Population
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City Limits 8.465
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL 83 No. 28
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 13, 1972
Eighty-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Additional 32 Units Of Low-Rent Housing Approved
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Commission Buys
Parcel For C3D
CHURCH MUSICIANS HONORED — The eight women pictured were honored for outstanding
service to the music ministry of Boyce Memorial ARP church ot Sunday evening worship service.
From left to r>ght ore Mrs. N. F. McGill, Sr., Mrs. John E. Gamble, Mrs. Garrison Goforth, Miss
Frances McGill, Miss Reta Phifer, Mrs. W. Kenneth Crook, Mrs. I. Grody Patterson and Mrs.
Martin Harmon. (Herald Photo by I. G. Alexander)
Boyce Memorial
Honors Musicians
Appreciation
;^ight Observed;
deception Held
Boyce Memorial AKP cluia'h
honored ei'jht women fwi* long
seryk-e to the music ot
the church at Sunday evening
services.
Gifts of silver were presented
to -Mrs. N. F. MeGil'l, Sr., organ-
Lst and choir direutor for 27 yt'ars,
(liMl-liS) and Mrs. Jolin E. Gam
ble, organist and choir d'ireclor
for four yars (1968-72).
Both women have retked. They
were also presented appropriate
certificates and red n>sos.
Other women contributing to
tlie mu.sic program who were
-rec'ognizc'd, given c*entfcfioates and
roses, were Mrs. Garrhson Goforth,
Mrs. W. K. Crook, Mrs. Grady
Pattorson, Mrs. Martin Harmon,
Miss R('ta Phifer and Miss Pran
ces McGHl.
Tlie surprise awards program
was held during a “Music Appro-
ciation'* evening wor.sliip 'hour
and honorees received with the
pa.sler, Rev. Charles Edwards,
and the new musJe director and,
organist. Bob Cashion, at a re-1
ception after the service in Leila!
Baiird Classroom. I
The evening program on the!
theme, “Faith and the Hymn;
Writers; 'Faith and the Poets”
^as c'onduotcxi by thren? readers—
Hlis.-; Rcta Phifer, Miss Carol Go-
^ortii and Miss France's McGill.
KHI Moss led the invocation and
Paul i'Uitcn was leader. The Coirol |
Choir .sang “In Heavenly Love;:
the Youth Choir sang “Yesterday,!
Today and Tomorrenv” and the'
Chancel Choir sang “The Words:
of the Master” and “'Make Me a!
Blessing.”
Mrs. Charles Edwatds, Mrs.
John C. McGill and Mirs. Paul
Continued O71 'Pag0 Eight
Cost
Was $20,025
0«t to Kings Mountain Re-
dov('l>pment commission for
the West Mountain street mini
park was $2(Mr25, including the
$11,{X)8 paid for the property
and $6017 in construction cx>st.
Report .was made by Gene
Wliite, (iirwtor of Kings Moun
tain Redevelopment Commis
sion.
Only other expense was cost
ot razing the building which
had been condemned as dere
lict.
Weathers Dies
Oi Stab Wound
A 26-year-old Kings Mountain
Negro. Nezel VVeathei-s, Jr., died
at 1 a.m. Sunday in the Kings
MounUlin hospital following
what investigating officers term
ed a domestic dispute duiMng
which he was stabbed once in
the left side.
Charged with murder and jail
ed in Cleveland County Jail with
out bond is Rosie Lee Chambers,
23.
Detective Bobby Putnam of the
county sheriff’s department said
the stabbing apparejitly resulted
'from a domestic dispute at Nezcl
Weather's home in the Compact
Community Saturday afternoon
about 5:30. A butcher knife be-
lievixl to be the weapon used in
the slajing has been discovered
by the officers.
Weather’s who suffered a sin
gle stab wound in the left side
through the rib cage, underwent
'three hours of surgery in the
Kings Mountain hospital. He died
at 1 a.m. SumLiy.
•Funeral rites for Weathers
were conducted Wednesday af-
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Ervin, Former Resident, Drowns
After Rescuing Wife, Daughters
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Jerry Devon Ervin, 30, of Wil-
tain, dmwned Sunday near Wil
mington after he pulled his wife
and two daughters to safety after
their motorboat capsized in‘the
waters of Fort Fisheir.
The Ervin family had joined
ancther tY>upIe on a boating trip
atid Blrvin apparently had re
turned to the water to check on
his companions.
.Mrs. Elfvin, the former Wanda
Ivie of Sdielby, and their two
daughters. Dee and Vickie, were
(ilarn to the shore by Ervin. A
tliird daughter, four-weeks-old
Brigette Ervin, was at home.
Funeral rites for Ervin worn
conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday
fmm Oleander Chapel of Coble’s
.Funeral Home -in Wilmington
kvilli the Rev. W. H. White, Jr.
Fand Rev. Vernon Moore officiat
ing. Interment was in Win tor
Park cemetery.
Ervin was also the nephew ol
U. S. Senator Saim Ervin.
Also surviving are Ins father,
Otis P. Ervin of Riiehland; one
brother, Siimmy Ervin of Bolivia;
and hU paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Hattie Ervin of Riehmiond.
The Ervins moved to Wilming
ton in Januairy from Kipgs Moun
tain. Both had boon employed
here at OaroWna Tlirowlng Com
pany. Mrs. Ervin, nkve frf Mrs.
Madge H. Arnwood of Kings
Mountain, is daughter of Luther
Ivie of Shelby and Mrs. Doris
Moore of the Mt. Paran common
ity near Blacksburg. The Ervins
returned Tuesday night with
Mrs. Moore and her 'hu.s:band,
Dover Mlooro, to the Mount Paran
community.
Carroll Dies
Tuesday Night
In Accident
Ernest Leroy Carroll, 47, of 707
Piedmont Avenue, was killed
Tuesday night when his pickup
truck overturned on Old Kings
Mountain Highway near Bessemer
aty.
Carroll reportedly was return
ing home from his WY)rk at Lith
ium Corpi>ration at the time of
die accident. Ho was Tlead on ar
rival at Kings .Mountain Hospital
at 7:15 p.m.
State Highway Patrolman T). T.
Mendenhall said Carroll was
traveling we.st on Old Kings
-Mountain Highway about two
mi'lcs from Bessemer City wdien
ho lost control of his truck. Men
denhall said the truck left the
road on the right side, traveled
about 300 feet and then pulled
acmss the road to the left side.
Mendenhall said Carroll’s head
was trapped beneath the body of
the truck after it came to rest on
its right side.
Memibers of the Kings Moun
tain and Gaston County Life Sav
ing cTcu-s answered the call.
Sisk Funeral Home is in charge
of the funeral arangements, which
are incomplete pending the ar
rival of relatives from Oonneeti-
cut.
He was .son of Mrs. Jane Smith
CiinxHl and the late J. T. Carroll.
Besides his mother, he is sur-
viviHl by his wife, Mrs. Ollie
Scruggs Carroll; tme daughter,
Shirley Carroll of the home;
three sons, Kenneth Carroll of
the home, David Carroll of Wall
ingford, Conn, and Michael Car-
roll of West Haven, Conn.; six
sisters, Mrs. Henry Hood of HoHy-
wO(xl. Fla.. Mrs. Mac Williams of
Norfolk, Conn.. Mrs. Leaman Car
ter of Gastonia, Mrs. Walter t^ig-
land of Rtx'kingham, Mrs. Wil-
liaVi J. Fletcher, of Kings Moun
tain and Mrs. Bud Ware of B<d-
mont; and four brothers, Grady
Carroll of Kings Mountain, John
T. O.irroll, Jr. of Kahnapo-lis,
Duuglas Carroll of Spartanburg,
S. C. and James W. Carroll of
Meridian, Conn, Also surviving
arc t'v^'o grandchildren.
Foimei S & L
?ike Is §9I5C
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Ey MAR TIN HART/ION
Kingi .M .unlain Uedevelopmeiit |
Commission has atquirel fr.>m ;
the D. M. Morrison Esta te the ‘
building at the i )rnei of West
M.anlain and v.hor:Lce strcc;s •
J'hc buildin': now 0. a’-pied by ;
Tiiianglc Loan C m ■jn>. it was j
ann...unced by Carl V. Mauney, j
Cv-inmi..sion chairman.
Purchase price was $9750.
The building wa.s ewne.l and I
occupied by Home Savings & Loan j
^\ss(xiation until (he association i
built its new and present offices^ •
at 106 East Mountain. The 'build-,
ing subsequently was sold to the |
late Dr. D. M. Morrison. '
The corner lot fronts 20 feet!
on West Mountain and 51 feet on ,
Cherokee. |
It is the 11th of 42 parcels ac
quired by the commission for the
central business district redevel
opment project.
The building is scheduled for
razing for commercial redevelop
ment along with adjacent build
ings owned by the B. S. Peeler
and Ruth C. Thomasson Estates.'
Gene White, rertevclapment
commission director, said raz- ;
ing of the building will await ac- j
qul^ition of the Peeler-Thomas
son properties.
Allen Rites
Friday At 4
William Earl Allen, 40. of 901
Church street, former taxi oper
ator for Prir'o’s Cabs, died Wed
nesday morning of a heart at
tack.
Mr. Allen was found by City
Policeman Jackie Barrett and
Bynum Cooke slumped over the
wheel of his automobile at 6 a.
m. on Phenix street. He was re
portedly enroutc to pick up his
wife at work when he suffered
the attack,
iFunora! rites will be conducted
'I^'i<lay afternoon at 4 o’clock
from East Gold Street Wesleyan
cliuroh. Rev. EMward Chriscoe
and Rev. Paul Lanning will of
ficiate, and interment will be in
Mountain Rest cemetery.
iMr. Alien, who had suffered a
heart ailment for a number of
years, was disabled. He was a
member of First Freewill Bap-
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Assault, Murder
Hearings Today
Preliminary hearings involving
several area citizens aix? slated
.for t(xiay (Thursday) in 27th
Judicial District Court in Shelby.
Rosie Lee Cham'bers, 23, char
ged in the slaying of Nozel Wea
thers, Jr., 26, of tlie Com])act
Community, will be given a pre
liminary hearing on a charge of
murder. Mrs. Chambers was jail
ed without bond.
Michael Steve Lee, 30, of Kings
Mountain, charged with assault
with intent to commit rape, will
face a preliminary hearing to
day. Lee is free under $1,000
bond.
Three Appointed
To Committee
Luther Bennett, How^ard Ship}3
and Ira Falls have been appoint-
I'd to a new city housing commit
tee in accoirdance with state
Oxie 6f Ordinances of Housing
and the Southern States Building
Code.
M-ayor John Honr>’ Moss said
the three-member cemmittee will
have as a principal function co
ordination wdtli the city codes
enforcement officer in adminis
tration of state and area codes
relating to housing.
Specifically, the Mayor said,
the cxwnmittee will hear ap|x>ais
from the enforcement o-fficer’s
condemnation rulings.
PRESIDENT — George W. Mau
ney has been re-elected presi
dent of the Kings Mountai:A
Hospital Board of Trustees for
the coming year.
Hospital Roard
Re-elects Mauney
George W. Mauney, e.xecutivo
of King.s Mountain Bonded Ware
house, was re-elected president
of the Kings Mountain Hospital
Beard of Trustees at the recent
annual meeting.
Mr. Mauney and Re\. S. T.
Cooke, Negro minister, wore als(7
reap]> :intcd to five year terms on
the hospitals board of trustees.
Both term.s were up for rc-eiec-
tion.
Other officers are George H
Hou.scr, viice-.p(resident, and Thom
as A. Tate, secretary-tix'asurer.
E d'h Mi. Houser and Mr. Tale
were rc-eleded.
Otlier members of the hospital
hoard are John L. M(Gill, Carl F.
Mauney, Harry E. Page, Jame.s
Harry, Hugh D. Ormand, and
I^obert E. Hambright. Grady K.
Howard is ho.spital administrat.>r.
Campbells
To Convention
Rev. M. L. Campbell, Negro
minister and agriculture teacher
at Kings MounLdn high school,
is attending his first Democratic
National Convention as alter
nate delegate from Cleveland
County.
Rev. and Mrs. Campbell left
via train Saturday and will re
turn home on Friday night.
Jack Palmer, of Shelby, Dem
ocratic noiniJHM.' to the board of
county commissioners, and Mrs.
Palmer are also in Miami. Mr.
Palmer is one of 64 fuM-flegi'd
delegates from North Carolina.
Also attending the convention
from tliis arcxi is Dr. Eugene
Poston, of Boiling Springs, pre-
sifient of Gardner Wobb college,
who will on Friday lK>come one
of two national commilteomcn
serving from Nortji Carolina.
Dr. Poston is ais^o attending his
first Democratic national conven
tion.
100-Unit Project
Cost Estimate
is SI,845.113
Program re.servation for an ad-
diticnal 32 units of public hous
ing w\as announced Wednesday by
the IX'partment C'f H msing and
U/ban Development. UnitexI
Stat(.s I?e{‘re.s(*ntative James T.
■Bnyhi’l InJif'riod city and King.s
Mountain pu^l.c housing officials
1 Wedno.^day.
Sixt>-eight units — again't an,
original 100-unit application —,
had born p-'cviou*!;. approved. i
legal osiimaiol col of the.
100-ur.it pr.-jtvt is Sl.Sl.I.l'PJ. !
The program rostwaiion call.,
for (ho und.s to Ito r,m-tructed on :
several .sitc.s Is f'r con-itru dior
u.*: Iv. the ' canvoi'tionar’ pool . t
'nnein., rc.^-mola first enacted by j
Ccngie : , whereby the rcle of the j
[edt“al governme.*it is endo»~-x?-;
ment of re payment of of housing
authority bonds.
It is the same law under which
Kings Mountain Public Housing
Authority built its first 150 units.
Amendments to the law' by the
19oS Congress added to the origi-
nj) act several otlier metlvxis of
(providing hoasing, including a
lca.se arrangement where units
are constructed by private build
ers and leased to the housing
authority. Kings Mountain Hous
ing Authority operates 50 units
under lease.
“The additional 32 units now
approved means the wh'ole pro
ject is firm. We’re in bu.sine.ss,”
Thomas W. Harper, director, com
niented.
He said the architects, Tomber-
lin Associate.? of Atlanta, already
arc at w'^ork on the project.
The Tomberlin firm designed
the initial 1.50-unit project.
Center Service
Break-In Being
Investigated
Kings Mountain police are in-
ve.stigating a break-in w^hich oc-
cured last Wednesday night at
Center Service on York Road.
Acconling to police, Clyde Whet-
stine. manager of the store, re
ported the incident early Thunj-
day morning.
Whetstine reported the follow
ing items missing: three televi
sion .'•x'ts, several radios, tape
dci-ks adn tape players.
Officer.^ Richard Reynolds and
Donald Ivey investigated.
Roscoe Wooten Is
City PW Foreman
429 Eligible Voters Have Signed
Petition For School Bond Election
The Kings Mountain City
Schools system needs only 58
more names to have enough to
call for a $2.5 million bond is
sue.
Superintendent Don Jones said
Wednesday afternoon that school
principals and other officials
have secured 429 names. He said
187 names, or one-tentih of the
eligible voters in the school dis
trict, are needed.
Jonos said some principals are
still circulating petitions but add
ed that “we should l>e through
gathering names by Friday. We
set a goal of GO names for each
principal and several have al
ready secured that many.”
Jones said he would submit the
petition to the Cleveland County
Hoard of Education at its month
ly meeting on August 7. The
County l)oard w'uuld then sub
mit it to tlie Cleveland County
Hoard <'f Commissionei's.
The local ibond issue caiis for
$2.5 million for the purpose of
building a new junior high school
adjacent to the present Kings
.Mountain High Sch<Kjl plant. The
school wouUl house api^roxi-
mately 1,(KK) sliidenls and would
Ik? approximately the same type
building as the high school.
Also includiHl in the plans are
improvements at several elemen-
iir>’ si'hfxnH and an amVitoriinn
to be built in front of the teach
ers’ parking lot at the high
school.
iDecemher 9 has IxH'n sot aside
as the date for 'the bond elec
tion.
Whites' lerry
Has New Home
By MAR'HN HARMON
A brief item in last week’s
HeiMld luadlined “Whites Need
Ikime for Pet P(K>dle” got results
—alm<jsi too much.
The Gene White family had a
new cat in the family, w’hich
liad brewed a family fight be-
IwiH'M the feline arrival and Jer
ry, the miniature French poodle.
The youngsters had decided they
wanted to k(K»p the cat.
The Herald story .said merely
what the headline said.
Tlie first caller was invdted to
claim Jtwy and slie did, for free,
as the Wliiti's meant to give the
poodle away all tlie while.
Tuesday tliere had been more
than .50, Mr. White says) contin
ued t<i come.
Sc\eral callers wanted to buy
the dog.
A lady offered a genuine Siam-
e.?c cat in trade.
Witih one lady caller, Mrs.
White ii.sed an unfortunate chokx?
cif words, replying, “No, the dog
has b<'en dispxsed of.”
No more than a minute had
clapseil w'hcn the same lady was
again on the wire, asking irately,
“Did you have that dog killed?’
Anotlier caller, a man. wanted
to know, “But how much did you
GCT for the dog?” And he indi-
<'atcd much doubt at the reply
the p<xx11e had been a gift to the
new owner.
And the new owner got a dou
ble bargain. She had noticx'd the
doghoii.se when elaiming her gift,
called the following day to in
quire about the hou.'se. She w'as
invittvl to claim it too, all foi
free, and did.
Alas!
The Whites didn’t learn the
name of Jerry’s new owner.
Gastonia Man
Assumed Duties
Mere On Monday
Rts.'yjc Wooten assumed duties
Monday as foreman of the city
publi'c work? dtparimc.it, U was
announc'ed by .Mayor John Henry
Moso.
Mr. Wooten, in engineering
work for the pa.st ten years, has
recently served as assistant chic
engineer and field engineer fo
Jenkins Melal Products, Inc., Gas
tonia.
Pre\icusly he had served as
mechanical designer for Techni
cal Products Associates, of Char
lotte, and before that had been
with Public Service of North Car-!
olina, Inc., the Gastonia-based !
natural gas utility, working in I
the metering, regulating and gas
line installation ser%’ice depart-1
ment. !
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Mr. Wooiten is a navy veteran.
Mrs. Wooten is the former Lou
ise K.urrle.
They have three children, Ros-
ooe Wooten, Jr., Michael Wesley
Wooten, and Teresa Eileen Woo
ten.
Mr. Wooten is a meinTer'of
Chapel Grove Baptist church. Mrs.
Wooten is a member of St. Mich
ael’s Catholic church.
Aims Listed
For Retarded
Aims of the Cleveland County
Association for Retard(?d Children
were outlined by Rev. Frank Shir
ley, pre.sident, to membi^rs of tlic
Kings Mountain Lions Club Tues
day night.
Principal among them are a
program which will provide a
“supervised work.shop” for the
retarded w^hen they reach IS—an
age vvlien their alLtihie scTiording
umier current programs ends.
Specifically, Rev. Mr. Shirley
tryid the Lions, are these other
immediate aims:
1) Increase’ of public under
standing of the problems and
potentials of the retarded.
2) Information centers to aid
families with retarded children,
and 3) more opportunities and
facilities for the retarded, includ
ing a day care center for pre-
.schoolers ages 1 to 6 and a sum
mer day care camp.
President Shirley, commenting
on litigation against the Stale ol
North Carolina, said the goal is
equal educational oCYportunity for
the retarded.
’The state wanted eight years,
vvliich the asso<.iiaitions (state and
local) think too long,” President
Shirley cxjmmcnted. He said a
comparable action was filed in
I’ennsylvania and won.
Particular emiJhasis is aimed
at the group of trainable retard-
(xl. those with intelligeiK’c quo
tients in the 30-50 range and un
able to attend the public .s<'!iool.-
and do the educabic retarded
w:ith a 50-75 IQ range.
The Cleveland County unit was
formed last St'plember.
Mom bo rshii).s f rom i nd i vi d uals
are invittxl at $5 per year.
YOUTH SPEAKER — Jerome
Cash will fill the pulpit at
"Youth Night for Christ” Sun
day night at Bethlehem Bap
tist church.
Cash To Preach
At Youth Night
Jerome Cash, rising senior at
Kings Mountain high school, will
fill the pulpit on "Yourh Night
for Christ’’ services Sunday night
at Betlilehem Baptist church.
Cash, who plans to enter the
ministry, lA'ill deliver his first
sermon at 7:30 p.m. Young people
will lead the worship service.
He is the son of Mr. and .Mrs.-
Chester Cash of 1415 Shelby
road.
Members of the Bethlehem Vol
unteer Fire Department and the
fire department’s women auxili
ary will be recognized during the
.service'. Pareni.s of young Cash
are active in those organizations.
Young Cash is grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. Grover (ireeno and MeT-
vin Cash and the late Mrs. Cash.
"We inv'ito the entire com
munity to worship with us in
this special youth night servi(e”,
said Rev. Ru.s.sell Fitts, pastor.
Young Ca.sh said, “Wc the people
of Bethlehem community fetd
this is a great opportunity to
bring many people to Christ.”
City To Buy
New Equipment
The city commission Monday
niglvt voted to advertise for bids
for a combination accounting-util
ity hilling machme for the city
derk’s offit'e and for a truck and
garb.igc pailver for the sanitation ^
department to be roi’eived at the
Aug. 14lh meefing. Both items
art' iiK'ludod in Iheproixjsod 1972-
73 budget.
Explaining tlie need for a new
billing machine to rejdaco the
city’s old m'Hlol, Clerk Joe Mc
Daniel said the imchino now in
use is such an antique tlie parts ' ’
are “hanl to comt? by and we've
piotiably b(?en fintiing them at a
ju n k ya rd st>mt'Wli('rc.”
Conim. Ray Cline quipiK*d: “I’ll
tliink about the junk yard next
time I get my light bill from tlie
city” and made the motion ‘to
ajiprove buying of tlie new etiuip-
ment.
Board Session Features Hearings;
Dilling Property Re-Zoned By 5-1
Major portions of Monday
night's regular 90 minute com
mission meeting was devoted to
public hearings — a total of
three — on a rezoning matter
and street iimprovemonts.
The board, by vote of 5-il and
over objections of one property
owner, Paul Ham, and City
Comm. W. S. Biddix. rezonod two
tracts of land on York Road.
In other public he^irings seve
ral citizens spoke in favor of pre
limlnory resolutions on curb and
gutter for Manor rwid.
Ward II Commis-sionor \V. S.
Biddix, who voted “no,” said lie
agreed with the zoning boani’s
recommendation to re/ono the
two tracts rather than “spit
zone” but he was personally a
gainst rezoning the pniperty.”
Mr. Biddix owns property on
Owens Strt'Ct. Mr. Dilling's new
building .will bo located at the
(x>rncr of Owens and 410 York
road.
Morion to rt'zone fivim R-8 to
general busino.ss for the jiunixise
of constructing a now buildirtg
for Dilling Heating Company was
made by Ward V Ctinvm. Jonas
Brklges who added lie was also
in sympathy with Paul Ham, of
607 Hoyd street, who obifK-ted to
the rezoning Ikk-iui-s*' pnxximfty
of his home to e/i.'itmg industries
was cau.^ing him “trouble
enough.” Mr. Ham’s home is lo
cated acrass the street from Oafi*
ford Indusirii's.
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