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\ , < Population Gmter Kings Mountoin 21,914 Lim-’ts (1966 Census) 8,256 aty Limits (Estimate 1968) 9,300 l-d Qiiiai«i ktagt Mountcde Ufur* l* dtrlvcd IM ipccirl Uoiled StatM Bureau oi the Centue report e /(ani'aty tIBB, and lacludet the M,990 pepulatloa • /humber i Towathlp. and the remoioiog %.i2i Itoa /Number S Tewaehip, to Cleveland County and Crowder • tn CfTiton Tetuito VOL 82 No. 2 Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspopei Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C. Thursday, January 8. 1970 Eightieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Taxi Service Report Is Due Tuesday Smith Candidate For Commission 800 KM Pupils Could Lose Bus Some 800 students in Kings Mountain city schools attending Central, North and East would be afiectO(* should the state decide to abandon bus s(*rv ico lor pupils in annexed areas. FIRST BABY AND HER MOTHER — Phyllis JoAnn Toney, daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Toney, is held in her mother's arms on her arrival 10 hous and eight minutes after New Year 1970. The blue-eyed, black-haired baby girl is winner of both the Kings Mountoin and Cleveland County First Baby Contests for 1970. The Toneys live on route two. lake Montonia Stockholders To Meet Tuesday Annual meting of slorkholdcrs of Lake Montonia C'luh, Inc., will jbe held at the Armory Tuesday Slight at 7:30. Toney Girl Wins First Baby PH A To Receive Rent Applications Formal applications ^lor low- j rent publi j housing will be taken ' by the Kings Mountain Housing The state i.< under federal court Authority beginning Saturday, order to abandon Uxir long-term • January 10th, a1 the courtrewm of by March 30 to provide the same City Hall. service (for students living as Applications will be re^eivoi muen as 1.5 mile.-: from .scnools. from 9 until 12 noon each Sat- they attend) for pupil.c; in areas urday. already within the district whent Selection of tenant- will be the law was adopted. j based on income-size of family. Superintendent Don Jones docs not anticipate abandonment. Attorney-General Robert Mor-1 gan ha'-, filed petition with the I federal court for relict from the' order until the ('onvening of the! Coroner’s inquest intc the death 1971 General .Vssembly. Mean-' of James S. Collin.s, 19-year-old time, Governor Bob Scott has in- Shelby road man, will be lield Dickey Group Is Tc Make Recommendation Recommendations of a special committee headed by Commis sioner Jim DicKoy concerning taxi service and operations within the city are expected to bo a princi pal itc.m of business at Tuesday Yates A. Smith, Jr., 44, disable ! > ; night’s city commission meeting veteran ot three branches of the —first ol 197C. i armed forces, Wednesday filed ' The special committee was ap-' "Ctice of candidacy to the Cleve- | pcinle.l afto. a petition signed by County board of commission- I 2nf. citizens and biisines.-! firms subject to the May Democratic ; asked expanded service. ' Primary. j Implication wa.s that additional ' Qrover man said he will f.isliioncd p.,y filinR fee Tliursday. j Collins Inquest Is Next Week cabs over the 22 now an needed. Chairman Dickey ha- not irii-! Announcement by Smith ic thC ;] caled what changes, if any, his first political announcc'imenl of committet- will recommend. f^e season. Mayor John Henry Mos.-: listed, .A Kings Mountain native. Sbnith tliesr additional items on the I *^T'**' i Tue^dav I A. Smith. Sr. of Kings Mountain, t , , ■ He wa.s medically retired from; ibomnjjof procedure.slirtlie,,he United Stales Air Force in February , inlormational refer-; ,9-, ^ three-vear!i endum on the que.stion ol fhiori- ^ad previousiv serv- ' dating the city s water supply. I ^ .. .\avv from 1942-44 21 Receipt of bids on a fire and in the U. S. Coast Guard. M ! 1945-4(1 He was educated in the Kings' dlcated, if the nttorney-genoral-.s during the VVedno.sday afternoon the^Sf’aXis”mmiUc^^^ petition IS dented, he_will call a __ Col hn.^ dmd Sunday morn.ng at fo, authorization to make appli- , course In busLess law afuoward I Jo Ann Toney, six- oynces*_blue-ey(xi,' vhe-pe.sident; Don Crawford s('c- n-j^ rnb retary-treasurer; and Tom Trott, jj >:ix-ve n *«r f-Kn o cl 1 T>A(' ■ ^ . *. 1 Phyll’i PHfltlpaT ba-jiness of the meet•* .'h^ ^any ^ir]^ arrived 10 ing will be election of officer.--and hours and eight m.nutes after* two directors, one from Ch'veland the New Year to b<*come ihe win i and one from Gaston county. ■ nor of both the Kings Mountain Terms of Directors Georgi* II. and Cleveland County Fast Baby Mauney and Buren Neill are ex- Derbies, piring. Current officers are Rolxul Su- dau;.hter of Mr. and tier, Ji.. president; Neil Ernest Toney, of ro, to two. i mber of the Toney fam- vear-old Rhonda Jean, assistant secretary-treasurer. ^ g;a‘dcr at Boihware scliool. Annual reports of the president and .soeretary trea.sur(‘r were in- | ^he Toney family w 11 receive eluded in the meeting notice j phst B.rby prizes from both Shel- mailed to stockholders lliis week, i^y ^nd Kings Mountain mcr- Pre.sident Suher urged mi'-m*, chants, hors to attend the meeting Tues- ' day night, and said the installa- Attending physician w.is Dr. tion of speed bumpers “which 1 j:,hn C. McGill at Kings Moun-| don’t like either*’, had been quite tain iiospital. | sueex'ssful in .stoi>ping Ihe prior; speeding problem on the roads Tlie bnby’s mother is llio for-i around the lake. mcr Eunice B('aty, Kinp Moun- Secrctary - Treasurer Crawford lain native. The baby’s father,i rei-orted income during 1969 of, also a Cleveland Count , native,^ S8212. including a beginning bal- is employed at Dicey Mills, Shcl- ance of $2012, di.sburst*ments of hy. The family attends Pleasant $8154, including $1500 in savings Hill Baptist church. & 1 )an association deposits, and closing balances of 57.62 in Hum Proud gran.parents are Mr.| operating account. 2556 in First: and :»l. s. Vance Toney of route Federal Saving.^ & Loan and $2458 j two, Lav/ndale. and Mrs. Walter| in Kings Mountain Saving.s &. Beaty of route two, Kings Moun-, special session of the General As- bis home at approximately 2 a m. ‘jcmbly to solve the Iransporta- of gunshot wounds to the liead, foj- urban renewal projects tion. the coroner said. ' He war a native oi ('Irvtdand The King.‘* Mountain pr(»blem is County, son oi Mrs. Rulh f. Pat- lessened somewhat because it terson ol Gastonia and ibo laic owns one bus. the others being william K. Collins, state-owned. Ihi.s bus transports survived by Ids wife, Mis. school «heila Anderson Collins; a ! daughter, Sherry Collins, or the home; and blH grandmother.s, about 2(X) students per day in four round-trips. Man oi Year Deadline 16th Su£t. Jone.s .said .abaiU 2600 pu- 1*^::*^’ '***:;, .'T* "’'T 'w 'L : Young Man ot rpr fitter or-«pfrr>«’K^maiely 6C of the enrollment are being trans ported to and from the eight plants in the syst(w. Collins, Sr., both ol Kings Moun lain. Rev. W. F. Woodall officiated at the final rites. Mrs. Baker Is Hospitalized Bloodmobile Goal IOC Pints John Harry, Grover F.loed pro gram (Iiairman, lias announiod the Ja the next Bloodmobile visit for Mrs. L. P. Baker, Sr., .widow of the late Kings M.juntain dentist, suffered a heart attack suddenly Saturday morning at her home. She is a patient in Kings Moun tain hospital. A family spoke.s-^ dono: man said Wednesday Mrs. Baker’s - pints condition remains quite serious, need for blood conimuos critical appli- course in business law at How'ard ] lurlhor fed(‘ral grants Businos.-: eollego, Shelby, and re-i 1 ... ceived a B.S. degret’ in social st i- : en('e from the Univer.^ity of Wis* ’ ermsin. He is .a member of the Grover Optimi.st club, the King.s Mountain VFW Post 9811, a mem ber of the ClevelaTid rnunly Hu-, man R(‘lations eommillcr an * of I Nominations are still Ixdng re-j the Cleveland CoiWnty law and ceived for Kings Mountain's order committee, and a life mem- ' Man 0.1,rpe Y'oar for 1969.1 ber of 3hQll\v Post of Di.sabled A- January 16th'merican Vrferans. The Smith 3nd entries shi; ' j he addressed, family attend.^ Patterson Springs ' to nil] Grissom, D-SA chai’inan.'Baptist churh and live on route | PO Bt).\ 303, Kings Mountain, N. 1, Grover; C. giving leason.s fo. recom-: Mrs. Smith is Ihe form(M' Nan- inemlafioM. cv Seilers of King.s Mountain. Inc vvin.iei v^ill |>r announced They are parents of two daugh- .’t III* anrj' il Young Alan of tlie ters. Mrs. Dan (kild, of Shelby. A ear banquet of the Kings Moun- and Mis= Ree .Smith, freshman at In n .Jsycios January 20lh ai the Kings Mountain higli school. They Woinart's club. have one grandchild. Though sponsored annually by Mr. Smith .said in making his the award is not announcement: no ossarily give-i to a riiib mem-1 “Due to much enrouragement Tuesdav, Ja-i- 13, at the Rescue her. Any vou’ig man hei\vc(’n the from many of the citizens of our Squad Bui mg, in Gro\ei. ages c 2] and 35 is eligible for county and my groat interest and An appeal has nomination. It the nominee ('oncern for the betterment ot all ;s to meet the pal f>f 1<J0 reaches his 36lli birl'idiy hcdoie the citizens of Cleveland County, ’ blood for t;iKs June 1,^1970, he is not eligible. , j am announcing today as a can- Tufk judgfing (ommilhc will be didate for County Commis.sioner though she appears to be resting due to winter sickness and heavy romp ised of citizens of the com-’ There arc many issues that will MANAGER —^ W. Ben Grimes has been appointed regional manufacturing manager of spun yarn plants for the Burlington Yarn Company division of Bur lington Industries. He will direct operations at seven plants, in cluding Phenix Plant 1 in Kings Mountain. well. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter reetdpts for the week ending Tuesday totaled '$117.45, including $108.15 from on-street meters and $9.30 from cfi-street meters. ' ta’n. \'^j Loan. Ben Grimes /1) Class Historian Ruth Hold Craft Wins Promotion Supplies Report on Class of '25 City To Seek Pictures of Mayors for City Hall; Mauney Was First surgery schedules that gincrate munity who an- iwv.- ,n< ,■ 35i be disrussed between now and the uses for the donat<d blood. and tiicir decision a.s to a winner, Mav Primary, tliorofore I will Volunteer workers, doctors will be based on the num nees -make my.^^elf available from Ibis and nurses will be on hand at conlril.utinns (o iln* community ] day forward to discuss the pro- ihe Rescue Building Starting at welfare during the va-ar (.■;') per-; blems of our county with any 10:30 a.m. o-i I esda> and ex- evidence of lea N'.slrp a- citizen or grouo of citizens at any bMii,s (2.5 pevccnli. enrl evidence time that is eonvamiont for you. I busiiK'ss progres.s, can be reached by telephone or in person. I solicit not only your rt- ? V ^*1^ from tii(» gen- vote but your support as well. In al p. Idle will he given coisider-' return. I can only promi.se mv tending uni j 4:30 p.m. to receive blood donors. CANDIDATE « Yates A. Smith, Jr. is a candidate for Cleveland County commissioner, be on- nounced Wednesday. Mrs. Fisher Dimes Leader Mrs. Cal Fisher, pres'rlent a the Junior Woman’* elub, wUP j serve as Kings Mountain chalr- ma i (■ the 1970 March of Dimes campaign. OJher Junior club member*? will assist in the campaign whien will b<» a project this year of the civic organization. A Moth(?r’s March is planned for jaler in the month and com mittee members wdl be calling on me.chants and officials^r indu; try to sock contributions. .Mrs. Fisher is a former Bibl- teacher in the schools. She is a ' native of Rock-ngh-am and a ’ giaduato of High Point college, i She was ma.ripd to the late Cal I Fisher. She and her two daugh- teis, reside in the Oak Grove i (.om:nunit>. 1 Cleveland County chairman in i the drive for lurds to E/.ht birth defects is Mrs. Pauj Susie, Jr. of Shelby, .M.s. S. sic said several events ai'o planned in the coun ty during January with proceeds to benefit the .March of Dimes. alion. de<licated service to all the citi- Benjamin Grimes. Jr., for merly ol Kings Mountain, has (Following the Kings point out two cajiital letters .she been apjwinted ivgionnl manu- Mountain high school class his- liked best and slu' g('ntly .said J facturing manager of spun yarn torv of 1925. Names in paren- and M. Quite singular I think, theses have been inserted by I When we an’iv(‘d in .Miss .!en- the editor in an attempt tr uu- ; nie Leo Kc'rr’s room she smiling- riate the history for less elder ' ly receiv(‘d us. and \v('’re happy readers.) * to that those' smiles followed By RUTH HORD CRAFT us tlie whole yt'ar. When wo One night while dreaming of looked at Prue'Nt'lh' Houser (Pos- the future, I began to think of tont one day sh<' was an nppar the past ot which the mo.st out- rent Sunb('ani. Wlu'n we standing feature si'cmed to be' to laugh at her. our school days. During thi-- lime wanted to be lik( plants for the Burlington Yarn Company division of Burlington Industries, it was announced this week. In the lU'w position Mr. Grimet will dirc'ct manufacturing opera tions al plants in Oxford, SI. Pauls, Ranlo, Gastonia, Lincoln ton, Kings Mountain and Cherry- ville. Now locatc'd in Oxford, hr will transfer to the Burlington b('gnn .«ihe said she li(*r teiicluM’. \\T had studied Ihe aVhievements Bui when wc were told that ; Yarn division offices in High of other people. Now it s('emod to Mis.s Bessie Simonton wnuld be i Point. Part of his new assignment be our time to show our talents our teacher we wen' glad, for we] will include group manufacturing hv writing our poem, prophc'cy. b-d heard many good things a-^ duties formerly held hy Robert will testament. el(. The Class bout h('r and we found them ev- ' McClure at Ranlo. who has rc- gave the history to ni('. I shall oryone true and can add others to signed from the company, relate it to you as 1 n'lneniiier it. them. Fred Hord was worried be- | Qrimes is a native of Moul- Since all histories are narra-; ause arithmetic d.d not last all. erraduato lions of facts and events arrang- day. . J of the (leorgia rie-stiHite of Tei‘h (‘d chonologlcally with tlu'lr cans- in the fourth grade. Miss Dixon ^ nology. He served 17 years with (>s and effects, i shall najrafe it paw that wc toed the mark. It i (j. s. Marini* Corps and fol- in that manner and if it should was almost iK'cossary t(' have joking service in the Pacific The ^et'in monotonous to you—remem- daily drills in orck'i to walk as ^tre, was discharged as a major, ber history repeats it.self. straight a--; she required. .Someone, plant su])erintendent By counting bark ('leven schoor a.sked N(*ll Oal<'^: (Hoyle) why i Deering Milliken years the origin of this clas« was' she walked so .straight and turn- , jqp several year.s and joined Bur found to be on ,8ept('rabcr 11, ‘ ed sijuare corners and she said.] Ungton in 19.57. He servtnl at Hot 1014. I am sure all of \\i .eniem- i “I’m in Miss Dixon's room”. ^ Springs and Kings Mountain jni ber very di.sfinctly that first day, i Miss Lucy Hamrick was .so in- or to his appointment last Mart'h the beginning of a n(‘Wera in our tcrcsted and tri(’d to have us , trroup manufacturing manager lives. What a bunch of little lots! thorough in all our work. Te .say at Oxford. And little tots we were, for many that wo were just crazy about | Qrimes is an elder in Hu i of us were too small to com(* a- h(*r only expr('s.s(*s it mildly. i prosoytorlan church, is active it * iMiie but had to be brought by When Faye McGinnis was a.sked chamhc'r of (‘omnu'rce and Father or Mother. Brother or .8is- why she studied .so much she | pTA. He has Hirer son.s. only ri'plied that she wished toj \s wee liny lots eacdi of us please her teachi'i. > B-nirt was completely in love with Mi.ss "Whon Mrs. (Emmai AusteBe; RADIO SERVICES jon<’.s. Even though our teacher took charge vif our grade, we won-1 Morning worship services dur was in love with a geiith'maii. slu' dered how w(* would like her aft- i the month of January will b( did not fail to give us niir share., er loving Miss Lucy .so much. But broadcast via Radio Static* One day the teacher^, asked ^o-, very soon we began to look on^WCMT from First Presbyleriar • ' fJuniinuvd ~ ~ By MARTIN HARMON When the renovation of City ■ .'•lall i-' completed, the city com-j mission hope? to honor its may-, ors through nearly 95 years, by, placing their picture^ in the new ly created rotunda. , There have been 32 mayors to date. The first mayor. W. A. Mauney, j was also mayor the most separate! number of timt's — five'. Mayor Glee A. Bridges .served the .same number, four term.s successively. Mayor Wiley H. M(*Ginnis had most longevity, 11 year.s. While the old record.s leave some gaps in detail, Mayor Mau-, ney was apparently appointed by* the General Assembly, along with , board members, to .servo until an ('lection could h<' held. At the election, R. S. Sugg was eler*t(?d mavor and sworn on May 8. May or Mauney was elected a commis sioner. Next record of minul(‘s was 2\u- gust 28. The secretary to the board merely reported lliat the May election was null and void and that the former administra tion would resume it.s dutk's, in cluding former Mayor Mauney. Dates of service indicate that city elections were held annually; until the turn of the centur> . These are the 32 and their terms of service: , W. A. Maunc'y. 1874. * R. S. Sugg, 1874. W. A. Mauney. 1874-1877. J. W. Garrett, 187r iH79. W. A. Mauiicv, 1879-1880. . A. V. Fall.s. i880.l88l. W. T. R. Bell. 1881-1882. A. V. Falls, 1882-1886. J. K. Dixon, 1886-1887. F. n«rreft 1887. J. W. Garrett. 1887. H. r. AHispn, 1887-1889. a William White. 1889*1890. a- Founding Fathers Were Early Birds Kings Mountain’s founding fathers were early birds as w(*ll. Minutes of the 1874 town commissioners, in first contcr- ence to a regular meeting, pro vide that the commission iru'ct monthly on fir.st liiesday.s at 7 o’clcK'k A.M. C. M. Nolen, 1891-1893. W. A. Mauney. 1893-189.5. R. S. Plonk, 1895-1896. W. 1. Bradford, 1896-1898. J. T. White, 1898-1899. W. A. Mauney. 3899-1900. L. T. Mann, lODO-lOOl. E. L. Campbell. 1901-1905. G. W. Kendrick, 1905-1907. J. C. Patrick. 1907-1909. C. A. Diliing. 1909-1913. A. E. Cline, 1913-1917. Wiley H. M(.<iinnis. 1917-1920. W. A. Ware,* 1920-1921. Wiley H. McGinnis, 1921-23, P. D. Herndon, 1923-1925. Wilev H. McGinnis. 192.5-1931. W. k. Mauiiev, 1931-1933. J. E. Herndon, 19.TM939. J. B. Thomasson, 1939-1941. Joe H. Thomson, 1941-1947. H. Tom Fulton, 1947-1919. J. E. Herndon, 1949-.51. Garrland E. St ill' 1951-.53. Glee A. Bridges. 19.53-1961. Kelly Dixon, 1961-Um-I. Glee A, Bridges, 1963-196.5. John Henry .Mo.ss. 1965 Pn'S(’nt, K.ngs Moun’uin Jjivccc s liave zens of our great county of Cleve- snonsored a m ,n of the land” Year contest smee 1942. A hand-' : i'.o'nc plaque is presented for distingu shed service. Roy Hardin's Rites Conducted City Auto Tags Go On Solo 1970 th(' C'ity auto license tag.s for wen! on sale this week a National Guard rmory. The lags cost $1 and an* again the project of the Kings Mountain ^uneral ri((‘s for Rov H. Hardin, Lions club. 40. wore lield Sunday afh'rnoon iir 3 p.m. from Davids Bapti.st church, inteniK'nt following in th( church (‘omc'tery. Mr. Hardin died Saturday at 3:3('' p.m. in the Kin-.v Mountain hospital following a w('('k's HI- ness. Death wa.'-* attribiUi'd to a i kidney condition. ; He wa.^- a native' nt ('l(>vo|in:] ' ( ount\', .son of the Ro\. and Mrs.' N. 8. Hardin (4 Kings Muunt un.; Ih' was oniployc'd by Horn Sin-' Sc'rvicc Station in Charlotte' where he wa- a member of North.side Bajitist church. He and his wil(*. t!i(' form('r I)«)ris Simp son. Tesirled in ("'h.irlotic at 1219 Morniiigsidc Dri\ (. Kesi{l(\« hi'* wile and jiarent.s, h(* is survived by a .s m. Barry Har- Miss Sisk Hurt In Sunday Crash Dorris Sisk, 18. resident of the Midpincs community, was treat ed foi injuri(?s at Kings Mountain hospital after an acx'idcnt Sun day. Shmo was pa.'jsengor in a 1968 Imglish Ford operated by Teresa Pro ’tor Wells, 20, of 505 Broad Street. The Wells Ford hit the back of a 1960 Buiek when the Buick driver, Herbert Lee Mc Clain, 5C, ot route two, slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting a/i- olher car which reportedly ran a stop sign on Carpenter street. City Officer E. M. Ball investi gated the crash. Damages were estimated to cost $12,.500, to be j estimated at $50 to the Buick and located at 604, 700 and 707 the English Ford was termed “a Princeton Drhe. total los.^;.” Tags may also be r>btained from Lion J. Ollie Harris at Harris IMneral Home. BUILDING PERMITS J. Wilson Crawford has jiur- chased building permits for the construction of three six-room brick veneer residence.s, each Cerebral Palsy Fund Campaign To Re Conducted This Weekend FT lu'ad later ~ Cerebral Palsy, field of miodical rc'.soarch which Saturday and Sunday marks the day will (irovide Uic break- din nf II n'c 'v- — kick ofl for the 1970 dri\e on cor- to halt cerebral palsy. am. of the U. S. Navv in Norfolk, ebral palsv, and an army of vol- „„ ... Va.; a brother. Ma.\ Harim of unteers will call on their neigh- oilier side of the com is to Knoxville. Tenn(?.sscc; and two hors to seek funds to combat this help provide' for tho.so already af- sisters. Mrs. Bynum Wood of vicious multi-crippler. >n organized programs of Kings Mountain and Mr.-^. Clyde “B is heartwarming,” General Hierapy and car('.” »ort,.n of Grov,.,. ’ Chairman Marvin l.-or said. “I.. ,, ,,,,ur,toor comes fo .see so many who are w.llmK to volunteer their time to this, less fortu- “Hiippine.ss Is Helping” ennipaigii against cere"' Rev. Albert Ha.<ling.< w i"* a.ssisi- ! ed by Dr. W. Jack Hudson in of ficiating at tilt final riles, ’ R('\'. Mr. Hardin i.*-* a former pas tor of David'.-* Ba])tist church. worthy cause.” R. S. monk, 1890-1801. ■J SERMON TOPIC “Laymen Can Start — And Should” will bo* the sermon topic qf the Rev. Robert Wilson at Sunday evening worship services at 7 p.m. at Dixon Presh Once a-ain our campaiRn i.v the ' Happiness Is ih'lpmg march because evcr> .i3 mim.K-s someone, somewhere is struek down by r'orebral palsy. ...jn “Dieso marcher.'^ wnll be asking .. you t. give from your heart to month of Dciembcr for a total help the continuing fight against CIcvadand t »»unty Chairman of of 400 liours and 2,277 miles trav- ct'rcbral palsy. Only as we give Hu' drive is Mrs. Don Crawley of rlkd. A total of 1!)6 stand-by our program move ahead.” Shelby. Otlu'i local leaders are hrurs and 14 t, aining ho; rs vycre “We arc fighting cerebral palsy Mrs, iaury Hamrick, Clint Rank- npoitcd by Wyatt Adcock, re- on two fronts.” Chairman Teer in. iJee Mcltilyre, John McGinnis pbVlpr. said, “there in the ever widening atid Ruegan ilaiiK.*!, SQUAD REPORT Grover Rescue Srpiad answer ed a total cT 49 calls during the*