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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, December 14, 1972
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Kerald
206 South Piedmont A*e. Kings Mountoln, N. C. 28088
w’.“<»kly newsps.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
.or_thi enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
In'S Its vicinity^ published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
For he (Pilate) hneto that 1/or envy they had delivered Him.
St Matthew 87:18;
Tainted Monday?
When the Mayor of McCtonnells, S.
C., a hamlet of 232 souls in neighboring
York County, South Carolina, opened
the town’s mail Monday, he found a
check for $346 from the United States
Treasury Department.
The Mayor told Charlotte Observer
reporter Claudia Howe he wanted no
part of federal monies and, in effect,
didn’t want any federal folk snooping
into his town’s business.
He would, he said, return the check.
Well, now.
Noble, perhaps, but of what pur
pose?
Some Kings Mountain citizens once
operaiea on.a similar wave length, not
that any Kings Mountain mayor ever
sent any Washington money back to
Vv usiuiigton. Jrtowever, there was a feel
ing among some that federal grants
were, somehow tainted. It just didn't
seem moral to get something for noth
ing.
Now the thinking here is down-to-
earth and right.
Regardless of philosophy, Kings
Mountain—certainly McConnells — by
refusal to accept its share, cannot alter
the course of a government of 50 states.
Failure to accept its share—indeed
to make positive efforts to obtain grants
for federally supported and promoted
projects—^would be immoral. That’s the
only way to get returns from the dol
lars shoveled into the federal treasury.
The honorable mayo^ of McCon
nells is a candidate for a recall election,
if not out-right impeachment.
It’s a rather safe bet that McCom
nells needs its $346 perhaps than Kings
Kings Mountain it’s $63,248, or Shelby
its round-figure $118,()(X), and that Waco
Mayor Hill Carpenter won’t be return
ing his town’s $432.
Sefni-
-Piivate
In 1968, the United States Congress
expanded the 1937 public housing act
to provide four new categories of low-
I’ent housing.
Kings Mountain Public Housing
Authority employed one of the new sec
tions when it leased from private build
ers the 50-unit Chesterfield Arms com
plex.
The opening of Pine Manor Apart
ments Wednesday marks Kings Moun
tain’s first semi-private low-rent hous
ing under the subsidized rent section.
The rules are somewhat less rigid
than those under which the Housing
Authority must qualify. A family with
too much income cannot qualify to rent
from the housing authority.
A "''one or any family can rent at
Pine Manor.
Tne too-much-income ineligible for
public housing can rent at Pine Manor,
as can the too-little-income eiigibles.
The difference: the family able to pay
rents “at market", meaning it pays the
full amount of the standard rental,
while the too-little-income families
have the market rental subsidized on a
formula much the same as public hous
ing uses in determining eligibility for
occupancy.
The city and the housing authority,
with a waiting list since the housing
authority opened for business, welcomes
the private builder to the field.
Were R not for the 1968 changes
in the act, it is conceivable—viewing
the need and the upcoming Cansler
street area renewal project where 186
houses are tabbed for razing — that
public housing would have become a
N .-’i'v sizeable landlord.
Hearing Aid Needed?
Representative Robert Z. (Bob)
Falls has turned a deaf ear to the plea
of the county board of education for
special legislation to permit the county
district schools to re-offer the construc
tion bond issue prior to June 30.
His legislative confreres serving
Cleveland, excepting Representative-
elect Jack Hunt, have indicated tbey’ll
accept Rep. Falls’ premise.
Assuming the Kings Mountain dis
trict a^piOvt: die eeiiU iSSUC
Saturday, the county distiict may find
itself high-and-dry, falling by the way-
side on needed construction.
After June 30, school districts will
be able no longer to offer bonds elec
tions on a district basis, but only on a
county-wide basis.
Would Shelby district and Kings
Mountain district citizens, after approv
ing their own bonds, support a county
wide issue?
Though the federal public housing
act became operative in 1937, it was 30
years before Kings Mountain a\^iled it
self the opportunity to substinTfe for*'
some of its citizens, at last, habitable,
convenient homes, for derelicts.
At last check, the population of the
two so-called “city” districts numbered
approximately 50 percent of the coun
ty's voting eiigibles.
bbviously, the chances of passage
of a county-wide school construction
bond issue would be questionable.
Josh Hinnant, newly sworn county
commissioner, says it would simplify
the county commis%io_n’s post-June edu
cational responsibility if the county dis
trict could re-consider and approve the
bond issue, which failed of passage by
a mere eight votes.
Following Good Advice
The City of Kings Mountain is fol
lowing the sage advice of State Treas
urer Edwin Gill.
Kings Mountain has placed its
$63,248 revenue-sharing check, repre
senting 50 percent of the first-year a-
mount, in the bank—on notes bearing
interest at 5.25 percent.
Never fear, that there won’t be
plenty of places to spend the money.
But the rich-over-night, the money’s
burning-my-pocket impulse is being
eschewed.
The city’s idea is to spend this
windfall where its most needed.
Under the guidelines, local level
governments (counties and cities) may
expend the funds in eight categories, a-
mong them capital expenditures for
durable, long - lasting improvements,
and for debt amortization.
Support the Bonds
Thirty-one business and industrial
firms have purchased advertising space
to announce their support of -S i v s
$2.5 million district school construction
bond issue.'
These public-spirited firms are sav
ing in effect, “You can’t hang the pupils
on the chand.'liers."
And the}- also see the student pop
ulation potential growing.
As of today. Superintendent Don
Jones reports the school plants “croivd-
cd to the gills”.
Kings Mountain high school, for
example, was designed to house 1,000
pupils but is accommodating 1200.
And the year 1972 will set undoubt
edly a new record in residential resi
dence construction.
Outside first-year maximum ad
valorem tax bite will be 32 cents per
$100 valuation, a bite that will lessen
in vigor as the bonds are amortized and
tax base increases.
Saturday vote “yes” and forget the
chandeliers.
Taxes, a nasty word at any season,
is perhaps nastier at Christmastime
when Santa Claus’ demands are heavily
at hand. But the 1971 General Assembly,
in its wisdom, decreed that property
taxes become delinquent when Decem
ber wanes. And the penalty starts at
two percent.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By MARnN HARMON
I Art Weiner, the pass-catching
.department of the Justice-toWei-
j ner 1946-19 North Carolina Tar
i Hell football bom;;ing duo, tells
iulike it is. Walking into the
high school cafeteria with Billy
First Ulum
Is Sponsoring
“Fun Tours"
Gov. Bob Scott and C. C. Cam
eron, chairman ajid pres.dont of!
First Union National iBank, have'
announced a program of travel
tours fo senior citizens in Nortnl
Carolina.
Sponsored by the bank and
named Fun Tours for Senior Cit-
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
VISITING HOURS
DaUy 10:30 to 11:30 AM.
3 to 4 PM. and 7 to 8 PM
FOR SALE
I'Mauney and Howard Jackson, Ijizens, the program will begin in
was remembermg the Si^ar spring and will ibe available
to persons .5,5 and over. Groups
19o0, when Weiner a repeat All- ' chartered bus to
America end, muffed a pass m travel by chartered bus to
, the end zone which provid^ Ok- 'nd historic spots.
I ahoma a 13-6 victory. “Good ,a, the same time Gov.
thing I m not introducing him, gcott and Cameron were hold-
II jested. If I were. I d embar
rass him about that."
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I ‘Tvvarn't necessary. In the
I course of his speech, Weiner,
i who’d caught everything he was
supposed to and many he wasn’t
■ all year, told the story himself.
! "Let’s face it,’’ Weiner, justmar-
j ried the previous Saturday, said.
I “I was on my honeymoon.”
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lug the news conference in the
capital, L. E. Hinnant, the bank’s
city executive In Kings .Mountain,
made the announcement locally.)
“We at the bank have been de
veloping this program for some
time,” Cameron said. ‘We are ex
cited about It ahd take a good
deal of pride in it.”
"No o n e,” Cameron said,
“needs to be told there has been
a depressing absence of activi-
The transplanted New Jersey- m®ny of North Carolina’s
senior citizens iwith time
ite is high on North Carolina, de
claring, “Everything that has
ever been good for me, happen
ed to me in North Carolina.” Dis
charged from his World War II
marine corps stint at Camp Le-
Jeune, Weiner proceeded to ma
triculate at Chapel Hill, teamed
Rodgers and other gridiron wor
thies of the day to take UNC on
its first two bowl jaunts. Better
still, perhaps, his era showed
four-straight wins over UNC’s
academic rivals at Durham,
known in snorts parlance as the
Duke Blue Devils.
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was the Tar Heels’
Weiner
their hands. We believe this pro
gram will provide s6me of those
activities and help meet the
needs of those citizens.”
Gov. Scott praised the pro
gram and cited it as an example
of cooperation between govern
ment and private Industry that
will brighten the lives of many
North Carolinians.
Fun Tours will be operated at
cost,
It is the first such bank-spon
sored program in the stale; it is
aelieved to be the first in the
country.
Plans for Fun tours were made
third ali-American end, ioiningjwith the cooperation and en-
the^ illustrious ranks of the Jate| couragement of the North Car-
r,—....... j „ , Department of Natural
Andy Bershak (1937) and Paul olina
I Severin 11939 a^ 1940). and Economic Resources, Division
«„ Travel antj Promotion. Gov.
After LNC days, Weiner plav-'scott has been involved person-
ed pro football in 19.50, was in-1 ally.
itired, next year coached Kings
Mountain High School while Shu
Carlton was doing his second
tour of marine duty during the
Korean business. Weiner had
two subsequent years of pro
ball, before ,1oining Burlington
Industries, of which he is now
a vice-president.
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It was quite fitting that Ho
ward Jackson be present. With
the exception of one World War
II year due to travel restrictions,
the Kings Mountain Lions club
has banqueted every Kings Moun
tain high school foot man team
since the entry of 1939. It was
Howard, first and imriediate
p-S-St preslde.1t of the thCn-fled-
gling Lions club, who steered the
Lions into the football banquet
bus'ness. The speaker for the
first event was Jess Neely, just
More than 600,000 citizens in
the 55-and-over age group Uve in
North Carolina. In the coming
weeks the presidents of each of
the more than 890 senior citizens
clubs in the state will be given
details of Fun Tours including
availability, registration proce
dures and itineraries.
After the first of the year bro
chures will be distributed in
each of First Union’s 166 offices
so persons not affiliated with a
club may take advantage of the
program. For those who cannot
visit an office, information will
be avaiable by mail from 'Mrs.
Maude'S. Morrow, 1959 <Slark
Avenue, Raleigh. N. C. 276(W.
Mrs. Morrow, consultant to'
Mrs. Ernest W. Ayers
Edna Lou Barrett
Mrs. Mln'nie_S. Blanton
'Mrs. Sarah .M. Boheler
Mrs. Pearl E. Bridges
Paul Edward Carpenter
Rochel Lee Conner
Mrs. .\nnie K. Dulln
Mrs. J. J. Hicks
Mrs. Verdie C. Kale
John Lewis, Jr.
Annie Llnebeiger
Haywood W. Mackey
(Walter M. Moorhead
Cecil Patterson
George E. Pedt
Mrs. Paul S. Putnam
Joe T. Rdberts
Mrs. Geoiigia M. Smith
Mrs. Lesley Sprouse
Jessie ’Tayilor
Mrs. Ahnle Mae Wilkie
WUl M. WiUiaims
James C. Bifown
Moses Ctaflk
Wilbur G. Smith
Franklin D. Bell
William Rdbert Brown
Sanvmie Bryant ^
Mrs. Marie H. Ramsey
Leroy G. Whiting
ADMITTED THURSCAY
Mrs. Thomas W. Gibson, 2723
Westvlew Street, Gastonia
Theresa Diane Haney, 2234
Tate Street, Gastonia
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Mrs. Jaimes P. Pettis, 931/7.'.
Ktehland Street, Gastonia
'Larry Dale Srnich, 401 E. Bo.s-
ton Avenue, BessemeT City
Ai>MITTED SATURDAY
Thom^ Bridges, 115 Spruce St.,
City _
James W. Conner, 1224 Wag
goner Circle, Gastonia
Mrs. Emma Homesley, 141E
Shelby Road, City
Mrs. Regina Faye Ledford, 712
A East St., Bessemer City
Mrs. Lottie B. Jalekson, 504 Mon
roe Ave., City
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mrs. John Lewis Childers, P
O. Box 651, Bessemer City
Mrs. Billy Ray Foster, 805 2nd
St., aty
Mrs. Shirley Dean Qainey, P.
O. Box 545, Lowell
L. F. Robertson, Jr. 520 Treas
ure Lane, GastonBa
Mrs. Grady W. Wylie, P. 0. Box
471, Bessemer City
admitted MONDAY
Mfs." Henderson W. Herndon
1311 Grover Rd., City
Mrs. Theunas L. .McNeely, Rt
1, Box 142, Shelby j
Roger Gene Wray, Rt. 3, Box 35, |
City ■ I
Mrs. Hunter G. Wylie, 107 S. I
Elm St., Gastonia j
Jedeth R. Davis, 146 W. Moun :
tain St., City
LAND IN THE CENTRAL
BUSINESS DISTRICT
or KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
36,643 Square Fe^t
ONE PARCEL
Cleared and ready for Redevelopment
Access to 3 Streets
/
IDEAL LOCATION FOR; /
Bank, Retail Business Establishments,
Offices or other permitted uses.
Bids to be opened February 12, 1973 at 2:00 P.I
at the Redevelopment Commission Office.
For further information contact
The Kings Mountain
Redevelopment Commission
112 S. Piedmont Avenue
(704) 739-2003
Kings Mountain, North Carolina 28086
12:14-1;
Keep Your Radio Dial Set At
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WKMT
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
News & Weather every hour on the hour.
Weather every hour on the holf hour.
t u z' -Mrs. Irene J. Hall, P. O. Box 119,
‘ se^^mer CitV
Council on Aging, has been ap-
Fine entertainment in between
returned from Dallas whei^ his Consultant - Coordinator
Clemson Tigers had up-ended f?*- ^un Tours by F7rst Union.
P.oston College 6-3 in the Cotton
\
Bowl. Coach Neely shortly re
turned to Texas, scene of his vic
tory, to become coach of Rice
Institute. As far as I know, Nee
ly remains at Rice as athletic
director.
I Presently, two- and three-day
There hasn’t been a Clemson tripj will be offered in April,
coach here since, Frank Howard' September and October,
declining an invitation at least pun Tours have been schedui-
three times. Some years ago, gj m the "off-season” to avoid
For more than 10 years she itas
been active in the state tourism
and travel industry. Based in Ra
leigh, Mrs. .Morrow will have re-
sponsiioility for arranging sight
seeing, food, lodging and char
tered transportation.
Frank’s daughter lived here
■'t-iefly when her young husband,
J. C. Cowan TII, son of the re
tired Burlington Industries exe
cutive, was tra-ning at Phenix
Nant here and Pana stopped off
for a visit. Unfortunately, Frank
ignored a warning about too hea-
'•V a font on the accelerator. The
Kings Mountain constabulary ci-
fed him for speeding. Frari< is
supposed to have sworn, "That
fown will never see me again!
riiily Maunev has the confirma-
•^ion, gleaned when he was en-
'"rtainlng Frank and Peahead
’I'a'ker a few .years ago on his
Catawba river boat.
crowds
rates.
and to secure lower
Weiner pa'd high tribute to his
-each, Carl Snavely, and to foot
ball per se. noting that football
’ave him trips at] over the Uni-
ed .States including Hawaii. He
aughed a’-out Wally Butts, the
’erm.er Georgia coach. With the
score tied at 14-14, Weiner had
■-■au’ed In a pass to score and pro
vide UNC the game winning
touchdown. Lining up for the
'.Irq-off, Weiner was close to the
Grorgia bench. Butts growled,
“Weiner, you ovor-age hawk-nos-
id Jew, ain’t you ever gonna
graduate?”
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After his address, Weiner re
minisced about his 1951 KMHF.
•earn, Inouired as to the where
abouts of the players, and recal-
’ed fondly that this team was
'(ings -Mountain’s first to ieg a
win over Cherryvllle. Ollle Hat
’•1^ and Don Flowers was the
KMHS JusticetWeiner combo on
that happy night. Charles Mau-
ley was a tough tackle.
Because First Union wil! op
erate Fun Tours strictly at cost,
prices will be within reach of the
ovei'whelming majority of the
state’s senior citizens. It is hop
ed civic and church groups will
sponsor individuals who cannot
pay.
There are seven basic tour
itineraries. Three Fun Tours are'
planned to different parts of the'
coastal region, two the mountain;
region and two to the Piedmont.
As an illustration, one tour to
the mountain region will have
origination points in Goldsboro,
Rocky Mount, Wilmington and !
Windsor. ’Then for three days
and two nights, the groups will
visit the Asheville, Brevard and
Hendersonville areas.
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caiftshe?
Birth
Amionncements
Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Foster
Tryon Trailer Park, Bessemer
City, announce the birth of a
daughter, Wednesday, Decembei
6, Kings Mountain hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wood
ard, 602 E. Ohio Avenue, Besse
mer City, announce the birth of
a daughter, Friday December 8
Kings Mountain hospital.
Weiner recalled the Duke game
if his senior year. The score was
"lose and Duke’s Mike Souchak
was attempting a field goal.
Weiner’s block attempt was sii"-
’essful. .Gz>uchak kicked Weiner’s
backsMe instead of the ball,
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TTieme of the Weiner address
was the requirement of discip
line
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Donald
son, Route 1, Box announce
the birth of a dauStuier, Sunday,
December 10, Kings .Mountain
hospital.,
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Cash.
2115 N. .Modena Street, Gastonia,
announce the birth of a daugh
ter, Tuesday, Decembcir 12, Kings
Mountciin hospital.
dlviduallsm, is the name of the
game.
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The Lions responsible for the
Irr football and through-1 excellent 1972 football party were
out life. He declared; a fellow Charlie Blanton, BUI Bates,
does )jls part or he doesn’t be-! George Thomasaon, and RlH
long; team partldpatioh, not In-Plonk.
This time you’re absolutely going
to save something out of your pay-
check. But, then, you really do need
that pantsuit, a new coat and, of
course, that perfume Eric likes so
much.
Before you know it, the money’s
gone... and all you’ve got saved
are jyour dreams.
That’s why the Payroll Savings
Plan is such a good idea for a single
girl. Wheat y ou join, an amount you
specify is set aside from your check
and used to buy U.S. Savings
Bonds. And, it’s all done before you
get your check—so you can’t help
but save.
U.S. Savings Bonds. To help you
save more than dreams, ■
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SERIES
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Now E Btinds pay inWwit when hold to ^
maturity of 5 years. 10 mnntlia (4'r« the Nrtt ^
year). Bonds are rvpiami if lost, stoirn, or 9
dr*Ktroyfd.When neixiisl they can be caihed *
at vour bank. Iiitcreiil it not tubN-ct to Htate
or lor.-il income Uxi's. and federal UX toagr ^
be deferred until redtinplion. ^
Take stock in America.
Now Bonds mature in le.ss than six vears.
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