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Population. Greater Kings 91,914 City Limits 8,465 Oxwofti HiB^n MouBtola juia la tfartaad ttii IM tP*u«4 Uallad litataa Buraou ol tb# Caoaua faoofft ( uaffwr^ 1B8B. uAd laelutfaa tBa 14.MI populot^oA c SukMt 4 TofWMlilp, (md tM raaolBiaB d.lld fro biiMbaf 5 Townahlp. la Claraload Couatf oad Cioadatr ▼WwanMp ta Qaatoa CoaatT» Kings Mountain's Reiiable Newspapev VOL. 83 No. 25 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N, C., Thursday, June 22, 1972 Eighty-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS KM Schools Call For $2.5 Million Bond Election McDevitt Proud Of New Communications System 1972-73 Budget .Work Is Under way Local News Bulletins MOSS SPEAKER Mrj. Bill \v^Jl uo guest speaker at Allen's '.Mem. i'.a'i baptist eiiu-.ii in Grover, Sun day June 23 at t'he evening wor- siup sciviec at 7:30. METHODIST TOPIC “Wliat Is A Reli_^;ioas Per- sen?" v\ Ul be :he ee. mon tj; x M. c.. JujIi at Sunday iiinriiing vv- sh^p Iicur at Grace L'.iiUJ Me Aj-SUt church. " COMMUNION The Saci^ament of Holy Com munion will be observed at the Sunday morning worship hour Sunday at 9:30 at Dixon Pres byterian church. REVIVAL SERVICES Revival servit'es begin June 22 at Piedmont Baptist church and will end June 24. The evanselist will be Rev. Bud Col lier. Services will begin at 7:00 each evening. PRESBYTERIAN * Dr. Paul Ao-Icy w'li u.c the sermon topic, “Half Done", at Sunday morning worship serv ice Sundjy at First Presbyter ian church. He wiH preach on the text from I^abakkak 12. KIWANIS “Farmer for the World”, a film from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, will feature ihe pr:?gram <nf the Kings Mount ian Kiwanis club Thursday night at 6:45 at the Woman*,^ club. REVIVAL Revival services will begin at Allen Memorial Baptist church in Grover, June 26 and ending July 1. Services wall be held each evening at 7:30 with 'Rev. James'Talbert ol Greensboro as visiting evangelist. The public ij welcomed. BUILDING PERMIT William Ro-per, Jr., of 203 Fairview street, obtained a city building permit Monday ^to build an addition to his resi dence at estimated cost of $1200. CONTINUES ILL Judge Joe Mull of Shelby re mains a patient in Duke hospi tal at Durham following eye surgery. Be Alert For Check Fwgei Police are alerting businessmen to be on the lookout for a young nran who is passing worthless checks in tiris area. Det. Captain Bill Roper sai'd two worthies.-? checks, each in the amount of $75.48, have been cashed. The forged chocks are drawn on Ilucks Construction Company. 508 Candy Sti:k* Lane, Charlotte, X. C. under signature of Jonathan L. Hu ’ks. A printing company in the Ga.stcn county area is al-leg- edlv responsil'le for printing the yellow ccimpany-type check and warrants have been served by police. Operators cf Pay Service Sta tion and McEIwee Grocery both c ishod check.^ June 6th and 'June 7 h for a young white male ap- proximatcly five-.soven to five- nine -inches tall and in his early 2r''s. They de.‘=’r!'bed him a.s hav ing short light brown hair. Meeting Set Next Tuesday Ol Wednesday Mayor John Moss said Wed nesday that next Monday’s monKily meeting of the city ccuncil will be postponed until o'.thcr Tuesday or Wednesday night so that he can present to the commissioners the city’s bud get for the fiscal year 1972-73. Mayor Moss said he is await ing thef inal tax evalua: ion from the county be:ore preparing the budgCL. "We’re in the proccs,-; of work ing with the various dcpariment heads,” said Moss, “but we have no knowledge of whot our tax .ivaiuations will be until we get it from the county.” Mayor Moss said the budget nuust bo completed by July 1. The fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30. Mayor Moss said he had no ;jca what the budgets final fig ures will be. Last year's budget was around the $3 million mark. I8y^e4s Seek Beauty Entries Wanted: young women between the ages of 18 and 26 to enter the “Miss Kings Mountain” beauty pageant. Plans are shaping Tor the an nual “Miss Kingc Mountain” pag-; ‘^ant and Kings Mountain Jay-1 cees are encouraging entries. Joe King at 739-2242 and Scott .l^lcninger at 739-3429 are the pag eant co-chairmen and interested young women who want to be- ome contestants are asked to call either cf them for applica tions. Plans for the upcoming pageant vvill be made at Monday night’s board cf directors meeting of the organization at 7-30 p.m. at the American Legion building. Kenny Moss was appointed visitation chairman" a^ Tuesday rright’-. regular Jaycee meeting ■and Randy Bell and Jack King were inducted as new members. Calendar Chairman Jim Belt announced the Jaycees would -■ontinue theiT community birth day calendar project another two weeks and are now soliciting names and Advertising for the calendar. President Bob Myers invited all memibers to participate in a membership drive By inviting aW young men between the ages of 18 and 35 to join the civic club. TO DISTRICT CONTESTS — The Dixon community young usople pictured oboive will ixirticipate in 4-H district contests in Wades- borg todenr* From left to right, Karin Bridges, ^T^rgo Green, Trudy ChilderB, Donna Coreny, and Danny Spearman. Not foic- tpred is Rhonda Spearman. (Herald Photo by 1. G. Alexander) Area 4-Her^s To Contests Young People From Dixon Club In Competition METER receipts Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $116.23, including $102 frdm on-street meters, $19.43 from fines for ovepparking and $6.80 from off-street meters, City Clerk oe McDaniel report ed. TO PHILMONT — Mike Mur- phree departs Sunday for Phil- mont Scout Ranch in Cimar ron, New Mexico. Mike Murphree To Philmont Mike Murphree, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Murphree, departs Sunday for Philmont Scout Ranch 'in Cimmarron, New Mexico for a 21-day stay. Young Murphree, a frpshman in ihiigh school, earned Ills own ex- Continued On Page Six HUD Officer Here Wednesday For Talks On Downtown Renewal ■Floyd L. McCurdy, realty of ficer with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop- inenl, was conferring Wednesday with Redevelopment Commission Director Gene White and ■ offic ials of the city redevelopment commission on plans for moving ahead on downtown renewal. iMr. McCurdy was answering questions and mapping proced ures to help resolve questions about the program. Director White said the com mission is in process of acquir ing the Dr. D. M. Morrison pro perty at the comer of West Mountain and Cherokee streets. He said he forsees a “new em phasis” on the downtown renew- I al project here. 'V^ite said the Redevelopment I Commission will be “resetting” I its goals at a July meeting and anticipates that “we will be able I to accomplish our objectives sooner than anticipated.” Pie also Indicated that combin ation assistant manager project manager would be employed soon. Mr. White was named act- Six Dixon Community 4-ircrs will represent the county in dis- triin 4-II contc?fts Thurstkiy (to- diy) at Grwman S<‘niur high school in Wadcsboro. Winners of the district compe tition advance to .state contests later in the summer. Margo Green, ninth grader, and Trudy Childers, lOtH grid- cr, win jKlsent a demonstration on the Arhcrican Bii-;7iit'ss System. Mis.s Green, the 4-ir Ele<'tric pro- Je:*t winner in the county, is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. CXscar Green. Miss Childers is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James ClTildcrs and hns previously won prizes in sewing. Kevin Bridge.s, ninth grader, will present a forestry demonstra tion. Ho is the .son of Mr. and .Mrs. Bobby Bridges. Donna Caveny, Junior Righ stu dent, will give a oaiiy fo(xIs drmon.sl ration. She is’daughter of M.. and Mrs. Marvin Vaveny. Danny Spearman, htgR* school junior, will barbecu^ chicken, and his sister, Rhom^TT, a junior high student, will demonstrate egg 'cookery. They are son and daughter of Mr. and" Mrs. E^rl Spearman. First Of Kind I g Be In Use In Entire State By CARY STEWART ' j You' can’t hlame police chief; Tom McDevitt if he is somewhal; boastful when la king about the city’s new $-13,000 communica tions system. 'Kings Mountain’s system, the first of its kind in North Caro lina to be in full use, allows the local police to talk with any mo- bie or station unit in Western North Carolina and will event ually aPow the lo al po ice to talk with any law enforcement o.ficor or emergen,y' vehicle in the state. Chief MoDe\itt said that all police departments in t ie four county region of C'cvciand, Mc Dowell, Rutherford and Polk Counties are instal’ing the new units he predicted that cventua'- ly every department in the state will have them. The main conso’o un't at the prdice department has four chan- nel.s and will evcuitually have eight. The individual channels allow the police to talk to their j c-wn department or cars without outside interfernece. “On our old unit,” ex^^'ainod McDevitt, “Kings Mountain did n’t have precedent over any o- ther depart!-ent. Whoever we were talking to at any particu lar time had precedent. But on this new unit. Kings Mountain has precedent over anybody else.” MoDevitt said when another do- partm#*nt wairts to talk to ’Ktrrgs Mountain, it simply dials a four- digit number and the telephone dia! on the KM console lights np. There is also a local govern ment channel which allows the police department to communi cate with the gas, water and electric departments. The old po lice mobile units are now being used by these departments. The new mcbile units are ^iiiipfM'1 with channel guards. The officer can switch h^s unit to the channel guard find no units break in inless he wanLs them to. A .search channe! allows the officer to .scan other units bet. there again, Kings Mountain takes precedent over all otlaTs MoDevitt pointecl out that the “nenv radios are no better than the ladios we had but thoie are I :oer channels and we can do I more with them. Others that d'f- jroicnt departments have areas good as you can buy but 'hey have only one channel.” McDevitt pointed out that he can communicate with his ofUc Continued On Page Six Fourth Holiday For Most Industry Week's Holiday Is In Store; Also Bonuses Wiesener Loses In Post Bid Five Dvrionnaircs representing Otis D. GrcH?n Post 155 attended the state conveiiftTon of the Amer ican Legion in Durham during the weekend. Carl V. Wiesener, Kings Moun tain pharmacist, was deleate^l in his bid for Division V Command er. ing director after former direc-j others attending from Kings Mountain were District 23 Com- mandof Bob Davies, Carl Wilson, Joe H. McDaniel and John W. Gladden. Dr. Sam Sheaffer of Belmont was elected the Division V com mander in a contest with Wies ener. tor Joe Laney left to assume a post In Greenville N. C. and was later named full time director. The Morrison property is slat ed for demolition and a new parking area planned for site. Continued On Page Six the Mrs. Ervin's Bites Thursday . Funeral rites for Mrs. Lila Wojti Erv'in, 77, will be cxuiduct- cd Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. from First Pres’jylcrian church of which she was a member. D:’. Paul Aasley will officiate at the final rites and internient will be in 'Mountain Rest ceme tery. Ai’Iive pallbt>arcrs will be II. R. Ilunnicult, Harry ‘Page, Paul M'umcy, Herman Campbell, Buck Karly, Hall Goforth, P. H. Wil- .sen, and R. n. Webb. The body will remain at liar ri.s Funeial Home Cha]K'l until .30 minutes before tlie rite.s when it will lie in state at the church. Mrs. Frvin siu’cu-mbt'd Tuesday ait(*rruM)n vit 1 p.m. following itj- nes oj several years. A native of I.av-'i Miccvillo, Ga., slie was dan ditcr of the late Mr. and Mrs. Uoiu‘-rt N. Wood. For a mimocr cf years she h id ina'de her home h(*rc with her daughter and son- in-Jaw, Mr. .and Mrs. Sam Weir, on Grov< 'r road. Surviving a-re four daughters, Mr.s. Sam 'Weir of Kings 'Moun tain, Mrs. Travis Gluusior, Jr. of K'lizaiKMh, N. J.; Mrs. Jack Mass of Hunt.svillc, Ala. and Mrs. R. K. Ea.rly of Pompano Beach, Fla.; one son, John L. Ervin of Forest City; two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Fin ley of Thomaston, Ga. and Mrs. Lum Shaw of Atlanta, Ga.; 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Majority of KingJ Mountain textile employees will take week of July -llh holidays via annual vacation s:?hc»dules of local plants, an incomplete survey of the industry revealed yesterday. An exception Duplex-Shan- non where the plant will clohe only Monday and Tuesday, July 3 and 4. Plant Manager Carl De V'ane said employees wo«ild re ceive a week s vacation pay. Dick Shaney, i)ersonncl mana ger of Mauney Textile Mil’s and Carolina ‘ Throwing Company, | said both these firms will be closed the full week but there may bo some limited operation at the Ihmwing plant. Neisco Mills will close the fuH week, reopening on Juiy 30, Supt. Jim Dickey announc'.u. Bonuses will paid to employees based on length of service. Oxford Industries will suspend ojjerations on June 30th, return ing to work on July 10th, a plant spokesman said. Vacation pay is being distri buted among wage employees of 'Burlington Industries, Inc. dur ing the summer vacation sea son. Charles A. McLendon, senior vice president of IBurlington, said payments to company em ployees coincide with manufact uring plant vactions. Those pay ments, together, with similar a- inounls paid before the holiday seas<»n last December, will to tal almost $10 million for the Company’s 1972 fiscal year. The rhenix Plant of Burling ton Industries will close for va- cati:.n fr.-m July 31, 1972 Ihrougih August 5, 19r2. Burlington employees at plants Ih 12 states will share in the summer payments, Mr. McLen don said. Individual amounts are based on each employee’s length of service. The payments arc in addition to benefits provided by Burling ton’s profit sharing retirement plan for hourly-paid employees. In 1971, members of the Burling ton plan had more than $9 mil lion credited to their accounts. ESSAY winner ~ BiUy Gene McCarter, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Eugene McCarter, woo the DAR American History Month Essay contest among fifth grad ers in the school system. Billy McCarty Essay Winner' '1 Billy Gene MoOarter. fifth grad er at West school and son; of Mr. and Mra. W. Eugene MeCs^ter, is winner of the Amcricati History Month Essay contest frdm the fifth grades of rhe school System. The contest was sponsofred by Colonel Frederick Hambrigh Chap ter, Dauighters of the American RcvolU'ti.7n, and vva.s on the sub- ! je'jt, "H'crw My State Acquired Its Na.me.” Other winners from the elo- I nienlapy ocho^ls were Sandra Kay : Aciam^, eigOith grade, daughter ol I .Mr. and Mrs. Jack Adams; of 41C ] Crj^ker road; Robin Speats, sec- ! enth grade, daughter of Mr. and 'Mr \ llarcid Dean Sjiears of 301 Manor road; und Rick Hinnaunt, sixth grade, sjoi of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. llinnant. ZONING PERMIT Michael E. (Ftowti of 608 Landing street obtained a city zoning permit Monday to place a trailer in the mile perimeter area, the city clerk’s office (re ported. Dixon Bevival Is Continuing Rev. Allen Morrison, pastor of Long Creek and Bessemer Ciiy Piesbyterian churches, is ovan- geli.^t for revival service.s this week at Dixon presbyteiian church. Services are continuing to night and tomorrow even'ng at 7:30 p. m. CJenn Rountree of Shiloh Presbyterian church is directing the song service. Once Hooked On Drags. Guena Will Tell How He Kicked Habit Rev. Vincent Guerra, who said he kicked the -diug habit , after an experience with Christ, will lead the adult Bible Study dur ing Vacal'ion Church School next W(H'k at .Boyce Memoria'l ARP church. Now Co-Director of a drug edu- cat ion- prevent ion a nd rehabilita tion program entitled, “Turniing Point, in Pompano 'Beach, Fla., the minister is author of the book by the s.iime name and has .since written a second book, ^Hooked On God.” His flr.d publibati^n in- cludog a forward by Art Linklet- ter. iRev. Mr. Guerra will condifct classe.s for adults on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day evoniings from 7 until 0 tp..m Rev. H'lTPi* Blair, pastor of Linden ARP church of Gastonia, w.ill lead the opt'n'ing class for adults on Monday evening. Classes for ch'ildren, youth and adu'lt^ will be. offered each eve ning, according to co-directors Continued On Page Six WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Roger Eaker, son of Mr. and Mrs. GeraUl Ealeer of route two. will attend St. Andrews college at Laurinburg for a music camp this summer. New lunior High And Auditorium Are Proposed By GARY SyEWART The Kings Mountain Board of Education Wednesday voted to ask si.Dol d.strict ciMzens for $2.5 milKon to 'ouild a new junior nigh aJjMcent ta the pres ent Kings M-'Untain High School. Schoc.s Superintendent Donald Jones told the beard mmbers at the noon meeting at Royal Villa Motor Inn that other school im* provements are included in the amount. The bond vote will be on Dec* ember 9, 32 days after the Nbv* ember general election. Jones said law requires that the bond be held at least 30 days after the general election. The proposed junior high would house vae eig’iitn and ninth grades. Currently , tiie ninth grade *s included a,i Kings .M antain High and eighth graders attend Central School, along with sev- . fc. aair sluienis. The new junior h gh would lie approximately the .same size as KALlo. JvWics said the high school was built t^ sor/e ai.,..o.i.inate- !y 1,000 students but the current population at KMHS i-s l,2vH). Under the new plan, Jones said, seventh graders would be moved to Central, giving the dis trict’s elementary schools much- needed room. Also included in the school bond Is money to construct an auditorium at RMHS. The build ing would seat approximately 1,200 and would be for commuin- ity u&e as well as school use. Other goals include building multipurpose rooms, classrooms and uipdate present faciUties at East and West elementaryTfchools and to build walk in coolers and freezers at East, West, Bethwaire and Orover. Jones said that it is anticipated that the first year will require a 32 cent levy to retire the bond issue and that it will decrease at the rate of percent per year. Jones pointed out that the school disinw't lurrently has a bend indebtedness fr^m the 1963- 64 bend lo build KMHS. Jones said the'fax levy for that bond started olil at 36 cents and is now down to six cents. It will be paid off in 4984. If the current bond is passed, Jones said, it would take 20 years lo pay it off. J')nes po nted out that the levy fer the new bond, plus the old one, would be about the same as the initial levy on tiic old bond. Jones gave an example that a person would pay $2.08 ijcr $1,000 taxable property. That amounts to $10.40 per year aiid less than three cents per day. Commenting on the proposed facilities, Jones said, “I feel like tills is one of Mie most forward- looking programs the Kings yiotirlain system has ever had. isluitc a bit of study has gone in to tilts. I've talked with the prin- cipab, many teachers and all the school board members. “if there has been one subject that has been neglected in the system,” Jones continued, “'it has been citizenship. But we’re going to instruct our teachers to begin stressing patriotism, loyalty and honesty and everything that goes with being a good citizen. We don’t want anyone to feel like' we’ve neglected any areas.” Jones pointed out that teachers Continued On Page Six eve- Rainfall Totals 3.45 Inches ■ Rainfall since Mond^ ning lias rotaled 3 45 IncSes ac cording to the U. S. Weathex Bureau station at Shelby. L. E. Davfs, operator of the Kings Mountain water treat ment plant on Buffalo Creek, said the water level behind the dam there wa~ “about two feet under the highest wc’ve had.” Davis wouldn’t venture a guess on how high the water level was but said “we’ve got a nice lake.” The Cleveland County Sher iff’s Department had no record of any bridge wa.sh-outs. Water leaked Into the base ment o< the county jail but two tirustys sweeping it out a back door most of the night prevent- ed any damages, aecording to a jail spokesman. A number of minor wrecks at tributed to wet pavement were reported throughout the*county.