I
Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
Tfcte figure for Greater Kina* Mountain u derived Ina
(be 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. Tbs city
Bfidts figure 1* from the United Statee cerdhu el IMA.
Pages
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VOL 74 No. 23
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 6, 1963
Seventy-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
shirley mcdaniel
BARRY SMITH
BILL BUMGAKDNER
DICK HUNNICUTT
ELECTED — David J. Del***, ol
Kinas Mountain, has boon elect
ed grand eheminot of the fifth
division of the North Carolina 40
& 8.
40 & 8 Elects
David Delevie
David J. Delevie, of Kings
Mountain, will be installed as
grand cheminot of the fifth dv
vision of the 40 k 8 on June 21
during the annual state Legion
Convention at Charlotte.
Mr. Delevie was recently elect
ed to serve in the office of the
Legion’s fun - making organiza
tion for 1963-64.
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PENELOPE CANSLEH
PRCIOY BLACK
DAVTO pr
BUDDY CONNOR
HAT.F.IE WARD HUSTETLErt
MARCJARFT RAINER RTTWr**
GLENN GRICG. IN
LEONARD SMITH, JR.
College Students
Receive Diplomas
Twelve Kings Mountain stu
dents are among the many who
are receiving degrees from col
leges and universities this month.
They include:
Miss Peggy Black, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Black, was
graduated Saturday with bache
or of arts degree in elementary
education from Woman’s College
of the University of North Caro
lina at Greensboro.
Mrs. Hallie Ward fiustetler, j
laughter of Mrs, Margaret Ward,
’!«; graduated. Sunday from Le
noir Rhyne college at Hickory
with bachelor of arts degree in
sociology.
Mrs. Margaret Raines Burch,
laughter of Rev. and Mrs. B. L.
aines, was graduated Monday
-om the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill with A.B.
egree in elementary education.
Her husband, Stephen Ross
Burch, was graduated from the
School of Law and wil practice
n Winsor.
David Torrence Plonk, son of
Mi and Mrs. Fred W. Plonk, was
graduate*) from the School of In*
I dustrial Engineering at North
j Tarolina Sta*e college at Raleigh,
i Buddy Wiley Connor received
| his degree in forest management
"rom North Carolina State college
at Raleigh. Now employed as
Gaston County Forester, Mr. Con
tor completed requirements for
;raduation last August. He is
married to the former Mitchell
Lynn of Kings Mountain.
Leonard A. (Bud) Smith, Jr.,
on of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A.
>mith, received his B.S. degree in
cxtile technology June 1 from
L C. State college where he was
t member of the national textile
raternity, Delta Kappa Phi, and
he professional knitting fratern
:y, Kappa Tau Beta. Holder of
he John M, Reeves Scholarship
and the U. §. Rubber Scholarship,
Mr. Snfth was graduated in the
upper five percent of the cla«s of
textile students. He has accepted
a position as textile technologist
with the Chentetrand Company
!n its Nylon Plant at Pensacola,
Fla. and will begin work June
10th. Aa a foreman In production,
he will receive extensive training
for a period ot 13-18 months* Mrs.
Smith is the former Jackie Am
ette of Kings Mountain.
Miss Penelope Jane Cansler,
'aughfer of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
amler was graduated with B.S.!
n English, minor In French, from
•Jlmont Abbey College. A gradu
•e of Sacred Heart Academy,
' lisa Cansler plans to attend
»-tua*« school Jn the fall.
Harold Richard Hunnicutt, Jr.,
Ml oi Mr. and Mrs, Harold R.
Ccr.fiK-cd On P:ge Eight
Merchants,
C of C Occupy
New Quarters
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce and Kings Mountain
Merchants association have occu
pied their new quarters in the
Lynch building on West Moun
tain street.
For the Chamber of Com
merce, it is the first office the
organization has maintained
since its formation several years
ago.
For the merchants association,
the new quarters mark a change
of location to ground floor quar
ters from the second floor of the
Professional building.
While the two organizations
are sharing office space, as well
as the services of Mrs. Billy Wil
liams, receptionist-clerk, their
other functions will remain sep
arate, as formerly.
Capt. Glenn Campbell is execu
tive secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, Mrs. Luther Joy of
the Merchants association.
The newly renovated offices in
clude a lobby, private offices for
the two secretaries, and a con
ference room. The decor is fea
tured (by mahogany paneling, with
the upper walls finished in paint
of burnt amber, and harmonizing
furniture and asphalt tile floor
covering. The building has cen
tral heating and air-conditioning.
Gannon Transfer
Is Anticipated
Rev. Herbert D. Garmon, pastor
of Central Methodist church, is
expected to be assigned as pastor
of First Methodist church of
Leaksville by the Western North
Carolina Conference, now in ses
sion at Lake Junaluska.
He is expected to be succeeded
by Rev. Bernard Hurley, now pas
tor of St. Paul Methodist church,
Charlotte.
While assignments won’t be an
nounced until the- conference
nears its close Friday, indications
both here and in Lefcksville are
that Mr. Garmon, completing his
fourth year here, will be re-as
slgned.
The church board had asked
that Mr. Garmon be returned for
a fifth year.
Other area Methodist ministers
are expected to return here, in
cluding Rev. N. H. Pusey, of Grace
Methodist church, and Rev. Bruce
Norwood, both for a third year.
In an assignment already an
nounced, Rev. J. Garland Winkler,
former Central Methodist pastor
for seven years, and now at First
Methodist, Hickory, will become
superintendent of the Greensboro
district.
Lay members attending the con
ference from Kings Mountain
churches are Drace M. Peeler,
Central; Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Jonas and Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Mauney, Grace; and Boyd Harrel
son, El Bethel.
Union Sendees
Start Sunday
Dr. Paul K. Ausley will deliver
.he first in a series of summer
anion services Sunday night at
1 o’clock at First Presbyterian
church.
Union services are sponsored
by the Kings Mountain Minister
ial Association and seven Kings
Mountain churches are partici
pating. An offering will 'be taken
at each of the services to support
the teaching of Bible in the
Kings Mountain school system.
Dr. Ausley’s sermon topic for
•he initial service of the summer
will be "Not Without Honor.’’
Complete schedule of union
services in Kings Mountain in
clude:
June 9th at the Presbyterian
church with Dr. Ausley deliver
ing the message.
June 16th at St. Matthew’s Lu
theran church with Dr. W. P.
lerberding delivering the mes
sage.
June 23 at Kings Mountain
Baptist church with Rev. Marion
DuBose delivering the message.
June 30th at Central Methodist
church with Rev. Herbert Gar
mon delivering the message.
July 7th at Trinity Episcopal
church with Rev. Thomas Drop
oers delivering the message.
Jtily 14th at Boyce Memorial
ARP church with Dr. W. L.
P-.ssly delivering the message.
July 21st at Resurrection Lu
theran church with Rev. George
‘Moore delivering the message.
PLOmC SPEAKER
Dr. George W. Plonk, Kings
Mountain surgeon, was guest j
speaker ®t the Optimist club’s
regular Thursday night meeting.
Installation N'eht for the civic
eiiib is June 20*h at which time
Governor-Elect Bob Howe will be
oo«*sent, along with other district
City To Renovate
Mauney Library
RITES HELD — L. L. Alexander,
retired Kings Mountain mer
chant succumbed Friday after a
long illness. Funeral rites were
held Sunday,
L. L. Alexander's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Leonard L.
Alexander, 69, were held Sunday
at 4 p. m. from Central Methodist
church, of which he was a mem
ber.
Mr. Alexander, former owner
of Alexander Appliances and
Alexander Grocery, died at 7 p.
m. Friday in Kings Mountain
hospital after an illness of sev
eral months.
He was a veteran of World
War L
4 Surviving are his..wife, Airs.
Lula Bridges Alexander; three
sons, Charles L. Alexander, Kings
Mountain postmaster; James
Alexander and Dwight Alexander,
all of Kings Mountain; a brother,
J. Pender Alexander of Lincoln
ton; three sisters, Mrs. Clarupce
Tate, Mrs. Clay Kiser and Mrs.
P. A. Lynch, all of Lincolnton;
and five grandchildren.
Rev. Herbert Garmon officiated
at the final rites and interment
was made in Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
School Re”s Ring
Again On Thursday
School Bells ring for students
attending summer school at
Kings Mountain high school
Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m.
Classes after opening day will be
from 7:45 a.m. until 1:05 p.m.,
Principal Harry Jaynes said.
Classes irt general science start
Thursday while classes in U. S.
history and English begin June
13th, Mr. Jaynes added.
W. K. Mauney
Will Retire
From Board
Renovation of Jacob S. Mauney
Memorial library will begin this
week, Mayor Glee A. Bridges said
Wednesday.
Necessary carpentry repairs
will be made and the library will
be painted, the Mayor added.
Meantime, he reported, W. K.
Mauney, chairman of the three
person library board and repre
sentative of the donors since the
J. S. Mauney family gave the li
brary to the city in 1947, is retir
ing, with George Houser ex
pected to succeed him.
The board will have other new
members.
Under the library - teacher's
home management plan, the li
brary board includes a represen
tative of the donors, a represen
tative from the city commission,
and another from the board of
education. Ben H. Bridges former
representative of the city, did not
seek re-election, and there is no
current board of education mem
ber on the library board.
Mayor Bridges said he expects
to appoint Commissioner Norman
King as the city’s representative.
Detailed operation of the li
brary is directed by a several -
member operating committee.
Neills Move
To Hickory
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Neill moved
last weekend to Hickory.
They will reside near their
daughter, Mrs. Jack B. Fortune;
at 845 Second street, NW. ’
Mr. Neill, a retired banker who
came here as cashier of First Na
tional Bank in 1931, will retain
the chairmanship of the board of
First Union National Bank’s
Kings Mountain directorate, a po
sition to which he was elected at
his retirement January 1, 1961.
Mr. Neill served as cashier,
then executive vice-president of
First National Bank, and became
its fourth president following the
death of Frank- R. Summers.
Fir-- Natic-al merger with First
Union National in June 1960.
Mr. Neill is a former member
c' *he Kings Mountain board of
education, is an active member of
Central Methodist church, a Ki
wanian, and for years was active
in the work of the Boy Scouts
and Red Cross.
He is an Iredell county native,
who attended school at Oxford
Orphanage. He worked as a ho
tel clerk in Hickory, then in
Charlotte, before joining Inde
pendence Trust Company.
Mrs. Neill is the former Eliza
beth McComb, of Hickory.
Spend Money On Hist Six Grades.
Says Noted Educates Mae Caiden
“America can’t afford citizen's
who don’t know how to analyze
what they hear and read. Spend
your money on the first six
grades,” said educator Mae Car
den, speaking to a group of par
ents and teachers at Trinity Epis
copal church Tuesday night.
'Miss Carden, whose system of
teaching reading is nationally
known, has taught a course in
methods here this week.
Speaking in a brisk style, re
freshingly lacking in professional
chiches, she said, “We want child
ren who can perform, who have
perfect control so they can focus
on the content.”
How is this achieved?
The Carden method is a phone
tic-plus approach, based on the
child’s independent analysis of
word structrare, word group'ng
and rhythm. Reading, spelling,
v riling and grammar are intro
duced simultaneously from the
beginning, and the system, which
she prefers to call ’'a way of
fife”, is applicable to all intel
ligence and quotient and grade
levels and for foreign languages
as well as English.
Stating that she had never
found a child she couldn’t teach,
she said "He may experience de
lay, but never defeat”
She has great respect for the
intelligence of the small child
and presents the classics early,
beginning in the first grade with
Beatrix Potter’s “Pe*er Rabbit”.
Older children read Tennyson.
Mark Twain, Dickens ad Robert
Lewis Steveson in the original
versions.
Stressing the difference Le
tween “the subject and subject
matter1”, she pointed out that lit
SPEAKER — Educator Mao Car
den. president of Mae Carden,
Inc. which publishes language -
arts material for teachers, con
ducted a workshop here last week
and addressed a group of parents
and teachers Tuesday night.
tie children can learn that a noun
is “a word used as a ame” and
that an adjective is “an add
word”. "First graders can do It,
eighth graders are too mixed up,”
she said. “Children need to see
the key word, have sufficient vo
cabulary, understand the rela
tionship between sentences.” “Al
so”, she added, “this word-struc
ture method leads to good dic
tion,”
Born in Hawaii of wealthy pa
rents, Miss Carden is a Vasser
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MAP MS DRIVE — Kings Mountain Jaycees will conduct the 196
Multiple Sclerosis fund-drive in Kings Mountain this month. Pit
tured at Tuesday night’s meeting at the Woman's club are. fron'i
row, from left W. F. (Billy) Houser and John H. Gamble, and beck
row, from left, I. C, Davis, on Cleveland County Board of Multiple
Sclerosis, Dallas Mackey, executive director of the North Carolina
MS chapter, and Bob Goforth. Kings Mountain drive chairman.
(Photo by Wilson Griffin)
Robert H. Goforth
Drive Chairman
HONORED — W. K. Mauney, Sr.
hcr«- been honored by Lenoir
Rhyne college as "distinguished
| alumnus" lor 1963.
Mauney Gets
Alumni Award
W. K. Mauney, Kings Mountain
industrialist, was one of two Len
oir Rhyne alumni presented a
wards at the annual Alumni din
ner in Hickory Saturday evening.
The Distinguished Alumni a
ward, presented annually “in
honor of outstanding service and
in recognition of iving reflection
of the principles of education and
Christian character” was also
given to Miss Maud Powlas, Lu
theran missionary-social worker
in Japan from 1918-1959.
Klynt Ripple of Lexington,
president of the Lenoir Rhyne al
umni in presenting the award to
Dr. Mauney, a 1910 graduate of
the college, stated, "Dr. Mauney
is a ready and generous benefact- '
or of Lenoir Rhyne who has
shown unusual devotion of time,
energies and financial gifts to
his alma mater.”
Dr Mauney is a member of the
hoard of trustees, having served
continuously for 39 years. He and
his family gave the’Mauney Mu Jr
building which was erected in 19
90 as a memorial to their :on,
'h« !-*e Ernest Mauney, concert ;
pianist.
Electrical
Woik Starts
Hunter & Walden Company, of
Charlotte, electrical contractors,
have begun work on re-building
the city’s electrical distribution
system.
Hunter Allen, the city’s electri
cal superintendent, said the con
tractors have poured the concrete
base for switchgear equipment at
the dtv’s North Gaston street lot
near the Duke Power sub-station
and are starting to set poles.
The city is up-grading its pri
mary lines from 2400 volts to 41
60 volts and is adding and up
grading service in numerous a
reas of the city system.
Estimated cost of the work is
about $130,000.
To date, due to legal technical
ities, the city has cantracted for
only a portion of the complete
work, completing contract on the
section known as Increment I. It
anticipates contracting the In
crement II work to Hunger A
Walden, low bidders, shortlv af
ter the beginning of the fiscal
year July 1
Engineers for the city are
Southeastern Consulting Engi
Ccmtinued On Page Eight
Jaycees Sponsor
M-S Campaign;
Now Underway
The Kings Mountain Jaycees
will conduct the annual Multiple
Sclerosis Hope Chest drive in the
; Kings Mountain area this month.
Plans for the drive, of which
i Jaycee Robert H. 'Eoh) Goforth
| will serve as chairman, were
mapped Tuesday nieht at the
; civic club meeting attended by
Jaycees and other MS drive vol
unteer:-.
"You are mobilized to man a
house - to - house march and oth
er important MS Hope Chest
events which will raise funds to
! giv: much • needed aid to vic
tims o, MS,” Dallas L. Mackey,
executive director of the North
Carolina Multiple Sclerosis Chap
ter, ('told the group assembled at
the- Woman’s club.
"In the state there are an esti
mated 2,000 suffering from MS,”
Mr. Mackey said. “These men
and women, usually struck by
MS between 20 and 40 years of
age are often disabled for almost
an entire lifetime This points up
the significance of our theme,
‘Home is where the hurt is,” he
added. “Many victims are pa
rents. All too frequently, their
children feel the suffering MS
brings into the home. Perhaps a
mother can no longer care for her
children. Perhaps children have
to take on burdens too heavy for
young shoulders,” he continued.
Mr. Mackey explained that 00
percent of funds contributed
stays here in North Carolina. The
remaining goes to the National
Society for support of research
program*-.
Chairman Goforth listed those
chairman who will assist the /ay*
cees in conducting the month --
long campaign:
Junior Woman’s club, of wh’ch
Mrs. W. G. Jonas is president, will
assist Jayoeqs in the house - to -
house canvass; Chuck Ballew
and John Warlick, industries;
Hugh Lancaster, mines; Grady
Howard, medical profession;
Rainbow Girls who will conduct
the MS balloon street sale in the
business district June 15 and
June 29; and Jaycee President
Bill Allen who will sell Father’s
Day cigars as MS Hope Chest
benefit.
Mail ccnt-'htPkosi should be
.o._ t. I. , C .or; • 1SJ
chairman: 209 S. Roxford Road;
Kings Mountain. Checks should
be marked payable to the Mul
tiple Sclerosis Society,
Mis. Miller's 4
Sister Passes
Funeral rites for Mrs. Lona
Lee Wharton, 66, of Greenville S.
C„ sister of Mrs. Robert Miller
of Kings Mountain, were held
Friday at 2 p. m. from Waterloo
Methodist church near Green
wood, S. C. t
Mrs. Wharton died at 5:15 a.
m. Thursday following a heart
attack at the home of her sister
here Shj had been ill for some
time and had been visiting Mrs.
’Miller.
Surviving ere her husband, E.
M. Wharton; and two sisters,
Mrs. Miller of Kin"? Mountain
•»nd Mrs. Ross Ferguson of Gas
tonia.
Burial was in the Waterloo
Methodist church cemetery.