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r Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 •V Kllfl t cl.y m IhriM It 4ortv«8 Irem VOLTS' No. 22 PRICE TEN CENT* Voters To Choose Nominees In Saturday Primaries Finals Start On Sunday ForAreaHighSchoolISeniors fMBS Lists 144 Candidates FozDqdoaas CnmmMc'>-nx;nt exercise* f jr 143 Kings Mountain high school seniors will begin on Sunday with the baccalaureate service and will he climaxed with awarding of diplomas V. ednesday night. Both finals programs will he held at 8 o'clock in the school au ditorium. Dr. \V. L. Pressly, pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP church, w ill deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Five other Kings Mountain min- j isters will participate in the pro-1 gram. Rev. Howard Jordan will’ give the invocation. Rev. Bruce A. Norwood will read the scrip- , ture. Rev. George Moore will pre- | sent Dr. Pressly and Rev. Wayne Ashe wil| pronounce the benedic-; lion. The high school choir will sing “Canticle of Praise" an arrange ment by Jitrey. and the congre gation will sing “Come Thou A1 mighty King." _ Five memners of the graduat- , nk Hiss will lead the Wednes- j dp/1* night commencement pro gram which will follow the theme,1 ^Facing Moral Crises.*- Confllr ^Bhaw wiU five the invocation, “amn Medlin will introdtpre the program and original speeches on STATIHC POUCT Graduating seniors \v:II receive four tickets each this commence ment season for their relatives for the Wednesday night finals exercises. Ticket holders should arrive at the i udltorhim between 7 and 7:30 p.n. Doors will be open to the ge:ieral public at 7:30 and no reserved seats will be honored. This seating policy- does not apply to baccalaureate serv ices Sunday. the program theme will toe given by John Tria. Jr. and Priscilla Padgett. Paul A. Cash will pre sent the class gift to the school and Paul Rollins will pronoun**** tlie benediction. Principal Harry Jaynes will pn*sent diplomas and Supt. B. N. Barnes will arrept the class gift. \ senior ensemble of students will ring “Climb Every Mountain." The commencement staging committee includes Mrs. Fred Wright. Jr.. Mrs. Dorothy P. Eth eridge. Mrs. John Cheshire. Mrs. P. G. Padg *tt and Mrs. W. L. Ram sear. Junior marshals arc Jan Wil liams. chief; Ken Bunkowski. Ju dy Morris, Neii -McCarter. Mary Helen Goforth, Jean Hamrick, r Hauser. George Plonk, Jr. nd Ann* Trott The Senior sponsors are -Mrs. Carl Finger, Mrs. Clive V. Har rill, Miss H-len Logan. Miss Lil Confrtiied On Fmge 4 #etei nd* w|U — Dr. W. L. Praasty Bight to 144 high ! will ncdn! Bight. » Kings Mountain Rated "Friendly" A community attitude survey > just completed by the King Moun- j tain Junior Chamber of Com- , meni* reveals that majori'y of] QOO Pcople^cor.Uctcd like Kings MnaBfinWwSifiit' “the people a be fiOendly.” Dislikes of the approximately 97 families who answered ques tionnaires are varied and range from lack of recreation facilities for young folk to few pom op |M>rtunitic.-« for senior citizens 65 and older. Tite survey asked that citizens ■ cheek mark very good, adequate, in inadequate and don’t know about 16 areas ol community life, including: water supply, sewage disposal, storm water drainage, j garbage collection, gas, electri-1 city. telepl'oiM service, postal service, nev spiper, television and radio services. law enforcement and police protection, hospital, health and \ elfarc services, park ing and traffic regulations, side walks, •utrc'M cleaning, recreation, parks ami picnic areas, school facilities, etc. There were no signatures affix ed to the q lestionnaires. Virtually all who filled in the questionnaires answered two questions. 11 Is there anything you par*ic i uiarly like about this community? I and 2i In vou opinion what are ] the five most immportant things ; which need to be done to make this a better tommunitv? ? Item: “We need a place for the teen agers to meet and about three more doctors.” "Lights at alt railroad > rossings should he installed, the library 1 should have more consistent hours for opening and closing and the stores and |tostofflce should Cimtinacd On Page 1 Boaid «i Edocation Hopes To Let Contracts Not Later Than lone 5 •y NAIVn MINOR The hoard of education hopes to let contracts for the new* Kings Mountain district high school building not k.ter than Friday, June 3. The $1.1 million school district bonds, authorized m 1!W2. were sold Tuesday, and the board to have contract details complete for final project and contract rat ification by the State Board of Education at Its regular meeting in Raleigh June 4 Meantime, work continues on efforts by the board, administra tive officials and architects to pare coats in order that the build ing will fit—nwneywise -within the school's available building funds. Progress wa» reported Wednes day by Cha'rman James E. Hern don. Jr., as the architects were putting into contract form about $474)00 in iVdyctions. represented j*v materials alternates. $15,000 i-ss grading of the Phifer Road Fsite, and removal of items which con be add«4 In the future, such as the covered bus-loading area ramp Included in the total estimated cost of the bu-Ming is $150,000 for equipping it. The board ex pects to paiv this estimate by S5L'.00C. with anticipation of us ing much equipment now in use at the Ridge street high school in the new plant including some 83 typewriters, a'most all the com 1 parativelv new home economics instructional equipment of ranges, reftigoators and sewing machines, and the approximately . 10.000 volumes in the high school library. ' Chairman Herndon said Wed nesday the intention is to have j all paper-work in order and rea dy for State Board of Education action on June 4. Superinte.iurnt B. N. Barnes ! said that seme $50,000 in state bond monies arc included in the project, wh'ch means the state body, by law. must approve the project, along with authorizing increase in '■os* as dictated by bids receiv'd May 15. R. H. Pinnix * Company, ol Gastonia, was low Udder on the : general construction Job. i Compact Has 46 Candidates For Diplomas Forty-six seniors arc candi datt s for d plomas from Compact high school in tin c!s exercises . which begin St.nday and conclude Wednesday. Hev. Nor.nan t. Kerry, pastor! of Mount <lor:ah Haptist church of Belmont, will deliver the hacca-1 laureate sermon at t p.m. Sunday afternoon in the school gymtor ium. Dr. L. C. Drwdy. president of A A T eolkv'e of Greensboro. will make the commencement address Wednesday evening at H o'clock. Principal L. L. Adams will pro The Mixed Chorus, under di rection of .Mis- M. R. Adair. will render special music at both ex-, excises. sent diplomas. Candidates lor diplomas are: Yvonne Adam: Darnell Arring ton, Mary Parr.ett, Brenda Beas-1 ley. Alfa*; • Mobley. Carolyn Brown, Janet Brown. Elizabeth Burris, Andrew Brown, Sara Brown. Judv Byers, Winda By- . Burris. Judy Byers’. Wanda By- { era. Donald Campbell, M. Ronald. Campbell, Jams Carrol}..- Grace] Cole. Lean no Crank. Don Crock-1 er. Evelyn Crockett, and Jimmy Curry. Also Atlee Dee. Shirley Gard ner. Elizabeth Garner. Thomas, Gardner, Evelyn Giles, Marcellis Hunter. Jimmy Herndon. Bobby Leach. Grace Mitcham. Raymond Mitchem. lohn Mobley, Terry Morgan Patricia Moore. Rerdell McClain, Larry L. Orr. Janette Parker. Albert Perkins. Anne Peuhins. Jane Pressley, Mary Lou Ross. Dian<‘ Smart’. Helen Smith. Carolyn Stephens. Bob iv Stowe. Bernard Thombs, and Brenda Wil liams. Mrs. Goforth's Ktes Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Clegg Go forth. 58. were held Wednesday in Second Presbyterian church of Kannapolis, interment folowing in Carolina Memorial cemetery. Mrs. Goforth died Monday in { Rowan hospital .v Salisbury after an extended illness. Surviving are her husband. Clegg Goforth, formerly of Kings Mountain and son of Mrs. W. Frank Goforth of Kings Moun tain; three daughters. Mrs. Earl D. Ewing. Mrs. Glenn Cooke and Mrs. Ray Scott, all of Kan napolis; two brothers. W. X. Damarcus and E. F. Dcmarrus and five sisters. Mrs. H. X. Cog ; gins. Mrs. W. A. Thornburg. Mrs. j. C. Tayloi, Mrs. J. B. Puntch, all of Kannapolis. Schmllndi Said Tuesday Kings Mountain school dis trict’s $1,100,000 bonds were sold Ttiesday by tin local Government 1 Commission at an average inter 1 est rate over the 20-year amorti i nation period of 3.3W percent. Successful bidders for the bonds was a syndicate headed by R. S Dickson £ Company. Charlotte, and including f-jrst Union Na tional Bank 01 North Carolina. Bache 6 Company. New York, and J. Lee Peeler Sc Company. Durham, i Chairmae James K. Herndon. Jr., of the uoerd of education, i said he regarded the interest rate 1 as ••favorable’'. The bond schedule calls for ro ; payment of pi incipal of $150,000 i during the first year, and $30,000 annually thereafter. nwnans MUTIlfG Annual Cnerter Night meeting will be hold by the Kings Moun tain Kiwran' i ciuh Thursday night at their meHlng at the Woman's Chib at 7 n.m.. with President R. |S. Lennon in charge. Attendance ' awards will be presented. “*"*lE CONThSTiUs rs — Charles Heath, left Shelby gas en gteeering consultant and Jack H. White. Kings Mountain attor ney. seek the Democratic nomination for the state senate. Cleve land County supplies oneof two nominees for the two 31st district seats. Voting ‘Personal’ To These Citizens Area Produces Candidates And Managers Sewral Kings Mountain area citizens have especial stakes in the outcome ol Saturday’s Dem ocratic primary, Including a. halt-dozen candidates tor coun ty and township offices, as well as others in the saddle as mana gers for various candidates. Jack H. White, who ran a strong second for the state sen ate while losing to Senator Rob ert F. Morgan in 1360. seeks the senate seat again. He is oppos ed by late comer Charles Heath, of Shelby. Initially. Kings Moun tain's White was opposing R. Pat Spangler, of Shelby. Spangler withdrew. For sexcral weeks it appeared White might escape j primary opposition, until Heath' filed near the deadline. White' points out that Kings Mountain, sec-ond largest city In the county, hasn’t supplied a member of the senate in 38 years. Thre» area citizens have a ma jor stake in the District 2 county | commission seat. J. Broad Kills. | of Grover, seeks re-election and j is challenged by Don Glass, i Kings Mountain grocer. and Coleman Goforth. S’oney Point ! dairyman. Ellis runs on his rec-1 ord, while Goforth promotes a doption ot the county manager' system. Glass has charged that' the commission forgets its dues to the eastern portion of the! county. The manager entries find Charles E. Dixon Kings Moun- ! tain mogul for Dan K. Moore, j candidate for governor, while < Robert H. Goforth holds the reins in behalf of Gubernatorial Candidate L. Richardson Preyer. William Lawrence Plonk is promoting the interests of Rob ert W. (Bob> Scott, seeker of the lieutenant-governor nomination. | while Robert O. Siuthwell is boosting tin* «to«-k of Clifton Blue, another entry for lieuten ant-governor. W. D. < Red I Morrison is Kings Mountain manager for H. Fields Young. Jr., candidate for the state House ot Representatives. CONFIDENT — Edward H. Smith. Kings Mountain candi- ! date for the GOF nomination foe tenth district U. S. Repre sentative. predicts ho will win hir primary race. Smith Predicts Primary Win Ldward F. Smith. Kings Mountain candidate lor the Re publican nomination for tenth district United States Congress man. pred'etod Wednesday he Mould dd”fcat his opi>onent, \V. Hall Youn;;, Avery county lum hriman. The winner will oppose Rep ; Basil L. Whltener. Gastonia j Democrat, whe has no primary opposition, in November. Mr. Smith piedicted a Republi- I can primary vote in the seven ! county district oi irom 13.000 to . 15.000 vot*>*' He said state-wide primaries for yovetnor am' .mo other state oftices. as well as pri maries for lo* rl office in several > of the coui tie«- would swell the total to a le.vnt record. . Mr. Smith again urged area lb1-1 publicans to vote Saturday. Counties m the tenth district i are Avery, Burke. Catawba. j Rutherford. Cleveland. Gaston 1 and Mitcheli. Hood Quota Topped For 196344; Carolina Throwing Donors Lead Kings Mountain lopped i t > hlood-giving lot 1963 111 and sel a record in visil* to the hloudniobilc with a tota' of 9 in At Mondayt last regularly scheduled visit of the Moodbank for the fis- at year 129 citizens gave a pint ol Mood. Virtually all indudsiri.il firm* furnished doners throughout the year with the highest percentage <90i record d hy Carolina Throw ing Compinv Poote Mineral placed second with 73.9 percent and Mauney Hosiery Mills was in third with a percentage of 58.9. Yates Hirbison, manager ol Winn-Dixie Stores' earned his six gallon pin at Monday's visit ol , the Wood re *bile at Kings Moun tain Baptist enureh and is the lone member of this exclusive I dull- Others receiving gallon pins were: Robert p Manor, lour gal-: Ion: Steve Rathbone, three gal-' Ion; Robert Whitesides. two gal- 1 Ion; and S te Bolk. Gra.-e McCall. Harold Ledlora and Harold L. Bell, one gallon. Charles *•*. Mauncy, blood pro • gram chairman, stated apprtvia < tion to the rio^ois and all voiun ' •leer workers for the sue*os* of' the blood program this year. j Carolina Tnrowing t onipany I led industnal oonors at Monday's ; visit with 37 while Mauncy i Hosiery was s»vond with 2<». and Foote Mineral Company placed third with 10 dononi. The list o' donors follows: George Owens. Jr.. Martin L. Wilson. Jr.. Ralph II. Hayes. Mrs. Mary K. Droppers. Charles 'Queen. Mi-.. Irene Hicks, Ruby I CtMiuMui On iSioc i Long Ballot For Democrats ShortBailot For Republicans rune's .Mountain ana ^umoor 4 lownsnip citizens will join ineir neignoors throughout the county and state Saturday in going to the polls to determine nom inees toi both Democratic and Republican parties. Democrats have much more choosing ahead of them. Democrats will receive three ballots, one for four state offices, sought by 15 candidates, a county ballot for 11 nominations sought by 2t> candidates, and a township ballot to determine the nomination for constable—where Edd Gantt is challenging Incumbent Charles (RockyI Ford. Republicans will receive a lone ballot, numbering seven candidates for three state offices, and two candidates, including Edward H. Smith. Kings Mountain and VV. Hall Young, of Avery county, for the tenth district nomination to the Unit ed States Congress. in tne lungs .Mountain area, prime interest at the local or county level attends the content between Jack H. White, Kings Mountain attorney, and Charles (’. Heath. Shelby gas engineering consultant, for t h e county's Democratic nomination for 31st district state senator. Sharing top hilling is the three-way contest between J I Broad Ellis, of Grover, chairman | of the county board of commis sioners. and the two challengers, Don Glass. Kings Mountain gro cer. and Coleman Goforth, Ston | ey Point dairyman, for the Dis triet 2 commission nomination. Other contests for county com mission nominations local area voters will help decide are in District 1. where Harry Woodson, former Shelby mayor, is chal lenging Incumbent William Hugh Dover, and in District 4. where Spurgeon HewPt, |J. D. (Doe! Turner, and Charles W. Bridges arc vying for (he nomination. In cumbent John D. White did not re-ofter. Local area voters also will help decide the contest for the' nomination for register of deeds between Incumbent Ivey Whis-. nant and Ralph J. Tucker, as well as the three wav rare for the nomination to the state! House of Representatives. These i candidates are Fred M. Simmons. 1 H. Fields Young, Jr., and Rob ert Falls. Neither of the county’s legis ; lators. Senator Robert F. Morgan , tor Representative Jack Palmer, sought re-election. The other county contest to be , ■etlled. with the help of local area voters, is for the five n»mi I nations to the county board of ■ education, where four incum bents and seven challengers seek nominations. The incum bents are C. D. Forney. Jr., chair man, Buford Cline. J D. Ellis and Bobby G. Austell. The seven challengers are Richard Alexan der. B. Bernard Elliott. Charlie W Elliott. Karl ordan. Jr.. Billy Williams. Charles L. Beam and Robert F. 'Bob! Cabiness. Union Services Start June 7 Six Kings Mountain < hutches will participate in union services this summer, e traditional policy of the- Kings Mountain Minisleria Association. Minsters of the various iwigro gations will fill tho pulpits for services at thoir chuivhos. Tho schedule of services, which opens June 7. follows: June 7th at S |>.m. at Kings Mountain Baptist church. June 11th at S p.m. at Resur rection Lutheran church. June 21 at v p.m. at Centra Methodist church June 2* at S p.m. at Boyce Me monal ARP church. July 3th rt v p.m. at St. Mat thew's Lutheran church. July 12th at S p.m. at First I’reshyterian church. Offerings at the services will he applied to tre Bible-in-Schools program. loycM Light Bulb Sale Ii Thursday Kings Mounrain Jaycccs will sell light bulb Thursday night for benefit of the chic club's Little League t-aseball team. Herman Greene, proie<-t chair man. said the door-to-door can vass would begin about 7 o'clock. Jaycees will offer for sale an eight-pack assortment of bulbs at ]b pci' padut^v. HONORED — Scout Thomas Tindall. Jr., has bean awaidod ! the certificate of merit of the National Council, Boy Scouts ot America, for an act of hero ism in which he likely saved the life of his young brother last October. National BSA Honors Tindall Quick thinking that likely sav ed his young brother’s life has earned for Thomas D. Tindall. Jr. 12. Second Cl«:ss Bov Scout, the National Court of Honor, Boy Scouts of America, its certificate of merit. It is the first certificate award ed in the Pieomont Council m some five years, his scoutmaster, Otis Kails, >r.. reports. I^asi Oetobci. five • year - old Gregory Tmdall’g clothes became ignited from an ojien fire. His older brother tolled him on the ground until the first was ex tinguished. th< n summoned help. Tile hoy was not badly injured. Stand Tindall was presented the certificate at a recent Court of Honor here. ROTARY PROGRAM Hotarian K<1 Summoirow of Gastonia wll give the program Thursday ut n^m at the regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Hotary club at the Country Club. Fred Wright, Jr. is program chairman. Mrs. Summerrow, who operates a f-irniture business, is a Phi Beta Kcppa graduate of Duke UniV) rsity. As is customary, prime inter est at the state level among the Democrats is the six-man contest for the nomination for governor, sought by L. Richardson Preyer, Dan K. Moore. I. Beverly Lake, Kidd Brewer, Bruce <Bozot Bur leson. and Raymond Stansbury. More than cursory interest has also been evidenced in the three man rate for lieutenant-govern or. sought by Robert W. <Bob) Scott, H. Clifton Blue, and John R. Jordan, Jr. Frank Castlebury and John B. Wardell. Ji„ are challenging In cumbent Frank Crane for com missioner of labor, and John N. Frederick and John B. Whitley an* challenging Incumbent Ed win S. Lanier for commissioner of insurance. Republicans will choose be tween Robert L. Gavin, the 1960 standard • bearer. Charles W. I Strong, and Don Badgley for the governor nomination, between Robert A. Flynt and Clifford Lee Bell for the lieutenant-governor nomination, and between Ralph B Pfaff and John C. Clifford for the commissioner of insurance nomination. Thumbnail Facts On 39th Primaries Following are facts concern ing Saturday's primary elec tions: Polls open 6:30 a.m. Polls close 6:30 p.m. Polling places in Number 4 Township i4>: Bethware, pre cinct. a* Bethware school; East Kings- Mountain precinct. City Hall courtroom; Grover pre cinct. Grover fin* station: West Kings Mountain precinct. Na tional Guard Armory. For Democra’s. number of ballots three, including one for state offiis-s, onefor county of ficcs and one for township of fice*. For Republicans, one, for three state of-T-j^, and one for Registered voters: In Num ber 4 Townsh'p, 3802. FROM NSW YORK Mrs. W. M. Gentt has returned front New York City where she was a delegate from the North Carolina Council of Garden Club* to the national convention of Ikebana International. Mrs. Gant* also spent three days at the World’s Fair. * Phone Subscribes Votes Favoring Gastonia Toll-Free Service Plan As of Tuesday, Kings Mountain area telephone subscribers favor led toll-free service to Gastonia ; .md Dallas. Bryan Houck. Southern Bell i Telephone £ Telegraph Company manager sa'd Tuesday that li The "for's" are ahead, and 2* More t'iar> >0 percent <»f the Itallots issu'd to each subscriber have been returned. Mr llouek said no running tal ly of the mail balloting is being maintained. “We’re stacking the aye vote* : in one pile atm the nay \otcs in , another, an I tne stack of aye votes is higher." Mr. Houck said. lie annoi.iieod no closing dale for the suhsiTtber poll, stating that some billots had been re ceived in T 'esday rooming's mail. However, he urged all subscrib ers to return i allots stating their preference. The poll is being conducted by Southern Bell at the request of Kings 'Mountain Chamber of Commerce, wfc'eh is endorsing the > lall-im: juivku I In return for toll-free service to some 17.001) additional telephones. Kings Mountain residential sub scriber* would |>ay a maximum of dfl cents p**r month, while busi ness subscribers would pay $1 jO |K*r month. Picsont phone*rental rates provide toll-free service to about 13.00b phones in Kings Mountain. Sheloy. Gro\er and Bessemer City. The toll-free proposal has the unanimous endorsement of all Kings Mountain civic clubs, the Jayoees, Lions, Kiwanis and Ro tarians. Bob ‘Manor, president of the Chamber o' Cimnnw, i-omment ed. “I am naturally pleased with the result'- of the balloting to date, but more particularly pleased with the interest shown by telephone patrons in voting their preference, both for and against." Long distance toll charges to Gastonia ate at cents, station-to station, and to cents, person-to* person.