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Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 10, 1964
Seventy-Fifth Year
PRICE TEN CENT'
Mayor Would Secede From Cleveland
First Wesleyan
Buys Large Tract
$35300 Paid
Foi Piedmont
Bmlding Site
First Wesleyan Methodist
ehurch Friday purchased a I a rtf e
train fronting on North Piedmont
avenue, bounded hy Waco Koad
ami Walker street, as the event
ual site of a new church plant.
C>*t of the property was $35,
500, accordingto Rev. John Har
ris. the pastor.
The tract fronts 37S feet on
North Piedmont. 209 feet on Wa
co Road. 36s feet on Walker
st ni-1, and measures 100 foot on
the west.
While building plans are not
immediate. Rev. Mr. Harris said,
the church anticipates eventual
abandonment of its present plant
on the south side of Waco Road.
The church launched a long- j
range building program several
years ago when he constructed a
modem eight-room parsonage at
S23 North Piedmont avenue.
4'drools Enroll
4212 Filth Day
Kilims Mountain district schools
enrollment at the fifth day ot
school totaled 42N2, a gain of 37
over the 4224 who attended open
ing day. and a gain of 32 over
fifth-day enrollment the previous
year.
Comparable totals in prior
years were 4231 in lfH52 and 120-3
in 1961.
Kings Mountain high school en
rollment reached 9W»). up 11 over
opening day. and Compact high
school enrollment was 242. also
up 11 over opening day.
Superintendent B. X. Barnes
Wednesday reported the school
system operating smoothly and
declffred its operations “in best
shape since the area consolida
tion."
He said efforts were being
made by Davidson anti Compact
principals Wednesday to lighten
Compact's teaching loads in
grade* 1 and 2 and said success
is anticipated.
Faculty-wise. Supt. Barnes re
ported election of Mrs. Carolyn
McWhirter. former faculty mem
her at Fast school, as a high
school teacher of history.
He also said that David Alex
ander. former high school Eng
— ';h teacher at Gastonia, is sub
luting for Mrs. Joan Starrett.
who is ill He said he had been
informed Mr*. Sarretfs health
might require her resignation.
Frederick Rites
Held Tuesday
Funeral rites for Miss Sheila
Cloninger Frederick, 23, were
held Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. from
Kings Mountain Church of Cod.
interment following in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
An invalid since birth. Miss
Frederick died Sunday afternoon
at her home. She was daughter
of Mr*. Annie Cloninger Fredc
rick of Kings Mountain and Mar
tin Frederick of Greensboro.
Besides her parents, she i* sur
vived by one brother, Martin
Frederick. Jr. and one sister.
June Frederick, both of Kings
Mountain: her maternal grand
mother. Mr*. L. June Cloninger.
of Kings Mountain: and her pa !
ternal grandfather. Rev. J. V.
Frederick of Greensboro.
Rev. Francis Vaughn was as
sisted by Rev. Wayne A*he, pas
tor of Macedonia Baptist church,
in officiating at the final rites.
BOTABY CLUB
King* Mountain Rotarians
l\vill hold regular meeting
tJvhursday at 12:15 at Kings
Mountain Country Club. Pro
gram for the meeting was not ;
announced.
TO ACADEMY — D
tenon. Kings Mount
dont and doan of
fain at Junior Military
nty of ~
Dob Patterson
Heads School
Donald Preston Patterson, j
Kings Mountain native and son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Patterson,
has been appointed superinten
dent and (lean of academic af
fairs at Junior Military Academy
of Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Patterson was a psycho
therapist at Henderson Clinic in
Fort Lauderdale. Fla. last year.
He has completed work on his
doctorate degree in guidance and
psychology at the University of
Florida, having only his disser-j
tat ion to complete.
Patterson has served as direc
tor of Camp Homestead. Wall
Lake, Orland, Indiana for the
past two seasons.
Junior Military is Chicago's
only military academy.
Optimists Set
Chicken Dinner
The Kings Mountain Optimist
club will sponsor a Southern
fried chicken dinner Friday and
Saturday from 10 a.m. until 10
p.m. at the Optimist Clubhouse!
at 311 N. Carpenter street.
Proceeds will be $1.50 and the
menu will include one-half fried
chicken with green beans, slawl
and rolls. Delivery sen ice willi
Continued On Page 6
Bridges To Lead
Effort U Welfare
Branch Closes
By MARTIN HARMON
Mayor Glee A. Bridges said
Wednesday he will launch a
movement to have the Kings
Mountain area secede from Cleve
land County, if the Kings Moun
tain branch of the county wtd
fare office is closed, as has been
ordered by the welfare board.
The Mayor said:
“Unless the county welfare
branch is left in K*ngs Mountain,
1 am going to start a movement
to secede from Cleveland County.;
either by joining Gaston Countv.
or by forming a separate county
“The high county tax rate *
not appreciated bv Kings Moun
tain citizens nor hy surrounding
area citizens in view of the ser
vices provided in this area.”
Mayor Bridges did not elabor
ate.
Meantime, the effort hy citi
zens to prevent the closing of the
welfare branch apparantly con
tlnued to In* abortive.
Representatives of civic dubs,
the Chamber of Commerce, and
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney. member of
the welfare hoard, addressed a
petition to the county commission
asking a ruling from the attor
ney general on whether the coun
ty commissi >n had the rigid to
overrule the welfare board.
Bob Manor. Chamber of Com
merer president, said Wednefi
day he had been infoi med by J.
B.* Ellis. commission chairman
that Ben Carpenter, welfare su
perintendent. had already ob
tained an opinion from the at
tomey general, stating that th
county commission coultl no
overrule decisions of the welfare
hoard.
Miss Owens
On Herald Staff
Miss Helen Owens, high school
senior and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Owens, has joined the
staff of the Kings Mountain
Herald, it is announced by Mar
tin Harmon, publisher.
Miss Owens will succeed Miss
Libby Bunch, who will enter the
tresh'man class at Winthrop col
lege. Rock Hill. S. C.. on Friday.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly
Bunch, Miss Bunch joined the
Herald while a junior at Kings
Mountain high school. She grad
uated from high school this
spring.
Miss Bunch completed her du
ties with the Herald Wednesday.
LODGE MEETING
Regular eommunication of
Fairview Lodge 339 A FA AM
will he held Monday night at ,
7:30 p.m. at Masonic Hall. Sec- 1
retary Thomas D. Tindall has
announced.
Major Power Users May Get Cot;
City To Adopt New Gas Schedules
The rity board of commission
ers is expected to adopt a new
industrial power rate schedule
Thursday night which will mean
savings to a few customers us
ing large monthly amounts of
electricity.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges said hr
will recommend adoption of
Duke Power Company's indus
trial rate schedule, which scales
to 1.1 cents per kilowatt hour for
monthly usage in excess of 80.
000.
The city since 1932 has em
ployed only two rate schedules,
residential and commercial. The
commercial rate schedule scales
to a base rate of 1.2 cents per
kilowatt hour for monthly usage
in excess of 2500 kilowatt hours.
The industrial rale schedule
will mean power bill savings to
Shannon-Duplex, Ltd.. K. Mills.
Inc., when it gets in operation,
and possibly to Kings Mountain
Hospital, Mayor Bridges said.
It is also anticipated the rity
will adopt the new natural gas
rate schedules, embodying arte
cuts up to 12 percent for resi
dential users, and smaller sav
ings for commercial establish
ments. industrial firms and oth
CtMUmicd Os Payti n
I
Bethware Fair
Opens Wednesday
PROMOTED — Mrs. Clovon
Kelly has been named Gas
tonia Group chiei operator for
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany.
Bell Promotes
Mrs. Kelly
Mrs. Betty Lynn (Jot Kelly
has been named Gastonia Group
Chief Operator. The announ. j
ment was marie today by B. A.
Williams. District Traffic Man
ager. Mrs. Kelly replaces Mrs.
Keba Yarbrough, who has trans
ferred to Florida.
Mrs. Kelly began her tele- ;
phone career in Kings Mountain
as an operator. In 1954, she was
made Evening Chief Operator in
K.ngs Mountain. She transferred
to Gastonia in 195d and serxed
in the Traffic Department until
19t>J. when slie was made Chic.
Operator in the Shelby Group.
Mrs. Kelly attended the Kings
Mountain public s bools. A mem
ber of the Kings M uintain Bap
tist Church. she is a teacher of
the Ruth Sunday School class.
She was Vice-President of .he
Business and Professional Wo
men's Club of Shelby; District
Deputy Grand Matron id 17th
District. Order of Eastern Siar;
Member and Past Matron of
Kings Mountain Chapter No. 123.
Ortler of Eastern Star: Chairman ,
of Advisory Board, Kings Moun
tain Assembly No. 50, Order of
Rainbow for Girls.
Mrs. Kelly is married to Wil
liam Clavon Kelly, and they have
one son, William Scott Kelly.
Up To 9,000 Cars
Daily On US 74
In 1962. traffic volume on ,
US 74 tKiny; street! in Kings
Mountain was at a high of 9,- ,
000 vehicles per day, and a low
of 6.000 vehicles per day. with |
truck traffic 300, highway de
partment counts showed.
The same count showed that
5,350 of these vehicles on the
big traffic days, and 4.290 on
the low traffic flays would have
been using a by pass, had one
existed.
It i*. estimate.I that by 19*2
King street and the proposed |
by pass would he a» . onimodat
ilig a high total of 9.000 |m r
flay an<l a low volume ol 1,500
per flay.
Four Building
Permits Issued
Four building permits have
been issued recoiltl> by the city.!
They include:
Walter Stroup, for erection ol
a five room resident tin Kath
erine avenue. $J .our
King.- Mountain Manufactur
ing Company, for erection of a
two-room office building at 110
X. Piedmont avenue, $3,000.
J. 1 Herndon Company, f«»r
instruction of a warehouse at
the corner of City ami Ridgi
streets. S4.00T.
Dr. George W. Plonk, for erec
tion of a clinic at the corner of
W. King and Country Club road,
llaiUUO. 1
Four-Day Event
Will Attract
Record Entries
Itethware Community Fair]
op< ns Wednesday for its 17th!
year on the grounds of Bothware
school on Shelby highway.
Exhibitors in thus year's fait
wcii- busy readying their entries!
this week, vicing for a long lis
of prizes and ribbons in nuiner i
ous categories of the community
event.
Agricultural and commercia .
exltibits are exjiected to attiae
record entries, liethuarc Pro
gressive ciub president Harold
Hord said. The Fair is offerin 1
cash prizes to top winners for th
eighth annual year.
Mr. Hord predicted the 190
Bel hware Fair will be "bigge
and lietter".
Miss Jean Hamrick, daughte
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hamrick
will reign as Queen of the Fair
Wednesday, opening day. tli
fair will open at 4 p.m. Thurs
day. September 17th, is Children'
Day with special events from
until 6 p.m. Judging will be com
pleted in all exhibits and de
partmonts. There will be nightly
drawings for prizes and fire !
works displays following. Th 1
fair opens at 3 p.m. Friday. Sep
tember Dth and at 1 p.m. Satur
day. September 19th. closing a
midnight.
I .1 11* Will IK* lilt* il tltlil IWIIil
midway rides, shows, eom-ession
stands and entertainment.
There is no admission charge.
Officers of the Bethware Pro
gressivo club. tile fair’s sponsoi
ing organization. include: Harok
I lord .president: Grady Seism
vice-president: Bohhy Ware. sec
notary; John O. Patters n. trea
surer; Kussell Putnam. assistsn
treasurer; Wiliiard B ivies, pas
president; Cameron Ware, mail
ager; Frank Hamrick, assistan
manager; Johnny W Patterson
ground superintendent; Pan
Bell, assist.;nt ground superin
Undent; Stokes Wright, parkin
superintendent; Grady Seism, as
s, slant parking superintendent
Bill Babb, parking admission
superintendent; Joe Hannon am
Gilbert Patterson, assistant park j
mg admissions superintendent
Melvin Nant/ Russell Put nan
and Joel Whisnant, assistant su
perintendent of tickets; Hal Mor
ris. superintendent ol fireworks
Mearl .Seism, building superinten
[lent; Hill Lowery, assistan
building superintendent; Willan
Boyles, superintendent of com
mereial booths: and Frank Ham
rick, assistant superintendent o
commercial booths.
The Women’s department o
the Fair is headed by Mrs. Robin
Ware, director, and Mrs. Claud
Harmon, asststant with numerou.
chairmen and committee mem
bers in various divisions.
Teague Gridiron
Banquet Speaker
Eddie Teague. head football
coach ai The Citadel, will he the
chief speaker at the I'.tfH annual
football banquet of the Kings
Mountain Lions club on Decem
ber S. Dr. George Plonk, banquet
chairman announced Tuesday I
night.
It w ill in- the first time in tin* ■
history of the event, hog till fol
lowing the football season
and honoring the Kings Moun
tain high school football team,!
that a Citadel coach has been
the banquet speaker.
Chief assistant to Coach
Teague is Pride Ratterree. Kings
Mountain native, and among the
1964 outstanding halfbacks for
ihe Citadel is Jim I Punch I Par
ker. former Kings .Mountain high
school star and son of Coach Don
Parker.
The Citadel opens its ‘Hi sche
dule against Army at West
Point. ,
APPOINTED — W. Donald
Crawford has received notifi
cation cf his appointment to
the investigative branch of the
U. S. Postal Service. He has
been a postal clerk at Kings
Mountain post oiiice since
19SC.
Don Crawford
Wins Promotion
William Donald Crawford, pos
tal clerk at Kings Mountain Pns
office since P.fio, wiil enter th
postal inspection service Septem
tier lit. Postmaster Cliarles L
Alexander has announced.
Tlie postmaster, w h o said
Crawford was informed of Ins
apiHiiotment to the investigative
branch by telegram, noted the
new position carries the prestige
of being a special representative
of the Postmaster General.
A Kings Mountain native. Mi
Crawford entered the postal ser
vice on May 12. 1PSU as a tempo
rary appointee and on Decent bci
1, liti>2 received competitive or
career status. On May 5, lfhil he
was recipient of a certificate oi
recognition from the Atlanta
Postal Region as a result of a
suggestion he had submitted to
the post office department. Pur
iiig 19«2 he received a cash a
ward from the postoffict* depar
ment as the ix’sult of adoption ot
a suggestion he had submitted.
Postmaster Alexander added
"Mr. Crawford has made many
friends of the postal service a
result of his courteous treatment
of patrons at the local jiost of
fice."
Active in church and enmmu
nily affairs, Mr. Crawford was
1!W'.2 Young Man of the Year, ai
award saw by the Junior Cham
her of Commerce. lie is serving
a second term as deacon at
Boyce Memorial ARP church,
has taught a Sunday School elass
since 1856 at Boyce Memorial and
has served a.s Sunday School su
perintendent.
Long active in t h e Kings
Mountain Red Cross program, he
has served as l>oth firs! aid and
water safety instructor and is
1961 chairman of water safety.
He was treasurer of North school
P-TA in 1961-62.
Mr. Crawford holds a record
of scouting ae>*omplishments He
became an Kagle Scout in 194s,
was an assistant s -outmaster in
1949-50; an assistant cubmasiei
from 1951-52; a euhmaster from
1952-56; Jamboree Scoui mastei
during 1961; recipient of the
Seouter’s Award in 1!*61 and th<
S»-outer's Key i Commissioner i in
C<Mtittii€tl On Putjt n
3.3 Mile By-Pass
Cost $2,942,000
By MARTIN HARMON
Kings Mountain's U. S. 71 by-pass north of King
street, present l S. 71. has moved a stop nearer reality
with approval of the general by-pass corridor by the state
highway, commission's planning board.
Highway Commission Director W. B. Babcock, of Ra
leigh. said Wednesday by telephone that approval of the
corridor merely means the new by-pass could lie actually
located w it bin llHHt feet, either north or south of the corri
dor projection.
Next step, he said, will be preparation of detailed en
gineering plans and right-of-way acquisition, lie diet not
know whether a public hearing on the corridor choice will
be held, or whether public hearing will be deferred until
alter engineering design is completed.
u i t in*
pass project has been budgeted
only to the extent of engineer
ing design and right-of-way ac
<4til -itioti, he added.
"Please emphastre," Director
Babcock continued, "that no final
decisions (on exact location)
have been made."
The general corridor report of
the .-utnmisston's advance plan
ning board envisions a 3.3 mile
by-pass, with access fully con
trolled and suitable to motorist
speeds of 7i) miles per-hour de
sirable and do miles per hour
minimum. Estimated cost of the
project. a federal-state one, is
$2.74_.'*ni. with grading and
drainage expected to cost S5it>.
inh . pavement $015,000. strut
tures $sm;.0U0. and right-of-way
$035,000.
Acc< tding to the corridor map,
the l«i pass would move north
ward .ivi-t west of Maple Leaf
Steel Company, proe»*ed north
westerly through Fulton proper
tv and continue in the vicinity
ot Branch street. crossing under
the Southern K.nhvav between
the plants o! Burlington Indus
tries. Inc and Craltspun Pattis.
Inc. Slight!) soutli of the inter
section of North Piedmont ave
nue and LIiiwimkI avenue, the
m rritlor curves westerly, tlien
slightly snittliw.sterlv to Waco
Road, thence north ol tin- Coun-1
try Club goll course and Edge
mom drivt dwellings, and linal
ly curving southwestward until
it interse. > with present I S 71
west near the Marvin (loforth
residence.
'Hie planning board anticipates
the um* «>f flvov* r ty|K' inter
change installati >ns al l’S 74
east and US 71 wo.*!, ami dia
mond-type interchange structures
at ('k>M>lind avenue tsouth of
East school I, Piedmont avenue,
ami on Waco road, it also recom
mends titat a new interchange be
«oust ructod to provide ingress
and egress to Linwood road, in
order to eliminate SK lXMt anti
SK 1301 and thereby assure con
trolled access. Tii;s piece of con
suit, turn is estimated to cost an
additional $3O0.‘KtO. Non-contract
separations at Phenix and Cans
lor streets are envisioned.
Mr. Babcock said he could not
yet give even a n "educated
guess" on when the project might
be- ready t >r inciting bids.
The planning hoard thinks
construction of the by pass will
provide adequately for US 71
CuntiHw. <■ On 1‘n-it r
Western Carolina Favorite School
Among 158 Now Entering College
BY ELIZABETH BUNCH
The Kings Mountain area will
send 158 students to 59 colleges,
universities, prep schools and
schools for specialized training
this fall.
Western Carolina college at
CuUowhee heads the list with 2t>
area students enrolled. Appala
eliian Slate Teacher's college at
Boone is second favorite of area
students where Iti are enrolled.
Nine students from this area will
attend the University at Chas>el
Hill and eight are enrolled at
North Carolina State University
of the University of North Caro
lina.
Numerous students seek ca
reers in nursing, business, teach
ing and other professions.
Tile complete list follows:
WESTERN CAROLINA COL
LE< IE — Judy Early. Dwight
Swan. Olonn Werner. Ricky Oo
torth. Jane Houser, Buddy Kir
cus. Jewel Robbs. Hans Borax.
Doug Burton. Maty Jane Mat
thews. Jerry Beam. Jean Har
lowc, July Adonis, Dok ilolli
field. Janie Trammell. Mary Jane
(I. I lit - Id. ('on nic Shaw, 'like '
McSwain, Ernie Payne. Gary,
The Herald annually Mi'ks
10 publish a complete !isi «>f t
students leaving the Kings
Mountain area for study at
technical schools, colleges and
universities. Omissions will be
apprecl tied Please call the
Herald. Photic 739-5441.
Wilson, Steve Marlowe, Jim
M« .Min, Mike Airowood. Willie
Anthony. Jack Howard, and Judy
W atterson.
APPALACHIAN STATK TKACH •
HR'S COLLEGE — Linda Goforth,
Franklin Dean, Warren Goforth.'
Jr.. Gay Jolley. Diane Roberts,
Mike Wa e. Sandra Spangler.
Harold Ellis, Cynthia Wright, Ol
land Huffman, Beverly Herndon.
Jimmy Owens. Jim Leigh. Nor
ma Spearman, Annie Vera Dill
ing. and Sammv Houston.
IMVERSITY OF NORTH CAR
OLINA — Beattie Leonard. Ter
ry Leonard, Henry Raines. Eileen
CVntmucd OH twjc u
JOINS FIRM — William R.
White. Laurinburg native, has
Joined the Kings Mountain law
firm of Davis & White.
William White
Joins Law Finn
William it White, native of
Laurinburg. has Joined the Kings
.Mountain law lum of Davis and
White. Attorneys. .1. R. Davis,
senior partner in the firm has
announced.
Mr. White, brother of Re
<-order's Court Jrdge Jack H.
White and a mbmtjer of the Da
vis and White fiitn. assumed his
new duties Thursday and he and
hi.- family are residing at 90S
Sharon Drive.
A graduate of Laurinburg high
school. Class of 19.">3. Mr. White
holds a H.S. Isom Wake Forest
college and received his law de
gree in June of this year, passing
the North Carolina State Bar
examination .n August. serv
ed m the I'nited States Army for
two years, from 195S-OI. station
ed with Seventl Army lle.idtjuar
ters in Ktuttga, . Germany. He
was associated in business in
Gastonia until he entered law
school in January of 1961.
Mr. White is married to tlte
former Barbara Allen of Shelby.
L'pon receipt of his law license,
Mr. White plans to enter the gen
eral prartiee of law with J. R.
Davis and Jack 11. White in
Kings Mountain.
Rattenee. 99.
Has Operation
Sumter C. Ratlerree. Kings
Mountain citi/en. observed his
!i9th birthday Friday — in bed
at Kings Mountain hospital
following a major operation.
Mr. Ratterree’s gall bladder
burst early Wednesday morn
ing. Hi' son. Bughi !> Ratter*
n-e, said Dr. George W. Plonk,
"operated and picked out the
paves."
His son said Wednesday
morning his father had suffer
ed a relapse Monday hut ate
breakfast of scrambled eggs
and cantaloupe Tuesday morn
ing.
Gerberding Improves
Following Stroke
Friends here report that Dr.
W P. Gerber ding. former pastor
of St. Matthew's Lutheran
chureh, is recuperating satisfac
torily from a stroke of paralysis
he suffered recently.
Dr. Gerberding was stricken
returning to St. Petersburg, Fla .
after a short trip here, lie suf
fered parahss of 11;«» left arm
and leg. but has l>e, n informed
by his physit tans lie should have
no permanent paralysis. He is
assistant pastor of a St. Peters*
Uutg, Fla., church.