» Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 nil figure tor Greater Kings Mountain Is derived from tbe 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure Is from the United States census of I960. Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 15, 1962 Seventy-Third Year Pages Today VOL. 73 No. 45 Established 1889 PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins THANKSGIVING SERVICE Kings Mountain Baptist church wil hold a Thanksgiving Day breakfast from 7:30 until 8:30 next Thursday morning and a brief service of meditation and music from 9 until 9:45 a.m. The Church Choir and Junior Choir will render special music. IN GLEE CLUB Billie Jones, Kings Mountain student at N. C. State college, is a member of the 100-voice Men’s Glee Club which began this year’s concert season Nov. 1. Six concerts will follow in addition to the annual spring tour of the state. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jones. LODGE MEETING An emergent communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held Saturday night at 7 o’clock at Masonic Hall, Secre tary T. D. Tindall has announc ed. P-TA MEETING East School Parent-Teacher Association will hold regular meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 in the school auditorium. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $189.35, including $112.10 from on-street meters, $49 from over parking fees, and $18.25 from off street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel, Jr., reported. KIWANIS CLUB William J. Kay, Kings Moun tain high school guidance direc tor will present the program at Thursday night’s Kiwanis club meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the Woman’s club. Mr. Kay will speak on the new program un derway in the school as a fea ture of the civic club’s promo tion of National Education Week. JAYCEE RADIO DAY Proceeds from the Junior Chamber of Commerce Radio Day promotion November 27fh wil help purchase a new bus for the Cleveland County X-Ray Mo bile Unit, Jaycee Thomas Drop pers said this week. SENIOR CITIZENS Senior Citizens will not hold their regularly scheduled meet ing Friday. The group will gath er with the Woman’s club for a square dance later this month. AUXILIARY MEETING Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion Auxiliary, will hold regular meeting Thursday night at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. Clarence Jolly, Fulton road. TO MEETING Rev. George Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, is in Whiterock, S. C. today attend ing a board of trustees meeting at Lowman Home, Lutheran Home for the Aged. Mr. Moore is a member of the board of trus tees. THANKSGIVING SERVICE The annual Thanksgiving ser vice at Resurrection Lutheran church will be held Wednesday night at 7 o’clock, Rev. George Moore, pastor, has announced. FIDDLER'S MEET The annual Fiddlers’ Conven tion at Hollis will be held on Thanksgiving Night with cash prizes to be awarded the best bands participating. Bands will register for entry at the door. Tickets went on sale this week in Hollis. NORTH P-TA North School Parent-Teacher association will gather for regu lar meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 in the school auditorium. HARVEST DAY Dixon Presbyterian church will hold Harvest Day Saturday. November Mth, with special events planned. The Lord’s Acre projects will be received. PERMITS ISSUED City officials issued two build ing permits during the past week. e. L. Peele was issued a permit Saturday to build a $2000 garage to his home on Cansler Street. Dr. Philip Padgeit was is sued a permit Monday to make a one-room addition to his home on N. Piedmont Avenue. TURKEY SHOOT The * Kings Mountain Police Club will hold an all-day Turkey Shoot at their new city water lake Saturday, November 17. Shooting for the turkey prizes wia begin at 8 a. m. Sandwiches and cold drinks will be on sale with all proceeds going to the polks fund. HONORED — Rev. P. D. Patrick has been honored by Columbia Theological Seminary as Out standing Alumnus. Seminary Honors Rev. Mr. Patrick Rev. P. D. Patrick, a former1 pastor of Kings Mountain’s First Presbyterian and Dixon Presby terian churches, is the first alum nus of Columbia Theological Seminary to receive the Out standing Alumnus Award. (Mr. Patrick, who joined the staff of the seminary in 1958 as director of the development and expansion program, received the certificate of merit at the an nual Alumni luncheon last Tues day. Mrs. Patrick was also an honor guest. Dr. J. MdDowell Richards, president of the seminary, in presenting the 1962 award to Mr. Patrick, said: ‘When we began our expansion program to raise $5,000,090 we called Mr. Patrick (from the pastorate on a full time basis. It is no small thing to leave the pastorate for this kind of task. Tirelessly and ef fectively he has worked. Dr. James R. McCain once said, “I never mind asking a man to give money for I know if I can get him to give money I have done something for his soul. This re flects something of the life of P. D. Patrick. He knows if he can get a mail to give his money he has done something for that man’s soul, for “Where a man’s treasure is there is Ms heart al so.’’ Here is a man who is loyal to every aspect of the church’s Iprogram. . . . .” (Mr. Patrick began his active ministry in the Synod of Geor gia, served pastorates in South Carolina and was superinten dent of Home Missions of Pee Dee Harmony and Charleston Presbyterian before coming to Kings Mountain where he served for many years 'Dr. Richards made specific references to Mr. Patrick’s work as a home missions pastor, Pres byterian Church extension, his work in establishing the Minis ter’s Annuity Fund, his record as a memlber of the Board of Di rectors of several institutions and his work in raising several hundred thousand dollars for Co (Continued On Page Eight) Lions Selling Fruit Cakes The annual Kings Mountain Lions club fruit cake sale is un derway. Members are again selling the high quality Claxton cake, three pounds for three dollars. Howard Brodwater is chair man of the sales committee, and other committeemen are Jack Hauser and J. M. McGinnis. All club members are on the sales team. Profits from the sale wil be used in sight conservation work and other club projects. Legislators Favor Change In Statute Palmer, Morgan Disfavor Ruling On Cafeterias Cleveland County’s legislative delegation have stated they will seek a change in the state stat ute to permit community groups, civic organizations, and other non-school groups to use school cafeteria facilities. Recently, on request o f the state superintendent of public instruction, Ralph Moody, assis tant attorney-general, gave the opinion that school cafeteria fa cilities could be used only by school groups and for school re lated functions. Senator Robert F. Morgan was quoted, “I certainly think that such local groups shold be al lowed use of school cafeterias. Of course, I think they should pay any expense involved, but use of thre cafeteria facilities should not Ibe denied.” Representative Jack Palmer, Jr., commented, ‘‘I can’t under stand why civic groups are not now allowed to use them. I will be very willing to look into the matter to see what can be done and to report corrective legisla tion.” The county board of education has previously passed a resolu tion to seek aid of the county delegation in obtaining change in the statute. Common Market Trade Said Vital “The European Common Mar ket is only six hours from where 1 you sit and we’re irrevocably tied to it;”’ a Wix Corporation executive told members of the Kings Mountain lions club Tues day night. Norman Hull-Ryder, merchan dising manager for Wix, review ed the history of the economic marriage of six European na tions and declared, “If Britian goes in, a (foregone conclusion, others will join and we’ll see an economic powerhouse.” In a forum session after his address, Mr. Hull-Ryder said he saw no great competitive ad vantages the European Common Market would have over Amer ican textiles and added it was his understanding that the fore ign trade bill was designed to make it possible for the United States to trade with the BOM countries rather than to join the (Continued On Fnge Eight) Dr. Morrison Renovating Dr. D. M. Morrison is renovat ing the vacant building on South Battleground avenue formerly occupied by Winn-Dixie. Dr. Morrison said he is split ting the building with a partition to provide two buildings, each 26-feet wide by more than 90 feer deep. He said the buildings haven’t been rented. Hook Still Bessemer City Mayor; Lithium Finn Against Annexation ^ t ... • . il _/U.niVl (Mayor George Hook, of Bes semer City, is still mayor, in spite of his vert>al resignation at a Monday night board meeting. Mayor Hook, well-known in Kings Mountain, tendered his resignation when his board of aldermen declined to accept his -ecommendation to extend Besse mer City’s western city limits, the extension to include the 'ithium Corporation of America plant. L i t h i um Corporation, mean time, “prefers not to be annex ed”, Dean Herman, resident manager, said Wednesday morn ing. He amplified little, except to say that a small portion of the companies property is with in the Bessemer City city limits. Mayor Hook said Wednesday, “I don’t blame the Lithium folk.” However, he said, Bessemer City has a financing problem, with limited revenue. And he added that Bessemer City furn ishes the Lithium Corporation water, which Mayor Hook de kucu aa uaiuij a |/*v**»*«»^ municipal function. Mayor .Hook said his differ ences with hfs board concern the matter of timing. ‘VUl,” he said, favor the annex ation. However, they wiant to wait until we’re ready to annex an area to the East. That isn't ready yet, but the other is. When something’s ready, I believe in going ahead.” Mayor Hook says Bessemer City has no profits from utilities, as Kings Mountain does, and is just getting starved in the busi ness of distributing natural gas. He said taxable valuations ap proximate five million. It is estimated the annexation would mean a new 020,000 per year tax bill for Lithium Corpor ation. Mayor Hook added, *‘I haven’t given the board .my resignation i In writing yet, bat if we don’t straighten this out, I will at the i next meeting," HONORED — C. T. Carpenter, Jr, has been honored by Internation al Correspondence Schools of which he is area representative. ICS Honozs C. T. Carpenter Charles Carpenter, local Rep resentative for International Cor respondence Schools, Scranton, Pa., is receiving special recogni tion form IDS. during November, according to John C. Villaume, ICS President. President Villaume announced today that Mr, Carpenter is being honored in conjunction vritfc ECS’ first-annual "Represen tatives’ Month” celebration. Mr. Carpenter, who has served ICS since September, 1955, is 'being cited for “outstanding ser vice” to individual students, cli ent business and industrial firms, and his community. Addressing Mr. Carpenter and other representatives, President Villauimie said. “You perform a great service to our nation’s economy by providing the means of producing its most important commodity—'trained workers.” "Thanks largely to your ef forts,” Villaume continued, “ICS is currently training approxim ately 100,000 Americans, 85% of Whom are studying programs di rectly related to their jobs, or the job immediately ahead. Thanks also to your activity within the business and civic community, ECS now has almost 7,000 training agreements with business and industrial firms, un ions, government agencies, and public as well as private schools.” Mr. Carpenter and his family live at 409 Crescent Hill Rd. 4-H’ers Elect Gary Stewart Gary Dean Stewart, high school junior, was elected presi dent of the Dixon Community 4-H club at an organizational meeting Tuesday night at Dixon Presbyterian church. Other officers include Vickie Jackson, vice-president; Donnie Spears, secretary-treasurer; Joy Welch, pianist; Patsy Welch, song leader; and 3111 Smith, re porter. Installation of officers will feature the December 4th meet ing of the clufo. Twenty young people signed membership cards and other In terested 4-H’ers ages 10-21 are invited to attend the next meet ing at the Dixon church. L. H. Stewart, Tom Berry and Conrad Hughes are members of the community 4-H sponsoring committee and attended the or ganizational meeting. Merchants To Close Thanksaiving Day Kings Mountain retail mer chants will observe the Thanks giving Day holiday, Thursday, November 22. According to by-laws of the As sodation, stores will close the Wednesday afternoon preceding the holiday, and close Thanks giving Day. Stores will suspend the regular aalf-day closing schedule on Wednesday after Thanksgiving remaining open every Wpdnes iay afternoon until Christmas beginning Wednesday. November «u*» Re-zoning Denied Iks Neighbors Post Objections The board of commissioners declined to re-zone lots at the corner of West King and Jupiter streets to business designation at last Thursday’s meeting. The request of Dr. Craig Jones to re-zone the property was de nied after Hugh D. Ormand voic ed a protest. He added the re zoning was opposed by R. R. Tar boro, Robert O. Southwell repre senting his father-in-law W. B. Saunders, and Mrs. Earl Clonin ger. Mr. Ormand said, “I under stand that once a property is re-zoned its re-zoned permanent ly.” Comm. Ben Bridges replied. “That’s right.” "Then I object," Mr. Ormand replied. The commission named Grady Yelton, public works superinten dent, as superintendent of the city natural gas system at ad ditional pay of $75 per month. Mr. Yelton had been superin tending the system since the resignation of Corbett Nicholson. The commission approved re surfacing of Fairview street, but declined to take action to obtain suficient right-of-way to install curb-and-gutter. Three residents have declined to provide 18 inch es of right-of-way each. In other actions tne ooaro: 1) Called a public 'hearing for December 13 on a request of Mrs. H. T. Fulton, Sr., for rezoning of residential property at the cor ner of Cansler and Wa'lker streets. 2) Voted to seek bids on a new gas furnace for City Hall. 3) Approved a petition for curb-and-guitter on Hill street, from Clinton drive to bend of street, and from Deal street to York road. 4) Approved Installation of streetlights at the end of Grace stret and on Branch street 5) Confirmed street improve ments assessments on Stowe and Goforth streets. 6) Accepted these low bids: six-cylinder half-ton pick-up truck, Victory Chevrolet Com pany, $1712 (Including trade-in); one and or e-half ton truck, Southwell 'Ford Company, #4063. 05; garbage pick-up unit, A. E. Finlay Company, $4440.63: air - compressor, A. E. Finlay Com pany, $386250. McLaughen Bites To Be Thursday Mrs. Rose Led well McLaughen, 90, died Tuesday shortly alter midnight in the Rutherford iCaurt.y hmpital. She had been in iU healtr for several ^ ears. Funeral rites Willi be- held Thursday :ntral Methodist church when ie spoke on " Our American Her. tage.” A gr»od ciwd attended ill* commurfltyjwkle service. Back -to-School Night for par mts featured Tuesday activities n the schools. The Future Teach ers chapter eg the high school was in Charge. School'bells took the pa rests from classroom to ■lassroom for a day’s schedule of high cheol classes and aetivi ties. Visitation Day was held In all! the schools throughout the week The American Education Week committee of the Kings Moun tain Unit of the NCEA was in charge of the week’s program. ALTERNATE — Gary Collins, of Grover, is an alternate nominee from Cleveland County for the Morehead scholarship to the Uni versity of North Carolina. Collins Alternate For Scholarship Gary Collins, of Grover, is an alternate nominee from Cleve land County for a Morehead scholarship at the University of North Carolina, Nominees, from Cleveland County ®re A) Viehman, presi dent. of the Shelby high school Student body, Jan Jorgensen, edi tor of the Shelby high school student newspaper, and Steve Jolly, of Crest high school. The three and Collins as al ternate were chose from 18 nomi nees from Cleveland high Schools. The nominees also in cluded Robert Rhodes Plonk and Kenneth Mauney Barnes, of Kings Mountain high school. Next step in the scholarship award, worth up to $5,000 to re cipients, is selection by a district committee representing several counties. Collins, son of Mrs. Mary Tur ner Collins, is a member,of the student council, was president of his junior class, a marshal, member of the National Honor : society, several other high school organizations, and baseball let terman. The selection committee in cluded 'Earl Honeycutt, Jr., chair man, Lyndon Hobbs and Mrs. C. Rush Hamrick, Jr., all of Shelby, and Wilson Griffin, of Kings j Mountain. BloodmoMe Here Friday The lied Cross Bikodmobile will return to Kings- Mountain Fr-ida for a owe-day visit. Officials of the Kings Moun tain Red Cross Chapter were an tedating the quota ».J 125 pints of blood would be met. "Response to the last visit of the regional blowdibank was good j Olid we feel thru area citizens will again respond to this cal)", liMrs. John A_ Cheshire, blood pro {gram chairman said. 'Minette Mills employed led all i other industries at the recent vi sit to Grover. Em p 1 oy ees of Mauney Mfils led industrial do nw-s at the last visit in Kings Mountain. The Grover mill is challenging other ;mdustries to match or exceed their blood-giv ing at the forthcoming visit. Donors will lx? processed from 11 a. m. until 5 p. m. at Kings Mount tin Baptist church i ucarr shadow Owwnemtlng on the fact that Soviet cosmonaatt Ravel Popo vich appeared uashaven in tele vision jpictures of him In space, a %-itist 4-ommentator said‘‘It look ed like 40 orbit shadow. Christmas Club Checks Mailed; Aggregate Payment Record 594,000 Urst Unson National Bank •nailed Christmas Club checks totaling $94,000 to approximately 300 members on Wednesday. R. S. pennon, vice-president, ^aid the payment is a record one, with the total more than in any prior year the bank has offered the Christmas Club program. The first year, in lflM, the ag gregate payment was blightly over $6,000. Concurrently, It was axoaunc ed that ttw* 1963 Christmas Club will open .November 19. "We are particularly pleased at both the record total of pay- j ment to Christmas Club mem- j bers and at the number who participated," Mr. Lennon com mented. "More and more citi zens find that Christmas Club membership is an easy and sure method of saving for Christmas season expenditures.’’ General Electric Bid Is $15,000 Under Estimate By MARTIN HARMON (Mill Power Supply Company, of Charlotte, bidding to supply General Electric Company E quipment; was apparent low bid der for electrical s witch gear c quipment, first phase of • the city’s electrical distribution :re building. The board of commisslor* r> received bids Wednesday after noon and the General Eleeiirtc bid of $24,-ID'S was low by $13(8.10, .lie bid of Allis-Chalmers Manu facturing Company at $01,013. Other bidders included: ill® Circuit Breaker Company, $3,0, 350; and Westinghouse Aipplwioice Sales, $27,250. All bids were exclusive- Of North Carolina sales lax and in cluded shipping costs to Mogw Mountain. All b:cls indicated fmm, prices and delivery by July 3, 1903. D. B. Lampley, of South n.'s*l ern Consulting Engineers, of Charlotte, the city’s elect rievd on. gineering firm, said lie was high ly pleased with the bidding not ing that the low bid was "aHont $15,000 under catalogue prices on which estimates were based” Mayor Kelly Dixon told lhe bidders that the cammi'atiefl would review the bids and pro bably would award content t hi the regular meeting of the m u' mission on December 13. Purchase of switchgear eqiwp ment, to be located adjocenil to the Duke Power Company station on N. Gaston street, is the first step in rebuilding the city’s power distribution syrbm. Engineer Lampley sa <1 ment of this kind is ordinal jiy obtainable in from lft to 26 weeks, Meantime, according to the en gineering timetable, the commis sion will receive bids next st'nH'ng lor 1) installirg th’e switchgear equipment, and 2» for first phase l'ne reburld’ng. Also antiMl'irfiited is request fo~ alternate bid I"*> posals on second phase line re building. The switchgear equipment will enable the city to up its distribution lines from 2-« to 4160 volts and also permit »<«*»• tion of an eighth circuit to the city’s present seven. The city appropriated i" the present year’s budget $7r>Cii<> to - ward the electrical rrtrthhtong project. The engineering table was designed to " possible for the city to eoin«pU.te the work under one constrn-s a*' contract, fcut ia two fiscal y* a,b Sheet Licthting On Board Agenda | Representatives of the !• ngs I {Mountain Merchants associate n,. l and Chamber of Commerce v/tlj (meet with the city comm i s'. V o 'Thursday night for a discu' pion •of street-lighting. The meeting will begin .it 7 •o’clock and Jim Hunter, otf PFotj j lotte, a representative of C«n eral Electric Company, will be present to outline various street lighting programs to the l/wwil of commissioners. •President Glee E. Bridges, in a letter to Merchants Association members, noted that a group ed Kings Mountain citizens re-»->.i !y /attended a lighting demon ■■tin, tion at the Hendersonville G*tn | eral Electric plant. 'The first project on tin- (.rc posed agenda will be lighting the •main business section,” f.|;i dent Bridges wrote. He urged nU memibers to be present at the Thursday night session. The two organizations ffust urged the city to replace the ri-e sent street lighting two y«.ara } ago. The .present "White way” has been in use more than 30 years. F»wp»n« Th^nhnnq Didn't Fee! Wall ' wnen me fire alarm smi.o, ed Monday night, Vo’uof.er. Fireman Fred Thooht.,,» •should have felt the wall <*• his neighbor's wall Fireman Thornburg, as he customarily does, rushed imWc ly to the city hall fire s:-v)«:,rc when he heard the air "mi sound—onlv to find that the fire was at W. King street the home of G. L. Wright, t»liee desk sergeant, and Mr. Tlu rn burg’s n ex fdoor neighbor . fire originated from a defective stove gas line ami re sulted in minor damage.