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MMmSH I Population Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,256 Th» OrtcMsr King* Meuatcrtn ftgur* to darlrtd ffom tha ftptctal United States Bureau of tho Coneut report o laauory 1366. oad loeludM tho 14.SM populotlen o Num^r 4 Townihtp. and tho tomainlag 6.184 Iron numbor 5 Township, In Cloeeland County Crowdof* Mouotoia Township la Gotten County. VOL 80. No. 31 Pages Today Established 1889 Kings Mountoin's Beliable Newspoper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August I, 1968 Sevenly-Lionth Year School Board To Charlottesville For PRICE TEN CfcNi' Confab Crattspun Raises Wages; Pay Hjike $165,000 PROMOTED — Donald E. Glad den has been promoted by Bow man Transportation Company to the position of manager of the Bowman Terminol at Titus* ville. Fla. Donald Gladden Wins Promotion Donald K. Gladden, Kings Mountain native, has been pro moted to tho position of terminal manager of Bowman Transporta- I ^tion Company in Titusville, Fla. f«nd assumed rM*w t '^^veek. Mrs. Gladden, the former Maude Owens, and their children, Av-a, age five, and Donna, age five montlis, will bo moving; to Titus- ly nually was announced by Walter W. Hladky, General Manager of Craftspun Yarns Company. The increase was effective as of July 29, and was granted to all production and serv ice per sonnel. This is the sixth increase an nounced by Craftspun since Aug ust of 1963 and is in keeping with the precident established by the Textile Industry cf granting a wage increase annually. The latest wage increase re flects the confidence that the owners and management of Craftspun have in their employ ees and in the community of Kings Mountain, said Mr. Hladky. Craftspun Yarns Company is a division of the B. V. D. Company whose main offices are located in the Empire State Building, New York City. dations are available. Mrs. Glad den is daughter of Mi‘. and Mrs. Fred .M. Owens. Mr. Gladden is son of Mrs. Ruby Gladden, all of Kings Mountain. Mr. Gladden joined Bowman Transportation in Charlotie nine years ago, was subsequently pro-i moted to assistant manager of. Bowman Terminal in Greenville.’ S. C. He is a 1959 graduate of Kings Mountain high school. , Falls Named Wallace Elector C. B. Falls, Jr., Kings Mountain native and Gastonia real estate attorney, was named one of the newly formed Independent Par ty’s presidential electors during its first slate convention in Ral eigh Saturday. The party, represented by 300 delegates, did exactly what was 1 PASTOR — Rev. Russell Fitts of Lawndale will deliver his first sermon as pastor of Beth lehem Baptist church on Sun day morning at the 11 o'clock worship hour. Bethlehem Calls Russell Fitts As New Pastor expected Saturday. It endorsed ■ Bethlehem Baptist church has George Wallace as its candidate ’ Russell Fitts to ho- ttr president. Wallace was Uw rinwh only name before the independ-, August 4. . ent Party delegates. The former' served the Double Alabama gov'ernor sent to Ral- Shoals Baptist church, of Lawn- eigh a recorded acceptance speech past eight , . in which he nredicted virtorv in vears. Before that he was pastor ville as soon as housing accomo- CarolinLnd in the naUon ^aplina and in Vir- in the November election. ginia. Falls is a graduate of the Duke ^ native of Siler City, N. (... University Law School and has received his education at practiced law in Gastonia and Kings Mountain since 1931. Blalock Wins^ NSF Study Grant Mars Hill college, Furman Uni versity and Southern Baptist Seminary. He is a veteran of World War II having served with the 82 Airborne Division in Eu rope. During the time of his service at Double Shoals, the churih T u , . . I constructed an educational-rec- , John Lewis Blalock Of 403 Bel4 ^3,buildins and built a vedere Circle IS among 29 teach-i pastorium. A recreational CIS from six states enrolled in a: program was, started with a new I .six-weel« National Science Koun- figbted softball field. He lias School Bells Ring Again Auoust 27 School bells will ring tor Kings dation Geology Institute at East ^'J.^‘pjj“as'’"presi'dpnrof the King- Mountain di-strict pupils on Aug-. Carolina University. i fountain Association Banti.st ust 27th. i" its eighth year, the. pa^tor-s’ Conference. First day of school for teachers -n.SP institute w-gan July lo and Fitts is the former Mary will be on August 26th. : will continue through August 23|camp of Rutherfordton, N. C. Most school pupils have been j under -a NSF grant of $42,560 There are two sons in the family enjoying a respite from books for operating expenses. .since Juno 1. Some .students are The institute includes four enrolled in summer school at the weeks of intensive training in high school. ! geologial principles in lectures The systemV Title 1 program and laboratory'sessions. The fifth for tho summer ended Friday. week will ho spent on a field ti’ip| — thr ough North Carolina’s Pled-1 mont and Mountain areas and ;the fifth week will include a' Funeral rites for John Wvftt fieldtrip through tho Coastal Blalock, 67, wore held Monday Alexander Tomato Weighs Two Pounds ages six and twelve. Blalock Bites Held Monday Dwight Alexander. 1160 West- Plains. Di\ C. Q. Brown, chair-j 4 p ^er Drive, picked a two pound man of the ECU Gcolcugy Depart-: (.hurch homo garden menl, .said the purpose of tho Five-Member Delegation To Conference A five-member delegation of school officials headed by Supt. j Donald Jones will confer vvithj HF^W officials in Charlottesville,' Va.'Thursday to request a delay until the 1968-69 school year in desegregating all-Negro Compact I Elementary school. The appointment was confirm ed jesterday by Dr Eloise Sev- erinson, regional civil rights cli- rccto.*. Supt. Jones said he and Board of Education Chairman George H. Mauney and three other mem bers, Mrs. Lena W. McGill, Alex Owens and James Herndon will fly to Charlotle.sville Thursday. They are expc\ned to arrive there at 10:40 a.m. The beard of eduealion, caught In the middle between HKW’s di rective to desegregate Compact schfol this fall and adverse pub lic reaction if it does, decided to seek the appointmonl with HEW officials Friday night following a two-hour special session. A dele gation of white Park Gra('e par ents attended tire meeting and Gillie Falls, Jr., their spokesman, said, "We don’t want to see our ehildren reassigned until this thing is settled. If Park Grace is paii‘(?d willi Compact, w(* want to see all the Park Grace students treated the same way. If some in certain grades are asj^igned to Compact from Park Grace, when we want all students in the.se grades at Park Grace a.ssigned to Compact. We don’t want them split up..” Since Friday, the superintend- ’ ent has had a visit with Ed Cu- i eper, representative of HEW anrl ney general Andrew Vanoe fol lowing a discussion of the matter with the .school's attorney Jack H. White. "He (Vanoe) wa.s. not enccuraging ”, said White, in his report to the board. ‘Tn view of the recent Supreme Court ruLng on free-choice plans, he feels it is inevitable that Compact even tually will have to be integrated." The education board agm*d Friday night it could not follow (ho HEW recommendation in pairing Park Grace and Compacl 1 schools. "There is a matter of I principle involved", .said Jones. I "The ^ parents who chose Park ! Grace* for their children did so I (Continued On Pa^o Eiglit) Band Rehearsals Stort August 12 I Pre-school b^nd rehearsals will get undel vay August 12th, announc’os High School Band Director Donald Deal. Mr. Deal said the rehearsals will begin two weeks prior to the opening of the fall term of school and will lx* hold Mon day through Friday from 6 un til S p.m. at the high school band room. The new band director urged all band students to attend the notify their fel HUD $1,118,380 Signing rads Today iiismecoming Set »li:;nday Morning It Bethlehem Dcliilehem Baptist church wilj celcbiatc on Sunday its, 126th birthday. Homecoming Day will be held at the church near Kings Moun tain, and Rev. Russell Fitts will delivci his first sermon as pastor of tho church at the 11 o’clock morning worship hour. j Rev. Mr. Fitts c'ome to the lo-[ cal coiigie.gati.on from Lawndale.- Picnic lunch will be spread at the noon hour. , "We invite all members, former; members and friends to Home- corning services," said Bill Mc Daniel, a church spokesman. Firemen Plan Aug. 10 Benefit Oak Grove Volunteer Fire De- 1 partment will spon.sor a Woman- less Wedding Saturday, August lOth. at 8 p.m. at Bethware school, | and tickets are now on sale. 1 Fire Chief W. E. (Kirk) Kuy-! used to equip the departmer.t. I W. H, Lovelace and his Oak i Grove Ramblers will furnish mu-' sic for th(* program. Members of the wedding party will include: Newell Thornburg,' the bride; Dub Dellinger, the* groom; John O. Patterson, the minister; Curtis Bell, tho best; man; David Chapman, the neigh bor; Johnny McKinney, the bride’s; mother; Clarence Earl, the bride’s! grandmother; Robert Wright, the groom’s mother; Howard Ham- j ;ick, the groom’s grandmother;! Erskino Ware, the bride’s aunt; Carl Davis, the groom’s aunt;; Ken Mayes, the baby; Charles Gofortii, the nurse; Paul Bell, the rejected lover; Sam Dudley and j C. B. Clary, the old maids; Dwan | Thornburg, soloist; Stokes Wiipht,. Sam Dudley. Jr., W. E. KuykiYi'l dall, Gene Edmondson and Elllt Carrigan, the bridesmaids; Bill Philbeck, Natlian Blanton, May- j nard Philbeck and Jerry Edmond son as the ushers; Herman Wright, the maid of honor; Luther MeSwain and Ray Causby. the flower girls; and James Ware, the ringbearer. BAPTIST PASTOR AT CLINIC — Rev. James Wilder, seated at desk. coun.sels a patient while ottending pastoral care clinics at John Umstead Hospital at Butner. Baptist Minister At Pastoral Clinic Major Projects Are Included in These Grants Formal signing of the city for federal grants in the amount of $1,118,380 will be executed Thurs day morning i Top officials in charge of ur ban renewal of the Atlanta re gion, Department of Housing and I Urban Development, will be in I Kings Mountain today. I They are John D. Edmunds, I Region III director of urban re- I ncwal, and James R. Pattefson, I area coordinator for urban re newal in the two Carolinas. Mayor John Henry Moss and the city’s consulting engineer. Col. W. K. Dickson of Charlotte, will sign the contracts on behalf of the city. Ledford Austin, city planner, and officials of the De partment of Conservation and Development will also be on hand lor the contract signing, as will MalthoA^ Davis of the division of community planning. Conti acts will be executed for liree major programs: li The $302,(>80 neighborhood facility. 2) $150,000 for the Buffalo ■•^eek Water Project. 3) $365,700 for the sewer sys- cm project. ^over tomato from his yesterday. The tomato, German variety Is reddish-pink. frT)m Bethlehem BaptI of which he was a mel IN FLORIDA Wayne William Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Turner of route I, Grover, has enrolled fer the drafting wurse at Mas- Institute in Jack- How the church can bettor be come the touchstone of siabiliry for our age wliich has *ocen called a neurotic .society is a question which con<*erns Rev. James M. Wilder, pastor of Kings Mountain Baptist Church in Kings Moun tain. This coni'crn led Rev. Wilder to enroll in a six weeks coui^o in clinical pastoral care at John Umstead Hospital. Butner. N. C., which ended the past week. The course was designed to provide ministers with an opportunity to come to grips firsthand with many of tho problems which besot the (mentally ill. In the therapeutic hospital setting the ministers were able to gain clin ical experience in ministering to troubled individuals while serv ing in the capacity of chaplain. "The course also includcxl val uable training at the Alcoholic > Center and Murdoch Center which ; serves mentally retarded per-1 son.‘i," Wilder .said. Through .seminars, Uxiures, conferences and individual guid ance provided by tin* hospital staff members, the inini.^ieis l(»arned to recognize the .s>i!ip toips of emotional disliess and how to relate constructively to (Continu(*d On Page- Fight 1 Local News Bulletins METHODIST TOPICS Rev. D. B. Alderman will be gin a series of sermon topics Sunday on "Victory In Lite Here", continuing through tlie month of August. His topic Sun day at 11 a.m. will be, "Life Is Like The Changing Seasons, Spring and Summer", At the 7:30 hour he will use the topic-, "Why Doc'sn't God Do Something." instiluto is to improve the knowl-, Blal(x-k died at 11:1.5 a.i! edge of junior high and high Saturday in Kings Mountain hoi school earth science teacher. Homecoming Sunday For Antioch. Organized tn 1813 In Loghouse Ajitioch Baptist church, organ-1 ized in 1813 in a loghouse fur nished with a pulpit, table and j5(,ats—will celebrate its 155th birthday Sunday. Former members and friends of the church returning to Home coming at the church near Grover will sec a modern, hand.some plant with a renovated auditor ium. remodeled in 1961. and a modern educational unit which wa.s built in 1948. | The church library, began in 1854 with a gift of $25. is one of the oldest in the Southern Baprist Convention and this recognition was noted at the rc»<*ent state convention, said tho pa.slor, Rev.' Wayne Tuttle. ! Rev. Mr. Tuttle, pastor of the; church since August 1964. will de liver the .sermon at 11 o’clock morning worship hour. Picnic lunch will bo spread on the church grounds at 12:30 and a . song service will be held bogin- I ning at 2 p.m. ^ Antioch Baptist church was born in a revival meeting at Buf falo Baptist church, Shelby, in 1813. The Buffalo church, its’ (Continued On Page Eight/ SPEAKER—State Senator Mar shall Rauch of Gastonia will moke the address at next Thurs day’s (Augtut 8th) meeting of the Kings Mountain Rotory club ot 12:15 at the Country club. He will speak on tho subject, "Problems Facing the Next Leg- isloture.'* Rotorion Thomas L. Trott hos curroaged the program. pital after several month’s is ness. He was a retired saUNinif for Quality Sandwich Companl Son of the late Mr. and .Mil Lawson G. Blalock, Mr. BlaloJ was a former deacon and s:uf in the choir at Bethlehem Baptil church. He and his wile, Mrs. Zi*l ma Logan Blalock, resided at 4l| Maner road. He is survived by his wife; fivl brothers, Charles Blalock, Gcorgl Blalock, Herman Blalock, unl Frank Blalock, all of Kiii;;| Mountain, and James Blahick Gastonia; and four sisters, Md Fred Wright and Mrs. R. E. Kah| both of Kings Mountain, Mrs. B. White of Gastonia and Mi>| Guy Marshall of Bos.semer City. Rev. Clarence MeMahan, Rcvl W. G. Camp and Rev. James Fi Graham officiated at the finuf rites, and interment was ii| Mountain Rest cemetery. Active pallbearers were Earl Morris, Hal Morris, Homer Hail mon, Fred Herndon, W. H. Plu'iT gin and H. L. Wells. Deacons anr) former deacons and A. K. Walk or, Billy Greene, Ken Davis, Hon er Jones, Dr. J. C. McGill. Dr. F. Sincox, John L. McGill and ilunJ es Houston were honorary p.ilil bearers. ELECTED — William L. Ham rick has been elected assistant principal of the new John W. Neal Junior high school in Dur ham, iamrick Elected To School Post William L. Hamrick son of Mr. and -Mrs. Ben Hamrick of R-.iute 3, has been cl(*cled by the Dur- liam County Public Schools to ; serve as tlu* assistant principal of ' the new John W. Neal Junior High Sciioul in Durham for the ; coming .school .year. I This past year Mr. Harnriek I sc*ivi*d as a matliematics teacher i I at Southern high school in Dur ham. I He is a 19(’»3 graduate of thej 1 Kings Mountain high si-hool and; ' was graduated from North Caro lina Slate University in 1967. GOSPEL SING A Gospel Sing will be held at EasLside Baptist church Sat urday night beginning at 7:30 p.m. featuring Betty Pruitt and family, the Dyer Family and local talent. Clarence Lee of Blacksburg. S.,C.. who is mu.'^ic diroiTor at the church, will lead the service. Rev. Darrell Coble, pastor, said the interested com- niunity is invited to attend. ON DEAN'S LIST Paulette Patterson, daughter of Ml. and Mrs. Lloyd Patter son, was listexi on the dean’s list for the spring quarter and first summer se-sion at the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. PERMIT TO BUILD Mrs. M. C. Falls obtained a| building permit July 16t1i to addi one room to her residence all estimated cost of $500. 1155 will sponsor TV's "Wonderful entral school ouditorium next I earmarked for Oteen Veteran's arl V. Wiesener. The magician , the show. Uf Leaders Are Named Kings Mountain United F'und board of directors in a meeting' i€C(’ntly named leadens of var-! ions divisions of the campaign ‘ for 19(«. i i Milion Singletary will st*rve as’ chairman of tho correspondence; divi.Nion and Larry Hamrick will; servo as t hairrran of the commor- cial division. The industrial cate-' gory will be headed by Kyle! Smith and Joe Smith. Supt. Don ald Jones will serve as chairman I of the schools division and Mayor John II. Moss will be chairman of tho city’s phtiso of the drive. Hugh Lancaster will head up tho ad vance solicitation and pro fessional men will be contacted by Dr. Joe Lee. Chairman of pub licity is Joe Smith. METEP RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday total ed $207.60, including $130.80 from on-slrt'ot meters, $55.50 from overparking fines and $21.30 from on-street meters. City Clerk Joe McDaniel re ported. SERMON TOPIC Dr. Paul K. Ausloy will Use the: .sermon topic, "Unity Under God" at Sunday morning woi- ship services at 11 o’clock at F'ii.st Presbyterian church. DISTRICT GOVERNOR John Ed Davis, Jr. of the SheL by Lions club was installed as District Governor of Lions’ Dis trict 31-C in ceremonies F'riday night at Gardner-Webb college. Lol’hI Lions members attended tho dinner meeting. MITCHELL HONORED County commissioners, mem bers of tho county board of health and the staff of the Cleveland County health de partment honored Dr. Z. P. Mit chell. retiring director of the health department for 30 years, at a supper meeting F^-ldny night al Brackett's Cedar Parift