North Carolina Newspapers

Population __ Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 Thb figure for Greater Hug* Mountain b derived Iran the 1355 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of i960. Pages Today VOL 73 No. 29 Established 1889 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins L LODGE MEETING An emergent communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic Halil, Secretary T. D. Tindall has announced. REUNION The annual Whitesides - Crawford reunion will be held at Pisgah ARP church July 24th with a business meeting at 6 p. m. to precede the serv ing of dinner. All friends and relatives are invited. KIWANIS MEETING Kiwanians from Shelby and Kings Mountain will gather for a joint meeting and family picnic Thursday at Bethware school cafeteria at 7 p. m. Supper will be prepared by wo men of El Bethel Methodist church. IMPROVING NICELY L. A. Hoke, well-known Kings Mountain businessman, is improving nicely following his recent hospitalization. Mr. Hoke is recuperating at home and is able to receive visitors. ESC OFFICE MOVES The Employment Security Commission office now has headquarters at the new ar mory. Claimants should enter the armory at the front en trance and they will be served In the Drill Hall. Citizens seeking employment and/or filing claims for unemploy ment compensation are ask ed to note this change. SUMMER SERVICES The summer series of union services was concluded Sun day night with a service at the new Boyce Memorial ARP church. Dr. W. L. PMSgly, pas tor, delivered the evening mes sage. Union services this sum mer have attracted good crowds. DOING WELL Miss Carlyle Ware was re ported doing well Saturday following a slight stroke Thursday. Miss Ware was ta ken U1 at her summer home in Bon darken and is remaining there under a nurse's care. IMPROVING Rev. Marion DuBose, pastor of Kings Mountain Baptist church, who was taken ill Sunday is in Kings Mountain Hospital. He is reported im proving, but is not allowed visitors. NO FIRES City firemen reported no fire fire alarms during the past week. OPTIMISTS MEET Members of the Optimist dub of Kings Mountain will meet in regular weekly sess ion Thursday at 7:00 p. m. at the Cottonwood Restaurant on Highway 29. Safety Council • To Hear Heaton Dr. George D. Heaton of Char Qotte will address members of the Blue Ridge Safety Council at their annual supper meeting at Brackett’s Cedar Park Thursday, July 26th. A guided tour of Pittsburgh Plate Glass company at Shelby from 2 until 4 p. m. will precede the supper meeting which begins ■at 6 o’clock. An entertainment program will begin at 7:15 after which Cleveland Representative Jack Palmer will welcome guests and Dr. Heaton will make the address. Special awards will be made by H. S. Baueom, director of safety of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. Supper tickets at $1.55 may be purchased by contacting Ben H. Goforth, Jr., safety director, Pitts burgh Plate Glass Company, R. 4, Shelby, or by telephoning for reservations. Mr. Goforth and Bill Laughter, both of Kings Mountain, are members of the Council’s board of directors. Joe Austin, formerly of Kings Mountahin and now of Gastonia, is chairman of the board. Harry Matthews of Shelby is vice-president of the Council and other officers are from the seven-county area of Burke, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mc Dowell, Polk and Rutherford counties. i Site Surveying Is Well Underway Turner Expects To Complete Work By Friday BY MARTIN HARMON Surveying of the new high school site is well underway and should be completed not later than Friday. J. D. Turner, of Lawndale, reg istered surveyor, is doing the survey. The tract, expected to include approximately 79 acres, will cost about $26,500. Two gifts reduce the optioned price by a minimum of $12,500. Neisler Brothers, Inc., owners of about 20 acres, are giving this portion of the property, while the Phifer Estates, owners of the remainder, are giving five acres, in addition to the area optioned at $500 per acre. The Phifer owners had offered the board of education an op tion, either a gift of five addi tional acres, or purchase of five additional acres at the option price with the Phifer owners to make the schools a $2500 dona tion toward a stadium fund. The board of education elected to accept the gift of five addi tional acres. Architect. Thomas H. Cothran, Superintendent B. N. Barnes re ported, has begun preliminary work on making a topographi cal map of the school site. Mir. Cothran said last week that he couldn’t complete this work un til the school site boundaries were established by the survey and further said that topograph ic mapping of the whole area was mandatory before proceed ing with the making of detailed plans and specifications. ......A, ry-.-r.. He estimated initial sketches should be ready for perusal by the board of commissioners within two to three months but declined to guess a possible bid date. The board of education had hoped that the new high school building would be ready for oc cupany at the beginning of the 1963 school term. Mr. Cothran said he doubted this timetable could be met, but that he and his associates would endeavor to meet the initial aims of the school officials. Knitting Payroll Now Numbeis 55 The new knitting operation of Craftspun Yarns, Inc., the B-V-D subsidiary, now has all machines in place and is operating on a five-day-per-week, three - shift schedule, Manager Bob Lowe said Wednesday. The firm now employs about 55 persons in the three-shift op eration, Mr. Lowe said. Taxable valuation of the new Craftspun addition, according to the recent assessment is $381,000. Tax assessments are based on 70 percent of 1945 values. Bethware Cannery: Who Owns It.... ? Who owns the old community cannery building at Bethware school? The Bethware Progressive Club wants it repaired for use during the upcoming Bethware Fair and has offered to furnish the labor required if the board of educa tion will supply about $550 in materials. This the board of education indicates willingness to do, pro vided the owner (whoever, or whomever) will provide the school district, owner of the pro perty, with a bill of sale or oth er conveyance of the building. The law stipulates that no school monies shall be expend ed on other than school proper ties. Superintendent B. N. Barnes says Trustee Holmes Harry con curs, that the same situation oc curred at Grover. In that instan ce, the owners were known and gave the building to the board of education, and necessary im provements were made. Trustee H. O. Williams was as signed the task of locating the Bethware cannery’s owner at Monday night’s board session. In other actions the board vo ted to continue membership in the North Carolina School Board association at dues of $125 per year and approved payment ol teachers during 1962-63 on .the 25th day. ou each month. LICENSED -- David Kincaid has won registration as a profession al engineer, he was notified this week by the state Board of Reg istration for Professional engin eers and Land Surveyors. Kincaid Wins Engineer License David Kincaid, of Kings Moun tain, has been notified of his registration as a professional en gineer by the North Carolina Board of Registration for Pro fessional Engineers and Land Surveyors. The licensing meant that Mr. Kincaid had 1) passed the two day examinations of the board and 2) had completed four years of work in 'his chosen field. Mr. Kincaid was graduated from North Carolina State col lege in 1957. He was subsequent ly employed by 'Warner & Swa sey Company, Cleveland, Ohio, for two years and since that time has been chief engineer of Ideal Machine Shops, Inc., Bes semer City. Mr. Kincaid, a son of Mr. and Mrs- Arnold W. Kincaid, is mar ried to the former Miss Lossie Lynch, also of Kings Mountain Local Scouts At Philmont Danny Finger, Lyn Cheshire and George W. Plonk are among 30 members of the Piedmont Council of Boy Scouts attending an expedition at Phiflmont Scout Ranch, near Cimarron, New 1 Mexico. Scoutmaster of the group is Donald W. Crawford, of Kings Mountain. Dennis Cloninger, of Lincoln ton, and Coy Reece, of Hickory, are assistant scoutmas ters. The Piedmont Council group arrived at the Philmont Scout Ranch July 15. The ranch is lo cated in the northeastern part of New Mexico in the Rooky Moun tains. Danny Finger, reporter for the Kings Mountain group, in a July 18 letter said the expedition left the Schiele Scout Reservation on the morning of July 7. The group will be at the Philmont ranch for a 12-day program. The three scoutmasters will take charge of a 10-boy group, exploring three different parts of the 127,000 acre ranch. The groups are tagged Red, Yellow, and Brown patrols and the scout leaders are Larry Davis, Bill Heafner and Malcomlb Childress. On the journey to the scout ranch, the North Carolina dele gation traveled over 3,000 miles, covering 12 states. They visited Fort Knox, Ken tucky; St. Louis, !Mo-; Denver, Colorado; Yellowstone National Park; and several air force ba ses. The group is slated to return to Schiele Scout Reservation on August 1. Richard Spencer To Attend Seminary Rev. Richard Spencer and his family will move to Louisville, Ky., in mid-August, where Mr. Spencer will enroW at Southern Baptist seminary. Mr. Spencer, onetime manager iof Dellinger’s Jewelry, has been pastor of Putnam'Memorial Bap tist Church, of Shelby, for the past four years. He is a gradu ate of GardnerAVehb and Lime stone colleges. LIONS CLUB Butler Falls will be speaker at Tuesday night's Lion’s Club meeting at 7 p. m. at the Wo man’s club. Mr. Falls will re port on his trip abroad on a program arranged by Howard Bryant. Mr. Bryant, member ! of the program committee, i made the announcement. Fifteenth Year: Bethware Fair Plans Underway The fifteenth annual Bethware Community Fair is slated for September 12-15 at Bethware Scfhool, according to an announ cement this week by Frank Ham rick, president of the Bethware Progressive Club, sponsoring or ganization. The annual kick-off barbecue will be held August 22. Members of the Progressive Club have been busy drawing up the official fair catalog, the pub lication to be off the presses in a few weeks. Officers for the fair have been named and include Frank Ham rick, president; Willard Boyles, vice-president; John O- Patter son, secretary; Harold Hord, treasurer; Dale Vollbraoht, as sistant - treasurer; Myers Ham bright, manager; Cameron Ware, assistant manager; John ny W. Patterson, superintend ent of grounds; Dale Voll'bracht, assistant superintendent of grounds; Tom Hamrick, superin tendent of parking. Also Grady Seism, assistant superintendent of parking; Sto kes Wright, superintendent of parking admissions; Bill Bagg and Paul BCli, assistant super intendents of parking admis sions; Dale Voll'bracht, superin tendent of tickets; Melvin Nantz and Menzell Phifer, assistant superintendents of tickets; Hal Miorris, superintendent of fire works; Stokes Wright, superin tendent of commercial booths; Johnny W. Patterson, assistant superintendent of commercial booths; J. W. Rayfield, superin tendent of construction; and A. L. Putnam, Boyd Harrelson and Bob Porter, assistant superin tendents of construction. Director of the agriculture de partment is Boyd Harrelson; horticulture department, Came ron Ware; farm and machinery department, Grady Seism; and school exhibits, R. G. Franklin. Organization of the Women’s Department has not yet been an nouaqpd^.. Program for the fair includes a 4 p. m. opening Wednesday, September 12; Children's Day to follow on Thursday. The fair will feature midway rides and shows and firework nightly. Prize drawings will also be held nightly The Bethware Community Fair is approved by the North Carolina Department of Agri culture and is a member of the North Carolina Association of Fairs. Parents Are Urged: Caution Cyclists Mayor Kelly Dixon issued a plea to parents this week to caution their bicycle-riding children that they, too, like motorists, must obey traffic rules. “Infractions of these rules —such as running through red lights, riding bikes on the wrong side of the road, and general carelessness in heav ily trafficed areas — have been observed frequently, and while members of the police department warn the children when they see them, they don’t see them all,” the Mayor I said. Parents should warn their | children, the Mayor said, add i ing, “It would be tragic to have | a youngster injured, maimed I or killed.” Natural Gas System Profits $69,648 For Year Just Ended lint Baptist Homecoming To Be July 29 Laying of the cornerstone will feature Homecoming Day servi ces July 29th at First Baptist church. Dr. E. V. Hudson, of Gastonia, a former interim pastor, and Rev. L. C. Pinnix, a former pas tor now of Knoxville, Tennessee, will participate in the day’s pro gram. Dr. Hudson will bring the afternoon address following the laying of the cornerstone and Rev. and Mrs. Pinnix will pre sent special music. Allan Jolley, First Baptist minister of music, will direct the Brotherhood Cho rus in singing special numbers. Rev. B. L. Raines, pastor, will (bring the morning message at 11 o’clock after Which picnic lun ch will (be spread. The afternoon program will begin at 1:30 p. m. Former pastors, 'former mem bers and visitors will foe recogni zed at the afternoon service, Mr. Raines said. The special offer ing will go to the church build ing fund and goal of a “love of fering” is $1,000. Mrs. I. C. Davis, church histo rian, will read the church history as a feature of the afternoon program The all-day service, the chur ch’s first homecoming, is expect ed to attract a large crowd of members, former members and visitors. Members of the Cornerstone committe are James White, Fred Weaver and Lee Dixon. The pro gram committee on arrange ments includes the pastor, the minister of music and Johnny Beam, chairman of the board of deacons. Two Employed Foi Bethware Two more faculty members have been employed for the co ming school term, Superinten dent B N. Barnes said Wednes day. Mrs. Jack Shull and Mrs. Lou ise McWh'irter, both of Shelby, have been employed as teachers for Bethware elementary school. Mlrs. Shull attended Gardner Wetob college and was graduat ed from Limestone college in January of this year. She Studi ed subsequently at Lendir-Rhyme college. She had attended How ard’s Business college in 1953-54. Mrs. MOWhirter is a graduate of Flora MacDonald college in 1960. She subsequently taught for two years at Tryon school in Gaston county and has studi ed at Eastern Carolina college and Gardner-Webb college. Three faculty replacements had been employed previously, as had a guidance counselor, a faculty addition. Twelve vacancies remain. NO PERMITS City officals issued no build ing permits during * the past week. Skipper 01 North School Class' "Adopted" Ship May Retire Here BY ELIZABETH STEWART A sixth grade class from Nor th school “adopted” a ship two years ago and now the Captain and his family may move to Kings Mountain. Mrs. H. Glenn Campbell and six-year-old daughter, Lee Ann, have been house-hunting here all week and have indicated they may rent and build later. The navy captain has three more trips to Germany and back be fore his retirement from the Na vy in October The family is from Pennsyl-j vania. Why do the Campbells want to by, says she likes Kings Moun- j tain. Capt. Campbell has become ae quainted with Kings Mountain from letters written him by Kings Mountain students. Mrs. Campbell, who has been | visiting Miss Janet Falls, the t^adher whose class "adopted” the USS General William O Dar says she likes Kings Mountain. Miss Falls’ sixth graders met Capt. Glenn Campbell — by mail —two years ago. '“Our friendship has been a most rewarding one,” Miss Falls said. The class first applied to the navy for adoption of a ship in the Atlantic area and after a bout two years was assigned the USS William O. Darby. The youngsters write letters to the ship’s captain and he ans wers each letter at length, Miss Falls noted. In geography lessons, the class mapped the ship’s travels and Capt. Campbell and his crew sent gifts from various ports of call. Large framed certi-' ficates acclaim the boys and girls as members of the Royal: Order of Atlantic Voyagers and of the Darby club. They’ve received Darby hats and numerous displays which fill a large Darby bulletin board in the Classroom. The ship’s newspaper carried stories from time to time about the North; Carolina class which had adopt ed her and these have been add ed to the display More recent gifts for the class to use in their studies arrived from the ship this week. The Campbells, who are stay ing at Holiday Inn in Gastonia, expect to be here until Sunday. They were luncheon guests Wed nesday "Ot Miss Falls and her fa mUy on Waoo road. I Sewage Problem Said “Pressing” ———jail mu" iiiiinnsaa—tmmm WINS HONOR •• Eagle Scout Larry Patrick, 13 - year - old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Pat rick, won his gold palm award at Thursday's Court of Honor. A member of Troop 90, he has al ready earned his bronze palm. Shelby Declines Library Increase According to report in the Shellby Daily Star, Shelby’s cib council declined this week to in crease an appropriation for the public library. Concurrently, Mayor Harry Woodson, aldermen, and Shelby City Attorney A. A. Powell in dicated they felt Shelby was ov er-sharing in the library’s sup port — a joint project of the City of Shelby and County of Cleve land. The Star quoted Attorney Po well: “Everytime the county gi ves the library $1, the taxpayers of the city are paying 30 cents of that. The library is a county project and Should be run as a county project. Let’s have an election and let the people of the county vote. Meantime, the county had bud geted an increase of $1,500 (to $8,500) on testimony of library officials that the City of Shelby would match the county’s in crease. The joint appropriations provide operating expenses for all Shelby liibary operations, in cluding the bookmobile. i Following the city action, County Chairman Knox Sarratt indicated the county increase might be withheld. Meantime, Treasurer Max Hamrick told the Herald, the county commission appropriated $500, as has been customary for several years, to Jacob S. Maun ey Memorial Library here. Joe Huidt Joins Archery Club Joe Allan Hurdt, a corporal in the United States Marines sta tioned at Subic Bay in the Philli ppine Islands, holds the distinc tion of being the fartherest-away member of the recently organ ized Confederate Archery Club. Hurdt was received as a mem ber last week by Treasurer T. C. McKee. Hurdt is with the Seventh Fleet operations in the Laos a rea and expects to be discharged from the armed services in three months. He plans to work at Fibre In dustries after discharge. McKee said he heard of the newly organized club in a letter from home and wished to be come a member as soon as pos sible. His dues were received by mail Thursday. McKee reported the archery course, located off the York Road, is nearing completion and the group hopes to get into ac tion soon. Yea'-Iv membership dues in the arcnery dub is $5.00. Mayor Reviews 1 Water Pollution Public Hearing “The pollution of Beason’s Greek will be a pressing problem in the near future,” Mayor Kelly Dixon informea*the board of city commissioners Thursday nighit. Quoting a statement made at the public hearing Thursday in Shelby on the pollution prob lems in the Broad River Basin, Mayor Dixon said, “The first Battle of Kings Mountain was fought on a mountain in 1780 over taxation; the second will be over Beason Creek.” Mayor Dixon attended the public hearing with city engineer C. K. Dickson. Mr. Dixon told the board the problem of the city’s contribution to the pollution of the creek; must be considered and he’d like the board to be thinking a bouit it. The board took no action. In a recent Teport of the state stream sanitation committee on the Broad River Basin, a recom mendation was made that "The City of Kings Mountain should employ the services of competent consulting engineers for the pur pose of planning and installing adequate and efficient treatment facilities for the sewage and in dustrial wastes originating in the city, in order that the bene ficial uses made of the receiving streams will be preserved, com plaints will be prevented, and health hazards will be avoided. In view of the mutual responsi bility as to the pollution in Bea son Greek, the City and Mass achusetts Mohair Plush Com pany should endeavor to seek a common solution to the prob lem.” Kings Mountain has four sew age outfalls into creeks of the Broad River Basin: 1) The Ware plant, on Potts creek, described as “poorly op erated and maintained . . . de sign capacity unknown and grossly overloaded.” 2) The Mauney Plant on Bea son Creek which “appears (to be at least 200 percent overloaded." 3) Kings Greek Plant No. 1, near Superior Stone Company. 4) Kings Creek Plant No. 2, lo cated at Superior Stone Com pany, and said to be poorly maintained. The city acted last January to protect the Buffalo Creek water shed area as a future source of! water supply. Included in the Broad River Basin, the watershed! includes 126 square miles. A mong its contaminators is the! Ballard treatment plant of the City of Cherryville. At the public hearing at Shel-i by High School Thursday, Cam-< eron Ware, operator of a 120- ac-! re farm bordering Reason Creek! said, “Beason Creek is one of the wor-J st polluted streams in this part! of the state and the worst poliu-j ted in Cleveland County. “This condition has been brou-| ght about by the dumping of un treated industrial waste from! Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company into it at one point,; and by the Ciy of Kings Moun tain releasing waste into it from a domestic treatment plant that apparently is overloaded and; which does not appear to have proper maintenance.” Mr. Ware noted his chief rea son in trying to get Beason Creek cleaned up is an economic one. He said his gross farm in come has been reduced at least! $10,000 a year over the last 10 years because of the pollution. He presented a petition from others on Beason Creek “who! are experiencing similar con ! ditions.” Dairyman J. C. Randle told the group he has lived on Beason] Grek for over 40 years. “I hope to live long enough to see the stream clear again,” he said in recommending adoption of the classifications that pertains to the creek. J. V. Whitfield, chairman of the committee on pollution, th-ew cold water on hopes for (Continued On Page £ight) . Auditors Say Sinking Fund Excess $47,000 Kings Mountain’s natural gas system showed an operating profit for the year ended June 30 of $69,648.25, the system’s au ditoils have confirmed. The total, though some $3,000 over the mid-June estimate of City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., is about $2,000 less than the oper ating profit of the previous year, in spite of increased sales- Mr. McDaniel said he hasn’t yet ana lyzed the cause of the slight de cline. The surplus will provide $8822 for the renewal and extension fund to its required $50,000 and Will leave $60,698 for the sinking fund. Of the sinking fund total $18, 142.50 must he retained againet the current year's bond repay ment requirement of $10,000, due October 1, plus $8,142.50 interest on the other 'bonds outstanding, indicating an excess of $47,000 inin the sinking fund including credit balances at June 30. Meantime, Mr. McDaniel re ported a slight miscalculation in the city surplus, reported last week at $77,553. The new figure is $76,026, but the $1500 difference is still city money. Half of last year’s re ceipts for cemetery lot sales are required to be put into the per petual care cemetery fund, and the check to this fund hadn’t at June 30. The surplus is divided among these funds: general $32,215; debt service $6180; and capital fund $37,630. In the current year’s budget, already tentatively adopted, only the debt service account is per manently earmarked. The other monies, or approximately $70, 000, can be appreciated accord ing to the will of the board of commissioners. The tentative budget earmarks ail of the a mount — and $98,000 more to capital outlay. City Again In Boat Biz The city of Kings Mountain voted iitself back into the “boat business” at the regular session of the city fathers Thursday night. Mayor Kelly Dixon reported to the board of commissioners the city had been offered a good quality row-boat for a price of $40, and the board voted to pur chase it and four more, if Die price is the same. Commissioner Eugene Gofor'.h said he feels the city should place boats at the old city water lake for use of fishermen who aren’t fortunate enough to own one. Other commissioners general ly agreed. The city at one time had boats at the lake but voted the:mel ves oat of the business some six years ago. In other action the board: 1) Voted, on an "if and when” basis, to curb and gutter Lin wood Drive from Cleveland Ave nue east to the city limits; pave Blanton Street addition from the west side of Stowe Acres to its dead-end; curb and gutter S. Cansler Street from W. Gold Street to Hawthorne Lane; and pave, curb and gutter Crescent Circle from Joyce to Marion Street. 2) Authorized Mayor Dixon and Grady Yelton to investigate curbing needs on Phenix Street. 3) Authorized Mr. Yelton to work up an estimate on a 14 inch water line tying the filter plant on Deal Street to an 8 in ch line on Deal street. The mea sure would increase water pres sure to the Sadie Mill Area. Saturday Water Cut-Off Scheduled City water customers south Falls street Will be without water service for several hours Satuixiay afternoon, weather permitting. Mayor Kelly Dixon has announced. The city water department is moving a fire hydrant to a new location to remove the hindrance to entering the ex panded A & P Tea Company parking lot. Weather permitting, the wa ter department workmen will do. the. job Saturday afternoon.