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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL 82 No. 44
Established 1889
Kings M.ountain, N, Q., Thursday, November 4, 1971
Eighty-Second Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
General To
Guard
• T ikT 1 Publicinvited
narris Is Named ToSeeDrui
6:30 Thursday
To Commission
HOMECOMING QUEEN AND COURT — Susan Davis< high school senior student, was crowned
Homecoming Queen at Fridoty night festivities du ring the KMHS Mountaineers and Bums high
school footboU gome at John Gamble Memorial Stadium. Members of the Court were featured in
a 28-unit parade on downtown streets Friday afternoon. From left to right: Judy Ware, Cynthia
Alexander, Miss Davis, Kathryn Owens and Dionne Spearman. (Photo by Isoac Alexander)
Commission Room Is Filled
For Urban Renewal Hearing
Harris Member
Government
Study Group
Senator J. OHie Harris has
been ajoointeci a memhor of the
L'x:'il Governmcnl Study Coinmis-
sion by LieuU'nani-Governor H.
Pat Taylor.
£niat< T Harris was notified of
the a;jpointmonl. by letter he 're
ceived Tuesday.
The nine-niem,b(T commission
will include thr'*e senators and
six 'members of TTre Hjuso of Reip-
rosentatives.
Identity cf the other members
has not been learned.
Kormer Senator Jack H. White
served as co-chairman of this
commission during his service in
the senate.
Senator Harris is completing his
first term.
Questions Posed
OnCanslerArea
Renewal Project
By MARTIN HARMON
The city commission meeting
m was filled to over-capacity
lesday night at the Redevelop
ment Cernmission held a public
lieaiing on the $3.2 million Cans-
Jer street area urban renewal pro-
jeet.
The two-hour session featured
general outline of plans by Com-
mi-sion Director Joe Laney and a
lengthy question-answer session
in which property owners in the
area posed questions pertaining
to their particular situations.
Mr. Laney presented Hazel J.
Brown, project director, who
pledg(jd full cooperation in work
ing with affected property own
ers. "I’m available day or night
and weTl get the answers to your
questions," Mr. Brown said.
Mr. Laney said the commission
t nvisions actual start on the pro
ject In early 1972 — late Janu
ary or February, with some 275
dwelling units, 75 of them single-
family, to DC built in the area.
MISIMPRESSION
T.ie county tax supt»rvisor got
the Kings Mountain Redevelop
ment Commission ahead of it
self — in the minds of some.
Seme eitizens’of the Cansler
Redevelopment Area, when they
receiv(‘d county property reval
uations, thought they were be
ing given property purchase of
fers from the Redevelopment
Comimission.
They weren’t. The Commis-
mission is required to have two
• iti)arate appraisals and only
!»ne appraiser has completed his
work.
> vl
United Fund
Contiibutions
Up To $23,107
Flying Glass Cuts
Former Citizen
GOOD CITIZEN—Cynthia Alex
ander has been selected os
DAR Good Citizen by Colonel
Fr<£derick Hombright Chopter,
DAR.
Major IGencral Ferd L. Davis,
the adjutant general of North
Carolina, 'will visit the National
Guard's Company E {•), lOath
Engineer Battalion, in Kings
Mountain on Thursday, Nov. 1,
The unit is havirtr a regular
ly scheduled drill to which local
officials, parents, wives, and
children of Guaidsmen have been
invited.
Gen. Davis and his wife will
siK-ak to the families cf Guards
men about the Guard and the ad
vantages offered to those who
continue their membership.
Accompanying Gen. and '.Mrs.
Davis an‘ Lt. Col. James M.
Fletcher of Butner, president oi
the 'N. C. National Guard asso
ciation, and Lt. Col. Rol)ert J.
Durham of Durham, recruiting
and retention offu-er on Gen.
Davis’ staff in Raleigh.
The activities at the Guard
armory on Thursday are planned
to acMuainl mem'ljers of the com
munity with the mission of the
Guard and to strengthen the
traditional ibond 'between Kings
Mountain and the N. C. National
Guard.
Farrington
Cc-Developer
^ Mcrm!ig-/yter
Birth Control
Fill Eifective
4,
EVANGELIST—Rev.-Curtis Bun
dy will be evangelist lor revival
services beginning Sunday cKt
Bethlehem Baptist church*
Bethlehem
Series Opens
Rev. Curtis Bundy, pastor of
Ross Grci.e Baptist churcJi of
Shelby and former pastor of Oak
View Baptist church on York road,
will be evangelist for revival serv
ices beginning Sunday at Bethle-
ihem Baptist church.
Services will be held nightly
■through Nov. 14th a't 7:30 p.m.
Bill McDaniel will be music di
rector for the services and special
singing will be foaftured.
Rev. Russell Fitts, pastor, issued
invitation to the community to
attend.
A shot fired through a glass
doer at Parkway Elementary
school last Thursday in Boone
mUs(‘d teacher Mickey Powers,
but flying glass cut him siigbtiy-
Formerly of Kings Mountain,
ho is the soji of Mr. and Mrs.
The Kings Mountain United Ertlc Powers, of Charlotte.
Fund is moving closer to its Three eightii grade boys were
goal of $34,500. . charged. with shooting at the
iMrs. Becky Seism reported teacher after he refused to give
Wednesday that the total has thorn the keys to liis car. Tney
now reached $23,107.20. That’s an were found guilty of delinquency
increase of over $6,000 from last in district court in Bewne Tues-
week. day and returned to Watauga
The bulk of last week’s dona- County Jail to await sentencing
tions came from industry. Over on Friday.
$5,000 was turned in from that ■
decision. Scv’eral industries have
yet to report their donations.
IMrs. Seism said that corre
spondence has reached its goal
of $1,380. That division now has
$1,457.
Cindy Alexander
DAR Citizen
Foote Gives
Safety Awards
The Kings Mountain Operations
Box / Leal-Gathering
To Begin Friday
The city sanitation depart
ment will begin its annual au
tumn loaf pick-up Friday morn
ing, Mayor John Henry Moss
announced Wednesday.
The leaf-gathering crew will
also work Saturday afiternoon.
The <>ity will use both ils leaf
"vacuum cleaner * aiid a tt>n-
venticnaJ truck fer leave.s in
containers — preferably -plastic
bags cr covered boxes.
of Foote Mineral 'Company held Youth Choir, Drama group and
its General Safety Meeting and pianist for beginner and primary
The program also is planned
so individual Guardsmen can
identify with the (.“ommunity and
its activities through the Guard.
The National Guard is recogniz
ed for its community service
Cynthia Keye Alexander, daugh- throughout the state, particular-
ter of Postmaster and Mrs. Charles work with youth organiza-
L. Alexander, has been selected tions, such as the ^y Scouts and
as DAR Good Citizen by Colonel '*^*^*1 Scouts, in their pro-
Frederi’ek, Hairnbrigiht Chapter, gf^nis-
Daughters of the American Revo- 'Mayor John H. Moss, Cleveland
County Commission Chairman
B. E. Simmons of Shelby, and
Miss Alexander, a high school other city and county officials
senior, received a certificate and are among those to meet Gen.
a pin. at Wednesday’s meeting of Davis and Guard officials at the
the DAR at the home-of Mrs. W. armory on Mountain street and
T. W'eir. Mrs. L. E. Hinnant, Re- Phifer road. The public is inviied
gent, made the presentation and lo attend the activities which
irik'ited Miss Alexander to attend scheduled to begin at 6:30
a luncheon to be hosted by DAR P- m-
District U at Gardner VVebb col- Capt. Kennetli E. Mauney of
lege Nov. 13. Shelby is commanding officer of
the Kings Mountain Guard unit.
Active in First Baptist church ^nd 1st Sgt. Charles E. WTlson
wlierc she is assistant organist, jg the full time Guardsman on
mem'ber of 'the Youth Council, duty Monday through Friday.
4^
s
■'ft.
choirs. Miss Alexander also di
re j;s primary and junior choirs of
Temp-iC Baptist church and teach
es piano and organ. A member of
the National Honor Society, she
is an officer of the French club,
Governor’s Conference
dren and Youth.
He explained that displaced
families will be eligible for up to
$200 for moving costs, with up to
$1000 for aged, and with a $5(X)0
rcipla'cemen-t grant for displaced
home owners who reinvest in a
home.
Among answers to individual
questions:
1) Engineering inspection of a
s t rucl u ra 1 cond i t ion determ i ned
whether houses would be razed.
2) Rccxfmmendati'on of tru.^teos
Continued On i^age Eight
Seism Bites
Today At 3
Byers Hurt
When Hit By Car
A nine -year-old Kings Mount
ain youth, Gerald Christopher
Byers, of Rt. 3, was treated at
Kings Mountain Hospital for in
juries he received yesterday
when struck by a car.
Investing highway patrolman
J. L. Evans said the boy ran a-c-
cross N. C. 316, north of Kings
Rolandes Mountain about 6:30 p. m. and
Court, into the path of a car operated
Funeral rites for
Seism, 78, of Chesterfield
will be held Thursday afternoon by James Calvin Griffin of Rt.
at 3 p.m. from Macedonia Baptist 1, Kings Mountain,
church.
Annual Fish Fry on Friday, Octo
ber 29.
H. M. Broadwater compliment
ed the omplcyeiN on their good
pcricrmance and .safety since the
last meeting. General Plant and
Maiti'tonance Departments have
6 years and 8 months without a
lost-time ajcidcnt; the Milling
Dcpaitmon't 'reathed one year on
October 16 and the Mine Depart
ment has 291 riays.
Safety awards were j^resented
lo the following for w'orklng with
out a lost-time accident. Receiv
ing safety ‘awtirds and gift cer
tificates hu 20 years were Floyd
G. Goicrtli, i'red L. Tliornburg,
Joe 7. Jimson, John M. Peterson
and William 1. Berry; for 15
years — CamplKdl L. Lockridge,
Mrs. Jessie H. Collins, and Will
iam H. Earley. Employees receiv
ing safety awards for 10 years
were Fred A. Conner, L^yd D. Ear
ly, Bcbby G, Carrigan, Jet E. Par
ker, Benjamin F. Goforth, Jaimes
C. Seism and J. D. Bridges; and
2 years — Joseph Beasley and J.
David Clippard.
Harley J. McIntosh, a foiimcr Gardner-Webb college,
employee who retired in 1967, the pulpit at Sunday
was a guest.
HONORED — Epsilon UpsUon
Chapter of Omega Psi Phi fra
ternity is honoring Mr. ond Mrs.
Edgar Davis Wilson as ’’Citizens
of the Year" in Sundoy cere
monies at First Congregational
United Church of Christ in Lin
coln Academy community.
Omega Psi Phi
Taps Wilsons
By MAUDE M. JEFFERS
- - , for Tilman Epsilon Upsilon Ciiapter of
^ible club, and was a member of Blease Goforth, 61., were held Omega Flu fraierniiy will
the 'Homecoming Couxl Friday. Saturday at 3 p. m. from Grace o.'.serve the annua| Arhievement
A member of the *‘Gcx>d New^s United Methodist chuivh of Week Program Sunday. Novem-
Singers cf America" concert itoui which he was a member. ber 7 at 4 p. m. at First Con-
group she vl-'.ited Europe and the iRev. N. C- Bush, assisted by grogational United Church of
Soviet Union in 1970. She repre-'Carl Sparks, pastor of First Clirist of Lincoln Aiademy com-
sented the county at the 1970 Wesleyan church, officiated at m.nily of Kings Mountain.
Goforth Rites
Are Conducted
Funeral rites
on Chil-
She plans to major in music at
Gardner VVebb college.
The DAR Good Citizen is an
annual award. The 'winner is
chosen on basis of all-around par
ticipation as a good citizen at
home, church, school and the
corn'inunity.
Tlu- I'.reat-nejjhew nf Mr. and
Nlrs. C.>di* Kerns <d Kings Mcnm-
tain i.s one <»f two dort^'U’s who
have (ie\<‘l.'p(‘fl a “nioi-iiing aft
er" birth eonuol pill.
Dr. Cecil larnn::inn. 2ti. .sun
of Mr. ami Mr.'-. (7*cil l-'arring-
ton of Granite Qu nry. ha.'^ i<‘-
ported 100 per cx*ni i»\<s witli
a "morninig-after’ birth control
pill that offers pitysicians an al
ternative to abortion.
Dr. Farrington, who is taking
advanced woi'k at North Carnlhia
'Memorial hospital, and lu.
Takey Crist pix^sented their fiiKl
ings to 300 delegate.^ at a dis
trict meeting of the American
College of OIistetri(ian.s and
Gynei’ologists in Norfolk, V’a.
Drs. Farrington and Crist said
that in a one-year study none
of the 04 timiale patients who
took the pill following unprotect
ed s<’xual intercourse became
pregnant.
They said the j)}]l should be
considered as “emergency treat
ment’ and not as a contraceptive
devic'e.
“We’re talking about easo.s of
sexual «issaull o r accidents
where the woman does not want
to become pregnant," they said
in their findings. The pill will of
fer an alternative to abortion by
preventing conception after sex
ual relations rather than termi
nating a pregnancy, they told the
delegates attending the meeting.
Dr. Farrington, now in his
third year of medieval school, is
a graduate of East Rowan high
school. He was. graduated with
honors in 196S from North Caro
lina State University with a
bacliolor of scieme degree in zoo-
logy.
While at State, he was elected
lo momix?rship in iMii Kappa Phi,
national honorary society which
recognizes outstanding scholar-
sliip and is LVjuivalent to Phi
Bela Kappa im i5>eral arts col
leges, and Plii Era Sigma, also
an honorary society.
He was then aceepled as a st.a-
denl at the University of North
Caioiiiia Medi.al school and is
now pivsideiit of the student
body of the medical scliool.
In 197q lie was one of IS
American medical students who
was selected lo participate in a
summer study program in Great
Britain. The program was spon
sored by Hie Division of Com
munity Mwiieal Care at ITNC and
was founded by the uke En-
(iowment.
No charges were filed in con
nection with the wreck.
Vester Hull of 217 N. Water-
son St., Kings Mountain, was
charged with driving under the
influence second offense after
the car he was operating reixirt-
edly collided with a car operated
iby Billy Belk of 201 Thornbung
The body will fcmain at Sisk Drive, Kings Mountain.
Funeral Home until the hour of Trooper J. R. Reid said iBelk
service. was backing from a private
drive when the wreck occured.
The city commission will hold He is suitvived by his wife, Mrs. Total damage was listcKl at
its regular meeting at City Hall Cora Ford Seism; two daughters, $i;ioo. No injuries were imported.
Commission
To Meet Monday
Rev. L. D. Scruggs and Rev.
Floyd Keascr will officiate at the
final riles and interment will be
in Mountain Rest cemetery.
Mr. Seism died at 3 aon. Tues
day in the Kings Mountain hos
pital.
ROTARY CLUB
Bob Kiiigc^y is program chair
man for Thursday’s meeting of
the Rotary club at 12:15 at the
Country club.
Annas To Fill
Baptist Pulpit
Charles Houser, all of Kings
Phillip Annas, of Granite Falls, Mountain; one stepdaughter,
senior ministerial student at Mrs. George R. McAlister of
will fill Kenedy. Texa.s; one stepson,
morning jerry Wilson of Atlanta, Ga.;
worship servfce at 11 o’clock at Kenedy, Texas; one stop son
'Kings Mountain Baptist church, four step-grandchildren; three;
Sunday is Ministerial Educa- ibrothers, Preston Goforth of
tion Day in Baptist churches of Grover, Elmer Goforth of Gas-
the county and ministerial stu- tonia and W. G. Goforth of Hie-
the final rites, and interment George Gregory, 'basileus of llie
was in Mountain Rest Ccmeteiy. fraternity, will preside and con-
Mr. Goforth died Thursday ^nct the program,
morning at his home at 602*2 highlight of the service will
Phenix street. He was the son bt' the honoring of two outsiand-
of the late Mr. and Mrs. John ing citizens, Mr. • and Mrs. Ed-
F. Goforth and a native of Y’ork Davis Wilson as “Citizens of
County, S. C. He was a vetaran the Year" and presented a plu(|ne
of World War II and served for their contribution to the coun-
wilh the U. S. Army. ty and tlie local community.
Each year a prominent citizen
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. ^as been honored in this way and each system
Ruth K. Goforth; his daughter also a mem'ber of the fraternity
Mrs. Lloyd Houser, his son-in- bas been rcognized for his serv-
law, Lloyd Houser, a grandson K*es to the fraternity.
:c‘ summer eourso was de-
s.giied to give American medical
students a comparative exper
ience wilb another medical sys
tem besides their ow'ii so that
they may evaluate the pros and
(Continmd On Pogc Seven)
Dr. Farrington plans to even
tually return to Rowan county
to pi'actice family medicine.
dents will serve as supply pas
tors for tlie day.
Little Theatre's "The Mousetrap
Open Friday; Christie Thriller
Monday night at 7:30.
Agenda items include report of
Norman King, chaiitman of the
sanitation ccm-inittee, along with
re-zoning requests of Mr. and
Mrs. John Caveny, York Road
proae.ty, Mike Brown, who wants
to build a trailer park within the
mil(* perimeter on CherryviMe
Road, and Dr. Paul E. llendritks,
Sr., add Jt.lin L. McGill, property
on Sou. .h Cansler street,
Publ-ic hearing is scheduled al
so on the request cf Mr. and Mrs.
• imc? Hlsli, who want their prop-
fty at 1010 North Cansler street
annexed to the city.
The curtain will go up Friday NrcDanlel is well knowm for her
direction of “^Barefoot in the
Park’’, a recent presentation of
Mrs. Joe Bennett of Gastonia and
Mrs. Floyd Huffstetler of Lincoln-
ton; one stop-daughter, Mrs.
Floyd Simms of Cherryville; one
brother, Chamas Seism of High
Point; one sister, Mrs. George
Poston of High Point; 13 grand
children; and one great-grand
child.
at 8:15 p.m. on the Kings Moun
tain Little Theatre’s presentation
of the Agatha Christie mystery
hriller, “The Mouselrap."
A cast of eight — three wom
en ana five men — will enfold
in two acts the story of intrigue
kory; and seven sisters. Mrs. T.
E. Wallace of Dallas, .Mrs. Hugh
Craft of Gastonia, Mrs. Wray
Blackburn of Linwlnlon, Mrs.
C., Mrs. W. S. Greenleaf, Jr. of
William MeSwain of Clover. S.
Flonders, N. J., Mrs. Annie L<v
Dickson and Mrs. Frances Lane,
both of Grover.
Active pallbearers were six
nephews: David Dixon, Gill)ert
Gastonia Men
Questioned On
KM TV Thefts
Two Ga.'*tcni:i men are b(*ing
questioned by G.i.^lonia iH)lice in
icnnei'licn witli the theft.s of
three television .stds fram two
King.-* Mountain firms.
Arthur Morgan
Is Improving
.Vrtluir Morgmi, a seventh
grade stuflcnt at Central Junior
High Sclnxd. is improving in
Cleveland Mi'morial Hospital fol-
Iwwing serious surgery kust Thurs
day.
\.ung Morgan, .son of Nlr. and
Det. William Roper of thj* Kings Mrs. William Morgan of Route
M uinlain ]K>Iieo department suid
Gastonia ixdice rwovered the
3. damaged his intestines last
Tue.sday at CcMit.-al when ho fell
Mrs. Harmon
At Piano Clinics . .u . , . « ^ k , .u
m two acts the story of intrigue Back before the audience in an
Mrs. Martin Harmon attended a and murder which lakes pla'oe in entirely oi)posite portrayal as the
the group, and her portrayal in Dixon, Bobby Joe Dixon, Di'an
t;he lead role in "The Curious Dixon, Harold Wallace and Gene
Savage” and the stepmother in Wallace.
“Cinderella.”
televisioas when they picked up bito some old cut shrubbt'ry near
the two men for breaking an ear- ibe gymnasium. Central Principal
licr probation. Fred Wit’iers said .Morgatv and
The sets were traced by serial three or four <?ther youngsters
number.'^. Two wvve taken from wore playing lag around the
Bridges Radio and TV and tlio shrubbery when the accident oc-
BIBLE CLASS
Bible Class wdll be conducted
in the Conference K(K>m of
Kings Mountain Savings &
L;>an Association Monday night
at 7:30 p.m. All area citizens
are ln»vitcd to participate.
two-day clinic for piano teachers
Sunday and Monday during the
annual cenvention of North Ca^(^
lina Musie Teachers’ Assccialion
held in Winston Sale.m.
Raymond Dudley of the Cin<*in-
natl Conservatory of Music con
ducted the clinics.
The clinics were held at Salem
college and North Carolina
School of the ArU.
Concert Sunday
By College Choir
an Engli.sh guesthouse on a haughty Mrs. Boyle is Nan Jean
snowy winter night. Grant, who delighted Uttlo-thea-
Members c>f the cast have pol- ‘tre g(x*r.s as “Opal" in th<' most
i'luxl up Briti.sh accents for the rct'cnt produ'otion of “Everybody
1 lay with the ju.sist of native Love? Opal.”
Britislicrs, Ray and Sylvia The j^lay will be presented a-
Holmcs. who are assisting with gain on Saturday evening and on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Kings Mo\m-
set construction and d(X*ora'tion. next we<'kend — November 12th lain high school gymnasium.
Mrs. Joe Ann McDaniel, veteran and 13th,' at Pairk Grace school The concert is under sponsor-
Little Thotre performer, is direC't- auditorium. ship of St, Paul United Methodist
ing tile play, her second.^ Mns. chuich.
Morristown Tenne.ssee College
Choir will prr.‘«(*nt a c.nv.vrt Ikmx'
other from Center Service.
No arre.sts liave been made but
Gastonia police are n)ntjnuing
questic ning. Kings Mountain po
lice 'ire still invt'.stigaling sev
eral television thefts that have
ot'.'urred itero in tlic past stseral
weeks.
SERIOUSLY ILL
R. L. Plonk, well-known Kings
■Mountain farmer, is seriously
ill. He is a patient at Kings
Mountain Hospital.
currt'iHi.
.Morgan wms examined by Dr.
Thomas Duriiam in King.s Moun
tain. then was rushed to CU'VO-
land Mi'.mt^riai Ilosp.tal.
Morgan’s metlier said Wednes-
.lay morning tint his comiition is
much loeilcr. but he will be hos-
pitali/.e.l tv-;' sevi'ral weeks.
•^He hasn't <Mten anything.”
said Mrs. Morgaii. “He has bi'on
being fed litiuids. The doctors say
they have no idea when he’ll be
able lo come home.”