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> r—...^ Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 aSsrlS-Su; ■ Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL. 74 No.35 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 29, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Schools Expect To Enroll 4258 Students Friday r Local News Bulletins FROM VACATION Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pressly have returned to Kings Mountain after their vacation in Bonelark en, Montreal and other places in the Carolines. Dr. I’resaly will fill the pulpit Sunday. COMMUNION A communion service for the congregation and especially col lege students and their families will be held following the morn ing worship service Sunday at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. YOUTH WEEK El Bethel church, Grace and Central Methodist church are Joining this week in youth activi ty week, August 25-30. An Informal banquet will con clude the week’s activities. .DUNLAP REUNION The annual John James Dun lap family reunion will be held Sunday at Antioch Methodist church near Rock Hill, S. C-, ac cording to announcement by Mrs. Conrad Hughes. Members of the Hughes family will attend the gathering. IN CHORUS Mrs. Pauline F. Weaver of Kings Mountain was a member of the 171 voice chorus of the 12th annual music education work shop held at Appalachian State Teacher’s college this summer. TICKETS ON SALE Tickets are on sale at the of fices of the Kings Mountain Mer chants association for the annual employee - employer picnic to be held Sept. 18 at El Bethel Method ist church. The merchants picnic customarily attracts a large crowd. WARE REUNION HELD Numerous reiatlves from this area attended the annual Ware reunion held Sunday at Tangle wood Park in Clemmons, N. C. ON HONOR LIST Fleming Mauncy, Kings Moun tain student at North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina, was listed on the "Hon ors List” for the past academic year. Mr. Mauney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mauney, maintained a "B" average for the year’s work. The Mauneys are visiting from Cary this week with his parents. ON DEAN'S UST James Sherwood Forrest, Kings Mountain Junior at North Caro lina State of the University of North Carolina, was listed on the "Honor List" for the past aca demic year. Mr. Forrest compiled a "B" average for the year. LAIL REUNION The Peter and Polly Lall an nual reunion will be held Sun day at the Bethlehem Commun ity clubhouse. Clan committees arc requested to contact their Im mediate families to urge attend ance and to report new births, marriages and other vital sta tistics during the past year, it was announced by Mrs. Tcssle Bridges of Gastonia, FROM VACATION Rev. George Moore has return ed from vacation and will fill his pulpit at Sunday morning ser vices at Resurrection Lutheran church. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $198.25, including $142.90 from on-street meters, $37 from over parking fees, and $18-35 from off-street meters. City Clerk Joe McDaniel reported. MO FIRES City firemen reporti*d no fires occuring within the Kings Moun tain city limits during the past week. Stores To Closo On Labor Day Kings Mountain retailers will be closed on Labor Day, Mon day, September 2. Mrs. Luther Joy, Merchants Association secretary, said de partment stores will remain open until 8; 30 p.m. Friday night to accommodate back-to school season shoppers. Piano Teaching In Schools Is Restricted Fee-basis instruction .of piano will continue in Kings Mountain public schools on a somewhat re stricted basis from past years. 1) No student will be allowed to leave an academic class for piano instruction, and 2) Replacement for Mrs. F. R. McCurdy, who recently resigned, will not be sought. This was the decision of the board of education Tuesday, fol lowing discussion of a requested policy letter from a state depart ment of public instruction offici al. Superintendent B. N. Barner quoted the official as writing the state department feels interrup tions to classroom activities con stitute a conflict with the recent policy statement of the state board of education concerning protection of school time and that it is the department’s opin ion that disadvantages of pri vate lessons outweigh the ad vantages. Supt. Barnes also added, “The State Board of Education recom mends teaching of piano in the schools with the stipulation that the teacher be bona fide and em ployed and paid by the county or city board of education in ac cordance with schedules and regulations established by it and the State Board of Education.” Under long-term practice here, the board of education has fur nished quarters tind a piano for fee-basis instructors. By the decision, the nine-plant system will have three special teachers of piano, Mrs. L. E. Hin nant, Mrs. Dick Wray, and Mrs. J. F. Hambright. ——. Schools Faculty Only One Short A fifth grade teacher is being sought by King Mountain school officials to complete the faculty for 1963. The magic number dwindled to one this week as school officials announced Tuesday, after a spe cial board meeting, that eight va cated teaching positions have been filled. School opens August 30th, and Mr. Barnes reports that several applications are being considered for the fifth grade teaching vacancy at Bethware. "The vacancy should be filled by Friday,” Mr. Barnes said. New faculty members are: Mrs. W. L. McSwain will teach the special education classes at Bethware. Prior to this year the classes were held at Central school. Mrs. Sarah L. Harris was e leeted to teach first grade at East school. Mrs. Marilyn Homug, who will teach seventh grade at Bethware school. Mrs. Martha Yarboro, Wife of Jimmy Yarboro of Kings Moun tain, was elected to serve as re lief for school principals at Bethware and East who will de vote a half day to administrative duties. Mrs. Elsie Burch was elected to teach in the elementary schools at Compact. Mrs. Cozell Vance was elected to positions as relief teacher for the Davidson and Compact schools. . Mrs. Louella Shivers was elect ed to teach on the high school level at Compact high school. C. B. Harritl accepted the job of teaching high school geometry at Central School until a perma nent teacher can be located. Mr. Harrill is a graduate of Wake Forest with a degree in mathe matics. iMrs. Harrill has been high school teacher of French here for two years. Mr. Harrill was a brother of the late E. A. Harrill, Kings Mountain attorney. Bible KMHS Elective Only Bible will be offered in the high school as an elective with five classes during 1963-64, the board of education ruled Tuesday, as it accepted the recommendation of the committee on Bible in the public schools. Dr. Paul Ausley, chairman told the board it was the committee recommendation that Bible be eliminated from the elementary schools on grounds of questiona ble legality and due to lack of C’vntinu&l On Page Sight Work Underway On City Directory wifewaZiB' GRADUATES — Ltnda Lee Ben nett. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bennett, has graduated from Charlotte Presbytetrian Hospital School of Histology and left Tues day for Chapel Hill where she will work at North Carolina Me morial hospital. Miss Bennett graduated last spring from Kings Mountain high school. Mauney loins Ohio Faculty Miles H. Mauney, former Kings Mountain citizen and a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. MatJMby? Sr r is returning to Oberlin, Ohio Thursday to teach in the Con servatory of Music. The Mauneys have been visit ing here for several days, en route to Ohio from Urbana, Illi nois, where he taught for a year at the University of Illinois. At Urbana, Mr. Mauney taught a class in pedology and class piano. Mr. Mauney is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and holds a master’s degree from Columbia Teacher’s college of New York, where he has done further work on a doctorate in addition to serving as a part-time instructor and assistant to Dr. Robert Pace, head of the piano department. DAR's Planning Battle Celebration The steering committee for the Kings Mountain Battle victory celebration October 6th met at Kings Mountain National Milita ry Park (Museum Tuesday. Co-chairman of the annual Park celebration are Supt. Ben F. Moomaw of Kings and Miss Lankford of the Paeolet Mills, S. C. DAR chajjfjr. Representatives o f nearby chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution were pres ent to formulate plans for the e vent. The program will be held in the park amphitheatre. Two new chapters of the DAR have joined area chapters this year in planning the battle anni versary celebration. They are DAR chapters from Spartanburg, S. C. and Lancaster, S. C., Mr. Moomaw said. Luncheon was served following the meeting by Mrs. Moomaw at the Moomaw home. KIWANIS PROGRAM Coach Bill Bates and other members of the coaching staff will be guests at Thursday night’s meeting of the Kiwanis club, with Coach Bates to outline pros pects of the high school Moun taineers for the upcoming sea son. The club meets at the Wo man’s Club at 7 p.m. Columbia Finn Now Compiling Diiectoi; Data Work is well underway on a new Kings Mountain - Bessemer City city directory expected to be published about December 1, Harry O. Stone, editor of Wing Publications, Inc., of Columbia, 3. C., the publishers, said this week. Census • taking is to start here his week and is already being ;aken in Bessemer City. Mr. Stone said the firm is cm >loying local citizens as census akers and invites recruits for die work which will require about one month. Applicants should apply to Mr. Stone’s office in the Profesisonal Building, or call him at 739-3716. It marks the first time a city directory has been published in corporating Bessemer City, as well as Kings Mountain, and will be Kings Mountain’s third city directory. The directory will include (for both cities): 1) Citizens directories, alpha betically listed, Including ad dress, employment, and other in formation. 2) A numerical telephone direc tory is ascending order. ■ 3) A street guide. 4) Factual and historical infor mation, along with pictures, of the two communities. 5) Business firm advertising. W. L Ormand's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for William Lane Ormand, 96, of Bessemer City, were held Sunday at 3 p.m. from Bessemer City’s First Presbyter ian church, of which he was a member. Rev. Hoyt Pruitt officiated at the final rites and Interment was made in Long Creek church ce metery. Mr. Ormand died Saturday morning in a Charlotte hospital after a brief illness. A retired postmaster, he was a native of Gaston county, son of the late Robert Dixon and Sarah Goforth Ormand. Ormand was married in 1892 to Mary Elizabeth White and she preceded him in death in 1957. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. R. S. Plonk, Miss Mary Or mand and Mrs. Irene Simmons of Bessemer City and Mrs. John O. Reynolds of Greenville, S. C.; , two sons, Harry W. of Thomas ton, Ga. and Dr. John W. Or mand of Monroe. A third son, Ro bert, died in 1962. Also surviving are two brothers, B. Meek Or mand of Kings i.Mountain and R. D. Ormand of Bessemer City, one sister, Miss Annie Ormand of Bessemer City; 10 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Back-To-School Dance Set Friday The Kings Mountain high school cheerleader# will sponsor a back-to-sehool dance for all high school students Friday night from 7:30 until 11 p.m. to the Central gymnasium. Carolyn lleavncr, spokesman, for the sponsoring organisation, said admission is 40 cents for couples and 25 cents for stags. Collectors Report City and County Tax Levies Over Quarter Prepaid City and county tax collectors have been getting writer’s cramp this week writing tax receipts as crtizesis rush payments to earn the fully approved two percent discount on 1963 bills. Final day to earn the full dis count is Saturday. Both J. H. McDaniel, Jr., city collector, and R. M. Gldney, coun ty collector, said cash payments up to noon Saturday and mailed payments postmarked August 31 will qualify for the two percent saving. Both collectors anticipate hea vy payments prior to the dead line. City pre • payments totaled $19,656 Wednesday morning, or slightly more than 25 percent of the estimated levy of $196,500. County pre payments Wednes day totaled $590,000, also slightly •more than a quarter of the esti mated levy of $2,250,000. The discount rate drops to one! percent September L Request Deadline For Transfers Is Saturday The Kings Mountain board of education will convene in special session at 8:30 Saturday morn ing at the office of the superin tendent to consider school trans fer requests. Meantime, all pupils are re quested to attend assigned schools for Friday’s orientation day. As of Wednesday, Superintend ent B. N. Barnes reported, the board had received requests for plant transfer, or release from the Kings Mountain district, in volving 25 pupils, including the ten received prior to adoption of the pupil assignment resolution. Final day for legally binding filing written notice of request for transfer is Saturday, August 31, Supt. Barnes noted. Parents or guardians of the fol lowing have filed these transfer or release requests: From West to Bethware—De VOLUNTEEHS ASKED Advance enrollment indi cations are that Beth ware's first and second grades will have overloads. The board of education is inviting volun teers to attend West school. Approximately five Bethware first graders and approximate ly eight Bethware second grad ers transferring to West would balance loads in these grades at both schools. nlse Whetstine and Edgar Bridg es, fifth grade; Diana Bridges, fourth rade; and Chris Tindall, third grade. From Park Grace to Bethware Tommy Tindall, Camille Leon ard, and Ginger Lynn^all seven th graders. From Park Grace to East — Richard Ethridge, seventh, Charles Andy McCarter, fourth, and Mitchell Brent McCarter, second. From Park Grace to Grover — Thomas Neill Berry, third grade. From East to West — Sara Beth Simpson, fifth grade. From Bethware to East — Mar tha Jane Mauney, third grade. From Bethware to West—Andy Neisler and William Mauney Herndon, Jr.,both sixth graders. Since adoption of the pupil as signment law by the General As sembly, the Kings Mountain board of education has endeavor ed to accommodate parents by honoring transfer requests in in stances where mutually benefici al to the operation of the schools. Generally, a key factor has been grade loads. Computer Dis-Bunks 300 State Students Two Kings Mountain high ichool graduates, who expected to be roommates at North Caro ina State university of the Uni /ersity of North Carolina this tall, had rude shocks over the weekend as they were notified no lormitory rooms were available. Already verbally assured all letails were properly handled, idvance payments made, and graduation credentials filed, Ken iy Barnes, son of Mr. and Mrs. 3. N. Barnes, and William Ham •ick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben famrick, were more than a lit tle putout. Writer of the bad news was N. J. Watts. It was decided to call Mr. iVattH, Saturday evening notwith standing. Mr. Watts was perturb 'd, too. Informed of the circum stances he promised some Sun lay duty to learn the cause. On Monday he called back. Everything was in order for h’rosh Barnes and Hamrick, not ;o mention about 300 more in coming State students. The high-powered computing nachine had fouled the deal. Postmaster Invites rruck Service Bids Bids will be received until 2 p.m. Thursday, September 5, for servicing and maintenance of the Kings Mountain postof flce truck, Postmaster Charles L. Alexander has announced. Garage owners interested in bidding may obtain bid forms from the Postmaster. DISCHARGED D. B. Blalock, Dixon community farmer, has been discharged rom the Kings Mountain hos pital and is recuperating at his home. Mr. Blalock suffered a heart attack several weeks ago. District Jaycees Will Meet Here SPEAKER — William W. Suttle, president of North Carolina Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, will address a Jaycee District meet ing here Tuesday. Shrine Group To Picnic Here The Piedmont Shrine Club will hold an outdoor picnic here at the Kings Mountain Police Offi cers club on Davidson Lake be ginning Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Mayor Glee A. Bridges, chair man of arrangements for the gathering, said 200 Shriners from Cleveland and Rutherford coun ties are expected for the outing. The route to the club is: follow N. C. 161 south about four miles to a sign on the right of the road reading Kings Mountain Police club, then follow directional signs. Mrs. Otto Williams Is Seriously 111 Mrs. H. O. (Toby) Williams, wife of the vice-chairman of the Kings Mountain board of edu cation, is seriously ill at Kings Mountain hospital. “No visitor” notice has been posted, members of her family said Wednesday. JUNIOR MARSHAL Miss Mary Ellen Stroupe, Kings Mountain student at Win- ] throp college, will serve as a junior marshal during the 1964 commencement season. Miss Stroupe is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Stroupe. State President William Suttle To Make Address William W. (Bill) Suttle, presi dent of the North Carolina Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, will be the principal speaker at Tues day night’s District 21 meeting of the Jaycees. The Kings Mountain Jaycees will be hosts to the district ga thering. Dinner will be served at 7 o’clock at the Woman's club. A native of Marion, where he is engaged in the private practice of law and also serves as solici tor of the McDowell County Criminal Court, Suttle was nam ed in May 1963 to direct the acti vities of some 10,000 Tar Heel Jaycees in the 200 clubs through out the state. Educated in the public schools of Marion, he later received his bachelor’s and LL.B degrees from the University of North Carolina. While at the University he was a member of the Theta Chi social fraternity and Delta Theta Phi Law fraternity, and won numer ous academic honors, including the publication of a note in the North Carolina Law Rcveiew. As a Jaycee, he has served as local director, state director and local president, as state vice pre ; sident; and last year as admin istrative national director in I charge of statewide internal pro gramming. A member of First Methodist church of Marion, he is married to the former Pat Carson of Statesville. Grovei Outing September 7th A combination homecoming and appreciation day will he held September 7 at Grover, it was an nounced this week by Charlie Harry, III, president of the re cently organized Grover Commu nity Improvement council. The event will compare with the Independence Day celebra tions observed at Grover for several years. Mr. Harry said the ‘‘apprecia tion” includes celebration of the forthcoming opening of a bank at Grover, improvements to the water system, and location of Dr. Lewis Beam at Grover for medi cal practice. The event will begin in the af ternoon at 5:30 and principal pro gram feature will be a review of Continued On Page Eight Bates Rates Shelby, Lincolnton Teams To Beat In '63 Grid Race Coach Bill Bates, of the high school Mountaineers, regards Shelby and Lincolnton as the teams to beat In the Southwest division of the Western North Carolina high school athletic as sociation, and rates Rutherford ton • Spindale Centra], Cherry ville and his own Mountaineers as top darkhorses for loop hon ors. Coach Bates gave a rundown on personnel and advance infor mation on the ten opponents the Mountaineers will face starting September 5 to members of the Lions club Tuesday night. He says the Mountaineers will lack speed, but will be bigger and with better reserve strength than last year. ‘‘Our biggest asset will be the aggreate desire of the squad members to play football and we’re all O.K. scholastically with most players C-plus to B stu dents,” Coach Bates said. He paraphrased ex-Coach John Gamble by saying, ‘‘We think we teach character by winning.” Coach Bates rates Shelby the team to heat, with plenty of speed, depth and heft and two top backs in Don Patrick and Charlie Peeler. He rates Lincolnton just a step behind and only because of graduation of the starting back field. Lincolnton, he said, will have four veteran linemen weigh ing Loin 202 to 235, with 220 pound Dick Byrd rated one of the state’s top prospects by col lege coaches. “If somebody can score against ’em, they might beat Lincoln ton," Coach Bates remarked . Other items in his opponents’ sum-up: 1) Bessemer City, Little Six champs, will give the Mountain eers trouble, with ex-Mountain eer Forrest Dover to do the Yel low Jackets a good job of quar terbacking. 2) Rutherford-Spindalc will be especially tough if replacements for the graduated right side of the line develops. 3) Belmont, under new Coach Ray Shelton, will win some games simply because of its employment of the multiple-type offense, fa eluding the single wing and sev eral T-variations. 4) East high (Forest City) will be improved. 5) Kings Mountain will be the underdog in the opener at Cher ryville, 1962 victor 'by a lone touchdown and with 21 lettermen returning. 6) York, S. C., is off the sche dule, not by choice of either, but because of a setback in the South Carolina scheduling by a week. Guests at the Lions gathering were Don Parker, Bill Cashion, and Bob Hussey', assistant coach es. Dr. George Plonk arranged the program. Students Should Attend Assigned Schools Friday By MARTIN HARMON Kings Mountain art* school pupils return to school for orlen* tation day on Friday, with regu lar olasswork tc get underway Monday. School officials anticipate en rolling 4.25S pupils in the nine plant system which covers most of Number 4 and a portion of Number 5 Cleveland County townships. Superintendent B. N. Barnes said Wednesday that arrange ments for Friday’s opening day are virtually complete. He noted these particular points: 1) AH students should report tq assigned schools Friday, with the board of education scheduled to convene Saturday morning at 8:30 to consider transfer requests, and unexpected grade overload problems. 2) Tlie school dismissal hour will remain at 2:30 for primary students and 3 o’clock for second ary pupils. 3) First graders will have a short school day for the first week, and will be free to leave at noon. First graders without transportation home will remain until the regulur hus departure hour under supervision of their teachers. 4) All in-city pupils assigned to the eighth grade at, Beth ware will embark and disembark at Central School. The approximate departure hour is 8:25 a.m., the arrival hour at 3:15. 5) The estimated 17 Park Grace fifth graders who are assigned to either East or West schools should take Park Grace - bound buses Friday morning for fur ther transportation. On Friday, all will go to East school for par ticular assignment. Supt. Barnes explained that principals are en deavoring to develop best aecom* modal Ion for transportation of these pupils. 6) The two special education classes for the eduoabalc retard ed return to the Bethware plant from Central. 7) A decision to employ three additional elementary teachers from local funds to relieve over loads has been revised. Two are being employed, one for white, one for colored schools. The board of education antici pates transferring about 15 eighth grade pupils, who would attend Grover school, to Beth ware to balance teaching loads. These pupils live in the Mid Pines-Bethlehem area. Supt. Barnes noted that build ings have been renovated and re paired during the summer months and are in good condi tion for the opening of school. At its Tuesday morning ses sion, the board of education re tained the prior policy of using “floating” teachers to relieve ele mentary school principals ap proximately half of each teach ing day for administrative du ties. Here Is Schedule Oi Student Fees The Kings Mountain board of education voted Tuesday morn ing to retain the previous max imum limit on student fees. They include: For all pupils -$1.75 for school child accident insurance (optional.) For elementary pupils $1.50 for supplemental readers, sup plies and library fee; $l p^’f child for weekly supplemental leaders. For high school students- $1 library fee; $2 vocational courses; $(J typing fee if paid in advance, or $1 per month. 50 cents for science courses; towel fee $l per semester; diploma fee (at cost). Students may purchase op- • tionally through the school gym suits, bookkeeping prac tice sets, high school rings and annuals. The schools will main tain vending machines for pa per, pencils and other supplies. Cafeteria lunch fees — For high school students and at Grover, 25 cents; for all other schools, 20 cents. Band fees — $1 tuition, 50 cents uniform rental, 25 cents instrument rental. One field trip within the school year within a 50-mile ra dius will be permitted during non-school hours via school bus on if student share-oast basis.