Population
I Greater1 Kings Mountain 21,914
^ity Limits 8,256
The Greater Kings Mountain figure is derived from the
special United States Bureau of the Census report o
January 1S66, and includes the 14.980 population o
Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 iron
Number S Township, in Cleveland County and Crowder'
Mountain Township in Gaston County.
VOL. 78 — No. 33
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 17, 1967 Seventy-Eignth Year
Pagos
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
GRADUATES — Kay Pearson,
above, daughter of Mr. and
1 Mrs. W. E. Pearson, has grad
| uated with B.A. in history from
I Limestone college at Gaffney
It and James Baker Leigh, son of
|| Mr. and Mrs. Jim Leigh, will
1 receive his B.S. in physical edu
1 cation Thursday from Appala
ichian State University. Leigh
H will serve as assistant football
H coach at Jonesville, S. C., high
1school in the ialL Miss Pear*
■ son will teach history and
E^wography at Clover high
no Betaming
KM Schools
Fee-basis piano teaching-in
the-schools will be returned to
the, curriculum with the opening
of -the current term on August
By action of the board of edu
ifjon Monday, elementary and
f|h school students of the 10
wnt district system can receive
fitio instruction at the various
pools.
mhs. F. R. McCurdy will teach
lino at East and West schools,
is. L. E. Hinnant will teach pi
go at North and Park Grace
pools, Mrs. Martin Harmon will
Each piano at Central and Kings
fountain high schools, and Mrs.
| B. Hambright will teach piano
I Grover school.
Teachers of piano have not yet
ten obtained for Compact, Dav
ison and Bethware plants.
Piano students may obtain ap
lication forms at the office of
apt. Donald D. Jones' or may re
vive them at the several schools
! the system on opening day
agust 24th. ;
jBee basis piano teaching in the
JPmools has not been included in
Ve school curriculum for several
•ars. The few local teachers
ave given lessons in their
omes to a limited number of
udents from about 3 until 6 p.
i. five days a week. Question of
hether piano could be returned
i the- curriculum was aired at
re July meeting of the school
oard and prompted by visit of
wee music teachers, a former
chool board candidate and an
irskine college music major.
lughes Condition
Keported Critical
The condition Of John Lewis
lughes, severely burned in a
oad-paving accident August 2
as critical Wednesday, members
f his family reported.
The 32-year-old superintendent
tf Neal Haiwkins Asphalt Com
tany here remains a patient in
Charlotte Memorial hospital,
loom 626, with burns of both
irms, both legs, face and back.
Hughes was riding on the run
ting board of a sand-laden dump
ruck when fire erupted without
earning when hot sand was
toured onto asphalt during a
kving operation on the Oak
>ve road. He jumped from the
and fell into the burning
The driver of the truck was
a ted at Cleveland Memorial
pital and released.
He is the son of Mrs. Cc.trad
ughes of the Dixon community
the Into Mr. Hughes. He is
to the former Betty
Sm
MISS KINGS MOUNTAIN 1967
Beta Mae Vollbracht
MISS CHEROKEE COUNTY 1967
Claudia Bonner
I
Nine Contestants
For Beauty Title
Claudia Bonner,
Reta Vollbracht
Will Perform
Miss Kings Mountain 1968 will
be crowned Friday ni/ght in the
annual Miss Kings Mountain
beauty pageant sponsored by
Kings Mountaih Jaycees.
The reigning beauty queen, one
of nine contestants entered in
the show, will succeed Reta Mae
Vollbracht, Mitchell college stu
dent and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Vollbracht.
An entertainment feature of
the pageant will be the talent
performance of Claudia Bonner,
Miss Cherokee County, who
“clogged” her way to the finals
of the Miss South Carolina pag
FRIDAY PARADE
Ilie nine beauty contestants
will ride in a parade which will
form at 10:45 a.m. Friday
morning in front of the Wo
man’s club on East Mountain
street. Citizens who would vol*
unteer to drive convertibles or
furnish a convertible for the
parade are asked to contact Joe
Smith or Gerald Thomasson.
eant recently and who was guest
entertainer at the recent Miss
Tennessee pageant.
The Limestone college student
performs a “straight from the
backwoods" version of the moun- i
tain clog dance, complete with
an original hillbilly introduction
and banjo accompaniment.
Also appearing on the program
will be the reigning Miss Kings
Mountain, Miss Vollbracht.
Master of ceremonies for the
pageant at 8 p.m. in the air-con
ditioned gymnasium of Kings
Mountain high school will be
Jack Knight, WSOC Radto-TV
(Continued on Pago Six).
—
PASTOR—Rev. Edwin A. Chris
coe has assumed duties as pas
tor of East Gold Street Wesle
yan Methodist church.
Chriscoe Assumes
Pastorate Duties
Rev. Edwin A. Chriscoe has
assumed new duties as minister
of East Gold Street Wesleyan
Methodist church.
Mr. Chriscoe comes to Kings
Mountain from Shelby Wesleyan
Methodist church.
He attended Brower Elemen
tary school, Seagrove and Ashe
borb high school and Southern
Pilgrim Bible college.
Mrs. Chriscoe is the former,
Callie McDowell of Asheboro and j
they are parents of two sons,
Steve, 11, and Darrell, 7.
Tfie Chriscoe family has oc
cupied the parsonage at 610 E.
Gold street.
Coop Venture Benefits All Partners
1
Arnold Kincaid
Rites Conducted
Heart Attack
Proves Fatal
To Industrialist
Funeral rites for Arnold Wes
ley Kincaid, 62, Kings Mountain
industrialist, were held Wednes
day at 3 p.m. from First Baptist
church of which he was an active
member and deacon.
Mr. Kincaid died suddenly
Monday night at 10:05 p.m. at
his home, 921 Church street, of
a heart attack. In apparent good
health, he had just returned home
from choir practice at First Bap
tist church.
Vice-president and treasurer of
Ideal Industries of Bessemer
City, Mr. Kincaid was a native of
| Cherryville, son of the late Sam
uel Calhoun and Edith Mae
, Stein Kincaid. He was educated
; at Wake Forest college.
Long active in the religious,
civic and community life of
Kings Mountain, Mr. Kincaid, a
member of the Kings Mountaip
' board of education from 1947-61,
| served as the board chairman
from 1951-57. A former chairman
I of the exeoutive committee of
the board of trustees of Gardner
Webb Junior college at Boiling
Springs, ha was a Mason and a
former Master of both the Kings
Mountain and Bessemer City lod
ges.
Long active in Eastern Star
and Masonic Order circles, he
was Grand Lecturer of the North
Carolina Grand Lodge from 1951
53, served as District Deputy
Grand Master from 1936-39 and
from 1951-52 was Worthy Grand
Patron of the Grand Chapter of
the North Carolina Order of the
Eastern Star.
tie was also a snriner ana ivi
wanian.
He was married to Miss Janie
Sue Dodd in 1927.
His wife survives in addition to
three daughters, Mrs. Robert
Beason of Boiling Springs, Mrs.
Bobby Bush of Cliffside, and Mrs.
Jerry Adams of Pageland, S. C.;
one son, David Kincaid, of Bes
semer City; two sisteps, Mrs.
Rhea Lewis and Mrs. B. V. Tay
lor, both of Bessemer City; and
six grandchildren.
His pastor, Rev. Robert Mann,
officiated at the final rites and
interment was made in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family
has designated memorials to the
building fund of First Baptist
church.
Active pallbearers were Pete
Falls, A1 Roebuck, Arvin Costner,
Lester White, Charles Kirby and
Gene Conner. Honorary pallbear
ers were Mr. Kincaid's partners
in Ideal Industries, Jack Costner
and. Joe Whitehurst, and deacons
of First Baptist church.
Privilege License
Sales Total $4888
Kings Mountain business firms
have purchased city privilege li
censes totaling $4888.
'The figure compares with the
estimated $5800 in revenue the city
expects to derive from this source
during the current fiscal year
ending next June.
City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr.,
reminded firms which have not
yet purchased licenses, that pen
alty of five percent applied Aug
ust 2. Another five percent pen
alty will be added September 1
RITES HELD — Funeral rites
for Arnold W. Kincaid were
held, Wednesday afternoon
from First Baptist church. Mr.
Kincaid died of a heart attack
Monday night.
Faculty Needs
Pared To Five
Twenty-seven faculty members
were employed- Monday by the
board of education which brings
to five the number of teachers
needed in the 10 plants of the
district system by school opening
a week from today.
Supt. Donald D. Jones said this
week he was interviewing pros
pects for a second grade vacancy
at West school, a third grade va
cancy at North school and two
new positions at Central Junior
high school which were approved
Monday. The two new positions
are for teachers of art and mu
sic. One faculty member approv
ed Monday, Frank Hoyle, has re
signed.
Supt. Jones said he anticipated
all vacancies would be filled in
a few days.
The board on Monday elected
Mrs. Dee E. Wood, Mrs. Faye S.
Spake, Ronald Nanny, Mrs. Car
olyn Wellmon, Frank Hoyle, Mrs.
Florence Floyd, George Lublane
ski, Mrs. Sara H. Weaver, Mrs.
Sylvia Harvey, Mrs. Margaret
Hunter, Mrs. W. K. Crook, W. F.
Powell, Mrs. Brenda Barger, AI
len Dixon, George Silver, Miss
Jill Crawley, Mrs. Mildred Hoyle,
Mrs. Esther Toole, Mrs. Pauline
F. Weaver, Mrs. Sarah W. Jones,
Yates Warlick, Miss Marie Cobb,
Miss Ruth Beam, Carl W. Dow
dle, Miss Suzanne Ramsey, Mrs.
L. Arnold Kiser and Robert De
Voe.
Two resignations were accepted
Monday night, those of Miss Bil
lie Jean Haynie and Mrs. Tommy
Keeter. fti addition, the board
granted a request by another
teacher, Mrs. Angela Lackey, to
be released from her contract to
teach at Central school. Mrs. Lac
key has accepted a position as
an English teacher at Gaffney
high school.
Teachers Get
New Handbook
The board of education Monday
approved a personnel handbook
upon recommendation of Supt.
Donald Jones.
The handbook contains policy
information of the local board
and state regulations, plus other
information of interest to teach
ers.
Each teacher will be given a
copy of the handbook.
134 Industrial Trainees Will Get
Certificates Foi Completing Work
A total of 134 Kings Mountain
area industrial employees will
receive certificates signifying
their successful completion of in
dustrial training courses at a bar
becue dinner at the National
Guard Armory at 7 o’clock Thurs
day night.
The federal government train
ing program, a cooperative pro
gram with industry designed to
improve skills, is under the di
rection of the Bureau of Appren
ticeship and Training.
Expected to make brief ad
dresses are J. B. Archer, Cham
bersburg, Pa., regional director,
U. S. Representative Basil L.
Whitener, and N. C. Representa
tive W. K. Mauney, Jr., president
of the sponsoring Industrial As*
sociation of the Kings Mountain
area.
Also to be present, along with
the certificate - receiving honor
ees are Tom Poole, Raleigh, state
supervisor, and Lester Voiselle,
Charlotte, area representative of
the Bureau, N. C. Senators Mar
shall Rauch and Jack White,
Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manager
of the Shelby office of the Em
ployment Security commission.
Mayor John Henry Moss and Hal
Smith, county welfare superinten
dent.
Joe Vale, executive secretary of
the Industrial association, said
100 industrial employees are In
the training program today and
wHl complete courses of training
by October 13.
1 _
New Crosstown
Road To Result
Via Rig "Cats"
By MARTIN HARMON
The earth-moving project on
the southside of Bonnie Cotton
Mill employing huge "cats” and
other heavy equipment on the
southside of Bonnie Cotton Mill
is a cooperative project among
four partner^ with indicated bene
fits each.
The four are Superior Stone
Company, W. K. Mauney, Jr.,
Bonnie Cotton Mill and the City
of Kings Mountain.
Superior Stone Company is do
ing the earth-moving clearing
and street shaping. The point
here of Superior is to close the
old Bonnie Mill Lake and divert
the stream in order that Superior
way extract rock in an area
which the stream was prevent
ing.
Bonnie Cotton Mill and Mr.
Mauney provided permission for
the project, not only will have
the snake-inhabited and mosquito
breeding area cleared, but will
benefit by the new and improved
streets, which are:
1) a widened Lake street;
2) opening of Spruce street
from Lake to Cherokee.
3) opening of Falls street to
Owens, which will create another
east-west crosstown street from
S. Battleground avenue to York
road.
me city or Kings Mountain
will benefit by having a potential
residential area opened, relief
from the brambles with attend
ant benefits, and additional street
maintained street mileage, a fac-i
tor in determining the city’s an
nual share of the Powell Bill gas
tax refupd for street improve
ment, along with the traffic im
provement to be engendered by,
the new crosstown road.
All parties have expressed
themselves as pleased with the
agreement.
Jay Powell, operations manag
er of Superior Stone, remarked,
“It’s costing us money, but we]
hed to get to the rock it’s time
to dig.”
Dr. W. L. Mauney, of Bonnie!
Cotton^ Mill, commented, “It j
should have been one long ago.” i
W. K. Mauney, Jr., said, “It’s:
changing the landscape for the
better.”
Mayor John Henry Moss com
mented, “The project has been in
the talking stage for several j
months and the City is glad to]
see it come to fruition. It’s a j
sample of the good results ob
tainable when individuals, busi
ness firms and government works
together.”
McGill Clan
Taps Harmon
School Superintendent Donald
Jones, .speaking to the annual
gathering of the McGills of Gas
ton at Bethel Arbor Sunday aft
ernoon, gave his prescription for
a happy family life—three cc’s
of Christianity, cooperation and
courtesy.
“This is my wish for the fam
ily,” Mr. Jones stated, “And
along with wisdom, integrity,
sincerity and humility, you can’t
help but have a happy family
life."
t atapmaojiig uic uaumu.iai
Three R’s for young people, Mr.
Jones recommended the stressing
of rights, respect and responsi
bility.
“We talk a lot about freedom,”
he said, “But you can’t have free
dom without respect.”
Martin Harmon, Herald editor,
was elected president for the
coming year. Other officers are
Hugh McArver, of Gastonia, vice
president and Mrs. N. F. McGill,
Jr. secretary.
A motion, made by Ned Mc
Gill, of Gastonia, that the vice
president automatically step up
to presidency was approved.
Statistition Miss Willie Mc
Gill reported that there has been
five births, three marriages and
four deaths during the year.
Minutes of the former year’s
reunion were read by Mrs. N. F.
McGill, Jr., and Earle McGill,
clan president from Blacksburg,
presided and presented Mr. Jones.
Elaborating his views about
rights for young people, the new
superintendent, father of three
young children, said young peo
ple should have the rights to 1)
participate in family discussions,
2) select their friends, 31 be giv
en the proper information about:
sex and 4) have a good educa-i
tion.
About 80 members and guests;
enjoyed a picnic dinner follow j
ing the five p.m. program. I
Out-of-District
Fee At School
East Students
Still Required
To Get Releases j
It will cost out-of district pupils
$60 to attend Kings Mountain
schools this term, but the condi
tion of acceptance is that they
have obtained release from their
particular board of jurisdiction.
This action still leaves an es
timated 30 East Kings Mountain
students in left field, unless they
can obtain extension of a Su
perior Court order to attend Kings
Mountain schools where they
have attended all their school
lives.
The 'Gaston board continues its
position of “attend where you
like but we’ll provide no written
release”.
Henry Whitesides, attorney for
the East Kings Mountain group’s
parents, told the Kings Mountain
board of education in April he
was confident the court order ex
tension could be obtained, minus
holding of an election on the
question of joining the Kings
Mountain school district (no elec- j
tion held).
Mr. Whitesides could not be
reached by the Herald Tuesday:
afternoon, but told Gary Sarvis,
one of the interested parents, i
Tuesday, the attorney expects to
seek the court order extension
jiext week.
Kings Mountain senoois open
August 24, a week from today. ;
Exception to the $60 tuition fee!
will be children of employees of
Kings Mountain National Mili- j
tary Park. The federal govern
ment pays tuition for these chil-:
dren who may attend schools ofj
their choice.
Superintendent Donald G. Jones
told the board of education at
Monday night’s meeting that pre
vious payments due for these j
children had not been made.
Elementary school pupils from |
the East Kings Mountain group;
would attend Green Bethel j
school, while high school students)
would attend Hunter Huss, if
they attend Gaston county
schools.
It has been several decades
since Kings Mountain schools
imposed a fee for out-of-district
pupils.
Mrs. Goforth Home
From Morocco Trip
Mrs. H. A. Goforth returned
home Tuesdajf after a three
weeks stay in Kenitra, Morocco
Africa with her son and daughter
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Go
forth.
The Kings Mountain service
man is attached to the Naval
Communications Station at Mo
rocco.
Highlights of Mrs. Goforth’s
trip included sightseeing in Casa
blanca, Lisbon, Portugal, the
Rock of Gibraltor, Marrakech,
Tangiers, Cadez, Spain, Malaga,
Spain, Shannon, Ireland, Switzer
land and a week in Rome, Italy.
Returning home Mrs. Goforth i
rode via hydrofoil ( air cushion at;
the rate of 70 miles per hour)
from Tangiers to Cadez, Spain.
She brought back on film the
snow scenes in Switzerland,
among other sights.
HONORED — Veteran Savings
& Loan directors were honored
tor long service by Kings Moui|*
tain Savings & Loan Assocta*
tion and the North Carolina in*
dustry. J. R. Davis, top. lawyer
and president of the associa*
tion. and Dr. L. P. Baker, dent*
1st,' received 30-year lapel pins
and certificates of merit.
S & L Officers
Are Honored
A resolution of appreciation to
Dr. L. P. Baker, Kings Mountain
dentist, and J. Roan Davis, Kings
Mountain lawyer, has been adopt
ed by the Kings Mountain Sav
ings & Loan Association of which
both men are veteran directors.
The North Carolina Savings &
Loan League, at the recent con
vention in Asheville, presented
certificates and 30-year lapel pins
to Dr. Baker and Mr. Davis for
long service to the savings and
loan industry.
Awards were presented to Mr.
Davis, president of the Kings
Mountain association, and Dr.
Baker, a director, at a recent
meeting of its board of directors.
Joe Smith, secretary-treasurer,
made the presentations.
The N. C. Savings & Loan Le
ague also presented a memorial
plaque to Bon Hudson Bridges,
Jr., former secretary-treasurer of
the Kings Mountain association.
Mr. Smith accepted the plaq-ue
which will be presented to Mrs.
Bridges.
The text of the resolution of
appreciation:
“WHEREAS, Mr. J. R. Davis
and Dr. L. P. Baker have been
(Continued on Page Six)
Kenneth McGills To Congo Soon
As Presbyterian Missionaries
By ANNE JAMES HARMON
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth McGill,
formerly of Kings Mountain, re
ceived commissions as mission
aries in the Presbyterian Church,
U. S., at services in Montreat on
August 2nd.
After the first of the year, the
McGills and their children, Ken
ny, who will be 16 in December.
Linda, 12, and Jimmy, 7, will go
to the Democratic Republic of
the Democratic Republic of the
Congo where Dr. McGill will
serve as medical missionary at
one of the Presbyterian missions
in the province of Kasia and Mrs.
McGill will serve as an educa
tional missionary.
Dr. McGill said, “There are five
hospitals in the province and only
two of them are staffed. I will
know later at which one of these
I will serve.” i
The hospitals are near Lulua
bourg, the capital of the province
of Kasia which is in the south:
central part of what was former
ly the Belgium Congo.
Prior to their work in Africa,
the 'McGills, will be in Washing
ton, D. C., where they will study
French at the Modern Language
Institute on Dupont Circle.
They will leave Clover, S. C.,
home of Dr. McGill’s parents, for
Washington Thursday, and have
not yet secured a residence in the
capital.
On arrival in The Congo, Ken
ny will be enrolled in the Ameri
can School at Kinshasa, formerly,
Leopoldville, capital of the Re
public; Linda wijl attend Cen
tral School for missionary chil
dren at Lubondia; and Jimmy,
who will be in the third grade
(Continued on Page Sku)