Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure for Creator King* Mountain Is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain dty directory census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of I960. VOL 73 No. 36 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper f—1 -V. * -'•"1 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thuisday, September 6, 1962 Seventy-Third Year -1 I ;V Pages Today i PRICE TEN CENTS Fifteenth Annual Bethware Fair Will Open Wednesday local News Bulletins P-TS-A MEETS | The Kings Mountain high 'school Parent - Teacher * Stu dent organization meets Tuesday at 8 p.m. for the initial meeting of the school year in Central au ditorium. FULL SCHEDULE BEGINS Alii activities resume this week at St Matthew’s Lutheran church.. Choir practice began Wednesday; Confirmation class es Thursday after school for eighth graders; Saturday at 10 a.tn. -for seventh graders. The LUther League will hold a meet ing at 6 p.m. Sunday; refresh ments will be served. Ail circles of the Women of the Church will meet Monday. Regular Sunday services with Sunday School at 9:45; worship at 1L ABF YOUTH WEEK Young people of Boyce Memo rial ARP church will lead the worship service Sunday evening as a feature of Youth Week ac tivities at the Associate Reform ed Presbyterian church. CHURCH BENEFIT The Ladies’ and Men’s Bible classes of Grace Methodist church wil serve chicken - and - dumpling plates with all the trimmings Saturday from 11 a: m. until 7:30 p.m., lunch and super. Delivery service is avail able from the fellowship hall at Hi per plate. Benefit is the fel lowship hall building fund. HAS OPERATION L. E. '(Josh) Hinnant is re cuperating from an eye opera tion he underwent last Thurs day at Charlotte Eye, Ear A Throat hospital. The operation was for removail of a cyst caus ing malfunction of a tear dust gland. He hopes to return home this weekend. DUBOSE IMPROVING Rev. Marion Du Bose, pastor of Kings Mountain Baptist church, continues to improve from a re cent heart attack. At home aft er hospitalization, he is not per mitted to see visitors from 9:30 to 10:30 morning, and from 7 to 8 evenings. Speaker for the joint gathering wHl be Henry A. Ward, executive sedrethry of the North Carolina Association for the Blind. » Russian C. Ratterree is Birthday; S7 ID. M. Pouchah's istern Orthodbx erat rates for Mrs. Tekla ~ k 73, mother of D. 107 S. Goforth ings Mountain, were lishofon, Minn., on Monday. Mrs. Pouehak, widow of Harry fPoudhak, was a native of Czerhd Slovakia. She suocumibed at hei nesota home Friday. Surviving, in add if on to her on here, are two sons. William John Pouehak. o* CN sholm. Minn., and a daughter. Mrs. Ann snick, Muskegon. Mich. Also iving are ten g ~o"d-children three great-grandcW'.’dren. S. C. Ratterree, we’l known I Kings Mountain citizen, ce’e f dwed his ninety-seventh birth f rRf Tuesday. Mr. Ratterree spent the | quietly visiting his son. B. D. 1 [Ratterree, for dinner. For the several months, h? has tj residing at the Turner i Cursing Home near Shelby. Mr. Ratterree. a native of Neely’s Creek community Rock HU1, s. C, is a one school teacher. Township Event Will Feature Exhibits, Rides OOt’s Fairtime again, and the 19th season for Bethware Pro gressive dub which is readying for opening day Wednesday of Bethware community fair. (Bethware School grounds will be a beehive of activity this .week as workmen prepare booths and exhibit halls for the four-day e vent September 12-15. Clash prizes to winning exhibi tors will be given for the sixth year, Fair Manager Myers Ham bitght said yesterday. Exhibits, he said, reflect the Changes and improvements in the ever-advan cing agricultural, commercial and industrial fields. The fair will open Wednesday at 4 p. m. Children’s Day is next Thursday with special events planned from 1 until 6 p.m. Rib bons and cash prizes will also be awarded exhibitors that day, Mt\ | Hambright noted. There will be the customary midway attrac tions, rides, concessions and a new attraction, Eagleson’s Ape Show, featuring educated and brained chimpanzees. Drawing for prizes from area merchants will be featured nightly followed by fireworks. A bicycle will be given away via a drawing the dosing day of the Mr. iFrankie Hamrick, daughter of Bethiware Progressive dub presi dent Frank Hamrick and Mrs. Hamrick, is Queen of this year’s Fair. The official fair catalog, which lists premiums, rules and regu lations, patrins and the fair pro gram, has already been distribut ed. Bethware Fair is approved by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and is a member of the North / Carolina' Associa tion of Fairs. 1 Not Plying, Says SH&PW Motorists entering or leaving Kings Mountain Wednesday were being stopped at road blocks and asked, “Where are you headed?” It isn’t unusual, as some may think, and will be an everyday occurrence here all this week and next, Leroy Edwards, super visor in charge of field work for the state highway planning de partment, explains. \ - -Mr,,, Edwards want* you to know, ifyuuoperatea car, that he and 25 other workers are’hot "prying"- When they,, stop traf fic at all tpads leading into the city Jtmita .*%’« nothing person al/’ he added...' Similar traffic studies called hgrigln - destination” >. surveys are . conducted throughout the slate and particularly during the summer months. Mr. Edwards noted, his department is on duty here bom 6 am. until 10 p.m. Sily, has assistance at all times m the state highway patrol. Licenses are not checked, nor there mechanical checks. are The planning department is in terested only in the trip the driv er makes, whether into or out side the city limits. James S. Bruce heads the state highway planning department in charge of these projects. Labor Day Meant Labor Labor Day was largely a day of labor in Kings Mountain. Much of industry operated on regular sehedwie and many folk claiming a holiday from regular duties (store personnel, city of fice, posioPfice and bank person no!) admitted to working even harder at chores at home. Sehoois operated on regular schedule. Some cOtifcens went to Darling ton. S. C., fdr the annua! Darling ton 500 and ^he Cleveland Coun'y Rescue squad did their tr'l “in clearing the wreckage of the hp'ocaust fdom wh'rh Driver Johnry Alien escaped. It was real labor for the repair pre-.vs of Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company. A clipped cable in the Grover Road area had t?*P repairmen wor'dng late Monday c-igft: and there war. more to come. A thunderstorm late Tuesday a*temoo*i meant tr."e repair work Wednesday. City r>"'“re reported 36 week end, arrests, largely for minor infractions, and no traffic acci dents. . Nicholson: Get Gas Cut-Ons Now •Natural gas heating customers, who order summer cut-offs, can get service resumed at a bargain during September. Corbett Nicholson, as system superintendent, said September cut-ons will cost only one dollar. The regular fee is three dollars. He pointed out that chilly wea ther is just around the corner and that the gas department won’t be able to make all cut ons at the last minute. "Get ready for cold weather in time,” he urges, “and save mon ey, too.” Fulton's Stoie Robbed Again Fulton’s Department store had a third visit from a thief or thieves within the past sax weeks Sunday night W. S. Fulton, Jr., owner, said he could not determine the a mount of goods stolen Sunday night, but said the thieves con centrated on boys and men's wear, including shoes, pants, shirts, underwear and other items. The thieves gained entry through a panel window near the rear door. The previous Sunday night the window had been cracked but entry wasn’t gained. Six weeks ago, the small front window was smashed and Mr. Pulton found two pairs of shoes missing. ^ Police have questioned several persons concerning the robbery, but have announced no findings. Specs Changed On Watei Line W. K. (Dickson, city engineer, after conferring with an insur ance company engineer, is rec ommending installation of a ten imdh connecting water line from the Deal street Alter plant to York road, rather than a 14-lnch connecting line. "A 14-inch connection would not materially affect the flow more than a 10-inch connection,” he wrote Mayor Kelly Dixon. The connection was requested by Sadie Mills Company, which requires more pressure for its fire-protecting sprinkler system. The engineer added that, if the flow is stAl sufficient, it could be increased by extending the 8 irich York road Hne to connect V#lh the ftinch King street line, and rtentis| Mn* : Aftac-englwAer. added, Mtdy '•dD he done in the future anyway, but -Y-ant aoC recotn jw®*" .^ • The installation Will require 115 feet of 10-inch cast iron pipe, plus required valves, tees, and a ten-inch 46-degree bend. Mayor Dixon says the neces sary pipe and other materials are 138 Students Off-To-Schoc! In Neat Future By ELIZABETH STEWART The Kings Mountain area will send at least 138 students to 59 colleges, universities, prep schools and schools for special ized training this fall. North Carolina State College at Raleigh and Western Carolina College at Cullowhee head the list with 14 area students enroll ed. UNC at Chaipel Hill is sec ond favorite of Kings Mountain students, where nine are enroll ed. Numerous students plan ca reers In business, nursling and specialized fields. Several stu dents are enrolled in graduate schools. (DUKE UNIVERSITY — Jimmy Plonk, Carol Jean Go ter, Lynn Russell and Ann Broadwater. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA — Mac Lennon, Beattie Leonard, Gay Jolley, Mike MIcKee, Jerry Patterson Marshall Gore and James Swans son. MEREDITH — Karen Raines, Nortma Hamrick and Susan Kes ler. . AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE Kay Broadwater. UNIVERSITY OF TENN ESSEE — Sandy Campbell and Nick Smith. MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE —(Margaret Jackson. HAMPDEN - SYDNEY COLL EGE, Hampden Sydney, Va., — Philip Padgett, Jr. LET HERALD KNOW The Herald annually seeks to publish a complete list of students leaving the Kings Mountain area for study at technical schools, colleges and omissions will be appreciated. Please call the Herald, Phone 739-5441. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA— ITDA SOUTHERN —Phil Mttuney. GREENSBORO COLLEGE — Mary Lillian Lewis. SALEM COLLEGE — Betty Morrison. MARS HILL COLLEGE — Ro bert WWisnant, Henry Raines and Rhea Lindberger. EASTERN CAROLINA COLL EGE — Jimmy Blanton, Gary Blanton, Arthur Allen, Jr., Reece Ckminger, and-David Roberts. EURMAIN UNIVERSITY - Jim Hardin. . BEREA COLLEGE — Jerry and Barbara Proctor. GUILFORD COLLEGE — Brenda Gail Hamrick. (WAKE FOREST COLLEGE — Paid Hendricks, Jr. and Bobby Biddax. BREVARD COLLEGE — San dra Moss. CITADEL — James Parker. ERSKINE COLLEGE — Nan cy Hjovis and Jerry Wright. CLEMSON — Tommy Bennett, (PRJESBYTEMLAN COLLEGE— Biibba Rountree. iTnaws . MdRAE COLLEGE — ins. laxrita Forrest, Billie Jims,' * IfWL Steve FWw«. BW’ Umseur, James Rollins, Phil lumptiiSes, Glenn ' Grigg, ifeMh Were, David Plonk, Eddie Pesseneer. Barry Sndth ami Hake Qitetad, Jerry Monts. WESTERN OARJOLBNA — fane Houser, Buddy Kireus, Er ne Payne, Dale Hollifidd, Janie Prainrtnell, Jerry Adams, Jean lartow, Eddie Ross, Doug Bur (Continued On Pnpe Eight) School Enrollment On fifth Da; 4231, Up 67 From Opening Total Enrollment for Kings Moun tain area schools reached 4231 for the fifth membership day, Wednesday, according to figures released by Superintendent B. N. Barnes. This was an increase of 67 over the opening day total of 4164 on August 30. The fifth day enrollment also represented an increase of 28 ov er last year’s figure. With the increase came no particular difficulties In so far as overloaded and split grade situations were concerned, Mr. Barnes reported. At the present time there exists only two classes consider ed overloaded. There are fix split - grade combinations with in the =vctem. The fifth grade at West School and the seventh grade at Beth ware are the two grades that could be termed ' Overloaded. West fifth shows 33 pupils with one teacher, and Bethv/are sev enth has 38 for one terrher. The combinations are 1 . 2 and 3 - 4 at Bethware; 2 - 3 and 4 - 5 at Grover; and Pask Grace's 2 - 3 and 3 - 4. Transfers have allevied crowd ed situations at other schools. Overall, Mr. Barnes report; the situation to be much better than last year and better than on opening day. The high school registered an increase of 97 over last year’s en rollment. However, there was lit tle problem here since Central School houses only grades 9-12 this year, plus two speclail edu cation classes. The transfer of all Central eighth grades provid ed extra classroom space this year. Mr. Barnes noted that the high school situation at Central School is much better in that it is no longer necessary to utilize the auditorium and cafeteria for classroom use. Only one televis ion class is conducted in the au ditorium this year. The system’s total high school population reached ’162 with the 208 enrolled at Compact. This eprerented a gain of 98 over 1961. Total elementary enrollment was 3069 including 2372 at East. Wert, Park Grace, Bethware, North and Grover and 697 at Compact and Davidson. In the elementary school the average teacher load Is 29.97 per teacher at the Grover, West, East, No. th, Park Grace and Bethware schools and 29 per teacher at Compact and Davidson elemen tary schools. Funeral Held For lette Plonk, Retired Teacher Funeral services for Miss Jette Regina Plonk, 70, life-long resi dent of Kings Mountain and re tired Kings Mountain teacher, were held Saturday morning at Harris Funeral Home chapdl. Miss Plonk died at 8 o’clock Thursday night at Kings Moun tain hospital, following several month’s illness. First hospitaliz ed with pneumonia, Miss Plonk had suffered a heart attack be fore Wily recuperating. Miss Plonk was a daughter of the late Michael L. and Lenora Love Plonk. She attended Lenoir Rhyne college and Woman’s col lege of the University of North Carolina. A primary department teacher at East school, Miss Plonk re tired at the end of the 1957-58 term. At that time, the board of education presented her a resolu tion of appreciation for 38 years of service to Kings Mountain schools. She wag a member of First Presbyterian church. Surviving are a brother, R. Grier Plonk, and her step-mother, Mrs. Sophronia Falls Plonk, both of Kings Mountain. Dr. Paul K. Ausley, First Pres byterian pastor, conducted the jjikal rites and interment was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Active pallbearers were Harold Plonk, John O. Plink, Jr., Hal S. Plonk, and Ed H. Smith, all of Kings Mountain, Austin Lackey, Jr., of Fatlston, and Carswell Taylor, Jr. of Gastonia. C. E. Carpenter Files For Mayor Clarence E. Carpenter, Sr., onetime city tax supervisor and clerk oif recorder's court, is run ning tor mayor at next May’s election. His announcement is not the customary early-ibird trial bal loon but ar. official filing. (He .paid his filing fee to CSty Cleric Joe MCDanuel, Jr., Tues day, and notified him in writing: "This day, I file my fee for mayor m the next election. ‘1My intention is to promote the betterment of the City of Kings Mountain, the Town that I was bom and raised in, in this election. I wtll Mill promote *fry Jnito the race is the terttest In Kings Mountain >oWric*r his tory. He told $1* Herald Wednes day, *Ttn to (the race) to stay.” Mr. Carpenter is a World War I veteran. City Taxes Said CSty tax prepayments during August approximated. $50,000, a bout 28.5 percent of the City’s es timated $175,000 tax levy, Acting Tax CWleCtor Joe MCDaniel, Jr., reported. Payments during the final three days of August totaled $22,000. August taxpayers discounted their accounts two percent. The discount rate during Sep tember is one percent. Dressing Room Work Underway Tile first course of concrete blocks were being laid Wednes ! day morning on the dressing room-rest room faetlity at City Stadium. Mayor Kelly Dixon said the next step would be the plumber's —Ben T. Goforth contractor — for necessary pipe installation. Following that, the structure will 'be erected, and roofed. “Weather permitting, it shouldn’t require too much time,” the Mayor said. The city will demolish the old rest room facilities near the con cession stand. __ ■ METTT* RECEIPTS Parking me’er receiots for the weijt ending Wedne*-^»v totaled $177,3P including $119.30 from on-street meters, $41 from over parking fees and $17 from off street meters. City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel, Jr., reported. Election Petitions SPEAKER — Carroll M. Barrin ger, Republican candidate for Congress from the tenth district, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanls club at their meeting at the Woman's Club Thursday night at the Wo man's Club at 7 o'clock. Mr. Barringer is a Conover oil and lumber dealer. Crawloid Scouting Honor !W. Donald Crawford of Kings Mountain was awarded the Seouter’s Key in ceremonies held at a Friday night Boy Stout commissioners meeting in Gard ner-Webb College Webb Build ing. Dr. Eugene Poston, president of the college and Boy Scout commissioner for the Cleveland County district, presented the 'key. It is Scouting’® second high est award. CraWford is the first person In the Piedmont Council's Cleve land district to win the key for commissioner service. An employee of Kings Moun tain post office, he has served as a Boy Scout line commissioner for the past year, with four neighborhood commissioners un der his direction. »Dr. FoSton said Crawford has developed and supervised the district commissioners staff in conducted roundtable CTceongs for leaders of Boy Scout and CUb Scouts, co-oper ated With the dtotatct commission er, -end- with professional Scout executives of the district and council. In addition, he went through a 10-day training period in which he lived in a wooded area, securing his food, water and shelter from nature. He led I a roup of Scouts on a recent ex pedition to PhilnDont Scout Ranch. The Crawford -family are ac tive in Boyce, Memorial ARP church and Sunday School. Mrs.. Crawford Is the former Joann Blalock. They have a daughter, Donna. WEIR ROME Sam Weir, Kings Mountain in suranceman, returned home from Charlotte Memorial hospital Wednesday, following an opera tion he underwent two weeks nreviously. Wins Shelby Library Plea Declined By Commission The county board of commiss ioners told the Shelby Public Li brary board Tuesday it was sym pathetic to the library group’s plight but indicated it would not call a special election for build ing ft county library building and operating tax election minim pro per petitions. . •A petition of 15 percent of the registered voters would make calling of such elections manda tory. The Shellby Public Library board is in a quandary for space and operating funds, following the CSty of Shelby's recent no tice that the library must va cate quarters in Shelby City Hall next June and that the City of Shelby will cease to appropriate funds for the library. To the pleas of the library board that calling on an elec tion at the general election would save the expense of a special election, the commission pointed out it would need to know 1) amount required for a building to house the library, 2) how much is potentially required for annual operation costs, and 3) how funds would be divided be tween existing libraries (Shelby and Kings Mountain) or other li braries which might be estab lished in the future. The county has been appropri ating to the Shelby library for several years, this year agreed to increase the appropriation $1500 on condition the City of Shelby did the same, as had been indicated. Rather than increase the appropriation, the City otf Shelby posted the eviction notice and said it wouldn't appropriate In the future. The county's appropriation to the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial library here is $500 annually. Hypnodrama Here Saturday Professor Oionoff, a hypnotist,, come* to Mines Mountain Satur day to present an audience par KMlppCIan hypnosis show under sponsorship of th? Kings Moun tain Optimist club. nroceeda will go the Optimist sponsored midget football pro gram. A free show will be presented beginning at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon, when the hypnotist chauffeurs a car through Kings Mountain Streets while blind folded. Chief of Police Paul San ders is scheduled to be a passen ger. Saturday night’s show, at Kings Mountain high school aud itorium, will open with -an-expian ation of hypnotism. The Professor will then hypnotize several sub jects and direct them into various in-trance escapades. In one, en titled "Show Time”, the hypno tized subjects will do a soft shoe dance to an imagined accompan iment. In another a subject eats a lemon, believing it as sweet as a Florida orange. Right-of-Way Need (Thiee Feet) Snails Faiiview Street Project By MARTIN HARMON Little problems can be most trying. Vart majority of the residents of FairView street have petition ed the city for curb and gutter, but a right-of-way problem along the street (from Piedmont to Ldnwood road) has not yet been resolved. From Cranford drive to EMI son street the city claims only 25 feet of right-of-way versus the 28 feet minimum need to j install curb and gutter. ; Of the six property owners a j long this Sho'-t strip of road. Mayor Kelly Dixon reports, three i have indicated they will provide the extra right-ofway, two have said they won’t, and one hasn’t yet comimStted himself. The aity has asked property owners on each side of this nar row winding street for 18 inches The city would like to see the curt) and gutter installed for two principal reasons. It to improve the drainage situation, and 2> to save upkeep on the street. According to Mayor Dixon, the city has three alternatives: 1> Forget the project. 2) Install curb and gutter frorr Piedmont avenue to Cranford , 3) Condemn the property re quired where the owners will not convey the required 18 inch es each. Mayor Dixon declines to guess Which course will be taken. Architects' Report Gets Approval By HAROLD PEARSON Three prospective locations tcm the new Kings Mountain high school were viewed and discus sed by the Kings Mountain Board of Education at a called meeting Saturday morning. The tentative locations were at either end of the school, site property on Phifer Road wiUt one layout showing the propos ed new school on the back edge of the property’s geographic cen ter. Fred Van Wageningen and Tom Cothran, of Architects tAann otated of Shelby, presented and explained the tentative layouts which showed the school , and athletic fields in three separata arrangements. Purpose of the architects’ pre sentation was to get the board's reactions to the proposed (loca tions and obtain permission to carry the tentative plans to Ral eigh to be discussed with the Division of School Planning. Permission was granted and this step should be taken within the next few days according to Supt. B. N. Barnes. Following the discussion of the proposed locations, the board voted unanimously to elect the teachers employed since the last board meeting. Teachers elected were Miss Majorie Anglin, Burns vile, for East School and Miss Ora Jean Roberts, Granite Quar ry, for Davidson School. Action by thp board concern ing requests for transfers and releases from present school as signments resulted in seven. pu pils being granted transfers Granted transfers from East School to West School were Wil liam Kemp Mauney, HI, (6th) Pete Ware tflth) Sarah SimpsoM (4th) Terry Arrowood (2nd.) Freda Williams (West to North), Kenneth Craig ‘Botin and Dianne Blaine Trm (Bethware to West) were also granted trans fers. Requests for transfers were de nied Libby Trott (East to West).. Philip Baker (Beth, to West). Suzanne Amos (Beth, to North). Janet Putnam (North to Beth.) and Elizabeth IMullinax and Ro bert N. Page (Grover to P&rJc Grace). Motions by board member*} <*1 the request «f Martha Jfui#* Mauney tailed to receive seconds; and tbe drtgtngi} »*aOgntnrrtt re~ nadrted - •?: - while six wdre denied. In aemsldering the requests in dividually, the board Studied ttsr load conditions of eegh sfba^t’ before rendering their decfttfom The board voted to accept en> the verbal release of the super - intendent of Gaston County Schools the admission of two first graders from that county. In other action Supt. Barnes was authorized to proceed with plans for in-service training for teachers. Upon a request by StuK. Barnes, the board also authoriz ed Barnes and the board chair man to arrange transportation: for bus drivers returning" fro ire Bethware. The board tabled a request by Dr. Paul Ausley that the school ' complete the teaching load of Mrs. Jeannine Fisher, Bible teacher, and pay a proportionate • share of her salary. Storm Fouls Herald Telephone Set-Up Yes, the Herald staff was on duty Wednesday. Lightening during Tuesttay evening’s thunder-storm served too suspend the Herald's No 1' tele phone service and to Short ou*; tihe customary sequential ring in to Line No. 2. Unfortunately, due to the se quential automatic ring arrange' mertt, the telephone directory listK; only one Herald number. TST 5441. Until the sequential arrange ment was repaired about I.:*? Wednesday afternoon, the Herald had only two incoming calls. Ned McGill apparently knew the sec ond Herald number, 739-5442. The other came from Slater Mills, after the caller had check ed at the residence of the editor to find if the numbers had been changed. Both lines were back In order shortly after 2 p. m. __^ - 1