Popnlation Greater Kings Mountain 91.914 City Limits 8.465 CtoMrtar Kiafft MoustolB Ogun !• d«rlT«d from thi $p*tat4 United States Buracni of tba Coaaua loport o foavarf ifM. end laciud— ih» l4«tM population o Ruaibot 4 Towatblp, and tbo ronwIniDg 8,m Iron Wnoibar S Towathlp* ta Clorotaad Couatf coM Ciowdar* Mouateda Towanlitp la Qatton Cowaty. 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 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 LIieo 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 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