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CRISES = — P- © 5 Oo Q n nn 25 i: go Change Clocks IT 5 Sunday 2 A.M. ® 3 o ft - © VOL. 96 NUMBER 17 THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1983 - KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTE = © Z | ® Contracts Of 15 Teachers Not Renew The Kings Mountain District Schools Board of Education met in special session Tuesday after- noon at the Schools Administra- tion Building and voted unanimously not to renew the contracts of 15 probationary teachers. The board discussed the mat- ter at its regular monthly meeting last Monday night but delayed action upon a recom- mendation of Superintendent Bill Davis. Davis said he had not been able to post notices in schools because of the Easter holidays and “didn’t feel notifica- tion on Monday morning and ac- tion on Monday night was suffi- cient time.” The board’s action was necessary because of uncertainty of the amount of funds to be received for the 1983-84 school year. The system will have five fewer state alloted teachers and Davis has not yet been told by local and federal funding sources how much money the system will receive. State law requires that school teachers be told by April 28 whether or not their contracts will be renewed. Davis said he feels that by the end of the school year the board will be able to reemploy all teachers who want to work next year, but at this point cannot assure it. Included in the list of the teachers whose contracts were not renewed were nine teachers in grades six and up who are first-year probationary teachers, and six in grades kindergarten through five who are second- year probationary teachers. Teachers are on probation for the first three years of their employment. “Several teachers who are members of the Kings Mountain Education Association attended the meeting. - Association president Betsy Wells asked Davis if some of the teachers who were not renewed will have contracts by May. “I'm sure of it,” he said. ¢ expect to know earlier about Grocery Business Changed By LYNN NATIONS Not many consumers today remember when flour was pur- chased in 100 pound sacks and bananas were plucked from a stalk in the store. But Bertha “Bert” Blanton, a retired resident in Kings Moun- tain worked 50 years in an old country store near Park Yarn Mill. The rectangular, wooden building had counters along each side and a pot belly stove in the center. The country store, owned by By LYNN NATIONS Today the average person walks into the local grocery store frequently to purchase a paper or plastic carton of cold, fresh milk without even considering the process of getting that carton onto the refrigerated shelf. Sam Weir, 69 year old Kings Mountain retiree recalls the days just after World War I when milk wasn’t even available in stores. “People would bring a pail to our house and get milk. My dad- dy would sell it for 5¢ a bucket,” said Weir. ‘In 1918 the Weir’s stated the first milk delivery service in Kings Mountain. Weir said that it was the era of horse and buggy and now newspaper. “Everyone went to the Post Office for news. “My daddy saw a poster in the Post Office for wagons and drivers to go and build Fort Bragg. He and my brother Ted took two teams of mules down to the fort and saw a man delivering milk house to house,” said Weir. “When they returned to Kings Mountain after World War I, our family began delivering milk in buckets and then later in bot- les.” “Within a year there were 100 farmers delivering milk in Kings Mountain,” he said. “Later my daddy bought and remodeled a horse drawn hearse to deliver milk,” said Weir. The first building used for milking was wooden with a ce- ment floor. The cows were caught and tied with a rope - while eating from a long trough. “The cows placed their heads through stantions, wooden bars about two feet apart to readh the feeding trough. While eating, the cow would be milked by hand,” Weir said. He said that the first milking machine was operated with an air pump. A metal pipe hanging down between two cows was connected to two rubber pipes. The air pressure forced the rub- ber pipes to simultaneously squeeze the milk from into a five gallon metal can. “Milk directly from a cow is hot and the quicker it’s cooled the better. At first we used ice, but later built an electric cooler with flooring lumber,” said Weir. At first the milk was strained only with a cloth. Later a cloth was placed inside a metal strainer. The milk was then put into a vat to be cooled. The bottles were placed under the hand bottling machine which resemebled a round bucket to be filled. The Weir’s built an electric refrigerator and sterilizer with double walls from flooring lumber. “We milked around 32 to 35 cows twice daily. I got up at 4 a.m. every morning to milk and walked home from school only to milk again,” said Weir. “We delivered milk every mor- ning for 5¢ a pint and 10° a quart. Customers paid by the week,” he said. When the first wooden barn had fallen down a milk house and new barn were built with handmade bricks on the bottom half and wooden slats up to the roof. The structures are still stan- ding on Grover Road. As the years progressed new conveniences were added to im- prove the process. “In 1931, when I finished high school our family started going out of the dairy business,” said Weir. “To- day the man who owns a dairy ‘has little manuel labor to do. Everything is taken care of by automatic machines.” Kiwanis Talent Show Thursday At KMHS The annual Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club Talent Show for grades eight through 12 will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at B.N. Barnes Auditorium. Winners of the recent talent competition at Kings Mountain junior and senior high schools will compete for the first place awards. Six winners were ward] in the kindergarten through seventh grade show last Thursday at Barnes Auditorium. Students Mayor Moss Hospitalized Kings Mountain Mayor John Henry Moss underwent correc- tive surgery (hernia) Tuesday at Presbyterian Hospital in “Charlotte. Mayor Moss was reported to be doing fine today, but will re- quire several more days of hospitalization. He is a patient in room 518. The hospital address is 200 Hawthorne Lane, Charlotte, N.C. 28237. from Grover, East, West, Bethware, North and Central schools competed. Christy Walker won the kindergarten-first grade division with the song “Bimbo.” Jenny Summey sang “Sandy, Dumb Dog” to win first place in the second-third grade division. Rivers Smith, Carrie La Vere and Christy Dixon tied for first place in the fourth-fifth grade division. Rivers did a ballet to “Man With The Golden Arm”, Carrie did a twirlingtlogging routine to “Texas Fiddle” and Christy sang Connection.” Tonya Hawkins won the sixth-seventh grade division with a gymnastics routine to “Chariots of Fire.” g Other participants included Heather Melton, LaTonya Moore, Amber Jordan, Susie Lingerfelt, Abbey Gann, Angela Hawkins, Tyrone Crocker, ‘Chastity Moss, Frosty Lail, Gail Thompson, Joy Short, Harold Willis, Tiffany Ramsey and * Angela Redmond. “The Rainbow TALENT WINNERS - Winners of the annual Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club Talent Show for grades kindergarten through seven are pictured above. Front row. left to right, are Christy Walker, Jenny Summey and Tonya Photo by Gary Stewart folks in the Vocational and Ex- ceptional Children departments. By the time school is out, we’ll know virtually about all of them. That’s not a commitment but a predictin that I believe will be reality.” Davis said he probably will not know until June or later about the amount of money the system will receive from the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners. ‘They never make an official decision before July 1, but they usually tell us what we have hs by the first of June,” he said. Davis said the Shelby City School System did not renew any of its probationary teachers. “The Association is extremely concerned,” said Mrs. Wells. “We have explicit faith in you that the decisions you make will be the best for the children that we teach. Were concerned about jobs too.” “We're concerned too,” Davis said. Sunday Fire Destroys McClain Family’s Home A Kings Mountain family of seven lost its home and all of its belongings in a fire Sunday after- noon. The mobile home belonging to Joseph McClain was destroyed around 1:57 p.m. Waco and Oak Grove volunteer firemen said that when they arrived at the home on Gary Beam Road on Route 3, Kings Mountain, it was engulfed in’ flames. McClain and his wife, Cathy, and their five children were away at the time. McClain said he had taken the family out to eat Sunday dinner and they were The McClain’s have five children, ages 10, eight, six, four and two weeks. Anyone wishing to Ih clothes or other items may leave them at Adams Cleaners on on a. to visit Lita in. 2 an other per- sonal belongings were destroyed. Ridge Street in Kings Mountain, or at McCluney’s Car Lot in Shelby. Clothes sizes are: Mr. McClain, pants 36 waist, shoes 9. Mrs. McClain, pants 38, shoes 10. 10 year old boy: pants 10 regular, shoes 54. 8 year old boy: pants 8 regular, shoes 3%. 6 year old girl: pants 8, shoes 2Y. 4 year old gn: pas She, go to the stop sign at Reynolds Dance Club. Turn left again and go to the first paved road on the right (Marshall Wolf Road). The McClain home is the second brick home on the right and has a brick entrance with the name “McClain” written on it. Six Applicants Eye Chief Job The City of Kings Mountain Personnel Committee met Tues- day night to begin screening ap- plicants for the position of Chief of Police. The city has received six ap- plications for the job, which has been vacant since 1977, when Earl Lloyd left the position. Cap- tain Jackie Dean Barrett has served as acting chief since that time. Hawkins. Back row, Carrie LaVere, Rivers Smith and Christy Dixon. The talent show for grades 8-12 will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at B.N. Barnes Auditorium. No interviews have been scheduled as yet. The city has been advertising for a chief of police since February 28, when Commis- sioner Norman King made a mo- tion in a meeting of the city board of commissioners that the city hire a chief within 30 days. The personnel committee also held a grievance meeting last week on the suspension of Patsy Parker, an exercise instructor at the Kings Mountain Neighborhood Facilities Center. About 40 women attended last week’s board meeting to show their support. for Mrs. Parker, who was suspended by NFC Manager Ray Hurley over a let- ter which was written to WBTV in Charlotte criticizing a Chan- nel 3 reporter’s coverage of a re- cent Exercise-A-Thon held at the Cleveland Mall. Mrs. Parker is continuing to direct the exercise program until a final decision is made by the Board of Commissioners. Man Charged In Shooting A Kings Mountain man was arrested Tuesday in the shooting of a Gastonia man. Police charged Donald Ray Wood, 39, of 14 Silver Dollar Trailer Park, with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious bodily injury, following a shooting incident at 4:20 p.m. at 821 Third Street. Taken to Kings Mountain Hospital was Walter Lee Black of Gastonia. Wood was jailed on a $10,000 unsecured bond. AxeIqTT TeTAOWSINW Aaunep
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