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Population .Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure for Greater King* Mountain U derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The dty Halts figure Is from the United States census of I960. 8P a g e s Today VOL 73 No. 38 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 27, 1962 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS 39th County Fair To Open Tuesday Local News Bulletins A NO PERMITS (ho building permits were 3ssu <rT by city officials during the past week. NO FIRES City firemen reported no fixe alarms during the past week. DISCOUNT TO DROP Discount rate for pre-payment of city and county tax bills drops to one-half of one percent effec tive October 1, city and county tax 1962 officials have pointed out. Discount of one percent will be applicable through Saturday’s business and on mailed pay ments postmarked not later than Stptember 30. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $204.30, including $130.80 from on-street meters, $54 from over parking fees, and $19.50 from on street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel, Jr., reported. LEGION SUPPER A free fish fry for members of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, will be served from 5 un til 8 o’clock Friday evening. Members are requested to make reservations. •BAKE SALE Young people of Grace Method ist church will sponsor a bake sale Saturday in the vacant building across from Griffin Drug Company. Homemade cakes, pies and cookies will be available for saJle beginning at 9 a.m. HOMECOMING Northside Presbyterian church, Gastonia, will hold Homecoming day services Sunday and begin a week of evangelistic services. Rev. Jamems Mann will lead the services beginning Sunday even ing. Picnic dinner wilil be spread following the morning worship hour and a song service will be held in the afternoon. HOSPITALIZED James F. Smith, 306 Phifer road, is a patient at the Veter ans Administration hospital in Oteen. Mr. Smith became serious ly ill last Tuesday. He has been in ill health the past several years. RALLY DAY (First Presbyterian church wall observe Rally Day during the Sunday-School hour Sunday, the pastor. Dr. Paul K. Ausley has announced. BOY SCOOTS WANTED A Troop 92 of East Gold Street Wesleyan Methodist church is inviting any interested boy to join the troop which meets every Monday night at Sadie Mill club house. Interested prospective members should contact Rev. C. R. Goodson. ROBERTS REUNION The annual Hugh Karr Roberts reunion will be held Sunday at Antioch Baptist church near Grover. Following the morning worship service, a picnic lunch will be served. In the afternoon a short business and fellowship session will be held. Bargain Rides For Children 'Imperial Shows are in Kings (Mountain this week with a dozen rides. (Here under sponsorship of the Optimist dub, the Shows will remain here through Saturday night. Saturday afternoon will be a special children’s matinee, when, from noon untH 5 p. m., children _wiH get admission to all rides hot half • price, it was announc ■fed by W. J. Cantrell, Optimist treasurer. The Optimists will devote their pnnwoik from the project to the Little League Foo*be» program which the Optfantot QUb is un derwriting The rides are set up between Slater Brothers and the Amert toan* Legion "biiMfcng on Tack I. Races, Kochman, Rides, Midway Fair Features New paint and new parts were being added this week as the Cleveland County Fairgrounds were readied for the opening to the 39th annual Cleveland Coun ty Fair Tuesday, October 2. Only five days remain before the opening of “the greatest county fair in the nation,’’ and the sawdust is being spread along the mile-long midway route. Nightly feature of this year’s fair will be the Jack Kochman World Champion Hell Drivers. These daredevils wil perform their feats of daring each night at 7:30. A new feature of the daredevil show this year is the daring helicopter act Grandstand snows nightly oy the Bob Conto Variety Show fea ture the Merrifields, showing for the first time in this section. Included in the Conto review are Jessie Griffith, organist, Les Qriolls, high act, Lou Myers, M. C., juggler, and Pat Barrett, high pole act. Saturday’s special in the grand stand and on the grounds will be the appearance of Miss North Carolina, Janice Barron of Mor gan ton. Back again this year is the James E. Strates Mile-Long Mid way. Already setting up is the Go forth Brothers all - steel sky ride, which made its debut at the Cle veland County Fair last year and has since become a favorite ride over the state. The sky ride is in addition to kiddie and adult rides in the Strates Midway. Auto Race Day at this year’s fair is Saturday, October 6. The NASCAR sanctioned late model sportsman race will be under the direction of Roby Combs of Shel by and will start at 3:30 p.m. Time trials will be held at 1:30. Cleveland County school stu dents will be admitted to the grpunds free Tuesday and Wed nesday. Readheads will be guests of the fair Thursday, October 4, and will be admited to the grounds free. All couples who have been married for 50 years and more will be guests of the fair associa tion and admitted to the grounds :ree on Wednesday and Thurs day. They may register in the exhibit hall for a prize to be awarded the couple with the old est combined ages attending the fair. Mrs. C. Rush Hamrick, Jr., fair publicity chairman has announc ed a press party for Tuesday, October 2, at 6:30 p.m. Bloodmobile To Visit Graves Donors are being sought to contribute blood Friday at the Red Cross bloodmobile in Grover for a 12-year-old boy who must soon undergo heart surgery. The regional bloodbank will be in Grover ait Shiloh Presbyterian church from 11 a. m. until 5 p. m. Rev. Fred Crisp, pastor of Grover’s First Baptist church, is chairman of the visit. Goal of the collection is 125 pints of blood. Charles F- Harry, HI, publicity chairman for Uhe visit to Grover, urged industrial groups to again answer the call for blood, as customary. Mauney Mills was top ndustrial donor at the last visit n Kings Mountain. Mr. Harry, commenting on Mi vet te Mills’ group credit plan, voted that if 20 per cent of the otal mill employees give blood, rvery person ih the family of em ployees will be eligible for blood Only 24 hours must edapse fol lowing polio and tetanus im munization for a donor to be able to give blood, Mr. Harry added.. Mrs. J. N. Gamble, Red Cross chapter executive secretary, not ed that the annual meeting of the Kings Mountain chapter will he held soon with election of of ficers to highlight the meeting J. OOMe Harris has been serving as temporary chairman during the illness of Rev. Marion Du HOSMTAUZ&D Jack H. White, Kings Mbun tain lawyer and judge of city re corder's court, entered Kings Mountain hospital Monday for treatment and observation. RE-ELECTED — D. B. Blalock has been re - elected chairman of the Cleveland County ASC. ASC Re-elects D. B. Blalock D. B. Blalock, Dixon com munity farmer, was re-elected chairman of the Cleveland Coun ty Agricultural and Conservation Committee at the annual ASC convention Thursday. Delegates from 11 community committees were present. Charles J. Hamrick was na med vicedhairman of the ASC and Carmie Brackett was elected regular member. First alternate to the committee is Odis Roy ster and second alternate is John Cline. Ralph Harrill is ASC secre tary. Barringer nays Big Government Labeling himself a “conserva tive,” Carroll M. Barringer, Re publican candidate for Congress from the tenth district, addressed the Kings Mountain Lions Club Tuesday night He (1) urged a return, to rug ged individualism, as opposed to What he termed the executive dominated welfare state; (2) flayed the foreign aid program, which he said had cost the nation $100 billion since World War II; (8) flayed big government which, he contended, lists one of six per sons on government payrolls at federal, state and local level; and (4) charged that this nation’s foreign policy i^ wedded to Unit ed Nations policies, declaring, “These policies are leading us to destruction.” He declared himself for (1) free enterprise and (2) for a federal tax cut, but only to the extent of a cut in federal spend ing. Mr. Barringer, a Catawba county commissioner, first stat ing a reluctance to comment on foreign policy, said nevertheless, “I am disappointed some action hasn't been taken against the Communists in Cuba.” He said he felt United States air cover should have been provided at the ill-fated invasion by Cuban ref ugees. Mr. Barringer is challenging Rep. Basil L. Whitener, Gastonia Democrat. He was presented by Bob Maner, West Kings Moun tain GOP precinct chairman. Guests at the meeting included Wayne Forsyth, county GOP chairman, and James E- Amos. HINNANT ON DUTY L. E. (Josh) Hinnant was back on duty as assistant cashier of First Union National Bank this week, following an eye operation he underwent several weeks ago. Transfer Appeals On School Agenda J. C. Bridges Is I United Fund Head Budget Work For Fund Drive Near-Complete J. C. Bridges, Kings Mountain hardiwareman, is the new' presi dent of Kings Mountain United Fund, Ine. The United Fund group organ ized last Thursday for the com ing year, and is already prepar ing a budget for this year’s fund campaign to be conducted next month. Other officers elected were Ol iie Harris, vice president; W. S. Fulton, Jr., secretary; and Tom Burke, treasurer. . Directors, in addition to the Officers, are W- F. Laughter, Ed Goter, Rev. H. D. Garmon and Robert O. Southwell. Budget requests of six of the eight organizations participating last year have already been ap proved, President Bridges, who serves as ex officio chairman of the fund-raising drive, said Wed nesday. These, totaling $14,864, are: Kings Mountain Chapter, Ameri can Red Cross $5,814; Boy Scouts $2,250; Girl Scouts $1,500; Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library $1, 000; Kings Mountain high school band $3,300; and Compact - Da vidson school band $1,000. ®t was announced at the or ganization meeting that the United Fund will make an addi tional payment •from last year’s campaign to participating organ izations which will make total payments approximately 90 per cent of budget, best record in the three-year history of United Fund operation here. President Bridges succeeds B. W- Gillespie. Partner in Bridges Hardware, Mr. Bridges is a mem ber of Kings Mountain Baptist church and long active in com munity affairs. He is a member of Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. White Cane Sale To Be Continued The Kings Mountain Lions’ club’s annual White Cane Sa'le for benefit of the blind will be concluded Saturday. A group of girls will again sell the familiar white cane bangles, beginning at 9 a.m., it was an nounced by J. T. McGinnis, Jr., chairman of the project. Receipts from last Saturday’s sale, limited to a half-day due to chilly weather, totaled $43.75. Proceeds are used by the North Carolina Association for the Blind for sight conservation and blind rehabilitation work throu ghout North Carollina. ROSS REUNION The annual Ross reunion will be held Sunday at the New Prospect Baptist church near Shelby. Lunch will be served and a busi ness meeting will be held begin ning at 1:30. Petitions Being Ciiculated Seek County Library Building And Tax Shelby Library board officialls expect to have completed this week petitions requesting the county board of commissioners to call a bond election for con structing a county library build ing and for an operational fax .'or library operation. Miss Maude Kelsey, Shelby li brarian, said board members and nterested citizens are circulating 161 petitions bearing places for 2C names each, which, if all are filled, would be more than 4,000 names. If registered voters, the 4000 would be well over the 2800-plus requested to force the commis sion to call an election on an operational tax. State law speci fies that petitions must beat the names of registered voters num bering 15 percent of the total vote —cast in the recent (1960) gubernatorial election, she said. The Shelby Public Library has been served an eviction notice elective June 30, 1963, from its quarters in Shelby City Hall. Meantime, the Shelby board of aldermen declined to meet a county appropriation increase and several notice appropriations wouldn't be made is the future. The petition asks that the county commission call an elec tion to 1) issue $250,000 in bonds for a library building, and 2) authorize levying of a tax for library operations of hot less than four cents nor more than five cents pear $100 valuation. Miss Kelsey said the construc tion figure was not “pulled out of the hat.” She said the Shelby Library board had conferred with two local architectural firms, a library building consult ant, North Carolina library of ficials and other library officials with recent building experience. She said a new library would require greater operational out lay, as additional space wouQd make possible departmentaliza tion and added services for which space is not now available. She said it is the thinking of the library board that the opera tional tax income would be Shar ed with other libraries in the county on a pro-rata basis. It Is the aim of the Shelby li brary board to present the pe titions quickly in order that the election may be conducted in conjunction with the general election in November. PRESIDENT — J. C. Bridges, Kings Mountain hardwareman, is the new president of Kings Mountain United Fund. As presi dent, Mr. Bridges will be ex of ficio chairman of the fund cam paign. Fire Hazard Search Worry Officials of South Carolina’s Kings Mountain State Park had a tremendous sideline worry Sunday, when news of a lost eight-year-old girl in the Lake Crawford area brought to the area some 250 would-be res cuers and additional hundreds of curious spectators. The worry was fire, which could have endangered many lives. Ranger J. T. Timms, in charge of the park in the absence of Superintendent Ray Sisk, turned his attention to seeking fire watchers as quickly as the York county sheriff’s department force arrived and accepted the search assignment. Meantime, numerous area res cue squads, police officers and individual volunteers spent the better part of Sunday seeking Wendy Schultz, mute daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Schultz, of Union, S. C. The young gin had wandered away from the family camp site about 7 a.m. She was found more than eight hours later byr Dan Misenheimer. member of the York County Res cue squad and a physical edu cation teacher. Adding to the fears for the young girl’s safety was the fact a rattlesnake had been killed that morning some 40 yards dis tant from the camp site. There was additional fear the young ster, if not found by nightfall, would not be able to survive the exposure of the fall evening. Supt. Sisk said Wednesday, “I wish to thank all of the volun teer units the York National Guard, officers, and individuals who aided in the successful search for the missing girl. It was a great team effort.” Among rescue units aiding in the search were those from Kings Mountain, Shelby and Grover. French Leave Short For Three Youths Three Negro youths, taking French leave from Compact school Wednesday morning, went I back to class under the menage of a teacher after being taken to the police station by Acting Chief Paul Sanders and Officer Bill Roper Truant Officer T. C. McKee talked to the youths, two of whom are 16 and not required by law to attend school, and the other, who is 14. The 14-year-old claimed to have said, "You don’t have any ex cuse from me.” The officers accosted the tru ant youths near Alexander’s Jew elry before arranging their trip to Compact. Local Lutherans In Church Posts i SAUBSSUftY — Seventy-two p»*tors and laymen of the Luth eran dxupcJi were named to boards of trustees of the North CaidKna Synod of the Lutheran Church in America during the synod's organising convention here at St John’s Lutheran f Continued On Fags Ten; 1 Warlick Agency Commission -Split Ideas Invited The Kings Mountain Board ot Education will meet in special session Thursday morning at 8 o'clock to hear appeals of decis ions regarding pupil assignments and to listen to representatives of the C. E. Warlick Insurance Agency concerning the commis sions paid on school insurance. The meeting will be held in the office of Superintendent B. N. Barnes. Filing formal appeals for hear ings on transfer of school assign ments are W. K. Mauney, Jr., and James Amos. Mauney has requested trans fer of his daughter, Martha Jane, from East School to Beth ware. Amos desires the transfer of his daughter, Suzanne, from Bethware to North School. The board denied the Amos request originally at a special meeting September 1. At the same meeting motions for the transfer of the Mauney child failed to get seconds and no action was taken, in effect leaving the assignment as origi nally made. At the regular September meeting, Sept. 17, the board re viewed the former decisions but made no changes. Representatives of the Warwick Agency wil be present at the re quest of the board of education. The request arises from the meeting of August 20 at which time appeal was made by Bob Maner that the board require the Warlick Agency to share the commissions earned on the school’s Insurance with the oth er agencies within the school dis trict. The Warlick Agency is the present carrier of the school in surance and according to Man er, shares ommissdons only with the Arthur Hay Agency. At the August meeting the board declined action on Maner’s request until after meeting with the Warlick representatives. The Warlick Agency stated why it does not support split commission arrangements in the August 23 issue of the Herald. Rites Conducted Foi Dr. Bell Funeral services were held last week in Sml'thsburg, Md., for Dr. Charles K. Belk, onetime pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church here. Dr. Bell, long retired and in his nineties, had suffered a stroke of paralysis two weeks before his death at the home of a daughter on September 16. His wife had died several months previously Interment was in Smilhsiburg. KIWANIS CLUB Earl H. Meacham of Shelby will present a film showing highlights of his recent Euro pean tour at Thursday’s Kiwanis club meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the Woman’s club. ARP Open House Sunday Afternoon Special Service Is Scheduled Sunday MoirJnj The congregation of Boyce Memorial Associate Reformed Presbyterian church will open its new educational building on Sun day, with morning services at 11 o'clock and an open house in the afternoon from 3 until 5 p. m. A special service of consecra tion with congregational partici pation will feature the morning worship service. 'Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor, will deliver an appropriate sermon and a 60-voice choir will sing special anthems. Members of the Carol, Cherub, Youth and Chancel choirs will unite in rendering the special music. In the afternoon, all class rooms will be open for visitation, and teachers and siperintendents of various departments will wel come visitors to the new budd ing. “We welcome the community to join wit hus in this occasion and to view our new church plant on EJdgemont Avenue”, Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor said in announc ing the open house. Building Peimits Drop Slightly RALEIGH — Building permits totaling $21,185,910 were issued In 36 North Carolina cities of nore than 10,000 population dur ing August, the State Depart ment of Labor reported today. Laoor Commissioner Frank Crane said the August building figure was 2.4 per cent below the $21,699,451 reported for August, 1961. Crane noted that the cities have issued permits totaling $161,954,912 during the first eight mortths of the year—an increase of 5.3 per cent over the $153, 750,109 total for the same period last year. August building permits re ported by the 36 Cities were: Albermarle $94,060, ASheboro $45,550, Asheville $48,014, Bur ling-ton $£>80,755, Chapel Hill $127,253, Charlotte $5,096,846, Concord $65,500, Durham, 464, 636, Elizabeth City $58,500, Fay etteville $514,885, Gastonia $330, 450, Goldsboro $410,943, Greens boro $4,731,389, Greenville $357, 090, Henderson $119,577, Hickory $90,054. High Point 637,913, Jack sonville, $217,000, Kinston $152, 513, Lenoir $103,851, Lexington $554,218, Lumberton $97,100, Mon roe $76,500. New Bern $39,686 Raleigh 1,005,431, Reidsville $158, 879, Roanoke Rapids $230,350 Rocky Mount $209,872, Salisbury $667,600, Sanford $37,700, Sheibj $371, 750, Statesville, $268,500 Thomasville $138,515, Wilmington $110,435, Wilson $1,659,460, Win ston-Salem, $878,145 Davis Honored On Two Birthdays, His 75th, 43rd As S. S. Teacher By ELIZABETH STEWART J. Roan Davis, veteran Kings Mountain lawyer, marked his 75th birthday Friday and his 43rd year as teacher of the Men’s (now Davis) Bible Class at Central Methodist church Mr. Davis was gueStof-honor at a church dinner given by Mrs. Davis and attended by members of the Men’s Bible Class, their wives, widows of former mem bers, his partner Jack White and Mrs. Whfte, and their son, W. L. Davis and Mrs. Davis of Wash ington, D. C. A daughter, Mrs. Ben Jackson of Virginia and Dr Jackson were unable to attend. iD. L. Saunders, in presenting the class glf-t to Mr. Davis, said the Men’s Bible Class Is now called the Davis Bible Class in recognition at the spirit with which the teacher has led the group for 43 years. The dass also presented a gift to A. Hunter Patterson, who was described by Mr. Saunders as "andther loyal member.” Mr. Davis’ long record of serv ice to his church, to the commun ity and to many individuals in particular was cited by Rev- H. D. Garmon who paid tribute to HONORED — J. R. Daria, veter an lawyer, was honored on his 75th birthday Friday at a Mr. Davis as a Christian gentle man. • Jack White, Mr- Davis’ law ■ partner for 11 years, praised his associate for being “young” in ("Continued On Page Ten) j MISSIOWERS — Dr. Bcyd Biaaofc, top above, and H.?v. Amend Shealy will lead special sortr'cea ba nning a Spiritual 1-ifr M"l*. sion Sunday at Kings Moan<e.ia*s two Lutheren churches. Hawn, Shealy To Pleach Here Kings Mountain’s two Luth eran churches, St. Matthew’s and Resurrection Lutheran, will con duct a Spiritual Life Mis .'ion Sunday through Thursday. The Mission is underway in <15 other Lutheran congregations of the Southern Conference. QVlissioners to the locai chin'li es are well known. At St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, Dr. Boyd Hamm, a l<i mer pastor, will fill the pw’p.t at services Sunday morning ;,t 11 o’clock and for Give everiu f.s at 7:30 p. m. Dr. Hamm, pa".< of St. Matthew's from 1936 (T, is now pastor of Wittenberg i k< theran church of Leesviiie, S. < A graduate of Newberry colli r< and Southern Seminary, he I:;-*: served on the United Lutheran Church Board of Parish Edi* .> tion for 10 years and is pn dent of the board of trustei-, i ! (Continued on Page 10) Gas Plans Pose Esthetic PioMeia By MARTIN HARMON The dity’s gas engineer'^; nn sultant, W. E. Edwards, Will le here Friday at the surrnnoi.r, o Mayor Kelly Dixon in efforts to alleviaite an esthetic profoleoni in, the gas distribution system >>* pansion. Work on the expansion is r e gressing satisfactorily, but tl >• esthetic problbem derives turn the initial plans which call lor installation of fouc regulator la tiorn, three of them p anned tor installation on private property, for which the city doesn’t have right-of-way. Additionally, says Mayor Dix on, "These stations won’t be put ty. I wouldn't want one in usy yard and I don’t expert tw anyone else to have one.11’ The Mayor cortferred with Mr - Edwards S>y telephone shortly after noon Wednesday. He said the engineer indicated the plan* could be altered without ma jor difficulty or delay in const) ac tion. As the Mayor described' i*, the present pin calls regulator s*n Worts in three front yards. Pipes protrude from the ground; with valves attached. These stations would require a fence around them, for protection front tamp ering and from traffic hazards.