Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits 8,256
The Greater King, Mountain figure Is derived from the
special United States Bureau ef the Census report o
January 11(6. and Includes the U.S90 population o
Number 4 Township, and the remaining (.124 iron
Humber S Township, In Cleveland County and Crowder'
Mountain Townsbip In Gaston County.
Pag js
Today
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 13, 1967
VOL 78 No. 28
Established 1889
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Buffalo Project
Plans Approved
ASSUMES PASTORATE — Rev.
Frank Shirley of Honea Path,
S. C., assumed new duties as
pastor of Temple Baptist
church this week. He will fill
the pulpit at Sunday services.
Shirley Assumes
Temple Pastorate
Rev.. . Frank Shirley will de
liver his first sermon as the new
pastor of Temple Baptist church
at Sunday morning 11 o’clock
worship services.
Shmey comes to Kings
n from Broad Mouth Bap
church of Honea Path, South
and his wife and four chil
dren occupied the Temple Bap
tist parsonage on Gantt street
this week.
Mr. Shirley, 36. holds a B.A.
degree from Furman University
at Greenville, S. C. and a B.D.
degree from Southwestern Uni
versity at Forth Worth, Texas.
t. Members of the church pu'pit
committee were Mr. and Mrs. El
bert Fleming, Mrs. Jack Brid
fes, W. W. (Morehead, Lloyd Me
'alls and Paul Ivey,
Legion Proceeds
With Addition
Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri
can Legion, members voted at
the recent meeting to proceed on
an estimated $60,000 addition to
the Post buildingg on East Gold
street.
(Members of the building com
mittee are Bob Smith, Chairman,
Dick McGinnis, Bruce McDaniel,
Commander Carl Wiesener, Past
Commander Clinton Jolly, and
Adjutant Joe McDaniel, Jr.
Feature of the meeting was a
report by Pat Cheshire and Jeff
JMaunev. the Green Post’s dele
LKtcs to 1967 Boys State.
Other Agencies
Pledged City
Cooperation
By ELIZABETH STEWART
The city board of commission
ers voted to cooperate with oth
er agencies in development of
the Buffalo Creek water project,
as it approved Tuesday night
final plans and specifications.
In its action the board author
ized Mayor John Henry Moss and
the city's consulting engineer W.
K. Dickson to proceed “full
speed ahead in hastening the pro
ject’s completion.”
Action by the State Highway
Department concerning inunda
tion of roads in the lake area is
the lone step regaining before
forwarding of plans and specifi
cations to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
in support of a federal funds
grant.
Division Engineer W. W. Wyke
said he would submit Wednes
day the city’s request to the Ad
vance Planning Department of
the SH & PW and for investiga
tion find recommendation on the
required road changes.
Mr. Dickson said a conference
is scheduled for Friday with the
county planning board to discuss
correlation of the Buffalo Creek
project plans with other plans
for a countywide water system.
. Th<>. cnnrfrw»r fiTUTlfiMS
tions of |he proposed project
with a map, scaled 20ft feet to
one inch, requiring nine sub
sections. < . - •
Cost of the project,^ which en
visions a large lake north of U-S.
74 on Buffalo Creek .with indi
cated water impoundment com
paring in area to Lake Lure, is
$3,138,000 including a three-mil
lion gallon per day treatment
plant estimated to cost $400,000
and 40,000 feet or seven miles
of water mains estimated to cost
$600,000.
Preliminary estimate was $2,
800,000.
Some facts about the project
gleaned from Col. Dickson’s re
port:
The dam site will be located
500 feet north of SR 2033 approx
imating 84 feet high, 750 feet
wide, with 200 feet spillway.
The lake approximates 1,329
acres of water and a shoreline of
50 miles.
Buffalo Creek basin will store
11 billion, 600 million gallons of
water. This size basin can take
care of Kings Mountain’s needs
for many years and serve the
eastern part of the county and
Shelby.
Buffalo Creek would provide 20
million gallons of potable water
I daily and by utilizing Muddy
Fork and Persimmon creeks can
I (Continued on Page Eight)
Era To End Friday As Ware Hangs
Last Mail Pouch For Rail Transit
By MARTIN HARMON
An era will end here Friday
afternoon at 5:15, presuming the
north bound Southern Railway
Crescent Limited is on schedule.
The passage of the train will
mark the final mail departure by
rail.
Presumably, mail has been dis
patched and received by* train
from the time the railroad first
began operating through Kings
Mountain, circum 1871. Indeed, it
was the railroad which made
Kings Mountain a postoffice in
itially, gave the community its
name, and contributed to Kings
Mountain’s growth as a center of
textile production and agriculture.
Modernity takes over.
The postal department, in the
interests of speeding mail tran
sit and increased efficiency, is
phasing out its railway postof
fices. These pass to modernity
via zip codes, sectional and re
gional postal dispatch centers,
and the airplane. Twenty-three
other communities in this area—
Afrom Advance to Tryon—com
JHete RPO service Thursday and
^Yriday.
Robert E. Ware, Jr., holds the
distinction of being the Kings
Mountain postoffice’s last mail
messenger—the man responsible
for hanging the sacks for the
RPO pick-up, and of retrieving
those dumped off the passing
trains.
Messenger Ware’s immediate
predecessors, covering four de
cades and more, are Rufus Phif
er, the late J. K. Willis and the
late Charlie Littlejohn.
Former Postmaster A. Hunter
Patterson recalls the early days
of Mr. Littlejohn's service. His
non-motorized vehicle was “an
old cart about twice the size of
a wheelbarrow.’’
Postmaster Charles L. Alexan
der reports North Carolina has
13 sectional mail centers, Kings
Mountain being in the Charlotte
section. Mail (final tie-out 6 p.
m.) goes to Charlotte and from
there is dispatched to all points,
up to 90 percent of it by air, re
gardless whether it bears air
mail stamps. The Pfstmaster
adds, “The air mail stamp as
sures air transport”’
The Postmaster thinks the sys
tem is working. Having consid
erable recent correspondence
with a friend in Morehead City,
the Postmaster finds he received
mail posted the previous evening.
This mail reaches the Kinston
sectional center by truck, is air
lifted to Charlotte, and trucked
here in time for morning deliv
ery.
R. G. Franklin
Resigns; Jones
Has 26 Vacancies
R. G. Franklin, principal of
Central school, has tendered his
resignation and already has be
gun work for Tarmac, Inc., man
ufacturer of audio-visual equip
ment used by schools and oth
ers.
Nominally, Mr. Franklin’s res
ignation would raise to three
number of principal vacancies in
the 10-point Kings Mountain
school district system.
Most likely the vacancy total
is one.
Superintendent Donald G. Jones
said Wednesday he will recom
mend to the board of education
a consolidation of principaiships,
with one principal superintending
two schools.
A replacement will be employ
ed for the 23-teacher Central
school, where only seventh and
eighth grades are housed.
Supt. Jones also listed Wednes
day 25 faculty vacancies.
Required for the high school
faculty are five teachers, two for
mathematics and one each for
English, social studies and brick
laying.
Five seventh grade and five
eighth grade teachers are needed
at Central.
Other vacancies include a first
grade teacher, three second grade
teachers, one teacher for a com
bination third-fourth, one fifth
grade teacher, and four sixth
grade teachers.
Principals of two plant opera
tions will be relieved of teaching
duties.
Phillips Attends
OEQLConfejSBGe
Harold Phillips, chairman of
the Cleveland County Community
Action committee, attended a
conference in Washington Tues
day on the federal programs un
der the Office of Economic Op
portunity,
Mr. Phillips said 24 states
were represented for a discus
sion of the several prbgrams re
lated to community action and
to hear an address by Sergeant
Shriver, OEO director.
Chairman Phillips commented,
‘‘Mr. Shriver is very sincere..”
In his address, Mr. Shriver said
the great need of the OEO is
for recruitment of business and
industrial leadership at the local
level, and he attributed troubles
of the program, such as in Har
lem, to a lack of “businessman”
leadership.
The director further declared
the program has a “vast resevoir
of good will” and that “the poor
will be helped if they will help
themselves.”
IMr. Phillips said the OEO pro
grams have resulted in expendi
ture of $680,000 in Cleveland
county. Currently 75 young peo
ple are employed in the neigh
borhood youth corps program, 30
of them in Kings Mountain.
Blanton Rites
Thursday At 4
Funeral rites for T. O. Blanton,
74, of York, S. C., will be held
Thursday at 4 p.m. from York's
Central Baptist church. Burial
will be in Rose Hill cemetery.
Mr. Blanton, brother of W.
Clarence Blanton of Kings Moun
tain, died Tuesday in York hos
pital.
Other survivors include his
wife; two sons; and three daugh
ters.
Motoristsl Beware ,
Of Fogging Machine
Motorists, beware!
Smog (fog) is in Kings Moun
tain in the evening and wee
hours, a contrast to Los An
geles, Calif., area, where the j
smog lifts as Kings Mountain’s
falls.
. Kings Mountain’s is man
made by the city, which Wed
nesday night began using its
fogging machine to destroy
mosquitos and other insects.
The city’s operation schedule
is from 9 p.m. to 4 pjn.
Order of the night is slow
speed during those hour s, as it
will be common for motorists
to suddenly reach a patch of
blinding fog.
The fogging work began
Wednesday night.
Incorporation
Of Center Voted
Sale Of Stock
Is Anticipated
Within 90 Days
Kings Mountain Convalescent
Nursing Center, Inc. is in pro
cess of incorporation.
Incorporators will be Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Kerns, Joe R. Smith
and Robert Powell.
Mr. Smith, chairman of the
committee, said negotiations are
underway with two firms, one in
Atlanta and one in New York, to
arrange financing.
He added that the committee
has been interviewing architects
and anticipates that stock will be
issued within 90 days.
Mr. and Mrs. Kerns recently
purchased a 5.09 acre tract north
of Sipes street between Edge
mont Avenue and North Goforth
street for the purpose of erecting
a nursing home.
City Boaid
Approves Study
The city board of commission
ers Tuesday night authorized con
tract with the Department of
Conservation and Development
for a Neighborhood Analysis
Study.
Cost of the study, a city, fed
eral and state-shared program, is
1) the board advertised peti
tion request for annexation of 11
15/16 acres of Vera Mauney Coo
per property located in Cooper
town off Cherryville road.
2) approved annual contract
with Transcontinental Gas Pipe
Line Corporation.
3) approved use of an appli
cation form for applications for
building permits. Citizens may
obtain the form free of charge
at the city offices or from the
city building inspector.
City Now Has
An Official Seal
Kings Mountain’s first offi
cial seal will soon be available
to citizens.
The city commission Tuesday
night adopted a city seal.
The black and gold seal pic
tures the Kings Mountain sky
line, the Kings Mountain monu
ment, and a shield with the in
scription "Historical City’’ and
“Opportunity.”
A 14 inch size replica will be
available to motorists for use
on vehicles.
The official seal with appear
on City of Kings Mountain sta
tionery and literature.
CANDIDATE — H. Pat Taylor,
Jr., Wadesboro lawyer, is a
candidate for lieutenant-gover
nor subject to next May’s Dem
ocratic primary. Mr. Taylor,
former speaker of the House of
Representatives, addressed the
Kings Mountain Lions club
Farmer's night banquet in Feb
ruary.
Two KM Elms
Post Low Bi
Two Kings Mountain firms
were low in bidding on three
contracts for Central school ren
Blds were ’opene3'¥uesday by
the board of education on plumb
ing, heating, and electrical ren
ovations.
Low bidder on the plumbing
contract at $11,560 was Ben T.
Goforth Plumbing Company of
Kings Mountain, at $11,560. Floyd
Green, of Shelby, was second at
$12,178. Other bidders were Gas
tonia Plumbing & Heating Com
pany, Gastonia, $12,267; and Yar
borough & Elrod, Gastonia, $12,
300.
Hoke Electric, of Kings Moun
tain, was low bidder for electri
cal work at $3,489; Canipe Elec
tric, Shelby, $3,785, was second,
and Gaston Electric, Gastonia,
$6,776.
Dudley Plumbing, of Shelby,
was low bidder on the heating
contract, at $11,860. Taylor O.
Johnson, of Shelby, was second
at $12,487, and Gaston Plumbing
& Heating Company third at $13,
738.
The board of education will
consider the bids at Monday
night’s regular July meeting.
Renovation work by the gen
eral contractor is underway.
TO INSTITUTE
'Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, Mrs. F,
S. Morrison, Mrs. Haywood E.
Lynch and Mrs. Eugene Mc
Carter will represent the Wom
an’s club at a District Four in
stitute and workshop Thursday
(today* in Ellen boro.
Postal Department Asked By City
To Consider New facility Here
The city board of commission
ers Tuesday night approved a
resolution calling for the erec
tion of a new postoffice in Kings
Mountain.
Specifically, the resolution asks
the U. S. Postal Department
"and all proper authorities" to
observe the “apparent crowded
working conditions at the Kings
Mountain postoffice and give con
sideration to the building of a
new facility.”
The resolution^ to be signed by
all five ward commissioners and
the mayor, also calls attention to
the traffic problem in the “con
gested area of Piedmont • West
Mountain streets” and invites
postal authorities to “observe the
operation.”
The present facility was erect
ed in 1939.
Postmaster Charles L. Alexan
der reports inspectors from the
Atlanta regional office have told;
him working conditions here are
very crowded due to heavy in
crease in mail volume since the
Kings Mountain postoffice was
built 28 years ago.
PRINCIPAL — Charles Doug
Elmore, husband of the former
Jane Goforth of Kings Moun
tain, has been elected principal
of the new 900-student $1 mil
lion North Davidson Junior high
school in Welcome. N. €., in
Davidson County. He is son-in
law of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Goforth of Kings mfHffh.
$25337 Increase
In Gas Revenues
Is Anticipated
Kings Mountain’s Natural Gas
System is expected to gross $422,
412.50 in the current fiscal year
or $25,537.50 more than in the
fiscal year which ended June 30.
The amended budget for the
previous year placed gross re
ceipts at $389,450.
In the budget for the coming
year, tentatively adopted by the
board of commissioners Tuesday
night, sales are anticipated as
follows: residential, $137,812.50;
commercial, $100,000; public build
ing, $9,000; and industrial inter
ruptible, $165,000.
Other revenues are expected to
total $10,000.
Estimated operational profit of
the year of $139,379.50 represents
available monies for renewal and
extension of the system and oth
er city purposes. The city expects
to pay 'iSanscontinental Gas Pipe
line Corporation $253,808 for gas
and salaries and wages of $17,
500. Equipment maintenance is
budgeted at $2,000, advertising at
$750. Engineering fees are ex
pected to cost $1,800.
Millard Prince
Wins Promotion
Millard A. Prince of Hollywood,
Fla., formerly of Kings Mountain,
was recently promoted by the
Postoffice to Chief Accountant
from Accounting Assistant.
Mr. Prince, who has served 19
years in the Postoffice, was Fore
man of Mails in the main office
in Hollywood before these two
promotions. In the region which
includes Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina
S'*”1— 16.
Mr. Prince is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. Prince of Kings
Mountain. He and his wife, Pol
ly, are parents of two children.
Howell To Lead
Revival Series
Rev. Toy Howell will be evan
gelist for revival services begin
ning Monday, July 17th, at Com
munity Baptist church on High
way 226 eight miles from Shel
by
Services will be held nightly at
7 p.m. through July 23.
Rev. Bill Guiton is pastor of
the church.
Miss Ramsey
Joins Heiald
Miss Mary Beth Ramsey,
daughter of iMr. and Mrs. Charles
E. Ramsey, has joined the staff
of the Herald.
A June graduate of Kings
Mountain high school, Miss Ram
sey will assist in clerical and
bookkeeping duties.
She will enter Atlanta Medical
School in Atlanta, Ga. in the fall.
E D. Wright's
Rites Thursday
Funeral rites for Hardie David
Wright, 64, will be held Thursday
morning at 11 o’clock from Sisk
Funeral Home Chapel in Besse
mer City. Interment will be in
Bessemer City Memorial ceme
tery.
Mr. Wright died Tuesday in
Gaston Memorial hospital..,
Surviving are his wiftT Mrs.
Eliza Millen Wright; a son, Em
manuel Wright of Kings Moun-:
tain; and a daughter, Mrs. Wil-’
liam Heffner of Kings Mountain. ]
Rev. Doc Wilbanks will offi
ciate at the final rites.
Boy Scouts Set
Benefit Supper
Boy Scouts of Troop 91 will
sponsor a watermelon slicing for
benefit of the troop campings
fund July 25th from 7 until 9
p.m. at St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church.
The two-hour program will!
also include archery, horseshoe j
and balloon contests for youth. I
Tickets are available from any1
Boy Scout or from Scoutmaster!
Otis Falls, Jr.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of Kenneth Hustet
ler acknowledges with sincere ap
preciation your kind expressions
of sympathy at the death of our!
loved one. 7:13
GRADUATE — David Hum
phreys Moreau recently receiv
ed his Doctor of Philosophy de
gree from Harvard University.
Moieau Wins
PhJ) Degree
David Humphreys Moreau, son
in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E.
Page of Kings Mountain, received
the Doctor of Philosophy degree
in Engineering from Harvard
University at its recent 331st
commencement exercises at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Mor
eau’s subject area is Water Re
sources and his research was
concerned with the development
of mathematical models for de
cision-making in the disposal of
industrial wastes.
Dr. Moreau received a B.S. de
gree in Civil Engineering from
Mississippi State University, and
a Masters degree in Civil En
gineering from N. C. State. He
presently holds a joinjt appoint
ment with the departments of
Environmental Engineering and
Industrial and SyatemaEngtoew*
ing at the University of Florida
in Gainesville. In that position
he is currently conducting re
search for the U-S. Geological
Survey in addition to regular
teaching activities.
Dr. Moreau is the son of the
late Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Moreau
of Mississippi, and is married to
the former Pauline Neisler Page
of Kings Mountain.
Union Service
Sunday At 8
The final Union Service for the
summer, sponsored by the Kings
Mountain Ministerial Association
will be held Sunday night at 8
p.m. in Central Methodist church.
Rev. D. B. Alderman, recently
appointed by Bishop Earl G.
Hunt, Jr., of the Western North
Carolina Conference of The Meth
odist Church as minister, an
nounced the Union Service ser
mon topic will be — “Why Does
It Have to Be That Way?’’
The regular 11 a.m. worship
hour subject was also given by
Rev. Alderman — “Faith — The
Victory That Stands.’’ The public
is invited to attend.
Following the Sunday night
service the Women’s Society of
Christian Service and the Offi
cial Board will honor Rev. and
Mrs. Alderman at a reception in
the church fellowship hall. Wor
shipers will be invited to meet
the new minister and his family
and the community is invited to
attend, a spokesman said.
Budget Includes
1966-67 Surplus
Of $182392
The city anticipates record in
come and expenditures of $1,
331,037.06 up $10,350 for fiscal
year 1967-68, with no change in
the ad valorem tax rate of 85
cents per $100 valuation
The budget estimate, as tenta
tively adopted, employs a June
30 year-end surplus of $182,552.
Last year’s year-end surplus was
$257,950.
City commissioners Tuesday
night approved the tentative bud
get and are expected to formally
adopt the budget and set the tax
rate on July 25th.
Mayor John Henry Moss label
ed the 1967-68 budget a conser
vative one, at the same time
building, he said, with as much
long-range planning for progress
as physically sound. “We (the
commissioners and I) have been
as liberal as possible," he said,
“in anticipating disbursements.”
Biggest expenditure in the
budget, as last year, is earmarked
capital improvements and the
$337,217.50 alloted includes a
carry-over from last year in the
■amount of $60,000 for a proposed
utility building.
The anticipated budget would
also provide a new fire truck for
the fire department, rebalancing
of the electric system and a new
line truck for the electrical de
partment, a new billing and book
keeping machine for the city of
fices, pipes, mains, hydrants and
water gauges in the amount of
$15,760 for the water department,
sewer lines totaling $1Q,000, a
tractor and payloader, garbage
truck and packer for the sani
tary department, two dump
trucks, a tractor and mowing
machine for the street depart
ment, street paving representing
’JfSfWXX) and curbing and gutter
representing $87,000.
REVENUES
Major item of anticipated in
come, as is customary, is from
power and water sales estimated
at $660,000. The city has an un
appropriated surplus from the
previous year of $182,552.27 and
expects to receive $41,168.44 from
Powell Bill gas funds for street
work. It anticipates a profit of
$139379.50 from the natural gas
system, receipts of $190,000 from
current taxes, receipts of $12,500
from back taxes, $5,800 from
privilege licenses, $10,000 from
water sewer taps, receipts of $14,
000 from court costs, and $12,000
from meter collections. Street as
sessments are expected to return
$10,000.
EXPENDITURES
A total of $337,217.50 is ear
marked for capital improvements
with $157,742 for street depart
ment equipment, paving and
curb and gutter installations and
for water and sewer expendi
tures.
The recreation department is
expected to receive $12,000 repre
sented by the recration tax levy
of five vents per $100 (included
in the 85c rate).
Bonded indebtedness for the
city at June 30th was $400,000.
Operational expenses by de
partments are estimated as fol
lows; cemetery, $13,650; Adminis
trative, $45,400; sanitary, $43,
975; street, $157,742; police and
court, $89,546.58; fire, $31,400;
general, $121,309; water anc
sewer, $97,449; electric, $297,428
and contingency, $44,894.98.
Schoolman lones' Philosophy Is
"Everything To Help The Pupil”
By MARTIN HARMON
Donald G. Jones assumed the
duties of superintendent of Kings
Mountain district schools Mon
day and labeled his most imme
diate problem employment of a
principal and 25 faculty members.
He found time — between ad
ministrative duties and teacher
hunting—-to summate briefly his
philosophy of his role as super
intendent: “to do everything pos
sible to help the pupils”.
“I am already impressed with
the progressive spirit of the
members of the board of educa
tion, the principals and faculty
members I have met, and citi
zens I have met,” Supt. Jones
commented.
The Jones family has moved
into the Robert G. Cox residence
On West Mountain street.
‘There are so few of us Jones’,”
the superintendent jested, “that
I married a Jones.”
Both he and Mrs. Jones are
Asheville natives and the newly
named superintendent comes to
Kings Mountain after serving for
seven years as principal of Ashe
ville’s large Lee Edwards high
school.
“I regal’d the superintendeney
of Kings Mountain district schools
a challenge,” he declared.
A one-time newspaper carrier
for the Asheville Citizen-Times,
Mr. Jones spent summers while
at Asheville-Biltmore college in
the Citizen-Times circulation de
partment, later sold advertising
for the Jefferson City, Tenn.,
Standard while a student at
Carson-Newman college, where
he was graduated. He earned a
master’s degree at Western Car
olina and has completed work
for a certificate as an advanced
superintendent.
His teaching specialty, before
entering the administrative field,
was mathematics.
Supt. Jones expounds the “opcri
door” policy. He said he hoped
it will be possible to conduct vast
majority of school business at
the regular monthly meeting
(third Mondays), at which tlie
public will be welcome.