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972 0 o Greater Kitiffs Mountain’s Progressive Newspaper 10c Vol. II No. 7 Kings Mountain Mirror, Wednesday, October 18, 1972 14 Pages This Week Phifer Property Finalized ■■>W ■ nnnrGLoi ISMMKMUlkl MlMi <•••»«« ‘'fa.we tCf Old Mur-Gh Abandoned Mur-Glo Spinning Mill, in operation in Kings Mountain since uel Kane of North American Mills in Gastonia. Plans for the 1900 has “temporarily” ceased production according to Man- mill are indefinite. (Mirror Photo) Mur-Glo Closing Termed “Temporary” Mur-Glo, Inc., located on West Gold Street has "temporarily” ended 72 years of operation this week. According to Manuel Kane of North A- mSilcan Mills in Gastonia, the closing is "temporary.” North American has been leasing the . Bonnie Mill property for several years and has continued the policy of spinning cotton yarn. The lease held by North American expires in October of 1973. Kane said that plans for use of the mill were "indefinite” at present. He added that North American "decided to close the mill for a while to see what happens.” The mill and property is zoned com mercial on redevelopment maps and is scheduled to be purchased by the com mission for redevelopment. The rede velopment commission had made an a- greement a few months back to wait un til the lease had expired before taking any action on the property. By Sylvia Holmes Approximately sixty invited persons at tended a luncheon at West School on Thu rsday, October 12th. The purpose of the meeting was to gain support for the pro posed school bond issue which will be decided by election on December 9th. Those attending the meeting were sch ool principals, P.T.A. presidents, civic leaders and Interested parents. School superintendent Donald Jones explained in detail how the money would be spent if the bond issue is approved. Speaking in support of the issue were Mayor John Henry Moss and County Commissioner elect. Josh Hinnant. Using the theme "It's the kids that cou nt,” Mr. Jones distributed explanatory booklets to all those present. There are four major goals to be ach ieved by the passing of the bond issue. The first goal is to build a new school to house 8th and 9th grades. This faci lity will be located on Phifer Road be yond the high school tennis courts. The second goal is to build an auditor ium with seating capacity of 1,200 per sons at the Kings Mountain High Scbo<d. The third goal is to buUd classrooms, multip ^multipurpose rooms and cafeteria reno- rvations at East and West Elementary Schools. The fourth goal is classroom renova tions, cafeteria additions and covered walks at Bethware, classroom and au ditorium renovations and cafeteria add itions at Grover. Bethware and Grover are both elementary schools. If the building program is completed the present High School sUl then house the 10th, 11th and 12th grades. The new bui lding wUl house 8th and 9th. Central School will then be used tor 9th and 6tfa grades and the elementary school would eventually house kindergarten through fifth grade. Mr. Jones pointed out that the present high school building was designed for 1,000 students but there are 1,250 stu dents currently using the school, six mo bile classrooms are being used to house them all and every inch of space is be ing used even to the extent that two un used elevator shafts have been opened up for storage space and one teacher us es an old ticket booth set up in a corner of the gym in lieu of an office! When 8th and 9th grades can be housed in a new school then Central School wou ld be quite adequate for housing 6th and 7th grades. By removing sixth grade from the el ementary schools some of the overcro wding there wUl be alleviated. West I School now uses two mobile classrooms " and Bethware has had to make room for three classes in its old home economics building. It is highly likely that the next State le gislature will provide a public kinder garten program which will only be ava ilable to those elementary schools hav ing adequate classroom space. Kings Mountain wants to be In the position to avaU to itself of the kindergarten pro gram. Mr. Jones also explained that old sch ool buildings are still being utilized. The Davidson classrooms house the ad ministrative offices. Compact has every classroom fUled by headstart, kinderga rten and grades 1 through 3 (the Early Childhood Education Center) and Park Grace School is the maintenance work shop. It is difficult to hold assembly pro grams in the high school gym and the proposed auditorium would be a benefit to the whole community as well as the student body. Eligible to vote in the bond issue elec tion are the residents of No. 4 township (Kings Mountain School District). Those persons currently registered lor county, state and national elections will be able to vote. Those registered for city elec tions only wUl need to re-register as the election is being handled by the County. Arrangements tor registering may be made by calling Mrs. Nell Cranford at 739-3132 for East K.M.; Mrs. J.H. Ar thur at 739-5318 lor West K.M.; Mrs. Alice C. Conner at 739-3657 for Beth ware and Mrs. J.B. Ellis at 937-7772 for Grover. It was pointed out that Shelby recently passed its bond issue and Cleveland Co unty, having lost by 8 votes only, well unty, having lost by 8 votes only, will protobly hold another election before the deadline after which all school bond iss ue elections will be held on a county wi de basis. If the Kings Mountain bid fa ils and the County passes. Kings Moun tain will have to wait a long time before the County will allow another elections particularly if the needs of Shelby and Cleveland have been met. Following a question and answer ses sion, the audience was given the oppor tunity to sign up if they wished to help spread information on the issue and then the meeting was adjourned. The lunch eon was supplied by the courtesy of an unnamed donor. /■j ..J 4 New Attendance Rules Adopted For Central School Bond Issue Explained At Luncheon By Jay Ashley Mirror News Editor The Kings Mountain Board of Educa tion met in its regular meeting Monday night to discuss a fairly brief agenda and lake board action on only two issues. The board heard a synopsis of attend ance regulations as proposed by Central Junior High from Bill ^tes. Bates ac ted in the stead of superintendent Donald Jones for the meeting. As passed by the board, the regulations at the junior high wUl be similar to those Implemented a few weeks ago by the High School. The student must attend classes at least 75 days out of each semester in order to pass. Each student will have a maximum of 15 days for absences during each semester and these absences wUl be for sickness, family emergencies and the like. If prolonged Illnesses keep a student from school, then upon return the student must have a note from his parents as well as a note from a doctor varlfying the absences as medical. Wri tten notes will be required from parents after each absence of any kind. F or fir st offense truancies there will be a one day suspension and parents must return with child. Two points will be deducted from the students nine weeks grade for each class missed due to truancy and two points will be deducted for each class missed due to suspension. For second truancies suspension wUI be from three to five days and for third of fenses a suspension of ten days will be invoked. Point deductions for second and third truancies are the same as tor one. Bates pointed out that the rules are al most the same as the high school’s ru les and that the high school absentee rate has dropped almost 25% since in ception of the rules. The board praised the rules and agreed that “responslbU- Mrs. Peggy Vaughn, Mrs. Margaret Arch and Mrs. Virginia f Whinners display the items for which Pegp’ and Virginia won a total of fifteen ribbons at Cleveland County Fair last week. Sisters Win Fair Awards Two sisters who are natives of Ohio and now Kings Mountain residents are taking after their mother, Mrs. Marga ret Arch, by winning a large number of County Fair ribbons. The sisters are Mrs. Lyle (Sam) Vaughn and Mrs. John Berry who captured several ribbons ea ch with samples of sewing, knitting, em broidery and needlepoint. Their mother, who is currently visiting here, won 17 ribbons at the Belmont County Fair, Ohio in 1968 bringing her total to over a hundred ribbons won over the years for samples of needlework and crafts. In addition to these homecraft skUls, Mrs. Arch is also a bridge whizz hold ing 240 master points. She plans to spend at least another two months here staying with daughter, Peggy and during that time she hopes to be giving bridge lessons both privately and in groups. Unlike their mother, neither Peggy nor Virginia play bridge! Declines Job Richard D, (Dick) McNeely who had been announced as the assistant direc tor and project manager of the Kings Mountain Redevelopment Commission will not be coming to Kings Mountain as planned. Gene White, director of Redevelopment stated that McNeely would Instead be go ing to Wilmington. White expressed re gret about McNeely’s plans and hopes that someone else wUl be able to take the position in the future. 1st Place Slot The race for placing in the football contest this week was not as hot and hea vy as has been in the past few weeks. Most people tripped on the Crest vs. CherryvUle contest and the Gardner Webb vs. Catawba match. We have no perfect ballots but one person did man age to get nine right. Scott Ledford got every game correct except for the East Mecldenburg-Huss game. Congrats go to Scott and his fellow winners this week. The others were: 1. Scott Ledford- Nine correct (38 to tal points). 2. John Cobb- Eight correct (41 total points). 3. Ken Short- Eight correct (39 total points). To enter the fabulous football contest send entry blanks to Contest, P.O. Box 345, Kings Mountain or bring ’em by the office. ity must be learned now for use in life and work.” A motion to adopt the rules for Central was unanimously approved. The other item for board action con cerned a revision in the school calen dar for teacher work days. October 30th was set aside for the first teacher eva luation day on the local level and March 22nd was cited for the second evalua tion day. March 22nd will be dependent however on loss of days for snow, etc. Motion was made and passed that the re vision be adopted. P. A. (Tippy) Francis addressed the board concerning the property the board has purchased adjacent to the stadium and baseball field at the high school. Francis and Alex Owens had headed the property committee and reported that all plans were finalized except for the deed and it was expected to be forthcoming in the next week. Francis told members that “the property should show its full potential in the next twenty four mon ths,” dependent on the bond referendum. In other property business it was noted by chairman George Mauney that the property at West School had not yet be en purchased. Although it was reported last week that the deal had been finaliz ed, Mauney stated that the bid had been entered at $7000 but that bidding is stUl open. The board members perused the bud get request from the State Department of Public Instruction for the 1973-75 Bi ennium. No action was required on the matter although it was discussed to some length. Number one priority for the budget was paying teachers for a ten month period. Most controversy in this area comes from teachers who are wa nting a straight across the board incre ase in their salaries. The budget does hold for a 5% increase each year for two years but it ranks 37th in priority and is doubtful to be implemented. Ot- lier area in the budget schedule include money for kindergarten faculties, food services, clerical expenses and occupa tional vocation studies. Total figures for the biennium budget reach between $1.2 and $1.3 billion. Information items on the agenda inclu ded discussion on board attendance to the American Management Association to be held in the near future. Plans for the event have not yet been finalized. It was noted that the North Carolina School Boards Association meeting wUl be held November 2, 3, and 4 in Ashe- vUle. Jim Herndon finished the agenda by commenting on the recent meeting at West School to discuss and present the merits of the upcoming bond referen dum. Herndon said the meeting was "quite informative and that the results were well worth the effort.” Other su ch sessions are in the planning. One such event will be held on November 6 at 7:00 p.m. for the Jaycees, Mer chants Association and the Chamber of Commerce. Area People Involved In Wrecks Woman Charged In Pistol Slaying Virginia M. Foster of Second Street in Kings Mountain is being held in the Cle veland County jail without bond after be ing charged with murder in the pistol slaying of Cheryl Ann Foster. According to one of the investigating officers, Lt. David Corn, Cheryl Ann Foster and Virginia Foster had an alter cation at the intersection of Battleground and Piedmont about 11:50 Thursday mor ning. It was then that Virginia F oster shot Cheryl Ann in the side. Four bull ets were fired from the gun and Corn reported that how many struck the vic tim was unknown. Cheryl Ann Foster was escorted to the Kings Mountain Hospital and died about 12:30 p.m. Trial for Virginia Foster is set for October 26. Brown Lung Hearing Set For Nov. 1 A hearing in the case of Bill Oliver, the Kings Mountain textUe worker em ployed by Park Yarn who says he has the Brown Lung disease, is scheduled for 10 a.m. on November 1 in Charlotte. Park Yarn Plant Manager John C. Smathers was contacted by the MIRROR regarding the hearing. Smathers said the hearing had been postponed earlier because the solicitor was ill. Accord ing to Smathers, the subject of the hearing will be to hear the medical tes timony of Drs. Alexander and Landis re garding Oliver’s condition. Four auto accidents involving Kings Mountain people were reported over the weekend by the Highway Patrol. Cynthia Kay Robinson, 16, of 906 Sher wood Lane was involved in a wreck on U.S. 74 three miles west from RP 2250 toward RP 2036 Saturday at 12:15 a.m. According to Trooper J.D. Hoyle, she was going east on 74 when the right front tire blew causing the car to swerve to the left and onto the median. Damage to the Robinson 1969 Mercury was $275. Steve Adams, 20, of Route 3, Kings Mo untain was cited for failure to reduce speed after hitting two cars that had al ready wrecked Sunday at 2:55 a.m. on R P 1861. It was reported that Adams came around the curve on RP 1861 and ran into two cars that had previously wrecked on the road. Damage to his 1964 Pontiac was $500. Trooper Reid reported that a wreck Sunday at 1:15 p.m. one mile south of Kings Mountain on RPR 2267 involved two Kings Mountain people. They were Ronnie Lee Harmon, 21 of Route 2 and Helen Boehler Moss, 41, of 5080 Mid- pines. The trooper said that Harmon was in the eastbound lane of 2267 talk ing with some people in a yard. The ba ck glass of his convertible was discol ored and he didn’t see Helen Moss as he pulled away into the west lane. Harmon was charg^ with faUing to make a mov ement in safety and with having a dis colored rear window. Damage to the Moss auto was listed at $125 and $25 to Harmon’s car. Another Sunday wreck occured one mi le south of Kings Mountain on RP 2263 at 2:30 p.m. Reports stated that Hayes Lee Watson, 42, of Gastonia was traveling north on RP 2263 when he crossed the center line and hit the car driven by Ro nald Dean Gore, 16, of Route 1, Kings Mountain in the left side. Trooper B.W. Props! cited Watson for driving left of center and driving under the influence. $200 worth of damage was done to the Gore 1966 Chevrolet and $100 was done to Watson’s 1965 Chevrolet. y Bridget Glass presents the flag she received from Congressman Jim BroyfaUl to her homeroom teacher Mrs. Carolyn Westmoreland, left and her social studies teacher Mrs Elizabeth Allen. Principal of the Grover School Mr. James Scruggs stands in the background holding the cerUficate Bridget received along with the “special flag." (Mirror Photo) SEE RELATED STORY ON PAGE 7.
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