Population
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City Limits 8,008
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VOL. 74 No. 46
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 14, 1963
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Pages
Today
Seventy-Fourth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
EVANGELIST — Rev. Cherries H.
High of Stanley will be speaker
for revival services beginning No
18th at Kings Mountain
ptist church.
High To Lead
Baptist Revival
Rev. Charles H. High, pastor
of Bruington Memorial Baptist
church of Stanley, will be visit
ing evangelist for a week of spe
cial services beginning November
18th at Kings (Mountain Baptist
church.
Services will be held nightly
at 7:30 p.m. through November
24th, according to announcement
by the pastor, Rev. Marion Du
Bose.
A native of Dallas, Mr. High
attended Carson Newman college
at Knoxville, Tennessee and
Southern Baptist Seminary at
Louisville, Ky. He has held pas
torates in Cherryville and Knox
ville.
Commenting on the services
Rev. Mr. DuBose said, “The con
gregation of the Kings Mountain
Baptist church invites our cc/n
munity to participate with us in
these meaningful and inspira
tional services each night start
ing Monday, November 18th. A
challenge will be received by
11.”
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anting Arrows
Head Projects
The Flaming Arrow Patrol of
Boy Scout Troop 91 was “best
prepared” at the regular troop
meeting Tuesday at St. (Mat
thew's Lutheran church.
Corky Fulton, leader of the Ar
rows, and Scott Kelly, Mike Ki
ser, Jake Reynolds, Jeff Mauney
and Tommy Grayson had com
pleted rope-making machine and
demonstrated rope-making. Oth
er Scouts also worked on similar
projects.
Forty-seven Boy Scouts attend
ed.
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Local News
Bulletins
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METES RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for the
4fceek ending Wednesday totaled
including! 5134110 from
off-street meters, $63 in over
parking fines, and $21 from off
street meters, City Cleric Joe Mc
Daniel, Jr., reported.
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Regular November meeting of
the Kings Mountain district
board of education will be held
Monday evening at 7 o’clock at
the office of the superintendent.
AT CONVENTION
High school Prirj/ Harry
Jaynes attended the convention
of State Principals at Greens
boro on November 13 and 14.
BETHWARE P-TA
Bethware school Parent • Teach
er Association will hold regular
meeting Thursday night at 7:30
p.m. in the school auditorium.
LbUivn vnnvcf
Buddy Estes and Combo will
provide music for dancing from 9
until 12 p.m. for members of
the American Legion and guests
at ^h« - Legion Hall Saturday
night. Tickets are $2 per couple.
KlWANIS CLUB
Kings Mountain Kiwanians
L'ill see a film on the 1963 Mas
er’s Golf Tournament held In
Vugu.sta, Ga. at their Thursday
flight meeting at 6:45 p.m. at
the Woman’s club.
ROTARY CLUB
C. W. Gilchrist, one of 10 di
rectors of Rotary International,
will address Kings Mountain Ro
tarians at their Thursday noon
meeting at the Country Club. Mr.
Gilchrist, now retired, lives In
Charlotte.
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Pastors Outline
Yule Needy Ail
Cash, Not Goods
Will Be Asked
To Aid Indigent
The Kings Mountain Ministe
rial association will change the
format of its Christmas benevo
lence program for the needy for
the current year.
The association accepted the
report of a special committee
which includes: solicitation of
cash, rather than goods, 1) via a
minister-manned booth on main
street beginning December 5; 2)
an empty stocking fund through
the Kings Mountain Herald; and
3) direct solicitation of industry
and business by a committee in
eluding Rev. B. L. Raines, Dr. W.
Lt. Pressly and Rev. George
Moore.
The Ministerial group will deal
principally in distribution of fuel
and food, with the ministers de
termining actual need for cloth
ing.
The residence of Rev. C. R.
Goodson, telephone 739-3215, will
be clearing house for information
on needy families, with Mrs.
Goodson serving as secretary.
The gifts will be. distributed by
the ministers on December 23.
On recommendation o f the
committee, which included Rev.
H. G. Clayton, chairman, Rev
Nathan H. Pusey, Rev. C. R
Goodson, and Rev. Thomas Drop
pers, the association will ask in
clusion in the future in Kings
Mountain United Fund.
George Harris
Is Promoted
George H. Harris, former
Kings Mountain citizen, has been
promoted by American Hospital
Suppliers, Inc., to sales manager
for the Washington, New York,
Boston district.
Mr. Harris joined this company
as a salesman after being grad
uated from Duke University in
1960, where he starred as the
Blue Devil quarterback.
The Harris family is moving
this weekend from Charlottes
ville, Va... to Springdale, Va., a
Washington, D. C. suburb. He
will maintain offices in Washing
ton, New York and Boston.
Mr. Hairris is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmy Harris, of Kings
Mountain.
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Call Wiesener's
Father Passes
Funeral rites for Erick Walter
Wiesener, 76, of Paramus, New
Jersey, father of Carl Wiesener
of Kings Mountain, were held
Tuesday 'at 1:30 p.m. from First
Methodist church of Ridgewood,
N. J., interment following in Pa
ramus.
Mr. Wiesener succumbed Sat
urday afternoon at his home.
A native of South Pittsburg,
Tennessee, he retired two years
ago as vice-president of Pomeroy
Department Store of Harrisburg,
Pa. He was a Mason and Shriner
and member of First Methodist
church of Ridgewood, N. J. His
wife was the former Florence
Berry.
Besides his son here, he is sur
vived by a son, Erick Wiesener,
Jr. of Paramus and a daughter,
Mrs. Walter Veyhl of Paramus.
A brother, Leon Wiesener, of
Arkansas, also survives.
CANDIDATE — Ralph J. Tucker,
assistant tax collector, is seeking
the office of register of deeds of
Cleveland County, subject to
May's Democratic primary.
Tucker Seeking
Register Post
Ralph J. Tucker, 57, the coun
ty’s assistant tax collector since
1949, has announced he will seek
the Democratic nomination for
register of deeds in the May pri
mary.
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He sought the nomination in [
1960 but was defeated by the I
late Register Dan Moore.
The incumbent, Ivey Whis’aant,j
serves by appointment and has
not yet indicated whether hie will
seek to retain the post.
‘Mr. Tucker is a native' 61 the j
Elizabeth community near Shel
by, and is a member of Elizabeth
Baptist church. His wife is the
llormer Elizabeth Borders, of
Shelby. A son, Jimmy Tucker,
lives in Charlotte.
mV. Tucker said on announc
ing, “Since November 1949, I
havd had the opportunity to serve
you as the Assistant Tax Collect
or of Cleveland County. In these
years it has been my privilege to
meet practically all the voters of
Cleveland County.
“I tribd to be a servant to the
people by always being ready to
assist with and to help in what
ever way I coi'ld, with respect
and courtesy to every person, re
gardless of standing or color.
“In announcing my candidacy
for the office of Register of
Deeds for Cleveland County, I
plade before you my 14 years as
a public servant. I feel that I can
qualify for this office because of
the dose relationship &Nri busi
ness transactions between the
Tax Office and the office of the
Register of Deeds. I will help
with thle duties of the office. The
business transactions will be han
dled on a strictly confidential ba
sis by the office personnel. I will
not be a “swival chair office
holder”. I promise that the office
personnel will co-operate, be
courteous and respect each per
son in thfeir business transac
tions. We will be there to serve
you.”
MISSION STUDY
A film strip and mission study
will be held at Temple Baptist
church Wednesday at 7 p.m. The
study, “Mandeldaum Gate” will
be taught followed by discussion
groups and a film strip. The ser
vice replaces the regular prayer
service.
Son Of Kings Mountain Citizen
Survival Modem Medical Miracle
George Stephen Blanton, 27,
son of Mrs. Margaret Johnson,
Brice street. Kings Mountain, is
planning a two-week deer hunt,
rteturn to part-time work, and a
school-teaching career—after be
ing given only two weeks to live
slightly more than a year ago.
/• As; reported by Associated
Press Wednesday from Rich
mond, Va., Blanton, who now
lives at Hendersonville, is vir
tually recuperated, after a steries
of illnesses including glomeru
lonephritis which caused sur
geons at the Medical College of
Virginia to remove both kidneys.
He lives with a kidney trans
planted from a 50-year-old acci
dent victim.
This borrowted kidney, how
ever, didn’t function for 25 days,
and he survived by aid of an ar
tificial kidney. After that, he suf
fered a case of yellow jaundice,
pancreatis, a three-week seige of
hiccups that required surgery to
cure, and subsequently an infec
tion of the transplanted kidney
which required more surgery.
His medical troubles began in
June 1962 with 'bronchial pneu
monia. At the time he was opera
ting a barber shop near the Pur
man University campus, where
he was graduated. Two weeks af
ter admission to the hospital, the
serious kidney disease was dis
covered and he was transferred
to Charleston, S. C., hospital.
There he underwent a'treatment
called peritoneal dialysis. That’s
where his doctors told his wife,
a nurse, that he had about two
weeks to live.
She continued the fluid remov
al treatment at home, meantime
learning from the family physi
cian that the Medical College of
Virginia was a leader ki kidney
transplants, which was done on
October 24, 1962.
North Carolina
Spent £796,771
On Local Schools
North Carolina, from the state
nine months school fund, spent
$796,771 oto Kings Mountain dis
tinct Schools during, the 1962-63
term, audit report of A. C. Davis,
controller, shows.
Throughout the state, North
Carolina's total public schools
oil! from the nine months school
fund was $217,716,803.
Major portion of the money
was expended for teacher salar
ies. which totaled $718,27.8.
Other items of state fund con
,!0U>.)tions to operation of the
nine-plant Kings Mountain sys
tem were:
For plant operation $38,145;
fixed charges (for compensation
of school employees) $72.73; and
for auxiliary agencies (libraries
and tile child health program)
15830. General control, including
st^te appropriations for the su
perintendont’s office, was $15,229
Among individual’s state-paid
salaries were: Supt. B. N.
Barnes, $10,920; Miss Alice Aver
itt, teaching supervisor, $6660;
Principal Harry Jaynes, $8350;
Principal L. L. Adams. $7510; and
Principal Connie Allison, $6130.
The 3718,278 in teacher pay
went to 1-18 teachers and princi
pals, including 101 elementary
teachers (78 white, 23 colored)
38 high school teachers (31 wh'te.
seven colored), seven elementarj
principals (six white, one color
cd>, and two high school princi
pals (one white, one colored).
The state provided $21,900 for
janitor wages, $7640 for fuel, and
$•1773 for water, light, and power.
City Board
Agenda Short
'Mayor Glee A. Bridges report
ed a "short and vputi/ie -advance
f or Thursday night’s tegular No
vember meeting of the city board
of commissioners.
Principal item of business will
be receipt of bids for purchase of
two items of equipment, a street
sweeper and a car for the police
department.
City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr.,
said he would also ask the com
mission for authority to adver
tise for sale at auction several
Monroe avenue lots previously
deeded to the city in lieu of pay
ment of street improvements as
sessments by the former owners.
The commission convenes at 7
p.m..
Carlton Posts
Wage Increase
Carlton Yarn Mills, Inc. has
announced a wage increase ‘et
fective November 18 for its em
ployees.
The increase will amount to
approximately five percent, with
adjustments.
Affected will be the Cartex Di
vision in Salisbury, the Carlon
Division in Kings Mountain, and
the Carlton Division in Cherry
ville.
Cherryville is the home office
of Carlton, engaged in fine yarn
spinning of cotton and synthetics.
The increase will amount to a to
tal of about $100,000.00 annually.
Plaxco Rites
Held Tuesday
Funeral rites for Robert Frank
Plaxco, Sr., 60, of Lincoln ton,
brother-in-law of Mrs. J. A. Neis
j Jer, Sr. and Mrs. Fred E. Finger
of Kings Mountain, were held
Tuesday at 3 p.m. from Bethany
ARP church at Bethany, S. C-, in
terment following in the church
cemetery.
Mr. Plaxco was owner and
manager of R. F. Plaxco and
Sons, Ralston-Purina company of
JJncolnton. The Plaxcos moved
to Lincolnton in 1956 from South
port, N. C. where Mr. Plaxco was
secretary-treasurer and general
manager of Brunswick Naviga
tion Co. for 26 years.
A graduate of Erskine college,
he taught in the Mecklenburg
County Sehool System for four
years. lit was married in 1926 to
Miss Bess Miller of Radford, Va.
!llis wife survives.
| Mr. Plaxco died suddenly Sat
urday afternoon at his home.
! Other survivors include one
daughter, two sons, six grand
children, one brother and five
sisters.
The family requested that in
! lieu of flowers memorial gifts
I may be sent to First Picsbylerian
church, Southport.
Hospital Officials To Make
Expansion Fund Bid Monday
Captain Broom
May Be Astronaut
— captain Phillip
Ward Broom, husband of the for
mer Phyllis Dean of Kings Mouh
ain, has been selected as an el
ternate to begin classes at the
Acrospa;e Research Pilot school
at the Edwards APB in California
in January.
Carriers To Aid
Livestock Survey
Postmaster Charles L- Alexan
der, announced today that rural
mail carriers will begin distribut
ing December livestock survey
cards to farmer patrons on their
routes during the week of No
vember 18.
The postoffice assists the De
partment of Agriculture each year
in making this and two other
surveys.
Livestock cards returned by
farmers to their carrier will be
mailed direct to the North Caro
lina Crop Reporting Service in
Raleigh. Information from each
card, if properly reported, will
then be tabulated and combined
With other reports to give indi
cations of changes in livestock <*i
Tar Heel farms. Thbse indications
will also be used to establish es
timates of the 1963 calf crop,
milk production, lamb-crop, wool
production, and the fall pig crop
as well as farmers plans to have
sows farrow in the spring.
Postmaster Alexander, urges
that farmers fill out the card and
return it as soon as possible.
Carriers Helping With This
Survey Are B. L. Henson, Rt. 1,
Fred Tate, Rt. 2, and Marshall
I Van Dyke, Rt. 3.
Farmers To Vote
On Tuesday
Kings Mountain arfca farmers
will go to the polls Tuesday and
decide whether or not to continue
the Nickels for Know-How pro
gram.
Nickels for Know-How is a
program through which farmers
contribute to agricultural re
search and education in North
Carolina. This contribution is a
nickel per ton on the feed and
fertilizer they buy is used to sup
port programs in research, teach
irtg and extension.
Pooling places for No. 4 Town
ship farmers are: Vocational
Agricultural Department o f
Kings Mountain high school;
Kings Mountain Farm Center;
.N^Jdway Service Station; 'Moun
tain View Fruit Stand; Raymond
P. Seism Store and R. E. Ham
bright Store at Grover.
No. 5 Township farmers may
cast halloas at the Vocational
Agriculture department of Waco
i school; Bess Store in the St. Paul
community; Baker's store a t
i Mary’s Grove and Waco Feed
1 Mill.
Polling places will be open
from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.
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Son-in-Law
Of Amos Deans
Awaits Physical
Captain Phillip W. Broomf ca
reer Air Force officer now .sta
oned ul Edwards A KB in Cali
fornia arid husband of the former
.’hyllis Dean of Kings Mountain,
nay become an astronaut.
A native of Monroe, Captain
Iroom has been selected as an
alternate to begin classes at the
Aerospace Research Pilot School
it Edwards in January. Ten new
students and three alternates
were selected from among all of
ficers in the Air Force. Captain
Broom was the only Edwards AK
13 officer named.
Mrs. Broom Is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Dean of
Kings Mountain. The Brooms and
tholf l-wo-month-old son, Ward,
Jr. reside at Edwards.
Writing about Captain Broom’s
selection. Desert Wings, Edward
AKB publication, said;
"Captain Broom, an aerospace
engineer assigned u> the Manned
Spacecraft Engineering Branch,
arrived at Edwards in June from
the University of Washington
where he earned his Master of
Science degree In Aeronautical
Engineering through the Air
Korea Institute of Technology.
"The 32-year-old senior pilot
from Monroe, North Carolina,
has flown the F-102, K-SxGD.B-36,
C-17, T-33, Tr3-1 and T-2N.
"Prior to beginning class work
on January 6. 1961, the ten prin
cipals and two alternates along
with Captain Broom, will under
go a complete physical examina
I tion at the Air Korce Aerospace
; Medical Center at Brooks Test
Pilot’s and Advanced Course at
: the school.
"Although the Air Force has
] no astronaut training program of
its own, Edwards' Aerospace Re
search Pilot School prepares
highly Cfualified military pilots
i from all branches of the service
| ns well as from foreign air force
, for active participation in actual
astronautleal cockpit and man
agement positions."
Lennon lotlead
Kiwanis Club
R. S. Lennon, president of First
Union National Rank, has been
elected president of the Kings
Mountain Kiwanis club for the
coming year.
Mr. Lennon it, the club’s out
going first-vice-president.
Other officers, also to be in
stalled in January, include:
W. S. Fulton, Jr,, first vice
president.
Glee E. Bridges, second vice
president.
The seven-member board of dl
fywrtors wiJl include: W. C. Bfal
lew, J. C. Bridges, Dan Finger,
George II. Mauney, Hugh Or
mavid, B. S. Peeler, Jr. and Rev.
B. L. Raines.
SELLERS RESIGNS
City Policeman Lee Ambers
Sellers resigned last week to Join
City Heating Company, Chief
Paul Sanders reported.
Growth Survey
Projections
Are Underway
Officials of Kings Mountain
Hospital expect to make their re
quest for inclusion in a February
22 county-wide bond issue at
Monday’s mid-month meeting of
the county board of commission
ers.
Currently underway at the hos
pital is a projection of growth
in use of the hospital since its
opening- a requirement of the
North Carolina Medical Care
com mission for consideration foi
matching federal a n d other
funds.
Conducting the survey isttlar
'Jttui IJnoody, hospital consultant
for Walter W. Ilook Associates,
of Charlotte.
“The survey won’t be complete
by Monday," Grady Howard, hos
pital administrator, said, "but
there will be available much fact
ual information indicating need
for expansion of Kings Mountain
hospital."
The county commission has al
ready approved a request of
Cleveland Memorial hospital at
Shelby for a $1.5 million bond is
sue election. These funds would
be matched by federal funds to
!pt1ov{de a $3 million renovation
and expansion of the Shelby
plant, including razing for the
40-year-old portion of the Shelby
plant which has been labeled sub
marginal to operate as well as a
fire hazard.
Kings Mountain hospital, open
ed in the spring of 1951 as a 24
bed clinic, has been expanded
three times and is now a 75-bed
facility, with nursing home.
Recent bed occupancy figures
were 85.5 percent for the 11
months ending August.
Hospital President George W.
Maunoy commented recently that
occupancy rates in excess of 80
percent indicate near-term need
for expansion.
Teen Nominating
To End Friday
Who will be Kings Mountain’s
outstanding teenagers of 1!M)3?
The Kings Mountain Optimist
dub during Youth Appreciation
Week tills week is inviting nomi
nations for the first annual teen
age award.
Interested citizens may write:
Outstanding Teenager Award, P
O Box 121, giving a name or
names aiid stating why he or she
should be selected. Deadline for
nominations is Friday night.
The handsome trophies are on
display at City Faint Store and
will be presented to two out
standing teenagers by the civic
club.
"(live Youth A Pat On tin
Back” is the theme of the local
and nation-wide observance of
Youth Appreciation Week.
Optimist President R. W. (Bob)
Hurlbut, inviting nominations for
the two coveted awards, said,
“Youth Appreciation Week is
aimed at adult recognition of and
appreciation for all teenagers.
The program is open not only to
the sports heroes and the scho
larship winners but recognizes
the achievements of the average
youngsters, the huge middle ma
jority who are just as hungry as
the rest for recognition and un
derstanding.”
lie noted that the top awards
will be based on the youth's ac
complishments in the home,
school, church and community.
water Use Set Record In October,
32400,560 Gallons Were Pumped
Kings Mountain’* water filter
ing plant logged record monthly
pumpacgj during October, Chifef
Operator George Mom reported.
Total for the month was 32,
000,560 gallon*, an average of
1,050,000 gallon* per day.
Peak day’* pumpage during
October occurred on a Monday
with 1,280,000 gallons, while low
est pumpage occurred on a Sun
day at 560,000 gallons.
Capacity of the water filter
plant Is two million gallons daily.
The plant on S. Deal street and
York Road reservoir were con
structed by the city from a bond
issue of June 1928. The amount
of the bond issue was $250*000
and the filter plant capacity was
one million gallons.
From a 1951 bond issue, total
ing $150,000 for both water and
sewer, the city doubled the fil
tering capacity of its plant and
constructed the Davidson Lake
reservoir. For several weeks, the
| city has been using the Davidson
; supply to augment the York
i Road reservoir supply.
(N WHO'S WHO — Carole Plonk,
Lenoir ■ Rhyne college senior, has
been elected to membership in
“Whc's Who In American Col
leges and Universities/’
Miss Plonk
In Who's Who
Miss Carole Elizabeth Plonk,
Kings Mountain senior at Lenoir
Rhyne college in Hickory and
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George
W. Plonk, has been elected to
membership in “Who’s Who In
American Colleges and Universi
ties."
Students are chosen for the
high honor on the basis of their
service to the college, leadership
(Qualities' 'extra-curricular activi
ties, scholarship proficiency and
potential usefulness In society for
Inclusion in the 1964 edition of
“Who’s Who."
A sociology major, Miss Plonk
is treasurer of the Lenoir-Rhyne
student body and is serving as
budget chairman for the student
government. She is a member of
Kappa Delta sorority, having
served as president of her pledge
class and as treasurer. She Is
currently the chapter’s education
chairman. A co-director of the
freshman program her Junior
year, she also served as president
of Fritz Hall House Council and
as a campus guide. She is a
member of the steering commit
tee for the iiew L-R College Cen
ter on the Hickory campus.
Christmas Club
Total $60000
First Union National Bank will
mail checks, dated Friday, total*
ing $(’>(),000 to approximately 700
members of the 1903 Christmas
Club, it was announced this week
by R. S. Lennon, vice-president.
It was announced concurrently
that memberships in the 1964
club will be accepted beginning
Monday.
IWm'.jorship.s will bo accepted
for as little as 50 cents weekly,
• his amount paying the member
>n completion next November
$25.
Mrs. Helen R. Blanton, assist
ant cashier, said several mem
bers of the 1963 club will receive
checks this week totaling $500.
Gonzales Elected
In Plainlield. N. J.
Joseph Gonzales, grandson of
Mr. and Mrs.. Hinkle W. McGin
nis of Kings Mountain, was elect
ed November 5 to the dty council
of Plainfield, N. J.
Mr. Gonzales ran for council
man-at-large.
His mother is the former Ge
raldine McGinnis, of Kings
Mountain. His father is a Luthe
ran minister.
Music Teachers
At Conference
Several Kings Mountain teach
ers attended the annual confer
ence of the North Carolina Mu
sic Educators a t Greensboro
Monday.
Among them were Mrs. J- N.
McClure and Mrs. Juanita Logan,
i of the city schools facutly, Mrs,
j Riichard McGinnis, of the Gas
I lonia schools faculty, Mrs. Mar
tin Harmon, piano teacher, and
Mrs. Darrell Austin, also of the
Gastonia faculty and First Preg
bytcrian church organist here.
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