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Population
Hreater Kings ^1,914
City Limits 8.465
.»•* Otaaier luayn Mvuatcda /ur« ta from tiM
6pdwiW Uni tad dtatM Buiaou of tba Canaut lapoft o
ionvary 196^. Includaa *ka 14.990 population o
Momnar 4 Townabtp. oad ta# ramolnlog 9*124 Crot
n~'m:.ar 5 Townahlp, In ClaTeload County and Crowdar
Townahip In Qaaton ConntT*
|Cings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL 83 No. 36
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C„ Thursday, September 7, 1972
Eighty-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Clerk Rules With City In Cline Condemnation Action
piss
Local News
Bulletins
BROWNIES
Brownie Girl Scout Troop 32
will meet at the First Pi’osbyter-
ian church on SepLeinbLM’ 1-1 ac
t m. Parents of interested sec-
and third grade girls are
?d to call Mrs, Jenny Manor
at 739-23G2.
SERMON TOPIC
“What About Christ?" will be
the sermon topic of Dr. Paul Aus-
ley at Sunday morning worship
hour at 11 o’clock at First Pres
byterian church.
TO WYOMING
Two local members of the O"
(Radio duo leave today (Thurs
day) for bear hunting in Wy
oming.
DISCHARGED
Former Chief of Police Hugh
A. Logan, Jr. was discharged
Wednesday from Kings Moun
tain hospital where he has been
a patient for several days.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
the week ending Wednesday
totaled $72.10, including $5S.7{)
from on street meters and $3.40
■from off-streat meters, the
city clerk’s office reported.
NEWCOMERS
The Kings Mountain New
comers club will gather Tues
day night at 7:30 for a regular
meeting at the Woman’e club.
^Cembership is open to any lady
has recently become a
comer to the city.
^ BETA CHI CHAPTER
^roa members of Beta Chi
Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa
\fli: meet onday night at 1:30
ii the Conference Room of
Kings Mountain Savings &
l^an Association.
DIXON SERVICE
Rev. Robert Wilson will re
turn to his pulpit on Sunday
at Dixon and Shiloh Presbyter
ian churches. He will preach at
the Dixon church at 9:15 and
at the Shiloh church in Grover
at 11.
SQUAD BUSY
Grover Rescue Squad answer
ed seven calls last week and
were on standby duty for a
funeral and softball tourna
ment, a spokesman reported.
BAKE SALE
A bake sale Saturday begin
ning at 9 a.m. in front of Belk’s
will benefit Bynum Chai>el
AME Zion church.
FBI Agent
I Rotary Speaker
^^har!es S. Richards, special
«jFnt of the FBI, will be guest
Ispcaker at the Kings Mountain
■ Rotary club’s noon meeting on
I September 7th.
Mr. Richards attended West
I Point, graduating in Syracuse,
|x. Y., in 1965. lie was college
I All American in basketl)all and
I also ai hicved the status of Aca-
I domic AH American. He played
I pro nasketball with the St. Louis
I Hawks in 19(i5 and the Baltimore
( Bullets in 1967.
, He embarked upon a career
with the FtHleral Bureau of in
vestigation in July 196S. Ilis first
a.‘;.signment was in Indianapolis.
Iml.r w'here he was domiciled in
an i 1969.
Mr. Richards was assignecl to
the Charlotte offict* of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation in
1959. , ^ ,
Mr. Ric hards will be nrcsen.od
by Rotarian Cliarles Alexander
who is in charge of the program.
Legion Installs
New lights
New lights have hem installed
in the parking area r»f the Amer
ican Legion Post 1.55 at cost of
^The new outdoor lighting sys-
fatn include four Mercury vapor
at the front of the building
Jm 12 lights at the back of the
building.
Hendrick Rehired
In County Post
Me Was County's ' ^
Fiiist Manager
Pr9miS64-68
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SIGN OFF or "BOOTS" — The photograph above is the final scene of "Boots'’, formerly called
'’Sign-Off', the Kings Mountain movie the product of four area disc jockeys. The motion picture
is being produced by "Four Fellows". The last "shooting took place at Royal Villa Saturday.
From left to r'ght, Tcm Brooks, manager of the Royal Villa; Radio Station WKMT Manager Jo
nas Bridges; Nashville artist Cecil (Wildwood Angel) Null; Jim Arp and Reb Wiesener, right, pro
ducer and writer. Setting for the picture is a radio station with disc Jockeys in the major roles.
(Herald Photo by I. G. Alexander)
First Baptistts
To Welcome
New Pastor
Rev. Paul 'Riggs, new pastor of
First Baptist Church of Kings
Mountain, will preach Sunday
morning as he begins his pastor
ate hero.
Rev. Riggs comes from the
Bethany Baptist church in Wins
ton Salem, leading the church
there for a period of eight year.s.
He is a graduate of Gardner-
Webb college. Limestone college,
and Southeastern Baptist Theolo
gical Seminary.
A “dinner-on-tho-iground’’ is bt*-
ing given Sunday by the congre
gation of p'irst Baptist Church
in honor of Rev. Riggs and his
family, which includes Mrs. Riggs
(Loudeno), Cindy, Nancy, Billy,
and Luanne.
The Riggs family are purcha.'?-
ing a home in Kings iMountain,
but at the present are occupying
the missionary house of First
•Baptist church.
It’s Fair Time;
25th Event Opens
Coker Returned
For Trial
Police Chief Thomas McDe\ilt
Monday picked up Elford Coker
to fact* a pivliminary hearing on
a charge of raping a five-year-
old Kings Mountain girl.
Coker was being held by Gaff
ney authorities after he was de
clared an outUw and arrested by
two citizens on the York-Chero-
kee County line in Soutli Caro
lina.
Coker was serving a term in a
??outh Carolina prison for armed
robbery when he e^capetl and
allegedly raped the girl while a
fugitive.
MilVvilt s:iid I' Coker’s h'Uin'l
over to Superior Court he will Icj
returmxl to Gaffney until hist
trial date.
Cdnslei Resale
!
Resale auction of the Mrs.
Geor/e Consler Fst 'te pr()j)crl/ Is
scheduled for September 21n'l at
thi‘ Clevcdand County Courthouse
in Shelby.
The property is l-eing sojd un
der order of the Superior Couit
to settle the Canslor Ksiate in an
action brought hy Dkana C:in-
s!er Wdhiford and Aliss Karen
Cansler. against Mr. and Mrs.
Luth(*r C.'m.s’ei’.
In initial bidding for the prop-
^•rty C. M. Sheffield raised hid
by the Kings Mountain City
Schools f<»r the property fronting
on We.st Mountain and We.^^t
King streets. His bid was $2.1.50.
The bid by second-bidder Billy
Joe Sipe for Tract II. seven lots
on West King, total fronting
196 feet, was $1,110.
J. A. West of Horn & West is
commissioner.
Bethware Fair
Gates Open
Wednesday At 4
The 25th annual Hethware
Community Fair optms next Wed
nesday for a lour-day run.
John O. Patterson, president of
tlie fair, said it would again fea
ture R. C. Lee rides, family en
tertainment and numerous exhi
bits.
As in the past, several local
businesses will offer registration
for free i)nzcs in the exliiat
hall, located inside the gymnasi
um.
The Oak Grove and liethle-
hem Volunteer fire (iej)artments
will again be in charge of the
dunking machine and concession
stands ami the netiilehem Fire
Department will be in charge of
parking.
Roxanne Bell will serve as
Queen ot the Fair.
The fair gates will swing open
at 1 p.m. Wedne.^day and the
days acti\ itics will include games
and contests for cliikiren a^id a
drawing for prizes at 9:30 p.m.
Children's Day will be ohserv-
etl on Thursday from 1 p m. un
til 6 p.m. Judging in all exlilhits
and cicpartrnents will be held
that day, also, and more draw
ings for 1'1‘izcs will 5e held at 10
p.m.
Continr.cd On P(tgv E'i<jht
Building Pennits
Issued By City
Several piTmils to huild were j
issued hy the city building in-1
spector’s office this week. |
liithard E. Greene, of lU) Cas-'
tlevvood Drive, obtaincnl a per
mit to build a utility building.
Donald- Parker of .SOO Henry
street, plans to repair roof to
his hoiuse with Cody Brothers
ol Shel.:y as eonlractor.
Mrs. Janies Messick of S03
Third stret.d, was issued a permit
for repair work and Melvin
Morrison of 1M)1 N. Gantt street
iKinght a pt'i’mit for a 3-1 incli
gas tap.
Danny McDowell
Wins begiee
Danny Ray McDi-wi'l!, of route
1, r<‘i*(Mvcd his B.S. in .social stu
dies fn»m Appalachian Stale Uni-
viMsity Saturday durin g summer
I commencemenl ceremonie.s in
B.>one.
'IVn graduate and undergrad
uate degreiN w<*r(‘ eunforred on
679 A{)pala:chian Stale University
students.
Uni\ersily of Norlli Carolina
Preoident Dr. William Friday
was the graduation .sjK'aker. Ap
palachian chancellor Dr. Herherl
VVev conferred the d(‘gr(M‘s.
Royster Oil
Agrees To Sell
GfmLJe Property
I I
I Negotiations hy the Kings
I Mount.iin Redevelopment Com-
! mission for the Ro>ster Oil Com-j
pany properly at the corner of!
; Mountain and Battleground are
e.xpetted to hf finalized Monday. |
Gene While, director of the'
commission, told members of the
commissiem Tuesday that owners j
cf tile prf>pprty have agreed on I
a purGiase price for the 4,0<J0.
square feet property, which was I
the home of Gan.h e Service std- j
tion lor many years befoio the
recemt death of Ted Gam ,1c.
•Bo;) Bradley, attorney, was
drawing up plan.s f»'r the con
tract yc her lay whit li were to be
presented to D. W. Roy. ter fam
ily an Monday for tluur signa
tures.
Focte TaiM
I. C. Walkei;
Others Promoted
Sev(‘ral staff promotions are
announced by Foote Minri al Com-
i)any’s Kings Mountain Opera
tion.
J. Walker has bc(*n select^
to fill the po.sition of Oi)eratioris
Manager at the Kings Mountain
0|M'rations.
Mr. Wa'kor is a graduate of the
University of Tennessee with a _
B.S. degree in Chemistry and also ■ j^ingje opposing vote,
did graduate work in Industrial Hendricks, 44, is also a for-
Management. He came with the!p^^,|. finance director and city
Company in at the Knoxville, | Melbourne, Fla. The
Tenr.es«*io .qaeihty and progregsed: lounty has had two other county
there in a nnmoer of assignments, i inanat?ers sinetf» Hendrick, both
I
Former Cleveland County Man
ager Joe Hendrick of Lumbcrlon,
city clerk and trea ,urer of the
City c/ Kings Mountain, w^as re-
liiiH'd as county manager Tues
day morning in a threo-to-one
V vtc by the county commisaion-
ors.
ifendrick, now city manager of
Lnml)€rlon, was approved for a
$21,111 annual salary by the
board. An incrcise of approxi
mately $9,060 per year from the
.salary he made in 1968 as the
(ounty's first County Manager.
He e.xi)ects to move back to Shel
by around the middle of October.
Tlie former county manager, a
native Shelhian, resigned on No
vember IS, 196S, to become city
m.'inager of Lumberton. He serv
ed as Cleveland County’s first
county manager for almost four
years.
Com.m. J. D. Turner made
the motion to rehire Hendrick,
sccondcvl by Robert Hubbard.
Comm. Fritz Moi*ehead cast the
. managers since Hendrick,
In 1964, he transferred to the 5t»rving for short periods.
Corporate O ne'e at Exton, Bonn-'
sylvania a.s iMan.ager of Quality
Control. 5>!iori!y thereafter, he
COUNTY MANAGER—Joe Hen
drick has been rehired os Cleve
land County manager, a posi-
t on he held for four years be
fore moving to Lumberton in
November. 1968.
He is a graduate of Shelby
high school and attended Lenoir-
i Rhyne college. Mrs. Ilendriek, the
was i>romote^l to iGeneral Super- Mary Anne Toele, is also
intrndent in th(» Kxton Ihant Pro-| former Shelbian. They have one
duction Operation. In 1937, he as- son. Joe Jr., age 15.
sumel a similar position at the | Tho Shelby Star’s Lou Noal, re-
.Suii ri;;l)t Operation in Diiffiekl, I p^irter covering the County Com-
Virginia until Heptemb(‘r of 1970 mission meeting Tue.sday, wrote:
xyiK'n ho was i>rom(>yed to Opera-1 o>mmis.sioner J. D. (Doc) Tur
tions Manager. In 1971. additional I made the motion to re-
i‘rsponsihiIilit*s for the Kim;>all-• jm Hendrick, .s-aid, “I know
Ion. Virginia Operalit'n wore as-j we’ve been Iiurting a long time,
signed to him. j have ixMm working anrl Inint-
.dr. and .Mrs. 'Walker and their t myself a long time. About tlie
two (hildron have bualed in.fji^^^j wo would find .someb')dy
Kings ..Mountain an<l are resid- agree on it . . . something
inr: at h’Oy Ihinceton Drive. Their I would liappen. I want it under-
stooii in thi.s motion that the new
' '.ughter, Ginger, •will enter Kas-
lern I cMinc.-sre C.tate University
at Johnson City, Toiinessee this
fall and llx'ir son. Steve, will be
a .^oj)hoTnore at Kings Mountain
liggh .Gch(K)l.
Ilany L. Miller has Ijeen .select
ed to fill the position of Mine
Superintendent at llio Kings
Mountain Operations.
Mr. Miller is a graduate of Tex
as Collt'ge of Mine's and Metallur
gy, I'l I'aso, Te.xas, with a B.S.
elegree in Mining‘ICnginecrlng. He
joined the Ciunpany in 196S as
Froji'cl ‘Manager South 'Portal
Kim alllon, Virginia. He work
ed in several mining areas of the
U.S.A. along with iforeign jobs
in CatuKla and Israel. Mr. Millci
spent several years with \meri
can Zinc Company in both Colo
C()7tti)iu( a On Page Eight
Ms
hoard members (c*ommissioner.s-
elect) were in on all the inter
views and they have be<’n con
sulted about thi.s.’’
Turner also ipointed out tliat
he wanted it “underst<K)d that
t!ien''s no politics in this . . . this
i.s the best man, in 'my opinion.”
More head said: You say the
other board agreed . . . they a-
gia'od on otlu'rs . . . they W'ould
agr(*e on anybody tlys board said.
"Joe Hendrick was at home in
Cleveland County and he left
home on his rwn . . . I'm not too
sure Joe Ih'udrick did a g(>od job
... I figure he’ll do some of the
things (he did before) again . . .
I think tlio board would ha.o
done well to call in a now mhn."
M(>rehea<i further punted out
that certain policie.s of the coun-
Continm ti i)n Pmje Eight
Commission
Okays Rond Vote
The Cleveland County board of
commissioners Tuesday morning
gave the Kings Mountain city
schools the go-ahead for a De
cember 9 bond election.
Supt. Donald Jones said the
commissioners unanimously ap
proved the $2.5 million bond vote.
The city sch<x)ls are seeking
funds to build a new junior high
school, an auditorium at Kings
Mountain High School and im
provements a t elementary
schools.
Supt. Jones said persons who
have voted in past county elec
tions w<nild not have to register
for the election. New voters may
register at the county elections
office in Shelby. Jones said the
school sjistem is also trying to
persuade the county elections
Ix'ard to open the books on cer
tain dates in Kings Mountain.
Drama Again
Sunday 7:30
"1 DreamtHl I Searched Heaven
For You" will lie re|)oated at
Christian TalHjrnacle in Brittain
Village, Shelby, Sunday night at
7:30 p. m.
The drama was presented to
an ovc'rflow’ crowd I<ist wwkend.
'rhe cast of .50 is composed of
'rabt'rnaclo mem'bers.
A spokesman said that church
groups of 20 or more are invited
to call t,S7-S667 for seating ac
commodations.
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AREA GRADUATES OF CLEVELAND TECH — The seven Kings Mountain area adults pictured a-
bovo gioduated recently in Adult Graduotion Classes at Cleveland Technical Institute in Shelby.
From left to right, front row. Barbara Jennings. Eula M, Frazier and Willie Moe Goode, Back row,
from left. Doris Pruitt, Lucille Eaker. Guynetha Falls and Janice Hoyle. (Herald Photo by I. G.
Alexander)
Legion's Fiist (kili Touinament
Will Also Featnie Dinner-Dance
Fifty-two Legionnaires will te^
off at 8 a.m. Saturday morning
on the Country Club golf roursc
for post I5.5’s first annual golf
tournament.
'Die l.'^-ht'h' event is n first for
the local Po.st and the day’s
<’vcnts will be culminated at 7
l>.m. with an awairds bantiuet fol-
iewed at 9 hy a dance at the
American I..ogi()n Building.
Adjutant Joe 'McDaniel raid
prizes will he presentel to hold
ers of Unv gross and low net at
the a-war! \ banquet. ‘The Blue
Velvets" will play for the dan^’c
from 9 p.m. until 12 p.m. for Le-
gi' nnairos and vheir guests.
The ('vent will also include pro-
s^^ntatlon of dour prizes, said Mr.
McDaniel.
The team captains and tourney
mem'' ers include:
Team I: Dick McGinnis, cap
tain; Lin I’lergh Dixon, Jim Bla-
lot'k and Robert Wright.
q'eam H: Brian Bickley, cap
tain; Dick Shaney, Curtis Gaff
ney and Jim Long.
Team ITI: Charles Dixon, cap
tain; Bob Cox, Kcneth Hamrick
anc* Robert Walli
Tearp IV: Joe McDaniel, cap
tain; Bruce McDaniel, Bob Dav
ies and Junior Clary.
Team V: Stonewall Jackson,
captain: Charles Hampton, Fur
man Wilson and Boyce Wells.
Ti'am VI: Jim Ah'xander, cap
tain; Cecil Bailey, Sewall Laugh-
ridge, and Lawrence Adems.
Team VIT: Snntths McDaniel,
captain; Carl DoVane, Wliitey
Bowen an 1 Rhea Pab er.
Team VTIJ: IPeh Smith, cap
tain; Gene Timms. George E.
Bowen and IlaroM Ramsey.
Team IX: Walt Harmon, cap
tain: Ben T. Goforth, Carl F. Wil
an<i Ray D. Crocker.
Te.am Xl: Jay W. Powell. Jr.,
caatainr.Jay vy. Powell. ?r., G<'nc
Gibson and Clinton Jolly.
Team XTT; Clyde Whetstine,
captain; Jack Arnette, Lou Sa-
belli and Bill Wyers.
Team XHT: James IT. Lewis,
enptain; George W. Wilson, Paul
R. Carson and G. M. HufTstiek
ler.
Alternates are Zip Rhea, Fred
Wright, G. M. Huffstickler and
Charlea Ballard.
Cline Attomeys
Have Indicated
They May Appeal
Kings Mountain won the con
demnation hearing on the Am
brose Cline property hassle Fi'*-
day in district court.
Superior Court C-erk Ruf
Dedmon rule ! that the city o;
go ahead with cende n;‘
proceedings ■ut Cline’s "ttoi-.
hinted that they i/i.l
case to Superior Court.
The city contends it neo V \ G
acres oi Cline’s property i'
vide a spillway in case
ing. Cline’s attome
that the lake project wa:: '
essary', stating th.at ?!
tain is currently sel'ing rt
Bessemer City and to o\:
lustrdes.
W. K. Dickson, en^inee
the city’s lake pro'ect, t
court that the Cline
nece.ssai’y for cvmpleticn of t’ e
project, citing the need .cr a
spillway.
Another witness for the cRy,
Bernie Cheatwood, a profession
al appraiser, said that Cline had
refused several offers by the city.
In October of 19S9, the city re
portedly offered Cline S65..500
for the properly and home. Later,
the city offered $32,000 for the
property alone and promisted to
build a dike to protect the home.
A group of commissioners are
to be appointed to appraise the
property and the Cline attorneys
said that after they’re appoint^,
the case will be appealed. The
attorneys hinted that they’ll also
appeal the price set by the com
missioners.
The Buffalo Creek project,
w'hieh will take up over 1,700
acres of land, will contain ap
proximately 11 billion gallons of
water and will be able to pump
over 20 million gallons per day.
Craven. Herndon
Glenn Spurling
Commissioners
Commissioners to appraise the
value of land owmed by John D.
Clipe required ifor the Buffalo
Creek water project have been
appointed by the clerk of Super
ior Court, Mrs. Ruth Dodmon.
Mrs. Dedmon said that Joe Cra-
ver, Will Herndon and Glenn
Spurling have been appointed to
appraise the 101.49 acres owned
i:?y Cline.
The commissioners first vic’-'-
the property in question then set
up a meeting date, p'dlcnving the
meeting, the group has ton days
in which to make a report to the
Superior Court clerk, said Mrs.
Dedmon.
A hearing for the conden^na-
lien of 106.52 acres owned by
Ambrose Cline, which is also be-
•''4 sought for the water project
y the city of Kings 'Mountain
and set which was for Tuesday
has r:3een continued. Mrs. Dedmon
said. No date has been set for
the hearing.
C- F. Roweni'
Rites Conducted
(Funeral rites for Clarence F.
iHorshey) FU>wers. 59. designer
with Neisco, Inc. for 34 years,
were conducted Tuesday after
noon at 4 o’clock from Harris
I^unoral Home Chapel.
Rev. Perry Huffstetler offici
ated at the final rites and inter
men* was in Mountain Rest Ceme-
lery.
Mr. Flowers died IMonday
morning in Cleveland .Memorial
hospital at Shelby after illness of
two weeks.
He was a native of Gaston
Countv, son of the late Mr. and
Mr.s. William R Plmvers. I^e was
'a veteran of World VV'ar H, .sor-
j ving as a staff sergeant in ord
inance in Ita’y and Africa for
'thiw years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
NeU Baltv Flowers; one sister,
Mrs. Cecil Biddy of Dallas; and
three brothers, Le«inard Flowers
of Loui.sville, Ky., Durwood p'low-
ers of Belmont and Coyt Flowers
of Stanley.
Active pall'be'U'rrs were Fred
Finger, Jim Dickey. Charlie Moss,
Kelly Patterson, Walter Harmon
and Ralph Arrowood.
Honorary pallbearers were
Henry Neislor, Jack Hullender,
pH"'. Mauney, R. H. Wo 'h. F. A.
McDaniel and Tom RoberUi