Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits 8,256
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!• Greater Kings Mountain figure is derived from the
ai United States Bureau of the Census report o
tuary 1366. and includes the 14.990 population o
Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 Iron
Number 5 Township, in Cleveland County and Crowder*
Mountain Township in Gaston County.
VOL 79 No. 50
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, December 14, 1967
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
[Monday Big Day
it Postoifice;
m Saturday
The Christmas season mail
jsh is on at Kings Mountain
stoffice.
Postmaster Charles Alexander
id Monday was the office’s first
g day and the volume of mail
dicated this year’s mailing will
t a Christmas season record,
e reported cancellations on
onday were 13,000 pieces of
ail, including 11,887 pieces of
utgoing mail, with 1,200 meter
d pieces. On a normal day the
itoffice registers about 3,000
feces of out-going letter mail,
id Mr. Alexander.
Mr. Alexander announced the
itoffice Will remain open al!
Saturday, with windows clos
t 5 p.m.
I must urge all citizens to ge'
their packages and greeting cards
mailed at once to assure delivery
by Christmas”, said the postmas
ter. “We appreciate the coopera
tion of patrons in labeling local
and out-of-town cards and mail
ing early in the day. This helps
eliminate or better controls last
minute rush periods”, the post
master added.
Postmaster Alexander remind
ed of some mailing points:
Cushion all package material
sufficiently and wrap securely.
For distant points, mail now.
For local delivery, mail by De
cember 16th, if possible.
Separate your local and out
-town cards. You may secure,
of charge, labels for this
ise at the post office win
I,
Legion Exceeds
Membership Goal
RALEIGH — Information re
ceived here from Department
Headquarters of The American
Legion in Raleigh indicates that
I^gs Mountain’s Otis D. Green
155 has conducted a highly
^Rjessfu! membership, drive.
Carl V. Wi£sener,’commandei
of the post, has received a letter
from Department Adjutant J.
Carroll Wilson reporting that
Post 155 has exceeded by 21 to
date its Legion Membership In
centive Goal of 289 for 1968. The
Legion Adjutant expressed con
fratulations and thanks to the
ost leaders and membership
Workers for their effort.
A statement of high praise for
the local Post was issued by Rob
ert A. (Bob) Tart of Benson,
florth Carolina, Department Com
mander of The American Legion.
Commander Tart said, “The
membership of every Legionnaire
makes it possible for The Amer
ican Legion tp maintain service
&>r the sick and disabled in hos
pitals. Memberships make possi
ble all the Legion programs; such
as care for needy children, Base
ball, Boys’ State, Boy Scout
Troops, Oratorical Contests, Com
munity Service, and all the oth
ers, I am proud to congratulate
Post 155 upon this notable a
chievement”.
Post Commander Wiesener ex
ained that “68—Can Do Year”—
_ theme of this year's drive—
Was to remind all war veterans of
their servlet' to their country
Which makes them eligible to be
come Legionnaires.
jmVe are accepting dues pay*
Mils now from Legionnaires
Spa eligible veterans whose mem
pership is essential if the loeal or
ganization is to continue its serv
ice programs”, Commander Wies
ener stated. Also, he reported
that the Post is planning to ex
pand jts local programs and acti
vities, depending on the final re
sults of the 196S membership
drive.
Pupils Give
P-TA Program
A musical program by third
and fourth grader^ featured Tues
day night’s East School P-TA
meeting in East school auditor
ium.
Under the direction of Mrs. J.
if. McClure, the third grade pupils
Of Miss Jackie Blanton gave a
demonstration of the use of
rhythm instruments by accom
«nying the carols they sang.
■«. Ann Seism’s fourth grade
sang s|veral selections and three
Students played the autoharp.
Rev. Dixon Adams, pastor of
Grace Methodist church, conduct
ed the devotional. Dr. D. F. Hord,
e-president, presided.
ns to serve a spaghetti sup
as a fund-raising project on
'riday, January 19th, were dis
Miss Jackie Blanton’s class
pon the attendance banner for
fades 1-3 and Mrs. Seism’s class
grades 4-6.
TO NOTE NINETY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY — Mrs. Sara Horne will
observe her 94th birthday Monday. Her daughter, Mrs. Lester
Dorty, will honor her at a drop-in party Sunday from 1 until 5
p.m. at the Dorty home at 405 E. King street. Other children of
Mrs. Horne are Emmett Home of Shelby and George Horne of
Kings Mountain. There are three grandchildren, Ray Horae, Gre
gory Horne and Karen Horne, all of Kings Mountain. There are
three great-grandchildren, Robbie, Dana and Kenneth Horne,
all of Kings Mountain. (Photo by Steve Martin)
Board Approves
Upped Athetic
Central Program
The board of education elected
three teachers and accepted two
resignations Monday night.
New teachers are Mrs. Robin
Bvrd, second grade West school;
Mrs. David Wyatt, high school
mathematics; and Mrs. Jeanne
Plonk Beam, Cherryville, high
school science.
Resignations of Mrs. Jill Craw
ley, second grade teacher at West,
and W. F. Powell, high school
math teacher were accepted, s
The board approved recommen
dation of Superintendent Donald
Jones to upgrade the junior high
school (Central) athletic program,
by fielding teams in football,
basketball- and baseball to play
full inter-school schedules. The
board approved coaching supple
ments of) $300 per year for the
three coaches. ■■■ ~
Tire board ajso hiked- supple
ment of Mrs. Glenda E. O'Shields,
high school junior varsity coach
to $300, including $200 for hei
coaching duties and $100 for her
traveling with the girls varsity
team to out-of-town games.
In other actions the’board:
1) Approved purchase of lia
bility insurance for the school
system. .
2) Confirmed sale of a lot near
North school for $325 to Mrs. Ben
H. Bridges, high bidder at public
auction.
3) Approved sale of the old
Davidson school property at the
appraisal price of $7500 to Kings
Mountain Public Housing Author
ity, If sale other than at public
auction is permitted by law.
4) Assigned 24 students, new
to Kings Mountain, to several
elementary schools.
5) Approved installation of ac
oustical tile at Central gymna
sium on bid of $2377, if the ar
chitects approve material speci
fied.
6) Accepted low bid of IJart sell
Brothers Fence Company, Char
lotte, at $396 for installation of a
190-foot four-foot fence, with
gate, at the high school. Other
bids were $570 and $610.
7) Adopted a policy of requir
ing an observation day for begin
ning teachers, with the board oi
education to pay substitute costs,
8) Adopted a teacher evaluation
policy.
Supt. Jones made a progress re
port on Central school renovation
and reported the architects for
the North School addition have
been slower in providing plans
“than expected". He added, “I'm
pushing them.”
City Holidays Set,
Holiday Pay Voted
The city commission set
Christmas Day, December 26
and New Year’s Day as city
holidays at Tuesday night’s
meeting.
Customary bonuses for city
employees were also voted.
Employees with as much as a
year’s service will receive a
week’s pay, while employees
with as much as a half-year’s
service will receive a half
week’s pay.
Pattersons Ask
Zoning Change
The city commission referred
to the zoning commission Tues
day night request of the J. Bun
Patterson Heirs for a zoning
change in North Cansler street
property to permit its being min
ed.
The petition for change stated
that the 42.24 acres on the east
side of N. Cansler had been leas
ed for mining to Kings Mountain
Mica Company, Inc., prior t« the
zoning of the property.
Paul Patterson, agent for the
heirs, presented the petition.
LUTHERAN TOPIC
Rev. Charles Easley will con
tinue the series of sermon-top
ics on “Voices In The Night”,
at St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church Sunday. At Sunday’s
service he will use the topic,
"One Cause For Decision.”
New City Code
Eliminates
Some Old Laws
By MARTIN HARMON
Effective January 1 it will no
longer be unlawful in Kings
Mountain to chop wood on city
streets.
Of course, there is little evi
lence of wood-chopping on city
streets anyway, as the wood stove
population has diminished to the
anishiag point in favor of
langes and heating units employ
ing electricity, oil and gas.
That and other aged ordinances '
considered out-of-date will vanish
from the city New Y /•
a result of action by the boa.d of
commissioners Tuesday n gh. i.
adopting a new city code.
The city’s ordinance book was
up dated in 1952, but it is the
first complete re • codilication,
Mayor John Henry Moss says,
since 1908.
Some other venerable laws o
mitted:
1) Mothers and/or baby sitters
will no longer be breaking the
law when they push baby carri
ages abreast on the sidewalks
within the fire limits.
2) Horsemen (the few remain
ing) will not be breaking the law
if they do some “trick” or “fan
cy” riding on streets or side
walks. (Stiff penalties remain for
“trick” and “fancy” auto driv
ers.)
3) It is no longer unlawful to
blow a steam whistle except to
give notice of time to begin or
stop work. (Today just about
everyone owns a watch and sev
eral clocks—alarm, clock radio,
kitchen stove.)
4) Peadlers. barkers, hawkers
vvarcs/ though' generic laws re
main for’ preventing disturbing
the peace.
5) A horse or cow may now be
lefj unattended and unhitched, if
the owner trusts safety of the
animal to modem day traffic. j
Red Cross
Approves Plan
Cleveland County Red Cross
chapter board of directors, in reg
ular meeting Wednesday, voted
to join with eight other individ
ual chapters to form the Greater
Carolina Chapter with headquar
ters in Charlotte.
There will be no change in op
eration of the chapters here and
in Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklen
burg, and Union counties, all in
North Carolina, and York, Rock
Hill and Clover, all in South Car
olina.
A merger of chapters would
Improve Red Cross services to all
the people involved, said Mrs.
Charles F. Mauney, publicity
chairman for the local chapter.
The board of directors of the
Greater Carolines chapter will be
the legislative and policy making
volunteer body for the chapter.
EachtiPf the local units may have
a IocnS(| unit board which would
be advisory in nature to the chap
ter board of directors and re
sponsible or the implementation
of Red Cross services at the local
unit level. The membership of
the chapter board of directors
will be representative of the total
chapter jurisdicyoi^ ^he initial
board of directors will be com
posed of 60 elected members, from
the local units according to a
population pro-rate, said Mrs.
Maundy. /
Hospital Fund-Seeking Committee
To Talk Thwsday With Easterling
The four-man committee seek
ing ways and means for a county
appropriation of $1(X),000 to sup
plement funds for a major addi
tion to Kings Mountain Hospital
will confer Thursday in Raleigh
with W. E. Easterling, secretary
af the Local Government Com
mission.
Members of the committee are
bounty Manager Joe Hendrick,
County Attorney C. C. Horn,
County Auditor Max Hamrick
and Geoige W. Mauney, presi
dent of Kings Mountain Hospital.
Grady Howard, hospital ad
ministrator, will accompany the
group.
Mr. Hendrick had written Mr.
Easterling concerning means of
Financing the supplemental ap
propriation other than through a
bond election.
The appointment is at 10:30 a.
m.
County citizens voted a $2 mil
lion hospital construction bond
issue, of which $500,000 was ear
marked for the Kings Mountain
plant.
Cost estimate on a two story
east wing, to provide 36 beds, a
new operating room and other
facilities is $786,000. With mon
ies via gifts in hand and aid
from charitable foundations indi
cated, the hospital board feels it
can finance the project with the
additional $100,000 requested.
President Mauney told the coun
ty commission recently.
The hospital last year showed
highest occupancy rate among
general hospiatls In North Caro
lina.
KMHS CHOIR TO PRESENT YULE PROGRAMS—The Kings Mountain High School Choir, above,
will present programs of Christmas music for various organizations, beginning Thursday. Under the
direction of Mrs. J. N. McClure and Mrs. Ben T. G'forth, the choir will sing at Thursday night's
Kiwanis club meeting at the Woman's club; at F May's Christmas party of the Senior Citizens
club at noon at the Woman's club; at Central Methodist church on Sunday; and at the Ijigh
school on December 19th. Other programs have b ?en given at Iiynum Chapel AME Zion church and
at Gastonia Tabernacle. To be a member of the choir a student must have taken chorus for one
year and maintain an A average. (Photo by Isaac Alexander)
Condemnation Action Taken
On Plant Site, Right-of-Way
PRESIDENT — Dr. Sam Robin
son has been elected president
of the Kings Mountain Hospital
Medical Staff for the coming
year.
Medical Staff
Taps Robinson
Dr. Sam Robinson, Kings
Mountain surgeon, has been elect
ed president of the Kings Moun-j
tain Hospital Medical Staff for
the coming year.
The new president succeeds Dr.
Joe Lee, III.
Other officers elected Monday
at a luncheon meeting at the hus
pital were Dr. Charles Moore 01
Grover, vice-president; and Dr. J.
B. Gentry, secretary.
Phenix Plant
Party Sunday
Burlington Industries will again
observe the Christmas season with
plant vacations, traditional
Christmas parties for employee
children, and bonus payments
for wage employees,
Christmas parties for children
of some 70,000 employees are tra
ditionally held during this period.
Here in Kings Mountain the Phe
nix Plant of Burlington’s Burling
ton Yarn Co. division has schedul
ed parties on Sunday with 600
children and parents expected to
attend.
The local plant will be closed
for the holiday from December 23
through December 26.
Prior to the holiday closing,
Hurlington production employees
will receive Christmas bonus pay
ments, which this season will to
tal about $314 million for the en
tire company. These payments,
plus payments received during
last summer’s vacation, will total
about $7 million this calendar
year.
Blythe, Biyant
Finns Aie Low
And Win Facts
By MARTIN HARMON
Condemnation actions in bchall
of the city have been filed against
13 property owners to enable con
tractors to proceed on the sewage
system expansion serving the
western portion of the city.
Eleven of the actions concern
rights-of-way for . sewer mains,
while two involve the 62.03 acres
the city wants as a site for the
treatment plant to be located on
Pilot Branch near Buffalo Creek.
Summons has been served on
majority of the defendants with
remainder to be served this week,
City Attorney Jack H. White said.
George Peeler, of Shelby, a
former Kings Mountain citizen is
owner of 43.87 acres and the C. C.
Whisnant Heirs are owners of
18.16 ^tcres in the tract desired
for the treatment plant site. The
plant site would provide for ex
pansion of the currently project
ed two-million-gallon daily ca
pacity plant by six times, to 12
million gallons daily capacity.
Hearing on the actions is anti
cipated Tuesday, Attorney White
said.
Under state law governing
condemnation actions, the Attor
ney explained, Clerk of Court
Paul Wilson will appoint a three
person appraisal team which
would report findings within ten
days. Both the city and property
owner would have the right to
appeal the findings to Superior
Court. However, the ei,ty would
have the right to proceed on the
project.
Line rights-^>f-way are in hand
from 23 of 34 property owners,
each of whom accepted the eity’s
proffer of one dollar per rod.
Mayor John Henry Moss said
Wednesday, "The city is partic
ularly appreciative of the coop
eration of these property owners
in aiding Kings Mountain to
speed this longoverdue improve
ment. It is estimated 90 percent
of the required right-ofway is in
hand."
In addition to the new Pilot
Branch plant, the city will double
capacity of the McGill plant on
McGill creek to one million gal
lons daily capacity. This plant
was built in 1954.
Bidding was brisk on construc
tion of the Kings Mountain sew
age system Thursday, the result
being low bids awarded Friday
night—totaled some $75,(KM) less
than engineering estimates.
Blythe Brothers, Inc., of Char
lotto, was low bidder among ten
on the general contract at $1,059,
917.70.
Bryant Electric Company, of
Gastonia, was low bidder among
five at $14,596 on the electrical
contract.
Contract awards went to the
low bidders.
Blythe Brothers was low by
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IN HONOR SOCIETY — Jerry
Steven Ware. Belmont Abbey
college student, has been elect
ed to membership in Delta Ep
silon Sigma National Scholastic
Honor Society. Son of Mr. and
Mrs. William P. Ware of Char
lotte. he is grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul H. Briggs and Mrs.
Bryte Ware, all of Kings Moun
tain.
Freno Ware, 67,
Dies In Goldsboro
Funeral servi<i\s for Samuel
Freno Ware, t>7, Goldsboro seed
broker, were held Sunday after
noon at Goldsboro s First Presby
terian church.
Mr. Wart* diixl Friday night at
8:30 at Wayne Memorial Hospi
tal. The Kings Mountain native
had undergone an operation in
September for a brain tumor
which was determined to be ma
lignant.
Mr. Ware was a son of the late
W. A. and Gallic Anthony Ware.
I!e is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Louise Wrenn Ware, and
five sisters, Mrs. Campbell Phi
fer, Mrs. W. S. Fulton, Sr., Mrs.
John L. McGill and Miss Ava
Ware, all of Kings Mountain, and
Mrs. L. L. Stroupe, of Charlotte.
Burial was in Goldsboro’s Wil
low Dale cemetery.
Tree Sale
Now Underway
Kings Mountain Jaycees arc
conducting the annual sale of
Christmas trees.
The trees are available from
$2 to $1 at the Jaycee tree lot
across from the Woman's club on
East Mountain street.
Proceeds from the project arc
used for benefit of the club’:
extensive program of charity and
community service.
Herman Greene is project chair
man.
bonierence
Is Scheduled
f or January 4
By MARTIN HARMON
Mayor John Henry Moss and
Jity Engineer W. K. Dickson will
onfer wilh state civilian de.ense
ifioials January 1 in Raleigh to
irepare a request to the army
orps of engineers for extension
f the loan of water pipe being
aed to augment the city supply.
William H. Hodges, state direc
or of civilian defense, had writ
an the Mayor last week that the
>an of more than three miles of
ight-inch pipe would not be re
.owed after the present extension
xpires March 22.
Mayor Moss, who talked with
Director Hodges by telephone
Wednesday afternoon, said the Di
■color congratulated Kings Moun
ain citizens on their support of
lie water bond issue on Decern
jer 5 and added the result would
be helpful in supporting the ex
tension request with the -army
group.
Following the January 4 con
ference, at which both state wat
er resources and civil defense en
gineers will participate, a confer
ence with the army corps of en
gineers will follow, probably dur
ing the week of January 15.
Mayor Moss told Director
Hodges the city still is in tha
hroes of a water crisis, in spite
Jf last weekend’s welcome rains,
and suggested, barring unusually
heavy rainfall the city would be
water-short for a year.
The weekend rains improved
>hc water level in the two water
reservoirs, Superintendent of Pub
lic Works Grady Yelton reported
Wednesday. York Road reservoir,
(own by seven feet, was four
eet from spillover, while David
son Lake, down by 17 feet, was
14.5 teet down from spillover.
Meantime, the city planning
ommission wrote the Mayor in
ilarm over the possible loss of
he army water pipe, supplying
water from Dairy Branch and
Canterbury Creek, and urged
launching of a campaign to urge
■itizens to curtail water consump
ion where possible.
Bob Manor, commission chair
man. wrote:
"The Kings Mountain Planning
Commission wishes to take, this
opportunity to thank you and the
entire Board for the extremely
able leadership rendered by you
n the recent bond election for
the Buffalo Water Project. The
excellence is indicated by the 20-1
margin for passage, when bond
issues for many worthy causes in
communities across our state are
being soundly defeated.
“Our Commission feels, how
ever, that the successful vote did
not end our water crisis. We for
see an emergency water shortage
in the near future should we lose
the Corps of Kngineers pipe
which is on loan to us. We are a
j ware of the recent correspond
ence received by you which indi
| cates that the loan cannot be ex
| tended. Please do all in your
| power to have this decision re
scinded.
"In the meantime, we believe
that a campaign should be begun
to inform our citizens of the pos
sible water shortage and urge
them to take the many steps to
curtail the usa;e of water. We
■ arc aware that many of our in
dustries are already using wells
for part of their supply and are
confident that they will continue
• o do so. Where there are those
not doing this please urge them
to do so. Domestic users should
he encouraged to use water in the
most effective ways possible.
“If our Board can be of any as
sistance, please contact us. The
entire community has rallied a
round you and will cooperate ful
ly through the completion of the
Buffalo Project."
Herald To Publish
On Regular Schedule
The Kings Mountain Herald
Christmas edition wilt be pub
lished on regular schedule next
week.
The paper will be published
on Wednesday night under date
of Thursday, December 21. The
office will be closed from 1 p.
m. Thursday until the morning
of December 26.
The Herald will also publish
on regular schedule the week
following Christmas, appearing
on newsstands Wednesday, De
cember 27th, under date of De
cember 28th.