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i Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 Q'ty Limits 8,008 TUt ttfur* for Qraatai Xtnyt Moustcdn \i derived liom Ibe 1955 KlBgi MouBtoiii dty directory census. The city UmlM ttgurs Is iron the United States census ol 1960. VOL 77 No. 13 Establlvhed 1889 Kings Mountain's Reliable' Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 31, 1966 Pages Today Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENTS School ignment 1966-67 Is Adopted PRESIDENT — Wilson Griffin has been elected president of the Kings Mountain Rotary club for the coming year. Griffin Heads Rotary Club Wilson Griffin, Kings Mountain pharmacist and partner in Grif fin Drug Company, has been elected president of the Kings Mountain Rotary club for 1966- 67. Mr. Griffin will succeed R. De- vei'e Smith. Other officers, named at the civic club’s luncheon meeting Thursday, are: Charles Mau- ney, vice-president; Fred Dixon, secretary-treasurer; Elmore Alex ander, Tom Tate, Charles Wilson * and Devere Smith, directors; and Theodoie Moss Dies; Fnneial ^ Will Be Friday Theodore Edward Moss, 64, died Wednesday morning at 10:30 at his home following ill ness of several years. Funeral riles will be Friday at 4 p.m. from Macedonia Bap tist church of which he was a cliarter member and trustee. His pastor. Rev. Wayne Ashe, will I officiate at the final rites, and I interment will be in Mountain I Rest cemetery. I ' ^ I I The body will lie in state at i the church 30 minutes before the! rites. A Cleveland County native, ' Mr. Moss was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mo.ss. He was a former employee of Noisier Mills and a member of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pearl Huffstetler Moss; his daughter, Mrs. Charles L. Alex ander of Kings Mountain: two sons, T. H. (Sonny) Moss of Ai ken, S. C., and Jack Moss of Greenville, S. C.; four brothers, Manuel Moss and Sid Moss, both of Kings Mountain, Hoyle Moss of Grover and Dewey Mo.ss of Bessemer City; and three sisters, 'Mrs. W. D. Weaver and Mrs. Z. W. Sullivan, both of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Paul Horn of Charlotte. Also surviving a nine grandchildren. arms. vxr TV . I body will remain at Har- W. Skelhe Hunt, sergeant-at- j puneral Home until the ^our of service. The family will' re- ~ ceive friends from 7 until 9 p.m. Thursetey- night. Second BajpGst Revival To Bbgki The pastor, George W. Julian, will be the speaker in revival services at Second Baptist chUrch April 3rd through April 10th. The music will be directed by Norman King, church music director. There will also be spe cial music during the week. Services will be held each week night at 7:15 o’clock. 5% Bond Offered By First Union First Union National Bank to day announced a new 5Vc “high- yield bond’’ to be available to the public effective immediately. In releasing details of tlie program, President Carl G. McCraw, Jr., stated, "These bonds offer spec ial features and flexability un matched in North Carolina.’’ The new bonds will have a two year maturity and will ' e avail able in minimum denominations of $1,000 each with additions in multiples of $100. The growth series will earn 5% compounded semi-annually, while the incoiTc series will have 5% interest paid by check semi-apnually from date of deposit. ^ Mr. McCraw said that “higlF yield bonds’’ can be cashed on six months notice. Growth bonds cashed prior to maturity will earn interest through the last full month on deposit and income bonds redeemed earl will earn interest from day of deposit un til day of withdrawal. The new savings instruments —^are the latest addition to First Union National Bank’s savings program which previously in cluded regular 4':'r passbook .sav ings, 4% certificates, 4% note^, 4’^% bonds and i.75% savings certificates of deposit. SENIOR CmZENS Kings Mountain high school Mixed Chorus will present a musical program at Friday’s luncheon meeting of the Senior Citizens clUo at 12 noon at the Woman’s club. Police Department Has Bike Trouble Kings Mourrlain police issued a warning to parents today a- bout children leaving bicycles lying on the street, in yards and on the sidewalks. A departreiit spokesman said that several bicycles have been stolen or ridden off %jt}d . abandoned. The department is asking parents to see that thei^ chil dren’s bikes are put ^ up at night. Savings and Loan Associations Pay $115,280 Quarteily Dividends Kings Mountain Savings & I tlon dividends will, total $72,00-1, including $‘18,601 on optional sav ings shares, and $23,402 on full- paid shares, Secretary-Treasurer Thomas A. Tate announced. Loan association directors have voted to pay dividends quarterly, joining Home Savings & Loan ' association which adopted the ' quarterly policy several weeks a- go. Aggregate dividends to be paid policyholders as of Thursday will be $115,280.53, indicating that the ^ two savings and loan firms will pay dividends during 1966 approx imating a half-milMon dollars. Home Savings & Loan tlssoci'af. Kings Mountain Savings & ILioan dividends will total $43,276, Secretary • 'Treasurer Ben H. Bridges announced, including $17,722 on full-paid shares and $25,553 on optional shares. associatioins are paying ■tfrvidends on basis of 4.25 per cent per year. "EVERY HOUR, EVERY DAY" — City and civic club officials are pictured with the sound film "Every Hour, Every Day" produced by the International Assoclction of Police Chiefs. Kings Mountain civic clubs are paying cost of film rentals and making the film available to all organi zations, civic arid service groups, P-TA's, schools, and others. The film may be scheduled by call--# ing City Hall. Pictured, left to'right are Carl Wilson, Optimist club. Mayor John Henry Moss, Don Finger, Kiwenis club. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., and Jake Dixon. Jaycees. Condemnation Actions Coroner Seeking I William Hairill i jOi Forest City . House Candidate' I J. Ollie Harris, veteran Cleve- j land County coroner, said Wed-! nosday he will seek his sixth . term. Other principal announcement of the week was by William D. Harrill, of Forest City, who said he will sToek Democratic nomina tion to a 43rd district seat in the state House of Representativea. Also seeking election in the three-member 43rd district are Rep. Thurston Arledge, of Polk, and Rep. Roboi’l Z. Falls, of Cleveland. Riep. Flollis Owens, of Rutherford, is- retiring. The Kings Mountain mortician is completing his twcnticith year as the county’s coroner. Harris lerm oix Cfioir^Sing Easter Cantata An Easter cantata, “The Cruci fixion,’’ will be presented at Cen- tral Metliodist church on Palm Sunday^ morning, April 3rd, at the .11 o’clock service. “The Crucifixion,’’ words and mu-ic by John Stainer, is a med itation on the sacred pas'don of the Holy Redeemer. Mrs. J. N McClure is organist and choir director. The mem::crs of the choir are: Sopranos: Mrs. Bill Allen, Mrs. Charles Blanton, -Miss Bessie I Eumgardner. Mrs, Delbert Dixon* Mrs. Bennett Masters, Miss Myra Mauney, Miss Mary Alice McDan iel, Mrs. W. A. Tinsley, Miss Cin dy Ware, Mrs. John Warlick. » Altos: Miss Libby Alexander, i\Iiss Becky Dixon, Miss Teresa Dixon, Miss Kay MeSwain, Mra. Baxter Payscur, Miss Debbie Timms, Miss Myra Ware. Tenars: Mr. Jacob Dixon, Mr. Bill Russell, Mr. Arthur Walker, Mr. John Warlick. Basses: Mr. Bill Allen, Mr. Del bert Dixon, Mr. Richard Ethe ridge, Mr. Carleton Harris, Mr. B. S. Peeler, Jr. Soloists are: Mrs. (Bill Allen, Mrs. Delbert Dixon, Mr. Jacob Dixon, Mr. B. S. Peeler, Jr., Mr. John Wtiirlick,dVIi\ Carleton Har ris. The pastor’s Membership Training Class will be received into the church at this eleven o’clock worship service. ’ CANDIDATE — Coroner J. Ollie Harris said Wednesday he will seek a sixth four-year term as county coroner. CHAIRMAN — Rev. Robert C. Mann, pastor of First Boptist church, is the new chairman of the city's 11-member human relations committee. He suc ceeds Dr. Paul Ausley. Mann New Head Of Committee Rev. Ro' erl C. Mann, past.ar of First Baptist chui'ch, has been appointed chairman of the city’s human relations conD.nittee, May or John Henry Moss lias an nounced. Rev. Mr. Mann ■ succeetls Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor of P’irst Presbyterian church, who resign ed due to the pressure of other duties. Mayor Moss commentefi, “I feel Rev. Mr. Mann has the aca demic and religious training to Thiee-Quaiter Mile Easements, Site4nvolved By MARTIN HARMON Documents, in trlplfcate, sup porting applicatibn of llic City of Kings Mountain for a $388,,500 federal grant for its sewage dis posal project will be delivered cb the state stream sanitation com mittee in Raleigh Thursday. The package weighs approxi- matel.v 33 pounds and Mayor John Henry Mj.«:^ and City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., will serve a?., couriers. Meantime,,concle;nr)$tion action is indicated for acciui.sition of a site for the new treatment plant on Pilot Branch and against own ers of ten properties who have i declined to accept the city’s pr )f , fer of $1 per rod, plus damages to crops or otherwise. William White, a'^sistant city attorney handling the easement work, said Weelnesday afternoon, signatures remain to he obtained covering another five properties but that agreament has been reached. 'The eondemnatian actions will ‘ He had indicated earlier he may not seek re-election. Coroner Harris has 'heen a Kings Mountain citizen since 1947 and has been active in num erous Kings Mountain civic and service activities, is a p'^st coi.m- mander of Otis D. Grften Post 155, American Legion, the Kings Mountain Lions club and Kings Mountain Couiitry Club. He is a member of Kistgs Mouiitain Bajp- tist .i^rch. He is a past chair man of^he North Carolina Fun eral Director and Embalmer’s board and of the North Carolina Coroner’s association. I Mrs. Harris is the former Ab- ! bie Jane Wall, daughter of Dr. ; Zeno V/all, of Shelby, j Harrill, 43, is executive vice- i president of the G. B. Harrill In- ! surance Agency and G. B. Har rill Paper and Chemical Com pany, both of Forest City. He is a former Forest City alderman, a Mas in and fon.Tcr school teach er. He is a graduate of Appala chian State Teacher’s college and hold’s a Awuer’s degree from Peabody, wife is the former Betty Hoppeb of Rutherford county. SPEAKER — Carolinas Kiwan- is Governor James A. Brady, of Stotesville will speak at the Charter Night banquet Thurs- I day of the Kings Mountain Ki- 1—wanis clubi Charter Night For Kiwaiuans James A. Brady, Jr., governor of Carolinas District of Kiwanis be filed not later than F'rida.v, he | International, will make the prin- ‘'''ald. I cipal address at Thursday night's Acft'jisition of land for ;dle and rights-of-w'a.v, or condemnation therefore, is a key factor in point competition with other-commun ities for federal grants. The city has been negotiating for several weeks with the C. C. VV'hisnant Heirs and with George P'eeler for some 92 acres of land equip him wtsll for the chaip-! on Pilot Branch, the city de.s'irin manship of this important com mittee. Ho is a young man who its in the age group of about 50 p(»rcent of Ihe city’s population.^’ Dr. Ausley wrote that he had enjoyed his work with the edm- ■Tilltee and regretted necessity for his resignation. AWDW-Man ThrdWn Into Hot Water A Kings Mountain man, Ernest Trull, 22, is free under $50(J bond -on ^charge of lifting Williim L. and throwing him in a steaming tank of hot water at Grover’s Minette Mills, where the^ two were working. Mullinax, in his complaint, al leges he suffered third degree bums of the legs and pos.sihle permanent impairment in the in to obtain suificient land for fu ture expansion of Ihe two-million- gallon - per ■ day eapicity plant. Gendemhation act! m, h»)wevei\ will be for only 26.4 acres, 12.1 owncxl by the Whisnants, which Engineer W. K. Dickson deems minimal acreage for the proposed iKw plant. Condemnation action for case ments, representing an estimtit- ed three-quarter mile of the eight miles of right-of-way required, are indicated against the Heirs of Luther MeSwain, Sr., H. Dale Vplli racht, Stanley Pyron. Sorn Beard, Mrs. Minnie Lovelace, Frealo Maye.s, Matthew Camp, Charl^ .Smitii, “''Miss Freelove Blacki' Cameron Ware and oth ers; and Arthur Phifer and Alon zo Goforth. Concerning the site condemna tion, Mayor Moss said appraisals cldent he said occurred March 10. of value of the properties have Trull is scheduled to receive hearing on charge of assault with a deadly weapon in county re corder’s court April 7. been obtained from two separate and Independent licensed apprais ers. He added, “The prices aaked Cuntiniuid On Page G ^ Cliarter Night banquet of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. The civic club will be observ ing its 26th anniversary. I In recognition of tlie event, the j club will present perfect attend ance awards to 11 Kiwanians. Of this group, threx? will receive top honors. Harold R. Hunnicutt and Joe 11. Thomson, charter members of the organization, will receive 26- year pins for perfect attendance. A third Kiwanian, the late Glee A. Bridges, also had not missed a .meeting of the local club since its founding here until his recent llint'ss. B. Meek Ormand, at 97 the senior mcmicer of the eJub, re ceives his 24th year pin Thursday night. "Captain" Meek celebrat ed his 97th birthday recently. Harold Coggins, chairman of the committee on arrangements for Charter Night, will nfteelvp his ISth year pin; Df. D. F. Hord; dentist, will receive hte 17th year pin; Schools‘‘^upt. B. N. Barnes will receive his 15th year- pin; hnd other awards will go to Dan Finger, six year pin; R. S. ILen- non, three*year pin; W. S. Ful ton, John L. McGill and J. H. Page, one-year pins. J. T. Rice of West Asheville, Lieutenant Governor of Division Cbie, and David W. (Bumgardner, , Continued On Page 6 ARP Schedules Easter Services Special Easter Services will be lield at the Boyce Memorial A. R. Pi’csbyterian Church on Thurs day and F’riday evenings, April 7 and April 8, at 7:30. The Rev. R Kathy Goode, 7 Dies III Fire Funeral rites will be held Thui-sday at 2 p.m, from St. Pet er’s Baptist church: In Grover fjOr seven-year-old Cathy Goode wno perished in flames which leveled her home Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Gpode fend their five other children 'escaped from the burning house. Cleveland County Coroner J. Ollie Harris said the Negro girl’s body was found near the chim ney of the house at 12:30 p.m. The alarm was sounded at 11 p.m. anod firemen from Kings Mountain, Grover and Bethlehem coirmunity fire departments fought the blaze. The five-room frame house near Compact school was completely destroyed within minutes. Goode told the coroner he a- woke at 11 p.m. to hear a “crackl ing noise” and di^overed the TO AID FAMILY The Kings Mountain Minis terial Association is heading a drive to aid the E. F. Goode family and citizens wha wisli to contribute gifts of food, cloth ing, furniture or other items should contact Rev. C. R. Good- son, pastor of East Gold Street Wesleyan Methodist church and president of the association. Mr. Luebke is a graduate of Ei'skiiie college and Erskine The ological seminary. Duo West, South Carolina. He has served as as.sistant minister of the Fir.'^t A. R. Presbyterian chiirch in .States ville, and is now pastor of the Covenant A. R. Presi yterian churcli, also in Statesville. The Covenant church, the new est ('stahl)Sdicd A. R. Prcsb.vtor- ian Church, was, organized Octo ber 17, 1965 with a charier mem bership of 45 adults. house afaire. He immediately be gan to get^the children and his wife out o“f the burning build‘ ing, had arounsed the sleeping 3. Luebke, Jr. will conduct these i Cathy and sent her toward the ser\ iccc. outside of the house with thejjth- ers. He told Coroner Harris he went back into the house search ing for Cathy, found another of his children, and Jhou.dit Cathy had escaped to the outside. Frightened and apparently ov ercome ('ey . smoke, the second grader went into a closet trying to escape the flames, the coronei 1 said his inevstigation leveals. j The youngster would have been j eight years old September 29. 1 Continued On Page a Final Rites Conducted Friday For Glee Actor Bridges, Ex-Mayor Funeral rites for Former May or Glee Actor Bridges, tl, were held Friday at 4 p.m. from Kings Mountain Baptist church, inter ment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. The final rites were conducted by his pastor. Rev. James L. Wilder. Mr. Bridges, for 23 years -a public figure and for 10 years ma.yor of Kings Mountain long active in business, civic and con- munity affairs, died Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. of infectious hepati- lus. He had been, Jiqspilalized more than two weeks ago. He was a Cleveland County na tive, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Bridges. He was a former merchant, owner and op erator of Bridges Hardware Com pany for many years; a member nt the county board of commis sioners from 1936-48 and mayor of Kings Mountain from 1953-61 and-from 1963-65. He was a 'le gionnaire, member of Veterans Forciau Wafs, Moose, gik, a Mason, a Shriner, a director of First Union National Bank and a vice-president and a (Urcctor of Home Savings & Loan Associa tion. He had nol missed a meeting of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis clula since the civic club was or-' ganized here 26 .years ago until his recent hospitalization. He would have received a 26-\ car pin at the club’s Charter Night to night. He was a member and trustee of Kings Mourttain Baptist church has been designated recipient of memorial gifts. Sujwiving are his* wife, Mrs. Addle Nelson Haimrick Bridges; three sons. Glee Edwin Bridges and J. C. Bridges, both of Kings Mountain, and T. Nelson Bridges of Marietta, Ga.; one daughter, Mrs. R. E. Schenck of Waterloo, Iowa; three brothers, Ben Bridg es of Charlotte, Milan Bridges of Panama City, Fla. and Elmore Continued On Page 0 Davidson Plant To House First Six Grades By MAR-nN HARMON The board of education is ad vertising today its pupil assign ment plan for the school year 1966-67. Copies of the notice' under the 1964 civil rights act, al.ong with a letter of explandfion from Sup-' erintendent B. N. Banios, .Ind a “choice of school’’ fon.'n are be ing posted to all parents Thurs day. Thirty days are provided for return of the foiTn and students 15 years of age or planning to enter the ninth grade next year may execute their own choices, provided their parents do not. The board retains its “freedom of choice” plan in vogue this year, makes ^only one change of erganization in its jtcn-plan't sys tem. Davidson school, this year of fering instructisn in grades onn through eight, will not offer sev enth and eighth grade instruction next year. Students who would have preferred to attend these grades at Davidson will designate their choices to attend either Central or Compact schools. Special education classes will again be offered at the Central and Davidson plants. Courses available at Kings -Mountain high school, but not at Compact high school, are Latin, distributive education, industrial cooperative training, advanced chemistry, trigonometry and ad vanced algebra, geography, Bible, bookkeeping and asro-space edu cation. All students will be ..assigned the schbol of their choice, except for overcrowding. Where over crowding occurs, tRe student de nied first assignment will be giv en choice to attend all other schools where spac«:i» available.-— Beginning students and stu dents who move into the school district after April 30 will have opportunty to designate choice of school, with a seven-day period to make decisionr Other provisions: 1) All school services, facilities, athletics, activities and programs will be operated on a de-segre- gated basis. 2) Permission to attend school m other districts' is prohibited, where the result tends to lessen desegregation “on account of race, color or national origin. 3) Intimidation of or promise of favors effecting a student’s choice of school is prohibited. Supt. Barnes said the Davidson school change was dictated be- ■ause the population of the two grades is insufficient to maintain wo teachers for the two classes. Split-grade teaching, with one teacher, has been employed this school year. Hites TIuiisday For Mrs. Herd Funeral rites for Mrs. Mollie Whitworth Hord, 93, oldest citi zen -of Waco, will be held Thurs day afternoon at 4 o’clock at Waco Baptist church. Familiarly, known as “Aunt Mollie”, Mrs.' Hord died at 6:30 Tuesday evening at Cleveland Memorial hospital. She had been in declining health. She was the widow of William Gordon Hord and daughter of the late John and Nancy Harmon Whitworth and was a native and lifelong resident of Waco. Surviving are three sons, 'lor- en Hord, Cherryville, Raymond D. Hord, Shelby, and Alvin Hord, Richmond, Vav; thfee daughters, Mrs. Leslie MoBrayer, Shef-y, Mrs. J. F. Niven, (formerly of Kings Mountain) Albemarle, and Mrs. John Wotring, Falls Church, Va.; a brother, A. F. Whitworth, Shelby; and two sisters, Mrs. John Hol'd and Mrs. W. L. Brown, both of Waco. Also surviving are IS grand children, 35 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchil- di'en. The body will He In state for a half-hour prior to the firiai rites. Burial will be In Caperna um cemetery. Rev. J. W. Harmon and Burley 'Turner will offici ate. METER RECEIPTS Parking imeter receipts for the week ending W^nesday totaled $245.05, Including $148.- 30'from on-street meters, $77.- 50iin fines, and 1R25 from off-