Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8.008
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Kings Mountain, N. C.. Thursday, May 21, .964
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VOL. 75 No. 21
Established 1889
Seventy-Fifth Year
PRICE TEN CENT'
Paring Work Ahead As School Bids Top Estimates
PhwcwjM uioimu auiwwi. — turn puoiO^rapa cam a architect's picture
•f the proposed Kings Mountain district high school. Architects Van Wagsnin
gon & Cothran of Shelby say the building will approximate IMOOO square feet
®l floor space and bids to be negotiated they estimate at S1A77.10K00 represent
ing S1Q.I4 per square foot They say total of bone bids of S1J41J4K00 will
cuuoun. to »iu.io pet squo.e loot. Construction bids wore opened Friday and
the bids of S1.341.34&00 topped the estimate Sl.l million by S241.349.00. Bonds
ler construction of '.he school will be sold in Raleigh Tuesday by the Local
Goveramen Commission.
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Local News
Bulletins
to wm "rtpggc -
L Alicia Gay Jolley and Johnny
PLewis Joncj of Kings Mountain
are among the candidates for de
grees from Gardncr-Wehb Junior
Ceflege on .Vla> 24.
TALENT EVENT
The Waco community volunteer
Are departnient will sponsor a
talent end nu-dtal show Friday
night at 8 p.m. it. Waco gymnasi
um.
LIONS CLUB
The Kin".': Mountain high school
football coach Bill Bates will
show slides oi the Kin ’s Moun
tain-Shelby football game a t
Tuesday night’s Lions Club meet
ing at 7 p m. at the Woman's
Club. Lion George Plonk is pro
gram chairman.
KIWANIS PROGRAM
W. H. Do-Id. principal of Waco
school, will s**ow slides of North
Carolina at rhursday night's Ki
wanis club meeting at 6:45 p.m.
at the Woman's club. B. N.
Barnes will introduce the prog
ram.
ROTARY PROGRAM
Jack H. White, past president
of the Rota-y club and a candi
date for the Slide Senate, will ad
dress Kings Mountain Rotarians
at their 12 noon meeting Thurs
day at the Country Club. Mr.
White will gi*e his interpreta
tion of the problems which uil
the ne t administration at
the state le»'e'
METER RECEIPTS
Meter re -cipts for the week
ending Wednesday at noon in
eluded $2*>7 frc,m on-street me
ters. including $64 in fines, and
$31 from off-street meters. City
Clerk Joe H. V.-Daniel. Jr. said.
Gerberdings
Te Be Honored
The St. Mcithew's Lutheran
church will nonor Dr. and Mrs.
William P. Gcrbciding at a re
ception Sunday afternoon in the
church fellowship hall.
A epokesmar for the church
said. “It is .toped all members
and friends of the Gerberdings
will call from I o'clock until 5:30
p.m.“
The Gerberdings will go to SL
Petersburg. Fla. early next
month whem Dr. Gerberding will
become past >r of Redeemer Lu
theran church July 15th. The
Gerberdings will vacation it
Minnesota l efore returning to
Kings Mountalr and subsequently
moving to fiorida.
Dr. Gerberding became pastor
rSt. Mattiiew's 13 years ago.
The St. Matthew's congregation
moved into Its new church build
ins 10 year, ago this month.
Industrial Water Rates Cut,
Seven Plants Will Benefit
City Board j
Pans Kate
By 25 - Pescent
The city bo;:rd of commission- '
ers cut indrstr al water rates lo.
plants outs’t'e the city from 30
percent to ■»> percent higher than
th** rate charged city water cus
tomers Monday
Plants nli*v:ed will in* Neisler •
Division of Ma'-sachusetts Mohair
Plush company Kootc Mineral
company. Lambeth Rope Corpor
ation. Span tl'Vs. Bennett Brick
& Tile Waco Stwrtswear and Su
perior Stone <i mpany.
The rate reduction will not jier- 1
tain to residential users who will
continue pavin; a rate 50 per i
cent higher then city customers.
Action by the board came after
a request by A J. Maino, execu
tive vice-president of the Mohair
firm. His original request was for
a cut back to the 10 percent dif
ferential which was in force be
fore 1059-61. hit told the hoard a
! proposed plant expansion at the
, Pauline Mill would up the water
I usage by Margrave
For the period January-April
the Mohair fi*-m used a total of .
i 2S.7S8.900 gallons of water and
paid $8.825.!!» ?l the then-current
price per l 000 gallons of 0.3176. i
At the new rate of 0.2.>»1 for a
four-month oeriod the firm would
pay $7,355.01
I Thecommiuuon studied the 1963
water consumption usage h.v Mo
j hair to arrive U the new rate ;
I The Margra>-<» plant had a high
I consumption of 9.537.000 gallons
i in November with a low recorded
In July and May. The total a
mount paid dm ing the year was
$11,078.85. Based on the 25 per
cent outside charge the figure
would have Urn changed by
C<mfi»uca\On Ptujt #
COMMANDER — Harold Poor
son hen boon elected command
er of District 14 of Veterans of
Foreign Wars for the coming
tear.
Peanon Named
To VFW Post
Harold Pearson. outgoing com
mander of Frank B. (Jlass Post
9S11, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
was elected commander of iHc<
1-ltii District, Department of
North Carolina, VFW. Sunday.
Mr. Pearson was also recogniz
ed as an all-state commander and
Harold Class ni Kings Mountain
was named an all-state quarter
master.
Hie two Kings Mountain men
attended the annual state con
vention of Veterans of Foreign
Wars in Hickory.
Mr. Pearson will Ik* installed
June 11-11 in Charlotlc to head
12 posts of 3?5P men in District
Ctmlirneti On Po</c s
3NZ Logged On New FolUooks
At Font Boxes In No. 4 Township
The «ll-n"xv irRiilration which
ended Saturday In the county’s
2S precinct'-, totaled 3802 in No.
I 4 Township.
It was thccounty's first com
’ plete county wide voter re-regis
tration sine• at least 1033 and
means that Cleveland Countv’s
official voter registration isl9.900.
Citizens eligible to vote are di
vided as follows:
Demoera*s—17.813.
Republicans 1.828.
Independent , - 159.
, At Kings Mountain's four town
ship boxes the breakdown is as
foilows:
Beth ware: 5<j0 Democrats. 126
t KcpuUicaUi JJ«i 16 Independents
for a total of WW.
(•rover: TJ2 Democrats and ta
Republicans 'or a tola) of IS I.
West Kings Meun'a n: l.'Mt1
Democrats. iw» Republicans and
2X independent? for i total of
1567.
The suecewtul registration her*
and throughout t h e county
brought predictions of a large
primary Mav 30th by political ob
servers who remembered that the
largest numoer of voters turning
out for a primery was four year*
ago when a total of 9.S3I total
votes were rest in the four-way
gu’-ernatorial race.
Challenge Day is Saturda.v
May >’3.
Routine Agenda
lace Commission
At May Meeting
The oily ooei-d of i immission
ors conducted several items of
routine business ;I i Thursday
night's r<*Kuhr meeting.
Items:
l* voted to [.ni t has,- a it) feel
‘ »y 911 feel l >t mi Hilling street
near Mountan Hest ivmetery t<«
build a tool shed and office for
the caretaker at cost of $600.
21 employ it Tom Wilson as a
•ity polieem tn Mr. Wilson, for
merly a police offiec i in Gastonia,
ci mes to the i ity staff from Har
ris Funeral Heine.
, 3» heard a letter read front the
North Caroline Fire Insurance
j rating bu'-iu in which the city
: was criticized for eontraeting to
' send city trucks to fires outside
the city limits.
11 accepted for consideration
whan tlte money is available re
quest to pave Si|tes street from
Gaforth to .Sims streets.
5» agreed to discuss on June II
i public ho *s:ng proposal to he
presented bv an architectural and
| engineering linn.
tii adopted traffic committee
i proposals to install several 12
minute parkin" meters in the bus
iness district and effective July 1
to declare the Mountain St. side
•if Victory Chevrolet company a
loading zone and install two one
hour meters at a loading /.one
site on Cherokee street.
Local Democrats
At Convention
Thirty (Tevi land Countv citi
/(vis .-iic in i alt igh for the Demo
tralif convt’'ftan. including the
<siunty M'v-ih: ii r.ian Mis. F. \
McDa i el, .i; . Jack II. White o.'
Kings \! lu’itai!:. Mis.s Sadie I„ut/
of Slielby an<l ethei of the party
faithful.
Several Kings .Mountain people
were nominated to fill various
Democratic executive (onimittee
posts within tr»» loth District.
Mrs. Charles Carpenter of
Kings Mounta>n was named to
the 10th Carrressional District
executive oniiittee and Camcr
[ on Ware of Beihware was ne«med
to the judicial executive commit
tee.
•Mrs. McDmiel was appointed
a delegate to the national Demo
cratic convention in Atlantic City.
Clint Newton, county party
chairman, is -dso In Raleigh for
i ike convention
APPOINTEE — force Plonk,
rising senior at Lenoir Rhyne
college, is one of 100 college
students named to participate
in the North Carolina Fund
poverty program this summer.
Miss Plonk
Is Selected
Miss Joy-? Plonk. Kings Moun
tain junior it Lenoir-Rhyne col
lege and daughter of Mr. jhm
Mis Hal Plonk, is among 100
! North Carolina college students
named to work this summer in
The North Caroline! Fund's |«>v
erty fight in; rommunity projects
ihronghoui :he state.
North Carolina Volunteer head
quarters announced the names,
selected from a total of 7.>0 ap
plietMds this week. The stu
dents will star* their 11 -week ser
, \ iee iK'liod with a June 11-18
training session at the Duke Unl
! versily campus
The seven areas wh *re North
' Carolina Fund projeets are get
ting under-vay arc Watauga. Av
ery. Mitehell end Yamey coon
ties a joint project in the North
Carolina mountains; Mecklenburg
in the south "iedmont; Forsyth**
in Hie norto P'edniont; Durham,
in the north Picdm*»nt; Nash •
Edgecombe, a two-county project
in the north Coastal Plain; Rich
mond-Robes ?n-Scotland, a three
county proi vt in the south Coas
tal Plain; and Craven county, in
the Tidewater area.
Today's annoumvinool marks
th** last sten in a recruiting drive
that start**<l in mid-'Vlarrh wh<*n
NCV director. Jim Beatty, and
his assistan* Curtis (Ians, hegnn
a recruiting progtam that took
them to 40 college campuses. The>
told colleg** j-tudents of the Vol
unteers' plans to attract 100 ma
ture students to work in one of
the cummuniie* where The Nortl
Carolina F ind is conducting ex
|!erimenls to Hnd and show new
Edtrcatfcn Board
i*eid Susv
A
Mantles ^ershn
I *.<• K’il s ii da;:; l ia;d of
(‘dUi'afiin >)p ru'd c- .i.sliuction
..vs o 1 th •. ipor milll'i)
dstrit! high siool Frdiy arid
.■» nday nigh; . cndu.-lc.l a three
hour paring session in an attempt
:<> reduce th. I ■'.» base bids which
imounted to ‘Vll.ils more than
lie *. iio ii . -:t< m's I >i:iil .ssue au
.h. l i.at: n
S.'pt. ?•: ; Prunes ,i«l Wed
aeoday he hint t.i ■ .1 w.th the Dl
on of 3 -he •! PI: r,i ig in Ka
• "h to *i : . :i- .j t > \ would
.term t ne ■ • - •<> ■ term nr
how rrinh "Pi a s « in • cltct
wtn and
sr;r>-« wo saw.
He s.’iH h** i i followin'; Their in
•(ructions forward: v; in them
‘definite figure t.''
There ;■><■ 1* alteron'cs ' the
a si* (cnst'i: -I'ln hi! v* th the
•nalor ones bem;; tiie bold rootr. ]
and thr<-e , I ".s'wri n tiio base- i
lent area undo the lib:.-try. Th- I
i-il: ii'Ti is it. iuded in the has**
•id hot tlv* th oe ilassrotms are
td'litional.
Other alternntes are of a tni’tot •
nature. Including having either
marble st ills n restrooms, ac
See Editorial Section B
•ordion doors in place of folding,
Dartitions. n'-const leal tile, etc. |
The education hoard discussed
eight alternates where possible •
t the May monthly meeting.
Low has., bidders Friday were
Robert II. Plrnix. In,-, of Gas ;
<»nia. Sitsj lli tor general eon- i
struetion; S’ mi hern Piping and *
Engineerin ' Company of Char-:
lotto. $113.72?: for Inviting: Gas
•nia Plumbi'i" and Heating com
•jany, SlLV-sL* tor plumbing and
Caldwell Electric Co. of Newton, i
SW.99s for electrical wopk.
OtlH*r firms bidding electrical
.vork were Ga*-ton Electrical com-1
puny. Indust riel Kh ■trie -f Chat
lotto. Bidde’ : on heating wen
Hickory Plumbing and Heating.
Price and .< -sociates. Pyra
nk! Meehan•< *1 Corporation and
rhompkins Johnson Company, all
of Chari 'tb*: Making bids on -
dumbing w r-* .1. V. Andrews of
’harlotte air! fiii-koi\ Pi imbin:
tn<l Heating Cenrral construc
tion bidders "i ludcii Berger Con
tru. tion Co <d Mo n-esville. Clar
•nee M. M<t r|s*na contracts ->f
Shelby and V A. I! .h im y and
Sons of Sh< lh\.
Kurds ft*** p. nstruction of the
sch'Hil will I** sold Ma> 2fi in Ra
leigh by th * Loral Government
Commission.
Frklay's ••■rt*: do not include
| ■quipment for the school's class
rctoms. laboratories, kitchen, cafe
tcria and the architect's fees.
Discussing several construction
i facets wliic1* could he negotiated
; with contractors to reduce the
Lost, the education boa id mem
hers talked :.h.u.i the omission of
a covered bus unloading /one,
grading on ihe play area, acous
tical ceiliiu,.! on first-floor class -
Continued on page 8
Bloodmobile
Here Monday
Tlv IJi'd Cress blood hi »hi le will
return to Kiiv.'.s Mountain for its
seventh and f nal visit of the
I9t:3-*>l fiscal veai Monday.
Donors wi.| be processed from
II a.m. until p.m. at Kings
'Mountain Raetist church and
goal of the collection is 125 pints
of blood.
I "We expe. t*.< surpass our
hlo«Kl quota a*, lb* year", blood
program eh; .i man Charles I*.
Mauney said, lie continued, “1
wish to e'or.** publicly my ap
preciation t-» the committees, the
blood donors and other workers
vrtio have helped make the blood
visits this yen* highly successful
and a record collection for Kings
Mountain."
Donors will ne**d to give 71
pints or bl.-xid at next week’s vi
sit to assure Kings Mountain's
yearly quota of K88 pint* of blood.
"We are oakdent", Mr. Maun
ey continued. "that Kings Moun
tain will s *: a tecord in blood
giving for 19G4 *'
'lr. Maunev noted that for the
first time Monday \olunleers who
assist at the blood hank will wear
blue and whit* Red Cross uni
forms which have been made by
Kings MouMai i volunteers. Mrs.
Charles Blai *on was chairman of
the commit*.4*. The uniforms will
be worn at ail blood hank visits
in Kings Mountain and Grover by
women volunteers. Mr Mauney
CMlUuuui.
CO liiuNinr FUN DAY _ The Kings Mountain Optimist CM
it sponsoring Optimist Community Fun Day Saturday with a 10
a.m. parade to launch the day's festivities. Rides and circus en
tertainment will be featured at city park with admission Iron
and balloons and candy for the kiddies. (Photo Optimist Presi
dent Boh Hurlbut)
Optimist Fun Day
Set For Saturday
Big Paiade,
Elephants, Bides
n it■j *■
Saturday will ix* optr mst Com
rnunity Fun Dr.y hi Kings Moon
lain with a dr« us parade at 10 a
m.
The Kin 1 Mountain Optimist
cliin is sjx> • ,<n my • Kid s Day"
witli a \ is t oi Ringling Brothers
oil.us perfumers and other ae
tiviiies.
Lawromr ,'cams, chairman of
the Minimi:lee on 'arrangements,
said the paradi would form at 10
a.m. at the A &• P and prm-eed
north on Battleground to Ridge
street and ast to the City Park.
Klephants. j> nies anil horses
will parade in the city park where
young folk ear ride the ferris
wheel, mcrry 'ii round fire on
'■tine, roto-'.vhir! and receive free
balloons and candy. There will Ik*
a 2‘» cent t lor rides hut ad
mission is :ioo to the park, and
many young fi It: will have free
tickets compliments of merchants
Mr. Adams said that Mayor
Glee A. Ri'<i'*e- would lend the
parade rid:n« an elephant and
that Kings Mountain I ands anti
locally-owned ponies and horses
would lx* Petered. There will lx*
thus* elephants in the parade.
Tom Brv.wit will ix* grand
marshal foi :hi festivities.
A free aerim act will lx* staged
at p.m. nr.d again at S p m
Saturday. The show will also fea
ture a monkey act and a high
diving dog.
Kings Moontnin merchants aic
buying tir’--ts lor the rides and
are distrihu* n<* the free tickets
i i youngst*.* s in the elementary
schools, Mr. Adams continued.
Participa'Hie merchants arc
Hob’s Drive In. Bridges Auto
Parts, Brill :<*s Hardwire. City
Floor Servi -o. Ben T Goforth
Plumbing. Griffin Drug Com
pany. Kings Mountain Drug Com
pany, M -Gmnis I>*part men!
Store. McG.nnis Furniture com
pany, Medici! Pharmacy. Paulin*
Stone. Phif**r Harware company.
Plonk Brothers Southwell Motor
company, C. H Werlii k Insuran v
Agency. Western Auto Associate
Store, Willie’s Jewelry, Kings
Mountain Herald. Radio Station
WKMT and I ellingrr’s Jewelry.
Kid’s Day i< expected to lx* an
annual affair at th.- Deal street
playground Mi. Adams added.
Mixed Chons
Concert Set
The K'n »s Mountain high
school Mixed Chorus will present
the annual spring concert Thurs
day evening at S o'clock In the
high school auditorium.
Admission is frr«.
Mrs. Myrle H. McClure and Mrs.
Juanita M. Logan an* directors ol
the chorus. Plrno accompanists
will he Libby Alexander and Bec
ky Dixon.
Specie! numbers will he render
ed hy the chorus and by ihc choir.
The program will include:
Smith’s ~ood News: Noble
Cain’s King Jesus Is A-Listening;
deVTaux’s Hock a-My Soul: Born
NEW POST — Captain William P.
Brewet is the new commandos of
licet ait wings. United States At*
l an tic Fleet.
Brewei Fleet
Aii Wing Chief
NORFOLK. V;i. Captain Wil
liam Francis Brewer USN has re
lieved Rear Admiral Norman C.
Millet to USN es Commander Fleet
Air Wind's. U. S. Atlantic Fleet.
■ In a ceremonv at head(|uarters lo
cated on the Naval Air Station,
Norfolk. Virginia, witnessed by
Vice Admiral Charles fcl. Weakley
USN. Commander Antisubmarine
Warfare Fatw. U. S. Atlantic
Fleet, Captain Brewer took over
his new dut'es after Mo ving as
Chief of S>a;'f to the Commander
far nearly two years.
I ,•
The Fleet Ail Wings At last ic
t'ommand ic composed of over
! (iOiN) officers and men and some
lido planes r:i Id pairo] squadrons
based at N \S Jacksonville. Flori
da, Brunswick Maine Patuexent
River. Maryland and Norfoll:,
Virginia. These squadrons fly the
P2 Neptune ar the P3 Orion air
craft and are lendbased Mad
time Air Arm of the U. 3. Atlantic
I Fleet Antisubmarine Force. The
Wing slant aircraft deploy as far
north as Iceland, south through
out the Canibrean and eastward
: through the Mediterranean Sea.
Captain Brewer was horn in
Henderson, North Carolina and
was graduated from Pavidson
College. He is married to tlie for
mer Pauline Noisier of Kings
Mountain, North Carolina.
Seating Policy
For Commencement
<»raduati;'g seniors at Kings
Mountain hi-h school will retiMve
, four tickets each this commence
ment season for seats for their
relatives at June 3 finals exer
cises.
The new policy in seating ar
rangement* vsill hr* used only at
.the finals progiani and not at
the Sunday baetalaureate serv
ice.
| Ticket holders ate asked to ar
, rive at the .-iiKUtorium between 7
and 7:30 p.rp. June 3. Doors will
Ik* open to tne genera) public at
7:3rt and no leseived -.eats will
be «v4iiahl*