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™ 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 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 hospital in the Canal Z«4ie. saw some of the am 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 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 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