,-1 65 9 ^ Population GrC'^ter Kings tvtouritain 10,320 Cil-y Linnits 8,008 This Itgurc foi Greater KlD9« Mountain 's dorlvod Irom the Kings Mouo.olo city diiuctory Cwoeos. Tlia city Uml'i llguro ii trom tho Unltod States census of tHO. s£^4 emi O H I'- n Cj VOL 76 No. 34 Established 1889 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 26, 1965 c Seventy-Sixth Year PRiCb C.bNT* ings Mountain Area Schools 7*0 i Plonk Chairman Zoning Board Zoning Board Members Named By Mayor Moss NAMED Fred W. Plonk has been named chairman of the reactivated Kings Mountain zoning commission. laynes Details Bus Schedules With exception of additional runs, the i9o5-66 school bus schedules differ very little from tiinse of the 19B-1-65 term, High St hool Principal Harry Jaynes said Wednesday. 'I'he additions provide for transpfu'tation of in-city pupils to iyw Kings M untain High School P/.iacent to the city limits, as w(?ll as Grover, Bethware. and Pai’k Grace seventh and eighth F'^ed W. Plonk, Kings Moun tain oil dealer, has been named chairman of the reactivated city zoning commission. Other members named by May or John Henry Moss are J. I-uses pro ceed express to Central, where one takc.s on pa.ssengers for KMIIS One bus takes on KMHS pupils at the corner of W. Gold and Cansler streets. Two buses proceed to North empty, to load enue during the year of $162,000. i pupils for KMHS Park Grace, two incoming buseo. One then proceeds express to KMHS, the other express to ‘ Central v.nth Central pupils, ! thence to Fast school to take on j pupils for KMHS. | Richie Installed ARP Pastor Rev. L. ThciT-as Richie was in- .'‘tailed as pastor of Boyce Me morial AR Presbyterian church at the 8 p.m. Sunday service' Dr. Randall Ruble. Erikine college professor of Old Testa ment studies, delivered the ser mon and Rev^ Charles L. Mitchell, pastor of Crowder’s Creek ARP church near Gastonia and Rob ert elder in the Crowder's church, charged the minister and congreg-ation. Dr. Ruble was chairman of the installation com mittee. Rov. Richie comes to Kings Mountain following graduation from Erskino college and Ers- kino Theological Seminary. He was ordained by his Iiotp chuiTh. Providence ARP of .Spottswood. Va. in Jtme follow'- ing his gv^duation from semi nary in May. Mrs. Richie U the former Har riett Vandiver of Al)beville. S. C. She (Completed a two-year secre tarial coui'se at Erskine college and formerly worked in the eol- l(‘ge business office at the Due West, S. C. sohonl. The Richies have occupied the new ARP parsonage on Sher wood Drive. LAIL REUNION The 14th annual Peter and K olly Lai! reunion will bo held unday at Bethlehem fellow ship center. Picnic lunch will be spread at 1 p.m. and rela tives and frittnds are invited to attend. County Tax Collector Robert S. Gidney reported advance pay- t.nents at approximately $450,000, with anticipated collections dur ing the year of about $3,000,090. Many discounters have the habit of waiting until the final day to take discounts. Both collectors said payments mailed under August 31 post marks would be honored for the discount. TRAFFIC SIGNAL A new traffic signal was in stalled by the electrical de partment this week at the cor ner of East Gold and South Gaston streets. Mis. Goforth Is Piindpal At Park Grace Kings Mountain district sch-'ots will open Thuisday, though the faculty is four members short. Still needctl in soite of the fact nine teachers v.^ere employ ed this week in addition to 15 last week are four elementary teachers, one at Grover, one at Central, one at Bethware and a “traveling** teacher to relieve elementary school principals for administrative duties. Mrs. Thelma GrJorlh is the new Park - Grace school princi pal. Already on the Park Grace staff as a part-time teacher and with her other c’ Jtics in the re lief-of-principals category, Mrs. Goforth has accepted the princi- palship. Jack Street, of Athens. Ga., who had accepted the principalship of Park Grace late last week, re signed Monday morning efore his formal election that evening. The nine teachers and their as- signitents are: Mrs. Goldie D. Owens, Kings Mountain, Central. Mrs. Mary L. Myers, Gastonia. Kings Mountain high scho:;!, as library aide and teacher of his tory. Miss Barbara Wilburn, Union, S. C., Central. Miss Miriam Moller. Kings Mountain, Central. Mrs, Mary W. Plyler. Kings Mountain, North. Mrs. Maude W. McGill, Kings Mountain, West. Mrs. Lela C. Braswell, Central, Gastonia. Mrs. Mary White, Henderson ville, Compact elementary. Mrs. Ethel M Crook. King- Mountain. relief teacher for Bethware and East schools. List Of Fees For KMHS Students Fees for Kings Mountain high school students for the school term .beginning Thursday were announced yesterday by Princi pal Harry Jaynes. They will include: High school locker rental fee, $5. Physical education fee for boys and girls, $2 per year. Scienc*e fee for science students 50 c'ents Library fee $1. Hcire Economics fee for home economics students, $2. Typing fee for typing students $6 per year or $1 per' month. Bookkeeping fee for bookkeep ing students. $4.50. Insurance fee, optional, $1.75 per year. Agriculture fee for agriculture students, $2. " ' J.' ^ f ii ' ii it ii H ii Ii Ii nSegraiion, jQwIligh School I'iew Kings Mountain inga bcnool lo wpen x nursaay Gorment Workers May Still Apply Fifty Kings Mountain area citizens have filled out appli cation forms for garment workers and 80 more are need ed, Harold Phillips, chairman of the new'ly • named mayoral industry committee, said Tues day night Chairman Phillips said the application blanks are availa ble at the office of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Com- rmerce. The job opportunity ct>mmit- mittee of the C of C is handl ing the application forms. Giovei Postanastei Fain Hambright Is 'Tar Heel Postmaster of Year" Grover Postmaster Fain Ham- bright was named Postmaster of the Year by the North Carolina Branch of tho National League of Postmasters and was re-elect- cd the group’s president for a second term at the 1965 annual convention at Carolina Beach last weekend. Kings Mountain Postmaster Charles L. Alexander was elect ed executive vice-president for 1965-66. Other officers will include Glenn Pasour of Bessemer City. vic*e- preaident; Audrey Cashatt of Randleman, vice-president; John Hammond of Rockingham, vice- president; Allen Jobe of Forest City, vice • pi"csident; Vennio Swanson of Bn'^fner. secretary- treasurer; and Hftrveleigh White of Method, editor of the stale newsletter. The award to Hambright was conferred at the close of the three-day session held in Bame Hotel. (Continued On Page Eight) City-Dickson Will Contract For Engineering By MARTIN HARMON The city board of commission ers this week authorized contract with W. K. Dickson Company, Inc., civil engineers, for engineer ing for the new sewage disposal plant to serve western Kings Mountain and for additions to the McGill treatment plant, which serves eastern Kings Mountain. The formal contract is *0 in clude-timetable for completion of the several phases of the engi neering work to meet the city's contractual obligaHons with the State Stream Sanitation commit tee. .. Specifically, the Dickson Com pany will contract to file a pre liminary report on October 15, with work to begin immediately on flow studies and drainage sur veys of both the Potts and Bee son’s Creek areas, and to file a complete report (final plans and specifications) by January 15, 1966. Fee to the Dickson firm will be six percent of accepted con struction contracts, with three percent payable on acceptance of contracts and the three percent balance on basis of contractor’s percentage monthly completions. The sewage disposal projects are expected to cost in excess of one million dollars and will re quire bond issue authority. Mayor John Henry Moss noted Wednesday, however, that he is already beginning work on ap plication for a federal grant which could recoup for the city from federal funds up to 30 per cent of the total outlay, exclu sive of site costs, easement costs, engineering fees and other ex ceptions. The Dickson firm, the city’s consulting engineers for many years, has been in charge of the project, but on a consulting, rather than a contractual basis. Failure to supply final plans for the projects by last April 1 meant that the city failed to comply with its initial contract with the State Stream Sanitation commit tee, which has .since granted a ^ one-year extension. The revised contractual obliga tions of the city to the State Stream Sanitation committee are: 1) Final plans and specifica tions to be filed with the com mittee not later than April 1, 1966. 2) Construction to start not lat er than October 1. 1966. 3) The plants to be in service not later than December 31, 1967. Maj’or Moss said the Dickson firm had indicated tho contract would be ready for signing be fore week's end. All members were pre.scnt for Tuesday’s special board meeting, except Ray Cline. The action was unanimous. New High School Iiam Humphrey Longtime Project lirea Merger A*as Approved .11 m It lakes a lonu while to obtaki a S1.5'.riliion high M-hool. Back in spring J9!)() a majority •f cilizi-ns in former county dis- liicf area-: adjacent lo Kings Moiniain voted lo merge with To Invitation Vice Presidemt Hubert H Hum- plirey has not yet ropIie the inviiufion to mak * liie prnT'iprd address at the isrith an!U\ ci sar;, ^ celebration of the Ualtlcof King.'-^ Mountain in O-’tober. ' Whether Vice-Piesident Hum- J 'irey find? he is able to accept , the invitation to visit K.ng. Mountain and Klnzs Mountain ‘ Xaiional Miliiarv PaiK. he ha- • been vvell-urgcd lo attend. Actively suppornng the in\’i:a- tion of .^iayor J‘»!in Heni'y M.'js;^ arc Norili aiui South Carolina'.- , rnitiHt .Stall’s Senat ;rs, area ; Cnllcd States Cn:igrossm3n. tlov. {inor Dan K. Mooic and Govern- IN NEW POST — Harold Pear son will join the sports staff cf the Richmond Times-Dis- patch in Richmond, Va., Mon day. The Kings Mountoin men leoves for Richmond Friday. Pearson To loin Bichmond Paper Harold D. Pearson, former Kings Mountain Herald spoils editor, will join the sp-trts staff of the Richmond, Va., Timos-Dis- patch Monday. Mr. Pearson, for the past 28 months a sports department writer for the Gastonia Gazidte, completed his duties at the Gaz ette Wednesday. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Glland the Kings Mountain district. The ! or Robert McNair, and imih maioriiy, at least, felt the Jie.xt states’ DoTincraiic p.tny (-hair- step was the new school : man. Tar Heel J. .'^dville Opponents adopted the die-hard Broughton. Jr., and Baj.-lkippcr attiaide and fought tin? merger , Yancey McLeod, in the rourts a-nd otherwise. . Senator Ervin, serving as Fi’ciily. he opposition lost, and 'chairman of a nine-member Con- next step was a bond issue elec- gression.al ('ommittce. wv'te the lim it> provide funds for build-; virc-Presidenr aftei- talking to iig the new plant. The board of j irlni personally, “I wish to urge education, via tho county com- 'with all emphasis possible tliat mission, used the fi.gure Sl-l mil- i you accept this Invitaimn.’’ Mon. within about ^1 1" Go\'ernors Moore and McNair the broadened district's legal I .sent telegrams to the V'iccPns- loan limit. j ident supportin,^ tlie invitation. The bond issue was favored by' indicative of the . y-pai ti.-an a 2 lo 1 margin. i interest in bringing the Vicv-- There followed hoard '*f oiiaw., conu-u-.-y. , 'riK' f-Tincr K.!\'S -.lountain I900KS iSEOIRGY minister, pastor oi St. Matthew s Rose Gibson. 28 Painter street, ! Lutheran church fropi Canton, is seeking the wherea- until his ivtiromcnt June 1. LkH, bouts of her brother. Tod iMackt ’died M mday at his home in si. LUTHERAN SERVICE Holy Communion will bt' ;id- ministered at St. Matthew's lAUhoran church during the l'> a.m. woi.-^lnp h o u r .Sunday morning. Rev. Charles Easley, pastor, said. Funeral For Dr. W. P. Gerberding In St. Petersburg, Fla., Thursday Franklin. 62. ^Jrs. Gibson said she last saw her brother five years ago and he is believed to have moved to Kings Mountain and working m the Kings Mountain area. I Petersburg. Born April I. 1S92 at Fargo, North Dakota. Dr. Gerberding was for 13 years pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran church in St. Paul, Mitine.sota. and was vice- He will enter Medical College ! notify me at my address, of Charleston, S. C., after com- 1 pleting one year at Union I Seminary, expects to return to 1 seminary after receiving his “I am anxious to find him”, j president of the Hoard of For- Mrs. GibS'on said this week. She oign -Missions, I'niltHi Lutheran continued, “I would appre:,*iate it .church in Ameri.'a. for 12 years, if anyone knows where he may lu Kings .Mountain he was ac tive in civic and coir.'runiiy af- , fairs, a Kiwanis Club president, and a past president of the Kings ATTEND CLINIC Mrs. Joe Neisler. Jr, and Mrs. Martin Harmon attended a pi- ] Mountain Ministerial Association. ! In St. Petersburg, he had serv- M.D. and becoming a medical \ ano clinic in Charlotte Wed- i cd as assistant pastor of RtHieem- missionary* • nesday* (Coiitinuod On Page Eight) SUCCUMBS — Dr. W. P. Ger berding died Monday in St. Petersburg. Fla., at the age of 73. Funeral rites will be held Thursday ot 11 aan. from Rc- deemw Lutbeion church* Kings Mountain riot schools .. Jl tjpiM 'Ll'i.r -! ly ’0: FialOo.o- ■> i( rm. wiili .10 )1 ot" ' :\lj pre- l.. i;.ig ap);. „;.,m:L('ly t’oe .-ame .,i. - day ( ni .:k .1? as last .eir which wa^ l:K5. 'i'liuisday \\i!i mar'K iw) miV- ■’oi'.cr; in Ku.-.s 'L:u;ii .-•hf ol hiriory, as Kin. Moun- ■\\r, dist-lct >ch ols open for the uiG.oKti i(”m. 1) Area schools will be for.mal- y in’eg’.a'cd with some I'-T Ne ro r ghN enrolling at previous- 'y all-whiti 'cho.)D, 2' About l.hnh area hi di schofjl •tudenr,' u-ill enroll at the new S1.5 mllliun Kin.'s )untain high school on Phiier R a'l. Supr'i’inlendenl H. N. Barnes u on- d ou:; !• Excej)’,!?!': the 12 students ; ssigneri out < f West M*h.)nl due to known ootcntial n\erload.s a) .Ml pupils arc assgncd and shculd attend Thurscl ■> the -'(•ho :1 listed as fird choice last spring, excepting h» Th .se pupils who changed their min(D within the legal ten- day limit following initial assign- menr, and asked ne^v assign ments. Those requost.s have been approved. Supt. Barns noted that the hoard of education took no ac tion on ai.slgnmeni change re- cpiests made after the ten-day period expired. lie addcM that the board will reconvene shortly after school npens and will con- •Jlder these eliang(’ re(}ue.st.s in ilig’nt of definite nop.ilation counts in ad of all )1 ds K s’;.ao a.ni. j Thursday vvjll be orientation (i-ay and pupils will be dismissed at 11:30 a.P). in order that all Imay he able to reach their homes ' in time fei- a late lunch, i Friday will he fiist day of the ’ offiv'’ial ISftday schnol teim. with ja full day's schedule in store, ! Exeinlion here is for Insi grad- : er.«. As is customary, first grad- ■ ers will he on half-da.v sihedule I for an acclimation periovd during Ahe initial 11 s h ;nl d.ay.s. It will j he full schcfiule for fir.-^l greders, j too. beginning Sen:emi''e!' 13. 1 Present pl.ans fi)r all elemen- I tary pupils (grades 1 81 to end j the school day at 3 p.m.. with j high school scheduh s. both at t Fompact and KMHS. to contiiKue^ ! to 3;l.'i. i All I ;ifeterias will be in ojxm- ; ation Friday with llie exception I of Kings M nintain high school's. ; Lunch fees at Gro\er, Compact j high school and Kings Mountain j high school will be 25 cents^ Cen- i iral's lunch fee (housing only ■ si.xth and scvcmlh gradeis this jlerm) will be 20 cents or 25 1 cents, the ind -ated fee not yet : vonfirmed by the depart'T.ent of I cdiK'ation in Raleigh. T.unch fees I at all other plants will be 20 ' cents. Grace Davis' Brother Passes William A. Davis. ."9. of Biu'- ! ling)on died .August 15 in a Bur- ! lington hospital. I Mr. Davis, a native of Mont- I gomeiy County, is the son of • Mr.s. Sarah Saundei's Davis and ■ the late N. W. Davis. He was the ' brother of Miss Grace Davis of • Kings .Mountain. Mr. Davis had been a rt'sidcnt of Burlington for 33 years and associate manager of \Vcstv’'rn and Souiiteni Life Insurance for nearly 30 years He was n member of Front Street Methodist ehureh. Burling ton. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lessie T,. Davi.s. two sisKu's Mrs. Roy Diffee 'f Route 1. Elon Cf:!- lege and Miss Grace Davis of Kims Mountain, and two bro- tlmrs Alton Davis and Clyde Da vis both of Route 2, Troy, N. C. Funeral ser\ iees were hebl on Tui'sday at 3 o'clov'k at Front Street Methodist church. The Rev. Jesse V. Bone .Associate oastor and Dr, T. B. Ha’jgh. superintendent f the Burlington District the Methodist church, conducted the .service. Burial was in Pine Hill cemetery. Honorary pdUn\arers were ' momboi'S of the "Men's Bible . Class of Front Stnx't Metliodist I ehureh and membrs oof the staff j of We.sunn and Southern Life In- 1 burance Counpaiiy,