b6 om Popidatioii Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,008 * TUt figura (ot Gnatti King* MountoKn highway, com- ' mission was investigating routes I both south and north of Kings I Mountain, each of which were ruled out for various reasons in cluding distance and presence of mining operations and mineral right.s. In 1964, after prior formal ccmmi.ssion go-ahead with the project, tentative approval was given a 3.13 mile project-which would have followed an in-eity roadbed largely Tike the in-city portion of the 7.3 mile route now formally approved. Last change of .US 74 was in 1938-.39 when the bridge over the Southern Railway at Battle ground and Railroad avenues was constructed and a new road built to replace West Mountain as US 74. WINS PROMO'nON — Dr. Paul H. McGinnis, Jr., is joining the faculty of the expanded De portment of Textile Chemistry at Norfli Carolina State Uni versity in Raleigh as an assis tant professor. Dr. McGinnis Wins Promotion tician, and county commission Chairman, died in 1929. In addi tion to her daughter here, she has a son, H. Tom Fulton, Jr. of Chapel Hill, Tenn., a grandson, Norman F. McGill, Jr. a brother laycees To Conduct Kleenex Sale Here Kings Mountain Jaycces will conduct their annual klecnex sale for benefit ' of the John Gamble Memorial Fool ball Sta dium Friday night from 7 until 8:30 p.m. Project Chainran John Hawze said the Jaycocs will of fer families a bargain in kleen- ex via a door-to-door sale. The (zivic club has pledged . $300 this year to the commun ity-wide project to build a 4,000 seat stadium. Dr; Paul H. McGinnis, Jr., na tive of Kings .Mountain and son ,’, of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. .McGin nis, - has been appointed a mem ber of the faculty of the expand ed Department of Textile .Che.n- istry .at Nortli Carolina State University, Chancellor John T. Caldw’ell has announced. I Dr. AIcGinnis' and Dr. Richard D. Gilbert, a native of Canada, will initiate new basic research programs in textile .chemistry. Both will be assistant professors. Since 1960 Dr. McGinnis has been a chemical engineer for the Esso Research Laboratories of the Humble Oil and Refining Company in Baton Rouge, La. Prior to his woi^k with the Esso Company he was a research at- sistant at N. C. State and a sum mer worker in the Quality Con trol Laboratories of Foote’s Kings Mountain Operation. He holds membership in the American Institute of Chemical Enginet'rs, the Society for Indus trial and Applied Mathematics, and the Professional scientific Society of. Sigma Xi. Dr. .McGinnis holds bachelors, masters and Ph.D. degrees f>oir. North Carolina State in^cneniicsl engineering. He recreived his Ph D. in 1960. Ml'S. .McGinnis is’ the former Libby Wehlint of CheiTyville. Shareholders Set ~ Annual Meetinq Shareholders of Home Sav ings & Loan AsscK'iation will hold the.annual meeting Tues day afternoop at 5 o’clex-k in the office of the Association on E. Mountain street. Busine.ss of the meeting^will incICide reports from the past year, Seciotary-Treasurei; Tom Tate reports. ® Youthful Trio Relieves Canoll Of About $500 In Burger Barn Cash -Pass Announcement Of Decision By Garrison By MARTIN HARMON The US 74 by-pass of Kings Mountain will be the 7.3 mile projection located as presented at the public hearings held, last September 30 and last April 29. W. B Garrison, of Gastonia, 12th di^sion highway commis sioner, announced the decision Wednesday. In turn, Cammi Garrison pro vided carbons of his letter to William F. Babcock, state high way administrator, urging that the project be expedited as much as possible. Comm. Garrison wrote Mr. Babcock: “... I would appreciate very much your personal attention to this project, taking into consid eration, of course, your many other pressing problems. This oroject has been in the nraking for a long time and the people of Kings Mountain do not under stand why it is taking so long. If you could possibly accelerate the beginning of the actual con struction in any way possible, I am sure the citizens of Kings Mountain would be pleased im- .nensely.” At the September hearing, R. I*^cGowan, the commission’s i^ location engineer, estimat ed the 7.3 mile span will cost roughly $6,000,000. In conversing with Comm. Gar rison Wednesday, Mayor Moss reported he had heard expres sions of concern that the project ed plan envisions the closing of Phenix street, serving a large Industrial area; and further con cern that the projected Waco Road partial interchange does not tie in with West King street, regarded as necessary to proper ly serve the new 1,014 - member Kings Mountain high school. Comm. Garrison replied that formalization of these objections would result in a thorough study by the design division of the highway ca.T.mission staff. He declined to estimate date for launching construction or for securing right - of - way, noting that the commission recently ap proved employment of additional personnel to speed the continual ly increasing workload. Administrator Babcock and En gineer McGowan could not be reached by telephone Wednesday afternoon for further comment on completioti of design, right-of: way acquisition 2uid target date for inviting bids. The projected road would leave US-74 near its intersection with Interstate 85, move northwest to the intersection of Piedmont ave nue and Linwood road, then bear west and southwest to a diamond interchange at the intersectiorTbf present US 74 and county road 2036. It will continue south, then west, running south of Bethware school until it re-intersects with US 74 slightly east of the Buffa lo Creek bridg^. A diamorid inter change is planned on Cleveland avenue south of East school. A bridge under the Southern Railway tracks is envisioned be tween Phenix plant of Burling ton Industries and Mullins Tex tiles. Another bridge is envision ed at North Cansler street. The project is a 50-50 share cost project between the U. S. Bureau of Roads and the State oi North Carolina. Under North, Carolina law, the city will be re quired to defer expense of mov ing cit.v utility lines already on highway right-of-way. City ex pense will be incurred at the Cleveland avenue and Piedmont avenue interchanges. Harold Carroll, manager of the Burger Barn on the York Road in Kings Mountain, was robbed of approximately $500 early Wed nesday as he was leaving -to take a nigJit deposit to the bank. Carroll told city police that two subjects stepped out ,of the shadows and demanded tlie mon ey ba^ 9ontaining the days re ceipts. Carroll said that a third subject was in the getaway car. The three thievjes drove off in a 1958 black Chevrolet, which headed north on Cleveland Ave nue, toward Bessemer City. Carroll described the two men as young, white males. One was tall and the other short, Carroll said. He co^lld not describe the subject that was waiting in the car. Carroll said the men were not masked and that he didn’t know if they had a weapon. One had his hands in his pockets, he told investigating officers Bob Hayes and B P. Cook. Cook and Hayes, along with City Police Sgt. Earl Stroupe. Jr., and officers William Roper and Ellis King worked on the rob bery through a good portipn of the night. No arrests have been made as of yet but the investiga tion is continuing. Officer Stroupe said that one of the three money bags was found near the; dty limits on Cleveland Avenue. Garrison Advice: Maintain Property “The highway commission endeavors to pay fair value for properties it acquires for build ing roads," Division Cammis- signer W. B. Garrison said Wednesday in announcing the commission decision to pi'oceed on the US 74 by-pass. He also gave a word of ad vice to persons with improved property (homes, business buildings, etc.) likely to be on the new roadbed. “Keep your prop«iy in good repair,” Comm. Garrison said., “It is obvious an appraiser will; be less impressed price^srise,- with a home with doors ing on one hing% than well-maintalnedr