Population
Greater Kings Mountain 2I.9M
I gk City Limits (1966 Census) 8,256
W City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9300
Wngi MouBicdD llgur« !• d«riT*<l iiom Um
if!!**** StaUi Bur«ou of tbo Couus roport o
fanuary 18U. and ineludos tha 14.9f0 populgtlea o
"UBiMr 4 Tewnahip. and the ramaining •,124 froa
nuouMr 5 Township, In Claveland County ond Cfowdar*
jTownship la Gbsten County.
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VOL 81 No. 9
Established I8y9
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 27, 1969
Pages
Today
Seventy-Ninth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
KM Hospital Will Receive Bids On Addition April 3
Political Gossip
Lists “Possibles”
I Opposition Slate
For Incumbents
'Being Talked
\
By MARTIN HARMON
Bill Dover reported in
the I
I Southwest Area
Likely Ward 6
White To Draw
Implementing
Legislation
35 More Beds .. iT
inTwo-stoiy Mfs. Houser, Orr,
Structure ' ^
RESIGNS — Rev. Darrell Coble,
pastor of Eastside Baptist
church the past five years, hos
resigned his pastorate to be
come pastor of Floyd Baptist
church in Floyd, New York. He
will assume new duties March
9th,
Sheioy Daily Star last Friday
:that a political group, individuals! ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Peter
unnamed, was being formed for. Connei, of Asheville, is the as-
thc purpose of unseating mem-', sistant director of Kings Moun-
t bei's of the present administra-i toin Redevelopment Commis-
, tion. ' sion.
I The five incembont commis-
, sioners paid (heir filing fees last
week. ^Iayu^ John Plenry Mo£|i; VvUlId JvIlM
has not yet filed but is regarde<l,
a sure candidate. There were noi #P f ■
: filees through Wednesday. , vOlUllllSSlOll
, Reporter Dover quoted the un-
'named spokesman as saying the| peter Connet, the new assistant matter, and it'was the advice of
'group expected to field iw'o can- ; director of the Kings Mountain j Ernest Ball to make bounds of
didates for each office. Redevelopment Commission bev the new' w’ard the same as the|
, Some names, rightly or wrong- gan his duties Mon.lay, February! bounds of the area recently in-;
; ly, were getting circulation in 17. ! ewporated. !
political circles this week. Mr. Connet was born in Ashe-1 There had been some thought!
^ Harold Phillips,
By MARTIN HARMOl;
The city commission is ex|>ected
to seek an act of the General As
sembly to amend the city ciiar-
ter to provide for a sixth city |
! Ward and sixth city commission-1
I er. I
' Present indications are that theij
I new ward will encompass thei
southwest area of the city newly j
incorrorated in Decembei*.
. Senator Jack White, also city
I attorney, conferred with League
I of Municipalities officials in Ra
leigh last week concerning the
PROMOTED — John O. John
son has been promoted to the
position of superintendent of
the knitting department
Craftspun Yarns.
at
Coble Besigns
Eastside Post
Hospital Gets
Duke Endowment
{ By MARTIN HARMON
I Kings Mountain Hospital is in-
’ viting bids on the projected t;w'o-
' story addition to be received Ap
ril 3.
Legally refjuirod advertising ot
ibid invitations will begin Friday,
; March. i
Scope oT the project as outlined
by ho.spital officials and archi
tects is: j
1. A two story structure of
seme 28,030 scjuare feet with ade-:
quate foundation to support two|
<2) additional stories at a later
! dat<.
I 2. The first floor will include
j a new operating room suite, re-
j covery room, pharmacy, labora-'
tor\, (ontral supply, and Lobby-
j wailing area. |
I 3. The second floor will be a
j patient area of 35 beds 27
1 private rooms and 4 semi-private
I rooms, nurses station, utility stor-
; age, and treatment room.
! 4. A basement will hou.se the.
] air handling and other mechani-;
i cal equipment. i
I .0. An additional boiler house
will be constructed for heating'
i re(|uircmonts of the new build-j
' ing.
6. Renovations in old building 1
will include enlarged X-Kay De
partment, emergency and outpa-j
tient treatment areas, outpatient |
waiting area, and enlargement ofj
administrative and business off-;
ice areas.. 1
I 7. Additional parking sp-ace. j
I FIXAXriNG:
1. $5()0.()0t).00 Cleveland County
Maner Renamed
B. F. MANER
city commis- ville. He is the son of the late; among city commissioners about |~;
sioner 1953-55. w'as reported a! John L. Connet, a music profes-: a slight re-alignment, perhaps us-|
likely candidate for mayor. sor at Warren Wilson College, ing West Mountain or West King
In Ward 1, James K. Downey Swannanoa. and Mrs. John L. street as the boundary.
■vvas being mentioned as a dial-! Conner, who is employed by the Mr. Ball said it was his opinion
longer for Ray Cline. !Black Mountain Presbyterian in various in line would reciuire
In Ward 3, J. Ben Hord and Church and makes her home in' a new registration of voters,
Clavon Kelly were probables a-; Swannanoa. throughout the city, not merely Kings .Mountain’s 77 bed hospi-
gainst T. J. Ellison. , .Mr. Connet attended Charles D- in the two wards concerned. tal received an appropriation to
Rev. Darrell Coble has I'esign- In Ward 4, Tom Dellintgcr, Bud- Owens high school, Swannanoa, .Mayor John Henry Moss said ^ taling $5,274 by the Duke Endow-i bond issue of Feh. 1964 sold Jan
t‘d as pastor of Eastside Baptist, Medlin, Roy Pearson, Dewey where participated in school! this week the necessary.bill wilL rnent this week. 'uai-v average maturity 4.133 per-
church to accept a call to Floyd Styers and Paul Ledford were athletics and was a class officer.'be drawn introduced by the Appropriations totaling $2,087,-1 cent invested in banks here at
Baptist church in Floyd, New getting mention as challengers to’. in 1965. Mr. Connet entered local delegation as qL ickiy as en-, 166 are beinJ^ distributed fo lios- six 'percent three months six
York, effective February 26. Norman King. 'East Carolina University and gineers complete a de.scription of pitals and child care insututions: and one-half longer periods 1
During his pastorate of In V^jxrd o, John Cam said he graduated in November, 1968.. the bounds. in the Carolina*, including Cleve-I s. Pnblfr sinwcripttonR of'
pars at Eastside the ehtirch has was considering a bid against with a EA degree in geography The city commission customari- janj Memorial at Shelby, 277 $246 168(X)
lown greatly in membership. Mrs. O. O. Walker. and city planning. ly formally calls the biennial:beds, $13,125.03; Rovster .Memor-;' 3 Additional funds are expo* t-
Tho church has pur.’hased more Rev. James Adams, who lives .Mr. Connet is married to the May election in Mar.h, when it iai. Boiling Springs, 40 beds,led from foundation grants t
land and has a building fund for in Ward 2, said ho anticipated a fonner Caroline Dale Aiken, des&»nates polling plac*es and ap- $1,03; and Gaston Memorial, Gas-1 4 xo Federal or State funds
a new parsonage. I Negro candidate would offer. daughter oif .’^r. and Mrs. Charles points election officials. tonia, 225 be<ls, $9,346. have be<-n allocated for the pro-
He graduated from Fruitland Ward 6, if created as expected, jH. Aiken of Black Mountain,
Bible Institute and Pastoral Care would be all new as far as can-'Crescent Hill Road,
at Baptist Hospital in Winston didates are concerned, with James
Sale*!. He also attende<l Gardner B. Dii key’s name already in cir-
Webb college. culation as a possible candidate.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Coble of Troy, N. C. He is
MRS. GEORGE HOUSER
There has been little public
married ta The'Torme.:'Phyll* comment as yet on board of edu-
Roseman, daoshter of Mr, and cation candidates, where terms of
Mrs. C. W. Roseman of Concord,
They have one daughter, Paula
Rae.
The Cobles will be in Pioneer
Missions in New York. They start
their new work March 9.
Eastside honored their pastor
and family with a covered dish
luncheon just after the worship
service Sunday, February 23
which w'as their last Sunday at
Eastside. They also gave him a
love offering as a present from
the church. Their new address
will be Rev. Darrell Coble, Route
1, Stittsville, XtAV York 13469.
Vickie Williams
Off Critical List
Chairman George H. Mauney and
James E. Herndon are expiring.
Six-Year Term
For Mrs. Gantt
Mrs. Dorothy Frances Clonin-
ger Gantt was sentenced to a
six-year term in federal prison in
U. S. District Court in Greenville,
S. C., Wednesday.
She plead guilty to receiving
money which had been stolen
from Blacksburg State Bank at i
Grover on February 2, 1968. '
Vickie Williams was playing
and laughinfiT and wanting to
come home, a visitor to her
hospital room said Wednesday
afternoon.
The six-year-old Kings Moun
tain girl underwent open heart
surgery Friday to eorrtvt sev
eral eongenital heart dOIects.
•She was taken off the critical
list at Charlotte Memorial hos
pital several days ago.
She is the daughter of Mrs.
Minnie Williams of the Bethle
hem community.
The youngster is a patient in
Room 716 at Charlotte Memor
ial hospital.
Due On Tuesday
RentA^liution six.poij,j Piogiam Piesented
,!®PuFo West School Traffic Safety
By Statute (second Tuesday aft- Announcement of the appropri-^ect.
er the first Monday*, this years ations was made Monday by;' Architects:
election will he May 13. 'James R. Felts, Jr., executive di-' 'pbe Freeman & White Associ-
rector of the Hospital and Child ates of Charlotte, North Carolina.
IIJjIm Care sOMions of the Endowment.
WwAlv* DOim DlUw Mr. Fells explained that tV-nds s .
provided to assist the hospitals iHIIITOVdllGllt
f in operating expenses amount to
$1 a day for each day of charityj ^ __ ,
I The Local Government Com- care reported in the fiscal year'|M|£|0f|f|ff
mission in Raleifeh will receive .which ended September 30, 1968. «TAvwaMKy
sealed bids untiPll a.m. Tuesdayl In North Carolina 129 hospital
'on $3,000,000 at City of Kings are receiving $942,328 and 26
Mountain water bonds. | child care institutions, $417,43-1.
Issuance of the bonds were ap-' —
proved by a vote of citi'zens on |||
December 5. 1967, by a margiiv ItClQ llallGV
of 20 to 1. fer the Buffalo CTeek' *
i^^The^boncis will mature annual-jlKlIgJ III ArtlOll
ily on April 1 as follows: t mi
! 1970 to 19S3, inclusive, $1()0,0(K1;
' 1984, $110,000;
1985 to 1993, inclusive, $120,000;
i 1995. $1.50.(XK); j
1996, $110,000. 1
: Tboic is nopri...- payment <-!'■ o.l sucres, (.'f cmmR
;,mor City, wL kill«l in action; J"” ‘mproventents w.il be
Rev. Phillip Williford of Cleve
land, Ohio, will make the address!
at the regular meeting Sunday ofj
the Kings Mountain Improve
ment Association at 4 p.m. at
XTestibulc AME Zion chuirh. \
Mr. Williford was recently nam
ed coordinator for the associa
tion’s efforts in s<H«kmg job’ op-|
The war in Vietnam has claim- portunities for Negroes. Mr. Willi-^
ed the life of another Gaston ford is pastor of five Righteous,
County serviceman, Pfc. Reid Church of God coagregations in:
Nancy, of Bessemer City. Cleveland County, '
Nancy, son of Jcx^ and Evelyn
WILUAM ORR
Firitl National City Bank. New;
York, N. Y.. is the paying agent.
ing Authority will accept rental
applications again on Saturday,!
■ larch 1st, and Saturday, March
ih.
Mrs. Kenneth R. Roberts will
be at City Hall courtroom both
Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 12
noon to take applications from
lOvV income families.
At close of business March Sth,
no more applications will be re
ceived until Juno 1.
Thomas W. Harper, housing
authority director, reported that
52 applications have been reed Vr
ed. Thirty-two persons, 16 W'hite
and 16 Negro, have applied /or
housing for the elderly. Twenty
families, including 15 Negro and
five White have applied for fam
ily housing.
It is anticipati.'d the 150-unit
project will be underway in ear
ly spring and that some units will
be ready for ociupancy by Sep
tember.
The Public Housing Authority
will build units in a variety of
si/cs from what is labeled a “no
biKlroom'’ unit to a five-bedroom
unit on nine sites in various sec
tions of the city.
Thirty of the 150 units are be
ing designed especially for the
elderly and will bo constructed
in the Dilling-Ridge street area.
OfhcT sites are located on Cans-
lor street, Baker street, Grace
street, and the former Davidson
elementary school property.
Rental r.ites have not been es
tablished and will not ho until
B)sl of the project is obtained and
c(*ntructs let.
The safety committee of
Interest
ly.
Donominfition of bonds will bej
the $.5,fX)0, unless the successful bid
February 23. He was serving j
with Company C, 1st Bn., 27th In-;
i * WAlll 11 U'd 11J K^m i*M ^llJI 4ir
is payable scmi-anrfaal-: ^ • * t r * i~x •
ij* i/eij'i 1C • ifantiy Regiment, Infantry Divi
FIRST AID COURSE
Sion.
The
young soldier is also sur-
An advanced first aid train
ing course is being sponsored
■I
Mis. Goiorth's
Rites Condneted
$1,030
by his wife, Susamo ScjN* by the Grover Rescue Squad. It
;ers Nancy, and their daughter, is a 16ho.ur course, Uvo nights
Call Wilson
Is Nominated
Land Mine Costs SP/4 Boy Buff
Both Feet In Action In Vietnam
DECORATED — U. S. Air Force
Capt. James R. Parker, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Donold L. Parker
of Kings Mountain, has been
decorated with the Air Medal
at Carswell AFB, Texas. Cap
tain Parker was awarded the
medal for his outstanding air
manship and courage as a KC-
135 Stratotanker novigator on
successful and important mis
sions under hazardous condi
tions in Vietnam. Receiving his
bachelor's degree from The
Citadel in 1965, he was com
missioned there upon comple
tion of the Air Force Reserve
Officers Training Corps pro-
gram«
[West School Parent-Teacher as- der requests issue in
jsocialion has recommended a nominations. jjjjj
I six-point program to the city com- Bidders must deposit a SGO.CMK), . . u,,
'mission for improvemont of traf- rortifiod ohock as P<>>-fo™ance' Sisk f unm al Homo has^harge,
I fie safety in the West Sohool, guarantee. '^vlin SaroMhe
i area. ' The bonds have the unciualificd gaiihal ot th^ody. ^
I John W. Cain, chairman, pro- approving opinion, of Mitchell,'
! sented the recommendations to Petty anj Shotterly, New York'
j the commission Tuesday night. 'attorneys. '
I 1. The speed limit the school 1
I zone should be cut to 15 mph be
I tween the hours of 8:00 and 9:00
a.m. and 2:00 and 4:tK)p.m. Also,
I a speed limit sign should be
erected on Wattorson Street,
j 2. A “No Parking” sign should
be erected in front of the school (.Qjyjmander of Otis dA
I house on the far side of the street ^55^ American Legion, [
(Mountain StreetI. succeeding Carl V. Wiesener. I
3. Remove pedestrian lines, a slate of candidates was nom-1
painted on pavement in front of tnated by a nominating commit-
I school house. February 14th and will be
4. No turns (either left or membership at^
right) at intersection oif Moun- ^londav night's regular meeting
tain and Wattorson Streets dur-, the Post Hall. York road.
At the April meeting on April
7th, nominations will be open
from the floor. On Monday, May
5th, elections will be held.
Other nominees for offices n-
elude: First Vico Commander,;!
Hubert Aderholdt; .Second Vice
Fain Hambright.
ing above-stated hours.
5. Wattorson Street one-way
(south to north* from GoldStreid
to King Street during above-,
stated hours.
6. A flashing “school zone’
light should be erected one block
Funeral rites for Mrs
Morgan Goforth, 64, were held!
Monday afternoon at 3:30 from
a week, three hours a night. ! Chestnut Ridge Baptist church,
Anyom* wishing to take the 1 interment following in Mountain
course should contact Capt. Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Goforth, wife of Joe Go
forth, died Friday night at 9:30
in the Kings Mountain hospital
after a lengthy illness.
A native of Great Falls, S. C.,
she was a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Spence Morgan.
She was widow of Lloyd Stogner
and William A. Small.
Kelly Dixon
Low Bidder
On Basement
The city commission reappoint
ed three members of city com
missions Tuesday.
Bob Maner, chairman, and
Mrs. George Houser, vice-chair
man, to five-year terms on the
city planning board.
William Orr, to a five-year
term on Kings Mountain Public
Housing Authority, Inc.,
In oiner actions, the commis
sion:
1) On recommendation of its
j engineering firm, extended time
of Blythe Brothers & Company
for completing the sOA'age im
provement to May 1 from March
20. W. K. Dickson & Company
representative Dennis Fox told
the board said a change order
added $33,0CK) in work to the
Blythe contract. The extension
means that the city waives until
May 1 the $100 per day penalty
clause for late completion.
2) Accepted $4,888.97 low bid
of Kellq Dixon for remodeling
the 1437 square foot City Hall
basement. J. Wilson Crawford
bid $5,432 and J. Hobart Dye bid
$5,4W.25. Kings Mountain Rede
velopment Commission, whicli
will have quarters in the remod
eled basement, will provide $1225
of the cost.
3) Approved contract for main
tenance of trafiic control devices
on state highways within the city
limits. The highways are U. S. 74
(King street, city limits to city
limits), N. C. 216 (Cherrjwille
road city limits to south city lim
its on Battleground avenue), and
N. C. 161 (Bessemer City road
south on York road to 1-85
bridge).
Mr. Peterson's
Bites Conducted
Funeral rites for William Rob
ert Peterson, 71, of 314 Waco
J road, were held Sunday at 3:30
‘ p.m. from Temple Baptist church
of which he was a member.
Rev. Frank Shirley officiated
at the final rites and interment
vvas in Mountain Rost cemetery.
Mr. Peterson died Saturday
I morning at 3 a.m. in the Kings
i Mountain hospital after illness
j of several years.
He was a native of Cleveland
~ County, son of the late Mr. and
, Mrs. William Jack Peterson. He
; was a retired grocer.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
jBeatrk*e Kennedy Peterson; a
Ison, Charles Kennedy of Kings
; Mountain; a daughter, Mrs. Onzie
Lena' of Shelby; a brother,
' J. P. Peterson of Kings Moun
tain; two sisters, Mrs. Arthur
Blackwell of Inman, S. C. and
Mrs. Fred Newton of Fayette
ville; and four grandchildren.
Mr. Campbell's
Rrothei Passes
Funeral services for Arthur A.
Campbell, 68, of Florence. S. C.,
Surviving are three sons, Have-I Herman Campbell of
Ion Stogner Of Tampa, Florida; Mountain, were held Wed-
*!Aundria C. Small of Kings Moun- J^^s^ay at 3 p.m. from Florence
■ tain and William Dale Small of Presbyterian church, inter-
tl
SP 4 Roy Ruff, 22, son of .Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Ruff of 7310
Midpines, lost both 'feet afti'r be
ing "hit by fragnu'nts from ai
hostile mine in action in Viol- William Dale Small of
nam", Sunday, tiie .Secretary Nasliville, Tennessee; throe following In Mount Hope
the Army notified his parents via! Jiaiigiuors. Mrs. ElizaiKMh Black^*^^‘^**^*>’*
telegram Monday. of Wichita, Kansas; Mrs. Janice Campbell die<l Monday in
The Kings Mountain man. Marino and Mrs. Lathine McLe- ? Florence hospital after a brief
j member of a Fifth Si:ecial Forces ^^ore of Columbia, S. C: four:
I team in Vietnam, had been sla- hrothers, DaO'a Morgan, Townley HeiTnan Campbell died 17
I tioned in Vietnam, since Septem- Morgan, Mortimer Morgan and ago.
|bcf20. Tesse Morgan, all of Great Falls,^ bq., vovemher 97 lonn Mr
j Mr. Uulf said the telegram re- s. C. and two sisters. Mrs. <^ypsyl son’of tho lain
lated that iVuff suflered sieoler and Mrs. Algie Dickerson, rr a Mnlo'-in pjimrhoii miH viar
r.agmontali..n wounds to the both of G.rat Falls. S. C. AlsJ Bl^ CamoTtK
right fool and loft log rosulting; surviving aro 12 grandohildron. assoerted wUh
in amputation of (lu* right foot hov. Mitchell Pruitt officiated
at the ankle and surgical ampu- at the final rites.
to Tire Company.
each way from school on Moun- Command<‘r, Carl Wiesener; Ad-
tain Street to flash duiing the jutance Finance Officer. Joe M<'*
above-stated hours. Daniel. Jr.; .Sergeant-At-Arms,
Chairman Cain said it is ho|XHf. David Delevic; Sergeant-At-Arms.
that one-side loading and unload- Jake Brid.ges; Historian. John W.
ing of school children can be Gladden- Service Officer, Gene
maintained to eliminate the haz-:Steffy: Chaplain, Bill MCSwain:
ards of children darting between' Executive Committee. Jay Powell,j
.movin gautos. j Lindherg Dixon, Dion Broiwn,!
Cunlinuvd On Payv Six . Clinton Jolly and Geno Gibson. I
WOUNDED IN ACTION — SP/4
Roy Ruff, 22, a member of a
Fifth Special Force* team in
Vietnam, was wounded in action
in Vietnam Sunday, his family
was notified Monday.
I tation of the l<*ft Ic
I ankle.
j The telegram continued that
Rulff would l>e given the “best
I medical attention.” Mr. Huff said
I his son’s address is RA 1280S106
I Hospital Mail Section APO San
I Francisco, California 96381.
I The Kings Mountain service-
! man would have completed his
Cuniinuid On Piujv Six
close to the Nephews of Mrs. Goforth serv-i Other survivors include his
ed as active pallbearers.
GROVER SPEAKER
A member of the faculty of
the Department of Religion at
Davidson college will fill the
pulpit at the Sunday morning
worship hour at 11 a.m. at Gro
ver’s Shiloh
diuivh.
wife, Mrs. Ruby Tiller Campbell;
one son, Arthur A. Campbell of
Columbia, S. C.; one daughter,
Mrs. John S. Bennett, Jr. of Mar
ietta, Ga.; ‘a brother, Ernest B.
Campbell of Raeford; three sis
ters, Miss Margie Campbell, Mrs.
James Bostic and Mrs. E. \V. Me-
Presbyterian j Call, all of Laurinburg. Also sur-
*vivliig arc sL\ grandciiildrea.