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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
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VOL 77 No. 10
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 10, 1966
Seventy-Seventh Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Citizens To Decide Sewage Bond Issue Tuesday
Dr. Laura Plonk’s
Rites Condneted
SPEAKER.—Dr. Harold J. Dud
ley, general secretary of the
Presbyterian Synod of North
Carolina, will speak at mid
week prayer services Wednes
day at 7:30 at First Presbyteri
an church.
Dr. Dudley
To Speak Here
Dr. Harold J. Dudley, general
secretary of Presbyterian Synod
of North Carolina since 1951, will
speak on ‘The National Council
of Churches”, Wednesday night
at 7:30 at First Presbyterian
Church.
Announcement was made by
Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor, who said
that the interested community is
invited to attend and worship
wih the local congregation.
' Dr. Dudley, a member of the
hoard of trustees of Union Sem
inary, is also a member of the
permanent Judicial Commission
of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the U. S.
Stated Clerk and treasurer of
the Synod, Dr. Dudley is also
editor of the Synod’s paper, “The
Presbyterian News.” He serves
as secretary of most of the Syn
od’s committees.
Born in Richmond, Va. in 1902,
he was educated at John Marsh
all high school, Richmond, and
at Hampden-sydney college in
Virginia. At the latter school he
was awarded the Edgar Gam
mon Cup for scholarship, athle
tics, and character. ,
, After graduation from Hamp-
- den-Sydney, Dr. Dudley taught
and CQached at Woodberry For
est SchoUJ,,Virginia, and later
graduated trom- Union Theologi
cal Seminary at Richmond (1929)
Continued On\Pa^e ii
Noted Educator
Was Co-Founder
01 Plonk School
Funeral rites for Dr. Laura
Plonk, Kings Mountain native,
co-founder and director of the
Plonk Sch)jf3l of Creative Arts in
Asheville; were held here Sunday
at St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church.
She was 76.
She succumbed at 2:15 p.m.
March 3 at her residence, 44 Sun
set Parkway, Asheville. She had
been critically ill since mid-Octo
ber.
Daughter of the late William
Lafayette and Martha Regina
Ware Plonk, she, with her Sister
Dr. Lillian Plonk, open^ the
Southern, Workshop, initial name
of the school, in 1924 shortly
after her father’s death. The
school was dedicated to their
father, who served 32 years on
the county board of education
and was a member of the Kings
Mountain bo-ard at his death.
A 1910 graduate of Lenoir-
Rhyne college, and did graduate
•work in expression and oral
English at the Boston School of
Public Speaking, Boston’s Curry
School of Expression, and at
Staley college, Brookline, Mass.
Before opening her own school,
she taught at Kings Mountain
high school, Linwood college, the
Curry school, and at Wheaton
college, Norton, Mass.
In 1934, the private secondary
Grove Park school merged with
the Plonk school, with instruction
offered fro rhfirst grade through
college level
Dr. Plonk was noted through
out the South and East, not only
as an educator^ but ds a Bible
expert, and she filled many en
gagements in both roles..
She was a member of the Na
tional Association of Deans of
Women, and in 1963 was named
Pioneer Woman Educator of the
Year by Gamima chapter, Delta
Kappa Gamma, of which sh«'.^ps
a member. She was an honorary
member ol the Quota: - club, ±a
service orgaiuzation of women
executives and in 1964 was an
Asheville Citizens-Times Woman
of the Week.
In 1930, she wrote and directed
the Kings Mountain Historical
Pageant commemorating the ses-
qui-centennial anniversary of the
Battle of Kings Mountain. Dr.
Plonk was an honor guest at the
185th commemoration last Octo
ber.
She Was a member of St.
Mark’s Lutheran church, Ashe-
Contmued On Page 6
I
Arledge Running
_ J
For Seat In House
ELECTED — Rick Goforth has
been elected vice-president of
his fraternity at Western Caro
lina college.
Rick Goforth
In Student Post
Rick Goforth, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Goforth of Kings
Mountain, has recently been
elected vice president of Zeta
Omicron chapter of Tau Kappa
Epsilon International Fraternity.
.Goforth, a junior at Western
Carolina college, also serves as
treasurer of Men’s House Gov
ernment and is active in many
other caixpus activities.
Mis. Baines'
Rites Conducted
Funeral Vites for Mrs. Juanita
Barnes, 24, wife of James Ed
ward Barnes, were held Wednes
day at 4 p.m. from Macedonia
Baptist church, interment follow
ing in Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Barnes died-Monday at 1
a.m. in Kings Mountain hospital
following four weeks serious ill
ness. She was. the daughter of
Robert Bell of Wallingford,
Conn, and the late Minnie Louise
Bell
Rev. Wayne Ashe officiated at
the final rites.
Surviving, in addition to her
father and husband, are twp
sons, Carl and Charles Barnes,
both of the home; two daughters,
Theresa and Lisa Barnes, both
of the home; three brothers. Bob-
by, Robert Lee and Thomas J.
Bell, all of Wallingford; five sis
ters, Mrs. Charles Wilder and
Miss Barbara Ann Bell, both of
Wallingford, Mrs. David Sipes of
Kings Mountain, Mrs. Carl Heav-
ner of Charlotte and Mrs. Larry
Miller of Shelby.
HOSPITALIZED
Glee A. Bridges, hardware-
man and former mayor, was
admitted to Kings Mountain
hospital Tuesday for tests and
observation.
r
GIRL SCOUT WEEK ACTIVITIES UNDERWAY—This week is Girl Scout Week and Kings Moun
tain troops ore joining in the observance. Central Methodist church Copdette Troop 4 made
handpuppets and dlsplctyed them, along with proficiency badges ond other Informatioa on
Scouting, in the downtown window of Bale's Department Store. This troop wlU entertain Juniors
and Brownies of First Presbyterian church ot a 3:30 p.m. program today. Mrs. Hslen Hinson and
her grandson, Terry Odum, were photographed above as the looked through the window sd thB
puppotk (Hnttfd Photo by Pout Lemmoni).
Cline Rumoied
Commission
Candidate
By MARTIN HARMON
tate Representative J. T'hurs-
ton Arledge, of Tryon, announc
ed Wednesday he will seek re-
election in the new three-member
43rd legislative district which in
cludes his home county of Polk,
Cleveland and Rutherford.
Rep; Arledge, a Democrat, joins
Cleveland’s Rep. Robert Z. Falis
as House candidates in the dis
trict.
His announcement w’as the
chief political development in the
area during the past week. An
other was the election of Bili
Cobb, onetime state chairman,
as chairman of 10th district Re
publicans.
There were two major rumors
during the week:
1) Ray W. Cline, Ward 1 city
commissioner, was reported con
sidering offering for Democratic
■nomination to the county com
mission.
2) A. B. Cline (no kin to Ray
Cline) was rumored considering
seriously challenging Sheriff
Haywood Allen, who is seeking
re-election.
City Commissioner Cline evi
dence some interest in seeking
a county commission seat two
years ago, subsequently decided
to complete his term as city com-
missionership to which he was
re-elected last May
A. B. Cline, Stony Point com
munity dairyman, is a son of the
lata J&eb V. Cfifie, dnetime chair*-
mAh of the county commlsion, a
nephew of ex-Sheriff Raymond
Cline, and an uncle of Mrs. Tom
Tate, of Kings Mountain.
Until the county commission,
via penmissive legislation of the
General Assembly, scrapped the
district system of choosing nomi
nees recently. Comm. Cline would
not have been eligible to seek
election to th county commission
until 1968, as Coleman Goforth
has two years remaining of a
four-yea rterm. Under the, newly
resumed sweepstakes arrange
ment, any citizen of the county
may offer for the county com
mission. Terms of Comms. David
Beam and B. E. (Pop) Simmons
are expiring.
Rep. AUedge is an cx-Marine
sergeant, having served four
years during World War If and
again in the Korean War. He is
a hardwareman and long active
J. THURSTON ARLEDGE
T^otal Of 15
Oiganizations
Favoi Bonds
Fifteen civic, and .service or
ganizations hfive endorsed the
city bond election for improving
and expanding the sewage treat
ment system.
Mayor John Henry Mo.ss said
that he anticipates that more
will lend their endorsement to
tire proposal to be decided by
voters Tuesday, March 15th.
Eight business firms also en
dorsed the upcoming bond elec
tion and sponsored a full-page
advertisement in this edition of
The Herald.
The civic and service groups
include: Kings Mountain Cham
ber of Commerce, Kings Moun
tain Rotary club, Kings Moun
tain Lions club. Kings Mountain
Jaycees, Kings Mountain Opti
mist club, Kings Mountain Ki
wanis ^club, American Legion
Post 155, Kings Mountain VFW
Post 9811, Kings Mountain Junior
Woman’s club, Kings Mountain
Improvement Association, Kings
Mountain Fryetts club. Kings
Mountain Secret Sisters club,
American Legion .-\uxiliarj'. East
schoal™Parent • Teacher, Associa
tion and Kings Mountain Mer
chants Association.
The other firms are Phenix
Plant 1 of Buriington Industries,
Carolina Throwing Company,
Craftspun Yarns, Inc., Spangler’s
Ready-Mix Concrete Company,
Superior Stone Company, Mau-
ney Hosiery Coinioany, Radio
Station WKMT and Herald Pub
lishing House.
Potts Creek Smell ^
Encourages Sign-Ups
Lawyer William White, as
sistant to City Attorney J. R.
Davis, is already hard at work
^ on the considerable task of ob
taining easements from many
propefty owners for sewer lines
to the proposed Pilot Branch
plant.
Mr. White reported to the
city commission Tuesday an
estimated one-third of prop
erty owners .effected li a v e
granted easements and that
these property owners have
approximatelyhalf of the 2486.-
1 rods of easements required.
All liave accepted the stand
ard city offer of one dollar per
rod.
Mr. White, commenting after
the meeting, said a few prop
erty owners have indicated re
luctance to grant easements
then added, "I have one prom
ise which has proved much
more important than plea to
civic pride or the dollar-per
iod payment. When I mention
the fact, that Potts Creek vvill
smell no more, citizens in this
area are anxious to sign.”
Potts Creek is contaminated
by the city’s over loaded Ware
plant, which is northwest of
the country club.
PAUL WH.SON
Stndenb Win
Ifistoiy Medals
Bany Conditions
Reported Bettei
C. P. Barry, Kings Mountain
insurance man a^nd former city
comim-issioner, and Mrs, Bairy,
who with h«f hugband ownsj «md
operates Piedmont* Drug ^ore,
were seriously injured Sunday
afternoon in an aiito accident
near Cherryvilie on Highway 216.
Their conditions had improv^
Wednesday, Dr. John C. McGill,
i their attending physician report-
! cd.
\ Mr. Barry suffered a complete
1 fracture of the right leg just be-
I low tlie knee and several broken
bones.
Mrs. Barry suffered several
broken ribs and heavy chest and
Favoiable Vote
Rated Imperative
To Fedeial Grant
Kings Mountain citizens will
determine Tuesday whether the
city is authorized to issue bonds
up to $1,300,000 for renovation
and expansion of its sewage dis*.
posal arid, treatment systems.
A favorable vote will also be^ a
key factor or “point-getter”, in
whether the city qualifies for a
fedral govrnmnt grant of up to
$360,000.
If advance registration activity
is an indication, the total vote
will not be large. Only 20 new
voters had been added to the
The contest was held in fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth grades
of the city system.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Amos, Miss Amos won
in the seventh and eighth grade
in Democratic politics and other f^^tegory with her essay, “The
public affairs, serving as state j Character of An Honest Man.”
‘he American gon of Mr. and
Legion, and on the citizens com-!
mittee for better schools He is
Suzanne Amos, Central school
eighth grader, and Tom KeiSne-
dy, 'West school fifth grader, are
winners of the^American History j abdomhrai braises..
Month essay contests sponsored I A sister, Mrs. Otto Ware, re-
by Colonel Frederick Hambright | poi’twi Mrs. Barry suffering from
Chapter, DAR. a head wound and other injuries,
and that Mr. Barry had a broken
seeking re-election to his fifth
term.
Heis a Baptist and his wife is
the former Margaret Cline of
Cleveland County. They have
two sons.
Mrs. R. M.
Kennedy, young Kennedy won in
i the fifth and sixth grade cate
gory for his essay, “Justice To
All.”
Medals will be presented to the
winners at .school finals pro
grams in Juno.
kneecap. He also had some chest
injuries.
Full details^ of the accident
were not obtainable here, as the
Cherry\ille Ea.?le had not learn
ed of Iheaccidc'nt and the investi
gating patrolman could not be
reached.
Mrs. Ware said the Barry’s
were struck by another car which
failed to stop from a sideroad
into Highway 216. She said both
Barrys were thrown from the
car by the impact and that Mrs.
Barry was picked up by a fripnd.
wli), when she stopped to aid the
wreck victims, did not realize
the Barrys were the victims.
The Barry.-; live in the Bethany
comimunity of South Carolina.,
$34,000 Improvement Loan Okayed
Foi Mid-Pines Watei System. IncJTeddei Rites
To Be Thuisday
The Farmers Home Atiminis-
tration hfis appi'oved ^ 34^000
insured loan for the Mid-Pines
community water systefn serv
ing 90 families, U. S. Representa
tive Basil L. Whitencr announc
ed Tuesday.
The loan will enable the Mid
pines Community Water Systen,
Inc., to renovate^£m~cxIsting wa
ter system, drill new wells, in
stall new pumps and tank and
replace and extend pipelines. ^
Construction of the project will
provide 7(X) man-days of labor for
well drillers, operators of ditch
digging equipment, and day
borers.
Ten people will be employed in
the construction of the water sys
tem. The system will be capable
of delivering 100/K)0 gallons a
day when completed.
Funds for the insured loan
were provided by the North Car
olina Teachers’ and State Em
ployees’ Retirement systemi. Un-
jifit the insured loaiuffiBgEsmJhe
Farmers Home Administration
makes and services the loan and
'guarantees repayment of the
money borrowed along with In
terest.
The water system wiH replace
the preoent system which-is en-
ttMly inadequate and in poor
_ f
I condition The new system will
replace 1” and li” pipes with 2”
! and 3” increase the water pres-
I sure, and deliver adequate quan-
I titles of water. An additional well
, will be drilled. It will also serve
! as a source of water for the lo
cal volunteer fire department.
More than 400 -people, two
general stores, a filling*'station
and" a church will be served by
the new water system.
The present system was con
demned by the State Board of
Health three years ago as being
totally inadequate for the needs
la- of the community.
It is anticipated. Rep. Whitencr
said, that the new system Will in
crease home building and remod
eling of existing homes and pro
mote the local economy.
The Farmers Home Adiminis-
tration loan is to be repaid over
a period of 40 years.
Officers of the Midpines Com
munity Water System, Inc., are:
M.. . Batchler, „ j)re^dent;- Jack
A. Hutchins, secretary-treasurer.
Rural water system loans are
available to organizatibns operat
ing on a nonprofit basis, such as
nonprofit corporations and water
supply districts. Small rural
towns are also eligible.
Funeral services for Roar Ad-
mi r?il F. L. Tedder, 62, brother
of R A.* Tender of Grover, will
he held Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
from tho Officers’ Quarters of
.\rlinigton Cemetery with burial
following in Arlington.
A retired Naval officer, Mr.
Tedder had been associated with
Pan American Airways in Mer
ritt Isla^nd, Fla. He succumbed
after a short illness. 4
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J.
F. Tedder of Shelby, he was a'na-
tivc of Texas and a grad'uate of
the U. S. Naval Academy.
He is also survived by his wife,
Mrs. Olivia Tedder; a daughter,
Mrs Jay Carrington of Norfolk.
Va.;’ and another brother, B. M.
Tedder of Shelby.
MEDICARE CLINIC
A representative , ot-the U. S.
Social Security office will be
City Hall courtroom Tuesday
from 2 to 5 p.m. to offer infor
mation on extended medical
care benefits and to aid per
sons 65 and older in filing ap
plications for the extended cov
erage!
Jack Still Is
STAR Teachei
John L. (Jack) Still, former
Kings Mountain citizen and a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Garland E. Still,
was honored by the Clearwater,
Fla., high school STAR student as
the teacher who had made the
greatest contribution to, the stu
dent’s scholastic achievement.
A scholastic contest of the
Florida State Chamber of Com
merce, Clearwater’s STAR stu
dent is Don Garretson who scored
747 on the verbal portion and 716
on the mathematics p6rtioff”'of
the College Board Scholastic Ap
titude test. If was a combing
score of 1463 of a possible 1600.
Mr. Still, a teacher of Ameri
can and Contemporary history,
took a leave of absence from the
high school in December, shortly
after the scholastic contest, fo
become an assistant professor at
Tampa’s University of Southei'n
Florida. His new work includes
teaching a class of intern teach
ers new methods of instruction.
The Clearlight, high school
paper, quoted .Mr. Slill .concern
ing his new, work, “I enjoy it.
What I’lm doing is teaching the
practical application of teaching
to these student teachers.
“. . .I like this .tob becau.3e.-1
feel I’m helping students even
more Actually, I’ve learned a
whole h^t in two weeks.”
Mr. Still expects to resume his
Clearwater assignment in Sep
tember, where he was sponsor of
the Key Club. A recent project
was initiating a Vietnam Letters
campaign, which resulted in hun
dreds of cards and letters being
posted to servicemen fighting
there.
Firemen Planning
Benelit Saturday
Bethlehem Volunteer Fire De
partment will sponsor a home
made chicken pie supper Satur
day at the Fire Department in
'he Bethlehem Community.
Plates are $1.25 for adults and
75 cents for children. Serving will
be from 5 until 7:30 p.m., Fred
A. Tate, member of the fire de
partment, said.
Proceeds will, benefit the fund
drive now underway.
WARD 1 JUDGE
By authority of the city com
mission, Mayor John Henry
Moss Wednesday appointed
Miss Margaret Kendrick a
judge for Tiesday’s city elec
tion. She replaces Mrs. R. C.
Etheridge, who now resides in
Ward 5.
pollbooks in four of five wards,
13 of them in Ward 5, where Mrs.
Paul Patterson is registrar, and
seven in Ward 3, where Mrs.
Ruth Bowers is registrar.
Saturday will be Challenge
Pay- * „
(3n Tuesday, the polls will open
at the five city voting precincts
at 6:30 a.m. and will close at
6:30 -p.im.
Plans call for doubling capac
ity of the McGill treatment plant
to cne million gallons capacity
per day, gilding of a new plant
on Pilot Wanch (tributary of
Potts Creek) with capacity of
two million gallons per day, in
stallation 'of necessary pump
stations, and laying of 7.96 miles
of sewer lines, including 27,388
feet of 24-inch pipe.
Mayor John Henry Moss, re
porting to the city commission
Tuesday night on progress of the
project, termed 'Tue^ay’s bond
election among most important
in the city’s history, including
successful $600,000 issues of 1954,.
and the Successful one of the
late twenties which resulted in
building of the York Road Water
reservoir and the Dea# Street fil
ter plant.
He noted after the meeting
that the 1928 water bonds will be
finally retired in May and that
the city will have no problem' in
amortizing the ,new bond issue.
Long-terni debt will be $460,000
at June 30.
Meantime, he told the commis
sioners, the city’s financial pic-
ture through February 28, in the
current year, is ‘‘excellent.”
Anticipated revenues for the
year are $997,338 in the general
budget, and $337,000 from natu
ral gas sales.
He noted that federal grants
Continued On Page 6
Here Are Facts
On Tuesday Voting
Following are facts concern
ing.^ Tuesday special bond elec
tion: '
Polls open at 6:30 a.m.
Polls close at 6:30 p.m.
Eligible voters: registered
citizens of the City of Kings
Mountain.
Question: Will the city be
authorized to issue bonds up to
$1,300,000 to defray cost of ex
panding and renovating its
sewage disposal and treatment
system.
Polling places: Ward 1, City
Hall courtroom: Ward 2, Amer
ican Le^on building: Ward 3,
East school; Ward 4, Kings
Mountain Manufacturirug Com
pany clubroom; Ward 5, Na
tional Guard Armory
Bames Hasn't Yet Fully Digerted
New '66 Desegiegation Guidelines
mi^Tb
wrof <
Superintendent B. N. Barnes,
of Kings Mountain school dis
trict, said he had not fet studied
in full detail the new 1966 guide
lines of the federal commissioner
of education concerning school
de-segregation and 1 the concur
rent implication of withholding
of federal supplementary funds
if the office of education’s guide
lines are not deemed to be met.
Supt. Barnes received the new,
guidelines from Comm. Harold*
Howe If Monday,
Supt. Barnes said the new guide
lines
1) Require a report on pro
gress of desegregation during the
current term by April 15.
2t State safeguards against
discrimination of faculty on ac
count of race» creedt coloi^ ua-
Quoting from, the -summary,. Jiau of approval—for naadtoaupe
payments becoming effective
July 1, must establish the fact of
desegregation. Admlnistr a t o r
Grady Howard, of Kings Moun
tain Hospital, said the surgeon
general’s announced guidelinaa
have not yet been received.
■J
tional origin, or sex mu
en next year.
3) Require the boacd'of educa
tion to satisfy the office of edu
cation that the freedjimi of choice
of school plan in vogue here ia
accomplishing desegregation. ■>
‘’We can certainly show pro-
igress in this direction during
1965-66,” Supt. Barnes comment
ed , “Our plan is working."
keantime, the surgeon-generaf**'
announced his office would take •
steps to assure that hospitals, in