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City Limits (1966 Census) 8.256
City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9,300
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspopei
VOL. 85. No. 45
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, 'N. C., Thursday, November 5, 1970
Eighty-Fifth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Broyhill, Harris, Rauch, Mauney Win Election
UTtLE THEATBE PERFORMERS — A scene Irom "Barefoot In The Park" pictures, left to right.
Gene Austin, Mrs. Raymond Holmes, Mrs. Nan Jean Holt, Gary Watson ond Reb Wiesener. Vhe
ploy will be seen Fridoy and Saturday nights, 8 p.m. at the Waznan's Club. (Piioto by Isaac
Aloscemder)
Little Theatre Slate:
Performances Of Comedy
lootlnPaik i“ ' ■ 7^,, ,
Opens Friday Rev. Cooper Is Honored
For 25-Year Pastorate
Pastors America's
Oldest German '
Lutheran Church
At Woman's Club
The Kings Mountain Little The
atre Will present the first of four
performances of “Barefoot In The
Park” Friday, night at the Wom
an's Club Building.
A situation comedy, curtain
time will be at 8 p.m. for each of
the four performances which are
scheduled November 6-7 and Nov
ember 13*14. The play is the sec
ond wTi^en by Nell Simon and
enjoyed a long run on Broadway.
It is also a popular feature on
television this season.
Roles in the production are be
ing portiayed by Gene Austin
iPaul Bratter); Mrs. Raymond
Holmes (Corie Bratter); Mrs. Nan
Jean Grant Cone’s mother, Mrs.
Banks); Reb Wiesencr (Vtctor Ve
lasco) ; Gary Watson, telephone
repairman: Dr. Robert Baker, the
delivery man.
t Mrs. Boots M(*Daniel is directing
the play while Ray Holmes is
lifctage manager, Nancy Wiesener
l| proimpter, Cathy Cox is in
Sarge of sound and lighting,
Robert Cox, prolperties, and
^Mts. Aubrey Mauney, house chafir-
^Bnan.
Bus-Cai Accident
Seriously Injures
Mrs. Ledford
REV. EDGAR M. COOPER
iMrs. Mike Ledford, First Bap
tist church cemetery, was serious
ly hurt Tuesday morning as a re
sult of injuries she sustained
when her car was struck by a
Cleveland County School Bus.
Mrs. Ledford, 27, the former
Sue Jean Wright, remains in the
Inteitelve Care Unit of Charlotte
Memorial hospital where she is
suffering from a fractured skull
and a broken leg. Her father-in-
law, Ted Ledford, said Wednesday
morning her. condition is improv
ing and that her doctor says she
is responding to treatment.
The wreck occurred about 8:30
a.m. Tuesday when a school bus
operated by Paul Goforth, 16, of
route one, reportedly made a left
turn into the car operated by
(Mrs. Ledford on U. S. 74 near the
Kings Mountain Armory. Mrs.
Ledford was enroute to work, tra
veling East on Mountain street.
The bus was reportedly traveling
west and was turning left to the
high school on Rhifeir road.
^ (David Hinson, in charge of
School bus operations in Cleve
land County, said Goforth told
The Rev. Edgar Cooper, son of
j Mrs. Edgiar C. Cooper and the late
1 Rev. Cooper of Kings Mountain,
I was honored by the congregation
I of New Hanover Lutheran Church
! in New Hanover, Pa., last week-
1 end on the 25th anniversary of
his pastorate the^'e.
Present to share the happy oc
casion with him were his mother
along with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Cooper and Dr. and Mrs. Ge(5ige
Plonk of Kings Mountain. Mr.
Cooper and Mrs. Plonk are broth
er and sister of Rev. Cooper.
The celebration marked a quar
ter century of leadership for the
former Kings Mountain native at
America’s oldest German Luther
an Church, the history of which
dates back to the early 1700s.
The Rev. Marshall F. Mauney de
livered the sermon at both Sun
day services in tribute to hi.«
cousin, and folfowing the morn-' I PmIIiav
ing service a tree was planted on | 1-lKe r aiitVK
the church grounds in honor of
Pastor Cooper.
Some 350 persons were present
for the* Friday evening dinner
which honored Rev. Cooper for
his 25 years as pastor of the
church and 25 years as an ordain
ed minister. When he entered the
dining hall with his mother they
were greeted with a standing ova
tion by the capacity crowd.
In conjunction with the anni
versary dinner, the membership
met in the newly-renovated
church sanctuary for '"This Is
Life” scrapbook presentation. Lin
ford F. Moyer, program chairman,
showed the 61 piece slide pres
entation. covering the honored
guest’s years of service at New
Harris, Mauney
GsunSies
i; iMs'kts
Kings Mountain will again have
two mcmher.s of the North Caro
lina General -^sscmbly.
.1 Cllio Harris piled up a 3 to 1
r*i.7rgin in »
Ga.don by 97 vtoes to defeat Jim
Adkins iOr il.e .-tale senate >KicKi
(‘in,.* va.Mtc;! o> Jack White, anJ
;;entati\c W. K. Mauney, Jr.,
easily dcrorUrd A. Hobart Greene
lo win a third term in the House.
TjIp.'.c vote totals were: Harris
n.nni, Atkins 11352: Maunev
1C>,1.'''5 and Gicone 9069.
Eob Manor. Republican candi
date lor county commissioner lost
his race to Incumbent Chairman
R. E. (Pop Simmons and Phil
Rucker vvlio will succeed retiring
Commissioner Charles Gcoene.
j.ovvnvcr. Mr. Manor led in tlirei'
of four precincts of his home
township and also at Casar. He
w’as the leader at East and Wes'
Kings Mountain and at Bethware
Pile totals were Rucker 7995, Sim
mons 7769, and Mancr 4317
Also rccloctod to the state sen
I ate from the 29th disirict wa-
. . s.iio pjiicd 4>110£
:)ies Jo Jo in MeSrayer’s K^Ml.
Witii i;ie exceptitin of Beth
’vnre. Numbt'r -1 Township support-
tvl Basil L. Whitener over Repre
sentalive Jim Broyiiili in Wnitc
ior's losing bid to return to Con
;ress. Broyhill carried the other
ev4*n counties, including White
-icr’s home county of Gaston by
i margin of 90 votes. It will be
koyhill’s fifth term.
The township supported both
:he ^850,000 bond issue for Cleve
and Technical Institute and the
iperational tax levy, but both
issues failed, apparently, the bond
.ssue by a margin of only 31
votes, according to the unofficial
returns. ‘
Unopposed for re-election were
State Representative Bob Jones
and Robert Z. Falls, Sheriff Hay
wood .4Ilen, Coroner M. D. Walk
er, Mrs. Ruth Dedmon, for clerk
>f superior court. Treasurer Mrs.
(arribt Evans, County Board of
Education members Mary Lot
Barrier, and Bob Stone, and Solici
tor Hanip Childs, of LincoliUtm.
A total cf 2591 persons voted in
.'lumber 4 Township, including
1217 at West Kings Mountain, 706
at Bast Kings Mountain, 410 at
Bethware and 258 at Grover
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VO'nNG TUESDAY — Shown casting ballots at the West Kings
Mountain precinct Tuesday when voting was brisk in the local
precincts os well os over the county, are, left to right D. G. Uttle-
John, o Republican Judge; Harold Clonlnger/Mrs. Mikie Beatty,
Mrs. Vemoh L. Smith; Mr; and Mrs. Boyce Patterson and Wood-
row Bridges. " - ^
Busy Politicking
OlHe 'Harris, Jr, and 17-
monlh-old dai.ghter, Eli/aheth
Wall Harris, spent from Satur
day until WednesUay morning
with Mr. and Mrs. J. OlUe Har
ris and Mns. J. H. Arthur. They
made the trip via plane.
«
Mr. Harris came cspeciallv to
be hero for the Tuesday olecuon.
His fathr was the successful can
didate for a North Carolina sen
ate seait representing Cleveland-
Gaston Counties.
vm Poppy Day,
Suppei Planned
For Saturday
VFW Buddy Poppy Day will be
observed Saturday November 7,
with member.s of the VFW Auxil
iary offering poppies for sale on
the streets of Kings Mountain.
Proceeds from the sale will go to
the group's civic work. Th^y urge
everyone to participate in the
project *by buying a buddy pojppy
and wearing it during the day.
'The poppies are made by serv
ice veteran.s hospitals t^jroughout
the country,
Saturday night the VFW Auxil
iary will sponsor a supper for
members and their husbands be
tween 5 and 8 p.m. at the post
home.
Country ham and chicken will
be served with vegetables and
cakes with the price set at $1.50
Ter plate. It is also announced
that plates will be prepared to
jarry out for those who wish to
do so.
Buiialo Creek
Water Clarity
Is Very Good
'The water flowing through the
ntrw Buffalo Qeek treatment
plant has better clarity and is
purer than the water being treat
'd at the Deal Street plant,
George Mo.ss, veteran treatment
plant manager, relates. j
"I am quite pleased,” Mr. Moss]
said Wedne.sday. “When the lake’
fills, the water will be even more
rlear.”
"The D('al Street plant water is
Tiologically o.k.,’' he continued,
but new equipment naturally
toe.s a better job. Drinking water
s in the pipt'lines now and tiie
date Board of Health has some
-lamples and have no feajr that
■heir R'sts will not confirm mine
We should be using Buffalo C’reek
water not later tiian 'Tue.sday.”
Engineer W. K. Dkkskon and
?ity officials arc also highl.v
pleased at the good report.
Work continues on the dike at
Dover Mill, which should be com
pleted in two weeks.
Riff-raffing of the dam and
concreting of the spillway is also
well-underway, Mayor John Hen
ry Moes reported and Neal Hawk
ins is beginning work on land
scaping and paving the treatment
plant area.
The new treatment plant has a
rated capacity of four million
gallons of potable water daily. To
tal cast will approximate
$3,5(X),000, officials estimate. Fin
ancing was (ione by a $3,090,000
bond issue and a $450,(XX) federal
grant.
Bond amortization has already
begun. Water customers are pay
ing the cost through a 90 i>erceni
surcharge on their water bills.
Capt. M.
Dies At Age 101
^ new JbiaftRnles
Ar^ Ontlin^
Bf Delliiligei
I
Ollie Harris, Jr. an.i his wife,
the former Jean Arthur, also
Hanover, his childhood school and j have ibeon quite active politicking
seminary days. • Houston Te.xas where ho ser-
Also included were congmtula- actively in Senator Bent-
tory letters from President Nixon |gon’s reelect ion 'to a Democratic
and Ex-President Johnson. Presi- g^at in Congress and in the Gu-
dent Nixon’s note stated: “With | bematorial race. The Harrisea
warmest congratulations on this,,^ere ^mong guests at a Demo-
anniversary of dedicated service l^ratic fund-raising dinner in
to God and to your fellowman.” jvvihich the featured speaker was
Fx-Presiident Johnson said: “It jcormer President Lyndon John-
takes a capable person who can
sympathize with* all kinds of
people to stay so long in one par
iah. Since I know personally the
him he did not see the car when > evidence of your excellent lead
he made the turn. Goforth was' ershlp at New Hanover, I thank
not Injured in the wreck, I God that he has given you to this
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Ollie Harris, HI, age 11, called
his father Saturday night to re
port his football team wai in
the winning bracket A young
quarterback, Johnny scored a
touchdown.
Funeral Sunday
forWell-Kntiwn
Conductor
Capt. Batie Meek Dimand.
King.s .Mountain's oldest pitizen
at age 101, died Saturday marn-
ing at King.s Mountain Ho.spital
•fter an illness of several weeks,
iTo redded at 311 W. Mountain
Street.
A retired Sout.qorn Railway
.*ondurtrxi-, Capt. Ormand was
l>orn March IS, 1869 at Old Fur-1
a.aee. N. C., in Gaston County, .
u'cond child of Mr. and Mr.s Rob ]
ert Dixon Ormand. Ho attended
:ch<x>ls at Old Furnace and Kings j
Mountain and afU»r teaching i
jciiool for three years began work-
ng for the Southern Railway, bc-
.‘oming a condurtor. and 'retired
in 1939 after serving the railway
fur 50 years. While with the rail
road, he liv('d in Greenville, S. C., 1
Gastonia and Charlotte but spent I
most of his life In Kings Moun
tain.
He was a Shriner for 50 years,
an elder Emeritus at First Pres
byterian -Church of Kings Moun
tain, a Klwanian and a Mason.
Funeral rites were /conducted
from First Presbyterian Church In
Kings Mountain at 3:30 p.m, Sun
day with the body lying in state
from 3 p.m. The Rev. Paul Ausley
officiated at the service, assisted
by the R('v. D.- B. Alderman and
the Rev. Charles Ea.sley. Interment
was in Mountain Rest Cemeteiy.
Husband of the late Lillian Al
lison Orei'an<1, he was tlie fallier
of the late Lloyd M. Ormand and
Hugh D. Ormand of Kings .Moun
tain, who survives. Other surviv
ors include two daughters, Mrs.
C. Troy Carpenter of Rings Moun
tain and Mrs. O. P. Lewis, also of
Kings Mountain; nine grandchil
dren, 20 great-grandchildren and
one great-great grandchild. ,
CAPT. MEEK ORMAND
OLUE HARRIS
JIM BROYHILL
35 Officers
In Police School
Thirty-five police officers from
Kings Mountain, Shelby, and Bel
mont -are enrolled in a 36-hour
coui'se in “Advanced Techniiiues
In Civil Disorders’’ undeiway at
City Hall.
InstrLictor ^br the course,
which got underway Monday, is
Lt, Bob Hayes of the Kimga
Mi^ntain Police Department.
Drug Problem
Attracts 400
One huni.tTod adults and 300
young people attlonded ttlie two
informative sessions on drug a-
busc last W€*ekend at the Com
munity Center.
Because of the large crowd of
young people Sunday afternoon,
the meeting lOom was moved
from an assembly room into the
gymnasium.
Six young men who refer to
their work in the Young Adults
Action Program as “Operation
Salvation” were “most outspok
en", said one young person who
attenuled, about how Christ
brought them from the very
depths of dnrjg addiction to the
heights of Christian love and
faith One 18-year-old said when
he “wasn’t even on hard drugs,
I was all -mixod up in my think
ing.” • •
fil'R. Dejlihger, CtrtTirman, of
Cleveland County Locdl Selective
Service Board No. 23 announced
today that Selective Service poli
cies have been revised to allow
a registrant classified in II-S, I-
S(H), II-A, ni-A (Hardship), or
III-A (Fatherhood) to drop his
deferment in favor of aJ-Jl classi
fication, provided the registrant
requests in writing that his cur
rent deferment bee an(?elled.
This change in policy should be
of particular interest, Mr. Dellin
ger said, to selective sen'-jee reg
istrants who hold 1970 lottery
numbers higher than the highest
number reached by the boarci. As
of Nov'cmber 1, 1970, IS|r-.'pellinger
stated that the highest: lottery
number reached by this local
board is 177.
“It is not anticipated,” Mr. Del
linger added, “that this local
beard will exceed number 171 as
a high for this calendar year;
therefore, it will profebly be to
the advantage for af» registrant
who holds a 1970 lotteiy num
ber, and who is eurreittty 'fleferred
in II-S, I-S(C)r n-A, III-
A(Hairdship), or Father
hood) to request the board to can
cel his deferment if he'has a lot
tery number higher than 177.”
Mr. Dellinger furLh^- pointed
out that if such a request is re
ceived by the boojd from such a
registrant, he will be reclassified
in I-.A This action will jx'rmit
the registrant to be placed in a
lower draft priority during 1971.
“It is, however, most import
ant,” Mr. Dellinger added, “that
any registrant who desires to
make suoh a request to do so im
mediately. This will assure the
registrant that the . board will
have an opportunity to act on his
request either in November or
De.'ember.”
While recognizing that young
men holding lottery ‘numbers
(wor their local bogtd ' “high”
could effectively limit'tbeir vul-
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HORSE SHOW
The Cherokee Sortoma Club
Charity Fall Horse Sliow will
be held Saturday, November 7.
1970 at Brown Arena in Blacks
burg, S. C. The afternoon show
begins at 1:30 p.m. with ’the
evening show starting at.7:00
p.m. Douglas Smith and Mark
Hibbard will serve as judges
and William Biggerstaff will be
ringmaster.
I
Veteran's Day
Service Is Set
Annual Veteran’s ' Itoy cere
monies will be held Wcdnostkiy
morning. November 11, at Mem
orial Park of Mountain Rtist cem
etery.
The memorial service Is spon
sored by city officials, the Kings
Mountain Ministerial association,
Otis D. (Jreen Post 1.55; the Amer
ican Legion, the Legion Auxiliary^
Frank Glass Post Veterans of For
eign Wars and thk VFW. Auxili-
aryrf \ ,