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Population Greater Kings Mountain City Limits 10,320 8,008 UmM* figure 1* from tte Ualtod Stator eoalua of i960.'* Pages Today VOL. 74 No. 25 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C.r Thursday June 20, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS City Employees Get Pay Raise; Sanders Named Police Chief CHIEF — Paul Sanders, acting police chief since fee resignation from the force of Martin Ware, was named Chief of Police Thurs day night by the board of city commissioners. local Revs Bulletins j EH NEBRASKA Second lit James Thomas Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil bur G. Smith ®f Kings Mountain, is now stationed in Omaha, Ne braska. He is a 1962 graduate of North Carolina State college where he majorled in mathema tics. HOSPITALZIED A. B. Prince, Kings Mountain insuraneeman, underwent an operation Wednesday morning in the Kings Mountain hospital. He is recuperating satisfactorily, members of his family report. RESUMES DUTIES Benjie Moomow has resumed his duties as a ranger on the Blue Ridge Parkway for the sum mer. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Moomaw, he is stationed at the Peaks of Otter district, north of Roanoke, Va. CAKE SALE A cake sale for the Denefit of handicapped children in special education classes in the Shelby schools will be held at the Putt-, Putt Golf course on Highway 74 East Saturday, June 22, begin ning at five p.m. On sale will be cakes, pies, cookies and ham bis cuits. ON DEAN'S LIST Mrs. Nadine Spencer Carson of Boone, formerly of Kings Moun tain and Bessemer City, was list ed on the Dean’s List for the last, term at Appalachian State Teach er’s college. CAKE SALE The Grace Methodist church Junior High MYF will hold a cake sale Saturday morning, be ginning at 11 o’clock, at the fel lowship hall of the church. CLASS REUNION The Class of 1958 of Kings Mountain high school will hold its five year reunion June 29th and reservations for the evening ■ barbecue supper should be made i with Mrs. Ann Falls Davis at | 739-2750. KIWANIS MEETING R. M. (Bud> Schiele, retired Boy j Scout executive and director of j the Gaston County Museum of i Natural His ton. will present the j program, “Four Seasons in the Great Smokies” at Thursday’s Ki wanis club meeting at 6:45 pm. j at the Woman’s club. R. S. Len-: non has arranged the program. COMMENCEMENT Commencement exercises for over 100 students in the annual Bible School of the Boyce Memori al ARP church were held Wed nesday night, along with a fam ily picnic. Certificates were giv en each student by the director Mrs. J. L. McGill. City Commission Has Busy Agenda In 60 Minutes By ELIZABETH STEWART The new Bridges Administra tion Thursday night gave all city employees a five percent hike in pay, named Paul Sanders police Chief, retained tentatively the tax rate at $1.50 per $100 val uation and conducted a busy a genda ranging from stray dogs and squirrels to major business— all in 60 minutes. Only proposal tabled until July was the Mayor’s recommenda tion to cut outside city industrial water rates from 50 percent to 10. “We don’ want to run our in dustries away”, Mayor Bridges told his full board. The commissioners had just accepted the mayor’s recommen dation to raise all employees five percent “across the boards’ ef fective July 1 and had appropri ated $10,000 in the upcoming bud get for city beautification if the appropriation is legal. Mayor Bridges recommended that Acting 'Chief "Paul Sanders be iftstalled as Chief of Police. J. Wilson "Crawtfor'd, president of the Chamber of Commerce, was spokesman for the city beau tification committee which in cludes Mrs. George Houser, Chairman; Mrs. J. E. Herndon, Comm. iRqy "Cline and Hugh Lan caster. The committee asks that the city employ a 'landscaping engi neer for drawing plans for a beautification project and imple menting His suggestions with specific attention to beautifica tion of the railroad that passes through the middle of town. Af ter a proper study and the pro ject is mapped, the committee suggests that plans be shown for approval to Southern Railway. The project should require a minimum amount of maintenance and will include a permanent fence, Mr. Crawford pointed out. Legal question is whether or not the city can use public funds for a project involving the pri vately owned railroad rightmf way. City Attorney J. Roan Davis was instructed to check the le gality of the project. The commission also approved electrical work in a new develop ment not exceeding $3400. A pri mary line will be built off Rhodes Avenue and will include feeding of service to those custo mers in a portion of Gaston county just taken into the city li mits and now served by Duke Power company. In other actions, the board: 1) Adopted the privilege li cense ordinance, same in effect since July 1959. 2) Appointed Comm. Norman King to serve as the city’s repre sentative on the M?nney Me morial Library Board and to ac company Electrical Supt. Hunter Allen on a night tour of the city to check on lighting. 3) Employed Plato Heavneras a full-time city fireman on a 90 day trial basis upon recommen dation of the volunteer fire de Continued On Page Eight National Guard Unit At Camp This Week Kings Mountain National Guard Company D of the 105th Engineer Battalion of the 30th Infantry' Division is away for two weeks of field training at Fort Eragg. Fifty-five local guardsmen are participating in the annual sum mer enc* moment, alo^g with ot her members of the 30th Infan try Division o* the Ncrth Caro lina Army National Guard. The unit is under the command of Captain Kenneth E. Mauney of Shelby. Training, which consists of en gineer projects sur-h as bulding bridges, roads and using demo litions, is designed to prepare the division for mobilization in the event of a national emergency. The unit will return to Kings Mountain on Sunday, June 23„ Commanding Officer, First Lt. Ronald David Kincaid, said In making the announcement. PASTOR — Rev. Howard R. Jor dan is the new pastor of Centred Methodist church succeeding Rev. Herbert Garmon. He began du ties here Sunday. Jordan Assumes Methodist Post Rev. Howard R. Jordan has as sumed new pastorate duties at Central Methodist church and the fanally has ocaupied the par sonage on E. Mountain street. Mr. Jordan comes to kings Mountain from Pleasant Grove Methodist church of Charlotte where he served a five-year pas torate. Former pastor Rev. Her bert Garmon and his family have occupied the manse at the Leaks vilje Methodist Church. Both Mr. Jordan and Mr. Gar mon are reassigned new charges by the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference recently at Lake Junaluska. Bom and reared in Greenwood, S. C., Mr. Jordan attended the Greenville schools, was graduat ed from The Citadel at Charles ton with A. B. degree and earned his B. D. from Duke University. He did graduate work at Har vard and Vanderbilt universities. His ministry, which (began in the Upper South Carolina Con ference, was interrupted by a five-year tour of duty with the U. S. Army as a Chaplain during World War II in the "Pacific the atre of operations. He has been a member of the Western North Carolina Conference .since 1947. In Albemarle he was a member of the Lions club and in Char lotte he was active in the Opti mist club. He holds the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the active reserves. Mrs. Jordan is the former Eli zabeth Crouse of Winston Salem. They have two married sons and an 11-month-old granddaughter. Dr. Richard Jordan, now in the Air Force at McDill AFB, will begin a residence at Duke follow ing a two-year tour of duty. Ro derick Jordan is a N. C. State College graduate who majored in j animal husbandry. He is in the! dairy business in Albemarle. Court Ruling Effects Here Are Unlikely The Supreme Court ruling ban ning Bible and the Lord's Pray er on a compulsory basis in pu blic schools is not expected to have any effect on Kings Moun tain area schools, according to local officials. The ruling, handed down Mon day, declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania and Maryland laws which require Scripture reading or prayers at the beginning of each school day. There are no such laws in North Carolina. Local schools have devotions or Bible readings over the public address system by members of the school Bible club, Supt. B. N. Barnes said yesterday. Mr. Barnes said participation is not compulsory. Kings Mountain is the only one of the county’s three school systems which offers a course in Bible. City board of education mem bers agreed in regular monthly meeting Monday night that the Supreme Court ruling will not affect its Bible study program. In the Supreme Court ruling, there is a statement that the rul ing would not bar study of the Bible or of religion “when pre sented objectively as part of a secular program of education.” The Bible program in the city schools is financed by contribu tions from churches, other or ganizations and individuals and is under sponsorship of the Kings Mountain 'Ministerial Association. Mrs. Jeannine Easterling Fish er was rehired by the board of education to teach Bible upon recommendation of the minis ter’s group. DuBose Pleaches At Union Service Sunday night’s union service will be held at Kings Mountain Baptist chiurch at 8 p.m. Rev. Marion DuBose will deliv er the sermon, “God and Outer Space.” Kings Mountain church con gregations participating, in ad dition to Kings Mountain Bap tist, are First Presbyterian church, St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, Central Methodist church, Trinity Episcopal church, Boyce Memorial ARP church and Resurrection Lutheran church. Last Sunday’s union service, in the summer series of services, was held at St. Matthew’s church. Dr. W. P. Gerberding’s sermon topic was “The Unseen Preach ed” funeral Hites Conducted Friday For W. Sage Fulton, Sr., Age 74 Funeral rites for William Sage Fulton, 74, were held Friday af ternoon at 3 p.m. from Boyce Memorial ARP church, of which he was a member. Mr. Fulton succumbed Wednes day night at 9:15 p.m. in the Kings Mountain hospital after suffering a heart attack about a week earlier. A native of Cleveland County, he was the son of the late John Dixon and Margaret Harding Fulton. He had retired as a part ner in Ware and Sons wholesale company in Kings Mountain. An elder of Boyce Memorial i Associate Reformed Presbyterian i church, he had served as the church treasurer for 30 years. He was a member of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. j Vivian Ware Folton; a son, VV. S-1 Fulton, Jr. of Kings Mountain; and a daughter, Miss Lenora Fulton of Atlanta, Ga. Also sur viving are two brothers, Palmer D. Fulton and J. Deck Fulton, both of King* Mountain; and three grandsons. SUCCUMBS — W. Sage Kultcm. Sr. died last Wednesday night at the age of 74. Funeral rites were held Friday. Dr. W. L. Pressly, his pastor, officiated at the final rites and interment was made In Mountain Rest cemetery. Board Favors Tax Shift, Hires Teachers Kings Mountain board of edu cation went on record favoring the continuance of the 1962-63 district tax levies at Monday’s regular meeting. The board joins Shellby and Cleveland County school units in recommending a transfer of four cents of the county-wide school tax levy from debt service to capital outlay. Recommendation that the 24 cents for debt service be reduced to 20 cents and the four cents added to capital out lay for buildings and equipment is the lone change from past years. In 1962-63 the Kings Mountain district received its per student share of the county wide school tax levies. They were 31 cents per $100 valuation for current expense, 20 cents for capital out lay and 24 cents for debt service. Kings Mountain’s district cur rent expense supplementary tax is 20 cents per $100 valuation. In addition, a 40-cents per $100 valuation debt service tax will be. levied to begin paying off a high school bond issue approved by voters March 10 last year. Discussion of levying the 40 cents before the bonds are sold brought out that it is legal and “good business’’, according to state and local school officials. Supt. B. N. Barnes, reporting from his meeting in Releigh with state school planning officials noted that possible benefits to be derived from this early levy were listed as quicker repayment of debt resulting in less interest, a chance of more early payments when interest is at its highest rate and leas impact on the bud get when the bonds are Issued. Mr. Easterling has recommended that the bonds be sold as near to the time they will be needed and in September or October instead of July and August. The state school officials told Mr. Barnes there is definite advantage to col lecting the taxes before the bonds are sold. xvxr. names aiso x epui leu jus telephone conversation Monday with Dwayne Gardner, consul tant for the division of school planning. Plans for the new high school are now in the hands of state school officials and Mr. Gardner says an answer from Raleigh is expected in the near future. In other actions, board: 1) Employed Bill Cashion and Bob Hussey for full-time coach ing duties. Mr. Cashion will be head football assistant coach and will assist in other sports. Mr. Hussey, transferred from Beth ware will coach jayvee football and will coach the girls basket ball team. 2) Employed Mrs. Sandra Hus sey as a elementary teacher. 3) Employed Mrs. Jeannine Easterling Fisher as Bible teach er upon recommendation of the Bible - In - Schools committee which will confer Mrs. Fisher on teaching assignments for 63-64. 4) Heard reDort from Supt. Barnes that Marcus L. Durlak had accepted heating - plumbing contract for work on the new high school. 5) Heard a student protection plan for Harold Doster of Walk er Insurance Company, Charlotte but took no action. Rhodes to Speak Here On Monday Dr. John S. Rhodes, of Raleigh, Dresident of the State Medical Society, will address a dinner meeting of the Cleveland County Medical Society at the Kings Mountain Country Club Monday night. The program has been arrang ed by Dr. George W. Plonk of Kings Mountain. Dr. Wyan Washburn of Boiling Springs is president of the coun ty chapter of the North Carolina society and will preside. The meeting is expected to at tract a large crowd. In Kings Mountain, Dr. Rhodes will be guest of his father at the home of Mr. and 'Mrs. Fred Plonk during his visit here. Mrs. Plonk is a half-sister of Dr. Rhodes. SENIOR CITIZEN TRIP Senior Citizens will leave Hues day .morning, weather .permit :ing, at 9 a.m. via chartered bus to spend the day at Blowing Rock and Linville. In event of bad wea ther, the triD will be re-schedul ed for June 27. I Electrical Work Is Well Underway Second Contract Let Tuesday By City Board Work is well underway on re building of the city’s electrical distribution system. The board of city commission ers, meeting Tuesday afternoon, authorized contract with Hunter & Walden Company, of Charlotte, for the second phase, Increment 11, of the rebuilding job, on low bid of $61,229.90 Increment 11 covers the con version of the city’s present 2.4 KV delta distribution system to 2414.2 KV multi-grounded Wye operation which the city had planned to budget and program for its fiscal year ending June 30, 1964. Hunter & Walden was also a warded contract for the first phase of the rebuilding job, In crement 1 which covers the in stallation of outdoor metal clad gear equipment and the construc tion of its associated main feeder lines. Low bid by the Charlotte company was $70,077.87. Actual ly, Hunter & Walden will receive about $28,000 less for the work, as deductions will be taken for about $25,000 for switchgear e quipment the city already has on order, and about $3,000 for ma terials in the present system which wffl be used in the rebuild work. Comms. T. J. Ellison and J. E. Rhea made the motions to award second phase of the electrical work to the Charlotte firm. Commissioners Hike Tax Rate Cleveland County commission ers raised the tax levy five cents at their regular Monday meeting. The levy increase raises the county tax rate to $1.57 per $100 property valuation for next year. It was increased from six cents to 11 cents to enable the county to build a complete, new office building, for which low base bid was $407,600. Architects’ fees of 5M percent of the 'building’s cost would raise the final total cost to $430,000, if the low base bid is accepted. Before authorizing increase of the levy, the county would have had about $373,000 available for the building, over $50,000 short of the total needed to construct the building as planned. The five cent levy increase is expected to bring in the needed funds. Two years ago, the county lev ied a six-cent per $100 valuation special office building tax. It has brought about $130,000 thus far and will net another $5KOOO in fiscal year 1963-64. Earlier this year, commissioners authorized $175,000 in bond anticipation notes to add to the building funds Commission Chairman J. Brad Ellis, of Grover, commenting on the tax raise, said, "We feel it’s I just good business to go ahead and build the entire office build ing now It w:ll save us money in the long run.” The new buildirt*'T will include offices of the agriculture depart ment. cou a tv school offices and welfare offices. The n-onosed 44 000 - souare foot budding is to be cons’ructed on N. C. lc,9 across from the county home. Merrbf»r*ts Plan Battle Observance The King" Mountain Mer chant 4s«Oefat’nn 's ntpnriing an obca-v»nee of k>,e H»f*le of Kings Mountain for October 7. Tentative nlans are not e]ah c*atc but are in the fo*m of gronndwo-k for what is hoped will be continued growth of thn raieh*ation acco*ding to Mrs. Ida F. Joy, Secretary. This yea* t*>e e”ent whl fea ture a merchant’s promotion day. A committee is working on plans and will meet Thurs '*’v. June 27th, to formulate | them. GRADUATES — Peggy Wren Craig, at tap above, and Mark Rudialll Ware. Jr., are recent col legate graduate* card are former Kings Mountain students. Foimei Students Receive Degrees Two former Kings Mountain students are among those receiv ing college degrees in recent commencement exercises. Miss Peggy Wren Craig, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Craig of Decatur, Ga., formerly of Kings 'Mountain, graduated mag na cum laude from Wesleyan college in Macon, Ga. She was president of her sophomore class and president of the student YW CA. She was elected to Phi Delta Phi scholastic honor society and is listed in Who’s Who among students in American colleges and universities. Miss Craig has won a full tui tion scholarship to Candler . School of Theology at Emory U niversity, where she began study in June leading tor Master’s de-, gree in Christian Education. Mark Rudisill Ware, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Ware of Kannapolis, ad grandson of 'Mrs. Leone Ware of the El Bethel i community and the late Mr. Ware, received his B. A. degree from the University of North Ca rolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Ware is employed this! summer as assistant director of Camp Lynbrook at Tanglewoocl Park near Winston Salem. In September he will teach in the Charlotte • Mecklenburg school system. Fund«i Reach $400 In MS Campaign Kings Mountain citizens l-nd ! contributed $400 to the Multlole I Sclerosis drive this week, Chair- ; man Robert H. (Bob) Goforth said Wednesday. Mr. Goforth said citizens not contacted via the house-to-house canvass last week are urged tc mail their contributions to him at 209 S. Roxford. “We don’t want our drive tc lag behind and funds are sorely needed by victims of th's drear1 disease”, he commented. The Jaycees conducted n pa-., ther’s Day cigar sale for i IS' benefit on Saturday and Rainbow Girls sold balloons oh downtown streets. ON DEAN'S LIST Miss Annie Vera Dilling was I listed on the dean’s list and the j honor roll for the spring semes-; ter At Gardner-Webb college. Paid Holiday Is In Store Foi Many Folk A July Fourth week vacation awaits tho vast majority of Kings Mountain textile employ ees. With a few exceptions, majo;i ty of Kings Mountain area ta tile firms will suspend opt ra tions on June 28 — next Friday — or June 29, resuming 'oper ations July 7th or July 8th, ac cording to a survey by the Her ald this week. C. F. Harry, Jr. at Minette Mills, at Grover said his firm will sus pend operations June 29th and resume operations July 7th. W. K. Mauney, Jr. at Mauney Hosiery Mills said Mauney Mills will suspend operations June 28th, reopening July 8th. Craftspun Yarns will be clos ed the week of July 4th begin ning with Monday, July 1 and le turning to work the next Mon day. Kings Mountain Manufactur ing Company will also suspend operations the entire week, Aub rey Mauney, of the firm, said. Neisler Mills Division of Mas sachusetts Mohair Plush Com pany will suspend operations June 29th with employees re turning to work July 7th. Eligi ble employees will receive vaca tion pay based on length of ser vice, W. F. Laughter, personnel ,, manager, said yesterday. Sadie Cotton Mills will sus pend operations the entire week of July 4th. Phenix Plant No. 1 will observe the week of June 30 - July 7 ns a vacation week, it was announc ed today by W. B. Grimes, Plant Manager. The plant will close down at the end of operations on Satur urday, June 29, and will resume operations on Monday, July 8. i he said. j Mr. Grimes said that all eligi ble employees are to receive va cation pay, based on length of service. Water Program Study Planned Recommendations for future development of the city’s water supply will be presented to the Chamber of Commerce board of directors at their regular Thurs day night meeting. Wesley Bush, chaiman of the committee, said his group will present recommendations for further study by the chamber and its board. Both the city and the C of C are working on water supply problems, both future and pres ent, Executive Secretary Glenn Campbell said. The long - range problem, Campbell says is getting addi titional water into the city. Kings Mountain is presently .us ing Buffalo Creek as a source of water. Long-range possibilities could include location of a new water source or possible tie-ins with wa ter systems in Shelby or in Gas tonia. These are, of course, just ideas as we cast around for a solution to the water problem, Campbell said, “We aren’t even sure Shelby or Gastonia would be willing, a Continued On Page Eight McGill Family 4 Moving Thursday D'. and Mrs. Kenneth McGill and .anally are rno»...0 .o.l-., to Chattanooga, Tenn., where Dr. McGill will begin a three-year residency in surgery at the Baro ne's Erlanger hospital. Dr. Charles Adams, Grover medical doctor, will join Dr. Jt a C. McGill as an associate in the general pract.ce of medicine on July 1st. Dr. Kenneth McGill joined hi* brother, senior partner in the Mc Gill Clinic, here in 1951. He is a 1948 graduate of Ereklne college and a gradua e of VanderbCt University Medical School of Nashville, where he also did his internship. He will study surgery at £he Chattanooga hospital where "' s formerly spent a year '.pedall ing in surgery, gynecology ar-1 obstetrics, prior to coming la Kings Mountain. Mrs. McGill is the former Nan cy Thompson. The McGills are members of Boyce Memorial AR? ch"’h. Other members of the family irtMude Kerov ■ Linda, age 7, and Jimmy, age 3.
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