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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits 8,256
Tbs GrMrt«r King* Mountotr flgura It dtrivctf itom th*
tpteio} United stattt Bureau of the Centut report e
lanuary 1966. and Includes the 14.990 population o
Number 4 Tovrnthlp. and the remaining 6.124 Iron
Number S Township. In Cleveland County and Crowder*
Mountain Township In Qacton County.
Kings Meuntcdn's Esliobie Newspaper
VOL. 80 No. 43
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, Octbber 24, 1968
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENlf
Buffalo Creek Water Project Bids Due November 20
Breakfast October 29 WQI Kick Off UF Drive
$26,600
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UNITED FUND LEADERS — A kick-off breokfost to open Kings Mountain's one-day United
Fund campaign will be held Tuesday at First Presbyterian church. Planning the campaign are:
Seated, left to right. Shuford .Peeler, campaign choirman; John Che^ire, UF president; and Mrs. Joe
Lee, chairman of the professional division of the drive; Standing, from left. Schools Supt. Don
Jones, chairman of the schools division; Mayor John Moss, chairman of the public employees
solicitation group; Hugh Lancoster, chairman of advance gifts; Kyle Smith, chairmen of the
industrial division; Larry Hamrick, chairman of the commercial division; and Joe Smith, publicity
chairman. Absent for the picture taking wes E. Milton Singletary, ehairtnom of the committee on
correipoada&ca. (Ph«U by PauV hmaammam) ^ ^ ^ ^
710 New Voters Registered
Saturday is the final day to polling places again Saturday
register: for the November 5ihifrom 9 a.m. untij 6:30 p.m. The
general election. • polling places are: East Kings
On basis of regisUalton activi i Mountain at City Hall courtroom;
ty to date in No.'4 Township, 710j West Kings Mountain at the Na-
new voters will be eligible to take! tional Guard Armory; Bethware
part in the general election. 'at Bethware school; and Grover
The registrars will be at the, at Grover Rescue Squad Building.
_ ' Registration activity was brisk
• i ff^ain Saturday as a total of 421
! logged their names on the poll-
: I books. The totals were: East
v -Kings Mountain, 104; West Kings
1 Mountain, 125; Bethware. 60; and
One-Day Effort j
To Raise Goal i
Is Finalized
j street banners are heralding
the 1969 United Fund camaign
and final plans.have been made
for the one day effort on Tues
day, October 29,. to ratse $26,600
for 21 different causes.
T. Spencer Mycr, executive dir-
' ector of the United Medical Re-
! search Foundation at Chapel Hill,
j will be the speaker at the kickoff i
' bieakfast schedules for 7:30 a.m.
j on Tuesday, according to Chair
man Shuford (Scoop) Peeler. The
breakfast will be held at First
I Presbyterian CIVjrch and work-
i ers will depart immediately after-
I wards to make their collections.
* Tlie 1939 UF goal represents a
' 25 per cent increase over the 1968
i campaign which was met sucoess-
fully in a one-day campaign in
‘ November, 1967.
Peeler reminded that ijF cam
paigns are important to this com
munity in that a larger percent
age of contributions go to their
intended causes. This year, for
instance, 98.8 cents out of every
dollar contributed will go to
member agencies whereas a sep
arate drive for each of these a-
i gencies would net only 91 cents
' of every dollar. The UF effort
this year would save approxi
mately $2,000 in campaign costs
alone.
j Largest item in the 196^ bud
get in for Boy Scouts of America,
I Piedmont Council, which accounts
‘ for $6,000. The Scouting progr^ j
' ^rveii noarky 50^ 6pya, .Hi tttt
i Shmmunity,. Thcludmg efibs,
' plorefs and hoy scovts and
organizational committees. Ap^
large percentage of the funds u'
provided to the Piedmont Council p
provides a trained, professional
Scout to be active in Cleveland
■ County alone. i
Second largest budget is fori
, the American Red Cross, account-1
: ing for $5,(XX) and third highest,
at $3,600 for the Kings Mountain
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Filial Plans
Doe This Week
Says Engineei
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Col. W. K. Dtck.son, engineer f^r
the city, said Tuesday; "We in-
, tend t(. take buls at 2 p.m. Novem-
bei 20th for the Buftalo Creek
Water Project."
Mr. Dickson gave this report
during a telephone conversation
with the Herald from Garden City
Beach, S. C., where he has been
on a fishing trip for several days.
He was due to return to his Char
lottc cffice Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Dickson said final plans for
the $3 million plus projwt will be
in the hands of city officials this
week and will await city commis
sion action exported to be taken
at a siiecial meeting early next
week.
; Beginning of construction is an
ticipated prior to January 1. Cci.
Dickson estimated construction
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"FISH AIN'T BITING'^
"We re shooting for November
20th os the day to take bids on
the water project.'*
Col. W. K. Dickson, city en
gineer, thus described progress
on the $3.38 Buffalo Creek Water
Project.
Other news from the city's
ccnsulting engineer from Char-
ifttte is that "fish ain’t biting o*
Garden City Beach." "Course,
now this story may be different
in o couple hours. You just can't
tell about fish," he quipped.
s Wfni'ig^MCTS « NBULf Kejms is picture 3 with some of the fewelrv items she has created
workshOpb Containers holding varicur stones and materials for her personalized pieces
rtboi^ og. 8ie shelves at her left. {Photo by Paul Lemmons)
precinct leads with 253 new
names added to the books.
Registration requirements are
citizenship and residence within \jinjcteriai Association The Red
Z otcinT T "Zh "" ^ “ pZidI,?" rvl^e" mnf
A Vycar-old who wW observe nT'''Te’i
his 21st birthday by November; cy the i-ook.. .Nancy the seam-
I*
Nancy Kerns’ Most Glamorous Role
Is Creating Beautiful Jewelry
By GRACE HAMRICK
Meet Nancy the jeweler.. .Nan-;
or hcM' creations, lier repulalion cam<’os and somi* hutlcns. Sizes
time on the Buffalo water project
at frorr 14 to 18 months.
Mr. Dickson said the final plai.s
; will be forwarded to the State
; Board of Health and other ager-
I cies involved, including the De
I paitment of Housing and Urban
; Development, which has made a
1 grant of $456,000 for the estimated
I S3.38 million project,
i Col. Dickson said that land ac-
I quisition and surveying of tracts
• of land of property owners is con
tinuing and he anticipates work/
' will be completed by November
30th. Coates Field Service, Inc.
. of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is
site negotiator for the right-of-way
and the 73 tracts of property re
quired for the Buffalo Creek lake
which will inundate 1500 acres
to register and
Stiifcty instruction and nursing
began to grow immediately. Her
first sales were "from her ears
services. The Ministerial Associa- i'
5th is eligible
vote.
Persons desiring to vote absen | immediate help to citienzs who
tee slvould make app ication themselves and their fami-
mediatcly to Ralph Gilbert, chair- jjgg ijj emergency need ot food,
man of the Cleveland County
Grover. 32. To date, the West Elections Board.
{Continued on Page 6)
KMHS Homecoming Friday
MILT SINGLETARY
Fiist-Gtizens
Is Transferring
Milt Singletary
For the fir.st time in Kings,
Mountain high school history, ^
two girls will reign as co-queens
over this year’s homecoming acti-
! vities. In on election by the stu-j
I dent body. Cathy Carroll andi
Brenda Leach tied, with Gail Ben-|
■nett, Cathy Hardin, and Sandyj
Ledbetetpr composing the home-
' coming court. i
After the crowning at Friday’s!
rep rally, the co-queen will ride
1 in the homocoming parade and
reign over the Kings Mountain-
Crest football game that night.|
The parade will travel through
the Kings Mountain business dis-
: trict, offering students and citi
zens a view of club floats, other
homecoming nominees and the
: high school hand. |
The parade, scheduled for 4 p.!
i m., will assemble on Gold Stn^cti
' E. Milton Singlolary, assistant: Phifer road, proceed up
cashier and manager of the Railroad, turning left on Ra.I-l
stallment Loan Department of ri^ht on King and proceed,
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Com-' King to Piedmont, turning
pany in Kings Mountain, is being; Piedmont at the Post
transferred to head the bank’s^^^i^^ proceed to Battle-
loan department in Wilmington, i ground, turning left <m Battl^
According to President Lewis'ground to Gold, turning left and
R. Holding, Singletary will as- cemetery to
Slime his new managerial duties j
in the Port City immediately, re-| Festivities prior to the game
placing C. W. Cox who transfers! will get underway at 7:30 p.m.
to Goldsboro. j with game time slated at S p.m.
Singletary came to Kingsl This year, honored guests at
Mountain in 1966 frijm tlie Fay-! homecoming include the Kings
elteville Office of the banking; Mountain high school graduating!
system. He had previously hern': class of ’5S-’59. After a tour of
with Univors-al CIT for several the hi'>h sdiool building Friday,
years. ' | the former graduates vvili be rec-
, * I ognized at the pep rally. Later
Since arrivini'in Mvings Moun-i graduates will be
lain he has Iwcomo ficlive fn civic, honored at an evening meal. The
affairs, setvlng as i local direct-' chosen for the dinner is yet
or for the Kings ^ ountain Jay- be announced. All '58-3 grad-
*cr( tary of the
stress. ..Nancy the wine maker, j and from her coal".
, , Yep. Meet Nancy (Mrs. Clyde) Today she enjoys personalizing
tion provides the community with^ Kerns. She’s four women all roll-; certain fabrics brought to her. In
ed into one. her workshop are clear plastic
Probably her most glamorous tubes containing a multitiule of
role, in addition to being the at
tractive wife of the Kerns Bros,
co-owner, is that of creating ele
gant pieces of jewelry. For this
hobby she is becoming well
known in ninny areas.
Just five years a^o this month
she and a Jewish frienti in New
York calked on another friend
there wlio manufacturers jewelry
and tiu'ough the help of both she! K ■ A
launched her part-time role as aQ R 0111^III
eves ami as seci
uate.s are invited to the homo-
Scott Rally Is
Slated Monday
In Ckistonia
Lions Club. He an 1 his family,! coming festivitie.s.
wlio reskle at 903 SI [‘rw(»od Lane,' featuring musie by th<* Flari's.t
are mcmbtns of theVninity Epis-'^ homecoming dance will be held
copal Church. 11 iK^^*xp<‘cle<l in the high school after the game(
(he family will relQcate in VyU-
mington soon, j
i (C'JiUinucd On Payo SUJ
HOMECOMING COURT — Pictured or* membars of tb«
Kingr Mountain High School Homecoming Court. Seoted* from
left Co-Queens Brenda Leach ooid Cothy CorroU. Standii^, from
left Cothy Hordin, Gail Bennett and Sandy Lodbetter, all attend
ants, (Photo bY Isaac Alexattlor)
Gastonia will host a four-coun
ty rally for -^ubcrnatorial-candi ;
date Bob Scott and other Demo I
cratic Parly office-seekers nex
Monday night (Oct. 28) at the
local Armory on West Frankiii ‘
Ave.
In addition to the Gaston Dem
ocratic candidates, party leaders'
and faithful, Bob Scott will eat ,,-1.;,.,
barbecue and politic with visitors; Congressman Ha.sil L.
from three other counties - s homeslroKh cam|)aii-n fof
I Cleveland, Lincoln and Rutlior- re-election will rea< h Knv-s Moun-
tain tomorrow. iMiday, when li<’
1 Barbecue will bo served at 6:30 will be honored at a barbecue
land the program will start an and rally at the Kings .Mountain
hour later. Scott will deliver the^.^*‘***^®* Guard Aimoiy hegiii
principal address and all Di'mo- *7:15 p.m.
cratic oftic-e-seekers from the Seeking his s<‘venlh tenn in the
1 four counties will be introduccvl'Unuse of Repres^mtatives,
I to what promises to be a large! Congressman Wh.toner is wig
crowd of Scott and party sup- » vigorous campaign against
' Dortors Hepubhean incumbent James
Tickets are on sale with pro- Broyhill, the two heir.- pitted a-
• dnet chairmen in Gaston County galnrU each o her for the fust
I this week and will be available't"™’."' "k' 10th new . ooKression-
lat the door Monday night. al DLsyict. , .1 ,, .
This will be Scott’s final ap- Barbecue and soft dunks will
pearance in this immediate ai-ea at the rally ami music
t prior to the general election one fuinisluHl by
jwi^k later, on Tuesday. Nov. 5. ^ nine-memt>er ban.l from
! Invitations have been Issued urea. . , ,
; local party Icadei-s and rally! Joining VVh: em‘r in local
jehairmen to mem-bers of thc^PP^®*’nnce will Ix' (jther Demo-
Icouncil Of State in Raleigh, cam aLUcs. including f u‘
to national and state office-seek-’(‘andldales for disliui judg
.ers to attend the big rally for the os, candidates for the
ison of a former Governor, W,
of the stoiu's \aiy from larger' and provide a 55 mile shoreline,
than a button to tiny enough that For the recreation facility plan-
tht'y must be set with the aid of ning, Gardner-Gidley & Associates
,i magnifying glass. , of Winston Salem, has been re-
Her color rombinations are tained by the city commission,
gorgeous, to tell liie very truth. "This (the Buffalo Creek pro-
Iler varu'i\' of frames and set- .lect) Is one of the projects I’ve
the man\ articles to suit the tastes lings is .sure to please the hard- looked forward to for the past 30
of friends ami ciislomers and oft-, est to plea.sc'. , years," said the veteran city en-
en fashions crealions to match; Buying stones by the gross, gineer,
colored rhinestones, pearls, beads,j Nancy has fiv<* outlets from!
whicli she purchases frames and
basic materials for her mount-;,
in.;s. Thes(*. inelude two in Flori
da, om‘ in Washington. D. C., and
three in New York. Otliers she
hopes to visit are in Massachu-
s('lts and Ohio and she’s hoping’ Clint Newton, former chairman
to go tf» California duiing the ihe Cleveland County Deino-
Christmas season to visit a house; Party, has been named
Her laigj’r sIo k's comes, ^‘l^uirman of Cleveland County
from Austria or Czof hosloxakia. , Citizens for Humphrey-Muskey.
Among liej- jewelry items are' Announcement was made by
cuff link.>. tie cla^-p'^, drop and; Ware, county chairman.
pl<‘rce<i earrings, beads, pins and; Other members besides Mr,
bracelets. • ' Newton and Mr. Ware are Miss
Variations in s<'liings-.ire found Sadie Lutz, vice-chairman; and
in pins shaped as hiitierflies, tur-i^I*’^. O. Max Gardner, Mrs. W. P,
lies, cats. .Mafldin’s lamp, court, Ohcen. all of Shelby, Jim Beason
jester, owls, frog.s, dogs, birds,Boiling Springs, and J. Ollie
etc. For die first time this year Harris, Bill Plonk, Harold Phillips,
Rotarians Ready
For Fun Auction
HHH Committee
Is Appointed
I creator of costume jewelry. : „ , . ^ , ,u ,
Willioul advertising her talenis: Rotarians are ready for theirl
' white elephant sale tonight at
the National Guard Armory, the
festivities and fun to get under
way at 8 p.m.
The public is invited to partici
pate in the auction sale and "it’s
not too late to get us your con
tribution" President Charles Mau
ncy said yesterday. The club is
accepting any items to be auc
tioned tonight by auctioneers Dr.
(Continued On Foqp S>ix)
(Cmitinucii On Page
Jim Yarbro, and Martin Harmon,
all of Kings Mountain.
Whitener Rally Here Friday
ate.
for
candidates for
.C. Sen-
N. r.
1 House of Representatives, coun-
BASIL L. WHITENER
board.
Current Democratic office ho
.(ContinAea on Page Su'J > ty coinimssiunci;> and schuu! cib and uUicr leading poUti
f/^ui'es in the county will be pre^
sent along with Democratic Coun
ty Chairman Cameron Ware.
The event is planne<l as an in
formal one and members of the
audience will be given an oppor
tunity to make brief talks of ap
preciation for Congressman
Whitener.
Tlie local c’ommittce promoting
the re-election of Whitener is com
posed of J. OlUe Harris, W. L.
' BiiD Plonk, J. Lee Roberts and
Dorns Bennett, all of Kings
Moucitain, and Bob Hambright of
Grover.
Cungressman VVliih'iier will put
III an appearance at the Homo-
iOodng football ganu' tomorrow
nigiu btnween the Kings Moun-
lain Mount.aineers and the Civst
Chargers. Ho will also visit the
I American Legion Post.
I Tickets for the appreciation
Jpight rally ave available from
iWiembers of the t'ommittoe for
Whitener or at the office of J.
. Lee Robm'ts.
Thei'O is no charge for the tic*-
fcets, according to Mr. UoUurib.