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Population
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Greater Kings Mountain
City Limits
21.914
8.465
Th* Greater King* Mountain ilgure i» derived Irom the
Special United States Bureau ol the Census report of
fonuary, 1966, and Includes the 14,990 population of
frumber 4 Township, and the remaining 6,124 irom
Number 6 Township, in Cleveland County end Crowders
Mountain Township In Gaston County*
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL 84 No. 28
Established 1889
Kinqs Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 12, 1973
PRICE TEN CENTS
EigMy-Fourth Year
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^City Elections Board 1$ Appointed
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receives first aid — Dale Hartsoe. lying down, receives first aid treatment from Donald Mar-
tain of the Grover Rescue Squad following a Tuesday wreck in front of Bethlehem Volunteer Fire
Dept. Looking on are investigating highway patrolmen. Hartsoe was charged with failure to
yield right of way after he reportedly pulled his Volkswagen into the path of a tractor trailer
truck driven by Howard Moore of Route 1. Guys. Tenn. Hartsoe was transported to Kings Moun
tain Hospital where he was treated and released. Damage to Hartsoe's car was $800 and damage
to the truck was $200. (Photo by Gary Stewart).
August Bid Date
On Sewage System
Improvements
Rights-of-Way
Being Acquired
Metal Building ’
Will House
Fabrics Plant
Riddle Eabrici, Inc., has ])ur-
:.ha.sed a jjeriineler zoning i>or-
mil for construction cl a metal
mdustrial building on Second
street extension.
The building will be 100 x 120
square feet.
Carolina Metal Buildings, Char
lotte, is contractor.
Another permit issued was to
Frances McOaniel for building oi
a six-room residence at 802 Hill
side drive. The estimated cost is
$25,000 and DDF Construction
Company is contractor.
Other permits issued include:
To Tommy P. and Ada W.
Bridges, to build a $725 utility
building at 804 Rhodes avenue.
To Ray W. Cline to construct a
$1500 driveway at 106 F'alis
street,
lo Charles A. Neisler to build
a $1500 lence at 700 Lee street,
Max Putnam, cx>ntractor.
AUTHOR — Eobby Early of
Kings Mountain has written
'*Th2 Jealous Ear", being pub-
p-x'August 2 by Houghton
Mifflin Co.
1 fidy Book
T c Be Published
•rhe Jealf us F^ar", by RobiM’t
{" jy) J'Jarly ot Kings Moun-
t : .1, vvil! be published by Hough-
1 1 .Mi ‘‘I’l Company, 2 Park St.,
r i on, ^Ma.ss., Augu.st 2nd.
■M.. Karly, 33, who grew up in
I n:; Mountain and was a re-
p ter fer The Kings Mountain
iu'.ald wliile atUmding Kings
2, i gain liigli sciniol was a
I •-t jne monk at Belmont
;i :ey 'in iTlm‘ot for 10 years,
1.- n 1962 to 1972.
jlto earned Ills A. B. from Bed-
rt' ‘ /? )(> college and taught
in i<* '!-;ig!ish and masic do-
* 'n lU. In 1970 he received a
IS'a *or.s of F'ine Arts in writing
f n IVvling Green State Uni-
vo .sily in Ohio and taught writ
ing there f».*r two years.
L Mr. Early now lives in Char-
little.
r .1 in Lin.’olnlon, N. C,, he
• ... T V .yji-, and Mr.s. Jake
WVard Early, of Kings Moun-
ti* •*, n w ci‘ Melbourne, F'la.
bonk will sell for $5.95 per
Ktpy.
The city expects to advertise |
for bids on sewage system im- |
iwovtmenls about August 13th,
Mayor John Moss told the city
board of commissioners Monday
night,
Tlie mayor said plans are vir
tually complete and principal,
work remaining before bids for :
the project can be invited is oo-1
taining of c'crtain rights-of-way
for wiiicli City Attorney Jack
VVliite is working to acquire ease-
mtiits,
Major elements of the mum-
mutli project are:
1) doubling to four million gal
lons daily capacity of the Potts
(.reek treatment plant
2) installation of a half-mil
lion gallon pump station to di
vert tlie affluent of Craftspun
Yarns from the McGill Creek
treatment plant to the Potts
Creek plant
3) bovvage pipe installation in
cluding 3900 feet of 30 inch pipe.
5400 15-inch, 2600 12-inlch, 500
10-inch, and 2600 feet of 8 and 6
inch.
Purposeof the project is to al
leviate the overflow into the
McGill plant, which Col._ W .K.
Dickson, tlie city engineer, de
clared many months ago, at its
limit of a million gallons capa
city and expandable. The Envi-
rcnmental Proteiction Agency
federal grant of $477,500 approv
ed Decomber 29, 1972 for tlie pro
ject is 75 percent of estimated
cost, for which state grant lias
been received. The city is sup
plying an eighth of the lost and
tlie city an eighth ofthe cost.
ALLOWED VISITORS
Robont Ruff, Iiasjyitaiized for
a lung ailment at Kings'Moun
tain hospital, is now allowed
visitors, liis wife rcixirted this
week.
REALTOR — Charles T. Car
penter, Jr* oi Kings Mountain
has Joined the realty firm of
Peeler Insurance & Realty of
Shelby and hosjopened offices
here in his home. For 17 years
Mr. Carpenter was H53 repre-
sentotive in this area and pri
or to that time he was sports
editor and circulation manager
of the Kings Mountoin Herald.
Ex-Policeman
Sues McDevitt
A former Kings Moui\tain po
liceman — Roland R. Meadows,
of Bi'ssemer City — has filed suit
against Cliief of Police Tom Mc-
Deviitt charging the chief with
malicious pnjsecution.
The suit was filed June 22 in
Gaston SuiX>rior Court by Mea
dows' attorney Wade Mitchom.
iMcDevitt has been served the
summons and has 30 days in
which to reply.
Meadows, in the action — Doc
ket No. 73 CYS ^-126, seeks
$100,000 in actual damages and
$50,00t) in punitive damages.
He alleges that on or abiiut the
Coniinmd On Finjc Ei(fht
Funeral Conducted On Tuesday
For Mrs. Fred I. Wright. Sr.
k-
r -ULE:rED — Carl F. Mau-
r ' *vo, har been re-elected
r’n n cf the K’ngs Moun-
t' -.1 . -development Commis-
t'Nc b' ard, at Tuesday's
ris ing, al.?o re-elected John
as vice-chairman.
Funeral rites for Mrs. Jennie
Blalo<*k Wright, 74, widow of
Fred J. Wright, Sr., were t‘on<luct-
ed Tuesday afterinxm from Cen
tral United .Meth<xii.st chunch of
which she was a member.
Her pastor. Rev. Pas<*hal Waugh,
officiated at the final rites, and
interment was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Larry
Hamrick, J. O. Plonk, John Dill-
ing, James Dickey, Donald Par
ker and Jake Dixon.
The family has designated
memorials, in lieu of flowers, to
the Central Methodist church.
Mrs. Wright, in ill health for
several months, died Sunday
night at 9:20 in Beam’s Nursing
Home in Cherryvilie. Her hus
band, who fiiod DeJJomber 7, t9(>0,
was president of F'rcd J. Wriglit
& Son, concrete block manufac
turer.
She was daughter of the late
Lawson G. and F'airy Whisnant
Blalock of Cleveland County.
Sur\'iving arc her son, Fred J.
Wright, Jr. of Kings Mountain:
one daughter, Mrs. J. E. Rhea of
Kings Miuntain; five brothcr.s,
Charles Blalock, George Blalock,
Herman BlaUx'k, Frank Blalock,
all of Kings Mountain, and James
Blalock of Gastonia: three sis
ters, Mrs. R. E. Kale of Kings
Mountain, Mrs. Jesse MoUon of
Fort Worth, Texas, and Mrs. Guy
Marshall of Bessemer City. Three
grandt'hildron and six groat-
grandohildieii also survive.
Man s Body
Is Identiii^
The body of a partially decom
posed Negro man found last
luesday aftornoon in the viciuity
of the old city dump off Y'ork
road has oecn identified as Leroy
Gordon, 50, of Kings Mountain.
F’uneral arrangements, which
are incomplete, will be announc
ed by J. W. Gill & Son Funeral
Home.
The body was discovered by
George Ruff and bis young son
who were picking blackbeirios in
the area.
Gordon has been missing from
his home since the day before
Mother's Day, law enforcement
offi'cers say. No foul play was
involved, the state medical ex
aminer’s office reported last
week.
Sissy Smith
Best Gill Campei
Sissy Smith, 16-year-oid daugh
ter of .Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R.
Smith of Kings Mountain, was
taii^ixjd "Best Girl Camper” at
Pfeiffer Music Camp during the
four wc»eks music camp just
ended.
Miss Smith will receive a half-
scholarship to music camp next
year as the result of being tap
ped ‘Best Camper.”
She is a junior student at
Kings -Mountain high school.
More than 100 student musi
cians attended the camp pro
gram. Donald Deal, high sc-hool
band director, was among in
structors for the four weeks pro
gram on the campus of Pfeiffer
college at Misenheimer.
APPOINTED — Steve Summitt
has won oppointment to the
USAF Academy in Colorado.
Steve Summitt
Is Appointed
Steve Summit^, son of Msgt.
and Mrs. Andrcll B. Summitt Jr.
of Washington, D. C. and grand
son of Andrei B. Summitt Sr. of
Kings Mountain, has accept<xl the
appointment of Rep. William
coimcr to the Uniloa Stales Air
.Force Academy at Colorado
Springs, Colorado. Summitt’s ap-
Iiointment by Cohner did not
iliind alone, however, as he was
appointe<I to West Point by Iho
president and to the Naval Aca
demy by Representative Trent
Lult.
Summitt graduated from St.
Martin high school in 1973 as a
member of the oletc St. Martin
iHall of F'ame for his accomplish-
monls in St. Martin sports.
Among his other scholastic
achievements ho received the
high school award for exceli-
eiue, w'as a mem'tK'r of the Beta
club, Science, club, and Malli
club rec'eiving a special math
award.
Summitt w'as the vice president
of the St. Marlin student council
and is listed in the Outstanding
Teenagers of America and in
\Vho’.s Who of Outstanding Teen
agers of America.
Summitt was born in Bowie,
Texas, Novem'lx'r 5, 1951. He has
liv<Ht and attended schools in
Waco, Texas, Springfield, Mass.,
Washington, D. C., Anchorage,
Alaska, Ankara, Turkey and
North Biloxi, Miss.
Tate, Campbell,
Mis. Meidei
Named To Boaid
1
iBro:tk.^ R. Tate, Rev. M. L.
.^ampbell and .Mrs. Betty Mor-
ier have been named to the
ity elections board.
The new board, created under
a 1971 General As.scmblv act,
' will as.'^ume management of city
Tect.on.", a iuncMcn the city
I commission formerly performed
! itsoi:.
1 Mr late, a retired textile over-
I secj, is a veteran rii> election
I official in Ward IV. .Mr. t'ainp-
I bell lives ‘in Ward V, is a min
ister and tjhrxd teacher. Mrs.
‘ Merc.ei is a Ward II hau.scwife.
! The initial voting will be con-
dmted on October 9 and a run-
I off, if necessary, will be conduct-
I ed November 6.
II In announcing the api-K>int-
ment.s, .Mayor John Henry Moss
commented, "I am very pleased
at Che 'make-up of the newly
created city elections board. 1
am sure its work will be consci
entious and efficient.”
It will be the duty of the boatd
to appoint election officials for
the six city ward.s and to super-
■intond other details in the muni
cipal voting.
Voters will elect a mayor and
six ward cemmissioners for two-
year terms. i .'a
Mis. Loweiy
Is Honored
Radio personality, Tillie Low-'
rey, of Kings Mountain, heard n;
WLTC in Gaston a. has b<*en se-
kcled to membership in Opry-;
land’s “.Mr. DJ U. S. A.55 Hall ofj
Fame in Nashville, Tenn. ^ j
'I’he honor places ’Miss Til
lie" in a small circle of American
hroadcasiors whoso names and:
the call letters of their stations
hang in the Hall of F’ame locat
ed in the i)ermanent, broadc.tsit-
ing facility in tliefamily enter- !
tainment park.
“Opryland U. S. A. is ‘The
Home of American .Music’ and. "
sa.\s General Manager, .Mike
Downs “it’s unthinkable to hon-,
or American music without also
honoring-the men and women
who play music for America. The
country’s DJs five us the g;ft of
music 21 hours a day and wc felt
that the cost among them like
".Miss Tillie" should be singled
out for siH'cial honor.”
“Miss Tillie” came to Nashville
to accept lh<‘ honor and while
here originated a show from
Opryland radio facility which
was broadcast over WLTC from
3 p. m. to 8 p. m. on ‘I’liursday,
July5.
Ojirylan 1 V. .S. A. is a develop
ment of the National Life and
A«r;denl Insurance' company, an
affiliate of NLT corporation
NY5E and -MSF:).
Jones
PROMOTED — Boyce H. Gault,
Jr. has been promoted to vice
president of North Carolina Na
tional Bank of Charlotte.
Boyce Gault, Ii.
Wins Promotion
Boyce H. Gault Jr., formerly
of Kings Mountain, has teen
promoted to vice president( of
North Carolina National Bank,
Charlotte.
Gault, who s an automated
services officer, joined the bank
in l.i^>9. He previously was as
sociated with the Pir.M National
Hank of Kings Mountain.
A graduate 'f Kings Mountain
high scho*)!, Gault studiel at
King’s Business College, CJiar-
lotte.
Re - zoning
41 > D nied
E£ Petitioned
Agalnsi Bid
For Men's Store
The city c-.mmlri »n .Monday
night denied requi 1 Ur.
Craig Jone.s cf Shelby f r rezen-
ing pnptHy n«*ar the Kings
.M untain Iv .sphal to be used for
a liaberda.-hery, shoe and meii'.s
clothing store. *
A half-dozen re.sidents of the
area apjx'ared at the public hear
ing at City Hall and expre^\sed
C'ppo.sition, .saying they loared
rezoning to neighhorhoed busi-
ne.-is wtruld open up tJieir neigh-
b<;rh(X)d on W(\>t King street for
a wide variety of other busL
nesses, , ^ .i
His parents live at 112 .North
Deal street in Kings Mountain.
He is married to the former sent.
■Phylli.s Wol'cU, daughter of Mrs.
Clyde Welch of Kings Moun
tain.
Dr. Jone.s at the opening of the
hearing, asked that the matter
be “tanled until 1 can ootain
more information fn-im the ix*o-
i)le I ve been dealing w’ii’h.” He
told the wmmission there had
been a good deal of misunder-
.standing concerning the proi»sed
rrzoning and that if the resi
dents had .some .specific business
: they didn’t want in the area he
would iK? willing to have i1 omit
ted from the arrangements.”
I Comm. Ray Cline made motim
to continue the public hearing
until July 30 but withdrew his
motion after more discitssioii
and motion by Comm. Jim Dick
ey that the cemmissioners follow
' the z».>ning board’s rexxommenda-
tion and deny the request at
this lime. Comm. Dickey’s mo
tion wa.s soionded by ConTm.
Norman King and Comm. Cline
al.s^) cast a “yes" vote. Commis-
.'siciuis 1. J. Fhli.-son. W. S. Bid-
dix and Jones Bridges were ab-
The €»ducati()n ho will retx'ivc
at the Air FMrce Academy is es
timated hy Col. FTank Howard,
[Mississippi Liaison officer, to be
w'orth $70.tK)0. If Summiltt is ac
cepted into pilot training, and
additional $100,000 will lie consid
ered the wxirth of this training.,
Summitt left June 30 from Gulf
port airport en route to Colora
do Springs to bo sworn in as a
USAF" cadet on July 2.
FIRST AID COURSE
On Monday night, July 16,
Cleveland Tech is offering
hour First Aid xx>urso to bo
taught by Ralph Mitiehem.
Classes for the course will meet
in the Cleveland County Office
Building auditorium from 7 to
10 p.m. on .Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday
ngihts. F’ee for the course is
$2.00. Minimum age for enroll
ment is 18.
wmmm
M e
The Gaults have tvvo children.
Boyce III, 11. and Gina, 8.
Philpot Crusade
Plans Shaping
Plans for the Kings Mountain
F\>rd Philpal religiou.s crusade
are shaping, say sixikesmen for
the Greater Kings Mountain
Ministerial Association.
The well-known evangelist. Dr.
Ford Philjxit, and his team will
come to Kings .Mountain July 22-
29 for a Crusade at Uhe Commun
ity Center.
C'hoirs of the area are already
•practicing special music for the
nightly services and last-miinuie
preparations in the form of ral
lies are being held in the area
churches.
Winston Pike, a regular on Dr.
Philpol’s television series, “The
Story”, 'Will serve as director of
music and Dan Belzer, wlio be
gan singing at the age of five,
will be a.ssoviatc evangelist f-or
the scr\ue. Ruh lie and Pike
arc members of “The F'isher-
men’’ mu.sical tiam which pre
sents special music.
Mayor John .M.jss read the
minutes of the zoning board’s
June 2Sth meeting at which pe
titions bearing signatures of 26
( names had been pres(*nted stat
ing op'i>v.-'ition to the rezoning
reiiuest. The zoning board rec-
emmendod the projx-rty not b<?
rezoned since Dr. Jone.s was not
di'finAe or specific in regard to
use and because of the opposi
tion.”
Chuck Moore. 5
Drowns July 1
<'huck Anthony .M'Xire, 5, of
Patter.'ion, New Jersey, drowned
Sunday, July 1st, w’hile his fam-
ilv were vacationing in Mary
land.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack B. Moore, two sis
ters, Venus .M.wre of the home,
and Pamela M*>ore of Ellen'boro,
N. C., tvvo brothers, Edward
iM<x>re cf the home and Bru'e
Moore of Flllenboro, and his
grandiniothcr, .Mrs. .Maggie Moore
of Kings .Mountain.
Fhinoral .servitvs were held last
Wixlnc/ay at 11 a.m. at the
Drum Funeral Home ChajH'! in
Mneolnton by the Rev. Kenneth
George.
iBunal was in Cleveland Mem
orial Park.
Mrs. P. D. Herndon s Rites Held;
Was Former Herald Society Editor
tL
TAKE FIELD TRIP — Youngsters enrolled in the Kings Mountain Recreation Department's sum
mer day care program board bus for a field trip Thursday to Kings Mountain Battleground. Forty-
nine youngsters and their counselors made the trip and had a picnic lunch at Lake Crawford.
The recreation department is sponsoring day care programs this summer at the community
center* Central School and North School. (Photo by Gary Stewart).
.Funeral ritcf: f.>r Mrs. Cornelia
Lynn F'lay<i Hcrmlon. 79. r»rmcr
S( ict> editor of the Kings Moun
tain Herald, wore condu>ted
'lui.sday morning at 11 o’clock
fr m St. Matthew’s Lutheran
rlrarHi of which she was a nu :n-
bt
Her ixi.'^tor. Rev. Ko’orrt .Mien,
avssi.-ited by Rev. Paul Riggs. ]).is-
tcr of F’irst Baptist cliurch. r*!i-
ciatfNl at the final rite.s and in-
termemt was in Mountain Re.sl
ctunett'ry.
Active pal’bear^'r*; were Jim
K’mnn'H, Toni Ware, IVle Ware,
Michael Ware, Ronald Kiitoid,
.\llrn Hernd<m. Jr., and Tony
Wells, all graiuLs^ms.
Mrs. Herndon siri.vumbed .sud
denly to a heart attack Saturday
night at 8:30 p.m. at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. James B.
Simpson.
She was a native of (hist n
County, daughter of the late For
rest and Cora Smith F’loyd and
widow cf a former Kings .Moun*
tain Mayor, Plat«» Durhaim Hern
don who died June 8. 19tS. ^
Surviving are tw ' son.s .•\lli‘'i
Herndon of Bellview. F'la. and P.
n. Herndon, Jr. of F"ort lyaudcr-
dale, Fla.: and fivt' daughters.
Mrs. Howard Ware. Mrs. James 3.
Simpst>n. beth of Kings M'Uin-
taiii, Mrs. Cora Montgomery of
! F' Tt Lauderdale. F’la.. Mrs. .Hni
Metcalf of Pinellas Park, r^.,
ami Mrs. Charles Holden cf West
j Palm Beach, Fla.
I Al.so surviving are 19 grand-
! children and 23 great-grandchil-
' dren.
i Memorials may he made to
' the building funds of St. Matt
hew’s Lutheran and PHI'S! Bap*
1 list churches.