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:28 ■/ •/ Population * 3ie-»ter Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,256 Thli tlguis lor Grootei KIngi Mouctotn Vi denved lioai the 1865 Klngi Mountain aty dlisotory cenius. Thn city UntU tiguTO u from tho Uidtod Staten census of I9f>0. Kings Mounlcein'c Reliable Newspaper ^ ges 0 da y VOL 77 No. 17 V-c*'^ri'itSr»-l ’ HRQ Kings Mount(sin, N. C., Thursday, April 28, 1966 Seventy-SeventW Year PRICE TEN CENTS Mis. Maoney's Hites Thursday; Spouse Chaig^ Funeral for Mr&, Patsy Anne Wilson Mauney, 32, who died I Tuesday of six pistol wounds will be held at Elizabeth B pf :hurch near Shelby a;. -1 r* i’hursday afternoon. In Cleveland County jail charg ed with murder is her liusband, Joseph Warlick Mauney, a form er patient in the alcoholic ward ci Broughton Hospital. According to Deputy Sheriff Alva Jones, Mauney was releas ed from the hospital several weeks ago an^ had been workini? for Southern Moving Company in Florida. He had returned here Saturday. Coroner J. Oil'e Har- I ris placed the time pf death at | of the so-called anti-poverty act 12:30. The shooting occu'Tcd at j jg virtually co r.plcte, .Superinten- L DECORATED — Major Robert G. Cox, center, 509 West Mountain Street, receives the Army Com mendation Medol from Colonel Victor L. Cary, Commanding Officer, New Cumberlaril (To.) Army Depot in the presence of Mrs. Cox, the former Hetty Howard of Augusto, Ga. The Major received the award for meritorious service in Korea as the commander of the 19th Helicopter Company where he served from January 1965 to February 1366. He is presently assigned to the Central Pennsylvonia Army base near Ka>risburg, the State CopitoL as the executive officer with the Directorate of Maintenance. $56,000 Job Training Grant Approved By County Group overly ion Nearly Complete^ Barnes Say D. B. Blalock Is Diiectoi (H Program By MARTIN HARMON Staff for the $121.;)00 special education piogram under rule I the Mauney residence ne-r W ^o The weapon was a g?-'”’"’'' ’olver. Mrs. Mauney w.as a dau h‘er nf Charles W. Wilson and the late Eugenia Freeman Wilson dent ii. N. Barnes said VVednes day. The program, already under way at five of the senool sys tem’s ten plants, will be continu ed at three schools for six weeks Also suiAdving are four chil-1 during the summer dren, ranging In age from three to nine. They are a son Joey Mauney, and three daughters, Cindy, Susan, and Sherry Mau ney. Four sisters mirvive. They are Mrs. Ralph Roberts, Mfs. Bayne Randall, Mrs. Morris Gard ner, and Mrs. Gerald Queen, all of Sheibv. The body will lie in state at the church from 3 p.m. Burial will be In Elizabeth church ceme tery and the final rites will be conducted by Rev. Jack Cooke, chaplain for Carolina Freight Ganders. It's □eaR-Up Drive Starts May 14 The city board of commission ers Thursday night set May 14— Jurte 14 as ‘Tfiint-Up, Clean-Up, Fix-Up Month” in the city, call ing on citizens to join in a iram- moth clean-up effort. Upon recommendation ot May or John H. M'oss, the city plans to make sanitation crews and equip ment available to citizens for the 30 days, at no cost, to assist them in cleaning up yards. The commission also called for a special meeting on May 2 in which citizens will be invited to map the clean-up campaign. In other action, the commission voted to- enforce clean-up ordi nances presently on the books and drafted a new one which de clares war on junk cars. The ordi nance states, “it shall be unlaw ful for anyone owning a vehicle, not being used at least once a week, to allow it to stand for more than 30 days in and inoper able condition.” Under present clean-up laws. With violators subject to fines of $1 to $25, are requirements of property owners: 1) to remove grass and weeds from their properties; 2) to remove unsanitary depos its of debris, unsanitary deposits being defined as vegetable and animal waste; and 3) requirements that junk ve hicles be removed from residenc es on 30 day notice. “There are many abandoned cars spread throughout the city”, the mayor pointed out, and “in the al'csence of an ordinance on the books to provide for moving these cars itis recommended that such an ordinance be drafted to empower the city to act in such matters.” Present ordinances also prohi bit storing of trash in yards, al lowing vicious dogs to run loose and allowing dangerous buildings to stand. on School Choice Deodline Near. Saturday, April 30, is the fin al day for filing notice with Kings Mountain school district officials of choice of school for the 1966-67 term. Superintendent B. N. Barnes said no effort has been made to tabulate choices already filed by parents of pupils but com- ' mented, ‘Designating choice of school is very important. Those who fall to make ^ choice will find themselves waiting for as signment behind all those who ^ have filed notices of choice.” He noted that date of making choice has no effect, whether ‘ choice was made on March 31 or on tlic final day. A Kings Mountain Industrial Association, Inc., application for a $56,000 manpower traininApro- gram grant has been approve by the Cleveland County Manpowjer ©evelopgi^gA Advisory ComMt-“ tee. t' Approval < \\'*ars- exte: Monday. The applicstion now has been f onvarded for review and ap^ov- al to the Bureau of ApprenBce- ship and Trainin 7 of the U. S. De partment of labor. The proposal envisions on the Job training of 300 persons at an average cost of $186.67 per per son. The Kings Mountain Industrial j Association was fonred earlier this year to promote better em ploye-employer relations, to aid local industry in finding new em- plcyees and to cement relations iretween existing plants. W. K. Mauney Jr. of Mauney Hosiery Mills is president. J. j. (Joe) Vale is executive director. Vale prepared the proposal which now awaits federal action. Mauney said in January when the now fledgling association was on the threshold of formal organization that, “A recent .sur vey showed that plants in Kings Mountain need 303 employees.” The application submitted this week to the Bureau of Appren ticeship and Training states in its narrative that. ‘The association believes that with the proposed training grant under MDTA (Manpower Development Train ing Act) that it can train and-or retrain approximately 300 per sons in this area: all of whom would contribute to the general welfare of the com'Tunity after they have received training which Will result in higher wages and working conditions.” The narrative’s opening state ment declares that, “'The Indus trial Association of Kings Moun tain Area, Inc., proposes to en list the efforts ^oI business, civic and other public-spirited groups Continued On Page 8 Cj)Rcer Drive igT Goal Y Sixth In Kings Mountain’s campaign for $3,088 for benefit of the 1966 Cancer Appeal Is lagging, iFund Drive Chairman Mrs. Henry Ncisler said this week. A house-to house canvass of the comjT)unity will be conducted Sat urday and Sunday by campaign workers, Mrs. Noisier said. Mrs. Neisler said that workers had begun solicitation of the bus iness community and she invited them to make their reports as soon as possible. The drive will continue through April 30th. With reports from chairmen of various causes incomplete, Mrs. Neisler said only about $500 had been reported. However, there had been some inquiries about memorial contributions and she said that Mrs. Joe Neisler, Jr., Phifer Road, is serving as perma nent treasurer for memorial gifts. Gifts made in memoriam to loved ones should he mailed di rectly to Mrs. Joe Neisler, Jr. during the year 1966. Other chairmen in the various areas of the campaign are: Jacob M. Cooper, industrial: Wilson Griffin, downtown business; Mrs. Bob Suber. education; Mrs. Joe Neisler, Jr., special gifts; and Mrs. Frank J. Sincox, residential. Girl Scouts of the community will assist in a Thursday after noon solicitation of residential areas. Mrs. Crawford IMed .Wednesday Mrs. Minnie Harmon Crawfortl. S3, died shorUy bef<*e 6 o'cloA Wednesday afternoorj at the homk of her deughrer, Mrs. Weft- dcll Fhlfer, with whom she had resided many years. -a lia <te(dinUl8 health for several . yekw, MlBv. Crawford was i rif Pote*' iNim and Martlw Loioran6B Harmon. S»»e was wm in the Beulah Meth odist chuteh community of Clcvr* land County. She was M on April 17. Her husband was the late Mot\ Crawford of Gaston county. Surviving, In addition to Mrs. Phifer, are another daught*-. Mrs. Fred Owens of Kings Mountain, and three sons, Ray mond CraMTford, of Kings Moun tain, Lawrence Crawford, of Augusta, Ga., and Paul Grier Crawford, of Orlando, Fla. Also surviving are a sister. Mrs. T. P. McGill, and a half- brother, M. L. Harmon, Sr., both of Kings Mountain. Twenty-one grandchildren and nine teen great-grandchildren survive. Funeral arrangements were not completed but the final rites will be at Boyce Memorial As sociate Reformed Presbyterian church, of which she was a member. The family requests that me morials be made to the building fund of Boyce Memorial church. DANCE PLANNED ‘"rhe Starlighters” will re turn to play for an American Legion-sponsored dance Satur day, May 28th, frem 9 until 12 p.m. at the American Legion Hall. County Registration Books Open Saturday; Literacy Test Is Out Registration books will open at the county’s 28 voting precincts Saturday. Principal change from recent elections is that literacy will not be a registration test, a result of a United States Department of Ju.stice ruling that less than .50 percent of Cleveland's eligible citizens voted in the 1964 general election. Elections ^Board Chairman Ralph Gilbert said all registrars liave been instructed to forget the literacy test which is requir ed by North Carolina law and will be operative In 60 of the state’s 1(X) counties. * Kings Mountain area precincts, their location, and officials are: Bethware, at Bethware school, Mrs. John D. Jones, registrar, Mrs. Henry Fite, Democrat judge, Clyde Short, alternate judge, Mrs. A11 e e n Herndon, Republican, judge. ~ Grover, at Grover fire station, Mrs. Broadus Ellis, registrar, Mrs. James C. Scruggs, Democrat judge, Miss Ethel Martin, alter nate judge, Mrs. Lee Beam, Re publican judge. East Kings Mountain, at City Hall courtroom, Mrs. Nell C. Cranford, registrar, Mrs. Ruth C. Thomasson, Democrat judge, Mrs. Hun^cs Houston, alternate judge, Mrs. Harold Glass, Re publican judge. West Kings Mountain, at Na tional Guard' Armory, Mrs. J. H. Arthur, registrar, Mrs. Charles Ballard, Democrat judge, Mrs. Paul Patterson, alternate, D. G. Littlejohn, Republican judge. Waco — G. M. Mauney, regis trar, W. L. Brown, Democrat judge, P, C. Dellinger, alternate, Mrs. Charles Bingham, Republi can juclj;e. Library Friends To Meet Friday A “Friends of the Library” or ganizational meeting will be held in Shelby Friday night at the County Courthouse. Objectives of the organization, according to.^ Mrs. Harvey Hait- rick, member of the steering comittee, call for promotion of understanding of the library, its problems, resources and needs. Mrs. Paul Luscher is tempo rary chairman of the library movement which is sponsored by the Shelby chapter, American Asociatlon of University Wom en; Shelby Junior Charity League and Shelby Junior Wom an’s Club. The Steering committee in cludes Mrs. George Hou.ser, Mrs. W. L Mauney, both of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. James Scruggs of Grover. , The first public meeting of the group is expected to attract a large CTowd. Accomplishments of Friends in other cities and counties have included increased public under standing of needs and services of a library; securing books and funds for a library; winning a building campaign; developing a notable book collection; obtain ing needed equipment; sponsor ing cultural actiritics such as art exhibits, fine films and music. BARBECUE SUPPER Bethlehem Volunteer Fire Department will serve barbe cue chickn plates Saturday frorp 5 until 8:30 p.m. at fhe conununity fire department in the Bethlehemi community. Plates w.'t Particular emphasis under the Kings Mountain school district program Is Improving the read ing sidlls of students. ‘Supt. Barnes said the program staff stiir needs a teacher aide for North school, and a librarian at Davidson for the remainder of the present schooi term. Mean time, Mrs. Doris II. Parker has been tendered the teacher aide position for Central school. Mro. W. L. Maimey iis serving as li brarian at Central. Other scliools now in the program are Kings Mountain high school and Com pact school. « During the six-week eummer term, the special program will be offered only at Kings Mountain high school. Compact and North. D. B. Blalock, high st^bol guid- .ance counselor, wilL aer\’p as director of the surfer ^ogram and will also serve n principal at North School. Principal Harry Jaynes will be principal at the high ffehool and Principal L. L. Adam* al;J5ompart. . '^Other staff members and their roles; Miss Alice Averitt, supervisor; Richard Oilyer. reading cdiitult- ant; Miss Christine Still, art; Miss Ann Murphy, ipcech thera pist; Mrs. John Warliek.^TMBhi^ aide at Kings Mountain high school; Miss Brenda WilUants, teacher aide at Compact; and Miss Betty Ann Floyd, teaclier aide at Davidson. Bus transportation will te pro vided during the summer term, just as during the regular term. Registration for the summer term is now underway. Supt. Barnes declined to guess the en rollment but commented, “We want it to be big. Many need and will be befitted by this program and wc want to use wisely every cent of this grant wisely.” SENIOR PLAT CAST -- Members of the cast of "The Last Straw" and "Old Skin Flint". Kings Mountain high school one-act plays to be presented Friday night, were photographed above during reheorsol. Front row, from left to right, Glynda Lynn, Mary Dixon, Elaine Dixon, Mar lene Oliver, Jean Ledford. Rita Coveny, and Faithel Toney. Back row, from left, Charles Wright, Roger Ross, Charles Padgett. Win Goter, John Clemmer, and Keith Kiser. (Photo by Speedy Ram- sey). I - G. G. Sommers' Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Goodloo G. Sommers, 70, were held Saturday at 3 pjm. from the Chapel of Har ris Funeral Home, interment fol lowing in Sharon Memorial Park in Charlotte. Mr. Sommers, retired Charlotte attorney, succumbed of cancer Friday at 2:30 a.m. in Kings Mountain hospital. He died fol lowing a short illness. A native of Orange County, Va., .Mr. Sommers was son of the late Edgar F. and Mary Virginia Henshaw Sommers. He retired here in 1960 after serving from 1923-1960 as claiiTs attorney for Continental In.surance Company Continued On Page 8 Rites Conducted For Dr. Former Fastoi Here Succamked In Georgia Funeral rites for Dr. Paul Dick son Patrick, 73, were held Sat urday morning at 10:30 from Fir.st Presbyterian church, inter ment fallowing in Mountain Rest cein(?tcry. j The former Kings Mountain [minister died Thursday at 2:30 I p.m. in Wayne Memorial hospital, ! Jessup, Ga., following a two day illness. Ho had become ill sud denly while attending a meeting of Georgia Presbytery and died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Patrick retired January 1 after serving since September, 11)58 as director of development and expansion at Colum :ia Thea- Icjical Seminary in Decatur, Ga. Sina? March he had been serving as interim pastor of Jt'ssup’s First Presbyterian church. He and Mrs. Patrick had occupied a hone in Black ‘Maunfain in mid- Di'ccmber and he was supplying various Presbyterian churches in this state and Georgia. Both Mr. and Mrs. Patrick on-; ,3y vote of 3-0, the city board (learod themselves to this com- of comixissioners Thursday nisht munity, as both were active in , said “no” to Realtor Warren E the community life and were not- Reynolds’ plea for pennission to ed for service outside the church, deviate from terms of the newly- Dr. Patrick was pastor hyie at enacted trailer park ordinance SUCCUMBS Dr. Paul Dick son Patrick succumbed Thurs day in Jessup. Ga. Funeral rites were held here Saturday at First Presbyterian church where he was pastor from 1935-58. Board Says "No' To Reynolds 3-0 Senior Plays To Be Given iFiiday Nigkt ; Curtain time is 8 o’clock Fri day night for two one-act plays I which the Kinf\ Mountain high I school senior cla^ will present in Central school auditorium. , The Last Straw”,is a comedy ! by Paula 'Bauer. The action cen- i ters around Mrs. Arnold Dray- ! ton s 'hen-pecked” husband who I has lost his job. Mrs. Drayton gets I a 10b and leaves poor Arnold at ! homo to do the cleaning .and cooking. Hilarious complications follow, 'when Arnold finally forces himself to s^and up to his wife, she so s, ‘"This is the last straw!” The comedy-drama, “Old Skin Flint”, was written by C. H. Keeney. Tobias Flint, known a- mong the employees of his furni ture factory as “Old Skin Flint,” has a soft spot for only three things: his money; his orphaned granddaughter, Alice; and the memory of his dead wife. His granddaughter, Alice, defies his authority and plans her wedding. Events cause his shell of hard ness and stinginess toimelt away, and a new and surprising facet of "Old Skin Flint’s” true charac ter is revealed. Under direction of Mrs. J. H. Patterson, the plays will be pro duced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. and Baker’s Plays, Boston, Massa chusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Carl MeWhirter are assistant directors. Admission is 75 cents for adults and 50 cents for students. Patrick was Fii'sf Presbyterian church from 1935 .58, coming to Kings Moun tain from South Carolina where Continued On Page 8 City-Wide Fire Inspection Begins; Bn^ess, Indnstiy To Be Checked A city-wide fire Inspection be gan Wednesday and will be com pleted over a 10 day period, Fire Chief Floyd Thornburg said this week. Mr. Thornburg, who announced plans for the inspection at Thursday’s city board meeting, said the fire inspection will in clude t It c downtown district. Kings Mountain area industrial plants and commercial firms. In other actions, the'board; 1) Discussed a request from the Downtown Development Com mission for a B6XXX> “loan” In city funds to finance engineering studies being made Charles Davis of Hidcory, traffic and planning consultants. Committee Chairman John Plonk made the request, saying the funds would be repaid when a federal grant is approved for public projects in the downtown area. The board authorized the may or to appoiny a committee to “look into iKc availability” and migt witH Utc city iUhtney Iai} It was t’ne second long session by the board and the park own er within a week in which Reyn olds strongly protested the ordi nance the commission contends he is violating. To comply with the ordinance the commission says that Reyn olds must move, one trailer from his Dixie Trailer Park off Gold street and rearrange two exist ing spacefe into one space. Th^ trailer is too close to ah existing [ The city will install new sewer and electrical lines, the board report back to the board at the .May 2 special meeting. 21 Authorized the mayor to ap point a citizens advisory council to make a feasibility study con- j property line. cernLng minority housing and formation of a redevelopment commission with duties designed Re^nords*, burReynolds re- to qualify lor federal urban re- fu.pd the offer. He asks for a blanket variance e.xo-hpting all vclopmcnt program. trails, spaces at both parks 3» Authorized Mayor Moss to 1 f^om the ordinance, name a committee to present and . . ,. to prepare for public hearing and j envisions, he says, future adoption 1) the state building i ordinance violarions when trail- code; 2) the state plumbing code; and 3) the state electrical code. These would update similar codes adopted as early as 1939. •1) Recognized completion of a population and econamy study and land use analysis made by the community planning division of the North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development. Copies of these studies are a- vailable in booklet form In city offices. ers are pulled from existing spaces. Assistant City Attorney Bill Wliitc pointed out that the ordi nance is not retroactive, mean ing, he said, that trailers now in violation of the ordinance arc allowed to remain. But, when the existing trailers are moved, new ones may not be placed on spaces if the spaces do not conform to lot sizes and other specifications set forth in the ordinance, he CuHtinmii On Rag« 8 Goforth One-Hits Chase For 3-0 Win Senior Steve Goforth pitched a one-hitler and struck out 11 batters to lead Kings Moun tain’s Mountaineers to a 3-0 win -over Chase Wednesday afternoon. The game was called because of rain with KM batting in the bottom of the sixth inning. The lone hit off Goforth, who now is 4-0 in the confer ence, was a single by Bobby Bridges in the first inning of play. Kings Mountain collected three hits off loser Don Wease. Tommy Goforth and Nelson Connor each hit doubles and Mike Smith obtained the other , KM hit, a single In the first inning. The Mountaineers are now 4- 4 in Southwest Conference play. Kiser Moved To Local Hospital L. Arnold Kiser, Kings Moun tain industrialist, is a patient at Kings Mountain hospital follow ing his transfer from Charlotte Memorial hospital last week. A member of the family quotes his condition as “about the same.’ lie is still not perxitted vlsit- orst I