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VOLUME 93 - NUMBER 67 - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23,1980 - KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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Mauney Is Charged
In Shooting Of KM Cop
Preliminary hearing for Ernest
Mauney, 45, charged with
assault with intent to kill inflic
ting serious bodily injury in the
shooting of Kings Mountain
Police Sgt. Johnny Belk, has
been set for Nov. 6 in Cleveland
County District Court.
Mauney remains in Cleveland
County jail in lieu of $20,000
bond.
The former Kings Mountain
resident was arrested in
Blacksburg, S.C. Monday night
by Cherokee County sheriffs
deputies on a warrant issued in
Cleveland County. Mauney
waived extradition from South
Carolina and was returned to
Cleveland County by Det. Sgt.
Richard Reynolds of the Kings
Mountain Police Department
and SB] Agent James C.
Woodard.
Sgt. Reynolds said the anest is
the result of intensive investiga
tion by Kings Mountain Police
Department and SBl and follow
ing completed lab analysis of
evidence done by both the SBI
Shields Resigns
Junior High Job
Gary Shields, assistant prin
cipal at Kings Mountain Junior
High for the past five years, has
resigned effective Friday to
return to his native Macon
County as a school ad
ministrator.
Shields’ appointment as a
counselor at Nanatahala High
School was approved Monday
night at a meeting of the Macon
County Board of Education.
Shields cited the opportunity
to work with a K-12 program
and the opportunity to return to
liBlimnllf a> the main reasons for
leaving Kings Mountain.
“I regret leaving here,” he
said. “Kings Mountain has a fine
system and I feel like I’m leaving
some of the finest students in
North Carolina. I hope I meet
the same thing where I’m going.”
Shields, who worked eight
years in the local school system,
said he will work with programs
in all levels from kindergarten
through 12th grade.
Macon County has three high
schools, seven elementary
schools and one middle school.
“1 will become familiar with
all the K-S reading and testing
programs, and those are areas 1
am not familiar with,” Shields
said, “it will be a challenge to
look forward to.
“I’m going to get to know
everything there is to know,” he
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went on. “'That’s really what is
fantastic about it. I feel like lear
ning the curriculum at all levels
will make me more able to take
an administrative post in the
high school, junior high, middle
school or elementary level.”
Shields said he will also do
some “minor” farming with his
father, who recently retired and
operates a small farm in Macon
County.
Shields came to Kings Moun
tain in 1973 and taught at
KMHS, West and Central before
earning the assistant principal’s
position at the junior high.
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and FBI following a gunfight at
a Kings Mountain housing com
plex July 7th in which four men
were injured and a woman was
killed.
Charged in the shooting death
of Ernestine Mauney, 22,
daughter of Ernest Mauney, was
a man identified as a friend of
the family, Henry Boone, 33, of
Forest City. No date has been
set for his trial on charges of se
cond degree murder in Oeveland
County Superior Court.
Sgt. Belk was hospitalized 12
days and out of work seven
weeks. Although back at his job,
he is still undergoing medical
treatment. He had approximate
ly 75 shotgun pellets in his legs.
The July 7th gun battle ap
parently began as a feud bet
ween a white family and a black
family living at Chesterfield
Court. Belk, city officers Gary
Sale and Billy Benton responded
to the shootout but were pinned
down by gunfire.
Burris Killed
On Wednesday
A 36-year-old Kings Moun
tain man was struck and killed
by a hit and run driver Wednes
day morning as he was walking
to a service station to get gas.
Jerold Burris, of Pine Manor
Apartments, was knocked by a
vehicle 60 feet, according to^
vestigating Highway PtI. Oa)il
Thomas, as Burris and Samuel
Whitworth, also of Kings Moun
tain, walked along the service
road adjacent to U.S. 74 east of
Shelby near the Highway Patrol
Station.
According to Whitworth, the
Burris car was out of gasoline
and the two men were walking
to a nearby service station when
the accident occurred at 6:15
a.m. The service road is not
heavily traveled, according to
the investigating officer, who ad
ded that “whoever hit the man
had to know that he hit him but
was probably in a hurry to get to
work and did not think anyone
would be walking at that time of
morning on the service road.”
The victim was struck from
behind, accoding to the officer.
Burris was employed at Esther
Mills in Shelby.
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BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MEETING-Moro
than 350 "mogsongors" ropreoonting 70 Baptist
churchos in tho KM Baptist JUsociation
gathorod ior a two day mooting this wook at
Pattorson Grovo Baptist Church. Front row.
from loft, loo Cabaniss, clork-treasuror;
Marion Adorns, vico modorator; Dan Jolly,
modorator; Back row, Richard Plylor, pastor oi
tho host church, and Clino Bordors. diroctor oi
missions.
Jolly Challenges Baptists
To Begin Witnessing Locally
Rev. Dan Jolly, Moderator of
the Kings Mountain Baptist
Association and pastor of Zoar
Baptist Church of Shelby,
|ljpllenged 350-plus Baptist
“messengers” representing 70
churches to “begin in the local
"church as a witness to the un
churched.”
Mr. Jolly was the keynote
speaker at the opening of the
130th annual session of the
Association Tuesday afternoon
at Patterson Grove Baptist
Church.
The “messengers” were con
cluding their meeting Wednes
day with the election of new of
ficers.
“We need to look again at our
stewardship and at ourselves,”
said the minister, “and give all
we have to spread the Kingdom
of God.”
Moderator Jolly commended
the churches for their active in
volvement in social ministries
and in its missions program,
noting that he was elated that
work at the local prison camp
has increased over the year with
regular meetings of Yokefellow
Ministry every other Tuesday
and assistance with church
groups of volunteers. A
Ministers Day in Court was also
instituted this year in a highly
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Raise Funds
For UNICEF
Young people of Central
United Methodist Church will
be trick or treating for UNICEF,
the United Nations Children’s
Fund, on Sunday afternoon.
The Kings Mountain youth
will be knocking on doors in the
residential areas to solicit funds
to help needy children of the
world. Today in over 100
developing countries, the
Children’s Fund is helping
governments plan and establish
programs in the fields of nutri
tion, health, education and social
welfare.
The United Nation’s
Children’s Fund, unique among
the organizations of the United
Nations system, concerns itself
exclusively with the needs and
problems of the world’s children.
KIWANIS CLUB
Charles Chivers will be guest
speaker on the topic, “Gaston
County Crime Prevention Unit”
at Thursday’s Kiwanis Club
meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the
Woman’s Club.
successful Juvenile Court
Ministry, he said, and Family
Life conferences were well at
tended, among other activities.
It was an historic moment for
the association, according to
platform speakers, when the
group gathered recently for the
associational site groundbreak
ing for a new building. Rev.
Cline Borders, Director of Mis
sions, said that Kings Mountain
Baptist Association has turned
many corners in an expanded
ministry during the past year.
‘With oneness of spirit we can
achieve many things for the
Lord and more in the coming
years,” said Moderator Jolly.
The 40 Baptist churches in the
Kings Mountain area were host
for a barbecue supper catered by
Port-A-Pig Barbecue of Lat-
timore on the churqh grounds
after the afternoon session.
Rev. Cline Borders gave a
report on missions to highlight
the evening session Tuesday and
Rev. Richard Plyler, general
chairman of the building fund,
gave a report.
Rev. Borders cited the
Mission-Vacation Tour to
Nashville, Tenn. as a new step
for the Association and one that
“we feel was highly successful
with a total of 87 attending from
22 churches.” Borders said that
he had questioned a report on
the Baptist State Convention
concerning the length of pastors
to the churches and felt that the
repiort average does not reflect
pastor-church relations in the
Kings Mountain Association.
He said he conducted a study of
pastoral tenure in the association
covering a 40 year span and the
church having the longest tenure
averaged 17 years, nine months
while the associational average
was five years, two months. “1
want to urge that we all join
together in seeking longer tenure
that is characterized by a healthy
relationship, spiritual develop
ment and aggressive, realistic
outreach,” he added.
The 70 churches reported
membership of 28,208 with 608
baptisms during the year and
788 additions. Sunday School
enrollment was reported at
17,679 and grand total mission
expenditure of $1,068,763.00
with total receipts of
$5,743,098.00. The number of
tithers was reported to be 4,003
and the value of church property
at $29,185,494.00. Vacation
church school enrollment topped
6,502 during the year and
church training enrollment
numbered 3,804.
James Watson To Speak
At KM Rotary Club Meeting
James H. Watson, Head
master at Patterson School in
Lenoir, will be guest speaker at
Thursday’s meeting of the Kings
Mountain Rotary Club at 12
noon at the KM Country Club.
Mr. Watson will speak on a
program arranged by Thomas L.
Trott, an alumnus of the school.
Born in Kingsport, Tenn., Mr.
Watson attended Marion
Military Academy and obtained
his B.S. and Master’s degrees
from the University of Alabama
and completed graduate work at
Appalachian State University.
He was formerly on the staff of
Carlisle Military Academy and
before that worked in
Washington, D.C. for Senator
Armisted Seldon of Alabama.
Watson jointed Patterson
School in 1976 and during the
past four years has seen many
improvements in the traditional
accredited Episcopal College
Preparatory School on Route 5,
Lenoir.
Patterson’s Headmaster is
chairman of a committee of the
Office of Non-Public Education,
a branch of the Governor’s of
fice.
The Patterson School was
JAMES H. WATSON
founded in 1909 through the
generosity of Samuel Legerwood
Patterson, to the Episcopal
Church for the establishment of
a residential preparatory school
for boys. Today, the student
body is composed of boarding
boys and co-ed day students in
grades 7-12 who come from the
U.S. and many foreign countries.