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KiriC? MOUMTWM MIRROR
VOL. 89 NO. 48
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 38086 TUESDAY, MAY 80,1978
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L. E. (JOSH) HINNANT
C. M. PEELER, JR.
DAVIDM. (PETE) STAIfET
Voter Turnout Light
In Today’s Primary
Voter turnout In King* Mountain
for today’s Second Democratic
Primary has been light and local
observers feel perhaps the state
wide tsdly will run less than In the
first primary on May 2.
Local voters have only two baUots
to mark today. On the county level
voters are asked to select two men to
serve on the county board of com
missioners. The candidates are L. E.
( (Josh) Hlimant of Kings Mountain,
C. Sit. Peeler Jr. of Shelby amt David
M. (Pete) Stamey of PolkvUle.
In the May 3 pilmary Hlimant led
the field In votes gathered, but did
not have enough to be declared one
of the clear winners. Peeler was
second and Stamey third. Hlimant
and Peeler are the Incumbents and
Stamey Is the novice. It was his
perogatlve to call for a runoff
election.
Two other commissioners can
didates Involved In the May 3
primary were Tommy P. Bridges of
Kings Mountain and J. D. (Doc)
IVinier of Shelby. Bridges was
eligible to enter the runoff, but chose
Instead to dropout and begin plan
ning another campaign two years
fi'om now.
The two winners today will
automaUeally take the county board
seats since there la no R^ubllcan
opposition In the November general
election.
Ihe second baUot Include* the
names of Luther Hodges Jr. and
John Ingram who seek the
Democratic nod to oppose the OOPs
Incumbent U. S. Senator Jesse
Helms In November.
At KM Senior High
Rnal Exercise Thursday
Commencement exercises for 342
graduating seniors will be held
Ihursday night (June 1) at 8 o’clock
In John H. Gamble Memorial
^FbotbaU Stadium.
Rev. Gary Bryant, pastor of First
Presbyterian Church, delivered the
baccalaureate sermon on Sunday
evening In B. N. Barnes Auditorium.
Members of the Senior Class will
lead ’Thursday’s final exercises.
Gregory Keith Williams, class
representative, will give the In
vocation and the welcome address
will be made by Student Par
ticipation Organisation President
Mark Alan Clonlnger. ’The KMSHS
fisnlor Choir will sing "We’ve Only
Just Begun’’ ‘and "Parting
Blessing.” Kelly Bhigene Land, class
president, will present the class of
1978 and Angela Dawn Bumgardner,
secretary, will recognise honor
graduates. Diplomas will be
awarded by Principal Forrest
Wheeler, assisted by Supt. William
Davis, and Chief Marshal Betsy Ann
Itelnert.
Stephen F. Laughter, class
treasurer, will present the class gift
and Alex D. Owens, chairman of the
board of education of KM District
Schools, will make the acceptance.
Members will sing the Alma Mater
and the benediction will be
pronounced by David Stokes Lynn,
Hass vice-president.
Buriington
Increasing
Hourly Pay
Burlington Industries will pay a
wstge increase to Its production
employes effective July 17 and wlU
Mve another paid holiday In Its
employe benefit package.
'Ihe wage and benefit Increase wlU
ecfaet some 47,000 producUon em
ployee at operations In 10 states,
bioludlng employes of the Phenlx
Plant of Burlington Industries In
Kliiga Mountain.
’Ihe Bdditlanal hoUday, which wlU
probably be New Tear’s Day, gives
producUon employes seven paid
holidays, said a company
spokesman.
Junior marshals. In addlUon to
Chief Stelnert, are Herbie Lee
Beam, Phyllis Lynn EUters, Cathy
Denise Heavener, Lindsay Ann
Holmes, Nancy Chalmers Lee,
Barry Mark Llneberger, Carla
Efilzabeth Mauney, Elisabeth Lowry
McGill, Janice Ann Plonk, Andrea
Faye Ramey and Cynthia Kay
Wells.
’The KM Junior High Ninth Grade
Band will play the processional
march "Pomp and Clrcumatance.”
’Ihe musical program will bo
directed by Mrs. J. N. McClure and
Chrlstcqiher Cole.
Dr. Gaddis Is Named
G-W Department Head
Dr. Roger G. Giuldls luw been
named chairman of the Psychology
Department of Gardner-Webb
college.
Dr. Gaddis joined the faculty of
Gardner-Webb In 1974 as an
associate professor of psychology.
Previously, he had been chsdrman of
the Department of Psychology and
Education at Gaston College In
Dallas.
He received his B. A. degree at
UNC-Charlotte, his M. A. at the
University of- ’Tsiinsssee and his
doctorate from the University of
South Carolina, where he was a
graduate assistant In the depart
ment of Educational Psychology. He
was also a graduate educational
research training program fellow
there.
Dr. Gaddis has taught Enatish at
Wlnthrop College In Rock HUl, S. C.
and was a graduate assistant In
English at the University of Ten
nessee In Knoxville.
Last fall. Dr. Gaddis was selected
to participate In a Chatauquatype
Short Course (or College Teachers,
sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
Dr. Gaddis has written several
papers that have been accepted (or
publication. Including one that was
published In a professional
publication (or school officials, ’The
aearlng flous*.
He serves as a consultant for
several schools, conducts workshops
tor school districts and Is on the
board of advisors for the School Law
newsletter. Most of his work with the
schools deals with some form of
Second Hearing Tonight
Flood Control Hearing
Is ’a step Forward’
Hodges la mstklng his first bid for
public office. His csireer has been In
business and banking until he
resigned to begin his Senate cam
paign several months ago.
Ingram currently serves In hla
second term as N. C. Commissioner
of Insurance. Ingram was re-eleetad
Insurance commlaslcner by one of
the largest votes ever totaled by a
single candidate.
Local voters, only Democfata who
were registered to veto to the May I
-frlmary, ars oaattiig bsDoto hi two
places. In the West KM preelnet at
the national guard armory on Phller
Rd. and at the Kings Mountain
Cbmmunlty Center (w Bast KM
pa-eclnct residents.
The polls opened at 6:80 a. m. and
will close at 7:80 p. m.
behavior modification. His teaching
specialties are . adolescent
psychology and educational
psychology.
He Is married to the former Susan
Woodall of Gastonia, and they have
a son, David Benjamin, ago 8. The
Gaddises reside In Kings Mountain,
and are members of the Fjrst
Baptist Church here.
DR. ROOBRO.OADIMS
By EIXEABETH STEWART
Stott Writer
More than half the citizens at-
tsndlag ’Thursday night’s flrst-of-
three public hearings on surface
drainage and flood control
rspresented District Six.
Another hearing is slated ’Tuesday
(tonight) at 7:80 p. m. at City Hall
with the final public meeting on
Tbes., June 13.
District ’Two Comm. Humes
Houston, who chairs the mayor’s
committee on flood control and
presiding officer for the hearings,
calls the program "a forward step
tor Kings Mountain which won’t
eliminate all the problems but will
go a long way In helping to solve
them.”
Mayor John Henry Moss told the
first gathering of cltlsens that Kings
Mountain Is the first city of Its slse In
the state to call hearings” to try to
do something about these problems
and with •75,000 In budgeted funds to
hs^ alleviate them.”
Target date for beginning of the
program Is ’Iburs., June 1, and
Obmm. Houston and City Hhiglneer
AI Mbrets said after walking over a
wide area Thursday that much work
Is to bs done. Said Houston, "Since
«a walked over this area a year ago
file underbrush Is thicker and we’ve
bad more rain,” noting that the long-
rafige program in floM control calls
for clearing and cleaning major
fiNhmi daa^ated da dead aones in
the city. Installation of rip-rap and
minor p^dng at critical locations to
leduce aroahm and Installation of
Hood control pipe In areas that
receive Isuge quantities of surface
water but where a definite stresun
channel does not exist.
"We can’t snap our fingers and
wish flood dnUnage away,” said
Houston, but these public hearings
are desired to get information from
dtisens In order to tie down stn
overall work program toward
rsUavlng some of the drainage and
Hooding problems in the city.”
OommlsHcners Jim Dickey, of
DIstrlet She, Bill Grissom of District
Tomorrow’s
Citizens To
Be Featured
’Ihe Mlrror-Hsrald will publish
pictures of Kings Mountaln-Grover
dtisens of tomorrow.
Through special arrangement
with Wolts etudloa. The Mlrror-
Hsrald will oompUe a fUa of photos
of ths youngsters redding In our
coverage area. The photos, along
with some Information, wlU'
be pnbllahod In the future unoer uie
heading "dtisens of Tomorrow.”
All photos published will be done
firee A charge. Wolts Studios will
dKwt the pictures for pubUcation
ttee of ohargo also.
On Wed., June 14, 1978 WolU
fitudloe photographers wlU set up
cameras In ths Kings Mountain
Wbcaan's dub on E. Mountain St
(badde the postcfflco) from i-7 p.m.
In Grover tbs photographer will
setup shop at PhUbeck SheU Service
and Qrooery on Ihos., June 18 from
IfT p. m.
Between new and ths photo
aeadon dates Kings Mountlans will
receive calls from Miss Priscilla
Hayes of the dty to arrange photo
appointments. There Is no ago Umlt
on the subjects to be photogmphed.
In the Grover area, Mrs. Shirley
PhUbeck of Grover wlU caU to make
photo eeeslon appointments.
This Is a promotion similar to the
one The Mlrror-Hsrald ran several
ysars ago to gather photos of civic,
church and community leaders. This
time we are after photoe of ths civic,
ohuroh and community leaders of
tomorrow.
Five, and Norman King, of District
Bhur, along with dty Engineer Al
Moretz and Mayor John Moss heard
a variety of problems discussed by
21 citizens.
Projects for vriilch work begins
next week, are approved in the grant
just received and officials anticipate
that others suggested can be In
corporated In the long-range flood
control program In the city.
Chairman Houston said the
program wlU Include Installation of
Hood control piping In Stowe Acres
and Third Street, piping from
Scotland to Amhurst, from Prin
ceton to Southwood an ap
proximately 25 acre drsdnage area;
cleaning and clearing and rip-rap
controls from Oak St. to Reason
deek behind Cansler, opening up
and improving (low and streams
firom Watterson to Pilot Creek, a
meandering creek to Davidson
Park, from Carpenter to in
tersection of N. C. 161 below Com
munity Center and from North
School to Intersection of PUot Creek
at N. C. 216 which is the first area to
be piped.
After stresuns are cleared they
wUl be classified, according to
Houston, who noted that chUdren are
playing In streams which are both
unsafe and unsanitary.
Purpose of this program Is also
aimed to eliminate health and safety
hazards and atop erosion and some
of the problenm cam be coordinated
by working together with otiier
agencies on right-of-ways and
, easements, said the Mayor.
Raeford White, representing
dtizena In the Walker-City Street
areas, told the group that “surface
water Is our problem and we get
pretty washed out at least twice a
year with water overflowing the
curb, streets, and back yards.
There’s no use to seed yards. When
heavy rains come, we’re in trouble.”
Herman Greene, of 802 Maner Rd.,
q>oke out on the drainage problem In
his area during heavy rains vriien a
lot of water Is diverted, traveling
about 1500 feet before emptying Into
a culvert and going over three pieces
of property to become a real com
munity problem.
Boyce Tesenalr, representing
citizens In the Scotland Dr.-
Somerset Dr. areas, asked why his
area had not been curb and guttered
since petitions were first Instituted
four or five years ago. When the
rains come, his seed and fertilizer
washes to anelghbor’s yard and his
bad^vd Is completely washed
away, he showed the board via
pictures of flooding ysurds from a
recent storm. "We’re catching the
drainage off two streets,” he told the
group.
Comm. Houston offered the
(pinion that If current building and
codes regulations had been In dffect
when subdevelopments were con
structed some years ago there would
be fewer problems today. Piping had
also been Installed In that area by
the developer and residents said
pipe was not Instsdled up to the
property line.
PhlUp Wright told the board that
water coming from Lee Street down
to the comer of his lot at 411 Scotland
Dr. was causing a major flooding
problem.
Engineer Moretz suggested that
installation of a "swell” with sowing
of grass to control amd direct (low of
water would eliminate some of the
ivoblem. Mrs. Cstfson Gore, of 413
Somerset, wanted to taow If this
action would "stop the water un
derneath my house” and Moretz
said that "keeping water moving
from the house with a swell and re-
landscaplng la a good possibility.”
Wright wsated to know if Ht*
neighbors "codlie to to terms on the
swell leeommendatioa oan funds be
allocated from this program to pay
tor It?”
Comm. Houston said tiiat It Is not -
the intent of the public hearings to
set policy. .."Wd’re trying to find
the problem areas,” he said, and
’’go from there.”
’Tesenalr said, "I know everyone
has a problem with surface drainage
but I’d like to see somebody with
greater problems,” as he exhibited
pictures of washed-out areas In his
neighborhood neair the Margrace
area of the city.
Certain areas, said Houston, will
be designated flood-prone areas and
not suitable for building, pointing to
topographical maps which show
these areas and which came out of
his committee’s planning In 1976
with funds just now available to
start a comprehensive program.
Goal Is $50,000
Boggan Is Chairman
Df 1979 KMUF Drive
Kings Mountain’s United Way
ChmpalgnforlOTO will seek a goal of
$50,000 for 17 causes and Rev.
Robert Boggan, pastor of Central
United Methodist Church, will serve
as drive dudmum.
Pat Cheshire, president of KM
United Way and chairman of the
1978 appeal which set a record with
IRK noo In oledges and contributions,
said officers ’Tuesday night ap
proved two suldltioiua requests from
Kings Mountain Little ’Theatre for
$1,000, and N. C. Mental Health
Association (or 1600. Because Kings
Mountain Rescue Squad la now
basically tax-supported, Cheshire
said that a total of $6,450 was
budgeted (or new equipment
reducing $8,650 from the 1978
budget. KM Rescue Squad had
requested the funds this year for
equipment only, he said. In addition,
officers upped from $8,000 to $6,000
the Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association request, giving an ad
ditional $3,000 grant to cover the
remainder of 1978, said Cheshire.
Other requests approved (or 1979
are: American Red Cross, $8,500;
Boy Scouts, Piedmont Council,
$6,000; C. C. Association (or
Retarded Cltlsens, $600; Cleveland
County Shelter Home, $3700;
community Organization (or Drug
Abuse Prevention $500; Girl Scouts,
Pioneer Council, $6300; Grover
Rescue Squad, $1600; Kings
Mountain High School Band, $3800;
Kings Mountain High School Chorus,
•no; N. C. United Way, $4886.64;
Salvation Army, $1500; Emergency
Fund, $600.
Goal of last year’s campaign was
$46,000 and Kings Mountain was No.
1 In the state sunong United Way
drives under $100,000.
’Treasurer of the 1979 campaign Is
Mrs. Unda King and newly-elected
board members Include June Lee,
Burris Ramey, and Polly Phifer.
"Kings Mountain cltlsens have
always been generous to help
others,” said Cheshire,” and we are
confident that next yesir’s United
Fund will surpass ths past year’s
efforts, which were just tremen
dous.”
REV. ROBERT BOGGAN
—United Way Drive Chalrmaa