O \ they be sure !d label W-2 ss, and usband )int re- epayors double 'IS will In^ the refund Population Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits 8.465 The Greater King* Mountedn figure 1* derived from the Special United State* Bureau of the Censu* report of January* IMS. and include* the 14.99Q population of Number 4 Township, ond the remaining 6.124 from Number 5 Township. In Cleveland County and Crowders Mountain Township in Goston County. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today Plus 8 Page Supplement VOL. 84 No. 8 Esta(>lished 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, February 22, 1973 Eighty-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Court Order Against HEW, chools: Broyhill Ab Yarbro s Condition Remains Fair r Board Receives i«\rchitect Sketch New Food Center Is Suggested By Architects !» O Discussion of building plans highlighted Monday’s monthly meeting of the Kings Mountain District Schools board of educa tion. Eugene Warren, architect from Charlotte, was present at the meeting and will be back in town tonight to meet with the junior high planning committee at the school administration building. Warren discussed preliminary drawings for additions at Kings 'Mouniain High School and the new junior high. He also discus sed plans for a centralized food piepara-tion center to serve all schools. Supt. Don Jones told board members that the State Board of Education had recommended that such a study be made but nothing is mandatory. Warren estimated that a new food center would cost approxi mately $200,000 and added that amount is not in the present dget. Board memjDers discussed the idea of enlarging a present kit chen at the high school or jumor high for consolidating food ser vice for some of the school. The addition^ of a swimming pool and eejuipping the new aud itorium also entered into discus sion. Those items aie to be dis cussed with Warren again to night. Supt. Jones discussed tlie re cent ruling by a federal judge concerning desegregation of the districit schools and piesenttHl a majority-minority ratio of stu dents and teachers at the dis trict’s schools. Jones also ])resent- ed board members with copies of letters from federal school of ficials approving the desegrega tion plans in 193S and 1970. Jones recei\cd word Wednes day that Kings Mountain’s list ing among schools that aren’t to tally desegregated was an error on the part of the Department of flealth, Education and Welfare. Bloodmobile Returns Monday The Red Cross bloodmobile re turns to Kings Mouniain Mon ^ifay for a one-day visit at the ®ommimity Center on Cleveland Avenue. Donors will be processed from 11 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. Goal of the collection is 150 pints of blood. A spokesm-an for the Red Cross said anyone in goo't Baptist church. A native of Kings -Mountain, he received his M. A. degree in health, physical education and recreation at Appalachiann State Untvcrsitv where ho was liste^i in “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Univer- sdies.” At Appalachian, he letter- e.i in varsity football and track and served as pix»sident o fthe Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which he helped to organize on campus and was a charter mem ber. Goins is marriixi to the for mer Jane Davenport of Mt. Airy. They have two daughters, Lori, throe, an I Claudia, one. UF Awards Dinner Friday At 7 Will Honor Area Industries Officers and directors of the 1974 Kings Mountain Unitwi Fund drive will be announced at a 7 p.m. Friday awards dinner at Royal Villa Motor Inn. Several individuals and firms who did outstanding jobs in the 1973 fund drive will be rccogni* zed. The ‘73 drive netted $36,3-11.43, almost $3,000 wom^ than the ori ginal goal Oi $33,-150. Three Peimfts Are Issued ThrcH? building permits wen* issuofl by the city building in- spc'ctor this wc'ok. Wayne Bibbs of Bi'.ssemer City obtained a permit to place a mv>- bilc hrme on Lot 11 in Stinnett Adres Park in the mile perimeter area. Randy L. Gantt of Route 9. Shelby, w.is i-'^^ued two permits to build t'Ao homes at 310 and 311 Somerset Drive at estimated cost of $31,500 each. Gene FRli.-? was issued a zon ing permit for a usc\i car lot in tire one mile perimeter. VFW Groups To Meeting Ten members of Frank B. Glass Post 9811 VFW and Auxiliary at tended the Council meeting of the N. C. Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars Friday, Saturday and Sunday at White House Itin, Charlotte. .-Vttending the mt'oting were Mr. and .\Ir.s. (kYirge Sellers, Mr. and Mr.s. Harold Gla.s.s, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Case, Mr. and M)rs. Dav id Delevie. Mrs Robert Ruff, and Marion Dix>n. Mr. Dixon is Ccunell chaplain and participatixl on the program for tlic mt'eting. East School With 36 Blacks May Be Area Judge Cited By GARY STEWART Kings M untain Schools Supt. Don Jones breathed a oig sigh of rcHief Wednesday after receiving a phone call from the office of Congressman Jim Broyhill. Broy- hill’s new.s was that recent re- pid several programs would have been af- fcx'tcd, including food services. Title 1, Title IV, litle VI-B and . the total vocational 'program.s at North. Central and Kings Moun tain High School. 1 With tlio possibility that one of the system’s schools might not be in compliance. Kings M--untain is still no-i totally in ; the clear. I “Congres.mian Broyhill’s office tcid us t)iat we still pr^)bably will have an on-lho-.spot investi gation," he said, “but we do feel like we arc Jii cornpliance and have been since 1968.” i The Friday court injunction ^ ! was again.^t HFAV and not the-' school sy.stcms Hded. Supt. Jones said he hid no idea Kings Moun tain was one of the s; hooLs until he read it in the ni'wspapers and heard television and radio accounts. Ea.st SoliKX)!. which was all- ; wliite prior to 1938 when Jones ' and other soiKX)! offi'.-’ials met w’rh federal agencies for desegre gation guidelino.s, has the lowest • of black students. Of , 331 sluionts there, 36, or 11 per- 1 cent, are black but 20 jxjrc'ent of the 15 tcacber.-j at Ea-^t are black. Other .schcols and their fatkjs: Bethw ire, IS poreent black stu- dent.s. 13 percent black tea'chers; Central, 21 percent students, ll perc'cnt teachers; Early Child hood Education Center, 51 percent .^students, 36 percent teachers; Grover, 27 percent students, 17 percent teachers; high school, 25 percent students, 12 percent teachers; North, 29 percent stu dents, 25 percent teachers; West, 13 i)erccnt students, 20 percent teachers. All schoiHs combined, the sys tem has an enrollment of 4.187 .students, of which 970, or 23 per cent, are black. The s>'stc'm em- plo>'.s 196 teachers, of which 32, or 20 percent, are black. Jones p'*intc\i out that the s>'stem has tried to hire more black teachers in the past but have been unable to do so because of lack of ai>pU- i cations. City Board To Receive Bids From Insurancemen On Monday ' The city commission will re- ; reive bids from insurance agents ; for ho.