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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<i« o MBoiDsr 4 Township, and tbs xsmalnlng 6.124 froo HumiMX 6 Township, in ClSTolond Countf and CrowOor* »l«>»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 B<d- mont; and four brothers, Grady Carroll of Kings Mountain, John T. O.irroll, Jr. of Kahnapo-lis, Duuglas Carroll of Spartanburg, S. C. and James W. Carroll of Meridian, Conn, Also surviving arc t'v^'o grandchildren. Foimei S & L ?ike Is §9I5C 1 ' ? Ey MAR TIN HART/ION Kingi .M .unlain Uedevelopmeiit | Commission has atquirel fr.>m ; 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<lay afternoon at 4 o’clock from East Gold Street Wesleyan cliuroh. Rev. EMward Chriscoe and Rev. Paul Lanning will of ficiate, and interment will be in Mountain Rest cemetery. iMr. Alien, who had suffered a heart ailment for a number of years, was disabled. He was a member of First Freewill Bap- Centinued On Pag9 Eight Assault, Murder Hearings Today Preliminary hearings involving several area citizens aix? slated .for t(xiay (Thursday) in 27th Judicial District Court in Shelby. Rosie Lee Cham'bers, 23, char ged in the slaying of Nozel Wea thers, Jr., 26, of tlie Com])act Community, will be given a pre liminary hearing on a charge of murder. Mrs. Chambers was jail ed without bond. Michael Steve Lee, 30, of Kings Mountain, charged with assault with intent to commit rape, will face a preliminary hearing to day. Lee is free under $1,000 bond. Three Appointed To Committee Luther Bennett, How^ard Ship}3 and Ira Falls have been appoint- I'd to a new city housing commit tee in accoirdance with state Oxie 6f Ordinances of Housing and the Southern States Building Code. M-ayor John Honr>’ 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<Kjl plant. The school wouUl house api^roxi- mately 1,(KK) sliidenls and would Ik? approximately the same type building as the high school. Also includiHl in the plans are improvements at several elemen- iir>’ 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 —alm<jsi too much. The Gene White family had a new cat in the family, w’hich liad brewed a family fight be- IwiH'M the feline arrival and Jer ry, the miniature French poodle. The youngsters had decided they wanted to k(K»p the cat. The Herald story .said merely what the headline said. Tlie first caller was invdted to claim Jtwy and slie did, for free, as the Wliiti's meant to give the poodle away all tlie while. Tuesday tliere had been more than .50, Mr. White says) contin ued t<i come. Sc\eral callers wanted to buy the dog. A lady offered a genuine Siam- e.?c cat in trade. Witih one lady caller, Mrs. White ii.sed an unfortunate chokx? cif words, replying, “No, the dog has b<'en dispxsed of.” No more than a minute had clapseil w'hcn the same lady was again on the wire, asking irately, “Did you have that dog killed?’ Anotlier caller, a man. wanted to know, “But how much did you GCT for the dog?” And he indi- <'atcd much doubt at the reply the p<xx11e had been a gift to the new owner. And the new owner got a dou ble bargain. She had noticx'd the doghoii.se when elaiming her gift, called the following day to in quire about the hou.'se. She w'as invittvl to claim it too, all foi free, and did. Alas! The Whites didn’t learn the name of Jerry’s new owner. Gastonia Man Assumed Duties Mere On Monday Rts.'yjc Wooten assumed duties Monday as foreman of the city publi'c work? dtparimc.it, U was announc'ed by .Mayor John Henry Moso. Mr. Wooten, in engineering work for the pa.st ten years, has recently served as assistant chic engineer and field engineer fo Jenkins Melal Products, Inc., Gas tonia. Pre\icusly he had served as mechanical designer for Techni cal Products Associates, of Char lotte, and before that had been with Public Service of North Car-! olina, Inc., the Gastonia-based ! natural gas utility, working in I the metering, regulating and gas line installation ser%’ice depart-1 ment. ! 4^ ( S J Mr. Wooiten is a navy veteran. Mrs. Wooten is the former Lou ise K.urrle. They have three children, Ros- ooe Wooten, Jr., Michael Wesley Wooten, and Teresa Eileen Woo ten. Mr. Wooten is a meinTer'of Chapel Grove Baptist church. Mrs. Wooten is a member of St. Mich ael’s Catholic church. Aims Listed For Retarded Aims of the Cleveland County Association for Retard(?d Children were outlined by Rev. Frank Shir ley, pre.sident, to membi^rs of tlic Kings Mountain Lions Club Tues day night. Principal among them are a program which will provide a “supervised work.shop” for the retarded w^hen they reach IS—an age vvlien their alLtihie scTiording umier current programs ends. Specifically, Rev. Mr. Shirley tryid the Lions, are these other immediate aims: 1) Increase’ of public under standing of the problems and potentials of the retarded. 2) Information centers to aid families with retarded children, and 3) more opportunities and facilities for the retarded, includ ing a day care center for pre- .schoolers ages 1 to 6 and a sum mer day care camp. President Shirley, commenting on litigation against the Stale ol North Carolina, said the goal is equal educational oCYportunity for the retarded. ’The state wanted eight years, vvliich the asso<.iiaitions (state and local) think too long,” President Shirley cxjmmcnted. He said a comparable action was filed in I’ennsylvania and won. Particular emiJhasis is aimed at the group of trainable retard- (xl. those with intelligeiK’c quo tients in the 30-50 range and un able to attend the public .s<'!iool.- and do the educabic retarded w:ith a 50-75 IQ range. The Cleveland County unit was formed last St'plember. Mom bo rshii).s f rom i nd i vi d uals are invittxl at $5 per year. YOUTH SPEAKER — Jerome Cash will fill the pulpit at "Youth Night for Christ” Sun day night at Bethlehem Bap tist church. Cash To Preach At Youth Night Jerome Cash, rising senior at Kings Mountain high school, will fill the pulpit on "Yourh Night for Christ’’ services Sunday night at Betlilehem Baptist church. Cash, who plans to enter the ministry, lA'ill deliver his first sermon at 7:30 p.m. Young people will lead the worship service. He is the son of Mr. and .Mrs.- Chester Cash of 1415 Shelby road. Members of the Bethlehem Vol unteer Fire Department and the fire department’s women auxili ary will be recognized during the .service'. Pareni.s of young Cash are active in those organizations. Young Cash is grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Grover (ireeno and MeT- vin Cash and the late Mrs. Cash. "We inv'ito the entire com munity to worship with us in this special youth night servi(e”, said Rev. Ru.s.sell Fitts, pastor. Young Ca.sh said, “Wc the people of Bethlehem community fetd this is a great opportunity to bring many people to Christ.” City To Buy New Equipment The city commission Monday niglvt voted to advertise for bids for a combination accounting-util ity hilling machme for the city derk’s offit'e and for a truck and garb.igc pailver for the sanitation ^ department to be roi’eived at the Aug. 14lh meefing. Both items art' iiK'ludod in Iheproixjsod 1972- 73 budget. Explaining tlie need for a new billing machine to rejdaco the city’s old m'Hlol, Clerk Joe Mc Daniel said the imchino now in use is such an antique tlie parts ' ’ are “hanl to comt? by and we've piotiably b(?en fintiing them at a ju n k ya rd st>mt'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