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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 ttu. fig*, for Greater Kings Mountain u dsrlrod tross it- 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. Tbs city Hunts figure Is boss tbs United Statee census at 1990. VOL. 74 No. 26 16 Pages Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 27, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS SPECIAL SERVICE SUNDAY — Resurrection Lutheran church will hold special services Sunday morning at 10 o’clock dedicating the massive steeple, erected in 19S1 at a cost of S8700 and donated by Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mauney. Lyerly Speaker At Resairection Rites Sunday - Special services will be held at Resurrection Lutheran church Sunday morning at 10 o’clock de dicating the church’s steeple ad dition. The $8700 cost of the addition and been amortized through the final of a series of gifts by Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, donors of the addition. Rev. J. Wiiford Lyerly, of Salisbury, secretary of the North Carolina Synod, Lutheran Church in America, will deliver the ser mon and conduct the dedicatory rites, it was announced by Rev. George T. Me/re, the pastor. Included in the original church building plans, erection of the steeple was deferred due to lack of funds. In 1960, Mr. and Mrs. Mauney made an Initial gift for the project, pledging future ones until the full cost was amortized. The steeple was erected in 1961. Members of St. Matthew’s Lu theran church, both Mr. and Mrs. Mauney have been active in ma ny phases of the work of the Lu theran church, locally, in the rtate and nat'on. Mr Maunev is a former president of United Lu theran Churchmen. Mrs. Mauney is Resurrection church’s organist. Rev. Mr. Lyerly was educated at Lenoir-Rhyne college, Luthe ran Theological Seminary, Co lumbia, S. C., and Columbia Uni versity, and Union Theological Ccyninqi-v. New York. A special in parish ministry to home mis sions, he has served and led to self-supporting status churches at Mt. Hebron, Hildebran, Salis bury and Winston-Salem. Part time secretary of the Synod since 1953, he became full-time secre tary last year. Wonted: Buggies ""l And Aged Wagons 1 The Kings Mountain Mer chants association seeks a list ing of vintage wagons and buggies it might use during a celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain in early Oc tober. Bob Mincey, a member of the promotion committee, asked that area citizens who might have such horse • drawn ve hicles available call Mrs. Ida Joy, secretary, at the associa tion office. REUNION SATURDAY The Kings Mountain high school Class of ’58 will hold its five-year reunion Saturday. Pic nic lunch will be spread at the picnic area of the Military Park. Barbecue supper and dance will be held that evening at the A merioan Legion Hall. TO CONDUCT SERVICE — Rev. J. Wilford Lyerly. state Synod secretary, will conduct special services dedicating the steeple oi Resurrection Lutheran church Sunday morning. Big Bond Issues Will Be Asked The county board of commis sioners may be asked to call bond issue elections in the near future totaling $1,750,000. Trustees of Cleveland Memor ial hospital at Shelby announced Tuesday that they will ask the commission to call a bond issue ; for $1.5 million as the county's share in a major rebuilding and , expansion of the hospital plant. (Meantime, the Shelby Public Library board, also on Tuesday, 1 re-launched a campaign for sig natures to a petition asking that county citizen vote on the ques- i tion of issuance of $250,000 in j bonds to finance building of a li brary in Shelby and to levy a four to five-cent tax for library operations. | The Shelby Library board, j when served last vear with not- ! ice that it would have to vacate free quarters in Shelby’s City j tiaii, dSKeu me county commis sion to call a bond election on a similar program. The commis sion decnneu with the observa tion that a petition with suffi cient signatures (15 percent of the registered voters in the past general election) would make an election mandatory. The initial petition effort was no; successful. Meantime, the Shelby Library has vacated it former quarters! and is being operated in a mer chants building, with the Shel by city commission and county commission supplying operating expenses. Cleveland Memorial Hospital, like Kings Mountain hospital, is owned by the county. Both are operated by non-profit corpora tions under ’ease from the coun- j Continued On Page Eight Big Medical Need Is Family Doctors Rhodes Praises '63 Assembly For Medical Bills By MARTIN HARMON The principal medical need in North Carolina today is for gen eral practitioners said Dr. John S. Rhodes, president of the North Carolina Medical society. The Raleigh urologist said that the society’s placement bu reau receives 80 requests for general practitioners to one for surgeons. Dr. Rhodes, in Kings Mountain Monday to address a meeting of the Cleveland Coiunty Medical society, meantime gave high marks to the 1963 General As sembly for adopting legislation recommended and!/or endorsed by the medical society, among the several items: The action of the legislators in implementing the Kerr-Mills fed eral program for aid to needy elderly patients with respect to medical payments, the act legal izing drurikometer tests for per sons suspected of drunken driv ing, and establishment of a sin gle mental health authority with provision that two members be physicians, plus the establish ment of a 15-member physician board to the mental health au I thority. He said the medical society is disappointed the General Assem bly did not adopt the so-called “Good Samaritan” bill, which would have releived anyone, in j eluding doctors, of liability--ex cept in case of gross negligence when one aided an accident vic tim. "Great progress in medical care has been made since the state inaugurated its Good Health program in 1949, Dr. Rhodes declared. He noted that 56 hospitals have been built within the state since that year, and that the ex pansion of the University of North Carolina Medical School to a full four-year school had re sulted in increasing greatly the number of doctors in the state. Since the first class was gradu ated in 1952, he added, 88 percent of graduates have located for practice within North Carolina. The Academy of General Prac tice is seeking to increase the supply of general practitioners by invitations from third and fourth year medical students to apprentice in offices of general practitioners during the summer Continued On Page Eight J. I. Gamble's Rites Thursday Funeral rites for J. J. Gamble, 85, retired farmer of the El Beth el community, will be held Thurs day at 2:30 p.m. from El Beth- i el Methodist church, of which he was a member. Mr. Gamble died Tuesday night in the Watauga County hospital at Boone. He is survived by three sons. T. Lemuel Gamble of Shelby, Zeb Gamble of Florence, S. C.; two daughters, Mrs. S. P. Spake of Shelby and Mrs. James Waters j of Greensboro; and a brother, ! W. H. Gamble of Kings Moun-! tain. The Rev. Bruce Norwood will I officiate at the final rites and in-; terment will be made in the j church cemetery. TO BE INSTALLED — Neil O. Johnson, manager of Foote Min eral company's Kings Mountain operations, will be installed as president of the Kings Mountain Rotary club Thursday, He will succeed Jack Whte. Rotary To Install New Officers The Kings Mountain Rotary Club will meet today at the Kings Mountain Country Club at 12:15 p.m. The program will be the instal lation of new officers of 1963-64. The following new officers will be installed: president, Neal Johnson; vice - president, Fred Wright; and secretary - treasurer, Charles Mauney. Achie Shuford, well • known citizen from Hickory, N. C., will give the program and instadkK tion. Mr. Shuford, a graduate of Davidson college, is the upoeming district governor of the Rotary Club. He is also past president of the Hickory Chamber of Com merce and the Hickory United Fund. He is now general man ager of Whiting Hosiery Mills in Hickory and a director of the na tional hosiery manufacturers. The outgoing officers of the club are: president, Jack White: vice - president, Fred J. Wright, Jr.; and secretary4reasurer, Tom Tate. Cyrus Falls Family May Hold Record The Cyrus Falls family, for merly of Kings Mountain, may have set a record in church at tendance. Mr. Falls, his wife, daughter, and two grandchildren are here for the summer at their home on route three from Dunedin, Fla. They will return to Dunedin in J the fall. i Mr. Falls receives his 50-year I perfect attendance pin from his ! Sunday School class this month; his wife marks her 26th year of j perfect attendance, as does their, son, Tommy Falls, of Washing- ! ton, D. C.; their daughter, Mrs. j Sarah Falls McCraney, marks her 24th year of perfect attend ance. All are active In the Methodist church of Dunedin, Fla, and here attend Central Methodist church. Mr. Falls held a supervisory job in the Florida orange groves prior to his retirement about a year ago. Community-Paid Bible In Schools Has Been In Curriculum Since '39 By ANNE JAMES HARMON The recent Supreme Court de cision concerning the unconsti tutionality of state prescribed Bible reading does not affect the teaching of Bible in the schools, and Bible will be taught in the Kings Mountain schools for the 24th consecutive year beginning with the 1963-64 term. Currently supported by 28-30 churches in the community, the program started in 1939 as a joint project of civic clubs and several uptown churches, fifteen organizations in all. Byron Keeter, initial chairman; of the finance committee, and B. S. N^ill, treasurer, continued in these positions for about 12 years, and the course has been taught as an elective from the sixth grade through high school by a fully accredited teacher. Miss Mildred Lowranoe, a Queens-Chicora college graduate j in English and Bible,, from j Mooresvilie was the first Bible I teacher. She conducted two high school classes daily for which students received one full unit of credit, and eight elementary classes--two at East, two at Park Grace and four at Central. Ele mentary classes were taught twice a week for one semester and three times weekly the sec ond term. Mrs. Jeannine fosterling Fish er, who will begin her fifth year in this position this fall, has re gistered 115 students in grades 10,11 and 12 for the coming term. During this past year she taught for high school classes, | two in the Old Testament and ; two in the New Testament, and each seventh grade in the five grammar schools once a week for a 45 minute period. Mrs. Easterling is a graduate of High Point college with a de gree in religious education. For the past decade the pro- i gram has been the responsibility! (Continued On Page Eight) ! 5 & L Dividend Payment $171,503 Fox New Record Semi-annual dividend pay ments by Kings Mountain’s two savings and loan associations again are establishing a new high record, collectively and se verally. Payments the associations will make as of June 30 will total 5171,503 up by over $23,000 from December’s aggregate payment. Both Thomas A. Tate, secre tary - treasurer of Home Savings 6 Loan association and Ben H. Bridges, secretary - treasurer, of Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association attribute the increas es to increases in savings account and ithe hike in dividend rate to four and one-quarter percent per year. December dividends were at the rate of four per cent per year. Home Savings & Loan’s pay ments will increase for the six j months by $11,199 to $98,730, in cluding $57,188 on full-paid shar es and $41,542 on optional sav ings shares. Home Savings & Loan paid $87,531 to savings shareholders in December and $83,596 a year ago. Kings Mountain Savings & Loan’s payments will increase by $11,697 to $72,772, including $34, 800 on full - paid shares and $37,972 on optional savings shar es. Kings Mountain Savings & Loan paid $61,085 to savings shareholders last Decemebr and $58,081 last June. Foote Is Top Blood Donor Four Kings Mountain indus tries have attained their full quo tas in bliod-giving for industrial coverage of employees and their families. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cheshire, co-chairmen of the blood program for the Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter, announced Hop In dustrial donors for the year and listed names of the 82 citizens who donated a pint of blood at last week’s final visit of the fis cal year for the regional blood ejecting unit. Foote Mineral Company will receive the 1963 plaque to be given by the Kings Mountain Ro tary club to the firm with the largest percenage of employees participating in the blood pro gram throughout the year. Foote, with 88 employees, furnished 51 donors for the blood bank, at taining a percentage of 57.9. Mauney Hosiery Mills, which furnished more donors than any other industry, compiled a per centage of 54,2. Mauney Mills furnished 122 donors throughout the year from its 225 employees. Sadie Cotton Mil’s and Minette Mills of Grover also reached their industrial quotas for the year. Twenty • three donors were re jected because of health reasons at last week’s bloodmobile visit. The 82 donors were processed at Kings Mountain Baptist church. Donors are: Dennis L. Gofortr, Herman T. Cash, Campbell Lock ridge, Raymond Cox, James E. Herndon, Leonard A. Smith, Thomas Darby, J. Kenneth Met calf, Joe Wyte, William W. Hern don, Johnston Covington, W. F. Laughter, James Crosby, Mrs. Norma K. Robbs, William Man ning, Mrs. Paul McGinnis, Mrs, C. S. Plonk, Jr., Clarence Plonk, Jr., Troy Lee Wright, S. Robert Suber, C. Yates Harbison, Ray W. Cline, James Bennett, and Luther Continued On Page Eight Bell Hearing Continues Hearing cn a writ of habeus corpus to tree Alton B. Bell from jail will be resumed by Judge W. K. McLean in Gaston Superior Court Thursday morning at 9:30. Bell, onetime meat cutter at B & B Food Stores here, has been accused by Mrs. Mary Lou Smith, 52, of killing her husband on the night of June 19. The hearing, in which Bell seeks freedom on bond, began Wednesday morning. Mrs. Smith, of Bessemer City, as is Bell, first told police her husband had been shot by two Negroes who had come to their home and shoved her into a bed room. Under continued question ing, she said her first version was false and that Bell was the murderer. Both Mrs. Smith and Bell were Indicted for murder. Mrs. Smith testified at length Wednesday, before Judge Mc Lean recessed the hearing at 3j o’clock. Bell has denied the charge, and I his claim he was at home the i night of the murder has been corroborated, the Gastonia Gaz-! ette reports, both by Bell’s wife' and by his mother-in-law. Bell was butcher at B & B Food Stores from January 1960 to February 1961. WIN DEGREES — Norma Ham rick Blanton, and Don Tignor wore graduated from college In , recent school finals. Two Students Receive Degrees Two Kings Mountain students were recently graduated form college. iMts. Norma Hamrick Blanton was graduated from Meredith college with bachelor of arts de gree. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hamrick of King* Mountain, she held membership In the reli gion blub and the Philanetlan So ciety. A religion major, she was also chosen as a college counse lor. William Dickie Woodward, son of Joe Lee Woodward of Kings Mountain, wm graduated with A. B. degree from East Carolina college at Greenville. Donald Eugene Tignor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Audley Tignor, was graduated with B.S. degree in business administration and soc ial science from Western Caro lina college. Moore Re-Elected To Lowman Board Rev. George T. Moore, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, ha* been re elected to the board of trustees of the Lowman Home, White Rock, S. C., Lutheran home for the elderly. Subsequently, Mr. Moore was re appointed to membership on the board’s executive and build ing committees. Mr. Moore will attend a board meeting at the home on July 3, when b,ds will be opened for the construction of a new 50 bed In firmary estimated to cost about $360/100. FROM GIRL'S STATE Joan McClure and Virginia Go forth, high school seniors, have i returned from attending annual Tar Heel Girl’s State held last week on the campus of Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina. They represented American Legion Auxiliary Post 155. Bell Is Closing Business Office Bank Is Named Collection Agent Effective Inly 8 Kings Mountain's Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company business office will be closed July 12, with the functions of the office transferred to the Gastonia office, E. Floyd Farris, manager, announced Wednesday. Meantime, the phone company has designated First Union Na tional Bank as Its collection a gent for Kings Mountain and Grover patrons. The bank will begin accepting payments July 8 during regular banking hours. Persons and firms who mail checks In payment of telephone accounts my address them to the Gastonia office. There will he no change in the operations of installation, re pair, and long distance services. "This new procedure will per mit us to provide Kings Moun tain and Grover customers better service," Bryan Houck, Gastonia manager, said. He pointed out that for many years the Installa tion, repair and long distance service for this area has been su pervised from the Gastonia of fice, while business office oper ations have been supervised from Shelby. "This realignment of business) office operations will permit closer coordination be tween departments of the Com pany's work in this vicinity,” Houck s&ld. Customers will continue to call 739-9411 on all business transac tions. Calls to repair service and long distance service will remain the same. ,"We want to emphasize the dhange of payment of bills from the business office to the First Union National Bank. Those wishing to mail payments may address) Southern Bel) at Box 199, Gastonia. All other local op erations remain as they have In the past," Houck concluded. Jordan To Speak At Union Service Fourth In a summer scries of Sunday night union services will be held at Central Methodist church Sunday night at 8 p.m. Rev. Howard R. Jordan, new pastor of the church, will deliver the evening message. Last Sunday’s union srvice for seven city church congregations was held at Kings Mountain Bap tist church with Rev. Marion Du Bose delivering the evening mes sage on "God and Outer Space." The union services arc under sponsorship of the Kings 'Moun tain Ministerial Association and seven in-town churches are par ticipating. Local Students At Plonk School Three Kings Mountain students have enrolled lor the summer term at Plonk School of Creative Arts at Asheville. Barbara Plonk, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Geo-ge Plonk, Lin da Plonk, daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Wray Plonk, and Cindy Ware, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pink Ware, left for Asheville Tuesday. No Floating Casket, Giave Dug Too Shallow, Mayoz Is Injured The city has been th-eatened with suit, Mayor Glee A. Bridges has a broken right shoulder, and a casket buried and vaulted on January 4 has been opened--all because the grave of Zeb Grigg in Mountain Rest cemetery wa« dug a bit shallow. Contrary to the rumors which accompanied last week's mon soon '■eason, th» Grigg vault *t;d not "float” to the surface. Mayor Glee A. Bridges says a relative visited the grave to place flowers on It and felt something hard when he stuck the floral pins into the ground. It was discovered that the vault was only about three inches be low the surface earth, where as customary depth is approximate ly one foot. The family protested to the funeral director, Sisk Funeral Home, who In turn protested to the Mayor, cemetery superinten dent and the vault manufactur ing company in Newton. According to Mayor Bridges, (Continued On Page Bight) CHAIRMAN — City Commisi&on m Norman King «rsi elected chairman of the managing board of Jacob S. Mauney Me morial Library at a mooting of tbo library board Tuoeday. PRESIDENT — Odus bmm, er of Western Auto Store, was In stalled as president of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night. He succeeds Jonas Bridges. Lions Install New Officers Officers of the Kings Moun tain Lions dub for 1963-64 wore installed Tuesday night, after the members had heard J. Horace Grigg, retiring superintendent of. Cleveland County schools discuss “The Origin of Names." John Ed Davis, past president of the Shelby Lions club, con ducted ithe informal installation ceremonies. New officers are Odus Smith, preside:):; Wesley Bush, C. P, Bar ry and Dr. George Plonk, vice presidents; Howard Bryant, sec retary; W. D. (Bill) Bennett, treasurer; Peter Mason, Lion tamer; Dr. Nathan Reed, tail twister; and W\ J. Kay, Sam Weir, Hal Plonk, and Carl Go forth, directors. Holdover direc tors are Jack Huuser and J. T. McGinnis, Jr., and retiring presi dent Jonas Bridges is an ex of ficio member of the board. Mr. Grigg, who was presented by Edwin Moore, declared, “Your most valuable possession Is your name for it remains after ycu arc gone.” He said family names came In to use for the first time about 1000 A.D., not having previously been needed by the noma file families. As late as World War II, he said, Iceland employed no family names, not needed be cause of the sparse population. He said surnames derived from these sources: 1) Physical traits (Long, Short, Tall, Sullivan — which means blue eyes). 2) Character traits (Good, De vine, Trueblood). 3) From given names (all names with “son” endings such as Johnson, Robertson, Jepson). 4) Occupation (Smith, Copper Glover). ’ 5) Rank or position (Duke King). ’ 6) Cities of residence (Berlin, Leedv, Lyons). 7) Surrounding natural geo graphy (Ford, Field). 8) Inns and taverns. 0) Common objects of nature. Forsythe Calls YRC Meeting An organizational meeting cf Kings Mountain Young Republi can club will be held Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at City Fa'l courtroom, it was announced ti in week by Wayne Forsythe, coun.y Republican secretary. All people interfered in a ccn servatlve government or who are disturbed by the recent Supreme Court decisions are urged to at tend this meeting. No longer can the American people sit back and say “What can I do?” We must now unite and work together to preserve our freedoms which our forefathers tried to give us, and to turn this country back from its present socialistic-communis tic trend,” Secretary Forsythe said. Stores To Observe r July 4th Holiday < Kings Mountain retailers and their employees will observe the July 4th holiday, according to by laws of the Kings Moun tain Merchants Association. Mrs. Ida F. Joy, association secretary, said King3 Moun tain stores will be closed all day next Thursday, July 4th. Stores will follow the usual closing policy on Wednesday afternoon.
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