Population
Lipford, Mrs. Eugene
12-22-60
106 S. Piedmont Ave.
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Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C.,
19, I960
Seventy-First Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
VOL 71 No. 20
Great.*- Kings Mountain
City Limits
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7,206
Klagi Mountain to derived from
city directory census. The city
United statu census od 1*50.
Board Tackles School Merger Physical Problems
Registering Over,
Jousting Warming
Local News !
Bulletins
legion auxiliary
Members of the 'American Le
gion Auxiliary will complete
plans for itheir annual poppy
sale ait Thursday night’s meet
ing. The auxiliary meets at
7:30 at (the Legion Hall.
PEPSI SALE
Kings Mountain Jaycees will
conduct a Pepsi Cola Sale Sun
day afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00
p. m. on King Street. Proceeds
from [the sale will go to the civic
improvement fund.
KIWANIS CLUB
A. V. Nolan of Shelby will
talk on the medical progress
on cancer ait Thursday's meet
ing c£ the Kiwanis club. The
club convenes art 6:45 p. m. at
the Woman's Club.
HOSPITALIZED
Mrs. Phillip Baker is expect
ed home this weekend from
Gaston Memorial hospital
where she underwent surgery
Friday. She is recuperating sa
tisfactorily.
RAINBOW SUPPER
Members of the Kings Moun
tain Chapter, Order of the
Rainbow, will hold a cook-out
Saturday night at i p. m. at
the home of itheiir advisors, Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Tate.
INSTALLATION
Public installation of offi
cers of Kings Mountain As
embly. Order of Rainbow for
Girls, will be held Sunday at
3 p. m. at Masonic Hall.
TO CHARLOTTE
Mbs. Doris Whisnanit and
Mas. Woody London will rep
resent Medical Pharmacy art a
Cosmetic school sponsored by
Du Barry Cosmetics to be held
art the Hotel Barringer in Char
lotte Thursday.
MEMORIAL DAY
Patterson Grove Baptist ch
urch has scheduled Memorial
Day services for Sunday. Din
ner will be served following
the morning worship service.
Members and former member
aire invited to attend.
METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter (receipts for
the two weeks ending Wednes
day at noon totaled $233.45, in
cluding $180.80 from on-street
meters, another $21.65 from
off-street meters, and $21 from
payment of over-parking fees,
Assistant City Clerk Grace
Wolfe, reported.
Rites Thuisday
For Mr. Byars
Funeral rites for Jonathan By
ars, 78, retired farmer of Grover,
will be held Thursday morning
at 11 a. m. from Mt. Paran Bap
tist chuTOh of Blacksburg, S. C.
Rev. Raymond Dobbins will of
ficiate at the final rites and in
terment will be in the church ce
metery. The body will lie in state
one hour prior to the services.
Mr. Byars died at Broughton
Memorial hospital in Morganton
Tuesday.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Grace Moss Byars of Grover;
three sons, Luther Byars of
Charleston, S, C., Odell Byars of
Shelby and James Byars of Gro
ver; one daughter, Mrs. H. M.
White of Forest City; t^pree bro
thers, Ray Byars of Blacksburg,
S. C., Forest Byars of Gaffney,
^ and Dan Byars of Gulf Port,
^ Miss., and three sisters, Mrs. J.
S. Moss, Mrs. J. P. Sneed, and
Mrs. Euna Batchler, all of Black
sburg. Also surviving are 17
grandchildren and 20 great -
g ra ndchildren.
Nearly 300
New Voters
| On Pollbooks
Registration for (the May 28
Democratic primary ended brisk
ly last Saturday, all Kings
Mountain area registrars report
ing increases on the registration
books.
A total of 296 new names were
added by the registrars, though
some came on as transfers from
other ^nearby precincts.
'Bethware led area boxes in
registrations with 100 new voters,
Mrs. J. D. Jones reported. West
I Kings Mountain was second with
188, East Kings Mountain third
with 72 and Grover added 37
which Mrs. J. k. Ellis termed
“surprising."
Meantime, candidates and
their supporters were steamirg
up the battles far votes, and
there weie some inferences that
WHITE FISH FRY
Friends of Judge Jack White,
candidate for State Senator,
are holding a fish fry in his
honor at the American Legion
building Friday evening, from
5:30 (to 8 o’clock. The invita
tion given for publication
reads, “Everybody welcome.
Free dinner for all.”
the infighting during the final
ten days of the pre-primary poli
ticking wax hot 'and hotter.
One Kings Mountain citizen, a
professional in the Sanford ranks
told tlie Herald this week he’d
had an anonymous telephone
call Monday night from a sup
porter of Malcolm Seawell. “The
guy wouldn’t tell me his name,
but he asked me to sell out San
ford and help Seawell. I told the
guy to go to hell”.
Another race waxing warmer
the joust between State Senator
Robert Morgan and City Judge
Jack White. Senator Morgan was
here Tuesday, invading Mr.
White’s home grounds, and Mr.
White was in other parts of the
county. Last Saturday, several
youngsters dressed as clowns
were passing out balloons bear
ing White inscriptions on the
Shelby city streets.
Another visitor to Kings Moun
tain this week was U. L. Patter
son, Jr., one of three candidates
i for the District 1 county com
mission post. Another was Gene
Turner, candidate for county
commissioner in District 4. Mr.
Turner is a nephew of J. K.
Willis, Sr., of Kings Mountain.
NO PERMITS
M. H. Biser, City Inspector,
said Wednesday he has had no
requests far building permits
during the past week.
SCHOLARSHIP — Elaine Burton.'
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law-1
rence Burton, has won a $400
scholarship to Flora MacDonald
college.
Miss Burton
Wins Scholarship
Miss Elaine Burton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bur
ton, has been awarded a $400
Vardell Scholarship to Flora
MacDonald College in Red Sp
rings, N. C.
The scholarship is based on
outstanding school record and
recommendations. Miss Burton
was recently a guest of the col
lege along with other scholar
ship nominees.
Miss Button has been active in
many school activities. She is a
member of (the student council,
French club, Mountaineer staff,
future Homemakers, and Statix
‘n Dtramatix. She won the Home
maker award for 1960.
She is ? member of Long C^eek
Presbyterian church and for two
years has served as an officer on
Kings Mountain Presbytery’s
Youith Council. She was a mem-:
ber of ithe Youth Caravan to Mex
ico last summer.
Miss Burton plans to enter Flo
ra MacDonald College next fall.
Gills Chons
Concert Thursday
The Girls Chorus of Kings
Mountain high sdhool will present
its annual spring concert Thurs
day, May 19th., at 7:45 p. m. in
Central school auditorium. There
is no admission charge and the
public is invited.
Members of the Girls Chorus
are: First Sopranos: Diana Hoy
le, Carolyn Sanders, Marcia
Moore, Joyce Winders, Loreine
Norman, Carol Dover, and Diane
Carroll; Second Sopranos: Char
lene YaYtes, Pearl Whitaker, O
pal Tesanier; Bosann Smith, and
Rebecca Bowers; Altos: Colean
Wiright, Phyllis Gregory, Char
lotte Greene, Linda Gordon,
Brenda Gordon; and the accom
panist far (the chorus is Patty
Huffstetler.
Virgil Weathers
Heads Democrats
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Mr. Lipfoid
Is Renamed
Vice-President
BY MARTIN HARMON /
Cleveland County Democrats,
hopefully anticipating election^
a Democratic president com* No
vember, waxed their most dritVus-1
iastic in several bieniptfiijgessionsj
Saturday, as they * frequently
burst into applauM at the 'bars
hurled GOP-wa^il>y Judge B. T.;
Falls, Jr., veteran-Cleveland par-j
ty leader.
Following the Session, Demo- j
cratic precmsfc -chairmen convened \
to organizeipr the biennium and
named VirgiP Weathers, of Shel
by, county Democratic chairman,
succeeding C. C. (Cobby) Horn,
wlho resigned after ten years as
party <Mef. The chairmen, who
form the county executive com
mittee, re-elected Mrs. J. E. Lip
ford, Kings Mountain, vice-chair
man, and named A. A. Powell
another vice-chairman, and David
Royster, secretary.
Attending convention from the!
Kings 'Mountain area were Came
ron Ware and J. D. Jones, Beth
ware, Hugh D. Ormand, Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. (Pete) McDaniel, Jr.,
Martin Harmon and Jack White,
West Kings Mountain, and J. Ol
lie Harris, S. A. Crouse, and Mrs.
J. E. Lipford, East Kings Moun
tain.
Judge Falls, who remarked;
he’d been voting Democratic for
60 years, advised, “cake ncflSiing
for granted. It’s fatal for the can
didate and for the party.
“But this is the year of chan
ge.”
He charged “Nixon speaks in
seven languages.”
“It’s a Democratic year," he
predicted, adding, “I’ve never
found any use for Republican
ism.”
Chairman Horn recognized Oli
ver Anthony, Jr.., who said he
had a confession to make. “I
backslid,” Mr. Anthony told the
convention, “and I had to eat my
words. Some say 'I’m for the
man.’ That’s no good. There isn’t
any good in the Republican par
ty.”
Ascension Service
At Si. Matthew's
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
will observe (the Festival of the
Ascension Sunday, with special
music by the choir and sermon
by the pastor, Dr. W. P. Gerber
ding.
Sunday evening at 6:30 p. m.
a congregational covered dish
supper will be held in the recre
ational hall of the chrnch. The
supper is to recognize new mem
bers and to bid farewell to the
Bruce Thorbum’s who are leav
ing Kings Mountain soon.
Grover, Bethware
Commencement exercises for
166 Grover high school seniors
will begin at Sunday with bac
calaureate services at 8 p. m. at
Grover’s First Baptist church.
Diplomas will be awarded at
finals exercises next Friday, May
27, at 8 p. an. in the high school
auditorium.
Rev. Henry R. Bright, pastor
of New Buffalo Baptist church,
will deliver the (baccalaureate
sermon on the topic, “The Call
: of the Upper Road.” Linda Stew
i art will read the scripture and
' Rudolph Lemmons will offer the
opening prayer. Phillip Humph
ries, class president, will intro
duce the speaker and Betty Jo
Wylie will render special music.
The high school chorus, under
direction of Mrs. F. B. Hamlbright
will sing “Beautiful Saviour."
Members of the graduating
cdass are Evelyn Allen, Robert
Bess, Billy Crocker, Brenda Do-1
ver Lowranee, Dwight Edwards,
Kenneth Fortenbury, Billy Ho-i
well, Phillip Humphries, Russell
Morrison, Shirley Panther, Linda,
Stewart, Brenda Thomas, Doro
thy Wilson, Arlene Wright, Betty:
Jo Wylie, and Richard Watterson.
Class mascots are Teresa Holt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston
Holt, and Charles Welch, son of!
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Welch.
Graduation Programs To Begin
WINS AWARD — Jessie Van Put
nam, Kings Mountain junior in
the School of Pharmacy at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, has been awarded
the sportsmanship award pre
sented by Kappa Psi pharmac
eutical fraternity. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Put
NO FIRES
City Fireman C. D. Ware said
Wednesday the department
has had no alairms during the
week.
Rev. Marion DuBose, pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist church,1
will deliver the baccalaureate ser j
xnon to 27 Bethware high school
seniors Sunday night.
Commencement exercises will
begin on Sunday with the baocal
aureate sermon and conclude next
Friday when diplomas will be a
warded. Both programs begin a
8 p. m. in the school auditorium
The invocation will be given by
Rev.. Fred Hicks and Rev. Frank
Blalock will read the scripture I
Principal R. G. Franklin will pre !
sent the speaker and Rev. Wood '
row W. Moss will pronounce the1
benediction. The Girls Chorus will
sing and Bobby Webster will ren-1
der special music.
Members of the graduating
class are Ruth Blalock, Ruby Kay
Carroll, Kimbrough Cashion,j
Mary Helen Chapman, Betty Jean
Eaker, Emily Alice Hamrick, Ja-:
net Hamrick, Martha Maxine
Hamrick, Edith Virginia McClain, |
Cumie Jean Moore, Linda Jane
Moore, Joan Moss, Barbara Lane
Yarbrough, Bobby Dean Bridges,
William Charles Bolin, Roger
Dean’ Bowen, Edward Crowder 1
Davis, Bob Troy Dover, Charles
Gary Fisher, Paul Eugene Hin- '
son, Donald Keith Home, Ronnie
Dean Lronhardt, Charles Love
lace, Jerry Eugene Patterson,
Maynard Phitbeck, David Queen
and David Perry Smith.
Glass mascots are Tammy
Hamrick and Marlene Cn«*>. j
RE-ELECTED — Mrs. J. E. Lip
ford, of Kings Mountain, was rt
elected Saturday as vice-chair
man of Cleveland County Dem
ocrats.
flower Show
Winners Given
Mrs. W. L. Pressly won the tri
color award for the most outstan
ding exhibit, Mrs. George H Ma
uney copped the award of dis
tinction and Mrs. M. A. Ware won
the award of merit at Friday’s
flower show of Kings Mountain
Garden club. .
Entries in the flower show di
vision alone attracted over 286
exhibits plus the numerous other
■inti-kti m children in a bird
drawing contest and a corsage
making category.
The show, open at Central Me
thodist church educational unit,
attracted a large crowd of visi-j
tors fromi 2; 30 until 9 p, m. Fri-I
day. Planned by the 18 members!
of the sponsoring club, the show
invited entries from any non-gar
den or garden dub member. Each
club member entered all divisions
of the show.
The show developed the theme,
Darkness-Dawn-Day” from the
Biblical Story of Creation. In the
Artistic divisions, the arrange
ments pictured the seven days of
creation. One large division was
the horticulture section and an
other was the children's division.
A religious emphasis was poin
ted out in the over 125 articles
on display from the Holy Land,
including handwork, carving, jew
elry, oil lamps, stones from inside
the tomb of Christ, a colorful
mold of the city in the temple a
rea, a huge hand-carved camel
of olive tree wood, dressed dolls
representing the women of Be
thlehem, soil and water from the
Jordan, rocks and shells from the
Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Gali
lee, and Dead Sea, a stone from
mr. uaivary, hand-made linens,
sanuple of barley, various woods,
a dried taum'bleweed, plus color
ful maps of the Holy Land in a
descriptive educational feature.
Some 95 children entered their
bird drawings in the large bird
poster division. Other exhibits
were a state conservation wild-i
life display, a Boy Scout exhibit
by the Lutheran Troop of which
Otis Falls, Jr., is scoutmaster, a
library exhibit featuring garden
club books, and an exhibit which
detailed garden club projects.
Pictures labeled “Before and Af
ter” planting of 1700 Paul Scar
let rose bushes, 450 white dog
wood, and 12 crabapple trees at
Kings Mountain Hospital.
(Nine out-of-town judges and,
one Kings Mountain woman werej
here to judge the arrangements!
and show exhibits. The list of
judges included Mrs. Deaton, Mrs.
Huffman, Mrs. Martin, and Mrs.
Cody, all of Hickory; Mis. Paul;
Kincaid, Mrs. Turner and Mrs.
Ennis Jackson, all of Gastonia,
and Mrs. W. M. Gantt of Kings
Mountain. Luncheon was served
to the show judges and other
guests.
Complete list of ribbon winners
n the various divisions of the.
show follows:
First Day Of Creation” —
Light was called Day, Darkness!
vas called Night.” Mrs. Howard
Jackson, 1st; Mrs. Joe Neisler,'
hid; Mrs. John Cheshire, 3rd;'
Mrs. Vernon Crony* honorable j
nention. The first prise entry!
vas a clever interpretation using
vfhite flowers in companion con- ■
:ainers and accents of black ao
:essories.
'“Second Day of Creation" —
Phe Sun to Shine by Day - the
Moon to Shine by Night" - Mrs.
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County Citizens
Make Decision
To Join City
Kings Mountain area neigh
bors voted to marry schools of
the (township in brisk voting on
Saturday. The count was 1120
to 874.
Beth ware voters favored the
proposal 459 to 384, while Grover
opposed 398 to 193.
Park Grace was the “kicker",
voting well over 4 to 11 in favor,
468 to 92.
'Since the election there have1
been scattered spots of effort to:
abrogate the election result.
Some Grover citizens have re
tained a lawyer and said they
would seek to get the Grover
school area to secede from the
newly mergered district.
A few Bethware citizens have
been reported to be alarmed con
cerning the teaching of agricul-!
ture in the merged high school,
to at Kings Mountain Central
plant until funds are obtained
for a new more centrally located
high school.
B. N. Barnes, superintendent of
the district, informed his board
of education Monday night that
state department of education of
ficials have already been in
Kings Mountin and that arrange
ments will be made to offer agri
culture. Myers Hambright, Beth
ware agriculture teacher, said he
was a participant in ‘the conver
sations.
Effective date of the merger,
as required by state law, is July
1, beginning of the new fiscal
year.
Press Service Say:
Armory Approved
Associated Press reported from
Raleigh last week that a $140,
000 appropriation for a National
Guard Armory here has been ap
proved.
C-apt. Humes Houston, com
manding the Kings Mountain
unit, said Wednesday he’s had
no communications from head
quarters concerning the Armory
but feels sure the news report
correct.
“Prom the experience of Lin
oolnton and Belmont, I am in
formed, it usually takes about
five or six days for the paper
work to be done and transported
through channels,” Capt. Hous
tonsaid.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges said
Wednesday he hadn't received
anything official on the proposal.
The city some months ago
committed itself to furnishing
its part ($20,000) of the cost of
the building and the county
board of commissioners has also
indicated It would furnish its
portion of the construction cost.
ARP's Withdraw
Re-zoning Bid
Boyce Memorial ARP church
withdrew its request for re-zon
mg a portion of its lot fronting
on 1ST. Piedmont avenue, Mayor
Glee A. Bridges announced at
the opening of last Thursday’s
board session.
a «r?me 15 to 20 neighbors to the
AKP propertry were present to
oppose the re-zoning and a few
AKP members, who had not
learned the withddrawal decision
were also present.
The commission than proceeded
o transact a fairly long agenda
in record time of 20 minutes, in
cl™InS re-zoning of three prop
erties from residential area to
business zone.
They were:
T3J°t ^°- 21- Block A. Map
226, Herndon property, South
Side of W. Ridge stree, between
City and Cansler streets;
2) Northeast comer of Cleve
land avenue and Liqwood road,
iinrezoned residential portion of
W. B. Logan, property;
3) Southeast corner of Cleve
land avenue and Linwood road
unrezoned residential portion of
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TO BOYS' STATE — Billy Jones,
above, and James Swansson will
represent Kings Mountain at
Boys' State at Chapel Hill.
Delegates Named
To Boy's State
James Swanssiott and Billie Jo
nes, Kings Mountain high school
juniors, have been selected as
delegates to annual Tar Heel
Boys’ State in June.
The announcement was made
by American Legion Post 155
which sponsors the delegates.
Boys’ State is held on the campus
of the University of North Car
olina,
Swansson is the son of Rune
Swansson and the late Mrs.
Swansson and Jones is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jones.
Bank Owners
Approve Merger
All that remains for the? merger
of First National Bank of Kings
Mountain with First Union Na
tional Bank of North Carolina is
approval of the United States
Comptroller of the Currency.
First Union National stock
holders approved the merger last
Thursday and First National
Bank stockholders acted similar
ly on Friday.
Indications are that approval
can be anticipated in about 30
days, R. S. Lennon, First National
executive vice-president, said.
At last Friday’s meeting here,
Mr. Lernnon reported, 9633 shares
of the 10,000 shares of stock out
standing were voted, with 6630
shares present and another 3003
represented by proxies.
The vote in favor of the mer- j
ger was 9513 in favor and 120 a-'
gainsrt.
First Union National officials I
attending the meeting here were
Carl McCraw, president; Louis
D. Brooks, vice-president; C. C.
Hope, Jr., secretary; and Tom
Grant, senior vice-president in
charge of the trust department j
Drunken Driving
Charged To Editor
Martin Hannon, Herald editor,
was arrested on charge of drunk
en driving by City Officers Enos
Freeman and Charles Ware Mon
day about 6 o’clock, as Mr. Har- \
mon parked his car in front of
the Herald building.
Trial is scheduled for Monday
in city recorder’s oourt.
Schools To Get New Activity Bus;
52,000 From Kiwaitis Talent Event
Kings Mountain schools wore
virtually assured a new activity
jus Thursday when over $2000
vas donated to the fund from
Sie Kiwanis • dub sponsored tal
?nt show.
The talent show — which at
:racted a full house at Central
luditorium — included winners
in competition from the various
schools of the city system who
were vielng for prizes.
B. S. Peeler, Jr., was general
chairman of the show which Ki
wanians annually sponsor.
The complete list of winners
will be published next week. 1
Several Plans
Ire Considered
For Fall I960
BY DAVID BAITY
Kings Mountain City School
Board members rolled up their
sleeves Monday night to taekle
the problems of working out con
solidation.
The board discussed three ten
tative consolidation plans. Sug
gestions were:
1) To move Kings Mountain
seventh and eighth grades into
temporary classrooms in audi
toriums In ^ the city elementary
schools, thus vacating the Cen
tral school plant of all elemen
tary students and making room
for the incoming 240 high school
students from Bethware and Gro
ver.
2) To eliminate the ninth grade
from Kings Mountain high school
leaving ninth grades in Grover
and Bethware schools.
3) To move either seventh or
eighth grades from the Central
school plant to classes in Grover
and Bethware.
The third suggestion, made by
Supt. B. N. Barnes was received
enthusiastically. The plan would
remove from 225 to 260 pupils
from the Kings Mountain High
School building and Mr. Barnes
listed his reasons for considera
tion of (the move as follows:
1) Use of auditoriums for
classes would make conditions
too crowded and inconvienent
tind would make adjustment to
consolidation a time of strife for
the students,
2) The junior high students
would be able to take full ad
vantage of high school facilities
at Grover and Bethware such as
gymnasium,1?, libraries, and sci
ence labs which will be left open
when their high school students
coti.e to Kings 'Mountain.
3) The junior high students
from Kings Mountain would go
out into the district to meet and
mingle with the present county
school students. “They will get
to know each other," Mr. Barnes
said, “and when they come to
high school the following year,
it won’t be as Grover, Bethware,
or Kings Mountain, but as
friends and students in the same
school.”
Mr. Barnes said the plan id
move eighth grade students to
the other two schools would
mean these students would have
to ride a schol bus for only one
year, which, he surmised, would
be an adventure to them.
The board stressed these are
only possibilities and the state
school planning board may ren
der a proposal which would be
better than any the board dis
cussed.
“Effecting consolidation is go
ing to take co-operation on the
part of everyone concerned,”
Supt. Barnes said. He noted the
relocation of students may prove
inconvenient to parents, but the
measure is only temporary and
urged that all look to the time
when the Kings Mountain dis
trict will be able to construct the
proposed high school plant
Agriculture Classes
The question of “Will there,
or will there not, be agriculture
classes in the city school system
next fall?" was answered deci
sively by Supt. Barnes at the
Monday night meeting.
‘That has all been settled,”
Barnes said. “We have been as
sured by the district supervisor
of vocational agriculture, R. J.
Denny, that he will work with us
to establish an agriculture de
partment”
Members of the school board
said that not only would the
course be taught, but the de
partment will be expanded, ta
king inithe best aspects of the
Grover and Bethware depart
ments.
Mr. Barnes noted that some
Kings Mountain High school stu
dents had voiced interest in agri
culture, and with the consolida
tion on they, too, will have a
chance to take the course.
Board Chairman Fred Plonk
said a temporary building may
have to be constructed to house
the department, but agriculture
will be taughit in the school next
tall.
The board pointed out that sur
veys must be made first, but all
teachers who have been recom
mended by school committees
will be retained and all prior
jounty board or committee com
mittments will be honored.
Barnes said principals in the
aresent set-up will have the op
portunity to remain in their pre
sent schools, especially if they
plan to move junior high stu
ients from Kings Mountain to
Srover and Bethware proves ef
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