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Population
Greater Kings ‘oin 31.914
City Limits 8,465
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL. 83 No. 45
EstabKshed 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 9, 1972
Eighty-Third Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Nixon, Holshouser, Helms, Broyhill Sweep To Victory
Need
Bonds
Outlined By Jones
IN WHO'S WHO — Mrs. Donald
Jones has been elected to mem
bership in “Who's Who In Amer
ican Colleges and Universities."
Mis. Jones
In Who's Who
A .jardner-Webb College stu
dent, Mrs. Gladys J. Jones, daugh
ter of Rev. and Mrs. John E.
Jones of Kings Mountain, has
been named to Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universi
ties and Colleges.
Students are judged on the
basis of academic standing, par
ticipation In student activities on
the campus and desire to excel In
fir chosen field as well as all-
I excellence.
Mrs. Jones is wife of School
Supt. Donald Jones.
184 Well-Wishers
Send Stapp Cards
E. F. Stapp received birthday
congratulations from friends
on his 83rd birthday October
29th.
The newcomer to Kings Moun
tain is a native of Duquoin, Illi
nois. He and his wife came to
Kings Mountain for a visit last
Atiril and decided to retire here.
Mrs. Stapp died April 26th at
age 76 and 'Mr. Stapp remained
to make his' home with his
daughter and son-in-iaw, Mr.
and Mrs. Buck Bridges, 802
Katherine avenue.
Among his birthday cards were
those from friends in Burbank,
California, Missouri, Illinois and
Florida.
(A
Hunter Warlick
Is Re-Elected
D. Hunter Warlick, Hickory at
torney and son of Mrs. Madge
WairJick of Kings Mountain and
the late C. E. IWarlJck, won re-
election to 'his third term in the
37th House District from Catawba
County in Tuesday balloting.
Representative Warlick is Re
publican. He was one of two Re
publican Representatives who re
turned to office by defeating
DemocratCc opironents by margins
cf 2-1 from Catawba county.
Warlick is a graduate of David
son college and Duke Univoraity
Law School.
1000-Student
High School
Housing 1250
By MABTIN HARMON
Kings Mountain High School,
designed to accommodate a
thousand students, today is ac
commodating 1250.
Other schools are packed and
jammed with all available apace
utilized and the community is
growing.
These are the principal reasons,
Superintendent Don Jones told a
group of citizens Monday night,
why Kings Mountain school dis
trict desiperately needs the
$2,500,000 bond issue to be deter
mined by citizens in a OecethSer
16 election. * ^
Other items in the Superintend
ent’s presentation:
1) West school needs an addi
tion to provide a library -(now
housed in the cafeteria), and
new classrooms to replace six
trailers now being used as class
rooms.
2) East school needs -new class
rooms.
3) The high school needs an
auditorium, hH>Pcd off the origi
nal plan due to lack of funds,
both for school and comnumity
use.
4) Grover school needs fan-
prevements.
5) Bethware school needs-'fur
ther improvements.
Superintendent Jones eaW the
new law enacted by the 1971
General Assembly set June M,
1973, tor expiration of a special
act whereby Cleveland and nine
other counties were permitted to
issue bonds by dUtrJets. He fur
ther declared that the tax rate
in the first year of amortization
would be a -maximum of 32 cents
per $100 valuation, stating that
the owner of a home or other
property valued -at $15,()00 would
pay $31.20 additional taxes in
the first year of amioitlzatton ol
the bonds.
«e reported that the district
levy for aimcxtizing the hfeh
school plant bond issue, In-itiafiy
40 cents per $100, has dropped to
five cents.
Plans call for the building of a
junior high school south of the
high school on the. unimproved
part of the 85-aare tract occupied
to the north -by the high slchool.
Mr. Jones declared the new
construction would not Include
costly frills. He acknowledged
occasional criticism of carpeting
school halls and classrooms, add
ing, ‘"We’ve found carpeting has
two great benefits, saving main
tenance cost and cutting noise.”
Speaking briefly in support of
the bond issue were state Sena
tor OUie Harris and -Mayor John
Moss.
Mission Study Sot
By KM Raptirts
A Foreign Mission Study—
“Europe—A Mission Field,” will
be conducted at Kings Mountain
Baptist church Sunday after
noon at 5 p. m.
Mrs. Hubert Dixon will lead
the study and the Interested com
munity is invited to participate.
Ground Broken Monday Foi 60-Bed
Convalescent And Nnising Home
Ground breaking ceremonies
were he'd Monday morning for
Kings Mountain’s Icng-awailcd
60-bed nursing home, to be locat
ed on Sipe Street behind Kings
Mountain Hospital.
Target date for eomplction is
June 1.
Officials of the nursing home
and Cecils Inc. of Spartanburg,
which will construct the fac’lit.v.
Mayor John H. Moss and State
Senator Ollie Harris, -Rev. Charles
E. -EdwardsI pastor of Boyce
Memorial ARP Church, and Rev.
r. H. Waugh, pastor cf Central
Metlicdist Church and President
of the Kings Mountain Minister
ial Association, took part in the
ceremonies.
John "L. 'McGill, retired drug
gist who was appointed to spear
head the drive toward construe-
tian, presided over the ceremonies
and Joe Smith, President of Kings
Mbuntain Convafesc«it and iNurs-
ing Center, Inc., told those in at
tendance of the five yeeis of
planning for the facility.
Construction -is expected to be
completed by June and many
persons predict that the home
will be filled to capacity. The
buildin-g will be constructed in a
way that it can ibe expanded in
the future.
Officers of the new home in
elude Joe Smith, president; Clyde
'Kerns, vice-president; and Mrs.
Clyde Kerns, secretary-treasurer.
The board of directors Include
Dr. John C. McGill, Carl IMauney,
Bob Powell, John L. McGill and
Ollie Harris.
Leaders of the nursing hmne
drive reported that they encoun
tered several delays alcnig the
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The Mayor’s committee on
downtown parking, ‘back lot” re
fuse and business area traffic
flow, -discussed all three at a
Monday -night meeting.
The committee recommended a
city ordinance which -would pro
vide a fine for retailers who cre
ate "intolerable” debris, asked a
three-thnes weekly "-back 'lot”
garbage pick-up, and removal of
parking meters.
Mayor John Hen-ry Moss, ex
officio member of the committee
chaired by Commissioner Ray W.
Cline, outlined plans for a Gold
street underpass and concurrent
elimination ol rail crossings at
Gold. Mountain streets, and at
the Mauney Mill, and told the
group he would request' of the
State Highway edmmission for a
re-study of King street traffic
system in an effort to speed -traf
fic flow.
-Police Chief Tom MoDevitt, a
member of the committee, was
not preseirt, aiHl Chaiirntan Cline
suggested another nteefing be
held concerning the business 'dis
trict traffic flow situation when
the Chief could be -presenif.
The Mayor also said he hoped
the central business project could
be amended to use the Gulf Serv
ice Station property at the cor
ner of West Mountain and Bat-
leground could be utilized to pro
vide 19 -parking spaces.
Other members of -the commit
tee are J. C Bridges, president ol
ttie Chambr* of Commence, Jim
Downey, president of the Mer
chants association, Boscoe Woot
en, Commissioners Jonas Bridges
and W. S. Si-ddix, Lewis Dellin
ger, Charles Blanton John McGin
nis, Don Jones, and Larry Ham
rick. Gene White was a guest at
the meattiVi
Duplex Woikeis
Give IIF $3487
Employees of Duplex -Interna
tional contributed a record
$3,487.00 to the Kings Mountain
United Fund this week to bring
the total to $24,408.50 the amount
Kings Mountain citizens iva-vc
contributed to the 1973 campaign.
•■'In' addition. Duplex Interna
tional presented a company check
in the amount ol $600. .
Other top contributors during
the week were Mauney Hosiery
Company employees who gave
$2,052.50 and Carolina Throwing
Company employees additional
check which raised their DF giv
ing to $2,354.00.
Goal lor the campaign is $34-
450.
Beneficiaries of the campaign
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If
CAST (XjPAllDA AND SPY — Maubon of the cost of “Panda and the Spy", which opens Friday at
Lira* Theatre, ore pictured above. Scott Laug bridge as the Panda is kneeling in front of Cindy
BoUnsott, left, Becky Bates ond David Barrett all seated. From left to right standing, are Chris
Holmes, Ann Rowell, Lindsay Holmes, Soroh Maner, Ronnie Morrison, Loura McGinnis, Laura Car
penter, Kim Gladden, Carol Bennett and Anthony Keller. (Herald Photo by I. G. Alexander)
Little Theatre
"Panda And Spy
To Open Friday
The curtain will go up Friday
evening at 7:30 on “The Panda
and the Spy,” -Little Theatre
three-act adventure thriller.
Mrs. Raymond Holmes is dir-
! ecting the production -which plays
I again Saturday night at 7:30, and
j on the following weekend. There
' will also be a Sunday matinee on
r- <1 November 19th at 2;30 pjn.
All performances will 6e In the
I Park Grace school auditorium.
A cast of 14 students make up
the cast for the show and young
people also comprise the tack-
stage crew. Youngest member of
the Ciist is eight-year-old Becky
I Bales, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
I Bil! ‘Bates. Senior member of the
! cast is 16 year-old C-ndiy Robin-
Ison, daughter of Dr. and -.Mr.s.
'Sam Robinson, and a veteran
Little Theatre performer.
I Advance tickets are $1 and may
be purchased from any Little
Theatre member. Tickets may al
so te purchased at the door at
$1.25.
Intolerable Trash
May Elicit Fine
Paildng Metei
R^oyall^ain
G^SopimM—
EVANGELIST—Rev. C. C. Crow,
retired Baptist minister, will be
evangelist for revival services
beg’oning Sunday morning at
Temple Boptlst church.
Crow To Lead
Baptist Series
Revival services will I'aegin this
Sunday morning, at Temple Bap
tist church and continue through
Sunday, Nevember 19th. The even
ing services will -begin at 7 each
night with a nursery provided.
The evangelist will be Rev. C.
C. Crtxw of Shelby. Rev. Crow
was ordained in 1931; served
fifteen churches in -Wake, Ruth
erford. and Cleveland Counties.
Served as Chaplain in the U. S.
Army during -World War II and
served as Moderator of the Kings
Mountain and Sandy -Run Asso
ciations. Since retiring from the
active pastorate in 1962, Rev.
Crow has served as instructor at
Fruitland Baptist -Institute for
four sessions; served as interim
Pastor in eighteen different
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16 Conduct
Poppy Sale
A total of 16 Poppy Day sales
men representing the Frank B.
Glass Post 98H VFW and Auxil
iary conducted a street sale of
the memorial poppy Saturday.
Mrs. Ruby Stroupe, poppy
chairman, reported d o nations
totaling $281.54 which is earmark
ed for veterans projects in the
area.
Poppy salesmen were Mrs.
Stroupe, Mrs. Robert Ruff, aux
iliary president: 'Mrs. Harold
Glass, Bridget Glass, Terry
Glass, Terry Howoll, Mrs. Dave
Delevie, Miss Lib -l^llers, Mrs.
Elai-ee Peterson, -Mrs. Robert
Peterson, Mrs. Frank Glass, Ruth
Smart, Sandy Henderson, Cathy
Crawford, John Gla.iden and
Mrs. Myrtle Christenson.
Mrs. Stroupe stated apprecia
tion “to all Kings Mountain citi
zens -who conlrljutixi to the pro
gram and those who remember
ed our veterans on Poppy Day.”
Next Week Features Cencentrated
Study Of Drug Abuse In County
A concentrated info-nmatlonaJ
.study on drug abuse will -be con
ducted throughout Cievel-an-d
County begi-n-n-ing Monday.
Theme of the week will be
“Somebody Oa-rcs”.
•Scheduled to visit th-roughouf
the week—to speak at public
-'ItieeMngs and to conduct semi
nars at all -high schools—^is Mrs.
Vicki Jackson cured of a $350 -per
day .heroln_ habit, and now cm-
-ployed by "the New York Nar
cotics.
The Rings Mountain public ap
pearanee of Mrs. Jackson will be
a “Mom and Dad” somii-naT at
First (Baptist chuitch Novomlber 16
ait 7 ptm. She wUl be at Kings
Mountain high school at 10 a.m.
and at Central Junior high senool
at 12:30. -Bill -Bates is coordinator
of tihe Kings Mountain a-otlvities.
During the week, surveys -will
be (-onducted at all schools of
student attitudes concerning
drugs. The questionnaires will be
anonymous and results will be
attitudes generall-y, and usag'el
computerized. Questions concern
aScoholic.-beverages included.
Also -connected with the Peek’s
work will 'be a Grades 1-6 school
art contest conducted by Ford Mc
Donald.
Another function wdll 6e an
industrial management seminar
conducted by .Mrs. JacksoiT at
Gardner-Wehb college auditorium
November 17, Robert Kingery is
coordinator.
TwoExceptionsToT o woship
Voting As Did State, Nation
Public Housing
Showed Profit
in Recent Year
Kings (Meuntain Public Hous
ing Autlicrity showed an operat
ing -profit ot $12,742 for the year
ending Scl.jtemljer 30 on its 150
dwelling units and $1400 on its,
50 -leased units, the annual ra-
-por; shows.
Average rental per month was
$39.43.
Gross receipts on the 150 units
was $76,113 and cost of opera
tions $63,371.
Gross receipts from Chesterfield
Court leased units was $19,174.
The corporation had assets of
$2,584,144, including $17,212 in
cash, and land structures and
equipment valued at $2,537,503. '
Surplus at year end was
$134,116.
The corporation liabilities in-
uiuded $18,971 in accounts payst-
hie, and notes payable ol $2,424,-
661. The authority had accrued
liability of $5,148—a payment in
lieu of taxes it will make to the
ci-ty and representing ten percent
of rentals from the 150 units.!
(The owners of Chesterfield Court,
pay property taxes as do othec,
oitizens.) ' f
During the year the authwity!
charged off $145.44 in rents as1
uncollectible bad accounts on the'
150 units and $86dU on the leas
ed units.
PRESIDENT RICHARD M. HIZb|r
Mrs. Houston Is
Exposure Victini
Mrs. Maudic Houston, 81, route
1 Negro woman, was found dead
of exposure Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 'by rescue workers who
had begun the search for the
woman after her husband report
ed her missing.
Willie Houston .about 80. said
his wife had wandered off into
the woods near their home on
Old Llnwood Road sometime
Tuesday afternoon and had been
lost in the wooded area overnight.
He said he had searched for his
wife late Tuesday and Tuesday
night. According to Chief Thomas
McDevitt, searchers found the
woman’s coat and shoes early
yesterday.
Kings Mountain, Gaston Coun
ty and Cleveland County police
officers were joined by voilunteers
from the Gaston, Kings Moun
tain, Grover and Boiling Springs
rescue squads and bloodhounds
from the prison department in
searching for the woman.
Funeral arrangements, which
are incomplete, will be announc
ed by Dockery’s Funeral Home of
Shelby.
A -native of Green County, Ga.,
Mrs. Houston was the former
'.Maudie Ragland. ShewM a mem
ber of Pride of Kiit>gs 'Mountain
No. 1 and Heroines of Jeri-plib,
Queen Mary’s Court No. 5
-Besides her husband she is
survived by a foster son, Albert
Houston, stationed with the Army
in Vietnam.
City Board
Agenda Short
Rezoning and annexation re
quests are on the agenda for
Monday night’s regular -meeting
of the olty board of comimission-
ers at 7:30 p.m. in council cham
bers at City 'Hall.
As of Wednesday evening, (May
or John Moss had placed only
four items ori the agenda for the
November meeting:
1) public hearing on Tczonl-ng
request by Oharles F. Mauney;
2) annexation request by de
velopers of Kings Mountain’s pro
posed. shopping center on Shelby
road;
3) -opening of bids tor a new
elecfrorvic accounting -ma-cihine
for the city bl-Hing departnient;
. 4) opening of tokis for a new
garbage packer for the city sani
tation department.
dOVERNOR-ELECT
JIM HOLSHODSER
U. S. SENATOR-ELECT
JESSE HELMS
U. S. REPRESENTATIVE
JIM BROTHILL
laycees Set
Caindy Sale
Kings Mountain Jaycees are
conduoting a candy sale 5or ben
efit of their various community
projects, announces Steve Wilson,
publicity K^hairmanr.
Chairman of tlje project is
Boyce Teaseneer, employee of IBVD
Company. A variety of candy is
available trom -mint to cocct*uf,
peanut butter and -gourmet de-
Jight.
The candy may be purchased
from any Jaycee or from Myers
Prlntiing, said Chainnai} Tesse-
neel)
East KM Box
Gives Bowles
Connty Maigin
By MARTIN HABMMT
Kings -Mountain, Number 4
Township, and Cleveland County,
with -two exceptloiis, voted wltlt
the state and nation Tuesday In
the quadrennial elections which
saw President Richard Nixon and
U, S. ftepresenlative James X-
&'oyhilf win victories Jat -land*
slide proportions, ^publican Jesse
Helms defeat U. S’, fepresentative
Nick Galiflanakis fer U. S. Sena-,-
tor, and Republican Jim Hiedshop.^
scr upset Hargrove (Skipper)
Bowles far Governor.
The two exceptions:
1) East Kings Mountain voters
provided Bowles a 77-vote major
ity, 14 more than the 63-vote mar
gin Bowdes carried Cleveland
County.
2) A -townshiiip^ exception was
'Bethware, which voted solidly
Republican on every contested
office. Bethware has been tong
considered a GOP stronghold.
Otherwise, -East and W-est Kings
Mountain, and Grover precincts,
strayed to the GOP side only in
races tor prestdenti U. S. Senate,
and ”U. S. Representative, giving
majorities to aiU other Democra
tic candidates, which Included
all members' of the Council of
State and Jlni Hunt, now lieuten-
amt-governor elect. Statewide, all
Members of the Council of'Sate
seeking re-election were, an^f*
newcomers W. C. Creel -w»H suc
ceed Frank Crane as commission
er of labor and John Ingram -will
succeed Ed Lanier as commlssi'on-
er of insurance.
Incumbents re-elected are Sec
retary of State Tbad Eure, Treas
urer Edwin M. Gill, Auditor Hen
ry L. Bridges, Attorney General
Robert Morion, and Agriculture
.lommissioner James Graham.
Indicative of the GOP u^ard
movement was the fact that in
West kings Mountain 254 voters
marked the "X” sttaiight Repub
lican on the county-district ticket
where there -wete no candidates.
Presidenit Nixon withstood the
onslaught of Senator George Me-
Govern by 521 to 17 electoral
votes and 42 million to 26 milr
lion votes.
Holshouser trousiced Bowles by
48,277 votes and Helms’ maigin
over Gallfianakis was an even
106,00a
A total of 1563 voters cast ballots
at the West Kings ^fountain pre
cinct at the Armory and 990 -via-
ited the East Kings Mounfain
polling pla-ce at City HaH.
Elected without of^rosition to
the state senate iwere Senator
•Ma-rshaH IRauch and Reipresenta-
tives W. K. -Mauney, Jr., and Jack
Rhyne, at»d to the state Uonse of
Representatives wero Incumbents
Robert Z. Falls and Robert Jones
and Dr. Jack Htmt.
Elected without oppceltton to
the county commisston were Cole
man Goforth, L. E. Htnmnt, and
Jack Palmer, and re-elected with
out opposition -was Register of
Deeds Ralph Tucker.
Elected without opposition were
District Judges Joe Mull, Lewis
Bu-lwiinkle, Oscar M-ason, Ralph
Phillips and Robert Kirby.
Smith Vote Is
1523 "At Home"
Nick A. Smith, 34-year-oid-Kings
Mountain native and Raleigh at
torney, tost his bid for attorney-
general Tuesday os -he -was de
feated by Democratic incumbent
Robert Morgan.
Mr. smith polled 6.797 -In aeve-
land County to Morgan’s 11,340.
In 'Kings (Mountain simth garner
ed 1,523 votes, -carrying the Beth-
ware precinct. H-is -totato in No.
4 Townshf-p were IBethwaie - 336;
Grover, 153; East, 397; -and West,
635.
It was Mr. Smith’s first 'bid for
public office. -He is 'Republican.
Early returns from 943 pretofnets
-m the state Tueoday gave Mor
gan 292,163 votes to 216,415 foe
Smi'tlj-
Moiga-n, 47, had been consider
ed a leading contender for the
Democratic gubernatorial noml-
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