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^ Popvlation Graaier Kings Mountain , 10,320 City Limits 8,256 IMt ilauM for CkMrtor Bags MeuaMo it dorirtd from Ite ItSS Kfagt Moiiatcda city diioetocT ctuut. Tho dty HmMs flgnro it inm tbo Uolttd StotM coatut of IMSi i SIiiu Kings Mountain's Eeiioble Newspoper VOL 77 No. 39 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 20, 1966 Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENTS Beg^afion Foi Election Pony Saturday Number 4 Township registrars read, knitted and otherwise spent their time Saturday, as oniy nine Citizens added their -names - to the poUbooks, as reports indicate was the case in the county’s oth er 24 precincts. Mrs. Neil Cranford, East Kings Mountain registrar, logged four votes, a Democrat, two Republi cans, and an Independent. Mrs. J. H. Arthur, West Kings Mountain registrar, added two Democrats and one Republican. Mrs. J. B. Ellis, at Grover, and Mrs. J. D. Jones, at Bethware, added one Democrat each. Township total by party affili ation: five Democrats, three Re publicans, one Independent. The registration books are open now and will remain open Through OctobCT 29. However, the registrars will be at -the polling pisees only on the two Saturdays remaining. Citizens who visit their homes on weekdays will be registered. Mlph Gilbert, chairman of the county elections board, reminded this week that unregistered per sons are not eligible to vote. Mr. Gilbert also suggested that citizens who know they will not be at their precincts on voting day November 8 make immedi ate application for absentee bal lots. He commented, "There is a good amount of legal paper work involved in absentee voting which requires time and absen tee ballots must be in the hands of the election board of voting day if these ballots are to be counted.’^ He also noted that 20-year-olds who. wiH observe their twenty- first birthdays not later than November 8 are eligible to reg ister. Registrars are at the polling places on Saturdays from. 9 am. until sunset. iii 'tnmrdi Attend neral Event • Wednesd^s Community Fes tival atfiMBd throngs of visitors lo file mjSkn’s dub for turkey and ham^tth all the trimmings Id 4t IMofful display of flowers afl|||$xhlMts ranging from family hoMifes and collections to crafts. It^s the 66th annual floral fair 'of the Kings Mountain Wo man’s club. There were no ribbons given but the roses, arrangements and horticulture spedmens could easily have been blue ribbon winners. One of many conversa tion pieces at yesterday’s fair was Mrs. Clyde Kems’ bright orange featherwork arrangement whidi she made herself. She brought the feathers from a re cent trip to California, sprayed and arranged them. The feathers are pretty enougli to grace a hat 'Two groups of exhibits claim ed attention of the young people who came in groups from school and Scout meetings. Paintings, ceramics and crsfts filled one large display area. Hobbies and collections filled, a second dis play area. Local garden clubs provided four jsye - catching table settings With autumn in mind and decorated a Halloween table complete with orange and black appointirttmts and pop com. Entries of families were fea tured, as customary, in the show Myra Griffin’s shell exhibit featured a large white shell call ed a hunting horn which had been her great-grandfather’s and in the E. W. Griffin family 100 years. Her grandmother, Mrs. E, W. Griffin, displayed several paintings, a^ong them one call ed "the old homeplace.’’ Mrs. Griffin also displayed a rock exhibit, a Hbfaby she has cultl vated for a ikimber of years. An adeted featUfe of her hobby is that on 8<Mne of the rock she paints scenes from some of the places she has visited. There is a Blue Ridge Parkway scene on one of the rocks and a New York scene on another from the home of her daughter. The Ray Holmes family dis played a number of family hob bies. Mrs. Holmes talent for wil low basketry was displayed In hanging badeets and lampshades along with instructions for bas> kefinaking, one of the oldest and Imost Interesting crafts to be found. She also dhvlayed large painted map of her native ^England and a collection of Eng ^lish coins along with paintings she had done of her children and one entitled. “CoUage.” Lindsay rMobnes displayed her crt]e<Slpn FOOTE EMPLOYEES WIN SAFETY AWARDS — Eight employ’ ees of Kings Mountain's Foote Mineral Company won 15-year safety award buttons and merchandise gift certificates during o company-sponsored fish fry ond setfety awards program Fri day. Joe Jimison is pbotogrophed kneeling and others, from left to right, are John Peterson, Lorry Doy, Floyd C. Goforth, Tom, Berry, Fred Thornburg and Boyd Riley. 15-Yeai Safety Awards Given By- Foote Him In recognition of safety achi evements, Foote Mineral Com pany, Kings Mountain Opera tions, held a fisli fry for its em ployees on Friday. “Our safety record throughout the plant is very good and we congratulate you on a' job well done,’’ said E. R. Goter, manager of the Kings Mountain Opera tions. “We have worked over one year and seven months with a total of 353,706 manhours with out a lost-time accident.’’ Recently, the Milling Depart ment reached the 10-year mark without a lost-time accident. To honor these employees for this aatstandijlg. “awievement, Mk Goterjir^nted 'each member of Ihdivipirtment with a bitlfoI(f iWIprihted with their safety rec ord. H. M. Broadwater, general superintendent, presented safety- award buttons to individuals reaching two, five, ten and fif teen years without a loet-Ume accident Eight employees who received 15-year awards and who also received a merchan dise gift certificate were: foyd Riley, Floyd G. Goforth, W. E. Kuykendall, Larry Day, Fred Thornburg, Joe Jimison, John Patterson and Tom Berry. “We are very proud of these accomplishments,” Mr. Goter said, “and appreciate the efforts of each individual in making them possible.” School Boundary Group To Report T t\ n * Meeting Set V 0 Days Keinain|r«.n^Y For Bargain Shots Ibrothar. Chris, displayed hts nd Mrs. Jackson's Father Succumbs Funeral services will be held at 11 o’clock Thursday morning at Harry & Bryant Funeral Home, Charlotte, for Simeon Eu gene Ashcraft, 74, retired Char lotte engineer. Mr. Ashcraft died here at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. How ard B. Jackson. Death was at tributed to amothropic lateral sclerosis. Mr. Ashcraft had been ill for several months and had been residing with his daughter during that time. A native of Mint Hill, he was a son of Walter and Amanda Forsythe Miller Ashcraft. He was a ruling elder and choir mem ber of Caldwell Memorial Pres byterian church, oif Charlotte, and had retired in 1963 from his engineering duties at Wade Man ufacturing Company, of Char lotte. He was a 32nd degree Ma son and Shriner and was a lineal descendant of four coloial fam ilies who settled in Richmond, Anson and Union counties, North Carolina, prior to the Revolu tionary War. Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Jackson, are another daughter, Mrs. Harvey W, White, of Hickory, and a sister, Mrs. Les ter >B. Beaver, Atlanta, Ga. A grandson. First Lie^utenant Har vey W. White, Jr., of Fort Holo- bird, Baltimore, Md., also sur vives. The final rites will be conduct ed by Rev ^fred B. Mont gomery. Ekitombnnent will be in Sharon Memorial Mausoleum, Charlotte. SPEAKER — District Govamor Jim Long will be guest qieaker at Tuesdoty's Lions .dnb meet- f <ri the Woman's D(& Goveiuoi To Spedi Here Lions 31-C District Governor Jim Long of Gastonia will pay his official visit to the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday night. Mr. Long will give the pro gram at the civic dub’s 7 p.m. meeting at the Woman’s club. An active Lion with perfect at tendance the past 18 years, Mr. Long has held all offices in his club. He was club president in 1962-63, zone chairman in 1963- 64 and Deputy District Governor in 1964-65. He was named Lion of the Year in 1962-63, holds the Extension Award and the Mas ter Key Award. President and owner of Jim Long, Inc., air conditioning and heating firm of Gastonia, he is a life-long resident of Gastonia. A 32nd degree Mason and Shrin er, he is a Sunday School teach er in the First Baptist church, a member of the Elks club. Cham ber of Commerce and active in other civic affair.s. Mrs. Long is the former Jewel Moss. They are parents of two sons: James Long, minister of music and education at Belmont’s First Baptist church; and Joel Long, who is associated in busi ness with his father. 'There are three grandchildren. Lion Long will speak on a pro gram arranged by Lion Bob Ha- den. Immunization Against Tetanus Aim Of EHort Response by citizens to four county - wide tetanus toxoid im munization clinics is slow. Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, the county health officer, said yesterday, hut two days remain for other citizens to avail themselves of the bar gain service Dr. Mitchell said that only 29 citizens had visited clinics at Ca- sar and Camp High schools Mon day and Tuesday. Daily clinics, through Friday, are being held also at Washington school in the county. Kings Mountain doctors are al so participating in the drive aim ed at persons 28 or older who have never been Immunized against tetanus or lockjaw. Citi zens are invited to visit their local doctor’s offices between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Cost of the vac cine is 50 cents. Local doctors reported a total of 102 citizens who had receiv ed the vaccine here this week. In addition. Dr. Frank Sincox ad ministered the dose to 32 pa tients at Waco yesterday. Dr. Mitchell said the vaccine ^ also being administered'at the county health clinic in Shelby. The drive to wipe out tetanus is sponsored by the^ .Cleveland Medical Society, of which T)r. Avery. McMurray is chairman, and Shelby Junior Woman’s club. “Tetanus or lockjaw is a di sease which will always be a threat unless a person is ade quately immunized,” said Dr. Mitchell. Adequate immuniza tion is the taking of two doses of tetanus toxoid four weeks a- part and repeating in a year with a booster and every three years thereafter. Dr. Mitchell continued, ‘Teta nus is caused by germs which lie dormant in the soil. When the spores enter the body they start to multiply and form a very powerful toxin which paralyses the muscles and causes them to twitch and convulse. Specific cause of death is convulsion. “Anytime a person's skin is broken (particularly in such areas as backyard picnicking, camping, etc., swimming areas, along the highways where acci dents occur) there is danger of this disease. The injury itself need- not be major. About half of all cases seen in Anicrican hospitals are result of injury so trivial to go unnoticed until symptoms of tetanus occur,” said Dr. Mitchell. After the primary series of in- noculations in infancy, boosters should be given at the start of school and every three to five years thereafter. When injuries commonly associated with teta nus occur, your doctor will give you a booster shot,” Mitchell added. (Continued On Page Eight) U' REVIVAL LEADER — Rev. G. H. Allred, of Concord, will con duct revival services begin ning Sunday night at Grace Methodist church. Allied To Lead Grace Revival Revival services will begin Sunday at Grace Methodist church, wth Rev. G. H. Allred, of Concord, conducting. Services will be held each even ing through October 27. On Sunday, a covered dish din ner will be held in the Fellow ship Hall at 5:30 p.m., preceding the opening service of the re vival. Rev. Mr. Allred is a native of Greensboro. He attended Guil ford college and Duke University. | As a photographic reconnaisance pilot, he flew 53 combat missions in World War II for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals. He is an Optimist and Mason. KIWANBI fOOGIIAM ’The Rev. Stewart White, pastor of Guver’s Shiloh Presbyterian dttirch, will ad- id ii/y antoals and her okkvf dress memban of the Kiwanls s_ .^fssW laAstA ii# IXFawiam** club Club tiiS. here at the Woman’s Tlmraclajr evening at Allen Memorial Revival To Start Revival services will be held at Allen Memorial Baptist church near Grover beginning Sunday night and continuing through October 29. Rev. George H. Thornburg, the pastor, announced the services will Ite conducted nightly at 7 p.m. by Rev. George Willis, pas- tpr of New 'Buffalo Baptist church. By MAR'nN HARMON A school district boundary sub committee will report to the ^ steering committee of East Kings j Mountain citizens seeking an- | nexation to the Kings Mountain j ' school district at a meeting at' , City Hall courtroom Thursday j I night at 7:30. N. F. McGill, Sr., chairman of I the sub-committee, said Wed nesday the group will recom mend seeking expansion of the school district boundaries as fol lows: South to Interstate 85, east to Crowder’s Creek (which, on the northeast virtually coincides with the Gaston - Cleveland county line) and, to the north, a shal low strip east of NC 216 from a point n€)ar the Grady Seism home to embrace the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Bumgard- ner. Mr. McGill said expansion of the district to the south would embrace 22 residences. Some 16 East Kings Mountain families— most of them City of Kings Mountain citizens but not of the Kings Mountain school district— were among the group which won a temporary injunction in Gaston Superior Court to allow their children to continue to at tend Kings Mountain schools. Mr. McGill did not estimate the number of residences involv ed along Cherryville road north of the Seism home. The group anticipates peti tioning the Gaston County board of election^ for a special elec- 1 tion in ‘which the petitioners would vote for or against annex ation to th^'Ydngs Mounta,jn dis trict. ' > Mr, McGill said Henry White- sides, Gastonia attorney, is ex pected to attend the Thursday night meeting here. He is attor ney for the East Kings Mountain group. Other sub-committee members are Charles Hampton, Fred By ers, John Butler Plonk, and Mrs. Norman McGill. Roy Lynn is chairman’ of the East Kings Mountain citizens’ steering committee. Keeter Chainnan Of United Fand Mis. Clemmei's Rites Condurted Funeral rites for Mrs. Mattie Pauline Moore Clemmer, 36, wife of Ernest S Clemmer of 112 Spruce Street, were held Wed nesday at 3 p.m. from Blacks burg, S. C. East Side Baptist church. Rev. M H. Hampton officiated at the final rites, and interment was in Antioch Baptist church cemetery near Grover. Mrs. Clemmer died suddenly at her home Tuesday morning. A native of Cleveland County, she was the’^aughter of William Ervin and Betty David Moore of Kings Mountain. Besides her husband and parents, she is sur vived by four brothers, B. R. Moore, R. K Moore, Bobby Moore and David Moore, all of Kings Moiuntain, and three sis ters, Mrs. Victoria Edwards, Mrs. Gertrude Adams and Mrs. Alpha Bobbins, all of Blacksburg, S.C. Mooie To Speak At Gaidnei-Webb Homecoiiiing Festivities Satniday Pancake Supper Friday Before Gome Shelby Kiwanls club is spon soring a pancake supper to be held at Shelby high school cafeteria Friday night prior to the Shelby High versus Kings Mountain football classic. Kiwanians guarantee all comers all the pancakes they can eat for $1, with the fare for children costing 50 cents. Serving will begin at 5 p.m. The pancake supper is a fund • raising event to provide a scholarship to Gardner-Webb f GoUege. By ALEX VAUGHN BOILING SPRINGS — Gov- ernor Dan K. Moore will make official presentation of Spangler Stadium on Gardner-Webb C<A- lege campus on behalf of the E. W. Slangier family as the Baptist junior college climaxes a day of festivities on Saturday October 22 when both the new stadium and V. F. Hamrids Fieldhouse will be dedicated. Gov. Moore’s speech, a higll* light of the day’s schedule, will come at 7:30, p.m. of the home coming football game when the Gardner-Webb Bulldogs meet the Ferrum College eleven from Ferrum, Va., nafional junior coL lege champions of the 1965 foot ball season. Pomp and pogentry have bean planned for the Saturdliy festiv ities that will attract It host of dignitaries to the Ba|Brist cam pus, including 10th DMtrict Con gressman Basil L. Whitener and former All-American footbeU star Charlie Justice. Saturday nJight events in the (Contimed On Page Eight) A at GARDNER-WEBB — Gov ernor Dan K. Moore wUl spook at official ceremonies at Gardner Webb college, as Spangler Stodlnm Is formally presented to the anllnlgn MISSIONARIES — 'Nr.'~and Mrs- W. C UaUidoy. ARP mis- Sioimirlea^ Rio Velde, Mexico the past.lb years, will be guest speokers sA Boyce Memorial ARP church Wednesday night. Two Teacheis Have Resigned Appointment of interim teach ers to replace two who have re signed from local faculties were authorized by the board of ed ucation Monday night Miss Fannie Carpenter is in terim teacher at West School third grade, replacing Mrs. Ann Myatt, of Clover, S. C.; and Mrs. A. V. Dedmon, of Shelby, is in terim teacher at Grover school fourth grade, replacing Mrs. Kathleen Roberts, Blacksburg, S. C. Meantime, the board elected Miss Billie Jean Haynes, of Mar shall, as permanent replace ment for Mrs. Myatt. Miss Haynes, soon to graduate from Western Caroliria college, will report on November 28. In an otherwise routine regu lar October meeting, the board authorized the superintendent to obtain termite t.'-eatment service for an infested room at tho Compact plant and for the east side of the primary building at Bethware. A stadium lighting change or der was approved to relocate two poles which would have ob structed the view of some on lookers on the visitors’ side. Cost of the change is $167. The board accepted “with ap preciation” a proffer of the Mag nolia Garden club to make a contribution toward beautifying the grounds of Kings Mountain high school. Payment of seven school bus drivers for a day’s pay for work on the day of the recent South Piedmont teacher’s meeting was authorized. A school bus driver earns $1.50 per day. , METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday tot aled $236.05, including $140.70 from on-street meters, $24.35 from off-street meters, and $71 in fines. Missionaries To Speak Here Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Halliday, ARP missionaries to Rio Verde, Mexico, will show slides and re late experiences of their 40 years of mission work, Wednesday night at Boyce Memorial u4RP church here. A congregational covered dish supper will be served at 7 p.m. with members of the Flora Halli day circle in charge of arrange ments. The local circle is named for Mrs. Halliday. Dr. Halliday has been associ ated with Rio Verde Bible Insti tute for many years and his wife lias taught theological English to facilitate a study of English language textbooks. Dr. Halliday has worked for a number of years to provide a new Spanish hymnbook whicli is just off the press. Dr. and Mrs. Halliday are par ents of three daughters. They are in this country on furlough. Wednesday night’s program will also feature Mexican exhib its and costumes. A local ARP member, Robert Phifer, is back from spending the summer at a Mexican Work Camp of Presbyterian young peo ple who helped build churches in Mexico in a program sponsor ed by Mexican Missions. Dm Ciawfoid Is ChainiiaB Of Hud Drive W. J. Keeter, superintendent of Phenlx plant of Burlington In dustries, will serve Ss chainnan of the Kings Mountain United Fund for 1^7. Chairman Keeter announced Wednesday t n a t the Kings Mountain United Fund is in pro cess of re-organization in order ' to conform to membership re- I quirements of the national [United Fund organization. I This year’s United Fund will I be quasi — a local operation along national lines that will en able the Kings Mountain organi zation to conduct 1968 operations as a national member. Chairman Keeter also an nounced: 1) Present plans are to con duct the United Fund campaign during November. 2) The approved budget and goal will be announced next week along with exact dates of the drive. Other officers for the current 1 year are; j Grady Howard, budget chair man; Don Crawford, campaign ! chairman; Jonas Bridges, publici- 'ty chairman; Mrs, Bay Holmes, l^vicerchaimah; Harold Coggins, ; secretary, and Rdlrert Southwell, ticasurer. The board of directors in cludes; Mrs. Phillip Padgett, Mrs. Holmes, Ed Goter, Charles Mauney, Bill Brown, Mr. Coggins, John Cheshire, Jr., Mr. Southwell, Charles Blanton, Jr., Jacob Dix on, E. R Alexander, Jr., and Fain Hambright of Grover. On the matter of participation with the national organization. Chairman Keeter further ex plained, “A fully - organized sys tem, including a board of direc tors and chairmen of the vari ous included programs, is re quired, as well as operating um der an acceptable charter and by-laws.” ' -ri HOSPITALIZED Paul Lancaster, Kings Moun tain Mica Company official, was admitted to Kings Moun tain hospital last Tuesday for obsorvatioa and treaUnaoti House Candidate Is Hospitalized W. K. Mauney, Jr., Kings Mountain hosiery manufacturer and candidate for a 43rd district seat of the North Carolina House of Representatives, is a patient at Charlotte Memorial hospital following a kidney stone attack Monday. It had not been determined Wednesday afternoon whether an operation would prove neces sary. ^veral weeks ago, Mr. Mau ney was similarly hospitalized. Meantime, he has been forced to cancel several speaking en gagements and other public ap pearances scheduled in behalf of lUa candidacy! Mrs. Griffin's Poem Applicable To 1966 This poem — October 1918 — was written by Mrs. E. W. Grif fin at the close of World War I. Because of the world situation today, it could have been writ ten in October 1966. Mrs. Griffin, the former Mabel Graham Kurfees, wrote the poem, ohe said, on her family’s planta tion in Davie County near Mocks- ville as she sat under a tree. She v^'as at home for several weeks before returning to school. The poem appeared in the October 1918 Charlotte Observer and JJrs. Griffin found the clipping while house-cleaning the other day. OCTOBER 1918 October creeps up with her gold and her crimson. And over us all casts her. mesmeric web. We dream, and we dream as she wraps it around — With rustles and whispers — this mesmeric web. The sun, with its ribbons of film-like gold. Each tree and each flower in its strands enfolds. Tying up into garlands the glorious fall. As bouquets, all gorgeous, for Nature’s last ball. The past sends a pageant of wonderful splendor. Which goes trooping by with its laughter and tears. We half close our eyes and let ourselves wander. With this band of the past, coming out of the years. Far away from our thought- world we hear the dull strife; The Universe struggles, and cries for its life. From our dreaming return, we turn with a start. Remembering that, in this, we too. have a part. Back, back, from the past, anif''^ into the present; Back from the memcHy-l (Contitmtd On Pagm
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