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Population
Greafer Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,256
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
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VOL 77 No. 31
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 4, 1966
Seventy-Seventh Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Area Coordinator Recommends^ Community Plan
Application
Is Foiwaided
To Wasidngton
Foi Approval
Kings Mountain’s application
for approval to the federal Ur
ban Development Agency for a
workable program for communi
ty improvement meets the ap
proval of the regional admini
strator and has been forwarded
‘for final approval to the Depart
ment of Urban D^elopment,
Washington, D. C.
Confirmation was made by
Mayor John Henry Moss follow
ing a conference with Ed Meill of
the Department of Urban Dev
elopment Tuesday.
The application could lead to
numerous grants and loans for
community improvements.
It was prepared by Traffic &
Planning Associates of Hickory,
was approved in early May by
the city board of commissioners.
Since that time Mayor Moss
has appointed to re-development
bodies 32 citizens, 20 of whom are
members of an advisory commit
tee, seven are members of a spe
cial committee on minority hous
ing, and five make up the re
development commission.
Officially, the application is
entitled, “Presen taition of a
»-■ workable program for comimun-
ity improvement-for small com-
- munities.'-!*,
* ' Vdrlbus and ^ sundry fed^al
programs are included, recrea
tion facilities, which are eligible
for federal igrants of up to two-
thirds cost, residential area im
provements, eligible for grants
up to-two-thirds cost, residential
area’ fmproven:;ents, eligible for
grants up to three-fourths cost,
open spaces playgrounds eligible
for grants up to 90 percent cost,
and public hou.sing, which are
eligible for 100 percent loar...
Already projected here are a
recreation facility, uplifting of
the business district, and a city
public utilities building.
Also projected is extension of
Railroad Avenue and renovation
of City Hall.
The application was first fil
ed with the area coordinator, ur
ban development, Atlanta, Ga.
STUDENTS BUSY IN HEAD START PROGRAM—The two photographs above were made at West school Tuesday while 138 Operation Head Start students were busy in various activities from 8:30 un-
til 12:30. In the photograph at left a group of boys and girls were busy tin clossroom activities. At right, youngsters enjoy playground activities. (Hercdd Photo By Ronnie Dotson.
Teacher Needs
In KM District
Remain At 21
Kings Mountain district
schools, as of Wednesday, still
required 21 faculty iTcmbers to
complete teacher requirments for
the school year starting August
24.
Superintendent B. N. Barnes
made the report Wednesday in
the process of interviews With
prospects.
He commented, "We have a
number of applicants we consid
er good teachers and I anticipate
majority lof positions will be
filled this week.’’
The vacancies are for junior
and senior high school teaching
positions, Supt. Barnes added,
noting that all elementary teach
ing positions ih the system are
filled.
Silver Villa
Opens Thnrsday
The new Silver Villa Restau
rant will hold grand opening at
its new location on East King
Street today (Thursday) from 6
B.m. until 12 midnight.
Melton Kiser, manager, said
that door prizes will be given
Thursday and that the new res
taurant will offer reduced prices
on most all of its foMs.
The restaurant is located one
door east of its old location. The
Villa will oRpr drlve-in window
service as well as booths which
wiU seat as many as 50 people at
one time.
rotary club
Kings Mountain Rotarians
will meet Thursday at 12:15
tain Country Club. Charles
for luncheon at Kings- Moun-
Wilson has arranged the pro-
frank
Housing Group
TutDipiize
Monday
Organizational meeting of the
Kings Mountain minority hous
ing committee will be held Mon
day night at 7:30 pjni'. in City
Hall courtroom.
Martin I-Iai-mon'^Herald editor,
is chairman of the committee
which includes Sandro Blalock,
William Orr, George White,
Brooks Tate, George Edwards
and Carl F. Wilson.
Duty of the committee on min
ority housing is to study and
'formulate a program for meet
ing the needs for decent housing
in a suitable environment for all
families without regard to race,
color, or national origin.
Stroupe Wrecks
City Police Car
City policeman Earle Stroupe
received minor injuries Sunday
morning when he lost control of
the police department’s new 1966
patrol car and overturned near
the Mill Pond Creek on £>ixon
Road.
Stroupe was chasing a black
1955 Chevrolet with a South
Carolina license plate which got
aw^y.
Stroupe spotted the car on
Gold St. Sunday about 7:30 a.m.
and stopped the car for a routine
chwk. When Stroupe got out of
his car the Chevy pulled off.
Stroupe gave chase at speeds
up to 90 mph. The Chevy head
ed south on Highway 216 then
turned down Dixon School Road.
Stroupe lost control of the police
car on a curve in the dirt road,
hit a bank and overturned.
Damage to the police car was
estimated at $1,000.
’The other car lost a bumper j .Mountain school district, 90 per-
during the chase. Stroupe said I cent of whom come from grad-
that he recognized one of the I uatod income scale families. The
boys in the car however he has other 10 percent, chosen by fed-
not been able to pick the subject' eral government guidelines, come
up as of yet Continued On Page 6
Eight-Week
Piogram Heie
Ends Aug. 15
The 138 children enrolled in
Kings Mountain’s first Operation
Head Start program this summer
are developing self identities and
social relationships in a variety
of new experiences.
Wide-eyed and excited, the six-
year-olds Wednesday watched
tall. Central Methodist church
topple before their very eyes at
the comer of West Mountain
street as workmen worked to
remove the 66-year-old landmark
which will be replaced by a new
edifice.
The boys and igirls were tak
ing part in a field trip, a new
experience for them. On Wednes
day they also visited Mauney
Memorial Library for a Story
Hour.
Riding an escalator was des-
cri'ced by one boy, almost six, as
"real fun.” Another liked best
their trip to Gastonia Orthopedic
hospitals. Others liked best visits
to a local dairy farm.
Tuesday morning will be an
other “first” experience for the
group. At 9:44 a.m. the boys and
girls will board a train for a
trip to Gaffney, S. C.
On the closing day of Head
Start, August 15th, ..the group
will enjoy a watermelon slicing
at the picnic area of Kings
.Mountain National Military
Park.
Head Start is composed of
boys and igirls from the Kings
Mayoi Moss Will Recommend Study
Of Refuse Collection In City
Mayor John H. Moss said Wed
nesday he will recommend a stu
dy of refuse collection in the
downtown area at Tuesday
night’s city commission meeting
at 6:30 at City Hall.
Other major item of business
on the agenda will be public
hearing on request for annexa
tion by three property owners—
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Etters,
Mr. and Mrs. Herman, Bolin and
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde J. Bridges.
Target date for completion of
the refiue collection stud^ is
September 1, the mayor said.
Calling the refuse collection
study a much needed program in
Kings .Mountain, the mayor con
tinued that a better (method of
collecting refuse in the down
town area would improve safe
ty and sanitary conditions of the
area.
The mayor said he will recom
mend a container system and
will ask the commission to make
a study of this type oolleoUon
^stem.
PRINCIPAL — Glenn Brook
shire of Asheboro assumed du
ties last Wednesday os princi
pal of Kings Mountain high
school. The 34-year-old school
man is a native of Taylorsville,
was for six years principal of
Guy B. Teacbdy city Schools.
li Teeneis Win,
Citizeits Wni
Finance Trip
Should Kings Mountain’s Teen
er League win Thursday’s champ
ionship baseball game. Mayor
John H. Moss says he will head
a committee to raise funds total
ing $1500 for transportation for
the team to Hershey, Pa., site of
the national tournament.
Other members of the commat-
tee are Harold Glass, Jonas
Bridges, and Marion Dixon. Oth
er citizens will be asked to as
sist.
The mayor said that there will
be containei-s in downtown stores
for persons to make contribu
tions, if they desire. He also
said citizens may make contribu
tions by contacting any member
of the coimmittee.
Winner of the Eastern Region
al Finals in the Teener League
Thursday at 4 p.m. will play in
the Hershey, Pa. tournament.
Rethwaie Fail
Set For Sept 14
Premium-lists for the 19th an
nual Bethware Community Fair
were distributed in a fair cata
log to advertisers and fair pa
trons this week.
The fair will be held Septem
ber 14-17 on the grounds of
Bethware school.
Sponsored iby the Bethware
Progressive club, Bethware Fair
again offers cash prizes to exhi
bitors.
This year’s official fair cata
log is dedicated to the md.T.ory
of Boyd HarreLson, charter mem
ber, past president, and long ac
tive in (the Fair Association.
Mr. Harrclson came to the
Bethware community as a school
toachcr after World War I A
rtiail carrier for more ■Mian ' 30
yeaia until his retirement, he
continued his farming and other
activities until his death.
He was also active in El Beth
el Methodist church.
Sarah Edith Hambright will
reign as Queen of the 1966 Fair.
Fair officers are Mearl Scismi,
president; Bobby Ware, vice-
president; Stokes Wright, secre
tary; John O. Patterson, treasur
er; and Johnny W. Patterson,
ntanager. Past president is Gra«
dft Sotok
McGee Rites
Held Monday
Funei al rites for Harold Rudi-
sill (Maggie) McGee, 52, of
Greenville, S. C., formerly of
Kings Mountain, were held .Mon
day at 10 a.m from Trinity Cu-
theran church of Greenville, in
terment following in Woodlawn
Memorial Park.
Mr. McGee died in his sleep
early last Saturday morning at
his summer home at River Falls.
He was a life insurance under
writer.
Born at Anderson, he was a
son of Horace Julian and Bright
Rudisill McGee, both of whom
are in an Easlby nursing home:
The McGees are well known
here.
Mr. McGee was a graduate of
The Citadel, class of 1936, and
had been in the insurance busi
ness since that time. At the time
of his death he was a special a-
gent for Penn Mutual Life In
surance Co. and headed Poinsett
General Insurance Agency.
He was a member of Trinity
Lutheran Church and had serv
ed on the church council. He
was also a member of the Cer
tified Life Underwriters of
South CaroMna, which he was
serving as pi-esident, and the
Greenville Lions Cluto.
I
He was a veteran of World
War II, having served with the
U. S. Anny las a major.
Surviving also are his wife,
Mrs. Ellen Daniel McGee, a
daughter, Mrs. Thomas C. Nord
of Charleston; two sons, Dan
and Sam McGee of Greenville; a
slater. Miss Mary Bright McGw,
and a brotiiBr, Horace J. McGee
it.
Plans Underway
National Figure
To Re Invited
To Make Address
A national governmental fig
ure is being invited to make an
address here during the 186th
anniversary celebration of the
Revolutionary W’ar Battle of
Kings Mountain.
Plans are underway for the
annual celebration to be held
this year October 4-8.
Mayor John Henry Moss de
clined to identify the personage
but said he hopes to have an an
nouncement in the near future.
I
The mayor said ho anticipati s |
a parade here on Saturday, Oclo- j
ber 8th, would honor (he .guest ;
and that he would make an .id- I
dress at Kings Mountain Nation- j
al Military Park. |
A Battle Celebration Commit- j
tee is to be named within the ;
next few days to include l epr -- ;
sentatives of all Kings Moun-1
tain’s civic and service organiza
tions, the women’s clubs, Daugli-
ters of American Revolution, the
VFW, American Legion, Mer
chants Association. Cham ,er of
Commerce and Industrial Asso
ciation.
KM Teeners Play
Tennessee Today
The final game of the East
ern Regionals Teener League
Tournament, scheduled to be
played at Bermont-Abbey Col
lege Wednesday afternoon,
was postponed because of
rain and will be played today
(Thursday) at 4 p.m^
Kings Mountain evened the
best-of-thi’ee series at 1-all
Tuesday afternoon with a 10-0
win. Greenville took the first
game Monday by a 5-4 count.
Wayne Mullinax is schedul
ed to start on the hill for KM
today, however, KM coaches
report that all pitchers will be
available for duty, if needed.
Second baseman Mike Smith
has been the big man in the
KM hitting attack lately with
Mullinax, shortstop Gene Put
nam and outfielder Eddie
Black also getting some time
ly hits.
In the first two games, KM
collected a total of 15 hits as
compared to only seven for
the Tennessee lads.
City Tax Advertising
To Begin August II
Real propert.v of citizens,who
have not paid 1965. city tax bills
i will bo acH'ertised for sale for
i taxes beginning August 11th,
I AssLstant City Tax Collector
’ Grace C. Wolfe said Wednesday.
Mayor Moss, Chamber of Com
merce President Jonas Bridges,
Merchants Association President
Charles Dixon, and Joe J. Vale. ' yirs. Wolfe urged payment in
of the Kings Mountain Industrial | ^ji^ance of the advertising date.
Association, met this wc(>k to i
discuss plans for the annual! Added expense will be-saved
event which, commemorates the, she said, as a penalty fee is as-
Battle of Kings Mountain. se.ssed for advertising costs.
RIoodRiobile Returns On Monday
For First Visit Oi Fiscal Year
The Rod Cross tiloodmolrile
will ixrturn to King.s Mountain
Monday for a onc-day visit at
Kings Mountain 'Baptist church.
Donoi’s will be proccss<’d from
11 a.m. until 5 p.m., according to
announcement by L- C. Brewer,
chairman of the Red Cross blood
program.
Volunteer workers arc also
needed for the first visit of the
fiscal year 1966-67 and those in
terested should contact Mrs.
Charles Mauney.
Mr. Breww reminded local citi
zens that blood it neodwl licre as
well as in disaster aicas around
the gUdbe. He ooted donors
who may have been rejected at
previous bloodmobile visits bo-
cause they had suffered from
i malaria, juandice, allergies, etc.
may give at this visit. “Blood
will he used for plasma by the
I Department of Defense in Viet
; Nam”, said Brewer,
j "We need every citizen’s co
operation”, said Mrs. Mauney,
1 publicity chairman. “If yx>ur
1 fi’iends or loved ones have re-
j ceived any blood, this is a good
time to pay it back."
I Mr. Brewer succeeds W. Skel-
lie Hunt as chairman of the 1966-
67 blood prograiin in Kings
iMountiain.
Gaston Roaid
Won't Release
Ont-Distaict
School Pnpils
A group of East Kings Moun
tain residents have called a pub
lic (.meeting for Thursday (today)
at 4 p.m. at City Hall to formal
ly protest Monday’s action by
the Gaston County Board of Edu
cation in which requests for re
leases of out-of-district pupils
were not (granted.
The approximately 25 families
reside on *Boyce street, Woodside
Extension and Brookwood Drive
'n the Linwood section of Kings
Mountain. East Boyce street lies
in Gaston County, West Boyce
street in Cleveland. The areas
are in Gaston County School Dis
trict and last year the students
attended Kings Mountain
schools.
Notices were received July 18
by parents of Kings Mountain
school district students residing
in other counties tliat they wiO
not be accepted for enrollment
during the upcoming term unless
they obtain releases from the
board of education where, by
residence, the out-of-district pu
pils would normally attend.
Gary Sarvis, Whitey White-
sides, Charles Hampton, Louise
Leagan, Roy flynn, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Bowers Mrs. Willis King,
Mrs. Arthur Flowers, Boyce
Wells, all residents of the Lin-
wood area, and Mrs. Norman
McGill and Gerald Thom(asson^
both of whom plan” to, buiW iir
that area, attended Monday’s
meeting of the Gaston County
Board of Education and request-
“We were turned dowri", Said
Sarvis. He said that Gaston
County school officials said a
pus would be provided to trans-
Dort the students to Bessemer
City schools.
“We don’t want our children
riding a tus to Bessemer City
every day when they’re in walk
ing distance of East Elementary
school”, said Sarvis. Children in
the Linwood section area last
year attended either East Ele
mentary school. Central Junior
high school or Kings Mountain
high school, he said.
Mrs. Arthur Flowers of Brook-
wood Drive said her children had
already been assigned to Central
and East schools for the coming
term. Another parent said her
child, a senior student, had al
ready purchased a KMHS class
ring.
“It’s unfair to the students,”
Mrs. Flowers added, although we
can understand the Kings Moun
tain board of education’s action
July 11 in asking for the releases.
“it’s not that Kings Mountain
district has objection to teaching
these fine pupils,” Supt. Barnes
had commented,” but legally we
don’t have the authority without
their formal releases.”
Some Kings Mountain district
students attend Gaston County
schools. Supt. B. N. Barnes had
said following the July school
board meeting, but their requests
for releases have always been
granted.”
Numerous city, county and
school officials are being invited
to meet at 4 p.m. Thursday to
discuss the problem, which
school officials say is a legal
one, involving pupils numbering
from 50 to 100, normally in the
educational menage of the Gas
ton County Board of Education.
A spokesman for the Linwood
area parents said an attorney
is being retained to represent the
group of school patrons.
lex Raxldey
Kiwanis Speaker
Lex G. Barkley, manager of
the Gastonia ,^ocial Security Dis
trict office, will be guest speek-
3r at Thui-sday’s Kiwanie club
meeting at 6:45 at the Woman’s
club.
Mr. Barkley will use the sUb-
ject, “Medicare .
A native of Statesville and a
graduate of Lenoir Rhyne col-
lege he spent five yearo in the
Army during World War li.
From 1M6-54 he was associat
ed with the Veterans Aihninls.
tration.,
Barkley is a unember of Holy
Trinity Lutheran churdi of Gm-
tonia, the Gastwila Rotary dub,
(Gastonia Chamber of Oomnferve
and on the Advisory board of the
Salvation Army.
Mr. and Mrs. Barkley
their two children Mve at 17H
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