PopnlatioB
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City Limits 8.465
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Kings Mountain's Relioble Newspaper
VOL. 83 No. 8
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 24, 1972
Eighty-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Changes Made In Corridor Projection For 74 By-Pass
MapIsPosted —« P 1 • Pi P* II
Lleven aeek toimnission beats, rive ror House
By MARTIN HARMON
The state highway commission
is giving notice it is considering
approval of a corridor location for
the U3 74 by-pass, the corridor
varying from Alternate n former
ly recommended and apparently
plleviatiuig some of the objections
oiced by property owners at a
[)ubli'c hearing on October 12.
T'he new corridor, as slicwn on
an areial map posted at City
Hnll, lies north of the Spectrum
plant before moving in a south
westerly dnrcction to cross US 74
and bisecting property of the M.
L. Plonk heirs, just east of the
Luther MeSwain property. The
corridor then prcceeds west, south
of Bethware fchooT, traversing
prc’pt»rtics of James A. Matheny,
Lamar Hcrnicn and J. Warren
Gamble to intersect with present
US 74 east ttf t'!ie Buffalo Creek
bcidge.
Tlicro i3 no change in the cor
ridor from’take-cif point at 1-85
to Can Icr street.
Ne Vee publ'i^hcd in today’s Her
ald by tihe highway ccimmission
follows:
‘“No'be i,s hereby given that
the Ncr/i Carrl'na St:'? High.‘.ay
CcircT'.ii-'?! :i is con''drvn’g, the
approval c* ‘he cr-iidcr lo'at'cn
of US 74 fr m its in terse cti ion
with I-S) west to a print near SR
23^9. The re^^ridor is no'‘ h of ex-
is»fcing US 74; crosses Cleveland
Avenue between Deal Street Park
and Ea-t Elomcntary School;
crosses the Southern Railway be
tween Phoerjix Mill apd Mullins
Textile Mill; crosses Piedmont
Avenue in the vicinity of Fulton
Sitreot and crosses Oansller Street
^in the vicinity oC Brice Street;
grosses Wa)co Road following the
^alternate north of the
Plant, crosses SR 2034 and fol-
lows a combination'o! AU<'r»"ate
I and Alternate II as prc^rr^^o.-i at
the hearing, cro-«4ng SR
north of SR 2036 'crossing US 74
south of Bethware School lieiing
into US 74 near SR 2319.
“An aerial map setting forth
the above is available for reiview
and copying in the City Hall in
Kings Mountain.
In the event the final Environ
mental Impact Statement dictates
any change appropriate action
will be taken.”
Francis
Burke
Conducted
RITES HELP ^ Funeral rltM
lor FrolncU J. Burke were con
ducted Wednesday with Hlw
Requiem Mou from Christ the
King Catholic church.
City Sales Tax
Share $23,269
The city’s share of the one per
cent local sales tax for the sec
ond quarter, refle^^ting Christmas
scas<m sales, totdlcfl $23,269.47,
as compared to $13,941 for the
quarter ending September 30.
For the se'eond quarter,
$22,935.24 resulted from Cleve
land County sales, while $334.23
came frem Gziston County sales.
The distributions are based on
porpulation and the Gaston Coun
ty sales accrue from the fact 'tlhat
Kings Mountain is a two<x)unty
.city.
I The city budget anticipates
"sales tax receipts for the current
fiscal year at $59,340. Return ol
$12,130 for the March 30 quarter
would mean the budget figure is
equalled.
Ttact
iaingtleaied j
Clearing o< the (wmer Boildle
Mill offiice Vo^erty on Grfld
street began - Wednbeday by fcne
city and the jEfedevelopment Cotth-
missions hopes 1-6 have the. hp-
proxim-ately 37,000 square foot
tract available for, dbimrherci4l-re-
dovelopment within 60 daysi
Joe Laney, commission ditect-
or, said We^esday Duke
Power Company has been contact
ed for removal of the transformer
which serves Mur-Clo Mill and
that raaing of tlTe former iBonnie
Mill oTfice and store buildiing a-
waiits removal of Bonnie Mill fur
niture and other appuntenances.
Mir. Laney said he anticipates
some grading will be required
before bids are Invited for rede-
velopment.
The piroperty fronts 270 feet on
Gold street, 125 on S. Piedmont
avenue, and 150_feet on Chero
kee stireet.
“We want to make the proper
ty available lor f^dcvelopment as
quickly as possible, in order that
other buildings marked for razing
can be vacated,” Mr. Laney com
mented.
The Bonnie Mill tract is among
ten of 44 the RekievelopmentlCam-
mission has acquired in the cen
tral business district renovation
project. ^
Former Kanager
Oi Lambeth Rope
Succumbs at 19
High Requiem 'Mass for Fran
cis Joseph Burke Sr., 79, who died
Monday, was celebrated Wednes
day morning at 11 o’clock from
Christ the King Catliolic church
of which ho was a member.
A service of Resary was con
ducted at the Chapel of Harris
'F'.aieral iHome Tu^?s<lay evening.
IMr. Burke died Monday after
noon at 3 p. m. in th*'
M. untain hospital after illness of
three weeks.
Former manager of Lam'beth
Rjpo Corporation,, ho was vice
president of BaioOUi Maii’ituc-
luring Company of Lowell, Mass,
and Charlotte.
A native of Holyoke, ..lass., he
attended Amherest college und a
a veterm o-f World War I. Be
fore moving to Kings Mountain
19 years ago the Burkes lived in
Charlotte. He was married to
the former Miss Millicent Booth.
'Besides his wife he is survived
by five sons, Richard Burke of
Rockville, Md., James LI. Burke
of Hickory, Justin Burke and
Francis J. Burke Jr., both oi
Charlotte, and Thomas F. Burke
of Kings Mountain; three da:ijh-
ters, Mrs. Robert Keeter of Char
lotte, Mrs. Alan Clem of Vermil
lion, South (Dakota and Mrs. J^e
iRies of St. Mary, Montana; and
two sister, Mrs. Leon Woerg and
Miss Elizabeth Burke, both of
Holyoke, Mass. Also surviving
are 21 grandchildren and four
(great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Mr. Burke’s
five sons and a son-in-law, Rob
ert P. Keeter.
■m
S'
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UNOPPOSED Seacftor Marshall Rauch, at left top row. Rep.
W, K. Mauney. Jr., right, top row, and Rep. Jack Rhyne, bottom^
row, left, 'sre all unofposed fer the three ct-large Senate teats
from the 25th District of Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln and Ruther
ford Counties. Incumbent Ralph Tucker, far right, below, is. un
opposed for register of deeds. Not pictured are the three unoppos
ed incumbents seeking re-election to the county board of edu
cation, Superior Court Judge B. T. Palls, Jr., and Joe F. Mull, Oi,-
cor F. Mason, Jr. arid Robert Kirby, unopposed for re-election as
district judges.
HOSPITALIZED
(Mrs. Baxter Wright Sr. re
mains a patient in the Kings
Mountain hospital where she was
admitted for observation and
treatment.
Legionnaires
To Conference
American Legion Commander
Bruce MPcDantel will bead a dele
gation to the national command
ers conference of the American
Legian in Washington, D. C. Sun
day through Thursday.
Also representing the local post
will be yjjutant Joe H. McDaniel,
Carl WiUen and John W. Glad
den.
Funeral Rites Conducted Monday
For Mrs. Rrenda Bryant Shockley
It s Not Ware
Versus Hinnant
“I am n?-t running ogainst Josh
Hinnant for county commissioner.
I am running for one of three
seats on the ccmmlsrion/* Rach-
ard E. (Dick) Ware said Wednes
day.
Mr. Waire said he wanted to
“lay to rest” rumoirs to thait cf-
fept.
“Jo^h H'innart is both my bank
er and pcr-onal friend,’’ Mr. Ware
ejontinued. _
He and Mr. Hinnant are among
eleven candidates seeking the
three Democratic nominati'ons.
Mr. Ware reiterated tha-t his
principal reason for seeking a
nomination is the recent revalu
ation of properties for tax pur
poses.
“PrCfperty valiues wcro_ e-ralat-
cd from 40 to 100 perc’cht, which
is questionable in itself, but the
members of present commis
sion have indicated they will cut
the tax rate aecordingli^ If elect
ed, there wilj be one ofTivc vott's
to make that rate cut,” he de
clared.
Finger Is Potter
Medical Scholar
MEDICAL SCHOLAR — Rick
Finger, Kings Mountain senior
student at the University of
North Corolina at Chapel Hill,
is a Justin Potter Medical Scho
lar to Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine.
Fred Eli (’Rick! Finger, III,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Fin
er Jr. of Kings MoL>ntain, has
been awarded a $12,000 four year
scholarship t;j Vanderbilt Uni
versity School of Medicine.
A Morehead Scholar to the
University of North Carolina,
where he is a student, (Finger is
among five Justin Potter Medical
Scholars for 1972 and is one of
two from UNC, the other being
his fraternity brother.
lEstaiblisbcd in 1963 by Justin
Potter, Nashville businessman, in
dustrialist and financier, the
scholarship is an annual stipend
to be continued for four years of
undergraduate medical educa
tion. These scholarships recog
nize students with distinguished
academic records'who have dem
onstrated personal, profe.ssional
and intellectual competence and
potential L-onsistent with the pre
diction that the students desig
nated will form the nucleus of
leadership in medicine as they
ervelop their career.
Prom all appllcajits to '^ander-
Continui'd On Pat/e
‘Funeral rjtes for Mrs. Brenda
Bryant Shockley, 24, wife of
Danny Shockley, were conducted
'M mday afterncon at 4 o’clotSc
from Temple Baptist church, in
terment following in Mountain
(Rest cemetery.
(Rev. Frank Shirley, assisted by
'Rev. Sam Robinson, officiated at
the final rites.
■Mrs Shockley died Friday night
at 11:30 in Cleveland Memor
ial hospital at Shelby whore she
had been a patient since Decem
ber 23 and where she had under
gone four operation following
complications from surgery She
had developed pne-monia in the
second lurt; last Wednesday
m^^rning.
(Resu)ts ef an autopsy wore not
k kn?hvn yesterday,
f She was the daughter of Mrs.
Garnell Conner Bryant o'! ‘Bes
semer City and a 19(65 graduate
of Bessemer ICtty high school. She
was employed at DependaJble Knit
of Kings Mountain and had prev
iously worked for Morrison Loan
company.
Besides her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Don Bryant, and her hus
band, she is survived by two
children, Shane, age five, and
Misty, age three; two brotihers,
Danny and Jimmy Bryant, of Bes
semer City; and one sister, Tam
my Bryant of Besseaner City and
her maternal grandiparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ervin Conner of Kings
Mrun^'ain.
Pallbearers were Gene Au.stih,
Geno Stone, Charles Mashbum,
Carl Bell, Fred Dyer, Danny Bng-
well, Doug Yapbro and Steve Rob
bins.
Fence Matter Solved
In Simple FayUon
The zoning board* Jf adjust
ment did not meet Wednesday
Evening, as scheduled, as the
fence problem posed by Harold
J. Phillips against the building
inspector and (Fields Young (had
been resolved.
Mr. Phillips, who lives at 905
Sharon Drive and is neighbor
to Mr. Young’s Goorgf4own
Apartments icomplex, had ap
pealed a decision of building
Inspector Woodrow W. Laughter
on a fence Mr. Young had con-
jitpucted between the apart
ment complex and the PhilUpis
residence.
Resolving the matter proved
quite siinple.
Mr. Young bought the Phillips
residence.
William Bvozy Harmon Dies at 89;
Funeral Services Thursday at 2
Thirteen Seek
Governorship,
Including Lady
North Carolina is assured of
something new: thr(?e gu'oLrna-
torial primaries.
Thirteen candidate's a-e run
ning for governor, iT.c m )St ever.
The large ;t previous crorj—1()—
wa-; in 1940.
'Seven seek the Democratic
mnTlnation, four arc Republicans
and two arc representatives of
the American Independent Party.
The candidate.s are Lt. Govo.m-
or Pal Taylor, Senatcr Hargrove
(Skipper) Bowles, Kegiinald Hawk
ins, Nancy RoberLs, Z<?bulon V. K.
Dickson, Wilbur Hc'-hby, Gene Ltg-
gett, all Democrats; Tl>c:*»as K.
Chapi ell, Rep. James Holshouser,
Jim Gardner and I.{‘rr:y Gi'o'i;)!!,
all Rcpiv..'!leans and / lis F. Pet
ty.! .in aid Frue? (Hozo) C?urlo-
s:'1. Amc. ieaii Indepen lent.
In the race for I.icatc.iCMt O >.'•
ernrr are Fenjcn ’ ii wMcLi: a,
A’.no.Kan IruU ^.*11-.! *1; .T env.s
Hunt. Uoy Sovi'ers, ^llen Barbee,
Rcgiii-Ul Lee Frae.. 11
Haj?c;-, all De'm'.)::ats: i' :J N )r-
man Joynci and Jehn Walker, Ke-
ans.
Only three incumnenl mem 'er.s
r " ♦he Cviineil of State e.seapr:!
wit;h‘f)Ul p r i m a ry o|>p()siti(>ii.
Tvvolve contenders entci-(d the
11 Is, including one man wlio ad
mitted, ‘"I ju-t want the job.”
That ma.n was Dchnoerat Louis
M. Wade, prerident of Southern
Cc ach Co. in Durham, who is
runmng for S^rcretary of State.
Bcbert 'C. Folger of Dobson j
brought tc? s'ix the number .seek- j
ing the Democratic nominaticn to I
’Secretary of The others I
are Jehn W-ardidl _Jr. of High ^
point, William C. Creel of Cary,
John C. Brooks of Raleigh, Ph i
lip Ellen of Scuthern Pines and
Jolin (Blanton of 'Raloigh.
One Roi>uibHran, Frederick R.
Weber of Lumber Bridge, also fil
ed for n'tivry of I^abor. In 1970,
VV'e'ner w^is a candidate for Con-
EdJey HuU'hins orTilack Moun-
tainand L. W. D<iuglas of .M iklen
both filed a.s Republicans. Mich
ael Murphy of Charlotte field rep-
r<'.-<enling the American Independ
ent Party.
Tliey joiin six Demtifrat.Tr John
ny R. Clark of Morganton, Rus.sell
Sc.'rc.st of Cary, G(H>rge 'Belk of
Grecn.*boro, George Cherry of Ra-
Irtigh. John Ingram of As’hebf)ro
and CclU Duncan of Charlotte.
L. Norman Shronce of flranitc
Fails, a KeintblX'an, filed M(>iKl:iy
for SUUo .-Vudit :r to assure O!>po-
siticn to vctciran incumlbcnt Hen
ry Bridges of Raleigh.
Louis M. Wade of Durham filed
for SeiTotary of Stale* a D<‘'mt
o.rat, a’fsuring a priimary battle
with incumbent Dt'mocrat Thad
Eure.
(Mr.s. Oraoe Robr^ a Winston-
S:Jilem Republican, will oppose the
Democratic winner In the fall.
IrK'umix.*nt Attorney General
Robert Morgan, a Lillinghm Dem
ocrat, will face fall apposition
from Chapel Hill and Kings
Mountain RepubUean Nick Smith.
Jack Jurn<»y of I>urhi«m filed
Monday as a De'Wt)erat to 'cipijosc
ineumbont State Tix'^asun^r Edwin
Gill in tlie primary. Rdi>ublican
Tlioodore C. Conrad filed to as
sure a fall battle.
Two Democrats fihvl as D('mo-
crat'io candidates for Secrc^tary of
Public Instruction. John H. OVon-
nell of Raleigh and Ihith B. Jon<'s
of Rocky Mouat will oppose' Dem-
ocrnilic Incuimbcnt A. Craig Phil
lips in the primary.
'Funeral rites for William
Avory Harmon, 89, will be con
ducted Thursday afterno-n at 2
p.m. from Temple Baiptiit c'huroh.
Rev. E. L. Murphy, pastor of
El Bethel Methodist church, and
Rev. Frank Shirley, pastor of
Temple Baptist church, will offi
ciate at the final rites, and inter
ment will be in the El Bethel
cometeiy.
Mr. Harmon was found dead
T.esday mn'ri'.ing in hl.s bod of a
heart attack. Assistant Coroner
Bennett Masters said death Wiis
at 4 a. m.
A native of Cleveland county,
he wis the son of the late Alex
ander, and Rachel Fulton I-Lir-
mon. He was a TnemCrrer of El
Bethel church and a retired
farmer and mechanre.
‘He was married to the for
mer Mellie Huffstetler.
Other suivivTs include his
stopdaughtcr, Mrs. Edna Coon
of Bessemer City; one grandson,
Howard Avory Grayson of Wash
ington, D. C.; a stepigrandson,
lt.>!)eri C -'. n of Oxford, Ohio;
two brotlieif?, Marvin (Harmon
and Thomas Harmon, both of
Ga?;tonia; and two sisters, Mrs.
Kdith CoffTth :f Kings Mountain
npd ?'’rs. Wray Patterson of Daw
son, 'Ga.
Bowles Gills
To Visit Here
The t^vo daughters of Guberna
torial Candidate Hargrove (Skip
per) Bofwlcs will eampai(gn for
their father in (Kings Mountain
qVesday from ^ until 11:30 a. m.,
-Kings (Mountain chairman J. E.
(Josh) Hinnant announced today.
'Mr.s. Johh (Holly) Geil and
Miss Martha B4)wles, student at
UNC at Chapel Hill, will Ibe here
to gre(d Kings iMmmtain area
supporters.
T^e two young women have
operated the B-owles bus on a poli
ticking tour of the state during
the past several weeks.
N.
HAL S. PLONK
comdidote for
C. REPRESENTATIVK 1
JACK PALMER
candidate for
county commission
CLARENCE C. MELLON
candidate for
county commission
RALPH PHILLIPS
candidate for
27th Judicial District Judge
Plonk and Eunt
Out For Ifiouse;
Judge Contests
When tile deadline fo-r filing
notices of candkJacy passed at
noon Monday, four more candi
dates had filed for ccunty com
missioner, and Hal S. Plonk, of
Kings Mountain, and Dr. Jack
Hunt, of Lattimore, had filed for
the s4ate House of fU’prc<:enta-
tives, and contests had developed
for two district judgt'&liips.
No Republicans filed for office
in Cleveland t'ounly.
Five candidates seek the three
Demcxratic nominatiDns to the
Houso, including in addition to
Dr. Hurt and Mr. Plnnli, Inccim-
b<T.‘s R ber} ’
Z. Falls, of Shelby,
and Earl Owen.sby e/ Snc.ioy.
Eleven candidates seek the
three Democratic nc:'n'nati''r! --r
the county .^ .mmisjf m. in -’ue nej
InctnmbenU Fritz M’.rehcad, Jr.,
Rcbc-rt Huobard and J. k T -•
ner, and L. E. (J <. h) Ili.nr^’*■,
Jack Palmer, RJ'’hard E. (Dick)
V/are, W. H, Dod I, roU*man W.
Goforth, Clarence C. M* lion. Clay
Stapleton and DvV"i?ht i’es necr.
Mr. Plonk, realty de?Dr a^d
builder, who .sought a .=^001 in the
House two years said on fil
ing:
“My intere.d in government
oentinuos.
“Two years ago I calle 1 atten-
-tiion to the sad state of af-Tairs in
automobile liability insurance in
North Carclina and the situati )ri
has worsened, with continually
increasing rates and arbitrary
policy cancellations. A thorou.gh
cxrmination of the ‘no fault’
prinri'ple, which has bt'cn fabu-
Icuslv successful in Puerto Rica
and Massachusetts, is dictated.
“Quality educalioji must be a
continuing aim of North Carolina
an'd I support more empTTasis on
vocational education at tlie grade
school level.
“I will support appixsoiriations
to improve the quality of sendee
at the skUe’s mental institutions
and in the drive fo get narcotics
on North Carolina’s past-history
li.-at.” ^
M.". Plonk oposed Representative
W. K. Maunoy, Jr. of Kings
M(.untain, in the primary two
years ago in a one-on-one num-
beri'd st'at .‘k^uation, wRich has
bet'n declared illegal by the
courts. The conti'st this year will
be a sweep-.! akes. Ropre.sentaitive
Mauney is an unoppasod candi
date fer the .state .senate.
“I will work with Kings Moun
tain and Gaston ccunty school of-
fi-.ials to obt'un what ever legis-
Irrion might be nrx'ssary'ToT7iim-
i.nntf' fh? untfv^ard situation
»\i:eehy in-city citiens of Kings
Mountain who live in Gaston
County must pay tuition to at
tend a Kings Mountain school
within walking distan'cc or see
these children bu'^'d spvoral
miles daily to attend a Gaston
school.”
A native of Number 5 Town-
S;hi|>, Cleveland, he is son cf Mrs,
Ellen Patterson Plonk and the
late Clarence Sloan Plo-nk. Rear^
cd on a farm, ho played football
for Kings .Mountain high school
be'f( re eiiteiiing North"'Carolina
State Univer-'itv at RaiUigh,
where he was ^duafod in 1934
with a Bachelor of Science do-
gix>o in textile manufacture and
a ri'scrve commissiion in the
army.
He .'9i)ent the next sev'en years
in textiles, with Callaway Mills,
Manche-Jter, Ga., and Cannon
Mills, Kannapolis, until ordered
to acti\c duty with the army ait
foiTce as a fir.st licutenauf. His
sendee until 1915 included duty
in the European Theatre. He re-
tinned to Kings Mountain on itv
turn to ina'ctive duty stahis to
Continued On Page Eight
Mauney Changes Thinking: Annual
Assembly Sessions Not Needed
Stoite Represi'ntativo W. K.
Mauney, Jr., state senate nomi
nate, no longer supixul^ annual
sos.<;ions of the Nerfh tkarolina
Gtmiuail A-ssi^mbly, h(' .«aHi in an
addix’ss to the Kings Meuntain
Lions club Tuostlay night.
Instead, the legislator said, he
stipparts “reform” in the direction
of iuU-paid staffi which would
do much of the leg work which
the legislators now do themseh'eg
or depend on lobbyists to per
form.
B(;p. Mauney noted fhat the
advisory budget commission, h]-
eluding the lieutenant-governor,
spe-aker of the hoKise, director of
the budget and director of admin-
(Continued on Pago Eight)
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