ee To Be Merged . port indicates that for the 1966- | . serregation plan to deter: ne its Greater Kings Mountain City Limits “@ \ + — This figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city limits figure is from the Uhited: States census of 1965. 10,320 8,256 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper YOL.77 No. 29 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 21, 1966 Grant Of $388,500 Fer Sewa Seventy-Seventh Year e Sy sten | Board Of Education Consolidates Kings Mountain, Compact Highs By MARTIN HARMON Only one high school will be operated in the Kings Mountain school district next term, the board of education having voted Monday night to consolidate Compact and Kings Mountain high schools. One impetus was notification by Harold Howe IIL U.'S. Com- missioner of Education, that]: 1965-66 faculty desegregation |g would be insufficient to qualify under the April 9 guidelines promulgated by John W. Gard- ner, Secretary of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare. : A corrolary reason was an in- dicated further drop in enroll- ment at Compact high school. Superintendent B. N. Barnes said the aggregate feeling of the board of education was, “In view of the indicated considerable en- rollment drop at Compact high school with more than 100 for- mer Compact students already enrolled at Kings Mountain high school for the upcoming term, it was felt that Compact would prove sub-marginal, both educationally and operationally.” Comm. Howe wrote,... This re 67 school .year your school sys- tem will make some progress be- yond what was accomplished for the 1965-66 s 1 year det segregation of professional staff. It does appear, however, at least on the basis of the renort you have submitted, that the steps you propose in the staff desegre- gation are not adequate in your situation to accomplish the pur- poses of Title VI.” He continued, “While we have not had a chance as yet to re- view the operation of vour de- adequacy in light of all ciicum- stances, including student deseg- regation, we urge you to take additional steps in staff desegre- gation at this time. Assignment and reassignment of staff would probably be more convenient if undertaken soon.” Compact elementary school, Grades 1-8, will operate as usual. The board’s decision reverses that contained in the pupil as: sigmment plan for the coming term. Compact,’ until the 1964-65 term, was an all-Negro school. Grades 1-12. Desegrevation began in Kings Mountain district schools during the recent term. Largest migra- tion to formerly all-white schools was from Compact to Kings Mountain high school. Flected Teachers Decline Positions Three teachers elected for the coming year by Kings Mountain district (zoard of education have declined the positions, Superin- tendent B. N. Barnes reported Wednesday. : Declining proffered contracts were Mrs. Virginia B. Collins and Miss Selma Hazemy, both of Charlotte. . Mrs, Elizabeth H. Swrmey, of Spartanburg, S. C., who had exe- cuted contract, resigned, stating her husband, who was to have been assigned here by his com- pany had been re-assigned else- where. STREETS TREATED The city’s 3.92 miles of un- paved streets were treated with calcium chloride, a dust Methodist Sunday in its present sanctuary for the last tire. have building of pews, organ, the al- tar and windows and on Monday morning begin razing the famil- iar landmark across from the U. S. Postoffice on East Mountain streat. next week. The new plant is ex- pected to cost $250.000, day morning attracted an over: flow crowd. Following a munion sorvice at 11 o'clock, the | congregation the church where the cornerstone was removed. docurents inside the scaled box could not be deciphered history of the church prepared by Mrs. A. H. Patterson remain. ed lezible and gn history appeare in 's church bylletin sent to the 535 memizer congregation. and pulpit were moved to the social hall of plant, temporary chapel until the new sanctuary is constructed. organized in 1874 by the Rev, J. W. North who was then pastor of Shelby Circuit, 1873-76. A year later the first wedding in deterrent, this week. CHURCH TO BE RAZED — Central Methodist church will be razed starting Monday, and the congregation will soon begin grorling. at the site for &@ proposed $250.000 sanctuary. Pxws; the: hy by altar, stain.glass windows. and all fixtures were r ewved from the building this week. Final services were held d the present 61-year-old building Sunday. (Photo by Lem Lyhch) Sunday’s Ser Last At Land By ELIZABETH STEWART The of Central church worshipped Wreckers and dem:lition crews stripped the 61-year-old Grading will begin at the site The special services on Sun- com- gathered outside Damagd by water, some of the but a portion of the Sunday's This week the church altar the educational Central Methodist church was the church was the wedding of Miss Fairy Long and A. Hunter Pat w Continued On Page 8 Heirs Of Ware And Fulton Offer Business Property At Auction Properties of the M. A. Ware .and W, S_ Fulton Estates will be sold at public auction Wednes- day, August 3, at 10 a.m. Formerly known as the old Kings Mountain Roller Mill gnd operated by Ware & Sons for many years, the property is lo- cated in the heart of the business district on the corner of Gold street and Railroad gvenue. Sub«divided into four business lots, the corner lot containing two buildings includes a three. one threestory metal™ grain building 20x85. ; Maps of the properties may be obtained from W. S. Fulton, Jr. at Fulton's Department Store here or from J. B. Nolan Com- pany in Shelby, selling agents for Carolina Land Auction Com: ickory. By of Hick “be conducted, rain or shine, and Gene A. Saine will be auctioneer. : Free hams will be given away > ce ark WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Ray- mond Edwards has been awarded a college scholarship from the Johnson Foundation. Edwards Youth Is LB] Scholar Belvedere Circle, has warded a Presidential tion. A 1966 graduate Mountain high school, electrical engineering. The Kings Mountain was notified of the Saturday. Privilege License Sales At $2,278 McDaniel reported Wednesday. as prizes during the land auction, LR cording to bidget estimates. Raymond Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards of 405 been a- scholar- ship from the Johnson Founda- of Kings Edwards will enter the freshman class of A & T college in Greensboro in Septeivber. He plans to major in student honor on City privilege license sales to- taled $2,278.50, City Clerk Joe H. State law requires the license By MARTIN HARMON The City of Kings Mountain and City cof Fayetteville vie for the position of selling power to residential customers for less than any other of the state's 73 power-distributihg mu- nicipalities. The City of Coficord runs third. In several schedules, the threé cities sell more cheaply than Duke Power Company = Kings Mountain’s wholesale supplier— does at retail. Sources are: 1) residential | rate report of the 73 North Car- olina municipal electric distribu- tion systems, dated October 1965, and 2) latest published ¢cirpara- ble residential rate schedule of Duke: Power Company in the | City of Kings Mountain files. | Judging the winner up to 590 | kilowatt hours per month is dif- | ficult, (see accompanying sched- ule): Up to 250 kilowatt hours per month Kings Mountain is the winner, "ut at 500. kilowatt pore five cents. Meantime, at 500,] electric | ly lead Duke, Some Comparisons Residential Electrical Rate Schedules 25 40 100 250 500 Over 500: Retailer kwh kwh kwh kwh kwh per kwh Kings Mountain ....... 1.20 1.92 3.60 4.60 9.40 1.2 Fayetteville ............ 145 227 .440 170" 9355 9* concord... ..... i... 100 160 3.75 725 11.10 1.2 Duke -Power Co. ........ 1.38 1.97 3.36 5.81 9.43 1.4% * Over 700 kilowatt hours. Kings Mountain, Fayetteville, Concord Sell Residences Pcwer Cheapest Of Cities Kings Mountain edges Duke by .hree cents. Fayetteville takes over lead ad keeps it at 700 kilowatt hours, where customers buy at only nine-tenths of one cent per kwh thereafter. Kings Mountain and Concord, which sell at 1.2 cents for all over 500 kwh, easi- which doesn’t reach its base rate of 1.4 cents until the 700 kwh mark. A user of 700 kwh per month in Kimis Mountain pays $11.0. Duke customer’s bill is $12.33, a difference of 53 cents. For 1,000 kwh per month. the Kings Mountain. customer pays $15.40, the Duke custarer $16.53—a difference of $1.13. Neighboring Shelbv and Gas- tonia, both municipal distribu- tors, scale to 1.5 cents per kwh at 500, whichis their lowest rate. Kings Mountain charges a 20 percent differential to out-of city customers. Concord, Shelby, and Fayetteville charge no dif- fercatial. Gastonia. péfiarted no outside-city customers. Mrs. Withers’ Mother Passes Funeral rites for Mrs. Adeline | McClurd Spargo, 69, of Dallas, mother of Mrs. Fred Withers of Kings Mountain,” will’ be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. from First Methodist church of Dallas. The body will reiriain at Dallas Funeral Home until 1:30 p.m. when it will lie in state at the church. Rev. Glenn R. McCulley will officiate at the final rites and interment will be in Pleas- ant Grove Methodist church in Crouse, Mrs Spargo, wife of Grafton S. Sparro, died Tuesday a out 12 p.m. in Dallas hospital after two week's serious jllness. She had been in declining health for several years. A native of Dallas, she was daughter of the late Maggie Moore and J. W. McClurd She was a member of Dallas First Methodist church. She and her hu=band resided at 210 W. Trade street in Dallas. Sorviving besides ‘her hus- band and daughter are a brother, Robert McClurd of Cherryville; a sister, Mrs. Julia Sullivan of Fort (Lauderdale, Fla.; her son- in-law and two grandchildren of Kings Mountain City To Adopt '66-'61 Budget The city board of commission- ers will formally adopt the 1966- 67 budzet of $1,320,000 at Tues- day night's regular meeting at 6:30 at City Hall courtroom. Mayor John Henry Moss said a full agenda will also include: 1) announcement of approval of grant from the State Stream Sanitation Board of $388,500 for a sewer system by D. (_, Coburn, chief engineer, and W. E. Long, Jr., chief of the municipal waste section. 2) presentation for approval site for pulic works and utili- ties building and authorization for plans and specifications, 3) consideration of a new elec- trical contract as proposed by Duke Power Company calling for a 50 percent increase in pow- er delivery, from 5,000 to 7,200 be purchased by finns and indi-| Kilowatts. viduals during the month of July| 4) formal approval of a six- and penalty Bf five percent per man housing study committee month applids after August 2,| which will make its first report. Mr. McDani@l reminded. | to the board, : The city s to receive] BH) presentation for approval $5,000 in pMivilege license pay- Se ong aid 'specifications for ments for the year 1965-66, ac-|a 1, : ‘gallon water tank for New KMHS Course Is Cosmetology - Kings Mountain high school | will have an addition to its cur riculum in the coming term- in cosmetology. Mrs. Lillian: Whitworth, of Bessemer City, has been tendered contract for the coming year as teacher of beauticianship. She was among five teachers | proffered contracts by the board of education" Monday night. Oth: ers are Mrs Marguerite Plonk and Mrs. Ethel M, Crook, both of Kings Mountain, elementar} teachers, and Mrs. Lela C. Bras- well and Mrs. Margaret Crocker junior high school. The board also discussed with out action its three principalship vacancies. The board assigned children of several incoming citizens te schools of their first preference with exception of those asking that their children attend We»! school, already at indicated ca pacity The board noted that reconsid eration for three-—and some 50 to:60 others who have been dc clined admittance to West wil’ be given should the situatior change and vacancies occur prio to school opening. Mrs. McDaniel's Rites Conducted rites for Mrs. Lestei Anne McDaniel, 82, widow of J P. McDaniel, were held Tuesda) at 4 p.m. from Bethlehem Bap tist church. Rev. Robert Graham, assisted by Rev. James S. Mann. officiat: ed at the final rites, and inter ment was in the church ceme tery. Mrs. McDaniel died Monday morning at 2:45 a.m. in Haven n-Hills Rest Home in Rutherford County following illness of seve ral years. She was a native of Cleveland County, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs. Monroe Grigg. Her husband died in 1956. She was a member . of Bethlehem = Baptist church. Surviving are three gons, Da: thia McDaniel and Floyd McDan: iel of Fort Campbell, Ky.; and four daughters, Mrs, Homer Har- mon, Mrs. Wayne Wells, Mrs James (Ledford, all (of Kings Mountain. and Mrs. Roy Coth rane of Shelby; and ne sister. Mrs. J. B. Watterso Sof Grover. Also surviving ‘are dren and 18 r at-g x children. picnic | ~ First church congregation will hg its an- nual Sunday picnic Wednesday night 8887 p.m. in the |i A. P. Warlicks | | Kings Mountain S Is 18th Of 18 To Receive Grant | By MARTIN HARMON | The State Stream Sanitation | committee has approved a grant ‘of $388,500 for improvements and ‘expansion of the city’s sewage | disposal system, Mayor John | Henry. Moss and Martin Harmon, | Herald editor, have been noti- . ® tied. | DL. Coburn, chief of the en- 1 1 iil OUrs | gineering section, and Wilbur E. | Long, Jr., chief of the municipal | waste section, supplied details | concerning the grant and will discuss the action with the city Double Funeral commission Tuesday night to de- oe | termine whether the commission Friday At 11: |» proceed with the project. - 9 re Mayor Moss said he had me £ | doubt the city will procee Both Viere 82 | though only $307,500 of the grant may be available during the cur- rent fiscal year. North Carolina’s indicated fed- eral grant for the year is $3,610,- 000 and the state has devised a Double funeral rites for Mr. and Mrs. Abrom Plato Warlick will t e held Friday at 11 a.m. from the Chapel of Harris Fun- : | eral Home. Their pastor, Rev. Howard | Jordan, minister of Central [ Methodist chruch, will officiate. | Interment will be in Mountain | Rest cemetery. Mr. Warlick, 82, retired build- ling contractor, died Tuesday | night at 7:30 at Kings Mountain | hospital following {illness of sev- | eral years. Mrs. Warlick, the former | Texie Smith, 82, died at 10:30 a. | m. Wednesday morning in the | Kings Mountain. hospital follow: ling several month's illness, She SUCCUMBS — Lee Cassell died Monday at the age of 102. Fu-. neral rites will be Thursday from Mount Olive point system whereby it rates applications. Mr. Long said 18 districts and cities share in the . indicated grant, with Kings Mountain cighteenth to be included. He noted that Leaksville-Draper- Spray, first on the approved list, was due a “hangover” payment from the previous year. He as- sumed, he added, should the June 30, 1967, Kings Mountain would top the list. The United States Senate has passed. the $150 million appropri- ation for this year and it has been introduced in the House. In Baptist | had been critically ill for several | weeks. | A native of Cleyeland Coun- | tw. ~Mr. Warlick was the son of [the late Gaither and Sarah Kath- | erine Hill Warlick. Mrs. War- lick, a native of Cleveland. Coun- | ty, was daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs James Smith. Rites Thursday For Cassell, 102 Funeral rites for im Cassell, Mr and Mrs. Warlick are sur 102, will be held Thursday at 3| iced by their Son. Heyward P. p.m. from Mount Olive Baptist yw, 1:1 of Los Angeles, Califor: church. : . Inia; and five daughters, Mrs. Rev. J. M. Alexand¢r will offi- Rutledge of Greensboro. - : oh > { Junie ( ciate, and will Je in Mys, Lallage Falls of Kings cemetery. Grave | Mrs. Richard Day of Long Branch side rites will be conducted by Mrs. James Grice of Mosaic Masonic Lodge No. 4. | Shelby and Mrs Dan K. Gill of Born in Chester County, SC. Fla, 13 grandchildren March 25, 1864, The Kings Moun- | ,n4 13 ogreat-grandchildren. Mrs. tain Negro died Monday at 12:30 Warlick is also survived by a a.m. in the Kinxs Mountain hos- | Wesley Smith of Ports ital after declining health for| , uth va. ive years. He had been critically dd 11 18 days. Bois He was a trustee of Mount Three Named Olive ‘Baptist church and a mem- - ber of Masonic Lodge No. 4. His To Committee narents were the late Lim Cas- well, Sr. and Lizzie Carter Cas- sell. His wife was the late Nan- | Kings Mountain six-man hous oy Crosby : | ing study committee. was com: i pleted this week. Surviving are three sons, Wal-| Mayor John Henry Moss an tor Cassell of Detroit, Michigan; | nounced yesterday that, Rev Vlafeit Cassell of Sulfolk, Va.|Sandro Blalock, Negro minister: ‘nd Mason Cassell of Great Neck, | Jechn L. McGill, druggist; anc New York; Two daughters, Mrs. | Martin. Harmon, newspaper edit ~rola Oates and Mrs. Ruth or had agreed to serve with Com Mlitchem of the home; 19 erond-| missioners T. J. Ellison, Ra; hildren: 26 great-grandchildren Cline and 0. O. Walker on 2 =d three great-great-grandchil- committee to probe Kings Moun dren. tain’s housing needs. | Duty of the coxmittee js tc LEACH JOINING SHERIFF l determine the number of sub: Policeman John Leach has |standaid homes in town and a- resigned to join the depart- |va'lable housing. ‘ ment of Cleveland County | The study group will make its Sheriff Haywood Allen, Chief | first report to the city board of of Police Paul Sanders an- | comm sioners at its Tuesday nounced. He completes his du- | nicht meeting at 6:30 at City ties Saturday. | Funeral Rites Conducted Sunday Funeral rites for Joe Rilly Cornwell, 37, were held Sunday at 4 p.m, from Resurrection Lu- theran church of-which he was a member. Mr. Cornwell died suddenly Friday night about 7:30 p.m. at his home of an apparent heart attack. He had not been ill, He had been painting a house sarlier in the day. A native of Lincoln County, he | was a painting contractor for | Cornwell Brothers. Son of Mrs. Lewis G. Cornwell of Lincoln: | ton and the late Mr. Cornwell, | he was a graduate of Lincolnton | high school where he lettered in! ‘basketball and: base>all, He was! active in the Kings Mountain, Optimist club, | He was a former Little League coach in Kings Mountain. He is survived, in addition to his mother, by his wife, Mrs. Willa Kay McGinnis Cornwell; two sons, Joe Bill Cornwell, Jr. and. Michael Craig Cornwell, both “of the home; and one Continued On Page 8 Aa SUCCUMBS. — Joe Bill Corn well, painting contractor, died suddenly Friday night. Funer- al rites were held Sunday from Resurrection Lutheran church. | plete duties. view of the fact this progrém has been underway for ten years and that it has the ardent support of President Johnson, Mr. Coburn and Mr. Long feel the appropria- tion will be approved with minor, if any changes. 2 Mr. Long noted that Engineer Coburn, who is also in charge of federal grant applications, is now reviewing plans and specifi- cations for Kings Mountain, which call for doubling capacity of the McGill treatment plant, construction of a two-million daily capacity treatment plant to serve the western portion of the city, and the laying of mains and lines to provide the city a maxi- mum capacity of eight million gallons of effluent per day. The citizens voted on March 15 by 42 to 1 approval of issuing $1,300,000 in bonds for the pur- pose — expected to cover full cost of the project. Mayor Moss commented, “The commissioners and I are very highly pleased that Kings Moun- tain was included in the current- year program. As Mr. Long in- formed the commission shortly after the application had been filed, Kings Mountain's major difficulty in the point count was the city’s excellent fiscal posi-. tion. At June 30, the city had a surplus of $257,000,and it bond- ed indebtedness had been re- luced to $439,000. On basis of need, Kings Mountain was down- on points awarded for this factor.” NAMES OMITTED In a news story last week, The Herald inadvertently omit- ted the names of two Kings Mountain servicemen, Pvt. Billy Owens and Pvt. Ralph Junior Whetstine, both of whom died in the Korean War and were reported missing In action in 1950, According to Herald files, eight arca men were listed ori army casualty lists in the Korean War. « 1966-1967 School Schedule Adopted The Kings Mountain district schools will open August 22, with pupils to attend for ori- entation (a half-day schedule) on August 24. Remainder of the 1966-67 school term schedule adopted by the board of education Monday follows: August 25 — First full- schedule day. September 5 — Labor Day holiday. September 30 — ing holiday. A 24.25 — Thanks.’ giving holidays. December 21 thru January 2 — Christmas holidays. March 23-29 — Easter days (proviso: up to three days to be used if necessary to make up lost time.) = May 29 — Term ends. May 31 — Teachers rom Teacher
