KINQS MOUNTAIN, NORTO CAROLINA *086THURSDAY, JANUARY 30,1979
$14,266 For Repairs
Housing Rehabilitation
* Contracts Are Awarded
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The first two housing rehabUiU-
tlon contracts for 1979 were awarded
Monday night by the city con»-
mlssloners.
Oeneral repair work will be done
cn the homes ot UUle Mae Collins,
316 Walnut St., and Clnda Taylor,
No. 3 Bennett Dr.
Arnold Gordon-Wrlght, housing
rehab administration assistant, told
the commissioners a second set of
bids were received Jan. 13 on the
Oblllns property. The first bids were
In excess of the $7,000 allotment
under rehab guidelines.
Cblllns home contract to Calvin
Hiffman on a Ud of $7,0M).
Wright said one courtesy bid and
two full bids were received Jan. 13
on the Taylor property project. He
said both Hodges Home Improve-
mdnt and Tom Summltt bids were In
excess of the $7,000 and the project
was renegotiated with both bidders.
Ihe contract was awarded to
Hodges of Bessemer City for $7,326.
In other action Monday night, the
commissioners okayed the purchase
of 30 pocket monitors from
Cleveland County Emergency
Services for use by the Kings
Mountain B^re Department
Cost of fits 30 units la1:o,96T'. Mayor
John Moss said once the monitors
are Issued, telephone service to
contact firefighters will be discon
tinued.
The board also voted to receive
bids for further review from four
North and South Carolina firms on
water pipe and fittings for extending
the water system on E. Gold St.
Ihe firms bidding Include Davis
Meter and Supply at Columbia, S. C.,
Municipal Utility and Supply of
Asheville, Pico Supjdy and ITT-
Olnnell Corp., both of Charlotte.
Commissioners voted to approve
two rezonlng requests following
brief public hearings Monday and
voted to forward two other rezonlng
requests to the city planning and
zoning board.
Rezonlng petitions approved were
from Richard Ware and Roy E.
Bridges. Ware's lot at Llnwood Rd.
and Cleveland Ave. will be rezoned
from NB to GB. Bridges’ lot, ad
jacent to Ware, Is 808 Cleveland Ave.
Rezonlng Is from NB to GB.
Forwarded to the planning and
zoning board were requests from
Herald Publishing House and James
E. and William Herndon.
Herald Publishing House
requested rezonlng of property at E.
King St. and Canterbury Rd. from R-
8 to LI. The Herndon brothers
requested rezonlng from R-6 to R-10
a tract off Waco Rd. and Carpet
lane west of the city limits.
These two Items are expected to
be on tonight’s planning and zoning
board meeting agenda.
The board also;
— Approved placing no parking
signs on the south side of Owens St.
between York Rd. and the dead-end,
as recommended by City Engineer
Alvin Moretz and Acting Police
Chief J. D. Barrett.
— Approved a tum-around at the
end of Pine View Dr. as called for In
a 1976 plat, rather than complete a
through street connecting with
Bridges Dr.
Mayor Moss told the board "due to
questions by the architect on
technical aspects of the community
center re-rooflng bids,’’ discussion
and action of awarding the contract
had to be removed from Monday’s
agenda. He said the business should
be cleared up shortly and "may be
the subject of a called meeting In the
next few days."
After School Hours
ALL-STATERS - Iheae Ktaga Mowataln High
Juniors and seniors wlU partleipatB Ib the Booth OeahtU
District All-State band oUnlc Mig flatiirdaj at
Shelby High. Front row, left to right, are Jeff Oanpholl,
Tracy Baumgardner, Keith Holt, Beverly BoD and Brie
Barnett. Back row, EUaaheth MeOlU, JOal WHght,
Julie Phifer, Kenny Vanoe, <Xndy WeUa and Btark
Hullender, Not plctoied, Kitw Dixon.
Are Set ror rareiits
KMSHS Guidance Department
will offer after school hours" for
parents who work during the day to
visit them for Information on
meeting college coats.
D. B. Blalock, guidance coun
selor, said parents desiring this
service on Monday and Wednesday
evening from 7:80 until 9:30 p. m.
are Invited to csdl 789-4818, the
number of the Guidance Depart
ment at Kings Mountsdn Senior High
School.
Mr. Blalock said that Information
snd application forms have been
made available to senior students
through the guidance department
and also to homeroom teachers of
senior students.
"Most families’’, explained
Blalock, "are eligible for some type
financial benexflts. A family with
less than $86,000 annual income Is
eligible for low Interest loans.’’
Other financial aid, according to
Blalock, comes In the form of
grants, work-study programs,
guaranteed summer employment,
scholarships, etc.
Eligibility Is determined by one of
two forms, the Financial Aid Form
and the Family Financial
statement. To receive the greatest
benefit from some of these sources
at financial aid the FAF or FFS
Aould be mailed before Feb. 38.
After this date, some ftmda are
limited.
Mr. Blalock said that Information
supplied on the form Is confidential.
MORE ALL-STATERS — Iheae Jnlor and senior
Ugh staidents will psirtlclpate In the Sooth Oenfrwl
District AU-State band cUnlc Friday Saturday In
Photos By Gary Stewart
Shelby Left to right, are Jeff Ward, Eric Myers,
Leigh Mauney, Stacy Rhea and Henry Clark.
Ms. Page Shares
Tour Adventures
For March Of Dimes
Sunday Campaign Set
A former Kings Mountain woman,
Laura Page, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry E. Page, planned and
conducted for Adventures In
ternational a tour of The People’s
Republic of China Sept. 80-Oct. 34.
Miss Page will share a travelogue
of her trip with Interested Kings
Mountain citizens Saturday night at
7:80 p. m. In First Presbyterian
Church Fellowdilp Hall.
The trip was especially designed
by Miss Page, who Is on the staff of
the Atlanta, Ga. travel agency, for
the Young Careers Committee of the
High Museum of Art Members Guild
at Atlanta. The group visited Japan
and China with stops In Tokyo,
Kamakura, Hakone, Ityoto, Peking,
Sian, Loyang, Shanghai,
Kowangchow and Hong Kong.
Miss Page, a graduate of Meredith
college In Raleigh, has traveled
extensively. She taught school In
Okinawa and Germany for several
years, took two safaris to Africa,
and formerly worked with American
Express Co., also In Atlanta.
LAURA PAGE
Sunday Is Mother’s March In
Kings Mountain and women of the
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 166
will conduct a neighbor-to-nelghbor
fond raising campaign against birth
defects.
Ihe drive begins at 2 p. m., but
some canvassers will be calling on
contributors throughout the week,
said Mrs. J. D. Barrett, drive
chairman and [X'eeldent of Unit 166.
Team captains for the fond drive
are Mrs. Orangrel Jolly, Mrs.
Rachel Ledford, Mrs. Betty Hamp
ton, Mrs. Helen Yates, Mrs. Betty
Beattie and Mrs. Dottle Southwell.
Mrs. Nancy Reis, coordinator for
the National Foundation March of
Dimes Appalachian Valley Chapter
at Western Carolina Center at
Morganton, said that funds raised
during the 1978 campaign helped
fond local educational programs In
the Junior and senior high schools.
Cleveland Memorial Hospital
nursing education units, materials
for the hesLlth departments’
maternity clinics, and equipment for
the Upper Cleveland County Rescue
Squad to enable them to transport
high risk Infants to higher level
hospitals such as Charlotte
Memorial or Duke.
Monies raised here also support
national and state research grants
for doctors and scientists studying
birth defects, as well as basic
research.
In 40 years the March of Dimes
has Invested upwards of $160 million
In resesuxh alone. The Salk Institute
In San Diego was built by the funds
raised by March of Dimes volun
teers. The National Foundation
March of Dimes continues to give
$1 million each yesu* to the Institute
where Dr. Jones Salk and his many
colleagues continue their battle
North Carolina ranks third highest
In the nation In Infant mortality with
only Mississippi and Alabama
having a higher Infant death rate,
aevelsind ranks In the top five
counties in North Carolina In infant
death rate, according to the
aevelsind County Health Depsut-
ment.
Mrs. Reis pointed out that more
thsin 260,000 babies are bom each
year In the United Statea with birth
defects, 60,000 of these with
msu-kedly low birth weight. These
babies, she contlmed, are at risk
because their orgims su'e too Im
mature to fonctkxi properly and
many die before end of their first
year.
The March of Dimes, according to
Mrs. Reis, supports progrsuns of
medical services, genetic services,
resesu-ch, community service and
public and professional health
education to help accomplish Its
goal — a healthy start for every
newborn.
IK
DCR
Development Director Discusses Needs
m "Kings Mountain needs a sound
economic development strategy.’’
That’s what Jerry King, executive
director of the Kings Mountain
Development Office, told the board
at directors of First Cltlaens Bank
A and Trust last week.
King told the local directors that
urri “v.’e T.zzi tu am ourselves In the
Mietrollna area as one economy
which Is tremendously In
terdependent."
^ He said an Interrelated economy
^ Involves having sufficient utilities of
various kinds and the taking of
public as well as private action to
Insure those utilities are made
available.
"We must have a well-targeted
cooperative Industrial expansion
program," King continued. "And we
must have a buslnees climate that Is
receptive to expansion and that
encourages confidence among
corporate leaders.’’
King said he feels more recesslon-
prnAf, clean industries this area can
accommodate with resources
available should be targeted. And he
said there must be an open door
policy and enthusiastic welcoming
to prospects.
Existing businesses and Industries
are not to be Ignored In the quest for
new business and Industrial
prospects. King told the directors.
"Half of the new Jobs created each
year are done through expansion of
existing business and Industry,” he
said.
A business assistance dlvlslcm has
been created within the N. C.
Department of Commerce to help
existing business and Industry.
"We must forge new links In the
chain of public and private
cooperation,” King said. "Links
such as business councils on arts and
humanities, science and technology,
government productivity and
management.
’ ‘We must look to the whole field of
preparation of young people and
others with vocational training In
high schools and community
colleges," King said.
The development director urged
concern for the quality of life In the
community, the attitudes and values
of Its people. He said we must have
a balanced growth, because the
small cities are the new frontiers,
where the action Is today, where
people are moving to, where the Jobs
are being created.
"When we speak of baltmced
growth," King said, "growth and
economic development, we are
^leaking of large, complex Issues
and understanding the Issues Is a
long, hard process.
Since April 1978, the development
office has been heavily Involved In
assisting businesses and Industry
Interested In relocating. Since Us
Inception the development office has
assisted, In various capacities. Knit
Sales Outlet, McDonald’s, Hier-
macote - Welco, Ustlng Industrial
acreage, a proposed five-story
apartment complex, RLJ (Cat-
tletown, USA) Steak House, con
tractors for the city’s housing
rehabilitation program. In
dependence National Bank branch,
Mirror-Herald expansion plans and
other industries as yet unannounced.
King’s office has also worked with
the FHA to get loans for locsd
residents to rehablUtate homes,
helping to organize courses In su«a
schools geared to local Industry
needs, working with home con
struction developers and with the
Kings Mountain Redevelopment
Cbmmlsslon.
Outside the city. King has worked
with plant location corporations and
engineering firms and construction
firms of International and national
reputation.
JERRYL. KING
. KM Development Director