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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 11, 1963
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HOSPITALIZED
J. Pat Tignor, Kings Mountain
fire chief, suffered a heart attack
Monday at his home and is a pa
tient in the Kings Hountain hos
pital.
TO FURNITURE MART
Mr. and Mrs. Dick McGinnis
went to High Point Tuesday for
the Furniture Market, from Mc
Ginnis Furniture company.
SESSION MEETING
A special meeting of the ses
sion of First Presbyterian church
will be held Sunday morning at
10:30 to receive new members,
Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor, said.
PRAYER-IN-SCHOOLS
Dr. Paul K. Ausley, pastor of
First Presbyterian church and
chairman of the Bible-in-Schools
committee, will deliver his Sun
day morning sermon on “Prayer
and Bible Teachings In the
Schools” in light of the recent
Supreme Court decision.
KIWANIS CLUB
Kings Mountain Kiwanians
Dollars,” a cartoon on how the
stock market works, at their
Thursday night meeting at 6:45
p.m. at the Woman’s club.
DAT CAMP PLANNED
Brownies in Troop 1 of Central
Methodist church who need forms
and blanks for completing their
{dans to attend day camp should
contact Miss Margaret Hannon,
204 S. Goforth street Regular
meeting of the Brownie troop will
be August 2.
Master's Degree
David Nelson Smith of Kings
Mountain is among 18 candidates
for master of arts degrees at Ap
palachian State Teachers College
who have accepted college teach
ing positions for the 1963-64 year.
Smith will join the staff of
Catawba Industrial Center in
Newton. A graduate of ASTC, he
was a dormitory counselor and
teaching assistant in the depart
ment of business education.
Herald Press
Erection Work
Is On Schedule
The Herald anticipates today’s
edition is the final one it will pu
blish on the venerable Mlehle
newspaper press it has used since
the second edition in January
1950.
The dismantled Goss Cox-o
Type newspaper press purchased
from the Richmond County Jour
nal is being erected and Jack
Harrison, Columbia, S. C., press
dealer and mechanic, said Wed
nesday his work Is on schedule
and will permit publication of the
July 18 edition on the Goss press.,
He said Wednesday that all
parts should be in place Friday.
Subsequently, the press must
be grouted to Its heavy steel and
concrete foundation and cement
poured around the four large an
chor bolts.
By Monday, says Mr. Harrison,
the press should be ready for a
trial run.
The Mlehle newspaper press
which has served the Herald for
nearly 14 years, was bought from
Mr. Harrison and sold to the
Herald In a three-way press deal
involving the Rock Hill Journal,
which installed a stereotype
press, the Monroe Enquirer,
which installed the Rock Hill
press, and the Herald, Which ac
quired the Monroe press.
Mlehle Printing Press and
Manufacturing has not made the
particular model the Herald has
In many years, except on special
order.
The parts superintendent, Mr.
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BoUra Speaks
At Barbecue
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corporation was honoring its
Grover compressor station em
ployees Wednesday for comple
tion, through 1962, of a record
1,746 days without a lost-time ac
cident.
Phillip S. Robira, assistant
treasurer of Transco, was to
sp^k at-the barbecue, at which
all employees were to receive
‘■“hlrfect safety" awards.
Conducted tours of the facilities
were conducted for wives of em
ployees and other guests.
Dinner included genuine Tax
as-style U S. prime beef barbe
cue, with all the trimmings, serv-.
ed from a prairie schooner type
chuck-wagon.
Campbell Resigns
C Of C Position
crMRMAH — B. r. (Bob) Manor
U chairman of Young Republi
cans of Kings Mountain. Ho was
oloctod at an organisational
mooting moon fly.
Maner Heads
Republican Club
Kings Mountain Young Repute
llcans will meet monthly on each
fourth Thursday, Bob Maner,
chairman, said this week.
The Republican club, recently
organized, Is headed by Mr. (Ma
nor, Kings Mountain insurance
man, as chairman. Other officers
are Bill King, treasurer. Ed H.
Smith and Wayne Forsythe are
program chairmen.
Nick Williams, of Gastonia,
10th District Director, was here
for the organization meeting,
held at City Hall courtroom.
IMPROVING
Paul M. Nelsler, Jr., a patient
In the Butherlord County hos
pital, is expected to be transfer
red to the Kings Mountain hos
pital this weekend. Mr. Nelsler,
who suffered a heart attack, la
Improving, his wife said Wednes
day.
Secretary Says
Health Not Up
To lob's Demands
Captain Glenn Campbell, exe
cutive secretary of Kings Moun
tain Chamber of Commerce, has
resigned this position due to poor
health.
Announcement was made joint
ly Wednesday by Capt. Campbell
and Chamber of Cemmerce Pres
ident J. Wilson Crawford.
Mr. Crawford said he had call
ed a board of directors meeting
for Monday night at 7 o’clock to
consider replacing Capt. Camp
bell.
In a statement, Capt. Campbell
said, "I retired from the Mer
chant Marine slightly earlier
than I might have had my health
been better. When tendered the
Chamber of Cemmerce position,
I accepted it because I was inter
ested in my adopted community
and, of course, felt I could dis
charge the responsibilities.
Frankly, the work proved more
of a strain than I had anticipat
ed.”
President Crawford praised
the work of Capt. Campbell.
"Capt. Campbell has been a
wonderful help in the considera
ble work already accomplished
In getting the organisation on a
strong base. He was particularly
helpful in the work of obtaining
and renovating the new offices
of the Chamber of Commerce and
Merchants Association and it is
with sincere regret I learned of
his decision to resign,” President
Crawford said.
Privilege License
Purchases $1,362
City privilege license purchases
through Tuesday totaled $1,362.
50, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr.,
said.
This figure compares with an
expected income from this tar
schedule of $5800.
Law requires that the licenses
be purchased during July. Pen
alty of five percent per month
applies after August 1.
ELECTED — Charles Blanton.
Kings Mountain pharmacist, has
boon elected second vice-presi
dent of the North Carolina Phar
maceutical Association for 1964
65.
Blanton NCPA
Officer-Elect
Charles D. Blanton, Jr., of
Kings Mountain, is second vice
president elect of the North Caro
lina Pharmaceutical association.
Mr. Blanton was elected in as
sociation balloting by mail, the
results having just been an
nounced by the tallying commit
tee.
He will be Installed, along with
other elected officials, in May
1964 for a one-year term.
Other ofioers elect are: W. S.
Wolfe, Mt. Airy, president; W. T.
Boone, Ahoskie, first vice-presi
dent; S. D. Griffin, Jr., Burling
tin,lthird vice-president; and Hoy
A, Moose, Mt. Pleasant, current
president, as a member of the
exelutive committee for a three
year term.
W. J. Smith of Chapel Hill con
tinues as executive secretary and
managing editor of The Carolina
Journal of Pharmacy.
Clarence E. Page, Jr. of Hen
derson will be recommended by
the association for appointment
as a member of the State Board
of Pharmacy.
C. C. Fordham, Jr. of Greens
boro, Robert B. Hall of Mocks
vllle, T. J. Ham, Jr. of Yancey
ville and John T. Stevenson of
Elizabeth City were elected di
rectors of the N. C. Pharmaceuti
cal Research Foundation.
City Tax Values
To Jump Million
Craftspun Now
City's Largest
Payer Of Taxes
Though final figures are in
complete, the city envisions a
million-dollar increase in taxable
valuations, City Clerk Joe Mc
Daniel, Jr., said Wednesday.
Initial totaling indicates a tax
able property total of $13,000,000,1
compared to the 1962 tax base of |
$12,088,597.
Mr. McDaniel says most of the
increase will be derived from the
industrial and business category
expected to jump about $900,000
from last year's total of $5,006,
061. Principally, expansions of
Craftspun Yarns, Inc., an the
new Shannon, Ltd., plants ac
count for the jump.
Meantime, Mr. McDaniel, add
ed, Craftspun, a division of B. V.
D. Corporation, has become the
city's largest taxpayer, with a
valuation of $1,189,000.
Burlington Industries Phenix
plant, formerly in the top posi
tion, is now second largest, with
valuation of $836,923.
Mauney Mills, Inc., is third at
$637,754.
Mrs. Gladden's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Tressie
Elizabeth Gladden, 74, wife of
Oscar R. Gladden, were held Sat
urday at 3 pvili. from First Wes
leyan Methodist church, of which
she was a member.
Mrs. Gladden died Thursday
morning in the Kings Mountain
hospital following a day’s illness.
She was a native of Gaston Coun
ty, daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Jackson.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by three sons, Harry
Gladden of Gastonia, John C.
Gladden of Kings Mountain, Os
car E. Gladden of Northford,
Conn.; five daughters, Mrs. Beed
ie Barrett, Mrs. Ruth McCray,
Mrs. Cora Hartsoe, Mrs. Mildred
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PROMOTED — Robert A. (Bob)
Hullender, formerly men’s depart
ment manager, has been promot
ed to the position of assistant
manager of Belle’s Department
Store.
Belk's Promotes
Bob Hullender
Robert A (Bob) Hullender has
been named assistant manager of
Belk's Department Store, (Mana
ger Bill B.otvn anhounaed this
week.
Mr. Hullender, who joined the
Belk’s firm last year, has been
serving as manager of the men’s
department.
Mr. Hullender is a graduate of
Western Carolina college. He is
a member of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce.
ELECTED
Miss Coral Ramseur, daughter
of Mrs. W. L. Ramseur and tiie
late Dr. Ramseur, has been elect
ed treasurer of the Young Peo
ple of Kings Mountain Presby
tery for the coming year. Offi
cers were installed receritly at
Presbytery Camp, Flat Rock.
Miss Ramseur is a member of the
First Presbyterian church.
Federal Funds
Aze Available
For Project
By MARTIN HARMON
Community planning division
officials of the State Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment envision a long terni land
development plan for Kings
Mountain which would enhance
both the city's beauty and order
ly growth.
Co it to the city would he a
small annual appropriation, with
each dollar of city funds aug
mented by two dollars of federal
iund.t.
Three community planning of
ficials, George J. Monaghan, ad
ministrator, Jerry Turner, and Ed
Baker, head of the area office at
Salisbury, conferred with Mayor
Glee A. Bridges, J. Wilson Craw
ford, Chamber of Commerce
president, and Mrs. George Hous
er, chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce community beautifica
tion committee, Tuesday.
The C & Z representatives told
the Kings Mountain group they
envision:
1) A study of poRt trends, pres
ent conditions, and future pros
pects as far as the population,
economy and land use are con
cerned ;
2) Identification of the best fu
ture use of land for all areas in
and around Kings Mountain (lor
residences, businesses, indoshy,
recreation, etc.) and where ma
jor roads will be required in the
years ahead; and
3) Implementation of the plan
by designing a zoning ordinance
and subdivision regulation* that
would fit Kings Mountain.
I Mr. Monaghan told the Kings
Mountain citizens that the ennt
| muni'y planning division Is now
assisting 7T» Cities In North Ca.o
lina In planning for land develep
l men
He added, "While the compi**
henslve approach Is more desir
able then making special studies
one at a time, a city beautifica
tion plan would well be done
apart from the comprehensive ap
proach or concurrently with It."
Mayor Bridges, Mr. Crawford
and Mr. Houser common ted thry
were pleased with the informa
tion obtained.
It was suggested that the May
or appoint a committee of citlmns
to work with state officials on
the protect
Mr. Crawford said, "This plan
would attempt to Judge the city's
potential growth for twenty
years hence and to provide faciB
C'mt inued On Pruu- Blnht
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PLANT LAYOUT — PRESENT and FUTURE — OF PHIFER ROAD SC TOOL PROPERTY
Pictured is the anticipated immediate and futuristic plan for develop*
ment of the Phifer Road school property, comprising a tract of more
»tban TO acres, lb the immediate category, teihwiew area high sateei
plant at bottom right, with outdoor physical education area and com
bination football field and track to the left. Possible future building,
lot- whatever needed purpose for junior high school or other, locate
ed at the left. At right, top, is a large area for practical instruction In
agriculture. •