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Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
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75 No. 24
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 11, 1964
Seventy-Fifth Year
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EDWARD LEDPORD
MU LIP HUMPHRIES
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Receive Diplomas
Numerou. oih^r King* Moun
tain »tuclo>i*s veto graduated n
«o.mmenoerient exercise* this
mt»nth on n»tt\ entity and college
campuses.
They wore:
Bobby Doan Bidd.x. son of Mr.
and Mrs. I.ouoi liiddix. anti Paul
Eu < n‘* !!on tricks. Jr., son of Dr.
and M“». Pan I io:idrii ':*. were
graduated f- in Wake Forest ool
lej*e. Biddix majored in physics
and received a B.D. flogreo. He
was a memfc« i of the < dlegt
baseball tn"i. Hendricks major
«l in biology awl received a B.S
degree.
Two Tula*e University siudoi
from K.ngs Mountain receivi
master of racial work decree
They were Anita McGinn
daughter ot Vi), and Mrs. Pai
McGinnis. and Edward K. I a
ford, son of Mrs. I. W. Ledfi.rc
Miss McGinnis rc.civcd her B.A
O-MtiitHrd Oh Piii/i S
JERRY PATTERSON
PHIL PADGETT. JR.
ROBERT MUNSON
Bine Challenges
Scott; County
Races Offirial
Democratic run off primaries1
for June Si were set Tuesday'
when Clifton blue, second-runner
to Robert it . iBobi Scott for the
lieutenant sravernor nomination,
said he was calling a second vote.
.vieantime two Cleveland Coun
ty second-nu:.H.r* had made offi
cial their prior announcements
that they v.ould demand second
races.
g^L'olcman Co orth seeks to over
PR-e J. Broadus Bills, incumoent
board chairman, »or the District
2 nomination, and Cnarles A.
Bridges. Sr., socks to overtake
Spurgeon Ihwitl. Bridges and
Hewitt wain the District f nomi
nation and * iu* commission seat
being vacateo by John D. White*,
who did not sock re-clection.
Top race* began before ilu* final
n turns wee*, in lrom the .May 3d
voting. Dan K. Moon;, second-run
ner for tho gubernatorial nomi
nation. calling a run-off with L.
Richardson I-rcyoi, who le*«l the
balloting.
Blue anncuued his run-off de
cision in Rvcigh Tuesday. Scott
held a plur "lily of '>2.jt)0, hut
John Jordan polled 140,000. They
seek the rig it to oppose Republi
can Clifforc. Boll, of Uastonia. in
Novi-mber.
Moon* trn lea Preyer oy 23.500
votesli and tile second primary
pousting is ilieady at lull tilt. *
Preyer is making capital of
Moore's refusal to meet him in a
television d.luite. Preyer expects
to ap|>ear over a state-wide net- i
work Friday night at 9: TO. There
will be a enair for Moore, which
Moore has i*<u.catcd will be va
cam.
Bljo indi ateu he will advance
os a prime issue his IS years of
legislative experience. including
J**aker of the House, against
Brtt, who has never served in
w General Assembly.
Local level campaigning for
the commission has been limited
largely to >m rsonality wars. Go
forth campa.gncd before May .HI
on a one-pl i' k platform of favor
ing the countv manager system
of operation. Kllis has ngried.
Ellis led (. Jlorth 1190 votes.
Both Ilevitt and Bridges made
statements on the county manager
system, indi ating mote or less
favorable ct osidcration. Hewitt
led Bridges by 1171.
SaHli Concedes
To Hall Yeung
Edward *J. Smith. Kings Moun
tain candidal.- for the Republican
nomination for tenth district U
nited States Representalive, has
conceded defeat to \V. Hall Young,
of Avery County.
Smith lust by 32 votes out of a
total of HU*-'.
Smith ini’tally considered ask
ing for a recount, but conceded
last weekend.
Young will oppose Rep. Basil
L. Whitcnc’. iH’tnocralic incum
bent, in Nou'mttr.
Tom Rydenhyer »hird year
«ninary student from Colum
. S C, will fill th* pulpit at
o'clock services Sunday morn
ing at St. Matthew's Lutheran
churult.
55PercentAssessmentRatto
On $260,576,000 Valuation
120 Examined
Foi Glancoma;
17 Bdfenals
Seventeen K..igs Mountain area
citizens were teferred to opt ha
mologists for lurther treatment
or examination as a res all of last
Thursday's glaucoma clinic spon
sored hv t!”» Kings Mountain
Lions club.
At least t\» > of the 67'» persona
examined vt re told they needl'd
immediate t-vutmerit to save their
vision.
Additionally, tiO persons he
queathed th tr eyes to the North
Carolina «■%.- Lanl: at Winston
Salem for use in cornea trans
plants.
Meantime the countv's mobile
x-ray unit set up ai i.ie armory,
s<vno of lh“ clinic, and made 273
chest x-rays.
The six-ho»r clinic was conduct
ed by Dr. M. J. Kreshon, Char
lotte, and L-r. II. W. Griffin. of
Hickory. asiisted by a host of
volunteers, • deluding members of
the Lions club, their wives, num
erous high school students. Kings
Vounuin hospital nurses, and the
staff of toe Cleveland County
Health department.
"We feel the clinic was a rous
in» success," c hairman Howard
Bryant coitm.h nted. "Had we had
only one r«Vi ral we would have
considered the work and expense
vc«». tnwhile. ’ •
President ^dus Smith issued es
tHvial thanks to Medical Phar
macy and Kings Mountain Drug
Company fut gifts of drugs and
to (quality Sandwich Company lor
gifts of sardwiehes and dough
nuts for th<> large clinic staff.
PRESIDENT — Hugh Lancaster
is the now president of the
Kings Mountain Junior Chamber
of Commerce succeeding Sill
Toll-Free Poll
Ends Saturday
Southern Br II Telephone &
i Telegraph Company * patron poll
'to determr.e whether King:
Mountain .vim subscribers want
toll-free serv.c; to Gastonia and
Dallas will enu Saturday.
Manager Bryan ll-tuck said
that Saturday will mar!; a month
since the pothr.g began and that
: daily mail return of ballots is
dwindling. i>n Monday, he said,
.nine ballots were received, five
l marked “for" and four against.
Actual fa'illation of the ballot*
i has not been made, he noted, but
estimated n in excess af 65 per
cent of pit* ms have teturru*d
(I vtimml On Patjc 8
Movement Leading To New School
Began Over 13 Yean Ago In 1951
When tin* now Kings Mountain
district school plant is occupied
in 1965. thr* . vent will mark phy
sical completion of a movement
dating 1-1 ytais previously.
While th_* immediate movement
will have consumed only six
years, first suggestion of an area
wide school . •■naolidation, plus
modern high sthool plant, is first
recorded on M;.y 30. 1951, when
officials of the state’s school
division reeomniended consolida
tion of the area.
Hrst action oi. the re--ommt*rot
ation was n arly two years later.
May 7, 1953. at a joint meeting of
the county and Kings Mountain
hoards of education.
On Noven oet 16. 1953. the con
solidation effort failed, as patron
straw vote; on elimination of
split-term s. hcoiing. showed the
outlying arc's unwilling to accept
that eonditk-.-i of consolidation.
The current movement began
April 30. 1959. The Kings Moun
tain board of education was in
session \\ hiii a telephone cal) was
received fro.n lull Lowery, then
chairman ol t!w Bcthware dis
trict school '•ommittcc. inquiring
if the Kings Mountain lioard was
still hitere‘-«-tl in a consolidation
movement. The Kings Mountain
hoard was.
Other key dales in the inter
vening peri*-I:
May It, 1900 Citizens in areas
outside Kings Mountain district
voted for consolidation.
March 10. 15*2 Citi/.ins of the
Kings Mountai: district author*/
ed issuance oi Si.ldtt.ftft) in lionds
for the building of a high school
plant.
July 6.19,!‘.t- The hoard of edu
cation chose the Phifer Koad site
by a vote o; to 2.
January *7 i963 The Uwrd of
education aapioved location of
the plant on the site.
June 4, Us>l The state hoard
of edm-atioe approved the Kings
Mountain high school project.
Over-raying
Ante Owners i
To Get Break
Cleveland County board of Mini'
nissio nets wilt ta:; county citi
■cns on the basis of 55 percent of
S260.576.0ff! total value of real
and personal property in the
■ounty on basis of the recently
conpleted ni \v property valu
ation by C le. Layer, Trumble
Company, am raisal specialists.
The commission declined, by 2t>
oercent. to honoi the rctornmen
iatio-i of the City of Shelby, City
if Kings Mountain, county and
shelby school districts, who had
requested tr-.ing on basis of 73
percent.
The taxing base therefore will
be SI 13316 *45. a gain of S29361.
S43 over last yeat's SI 13.500,000.
representing a gain of more than
JO per rent < f taxable base.
Generally speaking, the chief
beneficiary i-f the new valuation
will be the automobile owner. '■
Autos have iii the past. lieen val
ue<l a current wholesale market
value, while :.«her proper! !*** have
been valued at 3?.5 per tent of
current market value.
The tax bite in dollars, whether
more or less will depend on tax
rail's set bv the several govern
ing bodies 11 icrted.
The lurie'.t «ounty general tax
rate is SI.”7 p« i $100 valuation.
Should the "Oi.nlv commission at
tempt to atiain the same amount
of tax teven-ie from tlu- new val
uation tlie irdu itisl tax rate
would Ih- about SI.17.
Will tot.il i ounty tax hills es
calate?
Already e---.»nty citizens have
approved a X2 million hospital
bond issue \ Inch would up the
Continued on page •
New Minister
At El-Bethel
Rev. Rov i*. Lock ridge. Jr. wJr
become pastor >>I LI Bethel Moth*
odist church fi’.id Kev. Bru«x- N*>r
wood will ;;o To Northbrook Mclh
odist chutv'i a: a result of as
signments announced Sunday at
the Lake Junaluska meeting of
the Western North Carolina
Methodist Conference.
New min' tei s for eight other
Cleveland County Melhodis
charges anttoiH.eed and rhanges
were made ;n the ehurehes mak
ing up three county ehirges.
The Shcll.v eiieuit. formerly
composed of B»-ss Hoey Memorial.
Martin Street and Pine Grove
Methodist i'lurches, was divided.
B«-ss Iloey was paired with El
B* thcl of K. tgs Mountain in a
charge to he s< rved by Rev. Mr.
Lockridgc of Xeko.
June 17 h i« been set as moving
day for the jOo ministers in the
<-onferenoe who will he moving to
new pulpits, announced Sunday
bv Bishop Nolan B. Ifaimon. pre
siding hishoo of the Charlotte
Methodist An.*.
Architect's Sketch of new Hendncks-Durhani Clinic
City Boaid
To Authorize
Planning Study
The board oi city commission
ers is expo-led to approve <-on
tract for a *-it> planning study at
Thursday’s t: p.m. meeting
Contract calls for the city to
provide $6.is j lor the planning
study, with .h< federal govern
ment providing a sum of S9.U00.
The work w.ll be carried out by
the North Carolina Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment, in as'oiu.tion with the city
planning commission.
The city h ard is also expected
to approve contract with the
Kings Mountain Junior Chamber
of Commerce whereby it will ac
cept a gift ei an electric score
board for city sladium. The prof
fered contract provides 1 • that
the Jayce^s may remove the
scoreboard for relocation at the
futuristic htgti school studium
when it is cor s true ted on Phifer
Road, or 2• that the scoreboard
may be removed by the Jaycccs
at Jayi-ee on'ion.
The boar-1 ill consider a pro
posal of Mayo, dice A. Bridges
to franchise a civic club to sell
Kings Mountain license plates.
Mayor Brid ies said his idea is to
ask sealed bids of civic ciubs in
terested. Th • Kings Mountain
Jaycres and Lions dub have in
dicated interest, he said.
The comn ission is expected to
enact for lO’-l-hS. with little if
any change, the curreni privilege
license ordin inre.
Mis. Styers'
Rites Geadnrted
Funeral met. for Mrs. Ario
Melvinia Ro*>crtt> Slyer*. 76, were
held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
from Tern'ii. Faptist church, of
which she w.us a member.
Mrs. Sty vs. widow of Joseph
Cleveland Slveis, died at 10 p.m
Sunday in Kings Mountain hos
pital.
A native «»1 Madison county,
she was th * daughter of the late
James and Katherine Fox Rob
erts of Madison and Cleveland
Counties.
Survivin'* are four sons. John
S. Styers. LluyJ D. Styers, and
Dewey A. St vers, all of Kings
Mountain, and G. H Styers of
Martinellle. Va.; two daughters.
Mrs. Coy Barnette of Goldsboro
and Mrs. Th"mas Greene of Man
agua, Nien iuea: a sister Mrs.
Mollie R. Phillips, of Kings Moun
tain: 10 grandchildren, seven
great • grandchildren and one
groat-grea* grandchild.
Rev. R. L M« Gaha. assisted by
Dr. W. L. P vtsly. officiated at
the final r'tes. and interment
was made in Mountain Rest com
ctcrv.
FAM1LT NIGHT
Dixon Presbyterian church will
hold family night with a cover
ed dish supper at 6:30 p.m. Sun
day in '.he church fellowship
baJL
New Medical Clinic
Is Now Underway
Homecoming Set
At Resurrection
Annual ho.recoming will be nb
sencd Sunday at Resurrection
Lutheran chi*r< h.
Former members have men in
vited to attend in a m. regular
church sen :<vs and to join the
coiiRiegation tm |>i<-nie dinner at
the church fo lowing tiie services.
Simpson Bites
Held Wednesday
Funeral rites fot Willis Aiken
Simpson, 73, of Hickory, wore
held Wednesday at f:30 pm. from
Hickory's Penelope B a p t i s t
church, interim n? following in
Oakvvood City cemetery
Mr. Simpson was ihe lather of
Mrs. \V. K. Mauney. Jr., W. H.
Simpson, an-i Ji.mes Simpson, all
of Kings Mountain. 11.-died Tues
day mornin ; follow ing illness of
three week
Semi-retir d Mi. Simpson has
been employed by Merchant Dis
tributing O ;n| any for ov er 30
years. He was a member of Pe
nelope Baptist church.
Besidi-s hi.! sons and daughter
here. Mr. Sini-son is survived by
his wife. Mrs. Connie Brown
Simpson a” 1 two stepdaughters.
Miss Jo Tby'oi of Hickory and
Mrs. Marth- llcmphill of Hick
ory. Nine granoehildren also sur
vive.
Rev. Jam s t ow lcs officiated at
the final rit- s.
Medical Clink
To Be Finished
By September
Ground was broken Monday for
a new 12-room doctor's clinic for
Uendricks-Pai ham Clinic at the
comer of Mountain and Jumper
streets.
Contracts t.nt awarded low
bidders last \.«>ek.
T. C. Strickland of Shelby is
general contractoi. Hoke Electric
company, b n T. iniio.in ..ml
Kings Mountain Sheet Metal
Works, all 1.1 Xings .Mountain,
were low bi.iders for electrical
plumbing npH roofing. Arichitcct
J. L. Beam oi Gastonia said.
The building will approximate
3200 square . cc-t on a lot which
fronts 115 It'l l by lmo feet deep.
Tlie lots were purchased from
George W. Mauney and Mrs. A. L.
All ran.
The clinic will liou^e offices
and treatment rooms plus an x
ray room uni emergency room.
It will be of brick and marolc
construction
Construct on work is expected
to Ih' completed by September 1
Dr. Paul Hendricks anti Dr.
Th urns M. ’am also ar.nounced
that Dr. Jo*’ Lee of Greenville
S. C. will i tin tnem in oie piac
tice of medicine- July 1. The Lee
family w ill o. cupy the former (>
W. Myers residence on Piedmont
Avenue. Dr. Lee is now com
pleting his .nicrm’ship.
Kings Mountain Jaycees To Seek
Cash Te Fight Multiple Schlerosis
.lohn II. Cambio and W. 1'.
• Billyi Mo.'m'i arc serving as
honorary co-chairmen ol the 1P6I
multiple srl.-rosis dri-o which
gets under*. y this wo.-!;.
Kings M •ontain's goal in the
campaign tor lunds is $1,U00.
The Ktitos Mountain Junior
Chamlier o' Commerce is con
ducting the drive in No. | Town
ship and a house-to-house can
vass will be held Irom 6:30 p.m
until s p.m Friday night, Jay eve
John Warlvk said.
Mr. Warlick said citizens who
may not he contacted Friday night
a tv invited to mail their contri
butions to him, to Jav.ve Presi
dent Bill AMen or to any member
of the Jay.ve organization.
There are coin containers avail
able in most stores for contribu
tion!. Mr. \V>-luk continued,
i Multiple a«.K'nx>ia or Mi is a.
chronic crippling riit.ca.-c of the
central nervous system Dr. Tho
mas M. Ri\ >*i s, fo.meiiy Director
of Rockefeli-T Institute, has call
ed MS "the foremost ncurologi
cal problem of our time.'' I>r. II.
Houston Meiritt. Director N. V.
Neurological institute, states that
MS i- "the greatest cause of
chronic disability among young
adults." The cause of MS is un
known as yet and one of the
tragedies of the disease is that
it strikes mainly those in the
prime of life young adults in the
120-to-40 age group.
Forty percent of funds cancel
ed by MS chapters is allotted to
the National Society for research.
Chapters retain the balance to
support local programs tailored
to the comru.niry tu-eds for aid of
MS patient* in a personal way.
Pinnix Firm
"Beady To Go"
Says Official
By MARTIN HARMON
It. H. Pinnix & Company, gen*
er.il contra -lots for the new
Kings Mm> itain district high
scho.il. exp • *t to break ground
within a w and to have the
new plant completed within a year
or less.
R. H. Lindsay, vice-president
president and general manager
of the Pinnix firm, said Wed
nesday. "WViv ready to go as
quickly as t'.e toniraci is return
ed to us." T .at matter was being
handled Wcon'sday.
Mr. I-mdsay said the construc
tion superin'-ndent for the Kings
j Mountain oroject will be Ben
‘Lindsay, wno if completing some
three-years work at Duke Univer
sity. where the Pinnix firm has
constructed additions to Duke
Hospital and i new physics build
ing.
Architect Thomas H. Cothran
reported Wednesday that all con
tracts have o-en returned with
the exception of the one for heat
ing-cooling installations, expected
momentarilv fiom Southern Pi
ping and engineering Company,
of Charlotte.
The Kings .Mountain plant
with the acceptance of the alter
nate for th ee additional class
rooms w 'll total 12X.900 square
feet of floor s| ace.
The heat'og-iooling specific*
lions provide for air-conditioning
of administrative areas, and for
basic instal'.itions for ail the re
mainder of me building except
ing vocational education shops
and locker rooms. Space is pro
vided for a chilled water unit
which would complete the air
conditionin'! of the whole plant.
The plan*, which when equip
ped will -ost a minimum of
v, ll lie built on a 73
acre site or. Phifer Road.
School of; ciitls anticipate csvu
pancy for t!%* ..jm ning of the l‘K>5
G*j school tci’ti.
Church School Sot
At Lutheran Church
Bible School will get underway
Monday and continue thr>ugn
Saturday from it a.m. until 11:30
at St. MatthewLutheran church.
Mrs. Dan r liigrc is serving as
director of ilw* school. The week
of activ ities wi'l follow the theme,
' Old Testao.en! Heroes."
Youngsters from age four
through seventh grade are invited
to participate.
Maoney Hosiery
Was Contract
Mauney Hosiery Mills, fne.,
’fenntain men-., hosiery
manufacture has received ivin
tract for producing one million
pair of eotion-ii.vlon Idtick socks
for the fede-at defense clothing
anil textile 'apply center.
Contract pine is at unit cost of
2s cents to 2b'i cents for gross
contract of S2vi.05S.
These ar * firm, fixed • price
(•ontracts awarded by competition,
after formal advertising. Of the
21 concerns >oi.cited, six concerns
furnished blu The t*ontraets
were awarded under Invitation
for Bids ISd l-tt-l lU® which
opened on Ma> 26th. Tie awards
were made in accordance with
regulations governing aw aids
made to sm; I! business. They
were await ied to the lowest re
s|Kinsibie hiddcis who conformed
wilU all bid l c^uuuncats.