VOL. 79 No. 46
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
|s Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 16, 1967
Established 1889
Seventy-Eiqnth Year
Pages
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
GOLD STAR PARENTS HONORED — Gold Star Mothers and Pothers of Cleveland County were hon
ored Sunday at a luncheon given by Legion Auxiliaries of Warren F. Hoyle Post of Shelby and Otis
D> .Gre>en Poet 1SS of Kings Mountain. Congressman Basil L, Whitener made the address. There
were 42 honored guests, including several from Kings Mountain. Pram left to right. Commander
Carl Wiesener of Post 15S of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Wiesener, Mrs. Cletus Long, of Kings Moun
tain, Congressman Whitener and Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Moorhead of Kings Mountain. Other Gold
Star parents present from this area were Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lee. (Photo by Neil Holcomb).
fold Star
Mothers
Are Honored
Congressman Basil L. White
tier, in a speech before Cleveland
County Gold Star Mothers in
Shelby Sunday, paid tribute to
the sacrifice that. the nation’s
veterans have made in the de
fense of, their country.
The luncheon, arranged by
Eibers of Warren F. Hoyle
82 Auxiliary, of Shelby, and
rican Legion Post 155 Aux
ilary, .of jCngs Mountain, was
ield at the Shelby Arapfijcan Le
jion Building.
Whitener said that those who
have worn .the uniform of their
country have a particular appre
ciation, of the responsibilities of
citizenship and the price that
must be pad to maintain liberty.
Recalling the nation’s past
wars, Whitener declared uiat
“38 million men and women have
participated in our nation’s mili
tary conflicts. One millon and
two thouSahd of them have made
the supreme sacrfice. Twenty-six
million of them are living today
and remain as a living symbol of
our love of t freedom.”
The Congressman praised the
young men fighting in Vietnam
and said that the republic owes
them a special debt of gratitude.
Tn the defense of their country,
they are performing the highest
duty of citizenship at a time
when some of their countrymen
at home are questioning the rea
sons for their presence on the
battlefield,” he said.
Whitener told the Gold Star
pothers that the nation’s fight
ng men deserve the support of
jvery American. “Regardless of
the idealogical and other differ
inces that Americans have as to
the war in Vietnam, the mem
Iters of our Arlned Forces de
serve and should have the sup
port* the respect and the admir
ation of every American. To give
them less would be to repudiate
oUr great heritage”, he declared.
Congressman Whitener is a
World War II veteran and is
serving his sixth term in the
ouse of Representatives.
Mrs. Roy Propst, president of
the Shelby Auxiliary Post 82, rec
ignized special guests, including
Congressman and Mrs. Whitener,
>f Gastonia; Mrs. Griffin Smith
if Shelby, state president of the
\merlcan Legion Auxiliary, and
ttr. Smith; Mrs- B. M. Jarrett of
Shelby, national chairman ttf
Cirl State activities in the Am
■rican Legion Auxiliary; Mrs.
Durham Davis of Shelby, Gold
Star chairman, and Mr. Davis;
Varren F. Hoyle Post Comroan
ler F. A. Dalton, Mrs. Dalton
Mad their daughter, all Shelbians;
uid Otis D. Green Post 155 Com
ttander Carl Wlesener of Kings
fountain and Mb's. Wiesener.
rty-two Gold Star Mothers
Gold Star Fathers were
jnized, among them Mr. and
W. M. Moorhead, Mr. and
Gerald Lee and Mrs. Cletus
Other Kings Mountain peo
ittending were Mrs. John H.
i, president of Post 155 Aux
/; Mrs. Clarence L. Jolly,
President of Post 155 Aux
y; Mrs. Della McIntyre and
Elizabeth Stewart.
PROMOTED—Bruce Huffstetler,
Kings Mountain native, has
been appointed manager of the
NASA Regional Audit. Of lice of
Langley Research Center in
Hampton, Va
Mr. Huffstetler
Was Promotion
Samuel Bruce Huffstetler, Kings
Maintain native, has been ap
pointed Manager, NASA Regional
Audit Office, Langley Research
1 Center and Wallops Station,
Hampton, Virginia.
Mr. Huffstetler previously held
the position of Assistant Manag
er, NASA Regional Audit Office,
Marshall Space Flight Center,
Huntsville, Alabama. He has
worked with the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration
for the past four years. Prior to
beginning work With NASA he
held positions with the Army
Missile Command and the U. S.
Atomic Energy Commission.
Mr. Huffstetler is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Huffstetler of
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Federal Grants
Approval Hinged
On Renewal
IT MARTIN HARMON
Kings Mountain’s workable
program for commuhity Improve
ment has won recertification by
the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, Mayor John
Henry Moss has been informed
by Edward H. Baxter, regional ad
ministrator.
'The program is recertified
through November 1, 1968.
Mayor Moss expressed “very
especial pleasure” at the recer
tification, pointing out that cer
tification of the workable pro
gram is preliminary to obtaining
federal grants for any project ap
plication administered by this
federal agency.
Pending applications include
those for urban renewal for $864,
000 and $450,000 for the Buffalo
Creek water project.
Administrator Baxter wrote:
“The Review of Progress under
the Workable Program for Com
munity Improvement as submit
ted by Kings Mountain has been
thoroughly reviewed by this of
fice, and the Program has been
recertified by Assistant Secretary
Don M. Hummel of the Depart
ment of Housing and Urban De
velopment. A properly executed
certificate to this effect is enclos
ed.
*'A close examination of pro
grams administered by this De
partment will disclose that they
are geared to assist a community
that is willing to help itself. As
a certified participant in Work
able Program activities, Kings
Mountain has shown that it is
making a coordinated effort to
improve living conditions for its
citizens. The personnel of this of
fice are most anxious to assist
Kings Mountain in any way pos
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Teeners'Trial Scheduled Friday,
Result Of Saturday Altercation
Trial of a trio of Kings Moun
tain teenagers on charges arising
from a Saturday afternoon fracas
at a U.S. 74 by pass service sta
tion near Shelby will be held in
Cleveland Recorder's Court Thurs
day.
As a result of the fracas, two
groups of people have been
charged, according to report of
the county sheriffs department
One set of charges, according to
Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Barbee,
arose from the allegation that
Wade Humphries, 20, of Shelby,
was beaten by two youths while
another held Humphries’ father,
Odell Humphries, 54, of Shelby,
at gunpoint.
The other charges were filed
against the two Humphries and
another man by the father of one
of the three youths charged by
Humphries.
Clark Mauney, 17, of Kings
Mountain, has been charged with
assault and carrying a concealed
weapon in connection with the
altercation. Wayne Mullinax, 17,
of Kings Mountain, has been
charged with three counts of as
sault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill. The third boy, a
juvenile, is charged with assault
wittHiittaadly weapon.
Charles have also been brought
by Mauney’s father, George H.
Mauney, against Odell and Wade
Humphries, as well as Jimmy
Young of Winston-Salem. The
older Humphries, owner of a U.S.
74 service station, is charged with
assault and aiding and abetting
assault with a deadly weapon.
His son is charged with assault
with a deadly weapon. Young hafe
been charged with assault with
a deadly weapon.
According to Humphries, six
youths besides the three that
have been charged, were involved
in the incident. It occurred at
Humphries' station just outside
Shelby.
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County Manager
Hospitalized
On Wednesday
By MARTIN HARMON
A late Wednesday afternoon ru
mor that members of the Kings
Mountain Industrial Association
would meet Friday morning with
County Manager Joe Hendrick to
discuss a collaborative effort for
a county water system was not
confirmed.
It brought the information,
i however, that Mr. Hendrick, one
time Kings Mountain city clerk,
was hospitalized at Cleveland
Memorial Hospital Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Diane Patterson, Mr. Hen
drick’s secretary, said Mr. Ken
drick was suffering gastrointes
tinal pain which his doctor had
labeled “left-sided appendicitis”
and that he had entered the hos
pital for observation and treat
ment.
Meantime, reaction of the five
industries buying most water
from the city was mixed, follow
ing announcement of possible
water rates to amortize the pro
posed bonds for the Buffalo
Creek project.
Summated, reaction was:
1) Water is a necessity for
everyone.
I 2) Could the rate projections be
too high?
3) Who contrived the rate pro
jections and how competent are
they (see editorial Page 2)?
Mauney Hosiery President W.
K. Mauney, Jr., said Tuesday
night he supported the December
5 issue. He would have preferred,
he said, a less costly project.
James E. Amos, controller of
Massmo, Inc., said, “We are
scratching our heads and don’t
know what to do at this stage.
We don’t know what alternative
there would be. Maybe we’ll
know in another week.”
Joe Kakassey, owner of K Mills,
was particularly concerned with
the rate projections which he re
gards as “inequitable”. He added,
“Everyone’s for more water.”
Joe Vale, secretary of Kings
Mountain Industrial Association,
of which W. K. Mauney, Jr., is
president, acknowledged sum
moning members to a meeting at
the request of Mr. Kakassey. He
said he knew of no projected
meeting with the county manager
and added, "Industry wants wa
ter, but industry does want to
sit down and see if it can be
done for any less increase.”
Mrs. Patterson said she knew
of no scheduled meeting of Kings
Mountain industrialists with the
county manager.
Bumgardner '
Rites Thursday
Funeral rites for Ralph A.
Bumgardner, 40, will be held
’Thursday at 3:30 pm. from Oak
View Baptist church of which he
was a member.
Rev. C. C. Bundy will officiate j
at the final rites. The body will
remain at Harris Funeral Home!
until 3 p.m. when it will lie in
state at the church.
Mr. Bumgardner died Tuesday
at 5 p.m. in.the Kings Mountain
hospital after suffering a heart
attack. He had retired from Mas
sachusetts Mohair Plush Com
pany’s Margrace Plant eight
months ago because of a heart
condition.
A native of Cleveland County,
he was son of the late Mr. andj
Mrs. Edward Bumgardner. He!
was a World War II veteran.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Virginia Moore Bumgardner;
three sons, Donnie Ray Bumgard
ne*- of Charlotte, Jerrv Wayne
and Thomas Arnold Bumg.u'’ner,
both of the home; a daughter,'
Miss Linda Kay Bu-'^ard ie»-:
five brothers, George Bumgard-j
ner, John Bumgardner, Edwin I
Bumgardner, Ray Bumgp’-d ier,|
all of Kings Mountain, end Wil-j
liam Bumgardner of Bessemer!
City; and a sister, Mrs. Paul;
Cooper of Shelby. <
a
Hospital Seeks
32-Bed Addition
SPEAKER — Rev. M. George
Henry, Bishop of the Episcopal'
Diocese of Western North Car
olina, will fill the pulpit at
Sunday services at Trinity Epis
copal church.
Bishop Henry
Here On Sunday
The Right Rev. M. Georg*
Henry, Bishop of the Episcopa"
Diocese of Western North Caro
lina, will fill the pulpit at the
11 o’clock morning worship houi
at Trinity Episcopal church on
Phifer road.
Bishop Henry will make hi;
annual visitation and conduc'
confirmation rites. A coffee hour
will follow the service.
At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon
Bishop Henry will attend a Dean
ery meeting in Shelby.
At the evening hour on Sun
day, the local congregation will
loin with the St. Andrew’s and
Mount Holly congregations to
hear Edgar Hartley, Jr., execu
tive director of Kanuga Confer
ences, Inc., and Rev. James M.
Hindle of Tryon report on the
general convention of the church
which met in September in Seat
tle, Washington. A covered dish
supper will be served.
Plonk Accepts
PHA Proffer
Hal S. Plonk, Kings Mountain
builder, has contracted with
Kings Mountain Public Housing
Authority to serve as site nego
tiator, Thomas W. Harper, execu
tive director, said this week.
Mr. Harper added that the au
•thority would meet at the offices,
503 West Gold street, Monday at
1 p.m., in a meeting postponed
from Monday past.
The authority is expected to au
thorize appointment of Frank
Hoyle, register appraiser, of Cher
ryville, as site appraiser.
Mr. Harper reported 22 parcels
of property in various sections of
the city have been approved by
regional officials of the Housing
Assistance Administration as pos
sible sites for the 150-unit low
rent housing development, and
that other sites have been pro
visionally approved as alternates.
Owners are being contacted, he
added, and several have indicat
ed willingness to make their
properties available.
MISSION PROGRAM
Kings Mountain Baptist As
sociation Brotherhood will spon
sor “Emphasis On Foreign Mis
sions” at Pattereon Springs Bap
tist church Tuesday night at
7:30 p.m. The president of the
Baptist Seminary in the Philip
pine Islands, Dr. Tyner, will
make the address. Baptist con- i
gregations from the area are in- j
vited to participate.
Officials To Ask
County To Issue
Bonds Voted 'S3
By MARTIN HARMON
Officials of Kings Mountain
hospital will ask the board of
county commissioners Monday to
sell $500,000 in hospital bonds—
voted in 1963—for a 32-bed ad
dition to tiie 75-bed institution.
Decision to proceed on the ad
dition follows a formal turn
down by the North Carolna Med
ical Care commission on Kings
Mountain hospital’s application
for matching federal funds un
der the Hill-Burton act.
Kings Mountain hospital offi
cials first asked matching funds
for a major addition, then ds
cusscd possibility for an extend
ed carol unit.
The mftimission, via letter from
Secretary Henderson, informed
1 he Kings Mountain directors that
no funds would bp available for
any expansion in the foreseeable
future. Jt was pointed out that
many other applications are in
hand from cities and counties
throughout the stale, and that
Cleveland Memorial hospital’s
$1,500000 grant more than ex
hausted Cleveland County’s share
if the limited federal appropria
tions accruing to North Carolina.
Citizens of the county approv
'd a $2 million hospital bond is
me in February 1963, with $1.5
million earmarked for Cleveland
Memorial and $500,000 for Kings
Mountain hospital.
Under state law, unused bond
;ssue authority expires in five
years.
.Meantime, Administrator Grady
Howard reports, occupancy at
Kings Mountain hospital con
tinues at a rate of 97 percent—
for the year ending September
1966 highest in North Carolina
with many patients being housed
"mporarily in passageways.
Plans for the addition by Free
man & White, Charlotte archi
tectural firm spectalizin - in hos
pital planning, project a new two
dory east wing, providing a not
tied addition of 32 along with
new operating loom and ancil
lary facilities.
WSCS MEETING
The Women’s Society of Chris
tian Service of St. Paul’s Meth
odist church will hold regular
meeting Friday night at 7:30
at the church.
TAPPED — Fred E. (Hick)
Finger. III. top. Kings Mountain
\ high school senior, has been
: nominated by a county com
i mittee for a Moreheod scholar
ship. Danny Dyke, also a Kings
Mountain senior, has been nam
ed an alternate.
Scholarship
Nominees Chosen
Frederick Eli (Rick) Finger,
111 of Kings Mountain is one oJ
three Cleveland County students
named candidates from Cleveland
County for a Miorehead scholar
, ship to the University of North
j Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Joseph Daniel Dyke, also of
| Kings Mountain, was named al
ternate.
i The other two candidates, both
Shelby high school seniors, are
Lewis Edwin Speagle, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Olan Speagle, and
George Willis Clay, 111, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Clay,
Jr.
Candidates for the Morehead
award will be interviewed by the
District Nine committee some
time in January, according to L.
Lyndon Hobbs, chairman of the
county Morehead selection com
mittee. Hobbs said candidates
who pass that committee will go
before the final selection commit
tee in Chapel Hill to compete for
four-year scholarships to UNC
at Chapel Hill. Each Morehead
Scholar receives a total of $7,000
for undergraduate work from the
John Motley Morehead Founda
tion.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E.
Finger, young Finger ranks
fourth in a 210-member senior
class at Kings Mountain high
school. Before moving to Kings
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KM Mall Promoters See Sketches;
Option Negotiations Continuing
Kings Mountain Mall, Inc. de
velopers Monday night previewed
sketches of' the proposed 400-car
Cherokee street complex.
Meantime, negotiations to ob
tain two remaining options of
seven needed to begin work on
the mail were continuing.
One of the remaining property
owners, Mrs. Vera Mauney Co
oper, had indicated willingness
to discuss giving an option, a
spokesman said, and will meet
with the developers later this
week.
Seven parcels of privately own
ed land lie within the mall area.
The corporation has obtained op
tions to purchase five of the par
cels. The seventh parcel is the 50
by 60 foot lot occupied by Saun
ders Cleaners and Stowe’s Radio
TV and owned by David H. Ham
rick.
The names of property owners
giving the options will be placed
on a plaque in the mall.
The sketches, presented by rep
resentatives of Reynolds Alumin
um Company, showed a uniform
appearance of all buildings, a
canopy to protect shoppers and
a fountain in the center of the
; 400-car parking area. Extruded or
expanded aluminum could be
erected locally over the facing of
i the old building at a cost of $3.50
i per square foot.
The recommendations were
similar to a project in Florence,
j S. C. which won for that city the
| “All American City" award in
1906. Pictures of the “Florence
1 Story" were also shown.
! The aluminum facing could be
| removed in panels for replace
j ment or for servicing to the
I budding. Florence project prices
ranged from a high of $24,000 on
the largest multi storied building
to $641 lor a small shop.
Richard E. Maxey, chairman of
the Mall Development commit-'
tee of the Chamber of Commerce,
noted that the Kings Mountain
project would go a step further
than the Florence project with,
facing of all the buildings all the
way to the top, instead of part
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$21,000 Goal h
Exceeded By $200,
More Reports Due
Kings Mountain’s United Fund
Campaign for 1968 is over the top.
Drive Chairman Robert O. (Bob)
Southwell, elated over results of
Tuesday’s one-day campaign for
funds, said that at 4:30 p.m. Tues
day’s one-day campaign for
funds, said that at 4:30 pm.
Tuesday a total of $21,200 had
been received by volunteer cam
paign workers who started the
day early with a kick-off break
fast at First Presbyterian church.
Goal of the campaign for seven
causes was $21,000.
A remote control unit at First
Presbyterian church connected
thf> 35 worers with Radio Station
WKMT which broadcasted results
of the drive throughout the day.
All six divisions of the cam
paign were "over the top”, re
ported Southwell with the schools
division headed by Supt. Donald
Jones reporting 198 percent of the
goal and followed by the corres
pondence division headed by
Richard Maxey, the industrial
group headed by George Houser,
the commercial division headed
by Larry Hamrick, the advance
gifts division headed by Charles
Mauney and the professional so
licitation headed by Mrs. Sam
Robinson.
“It was a unique campaign for
Kings Mountain”, said Southwell
and United Fund President W.
Donald Crawford. They expressed
their appreciation to volunteers
who worked for the success of
the campaign and their pleasure
at response to the drive.
United Fund gifts will support
work of the American Red Cross,
the Kings Mountain high school
band, the Kings Mountain high
school chorus, the Girl Scouts of
the Pioneer Council, Cleveland
County Rescue & Life Saving
Squad, and Carolines United
Community Services, Inc.
The goal this year is $1,500
higher than last year’s goal and
$4,500 over the 1966 goal.
City Board Bans
Trash Burning
The city board of commis
sioners, at the request of Fire
Chief Floyd Thornburg, Tues
day night banned trash burn
ing due to the city water short
age and unusually dry condi
tions prevailing.
The ban is effective imme- >f‘
diately, and was enacted at the
request of Fire Chief Floyd
Thornburg.
Under city ordinance, persons
or firms desiring to burn leaves
or other debris are required to
obtain prior permission from
the fire chief.
“A real bad fire would put
us in real trouble,” Chief Thorn
burg told the board.
Lions Endoise
Water Bonds
Members of Kings Mountain
Lions club joined other civic or
ganizations in unanimously en
dorsing the city’s $3 million wa
ter bond issue Tuesday night, aft
er hearing Mayor John Henry
Moss outline the water history of
Kings Mountain since 1923 and
declare, “Our water shortage is
real.”
“It is very essential that the
city owns its own utilities and
thereby controls its own destiny,”
the Mayor continued, citing sta
tistics showing that a resident of
such a city saves $14,000 in utility
costs in the course of an aver
age lifetime.
Moving endorsement of the
water bond issue. Past President
Gene Timms noted Charlotte’s
CLUBS SUPPORT
Two more organizations have
added their voice in support of
the Kings Mountain water
bond issue in the past week.
The Kings Mountain Improve
ment Association, of which
Luico Wilson is president; and
the Bethware Parent • Teacher
Association, of which Willard
Boyles is president, have passed
resolutions endorsing the Buf
falo Creek project.
bard-pressed financial situation
and that Mecklenburg citizens
had approved Monday a local one
present sales tax.
"A Mecklenburg citizen who
spends $5000 at home in the
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