1
Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits 8,256
The Greater Xing* Mountain figure U derived from the
special United States Bureau oi the Census report o
January 1B6S. and includes the 14.990 population o
Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 iron
Number 9 Township, In Cleveland County and Crowder'
Mountain Township in Gaston County.
VOL 78 No. 24
Established 1889
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
16
Pages
Today
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, June 15, 1967
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Citizens Vote “No” In ABC, Beer, Wine Election
‘Drys’ ‘Wets’ Meet Wednesday
MBS. GAIL KIRCUS McKEE
MAlUAN PLONK
DR. MICHAEL THOMAS McKEE
DAVID GARY COLLINS
IP
FourAreaStudents
Receive Degrees
Dr. McKee
Among Graduates
To Win Diploma
Four additional Kings Moun
tain area students have received
degrees in cpllege commencement
exercises.
Dr, Michael Thomas McKee,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. McKee,
received the degree of Doctor of
Dental Surgery from the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. McKee completed his pre
dental studies at UNC where he
was a member of Omicron Kappa
Upsilon, honorary dental society,
and Delta Sigma Delta ftaterni
ty. He was recipient of the Mos
by Scholarship bqok award at
commencement exercises.
McKee (will enter the Navy as
a dental officer assigned to Pen
sacola Naval Air Station, Fla.
Dr. McKee was winner of the
Block Drug Company Essay Con
test. He received a cash award
of $100 for his essay on “The
Dental Curriculum as Viewed
Through the Eyes of An Under
graduate Dental Student."
Mrs. McKee, the former Gail
Kircus of Kings Mountain, receiv
ed her B.S. in nursing from UNC
at Chapel Hill. Daughter of Mrs.
Clifford Kircus, Sr. and the late
Mr. Kircus, Mrs. McKee is a
graduate of Kings Mountain high
school and Gaston Memorial Hos
pital School of Nursing. She will
teach obstetrical nursing in Pen
sacola, Fla. Before moying to
Chapel Hill Mrs. McKee was on
the mining staff of Kings Moun
tain hospital.
Marian Plonk, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hal S. Plonk, com
pleted requirements for her B.S.
degree in home economics last
summer from Woman’s College
of the University of North Caro
lina at Greensboro. She taught
third (grade the past school year
in San Antonio, Texas.
David Gary Collins, son of Mn.
Alfred Collins of Grover and the
late Mr. Collins, received his B.A.
degree in psychology from Wake
Forest college at Winston-Salem.
He was a Dean’s list student his
four years in college. Collins will
enter graduate echoed at N. C.
State Unlveralty lu September.
CASAB Awards
Poster Artists
Winners in the poster contest
held by the Citizens Against the
Sale of Alcoholic Beverages Com
mittee were announced this week.
Jean Goforth, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Goforth, was the
first place winner in the Junior
division, and M. C. Phifer, son of
Mr. knd Mrs. Marriott Phifer, re
ceived the second place junior
award.
Senior prizes went to Frances
McGill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
J. C. McGill, for first place and
tO'Vemice Bell, son of Mary Bell,
second place.
CITY BOARD MEETING
Regular June meeting of the
city board of commissioners
will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thurs
day at City Hall courtroom,
Mayor John Henry Moss said.
local News
Bulletins
INDUCTED
Harold Hu^h Welch, son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. R. P.
Welch, reported June 12th to
Fort ©ragg where he will be
stationed.
BAPTIST TOPIC
Rev. James Wilder’s sermon
topic at the Sunday morning
worship service at Kings Moun
tain Baptist church will be
“Bringing Up Father.”
TO WINNSBORO
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Herndon
and family moved Wednesday
to Winnsboro, South Carolina
where they will reside at 419
South Congress street. I
4-H OUTING
Dixon Community 4-H’ers
will gather for a picnic Sunday
at 1 p.m. at Rankin Lake in
Gastonia. Young people are
asked to meet at Dixon Pres
byterian church at 12:30 to go
to Gastonia for the outing.
4-H SUNDAY PROGRAM
Dixon Community 4-H club
will! conduct the worship serv
ice at Midview Baptist church
Sunday night. The church US10
» METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday at
noon totaled $222.85, including
$20.25 from off-street meters,
$133.10 from on-street meters
and $69.50 from fines, Treasur
er Joe McDaniel reported.
RETURNS HOME
John E. G-amble returned
home from the Kings Mountain
Hospital on Monday. Mr. Gam
ble had been hospitalized for
five weeks.
AT INSTITUTE
Bobby W. Hussey, high school
faculty member, is attending a
summer institute for high
school teachers of sociology at
East Carolina college June 16
August 4.
YOUTH SPEAKER
Rev. Eddie Gladden, minis
terial student at Central Wes
leyan college, will fill the pul
pit at Sunday evening worship
services at East Gold Street
Wesleyan Methodist church.
Services are at 7 p.m.
BUILDING PERMIT
A city building permit was
issued Wednesday to Pink
Mayhue to construct a one
story frame house on Church
street estimated to cost $2,000.
Two Area Methodist Pastois
: Are Reassigned; Jordan To Gastonia
Two Kings Mountain Methodist
ministers were reassigned via ac
l tion of the Western North Caro
lina annual conference at Lake
' Junaluska last week.
Rev. Howard Jordan, pastor of
i Central Methodist church, will
become associate minister of
, Gastonia’s First Methodist church
and Rev. D. B. Alderman will
come from Wilkesboro to Kings
Mountain. At First Methodist Rev.
Mr. Jordan will succeed Rev. C.
E. Murray who is retiring.
Rev. Roy Lockridge, pastor of
El Bethel-Hoey Methodist church
es, has beer, assigned to Thomas
ville and Rev. Ed Lynn will
come from Reidsville to the El
'Bethel church here and Hoey Me
morial charge.
Appointed distinct superintend
ent was Dr. Charles White of
Asheboro. Dr. Cecil Heckard of
Gastonia will go to Hickory as
pastor of the First Methodist
i church.
An open house planned as a
“farewell party" for Rev. and
Mrs. Jordan will he given by
Central Methodist church on Sun
day afternoon from 3 until 5 p.
m. Friends Of the church are
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REASSIGNED — lev. Howard
Jordan, pooka of Control Moth
■odato minister of Gastonia's
Tint Motbodist church via ac
ttoa of the <—"-1 Mrthnrllrt
mpifcrtlii will boMr tbt
fi
At Presstime
Two Groups
Were Discussing
legal Control
The “drys"—Committee Oppos
ed to the Sale of Alcoholic Bever
ages — were planning strategy
for “real legal control” Wednes
day night at City Hall.
Invited to meet with the 'group
were members of the steering
committee of Citizens for Legal
Control, “wets", and law enforce
ment officers.
Rev. Robert C. Mann told the
group that he felt that both sides
were honestly interested in legal
control, but that the “Drys” were
convinced that it was easier to
have this control if the sale of
alcoholic beverages was illegal
in our city. He invited all of
those citizens of Kings Mountain
who are really interested in stop
ping bootlegging to Join forces,
and "put a stop to this illicit
traffic”. He stated that "our city
would be just as “Dry” as its!
citizens want it to be.”
The group was told that under
present liquor laws in North
Carolina “you must witness the
sale, or be a party to the sale of
alcoholic beverages, in order to
take out a warrent to arrest the
bootlegger.” However, any inter
ested citizen can seek such a
transaction and then take out the
warrent simply by coming to the
deputies are, they also likely
know* who our preachers are—
now that this campaign is over—
and they would be afraid to sell,
in their presence, or to theriKBut
if the average citizen will tdfco
advantage of every opportunity
we can have every bootlegger in
town caught in short time.
A financial statement for the
organization was given to each
person attending this last regular
meeting. Nearly all of the money
needed in the campaign was sup
plied by the churches of Kings
Mountain. Several persons con
tributed individually and at the
last meeting prior to the .election
a general collection was taken
for those who desired to give
and had not had opportunity.
The total receipts for CASAB
amounted to $1,827.06. The total
amount spent came to $1,532.48
The balance, along with any oth
er funds that miqht come to the
organization, will be sent to
Hebron Colony, for the rehabili
tation of alcoholics—as was voc
ed by the group at its organiza
tion. The following statement is
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Learning Lab
In Operation
Cleveland Unit of Gaston Col
lege and Kings Mountain School
Superintendent B. N. Barnes an
nounced this week opening of a
Learning Laboratory for Kings
Mountain area citizens.
The aim of the Lab is to pre
pare adults to take the state
GED (General Educational De
velopment) test to obtain a high
school equivalency diploma. This
North Carolina High School Dip
loma is accepted by all industry
in this area as a regular high
school diploma. In fact, says Mr.
Barnes, a person with this diplo
ma can even go on to college
providing he can pass the college
entrance examination.
The Lab is now in operation at
Central school on Tuesday and
Thursday nights from 6 to 9 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 20, the Lab
ivill also be open in the morning
from 9 until 12 and it will be
open the same morning hours on
Thursday also. This will continue
luring the summer months. There
is no cost to the person enrolled
in the Learning Lab. The only
qualification for a student to en
ter the Lab is that his high school
class must have already grad
uated.
The Lab will be urtder the di
rection of Mrs. Glee E. Bridges.
Anyone interested in enrolling in
the Lab should get in touch with
Mrs. Bridges at one of the times
the Lab will be open.
i
HONORARY CITIZENSHIP PAPERS—Kings Mountain Mayor John
H. Moss presents honorary citizenship papers to Jean Davis for
presentation to the mayors of Geneva, Switzerland and Vichy.
France and for the Chancellor of London. Miss Davis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Davis, was among nine high school students
who left Friday for four weeks of study in the American Institute
for Foreign Study program. (Photo by Rodney Dodson)
KMHS Senior
Will Present
Goodwill Papers
Jean Davis, rising high school
senior, left Friday to study four
weeks in Vichy, France in a joint
good-will, study program of the
American Institute for Foreign
Study.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. C.
Davis, the Kings Mountain girl
joined six students from High
Point, three students from Fayet
teville and one student from
Raleigh on the trip.
The group will study at the
Institute Cultural International,
spend a week 1n Paris, a week in
London, and visit, in Geneva,
Switzerland before returning for
o week in New York City. Mrs.
Cynthia Carroll, French teacher
at Ferndale Junior high school
in High Point, is accompanying
the group.
Miss Davis will present honor
ary citizenship papers to the
mayors of Vichy, France, and
Geneva, Switzerland and to the
Chancellor of London as a “good
will effort". She will also present
them wooden emblems of the
Kings Mountain monument.
Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Davis will
meet their daughter in New York
City and they will attend the na
tional convention of the Educa
tion Association at Penn State.
Tax Advertising
Is Now Underway
The Cleveland County Tax Of
fice has begun advertisements in
the Herald of tax liens on real
property stemming from non
payment of 1966 taxes.
Tax Collector James M. Har
din said the liens will be adver
tised for the second time this
week and will be advertised in two
subsequent editions of the news
paper.
The names of taxpayers and
the amounts of taxes owed ap
pear in the advertisement.
Fire Destroys Two
Homes, Damages One
An early morning fire destroy
ed two homes and damaged an
other Thursday morning on Gal
ille Road.
Fire trucks from Kingsg Moun
tain, Bethlehem, Cleveland Coun
ty and Waco answered the call.
Two of the houses were all but
destroyed when the trucks ar
rived, but the third was saved
but did suffer note damage.
COMMISSIONER — Dr. Paul
Ausley, pastor of First Presby
terian church, is one of two
ministers appointed commis
sioners from Kings Mountain
Presbytery to the annual meet
ing of the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church at
First Presbyterian church, Bris
tol, Tennessee, June 8-15. Other
commissioner is Dr. Harry Mcf
fatt, pastor of Gastonia's First
Presbyterian church.
Housing Group
Hires Architect
The Kings Mountain Housing
Authority voted unanimously
Monday to secure Tombertin As
sociates, Architects, Inc., of At
lanta, Ga., for designing the re
cently-approved 150-unit Kings
Mountain housing- project.
The decision was made at the
regular meeting of the group at
City Hall.
Chairman John L. McGill pre
sided and other members pres
ent were Brooks Tate, Martin
Harmon and William Orr.
The employment of an execu
tive director for the project was
discussed but no action was tak
en.
City Court Holds
Lengthy Session
Willie C. Hayes was found
guilty of driving after revocation
and two counts of public drunk
ness in city recorder’s court Mon
day afternoon. Judge George B.
Thomasson sentenced him to 12
months active on the former
charge and 30 days each on the
public drunkness changes. All
are to run consecutive.
In other cases, Jake Reynolds,
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563 Enrolled
For Special
j School Projects
A total of 563 students have
enrolled for two federal govern
inent-paid summer programs un
derway in Kings Mountain.
The Title 1 program for econo
mically-deprived children, which
began Monday, enrolled a total
of 425 students in a special read
ing program.
A total of 138 pre-schoolers will
enroll Monday for the “Head
Start” program to be taught at
North school.
In both programs, pupils will
enjoy a morning milk break and
lunch at the school cafeterias,
free to the pupils, and free trans
portation will be provided by
eight school buses.
Don Parker is director of the
reading program with a faculty
of 29, including four special ed
ucation teachers.
Howard Bryant is director of
the pre-school program with a
faculty of nine, plus a teacher's
aide for each classroom and a
volunteer aide for each class
room.
The reading program is a six
week course, the pre-school pro
gram and eight week course.
In both, class size will approxi
mate 15, and each classroom tea
cher will have a teaching aide.
The reading program class day
is from 8:30 to 1, with work in
art, music, physical education,
and special therapy augmenting
the basic reading course for stu
dents from grades 3-11.
The pre-school class day will
be 8:30 to 1. Director Bryant said
special activities are planned for
the 138 pre-schoolers, including
trips to dairies, farms, museums,
department store* and parks in
addition to follow-up of health
check-ups, dental check-ups and
physical, health in preparation for
school in the fall.
Operation Head Start will em
ploy the following faculty: Mrs.
Margaret Sprat, Mrs. Ruth Beam,
Mrs. Addie Grier, Mrs. Wanda
Hunt, Mrs. Victoria Logan, Mrs.
'M. C. Poston, Mrs. Saagh Adams,
Mrs. Joyce Bownpetn and Mrs.
Lela Wellmon. ’ «?wjj
The pre-school program is be
ing provided through federal
government grant approximating
$29,000 plus $7,900 supplied lo
cally through volunteer aid.
Last suinmef the two programs
were provided through grants ap
proximating $159,000.
Director Bryant said a new fea
ture of this year’s Operation
Head Start program will be the
use of two parents room at North
school. He said parents will be
invited to use the facilities for
discussion or work rooms to
meet with the teachers of their
children to plan and discuss their
work. v
Both programs are sponsored
by the Office of Education and
ODportunity, the local board of
education and Cleveland County
Community Action, Inc.
Bell Rites
Are Conducted
Funeral services for Hubert
Odell Bell, 54, brother of Mrs.
Marvin Randall, Mrs. Oscar Love
lace and Mrs. Wiley Blanton of
Kings Mountain, were held Sat
urday at the Lyerly Funeral
Home Chapel In Salisbury.
Mr. Bell, who died at 2:45 a.m.
Thursday at Rowan Memorial
Hospital, was a native of Cleve
land county.
An employe of Cartex Mill, he
was a son of Tillman R. and
Amanda Ledford Bell.
Oilier survivors include his
wife, Hattie Smith Bell; a daugh
ter, Mrs. Alma McKinnon; three
brothers Marshall, Jake and
Dorse Bell all of Shelby; and two
additional sisters, Mrs. Mitchell
Watterson and Mrs. Fred Parker :
of Shelby. ,
Burial was in Salisbury’s City I
Memorial Park. 1<
Diys Win
By Close Maigin
01 1411-1091
Here Tuesday
By MOODY HAMRICK
A record breaking 2511 Kings
Mountain citizens went to the
polls Tuesday in an historic elec
tion and voted 1411 to 1091
against the sale of liquor through
Alcoholic Beverage Control stores
and beer and wine for off-prem
ises consumption..
It was the first time in modem
history, perhaps only the second
time ever, that Kings Mountain
citizens answered the question on
strictly local basis.
A total of 3719 naipcs appeared
on ttic Kings Mountain voting
registration books as a result of
461 new names inscribed during
the two-week registration period
that ended last Saturday.
Leaders on both sides had pre
dicted a record vote from 2700 to
3200, but the 2511 voters fell
short of that mark but did break
the previous record of the 2337
cast for mayor in the 1963 elec
tion.
In the only other election of
this type, Kings Mountain citi
zens voted “dry” 13-0 in 1874,
only a few months after the town
was chartered.
The precincts and election of
ficials, along with the total num
ber of votes cast, and those for
and against follows:
Ward 1, City Hall, C. L. Black,
registrar, Mrs. Nell Cranford and
Gene Steffy, judges. For 113,
Against 100. Total Voters—215.
Ward II, American Legion
building, K- D. Goforth, registrar,
Mrs. Ruth Thomasson and Mrs.
Salena Trott, judges. For 170,
Against 182. Total Voters—352.
Ward III, East School, Mrs.
Ruth Bowers, registrar, Mrs. Bertie
McDaniel and Rochel Connor,
judges. For 143, Against 344.
Total Voters — 487.
Ward IV, First Wesleyan Meth
odist Church Fellowship Hall,
Mrs. Vera C. Cash, registrar,
Brooks R. Tate and Mrs. James
Pearson, judges. For 145, Against
390. Total Voters—538.
Ward V, National Guard Arm
ory, Mrs. Paul Patterson, regis
trar, Mrs. Rebecca T. Cook and
Mrs. W. F. Laughter, judges. For
520, Against 395. Total. Voters—
919. $;•
Herald's Hamrick
Sports Director;
Gibson Selected
Moody Hamrick, Sports Editor
vof the Kings Mountain Herald,
has been named Sports Director
of the Harrisburg Patriot-News,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Hamrick, who came to the
Herald earlier in the year, will
assume his new duties next Mon- !
day.
Hamrick is a graduate of Duke
University and came to the Her- ,
aid from.jjU*# Pt. Lauderdale
News and Sup-Sentinel.
Dale Gibson of Shelby has been
selected to succeed Hamrick as
SportJ Editor of the Herald. Gib
son i»a rising junior at the Uni
versw of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Board Accepts
Low Bids
The Kings Mountain board of
education Thursday accepted the
low bids for shower and toilet
room petitions at Central school
and gymnasium and for steel
staircases for Central school.
It was the major action of the
board of education at a planning
session on renovation of Central
Junior high school.
Teacher vacancies were dis
cussed but no action was taken.
Official Retains
Alcohol Beverage Control Election
June 13.1967
Wards
I II III IV V total
For
Against
113
100'
No. of Voters
213
170 j 143 | 145 | 520
182 | 344 | 390T395
352 "487' 535 i 915
1091
1411
2502