Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
ThU figure for Greater King* Mountain Is derived from
the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
limits figure Is from the United States census of 1960.
Pages
Today
VOL. 73 No 40
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., October 11, 1962
Seventy-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
BELL RINGING
Church bells will peal from
Christ the King Catholic Church
Thursday morning at 9 a.m. to
herald the opening of the Ecu
menical Council meeting In
Rome. Catholic church bells
throughout the world will be
heard at this time. Holy Mass
will follow.
MEETING
The congregation of Resurrec
tion Lutheran church will adopt
a 1963 budget, elect four new
councilmen and name a lay del
k egate to Synod at the annual
W congregational meeting Sunday
following the morning worship
service.
TO HICKORY
Mrs. Margaret Ward, Mrs. A.
L. Hill, Mrs. Buford Ware and
Mrs. Paul McGinnis attended the
North Carolina Food Service As
sociation meeting in Hickory
Friday in connection with the
all-day District NCEA meet. The
local women are dieticians in
the schools.
WINS TOP PRIZE
Ten-year-old Janette Webb,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Webb of Grover, won the 12
pound ham given away by the
C1 e v e 1 and County Republican
Party at the County Pair Satur
day.
ON DEAN'S LIST
Miss Mary Lynn Russell. Kings
Mountain student at Duke Uni
versity in Durham, was listed on
the dean’s list for the spring se
mester. Miss Russell is daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rus
sell.
MOOSE MEETING
Kings Mountain Moose Lodge
1748 wil hold regular meeting
Thursday night at the lodge. The
Lodge will sponsor Dance Night
Saturday with music by the Mu
sicaleers.
SERVICES
Services are continuing night
ly this week at 7 o’clock at First
Wesleyan Methodist church. Rev.
W. C. Black of Asheville is the
visiting evangelist and Rev. J. W.
Stiles is leading the song service.
AT BELMONT ABBEY
Miss Penelope Cansler, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cans
ler, has entered the Junior class
at Belmon Abbey college in Bel
mont. She is among 600 students
enrolled for the fall term.
TO CONVENTIONS
Mrs. J. E. Lipford, vice-chair
man of the Cleveland County
Democratic Party, attended a
meeting of Democratic leaders
frim the 10th Congressional Dis
trict in Morganton Thursday. She
also attended the Democratic
Women’s convention in Asheville
Friday and Saturday.
ATTEND CONVENTION
Grover Postmaster Fain Ham
bright and Mrs. Hambright and
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Bird attended
a postmaster’s convention in Chi
cago, 111. last week. They return
ed home Saturday.
STUDENT TEACHING
William D. Woodward, Kings
Mountain senior at East Carolina
college, is doing his student tea
ching this fall in New Bern high
school. He is instructor in health
and physical education.
YOUTH SUPPER
The Senior Youth Sunday
School class of Penley’s Chapel
Methodist church will sponsor a
sale of hotdogs at Grace Method
ist church youth center Saturday
with serving beginning at 11
a.m. and continuing throughout
the day. Proceeds will be used
for curbing of the driveway of
Penley’s Chapel.
Church Not Sacred
To Some Thieves
Even the church isn’t sac
red to some thieves.
Two members of the choir of
Kings Mountain Baptist church
found this out the hard way
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Harold Coggins and
Mrs. Harold Crawford, Jr. left
their purses in the choir room,
donned their robes, and went
to the sanctuary with other
choir members for the worship
service.
While they sang, a thief or
thieves were busy ransacking
their handbags.
Police said about $30 was
taken from Mrs. Coggins’ purse
and Mrs. Crawford's billfold
contained about $35. Mrs.
Crawford also lost valuable
papers which were in the bill
fold.
Kickoff This Week
For UF Campaign
PROMOTED — Captain Bobby P.
Huskey has won his captain's
rank in the USAF. He is station
ed at Little Rock AFB in Arkans
as.
Huskey Wins
Captain's Rank
Lt. Bobby P. Huskey has been !
promoted to the rank of Captain
in the United States lAir Force.
Captain Huskey, who is on
temporary duty at Zaragoza Air
Force Base, Spain, is a member
of a B-17 combat crew in the
546th bomb squadron at Little
Rock Air Force Base.
Mrs. Huskey, the former Lau
ra Laine Morris, has been visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Earle Morris, Rt. 3, Kings Moun
tain. She and her children, Mike
and Gregg, will join Captain
Huskey when he returns to Lit
tle Rock on Friday.
Captain Huskey’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Huskey, have re
cently moved back to Kings
Mountain from Covington, Tenn.
They live on Rt. 3.
Rotarians Heai
Officer Shaney
Highway Patrolman Dick Sha
ney presented the program on
highway safety at Tuesday’s
meeting of the Rotary club.
Mr. Shaney called for the need
to increase legislative support,
listed some of the safety devices
which would help prevent acci
dents on the road.
Presented by Charles E. Dixon,
the officer noted a seven percent
increase in traffic fatalities since
the first of this year in North
Carolina
The Rotary club meets weekly
for lunch at the Country Club.
Democrats Shy
Campaign Goal
Kings Mountain Democrats
are a bit shy of their cam
paign - expense goal of $500,
J. Ollie Harris, co-chairman,
said this week.
Mr. Harris said funds in
hand approximate $300-$400.
The campaign goal is $500 in
Kings Mountain and $3,000 in
Cleveland County.
"We’ll raise it,” Mr. Harris
anticipates.
Month's Drive
Seeks $17,614
Foi Agencies
Kings Mountain United Fund
Campaign, which seeks a goal of
$17,014, officially got underway
this week.
Campaign workers will be
headed by UF chairman J. C.
Bridges and the board of direc
tors, Ollie Harris, W- S. Fulton,
Jr., Tom Burke, W. F. Laughter,
Ed Goter, Robert O. Southwell
and Rev. H. D Garmon.
“We’ve officially kicked-off the
month-long campaign and are
lining up solicitors”, Mr. Bridges
commented.
Campaign pamphlets which
list the seven participating or
ganizations and describe the
work and need of each have been
distributed throughout the city.
Posters bear the picture of a
blue-eyed blonde child who says,
“Give a helping hand the united
way in the fourth annual United
Fund drive, 1963 campaign, Kings
Mountain United Fund, Inc.”
A gift to the United Fund,
President Bridges added, will be
a gift to these services and their
approved budgets: American Na
tional Red Cross, $5,814; Jacob
S. Mauney Memorial Library,
$1,000; Kings Mountain Band As
sociation, $3,300; Davidson-Com
pact Band Association, $1,000;
Boy Scouts, Piedmont Council,
$2,250; Cleveland County Life
Saving and Rescue Squad, Inc.,
$2,750; and Girl Scouts, Pioneer
Council, $1,500.
What is a fair share gift?
President Bridges says hourly
workers customarily give one
hours pay per month and salaried
workers give one percent of the
yearly salary. ‘iNo gift is too
large or small”, he added.
Fairqoers Throng
To County Fail
dose to 200,000 fair goers
passed through the gates of the
Cleveland County Fairgrounds
during Fair Week Tuesday
through Saturday.
Manager Elbridge Weathers of
Shelby said Saturday was the
biggest day with an attendance of
about 75,000. Members of the
Highway Patrol estimated the
traffic as heaviest of any fair,
although it was beginning to
rain, cars were backed up for
more than three hours Saturday
night.
Clevelanders visited the fair
for many different reasons,
among them: to view the educa
tional and other exhibits; to ab
sorb the flavor and color of the
39th annual fair; to escape the
boredom of humdrum existence
in the make-believe world of the
fair’s midway and grandstand.
Premium checks totaled over
$15,000 to exhibitors at the close
of the fair Saturday.
There were political booths al
so at this year’s fair. The Repub
licans offered a free ham to the
lucky ticket holder whose name
was drawn from the hat Satur
day night.
Miss Janice Barron, Miss North
Carolina, was guest of the fair
Saturday.
lire Prevention Week Oct 7-13;
Safety Programs Mark Observance
What can Kings Mountain citi
zens do during Fire Prevention
vVeek ?
Rev! H. D. Garmon, chaplain
ot the North Carolina Firemen’s
Association and pastor of Cen
tral Methodist church, answered
his own question in an address on
‘^fi re-fighting* at Tuesday night’s
Lions club meeting.
Mr. Garmon was echoing a
statement jointly issued by Fire
Chief Pat Tignor on the obser
vance of National Fire Preven-1
tion Week, October 7-13
They noted:
1) Public-spirited citizens can
be fire-safety conscious by check
ing the spots in homes where
fires will likely start; the base
ment, upstairs, closets. Remove
inflammable liquide from the
premises.
2) Cooperate with the local
fire department and support its
program of home inspection dur
ing the fall each year.
Similar programs will be given
in the schools this week.
Chaplain Garmon noted a de
crease in calls to the Kings Moun
tain department this year as a
result of'fire safety education in
the schools. Fire damages in 1961
In Kings Mountain totaled a little
over $13,000, and Chief Pat Tig
nor termed this figure an “ex
cellent report for a town our
size.”
Education of the public is vital
ly important they added
Mr. Garmon gave these statis
tics:
Every 40 seconds fire strikes
somewhere in the United States.
Some 800,000 homes were razed
by fire in I960
Some 11,730 persons lost their
lives as a result of fire in 1961.
The annual fire loss in dollars
and cents totals over $1 billion
dollars.
Chief Tignor added that post
ors and pamphlets are being dis
tributed during the weeklong pro
motion and safety programs de
tailing how citizens can help pre
vent fire are available.
Chief Tignor cautioned citizen.1
about overheating stores, noting
that eight percent of fires are
caused by overheated stoves
“Check your stove pipes and
chimneys”, he added “Don’t storf
gas in gallon jugs and don’t
Smoke in bed”, he warned. ‘These
are fire dangers.”
Home fires In the United State:
number close to 800 a day, Tigno
added. How safe is your horn?
from fire?, he asked.
PRESIDENT — Jack H. White,
lawyer and judge of city record
er’s court, is the new president
of the Cleveland County Bor As
sociation.
White Heads
Bar Association
Jack H. White, Kings Moun
tain lawyer and judge of city re
corder’s court, has been elected
president of the Cleveland Coun
ty Bar Association.
Mr. White succeeds Shelby at
torney C. B. Cash, Jr., after serv
ings as vice president during the
current year.
The election took place at the
bar association’s annual meet
ing held at Cleveland Country
club.
Other officers include Joe F.
Mull, vice president; Joe Park
er, treasurer; and Max Harris,
secretary. All are of Shelby.
Mr. White is a partner in the
Kings Mountain law firm of Da
vis and White. He has long been
active in civic, religious and
community affairs. A Rotarian,
he is president of the local club.
He is active in Kings Mountain
Baptist church.
Mrs. White is a Kings Moun
tain school teacher. The Whites
and their children live on Edge
mont Drive.
At the Bar Association meet
ing, last Wednesday night, Su
perior Court Jttdge 3. Will Pless
of Marion was a guest. Judge
Pless was holding a term of Su
perior Court in Cleveland Coun
ty. During committee reports the
bar heard comments from a com
mittee working with architects
and county officials on a pro
gram of renovation of the county
courthouse.
Election Month
Away; Political
Activity Minor
With Election Day less than
a month away, King's Mountain
political activity has been min
or.
The Republican Party, making
its first local level challenge in
a number of years, and Demo
cratic candidates, both on the
county and state levels, were ex
pected to be busy campaigning
during the next few weeks.
There will likely be a lot of
doorbell ringing, handshaking
and campaign speeches.
Major race in the area is for
United States Congressman from
the 10th district where Carroli
M. Barringer, Conover Republi
can, is challenging Congressman
Basil L. Whitener, Gastonia
Democrat, who is completing his
third term.
Local interest is also centered
on the state senate race in the
27th Senatorial District where Ed
Smith, Kings Mountain textile
broker, is running on the GOP
ticket, opposing Democrat Rob
ert Morgan, incumbent, of Shel
oy.
Nomination for seats on the
county board of education is be
tween Republican Bob F. Maner,
insuranceman, of Kings Moun
tain, and Democrats Bobby G.
Austell, Buford D. Cline, Walter
Davis, J, D. Ellis and Charles
Forney, Jr.
In Number 4 Township, Kings
Mountain Democrat J. Lee Rob
erts & Kings Mountain Republi
can Elzie L. Putnam are both
running for justice of the peace.
According to a ruling from the
attorney general’s office, they
will run on their own party tick
ets and both can be elected.
The county’s seat in the N. C.
House of Representatives is a
race between Democrat Jack Pal
mer, Jr., incumbent, of Shelby,
and Republican Maurine S.
Moore.
Only other county - level race
of interest locally is the District
3 county commission seat. Re
publican Getstys Bingham is run
.ng against incumbent Democrat
David E. Beam.
Veteran County Coroner J. Ol
’ie Harris, of Kings Mountain,
las no opposition.
Republican Candidate Smith
aid: "I urge all legally - quali
ied but non - registered citizens
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Registration Books Will Open
In County Precincts Saturday
READYING FOR FLORAL FAIR — Members of
the Woman's Club and Garden Council are
readying for Wednesday's 59th annual "Au
tumn Harvest." The four committee chairmen
above were photographed as they completed
final plans for the event. From left above
are Mbs. Kelly Bunch, co-chairman of staging;
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney. president of the Wom
an's club; Mrs. Charles Mauney. co-chairman
of staging for the flower show; and Mrs.
George Houser, president of the Council of Gar
den Clubs and general chairman of the flow
er show. (Herald Photo by Truett Moore)
Ciubs Are Completing Plans
For Floral Fair Wednesday
Yankees Win 5-3;
Take Series Lead
The New York Yankees went
one-up on the San Francisco
Giants in the World Series
with a 5-3 win Wednesday aft
ernoon.
The series now returns to
San Francisco for the sixth
and if needed seventh games.
The Yankees need only one
more win to reclaim their
world championship.
To unseat the champs the
Giants must now win two in a
row in Candlestick Park.
Crane Operator
Fatally Injured
By Bulldozer
Carl Lester Britt, 55, was
killed Wednesday morning about
10 o’clock when he apparently
tell from the bulldozer he was
operating and it backed over
him.
Mr. Britt, a crane operator, was
working on the Interstate 85
highway projject on Gastonia
highway. He and his wife lived
in a trailer near Kings Mountain
A native of Moore County,
North Carolina and a resident of
Carthage, Mr. Britt was employ
ed by Wilson Construction Com
pany of Salisbury.
The body will be taken from
Harris Funeral Home Thursady
to Frye-Briekett Funeral Home,
Carthage.
Coroner W. J. MdLean of Gas
tonia investigated the accident.
Cleveland Coroner J Ollie Harris
said.
Mr. Britt was the son of the !
late Dan Britt and Mrs. Hattie
Britt Freeman of Altamahaw,
N. C. He is survived by his moth
er; his wife, Mrs- Bertha Muse
Britt; one son, Charles Britt of
Douglasville, Ga.; one brother. |
Wilbert Britt of Star, N. C. and
a sister, Mrs. Lennon Conklin of j
Altamahaw.
Also surviving are three half- .
brothers, C L. Freeman of Gas-1
tonia and Clifford and Clyde
Freeman of Newport Ntnvs, Va.
Mr. Britt was a member of the
Methodist church of Carthage.
Funeral rites will be held in
Carthage.
HOSPITALIZED
Jack H. White, judge of city re
corder’s court, is a patient at
Kings Mountain hospital where
he Is being treated for pneumon
ia. Mr. White entered the hos
pital Monday
53th Event
Will Feature
Bazaar, Dinner
Details for the 1962 Woman’s
Club-Garden Council Floral Fair
have been virtually completed
and officials said yesterday they
anticipated a record-toreaking
event in all departments.
The 59th annual fair opens
Wednesday at noon at the Wo
man’s dub, featuring the patriot
ic theme, "Peace and Beauty at
the Battleground” in keeping
with the 182nd anniversary year
of the Revolutionary War Battle
of Kings Mountain.
(Format of the fair will follow
that of former years- Both lunch
and the evening meal will be
served. The flower division of
the fair opens to the public at 12
noon. A bazaar will again be a
feature of the show.
Full schedule in competitive
classes are published in section 1
of today’s Herald.
'Prizes will go to first, second,
third and forth place winners in
both horticulture and arrange
ments categories. Coveted awards
are the tricolor, the awards of
distinction, and the sweepstakes.
The sweepstakes honor goes to
the holder of the most blue rib-1
bons
"The committees have been
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IN CHURCH POST — Rev. L. A.
r'aulkenburfj of Albemarle has
assumed pastorate duties ai
Eastside Baptist church. He suc
ceeds Rev. Thomas Moore.
Eastside Pastor
Assumes Duties
Rev. L. A Fauikenbury has
assumed pastorate duties at East
Side Baptist church, conducting
his first service at the Wednes
day evening prayer meeting.
A native of Union county, Rev.
(Continued On Page Eight)
Burris Brothers' Arrest Believed
Solution To Ten Store Break-Ins
The arrest of two Route 2 bro
thers last week is believed to
have solved the 13-month series
of store break-ins and larcenies
in the Kings Mountain area.
The boys arrested and charg
ed with the 10 store break-ins
were identified by Police Chief
Paul Sanders as Gerald Burris,
18, and Andrew Burris, 16.
Chief Sanders said that both
youths had admitted to being
involved in the thefts. Value of
the cash and merchandise taken
was estimated to be $971.05.
Assisting Chief Sanders in the
arrest were Deputy Sheriff C. A.
Huffstetler and city officer Rob
ert Greene.
The arrest were precipitated by;
a period of close observation of
the boys by the local police de-j
partment. A few clues and some:
additional information led to the
arrest late Wednesday.
Chief Sanders reported that a
quantity of merchandise had
been found in a patch of woods
near the boys’ home. Additional
information sad been received by
his department that the boys
had been wearing articles of
clothing similar to those taken
in the creak-ins.
Wednesday afternoon Chief
Sanders and Huffstetler signed
a search warrant on information
and belief, and along with
Greene, went to the boys’ home.
A search of the house and an
outbuilding revealed a quantity
of stolen merchandise.
The merchandise was loaded
in the police car and the officers
waited for the boys to return
from school. After questioning
the boys the arrests were made.
"They readily admited the
thefts,” Chief Sanders said.
The boys were taken to police
headquarters and questioned fur
ther. At this point they listed all
they could remember about each
of the 10 thefts.
The chief’s ofice was packed
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Township Voters
May Register
At Four Places
Registration books lor the No
vemlber 6 general election will
open Saturday at the county’s 28
preoi nets.
Number Four Township polling
places are: East Kings Mountain
(City Hall courtroom); West
Kings Mountain, ('West School);
Grover, (Grover Fire Station);
and Bethware, (Beth ware
School) ■
Eligible voters may register on
three consecutive Saturdays, with
the registrars to be at the several
polling places all day on October
13th, 20th and 27th. November
3rd is Challenge Day.
Kings Mountain registrars re
minded local voters that registra
tion for city elections do not
make them eligible for the forth
coming election. Unless their
names appear on the county
books, they won’t be able to vote
on November 6th.
Absentee votes are permitted in
general elections.
No new registration is required
for these whose, names are al
ready on the books, for county
elections, Ralph Gilbert, chair
man of the county elections
board said yesterday. However,
new citizens or voters coming of
age or otherwise becoming c-ligi.
ble will be required to register
during the three-week registra
tion period if they wish to vote
November 6.
The election law sets these
qualifications for registration: 1)
the person registering must be a
citizen of the United States and
21 years of age; 2) He must not
be an idiot or lunatic, must be
able to read and write any sec
tion of the state constitution in
the English language and must
not have been convicted off nor
have confessed in open court, up
on indictment, his guilt of any
crime punishable by inrfpriM o
ment, unless citizenship has lx "n
restored; 3) Me must have lx on
a resident of the State for one
year and of the precinct fot id
days.
Industry Report
To C el C
Slated Thursday
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce board of directn
will meet at noon Thursday at
the Country club to hear, a im
port on “package construction
projects" now available.
President Glee A. Bride ,
ju t back from a meeting in Sal
isbury, will give a report fn i
his trip which was made for
talks with Binswanger Corpora
tion about the Chamber’s inilus
trial development program.
Binswanger Corporation, ac
cording to Mr. Bridges, has oil* .
ed to finance any reliable e* m
pany that will locate in or near
Kings Mountain, financing il
100 percent including land. The
Chamber must locate the desir
able property with at least cm*
tract of land 25-30 acres on rail
road.
Members of the board of direc
tirs will submit the-e facts to
Binswanger from the Tegular
Thursday meeting: 1) full fads
on the community in writing; 2)
full information on sites avail
able; 3) utility information for
each of the sites and if water,
sewer, gas, power utilities rwe
not available how will tho com
munity supply them; 4) full in
formation on railroad siding fa
cilities; and 5) prices for ground.
Binswanger Corporation’s Sou
thern Division has offices in
Charlotte. Frank G. Binswangrv,
Jr. is president of the company
itaycees To Begin
Sale 02 Kleenex
The Jaycee’s annual Kleenex
sale will begin Tuesday, Oct.
16.
The door to door sale will
feature five boxes of Kleenex
for $1.00.
Carroll Ledford is chairman
of the project, proceeds of
which wil go to the club's
community projects.
ROTARY TO MEET
Kings Mountain Rotarians will
hold regular meeting Tuesday at
12:15 at the Country Club. Mem
bers will hear a report from the
district director’s meeting.