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jj NO. 11
’ileveland County's Modern Newsweekly
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 28086 THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1975
Beer
And Wine, Too
Voters Say No
To ABC Stores
By TOM McIntyre
Editor, Mirror-Herald
Kings Mountain voters said no to ABC stores
„d ^premise sales of malt beverag^ and
w fied wine in Tuesday’s special election,
l eMvorersapproved the package stores, but
• malt beverages and unfortified wine in
i;fcw“^cW election also held Tuesday
whpn the final unofficial tallies were recorded
ate Tuesday night, three of the city’s six wards
i aDDroved ABC stores by slim margins Only
ine ward approved malt beverages and un-
‘'SSrUaUy was 1,471 against -1,310 for ABC;
1(W against - 1,267 for malt beverages and wine,
(n unofficial count indicates 2 781 of the chy’s
1Q0 Qualified voters went to the polls Tuesday,
’in the 1967 special ABC election 2,511 of the
ity’s, then 3,719 voters defeated the issue 1,411 to
091
’The breakdown shows in ward one 249 voters
/ere registered, 96 did not vote; ward two, 638
egistered, 266 did not vote; ward three, 740 - 263;
/ard four, 742 - 222; ward five, 1,425 - 446; and
/ard six, 399-l(». , j u
The unofficial tally by wards as reported by
/ard registrars Tuesday night is as follows:
ABC: Ward one: for 77 - against 76; ward two:
for 194 - against 178; ward three: for 189 - against
288; ward four: for 158 - against 362; ward five:
for 565 - against 404; ward six: for 127 - against
163.
Malt Beverage, Unfortified Wine: Ward one:
for 71 - against 84; ward two: for 170 - against 184;
ward three: for 182 - against 296; ward four: for
159 - against 359; ward five: for 562 - against 410;
ward six: for 123 - against 166.
The “wet-dry” campaign during this special
election compared to the one in 1967 was a Sundav
picnic, according to many citizens. In 1967 the
issue spilled over into an open conflict of per
sonalities with numerous heated debates.
The just past election was low-key from be
ginning to end with forces in each camp working
quietly behind the scenes to get citizens rois
tered. The Kings Mountain Electiais Board said
1,164 new voters were registered this time.
In the final analysis Shelby’s ABC victory Tues
day places one Cleveland County unit with legal
liquor sales, which means that now clubs and
restaurants in Kings Mountain and anywhere else
in the county may apply for a brown-bagging per
mit. With the permit citizens may take their own
bottles to the clubs or restaurants and be sold
setups.
B, N. Barnes Honored With
Dedication And Reception
B. N. Barnes was superin
indent of Kings Mountain
Ehools from 1934 to 1987.
Last Friday night tiie eom-
lunity paid honor to Barnes
ith the dedication of the
529,280 theater named B. N.
(arnes Auditorium and con-
tructed next to the senior
igh school on Phifer Rd.
The 1,000 seat auditorium
as filled to capacity Friday
to honor Barnes and to see the
^irst public program designed
to show off the auditorium.
I George Mauney, chairman
)f the local education board,
ed Barnes to a comer of the
itage and unveiled a large
»lor portrait of Barnes. The
lortrait will hang in the lobby
of the auditorium.
Barnestold the gathering he
:elt greatly hoiored and that
Jven though he no longer lived
ffld worked here he would al-
rays feel that Kings Mountain
was home and that the dty
fas a part of him.
Supt. Don Jones served as
master of ceremonies and BiU
Bates of the school system ad
ministration made the dedica
tory remarks before intro
ducing Barnes and his family.
Members of the local school
board also shared the stage to
puy honor to the former su
perintendent.
!■ James Hall, director, N. C.
■^blic Instruction division of
iCultural Arts, introduced the
program, which included a
numba' of local talents and
representatives of other
school systems in the state.
Performers from Kings
Mountain included Linda
Dixon, Margo Green, Linda
Reginald Alexander,
«len Jolley, s. S. (Soniy)
eeler, William Young and
Candice Chronister.
From the KM Little Theatre
Wre David Barrett, Carol
^®bhy Brennan,
Jvid Grant, Undsey Holmes,
wid Jones, Anthony Keller,
^ura McGinnis, Lee Neisler,
Plonk, Mrs. Aubrey
Mauney and W. P. Fulton,
from Jane McClure’s
bool of Dance were Kdly
B«h Bates, Cindy
Gladrip'^^’l ^
^‘aaden, Beverly Lynch
in the
Janof number were
net Alexander, Cindy
geSj Lisa Bridges, Cathy
to'; d..S
*'“'abeth Baker, Pamela
Kale, Atma Lanier, Cheryl
Lutz, Jean Ware, Chuck Kell
er, Scott Moss, Tracy Cook,
Mike Whisnant, Tommy
Bridges Jr., Jeff Jones, Allen
Baird, Steve Walker, Robert
Swofford and Dennis Bolin.
Members of the KMSHS
band were Kevin Allison,
Richard Anderson, Ed An
thony, Scott Bennett, Kenny
Bumgardner, Rusty Cloning-
er, Elizabeth Eaker, Pattie
Herndon, Debbie Hinson,
Karen Hinton, Clyde Kerns,
Myra McGinnis, Sarah
Maner, Jennie Mauney, Kaki
Mauney, Scott Moss, Tony
Payne, Richard Plyler, Ann
Rowell, Mike Smith, Tiara
Timms, Desiree White, Wes
ley Young, under the direction
of Donald Deal.
Under the direction of Mrs.
Myrle McClure, members of
the chorus included Buddy
Adams, Julia Adams, Saundra
Adams, Lynn Alexander,
Sharon Allison, David Bell,
Kevin Bridges, Tobbie E.
Brown, Johnny Byers, Cindy
Cabiness, Evelina Camp,
Donna Dedmon, Greg Dixon,
Tony Falls, Norma Gardner,
Edward Goode, Janice Gor
don, Kathi Haywood, Monica
Hunter, Barbara Jamerson,
Jeff Jones, Ann Lail, Robin
Lary, Wendell Leach and
Terry Lefevers.
Also Mynon Lewis, Janice
Littlejohn, Grade Logan,
David B. Lucas Jr., Lynn
McDaniel, Janie McSwain,
Eddie Mauney, Brantley Mer
cer, Carolyn Mintz, Marilyn
Mintz, Marcella Mitchem, Mi
chael Moore, Sandra Moore,
Donna R. Nicholson, Kevin
Pace, Alvin Rhodes, Mary
Shear, Freddy Smith,
Nathaniel Smith, Shelia
Stokes, Deloris Watkins, Jo
hanna White, Edwina Wilson,
Wanda Vandyke and Roy
Young.
Performers from other
school systems were: Jayne
Wilkins, Burke County; Rita
Vollbracht, Cleveland County;
Photo By Tom McIntyre
OVERWHELMED - B. N. Barnes, former Kings Moimtam
schools superintendent, chats with old fn®"
reception in his honor following the dedication o e
Auditorium, also named for him, last Friday night.
J. D. Morrison, Charlotte-
Mecklenburg; Myra Jenkins,
Gaston County; Maggie
Lauterer, Rutherford County;
Rose Julian, Salisbury City;
Marjorie and Homer Haworth
and Gene Ellis, Shelby City
Schools.
The two-hour production
featured slide projections and
music telling a story of the
coming of man to this area,
square dance, interpretive
and ballet dances, vocalists,
special music and skits.
Following the program
there was a reception in the
senior high gym for Barnes,
his family and members of the
board of education. Re
freshments wffl-e prepared by
the local schools food service
department. A special student
art display was also set up in
the gym.
Schools Need
Parents Aid
Although the Kings Moun
tain District Schools have a
survey underway it’s possible
not every eligible parent has
information about kindergar
ten and first grade enrollment
for their children.
Joe Hedden, principal at
West Elementary, said “All
parents with children who will
be five or six years old on or
before Oct. 15, 1975, should
contact the school in their
areas to get necessary forms
for enrolling children either in
kindergarten or first grade.”
Hedden said the five year
olds will be eligible for kinder
garten and six year olds, for
first grade.
“We’ve had a survey under
way for sometime,” Hedden
said, “but we feel there might
be many parents who do not
have access to information on
enrollment. It is very import
ant we establish contact with
these people and provide them
with the forms and enrollment
information.”
Kings Mountain has state
supported kindergarten within
the local system. There are
also church-based kinder
garten classes in the city.
Hedden said he felt the state
supported kindergarten facili
ties in Kings Mountain will be
expanded in the next school
year to handle the increase
enrollment.
CHECKING THE VOTES - Tuesday night as the special ABC
election returns came in to election headquarters Luther Ben
nett, elections board chairman, Boyce Tesseneer of the Wet
Photo By Tom McIntyre
Force; Rev. M. L. Campbell, Dry Force, and Mrs. Betty Mer-
cier, elections board official, carefully checked (rff the totals.
KMUF
Short
Of Goal
T le Kings Mountain United
Fund, scheduled for comple
tion last month, has fallen
short of its $30,000 goal by
$22,000.
To date only about $8,000 in
cash and pledges have been
received, according to Bill
Bates, past president of the
KMUF.
“I believe it’s a matter of
getting the community over -
committed,” Bates said.
Bates said a meeting was
scheduled this week to re
organize the campaign and
perhaps set a more realistic
goal, something like $20,000
and give the agencies relying
on the funds two-thirds of what
originally budgetted.
“I believe we can pull things
out to that extent,” Bates said.
“People are beginning to see
now that we’ve got to get
something going.”
Last year the United Fund
met its goal of $36,000.
Bates said several factors
had hurt the campaign to date.
First, the annud drive was
postponed because of the Cen
tennial celebration in Kings
Mountain. During this cele
bration business, industry and
citizens were hit hard by a
fund drive to finance the city’s
birthday party. The campaign
chairman moved from the city
and was never replaced. Then
the economy dropped and
many of the large donors in
past UF campaigns had closed
their doors and laid off em
ployes. And several civic
elute and churches began
fund-raising drives to help the
area needy caught in the
economic crunch.
Bates said none of the agen
cies requesting aid from the
United Fund will go without
because whatever monies is
collected wiU be distributed on
a pro-rata basis.
EASTER CANTATA
First Congregation Church
Lincoln Academy Choir will
sing the Easter Cantata,
“Hallelujah, What A Savior”,
on Palm Sunday morning at
the church. Mrs. M. W. Wil
son, minister of music, will
direct the cantata.
P-TA BENEFIT
Grover P-TA will sponsor a
hotdog and hamburger supper
with serving from 5 until 7:30
Friday night in the school
cafeteria. Hotdogs will sell for
30 cents each or four for $1 and
hamburgers will sell for 40
cents each or three for $1.
Two City Employes
Killed In Accident
Two sanitation department
employes of the City of Kings
Mountain - teothers- Isaac
Bell, 57, of Rt. 2, and J. C. Bell,
51, of Rt. 4, died in a two-car
crash about 4:25 p. m. Sunday
on N. C. 161 S. just inside the
city limits.
Chief William Roper, Jr.
said the two men were pas
sengers in a car driven by
Willie Moore, 46, of 4700 Mar-
grace Rd., which was involved
in a wreck with a car operated
by Roy Guinn, 32, of Rt. 1.
No barges have been filed
and investigating officers
were Pt. Donald Ivey and Ptl.
Houston Com.
Damages were estimated at
$700 to the Moore vehicle and
$4,000 to the Guinn car.
Chief Roper said a Kings
Mountain patrol car operated
by Sgt. Tommy King was
damaged $2,000 when it hit a
utility pole on S. Cansler St.
while enroute to the fatal
wreck. The patrol car went out
of control, the Chief said, and
was involved in a collision
with a car operated by Bobby
Eugene Etters, of 701 Crescent
Circle. The patrol car went off
the road into a curb and hit a
utility pole. The Etters car
was damaged $350, according
to investigating officers.
J. W. Gill & Sons Funeral
Home is handling arrange
ments for the accidait victims
and are incomplete.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Bell, J. C. Bell was
employed by the city sanita
tion department for 31 years.
Surviving are two sons, Carl
and Thomas Bell of Kings
Mountain; two daughters,
Mrs. Doris Brown and Mrs.
Louise Thompson of Kings
Mountain; four brothers, R. A.
and David Bell of Kings Moun
tain, Lonnell and J. W. Bell of
New Haven, Conn.; four sis
ters, Mrs. Geneva Crocker,
Mrs. Leola Crocker and Mrs.
Annie Mae Smith of Kings
Mountain and Mrs. Martha
Harris of New Haven, Conn.;
and nine grandchildren.
A native of Chester County,
S. C., Isaac Bell was the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Bell, and an employe of the
city sanitation department.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Bessie Wilkes Bell; five sons,
A. C., Ezell Bobby and Isaah
Bell, Jr. of Kings Mountain
and Frankie Bell of Gastonia;
five daughters, Mrs. Ethel
Dawkins of High Point, Mrs.
Diane Grier of Kings Moun
tain, Mrs. Bernice Littlejohn
of Shelby, Roxann and Teresa
Ann Bell of the home; four
brothers, R. A. and David Bell
of Kings Mountain, Lonnell
and J. W. Bell of New Haven,
Conn.; four sisters, Mrs.
Geneva Crocker, Mrs. Leola
Crocker and Mrs. Annie Mae
Smith of Kings Mountain; and
Mrs. Martha Harris of New
Haven, Conn, and 19 grand
children.
Judge In Error
Lamar Clements, Director of the Regional Center of the
Department of Civil Rights, Atlanta, Ga., told the Mirror-
Herald Wednesday morning that Kings Mountain District
Schools are in compliance with the civil rights law.
Kings Mountain system was among 39 schools cited by a
federal judge in Washington, D. C. ordering investigation into
possible violations of the civil rights law.
Mr. Clements said 18 of the schools listed should “not have
been on the list.”
Hesaidhehad apprised the Washington, D. C. officeofHEW
of the “mix-up”, wWchhe said was an error in the reporting of
1972-73 statistics. Kings Mountain District had met full
requirements subsequently when it closed the Early Childhood
Center at Compact because of racial disportion.
Clements said he had written Supt. Don Jones in November
advising him that KM District Schools was in “full com
pliance” and would write him again this week to clear up any
misunderstanding on the citation by U. S. District Judge John
H. Pratt.
Mirror-Herald Sponsors
File Photograph Session
The Mirror-Herald is sponsoring another
photo session with C. W. Robinson Mar. 24, 25,
26 and Apr. 1, 2 and 3.
Robinson will set up his cameras in the First
Union National Bank conference room from
9:30 a.m. until 5 p. m. on those six days.
This will be the third visit to Kings Mountain
for the photograj^er and this time, as the first
two, he will be shooting jwrtrait-type fiiotos of
individuals to be used in The Mirror-Herald
photo files.
“You are under no obligation to purchase
any photoS from Robinson,” said M-H General
Manager Darrel Austin. “The photos Robinson
makes for us will be used by the newspaper in
connection with news events. Any photos you
may want for your personal use will be be
tween the individual and the photographer.”
Who should make an appointment for a
photo?
Any one who wishes it done to have a photo on
file with the local newspaper.
Austin said people who are making the news
in Kings Mountain, men, women, oldsters and
youngsters, should make a special point of
meeting with Robinson to be photographed.
The photos will be wallet size and will be re
touched just as larger portraits done for in
dividuals. The photos taken for the newspaper
will become the sole property of the news
paper.
After your fiioto session with Robinson you
will receive proofs of the various poses taken.
You are asked to encircle your choice and re
turn all prorfs to Robinson. 'The pose you select
will be the photo that is returned to The Mirror-
Herald for filing and future use.
Remember the dates (Mon., Tues., Wed.,
Mar. 24, 25,26, AV- 1. 2,3) and the times (9:30
a. m.-5 p. m.) in the conference room at
FUNBank, S. Battleground Ave.
Then you may look at yourself in The Mirror.