I> Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits * 8,008 This figure for Greater Kings Mountain ts derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city airec'ory census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of i960. VOL. 74 No. I Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C. Thursday, January 3, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year HRiCE TEN CENTS Local News | Bulletins NO PERMITS No building permits have beer, issued by city officials, during the past three weeks. COMMUNION Boyce Memorial ARP church will celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper at the morn ing service Sunday, Dr. W. L. Presly, pastor, has announced. SONG SERVICE A gospel sing will be held Sun day beginning at 2 p.m. at East Gold St. Wesleyan Methodist ■v church, Rev. R. C. Goodson, pas I It a, has announced. Among sing ling groups to be present will be The Rythmneers of Kings Moun tain; Beaks Chapel Trio of Lin colnton, Kings Men of Rock Hill, S. C.; Melody Quartet and East Side Trio from Kings Mountain. SENIOR CITIZENS Senior Citizens will hold a cov c cd dish luncheon at their regu lar .neeting Friday at 12 noon at the Woman’s club. CHILDREN S SERVICE Children of Christ the King Catholic Church will present in honor of the January 6, Visit of the Wise Men, an "piphany Pag eant of the Holy Child,” Satur day morning at 10:30. Before the pageant, the Sacrifice of the Mass will be celebrated, then a Com munion breakfast will be giver, the- children. The morning fasti vities wil conclude with games and a Mexican “Pinata.” I ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Regular meeting of King Mountain chapter of Alcoholics: Anonymous wil] be held Friday evening at 8 o’clock at First Pres byterian church Fellowship Hall. U k x LIONS TO MEET 1 Kings Mountain Lions wUf hold regular meeting Tuesdaj night at 7 o’clock at the Woman’; club. Harry Jaynes is program, chairman for the evening. CAMPBELLS HERE Retired Navy Captain Harolc Glenn Campbell, Mrs. Campbell and daughter, Lee Ann, have oc cupied their new home on Vic toria Circle. The Campbells mov ed last week from New Bethel, Pennsylvania. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the , week ending Wednesday at noon ■totaled $158.80, including $118.50 from on - street meters, $24 from over - parking fees, and $16.3t from off - street meters, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., reported. Two New Year Births Here & James Craig Champion, who weighed in at five pounds, 10 ounees, at 3:30 a.m. New Year’s Day, is Kings Mountain's first citizen of 1963. t ’W’he youngster, first child of Mr. I fd Mrs. James Robert Cham pion, didn’t win the Cleveland County baby derby, however. Lo ra Deann Smart won first baby of 1963 honors in Cleveland County when she weighed in at Roy. ter Memorial hospital at Bolinig Springs at 12:01 Tuesday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Smart of near Latti more. Two New Year’s Day babies were born at .the local hospital. A Gastonia couple, Mr. and Mrs. James William Hill, Negroes, are parents of the first Net' Year’s baby bom at the King* Mountain hospital. James Ge rome Hill put in his appearana nine minutes after the Nev Year’s arival. Pensacola, Florida’s first bab; of 1963 — Timmons Rohe Blan ton, who arrived at 12:15 a.m New Year’s Day, is the son c Kings Mountain natives, Loi Gamble and Howard Blanton Mr. Blanton is stationed at the Pensacola Naval Bare. Their firs son, a hefty even pounds, 10 ounces, will receive a host of priz e-i from Pensacola merchants. Hi King*- Mountain grandparent are Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Blanton Mr. and Mm. Leonard Gam "Wo Regulations Effective fan. 1 New postal rate increases go Pinto effect January 7th and Post master Charles Alexander re minded yitizens that two new regulations were effective Jan ua>-y 1. They are: 1) Envelopes must be no smal ler than 3x4. 2i Envelopes must be rectang ular. No odd-shaped pieces are permitted. Mailing Costs To Rise Monday Letter To Cost Nickel; Most Fees Higher j Mailing fees on virtually all types of mail increase at post of fices throughout the nation on Monday. Postmaster Charles L. Alexan der gave this rundown on the in creased mailing fees: On first class mail — letter will require five-cent stamps (for neriy four cents); postal cards .vill require four cent stamps formerly three cents); airmail etters will require eight cent tamps (formerly seven cents); and air mail post cards will re quire six-eent stamps (formerly five cents). Bulk rate or third-clacs mail ings will also ascalate in cost. Presently requiring three cents oer piece for two ounces or less, the cost rises Mondav four cents for pieces weighing two ou^ ’er or less. Of primary interest to business firms which use third-class mjw for advertising, is the increase ifr the annual permit fee from $20 :o $30. This type of mail has ■>een costing 21L> cents per piece, with minimum mailings of 50 pieces. Effective Monday, the rate m\ be 2.626 cents per piece with ninimum mailings 200 pieces. The book mailing rate will ad vance from 10 cents to 12 cents ier pound. Second class rates (newspa pers, magazines, etc.) rise one - eighth cent per piece for in-coun ty mailing. Stamped envelopes, in small lots, advance only one-cent each. 1 He amount of tile increased uost igo. However, purcha.es of 500, rather than 50, will be required to obtain quantity discount'. Tie one envelope cost will be six cents for either the 6% or 10 size ;nve!ope beaming a five-cent .tarn;.:. No changes have been made in larcel post (fourth-class) mail ng rates. Park Lags 28IJ7G Visits Kings Mountain National Mil tary Park headquarters logged 187,770 visitors during 1062, lupt. Ben Moomaw reported. Visitors came from all 50 tates, the District of Columbia, ix Canadian Provinces and 27 oreign countries. Mr. Moomaw commen ted: ‘This represents another record /ear, with an 11 percent gain >ver last year and almost 500 percent over the travel of ten /ears ago. Albout one-third of he visitors actually entered the 3»rk Museum or Visitor Center ind were personally contacted >y the Pa"k’s uniformed staff. >Iany visitors attended lectures i the Museum’s lecture room.” The Park's public facilities .'ere mostly installed prior to M2 by the CCC and Public Vorks Administra-ton and are 'esigned to comfortably handle total travel of 34,000 visitors nnualiv. Twelve times that lumber are currently being ac ommodated. The National Park’s program, cnown as Mission 63, contem plates expanding these facilities n the near future. PR5IDENT — Grady K. Howard will be installed as president of the Kings Mountain Kiwcmis club Thursday night as the civic club installs new officers for 1983,‘He succeeds B. N. Barnes. Kiwanis Officers To Be Installed Grady K. Howard, Kings Mountain hospital administrator, will be installed as president of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club at the civic club’s regular Thursday night meeting at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s club. Mr. Howard succeeds B. N. Barnes. Dr. W. P, Gerberding, a Ki wanian and pastor of St. Mat thew’s Lutheran church, will in stall the new officers and di rectors for 1953. '‘“'Other new officers, include: Dr. W. L. Pressly, first vice president. R. S. Lennon, second vice-pres ident. B. N. Barnes, past president. Charles Alexander, secretary. John L. McGill, treasurer. Both Mr. Alexander and Mr. McGill were re-elected. The new’ directors are: Dr. T P. Baker, Glee Edwin Bridges. Bill H. Brown, Joe N. McClure, Rev. H. D. Garmon. Dr. D. F. Herd and Dr. W. L. Mauney. Wives of Kiwanians will be special guests at the first meet ing of the clubyear. Dinner will be served by Mrs. I. B. Goforth, Sr. New Councilmen To Be Installed Newly-elected Councilmen of Resurrection Lutheran church will be installed at special ser vices Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. The new Councilmen are: Bill Brown, Charles Dixon, Ed Goter and Dr. George W. Plonk. They succeed Paul McGinnis, Stowe Devenney, Sherman Perry and Tommy Yarbrough, whose terms have expired. Other Councilmen, with two vear terms remaining, are Dorus Bennett, Laney Dettmarr. John B. Plonk and Eugene Tignor. Those with one year terms re maining are Hubert McGinnis, A. J. Slater, John Caveny and Carl Goforth. The Council will meet for its initial meeting of the year Sun day night to elect a slate of of ficers. Rev. George Moore, pastor, will conduct the special service. Waco sportswear Buys Budding; list Development Project Done Kings Mountain Business De e’opment, lac., put the •'com ilete” tag on its first project iis week, as Waco Sportswear, ,c., executed its purchase option i the billdirg it oocijn’es. The sweater manufacture",, rhich has utilised the bu Id'ng" cider a ren-purchase opt1'on con *act since Aucsst 1. 1953. pu> hstsed the hu"di"g and 3.'hi acre .-act housing ihe property as of To'/cmher 30 U ’dor the rontcact, a purt’on >f the $7200 per yea- rental ap :ed to an Initial ou—hase piece ? S>55 000 Net nttrdha.se price, of execution date, was $37, 349. Tne spo-tswear firm employs ’oroxfmately 55 persons. Ben II. Badges secretary-tre uirer of the business devclop nerit coipurct'on, sa’d the de ojopment firm, cap. tab zed at ’22,010 with stock at $10 n=r value, has paid all balances on mortgage loans and shows a ut-rent cash balance of $27,517. Net worth ol the firm depends on amount of taxes, income and j otherwise, owed. Organized in 1908 in an effort to attract industry here, the bus iness development firm’s stock was purchased by local inves tors. Funds ra sed were used tc provide loan equity for building of the Waco firm. Mr. Bridge® noted that the experience with the Waco firm was directly re sponsible for the locution here early last year of Shannon. Ltd wh'ch recmVed no local financ -ng ‘The business development corporation can take credit for adding about a hundred jobs for Kings Mountain area citi zens, "Mr. Bridges commented. “That was the firm’s purpose.” J. Wilson Crawford, pres dent of the business development firm, said, “Our transacfon ■ with Waco Sportswear, Inc., have bean most pleasant. I pft sume the firm will want to usi its assets in the future as initi ally, though, of course, that will be the province of the board of directors." • ■ School Matters, Tornado Major Events of '62 A review of Herald headline? of 1902 reveals Kings Mountain citizens had a busy, active year. Major news events included. 1) The late May torn a d o tvhich wreaked property damage yet uncounted, but, miraculously, resulted in no casualties. 2) Approval of school district voters, by 2 to 1 margin, of bond issue authority up to $1,100,000 for budding a high school plant. 3) The long heated discussions on selection of a site for the high school plant, with a 78-aere tract on Phifer Road the ulti mate choice, by a split 3 to 2 vote of the board of education. 4) The Republican effort in the general election, with three Kings Mountain area GOP can didates. (Still in question in the courts is effort of Elzie L. Put nam, justice of the peace candi date in Number 4 township, to be confirmed. He seeks a writ of mandamus againrt the county board of elec tions, Meantime, the county board has filed a demurrer, de nying Putnam has legal grounds fob action. Hearing is tenta tively set for January 12.) The Herald recorded the year’s fourth snow in early February. Industrially, a business citizen was added when Shannon, Ltd.. went into production. Other bus iness news included the opening of the new Harris-Teeter Super Market, expansion of A & P Sup er Market, and purchase of the Ford agency by Robert O. South well. The State Highway commis sion approved the by-passing of U. S. 74 to the north of the pre sent route, with the constructor date hinging on progress of con struction on Interstate 26 (from Charleston to Asheville). The city annexed small tract in Gaston county, expanded it: natural gas distribution system took first steps toward re-build ing jthe electrical disiributioj: system, and began a replace ment program on outdoor light ing. Death claimed these promi nent citizens.: J. Bun Patterson Campbell Phifer, Miss Jette Plonk, Dr. W. L. Ramseur, Clar ence L. Jolly, Misst Carlyle Ware and Sam O. Davis. Following is a review of the year’s major headlines: JANUARY Cimy Bov Winner Of '62 Baby Derby; Bond Election Date T< Be Designated: Funeral Rites Held Tuesday For Pritchard W Ferguson; Mayor Dixon To De cide On Senate Bid This Month: Support Reported; B other Of Robert Kennedy Dies OF Suffo cation At Burlington Home Township GOP Will Meet Here January 18 To Name Officials: S & L Firm Buys Baker-Plon) Lot; School Bend Vote Detail To Be Set; Kiwanis Club, Chart ered In 1940, Contributor Tc Welfare Of City; Otis Falls, Jr Is Taped For Young Man Of ’6' Award; City Acts To Protec Watershed; No Bond Vote Call But Date Is Expected To Bf March 10; S. O. S.: Bible !r School Managers In Red Budge* wise, Personally; It’s Official?: School Bond Election Will Be March 10; GOP Chairman Cas sedy Asks New Registration Fall Ticket; Books Are Open Fa Grover Vote: FEBRUARY Fourth ’62 Snow Harbinger More? Two More Groups Fo School Bonds; Crowded Now High School To Need E gh More Classrooms Next Year School Bond Election Registerin' To Start Saturday; GOIP Cor vention Will Be Saturday; C't Is Expected To Call Gas Bond Harris To Seek Re-Election White May Test Morgan Again 352 Registered For Bond Elec tion; Mohair Firm Says Wagr Rate Increases To Be Instituted Ausley Says Bible-In-School; Program In Jeopa-dy For Fu bare; Shuford And Son Narrow! ■ Escape As Early Sunday Fire Razes Home; Saturday Last Day To Register For School Election; Allen And Osborne Seek Re-election; Gilliland Com mends City Says Stadium De pendable; Morrison Opens Loan Firm Herb; Humorist Feature Or Lions Club Farme-’s Night Ban -iuet Tuesday: Carol Goter, Merit Scholars’!v> Finalist, A. B. DuV Semi-Finalist: MARCH 3595 Register For Bond Elec tion; Beam Is Seeking Re-eleo * on: Two County Posts Contest ed; Bond Issue Fight Is W-axln' Warmer; Tax Rate Won’t Be Over 40c Up: Plienix O* Burlin" ‘on To Raise Wage Scales E* Active Mondav; A-pa Ct'rbns T' Decide School Ba-d Issue Ss‘ •i-dav: J Et"! Patterson Die WednOsday: Morgan, Palmer A~f Candidates; Br’dges Heads Rc • ailer Group; New Super Mar ket Building Is Started; Stephen Kesler Is Awarded Wilson Fei- ! lowship To Graduate School- ! Board Consido-ing Several Sites i (Continued On Page Eight) I : um am DIRECT DISTANCE DIALING AVAILABLE SUNDAY — Port Patterson, Southern Bell switchman at the Kings Mountain exchange, makes a fined check of equipment before the upcoming Sunday 12:01 cun. inauguration of direct distance dialing service. It will be pos HnBHnHBHiil sible to make station-to-station calls, where numbers are known correctly, with much more speed. Kings Mountain area talk will be able to dial numbers direct in the 50 states, Canada and Puerto Rico. Distance Dialing Available Sundav «/ Long Distance To Be Speedier, If Number Known Direct distance dialing be comes available to Kings Moun tain exchange telephone users on Sunday. The Bell Tel News which ac companied the current phone bills outlines this method for use of direct distance dialing on station-to-station calls. 1) Dial the numlber “1”. 2) Then dial the area code number if it’s different from Kings Mountain’s (704). 3) Follow with the telephone number being called. An operator will then ask, “Your number, please?”, for log ging the charge on the call. “It’s as simple as that,” says Floyd Farris, Kings Mountain exchange manager. Direct distance dialing is de signed to increase the speed of calls, Mr. Farris notes, adding that the new, simple method (where the number to be called is known exactly) will provide speediest service at lowest rates Station-to^station calls to som< points in the nation are up to 4': percent cheaper than person-to person calls. Direct distance dialing is not usuable on person-to-person calls, collect calls, credit card calls or pay station calls, which must continue to be placed in the pre sent manner by dialing “O” for the long distance operator. Holiday Wreck Orplifns Two Triple deaths Frdav hro>'~ht to 16 the number killed on Cleve land County highways dor ng 1902. A 2c James Leroy Francis, 20 >f Mulberry, Arkansas, A'2c Rex Larry Oswalt 25 and Mrs Boe ble Lawrence Oswalt, 24. o' Mathiston, Miss., ws-e killer1 and he Oswalts’ two young childre* vere seriously injured about f i. m. when their car plowed head-on into a fog^sh.-ot*dpd •N C. 101 overpass suppo"t ohjr ’erstate 85 two miles south c Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain residents or> ened their hearts to the twc voungste~s, Ronnie. 3. and ?he! la, 2 and have assisted with nursing duties ond volunfee-ed to help In any way until rela tives take them back to M »s- i issippi. Homes were opened this ! week for the relatives to live un til the children are able to leave {Continued On Page Eight> TO LEAKSVILLE — Rev. Tho as Paul Clements, pastor and di rector ol the Kings Mounted; Catholic Mission Center, will g to Leaksville Fridav whe--> h< will serve as pastor of the Church ji ou jo .epii ol the uiiu an. *u mission church at Reidsville. Rev. Clements In New Post Rev. Thomas Paul Clements pastor and director of the K.ng Mountain Catholic Mission Cei, • er, has been appointed pasto. of the Church of St. Joseph o the Hills, Leaksville, and it mission. Holy Innocents' Churc Reidsville. The rppointment i effective January 4. This transfer will completr j five years of ministry in the Rjtherofrd, Cleveland and Gas ton County areas for Fathe Clements. He was assigned i 1958 to be pastor of St. Mary. Churcl), Shelby with Forest City as a mission. In May of 19C1 Bis hop Vincent S. Waters, Catholic Bishop of Raleigh, opened ar Apostolate Center in iPng Mountain to serve Gaston Cour ty mission churches previous' cared for by the monks of Be’ moot Abby, placing Father C> meats in charge of the center. ! thp-t cap-eitv Father Clerron. vas pastor o' missions in Che; •yviile, Bessemer C'ty, Da’l.a ■-'Ipencer Mountain, Ranlo, an< Rev. \Jcmes Keenan, an ex West Pc's! commiss oned Cap tain and waer pastor of the Catholic chr.rftb in Lexington N. C. will succeed Father Cle ments as director or the, King' Mountain Center. Father Keener recently opened a mission chu-cb in Mocksville and is an active I Continued On Fo.ge Bight) Basil Whitenez To Be Speaker Tt Dedicaticn Tenth District Repressntativt 3asi] L. Whitener, of Gastonia will make the principal addres' at dedicatory ceremonies fo Kings Mountain's National Guar Armory. Announcement was male lr First Lieutenant David W. Kin caid, commanding officer of th Cing-. Mountain unit. The dedication ceremonies wil ce held on Sunday, February ? Other details will be announc od in the near future, L . Kir raid "aid. The new Armory, built las /ear, was constructed at a cos of about $140,000, part of th funds furnished by th" fed era government, part by the Stati >f North Carolina, part by the City of Kings Mountain and par by Cleveland County. The Gastonia Congressman re cently won election to his fourth term. School Locating Decision Soon Decision on the on-site loca tion of the new high school to re erected on the Phifer Road ite is expected to be made with .n the next few days. Superintendent B. N. Bamee old the Herald Wednesday that re anticipates a meeting of the Board of Education at an early date to determine the site-on-site i'or the school. Architects A soeirv'ed, of Shel by, presently is working on lay outs of facilities to provide in formation for the decision. Members of the architectural firm met writh the school building committee prior to the Christmas holidays to discuss the recrea tional facilities. The extent of these needed areas caused con siderable attention of the pre liminary sketches before the board and necessitated re-evaiu dividends of Horn and Kings Mountain Savings & Loan as ooiations were $290,433 during 1962, nearly $22,500 more than the 1961 aggregate of $268, 023. Recently resolutions by both associations, noting intention to pay dividends during the coming vear nt the annual rate of 125 percent up one-qu«rter of one oeroent from the four percent rate prevailing through 1962, in .. dicatas dividends for the co-r)i \* year will easily top the $30'.,000 marl. Eoth associations antici pate the increased rote will at tract jnore than normal savings dollar Into the e associations. Thomas A, Tate, secretary - t easurer of Homo Savings l I/ian association, repo-ted year end dividends of $87,621, and to tal dividends for 1962 at $171, 223. Ben M. Bridges, secretary-treas urer of Kings Mountain Sav:nTs & Loan association, reoo-te1 year-end dividends of S6M29. an l total for 1902 at $119,233. Mr. Bridge® soid his ft-m 1-t^s ’.->45 shareholders at Dae^Vr ni