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VOL 74 No. 33
PRir.F TFN rFNT<;
Suber Ret
Jenkins Is
Cemetery
Superintendent
Resigns Post
Veteran cemetery Supt. Sam R.
Suber, 78, is resigning, effective
March 1st.
Mr. Suber, who came to Ameri
ca from Lebanon in 1906, has
been employed by the City of
Kings Mountain for 22 years.
The city board of commission
ers Thursday night accepted Su
ber's resignation “with regret.”
Mr. Suber recommended that
Ken Jenkins, now an employee
of Harris Funeral Home, be ap
pointed to succeed him. The
board subsequently approved by
4-1 Jenkins’ employment as of De
cember 1st.
Comm. Ray Cline, casting the
lone negative vote, said, “I am
not against Jenkins having the
job but feel we should wait a
while and give other people a
chance to make application for
the job if they want to do so.”
Suber told the board the ceme
tery's perpetual care fund had
jumped from $3,700 in 1942 when
he took over to $53,000 at one
time. Today approximately $38,
000 is in the fund, which is used
solely for capital outlay purpose?
at the cemtery. The city can use
the money for other uses only ir
the case of an emergency. Thh
fund is made up of monies ac
cumulated from 50 percent of
the sale of cemetery lots.
Cline told Suber, "Any gov
ernment body appreciates a sur
plus in department budgets bui
the people appreciate much moif
the job you have done at Moun
tain Rest cemetery."
Mayor Glee A. Bridges called
for a round of applause for the
retiring Suber.
A Kings Mountain native, Ken
Jenkins is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse J. Jenkins. He has
been employed by Harris Funer
al Home the past three years and
is a navy veteran. Mrs. Jenkins
is the former Earline Surber.
They are Baptists.
Local News
I Bulletins
LEGION AUXILIARY
The American Legion Auxiliary
will hold regular meeting Thurs
day night at 7:30 at the home ol
Mrs. Clarence Jolly. Program for
the meeting was not announced.
LODGE MEETING
An emergent communication
of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM
will be held Monday night a!
7:30 at Masonic Hall, Secretary
T. D. Tindall has announced.
SENIOR CITIZENS
The Senior Citizens club wil'
gather for an ice cream suppe
Friday at 5 p.m. at the home
of Miss Ava Ware, West Golc
street.
SUPPLY PASTOR
Dr. Leroy Blackwelder, of Gas
tonia, former superintendent ol
the Lowman Home for the Aged
at White Rock, will fill the pul
pit August 25th at Resurrection
Lutheran church. Rev. George
Moore will present "Radio Voice
of Gospel" at the annual Luther
an Church Women’s convention
in Hickory.
FROM VACATION
Rev. and Mrs. James S. Mann
and three sons, Kevin, Doonie
and Kent, are back from a vaca
tion and Mr. Mann will fill his
pulpit Sunday at Dixon Presby
terian church.
TO YOUTH ASSEMBLY
Reta Phifer, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Marriott Phifer is rep
resenting the First Presbytery of
the ARP Church at the North
Carolina Youth Assembly in ses
sion at Guilford College. Miss
Phifer, a member of the local
ARP congregation, will return
home Saturday.
HERE SUNDAY
Rev. P. D. Patrick of Decatur
Ga., former pastor of First Pres
byterian church, will fill the pul
pit at Sunday services at 11 a.m.
Dr. Paul K. Ausley, pastor, will
be in Mon treat attending the an
nual Bible coufeCcjMtg.
SUPERINTENDENT — Sena
er, veteran cemetery superintend
ent, top above, has resigned his
position with the city and Ken
Jenkins has been employed, ef
fective March 1. Mir. Jenkins will
begin his new duties in Decem
ber.
Schools Add
Five To Faculty
The Kings Mountain board of
iducation is expeoted to gather
tor regular monthly meeting
Monday night at 7 p.m. in the
offices of Supl. B. N. Barnes.
Mr Barnes was out of-town
Wednesday attending a supirfci
tendent’s conference in session
through Friday in Chapel Hill.
Board Chairman James E.
Herndon, Jr. was also out-of
town Wednesday.
It is expected that the board
will receive application for teach
sr vacancies. Five faculty mem
aers were hired this week and
several other vacancies exist, a
nong them a teacher of the edu
cablc retarded, high school math,
elementary librarian and a first
grade teacher at East. It is pos
sible two teachers will be needed
to complete the Bethware facul
ty and one at West.
Merchants Promote
Pioneer Days ,
The Kings Mountain Merchants
Association will observe the an
niversary of the Battle of Kings
Mountain with a trade promo
tion based on the theme Pioneer
Days during the week prior to
Monday, Oct. 7.
Features of the oofnmemora
tion will be a parade on Oct. 5
with Captain Windy of TV fame
present to entertain, the Ameri
can Legion 40 & 8, under the di
action of David Delevie, to per
form and boy and girl scouts as
veil as high school bands, the
Cherryville Musket and numer
ous horses to march.
Merchants arc being asked to
decorate stores appropriately,
md sales personnel will toe dress
ed in the costumes of the time of
the American Revolution.
Donna Ann Crawford
Wins Camper Honor
Donna Ann Crawford, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Donald
Crawford, was named “outstand
ing camper” at both weeks of
summer camp recently at Bon
darken, the assembly grounds of
the Associate Reformed Presby
terian church.
Miss Crawford won a gold lov
ng cup for excellence in nature,
sports and last Friday "broke
her own record” by copping the
loving cup for the second week.
She returned tome Saturday.
Gale Vollbracht, assistant treas
urer; Frank Hamrick, past pres
ident; Cameron Ware, manager;
Frank Hamrick, assistant mana
ger; Johnny W. Patterson,
grounds superintendent; Paul
3ell, assistant grounds superin
tendent; Tom Hamrick, parking
superintendent; Grady Seism, as
'.istant parking superintendent;
3tokes Wright, parking admis
sions superintendent; Bill Babb,
Gilbert Patterson, Mearl Ssicm,
assistant parking admissions su
perintendents; Dale Vollbracht,
superintendent of tickets; Mel
vin Nantz, Russell Putnam, Joel
Whisnant, assistant superinten
dent of tickets; Hal Morris, su
perintendent of fireworks; Mearl
Seism, building superintendent;
Grady Seism, assistant building
superintendent, along with J. W.
Rayfield, A. L. Putnam and Ro
bert Porter; Myers Hambright,
superintendent of commercial
booths; and Frank Hamrick, as
sistant^ .j.':r,'(C,v ■
The Board of Directors includes
Boyd Harrelson, Grady Seism,
Hal Morris, Cameron Ware, A. L.
Putnam, Jim Yarboro, Dale Voll
bracht, M. C. Poston and Paul
Bell.
There are numerous depart
ment directors and assistants in
all departments of the event.
Prizes will again be offered
and commercial exhibits will be
featured. R. C. Lee Riding De
vices will provide midway enter
tainment. Fireworks will be fea
tured nightly.
TO CONFERENCE
Kings Mountain high school
principal Harry E. Jaynes, NCEA
district Three vice • president,
rnd Mrs. J. B. Simpson, Mrs. How
ird Bryant and Mrs. W. F. Pow
;li attended the NCEA leadership
'onferenee at Mars Hill Thurs
lay, Friday and Saturday. The
ocal teachers represented the
tings Mountain Unit of the NC
SA.
for graduation from Harvard
University. He will receive his
doctorate in physical chemistry
in March.
Lohr To Win
Doctorate
Lawrence L. Lohr, Jr. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Lohr
of Kings Mountain, has complet
ed requirements for graduation
at Harvard University at Cam
bridge, Mass., with Ph.D. degree
in physical chemistry. His doc
torate will be awarded at the
next commencement in March,
1964.
Lohr will be a post-doctroal
research fellow at the Institute
for the Study of Metals at the
University of Chicago during the
coming academic year.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
-the University of North Carolina
in 1959 with B. S. in chemistry,
Lohr was a Woodrow Wilson
Fellow at Harvard. His fellow
ship was from the National Sci
ence Foundation.
At UNC he was a member of
two honorary fraternities, Phi
Beta Kappa and Golden Fleece,
and held membership in Sigma
Phi Epsilon, social fraternity.
Johnson To Speak
To Rotary Meeting
Rotarians will have their regu
lar weekly meeting at 12:15
Thursday at the Country Club.
Tom Burke, in charge of the
program for the day announced
that the guest speaker will be
Ralph Johnson of Firestone Tex
tiles in Gastonia.
Mr. Johnson will give a brief
outline of progress of the local
Gastonia plant and the company
in general including activities in
new synthetics in rubber and
yarn.
County Boards Form Association
In loint Session Tuesday Night
The Cleveland Association of
Governmental Officials (CAGO)
was organized by members of the
Cleveland county board of Com
missioners and Kings 'Mountain
ind Shelby city commissioners
or the purpose of promoting co
operation between these groups
>t a dinner meeting at the Shel
>y Elks club Tuesday night.
In welcoming the group Shelby
nayor Hubert J. Plaster said,
All of our problems are mutual.
3y c^»eration, we can help
solve them and save money."
“I came to county about the
time of the Cleveland • Gasto*.
county line fight,” he added. I
believe we can do better than
that by cooperating .. nothing
without it.”
Plaster was elected chairman
of the group on a i| otion by Glee
A. Bridges, mayor of Kings
Mountain, seconded by Ray Cline,
Kings Mountain city commission
?r, and Max Hamrick, county au
ditor, was named secretary fol
missioner Lester Roark, seconded
lowing a motion by Shelby com
by Mr. Bridges.
Phin Horton, Shelby city man
ager, commented that legal ad
vantages of a cooperative ar
rangement would be 1) joint pur
chasing or contract* and 2) land
development and zoning.
"I believe there can be fruitful
result*,” he said. Typical of opti
mistic statements concerning the
new venture were:
Miles Baker, Shelby city com
missioner: “This meeting ha*
been put off long enough. Some
good can come from it.”
Ray Cline: “I agree. You know,
we’re moving into Gaston.”
David Beam, county commis
sioner: “This program should in
clude all incorporated eommuni
PHYSICIAN — Or. Frank Sincox,
Nary flight surgeon, is expected
to arrive Thursday to join Dr.
John C. McGill and Dr. Charles
Adams in the practice of medi
cine. The Sincox family is resid
ing on Groves street.
ties in the county."
George Clay, Shelby commis
sioner: "It’* good to get to know
the folk.”
Jim Henderson, Shelby com
missioner: “Something real big
can come from this.”
Quarterly meetings will be on
second Tuesdays and the agenda
will be planned by Bridges and
Cline from Kings, Mountain,
Plaster and Horton from Shelby
and Broadus dlls and HamrR-k
from the county.
This committee had met early j
last week at Grover to make pre-;
liminary plans olr the Tuesday
night meeting. . 1
Work on the renovation pro
ject was well underway this
week. One downstairs furnished
apartment is ready for occupan
cy.
The $1500 is in addition to
$5,000 appropriated by the board
of city commissioners for expan
sion and other capital outlay
needs like painting, remodeling,
etc. of the library. The city also
contributes $75 monthly for li
brary operating expenses.
In other actions Thursday, the
board:
1) Heard a delegation headed
by William Herndon request a
signal light at the intersection of
Country Club drive and U. S. 74.
Mr. Herndon explained the diffi
culty and danger of getting out
of Country Club drive and into
U. S. 74 especially on weekends
in heavy traffic. Herndon also
said visibility was a problem at
the intersection and that school
children were endangered by
traffic
Mayor Bridges appointed
Comms. Ray Clime, J. E. Rhea
and City Clerk Joe McDaniel to
study the problem. '.Mayor Brid
ges noted there is a similar pro
blem at several other points in
that area and suggested a central
point for a light to serve all the
areas.
2) A resolution was adopted
supporting Southern Railway in
its suit against the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Southern
and other southeastern rail firms
have been forced by the ICC to
raise rates. A 60 percent rate re
duction was granted in April by
the ICC on bulk grain shipments
by Southern i* the shipments
were made in 100-ton hopper cars
and when shipments totaled 450
tons or more. A mid-July ruling
now requires Southern to charge
1.16 for a service once offered for
$1.
3) Approved advertisement of
a rezoning request by Harmon
Oil Company of Shelby. The oil
firm wants a 6mall lot at Tracy
and King St. rezoned from resi
dential to business.
4) Mayor Bridges invited the
board members .to a joint meet
ing with the Cleveland County
and Shelby boards at Shelby Elks
Kings Mountain and Shelby
Dodge Tutsday. “Friction between
started over a ball game”, he
commented, and he invited the
full board to participate in the
Tuesday night meeting.
5) Authorized tax refund of
$28.77 to Clyde Lewis Cole. Mr.
Cole said his father had already
paid the amount due.
6) Approved annexation of
Linwood lots on request of Wil
son Crawford, realtor.
"Keefe Nice Guy"
Says Gillespie
Booth W. Gillespie, Kings
Mountain citizen, was a fraterni
ty brother of Senator Estes Ke
fauver, 60, who died Saturday in
Washington, D. C. of a heart at
tack.
Mr, Gillespie had a high regard
for Kefauver. He had described
the former vice-presidential can
didate as "a good old country
boy.” “Anybody would like him
aiid everybody did”, he remarked.
The two were freshmen at the U
niversity of Tennessee in 1920
and pledged Kappa Sigma fra
ternity.
The body of the senator from
Tennessee was flown from Wash
ington to his native Madisonville
Tuesday for a funeral service and
burial at the family farm.
Members of the House and Se
nate paid tribute to the Senator
Monday.
In the Senate, Senate Democra
ts leader Mike Mansfield, Mon
tana, called Kefauver “a prac
ticing idealist” and Senate GOP
leader Everett iM. Derkson, Illi
nois, said there was “a fixed and
lasting quality about his pursuit
of justice.”
|y Now $3 Million
roiect
ierway
WINS SILVER PALM — Larry
Patrick. Troop 90, Eagle Scout,
won his silver bronze palm
award at Thursday's Court oi
Honor.
Eagle Scout
Wins Top Awaid
Eagle Scout Larry Patrick won
his Silver Bronze Palm at Thurs
day night's Boy Scout Court ol
Honor lor Kings Mountain dis
trict Boy Scouts.
Young Patrick is son of Mr.
and l.Urs. Lawrence Patrick.
Patrick already holds the
bronze, gold and silver awards.
He has just returned from
Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimar
ron, New Mexico, where he under
went highly intensive instructor
training on the national level.
This school is attended by a
small select group of top scouts
throughout the United States
who are trained to be instruc
tors for their council. At the
completion of the full course a
certificate was presented to each
participant. In addition, those
young men who demonstrated
outstanding leadership and abil
ity will receive the Junior Lead
er Institute badge. The stand
ards for this insignia are very
high.
Young Patrick will receive his
insignia in September at Schiele
Scout Reservation.
HERE SUNDAY
Rev. W. P. Grier of Moorosville
will fill the pulpit at Sunday
services at 11 a.m. at Boyce Me
morial ARP church. Dr. W. L.
Pressly, pastor, is conducting
evangelistic services this week at
Long Cane ARP church, oldest
congregation in the ARP denomi
nation, at Troy, S. C.
; 1962 Budget
Was Undeispent
By $68,600
The City of Kings Mountain
had total assets of $3,2(54,296.59
at June 30th, according to audit
report of A, M. Pullen & Com
pany, of Charlotte, certified pub
lic accountants.
This represents an Increase of
$654,996.31 over the previous
year.
Major liability item was $520,
000 in bonded indebtedness, down
$30,000 from the previous year
Other major liability was $31,416.
50 in utility deposits, an escrow
account.
At cost, the city had physical
properties of $2,516,015.16, a de
crease of $116,874.60 from 1962.
REVENUES
City revenues for the year to
taled $745,192.53, up $1.3,314.69,
and accrued to these funds: Gen
eral, $524,59!).SO; Capital Outlay,
$159,917.21; Debt Service, $51,566.
25; cemetery perpetual care,
$2,829.01 and recreation, $6,280.
29.
Sale of water and power re
turned the city $150,308.89, by
far the largest revenue item and
$7,808.89 over last year, while ad
valorem property taxes for 1962
returned $116,632.47. Payment of
back taxes and penalties return
ed $1,686.34. Court and jail costs
returned $11,376.41, $876.41 more
than anticipated.
Kings Mountain citizens paid
$11,444.49 in street assessments
and $171.84 in street assessment
penalties, spent $5,837.21 for pri
vilege licenses, $823.50 for per
mits, $1,799 for auto licenses,
| $254 for fishing permits, and
1 $2,189 for cemetery lets, emu g
1 other items.
EXPENDITURES
1 The city spent $68,000.20 less
than its gross income, or $725,
678.77.
Expenditures by departments
were: Administrative, $24,023.56,
less by $476.44 the budgeted
amount; streets, $80,055.80, which
was $55.80 more than anticipat
ed; sanitation, $28,458.99, which
was $958.99 more titan expected;
police, $5!),139.24, 3639.24 more
than budgeted; fire, $21961.10,
$538.90 less than anticipated;
$66,315.87, water and sewer, $4,
815.87 more than anticipated;
$198,734.12 for light and power,
$3,734.12 more than anticipated;
$8,711.86 for cemetery, $288.14
less titan anticipated; general
fund expense, $66,882.02, $9,382.
02 more than anticipated; capital
outlay, $118,987.26, representing
$87,629.21 less titan anticiapted;
debt service, $46,128.66, $766.16
more than expected; and recrea
tion, $6,280.29, $19.71 less than
anticipated.
Schedude of insurance purchas
ed shows fire, lightning and ex
tended coverage on City Hall at
$76,100; on Mauney Memorial li
brary, $61,700; and $12,300 on the
city garage.
Fidelity bonds are purchased
on all employees at $10,000 with
a bond of $10,000 covering Jo
seph McDaniel, Jr.
BIGGEST INVESTMENT
Biggest investment of the city
is in water and sewer lines, at i
$714,131.98, while water and sew
er plant and equipment total
$527,069.65. Street and paving
Continued On Paye Eiyht
Mohair Firms Lead Blood Donors
In Record Collection Here Monday
Kings Mountain area citizens
donated 178 pints of blood at
Monday’s visit of the Red Cross
bloodmobile.
The record collection is second
largest in the history of the visits
of the regional blood collecting
unit from Charlotte.
Employees of Massachusetts
Mohair Plush Company’s Mar
grace and Pauline plants fur
nished 63 donors and headed tire
list of industrial donors. Placing
second, was iMauney Hosiery Mills
with 46; and Lithium Corpora
tion placed third with 21 and Sa
die Mills and Foote Mineral
Company were fourth with ten
each. Mauney Mills furnished six
donors and Lambeth Rope Cor
poration two.
Other industrial firms partici
pating in the 1963-64 program in
clude BonMie Mills; Burlington
Mills; Carolina Throwing Com
pany; Craftspun Yarns; Kings
Mountain Mica company; Minette
Mills of Grover; Park Yarn Mills;
Slater Mills and Shannon Limit
ed.
Quota for the year is 888 pints
of blood, representing 30 per
cent of the total employment of
industry. Seven units of the
l ■ . - ■ . , .
'blood bank are scheduled here
and in Grover.
Six donors became members of
the exclusive Gallon Club at
■ Monday’s visit. They are: Floyd
Willis, Earbas Johnson, Bobby
Gene Carrigan, James E. Hern
don. Mrs. W. I'. Fleming, Charles
G. Propst. Reaching their Second
Gallon- membership were Leo
’.lard Smith, Roy L. Huffstctler,
i Paul D. Bell, Joh-n E. Kiser and j
I Mrs. Willie Howell.
Industrial donors included the
following:
Carolina Throwing: James II.
Hendrick, Jr., Mrs. Willie Mae
Lahrmer, Mrs. Virginia Gilliam.
Barbara Rice, Matta Kopruch, j
Mrs. Shirley Goins, Barbara
Greene, Mrs. Kathleen Beam,
Dorothy Moore, Harold Ledford,
Henry Raines, Judy Waters, Mrs.
Faye Smith, Klaus Kopruch, Wil
liam A. Goins, Coleen Wood, Joe
R. Youngblood. Lon Myers, Mrs.
Mary Myers, Mrs. Vemie Burns.
Joe H. Champion, Louise Shan
kle, Bessie Metcalf, Bobby Gene
Metcalf, Mrs. Edith Burns, Ro
bert C. Ensley, Arthur Flowers,
Clyde Putnam, Steve Carpenter,
Guy Henderson, Richard Goins,
CvtUinand Oh Pauu Siaht
SPEAKER - Bill Mitcham,
ministerial student, will speak
at Sunday services at Resurrec
tion Lutheran church.
Mitcham To FU1
Lutheran Pulpit
William Lloyd (Bill) Mitcham,
Kings Mountain senior at Luther
an Seminary at Columbia, S. C,
will fill the pulpit at Sunday
morning services at Resurrection
Lutheran church.
Mitcham is a member of the
Resurrection congregation. He
made his home here with his
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
John Mitcham.
Mr. Mitcham will deliver the
morning message in the absence
of the Rev. George Moore, oil va
cation.
A graduate of Lenoir Rhyne
college, Mr. Mitcham has com
j pleted two years of seminary
work and a year of clinical work
| as student assistant to Pastor
i Peery at Beth Eden Lutheran
I church in Newton. He will be or
dained as a Lutheran minister in
May 1964.
I.Mrs. Mitcham is the former
Jane Pope of Statesville. They
have one child.
School Board
Met Monday
The city board of education, at
a called meeting Monday, ap
proved the following actions:
1) The school accident insur
ance program lor the school year
beginning in September will be
the same as last year. Pilot Life
Insurance will be the agent.
2) Hamrick and Redding, cer
tified public accountants, will
conduct the annual school audit
at So per hour. The firm was low
bidder.
3) Authorized roof repairs at
the high school gymnasium and
Davidson school.
Pucci To Anive
Here Aug. 25th
Kings Mountain's fifth foreign
exchange student under the A
morlcan Service program, Jose
Antonia Pucci, will be arriving
in (he United States soon and is
expected to arrive in Kings
Mountain August 25.
The 17 - year - old lad will be
a school - term member of the
family of Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Cheshire, Jr.
Prior students from abroad in
the AFS program were Graeme
Beeves, of New Zealand, who liv.
ed with the family of Dr. P. G.
Padgett, Pierre Dason, of Switz
erland, who resided with the
Fred Plonks; Kirsten Zacho, 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.
Mr. and Mrs. Cheshire have
two sons, Lyn Cheshire, a high
school junior and member of the
varsity football team, and Pat
Cheshire, soon to enter the eighth
grade.
McGills Oi Gaston
Gather Wednesday
The annual reunion of McGills
of Gaston will be held at Bethel
Arbor Wednesday, August 21st.
A business meeting will get
underway at 11 a.m. and lunch
will be served about 12:30.
John O. Ross, Jr. of Charlotte
is president of the clan and Mrs.
Stokes Wright of Kings Moun
tain is secretary.
The Clan gathering customari
ly draws a large crowd. ,
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