ZELMA SCliUGCS
MARY WRIGHT
MARGARET SWAN3SON
Area Students
Receive Diplomas
Six Kin:JS Mountain h i h Kay Maunoy, daupflifer of Mr.
.1 graduates were among! and Mrs. Carl F. Mauney, 809
tlu» 329 graduates of Kicig's Col- East King Street,
lege in Charlotte who were a- I Tne otners were Miss Zelma
ward'd diplomas at the college's | Scruggs, daughter of the Rev-
loth annital commeiuement pro- erend and Mrs. H. S. Scruggs,
gram on Novo.rbor 20. 818 Second Street, who received
Goneial Business Secretarial a diploma for completing the Ad-
diplcma^j were pretjented to Miss vancod Secretarial Course. Paul
Maiy Ailecn Wright, daughter of Smith, son of Mrs. Paul .Sr.irh,
Mr and Mrs. Fred J. Wright, j 109 Myeis Street, received a di-
Jr., Hawthorne Road; and Miss 1 Continued On Puffe <>
KAY MAUNEY
BECKY STOWE FISHER
PAUL SMITH
Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits
8,008
Thii f!qui« for Greater Kings Mountain 's derived from
-ISSS.Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
tlgurs U from tha United Slates census of 1960.
Kinqs Mountain's Reliable Newspoper
Pages
Today
VOL 76 No. 48
bstablished 1889
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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 2, 1965
Seventy-Sixth Year
PRICE TEN CENT
ebb Gifts Top $100,000
sifi (If
TOPS SIOD,000 — Richard rr>i'.*T) Mcr •'’v ere^-ntive efficer cf the new First Citizens Bank and
Trust Co. in Kings Mountain^ hands Charles M aney a check for SS.OOO. Mauney, center, was
area chotrman of the CczdnerAVcoo College campL'ign in Kings Mountain > Gro/er and Patterson
Springs which netted over $100,000 with the First Citizens Eank gift. Dr. Eugene Poston, president
of the college, looks on.
Mrs. Plonk's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Grace
Berry Plonk, 76, were held Mon
day at 3 p.m. from First Pres
byterian church of which she
was a member.
Dr. Paul K. Ausley officiated
at the final rdt's, and interment
was made in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Wife of R. Grier Plonk, Sr.,
Ml'S. Plonk succumbed Saturday
at 9:30 p.m. in the Kings Moun
tain hospital following illness of
three weeks.
She was a native of Gasl.on
• iunty, a member of the Thurs-
y Afternoon Book club and
long active in affairs of her
church.
Ill addition to her husband.
Mrs. Plonk is survived by two
sons, Harold Plonk of Kin 4s
Mountain and R. G. Plonk. Jr.
of Shelby; two daughters. Mrs.
J. D. Mercer of Wurzburg, Ger
many. and Mrs. A. A. Lackey,
Jr. of Fallston; one brother,
Fred Harris of Tampa, Fla. and
one sister, Mrs. Estelle Meador
of Union, S. C. AL'o surviving
are three grandchildren.
Mrs. Plonk had been long ac
tive in Circle 5 of First Presby
terian church of which she was
a former secretary. Born in Gas
ton County, she moved to Flori
da at an earlv ago and was edu
cated in the schools there.
She suffered a light stroke
three week.? ago, was hospitaliz
ed and suffered a second stroke
prior to her death.
Active pallbearers were her
nephews. Robert Harris of Co
lumbia. S. C.. Caswell Taylor of
Gastonia and John Domlas Mea
dor of Union, S. C.. also Hal
Plonk, Eddie Camohell. Eugene
Goforth and Malcolm Patterson.
BENEFIT
Cleveland County Rescue
Squad will .sponsor a hotdog
and hamburger supper Dec.
« th from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.
r benefit of the Squad s build
ing fund. Open house will bo
held the same day at 312 Park
er street. For deliKpry, call 739-
2077.
uries
Fatal
To Rickie Wilson
fm iS-Year-Old
Tenth Grader
* Richard (Rickiei Wayne Wil
son, 15-year-old Kings Mountain
liigh school sophomore, died
Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.
m. as the result of head injuries
sustained in an automobile acei-
dopt early Saturday in Hickory.
' Funeral rites will be held Fri
day at 3:30 pj.T. from Second
Baptist church. The body will re-
! main at Harris Funeral Home
j until 30 minutes before the rites.
His pastor. Rev. George Julian,
‘ and Rev. W. A. Redmond will
i officiate, and interment will be
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Branch Bank
Names Maxey
I Richard E. Maxey, Assistant
Vice President of First-Cili/ens
Bank & Trust ('ompany, has
been named i*esident manager of
the bank's Kings Mountain Of
fice, slat<Kl to open in early Jan
uary.
The announcement was made
1 by Lev'is R. Holding, president
; of the statewide banking sys-
: tern.
I Ma.\ey has been with First-
Citizens since 1957. He comes to
^ Kings Mountain from the Hick-
j ory Office where he has served
in operations, personnel, admin-
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Foimei Ked Cross Secretary, 67,
Sneenmbs; Bites Held Sunday
I Funeral rites for Mrs. P^uth
: Davis Gamble, 67, executive sec-
* rotary of the Kings Mountain
jlled Cross Chapter for 32 years,
were held Sunday at 3 p-'i:. from
!lho Chapel of Harris Funeral
iHamc.
1 Wi.e of J. N. (Pete) Gamble,
Mrs. Gamble succumbed Satur-
I day morning at B-'k) in the Kings
; Mountain ho.spital following sev-
'eral months illness.
! Sh<‘ was a native of Ga.Uon
County, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Charles A. Davis. A
; former Marshall schoolteacher.
; she came to Kinrs Mountain as
;executive secretary of the Red
' Cross chapter 32 years ago.
t The local chapter joined the
' Cleveland County chapter after
i Mrs. Gamble became ill and un-
i able to manage the Kings Moun
tain office here.
She was a .:rember of Fit's!
Presbytenan churcli and hwig
active in cliurch, civic and com
munity a f fail’s.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by her son, diaries J.
Gamble of Sylacauga, Alabiu.r.a;
her brother, H. O. Davis of San
Antonio, Texas; and ihreo sis-
Icj-rL Mrs. S. T. Anderson of
Leaksville, Mrs. Hugh Foster of
Manshall and Mrs. Harry Neely
of Cliavlotlo. Also surviving arc
four grandchildren.
Dr. Paul K. Ausley officiated
at the final rites and interment
w’as made in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Hall
Goforth. Bob Maner, R. S. Len
non, Harry Page, F. A. McDaniel.
Jr. and Cliarlcs Ncislcr.
^•our^ta■ 1 area com-
paigiii. ; lor (»ard'u;’»»ebb Gol- '
j,e a bcla..\l cu.toia-cail ;
-h s v.-ov'k a.- tlie.r alic.fly ..ui-i
pusing total surpas.Md the $11)0,• i
JtM r.ic.ik. ;
A 65,000 gift from First Citi- j
'p:;s Bnn.v and Trust Co. pushed !
fie (»:g?.nhMt:t>!i to the figure
vliic/i it; fpr.'cLupJc Lficir $2,5,OOO i
:oal and by far the most im- •
p ev ; « {• - p:tign, ixjscentag.'- '
'.vi.a*. of any the rolle; c has con-
aiL'ted tills year.
Acti\(‘ solicitation in the Kings
.1 U'.cn area ceased in Ui.* ,
i)etohri witji $02,546 pledged or ,
:iven but “quiet” work by cam-1
paign leadcis continue.i resiilt-
ng i!i lhi» vveelvS anoouncementi
of succ**^Rs by Charles Mauiiey, [
area chairman. j
iiiUiard E. .tRicH Maxey, cxe- j
cutive officer of the new First i
i Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
' which will open in Kings Moun- |
I tain, nKKte official presentation'
I of the pled-,e. Maxey 13 present- I
“ ly assistant vice-president of the ^
Fir.si-Citizens Bank and 'Triis^ !
Co. of Hickory. He and his fam- '
ily will move to Kings Mountain 1
Dec. 20. His wife is the former !
Jane Julian, daughter of Mr. and |
Mrs. I. B. Julian of Fayetteville.
N. C.
Maxey is a graduate of Lenoir
Rhyne College and is presently
a senior at the Graduate School
of Banking at Louisiana State
University and is vice-president
of his class. 1
Gardner-Webb is in a $1,125.-1
000 campaign for development j
and expansion of its physical fa- I
cilities'. Over $1 million has :otm 1
raised in the Cleveland-Ruthcr- 1
ford Cmmties area and in 1966!
the campaign will move into |
Gaston County and into Chero
kee County, S. C.
The Kmgs Mountain area un
der the guidance of Maunoy, Bob ]
Maner, canvass chairmen; John]
O. Plonk, sirecial gifts chairman;
J. C. Bridges, Fain Hambright
and Jonas Bridges, division lead-
el’s and many others had its to
tal bcosUxl by a .$50,000 gift
from the W. K. and D. C. Mau-
ncy families. From the point of
that gift the organization at
tempted to match it dollai'-for-
dollar.
First Citizens Bank and Trust
Co. aids many colleges out of its
Holding Foundation. The bank
was started in 1898 in Smithfield
and has grown to a point that
it is located in 47 cities. Lewis R.
Holding is president, Robert P.
Holding is chairman of the
board, Frank Holding is vice-
president and George Brodrick
of Charlotte is regional vice-
president.
Negio Woman
Bound Over
Kings Mountain Recorder’s
Court Judge George Thomasson
Monday found probable cause in
a murder charge against Mar
garet Hopper of 411 Morris
Street.
Mi.ss Hopper is charged In the
November 13 death of Negro J.
Hue McClain. A preliminary
hearing was held at 2 p.m. ses
sion of Recorder’s Court Mon
day. Witnesses appearing against
Miss Hopper included Sheriff J.
H. Allen, Kings Mountain police
man Jackie Barrett an^ Dr Jo
seph Leo
Dr. Lw testified tliat he ex
amined McClain and termed his
death as coming from shock and
excessive loss of blood. Time of
death was around 3:40 a.m. No-
Continiicd On Page 6
r»/s A
MERRY
CHRISTMAS...!
^ KELP
THE
FUHD
KPO^Sa^SC B>
KINGS MTN.
HiNlSTERIAl ASSOCIATION::
EMPTY STOCKING PROJECT UNDERWAY —Kings Meuntoin Ministerial Association launch d its
annual Christmas-seoson Empty Stocking oppeal Saturday and first-doy gifts totaled $107, Rev.
C. R. Goodson. project chairman reported. The booth is located in the downtown business di: trict
end will be manned by area ministers through Christmas Eve. Gifts will oid the area needy and
make Christmas merrier for the indigent. Rev. Mr. Goodson, left pastor of East Gold Street Wes*
leyan Methodist church, ond Rev. H. G. Clayton, pastor of First Nozorene church, are pictured a*
bove. Operating the booths this weekend will be Rev. C. C. Bundy on Thursday, Rev. Grier on Fri
day, and Rev. Darrell Coble, Rev. George Julion and Rev. R. L, Garvin on Soturday. (Photo for
the Herald by Paul Lemmons)
Stadium Bids To Be Opened
By Architects Here Dec. 14
Methodist Choir
' To Sing Cantata
Here On Sunday
The 26-vo;ce Senior Choir of
Central Methodist church wdll
sing “Christmas Oratorio’* by
Camille Stant-Saens at the 11
o’clock morning worship service
Sunday.
Mrs. J. N, McClure, organist-
choir director, w’ill direct the
presentation. Vocal soloists will
1 include Mrs. Delbert Dixon, so-
I prano; Mi's. Bill Allen, mezzo-so-
iprano; Miss Teresa Dixon and
j Miss Becky Dixon, altos; Jaco*.?
Dixon, tenor; and B. S. Peeler,
‘Jr., baritone.
The music of “Chnstmas Ora-
i torio” is written in the style
“pastorole” and is built about
! the birth of Christ, with a inen-
! tion of the prophecies and a
i grim hint of the coming tragedy
[which the birth and prophecies
Grading, Seating
General Contract
Bids Invited
Three sots of bids for grad
ing and drainage, coniTetc r.cat-
ing and general construction of
the proposed John Gamble Foot
ball Stadium will be opeiuxl De
cember 14th at 2 p.m.
Architect-engineers are invit
ing bids in the several categories
to be “in” by that date, James E.
Herndon, a mem-'.cr of the br>ard
of education said Wednesday.
The bids will be opened by the
membei's of the board of educa
tion and the stadiun committc?
in the offices of Scliaol Supt. B.
N. Barnes.
Stadium officials expressed the
hope that contracts will lx» l^t
at the Tuesday, Dec. 14th, meet
ing.
Three sots of bids will be
opened, including;
1) grading and drainage;
2) concrete stadium scats;
3) general contract, including
electrical, plumbing, lighting,
prossbox and concessions.
In mid-NovenV)or architect •
engineers were authorized to
complete revision of plans de
signed to pare construction costs
and to invite bids as quickly as
possible.
When bids were invited last
spring, only one or “turnkey”
bid was asked. Result w'as that
the total cost 'w’ould have ap
proximated $145,000, some $65.-
000 over the $80,000 contribu
tions sought for constructing a
4,000 seat stadium.
Meantime, contributions and
pledges have topped $83,000.
Lions Are Holding
Fruit Cake Sale
The Kings Mountain Lions
club is continuing its annual
fruit cake sale for benefit of
the blind.
The civic club is again offer
ing the popular Claxton three-
pound cake for $3. Both light
and dark cakes arc available.
Proceeds from the sale are
used by the Lions to aid the
blind and also those with sight
deficiencies.
Gene Timms and Howard
Bryant are co-chairmen of the
annual cake sale.
Other member sof the com
mittee are Edwin Moore, War
ren Burgess and George Dia-
cou.
Rita Bell Attends
Lions Bowl Events
Miss Rita Bell, Kings Moun
tain Homecoming queen, parti
cipated in a talent show and
beauty contest preceeding the
Lions Bowl football game at
Forest City Friday night.
In the talent division Miss Bell
played a piano solo, “Alla Bur
lesque” by Kuhlau, and on Sat
urday, along with other home
coming queens from the area,
she roile in the pre-game parade.
The teams wore made up of
senior stars from the Southwest
ern 3-A and Northwestern con
ferences. The North team won
the gatme 28-6.
Kings Mountain coach Bill
Bates was head coach of the
South squad.
Postanastei Says
"MaU Eaily"
Kings Mountain Postmaster
Charles Alexander is offering
suggestions to patrons to guide
them in planning their Christ
mas mailings.
Inviting citizens to “mail ear
ly”, the postmaster lists the fol
lowing information on mailing
deadlines, local and out-of-town
areas, including:
MIDDLE AND FAR EAST
Gift Parcels — December 5.
Greeting Cards—December 14.
Air Parcel Post—December 18.
OVERSEAS (Including Armed
Forces)
Air Mail or Air Parcel Post no
later than - December 10.
LOCAL and NEARBY AREAS
Gift Parcels - December 14.
Greeting Cards- Decembc'r 15.
Postage Rates For Greeting
Cards
U.S. CANADA MEXICO
1st Class — 5c
3rd Class — 4c
AIR MAIL — 8c
All other Countries
Sealed — 11c
Unsealed — 5c
(Air Mail Consult your lo
cal post office).
GREETING CARDS
1. Address your cards com
pletely, clearly and correctly.
2. Separate Cards, using LO-.
CAL and OUT-OF-TOWN labels.
3. Use First Class Mail...It
may he sealed—contain written
message; will receive priority
service: will be forwarded to
new address if known, or return
ed to sender.
4. Always use ZIP Code as
part of your retum address.
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The text used was done into
English from the Latin by Na
than Haskell Dole, an American
poet and translator of many
famous works.
Choir members are: Sopranos
Mrs. Bill Allen, Mrs. Delbert
I Dixon, Miss Mary Alice McDan-
! iel. Mrs. W. A. Tinsley, Mrs. Ren-
j nett Masters, Miss Bi'ssie Bu.n-
I gardner, Mrs. John Warlick,
j Mrs. Charles Blanton. Miss Cin-
) dy Ware. Miss Myra Maunoy.
i Altos—Mrs. Baxter Payseur, Miss
i Teresa Dixon, Miss Libby Alex-
]andcr. Miss Kay Mc.Swain, Miss
; Becky Dixon, Miss Myra W’are,
Miss Debbie Timms. Tenors—W.
A. Russell, Jacob Dixon, Arthur
Walker. John Warlick. Basses —
B. S. Peeler, Jr., Carlcton Harris,
Delbert Dixon. Bill Allen, Rich
ard Etheridge.
80-Voice Choir
Perfoims Well
By ANNE JAMES HARMON
The SO-voice combination of
the Cleveland County Choral
Society and the Chorus of the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte performed excerpts
from Handel's “Messiah” with
musicianship and meaning at the
Kings Mountain Baptist church
Tuesday evening.
Under the skillful direction of
Harvey L. Woodruff, of Char
lotte, both soloists and choir
caught the pulse of each rhythm
and sang the intricate Boroque
phrases with delightful lightness.
The words wore clearly articu
lated and the blending of voices
was beautiful.
But the chief characteristic of
the performance was the alive
currency with which each Bibli
cal statement was presented.
Tenor Robert Carter's “Com
fort Ye. my people” could have
been the voice of the prophet,
and the lovely tones of mezzo-
soprano Polly Willis were just
right for “He Shall Feed His
Flock.”
“For unto us a Child is Bom”
portrayed the excitement of the
women and pride of the men’s
voices, and among the most res
onant sounds in the oratorio was
the phrase “Wonderful, Counsel
lor.”
“And the government shall be
upon his shoulders” portraycKl a
martial air and caught the mood
of the mantel of such a respon
sibility.
Robert Docker, minister of
music at Elizabeth Baptist
church, Shelby, has a beautiful
bass voice and his solos demon
strated great range.
Dolores Poovey of Mt. Holly,
gave the angels announcement
to the shepherds.
Former Kings Mountain citl-
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