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1968 Thursday, June 27, 1968 Mountain KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Page Three Gastonia In Eleven C) nticth- IT •egions tiro S. I y wood igp of a long listoric jrtanly hat thP i of not oks, iny- and he he or my rar- I in ODDS-'N'-ENDS By JOE CORNWELL This is my last week with the Kings Mountain Herald. ! can certainly say that it has been a pleasure working with he staff and the citizens of Kirtgs Mountain and the sur- ■ounding area. Post 23 Competing For 15 Starting Spots SeloctiesWin Mauney Takes Teener Championship R«pi«eiit km mm Ma In ■'VHHIvyS Morgan Stops St’,'” KM Rips Shelby Main Event I have learned a great deal about sports and about the ■vorld of sports writing and newspaper editing. I personal- y would like to thank Martin Harmon for contributing his ..alents toward making me a better newspaper man. I also SHELBY Hard-drivihg Charlie IB^uld like to thank Mr. Harmon for giving me the chance Blanton of Gaffney, S. c, came begin my career in the newspaper field. ® ^ money in the 60-lap mam event , for late-model sportsmen Salur- Continuing, I would like to thank Lib Stewart tor the g, ,^4. .sheiby .Speed- lelp she has been to me. Her personality and determina- vvay. ion have made the Kings Mountain Herald a better news- laper. By JOE CORNWELL Kings .Mountain Post 15.t fell to the hands of Ga.stonia, in the third c-lash between the two teams, and in their longest game of the year, 11 innings. The ’.Mounties came from be hind to tie the score in the eighth inning when Clarence Ashe Twenty-two boys are currently rehched base on an error and competing for the l.j positions on scored on a pas.sed ball and a this year’s Teimer AH-Star team, "'**<1 pitch. which will represent Kings Moun- Sorrow hit the Mounties w e ■ tain in the district and state play- Ga-stnnia picked up two runs Mauney Textiles, in its first offj. after two straight outs in the year of participation in the TtM!-; top of the eleventh inning. Two nor baseball program, defeated, Coaches for the team are Por- errors, a .stolen base, a passed Southwell Ford 7-6 Friday night ter Griggs, who guidi'd Mauney ball, and a single provided the to win the City L(‘ague cham- Textiles to the league champion- Post 2.3 iad.s with their game wiii- pionship. 'ship;'Hill Grissom, who coached ning runs. Scott Morgan, a 14-year-old second place Southwell Ford Kings Mountain collected nine Post 155 up.set Shelby for the righthander, went the distancei ^py^ tloh Smith, who head- hits during Southwell 7-6 Pull Second Straight Upset ed the VFW team. It rated as one of the most ex .citing finishes of Ihe .season. Last but certainly not least. I would like to thank the Blanton had started in one of ‘backshop” or the men who really do hard work and have 'a p be devoted to the job. Paul Jackson, Rocky Martin, loger Brown, Fred Bell, Bob Myers, and last but certainly lot least, Dave Weathers. Dave is the Lib Stewart of the backshop”. Dave has helped me greatly. He has made me ealize the part that every individual plays in editing a lewspaper. I say. ‘‘Thank you Dave.” t second straight time, 6-4. Kings | and picked up the pitching win i.Mountain bombed the sliding, for .Mauney, coached by Porter Shelbians for seven costly hits in Griggs. ^ hustli- and determination. Mauney scored a pair of runs.g^jpq^p hitting. in the bottom of the first inning hits during the contest, three more than the Gastonians. Norris Tliornberg controlled the Gaston- . ^ , ...... ^ I tans through four innings of play. strong tiefense and pitching, and THomberg allowed three runs, ' after pitching great ball, in the Tile coaches fe<‘l Ihev have Kings Mountain fel!^ to the take a 2-0 lead, but liad to. Of the 22 boys after a spot on lourth innhig. front row positions in his 19.56 Ford, then dropped back in the field when he stopped to re-i move a loose hooii wliile the field was under caution. He was working back up when .1 pile-up dropped him liaek to last place, a lap l3<>hind. Hut with ; hands of Shelby in the first clash for four runs in tliei the team, nin*' played for Soulh- between the two teams. They re-, order to claim the vie- well Ford during tlie regular .soa- I turned in Ihe next contest and tory. j son. Si.x from Mauney are com- j up.set tile kids from across the- first, Mauney' went peting for the club. I creek. ahead on singles bv Robert . ■ . . . .u Gaines and Wade Frve a walk’ prospects include pitchers through seven ^ .. . Scott Morgan, Wade Frye, Pete . Tommy allowed only two hits Hicks and Don S<*s.soms, infield- during his performance. Kings Geeper Howard, Robert .Mountain removed Goforth in tlie Gaines and Chuck Carpenter and eleventli inning after Gastonia ' Mike Robinson collected .... . ,, win for Kings .Mountain. He al- and vyild p tch by Southwell pit I lowed throe hits after relieving Pnte Hicks. Darrell Whetstiiie in the third, Southwell scored three runs in the third to take a 3-2 load. .Sin Tommy Goforth relieved Thorn- berg in "the fourth, and quickly retired Post 23. Goforth turned out another fine pitching perform ance as he retired Gastonia innings of play inning. David Bolin, ng login tnd North Carolina? Well, I can say that part of deques- Hag and StTO in ion can be answered by the one word industry . As you money, irobably know without industrialization it is definitely lard for a community to grow and prosper as if should. Cloniz finished second, and rirst, for a community or city to gain industry it has to Shelhy'.s oger \\are. piloting a lave an individual or a group of people to let the 'idustrics ^'l^'^h/aoTapHobDv main event, enow of the potential of a community and how vvell a mill j Evans of Gaffney finished ir trucking line or any other operation would fair in their ^ thr"ee. Evans lity. The who part of the question can be answered with was driving a F'ord. Dub Boaver; he name John H. Moss. Reigning as Mayor of our‘‘Histori- of siioiby, "also in a Ford, took :al City”, Moss has strived for all of the above things and second money, and Arthur Boi- nore. He is the one individual that the City of Kings Moun-. linger of Golden Valley, in a :ain has needed in the past, and now has. He, along with' Mercury, placed third ither hard working citizens, have made Kings MounUiill The crowd of about i.onn lost 4 town that can .Vtayor has helped gUrectly. Thank you, Mayor John H. Moss. ,p,,^ * Thanks are also in store for the Kings Mountain High „f cmffnev plac- Bchool faculty and coaching-staff. Without the co-operation ^ p„r.i in the'i.llap Df the faculty and staff, it would have been vct\ hard loi event for nxjkies. I’ooWee •ne to get along at the Herald. Mr. Jake Atkinson, King.'^ Givens of Ruihcr.''ordion drove Mountain High School principal, has let me out of class his ciicvy to second place, and •nany times, so I could get caught up in my sports writing. .Melvin Revis finished third in .a Mr. Atkinson said that he would not have let me get out Chevy. if class flor just any job, and he turned down many who Blanton and Ware liad ftiken vere trvihg to cut class to go to work. But, hbVvever, he qualifying lieat events m the ioes feel that if a st^.dent is workirtg in a fibld he will rnnerr’" ere Evans and Sindh. iwhat could'be more Educational i.-nh um, in a Kord, and Bullock IS.I1IS iicivcr iiicLVAgr i 1.. 4Ur. A FAMILIAR EXPRESSION — be used as a “Model” tor other cities. The; Ford-driving Freddv Tommy Goforth is shown walk ed me in the past directly and more so in-jg^R*^ Mountlin drop- ‘“S ««"L»he mound in a receiit ; gles by Jack King, Dana Sarvis o '? . m- n • Kings Mountain picked up one and Reece Black, a walk and j Tim Grooines. run in the second when Jack Bell, ■ Mauney error resulted in the tal-' Howard, a mcmlx'r of the iecond baseman, scored on a lies. .Soulh>vell team, is trying out for fielder’s choice. .Mauney tied it in the fifth on' the a!l-.stars for the third straight . . '■ singles by Frankio Stokes, Bobby year Ho was a membi'r of the The Mounties ‘h«e m^ Byers^nd Gaines. j Teenei club u^ich Hnised II- hi fhe^Shelhv Ditcher Southwell then went ahead 6-31 third in the nation, walks by the Shelby P‘‘Giei ^ I along with two .singles and an gp^soms, Billy Loftin’s double An intrasquad game has been erroi. provided Kings Mountain Mauney errors. .scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. at —Mauney, which finished with a City Stadium. final 7-0 record compared to pmuohie Southwell’s 5-2 mark, won the game with four runs in the bot tom of the sixth. Big hits were: First base, Wade Frye, Ronnie singles by Morgan, Ben Brown | pay ne; second base. Chuck Car and Groomes, and a triple by pouter, Jim Hovis; shortstop, Ronnie Payne. ^ Geeper Howard, Billy Parkerj In going the distance, Morgan third base, Robert Gaines, Pe e Dana picked up their winning runs. Danny McDowell was the big man at the plate for Kings Moun tain. Th( centerfielder slashed two doubles driving in all three Kings Mountain runs. •Mickey Cross picked up the win. Cross fanned ten Kings Mountain battmen. witli the scoring power. Bob Hussey’s lads picked up one more run in the eighth in ning. Danny McDowell scored tha; run. i Mike Smith led the Mounties I at the plate with a 2-3 pertorm- ani e. Pre.ssley Wilson collected ; thi‘ loss for Shelby. lineups are as fol- with an overheating game. The expression on his lace of his troubles in combat. He must have looked much the same way aftei Gastonia scored the winning runs in the elev enth inning, last Friday night. (Issac Alexander Photo) Mrs. Wood s Rites Conducted scattered 10 hits and struck out , Hicks; left field, David Boli i, 12 batters. Hicks gave up nine'Tommy Patterson; center fieT 1, hits and fanned six. Dana Sarvis, Bobby Byers; right Getting two hits for the win-, field, Tim Groomes, Randy Stone; ners was third baseman Gaines, j catcher, Reec<.* Black, Joe Crock- while Sarvis, Black. Sessoms.'er; pitchers. Scott Morgan. Dot; Loflln and King had two hitsj Sessoms. | each for Southwell. I Others who will take part nil GB The game include Johnnie and _ 'Ronnie Freeman and Willie By-j 2 ers. I wotild personally like to thank all of thy teftchers for heir advice and support. Miss Dbntia Dbtaon and'Mrs. Carl this coming weekend at the lursue as his future, then >vuai whih :han the job itself. Mr. Atkinson, I have learned a lot from ^ *ou and 1 hope to learn more. Yoil have airied ih broaden- took the rookie he.als ng my knowledge of the newspaper world. a regular program of racing in \Yo,id were held Tuesday at 4 ,'the rookie, hohbv and late-miKlel p from Second Baptist church, sportsman divisims in planned interment following in .Mountain „ „ „ f"'" eoming weekend at the cemetery. McW’hirter are certainly in store tor my thanks. sheihy .sneedway with action ii<> , , , , J • ginning Saturday night at 8;,3n. The high school Coaching staff has also helped me m ” •ny job and in my life. These are the fellows, the coaches, ip • t U a :o whom I would like to give my very persortiil aiid sincere i | f|I0]|l tlUlll rhanks. As an athlete, f know how val'U'aWe'a grpUp ofi coaches Can be to a community. They are the men who are « , m . J _ connected with the most valuable part of our country and JJ©! daiUrClay city, its youth. They are the mbh whb' rtitold athletes and ^ I Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Sue W ood, 66, wife of Melvin C. Rev. George Julian, Rev. Al- iiert Hasting and Rev. Frank ■Shirley officiated at Ihe final rites. i Mrs. Wood died at 10:45 p.m. Saturday in the Kings Mountain; lio.spital following a short illness. A native of Cleveland County, try to give their advice and knowledge of the \VoHd to the A Big Rock & Roll and Soul she was the daughter of the late voung men and women. Cohehes Bob Hussey, Bill'Catehion,' 'Talent Hunt” sponsored by star Mr. and .Mrs. John W'. Hawkins •L - . ® . V v^>.l a _ _ al- —-1 1 A ...til UrvleJ r, « thtt _ .oal Blaine Froneberger and Bill Bates are the men who have Attractions, will be held at the given their time and effort to the development of our youth. l-fke .’Vorman Music Hall, local ” «i on Hwy. l.rO in lerrell, N.t. -iJi luai Coach Bates de.serves more than just a name mention. This contest is promoted in Survivors include her husband; l Mr. Bates has played a large role in my life as well as the,tli;s area due to the anaount of J^ .‘o,h. - - ■ ill I talent available, ot which ten "1 Kings .Mountain, loui Diotn groups will be selected for beach ers. Robert and Crayton Hawkins, appearances this summer. , Shelby, A. R. Hawkins of | The number one group selected'Mountain and John K. receive a cash prizi* with Hawkins of Polk\iIle; two Sis- lives of many others. He has gjven me the advice that w eventually make me a man, for this I am very grateful. # hank you coaching staff and Coach Bates. Miss Martha Hou.ser has aided me greatly with a de-! will . , . , pendable and accurate account of ail the messages that ^ R°a„sThe eon wove semt to me during school. Being the secretary of a ^ ' g, ,.30 high .school takes a great deal @f patience. I would like to thank Martha for taking the time to deliver my messages. Thank you Martha. and a member of .Second Baptist cliureli. IN GERMANY — PtL Harold R. Falls is serving with the Army in Germany following a five- day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Falls, formerly cf Kings Mountain, now of Mc- Adenville. His address: Pvt. Harold R. FaUs, RA 67p80122 Hq. S "Co. D.” 293 Engr. Bn. AFO New York 09034. FI.NAL STAXDING.S Teams W. L Mauney Textiles 7 0 Southwell Ford .5 2 VFW 2 5 ; Ti-yon 1 fi Andy Haskins At Amarillo AFB> j Andy Haskins, son of .Mrs.’ Howard Haskins and the late Mr. Haskins, left June 6th for AF basic training at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo., I Texas. , i He is a graduate of Kings’ I Mountain high school, i His address; A. B Anderson B. 'Haskins AF 12813612 Flight 221,! ; 3333rd BMTS. Amarillo AFB,' . Amarillo, Texas 79111. Mrs. Lawing's Rites Conducted Funeral services for Mrs. Da vid E. Lawing, 85. of route 1, .'-Stanley, were held at 4 p.m. Mon day from Craig Memorial Baptist cliurch in Stanley. Mrs. Lawing died Saturday in 'll Burke County hospital. - .Survivors include a son, David J. Lawing, of Kings Mountain. IN ATLANTA Rev. Cliarles Easley, pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, k- in Atlanta, Ga. this week at tending the annual convention of the Lutheran Church in .•\merica. the L^fiter Side of Rural life y \ Cotton tents, awnings, and ca nopies were used by the Romans ’ in 70 B.C. Myrtle Mitcliell Pruitt of Kings Mountain and .Mrs. Thomas Don't replace a kitchen sink with a sink... install a new KitchenAid COMBINATION €» • big/ MODERN CABINET SINK Double door, roomy steel storage cabinet. 48' wide. Porcelain-on-steel sink top with drainboard, back- splash and chromed mixing faucet. Can be equipped with stkirlless steel top. Choioa of SilpOrba VariCycle OT Custom dishwashers Bifei versatile capacity. Push buttoM operation. Superba Vari- Cycle model provides choice of four cycles including SaniCycle for extra health protection. Don't Ao awHehad from tha bast - KHchanAid = TflieM AT ■ ' = BEN T. GOFORTH PLUMBING p.m. Interested groups write or call the Music Hall for entry blanks. Call 704 487-2498. The address is: LAKE NORMAN MUSIC HALL. SHERRILLS FORD, NORTH CAROLI.NA. Pittman of .Shelby; grandchildren. and six Phone 739-2176 Week Days 2:45 OPEN Sot 12:45 Sun 1:15 Cotton is the only major fiber that actually increases in strength when wet. I KINGS MOUNTAIN' and BESSEMER CITY DRIVE-IN BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 6:15 SHOW STARTS AT 7:15 ALWAYS $1.00 A CAHLOADI TmiHS.-FHI.-SAT. — 3 HITS' No. 1 "Color Me Blood Red" No. 2 "Castle of Evil" No. 3 "Horrible Dr. Hitchcock" "on sat. movies RUN IN REVERSE ORDER SAT. — DOUBLE FEATURE “THE PROFESSIONALS* BURT LANCASTER LEE MARVIN 'DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY GO ROUND" JAMES COBURN ALDO RAY SUN.-MON.-TUES. o W. S. BIDDIX SUN. thru TOES. — 2 HITS No. 1 "Ballard of Josie" No. 2 "Fireball 500" — No. 3 — ‘2000 Maniacs" MAN OF THE MONTH Monthly Ordinary Division I \Fn w'f un iMsuhANce company The story of a girl called Sara and the key she gave to a difterent.maTi each month. 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