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Population
Greater Kings Mountain 2I,9M
City Limits 8,256
Th« Gr«at*r Xings Meuntedv figure U derived limn the
•pecicu United States lureou el the Census report e
January 1966, and Includes the 14,990 population o
number 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 Iron
Number S Township, In Cleveland County and Crowder*
Mountain Township la Gaston County.
Kings Mountain's Roliobie Newspaper
Pages
Today
VOL 80 No. 45
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 7, 1968
Seventy-Eighth Year
PWCETEN CENIJ
Nixon Elected President; Scott, Taylor, Broyhill Win
County,Township Are’Wrong’
OnPresidency,Representative
Ware Reports
Fewer Claims For
Unemployment
“Job opportunities and place
ment servwe provided by the lo-
^ office of the Employment Se-
^^ty Commission exceeded the
^mates predicted. There has
bt^en a gradual trend of more
persons plai-ed on jobs and few
er claims for unemployment in-
sumnee since February,” stated
Franklin L. Ware, the local Man
ager.
Due to the expanding economy
in Cleveland County, the local
office received 3()f job opcmin'^s
during October and was able to
till 212 during this period. These
were placed in clerical, sales,
fonstructiqn, manufacturing, and
service jobs. This is 99^> more
placed than the same peritKl a'
year ago. Claims filed for unem
ployment benefits decreased nO'A
over last year which gives a
ratio Of of tlie 19,037 work-;
ers covered by the program.
A total of 233 persons register
ed for work during the month. 1
Those were housewives returning!
to the labor market, recently dis-;
charged Veterans, and some
young inexperienced workers.
Forth one proficiency and apti
tude tests were administered and
16 were provided employment
counseling during the month.
There aie many openings in the
Shelby-Kings Mountain area forj
both experienced ^nd inexp(M’ienc-|
v:\ workers who can get to thej
jobs. These are a variety of te.x-,
tile jobs, craftsmen for assem
bly unskilled c-onstruction, and
oretarial work.
J. Lee Roberts, magistrate and
justice of the peace, has been ap- for the privilege of voting
pointed one of five magistratt** Nixon,” Mr. Smith declared.
Board of Health
Approves Plans
HUD Approval
01 Buffalo Creek
Plans Awaited ,
i The North Carolina State Board]
! of Health has approval Kings |
j Mountain’s plans and specifica-l
I fions for the Buffalo Crt'ek water
J project. 1
! J. M. Jurrett, director Of the;
sanitation engineering division,’
I wrote Mayor John Henry Moss
] that the plans had boon reviewed
. and “are hereby approved.” i
{
The plans are still being review-
I ed by Atlanta n\ionaI officials
of the Department of Housing,
and Urban Development. |
Mayor Moss said he had lioped
to rm’ive HUD approval Wed
nesday but had been informed
the Atlanta agency had not yet^
completed Its study. |
The board of health and HUD
must approve the plans before
bids ran bo invited. • |
“We still hope to recedve bids]
by Novemlxo’ 20," Mayor Moss
T,. J ir r. • , said Wednesday.
Edw^ard H. Smith, of Kings, ;
Mountain, is one of North Caro-] Before tx)ntracts arc let, two. i
Una’s 13 presidential electore, other agencies, including the;
who will cast the iQth di^det’s army corps of engineers, must']
vote tor Richard M.^Nlxon.'^' approve (he plans and speclfica-
, . tions.
Ml- Smith says the Ijw speei- hoani of health assiRm-d
fies that eleefors be paid $10 Kings Mountain piojoel Ser-
plus travel expenses to Raleigh, Number 67S.
“I’d be happy to pay the state;
for
ROBERT W. SCOTT
Governor>Elect
ELECTOR ^ Edward H. Smith
is one of the 13 North Carolina
presidential electors, who will
vote in December for Richard
M Nixon.
Ed H. Smith
Nixon Elector
K. PAT TAYLOR
Lieutenont-Govemor-Elect
in Cleveland County for a two-
year term befginning Dec. 2.
Senior Resident Judge P. C.
Froneberger of Gastonia made
the appointment this wc*ek on
rec’ommendation of Paul Wilson,
clerk of Cleveland Superior
Court.
Under the n.ew Court Reform
system and district judgeship
which beeoares effective Dec. 2
five magistrates will serve the
county. Mr. Roberts’ salary has
lK*tm set at $5,520 annually.
North Carolina’s 13 electoral,
votes went to the Republican'
candidate for the first time in -lO
years.
Mr. Smith was also pleased, he
said, at the election of U. S. Rep
resentative James Broyhill
Warlick Elected
To N. C. House
Mrs. Tim Craig
Here Thursday
Mrs. Tim Craig of Charlotte,
Bethware Box
For Wallace
And Broyhill
Number 4 Township voters,
like their neighbois in Cleveland
County, went to the polls in rec
ord numbers Tuesday and simil
arly supportetl two principal los
ing cfindidates --George Wallace
'for president and Basil L. White-
ner lor the U. S. House of Rep
resentatives.
Bethwan* voters supported two
losers, presidential candidate
Wallace, an<f governor candidate |
James Gardner. It gave a 26-vote'
margin to U. S. Representative
James T. Broyhill, the victor'
over Whitencr. Gardtier headed ‘
Scott at Belbware 42S to 291).
Kings Mountain’s two precincts
voted for winner Richard'M. Nix-i
on for president, but also went
down with Whitener. j
The totals for the four pro-1
cincts in the township for presi-l
dent were:
Wallace 16S.5. Nixon 1633. and
Hubert H. Humphrey 1135.
The townshij totals for U. S.
ix^presentative wore: Whitener
2514, Broyhill 1S42.
To\^Tiship totals for governor
were:
Scott 2420 and Gat’tlner 1941-
Bothware gave only small mar
gins to Democratic candidates at
the local level.
Registnii's reported a minimum
of queing to vote and no unto-
president of the North Carolina
Departm(?nt, American Legion]
Auxiliary, will bo guest speaker
at Thursday night’s meeting of
the American Legion Auxiliary
of Post 155, g n';
Mrs. J. E. Mauney will be host
ess to members at 7:30 p.m. at
her home* on Church street.
Hunter Warlick, former Kings Members will also discuss plan^,.
Mountain citizen, now Hickory to go to Shelby Sunday to attend
attorney, was elected Tuesday to the annual Gold Star Mothers)
the North Carolina House of Rep- dinner to be co-six)nsore<l by thC:
res<Tntatives from the lOth Dis-j Kings Mountain and Shelby Aux-
from three tt’lct. ! iliary units. ; #| v ■ v
p,-,.sont Rites Conducted
J-
Choirs To Give
Nov. 27 Program
Combined choirs
local churches will
rial music for Kings Mountain’s; two house members deeded from, of the local auxiliary,
JAMES T. BROYHILL
U. S. Representotive-Elect
Miss RudasilFs
RICHARD MILHAUS NIXON
United Stotes Piesident Elect
L ^ -JT
Don Henderson, 30
ward incidents in the township. > w HW T 1 IR 9
Mayor To Coniei is WreCk VlCtim
With Ratliii Man'.
Mayor John Henr>' Moss said DvlUlVlll IVIClll S
Wednesday he hopes to conferJ«m* fP "J
soon with a Southern Hailway! l:f|||||lf|A|| \A|(|
official concin-ning improving]
salfety arrangements at grade
crossings in the city and addition 1
of 70 parking spaces on railway]
Satisiactoiy
right-of-w’ay on Battleground avc-
i>ue.
'T feel expenditures the cit
might make to enhance the
crossing saJety situation can tie
A city poli('eman, Ptl. Donald,j
Henderson, 30, was killed and]
dty two Belmont residents were in ]
rail juied in an automobile accident
following a high speed chase]
community . wide Thanksgiving, Catawba County,
service November 27th at 7:301 Warlick is a partner in the
at Central school* aiulitor- law firm of Hoovy and Warlick
and is the son of Mrs. Charles E.
"oiinald Deal, high school band Warlick. of Kings Mountain, and
director, will direjt choirs from ^1"'^ late Mr. Warlick. He is a
• rst Presbyterian, First Baptist grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. H.
d Resurrection Lutheran chur- Patterson.
p.m.
ium.
CITY BOARD MEETING
Regular meeting of the city
board of commissioners wilj be
held Tuesday at City Hall at
6:30 p.m. Mayor John Henfy
Moss described the agenda as
njfutine.
ches in the pre.sentation. Mrs. J.
C. Bridges will be organist and
Lowery Milstead will be soloist.
The community is invited to
participate in the service, said
Rev. Charles Easley, pastor of
the Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association. Mr. F:asley said the
Ministerial Association plans
sponsor the seiwice annually.
Who Will Be Yeai's Top Teeneis?
Optimist Club Invites Nominees
Tuikey Shoot
Set Saturday
Who will be Kings Mountain’ -
to Top Teenagers for 196S?
Nominations for the coveted
honor are now being received byj
members of the Kings Mountain,
Optimist club wHo will honor the’
top teens durin;j Youth Apprecia
tion Week beginning Monday and^
continuing through November;
17th.
A “turkey shoot” for fire-fight
ing equipment for Bethlehem
Volunteer F'ire Department bene- All correspondence should 'be
fit will be held .Saturday begin- addressed to R. W. Hurtbut, West
ning at noon and continuing un- flold street, Kings Mountain,
til dark, Ralph Arrowood has
This year’s recipients will re-
ceive handsome trophies plus |
saving certificates. Runners - up
will receive gift certificates and;
all participants will r(*c<'ive cer
tificates. '
Local Optimists honor each'
1 year a teenager who is voted out-; j
announced.
Mr. Arrowood said the “shoot”
will be held ;it the department in
the Bethlehem community.
England Had Role
In "Hang 'Em High'"
Hal England, Kings Mountain'Standing by his and her fellow;’
native, had a role in ‘'Hang’Em ^-itizons.
High”, the motion picture which!
('f^nujlcted its run at the Joy
Thealre iici<* on Wednesday.
Mr. England played the role of
a cattle owner who was victim-
Uzed by rustlers.
B .Mr. England’s friend. Ken Pru-
of Kings Mountain postoffice
staff, descril>efi the movie aS'
“pretty gruesome". “They really i
hanged them.” Mr. Pruitt re-|
marked.
Leading I’oks featurcsi Clint
{;astwood and Ingeri Stevens. |
VFW Poppy Day
Set Saturday
Girl .Seouti wil| vend poppies
Saturday for benefit of vet
erans of foreign wars.
The project is sponsored by
Frank B. Glass Post 9S11.
Girl Scouts will sell the pop
pies on dow'ntown .stri'cts be-
ginnin^r at 9.
NEW EAGLE—Ccnrl Mauney* 11*
son of Mr. ond Mrs. Herman
Mauney of Albuquerque* New
Mexico, hos joined the ranks of
Eagle Scouts. He received Scout-
ing^e highest award in recent
ceremonies of Troop 182. A Cub
and Scout for six and one-half
years* he is a freshman ot Modi-
son Junior high school ond is a
senior patrol leader in his troop.
His Kings Mountoin grandpar
ents* Mr. and Mrs. Ccrrl F. Maii-
n€*y* went to Albuquerque for the
ceremonies#
Funeral ritos for Miss Annie
Bright Rudasill, 74, were held
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30
from St. Matthew’s Lutheran
ehureh of whi(*h she was a mem
ber.
Her pastor, Rev. Charles Eas
ley, officiated at the final rites
and inttM-mont was in Mountain
Rost cemetery.
Miss Rudasill died Tuesday
morning at 9 o’clock in the Kings
Mountain hospital after .several
month’s illness.
A native rtf Gaston County, she
was daughter of the late Poley
Carp and K.atherine Lavinia Ru
dasill. A graduate nurse, she was
employetl by Rex Mill in Gas-!
tonla.
She is survived by her sister,
Mrs. S. A. Crouse.
Dr. Earl Ruth
Wins For House
Dr. Earl Ruth, of Salisbury, is
the newly elected Uniltxl states
Representative from North Caro
lina’s eighth district.
The former Kings Mountain
citben is a nephew of Hilton L.
Ruth, retired manager of Belk’s
I Department Store.
1 Eari Ruth was Kings Moun-
i tain’s first recreation director
' coming here in January 1946.
' Currently dean of students at
i Catawba College, J>r. Ruth de-
! feated State Senator Voit Qil-
in with our urban renewal pro- Satunlay afternoon at 2:35. |
gram,” Ma^>r Moss noted. | Funeral rites for Hender.son]
Engipeering plans for addition-' were held Monday at 4 p.m. from;!
al parking, if approved by the i pajtcrson Grove Baptist church
rialway, would provide ten park-] of which be was a member. Rev.!
ing spaci's a!on:,4 the railroad a-1 Richard Plylcr, assisted by Rev.]
tn.iif cn.-w. j^^cs Williams, officiated,
\
cross from Gamble’s 'Gulf serv
ice, and 60 spaces from Gold
street south.
The Mayor said he is seeking
appointment w'ith E. K. RatlifL
of Greenville, S. C., Piedmont di
vision superintendent.
and' I
Matheny Named
Student Editor
Gerald W. Matheny, son of Mr
James A. Matheny of Kings
Mountain, a student at Western
Carolina University was recently
elected editor of “Nomad”, the
student literary ma/gazine.
Matheny, a senior. Is majoring
in English and professional writ
ing. He is a member of English
Seminar and is feature editor of
the “Western Carolinian", the
campus newspaper.
EVANGELIST — Rev. Harold S.
Mace will be evangelist for
special services beginning Sun
day at Boyce Memorial ARP
church*
interment was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Henderson, who joined the city
police force two years ago, was
buried in uniform. City policemen
were paUbearers and wives of
policemen were flowx»r bearers.
Ptl. Henderson was killed in
stantly when his patrol car over
turned and traveled down an em-j
bankment.
Kings Mountain police chief;
Tom McDevitt said Henderson
was chasing another vehicle on: AQO
Grover road about three-fourths nntT mCaVICCS
of a mile south of town when the' ,
accident occurred. ' Rev. Haiold S. Mace, director:
He quoted witnesses as saying of the Associate Rcformtxi Pres-
that Henderson lost control of byterian Conference Grounds at
his patrol car while attempting! Flat Rock, will b<* evangelist for
to avert a collision with the car special services b<*ginning Sun
Margins Given
To Whitener .
And Wallace
By MARTIN HARMON
I Cleveland County supported
I two major losers in Tuesday's
general election.
The l ounty .gave a plurality to
I George Wallace for president and
: gave a majority to U. S. Repre-
' sentative Basil L. Whitener.
Wallace placed second in North
Carolina and third in the nation
to the Republican’s Richard M.
] Nixon and the Democrats’ Hubert
H. Humr-hrey.
U. S. Representative James T.
Broyhill defeated Whitener by
14,156 in file eight c-ounty tenth
distiict, as Broyhill earned six
of the eight tKiunties. Whitener
got majorities only in his home
county of Gaston and Cleveland.
'Fhe Cleveland tally was 13,028
for Wliitcnor and 8979 for Broy
hill. District-wide it was Broyhill
86,645 and Whitener 71,889.
The Cleveland County vote for
president was Wallace 9641, Nix
on 7283 and Humphrey .5648.
Otherwise, Cleveland voters sup.
wirtnera; BtflOFflfcott'for gov.
ernor by 2,834 over Jini Gardner
at 9451. Margins of better than
four to three went to Pat Taylor
for lieutenant - goxernor, Thad
j Eure for secretary o(f state, Hen-
j ry L. Bridges for auditor. Edwin
Gill for state treasurer, Craig
i Phillips for superintendent of
’public instruction, Robert H.
I Morgan for attorney . general,
James Graham for commissioner
of agriculture, Frank Crane for
labor commis^oner and Edwin S.
Lenier for commissioner of in
surance.
Among the best margins Cleve-
lanti was ri^coided by U. S.
Senator Sam Ervin vyho defeated
Robert Somers by 13,^ to 6419.
Oppos’d Democrat candidati's
for the stale house of ix’present-
atives kot margins i*ven bpttin*.
Robert 2. FalK incumbcMit, w-as
lavoi-cd by 14,445 to 5.585 for Ho
bart (iroen, and R. A. (Boh)
Jones, of RutheHord, was favoj*-
ed 13,3oG t<» 5414 over Theodore
R. Hunt. Rf»p. w. K. Mauney,
Jf., un(»pposo<l, was given 14,2.56
votes in Cleveland, Democratic
Senators Jack H. White and
Marshall Kauoli were sup{»orle<l
resjavtively by 1.5,87! and 15,181
Clevelanders.
Democrats J. D.-(Doc) Turner,
Frit/. Morehead, Jr., and Robiu’t
P. Hubbard won easily the thrw*
seats On the county commission
ov(*r Paul Vo"'?l, the lone GOP
candklafc. There ware 279 write-
Mace To Lead
be was chasing when it struck an
oncoming stationwagon.
Continued On Page Sux'
Ralph Waie Resigns As Meter Man.
Rack At Same Place He Was in '27
day at
church.
Boyce Memorial
I in votes for retiring Chairman
I Hugh Dover, defeated last June
: in the primary, 26 for Coleman
Goforth, also'defoated last spring,
I and 22 for Spuiigeon Hewitt, also
I defeated last spring. Lone write-
' ins wCre rocorded for John Craw-
; ley, David Beam. Hari-y Wood-
son, and Joe Goforth, brother olf
Coleman Goforth.
Five Democrats w'on easily for
the county boaixl of (>ducation, in
cluding Robert F. (Bob) Cabin-
^^piess, the lone incumbtmt, and Hoyt
'Q. Bailey, Mrs. .Mary Lou Bar-
.Mr. Mace will fill the pulpit ^,^*^*** B. Borders, and
the 11 o’clock morning worship
By MARTIN HARMON
The policeman with “eyes in
the back of his head” is no long
er Kings Mountain’s officer as-
si-gniHl to duty as parking meter
officer.
Ralph Gidney (Babe) Ware has
resigned and relumed Momtoy to
tlie same spot he was working
.some 41 years ago.
Mr. Ware has joined Kings
imorc, Democrat of Southern! Mountain Drug Company.
: Pines by approximately 3,000| Forty-ont' years ago he was
votes, aei-ording to tabulations in working for the predecessor es-
Robert W. Stone. Defeated were
hour and al services that evening! and
and each evening through nov-!*
cmhor 14Ih at 7:30 p.m. ^L-mocials vv<m district
Born in Lincoln County in 1921,; three-county
he attended Lincoln Countyj Continued On Page fiix
schools, Burton Institute at I
Charlotte and graduated from,
Mr.‘Columbia Seminary in Di^catiur.i lllAAQf|lAlM| A
Here Monday
ticket for over-parking ”.
Like bas<*ball umpires,
Ware had a reputation for call-1 Ga.
ing'em as he saw them. He issu-; Mr. Mace was employed byP
ed over-parking tickets witliout, Bethlehem Steel prior to enter-
fear or favor. | ing the U. S. Marino Corps in
uMr. Ware began wal kin'.; at 1941 where he served three and The Red Cross bloodmobUe will
Finger Drug Company, then lo-'ono half year.s. Upon being dis-'return to Kings Mountain Mon-
cated where Central Harb(*r Shop'charged from the military he day for a one-day collection,
now is, when a jouth of 13 dur- was employed by Rulane Gas Donors will be processed from
ing th(‘ iiifluen/a (-pldemle of Company, Charlotte, North Caro- n a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the
1918. Il<' recalls he* 'ound it nee-jlina for a perio<l of one year. Pri- National Guard Armory,
essary to stand on a hox to hitch or to entering Columbia Semi- Goal of the collection l*
up Dolly, the Finger
mare, to a nary he was employed by South-: pints of blood.
M^ednesday’s Saliabury Post. tablishmont Frank R. Summers! buggy which was tlie method of cm Dairies. C'harlotto, North’ Larry Hamrick, blood program
Dr. Ruth told the Herald heiDrug Company. delivery in those days. “Mr. Fin- Carolina in the Frozen F'ood sales chairman in Kings Mountain,
carried the three most populous! 'The statenrwmt that Mr. Ware ger had a car," .Mr. War<» re- and merchandising Division. 'said the area's goal
.counties in the distiict, Rowan, had eyes in the back of his head calls, “hut many of the streets Mr. Mace ha^t served pastorates 1$ l^ooo pints of blood, At the
; Stanly, and Cabharus. while the came from many motorists who weren't passable in a ear wlit'ii in Atlanta, Ga., York. S. C.. Co-jeent vlail of the regional
j other .seven gave majorities to; said, “I hadn’t been gone (»ver a the weather was bH<I.” ilumbia, S. C., and Greenwood, S. a tola! of 12H persons ga
iGUmorc. / I minute when 1 saw him writing a. Continacd On Puf/c CoMfittued On Pope Six