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Popnlation ^^ -I-:. Greater Kings Mountain _ 21.914 City Limits 8.465 JJ** Kingi Mountoda figure It derived from the spectol United States Bureau of the Census report of lauory, 1966, and includes the 14,990 population of IJtuiwr 4 Township, ond the remaining 6,134 from ^mber S Township, in Cleveland County ond Crowders Nountoin Township in Gaston County. Kings Mountain's Relioble Newspaper VOL. 84 No. 30 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 26, 1973 PRICE TEN CENTS Eighty-Fourth Year McDevitt: KM Drug Problem Is Worsening Kings Mountain State Champs And Advances To Clearwater \ Babe Ruth Entry Victor By 5-3, Alter 7-3 Loss By GARY STEWART Herald Sports Editor Kings Mountain won the state Babe Ruth championship in Hickory Wednesday night, defeating Greenville, N, C. 5-3 after Greenv lie forced o sec ond championship game by winning a 5:30 game 7-3. it wos K.ngs Mountain's first loss of the season. David Carroll went oil the way in the championship game. He gav« up six hits and struck out six. Kings Mountain broke o 3*3 tie in the bottom of the second inning when Frank Hovis hit a two-run homerun. >. Kings Mountain managed only three hits off Greenville's Mike Belton but turned in two double plays and several other fine defensive ploys to stay on top most of the way. 9oT8 13-19 are eligible for Babe Ruth leogue ploy. k Kings Mountain now ad- ' vances to the regional tourna ment in Clearwater, Fla., be ginning August 3. Kings Mountain copped the district championship in Mon roe July 17 d^eating the Chor- lotte Lions 9-1. Winner at Clearwater od- Vances to the National Finals at Manchester, N, H., August 18-25. The line score: FIRST GAME Score by innings: R H E Kings Mtn. 100 200 0—3 4 0 Greenville 104 110 x—7 11 1 Burgese and Parker: Wilkerson ond Connelly SECOND GAME Score by Innings: R H E Greenville 210 OOO 0—3 5 4 Kings Mtn. 320 OOO x—5 3 3 Belton & Cherry; Carroll and Porker. Schools Try Again For Grading Bids Kings Mountain district schools wi'1'1 try again today to open bAb» for grading of three construction sites. Only two bids were received Monday, but three are required by state law. The schools have rescheduled opening bids for Thursday at 3 p.m. in hopes erf getting three bids. ♦ The grading is for expansion of H^ast and West elementary schools and for construction of a new junior high school adja cent to Kings Mountain high school on Phifer road. Board ^nses White, Hall Kedevelopment Commission Di rector Gene White and Assistant Director, John Hall have been granted real estate broker’s li censes by the real estate licens ing board in Raleigh. The license Is granted after successful completion of an ele ven week course at Gaston Col lege, followed by passing the state exam administered by the Education Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey. The Gaston College course and state test consists of a working knowledge of real estate laws and regulations, math, real es tate transaction.*? and preparation jI vrious instruments and clos ing statements. White said that the reason for completing this course is to ob tain a better working knowledge of the Kings Mountain real estate market. White has had four years of real estate experience prior to joining the Redevelopment Com munion. .A. ♦ fim- m} \ \' \ Chief of Police Declares LSD Worse oi All 7 I “We have a drug problem and the problem is worsening day by day.” , Chief of Police Tom MoDevitt, i ohtief here since 1968, sp(?aking ' to the King.s Mountain Lions club Tuesday night, continm^d, “We had a ipMl in 1968 for which the kids were paying $1.50. Th<‘n came marijuana, then hard d.-ugs.” Chief McDevitt labeled LSD as the worse. A person can get one gcod dose of LSD, he said, and go agajin up to fiv eyears lat er. He described effects of the drag a*: “varying”, with some “happy” others “mean ” after us ing the clear, o<l(«le.ss liquid. Other itcimii in his address: ‘ K M Area Christian Crusade Continues Through Sunday m Crowds Attend STATE BABE RUTH CHAMPIONS - The Kings Mountain Babe Ruth AU-Stars, shown above, won the state championship Wednesday night in Hickory, defeating Greenville in a second game 5-3 ond now advance to regional competition in Cleorwoter. Fla. Front row. from left to right, are Jimmy Parker. Mike Sisk. Mark Thornburg. Gary Procter. Frank Hovis. Steve Southwell. Kenny Baliles, and Kevin Ford. Back row. from left. Coach Tommy Pruett. Monte Falls. Joel Burgess. Andy Bridges. Jeff Carroll. Chris Johnson. Jeff Reynolds, ond Cooch Tony Leigh. Not pictured Jockie Wray. II SPEAKER — Mrs. Doris B. Pierce of High Point, state president of the Ladies Auxili ary to VFW of North Carolina, will address the 14th district meeting here Sunday afternoon at Frank B. Glass Post. State Piesident To Speak Here Frank B. Glass Post 9811 and Auxiliary will host th6 14th dis trict Ladies Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars Sunday after noon at i p. m. at the 'Post home on Grover road. Principal speaker for the meet ing will be Mrs. Doris 6. Pierce, of High Point, state president. Women of the local unit will serve a buffet supper following the program and business meet ing at which the district presi dent will preside. Mrs. Rd ert Ruff is president of Post 9S11 auxiliary. Ladies from VFW units in Kings Mountain, Shelby, Lin- colnton, Newton • Conover, Hick ory and Statesville will attend. Mrs. Pierce has served as de partment senior vice president this past year and as department memi ership chairman for the past two years. She has also served as department junior vice president, department conduct ress and department guard. She has chaired many department of fices on the state level in prev ious years. She has been selected as aux iliary memlber of the year twice in her own auxiliary and was selected as auxiliary memiber of the year this year in the 10th distri^ct and as auxiliary member of the year for the state of North Carolina, also for this past year. She is serving in her auxilianv as treasurer, an office she has held for many years. She is a past 10th district president. Other .speakers for the joint meeting will be Senior Vico Com mander Roy Quinn and District (Cuntinued On Paga Eight) Burger Barn To Re-Open With Barbecue ' Dick McGinnis and Clyde Whet Stine announced yesterday they i have leased The Burger Barn on | York road and will operate it | as Barbecue Barn beginning a- bout September 1. I The new business will be man aged by Johnny Conner, announc ed the partners. Barbecue iBarn will feature pit- ' cooked Hickory barbecue in sand- I wiches, trays and/or plates and will specialize in barbecue beef and barbecued baked beans. In addition, carry-out service with limited seating on the inside of Barbecue Barn will be given. Mr. McGinnis said the business will be Operated seven days a week. / Male Nurses Training Offered Kings Mountain hospital, in conjunction with the Cleveland Technical Institute, is offering a college credit course to teach individuals to qualify for male nursing assistants. Jobs will Ic offered on a full time or part-time basis to those who successfully complete the course. The course will involve 20 hours of classroom work and 40 hours of clinical practice. Class hours will be arranged to awommodatc majority of ap plicants. Registration fee will be $2.00. Applications or further infor mation maiy be obtaiiud *rom M ss Louise Taylor, dirtK’tor of nursing service, Kings Moun tain hospital, 739-3601, Exten sion 44. Early retirees are urged to ap ply. RETURNED HERE Gene Wright, Kings Moun tain barber who has been re ceiving treatlment at Cleveland Memorial Hospital in Shelby following a heart attack, was returned to Kings Mountain Hospital Wednesday. TAPPED — Ranee Henderson, Kings Mountain native, hos been named director of North Carolina's three schools for the deal. Henderson Is State Director Ranee Henderson, Kings Moun tain native and superintendent of the Western North Can>lina School for the Deaf at M<»rgan- ton, lias bc<‘n named d rector of the stale’s three schools for the deaf. Henderson is son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Henderson of Kings Mountain. Ho is married to the fonner Hetty Ledford of Kings Mountain. David Flaherty, secretary of human resources, said Mender- sfm .voulj continue in his rap acity as superintendent of the 'Morganlon scho«jI. Henders'on said at a news con ference this the division will open l.S centers this full of deaf chil dren five years old nr iy(>ung<*r. Ojicrating as an outreach pro gram for the three schools, the centers will stress a ilotal com- mimrcat on ajiproach involving sign language, finger spelling and sp<K?ch. The centers will be fundwl by a $522,(X)0 appropriation from the 1973 General Assembly. 1) “Hard drug addicts don’t get cured”. He said the tederal rehabilitation establishment for | addicts at Lo.vington, Ky., had * never claimed more than one 'percent of its patients cured and "they don't claim that now.” 2) Si’V’cn young men and wom en in Kings Mountain today have hepatitis”, a communtcable dis ease, “from using dirty needles fci' drug injec-tions.” 3) Other really hard drugs, be sides 'LSD, are paregoric and heroin. 4) He disfavons legalizing any drug.s for “too many are legal new.” He <leclaTcd a principal prob lem f'f law <*nforcement today, drug.s and otherwise, is the law respecting obtaining of soan^li fvarranLs. “We must Ivavp. an af fidavit,” he said, adding he spent two hours recently seeking a warrant, adding, *T don’t have it yei." He told the Lions, ‘Tt’s your duly to help with this protbUm, if you have the oppontunity, as It i.-: all other citizens.” Princii>al key to an indicated problem is a markwl change in a person’.^: pt'r.s(>nality. He urged parents who fi:rl their children with a problem, Xall as. We're not intercslo<i in jail ing your children. We simply want to help your child.” TIh' moH' dangc^rous ages, he declared, arc the 16-20 ago span. Pre.sident Bill Bates arranged the prt)gram. Laughter Returns To City PO Staff W. F. (Bill) Laughter is re turning to his previous past as city carnier with the Klnfrs Mauntain Post Office, Postma.ster Cliarics Alexander said yesterday. Mr. Laughter, for the past two months, has worked in the Glen Alpine Postoffice, serving as Po-jlmaster there. Mr. Laughter has been a Kings Mountain postman for more than eight years. Ho and his family reside here on South Sims strt'ot and are active in First Baptist church. IN COLLEGE POST-Reg Alex ander has been named associ ate campus minister and ad- miss' on*^ counselor at Gardner WebL college. Reg Alexander In G-W Post A native of Kings Mountain, Reg. Alexander, has been namt'f! a.-sociate campus minister and admissions counselor at Gardner- \V<t b college. Dr. E. Kugen“ r*)ston. pics'- donf of tile college, aiinoun -ed the .'sotithern .Seminary graduate would assume the dual uulies imiiKHliaU’l. . Alexander graduat<'d f r o m fJardner VV( I in tlu* sj'r ng of 1971 with a degree in psychol ogy and earned !i s masier of re ligious <*<iucation at Southern Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky this l)a.‘?t May. ITs degree em- l)iiasis at seminary was campus ministry. Nightly af 7:30 Tie area-wide Fv>rd Philixjt I IC ng.: Mtmiuain Cliri-:tian Cru- ' s:i 1 V .ntiaue: through .Sunday ' night at tlie (Ymnninit> Center (.1^ ^ 1(• veland av(*nue. Btgg. -t a tendan; e night wa.s j niglit, Sunda>, as crowds ( l.niaicd at 1866 licard the na- ti. naJl,^-kircwn evangcdisl'. a cru sade choir of hundreds and the . weil-kiK.wn “Ki<nermen” singers. ! Attendance drcpiK\i Monday, enusade leader.; .said because ot ; lack ca (xoling equipment in the laicgc audiloriuii). On T uesday •iiiglU, window and floor fans liad en ni.' ailed and m.:re folding ciiairs added t(* ajcommodate a crovvd Oi ix^ople wtio almond fill- eil tile auditorium. Saturday" night will be Youth NigiK and young prvr'le \yill a- gain participate, as they did on 1 ut'sday night, in the st'rvices. Music wHl also bo “geared" to youth and a siKJcial program, “Aftiir Glow” after tlie .service al 9 p.m. will be for young people who will sit on tlie floor for a. special “hapi>oning’, said Sa'in Davis, youth director. Ft'U.ivving th#» ngular ‘^endic on Friday nigiit, (in' crii-:ade ati- dience will be invited to remain lor the showing (jf 45-miiuite films made by the Grusa<ie Team i SUCCUM3.: — DonaU Psftters-n, 4i‘, died Tnecday morning of a heart attack at his home. He had been in apparent good health. ' Attack Fata! To Patterson, 40 Donald Preston Patterson, -it), ai Onarga, Ill., Kings Mountain native. Cit'd 1 uesuay mornnig at his homo of a heart attack. II(‘ was the son of .Mr. and :\lrs. Lloyd Patterson of Kings Mi)un!a .M and was supinintejid- eni oi C Oi* M lilary .nxdcniy n; Onarga. .Surv iving, in a<l htion to his paients, aie his wife, .Mrs. PalrU'ia Cj<‘ i’alterson; two While in sem nery he was president of the Nhnth (’arollna .student organization. While a stiKlent at Gardm'r-Wel'h Alex ander was pix's dent cf the Hap- list otudent Union and also edi tor of the college newspai>cr, The Pilot. on ineir re.auK cvangei-sHc mis-I n - u i if • n si»n tu Israel. ' • on, .)otn oi the .horiL*; lun? crotn- Alexamler is the son of l\Ir. and Mrs. Charles .\lexander, of Kings Mountain and lie is mar ried to the former Diann*' Cope land O'f Suffolk Virginia. He was mrdained to the ministry by lii»^ Fh’st Ha])list Church, Kings .Mountain. While in seminary he served at two churches as youth diix’cfor and din/ng the summer of 1971 was the youth director and asso ciate mini.stert at First Baptis church. Kings Mountain. He also served one summer as minister of music as minister of music and education at Highland Park Soeoml Baptist church, Louisville, Kentucky. GOSPEI. SING A Gospel singing will be held at Westovw Baptist church. July 28 at 7:30. The gBOut.'s for the program will be The'^Am- baAsadors and The Fred Will iams Singers. Rev. Win.ston Pike, choir direct- .rr, nvites pers.>ns who want ru join the choir to meet him at the Community Center at 6:45 p.m. for rehcaj.sal. .Men of tiu* c:;niinunity aix' also serving as usliers and otlier pople are v:l- unleering h^ir duly in tJie nurs ery and a.s coun.selors. A hirge crowd of p('(;ple madi* “decisions for (.'lirist” at the 'luesday niglit service. PhiljM)! Crusades ajo uolcdijr tJieii beautiful music programs and Kings .Mountain’s is no ex ception. “Tlie P'ishermen'', a frin of men’s voiei's, add to the sc'rv- ice nightly aiul Kev. Win.ston Pike directs the local choirs in special music. Dr. Charle.s Edwards, pastor of Boyce Memcrial ARI’ churcli and past presidtmt of the sponsoring K i ngs M(; u n I a i n M i n i st or ia 1 As • sok’ialion, before the crusade au dience Tuesday, comnunide; Kings Mountain ministers and the eomimuiiily for “tlie inagi'.iD- cent work they had do*ne in bringing the Pliil{)ol Crusa<!e to Kings Mountain.” Dr. Kdwards said “tlie spirit of cixjjx'ration in tliiis town is iu.st wonderful and caiii l be beat.” Dr. Phi'lpot, celebrating on Tue'-day ill; .'Hrd wedding anni- vorsarv, uses many illu.slrations irtim his own life and ex'i>ori- entx's of “eoinx'rt.s" in hi.s .ser mons nightly. He doesn’t spt'a^ fmm nortes. Eddie Mason, 17, Loses Right Arm In Cardroom Injury Monday Night Eddie Mason, 17-yoar-old son of Mrs. Ellen Mason of 5170 Mid pines, remtiins in “g<x)(l” condi tion at Kings Mountain haspital following a freak accident Mon day night at Mauney Mills. According to George H. Mau ney, Jr. young Mason ajpparenMy reached under the guards of a card machine and became caught. The maichine pulled ius arm further into the machine and si'vered it between the shoulder and elbow. The Kings Mountain Rescue Squad wa.s callcxl to the scone and freed Mason from the ma chine. The aiccident occurred about 8:30 p.m. 'Mason has been employed at Mauney Mills five months.- On Historical Association Tour The George Stewart home, I con<litkmed bu.sses witli a total New Walkway Phase Scheduled The second part of the peries- trian walkway system in the downtown area redevelopment progran will begin, within a director of the Kings Mountain I Stewart Home and Goforth Cabin Redevelopment (X)mmission. A 2t)-f<Md walkway jx'rmitting access from the rear of stores on Battleground avenue to the front is 'planm^d and it will be in the same stylo as the first walkway pro.lert, the Senor Citizens Park on Mountain street, said M’hite. Construction lime has ibe<'n es timated at three months or less. Kelly Dixon is project superin tendent an I CraMford 'Murphy of Shelby, who planned the mini park, is also architect for the second project. The walkway, when completed, will permit podcstr an access cast and west to the downtown shop ping-district and a third walkway with north-south fie(vss will fol low, said White. A total of twenty families have been relocated thus far in the Cansler street urban renewal project, I'cports White. He esti mated ihat construction would begin in the s'te area in about six months. Cleveland County’s oldest resi dence built in 1781, the Kivg-H Mountain BiUllogroiind Park, and tlic Preston Goforth log cabin and remotcTy of the Revoluitiion- ary War era are among stops on the Cleveland Oninty Historical Associatic<n’s annual tour of his torical pla'ces in the county Wednesday. Logs for the Stewart home in the Dixon community were be ing cut on Oetniber 1780, date of the Rtn’olutionary War Battl(' of Kings Mountain. The two-sUoiy two-room cabin was built by John Wells in 1781. The original chim ney still stands. A maple tree in the yard is more than 150 years old. The tour will begin at Shelby City Park at 1:30 p.m. Three air- i are scheduled. eapaoity of about 120 jx*rsons have been chartenMl for the t.nir. Otlier places to be visiilod in No. 4 Township include the Sul phur Springs Road area, Plea.^ant Hill church <rt>ad area, William Graham marker, silos in and a- round Grover, the graveside ol CtJ. Frederick Hambright at the Military Park, and the welcome station on 1-85, returning to City Park in Shelby about 6 p.m. Reservations will be made on a first call, first served basis. Those wLshing partik’ipate need not be a member (rf the Historical As«ociatiori and .slioiild call 487- 7595 or 482-3971 for re.servadions. A charge of $1 p<*r person will ho made to defray asstx’iation oxtH nscs, Rest stop.s and refresh men tl <u*, Gene Baiteuon of Kings Mountain; and one sisl-»r. Airs. Lz.'c Tingrct oi Denver, Colo. j he i .iKcison iion.i> loit as >oon as IlK'y \vcr<‘ notilicd of Ins death to go to D! nois. Funeral will lx? at 10 o'clock Friday ui unin.L; at Onarga Moth- lalist ciiurcli. liuriiil will be at I OrlanJ, Ind. Kna]>p Funeral Home is in charge of arrange- - inonls. Ernest Dixon s Rites Friday Fuiunal rites for William Ern est Dixon, 85, vvlic died Wednes day niurning in Cleveland Mem- )rlal liospital, will be ct)ndulcted Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. from iiethk'lum Baptist church of which he was a member. His pastor, Rev. Ku.ssciU Fitts, a.ssislt'd by Kev. Jamt's Graiiam, will i.diiciale at the final rites, and interment will be in Beth- lelu’in renu'tery. The family will nxeive friends t(xiay from 7 until 9 p.m. at Harris Funeral Home where tht' botly will lie in state until 3.30 j.-.m. Friday. Air. Dixon iiad been in ill Iiealth for several months and ill declining he'alth for several y<*ars. He was a retired farmer, native ol Cleveland Ccuntv. son of the late Air. and Mrs. William Dixon. His wife. I)e-.sie Blanche St(*vvart Dixon, died in 1961. Surviving are two sons, Boyce Dixon (rf B( linoiil and Robeiit Dix on oi Charlotte; throe daughter::, Mrs. (.k'orge Forteni)erry of Grov er and .Mis.s Oveda Di.xon and Ali.ss Alary Dixon, both of King.s Alounlain; one sister. Airs. Lola Bridgonian of King.s Mountain; 17 grandcliildren and six great- grandcliildien. City Commission To Meet Monday The city board of eommis'don ers will meet Alonday night at 7:30. Ivvo public hearings on .street improvement.s ass<'s. meat.: arc on tlio agenda D r S:*olland Drive, bet'Wc'en Soulhwood and Lee street, and CluMdes StnH't. Vem York road to prescnil ixiving. MOVED R<bert Ruff, lioqntaliztHi at Kings Mountain hospital the past several vvcek.s with a lung ailment, ha.s btvn moved into a private nx)m, in No. 141. H« iii allowed visitors.