VOLUME 95. NUMBER 32
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Grover Applies
For Sewer Grant
The Town of Grover has ap-
plied for a $603,225 Community
Development Block Grant to
cover almost half the cost of a
sewer project for the city.
The grant application was ap-
proved at a special meeting of
the board last Wednesday. The
application was hand-delivered
to the N.C. Department of
Natural Resources on Thursday.
The total cost of the project is
estimated at $1,226,000. The
town has several other grants
and loans already approved and
commissioners authorized spen-
ding $60,600 of the town’s
money to complete the project
costs, if the grant is approved.
The town expects to receive
word on the grant by the end of
September.
In other action Wednesday,
: the board:
*Approved hiring Charles
Duval to conduct the town’ S an-
nual audit.
*Accepted a $75 bid om
Grover Industries for an old
legal file cabinet.
*Approved the purchase of
Rockwell meters for the Grover
Fire Department. :
*Authorized the purchase of
the book “Heritage of Cleveland
~ County.”
*Discussed the need for school
crossing guards but decided not
to hire any guards at this time.
Chase Results
In 7 Charges
What began as a routine stop
for speeding Thursday turned in-
to a high speed chase through
the streets of Kings Mountain
and multiple charges against a
Bessemer City man.
Officer Harry Martin of the
KMPD reported that he obsery-
ed a motorcycle speeding on
King Street and began following
it. The motorcycle, he said, turn-
ed right onto Carpenter Street
and Martin made a left turn onto
~ Gaston to try to head it off at the
intetseciion of Ridge ang.
Due to the overenrollment of
the primary grades at East
School, Kings Mountain
Superintendent Bill Davis is sear-
ching for parents of children in
kindergarten, first and second
grades who are willing. to
transfer their children to other
schools in the school system.
Enrollment figues at the five
elementary schools show that
transfer of students from East
intersection, he said, the motor-
- cycle passed through it, still
traveling at a high rate of speed,
and he gave chase.
The chase continued through
the overhead bridge to Cansler
Street, then north to Ellis and
west on Ellis before the motorcy-
cle finally pulled over. Martin
said the subject then ran and a
foot chase began.
Officers Houston Corn, Gary
Sales and Phil Witherspoon j join-
ed in and the subject was ap-
Transfers Are N eeded
School is needed as follows:
From East School
kindergarten to kindergarten at
West School, North School or
Grover School
From East School third grade.
to third grade at Bethware
School or Grover School.
At East School there are no
classrooms available for addi-
tional teachers. -
Sex Ed Policy
To Be Acted On
The Kings Mountain District
Board of Education will meet
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
board room of the administra-
. tion building.
in the
The meeting was re-scheduled
from its usual meeting time of
7:30 p.m., Monday.
Items on the agenda include
the discussion of a sex education
policy for the schools. A policy
recommendation is to be
presented by Assistant
Superintendent Larry Allen,
who chaired a special committee
charged with developing the
policy before the beginning of
the 1982-83 school year.
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new business will open soon with 24-hour-per-day service.
Waffle House To Open
Jerry King, Director of ‘the
Economic Development Office,
announced today that a new
Waffle House Restaurant,
located at I-85 & NC 161 will
open in September to serve the’
citizens of Kings Mountain and
the surrounding area.
Richard G. Beard, President
of Hillcrest Foods, Inc., which
franchises Waffle ‘House, told
There is also an bane bet-
ween first grade class size at
West School and North School.
Consequently the school
superintendent will be pleased to
receive a limited number of re-
quests for transfer of North
School first grade children to
first grade at West School.
In some instances modifica-
tion of bus routes may be made
to accommodate students
transferred to other schools. In
other cases school bus service
might. not be possible for
students who are transferred.
If your child is a student in
kindergarten, first or second or
third grade at East School, or in
the first grade at North School
and you are willing to consider
transfer of your child to another
school, contact School
Superintendent Davis at
739-4589.
Call before August 9 if you
are willing to discuss a transfer
of your child.
Shriners Organizing
Twenty-six area Shriners took
the initial step toward organizing
a Shrine Club for the Kings
Mountain area Thursday at a
meeting at Hank’s Bar-H
Restaurant. :
- The new club hopes to draw
‘members from Kings Mountain,
Grover and Bessemer City, and
will give Cleveland County its
third Shrine club.
Paul Falls was. elected tem-
porary president of the club and
Tom Tindall was elected tem-
porary secretary. Joining them
on a 10-man committee to
recommend a slate of by-laws
and the club’s name are Tim
Gladden, Tom Tate, Carl Logan,
John Foster, Russell Falls, M.C.
Pruette, Dwight Chapman and
Sam Caveny.
Calvin Gaddy, recorder for
the Oasis Temple in Charlotte,
was guest speaker.
He pointed out that the for-
mation of a club in the Kings
Mountain area would not hurt
the two Shrine clubs—Piedmont
and South Mountain—-which are
already in Cleveland County,
but would strengthen the
Shriners’ benefactor, the
Shriners Hospital for Crippled
Children in Greenville, S.C.
He said Shriners may. be
members of more than one club,
and he added that most of the 84
Shriners in the Kings Mountain-
Grover area would probably
prefer a club of their own to cut
down on driving and to have
something “for your own com-
munity.”
The group called another
meeting for Thursday night,
August 19, at which time the
club will probably be organized.
Between now and then, the 26
Shriners who attended Thurs-
day’s meeting are to contact the
other Shriners in the area and
ask them to join. Any Shriners
who join between now and the
night the club receives its charter
will be charter members.
Gaddy suggested electing a
president, vice-president,
secretary-treasurer and four
directors, including ope senior
director who would become the
vice-president the next year.
* Gaddy called the gathering
Thursday “a good turnout. I’ve
organized clubs when there were
only three or four people at the
first meeting. With this kind of
turnout, it shows me that you
can organize a strong club.”
Tindall, former president of
the Piedmont Shrine Club, said
he looks forward to seeing this
area “organize and do some good
things this year.” He said the
club should adopt as its motto
“A burned or cripped child’s
smile makes it all worthwhile.”
“That’s what it’s all about,” he -
said.
opening date is set for September
20. :
King said that Waffle House
Restaurants are open 24 hours a
day, and are known both as a
family restaurant and a fast food
service.
According to King, the unit
will have a seating capacity of
41, and require approximately
12 to 15 employees.
BART FORTENBERRY
Fortenberry
Is Manager
Of Pic N Pay
Bart Fortenberry of Cher-
ryville has been named manager
‘of Pic N Pay in the Kings Moun-
tain Plaza Shopping Center.
Fortenberry is a graduate of
Cherryville High School and
took his management training at
Pic N Pay in Gastonia. He has
been with the company since
. January of this year.
SHRINE TALK - Kings Mountain Shriners
Tom Tindall, left, and Paul Falls, right, look
oyer a list of names of area Shriners with
Calvin Gaddy. Recorder for Oasis Temple,
Beard said that he would like
the citizens of Kings Mountain
to know that he “always
welcomes their comments, and
whether complaint or compli-
ment, will appreciate the con-
tact.”
According to King, 0.G.
Bates, the construction
superintendant, is working
feverishly to open on’ schedule.
Cliff ‘Madden is General
Manager of Hillcrest Foods, Lin-
da Barefoot is Division Manager,
Charles H. Barrier, M.D., will
be entering into the private prac-
tice of internal medicine in Kings
Mountain on August 16. He will
be joining Dr. Scott Mayse,
another internal medicine physi-
- cian, to form the Kings Moun-
tain Internal Medicine Group. .
Dr. Barrier was born in
_ Greensboro and graduated from
Page High School in that city.
He attended the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
and graduated from there in
1975 with a bachelor of arts
degree. He attended the Univer-
sity of North Carolina School of
Medicine where hé served as
class president for his junior and
senior years and he received the
Mosby Book Award. He
graduated in 1979. Since then,
he has been receiving further
training by doing a one year in-
ternship and a two year residen-
cy in internal medicine at the
University of Alabama at Birm-
ingham Medical Center. He
finished his internal medicine
training on June 30. Although
and J.R Stone is Assistant Vice
President-Real Estate, Waffle
House, Inc.
“Like other new businesses
and industries that have located
here,” said King, “this is a
clumination of a‘couple years ef-
fort on the part of The
Economic Development Office,
and the contacts that we have,
‘already, made, and are still mak-
ing will reap benefits for the city
in the future.” i
DR. CHARLES BARRIER
not a trained subspecialist, Dr.
Barrier does have a special in-
terest in diseases of the lung in
addition to the rest of the field of
internal medicine.
Dr. Barrier is married to the
former Ginger Moss of Kan-
napolis, and they have a son,
Chuck, who will soon be two
years old.
Photo by Gary Stewart
during a meeting last week at Hank's
Restaurant. Twenty-five area Shriners met to
discuss organizing a new club for the Kings
Mountain area.