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VOL 78 — No. 32 Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 10, 1967 Seventy-Eighth Year Pagos Today PRICE TEN CENTS City Hopes To Accept Sewer, System Bids In 90 Days ESC Officials Favor Return Of Kings Mountain Branch TRAINEE — Freddie Foster has joined First Union National Bank of Kings Mountain as a trainee in the Installment Loan Department. Foster Joins Hist Union Freddie S. Foster, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Foster of Kings Mountain, has joined t Installment Loan Depart t of First Union Nation*1 k as a trainee. Announcement was made by L. E. Hlnnant, the bank’s execu tive officer. A 1963 graduate of Kings Mountain high school, Foster at tended Falls college of Atlanta, Ga. Before joining First Union, Foster was employed in the ad ministrative divisional office of Burlington Mills’ Ranlo Plant. He is a member of Temple Baptist church and of the Kings Mountain National Guard. Foster resides on Cherryville road with his parents. Adams In Again; Assault on Wife A Kings Mountain man, out on bond on a charge of murder, was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault with a deadly weap on with intent to kill. Andrew Adams, 29, a Kings Mountain laborer was arrested by Cleveland County Sheriff’s deputies and charged with as sault on Annie Mae Adams. Mrs. Adams was admitted to Kings Mountain Hospital Tues day, a week after the alleged in cident. According to an attending physician, she was being treated * multiple lacerations, contu s and possible fractures of head. The Adams woman reportedly would not report the incident un til relatives called the Sheriff's Department Tuesday. The war rant charges Adams with cutting Mrs. Adams with “a large, long blade pocket knife inflicting se vere wounds.” When arrested, Adams was out of jail on $500 bond pending a Superior Court trial on the July 18 murder of Ervin Ross, Jr., of Kings Mountain who died after being shot with a 20-guage shot gun. Mrs. Medlin’s Bites Thursday Funeral rites for Mrs. Ida Med lin, 90, will be held Thursday at 4 p.m. from the Chapel of Harris Funeral Home. Mrs. Medlin was found dead at her home on Juniper street Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. She had made her home for more than 30 years with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cloninger, 105 S. Juniper street. She was a native of Kings Mountain and a member of Beth «m (Baptist church. ie is survived by her son, es H. Medlin, of Kings Mountain; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. . Rev. Thomas Richie, pastor of Boyce Manorial ARP church, will officiate at the final rites. Interment will be in Bethlehem City Ups Budget; Tax Rate Is Same Income Sights Are Raised By 532,500 The city commission upped its tentative estimate of income and outgo for the current fiscal year by $32,500 on adoption of its gen eral operating budget Friday. Meantime, as tentatively set, the commission maintained the tax rate at 85 cents per $100 val uation, which includes the spe cial five cents tax for recreation. The new total budget figure is $1,363,537. The commission raised its sights on recreation department income (meter receipts, concession stand sales, etc.) by $10,000 to $22,000, and raised its estimate of income from sale of property by $22,500 to $25,000. Qn the sale of property item-, 'the dty anticipates disposing of its City Street property when it builds a public works building on McGinnis street. Appropriations capital expendi tures were increased $26,750 and for electrical department expen ditures $5750. No change was made in the tentatively adopted budget for the natural gas system, with in come and outgo balanced at $422, 412.50. Mrs. Rowers’ Rites Comforted Funeral rites for Mrs. Stella Lee Flowers, 63, widow of Thom as Henry Flowers, were held Tuesday at 4 p.m. from First Wesleyan Methodist church of which she was a member. Mrs. Flowers died Sunday at 3:15 p.m. at her home at 209 City street after an illness of several months. A native of Cleveland County, she was the daughter of Mrs. Charles A. Baity of Kings Moun tain and the late Mr. Baity. Her husband died in 1949. Besides her mother, Mrs. Flow ers is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Richard Ross of Kings Mountain; four sons, Lawrence Flowers of Jacksonville, Fla., Arthur Flowers, Marion Flowers, both of Kings Mountain, and Don Flowers of Cherryville. Also surviving are a brother, A. P. Baity, Sr. of Kings (Mountain; and four sisters, Mrs. Clarence (Continued on Page Six) REAPPOINTED—Governor Dan JC. Moan has re-appointed Cart T. Mauney. above, Kings Moun tain industrialist, to the Board of Trustaos of the North Caro lina Vocational Textile School at Belmont for terms expiring July 1, 1971. Mr. Mauney is an executive of Mauney Textiles. John Hughes Is Improving The condition of John Lewis Hughes, who suffered severe burns in a freak accident last Wednesday, was improved Wed nesday, his mother, Mrs. Conrad Hughes said. The 32-year-old Kings Moun tain man is a patient in Room 626, Charlotte Memorial hospital, where he was transferred on Fri day. Hughes, who lives with his wife and family at 911 Henry street, superintendent of the Neal Haw kins Asphalt Company here, was seriously burned and a second member of the firm’s road paving crew was injured last Wednesday about 7 p.m. in a fire which erupted spontaneously when hot sand was poured onto asphalt during a paving operation off the Oak Grove road. Hughes reportedly was riding on the running board of a sand laden dump truck when the fire exploded without warning. He re portedly jumped from the truck and fell onto the burning tar. He received severe burns of both arms, both legs, face and back. The driver of the truck, David Lorance, 35, of Gastonia, was (Continued on Page Six) $363,862 Capital Fond Includes Sheets, Building, Bolling Stock The dty expects to spend, dur ing the year which began July 1. a total of $363,862, of which street improvements will claim nearly a third at $117,311. There are some other major items, among them 1) a $60,000 public works building; 2) a $24,262 fire truck; 3) a $32,000 billing-bookkeeping machine; 4) a 24,000 tractor-payloader trailer for the sanitary depart ment and a $10,500 packer-type garbage truck; and 5) two dump trucks at $10,850. 6) an electrical department line truck at $17,500. The police department is to get to two new cars, $5000, and two new radios, $1800. An appropriation of $500 is Olisted for a topographical map of the Buffalo Creek watershed area and city ordinance recodifi cation is expected to cost $3000. The ioUowing streets are to i be paved, curbed and guttered: l Ruppe street from Gold to Owens. Woodside Dr. from Fallingwood to dead end. Henry Street Extension. Fulton street from Cansler to dead end. Temple street from Walker to Fulton. Mica street from Waco to Ful ton. Meadowbrook Road Ext. W, from hillside. These streets are to be curbed and guttered: Monroe Ave. from Groves St. to Jackson. First st. from Lin wood to dead end. Monta Vista Dr. from Wilson to Falls. Waco Road from Gantt to Watterson. Fairview st. from N. Piedmont to Linwood Hawthorne Road from Marion to Hillside. Katherine st. from Fairview to Second. Cleveland Ave. from King to (Continued on Page Six) Industrialists, Businessmen Ask Survey Of Need By MARTIN HARMON ‘‘What I report will favor open ing of a Kings Mountain office if regulations permit,” Phillip Bunn, assistant state director of the Employment Security Com mission, said Tuesday at the con clusion of a public hearing on the question. The hearing was attended by some 35 representatives of busi ness and industry who, Mayor John Henry Moss estimated, em ploy at least 55 percent of the employees in Number 4 Town ship. Asked to speak briefly on ques tion of ‘return of the Kings Mountain office, closed Septem ber 30, 1959, each strongly sup ported return of a Kings Moun tain office as very much needed. Also attending was John H. Wilson, area supervisor. He com mented, “I once managed the Shelby office but had left before the Kings Mountain office was closed. However, I know the marvelous job the Kings Moun tain office did under the man agement of the fate Mary Go forth and Franklin Ware. I favor the returning' the office.” On statement of Mr. Bunn that he would recommend to Col. Henry E. Kendall, director, of a research and statistical depart ment survey to determine whe ther Kings Mountain is eligible for an office, the group, on mo tion of Wilson Griffin, of Grif fin’s Drug Store, seconded by George DoBrule, of Craftspun Yarns, Inc., the group passed un animously a resolution asking the survey. Mr. Bunn and Mr. Wilson said they were very impressed with the enthusiasm of the Kings Mountain businessmen for the return of the office and Mr. Bunn said he could take only one ex ception to any statement made. To suggestion of Charles Blan ton, Kings Mountain Drug Com pany, that Kings Mountain is probably largest, city of the state with no ESC office, Mr. Bunn commented that there are sev eral. Sample comments of Kings Mountain citizens at the hearing follow: Leonard Smith, Sadie Cotton M^lls: “Service fvia Shelby and Gastonia) is not comparable to that of the Kings Mountain of fice.” John Smathers, Park Yarn Mills: “Imployment office here would be great help. Turnover is heavy.” Skelly Hunt, Superior Stone Company, “We favor return of the Kings Mountain office.” Glee E. Bridges, Bridges Hard ware and president of the Kings Mountain Merchants association: “When you need an employee, you need, whether you employee one or 25.” George DPBrule: “With the acute help shortage, re-opening of the Kings Mountain problem would be a step in the right di (Continued on Page Six) School Boaid Meets Monday The Kings Mountain district! board of education will consider j adoption of a system teacher' handbook and will study a school J plant study at Monday night’s! meeting. The board will convene in the; office of the superintendent at 7:30 p.m. Superintendent Donald G. Jones said these are the two major items Wis far on the agenda' and guessed both would require; lengthy and detailed study. The school plant survey, report was made by the division of school planning, Department of Public Instruction. Other business will include ratification of faculty contracts made since the previous meeting and consideration of school equip ment purchasing needs. ANN HARBIN TERESA JANE JOLLEY DONNA JOAN KING SANDRA KAY MULUNAX JOAN MARIE McCLURE HELEN GENEVA OWENS PHYLLIS ANN PUTNAM JANET LYNN SPANGLER RITA GAIL WISE Jaycee Beauty Pageant Set August 18; Nine Contestants Nine Kings Mountain area beauties will vie for the title of Miss Kings Mountain 1968 in the Jaycee-sponsored beauty pageant August 18. Plans for the pageant are well underway by the Jaycees, public ity chairman Joe Smith said this week. The contestants, one of whom will succeed Reta Mae Vollbracht as the reigning Miss Kings Moun tain, are Ann Harbin, Teresa Jane Jolley, Donna Joan King, Sandra Kay Mullinax, Joan Marie McClure, Helen Geneva Owens, Phyllis Ann Putngm, Janet Lynn Spangler, and Rita Gail Wise. Jack Knight, WSOC Radio-TV personality of Charlotte, will be master of ceremonies for the 8 p.m. pageant to be staged in the air-conditioned gymnasium of the new high school in a stage setting the Jaycees are hard at work completing. A feature of the pageant wil be talent performances by Clau dia Bonner of Gaffney, S. C., Miss Chej-okee County, who plac ed in the finals of the recent Miss South Carolina competition and who was a special guest at the Miss Tennessee pageant re cently. The Limestone college student performs an original mountain clog hillbilly dance with her own banjo accompani ment. She was an audience fav orite at the recent South Caro lina pageants. Judges for the pageant, who Kings Mountain S & L Honors Duo For 30-Year Service To Firm J. Roan Davis, Kings Mountain attorney, and Dr. L. P. Baker, Kings Mountain dentist, were honored for long service to Kings Mountain Savings & Loan Asso ciation Tuesday. The veteran directors were presented lapel pins and certifi cates from the North Carolina Savings & Loan League. Service to the savings and loan industry by both Dr. Baker and Mr. Davis has totaled more than! 30 years each. The 30-plus year awards were presented by Joe R. i Smith, secretary-treasurer of the local firm. Mr. Smith surprised the two men with the awards presents tion at opening of the regular meeting of the board of director ; at which Mr. Davis, the board president, presided. Present as visitors were Mr Davis’ law partners, State Sena tor Jack H. White and Bob Powell, and Dr. Baker’s wife. Directors unanimously adopted a resolution commending Dr. Baker and Mr. Davis for "untir ing effort to the Savings & Loan Association vyho added prestige and integrity to the board of di rectors for more than 30 years.” A copy of the resolution is to be published in this newspaper and placed in the minutes of the as-j sotiation, said Smith. i will judge contestants in evening dress, swimsuit and talent divi sions, are Mrs. Joyce Summey of Charlotte, Jaycee director A. Eu gene Warren of Charlotte, Rob ert A. Jones of Forest City, past state Jaycee vice-president, Sena tor Marshall Rauch of Gastonia and Everette Hinson of Char lotte. Jack Knight was master of ceremonies for the recent Miss Charlotte beauty pageant and for the past three years has served in this capacity for the Miss Downtown Charlotte events. He will also serve as master of ceremonies for the Miss Southern Textile pageant this summer. Frank Hinson, chairman of the 1967 Miss Kings Mountain pag eant, said the nine contestants will appear in a parade on down town streets Friday, August 18th, at 11 a.m. He said advance tick ets for the pageant are on sale at one dollar for adults and 75 cents for children. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-1 ey Harbin, of 102 E. King street, Ann Harbin is 18. A 1967 gnad (Continued On Page Six> Mayor To Outline Water Project Plans Mayor John Henry Moss will outline Kings Mountain’s Buffalo Creek water project plans to Shelby groups next week. On Monday night at the Hotel Charles, he will speak to the board of directors of Shelby Chamber of Commerce. On August 17. he will speak to the Shelby Planning and Zoning commission. Federal Agency Approves Grant 01 $388,500 By MARTIN HARMON The city hopes to consider bids for construction of its new sew age system within 75 to 90 days, Mayor John Henry Moss said Wednesday. His statement followed an nouncement on Friday by U. S. Representive Basil L. Whitener that the Federal Water Pollution Control administration has ap proved a grant offer for the pro ject of $388,500. Representative Whitener tele graphed the Mayor and this newspaper: "Federal Water Pollution Con trol Administration has approved grant offer for the city of Kings Mountain in the amount of $388, 500 for the construction of a new extended aeration secondary type sewage treatment plant and for addition to an existing second ary sewage treatment facility. Al so for the construction of two new pumping stations with 4500 feet of force main and approximately 9 miles of new intercepting sew ers. Estimated cost with site is $1,360,000." The grant was recommended by the North Carolina state stream sanitation committee last July. At Tuesday night’s regular meeting, the city commission formally accepted the grant of fer and passed a resolution exec uting acceptance document (PHS Form 2690-1) agreeing to condi tions set forth in the grant offer. in another resolution concern ing the western phase of the sewage project, the commission accepted suggestion from the State Stream Sanitation commit tee to assure low-flow impound ment on Buffalo Creek as may he required to maintain the as signed water quality standards downstream. The letter had point ed out that the Town of Blacks burg, S. C., uses Buffalo Creek for its water supply. Mayor Moss said he was high ly gratified at approval of the grant offer. "Much work has gone into this project by Engineer W. K. Dick son and his staff, the city clerk, superintendent of public works and citizens who supported the project and voted the city bond issue authority for this long needed project. I also am deeply appreciative of the aid given by Representative Basil L. Whitener and Senators Everett Jordan and Sam Ervin.” Mayor Moss said the accept ance document will be perused for correctness of detail by the city attorney and should be for warded to the water pollution control administration within ten days, well in advance of the Aug ust 25 deadline. The Mayor guessed approval of plans and specifications (already in the federal agency’s hands) and per mission to proceed with bid in vitations will follow in about 15 days. Bid advertising requires a month. The project includes doubling of the capacity of the McGill Plant, built in 1954, to a million gallons per day. A t>vo million gallon treatment plant on Potts Creek will serve the western por tion of the city, now served only by over-loaded Imhoff-type tanks. Ware Is Shelby ESC Manager Franklin L. Ware, Jr., since 1959 assistant manager of the ■ Gastonia office of the N. C. Em ployment Security Commission, Monday assumed duties as man ager of the Shelby ESC office succeeding the late Buell Bailey. A Kings Mountain citizen, Mr. Ware has been an employee of the commission since 1946, serv ing in Gastonia and Kings Moun tain. Manager of the Kings Mountain office from 1953-59, he was transferred to Gastonia when the ESC office here was closed. He joined the Employment Se curity Commission as an inter viewer in Gastonia in August 1946. Prior to that time he taught school for four years in Mecklenburg County and served during World War II as a drill sergeant at Fort Bragg and Fort Jackson. He was ESC veterans repre sentative in the Gastonia office in 1959, was subsequently pro moted to the position of assistant manager. He succeeded the late of the local office here in 1953. Mrs. Ben H. Goforth as manager (Continued on Pago Ski-)
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