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Vol. 74 No. 10
mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 7, 1963
Seventy-Fourth Year
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KIWANIS SPEAKER — Hanley Painter, coach of North Carolina's
most successful college football team, will be guest speaker at the
Kiwanis Club meeting Thursday night at 6:45 p.m. Painter is head
football coach and Athletic Director at Lenoir Rhyne College.
Kiwanis To Hear
Hanley Painter
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Local New*
IN FRATERNITY
William Lee Ramseur, Jr., son
of Mrs. W. L. Jrtamseur, was re
cently initiated into Sigma Phi
Epsilon Fraternity at Beta Chap
ter at North Carolina State col
lege. At N. C. State he is a fresh
man in the School of Design, Ar
chitectural Curriculum.
TEEN-AGE DANCE
Kings Mountain Recreation De
partment will sponsor a dance
for the teen-agers of the city Sat
urday night. Starting time at the
Armory is 7 p.m.
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LODGE MEETING
A regular communication of
Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AM Will
be held Monday night at 7:30 at
Masonic Hall, Tom Tindall has
announced.
4-H CLUB TO MEET '
The Dixon Community 4-H club
will hold regular meeting Tues
day night at 7 o’clock at Dixon
Presbyterian church. The meeting
was postponed from Tuesday.
JACKSON IMPROVED
T. W. Jackson, well - known1
Kings Mountain citizen, was re
ported improving Wednesday aft
er being hospitalized Saturday
for complications following in
fluenza.
ATTENDS MEETING
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
was in Raleigh Tuesday and
Wednesday to attend an NCEA
meeting. The meeting was call
ed by Dr. A. C. Dawson, Executive
Secretary of the NCEA, and poli
cy eommitte members of the Di
vision of Superintendents were
asked to attend. Barnes is the
Southwest District member.
4-H SUNDAY
The newly . organized Oak
Grove community 4-H club ob
served national 4-H Club Week
in Sunday sendees. Members of
the club sang an anthem at the
morning service and four of the
boys were ushers.
) TO RALEIGH
Mrs. Wanza Davis, secretary to
Supt B. N: Barnes, will leave
Thursday for Raleigh to attend
a two-day meeting of the Depart
ment qf Educational Secretaries
of the NCEA. Mrs. Davie is a past
president of the organization.
COUNTY-WIDE MEET
Cleveland County 4-fi’ers willj
hold a county-wide recreational |
meeting Friday night beginning
at 7:30 p.m. In the Shelby Armo
ry. Kings Mountain area commu
nity clubs win be represented, i
Lenoii-Rhyne
Menton Here
Tharsda; Night
By HAFOLD PEARSON
Hanley Painter, winner of two
Coach of the Year awards in 1962,
will be guest speaker at the
Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club
meeting Thursday night at 6:45
at the Woman’ Club.
Painter is head football coach
at Lenoir Rhyne College and in
’62, his first year at. the helm,
was chosen Coach.of the Year for
the NAIA’s District 26 as well as
the American Football Coaches
Association District 3.
Succeeding his former college
coach, Clarence Stasavich, as
head coach and Athletic Director j
at LR in January of 1962, Painter
directed the Bears to 11 staright
victories before bowing to Central
Oklahoma State in the Camellia
Bowl in Sacramento, California,
December 8, 1962.
They finished third in NAIA
rating and fifth in the Associat
ed Press small college rating.
Born in Alabama, Painter re
ceived his early formal .education
in Bryson City, NUC. After gradu
ation from Swain High School, he
served with the Marines in the
Pacific. He participated in the in
vasions of Saipan, Tinian and
Iwo Jima.
Following his service discharge,
he enrolled in Lenoir Rhyhe Col
lege in 1946 and graduated in
1950. During his senior year, he
was selected on the All-Confer
ence team and served as the
Bear’s captain in addition to be
ing president of the senior class.
After fdur years of successful
coaching at Taylorsville, he re
turned to his alma mater as end
coach in 1954. LR posted a 2-7-1
•record that fall.
At the conclusion of that year
he was elevated to top assistant,
coaching the line and in charge
of defense, ixnae that time the
Bears have won eight consecutive
championships and established
themselves as one of the tap
small college teams in the coun
try.
During the £ast four years they
have played, for the national
small college championship three
times, winning the 1960 Holiday
Bowl.
MuyorAnd McKee
Due Back Thursday
Mayor Kelly Dixon and Fire
man T. C (RedI McKee are ex
pected to return With a new gar
bage truck from- Oshkosh. Wis
consin, sometime Thursday.
They flew to toe mid-west
Monday to claim the new truck
purchased by the city several
months ago. \
Southwell Motor Company war
successful bidder on the truck
and A. E. Finley Company, of
Charlotte, on the body of the
garbage truck.
Craftspun Yarns Building
Finishing Plant, Warehouse
Bleachery
Spells New
Operation Here
City building permits were pur
chased last week lor construc
tion of a $75,000 bleachery -and
$25,000 storage building for
Craftspun Yams, Inc.
'Purchaser was Roy Barnes,
Gastonia contractor, also the
builder of Craftspun’s 32,000
square foot knitting plant, which
went into operation last year.
Construction work is already
underway.
Craftspun is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of B. V. D. Corpora
tion, major manufacturer of
men's underwear, as well as oth
er textile products.
Company officials have not
announced likely completion date
of the new addition to their Lin
wood Road plant, nor the em
ployment potential. However the
construction of the bleachery has
been contemplated for several
months, the project having been
noted in the 1962 annual state
ment of B. V. D. Corporation by
Sol Kittay, president.
B. V. D. Corporation purchased
Craftspun Yarns, Inc., wia federal
court sale, after Oraftspun’s par
ent company, Scranton Lace Cor
poration, went into bankruptcy.
The building was completely mo
dernized and. new. yarn-making
equipment installed.
Craftspun subsequently pur
chased the properties of the
Parkdale Mills, of Gastonia,
more familiarly known here as
the Old Phenix or Loom-Tex
mill.
Tom Blalock's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Thomas Dick
son Blalock, 90, retired farmer of
route two, were held Saturday
at 3 p.m. from Bethlehem Bap
tist church, of which he was a
member.
Mr. Blalock died Thursday
night in the Gaston Memorial
hospital following an illness of
two weeks.
A native of Cleveland County,
he was the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John Blalock.
Surviving are his niece and
nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Yar
bro, with whom he made his
home; one brother, L. G. Blalock
of Kings Mountain and a num
ber of other nieces and nephews.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. D. F. Callahan, assisted
by Rev. W. G. Camp. Interment
was made in the church ceme
tery.
Active pallbearers were Clyde
McDaniel, Wyatt and Charles
Blalock, Walter Dickson, and
James and Ed Yarboro.
PRESIDENT — Robert (Bob)
Southwell has been elected presi
dent of the Kings Mountain Mer
chants Association for the com
ing year.
Merchants Elect
Bob Southwell
Robert (Bob) Southwell, owner
and manager of Southwell Ford
company, has been elected pres
ident of the Kings Muontain
Merchants Association for the
coming year.
■ -Me*~-Southwell will Succeed
Glee Edwin Bridges.
The new officers will be in
stalled at the annual employer
employee banquet March 22nd at
.7 p. m. at the Woman’s club.
Balloting among retailers was
completed this week and officers
and directors were elected in a
close race, Mia. Ida Joy, Mer
chants Association secretary, re
ported. .
Lewis Dellinger,' manager of
Dellinger’s Jewel Shop, will serve
as vice-president of the associ
ation.
New members of the board of
directors will include Bill Brown,
Belk’s Department Store; Bob
Mincey, Harris-Teeter Super
Markets; Menzell Phifer, Phifer
Hardware company; and Humes
Houston, Kings Mounatin Drug
company.
Bloodmobile Here
For Monday Visit
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will return to Kings Mountain
for a one-day visit Monday,
March 11th.
Donors will be processed at
Kings Mountain Baptist church
from 11 a. m. until 5 p. m.
and goal of the collection is
125 pints of blood.
,Mtrs. John A. Cheshire, co
chairman of the Red Cross
blood program, made the ann
ouncement.
Funeral Rites Conducted Tuesday
For Mrs. Virginia R. Miller, 99
Mis. Victoria Virginia Miller,
widow of Oarenee P. Miller, died
Sunday afternoon at the age of
99. Mrs. Miller would have cele
brated her 100th birthday Octo
ber 23.
Funeral rites were held Tues
day ait 4:30 p.m. from First Pres
byterian .church- Dr. Paul K. Aus
ley, assisted by Dr. W. P. Gerber
ding, officiated and interment
was made in Mountain Best ce
metery. In lieu of flowers, mem
orials may be designated to the
building fund of Chester, Va.
First Presbyterian Church, of
which Mrs. Miller was a member.
Mrs. Miller who had been en
joying apparently good health,
died at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. J. A. NeiSler, Sr. She had
been ill since Saturday.
A native of Gaston Gounty,
she was the daughter of the late
Mn, and Mrs. Emmanuel Bndi
m
Besides Mrs- Nelsler, she is sur
vived by three daughters, Mrs.
7red E. Finger, of Kings Moun
ain, Mrs. Robert Morrison of
hester, Va., and Mrs. Frank
'laxco of Lincoln ton; and two
->ns, Jacob E. Miller of Tulsa,
Udahoma and Clarence J. Mill
•r of Chester, Va. Fifteen grand
children and 29 great-grandchild
KITES HEI.D — Funeral rite* f*r
Mr*. C. T. Millar, were hold Tuo*
day. Mr*. KOtor dtofhMMor «t
the 09* of ML ,
;en also survives - < *■
Active pallbearers were Hugh
Neisier, Robert Neisler, Joe Neis
!er, Jr., Carl Finger, Dan Finger,
C. R. Morrison and Frank and
Joe Plaxco.
Funeral Rites
Held On Tuesday
For Mr. Hamrick
Funeral rites for Cleophas
Hamrick, 88, prominent retired
farmer of the Patterson Grove
community, were held Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock from Pat
terson Grove Baptist church, of
which he was a member.
Mr. Hamrick died Sunday af
ternoon in the Kings Mountain
hospital following an illness of
several months.
A native of Cleveland County,
he was the son of the 'late Mr.
and Mrs. Elphus Hamrick.
Surviving are two sons, D. R.
Hamrick and Ben Hamrick of
Kings Mountain; four daughters,
Mrs. G. A. Bridges and Miss Mae
Hamrick of Kings Mountain, Mrs.
Broadus McGinnis of Gaffney, S.
C. and Mrs. T. W. Beam of Char
lotte; two sisters, Mrs. Barnette
McSwain of Landrum, S. C. and
Mrs. Henry Cabiness of Shelby;
14 grandchildren and 15 great
grandchildren.
Rev. E. S. Elliot officiated at
the final rices and interment was
made in the church cemetery.
Active pallbearers were J. C.
Bridges, Glee Edwin Bridges, J.
W. Beam, Kenneth and William
Hamrick and Wginalfi Weaver.
N. C. State Band
To Hay Here
North Carolina State College’s
85-member symphonic band will
play a concert at Kings Moun
tain high school auditorium next
[Wednesday morning at 10:30.
The band’s appearance here
will be part of its annual spring
tour, with other concerts sche
duled at Durham, Burlington,
Lexington, Rutherfordton-Spin
dale, and Mt. Holly.
Among the band members are
James Forrest, clarinetist, son
of Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Fortrest, of
Kings Mtountain.
The band will play the follow
ing repertoire:
Beatrice and Benedict, Berlioz;
The Tsar’s Bride, Rimsky-Korsa
kov; Francesca da Rimini, Tsch
aikovsky; A Hero’s Courtship
from “En Heldenleben, R.
Strauss; Piece Heroique, Franck;
Polka and Fugue from “Schwan
da,” Weinberger; Three Chorale
Preludes, Latham; Piece for.
Tnumphets and Comets, Gerrard;
Prelude and Fugue in F Minor,
Bright; Two Grecian Scenes,
Parnell; Crown Imperial, Wal
ton; We$t Side Story (Selec
tions), 'Bernstein; La Virgen de
la Macarena, (Banjamin Sloan,
carnet soloist), Mendez; and Con
certo No. 1 for French Horn,
(Steve Seawright, horn soloist),
R. Strauss.
Legion Schedules
Saturday Dance
The Jimmy Heavner Combo
will furnish music for the Satur
day evening dance ait the Legion
Building for members and their
guests, according to announce
ment by Carl Weiaener.
The five-piece group includes
two brass instruments, organ, pi
ano and bass fiddle.
Admission win be $2 per cou
ple.
The dining room will be open
at 6 p.m. Dancing will be from
9 to midnight.
LIONS MEETING
Regular meeting of the Kings
Mountain Lions club will be held
at the Woman's Club Tuesday
night at 7 o’clock and will fea
ture an address on cancer de
tection. The program la being ar
ranged by Charles H Mauney,
chairman of the cancer associa
tion speaker’s bureau.' r"‘
DAVIS IMPROVING
J. R. Davis, Kings Mountain
attorney, is continuing to Im
prove at Kings Mountain hos
pital, where he Is recovering
from a broken hip suffered Jan
uary 27.
CANDIDATE — George H. Maun
ey is a candidate for the Kings
Mountain school district board of
education.
Heart Fund
Gifts $2,502
Kings Mountain citizens have
contributed $2,502.06 to the 1963
1 Heart Fund'campaign, L. E. Hin
nant, fund drive chairman, said
Wednesday.
The ’63 figures are $500 ahead
of last year’s contribution to the
Heart Fund by local citizens.
Mr. Hinnant said the drive will
continue for another week or so
to allow all who wish to give to
the Heart Fund to do so. Con
tributors may forward their gifts
to Mr. Hinnant in care of Firs!
Union National Bank.
“Kings Mountain citizens have
been mosit generous again in giv
ing to this needy cause,” Mr. Hin
nant said. He noted his apprecia
tion to the many volunteer work
ers who helped conduct the drive.
Heart disease is a major cause
of disability and the leading
cause of death in the nation to
day, Mr. Hinnant continued. He
added that the 1963 Heart Fund
will support an attack against
this No. 1 enemy — through re
search by working with the
North Carolina and American
Heart Association, through pub
! lie and professional education
and through community health
| programs.
Music Contests
This Weekend
Kings Mountain school musi
cians will participate in the an
nual district music contest to
be held at Lenoir-Rhyne college
in Hickory Friday and Satur
day.
On Friday, the high school
mixed chorus, directed by Mrs
J. N. McClure, will sing.
On Saturday, five piano stu
dents, pupils of Mrs. Martin
Harmon, will play in the piano
contests. Del Goforth and Don
na Crawford will play in the
junior divisions. Joan MicClure,
Rita Bell and Reta Phifer will
play in the senior division.
The contests will he held in I
the Mauney Music building. '
Carpentei
Withdraws
Mayoral Bid
BY MARTIN HARMON
J. E. (Zip) Rhea, Ward 5 com
missioner, became the first in
cumbent city official to seek re
election Wednesday, when he
formally filed for re-election.
In another Wednesday develop*
ment, Clarence E. Carpenter
formally withdrew as a candi
date for mayor.
East Thursday, George H.
Mauney filed his candidacy for
Kings Mountain school district
board of education.
Mr. Rhea, mayor pro tempore
in the present administration,
seeks his second term as a com
missioner. He said he had no
formal statement but comment
ed, “We’ve several major pro
jects in process and I want, to
see them through to completion.
He mentioned particularly the re
building of the electrical distri
bution system and the project
for new out-door lighting.
Mr. Mauney is the first ciandi
date for the two board of edu
cation positions to be filled at
the May 14 election. Mr. Mauney
said, “If elected I will do the jol
to the best of my ability. I’m not
angry at anyone.”
In withdrawing Wednesday as
a candidate for mayor, Mr. Car
penter, onetime city tax collect
or, wrote City Clerk Joe Mc
Daniel:
‘1 hereby withdraw my candi
dacy for Mayo.- of they City o'
Kings Mountain, for which I
filed several months ago.
“This is due to the fact m>
doctor advised me not to partici
pate in too many activities
which a political campaigr
would entail.
“I shall support any electee
candidate to my utmost to helt
build a better community of th<
city in which I was born anc
which I love with all mv heart
Mr. Carpenter's withdrawal
leaves ex-mayor Glee A. Bridge;
as the lone mayoral Candida,
to date.
Commissioner Rhea was the
ticket leader in the May 9, 196?
election. A builder a-nd er>n"retc
products manufacturer, he is cur
rently commander of Otis D
Green Post 155, American
Legion. He is a Navy veteran of
World War II and a former p es
ident of Kings Mountain Coun
try Club. Mrs. Rhea is the for
mer Madge Wright.
Mr. Mauney, secreta y end
superintendent of Mauney Mills
Inc., seeks public office for thr
first time. He is -a graduate o'
N. C. State College, -a navy vet
eran of World War II, a Kiwa-"
ian, and member of the Cleve
land County Citizens committee
for better schools. He is active
in Boy Scout work and a mem
ber of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church. Mrs. Mauney is the for
mer Barbara Broward. They
have four children.
All city elective offices axe to
be filled at the May election.
Two school board positions are
to be filled, the terms of Chair
man Pred W. Plonk and Dr. P.
G. Padgett expiring.
Mis. Alleiton Dies In Three-Car
Wreck; Husband and Youth Injured
Mrs. Muriel Hollas Allerton,
59, of Charlotte, was killed al
most instantly, her husband,
Rowland Allerton, and Perry
Douglas Phillips, of Mooresboro,
injured in a head-on collision at
the Kings Mountain-Watlerson
intersection about 11:15 Satur
day night.
tMr. Allerton’s condition was
reported satisfactory Wednesday
by attending physicians. He suf
fered a fractured leg and rib.
The condition of Mr. Phillips,
age 19, was improved Wednes
day, but was still considered ser
ious. Suffering severe head in
juries, the Phillips youth was un
conscious for several days due to
brain concussion. He also suffer
ed a leg injury.
Police Chief Paul Saunders
was still continuing his investi
gation of the accident yester
day. He said it is a possibility
young Phillips "had been driving
after his license had bee„i re
voked. No charges had been pre
ferred.
Report on the accident by City
Policeman Ernest Beam and
Charles Wallace indicated the
Phillips 1962 Ford, traveling west
on King street, sde-swiped a
1951 Ford operated by Raymond
Tesenlar, of 500 Lon wood Road,
and was catapulted head-on into
the 1963 Dodge driven by Mr.
Allerton and east bound on King.
Both the Allerton and Teseniar
cars were stopped awaiting a
i change of traffic signal. The A1
| lerton car propelled 90 feet
and the Phillips car 60 feet fol
! lowing the collision.
Other occupants of the Tesse
■nair car were Mrs. Tessenair
and two children. None were ad
mitted to the hospital, after ex
amination.
Mr. Allerton is owner of Aller
ton Jacquard Company of Chat
lotte. He and his wife had been
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Moss, Sr., Saturday e\’:
ening at the Country Club. He,
too, is an English native.
Funeral rites for Mrs. Aller
ton were held Wednesday morn
ing at the chapel of M-rEweer:
Funeral Home, Charlotte, inter
ment following in Sharon Me
morial Park there. The final
rites were conducted by Rev
Thomas W. MacLean, pastor of
Avondale Presbyterian church.
With her husband, Mrs. Aller
ton had been a Charlotte resi
dent for the past 15 years.
She Is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Alice Hollas, Bradford. En
gland, and two sitters, Mrs.
Jack Firth, Bradford. England,
and Mrs. Gilbert Smith, Whit
ney, England.
Mrs. Emily Boitomley, of Lei
cester, England, a sister of Mr.
AUerton’s, arrived Nm England
by plane Monday. She is a guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Moss while her
brother remains a patient at
Kings Mountain hospital.
SEEKS RE• ELECTION — Mayor
Pro Tempore J. E. (Zip) Rhea is
a candidate tor a second term as
city commissioner i/om Ward 5.
Women's Clubs
Hear Piesident
“We serve where needs are
found,” Mrs. James Harper, of
Southport, president of the North
Carolina Federation of Women’s
Clubs, said here Monday night.
Mrs. Harper addressed mem
bers of the Kings Mountain Sen
ior and Junior Women's Clubs
following a Husband’s Night ban
quet.
In a witty presentation, Mrs.
Harper delineated the services
and prospects of the North Caro
lina Federation, numbering more
than 16,000 members, declaring,
"We substitute fact - finding for
fault-findkig.”
The state organization, she not
ed, promotes leadership training,
a world affairs institute, literary
improvement, college scholar
ships for young women, a read
ing program in cooperation with
■ the University Extension division,
legislative action, and crime pre
vention.
Mrs. Harper credits North Caro
lina women citizens with respon
sibility for the establishment of
the Department of Public Wel
fare in 1917.
Two-y -ar aim of the organiza
tion is “to s trengthen the arm of
liberty.”
"AH local clubs don’t partici
pate in all state projects, but all
are constantly striving to make
their community a little better,”
she declared.
Mrs. Harper paid high tribute
to Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, a past
president of the North Carolina
Federation when Mrs. Harper was
a vice-president.
Mrs. Maunty presided at the
Monday evening banquet. New
members of the Woman’s Club
were presented by Mrs. Jacob
Cooper, vice-president, and of the
Junior Woman’s Club by Mrs. Ja
cob Dixon, president.
Mrs. Juanita Logan and M s-..
Bill Allen, accompanied by Mrs..
J. N. McClure, sang original prize
winning songs, and Mrs. Martin
Harmon played an original prize*
winning musical composition
from recent North Carolina Fede
ration contests.
Mrs. Paul Mauney prayed the
invocation and the benediction
was group reading of the North
Carolina Federation collect.
Mrs. Harper is the wife of the
publisher of the State Pont Pilot,
which she managed while her
husband was on navy duty dur
ing World War II. She now man
ages an insurance agency. Th^y
have two sons, one a Chicago, III.,
newspaperman, the younger a
high school student.
McDaniel Joins
Paik Service
Robert S. (Bob) McDaniel' has"7
joined the Kings Mountain Na
tional Military Park as adminis
trative assistant.
Mr. McDaniel was t ansfetred
here from Guilford Courthouse ’
National Park at Greensboro. He*
and his family moved here Mon
day.
He is a Kings Mountain na
tive.
At the National Park he ?«
placer Joe Kennedy who was
transferred to Fort Pulaski at
Savannah Beach, Fla.
"We are happy to have Boh
with our Park Service”, Park
Supt. Ben F. Moomaw said in
making the announcement.
Mr. McDaniel is married to
the former Wilma Brock of York,
S. C. They have four children,
five-month-old twins; Robbie Mc
Daniel ,age 11; and Karen Mc
Daniel, age 9.