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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 m5,iSU5“«,2! n“»* Mountota la derirad from KlitlaL1^ Mountain city directory conaus. Tho city IlmlU Ogun la lm tin Uoltad Statoa canius ot 1880. VOL. 74 No. 29 16 Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS City Adopts Record Budget; Tax Rate Is Unchanged BELX'S MODERNIZES —- Belk's Deportment Sfore is still complet ing interior remodeling, though structural changes in the building, including installation of the modern store front pictured, is com plete. Green aluminum panels are accentuated by the standard aluminum struts supporting the building-long marquee, while the lighted signs stand out with red lettering on a white background. Interior changes feature departmental rearrangement with new fix tures and utilization of the second floor over the men's department For some vintage shots of a portion of the building in former days as well as some Kings Mountain history, see page 8, this section. Local News Bulletins1 j LEGION AUXILIARY The American Legion Auxil ary will hold a covered dish sup per at their regular meeting Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Charles A. Go forth, Sr. IMPROVING D. B. Blalok, Dixon com munlty farmer, is improving fol lowing a heart attack. Mr. Bla lock remains a patient in the Kings Mountain hospital. AT SOUTHWELL Miss Ann Cooper has joined the office staff at Southwell Mo tor company this week, replacing Mrs. Joe Campbell, who is on va cation. DIXON SERVICE Rev. W. D. Ratchford, retired Presbyterian minister of Char lotte, will conduct morning wor ship services Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Dixon Presbyterian church for those members not attending the annual church retreat to Kingfe Mountain Presbytery Camp, Sa luda. NO WRECKS Kings Mountain^ police depart ment reported no wrecks oceur Ing Within the Kings Mountain city limits within the past Week. TO GRANGE CAMP Gary Benton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Odell Benton, is at Grange Youth Camp this week at Bam ardsville. He was accompanied by his parents and by Mr. and Mrs. Myers Ham bright. UONS CLUB The regular meeting of the Lions Club will be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Woman’s Club. Dr. George Plonk is program chairman. DISCHARGED Paul M. Neisler, Jr. was dis charged Wednesday from the Rutherford hospital where he had been hospitalized following a heart attack. Mr. Neisler is im proving at his home and is allow ed visitors. ROTARY MEETING Mayor Glee A. Bridges will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Rotary club at their meeting at the County Club at 12:15 Thursday, it was announc ed by Gerald Munson, program chairman. The Mayor expects to discuss city government, with particular emphasis on work dur ing the coming year. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts jumped to $223.10 during the past week. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., re ported that $140.80 was derived from on-street meters, $64 from over-parking fees, and $1930 from off-street meters. Area Schools Schedule Set, Fall Term Opens August 30 New Vocational Course Offered For First Time School bells will ring for Kings Mountain pupils August 30th, ac cording to the 1963-64 school yea; calendar approved by the board of education, in regular monthly session. Teachers will report for work August 28th. Friday, August 30th will be orientation day for stu dents. First full day of school will Ibe Monday, September 2. Pupils will take a holiday Oc tober 1, date of the annual NCEA meeting1 to be held in Mooresville; Thanksgiving holidays are from November 28-29; Christmas holi days begin Friday, December 20th with classes to resume Jan uary 2. Easter holidays are March 27-30. School will close Wednesday, May 26, 1964. The calendar is the same all over Cleveland County. Distributive Education will be offered for the first time this year to students who will work in xocationa lor trade jobs in town and whose classwork will offer instruction in how to meet the public and be better sales men or saleswomen. Miss Sybil Wilson was transferred from the commercial department to the DE department and Mrs. Ellen M. Sikes, of Shelby, was hired as replacement. Mrs. Sikes taught at Hickory from 1953-62. Other new teachers approved by the board included Jack B. Powell,- eighth grade teacher at Bethware, and Isaac Greer (Alex ander, science teacher at Com pact. Mr. Powell has served as Cleveland County Veterans ser vice Officer since 1959. Mr. Alex ander replaces Mrs. M. R. Terry. Supt. Barnes reported resigna tions of two Bethwae teachers, Mrs. Katherine B. Moss, first grade, and Mrs. Gladys Cox, third grade. In other actions, the board: 1) Approved the 1963-64 driver education budget at $11,000. Ef fective October 1 state law re quires all 16-year-olds to take this elective if they wish to ob tain driver's license before age 18. Board members say they an ticipate 300 sophomores will en roll for the fall term of study. Driver education is being offered this summer. 2) Heard report from Supt. Barnes on equipment purchased or traded for, high school com mercial, home economics and ag riculture shop classes and ap proved purchaaa^of si xnew type writers for Compact high school. 3) Discussed briefly a tax-shel tered annuity plan for teachers and other school employees. Board chairman James Herndon said the board would study the Continued. On Pago Eight RE - ELECTED — George W. I Mauney has been re-elected presi dent of Kings Mountain Hospital. Inc., as were other officers at the annual organization meeting last week. Hospital Board Taps Hambright In annual organization meet ing last week, directors of Kings Mountain hosital re-elected of ficers, re-named one director and replaced another. Named as directors for five - year terms were A. A. Barrett, of Waco, a member of the board, and Robert E. (Bob) Hambright,' Jr., of Grover, who replaces Jack Herndon, also of Grover. ! Officers re-elected were George W. Mauney, president; Holms Harry, of Grover, vice-president; and R. S. Lennon, of Kings Mountain, secretary. The hospital is operated by a non-profit corporation, Kings Mountain Hospital, Inc., under lease from Cleveland County at a dollar per year. Management of the hospital is vested in a ten member board of directors, who serve five-year terms. Jaycees Induct New Members Kings Mountain Jaycees wel comed eight new members at a barbecue supper meeting Tues day night at Lake Montonia. Inducted into membership were Roy Biddy, Gerald Thomason, Fred Tate, Bill Grissom, Dwain Lynch, Eugene Holmes and Dar rell Austin. Mr. Austin, a former member on the inactive list, was re-instated. President Bill Allen presided. Bill McDonald of Hickory, Jay cee region al district director, was guest speaker. Also present as a | visitor was Jack Lutz of Forest I City, district vice-president. School Plans— Final "O.K." Is Expected The Kings Mountain board of j education expected to gather! within the next day or two to I formally approve plans for the new consolidated high school, board members indicated Mon day night. Supt. B. N. Barnes, reporting his telephone conversation with State School Planning Depart ment officials in Raleigh, said he is expecting to receive their ap proval “very soon.” Final approval of the plans will be made by local officials who this week continued study of overlays to preliminary plans prepared by school architects. “We’re expecting a lot of ac tivity pretty soon now and we’ll need to meet more often within the next week or so,” Mr. Barnes told the board. Architects had forwarded the i overlays to Raleigh officials. Privilege License Sales Now $1977 City privilege license purchases increased to $1,977.50 through July 15, Mrs. Houston Wolfe, as sistant clerk, reported. The total compares with $5800 the city expects to receive this year from license purchases. Mrs. Wolfe noted that penalty of five percent per month applies after August 1. C of C Group Seeks Secretary ; Mrs. Lucille Williams is in charge of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce office, pending employment of an execu tive secretary to succeed Capt. Glenn Campbell. Directors Monday night named a committee on filling the office including J. Ollie Harris, Jonas Bridges, and President Wilson Crawford. "Regular functions of the orga nization are being discharged,” President Crawford commented. “We anticipate that the commit tee will be able to recommend a new executive scretary in the near future. ATTEND CONVENTION The R. W. Hurlburt family re cently returned from Toronto, Canada, where they attended the international convention of Op timist clubs. They were accom-! panied by Miss Mary Ethel Dix- j on and also toured Niagara Falls, visited relatives in Connecticut,! and toured Washington. &• C. 1 Neal Hawkins Firm Building $200,000 Asphalt PlantHere mm ixpects To Be Operating Late Next Week Neal Hawkins, Contractor, the Gastonia paving firm, is install ing an asphalt plant here which it expects to have in operatic;!, a bout July 25. Investment in the plant, which will have a maximum capacity of 1,500 tons daily, approximates $200,000. Employment will aver age 15 to 20 persons. The plant is being constructed on property leased from Foote Mineral Company on the Super ior Stone Company road north of Interstate 85. The site was used previously by another con tractor on a temporary basis. Commenting on the plant, Ho ward Hawkins, son of the own er, said this week his firm en visions a permanent operation, He noted the location is favorable for purchase of stone from Su perior and said it is anticipated some sand requirements may be obtainable from Foote. The Hawkins firm now oper ates an asphalt plant in Gastonia and maintains an office in Hen dei*sonville. "We expect to serve Gaston, Lincoln, York andChecqkee coun ties mtftr'the Kings Mountain plant," Mr. Hawkins said. Manager of the Kings Moun tain plant has not yet been an nounced. •Mayor Glee A. Bridges and Kings Mountain chamber of Commerce cooperated with the Hawkins firm in making ar rangements for the Kings Moun tain plant. “We welcome the Neal Hawk fcns operation to the Kings Moun tain area," Mayor Bridges com mented. R. W. Hurlburt Heads Optimists District Optimist Governor Ro land E. Bradley of Gastonia was the featured speaker of the eve ning last Thursday at a special meeting of the Kings Mountain Optimist club at Grace (Methodist church fellowship hall. New officers installed were: R. W. Hurlbut, President; Adam “Jim" Connor and H. Dean Spears, Vice-Presidents; Law rence Allen. Secretary; W. D. Byers, Treasurer; Carl Wilson, Furman Wilson, Robert E. Flem ing, Merle Valentine, Warren Reynolds and W. D. Byers, for terms on the Board of Directors. Past-President Harold Phillips serves exofficio on the board of directors for a one-year term. The new officers were escort ed to the rostum and introduced by Bob Hqsve of Gastonia, newly elected District Optimist Secre tary-Treasurer. Theiocal club President, Mr. Hurlbut, made the following ap pointments to serve on the Board of Governors: Jim Connor and Merle Valentine, co-chairmen of the Boys’ Work Committee; and W. D. “Doc” Byers, project chair man. | ASPHALT PLANT ARRIVES — Mayor Glee Bridges, left, Neal Haw kins, Jr„ center, and Chamber of Commerce President Wilson Craw ford look over the unloading operation of the new $200,000 asphalt plant Neal Hawkins, Contactor, is erecting south of the city- The Hawkins firm expects to have the plant in operation late next week and will employ from IS to 20 persons. Herald Publishes On Its New Press Pressday Run Was Started On Wednesday By MARTIN HARMON Today’s Herald is being pub lished on the recently acquired Goss Cox • o - Type newspaper press. Jack Harrison, Columbia, S. C., press erector, first turned the power to the big press on Mon day. It was a “dummy” run, mi nus ink and distribution rollers and minus pages of type. Wednesday morning, work be gan on the thousands of minor adjustments required under “bat tle” or pressday conditions. Eight pages of today's Herald were placed on the two beds, or decks. These adjustments were still be ing made at 6 p.m. Wednesday in order to give the paper the best typogi-aphical appearance possible. Meantime, the Herald mechan ical force, which has been divid ing time between learning how to operate the new press and preparing the current edition, was preparing the final eight of today's 16-page edition. ■Dimensions of the exterior page are only slightly changed by the requirements of the Goss presg. With today’s edition the Herald page will ibe in overall size 17% inches wide and 22% inches deep, compared to the former page (Continued On Page Eight) Grover's Har-Ray Mills To Begin Spinning Operations Late August Har-flay Mills, Inc. will begin operation at Grover in late Au gust with an initial work force of from 30-35 employees. The firm’s president, W. B. Harry, of Shelby, says the new plant will be moved into produc tion slowly and that employment should reach a maximum of 50. Plant construction is expected to be completed about August 1 and Harry says there is a possi bility that the facility will be ex panded within a year. Ilar-Ray Mills will be a spin ning operation where round sta ple rayon will be converted into yarn. The plant’s initial produc tion will go to Minette Mills. Plans for the new plant were iuiaouncod la December of 19G2 by C. F. Harry, chairman of the board of directors of Minette Mills, Inc. Plans call for a new building of some 32,500 square feet of manufacturing floor since and about 2,500 square feet of ad ministrative floor space to be constructed about 300 feet north east of Minette Mills between Laurel and (Maple avenues in Grove.'. Machinery which is to be in stalled during August will be ca pable of spinning all types of synthetic fibers. Officers of Har-Ftay Mills, in addition to President W. B. Har ry, are J. L. Gray of Gastonia, vice-president, and C. F. Harry, 111, secretory-treasurer. City Court Adopts Cash Only Policy City recorder's courts is a dopting a cash only-no credit policy effective Monday. Judge Jack White, at the reg ular weekly session here Mon day afternoon, instructed Deck Sergeant Earl Stroupe and other officers to inform offend ers of the new policy. The city board of commissioners has re quested the new policy, after recommendation of the city au ditors, now in process of audit ing the city books. “It’s a bookkeeping problem”, Judge White said, referring to credit accounts of those defen dants who are fined and ask for time to pay the bill. Some times, they never pay. Veterans Form Local Barracks World War I veterans from the Kings Mountain area formed a local barracks here Saturday night. Jack Dunwoody of Lenoir, De partment of Junior Vice Com mander, and all state officers were present at City Hall court room to assist in organizational details. Mayor Glee A. Bridges wel comed the group, including visit ors from Shelby, Charlotte, Hisk ory and Lenoir. Dunwoody outlined the bene fits which the Veterans of World War I are seeking at their ad vanced average age of 70 years and appealed for every man who served during World War I to join and help get the benefits for these deserving veterans and their widows. All Department officers spoke briefly on the importance of membership in "the fastest grow ing ex-servicemen's organization in existence today.” Other state officers present were: Department Commander R. Fred Dunn of Charlotte; Quar termaster W. N. Knight of Salis bury; Charles M. Deal of Hick ory and Mrs. Pearl Smith of Charlotte, re-elected president of the Ladies Auxiliary Department of North Carolina. A meeting of the local Bar racks will be held soon to elect and install new officers. Land-Use Sumy Funds Included In New Budget The city board of commission ers held a busy session last Thursday night, as it formally a dopted a $839,983.78 budget, re taining the $1.50 tax rate for the current year. Representing an increase of $78,364.44 over 1962-0.3, the new budget is based on a taxable pro perty valuation of approximate ly $t3 million. Biggest item in the budget is •apital outlay for which $207,030. 92 is budgeted, $1-40,000 of it for rebuilding of the city's electrical distributiotn system. “Had we tried to meet all our capital outlay needs the new tax vould have been $1.93 instead of $1.50”, Mayor Bridges told his ward. The Mayor noted that per manent improvements are being made without the issuance of x>nds or the upping of the tax •ate. Some $65,000 in paving pro jects have been approved, he said, if-and-when funds are available stipulation. The commission also approved an operating budget of $256,420 "or the natural gas system and a •esolution calling on the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development to arrange for plan ning services and for $9,000 in federal funds to assist in plan ning the city’s future growth. Mayor Bridges pointed out that the city will provide $6,000 to match federal funds and will pay for those costs not covered, under the Federal Urban Assist, ance program. Services request - ’d of the Division of Community Planning will include base map ping, land use survey and analy sis, land use plan, population and ’crhiomic study and subdivision regulations. The Mayor appointed a bi-ra cial seven -.member committee to "improve relations between the races and to iron out at the con ference table any difficulties which mighparise between the races.” Appointment of such a commit tee was suggested by the gover nor for all tov/ns and cities hi the state. The mayor and Comm. Ray Cline recently attending a meet ing called by Governor Sanford in Greensboro. Comm. Cline was named com mittee chairman avid other mem bers are J. Ollie Harris, Rev. Ma rion DuBose, Charles Blanton, Hazel Lee Gill, Roy Brown and J. D. Mitchem. The board heard a request from the board of Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library for $400 a month revenue plus free utilities or $500 a month income but took no action. However the board indicated it was sympathe tic to the library plea. Mrs. George Houser, Mrs. John (Continued On Page Eight) Mrs. Gregory's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Mary Vick Gregory, 37, were held Wed nesday at 10 a.m. from First Presbyterian church, of which she was a member. Mrs. Gregory, a registered nurse and assistant director of nursing at Cleveland Memorial hospital at Shelby, died at Kings Mountain hospital Monday at 2 pun. following an illneess of sev eral months. She was a native of High Point, daughter of Mrs. iMannie Rich Vick and the late William J. Vick. Her husband, Robert IL Gregory, is a member of the Kings Moun tain hospital laboratory staff, rhey made their home on Phifer road. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Gregory is survived by three brothers, James E. Vick of Trav eler’s Rest, S. C., Daniel G. Vick of Reidsville, Milton E. Vick of 1’oledo, Ohio; and two sisters, Mrs. John Coffee of Thomasville and Mrs. Willie Linville of High Point. Dr. Paul K. Ausley officiated at (he final rites, assisted by Rev. Thomas Droppers, pastor of Tri nity Episcopal church. Interment was made in Mountain Rest ce« metery. Active pallbearers were George Thomasson, Grady Howard, Wil burn V. Gault, Steven iMurphree, Barney Rhodes, and John Rank-, in. Honorary pallbearers were members of the medical staffs of the Kings Mountain and Cleve land Memorial hospitals. Flower attendants were nurses from the two hosyitiia.
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