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VOL 75 No. 36
PRICE TEN CENT<
CITY CEMETERY NOW HAS OFFICE — Pictured la treat of the new office building at the DUI*
ing street entrance to Mountain Rest cemetery, are Sam R. Saber, who retired recently after 22
years as cemetery superintendent Mayer Glee A. bridges. and Ken lenMns. cemetery superin
tendent. The building has a lobby and email office for maintenance of records and use of the
superintendent, rest rooms, and a large warehouse for storage of equipment The old small stor
age house will be razed.
School Survey Team Report
Says Abandon Old Davidson
Report Suggests
More Local Funds
Are Required
Cleveland County schools need
new buildings, broader curricu
lum, to offer kindergarten pro
schooling, more vocational and
adult educational programs —
guidance counseling and teach ,
ing supervision — and should
spend the money to provide
equal educational opportunity
for all its school population.
These arc the broad summa
tions of the school survey ro|H>rt
by the Division of School Plan
ning, North Carolina Department
of Public Instruction.
The survey covers all three
county administrative units and :
varies, according to degree ol
per fora nee by each In the vari
ous directions. Generally, the
county administrative unit is
found most deficient. Kings
Mountain district schools is in
the middle, and Shelby adniinis
trative unit is regarded as doing
the best job.
Principally, says the survey,
the reason is availability of cash.
Whereas Shelby citizens have
authorized a supplement,il op
orations tax of 40 cents per S100
tax valuation and Kings Moun
tain 20 vents, the county unit
Mias no supplemental operations
Additionally, the county unit
is in worse shape in building
needs, the report shows.
Main building recommenda
tion of the report calls for con
struction of four high schools to
replace all of those now being
operated other than Shelby
senior high school and Kings
Mountain high school. Consoli
dations would be effected to
eliminate the small high schools
which, says the report, arc sub
marginal as to curriculum offer
ing’.
Thi« recommendation, while
not specific as to method, implies
that for implementation the
three units would be consolidat
ed into one administrative unit
or that a cooperative arrange
ment would he effected between
the three units, particularly as
regards its Negro high schools.
Conducting the survey were
Dr. J. L Pierce, director, division
of school planning; W. L. Lath
an. educational consultant, di
vision of school planning; Joe
L. Cashwcll, supervisor, division
of instructional services, depart
ment of public Instruction; Louis
Alexander, bus route supervisor,
division of transportation, state
board of education; Earl M. Price,
district supervisor, division of
vocational education, depart
ment of public Instruction; C. C.
Kvrwin. superintendent of Rowan
county schools; and John Hough,
superintendent of Leaksville
township schools.
r
Local News
Bulletins
DUNLAP REUNION
The John James Dunlap fam
ily i-(‘union will bo held Sunday
«ii Antioch Methodist Church,
south of Rook Hill, S. C.
FOOTBALL PREVIEW .
Rill Bates, high school foot
ball <-oach. will speak at the
Tuesday night mooting of the
Lions club. Coach Bates will
outline prospects for the 1964 J
edition of the Mountaineers.
The club meets at the Wo
man's Club at 7 o'clock.
METER RECEIPTS
I’arking meter receipts for |
the week ending Wednesday :
totaled $232,40. including $150.
4o from on-street meters, $62
from over-parking fines, and
$20 from off-street meters.
LEGION MEETING
Regular monthly meeting of
Otis D. Green Poat 155. Ameri
can Legion, will be held at the
Legion building Friday at 8
o'clock, it was announced by
J. H. McDaniel. Jr., adjutant.
PARADE COMMITTEE
The parade committee for
t h e Kings Mountain Mer
chants Association promotion
of "Mountaineer Days” will
gather Thursday afternoon at
.7 p.m. in the offices of the
Merchant? Association.
Old Portions
Of Other Plants
Sab-Marginal
The recent school survey re
port by a state division of school
planning team recommends for
Kings Mountain schools:
1) Provision for adequate sup
ervision of guidance, library,
musii and school lunch pro
grams.
2) Study of possible need for
broadening special education in
struction (for the mentally re
tarded, physically handicapped,
and mentally exceptional).
.3) A broadened vocational ed
ucation program and broadened
adult education program.
4) Replacement of any teach
ers (three) holding sub-stand
ard professional certificates.
5) A curriculum study to dc
termine what broadening is ncc
essary.
Buildings
Immediately recommended is
the construction of an addition
al unit at the site of the newer
Davidson plant to include seven
classrooms, a library and multi
purpose cafeteria • assemble
room, with the old building to
be abandoned.
Also recommended is provision
of temporary facilities at Com
pact, II necessary to relieve over
crowding.
(Generally, the report notes:
It Sites at most of the oldot
plants are of insufficient acre
age; 2) some classrooms in the
older buildings are sub-margin
al;3) the maintenance program
Is "none too strong".
In addition to abandoning th«
old Davidson building as quick
Continued Os Page 8
Kings Mountain Schools Enrolled
4225 On Tint Day Friday; Up 27
Kind’s Mountain district
schools enrolled 4225 pupils on
tlu- official first day of school
l ist Frida>.
The* total was an increase of
27 over the first day of the 1963
(V! term, including seven elemen
tary pupils and 20 high school
pupils.
The* elementary total for the
system was .1025 and the high
school total was 1200, including
9tS at Kings Mountain high
school (up 111 and 231 at Com
pact high school (up nine).
Bethware school again is the
largest, population-wise, of the
Kings Mountain elementary sys
tem. enrolling 549 in grades one
through eight, as'well as 36 for
special education. Including the
special education group. Beth
ware had a gain of' 39 pupils
over last year's first day.
Other elementary enrollments:
Cast 423 toff six); Grover 390
• off two*: North 121 tup fix«*»;
Park draco 184 loff 19•: West
297 (off 19» Compact 170 (up
tent; and Davidson 355 (off one).
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
reported teacher loads well-bal
anced. Highest average teacher
load was at North school where
each teacher averaged 30.07 pu
pils. Lowest average was at
Davidson school, where the 14
teachers had an average pupil
load of 25.36. School administra
tors regard 30 pupils a happy
load, over that number less do
sirable.
Only four split-grade teaching
situations were required, one at
Bethware, two at Grover, and
one at Davidson.
Kings Mountain high school
enrolled 248 freshmen. 236 sop
homores. 244 juniors and 241
seniors. Compact enrolled 69
freshmen, 77 sophomores, 54
Juniors and 31 seniors.
Mohair, Burlington Upping Wages
Community Day
At Grover Set
Annual Grovei
Community
Party Saturday
Grover’s annual community pic
nic will he holrl Saturday at 5 p.
m. on the grounds of Grover
school.
Mrs. Fred Crisp publicity chair
man for the affair, said pi *ns
were well underway this week tor
the area outing, expected to dtaw
record crowds from Grover and
Kings Mountain area.
A concert by the Kings Moun
tain high school hand, under the
direction of Joe C. IIedden, will
open the festivities.
Dr. T. A. Barker, the new phy
sician who came to Grover in Ju
ly. will be recogniz»*d during tin*
program.
"This picnic is not only for the
residents of Grover but for all
the communities adjoining the
town." Mrs. Crisp pointed out
She continued. "A well-filled bas
ket of food to be served at 6 o'
clock is all it will cost fo- a won
derful time of community fellow
ship."
Last year's annual picnic was
well attended and officials pre
dict that this year's crowd will be
"even better."
City Gas Sales
Record $302,069
The city natural cas system
posted record sales during 1VHV3
♦>1 and returned a record operat
ing profit, audit report of A M
Pullen & Company, certified pub
lic accountants, shows.
The gas system had gross re
venues of $307.'132, including gas
sales of $302,069, and miscellane
ous revenues of $4,963. including
refunds from Transcontinental
Cas Pi|H-line Corporation of $2,
066.
Operating profit »exclusive of
debt servirei totaled $120,729. af
ter payment of operating expens
es of S1S6.303. Major <-ost was
purchase of gas. the city having
paid Transco $1*53,572. Labor and
salaries cost $1-1,779.
At June 30. the system was
serving S79 customers, up !6 over
the previous year end. Included
were 716 residential customers.
100 small commercial customers,
five large commercial and indus
trial customers. 21 schools and
public buildings.
Biggest gas purchaser group
was the residential one. returning
the city $122.v 19. Has buyers on
interruptible schedule paid the
city SSS.795. large commercial
users spend $46>92. small com
mercial $33.07-1. and public build
ings $10,457.
Bonded debt at June 30 was
$65,000. While onlv $15,000 of that
amount is due in the coming year,
the system has issued notice
to bondholders it is calling .all
outstanding bonds on October 1.
After providing $25,666 for the
sinking fund to defray bonded
debt, and $17,903 to the extension
and reserve futtd. the revenue
fund at June 30 showed a cash
surplus of $31.5i43.
The plant fund represented in
vestment of $ 117.257. with the
major items S3S2.203 in transmis
sion lines ami distribution system
and $15,591 for service line in
stallation.
Plonk Building
Surgical Clinic
Dr. George W. Plonk, Kings
Mountain surgeon, i- construct
ing a dinie at tlie corner of West
King and Country Club road.
Dr. Plonk purchased the lfst \
153-foot corner earlier this year
from the C. D Blanton Estate.
The Plonk clinic, designed hy
Holland and Roviere. Shelby ar
chitects. will fact* West King
st nvt and will contain 2150
square feet of floor space.
The building will be of brick
veneer construction.
COURT OF HONOR
Court of Honor for Kings
Mountain district Boy Scouts
will he held Thursday nigld.
September 10th. at 7:45 p.m. at
Central Methodist church.
SELECTEE — James S. Forrest.
Kings Mountain senior at
North Carolina State college, is
recipient of a Superior Cable
Corporation scholarship for the
1964-65 academic year.
Forrest Wins
Scholarship
James S. Forrest, rising senior
at North Carolina State college
and son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J
Forrest of Kings Mountain, is re
cipient of a Superior Cable Cor
poration scholarship for the
1964-65 academic year.
The Superior Cable Corpora
tion offers two scholarships at
North Carolina State annually
to a senior and to a junior in
chemical, electrical, or mechani
cal engineering.
Both recipients are mechani
cal engineering students select
ed on basis of leadership, char
acter and scholarship. Dr. R. K.
Fadum. dean of the school of En
gineering. said.
Foriest has a 3.4 scholastic
average out of a possible 4.0.
Last \eaj he served as \i -e pres
ident of I*i Tau Sigma, mechani
cal engineering honor society . He
is also a member of Tau Beta
Pi. honorary engineering fra
ternity. He has been invited to
participati in the Engineering
Honors Program at State.
< 'ther scholarship winner is
Sa phen M. Kanipc. a rising
junior lrom Marion.
Women Demos
Set Reception
Democratic women of Cleve
land County are invited to attend
a leerptinn honoring Mrs. O. Max
Gardner. Jr. of Shelby, newly -
elected state vice-chairman of the
Democratic Party, 'Monday at 5
p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Webb Gaidncr. Cleveland
Springs Estates. Shelby.
Kings Mountain women who
plan to attend should contact Mrs.
V. A. McDaniel. Jr.. 739-3335. or
Mrs Warren Gamble. IH2 1403.
The reception is being planned
by the Executive Hoard of the
Cleveland County Democratic Wo
men's Club of which Mrs. Gamble
is president. Mrs. McDaniel is
vice-chairman of the Cleveland
County Democratic Party.
Chambers Under
$2,000 Bond
Paul Chambers. 31 year-old
Negro, of route two, is free on
$2,000 bond after being hound
over to Superior Court on a
charge of breaking and entering.
Preliminary hearing was held
Monday in City Recorder's Court
A homemade burglar alarm
rigged up recently Mwivn
Plonk Brothers department store
and city policemen proved to br
as efficient as the store-bought
variety Thursday when police
arrest«‘d Chambers.
Police said Chambers has ad
mitted breaking into Plonk
Brotfrers four times in a period
of 30 days. He admitted, they
said, taking about $300 during
three of the break-ins.
Officers said they noticed a
blinking-light signal given off
by the activated burglar alarm
Thursday morning at 5:45 a m.
and went directly to the store.
Confound On Fti'ji S
Two Finns Here
Post Notices
Of Increases
Two Kin^s Mountain textile
plants have announced vvaye ail
Justments to become effective
September 14th anil October 1th.
A joint statement from A. J.
Maino, executive v ire president,
and James K. Amos, comptroller,
of Xe;s|er Mills Division of Mass
aehusetts Mohair Plush Com|>anv
said a wage adjustment would he
effective at the Noisier Division
September 11. Details of the in
crease will l)i* released as soon as
completed, they said.
Hen Grimes, superintendent of
Phenix Plant No. 1 of Burlington
Industries, annoum-wl an upward
wage adjustment it the Phenix
Plant effective October 1th with
full details to In- announced when
completed.
The Noisier Mills Division "f
Massachusetts Mohair Plush Com
pany has plants in Kings Moun
tain. Shelby. Boiling Springs,
Ellen boro and Mayo. S. C. There
are approximately 1200 employees
on the payroll with 1.100 of the
total in North Carolina.
Several other industrial firms
contacted by the Herald Wednes
day aftornon has not yet made
any definite atinouni-emcnt of
plans for wage hikes this fall.
Welfare Board
Again Says "No"
Kings Mountain's welfare hoard
branch office will dose.
Four members of the five-mem
ber adamant Monday night, and
Mis. Aubre\ Mauney's motions,
first to rescind the closing action,
subsequently to defer closing for
a year's trial, failed to obtain
seconds.
Declining to change their posi
tions were Chairman A. L. War
lick. Carlos Young. Ralph Elliott,
and Wayne Caudill. Caudill be
came <■ member of the board in
Jly, succeeding Emmett 'Mat
thews.
Pleading with th«> hoard to re
consider its prior decision were
Kings Mountain Mayor (lice A.
Bridges and Bob Matter. Chamltei
of Commerce president.
Mayor Bridges said, "I'm beg
ging.”
He pointed out that Kings
Mountain area citizens pay a size
able share of county taxes and
that some consideration should be*
given to their desires. He said
the office serves a> a large nunv
bber of people and should Iw
maintained.
Mrs. Mauney reiterated former
pleas, both of her own, and by
several citizen's groups, before
offering her ill-fated motions.
Reel Carpenter, superintendent
of tin- welfare hoard, initially had
recommended closing the branch
as “difficult to administer".
SCHOOL DANCE
The annual hack to school
dance for high school students
will he held Friday from 7:."V*
until 10:3o p.m. in the school
gymnasium. Tin* Orientals will
pro\ ide music for dancing. The
dance is sponsored by cheer
leaders with proceeds ear
marked for new uniforms.
Pressly Resigns
ARP Pastorate
RESIGNS — Dr. W. L. Pressly
has resigned his pastorate of
Boyce Memorial Associate Re
formed Presbyterian church to
become pc* toi of Coddle Creek
ARP church in Iredell county.
County Extends
Discount Period
City and county tax offi.*cs
were busy this week as citizens
rushed to pre-pay 1 ;**> 1 taxc> in
order to qualify for a full two
pen-ent discount allowed on Au
gust pre-pay ments.
County Tax Collector Robert
Gidney said Wednesday that the
Shelby City Council and the
board of county * ommissioners
voted Friday afternoon to extend
t!te H\o percent discount on tax
prepayments through the month
of September.
The city hod not concurred on
the countv act.on VV«*dnesday,
City Clerk Joe II McDaniel said.
The legal deadline lot the two
pereent disc* unt is August 31. a
one percent dis -ount is granted in
October.
Mr. Gidney -aid Wednesday
that tax prepayments at ih«* coun
t> of tici* would approximate
Stidti.itisi and Mi. McDaniel rc|Mirt.
ed Si.'l.iSN) ihr ui.-h Monday. The
City of Kings Mountain antici
pates estimated i.'.cipts of S1*>0.
tun.
The county office report «*d a
"rushing business” Wednesday af
ternoon. Mr. Gidney noting a con
tinuing backlog of mail to open.
Hr said officials arc proceeding
with hearings on Tuesdays and
Thursdays iwith exception of
September ith. Tuesday, regulai
meeting date of the county board
of commissionersi on the new
valuations. The industrial hearing
schedule is io Is* scheduled soon.
Mr. (iidnev reminded citizens
thev do not have to wait for re
sults of their hearings to prepay
their taxes. Refunds will be made
in event of overpayment, or if not
paid, a paid release will 1m* issued
for the amount, he said.
Tin* tax collector suggest that
citizens make their payments by
check or money order and eu
CoiiflNMeW tin s
Mountaineer Days October 3 -10
Coonsldn Caps Mark Of Distinction
Coon skin raps will replace
boards for this October’s cele
bration of Mountaineer Days.
Tin headgear, replica of the
Daniel Boone cap. is available lo
cally Irnm the Merchants Asso
elation, which annually sponsors
the anniversary celebration of
the Battle of Kings Mountain
Members of the Mountaineer
Days parade committee are to
meet Thursday (today) at 3 p.m.
in the association offices to
formulate plans for a mammoth
parade Saturday. October 3.
Wednesday. October 7th. is the
IH-llh anniversary of the Revolu
tionary War Battle of Kings
Mountain.
Plans for the week’s eelebra
tlon are shaping: up, co-chair
men Humes Houston and John
Thompson said this week, pre
dieting the community's "big
gest and best".
There will be no compulsory
growing of beards this year, they
noted, hut this doesn't mean
there won't he any beards
around, it will he up to the in
dividual if he wants to grow a
beard.
Last year a portable jail was
set up l» iixarctTolp individuals
who refused to grow a beard <>r
buy a shaving permit
The cumn’illiv icported la k
ing .m ex use i<> again operate
the popular iail during the
forthcoming eelebration.
Kin^s Mountain Jayeees will
operate a barbecue stand down
town during the week and a tal
ent show is planned for the arm
ory during the week long cele
bration. Merchants also antici
pate a street dance and a Friday
night football game between
(Jardner-Webb and Chowan col
leges, among other attractions.
The women folk have already
begun looking for patterns for
costumes of the Revolutionary
War era. as long dresses anti
bonnets will be in vogue during
the week's vlebration. The men
hdk's costume will include a
eoonskin rap and a supply is al
ready on hand at the associa
tion offices. Others who want fo
purchase caps may order them
from Roses' Department store
and will be charged only the
store's cost.
Veteran Pastor
To Aged Church
In Iredell County
Rev William Lowery Pressly,
D. 1). dean of active Kings
M untain pastors, ha* resigned
the pastorate of Buyev Memorial
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
ehureh to become pastor of Cod
dle Creek ART ehureh. oldest of
th« denomination.
Dr. Pressly will complete in
September a pastorate here
whieh began November 27.
He was formally installed a
month later with the sermon de
liverer! by his late father. Dr. J.
II Pressly. and with a former
pastor. Dr W M. Boyce, partici
pating.
Dr. Pressly tendered his resig
nation to the session of the
church and announced his resig
nation to the congregation Sun
day.
The Coddle Creek church is in
Iredell county between Moores
ville and Statesville. Records of
the ehureh reveal services held
in 1753.
In Kings Mountain, Dr. Press
ly succeeded the late Dr Nell
Baird During his ministry’, the
ehureh sold its uptown plant and
launched a new one on Kdge
mont avenue. The educational
plant is complete and virtually
debt-free.
The Coddle Creek pastorate
will be Dr. Pressly’s third in 32
years hi the ministry. Ills only
previous pastorate was at Green
wood. S. C. where he was called
as regular pastor after serving
as pastor of the previous mis
sion ehureh. He served the
(iris nvvood church for 14 years.
A graduate of Krskine college
and the Krskine seminary, he
earned a master of theology de
gree at Princeton seminary,
Princeton, X. J.. has served as
moderator of both first and sec
ond ARP presbyteries, as chair
man of the Synod foreign mis
sion board, and member of the
h' me mission board and other
committees of Synod.
In Kings Mountain, he has
served as president and secre
Cnntimud On Puyi &
Pupil Transfers:
14 Yea, 13 Nay
Of 27 applications for change
of school assignment — includ
ing four volunteers the school
administration had invited to
balan.v teaching loads — the
board of education approved 11,
denied 13.
Superintendent 15 X. Barnes
said tlie hoard of education fol
lowed its long standing policy of
granting transfer to accommo
date students and their parents
where the change of assignment
did not create teaching over
loads.
lie commented. “I certainly
appro. iate the excellent -pirit of
cooperation accorded the hoard
of education and me in the mat
ter of transfer requests. Many,
when placing applications, said
they’d accept with good grace
whatever decision the hoard
might make and they all did.”
Volunteer transfers approved
from East --hool to Both ware
eighth grade ineluded l-inda
Falls, Jake Reynolds. Jr.. Linda
Bullock and Mickey Sisk.
Other transfers approved were
for Robert (7. Cox. grade 1. Cath
erine M Cox. grade 4. and Het
t> R Cox. grade 5, from Fast lo
West st-hnol: Donald Yarboro.
grade 3. from West to Bet I i ware;
Kathv Luann Kennedy grade 1,
from North lo Fast: William Z.
fashion. Jr grade 2. from Park
Grace to Fast; James Kdward
Amos. Jr . grade 5, from West to
North: Deborah Flaine Moore,
grade 3. and Robert Wayne
Moore, grade 4. from West to
Park Grace: and Tens Whitaker,
grade I. from East to North.
Pupils denied transfer requests
were Catherine K. Neisler. John
II Bumgardner. Jr. Jeffrey Scott
Cloninger. Robert S. Gilstad,
Gary ('. Jaynes. Anne H. Plonk.
Gone Ross Alexander, Sandra
Gail Cash. Donald Larry Cash,
Ronnie Dale Cash, Marion Eu
gene Cash. Douglas Pruitt, and
Louis Ann Sherer.