\ At JHM Reservoir Land For Park May Be Sought Followinga tourof the John Henry Moss Reservoir Saturday by the Kings Mountain Lake Authority, Mayor John H, Moss suggested application be made to the Federal government for grants to purchase additional land for a municipal park at the reservoir. Moss also suggested the southeast side of the lake where the city already owns some property would be the ideal location for additional aquisitions. On this property the NC Wildlife Commission has suggested the establishment of a small game preserve and a duck hun ting region. This suggestion came, according to Moss, after the com mission discovered the variety of migratory ducks found at the lake each day. The Commission reported finding 300 to 400 mallard, canvas back, pin tail and other varieties. The mayor suggested to the authority that the two northern tips of the lake could be flooded each fall as shallow water feeding areas to attract the ducks. Flooding the areas, according to Moss, could be done easily by plugging up cluverts where the tips of the lake pass under the roads. Since the city owns eight vertical feet above the normal level of the lake, flooding would take place within city property which, in flat areas, is 200 horizontal feet or more from the normal lake shore. “Silt is a problem at the lake.” Moss told the authority, “most of it coming from the grubbed areas within lake boundaries.” Moss suggested the county commissioners adopt an erosion policy around the lake to take care of this problem. Tbe authority also noted it has received a letter of petition from property owners in the Jean Schenck and Carl Spangler developments objecting to a private, cluster-type marina which they say is proposed for the Schenck development. Such a marina, according to the petition, would cut off access to their property. Signatories on the petiton are Carl M. Spangler. John L. Hawkins, Jacks Morgan. Lamar L. Young, Ed Young, Charles D. Forney Jr., Jack Palmer Jr., Ernest Rogers. Joe C. Grigg and W. Scott Todd. Consideration was given to making the lakeside A.B. Cline house, owned by thecity, the lake manger's residence; and the authority agreed to obtain fee schedules from other lakes to be used as guidelines in establishing lake use fees .at the Moss Reservoir. Tom Cox of Charlotte was hired as contulting engineer to design uniform piers which could be allowed at private lots on the lake. Cox's earlier suggestion was to limit concrete structures to no more than 20 feet and allow no overnight boat storage facilities at the piers. I* mi 0 /VL Y '7Kinnigu at City Seivice i>i Kings Minn’tain (ells the story as the energy crisis continues. V, hile the local Exxon station sells gas for emergency use only, several other stations are limiting purchases. SPO Pauses Resolution KMHS Students Plan Car Pool Formation By JOHN McGILL Special To The Mirror The Kings Mountain high Student Participation Organization (SPO) Senate has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the formation of student car pools during the current energy crisis and gasoline shortage. The Senate’s resolution was also passed by the SPO House of Representatives. SPO President John Plonk opened the discussion on car pools in a meeting last week. He named himself, Nancy Hord, Ken'Farias and John McGill to a committee for the job of sc'ttingupa street-by-street listing of all KMHS students. “This directory would inform students of other students living near them so they can ride to school together,” President Plonk said. The plan is expected to be put into effect in the immediate future.” Murder Suspects Nabbed By KMPD Kings Mountain policemen arrested a Gastonia man Saturday night here on a capias and the man was later charged in the murder of Miss Pearl Henderson of Gastonia. Miss Henderson, an 84-year old retired school teacher was shot to death in her sleep last week in her home. The home had been ransacked and telephone wire had been severed. The chain of events began Saturday when the KMPD was alerted by Gaston authorities that a suspect, Johnny H. Boyd, 34, of Union Rd. in Gaston County was in the Kings Mountain area. Boyd also had a capias instanter outstanding on him. Chief Tom McDevitt was called at his home by one of his officers who told him they had received a call from a woman who told them Boyd was at a local apartment complex. The caller said Boyd was with a woman and tlut both were armed McDevitt, Lt. J.D. Barrett, PtI. Julius Burton, Ptl. Robert D(xlge, Ptl. Bynum Cook and Ptl. Richard Reynolds went to the apartments in unmarked cars. McDevitt said he knocked on the door of apartment No.48, where Boyd was sup posedly hidden, and it was locked. Ptl. Dodge secured a key from the tenant of the apartment who had left b^ause, as the chief said, “she was afraid of the pair”. McDevitt said he knocked on the door again and he “heard some commotion going on inside the apartment and the door began to ease open”. He stated Katherine Brown came to the door and he asked her if Boy d was in the apartment. She said no and McDevitt obtained permission from the owner of the apart ment to search the premises. The chief went on to say the officers searched the down stairs area of the apartment (See MURDER p.2A) The commissi(xier said when he worked in the water plant he answered the phone one day as the Buffalo Treatment Plant He said the caller had been Mayor Moss who instructed him to call it the Kings Mountain Water Facility. “If that’s what we have called it, why not have it die Kings Mountain Lake?” Commissioner of Ward One, Ray Cline, who was on the board when the reservoir was named for Moss, told Davis, “we already have two lakes named Kings Mountain Lake so I move we keep the name the John H. Moss Reservoir.” The motion was seconded by Ward Five commissioner Jim Amos. On a vote, Cline, Amos and Corbet Nicholson voted to keep the name with Davis, Don McAbeeand M.C. Pruette voting to change the name A discussion was opened for the audience and Ollie Harris, acting as liason between the KM Chamber of Commerce and the cify board said, “I was asked by chamber president Dr. Frank Sincox to address the board on the matter.” Harris said the Chamber had gone on record, unanimously, to keep the lake name as the John H. Moss Reservoir. Commissioner Pruette stated, “1 see no significance in the lake’s name but I have been approached by some businessmen and in dustrialists who might be enticed to coming into the area. They harbcred no malice towards the maycx' but felt economic growth could be had better by having the lake known as Kings Mountain Lake.” Pruette added he didn't know if such a premise could be proved but “felt 1 should bring the idea before the board.” Don McAbee of Ward Four asked if the matter could be brought before the people in an election. Attorney for the city, Jack White answered in the positive and said “the city would have to bear the expense of such an election.” Commissioner Amos stated, “we have industry here now and can get more when we are able to supply the labor. Labor is our problem n >w. vt e nave grt .vth, and ac\^uau ; elec tricity but we don’t have Sheriffs Commissioner Allen, Rucker File To Seek Reelection Sheriff Haywood Allen and County Commissioner Phil Rucker have filed to seek ree lection. Allen has served as Cleveland County’s chief law enforcement officer for the past 23 years, going into office in 1950 as chief deputy. Prior to his county office, Allen was an officer on the Kings Mountain Police Department. He is married to the former Majel Stewart and has three children. Allen, to date, is unopposed in the May Democratic primary. Rucker, completing his first four-year term on the county commission, is the second man to file for reelection. The first was C.M. Peeler Jr., a Shelby businessman. A grading contractor and cattle farmer, Rucker is a native of Cleveland County. He is a Korean War veteran having served in the US Air Force. He is a member of the American Legion, VFW, Elks Lodge and is director of the Virginia-Carolina Charolais Association. He is a member of Central United Methodist Church. Married to the former Carolyn Webb, he is the father ol four sons. Following his filing for reelection, Rucker com mented,”! felt it a privilege to have served the fine people of Cleveland County in the very important position of county commissioner. 1 would like to serve for another term and will continue to seek progress in the Icxal county govern ment as long as it can be done on a low, sound tax rate.” On Centennial Planning Public Meeting By TOM McIntyre Editor, The Mirror The Kings Mountain Cen tennial Commission has a public meeting planned for Tues., Feb. 12, one day after the celebration of the city’s 100th birthday. This meeting, to begin at 7:30 'p.m. at a to-be-announced location, will spell the difference between whether the first cen tury celebration is to be com pletely coordinated locally or by Tlie Rodgers Co., a 71-year old firm based in Fostoria, Ohio. In a special meeting last TTiursday. night Rogers field representative Robert Howett told members of the commission that his firm is the only business of its type in the country and that the firm's sole efforts are con centrated on developing and managing celebrations of the type planned here. Howett asked for meeting if he was return with a budget (and he the public invited to proposal and was asked to BOB HOWETT .