Population Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits (1966 Census) 8.256 City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9,300 sAibuivt nmg* Meuu.aio lig^ra u derived tr»tii (li» Umtcrd Stat«h Btiiauu of tl:« ConiuA report e luuuaiy .sue, and incluott toe 14.930 populatioa e f w«hir In Co«*oe County Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspapei VpL 81 No. 40 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. P., Thursday, October 2, 1969 Sevent’-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENT^ StudyG ake Fluoridation Recommendation \\ ne Decision Is Appealed; On Stream TargetDateSame Cline Challenges Commissioners. Clerk Judgments Huford T. Cline has appealed to peiior Court rulings of the clerk and of the clerk-appointed commisisoners in the city s con demnation action to acquire pio- perty for the Buffalo Creek dam site. Meantime, however, work con- -inues on the dam sife and City Attorney Jack While sai j he has >ern informed orally that Jlr. ^line will not seek to interteie i with the construction. 1 he appeal notice specifics ex- .options to the cammisslone.s’ ac- .v'ptanje of the city's decision to u jui.e the enti.e 93 acre tract and to the $31,590 damage award.; *5 xt takes exceptions to Clerk Paul Wilson's rulings as to right of ondemnation, the city’s need for :he full tract, and for need of property to parallel 74-1. The ap peal notice contends the city PLANT MANAGER — Robert A. Ringery has been appointed plant manager for the Kings Meuntoin Mobile Home Service Center. Alcan Names Plant Manager Akan Aluminum Corporation today announced the appoint ment ol Robeit A. Kingery as plant manage- for the King: Mountain Mobile He me Servlet Center. Mr. Kingery ha? held a number of administrative, marketing and sales positions at the firm’s Clevelapd cc'“p:;rate headquarters. He. succeed? George P'oggan. A native Ox Illinois, \ii. Kinge \’ served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to t953. During these tours oi duty, he served in the Pacific and Ko- 'r(?a. He lecentiy retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as a Lt. "Colonel, Infantry. SUCCUMdS-Cal Fisher. 33. died suddenly Sunday of o heart at tack. Funeral rites were held Tuesday from Grace Methodist church. Attack Fatal To Cal Fisher .‘oukl Ic able lo c.a.m prope.'iy o I'^rallcI 73G. other than that oqui.ed to .cn^e the property. Ciiy Atiorncy White explained 'iVifi VriJr fl<7ain from* 19^0 to Stale law’ requires a Iwofoot Funeral rites for Caleb Aloxan- 1946 and again from 19o0 to 33 Yoirs. Tuesdav afternoon at 3 p.m. from The appeal, filed September 25, Grare United Methodist church of had net been calendared official-,^ membei. V iy on W'edne&day but was expect-1 J* G. Lane, minUter of the Ho was graduated from the I ed to be calendared for the next - fiiurch. and the Rev. Herbert Gar- University of Illinob in 1950 w'ith: civil terrn of Cleveland a B.S. Degree in industrial ad- Court beginning November 24- ministration. Among his hobbbies Judge Sam J. Ervin, III, - .AmotAnt ^ * are swimming and diving, golt, g^nton, is scheduled to preside - Fisher died sud?enlv Sun- The three commissioners who Eisner uiea snaaeniy sun and parachuting. Anmirsof^obertand a^^ught;'; 93-aae'"t;act were Ernest" Harrill. “Pf Pamela will be relocating in the William flerndon, and George Ijcaltn, he and hi^ wife and chil i-aiii^-ia vMii ui vvero Spending the weekend with Mrs. Fisher’s parents in kingery and his wife, J^an awarded Mr. Ciine $31,500 for the / P.'" ot a ma.ssive Work Proceeds On Dam Site. Line-Laying Target date for putting into service the Buffalo Creek wate. iOxVice remains March 1, Dennis Fox, resident engineer, said Wed nesday. He cited these items: 1) Grubbing and clearing of the lam site continues with Gillespie Construction Company to be in position to pt.\ r concrete struc- uies soon. 2) Bric^kwork on the water treat- ne.nt plant will bJ in nex.i week. 3) Work is to begin soon on an 18 X 52 brick booster pump sta tion to be locaied on prcp3x-ty ol the late Tilden Ledford. 4» Excellent progress is being made in line-laying by Lewder Jjnsti uction company, proceed- ng eastward along U S. 74 at the rate of 100;) to 1200 feet pei l.iy. Tnis late will slow as the ’pproaclics to the city are reach ed but Mr. F'ox pi'odicts hook up wJn tlio 24-i K h m-ain on West Meuntain sHeet within four' weeks. 5) Construction of the second ih.ee valve vaults on West Mountain street is half complete fhc third is' to be ccnstructed at* he corner of Jupiier street.'Three more are to be constructed from the city limits to the dam site. "liic work goc.s well and the icw system snould be supplying water not later than March 1,”, the engineer concluded. laycees Apply Piessuie Seeking 'Answer Now" Proponents Rough On Commission oint a study committee to make! recommendation for commission] lion on Oclober 14. - 1 Kings Mountain area shortly. Dover. New Directory To Be Delivered The city said it wOL;ld not ap Rockkingham. Mr.* Fisher became P'f while attending Sunday morn- <.-l1 nOO in psrrijw with the rlerk' . i_ i. • mg church services. He was the son of Mrs. Pearl The new telephone directory for Tiller Fisher of Kings Mountain $31,.500 in escrow with the clerk of courf. Condemnation actions have been Kikgs M7umalnd”s‘yi‘nrdeliver-' ponding to acquirej and the late Joseph David Fisher, ed this week property of Ambrose Cline, John, He was employed at Wi.\ Corpo- Delivery of the new telephone:^' a"d Coleman Goforth. ration in Gastonia and was in directory will begin on Friday,' Attorney White said condemna-! According to R. B. .Moore, local tion actions wiil be filed this week marrtcfm Southern Beil manager, and will; to acquire the other remaining. f probably take several days toi (wo tracts required for the Buf-']!; complete. .Moore asks anyone who^jlo Creek lake, including a por- :i°J^^, teacher in the 0-o^lrTo''!.alf thr'Se's Su^tlving besides.his wife and office and ask for the service Randi Inc loia^ly owned by Bu ! ^ T™ bmtLrs’. Davki RshefARe"!; fT ^ ^ I her, Donald Fisher, all ot Kings f « acccant. , ji*. “We plan to get the new diroc-| tones to oui’ customers as soon' f^np Cv%AncAvin#« as possible. So that we may ac-; « aponSQFing compJish this, we would like for^ Clothing Drive any cutomer who docsn t receive; Colonel Frederick Hambright a directory by O tober 8 to please] dAR, is sponsoring a let us gnow,” Moore said. ; ^ji-ive for good, warm used cloth- * A quick cher'k of the new tele-'for students at Crossnore, a phone directory indicates this ^ohool for mountain children near area’s progress. This year, 10,700^P*'ooe Pine. d’rectonrs will be distributed, persons who wish to donate compared to 10,261 last year. Tax P*'e-Pavwerts Now Total $74,158 Tax pre payments by King.s , Mountain citizens reached $74,lo8 ^ the cno per cent discount pe- r od ended Tuesday, Mrs. Steve nAmon. assistant tax collector, rcflcrtcd. clothing should deposit them at !)ie residence oi Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomson, 308 West Mountain trcct. during morning hours, said Mrs. C. E. Neisle., chairman of the committee heading up the Meuntain, and Guy Fisher of Winston-Salem; and six sisters, Mrs. C. T. Dixon, Mrs. Roy Long, Mrs. Billy Brown, Mrs. Lula Mae Fisher, all of King.s Mountain, Mrs. J. E. Seism of Decatur, Ga., and Mrs. William Fipps of Bruns wick, Ga. Active pallbearers were Johnny Thomasson, Johnny Walker, Bill Antcn, all of Gastonia, Don Mc- Abee, Gilbert Brazzell and Derek Smith, all of Kings Mountain. PROMOTED--Clifton K. Unn, tep vice-president and general manager of Kinder Manufactur ing Company here« will head up the New Products Division in the Corporate office at Elk hart. Indiana. New gctr^rcl Tnc^ager here is Gary E. Adam son. Klndei Promotes Linn, Adamson Clifton K. Kinder, president of Kinder Manufacturing company, Inc., has announce^! the appoint- : ment of Clinton K. Linn, vice- president and general manager ot the Kings Mountain manufac- D. turing facility, as head of the Ashe, 91, of Belmont, father of New Products Division in the Cor- the Rev. Wayae Ashe, pastor of porate office at Elkhart, Indiana. Kinder manufactures furniture, Rev. Ashe's Father Passes 1 uiicral rites for Wheeler By MARTIN HARMON In spite of heated demands' from Jaycees and others support-1 mg fluoridation of the city’s water supply for “an answer now”, the ....... . . city board of commissioners dc-' Three members of the city com-, brought healed comments from dined Tuesday night | mission said at Tuesday night’s some in this vein: Instead on moikm of Pommiis 'Public hearing on fluoridation of ! Ken Roberts (t:- Commissioner iioner Norman King. Commiss.on ! city’s water supply that they Norman King): "11 you can’t say . Ka> Cline seconding, the board 1«uoridation in a (where you are . you dor^t telong o;ed unanimously to authorize: o up here.” Mr. King replied ’ I per- layor John Henrv Moss to ap-! "'cre toy Umc. Mrs. : scnally will not vote or it" ./av.! ^ ♦ ! O. O. Walkcr and Jim Dickey. Gerald Thoma.sson: “You’vehad They declined, however, to take this material two months. We de action without a vote. serve an answer tonight.” .."rSiion 'ho : MI Crigo., oltlog th. long o 1 list of endersements by medical I • tbo .rimmifiu^n' The statements Were made dur-| civic, and health groups: “We dll dlcPnc fluoridation i ^ “polling of the delcgatiDn" don’t want a referendum.” vixTr^ Ai .-c c.vi ?»r i!; ^ .. ! superintended by Mrs. Haywood, Bill Allen: “YouTe just think- fSo^uo ’nt ““ « •' .l~..'ihg.>««..l.= h.x..loe.r.n.- il€nd§ to he a 12-member study mmitlce, including Commission-’ s Cline, King, W. S. Biddix and m Dickry, D*. John C. McGill, tul Mcuncy, M s. Dewey Rath- one, Rev. R. L. G’orvin and John TcGinnis. He s d j he would >oint three additional members nd name a chairman within the ext f: w days. Gerald Thomasson, chairman of he Jaycees pi emotion committee, and -a battery of Jaycees present-1 J a pro,;r.im in support of ft.or-< dalion, while Clayton Bolton was i one-man battery in rebuttal. Proponents contended fluoiida ioo! i.wen.s looih decay, particularly! 11 children. | Chai.man Thomasson declared:' T.ae Department Ci. lieallh, Edu- ation and Welfare, the Ameri-i an Medical association, and the! Vmerican Dental a.ssociation have declared they find no scientific eason for failure to fluoridate.” •Jotin gthat Shelby has had fluor- Jalion since 1954, Thomasson cit 'd a 1980 su vey showing Kings Mountain school children had wico the C’lvities Shelby youngs- ers haJ. He said three-fourths he 1.8 million people served by central or municipal water sys tems drink fluoridated water and Noting that Shelby has had floor ed laws requiring central sys tems to be fluoridated. Other Jaycees, speaking briefly, were: Bill Grissom: “Fluoride is a poi- Macedenia Baptist church, will be held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. from Belmont’s Thirst Wesleyan Metho dist church. Mr. Ashe died TuesiJay morn ing at his home. He was a native of Swain coun ty, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Ashe. son, so is chlorine which we put in treated water all the* time. ’ Frank Hinson: “Stained teeth bedding and dinette furniture for ; are common in areas with natu- the mobile home industry. Mr. Linn, in addition to seiving as general manager of the Kings Mountain plant has also served as general manager of the New- tan, Kansas and Rialto, California rally fluoridate:! water, but the content is more than the recom mended one part per million gal lons.” Bob Myers: “A ten-year test on two ta.vns in Texas where water was naturally fluoridated showed no significant differences in He served four years in U.S. Air I j^ealth pi-hblems, though the wat Other suivivors include one] plants, daughter, Mrs. R. A. Jones of during World War II and jei- supply of one'eontaTned 8 PPM he, Lemuel, Eail and J. L. Ashe, J^^c been active in the mobile and thr^ other ..f all o: Belmont; two sisters, Miss, borne industiy for the past I4jfjne percent” 3 past president of' Roberts: (On mass medi- A^'h Associ- jt.aHoni "Fluoridating compares two biothers, S. Buign Ashe of ation, a member of the V.F.W., • RAKE Disease fatal to VOUNGSTER^andra Juan Wilson, IL is pictured in her bed at Duke hospital/ Durham^ where she has been a patient for eight months. The child died Tuesday night of dermatomyositis* rare muscle and skin disease. Her mother, Mrs. Jo Walker Wilson, is pictured by her bedside. Funeral Friday for Sandra Wilson Who Died oi Rare Muscle Disease Eloven-year-old Sandra Juan Wilson lost her three-year battle against the rare musde-skin dis ease, dermatomyositis, Tuesday night. The Kings Mountain girl died at 12:30 p^. in Duke hospitaj at Duiham where she had been a patient for eight months. Weak ened from several bouts of pneu monia and lung collapses, she had been conscious but in critical condition on the past several weeks. Bedridden since last Christmas, the youngster weighed 57 pounds. She was able to at tend four weeks of school last year. A family spokesman said doc- the mobile j anti the"other only onc-tenth of told them the c/ippling^ dis- CRD Progress Report Tuesday •Pho discount rate for October is on%haU of one per cent. COMMUNION Two services of Holy Com munion will be held Sunday, one at 9 a.m. and one at 11 a.m., a* SI. Matthew’s Lutheran church. Bryson City, and W. Claude Ashe of Candler: .33 grandchildren, 66 great-grandchildren and 13 great- i great grandchildi*en. Hospital Addition “Behind Schedule" Work on the addition to Kings j M.mpntain hospital is running , organisation in 1963 at the New riour weeks behind .schedule, trus- ton, Kan.sas plant and most re- tecs of th(? hospital were told in j cently has .served as sales mana- a progre.s.s report la.st week. i gcr at Kings Mountain. Ho re- Thp delay was caused by rainy -sidi^s with his wife, Connie, in weather. (King.s Mountain. KiwanK Elks club and American Legion. He and his wife, Dorothy, will be moving to the Elkhart area in the near future. Replacing Mr. Linn a.s general inanagpi of tlie Kings Mountain plant will be Gary E. Adam.son. Mu Adamson joined the Kinder to milk, Funeral rites will bo held Fri day at 4 p.m. from Faith Baptist church of which the child was a member. The body wiil remain at Harris Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 7 untq 9 p.m. Thursday. The body will lie in state at the church 30 minutes before the rites. Rev. Robert Hicklin, Rev. W. T. Luck- adoo and Rev. Paul Darr will of ficiate. and interment will be in Mountain Rost cemetery. The child is survived by her mother, Mrs. Nancy Jo Walker Wilson; hor father, Martin Luther Wilson, Jr.; four brothers, Randy, Scott and Johnny Wilson, all of Kings Mountain, and Danny Wil- fw Curriculum at KMHS Includes 10 History, Ping Pong, Golf A planning progress repini on the central biisine.ss development!* , , -- “ —“ irs'/,'!.X"*i;;';,''“o“'aost Tiansmusion Case Baffles nail at 7 o’clock, Charles D. Blan- ! ion, cMairaM i oi too ce.ii.al coni- mittee for downtMAii development curriculum at Kings Moun Igh school this year is a bit nt. al new classes are under- pv education, housing and fur nishings. tamily health, do,thing i* social studios depart- rs. Cozell Vance is teach- TO history, the story of announced this week. lie further invited all business men, Oilier properly owners in the downtown area, and other luicicstcd citizens to attend the hiC^illig. j “Inc puipose of the meeting,”] Chairman Blanton said, “will bo to bring citii.ens, those directly alfccied and otherwise, up to! .-ate on planning progress. A Detective Lieutenant Bill Ropei !ir.d textiles, arid food and nutri tion. Guest speakers will lecture and field trips are planned. S'even to on and 18year-old * : youths a-e being offered a c*ourse summation will be made and a' in occupational sewing. At the informal (|uostion answer period it Negroes in America, Ne- present time the cla.'ss is hem- will follow.” j, tvcr> and e?.:pIo;ation and ''uf^i3:sF.enrhofGastonia,im- Mr. Roper says the transmissiOy^ inediate past governor ol the has been stolen, bought and paia, Carolina's District ol Kiwanis In fer so many times he is unable, ternational. will install M.‘. Jones , to figure out who it belongs to. I and otlier officers. I The transmission was imtially' Other new officers to be in- stolen from Lail’s Used AutO) stalled at the 6:45 p.m. meeting Parts in Valdese several weeks at the Woman’s club bare Carl ago and sold to a local youth ac-iFinger, first vice-president; Lou cording to Roper, who knew at!Sabettie, second vice-president; the time It was stolen. What hap | H. D. McDaniel, Jr., past president; pened to it? It was stolen from|Don Blanton, secretary; John L. the car of the youth who bought'McGill, treasurer; and J. C. it for $75. The youth reported the Bridges. G. P. DoBrule, J. J. Dic- transmission stolen to the local; key, W. S. Fulton, J. C. Hedden, Continued Oh Page Eight ' \ Grady How-ard and B. S. Pguicr. the I Harr>^’s Grist MUj near Grover is another early landmark of the ISOO’s. “Legal” liquor stills are pinpointed as well as route of the old Stalgecoach road run, old. grain mills, and other info^ma- Americans tion on various td.vnship-s, cities, fought. legislators and sons who have The former John Wells cabin of reached high public office. Ociojor i, iiM) has been re.Tio-*el-! Schoo) children in the county cd but the o.iginal log structure will bo admitted free to the fair- still stands. The house is believed grounds Friday on special tickets to be the county’s oldest inhabited issued by respective principals. Iweiling and is shewn along with The world-famojs Jack Koch- )ther$ of the county’s oldest man Hell Drivers appear before uruclurcs in a colorful map the the grandstand aga^n Thurs day rievoland County Historical So- night. LoRoy Van Dyke, rocord- ciely is prcionting in a far- ex ing artist, is on the grandstand at the Cleveland County both Prinday and Saturday ove- Fair, which continues through nings along with counf'v music- Satv:rda>. , ttt«an Tommy Cash, brother c-: the History buf's will find Tnuch Johnny C'ash. information on Cleveland Com-) The ^catu^e car race of the ty’s past in the colorful and hum- fan is tap .Saturday afternoon orous cartooning of the mip. The -3 '^nd is the annual C'eveland history was written by Ed Smith County Late Model Sport-smo t of Kings Mountain who served as Championship race featuring all chairman of the research commit- locaj and Shelby aix'a drivers, tee for the project, assisted by Patricia Elaine Johnson, Miss Mrs. pansy B. F'etzer, Paul Lime- North Carolina, conducted the rick, Tom C. I’omey. H. C. Wil- opening day c(i.“emonies Tuesday son -and David E. Beam. James morning. She put a flaming torch J. Scancarelli was the artist and to a hearth of rocks setting off Robert S. Gldney is society rresi- cascades of water and marking dent. i the start of the 46th annual event. The large to-scale drawing of^ Light rain, which began falling the county as it was a century Wednesday sundown, failed to and more ago gives a wealth of . dampen the spirits of the crowds information. ! of faii*goers.