ifn taJ pro of fur- •xploreJ 2SS, Ka be heic* 16. Population Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,465 The Greater Singi Mountain figure li derived from the Special United Slater Bureau of the Censue report of January. 1966. and Includes the 14.990 population of Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 from Number 5 Township, in Clcvelond County and Crowders Mountain Township in Gaston County. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today Plus 4-Pa9e Supplement VOL. 84 No. 6 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 8, 1973 Eighty-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS r point' facinj, ns and ?nt ana oth?i the 19- ejult In nprison- farmers ng and of the I North y is ex- 3f farm nd live te dU- to b3 on tht impus. Dicey Fabrics Official Dies Tuesday Night Funeral rites for Paul Maunoy NcLslei, Sr., 75, will be conduieteil Thur day imorning at 11 o’clock Ircm Fkst I-resbytorian chu.ch ol which 'ho was a memiber. The rites will be conducted by! his pastor, Dr. Paul Ausley, and! inlc.inunt'will be in Mountain: Post cemetery. I Active pallbearers will be Mr. NcL Mountain, and Mrs. W. F. Brower of Henderson. Also sur- Local News Bulletins TRY-OUTS Try-outs for the next Little Theatre production, ‘Dial M for Murder” will be held at Park Grace school auditorium Mon day and Tuesday evenings at 8 j).m. Mike Muscat, who will di rect the play in April, will conduct tJie auditions. Four men and one woman will make up the cast. HOSPITALIZED Mrs. Lecnard Gamble was hespilal'ized Sunday for treat ment and X-rays. She is a pa tient 'in Room 214 of Kings Mountain hospital. GARDEN CLUB Mis?: Elizabeth Anthony wTH pri'sent tiie program at Thurs day night’s meeting of the i own and Country Garden club at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. Grady Patterson. POLICE AUXIUARY The Kings Mountain Polfce Auxiliary will hold regular meeting Monday night at 7 at tlie hcime of Mrs. Tom McDeWtt on West King street. GARDEN CLUB ' Mrs. James Lutz of Shelby will give a book review as the program for Wednesday’s (meet ing of the Kings Mountain Gar den club at 3:30 at tihe home of Mrs. S. R. Suber, Jr. Mrs. Ver non P. Crosby is program c^ir- man. METHODIST TOPIC ‘The Barriers That Divide Us” will be the sermon topic of Rev. N. C. Bush at Sunday morning worship hour at 11 o’clock at Grace United Metho dist church. viving are 10 grandchildren. f Founder's Day Service Sunday A Sunday afternoon program at Bynum Chapel AMIC Eion church, Cansler street, will mark the annual Founders Day Cele bration of Eta Mu Lamba Chap ter of Alpha Phi Alpha Frater nity, Inc., The organization is composed of grarluates of various colleges in the United Stales who are em ployed in educational activities in Gaston, Cleveland, and Mecklen burg Counties. The featured speaker of the celd ration at 3 p.m. will be Rev. Smith Turner, pastor of Grace A'ME Zion church of Charlotte. The public is invited. Rev. W. F. Scott is pastor of Bynum Cha pel church. BACK TO DUTY C. D. (Re^l) Ware, city fire man, returned to duty Monday after undergoing a horma oj)er- ation at Kings Mountain hos pital. Harper To Build Drug Store Principal city building permits issued during the past week in clude a Hillside Drive residence and drug store building. Ragan Harper bought a Ipermit to build a 23 by ^ foot drug store building at 709 West (Moun tain street. The 'building is esti- matLvl to cost $19,8(X). O. G. Pen- ner is contractor. Demolition of the former AHran resident has boon completed. Dale HoHifield ha.s purchased a permit to build a residence at 804 Hii'H'ide Drive at an estiimat- ed cost of $35,507. W. D. Farmer, Inc., of Atl'amta, is the architect and Wiilliam Mauney is contract- tor. Other permits: To Jack White remodeling of office at 115 West Mountain.vesti- mated cost $3750, Jack Thrower contra^’tor. To Joy Theatre repairs to the theatre, estimated cost $720. To John DilLing, grading of lot on York Road, cost $500, Carl Champion contractor. Flu Bug Continues To Bite Here, But School Attendance Is Normal The flu bug, London variety or whoitever, continued to hara.^s Kings Mountain families this week. School officials reported attend ance about “iback to normial” but doctor’s .effi'eos anme fever and unploasant- ne.ss. A nurse at one Kings Moun tain clinic reported business not as brisk as usual while another reporting standing room only” crowds at some periods. “It fthe flu) really gets you down” is how one man described the bug. Celebration Planned; City Is 100 in 1974 Mrs. Bonnie Mpuney Summers has been appointed 'honorary chairman of the City of Kings Mountain centennial celebration committee. Mayor John Henpy Moss said a co-chairman and 23 additional me!mbi?rs will be appointed in the near future, with several sub committee assignments. The city, chartered in Febru ary 1874, will celebrate its hun dredth birthday next year. “I hope,” Mayor Moss said, “the commiittee will begin work not later than mid-year.” “Mrs. Summers is particularly well qualified to oha'ir this com mittee for the monumental wori< of providing Kings Mountain a monument centennial celebra tion. She is 'the daughter of the city’s first imayor, long active member arid past regent of the Daughters of the Amertcan Revo lution and a specialist in the history of the area, genealogical and general.” 'Mrs. Summers’ father, W. A. Mauney, was a twice-captured veteran of the Civil War, one ot the city's founding fathers, a manufacturer and banker, found er of the city’s first newspaper, and former state legislator. Mrs. Summers is the widow ol Frank R. Summers, a merr^r of St. Matthevv^ Lutheran church, and long identified with many civic 'and patriotic enterprises. She has two daughters, Mrs. L. E. Hinnant, of Kings Mountain, and Miss Frances Summers, of Charlotte. Church Plans Valentine Event Grace Methodist church mem bers will crown a King, Queen and Sweetheart of their annual Valentine banquet Sunday, Feb ruary ISth. -at a 7 p.m. dinner in the church fellowsh;p hall. Candidates for King of Valen tine are Bob Lynn and John Pearson. Candidates for Queen of Valentine are Sally Lynn and Addie Neely. Candidates for Val entine Sweethearts are Tammy Ross, Cindy Salmons. Butch Pearson and Tim Riddle. Voting is by onc-cent-per-vote donation to the recreation pro gram of the church and competi tion is keen, said a spokesman. Loving cups will be presented to the winners as highlight of the Valentine dinner. Special entertainment and door prizes will also feature the pro gram. Seminaiy Choii Here On Sunday The 21 voice, all-male choir of the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina, will appear in concert at Resurrection Lutheran church, Crescent Hill, on Sunday, February 11. at 7:30 p.m. The program will include both traditional and contemporary se lections with brass, percussion, organ, and guitar accompani ment. This is the ony appearance that the choir will make in North Carolina prior to its spring tour of the Southeastern United States. The choir is under the direction of Gordon Beaver, professor of Church Music at Southem Semi nary. Mr. 'Beaver, a native of Landis, North Carolina, is a for mer organist-choir master of Saint Matthew’s Lutheran church. He is married to the for mer Peggy Mauney of Kings Mountain. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Mr. Beaver serves as organist-choir] master of Ebenezer Lutheran | church, Columbia. South Caro lina. He is son-in-law of Mr. and! (Mrs. Aubrey Mauney of Kings Mountain. The public is invited to attend this concert. There will be no admission charge, said Rev. A. | Glenn Boland, Resurrection pas-j ' tor. ' School Bid Aim Progiess Report From Architects Due Fehiuary 19 The King.s Mountain .school board and members of its juni;>r high and elementary planning committees met with an official from Wilber, Kendrick, Workman and Warren, Charlotie arcliitects, Monday nJght and discus-^ed plaits for upcoming school con struction. A. Eugene Warren of the Char lotte firm is to meet again with the school board and its regular monthly meeting Feb. 19 and give a progress report. DU:;u.ssion Mondaj^ included plans for rel.x'ating tlie front of East School from M^oodlawn Ave nue to Lynn Street on the souih of the building-and preliminary plans for the new auditorium at Kings Mountain High were also disatssed. It was pointed out that the present seating capacity of 950 seats should be incrca.scd to a nUimmum of 1,100 .seats. There is some hcix? of having even 1,200 seats. Siapt. Don Jones said the board is hopeful that 80 percent of the architect’.s work could bo eim- pletod by May 1 and that bids could be advertised by May 25. Bids would bo received l auditorium. Audiences attending the two performances last weeken^l wore highly comiplimentary of all charaider portrayals in the show which is being directed by Joi* .Ann Walker McDaniel. Nan Jean Gantt Grant, in the role of the proprietress of a rest home, and an accomplished aet- rt'ss in Little Theatre, keei>s the audience laughing about tlie an tics of her female boarders who commit a crime to entice a hand some detective into the house. Roy Dedmon of Shelby, newcom er to Little Theatre hero, shares star billing with Mrs. Grant. And the boarders, all of whem play their roles well, give the audi ence a good show. HOSPITALIZED Bennett Masters, Harris Fune ral Home mortician and a.ssLst- ant Cleveland County coroner, entered Kings Mountain ho.spi- tal Saturday for treatment and ob.«M‘r\’ation. JftiU. tvicreritenniCT! Pla'cE Oa Scile King.s .Mountain UMmen'.: ilu'- j? /n'^oriih; llu' .sah* of Vi-.. ^1 StaU's of Amrji'a n’l; a I plates in celebration of the na tion's 200th birthday. St-ulpied in glass, the plates are among a .-.<*: ie< of four ex quisite ccllectcr.s plates whicli in Ihelr entirety dopi-I a i imijleie and m;vlng “IMv- iad ol L;!k rty.” Tile plaUN sell for 8’0 c.u-'r .m l oiders are bcinc taken b:v Mrs. Milton Fr>'er, l. ^.-'an a* Mauney .Memorial Library. wJiere Die plate- are un di-play. Plat.' No. 1 clop: fs Patrick Henry. •'Give Me L..:eny ei (Nvi- Me Death”; Plate No. 11 “Ind p( n .iei’i.’e Is Do: ihe sign ing ef that (!. . ument; Plate Nw. Ill i.s -A To.st of (^>ur;^.^e”at Val ley F ’ -’e; cad Plate N). IV is the Li'berJy Doll, ■‘'Libc^rty Is Pro claimed.” Lach plate costs $10 each and all :‘eur may he ordered by a cu.'^- tcm^T, .'^aid Mrs. liaywcKxl E. Lynch, p:c-idrr;t cf the s;.':nsr_- ing -organizat.on. Cosdrnt:-. rnay choase the pl.ile.s in .V’dique yyxd'i bUio <•: Early Anicri.an milk class wii.U'. T'-i'.c .K tiie ;>ii;.y*riio.-;, oecu- :.;:d v the . ». : War.' & .Sens ■)U 11:!:, t!i'.’ rfalf .Seixiee S*a- n. and M '-'ur;ly CIc- -Mc- ' j ar s Dc.'part jiicnt Store An’ie.x— an- I wiu'd by Die eommis-l.m. d'jie hD.glL : t.ic* iiu-r Gray- i.’ - .j !i. -Tniuy’- Disr.nnu iLi.l hv-.n.; acqui:eil new. Till' Ca-h Rrhlicr^ trucking op-; u.svd om‘ on the m--i' Vvoro ii’ Sons buildings. I - n i/.v.ess of moving la a .site Klli.a Liimocr Gompai:./ buil'-iing on Grover road. Commission Ready To Buy Cansler Area Properties Mrs. Summers Will Chair Centeim Funeral Thursday For P. M. Neisler ^ iSSBuHdmgs Rased March 15 YOUNG EDUCATOR Mrs. Rita Coveny Mangum, seventh grade teacher at Elv e school in Wilson, is winner of the Wil son Jaycees Outstanding Young Educator of the Year. Mrs. Moiigum is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Caveny of Kings Mountain. Tin* reant wa- ma'Ii* by G( nc ; ifin rni^-ion dir(‘ctor. He ad.l* tl tiial City Iio & Coal Canvnny will .soon move to a - vv*l ation Oil the n-mth .r montli up to four years. >>r Efiil L. .Mangum, Jr. of Wil- 3) A tenant can bee-mo an son. ' fawner. Any tenant wIm piiri*has4»s Siie rerx'ive l an OYE plaque a replacement dw<*llingautomati- .‘.iii W Kings Mountain will observe H'jm;in Relaii'us week Tr the '.veek beginning Monday, avcord- a.: to re-Mu'' n o'' tin* m.rN v and boar : of Aiy .-.'nim.: v-ner Tilt' city has had a:i acavc 11- mi ;ri.)cr human re’.-il ns on' miitee .sij'.re f’crib'mbi '■ P. ID’S. It.s vurront mi’in-’i is i’vlu le Is Superi n t('n den t Doi:aid D. Ji no'^, ch ii’man. L'* na.d Smitli, Viv-i. Chi.ies Ajix.ind -r. .\T’’s. Victoria I e s, MtUav-’Jie McCarter. City r-:nm:sd un-r J:im.*- Di si'v. NIa nstrate J. L. iic'corts. Williiun Orr. Rov. S. T. Cooke. Mrs. Ann Hunter and Jake McDermid. First v‘iai:man wa.s Dr. Paul K. Au.''dey. who \*. a< '^•ccn’i'dc i ny Re,. Robert Mann. 5Ir. Jones ;.s the ccrn.m:tfet'’s third chairfn.i.n. The pro<'lam.uion for the ob servance follows: WIIERE.AS. the Mayor and the Beard of Commis-inners of the City of King> Mountain desire to ccntinuo 1 > i>r>rnot(' and main tain n whi>l(‘< iTi(* elinia; 'of n s- man relations a:ri>n.-:c the citi.'- ('n.'s. between ;t. »ups. rai'i<. a:ij among iktsohs viryin;! eco nomic status fir the urocres.s and general welfaie (.f the toi.il -im- nunvrv; ar. d WHEREAS. thi» public pilicy :s to re.’S[xvl tlie worth ar,d dignity .if all and to tprovide genuine (Xjuality of opportunity as a ree- ogniza'nlo tael vvhitb leads to the \vell.hei*ig of nil; end WHERflAS. for the .-eaams the Mayc^r and the Beard of Commi.s- >it.ners wish t ^ eontinue a ron- .sinntivo ajiproaeh to improving liuman relatior.s f r the I'om- munily throuTh nnder.stand'n.g, eommunication, and specific pro grams; ami «/ Oil P(ic-:u l:n ri to have Ih.cm ana- 'crs, it wa.s pointtni out that not f>wned by Neisler Ero- ,1 jonly does .Mrs. M;mgum do h<’r Kings Mountain. ‘s trial date has work as well at school hut that | »islor, president of Lucky Teh. l.A Strike Yarn Mills in Double )id Kings Mountain, students and their parents shonl.s, said the mill will not be harcr.l by Gastonia all thnos. rebuilt. \ w th simple It was noted that Airs. Damage to raw materials a- fCoiit'uuicd On PfUjc Six> Lucky Strike Fire Idles 52 Workers pcruig ijccn :cl for :i:g .<* •.'.■a- (li •i.r-- 1.'vo Devenny was arrosttMl af-'*'*^tic Ciirisiian College, as well much domage to machinery ter a ra;rivc, apart- p:ud<*nts whether at school or at !'nt G. .-Arrodi'd at tlv' .s:ime home, urn* -.v’s a Id-vear-old CJastonia In her nomination, .Mrs. ATan- b'i. .Mi^ GT.mrv Robinson of 1119 k’um .staled “I try to maintain i\inim' ’mt Ctrcle |classroom control through com- Vg: /.sai 1 bu.h were in the a- municaticn. My siiuients have onrtment ai i Ac time ol tlie rad rcaidr 1 a very difficult stage in 'I hcv wer<* placed un li'r $20t) Hh*. ] hi'v resent 'r<'ing tieated oi.nds eaih. chihlren; y<‘i tliey are too ivoung t > fuifill the rok* of a ' trv:i-age Miss Kendrick. Retired Sale-iladr, Ml Succumbs: Rites Held Wednesday , um To Ilcn^f Scouts ; District Scout Executive irenry I Reeves will make ihi' a idress at i i!:c annual iei; I.ea l.Tship .\p- preciation dinn''r of tlie Kaves -Mountain Klvvanis du: Thur.^^lay ni tht. Scout Ic.iaci s and Eagle Scouts I will he guesi.s et Kiwani.ins f'-v . the dinner at 8:1.1 p.m. at the Woman’s club. Air Re(‘ves wd! ux' r |.';ee:n t<* j MtiMtion. -groups.' siwen twisters and sev- i’.-al winders wore either destroy ed or heavily damaged. County Fire Alarshal Dolane DavLs said tlio fire apparently started in the picker room locat- (vi on the first fKaor of the build ing. He e.diimted that 50 per cent of the mill was destroyed and 70 percent of the contents To them, aflult^ never; were lost. fully under.'^t.ind their ^ Neisler .said the fire might Therefore, they knit have .started from a spark that V together in peer ignited synthetic material in the machine or from an electrical “In ordt'i* to maintain control sh«vrtQgo in the machine, in my ela-'-sroom. I try to respect | -Employes told Davis that one their need for ju'er approval and i worker tending a pk-ker machine their need for belonging to a Joft it about 12:30 p.m. to get a group." she .stated. “Because drink of water and when he re- neer appr'ival is so very impor- turned ‘the room was blazing all tun to them. I try to refrain over.” from t'mharrasing a student hy Fallston Fire Department Ye- ealling them down individually, spmded to the alarm but eight lnstt*.i.I. when misbt'havior occurs (dher county volunteer units^’a- , r 1 .MK*ak to the el;i.* ol the Scout- in ■• pvogiam. .'^aid a Kivvanis ‘u, "It jj Americ.a’s ;;:•e:ue^t p.w_r.ani to pre'^<*rve t)ur e atvi i uild {'liar:u*U*r in *'s who will ie the men of to- :n>*:r ".v. Seoul i\c is a m.ui’s pro-i rvm ‘ r 1. v's. So it (alUs for n in Kivva’i;.'? ant in Kings ‘Uir.'U'i to ’ivv it le Icrship." 'ihe k*. al 'et another tract, which the zoning board approved for muitl-family construction, the rommission Monday night will txmduct ipublic hearing on Phil- liiw’ request for annexation to the city. Other items on the agenda in clude acceptance of bids on 1) a ditch-digging contract for sewer line laying and 2) on repairs tot the half-million gallon conorete' water storage tank on McGinnis' Street.