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'65 •om- eiih- • va* U'mi- iiolh ISt'S. n\si- liblc in omo oth- Inch the last inu\ lOVC- , the sin^,' iwn, to ■ious mcr- op. nior- .Top. ;or V will lorso day, p.m. ter K. of «alo ^ for l)e TY I mcl birth^ imi I lirths 1 ap* you * you ‘ of r > c ■T rest lake \ ou. ^r.nal a nee smal mcnt and ‘ SUf' have will (iocu- e. I will I om K’ver h'ue urily my there isibly >r in the 0 ' Population Grenier Kings Mounfain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 Tbit fl9ura for Grcattr Kings MountoiB It dsrlvsd from tbs i9&S Kings Mountain city diisctoiy consut. Tbs city Uml;s Kguro Is from tho Uoltod Statss consus of IWO. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL. 76 No. 26 Esfabtivhed 1889 Kings Mountain, N, C., Thursday, July I, 1965 Seventy-Sixth Year PRICE TEN CENT^ Community Readies For Independence Day m t ChU£C fisher wins wings — Cadet Chorles Gory Fisher U pictured above with his porents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Fisher, Jl., as he received his \/:\ngs in pinning ceremonies ot the Novel Air Station in Corpus Chiisti, Texas. Upon receiving his com- ai an ensign in the U. S. Navy, Fisher hos been assign ed tc oir duty aboard on aircrait carrier bosed in Norfolk, Va. He is currently spending a 20-day leave in Kings Mountain with hir parents. S.&L. Payments Record $215452 Local News Bulletin 6 LUTHERAN SERVICE Rov. Charles W. Easley will I use lh€? sermon topic, “Keepess ’ of the Springs”, at Sunday morning services at St. Mat thews Lutheran church, the third Sunday after Trinity. Savers Receive Semi-Annual Dividends i I Dividends on savings accounts ' paid by Kings Mountain’s two ' savings and loan associations es tablished another new record, as I aggregate payments reflecting semi-annual payments totaled $215,452.30. The aggregate pa)anent for Kings Mountain Savings & Loan was $83,455.76 (optional savings totaling $46,773.27 and full-paid shares totaling $36,682.49) re flecting semi-annual payments ; on June 30 at the rate of 4.25 . percent, secretary-treasurer Ben ; H. Bridges reported, I Home Savings & Loan paid a j record number of dividends to- EPISCOPAL SERVICE The Holy Communion will be celebrated at the 10 a.m. Sun day service at Trinity Episcopal church, 303 Phifer road. “\ou Are His Personal Concern’* is the title of the sermon to be delivered by the Rev. Robert ! taling $131.996.,54 reflecting semi annual payments on June 30 at the rate of 4.25 percent, secre tary-treasurcr Thomas A. Tate reported. Both firms topped payments reflecting semi annual payments at December 31, 1964 and those made June 30, 1964. City Oilicials 8w»sy Working 3n New Budget Work is progress;!!; on th 1935-64 cltv budget which w!l .ipnroxi ra'e SI 000.000. Mayo John Henry Mo?.s iaid Wednes day. He te-mrd the Tgurcs "quit, prclimhiaiy". However, he noted that budge receipts are exceeding levenu estimates for the current yea by a healthy figure and that h anticipates continued growth ii utilities sales and other revenu* iiem.s during the coming year. The city’s general budget gros I revenue will, of ^'ourse, top $1 1200,000, when reeeip s fr .m Ih'' i n.atural ga.s distri Jtion systen* j or'* included he added. Initial estimates indicate Ex penditures for capital outlay, ) such <is water and sewer lines, i curbing and guttering, street- I paving, and equipment for city services at more than $200,000. The Mayor said he hoped th city will he able to include in it capita] outlay budget a nev pumper for the fire depart'xent. “Fire-fighting equipment has a direct bearing on insurance I rates." he not^. He also said he hopes the city j commission, when it adopts the i 'forthcoming budgEt, will be able | to include a sufficient contingen- 1 cy to take care of possible emer- [ gencies which might arise dor- : ing the year. ! In the city office, the books j were being closted Wednesday on 1 fiscal year 1964-65. j Dixon Church Sets Homecoming Dixon Presbyterian church will i Of^wISfilf IllVAn observe annual Homecoming Day WWCUUvKtf A/lAUlIf at Sunday services. ! Ml J M Rev. James S. Mann, pastor, | aU0XcI11CICA AA0 will deliver the morning mes sage at 9:30 a.m. and special music will be rendered by the church choir, under direction of Miss Libby Alexander. Iladcri. UNION SERVICE .Sunday night’s union service will ho held at Trinity Episco pal church, 303 Phifer road. The scimon, at 8 p.m. will be dtdA'tred by Rev. Robert L. Hadcn. Jr. The offering will help support tlie program of Bible teaching in the schools. i Mission Piogiam Set Wednesday TB ASSOaATION OFnCIALS AT DINNER MEETING — Fred Kelley, left. Rev. Tom Haggai, and Mr, and Mrs. Richard Buse were on the program at Tue.'‘.day night's annual dinner meeting of the Gaston - Cleveland Tuberculosis Association at the Woman's club here. Mr. Buse. of Shelby, W08 re-elected president of the association. Mr. Kelly is assistant director of the North Carolina TB Association. Rev. Mr. Hoggoi made the ofter-dinner address. (Photo by Bill Jackson). Two-Connty T-B Group Met Here Named To Board Three Kings Mountain men were elected to the board of Gas- The Sunday School hour will | ton-Cleveland Tuberculosis Asso- begin at 10:30. Picnic dinner will be spread at 1 p.m., and mem bers, former members and friends are invited to attend. A song service will get under way at 2 p.m., L. H. Stewart, Sun day St’hool superintendent an- ciation at the annual dinner meeting Tuesday night at Kings Mountain Woman’s club. Postmaster Charles L. Alexan der. insuranceman John Warlick and Jacob Dixon, manager of the Ho.mo Savings & Loan branch nounced. Singers from other | bank in Bessemer City, are the churches in the area are invited i newly-named members to participate in the afternoon ' ! Mrs. Ruth Putnam, missionary j to Indonesia, wdll show slides DISCHARGED Mrs. Vernon P. Crosby, who underwent surgery Juno 8 at Charlolle Presbyterian hospit- i al. is conval.-scing at tho home | of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. (Henn White, 813 Katherine Avenue. DISCHARGED Former Mayor Glee A. Bridies entered Kings Moun tain ho.spital MiMiday for min or surgery. Ho was discharged Tuesday. RETURN HERE Mr. and Mrs. Halbert Webb have moved back to Kings .Mountain from Lowell where Mr. Webb is associated with Bell Chemicals, manufacturers of d.vestuffs. The Webbs are re siding at 402 West Mountain street, their former home. services at 7:30 at Bethlehem ■ Baptist church^ Mrs. Griffin and her husband, Clarence Griffin, are on furlough following four years service in the mission fields. A native of ChErryville. Mrs. Griffin and her husband are staying in Gastonia with her sis ter, Mrs. J. B. Towery. program, Mr. Stewart said. The present church building was dedicated June 26. 1949 dur ing the pastorate of Rev. P. D. Patrick, also pastor of First Presbyterian church. Prior to the building of new sanctuary, mem bers worshipped in the former Dixon school house adjacent to tlie church on Dixon road. City Dismisses Two Policemen Officers Robert Gretm and Charles Wallacv have been dU- | riegard to rat'e, religious creed or missed from tho city police ! force after failing to report for | Carolina’s duty June 21- : school districts have had as- Mayor John Henry Moss said ' signment plans approved by the applications for positions on the j Office of Education. Health Edu- force are invited. ' cation and Welfare Departimenl, 'Shelby among them. Application forms are obtain- ; able at police department office. ||jf || The Mayor indicated applicants 1^10110]! with high school diplomas or with experience as officers are most desired. Several Local Events On Tap For Holiday Kings Mountain readied foi the an.iual Indepcnclemc Daj hoihlay for many a week. For some the week’s holiday i? already underway, while other; anlieijiale trekking to vacafor spas or making jlher tours be 'innin ' Saturday. Merchants, financial firms, an(‘ the City Hall office will . e clos d Monday, since Independencf Day is on Sumlay this year. Lake .Montonia Club will hold t.s annual family outing Satur day afternoon and evening, anc’ j an Independence Day dance will | be held at the Country Club Sat | iiday night. | The Negro population has schcxiuled what .Mrs. Verloe Rob i •. manager, terms an "all-day » outing" at Davidson Park. A | J ba.seball .game and picnic us ache- ' I duled, with Mayor Jihn Henr>'• • Moss to make an address at 5 i p.m. j Kings .Mountain Drug Com- \ pany announced its Monday j I scliedule would be abbreviated to , I eight hours, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. j Employees of Sadie Cotton 'Mills, MassachusEtts Mohair Plush Company, and Minette Mills, of Grover, are already en- I joying a week’s vacation. ! To tK‘gin week holidays this I wEekend are employees of Bar- ' win Knitting Mills, Mauney Hos- I iery Company. Phenix Plant of Burlington Mills, Lambeth Rope 1 Corporation, Craftspun Yarns, i Inc., and Mauney Mills. ! Bonnie Mills on Wednesday I remained undEcided about a holi- 1 day schedule, and Park Yarn "Wo keep hoping to hear, but | Mills will operate as usual. Car- r'e haven't heard a thing yet." olina Throwing Company will # t. XT also operate on regular schedule. That was the report of B. N. Barnes. superintendent of schools, Wednesday on the Kings -Mountain district school plan de signed (o mcM't requirements of the 1964 Uxieial civil rights act to assign school pupils without GRADUATE ^ Brenda Gcdl Hamrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dovid Hamrick of Kings Mountain, has received her B. A. in sociology from Guilford college^ The commencement ex ercises were held June L I. Barnes Says School Plan News Is Nil , w’e Moores Moving Out 01 City Today Rev. and Mrs. George Mooiie and family are moving today to Spencer where Mr. Moore has acc*epted the pastorate of Cal vary Lutheran church. Mr. Moore has written "Speak ing Out", w'hich has appeared regularly on the Herald editorial page the past several months. His last article appears today. Rev. Moore has sErved as pas tor of Rt'surrection Lutheran church since 1959. Prior to that time, the Moores wore mission ary builders and evangelistic I missionaries to Liberia, Africa. 1 The Moores will reside at 411 Fifth street in Spencer. K1WAN13 CLUB N. Eric Bell, of Asheville, past lieutenant governor of Bloomington, III., and a mem ber of the Asheville club, spoke on “A Research Into tho EconomU's of Successful Living" at Thursday’s Kiwanis club at 6:4.5 p.m. at the Woman’s club. TO ASHEVILLE Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Biddix will go to Asheville Wednesday to attend a four-day convention of Pilot Life Insurance com pany at Grove Park Inn. AT CHURCH CAMP Rev. J. S. Mann, pa.stor*, and Eade Humphries and Stove Sipes represented Dixon Pres byterian church at Pioneer Youth Camp last week at Kings Mountain Presbytery Camp near Saluda. Glenda Go forth returned Saturday after a week at Senior High camp from thb looal c^urefu Mayoi To Lead Holiday Piogiam Mayor John Henry Moss will make thb principal address at an Independence Day celebration Monday, July 5. at Davidson Park. The all-day activities will in clude baseball gamEs and a pic nic climaxed by the 5 p.m. pro gram at which the mayor will speak. Raymond Mitchell will open the afternoon holiday program by playing “Taps", and Mrs. Ni na Mitchell will sing. “ThE Star Spangled Banner." Rev. J. H. McDowell will offer prayer and Miss Ann Cole will recite Lin coln’s Gettysburg Addi'Ess. Carl Bennett will sing a solo and Rev. Sandro Blalock will pi-csent the speaker. Mrs. Verlefe Roberts, supervis or of the park, will pi’cside. Games and contests will be featured after the program. Mauney. Cooper On Mission Tour MAUNEYS HERE Mr. and Mrs, Herman Mau ney and their children, of Al buquerque, N. M., arrived here Wednesday for a weEk’s visit ■wdth their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Mauney. Richard S. Buse of Shelby, an official of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., was re-elected president, and all other officers, re - elected, were W. L. Balthis of Gastonia, president - elect; Miss Eunice Westbrook of Shelby, vice-presi dent; Mrs. Griffin P. Smith of Shelby, vice-president; Mrs. D. R. LaFar of Gastonia, secretary; and Miss Fay Dellinger, of Shel by, treasurer. Other now hoard members are Dr. S. E. Moser, Dr. R. E. Caro- thers, Mrs. J. Y. Pharr, Jr., all of Gastonia, and Mrs. Charles Byers of Shelby. John C. Sma- thErs of Kings Mountain, Park Yarn Mill official, is a member- at-large. Named co-chainmen df the 1965- 66 seal campaign were Paul Ford, president of tliE Bank of Bel mont, and Griffin P. Smith, Jr., manager of the Credit Bureau of Cleveland County. Fred Kelley, assistant dii'Ector of the North Carolina 'Tubercu losis Association, was a special guest. Others recognized were Dr. and Mrs. Joe Griffin of Gas tonia, Mr. and Mre. Floyd Farris and Mrs. R. M. Haus, all of Shelby. Mrs. Haus is executive secretary of the Cleveland Coun ty Chapter, American Red Cross. Rev. Tom Haggai of High Point, popular after - dinner speaker, humorist, and minister- at-large, gave the principal ad dress. ■Son of a minister and Syria imimigrant, Mr. Haggai traveled over 361,(XK> miles in 1963 to make speeches in Christian liv ing. Since that time 120 business men and professional people formed a foundation to enable the former Emei-ywood Metho- Aubrey Maimey, official of Kings Mountain Manufacturing company and active Lutheran churchman, and Rev. Edgar M. Cooi)er. son of Mrs. E. C. Coop er of Kings Mountain and pastor of New HanovEr Lutheran church. Pottstown, Pa., have joined a party of 10 to visit Lu theran missions in Liberia and Tanganika and the Lutheran broadcasting station in Ethiopia. Rev. Cooper, pastor of the old est Lutheran church in America, was hei'e on Satuixlay to assist at the wedding of his niece, Carole Plonk and William Feni- more. 'While on thb tour they will travel in Casablanca, Egypt, Le banon, Israel and Greece. The tour party left via air from Kennedy Airport, N E w York, Sunday. Their itinerary calls for their arrival in Casa blanca Monday, in Marrakech Tuesday, in Casablanca Wednos- da.v. in Dakar-Monrovia Thurs day, in Leopoldville, Congo July 7tli, Dar Es S-alaam July 9th; Moshi July 12; Nairobi July 15; Addis Ababa July 16; Cairo July 17; Beirut Julv 19; Baalbek July church of High Point to 20; Jericho>Jerusalem July 21; sp^ak in all parts of the country Hebron and Bethlehem July 23; ' and abroad; Samaria July 24; Galilee July | He recently spoke to USAF 25; Tel Aviv July 26; Athens Ju-1 paratroopers in Korea. He tra- Amusement Park Open Weekends Tootsieland, f h e amiisEment park south of Kings 5Iountain on Highway 216, will operate on Saturday and Sunday this week end and on Sundays thereafter. The amusement center fea tures a narrow guage railway. Old West Town, an Indian play, pony rides, and oftier children’s rides. Free picnic tables aite availa ble. Carney loins Dr. Craig lones Dr. Craig Jones has announced that E. Kent Carney, M.D., arriv ed in Shelby on July 1 to be as sociated with him in the practice of general and thoracic surgery formation for planning a sewage | ,,p,, 3, Lake I at the Cleveland County Surgical Sewage Tests Are Continuing Wins Degree Mayor Cautions Bicycle Riders Mayor John Heniy Moss ask ed parents to caution their chil- dix?n on the proper rules of the road on riding bicycles. He said ^veral incidents of near accidents have been report- «d. The Ma>Y>r also reported traf- tk* signs recently ordered by the city have been received and are bein0 posted. Miss lyiariam Moller, niece of Dr. and Mrs. P. G. Padgett, of Kings Mountain, was graduated June 14 at the 106th Commence ment ceremonies of Lake Erie College. Paine.svillc. Ohio. She The city’s civil engineers con- awarded a Bachelor of Arts tinued surveys Wednesday de- i (jogree. Mr. and Mrs. Jons Moll- signed to provide necessary in- ! deceased. disposal system for the western i portion of the cii>. English with a minor in Second- The engineers, W. K. Dickson Company, are seeking quanti tative analysis of the affluent entering the Mauney Imhoff- type plant on Beeson's Creek. These figures. I’Elatixl to normal stream flow, will pi'ovide the de gree of contamination of the stream. Heavy recent rains have de layed the work, Mayor John Henry Moss said, but anticipated the Mauney plant tests will be campleted Friday. Tests must bE made under normal conditions, he noted. The engineers will subsEquent- ly make similar tests at the two other Imhoff-type tanks on Kings Creek and Pilot Creek. The city is racing to meet its contract deadline with the State Sream Sanitation committeE, the contract requiring final plans for sew^age plant improvements not later than April 1, 1966. Rotary Club To Install Smith ary Education. She servtxl on the Student Senate as a sophomore, the Judicial l)oard as a junior and as dorm h<xid as a senior. She si>ent eleven weeks of the Winter Term of h e r junior year studying at the University o-’f' Copenhagen, CopEnliagen. Denmark and serve<} as Center Ih-ad. niie Winter Term Abroad for Junioi's is a distinctive fea ture of the four-year Liberal arts curriculum at Lake Fh’ie College. Miss Moller expects to begin training for the Peace Corps at Western Michigan B. N. Barnes' Uncle Sucenmbs Funeral rites for Ben E. Pitt man. 76. uncle of B. N. Barnes of kings Mountain, were held at Lumberton's First Baptist church last Friday. Mr. Pittman, seriously ill the past >ear, died Thursday aftEr- noon Surviving are his wife, a son, and a sister. Clinics at 210 Grover St., Shelby and 709 W. King St., Kings Moun tain. Coming to Shelby from I>exing- ton, Kentucky, Dr. Carney is eli gible for American Board of Sur gery examinations in both gen eral and thoracic surgery. A native of Nashville, Tenn., Dr. Carm'y graduated from Van derbilt University Medical School and ser\ed his surgical intern ship and residency at the Uni versity of Virginia Hospital al Charlottesville, Va., for two years he was a resident in cardiac sur gery at the National Institutes of UrirvErsity Health in Bethesda, Md., where I he also was in heart surgery re 1 search, I Dr. Carney has just concluded Ihis third year as chief resident I at the University of Kentucky Medical Center at Lexington. His second year at University Medi cal Center was spent as chiaf re.sident at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, England un der the University of Kentucky exchange program. The doctor, his wife. Karen, and three children will reside at 804 East Marion St., Shelby. Ray Sisk Piomoted To Assistaiit Supeiintednent, S. C. State Parks Jack Garland of Gastonia, gov- j ernor nominee of District 767 of | Rotary International, will install ' new officers of the Kings Moun tain Rotarv club Thursday at j . 12:15 at the Country Club. Ray Sisk, veteran superintend- Devore R. Smith will be install-jEnt of Kings Mountain State ed as pre.sident for 1965-66. E. I Park in nearby South Carolina. Wilson Griffin will be installed | has been promoted to assistant as vice-president, and Charles H. superintendent of South Carolina Mauney will be installed as sec- , State Parks. . . t i retarV'treasuror. The promotion is effective July New directors will include Neil, 15. ly 27; Corinth-Rome July 28-31. 1 veletl 63() ihilcs Tuesday to spEak ; O. Johnson. Dr. John C. McGill, j Mr. Sisk s:ud his new duties They will fly froun Rome back to j at various parts of North Caro- Ricardo O. Bach and kev. Charles ■ will require him to live in Co- New York* 1 Continued On Page € ' Easloyi lumbia and that he completed ar- rangEmenls to purchase a resi dence over the recent weekend. Superintendent Sisk completes his twelfth year at Kin-gs Moun tain park Thursday. Formerly with the North Car olina State Parks commission, Mr. Sisk is a native of Danbury, in Stokes county. Mrs. Sisk is the former 'BElty Follin, of Wal nut Cove. Lake Montonia Outing Saturday Annual family outing at •X.ake Montonia club, for members and guests, will be held Saturday, beginning at 1:30 p.m. with a swimming mEet. Horseshoe pitching and tennis tournaments are also on the af ternoon entertainment agenda. Barbecue supper will be served beginning at 6:30. President Carl F. Mauney said reservations for 415 persons have betui received. Three Building Permits Issued The city has issued during the past week three building permits to the following: Kelly Dixon, for construction of a residence on Cleveland ave nue, estiimated cost $12,090. Luke Hoyle, residence at 707 Meadowbrook road, estimated cost $10,000. J. I. Cable, addition of two rooms at 23 Bennett Drive resi dence, estimated cost $1,5(X). HOSPITALIZED Jody Ham, eight - year • old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ham, underwent a tonsilecto- my operation Tuesday at Kings Mountain hospital, ROBERTS IMPROVING J. Lee Roberts, confined to his home with a back ailment several weeks, was improving Wednesday, his wffe reported. Mr. Roberts is Kings Mountain magistrate. ANTHONY AT HOME Dr. J. E. Anthony, recuper ating fi'om pneumonia, has bE<Mi discharged from Kings MounUin hospital and is con valescing nicely at hie