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TER VOLUME 95, NUMBER 4 JAN DEATON KEN KOONTZ Koontz To Speak Ken Koontz, Community Af- fairs Director for WBTV in Charlotte, will be the keynote speaker at the Eta Mu Lambda’s Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., 22nd Founders Day Observance Sun., Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. at New Bynum Chapel AME. Zion Church. The church is located at the corner of Cansler and Ellis streets in Kings ‘Mountain. Koontz began his work with "WBTV news as a parttime photographer, ‘ reporter, writer and all-purpose staffer in 1969 while in college. He joined (Cont. On Page 2) ‘Mecklenburg, and “manager THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1982 re TG Te Te ri ge EW erate KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLIN| Deaton: Publish All Expenses By GARY STEWART Editor Jan Deaton, a Bridges Drive resident and unsuccessful can- didate for the District Six com- missioner’s seat in last November’s election, took the floor at the close of Monday night’s city board meeting to question Mayor John Henry Moss on some of his travel ex- penses over the past two years and to ask the board to make public all expenses of all city employees during 1981. Mrs. Deaton said “a lot of em- phasis” had been put on a trip to Detroit for the National League of Cities meetings in December by commissioners Norman King and Jim Childers and former commissioner Bill Grissom, and | that she felt that criticism was unfair since other city officials and city employees have also taken trips at the city’s expense. The three commissioners have been the alia of a flier which has circulated around town since their early December: trip to Detroit, for which they spent a combined total of $2,490.44. The flier, however, was unsigned and commissioners Childers and King have not been able to learn who was responsible for publishing it. Employees of the City Treasurer’s office said the information—which is a matter of public record and can be re- quested by any citizen—did not come from their office. Mrs. Deaton said Mayor Moss took one trip to a National League of Cities meeting in Atlanta in 1980 which cost the city taxpayers $287.52 and that he took another trip in August of 1981 to Atlanta for a Block Grant meeting which cost the ci- ty $153.99, and that those ex- penses were “excessive.” “Would you verify this infor- mation to be true?,” Mrs. Deaton asked Moss. Moss, who said he felt the charges were not excessive, said that he attended a National League of Cities meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 24, 1980, spen- . ding two nights there. On August 30-31 of last year, he said, he received a direct invita- tion from the White House to take part in an Inter- Governmental Block Grant meeting and that he went to Atlanta on Sunday, spent Sun- day night there, attended meetings all day Monday and returned to Kings Mountain on Monday night. After the meeting, Moss sup- plied the press with information about his travel expenses for the past year, which also included a trip to Raleigh on October 27-28, 1981, to accept the Com- munity of Excellence Award from Governor Hunt. That bill came to $49.85. Moss said he did not feel his travel expenses for last year, which came to a total of $203.84, nor the $287.52 spent for the 1980 trip, were excessive. Mayor Moss later pointed out that while the commissioners were attending the National League of Cities meeting, he was in Kings Mountain working and, in fact, rode in the Kings Moun- tain Christmas Parade on November 29. Commissioner Childers was quoted in the previous week’s ar- ticle in the Herald as saying Moss was attending a Winter Baseball meeting. Moss said the Winter Baseball Meeting he attended was held on December 7-9 and he used part. of his vacation to attend it. After Moss answered Mrs. Deaton’s question, she then ask- ed if any commissioner would be Turn To Page 2A TR TR EA Can Sh AD Eg PN CT VT Ps ur RPT ep Hor O ot *u3lpW sbutry Aaxexqti Tetiowdnw Asunei « 2! 98087 *OAY FUOWPD TJ 1 is JOHN MOSS All-State Band Clinic Slated Here The South Central AllStac Band Clinic, sponsored: by the North Carolina Music Educators Association, will be held at Kings Mountain Senior High School Friday and Satur- day. Students in the band have been selected on the basis of in- dividual auditions. This district includes schools from Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, : Stanly, present a. free concert on Satur- day night at 7:30 p.m. in B.N. Barnes Auditorium. The public is invited to attend. Conducting the ninth and 10th grade bands will be Dr. Cal Huber, - director of graduate studies at the University of Ten- nessee. Dr. Huber, a native of Wisconsin, ‘received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, & North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served on the faculty staff of UNC-CH, was band director for a number of years at Wake Forest University, and was a member of the music faculty at UNC-Greensboro before assum- ing his present position at the University of Tennessee. He is well-known as a clinician and composer. - Conducting the 11th and 12th Sade band will be Dr. Jared studies at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Ark. A native of Chicago, he received his B.S.E. degree in music education from Northern Illinois University, his BM. and MM. in procussion and com- position from the Cosmopolitan School of Music, and his doc- torate in composition from Nor- thwestern Univesity. Dr. Spears has taught on all levels of educa- tion, in theory, composition, pro- : awrds has. “been Mrs. Sciom In “The Race Martha Ernst Scism of Kings Mountain has filed for a seat on the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners. To date, only two persons have filed for office. The other was incumbent Josh Hinnant, also of Kings Mountain. Mrs. Scism, 36, has lived in . Kings Mountain for 32 years. She is married to Bruce Scism and has three children. She is a | Baptist and a member of Kings Mountain Chapter 123 of the Eastern Star. : She is presently bookkeeper secretary-treasurer for Southern Excavatin Inc. She has also worked as a bank teller and for Scism General Store. Teresa Melton Aging Teresa W. Melton of Kings Mountain Monday night was named coordinator of the Kings Mountain Program for the Ag- ing. ; Her employment will be effec- tive February 1. Mrs. Melton has been employed the past four years by the Cleveland County Depart- ment of Social Services, where she has worked as a Community © Service Assistant. She has work- ed with elderly citizens .in the fuel crisis program and Contract Manager of Home Delivered Meals for. the Elderly in Cleveland and Rutherford Counties. She is a graduate of Kings Mountain High School and Gardner-Webb College, with a degree in business administra- tion. She earned an Associate Applied Science degree in Business Administration from Cleveland Tech and a Certified Data Processing degree from Career Training Institute in Gastonia. She is active in church work, is a member of the Good Earth ‘Garden Club and the North Director TERESA MELTON Carolina Social Service Associa- tion, which she serves as unit chairperson. “Our local officials have honored me with the privilege to serve as Aging Center Director, and I thank them,” Mrs. Melton commented. “With involvement of our entire city we will have a successful center. Our system will work primarily on a volunteer basis. Everyone’s donation of time will prove to be beneficial.” She is the daughter of OH. “Duke” Ernst and Pauline Ernst, and is a 1964 graduate of Kings Mountain High School. During the past 18 months, Mrs. Scism said she has attended almost every county cominis- sioners meeting and has also been to Raleigh several times to talk with and observe represen- tatives at work. “From observing these bodies,” she said, “it is very clear to me that there can be and has to be changes in elected official’s Utility Pay Plan Approved Kings Mountain City Com- missioners Monday night ap- proved a utility payment plan which will allow senior citizens, blind and handicapped persons to pay their yearly estimated utility charges in equal payments. The plan, patterned after one used by Duke Power, was sug- gested by a special committee comprised of Mayor John Henry Moss and commissioners Humes Houston, Corbet Nicholson and Jim Dickey. Moss named the committee in December after a Duke rate in- - crease was passed along to city customers. Citizens who use the plan will be allowed to estimate their year- ly power bill, and pay equal payments over the first 11 mon- ths. During the 12th month, ad- justments will be made to make the yearly payments equal the actual cost. The pay plan will take effect with the March billings. Mayor Moss said persons:an- terested in using the plan must - request it and fill out an applica- tion card. The plan is available to all senior citizens (age 62 and over) and all handicapped and blind citizens of any age. All commissioners praised the plan. Turn To Page 3-A attitudes toward the people they represent. We need to elect of- ficials who really care for the people and put forth every effort to do the best job possible at deciding where, how and to whom our tax dollars will : be spent. “lI. hope .the voters of Cleveland County will give me the opportunity to be a part of this decision-making process as a county commissioner,” she aded. “] think the present commis- sioners too often don’t seek out enough background information before voting on issues before them.” i For example, Mrs. Scism said, the commissioners approved construction of a new county dog pound which was supposed to cost $125,000, however, the cost has now risen to approx- imately $200,000. “Even some of the present commissioners can’t understand why,” she said. “Why should there be such a big difference?” (Cont. On Page 2) ‘the Faricy Award for Creative Music from Northwestern University School of Music, the Award of Merit from the Arkansas Chapter of the National Federation of Music Clubs, Outstanding Educator of America—-1973 and 1975-and has been listed in In- ternational Who’s Who in Music’ and Who’s Who in the World of Procussion—-U.S.A. Besides a continuing writing schedule, with over 50 published works, Dr. Spears has conducted ‘band festivals well as ‘appearances at univer- sities as guest lecturer. MARTHA SCISM KM Opposes Closing The City of Kings Mountain is hoping to convince the State of North Carolina that a branch office of the Employment Securi- ty Comission is needed by citizens of this area. The state plans to close 48 local and brach offices, including the one at the Kings Mountain Community Center. The KM of- fice employs two people and is a branch office of the Cleveland County office. ‘In the past, the city has pro- vided a rent-free office at the Community Center and Mayor John Henry Moss said the city is prepared to foot the office’s telephone bill at a cost of $24 to $26 per month if the state will keep the office open. Moss conferred with the six ci- ty commissioners last week and forwarded two letters to John Wilson, area ESC supervisor, in Raleigh ‘asking the state to re- consider its decision. "Moss said Governor Jim Hunt had stated that he had received “as much concern on this issue as any others he has faced during his administration” and has delayed his decision until Thurs- ~ day. Turn To Page 3-A Tom Franks Bike-A-Thon Chairman Tom Franks, has been ap- pointed Chairman for the annual “Wheels for Life” Bike-A-Thon in Kings Mountain, to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The event is scheduled for April 17 with rain date of - April 24. St. Jude Hospital is devoted to painstaking medical research and treatment of ' catastrophic childhood diseases, such as leukemia, solid cancer tumors, sickle cell anemia, infant malnutrition and others. The Memphis facility was founded by Danny Thoams in 1962. The hospital is non-sectarian, interracial and open to children anywhere afflicted with devastating childhood diseases who are referred by their local physician. Currently, 50 percent 25 the newly diagnosed leukemia nT SA TOM FRANKS patients at St. Jude can be ex- pected to be cured. Recent developments indicate a new drug combination offers hope fro remission in the other cases. Ex- tensive research continues at St. Jude. St. Jude ‘Hospital is largely supported by voluntary con- tributions, which are tax deduc- tible. Events such as the “Wheels for Life” bike ride raise the funds to continue the research, care, and treatment programs which extend to all parts of the nation. The results are studied and in- corporated into medical knowledge the world over. The children and young peo- ple who participate in this year’s ride will be wearing a hospital * identification bracelet bearing the name of the patient at St. Jude. Thus, they will be tangibly riding for a child, symbolizing children across the country: who are suffering from catastrophic illnesses. ink Carine and | | |
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