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Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 8, 1966
Seventy-Seventh Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
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Local News
Bulletins
DANCE CLASS
Registration for the fall
terra of Colvin School of Dance
will be held Friday from 2 un
til 5 p.m. at Kings Mountain
National Guard Armory. Class
es will be available in tap,
ballet and baton. Mrs. David
Colvin and Miss Jane Chronis-
ter will be instructors.
HOSPITALIZED
Thomas Humphries, Dixon
community farmer, is a patient
I in Kings Mountain hospital
where he Is receiving treat
ment for leg ailments.
KIWANIS CLUB
Don W. Blanton will give
highlights of his trip to the
Kiwanis national convention
at Thursday’s Kiwanis club
meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the
Woman’s felub.
ME’TER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday
totaled $206.65, including
$125B0 from on-street meters,
$59.25 from over-parking fines
and $21.60 from off-street
meters.
BUILDING PERMIT
Franklin L, Ware, Jr., has
purchased a ^ty building per-
tnlt for a one-ifoom addition to
his Residence at B15 West
a min. Elstimated cost is
ROSPITAUZEO
J .Percy F. Dilling underwent
' an ^ emergency operation - last
Wednesday at Kings Mouptain
hospital and is "doing well,’'
his daughter, Miss Annie Dill
ing, said this week.
IMPROVING
Mrs. Jim Smith, who under
went surgery Tuesday at Kings
Mountain Hospital was im
proving nicely Wednesday, lier
husband said.
PRESBYTERIAN
Dr. Paul Ausifey’s sermon
topic Sunday morning at the
11 o’clock worship service at
First Presbyterian church will
be, “Price of Marriage.’’ The
service will be broadcast via
Radio Station WKMT.
CUB SCOUTS
An orgajiizational meeting
of parents interested in en
rolling their children in a Cub
Scout troop will be held Thurs
day (tonight) at 7:30 at First
Presbyterian church fellowship
hall. For further information,
contact the church' office or
Mrs. Sam Robinson, 739-3951.
Mn. Cheshire
Saccumhs; Bites
Thursday at 4
Mrs. Angellque R be Cheshi:i
4, wife o; John AUyn C.hesluri
ir., died Wednesday afternooi
it 2 o’clock at Kings Mountain
lospitad.
Funeral rites will be heir’
Thursday afternoon at 4 o’cloo.
tram the Chapel of Harris Fun
era! Home
Rev. Charles Ea-sley, oasror 'of
3t. Matthew’s Lutheran church
will officiate at the final rites
and interment will be in Moi;n
aln Rest cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Dan
Finger, (3rady Howard, George
H. Mauney, W. S. Fulton, Jr.,
Glee Edwift Bridi^es and S. R.
Suber, Jr.
Mrs. Cheshire was recovering,
apparently satisfactorily frciT' a
major operation, until she suffer-
^ a stroke of paralysis August
30 : ■
She was a native of Fr.ince.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by a son, John .\U7n
Cheshire, Jr.; a daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Cheshire, Jr.; six grandchil
dren; and a sister, Mrs. Anna
Reiter of Germany.
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MISS BETHWARE PAIRSoilodi Edtth ir<^ad>flght dMitfhtpc'of
Mr. and Mnl Mptn HcdnMghtiDf Rfngt. wiR xflgp dk ^
Queen .of the liBB BethweM P«tr srhfaai iiWM WeaReederT;iot \
a leur-ddf ru^. A' acfdttr iftgBtaiirs jwhMjL
Rombrlitrlit woh eele«M iy the -
sponsors thll th* fMi -—hiiiiMl dffjM'^uiRtTinr I
opens at 4 pun. WednswAnr %«eipRda of Rh^eraie oAdoL-
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Plonk's Condition
Sedd Much Better
'The condition of C. S. Plonk,
Sr, well-known Kings Mountain
citizen, is “much better’’, his wife
said Wednesday.
Mr, Plonk, prominent farmer,
had uhdergonc an emergency op
eration for removal of his gall
bladder at Kings Mountain hos
pital a week ago Saturday. He
developed pneumonia and his
condition worsened last week.
Mrs. Plonk said Mr. Plonk was
able to “t|e up some’’ yesterday.
Tax Prepayments
Total $57,097
Prepayments of 1966 city tax
bills totaled $57,097 Wednesday,
approximately 31 percent of the
e^mated levy of $186,902.
' City ’Treasurer Joe H. McDan
iel, Jr., noted prepayments were
slightly Iss than normally, as
two of the largest tax-payment
textile firms elected not to earn
the discount He guessed that the
tight money situation might be a
factor, the firms taking the posi
tion their tax funds would earn/
oame more elsewhere.
He noted that the estimated
levy Is not final, pending receipt
of utility valuations from the
state board of corporate excess.
Other missing figures, he added,
arc failure of the county thus far
to obtain Inventory figures from
some fiimriB and to review for as
sessment personal property val
uations for the few citizens who
elected to itemize values rather
than use the ten percent of rsi-
dencs rule.
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19th Annual Fair
To Featnxe Rides
And Exhibits
It’s fair time again in the
Kings Mountain area and Wed
nesday marks the opening of the
19th annual Bethware Communi
ty Fair.
Fair exhibitors were readying
(heir entries this week to vie for
cash prizes again being offered
for good farm products and in
ether events.
President Mcarl Seism said
that this year’s exhibitors should
exceed last year’s and the 1966
edition of the fair reflects the
changes and improvements in
the area’s ever t advancing agri
cultural, commercial and indus
trial fields.
’The fair will open at 4 p.m.
Wednesday on the grounds of
Bethware school. Games and
contests for children will feature
opening day attractions. ’There
will be nightly fireworks dis
plays.
Judging of all exhibits will be
completed on next Thursday, said
Seism. Children’s Day is also
September I5th with midway
rides and attractions to feature
reduced prices from 1 to 6 p.m.
The Fair will open at 3 p.m.
September 16th and at 1 p.m. the
at midnight.
There is no admission charge
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Annivanory drb
To demote Evont
’This year's Battle of Kings
Mountain anniversary celebra-,
tion will not only featlure the
emblem of the historic Moun
taineer of yesteryear iri buck
skins, with coonskin cap, long
rifle and powder horn.
Mayor John Henry Moss,
chairman of the event, said
Wednesday eight youxiiz- ladies
will be tapped as "Anniversary
Girls’’ and will be suitably cos-
turned to delineate the story of
Kings Mountain and to pro
mote the celebration.
Mrs. Womack's
Btes Condnetod
Ftineral rites for Mrs. Edith
Hoover • Womack, 74, were held
Saturday at 4 p.m. ‘from Kings
It^ntain Baptist church of
w^ilch sbe. wae « member,
airs. Wom«<*, widoWofYIeqrge
Miiiiwdc, died Ibnrscll^'lif the
ahlrt Mountain hospital fdllow-
IngHllness of two days.
Daughter of the krte Mr. and
Mrs. WiUiam Hoover, Mrs. Wo-
maidc was educated at Claito-
motnt coMege and taught school
tor m nUte^Nn* of years In Lincoln
County. Since her hiusband’s
death in 1954 .she had lived here
with a daughter, Mrs. Hilliard
Black .and family, 517 Rhodes
Avenue. She was a Sunday
School teacher and active in
King* Mountain Baptist church.
Sui^vlng ate two sons, George
Womack, Jr. of Jacksonville. Fla-
ahd Kenneth Womack of Savan
nah, Ga.; and four daughters.
Mrs. Black, Mrs. Grady McCar
ter, both of Kings Mountain,
Mrs. Robert Hoyle of Chester, S.
C. and Mrs David Kiailer bt
Ldncxilnlon. Also surviving are 1.5
grandchildren and 13 great
grandchildren.
Rev. James Wilder and Rev.
Howard Jordan officiated at the
fimd rites, and interment was in
Mountain Rest cemetery.
KMHS Stndents
Heax Joe Vale
“Anyone creative, ambitious
and enthusiastic can get a job
and aces’’, Joe Vale, execu-
tlvo director of the Kings Moun
tain Industrial Association, told
KMHS sophomore home eoonom
ic students Wednesday.
Mr. Vale spoke to two classes
of studMits at Kings Mountain
high school.
Elaborating on Jx>b opportuni
ties at home for young people,
Mr. Vale encouraged young wom
en not going to college to pursue
a career in Kings Mountain.
He said the Kings Mountain
MENTAL HEALTH BOOK PRESENTATION^ — School officials are pictured above .accepting a set
of mental health encyclopedias, gift to the Kings Mountain high school library from Cleveland
0>unty Mental Health Association. W. K. Mouney. Jr., Kings Mountain member of the Mental
Health Associertion board of directors, makes the presentation to Mrs. Wilson Griffin. KMHS li
brarian, as KMHS Principal Glenn Brookshire, from left, ard Schools Supt. B. N. Barnes look on.
All five high schools in the county are being given the set of six books with the fiwt presentaUon
made here Friday morning. Mr, Mouney said the new books are intended to acquaint the stu
dents, as well as the community, with the importance of mental health and the fact that such
o center is located in Shelby and available to lo«il people. "Many things cause mental disor-
l^rs," Mauney continued, “and these books disou*8 the subjects at lehgth." (Photo for the
Herald by Pau) Lemmons). < ' '
Sing Out Dixie Group Billeci;
Celebration Manc^er Named
Industrial Association through
final day, on Saturday, closing^ federal government funds is pro-
lading training for some 150 peo
ple now in the Kings MOimtaih
area.
Qty Powell fall Check $41,1CT,
$20^ Gain Over Pievioiis Year
Kings Mountain’s ahare of t||»
Powell Fund rebate of gamltile
tax -to qualified muni^p^ifiea III*
creased this year by $30TC.
The 1966 payment will be ^
record $41,168 compared to laai
year’s $39/)96.
The fund accrues from ene*
half cent of the sixfcenta state
per gallon tax on gasoUde, aWch
during fiscal 1965-86 returned
lor the rebate a record $9,323,714.
A total of 420 citlea end towne
qualified, compared to 4432 Uje
previous.
of tbe total MIbbiM (p
divided xm basis of 1960 popula
tion, this increment being $3,4348
per capita, and hall based on
ed streets, this iifscetnent being
$504.7856 per mile--Kings Moun-
relative nUIeage <n ‘dty-maintain-
tein earned $19,-I9T.99 on popula-
Uon. $21,67045 for street miles
maintained.
Grover’s share $3796, Wa
co’s $1,960. Bot^ Springs’
$6998, LattlmerV's $J615; Laywi-
daje’a $433$. , , . . , ,
Oiecks Wat Npeii treasur
ers by Ootobft,. Jtiglmay Ooin*
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ASC Balloting
Deadlifle Friday
Ballots for township commit
teemen for the Cleveland County
Agriculture and Stabilization
committee to be counted must be
returned via mail, postmarked
not later than Friday.
In Number 4 Township, farm
ers will choose five of nine nomi
nees, with the nolmlnee receiving
highest number of votes to be
chairman, second high vice-chair
man, third regular member, and
fourth and fifth altemate-s'
Nominees in Number 4 ’Town
ship are Roy Bell, W. V. Dellin-
iger, Hugh Falls, Ben Hamrick.
Tdm Hamrick, J. Nevette Hughes
Edwih Moore, H. O. (Toby) Wil
liams' and Stowe Wright,
TTie chaiiim'an, vice-chairman
and regular member will be dele
gates to the county convention.
Barbecue Tickets
Are Now On Sale
Advance ticket sales to the an
nual Jaycee barbecue are under
way, according to Jaycee Presi
dent Herman Greene.
'The barbecue sale is conduct
ed each year as a feature of an
nual Mountaineer Days in^ Octo
ber.
Plates are $1 each, and tlic
civic club is advertising tliai
merobein will deliver the barbe
cue.
The civic cluh will give away
via A jirlze drawing a used car
during the celebration, said
Greane.
Jonas Bridges
Events Chaiiman
For Gelebiation
Harry Reeder, of Charlotte,
assumed the duties Tuesday of
gcnral managr of the 186th an-
nivrsary celebration of the Bat
tle of Kings Mountain.
Mr. Reeder fills the 1965 cele
bration role of Joe Vale, now
executive secretary of the Indus
trial Association of Kings Moun
tain, Inc.
Meantime, Mayor John Henry
Moss, ex officio chairman, an
nounced that Jonas Bridges,
i.ranagor of Radio Station
WK.MT and president of Kings
Mountain Chamber of Commerce,
will serve as events chairman.
Mr. Reeilor is general manager
of the Rock Hill, S. C., baseball
team in the Western Carolinas
League, of which Mayor Moss is
president.
He is a Charlotte native and
was a star tackle at Harding
high school, playing on the North
Cafrolina Shrine Bowl team of
1948,
He was a professional baseball
umpire from 1960-65, spending
the 1960 and 1961 in the Westcni
Clarolinas, the 1962 season in the
South Atlantic league, and the
1963-61-65 sea.sons In the South
ern Association.
He is married and the father
of four children. He is a mex-
ber of Charlotte's First Christian
Missionary Alliance church.
EVENTS CHAIRMAN — Jonas
Bridges will serve as events
chairman for the upcoming
celebration of the anniversary
of the Battle of Kings Moun*
tain.
Garrison: No News
On US 74 By-P«ss
W. B. GaiTison. district high
way corrimissibnevrssiTl Wed-
nesd'ay he had no news con
cerning the U. S. 74 h.v-pass
through Kings Mountain.
He added, howevei’. that a
slowdown in federal aid ’unds
is slowing numerous projects.
He also added tiiat he c.\)ject
ed to attend a meeting in R.a-
ligh Monday of the federal aid
schedule committee, witicli pre
cedes a Tuesday eommi.ssion
tmeeting.
Youth Singers
To Sing Heie;
Hasty Manager
A two-hour concert by the 12-0-
voice Sing Out Dixie ’66 organi
zation of youthful musicians will
be a feature highlight of the
186th anniversary celebration of
the Battle of Kings Mountain.
The Charlotte - based group,
which attracts youthful voices
from a wide area, will present an
all-patriotic program at City
Stadium, beginning at 8:30 p.m.
on October 7, eve of the celebra
tion parade and grand finale.
Manager of the Sing Out Dixie
group is Tom Hasty, of Char
lotte, is a nephew of Miss Annie
Roberts and Eugene Roberts, all
of Kings Mountain.
The group makes appearances
thr,:ughout the nation and has
received wide acclaim for its per
formances.
Chairman Jonas Bridges, of
the events coirmittee, said Wed
nesday a full week’s special en
tertainment events is being map
ped, adding he would have an
nouncements within the- next
few days?'
J. Lee Roberts, chairman of
Mountaineer Days emblem sales,
.said Wednesday, "Sales' are
good ’’
Five persons, ran.ging in age
from 12 to 55, arc competing forj
top individual salesman awards, j
and i2 organizations are compet* |
ing- for the group awards. First, |
second, and third prizes o-f $50
Continued On Page 8
Neighborhood Facility, Long-Range
Planning On Tuesday City Agenda
IN HORRITAL
Getvge W. Rellqrs was ad
mitted tq Kings Maintain hos-
pitnl 9aTiday |or obswotion
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A busy agenda is scheduled for
city commission consideration at
the regular Septel.-niber meeting
at City Hall courtroom Tuesday'
night at 6:30. .
Mayor John Henry Moss said
he would outline a neighborhood
facility project and ask approval
of the compiission for filing an
application with the Department
of Housing and Urban Develop
ment. The facility, for recrea
tion and numerous other pur
poses, was outlined in the recent
ly approved workable plan for
coniuiunity .developn^L
'v.
Gary Hicks, of the community
planning division, state Depart
ment of Conservati.jn and De
velopment, will moot with tlic
commission and discus.s long-
I'ange plans for city capital im
provements
Plans and specifications for a
two-million gallon water storage
tank will be presented with re
quest for authorization to adver
tise for bids. *
Another major agenda item
will be further discussion of bus
iness-district trash-garbage col
lection.
Temporary Ordei
Permts Pupils ~
To Enioll Here
By MARTIN HARMON
East Kings Mountain citizens
and property owners who desire
annexation into the Kings Moun
tain school district will meet at
City Hall at 7 o’clock Thursday
night to determine geographical
boundaries to be included in the
petition.
Roy Lynn, chain ran of th 16
family group of citizens success
ful Friday in ob'aining admis
sion of their children to Kings
Mountain district schools via
teraporary Superior Court order,
announced the meeting and urg
ed that all interested in the Eapt
Kings Mountain area attend.
He pointed out, “Prevrausly,
the only citizens directly involv
ed w'ere the parents of children,
formerly attendin.g Kings Moun
tain schools who were now being
required to attend Gaston Coun
ty schools."
He added. “(Dur plan is to pe
tition the Gastan board of elec
tions for an election to -deter
mine what property owners in
the area wish their properties in
the Kings Mountain school dis
trict ’’
Mr. Lynn said he has learned
that some York Road citizens
wish to be included in the Kings
Mountain district Since the area
is not contiguous nor adjacent to
the East Kings Mountain sec-
tioin, a-separate petition would
be required. These citizens will
be welcome at the 'Hiursday
ni.ght meeting, he continued, to
learn what .they might aboyt le
gal procedures inverfved.
Air. Lynn -said he and ...Jhe 16
faimilies are “highly elated’’ at
the favorable decision given on
Friday by Judge G. L. Houk.
“It was a community project,’’
he continued. “We had the full
cooperation of the 16 families
effected, the Kings Mountain
Bo'ard of Education, ' Senator
Jack White, Senate candidate
Marshall Rauch, RepresentaUve
candidate W. K. Mauney, Jr, and
the press.”
Judge Houk considered the pe
tition of the East King:s“Moun-
tain citizens in chambers, ques
tioning Hunter Huss, Gaston
county superintendent of schools,
George H. Mauney, chairman of
the Kings Mountain board of ed
ucation, and John R. Rankin,
chairman of the Gaston board of
education. Only others present
were attorneys, Henry M. White-
sides, for plaintiffs, and Smith &
Ga.ston, for defendants.
Some 25 parents, as well as
Mrs. Lena W. McGill, Kings
Mountain school trustee, were, in
the courtroom when Judge Houk
gave his decision.
Under a North Carolina statute
adopted in 195.5, pupils are not
permitted to cross district lines
without 1) written releases from
ilie boards of the districts ttejr
would normally attend, and 2)
written statements of intent by
admitting boards.
A dilemma of the East Kings
Mountain residents was that they
reside within the city limits of
Kings Mountain, but not within
the Kings Mountain school
board, apparently, though living
within walking distance of Ea.st
school, were going to see their
children transported by bus to
schools several miles distant.
Mrs. Rogers'..
Rites Condacted
Mrs. Martin Luther Rogers, 79,
of Albemarle, a Kings- Mountain
citizen in the early twenties, dic'd
suddenly Saturday afternoon at
a Concord nursing home, whore
she had been a patient for sev
eral weeks.
Mr. Rogers was superintendent
of the Dilling Mills, now Phenix
plant of Burlington Industries, in
1922-23. The Rogers family resid
ed on North Piedmont avenue.
The former Miss Carrie Moody,
Mrs. Rogers was the daughter of
Funeral rites for D.-G. Kelly, *ke late Luke M. Moody and
Sr., 83, of Winston Salem, father 1 ^^argaret Ellen Hatley Moody of
of Mrs. Jacob P. Mauney of Kings i Stanly County. She was one of
Mountain, will be held Thursday Albemaile’s best known women
norning at 11 o’clock from the ^f^d a member of one of the
families.
Mis. Maaney's
Father Passes
Chapel of Vogler’s Funeral Home
in Winston Salem.
Mr. Kelly died Tuesday of can
cer. For a number of years prior
to his retirement he was asso
ciated with the City of Winston
Salem. He was a Mason, Shriner,
and active in Trinity Moravian
church.
Other survivors include a
daughter, a son, and five grand
children.
county’s oldest
A faithful member of First
Baptist Church, shej took an ac
tive part in her ^nday school
and in the Woman’s Missionary
Union as long as her health per
mitted.
She was married 59 years ago
to Martin Luther Rogers, who
was general superintendent of
American and Efird Mills la Al*
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