Population Greater Kings Mountain City Limits >w tor Umiu IKunT 10.320 8.008 THU figure loi Ci'O'.i K)*fi Mouatom It dtrlvH Ik* l»SJ KJ nata a •I I* VOL. 75 No. 45 14 Pages Today L 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- • Continued On Page o t r-- . Local News Bulletins W 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 Continued Oh ttij/e o 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