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1968
^ PopnlatioD
j Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits
8,256
Tht Gr«at«r Elagt Mouotalv liyur* ti derWtd irpm tb*
UaltAd StaUft Bureau of the Ceosus report o
lanuary IBBB. and iacludee the 14.990 pepulatioB o
Number 4 Township, and the remaiaing 6.124 Iron
Number S Township, in Cleveland Couaty and Crowder*
MountalB TowBshtp Ib GostOB Couaiy.
VOL. 80 No. 47
Kings Mountain's Bailable Newspaper
Pages
Today
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 21, 1968
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENl!
Major Extension Of City Limits To Southwest Likely
Motel
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At Interstate
^6 Units Set
In First Stage,
85 - N. C. 161
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.nINGS
MOUNTAIN
288 Projection
By MARTIN HARMON
A 2<SS-unit motel is projected for
Kin^^s Mountain at Inlerstare S.l
and N. C. 161 on a 7.02 acr(Mrui‘t
fronting the service road toNoal
Hawkins Company and Superior
Stfme Company.
The mof(‘l is lo he liuilt in feur
one story buildings, with the first
stage to inciudt* two buildings to
taling 76 units and a swimming
pool.
Jaycees Number 2
In North Carolina ®®^***®”*
KM Jaycees
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'Morgroce
Rank Is High
At Mid-Year
The iiuilder will be Ilugli W.
Johnston & Associates, of Has
tonia.
Carl Stewart. (Jastnnia allor-
n«'v, outlined plan.s for tile motel
to fhe city commission at a spe
eial mtMJting Tuesday night, le-
ijuested that tlie propenty b<‘ in-
eluded in the city limits an 1 that
tlie motel b<' provided all city
utility senices. ^
Concurrently I). VV. Uovstei*, ..,,,1 . t ^
•Ir.. in Ix-hair of thn a<Ii‘.oont Wiat Jaycees Moan To ^oung
(Julf servke station fronting on “n ? fw'
X. C. 161, petition..,I for inclusion:
of its two acre properly in fhe
j lirriits ^ ^ .which time five now memoers
I^BtIio commission approved th^ **^0*^^*^ 1 h ■ v #h
"quests and .set public heariir..s „ * Uayc-ee club tn Xorth
! on Ihe city limits extension re- *•* ‘he neighboring Shel-
The Kings Mountain Jaycee
; club is No. 2 in the state.
Local Jaycees were notified
they were recipients of the “Blue
C'hip Award ’ Tuesday after visit
by Jim Church oi Clemmons, state
; president. Mr. Church was liere
lo conduct a leadership training
I program, and along with the local
I president, Joe Smith, visited 25
prospective members.
The Kings Mountain board of 1
i education Monday night discuss- '
I od but took no action on plans 1
' to con.solidate food services in the ■
10 plants of th(? district system.
However, the board invited Miss
Nina Corbett of Marion to lour:
the various school lunchrooms |
with Schools Supt. Donald Jom?s
Icr further study of the i>ossibili-!
lies of (.“entralizallon. |
Miss Corbett, who has had wide j
exixTioiu.o in lood service, met i
with the group and pointed out j
that <ome of the advantage.s of \
centralization would be cost-sav*'
ing through quantity buying, bet
ter control o\(?r the food services,
effici(‘nt utilization and upkeep of
equipment and the training and
central employment ol jK'rsonnel.
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(juests for December 10. '
Attorney Steuart, a list dis
trict state represf'ntative, pro |
sented architoed’s drawings of the:
projovded motetl. in<duding ex !
t<*rior front and side views, infer-'
ior room design and other fea
lures. The plans wore prepare I
by Freiderich S<hmitt, Charlotte
areiiitect.
Mr. Stewart said the motel will
have a “live-in” manager ond
added, “While
units, we hope* to keen Ihe huild
<’r at work untij the 2SS units are
complete.”
Th<‘ formiM* Noisier prop(*rty is
hrdng acquired by the Johnston
firm from Caroll and Wilson,
Ine.
Mr. Johnston was leading pro
moter of Gastonia’s Dixie Village*
shopping center,
by club, said Church, and No. 1
Jay(‘ce club in the world di.slinc-
tion goes to the Greensboro Jay-
cecs.
Landfill Area
Is Relocated
At prc'scnl, each of the lun'^h-j
rooms in the system is run inde-1
pendcntly by the manag*»rs and
schfK)! principals. Each -caleteria j
does its own purchasing and pro* 1
pares its own meals. j
Mr. Jone.s reported that prinoi-f
paL and cafeteria managers favor !
fhe propased study and consolida- ’
; tion. ]
: “Children have to be taught to
i taste beginning with grade one,*’
• said Miss Corbidt, veteran teaclier,;
: home econcmisl and dietician. I
i “Challenge a child to eat and i VM
Charles D. Blanton, partner thinks hej Imlfl DoPilSlS
MAP OF FIVE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ZONES ~ The Kings Mountain school district will be divided
into live geographic attendance zones lor the 1969-70 school year arid elementary students will be as
signed to schools according to residence. These attendance zone^ and schools will be referred to as
Bethware# EcbL Grover« North end West and these boundaries ore listed on the map above. Bethwore
is zone one. North is zone two. East is zone three. West is zone four ond Grover is zone live, each
named for the school located in each zone. Park Grace and Compact plants will no longer be used
lor regular classes alter this year, according to a plan of **total school desegregation” odopted by
the board ol educotion.
DIRECTOR-—Charles D. BUraton
has been eiect^ a director of
Home Soarings & Loan Assgpia-
tiom
Home S & L
Taps Blanton
Petitions Said
90% Complete;
C of C Endorses
By MARTIN HARMON
Kings .Mountain’s most major
•ify limits extension since 1923
nay bt* imminent.
Tht* expansion, southwesterly,
nay inelude some 4(J0 arr(?s, more
' than 100 residences, Neisco, Inc.,
Viargrajo plant, Lambeth Rope
orporation. B<*nnetl Brick & Tile
1 ■'ompany and Kings -Mountain
' liigh schiiol.
Estimated p.»pulation of the
, trea H -150.
Tlie board of directors of Kings
Mcnntaln Chamber of Commerce
endorsed tin* (‘xpan.sion Tuesday.
Meantinn. J. Wilson Crawford,
one of seveial persons circulating
: p(*tition.s asking the city to extend
1 its limits, estimated that “90 pt»r-
* *ent 01 bet:(*r’’ of property owni*rs
in tin* area have signed the pe-
itions:.
Ml. Crawford him.self ha.s exe.
cuted agreennml to purchase from
Arehdale .Mine.*-* some 100 ac^es
at the souHiwesf eoiner of Phifer
and Fulton roads. He expeet< to
develofx* the property resid<*ntial-
: ly. he .said.
It is possible, spokesmen said,
jih(* {»etition loi inclusion in fhe
j city limits will bo presented to
. the city Iward of commis-sioners
at the meeting on Tuesday, No
vember 26.
The petitioners will ask en-
idcrsemeiu of the* city planning
board.
In 1923. the Town of East Kings
Mountain, by legislative act, wa-s
di.sincorporafed and the area in
corporated into the Town of Kings
Mountain.
Since that time, eily limits e.\-
tensipn action has been taken
only on petition of property own-
Total School Desegregation
Plan Adopted For 1969-70 Cox To Receive
Masonic Honor
i Kings Mountain Drug Company,^ like.” she added. “We!
wo start with 70 plant
74 west.
It mr-ans the
To Dedicate
Buck T^erlake l"**™”®"**
: and Managing Director of Station
j W’RVA-TV in Richmond, Virginia.
Tw’O musical instrumentj; and
new junior choir robes will be
formally dc*dicated by Kings
Mountain Baptist church at ves
per services Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
Both the noA* organ and new
piano will be played with Mrs.
Adrian Littlejohn of Gastonia
Leoi Pick-Up
Starts Monday
The city street department
will begin operating its leaf
machine Monday.
Citizens are asked to
their leaves at the curb.
to 11:30 Saturday mornings.
was elected a director of Home; eating with oth-,
City sanitary landfill operations Savings & Loan Association!^*^ projects,' she continued,
is moving to the 20-iicro sewage!Tuesday.
area off U. S.j Announcement was made by
I Thomas A. Tate, the firm’s exo-
r:ly is al)antc»n-j cutive vice-president. 1
ms uso for this puri.oso :! ilw. oiUicc-rs of tlio association be- UIBfril WWf f-
se\jn-acrn tract off Inicrsf.lc .s.> sides m,-. Tate arc Joe H. Thom- Wlf VA" 1 V UttlfAr
and adjacent to the former Aio 'se son, president; and A. Hunter
LfKjw propeity. Patterson and B. D. Ratterrec,: Joseph W. "Buck” Timberlake
The city eommission \ o ed vice-pn-sidents. Other directors'Jr. has been named Vice President
rnovmg the opera.ions I uerdaj are I. G. Patterson, R. S. Plonk
Dr. Paul Hendricks, and Jack H
. a m''''Aloiid-at ‘ Announcement was made by featured in an organ rccilai. The
L. K. I Josh. Hmnanl. co-chan- to 4 30 PJt„ o'da.vs, A Kmgs Alountam natn^, Mr. charies H. Crutchfield, President Junior choir, under the direction
man with J. Ollic Hams o; ‘'‘'.y'Blanton is son of Mrs. C. D.iof Ihe Jeffci-son Standard Broad- of Mrs. J. C. Bridges and Mr.s.
m.a.v<>rs mduslnal .eommillee, a.nn sami.la.\s. Blanton and the late Mr. Blan-!c.xsling Company (WBT-.\M-FM D. F. Hord, will sing anthems,
commented. “This is a '”0' other aelions jl I u, .-d ly s ion. Ho is a graduate of the UXC. w B T V , Jefferson Productions) The choir members v. ill wear the
pleasant surprise. It has been ^cc at meeting, th< city eom- <!ehool of Phefmacy at Chapel who.se purchase of WRVA-TV from long, gold robes with red and
emh.arrassing to .show the eom- truss,on Hill. A former Kings Mountain!,ho Richmond TcIovLsion Corpora- gold collars.
miinity to vi.siling industrialists J* Voted to ad veil i.s< lo,- h.ds,Yoim. Alan of the Year, he is a tjon was approved by the Federal Mrs. Uttlejohn, the former
hut have a shortage in aceommo- h”asinf and’ iv"dHve S' Ptaf | Communications Commission last Danna Runstedt, holds a bache-
dations. scvin callh basins and M.N d,i\e maceutical Association. He Is a! month. lor of church music in organ
Mr. Hams added. "We have enframes on Fairvirw sire •!. deacon m First Presbyterian Timberlako. who will assume from Southern Baptist Seminar.v. - -
nee ird fhis facility and it will be' 2 Adopted an ordinance a- churi-h and is active m numerous his new duties on Decomoer 3 has The family moved here from Mountain Lions club,
MK-ecssful. He been Vk^^^ to Gastonia in 1961
« Wilson Crawfmd, who said, and fne p,event -m I’odc.s m .le-, and his wife and children live on development, public relationsrand where Mr. Littlejohn is minister
was parly to Ihe sile-sellm.g^coidanw with changes m Hit; Phifer road. alumnae relations at Marv Bald of music at Gastonia First Bap-
I Geographical
Zones Determine
School To Attend
A plan of “total scliool dcsog-
pile rogation” adopted .Monday night
; by the board of education will
Hours of collection are 7:30 : replace a freedom of choice plan
to 4:30 Monday - Friday, 7:30 wirh an attendance zone or goo-
[graphical as.signmcnt plan and
will eliminate file last elements
(of the Kings Mountain dual
I school system.
B. Frank Cox, assistant post
master. will receive a 40-year life
time membership pin from tiio
South Carolina (^rand Lodge Sat
urday' in ceremonies in Green
ville, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox will go to
Greenville for the ceremonies.
Mr. Cox is a member of the
Judson Lodge of Greenville,
Mayor John Henry Moss said
“Operation Leaf Removal” will
continue until the job is com-
jlote.
Wilson To Head
Area 40 & 8
C. P, Barry
Lion 01 Year
Campbell Pre.ssloy
Lion of the Year of
in each.
the Kings
'Torporalion, commented, "Mr.| State codes.
J(»hnson is a good promot(»r. The Adopted resolution formally
eitv wii! like him and he will like rciiuesting the Department of.
the citv.’’ Housing and Urban Dcvolonmeni
to rewrtify Kings Mountain’s
workable program for comnun-'
’ ity Improvement.
'Mr. Barry, an insurance sales
man and onetime city commis-
TURKEY SHOOT
Bothleherr Volunteer Fire De
partment will spon.sor a turkey
shoot Saturday beginning at
noon at the fire departm(*nt in
the Btdhlohem community.
^vin College in Staunton, Virginia fist church. Mrs. Littlejohn is »|
,sim^ July of 1961._ Prior to this, piano teacher._ The Littlejohns[ ^Lr JAo^
j If the plan is approved, as Carl F. Wil.'ion, of Kings Moun-
Supl. Donald Jones anticipates, tain, will be installed Monday
‘ t)y Ihe State Department of Pub- night as cho: de gare, Voiture
lie Instruction and the U. S. O ' 1180 and 1416, 40 & 8 at a meeting
pariment of Health, Education| here Monday night.
! and Welfare, flio school disn icl! The meeting for the two .soi io-
' in 1969-70 will divided into lies will bo at the American
' five geographic attendance zones, L<»gion building,
each named for fhe school with-, Dinner will be served at 7:30
p.m.
t Richard K. Josoy. of Statesville,
' chef dc train, will install new of-
; ficeis.
Announcement was made by
David J. Dclevio, correspondent of
N.C.161Bid
Opening Tuesday Hewitt To Preach at Community
Thanksgiving Service Wednesday
' he was Regional Sales Manager of are parents of tw’o young sons. .. ^ ^ ‘
I Station WBTV in Charlotte. 1 A native of Ogden, Utah, Mrs. I
A native of Gastonia Timber- Littlejohn halds a B.A. in music
, lake was graduated from Central from Westminister college.
the dis-
Zone One — Hethware.
Zone Tao Noilh.
Zone Tlirce East.
Zone Four • Wc-'^t.
Zone Five Grover.
Tlie State Highway commis
sion will open yds on the NC 161
Smith imorovement project Tues
day at 10 a.m. Dr. Thomas Furman Hewitt of
■Contract awarj date is Decern- Boiling Springs, professor in the
pletc. Department of Religion at Card*
The .*jpccifications, District En- ner Webb college, will deliver
gineer M'. W. Wyke said, call tlie .sermon at Kings Mountain’s
for improving the section from fn-st annua! (*ommunity . wkk*
Ihe ramps soiwirJiT interstate 85 Tlianksgivhig service Wednesday
(south sidei for a distance of night.
4.539 miles. q'bo sc*rvlce. under sponsorsliip
The section is to be widening of the Kings Mountain Minister-
fnim 18 to 24 feet. Additionally, lal A-tsociation, will be held at
four tcel of the lOfoot shoulders 7;.n.m. in Central school audi-
will he p.u*cd. : torium.
Roadbed relocation will occur Thanksgiving anthems by a
north of tlie mountain gap, with fiO-voici* combined choir of three
tlie new roadbed bearing south- Kings Mountain churches will
ward until it intersects with the fculure the program. Spi’cial mu
piemmi roadbed at the mountain sic will be presented by choirs
gap. from First liiiptist, Fir.sf Preshy
Curb-and-gutter will be install- lerlan and Reseurrection L . ther
ed from the Lake Montonia road an ehurehe.s, under the direction
J
north to the I-S5 ramps.
IN NEW POST
^ Clyde J. Jolly has joined Di-
Icey Fabrics in Shelby and he
^and Mrs. Jelly and family have
moved from Rutherfordton to
1204 Mead()WO(K! Lane in Shed-
by TIk* Jtdly.s are formerly of
kings Mountain.
of Donald Deal with Mrs. J. C.
' Bridges at Ihe organ. The com
bined choirs will sing Mueller’s
“Come, Christians Join To Sing"
an ! will lead Ihe oongrr *ation in
singing throe hymns. “Come Ye
Thankful Peonle, peopk*. Come”:
. “We Praise Thee, O God” and
, “America the Beautiful.” Larry
* Continued On Paye h'lyht
w
/
• Elementary and Ashley Senior
, High Schools in Gastonia', Belmont
I .\bbey Jr. College in Belmont and
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
He served four years as a com-
I missioned officer in the U. .S. Air
I Force in World War 11. rewiving
his di.scharge in 1945 as a Major
In June of 1948, he re-entered Ihe
Air Force, seizing a four-year
tour of duty before Tetu.*ning to
* civilian Hie in 1952.
Ho is a Deacon in the Staunton
Presbyterian Church, and has
.served on various Republican Par
ty c*)mmitlee.s at the city and
.state level. Timberlake is married
lo the former Betty Lee Noisier,
of Kings Mountain, and has a son
and two daughters.
William R. Preston, currently
President of the Richmond Tele‘-
vision Corporation, will become
Area Vice. Prosiilont - Rii-hmoiul LoCal FisheVRieil
tor Joilor.son Standard Broadcast
ing. Samuel S. Carey, Gonerar
Manager of WRVA-TV. will be-
come Station Manager. will
report to Timberlake.
1'he new plan will also refh'ct Vuiiurc 1180.
otlier changes: —
1> Special education students,
from the prcse?it Kings .Mountain!
) An active Lion for more than Special EduQ-alion Center (the;
I 20 years, Mr. Barry has served; ]^rick residence the system owns
T/Sgt. Stewart
Wins Promotion
SPEAKER—Dr. Thomas Furman
Hewitt Gardner - Webb College
professor, will deliver the ser
mon at Kings Mountoin's com
munity-wide Thanksgiving serv
ice Wednesdoy night in Cen
tral school auditorium.
The organ program ill include,on the board of directors and has on Gaston stnM't) will lx* trans-'
the lollowin,; sfloclion-s ' chairmanned a mimlier of ini ; fciTprl'lo the i-uirenl Compact t Sat Herman
Pr,?ludo: Toplady (Rock of porfant .■ommittecs including the ,Hmol buildina. The present ■ a, t ton of M^and
Ages) — Seth Bingham annual Christmas giving of food Compart biiiidin- (the only re-i t su. .'i
Offertory: fLot all Momi; ba.skets to the blind. 'LTning aSg^o «lott theUty^'ty^s ZmotT^"^
>lesh Keep Silence) Joseph Clo | j,,. ^is. Bany me active system and has drawn the firiMh,. Technical strgoant
. a y-. .a J TT.. Bothaiiy Associate. Refornu'd of lIEW’s regional office in, t Sfewarf i« ctatirS^r.,! A
Nun lassl un.s Golf dem Her-, progbyt^j-ja^ church. They reside'Charlottesville. Va.i will then bo Andrews ^FB Washington n
ren (Now Praise Wo God Al- ^n Fulton street. Cnntbiued On Paqe 8 ‘V Washington, D C.
mighty)—Vincent Luoboek 1654-
Five Former Pastors Participate
In Central Methodist Services
CAKE SALE
We.st School Parent-Teaclier
Association will sponsor a cake
sale Wednesday beginning at
3:30 p.m. in the school cafe
teria. Homemade cakes will bo
available and proceeds will
benefit the P-TA projects.
1740.
Vom Himmcl Nooh. da Komm
ich her (F'rom Heaven High, I
come to you) — Johann Pacliel-
ho\ 1653-1706.
Cantabile — Ccscar Franck.
Mr^Tongue*)^-'' Ginh^LMmund svrK*ico^ to ReverenJ Dr. J. Garland Winkler
A1.V longuei uann tamunu ^ "Spiritual H a r v e s t will be the speaker and o:i 'AVd-
CaHIIon Week” has been announced by ne.sday evening the Reverend Dr
Postlude Lf>bt Gott ihr’Christ-1 Alderman, minister of Philip L. Shore. Ji.. will bring tin
, “ .Ti’l "Together
** I Five ministers, formal ly s»tv- “The community will remember
ing Central church, will »eturn lor most of thes(‘ former ministers
•IX .service (?ach. b<»ginning Sutiday as they served iwenly-two of tin
morning, November 241 ii through Iasi Uvcnty-siwen yeais in tin
WediM'sday evening, No\emI)er pasf,>rat(* of ('**ntral ^TeIh(Jdis^
! 28lh. church. \W are lorlunale in hav
, The R«'v. Howard R. Jordan will Ing tlie.se fornun mini.sfers share
be Ihe speaker for the morning: in this Thanksgiving series of
He recently completed special
training hi Chicago, Ill. and
transferred lo Washington earli
er this year frona Tokyo, Japan.
He and his \vif<* and year-old son
live at Camp Springs, Md.
en, AUrngloich
Praise Our God)
(Ail
— J. S. Bach.
Moke Good Catch
Six local fishing enthusiasts,
all whom arc em-ployed at ; worship hour Sunday. II a.m.. ami' sejv ices and wr want to shart
Neisco Sales Margrace office,
made a big cafeh at Southport
during the weekend.
The group’s catch wag 300
pounds cif King Mackerel.
Making the trip were George
the Rev. James B. McLarty will tii<*m with our community during
i be the guest Sunday evening at this W('ek.” said Mr. Alde/man.
the 7 p.m. son ice, announec'd Rev. The public is invittKi and fol-
Alderman. lowing each service beginning
The evening services will he with the Sunday evening service,
held at the 7 p.m. houi and on a fellowship or (‘offec hour wiP
Sellers. James Amos, Keleiy Monday, Novombt'r 25th, llie Rev. be held in the Fellowship Hall
Patterson, Don Sellei*s, Raoford ] Herbert D. G-armon will deliver, and all are invited to share to-
White and Jack Goodsun,
’ the message. Tuesday evening the jjeihei^ he eonlinued.
Officials Pledge
Coopeiafion
Gene Froneberger, Bessemer
City area Gaston county commis-
doner, and Gaston County Mac
iger A. R. England, pledged
'ooperation i)ossible with
Mountain Tuesday in thos^'
1) Provision of ipj Park
vings Mountain imie county',
most of it in
md problem ot
2» In soivln^unds in areas
4chot>l distrj county and in tbe
within Gas^jain city limits.
CIngs Mj Henry MoSs 4old
«a'Gasto,t oifivials, “Kin?-
./’..intain is a twowunty ci.,
iiud proud to 'h* one.