) PopnlatioD
Greater Kings Mountain 21.914
City Limits 8,256
Th« Grtoter Kings Mountoda tlgur* It dtrivtd Iimb tiM
■ptciol Unittd Stotts Burton of tht Ctnsut vtport o
JoBuory 19B6. and Includtt tht 14.B90 populotlon e
Numbtr 4 Township, and tht rtmalning B,124 lion
Nunibtr S Township, In Ottrtlond County and Ciowdtr'
MountolB Township In Gaston County.
Pages
Today
Kings Mountoin's Beliable Newspaper
VOL 80 No. 16
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 18, 1968
Seventy-Eignth Year
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1619 Elementary Pupils Are Assigned
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Auction Dollars
Are Now Flowing
Play Money
Will Purchase
Valuable Goods
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LANDSCAPING PROJECT AT NEW HIGH SCHOOL—A group of vocational agriculture students are
planting junipers in front of the high school gymnasium in the photograph above, part of a beau
tification program approved recently by the Kings Mountain board of education. Overseeing the
work are agriculture teachers. Wayne Silver. C harles Knight ond M. L. Campbell. Magnolia Gar
den club donated S200 toward the project ond ov er S360 In shrubs hove been purchased for plant
ing. Other areas scheduled for beautificotion include the student court area in the school, all of
the grounds, and a park area located behind the school building at the edge of a wooded area. A
greenhouse. Cleveland County's first campus greenhouse, serves for propagating shrubs, flowers
ond other plants, including tomato ond pepper plants. (Photo for the Herald by Isoac Alexander).
Saturday Is Final
Registration
137 New Voters
Axe Registered
In This Township
APPOINTED — Philip R. Elam.
Kings Mountoin native, has
been appointed director of in
dustry and business of the Ashe
ville Chamber of Commerce.
Asheville C Oi C
Appoints Elam
Rc*gi5U’aiion ior the May 4 po
litical primaries ends Saturday
at Ck'velahd County’s 2S voting
precincts.
In the four precincts of Num
ber 4 Township, regisitration ac
tivity showed a considerable
spurt last Saturday, second of
three registra-tion Saturdays.
' Auction Dollar Days, a city-
! wide sales promotion, is under-
! way.
Jim Yarbro, chairman of the
I trade piomotion of the Kings
, Mountain Merchants association.
I said shoppers arc asked lo look
for the identifying rc.l stickers
; On the doors of downtown, firms
and take advantage of this big
-ale? event.”
Auction dollars will be given,
dfillar for-doliar, up to SlOO pur-
chascKl, by the loval merchants
and theso ‘‘dollars” will bo used
in huyiig free, valuable prizes
, 0 be auctioned off Saturday.
April 27, at 6 p.m. at the parking
lot at the corner of Cherokee
and Mountain streets.
The auction gifts were being
put on di.^play this week in the
olfice of In.i’striil Asso'-iation
! or the Kings Mountain street.
' Teaturrcl entertainment for the
final day of tht sales promotion
■ vill be apr^^araneo of The
\mazing Mi. Bradbury”, billed
I as one of the world’s greatest
I magician and his troupe ol on
' tertainers.
I A full-pT e advertisement i n
, toda.v’s edition of the Herald
lists the ?0 pa»‘ticimting firms
and gives details of the promo-
; tion.
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GilNE BALLARD
Action Deferred
On 66 Asking
Davidson Plant
The (‘ity board of education
Monday night approved 1.019
pupil assignments f<n* school yi'ar
196H-69, deferring “for further
study” request o, 00 Xegio pupils
lo attend Da\idson school.
All other requests for a.^sign-
ment to tlie various schools which
were receiv<*d by the Marcli 17ih
I retiuest deailline were approved.
I Supt. Donald Jones asked the
I board to delay action on the Da-
\idson requests and make the
I assignments later. Ho remarked
. “OG students are a very small
number to operate a school.”
I Supt. Jone.s said students and
1 their parents chose whicli school
, to attend under the system's free
1 dom-of-choice plan. He said the
choice forms returned to his of
fice have not resulted in a crowd
I ed situation at any of the plants.
The elementary scdiool assign
ments approved include:
Beth ware, 22S.
Compact, 153.
East. 241.
Grover, 235.
North, 318.
Park Grace,
West. 2G1.
PRESENTATION — Four awards were posthumously presented
to Major Phillip Ward Broom in ceremonies at his father's home
in Monroe recently. Major John D. Little, at left in the photo
graph presents the medals to Major Broom's widow, Mrs. Phyllis
Dean Broom, formerly of Kings Mountain, as Major Broom's fath
er. Ward Broom, looks on. The jet pilot was killed in on airplane
crash in Vietnam November 3. 1967.
Broom Awarded ^
DFC, Other Honors ^
Posthumously
Major Plilllip Ward Broom,
husii.iiul ol the former Phyllis’
Dcin of Kings .Mountain, was
pi sihumou-'ily awarded i<‘ur med
als by the United States Air
Force in ceremonies ri'cendy at
Broom's father's home in Mon
roe.
The jet pilot, i(‘turning to Bien
Hoa Air F<Mce Base in Vietnam
atu'r a bombing mission to the
Thieves Of Safe
Took Only Cash
' Thieves who broke into tlic
I King.*? Mountain Hospital buiini'.ss
I office early last Thursday morn
mg and w’heeled out the 750-
: pound Meilenk safe are still being
' sought by city and area police. .
' The safe and the hospital
hand trucks the thieves borrowed north of Viot:iam. was killed on
to .steal the safe — were found November 3, 19G7 when his jet
To date 137 new voters have
put their names on the Number
1 Township voting books.
Mrs. J. H. Arthur, registrar at
[the large West Kings Mountain
Philip R. Eiam, Kings Moun precinct, has logged 95 new vot-
lain native, has been named to'ers.
fill the post of Director of the Mrs. Nell Cranford, registrar'
Industry and Business Depart: at East Kings Mountain, reports:
ment of the Asheville Chamber 23 new voters to date,
of Commerce. Mrs. J. B. Ellis, registrar at
The announcement was made Grovei, has added 11 names,
today by Richard K. Dc'cnhardt, Mrs. A. E. (Jim» Connor, reg-
Exicutive Vice President of the islrar at Bethware, has added
Chamber. Elam succeeds the late eight names. ■ ■ IW
Carroll E. Ford in the key Cham ■ Ralph Gilbert, chairman of the; a HaVA
b<*r Industrial promotion position, county elections board, has re- * WiBlWAiAlw aawav
Elam, who has been active in minded all citizens they must bo Rev. Robert L. Hadcn, Jr., . u n
business in Western North Caro- registered to vote and advised tor of Trinity Episcopal church | pi’unary contests in North Caro
TO COLUMBIA Rev. Robert
L, Haden, Jr., will become as
sistant rector of Trinity Episco
pal church, Columbia. S. C.. on
May 1.
Haden Resigns
Is Political
Interest Perldng?
By MARTIN HARMON
I Interest in local and state
political campaigns appeared
I quickening this week, though
; several candidates reported in
I their vote-seeking travels prev
iously outward interest seemed
; minor.
' One candidate put it, “People
to whom I've talked seemed in
terested and concerned in naiion-
’ al and international evenets, not
. local politics.”
! The May 4 primaries are dif
■ ferent in 196S from those of
I many years in two respects:
; li Voting day is four weeks in
advance of former years, via act
I of the 1967 General Assembly.
2» There are more Republican
NORMAN YA'TES
Clashed Just short of the airstri'p
at the Bien Hoa Air Base.
Major Broom w.=is awardoti the
Dislingui-shod Flying Cross, the
Bronze Star, the Pur])l(‘ Hi'ert
and the Air Medal.
Major John D. inlile. rep're.sent-
in.: the USAF. made the pres(*n-
talion to Mrs. Broom and Major
wi
near Cherryville Thursday morn-
ing.
Business Manager Gene Sh<»p-
I herd said the loss totaled appro.xi-
mately S8fH) in cash and a “beat
up” safe. The thieves did not dis
turb valuable papers including
j stock certificates, insurance poll
cies and some Sll,8(X) in chocks.
5^1 The thieves entered the locked Broom s .atlK'r. Ward Broom. He
' business office through an adpa- said, “The professi(.'nal ability
Si cent bathroom window on the and outstanding aerial acrom-
"'w east side of the building, com- plishments of Major Broom re-
: mandeered the hand trucks and fled great credit upim himself
svi w’h(*cl(*d the safe out through ilio and the United Stales Air Ffuce.”
hallway leading to the hospital The Dislinguishi'd Flying Cross, day afternoon at 4 p.m. from
chapel. the most prestigious of the four Oak Grove Baptist church of
The theft was discovered by awards, cited Broom for “his which he was a member.
Mrs pean McDaniel when she highly professional efforts which Young Horn, a high .school
opened the busini»ss office Thurs- contributed materially lo the mis- sophomore, was killed Saturday
RITES HELD — Funeral rites
for Eddie Horn, 16. were held
Mondoy afternoon from Oak
Grove Baptist church.
Accident Fatal
To Eddie Horn
Funeral rites for Edsvin Lee
(Eddies Horn. 16. were held Mon-
day morning.
. ^
Sion of tile U.S. Air Force in at 11:20 p.m. when he apparent-
.Southeast Asia.” ly lost control of the light truck
Major Broom’s wife and two he was driving and crashed into
sons live in Gastonia. He was several trees off rural paved
son-in-law of Mrs. Amos Dean of poad 2256 near the Martin Phifer
Kings Mountain.
lina for the past 17 years is a, citizens who have moved
University. ty
“I am delighted to announce fers.
Mr. Elam will join the Asheville
Chamber of Coipmerco staff.”
DegenhardI said. “We have spent
more than six wi'eks seeking the
Henry To Preach
PAUL A. HOWARD. SR.
into here since June 1964. will become ^*na than there have been in de
graduate of North Carolina State new' precincts since the last coun- assistant rector of Trinity including the active cam
University. ty-'wide election to obtain trans- copal church in Columbia, S. c., | Paipms for the gubernatorial nom
On Mav 1. I ination being waged by John L
Stickley, of Charlotte, and U. S
The Columbia church nas 2206, Ropresemtativo James Gardner, of
adult members. : Rocky Mount.
In Kings Mountain. Mr. Haden' Democrats have their usual
best qualified man for this posh - , . i vv active in community, primary donnybrooks. wdth a
The previous standards of:I|f HAtllUill HATP affairs as a member of the Lions three-man race for governor. TkvAA
^ - - - - ni nCVAVCII IAwAC iclub and other organizations and eluding H. - Governor Robert W.'P|^|H05 1 IlAcC
interest in the Scott. J. Melville Broughton and ^ _
program. Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins. Craftspun Yarns, Inc. announc-
I ed this w’eek employment of three
Ciaitspun
J
rn'ta
Iformance have been high. I’m
I main that the promotion of the; t:. i u ♦ shown especial
industrial and business develo,> R^V- Earl Henry pastor of city recreation
ment of Buncomlx' County will:I-'"roln Avenue Baptist church I Mrs. Haden.
Allen Memorial
Sets Revival
from Columbia,
(Ct>nti»ued on Pag(' Six)
of Lincolnton, will be evangelist, is the former Mary Anne Easter
for revival services beginning Ging. The Hadens have a son.
I Sunday at Macedonia Baptist
church.
Services will be conducted each
evening at 7:30 through April
26th.
Rev. Wayne Ashe, pastor, said
the community is invited to join
in the series of services.
Addition Cost
Pared $19,000
Construction of a 12-classro()m
addition to North school got un
derway l^iesday.
Supt. Donald Jones said Wed
nesday that trimming of $19,000
from original construction costs
of $423,092 would put the cost'
of the addition at $413,092, morej
in line with what the board had
anticipated when the planning
began several months ago.
Negotiation for the better price
means elimination of some items j at the regional office of the De
partment of Housing and Urban
Development in Atlanta Monday
afternoon.
Mayor John Henry Moss filed
the application (25 copies 13 for
Robert L. Haden III, ago one.
METHODIST TOPIC
“Let’s Enjoy Our Religion”
will be the topic of Rev. D. B.
Alderman at the vesper hour
Sunday evening at 7 at Central
Methodist church.
For lieutenant-governor H ^ ,
Taylor. Jr., is opposed by a lady. key executive petitions. ^
Viv« Mavtrarpt ITorncr How'ard. Sr., of Kings to 11.15 a.m.
" ‘ vie^ fo/.superintendent of Mountain has joined the firm as' East School, ILlo to 11:30 a.m. in
“ . _ _ crti-»r^ria .shift in tnn cnin.i
Kings Mountain Model Cities Bid
Filed By Moss Monday In Atlanta
Five
public education and Slate Sen
ator Robert H. Morgan, of Har
nett, is challenging Attorney-Gen
eral Wade Bruton.
Eight Democrats seek three
nominations to the county com
mission while ton seek five nom- Gene C. Ballard of Indian Trail; Mel Broughton, candidate for
inations to the county board of joined the firm as production the Democratic nomination foi
(MiucaUon. planning supervisor. governor, and Mrs. Broughton
Ten Democrats st'ok the five Ballard has been affiliated will make an official visit to
nominations for the new three- pj-oduotion planning the past Cleveland County on .Monday
county district judge posts. p) years. A graduate of Holbrook when they will spend the day in
second shift overseer in the spin-;
ning and winding departments.
Norman (L Yates of Kings'
Mountain has joined the firm as
production planning supervisor of
” manufacturing. i
Area Rabies Clinics
Set For Saturday
Rabies Clinics will be held by
Dr. J. P. Maunry on Saturday at
these area locations:
Eaker’s Store, 9 to 9:30 a.m.
Shady Rest, Midway, 9:30 to
9:45 a.m.
Cherryville Road Grocery Store,
9:45 to 10 a.m.
Pauline Mills Store, U) to 10:1.5
a.m.
Community Store, Waco Road.
10:15 lo 10:30 a.m. - * ♦ h h
Davidson School. 10:30 lo 10:4.5 vor. ust enuren. ^ *
Services will be hold nightly Other survviors include two
‘west End School. in:4,o to 11 at 7:30 p.m. brothers, William Di.xon Horn of
Rev. G. H. Thornburg, pastor the L.S. Army in Carlisle. Penn.,
Falls Superette. York Road. 11 of the chun'h, said the interest-■ and Olland Dennis Horn of the
ed communitv is invited to join homo.
the scries of si)ecial services. His pastor. Rev. James Holder.
officiated at the final ~
home one mile south of Kings
Mountain on Phifer road.
Douglas Ware, a passenger in
the truck, escaped without serious
injury.
Horn, a native of Kings Moun
tain, son of Olland and Bertie
Hcv. W. y. Monnx' of Gaff Lee Dixon Horn of mute three,
ney, S. C.. a former pastor of was a member of the Kings
('.rover’s First Baptist church. Mountain high school band. A
will be evangelist for revival ser- school bus driver, he had obtain-
vices beginning April 22 at Allen cd his driver's license in January.
Memorial Baptist churcli in Gro He was active in Oak Grove Bap-
Broughton To Tour County Monday: „
Mrs. Broughton Here At 130 p.m.
The city filed its application
to become a “model city” under
the federal government program
from the work plans, but in no
way will hurt the main structure.
Supt. Jones told the board of edu
cation Monday night in presnling
a progress report.
Beam Construction Company
holds the general contract at a
over a five-year period.
The application represents the
combined efforts of numerous or
ganizations, the 40-member mod
el cities committee, Ledford Aus
tin, Asheville planning consul
tant, the Mayor, City Clerk and
department heads, the superin
tendent of schools, and other Funeral Home.
loe Fisher's
Rites Conducted
l-'unc.ral rites for Joscpli David
Fisher, 66. were held Tuesday at
high school. Lowell, ho attended
King’s Busine.ss college, Charlotte.
.Ml’S. Ballard is the former Juno
Morris and they are parents of a
four • year • old daughter, Joan.
They are members of Sardis Bap
tist clmrch and Mr. Ballard is a
Shelby and in the county prior
to the Broughton Rally at Sliol
bv Cilv Park.
‘The rally at 6:30 p.m. will
climax the gubernatorial cancli
date's day-long visit in the coun
tv. Mr. Broughton, who spoke
the i*egional office and 12 for the governmental and civic agencies.
Washington departmental head- Mayor Moss said decision on
veteran of four years service in. here March 12th at the Lions
4 p.m. from the Chai«4 of Harris the Navy. A sports fan. Mr. Bal- club Farmer's Night, is expected
interment follow'- lard enjoys hunting and fishing, to spend most of the time m
ing in Mountain Rest cemetery. The family expecds to move to Shelby and other areas of the
Rev. Dixon Adams, pastor of Kings Mountain in the next few county, his Kings Mountain chair-
hid nrice of $290,549. Work Is ex-1 ejuarterst in person and was in- applications for mode] city desig Grace Methodist church, officiat- weeks. man. tH
ni.ricd to be completed by the terviewed by Merle Patterson,i nations within the seven-state ed at the final rites. Mr. Howard, a veteran of 37 Mr. Southwell said Mrs. Kiougn
ml of the year or the first of!regional administrator for the Southeast region was indicated Mr. Fisher died Sundnv after- years in the textile indu.‘?try. has ton will be hereto greet Brough
I'ro SuDt. Jones estimated. Model Cities program. for about July 1. noon at 5:30 after suffermg a supplemented his practical ex- ton supporters at 1:30 P-m- at
Sunt Jones also reported at the Spepifically, the' «ifpiication,, Mayor Moss said WiKinesday, heart attack. A native of c'abTr- porionct* by attending N. C. Vo- Southwell Motor Company. It
hmrd’s regular Monday night IwMth vast amounts of supporting “The city naturally has high rus County, he was .‘on of Mr. calicnal School in Bidmont as well possible that Mel Broughton win
Looting that bids have been ap-!data. asks a grant for the year; hopes of approval for the m(xiel and Mrs. Caleb A. Fislier (M Con- as numerou.s extension (-ourses. be hero with his wife , said .Mi.
.rnvod bv the State Board of Ed- 1968-69 of $80,000 for planning cities program and -feels the ap- cord. He was owner of Fisher He is a native of Gastonia, mar Southwell.
Ation and that board has in-1 work in pursuit of the model city: plication filed contains the sup Taxi Cab Company. rk'd to the former Minnie Hayes Broughton will make a major
WtTK'd him of the procedure for,goal. The city pledges to supply porting evidence and informa Besides his parents he is sur- of Mount Holly. Kings Mountain address following a friv banx*
nhfiining the Kings Mountain sys- : the estimated $20,000 additional tion required. If approved it will vived by his wife. Mrs. P(*aG Mae residents the past 19 years, they cue supper at 6:30 said Mr.
$374000 pro rata share in cost 'mean much to the whole c*ommu- Tiller Fisher: five sons, David are parents of one .son. Paul How- Southwell. Local bands will pro-
■' Granted, for one year, the mod-: nity, hosptial schools, and many Fisher. Alien Fisher. Donald ard, Jr., who holds a degree in; vide music for the rally. Mr.,
t(‘ms . _
state bond funds to apply toward
Uic project cost.
el city designation is renewable other agencies.'
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HERE MONDAY Mel Brough
ton, candidate lor the Demo
cratic nomination for governor,
and Mrs. Broughoon will make
an official visit to Cleveland
County Mondoy, culminating a
day-long visit with o rally ot
Shelby City Park at 6:30.
A Statesville Negro, James C.
Holmes, is boriked for trial in
city recorder's court Monday on
chaiges of illegal transportation
for sale of alcoholic beverages.
Officers Robert Hayes and B.
P. Cooke arrested Holmes about
3 a.m. last Thursday morning on
a routine check when they no
ticed the 196(1 Ford truck Holmes
was drivin r parked at the car
wash estahlishmonl on West
] King street. Holmes was making
i a call at the telephone pay sta
tion.
: It was a big haul 42 cases of
\ high grade whiskey and gin and
' .5S cases of various brands of
, beer. Tlie big cache \irlually fills
a city jail cell.
'Phe panel-type truck boro the
sign on the sides North Hickory
Furniture C'ompany and was reg-
istere{l in the name of Lester
James Huffman, Connelly
Springs. N. C.
The beverages reportedly were
destiiK'd for a club in the Shelby
area and Holmes was making
j his (\U1 to determine whether it
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