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vropulation Ckeoter Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits 8,465 The Greater Kings Mountain figure Is derived from the Special United States Bureau of the Census report of fonuory. 18S6, and Includes the 14,990 populotlon of Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 from Humber 5 Township, in Cleveland County and Crowders Mountain Township In Gaston County. VOL. 84 No. I Established 1889 Kings Moontoin's Reliable Newspaper Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 4, 1973 Eighty-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS City Building Permits At Record $3,521,850 In 72 chools Speeding Building Plans In Wake Of Bond Vote lamnittees Foi Piojeds f In special breakfast meeting .Vodnesday morning, the Kings Mountain district board of edu cation moved to speed its upcom ing building program tiy appoint ment of five com-nittees with specific responsb'cilities. Two of the committees—bud get and architect selection—^went (b work Wednesday night. Chairman George H. Manuey named the committees as follows: 1 Budget — himself chairman, Tommy Bridges and J. E. Hern don, Jr. Architect selection—P. A. Fran cis, chairman, Alec Owens and himself. Junior high school plarm.'ng conrmittce - Mr. Owens, chair man, Mr. Francis. Mr. Herndon, and Fred Witliors, principal of Central school. High schoo^ auditorium .com mittee — Mr. Herndon, chair man, Mr. Mauney, Mr. Bridges, and Jake Atkinson, high school principal, Mr. Owens and Mr. Francis. I'lti Board members indicated they * hope to launch construction in July. VjSupierintendent Don Jones es- tad the new junior high hool will cost between $1.5 to $l.f ndUion, based on recent cost jlgu’eaon like construction. He iso said that, witli normal capital outlay local funds plus ' ■ sales the budget committee Vith have approximately $2.8 million to allocate during the fis cal year starting July 1. ' Supt. Jones saw he anticipated the bonds’ will be sold in early April. He reported eight architectural firms have asked consideration for the work, six applications for mal and two by personal contact. Jerry E, Parker Area’s First Baby Yoimgstei Bom At 8:56 A.M. New Year's Day Fiiemen Answer Belle Store Fire Kings Mountain firemen an swered their first call of the year shoBtly after 12 noon Wednesday when they extinguished a minor fire in the basement of Belk’s De^tartmerit Store. A speriteeman for the dirpart- ment store said an elei triical shortage in a waTer pump caus ed the fire. No damage was rcpoi?e5[ Mis. McDaniel's Bites Conducted Funeral rites for Mrs. Virgie J Payne McDaniel, 84, of 1277 Btarr jilrive, Atlanta, Ga., formerly of rKings Mountain, were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. 1 from Bethlehem Baptist church. Rev. Russell Fitts officiateil at final rites, and interment 'w<s in Bethlehem cemetery. ' Ilirs. McDaniel died Sunday after several weeks illness. 8he was a native of Gaston County, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Lee Payne, and widow' of Woodford Abernethy McDan iel. Surviving are one brother, I.. A. Payne of Silver Spring, Md ; two sisters, Mrs. Joe Lewis ani Mrs. Marshail Teeter, both of Richmond, Va., and several niecfr nephews In this area. Harris Funeral Home was in liarge of funeral arrangements. larceny Charge lodged Here Kings Mountain Police have charged Kenneth Ray Hunts! ngcr of Gastonia with a larceny which alledgedly occured Sunday at Pine Manor Apartments. ACoardiing to the police, an ■adding machine end typewriter, valued at $400, were Stolen a- round 12:15 a.m. Huntsinger is reportedly em ployed by Pine Manor as a secur ity guard. CAPTAIN — Dalbart Dixon has been ro-eleetod Coptodn cf th« Kings K^ODstain RMctM Squad fox the coming Toex. Othex new offioexs Ate Fixet Lt. Beb Hope; Second Lt. EoxI HolUiield; Sgt. Gene Champion; Socxetoiy Keith Bowen omd Txoasuiex' Cbaxtes Petexson. January Month For Tax lasting Tax listing for 1973 began Tuesday and will continue through Feb. 2. Number four township tax lis ters will be at City Hall in Kings Mountain on Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. In addition, Saturday list ing, from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., will ibe held on Jan. 6 and Jan. 20. The tax listers will be In Gro ver on two Saturdays, Jan. 13 and 27. They will be at the Gro ver Rescue Squad building from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. on those dates. Tax listers for number four township are J: Ediwin Moore, Mrs. Betty Ballard an^d Mrs. Sa die Patterson. Citizens of number five town ship may list their taxes at the home of tax lister George Murray Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and on Satur days from 9 a.m. until 12 noon. Persons who listed taxes ' for the year 1972 have the option of listing by mail. Forms have al ready teen mailed out by the county tax supervisor.. However, listing by mail is not required. New listers must list their tax es in person. Jerry Eva-ns Parker, six pounds, four ounce ibaby boy, is winner of the Kings Mountain Herald’s First Baby Derby of 1973. Young 'Parker, first boy on family of three girls, weighed In at 8:56 a m. New Year’s Day at Kings Mountain hospital. He is the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Evans Parker of route three. Mr. Parker is a building contractor. Mrs. Parker Is the lormer Joan Alexander of Kings Mountain. pr. Charles Adams was the attending physician. Jerry Evans Parker boasts headful of black hair, has blue eyes. He has three sisters: DBbr)rah age 14; Sherry, age 10; and Lisa, age seven. fProud grandparents are Mrs L. B. Alexander of Kings Moun tain and Mr. and Mrs. Odell Par ker of Shelby. 'Kings Mountain merchants who are showering the new arrival with gifts are Kings Mountain Drug Company; Kings Mountain Savings & Loan Association Willie’s Jewelry; Kings Mountain Herald; Dellinger’s Jewel Shop McGinnis Department Store Lynch Furniture company and Griffin’s Drug. The prizes awaiting the Parker family are detailed in a two- page advertisement in today’s Herald. SUNDAY MEETING Kings (Mountain Improvement Association will meet Sunday afternoon at 4 -p.m. at the Com munity Center for regular meeting. President Jamies Ad ams invites all members and interested citizens to attend. Anbiose Cline Appeak Award ■Ambrose Cline has filed notice of appeal of the three-member commission award for property the city of Kings Mountain is seeking for the Buffalo Creek water project. The case has been transferred to the next civil term of Superior Court beginning Feb. 12, accord ing to Mrs. Ruth Dedmon, Su perior Court clerk. The city ol Kings Mountain de posited last week a check for $97,000 to Mr. and Mrs. Cline with the clerk of Superior Court The amount represents the com mission’s award for the property and confirmed by -Mrs. Dedmon. CContinued On Page Eight) City Toxpoyers Rush Tax Office The city buslijess office was a busy place from Thursday through Tuesday, as citizens paid 1972 tax accounts totaling $102,562 and thereby avoided penalty on their tax bills. The city thus collected before penalty day Wednesday 83 per cent of the $368,222 budget esti mate from ad valorem taxes and 78 percent of the $394,364 total ad valorem levy for the current fiscal year. Gay Hosiery Mill Will Construct $300,080 Adftion, Add 20 People Gay Hosiery Mill has announc- to our present operation.” xl a $300,000 addition to its plant on East Gold street that will add 15 to 20 employees. George Ruppe of Gay Hosiery lequested at last Thursday’s city loard meeting that a tract of iind behind the plant be rezon- ei from residential to heavy in- clostry. The request was granted. Ruppe said the addition would be “a new plant directly related ’The addition will consist of one building of a-’oout 4,800 saqure feet. The property is 100 feet wide by 250 feet long. The addition, Ruppe said, would allow the plant to increase by 3,000 dozen pairs of hosiery i>er week. No completion date has -been set but Ruppe said work would begin right away. Coroner's Juiy: McCarter Yonth's Was Accidental By GARY S’TEWART A six-man coroner’s jury Tues day night ruled that Charles (Chip) McCarter, 18, died an ac cidental death. Young iMicCarter was shot on the night of -Nov. 11 at a cabin at Lake 'Montonia and later died in a Charlotte -hospial. Dr. Hobtart Wood, a Mecklen burg County medical examiner, had earlier ruled that McCarter eomm.ted suicide. Eight witnesses testified at the two-hour inquest, which was call ed by Cleveland County Coroner -M, D. (Bub) Walker. The -inquesl was held at City Hall 'in Kings Mountain. Attorney Jim Funderburk ques tioned Wayne Lowery, Clark Mauney, Tommy Baker, Jr., Ed win Campbell, Cathy Leonard, Ron-nie liaiwkins and Pless -MiU- lilts, all of whom were reported ly at the cabin when the shoot ing occurred. Several other young people who were at the cabin did not appear to testify. Also tesHfying was Sheriffs Deputy Dale Costner, who invest!- gated the InoidenL TestiiiAmy revealed that soiiiv' young peo-ple were having a party and M<Carter pointed a pfe- t<g to his head. 'The witnesses said McCarter “was always Jok ing around,” thus, they -paid no attention to him. McCarter reportedly told one person that he was going to com- nxltt suicide and one witness testified that McCarter odeked the gun “once, maybe twlc*” and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. 'The iristol used in the Incideivt belonged to Robert -Bcnfield, one of the persons present at the party. However, Ttenfleld was ■not present at -the hearirtg. Clark Mauney testified that Bcnfield had come ito Kings Mountain for a visit and 'had brought two pistols and a rifle to take target practice. Mauney said he, Benfield and Phillip Ridge had been target practicing earlier in the day. Members of the Jury were Will ard (Boyles, foreman. Henry Lewis, James Yarbro, 0. T. Hayes, Jr., Fain Hambright, and Yates Mitchem. BEF. JACK RRTNS SraatMt-EiocI SENATOR MARSHAL RAUCH . ' \t^ ' ■ REP. W. K. MAUNEY, JR. Senatox-Elect JACK HUNT RspxaMntatiTe-Elact REP. ROBERT Z. FALLS REP. BOB JONES Holshouser, Hunt Take Oaths Friday Assemblymen ToBeSwom On Wednesday Phillips Zoning Bequest Tabled The city board of commission ers Thursday night approved five rezoning requests but tabled a re quest from Phillips Development Corporation to build KX) units of apartments just west of the city limits. George Lusk of Phillips re quested that two parcels of prop erty be rezonned for apartment buildings. He requested a nine-acre tract :e rezoned from R-20 to R-6 where multi-family dwellings are planned and requested a 24.898- acre adjoining site be rezoned from R-20 to RHO to permit sin gle-family units to be built. The zoning board had recom mended the 24.898 acre site but recommended that the nine-acre tract request -be denied. Commis sioners agreed to table the re quest and give the corporation time to appear before the city’s zoning and planning boards to further explain its building plans. (Lusk argued that the sites arc the only parcels of land in f Continued On Page Eight) JIM HOLSHOUSER Govexnor-Elect I I^ost Ol Haircut Is Going Up The cost of a hair cut is in creasing, menffbers of the Kings Mountain Barbers Association announce this week. The barbers say it is their first Increase in seven years and ’’due to the high cost of Uving.” New rates at local barber shops went into effect January 1. I.C.aaiy's Brothel Passes Claude Clary, 63, died sudden ly Wednesday. Funeral rites will be held Fri day afternoon at 2 p.m. from Gaffney’s East Gaffney Baptist church with interment in Oak- wood cemetery. The family will receive friend.s at Shuford - Hatcher Funeral Home Thursday n'ght from 7 un til 9 Mr. CHary was brother of J. C Clary of Kings Mountain. Also surviving are two sons, 'Billy Joe Clary of Charlotte and Eddie Gene Clary of Cherokee Falls. S C; one sister, Mrs. Ruth Clary Parker of Gaffney, S. C.; and a brother, Dewey Clary of Charlotte. Conunission To Receive Bids Kings Mountain Redevelop ment Commission will receive bids up to 1 pjm. Tuesday on $580,000 in project motes, a re funding for business district re- devclopmenit ipmojeot for ■which $820,0(X) in motes were issued last year. ’The -n'otes are to be dated Feb ruary 6 and aire to mature Feb ruary 1, 1974. • Meantime, Gene White com mission director said, the com- (Continued On Page Eight) Bussell Mook DiedluRre Ftiday Night A 71-year old Kings Mountain Negro man died Friday night when fire destroyed his mobile home. Russell Moore of Route 3 was pronounced dead on arrival at Kings Mountain Hospital at ap proximately 10:20 p.m. Medical examiner Dr. George Plonk and Dr. Paige Hudson of Chapel Hill said cause of death was from burns and added that the body was burned nearly be yond recognition. An autopsy was conducted. Oak Grove Volunteer F re De partment answered the call -but reported that the mobile home was completely burned by the time they arrived. The home had no electricity and the fire appar ently started from an old coal burning heater. Moore’s body reporterily was found on the floor about six feet from the door. Moore lived alone. Dr. Plonk said his invesHgation indicated no signs of foul play. Funeral rites were conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. from the Chapel of J. W. Gill & Son fun eral Home l-y Rev. R. O. Davis and interment was in Vestibule cemetery. Total Exceeded Prior Becoid By Half-hBUioii BY MARTIN HARMON Kings Mourrtaln had a record construction year in 1972 — by a half million doll.irs, and for a grand total of $3,521,850.50, cite/ Building Inspector Woodrow W. J.aughter reported Wednesday. The total value is represented by city building permits purchas ed during 1972. Last year’s total barely topped $3,000,000. Residential building was the big item. October was the biggest month, with permit values slightly shy of the million mark. Slowest months were July and Decem ber. ‘ Mr. Laughter gave this break, down: 137 new single family dwell ings $2,318,761..50. 12 apartments $120,000. 7 Moifile homes $43224. Residential additions and alter ations $72,993. All other residential building $37,894. Other than buildin?s (drive ways, fences, etc.) $6572. 3 industrial buildings $353,300. 10 commercial buildings $193,- 050. Rescue squad, school, church, lodges, and nursing home $376,- 056. Mayor John Henry Moss, pleas ed at the record total, predicted, “1973 will be an even bigger year for building in Kings Mountain.” the Three-term Representative W. K. (Billy) Mauney, Jr., of 'Kings Mountain, will be sworn as a North Carolina Senator, one of three from the 25th Senatorial District of Cleveland, Rutherford, Gaston and Lincoln Counties, on Wednesday, as the 1973 North Carolina General Assembly con venes in Raleigh. Senator-Elect and Mrs. Mauney, their daughter, Miss .Martha Jane Mauney, and Ken Bumgardner of Kings \Iiountain ■will go to Dur ham today to tre house-guests at another 'Mauney daughter and son-in-ilaw, Mr. and Mis. David Faiunce. ’The tamiily will attend the imugurall festivities tonight at 7:30 in William Neal Reynolds Coliseum on the campus of -North Carolina State University where Martha 'Jane Mauney will be one of the ^nsors and Bum gardner will be her marshal for the formial ball honoring Govern or and 'Mrs. Jim Holshouser. A Coffee Hour at the 'Raleigh Woman's club Thursday at 1 p. m. will honor -the ball sponsors and their marshals which Miss Mauney and -Mir. -Bumgardner will attend. The three Senators-Elect from the 25th District, each represent ing 100,000 persons, are 'Mauney, Marshall (Rauch of Gastonia and Jack Rhyne of Beilmont. IRepresentatives-Elect from the House from Gaston, (Cleveland, Rutherford and Polk counties, each representing 45,0(X) persons, are Bob (Falls of Shelby, Jack Hunt of Latthnore, and -Bob Jones of Forest City. Senator J. Ollie Harris of Rings Mountain plans -to attend the oath-taking ceremonies Friday on the east la'wn of the Capitol. Senator -Hiarris, who did not seek re-eleotkm, is comlpleting his first term in the Senate. Republican Jim Holshouser, 38, of Boone, will refcelvc the oath of office from CMef Ju.stice William H. Babbitt to mark the transition of North Carolina’s government frim Democratic (control in an outdoor setting filled with the pomp and pagentry of tradition Governor Holshouser -will bo-1 the : ’.st week was to Frank B. come the first Republican chiief i Glass Post 9811 for an addition executive since Gov. Donald Rus- to the post building off Margrace sell gave up his office in Janu-^Road. The addition is estimated f Continued On Page Eight) to cost $13,533 and Marion Dixon Scott Appoints : Harris Judge Twenty-seventh Judicial Dis' trict Court Solicitor Max Harris was appointed Friday by Gov. Robert Scott as a judge in theY"’’' district to replace retiring Judge .Toe Mull. Harris had been recommended to the Governor by the 27th Ju dicial District -Bar association in a special meeting held Dec. U. Judge Mull’s retirement due to poor health became official Mon day. The Governor traditionally ac cepts the recommendation of members of the judicial district bar when filling vacancies on the bench. Harris joints Judges Lewis Bul- winkle, Ralph Phillips, Oscar Mason and Robert Kirby as dis trict court judges in the 27th judicial distr’et. The appointment of Harris is one of the last official acts Gov. Scott will perform beforte he leaves office Friday. A native of Cleveland county Harris is married to the f-ormer Sara Daves of Mooresboro. They have a daughter. Sandra, age 17. Harris, a district court solicitor si’.ice the position was created in 1959, is a graduate of Wake For est Law school and attended Gardner-Webb college and West ern Carolina University. He re turned to Shelby after graduating from Wake Forest in 1958 and began practicing law. He is a member of Boiling Springs Bap tist church, the state, county and district bar associations and Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.;Phi Alpha Delta Law fraternity. Macic M. Simpson of Charlotte;* Harris Attend Truman Rites Senator J. Ollie Harris ret-urn- od Friday from Independence, Mo. where he attended the funer al Thursday of Former President Harry S. Truman. The rites were held in the Truman Library. Senator Harris . also attended funeral rites for two other form er presidents of the United States: President John F. Ken nedy and President Dwight Da vid Eisenhower. seven grandchihiren and nine greatgrandchildren. Mode Rifes Held Tuesday Funeral rites for Harvey Mode, S3, of Burlington, former resident of Kings Mountain, were conduct ed Tuesday in Burlington. Mr. Mode was a retired carpen ter. New SSSiOOO Office For Sadie Iffill, VFW Post Building $13^ Addition Sadie Cotton Mills has launch ed construction of a new $55,000 office building. The building will Ibe masonry. Contractor is Howard Construc tion Company of Lincointon, and architect,is J. L. Beam, Jr., of Gastonia. Another permit issued during is contra-ctor. Permit for construction of a dwelling, estimated to cost $19,700, at 414 Somerset Drive was issued to Camp Development Corporation. Perimeter zoning permit was issued to Hal Morris for addition of a body shop building to his garage and permit for placement of a trailer in the perimeter area on Bessemer City road was also issued.