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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 | City Limits 8,008 TMt figure tot Greater Kings Mountain It derived from tbe 1955 Unas Mountain city directory census. The city drafts figure Is from tbs United States census of I960. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspapet - J |iR| 16 Pages Today VOL. 73 No. 43 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November I, 1962 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CEWS5 Local News Bulletins RADIO BROADCAST Morning worship services dur ing the month of November will be broadcast by Radio Station WKMT from Boyce Memorial ARP church. DEVOTIONS Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, will conduct morning devotions No vember 5 .-9 via Radio Station WKMT. The program is at 9 a.m. HALLOWEEN CARNIIVAL The annual Bethware school Halloween Carnival will be held Friday night. The cafeteria will be open from 5:30 to S:30 p.m. to serve sandwiches and drinks. PERMIT ISSUED A building permit was issued by city officials this week to Wil con Crawford to build a $25,000 one-story residence on Victoria Circle. MRS. JONES ILL Mrs. John D. Jones, Bethware precinct registrar, was hospitaliz ed Tuesday with a urological ail ment. She hopes to be discharg ed soon, her husband said. SERIOUSLY ILL Miss Carlyle Ware, retired Kings Mountain teacher, remains in serious condition. She is a pa tient at Kings Mountain hosptal. TO BE DISCHARGED Mrs. B. S. Peeler is expected to be discharged from Charlotte Memorial hospital, where she recently underwent an operation, on Thursday. LEGION MEETING Regular meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, will be held Thursday night at 8 o’clock at the Legion Building, Adjutant Joe McDaniel,- Jr., has announced. CITY OFFICE HOLIDAY City of Kings Mountain of fices will be closed Tuesday, due to the General Election, it was announced by Mayor Kelly Dix on. Kiwanis Name New Officers Kings Mountain Kiwan'iam will formally elect all officers | for 1962-63 at their Thursday night meeting at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. Thursday's meeting will be an | inter-clu'b meeting with Ruther fordton and Ru'therfordtbn Ki wanians will present the pro gram. Grady Howard, business man ager of Kings Mountain hospit al, Will succeed B. N. Barnes as president of the civic club. Mr. I Howard is unopposed for the ) presidency. Dr. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, will succeed Mr. Howard as first vice-president. Run-offs for second vice-presi dent and choice of seven direct ors will also be completed. Three Kiwanians are tied for the sec ond vice-president post. They are Dan Finger, R. S. Lennon and Henry Neisler. Seven directors will be chosen from these nominees: James Amos, Dr. R. N. Baker, Dr. Tom my Baker, Glee A. Bridges, Glee E. Bridges, Bill Brown, Harold Coggins, Rev. H. D. Garmon, W. G. Grantham, Dr, D. F. Hord, Dr. O. P. Lewis, Dr. W. L. Mauney, J. N. McClure, N. F. McGill, Har ry Page, James Page, D. M. Peel er and John Smathers. President B. N. Barnes will preside. Ex-Mayor Bridares Snowbound In Iowa Former Mayor Glee A. Brid ges is snowbound — in Wa terloo, la. Visiting his daughter, Mr. Bridges wired County Chair man J. Clint Newton his re grets at be’ng unable to get home for the Democratic rally held fct the Woman’s Club Wednesday night. Mr. Bridges said he expected to be home in time “to help herd up and get to the polls November 6 the good loyal Democrats in Kings Mountain and surrounding area.” I New School Space Needs Report Filed Report To Speed Architect Woik On New Plant An educational advisory com mittee has filed its report on space requirements for the new Kings Mountain area high school. Among questions the commit tee memlbers seek to answer for the architects are space require ments for industrial or vocation al courses to be offered, library space requirements, number of classrooms to accomodate the potential number of students, and space needs for television class instruction and other audio visual instruction Meeting Monday with two rep resentatives of Architects Asso ciated, Fred Van Wageningen and Tom Cothran of Shelby, this committee reported that the pre liminary report on the education al specifications for the new school would be sent to the Da vision of School Planning in Ra leigh Wednesday. It is the hope of the committee that after the report is sudied by Dr. Dwayne E. Gardner, ed ucaional consultant of the Divi sion at School Planning, State Department of. Public Instruc tion, the architects wil l'be given the go-ahead signal for the basic wortt on the school’s plans. Purpose of the meeting, ac cording to Supt. B. N Barnes, was "to let the architect’s and the ptiblic know that something is being done toward construction of the school.’’ Both architects-were highly im pressed with what they termed the "well-coordinated effort of the committee” and the "tremen dous amount of spcial attention we are getting from Raleigh.” Kings Mountain is the first school to receive the assistance of Dr. Gardner and these pre liminary reports are made to avoid lost time after the school plans are started. The members of the steering committee and the sections of the specifications each member :s e6-ordinating are: Principal Harry Jaynes, school services; Mrs John Gamlble, home econo mics; Mrs. W. T. Weir, library ind foreign languages; Miss Hel m Logan, English and business education; Joe Hedde, board and music; Mrs. Helen Ausley, science and mathematics; Fred Withers, health, physical educa tion, social studies, student activ ties; Paul Hambright, vocational lepartment; and John Lutz, au iio^visual instruction. PARADE WINNERS The Future Farmers of Ameri ->30 copped first place for their 'loat, "We’ve Got Castro’s Goat,” n Friday’s Homecoming parade. Second place went to the entry of Future Homemakers of Ameri :a. DAH GOOD CIITIZEN — Sara Hendricks, high school senior, has been selected DAR Good Citi zen by Colonel Frederick Ham bright Chapter, DAR. Sara Hendricks DAR Citizen Miss Sara Adele Hendricks, high school senior, has been cho sen DAR Good Citizen under the sponsorship of the Colonel Fred erick Hamtoright Chapter Daugh ters of the American Revolution. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Paul I E. Hendricks the winner will be among those from the district who will be guests of District HI of the DAR at the Kings Mountain Battleground Saturday, November 3. In addition to a lun cheon, features of the entertain ment will include a tour of the museum and park and seeing slides pertaining to the Battle of Kings Mountain. Selected by the members of the senior class because of her possession to an outstanding de gree the qualities of dependabil ity, service, leadership and pa triotism, Miss Hendricks was en dorsed by the senior class faculty sponsors. The purpose of selecting a DA R Good Citizen from each senio class is “to stress the qualities o. good citizenship among Senior girls in public high schools”. Ir this case, ‘'Citizenship” refers tc that expressed in terms of school rather than country. The Good Citizen from each school receives a certificate of award from the National Society DAJt and a Good Citizen pir from the chapter sponsoring her Other awards are presented to the district and state winners and to the national winner. CATHOLIC SERVICE All Saint’s Day Thursday at Christ the King Catholic church will be celebrated with evening mass at 8 p.m. Three services of mass on All Saint’s Day Friday will be celebrated at 7 a.m., 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Father Thom as Clements said. Two IP's To Be Elected, Or One? Putnam To Appeal Advene Ruling Will voters Tuesday elect both Democratic and Republican jus ,ces of the peace of Number 4 ownship in the persons of In umbent J. Lee Roberts, Demo at. and Elzie Lee Putnam, Re niblican or will only one be dected? Raymond C Maxwell, execu ive secretary of the State Board >f Elections says only one Will ye elected, in spite of the fact -he law permits the election of averal in this township. Ralph Gilbert, chairman of the county elections board, says he suspects Mr. Maxwell ‘‘should enow what he’s talking about”. Candidate Putnam says he in ends to appeal the matter — should he not be confirmed after iext Tuesday’s balloting—to the itate board and subsequently .hrougb the courts. And Candidate Roberts says, Tm aware that the North Car olina Constitution unless the law has been changed provides that each township can elect a m'ni mum ©f three justices of ‘.he peace. However, this is a matter for the elections board to deter fmine, not me.” Mr. Putnam says he has dis cussed the matter with Bill Pu ett, a Gastonia attorney and Re publican leader, and that Mr. Puett acknowledged the law is ambiguous on the question. Con versely, Mr. Putnam said he was told, the time for action on his part will be in appealing an ad verse decision on his election b'. the Cleveland Elections board The county elections board wii! convene next Thursday to certify election returns, to certify win ners of local offices to the cler’ of Superior Court, and to certif results for state offices to the State board. The question was first advanr ed last spring shortly after th< April filing deadline. Sutose querttly. on inquiry from Mr Roberts, Secretary Maxwel wrote Mr. Roberts: MIn your letter .of Julv 2fltl you stated that you are the in cumbent Democratic, nominee fo the office of Justice of the Rear in Township No. 4 in Cjevelan Countyt and that there is also * Republican candidate nominate* in the primary for this office <Continued On Page Eight) Mayor Opposes Higher Cost For City Tag Mayor Kelly Dixon, just re turned from the annual conven tion in Greensboro of the North Carolina League of Municipali ties, favors some portions of the league’s 1963 legislative pro gram, but not all of it. Mayor Dixon favors efforts of the state’s cities and towns to obtain a bigger share of utility franchise taxes, now only three quarters of one percent of the six percent of gross receipts North Carolina .collects in utility fran chise taxes. Mayor Dixon opposes the ef fort of the cities and towns to raise the present one dollar max imum charge for city auto li cense tags. He also favors efforts of the 'cities and towns to Obtain legis lation which will prevent so called “'paper” towns from shar ing in Powell Bill gas tax re bates for street improvements. It came to the attention of the state during the past year that developers had incorporated large areas as towns (largely on the coast) and thereby qualified for municifent portion of this re bate The present law provides that a portion of the gas tax be rebated the cities and towns on a dual formula of street mileage maintained and official popula tion. These were regarded the ma jor legislative recormnndations adopted by the league. Also among the more than 700 city officials attending the con vention were Mayor Pro Tem 'pore J. E. (Zip) Rhea and City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr. Registering Action Light East Kings Mountain precinct apparently logged more new vo ters than others in Number 4 Township, with a total of 25 dur ing the registration period ended last Saturday. 'Mrs. Nelle Cranford, registrar, said 16 registered as Democrats, seven as Republicans and two as Independents. Satuday, November 3, will be Challenge Day. At the other precincts, Mrs. J H. Arthur reported registration it six Democrats, five Republi cans, and three Independents, a total of 14, and Mrs. J. B. Ellis’ total for three Saturdays at Gro ver was four new voters Report could not be obtained Wednesday from Mrs. J. D. Jones, Bethware, who is ill. lob Suivey Is Underway Kings Mountain high school, under sponsorship of .the Kings Mountain Merchants association, is conducting a survey of area business firms on job opportuni ties for high school students. Specifically, Principal Harry Jaynes wrote, the fourfold pur pose of the survey is: To determine the number of possible jobs that may be avail able to 1963 graduates of our school who do not attend col lege or pursue further study. To have information available to students who may go on to a business or a technical school and want to work in our town. To provide work experience for college students who need finan cial assistance to continue their education. To assist students who drop out of school for various reasons and have nothing to do. On the questionnaire via which business firms are asked to supply information are ques tions concerning educational re quirements of employees, wage scales for apprentices and for ex perience personnel, whether no job training is provided, and, if so, time required for learning, ind per-uine* policies. HOSPITALIZED Franklin Dean, Kings Moun ain student at ASTC and son •f Mr. and Mrs. A. F. text, sus ained painful face brui cc in an uto acidenl in Chari c dur | :g the weekend. Ancrhe,* stu nt f, with whom Dean v,.ys vis ing, was also injured. B’an, a atient in Room 425 of Charlotte iemorial hospital, is expected to j£ discharged this weekend. SIXTY-YEAR MASON HONORED — Two veter an Cleveland County Masons were presented 60-year service pins Thursday at a district Ma sonic rally in Forest City. Seated, from left above are C. C. Stamey of Fallston and B. Meek Ormand of Kings Mountain. Making the pres entations are Harry Hasslcamp of Marion, left, and Robert P. Dudley of Shelby, center. Grand Master Charles Ricker cf Asheville, looks on at right. Mr. Ormand has long been active in Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM of Kings Moun tain. Oimand, 93, Gets 60-Year Masonic Pi n Satie (Captain Meek) Ormand has reeeweeHris fXamond Jubilee Veterans’ award, 60-year-service pin, as a Mason. Mr Ormand, at 93, is still ac tive in Fairview Lodge 339 AF& AiM, holds a record of 21 years perfect attendance as a Kiwan ian and 18 years perfect attend ance in Sunday School. He is an Elder and attends regularly the Men’s Bible Class at First Pres byterian church. A Mason for more than 6C years and a Shriner, Meek Or mand became a Master Masor May 31, 1901 at Gastonia Lodg< 369, subsequently affiliated with Fairview Lodge of Kings Moun tain, earned his 25-year certifi cate and his 50-year service em blem. A retired railroad conductor he is also a former schoolman He taught school for three yean before going to Southern Rail way, retiring from the railroad November 30, 1939 after 50 year? service. Bom March 18, 1869 at Old Furnace in Gaston, Mr. Or mane was a son of Robert Dixon and Sara Goforth Ormand His wife to whom he was married for 63’< years, was the former Lillian AI lison. The Ormands were parents of four children: Mrs. C. Troy Carpenter, Mrs. O. P. Lewis, Hugh D Ormand, all of Kings Mountain, and the late Lloyd Or mand. Another Cleveland County Ma son, Clarence Stamey of Fall ston, also earned his Diamond Jubilee service award. Presenting the pins to Mr. Or mand and Mr. Stamey were Har ry L. Hasskamp, of Marion, dis trict deputy grand master of the 52nd Masonic District, Robert P_ Dudley, of Raleigh, assistant sec retary of North Carolina Masons and formerly of Shelby, and Charles C. Rucker, grand master of Masons in North Carolina, from Acheville. Going to Forest City for the district gathering and the awards presentation last week were Kings Mountain Masons Ormand, T. D. Tinda 11 and BaxterM. Hayes, Jr_ Merger Study Sroup Complete A nine-member committee for studying a merger of the coun. ty’s three administrative ynits into a single one has been com pleted. Representing the Kings Moun tain unit will be Fred W. Plonk, H. O. Williams, and Supt. B. N. 3arnes. • . ;« • • From the Shelby unit wtlj be •Paris Yelton, Lamar Young and Supt. Malcolm Brown. From the county unit will be Charlc* Forney, J. D. Ellis and Supt. Horace Grigg. Community Day Services-Friday SPEAKER — Dr. Paul Arthur Marrotte of Davidson college will males the address at Friday afternoon's World Community Day service at the ARP church. OPTIMIST MEETING Kings Mountain Optimists will hold regular meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at Paul Hord’s Fish Camp. Program for the meeting was not announced. ATTENDING SEMINAR Mrs. W. B. Logan and Mrs. Joe Hord will attend seminar tech nical instructor’s classes on the new method of depreciation to be used on new 1962 tax returns which begins Monday. Marrott Speaker At Annual Event At ARP Church Dr. Paul Arthur Marrotte, Davidson College history profes sor, will make the prine pal ad dress at Friday's World Com munity Day service, an interde nominational program of Kings Mountain United Church Women. The service, to which the com munity is invited, will toe at 3:30 p m. at Boyce Memorial ARP IcMuroh. Dr. Marrotte s subject, Tne Problems of Understanding Asia Today”, will feature a report from his year of study on a Car negie Fellowship about Easctern and Southeast Asia at the Uni versity of Michigan. Mrs. A. J. Slater, program chairman, said, “ We hone tha everyone will make an effort tc attend the service so we may lr better informed as to Southeas Asia and her problems and :■ that knowledge be able to meet our responsibilities and work to ward our “Channels for Peace.' Other members of the progmn comrtiittee are Mrs. R. L Go forth, Miss Ava Ware, Mrs. W M. Herndon, Mrs. Earl Ledford Mrs, Thomas Droppers, Mrs Paul Hendricks, Mrs. H. R. Neis ler and Mrs. J. E. Mauney. Mrs George Plonk is Council presi dent. Theme of the 1962 observance is “Channels for Peace.” Dr. Marrottee earned his B. A. (Continued On Page Eight) Ace Parker, Duke Coach, Speaker For Annual lions Football Party 'Head baseball and offensive backfield coach Clarence “Ace’ Parker of Duke University wil 'be the principal speaker for the annual Lions Club grid banque here December 11. The banquet is scheduled to the Woman’s Club at 7 o’clocl December 11 when the K ng Mountain Lions C'ulb will adr another canto to their perennia' tradition of honoring the Moun taineer football team and coach ing staff. 'Parker is the first Duke coac> booked to speak at one of thes affairs, adding another Illustri ous name to the long list of sue cessful coaches who have ad dressed the local civic club and fooJball team since the banquet’s inception ib the late thir ies. Sharing the spotlight with the Blue Devils mentor will be the presentation of two coveted tro phies to the two outstanding Mountaineer gridderS during the ’62 season. For the tenth consecutive yeai the Fred Plonk Block ng trophy will be awarded to the plavp - s< lected by the coaching staff a. the Fmd Plonk Blocking trophy The George Plonk Most Valua ble Player award will be give for the fourth consecutive yea; to the player chosen most valu able to the team during the sea son. Sammy Houston, most valua ble, and Curtis Floyd, best block er, were recipients of the award: iasi year. Parker, the “Ace of them AH,’' rvas one of the great backs in the nation for the three years U which he played va^sitv footbal at Duke. In his final season, 1936, he was named to every ma jor All-American team. A great baseball player as well, he played two seasons, 193' and 1938, with the Philadelphia Athletics He joined the Brooklyn profes sional football Dodgers in ly3’. (Continued On Page Eight) Tenth District Congress Race Gets Top Interest Kings Mountain area citi>enr, along with others throughout t»w county, state and nation, Will %>ai lot Tuesday in the Bierihial-gor eral election. Polls will be open at the 2*. Cleveland precinct from 6. it,', « m. to 6:30 p. m Holding top interest in *5«* area is the contest for tenth in ■ trict United States congress^ icu'i, where IncuirJbent Basil L, ner, Gastonia Democrat, is I'r'.'g challenged try Carroll M. Rar ringer, Conover Republican. Additional interest has re -kbe-1 from Republican competition for senatorial district, ooithty m*» township offices for the time in 14 years. Among the contests haps Mountain area voters will hCp to decide arc: ■For State Senator from <><■ 27th Senatorial cl strict fjer.ate ' Robert F. Morgan ar.d H. T. Jones, Demo -rats, who a> v posed by Edward H. Smith i»fii L. L. Mom man, Republican' For Cleveland County 'Rti e sontative to the North Can firm General Assembly—Repro' ‘Vrtii f ive Jack Palmer, Jr., Who is ex posed by Mrs.. Maurinc S. Me-' *#, Republican For County Commissioner, r*'» trict 3- Commissioner D.w-d E Beam, Democrat, who is f'mI lenged by Gettys Bingham, Re publican. For five places on the Lrunfv Board of Education Bufo>d 5». Cline Walter Davis, J. D. KHiS, and Charles D. Forney. J* m ■etnwbcbt Demerits, «rwl yfk9fhy G. Austell. Demo'rat. opposed by Bob F. Maner, Reoublican For Number 4 -Trwnsh'to *r*~ Bee- rf the pene*Imnurbe*'* J. Lee Roberts, Democrat., op? by Elizle Lee Putnam, > . can. Kings Mou"ta!n area .citizens will help decide four o‘’ c *'•« tests found on the ballot Re state oHiees includrtg: For United States Sena' Sam J Ervin, incumbent Demo crat, who is opposed by Chunk* L. Greene, Jr. Republican. For Commissioner of I n't tr ance 'Edwin S. Lan:er, in<" . bent Democrat, opposed \y Claude E, Billings, Jr. For Chief Justice of Mu pre*mc Court- Emery B incumbent Democrat, opposed I j Lewis P. Hamlin, Sr. For Associate Justice of Supreme Court—Susie Sharp • »-, cumibent Democrat, opposed by Irvin B. Tucker. Jr. Numerous judicial Dfirood.e incumbents have no oupositmo. For Cleveland County off,-*’;. following Demo-rats are ma losed: Sheriff Haywood rerior Court Clerk J. W f> •ne Treasurer Lillian E Thvr Coroner J. O'lie Harr s, wi -vevor Clvde C. Fespemrvno. ^ Jemoeratic nominees Jo* F. 11, for 1udge of record ■ • irt, N Dixon Lackey, Jr., icitor of recorders bourt, Iph S. Elliott, for District r* inty commissioner are ied, as is Solicitor B. T. FhJls, of the 16th solicitorial ? s J't, lharles W. Ford, Demo*^atk istable of Number 4 Towns* *» is unopposed. Thumbnail Facts On Tuesday Voting.; Following are thumf»*a*r facts for Number 4 Townss>f» - voters in the upcoming gent* al election : Election Day — Tuesday, No vember 6. Polls open at 6:30 a.m. Polls close at 6:30 p.m. Polling places — Ea- t . Mountain, at City Hall eoirt room; West Kings Mounlwv at We-t elementary scht-o1: Grover, at Grover fire station:. Bethware, at Beth ware school'. Number of ballots — f* "r. including state, coun y "d township ballots to fill pu*j * offices, and another on • amendments to the Morti® Carolina Constitution Predicted vote — in tower ship, 2000; in Cleveland Coun ty, 8000. IN NEW POST Roger Keith Layton of ftiey. Mountain has recendy been •* ployed by the American W*- - count company as an adii&.'rr in its Charlotte branch. The 'ren of Mr. and Mrs. James G. I ay ton of 404 Wilson street, he ;*<• tended Central high school * u*wi The Citadel.