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4 ♦ Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits |,000 TM» IMur, la, Crratci lm,i Mauaitoa to *!»<!• Mtaataw cil| «mi«r CM a Ih»m is lira lira UaltsC stout caw limits k VOL. 76 No. 5 PRiCfc TfcN CENT* Hord-Reed Clinic Opened Monday Local News Bulletins --» LUTHERAN SERVICE Rev. Charles W. Easley's ser ion title Sunday at St. MaJ thew'V Lutheran church will be Simple Sermons". At the 11 o'clock worship service, the tour new councilnnen recently cic ,«<i will be installed. They .rc: John II. Moss. Carl Finger. Charles Maunev, A. S. Kiser. YOUTH NIGHT SET Saturday nighr will be Youth Night during the youth revival at First Church of the Naza • tie. continuing through Sun day n ghi Rev. G. W. Harrell. .. of Charleston, S. C.. Is visit ing evangelist for services at 7 p.m. P-T-S-A TO MEET Tlu Kings Mountain high - hool Parent - Teacher • Stu dent Association will meet Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. Priitci pal Harry Jaynes will discuss progress of the new school building and refreshments will be served. TC HEAR POSTON !>r. Eugene l*->ston. president ■f (iardner-Webh college. wll address the Kings Mountain 1-ions club at the Tuesday night meeting of theclub, 7 p. m.. at the Woman's Club. e METER RECEIPTS ■ Parking meter receipts for Yhe week ending Wednesday totaled including $137. 50 from on-street meters, $t»> from f ties. atul $16 from nff strect meters. KIWANIS CLUB Dr. Eugene Poston, president > ' Gardner-Webb Junior col Icgr. will address Kings Moun tain Kiwaninns at their Thurs day meeting at 6:15 p.m. at the Woman's club. Dr. Poston will di'.uss plans for Gardner Webb’s Convocation to be held in March. ROTARY CLUB Ring' Mountain Roturians will hn\I their rr^ular meeting Thurs lay at 12:1a at the Coun try Club. Tom Burk< is program chairman. LODGE MEETING Regular communication of Kairview Lodge 339 AF&AM will lie held Monday night at 7:30 at Masonic Midi. Seore t try T. D. Tindall hits announc ed. Page's Store Is Liquidated k Harry K. Page, owner ol Rife’s Men's St.ire, announced this week he has liipiidated the firm which he opened here five years ago. Mr. Page said all remaining stock had been purchased by K. I. Sinkoe of Chat I ate and the store was dosed January 2N. "After five years of very plea - mt association here in Kings Mountain as owner of Page's Men's Store.” Mr. Page said. 'T line decided to retire -from this business. I have made many friends here and thank them for their wonderful support”, he added. Mr. Page noted that A. W. IVnmngt >n. Box 11 1. Mlaeks burg. S. C.. is winner of a $23 savings bond given in a prize drawing during a sail's promo i.on at Page's. Back-Lilt Corset, Oi What....? Mayor Glee Bridges, still halt from a hack injury suf fered in a fall on the ice Jan* uary 23. admits to wearing a new garment — or undergar ment. Says the Mayor. "The doetor calls it a back-lift, but I call it a corset " A Kings Mountain grand smother remarked. "I wear one. too. I call mine a foundation garment." uptouetnst W Denlbt In New Quarters Dr. D. F. fiord, King* Moun tain dentist, and Dr. N. II. Reed. Kings Mountain optometrist, oc cupied new quartern in the form «t Hendricks-Durham Clinic at 206 Cansler street Monday. I The building was purchased from Dr. Paul Hendricks and has been completely renovated and remodeled. The* Reed offices in clude a reception room, in addi tion to other offices for patients and the Hord offices are com plete with a r<-<-option room and offices for patients. Dr. Hord began his practice hetc 15 years ago and was join ed a year later ay Dr. Reed in the Professional Building. Dr. Hied caifte to Kings Mountain in 1951. For a number of years Dr. Reed and Dr. Hord shared the same reception room which connected the two offices in the Professional Building. Ta> Sales Tap 1400-Maib Kings Mountain aut-» tag sales topped the 1-100-mark Wednes day. Being sold by the Lions club, under franchise of the city, the tags remain on sale at City Hall courtroom at one dollar each. The Lions will devote half of the net proceeds to the John Gamble Stadiu n fund, the club has v -*■ Sam Weir, chairman of the Lions sale committee, reminded. , “We hope the 1965 Kings Moun- ; tail auto tag will he considered a tommunlty tag and that every one with a Kings Mountain mail- j ing address will bjy a tag for his vehicles.'' Crawford Plans Development J. Wilson Crawford. Kings M mntain realty developer. has purchased a l.Vaiw tract on Cansler street near Temple Bap tist church and plana a reslden- i tial develop-non! of medium ' price residences. Mr. Crawford purchased the I property from Mrs. II. Tom Kul ton. Sr. He said land-planning of the i tract is virtual! yeomplete, that streets will he staked c»ut next week, and that building will be gin in the spring. Tax Payments Beach $141315 The eity treasury w.-is enhanc ed hy more than $36,000 during •he past week, as city taxpayers paid l!HVt tax hills in that a ■nount and avoided the one per eent |N‘nalty which applied Tues da>. City Clerk Joe McDaniel. Jr., said payments prior to the pen ally period totaled S14I.3R5, rep resenting 81 percent of the 1964 levy of $177,266. The total Is 06.2 percent of the $150,000 the lily anticipated i: would receive from 1964 tax hills during the fiscal year ending next June 30. Additional penalty of one half percent per month applies March KM SAL Annual Meeting Tuesday Annual meeting of directors of Kings Mountain Savings A Loan Association will he held at the offices of the ass H'iation Tues day afternoon at 2 p.m. Principal business of the meet ing will be presentation of re ports of officers and election of directors for the coming year. Secretary • Treasurer Ben H. Bridges said. DANCE SATURDAY Crover Rescue Squad will sponsor a dance Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Squad building. Tickets are $1.30 per eouplr. $1 stag and 30 cents for children under 14 if children • are accompanied by their par- | ents. Music for both round acid , square dancing will he furn- ! ished by The Jokers. GRADUATE — Miss Mary Barnes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rayford Barnes of Kings Mountain, graduated from Winston Salem State college on January 27 with a bachelor of science degree in education. Miss Barnes is a graduate of Lincoln high school in Besse mer City. Mis. Morrison Dies In Missouri Funeral rites for Mrs. l.ura McKay Morrison, 78. onetime Kings Mountain riti/en. were conducted at Central Methodist church in Asheville Monday aft ernoon. Mrs. Morrison, a daughter of the late Dt. J. 1.. McKay, former Kings Mountain physician, and Mrs. McKay, died January SI at the home of a daughter in Kirk wood. Mo. Another daughter. Mrs. Har riet Morrison Sims, resides at Greenville. S. C. Longtime friends of Mrs. Mor rison recall that the McKay l;>m ily resided on E. Ridge street In the residence now used by the Kings Mountain school district lor an administrative office. Burial was in Ashex ille. School Desegregation Is Here, Poses Numerous Administrative Problems Politics Quiet; Dixon May Make Comeback Try By MARTIN HARMON Major Glee A. Bridges, seek-! in# a sixth term. remains the lone formal candidate for city office ihis Meek. John II. Moss, who said last week he is serious!., considering bidding for the mayoral post, stated Wednesday he would make a dcisioii not later than February IT. Meantime, former Mayor Kelly Dixon, who up-et M ivor Bridges in 1961. then lod t< hi.n in 1!«3. alsi was report*-1 insidcring a thirtl bid !<ir tin city's" top ex- i ecuttv. jK»st. ott.er political a-ivity was outwardly nil. Ward 5 City Commission J. E. • Zipi Rhea, as Ward 1 Commis sioner Ray Cline las! week, said Wednesday he had not discussed the upcoming May election with othei members of the adminis iration bti prositmcfl all mem bers of tin incumbent adminis tration would offer. Mr. Ithea, aimsel; again as Mr. Cline. .- m h» w s weighing a decision on »ffeting for a third i term. Oiler ti unbent < immission• •'fs a.e Norman King. Ward 4: T. .1 To:.." y i Ellison. Ward 3: j and Eugene Goforth. Ward 2. Anothei iffiec open is for an in-city school trusteeship, ihe six-year teiir. of .Mrs. Lena W. McGill expiring. Mr. M "-s. tne Western Caro lina* League president. saidl Wednesday. “I have rooeivixl eti- , oura,erent to offer for Mayor i far beyond my expectations, by telephone, by p.vsonal visit, and in meeting citi/* «s <«n the street. I naturally appreciate this en couragement \er> mu. h, and I 1 will reach a de ision on whethei to make ti!.* race no: later than , February IT." Is Saturday ’65 Snow Day? A lew yi.ns ago. snow fell on several . oMse-ulivc Wednesdays. Ar.:in Domini lfKi-l seems to he varying tile p.ntrrn. with Satur 1 days as "snow day". For tlte second consecutive Saturday, *n w whitened the I surroundings. dazed the str.-ets * and lowered trail.e volume to a i minimum. A -companied by freezing tern- ; pii.t tires which hit the teens at •light, the snow and ice ke;.»t fuel dealers hopp. ig on a seven-day j vv “k bask' with plenty of over time. and had s-»rvi«v operators appending chains to auto wheels. Warmer breeze* had arrived Wednesday aftern.ion. F.C.A. MEETING An organizational meeting of tin Kings Mountain chap ter of til* Fellowship <>! Christ ian Mhlctcs w.ll he In Id Mon day night a’ 7 3d at the Opti mist Club, chairman Fred Withers has announ red. Sewage Plant Engineering Begins; Maino: Margiace Plant Underway W. K. Dickson & Company. Charlotte engineering firm, has starts! preliminary work on planning a sewage disposal sys tem to sene the western |Mirtion of the eity, in accortlanee with agreement with the State Stream Sanitation eommitfee. Meantime. Massachusetts Mo hair Plush Company, is well un derway on meeting its agree ment with the state committee to clean its waste water contain ing dyestuffs. A1 Maine, general manager, said Wednesday the method of cleaning calls for aeration and chemical treatment of the afflu ent. to bo accomplished by dumping the affluent into two lagoons. He said sower lines have been installed and that remaining work involves installation of a bout 200 feet of sewer line and the building of the two lagoons. He said his firm is meeting the contracted timetabk. which re quired that part of the work be* completed by the recent New 1 War's Day The city's contract tails f«»r re ports and plans to. be filed with the State Stream Sanitation com mil tee by \pril I. with construe tiun tt» be started b> next Janu ary I. and the treatment plant in operation by January J. Mayor Glee A Bridges said Wednesday the engineering firm liail completed aerial surveys of the western area, first step in the planning proves*-. Tin western portion of tin- cit> is in the Broad River Basin. The eastern portion, served by a mod ern treatment plant built in 1!»54. is in the Catawba River basin. The city's long-overloaded lm hoft tvp< sewage disposal tanks were condemned in the late for ties by the North Carolina Health department. Subsequent legisla tion established the s'ream sani tation committee and t«-eth was added to the law which enables the eominlttee to force «i:ies. in dustries and individuals to pro \id< for adequate sewage treat mvut. First Union Pledges $2000, Jaycees $1000 For Stadium PRESIDENT — W. S. Pulton. Jr- has been elected president ot the Kings Mountain Kiwanis ! club for 1965-66. He succeeds R. S. Lennon. Honor Roll Is Announced Thirty stutlonts wen* listed on ! the "A" hor.or roll for the semes- j ter and 29 students were listed on the “A” honor roll for the last ' six-week's £ radio*; period at j Knit's Mountain high srho >1. The semester “A” honor roll included these students: Seniors: Jan Williams. Sandra U i i_ht. Betty Ann Yates, Neil M<Carter. Judy Morris. Linda Mullinax and Ken Runkowski. Juniors: Seott Cloning*1!'. Dian a Runkowski. Neal Coop>l\ I.ib ■ Ale:.under. Rodney llaidin. Mary Jo Hold. Teresa J >1 ley. Phillip ’lunch Rita H«*!l and Ben (•rimes. Sophomores; : any Patrick Chuvkx Gladden. Steve Sprouse. i>avid Wilson. Dennis Bridges Larry Burt >n. Nadine Bell and Jane Morris. Freshman: Danny Dyke. Jeff Mauney. Carolyn Falls and June j Frederick The second honor roll for the semester listed the names of these students: Seniors: Spen.-er M iore, Dan i ny Neal. Bu/ Shuford. Eioise j Beam. Margaret Bryant, pr.:g> Bumgardnor. Kathy Ellison. To ' resa Dixon. Jim Fitch. Richard I Franks. Linda Fitch. Jean Ham 1 rick. Carolyn Heavner. Jeanettf I Henson, Janice Wood*. Jim i Pressley, George Plonk. Bill Patterson. .Susan Plonk. Nancy . uhlanc/ki. Patricia Lew is and* Carolyn Jones. Juniors: Wayne M Her. Rita Ctvem. Freda Conner, diaries j Wright. Linda Webster, Leslie ! J >y. Jay Bridges. Dale Byars. Mike Goforth. Win Goter. Alice ' Faye Smith, Jean Falls. Hollis Falls, Linda Ross and Roger Ross. Sophomores: Kenneth Plonk. Barbai i Plonk. Vickie White, Jo Bridges, Roger Randall and Ed ith Hamhright. Freshmen: Toney Duncan, Paul Dunn. Alex Moore. F •rest Wayne Wright. Teresa Huff*tiek- j ler. Mike Hoyle. Pat Cheshire. Brent Goforth. Donna Crawford I and Sharon Gold. The "A” honor roll for the six week's grading period listed these students: Seniors- Jan Williams. Sandra t Wright. Nancy Luhlane/ki. Car olyn Jones, Betty Ann Yates. Ju ily M »rri*. Linda Mullinax anti Joyce Bolin. juniors: Rita Cavhny. Neal Cooper. Phillip Bunch, Rita Bell.! Ben Grimes. Mary Ann Houser. Mary Jo Hnrd. Faithel Toncv. Paulette Patterson, and Jackie Dunn. Sophomores: Chucky Gladden, Steve Sprouse, David Wilson. Lurry Burton. Nadine Bell. Jane Morris, Fdith Hamhright. and Larry Patrick. Freshmen: Sharon Gold. Ton- ' ' nie Duncan and Stan Yarbro. The second honor roll for the last six-week's grading period in- ! t'unlMuul On Paji. o I S48.358 Pledged; Century Club Is Organized Pledges and rash contribute - tu th«* John Gamble Stadium fund ronrhed a reported total of W*,35n ns \Vedn<*s<tay. Charles Mlar.ton. chairman of the business solicitations mittee. annoan.cil a $_>< -m from First Cnion Nati mal Hank >f North Carolina and on Tu« • day night the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Common • pledged $imm. one third payable immediately from. pnx’iH'ds of the club's recent Christmas tree sale. Charles F. Harry. III. secre tary-treasurer Of the solicitation e rmittec, reported ash ic >eipts to date of $.Y7Hvss. -Mr. Harry said checks had hi-en received from Jack W. Fer ree, J. O. Plonk. Jr.. Plonk Bro thers & Company. Inc. Dillit Heating Company. Stervhi's. Wil liam J. Kay. Doris B. K.iy. Mrs. Carl Finger. Mrs. Grady How ard. Mrs. Juanita M. Logan, and Foote Mineral Company Meantime, a su >-rommittee o' solicit irs, including civie club presidents, the Beth ware J'ro gressive flub president, and Football Coach Bill Bates, in charge of school faculty solici tations. announced lorm.it ;■ n of the "John Gamble Stadium Cen tury Club", with individual con tributions f S100 or n: >rc ipial. fying the donor for men -«*iship The contribution may lie m i ■ oxer a thi-ee year period. A pledge raid is published mi I’;i. ■ 3 of today's HcroM. The cards are also in the hands of several ■Iub presidents. Checks aid or arils should lx- mailed to P >t office Box 17J. Kir^s M uintai Goal of the campaign is $S0. 000. Kfforts ;ir(. being made to coni plete the campaign y early spring in order that construction may begin and the stadium ready for use by the open \g of the fodhall season in September. A IJ Nl seat stai!.-im ..Iso tie Signed for tra k. - • n\ sau-.ed o. the south s lie n* the new h -!i school plant on Ph to R ad Tu high school plant ;s s n-duled fur completion by A i.rust 1 LEGION MEETS THURSDAY Regular Februcy m«-i‘ti:ig of Oil* D. Green Post 155, A meiican la-gion. will l-i* held Thursday n.ght at s p.m. «•: the ’ 'll build.ng. Ad ■: int Jm* McDaniel. Jr., said t.:c meeting is being advanced to a\ >iil cmith t with Kr.d.iy night's area Go-Getters ban quet, for top menibei s gners. Reficshments will hi* e-:v. I after til** - .isivi-ss s< ss.,»:i E.AGLE SCOUT — Tommy Bridges, 13. received his Eagle scouting award in Sunday church services at St. Mat thew's LuUiezan church. Bridges Wins Eagle Award 1 Tommy LUid-.m*. l.Vyeat - 1 ••>n of Mr and Mrs. «; 1*-,- Edwin Bridges, re riw.i Mis Eajjle Seoul in;* award, hip best honor in s- »ut:il,i;. at S|| • I I\ M-I \ ires' al St. Ma;;lH*w's Lutheran ehureh. Young Hi idle s railed ms F’a hie in le>> t,; ij> Iv o years «• f s rim ;i> a nr ht ■! Troop HI of St. Matthew s , huirh. 1>: idges was irnonj; scouts go nv to V.ilicy F' I*a. ;-n last sut.::i«v’s Jaml >rcc. FJe also at tention JmU'r, leatli ; imining i classes jn 1' dk\ille. Students Tap Scslt Cloninger Scott Oloi.nU'el, F • h - ■') junior, was eli . let! pirsident o' tile Stud pt l*:i: tt am it. -an i/at ion in a close election F'r.day lie was i'.-tail' ll Monday by Richard <; >li!. out gom.:.- pies.den: ('!• "in -or defeated Neal Poop or 1<i votes. S»ud‘ nts a!- > eltv !• I .N ds ■: Conner, sophomore. i- v ice president who defeated Tommy <. (forth by hi votes for the of fiee and named Shat n Gold, fri sliT.an. as the new secretary of the student I-odv. ('! •: .tiger :» lie- son ol Mr I'ld .Mis. F.ai 1 Clonit her. RESCUE SIU*D (Iriiv IN's u- S<|iii* l answ en d ’! rails f<e .. to' I of !lSn hours and .TTr miles traveled during the month ol January. Squad reportet Ralph Miller re ported Heart Fund Campaign Is Underway: Mrs. Morrison Names Committees Kings Mountain'* 'Hope for I loans" 1965 heart fund drive opened Monday. Mrs. K. S. Morrison, chairman of tin* annual campaign, has ap pointed chairmen in tin* various divisions of tin- drive and volun teers are already at work. Mrs. r A. McDaniel. Jr. will serve as secretary. Mrs. Don W. Blanton sis treasurer. Mrs. K. .1 Sln.'ox as Heart Sunday chair man. Mt>. Charles Mauney a* haum.m of special benefits. Neil fohnson as special sifts chair nan, Wilson Griffin as Business Days chairman, r\ A. M> Daniel. !r. as calendar chairman. Mrs lohn Gamble, balloons and tag •hairman. Henry MeKelvie as •oin container chairman and C. I. Nicholson as roadblock chair man. Cleveland County’s goal is (11.000. High point of the month-ions •ffort will be culminated with a iou*e-to-house canvass on Heart CoMtiHucd On 1‘ujc o CHAIRMAN — Mrs. F. S. Mor rison is Kings Mountain chair man in the 196b Heart Fund t drive which opened Monday. Federal Funds Hinge On Plan Suitable To HEW By MARTIN HARMON The Kings M uittain district hoard of education v II consider in the near future adoption of a pupil assignimsit plan «h it will 1. onlirm with the t. l.val 1964 civil rights act, and i!> cause l< <st interrupt .on and ini >nven* ience to mhool pupils, then par • •lit'. faculty members and eiti /.oils generally. I e.-hnically. a prior derision required is to divide whether to Ms’n an agreement with the De partment of Health Kducation md Welfare to com pi \ with Hit* civil rights act in school opera tions. a prcrei|Uisiie to receiving any federal funds for school op perations. Then* is no questi >n hut that he Kings .Mountain hoard will sign the agieement. The North Carolina attorney general. Wade B iloi, and the issistant att«.! • • eneral .handi ng <*ducation matters, warned local officials a- I o' icis rhrough »ut the state !• ei.tlv that the HKW agreenu nt is a tricky one. rhey addivl. and s.i d it publicly Monday, that c .mpl de segrega tion of tin schools is here, whe the or not the >• >. ?| the igrcement • « •. • federal funds. If one section of the civil t ights act does not ace implish ie«epregatinn such ,i> the Hinds i! is. >n allot!h i ii es, the tate officials said. Superintendent B N Barnes -aid there ate several plans, thought to comply with HKW re |u;re i < ■>■>. ocing mulled over v s h..,i| ,|i.. ,.i!> here and else •vliere. among them: !• Hup I inmi ni h\ geogra phy. with pupil jm-imission to se lect another school than the one tssignetl. within limits of class .•om space. l’i I'rei pupil op'ion. with any pupil enroliit in any school he visiles-. again within space limi tations-. Should a particular •■licol 'presumably a particular trade i beeoinc overloaded via ree • ption, tlien the hoard of du< .toon would assign "on its •wn good judgment” to restore caching load balance. .*f» Firm assignment of all upils in i partieular gcographi i district, the district lines Irawn .m ti.isis of attendance verajes should there In- two * Cools Wi 'ltti r tils’ll t pupil rption Aould he employed as to hoici ot s 'hool. ' Ass.v mctit f pupils enter c the t st grade to schtKiIs teircst their homes. M: li.i: ties s. nt tliei. are other 'I nis, as wed is variations to hi foie In outlined. Quick action hv the Kings M 'unt.iiu hoard may lie dictated more than for others. Tin hoard has not yet spent it- . in rent yeai National Defense V federal grants, with intent to us.- this money for purchase of science equipment for the new high school But January 3 past a us deadline for using these funds, in .> ijte HKW aglet tlH'Ilt. The desegregation problem is compounded. Mr. Barnes said, by •oil. nrrent problems of class room spa.v. -ransport of pupils, ta uity assignments and others, Supt. Barnes noted. Mac Lennon With NASA < M’K KENNEDY FLA - I.'i h dnl Simps rj 'Mari Lennon, Jr., M»n of Mi. .mil Mrs I; S Lennon, — I'M Noisier Drive. Kin^s Mountain, has ruvnilj been cm ployed as an Aerospace Techno legist in .Measurements and In sSrume:ra!..»n Systems at the Na tional Aeronaut! s and Spare Adininisira ion s' John K. Kenne dy Spate Center. The Keitnedj Spaep Center latinehes manned and unman ned spate aft. unhiding moon probes and satellites, in the na •ion’s spa.v program. Lennon ii t.-ii fiom Kings Mountain ili„h S uh'I ,tnd litter rtHriutl a US de ret' in Physics from he Cni\e;si:\ of North arulina. He <>u ak.-s s hi me at Ltitf I’olK \ventie, «'ai'e Canaveral, Kiuridti.
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