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VOL 73 No.46
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 22, 1962
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
PTA MEETING
Park Grace school Parent
Teacher Association will hold
regular meeting Monday night
at 7 o’clock in the school audi
torium.
WOMAN'S CLUB
Woman’s Club members, their
husbands, and Senior Citizens
club members will gather for a
square dance Monday night at
7:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club.
BUILDING PERMITS
| City officials issued two build
ing permits to J. Wilson Craw- i
ford November 15 for the con
struction of two $15,000 houses
on Sherwood Lane.
NO FIRES
City firemen received no Fire
calls during the past week, fire
man T. C. McKee reported Wed
nesday.
ONE WRECK
Approximately $25 damage
was done to the car of Ruth
Boyce Ellis of 309 Ellis Street
Monday morning when it was
struck by a school bus driven on
Parker Street by Steve Russell
Jamerson, Route 1.
INSTALLATION SET
Dixon Community 4-H club
will hold its December meeting
on Tuesday night, December 4th,
at 7 o’clock at Dixon Presbyteri
an church Recently-elected of
ficers will be installed.
WHEAT SIGN-UP
The Cleveland County ASC Of
fice has announced that the 1963
wheat stabilization sign-up is
continuing through Dec. 14th. In
terested farmers should visit the
ASC office in Shelby. The office
will be closed Thanksgiving Day.
AT STERCHI'S
i Mrs. Joyce Graham, of Shelby,
"has joined Sterchi’s, Kings
Mountain, as cashier and assist
ant bookkeeper. Mrs. Graham
spent several years as an em
ployee of Sterchi’s Charlotte
branch.
TO ATTEND MEETING
Mayor Kelly Dixon and Gas
System Superintendent Grady
Yelton will attend a meeting in
Chaxlote Friday to consider
means of handling natural gas in
event of nuclear attack. .
LIONS SPEAKER
Parris Yelton will give a report
of his trip to the Lions Interna
tional Convention In Nice, France
at the weekly meeting of the
Kings Mountain Lions Club
Tuesday night, 7 p.m. at the Wo
man’s Club.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for the
week ending Wednesday totaled
$178, including $126.10 from on
street meters, $32.25 from over
parking fees, and $19.65 from off
street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc
Daniel, Jr., reported.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Regular meeting of Kings
Mountain chapter of Alcoholics
Anonymous will be held, at First
J’resbyterian church Fellowship
plall Friday evening at 8 o’clock.
Dixon Sets
Harvest Festival
Dixon Presbyterian church will
sponsor a Harvest Festival Sat
urday afternoon beginning at
3 o’clock at the church on Dixon
road.
A short service of Th'anksgiv
ing and dedication for the Lord’s
Acre projects and harvest will
be held at 6 p. m., Rev. James
Mann, pastor, has announced.
(Baked goods, including home
made cakes and pies, will be in
cluded, in a bazaar division. Hot
dogs will be sold during the
afternoon with accessories, and
a church membership quilt bear
ing names of all families in the
church will be auctioned, among
other items.
A Lord’s Acre of cotton and
wheat has already been harvest
ed by Church members and the
offering will be received and ded
icated.
«pv. Mr. Mann, assisted by
Children in the Sunday School,
■WH lead the Thanksgiving ser
vice, including responsive read
ings, The church choir, under di
rection of Mr*. Paul Mauney.
wiH sing “We Gather Together.
Mias Joan M«3ure will be pian
ist for the program.
Kincaid Assumes
Guard Command
Major Houston
Now Serving
At Headquarters
'First Lieutenant Ronald David
Kincaid has assumed command
of the Kings Mountain army
national guard unit, officially
known as Company D, 105th En
gineering Battalion, of the 30th
Division.'
Lt. Kincaid assumed command
on October 26, succeeding Second
Lieutenant Hugh Lancaster, who,
in turn, had succeeded Major
Humes Houston in September.
Lt. Kincaid, an ROTC graduate
of North Carolina State college
and formerly member of the
army reserve, was recently trans
ferred to National Guard.
Major Houston, who organized
the Kings Mountain National
Guard company on June 16, 1948,
was promoted to his present
rank as of Septem!br 20, and has
been transferred to the battalion
headquarters company, based in
Charlotte. Major Houston has
been assigned the duties of plans
and training officer for the six
companies of the battalion.
During his 14-year-tenure as
commanding officer, the com
pany, organized with 16 men,
numbered peak strength of 93
officers and men. Initially an in
fantry company, the unit became
an engineering company during
a general divisional reorganiza
tion.
Present authorized strength is
75 officers and men, with six
men required to bring the com
pany to full strength.
1/t. Kincaid, chief engineer of
Ideal Industries, Inc., of Besse
mer CSty, is a Kings Mountain
citizen and is married to the for
mer Lossie Lynch. He had six
month active duty service with
the army following his cam-mis
sioning.
'Major Houston is a veteran of
five years of army service dur
ing World War II. He was
awarded the bronze star for his
service during the Battle of the
Bulge in late 1944 and early 1945.
Major Houston is a veteran em
ployee of Kings Mountain Drug
Company. Mrs. Houston is the
former Eva Mae Suber.
Lt. Kincaid said the guard
company would welcome enlist
ments by recruits or by former
service personnel. Full informa
tion on enlistments can be ob
tained fom Sgt. Charles Wilson
at the National Guard Armory,
he noted.
Lithium Acquires
Lincoln Deposits
lithium Corporation of Ameri
ca, Inc., has announced it has en
tered into an agreement with
Lincoln-National Concentrates
Corporation to acquire mining
rights and purchase options to
one of the important lithium ore
bodies in the world.
The deposits which are largely
amenable to open cut operations
he in e contiguous group of
properties amounting to approx
imately 470 acres, located about
five miles from the company’s
Bessemer City plant.
By this acquisition the com
pany has added more than 10
million tons of high grade lith
ium ore to its reserves, bringing
its total North Carolina reserves
to more than 20 million tons,
Resident Manager J. D. Herman
said. ' • '
Football, Chuich Rites, Hunting
And Feasting On Turkey Day Menu
Weather forecasts call for
clearing in this area Thursday
morning (time not specific), an
enhearteriing report for many
citizens with a Thanksgiving hol
iday at hand.
'Kings Mountain business
firms, for the most part, will
close for the day, as will city of
fices, the postoffice, finanicial
firms and others. School faculty
and pupils have a free weekend.
The menu for Thanksgiving, in
addition to the traditional sump
tuous dinners, will include, wea
ther permitting, hunting, foot
ball, Visits' to kin and friend, as
well as for traditional church
services.
Two football games will at
tract area football fans. At Salis
bury, Lenoir-Rhyne and Oatowba
will renew their long rivalry,
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TAKES COMMAND — First Lieu
tenant David Kincaid, of Kings
Mountain, is the new command
ing officer of the Kings Mountain
Army National Guard company.
Thanksgiving
Rites Planned
Seven Kings Mountain church
es were planning special Thanks
giving E>ay services this week.
The traditional breakfasts will
toe held by Central Methodist,
Kings Mountain Baptist, and
Boyce Memorial Associate Re
formed Presbyterian churches.
Men of the Churches will serve
breakfast at both the Kings
Mountain Baptist and Central
Methodist churches beginning at
7:30 a. m. with Thanksgiving
service of song and meditation
to follow. Boyce Memorial's
Thanksgiving service will begin
at 7:30 with the breakfast to be
j served at 8 a. m.
Christ the King Catholic
church will Observe Holy Sacra
ment of the Mass Beginning at
9 a. m. Thanksgiving morning.
Trinity Episcopal church will cel
ebrate Holy Communion and
hold a Thanksgiving song ser
vice at 10 a. m. St Matthew’s Lu
t her an church will hold a
Thanksgiving worship service at
10 a. m.
At Second Baptist church, the
Women’s Missionary Society will
sponsor a 3 p. m. Thanksgiving
X>ay service. Mrs. W. B. Bagwell,
prayer chairman, noted that the
sanctuary will be open for pray
er from 8 until 10 a. m. and from
3 until 5 p. m.
Dixon Presbyterian church has
scheduled a Harvest Festival
Saturday from 3 until 6 p. m. A
short Thanksgiving service and
dedication of the Lord’s Acre
projects will follow.
Special music by the various
church choirs will be featured in
the several services on Thanks
giving.
Congregations of First Pres
byterian, Resurrection Lutheran,
First Baptist churches, and vir
tually all other area churches,
held Thanksgiving services at
mid-week prayer services Wed
nesday evening.
Curb-and-Gutter
Totals Three Miles
Mayor Kelly Dixon reported
Wednesday that the city has in
stalled more than three miles
of curbing and guttering since
the beginning of the fiscal year
July 1.
Total cost of the several pro
jects exceed $32,000.
Curbing and guttering instal
lations cost $1.80 per foot, with
additional charges for driveways
and drainage outfalls. Property
owners share the cost at the
rate of 50 cents per foot.
with Lenoir-Rhyne the odds on
favorite, both for a victory and
for a post-season bowl invitation.
High school fans have an all
star Lions Bowl offering at For
est City, pitting the all-stars of
the two divisions of the Western
high school conference. Kings
Mountain Coach Bill Bates is
assistant coach of the East team
and three Mountaineers, Wally
Harris, Brent MdDaniel and
James Hope are on the East
roster.
For stay-at-home fans, tele
vision will offer virtually all
day gridiron entertainment, both
professional and college, with a
variety available via a switch of
channels.
Seven Kings Mountain church
es have scheduled Thanksgiving
Day services.
Officials Set
Raleigh Talks
On School Plans
By HAROLD PEARSON
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
experts state school officials to
give the go ahead signal to
school architects next week for
the beginning of preliminary
sketches on the proposed new
Kings Mountain high school.
Supt. Barnes, high school Prin
cipal Harry Jaynes, the school
architects and members of the
educational advisory committee
for the new school are to meet
with officials of the Division of
School Planning of the North
Carolina Department of Public
Instruction in Raleigh Tuesday
to discuss the reports of the ad
visory committee.
Supt. Barnes told the members
of the Kings Mountain Board of
Education Monday n'ight it was
his belief that at this meeting
the state officials will tell the
architects to commence sketching
the basic plans for the proposed
new million dollar educational
plant.
Supt. Barnes also reported to
the school board that the deeds
to the school site property had
been received and recorded and
at that time were in the hands of
the school attorney, J. R. Davis.
The reports to be discussed by
local school officials, architects
and the state officials Tuesday
are those submitted to Dr.
Dwayne Gardner October 31.
These reports compiled after
months of study by the education
al advisory committee of the
school deal with the space re
quirements for the various as
pects of the new school’s curricu
lum.
Dr. Gardner, educational con
sultant for the Division of School
Planning, was to study these
specifications and Offer sugges
tions for changes and improve
ments.
With this part of the planning
completed the architects can then
design the school plant to ac
comodate the expected courses of
study as well as the school pupil
load.
Supt. Barnessays that the eji.
ucational committee plans are
well ahead of schedule and, with
the special assistance being re
ceived from the state officials,
the new school should be com
pleted with a minimum of delay
in obtaining final architectural
plans.
Warlick Remains
Schools Agent
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education Monday night voted
unanimously to retain insurance
coverage for the district schools
with the C. E. Warlick Agency.
This action in effect, settled a
question of insurance coverage
and commission - splits on in
surance that had been before the
board since July, and previously.
In July, Bob Maner appeared
before the board at its regular
meeting with a request that
commissions earned on school
insurance be split among all
This request was repeated at a
representatives of the Warlick
Agency also appeared before the
school officials.
No action was taken at either
meeting.
In deciding to continue for this
school year with the Warlick
Agency the board stated it would
reeive bids from any agency at
the expiration of the present pol
icy period.
In an other insurance matter
it was decided that $2000 medi- j
cal payment insurance would be j
purchased for the car used to|
transport three bus drivers to
and from Beth ware eah day.
The board deferred the sugges- J
tion that a lightning arrestor j
(rod) be placed on the 65-foot
chimney at the high school.
Other action by the board:
1. Failed to act on a request
from Mrs. Sue G. Arrowood, a
teacher at West School, that her
grandchild be allowed to attend
Kings Mountain schools. The
child lives in Gaston County and
a release from that district was
not presented with the request.
2. Authorized Supt. Barnes to
employ one additional high
school teacher. Barnes reported
he has three prospects for the
position. The schools are seeking
a teacher qualified to teach
mathematics and science.
3. Provide two days for Thanks
giving and Easter.
4. Approved the expense ac
counts of Principal Harry Jaynes
for recent trips to Durham, Ral
eieh and Boone.
5. Authorized Supt. Barnes to
appoint an advisory committee
for the Compact adult agricul
tural classes.
& Authorized Supt. Barnes to
write' a letter to Southern Rail
way about trains blocking stu
dent’s passage to Park Grace.
FPC Approves City Request
For Additional Gas Allotment
BRASS INSPECTS RESERVE UNIT — Navy
representatives were in Shelby recently to in
spect Electronics Division 6-17, the inspection
resulting in a 3.12 rating, topping the average
lor that of the sixth naval district. Pictured, left
to right are Copt. Charles Brittinbring, Com.
Richard T. Fairy, of the inspecting team, and
Chiefs Charles Emery, George Blakemore and
Seaman Hall (seated) of the reserve unit com
manded by Lt, Glee E. Bridges, Kings Moun
tain.
Ivey Whisnant
Is Appointed
To Register Post
Ivey Whisnant, Folkville Farm
er and florist, was named Cleve
land County register of deeds
Tuesday.
Mr. Wkwnant- was appointed
by the board of county commis
sioners Tuesday afternoon, fol
lowing his recommendation by
the county’s Democratic execu
tive committee. He received the
oath of office Wednesday morn
ing. Th position pays $5340 per
year.
Mr. Whisnant won the execu
tive committee endorsement 29
to 24 over Ralph Tucker, assist
ant county tax collector, who had
sought the nomination in the I9
60 Democratic primary. Decision
was on the second ballot.
The committee members had
agreed to choose from the top
two vote-getters after the initial
ballot in which 18 applicants for
the position and Mrs. Eva
Thompson, chief assistant to the
late Register of Deeds Dan
Moore, were considered.
Ollie Harris, chairman of East
Kings Mountain precinct, had
suggested that the second ballot
ing consider the five most-fav
ored of the 19, but his suggestion
was not accepted. It was Mr.
Harris who had placed the name
Of Mrs. Thompson in nomination.
After the balloting, Mr. Harris
moved that the committee make
its recommendation unanimously
and the committee approved by
voice vote.
Kings Mountain residents who
had applied for the position in
cluded Justice of the Peace J.
Lee Roberts and Walter S.
Smith.
Funeral rites for Mr. Moore,
who succumbed to a heart at
tack last Thursday, were held
Saturday. Mr, Moore, a Boiling
Springs citizen, was 69.
The appointment is for the un
expired portion of Mr. Moore’s
four-year term.
Half-Holidays
To Be Suspended
Majority of Kings Mountain
retailers will operate on a full
six-day week schedule next week
and continue the full week, sus
pnding the Wednesday half-holi
days, and continue this schedule
through Christmas.
The retailers customarily fol
low this schedule during the pre
Christmas shopping season.
Emblematic of the season, the
city’s Christmas lights in the bus
iness district will be lighted for
the first time Thanksgiving eve
ning.
Majority of grocers were open
Wednesday afternoon to assure
proper ingredients for Thanks
giving menus.
TO PAPA DINNER
Mayor Kelly Dixon will attend
the annual awards night dinner
of the Piedmont Area Develop
ment association to be held at
Park Center, Charlotte, Tuesday
night
T'warn’t A Skunk
At City Hall....
The atmosphere around City
Hall was hardly fresh on Tues
day. In fact, the stench was not
only revolting, tout sickening.
Several theories were ad
vanced as to cause, chief a
mong them possibilities of a
leak in a natural gas line.
While natural gas is odorless,
it. la treated with .an ..odorant
referred to as "skunk juice”
as a protection against trouble
caused by leaks. But the gas
line proved clean.
Other theories were ad
vanced, but to no avail.
Finally, an open vent under
the jail portion of City Hall
! was discovered. In the jail
1 area, the stench was worse.
| Investigation revealed that a
cat had taken refuge under the
jail for its voyage to the happy
hunting ground of catville.
The odor was still somewhat
extant Wednesday, but city em
ployees were no longer wear
ing clothes pins on their noses.
I Hook Winnex
On Annexation
George Hook, Sr,, remained
' mayor of Bessemer City Monday
night, as his board of commis
sioners 1) declined to accept his
resignation and 2) adopted reso
lutions on expanding the Besse
mer CSty city limits.
Mayor Hook had previously
threatened to resign when his
'board declined to proceed with
annexation of acreage west of
the city limits.
The resolution of Monday
night included annexation of
acreage to both the west and
east, including Lithium Corpora
tion of America’s plant and Ideal
Industries, Inc.
Naval Reserve
Unit Gets Good
Inspection Mark
'Naval Reserve Electronics Di
vision 6-17, commanded by Lt.
Glee E. Bridges, of Kings Moun
tain, and headquartered on
Route 18 near Shelby, scored a
3.12 rating on a recent inspection
by representatives of the Naval
Reserve National Headquarters.
Lt. Bridges said his unit vva■;
one of two electronics units and
one of six in total chosen for in
sped ion.
The rating compared with a
United States average of 3.1 and
the 6th naval district average of
2.95.
Conduding the November 5
inspection were Capt. Charles
Bittinbring and Com. Richard T.
Fahy, USN.
Reporting himself and the unit
highly pleased with the result of
the inspection, Lt. Bridges noted
that the reserve unit has open
ings for seamen recruits and of
fers training in radar and sonar
operation, radio, signaling and
in electronics.
"There are many opportunities
open to recruits, both in on-the
job training and for future for
mal education,’’ he noted. ‘‘He
said enlistment in the naval re
serve could prove especially ben
eficial to the high school junior
and senior who can meet enlist
ment requirements.
Present roster indudes 34 of
ficers and men, with an author
ized strength of 50.
ILt. Bridges said full informa
tion on enlistments can be ob
tained from him, or from Lt. I.
Ben Goforth, Jr., the unit’s ex
ecutive officer.
Of the present complement,
about half is from Kings Moun
tain, he noted.
Dixon Optimistic For Early Start
On Re-placement o! "White Way"
Mayor Kelly Dixon expressed
optimism yesterday that the city
may be able to launch a re-place
ment of the city’s aged “white
way” in the near future.
‘Tm just talking through my
teeth,’’ the Mayor interposed,
but added. "I feel we may be
able to make a start on the light
ing work with possibly a mini
mum of ten units and I hope as
many as 20.”
At the request of the Kings
Mountain Merchants association
and Chamber of Commerce, the
board of commissioners received
a General Electric Company rep
resentative, Jim Hunter, of Char
lotte, last Thursday night, Mr.
Hunter outlining a long-term
plan for improved outdoor light
ing for the city.
He recommended replacement
of the business district “white
way” with 1,000-watt units,
■which, he estimated, would cost
about $400 per unit, exclusive of
labor for Installation. Twenty
1 would be required to replace the
| present business district lighting.
Additionally, he recommended
installation of 400-watt units on
Kings street, the city's principal
through-city thoroughfare, and
175-watt units on Piedmont ave
nue (Highway 216) and York
Road (Highway 161), as well as
for residential areas.
He suggested the city might
well adopt a regular purchase
program of lighting units in a
long-term re-lighting program, j
The unit cost estimate for the
1,000-watt units included alumi
num poles, wiring, and the ligh*
unit Itself. He said the smaller
wattage lamps would be less ex
pensive.
Mayor Dixon noted that alum
inum poles cost about $80, some
what higher than steel poles, but
that steel poles would require
regular painting.
Mayor Dixon said the apparent
potential saving in the bid on
switchgear equipment the city.
expects to contract for its elec- ;
trical system rebuilding increases
likelihood Of early action on the
re lighting project. «v
Additionally, there are some
urtbudgeted funds in hand, prin
cipally the $4,000 rebate from
the state for 1961-62 sales tax
paid by the city.
The present "white way” has
Ibeen in use for more than three
decades.
Mayor Dixon said the re-light
ing project would be on the agen
da for the commission’s Decem
ber 13 meeting.
Expansion
Of System
Completed 7'"J
By MARTIN HARMON
The Federal Power Commis
sion has approved the request of
the City of Kings Mountain for
u ter ease Of its natural gas allot
ment by 500,003 euJic feet per
lay.
T ie FPC included approval of
tho Kings Mountain application
in an order dated November 8.
The increase means that the
Kings Mountain sysiem is now
allocated 1,900,000 cubic feet of
gas daily.
Howard Scranton, of Trans
continental Gas Pipeline Corpor
ation, informed Grady Yelton,
natural gas superintendent, of
the favorable ruling Wednesday.
Mr. Scranton commented, "The
chief impact of the order is not
the particular amount of natural
gas involved, but the fact that
the FPC recognizes Kings Moun
tain’s need for additional gas.”
Almost concurrently, construc
tion work on the nearly $40,000
expansion of the gas system was
completed.
Mayor Dixon said the final
line cut-over was made Saturday
night.
Both the request for additional
allotment and the distribution
system expansion resulted from
increased demand for natural
gas, much of it industrial. Ben
nett Brick & Tile Company, the
city’s largest single customer, is
nearing completion of an expan
sion program, Craftspun Yarns,
Inc., is uSing gas and anticipates
additional demand, and Kings
Mountain Mica Company, Inc.,
had requested additional gas.
The allotment increase is first
since the system went in'o op
eraf.on in January 1955. The sys
tem, instilled with $:00 000 rev
enue bonds, has showed an op
crating profit in each year and
has been able to retire half of
the initial bond issue. The re
cently completed expansion was
i done with funds on hand form
j the extension and renewal fund.
Blood Doners
Give 106 Pints
Charles A. Neisler, Paul Ham
and L. Arnold Kiser became
members of the “Three Gallon
Club” and seven donors joined
the “One Gallon Club” at last
Thursday’s visit of the Red Cross
bloodmobile.
Mauney Mills employees led
industrial donors at the blood
bank, as 35 donors from this
firm gave a pint of blood. Min
ette Mill employees of Grover re
main the top leader, furnishing
over 100 pints of blood during
the recent Grover visit.
Joining the “One Gallon Club”
were Thomas Darby, John K. Ki
ser, Pauline W. Ware, F. A.
Bradley, Mrs. Lucille Randall,
Joe Wyte and Billy H. Hawkins.
Lithium Corporat'on, with 23
donors, and Sadie Mills, with 10
donors, placed second and third
for industries. Other firms whose
employees donated blood were:
Lambeth Rope Corporation,
four; Foote Mineral Company,
six; Maunev Mills, three; Bur
lington Mills, two; Bonnie Mills,
four; Massachusetts Mohair
Plush, four; Patterson Oil com
pany, one; Kings Mountain hos
pital, three.
Complete list of the 102 donors
follows;
Catherine H. M'auney, Edward
M. Fenn, Frank FujomoT.
Charles G. Propst, Rufus Leon
Morgan, Billy H. Hawkins. John
E. Kiser, Jerry Savage, Charles
E. Ballard, John W. Cain, Robert
W. Whitesides, Mrs. Grace Mc
Call, Guy Henderson, Larry An
derson, Floyd Sanders, Larry L.
Cain, Troy Lee Wright. Wiliiam
Arthur Morgan, Waddell Thomp
son, Mrs. J. D. Houser, Carl F.
Wilson, Rachel M. Goforth, Dr.
D. F. Hord, Sarah Jane Biddy,
Lonita B. Mitehem. Annie Laura
Robinson, Mrs. Dixie Blanton.
Mrs. Irene Hicks, Mrs. T ucille
Randall. Mrs. Linda M. Splawn,
Joe Wyte, Lee R. Miller, Ray W.
Cline, Herman Fredell, Dr.. Ken
neth McGill and W. F. Laughter.
Also Mrs. Ear] Ledford. James
E. Amos, Paul D. Bell. Rdoh IT.
Hayes, Robert E. Herndon, J.
W. Phillips, Howard McKee, S.
H. Ware, John A. Cheshire, Jr.,
Oarl F. Mauney. Millard Metcalf,
Pauline W. Ware, Horace Patter
son, F. A. Bradley, Herschel
Wright. Darvin G. Moss, George
H. Houser, Mrs. Nancy Ware,
Miss Diane Gamble, Charles A.
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