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Population Greoier Rings Mountoin 21.914 C\$Y Limits (1966 Census) 8.256 City Limits (Estimate 1968) 9.300 Grwattr kinvt Mountcto la dailvtd ttoaa IM apacirl United Statas Buraou ol tha Caaaua raport o loavary IMS. and lacludaa tba 14.9M population o Numbar 4 Towaahlp. and tamalnlnu S*lt4 tfon Numbar $ Toamahip. In Daaaland 'Ceunty and Cfowdar' Toomehlp In Qaaton Cowty. Kings Mountoin's Reliable Newspapei VOL 85. No. 34 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, August 20, 1970 ~Eig^ty^ifth Year PRICE TEN CENTS City Acquires Buford Cline,Double B Resevoir Tracts Canslei Project Mid-Planning ConieienceHeld A twoday mid-pbannintgj con ference on the Canslor street ur ban i*ene\vai project bciwcen fed eral, state -and city djficials, en- gmeers, and Kings Mountiain citizens iwas concluded Wednes day afternoon. “It was a good con*fercnce,’' Joe Laney, executive director of Kings Mountain Redevelop ment commission, leportcd. “We wore able to clear numerous technical points and lagrccd on some changes in the initial plan for renewal of the 147^aere pro ject area.” The basic plan calls for raz ing of residences in the 'aix>a oc cupied by 16S families. It calls for leaving all church es in tihe area as :hoy lare with the exception cf Mt. Zicn Bap- tifiit on 'West King street which has purchased the property 'once occupied by th^ oLi; Davidson school for 'the purpose of build ing a now church. It calls for closing City street from King, with entrance to a residential area from West Ridge. Childers street is to be straigh tened. ‘Park areas arc to be provided. Considerable discussion was devoted to financing of resident- owner housing and problems of relocatpon af families ocoup>nng home to be repJa'ced. Congressman James T. Broy'- hill paid call at t'he Wednesday morning session. • Others attendii^j on^ or -more of t'he sessions were: Mayer John Henry (Moss, Mrs. Emm-a lElalock, Miss Geraldine Jenkins, ^Irs. Margaret H. Smith, Rev. S. T. Cooke^ Mrs, Ilazelin^ Barnes, Mrs. Ardata W. Sweat, M‘i*s. Marie 'Burris, Paul Thombs, Kings Motintain citizens. K. E. Maunoy — Division Engineer, State Highway Com mission, T. W. Harper, Kings Mountain Housing Authority, Eddie Neylan*^ — HUD — area representative, George D. King— HUD Civil Engineer, Homer F. Anderson, Jr. — HUD RA — Acquisition Section, Miss Ginger Guyette — HUD Relocation. Richard L. Jarrett — HUD - FHA, Greensboro, Thomas W. Anderson — RA — FHA Coor dinator — HUD, Atlanta, Bill E. Hollared — HUD — FHA-Land Planner, Greensboro, Rick Ma son — HUD - Planning — At lanta, Winn Powers — HUD — RA — Land Marketing Branch, F. S. Key — LUMS — Atlanta, Ledford L. Austin, W. G. Flukor, and George H. Sporl, all of Rust Enginetring, and Peter T. Connet, assistant director, and Lynw'ocd B. Thombs, project manager, K. M. Redevelopment Commission. Return-To>School Bells RingTuesday 7, OmCER OF MONTH — L. D. Beattie is Policeman of the Month of August. He joined tile local department five yeors ogo after serving as No. 5 Towdship constable for 10 years. L. D. Beattie Ofiicei 01 Month Lemuel Dixon Beattie, No. 5 Township Constable for 10 years before he joined Che Kli^ Moun tain pof^e force five years ago, is featured as Policeman of the Month for August. The Kings Mountain Woman’s club is sponsoring this salute to local police and Mrs. Dorothy P. Etheridge interviewed Mr. Beat- tie. Born and reared in Waco, Of ficer Beattie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Beattie of Waco. He is married to the former Betty Hancock and they have four chil dren; Mrs. Gerald Fletcher, of Kings Mountain; and Steve Beat- tie, 20, Christy, age 14, and Julie, age 10. From 1944 to 1946 Beattie serv ed in Che U. S. Army with the 77th Division in the South Paci fic, For the past two ye**'** Officer Beattie has completed numerous law enforcement courses at Cleve land County Technical Institute and at other schools in basic law enforcement, narcotics, criminal investigation, police firearms training, traffic accident investi gation and po/ice radio proce dures. Mr. and Mrs. Beattie and their family reside at 107 Wells street. They are Baptists. Fishing and hunting are listed as Officer Beattie’s hobbies. W. F. Styers' Gilt To Roosevelt On Display At Wann Springs, Ga. An 18-in’ch tall goblet carved by the late W. F. Styers from dogwood trees on the battlefield o*f Kings Mounrtain in 1933 is on display in a g/ass case in the museum of the Little White House, home of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Warm Springs, Ga. !Mrs. Margaret Styers Tate and I her husband, Dickie Tate, visited i -the museum the past weekend i after Mrs. Tate’s sister, Mrs. Carl Lewis of Gastonia, reported that Mr. Lewis had just “accidentally seen Daddy’s goblet” while on a vacation trip to Callaway Gardens and subsequently to the Roosevelt museum. the goblet a gift of W. F. Styers of Kings Mountain, North Caro lina, handcanv'ed from wood on the battlefield of Kings Mountain. President Roosevelt wrote Mr. Styers a thank you letter May 23, 1933, Mrs. Tate recalled. Mrs. Tate said she recalled see ing no other souvenirs from North Carolina in the large museum. “There was one whole line of walking canes.”, she said. Mrs. Tate said a guard at the maseum told them that l#eys to all the Presidential museums are kept in the Archives of History in Washington, D. C. The Tates also visited Calla- Mr. Styers, who died 10 years! way Gardens while vacationing ago. didn’t know that the many j in Georgia last week, wooden goblets he hardcarved as! a hobby and mailed to many presidents had been on display in museums across the country. ■Mrs. Tate remembers well the many thank you letters from President Wilson, Harding, Cool- idge, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eis- erthower her father received. ‘^Daddy had those letters fram ed and gave a letter to each of his grandchildren”, said Mrs. Tate. President R<^osevelt’s name and the date May, 1933, is burnc<l on the bottom of the wooden goblet. An identification plate reports 14250 Enrollment I Expected; 185 I Faculty Members I School bells will ring for 4,250 j Kings Mountain district school ] children Tuesday morning at 8:30 for the opening of the 1970-71 school term. The 185 teachers in the five elementary schoals, the Junior high school, the Senior high schocl and special education cen ter report to work Monday. Prin cipals at the various plants are already on duty. First day schedule, when chil dren report to classes, register, got books, assignments and pay fees, will be short, and Supt. Donald Jones said the schedule will be as follows: Kings Mountain high school, 8:30 until 11 a.m.; Cen tral Junior high school, 8:30 until 10:45 a.m.; and all elementary schools, 8:30 until 10 a.m. First graders will be excused as soon as they are registered and their parents may accompany them for orientation and take them home. Supt. Jones also said first graders will be excused each day thereafter at 12 noon through September 4th. The schedule for all other stu;.,, dents the first full school day (beginning Wednesday) will be ooserved as follows: elementary students grades two and three. 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.; grades four through eighth will’be dis missed at 3 pan. High school classes will be dismissed at 3:15 p.m. I'afeteriias will be open the first full day of school on Wednesday. Faculties are cYimplete. Seven new teachers were em ployed by the board of education Monday night They include Douglas Cox, business education Instructor at the high .school; Mrs. Fronneau Little, West elemen tary; Miss Annette Parker, Kings Mountain high school; Mrs. Jane Birmingham Morlan, art instruct- er at the high school; Thomas Pruitt, Central Junior high; and Linda McManus, Grov’er elemen tary. Bus routing will remain the same as last year and students will report to the same schools they attended last year. Because of unbalanced enroll inent in the sixth grades, 23 stu dents were reassigned from North school to West school, those as signed living closest to West school in the area of Watterson, Ellis and Cansler streets. This will mean the employment of one less teacher in the system, Supt.' Jones related to the board Mon day nigh-t as the action was ap proved. CMeteria managers,,' also re elected Monday night, are Mrs. Joyce Hord at Kings Mountain high school Mrs. Virginia Craw ford at East school; and Mrs. .41- liwee Marlowe at North school Supt. Jones said piano lessons will be available to students at the elementary schools and at the Junior high school. Piano fee is $2.50 per one-half hour lesson A list of fees is published in today’s Herald for students wh' will attend all plants in the sys tem. Dunn, Owens VIRn Degrees Zora Rebecca Dunn and James Rufus Owens, both of Kin|^ Mountain, received their bachelor of arts degrees in Appalachian State University’s summer com mencement ceremonies Saturday. A total of 614 students received diplomas in Appalachian’s Var sity Gymnasium. Appalachian, at Boone, graduat ed 949 students in June. Public Housing Notes Low Bid 127 Percent Trust Company of Georgia, At lanta, was low bidder Tuesday on $2,523,000 one-year notes for Kings Mountain Public Housing Authority. The low bid of seven was at 4.27 percent interest plus a $10 premium. The disparity between the lo^v and high bids was only .17 per cent. Trust Company of Georgia was low bidder at 4.74 percent inter est on six month notes issued by the housing authority last March and due September 10. Second low bidder w’as Morgan uaranty Company and Salomon Brothers, New York, 4.29 percent interest minus premium of $83. Other bids; First Union National Bank, i Charlotte, 4.35 percent. | First National City Sank, New York, 4.35 percent plus premium of $145. 1 Wachovia Bank & Trust Com-1 pany, Winston-Salem, 4.38 per-1 cent. 1 United California Bank and Weeden & Com/pany, 4.41 percent. Bankers Trust Company, New York, 4.44 minus premium of $174. Housing authority officials ex pressed themselves as well-pleas ed with results of the bidding. The borrowing iimiplics the com plete cost of the 150-unit low- rent housing project now being completed. A total of $2,033,000 will be used to repay the Mairdh notes. Dam Repairs Underway; Fox: Could Have Been Worse 0^% Mis4Soioxths Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. A6a Pearl Goforth, 79, widow of William Marvin Goforth who died in 1968, were held Siiturday afternoon at 3 o’clock frdm Boyce Memorial ARP church, of which she was a member. Dr. Charles Edwards officiated at the final rites, and interment was in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Goforth died Thursday aft ernoon at 5:20 p.m. in the Kings Mountain hospital after declin ing health for several years. She was a native of Cleveland County, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Sellers of Kings Mountain. She is suiTviived by three sons. Garrison Goforth and Robert L. Ckiforth, both of Kings Mountain, and Thomas Goforth of Milling ton, Michigan; one daughter, Miss Mae Sue Goforth of Kings Moun tain; one brother, Charles Sellers of Charlotte; and one sister, Miss Emma Sellers of Kings Mountain. Aso surviving acre nine grandchil dren and one great-grandchild. Active pallbearers were Kelly Bunch. James Crawford, M. D. Phifer, Franklin Ware, Menzell Phifer and Paul Ham. Honorary pallbearers were C. L. Black, I. G. Patterson, John L. McGill, Raymond Talbert, Hubert Davidson, Malcolm Patterson and J. E Anthony, Jr. IMPROVING ( George W. Mauney, Kings Mountain cotton broker who suffeired a heart attack August 9th, was reported by his wife to be “resting comfortably and im proving” at Kings Mountain 'hospital Wednesday night. WINS SERVICE AWARD—Stan ly County Agricultural Exten sion Agent Ray Kiser« son of A. S. Kiser ol Kings Moimtain, has won the National Associo- tion of County Agriucltural A- gents" Distinguished Service A- ward for 1970. Service Award To Ray Kiser The National Association of County Agricultural Agents has given one of its Distinguished Service Awards for 1970 to Stanly County Agaricultural Extension Agent Ray Kiser, son of A. S. Kiser of Kings Mountain. Kiser eited specifically by the national association for his “most marvelous record” on be half of the 4-H program. During his ^4-year extension career in .Mecklenburg and Stanly counties he has trained 52 district, 27 slate and 3 national 4 H winners. Kiser is a graduate of N. C. State University, and has served as president of the Agricultural Extension Agents Association for Southwestern North Carolina. Ho joined the Stanly extension staff in 1953 after working in Meck lenburg for seven years. He is one of six North Carolin ians getting an award this year from the national association. The other recipients are Maurice Coleman, Bertie C^unity Agricul tural agent; Walter Johnson, Orecne Courtly extension chair man; Grady Miller, Wake County extension chairman; O. G. Gar land, Wilkes County extension chairman. Announcement of the awards was made Thursday (August 20) in Corvallis, Oregon, wore the na tional association is holding its annual meeting. Finished Watei Motors On Dock In New York By MARTIN HARMON i . Dam repairs were proceeding nicely, the water level was drop ping 18 inches per day, and the final touches were being applied to the water treatment plant on Buffalo Creek. | This was the situation report of Dennis Fox, resident engineer, Wednesday afternoon, nine days after the washout on the big dam which will create the rese- voir for the Kings Mountain wat er supply. The damage could have been worse. Engineer Fox suggested. There was only minor damage to the foundation and big pipe at the base of the dam, he reix)ried. Other items: 1) The four big motors which will pump treated water into the Kings Mountain system (due to be shipped last spring) have ar- ri’'ed from England and are on the docks in Now York. They are to be shipped to the pump man ufacturer in Indianapolis for mounting and should axavebeie by mid-^»piem'ber or earlier. 2) Neal Hawkins Company is continuing its wor\ on SR 2070, where the road-bed is being rais ed at 25 feet in one pK)int to provcnt inundation. 3) The inundated raw water pumps should be retrieved early next week, if the water level con- tinuc'6 to drfyp at the current rate. Re-working will require four days. 4) Damage at the Dov'or Mills dyke involved removing mud and sand from the pump station and wrk is proceeding. 5> Semi-final grading of roads around the treatment plant is being completing. Stoning will follow. FAMILY NIGHT > Congregations of Shiloh Pres byterian and Dixon Presbyter ian churches will have a joint faimily night supper Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. at tihe Shiloh church in Grover. Rev. Robert Wilson, pastor, will show a filmstrip on Camp Grier where the local groups plan a retreat. Broyhill Pays Call Here. Voted Sustain Both 01 Nixon Vetoes City Intangibles Share Tops '68 Trte City of Kings Mountain has received check from the State of North Carolina for $12,835.07 rep resenting the city’s share of the 1969 intangibles tax. The city’s 1969 share—in con trast to those of many incorporat ed cities and counties over the state—increased by $527.24 over its 1968 share wht;h was $12,307.- 83. The budget estimated revenue for the current fiscal year at $12;015.88, or $819.19 under the actual amount received. State revenue department offi cials credited the drop in over-all receipts principally to the dive in stock prices. By MARTIN HARMON t “What are you going to do. You overspend, you must borrow the money. That makes taxes go up.” Representative Jim Broyhill thus explained his two votes to sustain President Nixon’s veto of the $4.4 billion education appro priations bill and the $18 billion catch - all appropriations bill which provided more moiioy than the President had a.sked by a bil lion dollars. Like the President, Rep. Broy hill won one and lost one, the House dtcllning to over-rldie the oatch-all bill (itousing, veterans affairs, and others), but both branches over-riding the educa tion appropriations bill. The Representative paid call on Kings Mountain and several oth er Cleveland County towns and • cities Wednesday. Here Is List 01 School Fees Here is the listing of school fees for the st*hooltepm beginning Tuesday. In the Elementary schools a li brary' fee of $2 for instructional supl'ifs is charged plus current events fee at publishers* prices. Insurance, which is optional, is $2.25 per student per year. In the Junior high school a li brary fee of $2 for instructional supplies is <‘harged plus a locker fee of 50 cents per student, and a $1.50 towel fee per student for Physical Education. A student nTay purchase insurance, if he desires, at $2.25. If a student wisht's to apply for band, this fee is $9 per year and is payable by the month. In trtio high school insurance is optional and is $2.Z5 per student per year. Other fees include: li brary, for instructional supplies, $2; locker rental, 50 cents; voca tional, $4; typing, $6; science 50 cents; towels for Physical Educa tion, $2; band, if the student do- He was getting good traffic by sires this training, $9; band uni friends <and well-wishers who visited him in the Broyhill cam paign trailer a hometown friend has lent him for the fall election jousting — a re-match with for mer Repre.sentatiVC Basil White- ner, of Gastonia, whom Broyhill defeated in 1968. “How is politics?” he asked. Quiet. “That's the way it seems to me. Maybe we expended all the fire tvv’o years ago,” he continued. The trailer has been a real boon from the standpoint of seeing more constituents, the Congress man said. “It’s better than using post master’s offices,” he added. It was Mr. Broyhill’s 43rd birth day and his visitors were invited to partake of % birthday cake Shelby friends had presented him earlier in the morning. SEMI-FINAUST — Howard B. Weiss, incoming freshman at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, has been selected as o semi-finalist in the North Carolina Fellows Program ot NCSU. He is son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weiss. Howard Weiss Semi-Finalist Howard B. Weiss, 1970 graduate of Kings Mountain high school and an incoming freshman at North (Carolina State University in Raleigh, has been selected ^s a semi-finalist in the North Car olina Fellows Program at N.C.S.U. Selections are made bn basis of individuals thought to be capable of exceptional accomplishment and considerable potential. Weiss is a eon of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weiss of Kings Mountain. Final selections will be made at an intensive throe-day retreat to be held September 11, 12 and 13 at Betsy Jeff-Pen Conference Center near Reidsville. The final selection process will consist of individual student interviews, group discussions, testing, and otlier related activities. The North . Carolina Fellows Program is sponsored by the Rfehardson Foundation of Greens boro for the purpose of conduct ing a program in leadership de velopment. The long-term aim of the program is to develop young txrople who are capable of cojping with the personal, social, indus trial. and goN’ernmcntal problems encountered in the world today; (Continued on Page Six) Money Question Superioi Court lury Matter The city has acquired two tracts it requires for the Buffalo Creek wateir resevoir, following hearing before Clerk of Superior Court Paul Wilson completed last Thurs day. What the city will finally pay for the tracts of Buford D. and Wilda R. Cline and the tract of Mr. Cline and W. K. Mauney, Jr., trading as Double B Ranch, will be determined via jury trial in Cleveland Superior Court. Meantime, after the Clerk had ruled in favor of Kings Mountain and both parties had agreed to waive their right to have a Clerk- appointed three-person commit tee determine fair compoasation for the tracts, the city immediate ly put in escrow with the Clerk: 1) $61,750 for the approximate ly 140 acres the city acquires from Buford D. and Wilda R. Cline, and 2) $44,562 for the approximate ly 245 acres it acquires from Dou ble B Ranch. Under agreement of the liti gants, respondents may claim the amounts in escrow at any time. The city’s offering price for the properties, it was testified, was 15 percent higher than an aver age of values by registered ap praisers. Properties remain to be acquir ed from Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Cline, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Cline and Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Go forth. Condemnati<Hi action hearing on the Goforth properties has been scheduled before the Clerk for October 8. Legion Said Nets live Machines Second daid on successi\’e Tues days decimated the Kings Moun- 'tain area of another five slot machines. Detective Paul Barbee, Jr., on a warrant signed before a Shel by magistrate by Mrs. Bertha Moss, of the Midpincs commun- it>% visited the American Legion club at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, con fiscated fiw slot machines and charged Commander Robert Ruff with their possession. Ruff was released under $500 bond and trial is schdiuled in district court on August 27. A week earlier four officers raided th^ Kings Mountain Snip per Club, confiscated five slot machines and two punch .boards, charged M anager JG r a y s o n Brown wih possession of them. Brown was released under $1(K)0 bond. Trial is scheduled for dis trict court on September 3. The charge in iboth cases is possession of gamibling devices. Gene White loins New Division Of Department ol Administration form rental. $1.50; and art, $6. The student may or may not elect to enroll in typing and art classes nor in, band. Piano lessons will be available in the elementary and Junior high scJiooIs at a cost of* $2.50 per one-half hour lesson. CBD Project Notes Bids To Be Asked Tile Kings iMountain Redev elopment Commission wall seek bids on October 14 on $S20,000 in 12-month project (notes for 'the Kings Mountain central business district project. Joe Laney, executive dirccor, says the funds are expect cd to be used principally for lart.t ac quisition and are exfxvtcd to co ver project operations for 12 months. RALFIGH — A new section has been established in the Property Control and Construction Division of the North Carolina Department of Administration, which will fill a major need relating to property ecntrol matters. This section, to be known as the Real Property Section, will have the responsi bility of handling the adminis trative and managerial a.spects relating to acquisitions and dis positions of real properties, and all intere.sts therein, for the State and all of its institutions and a- geneie.s. Legal assistance in con- noi'tion with real property mat ters will continue to be afforded by the staff of tlie Attorney Gen eral’s Office. The Real Property Section will work under the supervision of and report directly to Carroll L. Mann, Jr., the Stale Property Control and Construction Officer. The section is now organized and function ing with a complement of four professional real property agents. These professionals are Messrs. Jerry L. Higgins, Ben F. Ricketts, Edward P. Richardson and Marion Eugene White. Jerry Higgins, who reported for duty on December 29, 1969, has had prior real estate experience with the N. C. Higliway Commis sion and the Redevelo-pment Commission of Durham, North Carolina. Btm Ricketts, who start ed with the Section on June 15, has owned and operated his own real estate firm in Raleigh for the past ten years. Ed Richardson, who came to work on July 1, 1970, has had over twenty years of self-employed experience in real estate. Gene White, who joined the Section on August 1, 1970, is as signed the position as Chief of the Real Property Section. White has had extensive experience in real property matters, and comes to this Section from the position of State Right of Way Appraiser for the Highway Commission, with twenty years prior experi ence in that work. He has been quite active in professional or ganizations, including member ships in the Raleigh Board of Realtors, the North Carolina As sociation of Realtors, the North Carolina Chapter of the Ameri can Institute of Real Estate Ap praisers, the Carolinas Chapter of the American Right of Way Asso ciation and the North Carolina Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. “We are very fortunate to have secured the services of these four nlghly qualified real estate pro fessionals,” said Carroll L. Mann, Jir., “and we know that the estab lishment and operation of this Real Property Action will fill a very real need in meeting in a more effective and efficient man ner the increasingly complex State affairs in acquisitions and disposition of real properties for all State agencies.”