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KASE EIGHT THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C Thursliiy. S0timEfr $. 1^73 Homecoming Day Event Is Sunday First Congrogational United Church of Chirist in the Lincoln Academy Community will cele brate their annual Homecoming Sunday, Septemhor 9 al^fi ajm. The pastor, Rev. Russell J. Shipmans’ 20th year of ordina tion into the Christian ministry will be observed at this lime. He is a graduate of Lincoln Acadi*-; my, Howard University, and the I Scihool of Divinity at Howard, j After graduation lie taught Bi ble at Lincoln Acarlemy. He is j also pastor at the Fir.st Congre- ! national United Church of Christ in Troy, N. C. The speaker for tin McDaniel Wins College Diploma I Richard McDaniel of Atlanta,! (Ri., son of Mr. anti uMrs. Gail; McDaniel of Kings Mountain, was | recently graduat<*d from Georgia .State University with Bachelor of I Husiness administration degnH*. i •Ml'. .McDanel is staff supervisor j for American Telephone and Telegraph comptiny in Atlanta. | I He and his .wife, the former Judy i j Lfing and their two daughters, I Karen and Lisa, reside in VVil- ' burn, Ga. I Mr. McDanel, a Kings Moun- ^ tain native and seivico veteran, attended night school for five ■ years at (Georgia Stale to obtain j 1^/ V 'y/ occasion his degrt'e. ; will b<‘ Samuel L. Parham, a for- ! Attending the commencement mer principal of Lincoln Actide- ; exercises in Atlanta wore Mr. and! Mrs. Gail McDaniel, .Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Parham received his Rache- lor's Dc'grce from Shaw Univer-s- ity in Raleigh and his Master’s Degree from Columbia Univers ity in New York, He has done post graduate wink at t)ie Uni versity of Michigan. Mr. Parhtitm is a distinguished layman of the United (Miurch of Christ in While Plains, New York. He Is married to the former Er ma Pi ice. The coui>Ie and family now reside in White Plaias, New York. The music for' the occasion will be presenteti by the church choi'r under the dire<tion of Mrs. Margaret W. Wilson, Minister of Music, Sheppard Rifes Thursday at 2 Funeral rites for Luther David Sheppard, SO, of Route 3, will bo ronductcHl Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from Carol hoi’s Funeral Home, Gastonia. Re\. Mitchell Pruitt, assisted by Rev. Ralph Webb, will offi ciate at the final rites, and inter ment will be in 'Gastonia Mem orial Pai'k Cemelery. Mr. Sheppaixi die<l at d: 50 p.m. Tuesday. He is survived by three daugh ters, Mrs. Agnes Badger of the i home, Mrs. D<*ssio Welch of Dal-1 las and Mrs. Verna Guffey of Gastonia; two sons, .Mr. Loyd Sheppard of Clover, S. C. and Mr. Ray D. Sh<‘ppard of Win ston-Salem; and one sister Mrs. Tim Hra<lley of Franklin; 10 gramlchildion and 13 great grandchildren. McCleary Rites Are Conducted Doug West and Mr.s. C. R. Adams j Jr. J'he colorful exercise w'as of ^ special significance because it J was the first summer commence-' men! larger than the June com-j mencemcMit at Georgia State. ' Mauney-Russ Nuptials Friday The wedding of Donna Eaker Miauney and Philip Russ will lake place Iriday evening at 8 p.im. in Resurrection Lutheran church. The pr-ir will cut their wedding cake at an after-rehearsal party Thursday evening at 7:30 in tlie thurch fellowship hall. UONS PROGRAM Jerry .\usband, editor of the Shelby Daily Star, will address t'he Kings Mountain Lions club at the meeting Tuesday night at the Kings Mountain Coun try Club at 7 o’clock. CERTIFIED Mrs. Marlin Harmon, teacher of piano, is listed as a certified teacher of piano on the new directory pu'oiishtHl by tlie North Carolina Music Teachers Association, GARDEN CLUB Town and Country Garden club members will gather for covered dish supper Thursday, Sept. 13th, at G p.m. at the home of Mrs. W. 1'. Weir on Grover road. Jenkin's Infant Rites Conducted Grave.^ide services for .Melissa Jene Jenkin.s, 17-hour-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Th^ a.^ Jenkins of 800 South'.. ..jd, were eondueted Saturday after noon at 4 p.m. from Mountain Rest cemetery with Rev. Pas chal Waugh officiating. The infant died Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Cleveland Memorial hospital. In addition to the parents she is survivt*d by two .si.steis, Tammy Elizabeth and Julie Ann Jenkins of the home. I it. CELEBRATION VICTORY — The Tee League sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken closed the sea son 9-0 ando to celebrate team members were given a banquet at the Community Center recent ly. Shown left to TiglV are Joey Wyte« Jeff Smith, Chris Brown. Wade Clork« iRonnie Moss* Ben Carpenter* Rodr" _ oellers* Randy Moss* Kenny M itchem* Tony Yorbro, Jeff Moss* Wilbur Loftin* ond Russr** .^ice. Not pictured is Scott Walker. Coaches (pictured are Jack Brown and Joe Wyte. DANGEROUS | Some chemicals used in agri culture tudaiy are less persistent but often considerably more to xic to iiumans tnan some of the: ■pesticides that have been ban-j ned due to their long range ef fects on the environment, Be cause of this, farmers must take extra precautions in handling and storing the mote dangerous chemicals. | 4,267 Enrolled Kings Mountain schools will be closed Monday for Labor Day, Supt. Don Jones has announced. Jones said o'nrollment after the first week is 4,267, an increase cf over 100 over the first day. Jones said enrollment at Kings Meunitain High School is 1,209, an inicrease of 59 over the first day, but a slight decrease over last year’s enrollment. ____ 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 0 /ferns of news about Kings Mountain area peoplo and events taken from the ms files of the Kings Mountain KM district schools enrolled 4473 pupils at nine plants on opening day last Friday. The to- tal was up 10 over last year s opening day 4163, but 85 le^ than had been anticipated by sdhool ofificials. There’s something about a fair. And that something is expected to attract record fairgoers to the 16th Bethware Fair opening Wednesday afternoon. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Country Clubbers will stage a Hawaiian Luau as highlight of Club Night activities Saturday. A 5 p.m. exchange of vows Sunday in St. Luke’s Lutheran church of Charlotte united Miss Rebecca Beam Beatty of Charlotte and Lawrence L. Lohr, Jf. oi Kings Mountain. First Wesleyan Revival Begins Revival s<*rvices are in prog- ix'ss all this vvwk at First Wes leyan church on Waco road just off PuMlmont avenue. Rc.‘v. Forest I Dick I VVhitener, Wesleyan pas tor in Shelhy, i.s evangelist each night at 7 o’clock. .Mr. Whitener is well known ! over a largo area as a gospel j singer, having b<H’n involved in radio, I'ecording, n?vival, concert and camp meeting work for sev- ei al years. He ’s a graduate of Central \Veslf\van college in Central, S. C. Although he is a relatively young, man with a youthlul outlook, he has had sev eral years of experience and training. He will not only have charge of the musical program each night l)Ut will also give a revival sermon in each service. The pas tor, Boyd C. Kistler, and the |)eo- pie of the churrh extend a we!-l come to the public to 140 Wachovia North Carolina Business Index 120 ^115 110 105 100 A July, 73 - 134.2p Jun#, 73 - 134.0r May, 73 - 134.2 July, 72 - 127.1 t p—Pfslimlnary r—Btvistd 1967 » 100 Adtusted fsr pricss sad seasonal variation Wachovia Banh & Truat Company, N.A. The Wachovia North Carolina attend! Index edged up frac- thesc siHV'ial revival services. Thei tionally to 13-1.2 in July. goal is not sectarian; everyone is invited, said a spokesman. MOKE ABOUT BESSEMER CITY f ?res w room for expansion and ample at door parking facilities. Shopping cvnler name and opi-ning dates will be announced later. Funeral rites for William Bruce MeCTeary, 23, of route 1, found dead in a wooded area near his home in the Galilee community Thursday at 5:30 p.m., were oo'ii- ducted Sunday afternoon from Galilee United Methixlist chureh, interment fallowing in the church cemetery. Chief Tom McDevitt said his invcstigalion revealed the Negro man died of natural causes and there was “no visible evidence of foul play.” According to fhe Chief, Mrs. McCleary told officers she and her husband had been scuffling with a pistol when the gun acvidentally fired. Her has- band rei)(>rte>dly tun from the house and was later found dead in the woods by dei)uties from the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department, culled to the scene by McDevitt. The officer said cursory exaimination by officeis revealed no bullet \vt>und in the body. Dr. J. B. Gentry perfonned an auto-psy of the body and the re port was not availabl<‘ yesterday. McCh'ary was a member of Galilee United .Melhodi.st church. Surviving are his witV. .Mrs. Patricia Roseboro McCleary; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Mc Cleary; two daughters, Nic»>le and Cher of the home; two bro thers, Paul and Wayne .Mii'leary of Kings Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. Rena Stokes and Mr.s. Bar bara Burris of Kings Mountain; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs I friends and neighbors for their - Clifton MtKJeary and Rogeis sympathies during our bereave- Lewis of Kings .'Vlountain. ment. Business Index Up ’69 ’70 ’71 '72 '72 Tbe index, an indicator of the pace of business activity in the stale, contnued for the third consecutive month to hover at ap- pro.ximately the same level. It rose by 0.2 per cent over the ment, which accounts of approx imalely 40 per cent of total em ployment, underwent a slight de cline in July. The net effect of the latest em- poyment rates was to leave North Carolina with 2.5 pr cent of its work force unemployed, a figure which remains substantially low er than the national unemploy ment rate of 4.8 per cent. Aver age weekly manufacturing wages have been rx^latively stable since April. Total checkbook spending in North Carolina, as measured by the volume of debits by banks to their demand deposits accounts, rose slightly in July. On an aver age daily basis, spending has shown little change for the past three months. Nevertheless, spending in 11 North Carolina cities and metropolitan areas during the first seven months of 1973 cliniTbcd by 28 per cent lasct year. Raleigh recorded a 38 per cent increase and Charlotee, a 30 per cent rise. There was little change in the rate of new car sales in July. The sales have been moderating' slightly since April, although they are still 6.8 per cent above last year’s record revel. While building permits in 17 North Carolina cites decined in July, the value of building per- Toial non-agricultural employ-1 mils amounted to $371.4 million ment in North Carolina increas-jfor the cities during the frst ed slightly to 1,.591,000 in July.; seven months of the year. On a MARTIN FAMILY I Employment was down slightly i year-to-year bass, the value of the Tlic lamily cl Felton Martin ' for the past three months preced-1 permits increased by approxi- statc.s api).cciation to the many ing July .Manufacturing employ-'matcly 10 per cent. hich Will enable sufficient, Pt’t?vious month and represented an increase of 5.6 per cent above its level a year ago. The isable Tarheel economy is resulting primarily from a mod eration of consumer spending a lack of growth in employment, particularly in the manufactur ing sector. Chemicals and paper jdbs in the non durable goods sector continu ed to rise. In the durable goo<ls industries, employment remain ed robust. Additional jobs have he( ome available in the furniture industry as manufacturers at tempt to meet rising demands. Retailmont cm ployment in North Carolina showed its first Local News Bulletins McCLEARY FAMILY I wish to the tn^“y I . expansion since Feb- fnends ami neighbors for ' Oowvrnment ^obs rose, but many kim nesses and expressions ^niployment in the services in- ol -sympathy at the death declined for the third husband, William Bruce i consccutiye month. Cleary. MRS. PATRICIA ROSE- BORO MeCLKARY Frank Sellers' Rites Conducted Frank O. Sellers, 7S, of 201 Lackey street, dioil Saturday at 3 a. m. in Kings Mountain hospi tal after an illness of several months. A retiixxi texlBe omj.'ioye, he was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are his widow, Cora Whetstone Sellers; one son. James Sellers of Kings Moun tain; one daughter, .Mrs. Jam<*s Dugan of Kings .Mountain; five brothers, John Sellers and Schenck Sellers of Kings Moun tain, Tink Sellers of B<*ssemer City, .Marshall SoIUns >1 Chinry- ville, and Henry .Sellers of IN'- troit, Mich.; three sisters, Mrs. Rebe< ca Gattis of Mt. Holly, .Mrs. R. O. Black of Gastonia, and Mrs. Jessie Eaker of Kings .Moun tain and eightgiandchiUlren. Funeral serviees were hel<i Sunday at .3 p. m. at Harris Fu neral Hom<' chapel. Officiating was the Rev. Orlls Shelton. Burial was in .Mountain Rest cemelery. Members of Otis D. Green Post 155 were pallbearers. TOMES FAMILY I wish to thank the many j friends, the Paul Neisler fam- j ily, and neighbors for their many i kindne.sscs ami expres.sions of sy"mpathy at the death of my iK'loved hu.sband, Odus Tomes. MItS. IDA TOMES CARE* OF THANKS LEWIS FAMILY The family of John Lewis ac knowledges the bt'autiful floral tributes and e.\pres.ses apprecia tion to the .staff of Kings .Moun tain hospital for their many kindne.s.se.s during their bereave ment. GOSPEL SING People’s Mi.ssion near Buffa lo Fish Camp will sponsor a go.spel sing Saturday night at 7:30 featuring the Bridges Sis ters of Shelby, the Lily Quar tet of Shelby, and the Denton Family of Morganton. THnT'S n FHCT LEGION DANCE ‘The Blu(> Velvets” will re turn for an .\merican Legion dance Saturday night for Lo- gionnaire.s. their wives and guc.sts from 9 until midnight at the Aancrican Legion build ings. Qu/cKsenvfce! ^rv^sresr -“O SBRVee EVER RECORDED ^ WAd A^AEL9AN0dTER d AT 194 M.eiU PA/ UNLEBB ebbBUtLPtNBlO TAi^ CARBOFTHAT WNfCB B£7B A&PB A BPEClFfEP BUH 70 yS. SAVINGS 30NP9, ooooo MAPiD TRANSIT! tjME PA&TEST RAPtDS EVER TO BE lAAGl&SP ABE THE Lava falls on the COLORADO RtVER. A SPEED OF 30 M.RH. IS ATTAINED WITH mVES ReACHlN6’A HEIGHT OF U FEET/ earn, caiftjshe? UaSavingsBonds hdp keep todays plans from becoming tomorrow^ broken difeams. .Hus tinie you’re absolutely going but ^ve. _ t. j m v i w save something out of your pay* U.S. ^n<^ To help you toieck-But, then, you really do nera ^ jEat pantsuit, a new coat and, of ^course, that perfume Eric likes so 'muc^ -v ki Before you know it, the money fl 'gone •. • and all you’ve got saved ardour dreams. . I That’s why the Payroll SavinM Flan is such a good idea for a single girL When you join, an amount you 'Cpedfy is set aside m>m your check and used to buv U.S. Savings de iBonds. And, it’s all done before you save more ^an dreams. o Kow E Bonds pay 6^ % Interest when heU t» maturity of 5 yean, 10 months (4% the first year), tends an replaced if lost, atolen. or ^ destroyed. When needed they can be cashed * at your bank. Interest is not subitet to sUta idLM/AJiU0. AUU, aw o caaa „ lod income taxes, and fsdani ttt mttf 'get your dieck—so you can t belp u<wm«iuBiiir«kiiv«ic.^ Take'stod^ in America. Now Bonds mature in less than six years. i
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