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Population
Greater King*; Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,256
This fiffurs fox Greater Kings Mountcdn is derived from
the 19SS Kings Mountain city dirsctorr ceiuus. The dty
limits ttgure is from the United States census ol 1985.
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^ Kings Mountain's Reiiable Newspaper
Pages
Today
VOL. 77 No. 28
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 14, 1966
Seventy-Seventh Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Community Clean-Up Campaign Continued Month
Out-of-District
Pupils Notified
V
PRESIDENT — Wilson Griffin,
Kings Mountain druggist and
partner in Griffin Drug Com
pany, has been installed os
president of the Kings Moun-
toin Rotary Club for the com
ing year. He succeeds Devere
Smith.
Lany Melton. 24
Dies Of Bums
Larry Melton, 24, died Friday
from burns he suffered through
electptfcution May 29th. The fihal
riteawere held in Waxhaw, N. C.
Melton, an employee of Hunter
Walden Company of Charlotte,
was burned while working on a
still-energized 44,000 volt power
line which runs from the Duke
Power 99 Islands plant near
Blacksburg, S. C. into Kings
Mountain. The' location where
Melton was working was near
the entrance to the Kings Moun
tain National Military Park.
He was rescued after more
than two hours by D. C. Owens,
an employee of D_ C. Ballcnger
Company of Spartanbung, S. C..
who was able to reach him with
a hydraulic bucket lift. Grover
Rescue Squad ambulances car
ried him to Kings Mountain hos
pital and subsequently to Char
lotte Memorial hospital where he
had remained in critical condi
tion.
Mr. Melton was .married.
Head-On Clash
Kills Railman
J. W. Pait, about 50, of 600 Sr
Wilmington street. Hamlet, N.
C., was killed Wednesday about
12:45 in the wreckage of two
Seaboard freight trains which
collided head-on about two miles
east of Cherryville near Way-
side End.
W. H. Strong, Jr., of Hamlet,
and Willis Dreading of Sanford
were both listed in fair condition
at Crowell hospital in Lincoln-
ton, according to Carpenter"
Funeral Home, Cherryville,
which carried a third man, Gar-
la ndStutz, of- Hamlet,- ta Gam^
ble hospital in* Lincolnton and
subsequently to Charlotte Me-
morfal hospital. (
A spokesman for the funeral
home said Stutz was listed in
serious condition.
Funeral arrangements for Pait
arc incomplete but will te an
nounced by Wilson & Farrington
Funeral Home of Hamlet.
First reports said that the en
gines of ‘both trains overturned
and Immediately burst into
flames. Both trains were report
edly traveling at ^ high rate of
speed.
Rescuers pulled three men
from the wreckage and rescued
the fatally Injured man around
1:30. Several hundred spectators
trampled fields of crops along
the i1ght-6f-way.
Rescue Squads and fire de
partments from neighboring
counties were called to the scene.
Volunteers wore still working
cleaning up the debris late Wed
nesday afternoon.
Admittance
Vfill Depend.
On Releases
Notices are being mailed par
ents of Kings Mountain school
district students residing in oth-1
er counties that they will not be
acceped for enrolment during the;
upcoming term unless they ob
tain releases from the board of
education where, by residence,
the out-qf-district students would
normally attend.
With few, if any exceptions
the problem, which Superinten
dent B. N. Barnes says is a legal
one, involves neighboring Gaston I
county pupils numbering from 50
to 100, normally in the e'duca-|
tional menage of the Gaston i
County Board of education. I
The Kings Mountain board of
education took the action at last
week’s meeting.
Supt. Barnes said he is notify
ing Chairman John R. Rankin, of
the Gaston board, of the board!
action and accompanying notice.
Some Kings Mountain district
students attend Gaston county
schools, Supt. Barnes noted, but
their requests for releases have
always been granted.
"It’s not that Kings Mountain
district has objection to teach
ing these fine pupils,’* Supt.
Barnes commented, “but legally
we don’t have the authority
without their formal release.”
This district, Shelby district,
and the Cleveland county district
customarily foramlize releases of
pupils when they-wish to attend
out-of-district schools.
B.R. Willeford
Rites Conducted
IT
Retired Rail
Conductor Dies
After Thrombosis
Funei'al rites for Bennc'tt Ru
fus Willeford, Sr., 82. were iKki
Monday at 11 a.m. .feinr I'irst
Baptist chureh, interment follow
in.g in Mountain Rest '•emetery.
Mr Willeford, who ndired in
1955 after 53 years as a eonduct-
or for Southern Railway..System,
died at 1 p.m. Saturday in the
Kings Mjuntaiit hospital follow
ing two month’s illness.
Mr. Willeford li.a d suffered a
I stroke and wasi hospitalized. He
1 had improved Ad was able to
I return home_ 1% o weeks a.go he
suffered a massive cerebral
I thrombosis which caused his |
I death. !
I He was a native of Kings j
Mountain and attended school;
here and in Gastonia. He w;7s a
one-time groein- and operated a
cafe here at oiu- time.
A former re. i<lent of .\'lanta,;
Ga and Charlotte, Mr. Willeford,
returned here following his re- ;
tirement. He was the son o!' the
late Bennptt and Dora Bell Wil- ^
leford. :
A member of the First Bautist
GRADUATE — William Glas-
gow will receive his BD dib’gree
from Southwestern Baptist
Seminary in finals exercises
July 22.
William Glasgow
To Win Degree !
William -R. Glasgow, whose!
Board Retains
Electric firm -
To Update Maps
Kings Mountain’s clean-up and
beautification campaign will con
tinue through August 21.
The city board of commission-
I ers Tuesday night voted an ex-
' tension of the beautification ef-
I fort upon recci r.mendatiun of
Mayor John Henry Moss.
A clcan-up project was inaugu-
I rated here two months ago_
I The city will also extend for 30
days its proffer to remove dc.ris
free-of-charge.
In other action, the board:
I 1) employed Southeastern Con-
I suiting Engineers. Inc. of Char
lotte at cost of $500 to make re
cordings of volts and rebalance j Vietnam, will he held Thursday
the electrical system to take ’ ttt 4 p.m. from .Second Baptist
care of expanding growth. i church
2) advertised for bids for a Rev. W. T. Luekadoo, pastor
truck and garbage packer for|Ol^ fbe church, assisted by Rev.
the sanitation department. j C. C. Bundy,, will officiate and
3) formally appro\ed ai^point-i ftill military ritc.s will lollow in
‘Memorial Park of Mountain
Rest cemetery.
I ii'hif'n itn^iii.Hd,^ Pari F Viaiinev. The body will rem.ain at Har
ris Foneral Home until the hour
of service.
Pvt Brooks was a 1965 grad
uate of Kings Mountain high
For Brooks Today
Kings Mountain I
Youth Is First |
Vietnam Fatality
Military funeral rites f.jr Pvt.
Christopher Eugene Brooks, 18,
the Kings Mountain area's first
fatal casually in the war in
Church aftd the Men’s Bible Class, I wile is the former Judith Lor-^
he was a member of Fairview; I'^me Putnam, daughter of Mr._
'Lu'lge 3-39 AF <if AM. ' '• Henry Putnam, Route
He is surviv^ ■ by hh
Mrs. Elizalbeth Thomson Wille-.
ford; their son, B. R Willeford,
Jr. of Lewisburg. Pa.; three sis-
meiit of a redc\elopinent com-
misiion. a mayoral committee
which includes Carl F. Mauncy,
J O. Plonk. William Herndon,
Tom Tate ^nd Charles Alexan
der.
4) approved cancellation of
several miscellaneou.s accounts
becavse of error-In billings or
merchandise returned.
3) approved advertisement of
the following streets for assess
ments: Sipe.s street, Boyce street
and Cleveland avenue.
Prank In Auto:
Two Badly Hurt
Four Kings Mountain boys •
FLAGS TO FLY
Kings -Mouniain Optimist |
club will provide its custamary ‘
flag serxicc and Kings Moun- ;
tain business citizens will dis-!
play the .-linorican flag all day |
Thursday in respect to Pvt. i
Brook.s. Mayor John Moss said !
that both the American and {
North Carolina flags will fly I
at half mast in Memorial Park
RITES TODAY — Military fu
neral rites for Pvt. Christopher
Eugene Brooks, 18, will be held
Thursday at 4 p.m. from Sec
ond Baptist church.
Mrs. Claud Grigg
Dies Suddenly
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Interest Rates
Are Increased
First Union National Bank an
nounced this week the raising of
minimum interest rates to its
customers to 5% percent from
5'L* percent in keeping with na
tional money market rates.
President Carl McCraw, Jr. said.
The new interest rates were
effective July 1.
Kings Mountain’s two savings
and loan institutions also an
nounced interest rates of 4I2 per
cent paid quarterly. If compound
ed the rate is 4.57 percent per
year. These rates are also effect
ive July 1.
‘The Federal Reserve Bank is
chargd with the responsibility of
maintaining a sound dollar and
fighting inflation”, said Presi
dent McCraw. "In order to ac
complish these purposes. It is
taking actions to restrict the a-
vailability of money during this
time of I'ousiness boom. Money is
a comodity and responds to sup
ply factors. The demand for
money has exceeded the availa
bility of funds. The end result is
increasing interest rates.”
FROM HOSPITAL
Wayne Wells, Dixion com-
imunity farmer, was discharged
Tuesday from Veterans hospi
tal, ColumIbJa, S. C., where he
had been undergoing observa
tion and treatment.
Dixon Services
Are Continning
Revival services are continuing
this week through '^Friday at
Dixon Presbyterian church.
Rev. J. Eade Anderson, pastor
of Memorial Presbyterian church
in Montgomery, Alabama, and
summer supply pastor at Dixon
and First Presbyterian churches
in 1948-49, Is visiting evangelist.
Mr. Anderson is also a former
pastor of Gastonia’s Olney Pres
byterian church. He is a native
of Horse Shoe, N. C., and a grad
uate of Columbia Seminary, De
catur, Ga.
Services are at 7:30 p.m. nlght-
ly-
Ml^Anderson and his daugh
ter, Scottie, are house - guests
this week of Mr. and Mrs. Thom
as Humphries. Miss Anderson,
eldest of five children of the An-
dersons, will also visit relatives
in Horse Shoe and Henderson^
ville.
FACULTY—Mrs. Joe Reis, top,
Mrs. Tommy Burke, and Mrs.
Lydia Ross, below, are mem
bers of the faculty of Trinity
Day School for the fall term.
Classroom facilities ore being
expanded to provide for a first
grade os well as pre-school
and kindergarten.
Day School
Faculty Complete
The 1966-19G7 teaching staff
for Trinity Day School, 303 Phi-!
fer Road, Kings Mountain, has
been announced by the Rev. Bob
Haden, Headmaster of the
school.
Mrs. Thomas (Vivian) Burke,
who has been with the school for
three years, will teach the first
grade.
The first grade will be open to
those who want an extra enrich
ment and solid foundation for
4heir -chlidi en-as—well as t hose
who are wrong birthday chil
dren or who ne^ help in special
areas, said Mr. Haden The ac
ceptance of wrong birthday chil
dren will be determined by the
School after ol;serving the social
and physical as well as the men
tal development of the child.
Mrs. Joseph (Ellen) Ries, who
has been with the school for
two years, will teach the pre
school class. The pre-school is
for 5 year old children.
Mrs John (Lydia) Ross, who
is presently working with the
Headstart program, will teach
the Kindergarten. The Kinder
garten is for four year old chil
dren.
^Jrfl. D. G. (Gerry) Myers will
be an assistant in Art, Music,
and recreation.
Those wishing to enter their
children in the school or to find
out more infonmation should call
the school at 739-2213 or Mrs.
Vivian Burke at 739-4011.
There are a few partial schol
arships available for those who
are in genuine financial heed,
Haden continued.
The School will also provide
ters, Mrs. Joe Thomson, Mrs.
Grady King and Mi’s J. C. Nick
els, all of Kinj-s Mountain; and
a niece, Miss Nancy Nickels, of
Kings Mountain.
Rev. Robert C. Mann, assisted
by Rev. H. Gordon Week ley, of
ficiated at the final rites
'Fhe f.amilv has requested that
in lieu of fl iwors memorials he
designated to the building fund
of First Baptist church.
Active [lalibcarers were* Wen
dell Phifer. Alton T'-ev. Morphy
Hill, Fred Weaver, Bill Laughter, j
and Frank Ilollificld. j
"honorary pallbearers were'
members of the Men’s Bible!
Class of First Baptist church and
B. Meek Ormand. Dr. J. E An
thony, Dr. L. P, Baker. E. W.
Griffin, and Luther Harmon.
Three Citizens
Petition Board
Throe Cansler Street citizens
have petitioned the board of
commissioners for annexation of
their properties which approxi
mate 11 acres into the city limits.
Requests were made at Tues-1
day’s board of commission meet
ing at City Hall courtroom.
They include:
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde (Whitey)
Bridges’ 2.37 acres on North Can-
sler street:
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bolin’s
6.11 acres on North Cansler
slfeet; ■-
Mr. and Mrs. John Ettors’^lhree
acres on North Cansler street.4
aii-i Ml
Wife:T-3T-4vtngs-Mr)tirrtain. will Tereivrr^were^TnjuretrSatufday night In
the bachelor of divinity degree
during summer graduation exer-
cise.^ July 22 at S.oulhwestern
Baptist TIu'ological Seminary.
Seminary President Robert E.
Naylor will present diplomas
and degriH’s to 100 students- at
10 aj.n. in Tniett Auditorium.
Mr. Glasgow received his
bachelor ol science degree from
Appalachian State Tcadiers Col
lege in 1963.
of Mountain Rest cemetery un-
** til sundown.
man Ray Wood said that the
driver. Jay Powell, told him fol-
Inving the wreck that another
hoy covcrcil his eyes when he
I Powell t said he could drive the
road lilindloldcd. The car over
turned in a culvert.
Powell and John Van Dyke
were both given emergency treat
ment at Kings Mountain Hospi
tal. Van Dyke received 25 stitch
es in his foot, leg, back and head
and Powell was cut over the nose
and eye.
Jeff Patterson and Danny
Walker are still patients at Kings
Mountain Hospital, Walker re
ceived fractures of the pelvis
bone and vcrlehrao and lacera-
Diving club of some 35 members ■ (1^^, qj (J-iq back and head. Patter-
outlined projects and demonstra-i suffered a ! ,roken ankle and
school and entered the
a car wreck around 11:30 p.m. j thereafter,
four miles west of here on rural; Ho was a member of Company
read 1001 near Maple Springs B. 3.5th Infantry Regiment, 25th
Swiming Pool. ,
Investigating Highway Patrol-
1 Mrs. Maggie Humphrey Grigg,
64, former Kings Mountain teach-
! er and wife of a former Ktojs
,|.Mounta'in school superintendent,
! died suddenly last Saturday
anmy ; morning at 4 o’clock at her Al
bemarle home.
Any Volunteer
Scuba-Divers?
Kings Mountain Lions club
members got a ciirsary course in
scuba-diving Tuesday night, as
Jack Spangler and two other
members of the .Shetby Scuba-
lacerations of the ear.
p.atrolman Wood is still con
tinuing his investigation. No
charges have been filed as of yet.
Mr. Wright's
Rites Thursday
BIBLE SCHOOL SET
Vacation Bible School at Dix
on Presbyterian church will be
held August 1-5,( according to
anniouncemOnt \ by Rev. Jares
S. Mann, pa-itor. The school for
all ages will be held from 6:30
until 8:30 p.m. nightly.
ted equipment.
Principal functiuns are recov
ery of bodic.s of drowning vic
tims, e.xaniinatiiig lilc in tlie
deep from .sunken sliips to fish
and fauna, and spear-fishing.
The Shelby dub lias no in
come except enrollment and in
struction fee of .$15 per head, i
and, to pa.v cNpcn.ses must find
ways and mem-.s. .\ principal of j , , t u r\
the Shelbv dnb is to probe thei i uneral nte.s for John Oscar
depths of” golf c<.ur.se lakes for'Wright, o2. will be held Thurs-
duffer’s lo.st iK.lls at 10 cents; day at 3 p.m. from Modena
each. A Soutli Carolina coUrse Sti'pel baptist cliuich m Cias-
ggjjj • I tonia. Inten.T.ent will be m Kings
He said a person doesn’t nded Hountain at Chestnut Ridge
lake yielded 1150. Diver Spangler Baptist church cemetery. ^
to swim to be a scuba diver, bsl Tho body was taken by Harris
the big “fro" fed" propel one I'Home to the home on
easily ThrougirTtn^ water.-
scuba diver sliould learn to swim 1 afw’i'J^o^n.
fast, in event lie gets in trouble Rev. Paul' .S. Simpson.' Rev.
through equipment malfunc- Oscar Gray. Rev. .Mitchell Pruitt
tion.” He rcfeiTcci to the breath-1 and Rev. R. L. McGaha will of-
ing apparatus or underwater j fidate at the final rites,
trouble by attacking fish. Wright died Tuesday night
Scuba-diving gear costs about! ^ p ^ in Gaston Memorial
$175. I hospital after several months ill-
Past President Weir wel-in^.j-s, ^ native of Cleveland
corned John Itcdfoid as a new; vvas the son of the
Mrs.
Division, in Vietnam.
Pvt. Brooks’ mother,
Gerald Lee, of route 1, York
road, was notified by the army
that lii'r son died of gunshot
wounds Sunday, July 3.
In aciclition to his mother. Pvt.
Brooks is survived by Ivs father,
Walter Lee Brooks of Dallas; a
sister, Miss Betty Sue Brooks of
the home; and his maternal
"randnarents. Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Phillips of Kings Mountain.
Also surviving are three step
brothers, Carroll Lee, United
States Navy, Max Lee and Em-
:rett Lee, both of Kings Moun
tain.
Munay Youth's
Rites Conducted
She was the wife of Claud
Grigg, superintendent here from
i 1927-34,. who retired June 30 as
superintendent 0 f Albemarle
schools, and a sisler-in-law of J.
‘ Horace Grigg, of Shelby, retired
! superintendent o f Cleveland
I Counly schools.
: Mrs Giigg was a former prin
cipal of Endy school in the Stan
ly county system and was sub-
seciucntly a teacher at West
Stanly school.
Funeral rites wore held at Al-
hemarlo's C e n t r a 1 Methodist
i church Sunday afternoon, of
which she was a member and ac-
, ti\e mp.rbtr. with the Rev. W.
‘ H. .Medlin conducting the rites.
; Interment was ip Fairview Me-
, morial Park at Albemarle.
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A native of Red Springs, she
was horn July 1, 1902, daughter
of the laie John Burden and
' Lelie .McNeill Humphrey. She
Funeral rites for Harold Dean was a .graduate of Woman’s Col-
Munay, 17, were held Monday at I Greensi.oro and did
4 p.m. from Temple Baptist;
in
Mitchell Pruitt officiated at the I’D Claud M.
Wednesday | final rites. “ ■ ^ monfF
member of tlic club.
Six-Man Housing Study Committee
UMI Probe Kings Mountain Needs
The city board of coimmis.sion-1 or told fhe board
ers Tuesday approved appoint
ment of a six-member study com
mittee on housing needs.
Mayor John Henry Moss ap
pointed city commissioners Ray
Cline, T. J. Ellison and O. O.
Walker to 1 he «. committee and
said that he would name three
other citizens to serve with (hon.
The mayor will also be a mem
ber of the study group to report
back to the commission at the
July 26th meeting.
inc of these
late William A. and Anna Hin
son Wright. He was a veteran of
World War II and a member of
Modena Street Baptist church,
lie was a former employee wf
Gambrill Mill in Bessemer City.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Vernic Pruitt Wright; one son,
William Wright of Dallas; a
step-son, Hugh Lee Ivester of
Dallas; his stepmother, Mrs. L.
R. Wright of Kings Mountain;
four brothers, Horace Wright,
Jonas Wright. Marvin Wright
"It is quite evident during our
afternoon care for those parents \ clean-up campaign now under-
who wish to-leave their children way that Kings Mountain has i sub-sUndard* homes iif town and 1 Kings Mountain; and three
homes actually .^-lii'uld he de-
niolished,’’ he continued, adding,
that both owner .nn.l rontor are
willing to have the houses razcKi
which are n.it protitohle to re
pair.” “Pro’ iivn i.s." I ho ma.vor.
continued “thev lia'c no place 1 and Forrest Wright, all of Kings
to relocate.’’ ^ Mountain: five half - bi-others,
During the past si.x months | James IVright of the U. S_ Navy,
three industries have torn downi Paul IVright and Joe \Vrlg‘ht,
and/or moved former mill resi-1 both of Kings Mountain, Silas
dences in expansion projects, the, Wright and Saul Wright, both of
mayor continued f i Spartanburg, S. C.; two sisters.
Duty of the committee would Mrs. Roland Watprs and Mrs.
be to determine the -imnber of | Sheila Mae Waters, both of
graduate work at Duke univers-
ity.
Among Kin.gs Mountain citi
zens attendin.g the final rites
were Mrs. F. F. Finger. Mr. and
Mrs. B. N. Barnes and Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Weir
Surviving in addition to her
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. j husband are three sons, William
and Mrs. J. Lane Put-1 Grigg and David H. Grigg,
both Charlotte attorneys, and
church, interment following
Mountain Rest cemetery.
Young Murray, an invalid
since i.:irth, died Saturday at
6:30 p.m. at his home on route
three. He was a native of Kings
.Mountain, son of D.moiy and
Marjorie Putnam Murray, both
of whom survive.
Also surviving are his grand
parents,
Murray,
nam, all of Kings Mountain
Rev. R. L. McGaha and Rev.
Grigg, of Rich-
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Brooks Fiist Vietnam Fatality;
Korean War Cost Six From Area
By ELIZABETH STEWART 1 men .V ;ni:r :er of others were
Though far distant from the woundi d on Korean battlefields,
roar of guns halfway across the I Pvt. Knfas G. Huffstickler, 19,
world. Kings Mountain is not iso- fir.st Kitigs Mountain., man to be
lated from the tragic effects ofiIist(‘ l on an Army casualty list
the war in Vietnam. in thi- Koiean War, was killed in
Pvt. Christopher Eugene: Ku'ca on July 20, .1950. He was
Brooks, first Kings Mountain' la ported missing in action His
man to be listed on an an.my parents uere notified of iris
casualty list in the war in Viet- death :M-iy 5, 1951.
nam, will be buried here Thins- Pvt. Staey A. Miullina.x, Jr., 18,
day. was killed in action in Korea
'The 18-year-oId infantryman .4piil 21. 1951.
joined the Army shortly after Pvt. Dan Lail, 22, w;is killed
graduation from Kings Mountain in action .November 8, 1951.
high school in 1965. At his death | On Jui.i' 10, 1952, Cpl. Harvey
July 3 he had been in Vietnam Lawson died from wounds receiv-
for two months with the 35th In- od in action near Hadokkom-gal,
fantry Division. North Korea.
Pvt. Brooks died as a result of Pvt Pinkney Roberts.
Continued On Paye 6 sub-standard housing”, the may* 1 availabls yncin
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grandciiUdren,
gunshot wounds received
on combat operations against the
enemy.
'Thirteen years ago this month
—July 26, 1953, the shooting
stopped in Korea and the Korean
War •— First labeled a “police
action'’— had cost the lives of at Marcii 30, 1952.
least six Kings Mountain area I
. Jr.. 19,
while was killed in action October
1952 wliile flighting with the flwt
Marines in Korea.
Pfc. Klmer G. Allen. Jr., -of
GroN'cr, was renorted
action February 13, 1961. ii*
family was notified of his