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Rescheduled Christmas Parade Friday At 4
Population
Greater Kings Mountain 91.914
City Limits 8.465
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fnvorf t9M. and lactudee *ie U.tM populatlom •
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL. 82 NO. 49
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, IN. C., Thursday, December 9, 1971
Eighty-Second Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
JPhiilips Launches $1,300,000 Housing Development
Will /Ippear
1r Parade
MOUNTAINEER AWARD WINNERS The fWe Kings Moiintcdn High football trophy winners ore
shown here with Coach Jones following lost night's Lions Club fete at the high school cafe
teria. Left to right ore Jake Bridges, Fred Plonk Bloddng Award winner; Marsholl Logan, most
valuaA>le player; John Grier, leadership aword winner; Mork George, most improved player; Couch
Jones, ond ^teve Plonk, scholastic ourard winner. (Photo by 1. G. Alexander).
loganKMHS Most Valuable
Jake Bridges Top Blocker
San ‘i CiniN ? ulfin’t rvon I'rav-
cl in In ' F*'!.lay’s hra .y snry.v sx)
I’hc jc’ly <)M man fr 'ti Fn* \iiif.h
I '0 F eel Kint;s MHint-ain’i
annua! fijradc for a
wcel..
Sai*'a will dcvinjtcly he 'here
this Fri.!>:iy a'i 4 ali>n;? with
ban.ls, | .( 'Ay iF- Is. horses, etc.
J'n D '.vney, ohairman of Mie
Mcr. harj;*'. ,V?.:: ttion • spansjicd
parade, t"iat over 60 unKs
will be entered.
r.io parade linen;) will asseni.
ble 0.1 VVt.'^t Street and dis
band f n Ciiero’-ce Ftiret aO
pan^in;? tliTcii^rh °\k city streets.
■May::* JciiinM.and c hex
city c; ."rials. Miss Kin::s Moun
tain Deajie Timm.s and ctier
beauty queen?, s:aut grouips, fire
depar'.neivts, i!-!! .1 bandis and
r’’e nteadeis and srvevil othei
C’'*2:ar!::''a''’on.s will lake p'rrt in
the event.
AMhoug'h offil.-i-al rorords have
nL't been kept thioiuh tihe yeaxs,
ir.'-iny citi/.ens believe tbi.s will
be Kin,~.s Mountain’s big-rest pa
rade ever. At any rafe, Eljiwney
and Ciiiors wlio have worked
hard to promote tiie event feel it
will be the best.
After as.somhling on Gold, the
parade will proceed to Railroad
Avenue and turn left to Hii^hiway
74. At 74, the lino will turn right
and protwd to Piedmont, then
•take a right to Mountain. At
Mountain the line will turn right
and go to Battleground, where it
will take a left turn and parade
through the main part otf town.
The parade lineup, or order, -3
as follows:
Continiwd On Page Six
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SiT£ CLEARING UNDERWAY — Gene Phillips, lef t pre.aidcat of Phillips Construction Company of
Gafiney, S. C., points to Uie projected home of Pine Manor Apartments, a new complex of 100
apartments to be developed on nice acres of land at the intersection of 185 and York road at cost
of S1.3 million. Site clearing began this week. Mayor John Henry Moss, right, inspects the site
location with Phillips. (Herald Photo by Jim Belt)
George, Plonk,
Grier Awarded
Grid Trophies
' Three seniors land two jun
iors won trophies at last night’s
annual lions Club football ban
quet, heW at the tKiings Mountain
high caifeteria.
'Marshall Loi^n, a senior half
back. walked oflf with the George
Plonk 'Most Valuaible Player
award and Jake Bridges, a junior
tackle, won the Fred Plonk
Blocking Trophy. Those lwo
awards are regarded as the most
i looveted of the five trophies.
Mark Gwrge, a junior center
line-backer, won the most improv-
i ed player award, John Grier won
i the Mountaineer trophy for lead
ership'. and Steve Plonk copped
' the John Gamble Scholastic
'Awarxl ior carrying the highest
grade averaige during the 'toot-
® iball season.
In addition to the iffive trophies,
all 14 senior memibers of the
KLMIHS squad received plaques.
.'Boft) Waters, head football
coach at Western Carolina Uni
versity, was guest speaker tor the
event. Bill Bates, former KlMiHS
Contmued On Page Six
Mrs. Turner s
Rites Cenducted
Police Report
Aduits^VoIunteei Minor Break-In
Tutors For Slow
North Students
Choir To Sing
Handel 'Messiah'
Sunday at 4
’Handel’s ‘•Messiah” will be
sung by a 55-v()ice chorus of sin-
'gers I’opresenling seven city
IN WHO'S WHO — Jim Wentz,
grondson of Mr. ond Mrs. Hunt
er Wore, hos been named to
the 1971 edition of Who's Who
Among Students In American
Colleges and Universities.
lim Wentz
In Who's Who
Jim Wentz, -student at the Uni
versity of 'North Carolina, ’’’il-
mington, has ibaen named to the
.19711 edition of Who’s Who Among
Students In American Universi
ties and Colleges.
His eampi’s affiliat'ions In-
.Funeral rites for Mrs. Wilma business Club University
-T- cn t 1 Chorus, .Engineers’ Club,. 'Home-
Mlson Turner, 60. of route 1, ^,.^,dent hand-
■book, “On Top” co - chairman;
Intcr-clUb Council, chairman; Al
pha Phi Omega service frater-
City police reported only one
minor break-in during the past
week.
I>et. William Roper said that <?hurehcs Sunday afternoon at 4
sometime Sunday niglit or early o'^clock in Central United Meth-
(Monday morning vandals broke o^Hst church.
iKings Mountain schools laun- into Ak-oa Aluminum but nothing The chuivh program will
ehed a volunteer program which was reported missing. He said launch the Christmas program
officials say is organized to pro- theic was $75 damage to win- season in the community,
vide tutorial help to slower stu- dows and door facing. J. N. McClure, m-usic di
dents. (Roper said entry was made rector at the high school and
The program is already under- iby -breaking a glass on the south choir director at Central chur<-h,
way in the elementary schools side of tlie building. A glass was "^hl direct the presentation. Ro-
'where men and women volun- also reported broken in the shop 'hert Cashion will be organist,
teers and some high school stu- and a desk there was thumbed ISoloists for the cantata will
dents are providing help to the through. Roper said the vandals 'he Mrs. Delbert iDixon, Mrs Bet-
classroom teacher who requests tried to open a filing cabinet in Ann iDeal, Jaocib Dixon and
Cf>nfini«:'<l On Page Six the main office but could not. Continued On Page Six
School Holidays
Start Dec. 17
Christmas holidays for student.s
and teachers will begin with the
close of classes on December 17th.
C lasses will reoix?n on January
3rd.
Schools wore closed Friday be-
cause of tiie heavy snow and
make-up day is April 5. Three in-
element weather days are iraciuii-
cd in the scho()l calendar and il
unused are added to spring holi
days.
LUTHERAN
The senice of Il^ly Commun
ion -will be otbserved at Sunday
morning worship hour at 11 a.
m. Sunday at St. Matthew's
■Lutheian church. Rev. Charles
Easley will use the sermon topic,
“Go and Tell.”
Wilson
Smyrna, S. C, sister of Mrs. Ber
tie Amos and Mrs. John Jones
of Kings Mountain, were liold
Sunday aftornoion at 3 p. m. which be Is president and
from Caarran Methodist church which he has held the pasi-
of whi:h she was a memtber, in
torment following in the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Turner died Thursday in
Cherokee County Memorial ho-s-
pital after a brief illness. Dmlh
^ ; was attrihutUHl to heart failure
She was the wife of J. H.
^Turner win survives. Also sur-
vlvinr are their son, Itirry
Turner of route 1, Blacksburg,
S. C.; tlirec grandchildren; \wo
bx'othcrs, E. FYank .Wils"'n of
Spartanburg, S. C. and James
N. Wilson of \tlanta. Ga.; and
four sisters, Mrs. Mabel Sternes
and Mrs. Ruth Worley, both of
Spartaniburg, and Mrs. Anna
^Spencer and Mrs. H. H. Mullinax
^both of Gaffney, S. C.
tions of vice-president and mem-
bershtp chairman.
Continued On Page Six
Three Building
Permits Bought
Three building permit? were
issued by the ci'ty during the
pa.st week.
Luke W, Hoyle bough-t a per
mit .to biiild a six-room dwelling
est-imaited to cost $15,000 at 307
Somerset Drive.
Bridges Brothers Construction
Company of Shelby thought twip
permits to build six-room houses
at 318 and 320 Somerset Drive.
One is estimated to cost $19,400,
the other $19,900. ,
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SNOW FUN Kings Motmtoin young folk took odvontoge of [the jbeovy snow
which began falling in the Kings Mounthin orcci f noay motniug ot d.uu aiid
ended Friday evening with ten inches over the area. Ih the photogroph at Idt
Scott and Melissa Bo^Yen (at snowman) and their neighbor, Robin Hampton,
ploy in the white stuff ot the Bowen residence a 901 Boyce street. The snowman*
at right, war the creation cf Debbie and Monte Thornburg and their fother,
city fireman Fted .Thornburg, of West King s»treet The snowman stood 10 fcc-l
tall and was 18 feet wide before the sun melted him on Sunday. (Herald Fhoto
by Jim Belt)
Proied Calls
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City Approves Cansler Area
$3400,000 Renewal Project
HUD Review
To Require
Two Months
The city commi.sSion Monday
niglu cleared the way for federal
app\’.j\al of tiie $3,100,000 Cans-
Icr SlrcH.'t Urban Renewal Rrojeet.
A second and final public hear
ing on tlio project wa.s followed
by Mie board oi ci^mmissioners
unanimously approving Hie pro
ject.
It is the second urban r(*n(‘wal
efiort here since the Central Busi-
iK'ss Di.sirict project is already
u.iderway.
Joe Laney, executive director <0/
the Redevelopment Commission,
said the plan would now be f'or-
warded to the office of Housing
and Developmcmt and would take
Contiyiiu'd On Page Six
Gene ri:(llips prc':’4orit of Pail-
lii;.: Cen- '';uctio:i C .n-pany of
Gai^ney, S. J., j.nu linked lues-
day t:ic fi;m viiU 'build 1(X) apart-
m: n-t uni’s at 'i'he intcr>eL'tion c/
\oiA Road and Interstate 85 on
Lie east si<'e of York R'.ad.
The nine-a.re trav’ w<i.s
ohascJ fi:i n tJie Lu'heran Synod
of N'lr h vari'Tj a, wliii'h had ac-
quiitd it by ght fi ;n Aubrey
Mauney of K'.: M->unta‘in.
To bi‘ named rin • Mancr ai>art-
merts, li'iie coniplox will emtain
one, two, tl'.rre and four-be.lro m
umls and whl oe an FH.\ subsi
dized h usii g pi\.ject under the
23-0 piwgi'ani.
Site cieariv.g was underway
'lueiday on the $1,300,000 pro-
jc...
Mr. Phl'.lip.'-: anti(.’ip:te.s first
uni’.i will be ready fer occupancy
in April 1972 with the project
scheduled lor completion in Au
gust of next year.
The apartments will be all-
olectiiL* including hearing and
the $125 to $UM) rent schedule
will include all utilities furnish
ed.
There will be a central recrea
tion room.
The Phillips firm is also devel
oping North-woods in East Kin^
Mountain where 32 homes are *.
planned with 22 already under
construction.
The units will be rented to
families with imumos between
$3,000 and $10,000 per year.
“The city is highly plcnasod aft
the announcement by Phillips
Construictiion Comi>any, “Mayor
John Henry Moss commented.
“Housing remains in short sup
ply here.”
K1WAN15 SPEAKER — Ronce
HendcxMii, Kings Mountain na
tive and supeiintendent of
North Carolina School for the
Deaf at Morgonton, will be
guest speoker at Thursday's
meeting of the Kiwanis club at
6:45 p.gi. at the Woman's club.
Owemiby Accepts
Cowans Pnlpit
Rev. Roncllo Owensby, former
ly a misfcucnary to Venezuela, has
accepted the pastorate of First
BajWist Cihiurcli of Cowpens, S. C.,
c,>.A(HUve JanuaiT' 1.
Mr. Gwensby five and
ono-lial'f >ears with the foreign
mission board and previously
held pii^lcraie.s at- Danville and
Drake’s Branch, Virginia, and at
Jene^boro and Clierokeo in Nordh
Clarolina.
lie Wits educated at Mars Hiill,
Carson-.^i v%mun, and *ou heas-l-
ern :jo:n.‘nary at Wake Ferc'viU.
tie is a nai'iye ■ f Hcnder anville
and Mrs. 'Owensay is a native o(
Mill: Spring.
i'hoy have two chiMron, Rdn-
c\'a, .a tiiL'l grader, and Jenny
who (bservxd Jier.fiflti bkJiduy
\Vt;ine;-:la>. .
I ho Owcii"‘>y f-Tmilyfre idcj on
Soul’ll GUorth si'roct.
SERMON TOPIC
'Dr. Paul Ausloy will' 1*50 the
sermon topic, “A Dltftrent
Christmas Picture,” at’Sundaj^'
morning worship service at ,11
o’clock at First Presbyterian
church.