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m thatf treat- 1 bed- Intro- in abrics fade- 31am, irnish- rolina knit- and Drator 1, oth- ? rug him Fopnlation Greater Kings Mountain City Limits 21.914 8.465 rba Or«ot«r Xlngi Mountain Itguro is derived from tho bpeciai Untted SiOtes Bureau of the Ceniue report of lanuary* 1966, ond includes the 14,990 population of Number 4 Township, and the remoinlng 6,124 from Number 5 Township, in Cleveland County ond Crowders Mountain Township In Gaston County. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL. 84 No. 34 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C,, Thursday, August 23, 1973 PRICE TEN CENTS Eighty-Fourth Year Davis Challenging Over 4,100 Students Report Opening'Smooth'; igCrading Begins For Junior High School “officially" began to day for over 4,100 students in tne Kings Mountain district. Orientation was held Wednes day morning at the district’s five elementary schools, as well as Central Junior High, Kings Mountain High School and the Early Childhood Education Cen ter at Comipact. Slept. Don Jones said that the , ofjening was "smooth" and that ' he doesn’t foresee any major , changes due to overcrowded classrooms, etc. One addition to the programs at three schools this year are state-supported kindergarten pro grams. I'hose programs are locat ed at Grover and North elemen tary schools and the Early Child hood Education Center with 24 students enrolled in each class, Jones pointed out that it’s the aim of the state board of educa tion to have state-supported kin- I <lergarten programs tor all five year olds by 1978. Jones said that kindergarten and first grade students w.ill be released at 12 noon each day un til after the Labor Day break. Full school days, he added, will operate during the follow ing hours: 8:30 a.m. untM 2:45 pjm. for kindergarten through « »rade six; 8:30 a.m. until 2:51 ».m, for Central Junior High School: and 8:30 a.m. until 3:o- p.m. for Kings Mountain High School. Meanwhile, grading work has begun at the site of the new jun ior high school, which is hoped to be completed in time for the start of the 1974-75 si'hool year. Improvements at several ele mentary schools and construction of an auditorium at Kings Moun tain High School are also on the building plans for the near fu ture. . Steel contracts have been left but Supt. Jones pointed out at ■Monday's monthly meeting of the board of education that un- lt*ss the delivery date is quick ened, it could delay the start of actual construction. Jones pointed out that the board hopes to let building con tracts early in September. In addition to the three state- supported kindergarten programs, Kings Mountain will have two Title I kindergartens and two yt?ar-round Head Start progralms. Jones pointed out that all oI thc’se progralms comibined serve approximately 50 percent of tfhe five year olds in the Kings Moun tain school district. Ourriculum changes have been held to a minimum since the schools in general, and KMHS in particular, featured many sub- • ject changes last year. "We did a lot as far as curricu lum changes last year," pointed out Jones, “so this year there will be very feiw changes. We may have more team teaching, but this wii'll be left up to the individual schools and teachers." The faculty has been complete for several weeks. Eimtr Lumber Co. Closing After 53 Years In Bunness By GRACE HAMRICK Elmer Lumber Company, very muL*h a part of the economy pic ture of Kings Mountain for more than half a century, is going out oi business. D. M. Peeler and B. S. Peeler, Jr., owners oi the company, have announced that the scarcity of materials and narrow margin of profits, plus inflated prices, orought on the decision to close down the business. The 15 acres of property, all buildimgs and equipment will be offered for sale with the National Sales Sys tem of New York, represented by Leon Shaw, already in Kings .Mountain to help organize tne sale. It is expected to take 30 to 60 days to finalize all transac tions. Founded in Decembi'r 1920 by J. B. Thomasson, there were 13 original stockholders, including Mr. Thomasson. Others were: W. F. Peterson, J. P. Kiser, E. L, Campbell, John O. Plonk, J. H. Lloyd, P. D. Herndon B. D. Rat- .tiree, M. Elmer Herndon, J. H. Joiirage, Harry Falls, M. L. Plonk .md L. A. Kiser. And how did the company get its name? B, S. (Sonny) Peeler says the original stockholders got together to establish the company and when the question of what to call it came about they put Ux? names of all stockholders in a .lat, pulled one out, and it be longed to the late M. Elmer Herndon . . .thus the firm’s naime of Elmer Lumber Company was born. Charles F. Thomasson joined the company in 1924, followed in December 1927 by B. S. Peeler, Sir. Drace M. Peeler joined his lather in 1944 and B. S.., Jr. in 1949 with the two brothers be coming sole owners in 1972. An integral part of the local business district, the company has carried a complete line of building materials, millwork, paint and hardware. Doomed in the 1940’s with World War II and its biggest cohiiract came in 1942 when the company manufactured all window screens tor Fort Bragg, and Ft. Jackson, 3. C. Also in the 40’s, the business Board Votes Lunch Increase The Kings Mountain district board of education J^onday night voted unanimou-sly * to increase the price of school ' lunches by five cents a plate aqd there was some speculation that another in crease would be necessai7 by the first of January. The increase hiked the price of elementary student lunches to 45 cents, junior and senior high lunches to 50 cents and adult lunches to 55 cents. Mrs. Martha Wright, director of school food services, pointed oiit that an increase was necessary due to the continuing increase in food costs. It marked the second straight year the board has had to increase lunch prices. The board also talked about the possibility of a milk substi tute should the schooLs be un able to obtain enough milk, but no action was taken. In other action, the board: ^ Continued On Paye bliyht Betired Foreman Oi Street Dept. Dies Thursday Funeral services for WHlie Lee Eriwood, 75, of 210 S. Oriental Avenue, were conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at Sisk Funeral Home with interment following in Mountain Rest Cemetery, Son of the late Eklward and Sphia Harry Brwood, he died at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Kings Mountain Hospital. He was re-! tired foreman of the City of Kings Mountain Street Depart- iment. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Jones ErwooU; three daughters, Mrs. Juanita Le- gan of Greenville, S. C., Mrs. J. C. Lynn and Mirs. Donald Martin of Kings Mountain; one stepson, Carl Cj-eedmore of Gastonia; three brothers, Jack, Harry and Livingstone Erwood bf Valdese; ! four sisters, Mrs. Erskine Erwood Owensby of Grovea*, Mrs. Inez Er wood a;X .Mrs. Imogene Erwood of Valdese; lil grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. furnished all materials for all houses on the Plantation Pipe Line all the way to Louisiana. Prosperity continued in the 1950’s when all priority contracts were given by the government, which included a number of small liouscs. During the 1940’s and ’50’s, and into the ’GO’s, around 90 persons were emiployed by tlie plant when lumber manufactur ing was at its peak. Of the cur rent 11 employes, all have been placed in other businesses or have something in mind to do. They have known lor three months that the close-down was ; coming. i Among the equipment is an , old steam engine, over 1(X) years I old. Sonny Peeler says, and was j used to generate steam for all 1 the plant’s machinery. The old whistle, distinctly re- mem'bered by old-timers who used to set their watches and clacks by it at 7:30 a.m., 12 noon 1 o’clock and 4:30 p.m., has been in the possession of Sonny Peeler since it was stilled a few year.s ago. That piece of history will be transformed into a lamp, he says. A complete planing mill is a mang the sale items, along with all acreage and buildings on the .sprawling site at 204 West Ridge Street. Asked for his feelings on clos ing dewn, Sonny said, ‘Tve en joyed every minute of it and we appreciate everything folks have done- for us." He also said he and his brother have no immediate plans for the future. Moss Supports Ad For Cities Grants Mayor John Henry Moss is sup porting the Better Communities Xct now before the Senate Hous ing and Ufban Affairs sub-com mittee. If the bill passes as now writ ten, the city would receive $881,000 in the first two years and $600,000 in the third. The grants would be used for majority of services, including police and fire protection, sani tary sewer and water service, youth and senior citizen services and self-help for citizens needing training or re-training for em ployment. The grants would not replace the present revenue-sharing pro gram. Benefits the Mayor forsees are development and enhance'ment of a salety program and assur ance the city could maintain its present tax rale. | “In short," he concluded, j 'Hhese grants would enaole j Kings Mountain to implement a j program to benefit all its citi- j zens." ! 'He said he had discussed the i bill with Representative ^im ^ Broyhill and expects to discuss it j with him turther. 1 Commission Invites Bids Kings Mountain Redevelopment Cemmission is inviting bids on three parcels in the central busi ness district redevelopment plan. Bids will be accepted until 2 o’clock Monday, Seiptemtoer 24 at the office of the commission in the basement of city hall. 1) The 41 X 100 foot lot at the corner of Mountain street and Battleground avenue, now va cant, formerly the property of R’eyster Oil Company and occu pied by Gamble’s Gulf Service. 2) and 3) (Offered separately) the propi'rty fronting and Rail road avenue and City street for merly occupied by City Ice and Coal Company. Good faith deposits of ton per cent are required with all bids. 'Plans for development of the projxjrties must accompany bids. SERMON TOPIC "God, Man and Forgive less" will be the topic of Rev. N. C. Bush’s sermon Sunday morning at Grace Methodist Church. Thirty-'five masons from Fair- view Lodge in Kings Mountain and their families were special guests at Grace last Sun^y. City Schools Receives Grant For $19,743 The Kings Mountain c it y schools have received a quarterly grant of $19,743 under Part A of Title I, Elementary and Second ary Education Act, according to State School Sup<'rintondent Craig Phillips. This grant covers the period from July 1 to Sep- the period from July 1 to Septem ber 30, 1973. According to Harold Webb, special assistant for Comixnisa- tory Education for the Slate Eiu* cation agency, “Title I jirovides funds to local edu(*ational agen cies for use in helping to break the cycle of poverty through equalization of educational op portunity. These funds must be used to expand and improve edu cational programs coniriruting to the special nwds of education- ly deprived children." 'During the 1972-73 school year the state received $56,260,998 in Title I, Part A funds. \X the present time Title I is being •funded under a continuing resolu tion and no final determination has V:een made by Congress about the total allocation for the current scjiool year. The state will receive a total allocation of $11,529,653 for this first quar ter. WCU Graduates Four In Summer Commencement Four from Kings Mountain were among tho 340 graduates at the Western Carolina summer com mencement last weekend when Dr. Raymond M. Ainsley, head of the Department of Ad'ministra- t.ion and Sc'Ikk)! Personnel, ad- diessed the group. Local graduates were: Wanda Kay Bniige.s, who taught school in Kings Mountain for two years, and Sara McGill HuLsey, also a f(»rmer teacher, both master’s de gree's; Fred Albertu Clcmimer. Jr., hu.s'band of the former Carolyn Imogene Howard; and Jane W. Yates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. Yates, 403 E. Parked St., both bachelor’s degrees. Jonas Bridges t wo Arrested For Possession 91 Marijuana Kings Mountain police made wo marijuana arrests during the week and both caves are set for he Sept. 6 session of district ccurt. Ptl. Garland Edwards, Ptl. Joe Cing and Ptl. Jimmy Dickey ar- csted William Parker, 20, of 'he.stnut Ridge Road, Sunday in the parking lot of the Otis D. Green Past 155 American Legion ind charged him with felonious lossession ol marijuana with in- ent to distribute. According tc police, the three ofticers stopped Parker on ,a rou- ■ine check and found 12.65 grams of marijuana under the right ax>nt floor mat. Officers said two other persons were with Parker but they weren’t charged. Parker's free on a $500 bond. Possession of more than five grams of marijuana is a felony. In a separate incident, Edwards and Ptl. B. P. Cook charged Eliza beth Dye of Meadowbrook Road with simple possession d mari juana after they stpotted her car parked on Jackson Street. A male subject in the Dye car was not charged. Miss Dye is free on a $100 bond awaiting the Sept. € hearing. Simple possession tl marijuana is a misdemeanor. 'XL" W. SEIMORE BIDDIX Four luveniles Are Arrested On Larceny Charge Two cases of larcenv' involv ing juveniles were reported by police this week. Pt. Donald Ivey reported that two young black males stole a iiackle box and rod and reel from i garage at a home on Cherokee street last .Thursday night. The items were valued at $54. According to police, the items vvere recovered at Pine Manor Apartments and juvenile papers will pra ably be filed against the pair. Officers Joe King and Jim Dick ey reported six or seven young black males entered Toney's Uore on Piedmont at 3:30 p. m. Monday and stole six or seven Spanish dagger sets. No value was listed. King 'and Dickey also reported \ Sunday assault on Virginia Mo- ten of Kings Mountain. She was iTportcdly assaulted at the cor ner of Watterson and Parker streets was treated for min or eye injuries at Kings Moun- ain hospital. ^ CARROLI. REUNION The annual Carroll reunion i will be held Sunday, Sept. 2 at Penley’s Chapel Church. SERMON TOPIC "Work Devotion" w'ill be the j topic of Dr. Paul Ausley’s ser- | mon Sunday morning at First Presbyterian Church. JONAS R. BRIDGES Damages Result In Two Cat Flies City firemen extinguished a pair of car fires this week, one resulting in a near total loss of a Ford LTD. Firemen received a call Wed nesday at 11:50 p.m. to Floyd Street, where an LTD ow’ne<l by Robert Witherspoon of Concord was on fire. Witherspoon told firemen he had parked the car on the side of the road while he walked to a nearby knitting mill. Wither- spo:m’s young son was left alone in tlie car and when W’ithers^xxFn returned a short time later, the car was on fire. Tlie inside of tho vehicle was completely demolished and most of the body was burned beyond repair. The motor, firemen said, wvis dam-agel only slightly. Firemen had been called to a car fire at the corner of Cleve land and Linw(x)d Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. but the owner of the vehicle was not li.sted on fire , ireports. The only damage w-as to the wiring. Winners At Harper Drawing Are Listed Prize winners at the grand opening last weekend at Har per's Prescription Pharmacy as announced by Ragan HariH?r were: iPhillip Lefevers, Norclco hair dryer; Mrs. Wiley Blanton, Schick hair dryer; Frances Wilson, au tomatic peri'olator; Howard Rco- erts, portable radio; Richard Camp, Ncrelco hair dryer; Charle*? Hamilton, Lady Norelco hair dr\'er: and Bill Ware, War ing blender. First Candidates Pay Filing Fees For Coining Vote A contest developed Tuesday for c;ty elective effioe Tuesday, as incumaent Ward 2 Commis- Slone: W. Seimo.-e Biddix filed for re-elecli‘cn Tuesday morning and fcimer Commissioner Lloyd E. Davis filed Tue."day aftcrncan Incurntbent Ward o Cemmis- sioiier Jona.4 R. Bridges filed for re-eleciron .Monda>. Comim. Biddix is completing his ourlh term on the commission. Mr. Davi.s held the petition from 19,51-.03 and has just retired rll— 11 years as a city water plant operaio;. Cimm. Bridges seens a second term on the commission. He is manager of Radio Station W’K.\1T. He delealed ex-Mayor Kelly Dix- cn in a run-ofl, iifter leading the iirst race o\’er Mr. Dixon, Howard Shipp and jake Sipe. He was an army public information officer in the Korean War and is a past president of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce, Lions club and Merchants association. He is a member of First Baptist church. Mrs. Bridges is the for- mci Deris Summerlin. They have twu children. C4)mm. Biddix Is a representa tive Ol Sturdivant Life In.surance Company, a Mason, Legionnaire, and Air Force veteran of World War II. He is a member of East Gold Street Wesleyan Methodist church. Mrs. Biddix is the former Marie Howe. They have five daughters. Mr. Davis said he feels his ex pcrience in the city’s water opera- Hon will qualify him "to do a better jcb." He is married to the former Mary Bennett. They have a son. Kenneth Davis, a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Ann Russell, and three grandchildren. Filing deadline for the October 9 election is noon September 11. Boad - Debt Merger Vote Set Tommy Shirley Receives Grant ATLANTA. Thomas F- Shir ley Jr., a member of the gradu ating class at Kings Mountain high school. Kings Mountain, has hern awarded a four-year Gen-j real Motors c<illege scholarship' by the North Carolina State Uni-| vorsity. Thomas is the .son of Mr. and' Mrs. Thomas V. Shirley Sr., 611 Gantt street, Kings Mountain. He plans to pursue a course in elec trical eigineering. Thomas’ demonstrated leader ship qualities and scholastic Contintied On Page Eight The ccunty board of edmmis- sioner.s has ordered, as expected, the conjunctiivc electiou for (!>cto- ber 6 on the joint questions of is-uing $4.05<X000 for county dis trict con.struction of schools and whether the county shall assume the currency combined $9,084,900 debt of the threi? local districts, county, Shelby and Kings Moun tain. , Officials of the three districts requested the referendum. Until January 1 Cleveland County was one of ten in the state with permission to vote construction bonds either county- wide or be districts. The election act of the 1971 (General Assem bly repealed the law under which Cleveland and the other ten counties had been operating. The three school boards think the change will help to equalize educational opportunity of all the grade school children in the county. The county board plan.s to build two junior high schoolsr^ ' if it can get the money which I the bond issue would provide— i and, in turn, as.'iumption of dis- I trict debts would etiualize the debt load. Registration books will be open at the county elections board office at the co'irtliausi: through triday, September 7. Edmisten To Accompany Sen. Ervin To Democratic Unitl Rally Tonight G-W President's Father Succumbs Summie A. Poston, 83, father of Dr. Eugene Poston, ipresident of Gardner-Webb College, died Friday at Beam’s Nursing Home in Shelby following a three- months' illness. Native of Cleveland County, he was the son of the late Sam uel and Laney Blanton Poston and hiL-band of the l|ite Minnie Commor Poston, He was a mem ber of .New Bethel .Misionary .Methodist Church. Funeral service.s were conduct ed in the Lutz-Au.stell Chapel Sunviay at 2 p.m, by Dr. Poston and another son, Rev. Carl E.' Poston of Jacksonville. Burial was i in Cleveland Memorial Park. In addition to Dr. Poston and , Re\. Poston, survivors include three other son.s. C. B. Poston of Ruthorfordton, Ben L. Poston and Bcbby L. Poston of Shelby; two daughters, Mrs. Fore.st Bridges and Mns. Annie Sisk, both of Shelby: 1.5 grandchildren and fc ur great-gramlchildren. MIKE M15ENHEIMER Misenheimer loins Foote As Ass't. Engineer NIichael W. Misenheimer has joined the Kings Mountain staff of Foote .Mineral company in the capacity of assistant plant engi neer and maintenance superin tendent as announced by J. C. Walker, operations manager. Mike attended the Kannapolis schools and received his B. S. in 'ngineering from tho North Car olina State University at Raleigh in 1970. Prior to coming to Foote, he worked \\ith Cannon Mills Com,pany in Kannapolis. His work there include d special project work, installation o f machinery, electrical work, pip ing, mechanical construction and waste and air pollution control. His wife, Phyllis, has accepted a position with the Kings Moun tain school system. They have al ready moved to Kings Mountain and live at 503 Cresecent Hill Drive. "We are happy," says Mr. Walker, "to welcome Mike and his wife to our company and to our community." Arthur H. Wilson Funeral Rites Heard Tuesday Arthur Howard Wilson. 59, of CTevel-and Avenue in Grover died Sunday evening at his home. Funeral rites were conducted Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Sisk Ea.st Chapel in Br.vsomer C\*y hv the Rev. Paul Millwood with burial foil owing in Be.ssemer City Mem orial Cemetery. Native of Kings Mountain, he was the son of the late Arthur and Besrie Smith Wilson and was a retired merchant. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Velonia Allmond Wilson; three ns, Arthur H. Wilson, Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., Wayne Wilson of Gasmnia and Paul Wilson of Gnner; three daughters, .Mrs. Karl Hill of Sanford. Mrs. Mich ael Fitch of Blacksburg, S. C., and Miss (5ail Wilson of the home; four breathers. Sid Wil»)n of Hcme.stead. Fla., diaries Wilson •»f Dallas. James Wils<m of Bes- 'omer City and Bill Wilstin of Gastonia; and three risters. Mrs. Ruth Dill cf Gastonia, Mrs. Law rence Barber and Mrs. Claude Straupe ol Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain city officials are expected to join all countj office holders, from the legisla tive delegation to county c(nn- missioners and local office hold ers, at the Cleveland (^ounty Democratic unity rally this eve ning at 7 o’clock when V. S. Sen ator Sam Ervin will make the featured address. Accompanying the famed Wat ergate chairman to Shel y City Park for the free harlM'eue sup per will be Rufus L- FMmiston of Boone, chief counsel and staff director of Sen. Ervin who has appeared recently on the nation al network of news and in Time magazine. Edmiston's historical claim to fame is that ho deliver- el the recent supoenas to the White House to secure tape re cordings and documents consider ed vital to the Senate Watergate ■ committee, the first lime in his tory for such action. I Senator Ervin and Edmiston Avill meet in special session with the pix'ss between 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Holiday j Inn in Shelby. ' i Several hundred Democrats are; I expected to bo on hand for to night's event which will include , organ music by which will include i (Continued On Page Eight J I Herald Football Contest Starting The Herald's first football contest of the 1973 season is in today’s edition. A contest will be held each week throughout the ll-week high sehcK>l oami>aign with fans picking the winners of 13 conto.st.s in hopes of winning the $15 first prize. Today’s contest shows only nine games since some prep teams do not begin play until the first week of September. Today’s contest is for game.s of August 31 and entries must bo received by the Herald no later than noon on .-Vugust 31. As previously noted, first prize is $15. Second prize is $10 and third $5. In case of ties, a tie breaker game will be used to determine the winner. The games on tap are listed in advertisements ajipearing on the ftx>tball contest 'page. Contestants are urged to read the (X)ntest rules to avoid any possible mix-ups. . \
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