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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits 8,256
The Greater King* Mountain figure li derived from the
special United States Bureau of the Census report o
January 1966. and includes the 14.990 population o
Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 iron
Number S Township, in Cleveland County and Crowder'
Mountain Township in Gaston County.
’ VQL 79 N°- 47
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 23, 1967
Seventy-Eignth Year
Pages
Today
PRICE TEN CENTS
Established 1889
Resurrection
Ground-Breaking
On December 3
The congregation of Resurrec
tion Lutheran church announces
plans for groundbreaking serv
ices for an educational fellow
ship wing of the church to be
held bn Sunday, December 3, at
tfee 11 o’clock morning worship
our.
Speaker for the occasion will
the Rev. Brady Faggart, exec
ve director of Lutheridge in
Jen, N. C. and former secre
ry of Christian Education of
North Carolina Lutheran Sy
The actual breaking of ground
will take place at 12 noon as the
Congregation recesses from the
Church for this official act. All
Officials of the church and its
Auxiliaries will participate in the
service.
Rev. David L. Castor, in an
nouncing the special service, is
itied an invitation to the commu
nity to join the Lutheran congre
gation in the groundbreaking
ceremonies.
KMPHA Plans
Are Approved
iAll phases of The Kings Moun
tain Public Housing Authority’s
development program has been
Approved by the Atlanta region
al office of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
and was forwarded to Washing
ton, D. C. November 15th.
Meantime, Thomas W. Harper,
_.iecutive secretary, of Kings
Mountain Public Housing, Inc.,
^Sported receipt of a check for
$17,7738, the budget for project
development for the three-month
period beginning November 1,
’The regional office of the fed
Cfal Department of Housing and
tJrban Development has approv
ed 150 low-rent housing units for
Kings Mountain.
Housing units authorized are
ipced by sale of bonds, pay
| guaranteed by the United
|s government.
lule Lights
Axe Installed
'[Christmas lights in the down
town business district will be
ned on for the first time
ursday (tonight), Merchants
sociation President Glee E.
dges said yesterday.
Turning on of the lights will
;nal the opening of the Christ
s shopping season. Store win
vs were being decorated by
, [dividual merchants yesterday.
fOne group of new lights to be
installed on Railroad avenue had
not arrived from the factory this
^Wteek as city crews were putting
e finishing touches to the light
g on downtown streets, Mr.
Tdges said.
'President Bridges said that re
tail merchants are open six-days
apweek to accomodate Christmas
Season shoppers.
Committee Is NamedToFind
$109,000 For KM Hospital
Amount Needed
To Build New
Wing To Plant
The county commission has
named a four-man committee to
investigate ways and means
whereby it can legally appro
priate $100,000 to augment insuf
ficient bond monies to construct
and addition to Kings Mountain
hospital.
The committeemen are George
W. Mauney, president of Kings
Mountain hospital, Joe Hendrick,
county manager, C. C. Horn, coun
ty attorney, and Max Hamrick,
county auditor.
The action followed presenta
tion of hospital needs for bed
space and other facilities at the
hospital and question by Attor
ney Horn of legality of such an
appropriation minus a bond elec
tion.
The appeal to the commission
follows receipt of a letter early
this month from the state Medi
cal Care commission that the
Kings Mountain facility could ex
pect no federal funds under the
Hill-Burton Act within the fore
seeable future, certainly not by
February 1969, whew the $500,
000 bond authorization for Kings
Mountain, voted in 1964, will ex
1 p!re-.. . .
President Mauney presented
the case for Kings Mountain hos
pital and said Kings Mountain of
ficals have been encouraged to
draw plans for the addition and
held out hope a federal matching
grant would be approved.
Dr. Joseph Lee, hospital staff
president, described the over
crowded conditions and the lim
ited surgical, emergency room
and X-ray facilities.
Architects Beverly Freeman and
Joe Bennett, of Freeman & White,
specialists in hospital architecture,
outlined the cut-down plans for
a two-story east wing which
would add up to 36 beds, a new
operating room, renovated emer
gency room and other ancillary
facilities—estimated to cost $768,
| 816.
President Mauney said the hos
pital has some funds for con
struction in hand, via gifts, has
been told by private foundations
some help will be given.
“We think we can do the job
with $100,000 additional,” he de
clared.
The commissioners voiced com
plete symapthy with the Kings
Mountain situation.
Commissioner Coleman Goforth
commented, “This is our respon
sibility, too. I know you folk
don’t expect a check this morn
ing, but we believe a promise of
one a year from now would tickle
you good.”
Mr. Mauney replied, “It surely
would.”
"We're Going All The Way." Biddix
tells Group At Water Study Meet
By MARTIN HARMON
( "We’re going all the, way with
te big project and it’s now in
ie hands of the voters.”
. Kings Mountain Mayor Pro
Tempore W. S. Biddix made the
jftatement Tuesday night at a
public meeting on the county
water system at the county court -
Ip use. He replied to a statement
% George Rawlins, engineer for
♦ N. Pease Company, that he un
Jferstood Kings Mountain was not
planning full development of the
Buffalo Creek project now.
The 75-mlnute session also pro
duced:
T'. 1) Re-statement by Mr. Rawl
ins that the best plan
f rvlce to rural areas
_ ountain development
~ "Ho project for service to the
;rn section of the county and
ice to the northern and wes
portkms by Shelby.
■ • Statement by Mr. Rawlins
lat rural service could be pro
on basis of 20 customers
«ule, for a $5 monthly mini
charge, this projection bas
*dicat«d on a 50 percent fed
aubsidy.
water
Kings
the
3) Statement by Dr. Hubert
Plaster, Shelby mayor, in reply
to a jest on "making Shelby rich
er” by Dr. Wyan Washburn, that
Shelby's recent increase in water
rates was dictated by a $16,500
water cost analysis. "Even with
the new rates (up 90 percent)
they tell us we’ll still be $200,000
behind after ten years,” Mayor
Plaster stated.
4) Statement by County Com
mission Chairman Hugh Dover,
to a question by Industrialist W.
K. Mauney, Jr., that the prelim
inary study is insufficient in
depth to determine whether a
rural area water system would be
amortized by taxes, water charg
es or both.
5) Statement by Mr. Mauney,
president of the Industrial Asso
ciation of the Kings Mountain
Area, that the association had
taken no action on the Kings
Mountain water bond election
and that, in fact, the association
is split on the question. Associa
tion secretary Joe Vale had pre
viously stated objections to the
Kings Mountain project, dedar
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MISS DIANNE DIXON
MISS REBECCA BURTON
MISS PATTIE STEFFY
Three Students
Win Degrees
Three Kings Mountain students
were among the 260 graduates
who were awarded associate de
grees and diplomas at the 67th
annual commencement of King’s
college, Saturday night in Char
lotte’s David Ovens Auditorium. |
Associate in Science degrees
were conferred upon Dianne Dix
on, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
K. Dixon, Route 3; and Rebecca
lane Burton, daughter- of Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Burton, 108 Wells!
street. A diploma was awarded
to Patricia Elaine Steffy, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stef
fy, 206 South Gaston street.
Associate in Science degrees
are conferred upon those students
who have successfully completed
the two-year courses in the fields
of business administration and
secretarial sciences, and diplo
mas are awarded upon the suc-i
cessful completion of one-year1
study.
The commencement address
was delivered by Dr. Lawrence
A. Alien, chairman of the Depart
ment of Library Science at the
University of Kentucky, who dis
cussed the results of creativity
under the title, “Learning to Live
Under Water.”
A highlight of the commence
ment program was the conferring
of an honorary diploma by M. O.
Kirkpatrick, president of the col
lege, upon Allen Sims, 'former
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Thanksgiving
Activities Here
Are Varied Menu
Kings Mountain citizens pre
pared this week lor a traditional
Thanksgiving Day holiday.
The diet promised to include
numerous turkey dinners, treks
to football games, church attend
ance at special Thanksgiving
season services and rambles
through the woods with hunting
dogs and guns, an ill omen for
rabbit and squirrel.
Six Kings Mountain area
churches plan Thanksgiving Day
services. At five of the six, tra
ditional early morning breakfasts
will be served by Men of the
Church or Brotherhood organiza
tions.
Men of First Presbyterian
church will sefve the traditional
Thanksgiving Day breakfast to
the congregation from 7 until 9
a.m. Thursday morning.
The Service of Holy Commun
ion will be celebrated on Thanks
giving Day at Trinity Episcopal
church at 10 a.m. The offering
will go to the Episcopal Child
Care Service of North Carolina
located in Charlotte.
Men of Central Methodist
church will serve breakfast from
6 until 8 a.m. with the worship
service to follow in the church
4fe&SN& »t ft ann. Rev. D, B.
Alderman, minister, will conduct
the service of worship.
At St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church a 10 a.m. Thanksgiving
service will be held. Rev. Charles
Easley, pastor,will deliver the
Thanksgiving message, “Thanks
giving and Three Taverns.”
Resurrection Lutheran church
congregation held a congrega
tional covered dish supper and
Thanksgiving service Wednesday
night during the mid-week pray
er service. Rev. David L. Castor,
pastor, led the service of wor
ship.
Men of the Brotherhood of
Kings Mountain Baptist church
will serve a Thanksgiving break
fast Thursday morning from 7
until 8:30 a.m. The worship ser
vice at 9 a.m. will be led by Rev.
James Wilder, pastor.
Chestnut Ridge Baptist church
held a service of worship on
Wednesday night with Rev.l Mit
chell Pruitt, pastor, leading the
service.
First Baptist church congrega
tion held a service of worship on
Wednesday evening. Rev. Robert
Mann, pastor, conducted the ser
vice.
A Thanksgiving Day service
will be held at Boyce Memorial
ARP church at 7:30 a.m. with
breakfast to follow at 8 a.m.
Men of the Church will serve the
traditional meal.
The annual Carolinas Carrousel
Thanksgiving Day parade in
Charlotte will attract numerous
folk. Nancy Rayfield, Kings
Mountain Princess from Kings
Mountain high school, will ap
pear in the parade and its at
tendant festivities.
Masters of the skillet in Kings
Mountain homes have been busy
this week perfecting Thursday
dinner menus. Turkey will be a
favorite, local grocers reporting
that the price of the big bird is
quite favorable for any budget.
Thanksgiving Day will not be
a holiday for all, as majority of
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SENATOR JACK WHITE
SENATOR MARSHALL RAUCH
Rauch And White
To Seek Reelection
Two Senatois
Say They'll
Offer Again
By MARTIN HARMON
State Senators Jack H. White,
of Kings Mountain, and Marshall
Rauch, of Gastonia, will seek re
election, they said Wednesday.
"Yes, I plan to run again,” Sen
ator White, two-term veteran said.
“I am very definitely running
again,” Senator Rauch, seeking a
sophomore term declared. “I have
already made some cajnjp^jgn
plans.
The two represent the Gaston
Cleveland (29th) senatorial dis
trict.
Nominated in the Democratic
primary of May 1966, Senator
Rauch led and Senator White
placed in a six-man field, win
ning clear majorities in the first
primary.
Senator White is a Kings Moun
tain lawyer and former judge of
Kings Mountain recorder’s court.
He is currently a member of a
study commission on the prob
lems of local government. The
commission is to report its find
ings to the General Assembly
next session. Senator White is a
graduate of Wake Forest college
and Wake Forest law school.
Senator Rauch lives in Gas
tonia, owns and operates Pyramid
Mills in Bessemer City, manufac
turers of textile specialties. He
is a former Gastonia city com
missioner, was a star basketball
player at Duke University.
Both senators are army veterans
of World War II.
Group Will Discuss
Issue With Official
Joe Vale, executive director of
the Industrial Association of the
Greater Kings Mountain Area,
said this week a group of citizens
will go to Raleigh December 1 to
discuss with the secretary of the
Local Government commission the
proposed Buffalo Creek water
project.
Mr. Vale said Secretary W. E.
Easterling granted the appoint
ment for the morning of Decem
ber 1 at 11 a.m.
He said several industrialists
and perhaps others interested citi
zens will attend.
BAPTIST TOPIC
Rev. James M. Wilder will
use the sermon topic, "The Man
Who Forgot” at Thanksgiving
Day services at Kings Moun
tain Baptist church.
Saturday Filial Day To Register
For S3.000.000 "Water Bond Vote”
Saturday is the last day to reg
ister for the December 5 water
bond issue election.
Registration the past two reg
istration Saturdays has been
negligible, a check with registrars
revealed yesterday.
Mrs. Ruth Bowers reported one
new voter logged his name in
Ward 3. C. L. Black gave the same
report from Ward 1. Mrs. Paul
Patterson, reporting from Ward
5, added one new, voter’s name
and enseribed a transfer from
Ward 2.
Citizens at the polls on Decem
ber 5th will determine whether
$3 million in bonds will be issued
to finance the Kings Mountain
Buffalo Creek Water Project.
Citizens registering for the first
time must have been citizens of
North Carolina for one year and
of the city for three months.
Voters who registered to vote
in the spring municipal election
and in the June 13 ABC refer
endum are eligible to vote De
cember 5th and need not re-reg
ister.
The five city polling places are
Ward 1 at City Hall courtroom;
Ward 2 at the American Legion;
Ward 3 at East school; Ward 4
at First Wesleyan church fellow
ship hall: and Ward 5 at the
National Guard Armory.
Books will be open from 9 a.m.
until sunset. Saturday, Dec. 2 is
Challenge Day.
Census 2,0GG,GG0:
KM Babies Help
Julie Anne Yarbro and Lisa
Marie Hambright, born two min
utes apart Monday morning and
delivered by the same doctor at
Kings Mountain hospital, helped
push the (J. S. population past
the 200 million mark.
The nation marked the mile
stone Monday at 11:04 a.m. when
the demographic counter, the
census clock, at the Commerce
Department Building in Washing
ton, D. C. showed the U. S. had
officially joined Communist
China, India and the Soviet Un
ion as- the only nations with
more than 200 million residents. |
The births of the two baby girls
at Kings Mountain hospital were
the only new additions to Cleve
land County’s population.
Dr. John C. McGill was the at
tending physician. The daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Yarbro arriv
ed at 7:45 a.m. The daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Hambright of
Grover arrived at 7:47 a.m.
John Mabry's
Rites Conducted
F.uneral rites for John Harvey
Mabry, 89, retired Kings Moun
tain grocer, were held Saturday
at 3 p.m. from Boyce Memorial
ARP church of which he was a
member.
Rev. Thomas Richie, assisted
\ by Dr. W. L. Pressly, officiated
at the final rites, and interment
was in Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mr. Mabry died Thursday at
2:25 p.m. in the Kings Mountain
hospital following several year’s
illness. A natve of Gaston Coun
ty, he was son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Davd Mabry,
Mr. Mabry was twice married,
to Bessie Hayes Mabry, who died
in 1918, and to Mrs. Bertie Dela-I
hay Mabry, who died in 1957.
Surviving are his son, Hoyle
Mabry, of Kings Mountain; two
daughters, Mrs. John White and
Mrs. Hazel Bumgardner, both of
Kings Mountain; a sister, Mrs.
Venie Eskridge of Rock llill. S.
C.; six grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were Paul
Ham, James Crawford, W. S.
Fulton, Jr., W. L. McMackin, T.
Lewis Hovis and Franklin Ware
Women Endorse
Water Bonds
Members of the Kings Moun
tain Woman's club have joined
other civic organizations in unani
mously endorsing the city’s $3
million water bond issue.
Mrs. Don W. Blanton said the
club had passed a resolution en
dorsing the Buffalo Creek project.
Rotary Club
Sets Benefit
Kings Mountain Rotarians will
sponsor a pancake supper for
benefit of the Kings Mountain
high school Chorus on Wednes
day, November 29th.
Supper will be served from 5
until 7:30 p.m. at B & B Restau
rant. Tickets are available from
Rotarians at $X per plate.
Four To Create
Jobs For 120
By MARTIN HARMON
Four new enterprises are locating in Kings Mountain
with indicated aggregate of new jobs 120.
A fifth is listed “probable" if a quarter-million gallons
of water daily can be assured.
Announcement was made by J. Ollie Harris and L. E.
(Josh) Hinnant, co-chairman of the Mayor’s industrial
committee.
The four are:
1) Alcan Aluminum Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, a
sub-division of Aluminum Limited of Canada, which will
fabricate corrugated siding and accessories, specialized
trim sections, and a complete line of roofs for mobile homes
and recreational vehicles.
2) Frederickson Motor Lines, of Charlotte, which will
build a terminal on York Road.
3) Southland Corporation of Texas will build and
operate two of its 7-11 stores (groceterias) on properties
acquired but not yet announced. ,
4) Kamp grounds of America, Inc., of Billings, Mon
tana, has optioned a 22-acre tract on 1-85 to build and op
erate a combination campground-motel facility.
Board Discusses
Central Projects
The city board of education
Monday night discussed installa
tion of a floor covering for dress
ing room areas at the Junior high
school gymnasium and construc
tion of a covered walk at the
school.
No action was taken because
of lack of a quorum of members
present. Other members of the
board were to vote via telephone
poll.
Estimated cost of the marble
flooring is $1,625 or 55 cents per
square feet (floor space is 3,000
square feet) Supt. Donald Jones
told board members George H.
Mauney and Alex Owens. Supt.
Jones showed the two samples
of the Luminol covering. The pro
duct, which resembles a ceramic
tile, is in liquid form.
The projected covered walk
from the Central building to the
bandtower and side entrances
would cost approximately $3,073
for steel and aluminum materials.
Supt. Jones also showed the
group samples of the gold drap
ery material to be used in the
renovated auditorium. The ma
terial was purchased from Mar
grace Plant of Massachusetts Mo
hair Plush Company at cost of 75
cents per yard. The superintend
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Mosses To Attend
Baseball Meetino
Mayor and Mrs. John Henry
Moss will fly to Mexico City Sat
urday to attend the annual meet
ing of the major and minor lea
gues of professional baseball.
Mayor Moss is president of the
Western Carolinas League.
Noting that the Western Caro
lina® operated as a six-team loop
lastiyear, Mayor Moss said I hope
I can return from the Mexico City
meeting with a ten-team league
and certainly no less than eight.
“Projected expansions of the
major leagues to 12 clubs in
crease the need for baseballtrain
ing grounds, “Mayor Moss added.
“P'uture Ruths, Mantles and Kou
faxes cannot develope their po
tentials without playing the
game.’’
The Mosses expect to return
Wednesday.
ALCAN
Alcan’s Mobile Home Service
Center, President Eric A. Trigg
has confirmed, will be dedicated
Monday, December 4, at the Mau
ney Building, 311 Childers street,
which has been leased to house
the operation. Equipment is now
being installed and public open
house will be held on Saturday,
December 9.
President Trigg stated, “This is
the first Alcan operation in North
Carolina and we look forward to
a long and pleasant association in
your state.’’
George Poggen, currently In
the industry-marketing, depart
ment in' Cleveland, will be plant
manager, and the firm exjieets
to employ local area citizens for
its operations.
The Mauney Building has 23,
000 square feet of floor space.
FREDE1UCKSON
William G. Frederickson, senior
vice-president of the motor lines
firm, said a 15-acre tract on York
Road has been acquired from J.
Wilson Crawford. The tract ad
joins the property of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles E. Dixon on the east side
of tiie road. Mr. Frederickson said
construction plans are not yet
complete.
SOUTHLAND CORPORATION
Robert Neill, son of the late
Kings Mountain banker B. S. Neill,
and representative of Lat Purser
& Associates of Charlotte, locators
of commercial and industrial real
estate, negotiated the 7-11 Stores
transaction.
The Corporation, he said, is the
forty-seventh largest company in
the world, and operates 4000 stor
es.
The pick-up and convenience
stores will not be built near ex
isting large food stores. Contract
for construction of one has al
ready been executed and building
will begin within 60 days. The
groceterias will be of colonial
type architecture. Southland has
an outlet in Gastonia but Mr.
Neill said, “There is nothing now
in Gastonia to compare with it.”
KAMPGROUNDS
Mr. Neill also managed the
Kampgrounds of America ar
rangements. J. Wilson Crawford
is owner of the tract on 1-85,
which is within the city limits.
The industrial committee co
chairmen in a joint statement
said, “We are obviously most
elated at the conclusion of these
arrangements which will bring
these new industrial and commer
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City Must "Show Cause" Foz Future
Water Pipe Loan, Renewals By CD
With water levels in the city re
sevoirs still falling, Kings Moun
tain is at the point of rationing
water, Superintendent of Public
Works Grady Yelton said Wednes
day.
Meantime, the city has been
granted another 120 days usage
af the five miles of pipe which it
has on loan from the army.
However, the state civil defense
agency has asked what the city
s doing for permanent solution
af its water problem. William M.
Hodges, director, wrote Mayor
lohn Henry Moss, “At your con
venience it is requested that you
give us a statement as to the
permanent solution to your water
problem. We cannot assure you)
fhat the government will extend
his agreement. We need to know
ipproximately when you will
lave this problem solved."
The renewal of the pipe loan
is to March 22, 1968.
"We hope and expect to have
a favorable answer to the state
Civil Defense Agency in the early
evening of December 5,” Mayor
Moss stated. "A favorable vote of
citizens for the water bond issue
will enable us to reply that Kings
Mountain will have its water
problem solved permanently on
completion of construction of the
Buffalo Creek project, which will
be on or about July 1, 1969.”
On rationing, Mr. Yelton said
he would recommend least strin
gent measures possible but ad
ded, “If the resevoir levels con
tinue to fall, I’ll have no other
choice but to inform the commis
sioners that usage must be cut.”
Meantime, he urged citizens to
use water sparingly.