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VOL 75 No. 43 Pages Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 22, 1964 Seventy-Hfth Year PRICE TEN CENT Mauney Hosiery 2ad Firm On United Fund Honor Roll r Local News Bulletins € ROT Am PROGRAM Dr Km mot t White, radlolo t at Valdese General hos al and bruthet ol attorney ok H. White of Kings Moun tain. will speak on rook collec tion as a hobby at Thursday's Rotary club meeting at 12:15 at the Country Club. Kotarian Jack White has arranged the program. KIWANIS PROGRAM Earle J. Gluck, director of public relations for Carolina Broadcasting Company. WSOC Kadio and WSOC-TV. will speak on "Oddities On TV” at Thursday’s Kiwanir club meet ing at 6:45 p.m. at the Wo man's club. UNICEF PROJECT Yeung people of Central Methodist church will conduct the annual door-to-door can vass for funds for the United Nations International Chil dren’s Emergency Fund Sun day from 5 until 7 p.m.. Carol DHling. spokesman tor the group, said. The UNICEF pro ject is an annual Halloween project. LUTHERAN SERVICE St. Matt hew's Lutheran church will observe Reforma tion Sunday at services Sun day. Rev. Charles W. Easley, pastor, will use the sermon topic. "There Is A Word" at 11 a..m. service. Reforma Sunday is observed in Lu ran churches the Suttday preceding Reformation Day October 31. ujpi< HARVEST SALE Oakdale Presbyterian church will sponsor the annual har vest sale October 31 from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Beef hash dinners with dhssert and drinks will be $1 and hambur gers. hotdogs and homemade cakes and pies will be on sale, in addition to canned goods and handiwork. MEIER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled S20S.70. including $130.70 from off street meters. $59 in fines and S19 from off street meters. School Plans Are Retained Kings Mountain board of od ucation discussed progress of the new high school plant with Architect Thomas H. Cothran Monday night and voted to re tain initial plans for stairway construction. The decision was made aft i r Cothran reported projected langes in design !> would not prove satisfactory and 2» would not save an initially anticipated $3,000. Chairman James E. Herndon. Jr., reported to the board that Ben T. Goforth is installing a six-inch water line to sene the school and that Lambeth Rope* Corporation had authorized tap ping the Lambeth service line. The board instructed the su perintendent to see if volunteers for transfer to Park Grace school could be obtained from the sec ond-third combination grade at Grover, where recent enrollments had swelled the total for three teachers to 100. an overload. In other actions the board: 1) Authorized purchase of up to a dozen typewriters at $120 each. 2» Authorized expenses for at tendance of Principals Harry Jaynes and Howard Bryant to a November principal's meeting and of Mrs. J. N. McClure to a November music conference. 3> Named Trustees George H. Mauncv and Mrs. Lena W Mc Gill as delegates to Thursday's meeting at Chapel Hill of the North Carolina chool Board asso ciation. 4) The board unanimously re iterated its support of the pro I for a $100 million state chool construction bond issue, to f.ie determined at the polls No vember 3. d Community Day Services Are Set World Community Day serv ices will be held November 6 at 3:45 p.m. at Resurrection Luthe ran church and plans for the an nual observance are underway by Kings Mountain area church women. Rev. Charles Easley, new pas tor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, will make the principal address. The invocation will be offered by Rev. Robert Haden. : pastor of Trinity Episcopal • church. Mrs. K. R. Color is chairman i of the committee on arrange | monts. Absentee Ballot Deadline Neai Deadline fir application for civilians to cast absentee ballots in the November 3 general elec tion is Wednesday. October 2S. at 6 pm.. Ralph Gilbert, chair man of the Cleveland County elections board, said yesterday. Chairman Gilbert Mid h? had received approximately 75 re quests from civilians for absen tee ballots These include persons who expect to be out-of-town on election day, including eligible college students. Exception to the rule for civil ians are those who fall ill sub sequent to October 28. Register ed voters who are ill may apply, or have members of the families apply, for their absentee ballots up to 10 a.m. Monday, November 2. There is no deadline — other than physical fact of having bal lots in the hands of the chairman of the elections board by Monday night, November 2 - for military personnel. Chairman Gilbert said he had already received approxi mately 300 requests from ser vicemen for absentee ballots for the forthcoming general election. School Bond Rally Is Held Th need of Cleveland County schools for their more than $1. 500,000 share of the proposed $100 million state school bond is sue was reiterated succinctly at a county-wide rally here Monday night. After Dr. J. L. Pierce, educa ti mal consultant for the state department of education's de partment of school planning, had outlined facts concerning the state's short supply in class rooms, superintendents of the three county administrative units spoke briefly on particular needs of the particular units. Supt. Lee Phoenix, of the coun ty unit, said the needs of the county district schools are "ur gent”. Specifically, the county needs two new high schools, in addition to renovations and oth er improvements immediately. Supt. Malcolm Brown, of Shel by district, echoing the needs of this district, pointed out that the sate-wide bond issue is the eaaii es and cheapest means of obtain- I ing building funds on the hori zon. Supt. B. N. Barnes, of Kings Mountain district, declared he didn't know what the county would do to handle ita pupil pop ulation if the state bond issue isn't approved when the people determine its approval or disap proval on November 3. Kings Mountain's share of the proposed issue is *374357. Shel- j by's $422,707. and the county dis- | trict's $733,787. The div ision of funds throughout the state is based on average daily attend ance for the 1961 62 school year. Solicitors Set Kickoff Meeting Fn Tuesday United Fund volunteers will kick-off the 1965 financial drive at • breakfast Tuesday at 7:30 ' a.m. at the Woman's Club, drive chairman ('haries F. Mauney has announced. Mr. Mauney said he expects from 50-75 volunteer workers will be present to fcvmally launch the UF campaign to be conducted here and in Grover and Bethware communities in November. Meantime, E. R. Gotcr. indus trial gifts chairman, announced that Mauney Hosiery Mills be comes the second honor roll member of the United Fund with pledge of $2-100, representing 100 percent support of its employees. Carolina Throwing Companj. had last week become the first honor roll member with 100 per cent participation from 116 em ployers and a pledge of $1,030. Other advance g.fts this week brought pledges to date to $4. 11-1.00. almost one-sixth of the United Fund quota of $23.119.60 for nine participating organiza tions. These, in addition to the two local industries and the first gift of $500 from Dicey Mills, of Shelby, were: Southern Bell Tel ephone Company, $75; K Mills. $20; Kings Mountain Herald. S5<>: and Home Security Life. Gas tonia. $39. Canvassers will encourage citi zens to give at least one hour’s pay once a month to the commu nity drive, termed by UF offi cials as a local United campaign conducted by local volunteer workers for local (haritable or ganizations and service groups, including these nine causes: It American Red Cross -Kings Mountain, Grover, Bet hware area, $5,056., continuing to serve all people in need and in time of disaster. 2| Boy Scouts <white and col ored I --$5,365.60. There is no sub stitute for scouting in the devel opment of youth. 3) Compact - Davidson high school band. S1.42S. This group must have funds to support the purchase of new uniforms. 4) A cancer fund for Kings Mountaln-Grover-Rethware sec tions, $1,000. This is a new fund, not associated with the Ameri can Cancer Society or its drive, to be disposed of by a local com mittee for local needy cancer pa tients. The national drive will be conducted next Sept em tier. 5> Girl Scouts (white and col ored), $1300. An increasingly important factor in the develop ment of girls for home and com munity. 6, Mauney Memorial Library $1,000. A growing source of knowledge for all local people. There is a constant m*cd to buy new books to broaden the libra ry's services. 7) A heart fund for Kings Mountain - Grover • Bethware sections. $1,000. Another new source of help for local indigent patients. Not connected with the National Heart Association or its drive which will be held next September. X) Kings Mountain high school band, $3,550. Consolidation and good leadership have resulted in a 100 percent increase in the band’s size. Money is needed for uniforms and equipment. « 9t Kings Mountain Rescue Squad-$3300. Local citizens are becoming increasingly aware of the many services rendered by these local men. Saturday last Day To Register; Township Registrars Added 125 Unregistered citizens who ex pect to vote in the November 3 election must visit their pre cincts and accomplish reglstra-1 lion by 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The registration books close at , that hour. Number 4 Township registrars added 135 names to the voting books last Saturday, including 86 Democrats. 33 Republicans, and four Independents. Last Saturday’s total brought to 263 the total registered in the | four township precincts since theI books opened October 10. Registrars guessed that toe up- i coming Saturday may be the busiest yet Registrations by precincts fol low*: Bethware (at Bethware school ) —nine Democrats, two Republi cans. four Independents. East Kings Mountain tat City Hall courtroom I — 28 Democrats. 12 Republicans. Grover (at Grover fire station) —eight Democrats, six Republi cans. West Kings Mountain tat Na tional Guard Armory) — 43 Democrats. 13 Republicans. Womans Club Event Attracts Many Exhibits Wednesday's Community Festi val drew record crowds to the Woman's club and the more than JUO exhibits on display empha sized the theme of the show "something for everybody.” Kings Mountain area fairgoers interested in arts, crafts, paint ing, collections of hobbies, needle work and flowers could spend I hours admiring *ne handwork i and artistic talent of men, wom en and children who entered the ! 61st annual floral fair. | The floral fair was expanded ; this year to include the variety 1 of interests indicative of Kings Mountain area citizens. Numerous exhibits were by men. including Hunter R. Neis ler's elaborate wrought-iron light fixture, a wall-type chandelier; woodwork by Joe Thomson, in cluding tables, chessboard, a w >oden lecture stand, checkers; Glenn Campbell's paintings; Je rusalem cherry plas-ed in the hor ticulture category by Howard Bryant; Dr. O. Lewis' large collection of shells; Truett Moore's still life paintings, in cluding one of his father, the R- stirrect: n Lutheran pastor, a painting ol the cru'-ifix; artwork ey Reggie Alexander and Pat Cheshire, both high school stu dents. and hobbies bv Gene Stef t>. Among the large number of exhibits by womenfolk were Mrs. Clyde Kerns' handmade jewelry collection; a n assortment of Christmas balls and ornaments by Mrs. Carl Mayes; crewel em broidery by Elizabeth Anthony; a huge portrait of Santa Claus and a 73-year-old fan by Mrs. Martha Kemsley; antique family pieces in the E. W. tlrif in family, including some of the trousseau items lielonging to Mrs. Griffin's grandmother, a knitted coverlet, candlestick snuffers, Danforth teapot and old schoolbooks from the li<Ws including an English grammar, geogi'jphy, and arithmetic books, plus a collection of psalms and hymns; Mrs. E. B. Cana it's hand made full-length knitted coat; a spinning wheel belonging to the Tom Trott family; afghans by Confound On Fntje S Blood Bank Here Monday The* Red Cross bloodmohile will return to Kings Mountain Monday. Donors will he prix<esscd from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Na tional Guard Arm try, blood pro gram chairman Charles F Mau ney said. Mr. .Mauney reminded that Kind's Mountain is behind fiO pints of blood in its blood-giving for the fiscal year which began in July. Monday's visit will be the second t > Kings Mountain (it.s fiscal year. Last visit of the bloodhank was held in Grover with the Gro ver Rescue Squad sponsoring the one-day collection. Employees of Minette Mills, Inc. led donors. Mis. Canipe's Bites Thusday Funeral riles for Mrs. Fannie Bell Canipe. 67. will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. from Eliza beth Baptist rhureh, of which shi was a member. Tlir body will lie in stale from 2:30 until 3 at the church. Rev. diaries B. Sumrrey. assisted by Rev. Lawrence Roberts, will of ficiate at the final rites and in terment will be in the church ■emetery. Mrs. Canipe. wife of Lester D Canipe, died Tuesday night at 7:13 p.m. in Cleveland Memorial hospital following serious illness ol one day. She had been in ill health lor several years. A na tive of Cleveland County, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. It. Bell. She was first married to lorn Moore, who died in 1954. She was married to Les te; L Canipe in 1958 Resides her husband, she is -urvived by one son, T. R. Moore of Shelby; one step-son. Ray Ca nipe of Kings Mountain; one daughter, Mrs. Harold Herndon ol Kings Mountain; three step daughters, Mrs. Hugh Canipe and Mrs. J. B. Stacy, both of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Ar nold Bell of Lenoir; four broth ers. Marshall and Jake Bell, both of Kings Mountain. Dorus Bell of Shelby and Hubert Bell of Salisbury; five sisters. Mrs. Mar vin Randall. Mrs. Wiley Blanton. Mrs. Oscar Lovelace. ail of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Fred Parker and Mrs Mitchell Watterson. both of Slielby; la grandchildren and une great-grandchild Mayor Says Secession Move To Get Underway Next Week WhitenerTo SpeakThur sday At Democratic Rally Here Hickory Site Of Democrat Bally Monday Demoerats of I ho 10th North i Carolina Congressional district will rally in Hickory Monday night. Free dinner is scheduled to be served at the Catawba County Fairgrounds, beginning at ti p.m.. with the program scheduled to j begin at 7 p.m. A special reception for iadies will be held beginning at 4 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. L. C. Clifford, wife of the pub lisher of the Hickory Daily Roe. ord. 7211 Second Street. NE. with Mrs. John S. R>we as ro-hostess. Willard Boyles of Kings Moun tain. president of Cleveland County Young Democrats, said he expected Cleveland to have a large delegation at the district rally, and Mrs. F. A. McDaniel. Jr.. Cleveland Democratic vlee ; chairman, is urging Democratic women of the county to make , plans to attend the afternoon re ception at the (lifford home. Park Set Record Park visitation records were broken last weekend as 4,2*7 visitors took advantage of Indian Summer weather to enter the visitor center and tour the his toric battlefield where on Octo )>er 7. 17X0 a band of American patriots defeated a trained force of British soldiers under Col. Patrick Fergus >n. Ben F. Moomaw, superintend Com tinned On P<i<ic 8 Visitors BALLY SPEAKER — U. S. Rep resentative Basil L Whitener will main the principal ad dress at a county-wide Demo cratic rally here Thursday night at the American Legion building. Residential Tax Hearings Suspended The county began hearings on industrial tax valuations Mon day and has sus|>emicd temp | orarily hearings on residential valuations until the industrial hearings are completed. Previously, tin* county has been holding residential hear ings twice weekly Max Hamrick, county auditor, said industrialists seeking hear ings are getting appointments convenient to themselves. Repre sentatives of the revaluating firm. Cole Laver-Trumble Com pany. are reviewing the valua tions with the industrial repre sentatives having complaints. Free Barbecue, Music, Feature Of Program Thursday's day - long l)omo> craiit motorcade through Clove land County will culminate in a rally at the Kings Mountain American Legion building at 7 o’clock. Ignited States Congressman 3asil L. VVhitener. of (iastonia. will make the principal address, allowing a free* barbecue din ner. J. Lee Roberts, chairman of the committee on arrangements, said .Vedmsday, "All Democrats are invited and expected to attend/’ He announced these program details: Jack 11. White, state senate I ncmluee, will serve as master of , cert monies. Patriotic music will he sung | by 6. S. Peeler, Jr., baritone so i ioist. with Mrs. K B. Leonard | artompanying at tiie piano. Rev. | B. L. Raines, pastor of First Bap ; Hst church, will say an invoca I tlon. All Democratic nominees will i Be recognized and special re j marks will be invited from | C|o\ eland Co unty Democratic party officers. The Cascade® will furnish mu I sic for the rally. Rep. Whitenei. now complet ing his fifth term in the House <»f Representatives, was elected to Congress in succeeding Rep. Woodrow W Jones. Ruther fordton Democrat. Mr. Whitener is thirtcentli ranking majority member ol the House Judiciary committee, which processes a majority of the legislation in the House, and is ninth ranking Continued On Page 8 President Hoover Dedicated Park At Sesqui - Centennial By MARTIN HARMON Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United Stales who died Tuesday at the age of 90, is the only President to make a visit of slate to Kings Moun tain. President Hoover rame t o Kings .Mountain on Ck-toher 7, 1930. on the occasion of the ses qui-rentennial celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain, re viewed a military parade, then proceeded by motorcade to the battle site to dedicate the area as a national shrine - Kings Mountain National Military Park. In effect, Mr. Hoover's dedica tory confirmed the fact of the establishment of the National Military Park. He signed the bill establishing the park a few months later, on March 3, 1931, which, coincidentally, is the birthday of Ben Moomaw. cur rently the park's superintendent. President Hoover was accom panied to Kings Mountain by Mrs. Hoover. Arriving by train at 1 p.m., he was accorded the traditional honor of chiefs of state, a 21-gun salute. Members of the reception committee were Major and Mrs. Stuart W. Cra mer. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence O. Kucster, u. S. Representative and Mrs. Charles A. Jonas, May or and Mrs. Wiley If. McGinnis, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Netaler. Mrs. W. If. Addicks and Col. J. G. Ward law. The Presidential reviewing stand was located in front of the S. C. Rutlerree residence on West Mountain street, whore Mr. Hoover reviewed military forces including national guard units of North and South Carolina and United Stab's army units from Fort Rragg. Military Park records show that 75.0U0 persons hoard Mr. SUCCUMBS — President Her bert Hoover died Tuesday in New York. He made a visit to Kings Mountain in 1930 to dedicate Kings Mountain Na tional Military Park. Hoover’s address at the battle 1 field. Governor John (I. Richards, ! of South Carolina, was presiding officer and welcomed the over flow throng. The celebration i quartet, including Joseph Mat lieu, of New York, Miss Lillian Plonk, of Asheville. Miss Ger | trtKle Gower, of Charlotte, and Maury Pearson, of Spartanburg, j S. C.. sang the "Star Spangled , Banner" and "America, the Beau l tiful”. The quartet was accom panied by Eugene Craft of Char lotte. The Rev. James I. Vance, DD., of Nashville, Tenn.. said the in , vocation, and Archibald Rutledge read an original poem The Bat tle of Kings Mountain". Governor O. Ma\ Gardner, of >iorth Carolina, presented Mr. , Hoover with the trad.tional “La ] dies and Gentlemen, the Presi dent of the United States." Following his address, presi dent Hoover visited the grave of Col. Patrick Ferguson. British commander killed in the October 7, 17v‘>. action, for services dedi cating a new marker erected at Col Ferguson's grave. The me morial. erected by citizens of the United States "in token of their appieciatmn of the bonds of peace between them and the citi zens of tlie British Umpire”, was presented by Heriot Clarkson, ass iciate justice of the North 1 Carolina Supreme Court. The re sponse was by Ronald Campbell, member of the staff of the Brit ish ambassador to the United States. Mr. Hoover, s°n of an Iowa ; blacksmith, observed his <Hith birthday on August 10. Only the nation's second president, John Adams, enjoyed a longer life A mining engineer, Mr. Hoover, af ter earning his way through col lege, was a millionaire mining engineer at 2x. He administered a food program for starving Eu rope in World War I, served as secretary of commerce in the Maiding and Coolidge adminis- i t rations. Mr. Hoover's body will lie in state at St. Bartholomew's ! Church. Park Avenue and 51st. New York, through Thursday, I then will lie in slate at the ro tunda of the national eapilol, be- | fore being flown to West Branch. Iowa, where he will he intern'd ; in the national park at the site of the small frame house where he was bom in 1H7L President Lyndon Johnson has 1 ordered federal establishments to i fly Hags at half mast for 30 1 days. 1 Welfare Board Moratorium b Expiring Nearly 30 days ago a group of Kings Mountain civic leaders told the . ounty commission they would forego plans for seeking to secede to Gaston County for a month. They added they wouid pursue those plans if the welfare branch office remained here. The only development since is that the office here was closed. Saturday, October 2\. Mayor Glee A. Hridges recalls, the 30 day postponement expires. "We'll Ik- ready to start some thing next week Mayor Bridges said Wednesday. Mayor Bridges said ho had dis cussed briefly with Grier Beam, chairman of the Gaston county commission, possibility of the Kings M luntain area’s joining Gaston. The Mayor said he told Chairman Beam of the 30-day moratorium and that Mr. Beam had replied, "When you make up your tnind. then come hack to see me.” The Shelby Star edit nialized on the secession threat Tuesday. It noted that Rocky Mount, a city of 33.ti00, lies in t vo coun ties. hut that, in spite of admin istrative difficulties Rocky Mount emoutliers, the city manager has no hopes that R >ekv Mount will ever in- able to 1 • become the state’s 101st county or 2» move all its boundaries into either Nash or Edgci-omhe. The Star added. "There seems to Ik* a message there for those who would rather not squander their energies along deed . end streets." .Mayor Bridges has indicated previously petitions would be circulated which would seek General Assembly permission to vote on the question of joining neighboring Gaston county. High School Lists Honor Students Thirty-seven high school stu dents were listed on the first honor roll for the first six-week's grading period which ended Wed nesday and 72 students were named to the second or “If" hon or roll. Report cards went out Wed nesday. To make first honor roll, stu dents must make all A's on sub jects and A on conduct. To make second honor roll, students must make more A's than B's on sub jects, with no C's and A on con duct. First honor roll students art*: Seniors: Betty Flowers Yates, Jewel Hayes. Leonard Smith, Ken Bunkowski, Jon Williams, Linda Wright. Neil McCarter. Judy Morris, Linda Mullinax, Vickie Connor and Sandra Wright. Juniors: Roger L. Ross. Mary Dixon. Paulette Patterson, Seott Cloninger. Neil Cooper. Ben Crimes. Rodney Hardin. Mary Jo Herd. Mary Ann Houser. Teresa Jolley. Libby Alexander. Philip Bunch. Diana Bunkowski. Gl.vn da Lynn. Darlene Oliver and Faithel Toney. Freshmen: Danny Dyke and Jeff Mauney. The second honor roll includ ed: Seniors: Anne McDaniel. Jer ry Chapman. Jo Ann Champion. Puttie Gaffney. Ilene Gantt. Mary Helen Goforth, Kay Gore. Carolyn Jones. Judie Ivey. Di anne Dixon, Sherry Dostcr. Pa tricia Lewis. Becky Payne. Billy Patterson. Jim Pressley. James Filch. Linda Fitch, Carolyn Heavner. Jeannette Henson. Joan Howard. Margie Huffstetler, Danny Neal. Jewel Batchler, Kloise Beam. Margaret Bryant and Peggy Bumgardner. Juniors: James D. Finger. Hol lis D Falls. Gloria J Falls. Ca therine Elaine Dixon. Jackie Dunn. Becky Dunn. Linda Plonk. Vlckey Petty. Lydia Poole. Don Pruitt. Barbara Miller. Mike Go forth. Win Goter. Faye Smith, Jackie Smith. Leslie Joy. Vickie Jackson. Rita Caverv Mary Ann Morrison. Wayne Mdler. Charles Wright. Sylvia Acuff. Chip Bridges. Rita Bell. Dale Byars. Marlene Oli\er and Jay Bridges. Sophomores: Ann Bell. Roger Randall. Steve Sprouse. Pat Eng land, Vickie White. Barbara VuiUiHiicd U» Pay •
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