Population
(greater Kings Mountain 10,320
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mounain N. C., Thursday, October 24, 1963
VOL 74 No. 43
Seventy-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
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Local News
Bulletins
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METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for the
week ending Wednesday totaled
$214.30, including $130.30 from
on - street meters, $65 from over -
parking fines, and $19 from off *
street meters, City Clerk Joe Mc
J^niel, Jr. reported.
TO CONVENTION
Mayor Gree A. Bridges and
Commissioner J. E. Rhea will go
to Asheville Sunday to attend the
three • day convention of the
North Carolina League of Mu
nicipalities.
ATTEND MEETING
Robert Hurlburt, Kings Moun
tain Optimist president, W. D.
Byers, secretary - treasurer, and
Dean Payne, second vice - presi
dent, attended a district meeting
of Optimist Clubs in Charlotte
last Saturday.
HOSPITALIZED
Walter C. Farris is a patient
in the Kings Mountain hospital.
Mr. Farris, admitted Wednesday
afternoon, will undergo teeth ex
tractions Thursday.
RADIO BRODACAST
Services during the month of
October are being broadcast via
Radio Station WKMT from First
Presbyterian church,.
LAYMAN'S SUNDAY
^Laymen’s Sunday was observ
Ph in two Kings Mountain
churches Sunday. iAt First Presby
terian church Charles D. Blanton,
Jr. filled the pulpit and at Cen
tral Methodist church Dr. R. E.
Lewis of North Wilkesboro was
visiting speaker.
SAFETY MEETING
R. B. (Black) Leonard of the
N. C. State Highway Patrol, of
Kings Mountain, will address the
quarterly meeting of the Blue
Ridge Safety Council at Chase
high school in Rutherford coun
ty Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Barbe
cue supper will be served begin
ning at 6:30.
JAYCEE CANDY SALE
The Jaycee candy sale is con
tinuing tonight (Thursday) and
Jaycees will be canvassing the
community to offer two - pound
bags of Halloween candies for
$1. Proceeds will support the
club’s various charitable pro
jects.
LIONS DIRECTOR
Lion Glenn Campbell has been
named a director of the Kings
Mountain Lions club, filling a
cancy.
VESPER SERVICES
Sunday evening vesper services
are being held each Sunday at
5:30 p.m. at Kings Mountain Bap
tist church, the pastor, Rev. Mari
on DuBose has announced.
KIWANIS CLUB
Kings Mountain Kiwanians
will see the film, “Come To Tex
as,” a Humble Ool film, for their
Thursday program at 6:45 at the
Woman’s club.
CORRECTION
The Herald inadvertently omit
ted the name of Mrs. George Mor
row from the list of blue-ribbon
winners in the horticulture di
vision of last week’s 60th floral
fair. Mrs. Morrow’s exhibit, a
floribunda, copped a first prize
award.
Jim Bennett Joins
"Five-Gallon" Club
James Bennett, Mauney Mills
employee, is a member of the ex
clusive “five gallon club” of
blood donors.
Mr. Bennett received his five
Hfellon pin at last Monday’s visit
yjr the Red Cross bloodbank.
Four other donors became
monjbers of the "two gallon"
club and three joined the “one
gallon” club. Becoming two gal
lon members v<ere Neil A. Spang
ler, Donald E. Stone, Brown
Ware and Mrs. Clarence Plonk,
Jr. Joining the one-gallon mem
bership were Robert F. Caveny,
Joe fiord, and C. L. Feele.
Hospital To Ask Inclusion In Bond Election
Executive
Groups Confer
On Bond Vote
Kings Mountain Hospital direc
tors will ask the county commis
sion to include Kings Mountain
unit construction funds in the
projected county-wide hospital
bond issue election on February
22
Hospital President George W.
'Mauney said the decision was
reached following a Tuesday con
ference of executive committees
of the Kings Mountain institu
tion and Cleveland Memorial
hospital at Shelby, which is seek
ing $1.5 million as the county’s
matching share of a $3 million
renovation and expansion.
President Mauney said Tues
day’s conference was quite har
monius and that the Cleveland
Memorial representatives said
they would welcome inclusion
of funds for Kings Mountain on
basis of need, agreeing that coir
rent occupancy rates here indi
cate a need for additional beds
within the near future.
Administrator Grady Howard
reported last week that the hos
pital’s August bed occupancy rate
was 95 percent, while the aver
age for 11 months ending in Au
gust was 85-5 percent.
President Mauney noted that
the State Medical Caro commis
sion stipulates that expansion is
dictated when occupancy rates
rep eh 80 percent for a continuing
period.y- .
Mr. Mauney declined to esti
mate the amount of funds which
will be asked. He said a survey
of likely needs will be conducted
immediately and that the Kings
Mountain board will present its
request to the county commission
in November.
Attending the Tuesday confer
ence were President Lloyd Bos-t,
Rep. Jack Palmer, Newland
Schenck and Emmett Matthews,
of Cleveland Memorial’s execu
tive committee, and all members
of the Kings Mountain commit
tee, including President Mauney,
Holmes Hafry, R. S. Lennon, A.
A. Barrett, and George H. Maun
ey.
Opened in 1951 as a 24-bed fa
cility, Kings Mountain Hospital
has been expanded several times
and now boasts 75 beds:
Brother's Efforts
Saves Tindall Lad
Quick work by Tommy Tin
dall, Jr., a 12-year‘old Boy
Scout, may have saved his five
year-old brother Gregory Tin
dall’s life Monday afternoon.
Young Gregory had been
playing around gas whicli had
doused his wool trousers. When
the gas was poured on a trash
fire, it ignited his trousers.
Tommy Tindall, his father re
lates, remembered his Scout
training, grabbed his young bro
ther, rolled him- In the dirt and
doused the fire. '
The lad still suffered first
degree burns of the left leg. He
received treatment at Kings
Mountain hospital emergency
room—taken by his mother, a
hospital nurse, but not on duty
at the time of the accident.
Synodical Elects
Mrs. W. L. Pressly
Mrs. Paul Ham
Corresponding
Secretary
Mrs. W. L. Pressly, wife of the
pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP
church, was elected president of
the Woman’s Synodical Union of
the Associate Reformed Presby
terian church at a recent meet
ing in Rock Hill, S. C.
Named corresponding secre
tary was Mrs. Dorothy McCarter
Ham, wife of Paul Ham, and also
active in the women’s society of
Boyce Memorial ARP church.
The two Kings Mountain wo
men were installed, along with
other new Synodical officers, for
a two-year term. Mrs. Pressly is
the immediate vice president of
the organization.
The 49th session of the Wo
man’s Synodical Union was held
at flock Hill ARP church Octo
ber 2-3 and followed the program
theme, “Faith, Prayer, Works.*'
Dr. C. R. Younts, moderator of
the ARP Synod, was speaker at
the Wednesday evening service
and officers were installed by
Dr. W. R. Echols at the Thurs
day morning service.
Representatives from Catawba
First, Mississippi Valley, Second,
Tennessee-Alabama and Virginia
Presbyterials were present. Mrs.
T. Lewis Hovis of Kings Moun
tain is president of First Presby
terial and also attended the meet
ing, as well as other women from
the local ARP church. For the
Synodical meeting, Mrs. Pressly
served as official reader and Mrs.
Pressly, Mrs. Ham and Mrs. R. El
Barron, Jr. made up the program
committee. Mrs. Hovis served on
the Synodical Journal program
committee.
Long active in church, civic
and community affairs, Mrs.
Pressly is a former regent of
Colonel Frederick Hambright
Chapter, DAR, is a member of
the Kings Mountain Garden club
and the Home Arts club. She has
also served in many capacities
in the women’s work of her
church and sings in the choir.
The former Elizabeth Cowan of
Statesville, Mrs. Pressly attend
ed Mitchell college and graduat
ed from WCUNC. She did grad
uate work at the University of
Colorado and Pennsylvania State
University. Before her marriage
she taught in the High Point and
Statesville school systems.
Dr. and Mrs. Pressly have a
son, James Allen Pressly, medi
cal student at the University of
North Carolina.
Mrs. Ham, also active in the
work of her church, is a graduate
of Kings Mountain high school
and is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar McCarter. She is em
ployed by First Union National
Bank. She and her husband are
parents of two daughters, Jody
and Paula Ham, and reside on
Floyd street.
Compact Patrons Ask Improvement;
Baines Ask Aid Against Vendalism
A long list of complaints Mon
day night by Compact school pa
trons concerning condition of the
plant and other needs brought a
request to the patrons from Su
perintendent of Schools B. N.
Barnes that the patrons aid
school officials in curtailing van
dalism at Compact.
The superintendent's request
followed a statement that one of
the rest room toilets was inop
erative.
Mr. Barnes replied that a
plumber had been at work at
Compact several days last week,
completing all repairs on Satur
day. “It's been torn up since Sat
urday," Mr. Baines commented.
William Orr, president of Com
pact Parent-Teacher association,
was chief spokesman for the pa
trons, whom, he said, represented
all segments of Compact patrons.
After complaining of a water
fountain with insufficient pres
sure, lack of coal buckets, waste
baskets, window shades, a step
ladder, an incinerator “which
won’t smoke up the building the
building”, \nd lack of cleaning
supplies, Jake Crocker declared
the principal wants of Compact
patrons are:
1) More classrooms.
2) Bleachers for the gymnasi
um.
3) More parking and play area.
4) Placing of eleetric wires
underground.
5) Supplementary pay for
coaches.
After Mr. Barnes had told the
group some supplies had been
delivered and the remainder or
dered, Board of Education Chair -
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ELECTED — Mrs. W. L. Pressly,
top above, was installed as presi
dent and Mrs. Paul Ham was in
stalled as corresponding secre
tary of the Woman’s Synodical
Union of the ARP church at the
49th annual session held recent
ly
Concert Series . |
Opens Tuesday
First concert in Shelby Com
munity Concert Series for the
1963-64 season will feature the
Revelers Male Quartet Tuesday
night at 8:15 in Graha/m school
auditorium in Shelby.
An institution as American as
the square dance, the male quar
tet has long enjoyed a 'unique
popularity in this country. The
Revelers have appeared in con
cert in each of the 48 states and
the provinces of Canada.
Variety is a keynote in The
Revelers’ repertoire, pleasing the
sophisticated concert goer as
well as the casual listener, age
nine or 90. Unmatched vocal
quality, original arranging and
experienced showmanship are
combined in the program.
The Revelers have appeared at
the White House and this sum
mer have been featured in var
ious productions of Meredith Wil
son’s “The Music Man” which
starred Bert Park, Hugh O’Brien
and Van Johnson.
Mrs. Arthur's Entry
Takes State Prize
Mrs. J. H. Arthur was North
Carolina sweepstakes winner at
the State Fair for her afghan
which also copped the blue rib
bon at the Cleveland County Fair
As state winner, Mrs. Arthur
appeared on the Friday moiining
“Film Fair” show as guest of
Bette Elliott on TV station WRA
L, Raleigh.
As state winner, Mrs. Arthur’s
afghan will compete with othei
state winners in the national
wool contest in New York City
next month. The grand winner
receives a $1,000 cash prize and
a three-day trip for two to New
York City.
Mrs. Arthur was the only
North Carolinian to receive such
an award.
Tax Valnation
Record High
$13^12^60
Taxable property within the
city limits of Kings Mountain for
the current year totals a record
$13,212,860, up over a million
dollars from the 1962 total.
City Clerk and Tax Supervisor
Joe McDaniel, Jr., said final fig
ures have been totaled following
receipt of valuation figures on
two public utilities which are
valued by the State Board of As
sessment.
The two are Southern Bell
Telephone & Telegraph Company,
with a valuation of $345,210, and
Southern Railway Company, with
a valuation of $169,150.
At the city tax rate of 51.50
per $100 valuation, the record
high city valuation means a tax
bill for citiizens of $198,192.90.
Mr. McDaniel noted that Sou
thern Bell’s valuation increased
about $100,090 over last year.
Bryan Houck, manager of
Southern Bell, had not been in
formed of the newly received
taxable valuation but said his
company had made considerable
additions to its Kings Mountain
property in the form of exchange
equipment, lines and poles.
Many Students
On Honor RoH
Ten freshmen, 12 sophomores,
four juniors and six seniors were
listed on the first honor roll for
the first six-week’s grading per
iod just ended at Kings Mountain
high school.
Report cards were issued to
students Wednesday.
On the first honor roll are j
these students:
Seniors: Miriam Baker, Joan'
McClure, Phyllis Pusey, Coral
Ramseur, Betty Ann Styers and
John Tria; Jiuniors: Danny Neal,
Peter Hauser, Jan Williams and
Neil McCarter; Sophomores, Neag
Cooper, Mike Goforth, Ben
Grimes, Teresa Jolley, Alice
Faye Smith, Phillip Bunch, Diane
Bunkowski, Susan Lowery, Ro
ger Ross, Jean Falls, Rodney
Hardin, and Mary Ann Houser;
Freshmen, Steve Sprouse, Larry
Patrick, Tommy Oover, Furman
E. Gladden, Tommy Gerberding,
Jane Morris, Dennis Bridges,
Larry Burton, Nadine Bell and
Jo Bridges.
The second or “B" honor roll
includes these students:
Seniors: Mike Arrowood, Bec
ky Bowers, iLibby Bunch, Martha
Ernst, Frances Goforth, Virignia
Goforth, Barbara Green, Mar
garet Hambright, Mickey Logan
Houser, Suzanne Lockridge, Pris
cilla Padgett, Ginger Payne,
Steve Royster, Tinky Scruggs,
Mike Smith, Donnie Spears, Mar
garet Swansson, and Patsy
Welch.
Juniors: Kenneth Bunkowski,
George Plonk, Jim Pressley,Nan
cy Dublanezki, Reta Phifer, Jean
Hamrick, Sandra Huffstetler,
Judy Morris, Linda Mullinax,
Lyn Cheshire, John Caveny, Law
rence Cobb, Teresa Dixon, Pattie
Gaffney, Becky Gordon, Mary
Helen Goforth, Tolly Shuford,
Lewis Stewart, Linda Sherrer,
Vivian Wilson, Sandra Wright
and Linda Fitch.
Sophomores* Rita Caveny,
Scott Cloninger, Becky Dunn, E
laine Dixon, James Green, Leslie
Joy, Joy Green, Mary Ann Mor
rison, Paulette Patterson, Vickie
Petty, Lydia Poole, Deborah
Smith, Libby Alexander, Glynda
Lynn, Hollis Falls, Sandra Ray
field, Martha Herndon, Mary Jo
Hord and Pat I-Iullender.
Freshmen: Joyce Dixon, Ann
Sanders, Roger Randall, Criss
Pressley, Kenny Plonk, Sandra
Kayr Hullender, Sarah Ham
bright, Tommy Finger, Shirley
Foster, Joy Welch, Vickie White,
Gloria Culp, Judie Morrison and
Ann Owens.
ELECTION NIGHT
The complete slate of officers
of Kings Mountain Kiwanis club
will be filled in election Thurs
day night at the Woman’s club.
B. N. Barnes is chariman of the
elections committee.
District Meeting
Of NCFWC Here
State President
Will Attend
Monday Meeting
Mrs. James Harper, Jr. of
Southport, president of the North
Carolina Federation of Women’s
Clubs, will be principal speaker
at the District IV meeting here
Monday at the Woman’s club.
Kings Mountain’s two women’s
clubs—the Senior aiid Junior
clubs—are hostess clubs for the
21 clubs expected to send repre
sentatives. Some 200 women are
expected,
Mrs. A. G. Hutton of Wilming
ton, Junior director, and Mrs.
James Caliendo o f Stanley,
Fourth District president, will al
so be keynote speakers.
Registration and a coffee hour
will begin the day’s meeting at 9
a.iffl. at the Woman’s club. The
morning session, to be devoted to
speakers and reports, will offi
cially begin at 10 a.rn. in Central
Methodist church. Lunch will bo
served in the Woman's club din
ing room at 12-30 and prescnta
tiofn of 1963 awards to clubwo
men will follow.
After the meeting adjourns at
2:30 p.m., the Kings Mountain
clubs will conduct a tour of the
Kings Mountain Battleground, in
commemoration of the Battle of
Kings Mountain oil Oct. 7, 1780.
The party will go in cars from
the clubhouse to the National
Military Park Museum, attend a
slide-lecture and visit the monu
ment and grave of Colonel Pat
rick Ferguson.
In keeping with the heritage
theme, presidents of the two
hostess clubs will be dressed in
Elizabethan English ball gowns
reminiscent of the Revolutionary
period and four pages from the
Junior club will be dressed as
mountain women of 1780.
In addition, a papier mache
replica of the battleground mon
ument, miniature redcoats, fine
ladies, mountain soldiers and
horses will highlight the decora
tive theme of the day. Name
badges will ibe replicas ol the
monument. During the luncheon,
Mrs. Barbara Allen, treasurer of
the local Junior club, will sing
“Barbara Allen” and “Oh, Who’s
Goin’ to Shoe Your Pretty (Little
Foot?”, North Carolina ballads
of the period.
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, a past
president of the federation, is
president of the Woman’s Club
and Mrs. Bill Jonas is Junior club
president.
District Four includes federat
ed woman’s clubs from Cleveland,
Gaston, Lincoln and Rutherford
counties. .
SPEAKER — Mrs. James M. Har
per. Jr., president of the North
Carolina Federation of Women's
Clubs, will make the principal ad
dress at Monday s District Four
meeting to be held here.
Assodational
Meeting Set
Rov. Marion DuBoso, pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist church
and president of the Kings Moun
tain Ministerial Association, will
deliver the doctrinal message,
"Saved by Grace”, Thursday af
ternoon at the 113th annual ses
sion of the Kings Mountain Bap
tist Association.
Sessions will l»? held at New
Hope Baptist church at Earl
Thursday and Friday with the
opening session beginning at
9:15 a.m. Rev. B. L. Raiiies, pas
tor of First Baptist church, is
chairman of the program com
mittee.’ Moderator E. M. Smith
will preside.
Theme of the associational
meeting is “Baptist Advance
Through Associational Missions”.
A missionary sermon will high
light the Friday morning session
at which new officers will be e
lected. Rev. Douglas Aldrich will
bring the Foreign Missions ad
dress.
Reports will be featured dur
ing the Thursday afternoon ses
sion beginning at 1:15. Dr. Eu
gene Poston will report o n
"Christian Education”; C. Rush
Hamrick on “North Carolina
Baptist Hospital”; Dr. Zeno Wall
on "Baptist Children’s Homes of
North Carolina”; Walter Davis
osn “Baptist Homes for Aging”;
and James Hutson on "Biblical
Recorder.”
Numerous Baptists from the
Kings Mountain area will go to
Earl for the meeting.
Newton To Explore Possibilities
Oi Senatorial Rotation Agreement
By MARTIN HARMON
Re-districting of the North
Carolina Senate, accomplished
by the General Assembly in a
special session last week, places
Cleveland County in a two-sena
tor 31st district comprising three
other counties, Lincoln, Alexan
der and Catawba.
Not only did the re-districting
remove Cleveland from the for
mer 27th district including Ru
therford and McDowell counties,
but the new arrangement also
had the effect of ending a gen
tleman’s agreement whereby
Cleveland was acorded a Demo
cratic nominee each biennium,
while Rutherford and McDowell
had senators quadrennially.
Cleveland Democratic political
leaders have not yet effected any
kind of permanent rotation a
greement with the other coun
ties, but there has been tentative
agreement that Cleveland will
have a senator in 1965, Rep. Jack
Palmer was quoted as saying.
Democratic Chairman J. Clint
Newton said this week he would
first confer with Rep. Palmer
red the four-county arrangement,
and Senator Robert F. Morgan,
who is retiring at the end of his
present term, then conduct ex
ploratory talks with Democratic
Chairmen Joe Ross, of Lincoln,
Marvin Wooten, of Catawba, and
Herman E. Lackey, of Alexander,
to ascertain what agreements on
rotation of Democtfcjic nominees
might be acceptable.
“The talks will be exploratory
only,” Chairman Newton empha
sized, “I would not think of com
mitting Cleveland County Demo
crats to any arrangement with
out the advice avid consent of the
Democratic executive committee.”
The executive committee num
bers about 60 members, including
cliairmen and vice-chairmen of
each of the county's 28 voting
precincts.
The Cleveland delegation to
the General Assembly were un
successful in seeking to get
Cleveland and Lincoln included
in a one-senator district. Lincoln
did not approve the plan and the
other two counties also prefer
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New U. S. 74
Planning
On Schedule
By MARTIN HARMON
Right-of-way along the U. S.
74 by-pass, or through-way, re
placing the present King street
route, will toe sought within a
bout six montlis, Highway Com
missioner J. Clint Newton said
this week.
He did not delineate the route,
but initial planning a year or
more ago indicated a through
way type of road, rather than a
by-pass miles north or soutli of
Kings Mountain.
Tlie new road will be limited
access, four lanes, with one-way
ingress and egress.
Meantime, Mr. Newton said:
1) Work on planning a four
lane road replacing present U. S.
74 to intersect with Interstate 85
in Polk county is on schedule.
2) Work on Interstate 26, pro
jected from South Carolina to
the vicinity of Asheville, is a
head of schedule.
3) The Kings Mountain U. S. 74
through-way planning is pro
gressing on schedule.
Mr. Newton said the highway
commission’s committment for
the new four-lane road to Polk
county represents the largest sin
gle monetary committment in
North Carolina Highway com
mission history, with estimates
indicating t h c stretch from
Washburn’s Switch road to 1-26
will cost $14 million.
He also said the Kings Moun
tain link of this road will be an
important one.
When completed the road will
provide a four-lane route to Wes
tern North Carolina through this
area.
The projected 1-26 will run
from Charleston to Asheville.
Lions Launch
Fruit Cake Sale
The Kings Mountain Lions club
is conducting its annual fruit
cake sale.
Again the club is selling the
three-pound Claxton fruit cake
at $3. Both light and dark fruit
cakes are available.
The club has been divided into
two teams for a sales contest,
with the stipulation that the
leading team will dine on steaks,
white the losers munch hot dogs.
One team is headed by Capt.
Glenn Campbell and Bobby Mc
Daniel, and includes Richard
Barnette, Bill Bennett, Jonas
Bridges, Wesley Bush, Wilson
Crawford, Ben T. Goforth, Mar
tin Harmon, Ollie Harris, Willi
am Kay, Dr. George Plonk, Willi
am Lawrence Plonk, Fred Pritch
ard, Odus Smith and Gene
Timms.
The other team is headed by
Peter Mason and David L. Saun
ders and also includes C. P. Bar
ry, Howard Broadwater, Howard
Bryant, Gene Gladden, Carl Go
forth, Jack Hauser, Harry
Jaynes, Carl F. Mauney, Edwin
Moore, Hal S. Plonk, Dr. Nathan
Reed, John Seism, George Thom
asson, and Sam Weir.
First Aid Course
Is Being Offered
The Kings Mountain Rescue
Squad is sponsoring a first aid
course for interested men and
women within the near future,
and those interested are invited
to register their names with a
member of the organization.
Teenagers who have reached
the age of 15 are also invited to
participate in the program of in
struction.
Interested persons should tele
phone 739-2077 anytime Saturday
or Sunday.
CLARIFICATION
The Paul and Louise Dover re
ported in this week’s list of ac
tions taken at city recorder’s
court are not Paul and Louise Do
ver of 106 S. Oriental Avenue.
The defendant in the action is
Paul Dover of Grace street.
GIVE THE UNITED WAY