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rr Population Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,256 The Qnsttr llsgi Mountain figure is derived from the special United States Bureau of the Census report o January ISM. and includes the 14,990 population o Humber 4 Township, and the remaining 9,124 iron Number 5 Township, in Cleveland County and Crowder' Mountain Township in Gaston County. VOL. 78 — No. 36 Established 1889_ Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 7, 1967 If PRICE TEN CENTS Seventy-Eignth Year Whitener Favors At Home Control GRADUATE — Margaret Ham bright has received her diploma from Gaston Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. Miss Hambriglrt Wiiis Diploma Miss Margaret Loree Ham bright received her diploma at graduation exercises of the Gas ton Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Gastonia. The l&th annual commence ment exercises were held at the First ARP church with Dr. Thom as Cottingham, dean of Gaston college, giving the main address. Diplomas were presented to the 12 graduatign nurses by Lewis E. Chittum. chairman of the hos pital’:. board of trustees. k: Miss Hambnght, daughter of rMr. and Mrs. Fred .C. Ham bright of Gfover Roadris a 1964- grad uate of Kings Mountain high school Mall Group Incorporating By ELIZABETH STEWART Twelve downtown property owners will affix their signatures to a corporation charter Thurs day morning for development of a proposed Cherokee Street Mall. The 12 are Mabry Brothers, Glee and J. C. Bridges, Wilson Griffin, W. S. Fulton, Joe R. Smith, Kings Mountain Savings * Loan Association, Bill Brown for Belk’s Department Store, Charles D. Blanton, George Thomasson, B. S. Peeler, Jr., Carl F., Mauney, Paul McGinnis, and Menzell, Wendell and Marriott I?Mler. - - . Appraisal figures for purchase of property needed for the 400 car parking area development Were reviewed at Monday night’s meeting of the steering commit tee. By-laws of the corporation and legal technicalities were dis-. cussed during the incorporation cbriference with Robert Powell, ’Meetings are planned weekly, on Mondays at 7:30, with place of meeting alternating between the conference rooms of Home Savings & Loan and Kings Moun tain Savings & Loan association offices. The project is a private one and the appraisals, by registered li censed appraisers, total $139,000. Plan calls for share basjs of Abut ting firms on front footaige basis, both for property purchase and improvements. In turnt the prop erty owners would be expected to convert their present rear doors into store fronts. Paul McGinnis, chairman of the project committee, and Richard (Dick) Maxey, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce commit tee promoting the project, report ed much enthusiasm for the mall project. The project envisions a 400 car parking area on Cherokee street between Mountain and Gold. Intent of the committee is to purchase the “back alley” property bounded by the Kings Mountain Office Equipment A Supply building and Professional building and to raze all struc tures within these bounds. On I the east side of Cherokee, the plan calls for purchase of the property of Fulton’s Department Store and Kings Mountain Sav ings A Loan Association behind these firms to the Lipfcrd line. Mr. Maxey said other proper-! ty owners were being contacted Wednesday afternoon. Congressman Against Federal Anti-Riot Plan By MARTIN HARMON “I am afraid if we stray from the concept of local law enforce ment, we’ll regret it.” U. S. Representative Basil L. Whitener was commenting on de mand for federal laws making control of riots a federal prov ince. He added the opinion that “.more bad criminal law has been enacted in recent years than dur ing Reconstruction”. The Congressman spoke at a luncheon in Shelby, where he was guest of honor, and he and 85 Cleveland County businessmen were guests of Pat Spangler, Shelby - Kings Mountain con crete manufacturer, and vice chairman of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development. The Congressman also said: 1) Dollars are not the answer to all problems, as the New Hav en riots showed. He noted expen ditures for urban renewal and other federal aid programs in New Haven had totaled $700 per capita. 2) He is undecided how he will vote on the surtax income tax proposal. Noting the proposal would not effect citizens with net income up to $5000, he added the citizen with net income of $5001 would “get a pretty big bite”. 3) North Carolina has no oil in dustry, but brick-makers and other firms in mining in North Carolina, of which there are many, are concerned about a pro posal to suspend depletion allow ances in -reporting income tax. 4) Prospects &re good for pas sage of a bill to slow the increase of textile imports. He said 61 of the 100 Senators Jiave co-signed the bill, while 120 of the 435 House members have co-signed the bill. To a question by Jean W. Schenck on United States failure to stop Castro in Cuba yet fight in Vietnam, the Congressman re minded that both actions occur red during the Eisenhower ad ministrations. Noting he was in Cuba shortly before the Castro take-over, he said the US ambas sador in several conversations re ported he could not get Secretary of State Dulles to believe the as sessment of the situation — which sadly proved correct. Simply, Mr. Whitener declared, “We are in Vietnam to prevent the Communists from taking over Southeast Asia.” He added praise for President Johnson in his handling of the Santo Domingo troubles and of ex-President Tru man in the Greece-Turkey crisis in 1948. To a question of Tom Cornwell, Mr. Whitener said the recent elec tions in Vietnam should help the situation, as 83 percent of the eli gible voters participated. Mr. Spangler recognized May ors John Henry Moss, of Kings Mountain, Franklin Harry, of Grover, and Hill Carpenter of Waco. Dr. John McCain, pastor of Shelby’s First Baptist church, said the invocation, Dr. Eugene Pos ton, president of Gardner-Webb college, the benediction. Community Center Bids To Be Invited Williams & Associates, Char lotte architects for the Kings Mountain community center, have been instructed to ask bids on the arility for opening at City Hall on October 18. The architectural firm outlin ed the project, for which a $302, 680 federal grant has been re served, to the city recreation com mittee Tuesday. Recreation Chairman Richard E. Maxey pointed out that some method must be found to supply the city’s sare of the estimated $430,000 project, either by con tributions, public funds or both, and that firm bids are needed in order that the city share be known in fact. Mayor John Henry Moss and the architects agreed. J. L. Williams, head of the ar chitectural firm, expressed the opinion it is a favorable time to ask bids. Nursing Home Incorporated A charter has been approved for Kings Mountain Convalescent Center, Inc., the committee to promote construction of a nurs ing and convalescent center here said this week. Incorporators are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kerns, Robert C. Powell and Joseph R. Smith. The nine directors are Clyde W. Kerns, Mrs. Clyde W. Kerns, John L. McGill, O. O. Walker, James Gibson, Robert C. Powell, Joseph R. Smith, J. Ollie Harris and Carl F. Mauney. Pre-incorporation subscriptions for shares of stock are now avail able and subscription goal is $100,000, said Chairman Joe Smith. Chairman Smith said the com mittee envisions building the center on a 5.9 acre tract near Kings Mountain hospital pur chased from M. Elmer McGill by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kerns and intended by them as site of the center. Mr. Smith said the committee heading up the project is now contacting architectural firms and expect to name an architect for the project within the very near future. He added that the corpor ation anticipates owning the land for the center “free and clear of all encumbrances.’’ Full information concerning the project can be obtained from Chairman Smith or from any other member of the committee. Stock purchases to date total over $20,000, reported Smith, who noted that inquiries had come as far distant as Colorado concern ing the Kings Mountain project. Westovei Sets Homecoming Da; Westover Baptist, church will observe homecoming day Sun day, September 10. Rev. Archie Chapman, pastor, will deliver the message at the morning worship hour. At the close of the morning worship hour, a picnic lunch will be served, followed by a hymn sing led by our music director, John Ross. “He cordially invite all mem bers, former members, pastors and friends to attend these ser vices”, said Rev. Chapman. Off-to-School Group Totals 192; Western Carolina is Tops At 24 By MARY BETH RAMSEY The Kings Mountain area will send a total of 192 students to 38 colleges, universities, specialized schools for post-high school train ing and preparatory schools this fall. Most popular schools with larg set number of area students en rolled are: Western Carolina University at Cullowhee where 24 area students are enrolled; Ap palachian State University at Boone where 18 area students are enrolled; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill iwhere 18 area students are en rolled for the fall terms which began in September. Of the large number returning; to books this fall, a large num ber are enrolled in graduate schools and in specialized schools pursuing special courses in nurs ing, business, and other fields. The Herald has made a dili gent effort to obtain names of all area students returning to school for the fall term. Realiz ing, there are probably some ommissions, the Herald invites you to call 739-5441 and give the names of any student who does not appear on the list published this week. WESTERN CAROLINA UNI VERSITY, Cullowhee—Judy Mor rison, Andy Davis, Anne San ders, Eddie Bridges, Nadine Bell, Rita Blanton Richard Eaker, Gerald Wright, Joan Howard, Ann Patterson, Gerald Matheny, Eloise Beam, Dwight Swan, Les lie Joy, Debbie Smith, Del Go forth, Beverly Willis, Lewis Ste wart, Lynda Watterson, Larry Adams, Steve Marlowe, Edwin Ware, Fred Dixon, and Bo Go forth. APPALACHIAN STATE UNI VERSITY. Boone- Tommy Black, Gerald Wright, Ann Owens, San dra Hullender, Diane Keeter, Tommy Goforth, Mike, Green, Hilda Lowery, Susan Lowery, Phil Mauney, Pat Murphy, Steve Goforth, Lynda Seism, Jean Led ford, Toni Ware, Jimmy Falls, and Glen Lovelace. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL— George Plonk, Judy Morris, Vic kie White, Jane Morris, Neil Co oper, David Wilson, Dennis Con ner, Chris Pressley, Joe Huilen {Continued on Page Bight) Spangler: Support KM Water Project Bethware Fair 20 Opens Wednesday Rides, Exhibits, Will Feature Township Event Bethware Community Fair opens for its 20th annual show ing Wednesday. Manager Johnny W. Patterson said Wednesday will be largely given to placing of agricultural exhibits and that a large crowd is expected to attend the four-day event. A full program of events is scheduled for each day with fire works topping off the evening’s entertainment shortly before closing time. Thursday, September 14th, will be Children’s Day which means that youngsters can enjoy mid way rides at reduced prices. Judg ing of all exhibits and in all de partments will be completed on Thursday and cash prizes await winning exhibitors. In addition to the agricultural and home products exhibits, num- j erous commercial firms are show- j ing at this year’s Bethware Fair.' Queen of Bethware Fair 1967 is Sherry Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bell of the Oak Grove community. On opening chy the Fair will open at 4 p.m. on the grounds of Bethware school. The Fai” will open on September 14fn at 1 p. m. with special event3 fo.r chil dren from 1 until 6 p.m. The Fair will open at 3 p.m. Friday, September 15th, and at 1 p.m. on Saturday, closing, at midnight September 16. Admission to fairgrounds is free. The community fair is under sponsorship of the Bethware Progressive club of which John O. Patterson is president, Paul Bell is vice-president, Stokes Wright is secretary and M. C. Poston is treasurer. Exhibits are expected to at tract a record number of exhibi tors, sai dFair officials. Prizes will be awarded, as customary, in various categories. Handicraft and household arts awards will be given for home grown prod ucts from the pantry, flowers and hobbies, including painting, col lections, crafts, doll furniture, best handmade jewelry and other classes for all ages. Old Davidson Being Based Contract was- signed Wednes day for razing of the old David son school building with Packard Elliott, of Shelby, low bidder at $1400. Superintendent Don Jones said lighting fixtures, hardware and other needed appurtenances will be salvaged. The contract in cludes removal of walkways and grading to normal contours. At its recent meeting, the board of education also accepted low bids for carpeting of the Central school library and for a walk-in freezer for the Central cafeteria. Warner Flooring of Winston Salem was low bidder on the car peting, Asheville Showcase & Fixture Company for the freezer. Supt. Jones estimated the ex tensive renovation of the Central plant as SO percent complete. The cafeteria floor was being tiled Wednesday. Hearings Date Set On Annexations Public hearing will be held by the city board of commissioners on petitions for two annexations to the city limits. Principal one is the approxi-' mately ten acres owned by Mrs. j E. C. Cooper on Cherryville Road. The other is a petition by Luico Jenkins for annexation of a lot on Woodside Drive. Other items on the agenda, as of Wednesday, included progress report on the Buffalo Creek Water Project by Mayor John Henry Moss and presentation of month ly operations reports. SPEAKER — Joe R. Hendrick, Cleveland County Manager, will address Kings Mountain Rotat ions at their Thursday noon meeting at the Country Club. Joe Hendrick Rotary Speaker Joe R. Hendrick, Cleveland County Manager and one time Kings Mountain city clerk and treasurer, will address Kings Mountain Rotarians at their Thursday meetintg at 12:15 at the Country Club. ■ Mr. Hendrick will speak on a program arranged by Wilson Griffin. A graduate of Shelby high school and Lenoir Rhyne college, Hendrick came to the county from Melbourne, Florida, where he was assistant city manager and finance director. Mrs. Hendrick is the former Mary Anne Teele of Shelby. They are parents of a son, Joe Hen drick, Jr., age 10. Mauney Family Book Compiled “Three Mauney Families", a 150-page history of a Kings Moun tain pioneer family’s lineage, has been compiled by Mrs. Frank R. Summers, the result of 20 years research. The former Bonnie Mauney, wife of the late First National Bank President F. R. Summers, Mrs. Summers said she cultivat ed an interest in family trees many years ago. Her father, the late W. A. Mauney, made the first effort to compile a record of the Mauney family in North Carolina in 1916 when he invited descendants of Christian Mauney to gather for a reunion at the site of Christian Mauney’s pioneer home which was also the site of Tryon and Lincoln County Court from 1774 until January 1783. W. A. Mauney was named chairman of the group which was later known as the Chris tian Mauney Memorial Associa tion and reunions were held until 1934. After Mr. Mauney’s death in 1929, the attendance grew smaller because of lack of in terest and leadership. . Mrs. Summers began her Mau ney Family Record as a compila tion of the descendants of Chris tian Mauney, the ancestor of Wil liam Andrew Mauney. Valentine and Jacob Mauney were Chris tian’s brothers and the three families were closely associated, geographically and socially, as well as by blood ties. Mrs. Sum mers records record information on all three lines. Descendants of all three broth-! ers are included in her genealo-l gy, just published in a bound book. Wills of the three brothers, explanation of the Mooney, Mou ny, Mauney coat of arms, togeth er with pictures, listing of des cendants of the three pioneers and brief family tree of each particular family are included. First members of the Mauney family in America were German pioneers who settled in Pennsyl vania in 1750. They migrated from Pennsylvania to North Car olina. *' ' C & D Official Urges Buffalo Project Aid By MARTIN HARMON Pat Spangler, Shelby - Kings Mountain businessman and vice chairman of the state Department of Conservation and Develop ment, Wednesday urged a group of Cleveland County businessmen to support the Kings Mountain Buffalo Creek water project. Mr. Spangler voiced his en dorsement as he presented Mayor John Henry Moss at a luncheon honoring U. S. Representative Basil L. Whitener. “I hope all of you will help him get that lake,” Mr. Spangler said. Meantime, ex-Senator Robert F. Morgan, chairman of the county planning board which has withheld unequivocal support of the Kings Mountain project pend ing engineering report on a rural water-sewer system for the coun ty, said the report of the plan ning board’s engineers, J. N. Pease and Company, is due next week. Kings Mountain is pushing the top of its two-million daily water filtration capacity and has “lived” water-wise during the past fourj months by tappirig two small! streams,, pumping water from the Old Gold Mine shaft, and tapping the wells on McGinnis street. Before recent heavy rains, the two Creeks were furnishing little water and the levels of York and Davidson lakes were dropping daily. Public Works Superintendent Grady Yelton said Wednesday the rains had ihcreased the sup ply in both lakes, but that the York road lake was still four feet below spillover level, the I Davidson lake 15 feet low. Mayor Moss reported the Kines I Mountain water situation, both I on source and filtration, forced him to tell an industrial prospect this week Kings Mountain could not immediately serve his needs of 100,000 to 150,000 gallons per day. Carl Stewart Optimist Speaker Carl Stewart, attorney at law of Gastonia, will be guest speak er at the regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Optimist Club Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Stewart is a former Junior On timist and current president of the Optimist club of Gastonia. He was the District Oratorical contest winner of 1952 and start ed his law career with the schol arship awarded to him at that time. Stewart has just completed his first, term in the North Carolina House of Representatives, and has served the North Carolina District Optimists as community service chairman and as parlia mentarian. He also taught law at Gaston College prior to his appointment in the House of Representatives. All members and their guests are urged to be present. CO-CHAIRMEN — L. E. (Josh) Hinnant, left, and J. Ollie Harris have been appointed by Mayor John Henry Moss as co-chairmen of the city's industry committee. Harris, Hinnant Head Committee CITED — Yeoman Howard G. Blanton of Kings Mountain was recently cited for service as yeoman aboard the USS Amberjack, Charleston. S. C., based submarine. Yeoman Blanton Is Commended YN/KSS) Howard G. Blanton, Kings Mountain native, was re cently awarded a Letter of Com mendation from the Command ing Officer of the USS Amber jack (SS-522). The Amberjack, a Charleston, S. C. based submarine, recently returned to port after a three month deployment in the Medi terranean area. Yeoman Blanton was cited for| “outstanding contribution in ad ministrative details and perfor mance of duty in all capacities.” Blanton is an 11-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, having been: (Continued on Page Eight) \ Jacob S. Mauney Library Reports Circulation 19,2M For 1966-67 Book circulation at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library neared j 30,000 for the year ending July 1 and a total of 812 books were; added during the year. Young folk out-read their eld ers, as juvenile circulation was twice that of adult. Juvenile cir culation totaled 19,237, and adult circula'tion totaled 9,259. On average, the 8,634 books on hand circulated over three times. The book circulation report was given by Mrs. Charles Dilling and Mrs. E. -W. Neal, librarians, at Tuesday’s meeting of the li brary board. The library, reports of the treasurer show, ended the year in its best financial condition to date, with $2,733.83 in the operat ing account and $1,706.04 in the book account. The treasurer, Mrs. George Houser, noted library] renovations, purchase of file cabinets, book shelves, replacing the ceiling and light fixtures totaled $1,885.08. During the year the library in vested in $1,299,03. in new books and spent $80.81 for periodicals.: The library spent $750.50 for! salaries, the board Tuesday up ped salary of Mrs. Charles Dill-1 ing to $250, a raise of $25 per month and upped Mrs. E. W. Neal's salary by $15 per month.! Both are retroactive to July 1» I APPOINTED — Governor Dan Moore has announced the ap pointment of Dale Hollifield of Kings Mountain as a second lieutenant in the North Caro lina Army National Guard. Fifty-three new lieutenants re ceived their gold bars at gradu ation exercises Saturday at Fort Bragg, the site of the North Carolina Military Acade my. Hollifield is a member of Company B. 105th Engineers Battalion, in Gastonia. Industry Group Co-Chairmen Are Appointed L. E. (Josh) Hinnant, executive vice-president of First Union National Bank’s Kings Mountain office, and J. Ollie Harris, Kings Mountain mortician, have been appointed co-chairmen o the city industrial committee. Mayor John Henry Moss an nounced acceptance of the ap pointments Wednesday. The committee is the industry-* seeking arm of the city. The chairmanship had been va cant since the resignation of Har old Phillips several months ago. Mr. Hinnant said, “I will do my very best to help develop the good potential of the Kings Mountain areas for industrial expansion. My work in this di rection during the past ten years indicates the principal need of the Kings Mountain area is water, a problem that the city is working diligently to solve.” Mr. Harris said, ‘I am appre ciative of the appointment and glad to accept it. The Kings Mountain area has many major assets interesting to industry. I will do all I can to help.” He added his voice to the need for water. ‘‘Of the several city and community projects either approved or projected, I regal'd the water project as Number 1. It’s success will mean other pro jects will become fact.” Pie-Paid Taxes Total $54,754 City ad valorem tax payments during the August-September 1 pre-payment period {otaled $54, 754.55. or 28.2 percent of the $190,000 the city expects to re ceive this year from 1967 taxes. Citizens who paid taxes during the period obtained the maximum discount of two percent. ;Discount for the month of Sep tember is one percent. Weathers Breaks Ankles In Fall Nazel Weathers, a Negro on the Kings Mountain district schools maintenance staff, suffered two broken ankles Friday when a lad der fell. Weathers was painting the roof of the garage building at the Central plant when the accident occurred. He fell about 14 feet. The garage building is being renovated for use as a band room. Need Rat Box? Phone 739-4151 Rat problems? Call 739-4151. Public Works Superintendent Grady Yelton said Wednesday the special anti-rat boxes or dered by the city have been re ceived and the plan is to place the boxes in areas of the city where the boxes are most need ed. Supt. Yelton asks interested citizens to call.