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6, 1972 3RS lities for irge num- farmers :er cattl^ if animali^ fall, car* •r on hay, ip sources spring as the N. C Service’s 'ram, Im- ' numibers \ the next :iNG lERE FHE ;ery iPRIL KING 19 PKO. Population I] Greater Kings 14p^*flin 91*914 City Limits 8,485 Gtnattr Kings Mounts .lurs U dsrlvsd ttM tt* upstart United 8to««* Bursou of tbs Csnsus * Januarr IBM. Includss tbs 14,tM P®?**}*?**! Kumbsr 4 Township, ond tbs Wfllnlng bumbsr S Township, In ClsmJond County «d Cropflpr «fi OoStol CSMtT. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL 83 No. 15 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 13, 1972 Eighty-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Last-Minute Voters Swell Registration To 31,505 Gene White Is Choice Of Board For Commission Acting Director r [e Succeeds be Laney On May 1 M. E. (Gene) White, project m'iinagor of the Kings Mountain Kt'develcpiment Com-missicn sinice Mjrch 1, was named the commis sion’s acting director at Wednes day’s mooting of the ccimijn'ission. Mr. W’hite wi'll assume his new duties May 1. Joe Laney, first and only di- , rc.t’or of the commission to date, tendered his resignation last Tuesday to accept the directorship of both the Greeniville, N. C. Re development Commission and the Greenvdle Puolic Housing Auth- c.-ity. Mr. I -iney made the recom mendation that Mr. White be ap- p. inted to the directorship, He saiJ: “I personally think Mr. White has the maturity and abil ity to do the jcb and together we've laid cut next' year’s ad- miidsirativG Du:lget and projeict s.hcdulos. I’m confident he and the leadership in the comtmunity will oarry this program forward.” A native of (^olumtbia. South Carolina, White came to Kings Mountain from Rutherfordton where he was a^ociated with the . Bey Scouts m America more , ^ company asked than four years. He had previous- worited for Winehestcr-Gralham (Columbia Bond Issue Topic On Board Agenda Nidiln "if { A vX County Schools Are Ashing $4 Million Bonds ACTING DIRECTOR — M. E. (Gene) White is the new acting director of the ICings Mountoin Redevelopment Commission. fcalty Company in Tour years. He is a 1963 graduate of the University of South Caro lina with major in business ad ministration. He served fr^ur y?"rs duty in the U. S. Navy. He is Met.h<xiist and a Kiwan^in. Tile White fami'ly include.- his witc, Drucilla, and thov tA’( c’‘H- dren, Neil, age two and onc-ihaH, and Lisa, six and onedialf. Spearman Rites Thursday At 4 Mrs. Lotha Caveny Spearman, 89. of Rock Hill, S. C., formerly cf Kings Meuntain, died Wednes day morning at 3 a.m. at her hemo. Funeral rites wi'll be conducted Thursday afternoon at 4 pjn. from Oak View Baptist church of which s^ie was a member. Rev. David Kiime will officiate, assist ed by Rev. Dean Crocker and Rev. E. O. Gore. Interment will be in tli(' church cemetery. Tlio body was taken to the licmo of Mrs. Speairman’s neip- hew, Glenn Spearman, in the Eetihware community and will lie in state there until 3 pm. today when it will be taken to the ohuroh. • Widow of Luther Spearman, rs. Spearman is attso survived by a sister, Mrs. Della Stefveinson of Vero Beach, Fla.; -and one biwi'her, Campbell Oaveny of In- diuntown, Fla. Green’s Funeral Home of -Rock Hill. S. C. is in charge of arrange ments. Stop**Go Light To Be Insialled A new stop-go light is being installed on a trial basis at the intersection of Mountain and Ciansler streets. Mayor J ;hn H. Moss said the The possibility of an upcoming ^-equest for the light was made by :bond issue might -be discussed citizens of the area who want a at Monday night’s monthly stop light rather t’lan a caution meeting of the Kings Mountain light a-t tihe in:erFc:t;on. Chief ■Board of Education. Tcm M Devitl said m.aking the Schocils & perintendent Donald change c.uld cut down on acci- Jones said Wednesday that the <jent-s at the intei'section. schools are "‘trying to study our Motion to make the change total prcigra-m” and that a posd- was made by W. S. Biddix, chair- 'ble bond issue mipht come be- man of the safety committee. fore the people shortly. "’We have between now and the first cf the year to decide Phillips Development Company whether we’ll go for a bond is- projects 114 new homes in North Woods Sub-Division. Roger Osment “We’re definitely going to talk of the company told the city com- a^bout this in the near •but whether or not ,it will be ^ and Monday I’m not sure. We still tain youth, Kenneth Stewart of rca;.cd at their have a lof.oK primary work to .^7 aTflfp. . tract 11 Off tne fJorin struck by a car 'Aim yS- Phillips P(o{eds 114 New Homes ■ Siewail 6 Hit By Cai; A six-year old Kings Moun- MRS. BOV/LES HONORED — Mrs. Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles second from left, is pictured by the silver service she was presented Thursday at a tea in her honor at Cleveland Memorial Library. The service was presented by Mrs. C. Rush Hamrick, Jr., left, on behalf of the local Women Sup porters for Bowles for Governor. Mrs. Bowles presented the service to the library in honor of Mrs. Pat Spangler, far right, whose husband is Bowles' state campaign chairman. Mrs. Mouae Kelsey, librarian, accepted the gift. In addition to the public reception, Mrs. Bowles was honored at a luncheon at Ncrth Lake Country cluB attended by campaign and corhmunity co-ordinators, repre sentatives of the press, and a few local life-long friends Mrs. Bowles. Mrs, Bowles is the former Jessamine Boyce of Gastonia. (Photo by Steve Martin) for im Under 21 £r@ Registered To Vote May 6 A tctal cf 31,505 persons in Clci. eland C >unty are registered to v^.e in the May 6 prltary, ac- cudi;';g lo Brenda Hamilton of lijt- oi Eli-w.tioii.'j. Tiio DO ks were clo-ed on Fri day, A;.:! 7. However, persons may .s:ill registev for the Novem- tK. general elections. C. the 31.(K)0-, Ills who are reg* ji; eied, Mrs. Hamilton said ap- pi.ximattly 1,021 ar'‘ under 21. L^'.-mir.Jte regii.“*ron F iday al 5 p..Ti. ff und a large crowd out side the door of the Clevclajid Ccunty B'.ard of Elections Office unable to get thei>r names on the poll books. “We registered an olfice full after we closed the do^r at 5 o’clock," Ralph Gilbert, county elc-Dtions boaud chairman, said this morning. ‘ 3ut, we could not Ic. ail lho.se people in the hall way insMe. The law says we are sv posed to strp registering at 5 e’eierk on Afril 7. but vve did work well ’till 5:30, finishing up with the ones already inside. Bocks are clos(*d accor^hng to state law 21 days before Ino first prima-r^'. Nevv residents and-teen-age vot ers have swelled the registration rdlls, elections personnel said. Persons with listed party affili ations — Republican or Demo crat — may vote in the May 6 primary. Non-party registrants may align with a party at the last minute on primary day. In dependent-registered voters liow- ever, are disqualified Irom the party primaries and can vote on ly in the Navember general elec tion. to .ezone*^ Woods Sub-Division from R-20 to R-10 for the additions. The ac- The county schools Burns and Crest) are tion wai taken after a p^ic taking steps toward a $-1,000,000 hearing in which no opposition issue was voiced. Mr. (ilsiment took the ooicasion Jones said the school districts to invite the com-missione-rs to have orvly until J. ly 1. 1973 to come by the site anci examine ask for bond issues ef their own. property Philliips is r^uesting the After that, bond issues must be ci/ty to accept a deed in order to on a county-wide basis, place a small recreation and pic nic area. , CONTINUES ILL Timimy Blanton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Blanton, of Durham, continues iH^at Duke Hospital w'here he recently un derwent brain surgery for re- meval of a tumor. His grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Blanton and Mi;s. Leonard Gam ble, have returned home ajftcr being in Durham with the Blan tons. (Shelby, striven by 34-year-old Hobby a;lready iQ^ne Sad’er of Clover. S. C. No charges were filed again st Sadler, who was driving a 1988 Ford w'hich struck the child near the intersect! ;ii of King and Dilling streets. Investigating officer Tommy King said the car was traveling east on King Street at a rate of Several months ago. Kings 30 miles per hour. Kings rc, art Mountain’s siihools system an- indicated that the youth ran in nounced possible plans of calling fr nt of the car. for an $S,000.000 bond is^ue "In my opinion,” King stated, which would allow it to build a ‘’Mr. Sadler did all lie cou! 1 to junior high school near the pre- avoid hitting the hoy. He hit sent Kings Mountain High his brakes as som as possible.’ School. The possibility of build- The yo. th was treated at :ing elementary schools and turn- Kings Mountain hospital, ing the present elementary Police investigated three olhci sch-ools into kindergartens were minor accidents during the past also a part of that plan. Two Shopping Board Rezones Centers For KM? Patterson Tract DAR Taps Mf s. Weir Hovis Rites Are Conducted E-PSSEMER CITY — Funeral services for Mis. Eva Ormand Hovis were conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Finstt United Metho dist church by the Rev. W. H. Pheagin. Buriall followed m Long Creek Cemetery. The school district, however, is attempting to get federal fi nds to take care cT part or ail of that plan. If federal funds are not availaJble, it’s almost certain a bond issue will be proposed. week, «but none resulted in ar rests or heavy injuries or dam age. At 5:15 p. m. Friday, officer King was called to the intersec tion of Stow'o Acres and Margar et Street, where a 1071 H nda driven by Carolyn Ki or, 30. of 702 Meadowbrook, pulled into the path of 1971 F rd driven by Linda Brown Robbins, 21, of Route2, Kings Mountain. According King’s report, Mrs. Kiser stated that she stop ped at the stop sign but did not sec anything coming. :vtra Hrtvic 510 of Ylfi W Wa<ah. g* “ iMrs. Kisor and a passenger on in-gton Ave afs zoning board of lo-yearold David A native off Gaston County and «raQ an^ointed hv treated for injuries at Kings Mr. Moss was appointed by -yjountain Hospital. King estimat- the dty board of t^^rn^ssioners e^-^amages to the vehicles as $150 to the Honda and $200 to the No Leases But Bei^eloper Is Optimistic Plans for development of what Realtor J. Wilson C^a^vfc•.•d de scribed as a 'email neighborhood shopping center ’ were announced at Monday’s city commission meeting uhich attracted a large crc.vd, a 22-item agenda and end ed ar 10:30 after three hours ot diocussi'm.s on a wide variety k;ff cit'V business. Mrs, W. T. Weir has ibetn elect ed Regent ef Ccloncl Frederi.k Hambright Chapter, DAR, fer the coming year. S-he will succevd Mrs. L, E. Hinnant. Other new ctficers a- o Mrs. B. F. Maner, vI.g j gent; Mrs. J. E. Herndon, recording secretary; Mrs. Frank Sincox, cf rennondMig secretary; Mri. L. E. Hinnant, treasurer; Mrs. C. D. Bl.intm, chai> lain; Mrs. G. E. Still, historian; .V.s, F. K. Summers, registrar; and M.. William Lawrence Ploni:, librarian. Members met Wednesday after noon at the heme of Mis. J. E. Herndon. Sid Moss Is Appointed Sid Moss, Park Yam Mills em ployee, has been appointed a FROM PUERTO RICA ^ Kyle Smith, personnel fnan- ager of Craftspun Yams, re- tu-rned from Ponce, Puerto Rica Wednesday after attending a meeting of 'plant representa tives. a retired school teacher, she was the daughter of the late John J. and Laura Huffstetler Ormand . j a & and widow of Samuel B. iHovis. She is survived by one daugh ter, Mirs. Edward Williaims off Ribhmond, Va.; and three sons, John S. Hovis of Boone, Ray O. Hovis of Gastonia and Coye W. Hovis o-f Bessemer City; nine grandchildren and two great grandohild-reai. "Bob Neill and I have options on sevc.al other ineces of proper ty - 13 -acios in all of the Plonk, Bennett, Goforth, Patterson pieces cf property. We have been trying to buy this particular piece of prt'p^rty frem Mr. and Mrs. Llojd Patterson for four years. Wc don’t liave any leases signed at the present time but we hi-ave con firmation with enough interested parties to proceed with it. We can proceed without the board’s ap- b'-roval of the two acres we ask lezoned but it will be a nicer shipping center with the two ^Namei in this years n:.tional. acres, giving egress, etc. We are America’s most out- f-Uc'Ving zone requirements. The Tech Slates First Aid Course IN WHO'S WHO — Barbara Lo gan has been tapped for mem bership in "Who's Who in American Junior Colleges.” Baibaia Logan In Who's Who An Industrial Firs-t Aid ecu-rse, sponsored by Cleveland Tcv-hnical Institute, will bo offered cn the Tech campu^- beginning Monday, . -il 17rh, at 7:00 p.m. Tliis 12- heur free course will be taught fre^m 7-10 p.m. on the first class night and the following nights, Wednesday, April 19th, Monday, Ap:-il 24lh and Wednesday, April 26th. Dan Camp, Director of Exten- Rc%’. W. M. Phillippo, Jr. will foU;, specifies that this partL-u- be evangelist for revival sendees EViiNGEUST — Rev. W. M. Phillippe, Jr. will be evongrelist for revival services beginning Sunday at East Gold Street Wes leyan church. Wesleyan Series Regins Sunday ear. listing cf . j •. i* --- Officer Marcellis Hunter in- standing Junior College students zoning Do^d has already given its street Wesleyan church, vestigated a (wo-car accident is Barbara Lou Logan, daughter Mr. Phillippo will fill the pu'l- beginnlng Sunday and continuing through April 23 at East Gold Mrs. Foster s Rites Conducted Target Date For Water Project Completion Oct. 1: IKckson Mrs. Mabel M0v« a ester, 69, of Burlington, sister of Charlie and Broadus Moss and Mrs. Frtxi Wright, Jtr., all of Kings Moun tain, died Wedmesday at noon after illness off several years. Funeral rites will 6e conduoted Friday morning at li o'clock from Court within the next'few weeks Berea United Church of Christ in in the city’s condemnation ac- Burlington with Rev. Archie Aitoh- tion.CoI. Dickson estimated that eson officiating. Graveside serv- iff the contractors return to work ice will be held at 4 p.m. in a (wo-car Saturday at 1:45 p. m. at the of Mr. and-Mrs. iHugh Logan ’r, intersection of Linwo d Road of Kings -Mountain, and Katherine Avenue. Her name is included in the According to Ij nter’s report 19714972 edition of "Who’s Who a 1965 Chevrolet driven by Liny Among Students In American Janal, 60. of S02 Jacksen Street, Junior College," a listing o-f the pulled from Katherine Avenue campus leaders from more than into the path of a 1962 Pontiac 600 of the nation’s instilutb-ns driven by Hoyt VKkers. 39, of of higher learning. Coyttiiiued On Pane Sia* Continued On Page Six 'Target date for cdmpletion off the Kings Mountain Water Project on Buffalo Greek is Octfaber 1 ptmding the acquisition of rights- . , . _ . of-way. by June 1 completion of the pro- Kings Mountain’s Mountain Rest This was the progress-report of Ject would take four months. cemetery. Cbl. W. K. Dickson, the city’s con- Col. DUckson said some minor A natilv-e of Cleveland County, suiting engineer, to the full'board work anJd adjustments are to be Mrs. Foster was the daughter off off city corTHTUssioners Monday made around the trea-tmenit plant the late Mr. and Mrs. John F. ni^ht. but this work can go on sitm-ul- Moss. She was widow of (Curtis Col. Dickson said that at least taneously with the_clearing and Foster. 175 acres of clearing and grub bing remain at the reservoir site but that contractors are aff a stands-'/H now urPi khe remaining right-eff-way is obtained, some of which is in a legal battle new in he courts. City Attorney Jack White said fie lias been advised that ruling is Ij jc rendered in the Superior grubbing operat^hs. He noted that "roadwork can be complet:- ter, Mrs. Carolyn Morene of iHia- ed as soon as the weather clears" Ieoh, Fla.; four ^ns, Ernest Fos- and set the target date for com- ter of Wel-come, Stokes Foster, El- pletion of the roadwork at May mer Poster and Lester Foster, 1. Bridges over BuffaQo and Whi-te all off Burlington; a brother, B. C, Oak Creek will require remowail, Moss of Orlando, Fla. and two he said, and this work will prob- sisters, Mrs. Prue Hudson of Char- ably be resumed after work at lotte and Mrs. Ruth Masters of the reservoir site is done. Salt Lake City, Utah. Neisco Creditois Meet April 18 In New York To Consider Offer A special* meeting cf creditors at 1 o’clo<k in the afternoon of of -Nel^o, Inc., whL'h includes the said day. in Rcom 201 of the Unit- Margrace and Pauline Plants in Kings Mountain, will be held in New York,City April 18. Pur,-:oso off the meeting will be t-o ODnsdd- cr an offer of $50,000.00 made to Mr. Crawford spoke after prop erly cAvner Lloyd Patterson asked the beard during a public hear- iny to rezone 12 lots cf section B, the S. P. Geforfh Estate property Ijrim residen-tiai to neighborhood bu'-'inoss. Mr. Patterson told the board, "My Iicmo has been on this tract of land for 40 years. It’s ^ hard dix'isi m to give it up but I feel Ctnitinued On Page Su.' lar first e-id class i.-? being taught for employees of businesses and industries in the Cleveland Coun ty area who are required by (DSHA to have a certain percent age cf employees cortfied in firist aid. According to Camp, enr'llmen't i.s limited to 30 adults, so inter- Special music will feature the o?ted persons c-hould contact servia\ Cleveland Tech, telephone 482- Rev. Edwin R. Cliriscoc, pastor, 4378, as soon as possible. Ralph invites the community to worship Mitchem will be instructor for in the soric's of services. ihe course. pit at Sunday morning worsihip hour at 11 a.m. and will speak at evening ser\*ices each day aff 7 p.m. Rain Slows Park Progress Codes Officer Asks Crack-Down On Ruilding Code Violators Ocher survivors include a daugh- Seymour Gillman, on behalf of the Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund. A notice given by Roy Ba-bitt, referee in bankruptcy, reads as follows: NOTICE IS HEIREBY GINTN that cd States CourthG'U>e, Foley S juare, New York. Now York, to censMor and act upon an offer made to SEYMOUR GILLMAN, the Trustee in Bankruptcy here in. on behalf of Central States .Scu'.heast and Sauthwost Areas pump Pensi' n Fund in the amount of $50,000.00 for the trustee's right, title and interest, if any. in and to all of the assets of the bank rupt eonslsing of the following Codes Enforcement Officer Wood- row Laughter, dty building in- Lighting fixtures have arrived spector, says many oitizens are but rainy weather has delayed guilty of violating city ordinances the board amend the oily ordi nance dcn-ling with building per mits and is recommending pen alties doubling the actual cost of a hearing will be held before the manufarluring plants of the bank- undersigned Referee in bankrupt- rupt: MAYO MILL locat'd in cy on the 18th day off April, 1972, Continued On Page Six work on the Kings Mountain Park on heme building, house mm-ing such pt'rmits be imposed for fall en West Mountain street, Rede- or demolition. ure to comply, vclo-pmcnt Commission Director In fact, he savg many of these He said lie had issued se\en Joe Laney said yesterday. build wiihout obtaining a pt'rmit building permits Monday and \ir. Lam»y slid benches and a and one builder had paid S900 to sc'mtM'ime he’d chased se\'eral are on order. He said as have a heme relocated only lasrt builders and inquired to find if SO'n as the fountainwerk is t'orn- w(*ek to find he was going to they had .permits to build. Ho said plete, garden clubtaers will bo in- have to move again on a larger tin- majority did not. vited to plant seasonal flowers lot." Text of the propost'd amend- and plantings following anchi- "It’s expensive and the reason ments follow: tectV recommendations. is that folks just don’t know Code - Sec. 7-9. Building Permit • Date for the dedication service they’re suppostxl to have-a per .Hequir^ will bo anniHinccd within the mi-t." Laughter dedares. A building permit .shall be re- next few weeks. Laughter is recommending that Continued On Page Sue