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Sh eT Bani As IIE IRAE ERIE IE. nm Christmas will come early for residents who Month Before Christmas” subscription contest. Over $10,000 in prizes will be awarded in the biggest give- away ever to be held First prize will be a new 1983 Chevette. Second prize is $50. a week. every week, for one year--for a total of $2,500 in cash. Third prize is a $1,000 shopping spree at a store in our area. There are 10 prizes in all to be awarded to the 10 people, or 10 groups who sell the most new subscriptions to any of General Publishing Company's six weekly newspapers - The Belmont Banner, The Mount Holly News, The Stanley News, The Bessemer City Record. The Cherryville Eagle. and The Kings Mountain Herald. | ~The contest is open to any individual or group with the ex- ception of employees of General Publishing Company or their immediate families. The contest begins today and ends on Friday, December 17. All prizes will be awarded on December 17. Anyone who sells ten or more yearly subscriptions to any or all of the six weekly newspapers, and does not win one of the ten prizes will receive a $25. savings bond. Other prizes include. a refrigerator, a color TV. and other participate in General Publishing Company's “Twas The A New Car Can Be Yours In This Exciting Give- Away!!! _ This is a good opportunity for church groups, scout troops, or school groups to band together and comb the county for new subscribers to these newspapers. Only new subscriptions will be accepted. Renewals will not be counted. A two year subscription will be counted as two one year subscriptions. You may pick up your subscription forms and entry rules at any of the offices of the six newspapers. The Belmont Banner and Mount Holly News office is located on Highway 273 bet- ween Belmont and Mount Holly beside Auten Insurance. Phone number is 827-7526. The office of the Stanley News is located in Melville's 5 and 10 cent store in Stanley - phone number is 263-8301. The Cherryville Eagle office is located at 107% E. Main Street. The phone number is 435-6752. Bessemer City residents may get their entry forms at Smith's Variety store located at 108 W. Virginia Avenue, or by calling Lois Smith at 629-2654. The Kings Mountain office is located at E. King Street in Kings Mountain. Phone number is 739-7496. Anyone may sell subscriptions to any of these six newspapers. We ask that all contestants turn in their new subscriptions each Friday. No entries or money will be accepted on any Ts 000 ‘*u3xpN sbhury Axexqt1 TeTAOWSINW Aaunen 98082 “aay IUOWPDTJ In case of a tie for any prize, the winner will be decided by a drawing. The decision of the judges is final. shopping sprees. other day. STN 7 at AE rey Bi PA A = 2 s 2 = = = = x ee S29 0 “a? — ST, SENET Zw, SY £5 — Z a = mE = = = pi = = a =z V5 == == = ZS Zs VOL. 95 NUMBER 46 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1982 & XC - KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA Monday night during a public hearing to discuss how the city could best received through an amendment to the Community Development Block Grant program, but none of his requests were granted. unanimously approved asking the Department of Housing and Urban Development to allow it to spend $440,000 to repair the dam at Moss Lake. prepared presentation, suggested Board members voted at their regular monthly meeting Mon- day night to.continue a policy of restricting the use of the high school football field to group other then the high school and junior high teams, to give High School Athletic _ Director and Coach Dan Brooks and Principal Bob McRae the * descretion as to when the field . could be used by outside groups. was willing to consider all re- quests for use of the field, but that too much activity on the ~ turf could damage the field. the past when the field was used by outside groups in bad weather “and the result was heavy damage to the field,” Brooks said. sive report on Kings Mountain Senior High School Extended 3 ACCEPT AWARD - Kings Mountain com- munity leaders are pictured above accepting the city’s third Community of Excellence Award from Governor Jim Hunt last week in Kelly Speaks that the city spend the funds on ‘housing rehabilitation projects, street improvements, sidewalk construction around schools, and other projects inside the city limits. “The dam is nice,” Kelly told the Mayor and Board of Com- missioners, “but we live in the ci- ty and not way out in the coun- try. If you put the money here in town where people can see it I believe they’ll appreciate it.” Kelly pointed to several pro- jects the city has discussed in the past but were never undertaken. Only one citizen spoke out spend any funds After the hearing, the city Clavon Kelly, in a well- KM Stadium Policy Will Continue As Is Day program in which student who for one reason or another have dropped out of school, reestablish themselves in the night school program and con- tinue their eduction. “] am real gratified that many students who are not able to con- tinue their high school education in the regular day program are able to do so in our extended program,” Mrs. Peeler stated. “If we can keep these students in- terested and encouraged, many who would drop-out, will graduate,” he said. Another similiar program that is geared to the student who has problems and is on the verge of dripping out of school is the Drop-out Prevention-Job place- ment Program. This is being headed up by Mrs. Anita Camp- bell, who also reported to the board on the progress of her The Kings Mountain School The board voted unanimously Coach Brooks stated that he “There have been instances in B.S. Peeler gave a comprehen- Turn To Page 7-A Raleigh. Left to right are Jerry King. Larry Hamrick, Mayor John Henry Moss, Charles Hamilton, Governor Hunt, Dan Dilling and Ruby Alexander. advertising Saturday's Band Festival at the By GARY STEWART Editor The city of Kings Mountain will ask the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment to allow. it to use over 3: 00,000 of Community "The board of commissioners Monday ‘night ‘approved a resolution to amend the CDBG program. Mayor John Henry Moss pointed out that, the city has $422,092.79 surplus in the 1979 CDBG program. An extra $18,650 from program incomes would bring the total to the needed $440,742.79. Community Development Block Grant funds—which were spent over a five-year period, are put aside for the city’s use. in eligible programs. The city ac- tually does not have that money in hand, Moss explained, but the town has a “letter of credit” from HUD. The city has been ordered by the State Department of Natural Resources to repair major leaks in the dam’s drain pipe and make other improvements necessary to bring the dam up to current state and national safety guidelines. Kings Mountain recently ap- plied for a federal grant to make Out “At one time the city applied for a grant for housing rehabilitation in’ the First, Se- cond and Third Street area,” Kelly stated. “I feel the city should apply for money to help those people out. With everything going up, they can’t afford to fix up their own homes. “The money could be spent on street improvements,” Kelly add- ed. “In item four of tonight’s the improvements but it was agenda, you're assessing tax- turned down. The state last Fri- payers for street improvements. day released $45 million in federal grants to a number of Turn To Page 6-A North Carolina cities, including PREPARING FOR FESTIVAL - These sup- porters of the Kings Mountain High School band are pictured above preparing posters pair the Moss Lake dam. fede originally $4 million plus to be $1 million to Shelby for housing programs. Moss said Kings Mountain’s request was turned down because the city still has surplus funds in its 1979 CDBG pro- grams. He said he was told that X (the city. i eligible for any. of life and extensive property... . grants as long as it has surplus funds available. ~The city’s consulting engineer, Buck: Johnson of ‘the W.K. Dickson Company, met with the board in July and pointed out all the corrections that needed to be made at the dam. He said the dam met all safety requirements when it was built 12 years ago but does not now because both state and national guidelines have now changed and must be adhered to. The city has been instructed by the Department of Natural Resources to continue a weir monitoring program, seal the leaking drain pipe or line it with a 48” pipe, install a low-level outlet and implement an annual inspection program. In a letter written by Johnson to the Mayor and City Commis- sioners on October 14, Johnson said the dam is an “imminent threat to public health and safe- ty”. He stated further that “none of the known characteristics of this dam indicate that failure is inevitable but it is the consensus of City, State and Federal Engineers that the dam could fail at any time from some fault that has not made its presence known.” rr iid ¥ i Photo by Gary Stewart Kings Mountain Depot. Left to right are Pat Smith, Sadie Patterson. Ruth Yarbro, Lew Dellinger. Kay Davis, Debbie Ganndt and Diane Harper. ~ was carried out City Takes Action To Repair Moss Dam Johnson also stated in the let- ter that “if failure should occur it is expected to begin very slow and rapidly accelerate leaving lit- tle or no time to make corrective action. A failure of the dam could possibly result in the loss amage down stream.” Mayor Moss said it would take HUD about 45 days to act on the city’s request. If the amendment is approved, it would take about a year to con- struct the liner and valve. ‘Before the action was approv- ed unanimously by the board, Commissioner Jim Childers and Community Development Direc- tor Gene White engaged in a lengthy conversation over the use of CDBG funds, and much of the talk centered around a CD project on Bennett Street for which Childers said the city was never re-imbursed for its labor. The project, which included a new street, sidewalks and curb and guttering, White claimed, through “an agreement that Community Development funds would be spent for materials and engineer fees and the city would furnish the labor. “If Bennett Street was a Com- munity Development Block Grant program, the city is eligi- ble for re-imbursement for work performed in that area,” Childers “stated. Turn To Page 5-A KM Band Festival Saturday The Kings Mountain Senior High band festival will be held | Saturday from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. at the Kings Mountain Depot. A Christmas Shop will feature many craft items which have been made by mothers of band members and friends in the com- munity. On display will be a large variety of gifts for the holidays and all occasions. Featured activities include a flea market with furniture, china, clothing, records, tapes, books, and other items; an open air market with vegetables, fruits, pumpkins, jellies and pickles; and a bake sale with many delicious cakes, pies and cookies. Turn To Page 7-A Sad aca ye Li pe ea RN a ee
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