Population
Graoter Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits (1966 Census) 8,256
City Limits (Estimotc 1968) 9,300
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iMP«ry IMf. (ud Ittcludos tha 14,990 popuiatioa o
Nuabpr 4 TowMhlp. ond tba ramcumng 9,124 Iroa
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rf»M»n«hlp lo Caofoa CoMoty
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspapei
VOL 82 No. 3
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 15, 1970
Eightieth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Taxi Franchises Upped Four To 26
Rites Conducted
For S. A. Crouse
Funeral Held | ~
For Former i
City Clerk
vFuncral rito.s for Sylvanus Ar- ’
tliur Croust*. 82. onotimo City t
Clerk and an a;ient for a number i
of years for Pilot Life Insurance
Company, were held Sunday aft
ernoon at 4 p.m. from St. Mat
thew’s Lutheran church of which
he was a member. ;
His pastor, Rev. Charles Easley,.
officiated at the final ritc's and
interment was in Mountain Rest I
cemetery.
Active pallb(*ar('rs wore James
Herndon, George H. Mauru'y, Joe
Smith, Jacob Cooper, Carl Finger
and Dr. W. L. Mauney.
A native of Gaston County, Mr.
Crouse was son of the late C. S.
Crouse and Frances Carpenter
('rouse. He was Past Master of |
Kairview Lodge 339 AF & AM of :
Kings Mountain. He had long
been active in the Democratic:
Party in Kings Mountain and ^
Clev(*land County.
Surviving arc his wife, .Mrs.
Maude Rudisill Croiuse; twoj
daughters, Mrs. Joe C. Hcddcn of 1
Kings Mountain and Mrs. W. D. i
kKcrns of Kings Mountain; and,
"lour grandchildren.
Mr. Crouse died Saturday morn
ing at 5:15 in the Kings Mountain
hospital after a week’s illness.
nou
Aoun
PHA Re-elects
McGill, Tate
Joiin L. McGill has been i‘g*|
elected chairman and Brooks R.;
Tate vice-chairman of Kings!
Mountain Public Housing Au-j
thoriiy, Inc. j
1'he low-rent housing agemyl
was constituted in January 1936'
and is currently building 1,50
units on nine sites within tiie
city.
Mr. McGdl and Mr. Tate were
loclccted at a meeting of the
diiojlors Tuesday night. Other,
memi>ers are William On, Carl
Wilson and Martin Harmon. ,
The directois also named A. Fd.i
(^im) Conner as the authority’s
maintenance diiector. He Will as-'
sume his duties when the initial
units completed are occupied. !
Tom Harper, executive direct
or of the IciA’-rent housing agen-i
cy wdl bo at City Hall from 9
a.m. to noon again Saturday to
accept apiplications for low-rent
housing. Meantime, he was to
for with a regional ropresen-,
tfeiiive of the Housing and Urban
Development department Thurs
day to establish a firm schedule
bf lentals and tests of persons
.cliidble for the low-rent units.
On the recent Saturda>. 21
family applications for the low-
ifnt housing units were receiv-1
Bailey Bites
^eld Sunday
Funeral rites for Lee Roy Bail
ey, 56, of 517 Belvedere Circle,
w<‘re held Sunday afternoon at 2
p.m. from First Nazarene church,
interment following in Mountain
R('.st cemetery.
R(»v. C. A. Bost officiated at the
final rites.
Mr. Bailey died Friday morn
ing at 3 a.m. in Veteran’s Hospi
tal, Otcen, after several month’s
iiine.s.n.
He was a native of (Teorgia, son
of H. G. Bailey and the late Nan
cy Oliver Bailey. He was a for
mer Mauney Mill employee.
Surviving are three sans, Mich
ael Bailey, Ricky Bailey and Ron
nie Bailey; four daughtc^rs, Ra
chel Bailey, Elaine Bailey. Char-
; lone Bailey and Patricia Bailey;
[ one brother, C. T. Bailey of King.'^
L Mountain: and throe sisters, Mrs.
ijunius Boles of Greenville and
^Mrs. Albert Hicks and Miss Ruth
Bailey, both of Kings Mountain.
Mr. Bailey ser\-ed In the Paci
fic during World War II and was
a Purple Heart veteran.
WINS MEDAL — Sgt. Keith
Gore has recidved the Army
Commendation Medal while |
serving with the Army in Ko*
rec,
Keith Gore
Commended
Sgt. Raymond Keith Gore, son
or Mr. an i Mrs. Hai ley Goi’e of
Kings Mountain, has been award
ed the Army Commendation
Medal vvh le serving in Korea.
Sgt. Core is m.arried to the for
mer Betty Brooks of Kings Moun
tain. They are parents of a 12-
months-old son, Chris.
The award was for meritorious
service as administration N C O
and office manager at Head-
1 Corps from June 1939 to Feb
ruary 1970.
The citation read: “During tliis
perioi Sgt. Gore distinguished
himself by his superior iniative
and dedication in the perform
ance of his duties. His extensive
knowledge of office management
and a iministrativc procedures
:ontributcd immeasurably to the;
smooth and .efficient functioning
o. his section. His superior per
formance of duty is evidenceci by
his iieing selected as both battal
ion an 1 Corps S^>Uiier of the
Month, Sgt. Gore’s initiative, pro- ,
tessional competence and devo-|
tion to duly earned him the re-.
rpect and admiration of sube)r-|
dinates, contemporaries and sup
eriors alike. Ilis exemplary per-
lOimance of duty reflects gwat
credit upon himself, 1 Corps
Group ant the United States
Army”, said Lt. General Patrick
F. Cassidy.
CAGO To Honor
Max Hamrick
The Cleveland County Organi
zation of Governmental Officials
will honor Max Hamrick, recent
ly iGtired acting county manag
er, [or his 29'^ears of service to
the county.
He will be honored at the
February 11 meeting la be held
It Kings .Mountain Country
Club. Mr. Mamr ck served as
deputy eleik court, county audi-
or an.J lax supervisor and fin
ally as acting count.v manager
.eforc his rcUremont December:
31.
.Mayor John Henry Mass, com
pleting a second teim a.s CAGO
.hailman, said David Gillespie,
associate editor of the Charlotte
Observer and former editor of
die Shelby Daily Star, will bo
featured speaker for the meet
ing, at which new officers will
bo installed.
Mayof And Dixon
Swap Offices
•Ma,. or John Henry Moss
and Build ng Inspector Kelly
Dixon liavt’ swapped offices
! U'mporarily.
j The M«yor had to be ejeclcvl
! in Older that the lenovation of
I the City all west wing could
I continu(» and moved to tlic
1 ba.s(*rnent.
I Tlie swap wo:ks v(My well
1 as Mr. Dixon is super ntimding
; the extt'nsive renovation.
I About two weeks more work
* remain to complete the job.
Board Wants
All-Night
Co-Op Set-Up
Taxi service In the city will be
expanded to 2t^ by the addition
of four cabs, the city board of
oimrnissioners voted Tue.sday
night.
Approval followed nvummenda-
fion by a .special committee head
ed by Comm. Jim Dickey and after
a petition for tiic expansion was
signed by 200 citizen.*? and bu.si-
ness firms and pr(*sent(‘d to j re
cent meeting of the board. It was
at the request of some t.ixi opera
tors that tlie taxi study be under
taken. Oilier operators took the
opposite point of vio»v.
No taxi franchisfN h ive been
added here since 1919, said Comm.
Dickey who notc'd that in 1940
Kings Mountain had an approxi
mate population of (),.500 persons.
In 1969. King.s Mountain had an
approximate' jx»pulation of 9,300
and an estimate from tin* l‘M)6
cen.sus revealed iliai (;i(‘at(?r
Kings Mountain had a poiiulalion:
i of 22,000.
i In recommending the addition,
Of fo. r new fianchisrs. Comm.!
Dickey said h's committee recom-!
: mends also that “the taxi rompa-'
nies work out among tliemselves!
an arrangemi'iit so that ad('qua(e!
24 hour s('rvic(* will be available;'
that the prerent franchises be op
erated and exe:utcci ‘n a more
burine-sslike way. In that we mean
they should hv on the yard and
working unle.s.s tlu're is sicknes.s,
breakdown or .some other re.spect-
able excuse; that no franchise is
sued by the city be assigned, .sold
or transfent'd unle.s.s approval is
granted by the mayor and the
city board and without such ap
proval any sale, transfer or as-
signment shall be null and void
without an.v effect.’’
The recommendation pa.ssed
unanimously and flu* board <s-,
tablished a 30 day p(*riod from
January 14 to February 14 to re
ceive applications.
One taxi (kperator, Bonnh' Bur
ton, criticized the move, saying
the taxi busine.ss was better 22
years ago than it is today. “Put
ting on more cabs will cut our
jobs half in two," he said. “Every
house in town ha.s oiu‘ and two*
cars in their yards,’’ he noted,
and added, “We can’t keep a gwifi
car in shape if we can’t gel
enough business. Ladies don’t like
to sit in a ‘trap.’’
Taxi driver Wilbur Hamrick i
commented b(‘fore adjournment .
that .some consideration he given '
to raising the mayor’s salary “be
fore wo lost' a good mnyoi,’’ he
said. Hamiick’s remarks were in
apparent reference to roport.s that
Mayor John Henry Mogs is under!
consideration for the post of Gas
tonia city manager, tliougli the
mayor .says ho liasn’t been offi
cially contacted about the job.
MO.S.S pointed out to Hamrick that
his salary is not set by the board
but is established by the slate'
legislature.
Regular Pattern
For Fluoride Vote
REAPPOINTED ^ Martin L. j
Harmon has been reappointed |
to a five year term on the Kings !
Mountain Housing Authority. I
Mr. Harmon's three-year term
expired this month. !
Herald Editor
Is Reappointed
Herald E .itor Martin Harmon
has l)ecn loappointed to a five-
year term on tlie Kings Moun-
ta-n Housing AuLhoriiy.
Ml. Harmon's appointment
was made by the city board of
commissionots Tuesday night.
M ’. Harmon has served on
the housing bodv sinct' its in
ception, said the mayor in rec
ommending Ilis IX* appointment.
Mr. Harmon served as acting
secretary of the Public Housing
Authority until the appointment
of the executive director Thomas
W. Harper.
Registration
Books Won't
Ic Opened
Ground rule.*-- for the informa
tional referendum on the question
of fluoridating the city’.< water
supply — with the excejjtion
there will bo no registration of
new voter.s — will compare to
, regular city elections.
' Tlie fluoridation vott* will he
conducted at the six ward polling
places on Saturday, February 7,
from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The city ccmmi.ssion adopted-
the rulo.s Tue.sday night. I
Other items:
1) Assistance may be gi\<'ii t!»
I a physically disabled per.son by a
( relative or by another per.son ci(‘s-
j ignatod by the voter,
i 2) Ab.sent('e voting will not be.
! permitted. j
3) Only tho.sc* ju'r.Mnis whn.se
! names appear in the official ri'g !
•istration books may vote. i
Thf ballot will read; 1
■‘Shall fluoride he added to tlie'
water supply of the City of Kings
Mountain?
“For adding fluoride.
“Against adding fluoride,”
Kings Mountain voters, also in
informational polls. fa\rn('d add
ing fluoride in 1947, oj)posed ii in
1949.
The Kings Mountain Jayci-es.
leading the pro-fluoride niov'e- •
ment, a.sked permission of the
city to u.se its nddressograpli
plate*! in tlie utility departnu*nt
for distribution of publicity ma
terials. The commission \a)t(‘d to
permit use of the platc's both
prop(/.onlv^’ and <»pponents.
X
SNOW SCENE—Last week the mercurv punched the bottom from the thermometer and citizens
experienced more pair from the Arctic air than from the area's second snowfall of the year. Mon-
doTf was a snow holiday from school and the you ngsters bundled up in warm clothes and enjoyed
themselves. lasac Alexander took this photograph on West Gold street. From left to right, Jonet
Darling. Sheila Beatty and Cindy Darling.
Youth To Become Members
01 All City Commissions
College Group,
iKMHS Seniors
To Be Tapped
GOP Precinct
Meetings Set
Plast and West Kings Moun
tain Republicans will hold pre
cinct meetings Saturday, January
31st, at 2:30 p.m. at Iho Kings
Mountain Armory.
Now precinct offict'r.s aia* to bc’
elected and ail GOP’ers are urged
to attend.
The GOP county convention
slated for Saturday, February
14lli, 2:30 p.m. at the ('kweland
County ('ourthouse. Shelb.N.
Gene Dye Opens
Electrical Firm
Gene Dye has announced the
opening ol his Dye Electric Com-
pan> at 802 Henry Street.
Mr. Dye has spent more than
17 years in the eleetru'al .Ijade
with Hoke Electric Company and
Mos.*; Electric Company.
The firm will offer residential,
commercial and industrial con
tracting as well as r'‘pa{i .*!ervice,
exclusive of small appliances.
Mr. Dyt* is the son ol Mr. .and
Mrs. Sam Dye. He is a member of
First Baptist ehureh and a Sun
day School teacher there.
His wife Ls Joyce Dixon Dye.
Tliey have two sons. Rex, age 8,
and Barney, age 11.
Collins Inquest
Jury Is Sworn
A six-man coroner’s jury was
sworn at 5 o'clock Wednesda..
afternoon to conduct an inquest
into the Ueath o: James S. Col
lins.
Serving on the jury arc Rev.
D. B. Alderman, George B. Hnj d,
Lloyd E. Dav'is. Bill Dover, Hall
Goforth and Ambiose Cline.
You:ig Collins, 19, died of gun - .
shot wounds in the head early
the morning of January A.
Dale for the inquest will he
Kr;da.v, January 23 at 5 p.m. at
the county cou:ihouse, C'nunty
Coroner J- Ollie Hanis said.
DIXON SERVICE
Sunday mornln.g worship ser
vices will be hel,1 at 9:30 a.m. at
Dixon Presbyterian church with
Fbev. Roh-ert Wilson delivering the
sc:mon.
OFFICER — Caraofon Ware of
Kings Mountain has been elect*
ed first vice-president of the
newly • formed North Carolina
Horticultural Council, Inc. Pres
ident of the association is G. N.
Noble of Trenton. Vassar Shear-
on of Wake Forest is second
vice-president and Hugh Vann
of Raleigh is secretary-treasurer.
Bridges' Buy
Ansell
M I Youth of the community of
^ I hi-h school .senior and college
I age will be appo.nttd soon to
I sej ve on various city commis-
ife K'^ions and cemmitteos. the city
^ ‘ ^•omrniss on voted Tuesday niglii.
I Mayor John Henry Moss ask-
;; ol fov and obtained c{»mmission,
, approval to inv.)lve youth of iho'
in a program ho will laln'l;
i 7()‘s.'’
7 no mayor poiniori out th-ai on
govornmontal bodies ostaklished
l;> statute planning, rrdo\o]-
opmont, public housing, zoning
and zoning hoaitl of adju.suncnt
young peopk? would servo on-
' ly as a non-voting as.-^oei.ato. On
I other city rommiiioos and there
ja.o
Teachers To Work
Coming Saturday
icings Mountain district
s. hool pupils, in spite of Mon-
day s h >Iklay due to snow, will
still have a one-clay weather
“loservc*”.
Original plan called I'or Fri
day to bo -a pupil holiday for
teacher evaluation day — a
woi k cay for t he faculty.
Friday will not be a pupil
holiday and the teacher eval
uation day wil] be Safurday,
Suge. intendent Don Jones has
announced.
Bulwinkle Seeks
Froneberger Seat
_ Lewis Bulwinkle, Gastonia, N.
■a.e over 250 citizens serving by District Judge of the 27th
ai;i)Ointmfnt tliey would be District, today filed with
The Slate Bfiard of Elections no-
O’s" candidacy for the Superior
functioning mcmbe:s.
foUoAs o^Vnc^ce’s'^r.'''-,' i-.'w’.nt •’'"'-’‘'sl'iP of the 27th Ju-
.outli ST'Miinar and' :s 'the piiv- P’stncl, now held by Judge
ors plan for inv,>h-ng voulh'in „
the alfahs of the eilv. ‘ f‘«o<-'berger has announc
. , . * ‘d iliat he* would not seek reelect-
A.] h)ard membc:s oxpres.scJ tion fo the office he has held
ince 1955.
jst.ong Migport for liie idea.
'■ ;'a t'):nm. Jim Dk*!;.
!‘‘.Spe.iid.ig -as a patent, I H-el
Shop
. Judge B. T. Falls, Jr., of Shelby,
I this is a su-p in the rig,hi dire.’ ^ the senior resident
; lio;
i Cemm. Norman King said he
Ansell Beautv f-'hop, owned and Du key s staten.eni in
, . ^ I that he was also the
operated by Mrs. Anna* M-ae;
Superior Court Judge of this dis
trict after the retirement of Judge
Froneb(>rger.
pannil of
lohn (Moore) Harris, 68, Killed
When Hit By Car; Driver Charged
Dorty Rites
Held Sunday
Funeral rit('s for Lester Lee
Dorty, 62, of 205 S. Piedmont Ave
nue. were held Sunday afternoon
at 3 p.m. from Harris Funeral
Home Chapel, interment follow
ing in Big Springs Baptist eeme-
tery at Hollis, N. C.
Rev. Mitchell Pruitt and Rev.
Frank Shirley officiated at the
final rites.
Mr. Dorty died Friday night at
9:30 p.m. in the King.« Mountain
hospital after sev^eral year’s ill
ness.
He was a former employee of
Boston Yarn Mill, Lincolnton. He
was a member of Chestnut Ridge
Baptist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Etiielene Horn Dorty; and one
sister, Mrs. W. M. Grigg of Holly
wood, Florida.
John (Little Jolinny) Moore*
' Harris, 6S, Negio, was killed
Monday night at 6:31 p.m. when
struck b. a car oa I'. S. 71 200
'.\ards outside the city limits near
Ro.’k Motel.
Police charged Bonnie* I.cc
Stafford, AS, Negro, of .307 Moore
street. Gastonia, with leaving tin*
I scene (.;■ an accident and muixlcr
by automobile. Ho is fi(*c on
I $5,000 bond.
' Bennett Masters, assislatu (*01’-
I oner, who dndueled an autop
sy said Harris died instantly of
head and internal injmU's. A
j second car, reportedly op(*ralcd
' by r/. har.l \V. Kirby, ran over
i Harris’ bod.v arid sto])p(d on top
of it, according to investigating
•officers, State II gluvay I’atrol*
man J. L. Evans and Police t’hi(*f
Th'imas McDevill. Officers said
no chaiges w<'re filtnl against
,Ki.hy. They said it was n(‘ces-
I sary to await a jack Ix'fon* tlu*
Kirby v( hick* could lx? lifted and
^ Harris’ body removed.
! Accoi'di’ii; to witnesses at the
scene of the acci ent. Harris was
crossing U. .S. 71 just weSt of
the city vviien he was repo.tedly
struck by. tile •Sla.ffoTd 1967 mwl-
ol Fold. The Staffoni ear stop-
I ped at Iho seene but tlu* driver
‘ allegedly jumped back into his
vehicle after looking at Harri.** .nt*ss
and fled.
J. D. M'alkec of .Shelby and
his son, Robert, of Fallston, said
tliey wrote down the fkM?ing
c.ar’s tag ULimber an.i gave it to
State Tr<K)p<*r Evans and Ciiitd
M. Devitt. The tag numlier wa.*^
given to police organizations.
Gastonia City police' cullerl
.McDevill a short lim<* lat(*r and
told him they had pickc'<l uj) a
suspect. Gaston officers ariesied
Stafford at his home on Moore
strcH't in Gastonia. They saifl tlu
front of his car was badly dam
aged.
Chief McDevill and Evans
went to Gastonia where they oh-
tainod prcturcs of the car an.l
arrestivi Staffo.d for (jucsiion
ing. After interrogation Chief
McDevitt, .Slat Old was charged
with hit and run and aul<imobile
manslaugher.
Harris' pocket watch, fouiul a>
lh(* scene of the accident, wa.*;
stopped at 6:31 p.m.
Funoial arrangements for
Harris are incomplete and will
he announced by Gill & Drown
1 uneral Home.
.Mr. Harris, of ](».3 Pansier
stiTCt. is survived by a half
hroHu'i-, Enoch Moore, of Gaff
ney, G. C.
i irpnapp,Ju.lge Bulwinkle was elected a
Ilowoy and Miss Oiiie IIartsell,| c-mmi Ray C'linc said, I bo- w^^a^o^ntod ChleT d"sS^
for the past 31K- years, lias been|liev> this will he a wonderful by the late Chief Justice R Hunt
sold to Mr. and .Mrs. Dohhv R.• ^ri^^*'tun.ty for our yoaih." Parker in January 1969 follow
Bridges. * 'V. , ^‘cldix ing the re.signation of Ju^^
j . .tniv of oUi vouth ioda> feel .\llran of Cherryvillo N C
Mis. Hovvey reri.cd in 19ol, but; left out. I bc'lieve this will Ik* a The 27th Judicial’ District in-
was still a partner in the hus-j^^^B fo.vyard^and tins program eludes Gaston, Cleveland,
iwiil involve many young people Lincoln Counties.
lw;th .00(1 ideas and gooj lead-!
Miss Harisell Iras opened a|erslip,”
shop at her liome, 2d2 North^ ('omm. 'I'. J. Ellison and Cktmm
Piedmont anvtnue. an ! has re-j Maude Walker were also en
taini ■ the name ot tlu* AnselJ; thiisinsiabout the program.
Beauty Shop. —
TC RECONVENE MEETING
With attendance j)oor due to
the inck.'moni weather, Lak(*
Montonici Club stoc-kholdors vot
ed Tue.sday night to re.*onvone
the annual meeting on Tuesday
night. February 10. No action
was taken on election of offi
cers and directors.
and
Mr. and .Mr.s. Bridges wdl liav('l
a staff of f)peta:o;s at the 199;
West .M. . nt:nn street location.!
They will use tlu* nain., ('iihy's!
Beauty Salon, vviih Miss Catiiy!
Carrol as manag<'r. j
tlu' lortnci 1
i
•Mr.s. Ik idges
Norma Falls.
Annual KM Chamber oi Commerce
Dinner Monday; Tracy To Perform
.\nnual moelin,g of Kings .Moini- Terms of Diiectf>rs C’hark's Mau-
tain Chanih(*r of Commer •<’ will ney and Tom Tate are (*xi)iring.
b(* held .Monda.v evening at 7 o’
clock at the .\mericaii L; ..i.m. Other officer.s and directors arc-
Pn«rum f.Miu.v will !,<• <'nl.T 1- I---
laiiiitiunt bv C.-nu l-ia. x , .•umc- Pl-osulunl; Lc- M.mi.x r.-, .s.voml. fc-'rl Brad-haw of Dallas;
dian and proIVssh.aal .udorlainar. * i iRl't SramHiiIdron.
Williams, secretarv-tii'asurer: and Dev. E. L. Murphy officiated at
J. C. Bridges, Bill* Brown, C’inirles Die final rites.
Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Wise, 84
Funeral rites for Mrs. Martha
•’■'isk Wis(». 84, widow of Henry W.
Wise who died in 1961, were held
Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock
j from El Bethel Methodist church,
• interment following in El Bethel
‘ ce meterv*.
-Mrs. Wise died Saturdiiy after-
— noon at 4 p.m. in the Kings
, Mountain hospital after illness of
s('veral years.
She was a native of Li-;icoln
County, daughter of the late Mr.
and .Mrs. Dillard Sisk.
Surviving are throe sons.-Wood-
row Wise, J. C. M’ise and Rock-
toi'd Wise, all ol King? Mountain;
two daughters, Mrs. Craig Arro-
vyood of Kings Mountain and Mrs.
and
The brief busin(*ss .sessioji, Pres-
ulonl Joe i; Smilh nMnou.uod ^ j„.
would iriclud.- aiiimul repo,Is of nridufs. and Gene- Timms
4
officers and elc'ction of two di-
re(*tors.
Memlx'rs and llu*ir wives will
b(» gue.<ts of tin* organization and
additional tickets ni:iy be obtain
ed fur each.
u*x officio
di;< ctors.
as past president b
Reservations are n*(iuest(*d by
Friday at the office of the orguni-,
Mliun.
HOSPITALIZED
Humes Houston. veteran
member of the sales staff at
Kings Mountain Drug Company,
underwent surgery Monday at
Kings Mountain hospital and
was •■doing well."