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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 Thl» fljon ler Greater Stag* Mountain U derived bom the 1955 Kings Mountain city limits figure is been Urn United States- census ot i960. directory census. The dry Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper 14 Pages Today VOL. 73 No. 28 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 12, 1962 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Architect Declines To Guess High School Bid Date Natural Gas Lines Will Be Increased Local News Bulletins CAR WASH The Grace Methodist Church MYF will sponsor a car wash Saturday from 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. in the fellowship hall parking lot Charge will be $1.25 per car. Those wishing to have their car washed should bring their car by the church or telephone 739-5391. SPECIAL SERVICE Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dunn and Ffank Pace will conduct church services Sunday after noon at 2:30, weather permit ting, at the recreation park a rea off Dilling street. LUTHER LEAGUE The Luther League of Res urrection Lutheran church, meeting during the summer in the homes of members, will gather Sunday at 6:30 p. m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dixon, Hillside drive. CHURCHMEN United Lutheran Churchmen of Resurrection Lutheran church will gather Saturday at 7 p. m. at the church instead • of Sunday for the Tegular meeting. Program will feature the discussion of application for charter membership in the new national organization of ULCM, official organization of the new Lutheran Church In America. KIWANIS CLUB Kings Mountain Kiwanians will see a film on volcanic e ruption Thursday night at night meeting at the Woman’s club. The civic club convenes at 6:45 p. m. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for t.he week ending Wednesday totaled $190.90, including, $127.55 from on-street meters, $46 from over-parking fees, and $17.35 from off-street meters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., reported. SHUFORDS IN NEW HOME The Tolly Shuford family occupied its new residence on Fulton Road Saturday. The former Shuford home at the comer of King and Sims street was razed by fire several mon ths ago. JAYCEES TOUR PPG Members of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce will tour the Pitts burgh Plate Glass plant out side of Shelby next Tuesday as program for the regular meet ing. The group will eat at Bridges Barbecue following the tour. NO PERMITS No building permits were is ued by city officals during the past week. HOKE HOME L. A. Hoke, who suffered a heart attack on June 22, was discharged from Kings Moun tain Hospital Tuesday. He is recuperating at home, but is not yet allowed visitors. 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 o n Highway 29. No Major Surgery In Balancing Budget Initially outof-balance, on ba 6;s of departmental requests a'bout $80,000, this year’s city budget was balanced more sim i ply than any in many prioi yeans, without major surgery. Added was some $7909 for in creased pay to employees. Subtracted were two equip ment items Superintendent Gra dy Yelton needs: a $15,000 pay loader and a $4,000 dump truck The major balancing item wai a $77,000 surplus. Bids Aie Asked For $40,000 In Additions BY DAVID BAITY The city gas system is adver tising for bids for new line and regulator station additions ex pected to cost about $40,000. The additions will enable the City to provide more than double the present naural 'gas service to Bennett Brick and Tile Company, to increase service to Kings Mountain Mica Company’s Patt erson plant, and to handle the added demand on the system created by two new industrial customers, Craftspun Yarns, Inc., and Shannon Limited, Inc. Estimates aTe that these ex panded and added services will increase the system’s industrial revenue this year by $25,000. Bennett Brick & Tile Company has an interruptible service con tract. The other three buy “firm” gas, and Mayor Kelly Dixon told the board of commissioners Tuesday night that the system would not be able to supply the mica company on firm basis dur ing the coming winter without a line addition. The same situation exists, he said, on serving the brick-making firm. Cash for the project is avail able in the gas system’s $50,000 renewal and extension fund. W. B. Edwards, Jr., with Bar nard and Bark, Inc., Consulting Engineers, of Baton Rouge, Lou isiana, outlined the gas line ad dition for the commissioners!. The alterations will require some two miles of six-inch pipe and the erection of four regula tor stations. me alterations wuuiu iiicitiiie laying a six-ineh booster nine pared lei to Gold Street from the York Road high pressure line to Cansler Street, subsequently fol lowing Cansler Street north to supply Kings Mountain Mica Company. The line from Gold Street would then follow Sims Street, go north along Sims street to Mountain street, and west along Mountain Street, finally tying into the Phifer Road line to in crease gas service to Bennett Brick and Tile Company. The Sims Street line would al so boost residential service ca pacity in that area. (Continued On Page Eight) Mohaii Cuts City Water Usage (Less city water consumption by Margraoe plant of Massachu setts Mohair Plush Company re flects increased production by the mill firm’s own system, a spokesman said Wednesday. The Margrace plant was billed for 4,340,000 gallons on July 1. The previous month’s billing was for 6,020,000 gallons, While the May 1 billing was the high est of 1962 — for 7,516,000 gal lons. This firm protested bitterly when the city escalated basic wa ter rates and increased its out side city surcharge from ten to 'fifty percent. Water rates were an issue in' last spring’s city election. Asked hew little city water the Margrace plant expected to use When its well system is com pleted, the spokesman said, “We, hope none.’’ The Margrace plant is served by a line from the city which it, installed at a cost of over $15,-j 000. Subsequently, the county reimbursed the firm for this out lay. Leqion Adjutant Is Graduate Joe McDaniel, Jr., adjutant of Otiis D. Green Post 155, has com pleted successfully a six-month correspondence course on the American Legion as offered by the American Legion Extension Institute. Courses of instruction included those on the Legion's interna] organization, Its Americanism program, its rehabilitation, for eign relations, legislative, econo mic, national security and nation al child welfare programs. He received notification of his successful examination and a i diploma recently. TEN YEAR AWARD WINNERS - Employes of Foote Mineral Company who hold 10-year rec ords without lost time accidents were present ed 10-year-pins lent week. E. R. Go ter, left, presented awards to Warren Goforth. Converse Hutchins. Gene Whitworth, Tom Berry, Joe wmm Jim son and William McDowell, in usual left to right order in photograph above. Not present for the picture taking were these recipients. Edward Brown, Oliver Armstrong and Robert D. Berry. (f£«sio by Claire Gilstad) City Shows $77,553 Surplus; Tentative Budget $763,013 RITES HELD •• Final rites lor John S. Jenkins were held Mon day. Mr. Jenkins, 81. died Sat urday. John Jenkins' Jtites Conducted Pinal rites for John Sims Jen kins, 81, were (held Monday at 4 p. m. from Grace Methodist church, interment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Jenkins died Saturday mor ning in the Kings Mountain hos pital following a long illness. He was a native of Gaston county, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Jenkins. A retired employee of the Margrace Mills, he was a member of Grace Me thodist Churdh. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bessie Paysour Jenkins, to whom he was married in 1900; one son, Jesse J. Jenkins of Kings Moun tain; and eight daughters, Mrs. Dewey Caldwell, Mrs. Haskell Willson, Mrs. Carl Gantt, Mrs. Clifford Kircus, Mrs. William Brackett, all of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Dewey Hardin of Rock Hill, S. C., Mrs. Howard Martin of Mount Holly and Mrs. Claude Barnette of Harlem, Ga. Also surviving are 25 grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren. The funeral rites were conduc ted 'by Rev. N. H. Pusey. AT CITY HALL Miss Margaret Jackson, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Jackson, is serving as tempor ary clerk at the City of Kings Mountain tax office. Surplus, Budget For 1962-63 Are New Records By MARTIN HARMON f Benefitted by a record $77,553 surplus, the City earrarassion has adopted tentatively a record bud gelt for 1062-63 of $763,013. Of the total, $168,839 is ear marked for capital outlay, more familiarly known as permanent improvement®, including $75,000 for the first phase of the projec ted $135,000 rebuilding of the electrical distribution system. 'Also included is a contingency fund for emergencies of $8,084. Other capital expenditures budgeted are $52,640 in curb and gutter installations, $7,696 for street paving, $14,303 for water and sewer installations, and $19, 250 for equipment. Of the total, $6,000 is budget ed for the recreation commission estimated receipts from the five con ts ad valorem tax for recre ational purposes. Debt service will Claim $45, 363.50 of the total, including $30, 000 in principal payments, $15, 262.50 in interest, and $100 in bank commissions. I (general iunu expenaitures, in j eluding operational costs, salari ; es and wages, and power pur j chases from Duke Power Com pany, are estimated at $534,733. It is estimated that Duke’s pow er billings to the city will total $150,000 during the coming $ 9,804.18 23,653.31 84,948.60 24,393.15 months. These are the anticipated ex penditures by departments: Cemetery Department Administrative Department Street Department Sanitary Department Police-Court Department Fire Department Ceneral Department Water and Sewer Department Light and Power Department RECEIPTS City officials regard their es timate of income for the year as “conservative.” Maior portion of the income is expected to come, as usual, from sale of water and power and is budgeted at $435,000, up (Continued On Page Eight) 51,049.73 20.237.44 59,850.18 61,699.77 199,097.00 Contract Let For Air-Conditioning And Other Post Office Renovation ATLANTA -- Contracts have been let for repair and improve ment of Kings Mountain post office. Maior improvements will be installation of air-conditioning. Other projects contracted include fuel conversion, lighting and e lectrical improvements and other related work. Postmaster Charles L. Alexan der said he had not received specifications on the work plan ned but understood the air-con ditioning is the maior portion of the work. The boiler is to be con verted for consumption of oil, rather than coal. Contract was awarded Wilber, Kendrick, Workman and Warren, Inc., of Charlotte. The work is to he completed by late November. The professional services con tract was let by the Atlanta Regional Office of General Ser vices Administration, 1776 Pea chtree Street, N. W„ Atlanta 9, Georgia. That office will also so licit bids for the repair and im provement work at a date to be announced later. LAST RITES HELD - Funeral for David A. Bell. 91, was held Tues day from Oak Grove Baptist church. David A. Bell's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for David A Bell, 91, were held Tuesday after noon at 4 p. m. from Oak Grovi Baptist church, of whkth (he was a charter member. (Mr. Bell prominent retired far mer of the Oak Grove comimuni ty, died Monday morning In th< local hospital following an ill ness of several years. iHe was a native of Cleveland County, son of the date Mr. and Mrs. Jonas S. Bell. His wife, the former Ollie Lovelace, died ir 1940. Surviving are five sons, Char les S. Bell of Gastonia, Monroe Bell of Matthews, Clyde Bell Edgar Bell and William Bell, al of Kings Mountain; one daugh ter, Mrs. Clyde T. Bennett o Kings Mountain; and one sister Mrs Elam McSwain of King Mountain. Also surviving ar 20 grandchildren and 40 great grandchildren. The final rites were conducted by 'Rev. James Holder, assisted, by Rev. C. C. Crowe, and Rev. Richard Spencer. Interment was in the Oak Grove cemetery. Here's $5000 More Hn Income For City One sure income item of a bout $5,000 doesn’t appear in the city’s estimate of receipts ! for the year which began July ; 1. This is the amount the city j expects to get in a rebate from j the State of North Carolina for the three percent sales tax it paid on purchases during the past year. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., acknowledges. “I didn’t forget if.” He adds that it was omit ted on purpose. "When the budget was first being consid ered, it aooeared there would be very little for the contin gency fund, if any, and there axe always emergencies.” This rebate will accrue to the contingency fund, now es timated at slightly over $8,000. Phifer Road Site Is Chosen By 3 To 2 Vote BY DAVID BAITY Acting on a motion posed May 21 by Dr. P. G. Padgett, the board of education, by a 3-2 split decision, voted Friday night to purchase the Phifer-Neisler tract on Phifer Road as the sate for the new consolidated Kings Moun tain High school. Voting for purchase of the site were Dr. P. G. Padgett, Mrs. Lena W. McGill, and Holmes Harry. Opposing the action were Chair man Fred W. Plonk and Vice Chairman H. O. (Toby) Willi ams. 'PLonk and Williams, although opposed to the Phifer-Neisler site, pledged their support. “I don’t approve of the deci sion made, but I will work to see that the best possible school is built there,” Chairman Plonk said. Following the decision, Chair man Plonk read a prepared statement listing his objections to the site. He stated: “The State Division of School Planning considers it to be the least desirable of any of the sites that were considered. The architects did not rate it as desirable as other sites. “I feel that the cost of building and developing this site will cause the overall cost of the school to be more than any of the sites under consideration. ‘The topography of this site wail determine the type of touild ing that will have to be built, and may interfere with the erec tion of the type building we should have, and "I would like to see our money spent where it could readily be seen and where .there are roads already built to take care of our needs.” ■Mr. Plonk’s objections were echoed by Mr. Williams. The board action followed an evaluation of a report from Earl C. Van Horn, consulting geolo gist, by architects Thomas Coth ran and Fred Van Wageningen. Geologist Van Horn was re tained on Holmes Harry’s sub stitute motion '"av 23. At the May 21 board meeting the school trustees had indicated a 3-2 split decision on the Phifer - Neisler site. At Friday’s session the archi tects. using data from the Van Horn report, compared minimum grading costs of the Phifer-Neis ler site and the Goforth-Plonk site. Excavation cost of the Phifer site was estimated at $25,600 as compared to $7,722 at the Gofor th-Plonk site. Architects noted, by taking five feet off the crest of the prin cipal knoll on the Phifer site, estimated excavation would a mount to 2,000 yards of earth and 1.000 yards of stone, totaling $10,500 for the school plant. Excavation for a playing field was estimated at $10,000 and for driveways and parking areas, $5,000. At the Goforth-Plonk site ex cavation for the school plant would have required moving (Continued On Page Eight) PROMOTED - Ollie Harris. Jr. has been promoted to vice-presi dent of the real estate firm of Bob Harris Enterprises of Hous ton. Texas. Mr. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ollie Harris of Kings Mountain, and his wife and son live in Pasadena. City Pay Hikes To Total $7900 All full-time city employees, including hourly-rated employees and department heads, received minimum pay increases of not less than five percent, and esti mated to require increased ex penditures of about $7900. The increases, retroactive to July 1, were Voted at last Fri day’s special se&sion of the com mission. (Lowest paid employees receiv ed the greatest increase, as the commission established a mini mum wage of $1.15 per hour. City Clerk Joe McDaniel said a few employees had been receiv ing $1 per hour. The new mini mum meets the currently basic minimum wage prescribed by the federal wage and hour law. The city, however, does not pay time and one-half for hours wor ked in excess of 40. New annual salaries of offici als and department heads are: Joe McDaniel, Jr., city clerk and treasurer, $4556.88 plus $1, 209.46 from the gas system, to tal $5755.88. (Mrs. Houston Wolfe, assistant city clerk and treasurer, $3560.54 plus $520 from the gas system, total $4080.54. Grady Y el ton, superintendent of public works, $5779.12. Hunter Allen, electrical depar tment superintendent, $5136.76. Corbett Nicholson, gas system superintendent, $5240. Paul Sanders, acting police chief, $4494.93. Sam R. Suber, cemetery su perintendent, $38-10.58. Unaffected by the increase were the salary of (Mayor Kelly, Dixon, who receives $1200 from the city, $1200 from the gas sys j tern and $600 in expenses for a gross of $6,000 per year. Other unchanged salaries are: i Jack White, judge of recorder’s court, $2100; George Thomasson ; solicitor of recorder's court i $1200; J. Pat Tignor, fire chief $300; and J. R. Davis, city attar ney, $1200. City Budget Earmarks 22 Percent Or $168,000 For Capital Expense By MARTIN HARMON This year’s city budget, as ten tatively adopted, continues t policy of several years standing in devoting a sizeable portion of the total year’6 expenditures to long-term improvements. This year the city expects to spend over $168,000 — or 22 per cent — of its budget in this di rection. Largest single item is $75,000 for the first phase of rebuilding the electrical distribution sys tem. Equipment purchases will in clude a half-ton truck, backhole and front-end loader, garbage truck, air compressor and jack hammer. Water and sewer projects in clude: 1) Six-inch water line, fire hy drants, etc., on Crescent Circle, from Joyce to (Meadowbrook, Meadow-brook, from Oakland to Marion, and Marion to Hawthor ne road. 21 Six-inch line, with fire hy drant, Hawthorne to Meadow brook and Meadowbrook to Ma rion. 3> Eight-inch water line to J. E. Herndon Company. 4» West Gold street extension sewer line, 750 feet, with three manholes. 5) Eight-inch sewer Kite on Casrtlewood road. Curb and gutter projects bud geted include: 1> Deal street, from East King to Gold. 2) Fairviow street, from North Piedmont to Linwood load. 3) Sims street, -from West King to north end. 4) Rhodes avenue, from Din wood drive to Groves. 5» South Carpenter, from East Kings to stadium fence. 61 Meadowhrook road, -from Oakland to Marion. 7) Cansler street, from West Gold to Hawthorne. 81 Woodsode drive, from Cleve land to Church street. 9) Sherwood lane, from Sha ron drive to Victoria Circle. 101 Victoria circle. 11) Castlewood road, from Sherwood to H’ghwsv 74. 12) City street, from end of existing walk. Paving projects include: 1) Blanton street, from Stowe acres to Second street. 21 Meadowhrook Road, from Marion to Hawthorne road. 3) Ellison drive, from Grace to James street. 4) Meadow-brook road, from: Oakland -to Marion street, 5) Sherwood lane. from Sha ron drive to Victoria circle. 6) Victoria oiro’e. 7) Castlewood road, from Sher wood lane to Highway 74. Survey Results Awaited To Map Site Topography BY MARTIN HARMON Architects commissioned to de sign and superintend eortsrtruc tion of -the new area high school on Phifer Road decline to esti mate a possible date the board! of education may receive bids. Thomas W. Cothran of Archi tects Associated, Shelby, safe? Wednesday, “We will do our best to c-omply with the original aim (for occupancy). Naturally we’re pessimisitic.’’ Mr. Cothran -refer red to the fact it has been four months since citizens voted the monetary requirements and se lection of the site. He had remarked earlier to the receiving of bids question, “I wish we knew; we haven’t even started yet.” He explained that architectu ral work couldn’t begin until the Phifer Road site is surveyed and the school site boundaries estab lished. “The whole area must be map ped topographically. We’ll do that as quickly as we get the surveyor's report on the boun daries,” Mr. Cothran added. He guessed that sketches will be ready for presentation to the board of education in -two to three months. Original aim of the board of education, after the $1,100,000 borrowing authority was ap proved by district citizens on March 10, was occupancy for -the school year beginning September 1963. Stating the a major consider ation is supplying the building required (1200 students) within the limt of available funds, Mr. Cothran said, "I’ve built 15 schools and haven't missed yet/" Before he and Fred Van Wagen - ingen joined another group of architects in forming Architects Associated, the firm of Van Wageningen and Cothran were architect for Kings Mountain's North elementary school. Among other local buildings designed by the firm are the clinic of Dr. P. G. Padgett, th" Herald building, the Woman’s Club addition, and the residences of Dr. Paul E. Hendricks and o. W. Myers. Schools List 14 Vacancies Two teaching vacancies In the* city schools system were filler! this week, leaving 14 still open, Supt. B. N, Barnes said Wednes day. Employed Friday was Mrs. Carlton M. Millinax, of Gaffney, S. C. Mrs. Mullinax will be girls physical education and science instructor at Kings Mountain High school. A 1962 graduate of Limestone College, she holds a B. S. degr c in physical education, minosing in science. She had previoi'iv graduated from Gaffney Seri >r High school. While at Limestone ColJ g *, Mrs. Mullinax was editor f “The Lantern,’’ the school news paper, a member of the publi c tions council, vice-president cf the athletic association, a mem ber of Chi Bo!a Phi homvrr.-y scientific fraternity, a member of the legislative council, and a member of Chi Delta Phi honor ary literary society. Miss Sylvia Annette West, route 2, Kings Mountain resident, was employed early this week as teacher of eighth grade at Kings Mountain High school. She is a 1962 graduate of Wes tern Carolina College and did practice teaching in the Waynes ville city schools. She is a graduate of Grover High school. (Continued On Page Eight) New Quarters Here For Job-Seekers The Employment Security Commission headquarters on Thursday is being moved from City Hall courtroom to the National Guard Armory, effec tive next Thursday, July 19th.. Buell A. Bailey, manager the Shelby ESC office which furnishes itine-ant service in Kings Mountain one day a week, said that claimants should enter the Armory at the front entrance and thee will be served in the Drill Hall. Citizens seeking emDiovment and/or filing claims for unem ployment compensation are asked to note this change. Mrs. Jaimes Gibson and Mrs. Marion Dixon, both of Kingir Mountain, mann the ESC of fice here on Thursdays.