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f. jl Population Sreator Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits . 8,256 rtila Hgur* for Greater XMgi Mountaiii Is derived from the 195S Kings Mountcdn city directory census. Tlie city limits figure is from the United States census of 1865. VOL. 77 No. 46 Established J889 Kings Mountain's Beliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, November 17, 1966 Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENTS If STEFFYS RECEIVE AUTO HE WON — Mr. and Mrs. Gene Steffy ore pictured above receiving the 1967 Ford convertible Legionnaire Steffy won via a drawing during the notional convention of Legionnoires in Washington, D. C. Making the presentation, at far right, is Legionnaire Adju tant for North Carolina, Edgar Mountcastle, of Raleigh. Looking on, at left, is Clinton Jolly, commander of the local post, Otis D. Grem Post 155. The annuol Post 155 membership drive was kicked off Friday night at a free “Go-Getters" borbecue at the Legion building. The car presentation was a highlight of the event. (Photo by Paul Lemmons). \ Funeral Thursday For L.L. Lohr, 72 Heart Attack Proves Fatal Here Funeral services for Lawrence Luther Lohr, 72, will be held Thursday morning at St. Mat thew’s Lutheran church. Mr. Lohr died Tuesday after noon at 4 o’clock at Kings Moun tain hospital where he had been a patient for four days following a severe heart attack. Mr. Lohr, a resident of 208 N. Gaston street, was a native ot Mannheim, Pa., a son of the late Dr. Luther L Lohr, a Luther an minister, and Jessie Zinn Lohr. He was a graduate of Len oir-Rhyne College, won a master of arts degree at the University of North Carolina and did grad uate work at Columbia Univerc- ity. New York. He served as prin cipal of schools at Rocky Mount, Clinton, Popular Camp, and Snow Camp in North Carolina be fore spending two years in re search work for the North Caro lina Department of Public In struction. He subsequently became an area sales representative for Harcourt-Brace & World Publish ing Company, speicalizing in the sale of te.xtbooks. A Raleigh citi zen for 25 years, he came to Kings Mountain at his retire ment in 1959. Mr. Lohr was an army vet eran of World War I,, a member and former councilman of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, and a member of the American Legion and the 20 & 8. He was al so a member of the historical committee of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Frances Mauney Lohr, a son. Dr. Lawrence L. Lohr, Jr., of Ann Ar bor, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Lohr Cooper, 450 Grant Street, San Francisco, Calif. Rev. Charles Easley will con duct the final rites and interment will be in Mountain Rest Ceme tery. The family has designated Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, of Raleigh, as recipient for memor ials. Clinic Addition To Be Constructed City building permit has been pucchased for an addition to McGill Medical Clinic building on Watterson street Estimated cost of the addition is $10,000 and contractors are M. H. Wright & Son. Also issued by the city Is a permit to A. V. Yarbro for construction of a garage at the residence of 305 Juniper street, estimated cost $250. SPECIAL SERVICE Young people of First Pres byterian church will present a special Thanksgiving Day serv ice Wednesday night at 7:30 p. m. in the church sanctuary. GRADUATE — Ensign Flem Mauney. son ot Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mauney. has been gradu ated from Officer's Candidate School and commissioned an officer in the U. S. Navy. Ensign Mauney Is Giaduated Navy Ensign Fleming Mauney, ;on of Mr. and Mrs. Paul .Mauney of 3600 Margrace Road, Kings Mountain, N.C., was grad uated 'from the U. S. Naval Of ficer Candidate School at New port, and commissioned an of ficer in the U. S Navy on Oc tober 25th. His class of 321 students, from colleges and universities through out the United States, became proficient in naval sciences dur ing their 16 weeks of intensive training. He is how qualified to meet both the technical and leader ship demands made upon a junior officer in today’s modern fleet. !t's Time To Take Tetanus Shot No. 2 Kings Mountain area citizens were reminded this week it is now time to receive a second dose of tetanus toxoid vaccine in order to be protected fully from the powerful lockjaw germ. Each adult who was given the vaccine in the October anti-teta nus campaign should be sure to receive a second dosage of vac cine for full protection. Again, all doctors are giving the injections in their offices be tween 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. through November 26th. Public clinics are scheduled for Camp, Washington, Casar and Burns-Fallston schools from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. through Friday of this week. The continuing anti-tetanus campaign is sponsored by the Cleveland County Medical Socie ty and the Shelby Junior Wo man’s club. Needed Now: Stadium Pledges Of $29,304 Wanted and needed: $29,304.49. This figure, as of November 8, was the amount of pledges out standing on the John Gamble Memorial Stadium fund, as re- pprted by Treasurer Charles Har ry III. The stadium is progressing toward completion, school offici als r^ort, with nie ipajor work of gmding, drainage and seat building complete or virtually complete, and with other con tractors now busily^ working to ward completion of electrical work, plumbing, and other con tracted requirements. A total of $63,000 in gifts has been turned over to the Kings Mountain district board of edu cation for the Gamble Stadium project, of which $45,429.63 ( 90 per cent of the cost) has been paid the contractor for erecting the 4,000 seat stands. The remainder of the contract ed costs will be due soon. Drainage and grading costs are being underwritten by the board of education from local schools monies, while the stadium fund raising committee had as its goal the remainder of the cost of the modern stadium located ad jacent to the new Kings Moun tain district high school. KMHS Chons To Piesent "Waltz Dieam The Kings Mountain High School Chorus, under dir^tion of Mrs. J. N. McClure and Mrs. Ben T. (]ioforth, will present the op eretta, "A Walt? Dream,” Tues day night at 7:30 in Central Aud itorium. Tickets are on sale at 50 cents for students and $1 for adults Lead roles fh the bpefetfa are portrayed by Reggie Alexander as the weak-minded King Maxi- millian. King of Sylvania, and his daughter, Helene, portrayed by Edith Hambright. As the operetta opens the king and his daughter have re turned home , from Helene’s handsome, young fiance, an Aus trian officer. With the marriage of the two. King’ Maximilian in tends to stabilize the dynasty by quieting the populace and obtain a foreign loan for the bankrupt monarchy. Niki, portrayed by Gaither Baumgardner, falls in love with an American artist, portrayed by Debbie Timms, who knows no thing of the impending royal marriage. Supporting roles are played by Patricia Mintz as Princess Ma tilda; Ronnie Burton as Mont- schi; Shirley Roberts as the Duchess Louisa; Harry Forten berry as Bertrum Budgett; Jerry Ledford as Count Lothar; Roger Smith as Sigismund; Nadine Bell as Fifi; and Dottie Scats as An- verel. Members of the palace staff are Dean Webb, Pat Butler, An drea Huffstetler, Dianne Heafner, Mike Brown, Elaine Jones and Charles Easley, Jr. Action of the operetta takes place in the early 1900’s. , Hustetlez's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Colen .Frank Hustetler, 46, were held Sunday at 3-p.m. from Temple Baptist church with Rev. R. L. McGaha and Rev. Richard Plyler officiat ing. Interment was in Mbuhtalti Rest cemetery. Mr. Hustetler died at 3 a.m. Saturday in the Kings Mountain hospital. A native of Shelby, he "was a supervisor of carding of Phenix Plant of Burlington Industries. He was a veteran of World War II. He was a son of David D. Hus tetler and P|mtha Bridges Hus tetler. He attended Clover, S. C., schools, the Southeastern Col lege in Charlotte and Belmont Textile School. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mildred Noblitt Hustetler; two sons, Kenneth Hustetler of Gastonia and C. Harold Hustetler of New Sharon, Maine; and three brothers, James Hustetler of Gas tonia and Jack Hustetler and Buddy Hustetler, both of Kings Mountain. United Fund is Near Complete; Contributions Total $11,908 City To Deny Allegations The city board of commission ers has instructed its attorneys to file an answer denying allega tions of Warren Reynolds charg ing the mayor, commission and electrical superintendent have treated Reynolds illegally in re fusing city services to Reynolds’ trailer courts. Reynolds, owner of two trailor parks, seeks a writ of mandam us" in (Tleveland Superior Court to force the city to supply utility services Reynolds wants. At issue is the city’s ordinance regulating use of trailers and trailer parks. Ticket Sales Reported Rapid Tickets are selling rapidly for the December 1 visit of the Charlotte Symphony to Shelby^ Dick Buse, a member of the ar rangements committee said this week. Mrs. Charles Mauney is ticket sales chairman for the Kings Mountain area. The symphony concert will fea ture as piano soloist Gary Graf- man, who has recorded with the nation’s major symphony orches tras, the Boston, New York, Phil adelphia, San Francisco and the Cleveland Philharmonics. Tickets are being offered by reserved section at $2, $1.50, and :$1. SQUARE DANCE Grover Rescue Squad will sponsor a square dance Satur day from 8 until 12 p.m. fea turing music by the Dixie Hill billies. lunioi Fast With Modem Math? Here's Non-Test Help For Parents “Mom, why doesn’t two plus two make four anymore?” Has this question, along with many others made you give a baffled answer about the new math to your child? Monday night, an informative course with 63 enrollees began intended to introduce parents of public school students — elemen- Since the course is to be purely informative, thbre will be no grading or testing. The major course contest will be the Set Theory, explainer’s set and operation dealing with them; logic is a mathematical statement; and the fundamental mathematical operations of ad dition, subtraction, multiplipa- tary and high school — to the tion, and division in number sys- concepts of modern mathematics ! terns other than the base ten. in order that they might help' The tuition fee for the course their children to understand their i is two dollars. Anyone interest- homework. The class will meet ed in this course in modern math Monday and ’Thursday night from 7 to 9 o’clock for a five- week peHod. This is an adult education, non-credit course offered the Gaston Community College under sponsorship of Kings Mountain City Schools, the Cleveland unit, i J- M. Stoll, Jr. should contact Tom R. Dudley at the Cleveland Branch of Gaston College in Shelby. A few ad ditional enrollees can be accom modated. Instructors for courses ara" R. M. Kennedy, David Wyatt, and UNITED FUND NEARING GOAL — Kings Mountain United Fund leaders heard report Monday night that the 1967 campaign for $16,500 is 73 percent complete with gifts now totaling SI 1,908. The "wrap-up meeting" will be held Monday ni ght. Carl F. Mauney, left above, chairman of the industrial division, reported pledges of $7,060 Monday. Goal of this division is $11,500. W. J. Keeter, chairman of Kings Mountain United Fund, at right, posts reports on a board. The two- week financial campaign for six causes is headed by W. Don Crawford. (Photo by Walter Vess Jr.) Carol Festival Event To Mark Kings Mountain Ynle Opening The Christmas season will of ficially open in Kings Mountain the evening of Friday, November 25th, with a Christmas Carol Festival expected to feature a 1,000 voice choir and attract thousands of No. 4 Township citizens. A visit by Santa Claus and turning on of Christmas lights will culminate a two-hour pro gram of carol singing from 6 until 8 p.m. “Keeping Christ in Christmas” will be the theme of the choral festival, Kings Mountain’s first. Under sponsorship of the Kings Mountain Merchants Association, the 'festival committee for the event includes .Mayor John Hen- _ ry Moss, Merchants Association j Day Carolinas Carrousel in PRINCESS — Judy Diane Mor rison, daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Morrison, will represent the city in the Thanksgiving President Charles Dixon and A1 len Jolley as co-chairmen Other members of the steering com mittee include reprc.scntative.s of the city, retailers, and church and choral groups. Mr. Jolley, minister of music at Fir-st Baptist church, will di rect the choral program which invites participation of all church groups in No. 4 Township. The singers will perform and lead community-type singiog of fa miliar Carols from a platform in the new parking area of South Battleground Avenue. In addition, groups of singers will perform in special ensembles and solo numbers. Church choir directors are in vited to contact Mr. Jolley. If clibir members own robes, they are invited to wear them Members of the committee on downtown decorations include Elmore Alexander, Jim Yarbro, John Cheshire and Charles Dix on. A trophy will be awai’ded to the reta'il store having the best- decxirated store window. Avery Murray is public rela Charlotte. Judy Morrison KMHS Princess Miss Judy Diane Morrison, Kings Mountain high school sen ior, has been, chosen a Princess in the ‘‘2()th Anniversary^’ Caro linas' Carrousel Parade on No vember 23rd and 24th in Char lotte. Miss Morrison is the 17-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K E. Red Morrison of Kings Moun tain. She is 5 feet 5 inches tall, with blue eyes and blond hair. She will go to Charlotte Wed nesday, November 23rd to at tend the Royal Society Knights of Carrousel Coronation Ball that evening at the Coliseum where the new Carrousel Queen XX, Miss Kit Walters, will be crowm- ed. Miss Morrison will be one of 35 Prlnces.scs* vicing for the Queen’s Crown for 1967, “Wonderful Wundeiworld” is the theme for the 1966 Caro- tions chairman for tlie festival. I Unas' Carrousel. The Carrousel City crews will handle special is the Carolinas’ oldest, contipu- outdoor effects for the program, ous festival and the nation’s Steering committees for the largest civic Thanksgiving Day festival outlined plans (for the, event. Christmas opening Monday night, j Joe Hullendei ils Finalist {For Scholarship I Three Morehefed schola'r nom- j ine*^ have been named finalists in Cleveland County among a compeiitive field of 26 high school .seniors, it is announced today by L. Lyndon. Hobbs, ! chairman of the local John Mot- i-ley selection committee. I The finalists are: Joseph Ar- ' I thui- llullender Jr. of Kings I Mountain High School, son of I Airs. Rachel Lenora Hullender, : ! 113 Mcinnis Street, Kings Moun- 'tain; John David Fisher Jr., of Isiielby High School, son oif Mr. , and Mis. John David Fisher of I‘>9.1 Blanton Dr., Shelby; and ^ William Bryant Wilder Jr., of ' Shelby High, son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 WiHi im Bryant Wilder of 1332 K ngs Circle, .Shelby. I I c 1 Lee Royster, son of Mr. I iiid drs. Elijah A Royster of j Role 2, Lawndale, and a senior ^at Burns-Fallston High School, I was named alternate. I Tlie three finalists will conti- I riup in district competition in I Hickory in J-anuary for scholar- : ships which provide fully paid I tuition and expenses for a four- jyear term at The University of North Carolina. At the beginning of the 1967 school year at UNC, around 500 Morehead scholars wijl be stu- (Conllnued On Page Six) Wiap-Up Meet MdndayTLe(aderi; Predict Success Kings Mountain’s 1967 United Fund campaign was 73 percent complete Monday as volunteers reported $11,908 of $16,500 in pledges after a week’s work. Final week of the financial campaign for six causes ends Monday night when leaders meet at City Hall courtroom for a “wrap-up meeting”. Two Kings Mountain industrial firms — Carolina Throwing Company and Phenix Plant of Burlington Industries were 100 percent participants, according to Industrial Chairman Carl F. Mauney who reported $7,060 of a goal of $11,500. In break-downs reported by di visions, two committees had al ready attained their goals; John Cheshire, Jr., chairman of ad vance gifts, reporting $2,080 in pledges and Mayor John Moss, chairman of public works com mittee, reporting pledges of $400. Other groups reporting were: Commercial, Bill H. Brown chair man, $1,470 of a goal of $2,000; Glenn Brookshire and Myers Hambright, school co-chairmen, $718 of a $900 goal; Professional, Mrs P. G. Padgett and Mrs. Ray Holmes, co-chairmen, $105 of a $1,000 goal; and Elmore Alex ander, correspondence, $75 of a $1,500 goal. “We’ll make it”, said financial chairman W. Don Crawford. United Fund Chairman W. J. Keeter added, A lot of enthusi asm has shown that aflr«go(d ’ will be obtained this weekf Somif' areas have not reported but we anticipate they wll be reported at the final meeting of workers on Monday. We can be proud of this report by the many vokm- ^ teens who prove that our citizens'"^' live on the slogan, “better com munity living through imited giving.” ANTI-LITTER CAMPAIGN Girl Scout Cadette Troop 4 has begun an anti-litter cam paign and will begin their pro ject by cleaning up city stadi um Saturday from 10 until 12 noon. Mrs. Ray Holmes Is troop leader for the trOop sponsored by First Presbyterian cliurch. TO MEETING Bill Plonk, King.s Mountain dairy farmer, attended the an nual meeting of the N. C. Farm Bureau Federation Sunday through Wednesday in Char lotte. He was among five of ficial . voting representatives from the Cleveland County Farm Bureau. Wreck Victims Are Improving Kings Mountain police are continuing their investigation of the November 9 traffic accident which claimed the life of 11-year old Eddie Pinson of Route 1, Gro ver. Tlie youth died at 7:00 Wed nesday night after receiving in juries in the accident at the in- ' tersection of East King and Car penter Streets between his mother’s 1961 Ford station wagon and two truck.s. Police reports indicate that Mr.s. Pinson was traveling north on Carpenter and pulled into the path of a 1958 Mack truck, driv en' east, by Wil.son Henry Sut ton of Sharon, S.,C., which pack- knifed and knocked the car in to a west-bound 1966 Dodge truck driven by Jame Powell of Lawn dale. The car was a total loss. Still hospitalized but not in seri ous condition are Mrs. Pinson, Tim Pinson, age four, and Ange- lee Pinson, age seven. The boy is in a Charlotte hospital. Another child, Christine Pinson, age eight was treated and re leased from Kings Mountain Hos pital. Police reports indicated that Mrs. Pinson did not have a driv er’s license, however, no arrests thave^een filed, pending further ^tK^elugalion. Banldng-Stock Seminat Set Kings Mountain Woman’s Club will sponsor a seminar on the functions of banking and stock transactions on November 29 at the club. Elmore Alexader, vice-presi dent of First Union National Bank’s Kings Mountain office, will discuss various functions and services of banks, while Mrs. Devere Smith, sales repre sentative of the Charlotte office of Reynolds & Company, will dis cuss stock transactions. Mr. Alexander will give brief outlines on the history of bank ing, trust functions, clearing house operations, relations of the Federal Reserve system to the nation’s banking system, and the varying roles of national and state-charged banks. Mrs. Smith will discuss the meaning of the Dow-Jones aver ages, bear market and their dura tions, Wall Streets misepneep- tions, what is required to be one of the wealthiest persons in Wall Street,and who buys stocks every one wants to sell. Both discussions will be fol lowed by question-answer pe riods. White Fnneral Thumday At 3:30 Funeral services for Robert Campbell White, 54, of Grover, will be held Thursday' a'fternoon at 3:30 at First Baptist church of Grover. Mr. White, son of Haskell Howard White, of Kings Moun tain, died at 1:30 Tuesday after noon at Cherokee County hos pital. He had suffered from a heart ailment for several years. Surviving, in additlwi to his father, are his wife, Lena Ran dall White, a son Robert K. White, of Grover, two brothers, Howard White, Forest City, and James White, Weishington, D. C., and four sisters, Mrs. Isabel Blackwell Mrs. Faye ShiUinglaw and Mrs. Nell Turner all of Blacksburg, S. C., and Mrs. Edith Turner, of Gastonia. A grandson also survives. The final rites wiH b* ducted by Rev. J. G. Brawley i Rev. Fred Crisp. Burial n in Antioch ‘Baptist churdh tery, near Grover. . i'-'i