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► Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure to* Greater Kings Mountain It derived f*cm the 1955 Kinge Mountain city director; census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of 1960. VOL. 74 No. 2 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C. Thursday, January 10, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS Business Brisk For Postal Clerks Local News Bulletins METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $185.40, including $127.80 from on-street meters, $40 from over parking fees, and $17.60 from off . street meters. City Clerk Joe McDaniel reported. AA MEETING Regular meeting of Kings Mountain Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous will be held at First Presbyterian church Fellowship Hall Friday night at 8 o’clock. TO BE INSTALLED George H. Mauney and Aubrey Mauney will be installed as members of the 1963 Executive Board of .the Piedmont Boy Scout Council at the annual meeting to be held Tuesday night at Brackett’s Cedar Park. COMPLETES CLASSWORK Rev. George T. Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, has completed classwork at Lu theran Theological seminary, Co lumbia, S. C-, leading to the de gree of Master of Sacred Theol ogy CARE SALE Kings Mountain DeMolay will sponsor a cake sale Saturday morning beginning at 9 o’clock at Phifer hardware Company. P-TA TO MEET North school Parent-Teacher Association will hold regular meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. DANCE BENEFIT Grover Rescue Squad will sponsor a square dance Satur day from 8 until 12 p.m. at Gro ver Gymnasium for benefit of the Squad’s building fund. Music will be provided by the Fairlanes and admission is $1.50 for cou ples and $1 stag. BAKE SALE The Women’s Society of Christ ian Service of Grace Methodist church will sponsor the sale of homemade cakes and hotdogs Saturday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. alt the church fellowship hall. Delivery service is available by telephoning 739-5391. WEST P-TA Dr. D. F. Herd, Kings Moun tain dentist, will speak on "Oral Hygiene” at Tuesday night’s reg ular meeting of West school P TA at 8 o’clock in the school au ditorium. LODGE MEETING Regular communication of Fair | view Lodge 339 AF&AM will be held Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at Masonic Hall, Secretary T. D. Tindall has announced. TO CONVENE Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Dixon, of Victory Chevrolet Company, will goto Miami, Fla., this week end for the 46th annual conven tion of the National Automobile Dealers association. TO MISSISSIPPI Three - year - old Ronnie and two - year - old Shelia Oswalt, orphaned in a holiday accident which took the lives of their pa rents, have been discharged from Kings Mountain hospital and have been able to return with relatives to A^athisrton, M-ss. The Mathiston couple and an other serviceman, A/2C James L. Francis, if Mulberry, Ark., were killed. , HOSPITALIZED Mrs. J. R. Davis is a patient in Kings Mountain hospital. She entered the hospital January 1st. FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. Homer Pheagin, of Shel by, former resident of the Beth lehem community, was discharg )ed Thursday from Zebu Ion hos pital where she underwent asth ma surgery. Mrs. Pheagin, an asthma patient for 30years, said her physician, Dr. Lee Sedwitz, said she had completely recover ed. Mrs. Pheagin was able to leave the hospital Saturday. INSTALLED Newly . elected Counctlmen of Resurrection Lutheran church were installed in special services Sunday morning at U Unlock by Rev. George Moore, Most Conformed j To New Scale Of Mail Rates Kings Mountain postal clerks have been as busy as the prover bial one-armed paper-hanger this week. The change-over to higher pos tal rates, plus a heavy run of incoming mail posted immediate ly in advance of Monday’s rate hike effective date, made the postal employees wonder if the calendar had rolled around to Christmas again. The big sales item was the one-cent stamp, needed to aug ment inventoried four - cent stamps that, since Monday, will no longer pay full tariff on a first-class letter. Ken Pruitt, handling a window the other morning, said he sold 2200 one centers in a two-hour stint. One cent stamps sales were good to the point that the Kings Moun tain post office sold out, borrow ed 10,000 from Shelby. Postmas-! ter Charles L. Alexander said an other shipment of 7,000 arrived from Atlanta Wednesday nam ing and he added, “We hope that’ll be enough.’’ The Kings Mountain postoffice | h'as a good supply of the new five-eent Stamp which bears the likeness of George Washington, the nation’s first president, and 1 other new supplies, such as the postal card, printed on white stock, rather than the traditional m'aniila, and bearing a four-cent stamp with Abraham Lincoln’s likeness imposed. The new eight-cent air mail stamp is colored dark red and •shows the White HOuse with a jet plane flying over-head. Some mail has been posted here — and has been received — bearing insufficient postage. This costs considerable time, both at dispatching and receiving offices, and delays mail delivery consid erably. The dispatching office must hand-stamp the item post age due, then the receiving office must notify the addressee and vend the stamp necessary to meet the nickel test. Dr. Fry Speaker At Installation T>r. W. P. Gerherding, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, Rev. George T. Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, and several members of both churches expect to go to Concord Sunday afternoon for installation of the new president and other officers of the North Carolina Lutheran synod. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, presi dent of the neWly-formed Luth eran Church in America, will be principal speaker when the of ficers and staff of the church’s North Carolina synod are form ally- installed. The service, to begin at 4 p. m., will be held at St. James Lu theran church. i ne Kev. ueorge k. wnittecar, former pastor of St. James, will be installed a« president of -the synod. He assumed the duties of the full-time presidency at the synod’s headquarters in Salis bury on Jan. L Also to be installed are the Rev. J. Wilford Lyerly, secre tary; Charles S. Heilig, treasur er; Dr. Ernest L. Misenheimer, assistant to the president; and the Rev. Brady Y. Faggart, Jr., secretary of Christian education. The officers were elected at a constituting convention of the synod in Salisbury in October. The two staff members were named by the synod’s executive board at its organizational meet ing in November. Dr. Fry will deliver the instal lation sermon and install Presi dent Whittecar, who in turn will install the other officers and Staff members. As first president of the LCA, Dr. Fry heads the 3,200.000-mem ber church body formed January 1, following the merger LCA duties, he is an officer of the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches. SAULINE PLAYERS The Sauline Players will pre sent ‘Toby Tyler” at ’North school Monday at 10 a.m. and at Bethware school at 12:30 during the groups 30th annual tour of Cleveland C minty. Sonya An thony and Jack Newcomb, both of Shelby, are new members of the troupe. PASTOR — Rev. William K. Rhea has assumed new pastorate du ties at Trinity Baptist church in Bessemer City. He succeeded Rev. M. B. Motts January 1. Rhea Assumes New Pastorate Rev. William K. Rhea, Kings Mountain native and son of Mrs. Grady A. Rhea and the late Mr. Rhea, has assumed pastorate du ties at Trinity Baptist church in Bessemer City. A 1961 graduate of Tennessee Temple school of Chaiitanooga, Tenn. he succeeds Rev. M. B. Motts. Rev. Mr. Rhea, his wife, the former Shirley Morris of Gay lesville, Ala., and their sons; Rus ty. age 7, and Billy, age 5, have occupied the church parsonage at 308 West Indiana Avenue in Bessemer City. .Mr. Rhea, formerly did evange listic and supply work in Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and North Carolina. He has announced that the Da vis Trio from Gastonia will ren der a program of gospel singing at morning services Sunday. “The Davises are the blind sing ers who have blessed the hearts of so many in this state and many others,’’ he noted. Sunday services include Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., morning-worship at 11 aun., Baptist Training Union at 6 p.m. and evening services at 7 o’clock. Home For Aging To Be Discussed Possible establishment of a home for the aging in Kings Mountain is scheduled to be the leading item on tne agenda of the Monday morning meeting of the Kings Mountain Ministerial association. Rev. George T. Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheinan church, and Mayor Kelly Dixon will lead the discussion with the ministers. iMJrs. George Houser will be present, irepresenting the Kings Mountain Hospital board of di rectors, of which she is a mem ber Rev. Mr. Moore, a member of the board of directors of the Lawman Home, Lutheran home for the aging at White Rock, S. C., said Wednesday he has re ceived much favorable comment from citizens since the idea was publicized last month. He noted Wednesday there are several categories of homes for the aged, some merely equipped to serve as residences for the aging, some providing nursing care, and others providing other sendees. (His information from welfare agency reports, he added, show that well-managed homes with modem physical plants are self sufficient as to operating costs, while some privately owned homes are profitable enterprises. Others, he added, don’t make the financial grade. Ben Bridges May Not Seek Re-election Officials Confer On School Plans Revised Plant Layout Sketch Is Prepared B. N. Barnes, superintendent of schools, and architects Fred van Wageningen and Thomas Cothran, of Architects Associat ed, were in Raleigh Wednesday conferring with state school of ficials on plans fior the r.aw area high school plant. Fred W. Plonk, chairman of the board of education, said the building committee spent Tues day conferring with the archi tects in preparation for the Ra leigh trip. Specifically,'the delega tion were to confer with Marvin John son, of the division of school planning. Chairman Plonk said the ar chitects had prepared new sket ches for the plant’s physical lay out designed to meet objections to prior layout plans particularly in relation to playground and parking areas. Asked when the board of ed ucation would convene to con sider the new layout, Chairman Plonk replied, “Tomorrow, if it appears necessary.” He said he definitely anticipated a meeting prior to the regularly scheduled January 21 meeting of the board of education. -- Ersldne Alumni To Heai Phillips D. G. (Dode) Phillips, director ol admissions at Erskine college, will address Kings Mountain area alumni of the Due West, S. C. institution Monday night at 7:30 at Boyce Memorial ARP church fellowship hall. The Kings Mountain chapter will hold its regular meeting. A graduate of Erskine, Class of ’21, Mr. Phillips served in the South Carolina Department of Education for a decade as super visor of physical education. He taught and coached at numerous high schools in South Carolina and Georgia and was on the Er skine teaching-coaching staff. Prior to returning to his alma mater he was a salesman for Cambridge Pharmaceuticals, a Greenville, S. C. drug house, for 10 years. In 1958 the Atlantic Coast Con ference Sports Writers Associa tion honored him by presenting him the annual “Service To Sports Award” for long distin guished and unselfish service to amateur athletics. In 1960 the South Carolina Sports Writers Association named him a charter member of the South Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. An elder in the Due West ARP church, Mir. Phillips was bom in Bradley, S. C., the fifth of eight children of an ARP minister. His wife, the late Isa'bell Boyd Phil lips, died in 1958. They had a son. D. G. Phillips, Jr., who teaches in the Department of Music at USC. Miss Old White Way? Two Fixtures Kept; Market Developes For Them The business district, soon to get a re-vamped, white way, k al ready exhibiting a new lighting look, as is the City Hall entrance. The city electrical department has virtually completed removtrg the vintage white way lights from the business district in an ticipation of laying new under ground cable and beginning in stallation of new, modem mer cury vapor lights. 'But at the City Hall entrance, for the sake of nostalgia, history and posterity, the electrical de partment has installed two of the old iron fixtures, one capped in old-style (but equipped with a much brighter SOOonttt bulb), the other capped in modem alu minum with a 175-watt mercury vapor lamp. “We’re asking people which they prefer," Hunter Allen, elec trical superintendent, said, and acknowledged that the old-fa shioned fixture will need servic ing more often and the 500-watt incandescent bulb won't five the 2 service of the newer-type mer cnry vapor lamp. Meantime, temporary night lighting of the business district is being supplied by a fe*w small mercury vapor fampa that, when the new l.OGO-watt lamp system is installed, will be used else where in the city. And a demand for the classic ally beautiful east iron units be ing replaced is reported. An equipment salesman brought the indirect word that Winthrop college, at Rock Hill, S. C., Indicated Winthrop would like to have from 25 to 30 of the units, while Mayor Kelly Dixon says he's received several pur chase requests from citizens. In -all there,are 46 of the units, two already put to use at City Hall. Whrt are they worth? Mayor Dixon doesn't know-ex cept that, at a weight of 435 pounds, they are worth about $5.44 each to the junk dealer. City Sidewalks Not For Bicycles The place for bike-riding is on the street, not the sidewalk, Mayor Kelly Dixon said Wednes day. “Thus far no accidents have been reported,” the Mayor added, “but there have been some dose calls.” He also asked parents to cau tion their bike-riding children to obey traffic signals and traffic rules. “A stop sign or red stop signal applies to the bicycle rider as well as the motorist,” the Mayor added. Pridemore, Ries loin Park Staff Franklin D. Pridemore, a Ken tucky native, is the new super visory historian of Kings Moun tain National Mlilitary park, Jo seph J. Ries, a native Iowan, joined the staff this week as . ranger, Superintendent Ben Moo m'aw has announced. MJr. Pridemore replaces Sher man Perry. Mr. Pridemore was graduated from Union College, Barbourville, Ky., in 1960, served in the air force, then spent 1960-61 at Cum berland Gap National Historical Park, at Middlesboro, Ky., and 1961-62 at Fort Frederica Nation al Monument, St. Simons Island, G<a.' He joined the Kings Moun tain park staff in late Novem ber. In 1961, he was the National Park Service Training Center, He lists as favorite hobbies, hunting, fishing and Scuba div ing, leaves soon for a ten-day jaguar and hunting expedition in Mexico. Mir. R!:es holds a degree from the University of Iowa and took graduate work there in botany and anthropology. He was a sum mer employee of the Challis Na tional Forest, Challis, Idaho, in 1954 and 1962, and joins the park service after working with the United States Food & Drug Ad ministration, where he was head quartered ait Denver, Colo. He lists his hobbies as mountain climlbing, skiing, hunting and fishing. Kisei And Plonk On Committees L. Arnold Kiser, of Sadie Cot ton Mills, is a member of the res olutions committee, and R. G. Plonk, of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, is a member of the tax committee, of the North Carolina Textile Manufacturers association. Announcement of memibershdp to standing committees was made yesterday by Hal W. Little, president, of Wade^boro. Roy Oveicash's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Roy E. Over cash, of Charlotte, husband of the former Nell McGill of Kings Mountain, ware held December 29th at Miller and Kerns Chapel in Charlotte. Mir. Overcash, 59, died suddenly in his sleep Thursday night, De cember 27th. Death was attribut ed to a heairt attack. Other survivors include his sis ters-in-law, Mrs. J. L. Hallman, Miss Mary Boyce McGill and Miss Willie McGill, aB of Kings Mountain, several cousins, and aunts and uncle of the Mloores baroCharlotte area. City Officials Issue Two Building Permits City officials issued two build ing permits during the past week. Both were far additions to present structures. The D. C. Mauney Estate was issued a permit Friday to make an addutiqp tpithe building that . houses Bob’s Drive-In Restailrant on East King Street. This was far the building of a curb room to the establishment Pinkney Bradford was issued a permit Saturday to make a $500 j addition to his home at 212 > ■ Katherine Avenue Commissioner May Move Outside City By MARTIN HARMON Ben H. Bridges, completing his third term as Ward 4 city com missioner, may not be a candi date for re-election. Mr. Bridges confirmed rumers he is considering moving outside the city limits to a small farm he recently purchased on the Long Creek church road. “I haven’t definitely decided about moving out of the cdty,” Mr. Bridges commented. He add ed the decision would be made in sufficient time to determine whe ther he would offer for a fourth term on the commission. 'First elected in 1957, Commis sioner Bridges, secretary-treasur er of Kings Mountain Savings and Loan association, has been chief policy maker throughout his three terms, customarily be ing assigned duties connected with administration, including budget committee work. The question of liis candidacy is the principal development of the current year in city politics. Excepting Clarence E. Carpen ter, who paid his filing fee for mayor several months ago, no candidates have yet filed for either city or board of education offices. Kings Mountain school district voters will elect two members of the board of education for six year terms. Terms of School Trustees Fred W. Plonk and Dr. P. G. Padgett are expiring. Both are completing their twelfth year on the board of education, both having been elected initially in 1951. For city offices, most incum bents are expected to seek re election. 370 City Tags Have Been Sold Kings Mountain auto owners had purchased 370 city auto tags through Wednesday at noon, Mrs. Houston Wolfe, as sistant city clerk reported. All in-city owners of autos are required to purchase the licenses not later than Febru ary 15. The law also requires their display on the auto. The tags cost one dollar. Penalties are prescribed for those who fail to buy and for late-buying. Lake Montonia Club Meeting Tuesday Annual stockholder’s meeting of Lake Montonia Club, Inc., will be held at City Hall courtroom Tuesday night at 7:30, it was an nounced by Robert H. Crockett, Jr., of Gastonia, the president. Business of the meeting will include election of officers and directors, reports on the past year’s operation, and other mat ters that might properly come before the stockholders. Board To Discuss New Registration Nominations Asked For Man-Oi-Year Nominations for Kings Moun tain's Young Man of the Year for 19(52 are now being accepted by the Junior Chamber of Com merce. President John Warlick said the selections, from nominations of outstanding young men from 21-35, will be made by a commit tee of citizens over 35. Nominations should be turned in to Jayoee Jim Lybrand, chair man of Bosses’ Night, which will honor the outstanding young man of ’62 and employers of member-Jaycees. The annual ban quet will be held February 5th at 7 p. m. at the Woman’s club. Mr. Lybrand said nominations should be in hand by January’ 25 th. Previous winners have been B. S. Peeler, Jr., Grady K. Howard, Charles D. Blanton, Jr., and Otis Falls, Jr. John P. Kennedy, president of the North Carolina Junior Cham ber of Commerce, will make the principal address at Bosses’ Night, Mr. Lybrand said. The 1991 Young Man of the Year was Otis Falls, Jr., recog nized for his service to scouting. lutes tonauctea Foi Billy Pate Funeral services for Billy D. Pate, 32, former Kings Mountain citizen, were held at Ward’s Glenwood Chapel, Decatur, Ga., Wednesday afternoon. Pate, who lived in Decatur, was a salesman for Timberland Trust Company, a re-.l estate firm He was found dead in his automobile Monday, apparently, said H. G. Mitchell of the funeral home, a victim of carbon mo noxide poisoning. Pate was a son of MJrs. Guy Ware, of Kings Mountain, who survives. Also surviving are his wife. Judith Lee Stynchcomb Pate, a son, James J. Pate, a step-daugh ter, Terry Diane Stynchcomb, all of Decatur, a brother, Bob Pate, with the aiir force in California, and two sisters, Mrs. Davie Bach, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Mrs. Ed Smith, Orlando, Fla. Interment was in Grestlawn Memorial Park. Decatur. EL BETHEL CLUB The El-Bethel Home Demon stration club will meet Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. C. C. Whisnant. Captain Campbell, New Citizen, Veteran Of 35 Years On Sea Lanes By MARTIN HARMON lLargely because of a by-mail friendship with a North school sixth grade class, Captain H. Glenn Campbell, recently retired skipper of a navy troop trans port, and his family are new Kings Mjountain citizens, now furbishing a new home on Vic toria Circle. The Campbell family includes the Captain, veteran of 35 years of sea duty, bis wife, Mary Mc Mahon Campbell wartime army rturse, and a seven-year-old daughter, Lee Ann plus two Ger man shepherds, and two cats. The pets arrived by nail Sat urday. The German shepherds are mother and daughter and have long pedigrees, though they answer to the nick names Mic <ey and Dusie. The two cats, Pat and Fat Baby Mrs. Campbell »ys, are just "ban.yard”. Capt. Campnell, who prefers to be called by his given name Henn, is a native of Centralia, [11., and enlisted in the navy In 1027, serving four years on the jarttledhip USS Wyoming. On dis charge, he joined the merchant narine, serving on banana freighters of United Fruit Com pany in 1932. In 1933-34, he sailed *n American Export Lines freighters, went to work for the army transport seivioe in 1934 and continued in this work until iLs retirement last October. He became naval employee when troop transport was made a na ry function in 1950. A gunner as a navy enlisted nan, Capt. Campbell went up the merchant marine ladder from juartermaster, to junior mate, kx-ond and first officer, then master. Hlis first command was the USAT Blenheim in 1945. World War II duty found him plying both Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as the Mediter ranean Sea. Roughest duty from standpoint of enemy action, he says, was in shuttling between Oran, Naples and Southern Franoe. His ship was in the in vasion of Southern France. Mrs. Campbell had war ser vice, too, as an army nurse aboard hospital ships from 1943 47. In late 1945, Capt. Campbell’s ship had orders for Manila, Mrs. Campbell’s far Japan, New ord ers placed their Christmas lo cales vice versa. The Campbells initially had planned a farmiing enterprise in Pennsylvania and had already purchased a farm As home. They decided, the Captain said, poul try-raising would be quite con fining and a bull-dozer neoessary to shovel snow. They wanted more than a oneseason climate, thought about Arizona and New Mexico. *1My wife had read the letters from the sdhool children and was curious about Kings Moun tain. She visited Kings Mountain and I think the decision was made then,” the Captain says. The Captain skippered the USS Dabby (adopted by Janet Falls’ class) for more than 11 years, on retirement was tendered a meritorious service awarl at a luncheon aboard. Retirement will give Capt. Campbell time for his wood working hobby. A chi.-f specifi cation for the new home: shop space was mandatory. City Voting Books In Use Since 1939 The city board of commission ers will discuss Thursday night whether to call a new registra tion of city voters prior to May’s biennial election. Mayor Kelly Dixon has listed the item on the agenda of Thursday night’s regular Janu ary meeting. The city registration books have been in use since 1939, when the city adopted the ward sys tem. Registrars for several years in bad shape,” botr physically and with numerous names no longer valid Kings Mountain vot ers — due to removal or death. Mayor Dixon, who said several weeks ago he favored a new reg istration, commented Wednesday, "We need it.” Should the commission decide to Order a new registration, all citizens would be required to reg ister to vote in the subsequent election. Under customary statutory procedure, the city commission, which serves as the city elections board, calls the election in March, with the registration books open voting. Other items on the Thursday night agenda will include: 1) A public hearing on a pe tition to re-zone a N. Battle ground avenue lot adjoining the Purol Service Station for busi ness use. 2) Question of whether to or der ‘‘no parking” on York Road. 3) Possible city ordinances gov erning the use of bicycles and air rifles within the citv limits. City Clerk Joe McDaniel. Jr., said he would ask the commission for instructions on investment of a natural gas system escrow fund. Paul Briggs' Sistex Passes (Funeral rites for Mrs. Ethel Briggs Henson, 61, of Gastonia, sister of Paul Briggs of Kings Mountain, were held Tuesday at 4 p. m. from Firestone Wesleyan Methodist church. Mrs. Henson died Sunday. Two other brothers, in addi tion to Mr. Briggs, survive. Hendricks House Gutted By Fire Extensive damage was done to the Ernest Hendricks’ house on Watterson Street Friday night when a fire of indeterminate ori gin erupted inside it about 10 p. m. The interior of the structure was gutted by fire before fire men were able to hiring the L laze under control. Damage estimates were unavailable. Local firemen had four other tires during the past week in addition to the Friday blaze, but lamage was negligible in each instance. Two grass fires and an auto mobile fire were extinguished rhursday. The grass fires were on Shelby Road and Crescent Circle. Johnny Alexander’s car was damaged by fire while parked on North Cartsler. The remaining firecail was an n:l heater flare-up at- the Edtllri Sreen home in Stowe Acres Sun day. Smallest Mail Sendable 3 x 4% 'Minimum mailing piece size acceptable by the post off ice sinoe January 1 rs 3 inches by 4% inches, not 3x4 incites, as reported in the Herald last week. No mail will be dispatched, L' its dimensions are less than the minimum, either in width or depth. Another requirement is that all mailing pieces be rectangu lar, elimining circular or other die-cut odd-shaped mailing pie ces, as well as square pieces of mail. Postmaster Charles Alex ander noted.