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M MIA gaining always promise rmatlon shown MS, and igotlate , But In ms to be genero- rould be Ime, we I with a appro- THE TUESDAY EDITION VOL. 88 NO. TUESDAY, MARCH M, 1977 KinOV MOUMTMh MIRROR-HGRhLD 15- In Barnes Auditorium Concert Tonight ITie Kings Mountain Junior High Ninth Grade Band and the Kings Mountain Senior High Blaser Band will present a concert Tuesday (tonl^t) at 8 p. m. In B. N. Barnes Auditorium. Admission Is free and the public la Invited to attend. Both groups will play state contest festival selections. Christopher Cole will direct the Ninth Grade Band and Donald Dead will direct the KMSHS Blazer Band. For New Gty Hall Citizens Asked To Attend Plans Meet Kings Mountain Senior High Blazer Band To Perform »AY r 1371 y By TOM MCINTYRE Editor, Mirror-Herald The number one Item on tonight’s e; city commissioners meeting Is a \ discussion and review of ar- cMtectural plans for the proposed • Governmental Services Facilities I Building. At 8 p. m. this sdtemoon the commissioners will receive bids on the first phase of construction of the new city hall. For this reason the regulsu* Monday night meeting was moved to tonight. f The bids will be for site development, the first of four sec tional bids on the project Con struction on the building, under the federal grant guidelines, must begin < within 80 days of the date of grant ? acceptance, or January 0 In this case. The grant was for $89B,X0. Architect Moodye Clary of Peterson-Oary Architects, PA. of I'- Ik .t Charlott" expected *0 V it tonight’s 7:80 meeting to make recommendations on the bids. Claiy was In Kings Mountain last Friday aftemocsi to show com missioners and Mayor John H. Moss the plans tor the building. Clary told the commissioners Friday that the new city hall ar chitectural rendering la "much warmer than the preliminary drawing, reflecting much more the personality of the community." The mayor and commissioners Invite the public to attend tonight’s board meeting for a first hand look at the proposed city hall plans. Clary’s meeting followed a speclsd ccmmisaloners meeting at noon In which the board voted to purchase the former Bonnie Mill property on Gold St. between S. Cherokee and S. Piedmont for a total at $36,078 from the redevelopment commission as the site for the new dty hall. In other action at Friday’s special meeting, the board approved several resolutions for applications for funding. The first was fOr funds under the Comprehensive Employment and 97 Training Act of 1978 (GETA). This Is a continuing program In which the funds would be used to offer em ployment and on the Job training to Vietnam Era veterans, veterans, unemployed, minority groups and low Income persons. The second resolution tor ap plication tor funds under Title 30, Social Services Department for the city’s aging program. The third was a slmlleu- resolution, this one under Title ’Three, dealing with older Americans. The funds under ’Title Three are used tor services to the aging In cluding counseling, transportation, health related services, legal ser vices and adult education em ployment. The final resolution was tor ap plication for funds under Title 30 for Home Based Child Care. This program Is currently operating In Kings Mountain funded by the Community Development Block' Grants The commissioners also approved an Affirmative Action Plan (Please Thm To Page 4) Harris Bill Passage Is Delayed Following debate last week in Raleigh, Senator OUle Harris’ bill to expand the powers of the Cleveland and Rutherford county coroners may be delayed for a couple of weeks before passage. The hangup came In the House locsd government committee after the bill had passed without op position In the Senate. The local legislators were on hand at the hearing and all showed sup port for the Harris bill and a spokesman for the House committee said he felt the bill would pass In the final analysis. The Harris bill would allow coroners to remove bodies from the scenes of violence, sign death cer tificates where no foul play Is suspected and order autopsies when there is a suspicion of foul play. Crime Prevention And Youth Bureaus Moving The Kings Mountain Police Crime Prevention and Youth bureaus are moving into the rock building beside Kings Mountain Baptist Church this week. Chief Earl Lloyd said Officers Houston Com, who has been ap pointed to head the Crime Prevention Bureau, and Robert Dodge, youth bureau officer, will man the offices on a temporary basis. Funeral Rites Held For Laughter Sunday Funeral services tor William Franklin Laughter, 86, veteran postal employe, were conducted Sunday afternoon at 8 p. m. from First Baptist Church of which he was a deacon. His pastor. Rev. Clyde Bearden, was assisted by Rev. Harvey Laughter and Interment was In Mountain Rest Cemetery. Mr. Laughter died Saturday morning in Kings Mountain Hospital after declining health for sometime. He was son ot the late Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Laughter, a mason and veteran of World War n. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sue Littlejohn Laughter; four sons, Stanley Laughter of Germantown, Tenn. and Chris, Steve and Mark Laughter, all of the home; one daughter, Mrs. David Collins of Hillsborough; tour brothers, Arvll Laughter of Gastonia, the Rev. Hsurey Laughter of Icard, Woodrow Laughter of Kings Mountain and Clyde Laughter of Greenville, S. C.; and four sisters, Mrs. Ed Wlngerd, of Dundock, Md.; Mrs. Marlon Dixon of Kings Mountain; Mrs. Barney Stone of Shelby and Mrs. , Bertha Morris of Ellenboro. Harris Funeral Home was In charge of arrangements. The bill was drawn originally because of longrunnlng problems within the medical examiner system. Cleveland County Coroner Bennett Masters said earlier In a meeting with the county com missioners that reaching a medical examiner and getting him to the scene has been a problem In the past. Harris reportedly said the medical examiners "are not doing their Jobs” and that expanding the coroner’s powers would serve to expedite matters In death when m-dical examiners cannot be reached or will not come to the scene. Prior to last Wednesday’s debate Senator Harris offered an amend ment to his bill to the effect that coroners would have the authority to order autopsies on persons receiving Veterans Administration benefits at the time of their death. Senator Harris said he offered the amend ment to satisfy the Disabled American Veterans (DAV). During the debate Harris com mented that both the Cleveland County coroner and assistant coroner have had training to determine wdiether or not there Is evidence of foul play In a death. The senator also said that Dr. J. B. Gentry, a Cleveland County pathologist, supports his bill and that Dr. Gentry Is "so disgusted with the medical examiner system that he won’t do autopsies, forcing us to send the bodies to Chapel Hill." Speaking at the hearing In op position to the bill were Dr. Avery McMurry, a medical examiner from Shelby, and Dr. Page Hudson, chief medical examiner tor the state. Both McMurry and Hudson commented they felt Harris’ bill "Is (Please Tuni T^Page 4) y WILLUM LAUGHTER "We will move these two men and their offices back to city hall once the new governmental services building Is completed and renovation on the present city hall Is done," Chief Lloyd said. The two operations will be available to the public at the rock building between 8 a. m. and five p, m. dally. The phone numbers, available during these hours, are 789-7444 for the Crime Prevention Bureau and 786-8876 for the Youth Bureau. Before 8 a. m. and after 8 p. m. persons seeking contact with either bureau should call 789-8686, the police department. Chief Lloyd said that Com has not been able to take over file Crime Prevention Bureau fulltime as yet because a replacement on the regular force must be hired. He said applications for patrolmen are currently being processed. "Since we have funds allocated under the Crime Prevention Bureau grant for a display van, ’ ’ Chief Lioyd said, "We have arranged tor the Mecklenburg CPB officer to bring his fan here tonight for a demon stration to the city commissioners. ’Ihls will give us a good Idea of what we should look for when we buy our van.” TYPING COURSE A new quarter In Beginning and Intermediate Typing Courses from Cleveland County Technical In stitute starts April 4. Registration on that date Is at Compact School from 6 p. m. until 9 p. m. Mrs. Carl Finger Is Instructor. Call 786-2868 for further Intormatlon. SCHOOL PERSONNEL The Cleveland County Retired School Personnel will meet April 6 at the Elks Club In Shelby at noon. Any member who has not made reser- vations and would like to attend please do so by calling 789-3884 or 789-4910 by March 26. ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP - Charles Hamilton, president of the Kings Mountain Rotary Clid> (left) and Forrest Wheeler, principal of Kings Mountain Senior High (right) pose with Mark Mercler, this year’s Photo By Tom Mehitjrre recipient ot the Rotary annual Modem Foreign Language Award and Scholarship. Mercler Is a senior at KMSHS. Mark Mercier Is Awarded Annual Rotary Scholarship Mark Mercler, an 18-year old senior at Kings Mountain Senior High School, Is this year’s recipient of the annual KM Rotary Club Modern Foreign Language Award and Scholarship. The scholarship Is worth $600 this year, according to Charles Hamilton, president of the Rotary dub. The funds tor the scholarship are raised annually through the club’s golf tournament. Hamilton said this year the tournament will be presented April 28 and 24 In anticipation of a better turnout. The tourney has traditionally been held In the fall. The award and certificate were presented at last Thursday’s Rotary luncheon at the Kings Mountain dxintry dub by Forrest Wheeler, principal of KM Senior High. In presenting the award, Wheeler said the annual scholarship Is given to a local student who has main tained high academic achievements suid has successfully and unselfishly Involved himself In extra curricular activities. Mark is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mercler. He Is a member of the senior class. A dedicated student, he ranks 18th scholastically In the senior class. He has been accepted and plans to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There he plans to major In English and do additional studies In French. Wheeler said Mercler has thus tar successfully completed tlu'ee years of French studies here. During his Junior year Mercler was a member of the National Beta Club and the Mu Alpha Theta National Math dub. He also par ticipated In the Human Relations Council, of which he Is chairman. Wheeler sidd Mercler's activities are not limited to high school. He has actively worked with the Big Brothers - Big Sisters program where he helps elementary students to better understsuid themselves. Mercler also acts as a peer coun selor at the high school. One of the scholarship winner’s major life goals Is to teach school In Europe. Following the scholarship presentation last Thunsday, John Beck, an historian at Kings Mountain National MlUtvy Park, presented a film by the Department of The Interior on Alaska — the lost Amerlcsm frontier.
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