Greater Kings Mountain
City Limits
Cit
{ The Greater Kings Mountain figure is derived from the
tg^special United States Bureau of the Census report o
^Manuary 1966, and includes the 14,990 population o
jBfumber 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 fron
umber S Township, in Cleveland County and Crowder*
I Mountain Township in Gaston County.
VOL. 78 — No. 29
Established 1889
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 20, 1967
Pag js
Today
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
FINAL MAIL PATCH DISPATCH BY RAIL — The railway mail car in this area is to be no more
and the Kings Mountain postoffice was one of 24 making final railway mail dispatches last
Friday. The Southern Railway's northbound Crescent Limited was only about five minutes late
on its 5:15 pan. schedule. Viewing the final dispatch are, left to right. Robert E. Ware, who thus
completed his duties as mail messenger, A. H. Patterson, Kings Mountain postmaster during the
Wilson Administration, Assistant Postmaster Frank Cox, and Rufus Phifer. Mr. Ware's predecessor
for 16 years, a month, and a week. Mr. Phifer, incidentally, hanged the dispatch for the Crescent
Limited nearly 6000 times and never missed the train. (Herald photo, R. D. Lucas).
20 Teachers
Are Needed
In Schools
Wanted: 20 new teachers in
the Kings Mountain district
school system by August 24.
This was the report of Schools
Supt. Donald Jones as the Kings
Mountain board of education
Monday night discussed teacher
vacancies in the 10-plant system.
“We’re running late as far as
the school year is concerned”,
said the new superintendent,
“but we’re interviewing appli
cants every day.”
FIVE EMPLOYED
Five additional teachers sign
ed contracts Wednesday to be
flbme members of the Kings
^fountain schools faculties,
Supt. Donald Jones reported
late Wednesday afternoon.
The board, with all members
present, quickly authorized Jones
to employ new teachers, with
board approval of the contracts
to come at the August meeting,
and to proceed with his recom
mendation to consolidate princi
palships of North-East plants and
West-Park Grace plants with one
principal superintending two
schools. The principals of the
two plant operations would be
relieved of teaching duties.
Commenting on teacher vaean
cies in the system, Supt. Jones
recommended to the board the
calling of some teachers back
from retirement to serve a one
year term. The board concurred
Four new teachers were em
ployed Monday night including
Mrs. Gail Hunter of Shelby whc
will teach high school English;
Luther McSwain, Jr., of Kings
Mountain who will teach Junioi
high social studies; Mrs. Caro
lyn Roark, elementary teachei
for the Grover plant; and Gor
don Beatty, high school vocation
«] teacher who will teach a new,
course in internal combusion en
Hines. Currently employed at City
Buto & Truck Parts, Beatty is a
graduate of Gaston Technicai
Institute. His state salary will b€
$576 monthly.
In addition, the board employ
ed Mrs. James Atkinson at
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Piano-in-Schools
Return Requested
The question of whether fee
basis piano teaching-in-the schools
can be returned to the curricu
lum was aired at Monday’s meet
ing of the board of education.
Prompted by the visit of three
music teachers, a former school
board candidate, and an Erskine
college junior, the discussion re
sulted in these statements:
Schools Supt. Donald Jones—"I
would hesitate to give release
time in the classroom to an ele
mentary pupil to take piano les
sons, but I see no danger at the
high school level if a place can
be worked out.”
Mrs. Martin Harmon, spokes
man for the five-member delega
tion of women, wife of the Her
ald editor and a piano teacher—
“Many piano students who want
and need piano instruction are
unable to receive the instruction
because of limited teaching
hours.” She explained that the
few local teachers give lessons
in their homes from 3 until about
6 p.m. five dajrs a week. She said
Mrs. James Rorer, who taught
20 pupils, has moved from Kings
Mountain.
Concurring with Mrs. Harmon
were Mrs. N. F. McGill, Sr., or
ganist-pianist at Boyce Memorial
ARP church and a former teach
er; Mrs. Bernice Bunch, wife of
Kelly Bunch and candidate for a
school board post in the spring
elections; Mrs. F. R. McCurdy,
wife of restauranteur F. R. Mc
Curdy and a piano teacher; and
Miss Reta Phifer a former stu
dent of Mrs. Harmon and a jun
ior piano major at Erskine col
lege.
Miss Phifer said, ‘‘Speaking
as a student, I found it much
easier to include piano in my
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Old Davidson Building Is Closed;
Last Plant With Pot-Bellied Stoves
By ELIZABETH STEWART
The era of pot-bellied stoves in
the classroom is over in the
Kings Mountain district school
system.
Old Davidson school on West
Parker street is being abandoned
and the 20-plus students who
have used a single classroom in
the antiquated quarters the past
year are moving across the street
to the newer building.
The move was approved Mon
day night by the city board of
education.
Supt. Donald Jones and David
son Principal Connie Allison said
the library from the old building
will be moved into an extra
classroom in the new building
and the kitchen, long in use in
the old school plant, will not be
used.
Supt lones described the
Davidson school condition as
"deplorable”. Upon his recom
mendation, the board approved
preparing of food for the David
son students at the high school!
cafeteria. The hot food will bej
transported to the school via dis
posable dishes and the children!
will eat lunch in the classrooms.
“We will need only five teach
ers, so Principal Allison can
move his office and class there'
too,” Supt. Jones told the board
Monday night.
The old Davidson school, built;
about 1927, has undergone some
renovation including the build- i
ing of bathrooms replacing out-1
door toilets. Principal Allison
said. In the old building were
eight classrooms and a lunch
room.
Supt. Jones told the board he
had discussed informally sale of
the property to the Kings Moun
tain Housing Authority*
McIntyre Proffers
Tract For Lake
Shelby Builder
Volunteers
Whiteoak Land
Virgil McIntyre, Shelby con
tractor, will contribute to the
City of Kings Mountain a tract
of land on Whiteoak Creek for
development of the Buffalo Creek
water project. Whiteoak is a
Buffalo tributary.
Mayor John Henry Moss made
the announcement after a con
ference with Mr. McIntyre this
week.
The Mayor said, “Mr. McIntyre
came by the office to express his
interest in the project and tfe in
spect the maps detailing the
proposed lake site. When he de
termined his property would be
involved, he volunteered this
tract as a gift.”
Prior proffers have been made
by other citizens interested in
furthering the project, among
them U. L. Patterson and Gene
Schenck. Others in the area have
indicated they will accept less
than market price for their hold
ings required in the project.
An estimated 2,000 acres will |
be required, with slightly more
than 1300 inundated by a lake.
to be created by an 84-foot high
dam some 500 feet north of SR
2033.
The shoreline will approximate
50 miles and Engineer W. K.
Dickson, employing a 200-foot
spillway, estimates the water
level* will vary no more than
four feet.
The lake will approximate
Lake Lure in size.
Mayor Moss commented, “The
civic spirit exhibited by Mr. Mc
Intyre and others is most en
heartening. The Buffalo Creek
project not only represents the
Kings Mountain area and Eastern
Cleveland’s answer to its grow
ing problem of water supply,
but has important overtones as
a recreation area for the whole
of Cleveland County and this
area of Piedmont North Caro
lina.”
HuHsticklei
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Lillian
Huffstickler, 45, widow of Walter
Q. Huffstickler, were held Wed
nesday at 4 p.m. from the Chapel
of Harris Funeral Home, inter
ment following in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Mrs. Huffstickler died Monday
at 1 p.m. in the Kings Mountain
hospital after suffering a stroke
on Sunday. She was in apparent
good health. ,
A native of Gaston County,
she was daughter of Mrs. Leola
Collins Mullinax of Kings Moun
tain and the late Jesse J. Mul
linax. Her husband died in July
1960.
Manager of the Cosmetics De
partment of Eckerd’s Stores in
Dixie Village Shopping Center,
Gastonia, and in Shelby, Mrs.
Huffstickler was a member of
Resurrection Lutheran church.
Other survivors include two
sisters, Mrs. Harvey Ford and
Mrs. Lloyd 'McFalls, both of
Kings Mountain.
Rev. David Castor officiated at
the final rites.
School Bells
Ring August 24
School bells will ring for Kings
Mountain district pupils on Aug
ust 24.
The 1967-68 school calendar, as
approved Monday night by the
board of education, follows:
August 8—Principals Begin.
August 22-23 -Teachers Days.
August 24—Pupil Orientation
Day.
August 25 First Full Day for
Students (First day of 180 day
school term).
September 4—Labor Day - Hol
iday.
One Day—District Teachers’
Meeting.
November 23-24-Thanksgiving
Holidays.
December 20 - Jan. 1—Christ
mas Holidays — (Begin end of
school day Dec. 19 • classes re
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IN NEW POST — John W.
Goins has assumed duties as
director of the High Point col
lege Information Services Bu
reau. He is a Kings Mountain
native and former teacher.
John Goins
In New Post
John W. Goins, Greensboro
teacher and Kings Mountain na
tive, has been appointed by High
Point College President Dr. Wen
dell M, Patton to head the col
lege’s Information Services Bu
reau. He assumed his duties July
1.
Goins taught at Central Junior
high school for two ^ears before
moving to Greensboro. He also
formerly taught English at
Southeast Guilford high school.
At Brevard Junior college,
where he earned his Associate
of Arts degree, Goins was editor
of “The Clarion”, the campus
newspaper, and a member of the
men’s house council. He gradu
ated from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
with B. A. degree in English in
1964. While there he worked on
the student newspaper, “T h e
Daily Tar Heel”.
As Director of Information
Services, Goins’ main job will be
to provide the public with infor
mation about High Point college,
working through the various
news media.
Goins replaces Dr. Carl Savage,
who left High Point college to do
further work on the graduate
level.
Goins is son of Mrs. W. E.
(Dutch) Goins and the late Mr.
Goins. He is married to the for
mer Melissa Holder of Greens
boro.
Cole Rites
Aie Conducted
Funeral rites for Clyde Hord
Cole, 64, were held Tuesday at 4
p.m. from First Baptist church
of 'which he was a member.
Rev. Robert Mann, assisted by
Rev. Aubrey Quakenbush, offi
ciated at the final rites, and in
terment was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Mr. Cole died Sunday night at
7 p.m. in the Kings Mountain
hospital after several months
illness. He was a native of Kings
Mountain, son of the late Joe and
Martha Dickey Cole. He was a
former employee of Mass Mo.,
Inc.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mary Everhart Cole; one son,
Lewis Cole; two daughters, Mrs.
Floyd Dover and Miss Virginia
Cole, all of Kings Mountain;
three brothers, Doris Cole of
Charlotte, James Cole of Kings
Mountain and Paul Cole of Shel
by; and two sisters, Mrs. Vera
Cole Cash of Winston-Salem and
Mre. Yates Jones of Kings Moun
tain.
BOARD TO MEET
Regular bi-monthly meeting
of the city board of commis
sioners will be held Tuesday
afternoon at City Hall at 6:30.
Agenda was incomplete Wed
nesday.
ON DEAN'S UST
Edwin R. Goter, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Goter was
listed on the Dean’s list for
the Spring Semester at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He is a rising
sophomore.
Morgan Raised
legal Question
On Water Project
By MARTIN HARMON
Wayne L. Ware, Jr., Cleveland
County Farm Home Administra
tion .official, said Tuesday there
appears to be no clause in an
FHA-county planning board con
tract which would preclude un
qualified endorsement by the
planning board of the Kings
Mountain Buffalo Creek water
project.
Mr. Ware, FHA representative
in arranging the water-sewer
survey contract with the plan
ning board, further said he en
visions in the foreseeable future
no water distribution system
serving rural areas which did
not employ the water sources of
the City of Shelby and City of
Kings Mountain.
The legal question was posed
by Chairman Robert Morgan, of
the planning board, at Monday
night’s meeting at which Mayor
John Henry Moss re-outlined
plans for the Buffalo Creek
water project and asked the
planning board for an endorse
ment of the project.
The board for the second time
unanimously endorsed the project
on motion of Carl P. Finger, sec
onded by Miss Ezra T. Bridges,
but qualified the endorsement
for a check-up- on the FHA con
tract, whereby FHA made the
planning board a $12,500 study
grant.
The initial endorsement sev- i
eral months ago had also been;
qualified, at that time the pro-1
vision being included that thej
Kings Mountain Buffalo project
must harmonize with the rural
area service projections.
George Rawlings, planning en
gineer for J. N. Pease and As
sociates, acknowledged that the
Buffalo Creek project "is one
, w.ay to go,’’ adding, “there are
alternatives.”
I Mayor Moss previously had
informed the planning board
that the Kings Mountain city
commission had authorized him
to discuss with any interested
agency formation of a water dis
trict for use of the water to be
made available from the Buffalo
Creek impoundment. The Mayor
mentioned the Towns df Grover
and Waco, the communities of
Mid-Pines, Bethlehem, Oak Grove
and Bethware.
Meantime, Chairman Morgan
reported that progress on the
Pease survey to date is limited
to a land-use and population
growth projection. Engineer Raw
lins promised completion of his
survey “within four to six
weeks”.
It had been pointed out that
the Pease survey is limited, via
the FHA contract, to service to
rural areas of not more than
5500 population. Urbanized areas
adjacent to Shelby (such as
Cleveland Springs) and Kings
Mountain (such as US 74 west)
were also excluded.
The population projections of
the Pease firm showed a slight
decline in ‘rural population be
tween 1966 and 1980. Mr. Rawlins
explainod, “the projections imply
some city limits expansion of
Kings Mountain and Shelby.”
Chairman Morgan said, En
gineer Rawlins concurring, there
are three ideal water impound
ment areas ' within Cleveland
county, two on the Broad River
near Lawndale and Boiling
Springs, and the site projected
for Kings Mountain on Buffalo
CreeK.
Miss Bridges, who had second
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Compact Students
Assigned Central
Bloodmobile
Here July 31
The Red Cross bloodmobile
returns to Kings Mountain on
Monday, July 31, for the first
visit of the fiscal year 1967-68.
Donors will be processed
from 11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at
the National Guard Armory.
Tom Burke, blood program
chairman, invited Kings Moun
tain area citizens to "remem
ber this date and help meet
the blood quota by giving a
pint of blood to help others.”
PHA Group
To Atlanta
Members of Kings Mountain
Public Housing authority will go
to Atlanta next week for a Wed
nesday conference on the Kings
Mountain project with officials
of the public housing section of
the Housing and Urban Develop
ment regional office.
Regional office officials de
scribe the conference as an
orientation session, in whicji the
members of the local authority
are acquainted with basic duties
and requirements as contained in
the Public Housing Authority
law.
The Kings Mountain authority
has been authorized to build 150
housing units for low-income
citizens, with 30 of the 150 speci
fied to be designed for elderly
citizens.
Members are John L. McGill,
chairman, Martin Harmon, tem
porary secretary, Brooks R. Tate,
William Orr, and Carl F. Wilson.
Withers, Bates.
Parker Promoted
The city board of education
Monday night took the recom
mendation of the school superin
tendent and promoted three vet
eran teachers within the system.
J. Fr«i Withers, industrial co
j operative training instructor at
i Kings Mountain higl^ school, was
elected principal of 26-teacher
Central Junior high school suc
ceeding R. G. Franklin, who re
signed. Mr. Wither’s salary will
be $9,187.
Donald L. Parker, veteran
coach, will serve as Title 1 di
rector on a year-round basis be
j ginning September 1. Mr. Parker
will be paid $900 monthly.
Bill* G. Bates, head football
coach, was named 'athletic direc
tor and assistant KMHS princi
pal. Mr. Bates replaces Mr
Parker as the assistant principal
He will coordinate the full pro
gram of athletics at the high
school.
| Privilege License
Sales Total $2174
City privilege license tax
sales through Tuesday totaled
$2,174.50.
Deadline for purchase of
privilege licenses without pen
alty is August 1.
Penalty of five percent per
month applies thereafter.
Adams Is Charged With Murder,
As Shot-gun Victim Ross Succumbs
Ervin Ross Jr., 39 > f Route 2,
Kings Mountain died around 4
p.m. Monday from gunshot
wounds he had sustained approx
imately four hours earlier. Death
occurred at Kings Mountain
Hospital where Ross was taken
after the fatal shooting.
Held in connection with the
shooting by Cleveland County
Sheriffs Department is a man
identified as Andrew Adams, 29,
also of Route 2, Kings Mountain. I
The Sheriff’s Department chang- i
ed Adams with the murder of
Ross shortly after Ross died.
Investigating Sheriff’s deputies1
Jim McKinney and Alvie Jones
said Ros$ was shot once in the
side with a .20 gauge shotgun.
The shooting occurred Monday
around noon in a field just out
side the city limits near Ware’s
Store on the Grover Road.
Reportedly, after the shooting, I
Adams went to Ware’s Store and I
asked that the police be gum-j
moned. Adams was taken into
custody by Kings Mountain City
Police who later turned him over
to the Sheriff’s Department be
cause the incident occurred out
side the city limits.
Adams will be given a pre
liminary hearing Thursday morn
ing in Cleveland County Record
er’s Court. He is being held in
Cleveland County Jail without
bond.
This is the second murder in
the Kings Mountain area in the
past two weeks. William Daw
kins was fatally wounded by a
gunshot on July 7. Both incidents
involved negroes and both were
just outside the city limits.
Funeral arrangements are irt
complete at this time.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete at this time pending
the arrival of Ross’ mother from
Columbus, O. The body is at
Costner's Fungral Home in Gas
tonia. I
Grades 7 & 8
Now Fully
Consolidated
The city board of education
discussed a menagerie of sub
jects at the July meeting Mon
day night:
Construction of a greenhouse
on the campus of Kings Moun
tain high school was approved
at cost of $3,260. F'unds for the
project were augmented by $2,
300 from the sale of a tractor.
The project was recommended by
high school agriculture teachers.
Approved the transfer of 58
seventh and eighth grade stu
dents from Compact school to
Central Junior high school.
Deferred two requests from
students for transfer of school
assignments, for lack of space,
and approved 23 transfer re
quests.
Endorsed the current effort to
obtain independent status for
the CJeveland Unit of Gaston
college and named trustee James
E. Herndon, Jr., as representa
tive from the local board.
Authorized Supt. Donald Jones
to request bids on physical edu
cation equipment for the high
school. Specifically, the board
anticipates including wrestling in
the athletic program and mats
for a program of this type are
expected to cost $2600. Pingpong
tables, storage shelves, peg
boards, bars and climbing ropes
are also to be purchased if funds
are available.
Approved a monthly rental al
lowance of $150 and a monthly
supplement of $250 for Supt.
Jones. Jones’ state-paid salary is
$869 per month.
Accepted low bids totaling
$26,909 for renovation work at
Central school including: plumb
ing, Ben T. Goforth, Kings Moun
tain, $11,560; heating, Dudley
Plumbing, Shelby, $11,860; and
electric, Hoke Electric, Kings
Mountain, $3,489.
Authorized payment of ac
counts, including $9,267.50 in ar
chitect’s fees and $30,634.20 to
Southern Piping and Engineering
Company as payment number
two for air conditioning of the
new high school.
Established policy lor travel
allocations to vocational teachers
at $25 per month. In the past
these teachers have submitted
written request. This applies to
industrial cooperative training,
home economics, agriculture, dis
tributive education and cosmeto
logy teachers and covers all
travel expense with the excep
tion of attendance at conferen
ces that are approved by the
state.
Set the 25 th day of each
month as pay day for teachers.
Renewed membership in the N.
C. State School Boards Associa->
tion, the National School Boards
Association and subscribed to
the American School Board Jour
nal.
Authorized painting of the Cen
tral gymnasium, reroofing of the
school residence on N. Gaston st.J
carpeting of the library in the
Central plant; painting of Park
Grace school and installing of a
water pump at the Park Grace
plant; purchase of an electric
typewriter for the secretary at
the high school; fencing around
an open sewage sand filter at
the Compact plant;
Delegated Mrs. John L. McGill,
school trustee, chairman of a
committee to select tile, seats,
and color of paint for the reno
vated auditorium of Central Jun
ior high school.
Authorized the high school
principal to plan a clean-up cam
paign to be followed, after the
ball games in John Gamble Sta
dium and discuss concession stand
operation with the Kings Moun
tain Optimist club.
Central heating of the superin
tendent’s building was discussed
and Mr. Jones was authorized to
get specifications.
Discussed, but took no action,
on designating a lunchroom man
ager as dietician for the schools.
The board indicated a called
meeting of lunchroom managers
to review the school lunch pro
gram prior to the opening of
school in August.
Tabled suggestion to extend a
gate along the service road at
the new high school plant until
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