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r \ Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8.008 city tlrKtMy MM SMn ( Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 16, 1964 14 Pages Today VOL 75 No. 3 Established 1889 Seventy-Fifth Year PRICE TEN CENTS r Local News Bulletins EOT ARY MEETING R. Thurman Taylor, executive fjelary of Associated Industri }ln> . will address members the Kings Mountain Rotary club at their meeting Thursday at 12:15 at Kings Mountain Coun try Club. 527 TAGS SOLD A total of 527 city auto licenses for 1964 had been sold through Wednesday morning. Assistant City Clerk Grace Wolfe reported. Citizens are required to purchase and display the tags not later than February !•» SUTTERS INJURIES Mrs. I. C. Davis, secretary to the sii|>erimendent of schools, suffered painful foot injuries during a fall Thursday after noon at Bethware school. HEADS DEACONS W. B. Grimes has been named chairman of the board of deacons at First Presbyterian church for 1961 and other officers are B. Manley Hayes, vice - chairman; Cicero Falls, secretary; and Ro bert Southwell, treasurer. CHURCH WOMEN The annual business meeting of the United Church Women will be held Friday. January 17th. at 7:30 p.m. at Central Methodist l Utirvh fellowship hall. Women fan the various churches are hi nd to attend. m SCHOOL Ronniu Hord son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Horu is in Miami, Fla., where he is at lending el«*ct t onic's school for IS months. SAFETY MEETING Local quartets and trios will be presented in contest as program highlight of the Blue Ridgh Safe ty Council Thursday night be ginning at 7:15 at Marion Senior high school. Supper will he serv ed beginning at 6:30. TUESDAY TINE City firemen were called to Park Drive Tuesday to extingu ish a blaze from a mantel of a rcsidenrv. Minor damages were reported. HOSPITALIZED Paul M. Noisier, Sr. was ad mitted to Kings Mountain hos pita) Tuesday (or observation and treatment. VTW TO MEET Regular inerting o ( Kings Mount;/') Frank B. Class Post HSU will be held Monday night at s p.m. at the Post lodge on Grov er road, Commander Harold Pearson has announced. AUXILIARY MEETUflG €te American Legion Auxiliary hold regular meeting Thurs night at 7:30 p.m. at the Otis D. Green Post 1S5 building. Mrs. I*. O. Fulton and Mrs. Huberl Aderholdt will be hostesses. nwffs MOVE HEEB Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Gihhs have occupied the former Pride Rat term* residence at -101 VV. Gold street, moving here from Sacra mento, California. The Gibbs are aunt and uncle of Mrs. Margaret Ward of Kings Mountain. City Wants *3M F« Mania* Lot The city wants a minimum of $300 for a lot it was deeded in lieu of street assessments. Other wise, says the city commission. "Keep it." The lot on Monroe avenue at tracted a bid of $50 front i lavon Kelly when sold at auction on December 2. John McBraycr. oi Shelby, since raised the bid to $55, and it has been re-advertised lor sale for February 1. The lot fronts 298 feet on Mon roe, but is bisected by a powei line right-of-way. The city's Investment in the lot is $298 in street improve men la. plus sale advertising ex pensea. ^Commissioner Ray Cline re AiritMl that the city could us« ^ lot for storing utility line I tolas, replacing a lot for whieli the city is now paying $144 pet year rent. Warning Signals Bid Unanswered „ov w Resurrection Lut^| atWl*„, will th * t-r|yPn»e»,*l»'g *>• :s»ssr£- a,w. Church. Iturcn. „ . u-imit. Mountain church win !*• h«»t '^rtSSTincoln.’ ■S*K *i-* « ""i Transylvania counties. Datbia Santlcrs. P^^jj %«!, the Kosurmt^ Cht ^ 3 pJB. as2fr3Ssr,-,aS! lEKt’Stw 5- •<•«» «•! ^^•assr-tS I^Tyo™ <W»S «* »-* address j f r.astonia. ,Si A large dck gatlon is expected ', to attend. GOP Meeting Heie Thunday I Nnmnj- . T*-fr IKKi 7:30 p.m. ™VForsythe has 1Secretary ru j ■yyj‘mSBww* *•« UijrSSStr— treasurer. nolod the ele.:t.o«ts_*reh'«<arv 1 coumy eon election* are u , ^.nty con or to the *T at Cleveland vent ion to he h A Caiman. County Courth * ^rotary vice • ‘hatrman an^ officers, treasurer. am°ng , ^ (o |hr Rtate are to be name p February convimtion to be new 28 23 in Greensboro. Planning Work Canid Result In Major Aid Mayor Glee A. Brid**'-.. had not yet nwlvin! « reply Wednesday from his request that Southern Railway Company install warn ing signals at the Gold street crossing. Meantime, the city commission met last week and adopted a re solution asking that warning signals or other safety devices he placed at all crossings not now equipped with them. Mayor Bridge* noted this week that action of the city commis sion last summer may prove pro ductive in long-term improve ment of the city's rail crossing projfcct. The city approved a $30ho ap propriation and implied addition al ones for two additional years for a general < ity planning pro ject. in cooperation with the state Department of Conservation and Development and a federal agen cy. Among the items to he includ ed is the planning agenda is one of traffic flow and related pro blems which will include the rail cruaaing pronlems. 'Mayor Bridg es added that federal agency ap proval of the project (already a proved by the state agency) is indicated within 30 days. On Friday, representatives of the Conservation and Develop ment department will be in Kings Mountain to discuss with Cham ber of Commerce representatives a railroad beautificatjoin project. Mbmhers“of the local committee an* Mrs. George H. Houser. Mrs. J. E. Herndon. Sr., and Ray Cline. CofCDiimei Tuesday Night A mui a I membership meeting of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce will be held at Kings Mountain Country Club Tuesday night at 7 o'cloik. The dinner meeting will be free to members and reservations are requested as quickly as |N>ssible Officers will present annual re ports and view officers will be elected for 1961 -65. President J. Wilson Crawford said he will svmmate the activi ties of his administration, and James E. Amo.; will summate the auditTng committee's report on fi nancial transactions. Thomas A. Tate, chairman, will present the report of the nomi nating committee, which also in cludes Charles D. Blanton and Jonas Bridges. Nominations will also In* invit ed from the floor. President Crawford said. OPTIMIST CLUB Fred Kestlei. of Lincolnian, will speak on community better ment at Thursday night's Opti mist club meeting at 7 p.m. at i the Optimist clubhouse. President 1 R. W. Hurlhut has announced. Number 4 Township Unofficial ELECTION RETURNS Constitutional Amandmants. January 14. 1964 little Federal ” Plan Trounced By Citizens Representation in North Caro lina’s General Assembly will re main as it, the state’s voters soundly defeating Tuesday a pro posal to change the state consti tution. Over 350,000 citizens went to the polls to vote. In spite of snow aitd ice, to give a nearly 100.000 margin against the so - called "little federal plan’’ advanced by a 1903 special session of the Gen eral Assembly which also re-dis tricied the Senate. It was the largely-populated counties which cast the big mar gins in defeating the amendment proposal. Biggest Mecklenburg tallied a majority of 35.000 a gainst. Guilford 26.000. Forsythe UMJOO, neighboring Gaston 11,000, Alama<i<e 9.00-1 end Wake 6.000. Tlie majorities in these six coun ties accounted tor the total ma jority. Cleveland County voted with the majority as did the Kings Mountain area. In Cleveland the total was 3,591 to 532 a margin of 7 to I. The four precincts in Number; 4 Township also voted heavily a-1 gainst the "little federal" amend-: ment. by 538 to 89. In the other and less publicized amendment proposal submitted to the voters-to equalize thc| property rights of husbands and wives the vote was preponder-: antly for. the county and Kings Mountain area again voting the I majority position. In Number 4 Township a total of 62S persons braved cold tem perature asod icy through fares to Rejection of the ’’little federal" amendment means that House ol. Representatives membership will remain at 120. with one member from each county and the addi tional 20 seats alloted tas done in 1981' to the more populous coon*1 ties. Senate mcmbei-ship will re main at 50. assigned by districts carved last autumn. CHy bed Again For Thiid Time Kings Mountain got its third cold covering of the current win ter Sunday night, this time a com bination ot sleet with u topping of snow. Traffic was slowed considerab ly and school pupils won a two day holiday, which, however, they'll have to add to the end of the year. With a heavy ice coating on the power distribution lines, the city operated two nights minus street lights. Electrical Superin tendent Hunter Allen said the lights were turned olf to prevent major breakdowns which might be engendered by colliding hot wires. He said. "I figured heat and home lights more important than street lights.'” Tommy Black, son of Mr. anti Mrs. Hilliard Black, wore a big strawberry on the right side of his face, which got buried in the ice on a sledding expedi tion Monday night. First Union National Bank personnel assured Monday custo mers they didn't plan a cold re ception even if it was. The heat ing plant was out of action at opening time and investigation revealed there was water £1 the oil tank and furnate fuel lines. With cold temperatures contin uing, there war plenty of evi dent- of snow and ice remaining Wednesday afternoon, giving rise to memories of the old adage. "It's lying around for more," and obtaining reminders from alma nac adlH'iers that the "signs*' call for seven this winter, which means there an* four mon* a head. Bnoftholywr To Bo Demonstrated The breathaly/cr device for de termination of a person's drunk enness will In- demonstrated at City llnll Thursday afternoon at I o'clock. Police Chief Paul San ders has announced. The device has been legal for use In North Carolina in evidence of drunken driving cases. Officer Robert Crcen last week ittrtiried a school on use of the device. Chief Sander? said county and ■ihelby law enforcement officers have been invited to attend the demonstration. The demonslra i Uou will be open to tbe public ICAGO Asks $875,000Grant From North Carolina Fund MUUDdMT — Carl V. Mauney has btw otectad pwldtm of Late Man tesla dub. Inc. sac wsiHh Bob Crockett. of Gaston ia. Call F. Mauney Club President Carl K. Maun**}', of Kings Mountain. was elected president of Lake Montonia Club. Inc., fol lowing the animal stockholder* meeting at City Hall here Tues day night. Mr. Mauney succeeds Bob Croc kett, of Gastonia. Other officers elect#**! were Jim Wilson. Jr., of Gastonia, vice president; F. A. Whitesides. Jr., Gastonia, secretary-treasurer. Stockholders had previously e lected three oirectors; Walter Carroll. Jr., ol Gastonia, to fill the unexpired one-year term of F. A. Young; Ralph Elliott. She I by. to sti<\-eet! J. Pat Tignor. Kin?s Mountein; and llarr> Grier, Gastonia to succeed Ho mer Wliisnant. Gastonia. Elliott and Grier are elected to three year-terms. Stockholders also \uiirl to re tain the present clues mIksIuIc. Retiring President Crockett re ported tiiat the club, dining the past year, had repaired the home of tiie i-aretaker, repaired piet s on tlte lake, and had «*n joyed a large attendance at th*.* aiinu.il club picnic on July I. Ben II. Bridges reported that the club had gross receipts, in eluding carryover balances, of S-V176. and sf>cnt S3b3S. Thi* club's cash fiosition at year end wa. S333S. includin-; hank balance ol S1737 and savings aiid loan share of $1601. Seven Tapped By Honoi Society Seven seniors were inducted into membership in the National Honor Society, Kings Mountain high school's h.ghest honor. Fri day. New- member:-, art- Elizabeth Bunch. John Dy«. Terry Leonard Suzanne Loekririge. Linda Oliver. Jane Smith and Mary Wright. Prior to the induction service, the student body heard an ad dress by K. W. Moss, a graduate member of the chapter. Members taking part on the program were: President Mike Royster who presided, adminis tried the pledge of membership and stressed the responsibilities as well as the privileges of mem bership; Willie Anthony, who in troduced Mr. Moss; Patsy Welch, who thanked the speaker: Jack Howard, who stated the purpose of the society; Steve Royster, who explained how a member is chos en; John Tria. who interpreted the emblem; Miriam Baker who gave the meaning of the colors; Secretary Cora' Ramseur. who read the names of those inducted during the past three years: Don Freeman, who presented the can didates to Principal Harry Jayne* who issued membership cards; Phyllis Pusev. pianist: and Joan McClure. Priscilla Padgett. Virginia Goforth. Frances Go forth. Becky Stowe and Betty Ann Styers who sang "I Would Be True.” The introduction of these stu dents nrings the present active membership to 23. the full IS percent of the senior class per mitted by Uic constitution Plan Endorsed To Eliminate Poverty Pockets An cxpand<-d Cleveland c >unty Organization 01 Government Of ficials endoise.l Tuesday night an application for an Sslo.oon grant from the North Carolin • Fund. The fund, supplied by the Ford Foundation and other eleomosy nary trusts lL\l : . bmk what it terms “North Carolina’s -y.-le of poverty". Cleveland County expeets to complete its application aud to file it by February 1 At Tuesday night's meeting, the group heard Phin Horton, Shelby city manager, H. N. Barnes, Ki*igs Mountain school superintendent, Ben Carpenter, county welfar-* superintend! int. Max Hamrick, county auditor. Malcolm Brown, Shelby .school superintendent and lav Phonix county schools superintendent discuss various phases of tin project. Mr. Barnes noted that the de-; mise of income from growing ol cottun in the is-unty bad created dislocations ot people and income and had created pockets of pov erty in various an vis of the coun ty. Mr. Carpenter outlined tin extent of poverty, ha set I on wel fare services, arid Mr. Brown in dicated possible directions for mi proving the economic welfare ol the county's poor. ft was suggested that 60 fami lies would he ihosen for the rx perimrttt, wit a their selection basetl on those vvith desire and incentive for helping themselves J >b training and re training is expected to 5** a phase of tin project. The county. Shelby and Kings Mountain city governments have agr«*ed to sliare admiiiisti ttive ixists of the project, a;id Un school systems have pledged use of their facilit es, it needed, as anticipated. The state fund committee of 13 is headed by Governor Sanford. It is indicated that ten counties will ;>e chosen Jor the experiment. Attending th • Tuesday meeting from Kings .Mountain were May or Glee A. Bridges. Kay Cline. J. E. Rheu. and > orma:i King, of the city administration, anil li.O. Williams. J. E. Herndon. Jr. Mrs. John L. McGill and Supt. B. N Barnes of the school administra tion. Board Elects Two Teachers Tvv.i elementary teachers were elected by the board of education at a brief special meet cog Tues day night Mrs. R. M. Kennedy v as ele.-t i-«l to succeed the late Mis. Fred Pritchard as a sixth grade teach er at East school. She has been serv iti.tr .is inni im ten hei sinci Mrs. Pritchard'.; death. Mrs. James M. Stoll was elect ed to suix-eed Mrs. Carolyn \1« Whirtcr as a ntem vr ot the I seh -ol faculty, effective at tin end of the ( resent semester, when Mrs. McWhirter is res.gn ing. The hoard also voted to affili ate with the Cleveland County Organization oi Govermr.eiit Of ficials. PLEDGE — Jerry Patterson, first year dental student at the Uni versity oi North Carolina, has pledged Phi Beta Kappa, offi cials ol the Chapel Hill school have announced. The Kings Mountain student is von of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Patterson. Pastors Oppose ABC Election The Kln^s Mountain Ministeri al Asso iation went ei record this week as opposing an ABC referendum in Cleveland Comi ty. should there he one. There was one dissenting vote. Rev. B. L. !'; ines. First Baptist pastor and president of the asso > ntion of area ministers, jssui-d the f illowing statement adophil by the assoeiation this week: “Recognizing that alcoholism is the third most prevalent dis •vise in the nat.on today, and feel ing very definitely that we must take a new look at tiio e->nse quences of driokmg foi the fol lowing reasons: li regaid for life l?1 respect foi persons 3* re sponsibility of «hat ean hap|»en to |N*opU> ji reverence for Clod, we hereby call atlention to the fact that drinking has im'hrd unparalleled promotions in the toll of the roa t and in new taxes uti our ivunoni). Along with the terror of alcoholism is the unpi< cedented tragedy of moral de cline. “Various groups, agencies, and organizations are being called up >n to repair the damage al readv accomplished hv alcohol ism. We view society's :.»sk. not as that of an ambulance eorp waiting at the toot of the cliff to pn-k up the broken fragments • though this r. sponsibility will likely remain v ith us' hut we feel that the n: si sensible solu tion is to striVv to cl >se some "f the floodgates that arc being III) leashed upon os. It more pn-ven latives are apid «x|, less curatives will he neressaiy “Therefore, s.nee there is like Iv to he <i , all for an ABC refer endum in Kings Mountain and in Cleveland County, we. the Kings Mou.itar.i Ministerial Association, go on record this 13th day of January. lf**51. as overwhelming ly opposed t . such a measure. Since th s issti- atfecis. in so many ways, every ind.vidu.il as well as evei . home. -,ve would challenge oi It citizen *o weigh his conscience and h:s personal responsi.tilitv very < .ti•-fully, and then to take lie stand foi a hci tei cminibiity a! every opportu nity.” Mis. Swan. In Canal Zone, Witness To Rioting From Hospital Window .Mrs. Carl Swan, Jr., didn't think th«* iwfli Panamanian rimin?« as serious as most Cnited State# ritizrns. And sh“ was an eye witness to some of it. Mrs. Swan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Uarnette. of Kings M imam is a civilian lah oratory t.viiniuan at the amt> hospital in the Canal Z«4ie. saw some of the a<utal riot’ng fi >m her laboratory window. Her husband I’m Sw an, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Swan. Si., of Hint’s Mountain works m the top*graphical ;ection ol the ar my at the Cana! Zone's Fort Am adur. Mi Barnette talked with his daughtei hv phone last Saturday evening. She related thit the Ca nal Znn<* is rnmpletel> fenced in (rum Panama tin* full length of the border. Tin* Swans have Imtii in the (.'anal Zone appi<>\imately <i year. The\ are du • home hi August or Sept em bet. Mr. Barnette said he and his wife had | rojisted a trip to Pan ama the Canal Zone ;i April. He added somewhat ruefully, • I don’t heliev.* we rare much a bout lining situs.' the trouble oe. suited." Chicagoan Bays 14-Acre Tract On Floyd Street By MARTIN HARMON A Chicago citizen has purchas ed a 14-acre tract on Floyd str«*et stul anticipates erection of a 36.UU0 square foot textile plant, it was announced this week by J. Wilson CTavTord. president ot Hint’s Mountain Chamber o f Commerce, an«l Mayor <Jl»-e A. Bridges. Mr. Crawford said the Chicago citizen. Jo-e;ih Anthony Kakassy, vs as in Kings Mountain last week .id and exe. uud the option he held on the tract which was own ed h\ J. Raymond Cline of Shel by. The property’ had previously I>eon re oned lor industrial use by the city board of commission ers. While details are incomplete. Mr. Crawford -aid Mr. Kakassy indicated he would establish a weaving operation, with antici pated employment of about ZOO persons, and hoped to bo in op eration by autumn. “Mr. Kakassy said he chose Kings Mountain for several par ticular reasons, among them that the area has a plentiful supply of 11<iinod employees in the particu lar textile operation, the commu nity's close proximity to Char lotte's Douglas Airport, and the fin's favoranle natural gas rates. Additionally, he said he liked this area, its people and its cli mate.-’ President Crawford continued. "As presiditll o the Chamber of Com mens- and as a citizen. I am naturally pleased that another industrial citizen plans to come to Kings Mountain. I am also d’-eply appreciative of 'he coop eration exhibited in furthering this project b«- Mayor Glee A llridge*. the city commission, and other citizens.' Suicide Victim's Rites Thursday Robert Harold Williamson, 33 year-old Mauncy Mills employee, hung himself Tuesday with a rope tied around a hcdrail in the bedroom of his home in the Sw a ins vi lie <• immunity near Shelby. • Coroner .1 Ollie Ilairis ruled the death a suicide. ||<> said there was no «-\iden.v of foul play and there was appaiently no motive. Mr. Williamson iiad reported for work M>«iday and ha<l not been ill. His wife left for work Tues day a Knit T a.m. and their eight year-old son was taken to Shel by schools by his father, the cor oner reported. I hr coroner and Cleveland County Sherrifl 1 lav wood Allen, who investigated, said that Wil liamson died between 12:.TO and 1 p m. He was found <lead by his wife and son at 1:.V) p.m. C ■ iner Mums said Williamson had I oped the rope from the hr !• ail over his mouth and sat a d - nn.-e from the bed. choking hunself with the rope. Tlte coro ner -aid a gun was found in an open chest drawer about four fis t lrom the Itody. Williamson was the son of Yate.- Williamson of '.awndalc and Mrs Willard Compton of Kin"- Mountain. Otner survivors include hi- wife, Elsie Deal Wil liams :t. a son. Kobert Eugene, and a sister. Mrs. Alfred Willi ams of Earl. Hi was a member of Shelby’s Sivond Baptist ('hureh where funeral rites will ho held Thursday at 11 a.m. The body will remain at Lut/-Austell Fun oral Home until 30 minutes be fore thes it. ices. Rev. Norman Brown will officiate at the final rites and interment will be in Ross drove cemetery. Park Visitors Set Record For *63 Superintendent Ben l\ Muomaw at Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park has announced a rec ord breaking \ i-itati, n for PHV3. Over tld.iMY) visitors were re cordi-d at the Pr.rk. These visitors came fr im all 30 states. District of Columbia, and to foreign eouti tries. This influx i f visitors is un usual for an historical area of the National Park Servii-e and Supt M-iomavv suggests that the most influential reasons would 1h* Increased lival interest, the completion of Interstate v\ and a trend toward study ot tlte Re vi-lutioaiary period in this eouti try* luatury
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