Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
™» for Greater King. Mountain Is derived front
the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The citv
limits figure Is from the United State* census of I960.
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 4, 1962
Pages
Today
VOL 73 No. 39
Established 1889
Seventy-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Mountaineer Days
Celebration Is Set
Local News
Bulletins
~.en
m
HOSPITALIZED
John Cranford Early, a patient
at Valdese hospital in Columbia,
S. C., suffered a light heart at
tack Wednesday. Mr. Early, who
I entered the hospital Monday, is
■ported to be recuperating satis
actoriiy, members of his family
said.
GETS CERTIFICATE
James C. Scruggs, principal of
Grover school, has received his
certification as a water safety in
structor for the Kings Mountain
Red Cross chapter, Donald Craw
ford, chairman, announced. Mr.
Crawford and Mr. Scruggs con
ducted courses in life saving re
cently.
KIWANIS CLUB
Kings Mountain Kiwanians
will hold regular meeting Thurs
day night at 6:45 p.m. at the
Woman’s club. Program for the
meeting was not announced.
LODGE MEETING
Regular stated communication
of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
wil be held Monday night at
7:30 p.m. at Masonic Hall, Sec
retary T. D. Tindall has announc
ed.
MEN'S SUPPER
Men of the Church of Boyce
Memorial ARP church held their
regular super meeting Monday
evening. Pictures taken of the
church since the groundbreaking
services featured the program.
President Gene Steffy presided
and Marriott Phifer arranged the
program.
ELECTED
R. M. Kennedy, Jr., was elect
ed vice president of the Elders
of First Presbytery of the Asso
ciate Reformed Presbyterian
church at a recent meeting in
Statesville. Mr. Kennedy is prin
cipal of East school and a mem
ber of the Boyce Memorial
church.
-■> JAYCESS MET
Kings Mountain Jaycees, in
regular meeting Tuesday night,
heard two tapes detailing com
mon mistakes in Radio Day pro*
motions. Charles Blanton was
program chairman.
AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN
Phil Mauneyv Jr., son of Dr.
and Mrs. J. P. Mauney, has en
rolled for the fall term at Florida
Southern College, Lakeland, Fla.
Mr. MaUney transferred from Le
noir Rhyne college.
LEGION MEETING
The regular monthly meeting
of the Otis D. Green American
Legion Post 155 wil be held in
the club hall Thursday, October
4, at 8 p.m.
LIONS TO MEET
Kings Mountain Lions will
hold their regular meeting Tues
day night at 7 p.m. at the
Homan’s club. Program for the
Meeting was not announced.
PLEDGES FRATERNITY
William Lee Ramseur, Jr,
Kings Mountain freshman In the
School of Agriculture at North
Carolina State college, pledged
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity re
cently. He is the son of Mrs. W.
L. Ramseor and the late Dr.
Ramseur.
BUILDING PERMITS
City oficials isued two build
ing permits for proposed housing
construction. Haywood E. Lynch
received a permit to build a
dwelling oh Blanton St. and W.
N. Abernathy received a permit
to build a house on Cherokee
St. Estimated cost of each struc
ture was $3000.
Blanton Rerouted
Enroufte Thailand
Carl Blanton, Kings Moun
tain man who is now associat
ed with International Tele
phone & Telegraph Company
in Thailand, was a bit delay
ed in getting to his new assign
menf, and with good reason,
too.
KA typhoon in Hong Kong
aused Mr. Blanton’s plane to
be rerouted via London, Eng.
land. He didn’t take the wrong
plane, as the Herald inadvert
ently reported last week.
Mr. Blanton is a field engi
neer.
Sales Promotion
Park Program
Are Highlights
Mountaineer Days, Thursday
through Saturday, commemo
rating the 182nd anniversary of
the Battle of Kings Mountain,
will include sales promotions by
retail merchants and a Sunday
program at the Battleground.
Twenty Kings Mountain busi
ness firms are giving special
discounts to customers whose
hames are the same as the 400;
odd Mountaineers who tough'1
in the battle. Names of the
mountainmen will be posted ir
the several stores.
Participating merchants arc
Belk’s Department Store, Brid
ges Hardware, Dellinger’s, Ba
gle’s, Finger Laundry, Fulton’s
Kings Mountain Drug Com
pany, Medical Pharmacy, Mr
Girmis Department Store, Mc
G i n n i s Furniture Oompanv
Page’s Men Store, Plonk Broth
ers, Roses’ Stores, SouthweP
Mbtor Oomipany, Sterchi’s, Vic
tory Chevrolet, Putnam Broth
ers Garage, Lynch Furniture,
Hams - Teeter Super Markets
and Cooper’s, Inc.
Robert O. SouthWell is chair
man of the Merchants trade
committee sponsoring the Moun
taineer celebration.
The Sunday afternoon pro
gram at 3:30 p m. will feature
an address by Dr. Daniel W.
Hollis, professor of history at
the University of South Caro
oQSna, Who will speak in the
amphitheatre of the Kings
Mountain National Military
Park.
Ben IMoomaw, park superin
tendent, will preside at the fes
tivities, planned toy Mrs. Jaimes
Crowder, chairman, of Chester.
Special music will 'be present
ed by members Of the music de
partment Of Limestone College,
Gaffney, S. C. The annual pic
nic will follow
On Oct 7, 1780 a small band
of mountain men annihilated
a force of Tory' soldiers, under
the command Of Col. Patrick
Ferguson, a Soot, who was kill
ed in the battle. i
Historians have labelled this
British defeat the turning point
of the war leading to Corn
wallis’ surrender at Yorktowi
in 1781. <
The 4200 - acre national mil
tary park embraces the site
of the battle.
Mr. Moonuaw stated that the
Museum and the Park Visitoi
Center will be open before am
after the program.
Mine chapters Of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolutio.
are participatinig in the eeletora
tton- They are from Gastonia
Shelby, Oalfifney, York, Roc:
Hill, Chester, Fort Mill an
Lancaster as well as King
Mountain.
METER REGEIUTS
Parking meter receipts for th
week ending Wednesday totale
$202.75. This included $133.'
from on-street meters, $49 in o'
er-parking fines and $20 froi
off-street meters.
NO FIRES
City firemen reported no fire
during the past week.
PHARMACIST HONORED — Charles Blanton, selected as a phar
macist typical of the nation’s community minded men of the pro
session, is honored this week as a Saturday Evening Post adver
tisement calls attention to observance this week of National Phar
macy Week. Mr. Blanton is pictured above with Miss Peggy Ross,
>f he sales staff of Kings Mountain Druq Comnany. The same
picture appears in the full page Post advertisement. *
A a'J tF
Blanton Featured
In Post Layout
PRINCESS — Linda Walker, high
3chal senior and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. K. Walker, was
elected Carrousel Princess Mon
day in student elections and will
represent the city in the Thanks
giving Day Carolinas Carrousel
in Charlotte.
City Gas Plans
Hre Revised
W. E. Edwards, consulting en
gineer for the city’s gas system,
net with Mayor Kelly Dixon
Friday .and the gas distribution
Plan's were revised to place the
our regulator stations under
ground where posible.
Mayor Dixon said that he be
ieved all stations would be plac
id under ground, and that the
hree planned for installation on
private property would definite
y be underground.
Work on the approximateliy
wo miles of additional gas pipe
ine is progressing satisfactorily
ind the revision of the plans is
xpected to cause no delay.
The original plans called for
hree regulator stations in front
'ards. Since pipes with valves
ttached protrude from the
jround, the stations were
bought to provide traffic haz
rds and invite tampering, there
ore Mayor Dixon summoned Ed
wards to study possible revis
ons.
United Fund Goal Will Be $17,614;
'62 Budget Drive Upped Ovei $1,000
Kings Mountain's fourth an
nual United Fund drive, under
way this month, seeks $17,614.
'or seven participating organi
sations.
Budget work for the new
'und drive was completed this
veek, and Mr. Bridges noted
that all solicitation work is ex
pected to be completed during
he morith of October.
The campaign goal will be
,1,168 more in 1962, although
here is one less organization
this year. Not included is the
North Carolina Association for
the Blind. Budgeted gifts in
1961 were $350 to this organ iza
ion.
Following are the organaza
ions participating, their ap
proved budgets and comparisons
vlth last year.
Boy Scouts, $2250, 57 cent
Girl Scouts, $1500, no change,
land, $3300, up $190.
Kings Mountain Chapter, A
merican Red Cross, $3300, up
$190
Jacob S. Mauney Memorial
Library, $1000, no change.
Compact - Davidson School
band, $1000, no change.
Cleveland County Rescue
Squad and Life Saving Crew,
$2750, up $250.
Other United Officers in ad
dition to President Bridges are
Ollie Harris, vice - president;
W. S. Pulton, Jr., secretary;
and Tom Burke, treasurer Di
rectors, in addition to the of
ficers, are W. F. Laughter, Ed
Goter, Robert O. Southwell and
Rev. H. D. Garmon.
The United Fund will make
an additional payment from
last year’s campaign to par
ticipating organizations this
month which Will make total
payments approximately 90 per
cent of budget, best record in
| the three-year history of United
Fund operations here
Local Druggist
Named Typical
Pharmacist
Charles D. Blanton, Jr!, a
Kings Mountain pharmacist, Sat
urday will approach millions of
Americans on behalif of his pro
fession. He will do it via an ad
vertisement in the October 6 is
sue of The Saturday Evening
Post..
Sponsored by the A. H. Robins
Co. off Richmond, Va., the adver
and points out that the nation’s
pharmacists not only are indV
spendable members of the health
team, but are constant and val
ualble contributors to community
life.
Blanton was selected to illus
trate the ad because he is both
In 1853, he was graduated a
the top of his pharmacy class a
the University of North CaroMn;
and joined his father, also ;
pharmacist, at the Kings Moun
tain Drug Company. Two yeao
ago, he won the local Junto
Chamber of Commerce d'istln
guished service award- And thL
year, he received the North Cat
ollna Pharmaceutical A ssoci;
tfion’s A. H. Robins “'Bowl of Hi
geia” award for outstandin
community service.
IHis qualifications for the latte
award include: presidency of tl
Cleveland County Pharmaceutica
Association, Kings Mountain Me.
chants’ Association, and the loc:
Chamber of Commerce; chai
man of the board of Deacon
and Sunday school teacher t
the First Presbyterian chure
'here; chairman of the Clevelan
county better schools commatte:
and former director of the Jun
ior Chamber.
In addition to the 6% miMior
‘'Posit” subscribers Who will set
the actual ad, thousands of otL
ers will see easel-mounted oopie
of it in drug stores all over th
country. Many more thousand
will see it in state, regional an.
national drug journals.
Red Cross Seb
Annual Meeting
New officers of the Kings
Mountain chapter, American Red
Cross, will be ejected Wednes
day at 5:30 p.m. at the annual
meeting to be held at Kings
Mountain Baptist church.
Acting chairman J. Ollie Har
ris will preside.
Mrs. Marion Ritzert, national
Red Cross field representative
from Atlanta, Ga., will address
the group.
A Red Cross program the same
day at Kings Mountain high
school will feature an address by
Mrs. Ritzert on the subject,
i “Function of A High School Red
Cross Council.” Assisting Mis.
Ritzert on the program will be
two students, Pattie Howard and
Petis Lynn, both of whom at
tended a. Council meeting at
-.'a.np Blackmont during the
summer,:
The school program will be
held during assembly period at j
I 12:55.
Opposition To
Registered By
Fair Opening Day
Attendance Heavy
DIRECTOR — L. Arnold Kiser,
president and superintendent of
Sadie Mills, Inc., was named a
director of the Combed Yarn
Spinners Association Saturday at
a meeting in Ponte Vedra Beach,
Fla. The Kings Mountain man
was elected to a three-year
term.
Commission Split
Is Opposed
ByWjilM
“The proposal strikes at the
very heart of the free enterprise
system,” Wesley Bush of the C.E.
•Varfiick Insurance Agency told
the Kings Mountain Board oi
Education at a special meeting
Thursday morning.
The proposal to which Bu~t
eferred was a request made bj
Job Maner to the board Augur
X) that the commissions derive
rom the writing of the King
fountain school system’s insur
mce be divided among all th
nsurance agencies in the dis
rict.
No action was taken by the
>oard on the original request
leciding instead, to aell in thi
E. Warlick Agency, whici
urrently carries the school sys
em’s insurance, to hear its sid<
before making a decision.
Representing the Warlicl
\gency at Thursday’s calllec
\eeting in addition to Bust
/here Mrs. C. E. Warlick, and
ier son John Warlick. Mane
/as also present.
Bush told the board that un
er the Maner proposal othei
igencies within the distric
vouid receive twothirds of th<
ommissions but would do none
>f the work.
“Mr. Maner justified this di
vision, we understand, by indi
ating that there is no work or
■ur part in handling the school'f
nsurance.'’ Bush further stat
'd.
He refuted this claim by stat
ng that the iWarlick Agency had
) made three complete apprais
ils of the school; 2) paid the
ost of outside help; 3) utilized
wo men for more than a week
or the last appraisal; and 4'
ipent two weeks visiting and in
structing principals in complet
ing self-inspection forms.
“Why, we ask, should other
agents be allowed to receive thp
'reater portion of the commis
sions from the business which
>ur agency carries and services?”
Bush was of the opinion that
Vtaner's proposal was no dlf
erent than (requiring other firms
ioing business with the school
to share profits with firms in
similar business. \
In conclusion he stated that
Other agencies cannot meet the
■ost at which the Warlick Agen
cy writes the school system’s in
urance.”
To Maner’s statement in the
original request that the Wair
'ick Agency was splitting the
commissions with the Arthur
Hay Agency, Mrs. Warlick ans
wered that the arrangement was
not at the direction of the
chool board” but by agreement
between the two agents dating
back to when both shared the
System’s business.
Maner replied that he cop'ld
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Thrill Driven,
Helicopter Acts
On Weekend Bill
There’s something about a
fair!
And that something about the
39th annual Cleveland County
Fair, which opened Tuesday to
a whirl of turnstiles, saw fair
goers break all previous opening
day attendance records.
Even the weatherman smiled
on Tuesday’s opening day of the
nation’s largest county fair. A
misty rain which began failing
Wednesday morning didn’t keep
folk away and couples who had
been married 50 years or longer
were the Fair Association’s
guests for the day.
Show trains bearing the mile
long James E. Strates Midway
back to Cleveland County, ar
rived Sunday night to begin a
three mile trek to vast show
grouds some three miles distant.
A fresh look with new paint,
plus several new rides and
shows, added to the Strates
equipment which was assembled
and ready for action before open
ing day.
A two in one performance
nightly in the grandstand fea
tures Jack Kochman’s Thrill
Show plus Bob Cento's Variety
Acts. Five separate acts in the
Variety Show are all new for
the Cleveland County Fair, Man
ager Eldridge Weathers points
aut. A daring helicopter act i<
1 escribed as one of the most
ireath-taking stunts ever per
ormed and is showing at the
fair for the first time in thi
section. The helicopter will be
ivailable for private rides in the
daytime.
Special guests of the fair wil]
>e ail school students on Tues
lay and Friday; couples whc
lave been married 50 years o;
onger on Wednesday and Thurs
day; and all red-heads on
Thursday.
Miss North Carolina, Janice
3arron of Morganton, will bt
juest of the fair on Saturday
vhen she will officially tour ail
'xhibit halls and attend NAS
CAR races at 3:30 p.ml She will
ilso be on hand for final per
formance Saturday night of the
Xochman and Conto shows.
Each day’s events will be
apped with brilliant fireworks
iisplays by veteran Tony Vital
es.
TO PRESBYTERIAL
Cars will leave the First Pres
lyterlan church at 9 o’clock Fri
day morning for the 56th annual
meeting of the Women of the
ChuTch, Kings Mountain Presby
tery, to be held at Gastonia’s
Frist Presbyterian church. Any
one desiring transportation is in
vited to gather there.
Library Bond
KM Officials
GETS WINGS — Second Lt Don
aid E. McCarter has won his
pilot's wings following a year
of training in the USAF.
McCarter Wins
Pilot Wings
Second Lieutenant Donald E.
McCarter of Kings Mountain,
has been awarded United States
Air Force pilot wings following
his graduation from pilot train
ing at Reece AFB in Texas.
Lieutenant McCarter, a gradu
ate of the United States Rir Force
Academy, Colo., flew T-37 and
T-33 jet trainers during the
year-long flying training course.
He also received special academ
ic and military training.
He is being reassigned to Kel
ly AFB, Tex., for duty.
The lieutenant is thp son of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McCarter of
308 W. Gold St., Kings Mountain.
Electrical Bid
Arrangements
Are Authorized
Representatives of Southeast
crn Consulting Engineers, Inc.,
were instructed by city officials
Thursday to proceed with ar
rangements for inviting bids or
the proposed renovation of the
city’s electrical system.
The Charlote firm is the con
suiting engineers for the propo
ed $132,000 rebuilding of th<
city’s electrical distribution sys;
tem.
Don Lampley represente;
the firm at the meeting.
Also present at the meetin
were representatives of Duki
Power Co. The proposed renovr
tion will call for an increase it
line voltage to 4160 from the pre
sent 2400. They stated that tht
necessary power would be avail
able when the switchover we:
completed.
Southeastern Engineers ha
made the nece-sary surveys o
the situation and are to prepare
specifications for the switch.
The present system load has
outgrown the level of demand i.
was designed to serve.
The switch will enable, among
other things, installing protec
tive switchgear equipment, add
ing an eight circuit, and double
lining to serve heaviest power
usage areas.
Transfer Of School Assignments
Granted At Special Board Meeting
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education met in special sessior
'last Thursday morning and ap
proved the transfer of school a:
signments for Martha Jam
Mauney, Suzanne Amos and
Bobby Stroupe and denied the
request of William Sprouse.
Parents of Martha Jane, Mr.
and Mrs. W. K. Mouney, Jr., and
Mr. and Mrs. James Amos, pa
rents of Suzanne, were present
at the meeting and presented tc
the board their reasons for desir
ing the change in assignments.
The parents of the children re
questing the other transfers were
not present.
Attorney Joe Mauney of Shelby
was also present to represent the
Mauneys.
This was the third time that
the application for reassignment
of Martha Jane had been consid
ered by the board. The initial ap
plication, requesting transfer
L'rom East Schol to Bethware,
/as first read at a special meet
ng of the board September 1.
At this meeting motions toy
*oard members failed to receive
seconds, which, in effect, left
:he assignment as originally
nade. At the regular monthly
neetlng September 17 the board
reviewed all former decisoins but
nade no changes. Martha Jane
'ias been sitting in the second
rrade at Bethware since the op
sning of school.
At Thursday’s meeting, At
tsorney Mauney stated that af
fording to the school assignment
the initial transfer request was
incorrect in that Martha Jane
had never been assigned to East
School but to Park Grace, the
school she attended la-'t year.
This, he.stgtqd; qreates a new
situation in that the board's pre
vinu? - dgniais had been made
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Shelby Bequest
Foi Endorsement
Meets Refusal
Members of the board of Ja
cob S. Mauney Memorial Li
brary and Mayor Kelly Dixon
went on record Wednesday after
noon as literally opposing the
proposed county library bond is
sue.
Local Library board members
W. K. Mauney, Sr., and Haywood
E. Lynch along with Mayor Dix
on met for two hours in closed
session with the Shelby Library
board Wednesday in Shelby (to
state their views on the issue.
The meeting was requested by
the Shelby board after its ef
forts to petition the county
board of commisioners for a
county library bond election for
the November general election
were unsuccessful.
According to Mauney and
Lynch, the Shelby Library board
sought the endorsement of Kings
I »<iV. ,'iita'n an" to'
board for the proposed bond
election.
The meeting was closed to oil
but library officials, but Mauq
ey told the Herald Wednesday
evening following the meeting
that the Kings Mountain offici
als denied the Shelby request
for endorsement.
Mauney said that the Shelby
board was told that. "Kings
Mountain had a nice library
which was established by local
citizens and maintained by lo
cal citizens and that if the Shel
by board chose to follow that
example, Kings Mountain had
no objections.”
Lynch told the Herald follow
ing the meeting that the issue
was opposed because the Kings
Mountain representatives did
not wish to endorse an addi
tional tax levy for local citizens
n order that Shelby might build
i new library. The Shelby l ibr
ary was servpd notice of evic
tion by the City of Shelby Au
gust 6.
The proposal calls for an ad
ditional 4-5 cent tax levy for li
rrary operations.
Following the meeting Mayor
bixon placed calls to a41 coun
ty commissioners to mate
snown the objections to the p.a
>osal.
All the representatives ficrri
Cings Mountain were of Hie
opinion that the proposal was an
■ffort to place upon the county
he responsibility of supporting
ind maintaining the Shelby Li •
brary.
The petitions circulated t>y
he Shelby library board i
juesting the county board of
■ommisisoners to call a t >t.d
?lection for constructing a a w»
:y library building and for im
iperational tax for library oper
ation failed to acquire the 2,°iX)
signatures needed to force 1he
.•ailing of an election on the pro
posal.
The petitions were 350 signa
tures short of the 2,900 goal
Shelby library board chairman
Floyd Bast stated Monday that
it would be impossible to mahe
the November genral eleceic#».
"We’re going to have to wait un
til we get the required number
of names and then ask the coun
ty board to call a general elec
No School Friday!
NCEA Meeting
No school on Friday! And
(Dree fair tickets, too.
The happy holiday for
'Kings Mountain students oe '»
curs because teachers anti
school officials Will be at- •
'tending the 40th Annual Co«>
vention of the Southwestern
'District of the North Car©
Una Education Association,,
meeting in H.ekory..
Principal address will hr.
delivered by Philip Geary,
Air Age Educator and Fel
low, Royal Geographic So t
ety, speaking on Education -
Door to International Under
standing,” at the day^c .g
meeting at which more than
2,000 educators from six
counties are expected.
Friday is "fair day” for
Kings Mountain school folk,
and tickets have been d/sUv
'bated to all students.