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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This flguie lor Greater Kin9s Mountcdn ts derived from
the 18iA Kingi Mountain city directory eengus. The city
Unilte figure It from the United Stotet eeniut of IMO.
VOL 76 No. 16
Established 1889
Kings Mountain's Beiiable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thur sday, April 22, 1965
Pages
Today
Seventy-Sixth Year
PRICE TEN CENT^
School Body Adopts New Pupil Assignment Plan
Filing Deadline
Monday At 4:30;
29 Registered
Candidates for c-i^y elcciive and
board of education offiL*es have
until Monday at 4:30 p.m. to file
their intention with the city
clerk’s office and post filing fees.
No new candidates entered the
• litical arena ‘his week. All
ndidates for city and board of
c*ducation offices have opposition
and 19 candidates seek six City
Hall and two board of education
positions.
Voter registration books will be j
open for two more Saturdays
from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. at eight !
polling places.
Although voter registration has;
b<H*n negligible, registrars report i
"a good deal of interest.” Mrs. •
Veia Cole Cash, Ward IV regis*
trar. noted that activity has been
good at her precinct as many cit
izens have checked to see if
they’re properly registered. Oth-
<‘1* registrars echoed her state
ment.
Twenty-nine new' names w'ere
added to the pollbooks Saturday,
an incomplete survey at the eight
precincts revealed. Ward I regis
trar C. L. Black reported the ad
dition of two new names, Ward
II registrar R. D. Gofortli reported
addition of two new names, Mrs.
Uuth Bowers reported the addi
tion ol nine in Ward III where
she is registrar, Mrs. Cash re
ported 11 new registrations in
Ward IV, Mrs. Paul Patterson re
ported throe new registrations in
Ward V. and Grover registrar
Mrs. James Scruggs reported
two. No new registrations were
reported by Mrs. Frank Ware in
^p^rT^le'Th^»are pre'fcinct.
W At the three outside eity pre
cincts — Bothware, Grover and
Park Grace — voters will help
determine only the election of
two members of the board of ed
ucation. At Grover Rescue Squad
building, citizens of the Grover
school district will register and
vole. At Park Grace school, citi
zens living in the Park Grace-
Compact section of the school
district will register and vote,
and at Belhware school citizens
living in the Bethware area sec
tion of the school district will
register and vote.
All other ward voting places
are the same as applied in the ‘
May 1963 city election. !
It is not anticipated that voter,
registration will be heavy as cm I
all-new registration was held
two years ago. New citizens must I
register to vote. Citizens who:
have changed residence within
the community must obtain *
transfers. i
I
The candidate list to date:
For Mayor — Mayor Glee A.
Bridgt's, Ex-Mayor Kelly Dixon
and John Henry Mos.s.
For Ward 1 Commissioner —I
Comm. Ray Cline and Ex-Mayor'
Garland E. Still.
For Ward 2 Commissioner —I
Comm. Eugene Goforth. W. S. i
Biddix and Thomas B. Eubanks.
B For Ward 3 Commissioner —
™omm. T. J. Ellison and James
L. Guyton.
For Ward 4 Commissioner —
Cornm. Norman King and Dewey
Styers.
For Ward 5 Commissioner —
Comm. J. E. Rhea, O. O. Walker
and Benjamin F. Brown.
For Board of Education — Mrs.
Lena Ware McGill, incumbent,
and Robert (Bob) Smith.
For Board of Ilducation (out
side city district) — B. Holmes
Harry. Incumbent, and Mrs. Ver-
lee Roberts.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
STATE HIGH/JAY COMMISSION
RALEIGH, L. C.
PROJECT 8.182;^7 ■ CLEVSLaND-GaSTON COUNTIES
Map Showing
PROPOSED relocation OF US 7^ BYrASS. OF KINGS
Horn; TaIN
Scale 1” = 'iz mi
Map Prepared April 196b
LEGEI^D
Interchange
Bridge •
Dead End
Hearing To Be May 5th on US 74 By-Pass
Moss Is Choice
For VFW. Post
A trial heat?
John Henry Moss, candidate
for mayor, will be judge ad
vocate pf Kings Mountain VF-
W Post 9811, as a result of
Monday’s annual election in
which Moss was elected over
the other nominee, mayor Glee
A. Bridges.
Lafayette Pearson, Southern
Bell serviee man, was elected
commander to succeed Earl
Stroupe. Sr. All now officers
will be installed May 3 and
will assume new duties in June
following the state convention.
Other officers elected were:
Earl Stroupe. Jr., senior vice
^commander; Paul Ham. junior
Bvice-commander; Harold Glass,
^quartermaster and adjutant;
'Marion Dixon, chaplain; and
Maiwin Goforth, sui’^geon.
Gerald A. Munson
Dies Suddenly
Lithium Official
Died On Monday
Of Heart Attack
RITES HELD ^ Funeral rites
for Gerald Arthur Munson were
held Tuesday from St. Mat
thew's Lutheran church.
CHEERLEADERS
Linda Seism, high school
junior, has been chosen chief
cheerleader and Mary Ann
Houser has been elected co
chief by members of the high
school cheerleading squad
which includes Jackie Smith,
Rita Wise, Beverly Hamrick,
Jean Davis, Sandy Mullinax,
Jo Bridges. Jane Morris and
Donna Eaker.
Funeral rites for Gerald Ar-
tliur Munson, 54, were held Mon
day at 5 p.m. from St. Matthew’s
Lutheran church, of which he
was a member.
Rev. Charles Easley, his pas
tor, officiated at the final rites
and interment was to he in Ra
pid City. South Dakota following
rites there.
Mr. Munson succumbed sud
denly of a heart attack Monday
morning at 4 a.m. at his home
at 917 Sharon Drive.
A native of Custer, South Da
kota, Mr. Munson was a grad
uate of Custer high school and
South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology at Rapid City. A
mining engineer, he came to
King.s Mountain five yoai*s ago
as director of technical services
at Bessembr City’s Lithium Cor
poration of America plant.
In Kings Mountain. Mr. Mun
son was president of the Rotary
club, was a member and Coun
cilman of St. Matthew’s Luther
an church and attended services
at the church on Easter Sunday.
He was a Mason and Shrinbr. He
was a member of the National
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New Projection
Extends Road
To 7.3 Miles
By MAR'HN HARMON
Public hearing on the project
ed U. S. 74 by-pass will be held
Wednesday morning, May 5, at
11 a.m., at the Kings Mountain
Armory.
Meantime, the Slate Highway
commission has posted a map of
the indicated route — somewhat
different from an earlier pro
jection — at the Cleveland and
Gaston County courthouses, and
one has been provided Mayor
Glee A. Bridges and can be seen
at his office.
Division Engineer W. W. Wyke
termed the new map another
corridor projection and acknow
ledged it is “rough”—meaning
not too e.xact.
Principal changes from the
report of several months ago ai-e
locations of the terminal points,
both extended much farther than
the 3.13 mile road initially plan
ned. The latest projection, and
the one to be considered at the
May 5 public hearing, calls for
a four-lane limited access thru
way of 7.3 miles.
The new project envisions:
1) The cast take-off point will
be oast by one-quarter mile of
the US 29-74 interchange.
2) The west take-off point will
be about eight-tenths of a mile
west of Bethwaie school.
3) The thruway will intersect
with present U. S. 74 at county
road 2036. then proceed west
ward to the south of Bethware
school.
Interchanges other than at ter
minal points are located on High-
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Bids Are
For New
$80,000 Goal I
Is $3,487.61
Distant |
IBids for the wnstruclion of ■
the John Gamble Stadium at the
new high school plant have been
invited and will bo received and
opened at 2 p.m., May 4. at the
office of the superintendent of I
schools. I
Majority of cost of the siadium !
is being donated by Kings Moun
tain ai*ea industries, businesses,
and individual citizens. |
Actual cash . in - hand and
pledges to the John Gamble
Stadium IMnd totaled $76512.39
this week, shy by $3,487.61 the
goal of $80,000 to build a 4,000
seat football stadium,
j Charles F. Harry, III, of Gro-
j yer, fund treasurer, reported
I cash-in-hand of $37,510.27 and
pledges of $39,002.12.
“We'll make it”. Mr. Harry
commented, and he invited other
citizens who had not contributed
to forward their chec'ks to him
this week so that the drive may
be completed as soon as possible.
Treasurer Harry learned Wed
nesday, however, the stadium
■ fund is $1500 less than he had |
I first reported. Early in the cam- '
paign an anonymous pledge of
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PROMOTED — Clarence L. Jol
ly, Kings Mountain native, has
been appointed Charlotte dis
trict sales monoger for Ameri
can Home Foods.
lolly Wins
Sales Promotion
Clai*ence L. Jolly. Kings Moun
tain native, has been appointed
Charlotte district sales manager
for American Home Foods. The
appointment was announced by
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Ex-Commissioner
C. S. William's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Charles S.
Williams, 6S, were held Monday
at 2 p.m. from Han is Funeral
Home, interment following in
Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mr. Williams, Kings Mountain
•native, died Friday night in Vet
erans Hospital at Johnson City.
Tenn. He was a textile machin-
eiy salesman, veteran of World
W’ar 1 and a member of Central
Methodist church. He was Ward
4 city commissioner. H)41-43.
He was the son of the late
Jesse and Harriett Elizabeth
! Pendley Williams of Kings
I Mountain.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
' Martha Martindeli Williams of
i Winston Salem; one son, Charles
Williams. Jr. of Greenville, S. C.;
one daughter, Mi’s. Margaret
Dittmar of Winter Park, Fla;
' one brother, Smyre Williams of
I Cot’oa, Fla., and five sisters. Mrs.
Lillian Hendricks Walker of
Morehead City. Mi’s. F. G. Wat-
^ terson of Shelby, Mrs. Catherine
Shiifoixl Davi(*s of Columbus,
I Ohio. Mrs. Ethel Minch of Jack-
I sonviile. Fla., and Mrs. Stanley
I Huffman of Columbus. Ohio. Al-
I so surviving are six grandchil
dren.
' Rev. Howard Jordan officiated
j at the final rites.
j TO ASHEVILLE
I Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mauldin,
I managers of Kings Mountain
1 Country Club, will attend the
I club manager's c*onventimi in
Asheville Monday. The club
will bo closed following the
•Sunday buffet until Tuesday*
Free Option
Plan Chosen;
Details Given
By MARTIN HARMON
The Kings Mountain board of
(Education Wtxlncsday adopted a
"free option” pupil assignment
plan designed to meet the re
quirements of the 1964 federal
civil rights act.
Under the plan, all parents of
sc'hool children will be sent a
form on which they will be ask-
c»d to designate first and second
choices of sclwols they prefer
their children to attend.
In turn, the board declares,
“the choices will be honored in
sofar as space, transportation
facilities, instioictional programs,
and special needs of poipils and
staff are met.”
Where assignment is necessary
without the listed choices of the
parents, the board states, as
signment pi’eference will be ac
corded on basis of the particular
child’s proximity to the particu
lar school and in consideration
of the special needs of the pupil.
The statement continues, “If
no choice is made, the child will
be assigned the school he last
attended, or to the nearest school
which has the instructional pro
gram the child requires, and pro
viding the school is not over
crowded.”
Of staff and faculty, the board
declares, "It is the intention of
the board to develop a policy
whereby the staff and profes
sional personnel will be employ
ed on basis of competency, train
ing, and experienc*e, with assign
ments to be made on a non-dis-
criminatory basis.”
Introduction to the pupil as
signment plan is a review of the
Kings Mountain school district’s
situation as of today, including
number of schools, classrooms,
and school populations by race
and grade, as well as other in
formation.
Concerning the staff and fac
ulty, the statement relates that
Kings Mountain schools current
ly hold the integrated faculty
meetings, and that the leaching
supervisor, attendance counselor,
and driver education teachers
work at all schools, as their
seiviccs are required.
The new' pupil assignment pol
icy is designed to comply with
Title VI of the 1964 civil rights
act which requires that race be
no criteria on the assignment to
school of any pupil.
North Carolina was one of
nine states promising compliance
with the new law first approved
by the Department of Health,
E<iucation and Welfare. Kings
Mountain’s plan will be sent to
the State Department of Public
Instruction, and, if approved, will
be forwarded to HET'A'.
The board held a long “work
session” on the plan Monday
night and completed it Wednes-
dav moming.
vSupt. B. N. Barnes commented,
“We ha\e worked long and hard
to get a good plan that meets
both the letter and spirit of the
law. It is my feeling the Kings
Mountain plan will be api*oved.”
Federal monies for vainous
school functions will be withheld
after July 1 for schools which
have not executed agreements
with the Health, Education and
Welfare department.
Pigeon Is Guest
Of P. H. Wilsons
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Wilson
have had a guest for the past
several days tn the person of
what they think is a homing
pigeon.
The W’ilsons noted the pigeon
hovering about and he appear
ed quite tame. Mrs. Wilson put
out some bird food and the
pigeon w'olfed the food dowm,
leading Mrs. Wilson to com
ment, “He seemed pretty hun
gry.”
Later Mr. Wilson picked up
the pigeon, found a piece of
string attached to one leg, and
an identification tag wrapped
around the other. The metal
tag bore the inscription “Rich
mond. Va.. No. 1998IF57.”
Is it really a homing pigeon,
taking a rest along the route?
The Herald suggested the
Wilsons write the Richmond
Times • Dispatch for informa
tion. Meantime, the pigeon re
mained the Wilsons’ guest in
their Waco Road yard. At least,
he wa;» sUll there Tuesday*