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PRICE TEN CENT'
DAN K. MOORE
ROBERT (ROB) SCOTT
Lt Oovtmot
BASIL L. WHITENER
Democrats Whip
Ail GOP Foes
Democrats appai ently rr.ad.- a
clean sweep in ruesdav’s general
election.
Kings ,\| >untain and Cleveland
County citizens accorded majori
ties to:
Democrat Dan K. Moore, elect
ed governor of the state, made a
two-time loser of Republican
Robert Gav in. Moore. 58, grab
hid the lead early and with more
than 83 percent of the vote count
Ml. he I«*<1 in 16 counties to only
20 f >r Gavin.
tVmocrat Robert W. i Bobi
Scull was elec ted lieutenant gov
ernor The Haw River dairy far
mer and son of the late Senator
and Gdvernor W. Kerr Scott,
took an early commanding lead
over Republican Clifford Leo
Bell and held on to it.
Jack 11. White, unopposed m
Com tinned l)» Page li
JACK H. WHITE
State Senate
ROBERT (BOB) FALLS
House of Representatives
COLEMAN GOFORTH
County Comm., District II
1BJ Landslide Victor;" Democrats Retain Cong
ress
HOMECOMING QUEEN CROWNED—Janie Goforth, high school
senior and 1964 Horn scorning Quota, receives a congratulatory
Mss from Judy Dellinger at opening ceremonies before Friday
night's homecoming football game in city stadium. See story an
sports page, this section. (Photo by Paul Lonunons).
Lutherans To Host
District Meeting
Pastors, Laymen
To Meet Here
On Thursday
Resurrection Lutheran church
will be host to the Southwestern
.District of the North Carolina
' Synod, Lutheran Church in A
merica. Thursday for the annual
fall meeting.
Rev. George T. Moore, pastor,
said that pastors and lay dele*
galea from 33 Lutheran congre
gations are expected to attend.
The one-day meeting will open
at 10:30 a.m. with greetings from
Dr. George W. Whitticar. presi
dent of the North Carolina Syn
od- Liturgists for the morning
worship service and Sacrament
of Holy Communion will be Rev.
Mr. Moore and Rev . Cyrus F
Frazier of Mount Ilollv. pastor
of Good Shepherd Lutheran
church
Rev. Robert F. Shelby. Jr. of
Ikimont. pastor of Holy Com
forter church and acting dean of
the district, will preside. Women
of the host church will serve
luncheon in the church fellow- I
ship hall.
Program theme for tin- dis
trict gathering is "The Ministry j
and the Holy Communion of the
Church.” Rev. Brady Faggart.
Jr., secretary of parish education
in the Lutheran Synod, and Rex.
Jack E. Smith, pastor of St.
Mark's of Asheville, will elabor
ate on the theme. A d»*an and
secretary to fill unexpired terms
of Rev George W. I.ingle and
Rev. Fred Ramseur. Jr. will he
• elected during the afternoon set
sion. Both Mr. Lmgle am* Mr.
Ramseur have accepted pastor- •
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Local News
Bulletins
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LIBRARY HOUDAT
Jacob S. Mauney Memorial
Library will be dosed Wednes
day. November 11. in observ
ance of Veterans Day. a na
tional holiday, it has been an
nounced by library officials.
KIWAMIS
Bob Alexander of Gastonia
will present a program on ka
rate at Thursday's Khvanis
club meeting at 6:45 p.m at
lhe Woman’s club. Mr. Alexan
der instructs classes in karate
and judo in Gastonia.
LODGE MEETING
Stated communication of
Fail-view Lodge 339 AF A AM
will be held Monday night at
7:30 p.m. at Masonic Hall. Sec
retary T. D. Tindall has an
nounced.
SENIOR CmSEMS
The Senior Citizens club will
hold a covered dish luncheon
and regular meeting Friday at
12 noon at the Woman's club.
LUTHER LEAGUERS
Luther Leaguers of St Mat
thew’s Lutheran church will go
to Hickory Sunday afternoon
to tour the campus of Lenoir
Rhyne college. After visitin'.;
on the campus, they will have
supper in the college dining .
room. >
Secession Talk
To Be Continued
Friday Morning
Mayor Glee A. Bridges has
callod a meeting of interested
Kings Mountain citizens to dis
cuss Kings Mountain secession
activity Friday mom in y at 10 a.
m. at City Hall courtroom.
The mayor said he had con- j
ferred with Jonas Bridges, chair
man of a committee of civic ami
service organization leaders, and
others, and it had been agreetl to
hold a public meeting of all in
terested citizens.
"The committee urges persons
for and against sei'ession to at
tend", he added.
The Mayor has estimated pre- i
viouslv that 90 percent of the
people support the movement to j
take the Kings Mountain area
out of Cleveland County and into
Gaston.
United Ftrad
Gifts Growing
"Our goal is in signt and we’ll i
make it”. Charles K. Mauney. j
chairman of Kings Mountain's
United Fund campaign, said
Wednesday.
Mr. Mauney was pleased by im
ports of industrial gifts to the
1964 campaign which continues
through the month of November.
‘•As yet”, Mr. Mauney continu
ed. "we haven't had imports from
many business and individual so
licitation and we have reached
'a of the goal ”
"The United Fund drive is
shaping up good”, Mr. Mauney
added, and he noted that volun
teer workers an* optimistic to
believe that the $23,000 goal will
j be met.
Chairman Mauney says there
i is no reason for fail jure to attain
! the goal "if we work." He said
the turrmnt campaign will be
known as the "Fair Share Cam
paign". in which all citizens will
be asked to make a "fair share"
contribution.
A "fair share" contribution was
described as one hour's pay per
, month or six-tenths of one-per
; cent of annual income. Several
'industrial firms are making a
i callable to their employees a
I payroll deduction plan for Unit
1 ed Fund giving.
No less than 72 citizens an*
participating in the soliciting
work.
Total pledges to date are
$7,157.20.
Mr. Mauney reported these
, contributions from industries this
week:
Chemstrand Corp.. Blacksburg.
S. C.. $200.
Phenix Plant. Burlington Mills.
$956.
A & P Super Markets. $210
Park Yarn Mills. $402.20.
Nine funds will benefit from
United Fund receipt*. They are:
the Red Cross. Boy Scouts. Com
pact-Davidson band. Girl Scouts.
Mauney Memoiial library. Kings .
Mountain high school band.
Kings Mountain Rescue sipiad.
and two special funds for indi
gent heart and canter patients
of $1,000 each. (These funds are
connected in no w*ay with the
American Heart Association nor
the American Cancer Society
which conduct separate fund
raising campaigns, i
SERVICE
Stewardship Sunday will lie
observed at St. Matthew's Lu
t her an church Sunday. Rev.
Charles W. Easley will preach
on the subject. “To Give Is To
Grow." Alter the service, the
1965 budget, as prepared by
the cong legation's finance
committee, will be presented to
the congregation for approv al.
NOTES NINETIETH BIRTHDAY — M. L. Hannon. Sr. retired
Kings Mountain grocer, celebrated bis 90th birthday Saturday.
(Photo by Paul Lemmons).
M. L. Harmon, 90
Notes Birthday
Retired Grocer
Cast First Vote
In Year IMS
1
I here may have l>oen some
lieople in Kings Mountain who
j didn't bother to vote Tuesday,
i Hut M. L Harmon. Sr., 90. was
, not one of them.
Mr Harmon, retired grocer
i and a Democrat, cast his first
1 vote in a presidential election in
ls9ti. He has visited the (tolls
regularly since.
I Born Halloween 1S7-1 in the
lieulah community near Waco,
he came to Kings Mountain in
IbiM at the age of 20 to attend
school. He lived with an aunt,
Sallie Kails Hilling and her hus
band. Captain Freno Hilling, in
the home now owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Cleojge H. Mauncy on ,\.
Piedmont avenue.
When Mr. Harmon eame here.
Kings Mountain was little mow*
than a crossroads compared to
today’s heavily • industrialized
city.
Of his 90 years. Mr. Harmon
ha» spent fid of them as a citizen
of Kings Mountain.
He has enjoyed good health
except for the (wist few years
when had eyesight and poor
hearing have kepi him from be
ing active in community life He
and his wife, the former Eunice
Plonk, live in their residence on
W. King street. Mr Harmon has
long been active in the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church,
is an i Ider in the Boyce Memor
ial church and a Mason. Their
son. Manin L. Harmon. Jr., edi
tor of the Kings Mountain Her
aid. accompanies his father to
vote and on trips to town.
Although confined to his home
CuHtmuui On Pujt o
SPEAKER — Rev. Charles Eas
ley. paster of St Matthew's
Lutheran church, will be the
speaker at Friday's communi
ty * wide World Community
Day service at Resurrection
Lutheran church.
Community Day
Service Friday
Rc*v. Charles W Easley, pastor
of St. Matthew's Lutheran
church, will make the principal
address at Friday's World Com
munity Day service at 3: 13 p.m. i
at Resurrection Lutheran church.
The Kings Mountain Council
of Churchwomen is sponsoring
the program, one of three the in
let-denomination a I organ./ation
promotes annually.
Kings Mountain churchwomen
who are preparing schoolh.i •*
for African children are asked to
bring them to Friday's meeting.
The schoolbags w ill he boxed and
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Township Voters Liked LBJ;
Democrats In Clean Sweep
President Lyndon Baines Johnson won re-election in his own right to a four-year
: presidential term in Tuesday’s general election.
The victory for him and Minnesota Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey was fore
cast as apotcnlial landslide early after the returns started coming in and the continued
reports continued the trend.
Kings Mountain area voters went to the polls in record numbers and agreed with
the national decision in returning the President a majority by 2-1 in every nrecinet ex
cept Bethware in No. 1 Township. * 1
.no. i mwnsnip. as it dirt in
15*56. returned a Democratic ma
| Joritv in the presidential election
and this year the Democrats
1 made a clean sweep. All opposed
1 Democrats received majorities of
j 2 to l or better in drover. Hast
Kings Mountain. West Kings
, Mountain and Bethware with
' two exceptions at Bet hw are. The
dOP lead in tile presidential race
was by a 72 vote margin and tin*
dOP lead in the state house of
representatives- race was but a
14 vote margin.
i Johnson's triumph was so
I overwhelming that the conserva
1 live senator from Arizona, who
j had offoml the voters "a choice.
• not an echo”, did not even hold
i Vermont, which never hail voted
Democratic before in its history.
But as expected, doldwater did
break the traditional Democrat.c
| stranglehold on the South. He
I won Mississippi. Alabama and
| South Carolina. Flsewhere. how
ever, it was disaster for his
i hopes.
The Democrats will control the
''9th Congress as they did the
: SNth They kept control of the
Senate in Tuesday's election anti
appeared to have kept control of
the House with an increased
> margin.
Most political observers from
Jaycees Relay
Vote Totals
King*- Mountain Ja\cees. :«I«*>i■»
with those from Shelby. devote
Tuesday lo the general elect i in.
cooperating v th the National
Network Ekv.ion Seiviee to re
lay voting resjlts from eaeh «f
1 the county * Js precincts imme
diately after votes were tabalai
etl.
Too. they conducted a final
get-out the-vot<* campaign and
sponsored a bia hootenanny in j
j Shelby at S p.m.
Cleveland Count* was chosen ,
a sample county in the nation !
and the project was sjjonsoia-d b>
the three major television net
works. Associated Press a n d
United Press.
When ballots were eiuntol
Tuesday night. .faycees railed by
credit card number to Charlotte
w hich was North Carolina head- j
quarters for N’ES.
Two minutes later, results
woiv on the big boards in Now
York City. This information was j
used in computers and analytical
procedures to be able to deter
mine eatl> in the evening who
would win major races.
ON HONOR ROLL
Eight sophomores who math*
the A or first honor roll at
Kings Mountain high school
were inadvertently omitted
from the list of honor roll stu
dents published In the Herald i
last week. They were: Larry
Burton. Carolyn Nadine llell.
Edith Jo Bridges. Jane Mori is.
Larry Patrick, Kenny Plonk.
Ha*til Wilson and Chucky
Gladden.
2. 7(
LANDSLIDE WINNER — Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson easily
won re-election Tuesday to his
lirst lull-term in the White
House, as he swept to victory
with a record number ol votes.
Two Local Seniors
Morehead Nominees
Two Kings Mountain high
school seniors George Webo
Plonk, Jr. and Kichard Sherrill
Gold are among 20 Cleveland
County seniors nominate*I for
Morehead Scholarships to the
University of North Carolina.
L. Lvndon Hobbs, chairman of
the county Morehead selection
committee, said three of the 20
will he chosen to compete in dis
trict competition in Charlotte.
I'lonk is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. George Plonk and Gold is
the s hi of Mr. and Mrs. John P
Gold.
Infant’s Bites
Held Sunday
Funeral riles for Samuel Blair|
leseniar. II. three-day-old son of
Samuel and Dorothy Hawkins
r* seniar, were held Sunday at
2:30 pm. irorn Faith aaptist
church, interment following in'
the cemetery of Wallace Grove
Baptist church.
The child died Friday in the
U. S. Naval hospital at Charles
ton. S. C.
Kev. W Flay Payne officiated
at the rites.
Besides the parents, the child
is survived by the paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
K. Teseniar, and the maternal
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Clar- .
once Hawkins, all of Kings
Mountain.
VETERANS TO MEET
Veterans of World War I
will gather Sunday afternoon
at City Hall courtroom for a
regular mivtHig to discuss the
new pension hill signed by the
President October 13.
tx»th parties li.nl rxpivU'd the
presidential voting to he ,-losb in
North i arolina. But Johnson was
generally felt to be the front
runner by a nose right up to
election day.
s
The 55-year-old Johnson, a
Texan, scored his triumphant
piesklential victory just 19 da) .1
short of the Nov. 11 first anni
versary of the day he took the
White House from the assassi
nated John F. Kennedy
President Johnson said in Aus
tin. Texas. Wednesday. "I wish
to be equal to your confidence
, and to the hopes of all of the
people of America." He said that
now the election is over Ameri
cans must "face the world as
one.”
I ask all thus.- who supported
me and all those who opposed
mo to forget our differences, be
cause there are many more
things in America that unite us
than divide us.”
Oily in the South, where he
lost five states, and possibly in
Arizona, did his surge falter in
the sweep toward the greatest
presidential victory of modern
times—the largest ever in terms
of votes rolled up and margin
1 over his opponent.
Sidelights
1
( ouiUing lit ballots is a tedious
«nd (Ml:cult chore Flection offi
cials were remembering in I960
ilwt Mrs. J. u Arthur. W«t
Kings Mountain registrar final
ly completed the chore at 5 a.m.
Wednesday morning. All returns
were tabulated by 10:10 p.m.
Tuesday, both the Kast Kings
Mountain and West Kings Moun
tain officials finishing about the
same time.
e-s
James O. Bishop of Park Dale
community was an early-bird
voter He was at City Hall at
Si.V* a.m. Tuesday and waited un
til the polls opened at 6:30 a.m
Lemuel Johnson. Negro citi/en,
apparently fainted in mid-after
noon, was carried hy ambulance
to the hospital. Mr. Johnson had
cast his vote, was asking election
official Clarence Black to assist
him in dropping his ballots in the
proper slots.
e-s
There were several write ins
by Republicans, including: Kd
Smith. Don Pondestron. L. L.
Day. C. F. Wilson. D. B. Toll.-son
and W. K. Kuykendall for state
senator; J. W. Faker. N. O
Thornburg, and H. B. Buckner,
county board of education; and
Dale Vollbracht. constable. The
Bethware precinct listed eight
write-in candidates.
e-s
B. Meek Ortnand. longtime
Democrat c.c-’ his first vote in
ls<M At HV Kings Mountain's
oldest Democrat says he has vot
ed the straight Democratic ticket
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