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Population
Greater Kings Mountam 2I,9M
City Limits (1966 Census) ■ 8,256
City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9300
The GrMtsr Slogs Mouotoio ligur* U dtnvsd Irem tli*
spacicU United Stolos Bureau ol the Census report o
t anuory 19t8. and includes the 14.990 population o
lumber 4 Township, and the temoining 6.124 (fon
Number 5 Township, In Cleveland County and Crowder'
MoUntodo Towoshln in Gaston County.
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Kings Mountain's Bniiobio Newspaper
Pages
Today
VOL 80 No. 52
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Monday, December 23, 1968
Seventy-Eignth Year
PRICE TEN CENT!
Kings Mountain Area Citizen Readying For Holiday
^ i Housing, Rail Traffic Safety
Meeting Scheduledby Mayor
Answers Sought
To Problems
Said Pressing
Mayor John Henry Moss has
scheduled late Dreembor meetings
of committees-of-the-wholp to at-|
tack problems of 1> rail traffic
safety and 2i a shorta^'o of hous-j
ing. (
The .Mayor has asked William
Ht'rndrtn, chalrnna of the rail
traffic safety group, which in
cludes Iho planning I>oard. urban,
rodovelopment commission, cham-,
her d.' cummcrco, merchants as
sociation and industrial commit
tee, to convene Monriay, Decern-,
bor 30, at 10:30 a.m. at City
JlaJJ.
The duty of this group is to
foimulate recommendations for, GRADUATE — Mrs. Mickie Lo-
improv<>ment of auto-|K‘dest!ian Houser has completed ro-
traffic safety at railroad ii?rade quirements for on A. B. degree
crossings, the recommendations i Lenoir Rhyne college in
having been, invited by the Pied-! nickor\'.
mont division superintendent of’
..tlv* So-uthern Railway. lUlwi
Being invited by the Mayor to D0I1S6X
oet l*he following morning '
;30 at City Hall are land de-jlll|||M
velopers, realtors, financing
firms, builders and suppliers to
determine w'ays and means to Mrs. Mickie Logan
Bucknell Man
Grant Named
Oxford Manager
Craftspun
Fire Cause
Undetermined
Cause oif the fire which dai^v
aged a cotton warehouse' at
Craftspun Yarns, Inc. Wednes
day night had not been determin-
; e<l yesterday, company spokes-
, man said.
Officials have determined the
i fire did originate in the baek side
jCf the wai'ehouse located behind
Craftspun's main manufacturing
. fcU'ilit...
Holiday Season
Christmas Eve Rites Climax0“*iway
' 1 IX • n • Now For Many
Annual Religious Services
Home Chaiged
In Slaying
AtTrock-Stop
/
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Gerhard Ten Brink, superin-j Kenneth Ray Home, 21-ycar-
Tho appomtme it of Arnold i tendent, declined to estimate Qj^ver textile emplo>'ee, was
Grant as Plant Manager of Re-; damages. Previously a company Charged with murder Friday in
iiabl(‘ Mills, Gastonia, ^oith Car-i ha'.l been Quoted ®^jthe shotgun slaying of one man
olina, has been announced by saying the warehouse housed j the wounding*of another at
Julian Lerner, Manager of the seme 2000 bales of cotton andjiLoad King 1-85 Truck Plaza near
Knit Wear Division of Oxford In- was also c.sed for yarn storage, j about two miles
iustrics. Ho said there was fire damage south orf Grover.
Grant will become manager of; to cotton, and smoke and water
the new knitting plant now un-idamr. e to the building, but no
ier construction in Kings Moun-j structural damage,
tain, North Carolina wjicn that!
plant is completed. One of the* Fi**c was discovered around
largest integrated knitting
ations in the country,
uU'd to bo op,'nod in M.i v, 1969. tain firomon answerod tho call! j, shotgun in tho stom-
gree from Bucknell University, ihe warenouse is a two-, ^ .
Christmas
Communion
Drop-In At ARP
Cir.n.n .«‘. vi*Ts will climax an-
iiwl yiik' 1,‘l.gious ritc.s. ^
.A! Jcjsl Iciir Kini;.-; Mountain
!.■ U‘h{-.s pi.in C)i...smuis Kve'
. ei\i.‘<'<. Iv. <) ;U 11 i).m.
Horne was jailed without bond
in Cherokee County Jail in Gaff
ney, S. C
The shooting repoi'tedly occur-
kbiVlinK oprr. j ^rJ'f'^aaid''■‘^e‘''!^shfer,''Tck
firnmnn n i Srbit^. 5<li«l f fOm » Wa®*
COMMISSIONED — Richard A.
Goforth, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Herman A. Goforth of Kings
Mountoin. was commissioned a
.* ha
\ me
J ^tlK
&
jvorsity of Alberta, was most I'e
1 cenllv a consultant to the knit- storage area has a
„ wooden floor.;« Spartanburg I
1 ing industry with Ted A. Podber- !:?'« Capl. C. D. (Redi Wurc-said^ Dcp^ties'^sald ' the men were
eski and Assopiat.-s Currently firemt-n •'•’■'fw very little water! saia me nwn w^
^ es din" in pSilt New York inside the building but mostly onj by a man they had .ordered
“will ^SeSo the^rtton after ^it wa.s hauled! r®
egree
A-iti; his wife and three “children outside. Two lift machines were had argued with
; 'n the next few weeks t sed inside the building to trans-; n waitress, thBy_ said, and return-
' Oxford industries, a diversified port the burning bales of Wtne«^^a"id
Houser,, apparel manufacturer, operates, outside ,^.h„rnlsnoulder. \Mtnes.es said me
lurer, operaws.'It® warehouse, where 1 so"u‘uer. n iinesses saia me man . , __ _
provide needed housing. xvife of Rod «. Houser, has eom_ ?6 plants in six states. The firedf quickly reload*
The Mayor recently called for pleted her student teaching and l^nta based finn had sales of ap- ed them a«a>Jrom m^^^^ single-shot weapon and tOttOll rlOUIdm
ta minimum of 11X10 new homes lequitemonts lot an .4.B. degree, iio-ximatelj. $ld0 million last a ^,.*..'1 a Mact at AiiiGy,n cavorai ^
Uor MounJn within three in primary education from Lenoir year. .smoldering bales as they wore
"years. Rhyne college in Hickory. n n? 1 'bioug.it out.
f4‘ reiterated yesterday. "I The Kings .Mountain student;
irmly believe this goal can le completed her studies over a ixyil r* a
cached. It is not a (jueslion of one-half year period. ACCentS CAII GlltS Will Greet
if but ‘must’. Our irulustrial o,\-
Rev. Finley
Accepts Call
, . , She was an honor student for „ ^ . *.
.ansion is developing opportunity Rev. David P in ey pastor of
been'doing lun- student teaching foursquare Gospel church herm
under supervision of Mrs. Rachel accepted
Saine in the thinr grade at Park ‘^e call to becoine p.astor of Four-
Elemenlaiy school in Lincolnton. "oua™ Gospel church in Jackson-
The Housers are- parents of a , ... i . i.-
five-voar-old daughter, Teresa. -'’*■• fomP'fo h**
Thev reside at S13 E. Ridge Pa* orate duties ne.xt .Sunday.
The Kings Mountain minister
M ■ ■ fis married to tho former Barbara
ISV WCUlll IlUKc Mrs. Houser is the daughter of Moss and they and rheir two
* ... Mrs. Ben T. .Goforth of Kings sons, Douglas and Michael, re-
Ifpr all our citizens as well as
■potential citizens. They must
nave shelter.”
[Christmas Stoiy
Saint Luke
Mountain.
Rhodes Rites
Held In Tampa
Avd f x‘(i»ie to pasu in thoav
dai/s, that there ,u'ent out a de
cree Jrom r Ati-oufi'tiiff,
thitt nU ^.hr iverld^houhi \bc tax
ed.
rAndJ this taxhuj -uv/.s first
wade irhea ,Ci/-rc’‘»i-a.s leu.s d<n-
ernor 'of Sf/r'i-n./
And alt :umt to be ^axed, ever)/
one into ^is tit)/.
And Jo'seph also iraii a)> front F. Rhodes, Sr., tSl, fonin'r Km s
^oi/f lo///i(* ft/,Nu~'u-! fountain citizen, were held in
, -fk/i, iHff> unto the f i/.v Tampa, Fla.. Saturday a . ternoon.
jl^Da'vid, v:ltirh ks tailed J3cthie- Mr. Rhodes, native of ('.a.slon
(bet'diftia he the cornty. died Thuisd.ay in Tampa
hduse ,and lineafje pf ^)(dvid:i • where ho had lived for th(‘ past
To be taxed'trith Ma'v)) his vs- two decades, following a long
■ponsrd wife, briny yrcat • tvith illness.
child.
side at 1007 Se(‘ond street.
Mr. Finley came to the Kings
Mn ntain church from Rock Hill,,
S. C.
First Baby Of '69
Kings Mountain area retail
firms are preparing to welcome
the first arrival of the New
Year '69.
Wiio ho or she will be, only
time will tell._
The Kings Mountain Herald
is sponsoring for the 14th year
tho First Baby Derby. A two-
page advertisement in today’s
edition details the gifts the
new arrival will receive and
tho donors of the gifts. Contest
rules are also detailed on tfiose
pages.
■\Vilh few exceptions. Kings
.Mountain citizens looked forward
this week to some surcease from
work during the Christmas sea
son.
For many, the Christmas holi
days had already begun. Many
IKirtions of Kings Mountain tex*
■ ile plants arc clo.sed this week,
will . 4/UlllllBiUllIWII : some for two days, others from
iliroe to 10 days.
Several firms made cash gifts
A o cmpluyees. Others ga\'c Christ
mas presents in the form of gift
certificatc.s for hams or turkeys.
Retail personnel will get a
one day respite, Christmas Day,
and will bo close<l on New Year’s
I .\ ('.'iil.uaias C’aniata uiih Day, Wcdne.sday, January 1.
I :armn:ii-H will br fcatir.aHl at s Tlie city's four financial firms
' ?.m. s .;'.<> at i:o:.urrcctit>n will observe tho North Carolina
vjtiv'rm ciui:c!i witli memhers banki i : legal liolirlay on W'edncs-
; the .-Jciiinr and Vair.h cimir:-^ to lay and Thursday.
pari.cii);ttc. City Hall offices will close
Klcvi'n o'i ■ ). k candi<‘l;*Jtt com- Chi istmas ie\e and Christmas
nunion ^cia ic(' u ill in' held at Day.
'ir: t Cl'iviori in (hur h and Drug stores will be open on
ladilianal U [).m. sei \ ic<‘s will abbreviated schedule to offer
r.‘ held at .S’. .Mjiihcws Luther- prr.scription service Christmas
in chill .-h. Mu.si-. by th«‘ cimirs of Day.
dll' cliurcli will he featured at Longest holiday was announced
both '(’r\U<'s. by .Mauncy Textiles. Mauncy Hos-
At Resurrection Lutheran joy shut down at 3 p.m. Thurs-
lu. ch the seven-par! i-antata day and resumes operations at 7
will ftaiu’i': ‘Let .Ml Mortal a.m. D<.vember 30. Carolina
FU\di Kiep .Sil'-nce ”; "Beliold, A Throwing Company closed Frid-ay
Virgin y’miii C'on.eivc": •‘While and will reopen at 7 a.m. Dec-
?h(.Thcrds Watclie.i; “And H ember 30th. Christmas bonuses
To Pa:o ': “yi.vec; Bacy wore paid, based on length of
.'ii‘cp“; “In tile Bleak Mid-Win- service.
:er“: and “Let All Together Craft.sj un Yarns closed for the
P:a:s<* Our G el." from tin* Can- holidays Saturday and will re-
tata. “Lc; Ail Togi'lhei* Praise i;ume operations Dot’ember 30th.
Cy r Go 1 ’ iyc Williams. Soloists Holilay bonuses w’ore distributed
on”Vhe’od ’he single-shot weapon and VUllUll riUUiaill ‘ y '?-at a turkey dlnnri- for employees
on the blast at Allison «;evGral ^51* Donald Di'al. Clvcr dncctoi is j,id their families Sunday at the
truck drivers reportedly disarm- riliinfffOC I ictofl school catetoria. M'BTV en-
od the man and WTestled him to' VJlOligcS IllSieU is M:ss D.na Jo Hanna, t.-itainr; Fred Kirby and Santa
the floor i ' ‘ ^ .Memners -of tlie cilo^^ an. ciaus entertained Hie employees
Home wa.s ari'ested at the truck' Sewral changes ha\c ocen senior iho;r .Mrs. n.. ,H. CjoUt, Ricir families Sunday after-
A resident of Cherokee made in the Cotton Pmgram for Mii'^ y\M'\ Ann Foster, .Miss £> noon.
1969, Ralph Harrill, manager of sie Marie Foster. Mrs. Donaln Mills will close Tuesday-and
the Cleveland County ASCS has Deal, .Mrs. Richard .McGinnis. Wednesday and gift certificates
announced. Plonk, .Miss Becky pre.sentod employees. •
Dunn. Gene Gladden, (ilenn Me- Kings .Mills closed operations
1. For 1969 there will bi' no ic- Daniel. F. H- (Rder, and Donald Saturday night at 19, reopening
quired diversion. Farms with 10. Deal. Youth Ciuur Becky Plonk, Thursday morning, December
acres or less allotments will re*, Mary Ann Bt'nneti, Debbie Plonk. 2(). Clirislmas bonuses were paid,
ceiye payment on 35 peicent of sharoii Plonk, Beverly Plonk, liLirlington Mills Phenix Plant
their allotment at 11.26 cents Debbie Ljpsii*. .Mark Lypsie. ^\ jjj closi’d for the holidays
times tho yield per acre. FarmsMiko Dyke. Steve Plonk. .Mike oecemeher 23-29. Holiday boniis-
larger than 10 acres’will only re- p]onk, ’rim Weiistcr. John Plonk, were paid employees, based on
Jr.', Mike Bennett, Mark McDan- of seiwice.
iel. Wayne Whitley, (.lenn xeisco Mills will close Monday
.. ^,.1 r *.1 rr - cinrv hrix.ir anrf xv>mont of the tTUck stop, was shot Second Lieutenant in the U. S.
: and an MA dcgiep from the Uni- cotton^!" ’ho bark. Allison was lislod Anny Corps of Engineers at Fort
BeWeir, Vo. Fridoy. He will be
stationed ot Fort Benning* Ga.
and will reside there with hi.s
wife* Vi'd^. Going to Fort Bal-
«0ir for Umi ceremonies were his
parents end his brother and
sister-in-law. Mr. and Mrs.
George T. Goforth.
I stop.
' county, he is single and an em
nloyee of Minolte Mills in Grov
,er.
McDaniel Heads
Kiwanis Gliib
And HO if 1A/.S. that, while tiny
were iherr, the days icerr .ar-
romjdishfd 'that she $h(nild be
drtiveicd.
And\^he hronyht forth h<r
firstborn son, pnd {rntiiped hint
m swaddliny ydtdhcs, and laid
him in^^i manyer; breansr there
wa,: no i'oota foi f*hem the inn.
And 'there were in the .same
etmntry sheiihfr(l.s\abidin</ in the
field, kecfiinff hvatrh orer their'',
flock h)f ni!fht.
And, lo, the anyel vf the Lord
came upon 'them, and the ylory,
\of fftc^Lord .shone nmnd about
I them: and they irerr ^ore afraid.
And the anyel said onto them,
I Fear n<d: for, behold, / hrina yon
'good thlinys rtf yreat joy^ which
shall he h» all imyde.
For nnto you is horn this da it
in the city of Da'vid v 'Saviour,
whirh t.v Chrmt the f,ord.
And this shall hr a siyn unto
yon: Yi'shall find Hiehnbr \rrair
IH'd in\swaddlinti clothvc, lyiny fJi
a manyer.^ i
A retired detective, h(» was a
veteran of World War I.
He was a brother of (he late
J. K. lEb) Rhodes, onetime Kings
Mountain- police chief, and a
bi other-in-law of Banks Barber
and Mrs. D. II Houser, of Kings
Mountain. In Kings Mountain he
was a member of Bojee .M<‘mor-
ial ARP church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Jet tie Barber Rhodes, and two
children, Mrs. Helen R. Jackson,
of Holbrook. Mass., and William
F. Rhodes, Jr., of Winder, Ga.
Ruiial was in T'lmpa.
Duval Funeral Home was m
charge of the final rites.
lunioi Women
To Lead Drive
G'he Kings Mountain Junior
W'oman’s club will conduct the
annual Mother’s March on Birth
And suddenly there pros iri//G Defects In January.
tho anyel a maltitndr of heaven ] In Shelby the Mothi'rs' March
In host yraishui Ood. vnd saitiny, w\U be led by members of tlie
Olory 'Ood in the /iioftr.sf. Margaret Meagher Woman’s
and i)n earth )ie<hre, yood 'h»-iclub.
# 1 men. Announ'cement of the fund
I r"»>r <o 7ie.v«. ^/fc'o?- drive leaders was made by
erre yone ewfot from ihem Boyce Hama, fund drive <-hair-
“ ■ intft heaven, the shepherds .soid man for the 1969 March of Dimes
t CtmtinHcd On Page Eight “in Cleveland County.
New officers of Kings Moun
tain Kiwanis club will be install-'t'eive pr'ce support.
ed at a ladies night banquet :.,i Whitlev. Glenn
Thursday evening at the Woman's 2. Harms with 10 acres or Ic.ss ^
club. allotment can receive a .small J ’ ' mt non
H. D. (Snooks, McDaniel, payment by signing to Pni'ici ^ r,,. and
Kings Mountain waste dealer, is Patc m the program a,k plan ...rol singing will Fa,k Yarn\mis ,x-ased opor-
the feahtn’ the IHrsI ' Presbyteian atioL a. 7 ^.m Deex^mC 21^
Joncs, superintendent of schools, payment ani historj ticxlil. ..ommunion sei-vice. Dr. Paul opening on D<x-emlx>r 30th.
is incfjming first vice-president, 3 Auslcy will lead the meditations ynnetto Mills «t Grover closed
and Carl P. Finger, laundrj^an, j^pgpj, iq Darrell Austin is choir dir saturdiiv at 6 p.m. reopening on
IS incoming s^ond vice pi-esident.,^ ^^^^ to 10 acres ector and organist.
Novvly-electcd directors ai'o Jim -- , »-.
jLybninJ, Don Parker. Rev. Rob
ert Mann. L(?wis Dellir.f;cr. Will-!
and bo considered a small farm.
Rev. Cb'irU’S I-'nslov will lead bonus
*• the 11 |».m. Christmas Kve rites
4. Farms ‘Planning to U.ise al- Lutheran church sadie Cotton Mills susiKUided
iiam Herndon Rev. Tom Ritchie, lotments must complete neces anthems tw the choirs will operations SatuiMac. reopenin-
ind Ragan Harper. | sary forms and file witli !h(‘ -lode “V e n i t e Adoremus”;
Dr. Cecil Cospor, educ'ation pro- Cleveland County ASCS Office Don«’ Merrily On High”:
fessor at Western Carolina Uni- on or before Dccomlxm 31. 196S. ‘cr.ntinia d On Payr Eight
versitv and lUHitenant-governor of:
Carolinas Kiwanis District I, ,
will speak and will install tho of-|
ficers and directors.
Deccmlx'r 26th at 6 a.m. Christ-
payments will be
(Continued on Page Eight)
Rands Honor
loe Hodden
———^ — - j vp 111 ii«'R®®^d To Moot
Navy AcMevemenl Award To Wells
P01* jjij Training Work In vownat The hiv boai<i of cor
A Cliristmas Concert
Freshmen and Senior
! Lt. Commander Aaion L
: Woil.s, of Kings Mountain, le-
Ueived the Navy Achievemi'iit
by the Medal during recent ceremcnies
Bands, at Naval Station Treasure Is-
Thin-sday at Central school audi-1 land, cal>f. where Commandm*
tonum-honored tho retiring bandlwells heads the military piM’.son-
dirivtor, Joe C. Hedden. i nel department.
Mr. Hedden announced ^ . • .1
resignation at the end of lasti The citation accompan>ing thi*
school term to become principal | *iwaryl reads;
of West school in the elementary! meritorious achievement
syMom. w Executive Officer while at-
The progr^ w^ arranged by, , p, i ss
Donald Deal, band dn^'tor. “paHcutin (AE-18) from December
Phe treslunen Band played ^
pnistmas In En^and . “Jmgle! oiK-rations a.^ainst the ene-
BolU”. “Spirit of Christmas’ and I commander Wells coiv
“fUiapsody. _ . sistently and skillfully coovdinat-
The Senior Bandsmen Play^;,,^ departmental activities in
“Overhiro to the Messiah. “A . t.
smli a manner as to signifies it
LOOKING FOR SANTA — Kings Mountain high school students
took part in Christmas door decorating contests recently and one *
o! the entries was photographed by Isaac Alexander; Pam Leigh*
left and Jean Hullender stand before the door as two pajama-clod
youngsters peek through the keyhole for Santa. The enscription
reads:’T Saw Mamo Kissing Santa Clous.” - ;
nontal amtincntal” and “Carol of <.nhancc Particutin’s hahiVahil
^ .1 1. .1 VI illy and opc'ratinnal abilities and
O fic<M‘« of the bands are J^bn.
Balleu', president; Joey Hedden,'; i,.,.
vice • president; and Barbara^p^,^,^y refresher training, iiis
Hord, secix'tary.
SATURDAr DANCE
American Legion Post 155
will sponsor a dance for mem-
bor.s and guests -Saturday night
from 9 until midnight at the
American Legion building.
Ileadeship. planning and t’aining
programs were responsiiile for
[the ‘Excellent’ grades received h>’
I several departments and the sue-
I cessful completion of all pJiases
[Of underway refresher training
• Con^iaat’d Oh Page Eight
MEDAL PRESENTED — Lt. ;
Comm. Aaron L. Wells* Kings •
Mountain native* has been pre
sented the novy's achievement ,
medal. Capt. W. A. Walk<*r III* ;
commanding officer of Novo! |
Station Treasure Island* where
Comm. Wells is military person
nel officer* made the presenta
tion.
commission-
eis will hold a special meeting at
6:30 Fridav evening, December
27.
Major item o' business is public
hearing on petitions of several
citizens in the southwest area of
the city, along .vilh the Frank H.
Gla.ss post, VVterans of Foreign
Wars, for inclusion in tho city.
The commission will also re
ceive bids for:
D major amount of street
improvements icurb and gutteiA
;on RoXford Road. N. Gaston
stivet, Waco road. Downing
street, Monte Vista drive and N.
Traey street.
21 .\ ro.ider for the sanitation
i dejiartment.
3> A sewer line to serve Kings
; Mountain Industrial Park.
Today's Herald
! Final One Of '68
I Today’s edition ol the Herald.
' lh(‘ special ChrKtmas intilion, i.s
the final one of 1968.
i Tile next edition of the Herald
will be published on the even
ing of January 1. 1969,' under
date of January 2.
The Herald will close Monday
j afternoon and re-open Monday
1 morning December 30.