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Population ^Creator Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits (1966 Census) 8.256 City Limits U. S. Estimate 1970 8.476 Mouataia ogur* u d«riTMl Ma tht ■P*cirl uatteg ttat«« Buitcni ol th* Ctniut report e jttMorT iSM. and laclude* tb« I4,9S0 populatloa o nomter « TowbaUp, and the romaiaiDg 9,114 ttom "Umber S I^woeblp, la Develond CouaW asd CrowdM* - *'• tfi fiiton Ceoaty, j Miir; i K Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today \ VOL 85. No. 48 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. iC., Thursday, November 26, 1970 Eighty-Fifth Year PRICE tS^ cents Christmas Parade Slated By Merchants December 4 IDuke Rate Hike Stuns City EARNS EAGLE RANu — Mrs. Larry Homridc oi right pins the Cagle Scout Medal on ner M year- ‘ old son. Lorry Hamrick, Jr., as Kenneth Pruitt of Atlanta. Ga.. left former scoutmaster, and Jim Yarbro. current scoutmaster of First Baptist Church Troop 92. look on. Lorry, a ninth-grader at Kings Mountoin High, has participated in scouting for ttuee ond one-half years. Standing 6*1". he is a member of the 9th grade basketball teom, on honor roll student member of Demolay ond is octive in the MYF ot Central United Methodist. Church. He has olso served as a Senior Patrol leoder and hos been active in other scout octivi ties. His bodge was presented ot 11 o'clodc church services Sunday. (Photo by Isaac Ale«ander) 22.S Increase Is Proposed By December 14 I r- r SHARON DIANE GWYNN Businesses Quiet Holiday Calm is settled over Kindts | Mountain today as business fin 1 ancial institutions and schools | are (rlosed in observance of i Thanksgiving. While families are getting to gothrr for the traditional Thanks giving turkey dinner, many are hurrying to Charlotte for the 24th Kings Mwntain's record $35,100; annual Carrousel Parade and United Fund goal is lagging. I <»hws are tuning in their favo- Off to what appeared to be an ' aggr^ive start mth $5^2 re-, in g, « ^ three local churches this October 22, the amount today. UF Lagging; Reports To Date Tetal $26,607 i\ amount after a month’s campaign efforts finds the total at $26,607.92. Of the seven divisions, only one has reached its goal and gone over. The schools division, with a quota otf $2,281, has reached $2,345. Becky Seism, reporting for Chairman Don Jones, yesterday released amounts raised to date by the different divisions. List ing the quotas first and amounts raised second, division solicita tions are as follows: Advanced gifts, $4,563 - $2,647; Commercial Division, $4,739 - $2,996.69; Cor respondence, $1,404 - $978; Indus trial, $19305 - $16,442.86; Proles, sional, $1,404 - $9W; Public Em ployes, $1,404 - $248.37; Schools, ||2.281 - $2,345. ^ Eight local agencies share in the fund while North Carolina Community Services including such varied agencies as the Chil dren’s Home Society of North Carolina, the Traveler’s Aid Asso ciation of America, and the North Carolina Mental Health Associa tion, are budgeted at $3,074 of the total. Local agencies included and their budget figures include: Min- Three Cars £ra Involved In Wed. Wreck morning, members of the Kings Mountain Baptist Church Brother ho(xl serving in the fellowship hall frem 7 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. and the annual b'rcakfa.st at First Presbyterian church between 7:30 and 9 a.m. to be served by the men of the church. St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will have a 10 a.m. service today with the Rev. Charles Easley, minister, to u.so as his sermon topic, “Then Came Elim”. Also, the Rev. James Wilder will ad- drei> hi.s congregation in the sanctuary at 9 a.m. today follow ing the earlier breakfast. The comimunity’s traditional Thanksgiving service was held last evening at 7:30 in Central sch(x>l auditorium when the Rev. James Stuart, pastor of First Presbyterian Chui'ch in Gastonia delivered the sermon. The serv ice was sponsored by the Kings Mountain Mini.sterial Association of which the Rev. Edwin Chriscoc is president. Various ministers in the community particii)atcd in the serviice. A 40-‘memt>er .combined choir from local churches provided special music at the service, sing- Mayor John Henry Moss and City Clerk Joe 'McDaniel, still i staggering under the proj)osed 22.5 ^ per cent rate increase by Duke; I’ower Co. to wholesale customers, yesterday .a.ssiirpd citizens they would work diligently to hold the increase at the lowest possi ble rate. The mayor, McDaniel and four j of the six commissioners who | were present for Tuesday night’s ] commission meeting, said yester-1 day through May^xr Moss they feel this is an exhorbitan-t rate increase by Duke and they will i work diliigently to keep the elec-1 trie power costs at the lowest pos- ] Sir‘"'“‘iGaidner-Webb Slated to go into effect Decern-! ber 14, the increase for this city! would amount to $77,266. “We are working with the elec tric cities group and Duke repre .'•(•ntatives in endeavoring to de /elop some facts in regards to rates,” the mayor said, obviou.sly concerned fur his city’s custo mers. McDaniel, who told Tuesday night’s meeting that the city could not absorb the propo.scd increase and that rates would have to go up, said the amount cl increase to an average monthly power bill would be in the neigh- 40£iiQ£Kl Qf . $2.50 to $a for most King.« Mountain families. Commissioner Ray Cline said he was “glad we can tell the people this increase is comilng from Duke and not the city.” Moss said Kings Mountain has one of two lowest electric -rates in the state, Fayetteville being tlie other city. Paving bids on 11 streets in town were also accepted at Tu^'s- day night’s meeting with Noil Hawkins of Gastonia low at $8.50 per ton. Asphalt Paving of Shelby was second low bidder on the project at $8.75 per ton with Bradley-Jenkins last at $13.25 per ton. The contract will be awairdod at the December 8 meeting, Mc Daniel said. The board also passed a resolu tion agreeing to participate in the North Carolina Committee on Law and Order, ctmsideration of the resolution having been re quested at a meeting of the Re gion C Criminal Justice Planning Agency in F’orest City last Thurs day. In addition to Kings !Moun- I Dr- D- F. Herd Awarded By N. C. Dental Society Awarded DSA II last Week At Raleigh Meet 'Dr. D. F. Herd of Kings Moun tain last week received the Dis tinguished Service Award pre sented by the 'North Carolina So- ■iety of Dentistry for Children. The coveted award, presented at a meeting held at the Hilton Inn in Raleigh, is presented each year to a general practitioner. Dr. Kord’s award reads: “In reeognl- tiion for his tireless efforts for Im proving the dental healMi of the | children of his community and state and for devoted leadership in this Society.” Dr. Herd is a charter member of the Society and has served as secretary-treasurer for the past four years. Educated at Wake Forest Uni versity and Emory University ticed in Kings Mountain since 1949. He is currently a member ol the Cleveland County Board of Health. Ray Douglas Farris, 28. was ad mittod to the o.mo-geir'y r(X)m of Kings Mountain Hospital yester day afternoon where he rooeived five stitches f:)r a cut on his head following an accident at 2:30 p.m. in which three cars w'cre in volved. According to Patrolman Gray-! ten Bollinger who investigated the accident, Farris was turning off York Road onto Gold street when he turned left in front of Mrs. Lois Howard, 22, of Clover, S. C. The Howard car knocked Farris’ 1965 Mu.stang into a 19T1 Continental Mark III driven by Charles Eugene Noisier, III asj tain. Mayor .Mo.ss said municipal Noisier w'as waiting for a rodjitics through Cleveland, Ruther- Taps Miss Gwynn For Big Honor Miss Sharon Diane Gwynn of Kings Mountain has been selected by her fellow nursing students as “Miss Student Nurse” of Gardner- Webb College. Sharon, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwynn of Rt. 1, Kings Mountain, is a freshman at Gardner-Webb. The “Miss Student Nuree” con test is national in s(rop(*. Each in dividual !^od1 of nursing selects a cont^lant to represimt their canupus. These girls then icompete in district competition and later in state competition. At tlio end of the year the state winners take part in the national contest for tile title of “Miss Student Nurse US.A.” This fall Sharon will t?omf)ete in District 2 of the N. C. Student Nur.se Association which includes Rhyne, Western Piedmont, Gaston tile seh(X)ls of nursing at Lenoir Memorial Hospital and Gardncr- W4'bb College. Candidates for “Miss Student Nurse” must ^bo rising seniors in! The property was first offered the nursing program and exhibit I to the high bidder on Ck'tober 20 exceptional academic and clini-; when Robert S. Subcir, Jr. bid cal competence. They ere requir-1 $40,100 for the 131.65 acres. Su ed to write an essay on the sub- ber’s bid was raised bv Ernest Biakefield To Speak At Oiid Banquet Dec. 8 The annual Lions Club footbaU banquet, hondring the Kings Meuntain High School t^am, will be held Tuesday night, Dec. 8, at the high schockl cafeterlC Guest speaker iVill be Jim Brakefleld, head football coach Wofford Cblleg^ whose - Terriera have won 19 straight games and are rated as the number one ?imall college teatn In the nation. Efakefield, who is in hie fourth yeat as head coach of the Ter- Tiers, coached KMHS coach BiU Bates in baseball at Wofford for two years. At least four trophies will be awarded at the banquet, which Sc hool of Dcntii-'try, he has prac- j will be open to thef public this "“' year foe the flT^t time. Th^ are: The John Gamble Sdholastic A- ward, JJ’red Plonk Blocking Trophy, Georgb Plonk iMost play- er award and the Moirt Improved Player, trophy. Tickets, which are oil sale for two dollairs bttch, be obtain ed by mem bers of the Lions Club Mrs. Anthony's Bid Is High On Phifer Aaes •Mrs. R. P. Anthony of Gastonia raised the bid on the late Martin | iPhifer property Monday by $2.655,1 bringing it to $54,755, aocording to Commissioner Crawley B. Cash who with George B. Themasson i.s selling the propt»rty under court order to sOtMle the estate. ilsterial iHelping Hand. $3,600; Boy Thanksgiving anthems under Scouts Piedmont Council, $7,972; American Red Cross, $5,^; Girl Scouts Pioneer Council, $3,750; Kings Mountain High School Band, $2,.550; Cleveland County (Kings Mountain) ResJcue Squad, $4,584; Kings Mountain High School Chor us, $1,400; and Salvation Arniy, $1,600.. Adminfistrative costs are budget ed at $500 and there is also bud geted a $569.72 contingency fund. the direction of Mrs. J. N. McClure. Miss Priscilla Ann Burris, Car rousel PTin'ces.s from Kings Moun tain High, will appear in the an nual Carrousel Parade in Char lotte today. The 17-year-old daugh ter of Mrs. Helen Mocks Burris and the late Mr. But*ris, she ap peared at the annual Carrousel Band Showcase at the Charlotte Coliseum la.st night. (Cmtiniied on Page Eight) light to change. No charges were filed 'Bollinger said. Farris was released following treatment ami two children in tie Howard car were also examin ed and relca.sed at the hospital. Patrolman Boll’ iger estimated damage.^ at $3.5r on the Ni isler car, ^50 on Mi-.s. Howard’s 19.59 Pontiac and $950 on the Farris car. ford, Polk and .M(Dowell counties will also be acting on the resolu tion. Moss said he found the meet ing in Forest City interesting and (ould see much benefit in law enforcement people discussing their mutual problems. Police Chief Thtimas McDevitl was named vice-chairman of the (Continued on Page Eight) ber’s bid was raised by Hayes and Hayes’ bid consequent ly was raised by Suber who held it a't $52,100 until Monday of this week. ject “Tho Prevention of Apathy in Nursing”, They are then inter viewed by a panel consisting of a faculty member from the nurs ing department, a doctor, and on I i impaiTtial i)crson. This interview | According to Cash .the property is to detonmino if they understand i will he resold on December 14 at the major problems in nursing cd-1 11 a.m. at the courthouse door in uication today and to see if they' Shelby. Under teuims of a com are truly committed to nursing.! rnissioner sale, the bid remains Sharon came to Gardner-Wobb j open for 10 days for confirmation from South Stokes High School; and during that period may be where she maintained an “A” | increased by a minimum of 10 average throughout her higii | percent for the first $1,(K)0 and asuIuoSm Gtaduaie level Edneation Conne BOONE — The Extension Divi sion of Appalachian State Univer sity will offer a graduate-level course in Elementary School Cur- riculum (Education 546) for Kings Mountain area residents during the university’s winter quarter. The course, which may be used foir university credit or for teach ers certiificathe renewal, will be taught at Kings Mountain High School 'beginning at 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 30. It will meet for ten three-hour sessions and will be taught by Dr. Alvin Hooks otf .ASU’s College of Education. Tuition is $33 plus a registra tion fee of $10 for students who have never before enrolled at ASU. Registration will be conduct ed at the first two meetings of the class. Floats. Bands Being Readied For thld Event Kings Mountain area residents will enjoy their first Christmas parade -in at least six years when Santa will head a parade here on Friday, Deember 4, to lead off the Christmas season. This year’s event is sponsored by the Kings Mountain Merchants Association with Jim Downey serving as chairman of the paracte comonittee. To begin at 4 p.m., the Santa float will be sponsored by the .Merchants Association while ad ditional floats wiH*»>€ entered by the Chamber of Comlmerce, Belk’s Department Sto:e, Kings Moun tain clvJj clubs, local financial in stitutions, city reorration, local furniture stores and others. At least ^four bands will par ticipate, including Kings Moun tain High School, Shelby High School, G’est and Burns High Schools. Riding in the event will be May or John Henry Moss, city com missioners, Representative W. K. Mauf jy, Jr., ^nators Ollie Har ris and Mai^all Ratuii. The city’s maintenance {sews are busy .installing onrisimas uec- orations over town and expect to have the job finished by this weekend. Meantime, merchants have almost 1(X) pen cent finish ed decorating their places of t rj- Iness for the busy shopping sca- i son which is expected to get in , full swing within the next week. Clint Rankin, co-chairman of the event with Downy announced that the parade wLi assemble on West (Jold Street and proceed at 4 pjn. to the railroad to the over head bridge^ on King, turn right to IL-knontT .turn right on Pied- monf^aown to Mountain Streef, proceed on Mountain to Battle ground Ave., and turn left to East Gold .to disband. Downey stated that decorations being used uptown this year are the same as la^ yeai and that instead of adding to money wIiH go to sponsor 'tR RECEIPTS ^ ParlA.^ meter receipts.^ V past week totaled $96.90; ' cording to Joe McDaniel at City hall. In addition, $13.10 was col'leoted from the off-street lot. school career. ONE BUILDING PERMIT Only one building permit was issued during the past w(?pk and that was for $300 for a car garage. five percent for each thousand thereafter. If the bid is raised, the pre^rty is ireadvertiised and an other sale conducted. Mrs. Anthony Is the former Doris Phifer, niece of the late Martin Phifer. Turns On Drug Ministry Following Daughter's Suicide Art Linkletter Hits Drugs, Rock Music Heiald Sets New Picture Policy The Herald is getting a new policy on pictures to be pub lished in the future ond seeks the cooperotion of Its readers customers in making the change. Beginning next week, only black ond white photographs will be accepted since only poor reproduction con be expected from colored photogrophs. For birthday pictures and other single-column pictures, only wallet-size (2x3) photographs will be accepted, ond for brides brides-elecf, 5x7 pictures ore requested. The new rules have been necessitated since o chonge has boon made in engraving companies serving the Herald. We hope you will not ask us to make exceptions and will request tho proper sizes when ordering from your photographer. By GRACE HAMRICK An cmotion-packod audiance blinked away toars and gave Art Linkletter a .«9tainding ovation last Thursday imorning in Miami, Fla. The occasion was his address before the National Wholesale Druggist Association at its annual session at the Americana Hotel when ho asked that group’s co operation in fighting drug abuse, his drug abus^? ministry having spanned the year which began in October 1969 when his lovely daughter, Diane, at age 21, took her own life after suffering flash backs from LSD. Perhaps no other person could tell his story with such impact as Art Linkletter in his articulate style and to audiences over the country that revere him for fun- filled hours and laughs ho has provided in 38 years of show busi- nes.s. Adopted at age 8 by a travel ing evangelist, Linkletter told that his father had hoix.*d he too would be an evangelist. He could never have followed his father In ‘scaring sinners Into Heaven”, he s<ald, but now finds -himself oiccu- pying the pulpit in a different way to administer to the public due to a tragedy in his own lii'e. “A parent’s grief Is a private grief”, ho said, “but Diane’s death would have provided the subj<K3t for cTuel talk and perverttxl peo ple would pass it on” so he d^id- ed to take her tragij? death and use it as a platform to tell young folks otf 'the tragedy that faces them with drug abuse. His year was spent talking with everybody flrom profossionals to kid's, to heroin pushers, dn clinics, in ghettos with kids who have never had a chance, in colleges and high schools, to law enforce ment officials, President Nixon, truck drivers, musicians, etc. “I have seen a number of pla teaus,” he said, “and I now un derstand the subject from an overall aspect that many psychi atrists and psychologists do not get.” Growing up with and speaking otf his lifelong friendship with the president, Linkletter said that the the presidency of the United States, he was nominated for the presidency of the Santa Monica PTA. He cited Nixon's encourage ment to appear before the Senate investigating committee and to imany groups on the influence of the music of rock groups which familiarize kids with the jargon of pushers. He continued his campaign by talking wdth disc jockeys, prevail ing on them to police their use of the peoples’ airwaves, and was elated that one major ire*cording studio a week earlier had said it would curb recordings of music and lyrics that smacked of the drug society. Starting his talks with tobacco, alcohol and then to marijuana, he has appealed to today’s youth to understand >the dangers of their usage and to parents he has warned of problems that are at their doorsteps today that could lead to seeing their own lovely children with needles in their arms tomorrow. '*Make the drug language sim year Nixon was nominated for | pie and know what tihe drugs are”, he appeals. “You must talk to the kids but know the lan guage. .don’t lecture down or ac cuse them...but let them talk. Learn to detect signs and see the warning signals,” he admonish- pd. “Kids arc crying for help and they want discipline.. .they leave sighs around.” He told that two weeks earlier the son of a friend of his had con*o to him for help with a her oin problem after the father had called him a bum and failed him '‘-Kids are sick...not animals”, he said. “Most of the pushers are kids and they want their friends to have a ball too.” Calling them drug dependents instead of addfets, he has ireceiv- ed hundreds of tetters from wom en whose doctors have prescribed too many drugs.. .truck drivers want to stay awake.. .students want to stay awake to study... soddiers dn Vietmam seek relief from their surroundings ... old folks oire sedated with barbdtur- ates. ”U’s a pill-popping society” he continued “in a tfime when Continued On Pag^ Eight rkh.'i R. L. PLONK IMPROVED Rufus L. Plonk, 83, who has been a patient in Kings Moun tain Hospital for several days, ibeing dismissed last Thursday, is reported to be feeling better and is at his home on St. Luke road. He is taking treatments in Charlotte. Donna Blanton Accepted For National Project Donna Blanton, a ninth grade Cadefte from Kings Mountain Troop 4, has just been notified by Girl Scouts of the U. S. A. that she has been selected for a na tional opportunity. “Dig Mankind” is an archaeological encampment at the new Girl Scout National Center West in Wyoming. Two sessions are scheduled for this event with 36 girls each from across the nation. Donna will be participating with consultants 'from the University of Wyoming on a known Indian site on the property. The purpose of th is event is to help girls feel a kinship with the long succession of man and thus to know one’s own place in the life design. Donna is an avid camper and has been in scouting for eight years. She is the daughter of Pio neer G. S. Council professional Lib Blanton and Charles Blanton, Jr. of Kings Mountain.. Her grand parents Ofe Mr. and Mrs. James C. 'Wilson, Sr. of (jcistonia and Mrs. C. D. iBlanton of Kings Mountain. Pioneer Council is. delighted that one of its youngef eligible scouts has been selected. Donna wild have several y^ars remain- Ing to share her learnings and skills with the Council. She will 'be In Wyoming from June 27 through July 9, 197)1. Piesbyterians WUI Elect Four Deacons Dr. Paul K. Ausley, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, has an* nounced that there wiill be a con gregational meeting Sunday to elect four deacons to compose the Class of 1973. Also, the annual Thanksgiving breakfast which is prepared Iw the men of the church by tradi tion, will be held this morning between 7:30 and 9 a.m. in the church fellowship hall. Pvts. Bunch. Lightsey In Marine Exercise Pvt. Johnny Bunch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Bunch of Kings •Mountain and Pvt. Ray Lightsoy of 811 Rhodes Ave., son of Mr. and Mrs. Noel Lightsoy, were both graduated in 9 a.m. Marine ex ercises (Friday, November 20, at Paris Island, S. C. Pvt. (Bunch was one of the 10 'Marines chosen to study elec tronics at San Diego, Calif., after six weeks of further training at Camp Lejeune. Pvt. Lightsey will study air mechanics at Memphis, Tenn. Both families attended cere monies Friday and Saturday. Servicemen's Addresses Wanted Mayor John Henry Moss Is seek ing the addresses of Kings Moun tain servicemen so he may send them traditional Christimas greet ings from hiimself and the city. Citizens are asked to call the (mayor’s ottice, 739-2563, and give the addresses to the mayor’s retary.