Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits * 8,256
Greater King* Mountain figure Is derived from the
special United States Bureau of the Census report o
January 1966, and Includes the 14,990 population o
Humber 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 froa
Humber 5 Township, In Cleveland County and Crowder'
Mountain Township In Gaston County, ,
VOL. 79 — No. 43
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 26, 1967
Seventy-Eignth Year
Pagos
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
SPEAKER — Bishop Earl
Hunt. Jr., will fill the pulpit
Sunday worship services
Central Methodist church and
lead the congregation in the
Service of Consecration of the
new sanctuary.
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Kings Mountain
New Land-Fill
[Operation Begins
Kings Mountain’s first syste
matic land-fill operation will be
started Nov. 1 on an eight-acre
site between York road and a ser
vice road of 1-85.
This site is owned by the city
and is commonly referred to as
the “city dump’’, for disposing
t>f the city’s waste and garbage.
Until now, trash was both
buried and burned. Burning will
lag eliminated under the new
icedure, Public Works Supt.
ady Yelton said this week.
For the land-fill program, a
awler tractor - loader—4» being
urchased. The city commission
feceived bids from three firms
Tuesday night but delayed let
Iting contract until the Nov. 14
rneetirtg of the commission.
Western Carolina Tractor Com
pany of Charlotte submitted bids
of $19,660.64 and $24,745.
E. F. Craven & Company of
Charlotte bid $24,658.25' and
Carolina Tractor and Equipment
Company of Charlotte submitted
the highest bid, $27,300.
City Clerk Joe McDaniel said
the machine on which the lowest
bid came did not comply with
all bid specifications. A spokes
man for the firm at Tuesday’s
commission meeting said “it
comes close.” The spokesman
added that this tractor was not
of sufficient size and weight to
do as fine a job as “you’d like
to have done.”
The other three bids complied
with specifications, according to
the mayor. Of these three, E. F.
Craven’s bid of $24,658 is the
lowest, with only $86 separating
it from the next highest bid of
04,745 submitted by Western
Carolina.
Purchase of the new equipment
was included in this year’s bud
get.
_The new sanitary land-fill
■bram is expected to be for
Hly adopted on December 1,
In what Mayor John Moss terms
<iA continuing step forward for a
better garbage and sanitation
system in the city.” Packers and
collection carts for residential
pick-up, a container system for
downtown merchants, 30 white
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SPEAKER — Senator Robert B.
_Morgan of UUIngton will ad
A«u Men of First Baptist
JVtuich Wednesday evening at
7:30 pan. at the church. A not
ed Baptist lapnan. Mr. Morgan
will speak on a church-related
subject, a spokesman far the
from
tevtte* to
New Sanctuary
Jonsecration
Services Set
Bishop Earl G. Hunt, Jr., spir
itual leader for the Charlotte
Methodist Area, will deliver the
worship hour message and lead
the congregation • of Central
Methodist church, in the Service
of Consecration of the new sanc
tuary Sunday morning at 10:45
a.m.
Following the service a congre
gational luncheon will be -served
it the Woman’s club across the
street from, the church. Rev. D.
B. Alderman, minister, reminded
he congregation and friends that
October 29th is the first day of
the time change from daylight
saving to eastern standard.
Bishop Hunt came to the Char
lotte Area in 1964 after being
elected a bishop of The Method
ist Church by the Southeastern
Methodist! Jurisdiction. His area
of leadership is the Western
North Carolina Conference, which
includes 44 counties in the west
ern half of North Carolina, and
encompasses more than 271,000
Methodist members who are on
the rolls of 1,150 churches in 13
districts.
The bishop is known widely for
his preaching ability, but-is also
becoming recognized in many
other fields of Christian service.
He came to North Carolina
following eight years as presi
dent of Emory and Henry Col
lege at Emory, Virginia.
The public is invited to hear
Bishop Hunt, Rev. Alderman an
nounced.
Sales
'Going Well’
in
Sale of stock in Kings Mountain
Convalescent Center and Nursing
Center, Inc. are “going well”, Joe
R. Smith, corporation president,
said this week.
"Right now we’re working to
pay for the lot, purchased by Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde R. Kerns for the
corporation, at cost of $16,000”,
said Mr. Smith.
The facility will be located
near Kings Mountain hospital on
property formerly owned by Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer McGill on Edge
mont Drive.
“We hope we’ll be ready to
hire an architect by the end of
December”, said Mr. Smith. “It is
the aim of the corporation”,
Smith continued, “to provide
Kings Mountain with a privately
owned, financed and operated
nursing facility available to all.”
Halloween Carnival
At Chestnut Ridge
A Halloween carnival will be
held at Chestnut Ridge Baptist
church fellowship hall Saturday.
Hotdogs and homemade cakes
will be on sale both at'the noon
hour and for the evening meal.
Games for children will be fea
tured and prizes will go to the
best-costumed.
WOUNDED IN ACTION — Sgt.
Dana Holman, husband of the
former Priscilla Williams of
Kings Mountain, has been
wounded for the second time
while-serving in Vietnam. Mrs.
Holman and their 20-month
old son are residing here with
her parents.
Sgt Holman
Twice Wounded
Mrs. Priscilla Williams Hol
man of Kings Mountain has been
notified that her husband, Sgt.
Dana Holman, has been wounded
in action for the second time in
Vietnam.
Sgt. Holman was wounded June
1 and September 3. Mrs. Holman
said her husband is being return
ed to the U. S. for hospitaliza
tion.
The Holmans are parents of a
20-month-old son, James Phillip.
Mrs. Holman and James Phillip
reside here with her parents on
route 1. Sgt. Holman, a native of
Kentucky, is son of Mrs. Ruth
Tomlinson of Lexington, Ky.
Governor Edward T. Breathitt
of Kentucky, in a letter to the
soldier’s mother, wrote on Sep
tember 14:
“I have learned that your son,
Sergeant Dana Holman, was re
cently wounded for the second
time in Vietnam.
geant Holman to know that Ken
tuckians are very proud of his
courage and fortitude and our
hearts are with him as he so
bravely defends the principles
for which our country stands.
His action in saving two men
from a burning tank was out
standing and the Bronze Star he
then received was highly deserv
ed recognition.
“I sincerely hope that Sergeant
Holman will soon be fully re
covered from his injuries. May
he meet with success in any fu
ture undertakings and return
safely to those who wa't for him
with pride.”
The letter was signed by Gov
ernor Breathitt.
Board To Study
Program Drafts
Preliminary drafts of a public
improvement program and cap
ital improvements budget were
outlined by Mayor John Henry
Moss at Tuesday night's city
commission meeting.
The mayor said target date for
adoption Of the plan is the last
meeting night of the commission
in December.
The document, prepared by
the Community Planning Divi
sion of the Department of Con
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DF Campaign Seeks Goal Of $21,000
Alexander Wins
Top Vest Award
Coveted Honor
Is Conferred
On Postmaster
Charles L. Alexander, president
of the North Carolina Branch of
the National League of Post
masters, was one of four Post
masters in the nation receiving
the coveted Order of the Vest
award at the annual convention
of the National League of Post
masters which convened at At
lantic City, N. J. October 1-7.
The honorary award is spon
sored and perpetuated by the
Airline Postal Affairs Committee
of the Air Transport Association,
v/asnington, D. C. All members
of the Order specially designed
red, white and blue vests which
were presented during impres
sive ceremonies. In addition to
the best, each member receives
a beautiful walnut plaque. The
award was presented at the an
nual banquet. Postmaster Gen
eral Lawrence F. O'Brien pre
sented the banquet address.
Recipients of the award are
carefully screened with consid
eration given to accomplishments
on local, state and national levels.
Postmaster Alexander complet
ed his term in office as president
of the Presidents Club of the
National League of Postmasters
at the annual convention in At
lanta City.
Rev. Wright
In New Post
Rev. Alfred R. Wright, Kings
Mountain native, has accepted a
call to become pastor of Six
teenth Street Baptist church of
Greensboro.
For the past two and a half
years Mr. Wright has served as
pastor of South Marietta Street
Baptist church of Gastonia.
The Wrights moved into the
Sixteenth Street parsonage Mon
day. He is married to the former
Doris Fisher of Concord. They
have three children, Joel, Joni
and and Jonathan.
Wright is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Wright of Kings
Mountain. A 1955 graduate of
Kings Mountain high school, he
attended Gardner-Webb college
and Phifer, college. He was or
dained in- 1956 by Rev. Gordon
Weekley, Rev. C. C. Parker and
Rev. B. F. Austin at Second Bap
tist church in Kings Mountain
where he was a member.
Rev. Mr. Wright begins his du
ties at Sixteenth Street church
on Sunday.
ENDORSE PROJECT
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce Thursday unanim
ously endorsed Kings Moun
tain’s proposed $3 million Buf
falo Creek Water Project.
Mauney Hall Dedication Set
Mauney Residence Hall For
Men, named In honor of pioneer
industrialists Mr. and Mrs. W. K.
Mauney, Sr. of Kings Mountain
and in memory of the late Mr.
and Mrs. D. C. Mauney of Kings
Mountain, will be among three
new residence halls dedicated at
Gardner-Webb college Saturday.
The dedicatory service will fea
ture a Founders Day-Homecom
ing luncheon in the Charles I.
Dover building on the junior col
lege campus at Boiling Springs.
The A. G. Myers Residence
Hall For Men is in honor of A.
G. Myers, Sr. of Gastonia. He is
retired but was formerly presi
dent and chairman of the board
of Textiles-Incorfcorated and the
Citizens National Bank in Gas
tonia. ;.4 >
The Irene Nanney Residence
Hall For Women honors C- P
Nanney and his wife of Gastonia
C. P. Nanney is president of the
Sun Drop and Double Cola Build
ing Company of Gastonia and
has lived in Gastonia since 1817.
Mauney Hall was constructed
at a cost of $198,000. It Is a four
story structure housing 113 men.
The Myers and Nanney residence
halls were constructed at • coat
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CO-CHAIRMAN — State Senator
lade H. White of Kings Moun
tain etas elected co-chairman
with Rip. Sam Johnson of
Wake County of the Local Gov
ernment Study Commission at
4be group’s organisational
meeting in Raleigh Friday. The
study commission was sat up
by the 1SS7 North Carolina
General Assembly and is to
nude* Us report by January 1.
IMS.
BOILING SPRINGS — Satur
day’s planned dedication program
for three new residence halls
was previewed Tuesday morning
for 1,300 Gardner-Webb College
students.
A. G. Myers, Jr. of Gastonia,
C. P. and Irene Nanney of Gas
tonia and Charles Mauney pf
Kings Mountain were on hand to
make' the presentation of Mau
ne.v, Nanney and Myers,residence
halls.
Dr. E. Eugene Poston, presi
dent of the college, accepted the
structures on behalf of the col
lege and the trustees, and Thom
as Tapp, pres ident of the student
bodv. accepted on behalf «f the
students. Dr. Poston pledged that,
"In this time of demonstrations
and riots in protest against many
things, we at Gardner-Webb
oledge to work for something.
The something, for us, v.’ll be
continued improvement of aca
demic standards and support of
fhe Cb-i«Man, free entp,-'"ice svs
tem which has made this nation
great.”
Noting that the Mauney f"m
ily is Lutheran, the Mvers family
is Methodist and the Nanney
family is Baptist, Dr. Poston
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HONORED — Kings Mountain
Postmaster Charles Alexander
received the coveted Order of
Vest award at the annual con
vention of the National League
of Postmasters. He was among
four postmasters in the nation
receiving the honor.
Note-Burning
Service Set
Note burning ceremonies will
feature the annual Homecoming
Day observance at Temple Bap
tist chureh on Sunday, November
5th.
Rev. W. F. Monroe of Gaffney,
S. C., a former pastor, will fill
e pulpit at the 11 o’clock wor
The note-burning ceremony
signifying that the church in
debtedness for the sanctuary is
now paid in full will highlight
the service.
Picnic lunch will be served at
the noon hour and a song service
will follow.
Members, former members and
friends of the congregation are
invited to participate in the day’s
activities, a spokesman for the
church said.
Plans Approved
North School
Schools Supt. Donald Jones will
submit plans for the proposed ad
dition to North school to the De
partment of School Planning in
Raleigh Friday.
Mr. Jones will be accompanied
by the building’s architect, Eu
gene Warren, of Charlotte.
Total cost of the new school
plant, approved last Wednesday
night by the board of education,
is expected to be close to $400,000,
including landscaping and all
furnishings. The building itself
will cost nearly $325,000.
Building of the proposed 12
classroom addition was tentative
ly approved in September but
cost was expected to be much
less.
“There is much merit to a fa
cility like this”, commented the
superintendent. "It could be util
ized for our summer programs
also and it is much more than a
12-room addition. It will bring
about a better instructional pro
gram”, the superintendent had
commented at the recent board
meeting.
Labeled as experimental and
■a “first” for Kings Mountain dis
trict schools are a projected class
room cluster and a demonstration
library.
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It's The Season
For Raking Leaves
It’s the season again for
raking leaves, and city officials
will begin pick-up service to
day, Public Works Supt. Grady
Yelton reports.
Mr. Yelton said citizens who
want this service should pile
leaves in the curb near their
residences. All leaves raked
through Friday will be collect
ed on Saturday. Leaves raked
Saturday will be collected Mon
day.
Supt. Yelton said that unusu
ally' heavy piles of leaves
should be placed at the edge
of the curb accessible to the
leaf machine.
“Sticks, brush or rocks in
leaves will knock holes in the
leaf machine”, said Mr. Yel
ton. He asks that citizens pile
collections of brush, rocks and
sticks in separate piles for col
lection.
Seven Agencies
Axe Approved
Fox Funds
Kings Mountain’s United Fund
campaign for 1968 will seek a
goal of $21,000 for seven causes.
A reorganization meeting was
held this week by members of the
board of directors and the $21,
000 budget and requests approv
ed.'An additional agency, Caro
lina’s United, was approved for
this year.
In addition to approving the
budget, the directors also ap
pointed division chairmen, in
cluding George Houser, industry;
Charles Mauney, advance gifts;
Mayor John Moss, public employ
ees; Supt. Donald Jones, schools;
Larry Hamrick, commercial; Mrs.
Sam Robinson, professional; and
Richard Maxey, correspondence.
The drive this year will be held
in November.
A break-down of budgeted re
quests follows:
Girl Scouts of America, $2,476.
Boy Scouts of America, $5,725.
American Red Cross, $4,500.
Kings Mountain High School
Band, $2,500.
Kings' Mountain High School
Chorus, $300.
Kings Mountain Rescue Squad,
$3,500.
Carolina’s United, $1,S00.
Administrative cost, $200.
Commenting on this year's
campaign, United Fund President
W. Donald Crawford and Cam
paign Chairman Bob Southwell
said: “Only through United Fund
can your dollars support so many
different agencies. The United
Fund slogan of "one gift works
many wonders’’ emphasizes this
truth. Each of us has a duty and
a responsibility to those less for
tunate. The people of Kings
Mountain exceeded their goal
last year through a strong feel
4aa of this responsibility With
the same cooperation the goal
for this year will also be exceed
ed.”
Farm Bureau
To Hear Scott
Annual dinner meeting of the
Cleveland County Farm Bureau
will be held at Brackett’s Cedar
Park near Polkville Thursday
(tonight) at 7 p.m.
North Carolina Lieutenant Gov
ernor Robert W. (Bob) Scott of
Raleigh will make the principal
address.
Mrs. Joe K. Davis is chairman
of the committee on arrange
ments. T. Z. Hord is Farm Bu
reau chairman.
William Lawrence Plonk of
Kings Mountain, a member of
the Farm Bureau, said area
farmers, their wives and guests
are invited to attend.
We'll Renew Loan
Of Water Pipes: Moss
Renewal of the city’s auxili
ary water system will be made
in November, Mayor John Moss
said yesterday.
The city has on loan more
than 200 tons, five miles or
more than 17,650 feet of eight
inch pipe, from the Army Corps
of Engineers of Thomasville,
Ga., borrowed in April, to avert
an acute water shortage.
The water footage report
Wednesday: the new lake was
down 13 feet, nine inches; the
old lake was don seven feet,
eight inches.
“With the old lake footage
falling so rapidly, we’ll have to
soon begin pumping from the
new lake,” said Supt. of Public
Works G. C. Yelton.
MALL OFFICIALS LOOK AT SITE — Foui officials of Kings
Mountain Mall. Inc. look over the site of the proposed Cherokee
Street Mall. From left, Bill H. Brown. J. C. Bridges, Mall Presi
dent Paul McGinnis and Richard E. (Dick) Maxey. A dinner
meeting for officers, directors, property owners and tenants in
the mall area is set in November. (Photo by Steve Martin
Cherokee St. Mall
Plans Progressing
IN WHO'S WHO — Mary Helen
Goforth, junior at Appalachian
State University at Boone and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles E. Goforth of route 1,
has been elected to Who's Who
Among Students In American
Colleges and Universities. Miss
Goforth is recording secretary
of the Appalachian Student
Government Association and
serves as chairman of the cam
pus elections board.
Firemen Plan
Saturday Auction
Bethlehem Volunter Fire De
partment will sponsor an auction
sale Saturday beginning at 6 p.
m. in the Bethlehem Fire Depart
ment in the Bethlehem commu
nity.
Proceeds will be used to pur
chase fire-fighting equipment.
A spokesman for the sponsor
ing organization said, ‘‘We have
a good auction sale planned and
numerous items will be posted
for sale to the highest bidder.”
Property Owners
Being Invited
To Nov. 13 Dinner
Full costs of the proposed
Cherokee Street Mall with art
ist’s sketches are to be outlined
to property owners and tenants
of the proposed mall area at a
dinner meeting November 13th
at the Woman’s club.
R. W. O’Donahue, representa
tive of Reynolds Aluminum Com
pany, will meet with the group,
including officers of Kings Moun
tain Mall, Inc., and directors.
Meantime, negotiations were
continuing for two remaining op
tions required for the south side
mall on Cherokee street, Robert
Powell, attorney for Kings Moun
tain Mall, Inc., said this week.
Mr. O’Donahue met Thursday
morning with Mall officers and
directors.
"I am impressed with its nat
ural potential for a shopping
complex,” Mr. O’Donahue said,
looking at the site for the pro
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KMHS Band To Play
In UNC Band Day
Kings Mountain high school’s
marching band is one of 61
bands scheduled to participate
in the University of North Car
olina’s Band Day Saturday at
Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill.
“Peace Throughout the
World” will be theme for the
largest band day in the history
of the southeast. The massed
bands will contain over 4,000
musicians.
Joe C. Hedden is Kings
Mountain high school band di
rector.
First In A Series
I The Water Project - Some Facts I
Kings Mountain’s Buffalo
Creek Water Project is not
fresh from the idea board,
state officials and City En
gineer W. K. Dickson recom
mending utilization of Buf
falo Creek with , its large
and steady flow as long as
13 years ago.
Buffalo is the closest ma
jor source of water to Kings
Mountain and Kings Moun
tain is near posting the
“out” sign of its water sup-1
ply.
if the proposal wins voter;
approval on December 5 ef-i
forts to acquire the 67 tracts
of land to be flooded would
begin in early January. Con-1
struction time on the dam;
and treatment plant is esti
mated at 18 to 20 months. !
Mayor John H. Moss, the
city council, the city engin
eer and more than 20 agen
cies have worked on the Buf
falo Creek Water Project for
over a year in effort to avert
a Kings Mountain water
shortage.
In development of the pro
ject Kings Mountain city of
ficials have worked with the
most competent planning
and professional knowledge
in the various agencies in
volved in development of
this program . Many man
hours have been spent in
planning and engineering.
Agencies involved in the
project, in addition to city
officials, were Institute of
Government, bonding coun
sel, auditing and engineering
firms, HUD (Department
Housing and Urban Devel
opment), local government
commission, state board of
health, U.S. Soil conserva
tionists, N. C. Department
of Recreation & Wildlife, N.
C. State Stream Sanitation
committee, Kings Mountain
and Cleveland County Plan
ning Boards, N. C. State
Highway Commission, coun
ty board of commissioners,
U.S. Bureau of Recreation,
U.S. Corps of Engineers,
North Carolina Department
of Conservation & Develop
ment, and U.S. Geological
Service.
Cost of the Kings Moun
tain Water Project, which
envisions a large lake north
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