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> Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure lor Greater Kings Mountain is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of 1960. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper & - 1 JS **-1 Pages Today VOL, 73 No. 25 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 21, 1962 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Week s Vacation Near For Most Textile Employees Surplus For Year Of $66,000 Local News Bulletins f —1 UNION SERVICE I Sunday night’s union service will be held at Central Metho dist church with Rev. Hubert Garmon, pastor, to deliver the message at 8 o’clock. GUARDSMEN AT CAMP Kings Mountain National Guardsmen are at Fort Bragg for the annual two-week en campment. The Kings Moun tain unit, headed by Captain Humes Houston, left Sunday. 340 LOADS DEBRIS City public works depart ment crewmen hauled 340 loads of debris, aftermath of the May 27 tornado, from city residences through Saturday, Superintendent Grady Yelton reported. This was exclusive of debris removed by private con cerns and individuals. LEGION AUXILIARY Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion Auxiliary, has postponed its meeting reg larly scheduled for this Thurs day until Thursday, July 5th. Mrs. P. G. Ratterree will be hostess at her home. PAIR VIEW LODGE ■ An emergent' oommtnttC9>ti«tv ' of Fairview Lodge 330 AF&AM will be held Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic Hall, accord ing to announcement by Tho mas D. Tindall, secretary. KIWANIS PICNIC Kings Mountain Kiwanians and their families will picnic at Lake Montonia Thursday. If will be the regular weekly meeting of the civic club. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $151.80, including $110.80 from on-street meters, $23.75 from over-parking fees and $17.25 from off-street meters. NO FIRES City firemen reported Wed nesday morning the depart ment had no alarms during the past week. 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. iArichxtects Stymied Until Site Chosen Fred Van Wageningen, of Architects Associated, retained by the board of education to plan the projected area high school, said Wednesday, "We can’t do a single thing until the site is chosen." ‘‘First we must know the site, get contours, know the approaches,” the architect am plified. Unless the architects guess ed correctly and final site de cision of the board, advance drawing of plans would be sheer waste, he noted. With a limited budget as is true in the Kings Mountain and majority of school build ing projects, he continued, a variance in cost of site and its development of $50,000 or $100,000 would mean that I much more or less building, % the architect concluded. “We’re anxious to get under way just as quickly as your board reaches a decision,” he concluded. AHP's Postpone i Special Service Tire special service which I was to have been held at the I new Boyce Memorial ARP ” church Education al Building <qn Sunday has been postponed I due to construction on Edge rant Drive. . . Dr. W. L. Presriy, pastor, said that further announce Indicated Gas System Profit 1 Also $66,000 By MARTIN HARMON Oity Olerk J. H. McDaniel, Jr., anticipates a general 'budget sur plus of approximately $66,000 and a gas system gross operat ing profit of about the same a- . mount for the year ending June i 30th. Mr. (McDaniel made the esti- i mates Wednesday in analysing i the revised budgets the board of i commissioners adopted last week, two weeks prior to the end of j the fiscal year. The general fund cash surplus i Should accrue, he says, from un- j der - estimation of receipts by $34,000 and net under - spending ■ by departments of $32,000. Receipts now are $746,000, as opposed to the $712,000 estimated, with major excesses in anticipa-j ted receipts derived from: taxes; $10,000; 'back taxes $2,000; utili-l ties $15,000; street assessments1 $6,500; Powell bill street fund $1,500; and sale of cemetery lots and grave-digginig fees $1,800. Under-spendings include: street department $8,000; electrical de- ! partment $15,000; debt service ; $6,000; and capital outlay $10,- j 000. Mr. McDaniel commented, “I j hope my surplus estimates are conservative and believe that : they are.” The amended gas budget esti- j mates gross receipts at $187,302 j versus operating costs of $120. 000, for a gross operating profit of $67,000. These figures indicate that, re spectag the call requirement on gas system bonds, the bonded debt of the gas system, $228,000 today, will be reduced (by a mini mum of $60,000 to $168,000 dur ing the fiscal year starting July 1. Moose To Enroll 2,000 Members Announcement was made re cently by North Carolina Moose State Director, W. A. Moon of Pfaftown, that plans are com plete for gigantic class enroll ments of 2,000 new members in to the Loyal Order of Moose on Sunday, June 24. “Our 76 lodges in North Car olina, involving 26,000 members, will send their candidates into three major Moose lodges in the East, Central, and Western part of the State on that day,” he said. The focal points are Green ville, Shelby, and Winston-Salem. Local lodges are planning huge motorcades. The ceremonies will begin in each place at 2 p. m., Sunday afternoon, with champ ionship ritual teams conferring the degree. The enrollment will be followed by an extravaganza party for sponsors of candidates. Moon said these tremendous enrollments are planned as a prelude to the Moose Internation al convention in Atlanta, Ga., to begin June 30. Many Supreme Lodge officers will visit North Carolina, June 24, among them Supreme Secretary Carl Weis, of Moosehart, 111.; Past Supreme Governor J. Jack Stoehr, Pitts burg, Pr.; Supreme Governor Harry C. Byrd, College Park, Md.; Supreme CounciImen PhilUp R. Morse, doming, N. Y., George ^Continued On Page Ten) Shots No. Elixir Yes At Minette About 98 percent of the em ployees of Minefte Mills, Inc., of Grover, and their dependents have taken advantage of the company’s offer for oral-type po lio vaccine, a liquid, free, Presi dent Franklin Harry said Wed nesday. Mr. Harry, expressing himself as highly pleased at the result noted the effects of polio on the Harry family in prior years and added, “We thought the effort would do the community good." Two years ago Minette made a similar Offer of Salk vaccine, ad ministered via hypodermic, with not too favorable results. To a suggestion that parents declined to do what they requir ed of their youngsters, Mr. Harry laughed, “Looks like that’s a bout it" City Asks Upped Gas Allotment RULINGS - Via rulings of an assistant attorney-general, Elsie L. Putnam, top, is assured of e lection as a Justice the peace as; s Republican, and Bob Maner*s name will appear on the general election ballot as a GOP candi date for the county board of ed ucation. Putnam Is In", Maner On Ballot Blzie Lee Putnam, Kings Mountain garageman, will ap parently become one of the county’s first Republican office holders in many years following the November general election. On basis of an opinion of As sistant Attorney-General James F\ Bullock sufficient vacancies exist in the number of justices of the peace legally permitted Number 4 Township to assure both the election of Incumbent I. Lee Roberts, Democrat, and Mr. Putnam, only two candi dates. Some citizens had opined the two would oppose each other. Additionally, also via Mr. Bullock’s opinion, arrived at, he wrote County Elections Board CThairman Ralph Gilbert, after conferring with Raymond Max well, chairman of the state elec tions board, the name of Bob Maner, another Kings Mountain Republican who is his party’s nominee for the county board of education, will also appear on the ballot. Here the ruling is less clear, Bullock stating Maner will run against the field. Chairman Gilbert’s interpreta tion is that Mr. Maner is the GOP slate, while the five Dem ocratic nominees make up the Democratic slate and that the contest wifll be slate vs slate. In other words, Chairman Gilbert says, a voter may choose be tween the five Democrats and lone Republican, not vote for! four Democrats and Mr. Maner. Chairman Gilbert says he has stud'ed the election laws and in of the opinion that Cleveland’s board of education is not elected, "out appointed by the General Assembly. Both Putnam and Maner ex pressed themselves as pleased with the ruling to date. Both are among Republican candidates seeking county offi ces ter the first tUne since 1MB. City Will Need 500 MCF More. Transco Told By MARTIN HARMON The City of Kings Mountain lias taken initial steps to obtain Mi increase in its daily natural gas allotment of 500,000 cubic feet per day. Mayor Kelly Dixon, pointing out increased residential use of gas, two new firm industrial us ;rs, and increased consumption by Kings Mountain Mica Compa ny, a third firm industrial cus tomer, has informed Transconti nental Gas Pipe Line Corporation that the city gas system won't be able to meet its demand for Che coming winter Without an al lotment increase. Supporting data on 1961-62 op erations shows that the gas sys tem reached a new peak demand if 1,184,000 cubic feet on Janu ary 11, at a mean temperature of 19 degrees, against an allocation of 1,400,000 cubic feet per day. The Mayor requests the allot hjcpwae-v. -be, made availa ble November :l and also requests another additional allotment of 100,000 cubic feet daily effective a year later, November 1, 1963, in anticipation of continued in crease in demand by residential users. The supporting data Shows the city gas system has currently 775 residential heating customers, 112 commercial heating custo mers, 36 public customers, and five firm industrial users. Anticipated during the next 12 months are increase of 125 resi iential heating customers and Dive commercial heating custo mers, in addition to the two new industrial users, Craftspun, Inc., and Shannon, Ltd. The amended 1961-62 gas sys tern budget, adopted by the board at commissioners last week, al so lends credence to the request. Anticipated receipts of $187,302 compare to gross receipts last year of $17,000. While Transco’s committments are subject to approval of the Federal Power commission, it is customary for Transco to initiate the request with the commission, a Transco engineer, Howard R. Scranton, said here recently. “We certainly don’t want to be in the position of not being able to supply our gas customers, Mayor Dixon commented Wed nesday. School Counselor WilMam J. Kay was employed as high school guidance counselor Monday by board of education members. Mr. Kay, who graduated from Furman University with a B. A. degree in sociology, holds a mas ter’s degree in guidance from Western Carolina College. He taught guidance in the Bre vard city schools from 1958 un til 1962. He has also taught guidance programs in several other North and South Carolina schools. Mrs. Doris B. Kay, wife of Mr. Kay, was also employed by the board as a high school English teacher. ;<v -. ' I A graduate of Erskine College with an A. B. degree in English and social sciences, she holds a master’s degree from Furman University. She has taught in several high schools, and for the past several years at Brevard college. Supt. & N. Barnes told the board there remains some 15 va cancies in the school system, and efforts are being made to secure teachers for these jobs. The board authorized the sup erintendent to proceed with hir ing the teachers without the lor mality «C a beard meeting. Tentative Tax Rate Is $1.50 For Sixth Year The board of commissioners last week set the tentative city tax rate at $1.50 per $100 proper ty valuations, same rate prevail ing since 1957. The $1.50 rate includes the maximum allowable five-oent levy for recreational purposes. At its regular June session, the board listened to a request by Sam R. Siiber, superintendent of city-owned Mountain Rest ce metery, for erection of a memo rial bell tower in the cemetery. Mr. Suber pointed out that mo nies are available in the city's perpetual care fund and would not impair the city budget, meanwhile adding to the. artis tic and cultural 'beauty of the cemetery. The commission questioned the legality of expenditure of the funds for this purpose and in structed City Attorney J. R. Da vis to request a ruling from the North Carolina attorney general. Another request the commis sion took under advisement was for establishment of a youth center, the request being made by Clarence E. Carpenter. It was noted such a program could be included in activities of the rec reation program. In other actions, the board: 1) Adopted without change for the coming year the privilege li cense ordinace. 2) Reduced to 25 miles per hour the speed limit on Mauney avenue. 3) Authorized the Mayor to circulate a petition for construc tion of curbing and gutter on Linwogd street, from Highway. 161 to cfty limits. 4) Instructed the Mayor and Electrical Superintendent to give a cost report on installation of a street light on Monroe ave nue. 5 Adopted an ordinance autho rizing post-July 1 operations on basis the current year's budget, pending final adoption of the 1962-63 budget. Knitting Finn In Production (Production is beginning at Cr-aftspun Yams, Inc., knitting plant, the large new building on Din wood street. Manager Robert Lowe said 50 knitting machines are now in place, some in operation. Several new employees began work Wednesday. The knitting division anticipa tes employing from 50 to 60 per sons when in full production. Rig For Drilling Is Hard To Find Board To Ask 40-Cent Levy For Budding School officials Wednesday af ternoon were still seeking to rent immediately available drilling e quipment to determine depth and type of rock formations on two of three prospective high school sites under major con sideration. Specifically, being sought are 1) an air compressor of suffici ent size which could be used with a Foote Mineral Company driLl the mining firm has proffer ed, or 2) an air track, described as a combination drill and com pressor. Local mining officials say rental on either would be! comparable. The officials were informed Monday by Earl Van Horn, re-j tained geologist, that drilling; rigs such as those employed by j Southeastern Diamond Drilling1 Company, which surveyed the) drilling areas last weekend are unnecessarily expensive for the work at hand. Meantime, the education board Monday night approved a mea sure asking the board of county commissioners to begin levying, effective July 1, the 40 cents per hundred valuation school bond tax passed by vote on March 10. The board anticipates that sale of the bond Issue will begin before the end of the., year.. J.Vj The tax levy is sfubject to ap proval by the county commis sion board, and would raise the speciall Kings Mountain School district levy to 60 cents per hun dred valuation. The district has heretofore been paying a 20 cents per hun dred levy as a supplementary school tax, the funds used to supplement teachers’ salaries and employ extra teaching per sonnel. In other action the board: 1) Voted to pay $1550 to the county board of education as the balance due on the principal of schools’ residence in Grover. The county school system built the 1 principal’s dwelling some years ago and has been applying the rental fee to defer the balance. The system will be continued by the city school board. 2) Voted a resolution of appre ciation to teachers who are re tiring from positions in the city school system. 3) Voted a contract to Pied Piper Exterminating Company to do termite control work in j (Continued On Page Ten) Dilling Oak Felled By Tornado May 27, Heie For 118 Birthdays BY DAVID BAITY A silent sentinel stands no more, 'the victim of Mother Na ture’s eternal cycle. After 118 years of growth, the oak tree In the corner of the Percy Dilling yard was clipped by the tornadic winds three weeks ago. But it did not give up completely, tenaciously hold ing on with its deep-seated roots. The base of the tree remained partially in the ground. History is written in the rings of a tree, history of a dramatic struggle for survival. Abundant years are there, and lean ones. The old Kings Mountain land mark recorded 118 birthdays in all, according to a count by T. C. McKee, a member of Kings Mountain fire department. McKee has an abiding interest in relics and antiques and be came curious about what the tree would tell. Examining the rings with a magnifying glass he found that the tree’s 26th year was a mean year for rain. The 27th was wetter, the 28th a lit tle better. The next six years were abundant with water, the five after that only average. Two wet years followed, then an extremely dry one. Six years abundant with water followed then an 18 year span with only average rainfall before a really wet year occurred again. The tree rings tell the story of a s-appjing growing into a ma ture tree, and also of some evem 44 years ago (about the end oi World War I) that caused the tree to become diseased. The death grip was an, now it was s matter of time. The end came with the high1 wind May 27. But 44 years of infirmity was enough to include the end of World War I, the beginning and end of World War II and the Ko rean War, the atomic bomb, mo dern cars, airplanes crisscrossing the skies above, and men in vading outer space. The tree was standing before the town came. It sprang from ' the ground as a tender shoot a- l bout the year 1844. < (Continued On Page Ten) j Hardin Hites To Be Friday M. I. Hardin, 61, Minette Mills ( I overseer, died at his home in ! Grover Wednesday morning fol- i lowing a heart attack. I Mr. Hardin, on vacation, had returned home this week from 1 i Florida. > A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. < James Hardin, he was a member and elder of Shiloh Presbyterian i church and member of Grover ; Masonic lodge. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. ; Elzie Dixon Hardin; a son. Jack Hardin of Charlotte; a brother, < V. J. Hardin of Grover; a sister, Mrs. J. W. Pries ter of Grover andk' three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at ( Shiloh Presbyterian church. , The rites will be conducted by Bev. Richard Hobson, with in terment in Grover cemetery. i GRADUATES--Norma Kay Ham rick and Rev. Harry R. Sellers are among area students who have graduated in college com mencement exercises this month. Miss Hamrick, Sellers Graduate Two additional Kings Moun tain students received college de grees in recent commencement exercises. Miss Norma Kay Hamrick, daughter of Mr. and Mn. David R. Hamrick, was graduated with B. A. degree in elementary edu cation from Guilford college.! Miss Hamrick has joined tiiej staff of Luxford School in Prin-i cess Anne, Virginia. Harry R. Sellers, who is mar ried to the former Lyna Baker of Kings Mounatin, was graduated from Duke University Divinity School where he received his bachelor of divinity degree. Rev. Mr. Sellers has been appointed by the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference to serve a Hot Springs, N. C. Methodist charge. Rev. and Mrs.' Seller have moved to Hot Springs. Mrs. Sellers is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Baker of Kings Moun tain. Rites Conducted Foi Mis. Ware Funeral services for Mrs. Lu venda Early Ware were conduc ted Monday -at 4:00 p. m. from Central Methodist Church, the Rev. Herbert Garmon, officiat ing. Interment followed in Moun tain Rest cemetery. (Mots. Ware, a resident of 500: Rhodes Avenue, was the widow of Horace Greely Ware, a form-! er Kings Mountain policeman.1 She died at 9:00 p. m. Saturday In Kings Mountain hospital fol lowing a several months illness.; She was a daughter of the late' Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Early and' a member of Central Methoddist; Church. Survivors include seven sons,: Cicero, Ralph G.. Boyce, and L. P. Ware, all of Kings Mountain; Lexter Ware, of Ozona, Fla.; Fred W. Ware, of Clearwater, Fla.; and James Browning Ware of Dunedin, Fla.; two daughters, Mrs. John Bennett, of Albemar le, and Mrs. Ernest Yates, of flings Mountain. Also surviving are two broth ers, Lloyd and Augustus Early, of Kings Mountain; a sister. Mrs. Metta Early Tisdale, of Grady. Alabama, sixteen grandchildren, and tweOve great - grandchildren. Paid Holiday Is In Store For Many Folk A July Fourth week vacation awaits the vast majority of Kings Mountain textile employ ees and for many it will be a paid vacation. With a few exceptions, major ity of Kings Mountain area tex tile firms will suspend opera tions on June 30, resuming on July 9, a Herald survey revealed Wednesday. The major exceptions of those contacted are: Minette Mills, Inc., of Grover, which began vacation schedules this week on a staggered basia by reducing to a two-shift opera tion. Lambeth Rope Corporation which will invite employees to work if they wish, grant the week’s surcrease to those who don’t. Employees who vacation will get a week’s pay. Those who work will get double pay, Gen eral Manager Frank Burke said. Carolina Throwing will follow regular around-the-clock sche dules. Mauney Hosiery Company, fnc., will operate largely on reg ular schedule, will grant some of its employees a two-day holi day on July 4 and 5. The knitting division of Graft spun Yarn', Inc., just getting in to production, will operate on regular schedule. Kings Mountain Manufactur ing Company plans no holiday, will operate if business is suffi cient:, according to Aubrey Maun ey. Otherwise, the June 30-July 9 vacaJibn applies to employees of: Craftspun Yarns, Inc., Spinning mill, with percentage of earn ings vacation pay. Phenix Plant of Burlington In dustries, with percentage of earnings vacation pay. Noisier division of Massachu setts Mohair Plush Company. Sadie Cotton Mills and Maun ey Mills, Inc., with decision not reached on vacation pay. Park Yarn Mills, with percent age of earnings vacation' pay". Estimate Not Far Out-Of-Balance Barring additions of other pro jects or other costs, preliminary estimates of the city Budget for the coming year aren’t far out of-balance, with the inclusion of an anticipated $66,000 surplus. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr.r had previously said departmen tal spending requests were $80, 000 over estimated receipts--min us any surplus which might prove available. Included, too, was a quite ma jor capita] outlay item, $75,000 for first-phase rebuilding of the electrical distribution system. One omission in the prelim inary figures: no capital outlay appropriation for improvements to city stadium, about which there has been much conversa tion and preliminary planning for the past 12 months. Basic recommendations include build ing of a dressing facilities for players, rest room improvements for fans, and opening of Moun tain street to Carpenter street Mayor Kelly Dixon reported Wednesday that H. R. Parton has conveyed the city a 40-foot right of-way deed from Carpenter street west a distance of 238 feet to the R. D. Goforth property line. The board of commissioners has named Mayor Dixon, Clerk McDaniel, Commissioner Ben H. Bridges and J. E. Rhea as a bud get committee to bring final recommendations. Optimist Benefit Set For Friday Kings Mountain Optimist club will sponsor a benefit bar becue all day Friday, proceeds to go to the club’s extensive program of Boys Work in the community. Harold Phillips, spokesman for the club, said barbecue pla tes will be served at $1.25 for adults and 75 cents for child ren from 10 a. m. Friday mor ning until 10 p. m. Friday night at the American Legion Building. Hie Optimists currently field a Little League baseball team plus tour Midget football teams and render other services ii» oamneetian with a program for boys to the community.