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VOL. 90 NO. 25
Thursday. March 29, 1979
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Schools Wm
^ Follow Up On
Immunization
% The Kings Mountain District
Schools will be sending a follow up
letter in the next few weeks to
istudents who have not produced a
completed immunization record to
the school they attend.
“We appreciate the response we
* have had so far but we must have
every childs record completed as
soom-as possible,’’ said Federal
Programs Director Larry Allen.
Second notices will be sent out
April 4. All immunization records
should be in the process or com-
pleted by April 10. If by this time no
initiative has been shown by the
parent appropriate action will be
taken by the school, said Allen.
“No mass immunization clinics
will be held in any Kings Mountain
JK schools, therefore, we encourage
parents to take advantage of the
Kings Mountain immunization clinic
held at the Kings Mountain Com
munity Center each Friday morning
from 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.,’’ Allen
added.
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$5-Million Expansion
Planned By Hospital
Photo by Tom McIntyre
. .A CLOSER LOOK—Commissioner Bill Grissom tekes a closer look at
the drawing of a proposed marque type sign proposed for the Kings
Mountain Community Center. Action was tabled at Monday’s board
meeting.
By TOM McIntyre
Editor, Mirror-Herald
Kings Mountain Hospital, Inc. has
(dans to update and modernize its
facilities by 1982.
The estimated cost of the project
is $5 million.
The hospital and grounds is
Cleveland County property, said
Grady Howard, hospital ad
ministrator, “But the board of
trustees has decided to seek a
$4,800,000 loan from the Farmers
Home Administration and to use
$200,000 from other sources for the
project. The board decided not to go
to the county taxpayers for the
money.’’
The renovation project is known
as Concept 100 and represents im
plementation of objectives
established in the hospital’s long
range plans. The planning came out
of Health Care Concepts, a con
sulting firm in Greenville, S.C.,
ideas developed in 1978.
County Manager Joe Hendrick,
quoted in a Shelby Daily Star article
Tuesday, said, “1 can see no reason
why the county commissioners wuld
object to improvements at Kings
Mountain. However, I am at a loss to
be in a position to make a recom
mendation on this matter.’’
In the same article Edwin Ware,
administrative officer of Isothermal
Planning and Development Com
mission, commented that it appears,
since the Kings Mountin Hospital is
owned by the county, that the county
commissioners and not the trustees
of the KM Hospital would have to
make application for the FmHA
loan.
Kings Mountain Hospital trustees
also learned Tuesday that trustees
(rf Cleveland Memorial Hospital in
aielby that while they do not oppose
the KM request, they cannot give it
wholehearted support.
Meanwhile, KMH trustees are
going ahead with its Concept 100
plan.
$120,000 In Bonds To Be Sold
® The Local Government Com
mission has been authorized to
request bids on $120,000 water bond
anticipation notes on April 17 in
behalf of^mgs Mountain. -
The bond-sale funds are to be used
^ as part of the construction and
^ equipping of an alum sludge
treatment facility at the T.J. Ellison
Water Treatment Plant.
Mayor Pro-Tern William Grissom,
conducting Monday night’s board of
commissioner meeting in Mayor
^ John Moss’ absence, read a lengthy
" document covering the note sale and
stated the notes would mature on
Oct. 24, 1979.
The sludge treatment facility will
C4»t over $400,000 to complete.
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Commissioner James Childers
motioaed that action on a bid from
Andco of Greensboro to erect a two-
face marque sign at the Kings
Mountain Community Center be
tabled until a determination on what
Community Development funding is
available to cover the $10,533
project.
Pete Baugham of Holland
McGinnis Associates, Shelby ar
chitects, recommended the Andco
proposal be accepted prior to
Childers’ motion.
Baugham explained that tlie sign
would be located on the
facing Cleveland Ave. anci uiat it
would have two sectioris, botit four
by 18 feet. The upper section' is to
contain the legend Kings Mountain
Community Center, and die lower
section four rows of high-output
lamps behind the clear panels.
These panels will be designed to hold
Mack letters used to spell out
promotions, shows, ballgames and
other events planned at the center.
The sign, to be set in concrete, is to
be of aluminum in dark bronze to
match the decor of the new addition
to the community center.
'•he $10,533 price tag, which
covers the sign and installation, also
covers installation of 12 inch letters
in bnmze color to be attached to the
«^1! of the community center , the
letter^ to spell out Kings Mountain
Community Center.
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The board approved a request
from Kings Mountain taxi franchise
holders to increase customer rates
in six catagories.
The requests approved covers
local trips ($1 to $1.25); trips across
town ($1.50 to $2); package pickups
($1.50 to $2); grocery pickups (50
cents to 75 cents); waiting time ($6
per hour to $8 PH); and extra stops
(25 cents to 50 cents per).
The new rates will go into effect
•April 15.
Mayw Pro-Tern Grissom said the
request is the first since rates were
increased in 1974. The franchise
holders said increases in gasoline
and insurance prices is behind this
request.
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The commissioners approved
going into executive session to
discuss nersonnel matters. The
session lasted 29 minutes and
Grissom reported no action was
settled during the private session.
Under the plan the needs of the
hospital are spelled out. The first
floor of the hospital, constructed in
1950, ’55 and ’60, needs extensive
modiernization, alterations and new
mechanical systems. This will,
require the relocations of some 35-40
patients displaced on the first floor
by the expansion various ancillary
services, conversion of 4 and 2
bedrooms into private rooms to
conform with space allocation
codes, and adding baths for all
patient rooms. A third floor will be
added to the present two-story
section of the building to house tha
displaced beds.
In a letter to Edwin Ware at
Isothermal, Grady Howard outlined
the remainder of the hospital plans;
“Virtually all ancillary services
will be expanded to coidorm with
space allocation codes-emerg«cy
area, dietary, maintenance,
laboratory, radiology, medical
records, i^armacy, central supply,
storage, obstetrics, special care,
and administrative oHice areas,
office areas.
No new becte or services will be
added,’’ Howard stated. "This
program addresses itself only to
alterations, renovations and
modernization. Our needs were
probably best defined by a $tudy of
N.C. Division of FaCffity Services in
1977, in which they stated our
present building only had adequate
square footage to house 70 beds. We
have 102 licensed beds. Moreover,
federal funding (Hill-Burton) was
unavailable to this hospital for the
1970 project, at which time some ci
these problems could have been
resolved if money had been
available. All Hill-Burton Funds
were allocated to Cleveland
Memorial Hospital at that time.’’
Curtain Goes Up Friday Night On Drama
The curtain goes up Friday night
at 8 o’clock in B.N. Barnes
Auditorium for “The Remarkable
Incident At Carson Corners’’, a
drama in three-acts by the Kings
Mountain Senior High Seniors.
A cast of 26 will present the annual
Senior Play on Friday and Saturday
evenings at 8 p.m. under the
direction of Mrs. Ray Holmes.
Kristen Sergei’s drama was
adapted from the television show by
Reginald Ross and was originally
presented on Stud'o One, CBS-TTf.
Leading roles in the drama will be
played by John Noblitt, David
Barrett, Todd Gatts, Lindsay
Holmes, Teresa Turner, Steve
Boggan, Cindy Wells, Sherry Short,
David Bolton, Butch Pearson,
Sherman Jenkins and Nancy Lee.
Ticket prices are $2 for adults and
$1 for students. Cast members will
be selling advance tickets for $1.50
and 75 cents.
Members of the cast are Todd
Gatts as Dr. Caldwell; Nancy
Rikard as Mrs. Caldwell; Cindy
Wells as Susan Caldwell; Sherman
Jenkins as Mr. Prince; Kim Watson
as Mrs. Prince; Teresa Turner as
T^esa Prince; David Barre»t ««
Mr. Rogers; Cathy Heavner as Mrs.
Rogers; Chuck Walker as Joey
Rogers; Butch Pearson as Mr.
Woodbridge; Sallee Durham as Mrs.
Woodbridge; Lindsay Holmes as
Alice Wo(^bridge; David Bolton as
Mr. Wri^t; Fame Ramey as Mrs.
Wright; Nancy Lee as Elizabeth
Wright; Steve Boggan as Mr.
McGinnis; Darlene Jones as Mrs.
s
McGinnis; Ruscv Bumgardner as
Bobbie McGinnis; Tom Cox as Bill
McGinnis; Brad Tate as Bert
Hendricks; John Noblitt as Mr.
Kovalesky; Barbara McClain as
Janet; Robin McSwain as Carol;
Bridgette White as Madge; Sherry
Short as Miss Frank and John
Hanun as the painter.
Kings Mountain Chamber ot
Cornmerce will hold open house
Wednesday from 1 until 3 p.m. in its
new offices in the new addition of
Kings Mountain Community Center.
All members of the C of C and
visitors are invited to drop by the
offices and see the new furnishings
and quarters which are located
across from the KM Development
Office in the recently-completed
addition of the Center.
The story is set at Carson Comers
High School, an old decrepit build
ing, where a young student fell to
death from a rickety fire escape
several months earlier. Students at
the school have arranged a special
assembly program for their parents
and, in the absence of their faculty
advisor, proceed wiOi the “en
tertainment” which turns out to be a
mock trial in which the school
janitor is accused of pushing the boy
to his death. Tlirou^ a series of
flashbacks, the evidence is
presented, and it becomes apparent
that several of the parents may have
unwittingly contributed to the boy’s
death. A surprise turn of events is
revealed during the final moments
of the play.
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CXIURTROOM SCENK—Kings Mountain High School
seniors are pictured in a scene from *‘The Remarkable
Incident at Carson Corners”, the annual senior class
play, to he presf'nled Frtd»'. aii'l ‘'‘•*(uvrta> evi'iiings.
Photo by Lib Stewart
From left, John Noblitt (Mr. Kovalesky); Lindsay
Holmes (Alice Woodbridge); Teresa Turner (Teresa
Prince); Chuck Walker (Joey Rogers) and Sherry
Short (Miss Frank, the teacher).
..PLANNING MOCK TRAII—KMSHS seniors are
pictured in a scene from "The Remarkable Incident .At
Carson Corners”, annual senior class play which opens
Friday night for performances on Friday and Saturday
evenings. From left, Todd Gatts (Dr. Caldwell>: David
Barrett (Mr. Rogers); Sherman jenains (Mr. Prince);
John N.)blitl (Mr. Kovalesky): and David Bolton (Mr.
Wright). Seated, from left, are Robin McSwaIn and
Cindy We'Is v'lio i>,irtray students in the drama.