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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure for Greater Kings Mountain Is deiieed from the I9S5 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Uadis figure Is Irons the United State* census of ISM. SI 18 Pages Today VOL. 73 No. 48 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 6, 1962 Seventy-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Local News Bulletins achievement night ^ Cleveland County 4-H’ers will Rold Achievement Night Satur day at 7:30 in the Shelby -Arm ory. Recognition of the most out standing 4-H members in pro jects and activities will be made. Recreation and refreshments are planned for all 4-H’ers, their parents and friends. CHICKEN SUPPER Kings Mountain VFW Post 9811 will hold a chicken supper De cember 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the post hall for all members. IN NEW RESIDENCE -Mr. and Mrs. Y. F. Throneburg have occupied their new resi dence on Cherryville road. The Throneburgs formerly lived on Piedmont ave. , FROM CONFERENCE Miss Alice Averift, Kings Mountain schools supervisor of instruction, attended the 13th Study Conference of the North Carolina Division of Supervisors and Directors of Instruction held at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst November 28-30. GLADDENS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Don Gladden have moved back to Rings Moun tain from Charlotte and are now living at 605 Clay street Mrs. Gladden is the former Maude Owens. ASSUMES DUTIES Howard R. Lutz of Hudson has assumed new duties on the phar maceutical staff of Kings Moun tain Drug company. Mr. Lutz and his wife, the former Juanita Lackey of Kings Mountain, have occupied an apartment on Gold street. BROWNIE PARTY Troop 52 Brownie Scouts held a Christmas party Friday after noon at the home of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pressly, Brownie Scribe Mary Anne Bennett re ports. Playing of Christmas rec ords, games and refreshments featured the party. SENIOR SCOUTS SPEAK Senior Girl Scouts Millie Schiagenhauf and Sydney Wil son of Gastonia reviewed their summer trip to Senior Round-Up in Vermont for Kings Mountain Kiwanians Thursday night The Gastonia high school seniors spoke on a program arranged by Mrs. Thomas L. Trott DIRECTORS' MEETING Members of the Board of Di rectors, and 1963 coipralttee Chairmen of - the • Kiwanis ■ club, will gather for a dutch dinner ^Monday evening at the Country ”^ub. Incoming and outgoing dl ectors of the civic club are urg ed to attend. meter receipts Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday noon totaled $200.80, including $139. 80 from on-street meters, $41 from over-parking fees and $20 from off-street meters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., reported. ALCOHOLICS ANONTMOWS Regular weekly meeting of Kings Mountain chapter bf Al coholics Anonymous will be held at First Presbytetrian church fel lowship hall Friday evening at 8 o’clock. ' EIWAK1S CLOT Kings Mountain Kiwanlans wRl see a tilm at Thursday night’s regular meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the Woman’s club. John Cheshire is program chairman. TO RE INSTALLED Paul Mauney, Charles Neisler, Herman Campbell and W. C. Bal lew will be installed as deacons at special ordination services Sunday morning at First Presby terian church. Dr. Paul Arnfley, castor, will bring .the morning Kiessage on "This Honor.” FRIDAY CONCERT First conceit in the 1962-63 Shelby Community Concert series Is scheduled Friday at 8:1$ p-m. in the E. B. Hamrick Auditorium at G%sdner-Webb college. Fea tured will be pianist Eugene List and his wife, violiplst CWTOll Clfrm Legislature Now Appoints County Boaid Both Representative Jack Pal- j mer and Senator Robert Morgan j said Wednesday they hadn’t de- l cided what they might do con- j ceming special legislation to \ make Cleveland County hoard of ; education members elective. Cleveland’s five board mem hers, l'ike those of vast majority of • the state’s 100 counties, are ■appointed by -the General Assem bly. • The Shelby Daily Star, com menting on a plea by Wayne Forsythe, of Kings Mountain, secretary of the county Republi can party, endorsed a legislative change whereby Cleveland’s board of education would be e lected by the people. Rep. Palmer commented, “I don’t know.” 'He suggested that ‘‘if a -ques tion of fairness” is involved, he would vote for fairness. Senator Morgan said, he had ‘iho comment as yet”, adding that his decision would be based On the question of what the peo ple want. Senator Morgan guessed that no more than 20 counties of the state now elect fheir own boards of education. Neither bad firm opinions on whether service on the county board of education should be lim ited tto citizens /of the county school district, as is true in the Kings Mountain and Shelby <dis-, tricte. While under the law any Cleveland citizen may serve on; -the county board of education, no' citizen outside the county dis trict Was served on the board m recent years, Saf since the city districts were formed, except Edwin Moore. Mr. Moore be came a Kings Mountain district citizen with the Kings Mountain area consolidation, long after he [had become a member of the I board of education. Practically, the appointment of boards of education by members of the General Assembly tends to: assure endorsement of the full slate of Democratic nominees— even in strongly Republican counties. The method of selecting mem bers for the board of education 1 came under scrutiny in this county several months ago when Bob Maner, Kings Mountain in suranceman, became a Republi can candidate for the board of education. Whether or not he would be appointed by the General Assem bly became am academic question when the five Democratic nomi nees led the balloting in the No vember 6 general election. DEDICATION PLANS First" Lieutenant David Kin caid, commanding officer, and Master Sergeant Charles Wilson, administrative technician, of the Kings Mountain Army National Guard company were in Raleigh Wednesday conferring with Na tional Guard officials on plans! for dedicating Kings Mountain’s j new armory. I -HAIitMAN - J. Broad LIUS Ot Grover was named chairman of the county board of commission ers Monday as the governing board reorganized for another two years. Ellis Heads County Board J. Broad Ellis, Grover busi nessman and farmer, was named chairman of the Cleveland coun ty board of commissioners Mon day. Mr. Ellis, who was serving as vice-chairman of the governing board, was elected unanimously. Commissioner Hugh Dover of Shelby was named vice-chair man. Both Dover and Ellis will serve until the board is reorgan ized after the 1964 general elec tion. Two other commissioners e-1 lecfced in fhe November general election were sworn In. They were Ralph S. Elliott of the Sharon community, son-in lay of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Falls of Kings Mountain, and David Beam of "Lawndale. Mr. Elliott assumes the District 5 seat of retiring chairman Knox Sarratt and Mr. Beam was re-elected to his post over a Republican op ponent, E. Gettys Bingham. Charles Moore's Father Passes Final rites for Dixon R. Moore, 67, of Shelby, father of Charles Moore of Kings Mountain, were held Tuesday at 3 p. m. from Pal raer-MdPhaul Mortuary In Shel by, interment following In Sun set cemetery. Mr. Moore died Sunday in Cleveland Memorial hospital fol lowing three years of declining health and six weeks of serious illness. He was a retired textile worker, member of Calvary Bap tist church and a veteran .of World War I. Survivors Include his widow, Mfs. Annie Johnson Mqore; three sons, Roy of the U, S., Air Force, Colei of Gastonia and a" step-soh, Wilbur Gantt of Gastonia; three daughters, Mrs. Tam Humphries of Mooredbaro, Mrs. W. M. Hol den of Gastonia and Mrs. Claude ILalil of Gaffney, S. C, 20 grand children and nine great-grand children. Mayor, Moore To Discuss Ideas With Pastors On Home For Aged By MARTIN HARMON Posatilbility of a home for the aged in Kings Mountain is ex pected to be discussed at a meet ing of the Kings Mountain Min isterial association Monday morning. Mayor Kelly Dixon and Rev.' George T. Moore, pastor of Res urrection Lutheran church, ex pect to advance and seek sug gestions for a community effort, in this direction. Rev. Mr. Moore sai d his think ing aibout the possibility stems from 1) his service on the board of directors of the Lawman Home, a Lutheran institution for the aged at White Rode, S. C., 2> opening of me first unit of a similar Lutheran institution at Hickory, and 3) what he terms "national thinking” recognizing both increasing need for such fa cilities and a growing feeling that large central establishments are less needed than smaller lo cal facilities. He notes that the Lowman Home has a maximum capacity of 110, while the first unit of the Hickory establishment can accommodate a maximum of 46. Mayor Dixon says he has been conMdertng the possibility of a home for the aged In this area for a long time, largely result ing from an awareness of need. Mayor Dixon advanced the idea Wednesday that the City of Kings Mountain might be in a position to add materially in the establishment of such a home by making available its so-called City Park property at the con vergence of Santt and McGinnis streets. He acknowledged that some legal roadblocks might be Involved, some which might re quire special legislation of the General Assembly to surmount, but said he felt this property would be ideal for a location. Rev. Mr. Moore’s idea is that such a project might be a worthy and acceptable one for the com munity’s churches. He pointed to the fact of in crease in man’s normal life span, forced retirements, and other factors he thinks will produce in creasing demand for homes for the elderly. He also reported conversations with hospital officials who relate they have patients, who need only a comparatively routine amount of nursing care, yet are forced to remain hospitalized be cause tb*y.h»Y¥ no $*•* ft Electric System Rebuilding Plans The city has received detailed plans for ttoe full rebuilding of the electrical distribution system from its engineers, Southeastern Construction Engineers, of Char lotte. The plans detail completely such items as pole replacements, location of transformers and other items required in the re building and will be the plans, Mayor Kelly Dixon said Wednes day, on which the dity will invite bids for the rebuilding, now an ticipated for April. 'Meantime, the city likely will authorize contract, on basis of bids received last month, for switchgear equipment to be in stalled adjacent to the Duke Power sub-station, which will en able the city to increase its pri mary line capacity from 2400 to 4160 volts and permit the con struction of an eighth circuit. This action is anticipated at the regular commission meeting of December 13. The switchgear equipment de livery is expected to coincide with the April plans to contract for 1) installing the switchgear equipment and 2) at least a por tion of the line system. The engineering firm initially estimated that the total re-build ing work would require about $135,000, has stated that low bid on the switchgear equipment was some $15,000 less than anticipat ed. Work Underway On Linwood Road Grading work, preparatory to installing curb and gutter on Linwood Road, is underway, Mayor Kelly Dixon said Wednes day. The city is grading for the in stallation, which will be on a city-property owner share cost The state highway department will re-surface the Street, the Mayor said. Church Basemen! Could House 931 St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church basemeni, previously designated a suitable radiation fallout shel ter, could house 931 persons, Civ il Defense Chairman Ollie Harris has been notified. Mr. Harris said Ronald Smith, assistant civil defense director for the county, has been so noti fied by a federal civil defense In spection team which inspected Kings Mountain shelter facilities recently. Lithium Official Is Survivor Of Plane Crash At Idlewild Craftspun, Inc., Expansion Plans Not Confirmed Sol Kitfay, president of B. V. D. Company, parent company to Craftspun Yarns, Inc., of Kings Mountain termed as "premature” Wednesday any announcement concerning expansion of the Kings Mountain firm’s facilities. In the B. V. D. Company an nual report, issued subsequent to the end of the company’s fiscal year last March 31, it was stated that company plans included the statement that .knitting and bleaching operations of the com pany’s Carrboro plant would be transferred to a new plant here. Knitting operations are al ready underway here in a new 32,000 square foot building the company has constructed. Mr. Kittay made his “prema ture” comment via telephone from New York Wednesday. Mr. Kittay was in Kings Moun tain Sunday Friday Closings Will Be Later Majority of Kings Mountain retailers will be open late on Fri day nights to accommodate Christmas season shoppers, it was announced this week by Glee E. Bridges, president of the Kings Mountain Merchants as sociation. The merchants association an nouncement lists 8:30 as the Fri day evening closing bpur, three hours later than the customary 5:30 p. m. Friday closings. At least two firms have an nounced slight departures from this policy. Plonk Brothers & Company will be open until 9 Friday nights. Dellinger’s Jewel Shop has announced it will be open until 9 p. m. both Thurs days and Fridays until Christ mas. Merchants reported Christmas gilt-buying has begun briskly and anticipate a continuing pick up through Christmas Eve. Virtually ail firms have su spended the Wednesday after noon half-holidays. North Carolina Bankets Develope Loan Plan For Worthy Students (RALEIGH — Governor Terry Sanford Tuesday announced a new banker-developed student loan plan tor North Carolina. The announcement was mode at a special Executive Mansion luncheon attended by approxi mately. 200 educational leaders and businessmen from across the MR In making the announcement, the Governor offered his full support to the new college loan plan. "The North Carolina Bankers’ Student Loan Plan provides e new financial source for the de velopment of the state’s vital hu man resources,” Sanford said. Oscar J. Mooneyham, Sr., pres ident of the North Carolina Bankers Association, said the new plan will make available ap proximately two and one-half million dollars to eligible North Carolina students. ‘'At present," Mooneyham said, “aver half of the banks in the state are givin their support to the plan.” Me said that more than three million dollars would eventually be available for student loans when the plan reaches its full potential. To participate, a bank pledges to lend up to one per cent of its capital and surplus to the Col lege Foundation, Incorporated, a non-profit organization which will administer the program. In explaining the new plan, Mooneyham, a Forest City bank er, said It applies to students, colleges and universities in North Carolina. The student ap plying for a loan will first con tact the regular student loan of ficer at the college or university of his choice. If he has been ac cepted for admission apd is’ellgi hie to apply for a student loan, hfis application will be forward ed to the College Foundation Incorporated. Pointing to education as the best assurance mr the better ment of the state, Mooneyham •aid North Carolina bankers have united their efforts to de velop a workable program. Avoid Accidents, Clear Windshields Snow, ice and fog are serious traffic hazards. ‘Driving is at least 90 per cent Vision,” states the Accident Prevention 'Department • of' the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, in urging mo torists to keep windshields clear. Modern automobiles glive good Visibility in all directions, but the glass must be clear to be of use, the AC3C advises. Keeping your windshield clear after you are under way in snow, fog or rain requires a windshield with good blades and proper blade pressure and an effective beating and defrosting system. Clothing, Toys Sought For Needy The Christmas Family Move ment of Kings Mountain is seek ing usable clothing, toys in op erating condition, and other items which will add Christmas cheer for needy children, Tommy Burke, chairman, said Wednes day. “Any item which might bright en a needy child’s Christmas will toe appreciated,” Mr. Burke com mented. He added that canned fruit or other canned foods would be welcomed, but that no money will be accepted. Citizens having items to do nate are asked to call any of these telephones for pick-up ser vice: 739-2796, 739-4011, or 739 3316. The items are requested on or before December 16. DEMONSTRATION CLUB The Patterson Grove Home Demonstration club will meet Thursday at 2:30 p. the home of Mrs. Olland Home. Parker To Speak At Grid Banquet Duke Coach On Rostrum At Lions Party By HAROLD PEARSON Clarence “Ace" Parker, head baseball and offensive backfield coach of Duke University, will be the principal speaker for the annual Lions Club grid banquet here Tuesday night. The banquet is scheduled for the Woman’s Club at 7 o’clock when the Kings Mountain Lions Club will add Chapter 24 to their perennial tradition of honoring the Mountaineer football team and coaching staff. Parker, the first Duke coach booked to speak at one of these affairs, adds another illustrous name to the long l'ist of success ful coaches who have addressed the local civic club and football team since the banquet’s incep tion in 1939, Jess Neely of Clemson was the speaker at the 1939 gathering and the long list of sports per sonalities speaking here includes Rex Enright, South Carolina, Beattie Feather?. N- C< State, Carl Snavely, North Carolina, Charlie Justice, North Carolina, and Clarence Stasavich, Lenoir Rhyrre, and Earle Edwards, N. C. State. Sharing the spotlight with the Duke mentor will be the presen tation of two coveted trophies to outstanding Mountaineer grid ders during the 1962 season. Also, to be presented for the first time this year is a scholas (Continued On Page 21 School Bond Sale Discussed 'King's Mountain school offici als were advised by the secretary of the Local Government com mission Friday to sell district school bonds for building the new high school plant in proxim ity to the date of advertising for bids for construction. Conferring with W. E. Easterl ing, secretary of the Local Gov ernment commission in Raleigh Friday were- Fred W. Plonk, Chairman of the board of edu cation, Superintendent B. N. Barnes. J. R. Davis, schools at torney, and Max ’Hamrick, comi ty auditor and treasurer. The group was told, Attorney Davis said, that it would normal ly require about 60 days to ob tain bids and sell the bonds, and that a spring selling date, his tory shows, is usually favorable. He also advised selling of the full Issue Of $1,100,000, rather than to sell the bonds in piece meal amounts. The larger the bloc, the more favorable the price, Mr. BasterEng was quoted. SPEAKER — Clarence "Ace" Par ker, head baseball and offensive backfield coach at Duke Univer sity, will be the principal speak er at the annual Lions Club foot ball banquet here Tuesday night. Tree Sale Cash For X-Ray Bus Buy your Christmas tree from the Jaytfees and help purchase a new bus for the Cleveland County Mobile X-Ray unit. Kings Mountain Jaycees were making this request of area cit izens this week in an effort to secure more funds and a $7,500 quota to remobiliae the county’s tuberculisis X-Ray unit. W. G. (Bill) Jonas, Kings Mountain drive chairman, said proceeds from Radio Day, which totaled $250, have been earmark ed for the Bus Fund. Other con tributions should be forwarded to Jaycee Bus Fund, P. O. Box 552. Jaycee Bob Hullender, who is heading the Jaycee Christmas tree sale, said Canadian spruce trees in all sizes and prices up to $3.50, will be offered for sale again this year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Christmas trees will be on sale at the Ware and Sons 'parking area on Gold street be ginning Monday from 10 a. m. until 9 p. m. There are three price ranges: $2.00, $2.50 and $350, Mr. Hullender continued. All proceeds from the sale of Christmas trees will go into the Jaycee Bus Fund. Can vass teams *yere designat ed sit Thursdays’ Jaycee meeting for solicitation work during the Bus Fund drive, Mr. Jonas noted. Jaycees will call on retailers to ask contributions. Jaycees also heard a report from Rev. Tom Droppers, chair man of the recent Radio Day promotion. Progress of bus fund drive was also discussed and plans were made for the Christ mas tree sale. Program chairman Charles Blanton presented a film, "Cor porations”, as the program. Billets Available For 25 to 30 In Kings Mountain Guard Company (Enlistments of 25 to 30 men will be welcomed in the Kings Mountain National Guard unit, as a result of the reorganization ordered by the Department of Defense. (Major Humes Houston, mem ber of the battalion headquarters staff, of the 106th Engineers, First lieutenant David Kincaid, commanding officer at the Kings Mountain company, and M/S Charles Wilson, administrative technician of the Kings Moun tain company, along With other battalion and company officers attended a meeting at Salisbury Tuesday night at which the im pact of the re-organization was outlined. Major Houston said print/pal immediate effect of the order is the requirement of national guard divisions to maintain min imal strength of 80 percent. While the Kings Mountain company meets this qualification, the maximum permissible strength is now four officers and 101 men. The 80 percent figure applies to the division, not to individual companies, Major Houston noted. Governor Terry Sanford, in a weekend statement, had called attention to the need for more than 1000 additional Guardsmen, also asked industry to cooperate to the fullest extent in making, guard service easy for employ ees. Major Houston said, "We were told at Salisbury that the De partment of Defense will desig nate four divisions as priority divisions. North Carolina’s can be one of these select divisions, if the tests are met.” Speaking at the Salisbury meeting were Adjutant General Claude Bowers and General Wes ton H. Willis, division comman der, along with other officials. - Major Houston said the 105th Engineers are short 70 men. Once an infantry company, the Kings Mountain unit became an engineering company in an in ternal reorganization three ysftra ago. i nree mauney Associates, Kaplan Killed Five persons with Kings Meun-. tain area associations were on the Eastern Airlines plane wtwfh crashed at Idlewild Airport irj Now York Frtday night, Fremont F. Clarke, senior vice president of Lithium Corpora tiom ol America, survived. Tiie other four perished in the* crash. They were Abraham Da vis, vice-president Sn charge of men’s hosiery sales for Kayser Roth Textile Company; Joel Kuschner, Davis’ assistant; Rich ard E. Goldberg, sales represen tative for Mauney Hosiery Com pany, Inc.; and Louis Kaplan, Campus Sportswear, Inc., execu tive, who h"d been 'in the office of Aladdin Mills, Inc., Bessemer City, shortly before enplaning, AH lived in New York or the New York area. uoan Merman, resident man ager of Lithium Corporation's Eessemer City operation, sand yesterday that Mr. Clark is hos pitalized at Dobbs Ferry hospital, wrih a severed artery in the right arm. What, if other, in juries he sustained had not been determined. He had been, ambu latory Monday. Carl F. Mauney, of Mauney Hosiery Mills, said that Davie; had been associated with the Kings Mountain firm since lfW2 and that Goldberg had been the firm’s New York sales represen tative, with offices in the Emportr State building, for the past five years. Mr. Mauney said he’W been acquainted with Kuschner for (he past two years. W. K. Mauney, Jr., and Charted H. Mauney went to New York Sunday, where they attended the final rites of their late associates Monday morning, Messrs. DaVis, Goldberg and Kuschner had been in the area for a hosiery show at Hickory earlier in the week and had wS ited Kings Mountain. Mr. Herman said he and hi* wife had dinner with Mr. Clarke shortly before he boarded the plane. “The flight was called and f:* didn’t have time for dessert,” Mr. Herman recalled. “Later we heard about the crash on television. I immediate ly called some of our people n •New York to check on Mx. Clarke and also called Eastern Airlines at Charlotte. Shortly before midnight, our New York folk called to report that Mr:. Clarke had survived. A couple of minutes later, Eastern called to report Mr. Clarke had-n't sur vived. I was happy to tell them they could correct their records," Mr. Herman related. David Baity, former Herald staff member now with Aladdin Mils, said Mr. Kaplan left the Aladdin office Friday afternoon for Charlotte Airport and hadL visited the firm on previous'o> oasions. Mr. Baity, too, got :he initial crash report via television. Mr. Clarke was among 26 who survived the flaming crash of 53 passengers and crew members. Mis. Eaker s Brother Passes Funeral rites for Zeb B. Cost ner, 83, of Shelby, brother of Mrs; Myrtle Eaker of King* Mountain, were held Tuesday afternoon at Ascension Lutheran church of Shelby, of which he was a member. Mr. Costner, who operated a wholesale produce business, died in the Shelby hospital Sunday after an illness of five month.*: Other survivors include his wife, two sons, -three daughters, eight brothers, and a sister, 15 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Firemen Douse Four Grass Fires - Kings Mountain firemen spent a busy weekend extinguishing grass fires that eruptedrUii lien sections of the city. Two of the conflagration.*', came Saturday, December t, ami one each day December 2 and 3 Grass fires were doused Sat urday on Dilling and' FVdtan Streets. Sunday the call was tb Broad Street. Monday Landing Street wa**, the scene of the brush fire. Little damage was reported as, the result of either of the fires.