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-'7... / INItHIB UiilUii ' ® :I(S ^ ait I ired MS ru i.m. Population Greater King*; Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,256 This fiffurs fox Greater Kings Mountcdn is derived from the 19SS Kings Mountain city dirsctorr ceiuus. The dty limits ttgure is from the United States census ol 1985. •w». ^ Kings Mountain's Reiiable Newspaper Pages Today VOL. 77 No. 28 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 14, 1966 Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENTS Community Clean-Up Campaign Continued Month Out-of-District Pupils Notified V PRESIDENT — Wilson Griffin, Kings Mountain druggist and partner in Griffin Drug Com pany, has been installed os president of the Kings Moun- toin Rotary Club for the com ing year. He succeeds Devere Smith. Lany Melton. 24 Dies Of Bums Larry Melton, 24, died Friday from burns he suffered through electptfcution May 29th. The fihal riteawere held in Waxhaw, N. C. Melton, an employee of Hunter Walden Company of Charlotte, was burned while working on a still-energized 44,000 volt power line which runs from the Duke Power 99 Islands plant near Blacksburg, S. C. into Kings Mountain. The' location where Melton was working was near the entrance to the Kings Moun tain National Military Park. He was rescued after more than two hours by D. C. Owens, an employee of D_ C. Ballcnger Company of Spartanbung, S. C.. who was able to reach him with a hydraulic bucket lift. Grover Rescue Squad ambulances car ried him to Kings Mountain hos pital and subsequently to Char lotte Memorial hospital where he had remained in critical condi tion. Mr. Melton was .married. Head-On Clash Kills Railman J. W. Pait, about 50, of 600 Sr Wilmington street. Hamlet, N. C., was killed Wednesday about 12:45 in the wreckage of two Seaboard freight trains which collided head-on about two miles east of Cherryville near Way- side End. W. H. Strong, Jr., of Hamlet, and Willis Dreading of Sanford were both listed in fair condition at Crowell hospital in Lincoln- ton, according to Carpenter" Funeral Home, Cherryville, which carried a third man, Gar- la ndStutz, of- Hamlet,- ta Gam^ ble hospital in* Lincolnton and subsequently to Charlotte Me- morfal hospital. ( A spokesman for the funeral home said Stutz was listed in serious condition. Funeral arrangements for Pait arc incomplete but will te an nounced by Wilson & Farrington Funeral Home of Hamlet. First reports said that the en gines of ‘both trains overturned and Immediately burst into flames. Both trains were report edly traveling at ^ high rate of speed. Rescuers pulled three men from the wreckage and rescued the fatally Injured man around 1:30. Several hundred spectators trampled fields of crops along the i1ght-6f-way. Rescue Squads and fire de partments from neighboring counties were called to the scene. Volunteers wore still working cleaning up the debris late Wed nesday afternoon. Admittance Vfill Depend. On Releases Notices are being mailed par ents of Kings Mountain school district students residing in oth-1 er counties that they will not be acceped for enrolment during the; upcoming term unless they ob tain releases from the board of education where, by residence, the out-qf-district students would normally attend. With few, if any exceptions the problem, which Superinten dent B. N. Barnes says is a legal one, involves neighboring Gaston I county pupils numbering from 50 to 100, normally in the e'duca-| tional menage of the Gaston i County Board of education. I The Kings Mountain board of education took the action at last week’s meeting. Supt. Barnes said he is notify ing Chairman John R. Rankin, of the Gaston board, of the board! action and accompanying notice. Some Kings Mountain district students attend Gaston county schools, Supt. Barnes noted, but their requests for releases have always been granted. "It’s not that Kings Mountain district has objection to teach ing these fine pupils,’* Supt. Barnes commented, “but legally we don’t have the authority without their formal release.” This district, Shelby district, and the Cleveland county district customarily foramlize releases of pupils when they-wish to attend out-of-district schools. B.R. Willeford Rites Conducted IT Retired Rail Conductor Dies After Thrombosis Funei'al rites for Bennc'tt Ru fus Willeford, Sr., 82. were iKki Monday at 11 a.m. .feinr I'irst Baptist chureh, interment follow in.g in Mountain Rest '•emetery. Mr Willeford, who ndired in 1955 after 53 years as a eonduct- or for Southern Railway..System, died at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Kings Mjuntaiit hospital follow ing two month’s illness. Mr. Willeford li.a d suffered a I stroke and wasi hospitalized. He 1 had improved Ad was able to I return home_ 1% o weeks a.go he suffered a massive cerebral I thrombosis which caused his | I death. ! I He was a native of Kings j Mountain and attended school; here and in Gastonia. He w;7s a one-time groein- and operated a cafe here at oiu- time. A former re. i<lent of .\'lanta,; Ga and Charlotte, Mr. Willeford, returned here following his re- ; tirement. He was the son o!' the late Bennptt and Dora Bell Wil- ^ leford. : A member of the First Bautist GRADUATE — William Glas- gow will receive his BD dib’gree from Southwestern Baptist Seminary in finals exercises July 22. William Glasgow To Win Degree ! William -R. Glasgow, whose! Board Retains Electric firm - To Update Maps Kings Mountain’s clean-up and beautification campaign will con tinue through August 21. The city board of commission- I ers Tuesday night voted an ex- ' tension of the beautification ef- I fort upon recci r.mendatiun of Mayor John Henry Moss. A clcan-up project was inaugu- I rated here two months ago_ I The city will also extend for 30 days its proffer to remove dc.ris free-of-charge. In other action, the board: I 1) employed Southeastern Con- I suiting Engineers. Inc. of Char lotte at cost of $500 to make re cordings of volts and rebalance j Vietnam, will he held Thursday the electrical system to take ’ ttt 4 p.m. from .Second Baptist care of expanding growth. i church 2) advertised for bids for a Rev. W. T. Luekadoo, pastor truck and garbage packer for|Ol^ fbe church, assisted by Rev. the sanitation department. j C. C. Bundy,, will officiate and 3) formally appro\ed ai^point-i ftill military ritc.s will lollow in ‘Memorial Park of Mountain Rest cemetery. I ii'hif'n itn^iii.Hd,^ Pari F Viaiinev. The body will rem.ain at Har ris Foneral Home until the hour of service. Pvt Brooks was a 1965 grad uate of Kings Mountain high For Brooks Today Kings Mountain I Youth Is First | Vietnam Fatality Military funeral rites f.jr Pvt. Christopher Eugene Brooks, 18, the Kings Mountain area's first fatal casually in the war in Church aftd the Men’s Bible Class, I wile is the former Judith Lor-^ he was a member of Fairview; I'^me Putnam, daughter of Mr._ 'Lu'lge 3-39 AF <if AM. ' '• Henry Putnam, Route He is surviv^ ■ by hh Mrs. Elizalbeth Thomson Wille-. ford; their son, B. R Willeford, Jr. of Lewisburg. Pa.; three sis- meiit of a redc\elopinent com- misiion. a mayoral committee which includes Carl F. Mauncy, J O. Plonk. William Herndon, Tom Tate ^nd Charles Alexan der. 4) approved cancellation of several miscellaneou.s accounts becavse of error-In billings or merchandise returned. 3) approved advertisement of the following streets for assess ments: Sipe.s street, Boyce street and Cleveland avenue. Prank In Auto: Two Badly Hurt Four Kings Mountain boys • FLAGS TO FLY Kings -Mouniain Optimist | club will provide its custamary ‘ flag serxicc and Kings Moun- ; tain business citizens will dis-! play the .-linorican flag all day | Thursday in respect to Pvt. i Brook.s. Mayor John Moss said ! that both the American and { North Carolina flags will fly I at half mast in Memorial Park RITES TODAY — Military fu neral rites for Pvt. Christopher Eugene Brooks, 18, will be held Thursday at 4 p.m. from Sec ond Baptist church. Mrs. Claud Grigg Dies Suddenly V Interest Rates Are Increased First Union National Bank an nounced this week the raising of minimum interest rates to its customers to 5% percent from 5'L* percent in keeping with na tional money market rates. President Carl McCraw, Jr. said. The new interest rates were effective July 1. Kings Mountain’s two savings and loan institutions also an nounced interest rates of 4I2 per cent paid quarterly. If compound ed the rate is 4.57 percent per year. These rates are also effect ive July 1. ‘The Federal Reserve Bank is chargd with the responsibility of maintaining a sound dollar and fighting inflation”, said Presi dent McCraw. "In order to ac complish these purposes. It is taking actions to restrict the a- vailability of money during this time of I'ousiness boom. Money is a comodity and responds to sup ply factors. The demand for money has exceeded the availa bility of funds. The end result is increasing interest rates.” FROM HOSPITAL Wayne Wells, Dixion com- imunity farmer, was discharged Tuesday from Veterans hospi tal, ColumIbJa, S. C., where he had been undergoing observa tion and treatment. Dixon Services Are Continning Revival services are continuing this week through '^Friday at Dixon Presbyterian church. Rev. J. Eade Anderson, pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church in Montgomery, Alabama, and summer supply pastor at Dixon and First Presbyterian churches in 1948-49, Is visiting evangelist. Mr. Anderson is also a former pastor of Gastonia’s Olney Pres byterian church. He is a native of Horse Shoe, N. C., and a grad uate of Columbia Seminary, De catur, Ga. Services are at 7:30 p.m. nlght- ly- Ml^Anderson and his daugh ter, Scottie, are house - guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. Thom as Humphries. Miss Anderson, eldest of five children of the An- dersons, will also visit relatives in Horse Shoe and Henderson^ ville. FACULTY—Mrs. Joe Reis, top, Mrs. Tommy Burke, and Mrs. Lydia Ross, below, are mem bers of the faculty of Trinity Day School for the fall term. Classroom facilities ore being expanded to provide for a first grade os well as pre-school and kindergarten. Day School Faculty Complete The 1966-19G7 teaching staff for Trinity Day School, 303 Phi-! fer Road, Kings Mountain, has been announced by the Rev. Bob Haden, Headmaster of the school. Mrs. Thomas (Vivian) Burke, who has been with the school for three years, will teach the first grade. The first grade will be open to those who want an extra enrich ment and solid foundation for 4heir -chlidi en-as—well as t hose who are wrong birthday chil dren or who ne^ help in special areas, said Mr. Haden The ac ceptance of wrong birthday chil dren will be determined by the School after ol;serving the social and physical as well as the men tal development of the child. Mrs. Joseph (Ellen) Ries, who has been with the school for two years, will teach the pre school class. The pre-school is for 5 year old children. Mrs John (Lydia) Ross, who is presently working with the Headstart program, will teach the Kindergarten. The Kinder garten is for four year old chil dren. ^Jrfl. D. G. (Gerry) Myers will be an assistant in Art, Music, and recreation. Those wishing to enter their children in the school or to find out more infonmation should call the school at 739-2213 or Mrs. Vivian Burke at 739-4011. There are a few partial schol arships available for those who are in genuine financial heed, Haden continued. The School will also provide ters, Mrs. Joe Thomson, Mrs. Grady King and Mi’s J. C. Nick els, all of Kinj-s Mountain; and a niece, Miss Nancy Nickels, of Kings Mountain. Rev. Robert C. Mann, assisted by Rev. H. Gordon Week ley, of ficiated at the final rites 'Fhe f.amilv has requested that in lieu of fl iwors memorials he designated to the building fund of First Baptist church. Active [lalibcarers were* Wen dell Phifer. Alton T'-ev. Morphy Hill, Fred Weaver, Bill Laughter, j and Frank Ilollificld. j "honorary pallbearers were' members of the Men’s Bible! Class of First Baptist church and B. Meek Ormand. Dr. J. E An thony, Dr. L. P, Baker. E. W. Griffin, and Luther Harmon. Three Citizens Petition Board Throe Cansler Street citizens have petitioned the board of commissioners for annexation of their properties which approxi mate 11 acres into the city limits. Requests were made at Tues-1 day’s board of commission meet ing at City Hall courtroom. They include: Mr. and Mrs. Clyde (Whitey) Bridges’ 2.37 acres on North Can- sler street: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bolin’s 6.11 acres on North Cansler slfeet; ■- Mr. and Mrs. John Ettors’^lhree acres on North Cansler street.4 aii-i Ml Wife:T-3T-4vtngs-Mr)tirrtain. will Tereivrr^were^TnjuretrSatufday night In the bachelor of divinity degree during summer graduation exer- cise.^ July 22 at S.oulhwestern Baptist TIu'ological Seminary. Seminary President Robert E. Naylor will present diplomas and degriH’s to 100 students- at 10 aj.n. in Tniett Auditorium. Mr. Glasgow received his bachelor ol science degree from Appalachian State Tcadiers Col lege in 1963. of Mountain Rest cemetery un- ** til sundown. man Ray Wood said that the driver. Jay Powell, told him fol- Inving the wreck that another hoy covcrcil his eyes when he I Powell t said he could drive the road lilindloldcd. The car over turned in a culvert. Powell and John Van Dyke were both given emergency treat ment at Kings Mountain Hospi tal. Van Dyke received 25 stitch es in his foot, leg, back and head and Powell was cut over the nose and eye. Jeff Patterson and Danny Walker are still patients at Kings Mountain Hospital, Walker re ceived fractures of the pelvis bone and vcrlehrao and lacera- Diving club of some 35 members ■ (1^^, qj (J-iq back and head. Patter- outlined projects and demonstra-i suffered a ! ,roken ankle and school and entered the a car wreck around 11:30 p.m. j thereafter, four miles west of here on rural; Ho was a member of Company read 1001 near Maple Springs B. 3.5th Infantry Regiment, 25th Swiming Pool. , Investigating Highway Patrol- 1 Mrs. Maggie Humphrey Grigg, 64, former Kings Mountain teach- ! er and wife of a former Ktojs ,|.Mounta'in school superintendent, ! died suddenly last Saturday anmy ; morning at 4 o’clock at her Al bemarle home. Any Volunteer Scuba-Divers? Kings Mountain Lions club members got a ciirsary course in scuba-diving Tuesday night, as Jack Spangler and two other members of the .Shetby Scuba- lacerations of the ear. p.atrolman Wood is still con tinuing his investigation. No charges have been filed as of yet. Mr. Wright's Rites Thursday BIBLE SCHOOL SET Vacation Bible School at Dix on Presbyterian church will be held August 1-5,( according to anniouncemOnt \ by Rev. Jares S. Mann, pa-itor. The school for all ages will be held from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. nightly. ted equipment. Principal functiuns are recov ery of bodic.s of drowning vic tims, e.xaniinatiiig lilc in tlie deep from .sunken sliips to fish and fauna, and spear-fishing. The Shelby dub lias no in come except enrollment and in struction fee of .$15 per head, i and, to pa.v cNpcn.ses must find ways and mem-.s. .\ principal of j , , t u r\ the Shelbv dnb is to probe thei i uneral nte.s for John Oscar depths of” golf c<.ur.se lakes for'Wright, o2. will be held Thurs- duffer’s lo.st iK.lls at 10 cents; day at 3 p.m. from Modena each. A Soutli Carolina coUrse Sti'pel baptist cliuich m Cias- ggjjj • I tonia. Inten.T.ent will be m Kings He said a person doesn’t nded Hountain at Chestnut Ridge lake yielded 1150. Diver Spangler Baptist church cemetery. ^ to swim to be a scuba diver, bsl Tho body was taken by Harris the big “fro" fed" propel one I'Home to the home on easily ThrougirTtn^ water.- scuba diver sliould learn to swim 1 afw’i'J^o^n. fast, in event lie gets in trouble Rev. Paul' .S. Simpson.' Rev. through equipment malfunc- Oscar Gray. Rev. .Mitchell Pruitt tion.” He rcfeiTcci to the breath-1 and Rev. R. L. McGaha will of- ing apparatus or underwater j fidate at the final rites, trouble by attacking fish. Wright died Tuesday night Scuba-diving gear costs about! ^ p ^ in Gaston Memorial $175. I hospital after several months ill- Past President Weir wel-in^.j-s, ^ native of Cleveland corned John Itcdfoid as a new; vvas the son of the Mrs. Division, in Vietnam. Pvt. Brooks’ mother, Gerald Lee, of route 1, York road, was notified by the army that lii'r son died of gunshot wounds Sunday, July 3. In aciclition to his mother. Pvt. Brooks is survived by Ivs father, Walter Lee Brooks of Dallas; a sister, Miss Betty Sue Brooks of the home; and his maternal "randnarents. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Phillips of Kings Mountain. Also surviving are three step brothers, Carroll Lee, United States Navy, Max Lee and Em- :rett Lee, both of Kings Moun tain. Munay Youth's Rites Conducted She was the wife of Claud Grigg, superintendent here from i 1927-34,. who retired June 30 as superintendent 0 f Albemarle schools, and a sisler-in-law of J. ‘ Horace Grigg, of Shelby, retired ! superintendent o f Cleveland I Counly schools. : Mrs Giigg was a former prin cipal of Endy school in the Stan ly county system and was sub- seciucntly a teacher at West Stanly school. Funeral rites wore held at Al- hemarlo's C e n t r a 1 Methodist i church Sunday afternoon, of which she was a member and ac- , ti\e mp.rbtr. with the Rev. W. ‘ H. .Medlin conducting the rites. ; Interment was ip Fairview Me- , morial Park at Albemarle. / / • A native of Red Springs, she was horn July 1, 1902, daughter of the laie John Burden and ' Lelie .McNeill Humphrey. She Funeral rites for Harold Dean was a .graduate of Woman’s Col- Munay, 17, were held Monday at I Greensi.oro and did 4 p.m. from Temple Baptist; in Mitchell Pruitt officiated at the I’D Claud M. Wednesday | final rites. “ ■ ^ monfF member of tlic club. Six-Man Housing Study Committee UMI Probe Kings Mountain Needs The city board of coimmis.sion-1 or told fhe board ers Tuesday approved appoint ment of a six-member study com mittee on housing needs. Mayor John Henry Moss ap pointed city commissioners Ray Cline, T. J. Ellison and O. O. Walker to 1 he «. committee and said that he would name three other citizens to serve with (hon. The mayor will also be a mem ber of the study group to report back to the commission at the July 26th meeting. inc of these late William A. and Anna Hin son Wright. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of Modena Street Baptist church, lie was a former employee wf Gambrill Mill in Bessemer City. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Vernic Pruitt Wright; one son, William Wright of Dallas; a step-son, Hugh Lee Ivester of Dallas; his stepmother, Mrs. L. R. Wright of Kings Mountain; four brothers, Horace Wright, Jonas Wright. Marvin Wright "It is quite evident during our afternoon care for those parents \ clean-up campaign now under- who wish to-leave their children way that Kings Mountain has i sub-sUndard* homes iif town and 1 Kings Mountain; and three homes actually .^-lii'uld he de- niolished,’’ he continued, adding, that both owner .nn.l rontor are willing to have the houses razcKi which are n.it protitohle to re pair.” “Pro’ iivn i.s." I ho ma.vor. continued “thev lia'c no place 1 and Forrest Wright, all of Kings to relocate.’’ ^ Mountain: five half - bi-others, During the past si.x months | James IVright of the U. S_ Navy, three industries have torn downi Paul IVright and Joe \Vrlg‘ht, and/or moved former mill resi-1 both of Kings Mountain, Silas dences in expansion projects, the, Wright and Saul Wright, both of mayor continued f i Spartanburg, S. C.; two sisters. Duty of the committee would Mrs. Roland Watprs and Mrs. be to determine the -imnber of | Sheila Mae Waters, both of graduate work at Duke univers- ity. Among Kin.gs Mountain citi zens attendin.g the final rites were Mrs. F. F. Finger. Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Barnes and Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Weir Surviving in addition to her Mr. and Mrs. H. R. j husband are three sons, William and Mrs. J. Lane Put-1 Grigg and David H. Grigg, both Charlotte attorneys, and church, interment following Mountain Rest cemetery. Young Murray, an invalid since i.:irth, died Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at his home on route three. He was a native of Kings .Mountain, son of D.moiy and Marjorie Putnam Murray, both of whom survive. Also surviving are his grand parents, Murray, nam, all of Kings Mountain Rev. R. L. McGaha and Rev. Grigg, of Rich- \Ki: Brooks Fiist Vietnam Fatality; Korean War Cost Six From Area By ELIZABETH STEWART 1 men .V ;ni:r :er of others were Though far distant from the woundi d on Korean battlefields, roar of guns halfway across the I Pvt. Knfas G. Huffstickler, 19, world. Kings Mountain is not iso- fir.st Kitigs Mountain., man to be lated from the tragic effects ofiIist(‘ l on an Army casualty list the war in Vietnam. in thi- Koiean War, was killed in Pvt. Christopher Eugene: Ku'ca on July 20, .1950. He was Brooks, first Kings Mountain' la ported missing in action His man to be listed on an an.my parents uere notified of iris casualty list in the war in Viet- death :M-iy 5, 1951. nam, will be buried here Thins- Pvt. Staey A. Miullina.x, Jr., 18, day. was killed in action in Korea 'The 18-year-oId infantryman .4piil 21. 1951. joined the Army shortly after Pvt. Dan Lail, 22, w;is killed graduation from Kings Mountain in action .November 8, 1951. high school in 1965. At his death | On Jui.i' 10, 1952, Cpl. Harvey July 3 he had been in Vietnam Lawson died from wounds receiv- for two months with the 35th In- od in action near Hadokkom-gal, fantry Division. North Korea. Pvt. Brooks died as a result of Pvt Pinkney Roberts. Continued On Paye 6 sub-standard housing”, the may* 1 availabls yncin V grandciiUdren, gunshot wounds received on combat operations against the enemy. 'Thirteen years ago this month —July 26, 1953, the shooting stopped in Korea and the Korean War •— First labeled a “police action'’— had cost the lives of at Marcii 30, 1952. least six Kings Mountain area I . Jr.. 19, while was killed in action October 1952 wliile flighting with the flwt Marines in Korea. Pfc. Klmer G. Allen. Jr., -of GroN'cr, was renorted action February 13, 1961. ii* family was notified of his