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■i' ^ Population Creator Ungs Mountain 31.914 City Limits 8.465 —. Onotn lUBn Mcunida mnn la tfailTad fma tka •paoc* Oaitad Itotaa luiaou at tba Canaua naact a laavart 1(M. OM IBCIodaa tha 14,«M popnlattOB a Kiiiakaa 4 Tawaahlp. oad tM laaiolalag Ma K-aabat S Towaalilp. IB daraload CoubIt oBd Cinwaar' Kings Mountain's Reliabie Newspapox VOL 83 No. 11 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 16, 1972 Eighty-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS New Law Delays Project Apptoval Registration Books Open At Precincts PHA ‘^Red Ink" Not Foreseen New Amendment 'oCutBevenues lent $10,000 An cimendment to the public housing law, passed last year, will cut current fiscal year reve nues of Kings Mountain Public Housing Authority, Inc., about $10,000 per year but will not put the authority in the red, Thomas W. Harper, executive director, said Wednesday. This is in contrast to the situa tion in Shelby, where Harley Ol sen, exeloutive. director, was quot ed as saying the Shelby Author ity revenues will be pai^ an es- tim.ated $24,000. Mr. Olsen was quoted, “The housing department is now oper ating with a deficit. We’re receiv ing at)out $20 per month per unit below what is required to show financial feasibility.” Kings Mountain has‘200 units, 150 under the conventional PHA program and 50 le.ascd units. Shelby has slightly more than 200. The. amendment to the act provided that recipients of sOtial service (welfare) payments cat>' not pay more than one fourth of their income in rent to PHA, as previously applied to aU ten ants. Under the new amendment, a welfare recipient cannot have his welfare check cut due to a cut In rent. k “In one instance,” Mr. Harper Ptclated, ‘a widow with sole in come of her $78 per montti wel fare check has had her rent re duced from $35 per mer.th to $18'’ •i Relocations Roosts Up City'sShaie By MABTIN HABMON Second phase approval of the Cansler street urban renewal pro ject is being held up due to a new law increasing cost of re- f local ions In tiie llO-atte area. This was the Information Joe Laney, directer of the Redevelop ment commission, was given at a conference with area officials of the Department of Housing and , Urban Development in Greensboro : recently. ^ The effect of the new law is twofold; 1) re-location cost for- ■ merly a sejwate item outside the project base budget, was paid in full by the federal gov- ernmeml; 2) the re-location cost, expected to jump from an esti mated $426,000 to more than $700,000. becomes a part of the budget and will add a fourth of whatever the total proves to be to the city’s 25 percent shave of the project. Mrs. Haynes' Rites Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. Ger tie Goins Haynes, 73, will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 p. m. from Unity Baptist Holiness church in Anderson, South Caro lina. I ' Mrs. Haynes, sister of Will Goins and half-sister of Mrs. Josephine McAbee, both of Kings Mountain, died ’Tuesday in an Anderson hospital. ’ She was a native of Shelby, daughter of the late Martin and Janie Washburn Goins. She was widow of Rex Haynes. MAM OF MONTH — Michael W. Falls has been selected as Man of the Month for Febiu- oiy by Western and Southern Life Insiuonce Company. Falls Tapped Top Salesman Michael .W. iFalls, representa tive of the Western and South ern Life Insurance Company for flie Shelhy district, has been se lected as Man olf the Month for the month of February, 1972, by hsi district. Mr. .Falls is recognized -for his ooitstandrtng service to his policy iholders and the insuring public. Mr. Falls, a native of .Cleve land county, attehded Lattimore elementary school and is a gradu ate of Hargrave Military Aca demy, Chatham, Virginia. | (He joined fWestem and South ern after serving two years in military service. Mr. Falls resides on (Route 3, Shelby, with his wife, Jo Falls. The city can pay its share of the $3-'plus million project by "in kind” contributions and was al ready overpaid by that method, Mr. Laney said, adding, “We’re penciling to see what the differ ence will be and how much the city will be credited for razing work.” The new law, passed by Con gress last year, will prove a bo nanza for the displaced. The maximum payment for re locating home-owners who re build was a maximulm of $5000 and has been increased on a vari able schedule related to property values and building costs in a paiTtlcular community to a maxi mum of $15,000. For renters, some assistance in purchase of new homes. Both home-owners and renters must qualify credit-wise and in- cclme-wise, Mr. Laney concluded. lames Mitchem Rites Thinsday Final rites for James Earl Mitchem. 63, will be conducted Thursday at 3 pjin. at Harris •Funeral Home chapel. Mr. Mitehem, retired employee kof Majgrace Mill, died "at his F holme Tuesday morning at 9 He was a son of the l-afe Mr. o’clock. He had been in iTThealth. and Mrs. Alonzo Mitchem and a memIbcT of Malcedonia Baptist ch-uroh. Surviving are his wife Nina Eskew Mitchelm, a son, James H. Mdtohem,, and a daughter Mrs. Ous Hartsoe, Jr. Also surviving are two brothers, Charles and Howard Mitchem, and a sister, Mrs. B. P. Jackson, all of Kings Mountain. Eight granddhildiren survive. 'Rev. L. D. Scruggs will conduct the service and burial will be In Mountain Rest cemetery. New Sub-Station b Projected The city commission Tuesday moved to proceed with construc tion of a new electrical substa tion on Ford street. Tlie new delivery station will have a 3,000 kilowatt capacity initially and will be increa^ to 7,200 kilowatts during the next few years. Funds for the station are already budgeted. Electrical Supt. Earl Turtryfill, in a report to the commission on the system’s growth during the past three years, called attention to growing electrical require ments, pointing to capacity deliv ery of 7200 KW at the Gaston street sub-station. He pointed to line extensions to new businesses, industry, apartments including Southiwoods Sub - Division, 90 homes; Chesterfield Arms, 50 homes; Northwoods, 30 homes; nine public housing projects; Roy al Villa; L & L Hosiery, Wilcb Truck, LynnTex Mills, FrederUck- son Motor Express, Oxford Indus tries, K Mills, North school. Com munity Center, new ball park. Duplex Mill, Mr. Sweet, A^ley Park, Georgetown Apartments, Gold Street Apartments, artd oth ers for reibutiding 50 transfommeis and other electrical work in the city. Arthur Afghan Cops Top Prize 'Mrs. J. (H. Arthur’s afghan took '■'Eest Entry” award in the crafts division of the District IV ■Fine Arts Festival here Saturday at the Woman’s club. The icings Mountain woman also copped a first place award -for her needlepoint by pattern and a first place award in the category for atghans. Other Kings 'Mountain women v/hb received prizes were: Mrs. (Bill Fulton, red ribbon, rugmak ing; Mrs. Paul McGinnis, blue ribbon, quilting; and Mrs. Grady I’oward, blue ribbon, crocheting. !FTrst place winners -are enter ed In state competition later this month. Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch of Kings -Mountaii’ Is District IV president. District Fine Arts chairman is Mrs. James Caliendo of Stanley. PRESIDENT ELECT — Joseph R. Smith has been elected preei- dent of the Kings Mountain Rotozy club for the coming year. He will succeed Joe Laney. Rotaiy Taps loseph Smith Joseph R. Smith, executive vice president of Kings 'Mountain Sav ings & Loan association, has (been elected president of the Kings M'ountiain Rotary olub for the coming' year. He will suc ceed Joe Laney. Other new otfioers will Include tMyert KiBgety,-, (Ben (joforth, second viefe-^resi- dent; Bob Webster, settethry- treasurer; Alfred Grlgg, assist ant secretary-treasurer; Rev. Ed win Chriscoe, chaplain; Ed High tower, sergeant-at-arms; and Dick Shaney, John Bedford, Bob iLeftwleh and Kyle Smith, direc tors. The new officers will begin their duties in July. Education Board To Meet Monday; Atkinson Supporters Will Appear Fire Razes Margrace Bam 'An early-morninig fire Wed nesday destroyed an old _ barn used for storage near the'Mar- grace Mill. A spokesman for the Kings Mountain fire department said the blaze was spotted about 4:25 a. m. by two men driving along highway 74 between Kings (Moun tain and Shelby. Cause of the fire is not known, nor is the damages. The barn, owned by Paul, Joe and Hunter Neisler, was nearly destroyed when firemen from Kings Mountain and Bethlehem ■arrived on the scene. Westmoreland PACE Chairman ;Dcan Westmjoreland, Grover native and teacher at Kings 'Moimtain high school, has been named chaiiman of the state steering committee of the Politi cal Action Committee for Educa tion. PAiCIE is the political arm of the N. C. Association of Educa tors of which Westmoreland serves as District H director. PAOE, which 'has more than 54,000 members throughout the state, was authorized by unani mous vote of NCA'E members at its convention last ye^r in Char lotte. Aim of the organization is to seek act and support candidates ■favorable to pUblic education on the state and local levels. A graduate of Appalachian Slate University, 'Westmoreland is a U. S. army veteran. Before joining the KMHS faculty, he taught at West Mecklenburg high schol in Charlotte. (He is married to the former Carolyn Lee of Cnoway, S. C. and they are merrtbers of Trinity Epis copal church. Prednet Woik Is Limited To New Voters Voter registration bo' -ks for the May 6tli Democratic primary will open at polling places through out the county Saturday. Registrars will be at the poll ing places on Saturday, MarcJi 18tih, Saturday, March 23th and Saturday, April 1. No. 4 Township polling places are East Kings Mountain at City Hall, West Kings Mountain at the National Guard Atmory, Gro ver at Grover Rescue Squad and Bethware at Beithware school. (Mrs. Nelle Cranford, E. Kings M'cuntain registrar, said new vot ers may register from 9 a.m. un til 5 p.hi. each Saturday. Regis trar at West Kings Mountain pre cinct will be Mrs. J. H. Arthur. Mrs. J. B. Ellis will register new Grover voters and Mrs. J. A. E. Conner will register new Beth ware area voters. These are same registration officials who served during the last election. Citizens who have moved their resident® should notay Mrs. Bren da Hamilton, secretary to the Cleveland County Board of Elec tions, Shelby. Registrars -at the polling plB'ces here will be tak ing only the names of new voters, as the pollbooiks will remain at .flw ye?i-round offices of tha Boara cj’BhNlrtdA’lirafe^ un til Challenge Day .^ii 8th when books will be in the hands ot local registrars. It costs ngrthing to register and n'o literacy tests stre required. New voters or new residents in the county must get their names on the books to vote. However, anyone who already is registered to vote in a general election need not register. iMrs. Cranford point ed out that 18-21 year-olds are eligible to vote in the first pri ■mary, but orily if they are regls tered. Some 17-year-olds also can vote in the primary—If their 18th birthday comes before the Nov. 7 general election. Anyone can reg ister who is a U. S. citizen, who is at least 18 by the date of the Nov. 7 general election, and who has been a resident of this state for at least one year and of his precinct for at least 30 days. Year-round registration is open at the Cleveland County -Board of Elections office In the court house Monday through Friday from 8 am. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.ra. (%risty Bowen Top Speller Christy Ann Bowen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. iRoibert Bowen of Barrett Road, Kings Mountain, is the 1672 spelling champion at 'Bethv/are School. Miss Bowen, who missed only one word out of 1(X), will repre sent her school at the district spelling bee. She is in Mrs. Willie Patter son’s sixth 'grade. PRESBYTERIAN ’’For Or Against Me” will be the sermon topic of Dr. Paul Ausley at Sunday morning wor ship service at 11 o’clock at 'First Presbyterian chu/ch. Choraleers Here March 28 The Erskine Choraleers of Er- skine college df Due West, S. C., will present a concert at Boyce Memorial ARiP church here on MarcSi 27th -at 8 pm. 'Mr. and Mrs. Norman McGill, co-presidents of the Kings Moun tain Alumni chapter invite the Kings Mountain arrea citizens to hear the young people. Excerpts from the Mozart ’^Requiem” and selections by William Byrd, An ton Bruckner, Franz Schubert and Ralplh Vaughn-Wllliams will ibe played, among others. 'Prior to the concert, a covered dish supper will be served at 6:’30 p. m. in the church fellow ship hall. Nathan Sanders In Phi Theta Kappa MURPHEElSiBORO. — Nathan Sanders of Kings Mountain, has (been named to Phi Theta Kappa at Chowan college. Sanders is enrolled in the music ■curriculum and is a graduate of Kings Mo'untain high school. Memibership In the national hon orary scholastic organization is open to students with at least a B average'Who are recommend ed byr a faculty committee. Fifty- one students were named. The spring enrollment at the Baptist two-year, eo-educational college was just under 1,300. ORCHID SALE Kings Mountain Jaycees are now accepting orders for Easter orchids and Chairman Jim Belt said white, green, orange and baby orcliids will be ava'ilable at W. Myers Rrinting Company wiU be pick-up station for the project. Sufiporters of Kings Mountain High School principal Jake At kinson will have spokesmen at Monday night’s monthly meeting of the city board of education. The meeting is sot for 7 pjm. at the school administration building. Supt. Donald Jones said he ex pects “not more than three” spokesmen to appear before the board to urge the school heads to retain principal Atkinson. Atkinson has been under fire from several citizens following a ^ racial fight at the high school three weeks aso. Citizens seek ing Atkinson’s ouster have been circulating at least three peti tions tisking the board to dis charge Atkinson from his duties. A spokesman for tSie group op posing Atkinson said Wednesday they have no plans to atten'd Monday night's Sdhool board meeting. Supt. Jones said the full agen da for the meeting has not yet been determined. He did say, though, that the board wij'l dis cuss the present conditions at the high sohool and will also talk albout the sohool calendar. Galifianalds Here Thoisday Nick Galifianakis, candidate foi the U. S. Senate, will bring his campaign to Kings Mountain and Cleveland County today. He will tour the business dis trict here between 3:15 and 4:15 prni., begi-nning his visit at the office of Attorney George B. Tho- masson, a former law ^school clajsamate. At 4:30 pjm. Galifianakis_will open his Cleveland (^ou-nTy head quarters at Hotel Charles on War- ren street in Shelly. Bill Lamb of Shelby is county campaign manager. Helen Eakei Wanen "Guinea Pig' Foi Arthritis Research Project 'n J -tvy JOINS SHELBY FIRM-Franklin E. Hinson has Joined the Shel by iirm of C. Crawford ^urphy orchitect as senior production draftsman. Hint^on loins Shelby Architect C. Crawford Murphy, architect anneunaes the expansion and re location of his offices in the Linebenner ht;lldiivg on the court square in Shelby. In the expan sion Franklin E. Hinson has joined the firm as .senior produc tion draftsman. Assisting him will be L. Edward Smith as draftsman. Mr. Hinson is a graduate at Kings Mountain high school and Gaston Technical Institute after which he olned the firm of Wil ber, Kedrick, Workman and Warren of Charlotte. He and his wife, Jane, reside on Woodside Drive in Kings Mountain with their three children, Jeff, Chris, and Beth. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Shelby high school and Catawba Valley Technical Institute. He was employed by Harrell and Clark of Hickory before oining the firm. He and his wife, De(b- bie, live on Joe’s Lake Road in Shelby. ’ ri < A former Kings Mountain citi zen, Helen Baker Warren of Hick ory, is a ’’guinea pig” for a state research project seating the cause of arthritis. The daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Lafayette Baker of Kings Moun tain, a reg-lstered nurse on the operating room staff at Hickory Memorial hospital, entered North (Carolina Memorial hospital at Chapel Hill four weeks ago. With four more weeks remain ing, She has been Informed tests show she is a carrier of diptheria aird is now on a liquid diet with chemical additives. Mcs. Warren has lequred 45 vl.als of blood samples from rela tives here, including her parents and brothers and sisters and their children, in tests to prolbe into the cause of arthritis and if hereditary, said her sister, Mrs. ^onard Gamble. An arthritis patient for 10 years, Mrs. Warren does not have the crippling kind, says Mrs. Gamble. Mrs. Warren is one of two vbJ- un'teoTs for the Tar Heel pro- grainy—'her roomlmate Is a woman from Virginia)—who are being studied for clues to arthritis and ways to improve treatment of the disease. Birthday Greetings For Mrs. Styers. 92 Mrs. W. F. Styers received birthday 'g.-cetings from President Nixon and from Governor Bob Scott on her 92nd birthday Wed nesday. The Kings Mountain woman spent a quiet day with relatives and former neighbors at Green 'Briar Rest Home in Gastonia where she is recuperating from a broken hip and complications. She has been alble to return to Gastonia after being hospitalized three months in the Kings Moun tain hospital. Her daughters and sons-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dickie Tate of Kings Mountain and Mr. and (Mrs. Carl Lewis of Gastonia, and her foster children. Mrs. (Billie Sue Edison of Gastonia ■and joelL McDaniel Jr. of Kirtgs Mountain, helped her cut a deco rated birthday cake. Mrs. Styers’ two sons, Bruce of Hagerstown, (Md. and John Styers of Hamp ton, Va., were unalble to attend. 'Mrs. Styers, a native 'of ■Kings Mountain, is the former iPearl Long. She is widow of W. Styers, 4*^. HOSPITAL GIFT — Miss Mary Alice McDomiel, left odbove, presi dent of tbe Kings Mountain Junior Woman's club presents check for SSOO to Kings Mountain Hospital Administrator Grady How ard os club secretory Mrs. Jim Downey looks on. The club is the initial donor to the hospital's projected two-bed Intensive Coro nary Core UniL (Herald Photo by Jim Belt) Intensive Caie Hospital Facility Gets $500 Gift Kirtgs Mountain Junior Wom an’s club, with a $500 contribu tion, is initial donor to the Kings Mountain Hospital’s peojected addition to its IntonsKe Coronary Care Unit estimated to cost $6,000. ■Administrator Grady Howard acknowledged the clubwomen’s gift this week and outlineid the plans for the addition which would up the unit to two beds. It now has one. Mr. Howard said the Kings Mountain Klwanis club has ear- markfHl all proceeds from its up coming talent show to the pro ject. Additionally, Miss Mary Alice McDaniel, president of the Junior Woman’s club, said proceeds from the 1972 community birthday cal endar project of the club will al so be applied to the hospital pro ject. Mr. Howard said renovation ot one room, enlarging the area and electrical work is included in the plans. Said -Mr. Howard: ”These funds will be used to establish and equip a two (2) bed Intensive Coronary Care Unit. The hospital feels that this unit will satisfy a growing community need for this type service and will provide a more effective means for man agement and treatment of various heart diseases. It is visualized, and plans have been made to en large this unit to four (4) beidis as the need is indicated. The unit will contain a heart monitor at each bed, whereby, the nurse in charge can remotely follow the patient’s heart beat Sectronilcally and note any change in the pa tient’s condition as it occurs. This unit will be mianned by nurses who have had special training in this type of care. The room will ■be so arranged that she will ha^■e visual control of the patients at all times, and at the same time Continued On Page Six GRADUATE — Steve L. Wright has received his B.S. in Indus trial Management from West Georgia college near Atlanta. Steve Wright Wins BS Degree Steve L. Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Craig Arrowood of Kings -Mountain, received his Bachelor of Science degree in In- dustr al Management March 12rh from West Georgia college near Atlanta. A graduate of 'Kings Mountain hl.h school, he attended the attended the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Ehrgiheering exten sion division where he graduated with a degree in Industrial 'En gineering in 1968. He is currerit- ly emp-loyed with the State Voca tional School system as an In structor of mechani'cal and arch itectural drafting and design and is also associated with Executive Management Consultants, Inc. of Carrollton, Ga. LEGION DANCE ' "The Laradoes” will play for an American Legion dance pm. at the Aimerilean Legion Saturday night from 9 until 12 building. Funeral Seivices Friday at 2 For Mis. Zella Dennis Gantt Funeral services tor Mrs. Zella Dennis Gantt, widow of WlHIain M'oKlrtley Gantt, will be conduct ed Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Central United Methodist cSiurch, of which she was a mem ber. Mrs. Gantt succumbed at 5 o’clock Wedne.sday morning at Kings Mountain hoT>ital, where she was admitted Monday follow ing a suspected heart attack. (Mis. Gantt’s late husband was a Kings .Mountain grocer, who died July 28, 1959. _ She was active for many years In garden club work and was a certified Judge of floral contests. She was a daughter of the Rev. auid Mrs. A. B. Dennis. Surviving arc a daughter Mrs. Nan Jean Gantt Grant, of Grover; four brothers, Wesley Dennis, Sav annah, Ga., Howard Dennis, Ath ens, Tennessee, Cherry Grove Beach, S. C., and Clyde Denn-is, Miami, Fla.: and three sisters, Mrs. Herman Stevens .Leicester, Mrs. Harold Mills a^ Mrs. Fill more Freoman, bolK-oT Asheville; and two grandsons. The family will receive friends at Harris Funeral Home Thtws- day night from 7 to 9 o’clock. The rites will be conducted by the pastor. Rev. Paschal Waugh, and two former pastors, Rev. Howard Jordan and Rev. J. B. Mc- Larty. Interment will be in the family mausoleum in Mountain Rest cemetery.