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ge 5tanly ent a t con* erfac- know* [ilazcr le as- •ecoiv* mcrus lurin;^ ccorci- fe In- mbod pn»}>i- I I he ■fJocts Tican troi Of- ghout high* r of )d ton mor- )I<h'rs litilo force risen Jo. ido on N'orth lartor 14.100 K’riod pay- under !K).00(> cates, indus’i vh(do. 1.221.* •Hcie.'; 1905. K) un- same fig- under 3 cor* under # Population ! Gre<^ter Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8.008 i Thii f>gur« for Greotar Kings Mounictfn Is derived from S the I9S& Kings Mountain city directory census. The city i UmitB figure Is from the Uniled Stales census of ItSO. Kings Mountain's Relioble Newspaper ?ages Today VOL 75 No. 25 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 24, 1965 Seven+y-Sixth Year PRICE ten CENT' any Textile Firms Set Week Holiday No Teachers Hired Or Fired I Kings Mountain System -1 CUi^uUCTEUH—>l)Grvid J. Delevxe has been elected Grand Conducteur of the Grond Voiture of North Carolina for the coming year. Delevie Named By Forty & Eight DuvUl J. Delevie, Kings Moun tain legionnaire and long active in Forty & Eight, was named tirand Conducteur of La Societe IVs Quarante Hommes Et Hurt Chevaux, Grand Voiture of Ncrth Carolina, at the recent i'onvention held i-n Asheville. Mr. Delevie is currently serv ing as historian for American L( ’ion Post 155. He has also served as an officer of Voiture Locale No. To Up Some Fares Kings Mountain ta.xi firms 1^:11 adjust some fare charges Pipward on July 5. According to spokes-men for all Kings Mo.intain cab com* jianics yesterday, three rates will advance and a new category o'! charges is included. Cliangcs include: Acrofv tovvn rate (dividing lin( King street and Piedmont avb muM 75 cents, up 25 cents. School children (groujis) 20 cents, up five cents. Packa.ge pick-ups. 75 cents, up a ouarter. New high school (groups a new category) 25 rents. .Snnkesmen for the taxi a.*; 'o elation noted that Uie upcomin<^ ra»e adiustment is the first since 19n0. Cab fare td A P Tea Com- panv's s'nj'o at Haltlegfound and Falls V ill conlinue to be a half- dollar, regardless of point of ori gin. Plonk Installed Lions President Dr. George W. Plonk. Kings Tvlountain surgeon, was installed as prcsulent of the Kings Moun tain Lions chib Tuesflay night. He su'‘ceeds Harry Jaynes. Kings Mountain high school ^)i’incipal. IIN Steve ('oon. of Fallston, dis- Hrricl deputy governor, conducted the installation ceremonies. Hal S. Plonk, first vice-presi dent; Howard Brvant, second vice - pi’o.'^ident; Jack Hauser, third vice - president; William 'Lawrence Plonk, secretary; Pet* <M* Masan, treasurer: Sp«m Weir,' Jr.. Lion tamer; Willie Williams, tail twister; and Fred Withers, as.dslant tail twistier. r Installed as directors for two ; year terms were Rev. Bob Had* cn. John Lackey, and Bill Moss. Directors with a vear term re maining are Boh McDaniel, Da vid L. Saiunders, and Glenn Campbell. Mr. Jaynes is an ex officio di rector. Rf^tailers To Query Members' Closings The King.s Mountain Mer chants Association board of di rectors voted Tuesday to address h'tter.s to the membership ask ing opinions on store closing hours on Friday and Saturday. If approved by general mem bership. the directors will recom mend that stores remain open until 6 p.m. on Friday and close a half-hour earlier at 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays. The stores are normally open wintil 5:30 p.m. on Friday and ffiintil n p.m. on Saturday. * The motion to alter the store closing hours on the two days was made by P. H. Wilson, sec onded by Bill Moss. Several Firms Schedule Week 0« With Pay Majority df Kings Mountain area textile employees will en joy a week’s holiday, a partial survey of the industry shows, cither during the week prior to Independence Day or the week Colltrwing. Many firms will make vacation payments. A fdw firms said Wednesday heir hoPd-ay plans are not yet mt, pending deter nination of heir customers' needs. Holidays will begin Saturday or employees of Massachusett; lohair Plush Company, Sad:3 -^etton Mills, and Mlnette Mills, of Grover. Planning a week’s holiday starting July 3 are Mauney Mills, Craftspun Yarns, Inc., and Phe- a:x Plant of Burlington Indus tries. Lambeth Rope Corporation has announced an "optional” holi- iay from July 3 to 12. Manager Pom Burke said the firm hopes mough employees will reject the option to allow at least a one- ■h;ft operation. Employees tak ing the vacation will receive a wwk’s pay. Employees electing to work will receive two week's pay. James E. Amos, o»r Massachu- iotts Mohair Pdush Company, ?aid the Pauline and Margrace olants will suspend operations it 7 a.m, June 26 and will re sume at 7 a.m. July o. Employ es will receive either a week’s oay or two percent of earnings, o-afcd on length of service. George H. Mauney, of Mauney Mills, said employees will receive vacation payments of two and our percent of earnings, based on length of service. Walter J. Keeter. Jr., said Parlingfon Industries Phenix Plant No. 1 will suspend opera tions at 10 p.m. July 3, resum- ini at 10 p m. July 11. All eligible employees will re vive vacation pav bastni on ength of service, Keeter added. Vacation payments will be made by Sadie Cotton Mills and Craftspun Yarns. Rotaiy Club To Hear Giigg Robert B. Grigg, Jr., chaplain of Akers Motor Lines, Charlotte, will speak to the Rotary club at ; h « • their regular June 24th mating. | A fludy f Z J. WINS ROTARY AWARD — Foote's Kings Mountain plant won the Kings Mountain Rotary club's fourth onnual blood donor aword for the second year at Thursday's recognition program held by the dvic club. Foote maintoined a high of 136 percent porticipation by employees during the 1964-65 season for the highest percentage of employee porticipotion in the Red Cross blood donor rogram. Rotary President Devere Smith, at right above, presents an engroved plaque to Edwin JL Goter, . Operations Monagor, at the Kings Mowntain plunt, Mr. Goter oc- cepted the award on behalf of employees. Legion Juniors Advance Round Hickory Team Foe; Series Mr. Grigg i.s a World War li | veteran and a former Kings Mountain resident and was edu cated at Wake Fore.st ColUfge and ^outiiern Theological Seminary, Louisville. Ky. Program was arranged by Wil- i . ^ ■on firiffin who will also preside gainst Hickory on Friday. in the absence of President D. R. Kings Mountain won by an 11- -imitli. 7 score here on Monday night The King.s Mountain American Legion Juniors won two straight I games over Bessemer City Mon- I day and Tuesday to advance to I the Area IV quarter-finals a- Rotary meets at Kings Moun tain Country club at 12:15. KM Monogram Club Makes Stadium Gilt Pledges and contributions to the John Gamble Stadium Fund reached $82,852.55 this week, Treasurer Charles Harry, III, re ported. Largest boost to the total was made by a $150 gift from the Kings Mountain high school Monogram club. Also donation was also reported, a check from Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Harmon, Sr. Total pledges are $39,939.22, Mr. Harry said, while actual cash-in-hand is $42,913.33. and by a 14-8 count at Bessemer City Tuesday. Seerley Lower> won his second game against one loss in Monday’s contest and Stove Wilson picked up his first win of the season at Bessemei Tuesday. Richard Gold paced the Post 155 boys in the two games by collecting six hits in nine official times at bat. Gold scored five runs in the two contests, drove in four, and had two doubles and two stolen bases. Gold had a four-for-five night here Monday and was two-for- four on Tuesday. His two extra base hits were ground rule dou bles. Centerfielder Chris Faulkner had a perfect four-for-four night (Continued On Page 2) Board Awaits State Allotment Oi Teachers By MAR'HN HARMON No member of the Kings Mountain city schools faculty during 1964-65, other than ad ministrative persinnel, has bi'cn employed for the upcoming term, j None has been discharged. I This is the report of Supi'rin- ! tendent B. N. Barnes, both in 'comment on a charge by a Xa tional Urban League official, K. B. M. Crooks, of Atlanta, Ga., ; and in a letter addressed to J. Levonne Chambers, a Charlotte j lawyer. Chambers, stating hehad been retained by the North Carolina Teachers association in behalf of ‘'Kings Mountain teachers whose contracts you refused to renew”, wrote: "I have been advised that Negro teachers have not been re hired because of the anticipated changes in enrollment at former ly all-Negro schools." 'Barnes replied to CHiamberF that no teachers have been '^rr ployed, White or Negro. He not ed that the 1965 66 allotment o teachers for Kings Mountain dis trict schools has not been rr ceived from the State Board c?' Public Instruction and added "Until the pupil assignment plar is approved, we do not know w’hlether we can re-employ any one to be paid from federa' funds.” Crooks, in a press release ove’ the W'eekend, charged that s:y Negro teachers have been firec' in Kings Mountain. Henderson ville was charged with firing IT Ne?ro teachers, Morganton nine Washington five, and Method 11 In Asheboro, 12 Negro teacher vill not be rehired for 19G5C5 according to Crooks’ listing of "complaints being investigated”. In a telephone conversation ’Vednesday, Crooks acknowledg ed his information stemmed from 'eports from non-official .sources, that he had not contacted either Dr. Charles Carroll, state super- mtendent of public instruction, nor individual superintendents in North Carolina. The recent letter of Attorney Chambers to the Kings Mountain ■■*oard of education was the sec- '>nd concerning school dc-segre- Tation. In February, claiming reten- ion by Kings Mountain citizens, ncluding William On* and oth- ''rs, he wrote tourge school de- legi-tegation. The reply was that he board of education anticipat 'd devising a pupil assignment olan to comply with Title VI of the 1964 federal civil rights act. tISili U£D1CATE FELLOWSHIP ^ second s^optlst church ohserveQ its buth onnivcrcary Sunday by dedicating a npw fellowship halL Members of the program committee for the anniversary celebration were, from left to right Richard Barnette, Sunday School superinten dent; Dr. Eugene Poston, president of Gardner-Webb college, who made the principal address; Rev, George Julian, pastor; Mrs. C. M. Lankford; Mr. Lankford and Norman King. (Photo for the Herald by BUI Jackson). 50-Year-Old Secon \ Baptist Began In One-Room School Second Baptist ' dedicates iew Building Commission Defers Zoning Change Action, As Some Citizens Protest The city board of commission ers listened to citizens who op pose an amendiment to the 1948 city zoning ordinance, then de- feri’Sed action last Thursday night. A proposed amendment w’ould change to ton feet the sidolot line requirement for multi-unit dwell ings, now the minimal eight feel plus five feet for each unit over two. Anchor Development and Con struction Company, of Fore.st City, seeks to build two 12unit apartments on West Gold street, estimated to cost $2(X),000. but the city declined to issue build ing permit when it was deteiTn- ined the proposed construction conflicted with the multi - unit dwelling roquirbment of the zon ing ordinance. Charles T. Carpenter, Jr., ob jected on several grounds among them insufficient space for the proposed apartment complex and potential exaggeration of a drainage problem. Mrs. Pauline F. Weavbr, who lives adjacent to the proposed development, said she felt space on the lot was insufficient. Luke Hoyle, a builder, said he iwas currently building apart ments and was abiding by the zoning requirements. Warren Reynolds, another builder, supported the zoning change, observing that Kinigs Mountain needs an apartment development. Robiert Suber, an across-the- street neighbor to the proposed development, said he felt an a- 'fiont 'mtied On Page 8 PHARMACIST — R. Ragan Har per. JrM has joined the staff of Kings Mountain Drug Com- pony. He is a recent graduote of the School of Pharmacy, Uni versity of North Carolina. Chapel HiU. Harper loins KM Drug Staff Ralph Ragan Harper, Jr., who graduated this month with B.S. in pharmacy from the Univers ity of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, joined the staff of Kings Mountain Drug Company Monday. Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Harper of Gastonia, is a member of the first class to graduate under a five-year pro gram at the University in Chapel Hill. He graduated in 1960 from Frank L. Ashley high school. At UNC, Harper participated in freshman tennis, was a mem ber of the American and North Carolina Pharmaceutical Associ ations* student branch. He is marrifxl to thb former Diane F'ite of Belmont. Tciycees To Sell Licyhi Bulbs Here Kings Mountain Jaycees will conduct a light bulb sale, an an nual project for benefit of its civic projects, Thursday night from 7 until 9 p.m. Jaycees will sell the light bulbs door-to-door, offering a package of eight bulbs for $2» No Major Gas leaks Infra-red beams have ferreted out 61 leaks in the city’s gas dis tribution system, none of major incidence. Grady Yelton, public works superintendent, said Wednesday the company inspecting thie sys tem reported 61 leaks, none in the "A” or "major leak” cate gory. A few leaks werfe rated “B”, with the vast majority in the "C” or "very minor category. Supt. Yelton said the gas de partment is at work on the seal ing job. Noting a 14.65 percent discrep ancy between gas pumpage and billings, Williaim EMwards, the city’s gas engineer, recommend ed the survey. — Mev, Ma.'. Brandon. Jr., of Follston. new poster of Grace Methodist church, will fill the pulpit at Sunday services. The Brandons inovei into the church parson* oge yesterday. Mew Pastor To Fill Piilpil I Rev. Max B.and.'.n. Jr, of I Fallston. new pa.-: or of Graci Meihodlst chu.ch, will fill the pulph at .'Sunday services. 1 The new minister and his fam ily moved into the G)-;u-e pa.son- age Wedne.sdav. moving (L..* toi ministers in the Meihadist Con fercncc assigned to new The former pastoi*. Rev. N. IT. Piisey and family, m 'Ved to (’an dler whore ho will servo as pas tor of Montmorenei church near Asheville. Son of a Methodist minister Rev. Mr. Brandon cotcs to Kings Mountain from Friend.-hip Methodist chureh. He is a grad uate of Duke University and Duke DA inity Srhool. Mrs. Brandon is the former Flossie Deal. I'hcw are parents of five daughters, two of whom are married. T w o younger daugiiters arc* in ianior hi.di and elementary school while another daughter is a college student. Fifty years ago 27 charter members of Second Baptist church worshiped in a white one- room schoolhouse. Sunday on their anniversary, he congiiegation now number ing 478. dedicated a handsome new fellowship building which adjoins an educational plant and 'hurch sanctuary* valued at 1250.000, Hicluding a pastorium. Twelve pastors and f ur sup- 5ly pastors have ser\ .ci the ■hurch during its history, the ■hurch historian Mrs. C. M. Lankford, noted. She told of the 'TTowth of tile church from its beginning in the winter of 1914 vhen J. R. Roberts, then super- ntendent of Cora Cotton Mills, -nr., led a community Sunday School in one of the village louses. sponsor<*d by Dr. O. G. '^alls, president of the mill. Mr. Rohbris' Bible class was for -all- •re groups, and afterwards the*' •valked a mile up town to First ’’aptist church for prcachin*? where Mr. Roberts was a mem ber and deacon. The history continued that in ♦be spring of 1915 David D. ankford move<i from Upper 'Cleveland to a farm m>ar east of Xings Mountain and inquired a- )out a place of worship. He sub- oquently suggested that a Bap- ‘1st church be erected on the Fast side of town a-nd R. L Chaney, Sr. liked the plan, talk 'd to others, and Chaney. Ben Bruce. an<i J. H. Riddle hired a buggy and on the farm of Mr. Lankfoi’d formed a committee to ask First Baptist church to help them organize a missionar.y Hap tisi church which the church did. The church was organized FJast Side Baptist church June 13, 1915. J. R. Miller was first mod orator and D. F. Hord, Sr. was secretary. The first meeting house was donated by Dr. O. G. Falls. Mem- Continued Ou Page S Stores To Close Monday, Inly 5th Kings Mountain merchants will close Monday. July .5th, in observance of Independence Da.v, the board of directors voted Tuesday at a regular meeting. July Fourth his year falls on a Sunday. Motion was made by Marion Williams, seconded by Bill Moss, that retailors observe the holiday July 5th. Five-Cent County Tax Reduction For Kings Mountain School Area Kings Mountain school district taxpayers will get a five-cent lax rate reduction this year, on ba sic of the tentative tax rate adopted by the county commis sion. In contrast, Shelby school dis trict citizi'ns will pay slightly ! more, and county school district I citizens will pay a greater a- : mount due to passage of the re cent .school construction bond is sue by county school district citi zens. Kings Mountain’s five-cent I'b- duction accrues from a one-cent cut in the general county rate to Sl.lS, and a net reduction of four [cents in school district taxes. With a hCalthv cash balance in the debt service fund, this levy [was cut froim 26 cents per $1(X) valuation to 20 cents, in tuin, the commissioners honored the board of education’s I'Cquest to levy the maximum allowable 20 cents supplement for current expenses. Last year only 18 cents was levied. The indicated tax rate for Kings Mountain school district will be S1.-58 per $1(X) valuation, compared to $1.63 last year. County Manager Joe Hendrick said. County Auditor Max Hamrick said the total county budget will approximate $5 million, of which about $3.5 million will lx* local fumis, including a $225,000 school 'bond issue. Additionally, the I county will budget approximate ly $1.5 million in state school bond monies, voted last Novem ber, and to become available in 1 the fiscal ybar starting July I. CtKADUATE — Esther Camp bell# daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Campbell of Kings Moun tain# received the B. A. degree in elementary education in re cent commencement exercises at Johnson C. Smith University. Ichsols Open On August 24 It will bo "nip and tuck” but the Kings Mountain $1.1 million high school is expected to be completed by August 1. That’s the Word of school ar chitects to the Kings Mountain district board of education who discusst'd progress of the new plant on Phifer r-oad at Monday night’s regular .monthly meeting. Rain has delayed workmen on the new’ building—expected to open to district pupils August 24 —opening day of the 1965-66 tei'm. School boarti members okaybd purchase of all new high school equipment such as cafeteria equipment, tables and eliairs for the library, table's and chaire for the dining area, 200 or mare new desks and any needed office equipment. They formally authorized the school superintendent to • furnish the building”. On landscaping plans, the board members agroexi that grass should be sown befoi*e school opening and asked that architects sketch their ideas for placing shrubbery. Board .meml)ers also authoriz ed grading of the site of the pro- posexi John Gamble Stadium near thip new’ high school. Mr. Bai*nes was also formally authorized to employ “movers” to assist in moving ociuipment from Central to the new high school. In other actions, the board: 1) Authorized Schools Archi tect Tom Cothran to aedept the loKv bid if reasonable for a walk- in freezer for the new high school plant. 2) Fixed pajday for teachers on the 25th of each month. 3) Asked for m ire in'formation on request by North School cafe- i teria officials for drain facilities : for a new piece of cH^uipment, a I CoiUinued On Page 8
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