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Vol. 74 No. II
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 14, 1963
Seventy-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Mayor Kelly Dixon Is Candidate For Re-election
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Broadened Budget, Scope
Is Mapped By C. Of C. Board
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AT HOME
City Attorney J. R. Davis is
back home this week after sev
eral weeks of hospitalization due
to an injury. Mr. Davis reports
that he is getting along fine and
hopes to return to his office with
in a week.
PERMITS ISSUED
City officials -issued building
permits to Rhyne Construction
Co. Monday for the constructon
of two $7200 houses on Bridges
Drive.
FIRECALLS
City firemen answered two fire
calls during 'the. past week. Thurs
day they were called to South
Battleground to douse a grass
fire and Monday they went to
McDaniel Hosiery.Mill to exting
uish a blaze that had erupted
in a motor. Slight damages re
sulted.
IN CHARLOTTE
T. W. Jackson was transferred
to Charlotte Memorial hospital
last Friday for observation and
treatment. A member of his fam
ily said results of tests should be
known Thursday.
ON DEAN’S LIST
Bobby D. Biddix, Kings Moun
tain junior at Wake Forest col
lege, qualified for the spring se
mester dean’s list according to
announcement from the college.
GOLF CLINIC
Beginners’ Golf clinics for Kings
Mountain women golfers wil be
gin Friday morning at 10 o'clock
at the Country Club.
Local News
Bulletins
BETHWARE PTA
Meeting of the Bethware PTA
will be Thursday, March 14, at
7:30. Program for the meeting
will be the finals of the reading
and declamation contests.
HOT 3BOG SALE
Young people of Central Meth
odist church will sell hot dogs,
homemade cakes and pies and
cold drinks Friday from 5:30 un
til 7:30 p.m. at the church fel
lowship hall. Delivery service will
be available for city limits’ or
ders.
CAKE RALE
East Gold Street Wesleyan
Methodist church will sponsor
the sale of homemade cakes Sat
urday from 2 until 5 p.m. at Sa
die Mill clubhouse for benefit of
the church building fund.
SPRING BALLY
The Rhythmaires Quartet will
render special music during the
Sunday School hour and Spring
Rally Sunday at East Gold St.
Wesleyan Methodist Church. Goal
of Rally Day is 150 for Sunday
School.
4-H PROGRAM
4-H'ers who are members of the
Dixon Community 4-H dub pre
sented special programs at Sun
day services at Dixon Presbyter
ian and Macedonia Baptist
churches. Participating in the
morning service at Dixon were
President Gary Stewart, Vice -
President, Vickie Jackson and
Paul Farris, and at the evening
service at Macedonia Gary Stew
art, Secretary Donnie Spears,
Margaret Hambright and Joy
Welch.
Merchants Banquet
for the annual *m
■ssg
chants AasodaOoiij ha*, been
. ' to
F. Joy,
yester
day.
The affair, at which retail
era and their employees will
attend, will be held at 7 o’
clock at the Woman’s dub.
New officers of the associa
tion will be Installed.
ELECTED — Horry Jaynes, high
school principal, has been elected
vice-president of the southwest
ern district. North Carolina Edu
cation association.
laynes Elected
To NCEA Office
-Harry Jaynes, Kings Mountain
high school principal, has been
elected vice - president of the
Southwestern district of the
North Carolina Education asspci
■afiafi;*—
Mr. Jaynes was ^notified of his
election by the canvassing com
mittee last week. He was oppos
ed by Lester Props t, a Lincoln
ton principal. The voting results
were not detailed.
The district, one of ten in
North Carolina, includes Ruther
ford, Cleveland, Lincoln, Cataw
ba, Gaston and Iredell counties.
Next year, Mr. Jaynes will au
tomatically advance to the presi
dency of the district.
He is a graduate of Western
Carolina college and a former
president of the Kings Mountain
NCEA unit.
Country Club
Meeting Tuesday
Annual dinner meeting of
stockholders of Kings Mountain
Country Club, Inc., will be held
Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at the
club.
Business of the meeting, as
announced by President John
Smathers, will include election
of four directors for three-year
terms, presentation of reports
by officers and by chairmen of
standing committees.
Officers in addition to Mr.
Smathers are Joe N. McClure,
vice president, W. S. Fulton, Jr..,
secretary, and James Gibson and
L. E. (Josh) Hinnant, co-tireasur
ers.
Chairmen of standing commit
tees include C. T. Carpenter,
Jr., pool; Jacob Cooper, house;
P. M. Neisler, Sr., greens; Tolly
Shuford, membership, and 'Wil
liam Herndon, social.
Directors Plan
To Hire Manager,
Set Up Office
By MARTIN HARMON
Directors of the Kings Moun
tain Chamber of Commerce .have
initiated plans to expand broad
ly the scope and work of the
organization.
Specifically, the Chamber of
Commerce board adopted plans
to raise at $10,000 annual budg
et, to set up an office and to
employ an executive secretary.
“We are going to have an
active Chamber of Commerce,”
President J. Wilson Crawfohd
commented.
The membership drive, with L.
E. (Josh) Hinnant as chairman,
will begin next week. Other
members of the .membership
committee are Charles A. Neis
ler, Tom Tate, Jonas Bridges,
J. Ollie Harris and Bill Brown.
Other committees named by
President Crawford include a
group on employment of an ex
ecutive secretary and on ob
taining office quarters, with
Grady Howard as chairman, and
including Joe .McDaniel, Jtr., and
Bob Maner, and a projects com
mittee, with Fred Wright
chairman, and including Charles
D. Blanton and Wesley Bush.
‘'Active Chambers of Com
merce customarily base their
budget requirements at one
dollar per resident,” Mr. Craw
ford commented, “and that
would establish ours at approxi
mately $10,000.
‘The communnity needs an
active Chamber of Commerce
and many benefits can be de
rived from Chamber of Com
merce activities. Such an or
ganization serves the communi
ty in many different directions,
promoting the interests of all
groups, mercantile, industrial,
and civic.”
Organized about six years ago.
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce, though operating on
a limited budget with minimal
paid employees, has continually
fostered the development of the
community It was the sponsor
of Kings Mountain Business De
velopment, Inc., has distributed
hundreds of brochures to busi
ness leaders and school children
throughout the nation, and was
instrumental with the Mer
chants Association in fostering
the outdoor re-lighting project
now underway.
“There are many avenues in
which the community needs to
move for the benefit of all citi
zens,” M|r. Crawford said, “and
the Chamber of Commerce is
the agency to point the direc
tions.”
The projects committee will
make its report soon.
“Some projects undoubtedly
will be realizable soon, w hile
others may be continuing goals
requiring several years;” "Mr.
Crawford concluded.
Banes Says Assembly May Offer
School Construction Bond Vote
Though legislation is yet to be
.itroduced, there is a strong likll
iood that North Carolina citizens
nay get the opportunity to ap
prove or disspf' ove a $100 mil
lion dollar state bond issue for
local school construction.
This is the opinion of B. N.
Barnes, Kings Mountain superin
tendent of schools, following a
two-day meeting in Raleigh as
Southwestern NCEA district
member of the state schools’
superintendents policy committee.
Supt. Barnes said considerably
move sentiment was evidenced by
legislators for such a bond issue
than he W>d maifctiined.
All Cleveland Cbunty hoards
Ot education are on record as
foregoing the school construction
wS&SsU*-'**
Under the plan of allocation as
recommended by the policy com
mittee money would be allocated
on a growth ratio basis, rather
than on per capita enrollment,
as hM been the formula previous
ly employed.
Mr. Barnes said the allocation
formula is based on today’s en
rollment, plus enrollment gain
during the 1952-62 decade and
would provide the three Cleve
land County school units, Kings
Mountain, Shelby and county
districts, $1, MO, 11©, based on
16,960 pupils during the 1961-62
school year and with an enroll
ment gain during the period of
1742 pupils* , - . .. ,
It ipeaos that areas which
have been growing fastest will
get more funds than under the
pea* capita formula “ Supt. Bar
nes commented. •
Mr. Barnes noted that Kings
Mountain schools, in .view at the
locally approved boot issue for
state. However, he added, with
building costs higher than sev
eral years ag, the district would
have no difficulty utilizing any
additional coast ruction funds
which might become available. ..
KINGS MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL GIFT — Kings
Mountain Junior Women's club members present
ed a check to the Kings Mountain hospital Thurs
day as down payment on a new heart machine.
Making the presentation are from left club presi
dent Mrs. Jacob Dixon. Mrs. Charles Alexander,
chairman of the 1963 community service project.
Hospital Administrator Grady Howard and Mrs.
BUI Allen, club treasurer. Mr. Howard accepted
the gift on behalf of the hospital, (Herald Photo
by Truitt Moore)
New School Plans
Promised Monday
RE-ELECTED — Corbett Nichol
son has been re-elected captain of
the Cleveland County Life-Saving
and Rescue squad for 1963.64.
Nicholson Heads
Rescue Squad
Corbett Nicholson, former city
gas system superintendent, has
been re-elected captain of the
Cleveland County Life-Saving
and Rescue Squad.
Other officers elected for 1963
64 are George Lovelace, first
lieutenant, Doug Hullender and
Arthur Sprouse, second lieuten
ants, C. D. tRed ) Ware, Gene
Champion and George Carroll,
sergeants, and Delbert Dixon,
secretary - treasurer.
Stringfellow
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Thomas Wil
liam Stringfellow, 62, who died
suddenly last Wednesday of a
heart attack, were held Friday
afternoon at 4 p..m. from First
Wesleyan Methodist church of
which he was a member.
Mr. Stringfellow was a sec
tion fo eman for the State High
way Department.
He was a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Stringfellow.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mae Stewart Sttringfehow; one
son, Bobby Stringfellow, of
Kings Mountain; three sisters,
Mrs. Annie. Croaby. of FotpJSiU,
S. C, Mts, Frankie Ejidiiigs of
Rock HIH. S. Cfl aixUMrsfcetty
Mabry cl Blacksbjbrg, S. C..
and three - brothers, George
Stringfellow" of Shelby, Ernest
Stringfellow of Rock Hill, S. C.
and Raoadm StrtoffeUovr' of
Bl*ck*bu~g. •... % ' p_
Rev. J. W. Phillips, assisted
by Rev. Norman Fusey, officiat
ed at the final rites and inter
ment was made in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Baud To Get ^
Preliminary
School Plans
Architects for the new Kings
Mountain district high school
have informed school officials
they expect to show them pre
liminary plans fo rthe new plant
at Monday night’s meeting of the
board of education, Supt. B. N.
Barnes said Wednesday.
Supt. Barnes conferred with
the architects on Monday, or.
Tuesday visited Rutherford
county’s new East high school in
an effort to get additional infor
mation on desirable room sizes
and other data.
“The architects tell me com
pletion of the preliminary plans
is the tedious job and that, once
they are approved, remainder of
the architectural work can be
handled speedily.” Mr. Barnes
said. "Several preliminary draw
ings have been prepared and
scrapped entirely,” he said.
Both he an dthe architects an
ticipate a paring job will be nec
essary from the initial prelimi
nary plans to enable the limit
ing of cost to the confines ol
available monies.
The board of education has
bond issuance authority of $1,
100,000 and some reserves are
estimating the building will cost
about $11 per square foot.
However, he noted, building of
the high school plant alone :s
not the sole need for building
additions and improvements.
Mr. Barnes said the conference
with the architects is the p inci
pal item on Monday night’s a
genda, with numerous detailed
items, but the others largely
routine.
The architects are Fred Van
Wageningen and Thomas H.
Cothran, of Architects Associ
ated, Shelby.
ABF's Plan
Scoot Sabbath
Girl Scout Sabbath will be ob
served at Boyce Memorial ARP
church Sunday In a special pro
gram at 6:30 p. m.
The Girl Scouts will assist Dr.
W. L. Pressly, pastor, its the
evening service.
Forty • six girls are member.*
of the two troops sponsored by
the ARP church. Mrs. M. jSS
Philer, Mrs. D. L. Bennett and
Mrs. John White aire leaders of
Troop Ma 3 which numbers 38
members. The troop committee
If Mrs. L. T. Alexander and
Mrs. John White.
Mrs. John O. McGill and
-Mrs. Kenneth McGill are lead
ers dfBrownie T^roop 32 with 18
members. Troop committee for
the Brdwnfas includes Mrs. Gar
rison Goforth, Mrs. James E.
McKay and Dr. W. L. Pressly.
Parents of the Girl Scouts and
friends are invited to worship
with the ARP congregation.
junior women
Donate $150
For Defibrillator
The Kin„« Mountain Junior
Woman’s club has made a dona
tion of $150 on a new heart ma
chine, a defibrillator, for Kings
Mountain hospital.
Hospital Administrator Grady
I Howrd said the machine is de
signed to treat cardac standstills
and ventricular fibrillation in
stantaneously, both internal and
external.
The equipment is relatively
new on the market and the latest
in design, Mr. Howard noted. He
said the machine should prove
beneficial and in some instance
life saving in the treatment oi
patients with heart diseases.
Gift by the clubwomen, a
"downpayment” for the piece of
equipment, - already on order, is
the organization’s annual com
munity project.
Previously, the 23 - member
club has renovated the hospital
children’s ward and nursery, in
stalled a Moodmaster music sys
tem and furnished draperies for
the hospital plant.
“We aTe most appreciative to
"he Junici Woman’s club for their
gift to the hospital,’ Mr. Howard
said in announcing purchase of
the heart machine. Some memori
al contributions to the hospital
during Heart Month may be ap
plied to this project, he added.
Slimnastic Classes
Tc Start Monday
The Kings Mountain recrea
tion commission is sponso ing
a series of women’s slimnastic
classes beginnning Monday
morning at the Armory.
The classes will be held at
9 a.m.
Womc-it plannning to attend
should bring tennis shoes or
heavy socks. Bob Maner, mem
ber of the recreation commis
sion, said.
Dixon Candidacy
Poses Replay
Of '61 Campaign
By MARTIH HARMON
Mayor Kelly Dixon is seek
ing re-election to a second term.
The Mayor filed his candidacy
and paid the filing fee Wednes
day morning.
The candidiacy of Mayor Dix
on poses a re-match of the 1961
campaign, when Mr.. Dixon un-;
seated veteran (Mayor Glee A.
Bridges in a run-off election by
ihe margin of 116 votes out
of 2210 cast. Ex-Mayor E idges
filed his candidacy exactly a
month previously, on February
17.
Mir. Dixon’s candidacy was
the lone one of the past week.
J. E. (Zip) Rhea, Ward 5 com
missioner, has filed for re-elec
tion, and George H. Mauney has
filed as a candidate for the
Kings Mountain board of educa
tion.
Mayor Dixon said, “I am seek
ing another term because I am
interested in seeing through to
completion several projects now
underway. It has been a very
pleasant and rewarding two
years.” The Mayor mentioned
specifically the re - vamping of
the electrical system and the
outdoor re - lighting of the busi
ness district as projects he
wants to see completed.
Besides continuing city policy
of heavy attention to street im
provements, including paving,
curb-and-gutter and sidewalk in
stallations, the Dixon Adminis
tration also made a major ex
pansion of the natural gas dis
tribution system.
Mayor Dixon is a Kings Moun
a.n ouiia.ng contractor and lay
minister of the Baptist church.
Commenting on his church rela
tionships, Mr. Dixon laughed
that he was something of a hy
’■rid, having been born and rear
ed a Baptist, and having mar
ried a Methodist. .
Age 61, Mayor Dixon is a
Kings Mountain native. His fi- st
foray into politics was in I960
as Republican candidate fo
United States Represetative. The
following spring he entered the
mayoral campaign, the upcom
ing election marking his third
time to place his name on an
election ballot. .
The Mayor lives at 209 North
Siims street. Mrs. Dixon is the
forme- Blanche Patterson and
they have nine children (five
boys and four girls) and nine
grand-children.
Heart Fund
Up To $2728
Contributions to the Ki n g s
Mountain heart fund increased
to $2728 this week, Chairman L.
E. (Josh) Hlnnaant reported.
Mr. Hinnant said additional
pledges of donations are ki hand
and he hopes the final repor!
will show a total of at least
$3,000.
‘*1 am highly gratified at the
generous response to this worthy
appeal," Chairman Hinnant com
mented. I
Carolina Throwing Company Adds
1200 Spindles For Yam-Making
Hart Lyw XusmU,
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ef: 19 ! Smp
at tka Duke
Fbl Beta
«T scholastic Meittr. last week
in Durham. Mis* Bussell is dau
ghter of Nr. tma Mr* w. a. ru*
| Carolina Throwing Company |
complied installation last week [
of five machines, totaling 120 j
spindles, and increasing capacity i
of production to 20,000 pounds of !
stretch yarn per week.
W. K. Mauney, J.., secretary
treasurer, noted that the com-!
pany launched production in 1955 I
with a capacity of 3,000 pounds j
per week.
The new machinery, purchased
-rom Blackwelder Textile Com
pany, of Cherryvilie. raises the
number of spindles to 9,000.
The machines are capable of
producing both nylon and dacron
stretch yam, though the com
pany is currently manufacturing
nylon yam exclusively, Mr. Mau
ney- added.
Other officers of the company
are Carl F. Mauney, president,
and Howard B. Jackson, vice
president
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CANDIDATE — Mayor Kelly Dix
on will seek re-election to a sec
ond two-year term. The Mayor til
ed nciice of candidacy Wednes
day_
Dr. Gerberding
Defers Retiring
I>\ W. P. Gerberding, pastor
of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church will drier his projected
retirement until June 1, 1964, on
invitation of the chin, ch council
W. K. Mauney, Jr., chairman
of the council, said action to ask
Dr. Gerberding to defer his re*
ti.ement by 12 months was taken
at a council meeting on March
6.
Dr. Gerberding, just returned
Wednesday afto.noon from the
funeral of his sister, said he ap
preciated the action of the coun
cil and would accept the invi
tation.
Dr. Gerberding has been pastor
of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
j church since June 1851. He had
| ouceeded Rev. W. H. Stender.
Family Life
Seminal Here
Dr. Waite D. Smith, dean of
Wlnthrop college aL Rock Hill,
S. C., will launch tire first in
four Thursday night seminars on
family life and teen p. oblems
here beginning Thursday (to
night).
The program is open to the
community for both adults and
teenagers at o 8’clock in the
Kings Mountain high school audi
torium.
Born in Harriman, Tennessee,
Dr. Smith earned his B. A. de
gree from the University of
Michigan.
He joined the Winthrop faculty
from Florida State Univers.ty
where he was professor of psy
chology fro ml950-59.
A veteran of World War II, he
is a member of the American
Psychological Association, the
Southeastern Psychological As
sociation, the Society for Re
search in Child Development,
Phi Kappa Phi and the Rock.
Hill Kiwanis club.
He and his wife, the former
Rhonda Mliller, ace Presbyterians.
They are parents of two so: r,
Ian Douglas, and Walter Henry
Smith. .
3 jard To Call
May Elections
The board of city commission
ers will adopt the biennial elec
tion ordinance at Thursday
night's regular March meeting.
The ordinance embodies the
’resolution formally calling the
election and appointments of
election officials for the five in
city wards and three outside
city precincts.
The city commission is, by
law. the city elections board, and
also is the agency which con
ducts elections fo board of ed
ucation offices.
Another item on the agendfer
Includes a proposal for revamp*
ing city jail to preclude a re*
oaciurenqe of a prisoner frang
ing himseCfc; -J&layar Kelly Dix
oa said the proposal is tpreplace
the overhead bars in all ceKswtthi
a solid metal sheet.
A Grover youth hanged hfm>
self several weeks ago by at
taching the belt to an over-head
bar and jumping off the toilet
seat. ■
Other items on the agenda in
clude:
(1) Request for an extension
of East Gold street.
(2) Request for a mercury va~
vapor street light on Park circle.
(3) Decision on trade of one
police car.