North Carolina Newspapers

istmas Eve Gift - - Buffalo Water Proji^t Go - Ahead - - Top ISews Event of ^68 « Byf|kAaTIN HARMON Kings vMountain area’s top ws story: in a news-tilled year ost will hgree was the Christ-, mas Eve present received by the' city: final clearance to proceed on the BuliCalo Creek water cro- ject. Top nominee for the second major news ev'ent was an aggre-] gate of industrial growth and ex-l pansion, with six nriw industrial citizens and four major expan ! sions by existing industry. Other top news events (with; no attempt to rate them in order of importance): 1) Approval of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment of $1,644,680 in project share grants for a) the water project, b) neighborhood facili ties building, and c) the urban renewal program, along with ap proval by the same department of $2,500,000 borrowing permis sion for Kings Mountain Public Housing Authority to build 150 low-rent dwelling units. 2) Extension of the city limits first to the northwest, then to the southwest, and capped by the 425acre extension southwest in ‘December. 3) The recoixl-setting contribu tion of $242,000 by citizens for renovating and expanding Kings Mountain Hospital. 4) The early morning wreck of a Southern Railway freight which spread debris over a five- block area. 5) Establishment of a welfare department interviewing branch office here. 6) Consti^uction begun on sew age disposal system addition and expansion. 7) Mrs. Maude R. Walker be comes first lady city commission er, appointed to fill unexpired term of her late husband, Com missioner O. O. Walker. 8) Senators Jack White and Marshall Rauch and Representa tive W. K. Mauney, Jr., returned to General Assenrbly without op position. HONORS Honors came to Kings Moiin- tain groups and indivlduala dur ing the year, major among them honors to high school seniors for scholarships. Rfck Finger became Kings Mountain’s first Morehead scholar, and Danny. Dyke won two major scholarships, the Wil liam Whitaker award and the Pittsburgh Plate Glass scholar ship. Carolyn Ann Falls won a major scholarship and Jean Davis the Otis D. Green Post American Legion scholarship. Postmaster Charles L. Alexan der was named North Carolina Postmaster of the Year, Mrs. Haywood E .Lynch was appoint ed a director of the North Caro lina Dental Health association. R. W. Hurlbut was elected| lieu tenant-governor of Uorth Caro lina Optimists. Mrs. L. E. Hin- nant was elected district diiector of the North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, and Mayor John Henry Moss was elected chairman of the Cleveland Association of Governmental Of- liicLals.. In sports, Kings Mountain en tries in the duckpin bowling tour namentff at RalUmore. Md., took national honors and the high scliool basketball team went to the finals of the Western North Carolina High School association tournament. TRAGEDY Eight lives were lost in acc‘i- dents, four of them in ear-train collisions, including Heyward M. Brooks, Mrs. Irene O. Randolph, David Harold Evans and Randy Glenn ENans. Killed in auto crashe.s were Police Officer Don Henderson, Eddie Horn, Jerry Dean Hope, and Many L. Luke, of Georgia. Six area servicemen died, five killed in action in Vietnam. These were Pfe. Harold Welch, 1st Lieutenant Roy r Cochran, Cpl. Wayne Gregory Thomas, L/Cpl. William J. Moses, Jr., and Sgt. Larry Dellinger. Pfc. Reece Dale Bowers was killed in an aulo ac-j cident in Thailand. 1 NECROLOGY ! Among well - known citizens' claimed by death during the year, wore F’ormer Mayor Garland E.‘ ' Still. City Commissioner O. O. Walker, William Webster Hardin, Otis Falls, Sr., William B. Logan, I A. Dewitte Cornwell, Arthur Phi fer, Sr., John Dixon McDaniel, | Mrs. Arthur Hay, William North Harmon, William Maivin Go forth, Sam D. Collins. Mrs. A-| manda Hamrick, Miss Minnie Phifer, Rev. Ray Wright, Mr.' land Mrs. Edward J. Stewart,: 'John Mitcham, Mrs. W. J. Craw-' ford, B. F. Bird, James H. Med- lin, Mrs, Sarah C. Foster, and Mrs. Lillian Early. BUSINESS King Kampers, Inc., opened a campgrounds off Interstate K3, Fashion Cleaners began a major renovation and expansion. Kings Mountain Cablevislon, Inc., was chartered and granted franchise for Kings Mountain, and the ven erable Bonnie Mills Company was sold to Mur^GIo, Inc. Oxford Industries, now building on York road, acquired Baiwin Knit, Inc. Geonjo Lublanczki bought the former First Union National Bank building and C. T. (Chick) Continued Oh Page Six Population Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits (1966 Census) 8,256 City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9300 Til* Or«st«r KUw* MouBterts flgur* 1» tx«m tht •ptctol United States Bureau of the Census report o lOBUory IS66. and toeludes the 14.990 population o Humber 4 Township, and tbe remaining 0,124 Iron Itumber S Township, In ClOTetond County ond Crowder’ Ueuatala Towiutaip in Gaston County. r J ■ , -. - 1 " Kings Mountain’s Beliabie Newspaper Pages Today IVOL 81 No. I Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 2, 1969 Seventy-Eighth Year PRICE TEN CENT? offalo Creek Water Project Bids Invited January 22 Francis Succeeds B. Holmes Harry Bob Southwell Retains Ford Dealership PROMOTED ^ Lt. James C. Blanton has been promoted to the ronk of lieutenant in the . U. S. Navy. He is son of Mr. ond ^ Shelby road. Mrs. Dewitt Blanton. Robert O. (Bob) Southwell re tains ownersliip of Southwell Motor Company, Kings Mountain Ford dealer, Mr. Southwell an nounced this iweek. Concurrently, h e announced ^ that Jimmy Armstrong, of Gas-j HIma tonia, who, it had been previous-1 aUSO vOlllllY S ly announced was purchasing the I —, « * Ford dealership here, will join! iM YAAI* Southwell Motor as sales man-; " AAiBB WA A ager. ‘ Barbara Diane Goins, who ar- Doug Eubanks has been ap-j rived two hours and 39 minutes pointed assistant sales manager. ■ fhe New Year Wednesday Ford Motor Company, Mr. morning, is winner of both the Southwell said, deferred approv- Kings Mountain and Cleveland al of the franchise transfer, and County Baby Dcrtiicfi for 1969. both he and Mr. Armstronx. de-: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Goins of cided to cancel the purchase a-’J-440 Second street are proud par- greement. lents of the new arrival, a brun- Both Mr. Southwell and Mr. ette, who weighed in at Kings Armstrong have been in the au- Mountain hospital at five pounds, tomobile business mmees. „ ing lives. Mr. Southwell, a native She is second daughter of Mr. of Romo, Ga.. came to Kings and Mrs. Goins. Older sister is Mountain in 1960 and was cm-; five-year-old Tammy Goins, ployed first as a salesman by Dr. John C. McGill was the at- Plonk Motor Company. He ob-j tending physician, tainod the Ford dealership from) Both mother and daughter were Fred W. Plonk and in 1963 open- 'anticipating going home from the ed a new building and business hospital Thursday or Friday, j Mi*s. Goins said yesterday. As] winner of the Kings Mountain) First Baby Derby, the parents | will rtwive a large number of' prizes from Kings Mountain areaj merchants. j Mr. Goins is a native of Kings. Mountain. He works for Wix Board Reviews \h School iddition Plans Holmes Harry, of Grover, vet- raii member of the Kings Moun- Jtain district board of education, resigned this week. Phillip A. (Tippy) Francis, al so a Minette Mills olficial of Grover, has been appointed by the board of education to fill Mr. Harry’s unexpired term which would have ended in May 1971. Mr. Harry became a member the education board when area; -lidation was effected July 1,! He was re-elected without i tion to a full six-year term! i5. He gave ill health as his for resigning. Francis s a member ofj Presbyterian church, the r Lions club, and other or-* tions. His wife is the for- Jean Harry, daughter of; Mayor and Mrs. Franklin Harry. ■ _ - At Monday night's rreeting the: l.t KlAtltnil board accepted the resignation of " Mrs. Diane Randolph as physical education instructor at Central fTrOlIlOldl school and elected to suc ceed her Miss Sara Elizabeth McGill of LioiitcnanI James C. Blanton, Blacksburg. S. C. USXR, son of Mr. and Mrs. ■ After lookin:; over sketches of Charles DeWitt Blanton of Kings possible additions toKingsMoun- Mountain, was advanced to the ciew* porooration tain high school, board members (»f Lieutenant recently. ; on duty as usual New Year’s Day.) " apandparents expressed favor for a two-story Lt. Blanton is a 1965 graduatei But, virtually all other busi- ^jj.j5 *Qjyde E. Goins of Kings 12-room addition and instructed of East iCarolina University with closed their doors for ^joumaln and Mrs. Annie I>?e Superintendent Donald O. Jones a bachelor of science degree ^ Hanev of Gastonia. to confer with state officials con- business. After receiving his' The city’s drugstores operated cerning such an addition, plus commission for Officer’s Candi- T p.m., the newspaper office quarters for additional vocation- date School. Newport, R. I., he 'vas open as the New Year’s Day al education instruction. served aboard the USS Sheldrake Herald was published, the city Supt; Jones said Wednesday ( AGS-19), homoported in PcarL stand was open and service funds are available or will be a- Harbor, Hawaii. He served as stations operated. vailable in the foreseeable future Engineering Officer and made Most store p'>rsonnel weie on ^ r j . to construct the high school ad- two cruises to the Republic of.^J^ty for at least half the day ori J. Wilson Crajwlord was nam; dition, hopefully for use in the South Vietnam while stationed a-^ attend to end-of-the-* ed ehaiiTnan n 1 W. 1 iRmI Approval Barbara uoms Is|w[«? ^ ^ ^ ^ I Christmas Eve First Baby Of 69 KMWiiuiei By MARTIN HARMON A <r Armstrong, 36, got his start as a enr salesman with his father, Arnold Armstrong. They are partners in Arnold Armstrong & Sons, used car firm, in Gastonia. New Year's Day No Holiday For Some The city sanitation crews wei^ Corporalion, Gastonia. Mrs. Goins is the fonner Edna 'son of Mr. Haney, native (J! Gastonia. Prior-Hi-mphries, ; to her marriage she worked for are Mr. Crawford Heads Realtor Group 'll board the h,.T:iogi‘aphic survey; Y^^r inventory ship Sheldrake. ) Recently he volunteered to un-j dergo training in Explosive Qrd- nance Disposal where he will re-i — . ■ reive 36 weeks clf Naval school-! ¥( KVAHiIAYOH ing to train to recognize, handle, BAAllBlillliVl* disarm, and dispose, of all ex- A Grover student. Joyce Paul-;^^y pointing out that vintin. 'lie Kings Mountain city com-, plosive ordnance be it on land or elto Ponningtqn, received her been razed in Kings M ■ meeting in special ses- under the sea. A. degree December 21 in Win-i tain during the past pn Friday, adopted a resolution Lt. Blanton is presently enroll- tlirop’s mid-year graduation cxer-'t’hot only 26 new houses liaa D commendation of ,the moon or- ed at the Underwater Swimmers rises on the Rock Hill, .S. C.| built. j i , biting astronauts and the Nation- School Key West, Florida, for an campus. | Crawford had previously a) Aenniautics ami .Space Admin- eight week cour.se of instruction Dr. Charles S. Davis, Winthrop: tnld the group ho was close to istration for their historic accom- in the principles of diving. Upon president, conferred degrees on “ T\nr v wio n an- 1970-71 school term. City Commends , MASA, Astronauts f. The city commission will re ceive bids January 22 on the Buffalo Creek water project. Action W'as taken at a special .m<*eting Friday night, after, final clearance was received Christmas Eve from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.! In announcing the go-ahead,! Mayor John Henry Moss reported! land acfiuisition progressing well,' with 49 of 71 properties ref|uiredi for the dam and lake site cither; purchased or optioned, represent ing of owners. Mayor Moss said the city would proceed immediately to pursue plans to devclopo recTcational as pects of the lake area, reported 22 agencies, federal, stale, coun ty and local, had been involved in the pi'Oiect, in addition to in-, dividual* and private business firms, .He reiterated appreciation to Jean Schcnck, U. L. Patterson, Virgil McIntyre, and Jenkins Morrison for making lake she; property available to the city free-of-charge. .Mr. Schcnck, who was present, commented, "I don’t believe ten percent of the people of Cleve land County yet conceive what this project wall moan to the. county economically and I'ecrea- tionally. I foresee the day when, the whole lake area will bo seiw-' ed with water and sewage.” Mrs. Edward! W. Iv Dickson, city consulting awarded his| engineer, pointed out the project Eagle rank in Scouting at close, has a two-fold pin*pose: 1) as a of Sunday moming worship serv , water supply for the Kings Moun- ices Sunday at First Baptist .tain area and Eastern Cleveland, church. !County and 2) as a recreation! Fii*st Baptist church siionsois* center. He noted that the State HEW Approves Assignment Plan EAGLE SCOUT Frank Hum phries, IS-yeor-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edword Humphries, is recipient of the * Eagle bodge, highest award in Boy Scouting. Scout Humphries Wins High Award Frank Humphries, 13-year-oUl OFFICER — Nancy Lublanezki, senior student ot the University of Mississippi, was recently elected an officer in the student chopter of the American Pharm aceutical Association. She is re cipient of o scholarship from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. and was Miss Lublanezki In Student Post 1969-70 Plan Meets Tests Of Rights Act Kings Mountain school dis trict’s assignment plan for the 1909-70 term starting next Sept- I ember complies with the civil I rights act, ofliicials of the Office i of Education, Department of ■Health, Education and Welfare, i have informed the board of edu- 1 cation.. I- ‘CON^ratulatlons were tendered in the letter by federal education I officials. ! Under the plan. Park Grace I and Compact schools will cease , To exist. Park Grace plant will , be offered for sale, and Compact will bo utilized for special edu- c’ation for the retarded. New Dav idson, now the center for special educaiion, will be utilized for ad ministrative offices. Students at Park Grace and Compact will be transferred to other plants. Initially ordered to pair Park Grace and Compact schools as to pupils (Compact being the dis trict's last all-Ncgro school), the board of education asked dispen sation for the current term on grounds that late reassignment of pupils would be cronfusing to parents and pupils and that the North School addition under con- with the stipulation facrulty dc- .segregation of Compact and . Park Grace be effected. Miss Nancy Lublanezki, a sen- Troop 92 of which young Humph-, Board of Health has approved iot’a* Fni\crsity of Mississip-^Psimplify reas- ries is a member. ' the lake for recreational develop- pi, was recently elected an;, Scoutmasters Jim Yarbro and ment. ' ofiicer in the Joint Student Chap-\ The Office of Education agreed Ken Pruitt-made the presonta- Congratulating the city weix* ter of the American Pharmaceu- tion. Lamar Young, chairman of the tical Association — Mississippi Humphries, a charter member Cleveland Organization of Gov- State Pharmaceutical Associa- of the troop since its o>r»aniza-| ernmental Officials, Magistrate J. tion. tion 30 months ago, is the first Lce Roberts, Gone Timms, prosi- -. *• , . u r A Eagle Scout pinned in the troop, dent of the Chamb<»r of Com- Association is of a to-bc-formed aorumi.latcd 26 merit badge's mcrce, Rev. S. T. Cooke, Captain with stimulating gioaler interest Kings Mountain Boaixi of Real- _ - . tors Tuesday, as realtors, build- my M m I ers, and contra’ctors met to ... « InlSS A 0IIII11IQIO11 cuss implementation of the senting Cleveland County. He'minutes of the c'ommission, said is a memlier of Kappa Kpsi*, (^jty Hall courtroom is expeot- or's call for 1000 houses withi co-chairman of a Junior lead- first step on the Buffalo project National pharmaceutical so- ^ (q Y)C among the busier places i.t_ ..1 I ^ roritv. and a membpr of the . . concerned Tax Listing ''fl* the past summer and was award- B. M. Ormand, and Senator Jack jj], profession of pharmacy. Tlanwtjl * t a scholarship to'Sehief Scout;White. Miss Lublanezki is also active m D0QinS 1 nlirStldy Ranch at Mendham, N. J. repro- Mayor Moss, reviewing from ‘^dhei student oiganizations as * training weekend f or, was taken in July 1966. rority, and a member tbf* in town beginning Thursday when a three-year period. ership ... .w..., . The Mayor opened the n^oting county patrol leadei'S and servedj Engineer Dickson estimated Women s House Council at the county and city tax listing gets 46 houses vice-chairmnn of the Battle- completion date at March 31, University. underway. ground district in the Order of 1970. Earlier in the rear, she wa.s, Township tax listers will Arrow, a fraternity of Scouts; In other actions, the hoaixi: iumoroci at a bamniet* as one oV courtroom daily, Mon- who have exceptional ability ati 1) Received bids on a sower recipients of a scholarship dfiy through Friday, from 8:30 camping. Ho qualified in mile line, as agent for Gaston County the American FoundatioiF until 5 p.m., and on Satur- swim, lifesaving, canoeing and to serve Kings Mountain Indus-, Pharmaceutical Education Mays from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Scout lifeguard during a summer: trial park, with Sanders Broth- * the Grover Rescue Squad build- plishment. 'Phe resolution was dispatched to Dr. Thoinns O. Paine, acting diiector of NASA. The resolution n*a(ls: “The city commission of Kings Mountain, Norlli Carolina, site of Ihe Battle of Kings Mountain, f).-toher 7. 1780, wliich turned the Coyitbtued On Page Six '205 graduates. Concept Furniture Is Continuing Interviewing Potential Employees Wayne Farrington of High Me of the Revolutionary War to Point, pianf manager of Concept ictory for the American colo- Purniture Corporation, is inter- nies, in meiding on this historic viewing potential employees of 'day of Deceml)i*r 27, 196S, her<‘by the new firm which is building KEi^OLVES: here. "That the magnilicent feat of Parrington said he had in- the National Aeronautics and terviewed over 40 production and .Space Administration organize- office workers and noted that the ,iion and its valiant astronauts inifii-jyi expects to hire 100 local the Apollo S flight, successfully people. He is conducting the in- ^•ompleled with their return to- tervUws during banking hours in day from orbiting the moon, is the upstairs office of First Union another major niilestoiu* in the, jvational Bank, history of the United Slates of “We don’t have a roof on yet AnKM’ica and reflects ihe highest hut building plans are progress- patriotism and e()urage hy thi? ing.” Mr. Farrington, an engineer asti*onauls Ih^'mselves and tbe by profession, said this w^*ek. He School of the University of Iowa. He joined an associate firm of Concept Furniture 10 years ago as engineer. The family is Bap tist. Concept Furniture Corporation, a newly-formed North Carolina firm, has under construction at Ai*chdale a 3.5,000 square foot building which will be utilized for manufacture of upholstered furniture. The company is utiliz ing the former building which housed Plonk Motor Company on ' Battleground avenue to do sam-^ i «« ■ pie work. The now building will HAATl he air conditionc'd and the pro- Ir* duction operation trading with a party’* who plan ned to build a 40 to 60 unit apart ment complex. Mayor John Henry Moss told the group, “We feel wc can con tinue our present service, wliicli wc regani as good." He spoke concei-ning provision of city util ity services and street improve ments. He added, "We feel wo can expand in about any direc tion within reason. Hal S. Plonk said Crescent Hill Development Company is in pro cess of openinij 70 to 80 lots. Fred Wright suggested ■riii Allen DSA com- Mountain lacked "speculative -• builders”, added, "a man wants to' r ' Aquatics course. He has served his troop as senior patrol leader for two years. laycees Seek DSA Nominees The Kings Mountain Jaycecs are now taking applications for their annual "Young Man of ihe Year” award to be presented Jan uary 21st at the Woman’s Club. E)eadline for nominations is Let ters reminded yes* of nomination SCO more fhan one vrtien he 1® j be addressed to Mr. Allen I at PO Box 303, Kings Mountain, N. C 28086. I Nominees should be between j the ages of 21 and 33 and a resi dent of the Kings Mountain area. Anyone is eligible for the award land anyone is elii;ible to nomi- buying a suit of clothes”. Ray Receives will be fully! Daniel J. Ray. son of Mr. and natc a camlidale, said Mr. Allen, many olh(*r tlunisands of people and his family, which includes! mechanized. !Mrs. Claude Ray, received the involved in this furthest explor-.his wife, Billie Oakley Farring- The brick-steel building under-i purple Heart December 21 for atlon of the planetary system.” A QUIET DAY police reported no ^n'etks or firc»s nor arn'sts made on New Year’s Day We<l- nesday in the city limits. ton. and their six-year-old son,'way will have two temporary*wounds he received in Vietnam. DeWayno, have move ! here and w-alls for easy expansion to a Pfc. Ray is i*ccuperating In a are residinir at 613 North Canslcr projected potential of 180,090 hospital in Japan, his parents re- stnad. square feet on the 30-acre site! port. Mr. Farrington was graduatea and with potential employment Pfc. Ray’s ad<iress: HA 1281- from Summer high school of ! of from .500 to 6(V> p«n’S(ms. 13903 Co. A*2 503 82ARB Dlv. APO, Greensboro and Engineering ‘iSan Francisco, California 96228. JUNIOR CLUBWOMEN Junior Woman’s club mem bers will meet Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Woman’s club. Mrs. Ken .Cloninger and Mrs. 'Gilbert Brazzell are hostesses. Mrs. Frank Hinson is program Chairman for tiltc meeting. ers, of Charlotte, apparent lowl She is daughter of Mr. and ing, through Monday, Fob. 3. bidder at $37,532. A. P. White.: Mrs. George Lublanezki of Kings Assisting Edwin Moore, No. 4 Continued On Page Six Mountain. Township tax fister, will be Mrs. Charles Ballard and Mi*s. C. T. Carpenter, Jr. No. 5 Township Lister is George Murray Nvho will conduct listing at his residence in VV’aco with the t'xception of (he following sched ule: Jan. 2 at Horace Eakor A Grover s<Tvicc station oper-'I..(.'mmons will officiate, and in- store. S a.m. to 5 p.m.: Jan. 3 at ator-Ernest Alfred Gilliam, .52. torment will bo in the Grover Four Point Grocery from 8 a.m. died of a hea*t attack Monday, cemetery. to 12 noon; Jan 4 at Four Point morning at 9:30, two hours after The boily will be taken to the Grocery from 8 a.m. to 12 noon; he extinguished an oil stove Gilliam home Thursday morning Jan. 6 at Boss Superrette from Wife Burned in Blaze, Husband ^ Dies Two Hours Later; Rites Friday blaze at his home and rushed his burned wife to the hospital. Mrs. Gilliam, 42, is being treat ed for first and second degiee bums. Comner Ollie Harris said cither Mrs. Gilliam or her hus band were lighting o flro and had poured kerosene into a stove which exploded. at 11 and will lie in state until S a.m. to 5 p.m.; and January 7 the hour of service. at Gri-gg Grocoiy from 8 a.m. to Mr, Gilliam was a son of the! 5 p.m. late Mr. anh Mrs. Jeff Gilliam.' There is no change in listing He owned and operated Spur , procedures and in taking of the Service Station in Grover. j farm census from previous years, Surviving are liis wife, Mrs.'said Air. Moore. All real estate Geneva Jackson Gilliam: four and pci*sonal property owners sons, Bobby Gilliam, Charles Gil- arc required to list. AH changes Mr. Gilliam suffered the at- Ham. both of Grovc'i*. Junior Gil* in real estate, such as new con- tack at his home in the Antioeh Ham of Monroe and Jam<*s Gil-j struction or other improvements community after admitting his Ham of Kings Mountain; two must be ix*ported. AH buildings wife to tlic hospital. At 9:30 a.m. daugliters. Mrs. Margaret Ann under (‘onstruction which have ho was pronounced dead on ar- Black of Germany and Miss Judy! not been completed as of January rival at the Kings Mountain hos- Irene Gilliam of the home; one 1 will be appraised and charged pital. ' brother, Boyd Gilliam of Kings in aevordance with the perc*ent- Funcral riles for Mr. Gilliam, Mountain; and one half brother,j age of completion. Male persons will be held Frtda.v at 3 p.m. Garnie Manis of Grover; two sis- between the ages of 21 and 50 'from Antioch Baptist church of ter.s, Mrs. Geneva Hudson and, are required to list poll tax. Crop . Iwhich he was a member. Rev.'Mrs. Virgio Adams of Grover: reports are required of farmers^^ I Wayne Tuttle and Ucv. Rudolph and two giandcliildicn. Continutd On Pago Six