Population
greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
,or 2™***^. ^ la derived iron
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Stella figure Is from the United States census ot i860.
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VOL. 74 No. 40
Established 1889
Seventy-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Local News
Bulletins
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KIWANIS CLUB
Wade S. Weatherford of'Gaff
ney, S. C. will be guest speaker
at Thursday night’s Kiwanis clut
meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the Wo
man’s club. Glee Edwin Bridget
has arranged the program.
RADIO SERVICE
Morning church services dur
ing the month of October will be
broadcast via Radio Station WK
MT from First Presbyterian
church.
LEGION SUPPER
A free barbecue supper for Le
gionnaires will be held October
12th from 5 until 8 p.m. at the
Legion building to kick-off the
*1964 membership drive.
LEGION DANCE
The American Legion Post 155
has scheduled seven dances from
October 5-through December. A
schedule, mailed to Legionnaires,
list this schedule of dance festi
vities: October 5 and 19; Novem
ber 2 and 16; December 7,21, and
28th.
WOMEN'S SOCIETY
The Women’s Society of Boyce
Memorial ARP church will gath
er for a regular meeting Sunday
afternoon at 3 p.m. at the church.
Eisldne Fund
Drive Underway
Alumni of Erskine College of
this area were guests of tbo-cot
|\ lege at a dinner here Monday
t night, in commemoration of the
college’s 125th anniversary.
The dinner was also a plans af
fair for a mammoth fund-raising
campaign, both in support of the
college’s $750,000 three - year
building fund appeal, and for the
one-year 25th anniversary $125,
000 living endowment appeal.
Dr. R. C. Grier, former Erskine
president, was pricipal speaker
at the dinner. Prior to the ban
quet, E. C. Craig, of Gastonia, co
chairman of the North Carolina
division in the fund-raising ef
fort, conducted a preliminary
meeting attended (by campaign
workers.
It was noted that Erskine col
lege numbers 66 percent of its
alumni who contributed last year
to the living endowment—funds
used for operations—compared to
a 'national average among all
colleges of 22 percent.
The $750,000 would provide Er
skine college with a student un
ion building and with a remodel
ed and enlarged auditorium.
Mrs. John C. McGill is general
chairman of the campaign in the
Kings Mountain-Shelby district.
Mrs. Fred Baird is Shelby chair
man and !Mys. John E. Gamble
Kings Mountain chairman. Other
) committee members are Mrs.
Kenneth Crook, W. S. Fulton, Jr.,
Marriott D. Phifer, and Norman
McGill.
Rites Thursday
For Miss Plonk
Funeral rttes for Miss Ethel
Plonk, 71, will be held Thursday
at 3 p-rn. from St. Matthew’s .Lu
theran church, interment follow
ing in Mountain Rest cemetery.
Miss Plonk died Tuesday morn
ing in City hospital at Winston
Salem following an illness of
three months.
The body will remain at Harris
Funeral Home until 2:30 p.m. Dr.
W. P. Gerberding, assisted by
Miss Plonk’s pastor from Wins
ton Salem, will officiate at the
final rites.
A Kings 'Mountain native, Miss
Plonk was a daughter of the late
Rufus S. and Mary Motley Plonk.
A graduate of Kings Mountain
high school and Lenoir Rhyne
college, she earned her degree in
library science from William &
Mary college. For 43 years she
was a teacher and librarian at
Granville school in Winston Sa
lem. She retired four years ago.
She was a member of Augsberg
Lutheran church.
Surviving are one brother, Ru
fus Plonk, of Eessemer City and
six sisters, Mrs. Hugh Ormand,
'Miss May Plonk and Miss Eva
Plonk, all of Kings Mountain,
Mrs W. E. Alexander of Robbins,
Mrs. W. M. Hite of Atlanta. Ga.
and Mrs. C. A. Hager of Hick
ory.
EVANGELIST — Dr. Charles E. !
Edwards of Atlanta. Go., will
lead evangelistic services which
begin Monday at Boyce Memori
terian church.
ARP Services
To Begin Monday
Dr. Charles E. Edwards, pastor
of the First ARP church of At
lanta, Ga. since 1958, will be vi
siting evangelist at Boyce Me
morial ARP church during spe
cial services which began Mon
day.
Services will be held nightly at
7:30 through Friday evening.
There will be a children’s service
on Saturday morning, October
12th, at 10 a.m. and two services
on Sunday, October 13th.
Bom in lid Mexico January 11,
1907 to missionary parents. Dr.
Edwards attended Bryson college
from 1926-27 and graduated from
Erskine college, Class of ? 1930,
and Erskine Seminary, Class of
1932. Me earned his master’s de
gree from Princeton University
in 1934.
A ship's clmpiain during World
War II, Dr. Edwards served in
the Caribbean and South Ameri
ca and over two years in the
South Pacific. He has held pas
torates in Arkansas, Prosperity,
S.. C, Elsberry and Mt. Zion, Mo.,
Louisville, Kentucky, and the
Centennial chur'ch in Columbia,
S. C.
“We invite the community to
worship with us in these servic
es’’, Dr. W. L. Pressly, ARP pas
tor, said in making the announce
ment.
Swan Wins
Art Contest
Pfc. Carl H. Swan, Kings
Mountain serviceman now sta
tioned in the Panama Canal Zone,
has been named winner of the
arts and craft contest for the U.
S. Army Forces Southern Com
mand.
The 24-year-old soldier is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Swan
of Kings Mountain. His wife is
the former Brenda Barnette of
Kings Mountain.
Swan’s painting, “The Pana
manian” was the winner in the
water color division and will be
in an exhibit m Washington, D.
C. and in studios in Texas and
New York. It will be in competi
tion with paintings from other U.
S.' Army 'unit winners for a na
tional award.
Pfc. Swan is a graduate of
Kings Mountain high school and
"Richmond Polytechnic, institute
at Richmond, Va.
GOP Candidate
Foi State-Paid
Kindergarten
The lone announced Republican
candidate for Governor—Dotiali
Badgley, of Greensboro, a stab
representative — spoke at City
Hall last Thursday night, criti
cized Democrats, particularly
these of Eastern North Carolina
but declared for broadened sec
andary education.
He is not, he added, campaign
ing against the sales tax on food
Though he would have favorec
increasing taxes on alcoholic bev
erages, he said, such excises
would not return sufficient cash
to expand the school progrant.
He charged Eastern Democrats
with endeavoring to keep politi
cal control of the state.
Mr. Badgley informed his au
dlence that he seeks the GOP
gubernatorial nomination in the
belief that U. S. Representativi
Charles R. Jonas won’t, adding
that he had informed Mr. Jonas
he would withdraw should the
Lincolnton Congressman agree t(
be the GOP standard-bearer.
(Mr. Badgley said he favored: 1)
compulsory state-supported kin
dergarten, Z) more vocational
guidance, and 3) a compulsory
program of education for train
able retarded children.
He opposed, he said, the recent
ly-passed law which prohibits
known Communists or any who
have refused to answer questions
on plea of the Fifth Amendment
immunity from speaking at state
supported colleges. He said the
legislation was introduced and
passed in haste and added that
information is invaluable, no
matter the source.
Mr. Badgley is a life insurance
salesman, native of Dutchess
county, New York, who has lived
in Greensboro since the mid-fif
ties. He is an air force veteran of
World- War II, art* a‘Qhaker.vHe
Said he is campaigning on his
own: resources, pooh -poohed the
projected million dollar GOP Tar
Heel campaign fund as unneces
sary. He said lie caii win the gov
ernorship on $25,000.
He also said, if elected gover
nor, he had no fear of obtaining
cooperation from a Democrat
dominated General Assembly.
He summed his philosophy in
the statement, “If it’s something
good, vote for it.”
UF Meeting
Is Thursday
Final plans for conducting the
1964 Kings Mountain fund drive
are to be made at a meeting of
plan manager of Fibre Indus
day night, Chairman Robert O.
Southwell said yesterday.
“Only few details remain to be
completed,” Mr. Southwell com
mented.
The United Fund, in a single
campaign, raises funds for sev
eral Kings Mountain organiza
tions. Participants last year were
Jacob S. IMauney Memorial Li
brary, the Kings Mountain Chap
ter of the American Red Cross,
Cleveland County Life - Saving
and Rescue Squad, Inc., Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Compact
Davidson band, and Kings Moun
tain high school band.
KOTARY PROGRAM
Bill Humphries, of Shelby,
plant manager of Fibre Indus
tries, will address members of
the Kings Mountain Rotary club
at the Thursday meeting at the
Country Club at 12:15. The pro
gram was arranged by President
Neil Johnson.
Miss North Carolina Opens Fair;
Throngs Expected For Final Davs
Miss North Carolina, at Shel
by Tuesday to open the 40th an
nual Cleveland County Fair, ex
pressed regret she could not at
tend this weekend’s Mountaineer
Days celebration.
Tall, friendly Jeanne Svvanner
chatted with the visiting press at
a Fair Association-sponsored par
ty at North Lake Country Club
before the evening grandstand
show at which she made an ap
pearance at the fairgrounds.
Miss Swannei said she had an
invitation to attend the Kings
Mountain celebration but had to
decline because of prior commit
ments.
Mrs. Helen Turner, chaperone
to the state beauty queen and
with her at the press party, des
cribed Misc North Carolina as
“lonely and really a quick-change
artist.” She said the Graham
beauty had not only participated
in the opening ceremonies at the
fair but had sampled almost all
the rides on the James E. Strates
mile-long midway, in addition to
signing countless autographs. She
continued to sign autographs
from her box-seat on the grand
stand during the Jack Koehman
world-champion Hell Drivei thrill
show that evening.
Clown Emmett Kelly, Jr., who
also participated in opening day
festivities and who makes a
week-long appearance at the ex
position, was also a favorite of
first-day fair-goers. As he signed
autographs for children of visit
ing newsmen, looking every bit
the clown in grease paint, make
up and putty nose, he talked a
bout his own children. He has
four children.
Appearing nightly from the
grandstand is the Koehman thrill
show, together with his variety
acts, which sfcai Suzi Arden, the
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HuMECOMING QUEEN — Juanita Dellinger, high school senior,
will reign as Homecoming Queen Friday at annual Homecoming
festivities at the high school. Miss Dellinger and members of her
court will be presented at half time of the Mountaineer-Bessemer
City football game at city stadium.
Festivities,
Football Game
Top Program
Juanita Dellinger, high school
senior, will reign as Homecoming
Queen at Homocoming festivities
Friday night at Kings Mountain
high school.
Miss Dellinger will be crowned
and members ot the Homecoming
court presented during the Moun
taineer football game with the
Yellow Jackets of Bessemer City.
A Homecoming parade on
downtown street^ will be held
Friday afternoon. Decorated cars
and floats will .be featured.
iMary Ann McCurdy, senior,
will crown Miss Dellinger. Miss
McCurdy, recently named “Miss
Mountaineer” will appear in
Daisy Mae costume at half-time
of the football game. She will al
so participate in other 'Mountain
eer Days festivities this weekend.
Sponsors for the Senior foot
ball players include: Jim Medlin
Mary Wright; Fred Dixon-Joan;
McClure; Terry Leonard, Susan
Plonk; Lewis Cook, Vivian Wil
son; Calvin Lockridge, June Mar
lowe; Glenn Lovelace, Teresa Mc
Daniel; Jimmy Owens, Ginger
Goforth; Steve Marlowe, Betty
Evans; Dennis Floyd, Anita
Huffstetler; Ronnie Gillespie,
Ann Hammett; Warren Goforth,
Coral Ramseur; Mike Huffstick
ler, Kathy Ellison; Jackie Rhea,
Joan King; and Jose Pucci, Bev
erly Willis.
Miss Dellinger is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Del
linger.
Area Students Win
Prizes At Fair
Kings Mountain high school
placed first in the booths by vo
cational agriculture students at
the Cleveland County Fair and
three area 4-H clubs copped a
wards.
Judging of exhibits took place
at the fair Tuesday morning.
Grover 4-H c'ub copped first
place award for its exhibit, “Care
of Lawns” and Bethlehem com
munity club was second. Dixon
community 4-H. club placed third
for its exhibit, ‘Control of Bag
Worm."
The Mooresboro school booth
placed first in its group, follow
ed by Belwood booth in second
place and Waco booth in third.
LIONS MEETING
B. N. Barnes, superintendent of
Kings Mountain schools, will dis
cuss plans for the new district
high school at the meeting of the
Kings Mountain Lions club Tues
day night, Dr. George W. Plonk,
program chairman, has announc
ed. The club meets at the Wo
Bum’s club at 1 p.m.
PRESIDENT — Kings Mountain
high school principal Harry E.
Jaynes is the new president of
the Southwestern District of the
North Carolina Education Asso
ciation.
Jaynes Heads
District NCEA
Harry E. Jaynes, principal of
Kings Mountain high school, was
installed as president of the
Southwestern District of the
North Carolina Education Asso
ciation Tuesday at Mooresville.
Mr. Jaynes was installed at the
close of the all-day meeting at
tended by school personnel. Dr.
E. L. Fuller, NCEA president,
conducted the installation service.
Virtually all Kings Mountain
teachers attending the meeting,
which featured departmental
luncheons and programs for the
classroom teacher, principal, su
perintendent or secretary.
Among speakers were Dr.
Charles Carroll, state superinten
dent of instruction; Dr. A. C.
Dawson, executive secretary of
the NCEA; and Bert Ishee, NEA
director of North Carolina. The
principal address was made by
Hungarian - born Hargood Ko
vacs, who used the subject,
“Freedom In Eduction.” Robert
Klepfer of Mooresville, outgoing
president, presided.
Mr. Jaynes will serve a one
year term. He is immediate past
vice-president of the district.
Mrs. Wilson Griffin, high
school teacher, was elected presi
dent of the English division of the
Southwestern district for the
coming year.
LODGE MEETING
An emergent communication of
Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AM
will be held Monday night at 6
pan. at Masonic Hall, Secretary
T. D. Tindall has announced.
Retailers uttering Bargains;
Parade To Be Held Saturday
33-Unit Paiade |
To Begin Match
At 10 O'clock
The Mountaineer Day paiade
Saturday will assemble at the
corner of E. Gold and Gaston
streets.
The 33-units will follow this
route beginning at 10 a.m. from
... Gold and Gaston to Battle
ground avenue; north to Moun
tain street and turn right and
march to Piedmont Avenue turn
left and march to King Street;
turn left and march over the
overhead bridge; turn left on
Railroad and march south to
Gold street and turn right. It
will disband on West Gold street
and Congressman Whitener’s ad
dress will be made from the steps
of City Hall immediately follow
ing, about 12:30.
Units in the parade follow this
order, Mountaineer Day chairman
Bob Mihcey said.
1) Mayor Glee A. Bridges and
Congressman Basil Whitener.
2) Police cars and those from
the Sheriff’s department and
State Highway Patrol.
31 Navy Color Guard.
4) Navy Float.
5) Brownie Scouts led by Miss
Margaret Harmon.
6) Horses.
7) Troop 91 Boy Scouts.
8) Antique Car Club.
9) Pony Cart.
10) Brownie Scouts led by Mrs.
Harry Page.
11) Bulk’s Department Store
float.
12) Troop 90 Boy Scouts.
13) Brownie Scouts led by Mrs.
John C. McGill.
14) Kings Mountain high school
band.
15) 'Miss Mountaineer, Mary
Ann McCurdy.
16) Horses.
17) Girl Scouts led by Mrs. W.
C. Ballew.
18) Fire trucks.
19) Captain Windy.
20 i William Herndon in his “A”
Model Ford.
21) Cherryville New Year’s
Shooters.
22) British Subjects.
23) Miss Shelby.
24) Girl Scouts led by Mrs. M.
D. Phifer.
25) Compaet-Davidson band.
26) Girl Scouts led by Mrs. Lois
Boyd.
27) Gaston County Civil Defense.
28) Girl Scouts led by Mrs. Do
rus Bennett.
29) Cleveland County Civil De
fense.
30) Girl Scouts led by Mrs.
Charles Ballard.
31) Troop 292 Boy Scouts.
32) American Legion Dignitar
33) 40 & 8.
RANDLE REUNION
The William and Susan Randle
reunion will be held Sunday at
Bethlehem Fellowship Center.
Relatives and triends are invited
to attend. Picnic lunch will be
spread at 12:30.
SPEAKER — Rep. Basil L. Whlte
ner will lead the Mountaineer
Days parade Saturday morning
and will make an address from
the City Hall steps at 12:30. He
will also speak at a DAR
sponsored 3:30 p.m. battle an
niversary celebration at the Na
tional Military Park.
Military Park
Program Sunday
Representative Basil L. White
ner, 10th district Congressman,
will make the principal address
at Sunday’s annual celebration of
the Battle of Kings Mountain
The celebration, under sponsor
ship of 11 area DAft chapters,
will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the am
phitheatre of Kings Mountain
National Military Park.
Dr. Eugene Poston, president of
Gardner Webb college, will say
the invocation anri pronounce the
benediction. Charles S. Farris, III
of Gaffney, S. C. will read “Ode
to Kings Mountain” and Mrs. J.
Y. Todd, chaplain of Major Willi
am Chronicle chapter DAR of
Gastonia, will present Congress
man Whitoner. The York high
school band will play "Born to
Be Free” and will also play for
the singing of the national an
them and the hymn, “God of Our
Fathers.”
Park Superintendent Ben F.
•Moomaw, chairman of the 183rd
anniversary celebration, will pre
side. Miss Annie Lee Langford,
regent of Kate Barry chapter
DAR of Spartanburg, S. C., is co
chairman.
A native of York, S. C„ Con
gressman Whitener attended the
Gaston Countv public schools and
graduated from Duke University
with ,L.L. B. degree in 1937. Ho
was admitted to the North Caro
lina Bar in 1937. A member oi
the N. C. House of Representa
tives in 1941, he was nominated
in 1942 but resigned to enter the
U. S. Navy. Seprated from service
in November 1945 with the rank
of lieutenant, he was appointed
solicitor of the 14th Solicitoriai
District in January 19 hi and re
elected in 1959 and 1954. He was
elected to the 85t‘h Congress in
November 1956 and reelected to
the 86th, 87th and 88th Congress
es.
Chapters of the Daughters of
American Revolution sponsoring
the observance include: Colonel
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Library Renovation Near-Complete,
Regular Operation To Be Resumed
The extensive renovation of
city-owned Jacob S. Mauney Me
morial Library is nearing com
pletion and Mrs Willie M. .Dill
ing, librarian, predicts library
service will be back to normal by
Monday.
Cleaning work on the building
and furnishings was well under
way Wednesday.
The renovation includes expan
sion of the library to include the
former teacherage living room,
new modern florescent lighting, a
tile floor, re-arrangements of the
“stacks” where books are stored,
and improved arrangements for
in-library reading.
The renovation also marks the
closing of the teacherage, with |
utilization of the second floor and
a portion of the downstairs quar
ters for furnished rental apart
ments. The second floor has been
arranged to provide either 1) two
large apartmtints, or 2) two small
apartments with another room- j
bath unit, minuu kitchen facilities, i
The downstair? apartment n
dudes three large rooms with
bath. Entrance to the rental units
is from the former backporch,
which has been given front en
trance decor.
The'building has been re-paint
ed, both inside and out, , and,
maintenance repairs have been
made.
The cit yappropriated $6,000
for he renovaiutnt work, which
has been done under the super
vision of tile library board, in
cluding Norman King, chairman,
Mrs. George II. Houser, secre
tary, and J. E Herndon. Jr.
Jacob S. Mau/.ey Memorial Li
brary was given to the city by
the J. S. Mauney heirs, in mem
ory of their parents, in 1947, as
a combination library and teaeh
erage. It was the intent of the
donors, as stated, that the build
ing would be used eventually
solely as a library as demand dic
tated.
Congressman
Will Speak
After Parade
A brief address by Congress
man Basil iL. VVhiluner will cli
mix a Mountaineer Days parade
here Saturday.
Representative Whitener will
speak from the steps of City Hall
following the mammoth parade,
about 12:30.
Mountaineer Days, rommemor
aling the 183rd anniversary of
the Battle of K.ngs Mountain, be
gan here this week. The second
annual trade promotion sponsor
ed by the Kings 'Mountain Mer
chants Association is being held
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The parade on Saturday will
climax the celebration.
Robert (Bob) Mincey is chair
man of the promotion.
The schedule of activities for
the three days of the celebration
will follow this format:
All-day barbecue at tables set
up in back of City Hall will be
held beginning Thursday and con
tinuing all three days. The Mer
chants will sponsor the first day’s
barbecue with the Jayceeg to be
sponsors on Friday and Saturday.
Advance tickets for barbecue
plates and sandwiches are alrea
dy on sale.
Kings Mountain women em
ployed by the various retailor
stores will dress In the costumes
j of 1780 all three days of the celo
1 Ination beginning Thursday.
| Store windows feature displays
I of clothing and other Items from
the Colonial era.
Males of the city who have
'been teased about their beard
growing will be rewarded Friday
at C p.m. when handsome trophies
will be awarded tlx* "best
beards.” A first, second, and third
place trophy will be given and
judging wiil take place in front
of the mock jail in the business
district. Judges will be Mrs. Ida
Joy, Mrs. Lucille Williams and
Mrs. Neal Young.
The half-time show of the
Mountaineer Homecoming foot
ball game with Bessemer City
Friday night will feature the
crowning of Mary Ann McCurdy
as "Miss Mountaineer.” A senior,
'Miss McCurdy wiil be dressed in
Daisy Mae costume provided by
the merchants.
A 31-unit parade will highlight
the celebration Saturday morn
ing at 10 a.m. on downtown
streets. A feature of the parade
will be the Fifth Division Fall
Promenade and Wreck of the
Grand Vulture of North Carolina,
Forty and Eight, It will be the
first time Kings Mountain has
been host to the honor society of
the American Legion and numer
ous visiting Legionnaires are ex
pected to participate.
Battle Fought
October 7,1780
'.Monday, October 7th will mark
the 183rd anniversary of the Bat
tle of Kings Mountain.
October 7, 17S0, a small band
of mountainmen annihilated a
force of Tory soldiers, under the
command of Coionel Patrick Fer
guson, a Scot, who was killed in
the battle.
Historians label this British
defeat the turning point of the
war leading to Cornwallis’ sur
render at Yorktown in 1781.
The 4200-acre Kings Mountain
National Military park embraces
the site of the battle. Here four
monuments have been erected,
notable among which are the Cen
tennial Monument, dedicated in
1880, and the United States Gov
ernment Obelisk, erected by the
Congress in 1009.
An electric map at the Park
'Miuseum, open daily, shows the
route of the forces which met at
Kings Mountain, a diroma of the
battle, and a rare Ferguson rifle.
A self-guiding tour will lead a
long foot trails to the chief fea
tures of the battlefield.
Kings Mountain citizens led by
the merchants will join in a
mammoth celebration this week
end. Citizens will see "reminders”
of the 1780 era when they visit
downtown stores Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. A Sunday pro
gram is planned at the battle
ground.