Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure lor Greeter Kings Mountain Is derived from the 1953 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure is trem the United States census of I960. Pages Today VOL. 74 No. 3 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 17, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Architects Given Go-Ahead As Board Locate Local News Bulletins I_ _! METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $200.55, including 3134 from on street meters, $48 from over - parking fees, and $18.55 from off street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel reported. CITY TAG SALES City auiio tag sales to Wednes day totaled 522. During 1962, City of Kings Mountain auto owners purchased 1774. The tags cost one dollar. Deadline for purchase and display of the tags is "Febru ary 15. KIWANIS CLUB Thomas Burke, official of Lam beth Rope Corporation, will pre sent the program at Thursday night’s Kiwanis club meeting at 6:45 pm. at the Woman’s xlub. R. S. Lennon is program chair man. LODGE MEETING An emergent communication of Fairview Lodge 339 AFXAM will be held Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic Hall, Secretary T. D. Tin del 1 has announced. LEGION DANCE Legionnaires, their wives and guests will danne to music by She Buddy Estes Band of Rock Hill, S. C. Saturday evening from 9 un til 12 p.m. at the American' Le gjon Hall. Steaks and short or ders will also be served. TYRE GALL City firemen were called to the home of Eloise Sizemore on North Piedmont Avenue around noon Tuesday to extinguish a fire inthe wallsofa'closet. Dam age was negligible. LIONS TO MEET Regular meeting of the "Kings Mountain Lion* club will be held Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s Club. Edwin Moose is program chairman. Jaycees Seek "Man" Nominees Nominations for Kings Moub (tain's Young Man .of the Year •for 1962 are being accepted; through Friday, Jan. 25sh by :the Junior Chamber of (.Com :xneree. The award, this year No. 9 for Che sponsoring Jaycees, is made yearly to some Kings .Mountain citizen, .age SI to "35, •who has made outstanding con tributions to the general com munity welfare, has shown evi dence of leadership ability, and evidence of personal and busi ness psogress. Nominations are asjced tram . ihe general public. | Chairman of the award com mittee Jim Lybrand noted that a person need not be a Jaycee to be eligible to post a nomination, and a person need not necessari ly be a Jaycee to receive the award. i A nomination blank is carried on page 5 off today’s Herald for convenience of citizens wishing to submit a nomination. The blank should be filled in, any additional information attached, and forwarded to DSA Commit-1 tee, Jim Lybrand, 803 Lirrwood I road, Kings Mountain. The nominee for the 1962 award is selected by a. secret committee of judges from nomi nations posed by local citizens. Former winners of the dis tinguished service award have been B. S. Peeler, Jr., Gradv K. Howard, Everette (Shu) Carl ton, Bob Mianer. Charles Dixon, Sam Stallings, Charles Blanton and Otis Falls, Jr. The 1962 recipient will be nam ed at the annual Jaycee Bosses' Night banquet to be held Feb. 5th. John P. Kennedy, president of the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce, will make the principal address. | It's Exam Time In Area Schools It’, .'xam - time at Kings Mk ain high school. Mid • term examinations got un , way Wednesday, w ou nut-Thursday and 1 .ay, iast day of the se r .e,’. luden s will find out the ■;. . -suits of 'heir "cramming” j '' ;'i2 5 r; booming report j ^ adds. Elmer Ross New Recreation Chief New Directoi With Program For Five Years Elmer “Mag” Ross began work Monday as new fulltime director of the city’s recreation program. He was named Thursday by city council to succeed Jake Early who resigned last month to accept a position with the Char lotte Hornets baseball club. Ross, recommended for the post by the recreation commis sion, has been active in the rec reation program here for a number of years. For the past five years he has assisted in the Little League baseball program which is the main feature of the city's sum mer recreation program. Prior to this he managed teams in the now defunct Kings Mountain softball league and also in the Shelby league. He also played baseball and managed diamond teams m the past. At the present time he has no definite plans for a year-round recreation program, but he laun ched the local industrial basket ball season Tuesday night with four teams and has two addition al teams seeking berths in the league. Plans rare being :made to in auguarte teen dances in the ar mory as a part of the recreation -.program Ross resides at 600 'Jackson St., is married and the father Of three children. Group To Study Home For Aging The Kings Mountain Minis terial association has appointed a committee to investigate and provide information on a possi ble home for'the aging lor the Kings Mountain area. Named to the committee are Rev. George T, YMoore, chairman, Rev. Marion DuBose, Rev. "Clyde Goodson, Rev. H. D. Gannon and Rev. J. W. "Phillips. The ministers previously .had ’heard a discussion of the need for such an institution by Rev. •Mr. Moore, .a mentber of board i otf directors of the Lwmnn Home, Lutheran home for the aged at White Rock, N. C. Mr. Moore gave population figures, based on the I960 and prior censuses, .showing the pop ulation growth of persons 656 years of .age and over, and said that by 1975 projections indicate this age group will total about 12 percent. He referred to the growing at tention to the problems both in North Carolina and throughout the nation and said present insti tutions, both public and private, have insufficient capacity to handle demand. He said several /questions should be determined as to type of home, whether it should be a boarding home, a nursing home, and what services it could and should offer. Answers can be provided only by exhaustive study, he continued. laycee Bus Fund Reaches $1344 Kings Mountain citizens had contributed $1344,42 to the Jay oee Miobile X-ray Bus Fund this week, Fund Drive chairman W. G. (Bill) Jonas said Wednesday. A $7,000 quota in Cleveland County is required to remobilize the Unit and bring a new bus back to downtown streets for chest X-rays. The X-ray Unit, a free health service, has been here for several months due to the fact that the vehicle had to be parked. “The bus, In use here for many years, just won’t run anymore,” officials of the Cleveland Coun ty TB Association said. Shelby Jayeees are conducting a similar fund drive. A full re port was not available Wednes day. **We feel we’re well within the goal and encourage those who: wan to contribute to do so. We are still 'oi ring pledges, asj well as c . :i donations and ap-j (Coniinued Oh Fr.ge Eight) I WINS AWARD — Lawrence (Lar ry) Patrick is holder of the silver palm award in Scouting. He has already earned his Eagle and bronze and gold palm awards. Patrick Wins Silver Palm Lawrence Patrick, Jr., son of Mr. and:Mire. H. (L. Patrick, won his silver palm scouting award at Thursday night’s Boy Scout Court of Honor at Central Meth odist church. Young aPtrick, 13, is the young est Eagle Scout to receive the Silver palm in the Piedmont Council. He had previously won his Eagle award, the bronze palm, gold pailm and the third palm at the district meeting here this week. Other Boy Scouts making ad vancements were Mike Kiser, of Troop 91, to tenderfoot rank and Paul Glenn, of Troop 91, to sec ond class rank. Merit awards went to: Charles iPadgett. Troop 90, bas ketry. Jimmy Eaker Troop 90, citi zenship in the home. J. C. Wright, Troop 90, cycling. Tommy Plonk, Troop 294, .first aid to animals. Cork},- Fulton, Troop 91, .and Ronnie Hums, Troop 92, home repairs. Gene Putnam and Phillip Put nam, Troop 90, palinting. Keith Carroll, Troop 91, pets. Wendell Bunch, Troop 90, puiri ilic health. Keith Carroll, Troop 91, safe ty 'Dale Putraim, Troop 90, wood work. Other top advancements .went to Charles Padgett, ef Troop 90, who won the life rank and Jim my Eaker of Troop 9k) who re ceived the star rank. MEETING POSTPONED The American Legion Auxili ary's Thursday night meeting has been postponed due to the community - wide program un der sponsorship of Kings Moun tain chu-rehwomen. Mrs. J. E. Mauney and Mrs. J. M. Rhea will he hostesses at the former’s home January 24th at 7:30 p.m. Kings Mountain Presbytery Meeting Here Kings Mountain Presbytery will convene for its winter ses sion Tuesday beginning at 9:30 a. m. at First Presbyterian church. Over 100 men, elders and min isters representing the various Presbyterian churches, are ex pected to attend. Lunch Will be served by women of the church. The morning message will be delivered by Rev. Murray Love, moderator, and pastor Of Olney Presbyterian church at Gastonia. The host pastor, Dr. Paul Aus ley and elders from the host church, will administer the sac rament of Holy Communion. Moderator - nominee Wesley Daniel will be installed as the 1963 moderator and election of commissioners to the General As sembly to be held in Huntington, West Va., in April, will feature the day’s meeting. Assigned a quota of 100 delegates to the Presbyterian Men’s Convention in Dallas, Texas, in June, the church body will make plans for that meeting and also discuss a $12 million development fund campaign for extension of Pres byterian church extension, world missions, Christian education, aid to colleges and universities and support of radio-television cen ters. Reports to be heard wil in clude: Annuities and Relief, Rev. Archie McNair; Dr. Wither spoon, missionary work; Rev. George Riddle, nominations; Dr. Ausley, Presbytery’s Coundil; and Stover Dunagan, men of the church. Elder Sam Weir is a delegate to Presbytery's meeting from the host church. i Bell Rites Reid Tuesday Funeral rites for Richard Ed mond Bell, 40, of Shelby, native of the Oak Grove community, were held Tuesday at 3 p. m. from Oak Grove Baptist church, interment following in the church cemetery. Bell’s mutilated body was found about 10:30 p. m. Sunday between the tracks of the Sea board Railroad on Airline Ave nue, near Black street in Shel by. Coroner J. Ollie Harris said that Bell was apparently struck by East-bound Seaboard Railway freight No. 92 that passed through Shelby about 9:30. He ruled the death accidental and said no inquest was necessary. He said his investigation is con tinuing. An employee of Sackville Mills of Shelby. .Bell was the son >f the late Mr. .and Mrs. J. D. Bell of the Oak Grove community. He was a member of the Oak Grove Church. .Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Parvel Bradshaw Bell; three sons, Carl, Donald and Roger Bell, all of Shelby; one brother, Alvin Bell of Kings Mountain; and four sisters, Mrs. Walter Blanton, Mrs. Fay Ross, both of Shelby, Mrs. Thurman Hamrick of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Wayne Styers of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Rev. James Holder officiated at the final rites. The body re mained at Harris Funeral Home until time of the funeral. AA MEETING Regular meeting of "Kings Mountain Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous will be held Friday night at 8 o’clock at First Pres byterian church Fellowship hall. Hopper Youth Hangs Seli In Jail Alter East King Station Robbery Jimmy Eugene Hopper. IS, of Grover, was found dead in a city jail cell about 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after giving himself up in Rutherfordton for an early Sunday robbery of Bast King Esso Station. An accomplice, and, local offi cers and acquaintances think, leader in the armed robbery of $H0 and gas valued at $4.25, James Truitte, 17, escapee from a Kentucky prison camp, was still unapprehended Wednesday, city police said. : Hopper had been an empioee of the East King station for for about six weeks last summer, during the vacation season for regular employees. Gene McCar ter, the owner, had thought he was employing Jimmy Hopper’s brother, but said the youth work ed out satisfactorily. The hold-up occurred subse quent to 1 a. m. Sunday naoriv ing. Haskell Wilson, on duty, knew the Hopper youth, was quite surprised when he was told to empty the cash register. He, along with two others, was or dered into the station’s back room, where the telephone was located. He called polioe imme diately, the call being logged at 1,18. Chief of Police Paul Sanders alerted surrounding enforcement agencies, said ,he was called about 4 a. m. by Rutherfodton police, who said the H»pp?i* youth had given himself up. Chief Sanders and Officer Ernest Beam returned Hopper to Kings Mountain.. Said Chief Sanders, "He told us the full details about the rob bery." According to the youth’s ver (Continued On Page Eight) Elections Board Certifies Putnam As Justice Of Peace Action Ends Litigation By Candidate Elzie Lee Putnam, a Republi can, is a duly elected Cleveland County justice of the peace. His election was certified Wed nesday morning by the three man Cleveland County board of elections by unanimous vote, the board reversing itself from its previous position. Mr.. Putnam had filed a peti tion in Cleveland Superior Court seeking a writ of mandamas or dering that he be seated. Subse quently, the elections board filed a demurrer, with hearing tenta tively set for last Saturday be fore Judge P. C. Froneberger, of Gastonia. Meantime, the board of elections conferred with both officials of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and with the attorney-general’s of fice. According to the formal state ment, following Wednesday morning’s meeting, the board, in light of these conversations, de cided it had initially ruled in er ror. The board's action has the ef fect of ending the litigation. Question devolved over wheth er Mr. Putnam, Republican nom inee for .Number 4 township jus tice of the peace, and J. Lee Roberts, veteran incumbent and Democratic nominee, opposed each other as party tickets, or whether both would be elected. An assistant attorney general had offered the opinion that since the township, under the state constitution, permitted elec tion of several magistrates (well over the number of two), that both would be elected. Raymond Maxwell, secretary of the state board of elections, offered a con trary opinion. Over objections of John B. MoBrayer, GOP member, Demo crats Ralph Gilbert, chairman, and George Thomasson, secre tary, accepted the Miaxwell opin ion. County GOP leaders, in behalf of Mr. Putnam, protested to the state board and asked it to seat him. The board declined on grounds it had no jurisdiction in matters of legal interpreta tion, suggesting that Mr. Put nam’s relief, if any, was to be found in the courts. The January 12 hearing wasn’t held, it having been postponed by Judge H. L. Riddle, who was holding a term of court. In the election, Mr. Roberts was accorded 1073 votes and was duly certified after canvas of the election returns. Mr. Putnam was accorded 651 votes. Mr. Putnam, partner and man ager in Putnam Brothers Ga rage, said he was gratified by the decision. “I appealed as a matter of principle,’ ’he commented. 'Mr. Roberts, the Democratic justice, said he had made no comment and had none, adding the matter was one for the elec tion Of fiends. Safety Council Meeting Here The quarterly dinner meeting of the Rime Ridge Safety Coun cil will tae held at the Kings Mountain National Guaud Ar mory next Thursday, January y*Mh, with barbecue dinner f«>m1 &30 until 7:30. Reservation*; may ibe placed by oaJling Ed G«*er at Foote Min eral Company. The evening program, with the principal address toy Wilford Jones, safety director of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, will begin at 7:30. T>r. W. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, will say the Invocation and May or Kelly Dixon will give the wel come. H. S. Baucom. director of safety of the North Carolina In dustrial Commission at Raleigh, will present the speaker. Spc i! awards will be presented by E Silver of the North Carolina l.i dustrial Commission. New officers and directors t< r 1963 will be elected at the ' t: iness meeting to be cone .fed b; , President H. S. Doan, Spinne rs j Processing Company, Spindale. j CERTIFIED — Republcem Elzie L. Putnam was certified as a Num ber 4 Township justice of the peace by the county board of elections Wednesday morning, ending litigation launched by Mr. Putnam to obtain certification. Board Talks Registration The city board of commission ers discussed a new registration of city voters last week, but de ferred action for further report on necessary details which they asked Mayor Kelly Dixon to pro vide. City Attorney J. R. Davis, had stated the commission, which acts as the city election boards, has two options: 1) to require a new registration, or .2) to au thorize re-copying and purging of the books by election offici als. Board members indicated they felt the copy job would be of lit tle Value and might result in considerable error. In another action, the board unanimously instructed City Clerk Joe McDaniel to invest $28, 290 in gas system funds in the two savings and loan associa tions — over Mr. McDaniel's ob jections. The Clerk had informed the board that W. E. Easterling, secretary of the local government commission, has, on two occas ions, told the board that the gas bond resolution nor prospectus designates savings and loan as sociations as suitable depositor ies. The funds are currently on checking account and won’t be required — or usable — prior to October 1. City Attorney Davis said he felt the funds should be invested in the savings and loan firm:. The board re-zoned, from resi dential to business designation, a North Batleground avenue lot adjacent to the Purol Service Sta tion. In other actions, the board: 1) Deferred request of .the po lice department for two walkie talkie radio units for possible in clusion in next year’s budget. 2) Elected to retain two white way lights for the City Hall en trance, authorized sale of excess standards at $15, or of four dam ••, ree is, “I think U :»«r viicai = ; v ; the court* . ■<<'. i T,rw| spectrally that .'*,*» c. iron defeated a Deni* >cra f.n- cler . of Superior court, i .. it a COP candid ’ ’e, a Mr. *>rfenberrv, was elec, i sheriff. Though < ■ couh'n’a remember the identity of their opponents, nor Sheriff Fortenberry’s initials, he said he recalled the Quinn election particularly because “that was the closest one”. In that year the GOP also elected a Governor. It was the era of the Fusion movement, with the Populists aligning with the Republicans, and putting D. L. Russell, of Brunswick county, in the state house. He served the four-year term from 1897-91 to be succeeded by Governor Charles B. Aycock arid an unbroken string of Democrats to the pres ent day. The 1896 success, Mr. Williams ifcalls, did not end ardent GOP activity in the county though Mr Williams doesn’t remember sub sequent successes. “We had a hot t'ne for sev eral years after (V: ” he says. If Mr. W"P *.$ date is! correct, . n. c- . arm is the! first Republicr.n clod to office in Cleveland Cou y in 06 years Plant Layout Arrangement Gets Approval By HAROLD PEARSON Architects for the new Kings Mountain school district high school plant got the go signal I Monday for proceeding with working drawings. Officially, the board of odor | cation tentatively located the : new plant on the northeastern corner of the Phifer Road site. It will be recessed about 200 1 feet from the west side of Phi j fer road about equi-distant be tween Fulton road and Beason’s j creek. This represents a change in lo ! cations from the previously rec ! ommended location which placed | the school in the central section of the property. Revised layouts sketch of the i various facilities shows the build : ing on the first knoll just south of Beason’s Creek with the cen tral section occupied by play i areas, (baseball diamonds, foot ball fields, etc.) With the location designated, architects are now preparing pre-preliminary plans of the structure for the board’s approv al. Following these will come the preliminary plans, then the work ing plans for actual construction which is expected to begin no later than late summer. I The architects, Fred Van Wag eniqgen and Thomas Cothran, of Shelby, indicated that the pre preliminary plans should require about three weeks. Kings Mountain school district citizens last March authorized a bond issue of up to $1,100,000 to build a new high school to serve the district. Site selection was made during the summer, and educational facilities re quirements were compiled by a large faculty committee in co operation with Dr. Dwayne Gard ner. of the State Department of Public Instruction. Aim of the board of education is for occupancy in September 1901. OTHER ACTION ■ In other action Monday the board: 1. Elected James S. Teague and Williard G. Boyd, Jr., to fill vacancies at Kings Mountain high school and Vivian Catherine Johnson to fill a vacancy at Compact school. 2. Appointed an agricultural advisory committee for the Com pact adult education class. 3. Voted to pay $15 for dam ages done by the school mower to a vegetable patch adjacent to Grover school. 4. Authorized payment of ex penses for Raleigh trips bv school officials, architects and committee members. 5. Voted to purchase risers foe use by the Mixed Chorus. 6. Voted to request hook ug' to the Grover water system for Grover school and principal's house. i 7. Endorsed resolution calling i for $100 million state funds for j school plant construction and 1 improvements. S & L Shareholders Will Meet Tuesday Annual meeting of sharehold ers of Home Savings & Loan as sociation will be held in the as sociation offices Tuesday after noon at d o’clock, it is announc ed by Thomas A. Tate, secretary treasurer. Business of the meeting will in clude presentation of reports of officers on the past year’s oper ations, election of directors fop the coming year, and any other business which might be advanc ^ _ Tax Listing Pace Is Reported Brisk Ta^ listing continued at a brisk pace at City Hall court room this week. Conrad Hughes, county tax lister for Number 4 Township, estimated that the listing pace for 19ti3 is ahead of last year. '‘Four of us didn’t rest a minute Monday,” he comment ed. Glee A. Bridges, city tax lister, concurred.. All citizens are required to list properties for ad valorem taxes (hiring January. Penalties are prescribed for failure to Jisf or for late list ing.