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■—^ \ Page 6 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, May 5, 1966 KINGS MOUNTAIN Hosp'i+al Log yjs"v’~nrr HOURS Daily 10“^ To a.m. S to ip.< and 7 to 8 p.m. Mrs J. T. Barber Mrs! Mollie Beam Mrs. Clifford Bowen Miss Myrtle Boyce Mrs. Robert Brown, Jr. Mrs. Virginia Bush Mrs. James Byers Mrs. Nancy Clark William Collins, Jr. Mrs. Earl Falls Mrs. Elizabeth Goforth Mrs. Bythia Hamrnett Mrs. Charles Hamrick William Hamrick Mrs. Vera Huffstetler Felix Johnson Mrs. Felix Johnson iLevi Lingerfelt Earl Marceau Mrs. John Mitcham Pinkney Mitchell Mrs. Blanche Poplin Mrs." Ly.man Robbs Miss Sue Service John R. smith Mrs. Leonard Smith Mrs. Jack Standridge Mrs. Ida Walker T. J. Timms Donald Wallace Joe Louis Wilson, Jr. ADMITTED FRIDAY James Blanton, Rt. J Mrs. James Fletcher er St. Mrs. William Kenney, m^wnsend Ave., Gastonia MaryMyer-. 1030 Barnett Dr. . , Mrs. Grace Philbeck; ing St. Mrs. James Rhodes Ave. Mrs Clem Wright, City admitted , SATURI^Y Mrs. Thad Causliy er Park „ Miss Ellen Foster. Rt. d Harley Lewis, 406 King St. Coman Reinhardt, 204 E. King St. 409 Bak- 601 300 Dill- Robinson, 808 Dixie Trail- Mr. and Mrs. Larry -Douglas Anderson, 406 S. Canster street, announce the birth of a daugh ter, Thursday, April 21, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dean Welch, route 3, announce the icirth of a daughter, Friday, April 22, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Buckner, route 1, Gastonia, announce the birth of a son, Friday, April 22 Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. William Kenneth Smith, 611 Meadowbrook road announce the birth of a daughter Friday, April 22, Kings Mountain ho.spital. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wells, Box 211, Bessemer City, announce the birth of a son, Saturday, Ap ril 23, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon Moore, Jr., Gastonia, announce the ’birth of a daughter, Friday, April 22, Kings Mountain hospi- tal. . Mr. and Mrs. Madison Wilson, route 1, Grover, announce the birth of a son. Sunday, April 24. Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Perkins, route 1, announce the birth of a son, Monday, April 25, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rollins, 319 Walnut street, announce the birth of a daughter, Monday, Ap ril 25, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Eugene Dixon, route 1, .announce the birth of a son, Tuesday, April 26, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. Grigg, 902 Second street, announce the birth of a son, Wednesday, April 27, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Camp. Jr., route 1, Grover, announce the birth of a daughter, Friday, Ap ril 29, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moore, Jr., Bobby Dean Wray. High Shoals j • ^,j^j.gj.ace road, announce ...TNAv- ^ daughter, Friday, April 29, Kings Mountain hospi- ADMITTED SUNDAY Robert Brymer, 31d ^ ington Ave., Bessemer City Mrs. Paul Glenn, 210 Dilhng St. Mrs. Carl Hefner, 118 Carolina Ave., Bessemer City Margaret Miller, 204 \V at- PO Box Mrs. terson St. Mrs. Charles Ramsey 623 Mrs. Wayne Williams, PO Box 4, Cherryville Dorothy SOie Young, 209 E. King St. admitted MONDAY Mrs. Walter Gamble, 903 Mon- x*o0 Av’©« Marion C. Hughes, 505 Kather- id© ^Lv©« Mrs. Rosa Jonas, 802 Jackson Mrs. Dewey Mauney, Bessemer City Mrs. Carrie Mitchem, Clover, S. C. Mollie Phillips, City tal. Mr. and Mrs W'illiam E. Kin ney. 601 Towmsend avenue, Gas tonia. announce the birth of a son, Friday, April 29, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Proctor, 513 W. Airline Aveue, Gastonia, an nounce the birth of a daughter, Saturday, April 30, Kings Moun tain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Williams. Box 4, Cherryville. announce the birth of a son, Sunday, May 1, Kings Mountain hospital. IN N. C. STATE UNIVERSITY BAND — Ken Boraes (right) is a member of the North Carolina State University band at Raleigh. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Barnes of Kings Mountain. With him are (left to right) Roy Andrews of Mount Holly, Gary Brady of Newton, Herb Jacobs of Cooleemee, Jim Love of. Pilot Mountain, and Robert Wehunt of Lincolnton. The 175-member, band is one of the largest in the Southeastern United States and consists of the marching, sym phonic, fanfare, brosschoir, and BOTC bonds. The bond's activities incluide half-time shows at football games, an annuol concert tour and o series of outdoor pops concerts on the campus in the spring. (N. C. Sterte University Photo). WINS PROMOTION — W. F. (Bill) Laughter, city postal carrier, has been promoted from Major to Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Re serves. A veteran of 24 years service in the AF and AF Re serves, he was a member of the 9301 Specialist Training Squadron in Charlotte. He was a pilot during World War 11. ype Plans May Rally Cleveland County Young Dem ocrats are planning a rally May 23 at Brackett’s Cedar Park, Pres ident Bill White said this week. Mr. White said that further an nouncement will be made next week but that plans are to invite all Democratic candidates "seek ing office in the May 2&th Demo cratic Primary to attend. .Supper will be at 6:.?0 p.m. and the candidates will speak ajter- wards. SERVICES CONTINUE Revival services are contin uing through Saturday at Pat terson Grove Baptist church with Rev. Charles H. High of Stanley as visiting evangelist. Services are at 7:30 p.m. night ly. City To Orgahize Auxiliary Force Legion To Name New Officers TO DUKE Mike Goforth, high .school senior, has won a NROTC scholarship to Duke University. He is son of Mr. and Mrs. 1. B. Goforth, Jr. Rt. 1, Goforth Wins Talent Winners {Scholarship To Give Program I^rs. - Mrs. Cornelius Young, Rt. 2 present the program at "Thurs- ADMITTED TUESDAY {day’s Kiwanis club meeting at Andrew Jenkins, 115 Fulton bt j p ^he Woman’s club. Mike Goforth, high school senior and son of Mr. auid Mrs. I. tho rpoent !Ben Goforth, Jr.,~is recipient of Division „,iii a Naval Reserv'es Officers Traim Kiwanis Schools Talent snow will I Balloting for officers of Amer ican Legion Post 155 will begin at 1 p.m. and continue until 7 p. I m. Friday, May 4th, Post Com- ^mander Dick McGinnis has an- ; nounced. I Legionnaires wrill choose offic- ; ers from the following slate of I candidates: For commander: Garl Wiesen- er, Clinton Jolly, John Gladden i and Carl Wilson, j For first vice-commander: Gene ; Wright and Vardell Neal. For adjutant- finance officer: Joe McDaniel and Horace Cun ningham. For sergeant-at-arms: David Delevie. For chaplain: Bob Hurlbut. For historian: Otto (Toby) Wil liams. For service ofifeer: Gene Stef- fy- F o r scholarship chairman: Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. For executive officers: H. D. McDaniel, Robert Wright, Ben T. Goforth, W. D. Wise, Tom Bry ant, J. T. McGinnis, Jr., E. C. Martin and Jack Bennett. m Tile city is Inviting applicants to serve in an auxiliary police force to augment the work of regular duty officers, Mayor John Henry Moss said Wednes day. Would - |■.:e auxiliary police men, to serve a t sporting events, as extra traffic control officers, in recreation areas and in emergencies, are invited to cintact Mayor Moss, either by telephone or in person. A minimum of 12 men, ages 21-50, are needed Mayor Moss said me-n chosen will Le enrolled in a regular police officer’s training course. METHODIST “Our Homes And Tomor row” will be the sermon topic by Rev. Howard Jordan at services Sunday at 11 a.m. at Central Methodist church. FROM HOLY LANDD Dr. and Mr.s.''-'George Plonk are expected home this week end after a trip to the Holy Land. The Kings Mountain surgeon will be in his office Monday. DANCE SATURDAY “The Moonspinners” of Bel mont will provide music for dancing at Saturday night’s Kings Mountain Moose Lodge 1748 free dance for members and .guests fi:.m 9 until 12 p.m. at the Lodge. QUALIFIES — Philip Bunch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Bunch, has fully qualified for admission to West Point, Con gressman Basil Whitener an nounced this week. Bunch Accepted Foi West Point Coin, Baibei Join City Police Force David Corn and Ray Barber have been hired by the Kings Mountain police department, it was announced Wednesday^ morning Ly police cliief Paul Sanders. Corn, who began work this past Sunday, will serve as a pa trolman and Barber, who starts this coming Sunday, will be desk sergeant on the third shift. Both Corn and Barber arc from Kings Mountain. Corn re sides on Wilson Street and Bar ber lives on Mauney Avenue. TEEN DANCE Grover Rescue Squad will sponsor a teen dance Friday from 8 until 11 p.m. at the Grover Rescue .Squad building. Music will be by “The Dantes” and admission is 50 cents per person. SQUARE DANCE “Di.xre HillLillies” will pro vide music for a square dance Saturda.v from 8 until 12 p.m. at Grover Rescue Sqaad build ing. Admissipo*. is $1.50 per couple and $1 for stags. Martin, 205 N. Pied-1 Virginia mont Avt. Mrs Oliver Black. Grover Mrs. Evangeline Chambers, 801 Valleyvilee Dr., Forest City Mrs. William Herndon, 40d Edgemont Dr. Mrs. Thomas Lovelace, Rt. 3 Mrs. Walter Morehead, 513 Crescent Hill Rd. Richard Sloan Plonk, Rt. Box 58 B. S. Peeler, Jr. will introduc the group of winners who 3, Ml. Davenport s Mothei Passes Funeral rites for Mrs. J. P- Davenport, 72, of Newberry. S. C., mother of John R. Davenport of Kings Mountain, were held Sunday afternoon from Newber ry’s Hunt Memorial Baptist church. „ , J Mrs. Davenport died Saturday , imorning. She suffered a heart | attack last Wednesday. ! In addition to her son and | daughter-in-law here, she is sur- I vived by two sons, J. B. Daven- i port and Robert Davis, both of ^ and two daugh elude: Michael White, East school student, who sang in the third- i fourth grade division. I Mary Susan McCarter from i Central Elementary school who danced a ballet in the sev enth- cighth grades category. Julie, Pat and Sallee Durham, first and second graders from West school, who sang a medley from “Sound of Music”. They are sistors Tim Echols, Grover school stu dent, and his “dummy”, who per formed in the fifth and sixth grades category. “The Dantes”, high school dance band, who played in the high school division. Mem* .ers of the combo are Jimmy Eaker, Mickey Floyd, Paul Dunn, Mike Floyd and I ing appointment to Duke Univers- lity where he will major in me chanical engineering. I The four-year scholarship cov- I er cost of tuition excepting about I $400. I Past president of the National I Honor Society at Kings Mountain I high school, Goforth lettered in football, basketball and track. He is president of the senior class and is active in the Monogram and Science clubs. A member of Central. Methodist church, ’ he is president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship and a member of the Official Board. He is area chair man of the Young Democrat club. Kiser Returillt To Former Post ■'Wm' J. W. Pitts. 86.^ . Dies In Gafiney /S' Steve Kiser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Kiser of Kings Mountain, has completed a tour of Army duty and has returned to his position as cin X-ray tech nician at Mercy hospital in Chzu:- lotte. The Kisers and their daughter, Cynthia, spent last week with Kiser’s parents here. They have moved to Charlotte and are liv ing at 307 Dotger street. Fiazier Portrait To Be Unveiled Darrell Whetstine. Hospital Week Starts Sunday Newberry, S. C., —an increase of 144 me Interment was berry city cemetery over the 479 babies previous year—and Young Folk Absent i These statistics were reported With riAMl RAflSOn I by Administrator Grady Howard witn uooa neasan , institution Some school children were ab- i. nation-wide observ- sent from school this week—and j Hospital Week, beginning Funeral for J. W. Pitts, 86, stepfather of Ben T. Goforth and Carl Goforth of Kings Mountain, were held Wednesday afternoon at Shuford - Hatcher Funeral Home, Gaffney, S. C. Mr. Pitts, retired superintend ent of spinning for Henrietta Mills, Cherokee Falls, S. C., died at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. He had been in ill health for three years. He had spent 37 years with the Cherokee Falls firm. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ila Wright Goforth Pitts, a brother, three sisters, two other stepsons and two stepdaughters. Burial was in Gaffney. with two good reasons—chicken pox and mumps. West School Principal I. B. Goforth, Jr., reported several ab- aentees and noted that his own daughter has returned to her books after a bout with chicken pox Sunday. Kings Mountain hospital open ed its doors, a 24-<'ocd institution on April 2, 1951. In the 15-year period, the hospital has grown, first to 36 beds, then to 50 and subsequently to a 75 bed plant with a new nurses’ home. A pro- At East school and Park Grace {25-bed addition estimated therp were no cases reported, | $500,000 has been voted by and a Park Grace faculty mem- j Mountain citizens, ber reported that there was but Administrator Howard said one absence at ?ark Grace yes- ^ hospital’s percentage of Mother's Day Service Set Alumni and friends of Patter son School, a preparatory school of the Episcopal Church for Boys in iLenoir, have been invited to attend open house on Sunday, which will 'oe featured by a me- ixorial service at 10 a.m. for Mrs. George L. Frazier, former Kings Mountain citizen. The service will also feature unveiling of'a portrait of the late KatherineFrazier, a pa tron of thpUhool, who bequeath ed it $4000 and a quantity of se curities. Luncheon will be served on the school grounds and exhibits will be displayed by the students. Patterson School for Boys is located on rural route 5 in Cald well County. Mis. Hartsoe's Biother Passes WASHINGTON, D. C. — Con gressman Basil L. Whitener an nounced in Washington this week that PhilifTS Bunch, son of Mr. and Ml'S. Keily A. Bunch, 3000 Margrace Road, Kings Mountain, has been found fully qualified by the Army for admission to West Point. Bunch was nominated by Whitener tor the Military Acade my in January. The young man is a senior at Kings Mountain high school, where he is very active in school activities. He is a member of the Latin, Key, and Science clubs, and participates on the baseball and football teams. In 1965 young Bunch was Kings Mountain’s “Most Outstanding Teenager of the Year”. He is a mem:er of Boyce Memorial ARP church and vice president of the Young People’s Christian Union District Council. Whitener said in Washington that he was delijghted that Bunch had been accepted for admission to West Point. An Eagle Scout with bronze and gold palms, Bunch is recipi ent of the God and Country a- ward, scouting’s highest church award. He is a past vice-president of the high school .national honor society and was a delegate to Boys’ State. He received the “Most Improved” olayer award in football and holds membership in the Monogram, Latin, Key and Science clubs at KMHS. He was president of the Science club and was recently voted “best all a- roufid” in the senior class. He is an usher in Boyce Memorial ARP church. Bunch was also tendered an AFROTC appointment and four- year scholarship to the Univers ity of North. Carolina at Chapel Hill. Board To Hold Public Healing VISIT KISRS Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Chandley of Asheville visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs Steve Kiser and Cynthia and Mr. and Mi's. Wesley Kiser. The.-f Chandleys are parents of Mrs. Steve Kiser. terday morning. There were no cases occupanty is 92.21 and the reported | ceritage of patients over 65 is at North school and one local g -g Average length •^of stay is doctor’s office noted one patient I ggygj, days. The hospital employs who is recuperating from mumps. | ^ staff of 106. —~— I Average number of patients WINS OSBTIFICATE Hie ter of Student awarded p^eant ^Ip. J?arWt JMiountain chap- it-Teacher- haa bee n Ite for 10 l member- 8A1 Cadillac. TELE- 5 p.m. 5:5 tfn. per day is 71, said Mr. Howard. He noted that 101 patients died during 1965. The Infiuit birth rate is up by 23 from the previous year. National Hospital Week, May 8-14, is built around the May 12th birthday of Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse crusader. It was through her efforts that the early ho«pltail schools of nursing were established. East Gold Street Wesleyan Methodist church will hold a spe cial Mother’s Day service on Sun day with a free orchid to be pre sented to each mother present. Sunday School Supt. W. S. Biddix and Rev. Clyde R. Good- son, pastor, invite the interested community to attend. Annual Homecoming Day will be held on Sunday, May 15th. Dinner will be served in the fel lowship building adjoining the churclrat 1 p.m. Members, form er members and visitors are in vited to attend. Don't Ride Bikes On Sidewolks Kings Mountain Police Chief Paul Sanders is asking bike rid ers to keep their bikes off side walks. 'The police chief said the police force is on the lookout for van dals who have defaced road and street signs and are damaging store front windows. Funerar rites for John Carl Martin, 53, of Knoxville, Tennes see, brother of Mrs. Wade Hart- soe of Kings Mountain, were held Tuesday at 4 p.m. from York Funeral Home, York, S. C. Mr. Martin died in Knoxville Sunday. Interment was in Caan- an Methodist church cemetery at Smyrna, S. C. Other survivors Include his sons, Marion Martin of Gastonia, S/Sgt. Wiley Martin of Mai- estrom AFB, Montana and A/IC Wayne Martin of Maxwell AFB, Alabama; his daughter, Mrs. E. O. Gill of Hattisburg, Mississippi; his brothers, Clarence Martin of Lancaster, California and Marsh all Martin of Knoxville, Tenn.; and four additional sisters, Mrs. Cora Lee Howe of Clover, S. C., Mrs. H. C. Street of Sharon, S. C., Mrs. W. C, Clark and Mrs. Eu gene Warnnoth of York, S. C. UONS TO MEET Kings Mountain Lions club wp hold regular meeting 'Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at the Woman’s club. Lion Bob Bladen is program chairman. Public hearing on petitions for annexation for approximately 65 acres of land into the city limits will be major item on the agen da of Tuesday night’s city hoard meeting at 7 p.m. at City Hall. Requests for annexation in clude: ! I*, properties of Mr. and Mrs.| C. E. Watterson, 127 feet on Lin- wood road and 500 feet on Brook- wood road. 2) eighteen acres in the south east of Kings Mountain at con vergence ol 1-85 and N. C. 161, York road, properties of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey .Mauney. 3) twenty-seven acres (1572 feet, e^st side of York Road) property of J. Wilson Crawford, portion of 52-acre tract he re cently purchased from Mr. and Mrs. George Houser. ,4) approxirruitely 20 acres .south of Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company, properties of Fred W. and Hal S. Plonk. The board is expected to ac cept conveyance of two acres of the Crescent Hill Plonk property for use as a public recreation area. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday $240.80, including $155.90 from on-street rreters, $62 in fines’, and $22.90 from off --street meters. TO CHARLOTTE Mayor John Henry Msss will attend the Governor’s Total De velopment program to be con vened at 9:45 Tliursday morn ing at the Charlotte Coliseum. SPEAKER — Robert B. Doing, Notional Missioner of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, will conduct a preaching mission Sunday through Tuesday ot St. Andrews Episcopal church in Bessemer City. Doing To Speak In Bessemer City Robert B. Doing, National Mis sioner of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, will conduct a preaching .mission Sunday through Tuesday It St. Andrews Episcopal church n Be.ssemer City. Services will be held at 7:30 p. n. nightly. Since 1956 Mr. Doing has been •onducting missions in the Unit- d States, Canada, New Zealand md Australia and has given some if his messages in South India, Bangkok, Athens, Geneva and Amsterdam. His work has been ’ponsored and commended by ■hurches of the major denomina- ions. In January 1962 he was na'med National Missioner of the Broth erhood of St. Andrew. Mr. Doing is the author of ‘Witness By Word And Life”, a }00k dealing with the Christian ay man’s preparation of itiind nd heart for personal witness, ^or two .years he was vestryman of the Cathedral of the Incarna tion, Garden City, Long Island. !^or two years he was associate lirector of the Christian Leader ship movement, which sponsors fellowship groups in the United States Senate and House of Rep resentatives. City Tightens CAR WASH Members of the Kings Moun tain Civil Air Patrol 'will con duct a car wash at $1 each Sat urday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The work will be done at Kings Mountain high school. Pick-up and delivery service" can be ob tained by calling 739-4501. WOMAN'S CLUB The Senior Woman’s club will serve Sunday dinner on May- 22 beginning at 12 noon at the clubhou§(S-a sp.okesman for the club said Ais week. Mrs. Charles Blanton Planidng Groups Meet Thuisday The city planning board and the city zoning commission will meet in a joint session Thursday (tonight) at 7:30 p.m. Fencing Club Organizes Hero Kings Mountain Fencing Club was organized here Friday night at 8 p.m. at the National Guard Armory. Jack Minckler, organizer of the Shelby Fencing club, assist ed in organizational details and Mrs. Rena Bedford will head up the organization here. Foil fencing will be utilized in practice sessions and young peo ple of high school age and adults, both men and women, are encour aged to take part, a spokesman for the Kings Mountain Recrea tion Activities Commission said. A club of 12gmembei-s is need ed to organize and the first moet- in.:r \^ill be held In the Armory’s Rifle Practice Room. Jerry Hicks, of Salisbury, com- munit.v planner with the state Department of Conservation & Development, will moot with the two boards who arc expected to consider updating the 1948 city zoning ordinance to include a mile perimeter. The planning board is expect ed to name James E. Herndon, Jr. to the board succeeding his mother, Mrs. J. E. Herndon, whose term expires May 1 and who asked that she not be re appointed. Other members of the planning board are Mrs. George Houser, Wilson Griffin, Bob Maner and Tom Tate. The two grotips will meet In the courtroom of City Hall. School Choices size ot the eighth grades soon to graduate to high school arrd 2) failure of a few students to indi cate where they want to go. At the same time, the West potential overload, where 377 want to attend, indicates some migration from Davidson school, where 123 (114 regular and 9 special) wish to go. Other unofficial totals of school choices are: Bethware 297; Central 658 t625 regular, 33 ispeclal); East 345; Grover 290; North 353; Park Grace 143; Compact elementary 334. \ .When the tabmations are com pleted and determined fully cor rect, the board of education will be convened to act on the report. lege, made the keynote address at the closing session Thursday evening in which he declared “We are living today in a culture alien to our Christian faith. Jesus Christ observed a si.milar situa tion in His day.” Elaiooruting on the Apostle Paul’s instruction to the Ephesus Church, “Give up living like pag ans”, Dr. Davis said there is an alarming change in the moral climate of America today. “Ply- pocrisy”, he continued, “is sys tematic of a people who have too much.” “Christians today do not con duct themselves as Christian”, he asserted, adding that more peo ple attend church today than ever before. Dr. Davis, continued, “One of the things that Aucified the Lord was the fact that He was differ ent, honest and sincerely good Would He be any more accepta ble in lour generation?” Mrs. Blanton, the former Eliza beth Wilson of Gastonia, is wife of pharmacist Charles Blanton, partner in Kings Mountain Drug Company. They are active in First Presbyterian church and reside with their three children on Phifer road. She is currently prjjsident of the Auxiliary to the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association and is Kings Moun tain Girl Scout Neighborhood Chairman. Miss Stewart, Kings Mountain Herald staff meT' cr, is a mem ber of Dixon Presbyterian church Other Kings Mountain women attending were: Mrs. P. G. Pad gett, Mrs. Charles Ballard, Mrs. Paul Mauney, Mrs. R. H Webb, all of First Presbyterian church; Mrs. P. Q. Hambright and Miss Gerry Humphries of Dixon church; and Mrs. P. A. Francis and Mrs. G. R. Rountree of Shi loh cliurcli of Grover. cant tracts, many of them cover ed with weeds, brambles and de bris. 2) Abandoned derelict resi dences. 3) Abandoned derelict autos. 4) Scattered garbage and oth er refuse, including old tires, rags, and appliances. 5) Uncontakied .mercantile re fuse. Mayor Moss had opened the meeting by pointing to the fact the city has up-dated ordinances to force compliance if voluntary efforts prove insiufficient. Includ ed are blanket adoption of styte building, plumbing and electrical codes, upgrading of the derelict v'^ar ordinance, and upcoming at tention to zoning. He said the concerning derelict housing is quite opera'ole. After an informal discussion by members of the audience and a color photo presentation of the city’s unsightlies't sights by Cla- von Kelly, city department heads made brief statements: Grady Yelton, superintendent of public works—“One of the big gest needs is garbage cans with lids. Dogs spill and , stray the garbage. We cannot'^rake it up for lack of time, but must leave this to the r||||yjent.” Hunter Allen, electrical super intendent—“The state electrical code requires i-nspection of wir ing and there is much-sub-stand ard wiring in Kings Mountain. Citizens should not violate the law w'hich prohibits the posting of signs on utility poles. A line man could slip with serious in jury.” Police Chief Paul Sari(ders — “Stop litterbugging and park properly.” Fire Chief Floyd Thornburg said he had no interim report on the fire inspection of business and industry now underway. Two To Raleigh? er, does recall that two Kings Mountain men have served in the same session. Mr. Williams, then 5, was a campaign worker in the election of 18%.) Senator White got an inferen tial boost from the Gastonia Ga zette Monday, when the Gazette noted that Senator White was author of the bill whereby two additional alcoholic rehabilita tion centers are being built and the existing one at Butner will be modernized. The Gazette was supporting Cleveland counh^s bid for the western area ccritCT. Wednesday, Senate Candidate Marshall Rauch qpdorsed Cleve land’s bid for the center. Senator Hollowell visited in Kings Mountain Tuesday and Mr. Rauch addressed the Kiwan is club last TThursday. Candidate Mauney, a constant and losing candidate In a battle with.Weight, is working through out the three - county 43rd dis trict, says a side benefit of poli ticking may be carving off some poundage. Sheriff Haywood Allen was in town Sunday. One of his pppo- nents, Ambrose B. Cline, was here Tuesday. N tron c Sunda C. C LInce Parke Annil childi and ! Bobh table and I topp flowe table ot th able from of M line I and I sente Hele nuts, Mrs. their Carr Anc wit! mg 'ow
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