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/ bfiZ tfi:: 1 Bd- wit® y fc#- mt 4(1 Kii« esdi^ ^adeli ide a. moddl CIA) jkson IS eg- ige to agon, •ted at Fopulation Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits ft,008 TUs a9ura for Grootor Zlngi MountolD derived Irom the 1855 Kings Mountodn city directory census. The city Units figure is frOas the United States census of 1960. VOL 77 No. 9 t . Estabii&hed 1889 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper — ^ Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 3, 1966 Pages^ Today Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENTS V % it^J^ < K>^OX..S '4C>< Saturday Is Last Registration Planning Grant Approved for City Only Five New Voters Logged For Bond Vote NEW STUDENT OFFICERS — Officers of the Kings Mountain high school Student Participation Organization were elected recently. From left above, Kenny Plonk, president; Dennis Smith, vice- president; and Hilda Lowery, secretory-treasurer. ‘Both Plonk and Miss Lowery are'rising seniors. Smith is a rising junior. (Photos, courtesy, "The Mountaineer"). Vocational Teachers To Aid Medicare Sign^^up Campaign Tuesday Climes be Continuing At City Hall Clinics Scheduled At Many Schools Through County Special clinics on medicare are slated at schools in the Kings Mountain area for citizens over 65 to hear an explanation of the voluntary medical care program and make application. Cleveland County agricultural workers and home econo'.nics teachers are sponsoring the clin ics throughout the county begin ning here at Compact school at 9 a.m. Tuesday and ending at 1:30 p.m. at JVaog.^school Friday, Marrfi 11th. Sessions at the various schools -■*^111 be an hour long and citizens j who attend may receive informa- j tion from the various hpme eco- ^ nomics and agriculture teachers j there in addition to hearing a i representative of the G-astonia' District Office of the Social Se curity Administration who will explain the program and bene fits. First clinic here will be at i Compact high school Tu^day from 9 a.m. • until 10 a.m. At 10:30 the Social Security repre- ■ sentative will go to Grover school and from Grover to No. 3 high school at 1:30 and to Camp high school at 3 p.m. ^ Seveial Pxojects To Be Mapped j The city’s appliratioin for fed- i cral urban planning assistamce [ has been approved. I Mayor John Henry Moss said i ] notification of approval was re- j I ceived Tuesday from Dan E. Ste-1 I wart, director of community i i planning for the state Depart-1 I ment of Conservation and Devel-1 lopment. I I Under the application, assist- ' j ance will be provided the city for: I It revision of the zoning ordi- nance. i 2) planning of a public i provements program, j 3> preparing a capital provements budget. 4) preparation of a prelimi nary plan for central business district improvements. Another clinic on voluntary' Director Stewart said he had medical care portion of the fed- i advised George J. Monaghan, ad- eral medicare plan for the elder- ministrator of the community j PROMOTED — Ranee Hender- im-: son ^has been promoted to I supervising teacher of the high school and vocational principal at Oregon State School for the Deaf in Salem. He is a Kings Mountain native. ROTARY SPEAKER —MorshoU A. Rauch, Gastonio citizen and Bessemer City manufacturer, will speak at Thursday's Ro tary club meeting at 12:15 at the Country Club. Mr. Rauch is a candidate for the North Carolina Senate. ly will oe held at City Hall Tues day afternoon froifi 2 to 5 p.m. Meantime, Sam Gupton, of the Gastonia social office, said on the recent Tuesday he processed planning division, to assign staff members to the project immedi ately. Of the $12,100 anticipated cost, the federal government will Bance Henderson Wins Promotion five applicatiions and provided 1 supply $7333, the city $4767 ' 'The projects mean a continu ance of community planning ef forts begun during the prior ad ministration of Mayor Glee A. Bridges. I Ranee Hendcrsjn, Kings Moun- 1 tain native and son of Mr. ami I .Mrs. C. L. llcndcrson, has rcc<*nt- I ly been promoliHi to tJie position I of Supervising Teaclier of the •| High School Deparl'.rent and Vo national Pi jaVeL'a!^ of t.’ie srti.tyi the infon.-nation on the proigram for six more eligible citizens. The cH-nics will be continued on Tuesday afternoons through March 29—two days prior to the ftfeadline for filing applicatiofls. i a, Oregon State School lor Mr. Gupton said he was quite ff HJ|ff 0 I Deaf pleased at the interest in the !\|"W1 vCIlUlaASIlip | ^r. HcMiderson, formerly a clinic by eligible citizens and j _|| 0 l_ J 1 1! teacher and coach on the stalf, praised city officials and Kings | KVAltljC offilfttilllfiQ ' has completed requirements for Mountain doctors for promoting . MAWAiW ^ master’s degree which he wil' the series of clinics. , , ^ „ Cost of the e.xtended or extra | BOILING SPRINGS —Gardner- coverage is $^ per month. i Webb College’s $10,000 competi- Here is what the voluntaiy in- Registration for the upcorrting city bond issue”election $1.3 mill- ion for sewage system impiove- j mentSj^ends at sunset Saturday. I MearHjme, registrars for the 1 ! special -1.3 million Marches elec- j iTvnired toTeatTZooks, day- j dream, twiddle their thumbs cr | otherwise whileaway dull hours last Saturday. Only Mrs. Ruth Bowers, Ward | 3 registrar at East school liad I any registration customers, a to-1 tal of two. I _„Npne pXhe other four had any I citizen register. ' [ Mrs. Paul Patterson, (her re port unobtainable last issue) Ward 5 registrar at the Armory,: remains the champion f.)r the ! first two weeks of the registra- j tion periiod Her activity for the [ opening registration day was j three new registrants, one voter transferee from Ward 1. t While registrars feel that, as a 1 result of the all-new city regis-i tration ordered in 1963, tliat ma- I lordy of citizens are qu:-ilifiefl to ] vote, they also feel eligible new ; citizens art' not. , j Eligibility resuirements i n-1 elude: ' D Having att»iined the age of 21 or attaining 21 by March 15, ! 1966 dale of the election. , 2) Residence in North Carolina ! for H \«Mr and in the eity for i three months. '• 3i .N'atixe of the Unllisl States or naturali/eit citl/i.i of the! Un.nsl Slates, Mrs. l*aMeimtn lUg eded many votiM's t-oiilinua* to tH" eonlus«*d by the fact etl legistratiun only qualifies Un> Kings $124,256 Program PRESIDENT — William (Bill) White has'^been elected presi dent of the Cleveland County Young Democrats club lor a two year term. White Heads County YDC William (Bill) White, Kings Mountain lawyer and solicitor of city recorder's court, was elected president of Cleveland County’s -VI iuntain,i Young Democrats club Thursday Rauch To Speak To Rotarians A third Kings Mountain area | Mills in Bessemer City, will be school-clinic is to be held at i guest speaker at Thursday’s Ro- Kings Mountain high school Fri-1 j^j-y ^jujj meeting at 112:15 at the day, March 11th, at 9 a.m. From i ([Country club. surance purchase covers 1) 80 per cent of reasonable charges for covered services over an dabove the 'first $50 in any calendar year. 2) physician and surgeon’s services performed anywhere, I whether at hospital, clinic, or Marshall A. Rauch, Gastonia ! home, citizen and president of Pyramid; 3) up to 100 home health visits under any approved plan. tive Academic Scholarship Pro gram examinations are set for March 5 and March 12, an nounces Robert Abrams, director of Admissions. | Scholarships to be given are; ■ 10 for $500 each, 10 for $2.501 each and 25 for $100 each. High [ school seniors and graduates ofj good character and high moral standards who have taken of receive at the Juno commeiuo mont. His wife, the former -Betty Ledford of Kings Mountain, is also a member of the Oregon School faculty. A graduate of King.s Mountain high school, Mr. Henderson at tended Williamette college and was graduated from Sale.n Col lege in Oregon. He a-nd his wife arc parents icrf two children, Julie and David. the'^*'^Y have made their home in KMHS, he will go to Washington school and from Washington to Waco. Clinics are held each Tuesday from 2 until 5 p.m. in the court room of City Hall anri will con tinue on sifbsequent Tuesdays through March 29th. The Kings Mountain hospital medical staff I ___ is conducting the clinics, advis-' mayor pro tempore and city, 4) Diagnostic ex-ray and lajb oratory services, radium treat-1 recommended by either ment, surgical dressings, splints, | superintendent, principal, Mr. Rauch will use the subject, | c^sfs, certain ambulance services, “Human Relations’’, on a pro- j braces, artificial legs, arms and gram arranged by Thomas, L. eyes. -j-rott. I -5) Rental of medical equipment Chairaan of the Human Rela- tions Council of Gaston County and a member of the Governor’s Good Neighbor Committee, he ing citizens 65 years of age and older to seriously consider join ing the voluntary federal govern ment plan for extended medical care benefits. Cost of additional medical in surance is $3 per month. Deadline for making applica tions is March 31 and the pro gram becomes operative July 1. Eligible persons who fail to ap ply for the voluntary insurance will nol^ be able to obtain this in surance before July 1, 1968. B. N. Barnes, superintendent of Kings Mountain city schools, and Lee Phoenix, superintendent of Cleveland County schools, have - encouraged school person nel to. support the special Agri culture ■'Workers Council-spon sored clinics. The,Council voted in favor of the plan to reach and inform rural people of the pro gram following a program on “Medicare” by a Social Security Representative, Myers Ham- bright, local teacher and chair man, said., “Meetings will be most infor mal”, Mr. Hambright said. After the program is explained, per sons interested in signing up may do so. The purpose is not to pressure anyone in signing for medicare but to make sure per sons eligible for this program know the facts about it”. Ham- bright continued. TATE AT HOME D. E. (Dickie) Tate has re turned home from Veterans Administration Hospital, Dur ham, where he underwent an operation for removal of calci um deposits from the verte brae. He will be confined to bed for a two-week period. councilman in Gastonia from 1952-54. He served on the council through 1965 He is a former Young Man of the Year in Gas- • tonia and won the Gastonia Wo- ' man’s club community service a- ward in 1964. He has beco.Tie a candidate in the race for the two 29th district Democratic nominations for the North Carolina Senate. Train Clips Rear Of Truck Monday BoCjby Louis Smith, 26-year-old Greenville trucker , for a furni ture firrn, narrowly escaped JLcci- dent or death Monday morning when a Southbound train struck the rear of his tractor-trailer at the Gold street crossing. The truck was owned by Byrd Furniture Company. The train engineer was Melvin Salmons. Smith told B. P. Cooke, investi- igating officer, he was slowed in crossing the track by a passen ger car in front of him. The driver was Mrs. Floyd Queen, who was attempting to turn north on Battleground. Officer Cooke said, on basis of his investigation, no charges will be preferred. In a oiie-car accident on Feb ruary 23, the ’65 Mercury of Gene D. Bowling, 325 Graham street, Shelby, suffered about $3CK) damage when Bowling lost control on the wet, icy street. The accident occurred at the cor ner of CanGler and Qiildera streets. Lublanesld Buys B&B Restauraut pur- from Scholastic Achievement Test the College Board and who arc their guid ance counselor, or home room teacher, may compete for the scholarships. Tests will be given at 9:30 a. m. on March 5 and 12 in Room 101 of the A. T. Withrow Science Building. The student must noti fy the college which date he plans to take the test. Address all inquiries to the Scholarship Committee, XJardner-Webb Col- lege,»^ Boiling Springs, N. C. George Lublaneski has chased B&B Restaurant R. J. Forrest. Sale was effective February 18. i Mr. Lublaneski is former own-' er of Cottonwood Restaurant and a former manager of the Shelby Elks club; Mr. Forrest had operated the restaurant for almost 15 years. He came to Kings Mountain from Salisbury. Mr. Lublaneski said the rest aurant will continue its former .Schedule of ho rs, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays. It will not be open on Sundays. Tlie building Is owned by Dr. i D. M. TMorrlson, ■ * Picture Deadline Now Tuesday 10 a.ni. Because of a schedule change in bus sernce from Kings Mountain to Spartanburg, S. C., The Herald’s deadline for pictures is now 10 a.m. Tues days instead of 4 p.m. Photographs are sent via bus from Kings Mountain to the Spartanburg Herald Journal for engraving and the engrav ings are returned via bus on Wednesday for the Wednesday night edition. i A black and white glossy pript 4a pi^erable. Salem the past eight years Mr. Henderson participated on the program for the Governor’s Prayer Breakfasf'Tit Salem Feb ruary 19th honoring Governor Mark O. Hatfield. Principal ad dress was made by General Har old K. Johnson, Chief of Staff, United States Army. Merchants Book Humorist Lewis For Annual Banquet March 21st Humorist Bob Lewis, national ly-known entertainer who ap pears frequently on the Ed Sulli van Television Show, will pre sent an entertainment program to highlight the annual employee- employer banquet March 21st of the Kings MountaiW Merchants Association. Tickets, also on sale to the general puMlc, may be ptnrhas- ed at $3 each at the offices of the association or may be pur chased at the door. Dinner will be served at 7 p. m. at the American Legion Hall. The Legion Hall will accommo date 300 persons and banquet tickets will be available on a “first come, first Serve” basis, ^Awociatlon president- 3ill H. Brown said. V- Both Mr. Lewis and his wife, Ginny, will attend. Billed as a humorist, Lewis also picks a ban- jo.v He and his wife, billed as ! “madam swaboda’’ appear toge-1 ther in a show which combines 80 j percent buffoonery and 20 per cent banjo and satirical magic, i Lewis has madp 22 appearances on the Sullivan, six appearances j on 6r*rry Moore CE^B-TV and twice on Japk Paar’s NBC-TV show. He completed seven suc cessful engagements at the 'Blue Angel in New York and has ap peared at hotels and night clubs in Chicago, Detroit, New York, 'Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San i Francisco, Radio (2ity Music Hall in New York, and Men Roc at I Miami Beach. Fte,. among oth- lerst No Further Cases Of Meningitis School officials have had no furtlicr reports of cases of spinal meningitis. Of the two children previous ly ill and their families r|uar^ ahtined therefore, Wendell Dawkins, West school fifth grader, has returned to scliool. Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, county health officer, and attending physicians had termed the cases of a “mild strain”. Mrs. Mattie Taylor Is 101 Years Young Mrs. Mattie Taylor, Kings Mountain Negro ’citizen, cele brated her 101st birthday Tues day, March L. „ The centenarian spent a quiet day- at home with mem bers of her family in the Com pact Community. Samuel A. Gupton, fiej^ rep resentative from the Gastonia office of the Social Security Se curity Administratior^ paid “Miss Mattie” a visit during the day and brought her a ■’cirthday greeting from Com missioner Robert M. Ball of the Social Security Administration. The greeting read: “Another year has passed and it is again my pleasure to send you my 'warmest greetings on your 101st birthday. May peace and contentment be with you in the year ahead and may you find continued joy in your rich store of memories.” LEGION TO MEET Regular meeting of American Legioin Post 155 will be held Thursday, tonight, at 7:30 p. m. at the Post tulldlng. A nom- Inating committee will report noininatluns of ollicers. cili/j*n fur partic.patiain in any i cliy H(N*tton. ! ‘ounijy Imard makitainn iieparati* registration i books, which qualify the citizen to vole for county, elate, and ! fwleral officers. The registrars will at the sev- oral polling ’ plaii's Saturday | from 9 cT.m. until sunset. Mean- j time, all have indicated they will | he glad to accept registrations , prior to Saturday at their homes.' Other registrars and the poll- ! ing places are: ; Clarence L. Black, Ward 1 at ! City Hall courtroo'.T!. - | —It. D. Goforth; Vt'^arit 2 at” American Legion building j Mrs. Vera Cole Cash, Ward 4 ! at Kings Mountain Manufactur ■ng Company clubroom. night. •Mr. White succeeds Willard Boyles of Kings Mountain. Other officers will include Mrs. Beth iattimore,' first, vice-piesi- dent; I'red Flowers, second vice- piesident; Mrs. Elizabeth Le- Ncave, secretary; and Mary Alice Laughlin, trea^rer. State .Senato"? Jack White of Kings .Mountain, brother of the new YDC president, spoke brief ly following the dinner meeting at Governor’s Inn in Shelby. He told tlic group that Clevelanders had their work cut out in view of the “serious condition” that has been biought about by reappor- tioument of th.c General Assem bly. March of Dimes Drive Tops Coal Kings Mountain’s March of Dimes campaiign is over the top. Fund Chairman Bennett Mai- TCi’s said yesterday. Kings .Mountain area citizens have surpassed their q'ujta and given a total of $1273.23 to fight birth defects, Mr. Masters saidT Actual cash-in-hand totals”, , , , S,7,T« wUh plod.™ or i«.0.05. A I Junior Womans club-sponsored- - Federal Grant Will Benefit Puinls of Poor Kings Mountain schooF district expects to use an $124,256 allot- Tcnt under the .1965 federal EF^ mentary and Secondary Educa tion act to improve reading abili ties of economically deprived children. Thfese funds became available under the act’s Title I. Meantime, Superintendent ' B. N. Barnes reported, allotment of $4308 to Kings Mountain district schools under the act’s Title II has been approved. The fund will provide library books and sup- plies. Both allotments are under the so-called anti-poverty act School officials are busy now completing details for the read ing program and hope the pro gram wTill be approved in time to launch it before the present school term ends. As of now, Supt. Barnes said, he anticipates Kings Mountain high school, Davidson, Compact, North and Central schools will qualify for thq, program on basis of one of two applicable forrnu- las: 1) number of school pupils in the system, divided by number of schools, or an average of 99.1 pupils peg: school in the Kings Mountain'^stlrict whose families have less than $2000 per year an nual income, or 2) a corollary formula, again employing the $2000 or less annual income fig ure,- compared to district popula tion as of the 1960 census. Supt. Barnes says he antici pates the program will be in full operation during the summer, voluntary on the part of the eco nomically deprived pupil, but in which their parents are already evidencing much interest in en rolling their children for the special work in reading. It is anticipated the funds will be expended for librarians, teachcr.s, teacher aides, teaching fools such as special _supplies, and for cost of transporting the children to school during the summer term. „ It is anticipated the special work will be offered during the summer at three plants, Kings Mountain and Compact high schools, and at North elementary I “Cleveland County is in danger I as far as her I’epresentation is ’concerned,” the freshman sena- .! tor deelared, citing voter r/.d ' population figures of Cleveland’s i partners in the new district. | i President White is a member , of the law firm of Davis, White j school, i and White. He is active in the! Supt. Barnes and Miss Alice I Kings Mountain Jaycees. He and j Averitt, tetiching consultant, con- his family reside at 908 Sharon ferred with state officials on the Drive. | program last Thursday. Osborne Retiring As Court Clerk; Paul Wilson Announces For Post at Principal activity concerned the position of Clerk of Superior Court, as James W. Osborne, clerk for the past ten years, an nounced he would not seek re Mother’s March netted $120.31, Mr. Mastei-s continued^ Commenting on the campaign here for dimes to fight birth de fects, Mr. Masters said he would election, followed immediately by like to publicly thank the vol’jim an announcement of candidacy teers who helped make the 1966 by Paul Wilson, Shelby justice of campaign a success. He praised | the peace. the work of volunteers who work-1 were no other announce- ed in snowy weather to -^oLcit i candidacy and the ru- for fund^ for the March of j appeared to be grinding Dimes,. j bat pr3spccts‘’slowly’. “WililP few_pci'sqns are aware if it one out of every 16 children s born with a .major birth defect •md that over 7,5()0 major birth lefects will occur in North Caro- |Of Shelby Number 2. j He attended Lattimore ^high y school and the University of< ' North Carolina, is a World War III navy veteran, a Baptist Sun day school teacher and deacon. He is a lifelong resident of the county, age 54. ~ Mr. Wilson issued this state ment: lina in the year alone. The^birth: pany 15'years. He was county co- defects problem is the gre'atest I manager of Governor Dan K. destroyer of life in the United | Moore’s^ campaign two years'ago, States”, Masters added. “The an(i9pncement of my can didacy for the high office of Clerk of Superior Court of Cleve land County, subject to'the May Democratic Primary, is made I-„r the past six years a Candidate Wilson , terms of service of former clerks of .my recollection, namely, Mr. Lon Hamrick, Mr. Everrette Houser and our present clerk, Mr. William Osborne, and of the efficient and honorable manner in which each of these disUn- c)f the peace, was previously clerk of record er’s court for five years and with Metropolitan Life Insurance Com Paul M. Neisler, Chairman of tlie local Board of Directors of the First Union National Bank. Kings Mountain, announced to day that the contract for the con struction of the bank’s new building has been awarded to Myers and Chapman Construc tion Company of Charlotte. Work oh the building will be- jin immediately and will be com pleted near September 1, 1966. ■ and is a precinct committeeman i gentlemen have filled the office, 1 am pos sessed of a deep feelii^ of hu mility. Then too,' my wife’s great-grandfather, Silas Will iams, was one of the first clerks of court of this county. However, located one half block north of as I look to the future with the the present location and will face enlarged function of insallation Battleground Avenue. The struc-. and First Union Has Awarded Contract And Expects September Completion ture will contain ‘ 6,688 square feet and will be a two story biuld- ing. The construction will, be of brick and glass and will afford the bank the opportunity of serv ing the community with the mo3t modern in facilities. With the I completion of the new building, I the hank will be able to offer ’At!, has been previously . an-1drlvc-Ln window service and park nounced,! the new building will be I ing for customers. fil'd court system as well as the continued exercise of the present duties of this office,’1 am led to pledge myself to faithfulness, e^ ficiency and courtesy — to the highest degree of my ability in the performance of such duties. This is my pledge to the good people of Cleveland CouBty.” In announcing his dedston to Cmtinued On Papa 9