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0 il Population Greater Kings Mountain City Limits 21.914 8465 • luogn Moustal* tlvai* U d»rtv«d tf— tto •P«orj United 8tatn» lurtou of thn Cnaiut rnpoft o fonvary IM<. nad lacJudM tbn l4«H0i populotioa • Ntimbnr 4 TowacMp. and mnudalng 8.184 frai NumlMr S Tpwnttalp. la Cierntand Cnunty oad CfnvdMr* — TfwonnhiD tn Oaitoa C—iNt. Kings Mountoin's Reliable Newspapei VOL. 86. No. 8 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 25, 1971 Eighty-Sixth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Robert G.Cox Files For Mayor; Howard Shipp To Run Water Project 90 ^^ercent Complete SEEKS IN-Cmr SEAT — Joe A. Neisler. Jr. seeks the in-city seat on the Kings Mountain board of educcrtion from which Mrs. Leno W. McGill will retire in May. Three condidotes have filed for the board of education and voters wiU elect two. one from in-city and one represent ing the outside city district. .Alexander Ups Philer Trad Bid Hish bid on ‘the Martin Phifer Estate property is now that of Charles L. Alexander at $60,500. Postimoster Alexander, at last Thursday's re-sale, raised the $60,469.89 bid of Mrs. R. P. An thony by $31.11. The- i3l.6 acre tract is being sold at auction to settle the es tate. Commissioner George B. 'Thorn- ni'asson said deadline for raising the bid is 5 p.m. March 1. Amount required to raise the bid is $3075, or 10 percent of the first $1000 and five percent of the remaind er. The tract adjoins Kings Moun tain higih school property. j Radio Team Here Friday The Big WAYS Good Guys will be at Kings Mountain high school Friday Wight to play the female teachers of KMHS in a basket ball gaime. Game time is 7:30. The event is being sponsored by Che Health and Career Club. Commission Gets Engineer's Progress Report By MARTIN HARMON The Buffalo Creek water pro ject is 90 percent complete, Den nis Fox, the city’s resident engi neer for W. K. Dickson Company, Inc., told the board of commis sioners Tuesday night. iHe detailed these project com ponents, percentage conapletion, and remaining work to be ac complished: 1) Treatment plant, 96 percent complete, in fully automatic op eration Wednesday, remaining work paving and landscaping and completion of fencing. 3) Booster punup station, 99 per cent complete, remaining work grassing, miscellaneous painting, small amount of concrete work. 4» Transmission mains and feeders, 100 percent complete. 5) Raw water pumping facili ties, 98 percent complete, remain ing work miscellaneous painting. 6) Dam, 99 -percent complete, remaining work grassing. 7) Spillway, 70 percent com plete. remaining work approxi mately one-fburtb (1000 cubic yartls) of 6onorete to be poured. 8) Reservoir, 75 percent com plete, remaining needs, acquire ment of ren>ainjng property re quired and clearing and grubbing of these tracts. 9) Highways, 70 percent com plete, SR2047 and 2070 require paving and installation of guard rails, SiR 2044 (Camp Creek Church iroad) remaining gravel ing and paving, 10) Dover Mills dike, 90 per cent complete, install pumps. Mr. Fox told the commission the project should be possible of completion in 30 construction days, adding “not calendar days”. “It has either 'been too wet or too cold to 'pour any concrete since December 38 and, of course, the acquirement of the remaining property wilt determine how quickly the reservoir can be com pleted.” ROTARY PROGRAM Jack Berrier, representative of Duke PcA\'or Company, will pre sent a program on Nuclear Power Stations at Thursday’s luncheon meeting of the Kings Mountain Rotary club at 12:15 at the Country club. Charles Mauney is program chairman. More Census Figures Out: County Hig Age Group Is Age 18 to 64 Cleveland County’s official ipop- ulation in the 1970 Census was 72,556, up 9.9 percent from the 1960 figure of 66.048, the Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce, reports. The official population of the state was 5,082,up 11.5 per cent from 4he 19(50 population count, whfch was 4,556,155. The 1970 Census counted 57,433 white persons in Cleveland Coun ty, 79,2 percent of the total; 15,065 Negroes, and 58 persons of other races. In 1960, 77.6 percent of the population was white. The census showed 6,709 chil dren under 5 years; 19,142 in ages 5 through 17; 40,674 people 18 through 6-4; and 6,031 who were 65 and older. The ipopulation 14 years and over included 35,406 married people, 4,129 who were widowed, 971 divorced, and 12,117 never imanried. Cleveland County’s 1970 popu lation was classified as 34.0 per cent urban, and 66.0 percent rural. There were 21,420 houseliolds, with 71,402 persons, lincludlng 2,501 one-penson households. In addition 1,154 persons were living in group quarters. The 1970 Census counted 22,586 housing units In Cleveland Coun- owners, 7,092 occupied by-tenants, owners, 7,92 occupied by tenants, W)nd 1,166 vajeant. These (included vacant units for seasonal use. The proportion occupied by own ers in 1970 was 63.4 percent, icom- parod with 54.8 percent in 1960. Among year - round dwelling units there were 19,779 sirtgle family houses, 1,617 housing units in multi-unit buildings, and'1,172 mobile homes or trailere. The per centage of occupied units with more than one person -per room was 11.1, (ompared with 18.8 in 19(50. Of all the occupied housing units, 18,480 had piped water, toilet, and bath, while 2,940 lack ed some or all plumtoln-g. The imedian value of owner- occupied houses in Cleveland County was $11,700, compared with $7,100 in 1960. The imedian rent paid by tenants in 1970 was $46 per month, compared with $45 in 1960. Half were over and half below the median figures. These results are from two 1970 census advance -reports tor tihe state: PC(V2), General Popula tion characterhrtics, and HC(Vl), General Housing characteristics. The reports, which contain addi tional 1970 census data for the state and v’orious areas within it, may be purchased at nominal prices from the Suiperin-tendcnt of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 204(X2, or from Offices of the U. S. Department of Commerce in Ma jor Cities. FTirther reports giving more ex tensive statistics on the charac- toristics of the population and I housing will be published in fu ture months as ^e 1970 census ' results are itabufated. Cox Is First City Hall Post Candidate CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY — Construction is well underway on SO units of public housing on Margrace road. Completion date U targeted for June 15th« said Thomas W. Harper, executive sec retory ol the Kings Mountain Public Housing Authority. Photogropher Isaac Alexander took the picture obove of the new homes, which bring to 200 the number of units of public housing in Kings Mountain* The new project will include one-two- three and four bedroom apartments of one-story ond two-story constructions. Robert G. Cox, retired army lieutenant-colonel and manager of Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce Wodne.sday morning paid the $1(K) filing fee as a can didate for mayor. He U the first candidate for a city hall position in the 1971 elections. Presumably he will bo a chal lenger to infumbont Mayor John Henry Moss, cxjK'ctcd to seek a fmirth term. Lt-'Col. Cox retired from the army last Juno 30. As marvager of the Chamber of Commc-rco, he also supi'rintonds its conjunctive Jobs 70 program, a federal government effort to train the completely non-skilled. He entered the army as a pri vate at Fort Jackson, S. C. and received his discharge there last summer. He had betm a special ist in helic'optcr maintenance for the major poition of his army service, which look liim to Japan, Korea, Europe and Vietnam. He is the son of Assistant Post master and (Mrs. B. F. O^x, a Scot tish Rite Mason, member of the American Legion, and Kings Mountain Baptist church. He. his wife and four children live at 509 West Mountain street Candidate Cox Issued no for mal statement on filing for may or. CANDIDATE ^ Robert G. (Bob) Cox filed Wednesday for mayor. Annual Clean-up Campaign Scheduled March 8-April 30 {4 PRESIDENT — Schools Supt. | Donald Jones has been elected . president of the Kings Moun- | tain United Fund for the com- | ing year. I Jones Elected UF President Donald D. Jones, superintendent of Kings Mountain disfrid schools, was elected president of Kings Mountain United Fund at the annual Awards Banquet of the organization Friday at Royal Villa Restaurant. 'Marvin L. Teer, vice-president ■ of First Union National Bank, | was named campaign chairman | tar 1971. The elet'tion of officers and drive leaders featured the Awards Banquet which honored volunteer division chairmen and local busi ness and indastry. Awards in the form of certifi cates were presented to nine campaign division eliairmcn and to 30 industries and busine.ss fiirms. Mrs. Becky Seism, secretary in the offices of the schools super- intenderi't, was named secretary- treasurer. New difccdors are James E. Herndon, Jr., Mrs. D. F. Herd, Jim Jenkins and Shuford Peeler. Division chairmen recognized for outstanding leadership during the 1970 camipaign for funds were: Francis Sineox, ad vanced gifts; Bennett ' Masters, ocwnmercial; Joe Smith, eorres- pondeneo; James E. Herndon. Jir., industrial; Marvin Teer, indus trial; Mrs. D. F. Hord, profession al; Donald Crawford, public em ployees; Donald Parker, schools; and R. E. Shaney, special. Awards to business and indus try included: Mauney Mills, Kings Mountain Knit, Sadie Mills, (Continued on Fage Six) |AshbrookPark, I 121.9 Acre Tract, I Annexed To City I The city commission will con- I duct its annual clean-up, paint-' up, fix-up campaign between j March 8 and April 3(J, according j to a city comimission resolution • Tuesday night. Don Jones, schools superintend-. ent, is permanent chainnan of ' the campaign and the resolution authorized the Mayor to appoint other members of a city-wide committee. The Mayor, after a report on Uie city project to provide a day care center at the CommunAty Build ing, was authorized to appoint a day care committee. Some minor equipment items are needed for the center, the Mayor said, also reporting a “favorable” meeting 1 last Thursday with state official; ( in charge of day care licensing; by the state. | The city was expanded by 21.9 acres when the comm-ission, after a public hearing, voted to annex a new sub-division, Ashebrook Park, owned by Hal S. Plonk. Wray A. Plonk, N. F. McGill and Dr. George W. Plonk. In other actions the board: 1) Voted to re-advertise for bids on a sower and water line install ation to serve DeRose Industries, now under construction in Kings Mountain Industrial Park. Only one bid was received and will be returned, unopened, to the bidder. 2) Aiceepted low lease-purchase • bid for a John Deere backhoo ! from Queen City Equipment Com -1 pany, of Cliarloltc, at $9854.15. , The loase-purrhase bid of Hardin- I Dixon Tractor Company, of Shel by, was second among four at $10,127.80 for Hardin-Dixon’s Ford machine. Little Theatre Meeting Tonight ■Kings Mountain Theatre will hold Membership Night and Open Holtso 'Tlnirsday (tonH-ht) in its ne^v meeting place at Park Gi'ac.' school. AH mombei's nnd any pra-^pect- ive members ^re invitcM to at tend the ngular quar^^'rly meet ing at S p.m. Mrs. Bob Cox, pres Liont, wHl preside. Little Theatia members wer<' busy this week moving thei»‘ present headquarters from the Woman’s club to the new loea tion on Giaver road. Mrs. Cox urged all persons in terested in theatrical work to at tend Thursday night’s meeting. HONORED ~ Sam R. Suber, veteran retired Mountain Rest cemetery superintendent cele brated his 86th birthday Wed nesday. Suber Observes 86th Rirthday Sam R. Suber, 86 on Wednes day, sported a bright red shirt and in good-natured humor teas ed his grandson about being “too old to cHmb the stairs.” He shared his birthday celebra tion yesterday with liis daugh ter. Mrs. Carl Wie.senc'T. Rob Wie.^ener, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wiosoner, and his wife were hosts to a “Neighborlioixl Party” honoring Mr. Siilx*r and Mrs. Wi<»sener at the Wicsener’s new aparCment at the Suber home on S. Piedmont avenue. Mr. Suber’s across • the • .street friends from the City Hall, Polii-c Depaplment, Fire Department. Harris Funeral Home, Central Methmlist chuixb and the Past Office jointxi in the celebration and helped cut a red and white decorated birthday cake topped with '86 from a living room table spread with green cltxth and dec- <^nated with red loscs and red candles. The veteran retired superintend ent of Mountain Rest cx'metery has more time now to sp(*nd with his family and friends. He has pajiticipateri in two church wed dings rcM'ently and now boasts two more granddaughters to the family since Reb Wiesener and S. R, Suber, HI hnve taken brides. Mr. Suber said he is delighted his grandson. Reb and his bride, have occupied a new apartment in his home and “Kay cooks bis cuits just like I like them.” Children of Mr. Sub^'r are Mrs. C!arl Wiesener^ S. Robert Sub<'r, Jr. and Mrs. Nolle Cranford, all of Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain's water will be fluoridated according to State Board of Health specifica tions, beginning Tuesday, when state board officials will be here to supervise the prq;>er in put of fluorine into the water emanating from the Buffalo Creek treatment plant And with the Buffalo Creek treatment plant fully on stream yesterday, the city will reduce its operations at the Deal street plant from weekend operation to a single eight-hour ^ift per week. Some fluorine has been going into the Buffalo Creek plant water since it was put in irse and during the "shedeedown cruise" for the Buffalo Creek plant Unpoid Tax Penalty Escalates Tuesday Penalty on unpaid 1970 city taxes escalates to two percent on Tuesday. iMoantime, Mrs. Stove Har mon. city tax collector, repi>rt- ed payments on the 1^0 levy through Tuesday totaled $254,- 369, or 77.4 percent of the $314,870 levy. The current >'ear budget esti mates 90 peieent collections. Reb Wiesener Places Secend Reb Wie.sener. local, county and district winner in the Amer- ic'an Lcgionspon.‘«>red Oratorical contest, placed second Tuesday in Division V competition in Hen dersonville. The five district winners gave eight minute .speeches without notes or a pfxiium on the topic "1 Speak To The World For Ameri ca.” The fiv(‘ judges also request ed the contestant.s give extem- , poraiH'ous speeches on an Article I of the Constitution rehnited by , the judges. The three young men and two young women had five minutes in which to prepare the sijoeches and could use no notes or podium. Mr. Wiesener received a trophy. Tlic district winner advances to state competition. Carl V. Wiesener accompanied his son to Hondorsonvillo for the ct>n tests. Young VV'lc.sener is a senior stu dent at Kings Mountain high school. He is among thr«'e final- isLs in the 16-clu'b district Vei- erans of Foreign Wars Oratorical contest. Ho won the local contest sixjnsored by Frank B. Glass VFW. City vs. Goforth Hearing Monday Hearing before the Clerk of Su perior Court in tiie city’s con demnation action against Cole man (joforth, initially scheduled for Thursday, has been ixjstponed until Monday morning at 10 o’clock. Mrs. Ruth S. Dedmon, court clerk, said that, with both Super ior and District courts in session, “No suitable quarters wore avail able for the hearing on Thurs day.” The city seeks 150 acres of the Goforth property for the Buffalo Creek water reservoir. Two other tracts, those of Am brose Cline and John D. Cline, are required. The city acquired the so-called “■home place” tract of Buford D. Cline and the Double B Ranch tract, owned by Mr. Cline and W. K. Mauney. Jr., last August and granted both right of appH^-al as to price to Superior Court. Mean time, the city paid the owners the court ordered amount, which was $61,200 to Mr. Cline and his wife, and $44,562.60 to the Double Ranch owners. The appeals as to price are pending in Cleveland Superior Court. Amounts ordered by the court were amounts offer ed by the city on basis of regiis- terod appraisals. Shipp To Seek Commissioner Seat in Five Rev. Howard Shipp, 36, Negro minister and first shift foreman in the Spinning Department of Craftspun Yarns, called the Her ald Wcdn(‘sd'ay evening to say he will file for Ward 5 Commis sioner Thursday afternoon. Mr. Shipp, of .507 Mitchell sfretT, .'wid this will be his first entry in the political arena. In- (‘urnbent Commissioner Maude R. Walker has not indicated wheth er sh<‘ will seek re-eleotion. A Kings Mountain nativ'e, Shipp said his reason for filing is "1 want to be able to help all the iH‘'>ple of Kings Mountain. I am independent and will not be dominated by any group or indi vidual.”, said Shipp. Pastor of Young’s Grove Bap tist church in Blacksburg, S. C., he is enrolled in a Southern Bap tist Seminary extension course, working toward a degree in the ology. He is a graduate of David son high .school and attended Livingstone college at Salisbury. Married to the former Kay Frances Walker of Kings Moun tain. he Is the son of Mrs. Hazel ine Pre-sloy Barnes of Kings Mountain. The Shipp.s are parents of five children: Howard. 17; Michael, 15; Cwiiia, 13; Ronnie, 12; and Valerie Shipp, age 10 Mrs. Devern's Rites Conducted Funeral services for Mrs. Lu cille Devern, 62, of route two. were hold Monday afternoon at 2 oVloc'k from the Chapel of Har ris Funeral Homo, interment fol lowing in Mountain Rest ceme- teiy. Mrs. Devern died at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Kings Mountain hos pital. She was a native of Jackson County and a retired ermployee of Bonnie .Mills. She is survived by her husband, Edwin R. Devern; her mother, Mrs. Elzie W. Monteith of Cash iers; one brother, Richard Mon teith of Cashiers; and two sisters, Mrs. Thelma Smith of Asheville and Mrs. Melba Dillard of Cash iers. Mrs. Houser's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Lillian Alma Houser, 64, of 215 Maple street, \^'ife of Lawson Lee Houser, were conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. from East Gold Strtnn Wesleyan Methodist church, interment fol lowing in Mountain Rest c‘eme- tery. Mrs. Houser died at 7 p.m. Sun day in Cleveland Memorial hos pital after several week’s illness. A native of LiiK'oln County, she was the daughter of the late ^Ir. and Mrs. John Lawson White- sides and a member of East Gold Street Wesleyan church. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are five sons, John L. Houser of Joliet. Ill., Lester Lee Houser of Asheville, Paul Gene Houser of High Point, the Rev. Ervin H. Houser of Cedar Falls and Thomas W. Houser ol Kings Mountain: two daughters, Mrs. Boyd Deaton of Gastonia and Mrs. Jim Buchanan of Kings -Mountain: five brothers, the Rev. Arnold Wliltesides of Lim-olnton, the Rev. Paul Whitesides of Gra ham, Dorse Whitesides of Kings Mountain, Floyd Whitesides of Monroe, and Gordon Whitesides of Joliet, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. Beatrice Hoffman of Tombstone, Arizona: and Mrs. Blanche BlacVt- well of Roc'k Hill, S. C.; 20 grand children and four great-grand- childien. Rev. Edwin Chriscoe and Rev. C. R. (T)odson officiated at the final rites. Mrs. Houser was a charter member of East Gold Street church. Nephews of Mrs. Houser were pallbearers. 82 Pupil Citizens Of the Month Are Tapped In District Schools METER RECXIPTS Parking meter nx'oipts for the wcH*k ending Tuesday total- (Xi $109.05, including $97.55 from off-street meters and $11.50 from on-street meters. Figlity-lwo stu lent Good Citi zens have b(*en recognized ’ey the iCiliz nship Committee of the Association of Classroom Tearh- ers Kin s Moia'.lain Unit. North Carolina Association of Edura- tors. These students wore chosen (ii the basis of good grades, go^Ki eoiKiucl anj rospeel for their sciiools, fellow students and teachers. The Good Citizens from ihc cl- <*mentary schools and Central Junior high school were 'hoson by their classmates and teach ers. Kings Mountain high j^chooTs citizen of the month was chosen bv a commltiei' from the Stud ent Participation Organization on the basis of conduct and sch olarship. At the close of the school \-oar, a GiHT.i Citizen of the Year from each school will b? honored witli an award (fmm the ACT Tlio Citizen of the Year will be chos en from those honored each month. The following have been cho sen from their res>peeiive sci ools for February: Bethwai’e: Angela McKinney, Kevin Babb. Doris Griggs, Ruth I ilnll. nder, Cathy McDaniel, Li sa Yarboro, Monty Rhea, Ri^ky I Smart. (kirry Bell, Janice Gixxme. Tim W’aie, Darrell Love- latx*. East: Lisa Lynn Gre.-no, Ann Ilarhinson, Bobby Hagans III, Mickey l^awrance, Jesse Houser GrtHme, Robin Given, Cindy Sal mons. Mark Mercier, Mark San ders*, Vickie Metcalf, Karjn Bla- cl'.weU. Lisa Hayes, Paula Boy- le.5 Kevin Ettoi-s. Grover: Sandra Appling. Judy Biedso.', Arron Dixon, E-ic My ers. Ricky Proctor Kin Moss, Rolert Wells, Leslie Kambright, ir.i<iie Humphrk's, Jimmy Van dyke, Kim Ki-vr. Srott liatehel- < r. Linda Smith. Angela Man- gum, Kim Johnson. r'orth: Sandra Lee Cobh, Car la Owens. Paiila L.utrail Barnett, Llsti Rol>erfs, Ik'th Bales, Janet HomlsJoy, Barry Morrow. Ter esa Smith. L igh Mauney. Cindy Jol nson, iu.onde Patterson, Pa tricia Mooie. Betty Messick, Ka- ivn Edw-aids, Roxanne Tate, Lindsay Holmes, Kenmth Corn. Mary IlullenJor. Rick Hinnant, (Continued on Fage Six)