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Population L Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,256 The Greater Kings Mountain figure Is derived liom the special United States Bureau of the Census report o January 1SS6. and Includes the M.8B0 population o Humber 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 iron Number S Township. In Cleveland County and Crowder* Mountain Township In Gaston County. Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C», Thursday, September 14, 1967 Pagos Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. 78 — No. 37 4 Seventy-Eighth Year Helen Logan Star Teacher; Cleland: ’Laugh At Yourself’ Scot Ministei Purveys Wit And Philosophy By ELIZABETH STEWART Laugh at yourself even when it hurts, philosophized Dr. James T. Cleland, Dean of the Chapel of Duke University, in a speech be _fore educators assembled at the •Shelby Chamber of Commerce "Education Banquet Tuesday night. And, he did. The native Scot, afflicted with shingles since August 3, admits his latest remedy for the chicken pox type virus, is flannel paja mas, bedsocks and the electric blanket. He has cancelled all other speaking engagements this month and was able to laugh with C of C President Rush Hamrick, Jr. who had remarked he was “get ting worried Dean Cleland might not appear.” The veteran educator, who re tired last year after 58 years in the classroom, has been Dean of the Chapel of Duke University since 1945. A Presbyterian minis ter, he was educated at Glasgow University and Union Theologi cal Seminary. He interspersed his address, “The What, Why and How of a Good Teacher” with wit, illus trated by favorite poems and classroom experiences. Examples: “We were strapped regularly in Scotland. Aim was to let the teacher express himself. They never got ulcers like you Ameri can teachers. We never told at home or we’d get some more.” Continuing the philosophy of •‘laughing at yourself” he told the teachers the story of his friend Mordecai, a teacher in the Duke School of Law, who had advised a young Asheville farm boy to return to the farm. “No,” the young man said. “First, I’m going to buy me the meanest mule I can find and name him Mordecai. Then, I’m going to beat — out of that mule every single day.” “You stay”, the teacher said. The boy did and is now a lawyer. A good teacher shows genuine care for pupils as people. He knows his subject, he added. After quoting favorite poets and a former schoolmate’s book, "The Art of Teaching”, he turned to Sports Illustrated for a sen tence in a report of Notre Dame’s football prospects for the fall sea son. The lead sentence said that one of Notre Dame’s greatest as sets was that the entire coaching staff returns. As one of 300 young pupils in the First Class in 1921 in Glas gow, Scotland, Dr. Cleland re called his English teacher, an Irishman, sported a monocle and said he’d gladly trade a year’s salary for one poem. He also remembered the good humor of a Latin teacher who said, “Latin is a comedy in which no death occurs, except the occa sional death of a mother-in-law.” •There were puns about mothers in-law in October 1921 as well as today, said Dr. Cleland, who suggests the snapdragon as the flower for Mother-in-Law Day. Dr. Cleland said the only thing “I can remember now about my first grade teacher was that she taught my mother.” Schoolmasters are among the men who have set the standard of Scottish villages since the Re formation. They do today, said Cleland. He closed his remarks with the closing words of Chaucer’s Can terbury Tales, “And gladly teach.” Hartsoe To loin Greer Citizen Wade Hartsoe, Jr., Kings Moun tain citizen, will join the staff of the Greer, S. C. Citizen, a weekly newspaper, on Monday as shop foreman. The Hartsoe family expects to move to Greer within the next few weeks. Mr. Hartsoe has been employ es a linotypist by the Gastonia Gazette. For four years previous ly, he was foreman in the me tchanical department of the Kings 'Mountain Herald. In Kings Mountain the Hart soes are active in Macedonia Bap tist church and Mrs. Hartsoe is St. Matthew’s Lutheran church secretary. They are parents of two children, Randy and Yvonne. STAR TEACHER — Miss Helen Logan, veteran Kings Mountain high school English teacher, was among six Cleveland Coun ty teachers tapped as "Star Teachers" by the Shelby Cham ber of Commerce Tuesday night. School Board To Meet Monday Principal items on the agenda of Monday night’s regular meet ing of Kings Mountain district board of education include con sideration of paving the student parking lot at the high school and renovations of Grover and Beth ware schools. Also on the agenda is decision on accepting an additional voca tional education teacher just al lotted by the state department. The teacher would be a special ist on introduction to vocations— a Grade 9 or freshman subject, Superinte«fctent Donald D. Jones ejcplgined. . Also scheduled for general stu dy and discussion is the 1967 school survey report. Kings Mountain English Teacher Is Among Six Miss Helen Logan, veteran English teacher at Kings Moun tain high school, was among six Clevelanders honored as “star teachers” at the first annual ed ucation banquet Tuesday of the Shelby Chamber of Commerce. For 35 years a Kings Moun tain schools faculty member, Miss Logan and the five other educa tors honored were nominated by the six area students who were National Merit Finalists in schol arship tests given in the high schools last school year. In a letter nominating Miss Logan, Larry Burton, recent KM HS graduate and one of the six Merit Scholars hip finalists, wrote: “Miss Logan has the na tural talent to arouse the stu dent’s interest. Her appropriate wit and store house of literary knowledge invites the student’s opinion yet offers him advice. In her counsel, she understands. Time has not stolen her youth.” Burton, son of Mrs. Lawrence Burton, is a freshmen at George town University, Washington, D C. Other “star teachers” recogniz ed were Mrs. Clarine Robertson of R-S Central, nominated by David Ruppe, now a Duke Uni versity freshman; Mrs. Van De Nesbit of Shelby high school, nominated by Robin Wright, now a Smith college freshman; A. M. Church of Bums at Fallston, nominated by Mike Champion, now a freshman at Massachu setts Institute of Technology; Mrs. James Rogers of Shelby high school," nominatdSnjy 'Wtfh lon Putnam, now a freshman at UNC-G; and Reid Parker of Shel (Continued On Page Six) Committee Recommends Kings Mountain Airport Dr. Francis J. Sincox, chairman of the city airport committee, summarized a detailed report or the feasibility and need for a general airport for the board oi commissioners Tuesday night. The committee recommends proceeding on the airport pro ject. Chairman Sincox stated his committee, on its findings, fell the chief benefit of an airporl would be to spur industrial de velopment, though he added s survey showed existing industrj did not require such service. He said a Kings Mountain air port would spur interest in pleas ure flying by Kings Mountair citizens, reminding that 20 years ago a total of ten privately own ed 'planes were hangared here “Today, were the airport sttl here, there would be 30,” he ad ded. He added another potentia benefit is tourist traffic—to se< Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park. He estimated cost of an air port at $300,000, of which King! Mountain’s share would be one fourth, North Carolina’s one-fourtl and the Federal Aviation Agen cy’s one-half. Additional cost to the city would be net maintenance cost for a ten-year period. “The airport committee only attempted to find out if the pro ject appeared good. If the com mission wishes us to proceed, some money would be required,” Chairman Sincox continued. The money would be needed to obtain an option for three to four years on a tract of about 80 acres and retention of a site en gineer. He said a mile-long run way would be required and that easements from owners of adja cent lands would be required to assure clear approaches to run ; ways. Commissioner Ray Cline com mented that he felt the only bar to proceeding on the airport project is the city’s need for water. On unanimous vote ,the com i mission authorized the Mayor to appoint a group of commission ers to peruse the project further. Other members of the Sincox t committee are Tommy Bridges, Scarr Morrison, and J. C. Brid i ges. All the committeemen are pilots. Bobbie Barrett, Dorothy Spencer, Both Single, Mothers To live After they met Bobbie Barrett and Dorothy Spencer for the first time at Junior Village Orphanage in Washington, D. C., two weeks ago, the five children kept say ing again and again: “Are you really going to be our mommies?” Last Wednesday they weren’t asking Miss Barrett, formerly of Kings Mountain, and Miss Spen cer, former Gastonian, that ques tion anymore. They had lived two nights and days with them and seemed to know it was true. Miss Barrett wrote her Kings Mountain relatives this week that she and her roommate, both of whom have taught the past three years in Fairfax, Va., and for five years previously were missionaries to Japan, have be come the first single women ever licensed as foster parents in Washington, D. C Miss Barrett is 32. Miss Speneer is 38. Both women have worked for FLOC (For Love Of Children) the past three years. FLOC, an organ ization which seeks out foster hmes for Junior Village orph anage children, will pay Miss Barrett a salary as a full-time house parent, rent a home for the two women, and make up the difference between Welfare Department foster child boarding fees and what it really costs. Miss Spencer will continue to teach during the day at Woodson high school. The adopted children, Miss Barrett wrote relatives here, are from the same family; four girls, six to 11 years old, and a boy, 12, “bright and not unsmiling and mechanical like many other children who have spent their entire lives in an orphanage like D. C. village. “Their parents drank. Occasionally they would claim their children but a week or so later would always abandon them again. They would be found wandering around the streets and there would be nothing to do but to return them to the orphan age.” (Continued O* Page Six) DREWES HONORED — Fred Drewes, tax analyst and consultant, has been elected into membership by Associated Business f Writers of America. APPOINTED — Governor Dan K. Moore has announced the appointment of Arthur Allen, Jr., Kings Mountain native, as a second lieutenant in the North Carolina Army National Guard. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allen, Sr., of Kings Mountain was among 53 new lieutenants receiving gold bars in recent graduation exercises ,g|Fort Bragg. A member 'of Co. B’, 105th Engineers Battalion of Gastonia, Allen is married to the former Marlene Weir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Weir, Jr., of Kings Mountain. The Allens reside in Charlotte. Park Historian To Georgia Post Frank Pridemore, historian at Kings Mountain National Military Park the past four years, has been transferred to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Marietta, <Ja. Mr. and Mrs. Pridemore moved to Marietta, Ga. Monday. While living in Kings Mountain, Mrs. Pridemore had been employ ed as art supervisor in the Cher okee County School System. Writer s Group Names Diewes To Membership Fred H. Drewes, tax analyst and consultant, has been elected into membership by Associated Business Writers of America which recognizes writers of ex perience. Mr. Drewes has written busi ness arid technical articles since 1943 and, now retired, expects to devote 75 percent of his time to writing. He and his wife operate an income tax and tax consul tant service, now in its 26th year, with a volume of more than 100 businesses and 1,450 individuals in 18 states and six foreign coun tries. Born and educated in Jersey City, N. J., Mr. Drewes at age 14 accompanied his uncle as one of his assistants on a medical mis sionary group to the Belgian Congo. He was staff pianist for Evangelist Billy Sunday for two years and appeared professional ly with A1 Jolson, Eddie Canter, Will Rogers and Ed Wynn. Mr. Drewes Was a ftiarafhonfer in the 1920 Olympic Games at Antwerp, Belgium and in 1936 accompanied the U.S. Olympic team to Berlin, Germany as a coach in charge of marathon runners. During the games in Berlin he said he met Adolph Hitler. While accompanying a group of welding engineers to Central America in 1934 Mr. Drewes said his next-door neighbor was Ernest Hemingway and he assisted Hem ingway in proofreading his world famous book, "For Whom The Bell Tolls." The Kings Mountain man said Hemingway’s encour agement gave him the incentive to write. Drewes has worked for four I years with the Internal Revenue Service, introduced the present I Forms 104 and 1040-A. Township, County: It’s Now Fair Time Cleveland No. 44 Tuesday marks the opening of the 44th annual Cleveland Coun ty Fair, which will continue through Saturday, September 23rd. Fair visitors this year are in vited to visit the log cabin which has been reconstructed at the Cleveland County fairgrounds. The cabin, reconstructed as a dedication to the memories of Cleveland County, has been fur nished with items similar to those used over 100 years ago. The Degigeller Amusement Com pany, known the country over as one of America’s cleanest mid way shows, will bring to the Cleveland County Fair the best ^OPENING SET Miss North Carolina, Sarah Elizabeth Stedman of Ashe boro, .will cut the ribbon form ally opening the 1967 edition of the Cleveland County Fair Tuesday morning at 11. Other dignitaries will include Robert Worth Shoffner, director of Foundations and Development, N. C. University at Raleigh; and J. Sibley Dorton, Escheats officer, UNC Chapel Hill. School students will be admitted free Tuesday andj' Friday. Senior citizens 75 and older will be admitted free to the fairgrounds each day. in fun and games, shows of merit, and the best in rides in cluding the popular sky wheel and sky liner, Exhibits are exfocted to fill (Continued On Page Six) Bethware Underway It’s Fair Time in Cleveland County which means that the school children—and some of the older children too—are already in a state of excitement over prospects of cotton candy, the ferris wheel and other attending features of the fair. It is the 20th annual presents tion of the Bethware Community Fair which opened Wednesday afternoon. Cleveland County Fair opens for its 44th annual showing next Tuesday. Agricultural exhibits, commer cial exhibits and home products exhibits were being placed Wdfl nesday in Bethware school cafe teria and adjoining buildings for judging and awarding of cash prizes on Thursday, Fair Man ager Johnny W. Patterson said A full program of events is scheduled for each day, through Saturday, with fireworks topping off the evening’s entertainment shortly before closing time. Thursday (today) will be Chil dren’s Day which means that youngsters can enjoy midway rides at reduced prices. Special events are slated for children from 1 until 6 p.m. today. The Fair will open at 3 p.m. Friday and at 1 p.m. Saturday, closing at midnight. Admission to the grounds ol Bethware school is free. The community fair is under sponsor ship of the Bethware Progressive club. Manager Patterson said that exhibits are expected to attract (Continued On Page Six) McGinnis Is Mall President; City Board Endorses Project Coiporation Organizes, Adopts By-Laws Directors of Kings Mountain Mall, Inc., formally organized Monday night, electing officers and adopting by laws. Paul McGinnis, of McGinnis Department Store, Inc., was elect ed president. He had been tem porary chairman. Other officers elected include Bill Brown, Belk's Department Store, vice-president; W. S. Ful ton, Jr., Fulton’s Department Store, secretary; and Joe R. Smith, Kings Mountain Savings & Loan association, treasurer. In addition to adopting by laws, the directors designated First Citizens Bank & Trust Com pany as its depository, designat ed the president and treasurer as signators in the disbursement of funds, and set the annual meet ing of the corporation on the second Monday in January. The directors discussed at: length progress of the work to date in obtaining pledges of sup port in conveying property and buying stock for converting the block of Cherokee street, from Mountain to Gold, into a mall with a free parking lot to accom modate 400 cars. Committees were appointed to contact prop erty owners not yet acquainted \Vith the project. President McGinnis told the di rectors he felt the mall project success is imperative to the fu ture of the downtown business district. Aim is to purchase and raze all buildings on the west side of Cherokee street between the Professional building and Kings Mountain. Office Supply and Equipment Company. The twelve directors of the mall corporation include the officers, Carl F. Mauney, Dorus Bennett, Glee E. Bridges, Jack Mabry, Wilson Griffin, Martin Harmon, (Continued On Page Six) PRESIDENT — Paul McGinnis has been elected president oi Kings Mountain Mall, Inc. School Holiday Septembei 26 Majority of Kings Mountain district school pupils will be on holiday September 26 when school is suspended for the 45th annual meeting of the Southwest district, North Carolina Education asso ciation. Exceptions will be Davidson and Compact schools. Holidays for these pupils come later when the North Carolina Teachers as sociation holds its annual meet ing, Superintendent Donald D. Jones said. The September 26 meeting will be at Hunter Muss high school in Gastonia. Featured speaker will be Dr. George Schweitzer, professor of j chemistry at the University of Tennessee at KnoxvHle. • Division luncheon sessions will be held, while the afternoon ses-< sions will be devoted to division seminars. Supt. Jones will say the invo cation opening the meeting. Funeral Rites Thursday For Baxter T. Wright, Sr. Funeral rites for Baxter Wright, Sr., Kings Mountain barber and one time city com missioner, will be held Thursday morning at 11 o’clock from First Baptist church of which he was a member. Rev. Robert Mann, his pastor, will officiate at the final rites. The body will remain at Harris Funeral Home until 10:30 when it will lie in state at the church. Interment will be in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Wright died Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Kings Mountain hos pital after serious illness of sev eral months. Anative of Cleveland County, he was son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Wright. Prior to his illness he had owned and operat ed Wriight’s Barber Shop on Railroad Avenue for over three decades. He was Ward V city commissioner from 1951-53. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jane Davis Wright; his son B. T. Wright, Jr. of Asheville; (Continued On Page Six) SUCCUMBS — Baxter Wright, Kings Mountain barber for more than three decades, died Tues day. Funeral rites will be held Thursday morning at 11 from / First Baptist church. Dr. Zeno Wall Succumbed Tuesday; Funeral Services Thursday At 11 Funeral rites for Dr. Zen< Wall, 85, of Shelby, father o Mrs. Ollie Harris of Kings Moun tain, will be held Thursday at 1 a.m. from Shelby’s First Baptis church, interment following ii Elizabeth Baptist church ceme tery. Rev. James McClain, Dr. Eu gene Poston and Horace Eason will officiate at the final rites. Dr. Wall, pastor emeritus o Shelby’s First Baptist church am a former interim pastor of King! Mountain Baptist church, died a 7 a.m. Tuesday at Wesley Nurs ing Center in Charlotte after be ing seriously ill for four months A native of Rutherford Coun ty, he was tne son of the lat< Sidney and Jane Robinson Wail He was a graduate of Mars Hil college and received the doctoi of divinity degree from Southerr Baptist Seminary in Louisville Ky. He was ordained in Cliffsid* Baptist church and served as pas tor of Baptist churches in Mar » shall and Goldsboro and in Mis : sissippi. He was a chaplain dur ■ ing World War 1. From 1930-32 Dr. Wall served without pay as president of Card i ner-Webb college. He also served ■ as president of the North Caro lina Baptist Convention in 1933' and 1934. He was vice president i of N. C. Baptist Hospital in 1927. Pastor of Shelby First Baptist ' church from 1925-48 and former] 1 pastor of Elizabeth Baptist1 ; church, he led the inaugural pray ers for Governors O. Max Gard-| ner and Clyde R. Hoey. His wife,: Ada Katherine Ramsey Wall,' died in 1959. Surviving besides his daughter 1 here are a daughter, Mrs. Walter, Fanning of Ridgewood, N. J.;l three sons, Zeno Wall, Jr. of Mry-. tie Beach, S. C., Yates Wall of Columbia, S. C. and Woodrow W. Wall of Newman. Ga. Also sur viving are 12 grandchildren and j eight great-grandchildren. t Board Praises Organizers For Efforts By MARTIN HARMON The city board of commission ers honored two Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce requests Tuesday night and accepted "with appreciation” a C of C resolution pledging support of the city in obtaining local share funds for the neighborhood faci lities project. The Department of Housing and Urban Development recent ly approved a $302,680 grant res ervation for the neighborhood facilities project. On request of President W S.. Fulton, Jr., for a vote of confi dence in the Kings Mountain mall project, the board passed the following resolution: "The City of Kings Mountain Board of Commissioners is high ly pleased to give unanimous vote of confidence to the offi cers, directors, and participants in Kings Mountain Mall, Inc. We recognize fully the many diffi cult details connected with this ambitious project, commend the organizors for their imagination, and pledge our full cooperation in helping toward the Mall de velopment to fruition, in keep ing with the design of downtown improvement as set forth in the Central Business District Plan.” On request of C of C Director Joe Smith for the city to defray one-third cost, along with the C of C and Merchants association, of a Kings Mountain area promo tional brochure, the commission authorized Mayor John Moss to work with the two organizations in determining cost and publish ing the brochure. In a report to commission, May or Moss summarized his August 29 conversations in Atlanta with the regional director and other officials of the Department o| Housing and Urban Welfare. He noted: 1) The community center grant was approved. 2) Officials indicated the Kings Mountain workable program for community development (pre lude to any federal grant via HUD) would be recertified in the near future. 3) Reviewed the Central Busi ness District grant application for $884,202 and the Urband Devel opment application grant for $2, 150,277. 4) The outlook is favorable for a reservation of $350,000 for the Buffalo Creek water project. In other actions, the commis sion : 1) Confirmed street improve ment assessments on Second, Ridge, Alexander and Phenlx streets. 2) Approved petition to curb and gutter upper Bennett Drive. 3) Approved sub division plans »n Hillside Drive, Wood Building Is Being Razed Razing of the aged wooden por tion of the Compact elementary school is underway. Superintendent Donald D. Joneg said razing of the building would provide badly needed playground room for Compact. Starr and Borders are razing the building in return for the materials salvaged. Decision had already been reached on the razing of the old Davidson building on which con tract was let to Packard Elliott, of Shelby. The razing is schedul ed to begin Monday. Mis. Martin's Rites Thursday Funeral rites for Mrs. Tom Martin, 73, of Shelby, will be held Thursday at 4 p.m. from Caanan Methodist church, inter ment following in the church cemetery. Mrs. Martin, the former Nor cissa Hevson, is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Charles Merck of Kings Mountain; a son, J. D. Martin, of route 1, Grover; and a brother, Nathan Hevson of Grover in addition to and addi tional son, two daughters, 32 grandchildren and 14 great-grand children. WSCS MEETING The Women’s Society of Christian Service of St. Paul’s Methodist church will meet Fri day night at 8 p.m. at the church.