Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits 8,256
5‘^!* *• fiMB th«
•P«etai .U^i«d Burvau of tht Caniuo report o
January 1966. and IncJudta the 14.990 pepuloUen o
NumMr 4 Township, and the remainlim 6.134 fron
Nurabor S Township. In Cleveland County and Crowder*
Mountain Township In Gaton County.
VOL 80 No. 18
Kings Mountoin's Beliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain. N, C., Thursday, May 2, 1968
Seventy-Eighth Year
PRICE TEN CENli
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Democrats And GOP To Settle Primary Contests
Welfare Branch Will Be Re-established Here
Democrats Get Two Ballots,
Office ToRe-Openi
luly 1; Board I
Honors Request
> A branch office of the Cleve*!
lanj County Welfare department
will bo restablished here July
Action was taken unanimously'
by the county welfare board i
Tuesday night, following pt»tition!
of a citizens committee headed;
by Mayor John Henry Moss, and*
including Dr. Joe Lee, Carl P.
Finger, J. Ollie Harris and Mar-,
tin Harmon. I
The office will be open four
half-days weekly in quarters at
City Hall.
Mayor Moss stated the case for
reopening the Kings Mountain
branch, emphasizing the act oi:
needcti service and the often in
ability of the elderly -and ill to,
afford or obtain transportation
to the county office building near
the fairgrounds where the wel
fare offices are located. !
The Mit^'or and member's of
the (Udegation were questioned
by Chairman A. L. Warlick con-:
coining a ‘TeaF’ need, based on
a study of two years ago, in,
which it was determined citizens'
of the Kings Mountain area rep-,
resented only ten percent of the
welfare case load.
The delegation replied that the:
study confirmed the point of;
- need for service closer to the i
} * Kings Mountain area clients.
Mr. Harris pointed out that
Kings Mountain accepts one-
fourth of county quotas in char-
Ijtab^e fand-^sin|^,4aJMi..iK^jtCO
^loafg" effed population ana lax
valuation figures which indicate
the Kings Mountain area is one-
fourth of Cleveland county.
Welfare Superintendent H.al
Smith said the Kings Mountain
office was closed five years a^o
duf to administrative diff'culties,
said the office would increase ad
ministrative costs and travel
costs, and reminded his b''''»'d the
department currently is mder-
s»nfffd to the extent of four case
workers.
Mayor Moss declared he felt it
incumbent on elected officials
and administrators to find ways
and means to give service in
spito of obvious difficulties.
Mr. Harris added. “It would he
rhe.-mo** •‘‘or me to be out of the
ambulance service business, but
T feci I must provide the service.”
ITn suggested th'^t eliretnation of
private ambulance service m the
co\mtv would enst the county
p{)\er*'»rtent 1^7^000 ner year.
To Tilden Falls’ obiection that
.1 welfare office bnanch in Kings
Mountain would generate de
mand for branches in other
parts of the county. Mayor Moss
reminded that Kings Mountain
is the (*ounty’s second largest
oitv and served an area repre
senting a quarter of the county.
Board member Mrs. Aubrey
Mauney said she’d opposed clos-
the office and was aware of
Hu' ne<Kl for its re-opening.
The Mayor, in proffering free
quarters at City Hall, said new-j
ost modern quarters will be
available free at the city’s pro-
iceted neighborhood facilities
building which he hoped would
he completed in eight months.
Bill Palmer made the motion
(Continued on Pofje Six)
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RepublicansOneInPrimaries
troop
BOY SCOUTS READY FOR CAMPOREE—Boy Scoat? in Troop 92 were among the more than 400
Cleveland County district Boy Scouts who attended the 1968 Cleveland District Camporee last week
end at the Alex Owens form near Kings Mountain. From left to right in the photograph snapped by
Photographer Isaac Alexander os the boys boarded a truck for camp, front row, Steve Moore. Lar
ry Hamrick. Assistont Scoutmoster Jim Yaxbro. Mike Dyke, Scoutmaster Ken Pruitt, Buddy Oliver,
Don McDevitt Ken Culberson, Mike Baker. Montf Wilson, John McGill and Jim Amos. Standing on
the true, from left. David Hullender.Mike Freeman, David Collins, Adrian Beam. John McDevitt.
Joy Keeter, Bill Tolbert, Kenny Bridges. Frank Humphries. M. D. Phifer and Jim Tate.
GOP Primary
Ticket Lists
Several Races
Cleveland Democrats voting in
iho Saturday primary will con-
ider a “long" slate ticket, as us
ual. Republicans a much shorter
! one — but their “loiigest" pri-
I mary ballet in many years in
I long Democratic North Carolina.
Three Democrats, two Republi-
■ans want governcr nominations;
four Democrats, including Incum
bent Sam Ervin, want the U. S.
Senate nomination, and three Re-
oubiicans want to hoist the GOP
banner.
Three Democrats and two Re
publicans aspire to be lieutenant-
governor.
Here are the Democrats seeking
state office nominations:
For Gevernor — Robert W. Scott,
J. Melville Broughton, Jr., and Dr.
Reginald A. Haw'kins.
For United States Senate —
Sam J. Ervin. Jr., Fred G. Brum-
mitt. John T. Gathings, Sr..
Charles A. Pratt.
WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Danny
Dyke, high school senior, is win
ner of Pittsburgh Plate Gloss
Foundotion's sixth annuol plont
community scholarship.
Board To Get
New Members
e Wins
Scholarship
Second High
Scholarship
Honor For Dyke
Danny Dyke, high school sen
ior and- son of Mr. and Mrs. El
bert J. Dyke, is winner of Pitts
burgh Plate Glass P’oundation’s
sixth annual plant community
scholarship.
Announcement was made by J.
IV. Schwep-pe, PPG Industries
I Foundation agent and manager
I of the Shelby plant of PPG.
j Young Dyke expects to enroll
I in the University of North Caro-,
1 lina at Chap<q Hill to p^usue a
! course in the medical curriculum
I which will lead to a career as a
' physician.
X-
rs. James M. Harper. Jr.,'Frank
M- Matlock. H. Pat Taylor, Jr.
For State Treasurer — Edwin
Gill, incumbent, and Sneed High.
For State Superintendent of
Public Instruction — William D.
Harrill, Everette Miller, Craig
Phillips, Wendell W. Smiley. Ray
mond A. Stone.
For Attorney General — Thom-,
as Wade Bruton, incumbent. Rob-,
ert M. Morgan.
For Commissioner of Labor
Frank Crane, incumbent, John B.
Warden, Jr.
For Commissioner of Insurance
—George A. Belk, Fred Benton.
Edwin S. Lanier, incumbent. John
B. Whitley.
For Judge of the Court of Ap-
oealc — Kidd Brewer vs. Ray-,
mond B. Mallard, incumbent; and
Naomi E. Morris, incumbent, vs.
j Walter C. Holton. |
' GOF TICKET |
For Governor — James C. Uim)'
>; Gardner and Jack L. Stickley.
' For U. S. Senate — Robert Vance
•Somers, Edwdn W. (Edi Tenney,
i and J. L. (Larry) Zimmerman.
For Lieutenant • Governor —
j Trosper N. Combs and Don H. Gar-
I ren.
I For Commissioner of Insurance
—Everett L. Peterson and Carl W.
Carolyn Ann Falls, daughter of Rice.
Mr. and -Mrs. Doyt Falls of Kings
Dyke was cho.son by a three Mountain, has been awarded a
member scholarship panel of $5.U(H> Albert G. .Myers scholar-
prominent university educators ship.
from among seven finali.sts who Kive college .scholarships are
were interviewed for the PPG awarded annually to high school
in p-ebruary. He will re- seniors of the families of Textiles. ,,,,,,,
ctive a four \eai scholarship inc. & Threads, Inc. and are good nesdav named studv commiitnn*;
valued from $2.o0 to $l.o()0 yearly for four years in tlie college or to report and rec-ommend to the
commission 1) revision of the
WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Caro
lyn Falls, high school senior, is
recipient of a S5.000 Albert G.
Myers four-ycKir college scholar
ship.
Carolyn Falls
Wins Scholarship
Mayor Appoints
Committees
Mayor John Henry Moss \Ved-
Most Students
Get Assignments i
Majority of Kings Mountain dis-
tiicl school pupils in the grammar |
jirades were given their 1968-1969;
assignments Wednesday, Superin-,
tendent Donald Jones reported, i
First choice of those receiving
assignments were uniformly hon-,
orod. . *
Those not receiving assign
ments included:
1) Pupils who have filed as
signment requests prior to the
March 17 deadline (these will be
a.ssigned by the board of educa-
lion at the May 20 meeting).
Pupils who have not filed!
assignment requests. Supt. Jones
urged' parents of these pupils to
file requests immediately. Assign
ment request forms may be ob
tained at any grammar school or
at Supt. Jones’ office on E. Ridge ^
l^treet.
f All pupils. Grades 7 and 8, at
tend Central .school, while all stu
dents. Grades 9 through 12, at
tend Kings Mountain high school.
depending on his financial nee<i: university of tlie winners' choice
as determined by the National 'provided it is approved by the
Merit Scholarship Corporation, directcr.^ of the louiKiation.*
Two new members of the Honorable mention awards of $25 The scholarships are named in
Cleveland County Welfare board (Continued On Page Six) (Vtoiiinu((i on Putfr Six)
will be named soon to terms be
ginning July 1.
Terms of Chairman A. L. War-
lick, of Polkville, and Mrs. Au
brey Mauney, of Kings Mountaia
are expiring and neither is eli^
gible 'for re-appointment.
In Sweepstakes Ailaii, Candidate
Can Attain Majority, Still lose!
By MARTIN HARMON
i One or more candidates ftir the
Chairman Warlick, a county county board of commissioners,
welfare board appointee, is ex-, countv board of education, or 27th
pocted to bo succeeded by David district judge could attain nia-
Beam, former chairman of the jorities in Saturday’s Democratic
county commission. primary — and still lose!
Mrs. Mauney. a state welfare It’s all in the state election laws
city ordinance governing opera
tion of billiard parlors and 2)
action by the city on a request
tor lianchise by Cable T-Vj ^nc.,
a Kings Mountain corporation.
The billiard parlor committee
includes Mayor Pro Tempore W.
S. 13:ddix, chairman, Commission
ers, Ray W. Cline and Norman
King.
The Cable T-V committee in
cludes Commissioners T. J. El
lison, chairman, King and Cline.
board appointee, is expected to
be succeeded by Charles D. Blan
ton, Wilson Griffin or Robert
Hambright, of Grover. Three
nominees are required .by the
state board which customarily
names one of the three.
Bnilding Bids
Will Be Asked
J. L. Williams and Associates,
architects for the neighborhood
facilities building, told Mayor^
John Henry Moss Wednesday the^
falncd niajf»rities. In this iiislaiico
qualified challengers, to “run it
off’, would demand a second race
of Ih( ccunty elections board not
lat<'i than five days following of
ficial declaration of the primary
resultj
In tlie eight-man countv com-
which spell out method of dclerm- mis ion race, it is therefore pos-
ining majorities and declaring MhU ihal no candidate would re
victors in sweepstakes situatirms. edve a majority on Saturday,
where more than one pasition is Tho.se placing fourth, fifth and
at stake. sixth w<'uld have the riglit to de-
Here s how the result will be mand run offs. The seventh and first would advertise for the city,
determined, for instance, in the eighth place candidates would be to rect'ive bids on the structure
Make-up of the board includes i eight-man race for the county (diniinated. cn Wednesday. June 5, at 2 p.m.
two members appointed by the commission: total vot*?s east tor i.i a s(vond primarv. tl'c three at City Hall,
county welfare board, two mem- all eight will be totaled and this candidates placing Iitghesi. ma- The archittH-ts estimate the
bers by the state welfare board total divided by eight. The result joiitles or not, would be decl ired building, to be constructed in the
WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Janet
Alta Styers has been aworded
a four-year college scholarship
by General Foods Corporation.
Janet Styers
Wins Scholarship
Janet Alta Styers, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Styers of
Hagerstown, Md., formerly of
Kings Mountain, has been award
ed a Charles G. .Mortimer Sehol-
arsliip by General Foods Cor
poration. providing finaniiul as
sistance for a four-year under
graduate college course
She is granddaughter <^f Mrs
W. F. Styers and niece of .Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Tate of Kings
Me jntain.
The National Merit Scholar.-^hip
Corporation, which is admini.'i-
tering the Mortimer .Scholarship
Program for General Foods, se
lects the winners through its
regular testing procedures.
Miss .Styers. a student at North
Hagerstown high school, expects
to enter Dickinson college this
fall and to major in English and
fine arts. Her father is a sales
representative for the Genetal
Foods Maxwell House Division.
A company spokesman said the
Mortimer Scholarships are award
ed by Gener:-il Foods in honor of
Charles G. Mortimer, who retir
ed in 19r).'5 as chairman of the
corporation after a distingiiishc<l
company career of nc'-nly 37
years.
The amount of each aw.-ird \<
bast'd upon the individu-al win
ner’s financial need in order to
attend any accredited college or
nniversitv of his choice in the
United States. The maximum
amount which wil] be awarded
for each of the four college years
is SI.,500 and the minimum is
$2.50.
Atthou'h the program pro
vides for 12 scholarships each
year to' sons or daughters of
full-time General Foods employ
ees in the United Stat<‘s. 17 were
awarded this year in recognition
of the remarkably high scores
achieved by t!u‘ contestants.
Miss Styers has serv(*d in the
student government at her high
school as a cabinet represonta-
fContinued on Puuv Six)
Commission.
Education Body
Contests Excite
Only Demociats in Cleveland
Cc.ntiy aie involvi'd In family
^ lights ill Saturday's primaries,
I all H(‘puld!can filces for county
office without opposition.
.Majoi' interest c(nters in two
races, where eight Democrats
s<‘('k three to the board of com
missioners, 12 want the live
nominations for tlie lioard of (»d-
ucation.
Considerable intirest has also,
been evidenced in the three-coun
ty 43rd district House of Repre
sentatives race invf»lvin. two
Cleveland countians and in the
thrte-county 27th judicial district
race wlu're two CTevedanders of
ten Demoerats want the five
nominations.
The candidates:
Foi county commissioner
Chairman Hugh Dover. Coleman
Goforth, and Spurgeon Hewitt,
incumbents, and Fritz Morehead.
WMliam Orr, J. tDoc) Turner,
Rotwrt -Hubbertl aiid Roy Leo
Dedmon.
For country board of education
Buford Cline. J. D. Ellis, and
Robert Cabaniss, incumbents,
and Robert \V. Stone. Charles E.
Jacksem. Hoyt Hailey, Fred Sim-
nio:ns. Devon Bingham. Mrs. Ce
cil Banin. Mrs. Cline Borders,
Frank .''herrill and Rolxnt M.
Michael.
For .Seat 2. House of Represen
tatives Robert Z. Falls, incum
bent, and i.ester A. Roark.
For Judge*. 27th district .Toe
M. Mull. Hoi ace Kennedy, Wil
liam A. Mason, John A. Friday,
Lewis Bulwinkie, J. Ralph Phil
lips. William G. Holland. Oscar
F. Mason. William J- Allran, Jr.,
and John Auten. Jr.
Legioi! Election
Set Foi Monday
Annual election of offic*ers of
Otis D. Green Post 1.55, American
Legion, will be hold Monday at
the post building from 1 to 7 p.m.
Three Legionnaires. Command-
e: Carl Weisenei, Bob Smith and
Bru. e McDaniel, seek the com-
mandership.
liierc art' four other officer con-
t(‘st.s. while 13 vie for the five
p..>itions on the executive com
mittei. Candidate.s for four of
fice- arc uncppo.sed.
Officer contest.'-- arc:
For first vie e-commandcr. Carl
F. Wilscn and W. D. Morrison.
For second vict'-commander. Jay
\V. Powell. John W. Gladden, and
C. H. Adeihokit.
Ft>i ser.geant al arms, Foley
Cobh and Bob Davies.
For assistant serg<'ant at-arms.
Robert Wiiglit and Eail Slroupc.
j;.
For the fiv'e positions on the
executive ccmmitlee: Ray W.
Cline*. Randy Carpenter, Sewell
Laugh ridge. Charle*s McCarter,
Clinte)!! Jolly, Gene* Gibson. Bill
(Conioou i! on P'nu Si.)'>
Funeral Rites Held On Wednesday
For William Marvin Goiorth. 74
and a county commissioner, ex
officio, appointed by the county
commis.sion.
Members of the welfare hoard
who will continue to serve are
Bill Palmer, Tilden Falls and
County Commissioner Coleman
Goforth.
will be halved. A majority will victor:-.. Deal Street pool area facing
be that total plus one. In a .second primarv, the Hncc Cleveland Avenue, will cost ap-
Were four or five found to have candidates placing h'ighe.st. ma- proximately $424,000.
attained majorities the top three jorities or not. would be declared Federal funds will finance ma-
(number of nominations vacant) victors. , jor portion of the project, a
would be declared winners. Third primaries ar- not per- grant of $.320,680 having been
A second primary would be in- milted in North Caro!in;i. j made by the Department of
order where less than three at-' 1 Housing and Urban Development.j
F'uneral rites for William Mar
vin Goforth, 74, retired farmer,
were held Wednesday afternoon
at 4 p.m. from Boyce Memorial
ARP church of which he was a
member.
Rev. L. Thomas Richie, pastor
of the church, officiated, and in
terment was in Mountain Rest
cemetery. Members of the board
of deacons served as pallbiMrers.
Mr. Goforth died Tuesday
morning at 1 O’clock of a heart
attack at his home on .‘Shelby
road. A native of Cleveland
County, he was son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Longstrwt Gofru th.
He was a veteran of WorkI War
1. Active in Boyce Memorial ARP
chuich, hu had a 30 year pen led
attendance record in the Sunday
School.
Sinviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ada Sellers Goforth, thrw sons.
Garrisfm Goforth. Robert L. Go
forth. both of Kings Mountain,
and Thomas G. Goforth of Mil
lington, Michigan; a daughter.
Miss Mao .Sue Goforth of the
home; four brolher.s, R. D. Go
forth. Jo(' Goforth. Hall Goforth,
all of Kings Mountain, and Brady
Goforth of Charlotte; and thnv
sisters, Mrs. Charles A. Goforth,
Sr., Mrs. Sam Dye. and Mrs.
Lemuel Ware, all of Kings Moun
tain. Also surviving are nine
gramichildren and a great-grand
child.
Mild Campaign.
Some Contend,
Is Deceptive
By MARTIN HARMON
What many citizens term th€
quietest primary season in four
or more decades comes to an end
It 6:30 p.m. .Saturday when the
polls close.
Other {‘itizens think the quiet
-iecei-tive, point to the hard work
of both state office and local of
fice candidates as producing more
voter interest than is outwardly
apparent.
Cleveland C'ounty citizens, both
Republicans and Democrats, have
more than the usual number of
(‘andidates from whom to choose.
The campaign has not l)een
raucous.
Candidates for the most part
have h(»en charitable to their
opponenets.
Gelling in some slashes, how
ever. has been Frit/ Morehead,
candidate for the county com
mission. who lost to C. A.
Greine in a run-off two years
ago. Morehead has be<*n critical
of the county commi.ssioners he
seeks to unseat, as well as Coun
ty Manager Joe Hendrick.
Pai ticular interest is attending
the 12caniidatc rat'o for five
seats on the board of education.
Here the focal point was the roof
cavein at a new county high
school.
In fighting in the lace for gov-
ern<»r. jiarticularly between Brou
ghton and Seott forces, has been
considerable at times.
Kings Mountain's lone candi
date for the county office is Wil
liam OiT, st*eking a county com
mission seat, and the first Negro
t(j offer for county offk-e in mod
ern political history.
Further back Kings Mountain
connections occur in the race for
27th district judge to rep-r^^sent
Cleveland. Gaston and Lincoln
counties. Candidates Hoi.ace Ken
nedy for born here (on Cherokee
street) and William A. Mason,
Belmont, was reared here (S.
Battleground avenue) and is a
1927 graduate of Kings Moun
tain high school.
Tunstall Rites
Held Wednesday
Funeral rites for Graham The
odore Tunstall. 72. former Kings
Mountain resident, were held
Wednesday at 2 p.m. from Sisk
Funeral Home’s East Chapel
with the Rev. J. W. Harris offi
ciating. Interment was in Besse
mer City Memorial cemetery.
Mr. Tunstall died at 7:45 a.m.
Tuesday in Gaston Memorial hos
pital. He was the son of the late
'Mr. and Mrs. Henry C- Tinstall.
He is survived bv one brother,
Docie Tunstall, of Darlington, S.
C.
Mrs. Lynch
On Committee
Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch has
been elected a member of the
.North Carolina Citizens Commit-
■ tec for Dental Health.
The Kings Mountain woman
attended a two-day meetiny of
the group at Qu'^il Roost Con
ference Center in Rougemont, N.
C. Aoril 27-2S.
“Education of The Citizen On
Fluoridation” was topic of the
conference led by specialists in
the fii'lds of medicine and den
tistry. Discussion groups pointed
up what various communities are
doing along these lines.
Next meeting of the group
will Tx* in August at the summer
home of Dr. and Mrs. Sam H,
Walker at Lake Lure.
, The committee will function
under the sponsorship of the lf»-
cal county iFoards and the North
Carolina State Board of Health,
, Dental Division. Raleigh.
Thumbnail Facts
On May 4 Primaries
Saturday primary facts:
Polls open — 6:30 a.m.
Poll.'; close — 6:30 p.m.
Eligible voters — Democrats
and Republicans (In North
Carolina Independents are not
permitted to vote in primaries.)
Number of ballots — Demo
crats. two; Republican.s, one.
Number 4 Township polling
places — We.st Kings Mountain,
National Guard .\rmory; East
Kings Mountain. City Hall
ccurtrcom; Bethware. Bethvvare
school: Grover. Grovt'r Rescue
Squad building.
Blstimated Cleveland County
primary totals — Democrats
l2,j(X); Kepublicans, 2250.