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KINGS MOIJNTAIN, NORTH CAROUNA 28088 THURSDAY, JUNE 22.1078
To Study Cemetery
Committee Ntrnied
Rev. J. C. Ooare, pastor of Kings
Mountain Baptist Church, and Miss
Saisabeth Stewart, Mirror-Herald
stsiffer and representing veteran
groups, will head up a nine-member
cemetery study committee ap
pointed Wednesday by Mayor John
Moss.
The committee of all Inslde-clty
residents, with exception of Miss
Stewart, who resides In the Dixon ^
Oonununlty on Route Two, will
review and recommend procedures
lor cemetery regulations regarding
the selling of cemetery lota at
Mountain Rest Cemetery to outside
dty residents and also make long-
range recommendations for
cemetery facilities.
Other members of the committee
Include City Commissioners BUI
Orlssom and Corbet Nicholson,
former city commissioner Ray
Cline, Kyle Smith, school trustee.
Rev. Dwight Edwards, president of
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association, and Mrs. Emma
Blalock and Mrs. Howard Bryant,
school teachers.
The board gave the mayor
authority to appoint the study
committee at a recent meeting and
also appoint a committee of three,
including the mayor, to parUclpate
in MICA programs which recom
mend improving of productivity in
city services. Appointed to serve on
this committee are Commissioners
Jim Dickey and Jim Childers.
Members of the city board of
commissioners will meet at City
HaU Monday night at 7:80 p. m.
Mayor Moss said the agenda will
Include the announcement of ap
pointment of special committees.
To Study Budget
Grover Town Board la eiq>ected to
approve the $122,087.78 budget for
fiscal year 1978-78 at Monday night's
Programs
Scheduled
At Park
Friday and Saturday evening
programs at Kings Mountain
Mattonal Military Park will continue
June 18 and 84. This wMk's program
will be praaented by Ken Addington
and Vlbert White. Addington U a
recent graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, and
White presently attends Befiiund-
Oooknuui CoUege In Daytona Beach,
Plorida.
The program will be a 80-mlnute
film, "The Age of Alaska." This film
was chosen for presentation because
of the public’s great Interest In this
scenic and unusual land and the
desire for conservation of some of
the last of our wilderness. Major
legislation Is currently under con-
dderatlon by the Omgress that will
vitally affect the future status of
Alaska wildlands. The film will be
diown each evening at 9 p. m. In the
park amphitheater which Is located
near the Visitor Center. In case of
bad weather the program will be
presented In the Visitor Center
auditorium.
‘The park’s living history program
wUl also continue on Saturdays and
Sundays, weather permitting, from
late morning to late afternoon. In
this program participants appear In
Revolutionary War period dress and
display a semi-permanent camp. In
addition to cooking and other camp
chores, rifle and musket-flrlng
demonstrations take place hourly at
1 p. m., 2 p. m. and 8 p. m.
The public Is Invited to all
programs. There is no admission
tee.
meeting at 6:80 p. m. at Grover
Town Hall.
A public hearing on the proposed
budget and revemie sharing will be
held prior to the voting on the budget
by the board.
Anticipated revenues Include
$40,600.00 from ad valorem taxes,
$8,750. from utUltlea franchise tax,
$2,300 from Intangible property tax,
$10,000 from Powell BUI allocaUon,
$11,500 from local one percent sales
tax, $10,000 from Interest on savings,
$500 from tax refunds, $1,760 from N.
C. CrlmtnsU Justice, $800 from
Antirecession asslstimce, $7,277.70
fi^m state dean Water Bonds,
$7,000 from federgl revenue sharing,
$880 from cemetery reealpts and
$20,000 from water supply system.
Biggest Item budgeted for capital
outlay la for street construction,
where the board anticipates spen
ding $20,000 on new streets. The
Police Department Is expected to
receive $18,870.40, the fire depart
ment, $2,005.00, the sanitation
department, $11,000; streets and
sidewalk repairs, $2,000. ad
ministration, $7,586.44; street lights;
$2,500; and $7,000 to be divided
between beautification, recreation,
historical smd economic and land
development projects, among major
Items.
Joint Bible
School Planned
Four local church congregations
— St. Matthew's Lutheran,
Resurrection Lutheran, Central
United Methodist and First
Presbyterian Churches are par
ticipating In a Joint Vacation Church
School beginning Monday.
dasses for chUdren three years of
age through sixth grade wlU be held
from 0 a.m. until noon on each of the
five days.
Crafts suid recreation. In addition
to Bible Study sessloiM, wUl be of
fered.
Students Score High
six seventh graders at Central
School scored among the hipest In
the nation In the Comprehensive
Tests of Basic Skills during J^rU
snd Clayton OUls led the group with
highest on academic achievement.'
AU the young people, Eddie Blan
ton, In math, CSayton GUIs, In
academics. Dean Sands, In science,
Lindsay Davis, In science, HamUton
McOlU, In language arts, and Laura
Hendiixon In social studies, sewed
12th grade equlvsdent and over on
thg testa, said Principal Larry Allen.
Library Story
Hour Underway
story Hour Is underway each
Ttieaday morning from 11 until noon
at Jsteob 8. Maunsy Memorial
Library on Piedmont Ave.
Children ages 0-10 are Invited to
participate In the free program.
Teenagers are particularly Invited
to enjoy 000 new selected paper
backs on all Interest and reading
levels.
Photo By
Gary Stewart
ANYONE FOR A SWIM? - It’s no wonder Kings
Mountlans are flocking to the swimming pools. With
lifeguards as pretty as Kim Whlsnant on duty, one
might even be tempted to go under tor the three count
Just for a little reviving. Kim, a rising senlw at KMH3
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Whlsnant, Is
lifeguard at Kings Mountain Country Club.
Taxes Are Gk)ing Up
Clevelsmd County Commissioners
Monday approved a county-wide
five-cent property tsuc Increase for
fiscal year 1978-79 to 83 cents per
$100 valuation and approved sm
additional four-cent tax rate for the
county’s fire service district.
The board also authorized the
creation of a county council on the
status of women after having
previously opposed It.
Comm. Chairman Jack Palmer
said that it has been over six years
since an Increase In the tax rate suid
declared that the reason for that
record because of normeU economic
growth "which has saved us but we
have been brutal to some depart
ments.”
The general fund budget reflects a
$1.2 million Increase from this year,
to $11,683,961.00.
The budget Includes payments on
bonds for Cleveland County
Technical Institute construction and
Increased grants to allow for the
continuation of volunteer ambulance
services In the county, accounting
fbr 4.5 cent increase In the tax rate,
explained County Manager Joe
Hendrick.
Yates Mltchem of the Shelby
Rescue Squad questioned county
support of the squads through taxes,
calling it “unfair and unjust” for
Shelby and Kings Mountain tax
payers to pay support of ambulance
service via taxes when otherf
sources of revenue, such as In
surance, are available.
Chairman Palmer said, "I think It
Is fair to the public to give them good
continuous ambulance service.” He
said he would not recommend giving
money from county funds to any
additional ambulance units being
organized.
Parents of seventh graders may
pick up their children’s scores from
8 a. m. untU 4 p. m. June 16-80 week-
(hys. After July 1, scores will be
available at the offices of the Junior
High School.
Principal Allen explained that the
CTBS was standardized on a large
national sample of students from
kindergarten through grade 12,
randomly selected from all states
and regions of the United States. The
complete battery book contained
tests In six basic skills areas,
reading, language, mathematics,
reference skills, science and social
studies. The Items measured the
following: ability to recognise or
recall Information; ability to
translate or convert concepts from
one kind of language, verbal of
symbolic, to another; the ability to
comprehend concepts and their
Interrelationships, ability to apply
techniques. Including performing
fundamental operations; and ability
to extend Interpretation beyond
stated InforiTuitlon.
Said Allan, the CTTBS Is not In
tended to measure achievement In
specific course content as reflected
In textbooks.
More Jobs
Than Workers
There are more Jobs available
than applicants.
TTiat’s the way the N. C. Em
ployment Security Commission
sums up the situation in Kings
Mountain’s Mayor’s Summer Youth
Program.
There axe 75 persons between the
ages of 14 and 21 now on the Job In
IGngs Mountain, but there are about
50-55 more Jobs available for the
eight-week summer run.
The Jobs available will be at the
lake site and in the street depart
ment, according to Gerald Grlgg of
die ESC office.
(On today’s classified page Is an
ad with more Information for ap
plicants).
Grlgg said there was quite a bit of
response from area business and
Industry as far as temporary Jobs
available lor the Mayor's Summer
Youth Program. "We have about a
third more Jobs available than last
year,” he continued.
Applications are being taken at
the N. C. Employment Security
Oommlsslon at the Kings Mountain
Community Center and at the main
office In Shelby.
The Jobs are made available under
the Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act (CETA).
Swim Oass
Set At Pool
Summertime
easy, at the
HIGH SCORERS - Six Central School students wore
among the highest scoring In the nation on recent CTBS
teste. Front row. Eddie Blanton, Clayton GUIs snd
Pl'ioto By Gary Stewart
Dean Sarvis; right; ISack row, from left, Lindsay
Davis, HamUton McGI U snd Laura Hendrixon.
. . and the living's
Kings Mountain
Recreation Center where swimming
classes get underway Monday for
beginner, Intermediate and ad
vanced students.
Qualified Instructors wUl be on
duty at 10 a. m. sind 11 a. m. Mon
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays suid
beginner students must be 88 Inches
tall. Registration Is now open for the
first session for sUl three groups of
swimmers.
Cost for the first session of six
classes Is $12 and prospective
students should register at the
community Center on Cleveland
Avenue, said a spokesman tor the
Recreation department.