ler- rom the itial thod city died itain bids to (tax itors rhen an* f the gher bid* g as risk, h as out* >ally not go' iv stinl W> not City have »ople writ* laily have give tion, s the 0 not 0 it ban co. ames , an- son, loun* well, , an- lugh- Cings Peaij j'un ida; hos- omp- ►esse- :h of [arch I. burn, lunce iday, hos- ncey, , an* son, loun- loyd, ‘ the [arch 1. rian id'ir r:30 the tain irch oxi* rom 1:15 »ing to icedi ■trie" Population Greater Kings Mountain 2I|9I4 City Limits 8,256 Tht Greater Klngi Mountola figure Is deefved from the ipecieU United Stales Bureau of the Census report o lanuary 1966. and includes the 14,990 poputotion o Number 4 Townsliip. and the remolnlng 6,194 Iren Number S Township. In Ciovolond County and Crowdar* Mountedn Township In Gaston County. Kings Mountain's Beliable Newspaper Pages Today VOL 80 No. 12 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 21, 1968 Seventy-Eignth Year PRICE TEN CENlf JD East KM Sewer Project Near Complete $1 Million Bonds Sale Said Favorable a Military Burial Rites Set For Two LIBRARY FACILITIES AT EAST — Mrs. Carolyn PaschoL stonding at left and Mrs. Wanda Adams, right, teachers' aides at Eost Elementory school, are photographed in the East School Library, along with pupils in Mrs. Boker^s fifth grade doss. This is the first year the Title 1 program has been conducted yeor>round. funds from which supplied seporate focilities for a library at East school for the first time. Materials were previously housed in the school cafeteria. East School Has Facility For Library East school students arc enjoy ing separate facilities for a li brary for the first time this school year. Bt'fore the expanded services provided by the Title 1 program, underway this year for the first year-round program, the libraiy was housed in (he school cafe- tiiua. ^tle 1 Diiector Don Parker, explaining that a program has hren conducted under Title I of t!u* Elementary and Secondary Education Act for the past two years in (he Kings Mountain schools system, said this is the first year an extensive program has iK'en carried on for the total si'hool year. .Mr. Parker s-aid the pro '"'it program employs 20 people, funds for which ($123,r\35 for the 19HS program! are allotted each year and based on the number of eco nomically deprived families liv ing in the school district as de termined by the 1960 census. .Some other results of the pro gram: Offices for the administration have been sot up in the house formoi’ly occupied as a residence for the superintendent. The two librarians, school nurse, director of the program, and bookkeeper- secretary have offices in this building. Also included is the ma terials center for film, filmstrip, recordings, books, reading ma terials. tapes, teach-a-lapes, slid es, transparencies, and supplies provided through Title I funds. These are distributed upon re- (luest to the teachers of the var ious .schools in the system to cn- fCpfifitufcd On Page Six) legion To Flost 400 Go-Getters American Legion Post 155 will lv»st Division 5 Legionnaires at the annual Go-Geters banquet Silurday at the American Le gion Hall. (’ommander Carl Wiesener said some -tfK) Legionnai»'es from Mu'I'liv to Belmont and north to Mr' Tanton are expected to at tend. IVit’Mcr of rotsf hoof and chick en 'vill be served at 7 p.m. in the l egion ballrrtom and new addi tion. which will open to pub lic inspection for the first time. Foote Promotes Three Employees E. R. Goter, Manager of Foote Mineral Company’s Kings Moun- 1 lin oncrations, announces the ircmotion O'f three employees, all effective Mareh 1. Ditliia L. .'^•anders has been jiiomoi(Hl to the position of Gen-, il Mine Foreman. Replacing liPn as Assistant General Mine; Foreman is Frank G. Hollifield. Mr. Hollifield advances to his new position from that of Mine t ift Foreman, a post now filled Clyde E. .Seism. Seism and Hollifield have; been wdlh Foote since 1954. San ders joined the Kings Mountain! lithium mining operation in 1952.. Cochran Dies In Saigon Battle Saturday Night Infantry- First Lt. Roy B. Co chran, 27, of Grover, was killed by an exploding Viet Cong land; mine in the Saigon area of Viet! Nam about 8:45 p.m. Saturday. ; His wife, Mrs. Sandra Burner | Cochran, was notified early Mon-j day at her home in Honolulu, j Hawaii. She is enroute to Cleve-j land County with her six-weeks-; old daughter, Donnis Danette,' whom Lt. Cochran had never seen. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Cochran of Grover were notified of their son’s death about noon Monday. Funeral arrangements are in complete pending arrival of the soldier’s body from Vietnam and his family’s arrival from Hawaii. Lt. Cochran *was a seven-year Army veteran serving with Com pany B. 4th Battalion, 3rd In- fContinued On Page Six) Students To Ptay I In District Contest Six piano students of Mrs. Mar tin Harmon will participate in the District Piano Contest spon sored by the North Carolina Music Teacher’s Association at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory on Saturday. Jane Anthony. Martha Weiss, .Meredith McGill, Cynthia Alexan der and Irelou Easley will play in the Junior division, and Fran cos McGill will perform in the .Senior group. The contest will bo held in the RITES THURSDAY — Full mili tary burial rites for Pfc. Reese Dale Bowens. 20. will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. from Allen Memorial Baptist church in Grover. Rites Thursday For Pic. Bowen Main Sewer Outiall Line Being Beplaced Twenty-ninth of eight man holes and la>ing of a sewer line of 5,S69 feet of pipe from Craft- spun Yarns in East Kings Moun tain to the McGill treatment plant will ho computed by Fri day. Grad.v C. Yelton. suiK*rinte:id- ent (•. public works, and S. A. 'Red! Blanton, city crewman, said V\'cdn€*sd3y tlie work may be completed Thur.^day if the weather continues good. ■‘.Smoothing up of the rough ^L.rl.Tce will take a couple days”. : said Mr. Yelton. The city is replacing the pres ent over-loaded lino .vith 2,975 'eet (>*■ 18 inch jup”, 1.176 feet of ’5 ini'h F‘pf‘ and 6S foot of IS '’le’i e i.st iron pine. From the I outf.all line from Craftspun Mill ; o Phenix street there is approxi- i mah'ly 12.50 feet of 10 inch line and eight manholes. “This is amajor accomplish- Ti'nt of city crews”, said Supt. Yelton. Ho expressed apprecia tion to citizens of the area for ' their patience. Inclement weather in the form of snow and ice de- lav eol ■ board in an effort tt) see this area and the guidance' program, given proper attention in th(» now consolidated system. Ade«iuatc vocational programs would eli minate a numlx'r of high school dropo'jts who feel they cannot make the grade on academic courses”, said Vale. Kings Mountain Industrial As sociation serves 30 industries in Gaston and Cleveland County and has been recognized nationally, for its training program. The as sociation. working through the federal Manpower Training Act. has trained or retrained some 3.50 persons and placed them in local Jobs. Mr. Vale is a native of Potts- ville. Penn. He altenor of Flint Groves Baptist ; church, the N. C. Broadcasters Association and the American Metallurgical l^ociely. Before t iContbiHcd on Pagt' S\j'> Rites Conducted Tuesday At 2 For Former Citizen W. R. Logan Funeral rites for William R. (Bill! Logan, 5-1, w'ere held Tuos Full military burial rites for Pfc. Reece Dale Bowt'lis, 20, will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. from! Allen Memorial Baptist church,, interment following in Faith Bap tist church cemetery. \ The Grover man was killed March Sth in Thailand in an ac-' cident while operating a military | vehicle. He was a member of Mauney Music Building on the Company C of the S()9th Engin-i campus of Lenoir Rhyne college. (Continued On Page Six) tant. were working with Chief day at 2 p.m. from First Baptist McEk'vitt to complete faculty for church of Myrtle Beach, S. C.. * the school yesterday. interment following in Ocean Specialists in the field of law Woods Memorial Park, enforcement will conduct the Mr. Logan, a former Kings classes. Mountain citizen, died Saturday Topics to be discussed are: night at 10:30 in Veterans Hos- laws of arrest, note-taking, search pital at Charleston, and seizure, elements of criminal several year's illness, offense, general criminal investi-' The Logans moved to Myrtle gation, testimony in court, liquor Boach three years ago. In Kings laws, motor vehicle laws, juve-1 Mountain they owned -and op- niles. public relations and police orated Logan Supply Company management. a number of years. Mr. Lo- Mr.^Netherton said specialized, gan was a rural mail carrier for Beach Bajitist church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Billie Gallman Logan; one s»)n, Gerry Logan of Columbia. S. C.; two brothers. Thomas G. Lt»gan of Midland. Texas and Albeit P. Logan of Kings Mountain: four sisters, Mrs. Robt'rt J. Love of Kings Creek, S. C., .Mrs. W. T. S. C. after Randall of Jacksonville. Kl.i.. Mrs. Paul Ginther of New Hoi- CANDIDATE — Mrs. Cline Bor ders announced this week she is a candidate for a seat on the county board of education sub ject tc the Democratic Primary in May. Mrs. Cline Borders Is Candidate For School Board Mis. Cline Wilson Borders of Lawndale p«ai(l her filing fee to day and became a Democratic (iindidate for th(‘Cleveland Coun ty B(»aid of Education. .Mrs. Borders is a native of Cle\( land Count\- and a graduate’ of Waco high school. She com pleted two years at Limestone College in (iaffney, S. C.. and attended .Southea.^tei n Theologi cal Seminary in Wake Forest. Slie is a member the New Bethel K.iplisi t'hurcli at Lawn dale, a Sunday .School teacher. Girl s .Auxiliary Director and a member o‘ ihe church choir. She is a member of IMedmont PT.A and tlie Piedmont Homo Demon- stration Club. She is the former Doris Browne, daughter of .Mrs. Beatrice Whitworth Browne and the lat(‘ Wayne L. Brownc' of Waco. Mrs. Borders is married to the Re\. Clint' Borders, an ordained; Bajitist minister. He is an As-- sociate Director of tlu* Seminary i:xtension Department »d (he .Soutiu'rn Baptist Convention. He serxes tht' Eastern Seat'hoard stales, p r n m o t i n g training On Sewer Bonds TiH'sday's sale of .$1 million in bonds for se wage s>stem improve- mt'nis brought a low bid of 4.70 percent, somewhat higher than the esiimah'. but a good sale on today's bond market, W. F:. Eas terling co.mmented to Mayor John .Moss at the completion of bid- rt'ceix ing. Mr. Easterling is executive see- rt'taiy of the Ltxal Governmt'nt i’ommission whicli handles the sale of bonds for municipalities. The -1.70 j)ercent is the amount of interest the city will have to p.iv in amortizing the bonds, in addition to retiring the princi- pal. .Mayor John Moss, in Raleigh for the bid opt'ning Tuesday morning, said the bonds were purchased by Wachovia Bank and Trust Company at the 4.700 interest rate. Three other bids wc're received. The bidders were North Carolina National Bank, 1.7666; First Union National Bank of North Carolina, 4.7496; and Dominick and Dtiminick. 1.9173. The mayor said that when Kings .Mountain was making plans last summer to sell the SI million in bonds for .sewer system • improvements the anticipate! in terest rat<‘ on the bonds was es timated at 4.5 percent. ! Mayor Moss quoted Mr. Eas terling as saying that if the brmds were offered for sale six months from now, they might bring a Ix'tter price. “But who knows, I haven’t yet found any one who can out guess the bond market.” .Mr. Moss said Mr. Easterling said the low bid w’as “very fa vorable.” Under terms of the bid invita tion, the bonds will cany a 2,5- year amortization, with $-10,000 in principal, plus accrued inter est, to be paid each year. First payment is due during the 196S- 69 fiscal year in semi-annual in stallments. As of June 3, 196S, prior bond ed debt of the ( ity will have been rc'duced to S,370.')6o. land, Illinois and .Mrs. Elmer through .^minary Extension. Mr. NINETY-NINE YEARS YOUNG — Coptain Meek Ormand, flanked by his two doughters, Mrs. C. T. Carpenter* left* and Mrs. O. P. Lewis* was honored on his 99th birthday Thursday by his fellow Kiwanions at the regular Thursdoy night meeting of the civic club. Captain Ormand's son* Hugh Ormond, also present for the affair* U also o Kiwonian. Joe Lee Woodword served as moster of ceremonies for the surprise birthdoy banquet* reminiscing of Mr. Ormand's life in Kings Mountain and his 24-year8 as a Ki- wanian. The Kiwanls club presented Mr. Ormond a radio* a dec orated birthday coke and a birthday hat. training will bo available in fin ger printing and other areas of criminal investigation. Classes will begin on at City Hall. Landscaping Is Approved Kings Mountain garden clubs ani civic organizations will be nvited to help beautify the land scape of the no.v Kings Moun tain high si'hool by providing frees, flowers and shrubs. This was the stati'inent of Schools Supt. Donald Jones 'ol lowin'’’ Mon'b'^’s meeting of the ')0''rrl edu ’ation which formal ly apnnned th'* landscaning pro ject winch includes addition of srbw’ilks, paving -and curlNng end It urf.''cing of i semicircular ' M'oway i'l front of the build ing. Tentative plans, Mr. Jones said, are to extend the sidewalk from the school on Phifer road to the National Guard Armory, with the Kiw'anis club helping pay the cost with proc<*( from a n cent talent show. .Supt. Jones 'will obtain bids en the paving, and the W'lrk will he done while the students arc on Easter vacation. In other bu'^iness. tlie board received a reptirl from Jones that the State Board of Education had j approved the system’s long-rangej ‘ (Continued On Pu