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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This figure for Greater Bag* Mountain 1« derived from
the 1955 King* Mountain city directory census. The city
Umlts figure In from the United States census of 1980.
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
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VoL 74 No. 6
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 7, 1963
Seventy-Fourth Year
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Local News
| {Bulletins
PERMIT ISSUED
City officials issued a building
permit to Ike Tharringfon Satur
day to make a $2,000 alteration
to his house at 802 Second Street.
GRASS FIRE
City firemen were call to
:Second Street Sunday afternoon
at 2:15 to douse a grass fire.
LODGE MEETING
Regular communication of Fair
view Lodge 339 AF&AM will be
held Monday night at 7:30 at Ma
sonic Hall, Secretary T. D. Tindall
has announced.
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ARCHERY MEETING
An organizational meeting will
be held Friday night, 7:30 p.m.
at the Armory for all those inter
ested in taking part in the arch
ery program of the city recrea
tion department. The indoor
range will be used until wea
ther makes it possible to use the
outdoor range.
OPTIMIST MEETING
Dr. John C. McGill will dis
cuss "Symptoms of Cancer” at
the regular meeting of the Kings!
Mountain Optimist club Thurs
day evening at 7 o’clock at Herd's
Fish Camp, it was announced by
W. J. Cantrell.
TAG SALES MOUNT
Sales of city auto license tags
increased to 981 through Wednes
day, Mrs. Houston Wolfe, assist
ant city clerk, reported. Deadline
for purchase and display of the
•tags is February 15.
DAVIS RECUPERATING
J. R. Davis, Kings Mountain
attorney, is recuperating at
Kings Mountain Hospital from
fractures of the hip he suffer
ed in a fall January 27. His con
dition is regarded as satisfac
tory.
CONDITION SERIOUS
The condition of C. D. Blan
ton, Kings Mountain druggist
and a patient at Kings Moun
tain hospital,, is considered ser
ious, members of his family
said Wednesday.
LIONS PROGRAM
Miss Susan Hoad, AFS stu
dent here from Australia, will
speak to members of the Kings
Mountain Lions club at their
regular meeting Tuesday night
at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s
Club. Howard Bryant arranged
the program.
MARLOWE RECOVERED
E. E. Marlowe, was discharged
from Kings Mountain hospital
Monday after recuperating from
pneumonia.
SUFFERS STROKE
W. R. Werner, of Bridges
Auto Parts, is a patient at Kings
Mountain hospital, where he is
receiving treatment following a
stroke of paralysis on January
29.
Rotary Scholar
Here Tuesday
Erwin Landsberger, Rotary
Scholar at Davidson college, will
present the program at Tues
day’s Rotary club meeting at
12:15 at the Country Club.
Mr. Landsberger, born in La
:Serena, Chile, will (return to
("Chile next summer. He is major
ing in economies at Davidson on
Chan Gordon Memorial scho
larship provided by 40 Rotary
clubs, including King Mountain,
In District 767. The Scholarship
Is given annually in memory of
the late district governor Chan
Gordon.
A certified public accountant,
Mr. Landsberger was graduated
from the Superior Commercial
Institute in Santiago, the capital
of Chile and was associated with
his father, also an accountant,
for two years.
The 22-year-old student will be
presented by Rotary President
Jack H. White.
Two new members recently
joined the civic club. They are
Charles Mauney, associated with
Mauney Mills; and Otto Teszler,
associated with Shannon Limit
ed.
_ muumaiii
Savings and Loan Association
will be held in the association
offices Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock, it was aimoanoed by
Ben H. Bridges, secret;
urer.
Officers will
on operation!
Other business of tn
ing will be election of directors.
FIVE GENERALS AND A CONGRESSMAN —
Five generals were among the guests at Sun.
day's dedication of the Kings Mountain Army
National Guard armory. They are shown with
Rep. Basil L. Whitener, who made the princi
pal address. Left to right are Gen. Mason S.
Parham, retired. Rep. Whitener, Gen. Weston
H. Willis, commander of the 30th infantry di
vision, Gen. Roy E. Thompson, assistant state
adjutant general, Gen. William J. Payne, com
mander of the state’s air National Guard, and
Gen. Kermit L. Guthrie, division artillery com
mander.
Whitener: Nation Must Keep
ForceSecond To None Other
New Armory
Dedicates
Here Sunday
Representative Basil L. White
ner, in an address dedicating
Kings Mountain’s new Army
National Guard armory Sunday,
took a dim view of disarmament
talk and declared this nation
m-ust maintain military strength
second to none.
“We must not fall into any dis
armament trap conceived by the
communist countries and the so
called neutral nations,” he de
clared.
He added, “Military strength
is to no avail unless the Ameri-'
can people preserve intact the
wholesome virtues and moral
strength of our Christian heri
tage.”
The Congressman spoke be
fore a crowd of 400 persons, in
cluding top-ranking officers of
the North Carolina National
Guard. .
Delving into history, Rep.
Whitener review the contribution
of the citizen-soldier to the se
curity of this nation from the
Jamestown colony to today’s cold
war, noting that six of the
nation’s presidents — Washing
ton, Lincoln, Jackson, Arthur,
Theodore Roosevelt and Truman
— had been miliamen ©r national
guardsmen. He said the mountain
men who fought at Kings Moun
tain were citizen-volunteers and
labeled North Carolina’s Army
National Guard division — the
30th infantry “one of the grand
est ever to fight under the USA
flag.
He detailed the additions 1® the
force of missiles, Polaris-carry
ing submarines, launching sites
and strategic bombers that Will
be added by June 1964 and de
clared that one strategic bomb
er can deliver more bomb load,
in terms ctf power, than all the
bombers of World War II.
Sunday's ceremonies opened
with a concert by the highi
school band, directed by Joe Hed
den. The Kings Mountain com
pany stood at attention for the
posting of the colors, and Cap
tain J. E. Wejdand, Jr., chaplain,
105th engineer battalion, gave an
invocation.
Lt. Ronald David Kincaid,
commanding officer of the Kings
Mountain unit (Company D),
presented distinguished guests,
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NEWS EDITOR — David J. Baity,
former member of -the Kings
Mountain Herald staff, has
joined the staff of the Mt. Holly
News as news editor.
Baity Joins
ML HoUy News
David Baity, former staff
member of the Kings Mountain
Herald, has joined the staff of
the Mt. Holly News as news
editor, it was announced by
John Brock, general manager
of Lowrance Publishing Com
pany, Inc.
Mr. Baity joined the Mt. Hdlly
paper last week.
Since resigning from the
Herald last August, Mr. Baity
had been associated with Alad
din Mills, Bessemer City..
At the Herald, Mr. Baity was
advertising manager, bookkeep
er, and assistant news editor.
He joined the Herald on
graduation from Kings Moun
tain high school in 1957.
.He is the son of Mr. and Mr*.
A. P. Baity.
WOMANLESS WEDDING
Tickets for the Womanless
Wedding the Kings Mountain
Woman’s dub will sponsor Feb
ruary 22nd will go on sale this
weekend. Mrs. Charles Carpenter,
Jr. is general chairman of the
event. Cast for the wedding and
committees will be announced
next week.
Tax Collertois Get Good Workout
As Taxpayers Edge Penalty Date
As anticipated, Cleveland Coun
ty and city -taxpayers rushed to
beat last Saturdays penalty day
on 1962 taxes, with the result
that tax colleotion for both agen
cies spent busy days accepting
cash and supplying tax receipts.
City collections Jumped heav
ily, as mom than $30,000 in tax
bills were paid, City Clerk Joe
McDaniel, Jr-, reported.
Collections through Tuesday to
taled $145,234, or about 33 per
?ent of the estimated $175,500
levy.
County Tax Collector Robert S
Gianey said collections totaled
about 80 percent of the county's
estimated two million dollar levy.
Payments on Friday — last day
before penalty applied — totaled
about $100,000.
Collections on the 1901 county
levy, Mr. Gidney said, now have
reached 98A percent,
Gnaid Officers
Attend AimorY
Dedication,
High ..officers of the North
Carolina National Guard were
among those attending Sunday’s
dedicatory ceremonies of the
new Kings Mountain armory.
Among them were:
Major General Weston H.
Willis, commanding officer of
the 30th Infantry division.
Brig. General Roy E. Thomp
son assistant adjutant general,
State of North Carolina.
Brig. General William J.
Payne, commanding officer of
the North.Carolina Air National
Guard.
Brig. General Mason S. Par
ham (reL), former assistant
commander, 36th division.
Col. Thomas B. Longest,
United States property and fis
cal officer for North Carolina.
Col. and Mrs. Joseph W.
Brown, commanding officer,
105th engineer battalion.
Major William F. Poveroma,
battalion engineer advisor.
Lt. Elbert McPhaul, engineer
officer for North Carolina.
The visiting officers. Rep.
Basil Whitener, State Senator
and Mrs. Robert F. Morgan, and
others were guests at lunch at
the country olub prior to the
ceremonies.
Others attending the luncheon
were Mayor and Mrs. Kelly
Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. R. Patrick
Spangler, of Shelby, J. Ollie
Harris, Major and Mrs. Humes j
Houston, Miajor Samuel Carpen- j
ter, Jr., Major Wiliiam R. Free
man, Jr., Lt. David .Kincaid, Lt.
and Mrs. Robert L. Wilson, Lt
Hugh A. Lancaster, CWO Jack
Triplett and Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Harmon.
Approximately 750 persons at
tended the open house following
the ceremonies. Advertised from
3 t® 5 visitors continued to in
spect the facilities until 6:30.
The ceremonies were recorded
for re-boardcast by Station
WKMT and ,the Greenville, S. C,
television station provided cover
age, along with area news
papers.
Annual Program Sot
For Day Ql Prayer
Kings Mountain C h u r c fa
women have announced date
for the annual World Day of
Prayer service to be held Fri
day. March 1, at 3:90 p. m. at
Kings Mountain Baptist
church.
Mrs. Thomas Dsrhaoi Is
program chairman and other
women who will participate
in the program include Mrs.
Amo F. Haas, Mrs. John H.
Moss, Mrs. D. L. Bennett, Mrs.
W. L. McMaekin, Mrs. T. J.
Ellison, Mrs. B. N. Barnes
and Mrs. Harlan Stoterau.
Program details will be an
nounced later.
No Worry Yet
On School Size,
Bames Learns
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
was told by state school officials
this week that paring some 9,000
square feet from the desired
footage of the proposed new
Kings Mountain high school was
not an immediate difficulty.
Barnes was in Raleigh Tues
day to confer with officials of
the Division of 'School Planning
about the problem, architects
having indicated liklihood of ex
ceeding money available.
School officials in Raleigh out
lined procedures that were to
be taken before the paring;
would be possible and, thereby,
facilitate the ultimate deletion
of excessive footage.
Barnes was advised to work
with the architects along the
present lines before attempting
to delete any of the requested
footage.
Meanwhile, school architects
are working on preliminary
plans to be presented for the
approval of the school board
and state officials, Fred Van
Wageningen said Wednesday.
No definite date has been set
for the presenfation of these
plans, but the architects are
working toward an early pres
entation, he said.
Plans presented to school of
ficials last week depicted tenta
tive locations of needed facili
ties for the plant, and were
thought to show excellent usage
of the property comprising the
school site. Only minor chang
es were suggested.
Church Pastors
To Convene Here
Nazarene church pastors and
their wives from this area are
scheduled to take part in the an
nual North Carolina district Na
zarene Preachers' conference to
be held at the Church of the Na
zarene in Kings Mountain, on
Monday through Wednesday,
Feb. 11-13.
All of the 47 Nazarene chur
ches on the North Carolina dis
trict are scheduled to be repre
sented.
Guest speaker will be Dr. W.
T. Burkiser, Kansas City, Mo.,
editor of the denominational
weekly publication, “The Herald
of Holiness.” He formerly was
president of Pasadena College,
Pasadena, Calif. He is an able
writer and preacher.
The conference will be in char
ge of the district superintendent,
Dr. Lloyd R. Byron.
The annual program is planned
for inspiration and fellowship,
and to bring a challenge to
Christian workers, Dr. Byron
said.
The North Carolina district is
one of the 76 districts into which
the church has divided for admin
istrative purposes in the United
States, Canada and the British
Isles.
The Church of the Nazarene is
one of the larger Protestant de
nominations that stands for
scriptural holiness in the Wesly
an tradition. It has a world mem
bership of 382,000 in more than
5,000 churches. It maintains 560
full-time missionaries in 43 world
areas. World offices and a pu
blishing house are in Kansas Ci
ty, Mo. The denominational radio
program is “Showers of Bless
ing.
Sessions will be held at '7r30
p. m. Monday and at 9 a. m., 2
p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Tuesday.
Wednesday’s session will open
at £9 a. m. and the annual state
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Precinct Locale
Changes lately
Mayor Kelly Dixon may recom
mend changing the locale of up
to three city voting places.
Two Changes definitely v ill be
recommended, the Mayo, indi
cated Wednesday.
The Mayor, acting on instruc
tions from the board of com
missioners to bring recoiranen
dations on the voting set-up at
the February meeting, seeks to
replace Prank Ballard's store
as the Ward HI voting place and
noted that Ward II voters have
been balloting outside the
bounds of their owr. ward at
City Hall courtroom.
He anticipates East school
will be utilized as the Ward III
precinct and the American Le
gion building as the Ward II
precinct.
In order to interfere with
school operations as little as
possible, it is possible the Ma
yor may recommend transfer
of tfce .Ward V precinct to the
armory, rather than at West
school.
The board of commissioners
is also considering the calling
of a new registration. The pres
jnt city pel’ v oks have been in
use since 1039, first year of
yard syster s;«ration here.
WINS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD —
Don Crawford, right above, is pictured as he
received the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber
of Commerce Young Man of the Year award
for 1962 at Tuesday night's Boases' Night ban
quet. State Jaycee President John Kennedy of
Payetteville commends the DSA winner as Mrs.
Crawford looks on. (Photo by Bill Dover)
Donald Crawford Is Named
Young Man Of Year For’62
Heart Fund
Organization
Is Announced
Mrs. W. B. Grimes will serve
as chairman of Heart Sunday
February 24th, according to an
nouncement by L. E. (Josh) Hin
nant, chairman of the 1963 Heart
Fund appeal in Kings Mountain.
Mr. Hinnant also announced
other committees serving in a
month-long campaign to solicit
funds for the campaign, theme
of which is “The more will live,
the more you give.”
Mrs. F. R. Summers will head
the committee on special gifts;
Mrs. George B. Thomasson, clubs
and oirganizations; J. T. McGin
nis, Jr., corporate gifts; John D.
Warlick, Business Day chair
man; Harry E. Page, retail busi
ness-; Jonas Bridges, pifblicity;
Jack White, professional people;
Mrs. Frances B. Leonard, treasu
rer; and Mrs. James Lybrand,
secretary.
Team captains for Heart Sun
day will include these volunteer
workers: Mirs. R. O. Southwell,
Mrs. Henry Neisler, Mrs. T. L.
Trott, Mrs. M. D. Phifer, Mrs.
Fred Wlright, Jr., Mrs. W. C.
Ballew, Mrs. R. C. Etheridge,
Mrs. W. D. Byers, Mrs. Albert
Dunn, Mrs. Bill King, Mrs. B. F.
Maner, Mrs. Jacob Cooper, Mrs.
H. L. Patrick, Mrs. Cahl Wiese
ner, Mrs. Paul Mavney, Mr3.
Charles Mauney, Mrs. James
Gibson, Mrs. Delbelrt Dixon, Mrs.
B. N. Barnes, Mrs. John R. Lutz,
Mirs. George H. Mauney, Mrs. T.
J. Ellison, Mrs. D. J. Delevie,
Mrs. Paul Ham, Jr., Mrs. Clyde
J. Bhidges and Mrs. "S. T. Cooke.
A canvass of the community
will complete the drive on Heart
Sunday, Mr. Hinnant noted.
Chairman Hinnant added,
“Diseases of the heart and
blood vessels are the nation’s
foremost health problem, being
responsible for 54.6 per cent of
all deaths in the nation. J®in
the Tight against heart disease by
giving geaerousiy when a HeaTt
volunteer calls at your home.
IN NEW POST -- Major Robert
G. Cox. Kings Mountain service
man. is commanding officer of
ARADMAC's Army Transporta
tion Aircraft Baso Maintenance
Unit in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Cox Assumes
New Command
Major Robert G. Cox, Kings
Mountain native, has assumed
command of the BMU (Base
Maintenance Unit) made up of
two commissioned officers, three
warrant officers and 166 enlisted
men at Corpus Chii-isti, Texas.
The unit members are retur
nees from overseas assignments,
have been trained and have field
experience in aircraft mainte
nance MOS’s (military occupation
specialty).
Entering the Army in 1948, Ma
jor Cox took basic training at
Fort Jackson, South Carolina and
upon completion of basic he serv
:ed for a year in Honolulu.
He attended the Military Police
Corps O. C. S. (officer’s candi
date school) at Fort Riley, Kan
sas and after graduation in 1951
was an instructor in the Military
Pcflice School at Fort Gordon,
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Numerous Activities Are Projected
For Animal Scout Week Observance
Boy Scouts and their leaders
will participate In several spec
ial activities during the next
week, as they join in the ann
ual observance of Boy Scout
Week throughout the nation.
On Thursday night. Scout
Leaders of the Kings Mountain
area will be guests of the Kings
Mountain .Kiwanis club in rec
ognition of their contribution
to Scouting.
On Saturday, two representa
tives of each Kings Mountain
troop will man city hall posi
tions, from mayor to fire chief,
as they get their annual exper
ience in city government. Larry
i Patrick, Jr., win be Boy Scout
mayor- for-a-day.
Sunday will be observed as
Boy Scout Sunday. All Boy
Scouts are expected to attend
the morning services at the par
ticular churches snonsorkig
troops.
Otis Falls, Jr., Troop 97 Scout
master, said this week’s obser
vance began early for his troop,
which set a record for advan
ments at Tuesday night's
board of review. Scoutmaster
Falls will discuss the Boy Scout
program at a Bethware P-TA
meeting on February 14.
I Honoree Active
j in Religious,
| Bay Scout Work
William Donald Crawford,
j church and Scouting leader, Is
| Kings Mountain's Young Man of
: 1962.
Mr. Crawford, an employee of
! the Kings Mountain post office,
was presented the annual Jun'or
Chamber of Commerce Distin
guished Service award at Tues
day night’s Bisses’ Night banquet.
James E. Lybrand, chain-man of
the Jaycee DSA committee,
made the presentation and cited
Mrs. Craw-ford for his contribu
tions to the welfare of his
church and of his community. He
| noted that Mir. Crawford, a mem
j ber of Boyce Memorial ARP
church, had headed the Christian
Education board, served on ■ he
board of deacons, and held other
responsible church positions, and
become a Cub Scout at the age of
eleven, attained the sank of
Eagles, and through his activi
ties last summer at the Boy
Scout ranch at Philmont, New
Mexico, had qualified himself to
train Scoutmasters. Mr. Craw
ford is also active in the North
school Parent-Teacher assoeia
j tion.
Mr. Crawford, in accepting the
award, said slowly, "I've always
wondered what a fellow re
! ceiving such an honor would s ly
I and 1 still don't know.”
He added he keeps In mind a
thought he’d learned from a
story he’d heard years ago, “As
'they will it and r| we train
them.”
Mir. Craiwford is a son of Mrs.
Ethel Reynolds Crawford and
the late Thomas Crawford. He is
a grandson of Mrs. Minnie H.
Crawford. He is married to the
former Jo Ann Blalock. They
have a daughter, Donna Craw
jford.
Present for the award presen
tation and featured speaker for
; the banquet was John L. Ke-nf
! nedy, of Fayetteville, North
Carolina Jaycee president.
Mr. Kennedy noted that the
state organization w-as adjudged
first in the Jaycee Parade of
States last year, said retaining
the honor is difficult but attain
able..
The Jaycees, he said, seek 120(J
new members by February 28,
adding that more number mean
1) better community service and
2) a benefit to those who Join
the organization.
He reviewed the history of the
organization, Initially founded
in 1913 in St. Louis, Mo., as the
Young Men’s Progressive asso
ciation and expanded after World
War I to other communities.
North Carolina, he said, voasts
nearly 10,000 members.
Citing examples of Jaycee*
community service in the state,
he praised the Kings Mountain
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