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PliiiW! *11 Landmark Razing Nearly Complete ■ /Razing of Ware & Sons roller | Oates Ware, and great grandson 1882 Landmark As Razing Began. imiH, one of the city’s oldest land marks at 91 years,, is about complete. The ipmporty h:is been acquired 'to the cvnetral bu.sine?« district rofloveloiimcMit project. A news aRxxnint on the history of the firm ap|HN\red in tiioOleve- Inind (’xMinty Centennial <>(iitic>n of the fehelby EXaily Star. It reads: “What was perhat>s the first grist and saw mill built in C leveland Oounty was that erect ed by Thonia.s Preston MKIill on P(i sinimjns Crock about six mt4es fn«n tlio pre.sent town of K'inigs Mountain. The mill was oi)erat(Hi by water txjfwer. In 1870, William Oates Ware, son of Alexander and 'Martiha of Captain John Ware (spelled Weer) of Revoilutioniary fame, I purchased the mill from Mr. Mr-1 Gill his father-'in-Iaw, and oper- j ated same until It was burned ' in 1880 by Calvin Neal, a war; veteran, who woirkcsl for Mr. 1 Ware. Aftor the fire Neal moved i U) Texas and on his dying bed confessed to Ted Allen, another. wurker of the Ware mill, that he fired the 'mill, and <m three at-; tempts prior to that had endeav- ortd to kill Mr. Ware, his em ploy eu*. "In 1882, the Waiix' family mov ed to Kings Mountain and estab lished the first industry in the community—a grist and saw mill Continmd On Pauv Eifjht 'tf* I r ■ ... .And lob Nearly Done Population Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits 8.465 Tho Grooter Kings Mountain figure is derived from the Speciot United Siotcs Bureau of the Census report of lanuary, 1966. and includcb the 14.990 popuiaiion of Number 4 Township, and the remaining b.l24 from Number S Township, in Cleveland County and Crowdors Mountain Township In Gaston County. ^ W \ Kings Mountain's Reliable Newsipaoer Today Plus One 8-Page Tabloid Supplement VOL 84 No. 14 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, April 5, 1973 Eighty-Fourth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Kiwanis Talent Event Thursday Students To Vie For Awards At 16th Show Forty-six Kings Mountain stu dents will compete for trophies in the Kings Mountain Kiwanis dlub's 16th innual School Talent Show Thursday (tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Central junior high school. ^ ^ The students will perform in Kve divisions. Tickets will ibe on sale at the door. Competing in Division I fop third and lourlh gradc'a v\i*i -e: Aaron lielt, ■uruiiis*; **ic‘- Kinney and Brent Bell,‘a duet, •U Would If I Could”; both Bates, a jazz dance to "Don t biop ; Bndgette iGlass and Tina Benion, duet to "One More Chance ’ and IiMie Schronce and-Kristal ilull- stetler, a song and lap dance. Junior High students who will perform in Division II will be 'ineron ieemsier who win play an original piano solo, “'Lean On iMe”; Robin Gordon whq^ will sing, “iNever Say Goodo>e'’ and Randy Carthen who will dance an original dance “Gimme That iBeat.” Karen Ledford will dance "The Charleston’’ Mark Cu niipe wi 11 sing ‘‘O, Whai A llappty Day, Angel Allen will dance to "Rum ba Klxylhm,” Pam Morrow, Caro line Harper and Tracy will sing and dance to "Three Little Kit tens” and Melissa Bowen will dance in Division ill for First and Second Grades. iPerforming in Division IV for Fifth and Sixth Grades will be •Ruth .Bapnett, Gail Jackson and .Marcella Smith dancing to "Scor pio”: William MeSwain will play a piano solo; Kim Gladden will I tap dance; Carol Bennett will ^present a reading; Pam Leach will tap danc'e and John W'offord, Vernon Bell and Darryl Friday will dance. In the High School Division the "Soul Occassiors” will pkiy ‘^Ain’t No Sunshine When He’s Gone” (featuring Louise Young as vocalist. Others in the band will Ibe Gary Strong, Fred Smith, Ker- vin Pace, Al-vin Rhodes, Calvin lEdwards, Mike Adams, Raymond Herndon and Freddie Wilson. David Lucas will sing "Love Story”: and a rock band com posed of Randy Floyd, Sam Brodnax, Steve Allen, Frank Humphries, Mark Withers, Je rome Cash, Dale YaP.ro and Diane Bolin will play "Then Changes.” Canvas Tonight For Oak Grove Fire Equipment The Oak Grove Volunteer Fire Department today will launch a cximmunitiy-wide project aimed at raising $15,000 for two pieces of fire - fighting equipment which will put them “over the hump” in equipment needs. Chiief Wayne Self said 100 vol unteers will ibegiin a 800 house-to- house soHcitatLon for funds to purchase a quick dump water truck and a brush fire trulck. The champaign will contiitue through the month of May. Letters have been mailed to all families in the community explaining the drive aixl funds needed. Self said. The letter fur- •ther states that the annual mem bership drive has ibeon postponed until October in order to concen trate on tJie immediate need for equipment. District directors for -the caht- paign are JohnO. Patterson, Gil bert Patterson, Kush White and Howard Hamrick. Building Bought For CBD Project " Redevelopment Group Bought Mauney Building PROMOTED — CoL Charles E. Painter, formerly of Kings Mountain, hos been promoted to the rank of Colonel. Col. Painter Wins Promotion WRIGHT - PATTpniSON AP'B, Ohio Lt. Col. Charles E. Paintt^r I a memfcKn’ of th<» D<*puty Joi* j Engineering, Engineering and , Support division, has been select- led for promotion to the rank of colonel. lie is currently co-Iocat- ! (Hi in tiie Deputy for F-15 as chief ! of the Engineering Division, ! Joint E n gine Project Office, ! Aeronautical System Division. 1 He ^rved a tour in Southeast i Asia as a navigator on a AC- 1113K aircraft prior to his as- jsignment to Wright-Patter.son. I Colonel Painter holds the Dis- I tinguishtHi Flying Cross, th ? Air j'Modal with six oak loaf clusters ! and the Air Force Commendalion me<lal with one oak leaf cluster, lie was commissioned through the Air Force aviation cadet pro gram in April 19.56. He attended Appalachian State in Boone, N. C., from 19.52 to 1951. In 1969 'he earnei a bache lor and mas'ter of science degree in Aerospace* Engineering from the Air Force Institute of To</h- nology School of Engineering at Wright-Patterson. His parents, Mr and Mrs. L. W. Painter, live at 107 Cleveland Ave., Kings Mountain. N. C His wife is the former Teresa G. Lorenzo of 407 E. Washington, Harlingen, Texas. Tlie Painters 'have two sons, Charles E. Ill, 16, and Rotx'rt L., 13 Olioy live at 31S1 Felton Drive, Dayton. POLICE AUXIUARY Kings .Mountain Police Auxil-. .iary will hold regular min-ting Monday night at 7 p.m. at the Community Center. Funeral Conducted Wednesday For Businessman Herd Herndon Funeral rites for Hord Hern don, 62, who died Sunday night of a heart attack, were conducted (Wednesday afternoon at 4 p. m. from Bethlehem Baptist church of which he was a member. Rev. Russell Fitts, assisted by R. .. u. . cFwiggs, officiated at r'te*?, and interment was 'n Cathlchem cemetery. 1 .Mr. Herndon owned an operat- I ed II('rndoii’s Tradiing Post and j Trailer Court on Margrac'o Road. I He was a native of Cleveland i<Hmnty, son of the late Mr. and ii.Mi's. Maxio Herndon. He was a veteran of World War 11. Suniving are hLs sister, Mrs. i Hunter W'ells of Kings Mountain; ' Coyitinucd On Puyv Eiyfit Chambers Shot In Leg Saturday Kings Mounitain police are search,w>g for clues into a Satur day sh(K)ting of a Route 4, Kangs Mountain m-an. Laiwrenice Chamibeps (reported to {wlice that he was walking south on Margrace Road about 4 p.m. when he was shot in the leg. Chambers told police that as he started to emss the highway a car api>roached and as It pass ed he heard a shot. He said he thought at first the car had back fired but then felt a sting and saw bkxxl running down his leg. Chambers went to a nearby grtx:ery store and was taken to Kings 'Mountaiiii Hospital for treatment. Police said Chambers roported that ho did not know what kind of car approached, but said it was a brown color. He (X)uld not iden-tify anyone in the ear. Police further noted that they believe Chambers was not shot by persons In the car but by so-mcone who might have lived close 'by and was possibly out in a (field shooting. Several other incidents kept police busy during the past w<H’*k. An employee of Adams and Drr Cab Co, reported Thursday that someone stole a .32 calibre pistol, valued at $40, out of a desk drawer as he was out of the C'ffice for a short time. He noted there were three people in the office when he left and -the same three were there when he re- tume<l. Dutch Bennett of 35 Dixie Trailer Park reported Friday ithat wjmeone stole six sets of uni forms ou-t (A a city garage truck sometime between the hours ol 4:30 p-m. and 7 a.m. The truck was loft parked inside the fence at the city garage. Value of the clclhes was $70. Bill Childers reported Saturday that someone stole his pickup truck, valued at $9(X), wihieh was park<'d in the parking lot of Chil ders Heating and R<x>fi.ng. The truck was -later found blocking the road on Barnette Drive. A guitar, amp and radio were reported stolen from the home of Mrs. Nick Hoyle at 2tM Cath erine Street Sunday. She (told pot] ice she 'left the (house at 2 p.-m. and when she returned at -1, the items were missing. Larceny of a watch was re ported by (Georgia Green of 802 Princeton Drive Monday at 12:30 p.m. The watch has since been Continued \On Page Eight WINS MASTER'S — Mrs. Peter Houser hos received her Mas ter's degree from North Caro lina Stote University at Ra- leiglu Master's Degree To Mrs. Hauser Mrs. Helen Goforth Hauser. Kings Mountain native and wife of IVter Hauser of Raleigh, has rc'coivcHl her Mastei’'s I>'gre(^ in vocational^ education from the Department of T(H.’hnical and Industrial Education at North Carolina Slate University. Sh<' leaclu's home economics at Sanderson high school in Ra leigh and is ctmtifUnl now to teach home economic's, intrexiuc- tion to Vocations and Industrial Cooperative Training. Mrs. Hauser is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Go forth of route 1. Hauser is the son of Mr. and Mrs. .lack Hauser of Kings Mountain, is working towaid a do.torat<? di'grec in chemistry at North Cawlina State University and they aix* ix’siding at 801 iChamberlain street in Raleigh. ! -Kings Mountain Redevelopment Commission has aoiuirrd from IaIis. Sarah II. Mauney the bund ling on West Mountain itre('l now .oc.'upitHl by Mattie and Carolyn’s I Snack Shop-. ■ Gene Wniite, director of the annmission, said purchase price « was .SJ0,(’>00 for th^^; 2796 square foot building. It is another of the properties schedukxl lor ra/ing in tbe rv^'n- tral business di.strid redev.dop- mimt j-roject, as an* the neigiibor- ing property owned by Mis. \V. C. Putnam and the Schulnian piDjx’rtv (Kvupicd by Dellinger's Jewel Shop. 'Phe Jew'cl Shop expects to i uild a building at the corner of W(\st Mountain and Cherokee stre(‘!i» f-n the jirosent parking lot Lewis Ikdllnger has purchas ed from Kings .Mountain savings & Loan association. '.Mr. White said the Snack Shop building won’t he razed until the other two projierties are ac<iuiir- ed. This property excepting a ten- vvalkw^iy will be offen'd for la'sale for commercial iXHlevelop- mejil. Library Week; Library Boasis 16,000 Books By MBS. MILTON FRYER Librarian Mauney Memorial Librory This is National Library Week- as you p('rha{)s have noticed cn the attractive downtown posters contributed by the King.s Moun tain High Sc1kk)1 Art Department under .Mr.-(. Su/anne WLse. Mauney Memorial Library, whose motto is "to bring I\H»ple and Boviks together’’, would like to wokome all King.s Mountain area citizens to wLsit their public library. 'I'he library would also like to give tli(*se citizens a res ume of Us s<*rvi('es and funda mental bu.siiu».ss oiK*ration. Services: 1. Talking Bo<»ks for the blind and phy.slcally handicapped j These book-records are sent to i^'dified i>ersons, together with ! record jdayer and catalog, on loan, free of charge from -the N. U. State Library in Raleigh. The bocks may be returiuHl also toe of (diarge to Raleigh. The titl(*s in the catalog icover a wide in terest range: travel, fictUKi, his tory, .sports, biography, religion, westerns and mysteries. If you know of sonii'one wiio could u.so this servile and derive ])leasurx? from it. come to the library and help them sign up for this im portant .step in their life. 2. Film strips for chulKlies, clubs etc. The library lias a catalog of film .strips on many subjects foi your use. Tin's!? must be ordered at lea.*?! tlm'o weeks in advanc'c of .schi'duled time, and there' i.- a lumrinal charge for the u.se oi Mie.'V 16 mm. films. (Continued On Page Eight) First Wesleyan Will Build Plar^ SPAGHETTI SUPPER The Dixon Prt'wbyterion Church choir will sixjnsor a spaghetti supix*r Salturday at 6 p.m. in the church feWowshlp hall. There will be no charge but donations wWl be aiccepted for the piano fund. Mrs. Plonk's Father Passes Funeral riU's for Gc'orge W. Huntley, 91, of Clearwater, p'la., father of Mrs. David Plonk (»f Kings Mountain, were condiKdcHl Su.l'ay a'ft('rnoon from I'irst Bap tist churib of Forc.^;! City. .Mr. Huntley, a ix*tir('d realtor, Friday m(»rnirig f(»llowiiig extend(Hl illness. He was a native (rf Forest City. The Rev. Minter officiated at the final rites and interment was in F(uvst City cemetery. I ‘R<'sides his daughter here, Mr. I Hunt ley is surviv<Hi by his wife; M>no son, Bob llunllely of Slone iMountain, Ga; one brother, Carl , Huntley of Forcset City; two sis ters, Mrs. EUie Moss and Mrs. Pate Smitih of Foiesi City; and * eight grandchildren. Mrs. Finger, Mrs. Baker Charter Members Oi Thursday Book Club Kings Mountain’s oldest x?lulb— the Thursday Afternoon iB(K>k club will soon mark its GOth biidiiday. Only two of the original 24 charti'T 'mem'b(?rs—Mrs. L. P, (Bak er, Sr. c'lind Mrs. Fred Finger—re main active today in the organi zation which numbers 20. Mrs. -Finger gave a hLstony of the club as the program for Thursday’s meeting at the home o-f Mrs. L. P. Baker, Sr. She remjlnls(’ed -about the I'ar- ly years of the club’s organiza tion when women wore hats and gkwes to regular tmeetiings and talked of her life -in Kings Moun tain as a bride. Mrs. Finger, the former Belle Miller, also remin isced of the stately Mountain Vi('w Hotel and its proprietresses, .sister.’ wlro w(*Te well known a- long the Southern Railway ‘line for the ck'lectahle food they serv ed at the city’s only lodging place for vLsitors. The Thursday Afternoon Book club was orgaTiiized by Mrs. D. C. Mauney and Mrs. Claude Rfiyne ■anKl selec4(?d memibers were in- vit('d -to meet wHth Mrs. Rhyne on .Septemitx'r 1913 to make plans. Ml'S. Finger ret'alls there were 22 ladies who could accept mem- b^^r.shiip at tliat time with two ladle's (omin-g into -tilie club at a later time and bringing the .membership to two dozen. (Continued On Page Eight) . Escapee Still Unapprehended Law enfoixvment officials (x>n- tinued to search Wediu*sday for 26-year-old Ronald E. Simer of Kings Mountain who cvscaiK’d from a N. C. Dc'partnu'nt of (>>r- iwtions work detail Tuesday af ternoon near Earl. Simer, who was .serving a sevc'n to 10 year sentence for breaking, eii'tc'ring and larceny, reportedly tlirc'W d(Avn his showl and ran into some wexxls near Earl a- round 3:30 p.m. The detail sui>ervi.sor reportedly fired four shots at the fk'eing Simer, according to Lt. Ronnie Whitakc'f. Cleveland County Sheriffs dep uties assisted Department of Cor rections personnel from Cleveland iVtcDowcll, Burke an'd Ruthertord counties in the search, which in cluded the use of a light plane. Dloodhoimds were brought in from the Morgauton pni.s<yn unit. Sfmer 'is di'seribed as a wlvite male, six feet two and 195 UKHwids. Ho has brown hair, ha zel eyes an<l a tattoo on bis left arm. Piano Pupils Win Top Ratings ThrcM? inano pupils of Mrs. .Martin Harmon won ratings of "excellent” and five others took "good” ra-tin-gs at the arrnua'l pi- a'!n> emtests spuisoied by North Carolina 'Music T(»acher’.s A.s.sio- c'iation .S*atur(lay at iMauney .Mu sic Building on the campus of Le noir Rhyne college at Hickory. Winrni ng ‘‘ex('el U>n t" ra I i ngs were Kemiy Mauney, Teresa Put nam .and Jane Camplx'll. Winning "gotvl” ratings were Cindy Bolin, Gina PaMer-on, An gela Clark, Angela ShuXord and Leanne DeVane. RITES HELD — Funeral rites lor Former District Court Judge oe Mull were conducted Mou- day. .,.41 iff Judge Joe Mull's Bites Conducted Funeral servtos for Joe Mull, 50, former District Court Judge in the 27th Judicial District, wvvv conductt*<l Monday at 2 p.m. at Webb Chapel of the First Far list Chur.h in .'-'helby. Burial was in Cleveland Memorial CVm<'ter.\. Mull died last .Saluixlay at his luniK* afier a nine-month illness. He had resiginnl as judge on Jan. 1, 1973 iHvause of his health. Judge Mull was ek'cted to the benali in Novi'min'r. 196S, for a four-year term and was ix't'lcx'lt'd last NovemFc'r. However, after undergoing surgery at Duke Hos pital in Durham last summer and -iK'ing under constant care (rf a physicii r, he resigned his post for h(*altli ivasoiis. Prior to his ('lection as a dis trict judge, Mull was judge i»f Cle^ eland Ouinty Rtvorlers I'ourl for se\eral >('ars. Prior to that, he was engaged in a law practio(' in Shelby. A graduate of Shelby High School, ho receivc'd his BS in ac counting at Bowling Gietni Hus- ini'ss College in Howling Gixvn, Ky., and his law degiee at W'ake Forest Ihiivc'rsity. All district courts in the 27th Jiilicial District wc'ie clost'd Mon day in nieinon' of Mull. Sur\ Ivors iiK*Ui<ie his widow. iMrs. GeiK'va S<*arcy Mull of the lunne; one daughl<*r, Mr.s. Phil Van I^yke of Iraklion. C'lx'te, G!X'(*ce; his mothc'r, Mrs. c'arr 'Mull of Shelby; two sisters, .Mrs. R. Griffin and Mrs. liay AU'xaii- der, lx)tli of Shelby, and one gra ?i-i’ ’hild. Chuich To Face North Piedmont Bazing Begins First Wesleyan .M:'rhcdist Churcli will begin con'^tiU-ci. ii of a tx>nii)lrte new (diurch plant in lh<* iK'ar futuK*, I.lo>d E. Davis, a mem'oer ol the ^.•ilUi’cil, .^ald ihis wc(‘k. I d'lK' church expects to >uild a ! cx)inplet»* plant, inciu bn.*; iian;i- ' u:iry, eviucatienal bu-idiiri a"d i IX'. reaticnal (pv-rters, Mr. Da-'is isaul, on tiie j vo; erl\ pur. ii.asc I ..several \cais a../> fi ‘in J-Fngs M-'Uiitain Manii: ;(iLiririg .("om- , pails. Th'* iri t i" baindel l,y .North Picdnruit av(*mio, Wa^'O , roa.t and \wUK( r sn- 't. ; Mr. Da\ is .'^aid pl.c'.s n' e to I build the m w j>!ani ( ailcr ou the tract facing Pi(*dini>ni .iiid to ix* (OSS the sanctuary li'-iti 190 to 1.50 f(H'l. ’Itio pix'sent cliunh plant rn the south side of Waco road was buili in P>23 and ix'aKii'cd a frame building on North C«JSton stix'ot. Mr. Davis s.aid lh(* church will offer the pix'ia'nl p!:uit lor sale when Uic new (luarb'rs arc occu- piivl. The clnin h Tuesday bou;:! t pennits to raz(' five dwe’h'vrr 'u the pr(>;erty, wliivli is also occu- pi(Ml by Varbra Gn^JX'ry and the j former Kings Moiuilaiii ?,Ianu- ! factiii ing Company oUi o. now i y Pusinicnt, Lunch, at the cor- n<'r of Piixlmont avenue and Wa co road. Uc'v. Boyd Kdsler is pastor of Ihe ('h ir.'h. Dick McGinnis Is Improving Richard (Dicki MvGinni.s. 4.5, par1tu>r in McKlinnl.s Furniture, irnnrovin.T m Kings .Mountain hospital where he was adiniltel March 26th after suffering a j heart atta('k. , Mr. MkGinnis was mmx'd tom IIk' Inlen.sive Cnrc' Unit this wc'c'k into a privaito nx^m. He is not yet allowed visitors. Cemetery Clean-Up Is Now UndeTway Mountain Ri'st cemetery’ is be ing n'.'idied for -the Easter st'ason and Sunrise .service.s and Su{>t. Ken J('nklns is inviting citizens to remove Christmas flowers from grave's. Mr. Jenkins said that a numbc'r of Oliristmas floral pl(»ces aire on 'the ■gra\x*s and .should be remov’ed as .soon as possible. Little Theatre Thriller To Open Apnl 13; It's "Dial M for Murder" Thf' Litle Theatre lias iM*si; r)n j ed this weekenid’s ojK'ninj: of ‘Di'il M foi* .Murder" and re- sch<*dijie 1 iM'rhtrmamx's for Fri day. April 131h: Saturday, April lllh; and Sunday. A:rii 15t'h. Shows will ahso 1h' pre.s('nl('d on Thumlay, Friday and .Satur day, April 19. 20 and 21. There will be no Sunday matinee on Easter Sunday. Mike Muscat 'is diroe’ting a fonrmentber <^ast In tlie rnur\i,*r mystery. Tickets will be on sale at the diK^r for .$1.2.5 for adults and $i for (diihton under 12. *T)iaI M to Murder” will bn the final pnoduvtion bv the the atTicai group for the 1972-73 sea soil!