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VOL. 77 No. 49
Kings Mountain's Baliable Newspaper
Pages
Today
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, December 8, 1966
Seventy-Seventh Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Public Housing Hearing On Agenda
Property Is Sold
By Plonk Estate
Quality
Local News
Bulletins
IMPROVING
I. G. Patterson, Kings Moun
tain oil distri^tor, is recuper
ating at home -front-^an eye-
operatlonifor removal of a cat
aract Mr. Patterson recently
underwent” at ^ Charlotte hos
pital.
HAS OPERATION
Mrs. Campbell Phifer is re
ported recuperating well from
an eye operation for removal
of a cataract. She is expected
to be discharged from the
Charlotte hospital Friday.
AT CONFERENCE
B. N. Barnes, superintendent
of schools; is in Durham where
he is attending a conference of
North Carolina School Super
intendents. He is to return
Thursday night.
Parking Meters
On Six-Day Week
With majority of Kings
Mountain firms open all day
Wednesdays, Ralph G.*^Ware,
the parking meter officer, is
working a full day, too.
There will be no free Wed
nesday afternoon parking
through Christmas, and viola
tors-wjjil, be “invited”, by the
tfamiliat.,ired. ticket, tq. contri
bute 25 jlents to the city’s rec
reation fund.
Meter receipts for the week
ending Wednesday at noon
totaled $259.60, with $156.40
from on-street meters, $26.95
from off-street meters, and
$76.25 from 305 recipients of
those familiar red tickets.
JAYCEE$ REPAIRING TOYS FOR NEEDY — Kinjs Mountain Jaycees are busy repairing Christ
mas toys for children of needy families, on Operation Santa Claus effort sponsored by the
Greater Kings Mountain Ministerial Association. A collection depot for the toys has been set up
on E. Mountoin street across from the Woman's club. Citizens with toys to donate should de
posit them at the depot or telephone any Jaycee for pick-up service. Jaycees pictured above
working on the project are from left, (outside the building) Bill Allen, Bill Corrigan, Ken Rob
erts and Frank Hinson, Inside the building are from left, Shuford Peeler, Herman Greene, Gerald
Thomosson and Bill Grissom. (Photo for the Herald by Paul Lemmons).
Toys For Tots
Collection
Response Good
Toys for Tots, the Operation
Santa Claus project of the Kings
Mountain Jaycees, is in full
swing, according to Project Co-
Ch§ij£rn,eQ.^Bill Stpn^ and Mnrris
Putnam.
Members of the civic club are
on duty nightly from 6:30 until
9 p.m. at the toy depot across
from the Woman’s club to col
lect the toys from those who
wish to donate them. The gift
items are being repaired for
Christmas toys for children of
needy families.
The Greater Kings Mountain
Ministerial Association will de
liver the toys, along with staple
food items and warm clothing,
to a list of needy families they
are assefnbling. Funds from the
Empty Stocking benefit t h e
needy.
Kings Mountain Jaycees will
again offer Christmas trees for
sale for benefit of John Gamble
Memorial Football Stadium. AH
funds from the sale are earmark
ed for this project, say co-chair
men Gene Patterson and Bob
Herndon. The trees will be dis
played, beginning today, at the
vacant lot across from the Wo
man’s club on E. Mountain
street.
KIWANIS CLUB
Franklin Pridemoro, historian
at Kings Mountain National Mili
tary Park, will speak on ‘'Plan
ned Improvements for Kings
Mountain National Military
Park” at Thursday’s meeting of
the Kiwanis club at 6:45 p.m. at
the Woman’s club.
LODGE MEETING
Regular communic^ion of
Fairvicw Lodge 339 AF&A^ will
be held Monday night at 7:30 p.
m. at Masonic Hall, ecretary T.
D. Tindall announces
Fout>Choii
Cantata Sunday
The four choirs oif Kings Moun
tain Baptist church will present
a Christmas musical program
and candle-lighting service Sun
day evening at 6 p.m..
The choral groups will sing the
cantata. “Even Unto Bethlehem”,
by Harold Gwynne, with narra
tion by Mrs James M. Wilder.
The community is invited to
participate in the program said
Rev. James M. Wilder, pastor.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges church
music director will direct the
program. Choral leaders are
Mrs. Jack White, Miss Annie
Roberts Gene Austin and Mrs.
D. F. Hard
CoopeVs, Falls
And
Property Sold
Cooper’s, Inc.." officials are
purchasing the property now oc
cupied by the Kings Mountain
furniture firm and the adjacent
lot occupied by Ed Ftflls Used
Cars, Hal S. Plonk, spokesman
for the W. L. Plonk Estate, an
nounced this week.
Plonk also announced sale for
$6,000 of the adjacent building
occupied by Quality Sandwich
Shop to Quality’s owner, A. K.
Walker.
Purchase price of the Cooper’s
—Falls property is $33,500. The
property fronts approximately
130 feet on South Railroad ave.
and is 150 feet deep. The Coop
er’s property main building is 53
feet by 80. with an adjoining
warehouse of approximately 3000
square feet.
Cooper’s, Inc. acquired sev
eral years ago two lots form-
in the “iL” adjacent to the Joy
Theatre, the “L” fronting 45
feet on South Railroad and 60
feet on West Mountain.
Harold Coggins, general man
ager of Cooper’s, said the firm
has no immediate building ex
pansion plans.
The lot purchased by Mr.
Walker j^nts 17.75 pfi ,6<^h
'Ranroad, and is- rtIO feet. Tire
bufldinjf is 17.75 X 80 feet. ''
City Board
To Consider
BAZAAR SET
Bynum Chapel church
will
sponsor a bazaar and bake sale
Saturday beginning at 4 p.m.
at the church. Dinner will be
served beginning at 5:30 p.m.
SESSION MEETING
The Session of First Presby
terian church will meet Sun
day morning at 10:30 to re
ceive members of the Minis
ter’s Communicant Class and
to receive new mpmb(“r.s by let
ter of transfer, restatement or
profession of faith.
SERMON TOPIC
Dr. Paul Ausloys sermon
topic Sunday morning at the
11 o’clock worship service at
First Presbyterian, church will
be "The Heritage of Christ.”
INSTALLED
New deacons were in.stallcd
at First Presbyterian church
Sunday, including W. R. Gris
som, W. C. Ballew, R. W. Moss
and Charles Noisier.
Ml. Roark's
Rites Condnrted
Final riles for John L. Sullivan
Roark, 76, of Route 1, Grover,
were held Tuesday at 3 p.m. from
Mount Paran Baptist church of
Blacksburg S. C, interment fol
lowing in the church cemetery.
Mr. Roark died at 11:20 p.m.
Monday at Cherokee County hos
pital in Gaffney following a one-
day illness.
He was a son of the late Gi-eei)
and Emma Wilson Rorark.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Lula Moss Roark; a daughter,
.Mrs. Polly Ellis of Blacksburg,
S.C : a. brothr, H. D. Roark of
York, S. C.; a sister Mrs. John
Robinson of Gaffney) S. C.; and
four grandchildren.
Rev. Archie Chapman and Rev.
Raymond Dobbins officiated at
the final rites.
Bloodmobtte At
Giover Monday
The Red Cross bloodmobile
will return to Grover Monday
and donors will be processed from
10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Grover
Rescue Squad building.
“The need for blood is very
urgent”, said Kings Mountain
blood program chairman Tom
Burke, who invited citizens to
visit the blood collection unit.
Minette Mills of Grover will
head up the drive in Grover,
; working to maintain their 20
per cent industrial coverage, said
Mr. Burke.
Goal of the one-day collection
is 125 pints of blood.
David Baity
Vim Proiaotion
David J. Baity, Kings Mountain
native and son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. P. Baity, Sr., of Kings Moun
tain, has been promoted to the
position of city editor of the Gas
tonia Gazette.
Baity, 28, assumed his new
duties Thursday after a year as
county editor. He joined the Gas
tonia seven-day-a-week news
paper three years ago as a re
porter. He was previously e.ditor
of the Mount Holly News and
Stanley News and began his
newspaper career while in high
school on the staff of the Kings
Mountain Herald. He was for
several years associated with
the Herald.
Mrs. Baity is the former Bar
bara Ferguson of Gastonia. The
Baitys are parents of a son, Jon
athan (Bo) Baity, age 13 months.
Baity is a graduate of Kings
Mountain high school.
Go-Getteis Sign
395 Legionnaires
Legionnaires of American Le
gion Post 155 are conducting a
membership drive for 395 mem
bers for 1966 and 326 members
have been signed up by a team
of Go-Getters.
Go-Getters who are conducting
the campaign are Clinton Jolly,
Frank Blanton, Robert Wright,
Jay Powell, David Delevie, Gene
Gibson, Gene Wright, Bruce Mc
Daniel, John Gladden, Joe Mc
Daniel, J. T. McGinnis, Jim Ben
nett, Ben T. Goforth, Floyd Dov
er, Bob mith, Charles Dixon, Bob
Goforth and Carl Wilson.
CHAIRMAN — Rev. C. R. Good-
son, pastor of East Gold Street
Wesleyon Methodist church, is
chairman of the Greater Kings
Mountain Ministerial Associa
tion's Empty Stocldnc( fund
for the needy for the fifth year.
Empty Stocldng
Gifts At $344
Kings Mountain’s Empty Stoc
king ^und reached $344.95 t^iis
Week,*^ with two clubs corftribuT
ting mqiaes allocated for needy
|»rojectfc p
American Legion Post 155, as
previously announced, gave, a
check for $1W and will not hold
the annual Christmas party for
the underprivileged.
Kings Mountain Junior Wo
man’s club voted Monday night
to donate its Help-A Homo Pro
ject fund of $40 to the Empty
Stocking appeal.
Rev. C. R. Goodson, chairman
of the welfare project headed for
the fifth year by the Greater
Kings Mountain Ministerial As
sociation, said on-strcct collec
tions Friday and Saturday total
ed $119.95. He also acknowledged
a $5 gift from Joe McDaniel and
a $10 gift from Rippy Jewelry.
Ministers of the commuity are
manning an Empty Stocking
booth again this weekend
downtown streets for funds for
fuel, staple food items and
warm clothing to make Christ
mas brighter for many needy a-
rca families and to supply funds
to help the needy in a year-round
welfare project of the Greater
Ministerial Association.
..^The gifts will be distributed on
Christmas Eve by a Ministerial
Association committee.
Citizens with names of area
needy families sho-uld contact
local ministers who will in turn
give the names to the associa
tion’s welfare committee.
PHA Piogiam
The city commission is expect
ed to consider a resolution at its
regular December meeting Tues
day to call a public hearing on
question of seeking a federal
grant for a public housing devel
opment.
The meeting will be at 5:30
p.m.
Mayor John Henry Moss said
he anticipates a recommenda
tion for the hearing from the
city’s minority housing commit
tee, constituted several months
ago.
The minority housing commit- j
tee, of which Martin Harmon,'
Herald editor is chairman, has I
conferred with four architectural- I
engineering firms w'ith experi- j
ence in the public housing field, i
as well as with federal officials 1
from the Atlanta regional office j
of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
I .A public hearing on the ques
tion is first required step in the
process. Subsequently, the city
commission determines whether
it wishes to proceed with the
program, and, if, so, appoints a
Kings Mountain Public Housing
Authority. After organization and
incorporation, the local authority
makes application for the desir
ed number of units, based on a
survey already completed by the’
community planning division,
North Carolina Department of
Con.servation and Development.
The application is subject to
review as to number and need
by federal officials.
Mayor Moss said the public
housing matter is the principal
one on Tuesday’s agenda.
The commission will also re
ceive bids en • -pastoenger auto
for the fire chief.
Duke Coach Harp
Banquet
LIONS SPEAKER — Pictured
above is Duke University foot
ball Coach Tom Harp who will
be the principle speaker at the
annual Lions Club football
banquet Tuesday night at 7:00.
Collins' Rites
Sunday
Funeral rites for William, F.
Collins, Jr., 39, of Gastonia, for
merly of Kings Mountain, were
held Sunday at 3 p.m from Uni
ty Baptist tThurch of (^lastonia,
interment following in Kings
Mountain’s Mountain Rest.ceme
tery.
Mr. Collins died Friday at
12:15 in Kings Mountain hospital
following several years illness.
He was a native of Cleveland
County, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Collin#/, Sr. of Kings Moun
tain. He w4s la member of Unity
'Baptist chlurch and a former em-
ployee of Firestone Mills.
In addition to his parents, he
is survived by his wife, the for
mer Ruth Wright; one son Jim-
brbothers, S A. Collins of Kings
my Wright of Gastonia; four
Mountain, Clyde and Gene Col
lins of Arlington, Va. and Robert
Collins of Charlotte; and two
sisters, Mrs. Marvin Biddix of
Charlotte and Miss Mary Ellen
Collins of Kings Mountain.
Rev. W. F". Woodhall, Rev.
Mitfcheli Pruitt and Rev. W. T.
Luckadoo officiated at the final
rites.
luveniles In Law's Strong Ann
Refoie Victim Reports His Loss
SQUAD REPORT
Grover Rescue Squad answ
ered a total of 20 calls during
the month of Novembt'f and
traveled a total of l,9a8 mll^
ifor a total man hours of 659,
[SecreUry Phil Shousc reported.
MINISTERS MEE'HNG
Regular December metting
the Kings Mountain Minis-
flal Association will be held
pnday morning at 10 a.m. at
'itral Methodist thuich.
S.
V
Stores Remain Open
Til Nine Friday
Kings Mountain stores will
remain open again this Friday
night until 9 p.m. to accommo
date Christmas shoppers.
Beginning Thursday, Decem
ber 15, virtually all department
stores) jewelry stores and
Western Auto Store will be
open nightly until 9 p.m. and
continuing through December
23.
Stores will close at usual
Saturday time on Christmas
Eve,"It had been previously an
nounced that the merchants
will observe Monday, Decem
ber 26, as a holiday.
Three juveniles were in the
arms of the law 'for breaking
and entering and theft Wednes
day morning — before the theft
had been reported to police.
'The robbery was at the Kings
Mountain Country Club P)fO
shop during the night and the
three youtlw had admitted the
theft and some of the loot was
recovered Shelby police told
Kings Mountain officers, before
Clu{ Manager Tom Smart had
repots a robbery.
SeiEpant Earl Stroupe of the
Kings Mountain force, said he
was told the three youths were
the same ones apprehended on
fast order a 'few days bfefore
when a Shelby wOman saw th^
remove, her bag from her parity
ed car, cruised with Shelby po
licemen. and spotted the Juven
iles. The bag was reuovarad.
Though not before the report
(iom Victory Chevrolet Com
pany. Kings Mountain police ap
prehended two eight-year-old
white youths who went on
•- vandalis.n rampage last Fri-
(iay aftci-noon. The youths
u«ing a large rock alleged-
V broke windshileds and
windows in at deast eight
company - owned automobiles.
Damages was estimated at from
$250 to $300.
Wednesday morning. Officer
Stroupe said Shelby officen
found the three boys at the Shel
by Bus 'Terminal, began quizzing
them, and got their admlMloBe
to the Country Club theft, ggy.
en dozen goU balls were veoov-
ered Each had mi his persqgt-a.
bus ticket for Washington, D.
c*
Dr. Robinson
Hurt In Wreck
Dr. Sam Robinson Kings
Mountain surgeon, suffered a
broken foot and lacerations
about the eye last Thursday
a'fternoon in an auto accident
about three miles south of Kings
Mountain on the York Road.
Mrs. Robinfon, who was driv
ing the 1966 Oldsmobile con
vertible suffered painful leg
bruises but was otherwise un
hurt.
Dr. Robinson returned to his
home Wednesday afternoon,
Mrs. Robinson said the couple
was returning from York when
she inadvertently let the car slip
onto the right shoulder of the
road. She lost control of the car
and it slammed into a tree. The
car was heavily damaged.
Herald To Publish
On Tuesday* Dec. 20
■ 'The Kings .Mountain Herald
; will publish its Christmas ed-
I Jtlon a day early.
Newspaper will appear on
the newsstands Tuesday night,
December 20. instead of Wed
nesday night, December 21.
edition will include last-minute
gift suggestions, advertisng
and Christmas feature material
in addlton to news coverage.
Advertising deadline will at
$0 be gdVfiaced ft (Uy,
CHORAL SOCIETY
'The Cleveland County Choral
Societyiwm present the fourth
and final Christmas concert of
the season Tuesday night at 8
p.m. iA Charlotte’s Memorial
Methodist church.
Hans Borov
In Who's Who
Hans Stanislaus Borov of Kings
Mountain has been named to
"Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and fipl-
leges” at Western Carolina Col
lege, where he is a senior Ger
man major.
Students are chosen for this
honor on the basis of scholar
ship. character, leadership and
effective participation in various
phases of callege life.
Borov is president of the Ger
man club, president of Robert
son Dormitory chairman of the
Awards Comrriittee, director of
the language laboratory and a
member of the Men’s House
Government. He has been listed
on. the honor roll throughout his
-edllege career.
He is the son of Mrs. Klara
Borov of 303 Silver Street.
Lions Conducting
Fruit Cake Sale
Kings Mountain Lions club is
conducting its annual fruit cake
sale for benefit of the blind and
Team II headed by Sam Weir is
cijrrently leading the two teams.
The winning team of Lions
plus the three top men of the
losing team will be treated to a
steak dinner during the month
of January.
Sam Parker is captain of Team
I wliich includes these members:
Dixon Adams, C. P. Barry, John
Bedford, W. D. Bennett. Howard
Bryant, Wilson Crawford. Ben T.
Goforth, Carl Goforth, Bob Ha-
den, Martin Haimon, Ollie Har
ris, W. K. Mauney, Jr., George
Plonk, Fred Pritchard, John
Reaves, N. H. Reed, David Saun
ders, Gene Timms and Willie
Williams,
Lions To Honor
Mountaineer
(Mddeis Of '66 .
By CARY STEWART
Tom Harp, head football coach
at Duke University, will be the
principle speaker at the Kings
Mojntain Lions Club football
banquet Tuesday night at the
Woman’s Club.
The local Lions Club annually
honors the coaches and members
of the Kings Mountain high
school varsity grid squad.
The first ilions Club fete was
held in 1939 and the club, since
then, has brought big name
coaches to Kings Mountain 16
talk to KMHS gridders.
Harp, first year coach at Duke
University, broke even with a 5-
5 overall mark in 1966. Oddly
enough, KM’S Mountaineers had
that same record.
Before comihg to Duke, Harp
coached at Oornell of the Ivy
League for five years. Duxinjg
that span, CorneH teams posted
a 19-23-3 f-ecord. His Oomelt
teams Were noted for their strong
defense and powerfiig running.
Harp, a/lKl graduate of Mus
kingum College of New Concord,
Ohio, quarterbaekOd the Ohio
Conference champtonship (rtMta-
»i Muskfhgum ;n 1&49 and
'ollowihg 'gretftiaitlon, he was
named head coach at'Canollton,
Ohio, High School. ~ where hia
clubs compiled .a 20-6-1 cheegii
from 1951 through 1953.
In 1954, Harp moved to Mas
sillon, Ohio, High School -where
he .had an 18-2 mark in a two-
year span. His team Won the
Ohio State title in ISSIV and then
placed second in l^.v
From 1956 through l560. Harp
served as backfieldy coach artR
chief scout at West Point, as
sisting former Army Cjoach 'Elari
Biaik for the first three years.
In 1961, he was chosen to lead
Cornell’s football program. His
first Big Red team finished with
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Some Wanted X-Rays, But 604 Saw
Transco's Natural Gas Exhibit
A total of 604 Kings Mountain
area citizens visited the mobile
display unit of the Tianscontinen-
tal Gas Pipeline Corporation on
the unit’s one-day visit here Fri
day.
Not all who followed the “en
ter” arrow" stayed to view the ex
hibit. Several confused the Trans-
co trailer witti the county mobile
x-ray unit w hich visits Kings
Mountain periodically. Several
said, “I want to get my ex-ray ”
The x-ray unit was in Kings
Mountain Friday — set up across
the street.
' -Bill Stew man and Charles
Tausche of Transco hosts along
wdth Jerry Ross of the. City nat-
urral gas department were • less
than shocked,
“It happens all the time,” Tau
sche said. “In some places we get
'confused witli the blood collection'
trailers and the people come in
baring their arms, ready to sell
pints of blood for $25.00.”
'The Transco exhibit detailed
graphically the method of ob-
'Obtalqing natural gas from wells mile south of Kings Mountain on
>ia TiDiM «hii weU# w- York Kgad.
der the Gulf of .Mexico.
A, large lighted board showed
the routes of Transco transmis
sion lines from well-heads to
New York city and branch routes
into the Penn.sylvania coal fields.
Tausche said that one of the
most rapidly - growing uses for
natural gas is for air-condition
ing.
• Other items:
1) Already Transco’s mainline
boasts three 36-inch pipelines,
four in some areas, and with
four projected for the full route.
2) Storage of gas, to assure
sufficient supply in peak-usage
seasons, is accomplished by use
of peak-shaving storage tanks,
storage in dry wells, and gas
liqueraCtton. When 660 cubic feet
of natural gas is liquified, Tau-
'Sihei^aid, it can be stored in one
cubic feet of space.
The city natural gas system
has been distributing gas since
January 1955. tapping the Trans
co transmission line about one
Amiexafion
Meeting Held
Sixteen Linwood area families,
still fighting for the right of
their children to attwid Kings
Mountain school, mapped plans
for a special election Thursday
to annex their property to the
Kings Mountain school district.
Henry Whitesides of Gastoi^
attorney for the group of citl-
zens wh'o live in Gaston county
but in walking distance of ele
mentary schools in Cleveland,
said he would go to Raleigh be
fore Christmas to confer with
the N.C. Board of Education and
Attorney General Wade Bur-
ton on election procedure.
A court order has allowed tlu!
children of the petitioners to
continue attending Kings Moun
tain schools although they are
in the Chapel Grove district of
Gaston county
Whitesides said 'nrursday that
a special election wouM req\dt«
approval of both boards of ed-’
ucation Kings Mountain and
Gastonia, -and quesiona about
the area to be ivolved in the
special election should be left to
the departmwit of eduoatitm ai«H
the attorney general.
The families invcHved Hv^ in
East Kings Mountain ih (^ton'
County. (One side of Boyce at'
is in Cleveland, the other aide
in (Easton.)
Whitesides said he wbuld car^
ry with him to RaMgh a-nuHi
with a sketch of district; IteZi'
and geigraphical boiindsrlei.^
Kings Mountairi Schools
B. N. Barnes also
last week's meeting of
titioners, cited KannapoUs
Rocky Mount as two otligr-
school districts to
“with more than one coun^
Whitesides explained
boundaries should
compact and unffomu
to' use natural
as roads ”
He noted that rtuti
general will decide hew
ilies involved woald
school taxes. )
School taxes wocdil'l
higher in the Klin^
dl^rict, Supt. Bim
./
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