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VOL. 78 — No. 40
Pag js
Today
Established 1889
Seventy-Eighth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
PRINCESS — Nancy Bayfield,
high school senior, has been
elected Carrousel Princess and
will represent the city in the
Thanksgiving Day Carolinas
Carrousel in Charlotte.
Miss Bayfield
KMHS Princess
Nancy Rayfield, senior student
at Kings Mountain high school,
has been elected Carrousel Prin
cess and will represent the city
in the Thanksgiving Day Caro
linas Carrousel in Charlotte in
November.
Miss Rayfield was selected by
vote of the student body last
week.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Rayfield of route 1, she is busi-i
ness manager of the student
newspaper, “The Mountaineer",)
and was recently voted “Most
Outstanding Senior” for the
Sjonth. She plans a nursing ca
‘Teer-iollowing high school grad
uation.
Miss Rayfielci is SPO repre
sentative at Kings Mountain high
school and is pianist at Chestnut
Ridge Baptist church.
She will go to Charlotte for
the Thanksgiving Day parade on
Wednesday, November 22, will
attend an afternoon tea, a ban
quet and an evening ball at which
time Queen Carrousel will be
crowned. The Carolinas Ca, ■ usel
parade will be held on the after
noon of Thanksgiving Day.
Hemdon Head
Of Institute
James E. Herndon, Jr., Kings
Mountain school trustee and a
former chairman of the board of
education, was elected ^ first
chairman of the Cleveland County
Technical Institute board of di
rectors Tuesday.
The six trustees took the oatn
of office from Superior Court
Clerk Paul Wilson and in after
luncheon ceremonies at Hotel
Charles elected officers.
James Cornwell of Lawndale is
the board’s vice-chairman. Oth
er members are C. G. Poston, John
Schenck, III, Harry Matthews,
^Spurgeon Hewitt, Cecil C»illiatt
land J. D. Ellis. James Petty is the
institute’s president.
The Cleveland County Techni
cal Institute will continue to op
erate as a unit of the Departrpen
of Community Colleges and will
offer essentially the same wide
rangin* program of adult, voca
tional and fundamental educa
tion as in the past.
Lynda Haidin
On Herald Staff
has joined the staff of
HMiss' Hardin succeeds Miss
Marv Beth Ramsey, clerk-book
Sr, who has enrolled for her
freshman year at Atlanta Career
Academy Medical School Jo P ur
Sm‘^"and Mrs ChaS'E.
Rarnsev Miss Ramsey is a 19(y
graduate of Kings Mountam high
fenssrsa as
The Herald.
YOUTH groups
\ “Was* BUly Joe A Hippie? ,
r n he the subject of the pro- i
W1I1 be 'he -u j meet
S”i His? ■"<;
?*. riiah Fellowship at
™ Business of the meeting
S include the election of of
ficers.
Mayor Will Ask
Traffic Signal
Highway Group
Will Approve
But Won't Pay
By MARliN HARMON
Mayor jonn Henry Moss Tues
day will' recommend to the city
commission that the city install
a traffic signal at the intersec
tion of Country Club road and
US 74.
The state highway commission
has again declined to erect the
signal, in spite of a traffic in
crease of about ten percent be
tween the traffic counts of No
vember 1965 and recently.
However, W. A. Ward, of the
highway commission Raleigh
staff, informed district engineer
W. W. Wyke, that the city might
erect a signal at the city’s cost.
“’This would mean,” Mr. Ward
wrote of the recent traffic count,
that Country Club road on the
south side is carrying approxi
mately 1100 vehicles per day and
US 74 is carrying approximately
3000 vehicles per day.”
Mr. Ward said the traffic vol
ume alone was deemed insuffi
cient to justify installation of a
signal.
"We have made an up-to-date
study of reported accidents at
this intersection. It was found
t'hat ther# have been 15 accidents
at this Idttation from 1-1-63 to 3
31-67. Of these 15 accidents, only
5 were of the type susceptible to
correction by the installation of
a traffic signal.
“A ground investigation of this
intersection has been made. It
was found that the STOP sign
on Country Club Road on the
north side is low and could pos
sibly block sight distance to a
driver if he were to stop at a
certain position.
“It is recommended that this
STOP sign be raised to the stan
dard five-foot height so that it
will not block sight distance. It
was also found that some tall
grass along the north shoulder
of US 74 on the west side of this
intersection also interferes some
with sight distance in this direc
tion. It is recommended that this
grass be cut so that this obstruc
tion will be removed. It is felt
that sight distance is adequate
in all directions, especially on
enetering US 74 from the south
side of Country Club Road. It is
interesting to note that three of
the right-angle collisions here
were caused by drivers entering
US 74 from the south leg of
Country Club Road where the
sight distance is a maximum.
“From the above facts, we can
not recommend the installation of
a traffic signal here. Also, vwe
do not feel that a flashing signal
here would be of any benefit and
do not recommend its installa
tion. It is noted from your letter
that many of the folks in Kings
Mountain are pushing for a traf
fic signal at this intersection, and
if the Town were willing to in
stall a signal here at its own
cost, we would be willing to go
along with this. Of course, the
signal would have to be the ac
tuated type and the installation
would have to be approved by
the Highway Commission.
“If the City of Kings Mountain
wishes to pursue this further, it
is suggested that they make a
scaled drawing of this intersec
tion and send it to us, and we
would be willing to show an ac
ceptable design for a traffic sig
nal installation here.’’
Laymans Day
Set Sunday
Layman's Day will be observed
Sunday at Grace Methodist
church.
J. Ollie Harris, Kings Mountain
mortician, will deliver the mes
sage at the 11 o’clock morning
worship service. The Men’s Choir
will present special music.
At the evening service at 7 p.
m. women of the church will
have charge of the service and
present special music. Mrs. Andy
Huffstetler will deliver the eve-j
ning message.
EVANGELIST — Rev. Dan T.
Wallen of Easley, S- C.. will be
evangelist for revival services
beginning Sunday at Second
Baptist church.
Wallen To Lead
Baptist Series
Rev. Dan T. Wallen, pastor of
Brushy Creek Baptist church of
Easley, S. C., will be evangelist
for revival services beginning
Sunday at Second Baptist church.
Services will be held nightly at
7:30 through Sunday, October
15th. Sunday services will 10K
low the regular schedule.
Music will be under the direc
tion of Norman King.
Rev. George W. Julian, pastor,
said members, friends and the
interested public are invited to
worship in the series of services.
Teachers Sponsoi
Spache's Visit
The Greater Cleveland Council
of the International Reading As
sociation, which includes teachers
from the three units in the coun
ty, Cleveland County, Kings
Mountain, and Shelby, will spon
sor an address by Dr. George
Spache at a dinner meeting Oc
tober 18th at 7 p.m. in the Dover
Campus Center dining room at
Gardner-Webb college.
Dr. Spache, professor of En
glish and Education and head of
the Reading Laboratory and Clin
ic at the University of Elorida in
Gainesville, is a foremost author
ity in the reading field. He has
worked as an elementary teacher,
a school psychologist, a consult
ing psychologist in industry and
a college teacher. He has written
more than 100 articles for year
book and educational and psy
chological journals, on diagnostic
and remedial reading, vision,
spelling and reading in content
fields. His standardized tests are
in current use in the areas of
vision, spelling, and reading dia
gnosis.
Jacob Cooper
Is Chairman
01 Board
Jacob M. Cooper, Bonnie Mills
official, will serve as chairman of
the city board of adjustments.
Mayor John Henry Moss an
nounced appointment of the ten
member board — five who live
within the city limits and five
who live outside the city limits
within a mile radius.
The board of adjustments will
hear and adjudicate zoning ap
peals from decisions of the zon
ing board and city commission.
Other members are Robert O.
! Southwell, J. E. Rhea, Dickie Tate
| and G. Van Birmingham, Jr., who
live within the city, and James
E. Dickey, Audley E. Tignor, Fred
j Bowers, Kyle Smith and W. T.
; Weir, who live within the mile
perimeter.
Relations Group
Members Named
Mayor John Henry Moss Wed
nesday announced appointment of
four new members to the city hu
man relations committee.
Thenew members are Rev. D.
B. Alderman, Joe Lee Woodward,
Rev. Frank Shirley and Mrs.
Charles Alexander.
They replace Paul Howard, who
has moved outside the city lim
its, and Mrs. W. T. Weir, Jonas
Bridges and William Orr, whose
terms have expired. Members
with expiring terms cannot suc
ceed themselves.
Graveside Rites
For Warren Baby
. Graveside rites for Freddie
Douglas Warren, la-month old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Freddie War
ren of the Gallilee community,
I will be held Saturday afternoon
I at 4 o’clock at the Gold Mine
cemetery.
The baby died Monday morning i
I at 5:30 at Kings Mountain hos
j pital.
I Survivors include the parents,
i a sister Ronnie Warren, and the
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clar
ence Warren.
Legion To Host
District Meeting
American Legion Post 155 will
be host to the 23rd District Meet
ing of Legionnaires Friday night
at 7:30 at the Legion Hall.
Announcement was made by
district commander Edgar T.
Pace of Forest City Post 94.
Mr. Pace said Legionnaires
from Cleveland and Rutherford
Counties are invited to attend.
Fifth Division Commander
: Ralph B. Hadcock of Hickory
will make the principal address,
said Commander Pace.
TO GREER
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hartsoe
and children, Yvonne and Ran
dy, moved Saturday to Greer, I
S. C., where Mr. Hartsoe has as
sumed new duties as^hop fore- !
man of the Greer Citizen.
SIXTH ANNIVERSARY
The Geftrude Brown circle j
of Bynum Chapel AME Zion
church will celebrate its sixth
anniversary Sunday afternoon
at 3 p.m. Mrs. Sara Black of
Shelby will be guest speaker, j
Defense Testimony Is Continuing
In Grigg vs. Sisk $1754)00 Suit
Superior Court Judge Lacy
Thornburg Wednesday morning
in Shelby denied a defense mo
tion for a non-suit in Mrs. Vir
ginia Green Grigg's $175,000 civil
action against Sisk Funeral
Home.
Defense testimony got under
way Wednesday afternoon.
The defense motion was made
after Mrs. Grigg’s attorneys con
cluded presentation of evidence
on her allegation that her late
husband, Zeb Grigg, was improp
erly buried by Sisk Funeral Home
in January 1963.
The widow, who testified Tues
day, contends Sisk’s grave in
Mountain Rest cemetery was
shallow, and that portions of the
vault were left exposed.
She said she complained to
Frank Sisk, owner of the Sisk
firm here and in Bessemer City,
who promised to attend to the
matter but who said it was the
City of Kings Mountain’s respons
ibility to put the grave in proper
order. '
She said she became emotion
ally upset with the prolonged sit
uation and required hospitaliza
tion at Dorothea Dix hospital in
Raleigh.
Six months after the burial, the
Grigg vault was lifted from the
ground and the grave dug deeper
by city cemetery employees, said
Mrs. Grigg. Her daughter, Mrs.;
Virginia Seism, testified the,
vault and coffin were reopened j
at the family’s request ‘‘because;
when it was lifted out of the;
ground we saw water pouring
from the vault.”
The witness said the grave was
only three feet deep.
At yesterday morning’s session
a deposition taken from retired
City Cemetery Superintendent:
Sam Suber was taken into the
record. Mr. Suber, unable to ap
pear in court because of illness,
was questioned at his home by
attorneys for both defendant and
plaintiff. His answers were re
corded by a stenographer for pre
sentation in court
According to Suber’s testimony, I
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! REVIVAL SPEAKER — Dr.
i George H. Moore, pi Charlotte,
will conduct revival services
beginning Monday at First
Baptist church.
Moore Baptist
Revival Speaker
i
First Baptist church will begin
revival services on* Monday eve
ning at 7:30 p.m. Or. George H.
Moore of Charlotte will be the
speaker. Services Iwill be held
each evening through Sunday,
with 11:00 and 7:30 services
then. Nurseries will be open.
Dr. Moore is a native of South
Carolina, and for 'the past six
years was pastor of Allen Street
Baptist church of pharlotte. He
is a graduate of Furman Univer
sity, Southed! Semifiary, and was
granted the honorary degree
Doctor of Divinity by Stetson
University, Dcland/ Florida.
Dr. Moore has hteld numerous
! positions with the Southern Bap
tist Convention, this ,.S, C. State
I Convention, and the Florida Con
j vention.
Smith Elected
Centex President
Joe R. Smith, a ifiember of the
board of directors land chairman
of the committee Jwhich set up
the Kings Mountain Convalescent
and Nursing Center, Inc., was
elected the corporation president
Monday night.
Other board members, Clyde
Kerns and Mrs. Kerns were nam
ed officers. Mr. Kqrns will serve
as vice-president and Mrs. Kerns
will serve as secretary-treasurer.
The directors, in their organi
zational meeting, also authorized
the calling in of i tock subscrip
tions and the issu ng of the ac
tual stocks.
The private corporation will
issue 2,000 shares at a par value
of $50 a share. Smith said the
value per share can be increased
at any time.
With its organization complete,
Smith said the corporation plans
to purchase the building site from
Mr. and Mrs. Kerns as soon as
enough shares are sold to meet
the price. Mr. and Mrs. Kerns
had purchased the property from
Elmer McGill earlier as a means
of reserving the Isite near the
Kings Mountain hjospital.
Purchase of the lot is neces
sary for arranging the financing
for building the facility, said
Smith.
Mr. Smith said the board of
directors plans a meeting soon
with an official of the North
Carolina Department of Health
to discuss the proposed 100-bed
nursing and convalescent center.
Following this conjference. Presi
dent Smith the directors expect
to employ an architect for the
project.
Lost: Wallet
Containing $300
A Kings Mountain man is ad
vertising a reward for the re
turn of his wallet which contains
$303 in bills, driver’s license and
identification papers.
Martin W. Leigh said he miss
ed his wallet in a local grocery
store Tuesday afternoon. lie said
he paid the cashier for ten pound
of sugar from the wallet and
most have left the wallet lying
on the counter.
Mr. Leigh said the finder of
the wallet can collect a reward
by contacting him.
METHODIST TOPICS
Rev. D. B. Alderman’s sermon
topic at the morning worship
hour Sunday at Central Meth
odist church will be "Maturity
service at 7 he will use the top
ic, "Love Does Not Want To Be
lieve What It Sees.”
Stewart To Speak
At Military Park
Anniversary
Celebration
To Be Sunday
North Carolina State Represen
tative Carl J. Stewart, of Gas
tonia, will make the principal
address at the 187th anniversary
celebration of the Battle of
Kings Mountain Sunday after
noon at 3:30 at Kings Mountain
National Military Park.
The celebration is jointly spon
sored a dozen area chapters of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution, including Kings
Mountain Chapter, York, S. C.,
and Col. Frederick Hambright
chapter, of Kings Mountain.
The program will also feature
music by the crack Fort Mill,
S. C., high school band, and a
report on the national park by
Superintendent Ben Moomaw.
Co. Murray Meeck, SAR, will
lead the pledge of allegiance to
the United States flag. Johnny
Gaston will say the poem "Ode
j to Kings Mountain.”
Supt. Moomaw has announced
j that the park museum will be
; open both before and after the
program in the park amphiteater
Historians credit the Whig
victory over the Tories at Kings
Mountain as "the turning of the
tide® in the struggle of American
colonists against the British.
— The Tory commander Col. Pa
trick Ferguson was killed and
his grave is in the park.
Whig forces were led by Col
onels Benjamin Cleveland, Fred
erick (Dutch) Hambright, Isaac
Shelby and John (Black Jack)
Sevier.
New Him
Opened Monday
Hair styles by Annette, a new
Kings Mountain business firm,
opened Monday in the quarters
formerly occupied on S. Battle
ground Avenue by City Paint
Store.
The heauty salon is owned by
Miss Annette Brown and other
stylists are Mrs. Penny Bayfield
and Miss Paulette MeSwain.
' Miss Brown has been a Kings
Mountain beautician for six
years. A native of Bessemer City,
she now resides in Gastonia. Mrs.
Rayfield, a resident of Bessemer
City, was licensed as a beauti
cian three years ago. Miss Me
Swain, of the Patterson Springs
community near Shelby, has been
a beautician two years.
The firm is holding its (grand
opening this week.
STREET DANCE
The Teenage Recreation com
mittee of Davidson Park will
sponsor a street dance Satur
day night on Mitchell street
from 8 until 10 p.m.
SPEAKER — N. C. Representa
tive Carl Stewart, Jr., of Gas
tonia will make the address at
Sunday's 185th anniversary
celebration of the Revolution
ary War Battle of Kings Moun
tain in the Park amphitheatre.
Hospital Room
Rates Increased
Directors of Kings Mountain
hospital voted to raise room
rates, effective October 1, at the
meeting of September 27.
Administrator Grady Howarc
reported the new daily ehargt
schedule as:
Waid bed (four persons) from
$15 to $16; semi-private (two per
sons) from $17 to $20; private
room from 20 to 25; and emer
gency room from $3 to $5.
Rising costs of operations dic
tated the increases, Mr. Howard
said, noting that rates at Kings
Mountain hospital remain com
parative with other hospitals in
the area.
Neislei
Kiwanis
Joe A. Neisler, Jr., Kings
Mountain textile executive, has
been elected president of the
Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Joj;
the coming year.
Mr. Neisier will succeed Dan
Finger.
Other new officers will in
clude ftyyle D. McDaniel, vice
president, and Donald Jones, sec
ond vice-president. Don W. Blan
ton was re-elected secretary and
John L. McGill was re-elected
treasurer.
The board of directors will in
clude John A. Cheshire, J. Har
old Coggins, Paul Han, Jr., Grady
Howard, Carl Finger, Charles A.
Neisler and B. 8. Peeler.
Heads
Club
Employment Security Commission
Declines Plea Foi Office Return
The North Carolina Employ
| ment Security commission will
not re-open an office here “at this
time”, Col. Henry E. Kendall,
chairman, has informed Mayor
John Henry Moss.
On request of the city, the ESC
conducted a public hearing here,
at which numerous business and
industrial representatives asked
return of the office for improved
service through better liason.
Col. Kendall’s letter of declina
tion follows:
September 26, 1967
Mr. John Moss, Mayor
Kings Mountain,
i North Carolina
Dear Mr. Moss:
We have given serious and
lengthy consideration to the re
quest that an Employment Se
curity Commission local office be
opened in Kings Mountain.
In order to render an up-to-date
appraisal of the request in rela
tion to criteria established by the
Bureau of Employment Security, j
I asked our research section to
conduct a thorough study of
workload potential in the area j
that would be served by a Kings j
Mountain office.
After reviewing the findings of •
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REVIVALIST — Rev. A. A.
Bailey, pastor of Bessemer City's
First Baptist church, will be
evangelist for revival services
October 8-15 at Chestnut Ridge
Baptist church. Jack Ray.ield
will direct the song service for
services nightly at 7:30. Rev.
Mitchell Pruitt, pastor, invites
the community to participate in
the services.
Bond Attorneys
Give Timetable
For Bond Vote
By MARTIN HARMON
Indicated election day for the
$3,000,000 bond issue election for
Kings Mountain's Buffalo Creek
water project is Tuesday, Decem
ber 5.
Time table, designed to meet
all legal requirements for hold
ing of the election, has been re
i ceived from the city’s bond at
: torney specialists, Mifchell, Per
shing, Shetterly and Mitchell, 30
Broad street, New York.
On Tuesday, it is anticipated
the city board of commissioners
will enact a bond ordinance and
election resolution, with publica
tion of these actions on October
; 19 and 26.
! Voter registration books would
be opened November 11 and
canvass the voting returns on
December 6.
Engineering cost estimates of
the Buffalo Creek project are
$3,334,000 for a water treatment
plant of four million gallon daily
capacity, transmission lines to
the city, and for construction of
a large dam to provide a rese
voir which will create a lake
with 500-mile shoreline.
The Department of Housing
and Urban Development has in
dicated a grant for the project
of $450,000.
On a favorable vote for the
bonds, it is thought possible to
receive construction bids in Jan
uary.
W. K. Dickson & Company, of
Charlotte, are engineers for the
j project;
S&L Dividends
Total $41550
Quarterly dividends of Kings
Mountain Savings & Loan asso
ciation payable, September 30,
totaled $44,550.51.
A total of $29,731.92 was paid
on optional savings accounts,
while $14,818.59 was paid on full
paid shares, Secretary-Treasurer
JoeR. Smith reported.
Area Nazarenes
To Convention
Nazarene church scnool lead
ers and pastors ot the 50 church
|es of the denomination in North
Carolina will attend one of two
Church School Conventions to be
held in two North Carolina cities
during mid-October. The sched
ule:
At Charlotte, Plaza Nazarene
church, Monday, October 16;
At Raleigh, Nazarene church,
Wednesday, October 18.
At these conventions and work
I shop sessions, leaders will hear
| reports on the denominational
campaign to reach a Sunday
school enrollment goal of 1,000,
000 persons by June 1968. The
total enrollment now is 960,000
persons.
The Rev. T. C. Sanders, Jr.,
Charlotte, district superintendent,
will bring a greeting in opening
each meeting at 8:45 a.m.
Workshop sessions for various
age groups will be held at 10 a.m.
and 3 and 7:30 p.m.
The programs will be presented
by ten leaders from denomina
tional church school offices in
Kansas City, Mo. This “traveling
faculty” will be led by Dr. A. F.
Harper, editor in chief, and Dr.
E. G. Benson, editor of Church
School Builder.
Similar Sunday school conven
tions are being held this month
in Virginia and West Virginia.
Local Students
At King's
Three Kings Mountain area
students enrolled at King's Col
lege in Charlotte at the begin
ning of the fall quarter.
Carolyn Moore, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Franklin
Moore, Route 1, has registered
for the Advanced Secretarial
course; Glenda Ann Wolfe, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Wolfe, Route 3. has registered
for the Business Administration
Accounting; and Ray Henderson,
sbn of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hender
son, 106 North Sims street, has
registered for the Business Ad
ministration Management*