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Population greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,000 21*,i0r *»»»■ Mountain K dartrad (to* P*1**5 Mountain city directory connus. Thm dty UndU Oguro la Itom tka Unltad Stotaa canaua of 1M0. 1 A Pages Iy Today n 0 i: f ■i; u It r VOL 74 No. 50 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 12, 1963 Seventy-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS MOUNTAINEER TROPHY WINNERS — Pictured with High School Coach Bill Bates, left, and UNC Coach Jim Hickey, extreme right, are top leader, Warren Goforth, best blocker. Ben Grimes. Jr., best from Coach Bates, are Mike Huffstickler, most valuable, Jim Medlin, top leaders, Warren Goforth, beet blocker, Ben Grimes, Jr., best scholar, and Terry Leonard, most improved. Coach Bates holds the trophy emblematic of the team’s conference co-championship. The player awards were made at last week’s Lions club football ban quet, at which Coach Hiceky was the principal speaker. Veteran Teacher Mrs. Pritchard Dies Suddenly Funeral rites for Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald Pritchard, 63, wile of Fred S.' Pritchard, were held Monday at 2 p.m. from Central Methodist church of which she was a member. !> Mrs. Pritchard, a sixth gradfe" teacher at East school, died Sat urday night at 12:45 p.m. in the Kings Mountain hospital after suddenly becoming ill about 10:30 p.m. Friday night. A daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Fitzgerald, she had been a Kings Mountain resi dent for 14 years. Besides her husband she is survived by a son, Leland F. Pritchard, of Concord, and one grandchild. Also surviving are two brothers, J. S. Fitzgerald of Linwood and J. B. Fitzgerald of Mooresville; and four sisters, Mrs. P. W. Allison of Lincolnton and Miss Ethel Fitzgerald, Mrs. B. G. Wilson and Mrs. Wade Jar rett, all of Linwood, N C. Rf*v. Howard Jordan officiated at the final rites and interment was made in Carolina Memorial Park at Concord. Active pallbearers were Jonas Bridges, Odus Smith, Ben F. Bfeam, Harry Jaynes, Howard Bryant and R. W. Kennedy. Choir To Sing ,Cantata "Noel" The 45-voice Combined Choirs of Kings Mountain Baptist church will sing "Noel,” a Christ mas Cantata by Henry Wessel, Sunday afternoon at 5:30 p.m. at the church. Mrs. J. C. Bridges, organist, will direct the Christmas program to which the community is invited to attend. In addition to chorol numbers, the program of traditional music will include sojo parts and quar tet numbers, In addition to se lections by the Junior choir. Members of the church choir are: Soprano: Mrs. Bill Crawford, Mrs. Harold Crawford, Mrs. R. G. Franklin, Mrs. Bobby Hussey, Mrs. Harold Coggins, Miss Naomi Edens, Miss Annie Roberts, Bren da Williams, and Linda Roberts. Alto: Mrs. Odell Benton, Mrs. Marion Dixon, Mrs. D. F. Hord, Mrs. Jack White, Jo Bridges, Elaine Dixon, Mary Jo Hord and Mrs. Edith Womack. Tenor: J. C. Bridges, G. A. Brid ges and Gene Austin. Bass: Marion Dixin, M. L. Wil- j liams, Dr. D. F. Hord and Gary ^Kenton. Junior Choir members include Barbara Hord, Vickie Thomas, Kathy Willis, Janet Bridges, Shei la Dixon, Vickie Boheler, Laura Stowe, Jane Crawford, Jan Wil lis, Susan Owens, Kathy Owens, Susan Cash, Cindy Freeman, Mike Boheler, David Hord, Clyde DuBose, Don Bridges, Dana Franklin, Jack White, Jr., Charles Reed and Lane Logan. Plonk Purchases Business Property WINS SCHOLARSHIP—James Al len Pressly is a recipient of the Dr. Hillory M. Wilder scholar ship at UNC Medical School. Piessly Wins Scholarship James Allen Pressly, second year medical student at the Uni versity of North Carolina School of 'Medicine, has been named one of the first recipients of the Dr. Hillory M. Wilder scholarship. Pressly is the son of Dr. and IMrs. W. L. Pressly of Kings Mountain. Dr. Pressly is pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church. UNC medical students this year have been awarded nearly $45,000 in scholarships. Ninety-five of the students, including the Kings Mountain student, were selected by the Medical Aid Committee. The scholarship fund was es tablishment this year under the will of Mrs. Celeste W. Blake in memory of her father, Dr. pil lory M. Wilder of Charlotte. Pressly is a graduate of David son colBege. Masons Elect Carl M. Logan Carl M. Logan has beten elected Worshipful Master of Fairview Lodge 339 AF & AM for 1964 and he, along with other new officers, will be installed December 30th in a special program at Masonic Hall. 'Mr. Logan will succeed Joe Donald Roberts. Other officers include: Hous-1 ton Wolfe, senior warden; Ho- j ward Bridges, junior warden; J. Ralph Harrison, treasurer; Tho-! mas D. Tindall, secretary; B. Manley Hayes, Jr., Tyler; Bobby, C. Bridges, senior deacon; Bobi Raines, junior deacon; Lloyd Put nam, senior steward; David S. Dellinger, junior steward and Donald Falls, chaplain. Elected to a three-year trustee post was Past Master Roberts Continued On Page 6 Three Buildings Of Plonk Estate Sold This Week John O. Plonk, Jr., has pur chased from the W. L. Plonk Es tate the block of buildings on South Railroad avenue including the buildings occupied by Plonk Brothers & Company, Inc., and Wright’s Barber Shop, including the former Dixie Theatre Build ing. The $60,000 transaction was completed this week. Mr. Plonk, stockholder and general manager of the retail firm, announced concurrently immediate plans for installing air-conditioning at the retail es tablishment. He said the former theatre building will be used principally as a warehouse. The property fronts 145 feet on South Railroad and is 150 feet deep. Once the property of the late William Lafayette Plonk, who died in 1924, the current surviv ing heirs and vendors of the pro perty are C. S. Plonk, R. L. Plonk, W. L. Plonk, Mrs. J. O. Plonk, Sr. Mrs. !M. L. Harmon, Sr., and Mrs. Mary P. Lovell, all of Kings Mountain, Dr. Laura Plonk and Dr. Lillian Plonk, of Asheville, and Dr. John S. Rhodes, of Raleigh. A portion of the structure was built in 1899, while the Dixie Theatre building was completed in 1935. The initial building and the main building occupied by Plonk Brothers & Company, Inc., were extensively renovated in 1947. Five Gridmen Win Trophies Foi '63 Work By DICK WOODWARD Presentations of .trophies to outstanding players of the 19B3 Kings Mountain football team highlighted activities at thf Lions Club Football Banquet Friday Wight December 5 at the Woman’s Club. Two additional trophies were presented this year in addition to the three trophies which have been given previously. A Leadership Trophy and a Mist Improved Trophy were in augurated by the coaching staff this year, and will be presented annually by the coaching staff. Plaques were presented to the senior members of this year’s team, with Coach Don Parker making the presentations and commenting upon the fact that next year's team will sorely miss such standouts as Fred Dixon, Jimmy Medlin, Jimmy Owens, Mike Huffstickier, Lewis Cook, Warren Gilorth, and Terry Leon ard, and seven starting seniors on this year’s team. Parker added humerous re marks which were directed at Coach Bill Bates as the starting seniors approached. “Our loss is Clemson’s gain,” was Parker’s re mark as Fred Dixon came for ward. Dixon has recently accept ed a grant-and-aid scholarship to attend the Atlantic Coast Con ference school. “Try to replace him,” said Parker as big Jimmy Owens approached the table. “See what I mean,” continued Parker as Jimmy Medlin came forward, and Coach Bates cring ed as senior after senior came forward for their last appear ance as Mountaineers. The tension began to mount as spokesman Odus Smith intro duced Coach Bates, who present ed the Leadership and Most Im proved Trophies. “The coaching staff deemed it Continued On Page % Section B Ralph D. Arrowood Dies In Clash; Funeral Rites Thursday Afternoon Ralph David Arrowood, 67, re tired school teacher and husband ot West school second grade teacher Sue Guffey Arrowood, was killed instantly Tuesday morning at 10:15 a.m. in an au 1 tomobile • truck collision in Greensbiro. Funeral rites will be held Thursday at 3:45 p.m. from First i Presbyterian church. The body will lie in state at Sisk Funeral Home in Bessemer City until an hour before the rites when it will lie in state at the church. Dr. Paul K. Ausley will oficiate and interment will be made in | Long Creek church cemtery near ! Bessemer City. Mr. Arrowood had gone to ; Greensboro on business. He was pronounced dead in arrival at a t Greensboro hospital. Mr. Arrowood was a veteran of * W'orld War I. He served with the 81st (Wildcat) division. An elder of First Presbyterian church here, Mr. Arrowood for merly taught at Flint Groves school in Gastonia, and had been a school principal in Davidson, Cleveland and Orange counties. Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. John Me Auley of Bessemer City, and two grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters, Miss Estelle Ar rowood and Mrs. T. R. E. Oates of Bessemer City and two bro thers, Milton Arrowood, Lincoln tin and Fred Arrowood, of Bes semer City. , Deacons of First Presbyterian church will be active pallbearers and elders will serve as honor ary pallbearers. In lieu of flowers the family i requests memorial gifts to Bari um Springs Orphanage. s i Herndon Says Major Work Now Complete By MARTIN HARMON Architects for the new Kings Miuntaln district high school in dicated to the board ol educa tion Monday that complete and final plans for the new plant would be available for board consideration by January J5, “Tilly means," Chairman j. E. Herndon, Jr., said, "that state school planning oificials should get the plans immediately there after, advertising for bids would be started, and should be receiv ed prior to the end of February." The statement of the architects, Cothran and Von Wageningen, of Shelby, lollowed a two-hour ses sion with the board of education, in which the board reviewed the architectural and engineering work to date. Chairman Herndon noted that the remaining work includes quite minor design changes and final preparation of specifica tions, which the board authoriz ed Superintendent B. N. Barnes and Principal Harry Jaynes to handle with the architects. Chair man Herndon listed some of these items a few door locations, determination of particular fix tures, such as plumbing, heat ing, hardware and lockers, and use of terrazo floors or asbestos floor coverings. On Monday, the board instruct ed the architects to rough in an elevator shaft with anticipation of installing the elevator (esti mated to cost $8,000) at a future date. The board also told the archi tects it anticipated using city wa ter and sewerage disposal facili Jtnd to plan accordingly. The new plant will be located on Phifer Road across from Lam beth Rope Corporation. Citizens of the school district authorized a bond issue of $1, 100,000 for school plant construc tion and site purchase on March 10, 1962. I Empty Stocking | Fund Now S22S Sailla Claus’ helpers again this Christmas will include many in dividuals, churches and civic or ganizations who will collaborate in spreading Christmas cheer to the underprivileged. The Kings 'Mountain Ministeri al Association is heading the ef fort via a Empty Stocking Fund which reached $101 in individual gifts and $121 more via "collec tion pot” the ministers mann at a booth on downtown streets on Saturdays. On duty this Saturday at the booth will be Rev. Howard Jordan, Rev. Floyd Willis, and Rev. C. R. Goodson. Ministers who manned the booth last Sat urday were Rev. Wayne Ashe, Rev. H. G. Clayton, Rev. Clyde Goodson and Rev. Marion Du Bose. Rev. Marion Du Bosh, pastor of Kings Mountain Baptist church and outgoing president of the minister’s group, said Mrs. C. R. Goodson, wife of the pastor of E. Gold Street Wesleyan Methodist church, will receive any calls and lists of needy persons from churches, circles, civic groups and individuals and will in turn give them to the various minis ters who will contact the needy personally and/or give names of needy to others who ask for the names. The ministers group will be a clearing house and those who’ve already selected a family should turn these names over to the ministerial association so that all will be assured of visits from Santa Claus this Christmas. Empty Stocking contributors will be acknowledged via the Hferald. Gifts may be forwarded Continued On Page 6 Henry W. McGinnis Was 94 On Sunday Henry W. McGinnis, Kings Mountain nonogipnarian, ob served his ninety-fourth birth day Sunday. A longtime and loyal mem ber of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, he attended services as usual, accompanied by 'Mrs. Mc Ginnis, his daughter, Mrs. Gra dy Howard, and his grandson, Jeepcr Howard. Mr. McGinnis recently under went a minor nose operation, missed attending church only one Sunday. He is a retired Kings Moun tain businessman. NEW CHURCH MEMBERS — Resurrection Lu theran church recently welcomed a group of 21 persons, including children by baptism, to mem bership in the church. The new members brought total of baptized members to 300, a gain of 186 since the church was organized in 1951. The pas tor, Rev. George Moore, announced that all local church debts had been paid as of November 20. TO HEAD STAFF — Dr. Paul E. Hendricks has been elected chief of the medicai staff of Kings Mountain Hospital. He assumes the duties January 1. Staff Elects Hendricks Chief Dr. Paul E. Hendricks has been elected chief of staff of Kings Mountain Hospital. He and other officers elected Monday at a staff meeting will assume their duties January 1. Dr. Hendricks succeeds Dr. T. G. Durham. Other officers elected are Dr. Frank Sincox, vice-prbsident, to succeed Dr. P. G. Padgett, and Dr. L. R. Beam, secretary-treas urer, to succeed Dr Hendricks. Retailers Plan Later Closing Retail merchants will he open until 9 p.m. nightly beginning Thursday, December 19th, to ac commodate Christmas shoppers, Mrs. Ida F. Joy, Merchants Asso ciation secretary announced this week. All department stores, variety stores, jewelers and furniture stores will observe later closings with exception of Christmas Eve December 24th when the 6 p.m. closing policy will be followed. Stores will remain open this Friday night until 9 p.m. TO CONFERENCE Miss Alice Averitt, city schools teaching supervisor, is attending the annual state supervisor’s con- j ference at Southern Pines. Church Receives ! $10,500 In Gift Anonymous Member Makes $10,000 Gift An anonymous member of Re surrection Lutheran church has made a $10,000 donation ear marked for construction of the proposed east wing of the church, the pastor announced at morning services Sunday. The pastor, Rev. George T. Moore, also announced a $500 gift from the family of C. S. Plonk, Jr., in memory of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cudd, this gift to be used for pur chase of two narthex desks for the vestibule and for a credence shelf for the chancel. The announcement was made that 21 adults and children be came members of the church re cently. Reviewing the growth of the church, organized in 1951, the pastor noted that baptized mem bers number 300, compared to the 114 adults and children who were members of the church when it was organized in 1951. Mr. Moore will complete five years as pastor of the church in February. Continued On Page ti OSA Nomination Deadline Nears A week remains for nomina tions for the Junior Chamber of Commerce Young Man of 3963 a ward. Deadline is December 1$. Howard Lutz, chairman of thfe committee, urged citizens t o nominate candidates for the a ward. Any Kings ‘Mountain man, age 21-35, is eligible. The Jaycees annually present, its Distinguished Service Award1 to the young man adjudged to have contributed most in com munity service during the year. (Ed. Note: A nomination blank apears in the current edition of the Herald.) Industrial Holidays Will Vary, Partial Herald Survey Reveals Majority of Kings Mountain in dustrial employees can look for ward to Christmas season holi days, a Herald survey Wednes day showed. Length of the holiday is vari able, and in some instances yet to be determined, though many will have Christmas week free from regular duties. Also yet to be determined by some firms is the question of holiday pay. Following is a summation of holiday information gleaned Wednesday: Phenix Plant of Burlington In dustries will suspend operations at the end of the second shift on December 21, resuming the morn-, ing of December 26. Employees eligible by length of service for vacation pay will receive their checks this week. Carolina Throwing Company will operate on full schedule, with the annual employee Christ mas dinner scheduled for the American Legion building the evening of December 19. Mauney Hosiery Mills will be closed from December 20 to De cember 30, with the aiinual em ployee Christmas dinner at the Legion building the evening of December 20. Shortest announced vacation period will be the NeislPr divi Continuecl On Paye 6‘ PRESIDENT — Rev. B. L. Raines, pastor of First Baptist church, will head the Kings Mountain Ministerial association for the coming year. Raines Heads Ministers Group Rev. B. L. Raines, pastor of First Baptist church, has 'been elected president of the Kings .Mountain Ministerial Association for the coming yfcar. Mr. Raines will succeed Rev. Marion DuBose, pastor of Kings Mountain Baptist church. Other new officers include Rev. Howard Jordan, pastor of Cen tral Methodist church, vice-presi dent; and Rev. John Harris, pas tor of First Wesleyan 'Methodist church, secretary-treasurer. Chairmen of the various com mittees will include: Rev. H. G Clayton, pastor of First Nazarene church, welfare; Rev. Wayne Ashe, pastor of Macedonia Bap tist church, county home; and Rev. Thomas Droppers, pastor of Trinity Episcopal church, radio. Thornburg Rites Friday William Henry Thornburg, 85, died Wednesday afternoon at 1:25 at his home on Shelby road after a several month’s illness. Funeral rites will be held Fri day at 4 p.m. from Bethlbhem Baptist church, of which he was a member. The body will be tak en to the home Thursday after noon. Rev. Donald Callahan, as sisted by Rev. Howard Jordan, will officiate an dinterment will be made in Mountain Rest ceme } tery. A retired car inspector for ! Southern Railway Company, Mr. j Thornburg was a native of Cleve land County and son of thb late John Thomas and Nicey Ann Harmon Thornburg. His wife, the Continued, On Page 6 t