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VOL 75 No. 4 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 23, 1964 Seventy-Fifth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Chamber Of Commerce Taps Bob Maner For Presidency Local News Bulletins AT KING'S Mrs. Mildred Kao Goforth, Rt. 2. enrolled for tho general busi ness secretarial course at the be ginning of tho winter quarter at King's college. Charlotte. She was graduated in 1962 from Hethware high school. WIND DAMAGE Tuesday wimts lore a 10x20 awning from the ground onto a cement block construction at the Bob Whitaker residence at 706 K Ridge Street. The awning, to gether with cement blocks, were uprooted and turned over on top of another huilduiig. owners of the property reported. meteb lECEirrs Meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon total ed $251.10. including $220.90 from on-street meters and S30.50 from off-street meters, according to report of City Clerk Joe 'McDan iel, Jr. flfoayeiDay Nans Underway Kings Mountain United church women are completing plans foi the 1964 annual observance ol Worjd Day of Prayer. Christian! all over the globe will gather foi prayer services February 11th. In Kings Mountain, tin* retai business firms ate being asked t< close from 11 a.m. until 12 noot for worship services. A special community-wide ser vice is planned by United Church women anti Mr:.. Jtihn C. McGil heads the committee on arrange ments. Mrs. McGill appeated befon the city board of education a their 'Monday night meeting, in viting the school body's participa tion in services marking Worli Day of Prayer. The board took m action hut tallied the matter fo further discussion. Planning Board To Re Named Mayor Glee A. Bridges is ex peeled to name a five-mem be laming board to study long _ »rm improvements in city beau 'tifieation, result o f Friday' meeting of the Chamber of Com meree and representatives of th Conservation A Development De partment and r. federal agency. The committee is expected to h appointed by the mayor am board of commissioners at th regular February meeting. Mi Briflgcs said Wednesday. Members of the local commit tee are Mrs. George II. Ilousei •Mrs. J. E. Herndon, Sr. and Ra; Cline. Others meeting with C A I officials Jerry Turner, Larry Sa histon and John Voorhres wer C of C President Wilson Craw ford. Bob Manor and Mayo Bridges. Mr. Manor has served a the Chamber's thairman of urbat renewal committee. The city last summer approve* a $300h appropriation and impTie* additional ones for two additions years for a general city plannin] project, in cooperation with thi state Department of Conscrva tion and a federal agency. Amonj the items to he included in thi planning agenda is one of: 1 traffic flaw; and 2' related pro Mems which will include the rail road crossing problems. Federal agency approval of th< project (already approved h.v thi state agency I is indicated withil 30 days. >The beautification rominittei may was shown slide* of vari ous areas picturing ways ant means of beautification of sever aJ towns and cities. I PRESIDENT — I. F. Mu bo* been «UcM president of the Rings Mountain Chambar of Commerce foe the coming year. He succeeds J. Wilson Crawford. Ciawiord Says: We're Growing ■y MARTIN HARMON Wilson Crawford retiring president of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Conunerre, predicted that this area's population will double within eight years at the present rate of growth. In his report of sir..artship Mr. Crawford reviewed expan sions of thop ast year. "1 do not claim credit for thest expansions, nor does the Cham her of Commerce.” "We have encouraged. "We nave worked." Mr. Crawford related the im l provemeiits in the commercia community. He also noted that inductria 1 progress was quite evident: ''Carolina Throwing Company ■ has made one expansion and ii in the process of another. I Neal Hawkins constructed at asphalt plant near Superior Stum company, gives steady ctnploy « merit for 20 people. I English Mica company eon . strucK^l a new plant to proves . and manufacture a new produc I and employs 30 people. > Mauney Mills completed a ma r jor addition and modernized thi old plant. Brtinett Rrick and Tile Com , pany built a new. modem kill and is now in the process o building a second. A Chicago firm has purchaser 15 acres of land to construct , weaving operation to employ ap Continued On Page f I Other Officers. Directors Named, Here Tuesday I B. K. <Bob> Manor, Kings Mountain insuranceman, was elected president of the Kings i Mountain Chamber <>l i ommorce for 19tH-ti5 at the annual dinner meeting o f the organization Tuesday nigitt at the Country club. Mr. Manor succeeds J. Wilson Crawford, realtor. Other new officers will include: J. Ollie Harris, vice-president: and Charles A. Noisier, John Warli'ck. W. (1. Jonas and Gene I Timms, directors. President Crawford presided and Hie nominating committee's rojiort was read by Tom Tate. Other members of the committee were Charles Blanton olid Jonas Bridges. In summo'ing the aeitiviti--s »f h i s ndmlustration, P.es dent Crawford told the C of C mem iiers: *The Chamber does not take credit for all tlie improve ments made in our town but we have contributed our part in cre ating the proper climate for or derly growth in our community." Reports from various commit tees coined Mr. Crawford's pro gress n-jxirl. Mr. -Manet reported from tlie Urban Renewal commit tee of which he was chairman. Martin Harmon, reporting for Mrs. George Houser, chairman, gave a summation of p!:tns of the ■community landscaping commit tee. James E. Arnos gave a finan cial report. In accepting the presidency of the Chamber oi Commerce. Presi dent Maner sam. “1 am lonfident I the Chamber of Commerce will : enjoy a success ltd 1964 and ex Kress the gratitude of ail the of eers to President Crawford and his administration for a job well i- done in 1W >i President Maner is a native of Wilmington who moved herewith his family eight years ago. Active in business, civic, and church af i fairs, he is a former Kings Moun : tain Young 'Man of the Year re 1 cipirtit and a former Jaycee . president, lie is president of Lit > tie League activities, former chairman of the city recreation ■ commission and a former presi t dent of the United Fund. He is a 1 deacon of First Presbyterian church. Mrs. Manor is the former I Jennie Sommers. *rhe Manors are t parents of three children: Bobb\. • age 9; Frank, age 6: and Sarah, age four. CAGO Survey Reveals Poverty Toll ' Coot Over SI Million Daring 1S63 • Tho most concentrated arras ol poverty in Cleveland County lie j within the oilv limits of Shelby ' and Kings Mountain, a CAGC1 !j study for North Carolina Fund - consideration reveals. An expanded Cleveland Countv Organization of Government Of ; fieials has endorsed an appliea [ tion for $875,000 grant from thfc • North Carolina fund, expected to ;i be filed by FVt. 1. The six-page report cmphasii • es unique factors which make s Cleveland County a suitable ex i perimrtitation area, lists the eeo I nomie. social and geographic pat - I terns of poverty and copious far I tors which have allowed the pov I erty cycle to i-ontinue in Clove : land County. » Maps showing the correlation of “poverty pockets", incidence [ of crime ami incidence of welfare • recipients will accompany the re t port. According to the survey, the city of Shelby t»ss four major “poverty pookita" and Cleve • land’s run I areas has some i-on • centrated poverty stricken so I tions. but poor families are gen erally scattered rather than • grouped in communities. The «-osl of pc-verty in the coun I ty in health, welfare and law en forcement cost/ can be calculat ed annually at more than H3XV '000. the report estimates, j Concrete evidence that Cleve land County hay a haul core of poverty exists in these statistics: Items: 4.K10 farmin'.-. or a third of the population, o r approximately 20,000 people, exist on incomes of less than S2.309 per year phr family. A half of those living in (loverly are Negro. About »*s percent of the total Negro impu tation is poverty-stricken. Nine teen percent of white families live hi poverty. j 3t»7 students, or 2.0ti per <vnt of the total enrollment, dropped out of the county's schools last year. Seventy-two to 7.1 percent of them eame from |«» >r homes. Seven percent of all school lunches in Cleveland schools last year were five lunches for im poveriahed students. The need for more free lunches was ap parent nut lunchmims ealinot afford them. Eleven percent of the county's population me: 2o years of ago. or some 7.100 people, hive not cOTinletod the fourth grade 3.012 Cleveland ( iti/ens reee ve welfare assistance. All are povei ty-stricken. Aid to dependent ehiidien ‘'rants help support 1.920 people. The county's crime rate has risen live percent hi live years. ACCORDIAN - TYPE MAIL CASE — Jo* B. Herd. Kingi Mountain native and a postman lot 20 years, is pictured above with his daughter. Mrs. James Everett Cross. Jr. demonstrating his own irnovaiicn which U. S. Postoffice Department of* finals intend to teat for possible use by rural mail carriers across the country. That four-tiered rack is really en accordian-type mail case which could save rural carriers much time in mail sorting, eliminating two handling processes for their early morning sorting chons. When exported ’• is the sixe of the ordinary stationary files bat w ;c:i com pressed is easily handled. The mg 1 ca-ric: place mail in the expandable .. r and wlitn though tekes a shelf at a time, cempres-.es, lifts it from its hcldre and carries it to his car. Hard t!i brother of Assistant Postmaster George 3. Herd. On leave from Wic postal department since Oct. 1962. he and his family live in Moxton. Throwing Firm In Expansion CAPTAIN — Corbet Nichlson has been re-elected captain of the Cleveland County Life Saving Rescue Squad. Inc. for the Rescue Squad Names Officers Corbet Nieho’son has Uvn re elected Captain of the Cleveland County Life S^vmg and Rescue Squad Inc. for 1961. Other new officer*, named re cently. by the mat-profit volun teer organization, include: George Lovelace, first lieuten ant. Charles Peterson, se.-ond lieu tenant. Fred Sanders, second lieuten ant. Herman Sprouse. sergeant. Winfred Hope, sergeant. Del'.tert Dixon, secretary. Jesse Morehead. treasurer. ELECTED Tin- Profesional Discount Cor poration of Spartanburg, S. C. re cently re-elected 10 North Caro lina funeral directors, including J. Ollie Harris of Kings Moun tain, to a two year term on the PIT Advisory Board. Mr. Harris’ term will expire December 1965. ROTARY MEETING Rev. Marion Du Rose will phe highlights of his 1962 trip to tie* k'eattlc World’s Pair and show slides he and hi? family made on their Western vacation at Thurs day's Rotary club meeting at 12:13 at the Country Club. Tom Tate i* program chairman. i New Addition Is Second One In Past Year Carolina Throwing Company is planning :» s*vond major expan sion which will provide jobs for 2*1-25 mo'c employees and in crease i;s present capacity about d pereent, General Manager Charles Mauney said this week. Construction is underway. Mr. Mauney said, on a 16.150 square foot budding which will he util./ t-d by the throwing firm for the latest-up-to-date throwing equip ment. Tile addition is expected to be completed within two to three months. Mr. Mauney noted that the ma jor portion of the construction will be done by Carolina Throw I ing Company v hich w ill sub-con tract electrical, plumbing and , other phases of the building. Tile eight-yeer-old plant vir tually doubled capacity last Jum by construction of o lti.son square foot building requiring 35 addi tional employees. A subsidiary of Mauney Hosi ery Mills. Carolina Throwing now employs 125 people. The throwing firm puts the “stretch" into ny Ion filament yarn which is use* not only in hosiery manufacture but for many end-point products The firm is presctitly producin. a stretch nylon ami dacron yarr which goes into increasingly-pop ular sportswear. Mr. Mauney continued, ond into weaving an* knitting yarns. Mauney Hosiery Company manufacture's to to V types and patterns of mem’s h<»si cry. Othe'r offiams of Carolina Throw ing Company are Carl K Mauney. piesie’ent. Howard 11 Jackson, vicc-picsiileml: and W K. Mauney, Jr.. secretary treasur er. Charles Mauney is geme'ral manager of both firms. Deadline Nearing For Tax Listers January 31st is the final day for taxpayers t e list lfact taxc 3nd a\o'el |H<nalty. city tax lie:«-• - remimled area citizen* \Ve«diie*s day. "fv.n't wait ’til the last minute" was the* plea o* Com ad Hughe's anil Mrs. Steve Hannon, tax list ers on duty at city courtroom. Tax listing was contiumg at a brisk pace ibis week. Southern KR Answers Query Of Mayor Bridge's Mayor G! e ... IJ: id > |, ,d .. •ifkn whdgeniem Wedn e s d a y from his • .‘quest that Souther! Kailua*. (iompany inst ill warn iny signals at the Gold streei i rossing. 1». VV. Brosman. pi Uni Southern Haile ay Sys w. ,i the mayor tr .ni Wash.'’; on. 1> C.: “My deal Mayor It have you letter with i«vard t. the Gold Stieei cross iil; in tin city of Kin ’s Mountain. “I will i ..it- further into thi matter a:id you will hear funhei from us. With every ,«■-.» wish," May u Brid i. had fii>t <| .»•. ed a request to th«* Grer1 \ iilc. S C. office of Southern Kailua; 1 *>ut had no reply. The mayoi said he learned while attending ; Masonie meeting in t'harloit. Sr id ay night that h - query should ha\ :• he -n male to thi V\ ashingti&i offiee of the com pany. Tile may >r said h s i ;|er t President Hr«»>4'am w sent air mad Saturday and he had reply Tuesday evening. The city commission adopted . resolution asking that wamin signals or other safety devices l>< pla.ed at all crossings not «ov equipped with them in the wak. of an accident here January lt‘ in which four peis.ais died in ; train-ear crash at the Gold St ret crossing. Board To Get Architects’ Final Plans By DICX WOODWARD A: 'i • ts that final plans v\ ■ iI in1 p esenli'd to the . s .Mi mi i„- Ixoat of education ap, 'oval )ty February 1. i ’o-t’.is \V C ■thran. missing v t:> tin* Kin - Mountain huant if isliiiation at its siMukil m nlhly meeting Monday '.tight e.iorfed that f-.ial pin.)# will 1m* >/!>, . a.iil Will Ik- p. esc 11 let 0 'ho.'in! «oi -sppi -nil! by lltt .n’ of Fehruotv. C :.i! an iml at.a! to it sex :>i a’ ■nm p i li-ms have to work •I .ait i < t.i • the i.n:i! pi ms art* rplote. tut he ji-siiitm! the .ro •! tint 'o n,..*r problem# •Net \.o . \s *'.:!<! pre.i"H on) ilc’.in •! h . iromised eta to. A > 1». t • t ft thi an further in ffitm'-.i that tho King# Mo. >t.).n plan will be tho nios ri\*il .i*xl ir st comfortable - 1 o i i.I.- i tho county ha* . .so of tho i om| act ness >J t it i. it'1 .Khan, oil to; It napes of structural design. Tho now school building is do signed tor instillation o' a.r n.n 1 tinning. ; tail provisions have no* formulated which would dn.pl fy tho add.t: in of an ail tdit.c ling sy**» n .rstallaiion n ho no ir future. In Ot.tcr actions taken. t.U ».i.' I ippi *\od the (m'imatvnt ' - tho ta ■ : ■ ’ o ; i v -. Lin i T. < h\ on s ti-i of i a *t*i for piirtoipals at i'aik t.Jrare and litoxer schools Ms.-. OAens ha- iwen solving ai i substitute si this I.Ip ic.tv fot several weeks. A low '..<1 Sl.l.'Ki.V). present id by Kings Mountain Sheet Me tal Shoi xxas a optial >y thi Board x1. .til re ard to repairs t* Motiiv. ait School uad Auth on' it .ic for expenses ti attend th-• Nan ih.il Aitmimstra tms i'i ciitna: t > Is* iiold at At lant c I'tx. N. J. Fobruaty 13-1! xx .is p.is ill by hon'd for Supt Barnes and any other bouri members xvbo would iiko to at tend Ex pen si's v.v.e also authoii/ii on any laiarit inomboi s watt tin) to attend tho National Schoo Hoard Memlx i Convention to In id in lion.non Texas. April 23 «!!>.. Supt. Barnes toad a letter frun Balcigh o.oii oi.ting tin* schoo survey it> Clev* and County. Thi letter request til that Sunt. Mai n-; aitd s h ud bond members Is pn s it at a mooting to In* I’ob at the Cleveland Country x'lnl Friday at noon to d: cuss thi p-ojoid i ounty xx iile survey o Nch ioIs. o. lil-o l.r.dg.-s leip.ostoi by • *le;ihone t tat Supt. Bat ne jsk the board its op.nion con , i.-tiing t ;.* tr.'tfii ligl.'s at Da \ ids it). . • ;it: :tl anil West school May r i i idgos reported that i icq oust for the traffic lights t. i a* inactivated during non-soho. hours xv.as o: -si tiled to thi' oil; • board at a recent niootir ;. aiti Mayor Bridges requested ! at tli • noard express an opini >n eon i corning the request. i Tito board recommended tb t lights roma'ii in o p o r a 11 o throughout tho day. Work On New Textile Plant Here Is Expected To Start In April CANDIDATE — Richard Alcxan dei ot Boiling Springs hu* an nounced his candidacy for th■» county board ol education sub |ect to tbe May Democratic pn mary. AnUn.in Kukassy. tlv Cli..'a»:u i ti 1 \. ho h i» puirhii.** ed ill iii'ii* iii i i'll Kloyd siroo ami anticipate* erection of i ■<»;.ihNt square I* mi textile plant written Max u (Hoc \ lil'idg o*. ln> hojM*s in h»*,:i!i . .iii'ii ui tint *f lh«* plant \ April iKtth. Kiik.i'sv ha> iil'n writ ton Cit; Am iir.«*> l It '.!*i I>ii\is, the may nr sa.il. iiml tlio oit\ lia*. promis i*d, weather permittim:. to hax. street ivoi k romplo’od and wale ar.d sewer facilities available l>; the la t tor part of Aptil, Mi Mrid .*•■.*> said. Mr Ka'<:is-> ha* indicated t* Ch;»:rila*r of I'nmnteriv official and M.ix ir Tlntl^es l»<* would os taiil s'-, i »*.e:*.\ n;; "iteration. wit! nnti.ii a ted ('r>'*ilinnn*nt of abou 20.» |JOf'4»?!< md !»ll|*l'd lo hi* M o;a» Ati>n hy autumn M in ikar.-x was :;i K.nj M iii’ii i •’ la*t n *.*konil :o**\oouti on nutio.i ho hold in t!io tiac Ull’rh \\ ' o'.vtn I liy J. Ha> n i:u Cline of SIi *! >v. The proportj h.u piox on *ly been re/ont*d for in dustiial us«' hy tin* city Iwiatcl o comnuiiaiuuui». .KmIRMAN — F. Sean Morrison wil head the 1964 Heart Fund Onvc in King* Mountain. Morrison Heads '64 Heart Fnnd K. >. iScarrt Morrison. presi dent of AsMKialed Sales. Inc., vv .11 head King> Mountain's 19W I I«-«rt Fund Drive in February, II<*art Month. Mr. .Monism's appointment :r. ide by Hu. k An tier. Clevo* 1> I c only chairman. amt Har vey ii. i;.i:nr president of the l!<*ait »'.><»i.-il. Anno.Hiepfnent of tarics ot volunteer u akcrs will v mailt \\iiit.rs the ne.v; week or 10 days. In ac.-opting tim chairmanship of tin- February drive, Mr. Morri son said. "I am primarily a aedes man. and feel that 1 have to have a good product To sen. Fneiv is no -le'.ter phy.-'cal thin*; to sell thin health. The biggest enemy ■ ivo as a "rout have is .ardiovas • cular disease. I believe the city if Fi'ig- Mountain will join with , the Arncricaii Heart Association in their research foi a prevention >i a t ine for this country's Num i ber 1 killer.” , Kings Mountain area citizens ' gave generously to the Heart Fund D. ive in idKT I Commenting on the forthcom . mg ill ive in No. 1 Township and I '.lie coiCnty. Harvey B. Hamrick, .Dover Mills exiutive. said. "By working with the North Carolina and Amerit-an Heart ;is» K'iations. ( the js-ople ot Cleveland County I will lw contributing to the re .search activities of both organi nations. In addition there are , many projects which can tic un I dei taken locally, which will he of , * t'aI significance in stemming the , tale 'f heart disease, which is a I m-aj >r cause of disability and the leading cause of death in the na tion." Mr. Morrison is als.» vicf-pm>i* lent of Malic enterprises <»f Lin . olnton. lit* is active in Kirst Presbyterian chrrch anil a mem i her of Kings Mountain Country , club. He is married to the former 1 Kl. i■ M’Ui I^ael of Glen Alpine anil they are parents of four I h.ldren: Hetty, sophomore at . s.ilem college; Marion, a hi|jh s. !'.ool junior: Scarlett, a high school freshman; and Ricky, a . first grader. 1 Diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the nation's foremoat health problems, being responsi ble for ol.fi |H-r cent of all deaths .1 the nation. The HHit Heart Kind will support an attack a rainst th.s No. 1 enemy through tesearch. through public and pro . fess.onal education and through ommunitv health programs. Republicans Name Officers 1$. I’. Manor. E. II. Smith am' Bill Babb were named preeinct . >•!».» imc.t d No I Township Re . puhlirans at ri orsmi/atiiiwl meeting Thursday night at City Hall eourtroom Mr Matter head* West Kings .Mountain pminrt. Mr. Smith is , hairman of East Kings Moun Min preeinct and Mr. Hahli is , rlia.i m.iti id the Beth ware pre* l einet. Still to In* ele.-f hI are pre ,111.1 officers in the <Sr.»vr area. (’Iiw’.nd Count (!(•!* Soere ; tar> Wax ae Forsx'tlte listed these iffieer* in the Kings Mountain uva Ropublva: Party: West Kin-'s .Mountain: Mr. Ma eer. i lia.rtian: Mr*. Delbert Dix on, vi eihairn-an; Ja« oh D.xio, LMnliiiicvu Oh S
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