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(V . / f \ r— D A n ff'1 A 1 1 rr rr n. r r ^ ropiii^alli Greater Kings .Mountait^* on 10,320 • City Limits 8,008 Thl> figure tor Greottar K|ngt Mountofn it derived from the less Kings MountoiB tity direetpry cennu. The dtv ' UmlU figtue Is from the Uolled StatM ctIhiM •! ISSO. ' ' 1 ill IBUngs mbunfaiiTs llelfidHle~1jiewspciper VOL 77 No. I EstabliiSed 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 6, 1966 Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENT Mayor To Recommend $1,300,000 Bond Election ■4 ^ W \ X v' FIRST BABY AND PARENTS — Mr. and Mrs. Charles Junior Oliver and their *son, Roger Dale Oliver, Kings Mountain's First Baby of 1966. are pictured above as they "checked ouF' Mondcry at Kings Mountain hospital. Mrs. P. H. Wilson is pictured at the admitting office window. Young Oliver orri^ed just three hours ond 53 minutes after the New Year Saturday and was the sec ond betby bom in Cleveland County, following th s fir^ arrival, a Negro girl from Boiling Springs, by 30 minutes Jle is the sixth child of the Olivers. (Herald Photo by Paul Lemmons). Hoger Dale Oliver PRESIDENT -- Glee Edwin Bridges will be installed as president of the Kings Moun tain Kiwanis club at the civic club's Thursday night meeting. Bridges To Head Kiwanis Club Glee, Edwin Bridges, Kings Mountain hardwareman, will be installed as president of tht Kings Mountain Kiwanis club a1 the civic club’s 'Thursday nighi /meeting . Jim Maiden of Asheville, a for mer lieutenant governor of Caro- Unas District of Kiwanis Inter national, will conduct the instal lation rites, assisted by Outgoing President W. S. Fulton, Jr. Wives of Kiwanians will be special guests. Dinno- will be served at 6:45 p.m. at the Woman’s club. Other officers to be installed will be: Dan Finger, first vice- president; Joe Neisler, Jr. sec ond vice-president; James E- • Amos, secretary; and John L. McGill, treasurer. Both Mr. Amos and Mr. McGill were re-elected. Filst Citizens Buys Lot, Opens Here lannaiy 21 First Citizens National Bank, which plans to open its Kings Mountain :„ranch in the Morrison Building on West Mountain street on Januai-y 21, has pur chased from Mauney Hosiery M.lls, Inc., ilie -lot between the A & P Tea Company pa,king lot and tlie W. L. Pionk residence on South Battleground avenue. The -transaction, confirrried last week by both pardies, was com pleted last weeKend. Purchase price for the 100x220 foot lot, fronting both on Bat- ueground and Ciierokee streets was $30,000. Ostensibly, the lot was pur chased for the eventual construc tion of a banking .house^ . When approval of a branch of First Citizens for Kings Moun tain was granted, George B.oad rick, vice-president, said the bank would open in temporary qiiar- ■ ers and would subsequently build a motlern banking, house. Ricliard E. Maxey, ass.slant vice-president who will manage the Kings Mountain branch, said this week the bank will open for business on Friday, January 21. He said citizens will 'oe invited to inspect the bank’s Mountain street facilities at open house the orevious evening. Mr. Maxey, at the Hickory branch the past three years, is now residing at the home of Mrs. Margaret Ward. He has contracted with J. Wil son Crawford for the- construc tion of a residence at the corner of Sherwood Lame and Roxford Road. He is a graduate of Lenoir iRhynqL.-Oollejge, 4iii4 & native of ^m’lnois. ' / Blanton, Harold Coggins, W. G. Grantham, Paul Ham, Hoyle D. McDaniel, Harry Page, and Dr. Frank Slncox. ' ‘ Mr. Bridges a Kings Moun tain merchant, partner in Bridges Hardware Company. He is a past president of the Kings, Mountain Merchants Association. Kings Mountain’s First Baby .f 1966, who arrived just three ours and 53 minutes after the .ew Year, has a name which his lother. chose more than 18 years MO. - I Roger Dale Oliver, weighing in c Kings Mountain hospital at light pounds, five and a half ances, is third eon and sixth hild of Mr. and ‘ Mrs. Charles unlor Oliver of 831 Church itrect. Mrs. Oliver, the former Louise llackwell, had always wanted o give the name '“Roger Dale” 0’One of her cliildren. Instead, she said &he named ler first-born Ronald (now an .8-year-old Army Private station- d at Fort Jackson, S. C.). Hex econd child was a girl, Gloria lean, a 16-year-old high school itudent; her third, a girl, Kathy, . 14-year-old Junior high school jtudent; her fourth, a girl, Don- la Jill, 11-year-old East school jtudent; and her fifth, a son, xight-year-old Ricky Wayne. 'The newest memtxer of the Dliver family has black hair and xrown eyes like all his older orothers and sisters. “It just seemed the right hame Roger Dale”, Mrs. Oliver said Monday as she and the baby were preparing to leave the hos pital. And Mrs. Oliver said she could hardly wait “to get home”. The older OJiver children were so excited about the new arrival Monday they didn’t want to re turn to school, Mrs. Oliver 6aid. Especially young Ricky who hadn’t yet been able to glimpse his baby brother, ill ■->l TAK LISTING BEGINS — Tax listing began Monday for both city and county at City Hall courtroom. Getting the chore done os eorly as possible are left to right. Cameron Ware, listing his properties with Mrs. Charlie Ballard (leaning over desk), on unidentified Negro lady, and N. F. McGill, who is talking with Robert S. Gidney, county tax collector, and L. L. Benson (seat ed), Number 4 Township tax lister. (Herald photo by Paul Lemmons). Roger Dale Oliver arrived just New directors will be Don W.' fcO minutes after Cleveland Coun- tjAs -first baby, Martha Regina Littlejohn of Boiling Springs The third baicy of the year was Continued On Page 8 PROMOTED—Hilton L. (Jack) Ruth, Jr„ has been promoted to vice-president ond manager of the Fayetteville Southern National Bank. lack Both In New Post Hilton L. (Jack) Ruth, Jr., Kings Mountain native, assum ed new duties Monday as vice- president and manager of Fay etteville’s Southern National Bank. Mr. Ruth is the son of Hilton L. Ruth of Kings Mountain and the late Mr. Ruth. The former Charlotte banker was for several years-vice-presi dent of North Carolina National Bank of Charlotte. _ •Mrs. Ruth, the former Betty Kate Jones, and their three chil dren, Libby> 10,,.TriPt. age eight, and -David, age six, expect to join Mr. Ruthi. in Fayetteville about Feb. 1. IndastiY-Cletting Film In Meeting Annual stockholder meeting of Kings Mountain Business Devel opment, Inc., was held December 30 at City Hall. Directors elected Fred- W. Plonk, J. Wilson Crawford, Thomas A. Tate, Ben H. Bridges, Glee A. Bridges, and Bob Maner. Following the meeting, the directoi's re-elected Mr. Crawford president, Mr. Plonk vice-presi dent, and Ben Bridges secretary- treasurer. Mr. Bridges’ report showed as sets to total $30,815.37, including $30,630.54 in savings and loan shares. Mr. Bridges noted the savings and loan shares aro pledged in endorsement of a loan on a new industrial building stid that the total is subject to in come taxes which last year ap proximated $270. President Crawford reported that the officers are now discuss ing a project with another indus trial prospect. There is $22,810 in capital stock outstanding, with par value $10 jxer share. Kings Motmtain Business De velopment, Inc., was organized In 1957-58 for the purpose of en couraging industry to locate'in the Kings Mountain area. It was instruimental in obtaining for Kings Mountain what Is now Barwin Knitting Mills, DupLx- Shannon, Ltd., and K. Mills, Ire. Mis. Hemdon Acquires Two Battlegiound Lots Mrs. J. E. Herndon has acquir ed vijL trade Surd (Vher consider- atkaxSx the SourH ^ Battlegro.md avenue properties of C. H. (Cat) Houser, owner of Mountain Lane Bowling Center, and the adjoin ing vacant lot of W. B. Logan. Both properties aggregate 100 feet fronting on Battleground and with depth of 240''feet. 'The Logan lot provides half of an 18- fojt alley with Fred W. Plonk. Most Are Electing ion Among the busier' places in' town Monday and daily since is City Hall courtroom where city and county-tax listing began ■ Monday. j L. L. Benson, Number 4 town ship tax lister, and Mrs. Steve Mr. Hduser has leased his for- 'Harmon, city tax lister, reported i lil ting going at a brisk pace. • iVir. Benson noted Wednesday that Virtually all citizens are a- 'veiling themselves of the “ten percent” option in listing their household pro’pertio.s. mer property for five ycaixs and will continue to operate Moun tain Lane Bowling Center. Sale of the, properties was made to First Linion National Bank, which immediately con veyed the property to Mrs. llom- don as part of the transaction whereby the bank acquired from Mrs. Herndo-n the 100x120 foot lot occupied by the former Gam ble Service Station, where First Union National will soon begin construction of a new hanking house. - Razing of tha^ervice station is scheduled to begin this week, R. S. Lennon, vice-president and manager of the Kings Mountain branch said Wednesday. Mrs. Hemdon also owns adja cent property south of the bowl ing center property, including the lot rented by Dixie Cabs, and the j Under this option a citizen’s I household goods are listed at ten ' percent'of the value of his dwell- I ing, less value of the lot or tract I on which the dv/olling is erected. I For tenants who rent their dwellings, the figure is ten per cent of the value of the dwell ing or six times the monthly rent. This figure is subject to the $200 statutory deduction. The alternative, is to itemize all hbu.sehold goods. Listing is underway daily at City Hall, Monday through Fri day, from 8 a.m.. to irogn .and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and will con- -tinue through February 1. On u -ij- u., Do I Saturdays, Mr. Benson and his d assistants, Mrs. -Charlo.s Ballard and Mrs. C, T. Carpenter, .Ir., will dio & T-V, B. F. Maner Insurance (Company, and Blackmer & Com 325 Motorists Buy Auto Tags Sales of 1966 ci^ auto tags totaled 325 Wednesday. Again this; year, price of the tags remain the same — $l — and the city has designated the Lions club as franchised dealer with the city and civic club splitting the net profits. The tags are on sale at City Hall courtroom. Lion Sam Weir is chairman of the tag sale committee and oth er members are Geewge ThwnaS- son and Willie Williains. Cleveland Doesn't loin Catawba^ House Be>(Bstricting Is Bevamped By MARTIN HARMON An enterprising reporter of the Hickory Daily Record began do ing ^so.xe checking on county lintw and found that*the sign in northwestern Cleveland County announcing the Catawba line is in error. '' Actually, one must travel along the road three-quarters of a mile through Lincoln county before reaching Catawba. That is (he reason. Senator Jack White said Wednesday, the joint Senate-House committee on Congressional re-districting had to junk its first re-districtlng plan and recommend another. Counties within a Congressional district must be contiguous, tha- legislators feel. It was the plan finally adopted by the committee by a 15-8 vote, which caused Senator White "to vote a loud “nay” as he-joined, the minority. The plan may be adopted as is or could be amended, the Senator thinks. , Rutherford county particular ly is unhappy to leave its long time Congressional neighbors, Gaston and Cleveland county to join the 11th district. Senator White says, and bombarded the committee with telegrams of pro test ..i Pifolic hearing on the j^posal has been called for Monday al- Continwd On Paget i . Merrymakers Greet )rrym( New Year With Bong Merrymakers at Friday night’s New Year’s Eve party at the Country (Hub saw the New Year come in with a bang. '' * And at least one pair of par- tygoers aimong the 100 present on the dance floor may have felt it, though luckily they es caped injury. ' .Near midnight some • ccle- Ibrant dropped a firecracker on the dance floor near where Senator Jack White and Mrs. Harlan Stoterau were dancing. Mrs. Stoterau said the explo sion burned st hole in her «to<^- ing on one leg. Senator White said he felt his foot burn through thick leather shoes he was wearing. ‘ The loud noise was hard on everyone’s eardrums, one of the hostesses for the evening, Mrs, Jim Dickey, said. According to the hostesses, the merrymaker setting off the firecracker was not discovered. Could it be he believes Gef- . man folklore, that the bangs and flashes of Sylvester (New Year’s Eve) arc supposed to frighten oti demons and evil spirits?' pany.. The total tract approximates 2(X) feet frontage with depth of 240 feet and adjoins On the east other property of Mrs. Herndon including the building occupied, 'hy Sterchl’s. Brewer Named Loan Officer L. C. Brewer has been named by First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company President Lewis R. Holding,, to head t^e Installmcnit Loan Department of the bank’s Kings Mountain Office which is scheduled to open in mid-Janu- ary. Brewer transfers to the man agerial post from the Roanoke Rapids Office of FirstGitizehs where he has seryed since 1963. He joined the banking firm in 1961 in the New Bern Office and spent a year in the Morehead City Office befor^ 'his Roanoke Rapids assignment. A native of Kinston, North Carolina, and a graduate of At lantic Christian College iq, Wil son, Brewer served in theju. S. Army and its reserve coim^ent. He is married to the abrmer CSuTolyn Balance of M^ehead City and has a young son, Phil lip. The family is expected to lo cate in Kings Mountain soon. REPUBUCANS The West Kings Mountain Republican precinct will hold a meeting at the courthouse af 8 p.m., Thursday, January l3. bo at R. E. Halnbright's Store in Grover to accommodate citizens in that area. .Mayor John Henry Moss said Wednesday he had analyzed several listing reports and com pared household, properties totals with those of last .\'ear, where the '“ten' percent’’ option was elected. Largest differential found in the seyerkl comparison’s will amount to an incrca.sed eit.v tax bill of $13.01 for one individual. Ohe citizen will pay the city $2.03 less than last year, another 23 cents more, on basis of the Ro-Cent per $100 .valuation tax rate. “Most show very little vari ance,” Mayor Moss said. CHAIRMAN — Bennett Mas ters heads the Kings Moun tain March of Dimes cam paign now underway. Masters To Lead March of Dimes 'The 1966 March of Dimes cam paign Is underwa'y in Kings Mountain. - Bennett Mastei's, Kings Moun tain mortician, will serve as com munity campaign director and Miss Jackie Blanton, East school teacher, will head, the Mother’s March on Birth- Defects. Money raised in the drive will be used by the National Founda- tioji for Infantile Paralysis to. fight birth defects throughout the natio-n, it was announced by Fred Flowers, Cleveland County chairrhan in the drive, and J. Ol- I'le Harris, chairman of the Clcyeldhd County Marcly of Uimos organization ^The month-long jampaign will Continued On Ptige 8 No Increase In Tax Rate fs Foreseen L By MARTIN HARMON Mayor John Henry Moss will recommend 'Tuesday th?it the city commission call a special election lor March 15 on the question of issuing $1,300,(XX) in oonds for sewage disposal facili ties. The project, estimated to cost $1,2»3,000, is expected to qualify for federal government grants of up to $360,000. Should the estimates., be borne out in the bidding and the maxi* rum federal grant of $3M/)00 oe obtained, the net cost to die city would be $923,000. # The festimate provided by W. K Dickson & Company, Char lotte engineering firm and long jcnsultant to the City of King§ Mountain details these items: 1) Construction of an addition to double capacity of the McGill Creek treatment plant $220,0(X).^=— 2) Construction of a new plant on Pilot Creek, pump statlcm, Kings Creek pump station and lines leading to these plants $853,000. 3) Engineering fee (at 6 per cent of construction cost) $64,380. 4) Contingencies $50,620. 5) Legal and ednUnistrativA expenses $20,000. 6) Land and right-of-way $75,- 000. . On completioin. Mayor Moss noted, the city’s sewage lines would be able to handle up to six million gallons of affluent daily. Treatment capacity of the ex- i pattd^. McGill plant, now over loaded, wduld be one million gal lons daily, while the new plaiit is being: deigned to. treat . two . million gallons daily. Both plants will be .expandable. Final plans for the project will be presented by the engineering firm to the board of comnaisslon- ers at Tuesday night’s regular January meeting at 6:30 p.m. After board approval, the pkms will be foiwarded to the state stream sanitation committee in Raleigh for its approval. The city won a year’s morator ium from the state committee last spring on its contact whirfi specified inhially that final plans for the project be filed. ..last April 1. The new deadline is Ap ril 1, 1966^ and contract specifies I that the new facilities be in oper ation, not later than Decembw 31, 1967. ’ I Mayor Moss and City Clerk i Joe McDaniel, Jr., have discuss- i ed tfte upcoming project with W. E. Easterling, secretary of the Local Government commission,, who said the city’s fiscal struc ture will offer no bar to the is suance of required bonds. . In turn, Mayor Moss pointed We.dnesday to the city’s current bonded indebtedness and said he is confident the city 'will be able to amortize current bonds out standing ($430,000 at June 30, 1966) and the new issue with out in(:reasing the 85-cent ad va lorem tax rate. None of the remaining bonds outstanding bear Interest at Continued On Page 8 Eire RazM Grady Odum Residence, Onetime Loiig$tieet Goiorth Home Company where he is employed Fire razed the Grady Odum home off-Shelby road Tuesday,, night about 8:30, completely des troying th^ two-story frame ten ant house owned by the J. O. Plonk Estate and. C .S. Plonk, Sr. and wiping out tho-^^tgg.rQ fam ily’s furnishlrtgS and clothing. Mr. and Mrs. Oduni and their 16-year-old daughter and 18-year- old son were not at home but were cleaning a four-room house off Compact school road which they planned to occupy Wednes day. . All their furnishings and cloth ing were packed up and ready to be moved onto a truck Odum was borrowing from City Ice & Coal Teeners failed For Car Theft Four local teen-agers have been charged by Cleveland County Sheriff Ha3rwood Allen with the theft of an automobilei, The 1962 model Chevrolet owned by Horace C. '(Harvey) Yates of Route 2, was taken froni the parking lot of Margrace MUl Sunday lyght ' The boys were arrested late Monday night in Homer, Ga., when they reported attempted to drive away from k service sta tion without paying for gasoline. Charged and being held in Cleveland County Jail under a bond of $1,000 are Mickey Car- son Sisk of 406 Cherry Street, Eu- gene Malone of West Gold durirTg the winter- months. He street, and Carl Leigh of 501 has worked for the local fmn^May Street. A fourth boy, a ju the past three years. CLEARING HOUSE City Ice and Coal Company will serve as a clearing house for gifts for .the Grady Odum family. If you have furniture, food, or clothes to donate, dall 739-4261 and your gifts wlU be picked up by a Ministerial As sociation-sponsored committee, Rev. C. R. Goodson said. Gifts may also be taken directly to the plant. Odum has rented the Plonk Continued On Page 8 venilc, is being held for juvenile authorities under a similar charge. Sheriff Allen’ said the four were apprehended following a high spi^d chase near Homer, Ga., by the Homer sheriff. The car was traced to Kings Moun tain and Sheriff Allen was no tified. Sheriff .\llen went to Homer early Tuesday and returned with the boys after federal authori ties indicated they would not press charges of interstate trans portation of an automobile. J