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1 1968 Kiwan- feci at- 7. They d J. H. lins; B. r in; J. in; ; Dan r. John n; Don if pin; ai r pin; L*l. one »> ’ ) «DING rouR Population Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits 8,256 Tho Gte.tt«r Kings Mountcrin figure li dcvfved from the special United States Bureau of the Census repart o fanuaiy 1966, and includes the 14.990 population o Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 fron Number 5 Township, in Cievelond County and Crowder* Mountain Township in Gaston County. VOL 80 No. 8 fi ■Ku!: • KH*' 1; EIGHTH GRADER WINS ART PRIZE—Eddie Lee is photographed with his prize-winning entry, “A Lump or Two*', which copped the Geld Key Award, among 200 finalists in the annual Western North Carolina Scholastic Art Awards contests. The Central school student also won a certificate of merit for a self portrait. (Photc by Isaac Alexander). Eddie Lee, Grade Eight, Art Winner « PM(lk* Loo, Central hit.'i grasior, iis-reeiploiit o# "(1 Koy award, amting 200 alists in the annual Scholastic Art Award contests in Western North Caioli'ia. Tho Kings Mounfain winner’s | pen and ink <h.v.vin,:t is on display' in North Carolina National Bank of Cliariottc*. Loo's drawing of a giant hand dropping a smaM fi:- ure into a <iip is entitled, “A Lump or Two.” Loo’s soofOKl ontry, a pa.'-dol solf portrait, coppod an honorable mention award, a cortificato of merit. Tho portrait is on display at Cliarlottotown Mall. Art students from a 11-county area entered the competition, said Loo's art instiuotor, Mrs. Bob Perry, wlio toiohos T.'jO Cen tral soltooj seventh and eighth graders art history in dO-minutc' sessions every four days. Tho (lass* is rorrolated wita music, reading ami library. In addition, some sludcMils devote activity! p(*riod.s to art. I OtlK^r Cc'ntral students who (*x ^ hihiti'd drawings in the contest were Jay Kcancr. Wayne Co'»l\e and Mark McDaniel. i Young Le(', son of Mrs. Irene' Floyd of Kings Mountain, makes, his home with his aunt and un cle, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Floyd. Kings Mountain District Sys tem is one of 10 school .<yst(?ms, • the state alloN’d f(*(ieral funds; der Titl(‘ 111 for an arts and; luimanities program this year^ and equipment for the program.i In December 19ti7 the State Board of Kdueation apiiroved a grant of $975 to be matehc' l wilh local funds to provide e(iuipm*'nt and m-ateri Us to be us(^d in expansion of the art program at Central school. Etiuipmenl on order includes a kiln, a potters wheel witli electricj motor, a printmaker press, eon- struclitm tools, books, slides, brushes and art reproductions. “Since this is the first year. Ih^ arts program has been in op-j eration, these items could notr have been provick*d if this grant i had not been atM>roved”, s-ud: Donald P.irker, director of Title Art elasces are held in the old home econoreios department of the central plant. Ftn0ncir»l Firms i Closed Thursday I The city’s financial firms wil | be clo.sed Thursday (today) inob-, servance of George Washington's Birthday. Kings Mountain Postoffice will, also be clo.sed on tho legal holl-1 day. Financial firms to be closed in clude Home Savings & Loan and « ngs Mountain Savings & Loan :i'iations. First Union National nk and First Citizens Bank &j Tiust Company. I Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 22, 1968 Seventy-Eignth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Candidates Are Entering Demoo atic Primary Norman King May Make Bid For County Post City Commissioner Norman Xing may seek to change his itle to County Commissioner, King. Comm. King acknowledged Wednesday he is considering of fering for a commission scat and said he would make a decision n the near future. The Ward 4 representative on the city board is serving his third erm, having been re-elected in 1967 without opposition. Mr. King is a veteran employ- 3e of Southern Bell Telephone ind Telegraph Company, initial- ’y in tho service department here and in Shelby. He has been pro- mot d to a position as assistant o the manager of the Gastonia livision, of which the Kings Mountain exchange is a member., Terms of Commissioners Hii?h Dover, Coleman Goforth and Spurgeon Hewitt ar expiring.] They seek re-election. Challengers ‘o date include Fritz Morehcid md J. Dock Turner. Whitener For Seventh Term REP. BASIL WHITENER He Opposes Rep. Broyhill In New Tenth It’s official. The (xjntest for the United States House of Representatives in tho new tenth district pits Rep. Basil L. Whitener, the Gaston Democrat, against Rep. James T. Broyhill, the Caldwell Republi can. Mrs. Dixon s Toll-Free Rites Conducted Phone Service Is Rejected Funeral rites for Mrs. Martha Blanton Dixon, 7.3, widow of Clarence T. Dixon. Sr., were held Sunday at 3 p.m. from Second James T. Broyhill of Lenoir will make the address at a GOP Lincoln Day dinner Friday night at Hotel Charles. Shelby. Rep. Broyhill GOP Speaker Representative James T. Broy hill of Lenoir and the three Re publican candidates for nomina tion to-the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Sam J. Ervin, .Ir. of MiU'ganton will be featured at Friday night's GOP Lincoln Day Dimi(‘r at 7 p.m. at Hotel! Charles in Shelby. I GOP Executive Committee (.'hairman Ed Henry Smith said! dinner invitations have been ac-' cepltxl by Larry Zimmerman of Durham. Edwin Tenney of Chapel Hill and Robert Sommers of Sal isbury. The principal address will be made by Rep. Broyhill. Mr. Smith notes that Friday’s event will be first Lincoln Day dinner in the county since 1964 and plans are to make the event an annual affair. Re-Zoning Bid Tabled For Weekj Action on re-zoning of a 42-] plus acre tract of mica bearing properly from residential to hea vy industrial designation was fabU'd for a week at Tuesday night’s special meeting. The petitioner, Paul Patterson, agent for the J. Bun Patterson heirs. ohiect{Hi on behalf of the les.see, Kings Mountain Mica Company, when it was learned the zoning board had recommend- j (?d re-zoning, but with a 50-foot buffer z.one bordering the prop erty. Mayor John Henry Moss said the legality of the zoning board recommendation would l)0 check ed. The Patterson heirs, it its peti- lion, pointed out the property had been Ieas('d years prior to the zoning of Kings Mountain’s mile perimeter' area. * The board has a regularly scheduled m(X.'ting on February 27. Neither have primary opposi tion to date and the filing dead line is F’ebruary 22. The apparent race was indicat-, ed when the 1967 General Assem bly. under federal court order, again re-districted to meet the test of the Supreme Court’s one- man-one-vote rule. Rep. Broyhill formerly announ ced he would seek his fourth term. Rep. Whitener was a hard- running “non*ca.ndidate” until Monday when he paid his filing fcf' to the state board of elec tions. He seeks a seventh tixm. Rep. Whitener was first assign- , ed to the house committee on vet- Cle\eland County telephone orans affairs, now is sixth rank- Baptist church of which she was ing Democrat on tho District of a memlwr down the telephone calling pack- columbi-a committee, and 11th age that would allow a greater -anking Democrat on the judi- Rev. George Julian, assisted by toll-free calling area, R. B. Moore, cjgry committee. Rev. James Holder, officiated at looal manager, reports. 1 Before being elected to Con ' the final rites and interment was; p . . ballotc were mailed Whitener had served in oak Grove .Bapti.st church •emetery. Cherrvville Grover Kin-JQ Moun- ® Methodist, graduate of Mrs. Dixon died Friday morn- Lattimore and Lawndale University of South Carolina ‘"f r °">y 20 percent , Duke law school. He is a pital at Rock Hill, S. C. follow- , . World War II combat navy vet- mofiths •* ' eran, and retired aiTforce reser- was a native of Cleveland County, ^ ^ ' ■ ■■ daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. ym has been a defender of the James Crowell Blanton. Her bus- 20 percent of the subscrib- industry against foreign band died in 194S. ers favored the proposed network, imnorts, authored a crime bill Surviving are tw'o sons. Edw in abandoning plans for pro- was adopted last year. He Dixon and C. T. Dixon. Jr., both viding the service for the time twice visited the let Nam of Kings Mountain; three dauzh- bein^” said Mr. Moore. battle areas, ters, Mrs. David McDaniel of ^ * Hendersonville. Mrs. Oland Horn! in Xo. 4 Township a total of and Mrs. Wesley Kiser, both of telephone patrons were Kings Mountain; three brothers, polled. Of the 1,773 replies, only mm m Yates Blanton and Dew'itt Blan- 373 favored the propo.sal. In Gro- Fav rAmtminilOV ton, both of Kings Mountain, and ver a total of .523 subscribers • Vl VwIllillClllU^I Paul Blanton of Bessemer City; wore polled, of 266 who replied Bob .Smith, Bruce McDaniel and one sister. Mrs. Gary Biddix only 54 favored the proposal, of Biloxi, Mississippi. Also sur ! viving are 11 grandchildren and The expanded service w'ould 14 great-grandchildren. have allowed telephone users in the five areas of Kings Mountain. P-TA MEETING Chorryville. Grover, Lattiimore REP. ROBERT Z. FALLS ! Heart Fund Drive Is Set For Sunday Heart .Sunday fur bem'lit ut the 196S Heart Fund Drive will be held on .‘Sunday, Chairman Carl Wilson announces. Mr. Wilson said the hou.<e*to- house solicitation will be held from 2 until 4 p.m. Volunteers, who will assist him are Mrs. Fred Wright, Jr.. Mrs. Fred Withers, Mrs. Dave Delevie. Mrs. Otis Falls, Jr., Mrs. William Orr. Mrs. Clyde Mui'phy. Miss P<*ggy Ross. Mrs. John Bedford, Mrs. John Henry Moss and members of the American Ledon Auxiliary and: Mrs. Roy Smitli. Heart Sunday is a on(‘-afte!- noon residential solicitation and is held annually in February as a special event near the end of Heart Month when the N. C. and American Heart Association con-■ duct an annual campaign. Pro-j eeeds b<mefil tho Heart Associa-i tion’s programs in research, pub-' lie education and community ser vice. ‘ Goal of the 196S camnaign in Cleveland County is $16,.5no. Mr. Wilson, maintenance su perintendent with Foote Minc-ral Company, was Heart .<undav chairman in 1966 and 1967. He and his wife, Evelvn. ire parents of one son, Jerry Wilson. Three Nominated Franklin loins Mauney Mills President Dick Shanoy of the j and Lawndale to call each other Central School Parent-Teacher’s* without a long distance charge. Association announced that the ' However, the service w’ould have first PTA meeting of the year increased monthly telephone bills will be held Thursday, Febru- for each subscriber, ary 29 at 7:30 in tlfe Central By vote of five to one, sub School Auditorium. ' scribers rejected the service. Barrett^ Beam Roper In Charge During the interim between the retirement Saturday of Chief of Police Paul Sanders and employ ment of a successor, the city is following an aiTang(?ment used during Chiiof Sanders hospitali zatlon several months ago. Senior members of, the force Officers Jack Barrett, William Roper, and Ernest Beam will be in charge of each shift and will report directly to Mayor John Henry Mosss. In the absence' of Mayor Moss, the officers-in-charge will report to Mayor Pro Tempore W. S. Bid dix. Mayor Moss, in reporting the arrangemeni, did not st)eculate on date of naming a successor to Chief .Sanders. Ho said tho commissioner was to interview an applicant Wed nesday night. Chief Sanders’ salary w’as $6,500 per year. City. Bessemer City And New Rem Are Only Tar Heel Clean-Up Winners Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson present , ed trophies and awards to win ners in the 1967 national clean-up. 1 paint-up, fix-up campaign in the nation’s capitol city Tuesday. | Among those receiving honor-i able mention awards were Kings .Mountain, with Clavon Kelly, co- chairman of the Kings Mountain! project, and .Mayor John Henry Moss accepting the award on be half of the city. Only two other North Carolina cities were honored, neighboring ' Bessemer City, and New Bc'i n re (’oiving distinguished acliieve- mont awards. All three are in the under 25,(X)0 population class. | Top award winner was Dayton, Ohio. Trophy winners in the under! 25,000 population class were Boaz, Alabama; Seduna, Arizona; Wat- sMiville, California; Elw(K)d. In diana; Mountain View, Missouri; Moriarty. New Mexico; Canfield, Ohio; Marietta, Ohio; Lennox, South Dakota; and Bringham City. Utah. Other highlights of the nation al cleanest town conferenc'e were addre.sses by William K. McCur- dv*. president of the Sears-Roc^uck Foundatim, and Htmaid J. Sam uels, under secretary of com merce. Mayor Moss and Mr. Kellv re turned to Kings Mountain Tue.s- day afternoon. Mrs. E. W. Griffin was also co- chairman of the campaign here. and Cari Wiesener have been nominated for commander of Otis D. Green Post 155, Ameri can Legion, for the coming year. The names of nominees were announced bv members of the Post nominating committee head ed by Joe McDaniel, Jr., chair man. Other members of the com- Jay Powell, Ray Cline, Gene Gibson, Rhea Bar ber. Carl F. Wilson, Floyd Dover and John Gladden. Nominations will be invited from the floor for post offices at the March meeting and at the April meeting balloting for offi cers will be held. Carl V. Wiosner is present com mander. Other nominees include: For first vice-president: Carl Wilson. W. D. Morrison. For .second vice-president: J. T I McGinnis, Jay W. Powell, Johr I W. Gladden. ! For adjutant and finance of-1 ficer: Joe H. McDaniel. Jr. For chaplain: Franklin Ware, Rhea Barber. For historian: David Delevie. For sergeant-at-arms: Jake; Bridges, Foley Cobb.. For assistant sergeant-at-arms: Robert Wright, Earl Stroupe, Jr. For service officer: Gene Stef-, 'fy- For members of the executive, committee: Ray Cline, Randy' Carpenter, Sewell Laughridgo,; Charles McCarter, Clinton Jolly, j Dick McGinnis. I Mr. Cheshire's Brother Passes J. Rucker Cheshire, S3, of Leaksville-Spray. died last week and funeral rites were held from Leaksville-Spray Funeral Home, interment following in the fam ily plot of the city cemetery. Mr. Cheshire was brother of Colonel John Allyn Cheshire of Kings Mountain and uncle of John A. Cheshire, Jr. of Kings, Mountain. The Cheshire tamilyi attended the funeral rites and John A. Cheshire, Jr. w*as a pall bearer. Other survivors include a fos ter daughter and a sister. Mrs. Hattie Shough, of Leaksville- Spray. R. G. Franklin, former primi pal of Central Junior high school and Bethware school, has joined Mauney Hosiery Mills, Inc. as purchasing agent. Mr. Franklin has assumc’d his' new duties, according to an nouncement by Charles F. Mau- nev, general manager. Mr. Franklin had been an (‘m- ployeo of the Kinjs Mountain district schools for eight years. Osborne Auditor For Gaston ABC Robert B. Osborne, former King< Mountain t itizen, is chief auditor for the Gastonia Alcoholic Control board. Mr. Osborne is former manager of Western Union offices here, in Albemarle and in (jastonia. Kermit F. Hill, general man ager, announced Wednesday opening of tho second liquor store in the system in Dixie Vil lage. which will al.so house gen oral offices and warehou.se. Commission Incumbents. Turner Enter By MARTIN HARMON Cuntu.sts fur Democratic nomi- nation.s for ((iiinty (.‘ommissioner and .--itale repje.'cniativc from the tIire(*-county ^.3i’d district do\elop- (‘d this W(‘(‘k. 11 Representative Robert Z. Kails filed fur Seat Number 2. als) .sought hy Shelby Alderman Lester Roark. 21 ('ounty ('(‘mmission ('hair- man W. Hugh Dover announced and ('ommIssioncTS Coleman Go forth and Spurg(»on Hewitt filed for re-eI(‘clion. while J. D(K*k Turn(‘r. a ('asar area surveyor, joined Fritz. Mureh(‘ad as a chal leng(*r for the c<mimis^ion. 3' Halt)h Tucker, register of deeds. fil(*d lor n'-eleeiion. No Ih'publicans have fih'd for county offic(‘s. Rep. W. K. Mauney. Jr., of Kings Mountain. se(*ks Seat Number 1. while newcomer Robert JontN, a F^’osl C'ity lawy(*r. .seeks Seat N'umb(*r 3. Rep. Kalis, in filing for a third term, said: "It has b(‘en a pri\ iloge and plea'jure to reT>n“-'ent the people of Cleveland County in the 1965 Session: and Clevcdand, Rulh<*r- ford and Polk eounlies. compris ing the 13rd Di.striet. in the 1967 Session of lh(' General Assembly. I would lik(' to continue to repre sent < ur people in the 43rd Dis trict in the 1969 Se.ssion as a mem ber of the Nortii Carolina House of Repn\sentatives. In the past two se.ssions, I hav(* tried to r(‘p re.senl the people of my County. District and State; and I fee! that wilh tlu‘ experience and seniority that I have gained. I can now be of greater service to cur people.” Chairman Dover is the dean of the Cleveland board, having first been elected is 1960. Th(? WOHS radio announcer pk'dged to seek a workable arrangement with (dties of Shelby and King.s Mountain for development of a county • wide water system, continued support L>r ri'gional development, sup port for county wide zoning, and continu(*(i support of volunteer service organizations like fire fighting and life-saving groups and the t‘ounty human relations council. Mr. Do\er. 47. is married to tho former Minnie Sue Hayn('s. of Cliffsidt*. They have two daught ers. Comm. Goforth is completing his first four-year term on the commission. He pledgcxi a go- easy p( licy on sptmding with low est tax rate possible*. He also pr(;mis('d support for “piopex planning” as the most ini'xpen- siv(' means of achi('ving county goals. He romised continued sup port for efficient law enh^n’c ment. volunte(*r service organiza tions. and in\eslm(*nt of surplus funds in shortterm, interest- bearing obligatitms. -Mrs. Goforth is the* former Vk*r- ri(*ll B(’am. They have a girl and .son. Mr. Goforth is a World War II veteran of South Pacific* serv ice*. a dairy farmer of the Stone*y Point community, and member of the Elk and MotJse* lodge*s. the American Legion. Farm Bureau, and Beulah Methodist church. C'omm. Hewitt. foun(l(*r of Ce dar Park, joine'd Mr. (lOforth in supiiorl ef sound planning for county projects and also pledged C<n}fi)iur(l Ott Patfc 8 Nine Democrats Seeking Judgeships; Eight Lawyers, Layman Are In Race With filing deadline Friday, politics picke'd up steam this week in the 27th District Judge ship race. A total of nine candid.ttes three of whom announced this week seek five seats to be lille*d in the May Domocratie primary. Kings Mountain and (Cleveland County Recorder's Court, alon^ wifh eight others in C]ev<*land C4ast.on and Lincoln Countie's, wil be abolished under Noi tli Caro , lina’s new court system effective Dec. 2. A district court with five judges will be'gin operation of all lower courts, recorder’s, dome'stie and municipal, in the 27th dis i trict. William (Bill) Mason. Be*lmon ; lawyer and judge of Belmont re* corde'r's court, announced his candidacy in Kings Mountaii Tuesday. A graduate of Kings; Mountain high school. Ma.son was: ('enter and captain of the* KMHS football loam which lied Ashe ville in 1926 for the WNC ('h.im- pionship. His late father was J. C. Mason, president of Old Mason Mill and a onetime city alderman. U'hile a freshman at Davidson in 192S, Ills family move*d to Bel mont. A graduate of Davidson colle*ge and Duke University Law .'^iheiol, he is a Kiwanian, a for mer Kiwanis lieutenant governor, an elder in Belmont's First Pi-es- hyteriari church and vice-presi dent of Belmont Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Mason is the former Celeste Hall. John R. Auton, Jr., employee, of ('rossland Construction Com-; pany of Charlotte* and a resident (if the (\ifawba lle'ights se*('tion of Mount Holly, paid liis filing, fee* Tuesday, as did Willi.tm J. Allran, Jr. of Cherryville. Judge Allian is cunvntly serving as judge of the Gaston County D(’m-' estic Re'lations and Juvenile Court, a post he has held since 19.53. Othe'r ('andidate's previously announce'd include* Recorder’s Court Judge Joe Mull of Slu'lhy; Jo!in Friday (>f Lincolnton; L«*wjs Bulwinkle* of (kistonia; Osi'ar Mason of Gastonia; William Hol land, of Dallas; and Ralph Phil lips of Gastonia. All are lawyers. i HUGH DOVER COLEMAN W. GOFORTH SPURGEON HEWITT Local News Bulletins LIONS CLUB Regular meeting of the Kings Mountain Lions club will be held Tue*sday night at 7 p.m. at the Woman’s club. Lion Bob Haden is program chair man. METHODIST TOPIC Rev. D. B. Alderman v^ill use the se'rmon topic, "Rocking On The Natural VV'aves” at Sunday morning worship service’s at 11 o’clock at Central Methodist church. MEN OF CHURCH Central Methodist Men will have a breakfast meeting Sun day morning at 7:45 in the fel lowship hall of the church. Ham and eggs and hot bise'uits are the menu. Members should contact the church office for reservations. ANNUAL MEETING Annual meeting of the CHene- land County Cattlemen’s Asso ciation will be held Friday night at 7 p.m. in the county office building. Over 150 cat tlemen are expected to attend. LUTHERAN TOPIC Rev. Charles Easley’s sermon topic Sunday morning at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will lx*. “ThirteH'n Men Looked Des tiny In The Face.” MASONS TO MEET Regular communication of Fairvievv Lodge 339 AF&AM will he held Monday night at 7:3(^ at Masonic Hall for work in the first degrev. announcc*s Se(*iefarv T. D. Tindall. FALSE ALARM Kirt'men b und no fire when answering an alarm at 409 ('he'-itnul stre'ct Tue'sday night at 7:.5(). The firemen extinguish- * ed two grass fires MoneJayi /"I