r \ PopnlatioD Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,256 riM Or«ci»r KlBfft Mouatcda flfpu* U Umm tt« ■PtcicD Ualt«d ttatM Burtau ot th« Ctasua rtport d Jnuary IBM. and IneludM tha 14.BB0 populotiaa • 4 Tewaihip. and tb* ranMdalng B.lM fro* nwabar S Township, in aooolond County «nd Crowdof* Nountfldn Township la Ooitoa County* Kings Mountoin's BoUoble Newspaper VOL. 80 No. 20 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 16, 1968 Seventy-Eignth Year PRICE TEN CENT? Garrison Wants By-Pass Project Cansler Widening Is Re-Affirmed Run-Offs Called For County Posts 'IN.' * (I 'Wonoa'y Wm SCHOLARSHIPS —• Heide Kopruch, ot top, and John C. Pcorkor. Jr. hove been awarded scholorships by Foote Mineral Compony. Foote Announces '68 Scholarships Heidi Kopruch and John C Parker, Jr. have been awarded Foote Mineral Company Scholar ships, as announced by E. R. Go- ter, Manager of the Kings Moun tain Operations. Miss Kopruch is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erich Kopruch. She plans to attend Western Car olina University at Cullowhee, where her aspirations are for a degree-' in Liberal Arts (speci fically. Languages) with the thought of teaching German after graduation. Heidi was born in Germany and came to the United All Commission, Two Education Nominations Up It’s official. A second Democratic primary ballot on June 1st -will include four candidates for two county board of education seats and six candidates for three seats on the Cleveland County Board of Com missioners. Citizen Group Asks Omission 01 Three Blocks 8y MARTIN HARMON The city commission, by unani mous vote Tuesday night, reaf firmed its decision on recom-j mending widening and improving! Cansler street over objections of I several property owners. Particular objections can|e from residents of the northern most block, from Waco road to Walker street, and from the two southern most blocks, from King to Gold. The seven-block improvement project, as planned, 'will require an additional 20 feet of right-of- way, for a total 60-fool right-of- way. Approximately 49 properties are involved. City Attorney Jack White re ported for a study committee. He ! said the committee had conferred Polling places and officials several propt^rty owners will bo the same for the run-off wanted the three blocks om- election as in the first primary, jtted from the project. Voters will return to the polls - District Hi'.hway Engineer W. from 6:30 a.m. until 6:30 p-m. Wyke, asked his opinion by Saturday, June 1- Mayor John Henry Moss, replied, County board of education can- would have no objection to didates Buford Cline and Bobby j^vaving off the north block, but Stone, who ran sixth and seven- ^ would tend to defeat the pur- h in the 12-man first primary pose of the project to eliminate for five board seats, will be run- blocks from King to ning against fourth and fifth ^oid. of course." he added, "if ' unners Mrs. Mary Lou Barrier our cost estimates arc wrong, and J. D. Ellis the second time might be required to leave iround. Cline and Stone filed g]] three.” within 1q minutes of each other wyke .‘^aid ho antiftHnatei a irnfflf* signal willbe i^tal morning, setting the ^ traffic’ signal willbe fSldallet stage for a run-off in the race King and Canslci. for school board nomination project cost will be paid' Three board of education candi , from the city’s $314,000 slure of dates were nominated by majori | the $300 mililon state bond issue, ty votes in the first primTry —' ^ auestion by Commissioner Mrs. Cline Borders. Hoyt Bailey vv. S. Biddix, Mr. Wyke said ind incumbent Robert Cabaniss. there Is no plan for Cansler Mrs. Barrier and Ellis did not street to become a link of NC '^ceive a majority in the first Highway 216, which now utilizes voting on May 4. Cline, who was piedmont avenue and Battle- ane of three incumbents vying j^round avenue through Kings ^.or renomination, was 20 votes, ^fountain. ’oehind Ellis in the first primary.} Mayor Moss said Cansler will While the board of education continue to be a "city street", i-unoff didn’t become apparent; to a question by Miss Marion jntil Monday, a second primary; patterson, Mr. Wyke said a 60- for three county commission | foot right-of-way permits a 44- >eats was assured Friday. i foot roadway curb-to-curb, plus Fourth-runner Fritz Morehcad j sidewalks where they exist a;id filed late Thursday afternoon and; a utility line median strip. He V T. D. (Doc‘ Turner and Robert Hubbard, who had run fifth and sixth in the first primary, fol lowed on Friday. The three will vie with incum bents Hugh Dover, Coleman Go forth and Spurgeon Hewitt in the June 1 runoff. No county commission candidate received the majority necessary for nomi nation via the first primary. Candidates William Orr and Roy Dedmon were eliminated from a possible run-off. Orr received 2.- 013 votes and Dedmon garnered 3.306. Official totals placed in cumbents Hugh Dover, with 4,- said virtually all right-of-way from King street to Waco road will bo acquired on the east side, that right-of-way will bt«r east from Waco to Walker street, and that it will be ten feet from center each side from King to Gold. Miss Leone Patterson said the citizens' group wanted the pro ject stopped at King and her sis ter Miss Marion Patterson de- clai'cd, “We would go along with 44 feet but not 60." It was suggested that the highway commission wanted a final decision not later than June 1. Mr. Wyke commented APPOINTED ^ Carolyn Grty Wilder, at top, ond Undo Lou ise Roberts hove been oppoint- ed home missionaries for sum mer work by the Home Mission Board of the Baptist Church. Heme Missions Woik For Two Curfew Players 16-Yeat Olds Can Play H /arents Agree The cit> commission amended! .ts ord.nance governing opera ! (ions of public billiard parlors | j Tuesday night, the amendments ! I 1» permitting youths 16-18 toi ficqucnl the establishments up to 10 p.m. On written parental' p(Tmission, and I 21 established a midnight cur few and 7 a.m. op- t ject and scheduling it before 1 i go out of office. 1 am of the 1 opinion that we could easily Geor;e H. Houser, general! work the problem out now, and hail man of the Kings Mountain' if ever there w^as a town or dtj iospital clevelopmcn,! fund, has that needed by-passing. King# umed t-vo men co-chairmen of Mountain is the one.” he initial gifts division. Comm. Garrison was appointed They arc James A. Harry and the commissiw by Governor Dan K. Moore for a four-year, term ending June 30, 1969. Comm. Garrison sent an i’ifor- mation copy of-4he- to Mayor John Henry Monh : nd, in a subsequent telephone ^^onr fersation, told the Mayc: he would hope the communit \ cooperate with the best thii : ' Pair To Work For $150,000 For Hospital IN WHO S WHO ^ Mory Helen Goforth, Kings Mountain stu dent at Appalachian State Uni versity in ^one, has been elect ed to membership in "Who's Who’ . Miss Goforth, a rising senior, has been also elected secretary of the Student Gov ernment Association. Miss Goforth In Who's Who Miss Mary Helen Goforth, dau- Barbour • Cooper and Associates Inc., of Asheville, for preparation ghtcr of Mr. and .Mrs. Charles of an application for an Urban E. Goforth of route 1 and a ris- Hcautifioation grant from Ihcjing senior at Appalachian Stale Department of Housing & Urban • University, has been elected to Two Kings Mountain students: Development. The fee is $1500. membersiup in “Who’s Who have received appointments by Mayor John Henry Moss re- Among Students In American the Home Mission Board of the ported that work is underway on Colleges and Universities.” •. . • \Annc« t Artiye Rro- fice Baptist Church to do some mis-, the 1968-69 budget. “We are on The Kings Mountain student .nH the sion work this summer. ! schedule per the state’s General was also recently elected hy a The appointees are Carolyn Statutes," he eommenlod. campus-wide vote lo .serve as see- Covtiniud On Page 8 ' fContmucfl on Pngr Sf fContinued on Pogr 8) Jhailes A. Neisler who will help alvsc a minimum of $150,GOO Jto- war.l tlH> construction of a new wing for Kings Mountain Hos pital. Harry is pUnt manager of Minette M ils, Giover, and Neis ler is vivo president of Dicey Mills. Shelby. "I am exiromnly pleased that;of professional engineers. James Harry and Charles Neisler! Two public hearings have ‘:een j iTivE'actrjpied the respon.sibilities! held on the projected !*”7 -nil- jfjf this important division," said lion 7.3 mile by-pass which ! . 3‘R Houser. “Theh’ time and energy take-off point from presen iJfS Adi tie an as.sid to ilie develop- 74 near the present east under- ment fund and the results will pass, proceeds northwest to Nor® bene.it everyone in the Kings Piedmont avenue then l)em .Mountain area." southw'est to cross present US f4 ! The new wing, costing a total east of Bethware school, travedt> , of $850,OOn, will increase the hos- i pital's bid capacity hy 40 per- 1 cent. Also included w'ill be a new ! surgical suite, lobby area, and (pharmacy. Space in the present 1 bu.hiing wil be remwleled for an- I other .\-i*ay room, a laboratory, ! and expanded emergency treat- I ment facilities. I Harry is active in a number of ! activities. He is on the board of ! trustees for Kings Mountain Hos pital, president-elect of the Gro- ; ver Lion’s club, and holds mem- i berships in the Shelby Elks cs west south of Bethware sdiobl to Intersect with present US J4 near Buffalo Creek. Complete interchanges ore mapped at Cleveland aveniie near East school, and at Pi49* mont avenue and Linwood ro^, and a near-complete interchen|;e is planned at Waco road east tkf Nebo creek. y' The first was held near end of the admlnlstratio tiif Comm. J. Clint Newton, o' "h®. by. The second was held shrrQy after Comm. Garrison took of* 1 672 votes, Coleman Goforth with 1,230 votes, and Spurgeon Hewitt | that June 1 is “no magic date' with 4JD31 in the top three places but that final decision "is need- for commis.sion seats. Morehead ed as quickly as possible in order fell behind Hewitt by five votes to be/in acquiring right-of-way.” States with her parents when she; with a total of 4,026, J. D. Turn-| Charles B. Campbell asked the was five years old. | er with 3^90 and Robert Hub-j Mayor if decision would bo made Parker Is the son of Mr. and bard with 3,.586. ; “tonight” or whether the board Mrs. John C. Parker. He plans to; (Continued on Page 8> ‘ Continued On Page 8 attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring In Chemistry, with the aim of doing graduate work in Research _ . n, ^ ... i To West King Mountain Comnuttee Five Negroes Elected Saturday vor Masonic Lodge, and the Cleveland Springs Country club, j lie is a graduate of Clemson Uni versity and a deacon in the, I ShMoh Presbyterian church. I Harry and his wife, Sylvia.' j live on Spruce streo* in Grover. I I (Continued on Page S) I Mcm RscEtm Parking meter receipts for the* week ending Wednesday total*'* ^ $256.20, with ma from on-£ street meters. 99R from Hnes^ and $25.20 from off-street me^ tors. Sil Fianklin Waie Is Named Chainar"