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r Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 8,256 rbU ttgun for OrMitw bitgi Mountcdn U d*riT«d iien U» 19SS Xlaga Mountala city dlractory ecnius. The city IbnlU liffuze ie fzen the United States census of 1965. Kings Mountain's Beliable Newspaper v Pages Today VOt. 77 No. 50 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, December 15, 1966 Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENir| City Acts To Avert Kings Mountain Water Shortage PHA Hearing 27 yk V WINS PROMOTION — C<q>tain Ronald David Kincaid recrat- ly won bis prtnnotion in the North Corolina Army National Guard. Captain Kincaid Whs Promotion The promotion of Ronald D. Kincaid from first lieutenant to the rank of Captain in the North Carolina Army National Guard was announced by Governor Moore. Kincaid was bopi in Bessemer_ City where he presently xesl^fs with his 'Wife and daughter 'at 202 W. Gaston Avenue. He chief engineer with Ideal Indus tries. Captain Kincaid graduated from Central high school in Kings M'Ciuntain in 1953 He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh in 1957 and attended the U.S. Army Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland in 1958. Captain Kincaid was commis sioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army-Reserve in May 1957. He served on active duty from February 1958 until August 19- 58. In Oqtober 1962, he joined the North Carolina Army National Guard with Company D, 105th Engineer Battalion in Kings Mountain. He served with that organization until September 19- 63 when he was reassigned to Company B, 105th Engineer Bat talion in Belmont. Captain Kincaid’s new assign ment is with Company D, 105th Engineer Battalion in ’ Kings Mountain. Buffalo Project Not News To Walker As W. K. Dickson, the cits^s consulting engineer, reviewed his 1954 recommendation that the city tap Buffalo Creek for a water supply. Commissioner T. J. (Tommy) Ellison grinned. He recalled the bitter fight of 1954 when he was on the losing side of a 3-2 vote, whereby the city voted to build the Davidson Lake resevoir. Commissioner O. O. Walker, contractor for the Davidson Lake project, interjected, “Hah! This same project (Buffalo Creek) was recommended in 1923!” I Annexation I To City Sought By Alexanders I The city commission has call- I ed a public hearing on question j of establishing a Public Housing I Authority for December 27 at City Hall courtroom. j The commission called the hearing after Martin Harmon, ' chairman of the mayor’s advis-. ory committee on minority hous ing told the board the committee • unanimously supported the es tablishment of a public housing authority. Mr. Harmon noted that the committee had studied the hous ing situation for several weeks, interviewing architectural - engi neering firms experienced in pub lic housing planning, conferring with federal and state officials, and visiting housing projects. “It was the Committee’s con clusion that much of Kings Mountain’s residential housing is sub standard and that a definite need exists,” Mr. Harmon told the commission. In another action the commis sion ordered ^ a public hearing, also for December 27, on a peti tion by Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Alexander for annexation to the ciW of a^,13.41 acre 'trapt adjoin- m§ th^ city at Henry strqjet.^ small portion of the tract is.<»in Cleveland County, majority, of it in Gaston. In other actions the commis- siori: 1) Authorized agreement with the Department of Conservation and Development Commission for planning work on public im provements, a capital improve ments long - term budget and a neighborhood analysis. 2) Authorized .re-surfacing of West Mountain street, from Rail road Avenue to Phifer Road. 3) Accepted low bid of Victory Chevrolet Company for purchase of a four-door sedan for use of Fire Chief Floyd Thornburg. The Victory bid was $2001.58. South- well Motor Company bid $2019.85. Bridges Named Lodge Master Bobby C. Bridges has been elected Master of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM for the coming year and will be installed, along with other officers, on December 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Masonic Hall. Other new officers include: H Dpnald Falls, Senior Warden; william E. Sellers,, Junior War den; Thomas D. 'nndall, secre tary; R. Blackwell Leonard, treasurer; Alex Denton Owens, Tyler; William C. Kelly, Senior Deacon; Jessie Morehead, Jun ior Deacon; Billy Hawkins, Sen ior Steward; Marvin R. Caveny, Junior Steward; and R. Howard Bridges; three-year trustee. (Con tinuing trustees will be B. M. Hayes and J. Ralph Harrison. Official coach will be William E- Sellers. The installation service will be led by Master R Howard Bridges. Board Approves $2^ Plan To Tap Buffalo Creelt MOUNTAINEER TROPHY WINNERS — Pictured above are Kings Mountain high school seniors who were presented trophies at the 27th annual Lions Club footboll banquet Tuesday night. Left to right are, Sandy Mouney, co>winner of the George Plonk Most Valuable Player Award; Tommy Finger, co-winner of the MVP Award; Duke Coach Tom Harp, guest speaker; Kenny Plonk, winner of the Fred Plonk Blocking Trophy; Chuck Gladden, winner of the John Gamble Scholastic Aword; and, Eddie Bridges, winner of the most improved player trophy. (Photo by Roddy Dotson). Mauney, Finger, Bridges, Joseph R. Smith Named Seaetary Of ^gs Mountain S & L Rim Ingredients Of Blue Deril Listed By ; Harp “When you play competitive sports you. do none a favor but yourself,” Tom Harp, Duke Blue Devil’s head football coach closed" his address at the 27th annual Lions club, football banquet Tues day night. Coach Harp said playing com petitive sports develops desire in the players to excell--to exceed their capacities. Outlinig his formula for “What Makes a Good Football Player”, Coach Harp, who became head coach at Duke last spring after coaching at Cornell and serving as assistant coach at the United States Military Academy, said, “Everybody knows we want a good player, who must also be a good student.” r He added there are five other traits in a football prospect Duke coaches seek. They are, he said: 1) Loyalty-"No man is suc cessful who is disloyal, in foot ball or anything else.” 2) Intelligence- Coach Harp decried the football factories where academics are ignored. 3) Toughness. 4) A sense of humor. 5) Desir^. He added that desire for ex cellence is not enough. “He must want to win.” Ji 1166 Gridmeli Bonoied; Two Share MVP Honoi By GARY STEWART A back and four linemen re ceived trophies at the annual , i-ions Club football banquet Tues-1 now in use, and the 300,000-gal : day night at the Woman’s Club. | Ion capacity storage bins at the I Guest speaker for the 27th an-; Deal Street filtration' plant. Prior to the 1954 construction Joseph Rivers Smith, of Char lotte, has been elected secretary- treasurer of Kings Mountain Sav ings & Loan Association, Presi dent J. R. Davis announced Tues day following action by the as sociation’s board of directors. Mr. Smith will succeed the late Ben H. Bridget^ on New Year’s Day. Mr. Smith, 32, Is a native,,of Jacksonville, Fla., and a gradu ate of the University of Florida. For the past several years he has been associated with Securi ty Life & Trust Company, and he has specialized In servicing mort- « age loan term insurance, a role rhich dictated a close relation ship with the savings and loan industry In his territory. A Lutheran, he is married and the father of two children. ’The Smiths expect to establish resi dence here as quickly as a home can be obtained. President Davis said the direc tors acted following recommen dation of the directors’ selection committee which Included Mr. Davis, ex officio, and Directors Boyce Gault, C. Glenn White and George Lewis, Jr. Mr. Daivis comjnented, "We feel Mr. Smith’s background of education and business experi ence qualify him well for the important administrative posi tion of secretary • treasurer of Kings Mountain Savings & Loan Association." ^ Kings Mountain Savings & bafVist topics Rev. James Wilder’s sermon topic, at the 11 o’clock service Sunday at Kings Mwntain Baptist church will be “The Eternal Christ.” At the 5:30 Vesper hour he will use the subject, "And On Earth Peace.” AT WARUCK'S — Lorry Ham rick has Joined the staff of C. E. Worlick Insurance Agency. Hamrick Joins Wailick Agency \ The appointment of Larry D. Hamrick as a member of the firm of C. E. Warlick Insurance Agency was announced this week by Mrs C. E. Warlick, president. Mr. Hamrick, for the past four years a district sales manager for Security Insurance Com panies, is a veteran of the Secur ity’ Companies, having held var ious managerial positions since joining a predecessor company in 1955. Most recetly he was district sales manager in Gastonia, com: ing to Gastonia two years ago from High Point where he serv ed the company in the same post. A native of Cleveland County, fHamrick, 35, is a son of Mrs. Harold Hamrick - oP Shelby and the late Mr. Hamrick. He gradu- {Continued On Eight) I nual Lions Club fete was Tom I Harp, head football coach at Duke University. i For the first time in history, the George Plonk Most Valuable Player Award was split. The four members of the Kings Moun tain high school coaching staff split in their voting for the MVP between center-linebacker Sandy Maunej and quarterback Tommy Finger. Head Coach Bill Bates brought ou the fact that both p eiformcd well on both offense and de fense. Finger, a 140-pound senior, quarterbacked the Mountaineers Rickey Stionpe Injured Friday Ricky Stroupe, two-year-old son of Kings Mountain Police Sergeant Earl .Stroupe, was in jured Friday afternoon when a taxi cab driven by Donald Wayne Burton backed over him. Young Stroupe reportedly ran behind the cab as it was attomp- .ting to turn around after letting out a passenger. No arrests were filed against Burton. Stroupe’s father who serves the City Police Dept, as desk sar- geant and also Clerk of Record er’s Court, received the call at the desk. Young Stroupe was rushed to -a'"Charlotte Hospital. He suffered two broken legs and a broken pelvis bone. Water Flowing From Gold Mine Reminds Oi '54 Water was flowitig out of the shaft of the old Cold Mine on York Road Wednosiiay afternoon at a rate of 4(K)-gallons per min ute for a downhill run to a stream feeding tlie city’s York Road resevoir. It reminded of the' dry. water- short summer of in.M, when the water which fiocTtied the mine and stopped mining operations years ago, augmented the city supply and enabled the city to weather the dry .summcT with no more rationing Ilian surec'asc of car-washing. Today, Kings Mountain’s wa ter supply is seriously low, through with winler’.s rains at hand, not dangerously or critic ally low, W. K. Dickson, the city.’s consulting engineer said Wednesday. However, Davidson Lake, the city’s auxiliary supply, is esti mated to contain no more than 13-15 million gallons. It’s supply has been and is being pumped into the main York Road rese- voir, also well below spillover point and estimated to contain about 50 million gallons. The city is now using up to 1,750,OCK) gallons daily and next summer will top two million gal lons. A’m of the city is u, ’.xgin j next summer with two fi'.Tt lakes fltid witli the Told Mine purup- j age (now bei ig logged) as a further re.serve, | Meantime, construction is al-1 ready underway on a two-mil- ^ lion gallon storage tank on Mc^-j Ginnis Street, due for putting in- i to service in February. This will j _ provide storage for 2,800,000 gal- i , Funeral rites for James Rybum Ions of filtered water, including' foreman with the the 500,000 gallon storage tank i Highway department for 46 years, were held Monday at 4 p.m. from First Baptist church. -Mr. Yarbro died Sunday at 7 a.m. in the Kings Mountain hos-, pital following several months’ illness. He was a native of Cleveland County, a son of the late Mr and Mrs. James A. Yarbro. A mem ber of P^irst Baptist church, he was a Kiwanian and a Mason. His pastor, Rev. Robert C. Mann, officiated at the final rites, and interment was in Moun tain Rest cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the former Blanche Wilson; one son, James Ryburn Yarbro, Jr.; of Kings Mountain, a grandson; and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Ryburn Yarbro, Jr. Also surviving are seven bro thers, Olin Yarbro and Woodrow Yarbro, both of Waco; Norris Yarbro and Fotch Yarbro of Burlington, Alvin Yarbro, Hay- jod Yarbro and Tom Yarbro, all of Kings Mountain; and four sis ters, Mrs. Leonard Beattie and Mrs. Herschel Wright, both of Kings Mountain, Mrs. John Wher ry of Charlotte and Mrs Nida Smith of Burlington. Active pallbearers were D. H. Allen. Nj M. Farr, James Leigh, Claude Lavender, W. M. Dixon, Kenneth Pruitt, Boyd Howell, and Ronald Farmer. PRESIDENT — Dr. Joseph Lee hos been elected presi^nt of the Medical Staff of Kings Mountain Hospital for the com ing year. Dr. Lee Heads Medical Staff Dr. Joseph Lee, member of the doctor’s staff of Hendricks-Dur- ham-Lee Clinic, has been elected president of the Medical Staff of Kings Mountain Hospital for the coming year. New officers were elected Mon day. Other officers will,include Dr. Sam Robinson, surgeont vice- president; and Dr. C'harles Moore, Grover* physician, secre tary-treasurer. Yarbro Rites Held Monday of the Davidson Lake, State Board of Health authorities and Engineer W. K. Dickson strongly recommended that the city tap Buffalo Creek, Kings Mountain’s only major source of supply. The alternative, both wrote, was a short-term resevoir in an area of poor supply and minimal water shed. The issue was a hot one poli tically during Mayor Glee Brid ges’ first adminstration The vote to take the minimal, short-term route was 3 to 2, Mayor Bridges voting to break a 2-2 tie, as then- Commissionor Gurney Grantham abstained on grounds ho owned a portion of the property the city would bo acquiring. Reminding the Moss Adminis- (Continued On Page Eight) Moss And Wyke To Talk Streets .Mayor John Henry Moss will confer Friday morning with W. W. Wyke, division highway engi neer, concerning in-city street improvements. Specifically, they will discuss use of the city’s $314,000 share of the $300 million state - wide road bond issue approved in 1966. Also to bo discussed will be a Kings Mountain loftg, - range thoroughfare plan whigh "Is scheduled for city commission consideration in January. City Eligible For Govemmait - Grant On Paijilif By MARTIN VUOMtm ; The city commission acted TtiOi' day night to avert a poteamJ water shortage by approvJsif^ liminary plans for and adc a $2,820,000 project that wOt utilize the waters of Buffalo Creek In consummating the the city is eligible for a feder^ grant which would supply percent of the cost of dahkS. nuiRr transmission lines, pump irfatidtf and land acreage. ; ‘ Preliminary application fm* tM . federal grant, adminifyeti^ through the Department ing and Urban Development, being completed Wedne W. K. Dickson, city engineer, and Chaite Traffic Planning AiModates, tin ban development ctmsidtaiH. * ' Mayor John- Henry Mc0s City Attorney Jack H. Whka wilx go to Atlanta Monday and wU file the preliminary applicMkiD 'Tuesday morning with tile At* lanta regional office. “ • Ehigineer Dickson outlRied tiid; preliminary plan to the dty eom* mission at Tuesday's regufiir meeting. He envisions ctavelopmenC iflCt the project in thfie or ly Ttfo stages.. • - 4«* The overall project would', iw dude two reseVolrs^9|>n]MMmcHiA bilhtm gallons of water. station at the site d£ the 'Site the lower dam, and a.^in^ water line capable of transmit* ting a minimum of ten mill^^ gallons of water daily into ti^* city system. ' *; Desired first stage is estimat^ to cost $1,670,000, inclnding danb; resevoir site of ^ acres, treat-* ment plant; 24-lnch transmissiml!; line, and pumping station. resevoir would impound 000,000 gallons of water. The w* cond stage would cost $1,150,00^ including building of and up-crea dam aita 1600-acre site to iiw . pound 10,700,000,000 gallons water. In the preliminary report, En^ gineer Dickson notes that severt^ side benefits or “bonuses” woulC accrue from the project inclut^ ing recreational use, baaed oiW approved controls; stream floWC control in order to prevent floodsj-' and dilution water for Any waste that might lite emptied into the creek. X Mr. Dickson noted that the watershed of Kings Mountain’r present water supply is only three square miles, whereas th6’ watershed of the titro new rese* voirs would be 64 square miles. The proposed dam sites woul^ be north of U. S. 74 near SUt4 Road 2033. ^ metes RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts show- ■ ed a large increase during the week ending Wednesday, re flecting increased shopping for Christmas gifts. Receipts toUl- ed $272.75, Including $159 from *' on street meters, $26.40 from ^ off-street meters, and $77JI5 In over-parki^ fines. ■ City (Hfidals - Defendanb DeRi Reynolds'Charges In Trailer Holiday, Bonuses In Store For Many Holidays for Kings Mountain industrial employees vary from three to six days, an incomplete survey of the city’s textile plants revealed Wednesday. Some firms will pay bonuses to employees based on length of service and others will give Christmas gifts. Sadie Cotton Mills"^in cease operations from 10 p.m. next Wednesday,, reopening at 6 a.m. on December 28th, • according to announcement -by George H, Houser. Mr. Houser said that \,- Loan Association was organized bonuses would be paid employ- in 1907. ees on a percentage basis based on length of service. Mauncy Hosiery Mills employ ees will take a six-day holiday from Thursday morning, Decem ber 22, until December 28th. General Manager Charles F. Mauney-.said bonuses will also be paid by the hosiery firm. Carolina Thorwlng Company will “curtail” some of its opera tions but will not close the full six days, according to Mr. Mau- ney. Craftspun Yarns will close next Friday, reopening January 2. This firm pays bonuses to em- day morning at 7 a.m.. Decern ber 27. Gifts will be presented to employees. Park Yarn Mill will suspend operations on next Friday morn ing, December 23, reopening on j December 27, according to Gen- from December 26-31 and will eral Manager John C. Smathers. give bonuses to employees b'as- Emiiloyees of the City of Kings based on length of service. Employees of Mass., Mo., Inc., will take a three-day holiday, December 24-26. resuming opera tions on December 27th. Phenix Plant of Burlington Mills will close Christmas week ed on length of service with the plant Mountain will take a holiday on Christma.s Eve, Christmas Day Defendants in the civil litiga tion whereby Warren Reynolds seeks a writ of mandamus to force the city to provide his trai ler parkers with certain city utilitkf! have filed an answer in Cleveland Superior Court deny ing the charges. Answer was filed in behalf of the defehants’^t Mayor John Hen ry Moss, the five city commi^ sioners, and Electrical Superlm tendant Hunter Allen) by Davis & Whiite and A. A. Powell, de fendants’ attorneys. After denying the allegations, the answer further^points to the city ordinance regulating trailers and charges that “plaintiff at- Bonnie Cotton Mills will sus-! and on December 26. An employ- ! tempted to move trailers into a pend operations on December 22, reopening on December 28th. Lambeth Rope (Corporation will close at 7 a.m. on Friday, De- ployees on a percentage basis cember 23, reopening on Tues-las a Christinas bonus. ee with six month’s service will' trailer park without first secur receive a half-week’s pay and ■ ing approval of the lots located employees with over six month’s: in said park in aqcordance with service receive a week’s wages I the regulations.” ^ ' I Further, deXendants soy th^ are ready, wHling and able to supply electrical power and aer- ; ^th the traUer ordinance, add- .* ing that the Qty of Kings Moun- tain has made “repeated requeeta f t re^lS^ lots loca^ In said parlTto at - puwic health,' safety and welfare of the , rounding neighborhood.” trailers within the trailer regulatiolia. aa a^ mA" tteUndanta ask ‘ 1) that the wrtt etf request he, Mr. Reyi ply with 3) that with the and 4) foi specified IMUuianHis 3) that to cem- taxed sr un-,