Population Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,256 The Greater Kings Mountoin figure Is deeleed frem tbn speciol United States Bureau •! the Census report o Jonuary 1966. ond tneludes the 14,BM pepukatlen • Kumber 4 Tewiuhip. and the remaining S.UI Iron Number $ Township, in Cleveland County and Crowder* Mountain Tewnebip in Oosten County. VOL 80 No. 11 18 Pages Today Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursd'ay, March 14, 1968 Seventy-Eignth Year PRICE TEN cent; KMHS To Play Kannapolis For Championship Sewage System Construction Starts E. E. Godwin City Re-contracts M ■ ■ V ■ ^ Supenntendent *\Vith Duke Power Tate, Griifin Planning Group Re-Appointees Tlio city renewed for one year its contract with Duke Power ('ompany for purchase of power; lor re-pale. . , Ratos are the same as under; tli(‘ expired contract. ! The contract is renewable, pro vided that both the City and' Duke may terminate the contract on GO days written notice before llie contract expires. Mayor John Henry Moss re ported the new contract calls for city use of up to 7200 kilowatts, ajjainst the city’s recent consump tion of 6200-6400 kilowatts. He told the city commission Dukei is making changes at its sub-i station to provide 8,000 kilowatts. Ror the billing period ending January 23, City Clerks Joe Mc Daniel, Jr. reported, the city pdid* Duke $2,996 for 3.231,360 kilo watt hours of electricity. Aver age cost per kilowatt hour was f ghtly over .6 cent. In other actions Tuesday night, e board: 1) Passed two budget amend- mc'nt ordinances, the two trans- ff'iring a total of $50,000 from the general fund to the water and sewer fund. The money will hi* uscxl for pureha.se of right-of- way for the sewer and or water projects. 2) Awarded contract for pur- cliase of a tag-along tra;^'"* to Kerree Trailer Company, Climax, N. C.. on low bid of $2625 f.o.b. Western Carolina Trailer Com pany. Charlotte, bid $3100. 3' Confirmed reappointment for three-year terms of Thomas, A. Tate and Wilson Griffin to' the Kings Mountain planning' b«iard. 1 \) Authorized Kings Mountain Radio Club to establish a moni-, tfning station in the basement of City Hall. Lawrence Adams,, spokesman for the group of am-^ aieur operators present, said thoj monitor would be manned from! 6 p.m. ’til midnight. ^ Revised School Calendar Adopted A revised school calendar has been set by the board of edu cation: April 12-15, Spring Vacation. rs. West P-TA Sets NO ADVANCE SALE There will be no advance sale for the Western North Carolina High School Activities associa tion championship double-head er at the Kannapolis liigh school gym Thursday night. Kannapolis officials report. Tickets will be sold, first come, first served, with only 2.5(X) available. The girls' opener be- Iweun Chase..^aul. Concord, be gins at 7 o’clock. Kings Moun tain and Kannapolis lock horns at S:.30. goals in the fir-^t period of plav. PS the To'-nadoes iumpe'. Steve Soenc(‘r, Koti Mitchem, and George Adams ah scored. Adams came to life in the sec ond quarter as he pumped in 14 vital points. The (V5" senior score ! all but five eif the Mf>un- (CtnifinKCd 0» P>i Sena'»nr W. Kerr Scott. An N. C. State University clas.smate of Bob Scott. Pionk, also a dairy farmer, had contin ued in the role of leading Scott m ■ _ supporter for The governor's chair lA|a|ft VIlAUf until late October when he learn-' “ wnww* ed Scott had other plans. West school P-TA will sponsor Candidate Broughton, son of a talent show Fiiday, March 22. the late Governor-Senator J. Mel-'at 7:30 p.m. at North school au ville Broughton, Sr., the state’s ditorium with proceeds to be World War II governor (1941- used to purchase a typewriter 45), made an “agriculture-indus- with primary size type for the try" address in which he 1) pro- school. mised to form a task force to A spokesman for tlie P-TA • help save the family farm from group said the talent event will Uf<‘. Reece Dale Bowens, 20- extinction and 2) extra emphasis replace the regularly-scheduled year-old Grover serviceman, was i on vocational education through March P-TA meeting and parents, kUh’d in Thailand March Nth, his ! vocational schools and communi- are urged to encourage i ty colie res to provide persons youngsters to perform by sing : with skills for incoming industry! ing, dancing or reciting. The and to prevent the migration of i committee has riiKHl out panto TOP SCORER—C^orge Adams is the top scorer for the high school Mountaineers who tangle Thursday night with Kannopolis for the Wi'iCHSA/'. Ciiamp;on> ship. Cline, Cabiness Seek Re-election New Petition Will Re Required On Linwood School District Plea Mo.ss said! unskilled Tar Heels elsewhere. ! mime with records, singing with to p ass another \'ehicle on a Broa.ghton declared the farm’voice recording and acts in poor mouiPain road. ’Fhe shoulder of in a cost-price of farm product 1 taste. Contestants must furnish the road gave way and the ve- squeeze. ; own instruments, costumes and hide operaUd by Bowens over- Broughton said ho'Would favor; accompaniments. The school will terned. Bowens died as a result state aid to small communities in furnish a piano and record play-, of the injuries, water and sewer development,, or. citing the Asheville area as a Two incumbent members of the Cleveland County Board of Education, both Democrats, filed last week for re-election. Thnn? other persons, all Dem ocrats, announced the previous week, bringing the total number in the race at present to five, the same number to be elected. Incumbent Buford Cline paid his filing fee Friday. The 46- year-old dairy farmer of route 1, Bowens was reportedly driving Shelby, presently is serving his military vehicle and attempttKi fourth cons<.*cutive two-vear board Injuries Fatal To Pic. Rowens their parents. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Bowon.s have been notified. A new petition will apparently dSr;;mems -anT^eiunarwhe^e:?--,'0 redrawn by ,he 40-50 families in eastern Kings Moun tain who seek annexation to the applicable, to all customers re siding in this district as soon as possible. This will entail much work and time. We ask your pa tience. We hope to get these out (The above schedule accounts| within the next three months, if for the 8 days lost due to incle- nient weather. If other days should be lost they will be made up on the Saturday folowing the dny lost using the schedule for April 20.) Plonk Heading Seal Campaign Operation Bunny Hop for bene fit of the Kings Mountain Easter Campaign will be conducted on downtown streets March 30th Youngsters dressed as bunnies will conduct the fund-raising street drive here, Kings Moun tain Chairman W. L. .(Bill) Plonk announces. Goal of the campaign March 1 Aju il 14 is $5,000 foe Cleveland County. • Charlie Harry is Grover chair- an of the drive. Chairmen of the women’s division of the drive in No. 4 Township is Mrs. Bob Siringfollow. possible. All refunds will be based on effective date of ap proval March 1.” Issuing the statement wore C. E. Warliek Agency. B. F. Maner Agency, Tom Trott Agency, Ar- Kings Mountain school district This is statement of the group's attorney, Henry Whitesides, of Gastonia, following his appear- i ance before the new interim ! Gaston County Board of Educa- j tion Monday night. 1 The families (about 30 chiUhen who have been attending local schools the past two years via The request w'as tabled, after considerable discussion, for con sideration at a later date. Gaston School Board Attorney Willis Smith s^id, “This lequ.'s) is fraught with problems.’’ He said he did not think such a move has ever been made in North Carolina to allow children to cross county lines to attend schools. “I do not know’’, he said, “whether the vote would have to be limited to the families involv ed or would have to be county- thur Hay Agency and Johnj George Agency. i No estimate was made as to the number of refunds, nor pa trons. However, two agents re ferred as the Big-B fire district’s area as "large”. Two Brief Power Cut-Offs Sunday All city power customers will he without power twice on Sun day but the two cut-offs will be of short duration, Electrical Superintendent Hunter Allen har announced. The initial cut-off will be be tween 6 and 6:15 a.m., with the .second one between 1 and 2 p. m The cut-offs will be necessi- tated due to transformer (‘hangc-overs at the Duke Pow er sub-station on North Ga.ston street. court order) want their children wide, to attend local schools because: Smith said in his opinion the of the closeness of those schools, petition submitted was not proft- Legally, they are within the Gas- erly drawn and would have to ll* ton School District. redrawn. Whitesides said the new Gaston Children in the p<‘titioning board was acquainted with "our families have attended Kings problem” Monday night^ Mr. Mountain schools for the past Whitesides said the parents’ peti- two years via court order. The tion originated before the con- families live inside the Kings solidated board came into being. ’ Mountain city limits hut in the He also said there is some ques- part that is inside Gaston Coun- tion the original petition was,ty. The Kings Mountain hoard of drawn correctly with regard toi education accepts children re spelling out the boundaries of the area desiring annexation. This means, said Whitesides, that a true survey of the area involved would need to be made. Parents of 30 out-of-school dis trict pupils through their attor ney Henry Whitesides Monday petitioned the Gaston County leased to the system by other school units. The release must bo in writing. However, the Gaston, County Board of Education has; refused to release them for tho’ past t .VO years. The local board of odu‘'’^ion reiterated its policy in accepti'^g out-of-district pupils at a mrent prime example of the good re sults brought by rural water and service. ' Law To Re Ross Even H Costly “We will abide by the law c\Gn if it takes money out of the citizens’ pockets.” This w'as the reply of Mayor John Henry Moss to a question concerning future city purchas ing policy. He added: "Formal and in formal bids will be received on projcct.s up to the legal maxi mum of $7500. Only formal bids will be asked on projects esti- malcd to cost more than $7,500.” The Mayor was recently un der fire bec’ause eight of 58 street improvements projects during the past three years ex ceeded the legal limit of infor mal bidding. However, it was found the city had been obtaining street Improvements, botji curbini Funeral arrang<‘monts, which Winner of the West sriiool con- are incomplete, will he aniu-unced test will enter the Kiw.anis club by Harris Funeral Home, city-wide talent event in Ai)ril. ' Pfc. Bowens was a member of ' Prizes will be presented the; Comi'any C of the S09th Engin- ' winner from gracles 1-2, from (‘crs Battalion. He was a member j grades 3-4 and from grades 5 6. ot Allen Memorial Baptist church. I Admission is 25 cents for students Resides his fiarents he is sur- fContinued On Page Sir) Continued on Page 6) Snags Mar Annexation Requests; Herndon. Sincox Properties In I By MARTIN HARMON petitioners opposed. I Requests for annexation to the J. .4. Childers said h(' had a ! city limits hit some snags Tues prolilem of ingress-egress to his I day night. residence and reporttKl that the i Result: the city has expanded narnnv entrance street has not ion Edgemont avenue by two pat- been dedicated for a public street, cels of property, the William Were it, ht* added, an addition Herndon residence, and the Dr. he plans woulr. rates, and garbage collection,” he Commissioners T. J. Ellison commented. and O. O. Walker were absent i Two neighbors to live other!due to illness. The Local G«>vernmt'nt Com mission will receive bids at its hut Commissioner Norman offices in Raleigh Tuesday morn ing at 11 o'clock on $1,000,000 sanitary sewer bonds. Mayor John Henry AIoss will b4‘ present for the bid opening. Under terms of the bid invita tion, the lx)nds will <*arry a 25- year amortization, with $10,000 in principal, plus accrued inter ('St. to h(' i>aid eai-h yc'ar. First payment is due during the H)6S-69 fiscal year in semi annual install- namts. As of June 30. 196S, prior bond- «‘d debt ol the citv will have In'ea loduced to $370,000i