Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure for Greater King* Mountain le derived from the 1955 King* Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure Is from the United States census of I960. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Seventy-Third Year Jr *r J J ■ / m fbJ ■ km" VOL 73 No. 37 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 20, 1962 PRICE TEN CENTS City May Annex Area In Gaston Local News Bulletins P-TA TO MEET Park Grace school Parent - Teacher Association will hold an organizational and get-acquaint ed meeting at its initial meeting of the schoolyear Monday night at 7 o’clock in the school audi torium. ARP SPEAKER Rev. Joseph S. Kellermann of Charlotte will lead the temper ance study Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Boyce Memorial ARP church, according to announce ' ment by Mrs. W. L. McMackin, WMS secretary in charge of the program. FREE OYSTERS The Kings Mountain VFW Post 9811 will have an oyster stew at the post home Saturday night from 7-9 p.m. Old members and prospective new members are invited for the free servings. KIWANIS CLUB Mr. Sossman, a nuclear physi cist, will gove a talk concerning the civilian application of atomic energy at Thursday’s Kiwanis club meeting. The civic club con venes at 6:45 p.m. at the Wom an’s club. LEGION AUXILIARY American Legion Post 155, the American Legion Auxiliary, will meet Thursday night at 7:30 for the regular program. Mrs. Glee A. Bridges will be hostess at'her home. Mrs. Hubert Aderholdt, president is arranging the pro gram. SENIOR CITIZENS Senior Citizens will gather for a regular meeting Friday after noon at 3 o’clock at the Woman’s Club, it was announced by Mrs. O. W. Myers, member of the Woman’s club committee which sponsors the program. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $194.20, including $125.50 from on-street meters, $50 from over parking fees and $18.70 from off street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel, Jr., reported. NO FIRES There were no fire calls re corded by the city fixe depart ment during the past week. TO CREDIT CLINIC Mrs. Luther Joy, Merchants Association secretary, and Mrs Dewitt Neal, ctedit manager of Sterchi’s, attended the Consum er Credit Clinic in Chairtotte Wednesday. FRANCHISE CHECK Kings Mountain received from the N. C. Department of Revenue this week a check for $1,102.75 .as its quartely share of the fran chise duties paid by utilities companies throughout the state. LEADERSHIP CLASS Women of First Presbyterian church will hold a leadership training class for new officers at the church Monday night at 7:30 Powell Hebate At $31258 The City of Kings Mountain’s share in the 1862 Powell Bill funds to 413 participating miunici paities wSTl be $31,258.48. The allocation Of $7,629,882.76 in Powell Bill funds vns announ ced Wednesday bv the State Highway Commiss'on. The fund' are distributed annually to qua lified cities and towns for use in non-highway system street work within their corporate limits. Checks to the tndSv'd'ml munici palities wflt be mailed from Ra leigh the latter part of this mon th in order that they will reawh municipallities by October 1. FoweH BR allocations are ba aed on a formula using the pop ulation and Street mileage in toe anaMgejfttes and toe total alto Board Approves Move On Request Of Developer The city limits of Kings Mountain could be extended in the near future. The Kings Mountain Board of Commissioners agreed Thursday night to advertise the annexa tion of part of a proposed 24-lot housing development in the Lin wood area. The decision was made at the request of J. Wilson Crawford, the developer. He stated that 10 of the lots are inside the city limits and that the other 14 are outside. He presented maps of the proposed development. The extension would be in the area of the present Boyce Street in the Linwood section. At the next regular meeting of the commission a public hear ing will be held on the matter. Other Action In other action taken by the commissioners the rezoning from residential to business lots fac ing King Street between Tracy and Cansler Streets was approv ed. The commission voted to can cel delinquent water and light accounts in the amount of $209. 06, delinquent gas accounts in the amount of $99.07, and a $12.50 overcharge on the Lloyd Davis Street Assessment. In other business, the com mission decided to advertise un paid Street Assessments on Stone and Goforth Streets, and to ad vertise the rezoning of two ad jacent parcels of land on King Street at the Deal Street inter section. The vote was unanimous for the paving of Fourth Street from Cranford Drive to the deadend. This action followed the accept ance of an improvement petition. The commission voted to pro ceed to aleviate the drainage situation at the country club. The transferral of a taxi fran chise from Ben Sessoms to Bill Whetstine was also approved. Mayor Dixon was instructed to confer with City Ice and Coal Co. about the dust which comes off the coal and settles on the near by houses. Imperial Shows Open Monday Imperial Shows will bring a mammoth fall* to Kings Moun tain Monday under sponsorship of the Kings Mountain Optimist elub for the benefit of the civic club's Boys Work Program. IFair-goers Who like a wide var ietty of entertainment will have a choice of 26 major rides and shows, Harold Phillips, member of the supporting dub, said yes terday in making the announce merit. The fair will open Monday at 1 p. m. on grounds adjacent to Stater Mills Off Ylork road. The fair will run through Saturday. There will be the usual conces sions, plus fireworks and other fairfun, Mr. Phillips netted. Kings Mountain Optimists were busy readying for the fair this week as posters were being dis tributed and ride tickets offered for sale. There Will be no admission uhaige to the fairgrounds. (Local Optimists will use the funds in their program of boys work, chief of which is the Mid get football program it sponsors in the community. Annual Meeting 01UF Thursday Annual meetin, 'Mountain Unlti be held at Che ing of the t> dhureh Thursda; duck, it was an Maner, past president. AM memlbereort fund are meetong. * meeting Includes a budget genian, reports election at aflt Kings will c., build Dt - I DISCUSS DDD CUT-ON PLAN — Jack Barham, left plant super visor, and Floyd F. Farris, manager, discuss the upcoming Kings Mountain cut-on for direct distance dialing, firmly scheduled for January 6. Mr. Barham will not be here for the cuton. He leaves Sunday for Thailand, where he is joining International Telephone & Telegraph Company. Kings Mountain DDD January 6 Youth Sunday Set At Resurrection Resurrection Lutheran church will observe Youth Sunday in eve ning vesper services Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Members of the Luther League of the church will have charge of the program, “People of God.” Young people on the program ar Peggy Plonk, Robert Plonk, Susan Plonk, Truett Moore, John nie Moore, Butch Gibbons, Con nie Dixon, Joyce Dixon, Becky Dunn, Kenny Plonk, Donna Eaker, Sandra Huffstetler and Ricky Henson. Baiham Going To Thailand Jack Barham, plant supervisor tor Southern Bell Telephone Company here since the conver mon'ths way tor local citizens,” sion to dial in December, 1959, is joining International Tele phone and Telegraph Company in a Far East assignment. 'Mr. Barham will be superin tendent of telephone plants in Bangkok, Thailand. He leaves for Thailand Sunday. ‘‘Although this new assign ment is a challenge, I deeply regreat leaving Kings Mountain, the friendly atmosphere of the community, our friends and our church”, Mr. Barham said. In Kings Mountain, the Bar hams attend St. Matthew’s Lu theran church. Mr. Barham is a Kiwanian, member of its board of directors. He is past president of the high school P-TA. A qualified paratrooper, he is a veteran of World War H, having served with the U. S. Army Infantry In the Asiatic Pacific Theater. He has been awarded the Purple Heart, the Phillapine Liberation Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific, Good Conduct Meritorious Medal. He is a Cap tain in the North Carolina National Guard, member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company 130. He is also a Legionnaire. Mrs. Barham is the former Helen Query of Concord. The Barhams have two children, Judy and Jack, Jr. Mr. Barham’s family expects to join him in Thailand within the next few weeks. . Bell Announces CutOn For New Long Line Service Kings Mountain’s 3800 tele phone subscribers will be able to dial their own long distance calls j beginning January 6, 1963. E. F. Farris, manager of Southern Bell’s Kings Mountain exchanged, said that Direct Dis tance Dialing-or-DDD is the latest type telephone service available and will eventually be in use in all Southern Bell exchanges. '“Our local people are busy in stalling equipment and making the iwccwwry changes"in‘'jSri?para tion for the cut-over”, Mr. Farris said Wednesday. He noted that DDD enables telephone users to dial their own station-to-station calls to most places in the United States. Operators will continue to handle person-to-person calls, and calls from coin telephones. Mr. Farris gave these instruc tions for direct distance dialing: If your call is in the 704 code area, simply dial “1”, then the code for that area and the tele phone number. A partial list of cities you can dial direct is in the 'front of your telephone di rectory. Special equipment re cords the called number and times the length of the conver sation. As soon as you finish dial ing an operator will come in on the line and ask for your num ber. After that, the operator will leave the line and you will hear the distant telephone ring. The equipment also computes the oil! automatically, Mr. Farris added. “This new system will definite ly mean faster and better long distance service and is only three months way for local dtd errs,” Farris added. CHURCH SCHOOL The area leadership training school for Presbyterian and ARP churches in Kings Mountain Presbytery is scheduled Sept. 30th through Oct. 3 at Gastonia’s First Presbyterian church. Four courses will be offered and an adult workshop. LIONS CLUB Kings Mountain Lions will ga ther for theiir regular meeting Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at the Woman’s club. Program for the evening was not announced. Veteran Textile Superintendent Clarence L lolly, 55, Succumbs Funeral rites for Clarence Lafayette Jolly, 56, well-known Kings Mountain Citizens, were held Monday at 4 p. m. from Cen tral Method# Church of which he was a memfoer. Mr. Jolly died suddenly Mon day at 6:30 p.m. of a heart at tack at his home. A native of Caldwell County, he was the son of Mrs. Cora Parker Jolly of Kings Moun tain and the late James C. Jolly. He was superintendent of Long Shoals Manufacturing Company of Ltneointon, going to Linooin ton from Noisier Mills Division of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company. gel Barrett Jolly; two sons Clin ton Jolly at *nd CWtenee JoUy, Jr. of Char ttt a* 3%S?!£J£Z MTb. IVl'IUlfUl 3ty cncK M»s.i Henderson; and 11 grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, Clyde Jolly off Ruther fondton and Claude Jolly of Con cord; and four saatere, Mrs. Wal ter Blackiwelder of Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. Clyde Blackwell and Mrs. ElHs King, both of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Charles Qig iish of Danville, Va. Rev, H. D. Gannon officiated at the final rites, and interment was in Mountain Rest cemetery. ADD JOLLY FUNERAL .. I Active pallbearers were HH Kard Black, Coley Guyton, Sam Hantrtck. Lester Wefch, Bod pstater and J$ons on top t insurance be divided. Representatives of the phrtent sorrier. C. E- WarMc Agency, were not present • and the bored a^heduOed the matter for a later