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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 18 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