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Kings Mountain area citizens
will go to the polls Tuesday to
vote in the delayed primary elec-
tion.
The primary, originally
scheduled for May 4, was
delayed for several weeks until
the Justice Department approv-
ed the state’s redistricting plans.
In addition to the local races,
area voters will also participate
in electing some state officials.
The slate of candidates will in-
clude five Kings Mountain
Citizens, including three incum-
bants and two newcomers to the
political arena.
Ollie Harris, an incumbant,
and Bruce Scism, a newcomer,
will battle incumbants Marshall
Rauch and Helen Rhyne Marvin
of Gastonia for a State Senate
seat from the 25th district. Three
will be named to face
Republican opposition in the
fall.
L.E. (Josh) Hinnant of Kings
Mountain will try to retain his
OLLIE HARRIS
seat on the Cleveland County
Board of Commissioners, along
with David M. (Pete) Stamey of
Polkville. They face opposition
from Martha E. Scism of Kings
Mountain, a newcomer,
Mrs. Scism, wife of Bruce
Scism, was active in the Associa-
BRUCE SCISM
tion of Cleveland County Tax-
payers which last year brought
attention to the rise of property
revaluations in the county and
challenged the election of county
commissioners Hugh Dover,
Coleman Goforth, and Jack
Palmer over write-in candidates
Board Of Commissioners
Adopts 1982-83 Budget
By GARY STEWART
Editor
Kings Mountain City Com-
missioners Monday night ap-
ings because the budget had
been printed several weeks
earlier and, “essentially was
already approved.
Childers and King said they
opposed the budget because it in-
cluded a three percent increase
for administration and
employees in a year in which the
-Mayor is terminating several city
employees.
“Pm not against employees
getting a raise,” King said after
the meeting, “but the one thing
in particular that I am against is
the commissioners and ad-
ministration getting increases
when the Cost Efficiency Com-
mittee is going to eliminate
. employees.”
“I would rather have seen us
hold the increase and keep more
- people working,” Childers said.
“The increase is not going to
amount to that much money per
individual and I don’t think
there is an employee that
wouldn’t have foregone his raise
if it would have kept someone
else working.” :
This year’s budget, which is
p
utilities ($8,745,973.00) is down
2.53 percent and the total
budget decreased by 5.9 percent.
The same tax rate-50 cents per
$100 property valuation—is being
maintained.
The overall budget reflects a
total decrease in salaries of about
$200,000. An additional savings
will be realized because
employees last year were given a
10 percent pay raise compared to
three percent this year.
However, several individual
departments show huge in-
creases. The administrative
department increased from
$218,069 to $256,957; police
department from $353,136 to
$457,461; fire department from
$119,941 to $148,750; codes-
inspection from $26,568 to
$29,082; public works ad-
ministration from $76,749 to
$89,121; garage from $51,527 to
$56,574; streets from $227,818
to $274,797; sanitary from
$164,354 to $223,794; aging
Bloodmobile Visit
Set For Wednesday
The Kings Mountain Com-
munity and Civic Clubs Blood-
mobile visit will be held Wed.,
June 30 from 2:30 until 8:00
p.m. at First Baptist Church.
The Mountaineer Boosters,
Jaycees, Kiwanis, Lions, Op-
timist, Rotary, Sertoma and
Kings Mountain Woman’s Clubs
will be participating. Kings
Mountain Senior High School
cheerleaders will be calling high
school students who donated at
the May visit at KMSHS.
Martha Scruggs of the
American Red Cross said there is
an urgent need for O-negative
and O-positive blood and urges
any persons with those types to
donate.
Any members of the area civic
clubs who can assist the Jaycees
in setting up or taking down the
bloodmobile are urged to go to
irst Baptist Church at 1 and
15 p.m.
Any citizens who have not
n contacted about donating a
of blood for patients in the
hospitals are asked to contact
any member of the civic clubs or
call the Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce
(739-5051) and make an appoint-
ment.
Plans are underway for this
bloodmobile to be a scheduled
one to prevent lines awaiting and
promote an even flow of donors.
Those with scheduled appoint-
ments will be taken first. A
donor may be signed up at any
15-minute interval between 2:30
and 8 p.m. For example, ap-
pointments will be made at 2:30,
2145.:3 p.m, 3:15, 3:30, etc;
through 8 p.m. Those arriving at
8 p.m. sharp will have the full
length of time to be processed.
This is the last bloodmobile
visit of this fiscal year, which
runs from July 1 to June 30. Last
year, the visit took Cleveland
County over the top of its goal
for the first time in history of the
blood program here.
from $36,774 to $37,320; recrea-
tion from $87,799 to $106,001;
Also, lake authority from
$12,543 to $19,547;
neighborhood facilities from
rom $49,221
architects
Employers E.O. Services Inc.,
which is advising the Mayor and
Cost Efficiency Committee on
Equal Opportunity compliance.
The budgets of several in-
dividual departments reflect a
decrease in personnel. The police
department’s personnel will be
reduced from 24 to 21; fire
department from 7 to 6; codes-
inspection from two to one full-
time and one shared secretary;
public works administration
from four to three and one
shared secretary; properties and
maintenance from six to three
plus one part-time; garage from
four to three; streets from eight
to six; sanitary from 16 to 14; ag-
ing program from two to one
and three part-time; and recrea-
tion from five to four.
The lake authority will con-
tinue to have two seasonal
employees, neighborhood
facilities two, and cemetery four.
The Economic Development
Commission is not budgeted for
1982-83. It has employed two
persons-Director Jerry King and
"his secretary, Connie Putnam-—
and their duties were to recruit
new industry for the Kings
Mountain area.
According to rumors, King
will be assigned the position of
purchasing’ agent, replacing
Clyde Whetstine, who recently
retired.
Following a meeting on the
proposed budget three weeks
ago, Mayor Moss would say on-
ly that he and King had been
discussing “some other areas” in
which King could serve.
Both Childers and Norman
King said they had asked the
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MARTHA SCISM
Duran Johnson, Bobby
. Crawford, and John Caveny Jr.
Kings Mountain’s Bennett
Masters, the incumbant County
Coroner, and owner of Masters
Funeral Home, faces opposition
from Ralph Mitchem of Shelby.
A local race which has at-
L.E. HINNANT
tracted a lot of attention is the
County Sheriff’s race. Sheriff
Dale Costner, who was ap-
pointed to the position when
Haywood Allen retired last year,
is opposing Buddy McKinney, a
former deputy, and Charles L.
Peeler.
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BENNETT MASTERS
For the two State House seats
from the 48th District, incum-
bants John J. (Jack) Hunt of Lat-
timore and Edith Ledford Lutz
of Lawndale, face opposition
from Jerry O. Adams of Shelby
and Hugh McBrayer and Bobby
Wall of Rutherford County.
To Occupy New Building
The newly-constructed wing
of Kings Mountain Hospital will
be occupied by patients next
Monday, Hospital Ad-
ministrator Grady Howard an-
nounced today.
Construction of the wing is
completed and hospital
employees are busy this week
moving equipment into the
facilities, and becoming ‘ac-
quainted with the new equip-
ment and systems.
The new wing represents
phase one of the $5.5 million
renovation project which began
in April of 1982.
Final inspection of the
building was conducted June 15
by an array of officials, ar--
chitects, and representatives of
the Division of Facility Services
of the North Carolina Depart-
ment of Human Resources,
Howard said.
The new two-story wing
houses 34 private rooms and six
special care (ICU and ICCU)
beds on the second floor. The
first floor is made up of the
Emergency Suite, Radiology
Department, Business Offices,
Medical Records, Gift Shop,
Vending, Doctor’s Lounge, Per-
sonnel Office, Employee Health
Office, waiting room and lobby.
The new special care unit is
situated in one corner of the se-
cond floor and laid out in a way
in which the nurse on duty can
see each patient and monitor the
patient from the nurse’s station.
Howard said ‘over $700,000
has been invested in new equip-
ment, including $400,000 for
new ultrasound equipment and
X-ray machines.
“The ultrasound in X-rays is a
relatively new technique in that
there is no radiation involved in
it and it is more definitive in
diagnosis,” Howard noted. “It’s
a pd fr OM
used extensively in treatment of
pregnant mothers.”
The second phase of the pro-
ject will begin shortly after oc-
cupancy of the new wing. There
will be an extensive renovation
of the first floor, converting
many of the multi-bed rooms in-
to private rooms. The hospital
will be essentially an all-private
room facility when completed,
Howard said.
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Many offices will be relocated
in phase two, Howard said, and
another feature will be the addi-
tion of a 60-seat cafeteria which
will serve employees and the
public.
Howard said most depart-
ments will receive more space
and better equipment, noting
that the physical and respiratory
therapy departments, lab, X-ray
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Announces Merger Plans
Home Federal Savings and
Loan’ of Kings Mountain an-
nounced today that it plans to
merge with North Carolina
Federal Savings and Loan of
Charlotte.
Tom Tate, president of Home
Federal, which also operates a
branch office in Bessemer City,
said the merger should be finaliz-
ed by the end of the year.
Tate said Home Federal was
approached by North Carolina
Federal, which has assets of
$364 million and offices in
Mecklenburg, Stanly, Union and
Rowan counties. The board of
directors here approved of the
idea and it will now go before the
membership. It will then have to
be approved by the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board.
Tate said a merger would
allow Home Federal, which has
assets of $57 million, to provide -
additional services which it
could not provide on its own.
Some of those services include
consumer lending, such as
automobile loans, a 24-hour
teller machine, credit cards, trust
accounts and FHA and VA
loans.
“We were trying to look far
enough down the road to be able
to offer this type service,” Tate
said, “and it opened up for us.
We really don’t have to merge
but, in order to get into the ser-
vices that we need to offer the
community, this is the best way
to go.”
North Carolina Federal is in
the midst of a statewide merger
effort. It recently merged with
North Wilkesboro Federal Sav-
ings and Loan, and Carolina
Federal Savings and Loan of
Raleigh, and is negotiating with
two: or three other institutions,
Tate said.
“They have expertise in all the
fields weWwant to enter,” Tate
said, “and we feel like we'll be
able to serve the community that
much better. We're just tickled
to death.”
Tate said, upon merger, the
name of Home Federal will
change to North Carolina
Federal Savings and Loan. All
20 of its employees in Kings
Mountain and Bessemer City
will be retained, as well as the
current board of directors.
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