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Parents Upset Over Class
By GARY STEWART
Editor
Some parents are expected to
attend the meeting of the Kings
Mountain District
Education Thursday to protest a
teacher’s use of “street slang”
words in a seventh grade health
class at Central School.
The meeting will be held at 5
p.m. at the School Ad-
ministrative Building.
Bruce and Martha Scism said
they would request a spot on the
agenda and ask the board to set
guidelines on “how far a teacher
can go” in teaching sex educa-
tion.
During the last two weeks of
school, Central teacher Sherrill
‘Toney taught a Reproduction
System course as part of the
health curriculum. There were
approximately 35 students—boys
and girls-in the class.
Board of
A 12-year-old student, whose
name is being withheld because
of her age, said that on May 21
Toney wrote the scientific names
of male and female sex organs
and the scientific names of sex-
ual acts on the blackboard, and
asked the students to give the
“street” names for those words.
The student’s notes, which she
took home and showed to her
mother, included eight scientific
terms, and beside those eight
were 28 slang words. The stu-
dent said none of the words were
in the “Life Science”, the state-
approved textbook which was
‘used for the course.
The student said Toney also
used the book “Facts of Love”,
which she said Toney checked
out of Mauney Memorial
Library. She said that book in-
cluded photographs of naked
men and women and some of the
students “gathered around. Mr.
Toney’s desk” and looked at
them.
Toney refused to comment on
the class and told Central Prin-
cipal Glenda O’Shields that any
comment he would have would
have to come through Sandy
Younce, an NEA-NCAE
representative in Gastonia.
Y ounce said he had no comment
on the matter and suggested that
John Gresham, an attorney in
Charlotte, be contacted.
Gresham’s office was called six
times and he was reported out of
the office each time. One call
was made to his home and a man
who answered the phone said
“he’s at the office.” :
Mrs. O’Shields, who said she
approved of Toney teaching the
class and using the slang words,
said Toney used the words to en-
courage the students to use the
scientific terms.
“Mr. Toney was trying to get
across to the class for the
students not to use the slang
words but to use the scientific
terms,” Mrs. O’Shields said. The
student said Toney also told the
class during the two days that
they studied the terms that that
was his reason for using the
words.
Mrs. O’Shields said Toney
came to her before the class
began and told her he would be
including those words in the
course.
“We didn’t discuss the exact
. methods” of how the course
would be taught, she said, “but I
didn’t see anything wrong with
it. Those words are words we
don’t want the students using
and this was the idea behind it.”
Mrs. O’Shields said other such
courses have been taught in the
past, but said she was not ‘real
sure” if such words had been us-
ed before. She said she had never
before received a complaint on
any of the classes and had turned
the Scisms’ complaint over to
School Superintendent William
Davis.
Asked if she would allow
another such class taught in the
future, and, if so, would the
same terms be used, she said,
“We will follow whatever policy
Mr. Davis decides on.”
Mrs. O’Shields said her biggest
concern was that the child’s
parents did not complain to her.
The parents of the child said
_ they did not complain directly to
the school because of fear of em-
barrassment to their child. They
said they would like to attend
Thursday’s school board meeting
but have been told that if they
speak out during an open
meeting, their names would be
printed in the newspapers.
“We don’t know many people
here,” the father said, “and that’s
why we asked Bruce and Martha
to see if they could do something
about it.”
The parents said they gave
their daughter permission to take
the course. “But,” the mother
said, “we thought it would be
‘similar to what she had seen in
the fifth grade when all the girls
were shown a film on menstrua-
tion. If I had known such words
as these would be included, I
would not have allowed her to
take the course.”
The woman said she con-
sidered taking her daughter out
of the class after seeing her
notes, “but Toney said the last
three things covered would be
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Foote Mineral, Great Dominion Cut Back
By GARY STEWART
. Editor
The sluggish economy has
resulted in recent layoffs at two
industries in the Kings Moun-
tain area, but officials of both
companies hope brighter days
will be ahead.
~ Foote Mineral Company, one
of Kings Mountain’s most stable
industries for a number of years,
is operating at a 25 percent
reduction and has eliminated 12
By GARY STEWART
Editor
Grover Town Council is con-
sidering a $100,250 budget for
fiscal year 1982-83.
Mayor Bill McCarter went
over the detailed budget with
commissioners during Monday’s
regular monthly meeting at
Town Hall.
The biggest slice of the budget
will go to the police department.
Salaries of Police Chief Mike
Brown and one patrolman will
‘be $21,203.28. The next highest
department expense will be
Great Dominion Corporation,
which opened earlier this year,
recently had cutbacks in both
plant and office personnel, but
President Robert Dickens says
he foresees no additional cuts
and expects to call back some
employees in the near future.
Larry Wood, personnel
manager, and Walter Cooke,
plant manager at Foote Mineral,
said that company has gone to a
work 10 days-off
and $20,000 in interest from sav-
ings accounts.
Other department budgets in-
clude Administrative, $9,306.18;
Fire Department, $6,613.80;
Streets, $12,036.70; Sidewalks,
$2,000; Street Lighting, $4,155;
Sanitation, $11,800; Non-
department expenses, $3,018.78;
Cemetery, $500; Donations,
$2,500; Dues, $514; Town Hall,
$3,792.14; Legal Services,
$2,800; Committees, $2,220;
Contingency Fund, $1,433.12;
Sewer System, $2,000; Public
Buildings and Inspections, $125;
four days
employees.Employees are off
one week out of every four.
Many of the employees,
Wood said, have vacation time
built up and take those weeks as
vacation. Those who do not
have built-up vacation time are
allowed to sign up for unemploy-
ment compensation.
The work schedule, Wood
said, has been reduced by 25 per-
cent. He feels Foote will have no
‘additional cutbacks and will be
pense, $500 for legal expense,
$300.80 for insurance, $237 for
lines, $63.80 for . workman’s
compensation, $2,000 for equip-
ment maintenance and repair,
$100 for bad debts, $8,820.03
for bond expense, $263.80 for
contingency fund, and
$12,638.00 for capital outlay.
The budget will be placed in
the office of Town Hall until
June 21, when the board will
meet again to officially adopt the
budget.
In other action Monday, the
board:
gasoline ($3,000) and the next Transfers to Utility Fund, *Held a public hearing for
highest will be salaries for two $5,000; and Town Maintenance, comments on how to spend
school crossing guards ($2,592). $500. $5,000 in revenue sharing funds
The budget, McCarter said, McCarter said the Utility for 1982-83. After no citizens of-
reflects a five percent pay raise
for town employees and the cur-
rent tax rate of 23 cents per $100
valuation will be maintained.
. McCarter said the town ex-
pects $30,000 income from
taxes, $9,350 in Powell Bill
funds, $5,000 in Revenue Shar-
ing funds, $14,000 in sales tax
Fund budget will be $35,888. In-
come is expected from water,
$23,000; a Clean Water Bond
Grant, $7,888; and Revenue
Sharing funds, $5,000.
Expenditures include
$3,772.22 for salaries, $6,506.92
for operating expense, $586.20
for phone, $900 for office. ex-
Bumgardner Selected
To Head New Committee
C. Ross Baumgardner, disabl-
ed veteran, has been selected to
chair Greater Kings Mountain
Area’s Community Partnership
Committee, established to work
with the National Office on
Disability.
“Our Community Partnership
Committee firmly supports the
goal of promoting full participa-
tion of disabled persons in the
life of our society, which has
been adopted as the theme of the
National Year of Disabled Per-
sons,” Baumgardner said.
The Committee represents a
broad cross-section of Kings
Mountain Citizens dedicated to promote the “full participation” Jackson was rushed by “It’s the least we could do for friends and neighbors Nevette to ma Aim i waring fhe i
improving the quality of life of of the 35 million Americans with ~~ helicopter from Gastonia to this good man who has been a and Carrie Hughes, John B. and distor om z is gure o be i
disabled persons. The members physical or mental disabilities in Duke. fine neighbor and friend for all Mary Barber, Bud and Becky Huffman. He drives his care l
are: David Hannah, Mike
Monroe, Mae Blackwood,
Christine Morrison, the Rev. L.
K. Fannin, Charles Price, Robin
King, Ethel Bush, Walter Mor-
rison, Beatrice Ham, Anne Far-
ris and Mrs. Dorothy Mowry.
An advisory committee has also
been formed to assist on pro-
jects.
The committee will meet July
19 at 7 p.m. in the Depot Center
to begin the process of setting
goals and selecting programs.
The Community Partnership
Program is the National Office
on Disability’s effort to en-
courage communities to set
locally appropriate goals and
commit themselves to short and
long term programs to achieve
those goals.
The National Office on
Disability, located in
Washington, D. C., is a non-
profit organization formed to
our national and community life,
and to carry on.the momentum
of the National Year Of Disabl-
ed Persons. The National Office
on Disability cooperates closely
with private organizations as
well as government agencies.
Interested citizens who wish
further information may contact
Baumgardner at 739-5938.
fered input, Mayor McCarter
announced the funds would be
used to connect the city’s water
system onto the Kings Mountain
water system.
Later in the meeting the board
approved a water purchase con-
tract with the City of Kings
Mountain. Grover will purchase
up to 250,000 gallons of water
per day at a cost of 57.42 cents
per 1,000 gallons.
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KM Man
Injured
At Plant
Surgeons at Duke Hospital in
Durham are trying to save the
right arm of a 19-year-old Kings
Mountain man who was injured
in an accident at Carmet In-
* dustries Tuesday.
Sherrill “Jack” Jackson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Stoney Jackson,
had his right arm severed at the
shoulder when it was caught in a
' wrapping machine.
His parents were in Durham
Tuesday and Wednesday and
could not be reached. The
hospital was not releasing any in-
formation.
A member of the family said
the arm was re-attached and the
blood was circulating into the
hand, and there is a good chance
the arm will be saved.
days a week, 24 hours a day)
within three to five months.
The reduction, he said, is due
to the economy in general, high
interest rates and a drastic: cut-
back in the production of
aluminum.
“Of course, you don’t know
what will happen,” Wood said,
“but we hope this does not last
over three to five months.”
“Cooke said this is Foote’ first -
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HAMBRIGHT HONORED
Dewitt Ham-
bright, 88, the oldest citizen of the Dixon Com-
munity near Kings Mountain, was honored
Saturday at a surprise birthday party at the
more cutbacks,” he said. “We're
looking for the market to im-
prove.”
Foote employs about 260 peo-
ple.
The Great Dominion Cor-
poration’s future took a big turn
for the better last week when it
was notified that it had been
young company’s biggest project
to date."
Great Dominion has $18
million worth of bids out with
defense contracts.
“If we can survive the next
four months we will survive and
grow,” Dickens said. “It’s a
tough time right now but our
potential is better than it ever
has been. If our bank cooperat,
and honors dit, w
Photo by Lib Stewart
home of one of his neighbors, Ted Huffman.
Hambright is pictured here with his daughter,
Mrs. Ralph Cline. ].N. Hughes, third from left,
and Ted Huffman, right.
‘D’ Still Hunting
R. Dewitt Hambright
celebrated his 88th birthday by
joining neighbors on a fox-
hunting trip last week, a
reminder of those “good ole
days” when he rode his horse
with 30 dogs or more at his
heels. :
“I rode in a truck this time”,
said Dewitt, as he talked about
his hobby at a surprise get-to-
gether hosted by neighbors Ted
and Ginger Huffman and family
Saturday at the Huffman home
in the Dixon Community.
“Ted told me to come over
this morning to look at some
goats and I had no idea he had
planned a birthday party for
me”, said Dewitt.
our lives”, said Huffman. Grow-
ing up in a large family of
brothers and sisters, Ted said he
recalled many fond memories of
the Hambright family. “I hope
“D” doesn’t tell on us”, he said,
as they laughed about all the fox
hunting and watermelon slicings
that had occurred during the
years the Huffman children
grew up near the Hambright
farm.
A lifelong resident of the Dix-
on Community, Dewitt is the
son of the late David R. and
Mary Anne Dixon Hambright
and is a direct descendant of Col-
onel . Frederick Hambright,
Revolutionary War hero at the
Battle of Kings Mountain. He is
an Elder and oldest member of
Dixon Presbyterian Church. His
wife was the late Alda Royster.
Hambright’s daughter, Aleene
Hambright Cline, and her hus-
band, Ralph Cline, of Charlotte,
were also present for the party
Saturday along with longtime
Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Kish
Hambright and daughter, Nancy
and Sam Hewitt and family,
Donna Huffman and family and
the Ted Huffman family. Mr.
Hambright’s granddaughter,
Paula (Mrs. Jerry) Wellborn of
Deep Gap, N.C. and their three
children, Donna, Ben and Bob-
by, were unable to attend.
A retired farmer, Mr. Ham-
bright’s birthday was last Tues-
day, June 1. Like all fox hunting
enthusiasts, Dewitt Hambright
enjoys the chase. “We never try .
to catch a fox”, he laughed.
And Ted Huffman said he
could recall the fund that his
neighbor always had during
those fox hunts. “We could hear
those dogs all over the communi-
ty”, he said and Dewitt had a
horn that he used to blow which
had the loudest sound. We
always knew when D and his
buddies were going hunting.”
Dewitt Hambright at 88 belies
his age but he does require a case
church on Sunday and does his
own housework and cooking.
“My neighbors have always
been good to me”, said Dewitt,
“And I really appreciate them.”
Ted Huffman said the felling
of friendship is mutual. “Dewitt
is the best”, he says.
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