lb i- Population Creoter Kings 91.914 City Limits 8.465 Or«*ot«r Kiags MouatAi ...jur* It dailTMl ftMD IM •paunl Ualtad statM luiMtu of th« Ccuiu raport • jonvory 18M. tdtd laciud— tk« 14«M0 populatlOB 0 WumliOT 4 Towuhlp* and ti«a fmolBlnq •«i24 Iroa a«iDUMr $ Towasblp. la ClarvUnMl Couaty end Cnmdat Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL. 83 No. 20 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, May 18, 1972 Eighty-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS ConmiissionEndorsesRegionalSewerSysteniConcept z Mis. VTilleioid Died Tuesday; Rites Friday Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Wille ford, H4, widow al Eenneti Rufus Wiileford, Southern Ha^'-Wiiy conductor for many years before his death in 1966, died Tuesday night at 10:30 p.rn. in the Kings untain hospital. I'uneral rites will be con- ■|iicled Friday morning at 11 ^P^-lock from First Baptist church with Rev. S. L. Lamb officiating. Interment will be in Mountain Rest Cemetery. The bc.'dy will remain at Harris Funeral Home Chapel until the hour of service. In lieu oif flow ers memorials have 'been design ated to First Baptist church. A native of Spartanburg, S. C., was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Andrew Thomson. She was a member of First Baptist church. Surviving are one son, iDr. Bennett R. Willeford, Jp. of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.; two brothers, Joe Thomson of Kings Mountain and James Tiiomson of Union, S. C.; and four sisters, Mrs. J. B. Emory of Charlotte, Mrs. R. C. Cooksey of Black'burg, S. C., Mrs. Lela Har :ig of Gainsville, Ga., and Mi«s llallie Thomson of Union, S. C. OPEN HOUSE AT NORTH WOODS — Phillips Development Corporation opened 30 new homes in North Woods Sub-Division on Groves street Sunday as Mayor John H. Moss snipped the ribbon formally opening the new housing project, when completed will mean 146 new homes and a S2 million investment. From left to right; Bob Shelton, Art Fincanon. both of Phillips, Joycee Presi dent Bob Myers, Mayor Moss. Mr. and Mrs. Drew Powell, and North Woods Project Monager Roger Osment ond Mrs. Osment (Photo by I. G. Alexander) Building Permits Issued By City BuMling i=;snoi ■'•••' ('tv Building Ins7X?ctfvr ix^'^ntly in clude' several perimeter z'-ning •permits and tluree metal utility 'buildings. Also issued to Fran'ces Hullen- dor Jones was permit for buildiTig a six-rcft*n residejice^stimated to eost $3775 wiith A, a. Construc tion Company listed as contractor. Herman K. Cobb bought pt'rim- eter zoning permits for six trail er placements on Grover road and another to Hazel Thomps'm for a placement in Silver Dollar 'Iraiicr Park. Robert McDowell bought a per mit for a carport estimated to ■cost S1600, With A. A. Construc tion Company contractor, and H. H. Yarbro, 306 Juniper .street for enclosing a cairport, estimated cost $525. Permits nietal utility build ings were issued to Ricky Wood, 701 Princeton drive, estimated cost $90, to Bill McMurr>\ 708 Meadw>rook road. estimated cost $150, and to Buddy C. Flet cher, 701 Clevtland avenue, esti mated cost $100. r Band Concert Thursday At 8 City Approves Water Contract ^; < • '4 The four bands of the school system will present a spring concert Thursday (tonight at 8 p.m. in Central scholi auidtpr- jum. fc'Preforming will be the seven- fii Grade 'Band, the Eiglith Grade Band, the Ninht Grade Band and the Fligh School Band. The musicians will be under the direction ol Band Director Donald Deal. Miss Metcali Wins Scholaiship Jackie Metcalf, high school senior, was awarded a $500 sciularship from the Dover foundation Friday. Sixteen Cleveland county high scliool students were honored at a banquet at Gardner-'WObb col lege Friday night and were pre sented scholarships. The two top atwards were $750 scholar ships given to a student plan ning to attend Gardner-iWebb col lege and another planning to at tend any college of his choice. The runner-up in each category received a $500 scholarship and the rest of the ifinalists received $101) scholarship each. Jackie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kenneth Metcalf of 602 York Rjad, Kings Moun tain. She plans to 'attend UPNC- jreens'ooro this fall to major in ledical teachnology. Recently, Jackie also was awarded the Roxle King scholar ship, given by UNC-IG. This schol arship is awarded each year to a high school senior who will enter the university this fall. Mis. Houser s Rites Conducted Funeral services for Mrs. Lela Barber Houser were conducted M.mriay at 4 p.m. at First Presby terian church, where she was a mcaVier, by Dr. Paul Au^Iey. Burial ua.- m Moun'ain Rest cemetery Mrs. Hou.^cr, S5, ot 2P> Ncr'h I’iccimoiit A.C., died ai 11.15 p. m. Saturday m Kmgs Mounlair: hospilal. A native of York county, she was the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs. Robert Barber and widow of Dock iHenry Houser. She is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs. Merle Beatty of Kings Mountain; four sons, Curtis Hou ser and Lloyd Houser, both of Kings Mountain, James Houser of Graham and 'Forrest Houser of Charlotte; one sister, Mrs. W. K. Rhodes of Holbrook, Mass.; one brother, 'Banks Barber of kShelby: 11 grandchildren and 16 rgreat grandchildren. TO WIN DEGREE -- Mrs. Peggy McGinnis Wells will receive her degree in exercises Saturday at Sacred Heort college Ot Bel mont. Mrs. Wells - To Win Degree Mrs. Pegjijy McGinnis Wells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl McGinnis of Kings Mountain, will graduate Saturday from Sac red Heart college in Belmont with B. A. in elementary education. Mrs. Wells will join the fac ulty of Carver school in the Rutherford county school sys tem in the fall teaching language arts in the seventh grade. She is married to Bill Wells of Gastonia, also formerly of Kings Mountain, and they are parents of two sons, Andy, age 14, and Continued On tPape Eight Bessemer City May Take First Water Thursday Representatives of Gaston Coun- .ty, 'Bessemer City and Kings Mountain, along with those of government agencies and semi private agencies promoting a clean environment voted unani mously at a meeting here Tues day to recommend to the 'respec tive boards a joint effort to make a feasibility study of a regional sewer tieatment facility. The group mot here at the in vitation of Mayor John Henry Moss, 'wbo, in welwming the visitors said: “This meeting tdday is the “Door Opening Assembly Session’* that wo may exchange ideas and views and co-cu’dinate efforts to resolve that we will affirmatively •m'eot the “Environmental Chal lenge for tlie Seventies” through an action program of cooperation in the effort for a Regional Sew er System.” The motion wa^ made by Gene Fronoberger, Gaston county c-om- missioner, and sect>nded 'by Bes semer City Mayor (Jeorge iNqw- ton. Grover Cook of the environ mental protection agency" of Char lotte pledged the support of his agency in giving a regional sewer authorhity top priority. Edward Easton, director of Centraiia Council of Governments, stated thL? agency’s priorities could be devoted to thig “present need of the Western Gason^East- ern Cleveland • Bessemer City - Kings Mountain sower plant”. William H. Mull, of Asheville, (Contmued \on Page Eight) TAPPED — Phil Fisher, rising senior at North Carolina State University, has been tapped by Chi Epsilon national honor fra ternity. Chi Epsilon Taps Fisher Phil Fisher, Kings Mountain rising senior at North Carolina State University at K-aleigh, has been elected to membership m Chi Epsilon, national honor frat ernity for civil engineering stu dents. 'Fisher is son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Fisher oi Kings Mountain. A dean’s list student through out his college career, Fisher has maintained a 3.0 or above aver age, one of the re()uirements for election to the national frater nity. Court Judgment Text Received The city has rec-eived the judg ment of the North Carolina Sj promo Court in the condemna tdon action again.st Buford D Cline and W. K. Mauney, Jr., trad ing as Double B Ranth, tt al. The opinion, written by Judge Susie Sharp, was handed down on May 10. The court had hoard arguments in the case last Nov ember. The Court’s conclusion: Our examination erf the record reveals Uiat substantial comix?- tent o\*idoTee .semiwts every find ing of tile clerk and the judge and that the findings support each judgment. Furthermore, all quiistions, except the question of just compemsation, were render ed moot by the sfipulation (quot ed verbatim in the statement of facts) that City will acquire title to The lands upon posting the amount set forth in the petition and that defendants might with draw the money from the clerk’s office without prejudice to the right of “either side” to contest the amiount of damages. This stipulation goes far beyond the right, which C. S. 49-19 gives a municipality upon the payment into court of the surn appraisn Page Eight) Area Officials Solidly Favor Regional Plan By MARTIN HARMON The Kings 'Mountain city com- mi-'s:on led tlie way WcdiU'slay night on a regional sower sys tem .to serve Ea.siorn Cleveland and Western Gajton ciounties, ap proving a rc-’oluticn f.w a joint eflort to obtain a Icasibility stu dy. The board also passed a rrs'o- luric.i c-mplia'i e fi i imi>rr:ve- ment of 'the King- Mountain Acr .sys‘;m- FpoclflMlily a re- fatt d a;-, i n ap; ;ving '..Ians and .s^X'oi.ioati ns approved by the State E.iacd of Water and Air Re- scui-'cs will divert waste now go- irg in*o the over-loaded McGill Creek plant, f'i'nal engineering plans are to be filed in Raleigh by June 1. In another aiction conccmiing waste, the commission endorsed a state permit whereby K Mills will build a 100,(XX) gallon hold ing basin—also a move ito allevi ate the McGill creek overload. The board authorized cmploy- iment of three regular police offi cers, iI>onald D. Ivc>% Warren G. Broott^, 44, an army retiree witli military police experience, and Bobby Leo Meadows, 31, waiving the maximum age xe- qulremont on the latter two. Em ployed as a policeman for the summer months w’as Jimmy Dick ey, 21, a Gardner-VVebb oollege junior. Injuries Fatal To Rippy. 17 A 17-year-old Grover youth, Jack Ed-ward Rippy, died at 7 p. m. Sunday in Spartanburg Gen eral hospital as the result of in juries sustained in a two-car collision on S. C. 198, north of Blacksburg, S. C., Sunday at 4:20 p. m. Funeral services vv'cre conduct ed 'Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. at Rocks Springs Baptist church, where he w’as a member, by the Rev. James Michael Minnix and the Rev. Leonard Thomas. Bur ial was in Mt. Parron church cemetery. Rippy was the son of James Allen and Minnie Camp Rippy of Route 1, Grover. He was a senior at Blacksburg (S. C.) high school. Surviving other than his par ents are one brother, Charles A. Rippy of Grover; and three sis ters, Mrs. Eliztbeth Hannon and Mrs. Margaret McCraw, both of Gaffney, S. C. and Mrs. Sarah Mclntire of Blacksburg, S. C. MOTHER OF YEAH First Congregational United Church of Crist in the Lincoln Academy honored Mrs. Hattie Brandon McNair as “Mother of of the Y'ear” at special services Sunday.. Mrs. McNair, mother of four children, was given a bt)u(iuet of red roses from her son, Evon. CALLS RUN OFF—Dwight Tess- ner, fifth for county commis sioner in the May Democratic primary, has called for o run off. Others in the June 3 run* off are Coleman W. Goforth, In cumbent Fritz Morehead, ond L. E. (Josh) Hinnant Schools Ponder Bond Election The Kings Mountain Board of •Education is expected to hold a called meeting on a proposed bond issue within f'he next 10 days or two weeks, according ta Superintendent Donald Jones. Jones said the boaR^ is think ing of proposing a $2 million bond issue. He said the proposed issue was discussed at a meet ing of the board’s building com mittee Monday at its meeHng at the Royal Villa IMotor Inn. Jones said school board chair man CJeorge Mauney h*as appoint- e‘ing to “in volve as many pc'oplc as poe«i* bio” in determining the mast im portant not'ds for improvemen'ts in Uie system. City Acted Wednesday For Eflort Bv .v-An.'N HARMON City co.m ^issions of Bessemer City and .-v.-i./s a.^untain m t Wednc'-' av lo ' *^£001 a wat er coiurae:. Tat: Kq.,;. Mou:.1 board n-. -a . u't ar -i 6;30 mcftu..:. lor '"• ■ . 1 ;i was mtvtin.2 ;a‘i r May>';'r \/corge Ni * i .S( mcr ; i'-y ivid Viu,- ry Moss he taking water I’.i.. - at 4 o’clock. The i-.mtract p.^ ' . C ■ Kings Mountain will .s’-^-^ly semcr City up to 250,(X)0 gajlcns of water per day at a flat ri‘e of 37.44 cents per thousand'^gal- Ions. The city reserves the right to adjust rates on throe months no tice and to cancel iBe contra'ct on six months notice whi’ch -May or Mo.ss said he doesn’t foresee. King3 Mountain has treatable water capacity of six millioai gall- Ions daily, four mi)llr>n from the Buffalo Creek plant and two from the Deal street plant more than twice the current pumpage of •the city to present customers. Tlie contract provides that Bes semer City receive tap fees on the line it owns from Kings Moun tain Industrial Park to '^the Bes semer City town limits. Bessemer City has been plagu ed by a water shortage, particu larly in dry weojtiher, for some years and the shortage has liam- pered the city’s industrial growth. “The contract is regarded as good business for Ivbth cities,” Mayor Moss said. “V^'e have the water and Bessemer City needs it.” The rate is 12.44 cents higher than /the base rate of 25 cents which in-city cusfomers pay. Inquest Reset Monday, 11 A.M. Inquest into the death of a Kings Mountain Negro u'oman' \ 4 has been continued until next * Monday at the retjuost of attor ney Julius Chambers. Chanubers is the attorney for the family of Mrs. Senora Hughes Williams, 44, who died on Friday, May 5, a ter being hit by a police car driv'en by Kings Mountain police chief Tom McDovitt. Monday’s continuance of the inquest will be held at 11 a.m. at City Hall in Shelby. Highway Patrolman R. B. Burnette, who investigated the accident in which Mrs. Williams was killed, against cident unavoidable. Burnette’s reports stated that 'McDevitt was chasing a speed ing car when Mrs. Williams s^eprei from a curb at the inter section of Cansler and High way 74 into the path of the police car. According to Burnette, there were three witnesses who said MeDevitt had his blue light and siren on. jn wnich A>irs. v\ iiiiams lied, filed no charges/ Mc^Devitt, ruling the aa iina\-/-k?Ha hlo * KMHS May Increase Graduation Units Required From 16 To 18 Commencement Exercises To Begin; Ausley Is Baccalaureate Speaker Ml t>B. FAUX. AUSLEY Comfmcncement exorcises for 268 Kings Mountain high school seniors will begin on Sunday with the baccalaureate sermon at 8 p.m. In John Gamble (Memorial Stadium. Dr. Paul Ausley, pastor of FirsI Presbyterian church, will deliver \he message. The invocation will bc^OTcred by Rev. Paul Millwood, jja.stor of Grover’s First Baptist church, and the scripture reading iwill be read by Rev. D. C. Wilson, pastor of Bbenezer Baptist church. Diplomas will be awarded at graduation exercises on (May 28th at 8 p.m. in the stadium. KMHS Principal Jake Atkinson, assisted by Supt. Donald Jones and Chief Marshal Lynn Blanton, will make the 'presentation of diplomas. Seniors will conduct the pro- Centinued On Page Eight STUDENTS AND BOSSES HONORED — Students and employers in the Industrial and TTistrlbutive Education-training programs at Kings Mountain high school were honored at the annual awards luncheon Thursday at Royal Villcu From left to right: Mrs. Carolyn McWhlrter, D^I coordinator; Jim IVhlte, employer at BVD Company; Cliff Hidclin, DE Student of the Year; Mark McDaniel, em ployee at Belk's; Larry Morrow, of BeUc's, DE Em ployer of the Year; Curtis Patterson. ICT Student of the Year; Kyle Smith, ICT Boss of the Year A ward; Myers Ha#ibrlght, ICT coordinator; and Schools Supt. Donald D, Jones. Awards were presented to outstemding students and their employ ers in both school programs. (Photo by 1. G. Alexander) The Kings Mountain Board ol Education Monday night author ized Superintendent Don Jones 'to study the p.)ssibility of raising graduati(Jn requ '-emenls al Kings .Mcuntai.i High School. Suix'rintendent Jones gave the board a reque.'il'from a l.x?al siu- dt nt rc*questing to take 'an Eng lish course iji summer school to graduate early in order to get ma'.ricd. •Jones ix'ad from a 1953 hand book which he .said contained the latest requirements pertaining to &mli ciiscu. The handbook .stated that students should^not be per mitted to graduate in less CTian four years beyond “^le eighth grade but went on"*j g-ive cer tain exwption.s, vtmong them that the .student me^ graduation re quirements, be in the upper 10 percent of the da.ssTTTid FTavt an IQ of no or more. The student requesting early graduation ap parently met the n*quirements. The board authorized Jon(*s to rtvienv the situation and take ac tion but Jones and board member P. A. Francis felt thiU^ if the board begins getting a fot of such requests it might affect the num ber of students at the high .^ehoM. Jones was authorized to meet with Principal Jake Atkinson and coun.selors to study the possibil ity of increasing rt^tuired units for graduation l;-om 16 to 18. In other Monday night action, the board: 1) Vot<'d to a.sk the Clp\e'and County comnTissioner,s for the 20 percent .supplemental tax levy as approved by the vofers. Jones said he didn’t k:iow how muth revenue this wiH*oiing in point ing out that there woulTr p7 o- ably bo some difference in teaeh er allotments for tlie 19T2-73 sch(x>l year. 2) Cavt its afv^roval of mem bers of the school odminis|raTi-on attending an American Manage ment Asswnation workshop in Charlotte Augu.st 9 11. Jone.< said he had appliojtions for 15 per sonnel to attend the meeting and a federal grant through the State Department of Public Instruction was Q'j)provisi for sevam. font's .said the numt>er t'ould probably be increa.sod to nine or 10. The .st'hool system will pay the cost of transportation and meals. Continued On 'Page Eight