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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,008
This figure for Greattr Kings Mountain is derived from
the 19M Kings Mountain city directory census. The dty
Umits figure is from the United States eeiuus of IMO.
Kings Mountain's Relioble Newspaper
Pages
Today
VOL 76 No. 17
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 29, 1965
Seventy-Sixth Year
PRICE TEN CENT*
ion
On Preliminary Sewage Plans
One More Day To Register;
No New Candidates In Field
102 New Voters
^re Registered
Last Saturday
Saturday is tho last day to reg
ister lo vote in tho May 11 city
election and registrars will be at
eight polling places from 7 a.m.
until 7 p.m.
Registrars added 102 names to
the pollbooks Saturday with
Ward 5 leading the field with 31
followed by Ward 4 with 26;
Ward 2 with 17; Ward 3 with 15;
Park (irace with 8; Ward 1 with
3; and Bethware with 2. Grover
precinct reported no new regis
trations.
New citizens must register to
v(;te and citizens who have
changed residence within the
community must obtain trans-
ler.s.
Although voter registration has
not been heavy since an all-new
registration was required two
years ago, registrars reported
considerable "checking*’ by vot
ers.
At throe outside precincts —
Bethware, Park Grace and Grov
er, voters will help determine
only the election of two members
of tlio board of education. At the
five inside city precincts, voter,
will also elect a mayor, and five
commissioners.
The filing deadline pajsed
Monday at 4:30 p.m. with no new
^indidates entering the polUicc^l.
j^^epstakes.
candidate list to date:
For Mayor — Mayor Glee A.
Bridges, Ex-Mayor Kelly Dixon
and John Henry Moss. I
For Ward 1 Commissioner —
Comm. Ray Cline and Ex-Mayor
Garland E. Still. [
For Ward 2 Commissioner —I
Comm. Eugene Goforth, W. S.
Biddix and Thomas B. Eubanks,
P'or Ward 3 Commissioner —
Comm. T. J. Ellison and James
L. Guyton.
For Ward 4 Commissioner —
Comm. Norman King and Dewey
Styers.
For Ward 5 Commissioner —
Comm. J. E. Rhea, O. O. W*alker
and Benjamin F. Brown.
For Boaid of Education — Mrs.
Lena Ware McGill, incumbent,
and Robert (Bob) Smith.
For Board of Educaiion —(out
side city district) — B. Holmes
Harry, incumbent, and Mrs. Ver-
lee Roberts.
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Retailer Office
May Sell Tags
The Kings Mountain Merchants
A.ssociation may become a dealer
for North Carolina automobile
license plates.
President Jonas Bridges said he
talked recently with Kenneth
• aver, of the Department of
tor Vehicles, and that Mr. j atio”. of government, local Le-
Weaver indicated the Merchants j Kion officials said.
As.s(K*iation would be approved as
a dealer — if the association
TO BOY'S STATE — Phillip
Bunch, top. and Scott Cloninger
will represent Americon Legion
Post 155 at Boy's State this
summer.
Boys' State
Delegates Named
Scott Cloninger, so-n of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Cloninger, and
Phillip Bunch, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Kelly Bunch, have been se
lected to attend Tar Heel Boys'
State on the campus of me Uiu-
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Announcement was made by
Otis D. Green Post 155, the A-
merican Legion, which sponsors
Ike local delegates.
Cloninger is president of the
Student Participation Organiza
tion at Kings Mountain high
Si'hool where both boys are ac
tive in club affairs. Both stu
dents are active in Boyce Me
morial ARP church.
Boys’ State is an objective cit
izenship school, the best yet de
vised by man, in which the na
tion’s boy leaders gain a true
conception of the ideals and ob
jectives, the function and oper-
“really want.s it".
Mr. Weaver indicated some
doubt, telling President Bridges
tlie sales commission is a gross
of only 15 cents per tag. and that
tliero are 6000 owners with Kings
Mountain addresses.
He said the person in charge
would be taken to another office
for a week’s training and that,
when the office opened, he or a-
notlier Raleigh official would
come here to assist during the
initial two weeks.
A knowledge of motor vehicle
registration laws, not only in
North Carolina but in other
.Stales, is required, he added.
To attend these programs, out
standing rising high school sen
iors, selected from all over North
Carolina, are sent to Wake For
est College to hear lectures and
discussions by public officials,
faculty members, and leading
Legionnaires. Candidates for
Boys’ State attendance are care
fully sci'eenetl, the high school
principal rec'ommending only
those boys with outstanding qua
lities including leadership, char
acter, scholarship, and service.
The program of iBoys’ State is
highly specialized and competi
tive, and only youths with out
standing qualities are capable of
participating in the intensive
Pre.ddent Bridges said this !
week he had nor yet reported to' American Legion assumes
iJio mcrdiants board of directors rcsoonsibility of sponsoring
aiKl declined to prc^dict their ac- ' State and Legion Posts
tioiij
DAR TO MEET
Mrs. W. T. Weir will prc.scnt
tile program at Wednesday’s
regular meeting of Colonel
Frederick Hambright Chapter,
DAR, at 3:30 at the home of
Mrs. Paul Neisler.
I sponsored boys to Boys’ State.
MERCHANTS
Directors of (he Kings Moun
tain Merchants Association will
gather for a brief meeting
Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in
t h e association offices on
Mountain street.
TO PRESBYTERY
Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor, and
• der Sam Weir represented
rs? Presbyterian church at a
meeting of Kings Mountain
Presbytery Tuesday at Shiloh
Presbyterian church in Grover.
LADIES NIGHT
Annual ladies’ night banquet
of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis
club will be held May 6th at
7 p.m. at the Woman’s club.
Program plans will be an-
iiounced next week.
Nine School
Principals
Are Re-elected
The Kings Mountain board of
education, at a called meeting
Tuesday afternoon, re-elected all
school principals at nine plants
of the district system for the
coming year.
In another motion, the board
moved to offer Bethware Prin
cipal R. G. Franklin privilege of
transfer to the Central Elemen
tary plant in September when
the new high school plant is oc
cupied and upper elemental^'
grades are housed in the Cen
tral building. Mr. Franklin has
as yet not indicated if he will
accept the new principalship.
Board members, in discussing
the projected moving of seventh
graders into what is now the
Kings Mountain high school
plant, noted it is possible that
Park Grace elementary school
will not -be allotted a classified
principal this fall should the
school drop below seven teach
ers.
In other actions, the board:
1) amended the school ajod
special milk program agree
ments to read, ‘That no person
in its schools shall, on the ground
of race, color or national origin,
be excluded from participation
in, be denied the benefits of, or
be otlierwise subjected to dis
crimination under the program.”
ARP Church
To Call Ritchie
As Minister
Boyce Memorial Associate Re
formed Presbyterian church will
formally call Thomas L. Ritchie
as its pastor, when Mr. Ritchie
completes Erskine College semi
nary and is ordained as a minis
ter of the church.
Mr. Kiicnie notilied the board
ol Ciuei's ^^UiiUdy tie wiii acccpi
me call.
Mc-iiioers of the church had
pieviuuoiy votea to d, wiin
two aoa>eiiteniion!j, to extend me
call to ivir. Kiicme, wno nas Ijil-
ed me puipit irequeniiy since me
departure of Dr. W. L. Pressly
last autumn.
Mr. Kiccme is from Covington,
Va., and was graduated from
Erskine College. Mrs. Ritchie is
also an Erskine graduate and
holds a position an the business
administration office at the col
lege.
Honor Sodety
Inducts 23
Twenty . three rising high
school seniors were inducted in
to membership in the National
Honor Society at Kings Mountain
high school Wednesday.
Inducted were: Scott Clonin
ger, Phillip Bunch, Elaine Dixon,
Mary Ann Houser, Theresa Jolly,
Neal Cooper, Lih.oy Alexander,
Mike Goforth, Glenda Lynn, Rita
Bell, Mary Jo Hord, Mary Dix
on. Paulette Patterson, Diana
Bunkowski, Darlene Oliver, Jack
ie Dunn, Rita Caveny, James
Greene. Charles Wright, Wayne
Miller, Lydia Poole, Susan Low
ery and Martha Herndon,
Richard Gold presented the
candidates for membership and
their membership cards were
would be no change in opera
tions of this program here since
there had been no discrimination
in the past. Schools receive fed
eral financial assistance in both
programs during a school term.
2) elected Mrs. Sarah A.
Bridges as a new grammar
grade teacher. Mrs. Bridges is a
recent graduate of Lenoir Rhyne
college.
White With Losers
On Power Bill Vote
Senator Jack White was a-
mong the Senate minority of 14
which failed in efforts to amend
ihe power bill to enhance the po
sition of power-selling munici
palities.
The key vote was on an a-
mendment offered by .Senator Ed
Kemp, of Guilford, which would
have included the cities. It was
defeated 27 to 14.
Senator Adrian Shufoid, also
of the 31st district as is Senator
White, voted against the amend
ment and thei'efore against his
colleague.
Senator White said there were
some surprises in the voting, a-
mon-g them Mecklenburg’s dele
gation opposing the amendment
and Forsythe’s supporting when
the two delegations had been
figured vice versa.
pi’esented by Principal Harry E.
Supt. B. N. Barnies said there ■ Jaynes. President Jim Pressley,
..1 Anne Ti'ott, Richard Franks, Su
san Plonk, Sonny Willis, Joyce
Bolin. Linda SherrCr, Linda Mul-
linax, Eloise Beam, Carolyn
Jones, Neil McCarter and Caro-
I>'n Heavner in presenting the
program.
Glenda Lynn
Is Nominee
Glenda Lynn, daughter of Mr.
and Mre. Roy Lynn of Kings
Mountain, has been named to at
tend the North Carolina Govern
or’s School, according to an
nouncement by Principal Harry
E. Jaynes.
Her appointment brings the to
tal number of Cleveland County
students scheduled to attend the
school to five.
The Govemor's School is a
summer program for high-ability
teenagers. It provides enriching
studies in academic subjects and
in the arts. Miss Lynn’s academic
area is the natural sciences.
The fivb Cleveland County
students arc among some 400
chosen from 3,500 applicants
throughout the state.
Others appointed from Cleve
land Count.v are Julia Virginia
Jones and Lee Wallace of Shel
by high school, Michabl Lee
Champion of Burns at Polkville,
and Emalyn Turner Morrison of
No. 3 high school.
High School Teacher Kim Cashion
Choreographer For Shelby Comedy
IN LITTLE THEATRE Kim
Cashion, high school English
teacher* is choreographer for
the Shelby Community Little
Theatre's spring production
next weekend in Shelby.
SHELBY — An English teach
er at Kings Mountain has her
dancing shoes on these days —
practically every afternoon and
■night.
Miss Kim Cashion. who has
several sections of ninth-grade
English at KMHS. is the chore
ographer for Ihe Community
Group Theatre’s May 6-7-8 pro
duction of "The Boy Friend"
hero, also is assisting in prepar
ing for the May Day program at
Kings Mountain High, and had a
hand in planning activities for
the recent junior-senior banquet.
Kec'ping a dozen high sehool
actors plus a handful of adult
players in step throughout ten
dances in the musical comedy is
Miss Cashion’s most demanding
chore at present.
Despite being a "self taught"
dancer who "barely can read mu
sic,” Miss Cashion has developed
several original numbers for the
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Public Hearing On By-Pass
WiUBeHeldOa Wednesday
Stadium Fund
Creeps Upward
$900 In Week
The John Gamble Stadium
Fund crept upward by $900 dur
ing the past week, bringing the
total to $77,032.39, slightly losi
than $3000 within the $80,(X)0
goal.
Largest single boost during
the week was upping of the
pledge of the Kings Mountain
Lons club from $400 to $1000, an
action taken by the club Tues
day night.
Ti’easurer Charles F. Han-y
III gave this breakdown: cash of
$38,242.27 and pledges of $38,-
787.12.
Bids are to be received by the
board of education next Tuesday
afternoon.
Treasurer Hany said among
checks recently lieceived are the
$250 Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company dona
tion, $50 from Summey-Smith. a
Gastonia Tire Company, $40
from Recreation, Inc., $25 from
East School Parent-Teacher As
sociation, and others from Bill
Bates, the Junior Woman’s Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Black.
Mrs. Eddys L. Ware. Mrs. Mar
garet Ward. Bill Babb. John D.
Fisher, Harold H, Herndon, and
Tom Hamrick.
Plonk To Head
Lions Club
Dr. George W. Plonk, Kings
Mountain surgeon was nominated
for president of the Kings Moun
tain Liems Club at Tuesday
night's regular Lions club meet
ing, included:
For first vice-president: Hal
S. Plonk.
For second vice - president:
Howard Bryant.
For third vice-president: Jack
Hauser.
For secretary: Bill Plonk.
For treasurer; Peter Mason.
For Lion Tamer: Sam Weir,
Jr.
For Tail Twister: Willie Wil
liams.
For assistant Tail Twister:
Fred Withers.
For two-year diroctorshiips:
Bob Haden, John Lackey and
Bill Moss.
The hold-over directors are
Bob McDaniel, David Saunders
and Glenn Campbell.
■Memibers of the nominating
committee, all past presidents,
were Lions Odus Smith, Jonas
Bridges and Martin Harmon.
Girls' State
Delegates Named
Rita Kay Bell and Elizabeth
Ann Alexander, rising high
school seniors, will represent A-
merican Legion Post 155, the
American Legion Auxiliary, at
annual Tar Heel Girls’ State in
Junb.
Announcement was made by
Mrs. J. M. Rhea, chairman of the
local Girls’ State committee.
Tar Heel Girls’ State convenes
June 20-26 on the campus of the
University of North Carolina at
Grbensboro.
Miss Bell is daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. L. McDaniel and
Miss Alexander is daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Alexan
der. Both are 17 years old, active
in school clubs and organizations
and in churchwork. Miss Bell is
active in Boyce Memorial ARP
church and Miss Alexander is
active in Central Methodist
church. In addition, Miss Alexan
der is pianist for Sunday wor
ship services at Dixon Presby
terian church.
PROMOTED — C. Herman
Mouney. Kings Mountain na
tive, has been promoted by
Sandier Corporation of Albu
querque* New Me}cico.
Herman Mauney
Wins Promotion
C. Herman Mauney, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl F. Mauney. of
Kings Mountain, has been pro
moted to supervisor of Special
Systems Division in the Systems
Engineering Department at San-
dia Corporation, Alouquerque,
New Mexico.
Sandia Corporation, a subsidi
ary of Western Electric Co., op
erates two laboratories and a
noii-nuclear n?st rangi* engaged
^ in research and development on
ordnance phases of nuclear wea
pons design. Sandia conducts
these operations for ilie Atomic
Energy Commission.
Mauney has bevm at Sandia
since 1953. He was graduated
from North Carolina State Col
lege wiih a B.S. degree in elec
trical engineering, and has fin
ished course work at the Uni
versity of New Mexico for a
Master’s degree in business ad
ministration. He is a member of
Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi,
and Tau Bela Pi, honorary soci
eties.
Mr. and Mrs. Mauney and them
three children live at 9019 I^ex-
ington, N. E.. Albuquerque.
Area Students
Win Scholarship
James V. Pressley. Jr., srm of
Mr. and Mrs. James V. Pressley,
Sr. of Kings Mountain, and Dan-
i ny William Turner, son of Mr.
I and Mrs. William J. Turner of
■Smyrna. S. C., are recipients of
I Cham.bers scholarships from
Foote Mineral Company.
Both winnei's’ fathers are em
ployed by Kings Mountain's
F’oole oi)eralion.
Turner will he a siudenl at
Clcmison college and Pressley
will a student at North Caro
lina Slate college.
Foote Mineral Company’s edu-
(’ational scholarshif) program
was established in 19.>L
Raleigh Oificial
Will Give Detail
On US 74 Link
By MARTIN HARMON
Public hearing on the proposed
four-miiiion dollar U.S. 74 by
pass will bo held at the Armory
.text Wednesday morning at 11
a.m., and to be conducted bj- R.
W. McGow'an, assistant chief en
gineer of the Stale Highway
commission in charge of road
ocation and desig-n.
W. F. Babcock, high'way com-
.nission director, said Wednesday
morning Mr. McGowan will have
X large map showing the route,
.o a sale of one inch for 200
feet, and that the map will show
names of all effected pi'operty
owners.
To a question of why the plans
now project a 7.3 mile road, in
contrast to the 3.13 mile thru
way envisioned several months
ago. Mr. Babcock replied, "We
can see we’ll be able to get a lot
more road for a comparatively
small amount of money.” He
added the added four miles could
be obtained for perhaps $750,000.
Another reason, he said, was that
utilizing greater miles of present
U. S. 74 w'ould leave some treach
erous spots the longer road will
not have.
The new project envisions:
1) The east take-off point will
be east 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 Bethware school.
3) The thruway will intersect
with present U. S. 74 at county
road 2036, then proceed west-
w'ard to the south of Bethware
School.
Interchanges other than at ter
minal points are located on High
way 161 (iBessemer City road),
Hi’^hway 216 (N. Pieidmont ave
nue), and Waco Road (County
Road 2026).
Bridges are indicated at 1)
Limvootl Road w^here it would
connect with the new highway;
2) the Southern Railw'ay be
tween Burlington Industries Phb-
nix Plant and the onetime Loom-
Tex mill (now owned by Craft-
spun Yarns); and
3) Cansler street.
‘ The initial projection indicat-
i ed the eastern takb-off of access
! point just west of Maple Leaf
! Steel Company and the western
; take-off point at the Marvin Go
forth residence.
The new, longer projection
seems to be little changed from
the first, as it transverses the
Kings Mountain city limits.
ATTEND INSTITUTE
Miss Elizabetl) S t e w art.
Herald staff member, attended
tho annual spring institute of
North Carolina Press Women
held Saturday and Sunday in
Chapel Hill. Other Cleveland
County women attending the
in.stituto were Mrs. Ben Poston
of the Shelby Daily Star and
Mrs. Rush Hamrick, Jr., and
Mrs. William P. Ghecn of the
Cleveland Times.
Plans WUI Go
To Committee
In Raleigh Today
By MARTIN HARMON
Preliminary plans for $l,lfX),000
addition.s and improvements to
the city's sewage disposal system
(Will be delivered to the State
'Stream Sanitation committee
I Thursday.
! Mayor Glee A. Bridges, City
'Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr, and Pub
lic Works Superintendent Grady
Velton will go to Raleigh Thurs
day and have an appointment
I with W. E. Long, Jr., chief of the
municipal waste section, at 2 p.
m.
W. K. Dickson, the city’s civil
engineer brought the plans to
Kings Mountain Wedne.sday.
The plans envision construc
tion of a two-million gallon daily
capacity treatment plant on Bee
son’s Creek about 3.5 miles west
of the city and doubling to one-
million gallon daily capacity the
McGill treatment plant con
structed in 1954.
The new plant will serve the
whole western portion of the city
as the city abandons its over
loaded Imhoff-typo Ware and
Mauney plants, as well as Kings
Creek plant No. 2. A pumping
station would replace the Ware
and Kings Creek plants and all
would be pumped into the sew-
age system.
“Beeson Cjeek runs through an
area that is traversed by good
roads and drains an area that
has good potential for develop
ment. Therefore, an outfall line
along this valley would serve as
a collector for feeder lines," En
gineer Dickson wrote.
Though Massachusetts Mohair
Plush Company has already be
gun building a sewage treatment
plant of its own, the city report
implies the new plant would be
sufficiently large to handle Mo
hair’s affluent.
Kings Mountain's Assignment Plan
Appioved By State* Now With HEW
LUTHERAN SERVICE
Rev. Charles W. Easley’s ser
mon topic Sunday at the 11
o’clock service at St. Matthew’s
Lutheran church will be. "Jesus
Like A Shepherd Feed Us". As
a further observance of Shep
herd’s Sunday, the choir will
sing "TTie Lord’s My Shop-
herd’*, Brother James Air, and
the sacrament of Holy Commu
nion will be observed.
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education’s new school pupil as
signment plan has been approv
ed by the North Carolina Depart
ment of Public Instruction and
has been forwarded lo the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare.
The full text of the policy is
publislied in today s Herald.
Sui>orinlendent‘ B. N. Barnes
said he was pleased that the pol
icy had won state approval and
said he noticed in press reports
that Craven County’s plan — ap
parently quite similar to Kings
Mountain’s — had been approv
ed in Washington.
Craven’s was the first approv
ed in North Carolina.
The pupil assignment plan
employs "free choice" or free op
tion.
Air. Barnes said letters will go
out, as quickly as the plan is
: approved, to parents of all chil-
■dren with the request that par
ents designate first and second
I choices of schools they wish their
’children lo attend,
j The plan provides that, once a
i child is assigned, parents ha\e
ten days in which to appeal the
, assignment.
! Choices of parents will be fol
lowed insofar as classroom spaot*,
transportation arrangements, and
special needs of the particular
child permiL
The plan sets forth tho fact
that the ninc-plant svstenl has
an enrollment of 4591. and a
staff of 168 teachers, while sov-
entt^en buses transport 1270 white
children daily, and eight buses
transport 601 Negro children
daily.
An official of the Plush Com
pany said he did not know whe
ther his firm and the city had
pursued the initial retemmenda-
tion of the State Stream Sanita
tion committee, which suggested
a joint project. Mohair affluent
now flows into Beeson’s Creek.
Estimated vo&t of doubling the
McGill plant is $237,000 with to
tal cost of the new plant and
pumping stations at $^,000.
Breakdown includes estimates
right-of-way and site at ^,000,
the treatment plant $450,000, 19,-
000 lineal feet of 18-inch pipe at
$152,000, Ware pump station $17,-
.>00, Kings Creek pump station
$14,000, 8500 feet of 12 inch pipe
at $42,500, and $41,115 in engi
neering fees. He earmarks $72,-
635 for contingencies.
Federalgrants under Public
Law 660 thought to be obtainable
for the project are estimated sA
$300,000.
The delivery of the report in
Raleigh means that the city miss
ed its deadline by 29 days. Fu
ture deadlines require that the
construction be underway by
January 1, 1966, and in operation
by January 1, 1967.
Mr. Dickson estimates the new
system would be sufficient with
normal growth for 15 years.
A bond issue election is im
plied. probably in the fall, after
working plans are completed.
Teenagers Camped—
At Railroad Bridge
Six teenagers—thrlee 14A-eai--
ok] and three IS-year-oId boys,
told their parents two weeks ago
they were members of a party
on a camping trip.
City police officer Bob Haybs
and Southern Railway detective
Neil Hardie gave a different
story to the parents Wednesday.
The police version is that about
3 a.m. on a Saturday morning
the six boys walked* from their
camp site to McCoys Service Sta.
tion where they haule<l big tires
to the railroad tracks at the
overhead bridgle and carried
heavy rooks atop tho bridge.
When an oncoming train slowed
for the tire, the rocks fell from
tho bridge and several car win
dows in brand now automobiles
and caboosb windows were
knocked out to the tune of more
than $100 in damages.
The prankstoi-s repeated them
selves on two Friday nights dur
ing the past two weeks, city of
ficers said Wlednesday.
City officer Robert Green and
a mihvay inspector said their in
vestigation is continuing. No
cbai'gG6 have ^ec been iiled^