Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320:
City Limits 6,008 i
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 23, 1963
Vol. 74
No. 21
Established 1869
Seventy-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CENTv
Most Valuable Player — Pictured above
Barry Gibson (center) receiving the John
Moss trophy as the the outstanding player
the Kings Mountain high school baseball team
§ *sr
from the donor. Looking on (right) is Eddie Gil*
liland of the National Association of Profes
sional Baseball.
Local News
Bulletins
J.- • J
CHURCH DINNER
Grace Methodist church will
servfe fish and chicken dinners
Saturday beginning at 11 a.m un
til 7 p.m. for $1 per plate in the
fellowship hall. For delivery ser
vice, call 739-5391.
MEMORIAL DAY
American Legion Post 155 ^sa'
xiltey'will place a wreath
poppies at tfce foot of the cross
at MoiirrfJdtt ‘Rest- cerngteryM—"fc
orial Day in memory of veterans
who gave.raefr.tlVes for their
country, spokesmen for the Au
xiliary said. - - *
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NO COURT MONDAY
Monday’s session of city re
corder’s court has been postponed
until Mtonday, June 10th, due to
the absence of Judge Jack White.
Mr. White and his family are va
cationing next week at - Lake
Waccamaw.
MONDAY FIRE
City firemen answered a fire
alarm Monday at the Cherokee
street washerette to extinguish
fire in one of the dryers. No
damages were reported.
WINS ENGLISH AWARD
Miss Annie Vera Dilling, Kings
Mountain student at Gardner
Webb Junior college and daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Dill
ing, was one of four students
winning an English award for
superior work in English Litera
ture in Awards Day programs
last week. - •
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for the
week ending Wendesday totaled
$182.55, including $126.50 from
on-street meters, $37.50 from
over-parking fees, and $18.55
from off-street meters, City Clerk
Jie McDaniel, Jr., reported.
Mae Caiden
Here Tuesday
Which is the more important
accomplishment your child can
perform-memorizing a poem or
thinking through a difficult arith- j
metic problem? According to j
Miss 'Mae Casden, wearer of a
pince-nez and a paragon of edu
cational thought, “think” is the :
key word.
The Vas&ar graduate will come
to Kings Mountain Tuesday from
Glenrock, New Jersey to lead a
program to the interested public,
at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal
churCh.
Miss Carden will also deliver
a ten-hour series of lectures for
teachers and parents who want
to learn the Carden method of
teaching, a unique method of
teaching reading and writing
aimed at giving the child the a
bility to handle ideas that he de
velops as he reads and writes.
Born in Hawaii of wealthy A
merican parents. Miss Carden
speaks four languages, including
Freneh German, Spanish, and I
talian.
The Carden method uses the
phoriies approach. This approach
has become more wide-spread in
the nations schools and has been
endorsed by North Carolina gov
ernor, Terry Sanford. Many
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Barry Gibson
Wins Moss Trophy
JOINS HERALD — Ernie Payne,
rising sophomore at Western
Carolina, has joined the Herald
staff for the summer.
Ernie Payne
On Heiald Staff
Ernie Payne, son of Mr. arid
Mrs. Ernest Paye, Sr., has joined
the staff of the Kings Maintain
Herald for the summer.
Mr. Payne is a rising sopho
more at Western Carolina Col
lege, will be sports reporter and
also serve as assistant in adver
tising and general news depart
ments.
A graduate of Kings Mountain
high school, where he was sports
editor of the Mountaineer, he
had previously been a part-time
employee of Radio Station
WKMT.
Terry Leonard, serving as
sports reporter for the past sev
eral weeks, has resigned in order
to partiqpate in American Legion
baseball. He is also joining the
summer staff of Recreation Di
rector Elmer Ross.
K.M. C of C
Office Will Open
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce expects to be open for
business in its Mountain street
offices on Monday, Executive
Secretary Glenn Campbell said
this week.
The office is in the Lynch
building and has been exten
sively remodeled.
Sharing space with the Cham
ber of Commerce will be the of
fice of the Kings Mountain Mer
chants association.
Most Valuable
Award Goes
To Hurler
Barry Gibson, ace
jer fOf the Kings
southpaw
John Henfy Mps*. Moat Valuable
Player award at the Judcheon ho
noring the team givtn by the
Kings Mountain ftotary Club
Tuesday.
Gibson led the Warn to the
Southwestern 3 - A Conference
championship, with brilliant pit
ching performance*.
Gibson’s record for the 1963
season was four wins and no los
ses. He had wins against Belmont
twice, Rutherfordton and Chase.
In the Belmont contest, he pitch
ed a brilliant two-hitter, striking
out 13 batters and walking only
one. His performance in the
Chase game was also a two hit
ter
In the hitting department, Gib
son had three hits for 24 times
at bat, which gave him a batting
average of .125. He also scored
two runs.
Gibson was a veteran of four
years on the high school team.
Mr. Moss, organizer and presi
dent of the Class A Western Ca
rolinas League, presented the
trophy to Gibson.
Moss declared, “Baseball and
other competitive sports are me
diums of achievement in citizen
ship.”
He commended the Rotary
Club for its interest in honoring
the high school team and added
commendations to winning the
conference championship, third in
the history of Kings Mountain
high school
Rotarians Change
Day Oi Meeting
Kings Mountain Rotary club is
changing its meeting date from
Tuesdays to Thursdays.
President Jack White announ
ced at the recent meeting that
the change of date will be effect
ive next week, with the upcom
ing meeting scheduled for June
6.
The Rotary club meets at the
Country Club at 12:15 p. m.
Bible-In-Schools Program Needs
Cash; Dr. Ansley Urges Support
The Bible • in - the • schools
committee cannot employ the
Bible teacher for the 1963-64
term until cost of the program is
underwritten by the churches
| wnich sponsor the Bible - in-1
1 Schools program.
Dr. Paul K. Ausley, chairman
of the committee, said nearly
the amount needed has been
1 pledged. Pledges to date total 51,
, 960. Budget for the school year
' is $4,740, Dr. Ausley added.
School faculty members, with
exception of the Bible teacher,
Mrs. Jean nine Easterling Fisher,
were issued contracts prior to the
close of school Wednesday. “We
are unable,’’ Dr. Aiusiey said, “to
issue a contract to the Bible
teacher until the various church
es act on their pledges for next
year’s program.”
He urged that church stewards,
deacons, or financial committees i
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Throwing Firm In Major Expansion
139 KMHS Seniors
Receive Diplomas
Finals Program
Was Conducted
On Wednesday
Kings Mountain high school’s
| largest class of graduates — 73
boys and 66 girls — received di
plomas in finals exercises Wed
nesday night.
The commencement - season fi
nals began on Sunday with the
baccalaureate sermon delivered
by Dr. W. P. Gerberding, pastor
of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church.
A trio of seniors—Sara Hen
dricks, Petie Lynn and Gary Col
lins--led the student program
Wednesday evening. They gave
original speeches on the overall
theme, "I Believe.” Class presi
dent Henry Hilliard introduced
the program and special music
was rendered by a senior ensem
ble, under direction of Mrs. J. N.
McClure. Kenneth Barnes played
a cornet solo, accompanied by
Pattie Howard at the piano. The
Senior Ensemble sang “you’ll
Never Walk Alone” after the pre
sentation of diplomas by Princi
pal Harry Jaynes.
The invocation was offered by
Gail Bolton. Lionel Barnes pre
sented the class gift to the school,
which was accepted by Supt. B. N.
Barnes. Quay Moss pronounced
the benediction.
•e and John
‘ arttl
ther marshaj» partld
pro
ies. i
pating ix£ eommencer
grams were Priscilla Padgett,
Donn Freeman, Phyllis Pusey,
Jack Howard, Coral Remseur and
' Mike Royster.
1963 graduates are:
David Anderson Adams, John
Beatty Barber, Jr., Kenneth Maw
■ney Barnes, Lionel Richard
Barnes, Dennis Gold Beatty, Wil
liam Harold Belt, Charles Vernon
Benton, Ronald Walter Black
burn, Hans Stanislaus Borov,
John Caldwell Brown. Charles
Nathan Camp, Ronald Stephen
is Childers,
«, Joseph
Junior
Jr„ For
teven Fos
Carpfenter,
Gary
Lloyd
rest
ter,
craft
Hairib right,
n, Ashe
Wesley
lie Elvta Green,
Grigg, Gary Curtis
William
Hamrick, Andy Jay Harris, Oeear
| Johnson Marry, Thom** Boyce
i Hawkins, Steve Edward Heafner,
i Timmy DlVayoe Heavner, Tho
mas Jasper fjpi,.—, Hoover Hen
ry Hilliard, Jr., James Henry
Hope,, Thomas Dcafc Hope, Jr.,
Rodney Henry Housef.
Also Jackie Steven Hughes,
Calvin Lee Ilumphrtes, Mack
Blair Jenkins, Wayne Franklin
Laughter, James Baker Leigh,
Steve Russell Leigh, Richard
Cummins Little, Jerry Lee Lock
ridge, William Edward Lovelace,
David Brent McDaniel, Jerry Lee
Marlowe, George Tnyett Moore,
Billy Woodrow Moss, Lloyd Ros*
Ormand, Charles Earl Oxford,
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Tamer Wins
Scholarship
Gary Turner Collins of Grover,
Kings Mountain high school sen
ior, has been awarded a scholar
ship to Wake Forest college.
Collins, son of Mrs. Mary Lou
Turner CalUns of Grover and the
late Alfred Collins, plana to stu
dy chemistry at Wake Forest.
The scholarship is renewable an
nually.
At Kings Mountain high school,
Collins was a member of the stu
dent council, was president of the
junior class and was a marshal,
member of the National Honor
Society, debate team, monogram
club, and science and Latin clubs.
He is an alternate Moreheed
Scholar.
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PENTECOST ON SUNDAY
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
will observe the Festival of Pen
tedst at the Sunday morning,
worship service, according to an I
announcement by Dr. W. P. Ger- j
herding, pastor.
Dr. Gerberdipg said there wU)'
also be a brief communion after;
the regular service. 1
WINS DEGREE — Dr. Chari** t>»
wttt Blanton Jr. of King* Moun
tain ha* graduated with doctorate
in chomUtry from tho University
of MteaiMlppl.
Wins Doctorate
Charles DeWitt Blanton, ,7r.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. DeWItt Blan
ton, Sr. of Kings Mountain, re
ceived the doctor of philosophy
degree hi chemistry Sunday from
the University of Mississippi.
A native of Kings Mountain)
Dr. Blanton was graduated from
Kings Mountain high school,
re bf^wa* .president 0t the
(*«•
. , He was recipient
of the Kiwwiis Citizenship Medal,
Danforth Leadership Award and
Bausch and Lornb Honorary A
ward.
ive in »th
He received his bachelor of *d
ence in chemistry and mathema
tic* from Weatern Carolina col
lege, Cullowhee, where h« wax a
member of Alpha Phi Sigma
scholastic fraternity, president of
the American Chemical Society,
Wnt affiliate and named to
* Who Among Student* in
American Universities and Col
K. He witu graduated with
ra.
At the University of Mississip
pf, he held fellowships from the
American Cancer Society, the
National Institute of Health and
the Mississippi Heart Association,
while engaged In medicinal re
search . Dr. Blanton, is the au
thor of several papers appearing
in current scientific Journals
which report the results of his re
search. He is a member of Gam
ma Sigma Epsilon chemical fra
ternity.
I>r, and Mr*. Blanton will make
their’home In Bloomington, Indi
ana, where he will participate In
a year of postdoctoral studies at
Indiana Unlver*lty,
Mr*. Blanton 1* the former
Brenda Ruth Sailor* of ElUJay,
Georgia, and a graduate of the
University of Mi**ls*ippl,
KiwanisToHeax
B. S. Neill. Jr.
Buren S. Neill, Jr., president of
Wide-World Travel Service, lnc„
of Gaetonfa, will discus* "Life
behind the Iron Curtain," at the
meeting of the Klwanls club
Thursday night,
'Mr, Neill recently spent three
week* on a tour of Ruswla, Po
land, Czeshoslovakia, Romania, <
and Hungary.
He had made 21 trips abroad,
to Europe, South America, the
Middle East, and the Orient,
A former Kings Mountain eitl*1
zen, he is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
B. S. Nell), Sr.
The chib meets at the Woman's
Club at 6:49,
i
SUNDAY DINNER
King* Mountain Woman'* drib
will serve Sunday dinner thi*
Sunday beginning at 12 noon at
the clubhouse. There will be a
choice of meats available. Mr*.
Joh Cheshire is in charge of the
kitchen and Mr»< L. L. Lohr and
Mr*. Tom Trott are co-chairmen
in charge of the dining room.
■UTS BULL
Paul E. Hendrick*. King*
Mountain, recently purchased an
Aberdeen Angus bull from M. E.
Padgett, Jr , Bennett*vilie, South
Carolina.
Construction
Is Underway
On Building
By MARTIN HARMON
Carolina Throwing Company is
planning virtually double pres
ent capacity.
Const! uction Is underway on a
16,800 square foot building of
which 9600 square feet will be
utilized by the throwing firm for
addition of production machin
ery.
The remaining 7200 square feet
will be utilized by Mauney Hos
iery Company, Inc., for use as a
boarding room and for packing
and shipping operations.
W, K. Mauney, Jr., secretary
treasurer of the throwing firm
and president of the hosiery
firm, said initial aim was to
have the bulding completed by
June 15. Bad weather has slow
ed the construction, however, but
he anticipates the building will
be completed by late June.
Equipment already purchased
will begin arriving about June
The throwing firm puts the
"wretch" into nylon filament
yarn which is used not only in
hosiery manufacture but for
many end point products. The
expansion will require 25 to 35
additional employees.
Mauney Hosiery Company
manufactures 40 to 50 types and
patterns of men’s hosiery,
Other officers of Carolina
Throwing Company are Carl F.
Mauney, president, and Howard
B. Jackson, vice-president. Carl
F, Mauney is secretary-treasur
er of Mauney Hosiery Company.
Charles H. Mauney is general
manager of both firms.
f Vkaijsialat
wons Nominate
Odus Smith
Odus Smith, owner of Western
Auto Associate Store, has been
nominated for president of the
Kings Mountain Lions cln6 for
Other nominees are,
Wesley Bush, first vice.presi
tlent; C. P. Barry, «5coo4 vice
pree'dert; Dr. George W. Plonk,
secretary; W. D. (Bill) Bennett,
treasurer; Dr. Nathan H. Reed,
tail twister; and Peter Mason,
Lion tamer
For directors, for one year, Wil
lain J. Kay; lor directors for
;wo years, Carl Goforth, Sam
Weir and Hal S. Plonk.
Election will be conducted at
he club meeting of June 11.
The nominating committee in
cluded 'Martin Hannon, chairman,
jeorge Thomasson, and Edwin
woore.
CLASS REUNION
The Kings Mountain high
school Class of '58 will hold its
five year reunion June 29th. Pic
nic lunch will be spread at Lake
Crawford. Barbecue supper-dance
Is planned for the American Le
gion Building that evening. Res
ervations should be made with
Mrs. Anne Falls Davis (Phone
739-2750) by Saturday, June 1.
Cooper Funeral
Held On Tuesday
Retired Pastor
Succumbed
Sunday At 76
Funeral rites for Dr. Edgar
Claudius Cooper, To, retired Lu
theran minister, educator and
Kings Mountain citizen, were
held Tuesday afternoon at 3 p m.
from St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church.
The final rites were conducted
by his pastor, Dr. W. P. Gerber
ding, assisted by Rev. George R.
Whittecar. Rev Charles B.
Foelsch, Ph.D.,D.D., pastor of
Christ the King Lutheran church
of Chicago, 111., delivered the me
morial address.
Dr. Cooper succumbed Sunday
night ait 9 p_m. in the locai hos
pital after several months of de
clining health.
Born in Rowan County Mar. 29,
1887, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John Francis Cooper, he received
his early education in the private
and public schools of China
Grove, graduated from Roanoke
college, Va. in 1907, and Mt. Airy
Seminary, Pennsylvania,, in 1912.
He pursued graduate studies at
Mt. Airy, Princeton, and received
his Doctor of Philosophy degree
\ from Hartford Seminary, Conn,
.in 1927
I Hjfe served the following pa
risSej|: Hqiy Trinity, Lynchburg,
V*., W12-M; Advocate, German
town Pa., 1914-23; First Churetf,'
Albemarle, 1923-25; Holy Com
forter, Belmont, 1927-29; Betha
ny, Kannapolis, 1928-31; Calvary,
Morganton, 1930-32; Ascension,
Shelby, 1932-37; Holy Trinity,
Chapel Hill, 1946-53; serving also
as student pastor.
Field Missionary of th« North
Carolina Lutheran Synod, from
1927-37, other official services of
Dr. Cooper as President of the
Lutheran Theological Southern
Seminary, Columbia, South Caro
lina, 1939-45; Guest Professor,
Dana College, Blair, Nebraska,
1955-56, and Pacific ' Lutheran
Seminary, Berkeley, California,
1957-59.
Dr. Cooper was first full-time
Religious Director of the North
Carolina Prison System, 1937-39;
and was Federal Prison Chaplain,
Atlanta Penitentiary, Atlanta,
Georgia, 1945-46.
He was a member of St Mat
thew’s Lutheran church.
Dr. Cooper retired in 1953 and
he and his wife have made their
home here.
Mrs. Cooper, the former Vera
Lavene Mauney of Kings Moun
tain, whom Dr. Cooper married
September 11, 1913, survives, a
long with one daughter, Mrs.
George W Plonk, Kings Moun
tain; and two sons, Jacob Mauney
Cooper of Kings Mountain andj
Rev. Edgar Mauney Cooper of :
Fottstown, Pa.; and eight grand
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Neal Cooper, Teresa Jolly Tied
As Top Scholars, 39 Get Awards
Ninth graders Teresa Jolly and
Neal Cooper are winner* of the
coveted Plonk Scholarship medal
tof 1983, and along with 37 other
high school students woo awards
and scholarships io finals exer
cises Wednesday.
The Plonk medal, awarded by
the family of the late William
Lafayette Plonk, is presented to
the student or students with the
highest yearly average in the en
tire student body Miss Jolly,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Jolly, and Cooper, son of Mr. and
Mrs, Jacob Cooper, tied for the
honor.
Other medal recipients include:
Bausch and Lomb honorary
science award to Sara Hendricks.
Billy Shuford science award to
Rodney Hardin
Betty Crocker homemaking a
ward to Jewel Robbs.
F. R. Summers spelling medal
to Glenda Lynn.
Jaycee Reading medal to Linda
Neal.
Klwanis Citizenship award to
Pat tie Howard.
Girls' State award* to Joan Me- <
Clure and Virginia Goforth.
Boys’ State awards to Donn
Freeman and John Tria.
John Philip Sousa award to
Sara Hendricks
iWNCHSAA Forensic awards to
Nell McCarter, Libby Alexander
and Linda Neal.
SPO Good Citizen award 10
Terry Leonard.
DAR Citizenship award to Sam
Hendricks.
Crisco homemakkig award to
Sandra Spangler.
Kiwanis talent trophy to Ken
neth Barnes, David Adams, Quay
Moss, Wendell Phifer, and Ed
ward Lovelace.
Fred Plonk Blocking trophy to
James Hope.
George Plonk most valuable
player trophy to Charles Good
son.
John Gamble scholarship tro*
phy to Lyn Cheshire.
Seven students won academic
scholarships, including Dennis
Beatty, Freida Burton, Gary Col
lins, Ann Cooper, Unda Pruitt,
Sandra Spangler and Jewel
Robbs A four-year scholarship
from Pittsburgh Plate Glass com
pany went to senior Petie Lynn.
Paul Smith received a vocational
rehabilitation scholarship and
veteran's scholarship went to Ed
die Spencer. Two jrjniors reoeiv-,
ed summer scholarships from the’
National Science Foundation to
study at UNO. They were Priscil
la Padgett and PhylLs Pusey.
BITES HELD — Funeral rites tor
Dr. E. C. Cooper were held Tues
day afternoon. Dr. Cooper died
Sunday night at the age of 76.
State Officials
Concui On Cuts
State school planning official!
have concurred in most detail
with local officials on means
paring the new Kings MountaS)
high school building plans in
der that it may conform
money available.
Local officials and architects
conferred Monday in Raleigh
ietaii
ns ol/
ntaijfl
in dr
\ylth
with officials of the school plan
rilng fteparfment
Public Instruction.
of
| The state officials agreed, it
could be omitted and constructed
was reported, that a choral room
later, that the gymnasium stage
could be omitted, that develop
ment of a recreational area on
the first floor of the north wing
could be omitted.
“Everybody wants to retain
the industrial arts area,’’ Super
intendent B. N. Barnes said.
Air-conditioning, initially plan
ned for the north wing, won’t be
an immediate facility. Question
remains whether to prepare for
future addition tn the initial
construction or to eliminate the
facilty altogether.
State officials made the sug
gestion that the plan be "squeez
ed”. Architect T. H. Cothran ex
plained. “Where one foot in
width can be removed from a
corridor, for example, it means
considerable space and cost sav
ing in a building of this size.”
Going to Raleigh Monday were
Architects Cothran and Fred Van
Wageningen. Board of Education
members James E. Herndon, Jr.,
H. O. Williams and Mrs. Lena W.
McGill, Supt. Barnes and Princi
pal Harry Jaynes.
Mr. Cothran said Wednesday it
wil require about two weeks for
completion of pre liminary plans
for presentation to the Kings
Mountain board and state school
officials for final checking, pre
requisite, he added, to the prepar
ation of working plans.
The group also coqferred in
Raleigh with W. E. Easterling,
secretary of the Local Govern
ment commission, concerning
sale of bonds for building the
new plant.
Bank Consolidating
Effective Monday all customer
operations of First Union Na
tional Bank will be handled in the
main lobby of the bank, aecord
i ing to announcement by R. S.
Lennon, vice-president.
! The second floor installment
loan office managed by W. G.
(Billi Jonas will be closed.
Meantime, the bank will be
open four afternoons weekly
from 2 to 4 p.m., excepting only
Wednesdays and Saturdays, for
general banking operations.
Previously the main body has
been ope-n only on Thursday and
Friday afternoons, with custo
mer service limited to the Moun
tain street walk-up window on
Mondays and Tuesdays.
“This change should prove a
convenience to all bank custo
mers,” Mr. Lennon said.
AT CITY HALL
Miss Margaret Jackson, stu
dent at Mary Baldwin eoHege
Staunton, Va„ will Join the City
of Kings Mountain office staff
Tuesday as a clerk during the
summer vacation, it was announ
ced by Mayor Glee A. Bridges.