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Celebration
Kings Mountain Ministers Preparing Community Services
The Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association will sponsor a Chrls^n
Orowth Celebration Sept. 2-9 at
Oamble Stadiuin.
■nte purpose of the week-long
event, according to Rev. Fred Wells,
"Is to stimulate growth In Christian
faith, to celebrate our Christian
unity, to dedicate ourselves to more
effective Christian service, and to
encourage those who are iwt a paH
of our fellowship, those who have
never made a personal commitment
to Jesus Christ, to do so and become
united with us.”
Rev. Wells is chairman of the
steering committee for the
celebration, which will begin at 7:30
each evening.
These goals are In keeping with
the purposes of the KMMA, which
was founded to foster the sense of
communion amtmg the ministers of
the Kings Mountain area and to
promote cooperation In every ac
tivity that advances the cause of
Christ In his Kingdom, Rev. Wells
said.
Oirrently there are 38 members
representing churches of all
denominations in the KMMA.
The association sponsors, sup
ports or oversees several continuing
ministries in the Kings Mountain
area;
(1) A Bible class taught by the
Rev. Bill Alexander at Kings
Mountain Senior High. Churches are
asked to support this program by
encouraging their high school
students to enroll In the class and by
contributing financially through
their budgets or by special offerings.
(3) Members of the KMMA attend
twice-monthly meetings of the Kings
Mountain Board of Commissioners
for a brief devotion to open each
meeting.
(8) During the weeks prior to
Christmas, members of local
congregations are likely to see their
pastors ringing bells In front of
community businesses, soliciting
donations to go Into the Helping
Hand Fund.
(4) Also at Christmas, the KMMA
recommends and approves families
to receive gifts from the Toys for
Tots program. The toys are
collected, repaired and distributed
by the Kings Mountain Fire
Department.
(5) The KMMA sponsors a
volunteer chaplaincy program at
Kings Mountain Hosidtal. Currently,
the Rev. Paul Home, a retired
minister, serves as Chaplain.
(6) Station WKMT devotes 15
minutes at 9 a.m. Mrniday through
Friday for a devotional program,
sponsored by the KMMA, and an
hour (11 a.m.-noon) on Sunday for
the broad^Mt of a worship service.
(7) Two special annual worship
services are promoted and
conducted by the KMMA; and
Easter Sunrise Service at Mountain
Rest Cemetery, Veterans Section,
and a Thanksgiving Eve service at
one of the local churches • an in
terdenominational program.
(8) The KMMA administers the
Helping Hand Fund,which Is
designed to provide temporary
emergency help tor community
residents and transients. The fund
totals nearly 110,000 annually. The
fund helps provide food, medldne,
gasoline, rent, utilities, clothing,
fuel oU, accomodations tor tran
sients. Contributions come through
the United Fund, individuals,
churches, businesses, the Christmas
collection • and this year, through
the Christian Orowth Celebration.
Rev. Wells said, "In contrast to
similar events in the past, no outside
evangelist will be brought in to
conduct the nightly services. The
celebration will be totally a local
IHixluction with KMMA members
handling the services and the music.
“We feel we will get a better
community reqxmse by using our
own people and their talents rather
than importing an evangelist,” Rev.
Wells said. "All donations taken up
at the celebration, above expenaea,
will go into the Helping Hand Fund
to help the needy.”
Davidson
High Grads
To Gather
.. PLANNING CEUEBRATION—Members the Kings
Mountain Ministerial Association are pi^imfaig
Christian Growth Celebration tor September to benefit
the Helping Hand Fund. Front row, left to right: Rev.
Clyde Ooodeon, Rev. Fred Wells, Rev. Jake Golden,
Rev. Mrs. P.B. Kilgore, Rev. Roger Webb and Rev. J.C.
Photo by TOm McIntyre
Goare. Second row: Garen Streetman, Rev. George
Sherrill, Rev. Tom Pattereon, Rev. Leroy Cox, Rev.
Sam Morphy, Rev. Bob Boggan and Bov. Ansel Center
Jr. Third row: Rev. Paul Horn, Rev. Bill Daniel, Rev.
Harwood Smith, Rev. Clyde Bearden and Rev. Mji
Schranan.
Davidson High School alumni will
gather for the second anniversary
reunion this week with events
beginning on Friday evening at
lOngs Mountain Motor Inn at 9 p.m.
Mrs. Maiie Burris, chairman of
the local committee on
arrangements, said a picnic la
pUmned for Saturday from 2 until 6 .
p.m. at Davidson Park, a dance on J
Saturday from 8 until midnight at
KM Community Center, and an
afternoon church service on Sunday
at 3 p.m. at Mount Zion Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Burris said that all alumni of
the school are invited to participate
In all events. She said a large crowd
of alumni are expected to return to 's
lOngs Mountain tor the get-to- ^
gether.
P&Z Rejects Site
Plans For Housing
Kings Mountain Planning and
Zoning Board Tuesday night
rejected preliminary site plans for
70 units of low Income public
houstag.
The unanimous adtlon was the
major item of business on the
agenda and followed a 00-mlnute
discussion In which KM Housing
Authority Executive Director Tom
Harper outlined proposals tor four
proposed new housing projects. Site
17, 19, 30, and 31 and projected m
Ellis St., Watterson St., North
(3srpenter St., and cul de sacs of
Parker, Watterson and Ridge
Streets.
Mr. Harper said that the 37
buildings, or a total of 70 more units
cf low Income public housing, would
flU a need for many cltisens and that
he has ^plications <m hand from 59
citizens requesting apartments for
the elderly, 189 applying for two-
bedroom apartments, 83 persons
applying for three bedroom
reeldences, 35 for four bedroom
apaatmenta and three tor five-
bedrbom residences.
The proposed new units of public
housing would include 10 more units
tor the elderly.
Acting Chairman Wilson OrUfln
said after the meeting that the site
plan was rejected because of
variances In the city codes. "The
consensus of the board was that
federal projects, as well as any
projects, must be In strict com
pliance with codes. We commended
the Mayor, city commissioners and
the housing authority for their
qilendld efforts In creating low-rent
homes tor many of our city citizens
but on the other hand we questioned
how many more of these units we
Herald Is Building Facility
can build In Kings Mountain. By this
action we hope that the city officials
will help turn Kings Mountain
around and give more dlrectlan to
toee enterprise and to development
of' more housing from private
sources,” he said.
Mr. Griffin said that a total of 1,590
Kings Mountain dtlsens are now
living In low-rent public housing In
the city and 45 percent are elderly
persons.
In other action, the board
unanimously approved rezonlng a
portion of the Paul Mauney property
east of Canterbury Road on U.8. 74
from light InduMry to heavy in
dustry. John Barker, realtor, made
the request for Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Mauney. The MauiMys want an area
of their property, which faces the
proposed home of Herald Publishing
House, set aside for the storage of
metal fabricated parts and raw
materials stock.
(From page lA)
Bill Taylor of MooresvlUe has
oonstructed laimerous log homes
over the past two years, but, he
admits, nothing "on so grand a scale
as this building for Herald
Publishing House.”
Tajdor Is the building contractor
and Is In charge of purchasing all
omstruetlon materials, securing a
labor force and overseeing the entire
project.
"Very few materials will be
purchased outside of Kings Moun
tain,” Taylor said, "and we eiqiect
the entire labor force to erect the
structure to come from Kings
Mountain. With the exception of two,
all other sub-contractors are from
Kings Mountain.”
Danny Wooten of Gastonia and
Summey Building Supply of Dallas
are the exceptions. Wooten will
handle floor finishing and Summey
Is constructing the roof trusses. The
other sub-contractors are Jim
Guyton - masonry and carpentry;
Goforth Plumbing; DlUlng Heating
and Air Ocmdltlonlng; Hoke Electric
Cb.; and James Carroll - grading.
Taylor said as far as can be
determined, "The Herald building
will be the largest log structure In
the United States. There Is a hotel
constructed of logs In Canada which
is larger.”
The building will be 16,300 aquare
feet with a concrete floor in the rear
MUf tor the press and other heavy
printing equipment. The office area
will have knotty pine floors and
ceilings. The corridor running the
center of the building and several cf
the rooms up front will be of logs.
Taylor said the foundation has
been dug and "the concrete blocks
tor the foundation should be laid
beginning today. It will be late
August before we actually begin
raising the logs and we are shooting
tor early January 1960 for oc
cupancy.”
Taylor said he Is "treating the
Herald building as six log homes
connected. In a manner of speaking.
It Is a first for me and I am very
excited about the prospects of this
Job."
Taylor, a Hickory native who
qient many years In the real estate
business before turning to home
construction, said, "I have worked
In nuuiy communities In the oast two
years, but none as friendly and
cooperative as Kings Mountain. The
cooperation we have received Is
going to make this Job much easier
and much more satisfying.
"How many logs will go into the
Herald building? Well, If you were to
place them end to end they would
reach from the site to the Kings
Mountain Battleground.”
That comment Is from Lamar
Stroupe, vice president of
operations at RusUc Log
Homes, Ir.c. of Kings Mountain,
which sen-es as supplier of the logs
to be used In construction of the
newspaper plant.
"Our firm has figured with
customers for commercial buildings
to be made of logs," Stroupe said,
"but nothing as large as the Herald
building. More than landing this Job,
I am excited about what Rustic Log
Homes has been given the op
portunity to do here, to put Into
practice what we feel we can do.”
Stroupe said, given the rich
history of this area, he feels
residents will appreciate how well
the Herald building will blend Into
that historical picture. The building
la an original design by Rustle Log
Homes draftsman, Henry Blney, one
of two fulltime designers on the
Rustic staff.
"Henry was able to take a basic
home design and expand from
there,” Stroupe said.
The first course of logs for the
Herald have been cut and pressure
treated to ensure a long, long life,
Stroupe said. The actual con
struction will not begin until next
month and only the logs to be used
day by day will be delivered to the
site.
Stroupe said Rustic Log Homes
precuts all logs for a Job a standard
six Inches by eight Inches, then
numbers them for easy con
struction. The logs are treated. The
logs are put together with spline and
gasket and every nine inches a 10-
Inch screw spike Is simk to pull the
logs together. Stroupe said It is
almost Impossible to remove the
screw spikes once they are sunk.
"The logs are cut uniformly to fit
snugly,” he said.
"Wood Is the best Insulator known
to man,” Stroupe said, "The heating
and cooling dolisu* goes further with
wood - up to 40 percent savings.”
Rustic Log Homes are approved
by the N.C. Department of In
surance and the homes meet or
exceed the state building codes
regulations. The firm has 14 dealers
spread over N.C., S.C., VlrglnU,
Tennessee, West Virginia, Georgia,
Alabama and Oklahoma.
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. .INSTALLED—Blrs. Wanaa T. Davis has boon Installod as iwttoDal
president of the National Aasooiatloa of Ednoatlonal Office PersonneL
She Is the first woman from tbo Southeast to head the 6,000 member
organisation.
Mrs. President
Wanza Davis Installed
Mrs. Wanza Telton Davis, KM
District School's finance officer and
a veteran of 27 years service with
the school system, was Installed last
week as national president of the
National Association of Education
Office Personnel.
She was also presented Governor
Jim Hunt’s coveted citation as a
distinguished citizen of North
Carolina, recognizing meritorious
service to her profession. A
Governor’s proclamation
recognized her Installation day July
13th as Wanza Yelton Davis Day and
Mayor John Henry Moss also
proclaimed the day of special
recognition for the Kings Mountain
citizen in her community. She also
received a congratulatory telegram
from President Jimmy Carter.
Mrs. Davis, wife of I.C. Davis of
Kings Mountain, is the first woman
from the Southeast to serve as
national president of the
organization which numbers 6,000
members. A total of 600 delegates
attended the recent week s con
vention In Denver. t’-.Jorado.
Before assuming her position as
schools finance officer, Mrs. Davis
was secretary to three KM school
superintendents, including B.N.
Barnes, Donald Jones suid Supt. 3
William Davis. She is a native of
Kings Mountain, daughter of Mrs.
J.H. Yelton and the late Mr. Yelton.
Among local people attending the
Installation ceremonies were Mr.
and Mrs. Bill McDaniel, who
represented the KM Board of
Education; Supt. William Davis;
Mrs. Becky Seism, Miss Martha
Houser and Miss Paulette Phifer, all ^
co-workers of Mrs. Davis In Supt.
Davis’ office; and Mrs. Davis’
family. Including her husband, I.C.
Davis, their daughter and son-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Allred.
Tommy and Michelle, Mrs. Davis'
sister, Mrs. Myrtle Harmon of
Charlotte; her niece, Mrs. Patsy
Troutman of Charlotte; and her two
great-nieces, Denise and Alison |
Ti'outman.
Mrs. Davis received numerous
gifts from her family and friends
and a silver vegetable dish from the
Uoard of education.