Pvpnlation Gred^ir Kings Mountain 21.914 City Limits 8.465 Th* (2rt«t«r Cingi Mountain llguro U dorlvod from tht Spoclal Unltod StotM luroau of tbo Cantu* raporl of fonuary, 1M6. ond Includat Iho 14.990 population of Numbor 4 Township, and tho romolnlng 6,124 from Numbor 6 Township. In Ciovolond County ond Crowdors Mountoltt Township In Gaston County. ft-. Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspopei VOL 84 No. 44 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November I, 1973 PRICE TEN CENTS Eighty-Fourth Year Buffalo Creek Water Project Virtually Completed Citizens ToPolisForRunj()ffElectioiiTuesdayl^*"Sg*"s 4:55 Wednesday McGinnis’ Rites Conducted Heart Attack Was Fatal To Businessman RITES HELD — funeral ritM for Cttrl R chord McGinnis were conducted Sunday afternoon* Funeral sei'vices for Carl Rich ard (Dickl McGinnis, 45, Kings Mountain businessman, were con ducted Sunday afternoon frolm St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. Mr. McGinnis .was pronoiuaoed dead on arrival at Kings Moun tain ho:-pital at 9 o’clock Friday night. Death was attiriiouted to heart failure. He had been suf fering from a heart ailment since last spring. Mr. McGinnis was a stockhold er and officer of McGinnis Furni ture. Company and a partner in the Barbecue Barn, which open ed a few weeks ago. He woiRed several months at Gastonia Sav ings & Loan association before joining his late father’s ifumAure firm. The Kings MountfdJi native was a son of the late William. I Henkle and Iva Harris McGinnis. He served in Korea, with the aimy as a radio technician. He was a graduate of Lenoir Rhyme College and a memiber of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. He was a member and past com mander of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion. .I'he final rites were conducted, by his pastor, Rev. Robert Allen, assisted by Rev. Glenn Boland, I>astor of Resurrection Lutheran church. Interment was in Moun tain Rest cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Cole McGinnis; one son, Greg, and one daughter, Myra, all of the home; sox broth- I ers, Odell McGinnis of Gastonia, I Paul MoGinnis, Hubert McGinnis, Harvey Ruppe, of 400 Hill I Donald McGinnis, WUHam H. street, said someone entered his | McGinnis, and James R. McGin- residence at 400 Hill street and | n'is, all of Kings Mountain; and (removed a coin collection valued five sistcirs, Mrs. Edward Gon- at between $500-$700, a $10 ring | i;ales of Bricktown, New Jersey, and a 22-calibro chrome-plated , Mrs. Jack Whetstine of Alexan- piSlol while he wa.s across the d-ria, Virginia; Mrs. Karl Sawyer of Charlotte, Mm. Louis Sabettie of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Herman Eagle of Kannapolis. Pallbearers were fellow Legion- nailres, Joe H. McDanielj Jr., Clinton Jolly, Clyde Whetstine, Bruce McDaniel, Fred Wright, Jr., and Ben T. Goforth. Thieves Take Coins, Jewelry Police continued their investi gation this week into the theft of Jewelry valued at $895 from Willie’s Jewelry and the theft of $500 worth of coins from a residence. Willie Williams, manager ;if Willie s Jewelry in downtown Kings Mountain, told .police that he suspected two custcmiers, a Negro man and woman, of lift ing two diamond ring.s from a jewelry case last week while he was busy with another customer. He described the man as weigh ing about 200 pounds, six feet in height, and wearing an Afro haircut and goatee. street at his mother’s residence. Mr. Ruppe said his home v^as left unlocked while the family received friends at the home of his late mother. His mother was buried the next day and he miss ed the items after returning to his home later in the evening. Spbolt9, GohKns Coverfitig Early Spooks and goblins cavorted about early yesterday. Elmployees of Kinder Manu facturing Company weren’t tricking and treating but work ing and decked out in Hallo ween costumes. They were treated to a Halloween lunch eon a-t the noon hour. Enrvployees of Silver Villa, including Manager Mrs. Dion Brown, were dressed in Hallo ween motif and decorated the restaurant with orange jacko-- lantern pumpkins. The little folks came out lat er in the day and the Hallo ween nou.se on W. Mountain street was enjoying a booiiiing business. Floyd Grigg Is Improving Floyd Edwin Grigg, 71, of Rt. 4, remains in satisfactory condi tion at Charlotte Memorial hos pital. Grigg is undergoing treatment for a .22 bullet wound in the fore head. Cleveland County sheriff’s dep uties have charged his wife, Mrs. Carrie Grigg-s, 55, with assault with a deadly weapon with in tent to kill. She was released on $1,000 bcncL Polls Open At 6:30 Tuesday ForRun-Oli Kings Mountain voters will determine Tuesday its Ward HI commissioner in a run off elec tion between Corbet LNicholson, challenger who led the Oettiber 9 voting, and veteran CommL- sioner T. J, (Tommy) Ellison, second in a three-man contest. Mr. Nicholson, owner of City negating Company, failed to at tain a majority by only 'tHfeo} votes. The totals were: Nicholwm , 601, Ellison 427, James A. Boll I 173. I Voters To Decide Four More Issues Owens, Stewart Are lAeing For Trustee By MARTIN HARMON CORBET NICHOLSON . . . Ud first laca i I King4 Mountain ' svill participate in tions Tuesday: are*a citizens theje elec- 1) They will deride the race for a six-year tenn on the Kings Mountain district board ctf edu cation between Alec Ow^ens, the incumbent completing his first term, and Tracy M. Stewart, Jt., high ' challenger, seeking public ! office for the first time. T. J. ELUSON . . . incumbent Mr. Nicholion imsucce.ssfuily challenged Mr. Ellison in 1969. .Mr. Nicnolson w’as entitled to a run-oif but declined to call for it. Voting will be conducted at the six city^ precincts: Ward 1, City Hall: Ward FI, American Li*gion; Ward III, East School; Ward IV, First Wesleyan Methodist Fel lowship Hall; Ward V. Armory; Ward VI, iClngs Mountain school. Hour.s of voting are 6:30 a.m. j 2) They will join their neigh- to 7:30 p.m. | ^qts across the state in helping Same election officials w^ho i answer three questions: conductexi the October 9 voting | w'iil conduct next Tuesday’s ele':- ^ a* shall liquor-by-the-drink be tion, Mis. Jack Mercier, secretary authorized? of the city elc'Ction board said, i . , . Comm. ¥lli.son .ha.s served ten I ^ shall the state issue ^ terrms on the board ol coimnls- I constntcUon goners, from I047-§1, 1953-56, and j ponds. 1959-73. He is a Cleveland ave- \ shall an amendment to the nue grocer. He is a member ^ $150 million “clean water” bond authorization of 1972 be adopt ed? ALEX OWENS . . . incumbent school trustee School Soildiiig Peimit 5900,000 (Laxton Construction Company, of Charlotte, bought a $900,000 city building permit this week for construction of the Kings Moun tain junior higb school. Rick Murphy bought a penmit to build a six-room residence, es timated to cost $27,5(X), on Garri son Drive. Jim Lybrand is con tractor. 'Horace Styers bought a permit to build a six-room residence, es timated to cost $18,0(X), at 507 West Gold Street. Permit was issued to Ray (Ja- nipo, (il9 Mauney Avenue, to build a $125 carport. Kinder Man-ulacturing Com pany was issued a perimeter zon ing permit to construct a stor age building at its plant at 102 Industrial Drive. Gene Tignoi Is File Chief Gone Tignor, as.si5(ant chief of the volunteer fire dei>artment for nearly 12 years, was namt^i chief of the fire department by the city commission Saturday. He wa.s named acting chief at the retirement of veteran chief Floyd Thornburg. The Kings Mountain Fire De partment now numbers 16 men. Mr. Tignor, owmer and opeiat- or of Tignor Garage on Cleve land avenue, is a veteran fire fighter. He is a Legionnaire, active in tho Ix'gion baseball program, and a member of R(»suiTCct.i()n Luth eran church. He and his wife, the former Dorothy Coibb, reside in the Bethlehem communily. Tho Tignor family also inclmlcs two sons, Ronald Tignor and Mike Tignor. Mrs. Wright Opens Nursery Soon Mrs. Paulirte Wright, owner and operator of a new Child Care Nursery to 'be opening soon is now taking applications for children to be admitted. The nur^^ry is located off Highway 216 behind tho Silver Dollar Mobile Home park. Ages of the children are from birt.h on up. If you think you may bo in terested please call Mrs. Wright at this number. 739-6970. Grace United Methodist church 1 He lives at 910 Church street. I Mr. Nicholson, a former city ! natural gas superintendent, is a i menrber of Temple Bapti.st churcli. He lives at 910 lienry street. Elbert Payne's Rites Conducted Funeral rites for Eliiert F. Payne, 74, of Bessemer City Kings Mountain native and for iner grocer, were condiicttHi Mon- da/ afternoon at 2 p. m. from tlio Chaiiel of Haros Funeral Homo. Rev. Edwin chri.scoe, assi.sted by Rev. J. *\W. Phillips, officiated at the final rites, and interment vvfis in Mount;iin Rest cemoteiy. Mr. Payne died at 10 a. m. i^aturday in the Kings Mountain hospiial after an illness of sever al years. Ho was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ik»n Payne of Kings Mountain and formerly owned and otx'rated Payne’s Grocery in Kings Mountain. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Susie Armstrong Payne; three .«ons, Ernest Payne of Kings Mountain, Billy Payne of Spruce Pine and Dean Pa,'>ne of Besse mer City; one .daughter, Mrs, O. Fuller of Bessemer City; two brothers, Wilmon Payne and Roy Payne, t oth of KingCv Mountain: 11 grandchiklren and five great grandchildren. Grandstms of Mr. Payne were pallbearers. Fall Festival Friday 5:30 The Bothwaire community will hold its annual Fall F€?stiival Friday, Nov. 2, begini^ing at 5:30 p.m. at ©cthiWiaire school. A hot-dog supper wilfh home made ice cream, cakes, pies, cookies and candies will be serv ed in the lundhrdbm followed at 7 p.m. by activities in the school gym con.‘5isting of bingo, movies and other games. There -will also be a “spook hrnise.” Everyone is invited to attend. Shive's Condition Is Much Improved i Verne Shivo, Gastonia lawyer I badly injured in an aut) acci dent Friday n-igtit near Hillsville, | Va., was reported much improv- < ed Wednesday. Mr. Shivp, in mute Wytheville, \ Va., for a Saturday morning courl hearing, lost control of his car on a (jurvo, inv’estigating officers reporter- A V 3 I FIRST PATIENTS OF NURSING HOME — Mrs. Mobel Atkinson, left. W. M. Moorhead and Mrs. Annie Jolly arc the first patienU admitted to K ings Mountain Convalescent Center, which open ed Monday morning. . • t . .. « . By MARTIN HARMON The city's Buffalo Creok water project virtually was completed Wednesday afternoon as the fivc-foot diameter pipe at the base of the dam was plugged with several tons of concrete. The concrete work was finished at 4:53. Ail that remains to be done is bulldozing dirt from a suriMundmg bJufl to cover the '‘plug”, to be clone Thurs- lay, a small amount of grubbing and clearing along the .)anUs, and removal of trash debris. Ray Gillespie, of Gillfspic Con- driK'tioii Company .sirporintcnd- ed the plugging. On hajid for the event were Put’k John on, of W. K. Diikeon Comiiany, consulting engineer for tlie 'project, Ma>-x>r John Henry Mcis, and City Com- missicnei^ T. J. (Tommy) Elli- on and Jonas Bridges. |i “Plugging of the hole” meant rjmpletion of a $3.5 million pro- ject star!e(i July 6, 1966—^seven I /ear.s and three months ago — vvhen the city commirsion (pass-, ed a resolution to tap Buffalo ' Creek as a water supply. | { The lake, with a sh(?reline' '-lightly longer than Lake Lure's. t| vill provide Kingj Mountain ® , g* .vater supply of up to 20 million giallonc daily. | Current treatment facilities j have a capacity of four million ! gallons daily and plans are al- i redy In process to double this caipacity. “It’s a great day,” Mayor M^'jss I 'ommentprt, ihc (.'onjmi.ssion- j ers agret'd. It was Comm. Ellisoji t wlio made tho motion to proc'eed on the Buffalo project in 1966. Total current <-ity water treat- i ment capacity is si.x million gal- | Ions daily, with the De-H street ! Ana wClVIvC’ib plant, Duilt in 1928, retained on | '1 EVANGEUST — Rev. Grant F. Johnson of Loncoster. S. C. will bo evangalUt for Spiritual Emphasis Week beginning Sun day mom*ng ct Boyce Memor* ial ARP church. Johnson To Lead Rev. Grant F. Johnson, , pastor i of Lancaster, Vi C. I'ir.5t ARP j cluuch gnd former Athletic direc- I tor and 00a h at King college in I Hristol, Tenn., .vill be evange- I list for Spiritual F:m;:hasis \V(.*ek I beginning f>un.lav at Hoyee Me- I mcrial ARP church. I Ho will fill the pulpit on Sun- cl-'v rrornoig at 11 ani s;oak earli evening through Thursday at 7:30 p. m. ' Edu cated at Davidnon co^ogo, 'the University of North Caro- I lina and Erskine Seminary, Rev. j Mr. John.‘5on was a physical I training dh'^'Ctcr in the Ar.ny Air said it apix'ared the low ] Forces during World War II. w»uld ix' wiUii.i the project esti- , . ,, , , , 'dar Sprinrjs AHP church, First specifications ca for douhlin-I „f Gastonia, and to four million gallons daily ca-Biirlinf;- p,aoity of the lolts tieok tre.i ' (,in. His wife is the former Rcrt ment plant, a pump station and | charlotte and a stand-by basis. Bidding Brisk On Sewei Project The cc-nmnissiim room at City Hall was crowded Wednesday dternoon as bid.s were ojH*ncd ip Iho ciily’s estiimatcd $768,410 ewago treatment oxpan.sion and line extension project. Determination of low bids a- wailed tabulation oy \V. K. Diid\- son & Coniiixany, tlu? city’s con sulting engineer, but Burk J >lin- of the Dickson Ce.mpaiiy. 1 they are parents cf six sons. I Sermon topics for the week of ■'""■['c.s will be: “You Ain’t .Seen Xotl'.iir: Yet”: “A Tough Ques- ti'in anaiiiject. | Africa with the Africa Inland tlie anday night die home o'" Fill 1103 GroNor Builolo Water Usois Won't Be Shorted Users of Buffalo Creek down stream from the city’.s resovoir, n'AV beginning to fill, won’t be j wip speak to the young peoplc’.s .shut off from tlieir water. | clas.s on The city commi.ssiiryn. at a spe- ) whkh m^et.s .at rial meeting Saturday, ratififsl I pnd Betty Mct^ an agreement with tlie state IN'- | road. partment of Natupil and Eoc»- | — nomic Rc.siMirces for an arrange ment whereby water, a.s netHksi, will be supplied downriiram un til the lake fills and o\'er-n(>ws the spillway. A siphon-iixtinplng bponating facility has already been install ed. I HRST AID COURSE I ’Fhe King.s Mountain Rescii? ! Sfpiad is sponsoring an advanc- ; od first aid eonr e beginning ' Thur.sday and continuing for four i Thursdays from 6 until 10 p. j m. at tho squad 'juilding on Park er street. i