Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This figure for Greater Hugs Mountain is tatted from
the 185S Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
Units figure is from the United States census of i860.
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VOL No. 30
Established 1889
Seventy-Third Year
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Local News
Bulletins
BACK FROM VACATION
Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Gerber
ding and son, Tommy, will
arrive home this week from
vacationing in (Minnesota. Dr.
Gerfberding, pastor of St Mat
thew’s Lutheran church, will
fill the pulpit at Sunday mor
ning’s service.
ROTARY MEETING
Lex G. Barldey, district di
rector of the Gastonia social
security office, will address
Kings Mountain Rotarians at
their Tuesday meeting at
12:35 at the Country club. Mr.
I arkley will speak on a pro
ram arranged toy Rotary pres
dent Jack White.
CLUB SPEAKER
Charles F. (Mauney, official
of Carolina Throwing compa
ny, spoke on “Fibers In the
Textile Industry” at Tuesday’s
Rotary club meeting. Speak
ing on a program arranged by
Tom Trott, Mr. Mauney stress
ed particularly the role syn
thetics play in the textile
world. He is a Kings Mountain
native.
LUTHERAN SPEAKER
Dr. Leroy E. Blackwelder of
Gastonia, for a number of
yeans superintendent of the
Lowman Home, Lutheran
Home for the Aged at White
Rock, will fill the pulpit Sun
day morning at 10 a. m. and on
file following Sunday, August
5th, at Resurrection Lutheran
church- The pastor will be a
way on vacation.
AT PRESBYTERY
Dr. Paul K. Ausley, pastor,
Elder Luther Cansller and Dea
cons Bill Moss, Myers Ham
bright and Joe NeiSler, Jr., re
presented 'First Presbyterian
church at a meeting of Kings
Mountain Presbytery Tuesday
at First Presbyterian church
to DWlas.
ON VACATION
Rev. George Moore, pastor
of Resurrection Lutheran chur
ch, Mrs. Moore and eons are
vacationing for two weeks in
the mountains.
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Chirrs Flow, four-year-old-son
of Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Flow,
was discharged Friday from
Gaston Memorial hospital
where he has been a patient
for two weeks. Though he will
require a cast for five weeks,
he is “fine”, his mother reports.
Hie Flow family expresses ap
preciation for the cards mid
'gifts from friends and neigh
bors.
CAMP WEEKEND
Rev. James S. (Mann, pastor
of DbBon and North side Pres
byterian churches, will accom
pany Wis two congregations to
Kings Mountain Presbytery
Camp at Flat 'Rock this week
end. Sunday School will be
held at Dixon church Sunday
at 9:30 a- m. Worship service
is planned at the camp on Sun
day.
KIWANIS CLUB
Norman Hull-Ryder, public
relations director of Wix Cor
poration. will address Kings
^tountain Kiwanians at their
^Hgoday meeting. The club
^ronvenes at 6:45 p. m. at the
Woman’s club.
CAMP REUNION
The annual family reun
ion of descendants of the late
Manson Camp will be held
Sunday at Byrd Hunt between
Patterson Springs and Grover.
Picnic dinner will be spread at
1:30 p. m.
IMPROVING
Rev. Marion DuBose, pastor
of Kings Mountain Baptist
Church, is reported resting
comfortably and improving
dally at Kings Mountain hos
pital Rev. DuBose was hospi
talized July 15.
Mis. Padgett's
Sistei Passes
Ftmeral rites for Mrs. Jens
Moller, Jr., of Galveston, Texas
sister of Mrs. P. G. Padgett ol
Kings (Mountain, were held Mon
day, July 16th, from Galveston *
Episcopal church, interment fol
in the church cemetery.
Moller died after a mon
Mrs. Padgett, she ii
by a daughter, Mis:
Moller, of Galveston.
Dr. and Mrs. Padgett hav<
returned from Texas after at
the funeral rites.
Campbell Phifer
Rites Conducted
Hardwareman
Died Thursday
At Age Of 80
Funeral services for Campbell
Phifer, 80, one of Kings Moun
tain’s senior retail merchants,
were conducted Friday after
noon at Boyce Memorial Associ
ate Reformed Presbyterian chur
ch
Mr. Phifer succumbed at his
home Thursday morning at 10:15
following a long illness. Death
was attributed to uremic poison
ing.
A Kings Mountain native, Mr
Phifer, bom May 31, 1882, was a
son of the late William Butler
and Amanda Dixon Phifer. First
employed as a farmer iby the late
R. S. Plonk, (Mr. Phifer joined
D. M. Baker & Company, hard
ware merchants, in 1906, subse
quently became a partner in this
firm and purchased the firm in
1921. He changed the name to
Phifer Hardware Company, a
partnership with the late W. A.
Ware and George Camsler as one
sixth partners each. These owner
ship® were purchased in subse
quent years.
At his death, Phifer Hardware
Company was again a partner
ship with members of his imme
diate family.
A few years ago, Mr- Phifer
was awarded a gold hammer,
emblematic of a half-century as
a hardwareman.
A loyal churchman, Mr. Phifer
was an elder of the ARP church,
and before his illness, served for
37 years as treasurer of the
Church Sabbath school. i
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Minnie Ware Phifer, three sons,
Wendell Phifer, Marriott Phifer
and Menzell Phifer, all of Kings
Mountain, and a daughter, Mrs.
R. P. Anthony, Gastonia,
Also Surviving are six broth
ers, Arthur Phifer, Martin Phi
fer, Lloyd Phifer, Rufus Phifer
and Jake Phifer, all of Kings
Mountain, and Dempsey Phifer,
Susanville, Calif., and two sis
ters, Misses Minnie and Margar
et Phifer, both of Kings Moun
tain. Ten grandchildren survive.
The final rites were conducted
by the church pastor, Dr. W. L.
Pressly, with interment ih Moun
tain Rest cemetery.
Mr. Phifer’s funeral was the
first in the new Boyce Memorial
Church on Edgemont avenue
Active pallbearers were Paul
Ham, Jr., Garrison Goforth, Earl
Cloninger, Brown Ware, W. G.
Grantham, and R. M. Kennedy.
Honorary pallbearers were
other elders and deacons of Boy
ce Memorial church.
The family had requested that
memorials be made to the ARP
church building fund.
Privilege License
Penalty Date Near
Penalty for late purchase of
privilege licenses applies next
week, City Clerk Joe McDani
el, Jr., reminded yesterday. '
The law specifies a penalty
for late purchase of five per
cent per month on the cost of
the licenses due and payable
July i.
Penalty applies August 2.
Through Tuesday, Rings
Mountain industry and business
had purchased a total of $3,
390.25 in licenses, considerably
under the $5500 in license sales
.the city anticipates for the
pnrrArvf vpar
RITES CONDUCTED - Funera
for Campbell Phifer, 80, King
Mountain hardwareman, was
held last Friday afternoon.
Mis. Summers
'Tree Farmer"
BY ELIZABETH STEWART
Mrs. Bonnie Mauney Summers
Who cultivates local history as e,
hobby, is also a tree farmer.
Well-known for her histories in
the form of "family trees”, for
good management practices on
70 acres of woodlands, she has
earned a certificate this week
and a white “Tree Farm” sign
Which certifies she’s Tree Farm
er No. 900 in North Carolina.
The Summers woodland prop
erty is just north of the city on
Cherryville road adjoining the
Gaston County ine.
\As evidence of the belief she
and her late (banker husband,
Frank R. Summers, had regard
ing conservation, there is a six
acre shortleaf pine traet planted
26 years ago. As a further con
servation practice the tract was
later overplanted with bicolor
lespedeza, a favorite wildlife
plant. Two years ago Mrs. Sum
mers planted all the remaining
20 acres of open land on the
property in loblolly pine. During
the past several years she had
the older tree tract and seeded
areas selectively marked and har
vested.
Forester. John Weatherly of
Catawba Timber Company (Bo
waters), who inspected the Sum
mers woodlands Monday, noted
that landowners who practice
good forestry and grow continu
ous crops of trees are recognized
by the Tree Farm program,
sponsored nationally by Ameri
can Products Industries, Inc.
Commenting on Mrs. Summers’
certification as a tree farmer, he
said, “If more landowners were
as interested in good practices
as Mrs. Summers, North Caroli
na’s woodlands could be made
twice as productive. She is one
of those ladies Who is concerned
and cooperates in any effort to
practice conservation.”
A native of Kings (Mountain,
Mrs. Summers is a member of
one of Kings Mountain’s pioneer
families in establishing textiles
and hanking in the area. A
member of Colonel Frederick
Hambright chapter, DAR, of
which she has served as regent,
she is active in the work of St.
Matthew’ Lutheran church and
member of a garden club. Shi
maintains her residence on prop
erty adjoining her “tree farm,”
has beautifully wooded ground
and cultivates a profusion o
flnuuprs anH «hnnhR
City Gas Revenues Will Increase
To Record $234,725. Sav Engineers
The city's natural gas system
engineers anticipate heavy in
crease in gross revenues durinj
the current fiscal year and «
slight increase in net profits
Barnard & Burk, the engineer
ing firm, thinks the city wil
have gross revenues of $234,72!
—up $47,400 over the year ende<
June 30 — and net profit, aftei
fixed charge of $18,142.50 fo
debt service, of $71,405.
Meantime, operating costs, ex
elusive of debt service, are ex
peeted to rise $145,177.
i Increases are expected in al
categories of gas sales.
Purchases by residential cus
tomers are expected to rise b>
$14,000 to $109,340; by coimmer
dal customers by $17,000 to $57,
500: industrial sales by $18,50*
to $56,870; and sales profit t<
public institutions by $265 t<
> $9,015. Miscellaneous revenue
i are expected to drop by $2,25
to an even $2,000.
f Principal expected increase ii
• operating expenses is in punch a
ae of gas from TranaconGnen
l; ta>l Gas Pipeline Corporation to
$120,300. Labor is expected to
; cost $2,000 more this year, sup
1, plies to cost $500 additionally,
equipment maintenance to re
J quire $600 more, while other bud
[ geted items are anticipated at ei
1 ther the same figures as last
I year or have increased less than
: $100 each, excepting the five per
. cent salary raise for the gas sys
tem superintendent.
Debt service requirements in
clude bond redemptions of $10,
000 and interest payments of
j $8,142.50. The bond redemption
• will reduce the system’s bonded
indebtedness to $218,000.
W. E. Edwards, Barnard &
Burk representative from Green
) I wood, S. C., said here recently
> the large industrial sale increase
i is anticipated by addition of two
i firm contract customers, increas
) ed consumption by Kings Moun
tain Mica Company, Inc., and by
i Bennett Brick & Tile Company,
- which is doubling its brick-mak
- ing capacity.
Old Ferugson
Gold Mine Leased
To Canadian Duo
Mrs. Lenora Patterson Taylor,
of Gastonia, has leased .the old
Ferguson gold mine near the
South Carolina state parks to
two Canadians, who have begun
work in preparing the old mine
for re-entry.
Mrs. Taylor’s son, Caswell
Taylor, Jr., said the mine has!
been leased to Bill Doney and
Art Frankum, both of Toronto.
Mir. Taylor said the mine was
last worked in the thirties, first
by a company headed by his
late grandfather George V. Pat
terson, who owned the property,
and subsequently to a lessee.
He said the mine has four
shafts, with the deepest not more
than 110 feet deep with two or
three tunnels bored from the
shafts.
‘The lessees think there’s gold
there in sufficient quantity to
make mining it profitable,” Mr.
Taylor commented, adding, “and
we hope there is.”
The mine is located off the dirt
road known as the Apple Or
chard road, south of the road
leading from the York highway
to Kings Mountain National Mi
litary Park and N. C. Highway
216.
Mr. Taylor said he had furn
ished the lessees with old assay
reports of previous ore extrac
tions.
The federal government has
fixed the price of pure gold at
$35 per ounce.
Commission
Adopts Budget
The city board of commission
ers adopted the 1962-63 budget
and formally set the ad valorem
tax rate at $1.50 per hundred val
uation in a called meeting last
Friday.
The balanced budget of $761,
621 is virtually the same as the
budget which had been previouus
ly adopted.
Lower by $1392, the change
reflects payment by the city of
half of last year’s receipts from
sale of cemetery lots into the
cemetery perpetual care fund.
The $1.50 tax rate is appor
tioned as follows:
1) General fund, for general
expenses incident to operation of
the city 7.5 cents.
2) Debt service, for retirement
of the bonded debt and payment
of interest thereon 40.7 cents.
3) Capital outlay for making
permanent improvements 96.8
cents.
4) Recreation fund for main
taining a recreation program and
for upkeep of recreational e
quipment five cents.
The city again levied the $2
poll tax on all male citizens be
tween the ages of 21 and 50.
The budget, tax rate and poll
tax were adopted unanimously
on motion of Commissioner Ben
H. Bridges, seconded by Commis
sioner Ray W. Cline.
YouthDaySunday
At Macedonia
4 -I
Rev. Wayne Ashe, pastor of
Macedonia Baptist church, an
nounces today that Sunday will
be Youth Day at the church on
Grover road.
Each fifth Sunday is observed
as a day when the young people
take over leadership roles in the
church and have complete char
ge of the evening worship ser
vice.
The committee on planning ac
tivities for Youth Day includes
Mrs. Wayne Ashe, (Mrs. Vernon
Smith, and Mrs. Tommie Beam,
i Refreshment committee is com
posed of Mrs. Goldman Spears
and Mrs- Ruth Lynn.
The public is invited to attend
the special Youth Service.
Police Auxiliary
To Be Discussed
Plans for organizing a police j<
auxiliary for aid in the Kings
Mountain Civil Defense program ;
will be discussed at a public
meeting Monday at 8:00 p. m. ;
in the City Hali courtroom.
All persons interested in the
projected organization are en- ;
couraged to attend the meeting.'
Present for the discussion will i
be Don Shields, Cleveland Coun
ty Civil Defense director; J. Ol- :
lie Harris, Kings Mountain di-.l
rector of Civil Defense; Mayor;
Kelly Dixon; and acting - chiefp
of police Paul Sanders.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday
totaled $211.15, City Clerk Joe
McDaniel reported, including
$139.60 from on-street mertens,
$17.55 from off-street meters,
and $54 in fines for over-park
ing.
Henson, Tate Recommended
For Rural Carrier Positions
Ill
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CLASS GETS SEAMAN'S KNOTS - Mrs. H.
Glenn Campbell, wife of the nary skipper
whose ship. 'The USS General William O. Dar
by", has been "adopted" by a North school
sixth grade dess, is pictured above with dau
ghter, Lee Ann, in front of the exhibit Capt.
Campbell has sent to the teacher. Miss Janet
Falls. The 79 seaman's knots, used on sailing
vessels, are vari-colored and are displayed a
bove on black background. Mrs. Campbell and
her daughter came from Philadelphia to spend
last week here where the family may live
after Capt. Campbell's retirement in October.
The navy skipper became acquainted with
Kings Mountain from letters from pupils of
Miss Falls over a two year period. The Camp*
bells were photographed above in the Falls
home. (Photo by Claire Gilstad)
First Baptist Sets
Homecoming Rites
SPEAKER --Dr. E. V. Hudson will
be the speaker at Sunday's
Homecoming and Cornerstone
laying services at First Baptisi
church.
Russell Pairish
To loin Heiald
Russell Parrish, of Shelby, will
succeed Wade Hartsoe as Herald
shop superintendent Monday.
Mr. Hartsoe has resigned tc
loin the mechanical staff of the
jastorria Gazette and will begin
lis new duties Monday.
Mr. Parrish, a native of Smith
Held, will come to the Herald
from the Forest Oity Courier. He
las previously held positions at
Grange Printshop, Chapel Hill,
ind at the Morganton News
Herald.
Mr. Hartsoe completed five
/ears with the Herald in July. He
oined the Herald from the York
rtlle Enquirer, York, S. C. He
ind his family expect to continue
o live here in their Monroe av
‘nue residence.
"Hie Herald and its whole
staff regret to see Mr. Hartsoe
eave and regard his departure
is our loss and the Gazette’s
jain. We wish him well in his
lew work.” Martin Harmon, Her
ild publisher, said. ‘Concurrent
y," he added, “we are happy to
ye able to replace him with a
nan of Mr. Parrish’s experience
md ability.’
NO PERMITS
City officials issued no
building permits during the
past week.
Cornerstone
To Be Laid
At Ceremonies
Rev- E. V. Hudson of Gastonia,
former interim pastor, will
make the principal address Sun
day at Homecoming and Corner
stone laying services at First
Baptist church.
Former pastors and church
workers will take part on the
program.
The morning worship service
at 11 a. m. will be ‘broadcast via
Station WKMT. Rev. B. L. Rain
es, pastor, will deliver the -morn
i ing message.
‘Lunch will be served at the
; church at 12:30.
| Featured on the afternoon
| program, beginning at 1:30, will
| be a history of the church read
by Mrs. I. C- Davis, historian;
special music by the Rrofherhood
chorus, under the direction of
Allan Jolley; special music by
Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Pinnix of
Knoxville, Tennessee, and the at
ternoon message by Rev. (Mr.
Hudson. The Pinnixes are form
erly of Kings Mountain. Mr. Pin
- nix is a former -pastor.
The laying of the church com
j erstone will climax the afternoon
service.
The First Baptist church buil
ding, the first unit in a long-ran
ge building program, was com
pleted June, 1960, with first ser
vice on July 3, 1960.
Sunday will be the church’s
first homecoming service.
Former members and friends
of the church are issued a speei
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GRADUATES --James Thomas
Smith has graduated from N. C.
State college and won his com
mission as a second lieutenant in
the Air Force.
Smith Wins
College Degree
James Thomas (Tommy)
Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
bur G. Smith of Kings Mountain,
was graduated from North Car
olina State college at Raleigh.
'He received his commission as
a second lieutenant in the Air
Force and reports for active du
ty August 20th at Omaha, Ne
braska AFB.
Mr. Smith, who received his
bachelor of science degree in
mathematics and education, was
a member of the YDC and the
student NEA at State. He was
also a member of the advanced
AFROTC and vice-president of
his dorm.
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.
City Schools Faculty 14 Short
As Four More Resignations Given
Four teacher resignations dur
ing the past week brought va
i cancies on the city schools’ facul
1 ty to 14, Superintendent B. N,
: Barnes reported Wednesday.
Resigning are Miss Elaine
Falls, of Morganton, teacher ol
eighth grade at Central school;
Mrs. Frances L. Paysour Newby,
of Linoolnton, teacher of a third
fourth grade combination at
Compact; Mrs. Patsy P. White
side, of Gaffney, S. C., teacher ol
second grade at Grover; and
Mrs. Carolyn P. Roark, of Black
sburg, S. C.f teacher of fourth
grade at Grover.
Supt. Barnes lists vacancies asj
an elementary teacher for Gro-I
ver school, a fifth grade teacher
for Bethware school, a seventh
grade teacher for .North school,!
two primary teachers for East'
school, a principal for Park Ora l
ce school, an elementary school;
I librarian, a principal relief tea
cher, and high school teachers
! of math and Latin instructo-s
and an assistant high school
coach.
Vacancies at Compact school
include two for the high school
department and one elementary
teacher.
Democratic
Committees
Take Action
Bobby Eugene Hinson atid
Fred Tate have been recom
mended by Democratic precinct
committeemen of the Kings
Mountain area to fill the two
rural carrier vacancies at Kings
Mountain postoffice.
Democratic committeemen of
East Kings Mountain, Bethware
and West Kings Mountain pre
cincts mot at City Hall court
room Wednesday afternoon, with
13 of 15 members present. The
two recommendations will be
forwarded to United States Rep
resentative Basil L. Whitener,
who had requested the recom
mendations of the three commit
tees.
Present at the meeting was
Clint Newton, of Shelby, county
Democratic chairman, who will
forward the recommendations to
the Congressman.
The men recommended were
placed on the four-man eligible
list by the postoffice department
after competitive civil service ex
aminations given to about 75 ap
plicants last year.
Tile committees, by unanimous
voice vote, declined to reconsid
er a prior request toy Donald W.
Crawford, postoffiee clerk, that
he 'be recommended for transfer
to one of the rural carrier posi
tions.
Henson, who placed first on
•the examination, is an employee
of McCoy's Service Station. He
is a Marine veteran, with seven
years of service, and previously
was a member of the Kings!
Mountain National Guard unit.
Tate, who lives on Bethlehem
Road, is an air force veteran and
employee of Lithium Corporation
of America. He finished third on
the competitive examination. He
is a brother of Oliver Tate, par
cel post deliveryman at the post
office.
Others on the eligible list are
Boyd Howell, and James J. Alex
ander, both are air force vet
erans. Howell placed second and
Alexander fourth.
Congressman Whitener has
not indicated when he would file
his 'recommendations with the?
postoffiee department, but the
department asked that they be
received by August 5.
Postmaster Charles L. Alex-an
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 $1783 per annum, plus
ten cents per mile operating ex
penses.
Rute 2, covering 68 miles pet
delivery day, carries a basic sal
ary of $5095 per annum, plus ten
cents per mile operating expen
ses.
All members of the precinct
committees present signed the
formal recommendation.
Present were Willard Boyles,
Clyde Short, Mrs. H. A. Goforth,
and J. D. Jones, Bethware; J.
Ollie Harris, Mrs. J. E. 'Lipford,
S. A. Crouse and Leonard Smith,
East Kings Mountain; and Hugh
D. Ormand, Wilson Crawford,
Mns. F. A. McDaniel, Jr., Mrs. J.
T. McGinnis, Jr., and Martin Har
mon, West Kings Mountain.
The voting was by secret bal
lot.
Gas System Bids
Due On Tuesday
Bids on an estimated $38,000
to $40,000 in additions to the
city’s natural gas distribution
system will be received by the
board of commissioners Tuesday
morning at 10 o’clock.
Four firms have already paid
the ten dollar fee for engineer
ing plans and specifications for
installing four regulator sta
tions, and a six-inch booster lii.e
from tile York Road high pres
sure line on Gold street to Cans
ler street, thence north on Cans
ler street to Kings Mountain Mi
ca Company.
The Gold street line would
proceed also to Sims street, then
north to Mountain, then west to
tie in with the present Phifer
Road line to increase capacity to
this area and Bennett Brick &
Tile Company.
The work will require about
two miles of six-inch steel pipe,
the engineers, Barnard & Burk,
state.