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Grissom, Jones,
Bridges Honored
YOUNG MAN OF YEAP — Bill Grissom, at right, accepts from Bill Allen the plaque which is em
blematic of the Young Man of the Year Award. The Joycee distinguished service award was made
Tuesday night. Mrs. Grissom looks on. (Photo by Neil Holcomb).
William <Billi (irissom. 2S. j.v
Ki t s Mounljin's Yuun^j Alan of
the Yeai lur ISCJS.
M.. (;riss(.:n, cMcd lai- his work
with youtji in the chuith and in
che coninuinity, i-ereivtd the
Kin^^s -Mountain Jayee<'s’ 15lh an
nual distin.ijuished service award
Tuesday ni;;in at tin* ilub’s an
nual iiossos’ Ni^hl hanqiK’t.
Two other iirst time awards
were prosenl<(l by Ja,e<‘es: to
Donald Jones, Kin«s Mountaiti
‘.Ilstrict schools superinhmdeni,
cited as K.'.'.alor of the Year,
and to IJ(..,.)y ti. Ihid.^.'S, (’iiy
Auto & 'rin k I’arls exeeutiv<'.
cited as Iloss of the Year. Moth
awards will !)(» presinited annual
ly-
Charles D. Blanton, a pnwiou.s
D.^A winn<*i', in iM-e.-^'iitinr; th<*
handsome <*ni;raved plafjue to
Grissom, dted the winner for his
many contributions and long
hours of dedicatcfl sinvice to th<*
youth of llie community. H(‘ said,
“Our recipient tonight is not a
person whose namt‘ or piclun* ai) ;
pears in the headlines of tin* pa-1
pt‘r hut he has served long hours
as a voluntixM* coach of Little!
Lt ague an.l 'Pecner l.<‘a.gue teams
and in chuichwork.” Assistant i
.Seoulmastt-r Of Troop 90, Gris
som sejvcs on the city lecroation
commission. He is a deacon, sei-:
ieiai> of the .Sjnday School and
hi tile clioir at First Pres-,
bylerian cliureh. A Jayeee, he
solved as chairman of the* UtfiS*
Miss Kings .Mountain beauty
pageant and lias seived as Jay
((H? vice-president, seendary. and
dire. lor. He has coached ja.v.eo-.
sponsoriMl teams in the LittU*
LeagU(‘ and 'reen<*r pro rams.
A partner in Ben T. Goforth
Plumbing, Grissom is son of Mrs.
W. H. Gri.ssom of ('l<)ver, S. (\j
and the late Mr. Gri.ssom. He at '
Umded the Clover schools and
Clemson college. Mrs. (irissom is
th(» foimcT Claudia r;.'>forth. They-
are j^arents of two children:
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TOP EDUCATOR AND TOP BOSS — Donald Jones, left, superintendent of Kings Mountain district
schools is recipient of the Kings Mountain Joyceer' first annual Educator of the Year award.
Bobby Bridges, at right, is recipient of the club's first annual Boss of the Year award. Joe Smith,
Jayeee president, center, made the presentations. (Photo by Neil Holcomb).
Popnlation
ireafer Kings Mounfain 21,914
City Limits {1966 Census) 8,256
City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9300
Tbe Gr«<iter Kla^i MounlalD figure It derived from tbe
epeciol United States Bureau of the Census report o
lanuory 1966. ond includes the 14.990 population o
Mumbor 4 Township, and the remoining 6.124 -Iron
Number S Township, In Cleveland County and Crowdor*
Meunteda Township in Gaston County.
yOL 81 No. 4
Established 1889
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 23, 1969
Pages
Today
Seventy-Ninth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Buffalo Creek Water Project Low Bids $2,485,757
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On Finan ce Body bulletin
^ The city’s consulting
Project Attracts
Contractors
From Six States
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COMMENDED FOR HEROISM — Sp/5 Joseph Porker. 20. of Kings
Mountain, ha? been awarded the army commendation medal for
heroism in action in Vietnam on November 12.
Joseph Parker
Commended
For Heroism
.Sp .> Joseph S. Parkoi. son of
Mr. an<l .Mrs. Charles W. Barkor,
701 Landing slnM*t, has Ixvn a-
warded tho army comnit'ndalion
jne.lal for heroism in aclion in
Vit'Inain.
.Sp .■) Parker, 20. enlered tire
army Fobiniary 2, 19BS, ha.s l)<H*n
overseas for seven months. His
award nxsulted fi-om aetion on
November 12 with the 29lh ar
tillery, -nil infantry division.
^Jiu* citation reads:
'or hei’oism in connection
military operations a.:ain.st
an armed hostile force in tiie He-
public of V’’ietnam, Specialist .')
p a r k c* r dLslinguishet! himself
while serving as a cannoniM'r
with A battery, 6th battalion. On
12 .VovcmlH'r 196S Specialist
Parker’s fireba.se was subjected
to an intense enemy heavy weap
on.s attack while his battery W'as
ill the process of moving by air
mobile means. When Hie first
Cffntinucd On Page
Mothers March
Thursday, fan. 30th
Ciix'le your calendar for Thurs
day, January 30th.
That’s the day Junior Woman’s
club members will be conducting
! the “Mother’s March on Birth
Defects’’ from 7 until 9 p.m. in
, the Kings Mountain area.
Other volcnteers are nof'ded to
' I'anvass the community and all
I are asked to gather at 7 at tho
Woman’s club for street assign
ments.
Miss Mary Alice McDaniel is
chairman for the local club drive
for the March of Dimes.
Citizens who w’ish to contribute
to the March of Dimes are asked
to leave their porch lights burn
ing.
B$p. Maimey ^
Vice-Chairman
ABC Committee
Senator Jack H. White, Kings
Mountain lawyer who is b<*gin-
ning his second term in the sia.e
legislature, has been named vice-
chaiiTnan of the Senate Finance
: Committee, which is ^.Iniicd by
Senator Ralph Scott of Alama:ice
County.
Senator White Wednesday was
appointed chairman of the 10-
' member Senate Local Govern
ment Committee by Lt. Governor
Pat Taylor.
In the House, Rep. W. K. Mau-
ney. Jr., Kings Mountain Indus-'
trialist, was named one of three
vice c'hairmon of the House’s Al
coholic Beverage Control Com
mittee'. which would consider any
legislation on the proposed lUiuor-
by-fhe-drink local option.
Mr. Mauney has also bc'en
named to tho 23-mem'ber House
Loc'al Government Committee.
Four veteran Cleveland Coun-'
ty legislators have been appoint-:
ed to major committees of the,
General Assembly.
The Senate Finance committee
is charged with coming up with’
means to finance state appropri
ations for the next tw'o years.
ALSO in the Senate, Senator
Marshall Rauch of Gastonia has
been named to the Senate appro
priations committee which will
draft a sponJirtiT bill. For White
and Rauch, their respective mem-'
Continued On Page Six
SENATOR JACK WHITE
Twenty Pints Of Blood Are Needed
For Vickie Williams, Blue Baby
Scoutmaster
Steps Down
Otis C. Falls, Jr., stepping
down as Scoutmaster of Boy
fe.out Troop 91 after 11 years,
has seen 15 young men, including
0iis son, receive the Eagle, high
est award in Scouting.
Mr. Falls, a tenderfoot scout
j^imself in the same troop 30
years ago, came home after a
lonr of Army duty 11 years ago
an j began work as a troop eom-
millcoman and later bwame
scoutmaster.
He will continue to serve the
troop as assistant scoutmaster.
Since the death of his father,
OlU Falls, Sr., he has not been
able to devote as much time to
• , program, he told the troop
sday.
n. .M. (Matt) Pouchak, assi.st-
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TO UNDERGO HEART SUR
GERY — Vickie WiUiams, age
six, will undergo open heart
surgery Februory 11th. Twenty
pints of whole blood is required,
and donors ore needed to do
nate blood in Vickie's behalf.
Wanted: 20 pints of whole
blood for little V'ckie Williams
who undergoes open heart sur
gery on Kcbniary 11th.
Blood donors who respond to
this S.O..S. for hloo-i may give
blood in the youngster’s name
wlien they visit tho Red Cross
blofKimobile here on F'chruaiv
101 h.
Vickie, a blue-eyed blonde, is
six-years-old. She weighs only 30
pounds but she is a bright, cheer
ful little girl who lives with her
family in the Bethlehem commun
ity.
She attends Sunday School at
‘ Bethlehem Baptist Church.
I A “blue baby’’ at birth, Vickie’s
heart slopped beating twice. Thej
heart ailment left the child with
throe heart defects, and she un-
deiw’ent surgery at the ago of
I three weeks.
Vickie is daughter of Mrs. Min-;
nie Williams and the late M. W.
i'Williams. Mr. Williams was kill
ed in a car wreck sevt'ral years,
.ago. Vickie’s family includes
I three married sisters, one marri-
ConHwacd On Page Six
REF. W. K. MAUNEY. JR.
lob Program
Closes Up Shop
Tin* Industrial Association of
Hie Kings Mountain Area's feil-
erall.v-financcd imlustrial training
pi qgram closed shop Tuesday.
W. K. -Mauney. Jr., president,'
said the association did not ap
ply for a third year of fcdeul
funds due to •'major changes in
the empliasis of the program
whicli the association and parti
cipants did not fix'l it could im
plement.”
PreskUml Mauney prai.scd th<*
program as it operated during
the two years and dcclaicd it
“(|uito successful in meeting its
aims”,
lie said Hie association will
continue as an area industrial
trade a.ssociation. without a paid*
executive secretary.
Executive Secretary Jo<' Vale,
closing the office Tuesday, said
he would join a furniture manu
facturing firm as vice-president.
He sumipalexl tlie two-year
work of the industrial training
program in capsule form:
Approximately 500 under tho
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The city’s consulting en
gineer VV. K. Dickson will
recommend c o n 11 a c t a-
wfti'ds tor the Buflelo
Credk water project total
ing S2,485,757.7C.
He I'ecommendp the use
ol asbestos cement pipe up
to 12-inch size at a saving
under base bid oi .S12,0(i4.
The contract awards will
be made Tuesday night, it
is anticipated, contingent
upon concurrence of tho
Department of Housing
and Urban Development,
which made a .S45G,000
grant tor the project.
Everett S. Scott, of Ra
leigh, regional engineer for
HUD, said after the bid
lab tabulations, “ W e ’ r e
happy the bids received
today will make it possi
ble for this project to go
forward.”
Col. Dickson comment-
eded, '‘We will recommend
the low bids be accepted.
I regard the bids as very
satisfactory.”
The estimated beginning
of construction is March
31.
By MARTIN HARMON
Apparent hnv bid.s for e'Uistruc-,
Ition af tlio Buffalo CiWk water
projoet totaled §2.197,SlS.fKl.
Bid.s wen* opened by the boaicl
of eommissioiiers beginning at 2
p.m. We lnosda\.
Consideration of awarding con
tracts will he on the agenda of
the boaid of commis.sioners at
tile Tuesday night meeting.
Apparent low bidders woie:
Section I uiam. four - million
gallon treatment plant, pump sta-'
lions, flood control to protect
Do\er Mill, etc.) Gillespie Con-
•■^truction Conipanv, Anderspn, S.
C., $1,319,012.
Sivtion il (Water lines) Ray D.
Lowder Construcliiin Company.
Albemarle, S661.29S.20.
Section III (million gallon sttvl
storage tank at irealmenl plant)
Kielimond Engineering Company,
Richmond, V'a.. $.>1,4S7.
Section IV’ (irnprovements to
SR 2044) Neal Hawkins Construe'-
tion Company, Kings Mountain,
and Gastonia. S153..''^2.50. '
Section V (plumbing) Ben T.
Goforth, Kings Mountain, $274S.
Sc'ction VI (electrical) Bryant'
Electiic Company, Gastonia.!
$79,141.20.
The six sections of bidding at
tracted 3S bids from 31 firms in
six southeastern states.
Both Mayor John Henry- Moss
and Col. \V. K. Dickson, the
city’s consulting engineer, declin
ed cximmont on the bidding pen<l-
Jng final tabulations. The Mayor
did remark, “I believe wo can
live with it.”
Only alternates were in Section
II on the water lines. Tiie base
bid calls for use of stt*el water
CouHiiut'd On Page Siw
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WATER PROJECT BIDDING Mayor John Henry Moss colls the roll of bidders Wednesday ofter-
noon on the Buffalo Creek water project. Foreground, to the Mayor's right are Commissioners
W. S. Biddix ond Ray Cline, to his left Commissioner T. J. Ellison. In background at left are
Engineer W. K. Dickson and members of his staff. (Herald photo by Paul Lemmons).
School Board Recommends
County wideT axSupplement
Reierendum
On 50c Levy
Supported
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PRESIDENT — Mrs. Harold
Glass is the newly-installed
president ot Frank B. Glass
Post 9811 VFW Auxiliary. The
ru'w auxiliary was recently or
ganized. The Post is named for
Mrs. Glass' late father-in-low.
Mrs. Glass' husband is 14 th
District VFW Commander.
Art Workshops
Are Underway Here
First in a series of ari work
shops for ar(*a leadiers got un
derway We(lnes<iay a! Central
school.
The worksliops will bo conduct
ed eacli Wednesilay aliernoon
fioni 1. until 6:30 p.m.
Administrators a n (i trustees
rom th<‘ eouniy’s tliree school
-syslrnis, meeting tonight (ThuKS-
day) at 7:30 in the county school
superintendent's office in Shelby,
are exjM'ctr t to formally call for
a oO-cenl county-wide suppU*men-
ta) fax autliorizalion for schools.
The mattei' lias l)oen disi ussed
informal./ by all threa* gi’o.ps in
exnulive eommittees but Kings
Mountain’s board of education
look the* initial step Monday
nigh! by voting to approach tlio
county commission and i*e(|ue.sl
tile -luthorizalio*) be gi\4‘n.
I’ndi'r Norlli Carolina law. the
county board of commissioners
h:\< till* authority to grant th<»
■>()-cent I'ounly-wide authorization
without a vot(».
Slu)ui<l the commission la'fuse,
iiKtieations <ire that Hu* three
si'hool boards will re<iuest the is-
siu' he put bi’fore the iieopk* in
a county-wide vote.
Kin s Mountain pres^mtly lev
ies a 2n-cenl s. pplemenlal lax,
tile ('li'vcland Count's school sys-
li'm le\U*s no supplemental tax.
an i tlu* Shelby district levies 3S
cents of a 4ds-enl authorization.
"W’lial vve I'acli would di'cide
to levy I’ve no idea, pimding fur-
th(*r study of our individual dis
trict ni'(‘(is ”. Supt. Donald Joik's
romm<'ntc<l Monday. Mr. Jones
said that h'gal aspiH’ls of individ
ual tax.referendums and possible
Continutd On Pagt SU
PRESIDENT ^ R. Ragan Har
per, Jr. has been elected presi
dent of the Cleevland County
Pharmoceuticol Association for
the coming year.
Pharmacists Tap
Ragan Harper
R. Ragan Ilarixu*. Jr.. Kings
Mountain pliarmacisi on .Hu*
staff of Kings Mountain Drug
Company, has iuM'n elected presi
dent of the Cleveland County
Pliarmaceutical As.so^.'iation ftir
the coming year.
'The new officers were elected
Sunday night it a dinner me(*-
iiVJ at IIag(‘r’s Restaurant in
Shelby.
CoaH/iiud On Pagt Six