► 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 ■ 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