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i Population Greater Kings Mountain !0,320 City Limits 8,008 nil flour* to * Graatar Ann ihmiw. i. -*_. Stoto - 10 flOUtol* Iran UM Uni tad Itotaa eanluTnl VOL 74 No. 30 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 25, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year Pages Today PRICE TEN CENTS Final Approval Anticipated On School Preliminary Plan I Local News Bulletins 4-K CLUB WILL MEET The Oak Grove Community 4-H Club will have its monthly meet ing Monday, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the pak Grove Baptist Church. LIBRARY AT WEST West School Library will be open next Wednesday, July 31st, from 9 until 11 a.m. but will be closed the entire month of Au gust. The library has been open ed every Wednesday this sum mer. ORMAND REUNION The annual Ormand family (Old Furnace) reunion will be held at Long Creek Presbyterian church Saturday, July 27th. Friends of the family are invit ed to attend, Hugh D. Ormand, president, said. HOUSE DAMAGED The Oliver Patterson home at 412 Belvedere Circle was damag ed’ recently when an automobile parked at the residence of Vester Hull, rolled one block and struck the house. No one was injured. In a story reporting the accident in the Herald it was inadvertently stated that the Hull home, not the Patterson residence, was damaged, NO COURT MONDAY Kings Mountain Recorder’s fourt will not be held Mondayr kuly 29th, Judge Jack White has Announced. The court clerk, Po lice Desk Sgt. Earl Sroupe, Jr. will be on vacation. THREE ARRESTS MADE Three arrests were made by Kings Mountain police Monday. They included one each on char ges of assault, attempted lar ceny of an automobile and fail ure to yield the right-of-way. KIWANIS MEETING Rev. Howard R. Jordan, pastor of Central Methodist church, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club at their meeting at the Woman’s Club Thursday evening at 6:45. FIRE ALARMS City firemen reported two fire alarms, both of which were false alarms, Thursday and Friday to Cansler and Ridge streets. QUARTET TO SING The Chordsmen Quartet, which sings each Sunday morhing on WSOC-TV, will sing this Sunday morning at 11 o’clacn at, the Chureh of God. Rev. F. M. Vaughn is pastor. After Accidents Mrs. Mahala Bledsoe, 39, of Charlotte, was reported slightly injured Sunday at 4:40 p.m. when two cars collided at the in tersection of West King and Mountain streets, according to Kings Mountain police. Police said Hollis Doyle Wess, 25, of Gastonia, was charged with failure to yield the right-of way as a result of the acident. According to investigating offi cer Charles Wallace, Wess was driving south on West King street and crossed the intersec tion in front of a car diven by Roger William Bledsoe, 39, of Charlotte. Damage was estimated at $200 to the Wess car and $150 to the bledsoc vehicle. A two-ear collision at 3:40 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Cleveland Avenue and Linwood road resulted in approximately $350 property damage, according to Kings Mountain police. John F. Gantt, 78, of 706 Pied §ont Avenue, pulled his car into e path of a car driven by Gar n Lee Hennessee, 21, of Besse mer City, police said. Gantt was charged with fail ure to yield the right-of-way. Hennessee was driving north on Cleveland Avenue when the Gantt' car pulled into the inter section from the parking lot at Ellison's store. Damage was estimated at $50 to the Gantt car and $300 to the 1963 Hennessee vehicle. V State Office Lists Final Suggestions The Kings Mountain board of education is expected to meet not later than Thursday and give fi nal approval to preliminary plans for the general layout of the $1,100,000 district high school building. Schools superintendent B. N. Barnes said an effort was made to convene the board Tuesday night but that Trustee George H. Mauney was out-of-town. The ooard, before action, will consider a list of 17 suggestions concerning the plant layout from Gareth Annas, assistant design consultant, of the state’s division of school planning. “Chairman James Herndon and I believe we are about set,” Mr. Barnes commented, noting .hat many of the suggestions ap peared optional, while others are minor in detail and could be ef fected easily. Mr. Annas concluded his letter, “With these comments, we are considering the preliminary irawings approved in terms of general layout.” Meantime, detail plans work is inderway, Thomas H. Cothran, of Architects Associated, said .Vednesday afternoon. “I am currently devoting my at ention to the basic structure of the building,” he commented, idding, “considerable attention must be 'given to the problem of .materials, which can be large actor in controlling sosts.” He declined to guess possible late ot completion of the plans .nd bid Advertising (fate. “I can foresee,” he said, “we’ll >e working nights and weekends o get these plans completed.” Principal suggestions in the etter from the state department >fficial were for relocation of the ffice of the practical arts in tructor and for inclusion of sto age space for practical arts sup dies. It'has been the aim of school officials to occupy the new high school plant, to be built on a 73 icre site on Pnifer road, for the opening of the 1964-65 term. Grange Meeting Meld Tuesday The No. 4 Township Grange veld its monthly meeting Tues lav night at El Bethel fellowship vail. Jim Yarbro, the master, was n charge of the meeting. Myers Hambright opened the neeting with a prayer and a hort business session followed he prayer. Mr. Hambright, the vrogram chairman, asked Gary 3 eft ton to tell about his week at .he Youth Grange Camp. Beth Hambright also told about what che youth did at camp. Fourteen members of the club were present for the meeting. Mrs. Dan Lattimore of Polkville was a visitor. Odell Benton closed the meet ng with a prayer. After the clos ng, homemade ice cream was enjoyed by the group. Cloyd A. Hager Rites Thursday Funeral services for Cloyd A. Hager, 59, of Hickory, will be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran church there at 2 o’clock Thurs day afternoon. Masonic burial rites will be conducted at Mountain Rest cemetery here by Riverside Lodge 606, of Catawba. Mr. Hager, husband of the for mer Nannie Plonk of Kings Mountain, died Tuesday after noon at 12:15 after several months illness. Death was at tributed to uremic poisoning. He was a retired Hickory school principal. A native of Lincoln county, he was a son of the late A. A. ’and Harriet Black Hager. He was a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne college, where he was an outstanding athlete. Surviving, in addition to his wife, are a daughter, Miss Har riet Hager, and three sons, Cloyd A. Hager, Jr., Tommy Hager and David Hager, all of Hickory: three sisters, Mrs. Mack Smith and Mrs. John Zastwany, both of Hialeah, Fla., Mrs. Kelly Sher rill, of Mooresville; and two bro thers, O. B. Hager, Mooresville, and W. E. Hager, Huntersville. ■ APPOINTED — Charles H. Maun ey has been appointed chairman of the blood program of the Kings Mountain chapter, Ameri can Red Cross. Mauney ARC Blood Chairman Charles H. Mauney, Kings Mountain textile executive, hais been appointed chairman of the blood program of Kings Moun tain Chapter, American Red Cross, Chapter Chairman Jack White has announced. Mrs. Mauney will serve as co chairman of the program. The Mauneys, named for a two year term, succeed Mr. and Mrs. John Cheshire. Mr. Mauney has called a com mittee meeting for Monday ta the area Bloodmobile. Haggai to Speak To Safety Group The Rev, Tom Haggai of High Point will be guest speaker for the Thursday meeting of the Blue Ridge Safety Council at Brack etts Cedar Park. President Harry Matthews will preside at the 6:30 p.m. meeting and William Ellis, manager of the Belk Stevens Department Store in Shelby, will Introduce the guest speaker. The guests will be welcomed by State Sen. Robert Morgan and the invocation will be given by Rev. Barton Hellmuth of John Knox Presbyterian Church. H. S. Baucom, safety director for the N. C. Industrial Commis sion, will present 1963 safety a wards. A tour of the Carolina Plant of Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. will be held from 2.30 until 4:30 p.m. Re servations for this tour should be made with Ben Goforth at the Pittsburgh plant by July 25. Members from Burke, Cleve land, Gaston, Lincoln, McDowell, Polk, and Rutherford counties are included in the safety council. Postal Receipts Up To $84,629, $11,258 Gain Fiscal year 1963 receipts at Kings Mountain postoffice in. creased considerably to $84,629. 80, Postmaster Charles L. Alex ander said this week. The total compares with $73, 273.15 for the fiscal year ending June 1962. Postmaster Alexander attribut ed the increase of $11,256 both to increased volume of out-going mail and the postal rate increas es which became effective on January 7, 1963. Postal receipts reflect all post age stamp and stock sales, de posits in postage meters and box rents. Excluded from the annual receipts figure are money order deposit fees. Health Careers Get Coordinator Miss LoRayne Dinguess, for mer recruitment officer for West Virginia’s Miners Memorial Hos pital Association, has been se lected district III coordinator of a state wide health careers re cruitment program aimed at re ducing the critical personnel shortage in 6,500 jobs currently open in North Carolina. She will inaugurate an area program covering 13 counties with headquarters at the Duke Endowment in Charlotte, accord ing to Wright Langley, director of Health Careers for North Ca rolina. During her seven years in re cruitment with the Miners Me morial Hospital Association, i.Miss Dinguess directed a long range recruitment program to enlarge the corp of trained hospital per sonnel to fill professional and technical positions. r rum me tnanoue oil ice, miss DingUess will provide informa tion on opportunities for training pMmiffladpyniqnt ill 200* ;:*tai’ious health careers. Her territory in cludes Cleveland, Gaston, Linc oln, Iredell, Meckenburg, Rowan, Cabarrus, Union, Stanly, Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, and Moore counties. The district program is one of six in the state which will be im plemented with the aid of a nine member advisory committee com posed of five hospital adminis trators, a nurse, doctor, public school educator, and public repre sentative. Grady Howard, Kings Mountain Hospital administrator, is a member of the District III committee. POSTPONED Meetings of Brownie Troop 1 of Central Methodist church have been postponed until Sep tember, troop leader Miss Mar garet Harmon has anounced. The Brownies will resume meetings after the beginning, of the fall term of school. Mrs. Glenn Camp bell, leader, has been ill. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $205.60, including $136.10 from on-street meters, $52 from over parking fees, and $17.50 from off street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc Daniel, Jr., reported. Railroad Strike Would Effect All; Postoffice Plans Mail Embargo If next week's threatened na tion-wide rail strike occurs, it would have immediate deleteri ous effects in Kings Mountain, as well as throughout the nation. The postoffice, for instance, has received a directive to cease ac cepting, in event of a rail strike, any but first class and air mail for points more distant than Zone 2, which covers a radius of about 150 miles. This would mean, said Post master Charles Alexander, that no parcels, even carrying medi cal supplies, could be accepted unless posted at first class rates. Newspapers and magazines would not be accepted for points further than 150 miles. Though not imediately con firmed, it is anticipated that Kings Mountain’s rail carrier, Southern Railway Company, is not involved in the threatened strike of the railmen and would continue to operate. However, it would not be receiving feeder shipments from other lines. J. E. Turner Southern Railway freight agent here said almost all large industry here includ ing textile and mining firms, would be effected, either by fail ure to obtain materials by in coming shipments of suplies, by inability to ship out products, or, in the instance of hosiery firms, suspension of railway express. Coal, which to this area, moves almost exclusively by railway, will not be in immediate short supply, two dealers reported. W. T. Weir, of Weir’s Coal, said his firm has ample stocks to last until December, and Claude Hambright, of City Ice & Coal Company, pronounced his stocks ample with an estimated 15 cars either on the yard or awaiting unloading. Drace M. Peeler, of Elmer Lum ber Company, said his firm was already strike - effected by a strike at West Coast suppliers. Chief effect, thus far, is a con siderable price jump on plywood and other products. He termed lumber products generally in good supply throughout this area. The walkout looms tentatively for midnight Monday. President Kennedy has asked Congress for rush legislation to prevent the walkout, terming a rail stopoff “intolerable” and “disastrous to the economy.” The Associated Press reported Wednesday thousands in the coal, iron, copper, lumber, paper, and auto industries would be idled quickly. It said food sup plies in large metropolitan areas would become short within a ten day period. ' ' S City Gas System Is Calling $47,000 Undue Bonded Debt City Schools lists Minimum Of Ten Vacancies Kings Mountain city schools has a minimum of ten teachisg vacancies, Superintendent B. N. Barnes said Wednesday. More faculty memDers may be required, Mr. Barnes said, as he reported three resignations with in the past week. More may be required, pend ing decision of the board of edu cation on the number of teach ers it decided to employ from local funds. A minimum of four teachers are needed for the high school, including two mathematics in structors and either two English instructors or one teacher of English and one teacher of com mercial subjects. Vacancies in elementary and grammar school total four mini mum, plus two teachers of spec ial education to provide instruc tion for the educable retarded. Supt. Barnes said he expects most difficulty in obtaining tea chers of special education and mathematics, as he is momen tarily without applications. Population decrease reduced the grammar grade state teacher allotment for the coming year. Resigning during the past week were: Mrs. Yvonne G. Beam, of Shel by, first grade teacher at David son school. Mrs*. Ann Parker Dion, of Lawndale eighth grafde teacher at Bethware who is joining the county system at Lawndale. Mrs. Leatrice M. French of Kings Mountain grammar grade teacher at Compact, who said she was resigning in order to join her husband. Shuford To Speak To Rotarians Archie W. Shuford of Hickory, governor of District 767 of Rota ry International, will address Kings Mountain Rotarians at their Thursday meeting at the Country Club. The club will convene at 12:15 for luncheon. Thursday’s pro gram by Mr. Shuford will 'be his official visit to the Kings Moun tain civic club. Mr. Shuford is past president of the Hickory United Fiund. Ersldne Fund Here SU30 The Kings Mountain Chapter of the Erskine College Alumni Association played a double role in helping the 1962-63 Erskine Living Endowment Campaign .the most successful in history, the official report of the campaign which ended June 30 has disclos ed. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. John L. l.McGill, all 10 Kings Mountain alumni solicited made contributions to the special gifts phase of the campaign, with their contributions amounting to $1, 530. Under the chairmanship of Franklin L, Ware, Jr., 35 of the 43 Kings Mountain alumni' asked to give contributions to the gen eral solicitation phase of the campaign did so, with their con tributions totaling $437. Alumni participation for the chapter in this phase of the campaign was 81 per cent, far surpassing the total Erskine alumni support rec ord of 66 per cent. Working under Mr. Ware as a town chairman was David P. White of Shelby, where alumni contributed $100 of the chapter’s total. rne 1SW-0.J Lrsmne Living en dowment received more than $150,000 from 3,707 alumni and 590 parents and friends of the college, with 66 per cent of all Erskine alumni participating. These figures surpass even the 1961-62 campaign, which led all small coeducational colleges in the nation in increased alumni support. That campaign won Er skine one of only six Grand A wards from the American Alum ni Council. Mauney Library To Be Expanded ON WELFARE BOARD — Mrs. Aubrey Mauney is a newly-nam ed member of the Cleveland County Welfare board. Mis. Mauney On Welfare Boaid Mrs. Aubrey Mauney of Kings Mountain has been appointed a member of the newly - expanded Cleveland County Welfare board. Other new members are Ralph Elliott of the Sharon community, and Carlos Young, of Shelby. Other members of the board are Emmet Matthews, Shelby, and L. T. Warlick, Polkville. Mrs. Mauney and Mr. Young were named by the state welfare board, Mr. Elliott by the county commision, of which he is a member. Rep. Jack Palmer is the retir ing member of the board. Mrs. Mauney is a former presi dent of the North Carolina Fede ration of Women's Clubs, is prominent in the work of the Lu theran church, and in the North Carolina Council of Churches. Privilege License Sales Now $1957 City privilege license sales through Tuesday totaled $2957. 25, slightly more than half the $5800 the city anticipates from this source during the current fiscal year. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., noted that the licenses are buy able at par through Thursday, August 1, with penalty of five percent per month applying on August 2. Statements were mailed to all 1962-63 purchasers July 15. City Provides $5,000 Fund For Renovation Jacob S. Mauney Memorial li brary will be extensively renovat ed and the library area expand ed. Norman King, chairman of the library board and city commis sioner, said the library will be expanded to include what is now the large living room of the teacherage portion of the build ing Other plans include interior and exterior painting, for which Joe Bill Cornwell is contractor, and tiling of the library floor, for which City Floor Service is con tractor. Marion Dixon will superintend the building renovations. The library board, Mr. 'King said, has discussed renovation of the remainder of the building to provide four furnished apart ments, one downstairs and anoth er on the second floor. However, he added, this decision will de pend on how much work can be accomplished within the limits of a $5,000 appropriation the city included in the budget for the current year. Other board members are Mrs. George Houser, donor family representative, and James E. Herndon, Jr., board of education representative. Demand for living quarters by teachers has Waned within the past several years. The combination library and teacherage was given to the city in 1947 by the J. S. Mauney fam ily in memory of their late pa rents. Young Republicans To Meet Thursday The Kings Mountain Young Republican club will hold its regular monthly meeting Thurs day beginning with a cook-out at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Wayne Forsyth, 512 Monroe avenue. Hot dogs with accessories will be served. The program, following supper, will include a tape recording, "The Communist Master Plan." The speaker is a former member of 'the American Communist Par ty. All interested citizens are in vited to attend the supper meet ing. BAKE SALE The Kings Mountain high school cheerleader squad will conduct a bake sale beginning Saturday morning at 9 o’clock in the building adjacent to Sterchi’s, Miss Beverly Willis announced. Argentine lose Pucci To Reside With Cheshires As APS Student Kings Mountain’s fifth foreign exchange student under the A merican Field Service program will be Jose Antonio Pucci, 17 year-old Argentina lad, who will become a school - term member of the family of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cheshire, Jr. Notification of the assignment was received Wednesday by the Cheshires and the Kings Moun tain AFS committee. Neither have learned Pucci’s arrival date, but the AFS visitors customarily arrive about mid • August. Pucci is a son of Angel Hosea Pucci, a 42 - year - old Tueuman, Argentina, trader and merchant, and Clara Alicia Molina de Pucci. He has two brothers and a sister, has a friend from Argentina who has been an AFS student the past year in San Miguel, Calif., and an uncle, Carlos Pucci, who lives in Chicago, 111. He has studied English for three years and lists his favorite sports as football, tennis, swim ming and rugby. His ambition is to become a doctor. He has been attending Cokgio del Sagrado, a private school. He is a Catholic. Prior students from abroad in the AFS program were Graeme Reeves, of New Zealand, who liv ed with the family of Dr. P. G. Padgett, Pierre Dasen, of Switz erland, who resided with the Fred Plonks; Kirsten Zaeho, of Denmark, who lived with the Lewis Hovis family; and Sue Hoad, of Australia, who lived the past year with the family of Dr. George W. Plonk. On his AFS application blank, Pucci reportea he’d studied French but rated himself as “poor” in the subject. Mr. and Mrs. Cheshire have two sons, Lyn Cheshire, a high school junior and member of the football team, and Pat Cheshire, soon to enter the eighth grade. Members of the Kings Moun tain AFS committee are Grady Howard, chairman, Harold Phil lips, finance chairman, Carl F. Mauney, Tom Trott, John War lick, J. C. Bridges, Mrs. P. G. Pad gett, Mrs. J. M. Cooper, J. E. (Zip) Rhea, Miss Elizabeth Stewart, and Rev. Marion DuBose. System Could Be Out-of-Debt Within Year By MARTIN HARMON The city natural gas system Is ready to call $-47,000 in bonds a head of schedule, indicating a possibility that all remaining bonds may be retired within a year and within two years at the latest. Joe McDaniel, Jr., city clerk and treasurer of the gas system, noted that the $47,000 of bonds the city will call is in addition to $15,000 the system will pay on schedule October 1. Bonded debt of $200,000 will therefore be reduced by October 1 to $138,000. Meantime, an additional $27,000 has been transferred to the re serve fund and the renewal and extension fund as been replenish ed to $50,000, as required by the bond cales agreement. Should the system be able to call all bonds, these monies would be a vailable to call bonds. The two factors which will de termine the date the initial issue of $400,000 will be fully retired are: 1) profits from operations and 2) demands for line Installa tions. No major installations are anticipated currently, following last year’s $40,000 expansion. Mr. McDaniel says that the gas distribution system now repre sents a total investment of $706, 000. At June 30 year end, $49,000 was transferred to the sinking fund from which bonds are paid. In addition to the $47,000 in bonds, the gas system will pay a call premium of $1,830 and ac crued interest of $587.50. For the bond agreement, the city must call bonds in inverse order. The bonds to be called will include $20,000 due October 1973, $20,000 due October 1972 and $7,000 due October 1971. Though audit report on the gas system has not yet been receiv ed, Mr. McDaniel said that 1962 63 operations were very success ful, enhanced by a particularly cold winter. The system was built through revenue bonds issued In Septem ber 1954. Carroll Faces Larceny Charge A Kings Mountain teenager has been charged with the breaking, entering and larceny of Plonk Oil company at 2 a.m. Friday. Frank Eugene Carroll, 16, >f 517 Baker street, was arrested by Chief Deputy George Allen in Anderson, S. C. Friday afternoon. The youth was in the custody of Anderson County police after his arrest in Williamston, S. C. A juvenile, also from Kings Mountain, is charged with having taken part in the rotobery. Allen said the two boys are charged with entering the oil firm’s office, south of Kings Mountain, through a window a*d taking around $30 from an un locked safe. Allen said a 1959 mo del car parked outside was driv en against the gate knocking it loose and allowing the vehicle to be driven out the enclosed yard. The car was abandoned be tween Spartanburg and Green ville, S. C. Carroll allegedly went on to Williamstdn, where he al legedly entered a restaurant. A former police officer, who oper ates the restaurant, noticed Car roll had a good deal of money and called police. About $15 was recovered, Allen said. Carroll’s bond was set at $750. GROUND BREAKING Rev Geerge T. Moore, a direct, tor of the Lowman Home, Whitd Rock, S. C., attended a ground breaking ceremony commemorat ing the beginning of construc tion of the Home’s $365,000 in firmary. ■ CAMP REUNION Descendants of the late Mason Camp will gather for their annual reunion Sunday beginning at 10 a.m. at the Byrd Hut below Pat terson Springs. Picnic lunch will be served at the noon hour and singing will be held in the aft ernoon.