Population
Greatsr Kings Mountoin 21,914
City Limits (1966 Census) 8,256
City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9,300
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Kings Mountain's Relioble Newsnapei
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VOL 85 No. 29
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday July 16, 1970
Eighty-Fifth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Preliminary Population Count Is Disappointing8432
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100 More Low-Rent Housing
Units Ate To Be Requested
PuMIc Housing
Authorlt; Votes
NewApplicaticn
Kings Mountain Public : jus-p;:
ing AuJioii y, Vv. 'c l i aos- p
cluy nig.u -to appl.L. io’i ,
for DO ad itia.ul low-.o... li. us
ing .uniis.
T;u* api'K. -'-ticn is su'-.if '' to
cndo-.by ihc cl;y cja d
oI t ;ti n!:.5io..o;\s \rlii.li is ex-
pet cd D con.s dcr ihc a; pPc - lion
at laursdjy s 0 p.m. n'.ce-.ng.
T'.\i application is tor ‘V-on
picg.-in” un..s, same
as .lit: 150 ^I'ing coinp*^ .ca
ana ocj-pic<i.
Under ;»iiO convenJoival plan,
the i'liA soils ounas in me pu
vaio iiiaikc-i cO p/'y coiisuu. .*ai.
costs and amo. uzes me ujnda
iromaeh.aJ mcamc. Tnt* lecterai
j;overnmei:t commLiment is on
merit of lepa^ment ox the
bonds should PH a income be in
suiiicii'iit.
<iround has been broken foi
50 UiiiLS under a diiie^cnl sec
tion of the Ifc'de.ai public lious
mg act wheiooy ihe Public
H^^using Auihoriiy !wi]i lease the
untis irom a'private builder. .
If granted, the atWiticnal 100
will bring to 300 'th^ number oi
public housing (ur.iis ranging
tram ^ “no-bedioom’" to “dve
bi:<iroom” — in Kings Mountain.
IA no bedroom unit combines
the living room and bc.iioom, al
so nas a k.tchen and bath, and
is designed for single elderly
persons.)
Kightynine of the 150 initial
uni.s have be<.n accepted by (he
Public Housing Authority, and,
as of Wednesday, 50 of them had
been rented to eligible appli
cants.
Kinal inspoeJon of th^ remain
ing 57 units under construction
on Barnette. Thornburg and
Parrish Drives, on Grace street
and South Cansler street by of
ficials of the Department of
nousirt^f and Urban Development
is tentatively scheduled for July
26.
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MANAGER — Jomes H. Bow-
mem hos bcOn nomed manager
of the Phenix Plcmt of Burling
ton Yarn Company.
Bowman Named
Phenix Manager
James M. Bowman has been
named manager of the Phenix
Plant of Burlington Yam Com
pany. lie succeds Wikrmi Stock-
ton, wh^ is transfetTtfig to High
Point to assume duties with the
Burlingon Yarn division staff.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made by W. B. Giimes
Jr., regional manufactuiing man*
ager.
Mr. iBowman joined Burling*
ton Industries at Cramerton, N.
C. in 1952, an.l in 1957 tran.ser-
I red to Kings Mountain as gon-
I erul oversoih*. Ho became si per-
i intendent of the Flint Plant at
I Gastonia in 19.57. He transferred
• to Mooresville as a manufactur
ing manager in 1960 and to Cool-
• eemce as superintendent. He
''ti>ansferred to the Butler Plant
at St. Pauls in April, 1969 and
; was named manager of the Lin-
’ cx)ln Plant at Lincolnton lait Au-
i gust.
’ From 1943 to 1946, he 'was in
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City-Maintained Streets Total
48 Miles, 83% Hard-Surfaced
Atkins Attacks
"Demc Machine'
In Lions Speech
' A RepublL.:r. Omdlda'c for
the Nor:h Carolina S.ate Senr'.e
^'.ruck out Tuc.'d :y night at
wnnl he termed “the maihine in
R-ileigh".
! Jim Atkins, speikir t > (he
Kings Mountain i-ions Cj b rc*
crud 'to '.he f. la e Adminis.j.r
l.e:. as a “sc'./-p<M-pe:u«.ing
maciiinc*’.
A kins cppnsts J. OH'.e Har-
lis, of Kings Mr-jniain, for the
2C.h dh' 'itt Sci.cte ser'.
In advocating that we give the
Gjvcrnai a veto 'p:.W€.-, Atkins
sa:G “Thai’s someliung he can
exercise out in the open wheie
we can all iccognize il — But
tne Gove rnor of North Carolina
still exists as one of the most
powerful in the United S.ates”.
Governor has complete control
He went on to say that the
of almost all State Commissions
the Educational Comm;ssio*i
“whose meetings he did not at
tend when he w^as Lt. Govcrnoi
and a member”, the State ABC
Board, the Conservation and
Devetopment CommtnaMiiy - * U»
Higihway Commission.
Pointing out that the Legisla
ture gav-e even more tcntrol Ic
the present Governor, Mr. At
kins said, “I am telling you noA
that Governor Robert Scott is
the mos^t powerful Governor the
?>tatc of North C^rollra has had
since the days of Governor Try-
on.”
.Referring to the open mooting
issue, he w’ont on to s.iy “1 at
tended the North Ca»^olina Press
Association in Asheville in the
summer of 1967. One by one I
heard the newspaper men of this
Staile get up ani condemn the
then Lt. Governor, Robert Scott,
because in their opinion he had
killed the Legislative bill that
provided for open meetin'^s. In
January 196<S, at the North Car
olirta Press Association meeting
in Chapel Hill, Robei'l Scott
stood up and committed himself
to the pTciblishers of the newspa*
pel's in .this State to a policy of
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SUMMER riME AND LIVING IS EASY — Catherine Ellen Mann,
above, three-year-old doughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Robert
Mann, tries out the new putt putt course at the Deal Street Pool,
with obvious pleasure# as she shows surprise that the little while
ball actually scored. The youngster's parents are in Tokyo, Jopan
representing First Baptist church at the Baptist World Alliance.
Rev. and Mrs. Mann are expected to return home on July 30th.
(Photo by Isaoc Alexander)
Beauty Pageant
To Be August 29
Contestants
Aic Invited
i 01 71 Event
M
IN JULY 4 EVENT — Beverly
Bell seven-year-old doughter ol
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Bell of the
Oak Grove community# gets o
boost Irom Oak Grove firemon
Fronk Hamrick os she attempts
to climb a greased pole during
recent patriotic celebrations by
the Oak Grove Volunteer Fire
Department Rodney Thornburg#
the top winner# son of Mr. ond
Mrs. Newell Thornburg# caught
the greosed pig which he plans
to roise, and plucked a S5 bill
atop the pole. (Photo by Carl
Behrens).
Kings Mountain maintains 48.66
miles of city streets, according to
the application for Powell Act ga.s
tax rebate 'recently filed with the
State Highway commission.
The city street mile:^ge is up
1.72 miles over the total being
maintained at June 30, 1969.
Of the total, 40.63 miles are
ha^d-su^fa<^cd, or 8^ pxnx'cnt of
the city’s street mileage.
A total ol 4.35 miles of city
streets have been treated with
top-.^oil and graveled, ^vhile 3.68
miles are unimproved.
Powell Act funds arc allocated
on a formula based on population
and street mileage to mcorporat-
ed town.s a/ul •:ities.
The tentative city budget esti
mates the Powell Act check will
amount to S32.000 during the cur
rent fiscal year.
The Powell Act wa.s adopted by
the 19.51 General Assembly.
The city malnlainocl streets are
exclusive of slate maintaimnl
stieets, including King (U.S 74)
Piedmont Avenue - S. Battle
ground Avenue (NC 216), Clew
land Avenue • York RoaS (NC
161), and Linwood Road.
Hearings Set
For Wednesday
City Attorney Jack White said
Wodnc'day night that Clerk pf
Court Paul Wilson has set hear
ings on the 'condemnation actions
again.at Buford Cline and W. K.
Mauney, Jr., partners in Double B
, Ranch, for Wednesday, July 22.
' The ('ondemnation actions were
filed .several months ago In the
j city’s effort to {U-quire needed
acreage for the Buffalo Creek
reservoir.
Jumbo Gets His
Spectacles Back
By ELIZABETH STEWART
The folks at the police station
ai'o having a good laugh and
it’s highly probable others in this
section 'are joining in the fun.
It all happened last weekend
when Police Chief Tom Mi'Dev
lU received a call from the De
tective Division of the Cocoa
Beach, FJa. Police Department.
Had anyone repoi-le.l finding
a pair of sunglasses which
weighed 50 pounds and measur
ed fivp feet high?
”You gotta be kidding” came
the reply.
“No”, i'epli(>d the Floridian,
who gave the name of the party
in Kings Mountain who reported*
ly had the glasses in his pos
session. Chief MeDevilt pmmis-
ed he’d try to locate them and
I'eturn them to the Co(X>a Police
IN'partment.
• Then came the clincher
“An.!! hy the way, chief, the
glasses belong to an elephant at
a Cocoa Beach night club.”
Sunday morning the Gastonia
Gazette, and on Tuesday the
Charlotte News, published stor
ies about a pet elephant named
Jumbo, whose glasses turned up
in Kings Mountain.
The glasses — oif (|uarter*inch
Plexi glass with fiber glass
frames did sure enough
weigh 50 pounds and sto<Hl five
feet tall. They looked pretty
good on »a Vo.lkswagon says the
chief, iwho has some pictures.
On Tuesday, however, the
glasses were shippei from Kings
Mountain via United Parcel Ser
vice to 20 .South Orlando Ave
nue, the addiess of the Cocoa
Iki'ach Police Department.
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BEAUTY WINNER — Beverly ;
Wright# senior at Kings Moun- !
tain high school# was crowned '
“Miss McAdenville*' during re
cent July 4th festivities sponsor- '
ed by Pharr Yarns.
Beverly Wright
Miss McAdenville
Miss Beverly \Vri.ght, dau h-
ler of Mr. and Mrs. Gx’orge K.
Wright, was crowned “Miss Me* i
Adcnville”, during a receni pag
eant and July 4)h weekend fos-
tivilics at tiie Community Cen
ter. I
A senior student at Kings!
Mountain high school, Miss
Wrlgiit was crowne.i by last'
year's winner, Miss Donna IIay*|
don. I
To be eligible, a -membt'r of ,
the contestant’s family is an em-,
ployee of Pharr Yaras which i
sponsonnl the competition.
5oung Women inter*’dod in en
tering the King'; Mountain Jay-
.('OS annual “Mis-? Kings Moun
tain” beauty pageant are bx'ing
a^krd lo contact a JayciH’, Jim
my Jc’nkins or Roy Ruff.
The pageant date is .-\ugust 29th
at 8 p.m. in Central Junior high
.schiK>l auditorium.
Tlio reigning Miss Kings .Moun
tain, Linda Falls, will crown her
-uece.ssor. The pagoinl wilffea-
(ure competition in evening gown,
swimsuit and talent divisions.
Miss Kings Mvmntain 1971 will
receiv(‘ a $200 scholarship, var
ious jirizes and will represent the
city in liu’ 1971 Miss North Caro
lina competition.
.Miss Falls and her chaperone,
.Mr.s. John (Betty) Gamble return
ed from Raleigh Sunday where
Miss I'alls participated for a week
in tile Miss North Carolina beauty
pa.geant, among 70 Tar Heel girls
vicing for the coveted crown now
worn by Connie Li’rnor, of Ashe
ville.
Trophies will b(‘ pro.*ented tv
the beauty queen, to the runners-
up and to “Mi.s.s Congeniality’’,
an honor voted by the contestants
thom.solve.'.
Said Mr. Jenkins in announcing
llio upcoming pn.geant: “We want ^
to onc.iurage any Kings Mountain i
young woman between the ages!
of 18 and 28 to enter the pageant.” j
Ic Ctto Ware
Riles Conducted
Last Friday
I'uneral rites for James Otto
Ware, 72, were heUl Fridac af-
t tc’i n'Km at 2 p.m. from B^iyce
Memorial ARP churvh of which
he was -a membt^r, internv.mt fol
lowing in tlie cemetery of Beth
any ARP church of Clover, S. C.
Mr. Ware dioil suddenly Tir rs-
day morning at 2:30 in the Kings
Mountain hospital a; ‘er suffer
ing a heart attack W’e nesday
night about 10 o’eluik.
I-Ie was a native of Cleveland
County, son of thj> late Mr. and
Mrs. William Pressley Ware. He
was a retired employee of Mcr
grace Mill and a veteran of ser
vice in World War I.
His wife, th^^ former Florence
Wells, is a member of the sales
staff of Plonk Brothers & Com-
oany hei'c.
'Mrs. Howard McKee Guess Closest
To Preliminary Count; All High
By MARTIN HARMON
I
IE tiie preliminary report of;
King.s Mountain’s 1970 tensus
proves .correct or even .somi'what
higher. Mr.=;. Howard McKee, ol
route 2, is the winner of the Her
ald’s dtjcennial population guess
ing contest and the cash prize of
$25.
Mns. McKee’s guess was 852.3,
just 99 higher than the iKelimi-
nary count released Wednesday,
and at the same time tho lowest
^ guess filed.
In otlier words, everybody en
tering the contest high, higher, or
highest, the grandiose one being
one of 32,636.
If the official coun’t should zoom
upward as much as 107, the mon-
I ey would still be in the .same fam-
I Ily, with Mrs. McKee (tho former
Marguerite Tindall) and her
daughter Patricia splitting the
prize. Miss Patricia posted a guess
of 8539.
Four other guesses were in
what proved to be the thus far
correctly conservative category of
tho 8000-range.
They were: Fred A. Tat(» 8621;
Mrs. C. J. Gault, Jr. 8814; C. J.
Gault, Jr.. 8691; and Lee A. Sell
ers 8988. .
Most p.rpular gue .sing category
was in the 9()C)0 range. where 46
guessers plactNl their estimates.
Tho Herald will retain all en
tries until the official census fig-
ur<‘ Is announced.
The c’ontest actually will cost
the Hwald $25.06. One gue.sser
dropped his envelope into the,
postoffice chute bearing no stamp.,
It arrived postage due, six cents.
OFFICER OF MONTH — Ernest
Beam# veteran of eight years
service with the local police de
partment and a former deputy
sheriff# is featured as Officer of
the Month.
Ernest Beam
Officer ol Month
Ernest Beam, vcloran of 22
years in law ('nforiH'mcnt, is
King.s Mountain Policeman of Ihc
Month.
‘ Officer Beam jihned tiic Kings
Mountain ik>Hc(' forre July 13.
1962 after II years v\i(h the
Ch'celand (’oimty .Sheriff’s De
partment and U()unl> Jail and
three years with tlie Prison Ik’-
partm('iU in .Shclbv.
He is a native* of Shelby and is
married to Ihc* formi'r Esther A1
len (J .Shelby. Thc> arc jim nt.s of
Hve daughter.s, one son. and
there ar(' eight grandchildren.
The Beams reside* here* .at 60()
Groves .‘-•trcf't and arc members
.)i Fir.sL Hajitist cluircli.
A graduate of Shelby high
school, Clas.-' of 19.30. Officer
Beam has taken special courses
in criminal lawand rei‘(*nl courses
sp\)nsorcd by the local police de
partment;' in cooperation with
Cleveland T<*chnical Institute.
Besides liis wife, Mr. Ware Is
survi\c»d hy their daughter, Mrs.
John Byrcl, Jr. of Kerncrsville,
N. C.; a hroilier, Hunter Ware
of Wilmington; and a sister. Mrs.
Benton Putnam of Kings Moun
tain.
Dr. Charles Edwards, minister
of Boyce Memorial ARP church,
officiate.! at tlio final rites, as
sisted by a former minister. Rev.
Tom Richie Gastonia.
I Pallboai'ers were James Craw-
I foi'd, Franklin M’are, Marriott
Phifer. W. S. Fulton, Osi^ar Mc-
I Ca' ter and .Mcnzcll Phifer.
Decade Gain V
Is Only 424;
Giovei Up 10
By MARTIN HARMON
King^ Mountain’s preliminary
cen.sus count for 1970 is a disap-
pointln; 813...
The gain over the official con-
.su< o; 19o^, which was 8X8, is
424, and over Ihc special cen.sus .
Oi January 1966, which was 8256,
a mere 176.
Grover’r p eliminary prnula- .
tion count is 548. gain of only ten,
from the 538 cXficial count of
195*.
Gro/or Mayo; Franklin Horry
said hr wa.' sati.sftcd with the
; preliminary report. Kings Mour-
! tain Mayor John Henry Mo:>:5 '.vas
; no^'.
I The figures were received hy the '
' resi>ef tivf* Mayor *. Weinrsday [
I from Jne Harris of tho r(*gional
IU. .S, Cen.su.s Bureau office in
I Charlotte.
I Mayor Harry said several hwis-
I es. had been remov«*rl from the
I city limits during the de ade and
that the only city Jimit.s annexa
tion involved essentially vacant
, pmperty.
I Mayor Moss said he was “mys-
I tified” by the .«mall gain here and
di.scossed with Mr. Harris tho
[Probability that city mips u ed
by the census bureau did not in
clude annexation.s to tho city lim
its, particularly the major one of
late 1968—what is now the .south
west sector of Ihc city, and the
Ward 6 city political sub-division.
Mr. Harris asked tho Mayor to
send him another up-to-date city
limits map for comparisc ;i a-
aginst the one ased in assigning
aroa.s to ceasus enumerators.
“If we failed lo cover an an
nexed area, we’ll disc'u.s.s it with
the Mayor and .see what ('an be
worked out,” Mr. Harris told Uie
Herald.
Mayor Mo.s.? (‘omment(*d, “I do
nor see how Kings Mountain’s
count could rcfh'ct as small a
gain in view of the annexation
to the .southwest, annc'xition.^ to
j the west, and (*ast, and the in-
crea.sed use of traih'rs as re.si-
dences within the city limiU.”
I (.’ily Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr..
I sjid tlie most up-to-date map do-
I tailing tlu* city limits had been
filed with the Census Bureau.
Picliminary reports. Mi. Harris
.said, are not released on p.^pu-
lation of townships nor tlu* fig
ures on occupied and unoccupied
dwelling units.
Official t'cnsus reports are ex
pected to b(* relea.sod sometime
this fall, though, in 196(1. it was
oirly He.ember bt'fore the offi
cial population figures were an-i'‘
nounced. |
: Privilege License
Purchases $4119
Citj privilege license pur-
; chases through Tue.sday total-
j ed $11119.74. slightly more
, than two-thirds the $6000 the
I city expects in revenue from
I this source* during the fiscal
I year ending next June.
The licenses are purchasable
through July at par, but penal
ty of five percent per month
applies on August 2, City Clerk
Joe McDaniel. Jr., reminded.
KMHS Students Tired But Happy
After 7980 Mile Bus Trip To West
Twt'nty-six Kings Mountain | of the trip for many .students was
Bargain Rate
For School-Agers
Bargain golf awaits school-
age youngsters at the new
putt-putt course at the Deal
.street pool.
Arch Kern, reereation direc
tor, the new rates are 25 cents
pc'r round or $1 all day, Monday
through Friday from opening
time at 10 a.m. lo 5 p.m.
high .school students wore “tired
but happy” Thursday night when
Iht y returned to tiu»ir res[X'ctive
homes after a camping to -Cali-
l\>rnia and back for f.)ur weeks.
Tliis was the stalemrni made
by Robin Dickey, a freshman,
who sai l, “I wouldn’t have miss
ed tin* trip for anything.”
Wa.s anybody homesick on a
trip Dial far away from home?
“I don’t think we had time to
be” (’xcliimed Miss Dickey.
The California camping trip
was the idea of William F. (Bill)
Young, who teaclies auto mech
anics at the high school. He had
the trip approved by tin* board of
education and Du* students will
ic('ci\e one unit of credit in geog-
rapii> from Die trip.
The trip with Die Du'mo "A b<'l-
tc:- American knows America bet
ter” wa« designed lo teach .stu
dents more about their own coun
try and give them new learning
meth')d.s and experience.s. None of
the students, other than Young’s
two boy.s, had ever bci'n in the
western jiart otf Die eoimlry at all.
One of I^he most difficult parts
learning how to camp, said Robin.
“Some of us h3d never slept in
tents and sleeping bags” and yet
one student, D('nn)s StroufM.*, 18,
a recent graduate, was an old
hand a! camping. The 13 young
men on the trip had charge ol
.setting up and taking down tents,
.s:u(l Robin, and the 13 young
women, with the aid of Mrs.
Young. Mrs. Young’s sister. Mr.s.
Pal.sy Lindsay, and Miss Martha
Houser, high school .secretary, had
tho laundrj', cooking and clean
ing chores. Mr. Young had plann
ed tie complete itinerary, cloth
ing list and h id worked out ex-
acUy how much money would bo
lUHHiod.
The group traveled a total of
7.980 miles and saw almost all
kinds of weather except falling
snow. Temperatures ranged from
»36 degrees to 108 d<»greo.s and
there was still snow in four to sixl
foot drifts in the Rockies. Peea ’«e
of the heat they traveled through
the de.sert at night.
Highlights for the .students was
.Salt Lake City ajid hearing the
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