Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
nt* figure tat greater King* Mountain U derived (ram
Mountain city directory tensile. The city
Umits figure Is from the United States censes ad ISSO.
Vol. 74 No. 16
14
Pages
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
DELEGATES — Joan McClure,
top dbove, and Virginia Goiarth
are delegates from the American
Legion Auxiliary to Tar Heel
Girls' State to b9 held June 16-22.
Girts'State
T>-i
Delegates Named
Miss Joan McClure and IvtiSi
Virginia Goforth, rising rigjv *
school seniors, have been n»"
delegates from The Aro*" ined
glon Auxiliary to '1'
.ican Le
.ar Heel Girls’
State this su^tmer
(•;* «• M. Rhea, chairman of
the Gi^^s state committee from
Oti% D. Green Post 155 of the Au
xiliary, made the announcement
this week.
Miss McClure is a daughter ofl
Mr. and Mrs, J. N. McClure and
Miss Goforth is a daughter- of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gofopth, all
of Kings Mountain.
Tar Heel Girls’ state will be
held June 16-22 Q.>l campus of
Woman’s Collie of the Univer
sity of ffp- ^ Carolina. GirlS
State dcjr gates are selected an
nually > Legi0n Auxiliary pbsts
to et together in a week’s pro
gp?’
m
that will bring together
.any of North Carolina’s out
standing students.
Both Miss McClure and Miss
Goforth are active in community,
church and school affairs and
participate in a number of extra
curricular activities-.
Local News
| Bulletins
I
CORRESP&WJfiNT .
Mrs. Gene Turner is serving as
Grover corresponded for the Her
ald. Grover citizens may contact
Mrs. Turner at her horde in Grov
er for reporting of -news of inter
est to area citizens.' Mrs. Turner,
a Grover native, is'the former
Martha Hicks.
TO TENNESSEE
t>r. \w. L- Pressly, pastor of
• Boyce Mernorial ARP church, is
in Brighton,- term, this week con
1 ducting evangelistic services for
• Hev/Palmer Steele. D. L. M. AJ
■ lison ' deart of Erskine Theologi
' tal Semindry. ^iH fill the PulPu
; at Sandajt services
firecalls
' City firemen answered calls to
’■ two tirp$ during the past week.
Tuesday, they were summoned to
Slater Mill to extinguish a fire
tViat erupted inside the plant.
Wednesday the call was to douse
f • .» i_x rtnH in /anA
a. flame that had started in one
0 of the city garbage trucks. Darn
’ages at Slater were undetermined
, and the truck damages were
slight.
SENIOR CITIZENS
The Senior Citizens club will
gather for regular meeting Fri
day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the
Woman's club,
METER receipts
Parking fneter receipts for the
week ending Wednesday totaled
$212.25, including $138.30 from
on- .* street meters, $49 in over •■
parking fees, and $3495 from off
street meters. City Clerk toe Mc
Daniel reported.
559 Registered
On New Pollbooks
Registrars rf <•
Listed 460
Within City
The all-new registration lor the
May 14 city and board of educa
tion elections began Saturday
with more than 550 persons al
ready listed on the new poll
books.
The five wards within the city
had registrations of 480 regis
trars reported, while the three
outside city precincts listed 79
voters.
Registrars will be at the eight
polling places again Saturday,
from 9 a. m. to sunset.
Meantime, majority of regis
trars report they are adding
names as would-be voters visit
their homes.
The registration period con
tinues through May 9, an extra
registration week permitted by
law and ordered due to the fact
the all-new registration was call
ed.
Most brisk activity thus far is
in large Ward 5, where Mrs. J.
T. McGinnis, Jr., reported 207
visited the National Guard Ar
mory to register. _
'Mrs. Paul Cole reported 95 have
registered in Ward 4.
Other reports: Ward 1, C. L.
Black, registrar, 60; Ward 2, ff.
D. Goforth registrar, 55; Ward
3, Mrs. Ruth Bowers registrar.
63; Grover, Mrs. J. B. Ellis regis
trar, 50; Bethware, Mr» Wfil
Watterson, regi*^ 19. ,va‘“d
GtftC® Mrs. James Clonin
‘"egistrar, 10.
State law fifovides that the
Kings Mountain City commission
serve as the elections board for
conducting the city and board of
education elections,
In-city citizens Will get both
ballots on. election day, while til?
voters outside the city, but within
the 't»undaries of the school dis
trict will take part in the school
tfb&rd voting.
The in-city books has been in
use since 1939 and exaft number
of valid names ©A the old books
was not kttowh.
Political observers guess that
in-city eligible voters total a min
imum Of 4,000 persons, guess rcg
iStration totals may top 3,000.
Mote than 2200 persons cast
[ballots in both the Initial and
run-off city election in 1961.
City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr-.,
who serves ex officio as tAerk
of the felecitons board, reminded
again this week, “All persons who
expect to vote must register."
He also reminded of three pre
cinct location chafes within the
city; Ward 2 is now at the Amer
ican Legion building, Ward 3 at
East school, and Ward 5 at the
armory. .
dab To Stage
Talent Show
Kings Mountain Kiwanis club
will stage the sixth annual ta
lent show on Thursday May 9th
at 8 p.m. in Central auditorium.
Proceeds will support the club’s
community projects.
All students ol the Kings Moun
tain schools are eligible to parti
cipate in the program.
“We invite anyone or any
group of boys and girls to pre
sent your talent”, a spokesman
Continued On Page Eight
PRESIDENT — Conway Jolly, for
merly of Kings Mountain, has
been elected president of the stu
dent body at Western Carolina
college where he is a rising
senior.
Jolly Heads
WCC Students
'donway Jolly of Rutherfordton,
formerly of Kings Mountain, was
elected president of the student
body at Western Carolina college
in Sampus-wlde elections held
Thursday following a period of
heavy campaignihg.
&»ll& /21;, ft a rising senior
majoring in business administra
tion 'ana psychology. A I960 grad*
uate.. of Rutherfordton-Spindale
Central high School, he is thO son
of Mr. ana Mrs. Clyde At. Jolly
of Ruthevfccdtdft. TTtfc Jcllys arc
fWtftOr residents ttf Kings Moun
tain. He is grandson of Mrs. J.
<2. Jolly antoAlrs. C. J. Gault of
Kings Mountain.
M VfcC, Jolly lg president of
M Society for Advancement of
Management, in which he previ
ously served as vice-president; he
is president of the Junior class,
ex officio member of the Student
Senate, a counselor for freshman
boys, and formerly alumni direc
tor and treasurer of Theta Xi
Fraternity.
Students Cop ,
West Medals
Sixth grader 'Cathy Hardin,
daughter of Mr. ahd Mrs. Ken
neth Hardin, and. fifth grader
John Ballew, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Ballew, are winners of the
annual reading and'declamation
contests held at West school.
Miss Hardin will receive the-P
TA reading medal and Ballew
will receive the R. L. Mauney
declamation medal. Titles of the
winning entries were “The Etern
al Engraving” and "Visiting With
Vesta.”
Students competed for the
awards In contests held before
members of the West sdhool Par
ent-Teacher Association Tuesday
night. A group of judges selected
the winners.
Others participating in the
readin gcontest wore Sara Beth
Simpson and Mary Ann Bennett
and in the declamation contest
others participating were Douglas
Sessoms and Steve Sisk.
City Finances: Income Expected
To Top $761,621 Budget Estimate
By MARTIN HARMON
The City of Kings Mountain ap
parently will have receipts this
fiscal year greater than the $761
621, anticipated when the budget
was adopted last summer, mean
while spending less than that
amount. ,
With three-quarters hi the
| year completed March <fl, the re
1 port oi City Clerk Jbb McDaniel,
| j,r., shows that receipts through
! that date totaled $6&,744, while
expenditures had totaled $538,
06K
No less than seveh receipts cat
egories already show more in
come than -was expected, rartging
from $28 for purchase of city
auto tags to $4904 in 1962 ad va
lorem tax Collections. Other ma
jor excess collection was $4470
labeled miscellaneous receipts,
major potion representing the
city’s -rebate hn state sales tax.
which had not been budgeted.
Other revenue items showing
ove ^collections t hr o ugh n i ne
months iricfudW: $328. in prior
year faxes, $263 in privilege lic
enses, $123 In court ‘costs, and
$1002 in Powell Bill street funds.
In the expense division, no ac
count was over-spent and it ap
peared that majority of these ac
counts would be close to budget
estimates. In departmental ac
counts, police department opera
tion probably will require slight
ly more than the $6557 budgeted
amount remaining, Mr. 'McDaniel
said.
Thus far considerably under
spent is the approximately $175,
000 figure budgeted for capital
Improvements, with about $80,000
remaining. However, the city has
contracted for spending about
$45,000 from this fund, including
the switchgear equipment in the
electrical rebuilding program,
about $5.00 for the city stadium
| field house, and about $10,000 for
' outdoor street lighting.
' Big income producer is sale ol
utilities, budgeted for the year at
$4354)00, well over half the city
■ budget. Through March, total re
! cepits from utilities were $339,
j 582, leaving only $85,417 required
1 to balance the guess of last June.
Roxfoid Road
Citizens Want
Inside City
A group of Rockford road prop
erty owners petitioned the city
for annexation at last week’s city
commission session.
The section, which is adjacent
to the city limits, fronts about
950 feet on Roxford road and
would move the city's boundary
line 200 feet west.
Area involved is about 4.3 ac
res.
Coucurrently, James A. Ly
brand and W. B. McDaniel, who
presented the petition in tyehalf
of owners of nine lots, also pre
sented a petition for paving of
Roxford road (within the city),
with this petition approved when
funds are available.
The commission voted to accept
the annexation petition subject to
legal formalities, with annexation
action planned for May.
Several months ago the city an
nexed a small area in East Kings
Mountain lying in Gaston county
and in 1960 annexed the western
area known as Country Club es
tates, both areas on petition of
property owners.
The commission named two
new judges for the May 14 elec
tion.
Mrs. W. W. McCarter was
named a judge for the Grover
precinct, replacing Mrs. James
Scruggs, and William A Wright
at Bethware, replacing Leonard
Gamble. Both Mrs. Scruggs and
Mr, Gamble had declined appoint
ment. •*''
pie board also!
■ P Approved Xt*»£{er of a taxi
frdnehisfc from Bill Whetstine to
Clttfk Rushing and Bonnie Bur
ton.
Zy Approved, within limits of
available supplies, a long list of
requests for installation of street
lights,
3l Approved, when funds are
Available, a petition to install
curb and gutter on Groves street.
4) Deferred for the upcoming
fiscal year suggestion by Comm.
T. J. Ellison to make a survey of
needs for improved fire protec
tion in the Linwood section.
5) Voting to ban parking in
the ten-foot alley serving the bus
iness section between Mountain
j and Gold streets.
Kiwanis To Hear
Duke Official
W. J. (Bill) Burton, Dufce Pow
fer Company public 'relat ions man
ager, will address members of
the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club
at their Thursday night meeting.
Mr. Burton Will discuss possible
effects on the business community
which might result from continu
ing steps toward federalization of
the electric power industry.
Mr. Burton is a native of Co
lumbus, Ga., and a graduate of
Clemsori College. He joined Duke
Power Company in 1934 as a
draftsman, spent more than four
years in the army in World War
II, and held various positions
With Duke before assuming his
present duties last year.
The club convenes at the Wom
an’s Club at 6:45.
R. S. Lennon arranged the pro
gram.
Biles Conducted
For Mrs. Ware, 87
Funeral rites for Mrs. Swanora
Ware, 87, widow of William P-es
ton Ware, were held Wednesday
afternoon at 4 p.m. from Harr7
Funeral Home Chapel.
Rev. Richard Plyler officiated
at the final rites and interment
was made in Patterson Grove
cemetery.
Mrs. Ware died Monday hight
in the Kings Mountain hospital
after an ill n e s s of several
months. She was a member of
Boyce Memorial ARB church.
Surviving are three sons, Otto
Ware, and Lawrence Ware, both
of Kings Mountain, and Hunter
Ware of Wilmington; two daugh
ters, Miss Bessie Ware and 'Mrs.
Benton Putnam, both of Kings
Mountain; 13 grandchildren, 23
great - grandchildren and one
grandchild.
Pie-School
Clinics Begfri i
Schedule of 'pre-school clinics
at the various school 'plants !n
the Kings Mountain area in
cludes:
j Park Grace: Tuesday, April 23*
9 a.rh. ih the fellowship f/ ll of
Macedonia baptist chupch.
Cdlhpact; Tuesday, April 23,
11 a:ih. at Compact schocil.
■Bast: Thursday, April 25, 9 a.
m. in .the educational building of
Grace'Methodist church.
West: Thursday, April 25, rt
1:30 p,m. In the educational build
ing of Central Methodist church.
I North : April 30th at 9 a.m. in
! the health room of North school
City Pledges Sewage Disposal
Facilities By January 1,1967
WINS FELLOWSHIP — Gene
Mauney has won a National Sci
ence Foundation Fellowship for
further study this summer at
Louisiana State University.
Mauney Wins -
NFS Fellowship
€tehe Mauney, sort of fvif. nnd
Mrs: Aiubre^ Mauney of Kings
Mountain, has been awarded a
National Science Foundation fel
lowship for nine-weeks study
this summer at Louisiana State
University at Baton Rouge.
Mr. Mauney will receive a stip
end of over $1,000,
A graduate of Lenoir RHyn£
college at HiekOTy, he did furlne.
study at N. C. State coH&gfc. He
has tiVlght for three in he
Burlington school intern and
will be a menrrt^ Uf the high
school faculty at the Greensboro
city schools tki> 'fall.
Mrs. Martfiey is the former Ma
rie Aberfia-thy of Burlington. The
Mauneys have two children.
School nans
Woik Continues
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
discussed plans for the proposed
new Kings Mountain high school
with state school officials on two
occasions last week and hopes to
return to Raleigh this week ten
further discussion of the plans
for the structure to be built on
the Phifer Road site.
Supt. Barnes discussed present
plans Wednesday with Marvin
Johnson, design consultant for
the Division of School Planning,
and on Friday conferred with
Johnson, Johnson’s assistant and
Dr. Dwayne Gardner, educational
consultant.
Tuesday Barnes talked with
school architect Tom Cothran of
Architects Associated about the
plans and decided to call for an
other appointment with the state
officials to discuss the work that
has been done on the changes
suggested by DSP officials.
Barnes is hopeful that he and
the architects will be able to ob
tain an appointment this week
and is also hopeful that the
plans will meet approval in the
near future.
Presently under study by the
architects and state officials are
plans for both a one-story and a
two-story structure. Decision on
the levels the new school will
have has as yet not been made.
Barnes also reported that the
regular April meeting of the
board of education was postpon
ed due to the Easter holidays. A
called meeting will be held prior
to the regular May meeting, but
the date has not been determin
ed.
Units On Order
©rtfer Was placed last Friday
| for ten Additional outdoor light*
jin# units.
i The board of commissione i
hid authorized the purchase
j speeding the long-term progran
rfo modernize the city’s outdoor
lighting system, provided fundi
Were available, on Mayor Kellj
I Dixon's recommendation.
Mayor Dixon four 1 the fund
available and placed the orde •
with General Electric Company
He said that four-week delivery
is indicated.
• The over-all lighting plan calls
for Installation of 35 1,000 watt
' mercury vapor lanmps on alumi
num standards, with ten already
installed on S. Battleground and
S. Railroad avenues.
Three Streams
Would Be Freed
(H City Refuse
The city commission has com
mitted Kings Mountain to budd
ing a modern sewage disposal
system and to have it in opera
tion by January 1, 1967.
Under the committment, the
city would have plans for ti.
new facilities in hand not late:
than April 1, 1965, and would
begin construction not later than
January 1, 1966.
The committment was a por
tion of an application to the State
Stream Sanitation commission for
temporary permit to continue
contaminating three streams,
Beason’s Creek, King's Creek,
and Pilot Branch (also known as
Nebo Creek). The clean-up would
de-co:itaminate these streams.
Recommendations effecting
the Kings Mountain water supply
and sewage disposal situation
were em'bodied in a pollution sur
vey report of the B:oad River
basin compiled during 195^-62 by
the state department of Water ,
Resources.
The repdl-t, for instance, re<? >m
mended that Kings Mountain look
to Buffalo Creek as a future raw
water supply, and the city cim
mission subsequently asked that
this supply be reserved for its fu
ure use,
•TJte ela&n-up recommendations i
on fcaWage disposal provide for
tftb protection of down-stream
(communities.
Under North Carolina law, fol
lowing a public hearing held last
spring, the recommendations
must be followed over a given
period of time.
Kings Mountain embarked on a
, first-phase sewage disposal clean
j up in 1954-55, building a modern
j disposal facility on McGill Creek,
which is in the Catawba River
basin to serve the eastern part
Continued On Page Eight
Mauney Hosiery
Wins Contract
Mauney Hosiery 'Mills, Inc., of
Kings Mountain, was awarded a
government contract for produc
tion of $155007 of men’s socks.
Robert B. Horning, branch
manage:-, Small Business adminis
tration, Charlotte, announced
that during March small business
firms in this State received 25
awards of Government contracts
amounting to $2,465,105.’ through
Government Procurement Offi
cers.
Mr. Horning said that these
awards were made as a result of
SBA's co-operative set-aside pro
gram with Government purcha
sing agencies and serve as n
means of bringing dollars to the
comunity. Under this program
SBA representatives, in co-opera
tion with purchasing office s of
civilian and defense agencies, re
serve proposed contracts for ex
clusive competitive award to
small business firms.
50-YEAR-MASON — James R. Patterson. 85, well-known Kings Moun
tain citizen and member of Steteline Lodge 375 AF&AM of Grover
received his 50-year Masonic pin and honor certificate recently. He is
pictured above receiving the certificate. R. B. Leonard, left, pa.' t
master of Kings Mountain, presents the award as Summie L.
Brackett, right, master of the lodge, looks on.
Candidate Scroll
Has No Additions
Deadline
Foi Filing
Is April 29
A fast-approach ng deadline for
| filing tor City amt l|,a»a oi euu
i cation offices proved no spur to
the candidate list during the pas.
week.
Tiie contest total remains the
i same:
Mayor Kelly Dixon is opposed
by exMayor Glee A. Br dges
seeking to regain the scat he lost
two years ago, and ex-Commls
sinner Paul W. Led ord and Nor
man King vying for the Ward .
commmission seat being vacated
by retiring Commissioner Ben II
Bridges.
Deadline for filing for office is
the close of business at the city
hall on Monday, April 2), les.
than two weeks distant.
| To be elected on May 14 are a
mayor, five ward commissioners,
and two board of education
trustees.
i Nor was the rumor mill grind
ing out many candidate pros
pects.
Mentioned in some quarters
was possibility that Boyce Gau't,
former commissioner from Ward
2, would seek to regain this seat
from Eugene Goforth, the incum
bent, who defeated Mr. Gault by
129 votes in the 1961 run-off elec
i Continued On Page Eight '
Petie Lynn Initial Winner Of PPG
Foundation Four-Year Scholarship
Felma RUth (Petle) Lynn is the
winner Of the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Foundation four year col
lege scholarship being awarded
for the first time in the Cleveland
County area.
(Announcement was mfcde last
week by Jack V. Schweppe, foun
dation agent and manager of
Pittsburgh's Carolina Fiber Glass
plant near Shelby.
Miss Lynn is the daughter of
Mrs. Ruth Hawkins Lynn and the
\ late Felmer L. Lynn, killed in
action in Germany during World
j War II.
A senior in Kin$s Mouhtain
I High School, Miss Lynn plans to
I enroll in the 'University <01 North
; Carolina this fall arid Expects to
, major in the phamfacdUtifcil Sci
ence curriculum-Which will lead
to a career as a pharmacist. An
i outstanding Student, she ’ranked
1 first hr her class Of 155 seniors at
| the beginning'of Hie present aca
j demic year.
I In addition to her academic per
formance, Mire Lynn participated
in nUrttefoua extra-curricular ac
! tjvttles which include the Natlon
, al Honor, socety. Future Home
I makers. Science club, Fr-nch
f cl ub, High School Newspaper
i staff,/and church activities. She
'■ also lias won other honors,
WINNER — Petto Lynn, high
school senior, is the initial win
ner of the annual four-year
scholarshp given by Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company.
among them the Daughters of
American Revolution Citizenship
and History awards, the F. R
Summers Spelling award. I.act
year she was selected as a dele
gate to a Red Cross Leadership
Cdntinued On Page Eight
WINS HONOR — Stephen Jolly,
winner of the Air Force award for
his nuclear science project in tho
State Science Fair, has won a
grant-in-aia to study at UNC this
summer. He is a rising high
school senior, formerly of Kin?s
Mountain.
lolly Wins
Grant-In-Aid
Stephen Jolly, former Kings
Mountain resident and Rather
ford-Spindale high school senior,
received notice last week that he
had been selected for a grant in
aid from the University of North
math under the Summe.' Pro
gram for High Ability Secondary
Carolina to study chemistry and
School Students at Chapel Hill.
Jolly attended Western Carolina
college under a slmiar p ogr r:i
last year,
Jolly is active in the high
School, being president of the
Central high school Science club
and the Rutherfordton chapter of
the Red Cress council.
After receiving honors at ’ e‘h
local and district science fans,
Jolly tok part in the State Science
fair at Chapel Hill April 6 where
he won the Air Force award for
the most outstanding proieet n
the field of nuclear sciences.
He is the grandson of Mrs. J.
C. Jolly and Mrs. C. J. Gault od
Kings Mountain and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde M. Jolly of Ru
therfordton.
New City Directory
Te Be Published
A new city directory fo "Kmes
Mountain will be compileJl with
in the next mooth.
Harry O. Stone, editor of Wing
Publication, Inc. of Columbia, S.
C., in town Tuesday, said an of
fice will be opened and local D"o
ple will be employed for compil
ation duties.
The new directory wil also in
clude listings for Bessemer CT-ty
and Grover, M~. Stone said.
Last city directory wus pub
lished and issued two years ago.