Population
'Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
./Limits (1966 Census) 8,256
City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9300
...« Grtater Kings Mounteds ligurs li dtrl^td Iron tb*
special Unltad States Bureau of tBe Census report •
Fcinoary 1BS6, and Includes the 14,9M populotlon •
Number 4 Township, and the remoiiUng 6.il4 Iroa
Number S Township. In Cleveland County and Crowdw*
▼«»wn«hlp In Gaston County.
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
^OL PI No. 27
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 3, 1969
Sevent\*-Ninth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
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HUD Approves Final Budget For KMHousingProject
Mayor: City Surplus $300,000
ST
CE
tew Budget
Also Includes
^^Pay Raises
Till' city commission Tuesday is
cxpiclcd to adopt a new budj^et
tentatively. Thus far budgetary
figures have been fixed on the.
piemises all current city rates
and charges will remain as in the
previous year. j
Kings Mountain's tax rate, un
changed the past five con.secuiivc
years, will remain S5 cents per
S!ho valuation and the City of
Kings Mountain is expi’cted tc
sliow a “substantial" $300,000
liJj8-G9 fiscal year surplus, said
-Mayor John Henry Moss Wed
nesday.
Of the S5 cents, five cents is
the special tax for the recreation
program.
Mavor Moss s^id the now bud
get will i"'ovicle for a continuing
jirogiam of jyrogre.ss and service
and wage and salary increase for
all employees.
The city hoard is expected to
"“ormnlly adopt the budget on Ju
ly 2Sth.
At Tuesday’s regular meeting
at fi:30 p.m. the boat'd will receive
new bids on a large number of
paving, re.surfacing and cifib and
gutter projects. The city calle.i
for bids at its June 24th meeting
but onlv two bids for each job
were made one less than the
number required by law. Com
missioners then voted to iT*adver-
Andrew Jenkins
Rite.s Conducted
Joy Theatre
Projectionist
Dies Monday
V
fS
Funeral rites for Andrew C.
Jenkins, 6-1, were held Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o’clock from Kings
Mountain Baptist church of which
he was a member.
Hi.s pastor, Ro''. James Wilder,
officiated at the service, assisted
by Rev. Frank Shirley, pastor of
Temple Baptist church. Interment
was in Mo-jntain Rest cemetery.
Mr. Jenkins died Monday at
12:15 p.m. in Charlotte Memorial
liospilal following ’ Iness of sev
eral jears.
Ho was a native of Gaston
county, son of the late Mr. and
M:s. A. C. Jenkins, Sr. He was
projectionist at Joy Theatre for
a number of years before his I'e-i
t i remen t. I
Surviving are his wife. Sudie
White Jenkins: one daughter,:
Charlotte Jenkins, of New*
lisc for bid.s. Off 7hp second f-a-i one binKher, J. C.,
jk|uesday, two bids will be suffi-1 *^***^*^“^® Cherryville; and two,
(‘iont.
Jaycees Name
Pageant Leaders
('halrmen of committee.*; for the
annual Aliss Kings Mountain
i sisters, Miss Zona Jenkins of
iCharlolte and Mrs. Ruth Hurl-
hurt of Charlotte.
Mrs. Elam's
Rites Conducted
SUCCUMBS—Mrs. B. D. Goforth,
80, died Thursdoy morning. Fu*
neral rites were held Fridciy aft
ernoon from First Presbyterion
church.
Mrs. Goforth's
Rites Conducted
Citizens Taking
Fourth Holiday
Or Planning It
Kings Mountain citizens were
read>'ing for the July 4th holi
day this week.
In fact, same wore aln?ady cr*-
Senate Bill 364
Status at 5 p.m.
StUlNoSale
i As the General Assembly of
1989 neared sine die adjournment
I at 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon,
the impas.so on the Kings Moun
tain Lake Authority bill (Senate
Bill 364 as amended) remained.
Senator Jack White said by
telephone that there had bten no
Inference of change of position on
the part cf Representative W. K.
Mauney, Jr.
Mayor John Henry Moss sai-c*
he had talked Wednesday vvitl.
County Commission Cliairmin B
. u 1-1 . .1 ( K. (Pop) Simmons, hut that nf
joying a holiday as most textilei / position was indicated
plants were idle^ this i.veok Cios-! ^ j . VVe, nc.sdaj
vwc were Craf spun ; telegraphed Rep, Maunet
rniinTJnf ' reiterating its proffer of June 2,
n n t’ ‘^-to accept dirccfive for utilizatio;
worporatjon, Park \arn Mills, . tho u-inac \i nta?n t fn
Mauney Textile Plants. Kinder 'e^eati^n "n rem.n fo
s-ST".*, srerJnS:
tries lU'noriij.
r» * 11 . 1 Mayor and Board of Commis
ri®. '"■f"’ smtt'^rs in la.st hour effort foi
looking foi-war.i to the hohday too .-ke Authority Bill ur-e you tf
“T Va I cLmitteo Su'isiituie for Sen
remaining op^n, including drug * d;]| o-ii which was passe'
Uor^the two five and ten stores.; /
Z" ^// amendment on recreation hut d.
enarfoSdStores ■ "’her M nry amendment
Many Wngs Mountain folk are ^" ‘
m^nl^’in-ri^ol^fun"^*,*:!!’ “t^" advd^oV:' S
ers have been content to*^spcn<l bv^uT Boa T
vacations at home apr^intcd by the Boa.d of
vacaiions ar nome. cornmissioners and two ap-
Home ernertamment on Inde- . Cleveland County
, Board of commissioners. Thr
• . j ... , ; Area to be zoned is not to c?;ceed
•h^:;n^.T7£ 'C ...
—if, Ssftyi ■'
' Mayor John Henry MosS said,!
“The Kings Mountain city com-
Funeral rites for .Mrs. ^ Rep!^ Mauney did not sec'
Mae Morrow Goforth, SO, wife oil Foi.r-i support the city’s requested!
R. D. Goforth, were held Fridayifm^^ both lunch and supper ^ .
afternoon at 4 p.m. from First be serx-ed at the poolside. Top P
' swimmers will receive trophies
and prizes will be awarded in
contests during the afternoon.
Oak Grave Volunteer Fire De
partment is planning? an all day
event billed for family enjojTnent
with numerous events slated, in
food and music and
Contract - Signing
For $2,758,061
t
members'
and their fimnie:
Kings Mountain Country club is
{planning an all-day event withi
! golf boginnin^^
i the form of a family Scotch Four-
Presbyterian church of xvhich she
was a member.
Dr. Paul Ausley, assisted by
Rev. t). B. Alderman, officiated
at the final rites, and interment
was in Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Goforth died at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday in the Kings Mountain: *
to the
Mountain Lake project."
Kings
Jaycees Win
Service Award
Sets Homecoming
The funeral of Mrs. Sallie Rob
beauty pageant »»f the Kings erts Elam, 88, who died Frida>
Moiinlnin Jawees )iav<‘ been an at the home of her daughter in
nounced by Fiank Hinson, gen-j Macon, Georgia, was held at the
eral chairman and director. : Bethlehem Baptist church jn : games.
q'he beauty pa^jreant w'ill 1m' Kings Mountain, N. C at 4 o’clock hospital after suffering a cere-|
held on the evening of August on Sunday afternoon, June 29. ! hemorrhage. She w’as a na- _ ^ L
2:^id iit s p.m in Contr.d Junior, The pastor, the Reverend Rus ! live of Erie, North Dakota • ^|il|V|<l|
high school auditorium. Miss sell Fitts, the former pastor, the'^stigbter of the late Mr. and Mrs |
Kings Mountain 1970 wdlj be Reverend L. C. Pinnix, and a William Morrow. She was em-
crowiKd to succeed Miss Jean El-1 nephew', the Reverend Evans, ^ number of years at
Icn Davis, the reigning Miss Kings Crawford, officiated. Burial was ibe former Myers’ mow Fulton s)!
M uiiitain. in the family plot in Mountain Department Store. She was Hj uj^on Presb>-tGrian church wiU'denT of the North Carolina Jay-
-Mr. Hinson said that six con- Rest Cemetery. {member of the Thursday i observe its 25th anniversary' at cees.
trstants had cnlerc! flic contest, Mrs. Elam was the widow of Book club. . , , . 'Homecoming Day sei-vices Sun-: xhe award cites community
and that others arc being con- the late Richard Fuller Elam ofj Besides her husband, she is ! service in several areas, including
tailed. I Kings Mountain and had lived in; survived by one Robert Wilson, new pas- the civic club’s work with the
('hairnv'n of committees are. Kings Mountain for 45 years un- ^ i tor of the church, w'ill deliver the bloodmobile and "Toys for Tots",
Bob M.vers, pro-ram and tickets;, til her husband’s death in 1955. daughte^, I sermon at the 9:30 morning wor-a Christmas-season charily pro
Bill Gn-sso... ,...vo,..i.sin«: G.r ! She was the daughter "f of New Yo^rk OO. ^
The day’s program of activities; cit>\
and promotion; and Clint and educated a la. anrt .six ffranocmiaren. i^.i^l
Kings Mountain Jaycees have
received a “Jaycee Community
Development Award” from the
United States Jaycees for com
munity service in 1968.
The award is in the form of a
certificate signed by Wendell E.
Smith, president of the U. S. Jay
cees, and Jim Church, Jr., presi-
rUi4c.ilML THURSDAY MORNING — Funeral services for Martin
Luther Harmon. Sr.. 94. retired grocer, will be held ot 10:30 Thurs
day morning. The photograph wos taken on Mr. Harmon's 90th
birthday-
Rites Thursday
For M.L. Harmon
Editor's Father
Dies Tuesday
At Age 94
Monday
Project
Contractors
Beginning Work
On 150-Units
By MARTIN HARMON
Fm.'il buii.'cl for llic MO-unit
.vlng^• .Mnuiiaiii jiiibllc hoiHiP.:*
■roj! .‘I has hc*cn apiirnvcd by th *
Dcpaitnicnt cf H<»u.‘»ing and I'r-
nan Development, th(' .Mayor and
Jirc.-ici oi the puiilic hou.sing
au:iiu. ily liave been rvitificd.
It mca:i.-j, Mi. Harper said, that
.•ntra'-t-.- foi c.)n.'?trujtion will be
dated Jul> T.
Mi*ant ni‘‘. Wcaviv Construct ion
'omiianv, ol Groens.)ai.), su4‘<'»‘ss-
ul biildc: foi the grnoial i mlra: i,
Ls making arrangement.s to begin
.vork. J.Jin v'umbus. pr(»jc(' man
ager, and other Weaver (j.Ticdals
.'cr-' li»*:c 1ut‘-iia;.. siir\c\ i.i '
ales for b):atijn >' t!icir Iraj.hv
;fl'in- aivl lor material .-torag**.
The bucha'i finally app"o\i'd
/as S2T3.2h.5 m ire Hian in Hic
nitial budget, reflecting imreas-
d c !nstriiilion t'osts. “.\,Mially,*’
Mr. Harper said, “total of bids
a- suiHcicrllv i< \v that the
Cings Mountain Public Housing
Authority docs not expc' t t.i ,•■*-
uirt the additional funds. In cf-
;ect, it is a oontingviicy fund.”
Low ccastrurtion ’* bids total*-1
^1,131,122.
1 The finally approved budget
, totals $2,7.58,061. and includes ail
I project costs, including intore.-^t on
! mcney advanced until bonds are
: .sc Id to cover the projci t, land pur
chase. U‘gal fees, and archil<*cl*s
■ ices.
The 1.5C units will be built on
nine site'-” located cn Baker, Gra.^’O,
Parkci, Dilling, Lackey and Cans-
Icr streets, and on the cxton.sion
strec't s«*r\ing the New Davddson
sjlio' I plant.
Thirty units are (Unsigned es
pecially for the elderly.
old Thomasson, judge's and a ' Roberts and Dorcas Gilbreath
w:nds; I.any Smith, stacking «nnd Roberts of Greenville County, S
Fulton of Gastonia; two brothers,; . u
:CIeve Morrow of Charlotte ^^d,union vvdl be^obse^^^^
assistant director; Joe Smith, pub- C, w'here she was born, reared Eddie Morroi.v of Perm, Include ^Sunda^ School at The citation reads: “Be it
licity and promotion; and Clint and educated. Mrs. Elam was a la, and ^ix grandchUdran. i by picnic din-; known that the Kings Mountain
Huikin. special guests. member of Bethlehem ^ rat 1 p.m. and a song service® Jaycees has fulfilled all require-
church. ; ^ thn aftprnnnn. Fori
M?s. John H. Gamble will serve
ns ihnirman of entries and as
p:igcanf coorlinator. Mrs. Gam
hli accomn iniccl tlu' reigning
beauty quc'cn to the recent state
pageant in Charlotte.
AT 4-H CAMP
C’buck Prescott, member of the
Di.xon Community 4-H club, Is
attc'uding 4-H Camp at Camp
Millstone this week.
Survivors include three daugh-1 Charle.s A. Goforth, Gene Dye,
Funeral scrvii.es for Martin
Luther Harmon, Sr., 94, retired
. - ^ „i..u Kings Mountain grocer, will be
Thursday morning at 10:30
at Boyce Memorial Assoiiatc Re
formed Presbyterian church.
Mr. Marmon died at .5 o’clock
Monday morning at Kings .M'»un-
tain Hospital where lie had
HUD Approves
Beautification
Grant Of $10,000
The city has received an urban
I'eautification grant of SIO.OOO,
Lawrence ’M. Cox, assistant sec-
r(‘tary. Department of Housing &
He had h(*en a member of Fair-
vii w Lodge AF <t A.M hu’ more
than a half cent.u’v and was a
former d:r<*cior of Kings Moun
tain Savings t'c Loan Association.
He attended Krskinc College' in
189;-!-99.
His mother, who died when he
was two, was the first person in
terred in wh:it is now Mountain
Rest Cemeterv.
Surviving arc his wife. Eunice lhan Development, has notified
Plonk HariiK'n. to whom he was Mayor John Henry Moss.
the afternoon. Former mem- ments for the Jaycee Community
Raymond
tors. Mrs. Zeb Vance of Macon, , Paul Dover and
Georgia, Mrs. Eugene Smith, Sr., i forth,
of Bladenboro, and Mrs. David ^ —“
Gamble of Memphis, Tennessee, * ^
an dthree sons. R. Broadus Elamj JqSIIvA VwCUV 9
of Gastonia, Philip R. Elam of * ^ 1 ■ 1
Mars Hill, and John E. Elam of;lN|0c r0||H||r|0Q
QQ.’jbers and pastors, sint^ers from
! other churches, and friends of the
host church are invited to join
in
I
i the day of special services.
Bladenboro. Also surviving are
two sisters, Mrs. Ida Rush
CoHfi>i»crf Om Eight
of
i
Howard Lutz Buys
In Kings Mountain
Ilow'ard R. Lutz, registered
pharmacist at Kings Mountain
Drug C’ompany the past seven
years, purchased interest in the
firm June 1st, according to an
nouncement by John 4,. McGill,
si'nior partner In the firm.
Mr. McGill and Charles D.
Blanton, Jr., partners in the busi
ness, said, “We are pleast'd to
have Mr. Lutz a partner who has
jp'ovcn himself to be a man of
iiigli integrity and a Christian
gcnllrmun."
A gra ate of the UNC School
()f Pharmacy at Chapel Hill, Mr.
l.utz holds an A.B. degree in so
cial studies and minor In biology
from Lenoir Rhyne college at
Hickory. He sehved three years
in the Army Security A'^ency. in
cluding 2S months in Germany.
He is a director of the Kings
Mountain Merchants Association,
|a member and past president of
rthe Cleveland County Pharmaceu
tical Association, a member of
Kings Mountain Country club and
ConfiJiKcd On Paje Eight
Interest
Drug Company
PRESBYTERIAN
The Sacrament of Holy Com-,
munion will be observed at the
morning worship hour Sunday
at 11 o’clock at First PrGsb>'ter-
Lan church.
Dov'elopmcnt Aw'ard. Whereby, in
examining the c'ommunity and
designing action projects to alle
viate needs found by analysis of
that examination, this chapter did
give its membership and the
lie an increased awareness of „
cal problems and did thereby con
tribute to the overall growth and
development of the community."
Joe R. Smith was president of
the club in 1968-69.
a patient for a year and a day.
Death was attributed to pul
monary congcsiion and licait
failure.
Mr. Harmon was born on White-
oak Creek in Cleveland (.’ounty on
1S74. fiiurth son of
Peter Beam and Kiltie Kells Har
mon. He came to Kings Mountain
married on Or!<ibi“r 16, 191S, a
son, Martin Harmon, ('ditor-pul)-
lislicrof the Kings Mountain Her
ald, and a half-sister, Mrs. T. P.
McGill, of Kings Mountain.
The fuceial ri*is wUl tv
The grant ts to ho used for
beaulifitation of Phenix Triangle,
the Ncigliborhood Facilities biiild-
iu'.r. .Mountain Rest cemetery and
{cwntown development.
Matching fund? are to be pro-
diuirl by Dr. William L. Pressly, vided l)y the city.
"W(
are pleased to acknowledge
said May-
Funeral rites for Jasper F.i
Ware, 73. retired carpenter, were!
held Sunday afternoon at 3p.m.
from El Bethel Methodist church.'
Rev. E. L. Murphy officiated at'
the final rites and interment was
in the church cemetery.
p.m.'in'^rKl5s’'Mounta[n^Ll;|Pj05|^^ Qf HOSpltal TfUStCGS
George W. Mauney Be-Elected
George W. Mauney has been re-.
pital after illness of several t
years.
A native of Cleveland County, , .
he was the son of the late Mr.jelected president of the Kings
' and Mrs. Gresham Ware. He was: Mountain Hospital Board of Trus-
a member of El Bethel Methodist j coming year. |
i church. j
! Suniving are his wife, Mrs. Idaj nf fleers are James C
Ware; two daughters. Mrs. J. E.I officers aie James l.
Metzger of Windemere. Fla-, and Gibson, vice-president, also re-
I Airs. B. J. George of Aiken. S. C.:ielected, and Thomas A. Tate, sec-
three sons, Kenneth F. Ware cf retary. '
1 Orlando, Fla., Jasper R. Ware of
Everett, Mass., and Gene A. Ware
: of Kingsport, Tennessee; and two j ...
I sisters. Mrs. W. H. Howard and ti’usteog. elected for a five-year
I Mrs. Ben D. Phifer, both of Mel-«term, are George H. Houser an;l
I hoi'. nle,’ Fla. Also surviving arejHugh D. Ormand. They succeed
.CLOSEE UNTIL 1
Tlic Kings Mountain Hcral.l
will be closed until 1 p.m. riiui'-
day. Funeral *>f M. L. Harmon,
Sr., fiiilhcr of the Hcrabl c'clitor.
is scheduled for 10:36 a.m. TIv*
Herald 'vvili also he closed on In-
dcpcnd(‘nc(' T)a\.
in 1S94 wlicrc lie has resided
since. He was emplioed as a gro-
cerv’ clerk at tlic rorm<'r Cora
of Mooicsvillc*. former R >y
Memorial i.asxov for IS ytsar.s. and receipt of this grant",
hy Rev. Charles K;tslcy, pastor td or Moss,
si. Matthew’s Lutht'ran Church.
Interment will be in Mountain
licsl Cemetery, Dr. c'harlcs Ed
wards, who tossumed the pastor
ate of Boyce Memorial Church
U i'dni-sday. reading the Sci iplurc
and saying a ; raycr.
NEW MEMBER
Gerald Carrigan was indu<‘tod
as a new member of the King.s
Miiuntain Jaycees at the club's
regular meeting Tuesday night
at ih( Woman’s club.
Re-Development Commission Taps
Carl Mauney For Another Term
Carl F. Miuincy was rc' cli'ctcd
chaiiman •>! Uie Kings Mountain
land Dilling Mill Stores until 191(^ R( de^clo; mt'iit rommis>i<m Tues-
Uvhen he purchased ilic Dilling a joint luncheon
New members of the
board of ' ,
n
PARTNER ^ Howard R. Lutx
hos purchosed inttrost in Kings
Mountain Drug Company and be
comes third portner in the Kings
Mountain firm.
nine grandchildren and 18 great
grandchildren.
JAYCEE PROJECT
Kings Mountain Jaycee.s will
sponsor a light bulb sale Mon
day night via a door-to-door
canvass from 7 until 9 p.m. Boh
Myers is project chairman. Pro
ceeds will benefit the club’s
community projects.
R. S. Lennon
Houser.
and Mrs. Liiura
The elections were held at tlie
annual meeting last Wednesday |
in which progress reiiorts were
“received on the building program
now undo: way. According to
Grady Howard, administrator,
{construction is on schedule and'
; due completion date is late 1970.
PRESIDENT—Geoige W. Mauney
has been re-elected president of
the Kings Mountain Hospital
Board of Trustees tor the coming
yeoi.
Mill Si<>:c. op( iting M until 19J1.
From 1933 until li:s la-iircn'.ent at
' the end of 191‘', Iw u '-s inane:;c;
of Plonk Brothels Groci'ry. l-'ium
:■ 191S he had various ;aimin:' in-
I tercsts.
;i An elder <‘mciiHjs (>f lp)\cc
:|lMcmo:i:»l ARP Ghindi. hc’ \v;!s
' among the dono's of n’'oni'rt\' foi
ll'c cbiirc.'i. iv w (’lul.-'t llio K:’ig
Catholic (,'!ni’‘ch. consli ocii d in
1S9S .'I the of Ihi'dmont
Avetnu' an i King .Siii’ct.
COIN SHOW
C’h('rrv\ilb' I'oin cbih will
sp( nso: a ';ho\v •'at'c-d'o- ni
Carbon i‘luhh''use. Cherryville.
Free silver dollars will he given
as dwir ini/cs. The Chcrrjvilb*
club soonsars a shou (’ach first
Saturday cf (‘ach m mill, arvanl-
ing to annouiic(*mcnt by Kill
Spake.
mct'iii.u < Lie Ki'devclopmcnt
Co'mmis.<if)n :'>ul the Proicct Art'a
^.'-nmnitlcc for-tin* Ccnfal Kusi
ness Di.strict Ih'ban Renewal Pio-
jeet.
.l.Jin (>. Plonk. .Ii-. was n'-clc't-
1 as •hairnian ol the Rede-
Vi'lopniom Commission.
J. M. l.a’ic;'. K\(‘.’ut:vc nna*;-t
'•r of i!'(‘ C''mni: .s'-M di-'oin-.v'O
lio .Toii'c. {v’ U'lV l ive s’t(' pD*i
f )’.* the (!• wn:.A\n .lu'.i. He point-
''i (Hli that planning for the
Icavn'own pi )i( oi is p’-ocN-cdrig
on s.'liedule .'nd tliat the site plan
will hr film c'utugli hy mid-July
to eomplcti' l.-m I ae<|uisition and
lan.l disposition maps and de\eh>p
initial c estimates. This infor
mation will p:'o\ idc the basis for
>ulmnssion of a downtown devel
op.ment plan to the Atlanta Rc-
CuntinucU On Page Eight
RE-ELECTED — Carl F. Mauney
has been re-elected chairman
of the Kings Mountain Re-De«
vclopment Commission.