Popnlation Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This tb* 19! Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 30, 1962 ■ S SR is m A ■ Pages Today VOL 73 No. 35 Established 1889 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Architects Ready To ’’Place” School Local News Bulletins HAS OPERATION Sam Weir, Kings Mountain in surance salesman, is a patient |n Chaiflotte Memorial hospital, Inhere he is recuperating from an urological operation he un derwent August 21. RADIO DEVOTIONS Rev. George Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, wii conduct morning devotions over Radio Station WKMT each morning next week at 9 a.m. RESUMES SCHEDULE Resurection Lutheran church is resuming the fall schedule of services, with Sunday School at 9:43 a,m>, morning worship at 11 a m. and Sunday evening ves pers at 7:30. Services have been held earlier during the summer months. RELIGIOUS PROGRAM Mrs. Carl Fisher, Bible teach er in the Kings Mountain schools, wil present the pro gram at Monday night’s meet ing of the Junior Woman’s dlub at 7:30 p.m. at the clubhouse. Mrs. Fisher will speak on a pro gram arranged by Miss Mary Al ice McDaniel. REVIVAL Evangelistic services begin Sunday at the Tabernacle of Love on Second street. Rev. John Savage" will lead the services nightly at 7*3&p.m.and the- in terested community is invited. UNIFORM REQUEST Jake Early requests that all Pony and Teener League play ers who still have their uniforms to turn them in to him immedi ately. If necessary, Jake will pick them up if those having uniforms will call him at 739 4278 or 739-4742. PRIVILEGE LICENSES Privilege license sales and penalties have totaled $5171, on ly $329 less than anticipated re ceipts far the year from this revenue category, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, - Jr, said Wednesday. He noted that penalty will ad vance Monday to ten percent of the license cost. __ RECEIPTS _ m*tpr receipts tor the week ending Wednesday mam* toe totaled S300.70, including $142,60 from on-street? meters, $39 from over - paitonjr m& ttti $19.10 from off-street meters, ttdoei MpDfnkd.^j'es ’ lah. EEvmoit ‘ The annual reunion of the Pe ter and Polly Lail family will be at> Bethlehem community Clubhouse Sunday. A brief busi ness session will precede dinner to be spread picnic style. New dicers will be elected. ^hdld ^lubl CUDB NIGHT SATURDAY Club night at the Country Club Saturday will follow a football kick - off season itheme with dinner to be served begin ning at 7 p.m. Hosts far the evening will be Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Goforth, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Glee E. Bridges. Leaders Listed In Baby Contest First week leaders in the baby contest being sponsored by Cal vary Pout Square church were reported Monday. Leader is Nancy Owens, dau ghter if Mrs. Ruth Blanton Owens and the late Ear] Owens who is sponsored by Otis D. Green Post 155, American Leg ion. Runner-up is Tony Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Martin, sponsored by Kings Mountain ^loose Lodge 1748. ■ Second runner - up is Tommy “mith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Lee Smith, sponsored by Vic tory Chevrolet Company. Proceeds from the contest will be used by the Calvary church in its building program. The contest continues through Sep tember 22. Topographic Study 0! Site Near Complete By MARTIN HARMON Architects for the new high school plant are ready to confer with the board of education con cerning specific Ideation of t he high school plant on the seventy plus acre Phifer Hoad site. “There are several possibili ties,” Architect Fred Van Wagen ingen said Wednesday. “We’ll suggest the one we think best, get the board’s ideas, then also confer with the Division of School Planning of the State-De partment of Public Instruction.” Meantime, a partially complet ed topographic map has been obtained on the high school plant site, and the complete topograph ic report is due early next week, Mr. Wageningen added. The architects previously have declined to foresee a bid date on the new plant to accommodate area high school students, though it was Indicated a minimum of three months from the site se lection date would be required for preliminary sketches. •Kings Mountain school district citizens voted in March to auth orize the borrowing of $1,100,000 to build the high school plant. There followed considerable dis cussion and attention to Site se lection before the Phifer Road site was chosen on 3 to 2 vote. Initial hopes of occupancy of the bidding by the opening of the 1963-64 term a year hence ap pear unlikely of fruition. Work Will Begin On Two Projects Two city projects are getting underway. Initial work was begun Wed nesday, Mayor Kelly Dixon, said, toward improvements to City Stadium, which will include building of dressing rooms for athletes, and rest room facilities for spectators. Work is to begin Thursday morning or Friday on expansion of the natural gas distribution system. Representative of the contract or, C. N . Flagg & Company of Charlotte, was here Wednesday and said equipment for instab ling the new lines and regulator stations will arrive Thursday, the Mayor said. High School Banco On Fridgy Evoning “The stall'or Kings Mountain Milestones, high school year book* will tpowBW n.dwatthe fjSrt o’clocXufwaai anncMinced. itfljjcrs. Grady Howard, faculty director. te.wM i* pttayed by Tfie The dance will be a welcome danCe'rfoif - stude'htSt" anff a fare well dance tor recent graduates, Mrs. Howard Mid Admission will be 75 cents per person. -. « • • KIWANIS CLUB Bill Bates, Kings (Mountain high school football coach, will present the program at Thurs day’s Kiwanis club meeting at Q:45 p.m. a tthe Woman’s dub. DIHECTOR — «. S. Peeler, Jr., has been named a director of the Gastonia Little Theatre, which begins try-outs for its first per formance of the season on Tues day. Theatre Group Names Peeler B. S. Peeler, Jr., Kings Moun tain lumberman, has been nam ed a director of the Gastonia Lit tle Theatre, President George Gray has announced. 'Mr. Gray also announced that try-outs for “Send Me No Flow ers,” the theatrical group’s first production of the season, will he held ‘ Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Little Theatre building, Clay St Extension. “We’re calling on talent from both Gaston and Cleveland counties and particularly urge all interested Kings Mountain people to attend. We need you and want you to feel that Gas tonia Little Theatre also belongs to you as to Gastonlans. .” he added. The first show of the season, “Send Me No Flowers,” a Broad way comedy hit, tells the story of a man who believes he is about to die, after he hears the family doctor taming - bn the phone about antttber patient, who is dying. Hilarious compli cations set in, when all of the in cidents that follow fit the same pattern. Gray added, “There will be a little difference this year in the scheduled of the performances. We’ll play only on the week ends.” The show will run six per formances, Thursday, Friday and Saturday on two successive weekends, Oct. 11, 12, 13 and Oct. 18, 19, 20. For a contrast, the second show of the season will be high ly dramatic. “The Bad Seed,” is the story of a smal girl with a sadistic nature, who is respon sible for several deaths and ac cidents. In February, musical) lovers will get their chance, when a song and dance specta cle will be presented In th« form of “Music Man” or “Carou sel.”/ Public opinion will make the decision, Gray added. sued during the past wefelc. ' • A permifwas Issued Monday to Kings Mountain Machine Works, Inc., to build a one ston building on Deal Street betweei King and Gold Streets. Hie $2, 400.00 structure is to be used a a machine shop. J. Wilson Crawford was issue* a permit Tuesday to build a on< story house at 911 Sharon Drivr Estimated cost of the resident is $15,000.00. Charter Volunteer Charles Hilling Quitting Fire Department Frida; By MARTIN HARMON “I suspect that fire siren will still waken me," thinks Charles G. Dilling, volunteer fireman since organization of the Kings Mountain fire department, and retiring Friday. His fire-fighting experience has been long and varied-officially since May 22, 1931 and has in cluded many experiences, some tragic, some painful, some hum orous. The most tragic was the death of Volunteer Carl Davidson, ano ther charter member of the force, who was killed answering an a larm when his car skidded on the wet street. The fire: a garbage can near Central school. Fireman Dilling and the de partment’s first chief, the late Grady W. King, had the distinct ion of fighting the department’s first fire. Mr. Dilling recalls that the 1991 La France fire truck had just arrived and was housed in Mr. King's Garage (now Grigg Garage). Early in the morning. Chief King was answering an * larm to the Sid Morris home at the corner of Gamier street and I Waco road. Mr. DilUng jodnet him. “There were only three joint.1 of hose but we hooked up am fought the fire hard. All we save was the concrete steps to th< front pordh.” he recalls. 'Fire - fighting methods have changed in the intervening 31 years, most beneficial, from the standpoint of property loss, the use of foam in fighting smaller fires, rather than water. “We could do a better job if wt knew where the fire originated but usually that’s camouflaged b? smoke. Water damage in all bui the major fires, was usually greater than fire damage.” he comments. Mr. Dilling has fought some di sastrous fires here, among the major ones he recalls being the Central school fire of 1932, the fire which gutted Southern Bel) Telephone Company's exchange in the forties, and the fire in the Peeier Thomasson building, then occupied by Griffin Drug Com pany now occupied by the barber shop of Fire Chief Pat Hgnor. (Continued On Page Ten) Schools Enrolled 4163 Wednesday City's Taxable Valuation Total Is $11,743,371 Taxable valuations of the City of Kings Mountain should total $111,743,371, up handsomely by $875,000 over last year’s taxable valuation of $10,857,516. lAs previously reported, all of and increase is attributable to business and industry, while per sonal valuations dropped slightly. Tax supervisor Joe McDaniel Jr., guessed that the valuations of individuals Showed a slight de cline largely through deprecia tion of personal property, chief ly automobiles. Autos are listed for tax purposes by Wholesale value. The increase in taxable values will produce a tax levy of ap proximately $178,000, including the $2,360 from the city’s two dol lar poll tax on men between the ages of 21 and 50. This compares to the $165,000 approximate total of last year and to the $145,000 the current city budget estimates will be pro duced from the $1..50 per $100 ad valorem tax rate. Assuming 90 percent collections during the fiscal year, which Mr. McDaniel thinks will be attained easily, the tax levy Should pro duce a surplus of $15,000. All taxable values are on the ledgers with the exception of Southern Railway Company’s, which is included at last year’s $188,000 figure. This valuation is supplied by the State Board of Assessment. ASC Election Starts Friday Mail balloting will begin Fri day fat annual voting for com munity committeemen in the an nual election of the county Agri cultural Stabilization and Conser vation service. Five committeemen will be e lected from each county’s 11 townships. Number 4 Township nominees are: H. K. Dixon, Wayne Bess, Hugh Falls, Nevette Hughes, Leo nard Gamble, Eugene Patterson, Otto Williams, Stough Wright, Tom Hamrick and Ben Hamrick. Number 4 Township nominees aiWilHam A. Wright, T. 2. Hord, A. A. Barrett, Earl Eaker, Cole mail Goforth, Robert F- Ware, Charles E.v Gbforth, Kenneth Wright, Horace Eaker and Olff ordHamriVk." Ballots will be mailed to farm ers by the ASC office. . City and county tax collecito** we busy "writing reeelpt* this vcek as taxpayers rush to pay .962 tax bills and earn the full wo percent discount. Joe McDanieQ, Jr., acting city ax collector, said $28,429 had *en credited to 1962 tax ac counts by the city through Tues lay and he anticipates large ej ections through Friday’s full • liscount deadline. “Only a couple of the larger axpayers who •normally dis ount in August have paid,” he ■ommented. County Tax Coil lector Robert f. Gidney, said he’d been too tusy writing receipts to provide n up • to - the - minute total, nit guessed that "Wednesday’s ►ayments would put the coun y’s pre - payments well over 500,000. He said payments Wed- j lesday would approach $100,000. ] “We had about 45 percent of j he tax levy in August last year nd we should attain that per entage this year,” Mr. Gidney aid. Both Mr. Gidney and Mr. Mc ianiel said payments should be nade by the close of business 'riday to earn the full discount. Iowever, both said that full dis •ounts will be honored on all nailed payments where post narks not later than August 31. Retailer Directors To Meet Thursday "Directors of the Kings Mour tain Merchants association will convene Thursday morning. Principal items of business are decisions: 1) On Christmas season pro motions and/or activities. 2) Publication of a new city directory. Members have beet, polled on the two question*. TO LEAD WORKSHOP — Harvey Woodruff, director of choral mu sic at Charlotte college, will lead a community-wide choral work shop hove Tuesday. Thursday and Triday, Choral Workshop Begins Tuesday Harvey Woodruff, director of choral music at Charlote College, will be leader of a choral work shop next .week, Tuesday, Thurs day and Friday at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist church in Kings Mountain. Mr. Woodruff has had exten sive arperienee with this type of meeting, and has been active in many of the summer assemblies. •» All who are interested in chor al music are invited to attend. The workshop is sponsored by Central Methodist church, Tem ple Baptist church, Resurrection Lutheran church, Bethlehem ■Baptist "chtirch,' Grace Methodist church. First Presbyterian church, Kings Mountain Baptist church, and First Baptist church. Others are urged to attend. instruction will be for the avei age choir member, and of a prac tical nature. Five ainthems will be used. Each person attending will be expected to purchase an anthem packet. Cost for the workshop will be one dollar per person each ses sion. This is a city-wide inter-de nominational project, and any who are interested are invited. Call 7^9-3166 for information about this workshop. E. E. Marlowe's Father Passes Funeral rites for Barsley Adol phus (Marlowe, 83, of Raleigh, fa ther of %. E. Marlowe of Kings - at fr\Mr. Marlowe, prominent - to ba«oo fanner, former educator *nd Well-known State Highway and Pufhlic Works,; Opnunlasfon ctfflfcial of the Old Dock commu nity, tiled last Tuesday in Oolttm bus County hospital after a brief illness. ffe was the son of the late Rev. Jesse M. and Mary Anne Gore Marlowe. Mr. Marlowe was a member and active worker lr the GW Dock Methodist church He had been a teacher in th< schools of Columbus County, wa later employed by the Count; and State Highway Department# as bridge foreman, and was sap iotendent of Prison Camp 062 at the time of his retirement sev eral years ago. Other survivors include hi# wife, Mrs. Sarah Annie Whit' Marlowe; three sons, Lowed Paul and Philip Marlowe, all < ' Whitevtlle; two daughters, Mrr Bumese Cox of Loris. S. C. and Mrs. Howard Gore of Whiteville: and 33 grandchildren. Rev. Donnnie 'Davis officiate:' at the final rites. Stores To Close On Labor Day Only a minority of Kings Mountain citizens will take a holiday on Labor Day Mon day. Majority of the city’s retail ers will he closed for the day, as will financial institutions, the post office, and a lew oth er establishments. Industry will work on reg ular schedule. And Monday will be the fourth day of the 1962-63 term — and no holiday. The retailers will close next Wednesday afternoon as us ual, Mm. Luther Joy, secretary of flhe Merchants association, said. Temple Baptist Church To Call Bonds October 1 Temple Baptist Church has notified holders of dts first mort gage 'bonds that it is calling the bonds for redemption as of Oc tober 1, with Interest payable to that date. The dhureh embarked on what, for the church, was a neiw means of financing a 'building program in early 1959. The church was authorized ito issue $60,000 in in bonds. W. W. Moorehead, treasurer, said a total of 82 bonds of various denominations was issued, but he did not recall the gross amount of bonds sold. The amount Sold was not the fully authorized amount Ben iH. Bridge, secretary treasurer of Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association, said the dhureh had arranged a loan at his firm as a refinancing loan for redeeming the bonds out standing. He said it had been indicated the Church would re quire from $28,000 to $30,000 for this purpose. . “I understand,” he added, “the church contemplates no immedi ate building program, though the change in financing arrange ments might pre sage a building program in the nenarer future.’ He said the church had more than met its 'bond committments and had decided the benefits of a direct reduction plan of debt retirement would be beneficial. The Temple church bonds carry interest coupons of five percent, payable on April and October 1 to maturity. Rev. R. L. McGaha, pastor of the dhvirch,, was out-of-town Wed nesday and not available for comment. (First Union National Bank Is paying agent. Driver Errors Cause 2 Wrecks City police were called to in vestigate two wrecks during the past week. Estimated damage to the vehicle involved was $390. Saturday both drivers were charged with failure to see movement could be made in safety when a taxi driven by Tunior Gene Short of 114 Center St. struck the side or a vehicle driven by George Barrett, 915 ?nd St. Barret was attempting to make * left turn off 2nd Street when Short’s taxi hit the left side. Damage to the taxi was esti mated to be $200 while Barrett's damage was estimated at $100. Wednesday Joseph Boss of Sfyelltf, was charged with failure t<r yield rfgfht-»T-way When he ooffided with * vehicle driven by Ruby Y-arbro Prim of Charlotte. Both ears were traveling .west on King Street when the Boss mr cut into the Prim car from, the left turn lane. Damage to the Prim car was estimated at $60 and to the Ross car $30. MANAGER — Miss Roberta Hum! has boon appointed man ager of the contract fabrics de partment of Massachusetts Mo hair Flush Co., Inc. Barringer Here On Wednesday Carroll M. Barringer, Who classifies himself as “more close ly to being a Goldwater Republi can”, was visiting in Kings Moun tain Wednesday in behalf of his candidacy for United States Con gressman from the tenth district. He referred to Senator Barry Goldwater, Arizona Republican. iMr. Barringer, who is challen ging Congressman Basil L. Whitener, of Gastonia, is a Ca tawba county oil distributor, lumberman and farmer. He commented only on two major issues. He favors, he said, taking the federal government out of the farm business as quickly as possi ble. He acknowledged such a change of policy would not bg possible at one fell swoop, but compared the farm subsidy pro gram With hlis mission (Luther an) Church. .He says initial con tributions of the Board of Miss ions are gradually decreasing year after next will be elimin ated entirely. On the question of the Kennedy Administration’s foreign trade bill, in which the President would be empowered to enter into trade agreements with foreign nations. Candidate 'Barringer said, “I don't believe we can help this nation by continuing to increase Imports and putting some indus tries on the public dole.” 'He commented specifically on textiles, major industry of the tenth district, as harrassed by imports. Miss Hnifstetlei Wins Diploma OVHssJPattie Huftetetler, daugh ter of Mr- and Mrs. Andy Huff stetler, was graduated last week from. Charlotte Memorial Hos pital School for Medical Records Technicians. : Miss Huffstetler was an honor student. She is also a graduate of Kings Mountain high school.. iA talented musician, Miss Huff stetler Is pianist for Penlcy's Chapel Methodist Church. Exchange Student Susan Hoad Goes Ta CkIimI l|?AnM PSmU I i o acnooi — wears ruix laipsncK By ELIZABETH STEWART Susan Hoad’s Kings MountaVi family were expecting her Iron Australia last Wednesday. Sh( >«a*me Kings Mountain’s fount) 'xehange student Friday, arm1 ng at Charlotte airport as he: lew father passed out cigars. Muss Hoad, 17, was late for alid reason. Her plane had a ay-over in Hawaii. The 106 stu dents on board had a Hawaiian holiday. A sixth-generation Australian ’’rom a family of four, she gains an older sister, one her own age. two younger sisters and a brother in this country. A natural broth er, Rodney, age TS, is at home in Balwyn, Victoria with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Charles Hoad, importers and tex tile merchants. Her Kings Moun tain adopted parents are Dr. and Mrs. George Plonk. “How do you like Kings Moun tain?” “Ah, I love it. everybody is so nice and the Plonks are just wonderful”, she replied in her British accent. Miss Hoad, after her first day of school in America — at Kings Mountain high school as a senior — says she finds school life here different, but “great fun.” In Melbourne, she was a stu dent at an all-girl school, Pres bytertan Ladies college. jflfppe school day was from 8:30 a. m. EXCHANGE STUDENT — Susan Hoad, of Australia, is the com munity's fourth exchange stu dent under the AFS program. She arrived Friday to make her home for the slhool term with the family of Dr. and Mrs. George Plonk. until 3:20 p. m. She commuted j to school *na oack five miles via three Hrams (streetcars) and a jus, studied English expression tnd literature: American history; (Qmtiwwd On Page Ten) Baines Reports Class Overloads At Minimum Kings Mountain district school pupils — 4163 of them — went to school Wednesday for orien tation day activities and will begin full-day schedules Thurs day. Wednesday’s activities includ- • ed enrollment, issuance of books fee payments and assignments. Orientation day enrollment was one short of last year’s 4164. Superintendent B. N. Barnes predicted an enrollment increase during the first few days of school, a normal occurrence. Pleasantly surprising to school officials was the fact only 16 would-be first graders had to be refused enrollment because they had not been immunized against small pox and other corrununi- • cable diseases. Kings Mountain high school logged 952 students, up 98 from last year’s orientation day, and sufficient, as expected, to quali fy the school for an additionally allotted teacher by the state. How much total enrollment will be or how it will compare with last year’s figures, Supt. Barnes declined to predict. “As you know,” he remarked, “we anticipated less elementary pu pils and more high school stu dents. Opening day enrollments could be compared at mo-it schools, not at Bethware, due to assignment shifts. At Bethware, bulwarked' by the addition of former Central eighth grades, enrollment jump ed to 588, up 195 over last year. Compact enrollment was down slightly, by two in the high school to 198 where Principal L. L. Adams anticipates an in create, and dlwn 27 in the ele mentary school, from 371. Park Grace was ail even at 207, while space - shy Weat was down one ait 327. East school showed an increase of ten at 447, and Davidson recorded a decline of ten at 328. North school enrolled 378, off 26, but anticipated by Principal Howard Bryant, who says atten dance is chronically low at this school during the initial two to three days. Grover recorded 378, off 17 from last year. Central school is housing this year only the high school, with exception of the special educa tion class for the edueable re tarded. Mrs. Edna B. Hendricks, the teacher of this group, said 16, all her students law yeaT, reported to her class Wednesday. Supt. Barnes reserved two Cen tral classrooms for this group, is still hoping to employ an ad ditional teacher, as has been bil leted by the state department of instruction. Cafetetlans will be open *t all schools Thursday. Supt. Barnes said the board of eductation wfti convene s©on to consider applications for trans fer from school assignments. He dbiftmented, "It has been the board of education policy^to de fer action on these requests un til after school opens. The board has endeavored to accommodate parents desiring transfer of their children where teaching loads, permit." He said teaching load prob lems appeared to be at a mini mum Wednesday. He mentioned several under loads from the 30 norm and li Jt ed these over loads: Bethvviire seventh grade with 38 pupils. East school sixth grade with 73 ennollees for two teachers; Pork Grace fifth grade with 35 pu pils and West school fifth grade with 36. Optimists To Hypnotist Ducats •* Tickets go on sale by the Kings Mountain Optimist club this weekend for the Hynodrama stage show the club is sponsor ing here on the night of Septem ber 8. The show features a hypnotist who demonstrates, he claims, all phases of hynosis and then brings the shew to a climax with a demonstration of “catelepsy”. A subject is hypnotized, his body becomes cataleptic (rigiid) and then, supported by chairs fron his heels and neck only, in a horizontal position, he feels no strain when others stand on his abdomen. Free public preview of the af ternoon show will be a public demonstration Saturday after-' noon, when the hypnotist, while blindfolded, will drive a car through the city’s streets. Opti mist officials say Acting Chief of Police Paul Sanders has agreed t» be a passenger.

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