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<l health between ages IS and 6f) may (|ualify as a blqod donor and a gift of blood could save a per son’s life. Local News Bulletins SEBMON TOPIC “God’s Amazing Grace” will be bhe sermon topic of 'Rev. N. C. Bush at Sunday nuorning worship hour at 11 <aX Grace Methodist chuirch. ORDAINED Mrs. Wayne Wells and Gary Stewart were ordaiited as El ders of Dixon Presbyterian church at the morning worship service Sunday. Rev, Riobert Wilson conducted the ordina tion service. Other .imenibers of the session are L. ’H. Stewart, clerk; J. V. Stewart. GoUdon Hughes and R. Dewitt Haim- bright. ACHIEVEMENT NIGHT A county - wide 4-H Achieve ment Night will be held on Saturday night, March 3. 1973 at the County Office BuHding Auditorium beginning At 7:30 P.M. Mike Pitnjan, Assistant Extension Agent, 4-H says a- wards will be given to the 4- H’ers wiho competed in project and activity oompetition dur ing the ipast year. In addition there will be exhibits by the 4-H’ers of some of the work they have done in the past year in their projects. These small articles wfll be interest ing to see and the program is open to the public. DECOUPAGE Decoupage oRisses are being conducted at the CommuniHy Center on Thursday evenings from 6:30 untiil 9:30. Director Roy Pearson said persons iinay register at the opening class tonight. GOSPEL SING Midvie^v Baptist cHurch is planning a big gospel sing for March 3 at 7 p^m. at the church in the Midpines oommunity. Featured group® will the the Riverside Quartet and Young Christian Singers. LITTLE THEATRE 'Kings Moomlain Little Thea tre will hold a general meet ing Thursday night alt 8 pm. in Pitirk Grace school aiiditor- ium. SeaichUndeiway ForAttackei Of Cattleman Cleveland County law enforce ment dfficers continued to .search Wednesday for any clues into the Monday imorn'ing shooting and robbery of a 65-year-old Kings Mountain cattle rancher. Alvin Edward (Ab) Yarbro was shot and robbed of over $2,0(X) in his bam early Monday morning by a male believed to be in his 20's and who was wear ing a ski mask. Yarbro was shot six times wiith what was fcielieved to be a .22 rifl^. He underwent a three-hour surgery at Cleveland Memorial hospital in Sheity and is current ly in fair condition. According to a spokesman for the ShcTiff’s Department, a search party of **40 to 50” per sons were coml:lng some woods near Yarbro’s home on Highway 74 west of Kings Mountain Wed nesday afternoon. “We came up with something this morning,” said the spokes- m-an, “ani they’re just out there looking for anything that might give them a lead.” Several persons have been questioned but no real suspects have been found. “We’re not too far along,” said the officer, “^but we’re turning every stone that comes up.” According to reports, Yarbro had gone to his barn early Mon day momang to feed his cattle and when he did not return home, members of the family went searching for him. The Sheriff’s Department set up roadblocks on Highway 74 in front of Yarbro’s home Tuesday morning and asked motorists if they had seen anyone walking there Monday or had seen any cars parked in the vicinity. Some information and descriptions were obtained. Yarbro’s assailant had obvious ly either spent the night in the barn or went there early Mon day morning and waited for him. Yaicro had been known to car ry large sums of money ar.d had been warned about it in the past. GARDEN CLUB Mr®. CThartes Edwards will give -the program, “Guiowing Hou.'=cplants” at 'Tuesday's meeting of the Magnolia Gar den club at 10 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Ragan Harper. KIWANIS CLUB Allan Kjleimmaier of Banner Elk will give the program on ‘^Becdh Mountain” at Thurs day’s meeting of the Kiwanis club at 6:45 p.m. at the Wom an’s club. Grover Man Dies In House Fire' Funeral Rites Held On Tuesday John Meek Francis, 77, ofi Route 1, Grover, died Monday j morning at 1:30 a.m. in a fire ati his home in the Mt. Paran com-| munity near Blacksburg. He was father of Kings Mountain school trustee P. A. (Tippy) Francis. The victim's wife and a son and daughter-in-law visiting from Georgia escaped from the exten sively damaged six room house without injury. Mr. Prancis, a retired textile moclKanic, was found in a back bedroom, apparently a victim of smoke inhalation, according to Blacksburg, S. C. fire chief Joe Hicks Whitener. Funeral rites for Mrs. Francis were held Tuesday afternoon from Blacksburg ARP church. A native of Cleveland County, Francis was the son of the late John M. and Martha Crawford Francis. He was a mem'ber of the Blacksburg ARP church and a World War I veteran. Besides his widow and son, of Grover, he is survived by two son^, John Franois of Atlanta, ■Ga., Robert M. Francis of Flor ence, S. C. and Steve Francis of Easley, S. C.; one daughter, Mrs. Betty Young of Columbia, S, C.; one sister, Mrs. Delia Beam of 1 Gaffney, S. C.; 14 grandchildren land one great-grandchild. lee Chaiged In Assault Captain Michael Steve Lee, former regional supervisor for Region C of the N- C. Department of Corrections, has been charged by a Columbia woman with breaking and entering, assualt on a female and impersonating a law enforcement officer. Lee who was charged by a Kings (Mountain woman in June 1972 with assualt with intent to com mit rape, has been suspended from his present job at the Wash ington County prison unit in Creswell pending outcome of the charges. The charges by the Kings Mountain woman last year again st Lee were dismiss^ in 27th District Court and Lee was later transferred to the Washington County unit. Virginia E. Riddle charged that on Feb. 10 Lee broke into 'her house near Creswell and as saulted her by pulling her down on a sofa beside him. The w’ar- rant also states that Lee enter ed her property after midnight after he had been fon-idden and that ihe represented himself as a law enforcement officer. K. V. Bailey of Greenville, Lee’s supervisor, said he under stood Lee and his wife had paid a social visit to the Riddle wo man when “some misunderstand ing came up.” A hearing into the charges was scheduled for last Friday but postponed until this Friday in Wa^ington County District Court in Plymouth when the plaintiff dismissed her attorneys. Pastors To Lead Census On Sunday 300 To Aid In Religious Survey In City The Kings Mountain Minister ial Association will corWuct a Religious Survey of the city Sun day, February 25th, beginning at 2 p.m. It is expected that some 300 church people, men, women and youth, will be engaged in calling upon homes of the area to as certain certain facts that will aid the churches in more proper min istry to the people of Kings Mountain. Those who will be ma king the visits to the homes of the people have been instructed to secure, if at all possible, in formation such as: names of all residents in the home; church affiliation and /or preference; habit of church attendance, etc. All census takers will go by Central United Methoviisl church at or near 2 p.m. on Sunday af ternoon, pick up their envelope of assignments, and proceed to their work. It is hoped that the residents of Kings Mountain will cooperate and give the in- foration requested iby those cal ling. If none of the people are at home at a certain residence, someone will come by again during the week following. When the survey is completed the information obtained will be compiled and given to the various churches of the association. City Officials To Workshop Proposed federal legislation to give cities block community de velopment grants rather than categorical grants is the subject of workshops being held in the next ihi'ee weeks for city and county officials in North Carol ina. Kings Mountain is among 12 participating cities. The Division of Community Services of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources is conducting the workshop at the request of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the local communities invol ved. Under the block grant program propo.sod by President Nixon, ci ties would no longer receive funds for one specific purpose such as housing, but would be free to use the money for a num ber of projects under a general category. Urban renewal, winter and sew er and other community develop ment programs would be groupo<l into the single grant concept. TVenty-seven cities would pro bably qualify for the block grant because of prior participation in both urban renew’al and otiier grants. Tom Peddicord, of the Division of Community Services, said if the legislation is passed the ma yors and councilmen will become involved in federal programs and make decisions concerning prior ities for them. According to Pel- dicord, much of the lengthy ap plications for federal money would be eliminated under Ihe new program. Workshops have been held in Wilson and Salia'ury. They are scheduled for Washington on Ferb- ruary 1546; Lumberton on March CONTINUED ON PAGE (i PRESIDENT — J. Wilson Craw ford. realtor, has been re elected president of the Kings Moun tain Business Development Cor poration for the 16th year. BDC Re-Elects Wilson Crav/f Old J. Wilson Crawford, Kings Mountain realtor and first presi- i dent of Kings Mountain Busines.sl Deveiepmont Corporation at ;t.s| organization November 19, 1957, was rc-electcd president Tuesday. Officers also re-eUx*ted Tom Tale as secretary-troiusurer and Fred W. Plonk a.s vVe-president. ^ Glee Bridges, Bob iManer and ! John Warlick were elected direct Annual report shows assets and liabilities of the organilation at $46,868.8^. The company was feemed with stock investments totaling $22,800. Kings Meuntab Business De velopment Corix)iA'iion was in strumental in bringing Waco Sportswear, K Mills. Concept Fur niture, Now Horizons, Inc., and Carpet Industries to the area. Officers gave reports of the year’s activities at the annual meeting in the offiees of Home Savings & Loan Association. Attack Fatal To T. R. Foster Retired Farmer Funeral rites for Tommie Rob ert Foster, 7S, retired farmer of Ciicnyviilo rrad, were condu.-ted 2:aurday aflein.jon at 2 p.m. fre.n Pinley’.s Cliapcl Methodi.st interment following in iiullendor cemetciy. His paster, Itev. W. L. Huffslel- kr offi.'iuted at the final riles, assisted oy Rev. Jesse Henson. Mr. Foster was found cii art in rile pasture o: his h^me Tiiurs- uay a.iern-on cf an ai^parent atiatk suftered sevtual r.-ars caikcr, according to Gas- ten Lcunty JoruircT W. J. Mi-Lean, ile hid a.^varently gone ouf to I heck )iis slock when the attack eccji r. d. A native of CTevolanrl County. .Mr. Foster was the son of tlie late Pleasant and Cynthia Hul- lender Foster. He was also a re- t.red le.Mile employee. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie Allen toster; three son-s f-ieerge Fester of Bessemer City and Henry Foster and liayimund Fluster, ho:h of Kings Mountain; two daughters, Mrs. Claude Hen- of Dallas and Mrs. Torn Humphries cf Kings Mountain; cno step-daughter, Mrs. (doraldine Scruggs -- ivin.-s Mountain; two foster son.s. i.ay W'hetstine and IC.iiard VVhetbUne, ooth oi Kings oLuniain; one brother, CLrenoe Fester ef LinLolnio-ii; 20 grand children and 21 greut-giandehil- dren. Electrical Bids To Be Received Mayer John and City Clerk* Joe McDaniel will rec*oice bids on improvements to the electrical system Thursday after- mx)n at 2:30 in City Hall. Improvements to the electrical system include « new Sub-Sta tion on York road. HYMN SING There will be a hymn sing Saturday night at 7 o’clock at Westover Baptist Church. Fea tured groups are the Melody Singers, the TJiomburg Family and the Men’s Quartet of West- over. Grover Squad Gives Report Last year, tlie Grover Rescue Squad Inc., roccMvcd a total of 378 calls. Total liours invoUtnl were 2,025 anil 11,783 miles wore travoU'd. F'or January, 1973. the squad rec*oivcd 13 calls including 12 ac cidents, two fiix's, one request for oxygon, one missing person and 11 miscellaneous incidents. InvoIviKl during this iKuiod wera ISO hours-. 1,028 miles and seven stand-bys. Hanson Rites Thursday At 2 Rev. Claude William Henson, Sr., 69, of Djillas. minister in the Wesleyan church for 32 jears, at 1:20 a.m. TuOiday of heart attack. j Mr. Henson was son-in-law of, 5Irs. Tc-m Foster of Kings Moun-' tain! .Mrs. Foster’s hies and died of a heart attack last Thursday., Rev. Mr. Henson is also ,.;rotiier- in-law of Mrs. Thomas Humphr ies of the Di.xon community. | Funeral rites will be conduct-, ed Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. from Kings Mountain's First | Wesleyan church with Pwcv. Boyd' :\isllc*r to officiate, assisted by Rev. Wesley Lovin, Rev. Richard Stanley, and Rev. Watson Black., ?.Iinisiers of the Wesleyan Meth odist /iTonfcrencc will sorve as ac tive and honorary pallbearers. Rev. Mr. Henson, a native of, Cleveland County, had served as! pastor of Dallas Wesleyan church the past nine and one-half years. Prior to his appointment there, he had served churches in Ric'h- mond County. Rockingham,Spring Hill, Wrights Bridge, and Concord. He was siri of the late Hughio C. and Mary Elizab(‘Ui Ander- ^ son Henson of Cleveland County.! The body will remain at Sisk' East I^uneral Chapel in Bessem er City until 30 minutes befoie , ;he rites when it will lie in ; state at the church. Interment Iwill be in Mountain Re.4 Ceme tery. Furviving Mr. Henson are his .wife, Ml'S. Cleo F'ester Henson: I six daughters. Mrs. Billy Stogner I of Rockingham, Mrs. Jennings iFirickland of Sumter, S. C., Mrs Johnny Rogers of Sumter, S. C.. . Mrs. L. C. Hayes of Hamlet. Mrs. I Ralph Kiser of Kannapolis and Mrs. Charles Bryant of Fayette ville; one son. C. W. Henson, Jr. of Dallas; three sisters. 5Irs. Lot- lie Mason of Bessemer City, Mr.s. Lucy Phillips of Charlotte and Ml'S. Maybelle Hail of Illinois; three brothers, James Henson of Kings Mountain, AHxu't Henson of Rockingham and John C. Hen son of Gastonia. Also sui'vi\ ing are 11 grandchildren. DIRECTOR—William A. (Tony) Goins. Kings Mountain native, has been elected a director of the N. C. chapter. National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Slate Unit Elects Goins William A. (Tony) (Goins, of Statesville, Kings Mountain na tive and son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Goins of Kings Mountain, has been elected to the state board cf direators of the North Caro lina chapter: ’National Cystic Fi brosis I'oundation. i\Ir. Goins is assistant princi pal of Statesville's D. Matt Thompson Junior high i^chool. The election of Goins came during the fifth annual meeting of the chapter in Raleigh i-e- cently. The foundation was chartere<l nationally in 1955 to find a con trol and cure for those suffering with cystic fluosis. Since 1969, the foundation has expanded its I)rogr:i.m to include n‘search into all incuralle children’s lung diseases such as asthma, emphy sema and bi'onchitis. Bill Hobbs of Forest City was eleci^J stale campaign chairman for 1973-7-1 and Jame.s D. Little of W’ilson was re-elected presi dent of the state organization. Goins, a former fa^’ulty mem ber and coach at MitchcllI col- I'e.'jjdp; at 2555 East Broad St, Extension. He servcfl as co-chairman of, the cystic fibrosis campaign this nast year with Hilly Webb. He is a member of the Statesville Jaycees. .serving currently as club cliaplain and recently was named to the board of deacons at Fii>'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- p<jrt that the local srhcol system wa.s nut in c^^mpliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act was an er ror. “HEW (Department of Health, Education and Welfare) is negli gent in saying that we are not in compliance,” said Jonc.s. “They said today that we might have G-ne school that is not in 'c*ompli- mcc, and that school would pro bably be Bast, since it has the lowest percentage of blacks.” Jones and other s<.’ho.51 officials were “stuned" Friday when U. S, District Court Judge Jolin H. Pratt ordered the Nixon Adminis tration to beg’in dt:segregation enfcrc'ement wiithin 60 days a- gainst hundreds of sclrxjls and colleges in the S)uth and Kings Mountain wa.s one of those listed. Jones said the loc'^al sy.stem liad been told they were in c-om- plian^^e with desegrextatinn plans in 1968 and that Friday's news wa.s a “c*cmplote surprise.” “i don’t know v\^hy we wore on that list,” he said. “They could have used some old figures or didn’t have correct informa tion. But, after Wednesday's nt*ws, we don’t forsee us losing any o^f our federal funds.” Had Kings Mountain not bt'cn in <x:im'pliance with desegregation orders, the system c\)uld have lost as much a.s $506,000 in fed eral money. Jones s.>id 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.<pita]ization, workmen’s c'ontpensation, auto liability and general liability for all city em ployees at the regular Monday night meeting at 7:30 in City I Hall. j Also listed on the agenda as j of Wednesday; | I 1) award bid for a tractor ; mounted trencher. I I 2) receive bids lor tlic second' time on water and sower line ccmstruction. 3) rocHMve bids the soccTld time for repairs to reinforct'd con- ende pottable water tank; and 4) conduct a public hearing on request of Da\ id Jay for rezoning lot R-20 to G-B on Shelby road and conduct a public hearing on rt^quest of Charle.^ Wil.^wn to re- -/one from R-20 to NB lot on Slielby mud.

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