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/ »6’ lat ke on Ir an id:' y'\ ;h^ ere on ay ith ur-; on,; It”; :iaa' ly’t )er* OX-’ toe lar^ al-' 821; rip* ms; bla K fn Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits^ 8,256 This fiffuie ior Giedter Kings Mountain is deriTad liom the 19SS Kings Mountain city directory census. The city UmiU iigure is from the United States census of 1965. VOlT?? No. 25 Hfeir.si Pages Today Kings Mountoin's Reliable Newspaper Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 23, 1966 Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENTS Mohair Wants Its Margrace Plant In City Limits to *Y d* ity or in in iol lek rimanes Lone For GOP: For Demoaats Cleveland County Democrats will return to the polls Saturday to determine township and coun ty office nominations for treas urer and two seats on the county commission. Cleveland County Republicans will join their neighbors of the 10th United States Congression al District to determine a nomi nee to oppose Representative Basil L. Whitener (D) in No vember. A light vote is predicted. For treasurer, both Mrs. Doris Dent Osborne and Mrs. Harriett Roberts Evans, both of Shelby, seek to succeed Mrs. Lillian Newton, veteran retiring county treasurer. In the first primary Mrs_ Evans led a field of four candidates. For the two county commis sion seats, second-runners Char lie A. Greene and Fritz More- head seek to unseat Incumbents David E. Beam and B. E. (Pop) Simmons who topped an man county commission May 27. CHARLIE GREENE Commission Candidate Be Saturday Redevelopment Groups Appointed eight- ticket MRS. DORIS D. OSBORNE Treosurer Candidate 60 In Tiaining By Week's End Station; West Kings Mountain at Armory. FRITZ MOREHEAD Commission Candiderte / ... • .« ’l-S- -'i-';. -J' Donald D. Wirick, Lithium Corporation civil engineer, of Gastonin, and W. Hall Young,! Av'ery county lumberman, seek the Republican nomination^ for U. S. Comgressmank,Yog|^ led a three-man ticket in theTS^t pri mary. In No. 11 Township, Incumbent Consta le Jimmy Cook'is chal lenged by Lawrence Brown With election day but two days away, the candidates were busy pumping hands this week in an effort to garner votes. Same election officials will serve on Saturday and polling places are the same. Polls open — 6:30 a.m. Polls close' — 6:30 p.m. Polling places in No. 4 Town ship: Bethware, at Bethware school: East Kings Mountain, at | firms have contracted City Hall; Grover at Grover Fire I j Industrial Association of Kings Mountain, Inc.. 'loron-the* job training programs via the recent federal Department of La bor grant and 60 trainees will have been signed by Friday. Joe Vale, executive secretary, made the announcement Wednes day. He said appointments have been made with all other mem bers of the association and he predicted that the 300 authorized job training "slots” will be fill ed within three weeks—either by ■beginning trainees or by present employees training for higher skilled jobs. The association is renting of fices in the Mountain street building fon.r.erly occupied by C. E Warlick Insurance .Agency. The building is being renovated and Mr. Vale said he hoped it would be ready for occupancy by midweek. The association h'as been shar ing space in the Chamber of Commerce --Merchants associa tion office. Plonk. Haimon Aie Chainnen Of Committees Mayor John Henry Moss has completed appointment of a 20- member advisory committee and a seven-member special commit tee on •.ninority housing, aug menting the commission for a workable program for commun ity improvement John O. Plonk,'jr., is chairman of the advisory committee, and Martin Harmon is chairman of the minority housing c-ommittee. Other membei-3 of the advis ory committee are Mrs. C. EL Warlick, Miss Helen Hay, 'r W. Grayson, Wendell Phifer, Clyde Whetstine, Charles E. Dixon, Bill Brown, W. S. Fulton, Jr., William Herndon. Paul McGin nis, Lewis Dellinger, Haywood E. Lynch, George B. Thomasson, B. S. Peeler, Jr., Carl F. Mauney, Charles Blanton, Elmore Alexan der, Dan Finger, Glee E. Bridges. R«V. or; L. CampbeUji ■ te^ BUnton, Rev. S. T. Junlous Haywood, Mrs. Sarhh Boyd. J Ollie Harris, J. Wilson Crawford, Richard Maxey, Charles F. Mauney, and Senator Jack H. White. Other members of the minority housing committee are Sandro jjllj-i-. William Orr, George White, Brookks Tate, George Eldwards and Carl F. Wilson. Duty of the advisory commit B. E. (POP) SIMMONS Commission Candidate New Parking Lot Ready By Saturday The new city parking lot at the corner of Mountain and Cherokee streets should be ready for use by Saturday imcrning, Mayor John H. Moss said yesterday. The lot, leased from the Kings Mountain Savings & Lean association, has been graced with a plantimg bed, featuring boxwoods and color ful flowers, and has been paved. A three-stream water fountain and p'jblic telephone booth will be added. City street department crew men were marking off the 25 parking spaces Wednesday afternoon and two-hour park ing meters will be installed. *1110 meters, made by the Park- o Meter company, will accept a nickel (one hour) or a dime two hours), but no pennies The parking lot will ‘ be checked for over-parking from 8 a.m to 6 p.m., with the ex ception of WedneseJay after noons, Sundays and holidays. RITES HELD — FuneiQl rites for Irvin M. Allen, Sr., (prmer poltee chief, county oommis- sioaer and sheriff, were held Saturday. _ « Funeiiil Held . Foi I. fl. Alle#‘ I’uneral ritej^ for Irvin M. Al len, 78, were held Saturday al 3 p.m_ from Webb Chapel of Shel by's First Baptist church, inicr- menl following in Elizabeth Bap tist cliurch cemetery. Maine Confinns 180 Degree Tnm In Elim's Policy By MARTIN HARMON Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company wants its Margrace I plant annexed to the city. Al -Maino, general manager, confirmed Wednesday afternoon his firm since its purchase from the C. E Noisier fai.'ndly in 1955 very strongly opp.ised to any suggestion it might be annexed to tile city has changed its mind. Asked if his firm had made,an 180 degree change of course, Mr. Maino replied, ‘‘We have. We’ve decided to quit fighting.” Mr. Maino frankly stated the re<iuirement of his firm by the State Stream Sanitation com mittee to build a sewage system is the major factor in the deci sion. The city has bond issue au thority to build a plant seiving the western sector of the city and envisions a modern treat ment plant capable of handling up to two million gallons daily, with collecting lines and mains capable of handling up to eight million gallons daily. The city’s engineering renart on the sew age system estimates the city’s «;ffluent today at from 900,000 to on^ million gallons. Mr. Maino said he does not have an accurate estimate of the Margrace plant’s average daily olflucoit, which he declined to guess. However, the 1962 report of the State Stream Sanitation cci.rmittee 'for the Broad River district estimated Margrace’s effluent at 500,000 daily -Mr. Maino. siliA his firm, Park Yarn Mills, Foote Mineral Com Many To Receive Week’s Holiday WINS FELLOWSHIP — Marsh Ronald Compbell has won a fellowship to study this sum mer ot Yale University. Ronald Campbell Wins Fellowship Marsh Ronald Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. M_ L. Campbell of Belvedere Circle, has been ■awarded a fellowship to study at ity this summer, was made on the creativity J awarded a fel Xdlo Universii The grant i Vinclc of Wny and Superior Stone Com- i basis of scholarship, MOW had an informal agree-i ability to bcnc.it nor ment of .some ycar-’s standing and .general aptitude^ Hght annexation should the city | The program m which Ca,Tp- seek to annex the area a.gainst bcH will participate is financed those firms’ wi.«hes. adding that b.V the Carnegie Corporation of he had informed his neighbors of .1^ Mohair’s change of mind. I l‘'’‘n<>y bv HarM-d-Yale and Co- John C. Smathers. of Park Most Employees To Get Week, Holiday Pay Majority of Kings Mountain area textile employees will en joy a week’s holiday, a survey of the industy shows, during the week of July 4th. Many firms will make vacation payments. A few firms said Wednesday their holiday plans are not yet set, pending determination of their customer needs. To be closed the week of July 2-11 will be Minette Mills of Gro ver, Craftspun Yarns, and Neis- ler Mills Division of Massachus etts Mohair Plush Company. Em ployees will receive vacation bonuses based on length of serv ice at the Neisler and Craftspun plants. Christmas bonuses are paid annually by the Grover firm. Mauney Mills will suspend op erations for a part of the week of July 4th, George H. Mauney [ said. He said employees will re ceive vacation payments of two and four percent of earnings, based on length of service. Burlington Mills’ Phenix Plant and Bonnie Cotton Mi]J|9 vrill sus pend operations with the third' shift July 2, resuming operations om intensive i with the first shift July 10th. All lumbia Universities. More than eligible employees at Burlington Willi receive vacation pay based on ength of service. The Bonnie Mill firm pays Christmas bonus es to employees, a spokesman said. Both Mauney Hosiery Mills Yarn declined carmVnt. but Ja; ! applications were processed and Carolina Throwing Company ’ - • ■ • from coJle,ges and universities will “operate as much as possi- Powel!. Ed'noter’'opci'' of these, “"■ -■ - win of Superior, Mr. Allen died at 12:l.’j a.m. Friday in Kings' Mountain iio.s- , ...... nfcented tec, stat^ following a lengthy illness. ^ ations ThT!heir"* coinnlnicsTm ! The 19-.vear-ol(l student for I Kings MounUin police chief |‘"^j^ J,^^pxation on grounds in leave by plane for Yale on July terrain pfrUclArn If I dSn ta the ei.y ttould pr> 2 and return sentetime in late yjlnnlM and carSdn™^ ^ three them an annual additional Ausust , , . , »Snl.rt wSbll Program 1®- »■' “"'-'I a .'wo-year lorn, return. _! In -dd.t.on r. ri anc.ng tra^ Adams' Moving To Giace Post Rev and Mrs. T. Dixon Adaime and family were moving Wed nesday into the parsonage of Grace Methodist church. ' •Mr. Adams |Was appointed to his new pastorate by the West ern North Carolina Methodist Conference following the recent conference at Lake Junaluska. He succeeds the late Revi Max Brandton, Jr. who died of a heart attack several months ago. All Methodist ministers in the Kings Mountain area were re turned to their present pastor ates for the comhix year. Mrs. Crawford Has Broken Leg Mrs. W. J. Crawford suffered a broken right leg Tuesday when she fell in the bedroom of her home. Mrs. Crawford suffered a break in the same leg nine years ago. The new break is between the pin used to mend the initial break and the kneecap. Members of her family report her resting well at Gaston Me morial hospital. at DAVIS FIRM Lynda Watterson, recent graduate of Kings Mountain high school and daughter of Mr and Mrs. Erskine Watter son, has joined the office staiff of Davis & White for the sum mer months. She will be a ifreshman at Western Carolina —jQjjegeixt^hefaU. — LEGION TRIP American Legion Post 155 will sponsor its second bus trip to Atlanta, Ga. Sunday for a day baseball game between thb Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The bus will leave the Legion building at 8:15 a.m. and return about 8:30 p.m. community’s Workable Program goals. Duty of the committee on min ority housing shall be: to study and formulate a program for meeting the needs for decent housing in a suitable environ ment for all families without re gard to race, creed, color or na tional origin. . Members of the five-member redevelopment cammlssion are John O. Plonk, Jr., Thomas A. Tate, Carl F. Mauney, William Herndon and Charles L. Alexan der on the county board of commis sioners from 1938-10. Two of his sons are iaw cn forcement officers. Haywood Al len is sheriff of Cleveland Coun ty and George Allen serves as chief deputy. He was a son of the late George A. and Jesse Shufoid Allen. Ilo was a member of First Baptist church of Shelby. Surviving are his wife, .Mrs. Maude Wathers Allen; five sons, J. Haywood Allen and George Allen, both of Shelby; Irvin M. Allen, Jr. of Kings .Mountain, Oaron -M. Allen of Warreniown, Wiley II. Allen of King.s .Moun tain; si.it daughters, -Mrs. Sam Hamrick, Mrs. J. C. Deveney and , . „ . I Mrs. Bobby C. Bridges, all of Mayor John Henry Moss ®*’^|j^ings .Mountain, Mr.s. Stanley his committee makirig a port Lauderdale, Fla., study of city employees pay' with a view to upward adjust Committee Meets On Employee Pay The two mining men noted tliat they maintained their own water systems. Asked ta comment on the likeli hood that Mohair will ask annex ation of the Margrace plant to the city, Mayor John Henry Moss said, “As previ.aiusly with this administration and, I under stand, city policy dating as far back as 1923, I and irr.ombers of the commission will be glad to discuss with -any person or firm their petitions for annexation to the city.” portation to and from the study center, educational supplies, rec- ble”. General Manager Charles Mauney said no Independence Day plans have been scheduled. Christmas bonuse.s are paid an nually to employees of the two^ firms. At K Mills employees in the weaving and preparation depart ments will take a x/eek’s holi- ments conferred with city de partment heads Wednesday aft ernoon. ‘ Meantime, work is underway on the upcoming 1966-67 budget. Mayor Moss said a determina tion on employee wages and sal aries must be concluded before definitive work can be completed on the budget. However, well underway are studies of capital improvement needs during the coming year, including equipment required, street paving, curb - and • gutter work, and a public utilities building. cersities, the piogiam will award to Camp'.ell upon his completion of study, $500 to aid in expenses during the ]96()-fiT school .year at the Agricultural and Technical College of Nartli Carolina where he will be a junior. 3MToMake~ Sign Survey The Reflective Products Divi- .“'ion of Minncapolis-Minnesota- Mining Company will begin a survey here Monda.v of the city’s needs for traffic and street signs. , ! Ttie survey will be conducted Dr. Laura Plonk, Kings Moun- , gp^eifications ,.f the National tain native and co-founder of j Asheville s Plonk School of Cit- : ative Arts, was memorialized at a special service at the school J The 3M comnan.x Sunday afternoon. reational fees, and general ne- day. In the finishi^ig and ship- Service Honors Dr. Laura Plonk John Weir Is District Lion OtYear; Plonk 100 Percent lion Seaetary Hu'oort Dixon, professor of mathematics at t^rdner Webb Junior college, will Install ndw officers of the Kings MountMn Lions club at their Tuesday night meeting at 7 p.m. at the Woman’s club, _ Mr. Dixon is a native of King* Mountain. . Hal S. Plonk, Kings Mountain realtor, will be insUlled as the new president and other officers are- Howard Bryant, first vio^ nresklait; Bill Plonk, second vl^presidenttVWlllie Wllllan»e. third vice-president; Bill Moss, treasurer; Larry Allen, lion tam er; Fred Withers, tail twister; and directors, Bill Jonae and Jamea Stoll. Mr. Dixon will also recognize Lion Sam Weir, District Lion of the Year, and Lion Bill Plonk, named 100 percent Lion secre tary in the district, during the past year. The m^o ld6al men were accorded district honors re cently for their service to the civic club. Weir la winner of the local club’s Lion of the Year award for tlw second year. Mrs. William Miles Hord of Or lando, Fla. and Mrs. Keith Hawkins of Shelby. Also surviv ing are 22 grandchildren. Participating on the program Also surviving are four broth- pastor, the Rev. Jack ers, George Allen of Palm liar-1 fqrmer faculty members j bor,- E’la., Robert Allen- of .8heib.\ istudents and Ed and Will Allen, both of | gave the invocation,! Rock Hill, S. C.; five sistcis, gave the meditation. | Mrs. Jurthey Hamrick of Kings jyiary Faust-Plonk Wcav- i Mountain, Mrs. Say Berry and ■ Greensboro pianist, played j Mrs. Frank Parker, both of Rock jjandel’s “arabande” and Beet-j Hill, S_ C-, Mrs. Fred Culbretli of ].|ovcn’s "Farewell to the Piano”, i Ocean Drive, S. C. and Mrs. D. | -p^rry Weaver Codfield sang J. Hamrick of Charlotte. ' “These Are They” from Gaul's Dr. Joseph McClain officiated ..-phe Holy City”, at the finql rites. j Mrs. Anna Lee tyles read two j poems Carman’s “Vestigia” and I another by Proctor, then con- ! eluded with what she termed “personal reflections on a 40- ycar friendship” as follows; _ This day we meet in tribute to Burman Ooley Bryant, 3S, of ; Dr. Laura Plonk, late founder 1002 First Street, was chai gerl : and director of The Plonk School with driving while Intoxicated i of Creative Arts, following an accident Thursday j During her years of activity afternoon at the intersection of' and unwavering perserverance, Cleveland Avenue and Ridge Dr. Plonk gave to her fellow hu- i , 0..1 .......... makes the ' survey free with no obligation to fhei city. ping departments employees will work part of the week, a spokes man said. Vacation payments will be made to employees. Cleveland Hosiery Mills will operate on full schalule the week of July 4th. New machinery is being installed at the pl2mt, a spokesman said. Lambeth Rope Corporation has announced an “optional” holiday the week of July Jth. Manager Tom Burke said the firm hopes enough employees will reject the object to allow at least a one shift operation. Employees tak ing the week’s vacation will re ceive a w'eek’s pay. Employees electing to work will receive two week's pay. Sadie Cotton Mills will close for the vacation week at 10 p.m. July 2, resuming operations at 10 p.m. July 10th. Vacation pay will be made. Eniolknent Shmtln Snmniei Tenns Under Anti-Poverty Program Bryant Charged Following Wreck street. Bryant’s 1954 model Chevrolet struck the rear of a 1961 Biiick driven by Howard Smith, 43. of 113 Cleveland Avenue when Smith atempted to make a left turn off Cleveland Avenue onto Ridge Street. J Damages were estimated at $200 to each oar. No were reported man beings of all ages, the re- sidium of her insight, her visipn, her zeal, her strength, her fidel ity, her compassion, her faith. And she ventured and strove for their realization in awareness and overcamiing, for their excel lence in the arts of communica tion, for their fulfiRment in, injuries' character unfoldment, and for their attainment in spiritual ■Ptrfice officer Joe Harmon in- vestlgated Uie mishap. prowess. Continued On Page 6 School officials expressed dis appointment Wednesday that en rollment in the twa summer school federal piogr-ims did not come lip to advance indications. In the pre-school “Head Start” program. Principal Howard Bry ant reported enrollment of 120, or 33 less than anticipated, and 45 less than/the authorization of 165. In this prograim. ten percent of the enrollment may be chil dren not qualified by the eco nomic status of their families. D. B. Blalock, director pf the Title I reading pro.giam, report ed enrollment of .501 or 110 short of the 611 who had indicated they would attend. ‘‘It is not too late to enroll," Mr. Blaloc'k emphasized, report ing that enrollment had increas ed each of the first three days of school. Mr. Blalock attrT'utiHi part of the reason to fact the bug sched ules by the five in use are not the same as those covei-ed by the 25 or more in use during tJie reg ular school term, “Fifty imore pujiils are neidfid to qualify for our minimum au thorized program.” he comment ed, adding, “but vve could ac commodate 125 more." He said efforts to contact stu dents and their parents in tar ge areas will be made this werft- end by press, radio and tele phone. In contrast to the “Head Start” program, omre the target areas have been skiimmed to sat uration. students needing the reading instruction and econom ically unqualified initially may be enrolled in the program. In both schools the class load is 15 pupils per teatdier and each has been assigned a teachiiig aide. The bus schedule is: BUS I: To serve Oak Grove— Waco Road Section. Bus will unload Title I at North School; then to West School for Headstart; then U KMHS. BUS II: To serve Highway leaving Kiipus Mountain an picking up J[*8ht si^ OuiUm^ On Page S