Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits 8,256
The Greater Kings Mountoin figure Is deeleed frem tbn
speciol United States Bureau •! the Census report o
Jonuary 1966. ond tneludes the 14,BM pepukatlen •
Kumber 4 Tewiuhip. and the remaining S.UI Iron
Number $ Township, in Cleveland County and Crowder*
Mountain Tewnebip in Oosten County.
VOL 80 No. 11
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Pages
Today
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursd'ay, March 14, 1968
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN cent;
KMHS To Play Kannapolis For Championship
Sewage System Construction Starts
E. E. Godwin
City Re-contracts
M ■ ■ V ■
^ Supenntendent
*\Vith Duke Power
Tate, Griifin
Planning Group
Re-Appointees
Tlio city renewed for one year
its contract with Duke Power
('ompany for purchase of power;
lor re-pale. . ,
Ratos are the same as under;
tli(‘ expired contract. !
The contract is renewable, pro
vided that both the City and'
Duke may terminate the contract
on GO days written notice before
llie contract expires.
Mayor John Henry Moss re
ported the new contract calls for
city use of up to 7200 kilowatts,
ajjainst the city’s recent consump
tion of 6200-6400 kilowatts. He
told the city commission Dukei
is making changes at its sub-i
station to provide 8,000 kilowatts.
Ror the billing period ending
January 23, City Clerks Joe Mc
Daniel, Jr. reported, the city pdid*
Duke $2,996 for 3.231,360 kilo
watt hours of electricity. Aver
age cost per kilowatt hour was
f ghtly over .6 cent.
In other actions Tuesday night,
e board:
1) Passed two budget amend-
mc'nt ordinances, the two trans-
ff'iring a total of $50,000 from
the general fund to the water
and sewer fund. The money will
hi* uscxl for pureha.se of right-of-
way for the sewer and or water
projects.
2) Awarded contract for pur-
cliase of a tag-along tra;^'"* to
Kerree Trailer Company, Climax,
N. C.. on low bid of $2625 f.o.b.
Western Carolina Trailer Com
pany. Charlotte, bid $3100.
3' Confirmed reappointment
for three-year terms of Thomas,
A. Tate and Wilson Griffin to'
the Kings Mountain planning'
b«iard. 1
\) Authorized Kings Mountain
Radio Club to establish a moni-,
tfning station in the basement of
City Hall. Lawrence Adams,,
spokesman for the group of am-^
aieur operators present, said thoj
monitor would be manned from!
6 p.m. ’til midnight. ^
Revised School
Calendar Adopted
A revised school calendar has
been set by the board of edu
cation:
April 12-15, Spring Vacation.
<B(*gin after lunch 1:00 p.m.,
t hursday, April 11—Classes re-
ime April 16).
April 20, Make jp day (Satur-
{iay dismiss after lunch 1:00
p.m.)
May 31, Graduation (Last day
for Seniors).
June 1, Make up day (Last day
for students - dismiss before
lunch approximately 11:00 a.m.)
June 3-4. Teachers Days.
APPOINTED — Tom Tate, top,
and Wilson Griffin have been
appointed to the Kings Moun
toin Planning Boord by the
boend of city commissioners.
Big-B Residents
To Get Refunds
By MARTIN HARMON
Blythe Brothers Company, sue-;
cessful bidders, began work Mon
day on the sewage system reno-'
vation and expansion and esti-;
mate completion in a year.
E. E. Godwin is consti uction |
superintendent. j
In a report to Associated Gen
eral Constructors of the Caro- ’
linas, H. R. Lockwood, vice-presi-1
dent of Blythe Brothers said ap
proximately 40 workmen will be'
employed on the Kings Mountain
job, including 15 new men car
penters and laborers.
Meantime, the city board of
commissioners took necessary
technical actions at Tuesday
night’s regular meeting to au
thorize the mayor and city clerk,
to execute contracts both .vith|
Blythe Brothers and with Brjant.
Electric Company, of Gastonia, -
successful bidders for the elec-,
trical contract.
The Blythe Brothers contract;
is for $1,059,917.70, the Bryanf
contract for $14,596.
The McGill treatment plant is
to be doubled to a daily capacity
of a million gallons daily and a’
new plant of two million gallons
daily will be built on Pjlot
Branch. Twenty-four inch and
eight-inch outfall sewers will be
installed. :
The new’ plant will serve the
?;i^.western pQirtion-of
’ site is on property being accpiired
from the C. C. Whisnant He^rs
! and from George Peeler of Shel
by. Imhoff-type tanks will be re-,
placed, including the so-called i
' Mauney and Ware tanks.
The McGill plant is of modern
type, was built in 1954. and
serves the eastern portion of the
ci\y.
! Beginning of construction
; marks beginning of the end of
tw’o decades of comnlaint by the
i State Board of Health thit Kings
Mountain’s sew'age disposal sys
tem is both overloaded and out
moded.
Initially estima-ted cost of the
project w’as $1,300,000.
A portion of the funds. $388.-
500, is being provided by a grant
from the federal Water Pollution
Control agency, Department
the Interior.
Plonk Endorses
Mel Broughton
Broughton
Addresses
Area Audience
Hickory Defeated
Handily By 75-60
PRESIDENT John A. Che
shire has been elected president
of the Kings Mountain Mer
chants Associotion for the com
ing year. He succeeds Glee E.
Bridges, hardwareman.
KM Retailers
Elect Cheshire
John A. Cheshire, Patterson
Oil Company executive, has Iiecn
the Kings
Association
FOR BROUGHTON ^ William
Lawrence (Bill) Plonk, leader
in the Bob Scott lieutenant-
governor campaign four years
ogo. announced Tuesdoy his
support for Mel Broughton for
governor.
King Wim't Run
For County Post
Norman King, Ward 4 city com
missioner, said Wednesday he
will not be a candidate for coun
ty commissioner.
Construction bids were approx-1
! Many purchasers of fire insur- , $75,000 lower than esti-
I ance within the newly approved ; Dickson, thei
j Big-B (Bethlehem) fire district ® engineer. i
] can look forward to refunds on| ;
! existing policies and new pur-
I chasers to lower rates.
, As of March 1. the Big-B dis
trict was approved by the North
Carolina Fire Insurance Rating
Bureau. Kings Mountain insur
ance agencies report.
They also report a mountain
of work in store in issuing en
dorsements and refunds.
In a joint statement this week
five agencies said:
“Kings Mountain insurance
agents will endeavor to issue en
Mr. King said he had been en
couraged by indications of sup
port for the county board post.
He added. “I have a consider
able interest in the major proj
ects of the City of Kings Moun
tain. Additionally, many of my
constituents told me they did not
want me to leave the Ward 4
commi.ssionership at this time.”
William Orr, employee of Du
plex - International, Ltd., is the
lone commission candiaate from
Qf Kings Mountain. Incumbent Cole-
. man Goforth is a Stony Point
community citizen.
By MARTIN HARMON
William Lawrence (Bill) Plonk,
a Scott leader in the lieutenant-
governor’s successful 1964 cam-
pai'ns, Tuesday night announced
his support of J. Melville Brough
ton, Jr., Scott’s gubernatorial op
ponent.
Plonk's announcement came at
the end of a brief introduction p,.psirtent of
speech of Broughton before a Mountain Merchants
large crowd at the Kings Moun- for the coming year,
tain Lions dubs first Area Ap^ Yarbro, Sterchi
preciation banquet, at which
Broughton
speaker. Plonk and Edwin Moore
, were eo-cliairmcn of the event.
After listing Broughton's pub
lic service as a South
Marine veteran of VV’^orld War II.
a Raleigh solicitor, state high-
w'ay commission chairman and
state chairman of the Democratic
party, Plonk made his support-
: of-Broughton announcement and
i^leclaMd Broughton the candi
date to keep North Carolina in
the Democratic column in No
vember.
Plonk was county chairman
for Scott in the 1964 race in
which Sf^ott won two primaries
and the general election handily
in a county that had not been kind ... .
in the primaries to Governor- officio
. ^ Furniture
banquet, at which credit manager, was elected \ ice-
was the Pf'^cipaL Elected to two-year
directorships wore Larry Moitoa
of Belk’s, Howard Lutz of Kings
. Mountain Drug Company and Lee
V McIntyre of First-Citizens Bank
& Ti'ust Company.
The new officers were ele.ted
mail balloting conducted by
members this week.
Hold-over directors are Larry
Hamrick of C. E. Warliek Insur
ance Agency, Joe Smith of Kings
.Mountain Savings & Loan A'^so-
ciation, John McGinnis of Mc
Ginnis Department .Store. Rich
ard Barnette of Cooper’s, Inc.
and Bennett Masters of Harris
P'uneral Home, Glee Edwin Brid-
the outgoing president, will
capacity
Towel City Team
Defends Flag
On Home Court
By JOE CORNWELL
Kings .Mountain invades Kan
napolis Thur.sday night for the^
l)fAs basketball championship of
the Western North Carolina High
S.hof)! Activities association.
The Mountaineers, victors over
Hickory 75-60 in the Hi-Confer-
ence rinals here Tuesdav night.
l.\cc dcRnidinj champs Kannapo
lis on the Kannapolis court.
The Mountaineers, coached by
Bob Hussey, liad a rough time
with Hickory in the first q-uarter
and most of the first half, be
fore br<*aking the game open in
tile latter i)art of the third per-
it)d.
Gary Stafford kept Hickory in
game eariy in the first with
his amazing outside shooting.
Stafford connected on six field
on the board of directt>rs.
West P-TA Sets
NO ADVANCE SALE
There will be no advance sale
for the Western North Carolina
High School Activities associa
tion championship double-head
er at the Kannapolis liigh
school gym Thursday night.
Kannapolis officials report.
Tickets will be sold, first come,
first served, with only 2.5(X)
available. The girls' opener be-
Iweun Chase..^aul. Concord, be
gins at 7 o’clock. Kings Moun
tain and Kannapolis lock horns
at S:.30.
goals in the fir-^t period of plav.
PS the To'-nadoes iumpe<l out in
front of the Kings Mountain lads,
2:)-16.
We’l rounded scoring kept the
.Moun* aineers in contenHon in
the first pt riod of pla>'. Steve
Soenc(‘r, Koti Mitchem, and
George Adams ah scored.
Adams came to life in the sec
ond quarter as he pumped in 14
vital points. The (V5" senior
score ! all but five eif the Mf>un-
(CtnifinKCd 0» P>i</c Three)
Model Cities
Group Incomplete
Mayor John Henry
HELEN GOFORTH
Mary Helen Goforth is improv-, Wednesday he is still in process
ing in the North Wilkesboro hos- («f appointing the Kings Moun-
pital following an accident, her; lain Model Cities committee,
relatives report. ’ (Contwned On Page >
Sena'»nr W. Kerr Scott.
An N. C. State University
clas.smate of Bob Scott. Pionk,
also a dairy farmer, had contin
ued in the role of leading Scott m ■ _
supporter for The governor's chair lA|a|ft VIlAUf
until late October when he learn-' “ wnww*
ed Scott had other plans. West school P-TA will sponsor
Candidate Broughton, son of a talent show Fiiday, March 22.
the late Governor-Senator J. Mel-'at 7:30 p.m. at North school au
ville Broughton, Sr., the state’s ditorium with proceeds to be
World War II governor (1941- used to purchase a typewriter
45), made an “agriculture-indus- with primary size type for the
try" address in which he 1) pro- school.
mised to form a task force to A spokesman for tlie P-TA
• help save the family farm from group said the talent event will Uf<‘. Reece Dale Bowens, 20-
extinction and 2) extra emphasis replace the regularly-scheduled year-old Grover serviceman, was
i on vocational education through March P-TA meeting and parents, kUh’d in Thailand March Nth, his
! vocational schools and communi- are urged to encourage
i ty colie res to provide persons youngsters to perform by sing
: with skills for incoming industry! ing, dancing or reciting. The
and to prevent the migration of i committee has riiKHl out panto
TOP SCORER—C^orge Adams
is the top scorer for the high
school Mountaineers who tangle
Thursday night with Kannopolis
for the Wi'iCHSA/'. Ciiamp;on>
ship.
Cline, Cabiness
Seek Re-election
New Petition Will Re Required
On Linwood School District Plea
Mo.ss said! unskilled Tar Heels elsewhere. ! mime with records, singing with to p ass another \'ehicle on a
Broa.ghton declared the farm’voice recording and acts in poor mouiPain road. ’Fhe shoulder of
in a cost-price of farm product 1 taste. Contestants must furnish the road gave way and the ve-
squeeze. ; own instruments, costumes and hide operaUd by Bowens over-
Broughton said ho'Would favor; accompaniments. The school will terned. Bowens died as a result
state aid to small communities in furnish a piano and record play-, of the injuries,
water and sewer development,, or.
citing the Asheville area as a
Two incumbent members of
the Cleveland County Board of
Education, both Democrats, filed
last week for re-election.
Thnn? other persons, all Dem
ocrats, announced the previous
week, bringing the total number
in the race at present to five, the
same number to be elected.
Incumbent Buford Cline paid
his filing fee Friday. The 46-
year-old dairy farmer of route 1,
Bowens was reportedly driving Shelby, presently is serving his
military vehicle and attempttKi fourth cons<.*cutive two-vear board
Injuries Fatal
To Pic. Rowens
their parents. Mr. and Mrs. William
G. Bowon.s have been notified.
A new petition will apparently
dSr;;mems -anT^eiunarwhe^e:?--,'0 redrawn by ,he 40-50
families in eastern Kings Moun
tain who seek annexation to the
applicable, to all customers re
siding in this district as soon as
possible. This will entail much
work and time. We ask your pa
tience. We hope to get these out
(The above schedule accounts| within the next three months, if
for the 8 days lost due to incle-
nient weather. If other days
should be lost they will be made
up on the Saturday folowing the
dny lost using the schedule for
April 20.)
Plonk Heading
Seal Campaign
Operation Bunny Hop for bene
fit of the Kings Mountain Easter
Campaign will be conducted
on downtown streets March 30th
Youngsters dressed as bunnies
will conduct the fund-raising
street drive here, Kings Moun
tain Chairman W. L. .(Bill) Plonk
announces.
Goal of the campaign March
1 Aju il 14 is $5,000 foe Cleveland
County.
• Charlie Harry is Grover chair-
an of the drive. Chairmen of
the women’s division of the drive
in No. 4 Township is Mrs. Bob
Siringfollow.
possible. All refunds will be
based on effective date of ap
proval March 1.”
Issuing the statement wore C.
E. Warliek Agency. B. F. Maner
Agency, Tom Trott Agency, Ar-
Kings Mountain school district
This is statement of the group's
attorney, Henry Whitesides, of
Gastonia, following his appear-
i ance before the new interim
! Gaston County Board of Educa-
j tion Monday night.
1 The families (about 30 chiUhen
who have been attending local
schools the past two years via
The request w'as tabled, after
considerable discussion, for con
sideration at a later date.
Gaston School Board Attorney
Willis Smith s^id, “This lequ.'s)
is fraught with problems.’’ He
said he did not think such a
move has ever been made in
North Carolina to allow children
to cross county lines to attend
schools. “I do not know’’, he said,
“whether the vote would have to
be limited to the families involv
ed or would have to be county-
thur Hay Agency and Johnj
George Agency. i
No estimate was made as to
the number of refunds, nor pa
trons. However, two agents re
ferred as the Big-B fire district’s
area as "large”.
Two Brief Power
Cut-Offs Sunday
All city power customers will
he without power twice on Sun
day but the two cut-offs will
be of short duration, Electrical
Superintendent Hunter Allen
har announced.
The initial cut-off will be be
tween 6 and 6:15 a.m., with the
.second one between 1 and 2 p.
m
The cut-offs will be necessi-
tated due to transformer
(‘hangc-overs at the Duke Pow
er sub-station on North Ga.ston
street.
court order) want their children wide,
to attend local schools because: Smith said in his opinion the
of the closeness of those schools, petition submitted was not proft-
Legally, they are within the Gas- erly drawn and would have to ll*
ton School District. redrawn.
Whitesides said the new Gaston Children in the p<‘titioning
board was acquainted with "our families have attended Kings
problem” Monday night^ Mr. Mountain schools for the past
Whitesides said the parents’ peti- two years via court order. The
tion originated before the con- families live inside the Kings
solidated board came into being. ’ Mountain city limits hut in the
He also said there is some ques- part that is inside Gaston Coun-
tion the original petition was,ty. The Kings Mountain hoard of
drawn correctly with regard toi education accepts children re
spelling out the boundaries of
the area desiring annexation.
This means, said Whitesides,
that a true survey of the area
involved would need to be made.
Parents of 30 out-of-school dis
trict pupils through their attor
ney Henry Whitesides Monday
petitioned the Gaston County
leased to the system by other
school units. The release must bo
in writing. However, the Gaston,
County Board of Education has;
refused to release them for tho’
past t .VO years.
The local board of odu‘'’^ion
reiterated its policy in accepti'^g
out-of-district pupils at a mrent
prime example of the good re
sults brought by rural water and
service. '
Law To Re Ross
Even H Costly
“We will abide by the law
c\Gn if it takes money out of
the citizens’ pockets.”
This w'as the reply of Mayor
John Henry Moss to a question
concerning future city purchas
ing policy.
He added: "Formal and in
formal bids will be received on
projcct.s up to the legal maxi
mum of $7500. Only formal bids
will be asked on projects esti-
malcd to cost more than $7,500.”
The Mayor was recently un
der fire bec’ause eight of 58
street improvements projects
during the past three years ex
ceeded the legal limit of infor
mal bidding.
However, it was found the
city had been obtaining street
Improvements, botji curbini
Funeral arrang<‘monts, which
Winner of the West sriiool con- are incomplete, will he aniu-unced
test will enter the Kiw.anis club by Harris Funeral Home,
city-wide talent event in Ai)ril. ' Pfc. Bowens was a member of
' Prizes will be presented the; Comi'any C of the S09th Engin-
' winner from gracles 1-2, from (‘crs Battalion. He was a member
j grades 3-4 and from grades 5 6. ot Allen Memorial Baptist church.
I Admission is 25 cents for students Resides his fiarents he is sur-
fContinued On Page Sir) Continued on Page 6)
Snags Mar Annexation Requests;
Herndon. Sincox Properties In
I By MARTIN HARMON petitioners opposed.
I Requests for annexation to the J. .4. Childers said h(' had a
! city limits hit some snags Tues prolilem of ingress-egress to his
I day night. residence and reporttKl that the
i Result: the city has expanded narnnv entrance street has not
ion Edgemont avenue by two pat- been dedicated for a public street,
cels of property, the William Were it, ht* added, an addition
Herndon residence, and the Dr. he plans woul<i "leave my house
F. J. Sincox lot. on the curb. ’
Deferred for March 26 action; Dean Smith said his problem
action on annexation requests of was the saim*. as he, too, plans
J. F. Cunningham, Walter Myers, an addition.
Richard E. Barnett. Harold Commissioner W. Biddix
George and Eugene R. Roberts. ma<le the motion to table the re*-
James E. Amos asked what he (piest
said he "hoped” would he tein- King ohjeet(‘<l. He pointed out
j porary withdraw'al of his Edge- that it has been city policy for
mont annexation recjuest. He y<‘ars to honor requests of prop-
I said failure of two neighbors to erty owners (when adjacent and
term.
Robert V. (Bob) Cabaniss, 39-
year-old farmer of route 4, Shel
by. Tuesday filed as a candidate
for election to a third term on
the boanl of education.
Filing last week were Krtnl
Simmons of Polkville, Mrs. Cecil
Barrier of Toluca and Devon
Bingham of Waco,
School board members will be
elected under a different ar
rangement this year, due to en
actment of a local bill by the
1967 General Assembly. The three
top vote-getters in November will
serve four-year terms. The next
two highest will serve two-year
terms. In substHjuent elections,
candidates will be elected for
four-year terms. Before this year,
a full hoard was elected e\ery
two years. The new arrange
ment will set up rotating terms.
Cabaniss was first eleet(*d to
the board in 1964. He is a mem-
bt»r of the Cleveland County
(ContiniiPd On Page Six)
Rids On Sewer
Ronds Tuesday
and-gutterlng and paving at j petition for annexation would, eontigiums to the city limits) for
Board of Education for a refer- meeting, noting the board was
' endum whU’h would allow them quite willing to accept them by
to be annexed into the Kings’written release.
'Mountain school district.
bargain rates. The city has
been buying curbing-and-gut-
)ering for $1.80 per lineal foot
(as.se.ssmont to property owner
.50 cents) compared to Shelby’s
bid price on a fiscal year basis
of $2.35. The State Highway
commission engineer reported
bid prict*s varying from $2.50
to $2.80 per foot.
j prevent city paving of the stnn't annexation. In this instance, he
I fronting the Amos residence. Tlie declared, the objectors do not
! Amos withdrawal petition was'seek annexation,
j honored. | Wlion Mr. Biddix amended his
"1 want the many Ixmefits of motion fo provide for action on
. city iH'sidence. including lower .March 26 Mr. King aeipiiesc'cd.
water and power and insurance The vote was 3-0 in fa\(>r.
rates, and garbage collection,” he Commissioners T. J. Ellison
commented. and O. O. Walker were absent
i Two neighbors to live other!due to illness.
The Local G«>vernmt'nt Com
mission will receive bids at its
hut Commissioner Norman offices in Raleigh Tuesday morn
ing at 11 o'clock on $1,000,000
sanitary sewer bonds.
Mayor John Henry AIoss will
b4‘ present for the bid opening.
Under terms of the bid invita
tion, the lx)nds will <*arry a 25-
year amortization, with $10,000
in principal, plus accrued inter
('St. to h(' i>aid eai-h yc'ar. First
payment is due during the H)6S-69
fiscal year in semi annual install-
namts.
As of June 30. 196S, prior bond-
«‘d debt ol the citv will have In'ea
loduced to $370,000i