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 (Continued On Fc.ge Eight) 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 (Continued On Page Eight) 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 »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.