REV. FRED FALLS, JR.
CAROL JEAN GOTER
DONALD KEITH HORN
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STEVE POWELL
SARA ROSE LENNON
CHARLES ROY CADIEU
FLEMING MAUNEY
KAY BROADWATER
Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,256
This figure lor Greater Kings Mountain is derived from
the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city
limits figure is from the United States census of 1965.
VOL 77 No. 23
Established 1889
IJKings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 9, 1966
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YOUTH CHOIR HERE THURSDAY NIGHT—The Youth Choir of Green Street Baptist church of High
Point will present a program of songs at First Baptist church here Thursday (tonight), at 7:30
p.m. This group of junior and senior high school age young people is selected from the Youth
choir of Green Street church for the Youth Touring Choir. Each year on tour, singing in churches,
schools, civic clubs, and on radio and television, they present different types of music, ranging
from the classics to spirituals, with a part of the repertoire consisting of folk music, and the
use of small groups from the larger choir. It will be their first appearance here. First Baptist
church extends an invitation to those interested to attend this event. A special invitation is
extended especially to all youth groups to attend, Allen Jolley, minister of music, said.
Job Training Gintract Signing Set
Redevelopment
Group Appointed
$56J)00 Grant
For Training SoH
Of 300 Persons
Present
All Eligible Runners-Up Call
Run'Offs;VotingDayJune25
Treasurer,
Commission
Re-Runs Set
All eliRible Democratic run
ners-up called for run-offs prior
to Monday’s deadline, producing
two county-wide contests involv
ing two county commission and
a trea.surer’s nominations.
Neither B. E. “Pop” Simmons,
the leader, nor David E. Beam,
the runner-up in the eight-man
race, attained t h e necessary
4687 votes for a majority over
C. A. Greene and Fritz Morehead,
Jr. Simmons lacked 211, Beam
335.
The count was Simmons, 4476,
Beam 4352, Greene 3150, More-
head 2568.
Mrs. Doris Dent Osborne, at
3461, was 829 behind Mrs. Har
riet Roberts Evans who polled
4290. George B. Hord, at 1140,
arid Mrs. Driscilla Morgan, at
9.54, left 2094 votes to be fought
over.
I A constable run-off in Number
II Township is limited for set
tlement to voters of that town
ship.
Don Wirick last week called
his run off with Hall Young for
the Republican Congressional
nomination.
Voting day is June 25.
Mrs. Osborne’s statement:
“After much encouragement to
enter a runoff in the treasurer’s
race and also 'after much consid
eration, I have filed to enter the
second Domocratic Primary in
which two 'Other candidates have
already called for run-offs in
their respective races.
“My entry as a candidate in
the first Primary was a totally
new and most interesting exper
ience. I thoroughly enjoyed it
and deeply appreciate the won
derful support given me.
“I feel my long years of bust-
Contintted On Page 6
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SELECTED— Mike Greene has
been selected to represent
Cleveland County 4-H'ers at
state forestry camp next week
at Comp Millstone.He is son of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Greene of
Kings Mountain.
Mike Greene
To Forestry Camp
Mike Grcbne, rising high
scliool senior and son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Greene, will repre
sent Cleveland County 4-H’ers
at the stat eforcstry camp next
week at 4-H Camp Millstone
near Rockingham.
Greene is president of Dixon
Community 4-H Club and has
completed a forestry project this
year in connection with other
activities.
He will be sponsored at camp
by .Southern Bell Telephone
Company.
Only one pers-on from each
county is eligible'to attend the
state forestry camp program an
nually.
In addition to his 4-H activi
ties, Gretene has been active in
the KinigS'i^ountain high school
bemd.
Development
Grant Of $26,2(10
Is Approved
Sidney H. Wollner, acting re
gional director, Middle Atlantic
regional office. Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity, announced
today a grant of $26,200 to Cleve
land County, Nortli Carolina, for
a nine-month Program Develop
ment project.
The applicant agency is Cleve
land County Community .4clion,
Inc., and the local share of the
grant is $2,925.
Following a survey of the
poverty areas of. Cleveland Coun
ty, evaluations will be undertak
en, and an analysis will be made
of the existing organizations.
Subsequent studies will then be
made of various operational pro
grams. This will ena'ole Cleve
land County Community Action
to establish realistic priorities
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Commission |
To Superintend |
Improvements
A five-member redevelopment
commission was appointed Wed
nesday by Mayor John Henry
Moss.
The members are John O.
Plonk, Jr., Carl F. Mauney, Tho
mas A. Tate, Charles C Alexan
der, and William Herndon.
Appointment of the commis
sion is preliminary to submission
to the Housing and Home Fi
nance agency fof approval a
“workable program for commun-
ity improvement.”
Two other groups must be
named prior to filing the appli
cation, a 20-member advisory
committee, and a seven-member
minority housing committee.
Approval by the federal agen
cy would make the city eligible
for various grants and loans for
urban renewal and redevelop
ment, including recreation facili
ties, open spaces development,
slum clearance and other pro
grams,
lA Hickory engineering firm has
been retained to compile the ap
plication.
The Mayor said he hoped to
have the remaining committee
appointments made early next
week in order that the applica
tion can be filed within the
week.
COMMANDER — Clinton Jolly
has been installed as commander
of Otis D. Green Post 155, the
American Legion. Mr. Jolly suc
ceeds Dick McGinnis.
Smith News Story.
Is Clarified
A typographical error in a
news release from Lackland
AIB, San ^tonio, Texas, had
the telephone ringing at the
Clarence tSmittyi Smith house
at 800 N. Piedmont avenue dur
ing the weekend
The reason was that friends
had read a news storv about
their son’s assignment to Cha-
nute AFB after completing Air
Force Basic training. The article
said: “Airman George C. .Smith,
Jr., son of George C Smith of
800 N. Piedmont Avenue. , .” ifaut
the last paragraph was the
clinchter: “His mother, Mrs Mae
H. Smith, resides in Kings Moun
tain.”
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been
happily wed 25 years.
Corky Smith is a 1965 graduate
of Kings Mountain high school
and attended Gaston collegb. At
Chanute AFB, Illinois, ho will
be trained on the job as a con
struction specialist with the Air
Training Command. He complet
ed basic training at Lackland
AFB.
Principal Hany
Rerignation For
Gooige H Mauney, chairman
of the Kings Mountain district
board of education, said the
board will meet Monday to con
sider resignation of Harry E.
Jaynes as principal of Kings
Mountain high school.
Mr. Jaynes had tendei'ed his
resignation Saturday
He said Wedntesd'ay he has ac
cepted an offer from Greater At
lanta schools for a high school
principalship in DeKalb county.
Chairman Mauney said he had
conferried with Mr. Jaynes and
hoped his board could “work out
Jaynes Tenders
Georgia Position
something whereby he might re
main in Kings Mountain.”
I feel he is an able and vbi*y
dedicatc>d educator,” chairman
.Mauney commented.
Also on the aigfenda at Mon
day’s meeting will be a confer
ence with the architect for Gam
ble Memorial stadium
Mr. Jaynies came’ to Kings
Mountain from Monroe and suc
ceeded Lawson Brown as high
school principal. He is a member
of Central Methiodist church and
a past president of Kings Moun-
taiin Lions club.
Eight Students
Degree Winners
Additional J<ings Mountain
area student.s are receiving de
grees in college cornmoncemnt
exercises.
Kay Broadwater, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Broadwater,
will .graduate this weekend from
Agnes- Scott college in Decatur,
Ga. whore she was an honor roll
student each .year and was se
lected to do independent study
in tile field of chemistry her
seni.ir year. Named the .Stukes
.Scholar of 1964-65 -the student
who lankecl first academically in
the rising senior class—she has
received a leaching assistantsiiip
at the University of Tennessee
w)u'i<' slu* plans to study for licr
master's degree in the field of
analjtieal chemistry.
Last summer Miss Broadw'ater
was selected as a participant in
the Undergraduate Summer Re
search program for chemistry
students interested in the field
of research sponsored by the
National Science Foundation and
the University of Tennessee.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Agnes Scott, she has just been
awarded Foote Mineral Com
pany's first scientific scholarship
for rc.search in chemistry.
Carol Joan Goter, daughter of
Mr and Mrs. E. R. Goter, re
ceived a B.S. in chemistry Mon
day from Duke University at
Durham. At Duke Miss Goter
was a member of the University
Concert Band, the Lutheran Stu
dent Association and servled as
president of the Guild Students
Group of the Duke Chapter of
American Guild of Organists.
She also sbrved as registrar, re
cording secretary and corre
sponding secretary of Sigma
Kappa social sorority on the
Duke campus.
Donald Keith Horn, son of
Mrs. Holland A. Horn, reccivbd
the B.A. degree in religion at
Campbell college commendement
June 3 at Buies Creek Horn will
enter Southeastbrn ’Theological
Seminary at Wake Forest in
September.
Fred Falls, Jr., son of Mrs.
Fred Falls, Sr. and thfe late Mr.
Falls, received his Bachelor of
Continued On Page 6
The United States Department
of Labor has initiated a coniract
under the Manpower Develop
ment and Training Act for an |
on-the-job training project with ;
Industrial Association of Kinj^.s '
Mountain Area, Inc., for .52 j
weeks of traini'hg for 39t3 uiiein:}
ployed. j
Congressman Basil L. Whit:'- j
ner made the announcement of j
approval of the $56,000 training |
program. . j
Meantime, the 32-membei’ in- !
dustrial associatioin made plans |
for a dinner meeting at the j
Country Club Friday night at j
which formal contract will be i
signed with the Departmeni of
La-.or’s Bureau of Apprentice- |
K hip and Tra'ining. If, was an- j
ounced by W K. .Maiincj', Jr., |
ind.iistrial association president. '
Jole Vale, industrial associa
tion executive secrctaiy, said
that visiting officials exjiected to
be present are Congressman
Whitener, J. B. Archer, rt'gional
dlrc=ctor, of Cliambersburg, Pa.,
Thomas V. Poole, state super
visor, of Raleigh, Lester Loiselle,
aiea representative, of Charlotte,
and Buell Bailey .mantiger of
Shelby’s emplo.vment .security
commission office.
Archer is a native of David
son, N C.
Our guests will be Mayor John
Henry Moss. Senator .tack H.
White, atKl Rbv. Cliarles Easley,
al.ong witli representatives of the
32 association members.
“The purpose of tiiis program
is to develope semi skilird and
skilled workmbn from citizens
now unemployed because they
have not been ti ained," .Mr. Vale
said.
Blanton Award
GRADUATE — Mrs. Gail Huff-
stetler Moss will receive her
diploma in nursing exercises
Thursday night.
Mis. Moss
To Graduate
Doq Quarantine
Is Continuing
Mrs. Gail Huffstetler Moss,
daughtcM' of Mr. and Mrs. H. T.
Huffstetler of the Bethleliem
community and wife of J. D.
Moss, Jr., of Charh^e. will be
graduated from Dfiarlolte Me
morial School of Nursing in ex-
('rcises Tlmr.sday itoniglit) in
Cliarlotte’s Myers Park Presby
terian cluirch.
Mrs. Moss lias completed a
• three-year program of study and
will continue her nursing duties
at Pi'esbytiuian hospital follow
ing graduation.
. He
became a licensed pharmacist in
i926.
killed.
T li e (Huuantine (ontinues
tliroughout the mouth of June.
PRESBYTERIAN
Dr. Paul Ausley’s sermon
topic Sunday morning at the
11 o’clock service at First
Presbyterian church will be
“Life's Battle.”
ROTARY CLUB
Bill Wolff of Charlotte, an
as.sociate of National Wglders
Supply Company, will be guest
speaker at Thursday’s Rotary
club meeting at ']2;1.5 at the
Country Club. Fred Dixon is
program chairman.
June Frederick Is Top Scholar;
Rita Caveny Citizenship Winner
Rita Cavbny, June Frederick,
Richard Etheridge a n d Neal
Cooper won top avvarrls during
commencement exercises last
webkend at Kings Mountain high
school.
The Kiwanis Citizenship award
went to Miss Caveny,. and the
coveted Plonk Scholarsliip medal
—to the student ranking highest
scholastically — went to June
Frederick. Cooper wun the
Bausch and Lomi'.-) honorary a-
w^ard in physical science and
Etheridge won the Billy Shuford
science award.
Danforth (I Dare You) awards
went to Scott Cloninger and
Mary Ann Houser.
The top bandsmen award, the
John Phillip Sousa medal, went
to John Clemmer. The SPO Good
Citizen award went to Steve Go
forth and the DAR Good Citizen
award to Rita Bell Top homb-
making awards went to M'artha
Herndon, named. Future Teacher
of the Year, and winner of the
Ci'isco award.
Jo Bridges won the F. R Sum
mers spelling award. Recognized
as national math test high scor
er was David V\’ilson. Winners of
football trophies, ail previously
announced, were Ben Bridges,
Danny Iviser, Larry Patrick,
Phillip Bunch, Steve Goforth.
Sharon Gold and Neal Cooper.
The late Mr. Blanton came to
Kings Mountain in 1935 as gen
eral manager of Summers Drug
Company, was a partner in the
-Successor firm. Kings Mountain
Drug Company, untii his death
in 1963.
Active in Kings Mountain re-
i ligious and civic affairs, as an
i elder of First Presbyterian
I church, Lion, and in many elee-
j monsynary projects, he served
I seven years as a member of the
j executive committee of the North
j Carolina Pharmaceuticai associ-
! ation and was its president in
: 1957. '
Moss, Hendrick
To Support Rill
Mayor John Henry M'osg and
A total of 22 seniors hav e been i County Manager Joe Hendrick
natified Ihe.v are recipients of
scholarships for post-high schoial
training. Tliey include: Svlvia
Acuff. Deborah Baity,, .Marth.a
Beale, Pliillip Bunch. Rita Cave-
eny, John ClemiT.er Scott Cion-
ingor. Rebecca Dunn. Jean Falls,
Vivian Fletcher, Michael Goforth
Joy Greene LeCompte Hill, Mary
Ann Houser. Teresa Jolley, 'Su
san Lowerv. Glynda Lynn. Dar
lene Oliver. Ann Patterson,
Faithel Tonev. Lynda VV’attei'son
and Roy While.
Diplomas were awarded to 100
girls and 89 lioys in finals exer
cises at City Stadium Friday
night.
Continued On Page 6
are scheduleit to testify befwe
the House .Agriculture cominlttQfi
in Washington Friday on Senate
Bill 293! the Community l>^
velopmont District .bill.
They will speak in favor of
passage and ask inclusion of aik
amendment for a community
'water-sewer program with dote,
land County designstbd for %
pilot project. The two will speidK
in behalf of the Cleveland Or>»
ganization of Government OfflU
cials
Supporting t h e Jr tbatfawoiy
will be counsel for the
League of Municipalities ,—'
National Association of'
Commissioners.
^ Fhaimacy Award
Will Re Made
At Convention
I By MARTIN HARMON
j The first Don Blanton Pharm-
I aceutical award will be present
ed at the Sunday-Tuesday con
vention of the North Carolina
Pharmaceutical assooaation at
, Pinehurst. '
' Charles D. Blanton, Jr., pharm
acist, partner in Kings Mountain
Drug Company and son of the
late Kings Mountain pharmacist,
will present the award on be
half of his family.
Purpose of the award is
'. . . to recognize the member
pharmacist who has done mo^
during the past year to advance
the principles and ideals of
pharmacy, to honor a pharnjac-
cist who regards the practice of
pharmacy not as a job but as a
way of life — worthy of preserve-
Cling and improving and being
proud of, to honor a person wh6
lias given generously of his
time to pharmacy and who has
set a worthy example to other
pliarmacists and to other citi
zens.’
The late Charles Donald Blan
ton, Sr., was born in 1903 in For
est City, one of eight children.
As a matter of economic neces
sity, he became a high school
dropout and took a soda foun
tain clerk's job in a Forest City
dmg store. The pharmacist en-
No. 4 Township Dog Quaran- at ■V;e;;b;n;'iariios^;ih;i^olIow: i
tine IS continuing. inrr trr iHiiatinn | schooI and his eventual enrolt-
Pet owners should keep their She*^is i <'radu'ite of KintTs' University of North
dogs penned. Stray animals will' :«.i;untain high school. Mr. Muss' of Pharmacy,
be destroyed, and count.N officers' is aPso a Kings Mountain native, i
reported yesterdhy a mtal of 66; son of Mr. and Mr.s. J. D. Muss,,
Sr. of route two. i
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