WTO IS Populaticii Great3r Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits (1966 Census) 8,256 City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9,300 .^4 tut*!’ klogi MouotalD flgurt la d«rlT*d Ifom tbt •pecirj united Staita luftau of tbo Consua report o ^ni'ary I8b6. and ineiudoa the 14.090 populatfon • numMr 4 TowoiUp. and tlin remaining 8,124 ifOB number $ Townsblp. in OeTel^j 'toiinty and Crowder Tewoihip te Ogaton Cotintr. Kings Mountain's Relioble Newspaper VOL 85 No. 30 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 23, 1970 Eighty-Fifth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Bessemer City May Be Kings Mountain Water User Industrial Waste Influent Analyzed McGUl Plant ’Slug" Culprits Dyestnli Metals 0 If You Weren’t Counted Call City T. By MARTIN HARMON 7Ii(‘ Ktalo dT'partiTK'nl tif \v an.l air ro.sourct's lia.< been fur nished ch(‘mical analysis oi in dustrial influents into the Me Gill Crook s('\vaso troatmont plant and has b('en asked for recommendations lor eliminating the “slug out” which periodically las burdened residents in the area with noxious odors since mid-April. Three industrial plants. Oxford inda;:.ioi, K Mills,. and Craft- 'pun ^ a.ns pul dye waste into the MfOilt rrO('k .system. Report of J. C. Hubbell, super vising chttniist ol Chom-Bac Lab- Lialcrie.s, liu:.. ol Charlotte, which •..ndu'ded the (luantitalivo analy- si.s from sample s collected b> the I rity and W. K. Dick.son Compnny, I ctmsulting engineers, list eight jciiemitals being ri*coived from * the three industrial firms in vary ing degree. | The three most likely culprits,; j says Dennis Fox, of the Dickson : GtH>rgn W. Mauney has been in order of incidence, are re elected president ol the Kings r‘<"'Ppei. lead, and chromium, k Mountain hospital board of trus-i for J^inc incidence are now R£-£L£CrED — The Kings Mountain hospital board of trustees has re-elected George W. Mauney president and made two new appointments to the board ot 10 members. Board Re-Elects George Mauney f te(*s. All officers were >(*-eleic4ed at| the annual meeting this week; and two new reappointiments to J llu‘ board- were made. i Klcct(‘d to a five-year term were .James Harry of Grover and Harry K. Page oi Kings Mountain. Other re-elect(>d officers are (Ieorg(' H. Hou.mmission has asked the department ol wat er and aiir re.sourccs for a report and conference “at your earliest convenienc<.” The Dickson firm has already recommended adoption of a sew- age-usc ordinance. Some chemicals, if v'olume of influent i.> too lieax'y. produce ‘slug-outs” which kill normally growing algae and in turn kiil off the c'ffoctjve operation of the trcalmenl plant. Carl Mauney Is Re-elected Carl F. Mauney has hc'en re- rlerted chairman of th(* city re development for th(‘ coming year. Chjtlo'- L. Alexander w.as t'h'. l ed vice ('■hairman. succeeding J. O. Plonk. Jr. Mr. Plonk remains a moimber, along with William Herndon and 'Diomas A. Tafe. License Purchases New Total $4464 Pri\ilege license purchases from the city I'ofaltHi $-1-16-1 tlmj'.gh Tuesday, City Clerk Joe McDardrl reported. The city budget ‘anticipates $60(K) from this .source for the, fiseil \e-ar just begun. Penalty of .'five pei'cent per month applies to delin(|uen- xics on August 2. METER RECEIPTS I Parking meter receipts for the week ending Tue.sday total ed including ' $10.70 fr';m off-street meters and S111.7."- from on-street motors. Commission Approves 100-Unit Low-Rent Housing Application The city eommis‘^ion has en dorsed tile application of Kings Mountain Publ?r Housing Author ity for 100 additional units of low-rent housing. If ai)prov**d by tlie D(‘pairtime:it of Housing and Urban Diwadop- men!, the ad.ditional units will bring to 300 the total in Kings Mountain. ahu.se of the housing by its ten ants. .Mr. H irmon replied, “Tito immediate reirrionsihility is the: director'.s, Mr. Thomas \V. Harper.' and the .secondary responsibility is with the five members of llt'e housing authority. The Iav\ neilh-i er requires renting to any fam- ilj*. nor does tlu' law prevent e.\-t pulsion of tenants for abuse to property oi other eau.se.” In other actions, the bo.ird; ' 1) Approved annc'xation t > the rity of Ashbrook Park suit-divi-1 sion. 2) Reappointed WMlliam Hern-! don tp a five-year l(‘i>m on Hu* re- d(*velopmeni. 3) Approv(*d transfer of a taxi franchise* from Bonnie Burton to K:>hert Lari Beatty. 4) - - Tlie application is for “conven tional” low-rent housing, where by the housing authority issues bonds to pay the cost, (heir airnor- ti^ation pledged by the fofU’ral governmeriL Th(* I.'iO units now being com pleted ar(' "conventional”, as tq;- j)Osed to the “l(*ased“ arrange*- ment umUv vvliich unit.-; arc e (nt.racted with a Gastonia de- ve'lope,'. \ Martin Harmon, a member ot the a.uthority, revievv('d lot the <*ity eommission at its mc'etmg last Thursday, progress to date. Ilf* said th(* need for additional low-rent hoining units 1s quite* aoi)arent and is being increa.sed by tlu* C’ansler street urban renewal project. He said housing »ui- I'horily is currently “ov(*r-sold" on runit.s for the eligible elderly. r(/nmbision(*r Maude R. Walker asked if jirovisions an* being i gainst the city'.s pledged made by the aulhorily to prevent contribution to the INSTAUXD — Carl V. Wiesen- er» top/ Vind Mrs. Orangrel B. Jolly were recently installed as district and stote officers in the North CoffOUna Department of the Americar. Legion and Auxil- iory. Beth ore former officers of Post 155 of Kings Mountoin. Weisener. lolly In Legion Posts Two King.*-* Mountain citizens have been elected to state and district offices in the North Car olina Department, American Le gion and American Legion Auxil iary. Carl V. Wie.soner, a past (x>m- mander ot Otis D. fJrecn Legion Post 155 ot Kings Mountain, w'as' installed recently as Commander of Di.strict 23 which includes posts in Kings Mountain. Shelby, Forest Cit>, Spindalc, Henrietta, Ruther- terdton, and Cltimncy Rock. In stalled as 23rd District Vice Com mander wa.s George W. Brown- ' ing immediate past commander of Warren F. Hoyle Post 82 of Sholb>. District C(»mmander Wiesener also .serves currently as vice , chairman of the committee on Americanism on the National le el of the American L«4gion. ; Mrs. Orangrel B. Jolly. widovN i of Clarence L. Jolly. Sr. and im mediate past president of Amer ican Legion Post 155 Auxiliary ol Kings Mountain, was installed : recently as chairman of the com- i mitt{'e on Legislation in the North 'Carolina Department of the American Legion .Auxiliary. D<*;>artment, district and state officers were in.sfalled recently at i an Officer’s Ceremony in Char- latte hnin)rin,g the newly-install- ed Department Commander * J. Frink Bake; of Independence ' Post 262. tlie luxst po.'t at a lunch- can meeting. Commander Baker succi'eds C. F/. (Budi Thompson, Jr. of Wilmington. Mrs. Margaret Greene of Stan ley was instalU'd as Division V vice president in the American I-egion Au.xiliary. Mrs. Stoterau Hecarded 346 h Southwest Ey MARTIN HARMON Were you counted in the recent 'ni*e I States der-cnnial cen.sus? If you think you were not, eal] -X vi.sil the City Hall office and pvc them 1) your name, 2) home iddrer;, anti 3) size oi family. Mayt ; John Henry Moss said AcJne.-iday, "After fuT-rhor con- ersations with Census Bureau ffitials in Charlctto and analy- is of the city's city utility cus- :mors. I am further convinced hat the Kuigs Mountain total is hert.” Mayor Moss talke I Tuesday /ith Dick Golhaim cf the Char- 4te ofiice who told the Mayor he map used by the bureau, us ompared to a now one sujJidied last week was “substantially cor rect.” Mr. Gt-tham drfended the count n tlie ..hailotte region il area dating that 1) there are 177 per cent more per.son.s in the '14-21 I ago group living alone than ten years ago, 2) that there are .5.7 I percent more persons 65 and old- I er living alone than ten years a- go, and 3) that there are not neaily as man.v more birth,*) than deaths as people think. Mr. Gotham indicated that the size of the average family has drop ped. Jle did not indicate a region al figure. (The average family was 3.9 persons at the 1960 cen sus.) Mrs. Harlin Stoterau.' a Kings Mountain census enumerator, -'aid one other area of indicated error migJn be the* fact that Kings Mountain cx)llege students living aw'ay from homo and King.-; Mountain servicemen on active duty were countc’d “where they were”, not here. She addc.l that she was assign ed tlu* 1968 - annexed southwest area, with the exception of Phi fer road, and rt'cordcd 3tri per- SOJV. Mr.s. Slott'rau wrote the Herald. “I wa-* as-iignorl three areas in the city, one of which was the south west area recently annoxt*d, ann it was thorougldy eovercxl. “To he sure, some per.'ple riuU'lv d On Pag„ Eight Firs! Unicn Prsmotes Teer Ma:'\in L. Tt'cr h:is hcea ap- P'.'inted as -istant vice-pre.sident H 'h- K'ngs Mnuni,ain hrancli of F'i.vSf Union Xatlo-nnl Dank, ■\ L. PUbUCITY COORDINATOR — Anne M. Lamm (above). Gas* tonic lawyer/ has been named CK Advertising and Publicity coordinator for the campaign of Basil L. Whitener for Con gress. Whitener Names Mrs. Lamm Anne M. Lamm, Gastonia attor ; ney, has been n-imed :a.s Advci , tismg and Publicity Coordinialoi of the Whitener for Congi*es.' Committee, it was announc'ed to day. “I am pleased to announce tha M s. Lamni iias ■acct*»ted an im poitant role in our campaign ( f ; fort. She is a talenldj youjig la ' dy and has the attributes o character and 'ability nc*c.ssar I to do an excellent fob Rv edu icaiion, intei'e.si -and training she demonstrates those qualities o' leadership so essential to an\ sucxx'ssi .1 venture,” Basil L Whitener remarked in a state .ment to the news niedia. 'Mrs. Lamm was :radiia}od from the high school and iunioi college departments of Ma ry's Junior College in Raleigh Sh-> then r€x*eivi\’ the A.H. do- giw in political science ard Ftt , glish at the University of North Carol'na, Chapel Hill, jirior le ,'attending the law sehool of u\C I Chapel Hill, where she received I the degn'C cf Juris Doctor ii: I Tuiu. 1969. ' A'ter her admi.'Jsion to the ha* in North C-^ro’ina in 19.19 .she . ' 'mmrnred the practice of law ir i astonia. She no.v carries on ar ■ active general office 'uod tria* pra.*!ico. a stTident Mr.s. J.amm V’l* active in a wide range of extra* Mid-September New Target Date Tor Rufialo Use Ne\\ iarg(*t date lor putting in- o .‘■-ervicf ol the Buffalo Cre(‘k voter treatment plant is May 15. Four pumj>s loi finished watei, luc to have been .shipix'd in Ap ril, have not been received and : the manufarturer. Peerless Pump , Company, of Indian ipolis. ind., . has promised shijxment not later I than Augu.sl 22. I _ Peerle.sr in turn, told Gillespie i .'enstructi -n ('omjiany. gtmeial I :ontrari >r, it liad been held up I the firm from \\h:i.h it jiur- ' .‘lia.se-- motors. Tao of the pumps are recpiired' It the treatment plant, two at' he booster pu.mp stalivin about nidway bt*tween the west (ity limits anrl the idani. Denni.-- Fox. W. K. Dicks -n com- Tany engineer, ."aid installation f th(‘ four pumi:s sh /id requin* 10 more than three days. Tiien* ■vill follow line testing, before he plan! will he able f':' furnish ip to lour million gallon.s of fin- jhed watc. per da\. “The treatment plant is com- dete, ’ Mi. Fox .said. Meantime, work is procet'ding >n paving dri\ anciscaping. IF' w ^ Mayor Heads Water Policy Study Group By MARTIN HARMON : Mayor John Henry Moss has , named a wat(*r ixilicy eommiitt*!* in the wake of conversation.s with Bt*.ss(*mer City Mayor Clyde Sar- I vis, in which Mayor .6arvis a.;ked I if Kings Mountain would .sell hi.s ' city water. I Be.s.semer City is warer-.sliort and .several industrial expansions in hi.s eommunity hinge on the ability' of Bes.semer City to pro vide wate.’. “'The Bessemer City Intore.st in buying water from us points up , the ne<*d for a water policy,” ! Mayor Mos.s told the citv eommis- ' Sion Tuesday night. “VVe hardly ' have enough for ourselves today,” : the Mayor added, "but vve liope ■ to treble daily eapaciiy of treat ed watef by mid-September.” The Mayor named himseli as ehair.nan of the special com mittee, with other members he- ^ :ng C.ommi.-;sioners T. J. Elli.-on, Ray W. Cline. Norman King, and Tames Dickey. The committee U auihoriz(‘d by resolution of the full commi.*wion to employ the .ser\’k'es of tho.so eon.'^ultants: W. K. Dickson & Company, erg’meer- ing; A. M. Pullen & Company, ac counting; and the Institute of Government, for general poli.y. Mayer Sarvi^ has not indicated the amount of water Bessen.’r City will r(>quire but did say his city is furnishing Lithium C'>r- poration of .America with ap- Kings Mountain clistri't boani 'anri'^ a '"'“‘‘o'’ t-'allui s 1 education Tu('sday morning ap- >roved the local funds .school bud- Mauney joined Sandia in 19.53' monthly' of ra>v water, fct Ifor Ji’970-7i .schfKil year. ■ membei ol the technical, Corporation has said it The local funds budget, tot.aling He was pramoted tc super- j additional pumpiige of :692.282 tar current expenses and ^ of a special sy.sfems divi-! water, he toid Mayor ■ 150..,27 fcr capital expenditures. ^965. and has headed . I-ocal funds are derivi'd from pmliminary sy. in electrical engi-I ('Opacity to the two million from North Carolina .State i now being treateci at the Deal PROMOTED — C. Hennan Mau- nev has been promoted to man ager of the Systems Develop ment Deportment in Albuquer que, New Mexico. Herman Mauney Wins Pramoticn khaol Budget Approved C. Herman Mauney , son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F'. Mauney of Kings .Mountain. Ins hef*n promotelili-i j cal affairs, 'fho (J'ist.in::i atlnr j incc is affiliated wi'h the G'-is-' ! t'onia Jaycelios. Pilot Club, the I Young Lnwye-s Seviic-n of the’ G'ash>n County R.qr .NsKoviTtif)*!. ^ Dnighters of the Ann'rii-'n Rev- oL.'ti(»n. and other or niiization-j. .^he is a lifelong nicanbcr of the Preshyterian ehurch. “It is a real opportunity for me to ix’nder a groit .sej*vi,<* to our Conti}tu('t[ Oh Eight learning Camp For 130 Stndenb Over Friday; Was Pilot Project Fridov ttio o *1 \ /X f L* f *1^ < 1 — 1 t V. I’.riclRos, fifth S srndo tocher at .North .sohooi, Min (o-operatum with .Ras h'een a.Aurded a $350 scho! t-he redcvelopiment ('ommLssion on tlu* central business district Mrs. Bridges Hospital Moving Day: Patients Wins Scholarship Now Occupying New Wing Floor pro- .lect to provide 1i the city’s in- kind contributions will eonform to stale law as “noce.ssary” and 2l the eity will pay an interest differential not to (exceed $.350 on a loan to the eommj.ssion at more than the legal rati* of six percent. The additional int(*r('st paid 6y the eity would apply a- cash project. arship to participate in the 1970 Institute on Constitutional Dem- oc-acy vs. Totalitarianism. The Insitule will he held at UNOCharlotte. The scholarship grant is bi'in; made by the Noith Carolina Fki ncational Council on National Purposes, Ine., and notification was ma le by FMward L. Rankin, Jr.. vic(*prcsident. It’s Mov ing Day at Kings Moun tain lio-pitul (his w(*ek as pa tients are bi’ing moved into the F'ir' t F'lo If of the now wing. Administrator Grady I Iowa rd said tlie new clinical laboral ny and pharmacy are in op(*ration ■ and that visitors will be able to* use the new lobby by the end r.f the week or tlu* first of next week as soon as a switcliboard is installed. Mr. Howard said that u.se of the new operating room and pa- ■Mrs. iBridges is wife of Glee K. j tlent recovery room should be* a- Bndges, vailablc by early next week- 3w( ojicrating rooms, a patient recovery room, a clinical labora tory suit(». ,1 main lobby and ad joining snack bar are on the first fk)or. ANa. a pharmacy, .a cen tral supply room, a chaja'I and a patient sunning ar(*a. 3'he second floor can be r(*ach- ed by two elevator*^. The .second floor contains 27 private rooms, four semi-private, a nur.<'(*s’ sta tion. and a wailing roam. .Moni toring will he available in four r-onduit equipped room.s gnuiiied at the nurses station. , ac a? :ted certain time to use* tlie -’omputer. Co-j! (jf the program ■viJl be S5’000 j)er year fcr a 'hroe-year period. This program will offer “unlim ited po-:sibilitie.s,” Joiuv. said. The Riard approved tlu* -s em saved 1,7(12 mile, ander. Tssa,. ami Jet Kd« aH !■ ir "umt 'uMitm we'‘'i‘h' ''’‘'’"“■‘i ‘■'H of Kin-: Mountain. <1 i/i- adding a room to his re^idenct* at estU mal(*d co.st ot $3500. B. R. Smith is contractor. J. \\ il.son Crawford, re.altnr. was i.‘-':urd two permits to build two .si.\-room brick veneer r(*.sd- dentes at 603 and 605 Jolly street ill ('-limalcji CO.'S! of $16,500 eacli. Luke W. Hoyle, realtor, wa.s is sued three p('rmit.s to b.iiild two six ro n re.m'denees at 705 and 707 SiUthwood Drive at cost of $12,000 each and a six-room resi dence at 1003 Princeton street at ('stimat('d co.st of $12,000. Phillip Brafford. ef 212 Kath erine street, plans to add a car port to lii.s- re.'idence and was is- Coittitimd On p„g^. Eight SERMON TOPIC "Tv\-o Sons As Diffi*ront .Vs Night And Day” will he the seimon topic of the Rev. Cliarles Easley at the 11 o’clock morning worshi]> s(*rvici* Sun day at St. Matthew’s Lutlieran cliurch. F'ri;iay is rhe last da> of school kg 1.30 Kings .Mountain area sev enth grader.-' ('iirolled in tlu* slate's fir.st “nu>ci(*l” six weeks' learning c:imp at Central .sVhoi 1. 'I supplement a program in s'cial livj^ig, communications, vo- c.alional skills and rOvTeation the stu,l(*nts have taken .several field tnp.s and during Tin* final week of school \isit(*d flu* Kings .Moun tain City Hall, Kings .Mountain Herald, Pittsburgh Plate Glass in Sh(*Ihy an;! Idihium v’orporation of .-\nierica, Bes.s(*mer Cilv. Last week the students fouri'd M.ium'y Hosiery Company. Ox- 1 vd Knit. Richardson ilonu's, .Shelby Daily Stai. I'ranscontinen- tal Gas Comp my. Kings Moun tain Rat'.lcgrounl and King.s- -VI aintain Recr(*atio:i De; art-nu’iit. 3u(*sday’.s rain del ived an out ing vvhis’h includofl swimming. (Gx'ning l)ell rings at S a.m. and cheeses are dismissed at tlu Don hour. Die facult.v is headed opportunity to e.xpress b> Central Junior Migli Principal Fred VVMtheis as director. Said Director Withers: “The Learning Camp in its last week has progr('.ss<^*d with much enthusiasm and inron^'t on the l)an of both students and toaeh- err involved. “Ibis camp lias served to make students aware of the manv op- IHjrtunitie.5 in the area, to discu.'^s the problems o! eommunity li:o and to develop better communi cation with one another. It lias also given teachers a new insight intv, the needs f»f the students and iiou tho.se needs may better iu* nu*.. “Tlu* studi*iU bociv i-; made up of eight .i;eperate cla.-^ses of ap proximately 15-20 students with .111 average daily attendance of 13(\ Next summer we anticipate an even bigger and mere ex- p:mded program that would in clude mere young folks. We feel through the vamp we can estab lish a better under-itanding of tlie opportunities available to mir youtii and at the same time he abl(' to lielp llu'm sf)lv(' some of the problem'- ol teenager^ toda.v. 'We would like to take Mils -- . our ap preciation to the industries of the area Ilia! hel[X'd make the Learning Camp a suwoss. It is our hope that these and other in dustries will continue to exteiid to us the eourtesii*s they have ^sliown throughout the summer.”