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Incr^as- m regu^ August! effective gust 19, ghs 2.15 unds of ound of every 1 you »U for t drug k bln irmlng >u will tre or J\ [7G HI Population Greater Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits 8.465 rhe Greoter Kings Mountcdn figure Is dorlved from the Speclol United Stotes Bureau of the Census report of fonuory. 1666. and Includes the 14.990 population of Number 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 from Number $ Township, in Cleveland County ond Crowders Mountoln Township In Gaston County. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper VOL. 84 No. 36 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 6, 1973 PRICE TEN CENTS Eighty-Fourth Year © n ft King & Dickey Seek Re-election GRADUATES — Members of Gloss 30 of the Sch Institute are pictured following their graduation row, from left. Mrs. Freda L. Sellers, Kings Moun Wilson, Miss Florence Hunt, Miss Millicent Bell, Kings Mounta n. Miss Kay Lail of Shelby and tram left. Mrs. Gertrude R. Patrick, Miss Sheila Miss Linda Scott. Kings Mountain; Miss Lula P Moocham, all of Shelby. ool of Procticol Nursing ot Cleveland Technical from Elizabeth Baptist church ceremonies. Front ta n; Mrs. Rachel B. Humphries, Miss Geraldine all of Shelby; Mrs. Margaret P. Henderson of Garry J. Gristol of Kings Mountain. Back row. Bridges, Mrs. Eleanor H. Hendrick, all of Shelby; etty. Miss Louise Homrick and Miss Shirley Deadline Near For Registering Cleveland Tech Graduates List First Male Beth ware Opens Wednesday 26th Annual Event To Have Four-Day Run Friday. Monday Are Final Days For Two Votes Kings Mountain citiisens have been registering for forliieoming elections in inorea.'iing numt)or«, as final regiislration days ap- proacii. Deadline for registering for t he CX’tober ti county-wide sc‘h(X)l debt consolidation — county dis trict S-LtWOOU election is 5 p.m., Friday, Soptcniiber 7. Deadline for registering for tlic the Kiings Mountain city eluciion is 5 p.‘m., Monday. Septomoer lU. Kings Mountain registrars, Mrs. Nel'le Cranford, East Kin^i Mountaiji, and Mrs. J. H. Aniiui, West Mountain, will be at City Hall and the Armory SaimUd^ to accept registrations. Last Saturday, Mrs. Arthur re- jKirted 50 voters were added to the registration list, and Mrs. (Hanford reported 25 added at Last K-ings Mountain. Under new state voting laws, effective for the first time, vot ers must be registered on t’lieii county precinct books to bXft - gible to vote. The registrars will accept reg istrations at their homes, by ap pointment, through all dead lines. Mrs. Brenda Hamilton, secre tary to the Cleveland County Board of Elections, said the ne^.v election law had “increased my work tenfold." The county elec tions board wHl conduct five up coming electiions from Odobor 6 to Ntwoinber 6, town elections in Waco and Earl, school district elections in Shelby and Kings Mountain districts, a stale-wide election. Mcm'i>or.s of the county cle<’- tions board are Ralph Gilbert, (hairman, Paul Vogel, and Mrs. Dorothy Magnus Poston. Mrs. Clark Managing City Codes Office Mrs. Betty B. Clark, secretary to former Building Inspector W. “ W. Laughter, is managing tiho (Wpfice <rf the city codes enforce- ment officer. EffcHdive Monday, Mayor John iHenry Moss announced, Rosooo Wov>ten, superintendent of pulb- lic works, and Hal D. Hicks, assistant superintendent, will serve as inspecdors. Faith Baptists Set Homecoming Homecoming day will be ob served Sunday at Faith Baptist church in special services. At the 7:30 p. n.. worship hour the Mellon quartet and Bright Family will be featured in spe cial music. The congregation, former mem bers and friends will enjoy a pic nic luncheon immediately fol lowing the worship hour- HONORED — Johnanna Phifer, Senioi at Kings Mountain high school, will be featured in the sevenin annual edition of Whc*s Who Among American High School Students. 1972-73. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Phifer of Rt. 2, Kings Mountain. Delia Causes Gas Quota Cut TranscoiUincmtal Gas Pipeline Company notified the city at 1 p.m. Tuesday that its daily nat- urat gas allotment would be cur tailed by 31 pertx'nt an hour la»t- er and uriitil further iwHce. The Transcontinental official said the curtailment wuus dictat ed by Hurrivane Delia Which iiad damaged some Transco in- stullu'ticns. Mr. .MeDaniel .said the curtail ment would nect'ssihue any cur- tailimcnt of service at the pres ent time, since the 64 percenit quota is sufficient to serve in- duytiml and other year-round users of gas. The bulk of residential and public buildings gas purchases is used for winter-time heating. Cleveland County Technical In stitute graduattvl 15 practical nursing students, including the I s.'hool’s first male nursing grad uate, in exercises held Friday at Elizabeth Baptist church. Garry J. Bristol of Kings .Mountain was the first male to graduate from a nursing course at Cleveland Tech and when he begins work at Cleveland Mem orial iiospital soon hcTl be the cnly male nurse there. There's a big de:“nnnd h»r male nurses," Bristol said. “I always had <111 ambition to work in a hospital just to help somebody out.” Ho ad led that he “didn't mind" the la(d that tlie rest of his class w(‘re females and said “I really enjoyed it." I Oth<*r graduates include Mrs.' Donald Sellers, Mrs. .Margaret Henderson and Miss Linda Scott,; all of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. | Rachel B. Humphries, Mi:<s Ger-, aldine Wilson. Mrss Florence Hunt , Miss -Millicent Bell. Miss Kay Lail, Mrs. Gertru lc R. Pat-| rick. .Miss Sheila Bridges, Mrs. | Eleanor II. Hendrick, Miss Lula Petty, Miss Louise Hamrick and Miss Shirley Meachem, all of Shelby. One of the more vadlinnt con sumer movements of the past couple of years has been to up grade the (piality of television programming for children. Cecil Lee Gilliall, chairman of Ihe hoard of tiustt'os, .‘•poke to the .57 ; raduates on "The Reas oning for Growth of the Com munity Colleges and Futuix* plans fnr Cleveland uunty Tech nical Institute." Gates swing open Wedne day to the 2ulh annual Bethware community Fah. The CLjiununiity agricultural tail, billed thi.s year as “biggei aiKl better tlian ever", runs for 1‘. ur days on the grounds oJ Bet liware scho:.’l. There is no admission ciiarge to i..e giowiKis and iiie Bclnware Piogies:s.ve duo will give casli prizes to e.xhioitors winning rib- tK-ns for home and agricultural products. fair .Manager Stokes W'right said Thursday will be Children's Day with s])ecial events on tap Irom 1 until 6 p.m. Judging Oi all c.xhioils will take place Thursday. The rair opens Wednesday at 4 p.m. wilix games and conte^iLS midway ruKs and coiK'e.5-’ions, fircwoiKS and free prize draw ings for young and old alike. : TTie fair closes at midnight | Saturday. | Ml Bride Brothers cf South Caro- ! lina will for the first time bring , Lj Ihe midway a variety of ne^v ! rides and attractions. Janet Boyles high .school senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Boyle.4 of Kin;:^ lain, will roign as 1973 Fair Queen. Ptintry and dairy supplies, arts, ciatts, hobbie.s, jams, pickles, lanned fruits and vc^gOiaviles, cV. amic-s, decoiipage, woedearv- ing, scale models of automooi-le.s, siiips, trucks, candloholders and other decorative creations, floral airajigemenl;, and horticulture, home furnishings, clolliing for the whole family, and fancy noeillowork will oe amonig the many products to be displayed by Bethv\arc area citizens. Field creps will also be fea tured and one department is de voted to bantams, open to Cleve land County resiilenls and men> bers of the Cleveland Bantam -\sso.jiation. A new feature in the exliibit hall will be individual farm dis plays, with tlie bco-Dis stri^ssing licme indiuslr>, said Cameron Ware, director. IMPROVING Robert Kulf was improving yesterday at Kings .Mountain hospital where he has been hospitalized for t\\o tind onc- ihalt months for a lung ail ment. CORONER INQUEST CcToncr inquest inito the death of Willi.aim Edw:^|f Dnswiving, who died after a t'rafiie accident last week w.lu'ii his ear was struck on Be.sst*- m(»r City Road by a city poliit' ear driven by Cily Patrolman Donald Dean Ive\, has been scheduled for September 20. Fiist Union National Buys Pennit For Branch In Shopping Center First Union National Bank pur chased a city building permit to construct a branch bank in Rings Mountain shopping center. Estimated cost is $23,000. The contractor is M. B. Lewis Con struction Company, Charlotte, and the architect is Ted Wingate. Underway at the shopping cen ter are buildings to house a new W’inn-Dixie Store, Mack’s^ and Smith Drug Company. J. Wilson Crawtford is the de veloper. Other permits issued by Mjs. Betty B. Clark: J . E. Herndon, Jr.. $3000 tennis court at his residence, 119 N. Piedmont avenue. Asphalt Pav ing Company, Sln^lby, contractor. NcLlcr Brothers, Inc., $1000 re zoning to Wes^t Mountain street building, Childers Roc’fing & Heating Company, contractor. Jeanette Allard, 506 Lynn street, ^00 utility building. Lester R. TTowell, 310 N. Cans- ler street, $300 concrete patio, Spangler & Sons, contractor. James R. Whetstine, 125 Lin- wood road, $1.50 u^Iity building. Floyd Buchanan, 814 W. Moun- tain street, driveway paving, Tony Barrett, contractor. Ramona Bridge.s, 210 Morris Mfreet, placement of $5668 trailtT, Wayne Gay Mobile Homes, Win gate, contractor. Roy Toney, $1500 remodeling cf store building at 300 N. Pied mont avenue. i CHAPLAIN Rev. James R. Ne IL IIL former Kings Moun tain rector, will report to artive duty with u. S. Ntvy on Octo ber 8th and will serjre as Chap lain with the First Mar ne Di vision, Comp Pendleton, Calif. Rev. Neill In Chaplain Post Re\. James Raleigh Neill HI. f rmrrly of Kings Mountain, has resigned as re<.dar cf Cahso’ Episf iival Churcli, Fletcher, N. C., bUeclKe Sept. 23, 1973. Before ocming to Calvary in January 1972. lie was Priest-in- Ciiarge (i Trinity Episcopal .'hur(‘h. Kings Mountain, and St. Andrews Episcopal ChurLh, Bes- semcn- City. He was also hcad- niasier cf Trinity Day Sc.hool and 5i. A^dr(‘^vs Day Care Center. Mr. Neill is a native of Hon- dor-sen County, si>n of Mr. and .Mrs. J. R. -Neill, Jr. of Henderson- \ilU'. He is a graduate of Brevard, collx ge and he reivived his B. S. Ir'oni East Tenne.ssee State Uni versity. He i.'s also a graduate of the Svdiool c-t Theology of Hie University of the Soutli, S*’wanee. Tennessee, where he received ixis Master of Divinity degree. Befo.e entering the n>inistry lit? served on active duty with the Navy, wds a rehahiiHation enunseicr for prison youth with Ihe .N. C. Doi artinent of the Kings Mountain Jayceos, Hie iBtvssemcr Cily Optimist.s, and was active in the* work of Alcoholic .\nonynious as well as in other civic affairs of these communi ties. He was also employed on a part-tiimc basis by the Kings Mvuntain City Schools. A Navy Reserve Chaplain, he will be reporting to active duty with the U. S. Navy on October 8. 1973 in N«’\vpal. R. I. After two months tiiere ho will then report to Camp Pendletnn. Calil. when' lie will serve as a Cliaplain with Cleveland county Republican Hie Fli-st Marine Division, U. S. precinct meetings have lioen set Marine Corps, Wounded Man Is Returned To KM Hospital Royce Blalock, wounded by a pistol shet Sunday night shortly alter 9 o’clock at a drive-in res taurant parking lot, was return- i ed to Kings Mountain hospital , VNedneaday. | First admitted to Kings Moun- , tain hospital after the shooting, j Blalock, 21, who lives at 218 i Thornbui'g Drive, was transferred | o ^lun.^ae Meinoi.al ho. pual | Monday, where he had been un- ji. ii.'iensive care. D.jna]d C. Cennor, Jr., 18, who lives with his father on Wacx) Road, charged with assault with a deadly wca{x)n with intent to kill, is free under $1500 bond. Preliminary hearing for Con nor has been scheduled in dis trict court for September 20. City Policeman Tommy King, w’ho investigated the shocting, said Conner readily admitted the siiooLing and charges that Blalock accosted him and tore his shin. He then went to the truck he was driving, got the .25-caliber oistol and shot Blalock, Officer King says the defendant con tends. Officer King said Connor made his stateineiil in the presence of iii.s attorney, Steve Dolley, of Gastonia. Ollicer King had a tape-re- coide<l interview with the wound- eel man, who denies he accosted Ccninov Sunday night. Both acknoudedge a fight sev eral weeks ago at the Combo ^lub. operated by Connor's fath- j cr. Connor allegetily used brass Knuckles in Uie fight and beat ,>lalock badly. Chief of Police Tom McDe^itt Connor had come to him on Augu.st 29 with a request for protection. Connor told tlie Chief Blaickk, with others, had at tempted to ' jump me". Tiie Chief .said he tried unsuccessfully to .<ec Blalock before Uie Sunday night shooting. ■ C NORMAN KING Seeks Re-election / -Kit JAMES J. DICKEY Seeks Re-election GOP Prednets Meet Saturday for 2 p. m. Saturday at the regu lar ]>oHing place.s. Election cT pre cinct officers will be held and delegates to Ihe county conven tion will iH? elected. The (ounty Republican conven tion will Ix' hold at the Cleve land county court house Satur- <!ay, Seittember 22nd at 2 p. m. Election of county chairman, county e.xo'nilive committee, sec- Ktary, ti'casiiier, finance chaii'- niitn. vice chairmen, an 1 dele gates to disli'ict convention will 1)0 held. The Republican tenth district convention will bi' held in the Center for Continuing Education, .-\ppalacliian State University, Ikioni*. OctalH'r 6. at 2 p-. m. Election of officers and delegates to the state conconvenlion wifi bi* held. He is married to t)ie former (jayleiK? A. Morriscii of Clmaha, NCi.ir. Tiiey have two children. Jamie and Jennifer. Stinnett Plan$ Shopping Mart Cuiistruclion is to begin fm- mediately on a shopping center to be located on the Gastonia highway' adjaevnt to Hie lie.'ise- n'cr City liniits on the former Garrison Best pioporty. This announcem<‘nt is made jointly ' y Thrcalt - Maxwell- Associates, Gix'onvillo, S. C. and William S. Stinnett and William’ Hundreds Sign Bowler Petition Kings Mountain boxvlers may p;e.-icnt ix?titions from citizens to the city commission at the Mon day night meeting asking that the city provide bowling fadli- Lies as a part of the recreation program. John Billing, chairman of a committee named by the .Mayor to find means of restoring bowl ing iion-exiant since Moiuitain Lane B>wiing ceased operation- said several hundred persons have signed the petitions. Several interested citizens are circulating the petitions. Kings .Mountain duckpin bowl ers have won several national champion.ships. Currently, .Mr. Billing said last week, bov\Ters are making a once-a-week trip fo Kannapolis to utilize boxvling facilities there. LMr. Dilling contends tha-t a bowling program would return a pi\>fit and cites the Shelby Recre ation department’s bowling pro gram as an example. Mouittain Lane owner gave the bowling group his alleys, which have been stored. Efforts to find a building tv) hv>use the alleys have been _iui .sucoesslul, Mr. Dilling ret)oHetl last week. SERMON TOPIC “Earthly Choice" will be the sermon topic of Dr. Paul Aus- ley at Sunday morning worship services at 11 o’oloc'R Sunday at First Presbyterian church. Fie-Payments Totaled S98JMI5 City tax pre-payments on the 1973 levy total^ almost 24 per cent, Mrs. Judy Hauimon. assistant city tax collector said Wednes day. Payments through H<t Friday, final d.'iy to earn the two percent distount. totaled $98,805. The total indicated levy is $433,274. Tax bills are pa>-able at par through December and penalty applies January 1. Grayson Rites Are Conducted Funei'al rites for Clarence Junior Grayson. 37, of Bessemer City, Kings .Mountain native, were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock from Gisk Funeral Home East Chaind, interment fol lowing in Bessemr City Mmorial cemetery. Mr. Gmyson died Sunday morn ing at 9:30 in the Kings Moun tain ho.spiial after declining licalth for several years. He was son of Rill M. Grayson and OHic Mae Vornen (?rayson of Bessemer Cii; • and was associat-l 'd with his father in the opei ■ tion of a garage in Bessemer, City. Also surviving are his sister. Mrs. Rachel pervine of Bessemer 'ity: and t*vo brothers, Robert Trayson of Kings Mountain and Frank Gray.on of California. R< V. (-rady Pierce officiated at he ^inal riles. HELD SUPERVISOR Lt. David Corn, a veteran of mere than seven years with the city police department, has assumed new dutiet^cs field sui>or\'isor in charge of 51 coun ties for bilithalyzer inspection and training in western North Carolina. He and his wife. Claudouc, and stin. Kenny, will continue to live here at 521 Katherine avenue. King Ten-Year, Dickey Four Year Commissioners Two veteran incumlbent city cemmissioners have filed notice oi candidacy fer re-election. Ward 4 Commissioner Norman King seek election to a sixtf term. Ward 6 Commissioner James J. Dickey seeks election to a third term. Filing deadline is noon, Sep tember 14. Cemm. King, longtime em ployee cf Scuthern Bell Tele- piione and Telegraph Conupany, is a member of Second Baptist , church, 32nd degree Shriner. member of the Ei^cem Star and a Kiwanian. He is mar ried to the former Ruth Ware, iney have four cliildren and re side on N. Piedmont avenue. Cemm. Dickey, genetral man ager Ca Neisco, Inc., returned' here in after serving with the marine corps in the South Pacitic theater in World War II, graduating from Catawba college in 1948, and coaching three years at New Bom high school. He was an all-conierence tooioall guard at Catawba. He is a member of the American L/^fion, the VISiJi, Central United Methodist ohuroh and the Kiwanis club. Son erf Mrs. Bess Dickey and the late James Robert Dickey, he is mar ried to the former Audrey Pulli am. They have two children and live on Phifer Road. Comm. King said: “I leei honored naving served the people as Ward 4 Commis sioner for the past ten years. We have txecn foftunate in having maintained the same tax rate for many years and much has been accomplished. The John Henry Moss resevoir is about to become a reality and lake pole cies are yet to be formed. The next two years in my opinion will be of utmost importance to the citizens of Kings Mountain and I therefore would afipteci-' ale your vote to serve all our citizens for the next two years." Comm. Dickey said: “I would appreciate the help of cur good citizens in the up coming municipal election. “When I first offered my serv ices as Cemmissioner for the v.ity. Ward 6, which I represent, had just been created. My reas ons for offering my services at that time were largely the same as they are now—to do all that I could to see that the citlzwis in Ward 6, and in the city as a whole, received the best possiWe services. "Soon after my' election, the oity extended services of water, sewer, electricity, police protec tion, garbage and trash collec tion. .More recently, we have accompllalied the paving cf cer tain streets in the area. In addi tion, the city commissioners have recently awarded a contract li -T the paving of unpaved streets in Kings Mountain after receipt of pending petitions from the residents and property owners. "If elected, I pledge to wicrk with all our citizens and the oth er city x^mmissloners in develop ing our city to its fuUest poten tial." Final Rites Conducted Satuiday Foi John Allp Cheshire, Sr., 80 native of Patrick l. Kincaid, bt)th of Jk'ssenu'ri CItv Throatl • Maxwell Asso-! Funeral rite.s for John Allyn ' He was a cia'tcs are one of the largest | Cheshire, Sr., 86', were conducted County, Va.. son cf the late Mr. The N. C. state Repn'lican procuroi’s of shopping cx'iiter ■ Saturday morning at 11 oclock and NL-s. Henry' Cheshire. His convention will behold 'n Raleigh sites in the stmtheast. | fnim the Chapel of Harris Funer* wife, the former Angelique Rabe, Noven't er 2 and-.3. i Agreements have already' b<'en; al Home. died in 1966, J. Worth Silver of Shelby is Irawn with i.ewes Food Stores! Dr. Charles Edwards oiTiciated acting party chairman. RAZING HOUSES Kings Mountain Redevelop- moin} Commis'^ion is razing two dwellings in the Can.sler Stret'f uiba-n renewal area. One as a Parker street house, formerly owned by George Thombs, the other at 310 West Ridge street, formerly owned by the Ida Wise Estate. of North Wilkesboro to t>ccur. jat the final rites, and interment 23.000 .square hx't of the origi-1 was in Mountain Rest cemetery, nal floor si>act'. Ad<lilional nego-| Active pallbearers wore Dan tiotions are under way for a drug ] Finger, Rcbert Suber, Tom Tate, store, discount store. hraiK'h i Grady Howard, L. E. Hinnant and banking facility and substantial I Bill Fulton. footage reserved for local busi-| Mr. Cheshire, of 107 Country ncssp.s, al! of vhieh will -be an-; Club Ro^id, died Friday morning nouncod in more detail at lajat 4:10 in the Kings Mountain later date. i hospitol after illness of several This site consists of 11 1-2; months and declining health of Continued (Ju Paye Eight several years. A retired newspaper publisher and I'olumni.st. he had written columns re(mtly for the Andcr .son lndepon<lont, .Anderson, S. C. Surviving are his son, John A. ('heshire, Jr. and daughter-in- law Mrs. Che.shire cf Kings Moun tain; two grand.sons, J. A. Chesh ire. Ill of King.s Mountain and (7rady P. Cheshire of Sandy Springs, S. C.; and one sister, .Mrs. Hattie Shough of Eden, N. C. Plans Jelling For Homecoming Plans for a big “homecofmdng’* cclebraticn in Shelby Oct. 5-6 honoring National President Ma ry Sue Jarrett are underway by Warren F. Hoyle Unit 82 of Shel by. Members of Otis D. Green Unit 155 of Kings Mountain will also ser\’e on committees for the event and assist in soliciting door prizes. Tickets are available for a bar becue Oct. 5th at Country Coli seum and a banquet Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at Shelby Elks Ltxlge. Bar becue plates are ^3 and tickets may be obtained from Mrs. Wayne Miller, Shelby. Banquet tickets are available frem .Mrs. Curtis Moser, Shelby, at cost of $7. Area people are also invited to a re ception honoring Mrs, Jarrett and national aTicers cn Friday, Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m. at Hie Post Home in Shelby. Dt'Iegations are invit ed to greet the national officers at Charlotte's Doviglas Airport on their arrival at 9:10 a m. Oct. .5th and to attend a reception at Past Home l8(> in Cfiarlotte. de parting from Charlotte at 2 p.m. to return to Shelby.
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