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■"-‘'rT* 7 i Population Greater Kings ‘oin 31.914 City Limits 8,465 Gt«at«r Ibuga Mouatcda fun Is ft«M tM •PSMCil United KtatM luraon ot Um Census report • jttvory ItM. uod Includes tiM U.tM populotKin • HOttaner 4 Tewnslilp, and tee remaining t.lSd Irst ojULur 5 Township. In aereknid County aM Crowdsc _ ly qasten rsimty. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL. 83 No. 45 EstabKshed 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 9, 1972 Eighty-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Nixon, Holshouser, Helms, Broyhill Sweep To Victory Need Bonds Outlined By Jones IN WHO'S WHO — Mrs. Donald Jones has been elected to mem bership in “Who's Who In Amer ican Colleges and Universities." Mis. Jones In Who's Who A .jardner-Webb College stu dent, Mrs. Gladys J. Jones, daugh ter of Rev. and Mrs. John E. Jones of Kings Mountain, has been named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universi ties and Colleges. Students are judged on the basis of academic standing, par ticipation In student activities on the campus and desire to excel In fir chosen field as well as all- I excellence. Mrs. Jones is wife of School Supt. Donald Jones. 184 Well-Wishers Send Stapp Cards E. F. Stapp received birthday congratulations from friends on his 83rd birthday October 29th. The newcomer to Kings Moun tain is a native of Duquoin, Illi nois. He and his wife came to Kings Mountain for a visit last Atiril and decided to retire here. Mrs. Stapp died April 26th at age 76 and 'Mr. Stapp remained to make his' home with his daughter and son-in-iaw, Mr. and Mrs. Buck Bridges, 802 Katherine avenue. Among his birthday cards were those from friends in Burbank, California, Missouri, Illinois and Florida. (A Hunter Warlick Is Re-Elected D. Hunter Warlick, Hickory at torney and son of Mrs. Madge WairJick of Kings Mountain and the late C. E. IWarlJck, won re- election to 'his third term in the 37th House District from Catawba County in Tuesday balloting. Representative Warlick is Re publican. He was one of two Re publican Representatives who re turned to office by defeating DemocratCc opironents by margins cf 2-1 from Catawba county. Warlick is a graduate of David son college and Duke Univoraity Law School. 1000-Student High School Housing 1250 By MABTIN HARMON Kings Mountain High School, designed to accommodate a thousand students, today is ac commodating 1250. Other schools are packed and jammed with all available apace utilized and the community is growing. These are the principal reasons, Superintendent Don Jones told a group of citizens Monday night, why Kings Mountain school dis trict desiperately needs the $2,500,000 bond issue to be deter mined by citizens in a OecethSer 16 election. * ^ Other items in the Superintend ent’s presentation: 1) West school needs an addi tion to provide a library -(now housed in the cafeteria), and new classrooms to replace six trailers now being used as class rooms. 2) East school needs -new class rooms. 3) The high school needs an auditorium, hH>Pcd off the origi nal plan due to lack of funds, both for school and comnumity use. 4) Grover school needs fan- prevements. 5) Bethware school needs-'fur ther improvements. Superintendent Jones eaW the new law enacted by the 1971 General Assembly set June M, 1973, tor expiration of a special act whereby Cleveland and nine other counties were permitted to issue bonds by dUtrJets. He fur ther declared that the tax rate in the first year of amortization would be a -maximum of 32 cents per $100 valuation, stating that the owner of a home or other property valued -at $15,()00 would pay $31.20 additional taxes in the first year of amioitlzatton ol the bonds. «e reported that the district levy for aimcxtizing the hfeh school plant bond issue, In-itiafiy 40 cents per $100, has dropped to five cents. Plans call for the building of a junior high school south of the high school on the. unimproved part of the 85-aare tract occupied to the north -by the high slchool. Mr. Jones declared the new construction would not Include costly frills. He acknowledged occasional criticism of carpeting school halls and classrooms, add ing, ‘"We’ve found carpeting has two great benefits, saving main tenance cost and cutting noise.” Speaking briefly in support of the bond issue were state Sena tor OUie Harris and -Mayor John Moss. Mission Study Sot By KM Raptirts A Foreign Mission Study— “Europe—A Mission Field,” will be conducted at Kings Mountain Baptist church Sunday after noon at 5 p. m. Mrs. Hubert Dixon will lead the study and the Interested com munity is invited to participate. Ground Broken Monday Foi 60-Bed Convalescent And Nnising Home Ground breaking ceremonies were he'd Monday morning for Kings Mountain’s Icng-awailcd 60-bed nursing home, to be locat ed on Sipe Street behind Kings Mountain Hospital. Target date for eomplction is June 1. Officials of the nursing home and Cecils Inc. of Spartanburg, which will construct the fac’lit.v. Mayor John H. Moss and State Senator Ollie Harris, -Rev. Charles E. -EdwardsI pastor of Boyce Memorial ARP Church, and Rev. r. H. Waugh, pastor cf Central Metlicdist Church and President of the Kings Mountain Minister ial Association, took part in the ceremonies. John "L. 'McGill, retired drug gist who was appointed to spear head the drive toward construe- tian, presided over the ceremonies and Joe Smith, President of Kings Mbuntain Convafesc«it and iNurs- ing Center, Inc., told those in at tendance of the five yeeis of planning for the facility. Construction -is expected to be completed by June and many persons predict that the home will be filled to capacity. The buildin-g will be constructed in a way that it can ibe expanded in the future. Officers of the new home in elude Joe Smith, president; Clyde 'Kerns, vice-president; and Mrs. Clyde Kerns, secretary-treasurer. The board of directors Include Dr. John C. McGill, Carl IMauney, Bob Powell, John L. McGill and Ollie Harris. Leaders of the nursing hmne drive reported that they encoun tered several delays alcnig the CONTINUED ON.PACE 6 The Mayor’s committee on downtown parking, ‘back lot” re fuse and business area traffic flow, -discussed all three at a Monday -night meeting. The committee recommended a city ordinance which -would pro vide a fine for retailers who cre ate "intolerable” debris, asked a three-thnes weekly "-back 'lot” garbage pick-up, and removal of parking meters. Mayor John Hen-ry Moss, ex officio member of the committee chaired by Commissioner Ray W. Cline, outlined plans for a Gold street underpass and concurrent elimination ol rail crossings at Gold. Mountain streets, and at the Mauney Mill, and told the group he would request' of the State Highway edmmission for a re-study of King street traffic system in an effort to speed -traf fic flow. -Police Chief Tom MoDevitt, a member of the committee, was not preseirt, aiHl Chaiirntan Cline suggested another nteefing be held concerning the business 'dis trict traffic flow situation when the Chief could be -presenif. The Mayor also said he hoped the central business project could be amended to use the Gulf Serv ice Station property at the cor ner of West Mountain and Bat- leground could be utilized to pro vide 19 -parking spaces. Other members of -the commit tee are J. C Bridges, president ol ttie Chambr* of Commence, Jim Downey, president of the Mer chants association, Boscoe Woot en, Commissioners Jonas Bridges and W. S. Si-ddix, Lewis Dellin ger, Charles Blanton John McGin nis, Don Jones, and Larry Ham rick. Gene White was a guest at the meattiVi Duplex Woikeis Give IIF $3487 Employees of Duplex -Interna tional contributed a record $3,487.00 to the Kings Mountain United Fund this week to bring the total to $24,408.50 the amount Kings Mountain citizens iva-vc contributed to the 1973 campaign. •■'In' addition. Duplex Interna tional presented a company check in the amount ol $600. . Other top contributors during the week were Mauney Hosiery Company employees who gave $2,052.50 and Carolina Throwing Company employees additional check which raised their DF giv ing to $2,354.00. Goal lor the campaign is $34- 450. Beneficiaries of the campaign CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 If CAST (XjPAllDA AND SPY — Maubon of the cost of “Panda and the Spy", which opens Friday at Lira* Theatre, ore pictured above. Scott Laug bridge as the Panda is kneeling in front of Cindy BoUnsott, left, Becky Bates ond David Barrett all seated. From left to right standing, are Chris Holmes, Ann Rowell, Lindsay Holmes, Soroh Maner, Ronnie Morrison, Loura McGinnis, Laura Car penter, Kim Gladden, Carol Bennett and Anthony Keller. (Herald Photo by I. G. Alexander) Little Theatre "Panda And Spy To Open Friday The curtain will go up Friday evening at 7:30 on “The Panda and the Spy,” -Little Theatre three-act adventure thriller. Mrs. Raymond Holmes is dir- ! ecting the production -which plays I again Saturday night at 7:30, and j on the following weekend. There ' will also be a Sunday matinee on r- <1 November 19th at 2;30 pjn. All performances will 6e In the I Park Grace school auditorium. A cast of 14 students make up the cast for the show and young people also comprise the tack- stage crew. Youngest member of the Ciist is eight-year-old Becky I Bales, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I Bil! ‘Bates. Senior member of the ! cast is 16 year-old C-ndiy Robin- Ison, daughter of Dr. and -.Mr.s. 'Sam Robinson, and a veteran Little Theatre performer. I Advance tickets are $1 and may be purchased from any Little Theatre member. Tickets may al so te purchased at the door at $1.25. Intolerable Trash May Elicit Fine Paildng Metei R^oyall^ain G^SopimM— EVANGELIST—Rev. C. C. Crow, retired Baptist minister, will be evangelist for revival services beg’oning Sunday morning at Temple Boptlst church. Crow To Lead Baptist Series Revival services will I'aegin this Sunday morning, at Temple Bap tist church and continue through Sunday, Nevember 19th. The even ing services will -begin at 7 each night with a nursery provided. The evangelist will be Rev. C. C. Crtxw of Shelby. Rev. Crow was ordained in 1931; served fifteen churches in -Wake, Ruth erford. and Cleveland Counties. Served as Chaplain in the U. S. Army during -World War II and served as Moderator of the Kings Mountain and Sandy -Run Asso ciations. Since retiring from the active pastorate in 1962, Rev. Crow has served as instructor at Fruitland Baptist -Institute for four sessions; served as interim Pastor in eighteen different CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 16 Conduct Poppy Sale A total of 16 Poppy Day sales men representing the Frank B. Glass Post 98H VFW and Auxil iary conducted a street sale of the memorial poppy Saturday. Mrs. Ruby Stroupe, poppy chairman, reported d o nations totaling $281.54 which is earmark ed for veterans projects in the area. Poppy salesmen were Mrs. Stroupe, Mrs. Robert Ruff, aux iliary president: 'Mrs. Harold Glass, Bridget Glass, Terry Glass, Terry Howoll, Mrs. Dave Delevie, Miss Lib -l^llers, Mrs. Elai-ee Peterson, -Mrs. Robert Peterson, Mrs. Frank Glass, Ruth Smart, Sandy Henderson, Cathy Crawford, John Gla.iden and Mrs. Myrtle Christenson. Mrs. Stroupe stated apprecia tion “to all Kings Mountain citi zens -who conlrljutixi to the pro gram and those who remember ed our veterans on Poppy Day.” Next Week Features Cencentrated Study Of Drug Abuse In County A concentrated info-nmatlonaJ .study on drug abuse will -be con ducted throughout Cievel-an-d County begi-n-n-ing Monday. Theme of the week will be “Somebody Oa-rcs”. •Scheduled to visit th-roughouf the week—to speak at public -'ItieeMngs and to conduct semi nars at all -high schools—^is Mrs. Vicki Jackson cured of a $350 -per day .heroln_ habit, and now cm- -ployed by "the New York Nar cotics. The Rings Mountain public ap pearanee of Mrs. Jackson will be a “Mom and Dad” somii-naT at First (Baptist chuitch Novomlber 16 ait 7 ptm. She wUl be at Kings Mountain high school at 10 a.m. and at Central Junior high senool at 12:30. -Bill -Bates is coordinator of tihe Kings Mountain a-otlvities. During the week, surveys -will be (-onducted at all schools of student attitudes concerning drugs. The questionnaires will be anonymous and results will be attitudes generall-y, and usag'el computerized. Questions concern aScoholic.-beverages included. Also -connected with the Peek’s work will 'be a Grades 1-6 school art contest conducted by Ford Mc Donald. Another function wdll 6e an industrial management seminar conducted by .Mrs. JacksoiT at Gardner-Wehb college auditorium November 17, Robert Kingery is coordinator. TwoExceptionsToT o woship Voting As Did State, Nation Public Housing Showed Profit in Recent Year Kings (Meuntain Public Hous ing Autlicrity showed an operat ing -profit ot $12,742 for the year ending Scl.jtemljer 30 on its 150 dwelling units and $1400 on its, 50 -leased units, the annual ra- -por; shows. Average rental per month was $39.43. Gross receipts on the 150 units was $76,113 and cost of opera tions $63,371. Gross receipts from Chesterfield Court leased units was $19,174. The corporation had assets of $2,584,144, including $17,212 in cash, and land structures and equipment valued at $2,537,503. ' Surplus at year end was $134,116. The corporation liabilities in- uiuded $18,971 in accounts payst- hie, and notes payable ol $2,424,- 661. The authority had accrued liability of $5,148—a payment in lieu of taxes it will make to the ci-ty and representing ten percent of rentals from the 150 units.! (The owners of Chesterfield Court, pay property taxes as do othec, oitizens.) ' f During the year the authwity! charged off $145.44 in rents as1 uncollectible bad accounts on the' 150 units and $86dU on the leas ed units. PRESIDENT RICHARD M. HIZb|r Mrs. Houston Is Exposure Victini Mrs. Maudic Houston, 81, route 1 Negro woman, was found dead of exposure Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 'by rescue workers who had begun the search for the woman after her husband report ed her missing. Willie Houston .about 80. said his wife had wandered off into the woods near their home on Old Llnwood Road sometime Tuesday afternoon and had been lost in the wooded area overnight. He said he had searched for his wife late Tuesday and Tuesday night. According to Chief Thomas McDevitt, searchers found the woman’s coat and shoes early yesterday. Kings Mountain, Gaston Coun ty and Cleveland County police officers were joined by voilunteers from the Gaston, Kings Moun tain, Grover and Boiling Springs rescue squads and bloodhounds from the prison department in searching for the woman. Funeral arrangements, which are incomplete, will be announc ed by Dockery’s Funeral Home of Shelby. A -native of Green County, Ga., Mrs. Houston was the former '.Maudie Ragland. ShewM a mem ber of Pride of Kiit>gs 'Mountain No. 1 and Heroines of Jeri-plib, Queen Mary’s Court No. 5 -Besides her husband she is survived by a foster son, Albert Houston, stationed with the Army in Vietnam. City Board Agenda Short Rezoning and annexation re quests are on the agenda for Monday night’s regular -meeting of the olty board of comimission- ers at 7:30 p.m. in council cham bers at City 'Hall. As of Wednesday evening, (May or John Moss had placed only four items ori the agenda for the November meeting: 1) public hearing on Tczonl-ng request by Oharles F. Mauney; 2) annexation request by de velopers of Kings Mountain’s pro posed. shopping center on Shelby road; 3) -opening of bids tor a new elecfrorvic accounting -ma-cihine for the city bl-Hing departnient; . 4) opening of tokis for a new garbage packer for the city sani tation department. dOVERNOR-ELECT JIM HOLSHODSER U. S. SENATOR-ELECT JESSE HELMS U. S. REPRESENTATIVE JIM BROTHILL laycees Set Caindy Sale Kings Mountain Jaycees are conduoting a candy sale 5or ben efit of their various community projects, announces Steve Wilson, publicity K^hairmanr. Chairman of tlje project is Boyce Teaseneer, employee of IBVD Company. A variety of candy is available trom -mint to cocct*uf, peanut butter and -gourmet de- Jight. The candy may be purchased from any Jaycee or from Myers Prlntiing, said Chainnai} Tesse- neel) East KM Box Gives Bowles Connty Maigin By MARTIN HABMMT Kings -Mountain, Number 4 Township, and Cleveland County, with -two exceptloiis, voted wltlt the state and nation Tuesday In the quadrennial elections which saw President Richard Nixon and U, S. ftepresenlative James X- &'oyhilf win victories Jat -land* slide proportions, ^publican Jesse Helms defeat U. S’, fepresentative Nick Galiflanakis fer U. S. Sena-,- tor, and Republican Jim Hiedshop.^ scr upset Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles far Governor. The two exceptions: 1) East Kings Mountain voters provided Bowles a 77-vote major ity, 14 more than the 63-vote mar gin Bowdes carried Cleveland County. 2) A -townshiiip^ exception was 'Bethware, which voted solidly Republican on every contested office. Bethware has been tong considered a GOP stronghold. Otherwise, -East and W-est Kings Mountain, and Grover precincts, strayed to the GOP side only in races tor prestdenti U. S. Senate, and ”U. S. Representative, giving majorities to aiU other Democra tic candidates, which Included all members' of the Council of State and Jlni Hunt, now lieuten- amt-governor elect. Statewide, all Members of the Council of'Sate seeking re-election were, an^f* newcomers W. C. Creel -w»H suc ceed Frank Crane as commission er of labor and John Ingram -will succeed Ed Lanier as commlssi'on- er of insurance. Incumbents re-elected are Sec retary of State Tbad Eure, Treas urer Edwin M. Gill, Auditor Hen ry L. Bridges, Attorney General Robert Morion, and Agriculture .lommissioner James Graham. Indicative of the GOP u^ard movement was the fact that in West kings Mountain 254 voters marked the "X” sttaiight Repub lican on the county-district ticket where there -wete no candidates. Presidenit Nixon withstood the onslaught of Senator George Me- Govern by 521 to 17 electoral votes and 42 million to 26 milr lion votes. Holshouser trousiced Bowles by 48,277 votes and Helms’ maigin over Gallfianakis was an even 106,00a A total of 1563 voters cast ballots at the West Kings ^fountain pre cinct at the Armory and 990 -via- ited the East Kings Mounfain polling pla-ce at City HaH. Elected without of^rosition to the state senate iwere Senator •Ma-rshaH IRauch and Reipresenta- tives W. K. -Mauney, Jr., and Jack Rhyne, at»d to the state Uonse of Representatives wero Incumbents Robert Z. Falls and Robert Jones and Dr. Jack Htmt. Elected without oppceltton to the county commisston were Cole man Goforth, L. E. Htnmnt, and Jack Palmer, and re-elected with out opposition -was Register of Deeds Ralph Tucker. Elected without opposition were District Judges Joe Mull, Lewis Bu-lwiinkle, Oscar M-ason, Ralph Phillips and Robert Kirby. Smith Vote Is 1523 "At Home" Nick A. Smith, 34-year-oid-Kings Mountain native and Raleigh at torney, tost his bid for attorney- general Tuesday os -he -was de feated by Democratic incumbent Robert Morgan. Mr. smith polled 6.797 -In aeve- land County to Morgan’s 11,340. In 'Kings (Mountain simth garner ed 1,523 votes, -carrying the Beth- ware precinct. H-is -totato in No. 4 Townshf-p were IBethwaie - 336; Grover, 153; East, 397; -and West, 635. It was Mr. Smith’s first 'bid for public office. -He is 'Republican. Early returns from 943 pretofnets -m the state Tueoday gave Mor gan 292,163 votes to 216,415 foe Smi'tlj- Moiga-n, 47, had been consider ed a leading contender for the Democratic gubernatorial noml- CONTINUED ON PAGE 9