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HEART FUND BALLOON DAY SATURDAY — Kings Mountain
cneo citizens will 1m a^ed to contribute to the Heart Fund via
a Balloon Day and^'Tog Day promotion Saturday on downtown
streets, Mrs. John ^. Gamble, projects chairmen has onnounced.
Volunteers, FHA'ers from Kings Mountain high school, will be ^
identified by the large white balloons with heart seal on them
they carry. In the photograph from left Jane Morris, FHA Bal>
loon Day Chairman; Mrs. Charles Baird, FHA sponsor; Martha
Herndon, FHA {’resident; and Mrs. Gamble. The FHA chapter ’■
of the high school is made up of home economics students. The
Kings Mountain Heort Fund is underway during the month of
February. /
Kings Mountain'g Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C.. Thursday, February 24, 1966
Pages
Today
Seventy-Seventh Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
At-Large Voting Eliminated For Commission
Jaycees, Lions
Favor Bond Issue
HEADS GOP^ — Ed Henry
Smith has been elected chair
man of the Cleveland County
Republican Party for a two
year term.
Ed Smith Heads
GOP
Ed Henry Smith was elected
chairman of the Clevelancl Coun
ty Republican Party at the GOP
convention Saturday afternoon
at ClevelE^nd County Courthouse
in Shelby.
Two other K ings Moun tain
men were re-elected offipers ,to
serve two-year terms. Boia Maher
was named secretary for another
term and Bill Babb was named
treasurer. Re-elected vice-presi-,
■ dent is Mrs. John Davison
Chairmen for 20 of 28 precincts
in the county were also elected.
Bob Maner West Kings-Mounr
tain precinct chairman while
Marvin McCurry is Grover pre
cinct chairxan. Bill’ Babb is
Bethware precinct chairman. A
new chairman will be appointed
in East Kings Mounffiin where
Smith has served as chairman.
John R. Dover, Hi, outgoing
GOP Party chairman, presided.
Although Smith had been called
-out -of town and.,waB,uiMLble .to
attend the meeting, Mr. Dover
said Smith had “expressed a will
ingness to serve in any way."
Velour Knitter
Will Double
Floor Space
Kini:;s Mountain Knitting Com
pany will more than double floor
space of its plant on Childeis
street with an addition of 112 x
120 feet. ■ ,
Building'permit has been pur
chased from the city, indicating
construction cost of the 13,-440
square foot addition at $36,0CK)i
R. E. Whiteside, plant manag
er, said the one-floor addition
will be of solid brick, 12-inch
cavity wall construction, v^th
ccn Crete floor, steel and cpnerete
roof.
The addition will houSe velour
knitting machinery and provide
needed storage space.
KingS'.Mountain Knitting Com
pany leases its present 100x112-
foot building from the D. C-
Mauney Estate, the lease includ
ing a purchase option on the pro
perty.
Enguieer, Aide I
And Moss Speak
At Lions Club j
Members of two more Kings j
Mountain civic organizations'
have endorsed the city cone] elcn;- !
tion for improvin-T and. expand- ■
mg the sewage treatment sys- i
vcm. ' j
Kings Mountain Junior Cham- j
ber of Commerce, on Felnuary '
15, and Kings Mountain Lions '
club Tuesday night, lent their en-1
dorse rent to the propos.il tq-be I
decided by the voters on March I
15. I
Mayor John Henry Moss, W. K.
Dickson, the city’s consulting en
gineer, and W. E. Johnson, of the
Dickson staff, outlined plans for
the project at Tuesday night’s
Lions club meeting.
After the Mayor had summat-
ed details of the project, Mr.
Dickson said growing water
needs dictate that upstream citi
zens must pi*btect their neighbors
downstream. He noted Blacks
burg’s source is Buffalo Creek.
He also suggested the city would
prefer to avoid federal pressure
to enforce this protection, noting
that the policy may be helpful to
Kings Mountain, which has
staked out Buffalo Creek as a
future source of potable water.
Engineer Johnson noted .that
the city is abreast pf its require
ments to qualify tor a federal
4irant of upfcto 30 percent ^-fiT con
struction cosiuof the new* plant,
estimated at $360,000. He outlin
ed the point system used by the
state stream sanitation cammit-
tee in recommending projects for
federal grants and pointed out
that authorization of money for
/nf
“1
—{_
the project, in the province
the voters, weighs heaviest
point count.
ON COLLEGE BOARD — Beth
Houser.4Kings Mountain senior
at Lenoir Rhyne college, has
been tapped for membership
on the Bomd of Governors at
the Hickory institution.
Beth Houser
On L-R Board
Beth Houser, Kings Mountain
senior at Lenoir Rhyne college in
Hickory, has been elected to the
Board of Governors -at Lenoir
Rhyne—a committee composed
of five faculty members, thq
presid«Mv.pf the student 'oodv
and iwci students elected oy the
student cabinet.
A primary education major
Miss Houser is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Houser of
Kings Mountain.
Kennedy Youth
Failed Tuesday
Per Robbery
William Kennedy, Jr., 17, 103
North Carpenter street, is. being
held in jail in lieu of $5000 bond,
on charge of breaking, entering
md larceny, to which city po
lice say he has admitted.
Specifically, Kennedy is charg
'd with entering McCurdy Clean
's, early in the morning of Feb-
aary 18th, breaking open the
ash register, a h d removing
211.49 in coins and currency,
le is also charged with stealing
'. hammer, .screw driver and pair
if scissors. Jle had entered the
McCurdy firm, owned by Charles
Wilsdit, by breaking .a . back
loor glass.
Officer Lem Beattie said Ken-
ledy confessed on arrest Tues
day. ■ ‘ ■ I.
Hearing is scheduled for Mon
lay’s session of recorder’s court
Officer Earl Strpupe said the
McCurdy robbery is the most re
cent of a series of in-town break-
ins reported:
On the night of the 161h. Har
rld’s Gulf Service w^ robbed of
r quantity of ponnl^ and nler-'
chandise.
On the night of the 13th, Pau-
'ine Store was entered, after the
thief or thieves sawed through
bars of a back window. The store
?afe was drilled and $120 in
coins and bills reported missing.
On the night of the llth, a
thief or thieves relieved Tignor
& Russell Garage of a drill and
some tools.
In wake of the break-ins, Chief
Paul Sanders and Mayor John Kenny Plonk,. 17-year-old son
Henry Moss aiyiounced that an i of Clarence Plonk,
idditional patrdi car is being Iwas presented the Pro Deo et
249 At 8257
ill
No Rotation
Agreements
For Assembly
Political developments were
numerous during the past week,
principal among them:
X) TTie county commission, un
der permissive legislation, scrap
ped the district system of nomi-
i nating county commissioners, re
turning coi.T.missioner nominating
to at-large or sweepstakes voting
after a 15-year district system.
(General \ election voting has al-
w'ays been at-large.)
2) Alex Brock, secretary of the
Preliminary report of the Bu- state elections board, announced
reau of the Census on Cleve- f^at deadline for filing rotation
?ieliminaiy
lepnrt Shows
zain In County
land County’s current population
hows Kings Mountain has gain
ed 249 since 1960 to 8257, a gain
of 8.76 persons over three per
cent.
Kings Mountain’s 1960 total
was 8008.
Cleveland County logged an
increase of 5.17 percent, at 69,-
464 up 3416 over 1960 s 66,048.
aigreements, required 60 days pri
or to the April 15 filing deadline,
with the resulto:
' a) There will be no rotation a-
greements in state House of Rep
resentative districts (districted
for the first time), and
b) There will be no new rota
tion agreements for Senate dis
tricts, where district lines were
wfNS AWARD — Kenny Plonk
has been presented the God
and Country Scouting award
by Resurrection Lutheran
church of which he is a mem
ber.
Scout-Chuich
Award To Plonk
employed.
Miss Houser is president' o^
I Fritz-Conrad Dorm where sh(
I presides over 150 girls and over
j the House Council. She served ai
The plans call for doubling ca- treasurer of her dormitory last
pacity of the McGill Creek plant
to one million gallons daily,_ and
for erection of a two million per
day capacity plant on Pilot
Creek, near its convergence with
Muddy Fork.
The project anticipates install
ation of about seven miles of
pipe, five miles of the total 24-
inch in diameter and designed to
accommodate flow of some nine
million gallons daily
year.
An active member of her soror
ity—Delta Zeta—as well as r
•member of the Association o'
Childhood Education, Miss Hous
I cr has served as a Campus Guidt
I for two years and also as a mem
1 ber of the social committee of
! the College Center, W.A.A. am’
j the President’s Commission,
j She expects fo begin teaching
this fall.
Petitioners Ask
Inclusion In City
Public hearing will be held
March 8 by the city commission
on a petition by several East
Kings Mountain residents for in
corporation of their property in
to the city limits.-'-
The total tract includes four
lots, estimated to total about two
Howard Construction Company i acres. A small portion i.s in
is contractor for the new addi- j Qeveland County, the remainder
tion. I Gaston.
• • . '
j The lots are owned by J. W.
• and Robert Ford. ,
Cole To Observe
92nd Birthday
Joe Cole, of 305 Waco Road
will observe his 92nd birthday
Monday, P'ebruary 28.
The venerable retired textilr
employee, ^a.miliarly. known tc
many friends as “Uncle Joe”, if
well, able to be up and about hif
residence, and has a good appe
tite.
I ' ;
His daughter wlio resides with
-h«nv«MES..,\tora.G.,i=Casli, .said me
special festivities are planned,
Virtual Blank Mis. E. B. Canan. South Dakotan.
Observes Her Eightieth Birthday
Opening day for registration
for the March 15 special bond
election was a boring one for the
registrars.
Four of five related they had
logged in not one new voter.
Mrs. Ruth Bowers, Ward 3 at
Mrs. Oara Elizabeth Thomp
son Canan, who has called. Kings
iVtountain home the past ^ven
ySars; celebrated her 80th birth-
HOSPITALIZED
Mrs. Vernon P. Crosby enter
ed Charlotte Presbyterian hos
pital yesterday and will under
go surgery Thursday morning.
East school, and Mrs. Vera Cole j day Frid
Cash, Ward 4 at Kings Mountain j a native of South Dakota whd'
Manufacturing Company club-- j moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
room, had no activity whatso- | at age three, grew up there and
ever. I lived all her married life in
K. D. Goforthr WaTd-2-a4 the-pCrookston, ^le came tm Kings
American Legion building, put' Mountain to live with her daugh-
two names on his registration
book via transfer from another
ward.
Clarence L. Black, Ward 1 at
City Hall courtroom, transferred
one voter to Ward 5.
Mrs. Paul Patterson, Ward 5 at
the National Guard Armory,
could not be contacted late Wed
nesday afternoon for her report.
Mis.’. Bowers comnfiehled,' ‘T
was disappointed." She noted
that several Ward 3 citizens who
visited the polls to vote in last
May’s regular city election were
found to be unregistered,
added the hope these citizens
would register before the books
are closed again on March 6.
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ter, Mrs. E. R. Goter and fam'
ily, followirug the death of her
husband, E. B. Canan.
Long active in the Order of the
Eastern Star and the Lutheran
church, Mrs. Canan belles her
age. A silver-haired grandmother
of five, she has cultivated a love
of music, plays the organ at
meetings of Kings Mountain
cnapleF123; OESr and Ta acUve
In the local Senior Citizens club.
She’s taught a few voice lessons
since coming to Kings Mountain.
For nine years she was a voice
teacher at Wesley College In
Grand Falls, North Dakota. She
and her husband, rear^ three
sons and a daughter. One eon,
Richard T. Canan died in 1966.
Walter G. Canan lives in Califor
nia and Robert L Canan lives ir
Ohio. _
She has received her 50-year
pin ffon the Order of Eastern
Star and is,a past matron of the
Crookston Chapter OES. She is
a member of Resurrection Luth
eran church here.
—^Mrs; Canan was honored -on
her birthday at.a surprise lunch
eon given by her close fried, Mrs.
A J. Slater, at Kings Mountain
Country Club. Centerpiece tor the
table was a silver tray of African
Violets and each of the 10 guests
took one home as a mdmento. A
birthday cake, decorated with
purple violets and yellow roses,
was presented to Mrs. Canan as
a gift, 1
‘Pf^hf for tHelsli’thday^ cele^'
bration besides the honoree, the
hostess, and Mrs. Goter were
Mrs. Claide Rhyne, Mrs. Amo
Haas, Mrs. Clarence Plonk, Jr.,
Mrs. Tommy Yarbi'ough, Mfs,
Jimmy Dickey, ^Irs. Howard
Broadwater, and Mrs. Jacob
Cooper.
Meningitis Coses
tfoC Serious Kuid ^
Two Kings Mountain grade
5chool pupils are ill with spinal
meningitis, which Dr. zJ P.
Mitchell, counl'y health officer,
has lat^led “not the serious
kind."
Phy.'dcians say there are sever-
>1 strains of spinal meningitis.
Both youngsters are fifth grad-
•rs, Wendell Dawkins, West
ichool, and Alfred Ashe, David
son school. Da>vkins mother, Mrs.
.da Dawkins is a cafeteria em
ployee at West school.
Teachers and principals of both
schools say attending- physicians
lave reported both boys recuper-
iting. Both liomes are in quaran-
;ine. - ,
Prayer
World
Day Friday
Kings Mountain citizen?^ will
join with those around the globe
Friday in the annual, observance
t)f World Day of Prayer.
The local service, under spon
sorship pf the Kings Mountain
United Council of Churchwomen,
will be held from 11 a.m. until
12 noon at Gentral Methodist
church, according to announce-
.ment by Mrs. Robert Hadfen,
Council president. Virtually all
city churches will participate.
Rev. Howard Jordan, Central
Methodist pastor, will lead the
service which will include the
readmg'’bT rc-fTptUre-tiy-MrsV'3ob
Maner and the presentation of a
meditatioin by Mrs. Haden.
Ushers for the service will be
Mrs. Thomas L. Richie, Mrs.
Wayne M. Forsyth, Mrs, C. T.
Carpenter, Jr. and Mrs. D. L.
Bennett.
“We invite the community to
pause during tlie day for this
hour of service", Mrs. Haden
said. She urged all Kings Moun
tain area citizens to join in the
special service.
Patria Award, the God and Coun
try Scouting award, at recent
church services on Boy Scout
Sunday at Resurrection Lu*^her-
Sjn churchy
The awai^ recognizes a Scout
for faithfulness in religious du
ties and is the highest award the
church can present. J^lorrk*s
tor, Rev. Daiitid L. Castor, made
the presentation.
Requirements for the award
must be satisfactorily completed
within a period of three years by
a Boy Scout who mu.st liave serv
ed 04ie year as an Explorer. The
five requirements inducle: knowl
edge of the Christian faith as
taught in Luther's cathechism;
Christian life and' practice;
Christian w>orship; and Christian
service, 150 hours of service in
three church-related service hour
activities as detailed in the Scout
Handbook and completion of a
special .project assigned by the
pastor.
Plonk, a rising senior at Kings
Mountain high school, was re
cently elected president of the
Student Participation Organiza-
ticn. He is a schooibi's driver,
has lettered in foolliall and is a
mernber of the .Monogram club.
He became a Ciil’i .Sf oiit at age
eii^ht, has earned 22 Torif badges
and has serverl as Den Chief of
Pack 294. At age 11 he was se
lected to go to Phiimnnt Scout
Ranch as a member of the expe
dition. He is a mcai er of Luther
an Troop 294.
He is grar.d.son f iMr. and
Mrs. C. S. Plonk, .Sr. and Mr.
Mrs. T. .A. Pollock of > Kings
Mountain.
Barring Stoppages,
School-Ends Jiinei-
As of Monday night. Kings
Mountain school district’s pre
sent term is scheduled to be ex
tended four days through June
3 for January’s snow holiday
make-up.
The other two snow-enfor«-
ed holidays are pared from the
Easter weekend holiday sched
ule, though Good Friday and
Easter Monday .remain- in 4:^.
holiday schedule.
A light snow fell Wednesday
afternoon.
“What the board of education
will decide if more snow forces
school cancellation, I do not
know,” Superintendent B. N.
Barnes corufflcntcd.
Boiling Springs made largest i changed by the General Asofem-
bly in January. 'This means the
new 29tb Gaston-Cleveland two-
senator district will have no a-
greement.
3) CJharles Wray, Jr., annocyic-
ed he would seek nomination and
election as county solicitor, a
position he now holds by appoint
ment.
Only other candidate for coun
ty office yet formally announced
is Sheriff Ha^ood Allen, who
seeks re-election to the position
to which he was elected in 1961.
Rep. Rob^ Z. Falls seeks re-
election in'^the new three-repre
sentative 43rd district and is the
only announced candidate to
date.
Senator s Jack White, of Kings
Mountain, and Senator L. B.
Hollowell, of Gastonia, are seek
ing re-election in the new 29th,
while Max Clhilders, of Mt. Holly,
and Marshall Rauch, of Gastonia,
are also in the senate race.
No Republican candidates>faave
yet fUed, though Edward H.
It Was Snowing
Wednesday
Same qld story Wednesday
afternoon for IDliG.
It was snowing again and
still falling. , »
Forecasters w ('Ve predicting
either snow and ice in the Pied
mont and hazardous driving
warnings were being posted
It was 1966’s loui th snow,
plus an ice glazing.
oercentage gain of all incorpor
ated cities and towns, growing
to 1771.
Grover gained one to 536.
Waco gained four to 260.
Shelby lost well over
dropping to 17,037.
Lawndale showed 641 persons,
Lattimore 253.
Robert M. Davis, supervisor of
the special census, said official
figires will be published several
months hence but are not ex
pected to vary greatly from the
preliminary totals.
The final official report will
t ow the number of persons by
x' race (white, Negro, and ‘oth
er’’) and 5-year age groups for
the county as a whole, and for
all incorporated places of 10,000
or moi'e. For smialler communi
ties and townships, .total popula
tion figures will be shoivn.
Much of, the‘planning by State
and county officials, school and
health officers, business men, lo
cal organizations,: and market
analysts depends on reliable and
reasonably recent facts about the
population.
Up-to-date statistics are invalu
able for those who have the re
sponsibility of planning for pMb-
lic services such as fire and pol
ice protection, water supply,
streets and roads, and for evalu
ating the needs of housing, off
ices, and business sites.
The special census was taken
under provisions of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965, which calls
upon the Director of the Census
to determine for certain areas
whether less than 50 percent of
the population of voting age vot
ed in the 1964 presidential elec
tion. Whether Cleveltind was
above or below the 50 percent
line will be announced at about
the time the final report of the
special census is issued
YDC To Name
New Officers
Cleveland County Young Dem
ocrats will'elect new officers for
1966-67 at a dinner meeting
Thursday (tonight) at 7 p.m. at
Governor’s Inn in Shelby.
President Willard Boyles said
that liiTbrested'•'cltiTe'ns should
contact Governor’s Inn (482-3821)
for rpser\ ations or telephone him
if tliey plan to attend. Tickets
are $2., Mr. Boyles said.
To be elected are a president,
vice - president, secretary, and
publicity director.
Other officers: besides the
Kings Mountain rman are Jim
Lybrand of- Kings Mountain,
vice - president; Mrs. Beth Lat
timore of Lawndale, secretary;
and Fred Flowers of Shelby, pub
licity director.
Mauney H^ery Eodcr tontiact
For 2.3 Million Pairs Announced
Mauney Hosiery Mills, toe. has
been awarded a defense contract
for 2,3(K),000 pairs of men’s cot
ton nylon black army socks for
a total of $740,066.81.
Announcement was made by
Defenae St^ply A^enc.v, D.e£ense
Personnel Support Center, Phil
adelphia, Pa.
“These are firm, fixed-price
contracts awarded hy competi
tion after formal adverti.sing to
the lowest responsible bidders
who conformed wiili all bid re
quirements!’’, said Jelm V'. Hag
gard, public affaiia officer.- Mr.
Haggard noted that of the 53
firms solicited,, six submitted
bids, and these awards were
mad^ in accordance with regula
tions governing awards made to
small business.”
, . W. K. Mauney, Jr., president of
the Kings Mountain fir.m, said
the award made to Mauney Hos
iery Mills is one of the largest if
not the largest award ever made
for the stretch-type socks,
Mr. Mauney said delivenes a-
gainst the contract will be com
pleted in October, 1966. '
Smith, of Kings Mountain, has
been elected chairman of Cleve
land County Republicans, suc
ceeding Jack Dover, III,-of Shel
by. Smith was a candidate for
the GOP congressional nomina
tion two years ago.
'The county commission change
means that any citizen of Cleve
land county can seek the seats of
Chairman David Beam and
Comm. B. E. Simmons. Previous
ly, candidates would have been
limited to Districts the two^ rep
resent.
Other county- offices to be fill
ed in this year’s primaries and
election are: clerk of Superior
Court, treasurer, coroner, survw-
or, and all township constables
and justices of the peace.
Notices of candidacy and filing
fees must be in the hands of the
chairman of the elections board
not later than noon April 15.
Medicare CUnic
Again Tuesday
Second clinic on voluntary
medical care will be held from
2 until 5 pm, Tuesday and on
subsequent ’IMesdays through
March 29th at City Hall Court
room.
Ten citizens visited the clinic
last 'Tuesday, five made applica-
^qns and there were nu.merous in
quiries by'persons 'age &5 or soon
to be eligible both for the auto
matically applicable medical care
plan and the voluntary medical
insurance plan,
insurance plan.
Kings Mountain Mayor John
Henry Moss said he .was gratifi
ed by the good response to the
initial clinic here and Dr. Frank
Sincox, chairman of the Kings
Mountain hospital medicail staff,
concurred. • •
The medical staff is conducting
the clinics and is advising citi
zens 65 j’ears of age and older to
seriously consider joining the
^uhTary" fedefaT 'goveTnmenr “
plan for extendfed medical care
benefits.
Cost of additional medical in
surance is $3 per month.
. - Deadline for making applica-
tiohs is March 31 and the pro
gram becomes operative July 1.
Eligible persons who fall to ap
ply for the voluntary insurance
will not be able to obtain this
insurance before, July. 1, 196®.
Clommenting on the program.
Lex G. Barkley, social security
district manager in Gastonia,
said, “Nearly two million persons
are being sought in a huge miss
ing pei-sons hunt being conducted
by the Social Security Adminis
tration. These people G5 or over
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