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r Population Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,256 The Greater Kings Mountain figure is derired from the special United States Bureau of the Census report o January 1966, and includes the 14,990 population o Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 Iron Number 5 Township, in Clereland County and Crowder' Mountain Township in Gaston County. VOL. 78 — No. 35 Pag^s Today Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, 31, 1967 Seventy-Eignth Year PRICE TEN CENTS ‘ community rAca n Architects Drawing — $452,000 Kings Mountain Community Center MINISTER Rev. Archie Chap man of Blacksburg. S. C. has assumed new pastorate duties at Westpver Baptist church. Chapman Takes Cffestover Duties Rev. Archie Chapman, pastor of Mount Paran.^ Baptist church of Blacksburg, S. C. the past four years, has assumed new pastorate duties at Westover pap tist church. Rev. and Mrs. Chapman and their eight-yearold daughter, Dwanda Lee, have occupied the Westover parsonage at 1370 West over Drive. Mr. Chapman was educated at Gardner-Webb college and New Orleans Baptist Theological Sem inary. Before moving to South Carolina, he was youth and edu cational director at Fairfield Bap tist church of Baton Rouge, La. •nd pastor of Clarence Baptist church of Clarence, La. Mrs. Chapman is the former Eunice Highsmith. At Westover Baptist church the Rev. Mr. Chapman succeeds the Rev. Floyd Willis. City Pre-Payments Reach $33,777.52 Pre-payments on 1967 city taxes totaled $33,777.52 through Wednesday at noon, Assistant ty Tax Collector Judy Har n reported. Discount of two percent is available to city and county taxpayers through September 1 when the discount rate drops to one percent The city anticipates collec tion during the year ot $190,000 in ad valorem taxes. - Grant Is Approximate Of Center; Action Tab By MARTIN HARMON Mayor John Henry Moss was notified Monday by Bob Hum mell, of the Department of Hous ing and Urban Development in Washington and by U. S. Repre sentative Basil L. Whitener that Secretary Robert C. Weaver has approved a $302,680 grant reser vation under the Neighborhood Facilities program to assist the city in financing a proposed $452,000 community center. With approval of the grant res ervation, the city has been au thorized to prepare final plans for the building, in order to qualify for a grant contract. The HUD grant will cover about two-thirds qf the estimated total develop ment costs. Mayor Moss, Richard E. Maxey, chairman of the city recreation committee, the J. L. Williams & Associates, architects for the pro ject, moved immediately to im plement the grant reservation. Mayor Moss authorized the architects to proceed with a soil test to determine footing require ments for the 32,000 square foot building, and Chairman Maxey called a luncheon meeting of his committee for Tuesday at 12:30 at the Country Club. The building will be located in the Deal street park area and will face Cleveland avenue. Bill Golladay, of the architec tural firm, said a principal fea ture will be an all-purpose gym torium with seating capacity up to 2008. It will have three bas ketball courts, two for practice ly Two-Thirds Cost en To Implement and one for exhibition. There will be dressing rooms, supply rooms, and a handball court. A ticket office will be at the front en trance. The two-story building will al so contain 14 rooms as facilities for an assembly room, day care quarters, dining rooms, offices, and a kitchen. The facility will provide such services as basic adult literacy classes; citizenship classes, project Head Start, day care, employment, and counsel ing services; housing assistance and assistance to the aged; so cial, recreation, and health serv ices; and Community Action Pro gram services. Secretary Weaver said: “The application has qualified for pri ority consideration because it will substantially further the objec tives of the local Community Ac tion Program, approved under Title II of the Economic Oppor tunity Act of 1964. The Neighbor hood Facilities Grant Program is authorized by the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 under Section 703. The program provides grants to local public bodies or agencies to help fiance the development of multipurpose neighborhood centers that offer programs of community service. Nonprofit groups may contract with public body applicants to own or operate facilities. Grants may not exceed two-thirds of the development cost, or three-fourths in officially designed redevelop ment areas.’’ fifth Day School Attendance 4073 23 Below '66; High School Up 12 Fifth day enrollment in the 10-plant Kings Mountain district school system totaled 4073, a slight drop of 23 etudents from last year’s fifth day total of 4096. The slight drop compared to one of 173 a year ago, when the major loss figure was at Kings Mountain high school and reflect ed a large number of dropouts between junior and senior years. High school enrollment Wed nesday was 1143, up 12 over fifth day enrollment last year. Superintendent Donald D. Jones said Wednesday operations were going well. Grade population balances were good, he added, to the point that he was able to recommend to the board of edu cation at a special meeting Wed nesday afternoon at 40 unassign ed enrallees be assigned to the schools of their first choke, High School Principal James C. Atkinson described operations there as “very smoothe”. He com mented, “This faculty has really been digging in and they have the students working like Tro jans.’* Second most populous school population is at Central junior high school, with 752 students, includin gspecial education pupils. All other schools are elemen tary and primary, Grades 1 through 6. In this eight-plant group, North edged East as most populous, 357 to 352. West was third at 334, Beth ware fourth at 314. Grover enrollment was 294, Compact 235, Park-Grace 188, and Davidson 104. Renovation and rebuilding work continues at the Central plant. GRADUATES —Jacob T. (Chip) McGinnis, III, graduated Au gust 29 from Gaston Technical Institute with A. S. in electron ics engineering technology and on September 9 will join West ern Electric in St. Louis, Mo., as an engineering associate. Mrs. McGinnis is the former Pat Strickland. McGinnis is son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McGinnis, Jr. of Kings Mountain. Nursing Home Charter Sought The committee to promote con struction of a nursing and con valescent center here has for mally applied for a corporation charter, Chairman Joe Smith said yesterday. Subscription goal of Kings Mountain Nursing and Convales cent Home, Inc. is $100,000 and aim is to have the goal by Sep tember 30. Chairman Smith said the com mittee envisions building the cen ter on a 5.9 acre tract near Kings Mountain hospital purchased from M. Elmer McGill by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kerns and intended by them as site of the center. Mr. Smith said inquiries had come as far distant as Colorado concerning the project. Stock purchases to date total over $20, 000. Full information concerning the project can be obtained from Chairman Smith or any other member of the committee, which includes Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kerns, James Gibson, Dr. John C. McGill, Grady Howard O. O. Walker, W. S. Biddix and Ray W. Cline. “It is quite obvious, of course”, said Chairman Smith, “that Kings Mountain needs, and badly, this faculty." . Mall Appraisals Received; Corporation To Be Formed Mall Planned With 400-Car Parking Area By MARTIN HARMON Apptaisal figures for purchase of property needed for develop ment of the Cherokee street mall have been received and Paul Mc Ginnis, owner of McGinnis De partment Store, has been elected chairman of a committee to form a corporation for 1) determining degree of participation and 2) purchasing needed property. Announcement was made by Richard E. Maxey following a meeting of the Chamber of Com merce committee promoting the project. The project envisions a 400-car parking area on Cherokee street, between Mountain and Gold. In tent of the committee is to pur chase the “back alley” property hounded by the Kings Mountain Office Equipment & Supply build ing and the Professional build ing and to raze all structures within these bounds. On the east side of Cherokee, the plan calls for purchase of the property of Fulton’s Department Store anc Kings Mountain Savings & Loan Association behind, these firms to the Lipford line. Mr. Maxey said Winn-Dixie, Inc., with Tts own ex tensive parking area,, has ex pressed a desire to be included in the mall project. The project is a private one and the appraisals, by registered licensed appraisers, total $139,000. Plan calls for share basis of abutting firms on front footage basis, both for property purchase and improvements. In turn, the property owners would be expected to convert their present rear doors into store fronts. Mr. Maxey said property own ers not on the Chamber of Com merce committee—which defray ed cost of the appraisals—would be invited to join for incorpora tion. He reported much enthusiasm for the mall project, as did Mr. McGinnis. Mr. McGinnis said he expected to call the Chamber of Commerce committee together early next week for an incorporation con ference with Robert Powell, le gal counsel. Mr. Maxey noted that the work done privately would dovetail with the city’s central business district project for which federal grant has been applied. School Fee Costs Brown Just $240 “Is the board of education going to stick with that $60 fee?” The questioner was referring to the recent decision of the Kings Mountain district board of education to impose a fee of $60 per pupil for out-of district students. It was the first time in sev eral decades a fee has been imposed and applies to the East Kings Mountain group of students, their parents citizens of the City of Kings Mountain but of the Gaston County school district. This group is permitted to again attend Kings Mountain schools, for the second year by court order. Their local school taxes ac crue to Gaston county, rather than Cleveland, which distrib utes school taxes on a per cap ita basis. The questioner was Dion Brown, Burger Barn executive, who plaintively added, “I have fouf. That’s $240.” Superintendent Donald D. Jones said Wednesday he did not know the number of East Kings Mountain out-of-district students had enrolled, but a Herald check of several par ents indicated majority, if not all, have enrolled in Kings Mountain schools. LUTHERAN TOPIC Rev. Charles Easley’s sermon topic at the Sunday morning worship hour at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will be “The Wherewithal of Ufa." Miss Sherri Bell IN NEW POST — J. W. Web ster, formerly of Kings Moun tain. will become the county's new building inspector about September 1. He is currently employed by the City of Mel bourne, Fla. J. W. Webster In New Post J. W. Webster, former Kings Mountain building inspector and tax collector, has been employed as Cleveland County’s new build ing inspector, according to an nouncement by County Manager Joe Hendrick. Webster, from 1960-63, Shelby’s building inspector and from 1954 60 Kings Mountain building in spector and tax collector, is cur rently employed in tax assessing and collecting for the City of Melbourne, Fla. He will begin his new duties about September 1 at annual sal ary of $6,636. A native of Orangeburg, S. C., he attended public schools there and attended The Citadel at Charleston, S. & H« ted his wife expect to lo eate in Shelby within the next two weeks, he said here Monday. GRADUATES Laura Lynn Herndon, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hern don and granddaughter of Mrs. P. D. Herndon of Kings Moun tain, was recently graduated with B.S. degree from Appala chian State University at Boone. Mrs. P. D. Herndon and Miss Maty McGill, both of Kings Mountain, attended the finals Sherri Bell 1967 Bethware Fair Queen Sherry Bell, high school senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bell of the Oak Grove community, will reign over festi vities of the annual Bethware Community Fair which opens for a four-day run September 13th. The 20th annual fair will fea ture prizes in various categories including agriculture, horticulture and field crops. Handicraft and household arts awards will be ?iven for home grown products from the pantry, flowers, and hobbies, including painting, col lections, crafts, doll furniture, best handmade jewelry and other classes for all ages. Miss Bell plays tympania, ket tle drums, bells and chimes in the Kings Mountain high school band. A member of the Kings Mountain Assembly, Order of Kainbows, she is active in young people’s work of Oak Grove Bap tist church. Her hobbies are knit ting and sewing and she likes music. Chillren's Day at the Bethware Fair will be on Thursday, Sep tember 14th, with special events slated. Special attractions during irtg the event will include mid way rides and concessions, shows and fireworks. The fair wiH be staged on the grounds of Beth ware school. Applications Foi Projects Total S2.945.658 By MARTIN HARMON Mayor John Henry Moss has returned from a Tuesday confer ence with regional officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development “impressed and pleased with the favorable attitude of regional officials" on City of Kings Mountain pending applications for federal grants on three projects. These applications total $2, 945,658. The Mayor also said the offi cials declared the Kings Moun tain workable program for com munity development “in good order and expected to be recerti fied in the near future.” The workable program for community development is ap proved for a 12-month period only, subject to renewal based on the extent the particular city or town has contributed its fair share of work and planning. With approval of the workable program, igrants are possible. Without approval, there are no grants. Coincidentally, Mayor Moss, who departed for Atlanta Mon day afternoon, was first inform ed of grant reservation approval of the community center project by the regional officials. He found the telegraphic notifications on his return here. Breakdown on the grant appli cations are: It Urban renewal project $1, 711,658 (gross estimate of project $2,150,277.) 2) Central business district re newal project $884,202 (gross es timate of project cost $1,047,736). 3> Water system expansion pro ject $350,000 (gross estimate of project cost $3,100,000, develop able in stages). Mayor Moss noted that the city now has committed $1,005,150 from federal and state agencies for public improvements includ ing: 1) $314,000 for widening and improving Cansler street, from city limits south to Old, from the State Highway & Public Works commission. 2) $388,500 for the sewage sys tem expansion and improvement project, federal water resources agency. 3) $302,650 for community cen ter, federal Department of Hous ing & Urban Development. The Mayor was accompanied to Atlanta by Ledford Austin, of Barbour & Cooper Associates, planning engineers. Boyles Open Fabric Shop Mr. and Mrs. Willard Boyles announced this week opening of a new business firm, Big-Little Fabric Shop in the Oak Grovp community. The firm will be under man agement of Mrs. Boyles' mother, Mrs. Frank Ware. Mr. Boyles said the firm will specialize in cloth of all kind, including drapery fabrics, short lengths, dress materials, throw rugs, and towels. The firm will be open daily ex cept Tuesdays and is located on Oak Grove Road 2026. Formal opening of the firm will be on Monday. Kidnapping By Man At Gunpoint Alleged by Hendersonville Woman Mrs. Judy Osteen, 22, of Hen dersonville, was questioned at Kings Mountain police headquar ters Monday after she was al ledgedly kidnapped in Brevard Monday afternoon. Mrs. Osteen claimed that she was kidnapped by a man at about 3 p.m. Monday after she had left a Brevard bank. She said the man was a Negro, approxi mutely 50 years old, 6 ft., 1. He reportedly was carrying a Bible, a stick and a revolver. According to Mrs. Osteen, she 'iad just driven away from the Brevard bank when the man at tempted to cross the street in front of her car. She stopped to let the man pass. He brandished a gun and told her to drive him away. Mrs. Osteen said she did notj know where the man wanted her I to go but she drove according to his directions. Before she left, however, she told the man that she must be allowed to call her parents or they would call the police. Ho allowed her to call and they began their flight. A few miles west of Kings Mountain, she again called her parents. No reason for this call was available through the Kings Mountain Police department. On this call to her parents, po lice were told, she unobstrusive ly tipped them that she was go ing somewhere against her will. Her parents in turn called Hen dersonville police who informed the State Highway Patrol. After entering Kings Mountain, the man ordered Mrs. Osteen to let him out on Watterson - street. 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