Population Greater Kings 51.914 City Limits 8.465 Km«s Mouatala Ciyur* is dsrlvsd lion its VMUU Unltsd stotM Btustiu of Ills Csnsus xsDort o Jav^ IBM. aad taeludes ttas 14.880 populaU»mtcga Township Ip Qaston*'jf»ittT- J Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL 83 No. 28 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 13, 1972 Eighty-Third Year PRICE TEN CENTS Additional 32 Units Of Low-Rent Housing Approved n 4) i i 7 I Commission Buys Parcel For C3D CHURCH MUSICIANS HONORED — The eight women pictured were honored for outstanding service to the music ministry of Boyce Memorial ARP church ot Sunday evening worship service. From left to r>ght ore Mrs. N. F. McGill, Sr., Mrs. John E. Gamble, Mrs. Garrison Goforth, Miss Frances McGill, Miss Reta Phifer, Mrs. W. Kenneth Crook, Mrs. I. Grody Patterson and Mrs. Martin Harmon. (Herald Photo by I. G. Alexander) Boyce Memorial Honors Musicians Appreciation ;^ight Observed; deception Held Boyce Memorial AKP cluia'h honored ei'jht women fwi* long seryk-e to the music ot the church at Sunday evening services. Gifts of silver were presented to -Mrs. N. F. MeGil'l, Sr., organ- Lst and choir direutor for 27 yt'ars, (liMl-liS) and Mrs. Jolin E. Gam ble, organist and choir d'ireclor for four yars (1968-72). Both women have retked. They were also presented appropriate certificates and red n>sos. Other women contributing to tlie mu.sic program who were -rec'ognizc'd, given c*entfcfioates and roses, were Mrs. Garrhson Goforth, Mrs. W. K. Crook, Mrs. Grady Pattorson, Mrs. Martin Harmon, Miss R('ta Phifer and Miss Pran ces McGHl. Tlie surprise awards program was held during a “Music Appro- ciation'* evening wor.sliip 'hour and honorees received with the pa.sler, Rev. Charles Edwards, and the new musJe director and, organist. Bob Cashion, at a re-1 ception after the service in Leila! Baiird Classroom. I The evening program on the! theme, “Faith and the Hymn; Writers; 'Faith and the Poets” ^as c'onduotcxi by thren? readers— Hlis.-; Rcta Phifer, Miss Carol Go- ^ortii and Miss France's McGill. KHI Moss led the invocation and Paul i'Uitcn was leader. The Coirol | Choir .sang “In Heavenly Love;: the Youth Choir sang “Yesterday,! Today and Tomorrenv” and the' Chancel Choir sang “The Words: of the Master” and “'Make Me a! Blessing.” Mrs. Charles Edwatds, Mrs. John C. McGill and Mirs. Paul Continued O71 'Pag0 Eight Cost Was $20,025 0«t to Kings Mountain Re- dov('l>pment commission for the West Mountain street mini park was $2(Mr25, including the $11,{X)8 paid for the property and $6017 in construction cx>st. Report .was made by Gene Wliite, (iirwtor of Kings Moun tain Redevelopment Commis sion. Only other expense was cost ot razing the building which had been condemned as dere lict. Weathers Dies Oi Stab Wound A 26-year-old Kings Mountain Negro. Nezel VVeathei-s, Jr., died at 1 a.m. Sunday in the Kings MounUlin hospital following what investigating officers term ed a domestic dispute duiMng which he was stabbed once in the left side. Charged with murder and jail ed in Cleveland County Jail with out bond is Rosie Lee Chambers, 23. Detective Bobby Putnam of the county sheriff’s department said the stabbing apparejitly resulted 'from a domestic dispute at Nezcl Weather's home in the Compact Community Saturday afternoon about 5:30. A butcher knife be- lievixl to be the weapon used in the slajing has been discovered by the officers. Weather’s who suffered a sin gle stab wound in the left side through the rib cage, underwent 'three hours of surgery in the Kings Mountain hospital. He died at 1 a.m. SumLiy. •Funeral rites for Weathers were conducted Wednesday af- (ContUiucd on Page Eight) Ervin, Former Resident, Drowns After Rescuing Wife, Daughters JD Jerry Devon Ervin, 30, of Wil- tain, dmwned Sunday near Wil mington after he pulled his wife and two daughters to safety after their motorboat capsized in‘the waters of Fort Fisheir. The Ervin family had joined ancther tY>upIe on a boating trip atid Blrvin apparently had re turned to the water to check on his companions. .Mrs. Elfvin, the former Wanda Ivie of Sdielby, and their two daughters. Dee and Vickie, were (ilarn to the shore by Ervin. A tliird daughter, four-weeks-old Brigette Ervin, was at home. Funeral rites for Ervin worn conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday fmm Oleander Chapel of Coble’s .Funeral Home -in Wilmington kvilli the Rev. W. H. White, Jr. Fand Rev. Vernon Moore officiat ing. Interment was in Win tor Park cemetery. Ervin was also the nephew ol U. S. Senator Saim Ervin. Also surviving are Ins father, Otis P. Ervin of Riiehland; one brother, Siimmy Ervin of Bolivia; and hU paternal grandmother, Mrs. Hattie Ervin of Riehmiond. The Ervins moved to Wilming ton in Januairy from Kipgs Moun tain. Both had boon employed here at OaroWna Tlirowlng Com pany. Mrs. Ervin, nkve frf Mrs. Madge H. Arnwood of Kings Mountain, is daughter of Luther Ivie of Shelby and Mrs. Doris Moore of the Mt. Paran common ity near Blacksburg. The Ervins returned Tuesday night with Mrs. Moore and her 'hu.s:band, Dover Mlooro, to the Mount Paran community. Carroll Dies Tuesday Night In Accident Ernest Leroy Carroll, 47, of 707 Piedmont Avenue, was killed Tuesday night when his pickup truck overturned on Old Kings Mountain Highway near Bessemer aty. Carroll reportedly was return ing home from his WY)rk at Lith ium Corpi>ration at the time of die accident. Ho was Tlead on ar rival at Kings .Mountain Hospital at 7:15 p.m. State Highway Patrolman T). T. Mendenhall said Carroll was traveling we.st on Old Kings -Mountain Highway about two mi'lcs from Bessemer City wdien ho lost control of his truck. Men denhall said the truck left the road on the right side, traveled about 300 feet and then pulled acmss the road to the left side. Mendenhall said Carroll’s head was trapped beneath the body of the truck after it came to rest on its right side. Memibers of the Kings Moun tain and Gaston County Life Sav ing cTcu-s answered the call. Sisk Funeral Home is in charge of the funeral arangements, which are incomplete pending the ar rival of relatives from Oonneeti- cut. He was .son of Mrs. Jane Smith CiinxHl and the late J. T. Carroll. Besides his mother, he is sur- viviHl by his wife, Mrs. Ollie Scruggs Carroll; tme daughter, Shirley Carroll of the home; three sons, Kenneth Carroll of the home, David Carroll of Wall ingford, Conn, and Michael Car- roll of West Haven, Conn.; six sisters, Mrs. Henry Hood of HoHy- wO(xl. Fla.. Mrs. Mac Williams of Norfolk, Conn.. Mrs. Leaman Car ter of Gastonia, Mrs. Walter t^ig- land of Rtx'kingham, Mrs. Wil- liaVi J. Fletcher, of Kings Moun tain and Mrs. Bud Ware of Bm ; the D. M. Morrison Esta te the ‘ building at the i )rnei of West M.anlain and v.hor:Lce strcc;s • J'hc buildin': now 0. a’-pied by ; Tiiianglc Loan C m ■jn>. it was j ann...unced by Carl V. Mauney, j Cv-inmi..sion chairman. Purchase price was $9750. The building wa.s ewne.l and I occupied by Home Savings & Loan j ^\ss(xiation until (he association i built its new and present offices^ • at 106 East Mountain. The 'build-, ing subsequently was sold to the | late Dr. D. M. Morrison. ' The corner lot fronts 20 feet! on West Mountain and 51 feet on , Cherokee. | It is the 11th of 42 parcels ac quired by the commission for the central business district redevel opment project. The building is scheduled for razing for commercial redevelop ment along with adjacent build ings owned by the B. S. Peeler and Ruth C. Thomasson Estates.' Gene White, rertevclapment commission director, said raz- ; ing of the building will await ac- j qul^ition of the Peeler-Thomas son properties. Allen Rites Friday At 4 William Earl Allen, 40. of 901 Church street, former taxi oper ator for Prir'o’s Cabs, died Wed nesday morning of a heart at tack. Mr. Allen was found by City Policeman Jackie Barrett and Bynum Cooke slumped over the wheel of his automobile at 6 a. m. on Phenix street. He was re portedly enroutc to pick up his wife at work when he suffered the attack, iFunora! rites will be conducted 'I^'i’ Moss said the three-member cemmittee will have as a principal function co ordination wdtli the city codes enforcement officer in adminis tration of state and area codes relating to housing. Specifically, the Mayor said, the cxwnmittee will hear ap|x>ais from the enforcement o-fficer’s condemnation rulings. PRESIDENT — George W. Mau ney has been re-elected presi dent of the Kings Mountai:A Hospital Board of Trustees for the coming year. Hospital Roard Re-elects Mauney George W. Mauney, e.xecutivo of King.s Mountain Bonded Ware house, was re-elected president of the Kings Mountain Hospital Beard of Trustees at the recent annual meeting. Mr. Mauney and Re\. S. T. Cooke, Negro minister, wore als(7 reap]> :intcd to five year terms on the hospitals board of trustees. Both term.s were up for rc-eiec- tion. Other officers are George H Hou.scr, viice-.p(resident, and Thom as A. Tate, secretary-tix'asurer. E d'h Mi. Houser and Mr. Tale were rc-eleded. Otlier members of the hospital hoard are John L. M(Gill, Carl F. Mauney, Harry E. Page, Jame.s Harry, Hugh D. Ormand, and I^obert E. Hambright. Grady K. Howard is ho.spital administrat.>r. Campbells To Convention Rev. M. L. Campbell, Negro minister and agriculture teacher at Kings MounLdn high school, is attending his first Democratic National Convention as alter nate delegate from Cleveland County. Rev. and Mrs. Campbell left via train Saturday and will re turn home on Friday night. Jack Palmer, of Shelby, Dem ocratic noiniJHM.' to the board of county commissioners, and Mrs. Palmer are also in Miami. Mr. Palmer is one of 64 fuM-flegi'd delegates from North Carolina. Also attending the convention from tliis arcxi is Dr. Eugene Poston, of Boiling Springs, pre- sifient of Gardner Wobb college, who will on Friday lK>come one of two national commilteomcn serving from Nortji Carolina. Dr. Poston is ais^o attending his first Democratic national conven tion. 100-Unit Project Cost Estimate is SI,845.113 Program re.servation for an ad- diticnal 32 units of public hous ing w\as announced Wednesday by the IX'partment C'f H msing and U/ban Development. UnitexI Stat(.s I?e{‘re.s(*ntative James T. ■Bnyhi’l InJif'riod city and King.s Mountain pu^l.c housing officials 1 Wedno.^day. Sixt>-eight units — again't an, original 100-unit application —, had born p-'cviou*!;. approved. i legal osiimaiol col of the. 100-ur.it pr.-jtvt is Sl.Sl.I.l'PJ. ! The program rostwaiion call., for (ho und.s to Ito r,m-tructed on : several .sitc.s Is f'r con-itru dior u.*: Iv. the ' canvoi'tionar’ pool . t 'nnein., rc.^-mola first enacted by j Ccngie : , whereby the rcle of the j [edt“al governme.*it is endo»~-x?-; ment of re payment of of housing authority bonds. It is the same law under which Kings Mountain Public Housing Authority built its first 150 units. Amendments to the law' by the 19oS Congress added to the origi- nj) act several otlier metlvxis of (providing hoasing, including a lca.se arrangement where units are constructed by private build ers and leased to the housing authority. Kings Mountain Hous ing Authority operates 50 units under lease. “The additional 32 units now approved means the wh'ole pro ject is firm. We’re in bu.sine.ss,” Thomas W. Harper, director, com niented. He said the architects, Tomber- lin Associate.? of Atlanta, already arc at w'^ork on the project. The Tomberlin firm designed the initial 1.50-unit project. Center Service Break-In Being Investigated Kings Mountain police are in- ve.stigating a break-in w^hich oc- cured last Wednesday night at Center Service on York Road. Acconling to police, Clyde Whet- stine. manager of the store, re ported the incident early Thunj- day morning. Whetstine reported the follow ing items missing: three televi sion .'•x'ts, several radios, tape dci-ks adn tape players. Officer.^ Richard Reynolds and Donald Ivey investigated. Roscoe Wooten Is City PW Foreman 429 Eligible Voters Have Signed Petition For School Bond Election The Kings Mountain City Schools system needs only 58 more names to have enough to call for a $2.5 million bond is sue. Superintendent Don Jones said Wednesday afternoon that school principals and other officials have secured 429 names. He said 187 names, or one-tentih of the eligible voters in the school dis trict, are needed. Jonos said some principals are still circulating petitions but add ed that “we should l>e through gathering names by Friday. We set a goal of GO names for each principal and several have al ready secured that many.” Jones said he would submit the petition to the Cleveland County Hoard of Education at its month ly meeting on August 7. The County l)oard w'uuld then sub mit it to tlie Cleveland County Hoard <'f Commissionei's. The local ibond issue caiis for $2.5 million for the purpose of building a new junior high school adjacent to the present Kings .Mountain High Sch’ si'hfxnH and an amVitoriinn to be built in front of the teach ers’ parking lot at the high school. iDecemher 9 has IxH'n sot aside as the date for 'the bond elec tion. Whites' lerry Has New Home By MAR'HN HARMON A brief item in last week’s HeiMld luadlined “Whites Need Ikime for Pet P(K>dle” got results —almmt'Wli('rc.” Conim. Ray Cline quipiK*d: “I’ll tliink about the junk yard next time I get my light bill from tlie city” and made the motion ‘to ajiprove buying of tlie new etiuip- ment. Board Session Features Hearings; Dilling Property Re-Zoned By 5-1 Major portions of Monday night's regular 90 minute com mission meeting was devoted to public hearings — a total of three — on a rezoning matter and street iimprovemonts. The board, by vote of 5-il and over objections of one property owner, Paul Ham, and City Comm. W. S. Biddix. rezonod two tracts of land on York Road. In other public he^irings seve ral citizens spoke in favor of pre limlnory resolutions on curb and gutter for Manor rwid. Ward II Commis-sionor \V. S. Biddix, who voted “no,” said lie agreed with the zoning boani’s recommendation to re/ono the two tracts rather than “spit zone” but he was personally a gainst rezoning the pniperty.” Mr. Biddix owns property on Owens Strt'Ct. Mr. Dilling's new building .will bo located at the (x>rncr of Owens and 410 York road. Morion to rt'zone fivim R-8 to general busino.ss for the jiunixise of constructing a now buildirtg for Dilling Heating Company was made by Ward V Ctinvm. Jonas Brklges who added lie was also in sympathy with Paul Ham, of 607 Hoyd street, who obifK-ted to the rezoning Ikk-iui-s*' pnxximfty of his home to e/i.'itmg industries was cau.^ing him “trouble enough.” Mr. Ham’s home is lo cated acrass the street from Oafi* ford Indusirii's. Continued On Page Eight