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VOLUME 93, NUMBER 72
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1980
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Former Grover Mayor
Harry Services Held
Charles Franklin Harry, Jr.,
68, Mayor of Grover for 30
years during the period 194S-7S,
died Saturday at 12:30 pjn. at
his home.
Mr. Harry was chairman of
the board of Grover Industries
of Har-Ray Mills and long active
in civic, church and community
affairs. He was a native of
Cleveland County, son of the
late Effie Holmes and Charles
Franklin Harry Sr.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Estelle Johnson Harry; three
sons, Charles F. Harry 111 of
Shelby, James A. Harry of Kings
Mountain and John Harry of
Grover; one daughter, Mrs. Jean
Francis of Grover; two brothers,
David L. Harry and W.B. Harry,
both of Myrtle Beach, S.C.; and
three sisters, Mrs. Glenn (Jackie)
Rountree of Grover, Mrs.
Frances Barrier of High Point
and Mrs. Sadelle Uzzell of
Asheville. Also surviving are
nine grandchildren.
C,F. HJUIRY, IR.
Mr. Harry attended Oak
Ridge Military Academy and
Clemson College. He was a
Mason and a Deacon and former
Sunday School Superintendent
of Shiloh Presbyterian Church.
Funeral services were held
Monday morning at 11 o’clock
from Shiloh Presbyterian
Church by his pastor. Rev.
Harold Hutchinson. Interment
was in the Harry Mausoleum in
Grover Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers the family
has designated memorials to
Heidlman Research Foundation
in care of Charlotte Memorial
Hospital or Shiloh E*resbyterian
Church.
Active pallbearers were Ron
Hewitt, Jerry Simmons, Bill
Underwood, Frank Royster,
Tom Campbell, Fain Ham-
bright, Loy Paige and Ron
Queen.
Honorary pallbearers were
Bill Camp, Bob Hambright,
Qyde Randle, A.B. Davis, Jim
Gallimore, James Byers, Mayor
Bill McCaner, Dr. Charles
Adams, B.M. Gold, Jerome
Spangler, Carmel Honeycutt,
Dean McCraw, and Basil
Whitener.
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GOVERNOR’S COMMUNITY
OF EXCELLENCE
. tNTERING
CLEVELAND CO
LEAVING
GASTON CO.
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J.N. McClure Rites Held
Funeral services for Joseph
Newton McClure, 78, retired
Lithium Corporation of America
Mining Engineer, were con-
9 ducted Sunday afternoon at 1:30
p.m. from Central United
Methodist Church, of which he
was a member.
Rev. Robert Boggan officiated
fU tfie rites. Qjiiysside service
was held Monday morning at 11
a.m. from McClure Family
Cemetery in Rose Hill, Va.
Mr. McClure was a native of
• Lee County, Va., son of the late
George and Pattie Goode Mc-
Qure. He was a member of the
American Institute of Mining
I.N. McCLURE
and Metalurgical Engineering
Society.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Myrle Hubbard McClure; two
daughters. Miss Nancy Carroll
McClure of Virginia B^h, Va.
and Mrs. Joan McClure Johnson
of Garden Grove, Calif.; one
. brother, Claude B. McClure of
Rose Hill, Va. and two sisters,
Mrs. Mae Ely and Mrs. Evelyn
Robeiton, both of Rose Hill, Va.
In lieu of flowers the family
has designated memorials to
Central United Methodist
Church.
Photo by Gory Stowort
EXCELLENT COMMUNITY - Motoriats trorol- of Excollonco." Klnga Mountedn won tho honor
ing through Kinga Mountain aro now grootod in Octobor aftor a yoar^long oiiort by tho Oi-
at tho city limita by thia now aign which pro- Rco oi Economic DoTolopmont.
claima tho town oa a "Govomor'a Community
ACT Protests Vote Count
Billy Dean Putnam Loses
His Battle With Cancer
Billy Dean Putnam, 44, lost
his hard fought battle with
cancer shortly after midnight
Friday in Charlotte Memorial
Hospital.
He had been ill for nearly 22
months with hairy cell leukemia
but his condition had improved
considerably in the last few
weeks.
Funeral services were con
ducted Sunday afternoon at 3:30
p.m. from Patterson Grove Bap>-
tist Church by his pastor. Rev.
Richard Plyler, interment
following in the church
cemetery.
Mr. Putnam was a native of
Qeveland County, son of Mrs.
Lela Hord Putnam and the late
Charles Lawrence Putnam. He
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BILLY PUTNJIM
The Cleveland County Board
of Elections is expected to meet
sometime this week to determine
if sufficient questions have been
raised to conduct a recount of
the Vace ■ bertvWn three in
cumbents and three write-in can
didates for three seats on the
board of Cleveland County
Commissioners.
Bruce Seism, chairman of the
Cleveland County Association
of Taxpayers (ACT), said that he
feels that a recount will deter
mine enough votes to change the
results of last Tuesday’s election.
Incumbents Jack Palmer Jr.,
Coleman Goforth and Hugh
Dover defeated Bobby'
Crawford, Duran Johnson and
John Caveny Jr. by about 2,000
votes each.
An official protest was filed
Thursday by one of the write-in
candidates, Bobby Crawford,
alleging irregularities in the
board of commissioners election
last Tuesday.
“We’re just asking that the
vote be fairly and accurately
counted,” said Crawford, and
agreed with Seism that sufficient
votes are in dispute to guarantee
that a recount would result in
the write-in candidates winning.
Among irregularities alleged
are that insufficient space was
provided on ballots to write in
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Local Hospital
Accepting Bids
Kings Mountain Hospital is
advertising for bids for additions
and renovations in a legal adver
tisement appearing in today’s
Herald.
The bids will be received at
the office of the Administrator
Grady Howard, 706 W. King
St., until 3 pjn. on Dec. 10th.
All work will be let under four
separate contracts, including
general, electrical, mechanical
and plumbing.
A $4.8 million loan from the
Farmers Home Administration
was approved for the moderniza
tion and renovation program.
Contract is expected to be
awarded in December with
groundbreaking scheduled
thereafter.
The new project will include a
new two story building that will
house the first floor new
radiology and emergency depart
ments and business office. The
second floor level will be all pa
tient floor. Thirty five beds drom
the old wing will be moved to
the new building.
Copies of the contract
documents are available at the
office of Odell Associates, Inc.
located at 222 South Church St.
in Charlotte.
All Teenagers Should Be Required To Tour Jail
(ED. NOTE: Ionic* Scog
gins. th* Hnrald's Kings
Mountain High nows
roportor, lent summor was
on* oi sovorol studonts
across th* stat* to tok* part
in th* Closo-Up North
Carolino program in
Roloigh. On* peat oi th* pro
gram. dosignod to giv*
studonts cm insid* look at
stat* goTommont. wen o tour
oi Womon's Prison. H*r
thoughts iollow.)
All teenagers should be re
quired to tour some type of cor
rectional institute, whether a
prison, reform school or, simply,
a jail. In May, 1980,1 toured the
North Carolina Correctional
Center for Women in Raleigh
with a group of students. Thirty-
five students and teachers were
taken from Peace College to the
NCCCW on a prison bus with
barred windows and a bolted
metal door between the driver
and the passengers. This in itself
was frightening.
Upon our arrival, a prison of
ficial explained that we would
not be allowed to carry anything
inside the prison. We were then
divided into groups of five with
two guides per group.
One of the guides explained
that the color of the inmates’
clothing was significant. Green
shirts represent honor inmates;
brown, maximum security in
mates; gray, new inmates; and
blue represents medium, max
imum and close-custody in
mates. Our guide told us that in
order to become an honor grade
prisoner, an inmate has to be in
carcerated 10 per cent of her
sentence to qualify. The other
guide said, “&ing good doesn’t
count. The Parole Board bases
honor grade status on the
sentence and the nature of the
crime.”
At that moment I realized that
our “guides” were actually in
mates. I stepped a few steps
away from our guides, and
began walking with the other
four members of our group.
The first area we inspected
was the Mental Health building.
Our guides explained that there
are both in-patients and out
patients and that the officials try
to get patients out as soon as
possible. They remarked that all
types of mental illnesses exist
within the prison, but most are
due to drug and alcohol abuse.
We were then taken to the
Reception Center where new in-
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mates are fingerprinted,
photographed, stripped of all
clothing and belongings, and
sprayed for hair and body lice.
Anything on a prisoner has to be
confiscated, and the inventory
clerk tells whether or not it can
be kept. For four weeks after the
processing is complete, the
women wearing gray dresses are
not allowed to speak. If they do,
they are locked in an extremely
small room that is hot and
murky. They make inmates strip
down to the bare skin, and they
keep them in isolation until they
want to let them out. A metal
pot and a metal bed without a
mattress were the only items in
the isolation room. “Susan loves
Kathy” was written on the wall.
The next area toured was the
hospital or what the girls called
their “twenty-bed infirmary.”
The room beside the infirmary
is the “C” dorm, or the punish
ment dorm, where we observed a
woman who was on death row
for poisoning her family.
Inmates must have written
permission in order to walk
about the prison grounds. Other
than the regular eight-hour per
day work project, it is very rare
to be permitted to roam the
grounds.
Some of the work projects in
clude sewing, upholstering,
working in the cosmetology
department, and serving, cook
ing, or cleaning in the dining
room.
Inmates between the ages of
sixteen and twenty-one are re
quired to attend school regularly
during a six-month cor
respondence course that is paid
for by the state. Refusal to work
or to attend school directly
places an inmate in dorm “C.”
Both guides agreed that the
worse thing in the prison is idle
time. The inmates are allowed to
have visitors on Sundays.
(Visitors are limited to the im
mediate family and four friends.)
The inmate and visitor are allow
ed to embrace or “touch” only
once.
An inmate who is pregnant
when admitted into the prison
can keep her newborn up to
seven weeks. The child is then
taken to an orphanage or an
adoption agency.
The inmates ended the tour by
taking all visitors to the prison
church where the women
discussed the nature of their
crime and the length of their
sentences.
Joyce entered NCCCW at 16,
leaving her newborn daughter.
Joyce is now 21. She is charged
with first-degree murder, rob
bery and kidnapping. Her
sentence is two life terms.
Susan, 35, is a mother of three
sons, ages 6, 12 and 20. She is
charged with second degree
murder and is serving a life
sentence.
Brenda was sentenced for
three to five years. She did not
discuss the nature of her crime.
She was one month pregnant
when admitted to NCCCW.
Connie is sentenced for life
and ten years, and is charged
with accessory to the murder of
her husband. Seven days after
her trial, her appeal was denied.
She has one 7-year-old child.
Dorothy, 42, has done time in
flve states, having begun her
criminal record at the age of
twelve. She is charged with
credit card fraud, forgery, and
vehicle theft.
Gladys, 43, is sentenced to
30-35 years for second degree
murder. She preferred not to
discuss her family.
Laverne, 30, is an ex-school
teacher with two children. She is
charged with forgery and did not
discuss the length of her
sentence.
All of the inmate guides are an
essential part of a LIFE (Living
in a Freedomless Environment)
program that deals with juvenile
dilenquents, trying to make
them aware of imprisonment
and its effect on the individual.
Remarked one guide as we left,
“We’re doing it because we
care.”
Needless to say, the freedom
outside the prison felt sweeter
after the tour. That day, I began
to truly appreciate the freedom I
have, and 1 realized the severe
punishment that can result when
this freedom is abused.