Population
Greater Kings Mountain 21,914
City Limits (1966 Census) 8,256
City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9,300
Givat^r king* Mounted* flguro U cteitrod tS9m tM
BpociTl United States Bucemi o| the Census repnit •
lani'ury tSt»6, and Includes the 14.9M populstteh *
Number 4 Township, end the repubdag ••ISd ,|m
Number $ Township. In ClsTelnsd County oM Cfowdof*
VOL. 82 No. 22
Established
Citizens Asked
Bulwinkle, Friday
Run-Off Saturday
Second Primary
For ludgeship
To Be Conducted
WINS GRANT — Frances McGill
daughter of Dr. end Mrs. John
C. McGill, has been owarded a
scholarship to Erskine coUege.
Scholarship
To Miss McGill
DVK \VI’:ST, S. C. Frances
M'wFiill, j r ol Dr. and Mrs.
^x. 'in Mc;i li, eanu"i aa J^lvie
of tilt maUl Scholarsliip to Er-
.■ tlio 1970'71 a-
, Gihseiir^^
Miss McCiiU a senior at Kin"s
Mountain school, oarnod the
scholarship Ihrou^jh tests and in
terviews held this spring; on the
Eisk nc campus.
Klvio Wc<*!is Donald Scholar-
sliips arc awaulcd throuiih in-
e«)nie fiom tlic estate of the late
Mrs. Elvie WcH-ks Donald^ Pilot
Point, Texas.
Political Leaden
In "Who's Who
Iff
Several Kings Mountain area
citizens have biograpltical sketch
es :n the second, edition of Who’s
Who in American Politics.
Included are State Senators
Jack H. White and Mar.shall
Rauch Edward H. Smith, recent
chaiiman of Cleveland County
Republicans and State Represen
tative Robert Z, Falls.
Also listed in the edition,
wdiith includes approximately 19,-
000 persons is State I\epresen-
tative Hunter Warlick of Cataw
ba. Mr. Warlick is a Kings Moun
tain native.
Democrats in thiw c'''’niics,
Cleveland, Gaston ami Lincoln,
return to the polls Saturday to
j arior Couit Judge oi: the 2Tth
judi'cial dislri'ct.
1 The candidates are botli dis
trict judges, John Friday, of
Lincolnton, w'ho led the first j
primary, and Lewis Bulw nklc, of'
Gastonia, who placed second. -
Henry P'owler of Mt. Holly |
placed I'hiid.
> The first primary totals were; ^
‘ Friday 7S23, Bulwinkie 6290.
I Fowler 3015. The Friday lead.
I n-hetted han 'somely by th. mar-
in ho received in his home cou
nty of Lincoln, was 1533.
Polls w 11 op)en Saturday morn- ;
ing at 6:30 and close at 6:30!
p.m.
A light vote is predicted.
Grover Teacher
Is Selected
Selected as orid of 2S partici
pants in the National Science
Foundation sponsored Summer
Cionfcrence on Tran.sition Metal
Chem stry: Coordination Com-
{y)!!!!-.'.*; is Mts. Margaret D.
Moorhead, Route 1, Box 363, Gro
ver, North Carolina who teaches
in Hlacksb. rg. South Carolina.
'i iie Confertmce will b<^ held at
Hi(' College of Saint TerCvsa, Win
ona, Minnesota from July 6-24.
1970.
Parlicipants. 13 men and 15
women, ha\t» IxM'n selecti^l from
17 states and twenty-eight
; schools.
Pu.posc of ihe July Confer
ence for high school teachers of
; chemistry is to provide the leach-
i ers with a background in Trans
ition Metal Chtmistry with em
phasis on structure, preparaldn,
and reactions of coordination
compounds.
Sam Williams'
Rites Conducted
I
; P"uneral rites for Sam Wil
liams, Sr. were held Friday at
4 p.m. from Mount Zion Baptist
church, interment following in
Ebenezer church ermeterv.
Mr. Williams, S3 of 313 W.
Ellis street dietl last Saturday.
Samuel Adam Byers Got Education
At Age 10 As Sweeper, Is Retiring
Cotton mill workers were paid’
.50 cents a day in 1914 and many
of the best “hands” wi re 10-year
old boys.
Samuel Adam layers, 6.5, w^as
j em niscing Wednesday on his re- j
tii’ement alter .56 years in the
carlroom and spinning room of
numerous textile* plants.
Ill* v/ent to work at the age of ;
10 as a sw<*epcr to help support (
his frrniU his mother and I
younger biother.s .anfl sisters af
ter his fatlier died.
“I <lidn’t Iiave time to yd to
.school. 1 was the oldest in a fam- ,
;ly of 13 kids, hut 1 got an o du
ration in till m'ill ” s-aid Mr..
Byers, who will celebrate his 66th ;
birthday next month.
He exjM»cis now to do a lot of
fishing, watch baseball games '
and enioy Jus five grandchiliren.
Mr. H.vers was married to the
former L l.v 'fivers. He has a son
F/’wa.'l B 'CIS, of Kin"s Mom’
tain, and a d nightor. Mrs. Mil
dred Bvins Kiser of Gastonia,
lie atlenils First Wesleyan Meth
odist chur.li.
Upon his May 15th retirement
after 15 y(‘,ns with Kings Mill,
In. ., M . Byers was ; *'esented
a gold watt h In making Ihe pres- ,
entation, D'ek Ilunnieult, com
pany vic(‘*prcsldenl, state.!: "Mr. 1
RETIRRES Samuel Adam
Byers, who retired last Fridoy,
has worked in cotton mills
since the oge of ten. He has
been employed at Kings Mill,
Inc. since Morch 1, 1955.
Byers has l7<*en a most loyal and
valuable employet? and one who
iwill bo ditfloult to replace."
Rfarrd in Kings Mountain, Mr.
By'n« had also worked in Caro-
loon and Cliffsldo,
PROMOTED — Colonel William
0. (Bill) Ruddock has been re
cently promoted to the rank of
Colonel while serving on a tour
of duty in Turkey. The Rud
dock family will return to the
states in late June.
Colonel Rank
To Ruddock
William O. Rud-ock, nephew of ]
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maunty, Kings I'
Mo.:ntain now weais the silver : |
eagles of an Air Force Colonel
after his recent promotion to that 11
rank.
‘ Colonel Ruddock has been the j
D rcctoi* of Procurement and
j Production for tlie past year and(
j a half, and is now tlie Deputy
I Chief of Staff for Materiel for j
The United States Logistic Group
I in Turkey, Grc'eco and the Near j
1 East.
Ho is a 1970 graduate of Kim.sJ
Mountain high school. He grad
uated from Clemson University,
Clemson, South Carol na, after
his military service' during Worlj
War II. Colonel Ruddock is alsoJ
a 1962 graduate of Texas A & Ml
University, College Station, Tex-|
as, and has co:nplelcd an add if
tional year of studies in the|
Graduate School of (he Univei
s ty of Southern California, Los
1 Angolt's California.
I His fornral military cduoationi
I aifter graduation from Aviation]
Cadets Include graduation from]
Squadron Officers School, Airf
(Contimted On Page Six)
I Dickson Rites
To Be Thursday
I Funeral services for John Law- I
rence Dickson, Route 1, Giover, I
I will ho held Thursday aiflernoon
j at 3 o’clock at Antioch Baptist i
I church, of which ho was a mem- i
' her. i
Mr. Dickson, son of (he late
Peter Gilbert and Sarah Ollie i
MeSwain Dickson was a farmer ^
j and mechanic. 'He was a native ,
j of Cherokee county, S. C. and
died at his homo Wednesday
; morning at 8 o’clock after an
! illness of severaJ months.
I Surviving are four sons, Da\ id,
I Gilbert, Bobby Joe, and Ik'an
I Dickson, all of Grover, and a
I brother Clyde C. D ekson, of
I Charlotte. Two grandchildren sur-
j vive.
I Rev. Wayne Tuttle will con
duct the services ami burial will
I be in the church cemetery.
Kiwanis to Have
Ladies Night
Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club
will hold its annual lades night .
banquet Thursday night at the |
Woman's Club beginning at 6:45.
Principal feature of the p.o-
gram will be presented by the
Kings Mountain high scliooj
chorus, under direction of Mrs. i
J. N. McClure.
Pres dent Don Jones will pn*
side and the invocation will he
said by Dr. Charles Edwards. |
Grady Howard will recognize
special grests including wi(h)WS|
of K'lwanians, and B. S. Ptohn
Jr., will welcome the ladies. .\Irs.j
Joe Noisier, Jr., will respond.I
Jake Atkinson will present thoi
program feature.
Members of the ladies nightJ
banquet committee are Carl Fin f
ger, Don Parker, Gra'dy Hovvard.l
Lew s Dellinger and John L. Mc
Gill.
Ma gnolia Garden Club will nr l
range (able decornlions and MisJ
! Suzanne Amos will play dinnej
^ music.