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VOLsi No. 18
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 4, 1972
Eighty-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Democrats
Settle Primary Contests
11,000
aans
,al is
1800
citer-
sible
note
[ the
le of
com-
rther
No More Tuition For Linwood
11 In Race
^ For Commission;
12 For Governor
Policeman’s Kfeeas A, H. Patterson’s
ArelnDistnct • i
Conducted Rites Conducted
m
SUuCuMeS—^lionny Lee Bridges.
16, succumbed to leukemia Sat
urday. Funeral riteg were held
Monday.
Leukemia Fatal
To Danny Bridges
Eagle Scout Danny Bridges,
16, lost his fight with leukemia
He Trained
CnKMFoice;
Dies Tuesday
A 21-year-oid former Kings
Maintain policeman wag shot to
death early Tuesday morning
after stopping a car for a rou
tine license check on Alalbama
Avenue in Bessemer City.
iMichel P. Jenkins, a member
of the Bessemer C3ty police de
partment, was pronounced dead
shortly after an ambulance
carried him from the shooting
scene to Gaston Memorial Hos
pital.
Jenkins had been a memiber
of the Bessemer City force for
only three weeks. He left KM
department on April 8.
The murder suspect, Nathan
Paul Hall of Charlotte, Negro
was killed approximatey seven
hours later during a gun battle
with approximately 100 law en-
forement officers from Gaston
an i surrounding counties. Mem
bers of
p:Uce force, Including Chief
’i..,m McflDevltt, took pert in the
gunflght.
'According to police reports
a 1968 Ply-
The Gaston County portion of
Kings Mountain is, indeed, a part
cf the Kings Mountain School
District, according to Robert E.
Faye of the Institute of Govern
ment.
City Schools Superintendent Don
Jones has received a letter from
Faye as to that effect.
The question of whether or not
students living in Gaslon ooui.-
ty were actually inside the KiM
school distri'et arose at last
month’s school board meeting.
The schools’ attornev, Ti"V
White, inquired of the Institute
of Government as to wihether or
not the 1905 boundary rules
would apply now .
In his reply, Faye told the
schools that the Kings Mountain
School District automatioally ex
tends to any area taken in by
the city of Kin,gs Mountain.
Sup. Jones said that students
living in the Gaston County sec
tion cf the school district, namely
the Linwood section, would not
in the future have to pay a $60
per year tuition to attend the
Kings Mountain schools.
DIXON SERVICE
Sunday morning worship serv-
th.. iri.,.,. *<* ^ held at 9:30 at Dixon
’Presbyterian church with Rev.
RITES HELD — Funeral rites
for Arthur Hunter Patterson, 90,
were conducted Wednesday.
Rescue Squad
Continues Campaign
Kings Mountain rescuq squad
will continue its house numbers
Robert Wilson
sermon.
to deliver the campaign.
Saturday morning. He di^ at 4 Jenkins stopped a 1968 riy-
a. m. in North Carolina Baptist occupied by Hail and
,1 fjspital at Winston-Saiem
‘ Funeral rites were conducted
Monday afternoon at 1:30 .rum
Faith Baptist church or whic.i he
was a memiber witn memuers of
bis Boy Scout Troop 92 as active
pallbearers. His pastor, Rev.
Robert Hicklin, officiated at the
final rites, and interment
in Mountain Rest emetery.
Young Bridges, son of Mr.
Continued On Page Eight
Legion Taps
Undbeiqh Dixon
Smith Home
Bniglaiized
Due to weather and ihe short
age of certain numbers the
group was forced to discontinue son and had attended RutherXoird
Home Savings'
Founder Dies
At Age 90
Funeral rites for ,^thur Hunt
er Patterson, 9U, iounder or H^uie
Sa.ings & Lean .-Va' 'i.u.cn, we-e
conducted Wednesday^ morning at
11 o’Uoj.v from ueiitral L'n.ttd
Me;hoJis'l enuKh.
His pastor. Rev. Paschal Waugh,
cCikrated at tne tmal nteg auu
interment was in -Mountain Ke^.
lueiiie Lcry. In lieu o._ flowers the
family has desigrfateo momoriaLs
to me Dui.u.ng fund of the
chur^n.
Active pallbearers were David
Saunders, Jav H. Patterson, Lany
Hamr.ck,- hiTi Russell, John Che
shire, and Charley T. Carpenter,
Jr. ^
Mr. Patterson, in Hi health for
scvc.al years, died of heart fail
ure Tuesday morning at 1:30 in
Kings Mountain hospital. He had
been a resident of Beam’s Rest
Hou-ne in Cherryv'ilie prior to his
hospitalization.
.4 native of Cleveland (County,
he was the son of the late Ira H.
and Angeline Whitesides Patter-
U E. (Josh) HINNANT
KM Candidate
For County Commission
RICHARD (Dick) WARE
KM Candidate
For County Commission
Kinmont Industry
To Employ 50
A thief or thieves broke into
the hdme of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer
Smith of 815 First Street some
time late Tuesday night or early
tne program.
Beginning Monday, May 8
they will continue this worth
while project. Rescue squad
members will in.stali your house
numlber for a minimum donation
of $1.00.
(Lindlbergh Dixon, construction
superintendent, has 'been elected Wednesday morning, ransaicked
Commander of Otig D. Green Post two bedrooms and stole approxi-
155 American Legion for the mately $420.
Mrs. Carl A. Bridges of route 1, coming year. Det. William Roper of the Kings
was a native of Kings Moon- Mr. Dixon defeatec^itwo other Mountain Police Department said
nominees — Bob Davies tuid Ben the Smiths left home about 10:30
tain. He was a sophomore stud
ent at Kings Mountain high
sliool and active in school-
church and scouting activities
until his recent hospitalization.
BVFD Begins
Fund Drive
The Bethlehem Volunteer Fire
college.
L;Lst surviving member of the
origin-il organizers of Home Sav
ings & Loan Association, he w-as
'Vice president of the Institution
at the time of his death. He had
served as secreary-trea.-;urcr of the
association from 1923-1961.
•He was a member of Central
United Methodist church, and ol
the Kings Mountain Kiwanis
club. He served as a city commin-
.sicner, as Kings Mountain past-
master from 1915-1923 and was
a former member of the board
Sling-Shot Anyone?
Tourngment Set
Hdrd — in post elections Monday p-m. Tuesday to go to work and departnient will begin its annual education,
night. He will succeed Oounimanld- reported the break-in when they drive Sunday. He had been married more than
er Bruce McDaniei. returned home at 7:30 Wednes- Fred Tate, a spokesman for 50 ye-aj-g to the former Fairy Long
Commander MlcDaniel was elect- day morning. the department, said the fiiemen of Kings Mountain. In addition to
ed First Vfce-Commander and Aooording to Roper, the thieves "’hi call on all individuals and t,ig witg he is survived by four
Gene Gibson was tapped as Sec- gained entrance by breaking the businesses in the BVIT) district, daughters, Mrs. Charles E. War
ond Vice-Commander. glass out of a tioor in the rear donations are tax deductible. Mrs. Jcihn C. Smabhers, Mrs.
Other new officers, all to be in- of the house. said the purpo.se for this p. c. Etheridge, all of Kings Moun
stalled at the May meeting Mon- Roper said $90 w^ taken from
A ‘sling shot" tourna(ment will day night at 7:30 p.m. at the Mrs. Smith’s pocketbook; $90
be held Saturday from 3^untU 5 American Legion building, will in- from a canfeter set; $121 in 50-
p.m. at Ray's Park-Inn Grill on elude Joe H. McDaniel, adjutant cent pieces, $3 in sil.-er dollars,
Highway 161 so^th of Kings and finance officer; Franklin $4 in pennies, $20 in other ciiange
Mountain (Bear i^en). Wairo, chaiplain; Gene SteWy, .serv- and two savings bonds.
Participants should ^provide jee officer; Stonewall Jad^n, Roper said he got several fin-
thciiT own sling shot an3 pay ajijstorian; Gene Wright, sergeant- gerprints tram the canister sets new pumper.
year’s drive Is to raise money
for a new brush truck.
Tate noted that l.sst year’s
funds were used toward building
a new ceiling on the fire depart
ment building, buying cutomaiic
door openers and purchasing a
$1 entry fee.
Ol
ON DEAN'S UST
Mary A. Payne and Ronald
Dean Payne are listed on the
University’s official honor lists
at E>ist C^lina University in
Greenville. ’J v
LLPatnam's
Rites Conducted
Elzie Lee Putnam, 51, of Rt. 1,
died at 6:30 a. m. Sunday in
Kings Mountain hospital follow
ing an illness of several months.
A native of Cleveland county,
he was owner of Putnam For
eign Car Garage, a former
Cleveland county justice of peace
and a moniier of Temple Bap
fist church where he served as
deacon and Sunday school teach
er.
IHe is survived by his widow,
'Edna Louise Gainey Putnam;
one daughter- Mrs. Ronnie
Gregory of Kings Mountain; one
son- Pete Putnam of Kings Moun
tain; one sister, Mrs. J. W. Ray-
field of Kings Mountain: five
brothers, William G. Putnam of
Denville, N. J.. Lloyd Putn.am
and Babby Putnam, both cf
Kings Mountain and Forest Put
nam and Billy Putnam, both of
Chcrl:tte ad two grandchildren.
(Funeral services were con
ducted Tuesday at 4 p. m. at
Temple Baptist church by the
Rev. Frank Shirley, the Rev.
Richard Plyler and the Rev.
Richard Whitener. Burial was in
Patterson Grove cemetery.
at-arms; George Bowen, assista'nt but the police have no other
sergeant-at-arms; and Jake BrJdr- leads. _
ges, Hobert Dye, Dkk McGinnis, Det. Retper said that local m°r-
Jay Po(well and Gene Tignar, chants should contact him at 739-
■members of the executive com- 3636 if someone tries to cash-in
mittee. a large amount of change.
He said special activities by
the department last year in
cluded operating the concession
stand at the Bethware fair and
sponsoring several chicken and
hot dog suppers.
tain and Mi's. Herman Sli-aparo of
New York City; four brothers.
Price Patterson cf Chaileotan, S.
C., Wray Patrerso’n of Dawson,
Ga., Grady Patterson and DeWitt
Patterson, both of Kings Moun
tain; one sister, Mrs. Clarence S.
Plonk of Kings Mountain, five
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Fund Established
Tot Mrs. Jenkins
The Gaston County Law En-
f.-rcement Associati -n. has est-ab-
lisJied a fund for ll.e w;d .w of
Michael Jenkins. 21-year-old slain
Ees-iomer City ipolice.man.
Jenkins, a former ivings Moun
tain policeman, was“ot to death
when he stopped a car for a rou
tine check early Tuesday morn
ing in Bc’ssomer City.
liie Gastan Law 'i..nforromcnt
.i\s-;,c iaticn opened file fund with
-.1 S250 contribution to Mrs. Jen-
kin.s, who is a student at Gardner
Webb college.
Contrioution.5 may be sent to
the Citizens Bank in Lowell, N.
C., according to Captain Jim .4u-
ton of the Gaston County Rural
Police.
MAY QUEEN—Kathryn Owens,
high school senior, will reign as
Queen of May at traditional
May Day festivities May 12th
at the high school gymnasium.
Kathryn Owens
Is May Queen
Kathiyn Owens, senior student
and daughter c-f Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Owens, will reign as May
Queen at May Day festivities May
12th -at Kings Mountain high
school.
Other members of the May
Court will include: Maid of Honor
Judy Wc.st, a .senior; Lynn Bridges
and Brenda Stone, senior attend
ants; Susan Bumgardner and
Debbie Page, junior attendants;
Nancy Hord and Becky Scruggs,
sophomore attendants; and Vickie
Bell and Toby Brown, freshmen
attendants.
MLsg Owens is president of the
KMHS Health Careers club and is
active in the Future Teachers
and Future Homemakers organi
zations.
IN NEW POST
Charles Wilson has been elect
ed president of the Rotary club
to fill the unexpired ter.-n of
President Joe Lanoy w-lio has
moved t: Greenville. Mr. Wilson
is a ivirtner in McCurdy Ciean-
ers and an officer in the N. C.
National Guard.
SERMON TOPIC
Dr. Paul Ausley will use the
sermon topic, “God Is Beyond,’’
at Sunday morning worship hour
at 11 o’clock at First Presbyter
ian church.
ADZIUART OFnCERS KombMS of th« AuxUlaty of Otis D. Green Post 155 were hostesses to
the District 23 meeting in Kings Mountain Sunday at the Americon Legion building. Pictured
from left to right; Mrs. Robert McRorie of Rutberfordton ■ re-elected district president; Miss Eliza-
' betU Stewart, Hecald stofier, local unit president ond new alternate president for the district; Mis.
Margaret, Greene of Stanley, DiTislon V precldent; Mrs. Charles Barbee of Winston Salem, state
president of the Auxiliary: and Mrs. Doris Ray of Hillsboro, the state vice-president ond incoming
president. The local auxiliary won two memberihip erwords. (Herald Photo by Isaac Alexander)
Winkler To Leod
Revival Series
Rev. J. Garland Winkler, re
tired Methodist minister of Le
n.'ir and pastor of Central Meth
odist church from 1941-48, will
be evangelist for revival serv
ices beeinnlng May 14th.
.Sjmvices will be held each eve
ning beginnlrrg on .Sunday, May
I ttb, and continuing through the
following Wednesday.
Plonk Maiiney
To CoRvenSion
Hal Plonk, representing Res-
urreclion Lutheran church, and
Charles F. Mauney, representing
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church-
a.-e delegates to the 168th annual
cop'-enion of the North Carolina
Synod of the Lutl'.eran Church
in America beginning Monday
a: Durham Motel and Civic cen
ter ir Durha-m-
Dclcgates will give major con-
sic.crrtien to the proposals to
change the synod staff strucure
and related constitutional and by
law amendments which were pul
on notice at the 1971 conven
tion.
Rev. R. Douglas Fritz -■'f Salis-
burj, a former pastor of Resur
rection church here, will serve
as master of ceremonies at the
comenti n bantiuot Tucsd;iy eve
ning.
Bedpillow
Manufacturer
To Locate Here
A group of North Carolina busi
nessmen have formed a new
Kings Mountain corporation
Which will employ approximately
50 persons.
Kinmont Industries, Inc., a
manufacturer of bed pillows, will
be located in the Kings Mountain
Industrial Park.
Bill Stinnett, President of the
Cleveland and Gaston Develcp-
ment Corporation, which is con
structing the 35,000 square foot
building, said that grading began
on Monday and actual construc
tion should begin within the ne.xt
10 days. ,
Stinnett said production will be
gin September 1.
In announcing the new indus
try, Stinnett said:
“This facility will produce bed
pillows for direct sales to insti
tutions and imasg merchandisers.
In addition, Kinmont Industries
has become a licensee of -the na
tionally-advertised Blue Heaven
name for bedpillo'ws as well as
other well-known lines for manu
facture and sale to Southern re
tailers.”
Other officer.s, in addition to
Sti.nnett, include George Lewis,
vice-president; Robert Goode, sec
retary and Glenn -Adams, treasur
er.
Stinnett said total investment
in the new corporation is $500,000.
Ira Ro.ss, a native of Virginia
and a graduate of Georgia Tech,
will be general manager of the
cceportion and will be moving to
Kings Mountain soon, Stinnett
said.
Three Zoning
Permits Issued
Three permits for zoning v^’ere
is.sued by the city building in
spector this week.
They included:
Herman K. Cobb obtained a
permit to place six tr.ailcrs, Ricky
Wood of 701 Princeton Drive ob
tained permit to place -a metal
building and H. H. Yarboro bought
a permit to close in a carport at
h:s residence at 306 Juniper
street.
Kings .Mountain voters will go
to the polls Saturday to take part
in one of the most hctly-contcst-
ed primaries in the histc.'y of
North Carolina.
'Local voters will have no les.s
than 12 choices in the Governor’s
race and 11 in the county com
missioner’s chase.
AH 11 men running for the
three vacant county co.-nmissicn-
er’s .seats ore Domexcrats. The
list inel'udes two Kings Mountain
men, Richard (Di.:k) Ware a:id
L. E. (Josh) Hinnant.
Others seeking a sp-at on the
nf -p Ij-j.
cumbenfs Fritz Morehead Jr,, Rob
ert iiu.-.,diu ai.d J. IJO. .c lurnor;
plus Jadt Palmer, W. H. Dxld,
Coleman W. Goforth, .'larcnce C.
Mellon, Clay Stapleton and
Dwight Tessnecr.
Six men are seeking the Demo
cratic nomination for Go-vernor.
They incl'jde Lt, G'-.e'i-ar Pat
Taylor, Hargrove (Skip-e-)
'o-.vJes, Zeb D.Jcson, Reginald
H-avvkins, iWlbur Hoo.ay and Gone
Leggett.
Seeking the Republican Party’s
nomination for Gc-.ernor a.e Jim
Gardner, an un.sur-cessful eppen-
ent of Bob Scott in the 1958 elec
tion, Jim Holshouser, Leroy Gib
son and Thomas E. Chappell.
Bruce (Bozo) Burleson and Arlis
F. Pettyojhn are running on the
.American Party ticket.
Five Democrats and two Repub-
IJcans are on the state’s first
Presidential ballots. Democrats
include former Governor Terry
Sanford, George Wallace, Shirley
Chisholm, Henry Jackson and Ed-
imund Muskie. The Republicans
arc President Richard Nixon and
Paul McCloskcy, Jr.
On the United States Senator
ticket. Democrats will choose
from a list of four, including in
cumbent B, Ev'erett Jordan, Nick
Galifianakis, Joe Brown and Gene
Grace. Republicans will choose
from the trio of Jesse Helms, Wil
liam Booe and Jim Jolinson, Jr.
The Lieutenant Governor’s rice,
especially on the Democratic .side,
also shapes up an interesting
one. Democratic candidates in
clude Allen C. B-arbee, Reginald
Lee Frazier, Margaret Harper, Jim
Hunt Jr. and Roy Sowers. N'One of
the candidates appear to be way
ahead of the padc.
On the RepublDcan side. candJIS®
dates are Norman Joyner and
Johnny Walker.
The Democratic Party has a
slate of six candidate.s in the race
for Commissioner of Insurance,
including George Belk, (Jeorge
Cherry, Jr., Johnny Clark, Cecil
Duncan, John Ingram and E. Rus
sell Secrest. The Republicans of
fer only two, L. W. Douglass and
C. Ed'Iey Hutchins.
'Winners of four races Saturday
will be unopposed in the Nov
ember General Elections. Reptib-
lican.s are not .ceeking the posts
of Secretary of State, Treasurer,
Sinerlntendcnt of Public Instruc-
atn and Commissioner of La'bor.
Democrats seeking the Secretary
of State post are Thad Eure and
Louis M. Wade; Ekiwin Gill and
Jack Jurney are running for Trea
surer; John M. O'Oonnell is op
posing incumbent Craigh Phil
lips for the Superintendent of
Puiblic Instruction and seeking
the post of Ccwmmissioner of Labor
arc John S. Blanton Jr.. John C.
Brooks, W. C. (Billy) Creel, Phil
lip Ellen, Bob Folger and Jclin
Warden Jr.
Voters will al.so face two state
bonds. They will decide whether
or not to spend $2,000,000 for a
State Zoo and whether or not to
spend $150,000,0(X) for a Clean
Continued On 'Page Eight
Funeral Services Thursday 3:30
For Mrs. Pearl Long Styers, 92
Funeral rites for Mrs. Pearl
Long Styers, 92, will be con
ducted Thursday afternoon at
3:30 from Kings Mountain Bap
tist church of which she was a
member.
Rev. James Wilder will offi
ciate at the final rites and inter
ment will l>e in Mountain Rest
cemetery. The body will remain
at Harris Funeral Home until a
half hour before the service.
Widow of Winfred Scott Styers
who died in 1962- Mrs. Styers
succumbed to a long illness Tues
day omrning at 9:55 a.m. in
Green Briar Rest Home in Gas
tonia. She had been liospit.aIi:"'d
here some time with a hr ken
hip but had become able to
leave the hospital.
She was a native of Cleveland
county, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Long. She re
cently celebrated her 92nd birtli-
day.
She was a charter member of
Kings Mountain Baptist church.
Surviving are two daughters,
Nlrs. D. E. Tate of Kings Moun
tain and -Mrs. Carl Lewis of
Gastonia; two sons- John Styers
cf Hampton, Va- a n d Bruce
Styers of Hagerstown, Md.; two
foster cliildren. Mrs. Joe F.dison
of Cast, nia and City Clerk .loe
'H. McDaniel Jr. of Kings '.loun-
tain; 11 grandehildren; and le
great-grandchildren.