Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
Tils figure for Greater Cage Mountain Is derived from
Uie 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. Tie city
limits figure 1s from tie United States census of 1960.
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
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VOL 73 No. 27
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 5, 1962
Seventy-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Decision On School Site Possible Early Next Week
Tentative Action
On New Bndget
This Weekend
pay raise is in the offing, it
indicated, for majority of city
'^Rnployees.
Ben H. Bridges, one of the
commissioners assigned to rec
ommend a new budget for adop
tion, said this week he hopes that
funds will 'be sufficient to pro
vide a pay increase of approxi
mately five percent.
He said the budget group,
which includes also Mayor Kelly
Dixon, Commissioner J. E. Rhea,
and City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr.,
is virtually ready to report, with
confirmation of the recent year’s
surplus to be the major determ
inant — 'both for the pay increase
and for what final paring may
be required on appropriation re
quests.
A special meeting of the com
mission is contemplated for
Thursday or Friday of this week
for tentative adoption of the
new budget.
Under North Carolina law, the
budget must be adopted finally
by July 28, and tentative adopt
ion is required a minimum of
three weeks previously.
The budget again will set a
new record, it is indicated, and
will be about $750,000.
The commission already has
voted tentatively to retain for
the sixth consecutive year the
$1.50 per $100 valuation tax rate,
with five cents of the amount
levied for recreational purposes.
Major item in the budget will
be a $75,000 provision for first
• phase re-building of the city elec
trical system.
Departmental appropriation
requests totaled $80,000 more
than anticipated receipts. How
ever, unincluded was an antici
pated surplus of $66,000.
“Some last-minute paving bills
may lower that figure,” City
Clerk McDaniel said, ‘'but I hope
not too much.”
The city’s auditors were here
last Thursday to get year-end fi
gures. _
Local News
Bulletins
LIONS TO MEET
Kings Mountain Lions will
hold Tegular meeting Tuesday
night at 7 o’clock at the Wo
man’s club, President Jonas
Bridges has announced. Geor
ge B. Thomasson is program
chairman.
ON DEAN'S LIST
William C. Carroll, Kings
Mountain student at Appalac
ian State Teacher’s college, has
been listed on the dean’s list
for the spring qua * r, it was
announced by Dean D. J. Whi
tner.
LEGION MEETING
Regular meeting of Otis D.
Green Post 155, American Le
gion, will be held at the Le
gion Building Friday night at
S o’clock, according to an
nouncement by Adjutant J. H.
McDaniel, Jr.
KIWANIS
Dr. George W. Plonk, Kings
Mountain surgeon, will talk on
surgery and other aspects of
the medical profession at
Thursday’s Kiwanis club meet
ing at 6:45 p. m. at the Wo
man’s club.
LUTHERAN SERVICE
Dr. Walter T. Nau, professor
of romance languages at Le
noir-Rhyne college, will deliv
er the sermon Sunday morning
at 11 o’clock at St. Matthew’s
Lutheran church.
FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC
Members of Lake Montonia
Club, and their families gath
ered for the annual Fourth of
July picnic yesterday. Other
annual activities preceded sup
IMPROVING
F. A. Tidwell, who suffered
a heart attack June 23, is im
proving at Kings Mountain
Hospital, but is not yet allow
ed visitors, a family spokes
man said Wednesday.
AT ROOFING CONVENTION - W. A. Childers,
owner pi Kings Mountain Sheet Meted Works,
was elected one of nine new directors of the
Carolinas Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors
Association at its recent 19th annucd conven
tion in Charleston, S. C. From left in the photo
graph above are Mr. Childers, Garold Stewart,
of Charlotte, Albert Hazzard of High Point,
Morris Apple of Burlington, William P. Baker.
Jr. of Raleigh, Bob Spann of Myrtle Beach, S.
C. and Lee Huffman of Hickory. Absent from
the picture are E. L. Scott of Kinston and R. R.
Forrest of Greenville. Sam T. Piper of Green
ville, S. C. is the new association president.
Trooper Decides
He Will Remain
With State Patrol
Patrolman Richard E. Shaney,
trooper in the State Highway
patrol organization, has removed
himself from consideration for
the position of Kings Mountain
police chief.
Mr. Shaney told city officials
this week that he had weighed
the prospect of becoming chief,
and appreciated the compliment
of the city’s interest, but that he
had decided to remain with the
patrol.
Mr. Shaney joined the patrol
seven years ago and has been on
duty in Cleveland County for his
full tenure. He became a Kings
Mountain citizen five years ago.
Though salary was never for
mally discussed between city
commissioners and Mr. Shaney,
it was understood that pay pros
pects were a factor in Mr. Shan
ey’s decision to withdraw his
Dixon Services
Are Continuing
Evangelistic services are con
tinuing this week at 8 p. m. each
everting at Dixon Presbyterian
church. Bible School classes for
all ages precede the services
from 6:30 until 7:45 p. m.
(Rev. David Blue, pastor of
West Avenue Presbyterian chur
ch of Gastonia, is leading the
services, which follow the stories
of lives of Old Testament char
acters of the Bible. Rev. James
Mann, Dixon pastor, is principal
of the Bible School, theme of
which is “The Bible.”
Miss Joan McClure is serving
as pianist and Mrs. Paxil Mauney
is choir director.
Other teachers in the Bible
School are Mrs. Thomas Hum
phries, Mrs. James Childers, Mrs.!
P. Q. Hamlbright, Philip Huhphr
ies and (Miss Armittde Farris.
Bible School classes will close!
on Friday evening with commen
cement scheduled for Saturday.
Revival services will continue
through Sunday.
Three Scouts,
9m Crawford
To Scout Ranch
A Kings Mountain Scoutmaster
and three 14-year-old Scouts wil
leave Saturday With a group o:
30 on an expedition to Philmoni
Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New
Mexico.
Don Crawford, one of thret
Scoutmasters on the 5,000 mile
plus trip, will he accompanied
from Kings Mountain by George
Plonk, Jr., and Lynn Cheshire
both of Troop 294, and Danny
Flinger of Troop 91.
The Kings Mountain boys were
busy packing for a month-away
fromhome yesterday. They'll
leave from Schiele Scout Reser
vation at Tryon Saturday mom
ing on chartered bus Which wil
take them through 18 states of
sightseeing and a 12-day pro
gram at Philmont, an outdoor
camping empire sprawling over
127,000 acres of streams, ever
green forests, mountains that
poke holes 11,000 feet into the
clouds and tough-as-raw-hide tra
ditions of the pioneer explorers
of the old west.
“We’re really looking forward
to the trip,” Scoutmaster Craw
ford said.
Stop-over at various Air Force
and Army bases enroute to Phil
mont will be included in the trip
Twelve days of outdooring at
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name irom consideration.
Farmer Chief Martin Ware was
paid $4200 per year.
Indication from city commists
ioners have been that the board
is willing to make the chief of
police pay comparable to that of
department heads, basically
$4800 per year.
Paul Sanders, veteran city po
liceman and former assistant
chief, is serving as acting chief.
Mir. Shaney commented that
the recently announced program
>f Governor Terry Sanford for
an all-out program for highway
safety had some bearing on his
decision.
An intensive pilot program for
highway safety is being planned
for six of the state’s larger coun
ties.
Rites Conducted
Fox Mis. Camp, 84
Funeral rites for Mrs. Lizzie
L. Camp, 84, of Grace street,
were held Wednesday at 3 p. in
from Grace Methodist church, of
which she was a memiber.
Mrs. Camp died Tuesday mor
ning in the Kings Mountain hos
pital following an extended Ill
ness.
She is survived by one
Mrs. Doda Case, of Dmmmr
CSty, and three granddhatdren.
Hinson, Howell Got Best Grades
On Rural Postal Carries Exams
Bobby Eugene Hinson, McCoy’s
service station employee, placed
first in the dvil service exami
nation for rural postal carrier at
Kings Mountain, he has been in
formed.
Boyd Howell, who lives on
Bethlehem Road and is an em
ployee of J. P. Stevens Com
pany's Shelby plant, placed sec
ond.
Both Hinson and Howell have
service connected disabilities.
Hinson spent seven years with
the Marine Corps, after serving
in the National Guard with the
Kings Mountain unit.
Howell, a World War II Air
Force veteran, was shot down in
a raid over Germany and was
captured by the Germans.
Placing third was Fred Tate,
who lives on Bethlehem road and
is an employee of Lithium Cor
poration of America. He is an
air force veteran.
James J. Alexander, Victory’
Chevrolet Company parts man
ager, placed fourth. He is a navy
veteran.
Congressman Basil L. White
ner, of Gastonia, has the power
n naming two rural carriers,
from the top four in the compe
titive examination given subse- j
quent to June 20 last year, asj
two vacancies exist at Kings:
Mountain postoffice.
Congressman Whitener said j
Wednesday morning he did not
know when the appointments,
would be made, adding that he'
had not received formal notice
from the postoffice department
of the list of eligibles.
A large group of area citizens
underwent the examinations,
which were given in Gastonia.
Postmaster Charles L. Alexan
der said this week that the two
rural vacancies are for Routes 1
and 2.
Route 1, covering 55.62 miles
per delivery day, carries a basic
salary of $4783 per annum, plus
ten cents per mile operating ex
penses.
Route 2, covering 68 mWes per
delivery day, carries a basic sal
ary of $5095 per annum, plus ten
cents per mile operating expen
se.
Both Tate and Alexander are
brothers of Kings Mountain .post
office employees. Tate is the bro
ther of Oliver Tate, parcel post
deliveryman, while Alexander is
a brother of the Postmaster.
Moss Describes
Need Of/For
Mission Work
By ANNE JAMES HARMON
“Every man with Jesus Christ
in his heart is a missionary, and
every man without Jesus Christ
in 'his heart is a mission field.’’
This statement was made by
Rev. James Moss, Presbyterian,
U. S. missionary whose field is
an agricultural section near Bra
zilia, new capitol city of Brazil.
The Kings Mountain native
spoke Sunday afternoon at Boy
ce Memorial ARP church on the
occasion of the Foreign Mission
Day observance of the Woman’s
Society of the church.
Using as his text, Luke 10:2,
tPray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that be would send
forth labourers into his harvest.”
Rev. Moss stated that “the Lord
told us to go, arid it’s important
that we go, but he also told us
to pray.’
Some of the people the young
missionary requested that his
audience pray for are:
1. Dona Maria Moreira, a new
Christian whose whole family
left town in protest to her ac
tions. “The hardest place to wit
ness is in your own home,” Rev.
Moss said.
2. Senior FelWberto de Souza
Ferriera, lay-worker evangelist
Who finst heard the “call to ser
vice” in his neighbour’s corral,
sold his farm and came to study.
“This man knows the people, he
understands their way of life,”
he commented.
3. The missionaries. Calling
them “God’s pioneers,” JRev.
• Moss said "The opportunities are
unlimited, but the resources are
not forthcoming.’’
Since 1956 Rev. Moss and his
Wife, the former Dorothy Baker
of Denver, N. C., have worked ii
Ceres, a Brazilian town 2,500 mi
les into the interior from Rio dt
Janeiro. Upon their return ii
August they will go to a newly
opened mission field between
Goiahia, capitol of the state of
Goias, and Itumibiara, a section
growing rapidly due to the prox
imity to the new capitol city of
Brazilia.
Discussing “the very great
need” for missionaries, Mr. Moss
stated there are eight places nee
ding workers and only one cou
ple to send. "It’s good to he nee
ded, but it’s tragic when you
can’t go everywhere,” he said.
Some evidences of the need
he said, are:
1. Four pastors for 64 church
es. Mr. Moss, himself, handles
12 churches with 15 preaching
points.
2. Response for request for
four missionary couples has, forj
several years, been one or, often
none.
3. Specially trained experts
Rev. Moss said that this year fo
the first time there is a busines
manager to handle work previ
ously done by pastors with n
experience in business.
4. A visit to his new field
quickly brought a gathering o, j
75 people. “This could be repeat I
ed over and over if we had tiw
missionaries,” he said.
5. Lack of money. He referred
to many improvizations mad
due to lack of medicines, etc.
■These people don’t play at be
ing Christian. Those who hea
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Ten Nabbed
By "Whammy"
Ten speeders were nabbed thi
week by city police officers 01
their speed watch with the
“whammy,” Acting Police Chief
Paul Sanders reported Wednes |
day.
Officer Sanders reported th<
department is being lenient, giv
ing violators a margin of 10 mi
les per hour over the limit be
lore bringing them in for viola
tion.
“Anyone going over the 10
mph margin will pay the fine,”
Sanders said.
The “whammy” will be in op
eration the entire month of July
in a crack down on Kangs Moun
tain traffic violations.
Sanders also reported his offi-,
cers have been instructed to pay
close attention to stop sign and
traffic signal violations.
"We’re cracking down before
somebody dies in an accident
caused bv one of these viola
tions,” Officer Sanders said.
MRS. FALLS WITH “PRIZES" - Mrs. A. P. Falls displays some of
her prize-winning canned goods in the kitchen of her home in the
Patterson Grove community. At 89 Mrs. Falls is still active in the
Patterson Grove Home Demonstration club, and is the club's old
est active member. (Photo by Claire Gilstad)
Mrs. Falls, 89,
Is Busy Canner
WINS SCHOLARSHIP - Ranee
Henderson, recent graduate of
Oregon College of Education, has
won a $3000 scholarship for ad
vanced study at OCE in the field
of education.
Henderson Wins
Scholarship
Ranee Henderson, son of Mr
and Mrs. Ray Henderson o
Kings Mountain and a June gra
duate of Oregon College of Bdu
cation at Monmouth, Oregon, has
been notified that he is the ree:p
ient of a $3000 scholarship for
advanced study at OCE in the
field of education.
The scholarship is given to
qualifying students by the state
of Oregon.
At Oregon Coilege of Educa
tion, Mr. Henderson was presi
dent of Theta Delta Phi, scholas
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Local Citizen
Eldest Member
Of Home Club
Mrs. A. Price Falls, 89, is well
known for her prize-winning rec
ipes for canning.
Another recipe for a long and
rewarding life, Mrs. Falls believ
es is found in the golden rale
i from the Bible, ‘‘Do unto others
as you would have them do unto
you."
j The mother of nine children,
the former Sara Elizabeth Pat
tenson has used a numfber of re
I eiipes, tooth those from the Bible
and those from her kitchen in
rearing her large family which
now numbers 14 grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
Next month Mrs. Falls will en
tertain members of the Patterson
Grove Home Demonstration
club. However, this is hardly a
news-making event since she's
been hostess to the group regu
larly since its organization in
1920.
Well-known over the county
and particularly to Cleveland
County fair-goers for her blue
ribbon exhibits in the fruits and
vegetable's department, her fame
for quality canning has gone be
yond the bounds of the state.
Probably the most complimen
tary phase of her canning exper
iences came from Kerr Fruit jar
Company which sent a represen
tative to her several years ago
with a request to can some
fruits in Kerr jars to 'be used by
the company for display purpo
ses. This she did and with great
pride.
Her many other exhibits have
taken blue ribbons at the late
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Home Savings & Loan Association
! Attains $5 Million Mark In Assets
Home Savings & Loan Associa-i
tion has reached a new^jjiile-i
stone, attaining a new high fig
ure of $5,017,179 in assets.
It was the first half-year re-j
port in which the association,
founded in 1923, had attained
this figure.
Tom Tate, secretary-treasurer,
reported the association has re
quired less than two years to•
graduate from the four-million
to five-million-dollar category,
having attained the three-mil
lion assets figure in May 1958.
“The association is naturally
pleased at the rapid growth in
assets, knowing that ht reflects
not only prosperity for the as-j
social ion hut for the whoie area
it serves, as well as confidence
in the management policies and
services of the association,” Mr.
Tate commented.
Of the total, $4,275,805 is rep
resented by mortgage loans,
$310,880 in investments and se
curities, $192,939 in ca h and;
bank deposits, and $128,370 in;
the new office building and e
ouioment occuoied by the asso-i
ciation last fall.
Major liabilities are $4,455,009.
in shareholder savings accounts,
124,311 loans in process, $23,091
in undivided profits, and reser
ves of $408,245, including a con
tingency reserve of $316,931.
The association operates a
branch office in neighboring
Bes emer City.
Van Hom Report
On Drillings
Is Received
By MARTIN HARMON
Receipt Wednesday of a school
site drilling report of Geologist
Earl C. Van Horn brought indi
cations that the board of educa
tion may be in position to teach
a decision early next week.
Chairman Fred W. Plonfc said
he would call a meeting of tie
board as quickly as Thomas H .
Cothran, of Architects Associa
ted, has had time to evaluate
the report in terms of cost esti
mates. Mir. Cothran said he
might have the estimates ready
by ithe weekend, but not later
than early next week.
The Van Horn report was ba
sed on drillings of the Phifer
Road site and Goforth-Plor;te
site.
Phifer Road Site
His comments on the Phifer
Road site, based on drillings in
three areas he labeled the "Hill”,
"Back Pasture” and “Old House”,
were:
Hi'll area, based on drilling,
bkelv high school building site
28 holes - two outcroppings of
hard pegmatite (a form of gran
ite ). Range of three holes, at 25
foot centers drilled across peg
matites, 50-foot centers other
wise, revealed hard rock at Hole
6, from 7 to 8 feet and from 9
to 14 feet, and soft rock at 14 to
16 feet depths. “It is my opin
ion the hill could probably be
excavated to a minimum depth
of 15 feet without blasting, but
that approximately 1200 cubic
yards of material in the form of
boulders (from the pegmatites)
might be encountered.”
Back Pasture area, based on
drilling 20 holes, probable loca
tion of stadium and other faci
lities -- would require some
blasting in rocky areas, but none
in remaining areas.
Old House area, based on drill
ing two holes, probable area for
future junior high school -- from
8 to 16 feet depth “firm rotten
rock”, with deep grading possible
of encountering some rock its
form of boulders.
Topographic data: "... The
| Phifer Road property is rathor
| sharply cut by streams, thus
, causing a comparatively round
i ground surface for n recreation
I area or general school ground.
The creek and rock falls just
west of the hill would be poLen
! tially dangerous to children un
, less enclosed in culvert and fill,
i Underground facilities (sower
. and water lines, etc.) crossing
! from the hill to the back pasture
would be required to have low
drops and would encounter rock
at the creek.”
j The geologist encountered re k
in only one area of the Go.'or: h
i Plonk site, in which an area of
j about 200 by 500 feet was drill
ed, with lines of three hole-’ 150
feet apart. He wrote that “firm
but rotten granite” was encoun
tered at Hole 6 at depths of three
to eight feet, while “slightly ii tn
but rotten granite” was encoun
tered from one to eight feet at
Hole 8.” (The map shows these
two holes about 150 feet apa-t).
He added, “It is my opinion this
property could be excavated v ith
only slight possibility of reck in
the form of scattered boulrkr-s
between Holes 6 and 8. The G j
forth-Plonk property appears to
have no topographic problems.*
County Workers
Get Pay Hikes
County commissioners have
voted a $17,000 increase to its
approximately $300,000 per year
expenditure for salaries of coun
ty employees.
The raises were effective this
week.
The raises included elected of
ficials as well as appointive em
ployees.
Under the new schedule, Sher
iff Haywood Allen remains the
county’s highest paid employee.
He will receive $600 per month,
compared to the $541 he drew
previously.
Biggest increase, however,
went to County Auditor Max
Hamrick, raised to $575 pyr
month from $483.
Other officials, new monthly
salaries:
Clerk of Superior Court J. W.
Osborne, $550 from $514.
Coroner J. Ollie Harris, $05
from $82.
Tax Appraiser James A. Ly
brand, $405 from $3&S.
Recorder Judge Rueben Elam,
$400 from $353.
Recorder Court Solicitor Bynum
Weathers, $350 from $307.
Register of Deeds Dan Moore,
$445 from $411.
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