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/ Population Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 Cljty Limits (1966 Census) 8.256 City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9.300 OiiMttr kiiiga Mouatala flgtm U dtrlT*d IroM tM ■pearl United States Bureau of the Ceatus report o lani’ary IMS. and lacludee the 14.n0 population • Number 4 Township, and tlljo nmolaiag S.lt4 iron Number 5 Township. In CloTelimd county and Crowdnr Twwaehio tg Qqston Cowtr. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspapei VOL 85. No. 33 EsfebRthed 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 13, 1970 Eighty-Fifth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Will It Go Or Stay Or Go? Dai t 9 uation Critical Recommendations Given On McGill Plant Problem Wlull Suggests Alternatives; Use Law Must By MARTIN HARMON , Three altomatives for nlleviat- in;; the MVGill Creek sewage dis posal were reconumended to the city Ix^ard <>I commissioners Tues day b> William Mull, regional di rector of the slate Water and Air j l{cs..iu‘ces commission. The recom'mendations are: 1) Switch some of the indus trial waste to the Pilot Creek plant. ! 2) Enlarge the McGill plant and (perhaps) add tertiary treat- i mont. ! 31 Construct another treatment plant in a different drainage ba sis. Mr. Mull also ■ declared sewer- u.se ordinance not only necessary but virtually mandatory. A fed eral regulation requires such an ordinance b(‘fore the Department of the Interior even will accept ajrpireation for federal grants in sewage system development, he added, and read the text of the regulation. Mr. Mull asked for firm action and got it. • The commission voted unani- nously to refer the Mull recom- inendations to its sewer system committee for study and report after (‘onsultalion with state and city engineers. Reviewing, Mr. Mull reminded the commission that the expand- {nI McGill plant has a rated cap acity of a million gallons of in- 'fluent daily and was thought to b(? able to serve the area for 15 ‘ years. Industrial expansion has 1) brought 15 years in the fu ture to now and 2) has created a situation where, from eight to twelve hours daily, the plant is receiving, pro-rata, influent at tile rate ot two million gallons per (lay, or twice its capacity. Mayor John Henry Moss told Mr. Mull, “It Ls our intent to meet this tis well as other problems of the city.’* In other actions, the board: 1) Let contracts on pun^hase of <‘hemical compounds for the two water trc’otment plants and for the McGill (^reek sewage plant on iiicls received sevcr'il'weeks ago. All Charlotte firms, Burris Chem ical company got contract for hydrogen sulphate, caustic soda and activated; Jones Chemical company got contract for a fluor ide corrrpound; and Morehead Chemical company got contract for chlorine, another fluorine comjiound and for liquid chlorine. • 2) The commission voted to re- :one Lot number 58 at Burling ton Industries, owned by Wilburn Hamrick, from residential desig nation to neighborhood business designation. McGinnis Clan Reunion Sunday Annual reunion of the descend ants of Nathan and Susan Mc Ginnis will be held Sunday, Au gust 16th. with picnic lundh to be .spread at 1 p.m. at air-oondition- od Club Carolina on Roy Eaker road in Cherryville. 'Mtiv. Paul MttGinnis, Jr., seore- tary of the clan, said plates, cups, napkins and iced tea will be pro vided. F'amily members are asked to bring old photographs for a dis play. Prizes will go to the oldest imombcr present, the youngest member present, the largest fam ily present, the newlywed couple, the couple mairried longest and * the family traveling the longest distance. President of the Clan is Clyde Heafner of Cherryville. SPEAKER ■ Paul LenTmons, of Shelby, sec- retairy for ’Gideon Bible Society, .will fill the pulpit at fthe First I Presbyterian church, August 16, at the 11 o’clock morning wor ship s(*r\dco. FROM ARIZONA — Mrs. Wonzai Y. Dervis, secretory to the super- intendemt of Kings Mountain schooa has returned from Tuc son, Arizona, where she attend ed the annual National Associa tion of Educotional .Secretaries Institute. Mrs. Davis To Institute About 250 secretasries from a- cyjss the United Stages, including Mrs. Wansia Y. Davis and her husband, Isaiah Davis, of Kings Mountain, attended the 36th an nua) National Association of Edu- r<ational Secretaries Institute of Educational Office Personnel July 22-31 in Tucson. Mr. Davis is secretary to the .superintendent of schools. The institute was preceded by the annual conference of the Na tional Association of Educational S(?cretaries attended by some 400 scKretaries. ^‘The institute classes attempt to update and refresh basic office skilLs,” explained Mrs. Rachel Maynard, UA coordinator of the 1970 conference and institute. "It really was a back-to-school week for anyone who works in any .school office.. .high school or elementary, or administrative and college offices.” Two special double • session classes for those with supervis ory duties were held. Students chose four 50-mlnute classes to attend daily during the five-day institute. Now to the agenda were job-like workshops and discussion seminars. Trips to Nogales, Mexico, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Old Tucson, San Xavier Mission, and a two-(Jay trip to the Grand Oanyon also were held. Toxic Metals Influent Analysis Shows Oveiload Maximum influent of motalstbj keep a stream non-itoxiic for fish are being greatly exceeded on Mc<iill creek, tests eOnducted dur- i ing July show. This was in the a^lysis of William Mull in his report to the city commission Tuesday. 1 r The first figure is the maxhnura ncn-toxic amount expressed in I milligrams per million, and the! second figure is the amount go ing into McGill creek and the Mc Gill creek sewage treatment plant: Ghromlum .05 vs. 2. 3 Copper .03 vs. 5. 7 Lead .03 vs. 4.24 Silver .05 vs. .28 Zinc . *3 vs. .42 BioChemiical oxygen demand, most important in the treatment process, was proved deficient in 24 tests last month. Of the 24, four showed some oxygen con tent, but only one test showed sufficient oxygen content. Downsfrtam from the plant, oxygen, content showed 2.8 while minimal required for a. Class D stream is 3.0, Approval Ha.s For JOBS 70 Project Here Key Up-Stream eenindicated ccHiutuicaicu News Singers Coming Home The (5ood News Singers, 137 young people from North Caro lina, wound up their European tour yesterday with a free concert in the Luxembourg ^airdens, a large-tree • filled park on Paris’ left bank. Many of the singers will return to the United States Thursday after a tour that has taken them to London and the Soviet Union. A spokesman said that the visit to Rassia ‘bad to be the highlight. We were treated real fine every where.” Four of the group are from Kings Mountain. They are Cindy Alexander, iLnda Ross, Leon Ross and Jack Bell. Paschal loins College Faculty Fred Pastbal, a former guid ance counselor at Kings Mountain high school, will become Assist ant Professor of Psychology and Education at Limestone college, Gaffney, S. C., August 31. Mr. Paschal has been dir(»ctor of admi.s.sions at the college since 1968, going to Gaffney from Kings Mountain. ^Piischal hoHs an A.B. degree in lil.story from the University of XortJh Carolina and a M.A. degree in coun.scling and guidance from UNC. Thi.s summer he has studied psychology at UNC in Charlotte. Barnette's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Clifford Barn ette, 63, of 204 Benfiold Drive, retired employee of Duplex Shan non, were held Sunday afternoon at 3 p.'m., from Faith Ba/tist church, interment following in Mountain Rest oemc’tery. Rev. Rf>bort Hicklin and Rev. Flay Payne officiated at the final rites. Mr. Barnette died Friday night at 7:05 pjm. of a heart attack. He was a native of Oherokeo County, North Carolina, son of the late Ranson and Vonia Han nah Barnette. He is survived by his wife, Mirs. Emma Oates Barnette; three sons, J. D. Barnette, Buddy Barnette and Charles Barnette, all of Kings Mountain; five daughters, Mr.s. Irene Nuckols of Shreveport, La., Mrs. Aileen Dellinger of Gaffney, S. C., Mrs. Shirley Gillespie, Mrs. Betty Lou Henson and Mrs. Elaine Guinn, all of Kings Mountain; one sisdor, Mrs. Lola King of Kings Mountain; two brothers, Ed Barnette of Chase City, Va. and Dillard Barnette of Kings Moun- t,ain; 19 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. "Barefoot In The Park" Tryouts Thursday; Mrs. McDaniel Director Try-outs for “Barefoot In The Park”, the Kings Mountain Little Tlieatro’s forthcoming production, will be held Thursday (tonight) at 8 pjm. in the Kings Mountain Civic Center. “Barefoot In The Park” was written by Neil Simon. Charlotte Summer Theatre featured the production among its play$ for the summer season last season in I Ovens Auditorium. Prospective new members are also inv'ited to attend Thursday night’s meeting, said Mrs. ^ob Cox, Little Theatre president. She said volunteers are needed to portray charaoter roles and back- stage. Mrs. Jo Ann Walker McDaniel will dircKrt the production. Last performance of the Little Theatre was “Cinderella”. FROM niANCE ^ Anne Hunter Plonk* top* ond Laura Foust Plonk hove Just returned from summer school abroad Where th«Y studied the Fietich ton nage. Anne Hunter Plon^ wen the award for scoring highest on finals exominatioii lamong 200 students in the United States. V I Plonk Sisters Study In France Two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Plonk — sophomore stu dent Laura Foust and senior stu dent Anne Hunter Plonk — have just returned from Aix-En-Pro- ven<>e, France wbere they were among 290 students from all over the U. S. enrolled in summer school studying the French lan guage. Anne Hunter Plonk won the top prize given to the student scoring the highest examination grade folloiwing the completion of school at the Univ'ersity. Miss Plonk has studied French tw’o years at Kings Mountain high school. The students lived in the dormi tory at the University there. All classes were conducted in French. Students received diplomas to include with their high school re('ords upon completion of the course. The Kings Mountain students joined a group of 35 Cleveland County students, 33 frolm Shelby high sch(X)l, and Mrs. Robert O. Burns and Mrs. George Corn, both of Shelby, for the trip to France. From New York they flew to London for three days and to Paris before enrolling in French clas.scs for four weeks. The stu dents took numerous weekend ex* (‘ursions, including throe days in Rome. Italy and Geneva, Switzer land. They climbed Mount Blanc, second highest mountain in the world. Laura Foust Plonk related her “most memorable experience” was communicating with the dif ferent people in the v'arious tow’ns they visited. She said the weather w»as hot— 115 degree's in the daytime and it rained only once for a half-hour period. Cline, Double B Hearings Likely To End Thius^y Testimony in the hearing be fore Clerk ^ Superior Court Paul Wilson on the city’s condemna tion aclioas against Buford D. Cline and Cline and W. K. Mau- ney, Jr., trading as Double B Ranch, is expected to be conclud ed Thursday, | The recessed session which be- ■ gan Tuesday will reconvene | Thursday morning at 9 o’clock. ! Witnesses sub poenaed by de fendants, Kings Mountain city commissioners, Frank Hoyle and Tom Jones, registered appraisers for the city, w'ere on the witness stand Tucjwlay. City witnesses — Col. W. K. Dickson, the city’s coa^ulting en gineer, Ralph A. Johnson and Dennis Fox, of the Dickson firm, and Mayor John Henry Moss — > W'ere on the witness stand Wed- ; nosday. ' City Attorney Jack White said i the city will complete its argu ment by continuing Thursday with Mr. Fox and Vernie Cheat- wood, site negotiator for the city with Coates Field Service. He said the defense said it would call two more witnesses but that they were not identified. Defense questioning of city (xmimissioners was largely in the nature of review, with panicular attention to rt'creationaJ develop ment of the Buffalo Creek rese- v’’oir area. The defense questions the right of the city to condemn property for the resevoir and questions whether the city bargained in good faith. It questions the city’s need for the amount of property on wliich condemnation action was taken. The same points were raised in the hearing on the action against Cline on a portion of the dam site tract. The Clerk ruled in favor of the city and was subsequently sustained in Cleveland Superior Court before Judge Sam J. Ervin, Jr. C of C Sponsor For Training Disadvantaged By MARTIN HARMON ^ 1 Kings Mountain Chamber of Commc'rce, as contractor, has made application to the Depart- t ment of Lahir to participate in j JOBS 70 program, a training pro- ! gram tor the disadvantaged. I Approval has been indicated. I firms will By MARTIN HARMON Will the dam hold or not? Ralph Seigler, construction .sup erintendent, rated the We'dnosday night situation “critical”. He had rated it ‘‘crisis” Tuesday night. “The dam could -still go, de pending on the weather. The big danger a big rain say three to four inches up-stream.” Mr. Soig- lor explained. He wa.s not parlic- ulajly worried by the mild rain w'hich began hero Wednesday afternoon and was continumg Wednesday night. After a wei'kend of heavy rain here and upstream whore 'Buffa lo Creek he<idvvaters, the partial iv completed dam fissured. Tor rontK of water poured over the self-made spillv^'ay and the area of the fissure continued to erode , —which brought the fear of a On basis of the application four j vTidden dam washout Wednesday ’— participate initially, ; night. j Sadie Cotton Mills, Kerns Broth- f ers, C arolina Throwing Company, and Nif^sco, Inc. In format the program is simi lar to that (conducted by the In- , du.strial Association of Kings Mountain, in that the firms will Mr. Seigler estimated about 200,000 cubic yards of dirt and been poured on the partially ».*omplcted dam, gue<sed 65.000 to 70,000 yards had washed out and gone dnwmstream. bo roimbur.«od far a portion of the I Company I trainee’s wages. I Detroit deisel engines in- 1 Major difference is. in the fact; several feet of water, i that the program is for the dis- ■ machine.? cost about StO.OOO Alexander's Rites Today Funeral .servi(?cs for Charles E. Alexander, 48, of 3301 Graymount Dr., Charlotte, who died Sunday as a result of automobile wreck injuries, will be conducted Thurs day at 2:30 p.m. from Now Hamp ton Presbyterian Church. Among the .survivors Is a broth er, Isaac G. Alexander, of Shelby, Kings Mountain teacher. Bethware Fair Party Wednesday The Bethware Fair Barbecue, which kicks-off Bt'thware Fair activities in the community, will be held Wednesday, August 19th. with serving from 5 until 7:30 p.m. at Bethware school cafeteria. Fair advertisers and patrons will be guests of the sponsoring Bethware Progressive club for the meal. Stokes Wright, Progre.ssive club swretary. mailed (complimentary tickets to Fair patrons this week. The 23rd annual Bethware Fair will open on the grounds of Beth ware school on September IGth for four days. Cash prizes will again be awarded to agricultural exhibits and in numerous other departments of the Fair. Lynn (A)rnwen will reign as the 1970 Fair Queen. Admission to the fairgrounds Fair Week is free. Traditional rides for the kiddies will he fea tured along with concession stands, exhibit halls featuring canned goods, crafts, and agricul tural produiots of the Kings .Mountain area plus commercial exhibits. TO TEACH OVERSEAS;— Laura Page, top* will teoch in Stutt gart. Germany and Priscilla Padgett will teach in Portugal this yeor in the Deportment of Defense Overseas Dependents schools. Miss Padgett will teach science to junior and senior high students and Miss Page will teacher fifth grode. advantaged alone — persons with . no skills. I The training program will be I conducted by Cleveland County Technical Institute and includes ' three phases, orientation, super- 1 visory training and job related education. 1 Regular counseling will be con- ! duct<*d by Robert G. Oox, manager I of the Chamber of Commerce, I Rev. Theodore, Rev. Robert C. Mann and Rev. Charles W. Eas ley. If the application is approved in toto, Sadie Alills woulld em ploy up to 54 trainees, Niesco, Inc.. 38. Carolina Throwing 16 and Kerns Brothers 3. L. E. (Josh) Hinnant, Chamber i each and Mr. Seigler estimated his company would spend from SI000 to $15W putting the engines back in working order. Pumps, capable of propelling eight million gallons of water daily, for the auxiliary water supply end two large motors are under water. , Dennis Fox, resident engineer for the Buffalo project, said re- ••vorklng the motors will delay this week’s scheduled shake down run at the treatment plant but should not delay the mid-Septem ber indicated date the city will begin using Buffalo crock for its water supply. Mr. Seigler estimated the im- of C-omnierce president, said the | resevoir at organization was first approached! ^ depth and as possible contractor-sponsor by i receded by about nine the state Emplo>Tnent Security ! ^ o’clotk Wednesday after- commis.sion. Mr. Cox .':aid Burlington Indus tries is participating in the pro gram in some of its plants and reperts “good sukx^css”. noon. Mr. Seigler stated especial ap preciation to the rescue squads and sheriff’s department for their assistance during the crisis. KFit Teachers To Teach Ahioad School Opening Plans Aie Listed By Jones; Faculty Is Complete Infant Rites Are Conducted Graveside services for Julie .\nnc Carpenter, infant daughter of Philip and Patsy Mac Sipes Carpc'nter, were hold Tuesday aft ernoon at 3 p.m. from Mountain Rc.st cemetery. Rev. Harry Vance, pastor of Ea.st Side Baptist church, officiat ed ,1t the rites. The infant died at birth Sun day night in the Kings Mountain hospital. Two Kings Mountain teachers ' will report for work overseas next I week with the DopaTtmont of I>ofen.sc, Overseas Dependents’ School. Miss Priscilla Padgett, daugh ter of Dr. and .Mrs. P. G. Padgett, will begin her first year in this program Monday and will teach the sciences to junior and senior high school students in the Azores Islands, 780 miles off the coast of Portugal. She will be based at Lajes. Miss Padgett has taught for two years in the Prince George County. Va. school system in Petersburg, Va. Miss La/ra Page, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hany Page, will fly to Charleston, S. C. VVf\inesday and from there Tliursday for Stuttgart, Germany, where she will teach fifth grade at Nollin- gen. iu.st outside Germany. Tliis sc'h(X)ltorm will be Mi.ss Page’s s<vond affiliation with the pro gram. having taught in Okinawa liist year. PrincipaLs are on duty this; is Wednesday, August 26th. week and faculties are complete | Principals are meeting Thurs- for the opening of the 1970 term! day (tod.iy) and Supt. Jones said of Kings Mountain district ' a full schedule of first week act- schools on August 25th. | ivities will be published next 1 week. Attendance zones remain the | same as last school term and par- j ents with specific problems are' invit('d to visit the various school pTincipal’s offices. Reassignment | ri'quosts should be submitted in , vvTitten form to the superintend- ■ ent’s office as scx)n as possible, said Supt. Donald Jones. There are several administra tive changes. At East school Connie A. Alli son will replace Richard Greene who has been moved to North | school replacing Howard Brj^ant who is the new supervisor of in struction replacing .Miss Alice Averitt who electi^ to take an early retirement. Supt. Jones said that currently underway Ls the building of an instructional media center adja cent to the library at Central Junior high st'hcx)! and that plans are rt'adying for op('n house at the recently-renovated Bethware school August 23rd from 2 until 5 p.m. .\t the Bethware plant a pro gram of “complete remodeling” is in progress, including new win- Sloan Clemmer's Rites Conducted Sloan Columbu.s Clc'mmer. 71, of Sliannon Bradley Road. Gas tonia. di('d at 3 a.m. Wedni'sday in Ga.ston Memorial Hespital. H(' is sur\ivo(l by his widow, Juanita Oates Ck'inmer; one .son. Daniel B. Clemm^'r of Gastonia;! (lows and ceilings, carpeting, a t)iree d.tughtors, Mrs. Mary Kay-1 new libraty, renovated restrooms, lor, Mrs. Sue Robinson and Mrs. | new plumbing fixtur('s and light- Frances Rayfield of Gastonia: one I ing, some new* furniture, a rclo- brothor. Ernest Clemmer of King.? 1 cated offflee. a new bu.s drive and Mountain; one sister, Mr.s. Ida i paved parking area, refinishing Ratdiford of Dallas; and six | of the gymnasium floor, and in- granclehildren. | terior and exterior painting of He was a deacon .and (*ldor of! all buildings plus decorative Pisgah AR Prc'sbyterian diurc'h,! blocks on the outside and a new where funeral .services will be i intercommunication .system, conducted Thursday at 3 p.m. by! Tc'achers will report to their th(' Rev. R. B. Elliott. The b.xly j desks on Monday, August 24th. will lie in stat(' 30 minutes prior: Pupils will report for registration to servit**'?. Burial will follow in j and orientation on Tuesday, Au- thc church cemetery. gust 25Ui. First full day of school Club Owner Is Charged Ora Grayson Brown. -14, of 902 Graxx' St., Kings Mountain, oper* ator of the Kings Mountain Sup per Club W’as arr(?sted and charg ed with possession of slot mach ines and punch boards luesday afternoon, according to the Cleve land County Sheriff’s Department. Fi\'e slot machines and two punch boards reportedly were taken from the Club IcK'atod out side the Kings. Mountain city limits. Tlie Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department, the State Bureau oif Invesstigation and State ABC' of ficials all investigated the inci dent. Br(?wn has bgen released on Sl.OOO bond. A hearing in 27th District Court has been st't for September 3. Mr. Bixnvn said that club activi ties will continue as usual. .A dance is slaied for Saturday night “With music by the South Drifters Rcvoie from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. Dinner will be ser\’ed, ho said. Vandalism Is Reported Vandalism estimated at $350 the w'oek of August 2 at Central school is being investigati'd by City police. Det. Lt. William Roper said two windows w'ore broken by a person or persons, desk drawers in the principal’s and se^Tetary’s office's were ransacked and a portable address s>’stem was danoaged.