-X iiM Population 'Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 ..; Limits (1966 Census) 8,256 City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9300 OnaUr Xlagg Mouat^a flvur« U dtrlrtd (i«B tM •P*ctal UiUt«d StatM Bur«au of tkt C«bims rtpart • lonuory 19S6. and laclud«s th« 14,890 pepulotlds • NumlMr d Towiuliip, oad tb« remcdalafl 0,124 lr«a Kumbar 5 Towatbip. ta Clavaload Couaty oad Cfawdar* Towatblo ta Ckwt^ Caiiaty* Kings Mountain's Reiiabie Newspapei VA- Pages Today VOL 81 No. 28 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 10, 1969 Seventy-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Tentatiye City Budget For1969-70Set At $2,673,702 Razing Of Derelict Houses Offered r, • i Free Glean-Up Is Scheduled For 30 Days r The city commission voted Tues- i d-ay night to olfer a 30-day ITec; clean-up of derelict housing, junk' autos and appliances at residenc-i cs., ! The action also implied subsc-i quent enforcement of city codes, at owners’ expense. | Mayor John Henry Moss sum- mated a report of Kelly Dixon, codes officer, who reported much sub-standard housing, some of which enjoy the present of cat- size rats and snakes. Mr. Dixon recommended the city pay for razing of the rcsi.lontial derelicts. All of the sub standard housing does not need to be razed, Mr. Dixon was quoted, but can be im- liroved to meet code specinca- tions. Joe Laney, director of the re development commission, said there are many burned out houses within the city, of no value to property owners, which should be removed to improve the looks of the |rity and the value of the pro- perfy. Applications for razing of dere-i licA during the 30 day free per iod should be made to Mr. Dixon. I l$cyCTa\ commissioners said! evious clean-up efforts have] ovOd highly successful andj lanimously voted the motion. ^69-70 Peak Year Payment On City's $4,300,000 Debt / Interest Costs Drop Over $9,000 In F^cal 71 By MARTIN HARMON The current fiscal year ending . next will mark the peak of cur rent bonded indebtedness amort- ; Uation reciuirements on the June ■ 30 total of $4,300,000. Of the $390,950 the city will re quire for principal and interest payments this fiscal year, $170,000 i will be interest payments to bond holders. Another $750 is budgeted for fiscal agency fees. Debt costs represent .slightlj over 14.5 percent of the tentative budget of $2,673,702. Principal payments continue at $170,000 through fiscal 1974. Each year during this period in terest charges will decline at slightly over $9000 per year via principal pay-off. The-city’s bonded debt escalated during th« past two {tseal years duo to issuance 6f $1 miUim im sewer system t>onda and $3 mlli ion in water system bonds. First j payment on the sewer bonds was m-ade durlnrT the past year. Re- Veteran employees of Mauney Funeral rites for Christy S., maihder o'f the - debt represents Ifosierv Mills and Carolina-^2, were held Monday | remainder of bonds for waier. Thro)Ain‘- Co aatherod at the^ afternoon at 4 p.m. from the; sewer and recreation, totaling American Legion Hall here for! Chapel of Harris Funeral Home, i $800,000, issued in 1954. an award dinner honoring em-! following in Mountain; - - ployc’cs who have been with cemeter>. p ^ firms five or more years. ; Reynolds, retired textile ”8**^*®* * Approximately 120 employees, employee and Bethlehem com munity i*esKlcnt, died at 7:45 p. m. Sunday in the Kings Mountain! hospital after illness of several | a state department of health months. ; official, after an official inspec- He was son of the late Mr. and’ I”® 8fbage Mrs. Amos Reynolds and a native:» ‘°"‘‘ Surviving are his wife, Lillie! Mae Baker Reynolds; five sons,! “ ''®P‘ clean and well-operat- I ed. You are doing a good job. V-ii. . ' I 5— RITES CONDUCTED — Funeral rites for Christy Sylvonoui Rey nolds, 82, were held Mondoy from the Chopel of Harris Fu neral Home. Mil. toes onoi Employees^* Conducted REV. JAMES R. NEILL, HI Atlanta Man Tapped For PHA Leased Units Kings Mountain Public Housing Authority directors have voted in tent to contract with '^ene Gib- oons, of Atlanta, for 50 leased low-rent housin)7 units. A provision of the resolution is that Mr. Gibbons acquire or ob-| .ai noption extension on a tract tain optioned several weeks ago and that the re^olutiob is approv ed by the Atlanta HUD office. Mr. Gibbons is a former area jflicial of the Atlanta regional office of the Department of IIous- .ng and Urban Development. Meantime, Weaver Construction Company of Greensboro was cx- lected to move a trailer office and nitial equipment into Kings . fountain this week. Weaver holds he general contract on the $2.7 ♦ o* a aJ ■ ■ oO unit public housing project foi the same capacity at Sh Andrew s sewer plant operation Adminis- .hich contracts were formolly ! Church and St. An-, trative costs are expected to otal istems is exi>ected to cost I $m251. ! The city has budgeted over' $285,000 lor capital <»utlay items, such as street i.mprovemcnls, , equipment purchases, a fire truck, sidewalks and urban beau tification. The Rev. James Raleigh Neill The city will spend $391,00") for HI, lormerly of Hendersonville, debt service, $119,817 for opera- is the new deacon-in-cliarge of tion of the police' department, Trinity Episcopal Church and^ $142,475 for operation of the Day School son of Mrs. Daisy Barrett and tlia late T. R. (Skeel! Barrett. Sgt. Barrett attended the Kings a their wives and husbands attend ed the second annual awards ban- (luet. Dick Shaney, personnel manag er, served «as master of ceromon- io9 for the eveniri;. After a short introductory speech, .Shaney in troduced special guests. These in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mau- Gity Laad-Fill Hamm To Fill ney, Charles Mauney, Clinton Jolly and Herb Cunningham', new'Thomas Reynolds, Roy Reynolds, plant manager for Carolina; Floyd Reynolds, James Reynolds,! Throwing Company. | all of Kings Mountain, and Carl Charles Mauney, general man-; Reynolds of Gaffney, S. C.; two ager of Mauney Hosiery, was the daughters, Mrs. H. B. Grayson of'm -a VB 1 s^'aker. He pointed out that the, Greensboro and Mrs. Fred Tate! lilltllAy^ll |f|ll||l two companies appreciated the|of Kings Mountain; 15 grand- service so many dedicated em-'children and seven great-grand-1 The Rev. L. iBoyd Hanim, D.D. ployees. “The only asset a com-'children. Another son, Coloh , will supply Resurrection Lutheran ■t a short talk to the honored em f ployees. Both Mauney and Jolly i ^^nade the presentations of service' k Sfliins. il Twenty-two employees accepted, ' J five-year service awards. Ten- \eai‘ awards were given to ^5ix * employees and five were singled \\ out for having been w-ith Mauney for 15 years. Gaither Ledbetter was cited for 20 years of employ ment with Mauney Hosiery. Ray Cline and Ray .Smith were singled out for special recogni- Jj];- tion. Both Cline and Smith have ” marked 30 years of continuous service with the Kings Mountain- based hosiery firm. pany has is the people that work’ Blease Reynolds, was killed in for it. Nothing can replace people World War IL like you that are dedicated and Rev. Russell Fitts, assisted by loyal,” Mauney advised. ; Rev. E. L. Murphy, officiated at Clinton Jolly, general manager* the final rites, at Carolina Throwing, also madei I !'.! JUNIORS WIN Kings Mountain's Juniors nip ped Morganton 2-1 lost night at City Stadium to advonce to the Area Four semi-finals against Gostonia Post 155 will host the Gastons Friday night at 7:30 in the first gome of a best-of-five series. Righthander Bobby Ethridge went the distonce last night, hurl ing 0. four-hitter. Southpaw Rocky Goforth will open the series with Gastonia. KIWANIS SPEAKER Miss Camilla George, sum mer youth director at Kings Mountain Baptist church.'will ■ present the program at Thurs day night’s Kiwanis club meet- i ing at 6:45 p.m. at the Woman’s club. Miss George spent last I summer in Africa and will have ' slides of her trip to use as a basis for her talk. She is a na tive of Laurens. S. C. and a . student at Meredith college. TO FILL PULPIT Dr. J. Cecil Lawrence, execu tive secretary of Mecklenburg Presbytery, will fill the pulpit at Sunday morning worship services at 11 o’clock at First Presbyterian church. church Sunday, July 20 for the 11 a.m. worship service. Dr. Hamm has served several churches in North Carolina, in eluding St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, Kings Mountain. At present he is the associate j)aslor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Gastonia. Dr. 'Hamm served in Kings Mountain from 1935-40. The public is invited to this ' service. Triplets Born Independence Day; 23-Year-OId Mother; Nos. 6.7,8 student worked rarl-time at the Statesi‘";;7,, valorem Mountain Herald. Re«,rv.. He attenae. ^-c .-oraj;^- eign Wars and a Mason, member of Fairviow Lodge 339 AF&AM. The Barrett family includes his the former Arlene Schneid- kt North Carolina School of the , has received his commission as Arts In Winston Salem, spent t^e ' chaplain in the United A«ekend with her parents. JI'r-iNavy Resei ^ ^ •••' end Mrs. W. W. McCarter, .at'vard College anu reoeivort which he enjoys during his off-duty hours and on vacations. Injuries Fatal To Mrs. Grosby,4C Kings Mountain Junior PoUc*e will sponsor Kids Day July 18-IS at City Stadium, with events in the afternoon and evening both days. Admission is free. I Youth acts, aerialists, perform- * ing ainmals, elephant rides, real Western ponies, and cboice ^ a’,university of the! eri'to a’five-year term on' tbe of God, interment following in 'South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Kings Mountain Redevelopment Mountain Rest cemetery Laura, Floyd, and Third Mauney avenue and Allison court,! Funeral rites for Mrs. Della In June of this year Mr. Neill | to Skidmore Construction Com- McAbee Crosby, 40, wife of Floyd received his Bachelor of Divinity (pany, Belmont, at $26,732.40. ; Crosby, were held Sunday at 3 Degree from St. Luke’s School ofj Thomas A. Tate was reoppoint- P-m. from Bessemer City Church colorful mechanical rides will featured. Entertainment is free. Final Rites Held Edwin War, son of Mr. and! Mrs. Franklin L. Ware, Jr., wasjM mm v » graduated with B.A. in history jJjQJ [|||^ lldlinOR from Western Carolina Univers ity at CuUowhee. At WCU he was! an officer of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity and active in the Young Democrats club and the Interna tional Relations club. He entered the Armed Forces on Monday. AVanda Kay Bridges, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. (Bridges, graduated from Western Carolina University with B.S, in physical epointtd by the city commission to c five- year term on the Kings Moun tain Redevelopmont Commis sion. Lake, New York. She played ten nis all four years of college and holds a cup and four trophies for skills. She was the top tennis The babies — two girls and a'player at WCU and participated bgy were reported “doing fine”! in tournaments at the University by their mother, though she ex-|af Tennessee and tJie University pects they will be hospitalized two of North Carolina, more weeks. Mrs. Burris returned home to route 1, Lake Monlonia road in the Hilltop community Wednesday. Attending physician was Dr.| Paul Hendricks. ’ | QWy privilege licenses purchases, Darlene Burris weighed three!<:ue July 1, totaled $$2663 through pounds, eleven ounces. Marlene. Tuesday, City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Burris weighed in at three jp,, reported, pounds, seven ounces and Darrin! Tentatively budgeted is $5750 , Privilege License Purchases $2663 Burris weighed three pounds, six ounces. Mrs. Burris said the stork’s visit on July 4th brought two sur prises to her household. She said she and her husband, James Sher wood Burris, Jr., hadn’t prepared for thi’ce babies. It was a pleas ant Independence Day surprise, she said. ‘ Other members of the Burris family are Loretta Fern, who’ll ICtmimut'd on Page 6) for the year as receipts from this source. Penalty for nonpurchase ap plies In August. GOSPEL SING 'The Groves Trio of Spartan burg, S. C. and the Singing Echoes of Gastonia will sing at Cheixjkee St. Baptist church Satui-di^ -night from 7i 30 until 9:3Q p.m. Tlie Interested public is invited to attend. Funeral rites for Martin Luth er Harmon, Sr., 94, were conduct ed at Boice Memorial ARP church last Thursday morning. The final rites were conducted, — P»i.d =.==-x-Z? ^wly arrived pa r | The Kin^s Mountain Junior Interment was in Clingman Mem- S^ PressIy termed Mr. Har- Mrs. Crosby was killed instant ly Thursday night at 10 p.m. when she lost control of the pick up truck she was driving on High- :way 17-A in Summerville, S. C. I She and her son, Billy Ray, were ; enroule to Walterboro, S. C. to 'spend the July 4th holiday with I her brother and tiwo sisters. Michael Glenn 'Owenby, Jr-.rYoung Crosby was uninjured, four-year-old grandson of Mr.' Mrs. Crosby, a native of Cleve- and Mrs. Robert Hambright of County, is daughter of the Kings Mountain, was killed Sat- ^jj,g Alice Fiedoll and Thom- ! urday when a riding lawnmower Owenby Ghild s Rites Gonducted mon’s life “an honor to God.” Re lating personal associations through 18 years of friendshi dorsed fluoridation of the water! The child was son of Mr. and supply. Mrs. Michael Glenn Owenby of Kings Mountain Jaycees, with 13714 Atlas Drive, Charlotte. The Dr P^ssIv sard of Mr Harmon* president Gerald Thomasson; family was visiting Mr. and Mrs, Dr. Pressly said oi Mr. Harmon. , spearheading! Ceci] Owenby, the child’s patern- as chairman, and reviving the fluoridation pro.]al grandparents, jed! in the city. | Surviving^ besides the parents Action was taken at the regii-' and grandparents arc two sisters, lari meeting of the women’s or-1 Rita Faye and Glenda Owenby of ganization. ■ the home. Fnneial Bites For Miss Gaxdnei. Foimei Hospital Administiatoi an elder emeritus of the church, “He never sought the limelight. He didn't care who did the fid dlin’ as long as the work got done.’’ Mr. Easley road Old 'Testamonl Scripture and Dr. Pressly Xfom the New Testament. The congregation, with Mri». J.; E. Gamble