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Kino? MOUMTWn MIRROR
VOL. 89 NO. 48
KINOS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA Z8086 THURSDAY, JUNE 8,1978
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Local
Delegates
Vote ‘No’
Cleveland County's delegation In
the N. C. House of Representatives
say they will vote "no” on the issue
of Uquor-by-the>diink.
Rep. Edith Lutz said this week
that because "of the large volume of
communications to us concerning
llquor-by-the-diink, we will abide by
our constituent’s wishes and vote
“no.”
She said she Is joined by her
colleagues. Rep. Bob Falls and Rev.
Bob Jones.
"It will be Impossible,” said Mrs.
Lutz, "for us to answer all the mail
we have received on this Important
Issue. We do appreciate your
communications and will vote your
wishes expressed by the majority of
voters."
* Clothing Drive
Set By Scouu
Boy Scouts of Troop 91 and Oak
Orove Volunteer Fire Department
will sponsor a clothing drive for
bumedH)ut or needy families in the
Oak Orove area.
The drive will be conducted
through Thursday.
Citizens wishing to donate to this
project are asked to deposit the
clothing at the Oak Orove Volunteer
Fire Department headquarters.
Big Yard Sale
Bcn«/ifg League
All proceeds from a big all-night
yard sale Frtday will benefit the
Kings Mountain Babe Ruth League
athletic program In Kings Mountain.
The event gets underway at 7:80 p.
m. on the comer of Sims St. and W.
Mountain and will continue until S p.
m. Saturday with a large variety of
Items to be featured, said a
spokesman.
Members of the Babe Ruth
Auxiliary will sponsor the event.
Barbecue Sale
VFD Fund-Raiser
Antioch Volunteer Fire Depart
ment will sponsor a barbecue sale to
purchase flre-flghtlng equipment
Saturday from noon until 8:80 p. m.
at the Antioch Community Center
located just off Highway 39 one and
one-half mile south of Grover.
Plates are two dollars each or you
may purchase barbecue to go for
three dollars per pound. Tea or
coffee will be available.
All-Day
Fund-Raiser
Is Scheduled
Kings Mountain Emergency
Sendees (KMES) will sponsor an
all-day fund-raising event for
equipment Saturday and goal of the
effort sponsored by the KMES
Auxiliary is 84,000.
According to Mrs. Pauline
Klmbtqll, hot biscuits and coffee will
be available to sarly-rlsers from
6:80untU 9a. m. In the front yard of
her residence at 106 N. DUllng St.
Ihe Auxiliary Is advertising the
event "as the biggest yard sale
ever," with a variety of Items In
cluding household furnishings,
clothes, and miscellaneous Items.
Baked goods, cold drinks, hot dogs
and homemade cake will be
available from 11 a. m. until 9 p. m.
and visitors will have opportunity to
make bids on a "Road To Danmark”
quilt which will be awarded to the
highest bidder when sealed bids are
opened at 4 p. m. There will Also be
prises awarded during the day and
'The Songsters” of Church of God
will present a program of inspel
music from 8 until 4 p. m.
"We Invite everyone to attend and
support the Kings Mountain
Bmergon(» Services, which will
operate Mth all-volunteer workers
and supported by donations,” said
Mrs. KlmbreU.
"Wo want to be a neighbor to our
nalgU|9rs" Is the motto of the
■tme^ncy rescue service.
Grover Board
Increase Petition
Being Circulated
BUSY SECRETARY - Katie WUson WUce U a
veteran of 38 years experience as a secretary. She finds
Photo By Ub Stewart
her present work at City Hall both "challenging and
rewarding” aa secretary to the city’s chief executive.
Katie Wilce Is KM
Mayor^s Right Arm
A constant stream of visitors to
Mayor John Henry Moss’ office at
aty Hall passes the busy desk of the
nnayor’s administrative secretary,
Katie WUson Wllce, a veteran
secretary with 33 years experience.
One of the busiest spots In town,
the chief executive’s office Is always
buzzing and three secretaries on any
given day of the week are busy
smswerlng telephones and con
ducting business of the city.
Mrs. WUce, who came to her
present job In May 1971 after 14
years as secretary to the city
manager of Gastonia, finds her work
“challenging and never boring.”
The same enthusiasm which she
gives In this administrative position
was one of the reasons she was able
to return to college after raising a
family. While working at various
secretarial jobs, she took night
classes at Gaston CoUege from 1965-
68 and then enroUed at Appalachian
State University In September 1968
and graduated In August 1970 with B.
A. In Psychology and Sociology.
Was It hard for a grandmother to
return to school?
Not this grandmother, who has
always Uked to read and still finds
time for books outside the office.
At City Hall, where she came to
work "quite by accident” as Gal
Friday In a one-girl office, KaUe
says there’s never a dull moment.
She burns the midnight oil
frequently during busy budget
season at this time of the yesu* and
keeps abreast of major city projects,
working with Mayor Moss on
Oommunlty Development and other
major city endeavors.
Katy’s day of "just answering the
phone” and accepting and referring
complaints are over. Her employers
have Included the general counsel
for a passenger transportation
company, a wholesale gas appliance
company, a manufacturer of
custom-made office and store fix
tures, two textUe companies, and
two munlclpaUtles.
She worked briefly as a social
work trainee for the Gaston County
Department of Social Servleee,
Interviewing clients to determine
their eligibility for assistance,
counseling, and maintaining
records. Before joining the city, she
had considered pursuing a career In
social work.
During her early tenure with the
city, she was a recepjtlonlst, com
posed letters, wrote forms for use In
various departments,' revised the
filing systems, wrote bid proposals,
did typing for all departments, and
even issued applications for building
permits and permits for con
struction and use of city lake.
Her office staff now Includes two
assistants, Donna Sutherland and
Oellna Davis, who Is resigning to
marry and move to Washington, D.
C. Katie Is currently Interviewing
iq)pllcants for a secretarial position
at City Hall, testing their shorthand,
typing, and grammar expertise.
In Kings Mountain, she lives In an
apartment on East Mountain Street
and Is a member of Kings Mountain
Little Theatre. She is a member of
Armstrong Memorial Presbyterian
Church In Gastonia sind before
moving to Kings Mountain was an
active volunteer In Suicide
Prevention Crisis program In
Gaston County.
Anybody Lose
She has one daughter, Susan
Teachout, counselor In Dallas,
Texsis school system, and two
grandchildren. Chuck and Llndy
Teachout.
During National Secretary Week
recently In Kings Mountain, Katie
Wllce was cited as Secretary of the
Tear and honored "for service
abov^'and beyond the call of duty.”
■Mrs. Wllce, a diminutive five-feet
one and one-half. Inches, stands tall
In her profession. She ttdtes pride In
her work and Is always ready to
praise her co-workers for good
performsince.
She gets just aa excited as her
"boss” when city projects are ap-
{X'oved and completed and can
hardly wait for the completion of the
new City Hall.
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff Writer
GROVER — Petitions calling for
five commissioners on the Grover
Town Board were not presented to
the town board Monday night, as It
was rumored.
However, some Grover residents
confirmed that a petition was being
circulated by a resident of the
%>rlng Acres Development. Grover
Town Board Is composed' of three
councilmen and Mayor.
The question of Spring Acres
development by Bob Hambright and
Harold Herndon, a council member,
has come under discussion at
several recent meetings, and
Herndon brought up the matter
again, noting that "I know people
are going to say I have a conflict of
Interest but since we have a surplus
In imapproprlated funds I think we
should move ahead with resurfacing
some streets, repairing sidewalks
and paving some streets In Spring
Acres development where the town’s
remaining .84 acres of unpaved
streets are located.”
Bob Hambright, who also ap
peared at the board meeting, asked
what he could expect In future plans
for the streets there In order to
pursue bulldl|ig prospects. Ham-
bright and Herndon own about two-
thirds of the development.
The Spring Acres discussion
surfaced alter Mayor W. W. Mc
Carter, In preliminary discussions of
the 1978-79 budget, told the board
that the town has a surplus of Powell
BUI funding totaling $22,246 and Is
anticipating another $10,000 next
year. PoweU BIU monies can only be
used for streets and sidewalks
construction and repairs.
Mayor McCarter said the board
has $47,000 In unappropriated funds
to aUocate June 19 at a final budget
meeting and suggested that
priorities be set.
"There should be no difference
between Spring Acres and the older
part of town,” said McCarter, and
we should try to forget the conflict.
We must consider the whole
town.”
Herndon asked "how Is the town to
grow without providing services”
and said he knows of a machine
operation which wants to move 10-12
people In the area but no housing Is
avaUable.
McCarter commented "If v'e don’t
spend It (Powell monies) we should
cut the tax rate In half” to which
Herndon responded, "If we’re not
going to spend the money, don’t tax
the people for IL"
Neither board member Tommy
Keeter nor Martha Byers had
recommendadtlons. Keeter said he
felt more study Is needed and favors
both expansion and Improvements
all over town.
Grover’s budget for the new fiscal
year Is expected to total $182,647.76,
an Increase of $18,600 over this
year’s budget of $114,000.
The budget la based on an ad
valorem tax coUectlon of $40,600 at a
rate of 86 cents per $100 valuation.
Grover’s tax rate has been un
changed over the past five years.
Mayor McCarter said that monies
have not yet been allocated for
street contingency funds or for
committees, such as beautification.
Comm. Herndon called for Town
Clerk Gloria Horton to read the
minutes of the June 11, 1976 board
meeting at which Council voted to
contract for water lines for property
of Ronald Queen In Spring Acres.
"That’s been two years ago,” said
Herndon, and we need to move on
these projects."
Keeter suggested that some
priority be given to sddWlaml 11M6
and contingency fund In (he up
coming budget.
Budgeted under general fund was
$104,370 and the utUlty budget totals
$27,277, the Income derived from
Clean Water Bonds of $7,377 and
$20,000 In water supply system
collections.
The Police Department Is
budgeted to receive $11,670.40 In the
new year, fire department, $3,066;
streets and sidewalks, $11,000; and
cemetery department, $1600.
Mayor McCarter said the board
has operated “well within In the
budget,” noting about a $19,000
surplus.
In other actions, the board set the
month of June as “Grover CSean-Up-
Palnt-Up Fix Up Month” on
recommendation of Mrs. Jim
Scruggs, chairman of the
beautification committee, and set
June 23 as "heavy trash plck-
upday” In Grover. Mrs. Scruggs
placed In the Town Hall a set of
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Joint Meeting With Kiwanians
A Big Pony? L/Occy Is Rotovy Speaker
stretch Bollinger, Kings Mountain
Animal Control Warden, has a
problem.
The problem has four legs, a tall,
weighs over 600 pounds, and has a
ravenous appetite.
"I’m tsJklng about a pony which I
have been keeping up for two
weeks,” Bollinger said. ’"Ihe pony
was found wandering around E.
Gold St.”
Bollinger would like the owner to
come forward, prove ownership sutd
the pony will be turned over without
charge. "Will the owner please
contact me at 789-8686,” he said.
The pony Is about six years old. Is
white with brown spots. If the
animal Is not claimed within two
weeks. It will be sold at public
auction and the money turned over
to the city’s general fund account.
knife Swapping
Set For Tonight
Local knife swapping enthusiasts
are planning a get-to-gether tonight
(Thursday) at 8 p. m. at Depot
Center and tables will be set up for
trading or offering tor sale.
A brief meeting will be held to
discuss the possibility of forming a
knife club In Kings Mountain.
For further Information, call Mike
Ledford, 739-6111 or 789-6841.
Clhannel Nine’s Brad Lacey will be
speaking to the Kings Mountain
Rotary Qub at the Kings Mountain
Country aub Thursday, Juno 8 at 12
noon.
In addition to answering questlona
about the news, Lacey will offer
Insight Into Channel Nine’s network
affiliation switch from NBC to ABC
effective July 1 of this year with the
aid of a taped presentation. This
program takes a look at how
(3iannel Nine works . . . the people
behind the cameras, live eye
coverage of on-the-spot news, how
the news Is gathered and prepared
for air use and what Channel Nine’s
affiliation with ABC will mean to
viewers. WSOC-TV will continue to
broadcast the same quality syn
dicated programming such as “Hee
Haw,” "Crosswlts,” and "Bugs
Bunny.” These C3iannel Nine shows
wlU couple with ABC’s top-rated
slate of network programs such as
"Laveme and Shirley," "Happy
Days,” and "Three’s Company.”
Lacey, Eyewitness News update
anchorman on W80C-TV Channel
Nine, Is a native of Providence,
Rhode Island. He joined Channel
Nine In August of 1976. Ho was
formerly program manager and
news manager of WBBH-TV In Fort
Myers, Florida.
Brad and his wife Joan have tour
sons. They are adl CB buffs . . . and
handle la naturally
"Update "
Brad’s unique television feature,
"Lacey Is.” Is a regular part of
Eyewitness News. In an effort to
promote better understanding of
different jobs In the Charlotte area,
learning firsthemd what It Is to be a
fireman, airline attendant, model,
popcorn -popper, blacksmith and
cookie maker (only to mention a
few). Each of Brad’s temporary
occupations Is presented as a means
of enabling the viewing public to
understand and respect the many
different vocations to be found In
this area.
Among Brad’s long list of civic
and charity Involvements are the
Charlotte Little Theatre and the
National TV Programmers Con
ference. He has also been awarded
three film festival gold medals.
His three loves are traveling,
camping and theatre.
Homecoming
Set Sunday At
Penley*8 Chapel
Homecoming Day will be hold at
Penley’s Oiapel Church on Sunday.
Rev. W. L. Huffstotlor, pastor, will
fill the pulpit at the morning worship
hour at 11 o’clock and picnic lunch
will be spread at 13:80.
A song service, to which vlalUng
ringing groups and the community
are Invited, will begin at 1:80 p. m.