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VOL 75 No. 49
Established 1889
Seventy-Fifth Year
PRICE TEN
PAUL SMITH
GAIL BAH
Vive Students
Ffausk At Bap
Five Kings Mountain students
were among the 330 graduates
who received diplomas at the re
al King's College at Charlotte.
Diplomas in the General Bus!
Seas Ta ret srlal class nave a*
warded to Frankie Patterson
Hamrick, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Frank L Hamrick, route 3;
and Gail Priscilla Beans, daimb
tar of Mr. and Mrs, arnast E.
Ooarimied On P%f» «
Funeral Held
Here Tneaday
For ML C. Amos
Funeral rites Tor Matthew
Christopher Amos, 62, were held
Tuesday at 4 p.m. from 1-irst
Baptist church of which he »a>
a member.
.Mr. Amos. Kings Mou.ualn
merchant and partner in Amos &
Sons Store succumbed Sunday at
5:30 p.m. in the Kings Mountain
hospital. lie had Iteen in ill
; health for two years.
A native of Cherokee County,
South Carolina. Mr. Amos was
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
James Woffard Amos. He came
to Kings Mountain 37 years ago
Surviving are his wife. Mrs.
Bertie Wilson Amos; two sons.
James E. Amos of Kings Moun
tain and Or. William E. Amos of
Phoenix. Arizona; a brother. H.
j Dean Amos, of Charlotte; and
! four grandchildren.
Rev. B. L. Raines officiated at
the final rites and interment was
made in Mountain Rest cemetery.
i Mbs. Wilson's
Rites Thnisday
Funeral service.; for Mrs. E N.
Wilson. 91. mother of Mrs. M. C.
Amos of Kings Mountain, will be
held Thursday afternoon at 3
o'clock at Canaan Methodist
church. Gaffney, S. C.
Mrs. Wilson, who had been ill
several yean, died at her home.
Third street. Gaffney, at S
o'clock Tuesday night.
Mrs. Amos’ husband had been
interred here Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Wilson was the widow of
Edward Newton Wilson who died
In 1942. She was a member of the
Canaan church.
Surviving are two sons, Frank
Wilson. Spartanburg, S. C. James
Wilson, Roanoke, Va„ and seven
daughters. Mrs. Ctetus Starnes,
and Mrs. Ruth Worley, both of
Spartanburg. Mrs. Will Spender
and Mrs. Horace Millwood, both
of Gaffney, Mrs. Jesse Turner.
Kings Creek, S. C., Mrs. Amos
and Mrs. Johnny Jones, of Kings
Mountain.
The final rites will be conduct
ed by Rev. Donald E. McKinney.
Rev Clarence Hampton, and
Rlev. J. W. Tomlinson. Burial
will be in the church cemetery.
United Fond
Drive Continues
Kings Mountain’s United Fund
Drive will be continued through
the month of December and of
ficials were anticipating that the
* of 933,000 would be
Chairman Charles F.
said that reports were not
plete and he urged
to complete solicitation
reports
financial
funds
current
tor nine
contributions
reported, Mr. Mauney said.
Mine funds will benefit
scripts. They are
Moy Scouts, Com
Girl
brary. Kings
11
Mountaln
Kings Mountain
Squad, and two special
funds for Indigent heart and can
cer funds of $1,000 each.
Liagerfelt
Died Wfilnffday
Marcus Austin Lingerfelt. 65,
died early Wednesday morning
following a heart attack Tuesday.
Funeral plans, now incomplete,
will be announced by Harris Fun
eral Home.
Mr. Lingerfelt was a native of
Lincoln County.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Betty Lou Hefner Lingerfelt;
three eons, William Harvey lin
gerfelt of Anaheim. California;
Willard Ward LUwerfslt of Cos
ta Mesa, Calif, and Austin Lin
fsrfalt of Kings Moon
daughters. Alice Marie
nle Mae Lingerfelt. both of the
home; a brother, Lester linger
felt of Charlotte and a sister.
Mrs. Minnie Williams of Char
lotte. Also surviving are 10
Choral Society -
Will Sing Here
Httee CMcMm
Six Days, Too
As retailers In the uptown
business district have suspend
ed Wednesday afternoon half
holidays, so will the parking
meter officer — effective next
Wednesday. December 9.
Customarily, with most mer
chants closed Wednesday aft
ernoons. parking is free In the
business district. Officer Ralph
Ware noted.
Kings Mountain
Baptist Scone
Of Concert
A Christmas Concert at Kings
Mountain Baptist church Sunday
, afternoon at 3 o’clock by the
Cleveland County Choral Society
I officially open the Christmas
: eeaeon of musical services in
Kings Mountain.
l^e 08-member choir, in its
third season, is under the direc
tion of Harvey L. Woodruff of
Charlotte. Mrs. Robert Carter of
Shelby is organist and pianist
I *•* Marion DuBose. Kings
Mountain Baptist pastor, said the
interested community is invited
| to attend the program. Mr. Du
Base will lead the call to worship
and invocation.
Members of the choir will open
the program with “Magnificat”
by J. Bert Carlson and follow
with the male quartet ■iwgtwg
’Today Is oBm Immanuel" by
Michael Praetorius (1571-1631 >.
A ’Twilight Music” Cantata in
I eight parts will feature the or
gan. sopranos, chorus, tenors
and basses and sopranos and al
tos in "Rejoice. eBloved Chris
tians" by Diethich Buxtehude
(1637-17071.
Unda and Susan Bowles, mez
zo-sopranos. will sing "O Child
Of Bethlehem” by Benedetto
Marcello (1686-1738) and other
numbers will include: Bach’s
“Break Forth. O Beauteous Heav
enly Light" (1685-1758); the Mo
ravian composition by Schultz
(1747-1800), "Thou Child Divine”;
(Continued On Page
Brack Bad Canlya Joaei
Philip Bunch, high school
Junior, and Carolyn Jones, high
school senior, are winners of
Kings Mountain's "Teenagers of
1964" awards given by the Op
timist dub.
The trophies were presented as
highlight of the Optimist-spon
sored Midget Turkey Bowl Sat
urday night In dty stadium.
Bunch Is the son at Mr. and
Mrs. Kelly Bunch. An Kagle
Scout, he is active la
modal ABF church. J
Is the daughter of Mrand Mrs.
John Joooo of tin hrthom oom*
muiilty.
Mias Jones and Bunch were
chosen on the basis of outatand
In* woik In the home, church
and community and nominations
ware nude by Kings Mountain
area dttaens. They are recipients
ot the second annual award
to teenagers by the Kings
Mountain civic dub.
K W. cash) Hurlbut
Mis. Bioward,
Floral Leader
Died Tuesday
Funeral rites for Mrs. Recce
Ritch Broward, wife of Clark H.
Broward, will be held Thursday
morning at 11 o'clock from First
Presbyterian church of which
she was a member.
The body will remain at Har
ris Funeral Home until the hour
of service. Dr. Paul Ausle>, her
pastor, will officiate, and inter
ment will be in Mountain Rest
Ci-metery.
Mrs. Broward died suddenly
Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in the
Kings Mountain hospital. She
had suffered a heart attack a
halt hour earlier.
A native of Huntersville, she
was the daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Kdward Ritch.
She and her husband formerly
made their home in Atlanta. Ga.
Past president of the North
• Carolina State Judges' club, she
held a master's certificate as a
nationally accredited flower
show judge.
Besides her husband she is
survived by two daughters. Mrs.
Luke Greene of Atlanta. Ga.. and
Mrs. George H. Mauney of Kings
Mountain; a brother, Paul Ritch
of Asheville; and seven grand
children.
Retailers Open
Foil Six Days
Kings Mountain merchants,
their stores gaily decorated lor
the Christmas season, are now
open six days weekly, having
suspended the Wednesday half
holiday through Christmas,
Several firms have been on a
full six-day week schedule since
October and majority of the oth
ers have now Joined them.
Merchants report their inven
tories of specially - purchased
Christmas goods full, both as to
depth and variety.
There has also been a run of
early Christmas shopping.
Toy offerings are reported es
pecially good this year, along
with sporting goods. Jewelry, ap
parel. furniture, large and small
I appliances, and other desired
gift items.
Mm 1L-!J-'
Kites Conducted
Funeral for Mrs Alice Martin
Bridges, 79. of route 1, Blacks
burg. S. C. sister of Mrs. Fannie
Robinson of Grover, was held
Friday at 4 p.m. from Mount Pa
ran Baptist church, interment
following In the church cemetery.
Mrs. Bridges died at 4:45 a.m.
Thursday at Cherokee County
hoepital following a brief illness.
Other survivors include her
husband. Luther B. Bridges; a
son, Paul A. Bridges of Green
vlUe, four daughters, Mrs. Wilma
Gladden t* Blacksburg. Mrs.
Dora Mitchell, of Sharon. Mrs.
Julia Cox of Woodruff, and Mrs
Mary Alexander of Charlotte; a
brother, Joe D. Martin of Rock
Hill; 14 grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren.
Kings Mountain Postmaster
Charles L. Alexander has an
nounced local postal service
changes to accommodate busy
Christinas shoppers during the
month of December.
Mr. Alexander noted the win
dow will be open on Wednesday
afternoon, December 9. 16 and
23. Money order service will al
so be provided on Saturday De
cember 12th and Saturday, Dec.
19.
Hie flve-daysa-week delivery
of parcel post wil I be suspend
ed for the period December 7
through December SI. During
this period parcataoat will be
delivered on a six-day week ba
sis, Monday through Saturday.
Tryon Volunteer Fire Depart
' will egoneor an all-day
at 11
at G. A.
tain will provide music from
7:30 unto 10:30 pan.
Teague To Speak
To Mountaineers
County Officers
Will Talp Oaths
Hie county commission will
I take on a new complexion Mon
I day as two new members take
I their oaths of office.
The new members are Coleman
W. Goforth, who succeeds Chair-1
man J. Broad us Ellis, represent -1
Ing District 2, and Spurgeon j
Hewitt, who succeeds John D.'
White, retiring as District 4 com
missione.'.
Also to be sworn Monday is
Ralph Tucker, who succeeds Reg- J
ister of Deeds Ivey Whlsnant
Bobby Cabiness. nominee for
the county board of education,
won t succeed retiring Chairman
Walter Davis until appointed by
the General Assembly.
And Senator-elect Jack H.
White and Representative-elect
Robert Z. Falls - take oaths for
service in the General Assembly
in Raleigh.
All township officers, including
Constable Charles W. Ford, and
Magistrates J. Lee Roberts and
Etaie L. Putnam, of Number 4
Township, all re-elected, will
take oaths of office Monday.
Holdover county commission
ers, with two years to serve, are
David Beam. Broadus (Pop) Sim-*
mons. and Hugh Dover.
Liras Are Hosts
To Gridreen
At Animal Party
By CARY STEWART
Edward L. < Eddie) Teague, Jr.,
head football coach at The Cita
del in Charleston, South Caro
lina, will be the guest speaker
at the annual Kings Mountain
Lion's Club football banquet at
the Woman's Club Tuesday. De
temboi S at 7:00.
Teague has just completed his
eighth season as head coach at
The Citadel, and during that
eight yeai span has led the Ca
det squads to a 43-36-2 overall
record, a record that includes the
1960 Tangerine Bowl Champion
ship and the Southern Confer
ence crown in 1961. Teague’s
teams have twice won eight
games in a season; 8-2 in '59 and
8-2-1 in ’60. The conference
champs had a 7-3 season in ’61.
Teague was named Coach of the
Year in the Southern Conference
in 1961 by the SCSWA.
As an athletic director. Teague
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'odors Occupy
Their New Clink
Hendricks-Durham Clinic oc
cupied a new 18-room doctor’s
clinic Wednesday morning, com
plcting moving chores Tuesday
afternoon and evening.
The new building at the cor
ner of Mountain and Juniper
streets approximates 3200 square
feet on a lot which fronts 115
feet by 180 feet deep. The lots
were purchased from George W.
Mauney and Mrs. A. L. Allran.
The new clinic, built at a coat
of $40,000, houses offices for
three doctors and treatment
rooms plus an x-ray room and
emergency room. It is of bride
and marble construction.
Construction work was begun
about September 1.
Dr. Joe Lee of Greenville, S. C„
Joined Dr. Paul E. Hendricks and
Dr. Thomas Durham in the prac
tice at medicine July 1.
was n»
or
Bwmrian Priam
Wei Donmatfoa
Most princesses live “happily
ever alter”, according to fairy
Salas
But Princess Catherine Carad
Ja. formerly of Romania, now a
naturalised U. S. citizen, tells a
different story on an average of
33 lectures per week, eight talks
a day, before audiences in 48
■tates. Morocco. Algiers, and
France.
The princess spoke to Joint
meetings of the Senior Woman's
dub, the Junior Woman's dub,
and the Senior Citizens dub on
Monday night and Tuesday night
addressed Kings Mountain Jay
Direct descendant of one of the
oldest royal families of Europe,
the princess told how in World
War I she took over an orphan
age of 300 babies, saw it grow to
3AOO. a personally supervised
Family Foundation for orphans
and lost it to the Reds March 1.
1940. She and foundlings was a
way at the time, she said, or she
would have been arrested along
with some 30j000 others that
night.
Her Romania, of 30 million
pewons> rich in oil and wheat
Ml by invasion from without by
the IM8R The great industrallz
ad CmdMalovaMa fell through
subversion from within, and this
listeners, it is the famous Skoda
Works, which is supplying the
Soviet manned by forced Czech
labor. “They don't want war”,
she said, they want factories —
whole and Intact, with clever,
trained people to man them.”
“For eight yearn in satellite
Romania, I overheard them talk
ing about you. telling their peo
ple to be patient they would yet
deliver all of America’s bounty to
the Russian people. I listened to
what you big-hearted Americans
were trying to say to the Soviet
leaders and Heard them filing
you afraid.”
“I watched your kindnesses be
ing interpreted as weaknesses
until I was convinced I must es
cape sad go to your country snd
tell you Just what everyday life
is really like under the Russian
heeL
“America has a good life. I i
of what It is like to cope with the
hopeless grind stretching out for
years, let alone terror and want.
You get tour yards of cotton In
the spring for a dress, four yards
of linsey-woolsey la the on
*They discipline you through
your children. You have to work
at what they give you or no ra
tion cords for the children and
no high school permit for. the
youth. Of comae, you can lOsign
for $14 if you get disgusted or at
»«t|ttoy they pkft^you up asuiv
On
*
Fond C
Group
Are
King*
new footl
called the
after the
mentor.
Members
stadium c
organi/ati
madi tr
appointed dMIfffien to
financial campaign In
business, and professional
J. Wilson Crawford,
and J. Ollie Harris,
will serve ar. co-chairn
dust rial solicitation. C|
Elanton, pharmacist,
the business category
Gecrge plonk, a medic
will head the prolcsslor
division.
The financial drive
$80,000 for a 4.000-seat <
stadium comparable to
ton Memorial Stadium
Cost will approximate
seat, officials estimate.
Leaders anticipate a
dium would be
southwest side of the n
school plant, now being
Phifer (OfA and can’be
ed h»r the fall term
scheduled opening data
11.1 million school bulk
The subscription was
launched last week a
first gift of $100 from
Pally Star.
1
Carl F, Mauney and
A. Neisler are co-chairme
school district townshi|
and Charles Harry. HI. C
er, is secretary-treasurer,
should be made payable I
Mountain School Stadlui
and contributions are tat
tible. They should be fa
to Mr. Harry in Grover.
The campaign will be
to all citizens in
tain. Grover and
of No. 4
dividual
of a house-to-house
funds will not be
after the first of the
P»lgn leaders pointed
Other communities
ed funds for stadium
including Shelby’s
modal Stadium, built
trom public subscription,
ryvllle and Lincoln ton. A i
subscription drive for a
funds is underway In ~
and Gastonia has
King* Mountain's _
Ing Fund swelled to
continue to nuuin the
booths on downtown st
Rev. c. R. Goodson,
E. Gold Street Wesleyr
diet church and drive
noted he had received
from a family of eight
who will benefit from
■lion Santa Claus” »r._
Goodson said that citizens
wish to help this
ily with gifts of'food,
toys, etc should contact
Mr. Goodson said that
local ministers will be _
“ring our bell of Joy** this (
mas-season and he
ministers who have contrl
their time to the project: Ri
Q. Clayton, eight hours;
Willis, three hours; Rev. Q
Julian, three hours; Rev. .
Ashe, four hours; Rev. llcD
four hours; Rev. Gardin.
hours; and Rev. Goodson,
Other contributions is
the following:
Kings oMuntain Herald
Rippy Jewelers $10.
Piedmont Lunch *1 I
shop n
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