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. Pages Today VOL No. 30 Established 1889 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS 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 “* ” t .* 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