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\ 1969 w~. ]R ;iz[ Population . Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits (1966 Census) 8.256 City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9.300 • Oitater Kings MountmB tlguis is dsrlvsd iTom tbs o^ctoi Onittid Siaiss suisau oi (fee Census tepoct o ,au 4uiy ibeS. uud tnciudes (fee i4.y9U population o Number 4 To«nsutp. and the remoiiung 6«ii4 iron Number 5 Township, m Cleveland County and Crowder • • Gogton County Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL 81 No. 44 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 30, 1969 Seventy-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CEMT5 -it ^ Sales Tax Election Will Be Tuesday r / ;l / ;1 Homecoming At KMHS BOY SCOUT TBOOP RECEIVES FLAG—America i Legion Post 155 presented an American flag recently to Boy Scout Troop 92 of Kings Mountain. Boy Scouts of Troop 92 raise the flag at American Legion-sponsored baseball games during the summer months. Accepting the flag for the trooo is Senior Patrol Leader Frank Humphreys, son of M . and Mrs. Edward Humphreys. Making the pres entation is Legion Commander Corl Wilson. (Ph'itc by Isaac Alexander) United Fund Has $20,000 Seven Firms Yet To Report PROMOTED — Clayton (Pete) Wright Kings Mountain native and son of Kossie Wright of route two and the late Mrs. Wright bos been promoted to the position of Advertising Monager of the Gaffney, S. C. Ledger. He ^joined the Ledger staff in 1962. Ledgerhomotes Clayton Wright Smith Confident I $32,100 Goal To Be Attained Pi chniinai*y figui-es incicate that ■ Kings Mountain’s Unile<t Fund: ..geaj I'Oi'-1909 ■will tie ai-; taincci j for ilie thir.t, year in a ont'-day campaign. ‘ * • Sixty percent of the goal of I ! $.32,100 or $20,000 in pledges had been reported by late 'ruos<iay with seven industrial firms in .. wiili leporljj still out from seveii indusinal films in the city. I Kyle Smith, campaign chan-man,| was elated at preliminary tabu lations from the one-day drive! ior funds for 21 causes, 1 “1 am optimistic that we will; reach our goal -and more- when; final figuies are counted thisj j werk.”, said Smith. I “The one-day effort was veiy ; vapaiAly done by all division ! chairmen”, added Smith in ix'port- ing the drive successful. V’olunleers began the day early Tuesday with a kick-off breakfast at First Presbyterian church, where they were challenged by Ri-pt. Carl Stewart of Casionia. loc ; active in United Fund rais-, ing in Gaston County. Pamela lean Lee Queen; Parade Starts at 3:30 Pamela Jean Lee, senior stu- uLiii, will be crowned Queen of che 1909 Homecoming at Kings Mountain high school Friday night at haU-irme of the football game between the Mountaineers of Kings Mountain high school and the ;3ulldogs of Burns. Miss Lee and members of her Homecomin^ Court will ride in a parade on downtown streets beginning at 3:30 p.m. The pa rade w’iil climax open house from ) a.m. ur.'il 3 p.m. at the high school and a pep rally from 2:15 until 3 p.m. at the high school. PARADE ROUTE I The parade will form on Gold' street and proceed to Railroad' avenue, froni Railroad to High way 74, from Highway 74 to Pied mont Avenue, from Piedmont Avenue to Mountain street, from Friday Extra 1 Percent Would Benefit Counties, Cities By MARTIN HARMON North Carolina citizens will go j lO tne polls Tuesday to determine 1 who.her their parti^.vJar county or .ountifs will add :i one percent sales tax, its collections rcbatable j to county an.. city govern.nc its. i The decision in each county will j be the majority vole in that par- • licular (‘ounty. i Polls will be open from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p.m. at all precjnet polling places, the 2S i:i Cleveland and me mo.e than 20'J0 others I ihroughout the state. I HciO is the basis of lebate to : the counties and cities, according I lO lUuUon Sianbiiry, of Raleigh, Coroner Harris Senator Harris? He Considers Making Race For Senate By MARTIN HARMON Coroner J. Ohio Harris make seek to Ixvome State Senator Har ris in elections next year. QUEEN — Pamela Jean Lee, daughter of Mrs. Jean Wiggins, will reign as Queen of the 1969 Homecoming festivities Friday night ot Kings Mountain high 'school. anTfrom” RMtW^nnnri ^ ■ 1 ‘ Ve/y litUe'outward intorcst has f"r leiiKth of session, he told ^ 4 Battleground been evidenced in Cleveland Coun friends he’d “had enough”. The o oold Sheet. The parade wUl 11116$ VOnOUCteCl ,y con.emHg he ?ax proS «ame friends thmk it was the ^ ^ end on Gold strm at Gaston. H has torn endX> i bv ^ of tiredness ani that and t.M the present Members of the Homeconiing Funeral services lor Williarr ly board of commissioners but intervening months of rest will, Corporation Court wjll be intiodcced at 7:30 Dewitt (BilU Bennett, 44. were there has appeared no organized result in the Senator’s again seek- America in Bessemer City, has p.m. and the football game '■viil held Satui-lay at 3 p.m fiom East olfort in support of the DroDosal. ”'8 re election. named a vice presidont of ?ct underway at 8. The Home-. Gold Afreet Wesleyan Methodist Xhe Ciiv of Kin s Mountain During the recent session the company. The announcement ‘oming Quwn will be crowned at church, interment following in Ijoard of commissioners has Assembly put the 29th . by Elwin E. Smith, The Kings Mountain mortician jf Hie North Carolina Department acknowledged this week he is con- jf Revenue's tax research depart- si lering otforing for one of the ment: j two 29ih senatorial district senate It Half of the receipts from seats, the additional one percent will , . > 00 fully rcbatable to the particu- ^Mhch one? iar county in which it is collected. Rurris doesn’t yet know, it will b(* divided between city ^-'f^ept that, if he offers, it wih and county on basis of properlyv oh whether three-term tax levies of county, taxing dis- veteran Senator Jack White seeks tiicts (such as schools) and all t'e-elcciion. ! incorporated municipalities. made it clear he, ^ . 2» Half of the receipts will go oppose his Kings Mountain Nielsen has been named a vice- into a pool wdlh other participat- *^oighbor Senator White. i ing co'.nties. Here the division In turn, Senator White has been factor will be derived from pop- *ion-committal about his plans: uialions of the participating coun-'year’s elections. At the end of the 1969 General ■ »a f AssiJinbly session, a record one N|AlCAt| VICE-PRESIDENT — Richard L. president of Lithium Corpora tion of America. Lithium Taps ; no position on the proposal. I half-time of the game. After the Mountain Rest cemetery, i alumni in- Rev, Edwin R. Chriscoe officiat , vifed. will be held at the sthool ed at the final rites, .Wmmbns area sponsbrr^d- hj- the -Mr. Beniiett died at 1 o’clock satu davs at the City Hall court f student ParlicipijtiOT Organiza- Thursday morning ’ me enj Hall touti district under the so-called num- president, at the company’s cxc cutivp headquarters in Now York Mrs. Nell Cranfoi d, registrar at system. The district, includ- ; East Kings Mounlaiti, spent three Cleveland and Gaston cH>un- / Minv. ' » xt- i ties, elects two senators. Under, ^ native of Minm'sota, Niel.sen I tion. in the Veto-! room polling place. She did not The IQ fonthaii hospital at Salisbury after 'logister a single voter. “I didn’t "‘^veral year’s illness. even have anyone to come bv to j have chosen sponsors for the I event. They include; Susan Hal j lew for Gene Harris, Cindy Car , roil for Butch Kerns, Dottie Gar- ^ I roil for Gary Henderson, Diane Cornwell for Marty Frederick. He A as a retired insuranceman inquiie if he were registere:!,” • and foimer salesman at Western m--s. Cranford remarked. Auto Associate Store. He was a veteran of World War II. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Rena Dellinger; his wife, Mrs. RESIGNS*—Rev. David L. Castor, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church the past four yeors, has resigned to become pastor of the 800-member St Stephen's Lutheran church ot Hickory. Castof Resigns At Resurrection Rev. David L. Castor, pastor of , Bainara Davies for Mike Brown, Ora Mae Williams Bennett; and ' Jerry Lovelace, his daughter. Mrs. Linda Bennett I Deobie Francis for Bobby Eth- Adams of Salisbury. I ri.ige, Jeannie Goforth for Gerald _ I Herndon, Kay Griffin for Mike j Kiser, Paulette ^Manning for Jewel ! Watson, Alice McClain for Phil- ' bert Smith, Karen Moore for f Snnie TT«^ Ym K^nny Bridges, Sylvia Morris for llinK"Up IS nCai There was no action on the lake legal front , two senators. Under, the numbered system, a candidate his home with his family woulf file for Senate Seat No. 1 Gastonia. He joined Lithium as or Senate .Seal No. 2. Previously, ^ pi’ecess development engineer the seats were filled on a sweep- " graduation from the Uni stakes basis. ' versify of Minnesota in 194S with (The numliored system appliMh ^ dogj-oo in chemical enginc'cring. Rotdstrar Mrs T H Arthur the three-member -13rd House Lithium facil- Ke.^isnar mis. j. m. Arinur elections. '*>' '^as located in St. Louis Park, Senator Marshall Rauch, of Gastonia, an avowed candidate . H^e new plant was built for re-election. Meantime, two Bessemer City in 1955, Nielsen prominent Gaston citizens have served as the first plant manager. At West Kings Mountain (Arm ory reporiej registering only five vot ers. Big Water Main j Mike Blanton, Becky Plonk for: Little Theatre Rehearsals Begin Reliearsals arc undeiway by the, Kings Mountain Little Theatre for ^ the forthcoming production of indicated interest in a 29th dis trict Senate seat. They are Coun In 1933 he was assigned to direct special projects for the presiJent. “The Curious Savage.” ty Commissioner Polio Cloningor later he Aas named gen- ' of Dallas and Representative Jack manager of Beryllium Metals ~ the former mayor of Bel- ^ Chemicals Corp.. a Lithium mont. Representative W. K. Mau- subsidiary in Bessemer City. In ney. Jr., of Kin^s Mountain, has became a vice president The comejy will he presented not offer, on two evenings, November 14th Mr. Harris is serving indicated interest, should White director of that company. .Chuck Easley. Martha Stone for'r> r, , .-..ppi, ! Gerald Putnam. Libby Trott for ?. 5^ ^ : Cliuck Hoyle. Debra Warren for sti'ucHon^^ro Tes Charles B-arncs, Cathy Wilson for ® PL^wder^^^Cons^ruction^"^ ^ Central term as Cleveland County" eoro- this year, he was reassigned ’ ‘ school auditorium. When Beryllium discontinued pro- a sixth and leased its properties Laurin Whisnant and Beth Wrieht ^ ’ . u • i- ror Larrv Rayfield. 'T ’ " Wednesday afternoon was within; Mrs. smith reminded that Unhed church ,he h-und ratnpaisns are important to p^^t four .^ar^. ha^s reslg^ el December 2Sth. to become Clayton (Petet Wright, wno been with The Gaffney. S. C. P<'‘.<^^«tage of contribution.s go'fo'7“^ -gV'-g" Lodger since 1962, has been nam- their intended causes. :.i i. tt: ed AdvertLsinir Manager, accord-1 ing to Publisher Louis C. Soss-a- church in Hickory. Bundy To Lead Revival Series a half-mile of link up of the 24- has the lead role in the produc- ner. has been a business citizen of Lithium to manage special pro- Jo Ann t Boots t McDaniel Kings Mountain since 19T7 Ho a past (“ommander of Otis D ^nd expansion of the corn- inch line from the water treat-; (ion. She will'portray “Mrs. Sav- American Legion, pany’s spojumeno mining proper The Hickory church has a mem- boiship of 800. ment plant site to the Mountain'age.” Lead male role is being por- street main pi'eviously insalled. ' trayed by Sam Eans of Shelbv. The legal front to date: : Other additions to the staff in- ^ Clerk of Court Paul Wilson elude Mrs. Nan Jean Grant in the Rev Curtis Bundy, pastor of has not yet appointed the three; role of Mrs. Patty and Dr. Bob HJfa «>■ I f ; The Hickory church has a mem- view^Baptist church, will be commissioners to appraise the Baker in the role of Dr. Emmett.' ' IVllSS UlCKSOll Si boiship of 800. evangelist for revival services be- property of John D. Cline in the' 19 ! ginning Sunday morning and con- city’s condemnation action to ac- Tickets go on sale this week Mr. Wright has been on the ad J Castor’s resignation wasi tinuing through Friday night at quire the John Cline property. ' range from $2 for orchestra vertising staff for IS months aft I|l|05 v01IClllC16Q accepted by the local congregation I Bethlehem Baptist church. 21 *Nti.v condemnation action by seats to $1 for seats in the A &: er having served two and one i Sunday morning. He and his fam-1 The evening services will he the city against Ambrose Cline ^ section. C section tickets are half years as oflset cameraman. Funeral rites for Miss Caroline^*^ move to Hickory Decern held at 7 p.m. and the nursery, (non-suited by the city due to an $L.50 for adults and $1.25 for and three years as circulation (Carrie) Dickson. S9 of Grover be open for all services. error in description of the prop-: Children’s tickets for' manager of The Lc<lger. ' were held Tuesda’v morning at 111 rpv m,. a native r.f -McDaniel will direct the; erty > had not been taken. seat sin the A & B section arc 75, He is a graduate of Kings'o’clock f,-om Antioch Baptist Kannaoo is ^me to KinerMonn i services.; 3) Persuance of the city’s c^on-’cents. i Mountain high school, attended church of Grover, interment foI-,tain from Phiiadelnhia futheran organist; demnation action to acquire pro- VESPER HOUR ; Kings iBiusiness College in Char- lowing in the church cemetery. Lhiirch (Vf Pranit^^ Pali® wf i Carpenter will be porty of Coleman (Goforth awaited Die Sunday evening worsiiip I lotlo. N. C.. majoring in account- Miss Dickson died Sunday morn- deviously served St PauVs lX i Charles: ing, and spent three years in the ing in a Rock Hill, S. C. mursing oran church of Rurline^ton ' community is invited to; Horn, Mr. Goforth s attoney. V. S. Navy having reached the home after illness of several woi^hip with the Bethlehem con-1 rank of Petty Officer First Class, years. ' A graduate of Lenoir Rhyne; ^^egation in this special series of lie is a member of the East she was daughter of the late'college and Lutheran Southern services', said Rev. Russell Fitts, Gaffney Baptist church, wliere he Robert and Amelia Hambrighl Seminary at Columbia. S. C., served as teachei, deacon, and Dickson and a member of Anti- Castor has been active in Scout-‘ HALLOWEEN DANCE past piesidcnl of the Lions club,; Bessemer City, and has been the active in other Nielsen is married to the for- and state organizations and -Miss Audrey Johnson of Min- associations. ME’TER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Tuesday totaled .$130.20, including $117.20 from on-street meters and $13 from off-street meters. cluircli clerk for 12 years. och Baptist church. . ing and he and his family attend- .Mr. Wright is married to the Surviving is her brother, K. A. ^ conference on scouting at| former Jactiueline Patrick and Dickson, of (Jrover. , Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron.j they have one daughter. Penny Rev. Wayne Tuttle officiated at Mexico, during the summer.; Lynn, a third grade student at the final riles. Central elementary school. They make their home at 300 Austin Drive in Gaffney. Mr. Sossamon s^id he wa.s pleased to be in a position to con tinue to promote from within The L('lgcr organization. “We feel our advertisers deserve someone with Rotary Sets Auction Sale ’ He has also been active in the Kings Mountain Lions club. ; Mrs. Castor, the former Faye Critcher, is a registered nurse. She has worketl in a part-time capacity at Kings Mountain hospital. The Castors are parents of three chil-, dren. Chris. Mark and Cindy'Cas-i tor. They reside at the Lutheran American Legion Post 155 will sponsor a Halloween dance Saturday night from 9 until 12 p.m. “The Rhythm Ramblers” will provide mu.sic at the Amer ican Legion building and the interested public is invited to attend. Proceeds will benefit the auxiliary’s veterans projects. KIWANIS SPEAKER Di.strict Lt. Governor John L. Brown of Hender.sonville will pay his official visit to the King.s Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday. The civic club meets for dinner at 6:45 p.m. at the Weman’s club. SERMON TOPIC Dr. Paul Ausley will use the sermon topic, “Room Enough?", at Sunday morning worship services at 11 o'clock Sunday at First Presbyterian church. 'Flic Sunday evening worsiiip hour at Kings Mountain Bap tist church has been changed to 5:30 p.m. At Sunday’s ser vice Rev. James Wilder will use the sermon topic, “Is Grief Neces.sary?”. TURKEY SHOOT Kings Mountain Police De partment and Cleveland Coun ty Rescue Squad will co-.sponsor a turkey shoot Saturday, No- V(‘mbei 8lh, at the Police club off York road. neapolis. They have three chil dren: Karen, a senior at Greens boro College: Mark, a freshman at Duke University, and David, a student at Grier Junior High School. Active in Boy Scout work, Niel sen is a past president of the Toastmasters Club of Gastonia. Technical affiliations include the Marine Technical Society and RESA, the Scientific Research Society of America. During World War II he served with the 24th Infantry Division. U. S. Army, in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan. LUTHERAN TOPIC “Tlie .Multitude, the Throne, tlic Song,’’ will be the sermon topic of Rev. Charles Easley at the 11 o'clock m.irnihg worship hour Sunday on All Saint.s’ Day at St. Matthew’s Lutheran churcli. Fluoridation Committee To Meet Monday to Discuss Recommendation Kings Mountain Rotarians will the ability to give them proper sponsor their annual White E’e- . consideration, understanding and phant Auction for benefit of the Crescent Hill, service and we feel we have this club's scholarship fund Saturday, typo of advertising staff at The November Slh, at 7 p.m. at tb? Le<lger. We are certain Mr. National Guard Armory. Wright will continue to offer this ' Among itemvS to be offered at to our advertispi«.” auction is a 1953 Plymouth which Mr. Wright is son of Kossie is being shined up for sale to the Wright of route two and the late highfst bidder. Observerman Styers Kings Mountain Teaches, Husband T”®,' n»*w.’(»v "stvi'i’s ('linrlntln Robbed at Gun Point on Thursday • "lit Mrs. Wright. BUILDING PERMIT ('ity building permit has be(*n issued to Herbert Adams for building of a garan^e, estimated to cost $1000, to his residence at 503 8. Cherokee street. Dean Spears i.s the builder. Dr. John C. McGill is general chairman of the promotion which is free and open to the pu.blic. VISITOR Leo Bi*llk(*, of Wau.sau, Wis consin, father of Mrs. John Honr>' Ma-w, is visiting Mayor ' and Mrs. Moss. BYNUM CHAPEL EVENT Bynum Chaptd AME Zion church will sponsor a Hallow een carnival Friday night be ginning at 6:30 p.m. at the church fellowship hall. Fun, games and contests are BAPTIST TOPIC “Talk About Giving” will be the sermon topic of the Rev. Jame.s Wilder at Sunday morn ing worship services at 11 o’ clock Sunday at Kings Moun tain Baptist ehurcli. The study committee on fluor-’November 14. idation of the city’s water supply Kings Mountain Jaycres are uill meet at 7:30 Monday night promoting the fluoridation pro- at City Hall and is expected to posal, with Gerald Thomasson make a decisioi> on a course of project chairman, action for recommendation to the Mr. Thomasson this week re city commission. ceived the following letter from The 13-membor committee, of Mrs. Becky Sc.ism, secretary of which J. OlUe Harris is chairman, the North school Parent Teacher was asked by the city commission association: lo make a study and to make one **We the members of North Dewey .Styers, Charlotte Ob- of three recommendations: School Parent - Teacher Associa- server carrier for the past 22 ii q'hat the city fluoridate the lion commend you on the stand years, is changing tags. water supply by boaid action. which you have taken toward the Effective Novemtx* 1, Mr. Sty- 2( That the city conduct a ref- fluoridation issue here in Kind’s A Kings Mountain school sixth grade at West school. She ers b(‘gins work un.ler a new con. crendum to determine whether .Mountain. At our October '>lst teacher and her dentist husband was a member of the Central tract and will be the carrier for the water supply is to be fluoi - mending we voted unanimouslv to were robbed at pistol point last school faculty last year and of the .Shelb> Daily Star. idaled. endorse this project and give Vtni Thursday night as they were the West faculty the previous Actually, the Star circulation 3) That the city not fluoridate our full support, leaving her husband’s office after, year. department will make deliveries the water supply at this time. “We apreciate so much your the dentist had given emergency Police arr(*ste<t Stephen L. until about December 1. as Mr. Chairman Harris askej his taking lime to come and discuss treatment to a patient. . Moore, 19, 4 Newman street, Shel- Styers is working a 30-day notice committee members to determine this with us.” Dr. and Mrs. Phillip Turner hy, and charged him with armed for the Observer. thinking of citizens “at the grass. In 1957. in an informational were leaving by the rear entrance robbery. Shelby Chief of Poliqe Mr. Styers views as a consider- roots" and said Tuesday night he referendum, citizens voted 2 to 1 about 9:22 p.m. when a negro Berry Lee said Wt'tinesday morn- able Nmefit of his new associa- had spent the most of the day in favor of fluoridation, but the male wearing a ski mask ordered ing Moore remains in jail await- lion the fact that his paper de. iiuiuiring of citizens their think- commission did not. them to lie down on the steps and ing preliminary hearing in lieu of livery work will bo only six days ing pn the fluoridation question. In 1959. in a second informa- to hand him their billfolds. $5000 bond. per week, rather than seven. The committee recommendation tiAnal referendum, citizens voted Mrs. Turner is the former Su Approximately $33 and several “I'ye been off 20 days in the is to bo presented to the city com more than 2 to 1 .igainst Huori- zanne Ramsey, now a teacher of ciedil cards were reported stolon, past 22 years,” he remarked. mission at the w^ular meeting oX Uution.