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) 1965 Id kly >n, ir. Qnteretl tost of 2808U S. 1873 :ORS >8016*' Mon •'aor. Uon" ^AD color IM" CH. T Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 ThU llaurc lor Groater Kings Mountain U derived Irom the 1955 Kings Mountoin city directory census. ,The city Umits Ugure is Irom tbs United States census of 1960. Pages Today Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL. 76 No. 23 EstablivSed 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 10, 1965 Seventy-Sixth Year PRICE TEN CENTS By-Pass Be Posted Before Second Hearing DR. WAYNE MAYHUE FRANK WELCH Chemstrand Pledges $500 For Stadium Kings Mountain area citizens have surpassed by $2,608.39 a $80,090 canvpaign Jor funds to build John Gamble Stadijm. Actual cash in-hand totals $42,- 477.27 while pledges total $40,- 132.12, Fund Treasurer Charles F. Harry III said Wednesday. The total was cooste^l during the past two weeks by a $500 contribution from the Blacks burg, S. C. Division of Chem strand Corporation; check for $127 from North school Parent- Teacher Association; gift of $50 Ifrom Davidson school Parent- I Teacher Ass.^cialion; $200 from ! Ideal Industries of Bessemer 'city; and $100 from Ro.ses' Five I and Ten Stores. 1 Other contributions reported ! during the past two weeks were from: ; James H. Page. Mrs. C. T. Dix- I on, Jr., Mrs. Sam Bell, Dempson 1 Drum, Frank Ledford, W. A. Wright. Horace Bell, Ware’s Dairy, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Car penter, Jr. and family, Rev. Charles Easley, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Duval of Shelby and Mr. and Mrs. Lionel R. Barnes. The new stadium will be erect ed south of the new high school plant on Phifer road. fr Amended Budgets of City Revenues To Top Estimates Natural Gas System Sales To Be $308,496 The City of Kings Mountain Natural Gas system anticipates ^ gross income for the year end ing June 30 of $308,496—a new I record~or $38,006 more than was antici-pated last July. The board^ of commissioners Tuesday night adopted an amend- I ed gas system budget embodying , those estimates, with only a 1 month of the current fiscal year j remaining. [ JAQUITHA ROUNTREE CHARLES PRESTON APPOINTED—Gordon A. Beov. er, formerly of Kings Mountain and son-in*low of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, has been oppointed. professor of church music o4 Lutheran Seminary in Columbia, S. C. He will assume his new duties September 1. Beaver Named To Seminary Post Gordon A. Beaver, former Kings Mountain resident, will become a mem.'ber of the faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Columbia, S. C. in September. It was announced during the j ..u recent Comm.encement Week;^^*^^ $20,000, with that he has been appointed Prt>- nues up $2,000. 'lessor of Church Music, and will ^ be the first ever to hold this po* be about $28,000 for pur- sition at the Southern Seminary. 1 chase of gas. Equipment niamt He will also be organist for the DORA KIRCUS ALEC NEISLER More Students Are Graduated No OED Word On School Plan There was little news on the school desegregation front Wed nesday, Superintendent B. N. Barne.5 said, as no further word has been received from the Fed eral office of Education on the amended plan whereby the Kings Mountain school district attempts to comply with the 1964 federal civil rights act. Supt. Barnes said five paix*nts have written the board of educa tion stating they wish to change first choice school assignments for their children. One White parent now prefers Bethware to West school, and — ^ur Negro ^parents now pi'ofer i ^ew York City. He was director ^ ‘ of music at St. Matthews Luthe ran church in Kings Mountain from 19o4 to 1956, and has held similar positions in Landis, N. C. and New York City. Mr. Beaver is married t*o the former Peggy Mauney of Kings Mountain, and they are the par ents of three sons, Mark, 'Hm- othy, and Michael. Gross income through May was almost $20,000 more than initially expected for the full year. Only in public building sales r was the July ’64 estimate too | much- by $3,000. 1 Residential sales are expected I to be up $13,000, .commercial | industrial i other reve- j nance was underestimatqfd by $809, and miscellaneous expenses will be up $1200. Rev. Robert F. Hadon, Deacon- Seminary Chapel which is now under construction and is ex- Bea^r^Ts^^been Dir^^r of additional'revenue will be j church since last Jujy wa^ s>X:», M.. Beaver has to the $75,000 initially ear- jdained as i^i^sTfnCtiarge at] marked to the general city treas- i Saturday morning services at of Music at Ebenezer Lutheran church in Columbia since 1958, and will continue to hold this position. For the past five years he has been a member of the Music Faculty at the Up\'ersity of South Carolina, leaching or gan and the'ory. Mr. Beaver received his A.B. in Organ from Catawba college, Salisbury. N. C.. and his Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Theological Seminary in Compact high school to Kings Mountain high school. The changes will be considered by the ■'oard at its next meeting, he sajd. Supt. Barnes said no analyza- tion of second choice of assign- mints has been made. ury ai^d that an approximate $4,000 will be added to the sys tem’s reserve fund for renewal and extension, marking the total $14,659. Sellers Mak<»s Progress Beport Charles Sellers, of the 'opart- General Budget Increase $41,000; Total $931,531 The city will gross $41,531 more than was anticipated at budget-making lime last year, the board of commissioners an ticipate, on basis of the amended budget adopted Tuesday night. With results for 11 months in hand, the city thinks it will have j revenue of $931,531 from all I funds (exclusive of natural gas I department) compared to the ! $890.(X)0 anticipated last year, I which included a surplus of $38,- 753. Meantime, the amended bud get anticipates the additional in come will have been spent when the fi.scal year ends June 30, principally for capital improve ments expected to be up $26,000 over initial estimates. Due to heavier power sales, the city’s expenses will be $21,000 more than thought, and police and court costs will be about $5000 more. Recreation tax reteipts are up $1300 more than anticipated and this income is transferred in to the recreation account. Sales tax expenses will be less than anticipated. Other departmental budget guesses are expected to be the same, or virtually the Bulk of the unexpected income accrues from sales of power and . water, now expected to be $539,- The Ordination service was led OOO and up $29,000 over estimate, by Bishop Matthew George Hen- from advalorem taxes, ex- ly of Asheville. A luncheon fol- pelted to be up about $7,000 over lowed the rites in .Masonic Tern- ^he $165,000 expected. , I Other up items: Rev. Tom Droppers of Black ; court costs $2500, auto licenses ORDAINED — Rev. Robert F. Haden, Jr., was ordained as Priest - In - Charge of Trinity Episcopal church at Saturday services. Rt. Rev. M. George Henry, D.D., was ordaining Bishop and Episcopal clergy and local ministers participat ed in the service. Bev. Haden Is Ordained It is now anticipated that $3561 in-Charge of Trinity Episcopal Second Hearing 60 Days Away, Says Babcock The hearing map on the U. S, 74 Kings Mountain by-pass will be posted at least ten days prior to the second hearing, Director W. F. Babi'ock has written Mayor John Henry Moss. Director Babcock further con firmed it will probably be about 60 days before the hearing is held. He noted that the recorder- taped transcript of the first hear ing held May 5 needed full study, that highway officials and engi neers expected to also review the design to determine if changes or modifications in design are indicated on basis of the May 5 hearing. He wrote Mayor Moss: “Thank you for the resolution of the City Council relative to a second hearing being held on the matter of the Kings Mountain By-pass. 'We shall be pleased to hold a second hearing and will be glad to post the hearing map with you at least ten days prior to the hearing. ‘1 expect it will be about 60 days before such a hearing can be held. We would desire to re view the trans(Tipt of the hear ing and to go over the design once more ourselves to determine if there are any changes or mod ifications that might be indicat ed based upon the first hearing. “It will also take a little time to schedule this hearing because Mr. McGowan who holds our hearings has hearings scheduled throughout the State pretty much all the way through July.” Mountain, former minister of the church, was master of ceremon ies. Rev. John Barr of Columbia, S. C. served as presenter; Rev. Jack Bennett of Hendersonville read the Epistle; Rev. Bill Ed- ment of Conservation and Dovel- ■ wards of Riuherfoixiton read the opment Planning division, made j Gospel; and Rev. Mark Jenkins j gas system income $3561 a progress report on work to ; of Fletcher read the Litany. Lo- i off items include- street as- date with the Kings Mountain 'cal clergymen participated in the j .sessments $2400, tax penalties (under franchise agreement with the Lions cluB) $300, water and sower taps $1355, candidate filing fees (unbudgeted) $380, sale of scrap $694, Powell Aid street funds $9.50, sale of cemetery lots ;ind grave-digging fees $500, and Numerous Kings Mountain area students were graduated in school and college commence ment exerci.ses last weekend. They included: 11. Wayne Mayhue, son of Mr. and Mrs! Joseph P. Mayhue, was graduated Monday with Doctor of Medicine degree from the Univer sity of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. A 1958 graduate of Kings Mountain high school, Dr. May- hue received his B. S. in medi cine from UNC in 1962. He will begin his internship at the Uni versity Hospital and Hillman Clinic at Birmingham, Alabama, June 23. He plans to do a residen cy in a surgical sub-spc?cialty. br. Mayhue is married to the former Judith Hornbcck of Rich mond, Va. Jaquitha Rountree, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rountree of Grover, was graduated May 30th from St. Andrews Presbyterian college at Laurinburg. Miss Rountree received a B. S. in busi ness education. At St. Andrews, she served as secretary of Phi Beta Lambda .sorority. Frank Welsh of Charlotte, hav ing received his A.B. degree “with highest honors” Monday from the University of North Carolina at Chape! Hill, will report Tuesday to Princeton University for train ing prior to assuming his duties as a teacher in Turkey as a mem ber of the U. S. Peace Corps. this week. Recipient of a Braswell Schol arship in 1961-63 and a Blan- 1 chard Scholarship in 1963-65, Welsh expressed himself as “ap preciative to the Kings Mountain Chapter DAR which compiled the historical background for the Blanchard Scholarship. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, in May. On the executive commit tees of the 1964 Carolina Sym posium and 1965 Fine Arts Festi val, he was also office manager of the University of N. C. News Bureau and a guide at the More- head Planetarium. Charles Dean Preston is a can didate for his M.S. degree from Moigan lailed For Mulder Bob Morgan, 27, of Bessemer City, has been charged with mur der in the Tuesday shotgun slay ing of his mother-in-laiw, Mrs. 'Bertha Bayne Broom Brown, 48, of Gastonia. Gastonia police reported that a few minutes following the shooting Tuesday morning at 9:40 Morgan turned himself into police. 'Mrs. Brown was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Payne of Kings Mountain. Her stepmother, Mrs. Lucy West, lives here, Prank Sisk of Sisk Funeral (Home said. According to Gastonia Police Chief Ernest Rankin. Morgan al legedly shot Mrs. Brown at close range with a .16 gua'ge shotgun as she sat in a chair in the liv ing room of her home on Robin- wood Road. Morgan had reportedly gone to I the home of his mother-in-law in search of his wife, Mrs. Barbara planning commission. Using a largcscale map show ing existing development, Mr. Seilers said the complete plan ning report will consider popii- processional. Rev. Mr. Haden is a graduate of the University of South Sewa- nee. Tennessee and Virginia Seminary in Alexandria, Va. Be- $600, miscellaneous receipts $20(X) I and fishing permits $100. Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. The graduating exercises will be held Monday. Morgan. He told investigating officers he and his wife quarrel ed and separatetd Monday. Morgan was accompanied to This summer Preston is em-• thepolice station. Gaston officers ployed by the Florida Geological Survey in Tallahassee, Fla. In September he will begin work on his Ph.D degree in geology at Florida State University. He is married to the former Patricia Owens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Owens of Kings Mountain. They make their home at 530t^ West College Avenue, Apartment iV-l, Tallahassee, Fla. Dora Kircus, daughter of Mrs. Cliffoi'd Kircus, Sr. and the late Mr. Kircus, will receive a diplo ma June 30th from Charlotte Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M.; Memorial Hospital School of Hls- Wclsh, he is well-known in Kings | tology. Miss Kirous completed a j hospital. Mountain and is a frequent visi- ^ne-year course. i tor of his aunt and uncle, Mr. and ' John (Alec) Neisler, son of Mr. anid Mrs. Paul Neisler, Jr., was graduated from MoCalUe School for Boys. said, by his small child. Funeral arrangements are in complete and will be announced toy Sisk 'Funeral Home. Survivors besides her stepmo ther and (daughter include: her husband. Charles R. Brown of Gastonia; a daughter, Mrs. Di ane Haynes of Gastonia: and four sons, Jerry Broom of Dallas, James Broom lof Gastonia, Har old Broom of the U.S. Army in Columbia, S. C., and Loavry (Broom of Gastonia. 'Mrs. Morgan was employed as a dietician at Gaston Memorial Gay Stinnett's Rites Thursday Funeral rites for Roy Gay Stin nett, 58, owner of the Bessemer City - Kings Mountain Drive-In Theatre, will be held Thursday at 4 p.m. from Grace Lutheran church of Bessemer City. The body will remain at Sisk Funeral Home until the hour of services. Rev. Edwin Riggs will officiate at the final rites, and interment will be in Bessemer City ceme- tery. Mr. Stinnett died unexpectedly of a heart attack about 7 a.m. Tuesday at his home. A native of Sevierville. Tcnn., he was a son of Mrs. Belle Knight Stinnett of Bessemer City and the late Sam Stinnett. He is also survived by his wife, Mrs. Mozelle Bradshaw Stinnett: five sons, William, Ricky, Ron nie and Gay Stinnett, Jr., all of the home; and Clyde Stinnett of Gastonia: five daughters. Misses Gaynelle, Dorothy and Vickie Stinnett, all of the home, Mrs. Patricia Campbell of Bessemer City, and Mrs. Betty Wright of Gastonia: three brothers, Quay and Eugene Stinnett, both of Bessemer City, and Gordon Stin nett of Gaffney, S. C.; a sister, Mrs. Dave Dover of Bessemer City; and seven grandchildren. lation trends, the economy of the I fore entering the ministiy he community, ai^d land use, with taught and coached basketball at consideration to transportation and community facilities. A preliminary report on sub divisions is now ready, he relat ed, adding, “Zoning ordinances should be upjdated at five to six- year intervals.” He noted that a c^entral busi ness district study is underway at Raleigh, this study to consider appearance of the district, need ed face-lifting, circulation of traffic and parking. Blue Ridge Schwl in Henderson ville. Mrs. Hadc-n is the former Mary Anne Easterling of Colum bia, S. C. SQUAD REPORT Grover Rescue Squad. Inc. answered a total of 13 calls for a total of 717 man hours and 693 miles traveled. Ralph Mil ler. squad reporter says. The report covers the month of May. Traffic Control Interest Is High At Tuesday Commission Session Mrs. Wray A. Plonk, Sr., and his grandmother, Mrs. Benton Put nam. Kings Mountain relatives honored him at a family dinner DIRECTORS MEET Directors of the Kings Moun tain Kiwanis cluh will gather Tuesday for a meeting. Presi dent BUI Fulton has announced. Frank Cox's Mother Passes Funeral rites for Mrs. Anna Kelly Cox. 81, of Travelers Rest, mother of B, Frank Cox of Kings Mountain, were held Tuesday at j 2 p.m. from New Liberty Baptist church of Travelers Rest. 1 Rev. Albert Johnson officiated, and interment was in Woodlawn I Memorial Gardens. I Mrs. Cox, widow of Benjamin (F. Cox, Sr., died Sunday- Request by Mrs. 'Bob Cox for erection of speed limit signs and enforcement of the limits on West Mountain street brought a rash of other city traffic com ments at Tuesday’s city commis sion meeting. Clarence E. Carpenter said the city .should erect a traffic signal at the corner of S. Gaston and E. Gold ^before someb^y gets kill ed”. Then Commissioner O. O. Walker said the green signal on E. King at Cleveland is too short, creating traffic jams. He also said the caution signal on Bat- tlcgroiund at King is loo short. Commissioner Norman King thought directional laning of King at Cleveland, such as at King and Battlegrouqid, would contribute to seepdier transit of King (U. S. 74). The all-inclusive action was that Mayor John Henry Moss. Superintendent of Public Works Grady Yelton and Chief of Police Paul Sanders would become a committee to determine signal and signing neqds, buy and erect accordingly. Meantime, the May or is to request highway com- of mission approval on laning the King-Cleveland segment. In other actions the board: 1) Approved advalorem tax re- for all city funds funds of $680.56 and cov- i oring two years to Craftspun Yarns, Inc., on contention of Craftspun tlial the firm had majde cleri(‘al enors in over-pay ment. It was explained that Cleveland County had already honored refund requests. 2) Re-acioptcri for the year starting July 1 the privilege U cense ordinance. 3) Callqd a public hearing on a petition of P. B. llollifield for re-zoning to neighb.)rhood trad ing area his residence at 406 Chen-y St. Burlington Industries wrote the board it waived a clause in the deed limiting usage of the proi>erty to resklences. 4) Approved, if and when funds are available, petitions a) for paving and curb and gutter on E. Ridge street from end of pav ing to dead end, b) curb and gut ter on Linwood street, from Boyce east 200 feet. 51 Called a public hearing on a petition by Mrs. Mollie Sal mons for annexation to the city of their lot on Boyce street ex tension. 6) Approved request of Frank Price for transfer of a taxi fran chise to Horace E. Bowers. 7) Designated First Union Na tional Bank as official depository Williams Hurt In Tuesday Wreck Marion Washington Williams, 73, of Route 2, Kings 'Mountain was listed in “poor” condition ‘ Wednesday afternoon at Kings j Mountain hospital foIloKving a Tuesday afternoon accident on Highway 74, near Southwell Mo tor Company. Williams, driving a 1959 mo(del Nash American, pulled onto Highway 74 from the West King I Street Washerette into the path I of a trailer truck, owned by j Springs Star Paper Company i and driven by Billy Houston Ci’aig, 31, of Rock Hill, South Carolina. The accident occured at 2:50 p.m. about 50 feet inside the city limits on West King. The truck was traveli«g east on King Street. Police reports showed that damage to the truck was $400 and the Williams car was estimated to be a total loss. Reports show that the Williams car traveled 120 feet after the impact. Officers Jackie (Barrett and Wayme Russell investigated. Officer Bob Hayes went to the scene of another highway acci dent Tuesday morning around ^11:00 at the intersection of East ^ King and Gaston. Bess Reid Houston, 71, of Rt. 1, Monroe was chai'ged -with fol lowing too closely following an accident involving his 1963 model Dodge and a 1962 G.MG. model truck driven by Glenn Forrest Maco, of Rt. 2. NObo, N. C. Mace was traveling West on King street w'hen he stopped for a traffic light ai|jd was struck in the rear 'by the 'Houston vehicle. Damage to Houston’s car was es timated at $800 and damage to Mace’s vehicle was reported at $10. Mrs. Herndon's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Rena Bookout Herndon, 72, of Grover, widow of Ernest B. Herndon, were held Wednesday at 4 p.m. from Grover’s First Baptist church, in terment following in Grover cemetery. Mrs. Herndon died Tuesday afternoon at 5:35 p.m. in the Kings Mountain hospital follow ing illness of several months. A native of Cleveland County, she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. David J. Bookout. She was a member of the Grover First Baptist church. Her husband died in 1957, Sur\4ving are two daughters, Mrs. J. E. Kirk of Birmingham, Ala., and Mrs. Charles Dixon of Kings Mountain: three sons, Warren Herndon and Bobby Herndon, both of Kings Moun tain, and D. Herndon of Aiken, S, C.; two brothers, Dave Bookout of Charlotte and Arthur Bookout of Shelby; three sisters, Mrs. Lester Herndon and Mrs. W. I. Beam, both of Grover, and Mrs. Clyde Lawrence of Richmond, Va., and 10 grandchildren. Rev. Fred Crisp, assisted by Rev. George Moore, officiated at the final rites. Eniollment 211 At Summer Term A total of 211 students are en rolled in the summer session of Kings Mountain high school, Principal Harry Jaynes reported Wednesday. A total of 136 are enrolled for aoqidemic studies, while 75 are re ceiving driver training instruc tion from Instructors Bill Cash- ion and Blaine Froneberger. Faculty members and their subjects include Don Parker, history; Willard Boyd, general science; Edgar Rudisill, biology; Bill Bales, biology; amd Mrs. James h. Cummings, a member of the Shelby high school faculty, English and history. The term is for six week.^. ON VACATION Dr. Paul K. Ausley. pastor of ! First Presbyterian church, and I Mrs. Ausley are vacationing I this week at Ocean Isle, N, C Dr. Wall Improving Following Stroke Dr. Zeno Wall of Shelby, father of Mrs. Ollie Harris of Kings Mountain, is a patient in Cleveland Memorial hospital where his condition Is describ ed as serious, but improving. Dr. Wall is not permitted visitors, a family spokesman said. , The former pastor of Shelby s F^st Baptist church for 23 years suffered a slight stroke Friday. , Dr. Wall has also served as supply pastor for Kings Moun- .taln Baplbt church.
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