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fis, ns or ed ■)l2 lid \'s id, au *nt ro- ist, L‘ai ila* >od ? 1 3),\ ,er:' or* jm in ;he ^re M: nd; on VOL 84 No. 35 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C,, Thursday, August 30, 1973 PRICE TEN CENTS Eighty-Fourth Year City Tax! Valuation Tops $50 Million First Time Ellison, Two ChaUengers File In Ward 3; Pruette Candidate w m T. J. ELLISON Seeks Re-election JAMES A. BELT Challenger MURRAY C. PRUETTE Ward 6 Candidate Reconnect Increased Delinquent Tax, Utility Bills Are Discussed Charge To $10 City power customers who have service discontinued tor non pay- nienl ol oills—due tenth ol tiie nicntli—will now pay a $10 re connect lee, rather than $3. Discussion on the re-connect lee accompanied ;?eneral discus sion among city commission members, as advanc'ed by Com missioner Jonas Bridges, on de- liiKiuent utility accounts. Asked what action was being taken to collect delinquent taxes, City Attorney Jack White said all delinquent ta^qjayers had been notilied by Kdter that legal gal action had been taken to action is impending. He said le- collecit the principal delinquent utilities account, a water and gs account of Mur-Glow Spinning Company, totalirhg $3,936.79, ol which $926.40 is for wator and $3,010.39 is lor natural gas. Comm. Bridges asked why serv ice was’not discontinued. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr., explain ed that water was metered to tile mill, which, in turn, had servcNj hou.ses in the adjacent mill homes. The gas account rep resented service to tlie mill a- lono, which used gas to fire its boilers. (All mill-owned houses are vacant and no service has been given lor the past four months.) CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Shelby Firm Low On Signalizdtion KALEIGH — Bids on high way projects which will start road improvements in 12 coun ties were opened Tuesday in the Highway Building here to determine the apparent low bidders. The list of projects and ap parent low bidders includes: CLEVELAND-GASTON COUN TIES — Upgrading 21 Traffw: Signals $109,159.33 — Patterson Electric Company — Shelby. FINAL (XIMPLETION DATE - June 1, 1974. KM Rotaiy Club To Hear Lackey iMajor William D. Lackey, North Carolina Air National Guard, of Statesville, will address members of the Kings Mountain Rotary club at their Thursday 12:15 meeting at Kings Mountain Country club. He will speak on a program ar ranged by Robert L. Bradley. Major Lackey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel H'ill, where he major ed in Political Science. He grad uated from the Air Force Pilot Training School in Mainch, 1960 and has attended the Air Force C-121 Pilot Course, C-124 Pilot Course and the United States Air Force Advanced Survival School. He has succ'esslully completed the CONi INUED ON PAGE 6 lames Gene Owens Dies Saturday In Boating Accident On Broad River Schools, Offices Many Industries To Close Monday In a survey of offices and in dustries yestCiTday. it appears the Kings Mountain business district will be quiet on Labor when many Mountaineers will seek out vacation retreats when they ob serve their last holiday of the sumime/. All federal and state offices will be closed on Monday for La'bor Day while most of the merchants and bu.'^iness firms in the city will obser\'c the holiday. Banks and savings and loans will be closed. Local textile mills are divided about half and half on closings with the following to observe Monday as a holiday: BVD Tex tiles, Burlington Industries, Carl ton Knits, Dei)endable Knits, Inc., Duplex International, Kings Meunaain Knit Fabrics, Inc., Kings Mills, Inc., Mauney Hisi- ery Mills, Inc., and Mauney Mills. Carolina Throwing Company’s offices will be closed on Monday, althcugh the plant will be in operation. Plants which will work as usu al include: Ideal, Cleveland, Gay, Lyn-Tex, L & L, and Can-Do Hosiery Mills; K Mills, NoLst*o, Inc., Park Yarn and Sadie Col ton Mill. All Kings Mountain schools, which have been in session for a week, will observe a long week end following classes on Friday and students will return to their studies on Tuesday, September 4. City and county offices will be closed, and the Kings Mountain Recreation Department will also observe a holiday. There will be no rural or city mail route deliveries from the local Post Office, it was learned, but mail will be put up in boxes as usual. There will be no win dow service. Chie4 Tom McDevitt, busy in the past few days with a rash of 'O'ontinucd On Page SixJ Pace Of Filing I Of City Office Has Quickened The pace of city political acti vity quickened tlii:. week as a three-man race developed for Ward 3 commiSvSionei and an- Cvher candidate filed foi commis sioner in Ward 6. Filing for the Ward 3 post were Incumoent 1. J. (Trvrtmy) Ellison, who is being challenged by Corbett Nicholson and James A. Belt* Murray Council Pruette, Jr., filed for the Ward 6 commission scat Already in the running for city offices were Incumbent W. Seimore Biddix, in Ward 2, being challenged by ex-Commissio«er Lloyd E. Davis, and Incumbent Jonas Bridges, who seeks re-elec- ticn to a second term in W^rd 5. : Comm. Ellison is the dean, of elected city olaicials. He is cejm- pleting his tenth tw'o-year term. He served on the commission from 1947-51, 1953-57, and trom 1961-73. Ihe East Kings Mountain groc*er is a member of Grace Methodist church and former chairman of the board of trustees He is a Mason. Mrs. Ellison is ■the lormer Roberta Ballard. They have two children. Mr. Nicholson is owner of City Heating Company and is a for mer superintendent of the city natural gas system. He is a member of Temple Baptist church, a World War II Marine veteran, and a Legionnaire. Mrs. Nicholson is the former Elva Holden. They have two children. Mr. Belt, a former city police man, is president of Belt Detec tive Agency, Inc. He is a volun teer member of the city fire de partment, and a former vice- president of the Junior Chanubei of Comimerce. His fiancee is Frei- da Walterson and he has a son by a previous marriage. Mr. Pruette has been a South ern Bell serviceman for the past 20 years and is a part-time farm er. A Grover native, he has lived here 20 years. He served with the 1st Calvary in Korea where he was awarded the Bronze Stai medal. He is a Legionnaire. He is a Legionnaire. He is also a mem ber and deacon of First Baptist church where he is a department Sunday School superintendent. He is a Mason and Shriner. He attended Mars Hill college. Mrs. Pruette is the former Jo Anne Bridges. Their three daughters arc Sharon, 14, Jennifer, 10, and Andrea, 2. Mr. Pruette said his campaign motto is, “Let’s keep it honest.” Filing deadline for the Octo ber 9 election is September 14. James Gene Owens, 35, of Route 2, Kings Mountain drown ed at Stiee s Shoals Dam on First Brouil River Saturday nij^ht after the bual overturned in which he, his brother and father were rid ing. His body was recovered sliortly after noon Sunday by the Boiling Springs and Shelby res cue squads. Owens, who was emi)loyed in the maintenance -department of Lithium Corporation in Bessemer City, was on a camping and fish ing trip with his father, Cairl Owens, 71, of Shelby, and brother Jack Owens of Bessemer City, when their boat overturned, re portedly pinning tiic victim un de* the beat. ihc re> ue .squads were noti- frd ar..und 7 a.m. Sunday by Ja \ (Lven'j, who slid he had ■. t ('ll lo.'t and waiiulering in the innate area on the river since I.v‘ .0 mid:’.ight in an effort to g. hc-... li'.e elder (/wan.s wa gin'- tec’ tr. Cleveland Memorial I* j.tal fu.- i.c mrnt. Re.-icuc i-und the campAtc c. the three some 300 to 400 yards from the scene of the accident on a saiKfbar, and the boat was still Heating upside down, the styro- tojin seats keeping it afloat. Funeral services for Owens were held at 2 p.m. W(*dncsday at Clearview Bap-tist Church in Grover where he was a member. The Rev. Rudolph Lemmons offi ciated and burial was in Hose Hill Memorial Park in Fallston. Native of Cleveland county, he was a son of Carl L. Owens Sr. end Mamie Goins Owens of Shel by. He was a member of the Cleveland Ccunty C-B Club. In addition to his parents, he is .survived by his widew, .Mrs. Frances Curry D’b'bins Owens of the home; three sons Gene Owens, Jr., Ribt-rt ami Cluis Ow'en: cC Shelby; one stepson, .lonald Dc.bb.ns ol the home; om te?-daagiitcr, Ri-oin Deboins c hr h: ine; fnur brc. hers, Jar /.e:i ; of B<' iomcr City, Ilaj d, Dci.ni.'. a..d Lc-.jy Cwei; . Shelby. CAR FIHE EXTINGUISHED — City fireman Gene Tignor extinguishes fire which completely de stroyed a car owned by Robert Witherspoon of C oncord. The cor caught fire last Wednesday after Witherspoon porked it on Floyd Street while he walked to a nearby knitting xaill. Witherspoon's young s^ was left alone in the car but was not hurt. (Photo by Gary Stewart), McGill Involved j In Wreck Fatal To Texas Man A former KiAgs Mountain resi dent, Earl Edwin McGill, 54, of Blacksburg, was admitted to Charlotte Mei^orial hospital Saturday for treatment follofwing an accident on Interstate 85 which claimed the life of a Texas man. KHled was Paul D. N<M*ris, 27, of Humble, Tex., who had report edly just been discharged from the Navy. According to the highway pa trol, five vehicles were involved in the chain-reaction wreck on the Catawba River bridge. Trooper L. E. Williams said Mic- Gill was driving the wrong way j on the dual-lane road and i struck the Norris vehicle head-1 on. Norris' wife; Carolyn, and j two children, Denise two, and j Amy, six months, were also in- j jured and are An unsatisfactory I condition at Clirlotte Memorial j Hospital. 7 1 Williaims sail traffic was blocked for twe^ hours while the i wreckage was Ileared away. ■ No charges nave been filed; pending the outcome of the in-1 vestigation. I Weekend Wrecks Claim Three Lives I Stanley Couple Die In Crash; Four Injured Three Properties Ofiered For Sale Th HeraM erred in its re port last week of properties on which the Kings .Mountain Re development commission is in viting bids. A third properly the 89 x 105 foot .lot between McGinnis De partment Store, is being offered for sale. The other tuo are the Rail road avenue propKjrty formerly occupied by City Ice & Coal Company, and the lot at the Battleground avenue adjacent corner of West Mountain and to Neisler Brothers. Bid deadline is September 24. Building Permits Are Issued By City . City building permits were is sued to the fcllowing the past week: Harold Plonk, $3(X) repairs to residence at 509 Broad street. Robert G. Cox, $800 repairs to residence at 212 East King street and permit to demolish utility building at same residence. ^ Kings Mountain city schools, permit to raze residence at 512 West Mountain street. James E. Amos, permits to place trailers at 614 *,2 and 6I6V2 East Gold street. SERMON TOPIC “A Days Work, A Days Wag^’’ will be the sermon topic of Rev. N. C. Bush at Sunday morning worship ser vices at 11 o’clock Sunday at Grace United Methodist church. Giady Howard ACHA Nominee CHIC.YGO. ILL. — Grady K. Howard, Administrator of the Kings Mountain Hospital, Inc., will become a nominee in the Americ’ian College of Haspital Administrators at Convocation Ceremonies to be held on Sunday afternoon, August 19. in the Grand Ballroom of Chicago’s Con rad Hilton Hotel. The announcement was made today by William N. Wallace, Chairman of the ACHA, a pro fessional society compri.sed of 9,500 of the leading hospital and health care administrative per sonnel in the United States and Canada. Mr. Wallace. President, United Hospitals. St. Paul. Minn., presided at the ceremony. The event marked the opening of.the society’s 39th annual meet ing, traditionally held concur rently with the American Health Congress', The AOHA advanced approximately 100 Fellows and 450 MerAbers, admitted 650 new Nominees. I A Stanley couple and a Kings Mountain man were killed in separate traffic accidents in Kings Mixmtain this week. Norman Randolph (Randy) Flowers, 25, and his wife, San dra, were both killed Sunday on Highway 161 south of Kings Mountain when the motorcycle on which they were riding was struck by a car driven by Wilber Glenn Perkins of 310 North Dill- ing Str^ea, Kings Mountain. William Edward Browning of Cleveland .Avenue, Kings Moun tain, was killed at 3 a.m. T\ies- day on Cleveland Avertue when the car he was reported to be driving was struck by a city police car which was in pursuit of a spt'oding vehicle. Perkins, who was reported b> 'Trooper M. E. Bolick of the State Highway Patrol to be traveling north on 161, was charged with driving under the influence, pub lie drunk, improvef paiising and two counts of manslaughter after tha wreck which claimed the lives of the Stanley couple. Two other couples, also riding motorcycles, were injured, trans ported to Kings .Mountain Hos pital and then iransferred' to Charlotte MemoHal ^.Hqspilal. They were idehtfnod^a^ ■George and Sarah Dunn, also of Stanley, and Larry and Linda Swaringen Ox Charlotte. 'Bclick said the Flowers couple was dead on the scene. He said Perkins ai)j)arently tried to pa.ss a ncrth-:x>und car and hit the motorcycles, which were travel ing south, head on. .No charges were filed in the acTcident which took the life ol Browning. » Troopc'r Bolick fe{x>rtetl that the city i^lice car, driven by Ptl. Donald Dean Ivey of 3(X)*/2 South Oriental .Avenue, Kings Moun tain. was traveling .south on Highway 161 near tlic Little .Moj when it was approached by a iContinuid On Page Six) Indicated Gain Over Past Year Is $4544,223 I MTJmN HARMON I City of King.s Mountain taxable i valua/ion fer 1973 increased an I indicated $4,544,223 — nearly ten ! percent — over the 1972 valua tion, tentative figure:; indicate. City Clerk Joe H. McDaniel, Jr., noted that valuations on proper ties of puolic utilities su;)plied by the Stale Boar^ of Corporate Excess, have n^t w'en received. The tentative totals include utili ty valuations of the previous year. The tentative valuation is $50,973,130 compared to $46,429,- 907 foi 1972. The valuation increase indi cates a tc.‘al city tax levy for the current year of $433,274, or an increase of $38,618 over the $394,656 levy for 1972. The taxable valuation increase reflects gains in both real and personal property holdings of Kings Mountain citizens. Mr. McDaniel said compara tive figures are not. immediately availaible but said the $4.5 mil lion gain would be among the largest—if not the largest—in the city’s history. Friday Last Day Foi Tax Discount Friday is the final day to earn discount of two percent oh 1973 city and county tax bills. The discount rate through Au gust is two percent. Taxes are payable at par through December. Penalties for late payment ap ply January 1. •Mrs. Judy Harmon, assistant city tax collector, reported Wed nesday pre payments on city tax bills of $60,870. Indicated lev'y for the year is $433,274. City Supporting Betterment Act The city commission unani mously approved Monday night a resolution of support of the com-' munity betterment act, now be ing considered in a Senate com mittee. The resolution is to be forward ed to each of the 13-member .North Carolina Congressional delegation. Mayor John Henry Moss had outlined the terms of the act in its present form and said U would mean grants to Kings Mountain in the forthcoming three fiscal years, of $2,374,000, in addition to revenue-sharing appropriations. The board heard Don Shields, ccunty civil defense director, out line recommendations for the civil defense program which he said “are for your study”. The commission also heard a ropresenfative of the Community Radio Watch outline the func tions of the “ham” organization for community service, and granted the organization permis sion to install a trailer office on city property on McGinnis streert, subject to vacatirrg on notice. The Mayor repwrted to the commission he is arranging a series of personnel meetings de signed to better city seirvices. In other actions the board: 1) Confirmed street improve ment assessments on Pineviow drivx' and Cargill Forest sub-di vision. 2) Awarded contract for in stallation of two water pressure reduction valves to Blythe Broth- (Continued On Page SixJ *7s Registration Reported More Brisk For Three Forthcoming Elections Regi-^iration biwks for forth- ceming ('lections will be open a- gain en Saturday at the Armory and ('ity Hall. Both Wts. j. H. Arthur and Mrs. .N’ellc c.anforil, the regis trar;;. ret'^Tt('ti iiKrt'ascrl re.’s- tratioM * -tivitv Mr.s. Arthur I ('. s, wiiiJi M, .. F I'urday. IK'VV V . 1 lo.'tgcti -wh. hOiiwR' > — The city police reserves were Vc*cr?d Tart Wednc^dCY n'ght at a dinner at Dixie Village Caisteik: in Cartoaa when i 11 mem: ns of the force were pre- se.ited wth cert flcates ot appvos'aticii. Tho-e present whe .*«- cG.vcd owards included# front row# left to right, Charlsa Xxi.L Wdlard Johnson, Jay Ashley# Thomas Ballard# Phillip Wither- rpaon and Ken Breome. Bade row,- same order, M. L. (Willie) Will ams# George Hilton. Harry Mart n# • Mike Moss, OXrien 'ti.'n laws, vot- regis-.i'r cnlv witli the Ercohs ond James Ellis. '(Gory 9.ewoxt photo). T1 n tp or.s rmt; ..uiAy re.’i ira * • * a for all elections, tit^, dLirici, or (.jun:>. The forthcoming elections are: (Dot.c^ber 6, county-wide election j)n dual questions of school debt consolidated and Issuance of $4,()5().(XX1 bonds for county dis trict schools. Ooteber 9. Kings Mountain elec'tion. Novom’jrr 6, Kingf: Mountain city election run-ofl, if net'essary. King.'; Mountain school dLvrivt election. State wide election on ques tions c f 1> issuance cr$300,0(H\(XX) in bonds for schOv>l construci-'m and 2» legalization of liquor by the drink.
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