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se I iii(« i of I ton in- im- luu mis i(U*r )!•(*• t a- U'W apo tcx- ht'- r>ril lills II k- hat on itry j Di li VO tile lav- /ar hat ■<*ly hor o in 7X0 try bor lat in- ^lo Tiy lat ss- E'al to CS, IK. ly* or- •n. 4 Population Greater tSngs Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 This figure for Greater Kings Mountoln *s derived from the 1965 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure is from the United States census of 1960. VOL. 76 No. 35 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper 16 Pages Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 2, 1965 Seventy-Sixth Year PRICE TEN CENT' Governor s Wife Is Rally Speaker Democratic iomen Rally Bn Wednesday t) • SFi:AKi:R — Mrs. Dan K. Moore, wife ol the North Coro* lina Governor, will speak at the 10th Congressional District women's club meeting Wednes* day in Shelby. Welfare Chief Carpenter Quits Bon Carponlcr, for the past 12 year.^ Cleveland County Welfare Di'partment direetor. has resign ed his position to boc'omc a dis trict supervisor with the Slate Board of Public Welfare. Carpenter won the ire of nu merous Kings Mountain ciDzens during 19(14 when the welfare branch office here was closed. Carpenter will a.ssume his new duties Oct. 18. He will supervise welfare department activities in a nine-county area west of Ashe ville, but will maintain his Shel- V residence. Carpenter’s resignation in Cleveland County i.s effective StjpU'mber 27. ftui Smith, presently .supervisor of the Cleveland County Welfare Department, will become interim director at that time, p.'nding the appointment of a new director by Die Cleveland County Board of Public Welfare. Smifii joinf'd the department in 19.o9 as a case worlcer, subsL'quenlly became part-time supervisor and in 19(J2 was named full-time supervisor of the department. Welfare Board Chairman L. T. WSrliek of Polkville announced Diat the hoard accoiited Carpen ters resignation "wiih regret”. H(‘ commended Carpenter "for outstanding woik accimplislied in Cleveland Cou.Uy during Die last 12 years" and wi.'^hed him success in his new position. Noitli Carolina’s First Lady, di-s. Dnn K. Moore, will be a pecial guest and featured speak er at the 10th Congressional Dis rict Democratic women’s clu neeting Wednesday, Sept. 8 in ihelby. Democratic men and womer^ ire expected to attend fror Cleveland, Avery, Burke, Ca- awba, Gaston, Mitchell and Ru- herford counties The meeting vill feature a 6:30 D..m. recep ion and dinner at Shelby Elks Lodge. "Vistas In An Expanding World" will be the theme of the gathering, w'hich will mark the local observance of National Democratic Women's Day. Mrs. Moore will visit as part of her plan to make a personal appearance in each of the stateV congrei^ional districts. She is the first governor’s wife to make such a statewide tour. The Cleveland County Wom en's Democratic Club will be host for the meeting. Miss Sadie Lutz and Mi's. Robert Morgan, b.-)!}! of Shelby, are co-chain.T)en in charge of arrangements Tickets are $3 each and may be secured by writing Mrs. Paris Yelton, 312 Belvedere, Shelby, N. C. Reservation deadline is Sept. 4. Mrs. W’arren Gamble. Shel’cy. is president of the Cleveland County Women’s Democratic Club. Mrs. Jack White and Mrs. Bob Cox of Kings Mountain are on the decoratio-ns committee for the meeting. Mrs, F. A. McDaniel. , Jr., alsiy of Kings Moxmtain, heads the menu committee. City And County Tax Take Heavy As anticipated, county and city tax collectors did a lotshing j bu- iness during the long weekend ending'Puesday, as citizens made Schools Of KM District Enroll 4260 TO NEW JERSEY — Thomas L. Kesler, consulting geologist Wednesday assumed duties of chief geologist for Minerals S Chemicals Philipp Corporation* of New Jersey. Kesler loins Jersey Firm Thrimas Kesler, of Kings Mountain, has joined Mineral & Chemicals Phillip Corporation of ?.Ien]o Park, \. J., as chief geologist, it has been anncancec y A, C. Tidd, Jr., vice-president Mr. Kesler. a Kings Mountain eitizen for the past 12 years came to Kings Mountain as chief geologist for Foote Mineral Com pany in 19.^3, since 1962 has beer a consulting geologist, serving Foote, and other firms, as well as Mineral & Chemicals Phillip for w'hich he assumed full duties yesterday. A Salisbuiy native, Mr. Kesler was graduated from the Univers ity of North Carolina in 1929 He was with the United State Geo logical Survey (Interior Depart ment! for ten years, then be- eairre chief geologist for United States Steel Corporation before joining Foote Mineral. The Keslers will make their home in Plainfield, N. J. and ex pect to move there about Sep tember 15. The Keslers are members ;of First Presbyterian church. They have a son and daugh ter, Steven Kesler, Palo Alto. Calif., now obtaining a doctorate It Stanford University, and Mrs. Susan Porter, of Raleigh SCHOOL SCENE Kathy Plonk pours tea for Donna Crawfoxd, left above, and Vanilla Parker, right, as students began classes in home economics ot Rings Mountain high school Friday. The brand new quarters give ample room for sewing, cooking and hememaking activities for high school young women. In the photograph ct right Boyce Teseniar points out a new public ad dress system installed in the S1.5 million high school plant as Bill Whiteside locks on. (Herald Photos by Bill Jackson). last minute trips to tax offices to I obtain maxii.r'um discounts ; 1965 accounts. on Knox Rites To Be Thursday Funeral rites for Joseph Lcan- fior Knox. 31. of Clover, S. C., hrothor of Mrs. Hubert Ader- holdt of Kings Mountai-n, will i .o lu'Id Thursday at 4 pj.m. from Ihc Chapel of .M. L. Ford & Sons Funeral Home of Clover, S. C.. interment fallowing in Wood- jie cemetery. *^Kev. A. N, Littlejohn, assist ed hy Row Joe Sowell, will of- n. iatc at the final rites. Mr. Knox was found dead in Ids car parked on South ('aro- lina Highway 5 Wednesday about noon. York Coimtv Sheriff’s De partment and York County Coro ner A. Y. Lcsslic ruled the death a i^uicide. They said their invc.s- tiigation revealed a hose had been run from the exhaust pipe of Knox’s automobile into a window of the car. ODier survivors include his parents. John J. and Viola Mc- Cobl) Knox; three sons. Joseph Knox. Jr.. Johnny Knox and William A. Knox, all of the home; one daughter, Evel,vn Anne Knox of the home; thixie brothers, John J. Knox, Jr. of Charlotte, George W. and Jacob R. Knox, both of Clover; and two additional sisters, Mrs. J. C. Brakcfield of Clover, S. C., and Mrs. W B. Love. Jr. of McCon nells, S. C. Stores To Close Labor Day Monday Kings Mountain retail mer chants will observe the Labor Day holiday Monday, Septem ber 6th. directors of the asso ciation voted Frida.v. ^ Store.s will U' closed all day, pits customar.v. Virtually all downtown mer chants will close, with excep tion of drug stores and service stations, In R. S. Gidney’s county office, where $1,237,0(10 had already , been counted Wednesday morn I ing. officials were still opening j mail payments which Mr. Gid- ; ney guessed would up the pre payment total to $1,300,000 or more. The total levy is estimat ed at $3,000,000. Mr. Gidney said September pie-payment logged during sev eral consecutive years. It was the same way at City Hall, where $lS,(XX)-plus in col lections through last Wednesday escalated to $47,270. or approxi- j mately 30 percent of the budget- esiirrated collection for the year of $162.(K)0. I Neither office yet has total ' levy figures, as several valua tions are, by law, supplied ihy the State Board of Assessment. Those to pre-pay tax bills dur ing September qualify for a one percent discount. Some Transfer Rids Honored Some pupils wishing transfers to other schools were granted transfers early this week. Superintendent B. N. Barnes said factors in the transfers were grade loads and the federal civil rights law. “Transfer requests weie hon ored where the reqiM?st did not involve race, creed, color or na tional origin of the pupil, and where the transfers did not cre ate overloads,” Supt. Barnes sakl. Approvals included some pu pils who changed their minds and asked re assignment after assignments were made by the board of education last spring and others included those w’ho had changed residences to differ ent areas of the district since school ended last May. Some were transferred for health reas-ons (whore transpor tation was particularly neede<l), some to put all of one family in the same school, and a few who asked school assignment on im pression Park Grace would not bo operated Lost 14 In Moving III Hnman Relations Committee Sets Hist Meeting; Commitiees Named Initial meeting of the Kings Mountain Human Relations wm* mitleo will be held Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the courtroom' of City Hall, Chairman Paul Aus- ley announced this week. Dr. Ausley noted the new may- oral committee will meet the first Monday night in each month. Mayor John Henry Moss will address the first meeting. Chairmen and members of five sub-co*:t5mittees will include: Education: Joe Hodden, chair man; William Orr and Mrs. W. T. Weir. Living facilities and environ ment: Sandro Blalock, chairman; Donald Parker, and Jonas Bridges. Public facilities: Bill Brown, chairman; George R. EXiwards and George P. DcBruIe. J olb opportunities: Charles Mauney, chairman; Mrs. F. A. McDaniel, Jr. and Rev. S. T. Cooke. Human relations and religion: Paul Howard, chairman; Leon ard Smith and Junious Haywood. Dr Ausley noted that do mem ber shall serve longer than three years and cannot succeed him self without Ix?ing off the com mittee at least one year. There shall be three classes of mem- brs, the chairman noted, with a new clavss appointed each year by the mayor. Fiscal year will begin JiUly 1 and end on June BOlh to coincide with the policies of city government. Dr. Ausley continued, "This committee is vital to our com munity life and in order to func tion properly, all (members are asked to attend regularly. In the event a member does not attend regularly, the mayor will replace such a member at his discretion." The Presbyterian minister add ed, "Members of this committee are giving of their time, interest •and ability to promote tht wel fare of our community and de velop it to the extent that it will bo a place where people live to gether in harmony, understand- inig and cooperation. The re sponsibility allocated to this com mittee is tremendous, and we S'O- licit your help, cooperation and prayers that we might do what is best for all without regard to race, class or creed". SPEAKER —• Carolinas District Kiwanis Governor T. Oregon Lawton of Greenville, S. C., will address Kings Mountain Ki- wanians Thursday night as the civic club honors 19 members for longtime service. Lawton To Speak At Awaids Night T. Oicgon Lawton of Green ville, S. C, governor of the Car olinas District of Kiwanis Inter national, will make the address at Thursday night’s Kiwanis club meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the Wom an’s dub. The civic club will honor 19 members for long-ticro service as it holds a Legion of Honor a- wards night. Awards will Ix' made by Gov ernor Lawton. Mr. Lawton, a wholesale lum berman, joined the Greenville Kiwanis club in 1952 and has held every office except secre tary. A native of Greenville, he attended the Greenville city schools and North Greenville Junior college. He has attended five district Kiwanis conventions and two international conven tions. Married to the former Alice Hall of Greenville, the Lawtons are parents of a daughter, Gin ger, ago 19. They are memi'ers of Greenville’s Augusta Road Baptist church. Fialey Rites Held Monday Funeral rites for L. H. Fraley, 73, of Big Stone Gap, Va., father of Mi’s. Kelly Bunch ■of Kings Mountain, were held Monday at 2 p.m. from Mountain View Baptist church of Pattons- ville, Va., masonic riles and bur ial following in the family ceme tery. Mr Fraley, retired building contractor, died Saturday morn ing at 8 o’clock following illness of thi'ee months. Rev. Clinton Greene, pastor of St. Charles. Va. First Baptist church, officiated at the final rites. Other survivors include his wife; two sons, James M. Fraley of Phoenix, Ariz. and Arnold Continued 0?i Page 8 Rugs" Swatted, As Air Moves, Inter-Com Works Any person involved in moving from one residence to anothei will ce quick to say, "It am I easy. Whewl" But changing -residences i? I child's play compared to moving into a new high school, s.ay Harry Jaynes, high school prin cipal. who. now, has done both. Item: The movinig chore par od 14 pounds from Principal Jaynes’ ample frame. ".So-re times." he said, “I was too tiret to eat." Meantime, the high schoo’ plant is still equipment-shy, a- waiting shipments from manu facturers and suppliers. And the electrical contractor failed to connect the wiies to the hot water supply for the gym nasium The 1007 pupils, however, are managing to survive quite well on a lunch of sandwich()s and imilk, and the band members arc concentrating on marching and other drills while they await chairs for the band room. (The manufacturer claims shipment has bc^n made and the carrier has fouled up.) There are now cliaii’s for all, though pupil population is great er than was expectiMi. School opened to humid, high- register August heat. It proved the air-movement cooling s.vstom hadn’t beim connected either. It has been now. And the intor-comimunication system is now’ in action. ‘Tt’ll soon work out," Mr. Jaynes philosophizes. Mrs. Kesler s Mother Dies Funeral rito.s for Jesse Calvin Menges. 85, of Hanover, Pa., father of Mrs. Thomas Kesler, of Kings Mountain, w’ore held Sat urday in New Hanover at Trinity United Church of Christ. Mr. Menges, a retired farmer, died August 26 at Hanover Gen eral hospital. He had been a pa tient for a week. Death was at tributed to a heart ailment. He had served the Trinity United Church of Christ on the consistory for 25 years. Other survivors are his w’ife, Mrs. Alice Margaret Easley Menges; another daughter. Mrs. Albert Stetter, Burbank, Calif.; a son, CJJyde J. Menges, Hanover. Pa.: a sister, Mrs. Lucy Reigle, MeSherrystown, Pa.; and five grand-children. Burial was in Ml. Olivet ceme tery. GRADUATE — Dottie Gibbons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Gibbons of Kings Mountain, was graduated Sunday from Gaston Mcmoriol Hospital School ot Nursing and will join the nursing staff of Gaston Memorial hospital Sept. 22. Miss Gibbons has completed three years of training. TO INSTALL OFFICERS Now officers of the Future Homemakers of America chap ter of Kings Mountain high school will be in.slalled Thurs day night at 7 p.m. in the home economics department of the high school. Martha Herndon has announced. Mayor Retains Mope Humphrey To Come Here By MARTIN HARMON Vice-President Hubert Humph rey’s admi.ii.^fralive assistant. \ViJJie--r Conrul], wrote Ma\or J )hn ilt'nry Mos^ Iasi wei'k say ing the ViccPiesidi*ni ha:! [irio!- .i>inmittm< whicii, ri _icifu]- .y, would pnwenr Mr. Ilumpli- cy’s Visiting Kings .Mmniain iiul the ?,'alional Military Paik in October 7. Tlie letter wa.s re'.-cived Friday. As late a< \V(dn<'sdny after- 'loon, hc'wover. Mayor .M .'till \mained lu»i'etul the Vi Presi- tient would bo able to revise his x'hedule and rome hero f')i' the ls5th anniversary lelobration of the Hat h* of Kmgs Mouniain. ‘ On the advice of a number of those suppoinng the invitation to he Vice-i^re.-iidenc and on my fei'ling oe:sun<d]y. 1 Iiave asked the Go\crno]-s of Xoith Carolina and South Carolina t) Mr. Humphrey again, pei-sonal- ly. to encourage him to vary his schedule D' at all possible and to make the principal address at the forthco.Ting cclo ration. ' "If he remains unable to come [here, an invitation will be o.x- ■tended within ihe next few days I to another personage of nation- I wide prominence." I Meantime, the Mayor added, iplan-' for the cidebration are go- j ing forward. The celebration will j cover the weekend Octolx'r 7-10. I — i McDANIEL REUNION I Tlie annual Jolin Hoyle M<‘- ; Daniel j’eiinion vvill be held ' Sunday. September 19. at 1 p. * m. at Bethlehem Fedlowship j Center. Picnic dinner will be ! spread ami all relatives and ! friends are invitixl t i attend. Commission - Judge Impasse Ends; Charles Wray Is New Solicitor “ i Charles W. Wray, Jr., of Shelby, who recently suci*esslully under went state bar examinations, wa.s sworn as solicitor of Cleveland County Recorder’s Court Wednes day. Wray’s appointment ended an impasse of sevi'ral weeks be tween the board of county com missioners and Recorder Judge Joe Mull, the impasse following resignation of Solicitor George Hamrick. The impasse between Judge Mull and the county commission had heavy political overtones. The commi.ssion initially voted 4 to 1 to appoint Fred Flowers, while Mull recommended Former Judge Ruebon Elam. Mull con tended the commission was re quired to honor his recommen dation. The commission said "nay”. The statute read that (he Judge had the power to recom mend and approve the appointee of the commission. The commi.s.sion majority act ed on the recommendation of the Democrat Executive committee, headed by J. Clint Newton, coun* Iv partv chairman, and a menn- jber of'the Sanh-rd-Preyer wing j of the party. Judge Mull was a supporter of I. Boxerly Lake lor I governor, as a district co-man- lager in 1960. and without port- I folio in 19()4. Mr. Wray will be the court’s ! third solicitor during the present i four-year term to which Dick Lackey was elected. Mr. Wray is the son of Mr. and ■Mrs. Cliarles Wray, Sr., of Shel- ' hy. A 1957 graduate of Shelby I high school, he received his I bachelor of arts degree in poliii- jcai science from Wake Forest college in 1962 and liis law de gree from Wake Forest's Sehool of Law this year. The new solici tor. 2(>, was a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity while at Wake I'orest and servi'd as one of the editors of the college's Intramural Law Review during hi.s senior year. He is married to the former Cynthia Grice of Shelby. They are temporarily living with his parents at 600 VVestover Terrace In Shelby. Few PieMems: Overloads, ‘Too-lcng" Day By MARTIN HARMON Tuesday’s enrollment total in the Kin s Mountain school dis trict’s nine-plant system totaled •1269. nine ..elow the third-school- day Lg .re of a year ago. Gains were recoialed in elemen tary pupils (21 gain, 3021 vs. xUb). in sfw'cial education pu pils (gain :f three, 41 vs. 381, and a decline in high school pop ulation of 23 (1198 v.>. 12211. A f( w j*roblems developed with the opening and actual cn- .Super ntendent N. Barnes reported, including: 1( Ovt'i loads at four elementary •"IV'oLs in so.me prii.rarv grades 11-3); 2) Longer time-from-home day -r .'^ome pupils using bus trans- lortation to schools; .31 Need for at lea.st two addi tional teachers, perhaps more lue U) the overloads; and •11 Equipment .shortage at the tew Kings .Mountain high school on Phifer Road. By Wednesday he desk sh ndage had been handled by pulling into service some di^sks which will be scrap ped as quickly as new ones on order arrive. Superintendent Barnes report ed overloads at Park-Grace third grade (36). at East first grade 72 pupils, two teachers), at Beth- ware’s split grade 1-2 (three teacheis, 110 pupils, and at Da- vidson’ii split grade 1-2-3 (four teachei>>. 127 pupils). Both Beth- ware and Davidson Supt. Barnes marked for an additional teach er to alleviato these overloads. In times past, wliere overloads , occurred, the board of (xlucation ! has iavittHl volunteers for trans- j ter to underloaded classes at jollier schools. Whether this : method can be uscxl again, Mr. i Barnes said, awaist full analysis I of Ollier iirixary population fig ures. as well as transportation I arrangements, Supt. Barnes conferred with state and county sy.stem school Transporrati(m officials Wednes day in -an effort to solve the "long-<jay” problem, created by li extension of loute by some bu-'es to s(-ive Kings Mountain •ligh scho il, as well as Centi*al, and 2) fact lliar Kings M ountain high .sidiool stiidcnJ.s in East Kings Mountain now live 1..5 or i more miles from K.MHS and • qualify for transportation. He said he expects word from the . state officials within a few days. Two faculty members were ' employed Monday night. I Mrs Elvira Fe Baulware, of Cuntinurd On Page 8 Refuse Pick-Up Demonstration A firm specializing in refuse collection systems designed for containerized servic‘e will dom- ons’rate equipment here Tues day afternoon and Mayor John Henry Mo.ss said ho would invite owners and managers of com- mt?rcial firms to view the dem onstration. Specifically, the firm will dem onstrate an enclosed truck, pack er-type, designed to lift stand ard-size, castered enclosed con tainers with an hydraulic lift. I Mayor Moss said improving I the appearance of the behind- store areas in the business dis- , tricts was among the initial pro jects discussed with John Plonk, 'Jr., chairman of the downtown ; improvement committee. Inventories Listed Low To Be Checked I I Some business firms which j dutil'ull.v listed property for * taxes last January failed to I file i-nvontories with the coun- j ty tax supervisor. Some other business firms, I either through error or other- j wise, listed inxentory figures . which tax collectors regard is unduly small. Lists of both are n.iw being prepared. County Tax Collec tor H, Gidney said M’edncs- day. These will Iv cheeked, pro bably in October, with the Nortli Carolina Revenue De- , ixirtment against income tax reports of the particular firms. 'Fhe law requires that inven- I lories be listtni at 100 percent I of actual value. In turn, for tax ■ purpost's, the county (and i cilii's) re<luie the amount to 65 ‘ percent o£ actual values