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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21.914
City Limits 8,256
Tho Gte.tt«r Kings Mountcrin figure li dcvfved from the
special United States Bureau of the Census repart o
fanuaiy 1966, and includes the 14.990 population o
Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 fron
Number 5 Township, in Cievelond County and Crowder*
Mountain Township in Gaston County.
VOL 80 No. 8
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EIGHTH GRADER WINS ART PRIZE—Eddie Lee is photographed
with his prize-winning entry, “A Lump or Two*', which copped
the Geld Key Award, among 200 finalists in the annual Western
North Carolina Scholastic Art Awards contests. The Central
school student also won a certificate of merit for a self portrait.
(Photc by Isaac Alexander).
Eddie Lee,
Grade Eight,
Art Winner
« PM(lk* Loo, Central
hit.'i grasior, iis-reeiploiit o#
"(1 Koy award, amting 200
alists in the annual Scholastic
Art Award contests in Western
North Caioli'ia.
Tho Kings Mounfain winner’s |
pen and ink <h.v.vin,:t is on display'
in North Carolina National Bank
of Cliariottc*. Loo's drawing of a
giant hand dropping a smaM fi:-
ure into a <iip is entitled, “A
Lump or Two.”
Loo’s soofOKl ontry, a pa.'-dol solf
portrait, coppod an honorable
mention award, a cortificato of
merit. Tho portrait is on display
at Cliarlottotown Mall.
Art students from a 11-county
area entered the competition,
said Loo's art instiuotor, Mrs.
Bob Perry, wlio toiohos T.'jO Cen
tral soltooj seventh and eighth
graders art history in dO-minutc'
sessions every four days. Tho
(lass* is rorrolated wita music,
reading ami library. In addition,
some sludcMils devote activity!
p(*riod.s to art. I
OtlK^r Cc'ntral students who (*x ^
hihiti'd drawings in the contest
were Jay Kcancr. Wayne Co'»l\e
and Mark McDaniel. i
Young Le(', son of Mrs. Irene'
Floyd of Kings Mountain, makes,
his home with his aunt and un
cle, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Floyd.
Kings Mountain District Sys
tem is one of 10 school .<yst(?ms,
• the state alloN’d f(*(ieral funds;
der Titl(‘ 111 for an arts and;
luimanities program this year^
and equipment for the program.i
In December 19ti7 the State Board
of Kdueation apiiroved a grant
of $975 to be matehc' l wilh local
funds to provide e(iuipm*'nt and
m-ateri Us to be us(^d in expansion
of the art program at Central
school.
Etiuipmenl on order includes a
kiln, a potters wheel witli electricj
motor, a printmaker press, eon-
struclitm tools, books, slides,
brushes and art reproductions.
“Since this is the first year.
Ih^ arts program has been in op-j
eration, these items could notr
have been provick*d if this grant i
had not been atM>roved”, s-ud:
Donald P.irker, director of Title
Art elasces are held in the old
home econoreios department of
the central plant.
Ftn0ncir»l Firms i
Closed Thursday I
The city’s financial firms wil |
be clo.sed Thursday (today) inob-,
servance of George Washington's
Birthday.
Kings Mountain Postoffice will,
also be clo.sed on tho legal holl-1
day.
Financial firms to be closed in
clude Home Savings & Loan and
« ngs Mountain Savings & Loan
:i'iations. First Union National
nk and First Citizens Bank &j
Tiust Company. I
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Pages
Today
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 22, 1968
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Candidates Are Entering Demoo atic Primary
Norman King
May Make Bid
For County Post
City Commissioner Norman
Xing may seek to change his
itle to County Commissioner,
King.
Comm. King acknowledged
Wednesday he is considering of
fering for a commission scat and
said he would make a decision
n the near future.
The Ward 4 representative on
the city board is serving his third
erm, having been re-elected in
1967 without opposition.
Mr. King is a veteran employ-
3e of Southern Bell Telephone
ind Telegraph Company, initial-
’y in tho service department here
and in Shelby. He has been pro-
mot d to a position as assistant
o the manager of the Gastonia
livision, of which the Kings
Mountain exchange is a member.,
Terms of Commissioners Hii?h
Dover, Coleman Goforth and
Spurgeon Hewitt ar expiring.]
They seek re-election. Challengers
‘o date include Fritz Morehcid
md J. Dock Turner.
Whitener
For Seventh Term
REP. BASIL WHITENER
He Opposes
Rep. Broyhill
In New Tenth
It’s official.
The (xjntest for the United
States House of Representatives
in tho new tenth district pits Rep.
Basil L. Whitener, the Gaston
Democrat, against Rep. James T.
Broyhill, the Caldwell Republi
can.
Mrs. Dixon s Toll-Free
Rites Conducted Phone Service
Is Rejected
Funeral rites for Mrs. Martha
Blanton Dixon, 7.3, widow of
Clarence T. Dixon. Sr., were held
Sunday at 3 p.m. from Second
James T. Broyhill of Lenoir will
make the address at a GOP
Lincoln Day dinner Friday
night at Hotel Charles. Shelby.
Rep. Broyhill
GOP Speaker
Representative James T. Broy
hill of Lenoir and the three Re
publican candidates for nomina
tion to-the U.S. Senate seat now
held by Democrat Sam J. Ervin,
.Ir. of MiU'ganton will be featured
at Friday night's GOP Lincoln
Day Dimi(‘r at 7 p.m. at Hotel!
Charles in Shelby. I
GOP Executive Committee
(.'hairman Ed Henry Smith said!
dinner invitations have been ac-'
cepltxl by Larry Zimmerman of
Durham. Edwin Tenney of Chapel
Hill and Robert Sommers of Sal
isbury.
The principal address will be
made by Rep. Broyhill.
Mr. Smith notes that Friday’s
event will be first Lincoln Day
dinner in the county since 1964
and plans are to make the event
an annual affair.
Re-Zoning Bid
Tabled For Weekj
Action on re-zoning of a 42-]
plus acre tract of mica bearing
properly from residential to hea
vy industrial designation was
fabU'd for a week at Tuesday
night’s special meeting.
The petitioner, Paul Patterson,
agent for the J. Bun Patterson
heirs. ohiect{Hi on behalf of the
les.see, Kings Mountain Mica
Company, when it was learned
the zoning board had recommend-
j (?d re-zoning, but with a 50-foot
buffer z.one bordering the prop
erty.
Mayor John Henry Moss said
the legality of the zoning board
recommendation would l)0 check
ed.
The Patterson heirs, it its peti-
lion, pointed out the property had
been Ieas('d years prior to the
zoning of Kings Mountain’s mile
perimeter' area.
* The board has a regularly
scheduled m(X.'ting on February
27.
Neither have primary opposi
tion to date and the filing dead
line is F’ebruary 22.
The apparent race was indicat-,
ed when the 1967 General Assem
bly. under federal court order,
again re-districted to meet the
test of the Supreme Court’s one-
man-one-vote rule.
Rep. Broyhill formerly announ
ced he would seek his fourth term.
Rep. Whitener was a hard-
running “non*ca.ndidate” until
Monday when he paid his filing
fcf' to the state board of elec
tions. He seeks a seventh tixm.
Rep. Whitener was first assign-
, ed to the house committee on vet-
Cle\eland County telephone orans affairs, now is sixth rank-
Baptist church of which she was ing Democrat on tho District of
a memlwr down the telephone calling pack- columbi-a committee, and 11th
age that would allow a greater -anking Democrat on the judi-
Rev. George Julian, assisted by toll-free calling area, R. B. Moore, cjgry committee.
Rev. James Holder, officiated at looal manager, reports. 1 Before being elected to Con '
the final rites and interment was; p . . ballotc were mailed Whitener had served
in oak Grove .Bapti.st church
•emetery. Cherrvville Grover Kin-JQ Moun- ® Methodist, graduate of
Mrs. Dixon died Friday morn- Lattimore and Lawndale University of South Carolina
‘"f r °">y 20 percent , Duke law school. He is a
pital at Rock Hill, S. C. follow- , . World War II combat navy vet-
mofiths •* ' eran, and retired aiTforce reser-
was a native of Cleveland County, ^ ^ ' ■ ■■
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. ym has been a defender of the
James Crowell Blanton. Her bus- 20 percent of the subscrib- industry against foreign
band died in 194S. ers favored the proposed network, imnorts, authored a crime bill
Surviving are tw'o sons. Edw in abandoning plans for pro- was adopted last year. He
Dixon and C. T. Dixon. Jr., both viding the service for the time twice visited the let Nam
of Kings Mountain; three dauzh- bein^” said Mr. Moore. battle areas,
ters, Mrs. David McDaniel of ^ *
Hendersonville. Mrs. Oland Horn! in Xo. 4 Township a total of
and Mrs. Wesley Kiser, both of telephone patrons were
Kings Mountain; three brothers, polled. Of the 1,773 replies, only mm m
Yates Blanton and Dew'itt Blan- 373 favored the propo.sal. In Gro- Fav rAmtminilOV
ton, both of Kings Mountain, and ver a total of .523 subscribers • Vl VwIllillClllU^I
Paul Blanton of Bessemer City; wore polled, of 266 who replied Bob .Smith, Bruce McDaniel
and one sister. Mrs. Gary Biddix only 54 favored the proposal,
of Biloxi, Mississippi. Also sur !
viving are 11 grandchildren and The expanded service w'ould
14 great-grandchildren. have allowed telephone users in
the five areas of Kings Mountain.
P-TA MEETING Chorryville. Grover, Lattiimore
REP. ROBERT Z. FALLS !
Heart Fund Drive
Is Set For Sunday
Heart .Sunday fur bem'lit ut
the 196S Heart Fund Drive will
be held on .‘Sunday, Chairman
Carl Wilson announces.
Mr. Wilson said the hou.<e*to-
house solicitation will be held
from 2 until 4 p.m. Volunteers,
who will assist him are Mrs. Fred
Wright, Jr.. Mrs. Fred Withers,
Mrs. Dave Delevie. Mrs. Otis
Falls, Jr., Mrs. William Orr. Mrs.
Clyde Mui'phy. Miss P<*ggy Ross.
Mrs. John Bedford, Mrs. John
Henry Moss and members of the
American Ledon Auxiliary and:
Mrs. Roy Smitli.
Heart Sunday is a on(‘-afte!-
noon residential solicitation and
is held annually in February as a
special event near the end of
Heart Month when the N. C. and
American Heart Association con-■
duct an annual campaign. Pro-j
eeeds b<mefil tho Heart Associa-i
tion’s programs in research, pub-'
lie education and community ser
vice. ‘
Goal of the 196S camnaign in
Cleveland County is $16,.5no.
Mr. Wilson, maintenance su
perintendent with Foote Minc-ral
Company, was Heart .<undav
chairman in 1966 and 1967. He
and his wife, Evelvn. ire parents
of one son, Jerry Wilson.
Three Nominated Franklin loins
Mauney Mills
President Dick Shanoy of the j and Lawndale to call each other
Central School Parent-Teacher’s* without a long distance charge.
Association announced that the ' However, the service w’ould have
first PTA meeting of the year increased monthly telephone bills
will be held Thursday, Febru- for each subscriber,
ary 29 at 7:30 in tlfe Central By vote of five to one, sub
School Auditorium. ' scribers rejected the service.
Barrett^ Beam
Roper In Charge
During the interim between the
retirement Saturday of Chief of
Police Paul Sanders and employ
ment of a successor, the city is
following an aiTang(?ment used
during Chiiof Sanders hospitali
zatlon several months ago.
Senior members of, the force
Officers Jack Barrett, William
Roper, and Ernest Beam will be
in charge of each shift and will
report directly to Mayor John
Henry Mosss.
In the absence' of Mayor Moss,
the officers-in-charge will report
to Mayor Pro Tempore W. S. Bid
dix.
Mayor Moss, in reporting the
arrangemeni, did not st)eculate
on date of naming a successor to
Chief .Sanders.
Ho said tho commissioner was
to interview an applicant Wed
nesday night.
Chief Sanders’ salary w’as $6,500
per year.
City. Bessemer City And New Rem
Are Only Tar Heel Clean-Up Winners
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson present ,
ed trophies and awards to win
ners in the 1967 national clean-up. 1
paint-up, fix-up campaign in the
nation’s capitol city Tuesday. |
Among those receiving honor-i
able mention awards were Kings
.Mountain, with Clavon Kelly, co-
chairman of the Kings Mountain!
project, and .Mayor John Henry
Moss accepting the award on be
half of the city.
Only two other North Carolina
cities were honored, neighboring
' Bessemer City, and New Bc'i n re
(’oiving distinguished acliieve-
mont awards. All three are in the
under 25,(X)0 population class. |
Top award winner was Dayton,
Ohio.
Trophy winners in the under!
25,000 population class were Boaz,
Alabama; Seduna, Arizona; Wat-
sMiville, California; Elw(K)d. In
diana; Mountain View, Missouri;
Moriarty. New Mexico; Canfield,
Ohio; Marietta, Ohio; Lennox,
South Dakota; and Bringham City.
Utah.
Other highlights of the nation
al cleanest town conferenc'e were
addre.sses by William K. McCur-
dv*. president of the Sears-Roc^uck
Foundatim, and Htmaid J. Sam
uels, under secretary of com
merce.
Mayor Moss and Mr. Kellv re
turned to Kings Mountain Tue.s-
day afternoon.
Mrs. E. W. Griffin was also co-
chairman of the campaign here.
and Cari Wiesener have been
nominated for commander of
Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri
can Legion, for the coming year.
The names of nominees were
announced bv members of the
Post nominating committee head
ed by Joe McDaniel, Jr., chair
man. Other members of the com-
Jay Powell, Ray
Cline, Gene Gibson, Rhea Bar
ber. Carl F. Wilson, Floyd Dover
and John Gladden.
Nominations will be invited
from the floor for post offices at
the March meeting and at the
April meeting balloting for offi
cers will be held.
Carl V. Wiosner is present com
mander.
Other nominees include:
For first vice-president: Carl
Wilson. W. D. Morrison.
For .second vice-president: J. T I
McGinnis, Jay W. Powell, Johr I
W. Gladden. !
For adjutant and finance of-1
ficer: Joe H. McDaniel. Jr.
For chaplain: Franklin Ware,
Rhea Barber.
For historian: David Delevie.
For sergeant-at-arms: Jake;
Bridges, Foley Cobb..
For assistant sergeant-at-arms:
Robert Wright, Earl Stroupe, Jr.
For service officer: Gene Stef-,
'fy-
For members of the executive,
committee: Ray Cline, Randy'
Carpenter, Sewell Laughridgo,;
Charles McCarter, Clinton Jolly, j
Dick McGinnis. I
Mr. Cheshire's
Brother Passes
J. Rucker Cheshire, S3, of
Leaksville-Spray. died last week
and funeral rites were held from
Leaksville-Spray Funeral Home,
interment following in the fam
ily plot of the city cemetery.
Mr. Cheshire was brother of
Colonel John Allyn Cheshire of
Kings Mountain and uncle of
John A. Cheshire, Jr. of Kings,
Mountain. The Cheshire tamilyi
attended the funeral rites and
John A. Cheshire, Jr. w*as a pall
bearer.
Other survivors include a fos
ter daughter and a sister. Mrs.
Hattie Shough, of Leaksville-
Spray.
R. G. Franklin, former primi
pal of Central Junior high school
and Bethware school, has joined
Mauney Hosiery Mills, Inc. as
purchasing agent.
Mr. Franklin has assumc’d his'
new duties, according to an
nouncement by Charles F. Mau-
nev, general manager.
Mr. Franklin had been an (‘m-
ployeo of the Kinjs Mountain
district schools for eight years.
Osborne Auditor
For Gaston ABC
Robert B. Osborne, former King<
Mountain t itizen, is chief auditor
for the Gastonia Alcoholic Control
board.
Mr. Osborne is former manager
of Western Union offices here, in
Albemarle and in (jastonia.
Kermit F. Hill, general man
ager, announced Wednesday
opening of tho second liquor
store in the system in Dixie Vil
lage. which will al.so house gen
oral offices and warehou.se.
Commission
Incumbents.
Turner Enter
By MARTIN HARMON
Cuntu.sts fur Democratic nomi-
nation.s for ((iiinty (.‘ommissioner
and .--itale repje.'cniativc from the
tIire(*-county ^.3i’d district do\elop-
(‘d this W(‘(‘k.
11 Representative Robert Z.
Kails filed fur Seat Number 2.
als) .sought hy Shelby Alderman
Lester Roark.
21 ('ounty ('(‘mmission ('hair-
man W. Hugh Dover announced
and ('ommIssioncTS Coleman Go
forth and Spurg(»on Hewitt filed
for re-eI(‘clion. while J. D(K*k
Turn(‘r. a ('asar area surveyor,
joined Fritz. Mureh(‘ad as a chal
leng(*r for the c<mimis^ion.
3' Halt)h Tucker, register of
deeds. fil(*d lor n'-eleeiion.
No Ih'publicans have fih'd for
county offic(‘s.
Rep. W. K. Mauney. Jr., of Kings
Mountain. se(*ks Seat Number 1.
while newcomer Robert JontN, a
F^’osl C'ity lawy(*r. .seeks Seat
N'umb(*r 3.
Rep. Kalis, in filing for a third
term, said:
"It has b(‘en a pri\ iloge and
plea'jure to reT>n“-'ent the people
of Cleveland County in the 1965
Session: and Clevcdand, Rulh<*r-
ford and Polk eounlies. compris
ing the 13rd Di.striet. in the 1967
Session of lh(' General Assembly.
I would lik(' to continue to repre
sent < ur people in the 43rd Dis
trict in the 1969 Se.ssion as a mem
ber of the Nortii Carolina House
of Repn\sentatives. In the past
two se.ssions, I hav(* tried to r(‘p
re.senl the people of my County.
District and State; and I fee! that
wilh tlu‘ experience and seniority
that I have gained. I can now be
of greater service to cur people.”
Chairman Dover is the dean of
the Cleveland board, having first
been elected is 1960. Th(? WOHS
radio announcer pk'dged to seek a
workable arrangement with (dties
of Shelby and King.s Mountain for
development of a county • wide
water system, continued support
L>r ri'gional development, sup
port for county wide zoning, and
continu(*(i support of volunteer
service organizations like fire
fighting and life-saving groups
and the t‘ounty human relations
council.
Mr. Do\er. 47. is married to tho
former Minnie Sue Hayn('s. of
Cliffsidt*. They have two daught
ers.
Comm. Goforth is completing
his first four-year term on the
commission. He pledgcxi a go-
easy p( licy on sptmding with low
est tax rate possible*. He also
pr(;mis('d support for “piopex
planning” as the most ini'xpen-
siv(' means of achi('ving county
goals. He romised continued sup
port for efficient law enh^n’c
ment. volunte(*r service organiza
tions. and in\eslm(*nt of surplus
funds in shortterm, interest-
bearing obligatitms.
-Mrs. Goforth is the* former Vk*r-
ri(*ll B(’am. They have a girl and
.son. Mr. Goforth is a World War
II veteran of South Pacific* serv
ice*. a dairy farmer of the Stone*y
Point community, and member of
the Elk and MotJse* lodge*s. the
American Legion. Farm Bureau,
and Beulah Methodist church.
C'omm. Hewitt. foun(l(*r of Ce
dar Park, joine'd Mr. (lOforth in
supiiorl ef sound planning for
county projects and also pledged
C<n}fi)iur(l Ott Patfc 8
Nine Democrats Seeking Judgeships;
Eight Lawyers, Layman Are In Race
With filing deadline Friday,
politics picke'd up steam this
week in the 27th District Judge
ship race.
A total of nine candid.ttes
three of whom announced this
week seek five seats to be lille*d
in the May Domocratie primary.
Kings Mountain and (Cleveland
County Recorder's Court, alon^
wifh eight others in C]ev<*land
C4ast.on and Lincoln Countie's, wil
be abolished under Noi tli Caro ,
lina’s new court system effective
Dec. 2. A district court with five
judges will be'gin operation of all
lower courts, recorder’s, dome'stie
and municipal, in the 27th dis i
trict.
William (Bill) Mason. Be*lmon ;
lawyer and judge of Belmont re*
corde'r's court, announced his
candidacy in Kings Mountaii
Tuesday. A graduate of Kings;
Mountain high school. Ma.son was:
('enter and captain of the* KMHS
football loam which lied Ashe
ville in 1926 for the WNC ('h.im-
pionship. His late father was J.
C. Mason, president of Old Mason
Mill and a onetime city alderman.
U'hile a freshman at Davidson in
192S, Ills family move*d to Bel
mont. A graduate of Davidson
colle*ge and Duke University Law
.'^iheiol, he is a Kiwanian, a for
mer Kiwanis lieutenant governor,
an elder in Belmont's First Pi-es-
hyteriari church and vice-presi
dent of Belmont Chamber of
Commerce. Mrs. Mason is the
former Celeste Hall.
John R. Auton, Jr., employee,
of ('rossland Construction Com-;
pany of Charlotte* and a resident
(if the (\ifawba lle'ights se*('tion
of Mount Holly, paid liis filing,
fee* Tuesday, as did Willi.tm J.
Allran, Jr. of Cherryville. Judge
Allian is cunvntly serving as
judge of the Gaston County D(’m-'
estic Re'lations and Juvenile
Court, a post he has held since
19.53.
Othe'r ('andidate's previously
announce'd include* Recorder’s
Court Judge Joe Mull of Slu'lhy;
Jo!in Friday (>f Lincolnton; L«*wjs
Bulwinkle* of (kistonia; Osi'ar
Mason of Gastonia; William Hol
land, of Dallas; and Ralph Phil
lips of Gastonia. All are lawyers.
i
HUGH DOVER
COLEMAN W. GOFORTH
SPURGEON HEWITT
Local News
Bulletins
LIONS CLUB
Regular meeting of the Kings
Mountain Lions club will be
held Tue*sday night at 7 p.m.
at the Woman’s club. Lion
Bob Haden is program chair
man.
METHODIST TOPIC
Rev. D. B. Alderman v^ill use
the se'rmon topic, "Rocking On
The Natural VV'aves” at Sunday
morning worship service’s at 11
o’clock at Central Methodist
church.
MEN OF CHURCH
Central Methodist Men will
have a breakfast meeting Sun
day morning at 7:45 in the fel
lowship hall of the church.
Ham and eggs and hot bise'uits
are the menu. Members should
contact the church office for
reservations.
ANNUAL MEETING
Annual meeting of the CHene-
land County Cattlemen’s Asso
ciation will be held Friday
night at 7 p.m. in the county
office building. Over 150 cat
tlemen are expected to attend.
LUTHERAN TOPIC
Rev. Charles Easley’s sermon
topic Sunday morning at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran church will
lx*. “ThirteH'n Men Looked Des
tiny In The Face.”
MASONS TO MEET
Regular communication of
Fairvievv Lodge 339 AF&AM
will he held Monday night at
7:3(^ at Masonic Hall for work
in the first degrev. announcc*s
Se(*iefarv T. D. Tindall.
FALSE ALARM
Kirt'men b und no fire when
answering an alarm at 409
('he'-itnul stre'ct Tue'sday night
at 7:.5(). The firemen extinguish- *
ed two grass fires MoneJayi
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