Population
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Vol. 74 No. 15
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday April I I, 1963
Seventy-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CEN»
All - New City, School Board Registration To Start
City Likely To Pledge Sewage Treatment
New Facilities
Would Be In Use
By January '67
By MARTIN HAHMON
The city commission will con
sider Thursday night application
for temporary permit to continue
contaminating three streams with
sewage — together with com
mitment to discontinue the con
tamination not later than Janu
ary 1, 1967.
The commitment to discontinue
contamination of King’s Creek,
Beason’s Creek, and Pilot Branch
(Nebo Creek) will pledge the city
to replace four over-loaded and
defectively operating Imhoff-type
sewage outfalls, known as the
Ware tank, Mauney tank, and
King’s Creek tanks numbers 1
and 2, with a modern sewage dis
posal system.
Other commitments involved
are: 1) the city will receive en
gineering reports and plans not
later than April 1, 1965, and 2)
construction of a modern sewage
disposal plant to serve the west
ern portion of the city will be
gin not later than January 1,
1966.
Mayor Kelly Dixon says that
.the city’s engineers, W. K. Dick
son & Company, of Charlotte, has
not attempted even a round -
figure estimate of potential cost
of a new sewage disposal sys
tem. However, the Mayor added,
the engineers envision one large
disposal plant to serve the whole
area as both feasible and cheap
er to operate.
Under North Carolina, Mayor
Dixon adds, Ithe city has little
choice but to make the clean-up
commitment.
)
Several years ago the General
Assembly created the Department
of Water Resources state stream
sanitation committee, with a
long-term approach to assuring
the state of adequate water re
sources for the future.
Exhaustive studies were made
of all the state’s water basins
and public hearings were con
ducted last year. In line with
these reports, the City of Kings
Mountain, for instance, staked a
claim to Buffalo Creek as a future
source of water. The reports also
included requirements for even
tual decontamination of fresh
water streams now being con
taminated by domestic sewage,
industrial waste and other harm
ful affluents.
The City, in 1954-55, built a
modern sewage plant to serve
eastern Kings Mountain on Mc
Gill Creek, which is a component
of the Catawba River basin.
The three streams now heing
polluted by Kings Mountain
waste are in the Broad River ba
sin.
St. Luke's
Easter Story
Now upon the first day of the
week, very early in the morning,
they came to the sepulchre, bring
ing the spices which they had
prepared, and certain others 'with
them.
And they Sound the stone roll
ed away from the sepulchre.
And they entered in, and found
not the body of the Lord Jesus.
And if came to pass, as they
were much perplexed thereabout,
behold, two men stood by them
in shining garments;
And as they were afraid, and
bowed down their faces to the
earth, they said unto them, Why
seek ye the living among the
dead?
He is not here, but is risen: re
member how he spake unto you
when he was yet in Galilee.
Saying, The Son of man must
be delivered into the hands of sin
ful men, and be crucified, and the
third day rise again.
And they remembered his
Words.
And returned from the sepul
chre, and told all these things
unto the eleven and to all the
rest. (Bt. Lube ' :
NEW DIRECTORY V;
A new telephone directory 1#
being compiled Jor Kings- Moun
tain; Frank Osborne and Rodney
Hutchinson are in twdn thiswedt
working on the compilation arid
advertising of the directory. 'This
directory will be correc ted
through June 35 and will be de
livered to customers on July 31.
Glenn Campbell
C of C Secretary
Merchants.
C of C Plan
To Share Office
Captain Harold Glenn Camp
bell, 35-year veiteran of fire sea
who has adopted Kings Mountain
as his home, is secretary of
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce.
President J. Wilson Crawford
announced the appointment of
Capt. Campbell following a board
of directors meeting this week.
The Chamber of Commerce offi
cial has already assumed his du
ties.
“In fact,” President Crawford
said, “he was at work before the
board made the appointment of
ficial.”
“Captain Campbell declined to
accept the initial proffer of the
Chamber of Commerce as too
high and, indeed, is working for
a quite nomial Stipend,” Presi
dent Crawford added. “I speak
for the board of directors and my
self personally in feeling that we
are most fortunate in obtaining
the services of Captain Campbell
as the organization’s chief execu
tive officer.”
Action by the board was taken
on recommendation by a special
committee headed by Grady
Howard.
Concurrently, it was announc
ed that the Chamber of Com
merce and Merchants Association
have reached an agreement
whereby the two organizations
will share office space in a main
street location.
The Howard committee also
was assigned the task of recom
mending main street office space
and expects to make a recom
mendation in the near future,
President Crawford added.
Secretary Campbell comment
ed, “I feel Kings Mountain needs
an active Chamber of Commerce.
The citizens who have lived here,
either all their lives or for many
years, have invited me to work
with them, and I pledge to do
the best job I can with the tools
I have.”
Capt. Campbell, his wife and
daughter live at 204 Victoria Cir
cle.
MONDAY FIRECALLS
City firemen received two fire
calls Monday. The first was to
the Kings Mountain Farm Center
where a light fixture had ignit
ed and the second to Boyce
Ware’s to extinguish a grass fire.
No damage was reported.
WINS PROMOTION — Charles B.
Wright, veteran of 14 years ser
vice in the Armed Forces, has
been promoted to Chief Warrant
Officer while serving in Germany.
Son of Mrs. Rosa B. Wright of
Kings Mountain, he is assistant
neudear officer. His address: Hq.
543th USA Arty. Group, APO 403.
c/o Postmaster. New York.
School Plans
Work Continues
Plans for the proposed new
Kings (Mountain high school,
showing changes in line with
suggestions of state officials
March 29, were dispatched to Ra
leigh this week for further study
by members of the Division of
School Planning.
School architects, after confer
ring with Marvin Johnson, De- j
sign Consultant, altered the for- j
.mer plans to allow for easier j
movement of students within the
school building.
Johnson is to review the revis
ed plans and make further sug-|
gestions, if any, to the school ar-i
chitects.
F, W. Plonk, chairman of the
board of education, told the Her
ald Wednesday that he antici
pates floor plans for the new
school will be completed within
two weeks.
Superintendent B. N. Barnes, |
in Raleigh this<week, is expected
in regard to the proposed new
to also confer with state officials
school.
CHURCH SERVICES
Morning worship services dur
ing the month of April will be
broadcast via Radio Station WK
MT from Kings Mountain Bap
tist church.
Raines Will Deliver Community s
Annual Easter Sunrise Sermon
A large segment of Kings
Mountain is expected to gather
at Mountain Rest cemetery Sun
day morning for the annual com
munity-wide Blaster Sunrise Ser
vice, which will 'begin with a
prelude of Easter music at 6 O’
Clock.
The traditional service is under
sponsorship of the Kings Moun
tain Ministerial Association.
Rev. B. L. Raines, pastor of
First Baptist church, will deliver
the Easter sermon and other
ministers of the community will
participate on the program.
Rev. Marion DtfBose, president
Traffic Directions
Citizens amending the Easter |
Sunrise Service are asked to en
ter the cemetery via the Suber
Gate or Billing Street entrances.
Boy Scouts from Troop 91 will
direct traffic. In event of rain,
: the servjge will be canceled,
of the M3i»lSrer'r*gr»ap, will lead
the responsive call to worship
and Rev." Lewis McGaha will say
the invocation. The congregation
twill sing, “Christ the Lord Is
Risen Today" and Rev. H. Q.
Clayton will read the scrlpture.
ReV.J. W. Phillips will offer the
‘ morning prayer and combined
choirs, under direction of Allen
Jolley and Mrs. J. N. McClure,
SPEAKER — Rev. B. L. Rcdnes,
pastor of First Baptist church,
will deliver the Easter sermon at
the community-wide Sunrise Ser
vice Sundny at 6 aan. at Moun
tain Rest cemetery.
will sing the anthem, “Rejoice
the Lord Is King.” Rev. George
Julian will pronounce the ben
diction.
Mr. DuBose, chairman of the
Kings 'Mountain Ministerial As
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Church Rites
Highlight Easter
Observance Here
Traditional Holy Week services
will culminate here with tradi
tional Easter Sunday services.
Maundy Thursday evening
communion services will be held
at Resurrection and St. Mat
thew’s Lutheran churches, Boyce
Memorial ARP and First Presby
terian churches, among others.
Some churches have scheduled
special services on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday evenings.
A three-hour Good Friday ser
vice of meditations from the
“Seven Last Words” of Jesus
will be held from 12 noon until
3 p.m. at Resurrection Lutheran
church. Rev. George Moore will
lead the service which will also
include special music by the
Youth and Senior choirs.
There will be two Easter Sun
rise services. One is the tradition
al community-wide service to be
held at 6 a.m. at Mountain Rest
cemetery and sponsored by the
Ministerial Association. Resurrec
tion Lutheran church will hold a
6 a.m. service at the church in
Crescent Hill with a congrega
tional breakfast to follow.
School pupils will enjoy a holi
day weekend, with classes sus
pending Thursday and Monday
and resuming Tuesday morning.
Majority of retail merchants,
along with financial institutions,
will be closed on Easter Monday,
a traditional holiday.
-lA ■■ .--it
Three Nominees
For legion Post
Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., veteran
adjutant, Richard (Dick) McGin
nis and John Dilling are nomi
nees for commander of Otis D.
Green Poet 155, American Legion.
Mr. McDaniel is the nominat
ing committee nominee.
Nominees for the five - member
executive committee are Gene
Gibson, Gene Wright, J. T. Mc
Ginnis, Jr., Ray Howell and
James Bennett, all nominees of
the nominating committee, and
John Gladden, T. W. Bryant, Bob
Smith, W. D. Morrison and David
Delevie, nominated from the
floor.
Other nominees of the nominat
ing committee, which included W.
D. Morrison, chairman, Glee A.
Bridges, J. Ollie Harris, and
Charles E. Dixon, are unopposed.
They include:
Carl Wilson, first vice-com
mander; Carl Weisener, second
vice - commander; Wesley Bush,
adjutant; Franklin Ware, chap
lain; Frank Blanton, sergeant -
at - arms; John Weaver, histori
an; Grady Howard, service offi
cer, and scholarship fund offic
ers, Glee A. Bridges and Charles
E. Dixon.
The voting will be conducted
on Friday, May 3.
Mayoi Will Ask
Ten More lights
Mayor Kelly Dixon will recom
mend to the city commission
Thursday night immediate pur
chase and installation of ten ad
ditional outdoor lighting units.
‘‘Public approval of the ten
units put in use last weekend
has been even more than antici
pated,” Mr. Dixon said. ‘Ten
more units will require about $5,
000 and the money appears to be
available.”
Should the commission honor
the mayoral recommendation, the
effect will be a speed-up of the
initially planned long-range pro
gram to provide adequate out
door lighting, first in the business
area, and subsequently .through
out the city.
Retailer's Easter
Schedule Given
Kings Mountain retail mer
chants will be closed on Easter
Monday, according to by-laws of
the association.
Most Kings Mountain grocers
were open all day Wednesday.
They will resume the half-day
Wednesday closing schedule next
week.
Offices of the savings and loan
association*, city offices and
bank will also be closed. The
postoffice will be open.
Goforth, Plonk
Seek Re-Election
CANDIDATES — Eugene Goforth,
above. Ward 2 city commissioner,
and Fred W. Plonk, school trus
tee. are seeking re-election on
May 14.
Jackson Damage
Award $7300
A Cleveland County Superior
Court jury last week awarded
Howard B. Jackson $7,500 in dam
ages as a result of a boating ac
cident on the inland waterway in
the summer of 1960.
Defendant in the litigation for
$50,000 was W. K. Mauney, Jr.,
and Carolina Throwing Company,
Inc.
Question answered by the jury
affirmatively was whether Mr.
Mauney, at the time of the acci
dent, was acting in the capacity
of an employee or agent of Caro
lina Throwing Company, of
which he is secretary-treasurer.
All parties agreed that plain
tiff was injured in the boating
accident.
Attorneys for defendant enter
ed notice of appeal to the North
Carolina Supreme Court. Clerk of
Court J. W. Osborne said the ap
peal would be heard by the high
| court at a date to be set.
Errant Bullet
Creases Hair
A Kings Mountain citizen—
a lady — reports a harrowing
experience recently.
Stepping out of her home en
route to work, she relates, “A
bullet creased my hair, liter
ally.” The cartridge imbedded
itself in a tree in a neighbor’s
yard.
"It’s good I wasn’t wearing
high heels that morning.”
Declining to identify herself,
she said she reported the inci
dent in the hope that hunters
and target practicers will be
more careful with their fire.
The lady lives about two
blocks from the southside city
limits.
Discharging weapons <*f any
kind, .including rifles, is il
legal within thflrflty limits.
4 group of Kings Mountain stu
dent* beaded by Bill Herndon
and Joey Ijedden conducted a
day for benefit of the Kings
Mountain Easter Seal Drive for
crippled children and adults. Ov
er $100 was raised.
Mayor, Ward 4
Only Positions
Yet Contested
Eugene Goforth is seeking re
election to a second term as Ward
2 city commissioner and Fred W.
Plonk is seeking a third term as
a member of the Kings Moun
tain school district board of edu
cation.
Both paid their filing fees Wed
nesday.
Filing by the two incumbents
means that at least one candi
date seeks all elective offices to
be filled at the May 14 city and
school district elections.
To date, only two contests have
developed, both for city offices.
Ex-Mayor Glee A. Bridges
seeks to regain the position he
lost two years ago in a comeback
attempt against Mayor Kelly
Dixon, and Paul W. Ledford, for
mer commissioner, and Norman
King are candidates for Waid 4
commissioner to succeed Comm.
Ben H. Bridges, who is retiring.
Mr. Goforth won the ward 2
position in a close nun-off elect
ion with then-Comm. Boyce Gault
in 1961. He is an employee of
Lithium Corporation of America
and part-time painting contrac
tor. A onetime professional base
ball player, he is a veteran of
World War II, having served
overseas with an army ordinance
unit. He is a member of Central
Methodist church.
Mr. Plonk, currently chairman |
of the board of education, was e
leeted to the board in 1951, de
feating W. J. Fulkerson. He had
no opposition for re-election six
years ago. An oil distributor, he
is a former auto dealer. A gradu
ate of North Carolina State col
lege, he is a member of Resurrec
tion Lutheran church.
Otherwise political activity con
tinued quiet during the past week.
Last day for filing for office
is April 29.
The candidates to date;
For Mayor—Kelly Dixon, in
cumbent, and Glee A. Bridges.
For Ward 1 Commissioner —
Ray W. Cline, incumbent.
For Ward 2 Commissioner —
Eugene Goforth, incumbent.
For Ward 3 Commissioner--T.
J. (Tommy) Ellison, incumbent.
For Ward 4 Commissioner —
Norman King and Paul W. Led
ford.
For Ward 5 Commissioner—J.
E. (Zip) Rhea.
For Board of Education trustee
Fred W. Plonk, incumbent,
George H. Mauney.
Monday Deadline
For Tax Returns
Easter Monday is also dead
line day on filing of 1962 in
come tax reports, both federal
and state.
Penalties are provided for
late filing or for failure to file.
It is also deadline day for
filing North Carolina intangi
bles tax returns.
RECIPIENT — Stephen M. Kesler
is recipient of a fellowship for
graduate study in the earth sci
ences from the National Science
Foundation.
Kesler Wins
NSF Fellowship
Stephen M. Kesler, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas L. Kesler of
Kings Mountain, is one of 103
Stanford University students a
warded fellowships for graduate
study by the National Science
Foundation.
The foundation has awarded a
total of 1,889 graduate fellowships
to students throughout the na
tion. They were chosen from
6,122 applicants.
The fellows will receive stip
ends varying from $1,800 to
$2,200 over a period of a year,
plus additional allowances for
tuition, fees, and limited travel.
Kesler, in his first year of
graduate study at Stanford, Calif
ornia, is a graduate of the Uni
versity' of North Carolina. His
fellowship is for further graduate
study in the earth sciences.
Cancel Workers
Are Announced
'Mrs. George B. Thomasson,
chairman of the 1933 Kings Moun
tain cancer crusade, has complet
ed appointment of committee
workers for the month-long fund
raising effort.
The volunteer workers will con
duct a house-.o-house canvass ol
the following listed streets. Per
sons not contacted may forward
donations to Mrs. Thomasson at
405 Phifer road.
Complete list of solicitors in
clude:
'Mrs Gene Timms, Crescent
Hill; Mrs. Fred Withers, L n
wood; Mrs. Bessie Dickey Beam,
East King and Dilling; Mrs. Joe
Neisler, Jr., Phifer road and
Landing; Mrs Nathan Heed,
Edgemont; Mrs. Mary Campbell,
Country Club Road: Mrs. D. L.
Bennett, Gold St.; 'Mrs. William
Herndon, West King; Mrs. A. J.
Slater, Fulton and Maner roads;
Mrs. Fred Weaver, Juniper; Mrs.
J. T. McGinnis, Sims; Miss Mar
garet Harmon, Goforth; 'Mrs. Bill
Allen, Gaston; Mrs. E. R. Rob
erts, N. Piedmont avenue; Mrs.
G. C. Smith, Central Piedmont
Avenue; Mrs. O. W. Mye s, S.
Piedmont avenue; Mrs. W. L.
Mauney, W. Mountain street;
Mrs. Lawrence Burton, Parker;
Mrs. Ben H. Goforth, Shelby
road; Mrs. W. B. Grimes, Ridge
St.; Mrs. J. V. Pressley,, Battle
ground Avenue; Mrs. Sam Ho
well, Deal; Paul Ledford, Mrs.
Buck Allran, Wells St.; (Mrs.
Lee Roberts, Watterson; Mrs. D.
W. Whitesides and Mrs. Salmons
Church and Boyce; Mrs. Verlee
Roberts, Negro division; Warren
Byars, Compact community.
Foote Posts Ftve-Cents Wage Hike
Following Five-Year Safety Recjrd
Foote Mineral Company has I
raised wages of all hourly rated |
employees by five cents per hour. |
Neil O. Johnson, manager of
the Kings Mountain operation, j
made the announcement follow-!
ing a company gathering last I
Friday at which the firm cele
brated recent compilation of a
five-year record in which no loss
time accidents were suffered.
Here to commend employees
on the accident-free record, com
piled between February 12, 1958,
and February 12, 1P»3, were L.
G. Bliss, Foote president, and E.
P. Comer, director of industrial
■relations.
President Bliss presented Mr.
Johnson a certificate of achieve
ment from the Manufacturing
Chemists’ association.
Mr. Johnson noted that the
chemists’ award, together with
prior ones received from the i
North Carolina Department of !
Labor , United States Bureau of
'Mines, National Safety council,
and Liberty Mutual Insurance
company, attest the "outstanding
safety record of this organiza
tion.”
Mr. Johnson added that North
Carolina statistics on safety in
dicate there would normally
have been 17 lost-time accidents
during the five-year period.
The wage increase is retroac
tive to April 1.
Registrars Gpen
Brand New Books
All Precincts
Registration books will' open at
eight precincts Saturday for the
May 14 city and board of educa
tion elections.
The city commission — the
state-constituted elections board
for biennial city and school trus
tee elections — has ordere.d «m i
all-new registration, first simfi
1939.
Every citizen who expects to
cast a ballot on May 14 must
register.
City Attorney J. R. Davis not
ed this week, on query, that the
so-called “Grandfather lause’’
law respecting voting concerns
only qualifications for voting,
and that no person legally can
cast a ballot unless his or her
name is on the new pollbooks.
Election officials also remind
ed that locations of three in-city
precincts have been changed.
Ward 2 voters, since 1939 voting
outride the bounds of their own
ward at City Hall courtroom, will
l register and vote at .the American
Legion building on West Gold
street Ward 3 voters, formerly
voting at Frank Ballard’s store,
will register and vote at East
school. Ward 5 voters, formerly
voting at East school, will regis
ter and vote at the new National
Guftrd armory on Phifer road.
Other precincts remain un
changed, Ward 1 at City Hall,
and W'ard 4 at Kings Mountain
Manufacturing Company club
room on Waco road.
At three outside - city precincts,
voters wil help determine only
the election of two members of
the board of education.
At Grover fire station, citizens
of the county’s Grover precinct
esiding within the school district
will register and vote. At Park
Grace school, ctizens living in
he Park Grace - Compact sec
ions of the school district will
egister and vote. At Bethwaie
school, Bethware area citizens of
the school district and all oiher
citizens within the school dis
trict but outside the city limits
I will register and vo e.
Because of the new registra
| “on. the registration period will
he one week longer than is eus
! tomary, with registration continu
j mg through May 11. The regis
trars will be at the precincts each
Saturday from 9 am. until sun
set. Citizens may register at other
times during the April 13-May 11
period at the convenience of the
registrars.
Saturday, May 11, will also be
challenge day.
Electrical Bids
Likely May 2
The city expects to receive bids
on the estimated $135,000 re -
vamping of its electrical distribu
tion system on May 2, Mayer
Kelly Dixon said Wednesday.
According to the plans, specifi
cations and time schedule pre
pared by Southeastern Construc
tion Engineers, the city would be
In position to let contract at its
regular May 9 meeting.
The bid instructions’ call for
bids to be placed on two incre
ments: 1) for installation of
switchgear equipment near vhc
Duke Power company sub-station;
and 2t for distribution line re
building, including up - building
of primary lines from 2400 to 4100.
volts.
Swtchgear equipment is now
being manufactured by General
Electric Company and is schedul
ed for shipment about July 1. It
will be installed on a lot on Gas
ton street already purchased by
the city from Melton Hope.
While the engineering esti
mates for the complete job ap
proximated $135,000, the switch
gear equipment will cost about
$15,000 less than the $40,000.
Some $3,000 of this “saving” is
being spent currently with Davey
Tree Company, for tree-pruning
along power lind rights-of-way.
Lions Launch
Broom Sale
(Members of the Kings Moun
tain Lions club are conducting
their annual broom sale for bene
fit of the blind.
Household brooms of good q a
lity are being offered at the tra
ditional price of $1.50.
Proceeds are used toy the Lions
club for sight conservation work
and aid to the needy blind.
Committee in charge Includes
Qdus Smith, chairman, w. D.
Bennett, and W. K. Mauney, JY.
All members of the club are m
the sales team.