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Si I Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 Thl* figure for Greater King* Mountain I* derived from the 1955 King* Mountain city directory ceneus. The city Units figure Is from the United States census af I960. 14 Pages Today VOL 73 No. 32 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 9, 1962 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Craftspun Buys Parkdale Property; Price $125,000 Eviction Of Shelby Library Notice Has Overtones Here CANDIDATE — Donald Patter son is a candidate for a master's degree Saturday from the Uni versity of Florida. He is a Kings Mountain native. Don Patteison To Win Master's Donald Patterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Patterson of Kings Mountain, will be gradua ted with a master’s degree Sat urday from the University of ■Florida at Gainesville. Mr. Patterson, who holds a (bachelor of science degree from Western Carolina cdlleger .te- a l^nemlber of the faculty of Pom llPpano Beach high school. He ex pects to continue work on his doctorate this fall. Alter college graduation, Mr. Patterson taught three years in Washington, N. C., and subse quently joined the faculty of the Pompano high school where he also does student counselling. He is a Kings Mountain native, gra duate of Kings Mountain high school. Mrs. Patterson is the former Patricia Ann Coe of Chicago, 111. Some 524 candidates for de grees will receive diplomas this weekend in summer commence ment exercises at Florida Gym nasium on the campus of the University. Local News Bulletins NO FIRES City firemen reported no alarms during the past week. MASONIC MEETING ^ Regular meeting of Fairview ■bdge AF & AM 339, will be held at the Lodge hall Monday even ing at 7:30. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $199.25, including $139.05 from on-street meters, $40.50 from ov er - parking fees, and $19.70 from off-street meters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., repor ted. KIWANIS Dr. Eugene Poston, president of Gardner - Webb college, will re port on his recent trip through the West and Canada at Thurs day’s Kiwanis club meeting. The civic club convenes at 6:45 p.m. at the Woman’s club. meeting date changed Kings Mountain Optimists are meeting each first and third Thursday evenings at Cotton wood Restaurant, W. J. Cantrell has announced. The civic club had been holding weekly meet ings. IMPROVING Miss Carlyle Ware is reported improving after suffering a ■ght stroke several weeks ago. ss Ware is taking physiother apy treatment at Mountain San itarkun, Fletcher, N. C., locates near her summer home at Bon darken. IMPROVING Rev. Marion DuBose, pastor of Kings Mountain Baptist Church, is steadily improving at King* Mountain hospital. Rev. DuBow became ill several weeks ago. (Sty Of Shelby Wants County To Take Library By MABTIN HARMON Action by the City of Shelby board of aldermen Monday night to notify the Shelby Public Li brary board that quarters for the library in Shelby city hall will no longer be available after June 30, 1963, has overtones for Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Libr ary here particularly and for taxpayers using the Kings Mountain library specifically. Though the Shelby city com missioner’s 4 to 3 action of Mon day merely posted an eviction notice, prior discussion of board members and previous state ments by Mayor Harry Woodson and City Attorney A. A. Powell indicate that the present think ing of the Shelby aldermen is to conclude its library function. Meantime, the Shelby Daily Star is advocating establishment of a county library, with a special tax to support it. Should such a development oc cur, where would Jacob S. Mauri - ey library stand in the arrange ment? Currently, the Shelby library is supported by the City of Shel by and Cleveland County. Figures in the 1960-61 offi cial North Carolina report on li braries showed the Shelby li brary had current income of $17, 363, a City of Shelby appropria tion of $6,665, a Cleveland Coun ty appropiration of $4,470, and state aid of $3,416. Volumes of books totaled 23,347, with circu lation of 103,000. The same source listed Jacob S. Mauney library incomes as $1840 from current income, $900 from the City of Kings Mountain, and $500 from Cleveland Coun ty As far as the Kings Mountain Library is concerned, current in come includes over - due fees (there is no membership fee), profits from teacherage room rentals, and income from the Kings Mountain United Fund, budgeted at $1,000 and pro-rated an basis of United Fund budget paid. Volumes of books totaled 3496, with circulation of 26,000. The Kings Mountain library is the property of the City of Kings Mountain, and represents a 1947 gift by the Jacob S. Mauney :amily. Given as a library and eacher’s residence, the inference was that, as library space de mands grew, the combination Duilding would be used less f6r a teacherage and more for a li (Continued On Page Eight) GUEST MINISTER — Dr. C. C. Warren. former pastor of Charlotte's First Baptist Church -'ll speak at services Friday morning at Kings Mountain Bap tist Church. Dr. Wanen Guest Minister Dr. C. C. Warren, former pas tor of First Baptist Church of Charlotte, will be the guest min ister -at Kings Mountain Baptist Church for the Sunday momirtg worship services. Dr. Warren served as pastor of Charlotte’s .First Baptist Church for 13 years. He was president of the Southern Baptist Convention for two years. While president, he challeng ed tne convention to establish 30,000 new churches, millions of preaching stations by 1964. Adopting the plan, the conven tion asked Dr. Warren to head the movement. He has been serv ing in this capacity for three years, headquarters in Char lotte. During his leadership in the program 12,000 new churches missions have been started. McGills Of Gaston Set Annual Reunion The annual reunion of Mc Gills of Gaston will be held at Bethel Church Arbor Wednes day, August 15th. A program will begin at 11:30 a.m. to be followed by the customary picnic dinner at 12:30. Dr. George Plonk is presi dent of the clan and Mrs. Mar riott Phifer is secretary-treas. urer. Kings Mountain, Shelby Libraries Started Small As Citizen Efforts By MAHTIN HARMON Jacob S. Mauney PubQic Libr ary here and Shelby Public Li >rary had similar beginnings. The Kings Mountain Herald, dited by Haywood E. Lynch, ditorialized in the mid-thirties hat Kings Mountain, “the Best Town in the State,” should have i public library and invited con tributions to launch it. Editor ,ynch 'recalls that some $250 vas subscribed quickly and the ibrary was shortly in business, jsing quarters in the basement af City Halil. Library personnel jvas either volunteer or paid via the federal National Youth Ad ministration program. Many books were donated by citizens, subsequently, the library be came a Woman’s Club project, in 1947, the Jacob S. Mauney family gave the present building, fully - equipped, to the city as a memorial to their parents and the library name was changed to its present one. Financing since has been lim ited, derived from small city and county appropriations, donations, and profits from teacherage room rentals. Mayor Harry Woodson, of Shelby, at Kings Countain City Hall last week to admire the city’s gas system operation, says that the Shelby Public Library had similar beginnings. Shelby Mayor for 24 years, Mr. I Woodson recalls that a group of citizens seeking to launch a li brary in much the same way, asked modest aid from the city. The city’s first add was to pay the llibrary’s rental of a second floor in an uptown store build ing which was $480 per year. Subsequently, Shelby was to build a City Hall and the library board, supported meantime by donations from interested citi zens, asked that space for the library be included in the new City Hall. It was, the Mayor says, with Che express stipulation that when city work required space, the library would have to vacate. "That time has now come,” Mayor Woodson said. “We can make eight offices in the quar ters now occupied by the libr ary.” Meantime, financing of the Shelby library became a joint project of the city and county. Recently, the Shelby Library board asked the county to up its library appropriation, and the county board did, on promise that the Shelby council would increase its library appropriation by the same amount But the Shelby council refused. Subse quently, County Chairman Knox Sarratt said that the additional county money, though appropri ated, would not be expended. Shelby library income for 1960 61 approximated $32,000. Kings Mountain library income fox the same year totaled $3240. Henson And Tate To Take Caniei Posts August 18 The postoffice department has notified Postmaster Charles L. Alexander of the appointment of Bobby Gene Henson, 513 Land ing street, and Fred A. Tate, Route 2, as Kings Mountain post office rural carriers. The appointments are effective August 18, provided medical ex aminations prove the appointees physically fi/t. The appointments will fill va cancies created toy the retire ments of Lloyd Phifer and W. B. (Bill) Logan, the latter due to physical disability. Which routes the two men will be assigned depend on decision of Bryan Hord, senior permanent rural carrier, as to which route he prefers. Mr. Hord has ten days in which to determine whether he will retain route 3, or choose one of the other two. Onetime route 2 carrier, Mr. Hord exercis ed his privilege previously to transfer to route L Since retirement of the regular carriers, the routes have been handled by Substitute Carirers Edwin Moore and Ervin Hughes. The rural carrier appointments were made on recommendation of United States Representative Basil L. Whitener, Gastonia Dem ocrat, who in turn honored rec ommendations of the Bethware, East Kings Mountain and West Kings Mountain Democratic pre cinct committees. In thre competitve examina tion for the two vacancies, made from the group finding in the first four positions, Mr. Henson, an employee of McCoy's Service. Station, was rated first, while Mr. Tate, an employee of Lith ium Cirporation of America, placed third. Henson is a nation al guard and marine corps veter an, while Tate is an air force vet eran. In the competitive examina the following base pay compen sation, Postmaster Alexander has stated: Route 1, covering 55.62 miles per delivery day, carries a basic salary of $4783 per annum, plus •ium Corporation <oiI America, penses. Route 2, covering 68 miles per delivery day, carries a basic sal ary of $5095 per annum, plus ten cents per mile operating expen ses. Route 3, covering 60.55 miles, ■arries a basic salary of $4903 per annum, plus ten cents per mile operating expenses. Postmen Get Promotions Designation of the Kings Mountain postoffiee’s auxiliary mounted route (city route 5) to a permanent route has resulted in several new personnel assign ments and promotions, 'Post master Charles L. Alexander an nounced Wednesday. J. Oliver Tate, career substi tute, was named a regular em ployee. Lalon L. Franks, career sub stitute, was named a regular em ployee. W. B. McDaniel, temporary em ployee, was promoted to career substitute. Howard Smith, temporary em ployee, was promoted to career status. The Postmaster explained that, until a postal employee is ap pointed a career substitute he is not eligible for permanent ap pointment. The Postmaster fills vacancies in the regular force from the career substitute list, with the exception of rural car rier vacancies. The postoffice is permitted one career status em ployee for each five regular (per manent) employees. The assignment changes are: Lewis L. .(Luco) Falls, a per manent employee and formerly city carrier 3, wi'l become the city mounted route carrier. Mr. Franks will be the regular utility carrier. Mr. McDaniel and Mr. Smith will be substitute utility men. The Postmaster observed that all of the postoffice’s 22-man force will be either permanent or career status employees. The other career status men are Donald Crawford and Ken neth Pruitt. RADIO DEVOTIONS The Rev. R. L. McGaha, pastor of Temple Baptist Church, will deliver morning devotions via Radio WKMT Monday through Friday next week at 9:00 a. m. daily. BOY SCOUTS TO CAMP — The Boy Scouts pic tured above, 55 members of St. Matthew's Lu theran church Troop 91, are at Schiele Scout Reservation for a week of camping. The cam pers are among many from the area who have been away on church, scout-sponsored or fam ily camping trips this summer. Tony Coins ac companied the group, largest delegation of campers this season, to Tryon on Monday. Part of their trip was financed via a troop-spon sored watermelon slicing recently. (Photo by Claire Gilstad) Many Local rolk like Outdoors Record Group Of Troop 91 Scouts At Camp By ELIZABETH STEWART Summertime — and the living's easy, especially for campers. July and August have been busy months for local camping enthusiasts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and some other 'folk, too. Fifty-five Boy Scouts from Troop 91 of St. Matthew’s Luther an church and a group of seven from Troop 294 of Resurrection led toy Sherman Perry left Mon day for a week at Schiele Scout Reservation at Tryon. Monday The St. Matthew’s delegation, led by Tony Goins, is the largest group from a Kings (Mountain troop to attend camp. Earlier this season, 18 hoys from First Presbyterian church made the trip. Three Kings Mountain Scouts and Scoutmaster Don Crawford returned last week from Cimar ron, New Mexico, where they spent 30 days at Philmont Scout Ranch. Making the trip were George Webb Plonk, Danny Pin (Continued On Page Eight) Masonic Building To Be Auctioned The Masonic Temple Building at the corner of West Gold and Cherokee streets will toe offered at public auction next Wednes day morning at 10 o’clock. The property, owned by Dr. D. M. Morrison of Shelby, is a two-story 'brick building. The ground floor includes four 25 x 50 foot store fronts, Dr. Morri son said Wednesday, three of them being occupied toy Kings Mountain Farm Center and the fourth toy Liberty Loan Compa ny. The second floor houses a lar ge dining room and the lodge hall of Fair view Lodge AF & AM. Dr. (Morrison said the building returns $2472 annual in rentals. Monthly rentals, he said, are: Masonic Lodge $35; Kings Moun tain Farm Center $125; and Lib erty Loan Company $46. The building occupies a poor tion of the former Lottie Gofor th property, Which Dr. Morrison purchased at auction in July 1945. The building toeing offered for sale was constructed subse quent to 1947. Selling agents are Carolina Land-Auction Company, of Hic kory, of whom J. B. Nolan Com pany, Shelby, is representative. Gene A. Saine will be the auc tioneer. Dr. Morrison said the offering will not include the kitchen and (fining room equipment of the second floor banquet hall, as tMs property is Jointly owned toy the Masonic Lodge and himself. Intangibles Tax Rebate Increases City income for the year has already exceeded 'budget antici pation in one category — the in tangibles tax rebate from the state. Check received this week was for $8,805.96, up $1409.23, or a bout 16 percent over the $7396.73 'budgeted, same amount received the preceding year. Pro-rated to funds on basis of the current tax rate, the money accrues as follows: Debt service, $2386; general fund $449; capital outlay $5679; and recreation fund $290. Blood Gifts 118 Pints Mauney Hosiery Mills and i Carolina Throwing Company em ployees donated 44 pints of blood at Monday’s visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile. Goal of the visit, 125 pints, was | almost exceeded. Kings Moun tain area citizens gave 118 pints i of blood at the one-day colleo : lion at Kings Mountain Baptist ; church. Spokesman for the blood pro : gram expressed apreciation fo; the generous response to the bloodbank and listed these don ors: James Bennett, Loyd D. Early, T^eonard A. Smith, Lawrence R. Lovell, Mrs. Mary Jane Stewart, Mrs. Bonnie H. Owens, Boyd C. Riley, Raymond Cox, F. A. Brad ley, David Allen, Mrs. Linda M. Splawn, Herman J. Pennington, Joe S. Wyte, Guy E. Powell, Mont Bridges, Jerry L. Lockridge, Tom my Wyte, William A. Pryor, Mrs. Lydia Putnam, Mrs. Ruth E. Blanton, George H. Mauney, Mel ba B. Bell, Samuel Adams, Em mett E. Ross, James E. Herndon, William M. Herndon, James Crosby, Wayne Anderson, Wil (Continued On Page Eight J Burke Citizen Awaiting Trial Commits Suicide A Burke county grocer, soon to go on trial for manslaughter in the traffic accident death of Tillie Arrowood, 20 - year - old Kings Mountain student at Ap palachian State Teachers college and another ASTC student, Ray mond Cash, Cowpens, S. C„ shot himself fatally at his Burke county home Monday. Zollie C. Peeler, 66, owner of a general store south of Morgan ton, was found dead shot once in the head, a .32-calibre pistol near his body. Coroner John W. Reece ruled the death suicide. The accident occurred during rain on Sunday, March 25, when the PCeler car and the small foreign-make Cash car collided. Three other passengers in the Cash car were injured, while Peeler had sustained minor in juries. Peeler had been charged with reckless driving and with two counts of manslaughter. He had been found guilty on the charge of reckless driving. Trial on the manslaughter charges had been scheduled for the term of Burke Superior Court starting Monday. News dispatches reported his family as saying he had boon “grieved” concerning the death of the two ASTC students and had been worried concerning the upcoming trial. Friends of Mrs. Madge Arro wood, mother of Tillie Arrowood reported her of being one o! complete forgiveness, minus any animosity, toward Mr. Peeler Mrs. Anrowood had sent him a card of sympathy after the ac cident and had attended pre liminary hearings on the indict ment. Attorney James West, of the firm of Horn, West & Horn, Shel by, said his firm had been re tained to represent Mrs. Arro wood concerning Mr. Peeler’s civ il liability in the accident, which already had been settled. Mr. West said his information at the time of the conversations was that Mr. Peeler was in poos health. Fred W. Plonk Made Co-Defendant In $450,000 Damage Litigation 'Fred W. Plonk, well known Kings Mountain citizen, has been i named as a co-defendant in four civil suits for $450,000 brought to Gaston county Superior Court by the estates of Ray Adams Co xey and Margaret Ullian Cbxey, killed in a June 13, 1961, accident on N. C. 216 just outside the city | limits. Original defendants In the four \ cases are Metro-Atlantic, Inc. a j Rhode Island trucking firm, and ■ Bruno Beceari, driver of a truck involved in the double fatality accident. Also named plantiffs in the suits are the Goxeys' two child ren, Grady Michael, 7, and Judy Pay, 13, both of whom were in jured in the wreck. I Suit was originally brought a gainst the trucking firm and the driver, Mr. Plonk was named eo defendant in a court order re quested by the trucking firm and signed by George Holland, assist ant clerk-of-court. The trucking firm’s answer denyed liability, and if liable, not Wholly so. The firm maintains Mr. Plonk made a sudden stop, forcing the truck driver to lose control of his ve hicle. The trucking firm asserted in answering the suite that the tractor - trailer hit the Coxey car as the result of trying not to hit the ear in front of it. Mero-Atlantic asks that the Ooxeys recover nothing, and if judgment should be rendered a gainst the firm, that Plonk inj (Continued On Page Eight) I Craftspun Plans To Utilize Idle Plant Not Known By DAVID BAITY Sale of the Parkdale Mills, Inc. property, formerly known *s Loom-Tex Corporation, to Craft.* spun Yams, Inc., was conclude)! this week, deed of transfer fomnjj filed for recortHng In Register of Deeds Dan Moore’s office W«at nesday. The measure had heen an un conflrmed rumor among textile industry circles here. Robert Lowe, general manager of Craft spun, declined comment last week. Mr. Lowe was oirtof-townr Wednesday and could not foe reached concerning planned iwe of the property. The Federal 'Documentary Re venue Stamp attached to tlae deed indicated sale price at fgjrZS, 000. Patkdale purchased the p»m perty on January 30, 1961, for $70j000, using it 'for warehousing cotton. The Parkdale property i.s vir tually adjacent to the Oraftspun property, being separated only by the Southern Railway right of-way. The property includes about 6.5 acres and 'buildings with some %,000 square feet of floor space, including the building occupied by Frank Ballard’s Parkdale Store and the Phendx Barber shop quarter's. Idle since the early nineteen fifties, the plant once employed, well over 200 persons. Owned briefly after World War II foy Burlington Industries, the plan!*" was sold by Burlington to Du Court Mills Company, whictv went bafonkrupt. It was subsequently purchased by interests of the late I jester Martin, then owner of many tex tile operations. These owners? v sold more than 70 houses ac quired and removed all operat ing machinery from thej plant in 1955. Oraftspun Yarns, Inc., is a wholly - owned subsidiary of B-V-D Corporation, acquired through a Pennsylvania federal court order after Craftspun’s for mer owner, Scranton Corpora tion, went into bankruptcy. Scranton was one of the ma ny firms "raided” 'by Alexander Gut erma, now in federal prison. The initial Craftspun plant was remodeled and renovated for yarn production, and the firm ' recently putting into production ’ a 32,000 square foot knitting plant Which, at last report, em ploys 56 persons and operates on a three-shift, five-day-per-weefc schedule. The knitting firms manufart tures men’s underwear. Rites Conducted For Mr. Dettmarr Funeral rites for George Wif liam Dettmarr, 57, of Gastonia, brother of Laney Dettmarr, Mr Havana Davis and Mrs. Hubert Metcalf of Kings Mountain, were held Tuesday at 11 a m. from Cramer Memorial Methodist churdh. Mr. Dettmarr died suddeoly Saturday afternoon while ve,c,a tioning at Carolina Beach. He had been associated v Lb Cramcrton Mills since 1927. Other relatives include his wife, Mrs. Thelma Carpenter Dettmarr; his father, William Dettmarr of Gastonia; a brother, Clyde Dettmarr of Charlotte, onr: time resident of Kings Moim tain and two sisters, Mrs. Floya * Bridges and Miss Bertha Dett marr, both of Gastonia. Rev. W. H. Yokley officiated at the final rites, assisted by Rev. Clyde E. Murray, associate pas tor of First Methodist church. In terment was in Gaston Memorial Park. Retailer Picnic Set For Wednesday Kings Mountain retailers and their employees will gather for the annual employer - employ ee picnic Wednesday at 7 p. r at Bet'hware school cafeterias A large crowd is e.vDectert k> attend, Mrs. Luther Joy, lifer Chants Association secretary said. Women of El Bethel Metho dist Church will serve the meal. Tickets which may 'be obtain ed from the association office, are $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for Children. The arrangements commit tee for the outing includes Ben H. Bridges, W. X>. Miorrison and Mrs. Sue Young.