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Population Greater Kings Mountain 31.914 City Limits 8.465 Or«at«r Kings Mouatoia figur* Is dsflT*4 frsn tiM tpsanl United State* Bureau of tbe Censui lepert o ranvoTT 196B. and Includes the 14.S90 population o Number 4 Township, and the remaining 4,124 frM Humber S Township. In Cleveland Countg and Crowdsr* Mmintoln Township In Poston CowntT. . ... Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL 82 No. 42 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, October 21, 1971* Eighty-Second Year PRICE TEN CENTS City T raf ficSignalization Projects Bids InSpring 1972 City Incumbents Terms Extended 1973 Elections fere Will Be In October By MABTIN HARMON Terms cf office of vast majority of North Carolina city and town current administrations, includ ing Kings Mountain’s, were ex tended by legislation of the Gen eral Assembly implementing the state’s new Constitution W'hich be came effectiive July 1. Popular Governiment summar izes highlights of the new elec tion law, and these apply to Kings Mountain: 1) All elections for municipal officers will be held in the fall of odd-numbered years. Persons elected in earlier years to terms otherwise expiring in the spring of 1973 c*ontjnue in office until the persons elected in the fall ol 1973 take office. The primary pur pose of this change was to coor dinate more effectively the elec tion timetable with the budget timetable. Under present law most cities hold their elections in May. Thus the new officers must adopt a budget immediately upon taking office, a budget they can affect only at the final stages o[ its preparation. With elections in the fall, the new officers will take office in time to influence the WiJ.tii'e budget process. Nonpartisan eleation, with a nrn-uff. The election w'ill be held on the tfourth Tuesday before the Tuesday after t-io first Monday in November, and the run-off, 11 necessary, will be on the latter date. Any candidate receiving a majority of the votes oast in the election is elected. If no candidate receives a majority, a run-off, only if demanded by the second- highest vote-getter, shall be held; otherwise the top vote-getter is elected. Item 2 means that the regular city election will be held in Octo ber 1973, rather than May, and the run-off will be in early Nov ember, extending terms of the present administration by six months. Popular Government does not report when ele?cted candidates take office. It does note that city comimis- sions, as Kings Mountain docs, can no longer double in brass as th^ city’s board of elections. The city has the option of appointing a city elections board of three members or employing the serv ices of the county board of elec tions. Either is responsible to the state board of elections. Another change adds an hour to the voting day. Polls will still open at 6:30 a.m. but will close an hour later at 7:30 p.m. Saturday Service Over At Postofiice The Kings Mountain Post Office is now closed on Saturdays. Assistant B. Frank Cox, assist ant postmaster, said the new schedule went into effect two weeks ago. Formerly, the postof fice window was open from 8:30 until 12 noon. Mr. Cox said bust ness didn't warrant the Saturday opening. Mr. Cox reminded citizens that two outgoing mail services are being dispatched: at 2:15 p.m and 5:30 p.m. Formerly there was only one at 6 p.m. Mr. Cox said the additional out going mail at early afternoon is speeding up service considerably. He said that area postoffices have been long operating on a 40-hour week schedule, from 8:30 until 5 p.m, Monday through Fri day. Schools, Duplex UF100 Peicent Kings Mountaiiv’s United Fund reporting wiis slow late Wednes day afternoon but Chairman Mar vin Teer expressed high hopes of reaching the goal of $$54,500. As of Wednesday, only $15,000 in funds had been reported but Teer said several project chaiir- men had not reported their totals. “If we don’t^reach our goal,” Teer said, ^e’li come real close. If the people come through like they did last year, we’ll reach it. I have high hopes that we will.” Approximately $7,000 of Wed nesday’s total came from indus try and Teer said that 15 to 20 companies still have not report ed. Industry holds the key, Teer said, to whether or not tht goal will be reached. Other divisions which were in cluded in the $15,000 total were commercial, $2,000; schools, $2,000; advanced gifts, $1,500; correspondence, $500; and public employees, $100. Teer said schools was the only division which netted 100 per cent of its goail. Also reported was a donation of $-1,000 from Duplex. That total was $1,500 ovTcr Duplex’s dona tion last year. The United Fund’s goal of $34,500 will aid 12 causes. Teer said all donations would probably be Imported by next week. TO MEE'HNG Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor of First Presbyterian church, is at tending a Regional Commission meeting of the Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, Va. Crescent Hill Property Re-zoned; Morgan Rules No Interest Conflict Crescent Hill property on Oak- has not been made, land street was re-zoned by the The commission fotrwarded to city commission Monday night to the zoning board for reejommend- oermit construction of apart- ation, two other petitions: 1) From multi-family dwelling The unanimous vote of the designation to R. O., joinUy-own- commission was made after Com- ed S. Cansler Street property of mUsioner W. S. BiddTx read a let ter from the Attorney-General Robert Morgan in which he de clared no conflict of^ interest in the favorable re-zomng recom mendation of the city zoning board and fact that Fred W. Plonk, part-owner of the six acre tract, is chairman of the zoning board. The attorney-general reviewed facts that while Mr. Plonk pre sided at the zoning board meet ing, he t(x>k no part in the d'is- cussiens and abstaining from vot ing. Commisrsioncr Biddix who had asked tabling until a ruling could be obtaint'd, made the motion to re-zone and it wag passed unani mously. Several property owners had opposed the re-zoning, and it had been tabled since last April. Hal S. Plonk, other owner of the property, had told the board la.st mrnth a maximum of 40 lux ury-typo aparrmehts would be /jfc'lt in the area. He told the pr^ides T^Pald Monday night decision on how many will be Duilt initially Throngs Attend Woman's Club's 68th Festival Thirteen paintings by nowicom- er Mrs. Opal Reading, several of which were blue ribbon winners at the county fair plus a freshly p-ainted one fciaturing the W. T. Weir barn, were among outst'and- fng e.\ihibits by local p(»o.ple at the Woman’s club comm unity festival yesterday. A '‘sold out” crowd of 205 visit ed the dining room at the noon hour and many others sampled the oyster and turkey dinners that evening. Mrs. W. T. Weir, president, said the popular educational exhibits would remain open Thursday and Friday from 3-5 p.m. each day and issued invitation to all who didn’t see the exhiloiits yesterday to take the opportunity to do so. Included in the mammoth .show ing of activities in the district schools are displays conducted by students and school personnel, a- long with slides, closed ciricuit television, and equipment used in the various programs. A record number of entries are featured throughout the fair which had tihe theme, “Help Schools Bridge The Gap.” iDecoupage by Joyce Wyte, paintings by young Perry Ham- bright, acrylics by Bill Ruswell, an original of a cartoon published by Sandy Campbell, paintings by his mother, late artist Elva Campbell and her sister, Mrs. Virginia Hutghinson Danner; a collection of original candlehoid- ers by young Ja.s»on Pouchak; wat- ercolor work by Mrs. R. M. Snow and Mrs. Julia Bryant, both of Mount Aiiy; and Japanese floral arrangements by Mrs. W. .M. Gantt are featured in the art di vision of the show whiich in cludes work by a number of young artists. Mrs. H. O. Williams has on display her mother’s burgundy wine w'edding dress and slippers wH>rn August 12, 1905 and Mrs. Delbert Dixon displays her white christening drt'ss made by her laite grandmother, Mrs. T. F. Fisher in 1900. Clyde Lindsay has on display a six foot tall wooden gun cabinet. Least number of entries was in the floral division and Mrs. Weir said reason for lack of entries was Friday’s storm. No roses were entered in this year’s show. The schools exhibit, which Cov ers the entire auditorium area of the Woman’s club, begins with an exhibit by the Early Child hood Education Center at Com pact w'ith “Strong ^'irst Steps To School Success”. East school fol lows with a section on language arts featuring trees of homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms and drawings, books, and student pa pers. West studcn.ts devote a sec tion to mathematics, now and old methods with mea.suring equipment feature. Bethwarc stu dents oxpre^ss art, music and ex tras in their division which also includes record players, auto harps, art supplies, tamborine.s, drums, etc. North school, w;hicih is beginning a vocational aware ness prcgraim like Central and the high school, featured audio visual materials and teaching Continued On Page Six Harris Supports “No Fault” Plan Water Line Bids Due Wednesday The City of Bessemer City will open bids Wednesday at 2 p.m. on the Klings Mountain- Bessemer City water line. Clerk. Hemy Ormar^ said Wednesday. The line will enable Bessemer City to buy an initial 230,000 gallons of water daily. Cost of the^ line is being borne by Gaston County and •Bessemer City. The line will bo joined to the Kings Mountain line serving Kings Mountain Industrial P(<rk in the edge of (Jaston County and will link with Be^emer City’s line within the Bessemer city limits. Joint engineers for the pro ject are J. N, Pease & .tVssoci- ates and W. K. Dickson & Com pany, both of Charlotte. Easley Resigns; To Albemarle Rev. Charles Easley, pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutlieran church since September of 1964, resigned liis post Sunday to accejpt the pastorate of the First Lutheran Church in Albemarle. Ri*v. • Ea.slcy’s resignation will betomo effective December 31. Easley, married to the former Emma Lou Bossart of Arona, Pa., and the father of four children, came hero from Center Grove Lutheran Church in Kanapolis. He has also seirvod the Lutheran Ohurcli of Our Savior at Albany, Ga., and St. Peter’s Lutheran Churdi in Lexington, S. C. He has served Kings Mountain as president of the ifedary Club, president of the Ministerial As- sexiation and president of the Cleveland County Mental Health Ass<x:iati(>n. Rev. Easley graduated from Newberry College in 1953 and Lutlieran Southern Seminary in 1956. His oldest son, Chuck, is a freshman at Newberry College. His cliiug’lUer, Ira Lou, Ls a stu dent at Kings Mountain High and iiis youngest diildnui. Bill and Penny, are elemenlairy soliool students. He Would Vote To Bring Bill Out In Sesrion By MARTIN HARMON State Sena;tor OlliFTlarris said Wednesday he will support con sideration of a “no fault” auto mobile liability insurance bill in the special session of the Gen eral Assembly, opening Tuesday, if one is offered. “I favckT ‘no fault’ insurance,” the Senator added. Senator Hargrove Bowles, ol Greensboro, candidate for Gov ernor will introduce a l>ill, it is presumed, on basis of his recenJt statementLs calling tor the Gen eral Assemibly to stay in session urfctil Christmas, if necessary, to adopt a “no fault” automobile liabilitiy insurance law. The special session was called to adopt, if possible, a new set of lawg relating To operation of so • called “re^uotiuring” the state’s university management set-up. Senator Harris doubts insuir- an-ce revision program will be a- dopted in the special session, due to opposition of consideration of other than university “restriwtur- ing” by the speakers of House and Senate, Rep. Phil Godwin and Lt.-Gov, Pat Taylor. Senator Harris also thinks it quite po&jible “restructuring” Won’t be enacted and will be carried over to the 1973 General Assembly, with a ‘‘blue ribbon” commission named to make roc- ommendations. . ...... FORMER QTIZEN RECEIVES AWARD — Jack C. Owens of Char lotte, right above, former Kings Mountoin citizen ond husband of the former Joan Thomasson of Kings Mountain, is shown oc- cepting an oword Krt the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce awards banquet recently in which firms who hove invested o million dollars or more in new buildings in Charlotte in the seventies were recognized. Owens ig southeastern district mon- oger of Peter Cooper Corporation, a synthetic adhesive manufac turer with Mecklenburg County division ot Pineville their first synthetic adhesive plant The Owens family includes two chil dren, Luke, age two, and Keio, oge four. Area Industries Among Honorees Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, Sr., and Jbhn L. MtcGiTl. 2) Prom R-20 to general busi ness designation, York Road pro perty of Mr. and Mrs. John C, Caveny. Miss Gussie Huffstetler asked Mayor Jolm Henry Moss to a report on his conversation with former Highway Commissioner W. B. Garrison on the U. S. 74 by pass pirojeot. The Mayor replied at sWme length that he had conferred with Mr. Garrison, reporting both support and opposition to , the project, and that the Commis sioner replied he w^Td forward the information to then-highway conKmission Di\rector W. B. Bab cock, which, in turn, Mr. Garri son had done. This was confirm ed by Herald Editor Martin Har mon, present for the conference in Mr. Garrison’s G^onla office. Miss Huffstofler complained that a report should have been given her and other citizens, and that the projected route, which a major interchange Continued On Page Six Kidney Transfer Patient Is Home Mrs. Frances Green has been discharged from Charlotte Mem orial hospital and is doing well, she said yesterday. The Kings Mountain woman, who underwent a kidney trans plant August 5th, still required treatment in the form of two vac cines for swelling twice a week. She says she is “happy to be home” and “wanted to thank everyone” for their many kind nesses during her long hospital!- zatiion. The Frances Green Kidney Fund, launched by Dixon Com- muniity 4-H clu'b to help defray costs of the expensive operation, lis now $2,073.56. This rash-on- hand figure dfx?sn’t include $1100 already withdrawn and $1(X)0 from a carwash sponsored by in mates of the Shelby Prison Unit. Tlie fund drive is still conlinu- ing. Mrs. Green saiid the family’s $15,000 major medical insurance policy has been used for medical expenses during the six month’s period i^rfie has required extensive treatment for a kidney ailment aiid subbcquent kidney txansplant. The Rains Came; Reports Vary How much did it rain Friday night? J. C. Bridges, hardwaroman, said he measured seven inches at his liouso on Hillside Drive. SlioUby airport recorded 5.11. The waterline moa.sured on a wall at John Gamble Football StUdium reacln'd 24 in’chos, Supt. Donald Jones told the board of educat ion members Monday niglit. bout the field and a fence was Several benches were waslied a- washed down. Miss Bessie Bumgardner, own er of Bessie’s B^MUty Shop, re ported considerable damage to her slio]) on York road on SatUT; day, customers washed their hair at heme and came to the shop to have it .set. Schools Name Good Citizens A total of 169 Kings Mountain distric^t pupils were tappc*d as Good Citizens for the month uf September, first month of school this term. Students are selected on basis of: all A’s on citizenship; C aver age in academics; good manners in school and school functions; cooperative altitude; happy and friendly disposition; respcxrt and care for school property; interest ed in others and thoughtful and regard for rules and regulations. They include: Early Childhood Education Center — Kent Roberts, Angola Curry, John Ross and Sophia John son, first grades; Barney Robeirts and Barbara Vestal, second grade. Bethware: Jerri Paterson, Jamie Y'arbro, Mary .4nn Burns, Jeff Champion, Danna Lynn Seism, Llo3"d Henry Clark, Karen Dixon, Craig Bridges, Mary Ann Breakfield, Roger Camp, Kim Dixon, Dennis Caveny, Rita Beat ty, Craig Mayes, Debbie Appling, Ronald Dobbins, Kim Whisnant, Allen Putnam, Patricia Patterson, Donald Bell, ^erri Sellers, Garry Ml, Janice Bolin and Monty Rhea. Central Junior High: Jeff Jones, Elizabeth Eaker, &oilt Broadnax and Sharon Pruetite. Continued On Page Six Jurors: Do Not Come 'til Tuesday Jurors summoned to report Monday for service in Cleveland County Superior Court should not report until Tuesday. Deiputy Clerk Nan ArrowxKxi said \\1ien the notices were mailed the fact thajt Monday is a legal holiday was forgotten. Connor Youth's Arm Not Rroken, Says Jones; KMHS Rebel Flag Affray Schools Supt. Donald Jones said charges made .Monday to the h-iard of education by-Mr. and Mrs. Donald Conner that their son, Donald Conner, Jr. sustain ed a fractuix'd arm in a fight at the high school September 29 and the incident denied by KM'HS Principal Jake Atkinson had been clarified. Mr. Jones reported results of investigation he made into the charg<'s and following conference Tuesday with the student, his par ents and the school principal. Ho said: “According to racords at the high .school, Conner, Jr. checked out of school at 9:45 a.m. on Sept. 29 bi'causo ho wasn’t feel- lug well. The alleged fight took place about 10:37 a.m. during activity period and after a Con federate flag ■was remo^'ed from the .school flagpole. “The fi£ht took place between Oennor and a Negro boy, whom Conner said was not a student. The “outsider”, according to Con ner, was driving a yellow cax with bkick vinyl top, “Dr, Gary Mangrum of Grover said he made x-rays of the Con ner boy’s arm at Grover Clime Sept. 29 and recalled hfim tor more x-rays when he discovered the x-rays were not cleax. Dr. Mangruim said the youth did rtot suffer a fracture of the arm. “Donald, Jr. said he had been in an earlier fight at Shoney’s ill Gastonia. A boy hit me. He ^dn’t return the blow.” “The boy's father and mother registered a complaint betore the board of cd-uoation Monday night in which they said their sopho more son was involved in a fdghit which included “eight or ten boys using belts’wra-pped around their hands with the buri^les ex- Continued On Page Six Squad Drive Is Over-Subscribed The Kings Mountain Roscuo Squad Fund Drive, conducted by the Jaycees, has surpassed its goal of $8,500. Co-chairmen Jerry Simmons and Bib Loflwich said WtKlnosday thoit colloi'tlons now total $9,931.- 42 and that contributions are still bt'ing received. 'They prediotod that the total will surpass $10,- 000. The drive proceed^ will be used to purohaso a now ambulance for t(ho Rescue Squad. Biggest donors, the co-chair men said, were Duplex Sharuion, which gave $500; Mauney Hos iery, which donoUxI $300; and Kings Mountain Knit, which gave $200. Kings Mountain Kniit headed list of donors last week. Other contributions included Ten>ple Baptist Qiurch, $103; Kings Mill, $100; bake sale by Rescue Squad members’ wives, $66; and Garri son Bible Class of Boyce Memor ial ARP Church, $25. Other donors included Hazel 'Gill, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Tinsley, Mr. and Mrs. Glee Bridges, Bur lington Mill, Alcan Aluminum, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ohildere and Mrs. Ruby McDaniel. Jim Belt was recognized by Simmons and Leftwidh tor his in dividual effort in solciciting funds for the drive. Belt collected over $2,000. The co-chairmen stated, “we’d like to thank the many fine -ciiti- zens of Kings Mountain and the businesses tor contributlnig to this worthy cause. It’s wondenful that citizens of a small town will work together In projects sufch as this.” KM Township Has Forty Industries Cleveland County industry will be spotlighted Wednesday at a banquet at 7 p.m. at Shelby Elks Lodge and officials of 40 plants in the Kings Mountain area are expected to attend. Principal address w'ill be made by Roy Sowers, secretary of the N. C. Department of Natural and Economic Resources. In oociptra-tion with Governor Robert Scott’s proclamation of In dustrial Appreciation Week in North Carolina October 25-29, the Shelby Chamiber of Commerce is spearheading plans for the spe cial day. The Chamiber acted at the request of the county com missioners and the commission, along wnifh the city of Shelby and the city of Kings Mountain are picking up the bills for a banquet which will climax the day’s events. The event Is planned as a for mal ‘"niank you” to industry. Industries are invited to pre pare exliibits for display at the banquet as a special feature of the day. Two Rail Gates To Re Installed. Signals Up-Dated By MARTIN HARMON Kings Mountain’s traffic signal- ization program sliculd go to bid by Spring 1972, witli construction and installation of signals to be gin in the summer. J. O. Litchlord, slate traffic en gineer, said the signalization pro gram is now in final planning and i.s ready foj project consid eration. The projection follow's a review of plans last week by David Webb and Landis Salterw'hiie of the highway commission’s traffic en gineering department, and Mayor John Henry Moss. To tIhe Mayor’s telephonic in quiry of Mr. Litchford Wednes day, the engineer said it is possi ble a traffic signal light will be installed at the busy West King Street-Cansler Street intersection, if there appears to be undue de lay in timetable for the total projec't. The project includes installa tion of rail safely gates at the Gold and Mountain street cross ings and Improvements to traffic control systems at 14 initersec- tions, including the new signal at King-Cansler. The state highway commission will pay the full bill with excep tion of differential for metal poles, rather than wood, in the downtown area, and Southern Railway’s ten jxjrcent contribu tion for the rail gates. Compaired to the present traf fic signal system, the projected one is quite “sophisticated”. Sev eral of the intersections wall have pedestrian controls, where a punch of a button by the pedes trian will stop traffic. Cross-walks will be well-m'arked. Motorists S9tand to ‘ gain at many intersections by wider ap proaches and sidewalks. Mayor Moss said there were on ly minor changes (his memory was two) from the original plan presented several months ago. Phillips Ruilding Eleven Houses Phillips Development (Company, Inc., of Gaffney, S. C., have pur chased city building permits for the construction of 11 homes in East Kings Mountain. Two of the residences are to be built on Groves street, nine on Northwoods Drive. Cost of the residences arp esti mated at $15,000. Other permits: William Paul Bridges, 500 East King street, $700 warehouse ad dition. F. O. Carroll. 608 West King sti.et, tmiltr permit, $225. Zoning permit for trailer to Teddy Fox, Silver Dollar Trailer Park. RADIO BROADCAST Sunday morning W’orsfhiip serv ice during the month of Octo ber are being broadcast via Ra dio Station WKMT from First Presbyterianf churtch. KIWANIS SPEAKER Dr. H. C. Evans, Jr., pn'sident of Lees-McRae college at Ban ner Elk, will be guest speaker at Thursday’s meeting of the Kiwanis club. Dr. Evans is also chairman of the vocational guidance program for the Caro- linas District of Kiwanis Inter national. iFARM BUREAU The an-nual meeting of the CJoveland County Farm Burt^-au will be held on ThuT.-^day night, Oc5t. 28th, at Brackett’s C^'ar Park at 7 pjm. Awards will be presented to the “Farm Bureau Family of the Year” and “Young Farmer of the Yean” Rural Rridges Took Worse Licking From Friday Night's Long Storm Ov'er five inches of rain fell near the Kings Creek bridge be- here Friday night, eausintg con- ing washed away. Several pas- siderable damages in Kings lurs along the bottom land of Mountain and surrounding areas, that road were washed away. An electrical storm which Secondary Road 2230, known forced postponement of the sec- as the Clearview Baptist church ond half of the Kings Mountain- road in Grover, was closed until Shelby football game caused ex- Tuesday. Two culvert fills were tensive damage to the city’s out and half of the road was electrical system. Power was out washed completely out. The Buf- in the southern area of the city falo Creek bridge between Grov- for sevral hours. er and Earl was also washed 'In the outskirts of the city, completely out the heavy flooding caused con- The road damage over tlie en- siderable damage to bridges, hot- tire Cleveland County was esti- tom land, and roads. Several matd at $90,000. rural dirt roads were washed out and closed Saturday. Inside the city, the most severe Secondary Road 2235, which flooding was in the low lying runs from the Bethlehem church areas of Landin-g, Bridges, Ful- communlty to Grover, was clos- ton and Hillside streets. Water ed Saturday as a result of the at John Gamible stadium, the iLong Branch Creek bridge being site of the MM-Shelby ball game, washed completely out. rose over 24 incho.'j. Mayor John (Rural Road 2286 in the Dixon Moss reported no damalge to the school community was closed Buffalo Creek water project. Saturday as a result of the road Water rose over seven feet there*