o ^ Population Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits 8.465 m* Greatar Kings Mountain Ugufe Is derived Irom the Special United States Bureau ol the Census report of lonuary. 1966, and Includes the 14,990 population of Number 4 Township, and the remolnlng 6,124 from Number 5 Township, In Cleveland County and Crowders Mountain Township In Gaston County. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL 84 No. 12 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 22, 1973 Eighty-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Ambrose Cline Drops Appeal In Buffalo Litigation Chamber Elected Shaney President Shah's Grandson Annual Meeting C ol C Speaker Youth Charged In Tuesday Fire At North School II < I EVANGELIST — Dr. Ben F. Or mond will lead evangelistic services beginning April 1 at Bessemer City's First Presby- terion church. Di. OiRiand Revival Speaker Dr. Ben F. Ormand, executive secretary of the Pee Dee Presby tery of the Synod of South Caro lina with offices in Florence, South Carolina, will conduct a st»ries of evangelistic services at •First Presbyterian church in iBessemor City April 1-3 begin ning at 7:30 p. m. Dr. Ormand is a Iranian Army and retired assis- Gastonia, nho son of the lalej Naisar jehanbani, native of ; Iran and grandson of a former Shah ovcrlhnwn from power in i l'J22, says he is an "American! i: y choice.” j Thc Gaston college ecology i ‘ professor, a citizen of this coun- ‘ try for 15 years, was Ihe keynote i speaker at the annual dinner ^ meeting Monday night of the i Chamber of Commerce at the Country club. He delighted his audience with his humorus account of his ar rival in America in 1916, detail ing various difficulties with the English language (he speaks siX) noting that every foreigner who comes to America is a "Christo pher Columbus.” Jehanbani said he give his on ly child a dhoice of nationality. "He hiis your citizenship^', he de clared. A foimer major general in the Benjamin Franklin (Burke Ormand. and Carrie; tant chairman of the board o'f the Iranian Oil Company, a $20 mil- I lion per day operation employ- He was graduated from Ihe!ing 100.000 persons all over the Kings Mountain high school, i world, he attempted to put his Davidson college, and Union i native country, formerly called Theological seminary. The Rev. Allen E. Morrison is pastor of the church. lountry Club Taps McGinnis Don McGinnis has been elected president of Kings Mountain Country clmb for the com'inig year. (Mr. McGinnis was elected by the board of directors following a i stockholder’s meeting last Tues day. H. D. (Snooks) McDaniel was n aimed vice president, Carl De- Vane was elected secretary and Thomas Tate will serve a^ treas urer. New members of the board of directors are Will Herndon and S. R. Suber, Jr. Show To Benefit Rescue Squad ■ Tickets ate availai le from amv memlier of the Kings Mcmntain Rescue Squad for a big country music show benefit to be held April 7th at 7 p. m. and 9:30 p. m. at Crossroads Music Park in the O^ik Grove community. , All proceeds from the two shows will benefit the rescue sijuad. Tickets may also ‘be purchased at the music park. Persia, into perspective in the Middle East and to dispel the "■KXxn knights” image western ers had of the area. On the Suez Canal: The Suez Canal has outlined its usefulness and will never be reopened and the price of oil will not be affected should it ever reopen. He said the canal can’t handle super oil tankers CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Montgomery’s Rites Thursday PRESIDENT — Richard (Dick) Shaney has been installed as the new president ol the Kings Mountain Chamber of Com merce. He succeeds J. C, Bridg es. C of C Godls Are Outlined Richard (Dick) Shaney, Caro lina Throwing Company execu tive and newly-elected ipresident of the Kings Mountain Chiamber of Commerce, said he would rec ommend in 1973 that -the C of C and local industry "get in behind a day care center project to take care of the needs of industry.” Mr. Shaney said a day care center would help provide much- needed additional personnel for area industry. He said the project has not had (Continued On Page Six) Mrs. Shufoid's Rites Conducted 1 A Kings Mountain youth has been charged in a juvrnale | tion with setMng tire to North! Elementary Scliool Tuesday att- ! ornoon. \ Kings Mountain police reported that the youngster broke a glas.s j and entered a cla.-snic-m ar mnd ; 3:34 p.m. and used a hand torch to set fire to a pile o-i papers. Damage was estimated at SoDO by Schools Supt. Don Jonc.s. i Tlireo persons gav'o police a ! description of the boy and latei 1 identiTed him after liK'-king at \ seven pictures. The boy reported* | ly later admitted breaking the glass and setting the fire. According to police reports, the bey told the three others vho identified him that if they tame close to him, he would burn them with the torch Police rcoorted the youngster then ran and drop ped the torch as he fled. No (Other cases of vandalisim was reported by police but offic ers did investigate two minor traffic accidents during the week. On Wednesday at 10:50 p.m., Ptl. L. D. Beattie charged JacK Andrew Price of Shelby with fail ure to yield right of way follow ing a two-car mishap on King Street. According to Beattie, Price’s 1965 Chevrolet struck a 1963 Pontiac driven by John Ross Martin of 18 Bennett Drive. Dam age to Price’s car was listed at $25 and damage to Martin’s car was set at $350. A 12:(K p.m. accident Saturday on King Street resulted in a traf fic violation charge against Wel don Morris of 1004 Second Street, Ptl. Richard Reynolds reported that a 1968 Ford, driven by Mor ris, struck a 1965 Chevrolet driv en by Helen Odell Smith of 1019 Brookwood Drive. Damage to the Smith car was $400 and damage to the Morris car was listed at $100. 1 Ij I RECEIVES AWARD — Mrs. Fate Arrowood, right, receives a 15 year service pin from P. H. Wilson, manager of Rose's Stores, Inc., of Kings Mountain, It's the fourth service pin Mrs. Arrowood has rece.'ved since joining the local firm. (Photo by Gary Setwart). Funeral rites for Mrs. Bertha Love Austell Shuford, 88, of route 1, Gix)ver, were conducted Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. irom New Hope Baptist church Bones McKinney Banquet Speaker 'Memorial hospital after several months iilnoss. Funeral rites will be conducted Thursday (today) at 3 p.m. from First Baptist church of Cirover of which he was a member. Rev. Paul Millwood will officiate at the rites and inrterment will be in the Grover cemetery. The body will remain at Harris Funeral Home until 30 minutes before the rites wihen it will lie in s-tate at the church. Mr. Mo4itgomeiry was a native of Cleveland County, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Thom as Montgomery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Janie Norman Montgomery; two sons, J. B. Montgomery of Grover and Billy Montgomery of St. Pet ersburg, Fla.; TWO daughters, Mrs. Clyde Rhea of Grover and Mrs. Winfred Moss of Blacksburg, S. C.; two brothers, R. C. (Montgom ery of Decatur, Ga. and Rev. Per ry Montgomery of C>>lumbia, S. C.; two sisters, Mrs. Seth Putnam of Stori'hi’s Kings iMountainj and Mrs. Lillie Sheppard, both of store and Shelby manager since I Grover; 12 grandbhildren and 19.3/1. has retired after 38 years j four great-grandchildren, service with the company. . | Active pallibeare^rs will bt* Paul Mr. Blanton was succeeded at; Allen, Bob Hambright, Bill Camp, the Shetby store by Jim Craw-| James Byers, Jesse Welch and ford of Belmont. Glenn Rountree. 'Dewey John Montgomery, 72, retired carpenter of Grover, died I T^hncnn Tuesday afternoon in Cleveland '''"j'I'l® Jlanton Retires 'romSlerchi's Ken Blanton former manager and the Rev. Donald Farrow of ficiating. Interment was in the church cemetery, (Mrs. Shuford, wife of William Shuford, died at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Brookview Nursing Home in Gaffney, S. C. after illness of several years. She was a native of Cleveland County, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Quitman Austell. She was a member of Antioch Bap tist church of Grover. 'Besides her husband, she is survived by one son. Tolly M. Shuford of Kings Mountain: three daughters, Mrs. Bertie Lee Wood of Sanford, Fla., Mrs. C. E. Watts of Marietta, Ga., and Roy Haynes' Rites Conducted Funeral services tor Roy A. Haynes, 53, of Atlanta, Ga., for merly of Kings Mountain, were coniducled Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. from Harris Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Glenn Boland officiating. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery I TOP SPELLER^Lu Anne Riggs, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Paul Riggs, is West Elementary school's spelling champion. She is a sixth grade student of Mrs. Marriott Phifer. She won the recent West school spelling bee. Permits To Raze Number Seven Demolition ix'rmits outnum’ror- Oil those for new c'onstruction is sued recently by W. W. Laugh ter, city building inspector. Five were purchased by Kings .Mountain Redevelopment Com mission for demolitions in the Mr. Haynes died Satuixlay: central 'easiness district redeve- morning in Atlanta of a heart ’ lopment project — the former attack. ^ I McGinnis Department Store An ile was a Lincoln county na- nox, Grayson Jewelry, Gulf Ser- and vice Station and Roller Mill buildings -- and two others, to tive, son of the late Mr Mrs. William C. Haynes. Surviving ate one son. Randall' Paul Falls to raze a building at Haynes of Bellevue, Neb.; one S03 Cleveland Avenue and St. daughter, Mrs. Linda Hamm of; Matthew’s Lutheran Church to Kings Mountain; two brothers, raze a building at IDS West Ridge How^ard Haynes of Darlington, street. Mrs. J. S. Wilhelm oJ North Au-iS. C.. and Ernest Haynes of, New construction permits in- gusta S. C.- seven grandchildren j Landis; and four sisters, Mrs. W. elude: and four gr^at-grandchildren. i D. Whitesides of Kings Moun-: .Mrekoy Powers, six-room dwel- Active pallbearers wore Max'tain, Mrs. Clyde Deal of iGas- ling Downing Drive, estimated Graham, Austelle Graham. Reid hmia, Mrs. Mazelle Jenkins of cost S39,47S. Marion Dixon Con- CraWfoi'd, John A. Crowder and, Clierryville and Mrs. Hazel Ply- tractor. C. Q. Lavender. ' ler of Pineville. I 'Contiunrd On Page Six) Kiwanis Club Will Honor KMHS Cagers The annual Kiwanis Club bas ketball and wrestling banquet, honoring mcmbc^rs of the Kings Mountain High School teams, will be rold tonight at 7 p.m. at the Woman’s Club. Horace (Bones) McKinney, for mer coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and tlie Carolina Cougars, will be guest speaker for the event. Highlighting the banquet will be pre.^mtation of trophies l-a outstanding basketball players and wrestlers. In basketball, most valuable player and best free throw shoot er awards will be prt'sented to both boys and girls and a most valuable wrestler tropliy will also tK* awarded. Phujues will al so be presented to all seniors on the teams. RITES HELD — Funeral rites for A1 Maine, former general manager of Mossachusetts Mo hair Plush Company's Neisler Division, were held Tuesday. AI Maine, 62, Dies In Wreck Court Hearing lohn D. Cline Appeal Action By MARTIN HARMON Respon lent.s in City of Kings .Mouniain \s. J. ’:n D. Clino Buf falo Lake C'n:!err:n.'H''in action completed ny Wednesday. The ci'.' . will present testimony 'Ph.rr:' lay in Ciet/eland Superior Court, Ju.’gc W. G. Mc Lean presiding. It is the last remadrn-' •ro'>er* ty to wiiich the city cceLs title for th<‘ Buffalo C'lvek Lake wa ter rosevoir, Ambrose Cdne hav ing withlie w the widou' of Charles M,.rkham, former executive of Duke Univer.^ity. and daug'hter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Hackney. In addition to her daughter and son-in-law here, Mrs. Mark ham is siu'\ivcd by one son, Charles Markham of Durham; and two daughters. Miss Elea nor Markham of Charlotte and Miss Sarah Markham of New While in Kings Mountain the; York City; one sister, Mrs. L. M. familv o;‘eupiti 2) Safer and improved streets; formerly owned and oecupied by | 31 Larger and better designcnl j Parents who have cliil Land us<’s appropriate to a walx^ Grover. East, N'oth or program. ; lesidential environment; West sehotds in Older to complete "This neighborhood will be one| 6» Additional standard hous- their shot records before school of rhe finest of its type in the'ing. opens. Piedmont Camlinas.” noted Ma- "The 110 acre area is the see- Howaid Bryant, school offi- yor Moss as he watched workmen ond urban ix'mwal project to en- cial. said immunization should demolish the structure despite a tor the execution stage and begin immediately so the children hivivy downpour of rain. .should raise the quality of living, will have all of their shots before Moss pointed out that the fed- for all residents oi Kings Moun- the opening of school. cial government has allocated tain,” Moss said.