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Population
Grntfter Kings Mountoin 21,914
City LinMts (1966 Census) 8,256
City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9,300
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Kings Mountain's Reliablo Newspapei
VOL 82 No. 4
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C. Thursday, January 22. 1970
Eightieth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
City Gets $28,215 Parks-In-Cities Grant Reservation
PHA Rent Schedule Reported
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SELECTED FOR RUSSIAN TOUR**-Four Kings Mountain high school students will join a Soviet Union
Concert Tour this summer called Good News Singers of America. From left to right they ore Jack
Bell, Cynthia Alexander, Linda Ross and Leon Ross. Van H. Romsey, minister of music at Shelby's
First Baptist church, will direct the concert group of Cleveland County young people. (Photo by Isaac
Alexander)
Russian Tour
!h Musk Group
For Students
Bob Maner Files
For Commission
Maximum Income
Schedule Also
Is Announced
By MARTIN HARMON
, Uont schedule for Kings Moun-
' tain’s low rent housing project of
150 units have been approved by
; regional officials of the Depart-
’ ment of Housing and Urban De-
' volopnicnt and wctc announced
; this week by Tlioinas W. Harper,
executive director of the project.
I Minimal rental will be $28 per
I month and tlie eflcctivo maximum
I $r,5.
i Tn(*omr limit.*-- on eligibility to
I rent the low-rent dwellings were
} also announc(*d. For one per.son
the maximum iiK'ome for eligi- i
bility is $3300 pc'r year, for a fam- |
ily of ten or more $5400. i
Rental applications are now be- i
Ing received each Saturday morn- j
ing from 9 to noon at City Hall.
Built into the basic rents are I
$11.75 per month for utilities, in-!
eluding utilities used in excess of j
that amount.
Mr. Harper re;>orted tliat the in
clement weather has slowed con-'
structioi. slightly, but that thei
project will be speeded to com-'
pletion when the weather mod
erates.
The 150 unit.'^ are l>eing huilt CJ x
on nine sites. Most advanc'cd is'^ClldlOr HdUCII
the 20-unit group on Lackey
street. Large group of units is 40
on Barnette drive.
Work is beginning on the East
Ridg4i.sU'eet adminislruuvt build
ing which will house the Tublic
Housing Authority offices and
supplies warehouse.
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AWARDS FOR SERVICE—Gerald Thomasson, center, wos tapped Kings Mountain's Young Man of
the Year for 1969 by the Jaycees Tuesday night. 7 he civic organization also honored Ben T. Go
forth, left, as "Boss of the Year", and Lorry Allen, right, as “Educator of the Year."
Thomasson “Man of Year
Allen and Goforth Honored
(Cynthia Alexander, Jack Bell,'
Leon Ross, and Linda Ross, stu
dents at Kings Mountain highj
school, have been selected lor the'
Soviet Union Conceit Tour, spon
sored by Intourst, the official| Bob Maner, 42, Kings Mountain
agency for al] travel to and from insurance agency owner, has filed
the Soviet Union. The primary! notice of candidacy for tiie county
object is to aid many of Amer- coimmission, subject to the May
ica’s outstanding choruses and in-; Republican primary,
filumcntal ensembles in the plan-;
ni/jg and executing of interna-l Mr. Maner has bi‘en active in
tirthal tours. ” | GOP politics for severnl years and
I has twice carried th(* party’s ban- \
Van H. Ramsey, who will dii-ecti no in elections. He unsuccesfully;
the group, o' young people| sought a county board of educa-
5rom North Carolina is minister | tion position in 1962 and a house
;of music at Shelb/s First Bap- seat in 1961. ' j
,tisr church. Mr. Ramsey is one of: ^ Kopre.sen- 1
\/six men throughout the United, j j, ^ I,
I States, selected to head a con- can(fidacy for r(‘-election in:
] cm tour of the Soviet Union in - the .secretary of Cleveland
1970. He calls his group the. Republicans and form(*r cliairnian
Good News Singers of America.; west Kings Mountain precinct.
Jimos Bony minister of, filing, ho issued Iho fallow-
nust at Myers Park Baptist -
rhurth, Charlotte. N. C. will act statemen .
sistant director. "Cleveland County has enjoyed
! much eeonnmic and .social progress
orts will be arranged in i in the past dozen or so years.
jhuBChes, cathc'.als, universities, ‘ shelby lea^lership was superior in
miliary installations, to\'*n halls, the late 50’s and continuo.s with
o^t^oor theatres, sh ps, over news all areas benefiting. Kings Moun-
and in U. S. embassies. | tain Municipal Government has
Ilf I'opertoire will include music been quite effective in reeent
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charged from Hie naval reserve as
a lieutenant j.g.) after 41 months
of service. Ho is a member ol
First Presbyterian church.
TO CONFERENCE
Mfiyor John Henry MoSs and
Chairman Don Joties pf the city
human relations committee will
attend the human relations con
ference of the North Carolina
Good Neighbor Council in
Charlotte Thursday and Fri
day.
r ——
Tells Jaycees
He's Running
"It’s no secret. I’m running.”
This wa.s the statement of
Senator Marshall A. Rauch wlu»}
announced Tuesday night, for the
first time offfclally, that he would
be a candidate for re-election to!
a third term.
Rauch, 47, Gaston Dmnocral,
represents Cleveland and Gaston
counties along with Senator Jack
White of Kings Mountain.
C<mtniu('d On >Page .Sir
I
llUl VM,
s alisis
Ckifico
l*om both American and Russian
posers.
Cynthia Alexander, a sopho*
inore, is the daughter of Mr. and
years and moves into I lie 70's
with much optimism. Upper Cleve
land County is inivileged to have
good leader.ship ami has moved
iVvfrs. Charles L. Alexander oX 111 i forv-’ard witli industry-acquisition
Icountry Club Di-.ve. Slie is a and water .system installation.
^ member of the First Baptist j Progre.s.s is evident everywhere in
r church, where she is a member
* of the choir and assistant organ-
Ut. Miss Alexander, who plans to
major in music,.plays tlie piano,
the organ, and the accoi'dion.
M ss Alexander
the school choi
the southwestern part of Uie coun
ty.
"The problems of government
tend to increase with progress,
and the need for cooperation he
BOB MANER
Funeral Held
For Mrs, Ware I
F’uneral rites for Mrs. Ethel
Ware, vrife of Ralph iBabG)|
Waie, faimer Kings Mountain!
policem-an and now an employee!
of Kings Mountain Drug Com-j
pany, v/cre held Wednesday at
JOHN ANDERSON BALLEW
John Rallew
Is Finalist
Improvements
To City Parks
Are Planned
*By MARTIN HARMON
The Metropolitan Development
Service, Department of Housing
j and Urban Development has no
tified Mayor John Henr; Moss of
j $28,215 grant reservation for de-
I velopment of the city's three pub-
I li^ parks.
The grant reservation i.*; being
made under the federal govern
ment’s "Parks - in - Cities ’ effort
under the open space land pro
gram.
The program is a 50 50 share
arrangement between the federal
government and municipalities
and implies a total expenditure of
$56,430.
The city’s grant application re
quest will detail intended (‘xpendi-
: tore of these amounts: Davidson
! Park $22,498; Deal Street Park
; $19,421; McGinnis Street Park $19,-
: 421.
I Principal expenditures at the
three installations fall into the.se
categories: land acquisition; land
scaping, addition of playground
: facilities and picknicking facili
ties.
I Thomas J. Armstrong, assistant
■ regional administrator for the
HUD, wrote the Mayor:
I "This is in reply to your letters
: dated December 5 and December
29,1969, expressing your intent to
i submit an application under the
special Parks-ln-Cities effort be
ing undertaken as part of the
Open Space Land Piogram. It is
expected that your formal applica-
! tion will request assistance for
the acquisition and development
of three sites located in a low-in-
, ^ , come, densely populated area of
I Gerald Thomasson, 30, is KinRS, the city. The total area to bo ac-
Mountain’s Young Man of the i. quired and developed is appro.xi-
I Year for 1969. j naately 7.02 acres in size and the
I The Kings Mountain Ja>-cees i estimated total cost Ls $56,430^^
116th annual distinguished service The Federal grant contribution m
j award was presented to a Jay-! estimated to be one-half of.tlj®
; cee. the local club's past president,: amount, or $28,215. Furthermorf,
j (hurch and civic loader, at the your letter evidences a commit-
I close of the Jaycees’ Bosses Night, ment on the part of the City 4^
'Banquet Tuesday night at the-Kings Mountain that all paoje^t
I Woman’s club. activities, including developmegt^
"This award belongs to a lot will be completed with^^one
1 of people,” Thomasosn said in ac- ^
cepting the handsome engraved, "With respect tothe a<|
' plaque emblematic of the honor, identified above, the City (.
Identity of the winner, a secret ’ i® hereby assur
until the Tuesday night an- ^^*^ds are available unf
nouncement, wa.s followed by Space Land Prog
■ standing ovations from the audi- projects and activit
j once. as.surance of the avails
The presentation wa.s made by financial assistance
Rurlie Peeler, first DSA winner in! effect until
Young Educator
And Boss Awards
Are Presented
1953.
into an allocation, proV
approvable application can
mined to the HUD Regio
ficp within 90 days of the dale of
this letter, or April 15, 1970. This
assurance will automatically
Continued On Page Six
I Beatty Druggists
, . * * 4 p.m. from Central United Meth-:I
IS <1 soprano mI twren local, county state ^rid- of which she was ai
r ami is a voice; federal bodies as vital. II is
student with Allen Jolley. j sincere desire to become a parti * ^ ^ i
the son; of the county legislative process . Mrs. \Vare died T>iesday morn-1
,f and to serve skillfully.” I '"K at 7:30 m the KinRS Mountain
■ Mr. Maner is a sraduate of:'}oaP'tal after declining healthll
and holds a
for some time. Death was at-i
Jack Bell, a senior, is
of Mr. and Mrs. E; gene Dell ofj
Route 1. His school activities and'
honors include baseball, basket-i David.son college “ifrihuiA^ i^anr^v
b:^n. vice-president of the Key! master's degree in
club, president of the sophomore, fmm the University of North Caro- p, •. U ^ daii<Thter of
(Continued On Page Sir; ‘ lina at Chapel Hill. He was dis- Coimt>. S. C.. daughter of
Bethlehem Firemen Will Stage
Miss Big B Contest Saturday
Names of the conlestants and eery, Sidney’s Barber Shop or
the 10 finalists in the first an- may he; purchased from any
rual M:ss Big B Beauty Pageant member of the Bethlehem Fire
are secret. Department. ^
■ To learn their idf titilies. you conteslant/vvill be foaturtHi in
will need a evening goavii. swim suA and in-
^ terview categories.
7:30 p.m. at Betlnvare school.
The fun shew is sponsored bv A spokesman for the firemen
of Cherokee
the
late Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wilson.
Be.^ides her husband, she is
survived by two daughters, Mi^s.
Continued On Page Six
Five Applicants
For Franchises
ing. Slu* bakes tasty cakes and
Five applications have been re
ceived for the four additional taxi
franchises that the city commis-
.sion has voted to i^sue.
Applicants are William Earl Al- ;
the Bethlehem Voluntef'r Fiie commented. "You may have seen Icn, Paul R. Sanders, Clark J. Mrs. Myers is the widow of
epartincnt and proceeds will he the Miss North Carolina Pag-; Ru.shing, Stephen E. Ralhbone and' Henry Myers who died in 1945.
sed to p. rchasc f re fighting e- e.int, the Miss Ameri(>.a Pageant,| J. Earl Stroupe. Mr. and Mrs. Myer.s were mar-
quipmenl. or even the Mss World Pageant, The city commis^slon on Jan-.red Det ember 13, 1S96. Thoix'aie
Reserved seat tirl.eis are on but you haven’t seen a beauty uary 13 also voted a 30-day ap-1 four children: Mrs. Arvieree
sale at Herman Bluknk Grocery, pageant until youVe seen theTen| plication period for the additional England, Mrs. Gray D. Foster,
G. A. Lail’s Grocery Cash Gro- Finalists.” franchises. ! Smiley Myois and Mrs. Wyona
MRS. MYERS NOTES BIRTHDAY — Mrs. Betty Blackwell Myers
celebrated her 98th birthday Friday. The Kings Mountain citizen
spent a quiet doy at home with her family, watched her favorite
wrestling program on television.
Mrs. Betty Blackwell Myers At 98
Cooks, Is Television Wrestling Fan
M:\s. Rptty Elacki^.>ell Myors,: Pcarsoii; 16 -rrandcliilrti-c-n; 4ij M llii.s limp. Those chosen hv tho
who celcbratcxl hor 9Sth birthdayi groal-grandchildrcn an l ^^voi Comniitce will
Saturday, is an avM sports fan. great- »rcal grpndchild:en. A son, owed by Hie Boaid
‘^hP n-rlipularlv cniov, witch- ‘"'arence Myeis, died in 1360. !"^ T. '*stccs of the Moich<-ad
in.r wiesUine on leW sior Bap-| "ho will make the
mg wicMling on leiev.sion. ,|sf andhas lone-'’"ati’s m March.
accond favorilo unsttime la cook. T artivc member of thm A"nrfls provide four-
phi rch. She reside., at 103 Stowe! all e.x|)ense-paid indergrad-'
I uite od canons at (he Vniversity
here. They are worth $8,100 each
Mrs. Myers is .grandmother otito North Carolina students. They
four grandsons who have worked were o.stabli.'^hcd in 1951 by John
on the staff of the Kings Moun- Motley Morchead, UNC .graduate
tain Herald. Allen Myers, a lino- and native North Cai'olinian who
typist, anj,i David Myers, a part-, resided in Rye, N. Y.. until hisi
Continued On Page Six Ulcath hi 1965. '
John Anderson Ballew, senior .p. ^ .
stLdent at Kings Mountain high' Jaycees also Iionorod two
school and son of Mr. and
W. C. Ballew, Ls among six rion;-’..Yr,,n„r i f
inees chosen from D strict IX as
a finalist for a 1970 Morehead
Scholarship to the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ^ fintl Vnm
rp, • f. 1 . ^ . , tions from the public and the .so-
The SIX finaJ.shs and (wo alter- jection committee is made up oft
latcs were selected fiom a field citizens over 36. The winner is IB -J x Wl
Of 22 nommei s from 10 counties not necessarily a Jaycce, is tapped I rieSld6nt-EleCt
comprising Distnct IX following, for outstanding community scr ' AIAWI
interviov.s in Morganton VVe:i-, vice. The local club Aicmbors'sc-1 ^^**^”*s Beatty, partner in Mou.
nesday. District IX is composed lect "Young Educator of ^ the ele^
of Alexander. Avery. Burke, Year” and “l^ss of the Year” i president-elect of the CIe\
Caldwel!. Catawba, Cleveland. Allen a newcomer to the i-iv < County Drug Association.
Gaston, Lincoln, Rutherford and^p„ is a A*,?r, ^ 'The president-elect fills the di
Watauga counties. Appalachian -ties of vice-president
Roy Armstrong, executive fUr- and mas/oFrdc^reo-^ Elected president' at Sunday
edo, of the John Motley More- draft^ilg and g was Tommy Barn
head Foundation, who made the, of Suttle’s Drug Company (
announcement of Ballew’s select-; ^ioal Institute j Shelby, who succeeds Ragan Har
ion, said the other finalists are p - *, of Kings Mountain Drug Com
Jock Pike Ollis of Ncwland;! Loforth.^a plumbing contractort pany. ®
rhoma.^ Gene Smith of Drexel; Js father-in-law of! Elected secretary - treasurer -•
,Toiin Darroch Cameron of Gas-- recipidnt,, Bill I Hubert Adair, of Cornweir^ n
I tcni 1 John Klauminzer Molen of! Contmued On Page Six \ Store. Shelby. u,
Gastonia and James Christpher ~
Callahan of Rutheiforriton. First,
alternate is Lester Lyndon Key,.
Jr., of Hic kory. .Second alternate
is Junius Mic hael Gaither of New
ton. ' *
Kadi of the 10 Morohead A-
wards districts in the state will
select six finalists to ajipear for
inlr. views bedoro the Central,
.Morchead Selection Committee in]
Chapel Hill Fch. 27March 2.
A total of 52 nominees from 26
private preparatory schools on
the Vloreiiead Foundation’s sel-'
i octej list will also be interviewetl
Hfimant, New C of C Pmide^
New Industiy Won't Be Detrimenl
L. E. (JOSH) HINNANT
L. E. (Josh) Hinnant,
nstalled president of *„
[Mountain Chamber of Comme
I told the membership at Monu
i night’s annual meeting the or^
ization would not seek to brl
'n new industry “detrimentaP
; existing industry.”
Concurrently, he continued, tH
. organization would continue i
industry-seeking efforts to obti
esponsible industrial citizens \J
^ an aim al diversification.
. President Hinnant. eleval
^rorn vice-president, said the .o
yanization is working toward ol
taining a full-time executive
retary,
He cited particular Kings Mti
I tain needs which, he said,
jtnuted to the loss of a ml
j industry during the past yeaj
Ihousing, an upgraded downtl
■business section, and laP
country dub facilities. He
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