Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This Mr'" lot Iloyr Mo-iotaia it dniy-d Ina '•» **»» Vov attain city directory centut. The dry *“■*'» tlyurt it floor lot Uolltd tialn cttiut of ItM. VOL. 75 No. 38 Established 1889 1C Pages | D Today Kir.gs Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 17, 1964 Seventy-Fifth Year PRICE TEN CENT' FLAWS JELLING FOR MOUNTAINEER DATS—Four members of the Kings Mountcin Merchants Association Mountaineer Day3 committee don a cc on skin cap and examine a gun. typi-al of some of the equipment they will display in store windows during the week-long celebration October 5-10. A mammoth parade Saturday. Oct. 10th at 2 pom. will climax the celebration commemo rating the 184th anniversary of the Revolution cry War Battle of Kings Mountain. From left. Merchants Association president Jonas Bridges, parade chairman Don Dixon, activities chairman Bill Brown and general chairman of the celebration. Humes Houston. (Herald Photo by Paul Lemmcns) Bethware Fair h Underway County Fair Opens Tuesday New Features In Big Progiam ty fair, the nation's biggest. opens Tuesday with fair officials pro mising new an»l exciting events for the annual spectacle. Flags will such lx* flying over the fairgrounds, as workmen are working at top speed to have the sprawling giounds and buildings in shajx* for the 1961 fair which opens September 22 and contin ues thiough September 2d. Unprecedented in its 11 years is the demand f.»r exhibit space at the coining fair. Manager Kl bridge Weathers has announced that over} inch of exhi lit spa e his Ix-cn sold for the I!H>| fair, with the last space Ix-mg pur < hast'd by Charlie "Chou-Choo’* Justice. Justice, former Univer sity of North Carolina All-Amer ican football player, w .11 main tain an educational exhibit dur ing the week of the fair. STUDENT DATS Student days will lie Tues day. September 22. and Friday. September 25, when students ft<>m on area within 50 miles of Sheibv will be admitted to the grounds on passes. Kings Mountain students will have fair passes on next Friday and III’em will also lie admitted free on fair passes next Friday. So may entries have been re arrived m the cattle department ^■i.it the lair association has iiad bring in a 13n by 30 foot tent to house the extra cattle and sheep that have overflowed the barns. More horses and ponies have been entered than ever be fore in the history of the fair. Total prize money this year will be $16,000. Exhibit* in most cate gories may be entered up to K p.m. Monday night before the fair opens Tuesday. A spe. ud feature this year will he a "Shoudeo", described as a kind of rodeo, to Ih- sponsored by the Cleveland County Horse men's Association. About 73 horses will lx* entered and the performance will imitate stunt riding by tlx- club members. The fair association will give away a bale of cotton on Satur day night before the fireworks display that ends the 19W fair. Ten names w'ill be drawn at each grandstand performance anti the tot «l purled for the Saturday drawing. The winner will noi have to he present. Deggcllcr Shows will bring 52 ritles and sideshow attractions to the fair this year, including two double sky wheels, sky liner, bubble bounce, and the world’s largest portable roller coaster. Al> > w’ith the Deggeller Show* will he the RayneU’s world fam ous girl revue and 11 additional atop shows. ■ The Kaye Gorham Dancer* in ^•’Holiday Revue" will show Tues Clevcland County s -list coun Fair CoNtiNuexf Oh fayt s WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Mias Kay Mauney has won a schol arship to King's collage at Charlotte. Miss Maaney Wins Scholarship Miss Kay Mauney, daughter ol Mi. and Mrs. Carl K Mauney ol Kings Mountain, has been award id a scholarship and will enter King's < illi’pe at the beginning of the fall term, Septemlier it. Alter competitive examinations conducted by Carl Moss, Dean of Students at Kind’s college, Miss Mauney was declared the winner of one of the scholarships an nually offered by the Charlotte Chapter of the National Secrc lanes Association. A 19H3 graduate of Kings Mountain high school. Miss Mau ney will be registered at King’s college for the general business secretarial course. Beth ware Event Will Continne Three More Days Be;hwaio community Fair j openifl officially at i o’clock \V<*dnesday afternoon for it ITth annual nhotving of \ >. j lownship farm • and home pro ducts, including crops, kitchen delicacies and fan. vwork. Judging of the exhi its and dt part men ts will take place Thurs day and cash prizes will ue a warded, as customary. Thursday has also been dosig tinted as Cnildren's Day at the fair from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. with special events planned. Thei • will In> nightly drawing for priz<« at 1(1 p.m. followed |jy a magni ficent fireworks display, on schedule every- night at the four •lay community event. The fair will open at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon and at 1 p.m. Saturday. The fair will dose at midnight Saturday night. Miss Jean Hamrick, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hamrick is reigning as Queen of Beth ware Fair. The selection of Queen of the Fair was nude by the sponsoring Both ware Pro gressive dub of which Harold Hord is president. A re. >rd number of exhibits in the 1961 Fair reflects. President Hold said, the changes and im provements in the Kings Moun tain area’s ever-advancing agri cultural, commercial and indus trial fields It is the eighth year the fair offers cash prizes to winning exhibitors. Midway attractions feature a variety of kiddie rides and con cession stands. Then* is no admission charge. S. G. Rattenee Dies At Age 99, Funeral Kites Will Re Thursday IN NKW DUTIES — tar. CMrw DeWitt Bias ton. Jr., has as. suaMd now duties as assort fits chemistry in the Auburn Uni versity School of Pharmacy. Sumter Columbus Kat terror. 99, died Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. in the Kilims Mountain hospital .after several weeks' serious illness. Funeral rites will he held Thursday ttoday» at I p.m. from the Chapel of Harris Funeral Home. Dr. W. L. Ptessly. assist ed by Rev. Dennis Larkins of Shelby, will officiate, and inter ment will t)e made in Grover cemetery Mr. Ratlrrrre was a native of R«*k Hill. S. C.. son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Ratlerree. He was onetime Grover postmas ter and a member of Boyce Me murial AKI* church. He had a major operation last week. His wife was the late Carrie Amanda Herndon Ratlerree. Survivors include his son. Bright D. Ratlerree. with whom he made his home, of Kings Mountain: a foster son. J. C. Rat terree of Charlotte; three grand children and five great-grand children. t Mayor Will Lead Secession Effort New Gas Billings In Effect Tuesday City Commission Formally Okays Gas Rate Cats Has bills Ibis month will re lower rotes approved Thurs day nigh: by tin city board o. ycminissioners. Tin new natural gas rates, which went into efn* t Tuesday, will bring in an estimated S-'-'i. '<',U l. ss reveno; to the city in tin coming year. The new rates were designed to create less rev enue. The eitys final payment c.n its gas sy.-tem bunds will be made October 1. "We'will need less money to operate the- system now,” City .'lerk Joe- H. McDanii I pointed out. Kate reductions will affect all users of natural gas in the Kings Mountain ar.-a served by the system, both residential and ttmmercial. Interruptible rates have been sc I at ;i flat 45 cents l>er thousand cubic foot. In other actions, the- commis sion voted: 1» To rescind the livestock or dinance that had forbidden citi zens tc keep livestock within 200 feet of their homos or other peo ple's homes. 21 Accepted low bid of $3,322. 11 from Victory Chevrolet Co. for n truck to be used by the elev trieal department. 3) Upon mo!ion uf Comm. J E. Rhea, seconded by Comm. T. J Ellison, accepted Mv bill of Ray Sturgill & Associates for propos ed valve and filter gauge control repla-em. nt for the filter plant in the amount of SC.50g.61. It Received a curb and gutter petition for W. tlo!d street from Juniper to l’hifer road and on Blanton from First to Stowe Ac res. :>> Voted to advertise for re oning a lot owned by J. Pack ard Elliott from residential to business. Ci Tabled a- ’ion t,n a request by Mrs ijcorgo Houser to leave* the tralfic light on 24 hours a day at the* corner ol East Rj-Jge street and X. Piedmont avenue; bids for sky wotker received from Me t a be- Power.* Body Company and Holan-Division of the Ohio Broass Company. The apparatus would Ik* used by the electrical department for workers to gain access to high places. “» Agreed to refund Hal and Fred Plonk the amount of $24.15 for ovi rpayment of taxes and noted action on the request of Hal Plonk for commitments for developing property would be il legal until the property was tak en into the city limits. x» Voted to adopt the stand ards of the State Highway Com mission for entrances to high ways from commercial establish ments. Mi. Campbell's Sister Passes funeral lites for Miss Eunice McLean Campbell. of Kaeford. sister of II. L. Campbell of Kind's Mountain, were held Iuesda> at ■J p in fi >m Kaefoul Presbyter ian church of which she was a member. Miss C.ini}>hell had been in de ■ lining health for some time. She was cdti. .tied at Flora Macdonald college and East Carolina col lege and prior to her illness taught scho >| for a number of years. Other suirivots include two brol.iets. K. IS. Campbell of Kac ford and A. A. Camp ell of Flor ence. S. C and three sisters, Mrs. J. A. Bom k. Jr.. Mrs F. W. Me Call and Miss Margie Campbell, all of Laurinhurg Season Tickets May Be Purchased Football season ticket* will re main <*n salt- through Friday ai noon, high school Principal liar ry Jaynes has annoumvd. Cost <>( the season pass is $5 for adults. SPEAKER — Or. Samuel S. Wiley of Durham will make the address as highlight of Minister's Appreciation Night Thursday of the Kiwanis dub. Kiwanis Sets Pastor's Night Dr. Samuel S. Wiley, executive director of the North Carolina Council of Church*'.', will make the principal address at the Ki wanis duo's Minister's Apprecia tion dinner Thursday night the Woman's club. The program, which will honor ministers of the community, will follow the theme. "What Chur ches May Do Together." Dinner will lie at 6:15 p.m. Members of the Kiwanis com mittee on support of churches is in charge of program arrange ments with Aubrey Mauney head ing up the committee. Dr. Wiley assumed his present position in June and headquart ers of the association, to which most denominations in North Carolina support, are in Durham. He came to the |x>sition Inm his last pastoiate. 1! ward Memorial Presbyterian church in Tarboro. Previously, he served the l.ook out Mountain Presbyterian church and while there was pi-esi dent of the Chattanooga Past il's’ Association. He has served chur ches in Elkins. West Virginia. Greensboro, Thomasville a n d Birmingham. Ala. From 1943-46 he was chaplain in the United States Naval Re serve. He was secretary of the YMCA as a Davidson callege stu dent and has since been active in YMCA activities. Among the many programs of the North Carolina Council ol Churches. Dr. Wiley is working with Aubrey Mauney. Kings Mountain, as chairman of the committee on scouting, to develop a more Christian influence m the Boy Scout units sponsoicd by churches. Their present effort is to secure chaplains in summer council lamps and in promotion of the church awards for scouts. "For God and Country” and "Pro Dc.» cl Pallia.’’ Parade Entries Are Invited Here Kind’s Mountain area citizens who plan to enter a parade entry in the Mountaineer l)ay parade October 10th a tv in\ it**. association secretary , said. Trie parade will h«v n at 2 p m the afternoon of Oct ohm 10th. PRESBYTERIAN The a n n u a I meeting of Women ot the I'ltur.-h of First Presbyterian church will be held Monday night at 7:.‘to p. m New officers will be install ed for the «-oming year. LODGE MEETING An emergent communii ation of K.tirvlew Lod^e .'IT!* AFltAM will be hold Monday night at 6 o'clock at Masonic llall. Sec ret a r>' T. D. Tindall has an nounced. Supper will Ik- »er\ ed by the Order ol Eaalcrn Slut at 7 o'clock. Welfare Branch Office-Moving Is Under Fire The Kings Mountain branch of th<* Cleveland County Welfare l>epartrr.enl, t-ignt ycars-oltl in July, was consolidated Monday in '.ho now county ofliiv building in Shelby .n tii,. face of heavy pro .ost by No I F wnthip odizens and a threat by Mayor Glee /» -Jridges to load a l ovemni to ecedo from Cleveland County it oral oifjces woi,. nioved. The mayor. City Clerk .1 >«* Mc Daniel. and Commissioners .1. K Zipi linen. Norman King and day Cline ate in Now York at end ntr a ga. convention. Mayor lti.d e- rciteiah-d hi? promise io iljaw up a petitioi initialing a se es-si »:i movement in a 1« lephone conversation with the Herald Wednesday morning The may.d did rot elaborate or. what program hi- will follow. M< i - me the effort by ..». - :ens to prevent the clos.ng of tin .velfare branch apparently con tinued to la* a >orti\e. Unsigned ciiculars scattered over a wide area of the county Saturday morning added new fuel t » the controversy which had apparently reached a stalemate this week. The political typo circulars were critical of the office closing, a hike in county tax bills and ap proval by the county commission ers of a retirement fund plan f >r county employees. Questions were raised about the operation of the county sheriff's depart ment and wording »f the circu lars would give tlii- impression they originated in Kings Moun tain. The mayor says they did not. that he knew nothing ol their oiigin. N. wspaper accounts record tiiat when the local branch of the welfare office was establish ed July 1, 195s. Jack Hoyle, i hen county welfare su|>crintendent, commented. "A Kings Mountain branch should help our operoti in. It would bring us closer t.> the community, expanding our source of inf irmation t o determine more accurately those -needing and eligible for welfare services.” Dr Nathan il. Ri>eil. Kings Mountain optometrist and a mcmlier of the welfare board at that tirr.e. noh-d that a th trough study was mail,- before ihe local branch was established. Carl P. Finger, then-county commission •*r. echoed Reed's sentiments, not ing that "a real need for it” was the reason for the opening. They both remembered that well.tr. officials and county commission ers were most cooperative, that from 15-30 visits .-ninthly were recorded and that cost the firs year of ojterni -n was $J5oO witli the minimal thereafter estimated at Sl.'tui less each year of u|n.-ra tion. The welfare hoard was unanim >us in its decision to open a branch here, they remem!ien*d “The welfare offici- establish ment here tepnsonted no quick decision'’. Dr. Re.-d added. A clerical assistant and two ease workers wen- assigned to the of fice on its opening here. Dr. Recti continued. They were t >Id. they said, the cost of the operation would bo higher during the first Continu'd Oh P'lt/t 8 Mauney Heads ’65 United Fund CHAIRMAN — Charles Mau ne2 has been named chairman or Kings Mountain United Fund drive for 196b. Kings Mountain's drive is planned let October with final plans to be mapped at an organization al meeting of UF officials next week.. Bioodmobile To Visit Giovei Tile Hid Cross Woodmobilc will ln» in Crover Monday from 11 a.in. until 5 p.m. at tlu- drover Hi tie Squ »d Building. Kn -v Neely, chair ran of the drover visit. has announced. •Mon lav s visit will lie tile fust to drover of the Charlotte iv r’ion.il collect |_- II ;.t for the new fiscal ye a i dial of the one dav i-.-lic. t.o i is 1-40 pint- .»( hlooi I. Cnatlcs Mauney, Mood pro rtiam ehairman in No. -i Town ship. ieported a collection of 110 pints of blood at the Wixalmo Ivi’e’s first v.sd to Kinjts Moun tain in August There ate s\ \ is.ts of the bio xltnoitilt- scheduled at No 1 Tovvnshp this lis il veai vvitli an avaiaite of 1 to p. is the goal of each v i'.t. Overall i|Uota lot the yisir is S52 tints of blood. l-'o ,;»• Mineral Company vvitli 35 donors led the Kings Moun tain visit. Carolina Throwing with 12 donors placed second and Mauney Mills with 1*1 donor. | placed t tin il in industrial hi >od Riving. Charlie Harry, spokesman foi! drover citizens, invited King. Mouniaui and drover area citi zens to visit the hloodbank at j Monday's visit to drover. The di .vvr visit is sjionsorec by t Irover eivie Hubs. SENIOR CITIZENS The Senior Citizens club will hold regular meeting Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at tite , Woman's club. Mis. Riddle: Live Best You Can Hei Philosophy On 100th Biithday September 3. lt*»l. was jus another day to most people, bu to Mrs. J. H. Kiddle of Concord former Kings Mountain citizen and mother of John Kiddle, 909 Glare strn the lianks of Buffalo Continued on lJuyc d Financial Drive Will Start Here In October Charl«-s H. >fauncy. general mana,;< r of M.tunev Hosiery Mill arid Carolina Throwing Com panv, will iiead Kings Mountain's United Fund drive in October. Mr. Maunev will succeed Rob ert O ‘Bob' Suit hw ell. who mad.- the annoui: ement of Mr. Mauney's seli-ction. Kings Mountain citizens have not met United Fund goals the l*a>t four or five years and UK officials, expecting to gather within the ne\t week or two to formally organize for the 1965 effort, expect to concentrate ef forts on industrial giving and special categories. Chairman Mauney said. Mr Mauncj anticipates naming of committe< s as s i >n as an or ganizational meeting is held to map the finai. ini eampaign. Seven charitable and service oigani/ations wen- beneficiaries of the 1961 campaign. They in elud«-d: Boy Seoul* of Ameri< a, • In 1 Smuts nf America. Kings Mountain high s 'mol hand, A merican R«sl Cross. Cleveland County l.ife Saving and Rescue Squad. Daviilson-Compaet schools hands, ami Jacob S. Mauney .Me morial library. Fallute to attain full budgets means that the organizations must operate on restricted basis. Mi Mauney pointed out. Under the United Rund pkin. several organizations join for heir solicitation cami*aigns, shar ing receipts on a prorata formu la based on the particular organ ization's percentage <>f the initial t Midget. Individuals were asked last year to give a day’s pay for the support of the seven organiza tions. City Shares In Powell Fund Kings Mountain will rivene $3d.37sr,s and (irovor will rwvlve $3.3t»l from a total over $N.3 million in Powell Hill funds the stat«« highway commissi in is al locatin'.' to 131 North Carulina communities Of the seven Cleveland County municipalite >. Shelby anil Kings Mountain will itveixe the hulk of funds Iteade I for Cleveland. Shelby is to p oive $71,069.30. Cheeks are t > tv mailed out prior to October 1. North Carolina’s total alloca tion of i..Wi is almost l< ible the ui 'inal sum in 1351. It actually ha * grown S3 percent since the init.al year. Also, the number of pat ticipating munici palities has inereased from 3st> to !3t during the same 11 years. Powell Hill funds are distrihut ed annually to the ipialified ci ties and towns for use in non highway system street work with in the respective corporate limits. The alliH-ations ate based on a formula using the population and street mileage in the ineor porated locations. However, some legally incorporated towns in the state do not perform certain ne cessary municipal 1 unctions in order to aoply. This*. functions include sub mitting daia concerning munici pal elections, ati valorem tux rates, other sources of miome and budget ordinances Five Additions To School List Addition of five to the Kin_’s Mountain area'' nil to * no I l.>t brings to hid the numiier of stu dents who aiv enterin'; colleges, umveisities. prep schools and seho ils for specialized trail uni; this tail. James Forrest h.is returned to North Carolina State college where he :> a si .or. Samuel Cal vin Lockridge ,s i student at Appaiai !i. in Stat ■ Feaoher's u»l lege. Ki'i'O' Cion ngei has return ed for h:> juni -r year at Fast Carolina roilege and Brent Mc Daniel ami Diane McDaniel have u-turned to Western Carolina at Cullutvlice.