:30 p.
m., closing hour were L. A. Hoke,
O. W. Myers. Mrs. Ethel Spang
ler and Carl Cock.
Union Services
To Begin Sunday
Sunday night’s union service
at Resurrection Lutheran chur
ch will launch the summer seri
es of services.
Rev. George Moore will deliv
er the evening message at 8 o’
clock on the theme, “God Wants
You!” Special music will be fea
tured.
The Kings Mountain Minister
ial Association is sponsoring the
summer services, with each min
ister to speak from Ms own pul
pit. Offerings will benefit the
Bible-In-Schools program.
Seven Kings Mountain church
es are participating. Next week’s
service will be held at St. Mat
thew’s Lutheran church with Dr.
W. P. Gertoerding to deliver the
message. The June 17th service
will be held at First Presbyteri
an church with Dr. Paul Ausley
to deliver the sermon and the
June 24th service will be held at
Kings Mountain Baptist church
with Rev. Marion DuBose to lead
the service.
Mary Leigh Mauney
Wins Piano Award
Mary Leigh Mauney, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney,
Jr., won second award of piano
pupils of Mrs. Hilda Kruetzer, of
Gastonia, for scoring excellent
during 27 lessons during the past
year. .
The award was presented at
Mrs. Kruetzers Tuesday night
recital, when the Kings Mountain
pupfl plaved Chopin’s “Polonaise
in G Minor’ and Wortley’s "Eng
lish Countryside”.
ghe toad previously won a su
perior rating in the auditions of
•the National Gufld etf Ptattw Tea
chers.
OPEN AIR MARKET -- Pictured at top is the
remainder of Charles Blalock's Supermarket on
Shelby Road after a wind storm Sunday night
in which the building collapsed. Lower left is
one of several limbs and/or trees blown into
electric lines. Lower right Bob Ramsey, man
ager of City Paint Store, mops up damage done
to his store window during the high winds
which reached tomadic force. Damage done by
the storm has been speculated at near a half
million dollars.
(Herald Photos by Claire Gilstad)
Property LossHeavy Sunday
As Tornado Strike In Area
Plonks Offer
School Board
$5,000 Gift
C. S. Plonk and the J. O. Plonk
Estate, joint owners of a portion
of the major portion of the prop
erty known as the Goforth-Plonk
school site, have informed the
board of education they will
rnake a contribution of five ac
res, should this site be chosen.
The school board has indicat
ed it will require about 26 acres
of Plonk lands, which had been
quoted at $1,000 per acre, making
the proffered donation equiva
lent to $5,000.
Marvin Goforth, owner of the
major portion of the tract, had
previously said he would make a
gift making his estimated 44 ac
re tract average $1,000 per acre.
The proffer amounts to a gift of
from $12,000 to $14,000.
Gifts have been proffered also
on the York Road site. Mrs. Geor
ge Houser, who quoted 32 acres
at $1250 per acre, informed the
board she would give eight addi
tional acres equivalent to a $10,
000 gift, while Aubrey Mauney,
owner of a minimum of ten acres,
quoted at $10,000, said he would
make a gift of an amount meet
ing the same percentage of oth
er owners of this site. Also own
ing tracts needed in this site are
Rayrranond Cline, who offered
hfis acreage at $800 and Mrs. C.
E. Neisler, Sr., who offered her
tract at $1250.
Gift# have been proffered on
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DELEGATE — Aubrey Mouney
will be a delegate-at-large to the
constituting convention o 1 Luth
eran Church in America at De
troit in June.
Mauney Delegate
To Convention j
NEW YORK — The Executive
Board of the United Lutheran
Church in recent meeting elected
Aubrey Mauney of Kings Moun
tain, as one of the special dele
gates to the Constituting Con-;
ventSon of tire Lutheran Church
in America in Detroit, June 30 to;
July 1. 4 1 ■' ’ : .
At this convention four Luth
eran bodies will merge to make
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Blalock Finn
Neai Leveled;
Othei Damages
A tornado swooped into the
Kings Mountain area about 8:15
Sunday night and wreaked ha
voc which could total, some have
estimated, a half-million dollars
or more.
A grocery was leveled, roofs
were upended, trees felled, bams
destroyed and other damages
suffered -- but, miraculously,
there was a paucity of reports of
personal injury. Firemen also
counted it a miracle no fires re
sulted from the storm. which
knocked out the electrical sys
tem of bo;h in-town and out-of
town areas.
Eye-witnesses to the appear
ance of the tornado, some here
and some from distant points,
reoorted the skies showed varied
colors, from green, to orange and
red. Heavy rain and golf-ball si
zed hail accompanied the torna
do.
Insurance agents here said
there would never be an actual
totaj on the damages, partially
due to fact that Insurance is
written with a $50 deductible
clause 6n wind damage and tele
vision aerials, many of them ei
ther blown over or canted, aren't
covered at ail. There would have
teen tJo.TH- damages without in
surance coverage, they reason.
Major damage was done .to,
Blalock's Park-Inn, virtually lev
eled by the storm, and estimated
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Drilling Of Sites
Deferred Pending
Utilities Report
By MARTIN HARMON
Four members of the 'board of!
education, Dr. F. G. Padgett;
not being present, considered,
Wednesday afternoon a consult-'
ing geologist’s preliminary re
port on grading costs of three
school sites, then agreed to de
fer actual drilling of the sites
pending receipt of a report by
city engineers on availability of
dity water and sewage service.
Representatives of the board
of education met with members
of the city commission at a call
ed city session Tuesday, and the
city commission authorized an
engineering study by W. K. Dick
son & Company, Charlotte engi
neers, to determine whether sew
age and water servise would be
available to the several sites.
Commissioners Ray Cline, Ben
H. Bridges and J. E. Rhea were
present for the meeting and said
they did not know whether sew
age service would be available,
due to possible overloads of dis
posal facilities, particularly at
the Phifer Road and Goforth
Plonk properties. They felt water
service would be available at
each site, but ordered the study
to include this phase, too.
By implication, the city com
mission enunciated a policy on
serving school sites, which it has
followed for some years. The
city would provide all city servi
ces to a school huilt within the
city limits, hut would carry utili
ty lines needed at other sites on
ly to the city limits. It was indi
cated differentials would be char
ged the schools for water and
sewage to sites outside the city.
At Wednesday afternoon’s
board of-education meeting. Hol
mes Harry,who initiated the ac
tion to retain the geologist (Earl
C. Van Horn, of IMurphy), sug
gested the city engineering re
ports might make pursuing the
geological work further unneces
sary, or partially unnecessary.
Chairman Fred W. Plonk had
in'formed the members that Mr.
Van Horn’s fee Is $75 per diem,
plus expenses, and that equip
ment and crews would have to
be retained in addition at consid
erable cost.
He also explained that Mr. Van
Horn had said he would not be
able to initiate the drilling work
prior to Tuesday and that he did
not estimate the length of time
the work would require.
Dog Quarantine
To Begin Friday
A 15-day dog quarantine in
Kings Mountain will begin Fri
day, it was announced jointly by
Mayor Kelly Dixon and Carver
Blanton, county dog warden.
The law requires that all dogs
be confined during the period of
quarantine.
Warden Blanton said, "Any
dog running loose can be killed
by any peace officer, policeman,
or deputy sheriff. We‘re after
strays."
He also pointed out that fail
ure of a dog owner to have his
dog vaccinated against rabies
and to keep a collar on his dog
is a misdemeanor.
Mr. Blanton urged all dog own-'
ers to keep their pets confined
during the quarantine period
starting Friday and ending Junei
15.
MEDAL WINNERS - Jan Will
iams. top. won the Plonk scho
larship medal and Sara Rose
Oennon won the Kiwanis citizen
ship award in school iinals Wed
lesday.
School Awards
Are Presented
Jan Williams, high school
freshman, won the coveted Plonk
scholarship menial and Sara Rose
Lennon, senior, won the Kiwanis
citizenship award in school fi
nals Wednesday.
The top awards were among a
number of honors accorded
Kings Mountain high school stu
dents. i
Eight seniors are recipients of
college scholarships, including
Carol Jean Goter to Duke Uni
versity; Kay Broadwater to Ag
nes Scott; Sara Rose Lennon to
Hollings; Jane Houser, Dianne
McDaniel, Gale Morrison and
Jean Harlowe to Western Caroli
na and Linda Bennett to Presby
terian Hospital School of Hist
ology at Charlotte.
Miss Williams, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. O. Williams, aiso won
the F. R. Summers spelling me
dal. Miss Lennon is daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Lennon.
Carol Jean Goter, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Goter, won
the Bausch and Lomb honorary
science award in chemistry and
the John Philip Sousa band a
ward given in memory of Billy
Shuford. The Billy Shuford sci
ence award went to Ken Bunko
W’ski.
The Danforth award went to
Bill Ramisexir and Dianne Mc
Daniel.
Other awards were: the DAR
citizenship award to Judy Wat
terson; the Betty Crocker home
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103 Kings Mountain High School
Seniors Were Receiving Diplomas
mngs Mountain nigh senooi a
warded diplomas to 103 seniors
in commencement exercises Wed
nesday night.
The high school graduation
program was given by the sen
iors themselves who presented
the theme, “Building for the Fu
ture.” Betty Morrison emphasiz
ed character, Carol Goter pointed
out the necessity of education in
future growth, and Claire Gil
stad Talked on freedom. A senior
ensemble, under direction of Mrs.
J. N. McClure sang Russell's
"The Halls Of Ivey” and Cad -
man’s “The Builder.'
Ernest Payne. Jr., introduced
the program after Bill Ramseur
said the invocation. Kay Broad-j
water pronounced the benedict
ion and the class gift to the
school was presented by Gale
Morrison.
Principal Harry Jaynes presen
ted the candidates for gradua
tion and awarded diplomas to
die 103 members of the graduat
ing class. -
Commencement marshals were
Sara Hendricks and'Petie Lynn,
po-dbefs, and Jackie Hughes,
Fame Howard, Ann Cooper, Faui
Smith, Robert Plonk, and Gary
Collins.
Dr. Paul Ausley, who deliver
ed the baccalaureate sHcygpn on
Sunday, used the theme. “Can
You Be Sure?" as he ca!led on the
graduates to "revaluate” the
things of life. Life, he said, is
the real teacher. Education com
es only through training, think
ing and experience. The central
idea which dominates our think
ing in this day and age is: “Can
one be sure of what he’s doing?’’
We need to revaluate a great ma
ny things in this year 1962.’’
Senior sponsors are Mrs. Carl
Finger, Miss He’en Logan, Miss
Lillian Quinn and Mrs. Josephi
ne E. Weir. The class colors are
blue and white, the class flower
is a white rose, the class motto
is, “Not merely to exist but to
succeed.” Glass of ’62 officers are
Henry’ Raines, president; Tommy
Barrett, vicepresident; David
IJardin, secretary” and Sara Rose
Lennon, Dot tie Gibbons, and Ju
dy Watterson and Sandra Plonk,
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Phifei Site Said
Most Expensive
By Consultant
By MARTIN HARMON
Consulting Geologist Earl C,
Van Horn, of Murphy, in a pre
liminary survey conducted last
Friday, rates grading costs ot
three possible school sites cheap
est for the York Road site, sec
ond cheapest for the Goforth -
Plonk site, and most expensive
for the Phifer Road site.
In his summary he wrote:
“It is my opinion that of the
three sites examined, the York
Road site is the most suitable
and would offer no construction
problems.
“The Goforth-Plonk site ap
peal’s satisfactory, subject only
to a final check with minimum
borings for safety.
"The Phifer-Neisler site ap
pears to contain very bad rock
conditions as to the over all
property and warns of substan
tial excavation costs.’’
The report was received by
mail late Tuesday.
The preliminary study of last
Friday was made in the presence
of Tom H. Cothran and Fred
Van Wageningen, of Architects
Associated, Chairman Fred W.
Plonk, of the board of educa
tion, and Superintendent of
Schools B. N. Barnes.
The remainder of the Van
Horn report on the sites follows:
YORK PROPERTY: This prop
erty, situated on the southeast
edge of the town of Kings Moun
tain, appears to be underlain by
the Blacksburg schist formation’
and possibly by a schist phase of
the Carolina gneiss formation.
Decomposition of the rock ap
pears to extend to considerable
depth, to the end that hard rock
should not b<*'‘PtTtt>tmtered for
considerable depth below any
proposed excavation. There is
evidence of quartz veins on the
property, but these probably
would be sosmall as to be in
ciuaea in excavauim iv&as *i
earth moving rates, I do not be
lieve that the York Road proper
would present problems in re
gard to excavation and construc
tion of school facilities', v
GOFORTH - PLONK PROPER
TY: This property is situated
west of the Kings Mountain golf
course, just North of Highway
U. S. No. 74. The area of some
70 acres appears to be complete
ly underlain by Whiteside gran
ite, locally a rather pure, coarse
grained, light grey pure mus
covite granite. This is a very ex
tensive formation in the area and
extends to great depth and na
ture of its decomposition.
The Goforth-Plonk property is
very gently rolling, having no
topographic prominence or ma
jor drainage. The weathering
(decomposition) appears to be
rather uniform and is expected
to increase gradually with depth.
Near-by excavations for streets
and house sites indicated that
earth-moving procedures should
suffice for all requirements now
proposed by the architects, with
the possible exception of spora
dic boulder conditions which
should amount to the order of
1 percent of total excavation.
While I feel that excavation;
problems ajre minimal on this;
property, X would recommend
that preliminary soundings be
made at the corners and centers
of any proposed excavations be
fore contracts are let and final
specifications completed.
PHIFER - NEISLER PROPERTV:
This property is situated south
west of Kings Mountain, on the
west side of Phifer Road. This
property appears to be under
lain by the same Whiteside gra
nite described above, but local
topography and drainage result
in more adverse construction
conditions.
The Phifer - Neisler properly
is more sharply rolling and is
crossed several rather deep-cut
streams. These conditions have
resulted in more irregular wea
thering than appears on the
Plonk-Goforth property. Rock
outcrops are numerous on the
Phifer-Neisler tracts. Typically,
experience in the area has
shown that often high knolls are
capped by a rather extensive
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Kemp Mauney Wins
Good Citizen Award
Kemp Mauney, son of Mr. arid
Mns. W. K. Mauney, Jr., won the
DAK Good Citizenship medal gi
ven Wednesday at West school.
A fifth grader, young Mauney
is also president of hdte class.
Cokwwd Frederick Hairfbright
Chapter, DAK, annually presents
Good Citizen awards in the
artKxjls.