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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 TbU flour* for Onolw Bag* Mounted* U Mn< boa tb* list Kiam Mouattda rify dbMMty aai*. Th* b«i Omits flgur* 1* boa t*» Oattad Mata* **oSus of INO. Pages Today Seventy-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS flour* for IMS Kings ur* It McGinnis Finn ToBelocate On Battleground McGinnis Department Store announced this week It will re locate in late July In the South Battleground avenue building formerly occupied by Winn-Dixie Stores. Paul H. McGinnis, owner, said he had concluded arrangements with the owner, Dr. D. M. Morri son, for a lease on the building. Recently renovated to provide two store buildings, the dividing wall will be removed, and the building will be air-conditioned. The change of quarters will mark the third expansion move of the McGinnis firm since it was opened in January of 1952 in the Lipford building on Moun tain street. In 1954, the firm oc cupied the Mountain street biuld ing of Dr. Morrison now the home of Page’s Men's Store. In 1959, the firm returned to its original location but employing both the liinford and McGinnis buildings. "‘The new quarters will provide ado ..o iijj. s^'ace to enaiole us to offer more merchandise In greater capacity," Mr. McGinnis commented. A “We’re Moving" sale is now underway. Local News Bulletins FROM VACATION Dr. and Mr*. W. P. Gerberdlng and son, Tommy, are back from vacationing in Minnesota and Wisconsin and Dr. Gerberdlng will fill his pulpit Sunday at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. Dr. and STrs. Paul K. Ausley have returehd from a vacation in Mississippi, down the Gulf Coaat and Florida. Dr. Au*ley will fill the pulpit Sunday at First Pres byterian church. hospitalized < D. B. Blalock, Dixon commun ity fanner and chairman of the county ASC committee, suffered a heart attack last Wednesday aft eirnoon and is a patient ift the Kings Mountain hospital. HO FIRES City firemen reported no fires occurred during the past 10 days within the Kings Mountain city limits. legion meeting Regular meeting of Otis D. Green Post 155, the American Legion, will be held Friday nighl at 8 p.m. at the Post buildtng on York road. DISCHARGED Kelly Bunch, purchasing agent for Fiber Industrie*’ Plant at Earl, is expected to return to work Monday after undergoing a throat operation laat Wednesday. Mr. Bunch was discharged from the hospital Thursday and ha* been recuperating at his home. LIONS TO MEET Regular meeting of the King* Mountain Lion* club will be held Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at the Woman’* club. George B. Thom asson is program chairman. KIWANIS MET Kings Mountain Kiwanian* held their regular monthly meet ing Tuesday to replace the July 4th meeting. Glee Bridge* was program chairman and member* met at 12 noon at the Woman’* club. teacher resigns Mrs. Katherine B. Mo**, of Blacksburg, S. C., ha* tendered her resignation as first grade teacher at Bethware school Supt. E, N. Barnes ha* reported. HOSPITALIZED Paul M. Neisler, Jr., official of Dicey Fabrics, Inc., suffered a heart attack last week and Is a patient in a Rutherfordton hos pital. Members of hi* family said hi* condition 1* satisfactory. DISCHARGED E. W. Griffin, King* Mountain d-uggist, was discharged Wednes day from Kings (Mountain hospi tal where he underwent an oper ation hut week. Mr. Griffin is recuperating at hi* home. Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $192.15, including $124.35 from on-street mdwrs, $50 from over parking fees, and $17.80 from off street meters, City Clerk Joe Mo Daniel, Jr., reported. wwmmnmmm WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Anita McGinnis has won a scholarship from the National Institute of Mental Health for graduate study at Tulane University. Anita McGinnis Wins Scholarship Miss Anita iMoGinnis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul McGinnis, has been awarded a $2,940 train eeship by the National Institute of Mental Health for graduate study. A child welfare social worker In the Catawba County Welfare Department at Hickory, Miss Mc Ginnis will enroll at Tulane Uni versity in New Orleans, La. in the School of Social Work in September. IMlss McGinnis’s stipend in cludes $940 for tuition and $2,000 Tor living expenses. A 1959 graduate of Lenoir Rhyne college, Miss McGinnis holds an A.B. degree in sociolo gy. She has done graduate work at the University of Tennessee School of Sodal Work at Knox ville, She joined the Catawba County Welfare Department in August 1969, took a leave of ab sence from September ’61 to July '62. School Plans Work Continues Refinement on basic floor plan for the new Kings Mountain high school continues and work on de tail plans and specifications is underway, Supt. B. N. Barnes •aid Wednesday. State school planning officials resommended these minor chang es when reviewing the floor plan June 26, Siupt. Barnes reported: 1) Improvement of a traffic problem into the cafeteria. 2) Slight changes for entrances into gymnasium dressing rooms. 3) Larger work area for libra ry. 4) Re-arrangement of agricul tural shop storage room to im prove acoess. Mr. Barnes said he had visited the architects Monday and that work Vs proceeding on detail plans and specifications on plant areas now regarded as fixed. Jet Paikei On Probation A local negro, Jet Parker of Bast King Street, had charges of assualt with a deadly weapon with intent to kill reduced to as sault with a deadly weapon after tendering a guilty plea to the lesser charge in City Court Mon day, before Judge Jack White. Parker, 40, was charged with the stabbing of Vernie Mae Gills after an argument over money. The two were at a dance at a private women's club when the argument started. Judge White sentenced Parker to two years in jail and assigned him to work upon the roads un der the control and supervision of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, suspended ipon the following: that he pay he plaintiff the . full amount of her doctor and hospital bills, pay her $150 payabe by $5 per week •nt l *he is able to retain em •liovment, be of good behavior md break no criminal laws for five years and be under the su pervision of the county probation officer for a period of five years, ind pay the costs of court. Before Judgment was passed, Office” .John I-each end Chief of Police Paul Sanders served as character witnesses 'or Parker. Both Mid Parker’s :ha”trter was good, Eight other dispositions were tAkem be»o-e Judge White: prady Qdunn, Negro, 24. 315 Watte”son Street, pled guilty to the. charge of assualt on a fe male and'received a 30 day sen tenced suspended upon payment of coats of court and that he be of good behavior to his wife in the future. Samuel Boyce, Negro, 41, was found guilty of non-support, he (Continued On Page Eight) Herald Press Installation Starts Monday The Herald anticipates publish ing its July 18th edition on the Goss Cox - o - Type newspaper press it purchased recently. Jack Harrison, Columbia, S. C., press dealer and erector, said Wednesday he had made ar ■nangements to begin dismantling the 11-ton press at Rockingham Friday. It is due here Monday, with erection scheduled to begin immediately. Mr. Harrison said he would use a crew of five for unloading hea vy major parts. Preparatory work on the Her ald building was completed last weekend. A five-foot pit was dug and cemented by Hal Plonk and a chain fall assembly for hand ling the large rolls of newsprint the new press will utilize has installed Iby Goforth Brothers, Inc. The new press will produce up to eight printed pages, delivering the pages in folded sections. Nor mal running speed is 3,000 per hour. The press is also equipped with a color attachment. In contrast, the present Herald newspaper press is hand-fed, has a maximum capacity of four pages, and produces 1500 per hour. The printed sections must be processed through a folder. The Herald purchased the press from the Richmond County Jour nal. -— Local Group To Boy's Camp Seven boys from Kings Moun tain have qualified for a two weeks stay at State Elks Boys camp near Hendersonville, N. C. Included in this adventure trip are Clarence Allison, Edd> White, DouglaB Sworn*, Davi* Black, John Smith, Jimmy White, Kenny Huffstetler and Jake Rey nolds. Each summer Shelby Elk* Lodge 1709 sends 40 boys to camp for two weeks. The camp is plan ned and operated to give deserv ing boys a chance to enjoy them selves and to ad dto their exper ience a wholesome two weeks of training and fellowship. This year the Elks Lodge decid ed to invite a group of Kings Mountain boys to be their guests at the camp. A call to Jack White started a hurried process. Father Kennan of Christ the King Ca tholic church oriented and outfit ted the group. I>r. Phillip Pad gett performed free medical ex aminations and on Sunday transported the boys to Shelby. Charles Dixon and Jack White From here the Elks station wa gon carravan took them to Hen dersonville. Postoffice Contract To Alabama Firm A Mobile, Ala., firm has been awarded contract for renovating Kings Mountain postoffioe, Post master Charles Alexander learn ed Wednesday. George E. Jensen Contractors, Inc., was awarded contract by the General Service administra tion for installing air - condition ing, heating, lighting and mak ing repairs at a co6t of $34,333. Postmaster Alexander said he had not been informed when the work would begin. Budget Requests Record $915,000 IN NEW POST — Ren Baity ha* accepted a position with Ameri can Discount Company as an ad justor at the Charlotte office. Ken Baity In New Post James Kenneth Baity, son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baity, of Kings Mountain, has been em ployed as an adjuster In the Charleston, S. C., branch office of American Discount company. Mr. Baity attended the Univer sity of South Carolina for three years and has served in the Na tional Guard and in the Stand-by Reserve for a total of seven years. He is amrried to the former Marjorie White and they have two children, James Kenneth, Jr., aged three years and Lisa Ann, who is two years old. City Streets 40.01 Miles The City of Kings Mountain has filed its application for street improvement funds under the state’s Powell Act on the basis of 40.01 miles of city-maintained streets. The report, certified by Engi ne er W. K. Dickson, shows the city maintains 33.63 miles of hard-surfaced streets, 4.98 miles of Improved street (soiled and graveled) and 1.39 miles unim proved streets. Bulk of the 4.98 iniles is being prepared for hard surfacing. During the year, the city added to its street system .39 miles of street. Under the Powell Act, cities share in a portion of the state’s gasolina tax receipts on the basis of 1) population and 2) miles of streets maintained. Last year’s payment to the city was $34,258. Since the Powell Bill was en the rebate has averaged more acted in 1961, the city’s share in than $30,000 annually. The funds oan be expended only for street improvements. Websters Report First Cotton Bloom James F. Webster, route three farmer, has reported the first cotton bloom in the Kings Mountain aea. Miss Becky Webster, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Webster, brought a bloom to the Herald office July 1st, on Monday. The Websters farm six acres Harry Top Winner In FFA Forestry Project; Four Get Farmer Degree John Harry of Grover copped first place award in the state fqt, his forestry project and four Kings Mountain boys won their FFA farmer degrees at the re cent state convention of Future Farmers of America in Raleigh. Harry won cash prizes of $375, including $275 from Seaboard Airline Railway and $100 from the FFA Foundation. He will visit Chicago, Washington, and Pittsburg and will attend the Na tional FFA convention in Octo ber to be held in Kansas City. He will be accompanied to the con- | vention by Paul HamVbright, vo cational agriculture teacher at Kings Mountain high schoJ. The lour members of the local; FFA chapter attaining State i Farmer degrees were Ronnie j Blackburn, Gerald McDaniel, Calvin Humphries and Robert Ham bright. Only 26 of these degree! were awarded in the western North Carolina area’s 99 schools. One of the major requirements for the degree is that the FFA mem ber must have made at least $500 on project work and have rein (Continued On Page Eight) ELECTED — Dottis Gibbons, Kings Mountain Iwtoww at Gaston Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, has boon aloctod txoaaursr of Dtstsfct 3 of the North Carolina Studont Nurse Association. Mbs Gibbons is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Gibbons. Holiday For Most Independence Day Lake Montonia. Country Clubs Schedule Parties Kings Mountain citizens will celebrate a virtually quiet July 4th. For many textile employees, the week of July 4th has been a vacation with many industrial plants suspending operation from June 28 to re-open July 7th. Eli gible emloyees receive vacation pay, based on length of service. A one-day holiday in Indepen dence Day is in store for most re tailers and their employees. All in-city business establishments will be closed for the day, some of them remaining open all day yesterday. Government offices will be closed. Mills suspending operations the full week include Mauney Hosiery Mills, Mauney Mills, Craftspun Yarns, Kings Moun tain Manufacturing company, Neisler Mills Division of Massa chusetts Mohair Plush company, Sadie Cotton Mills, Phenix Plant of Burlington Industries, all of Kings Mountain, and Minette Mills of Grover. Slater Mills did not suspend operations this week. Local clubs have arranged holi day activities for members. At Kings Mountain Country Club, a water show and buffet supper .jwlLfUrt at 6 p.nh. Lake Montonia Club, Inc. is staging traditional activities, with sport ing events on tap at 2 p.m. fol lowing by picnic supper. The city swimming pool is expected to enjoy a booming business, as are nearby lakes, fishing streams and the National Military Park facilities. Dixon Revival Is Continuing Evangelistic services are con tinuing this week at Dixon Pres byterian church with services through Sunday night at 7:45 p m. Bible School classes for all ages began Monday and will con - tinue through Friday from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m. Commencement exercises will be on Sunday dur ing the Sunday School hour. Rev. Edwin Byrd, pastor of New Hope Presbyterian chu"ch of Gastonia, is visiting evange list. Rev. James Mann, Dixon pas tor, is superintendent of the Bi ble School. Music is under the d: reetion of Mrs. Paul Mauney, choir director, and IMiss Sarah Rhyne, pianist. Leaders in the Bible school include Charles Blanton and Mrs. Paul Mauney, adults; Mrs. Charles Blanton, juniors; Rev. Mr. Mann, youth; and Mrs. Thomas Humphries and Mrs. Gene Goforth, primary. Luther League Installation Set New officers of the Luther League of Resurrection Lutheran church will toe installed Sunday morning at 10 a.m. during an in stallation program. Peggy Plonk, outgoing presi dent will lead the installation rites. Ginger Goforth will be install ed as the npw president for 1963 e& and other officers will in clude Tommy Plonk, vice-presi dent; Anita Huffstetler, secre tary; and Barbara Plank, trea surer. 'Sims To Address Lutheran Men Lutheran Church Men of Re surrection Lutheran church will hold a cook-out and regular meeting Sunday evening at 6 p. m. at the church. Rev. Robert F. Sims, pastor of Ascension Lutheran church of Shelby, will be guest speaker. Mr. Sfans will use the topic, "Christian Responsibility In Hu man Relations" as program sub ject. -President Dathia Sanders in rited all men of the church to participate. , OK DEAN'S LIST Bobby Biddix, Kings Mountain senior at Wake Forest college, was listed on the dean’s list for the spring term just ended at Wake Forest. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Biddix. TO SEMINARY — Dr. James A. Carpenter. Kings Mountain na tive. will join the faculty of Gen eral Theological seminary. New York city, in September. Dr. Carpenter To Be Teacher Dr. James A. Carpenter, Kings Mountain native, now vicar of St. Timothy’s Episcopal church, Alexandria, La., will become a member of the faculty of Gener al Theological seminary in New York in September. Dr. and Mrs. Carpenter and their two sons visited relatives here last week. He has served the Alexandria church since returning from stu dy abroad in Scotland and Eng land. Dr. Carpenter is a son of Clar ence E. Carpenter, of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Bess Webb Carpenter, of Shelby. Jerry Cantrell, 15 On Long Bike Ride Jerry Cantrell, 15, made a bi cycle trip 81 miles last Wednes day to his grandparents’ home in Simpsonville, S. C. He didn't make a round-trip dike ride, however. His mother, Mrs. Willie Cantrell, brought him back via car 'Monday. Young Cantrelll left Kings Mountain at 4:30 a.m. last Wed nesday, arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Cantrell 81 miles distant at 2:30 p.m, that afternoon. ON DEAN'S UST Bobby Biddix, Kings Mountain | Junior at Wake Forest college, was among the 376 students list- j ed on the dean’s list for the! spring semester. McDaniel Says S50.000 Paring lob Indicated The city commission will Ra ther early next week for an In formal work session on the 1963 64 budget, with departmental ap propriation requests at a record $915,000. The total compares with tlv approximately $800,000 Included in the amended budget for the re cent year and the $761,000 Initial ly adopted, Principal work of the commis sion in the budget deliberations, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., says, will be in paring requested appropriations about $50,000. With a tidy surplus in hand to begin the year, the city will be a ble to adopt a conservatively ba lanced budget of about $865,000, Mr. McDaniel says. Requested is $275,000 for capi tal outlay items and Mr. McD&n iel guesses some of these items will be deferred. 'Fixed and already contracted in this category is $131,706, cost of re-building of the electrical distribution system, on which work is now underway. Other ma jor capital requests include street improvements at $62,500 and ma chinery purchaees at $44,100. Another possible paring sho would be re-surfacing of present streets, a maintenance item. “Otherwise,” Mr. McDaniel says, “the likely cost* are pretty well fixed.” Some slight loosening may oc cur on anticipated tax receipts Still to be totaled are taxable valuations as of January 1. Mr. McDaniel pronounced the natural gas system budget ready for adoption, following consulta tion with the gas system engi neers, Barnard & Burk, Inc. •Gas sales for the 19o3-64 yea: of •'Vfiono b-o a”t,c'T>!’ted. Disbursements for all opera tional costa, including $1*0,94.-. for purchase of gas, are expected to be $169,OCX). Net profit of the system, exclusive of debt service costs Is anticipated at aboui $88,000. — " M 1 t Race Relations Talks Friday Mayor Glee A. Bridges and Coimmlasioner Ray A Cline will go to Greensboro Friday to at tend a meeting with Governor Te»ry Sanford on race relations. The Governor wrote Mayor Bridges and other mayors of the state, pointing to recent event* in race relations in North Caro lina, and invited them to discuss the problems with him at a meet ing to be convened at 1:30 Friday afternoon at the library of Wo man's College, in Greensboro. The Governor also enclosed a copy of a transcript of conten tions and demanos uy Negro ic-u-. ierg at a recent meeting with the | Governor. Clarence Sloan Plonk Celebrated 80th Birthday Anniversary July 2 By MARTIN HARMON Clarence Sloan Plonk, farmer, trader, and com field philosopher Observed hi* 80th birthday Tues day. Kin and friends were invited informally to drop in for dessert after supper, and many did. Des sert proved an understatement, as the party fare Included not on • ly a huge birthday cake and punch, but sandwiches, cheese biscuits and other delicacies. Mr. Plonk is a Kings Mountain native, bom July 2,1883, a couple of miles north of his present nambling country home off Cher ryville Road. He was the third child and second son of the late William Lafayette and Regina Ware Plonk, parents of ten child ren. He and his wife, the former El len Patterson, were married 58 years ago on April 20, 1905, and are also parents of ten children, all but one of whom were present for Tuesday evening’s festivities. Zeb Plonk, a Boston, Mass., in surance executive* had visited here the previous week. Reared on the farm, Mr. Plonk attended Lenoir college (now Le noir-Rhyne > a year before his marriage, then began a life-time devoted to hand work and enter prise. Before the day of the trac tor, he spent the winter months as a mule dealer, purchased them for re-sale in lots of up to 200. He commented recently on the vaat change in fanning methods, noting that onoe-standard prac tlce was to plant corn in hills four feet apart in rows four feet apart. Today’s corn on the en trance road to the Plonk home Is healthily green and planted quite close. The difference: fertilizers, hybrid seeds, modem cultivation, and Chemical weed killers. 'Mr. Plonk i* a rugged individu allst who says what he thinks and means what he says. Some years ago he was hailed down by a highway patrolman who sug gested that Mr. Plonk tthen and now a virtual teetotaler) was driving inebriated. Righteously indignant, M' Plonk gave the young officer a heavy tongue-lashing. Mr. Plork had wavered on the road a little while looking over his crops. Just a few years ago, Mr. Plonk suffered severe leg bums when butchering a hog. Some one threw gasoline around the hot water pot. His surgeon son sug gested that he may require some skin grafting, but "Papa", as all his children address him, wanted to know where skin could be ob tained. ‘Off you,” his son replied. “Oh, no!” Mr. Plonk replied. "Can't you buy some?” t. Dr. George Plonk laurhed, “You ban but It won’t work.” There was no skin grafting. * Several years ago Mr. and Mrs. ! Plonk returned from morning j services at St. Matthew’s Luthe- i ran church, where they are mem bers, to find that robbers had ' (Continued On Pane Eight) ON LIBRARY BOARD — Joiner E. Hamden. Jr., has been sleeted board of education representa tive on the Jacob S. Mauney Me morial Library board. Other members are Norman King, city commissioner, and Mrs. George Houser, representing the donors. Board Holds Brief Session The board of education mel in brief special session last Friday. The board: 1) Elected Its chairman, J, E. Herndon, Jr., as its representa tive to the Jacob S, IMauney Li brary board. 21 Adopted an amended budget for 1902-63 to provide wor execn Income and outgo accruing irun adult education instruction. 3) Authorized the e | *rint< r> dent to purchase several .terns cl agricultural shop equipment, sewing machines and lyyiowrlu s on a t'ade-ln basis. 4) Heard reports on Hummer school and student driver train ng mtrttction. Safety Awards To Be Given Employees of Compressor Sta tion 145, Transcontinental (las Pipe Line Corporation, at Grover, will receive "perfect safety" a wardg for 1962 in Safety Awa d Presentation Ceremonies Wed nesday, July 10th. Conducted tours of the facili ties for guests and wives of em ployees will begin at 4:30 pm. Immediately following the .e remonies a genuine Texas style U. S. prime ix-ef barbecue -with all the trimmings will be served f'om the prarle schooner type chuck wagon by the safety engi neers. Stanley Owens, director of safety, says the day* activity* will honor the employees with perfect safety record* during 1962. Dixon Church Sets Homecoming Dixon Presbyterian church wul observe Homecoming Day at ser vices Sunday. Rev. James Mann, pastor, will deliver the morning message at 9:30 a.m. after which the Bh.le School commencement program will be held during the Sund. y School hour. Picnic lunch will be spread on the chu-ch grounds at 1 p.m, and a song service will begin et 2 p, m. Groups of singers from :hc various churches of the comir ti nlty are Invited to participate, The evening service at 7:45 o. m. will conclude the special w k of evangelistic services which be gan last Sunday. Rev. Kdv i Byrd, pastor of Gastonia's NU\r Hope Presbyterian chu.ch, ..i S visiting speaker. ZIP Moil Code Is New In Vogue ZIP code time is Tie e. That’s tiie new five digit all United States citizens hive had added to their addresses by the postoffice department. All Kings Mountain citizens; in addition to their regular ad dress, now own the numftcr 28086. Thus a full address might be: John Doe. 41 Sher wood Lane, Kings Mountain, 1SL C., 28086. The "2” refers to the geo graphJoal region such as fifth ,civii service region), the "80” ts the principal area mail rente (C^larlottet, and'* the "86" is Kfngs Mountain, North Caro lina The purpose is to speed mail handling thereby mail service, says Postmaster Charles Alex ander. A few letters are begin ning to carry the digits. ZIP Is an abbreviation for “Zoning Improvement Platt".
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