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By GARY STEWART
Co-Editor
The Kings Mountain District
Schools Board of Education at
its regular monthly meeting
Monday night at the Schools
Administration Building voted
unanimously to rent the home of
Grover School Principal Jim
Scruggs.
The question of renting or sell
ing the home has cropped up a
number of times in the past
several months, but was ap
parently settled in February
when the board voted to allow
Scruggs to continue to live there
rent-free.
Since that meeting, however,
Scruggs and his wife, Martha,
have purchased a 50-year-old
home in Shelby and are in the
process of re-modeling it. They
expect to move there by
November and will continue to
live in the Grover School home
until then.
Scruggs, who has been prin
cipal at Grover for over 20 years,
will commute from Shelby. Mrs.
Scruggs is employed by the
Cleveland County Chapter of
the American Red Cross, which
is based in Shelby.
Scruggs was given the use of
the Grover home as a part of his
salary package when he accepted
the position in the 1950s. The
home was not built at that time
but Scruggs had an oral agree
ment with what was then the
Grover School Board that it
would be built and he would
have its use rent-free.
Grover School consolidated
with Kings Mountain in 1962
and the Kings Mountain School
Board at that time, and several
times since, upheld that oral
agreement.
Last winter, the subject came
up again, and after much discus
sion and investigation, the board
voted to leave the arrangement
as-is until the time of Scruggs’
retirement.
"Scroggs’-decision to purciiase
his own home, however, chang
ed that course of direction.
Mrs. Scruggs said the house
question last winter came at a
time when she had undergone
surgery and at the time of their
daughter’s wedding.
Since that time, she said, she
and her husband have discussed
the matter at length and felt it
would be best for them to own
their own home.
“I would need a place for
myself and my nine-year-old son
in case of family sorrow,” she
said.
At Monday’s meeting, all five
board members and Supt.
William Davis were in agree
ment that the school system
couldn’t gain much by disposing
of the house and property. Kyle
Smith, who favored renting or
selling the home last winter,
made the motion to rent h.
“Renting it to someone who
could look after the school pro
perty would be to our advan
tage,” Supt. Davis told the
board. “Someday, we may need
room for expansion. With all the
industry that is locating in the
area, it may someday increase
the enrollment.”
Portraits
To Be Made
At School
Portraits for Kings Mountain
High School seniors will be made
on Wed., Aug. 20 and Thurs.,
Aug. 21 at B.N. Barnes
Auditorium.
Seniors with last names A
through Ford should report
Wednesday morning and
students with last names beginn
ing Fort-Le should report on
Wednesday afternoon. Students
with last names beginning Leo-
Sc should report on Thursday
morning and students with last
names beginning Sh-W should
report Thursday afternoon.
If there is a conflict, students
should report at the earliest con
venience. A participation fee of
$3 will be charged to help defer
the cost of proofs, film and mail
ing.
Ladies are encouraged to wear
a Sunday dress. All young men
wishing to use tuxedos that will
be furnished must bring a white
shirt. All other men are re-
* quested to wear a cfiat and tie.
Thursday
Davis, in response to a ques
tion from board member Harold
Lineberger, said the home
should not require much
maintenance in the near future.
Scruggs maintained the home
well during his 20-plus years
there, Davis said.
Davis said he would do some
research on current rent figures
and make a recommendation on
the monthly rental rate at a later
meeting.
In other action Monday, the
board:
•Approved salary schedules
for certified and non-certified
personnel. Supt. Davis said the
schedules represent a 10 percent
increase for non-certified person
nel and an average of 14 percent
for certified.
•Approved a substitute
teachers list for the 1980-81
year.
•Approved lunch prices for
the new year. They are 30 cents
for breakfast and 60 cents for
lunch for grades K-5; 35 cents
for breakfast and 65 cents for
lunch for grades 6-12; one dollar
for adult lunches; 10 cents for
extra half-pints of milk. Except
for the milk price, which
reprents a three<ent increase, all
prices are the same as last year.
However, Food Coordinator
Martha Wright said the prices
will probably increase after Con
gress acts on a funding bill which
is now before it.
•Approved changing the
name of the Food Services Of
fice to Division of Child Nutri
tion.
•Accepted as information a
letter from a local resident advis
ing the board of a property en
croachment at West School.
Supt. Davis said the fence
around the West playground is
on the land of a citizen. “They’re
not asking that we move the
fence, but recognize that it is on
their property,” Davis said.
•Accepted the following,
teacher resignations: Virginia
Kirby, Freida McGinnis, Ken
Napier, Joy White, Cliff Whit
field and Barbara Stepp.
•Accepted the following
resignations from non-certified
personnel: Carolyn Evans,
Debra Goforth, Julia White and
Wanda McAbee.
•Approved the following
leaves of absence: Martha
Bridges, Cynthia Kiser and
Geraldine Byers.
•Appointed Jerry Hoyle as ac
ting assistant principal at Central
School for 1980-81.
•Approved fhe following
teacher appointments: Ann
Alderman, Grover; Karen Bur
ton, West; Gayla Bucher, Cen
tral; Joel Cloninger, Junior High;
Beth Fender, North; Janice Jar
rell, Central; Debra Kiser,
Bethware; William Lazenby,
Central; Sherrie Moore, Central;
Joy Moskal, East; Donna Pierce,
North; Janet Suber, Bethware;
Jennifer Williams, Central.
•Approved the following ap
pointments of non-certified per
sonnel: Karen Bell, Linda
Ramsey, Pam Turner, Joyce
Wheeler, Connie Byers, Emily
Harris, Martha Bell, Carolyn
Cobb, Susan Donald, Terry Put
nam, Lillian Hanks, ^dra
Shockley, Linda Yarbro, Chris
Odoms, Gail Dixon and Carolyn
Hicks.
•Approved a number of stu
dent transfers within the district
on the condition that space is
available, and approved several
transfers to and from the district.
•Heard a report on statistical
data comparing the Kings
Mountain Schools with other
surrounding school systems.
• Heard a report on the annual
test results for second, third,
sixth and ninth graders.
•Approved several limited
budget transfers.
•Was told by Supt. Davis of
several new programs for
1980-81.
•Approved the purchase of
two us^ mobile homes.
•Approved the appointment
of a committee to study the
dispensing of medication to
students.
•Approved increasing travel
and expense figures for 1980-81.
Teachers and others on school
business will be paid 25 cents per
mile traveled and $31 to $35
motel rates in-state and $45 out
of state. Supt. Davis said efforts
will be made to minimize travel
by all personnel.
Volume 91, Number 61
Thursday, August 15, 1980 Kings Mountain, North Carolina
Gas, Electricity Going Up
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Co-Editor
October bills will reflect
higher rates to Kings Mountain
citizens for natural gas and elec
tricity.
The projected natural gas hike
is a whopping 59.12 cents per
mcf to all classes of customers
and the proposed electric hike
will reflect a 11 '/2-12 percent in
crease.
“1 think all of us regret to get
rates like these,” Mayor John
Henry Moss remarked after
presentation of the new pro
posals by the city’s new gas con
sultant, Charles Heath of
Shelby, and W.H. Little Jr., elec
trical engineer for Southeastern
Consulting Engineers of
Charlotte.
The board approved the
natural gas increase effective
Sept. 1 after Heath explained
that the city’s supplier of natural
gas. Transcontinental Gas
Pipeline Corporation, has filed a
request for a pipeline gas adjust
ment with the federal regulatory
agency (FCC) and that these
types of requests are automatic
City Will
Seek Funds
For Plant
The city board of commis
sioners Monday night authoriz
ed Mayor John Henry Moss to
apply for federal funds to build a
$1 million hydroelectric
generating pUni on Mosr
"We’re buying $200,000
worth of energy now,” said
Comm. Jim Dickey, a member of
the committee, “and we’ve got
the water going downstretim and
might as well use it. There’s no
way for energy to go but up. 1
think this project is worthwhile
and after reading the feasibility
study think we should pursue
the project.”
Another member of the study
committee. Mayor Pro Tern Jim
Childers liked the 10 year “pay
out” idea expressed by Harza
Engineers of Chicago, Ill., hired
by the city to do a feasibility
study in 1978 and declaring in
their report that the plant was
feasible and economically sound.
Since the completion of the in-
itiay study, the Mayor appointed
Commissioners Childers and
Dickey to a committee with him
to make recommendations to the
board.
The project, according to the
Mayor, is already drawing con
siderable attention. Represen
tatives of the N.C. Department
of Energy met with the Mayor
prior to Monday’s city commis
sion meeting and told him they
see the proposed plant as very
feasible and promised to assist
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Subscription
Rates Increase
Mail subscriptions to the
Kings Mountain Herald will in
crease slightly, effective
September 1.
New rates include:
One year in North Carolina,
$12.48. Six months in North
Carolina, $6.24.
One year out of state, $13.52.
Six months out of state, $6.76.
Nine-month student subscrip
tions, $8.50.
Also effective immediately,
the Herald is beginning a policy
of charging $3.00 for processing
of birthday pictures, and $2.00
for printing Cards of Thanks.
This is due to the ever-increasing
costs of photo paepr and printing
supplies.
The Herald will continue to
print all other pictures, including
brides and engagements, free of
charge.
Pictures submitted to the
Herald for publication will be
kept on file one month from date
of publication. Pictures not pick
ed up by that time will be
destroyed.
and “there’s very little that we
can do about it.” Heath called
the new rate “simple and
substantial.” He said that gas
customers will be billed on the
new rate for all gas sold after
Sept. 1.
‘That’s rough,” said Comm.
Jim Dickey as commissioners
passed the recommendation by
the gas consultant.
Engineer Little, who
presented a preliminary review
of the city’s electric rate struc
ture, will present a final report
on Aug. 26th when the board is
expected to adopt the new rates
which Little says “barely pro
vides the city with new revenue
of some $9,(X)0 in net profits.”
Little estimates that the
average residential customer
who uses 825 kilowatts of elec
tricity per month will see his bill
jump from $39.40 to $44.13 plus
an adjustment for the wholesale
fuel charge. Little is recommen
ding that the city adds on the
fuel charge, adjusted about 10
percent, because the city did not
take in as much as it paid out last
year. Little estimates that
residential all-electric customers
using an average of 1,425
kilowatts of electricity would
pay $64.04 plus the fuel adjust
ment as compared to $58.45 per
month previously.
Little told the board that he
recommends that the city adopt
Duke Power’s winter rates
which are lower than the sum
mer rates. Little said that from
June through September,
residents would pay the winter
rates and “this would continue
Kings Mountain’s trend of try
ing to offer citizens the lowest
possible rates it can afford.”
“You can’t stick with your
present rates,” Little said in his
presentation which cited
statistics which showed a deficit
from the prior year. Little said
that Duke Power Co., the city’s
supplier, is proposing an increase
in its wholesale cost effective
Sept. I.
After the presentation. Mayor
John Moss observed “we’ll get
somewhat of a break in the elec
tric rate.”
In adopting the Little recom
mendation, the board will be
departing slightly from previous
policy in establishing electrical
rates lower than its competition,
said Little, who said adopting of
Duke’s winter rates will mean
the city comes very close to
generating enough revenue to
pay for the purchase of electrici-
ty and realizing a
$9,0(X)-$10,(XX) net revenue for
next year.
Photo by Gary Stewart
tion. They began supporting the Wilsons in
1976. The Wilsons will use the automobile,
leased lor them by the congregation, while
they are in the states on furlough. The Wilsons
will reside in Columbia. S.C.. and will return
to the Dominican Republic in June of 1981.
They are scheduled to visit with the Patterson
Grove congregation during nine weekends
while they ore in the states.
GIFT FROM CHURCH - Edwin Moore, right,
chairman of the Fellowship of Deacons of Pat
terson Grove Baptist Church, presents the
keys of a staion wagon to Rev. and Mrs. Ron
Wilson and their three children as Mrs. Moore
and Pastor and Mrs. Richard Plyler look on.
’The Wilsons, missionaries to the Dominican
Republic, ore supported by the Patterson
Grove congregation through the Foreign Mis
sion Board of the Southern Baptist Conven-
Formerly Kings Mountain Drug
Cornwell Drug Employees
Boast 155 Years Of Service
The nine employes of Corn-
well Drug Company, formerly
Kings Mountain Drug Co. in
downtown Kings Mountain,
boast a record of 155 years of
service to the Kings Mountain
public.
Cornwell Drug Company,
which was founded by G.T. Cor
nwell in Shelby on Sept. 10,
1932, will sponsor an Apprecia
tion Day sale this weekend in
celebration of the name change
from Kings Mountain Drug Co.
to Cornwell Drug Company.
Allan Propst, pharmacist and
manager of Cornwell Drug in
Kings Mountain since July 1977
when the firm was purchased,
said that “All of the people of
Cornwell Drug Co., Inc. wish to
thank the people of Kings
Mountain for the fine support
they have given the Cornwell
store and to tell you that the
prime desire and wish of all those
connected with the Cornwell
Drug Store in Kings Mountain is
to give you the best service we
have to offer.”
Propst said the name is being
changed to conform the Kings
Mountain store to the other
stores in the corporation which
operates 14 drug stores and a
Hallmark gift shop. Other drug
stores are located in Dallas,
Shelby, Lincolnton, Stanley,
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SAME FOLKS. NEW NAME - King* Mountain Drug Co. ha«
changed its name to Cornwell Drug. Pictured is the new sign
in front of the building.