4 Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
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/OL.75 No. 41
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 8, 1964
Pages
Today
Established 1889
Seventy-Fifth Year
PRICE TEN CENT*
Mountaineer Days Festivities Peak On Weekend
United Fund Includes Grover;
Goal Is Increased To $24,000
GOOD CITIZEN — Anne Trott ,
has been chosen DAN Good
Citizen by Colonel Frederick
Hambright Chapter. Daughters '
ol the American Revolution.
Anne Trot!
b DAB Citizen
!
Anne Trott. high school senior ;
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas L. Trott. has been nam- j
ed DAK flood Citizen by Colonel !
k’-'roderifk flamhright Chapter, '
MAR, and received the award at |
the organization's Wednesday af- j
ternoon meeting.
Only girls of tile senior class
of an accredited public high
school are eligible for the award,
presented annually. Recipients
must possess to an outstanding
degree the qualities of deitcnda
bility. service, leadership and pa
t riot ism.
Miss Trott is editor of the
Kings Mountain high school
newspaper, “The Mountaineer.” ,
She is a member of the Future (
1 lomemakers of America, the
French club and the Science club.
A member of St. Matthew's Lu
theran church, she is active in
the Sunday School and Luther
League.
A flood Citizens Tour honoring
the girls chosen in the Third f>is- i
trie*. North Carolina DAR. will
he held Saturday at 1 pin. After i
luncheon, the flood Citizens and
their mothers will visit the Mint
Museum of Art in Charlotte and
will be honored at a tea to tic ,
given at the home of Mrs. I
floor go Robinson Smith, state I
chairman of flood Citizens for
DAR.
Miss Trott is granddaughter of
II. R Parton of Kings Mountain
and the late Mrs. Parton.
I New Hambright
Grave Maikei
Dctcrndanls of Colonel Frede
rick Hambright. Revolutionary
War hero at tin* Battle of Kings
Mountain, braved Sunday's rain
to trek to Shiloh cemetery at
Grover to plact* a new marker, a
tall granite shaft, over Itis grave
and to pay tribute to the early
settlers intern'd there.
For many years the Colonel
Homhright Chapter of the DAK.
of Kings Mountain, has placed a
marker at the grave.
A tent was erected over the
plot Sunday and Rev. Hi* hard
llohson. pastor of Shiloh Pres
byterian church, delivered the
dedicatory address. Mrs. F. It.
Summers, past regent of the
Kings Mountain DAR chapter
which bears llamhright's name,
gave a description of the man.
physical and motal. taken from
an old letter by one who had
known him in his hey-day.
The maroon velvet veil, de
signed by Holmes Harry, execu
tive of Minette Mills. Inc., and
his staff. Mrs. Hubert Rollins,
Mrs. B. A. llarry and Mrs. Beck
Wright, was unveiled by Bonnie
Frances Hinnapt. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Hinnant. and '
Glenn Roberts, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. R. Roberts, all of Kings I
' Mountain. Roliert Harry unfurl
f'litlimiri/ Oh Page *»
Several New
Organizations
loin In Appeal
Kings Mountain and Grover's
United Fund drive for 1965 will
seek over $2-1,000 for nine causes.
Chairman Charles Mauncy said
this week.
Mr. Maunev said he is calling
a second meeting of UF volun
teers for Thursday (tonight, at
7:30 p.m. in his office at Mauney
Hosiery Mills to formulate plans
for the November financial drive. |
Directors of the United Fund
are also expected to he elected at
Thursday night's meeting, Mr.
Mauney said.
"If our 1965 goal is reached”.
Mr. Mauney continued, "the pro
blem of too many drives is solv
ed.”
The participating organizations
will include:
Kings Mountain Chapter A
merican Red Cross, $5056.
Boy Scouts, white and Negro,
S53S5.60.
Compact-Davidson high school
band, $1128.
Cancer Fund in Kings Moun
tain and Grover, $1,000.
Girl Scouts, white and Negro.
$1500. j
Grover Rescue Squad. $1500.
Heart Fund Drive for Kings !
Mountalh and Grover areas.
$1500.
Kings Mountain high school
band. $3550.
Kings Mountain Rescue Squad,
$3200.
In years prior separate drives j
have been conducted for benefit 1
of cancer, heart and Rescue I
Squads. Grover is also included
in this year’s campaign.
Mr. Mauney reminded citizens !
that the 1965 drive is a local !
campaign conducted by local vol
unteer workers for local charita- I
hie organizations and service
groups. "Remember", he noted, j
"You contribute to nine different
drives when you give the United
way." Canvassers will encourage
citizens to give at least one
hour’s pay once a month to the
community drive.
Secession
Front Quiet
There was no new news on the
Kings Mountain secession front
this week. ,
Mayor Glue Bridges said he
had not yet been able to set up
appointment with Grier Beam,
of Cherryville, chairman of the
Gaston county board of commis
sioners. for discussions concern
ing a possible joining of the
Kings Mountain area of Cleve
land County with Gaston.
Nor had there been any indi
cation of any change of heart or
action on the part of the Cleve
land County welfare board which
closed the Kings Mountain branch
of the welfare offiie.
I-*»st action by the Kings
Mountain group was a 30-day
moratorium on circulating peti
tions for seceding from Cleve
land and joining Gaston.
Pollbooks To Open!
For Registration i
TO CONDUCT SERVICES — j
Rev. Grant Johnson. Gastonia
minister, will conduct a series
at sototeso i» Scree Msmoriaf
ARE church beginning Monday
night
UP Services
To Start Monday
Rev. Grant Johnson, pastor of
First Associate* Reformed Pres- j
hyterian church of Gastonia, will :
conduct a series of sendees at
Boyce Memorial ARP church here
beginning Monday night.
Sen i<vs will be held Monday
through Friday nights at 7:30
and on Sunday. October IS. at
11 am. and 7:30 p.m.. it was;
announced by John L. McGill. I
Boyce Memorial's moderator pro
tempore.
Rev. Mr. Johnson is a son of a
New England Congregationaiist
minister. He is a graduate of!
Davidson college and won a
master of arts degree at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. For
nine years he was a coach at
King's College. Bristol. Tenn..
subsequently served as youth di
rector of the Ft. Lauderdale. Fla..
Presbyterian churrh before cn
tering Krskine seminary. He was
graduated in lBtil and has serv
ed the Gastonia church since.
Mrs. Johnson is the former
Bertha McLaughlin, of Charlotte.
They have six sons.
Chilly Temperatures
Follow Hilda Rains
1 Temperatures plummeted Mon
day night, in the wake of heavy
weekend rains, skirt lash from
Hurricane Hilda which wreaked
havoc from Louisiana to the
North Carolina mountains.
/.It was the first "cold spell’ of
the autumn and produced a flood
of calls to fuel dealers and heat
tng plant servicemen.
City ad Duke Paver Will Tirade
Seme Facilities; Board To Meet
The city board of commission
er* is expected to accept a prof
fer by Duke Power Company
whereby the city veil It rack- Duke
its J. E. Herndon Company facil
ities for Duke facilities serving
eight residential customers.
The commission Mill consider
the proffer, whereby the city
will pay Duke $62K difference at
the regular October meeting to
convene* at City Hall at 6 p.m.
Electrical Superintendent Hun
ter Allen said the Herndon Com
pany asked to be served by Duke,
due to the fact Duke already :
serves a portion of the Herndon j
property and because the Hem- 1
don Company desires 330-volt
service, now furnished by the
Duke service, to all Its facilities.
The eight residential customers
tile city will acquire are Sam '
Dye. Stow Devinney. in West
Kings Mountain, and II. C. At |
Kins. Frank Bridges. \V. A. Tins |
ley, Paul R. Ross and Charles i
Hampton, in Fast Kings Moun '
tain.
Duke made the pro|Hisal on
basis of a South Carolina law
setting up a formula for sale or
purchase of power facilities
Tile hoard also is expected to: |
It Adopt an ordinance which
would make official its previous
ly appointed city planning com
mission. and
2) Accept the low bid of Mc
Cabe-Powers for purctKise of a
Skymaster "cherry picker" for
the electrical department.
The commission will also re
ceive bids for purchase of a
pneumatic-lilt'd loader.
!
Unregistered
Can't Ballot
November 3rd
Voter registration hooks open
in Kings .Mountain and through
out the county on Saturday
The books will be open for
three consecutive Saturdays
through October 24. Saturday,
October 31. will be challenge flay.
Ralph Gilbert. chairman of the
county board of elections, re
minded citizens that a new reg
istration was ordered last spring
and that citizens not eligible to
vote in the May primaries must
register to be eligible to vote in
the November 3 general election.
Mr. (Gilbert said the same pre
cinct election officials who serv
ed in the May and June pri
maries will be on duty in all pre
cincts.
The Kings Mountain area pre
cincts. their locations, and the
registrars are:
Bethware. at Beth ware school,
Mrs. J. D. Jones.
East Kings Mountain, at City I
Hall courtroom. Mrs. Nell Craw
ford.
Grover, at Grover fire station.
Mrs. J. D. Ellis
West Kings Mountain, at Na
tional Guard Armorv, Mrs. J. H.'
Arthur.
The registrars will be at the
voting places Saturday from 9
to 5 p.m.
Chairman Gilbert also remind
••d non-registered citizens: T'iti
sens must register in jterson, as j
the new registration system re- j
quires that a voter be able to
read and write. And all regis- j
trants must sign their registra- I
lion form in duplicate.”
A total of 3.W)2 registered in!
Number I Township last May.
British Strike
Alter 184 Years
•It’s 1K1 years too late but
the British have struck again.” !
This inscription was pinned j
to a five-foot dummy, clad in '
shirt and trousers. Saturday 1
morning outside the office of
Mayor Glee A. Bridges.
Some English citizens, plan
ing a bit of fun during Moun
taineer Days, had planned to I
display the dummy on a down
town street but Saturday's
ramy weather cancelled out
that plan but didn't dampen
their spirits. They moved the j
dummy inside.
ChuichwomenSet
Community Da;
Kings Moun'ain .-hurchwomen
aiv readying for World C >mmu- ;
nity Pay to bo held Friday, No- !
vember Hth. at 3:15 p.m. at Re- j
surreotioo Lutheran rhuivh.
Rev. Charles Kasley, new min- 1
later of St Matthew's Lutheran i
church, will make the principal
address. All churches of the !
area are invited to participate in j
the annual program, Mrs. K. R. ■
(lotfcr. program chairman, said.
Committees for the event in
clude: Mrs. Paul Ausley, First
Preshyterian; Mrs. L. L. l.ohr,
St. Matthew’s Lutheran: Mrs.
Kmmelt Ross, tiracc Methodist;
Mrs. Arno Haas. Trinity Kpisco
pal; Mrs. Kugene Roberts, Kings ,
Mountain Baptist; Mrs. A \V
Kincaid. f>'ir«st Baptist; Mrs. Carl
Cl-winger. Resurrection Luthe
ran; and Mrs. C. T. Carpenter.
Jr.. Central Meth->dist church.
World Community Day is one
of three annual observances
sponsored by the interdenomina
tiouai group of churchwomen. ,
Others (Delude World Day of
Prayer and .May Kellowsliip Day . |
TYPICAL MOUNTAINEER DAYS COSTUMES—Mrs Zoe Falls Deilinger (at telephone; and Mrs.
Merle Beatty are pictured Mountaineer Days-fashion in colonial style costumes of 1780. Women
employees of Kings Mountain Merchants Association will be outfitted in long dresses and bon
nets during the celebration, which continues Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Five civic club
presidents will pick three winners from the many who will wear costumes from the Elizabethan
era. (Herald Photo by Paul Lemmons).
Awards For Best-Costumed;
40-Unit Parade OnSaturdav
live lodges
Will Decide
Best-Costumed
i
Who will win prizes for best
cos I u mo among Kings Mountain
area women?
Five judges, all of whom arc
presidents of Kings Mountain
civic clubs, will adjudge winners
in the Mountaineer Ixa\s contest
and trophies will he awarded to
first, second and third place win
ners this weekend.
Decision of the judges is to be
announced at the- Friday night
street dance, w hich begins at
7:.i0 pm., and the winners will
ride in the 2 pm. Saturday pa
rade which will culminate cele
bration festivities in the city.
Mrs. John A. Cheshire, Wo
man's club president, RohCrt
• Rob, Munson, Rotary dub pre
sident. Hugh Lancaster, Jaycee
president. Harry Jaynes, Lions
dub president, and \V. D. tDoct |
Byars, Optimist club president. |
will have no easy task in decid- ]
i«g winners of "best costume."
All women employees of ma
jority of the city's retail mer
chants have been busy with
needle and thread the past few
weeks. The costumes are not on- ,
ly pretty, but original. Some aie
implemented by frilly lace, vel
rct, sequins, and jewelry typical
if that era ami flounces, over- ■
skirts, and pantaloons. Many of
the colonial style dresses ate
orn with matching bonnets
Mountaineer Days con-memo
rates the lslth anniversary of
he Revolutionary War Rattle of
Kings Mountain, fought October ■
r. 17*0.
VETERANS
World War I veterans w II
hold a meeting Sunday at 2.'!'»
p.m. at City flail. Quartermas
ter F 11. Llctui lias aunuwucvd. |
EVANGELIST — Rev. James
Stanley ol Shelby will be
speaker for evangelistic serv
ices. which begin Sunday at
Second Baptist church.
Parade To Start
At 2 o'clock
On Saturday
Saturday'?, mammoth to unit
Mount aineei Days parade wiU
begin promptly at 2 p.m. and
Aiil culminate a lull three days
of special activities (luring the
second annual community • wide
celebration.
I'nits til the parade will assem
ble at the corner of Kast Gold
strein and Gaston street incar
the \V. K Vlauney, Jr. hornet,
march west to Battleground Ave
nue. tui a north and march to
Mountain street .turn iij»ht and
march t > Piedmont avenue, pro
ceed lett to King street, turn left
and march west over the over
head budge, turn Icit at K.ul
road and proceed south to Gold
street, turn right and disband on
West Gold street.
Humes Houston, chairman of
the color) rat ion and I>on Dixon,
parade chairman, said all entries
Continued On Pniif n
Kings Mountain Optimist Club
b Awarded "Honor Club" Rating
The Optimist Club of Kin"*
Mountain was namf<l an HONOR
CLUB for 1963 61 and R. \V
llurlhut. Iflt3-6I president, was
named a DISTINOUISIIKD
PRKSII>ENT by Optimist Inter
national as announced last Thurs.
;lay at the Hub's regular meet
in-4 by the current president, W.
D. Byers.
Notification of these honors
Tame from Carl L. Bowen, D.D.
v. president of Optimist Inter
national. The awards, a medal
lion for the club's banner signi
fying Honor Club at.d a old
vat eh denoting Dtstinguislied
Pres.deui will be presetiled at a
future date.
The Optimal Club of King*
M >unt.i] earniil the Honor Club
award for Pxivllrnw m live ma
jor phases of club activity
membership, attendance, new
eluh building, boys' work and
life membership. Hob Huilbut.
Iasi year's president, earned the
Distinguished President citation
for meeting additional require
ments in the organizations a
wards program.
In making the annoumvmetit.
W D. ‘Dim-" Byers said. "We are
very proud 10 be notifi**d of these
awards and we are happy that
CuiUmucU Oh Fuji, o
Talent Event,
Street Dance
And Parade
Are Scheduled
Kings Mountain area citizens
a r e ii'Icbrating Mountaineer
Days with beauty queens, coloni*
| al costumes atxl a mammoth
parade planned to commemorate
the !H»ih anniversary of the Rev
ohitionary War Battle of 1780
Miss North Carolina — Sharon
Kay finch — arrives Thursday
for a big talent show at S p.m.
at the National Guard Armory.
The Thomasvllie beauty, ap
pearing here under co-sponsor
: ship of the Merchants Associa*
tion and Jayives — will be mis*
tress of ceremonies for the show
i which will feature <-ountry mu*
| sir bands, rock-n roll bands and
I individual talent vicing for cash
prizes totaling $50 in three divi
sions and handsome trophies.
Miss Finch, who sings, dances
, and plays the piano, will also
: perform in the show, along with
j Diane Ray, of Gastonia, record*
I ing star for Mercury Records.
Becky Kennedy. Miss Mountain*
1 err, will bi- presented by Miss
• North Carolina at the beginning
I of the event which is expected
to attract a number of talent en
tries and a large crowd. Admis
sion will he 50 and 25 cents.
Mis> North Carolina will be
guest of honor at a dutch sup
per to he hosted by Merchants
Association offi< ials and Jayeres
at the Country Club at 6:30 that
evening.
Judges for the talent competi
tion will be Mis* Ray, Jim Allen,
editor of the Shelby Daily Star.
I Ray Jimison. Gastonia Gazette
•ounty editor, and Hugh Dover.
' of Shelby, vice-chairman of the
county board of commissioners.
1 Friday night's big street dance
will begin at 7:30 p.m. in a rop
ed off area of Railroad Avenue
' from Wright's Barber Shop to
| Joy Theatre. Music will be pro
I vided by “Tlie Hometowners”, a
country music band. Announce
i ux-nt by the judges of winners
l of l>est costumes among the lady
folk will be made. In event of
j rain, the street dance will be
i held at the Armory
An all-day barbecue stand will
I be operated by Kings Mountain
Jayeees Thursday. Friday and
Saturday in the Kd Falls Csed
t ar lad on Railload Avenue. Bar
... plates are $1 and sand
wiches are 50 cents. Tables will
tie set up for persons who want
to eat lunch at the stand.
Saturday's parade, which eul
i tnmati * the week of activities,
j will begin promptly at 2 p.m.
i hntries include school bands
I and Iloats. beauty <|iu-ens and
. others. Winners of best ••ostume
| and talent events will also par
; ticipale in the parade.
Women employees of the city's
i business finr* will be dressed in
keeping with the )78o period,
I and men will wear eoonskin
caps.
Humes Houston is chairman of
j the second annual Mountain
Days .elchiation sponsored by
the Merchants Association as a
t ale promotion and battle an*
| ni versa ry event.
Clark To Discuss
State Bond Issue
Smi.- Senator David Clark, of
Lincolnton. state chairman of a
citizens group supporting ap
pr.nal of a $100 million state
school construction bond issue,
w ill address the Kings Mountain
Lions club here Tuesday niglu
at the Woman's Club.
Senator Clark is expected to
discuss iho bond issue proposal
and his reasons for supporting
it. both now and in the JW3
General ssembly.
Harry Jaynes.'Lions club prcsl
tlent, said presidents or repre
>ci tatives of all Kings Mount.mi
civic clubs have been invited to
hear Senator Clark, as have sev
eral local and county school of.
ti lals.
Superintendent B. V. Barnes
was a member of the original
superintendent's planning com
mittee for the hood issue, and
<leorge K. Maunoy, of the Kings
Mountain board of education, is
a vice-chairman of a county
citizens group supporting ait
pntval of the issue.
Kings Mountain school dis
trict s share of the issue would 1
exceed S'lT l.tMo. which, school of
ficials s.i\ would provide suffi
cient building funds for immedi*
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