Population
Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 7,206
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YOL 70 No. 27
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 9, 1959
Seventieth Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
City Board Tentatively Sets $621,938 Budget
Local News
Bulletins
POSTPONED
The Adult Fellowship sup
per, scheduled for Thursday
by Central Methodist church,
has been postponed due Ito the
illness of the Class President
Floyd Payne, ait whose home
the class was to meet Thurs
day evening.
COURT OF HONOR
Court oil Honor for Kings
Mounaitin District Boy Scouts
will be held at Central Metho
dist church Thursday night at
7:45 p. m. Scout leaders round
tables are held at Shelby on
the first Monday of each mon
th or at Gastonia on the sec
ond Monday of each month.
ON HONOR ROLL
Miss Martha Ann Baker,
Miss Nancy BeU, and Douglas
Elmore were among area stu
dents listed on the honor roll
for the spring term at Appa
lachian State Teacher’s college
at Boone. These Students
maintained a “B” or higher
scholastic average.
ON DEAN'S LIST
Stephen Edward Kesler, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L.
Kesler, was listed on the
Dean’s list for the spring sem
ester at the University of N.
C., Chapel Hill. Students must
maintain all B grades or bet
ter to qualify for the Dean’s
list. Mr. Kesler is a sophomore.
LODGE meeting
Regular communication of
Tairview Lodge 339 AFT&AM
will be held Monday night at
7:30 p. m. at Masonic Hall, ac
cording to announcement by
T. D. Tindall, secretary.
KIWANIS CLUB
Rev. M. D. DuBose, Jr., pas
tor of Rings Mountain Baptislt
church, will address Kings
Mountain Kiwanians at their
regular Thursday night meet
ing. The club convenes at 6:45
p. m. at the Woman’s club.
Funds Needed
To finance Band
Kings Mountain High School’s
Band needs funds to operate the
band program again this year,
Sam Weir, Jr., president of the
Kings Mountain Band Booster
Club pointed out this week.
The budget includes $786 for
new instruments, $1,495 for trips,
$750 for band uniforms, $1,000
for instrument repair and re.
placement, and $150 for music.
"You can see that it is a vig
orous and ambitious undertak
ing for the Kings Mountain Band
Booster Club,” Mr. Weir said. "It
cannot be met through the ef
forts of the Booster Club and the
band parents alone. We need
your support to once again place
the band where it belongs in the
community.”
Early contacts are being made
for donation by the club so pri
vate citizens, businesses, and in
dustrial firms may budget their
donations for the fiscal year
which begins in July.
Donations may be sent to Mrs.
Wanza Y. Davis, Treasurer of the
Kings Mountain Band Booster
Club, in care of the Kings Moun
tain City Schools.
If it would be more convenient,
donors will be contacted during
the band drive this fall.
The Booster Club will meet July
20 and the public is cordially in
vited to attend. “We want to put
Kings Mountain band back be
fore the public eye where it be
InnuR ** Mr W<*ir said
Yost To Speak
To Lutherans
Rev. John L- Yost, Jr., pastor
of Hickory's Holy Trinity Luther
lan church, will HU the pulpit Sun
day at St. Matthew’s Lutheran
church.
X>r. and Mrs. W. P. Gerberdtng
and family are expected home
Itom their vacation nhxt week.
Mr. Yost will deliver the ser
mon at the 10 a. m. morning war
ship hour.
Series Count Is 2-2; Juniors
Were At Newton Wednesday
I
aeries rotate
Sudden Death
Game For Both
BY NEALE PATRICK
Coach Fred Withers played a
long shot in Newton Tuesday
night . . . and he was Wright.
The Kings Mt. junior mentor
by.passed his ace, Bobby Biddix,
for the important must game pit
ching chores and instead nomi
nated Jerry Wright who had
been baitted out of the box in
two previous starts in the series.
The gamble paid-off as Jerry
turned in probably his best pit
ching performance of the sea
son, stopping Newton, 6-2, on
five hits to square the best-of
five series at two victories each.
The same two club were due to
go back to Newton for the sud.
den-death fifth game Wednes
day night, with Biddix getting
the pitching assignment in this
one.
Newton won the flip of t the
coin as the site of the fifth' ga
me. The Otis D. Green Post will
split the net gate receipts at the
game.
Wright had been pounded off
the hill in each of the two pre
vious games of the set, lasting
less than two innings in the e
ventual KM. win last Saturday
night, and lesis than three fram
es in the loss here Monday
night.
But it was a different’ story
Tuesday.
The Kings Mountain high pro
duct was “sharp” as they say in
the pitching trade. He allowed
only five hits, only two through
the first six innings while his
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Catholics Set
Sunday Mass
Kings Mountain Catholics will
unite to participate in the Holy
sacrifice of the Mass at the A
merucan Legion Hut this Sunday.
The mass, which is the second
Sunday gathering for the congre
gation, will ibe held at 9 a. m. Fa
ther Clements invites all parish
ioners and visitors to join in the
responses of the recited Mass.
The scripture readings will be
from St. Paul’s letter to the Ro
mans, eighth chapter, and from
St. Luke 16.
Privilege License
Purchases $1956
City privilege license pur
chases totaled $1956 through
Tuesday.
The total of purchases was
described as “satisfactory” by
city officials, who anticipate
this income category will re
turn $5500 to city coffers dur
ing the fiscal year just start
ed.
Old licenses expired June 30
and state law requires new lic
enses be purchased during the
month of July. Penalties ap
ply after July 31.
Marshall Gore's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Marshall
Clay Gore, 49, Kings Mountain
service station owner, were held
Tuesday afternoon at Macedonia
Baptist church.
Mr. Gore succumbed at Uni
versity of Pennsylvania hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa.
He had undergone a heart op
eration on June 24 and the oper
ation had been pronounced suc
cessful to the point that Mr. Gore
had expected to return home this
week. Death was attributed to a
massive blood clot.
Mr. Gore’s heart ailment had
been diagnosed as a partial
blockage of the aortic valve. The
Philadelphia surgeons had em
ployed the heart-lung machine
in eliminating the blockage.
Mr. Gore was a native of Gas
ton county. He was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C.
Gore, and a member of Macedon
ia Baptist church.
Survivinig are his wife, Mrs.
Georgia Pressley Gore, a son
Marshall Gore, Jr., and a brother,
Rev. E. O. Gore, of Vilas.
The final rites were conducted
by Rev. T. A. Lineberger, the
pastor, and Rev. Richard Spen
cer. Burial was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Boyd
Montgomery, of Grover, and Cly
de Kerns, John L. McGill, Clyde
Whetstine, Paul Mullis and Wil
bur Smith, all of Kings Moun
tain.
Highway Projects Produce Upsets;
U. S. 74 Project Is No Exception
BY MARTIN HARMON
Highway changes Wave long
caused property - Owner upsets,
[both pro land con, and the pro
posal concerning U. S. Highway
74 through Kings Mountain, bet
ter known as King street, is no
exception.
Some citizens along the pres
ent route were over-joyed by Ithe
action of the State Highway and
Public Works commission in com
mitting funds for a U. S. 74 by
pass of Kings Mountain.
These samfe citizens were less
haippy When W. F. IBabcock, di
rector of the commission, said no
plans are “finalized” and that fi
nal determination would await
results of aerial and engineering
surveys.
Conversely, others, principally
Commercial interests along King
'street as wtell as other citizens
who feel traffic is Important to
the economic welfare of the city,
were quite unhappy at the talk
of by-passing with U. S. 74, just
as they had been pleased several
months ago when E. L. Kemper,
division engineer, recommended
the widening of King street to
make lit a boulevard twin to Gas
tonia’s Franklin avenue.
The Herald learned Wednesday
that some citizens opposing the
widening of King are planning to
circulate a petition opposing the
widening of King.
Principal opponents to the wi
dening of King are King street
citizens with short draft front
yards, venerable trees which
wotfld be cut on a 36-fbat widen
ing, and others who have valua
ble residential properties.
But these aren't all.
One proponent of the King wi
dening, remariced recently, “I be
hove every member of the First
i
Presbyterian Church opposes the
widening.” It was a statement
inferentially oomfirmed last week
by Dr. Paul Ausley, the pastor,
Who remarked that he certainly
wanted to be present, if and when
Mr. Babcock and other highway
officials come here for a discus
sion on the U. S. 74 matter.
Conversely, many Of the First
Presbyterian church's religious
kinfolk, members Of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church,
prefer the Widening of King.
It will damage the ARP property
much more than that of First
Presbyterian. But the AiRP’s rea
son that the widening will speed
ARP plans for building a new
church plant on property recent
ly purchased.
Director Babcock has said he
would be delighted to discuss the
problem with Kings Mountain
citizens as quickly as some infor
mation is in hand, meaning sur
| vey results.
Engineer Kemper thinks King
| street the most direct link be
tween the four-lane boulevard
j which is U. S. 74 East and the
four-lane boulevard which is U.
S. 74 West. He has pointed to the
fact of mineral deposits both
north and south Of Kings Moun
; tain as a bar to right-of-way ac
quisition for a by-pass without
the city limits. He guesses that
right-of-way cost for the widen
:ing of King wonild be leas thar
for a by-pass and that construe
tkwi coats would 'be cheaper, too.
He has also suggested that Kings
Mountain needs one “decent”
city street, sufficiently wide to
accommodate modem traffic.
Major Glee A. Bridges profes
ses neutrality on the issue, ac
knowledging he has friends on
both aides of the qubst&m.
Recreation
Finally Gets
Meter Receipts
The City recreation commission
finallily gets the financial bonanza
several recreation commissions
have been seeking for years.
Omitted from the tentative bud
get of the city for 1959-60 is an
ticipated income from parking
meters.
Monday night, the commission
willed the parking/meter business
to the commission, which should
mean about $7,000 per year, or
more, in gross revenue.
The gross, however, won’t com
pare with the more important
"net” figure.
When 'the commission “willed”
i the meter take to the recreation
group, it also bequeathed the
commission responsibility for su
perintending the meters, keeping
them in good repair, and other
responsibilities attendant there
to.
Aureaay, me commiissioii nas
employed Roger Blackwell to
serve as meter-man for 'the re
mainder of the summer. It antic
ipates that the recreation direc
ar will double in brass during the
winter months as meter man.
Even with repairs to meters
j and expense of paying the meter
; man, the recreation commission
S thinks itf'U net about $3,000 or
more -per year from this source.
Only other revenues a,re derived
from ad valorem taxes ($4700 last
year) and from swimming fees.
In -a good weather year, the Deal
street pool returns a profit. Last
year it didn’t. The Davidson pool,
up to this year a consistent mon
ey loser, has been leased for the
current 'season.
It was about ten years ago that
the General Assembly passed a
law enabling the city to devote
its parking meter receipts for
public recreation. Every recrea
tion commission since has made
an annual plea for the parking
meter net.
The pleas were to no avail as
the answer always came back,
“We need the money for other
purposes.”
Wednesday the recreation com
mission got its first report. For
the week ending Wednesday at
noon, the parking meter take
from on-street, meters was $109.
18. In addition, the commission
will get 10 percent Of the $20.80
take from off-street meters on the
Cherokee Street lot. The ten per
cent is all the city has been get
ting, as 40 -percent of the total
has been 'going to the meter com
pany to pay for thfe meters, in
stalled in 1955, and the other half
to the property owners as rent.
!. 0. Pruitt
Dies Suddenly
James Odell Pruitt, 49, virtual
ly a lifelong Kings Mountain re
sident, died Wednesday morn
ing of a heart attack art his home
at 208 Fairview Street.
Mr. Pruitt had been in appar
ent good health.
Mr. Pruitt was an employee of
Carlon division of Carlton Mills
art Crowder’s Mountain.
Bom in Cherokeee Falls, S. C„
he was a son of the larte Mr. and
Mrs. Isaiah Pruiftt. He was a
member of Chestnut Ridge Bap
tist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Alma Taite Pruitt, a son, Ken
neth Prultrt, and a daughter, Lily
Fay Pruitt, both of Kings Moun
tain, two brothers, L. C. Pruitt,
Kings (Mountain, and Opal Pruitt,
with the Air Force in Biloxi, Miss.,
and two sisters, Mrs. Norman
lAbernethy, Kings Mountain, and
Mrs. Luco Huffstettler, Shelby.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at 4 p. m. from Second
Baptist Church with Rev. Albert
Hastings officiating. He will be
assisted by Rev. Dale Thornburg
and Rev. C. C. Parker.
The body will lie In State at
the church from 3:30 p. m. until
4 p. m.
CAKE SALE
The Senior MYF of Central
Methodist church is holding a
cake sale in front of the Edu
cational Building on Piedmont
Ave. Saturday morning begin
ning at 9 o’clock.
School Merger:
Boards Didn't
Call On Connty
Nothing happened last Friday
concerning the proposed Number
4 Township school merger, as Die
county board of education held
its monthly session.
Hill Lowery, chairman of the
Bethware district committee,
said “No, we didn’t go. We didn’t
have anything to take before
them. I take it we’re going to
have to do some more checking
for about a month before we go
before the county bard.”
The several school committees
and boards involved, including
boards representing Compact,
Grover, Bethware, Park Grace
and Kings Mountain schools,
have agreed on a political ar
rangement for administration of
the merged district. The plan is
for an initial and temporary
board of nine members, five
from Kings Mountain and four
from currently outside areas,
with this number to be reduced
to five for a permanent arrange
ment, including three from pre
sent Kings Mountain district
boundaries and two from other
district areas.
The committees had also a
greed to hinge the vote on a con
current successful bond election
to provide funds to build a new
township high school. Herein,
the committees hit a snag.
J. R. Davis, Kings Mountain at.
torney, who is drawing the a
greements, said he conferred
with the attorney general’s of
fice and had been told the agree
ment on government was quite
| in order, but that his contention
; a valid bond election could not
be held in conjunction with the
merger election was correct. Mr.
Davis explained, and the attor
ney general concurred, that both
attorneys refuse to approve bond
elections until a government en
tity is definitely formed. In turn,
j investors won’t buy bonds with
out the approval of attorneys
j .specializing in bond issuance.
“There’s nothing to prevent a
, merger election,” Mr. Davis com
! mented, “but the bond election
for a new high school plant will
have to await the result of the
merger election.”
Union Service
At Presbyterian
Sunday night’s union service
will be held at First Presbyter
I ian church at 8 o’clock.
| Dr. Paul Ausley, the pastor
will deliver the message ait the
i evening hour.
I Congregations from six chur
ches in the community will join
in the summer schedule of union
services.
Long-Term Debt
Just 51,039,000
How does it feel to owe a
million dallars?
The City of Kings Mountain
will know next June 30, for
this year’s debt service pay
ment will reduce all of the
city’s bonded indebtedness to
the cool million figure.,
As of July 1, 1959, the city
owed $1,039,000 in long term
bonded debt. During the com
ing year the city will reduce
this debt exactly $39,000, in
! eluding $29,000 in general ob:
j ligations and $10,000 on the
city natural gas system. This
| year (marks the first payment
| on the $400,000 in revenue
j bonds the city issued to build
i its gas system. Only the gas
j system is security for the gas
| system bonds, but the “full
faith and credit” of the city is
pledged to assure payment of
the other bonds.
City Clerk Joe H. McDaniel,
Jr.,listed these bonds as out
standing on July’l, in addition
to the gas bonds: water and
sewer bonds $507,000; recre
ation bonds $130,000; street
bonds $2000.
The $2,000 in street bonds,
bearing interest at 1:75 per
cent, will be among the pay
ments (this year. It represents
final re payment otf monies
borrowed in 1946 for street im
provements.
The city's bond interest bill
j for the year just beginning
will be $33,005 less by $1672.
50 than last year’s interest
payments.
S & L Firms Plan
Dividend Increase
City Won't Cool
The City Cooler
It’s likely to be cooler, short
ly, at some spots in City Hall.
The city commission will re
ceive bids Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock for a partial air
conditioning system.
The proposed installation,
expected to cost about $3500,
won't be any help to the spec
tators at recorder’s court, for
the courtroom isn’t included
in the several rooms to be air
conditioned.
Malefactors will benefit on
ly slightly. Plans, drawn by
Charles Harrison, Gastonia en
gineer, donlt call for cooling
the city cooler. However, a city
official podnted out, a guy ar
rested in Kings Mountain dur
ing the summertime will have
the benefit of cooling temper
atures while he’s being booked
at the city police desk.
All offices are to be cooled,
including the office of the ma
yor, the city clerk, the tax col
lector, the police chief, the po
lice desk sergeant, and the gas
superintendent. Also on the
list for cooling: the mayoral
rest room.
Summer Bands
i . . • i
Plan Concerts
Mcm'bere of the City School's'[
summer band program will be
showing whait they have learn - i
ed shortly. The group, which
consists of two organizations, the
elementary band and the begin- ■
ner,s band, will give open air
concerts on July 16 and 23 res- j
pectively.
The concerts will be held at 7
p. m. on the front lawn of Cen
tral High school. There will be
no admission fee and the public
is invited.
Members of the elefnentary
band include: Susan Plonk,
flute; Lawrence Mauney, Lyn
Cheshire, and Kathy Martin,
clarinet, Spencer Moore, bass
clarinet; Mike Goforth and Jer
ry Ford, cornets; Danny Walker,
Buzzy Shuford and Eddie Glad
den, trombones; and Joan How
ard, percussion.
Those performing in the be
ginners band will be: Eleanor
Ware, Gail Heavner, flute; Bren
da Sumraitt, Lynda Mauney,
Marsha Ballance, clarinet; Mary
Ann Morrison, Mary Jo Hord, al
to clarinet; Wanda Adams, bass
clarinet; Erving Jones, Barbara
Plonk, James Flowers, Edwin
Ware, alto saxophone; Mike Al
brecht, Charles “Speedy” Ram
sey, Sandy Manuey, Leslie Joy,
Tony Alexander, comet; and
Gene Gann, trombone.
Films Anticipate
Four Percent
Annual Rate
Kings (Mountain's two saving:
and loan associations acted las'
Friday to boost their dividen<
payments on savings to four per
cent per year, an increase of one
half of one percent from the 3.i
percent the associations havi
paid since January 1,1957.
The resolutions of the tw<
boards of directors read that th<
firms "anticipate” paying divi
dends on savings at the Dccembe;
1959 dividend declaration.
lA. H. Patterson, secretary-treas
urer of Home Savings & Loan as
sociaJtion, and Ben H. Bridges, sec
retary-treasurer of Kings (Moun
tain Savings & iJoan association
noted that there is tittle doubt th<
directors wiHi declare dividends a.
'the four phroent rate.
They pointed out, however
that the State Commissioner ol
Insurance, which has supervisorj
jurisdiction over savings and loar
operations, frywns on firm dec
laraitionis on future dividends.
The local associations fallowed
quickly the action of Shelby as
sociations in making plans to uf
the dividend payments.
The increase stems largelj
from continued increase in charg
es for borrowing Which has seer
big city banks 'gradually increas
tag the “prime” rate fOr shorn
term credit to from 4. .to 4.5 per
cent. In turn, government bonds
have been ‘\stow” and, ‘in some
istanees are yielding Investors
four percent or better. (Meantime,
the federal government has in
creased the allowable Interest
rate chargeable on Veterans Ad
ministration guaranteed loans to
veterans to 5.25 percent. Presi
ident Eisenhower 'has asked Con
gress to raise the maximum pay
able on federal obligations.
Meantime, the two savings &
loan associations have just paid
record semi-annual dividends to
shareholders at the rate of 3.5
per cent per year.
Home Savings & Loan distri
buted $51,030.74 on June 30, in
cluding $24,954 to holders of op
tional savings accounts, and
$26,075 to holders of full-paid
shares.
Kings Mountain Savings &
Loan association distributed di
vidends totaling $42,972.76, in
cluding $20,982 to optional sav
ings acount holders and $21,989
to holders of full-paid shares.
A payment on savings ac
counts of approximately $9,500
to holders of First National Ba/ik
savings accounts upped the total
past the $100,000-mark for semi
annual dividends by Kings
Mountain financial firms.
The savings and loan total of
$94,003.50 compares with the
$87,373.96 the two firms paid
last December 31.
City Commits For Appropriation
Of $20,000 To Construct Armorv
The city board of commission
ers, at a brief special session
Tuesday afternoon, committed an
appropriation of $20,000 for die
building of a National Guard Ar
mory here.
The commission acted after
Capt. Humes Houston, command
ing officer of thfe Kings Mountain
national guard unit, Co. D, 105th
Engineers, told the board States
vide is getting 'an armory, though
it was previously below Kings
Mountain on the armory priority
list. He told the board that States
ville was escalated because local
appropriations had been made.
Under the armory building for
mula, cities, counties, state and
the federal government share in
costs Of the structure.
The city commission had one
"if” in the Tuesday appropria-'
tion. With a budget already form
ulated and reasonably tight, the
board said it would provide the
$20,000 city shsare provided it
could issue bonds for the purpose.
Herein, another legal formula is
involved. City (and county) gov
ernments can issue bonds, with
out a vote of citizens, up to two
thirds the amount of the previous
year’s net debt retirement, pro
vided enough citizens don’t form
ally Object. Under the formula
the Oity of Kings Mountain could
issue $20,000. in bonds during the
fiscal year, as the city’s net debt
retirement last year was $30,000.
Last time the city used this
formula for Issuing bonds was in
1950. The countty recently used
the same formula in issuing
slightly more than $100,000 in
school bonds.
The city commission indicated
intent to cooperate in the build
ing of an armory two years ago,
when a national guard official
came here to outline details of
the building formula.
It is also anticipated that the
county will cooperate. Mayor Glee
A. Bridges visited the commission
two years ago, and the county
board indicated it would endeav
or to do its part.
Capt. Houston said he had talk
ed with Fiitzhugh Rollins, county
board Chairman, Tuesday, and
that Mr. Rollins indicated the
county board would do its best
to participate.
Capt. Houston noted that Ma
jor Pegram, of Charlotte, battal
ion representative, was to be in
Raleigh Wednesday to discuss ar
mory projects with National
Guard officials.
Armories, while built for the
principal purpose of housing Na
tional Guard equipment and ser
ving as a training station of
Guardsmen, are available for
rent for public functions.
City Retaining
$1.50 Tax Rate;
Spending Down
BY MARTIN HARMON
The ciity board of commission
ers met briefly Monday night
and (tentatively adopted a $621,
938 budget for the 1959-60 fis
cal year.
Concurrently, the commission
tentatively set the tax rate at
$1.50 per 100 valuation, same
rate in force during the past
year. Of the (total five cents is
levied for recreational purposes,
j This year’s budget will be less
by $42,000 than that amount of
j money expended during the past
. year, when. City Clerk Joe Mc
. Daniels totals show, the city ex
; pended $663,005. Mr. McDaniel
, pointed out his totals are pre
liminary and subject to audit.
> Major cuts in the spending
: plan are for capital outlay, this
. year’s anticipated expenditure of
• $77,902 being some $32,000 less
than the $109,264 spent last year,
. and for streets, the $93,045 anti
. eipated expenditure for this year
being less by $16,000 than the a
moumt spent last year.
Otherwise, there are few and
1 only minor anticipated changes,
up or down, in anticipated spen
ding with the exception of the
electrical department. The elec
trical department's spending
budget of $169,285 is up $10,000,
most of the amount to go to
Duke Power Company for antld
pated increased purchases for
power.
Principal reason for the down
ward trend in expenditures,
board members have indicated,
is the lower cash-surplus carry
over from the past year. Mr. Mc
Daniel records the cash surplus
carryover at $24,388, down heav
ily from the $85,000 carryover
from fiscal 1958.
Debt service will cost the city
slightly less, at $48,942, compar
ed to $51,307 expended in fiscal
1959.
REVENUES
By fax .the largest source of
revenue, as usual, will be sale
of waiter and power, with power
! the major money item. Budgeted
for this year's income Is $340,000
from sale of water and power
which is the approximate figure
derived from these sales during
fiscal *59.
Next, again as usual, is 'the in
come from ad valorem taxes,
which, the commission estima
tes, will return $150,000 this
i year, aided and abetted by a
$256,000 valuation increase.
Nexit in the income category
is .the Powell Fund rebate from
the state gas tax. The commiss
ion hopes this source will hold
its own at $32,000. It anticipates
collection of $15,000 from prior *
year taxes, and $12,000 in pro
perty owner share of street im
provement costs.
Other anticipated income i
tems fall well below the five-fig.
ure class. Among them: $6,500
from intangible taxes (another
rebate from the state arrange
ment), $5500 in privilege license
fees, $9500 in court costs, and
$2500 in gasoline tax rebates
(municipalities get rebates on
the state gasoline tax, on appli
cation.)
Mr. McDaniel said it is possi
ble the board of commissioners
may do some minor re-shuffling
figures before it finally adopts
the budget prior to July 28, man
datory date to final adoption.
Ware To Rejoin
Police Force
Ralph (Babe) Ware will re
| join, the police department as
; quickly as a replacement is em
ployed for his position as second
shift operator of the water filter
i plant.
Mr. Ware was named to (he
police force (Monday night, as the
city commission accepted the res
ignation of recently-employed
l Garland Henson. City officials
said they understood that Mr.
Henson didn’t find himself able
to move within the city limits,
which is required of police offi
cers.
Mr. Ware Was been a city Em
ployee for nine years. He spent a
year with the sanitary depart
ment, fivE as a policeman, and the
past three as assistant filer plaint
operator. He had applied for re
turn to the police department sev
Eral weeks ago
Mir. Ware’s return to police du
ty will still leave the department
short by two men, replacements
not having beEn employed for
i Warren G. tiliison or John Robbs,
both of Whom resigned recently.