Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
kCity Limits 8,256
The Greater Slags Mountain figure is derived from the
special United States Bureau ol the Census report o
January 1996. and includes the 14,990 population o
Number 4 Township, and the remaining (.114 Iron
Number $ Township, In Cleveland County and Crowder'
Mountain Township in Gaston County.
Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 25, 1967 Seventy-Eignth Year
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Pages
Today
VOL 78 No. 21
PRICE TEN CENTS
Commander Davis
Will Speak Here
SPEAKER — Robert M. (Bob)
Doris, commander of the North
Carolina Department of the
American Legion, will speak at
Memorial Day services here
Sunday at 2:30 pm. in Me
morial Park of Mountain Best
cemetery.
Hospital Stall
Honors Anthony
Dr. J. E. Anthony, recently re
tired Kings Mountain physician,
was honored by the Kings Moun
tain hospital trustees, the medi
cal staff and personnel at a
luncheon Monday at the hospital
lunchroom.
Dr. Anthony recently completed
more than 55 years sis a medical
doctor, his full practice spent in
Kings Mountain.
Announcement was made at
the luncheon that the cardiac
monitor and resuscitator system
the hospital, soon to be in
^Phlled, will be dedicated to Dr.
Anthony. '
The hospital trustees, medical
staff and personnel, in paying
honor to Dr. Anthony, said:
“Your decision to retire from
active medical practice after
more than 55 years service to
your community has naturally
come as an unpleasant shock to
this community, which for such
a long time has considered you
one of their major institutions.
“Surely, you have more than
earned your rest from an unus
ually long and dedicated medi
cal career. Yet, were the decision
for your retirement left to those
whom you have, for these long
years dedicated a life of service,
they doubtless would deny it for
they have long since learned to
think of you as not only indis
pensable but omnipresent.
"We, your friends and associ
ates, now remind you that we
join all the others in this com
munity in an expression of the
love and respect which we hold
for you. We extend to you out
sincere thanks for the friendly
and helpful medical association
you have afforded us. We are
truly grateful we have been per
mitted to bask in the reflected
prestige which has come through
you to oUr medical profession.
"As a small token of the greal
Esteem in which you are held by
■the hospital and the Staff, the
cardiac monitor and resuscitatoi
system, soon to be installed in
the Kings Mountain Hospital
will be dedicated to you.
"We pray that the future will
hold (or you long life, health and
happiness.
SERMON TOPIC
Dr. Paul Au6ley will use the
sermon topic, "Memorial Day”,
at Sunday worship services at
11 o’clock at First Presbyterian
church.
Memorial Da;
Rites Sunday
At 2:30 pjn.
Robert M. (Bob) Davis, com
mander of the North Carolina
Department of the American Lc
gion, will make the principal ad
dress at third annual Memorial
Day services Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
in Memorial Park of Mountain
Rest cemetery.
The services are under spon
sorship of the Kings Mountain
VFW and American Legion posts,
the American Legion Auxiliary,
Kings Mountain Ministerial As
sociation and the City of Kings
Mountain.
A prelude of music by the
Kings Mountain high school band,
■under direction of Joe C. Hedden,
will open the program. Mayor
John Henry Moss will give the
welcome and Rev. Clyde Good
son, president of the Kings
Mountain Ministerial Association,
will give the invocation. The
audience will observe a period
of silence in memory of those
deceased after which members
of the VFW Post 9811, Frank B.
Glass Post, will lead the pledge
to the American flag.
TRAFFIC DIRECTIONS
Citizens attending the Sun
day afternoon Memorial Day
service are asked to use the
Suber Gate on Gold street. All
gates will be open to walking
traffic but only the Gold street
entrance will be open for ve
hicles to enter. Supt. Ken Jen
kins and city policemen will
direct traffic.
Carl V. Weisener, commander
ef Otis Df Green Post 155, Am
erican Legion, will Introduce
special guests and present the
speaker. Rev. R. L. Garvin, pas
tor of Mount Zion Baptist church,
will pronounce the benediction. A
firing salute and playing of taps
will conclude the service.
Honor guests will be Gold Star
families and parents of deceased
veterans interred in Memorial
Park of the cemetery and fami
lies of those now serving in the
Armed Forces.
Mr. Davis, a Salisbury attor
ney, is a native of China Grove.
He received his law degree from
Wake Forest college and has
practiced law since 1950. In 1954
he was elected judge of Rowan
County Recorder’s Court, from
1956-63 he served as chairman of
the Rowan County Democratic
Party and in 1958 was elected
state president of North Carolina
Young Democrats. In 1964 he was
a candidate for Congress from
the Ninth Congressional District.
A Mason and Shriner, he is a
trustee and Sunday School teach
er at First Baptist church of
Salisbury. He served as Depart
ment Judge Advocate for two
terms and has held numerous Le
gion posts on local, district and
state levels.
Annual Pooov Day
Set For Saturday
Annual Poppy Day is Satur
day and the American Legion
Post 155 Auxiliary is sponsor
ing the sale of poppies on
downtown streets.
All sales from poppies bene
fit disabled veterans and Mrs.
Paul Mauney is chairman of
the street sale.
Mrs. John Moss is incoming
president of the auxiliary which
will install new officers on
June 1.
Lawyers To Discuss Annexation
Mattel As lone 30 Deadline Nears
By KABT1N HARMON
These were statements Wednes
day of key individuals in the ef
fort of East Kings Mountain dti
aens, some of them citizens of
Kings Mountain but not of the
Kings Mountain school district,
who seek annexation to the
Kings Mountain school district:
Hunter Huss, superintendent
of Gaston county schools: -“My
board has turned the matter
over to its attorney (Grady
Stott), who, I understand is to
confer with the lawyer for the
Kast Kings Mountain citizens, in
Wm effort to determine what can
be done. We await our attorney's
answer.”
Mr. Stott: ‘‘Nothing has been
done. I am trying to get together
with Henry Whitesides to work
M Vm matter. V* Casts* coun
ty board has given me full in
formation on the problem and I
have driven over the East Kings
Mountain area.”
Mr. Whitesides, attorney for
the East Kings Mountain peti
tioners: “Nothing has happened.
I await action from the Gaston
board." Informed of Mr. Stott’s
statement, Mr. Whitesides said
he didn’t realize a conference was
desired or needed but added, “I’ll
get in touch with Mr. Stott."
During the school year now
ending,, children of 16 families at
tended Kings Mountain district
schools under Superior Court or
der, which expires with the end
of the school year.
Supt Hues said he had no
knowledge in 40 yean of school
administration of a school dis
(Continued on Pago Wight)
JAMES B. GARLAND
JOSEPH B. ALALA, JR.
ROBERT B. BRADLEY
CHARLES GRAY UI
TOM D. EFIRD
Garland & Alala
To Open Here
Garland and Alala, a Gastonia
law firm, will open a Kings
Mountain office about June 1.
Robert B. Bradley, a partner in
the firm, will be In charge of the
Kings Mountain office, which
will be located in the Fulton
building on Cherokee street.
The quarters, most recently oc
cupied by City Heating company,
are in process of renovation.
The firm is a general law firm,
handling tax work, estate plan
iContinued on Pape Eight)
Alex Owens Defeats Mrs. Bunch
Union Wins
Lithium Vote
By 83 to 60
Production and maintenance
employees of Lithium Corpora
tion of America, Inc., voted last
Thursday in an election super
vised by National Labor Rela
tions board representatives to
become members of a local union
of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers, International union.
All but two of the 145 eligible
employees voted 83-60 in favor
of the local union. This was the
fourth attempt to organize the
nearby Lithium Corporation
plant, but the first attempt by
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Work
ers.
Although previous organization
attempts by other onions have
been unsuccessful, the most re
cent by the AFL-CIO Steelwork
ers, the Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers were successful in win
ning a representation election at
Lithium’s St. Louis Park plant,
Minneapolis, Minn., several years
ago.
The next step, apparently, is
for the union to ask the Nation
al Labor Relations Board to cer
tify it as the bargaining a>gent
for the production and mainte
nance workers.
An official of the Lithium Cor
poration said he was studying
the election results, but declined
further comment at this time.
Assembly Ratines
Two Local Bills
Jury trials will no longer be
conducted by Cleveland County
Recorders Court and Cleveland
County’s board of education will
henceforth be elected, as a result
of ratification of General As*
sembly bills.
Defendants desiring jury trials
will be required to appeal to Su
perior Court.
Under terms of the board of
education bill, members will be
elected to staggered terms of
four years.
Cleveland County’s board of
education has been appointed by
the General Assembly, which in
practice has ratified the nomin
ations of voters in Democratic
primaries.
Local News
Bulletins
HOSPITALIZED
Bill Moss, owner of Moss
Electric Company, is a patient
in Charlotte Memorial hospital
where he was admitted Tues
day for treatment of a kidney
condition.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday
totaled $227, including $125
from on-street meters, $84 in
fines, and $18 from off-street
meters.
HOMECOMING DAY
Annual Homecoming Day
services will be held June 11 th
at Penley's Chapel Methodist
church on Cherryville road,
Rev. W. L. Huffstetler, pastor,
announces. Sunday School is at
10 a.m. followed by morning
worship service at 11 and picnic
lunch at noon. An afternoon
song service will begin at 1:30
20 To Receive
Diplomas Monday
SPEAKER — Dr. Paul Ausley,
pastor of First Presbyterian
church, will deliver the bac
calaureate sermon Sunday
night as commencement exer
cises begin for 200 graduating
seniors. Both the Sunday serv
ice and finals exercises on
Monday will be held in the
new gymnasium of the high
school.
GRADUATE — Rev. Donald
Wells McSwain has graduated
from Southeastern Seminary
where he received the bachelor
of divinity degree.
McSwain Wins
BD Degzee
Rev. Donald Wells McSwain of
Shelby, grandson of Mrs. Whit
ney Wells of Kings Mountain
and the late Mr. Wells, received
his Bachelor of Divinity degree
in commencement exercises May
19 from Southeastern Baptist
Seminary.
Wells is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Woodrow McSwain of Nor
folk, Va., formerly of Shelby.
Mrs. McSwain is the former Nell
Wells of Kings Mountain.
Rev. Mr. McSwain, pastor of
Bell’s Baptist church of Apex, is
a graduate of Shelby high school,
Gardner-Webb college and Lime
stone college. He has served as
pastor of Sharon Baptist church
of Sharon, S. C. Mrs. McSwain
is the former Rachel Sisk of
Shelby. The McSwains are par
ents of two children.
A lieutenant in the National
Guard, Rev. McSwain serves as
chaplain.
Clean-Up Committees Are Named;
Town Meeting Scheduled Inne 1
Kings Mountain’s city - wide
beautification project is in full
swing with a kick-off meeting of
citizens set Thursday, June 1,
at 8 p.m. in the courtroom of
City Hall.
Mrs. E. W. Griffin and Clayvon
Kelly, spokesmen for the steer
ing committee, said the town
meeting is open to all citizens
who want to present their “prob
lems or suggestions” in the
clean-up effort.
The Junior Woman's chib is
promoting the gale of covered
garbage cans which range in
price from $1.99 to $2.29 and
which can be purchased locally
in grocery and hardware stores.
Committees have been appoint
ed in the five wards of the city
system and an uptown committee
has been named to include the
area from the ball park in East
Kings Mountain to the Southern
Bell Telephone office in West
Kings Mountain, from the Bus
Terminal in the north section of
the city to A & P on Battle
ground in the Southern section
of the city. Milton Singletary will
serve as chairman with Miss
Helen Hay, Glee E. Bridges and
John L. McGill assisting.
Ward 2-A chairman is Mrs.
Haywood E. Lynch assisted by
James Adams, Boyce Gault and
Mrs. Paul Neisler, Jr. Ward 2-B
chairman is Mrs. Darrell Coble,
assisted by James Crawford, Mrs.
Lawrence Logan and Mrs. Paul
Ham. Ward 3-A chairman is Av
ery Murray, assisted by Rev.
Luckadoo, co - chairman, Mrs.
Charles Mauney and Mr. Tucker.
(Continued on Page Sight)
Dr. Ausley's
Baccalaureate
Sermon Sunday
Commencement exercises for
the Kings Mountain high school
200-member Class of 1967 will
begin on Sunday and culminate
on Monday with awarding of
diplomas.
'Both the baccalaureate pro
gram on Sunday evening and
graduation exercises on Monday
evening will be held at eight
o’clock in the now high school
gymnasium.
Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor of First
Presbyterian church, will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon on
Sunday. He will use the sermon
topic, “Learning To See”. Other
Kings Mountain ministers partici
pating in the, service will be Rev.
David Castor, who will give the
invocation; Rev. James Wilder,
who will read the scripture; Rev.
Robert Haden, who will introduce
the speaker; and Rev. Clyde
Goodson who will pronounce the
benediction.
The Kings Mountain high
school Chorus, under direction of
Mrs. J. N. McClure and Mrs. Ben
T. Goforth, will sing the anthem,
“Cantate Domino”.
At commencement exercises on
Monday night Thomas Frank
Goforth will give the invocation,
Furman Bugene Gladden, Jr. will
.give the welcome, and Edith Jo
'Bridges will pronounce' the bene
diction. Principal Glenn Brook
shire will present diplomas and
George H. Mauney, chairman of
the Kings Mountain board of ed
ucation, will present awards.
The high school Chorus will
sing, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
i
Auxiliary Water
Effort Landed
Kings Mountain was commend
ed Wednesday by officials of the
state Office of Civilian Defense
on its handling of the water
shortage problem.
Inspecting the auxiliary sup
ply system as well as the two
city resevoirs were John T. Davis,
engineer, and James F. Buffaloe,
welfare office, of the OCD.
The city borrowed 16,000 feet
of eight-inch pipe from the army
depot at Anniston, Ala., for its
emergency .tapping of Dairy
branch and Canterbury creek.
The visiting officials said the 30
miles of pipe at Anniston are
now on loan throughout the dry
Southeast.
Meantime, the auxiliary supply
streams and streams serving the
York Road and Davidson Lake
resevoirs have much increased
flow from the weekend rains.
Public Works Superintendent
Grady Yelton reported, The York
Road resevoir water level is go
ing up, the Davidson level down.
We’re pumping from the David
son resevoir.”
Infant's Rites
Are Conducted
Graveside services for the in
fant son of James and Frances
Harvey Berryhill were held Wed
nesday afternoon from Bessemer
City Memorial cemetery with the |
Rev. R. C. Franks officiating.
The child died Tuesday night
in the Kings Mountain hospital.
Other survivors include a sis
ter and three brothers, all of the
home; the maternal grandmother,
Mrs. Blanche Harvey; and the
paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ger
trude Berryhill, both of Bessemer
City.
WINNER — Alex D. Owens won
a six-year term on the Kings
Mountain board of education
when he defeated Mrs. Kelly
Bunch in a run-off election.
76 Citizens
Are Registered
By MARTIN HARMON
Tempo of campaigning for and
against legal sale of alcoholic
ijeverages via beer//wine sale for
off-premises consumption and es
tablishment of ABC stores in
Kings Mountain increased this
week with the opening of a 12
fay registration period Monday.
Registration activity was indi
cative, with 76 new voters
registered by time of the
Herald’s Wednesday afternoon
'heck.
More than 3000 names were al
ready on the books. With esti
mated 100 percent potential at
1000, registration activity is ex
pected to be brisk throughout the
period ending June 3.
The anti-legal sale group (Citi
zens Opposed to the Sale of Al
coholic Beverages) was vocative
and active, continuing it* house
to-house survey and, answering
the pro-legal-sale group (Citizens
Committee for Legal Control of
(he Sale of Alcoholic Beverages)
with its downtown information
center with a trailer with red
letters emblazoned ‘‘INFORMA
TION — LET’S VOTE DRV".
'Grace Methodist church board
of stewards voted to place a
wrecked car in the church park
ing lot with a sign reading
“VOTE DRY”.
Meantime, both pro’s and con’s
were smarting under mutual
charges of rich campaign funds.
The facts on funds to date—
from the treasurers of each—is
that neither group is as yet cash
rich.
The antiigroup was pleased at
the Tuesday result in Cabarrus
County which voted against legal
sale by nearly 2 to 1 in a record
vote. The pro-group acknowledged
the Cabarrus result indicated
their uphill fight is perhaps a
steeper grade than initially
thought.
Voting day is June 13.
Welcome Station
Here On 1*85
One ol four Welcome Stations
authorized by the General As
sembly, will be located at the
1-85 rest area between NC 161
and 261.
Announcement came Irom C.
Rush Hamrick, Jr., president of
the Shelby Chamber of Com
merce, on information from Bill
Hensley, assistant director of the
State Department of Conserva
tion in charge of travel.
It is anticipated a $50,000 struc
ture will be erected for a tourist
information center.
Four of the stations have been
authorized, with another to be
erected at the 1-85 Virginia bor
der, and at the Virginia border
of 1-95. 1-95 will get another at
the South Carolina border when
the link is completed.
LUTHERAN TOPIC
Rev. Charles Easley’s sermon
topic at the Sunday morning
worship service Sunday at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran church
will be “The Pursuit of Pleas
ure.”
Owens Elected
School Trustee
489 To 383
Alex D. Owens, farmer and
landscaper, won a seat on the
Kings Mountain district board of
education, as he defeated Mrs.
Kelly Bunch in Tuesday's run-off
489 to 383.
Mrs. Bunch had carried four
of the eight voting precincts in
the May 9 voting, when Bill
Babb was eliminated. Mrs. Bunch
had polled 506 votes, Mr. Owens,
who carried three precincts, 467,
and Mr. Babb 457.
Nearly 60 percent of the 1459
voters on May 9 voting returned
to the polls for the run-off. A
total of 872 persons voted and
all ballots were cast.
The unofficial returns became
official Wednesday morning as
the city board of commissioners
convened and certified the re
turns.
Mr. Owens will be administered
the oath of office at City Hall
courtroom at 10 o’clock Thurs
day morning and will succeed H.
O. (Toby) Williams, who did not
seek re-election. Judge J. Lee
Roberts will administer the oath.
On Tuesday Mr. Owens car
ried six of the eight precincts,
including all of the five in-city
wards and Park Grace. Mrs.
Bunch won Bethware, where Mr.
Babb had mopped up May 9, and
retained her strong support at
Grover.
Smith Wrote
Awaxd Winner
WBTV Charlotte received an
award Wednesday for a docu
mentary historical program writ
ten by Ed H. Smith of Kings
Mountain.
The program was "Signers for
Liberty”, televised last July 4
and featured the 56 signers of
the Declaration of Independence
and their fates.
Mr. Smith went to Charlotte
yesterday for the awards pres
entation. Representatives of the
Freedoms Foundation of Vallege
Forge presented the George
Washington honors Medal award
at a luncheon at the North Car
olina National Bank Building in
Charlotte.
Don McDaniel was producer
director and Dick Taylor was
narrator, the same team which
did the TV program of 1965 on
the Battle of Kings Mountain,
also written by Smith.
Competing for the honor were
• television networks, motion pic
ture companies, individual studios
and public relations departments
of industries, along with univer
sities.
Mr. Smith, Kings Mountain na
tive, is son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Smith. He writes for the
Herald an historical column,
“This Week in Tar Heel His
tory”, featured on the editorial
page. He is a director of the
Cleveland County Historical So
ciety and of the state literary
.and historical society.
Local Students
Place In Contest
David Keith Wilson was award
ed an honorable mention in chem
istry and Joseph Arthur Hullen
der, Jr. won an honorable men
tion in physics in North Carolina
High School Academic Contests
held recently at the University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Wilson and Hullender are stu
dents at Kings Mountain high
school.
A total of 7,164 students rep
resenting 108 North Carolina
high schools participated in the
contest designed to assist high
schools in the recognition and
encouragement of talented stu
dents. There were seven divisions
in the contest. First place win
ners received a merit tuition
scholarship at the University, re
newable annually for four years.
OFFICIAL RETURNS
Roard Of Education Run-Off Election May 23,1967
TRUSTEE —SCHOOL DISTRICT
Alex D. Owens_ •
Mrs. Kelly (Bernice) Bunch_
Total No. of Voters
I II
32*156
21 | 43
53 I 99
III IV
*37~j~57~T
Beth- Park
V Grover ware Grace Total
145 I 29
19
80 i 75
83 i 50
98~R6
489
56 1 64 I 225 I 104 ! 181 1 90
383
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