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THURSDAY, June 9, 1983
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A special mission fund has
been set up at First Union Na-
tional Bank fo provide funds for
special projects at the
Presbyterian Mission in Bulape,
Zaire, which is served by Dr. and
Mrs. Kenneth McGill of Kings
Mountain.
Leroy Howell, a former pa-
tient and long-time friend of Dr.
McGill, and local funeral home
ed the fund. John McGill,
former Kings Mountain drug-
gist, is treasurer.
Individuals, groups or chur-
ches may deposit funds into the
“Kenneth H. McGill Mission
Fund” or may give their dona-
tions to Mr. McGill and he will
deposit them. Checks should be
made out to the Kenneth H.
McGill Mission Fund.
The City Board of Commis-
sioners recently adopted a
resolution of appreciation for
Dr. McGill’s 10 years of medical
practice in Kings Mountain, and
15 years of service as a medical
owner Bennett Masters organiz-
Mission Fund
Is Established
missionary in Zaire. The board
also proclaimed Friday, which is
Dr. McGill’s birthday, as Dr.
Kenneth H. McGill Day.
Mayor John Henry Moss will
present a copy of the resolution
and a certificate of appreciation
to a member of Dr. McGill’s
family Friday at 10 a.m. at the
new City Hall. The public is in-
vited to attend.
McGill is the only doctor at
the Bulape Hospital in Zaire,
which serves approximately one-
quarter of a million people. The
130-bed facility is always full,
with patients not only filling the
beds but the hallways as well.
The hospital has electricity on-
ly a few hours a day, there is a
tremendous néed for clean water
and better equipment, and his
nurses and other assistants are
natives trained by McGill.
Equipment cannot be obtained
in Zaire and must be transported
from agencies and individuals in
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DR. AND MRS. KENNETH McGILL
Squad Needs Roof
Kings Mountain Rescue
Squad and Rainbow Studios of
Belmont are offering Kings
Mountain citizens an opportuni-
ty to help the squad raise $6,000
to put a new roof on the squad
' building on Parker Street.
1 Citizens ‘may purchase $10
* coupons from Rainbow for a
portrait, which will be taken at
the squad building, and that en-
tire $10 will be given to the
Rescue Squad. Rainbow will
then offer picture packages,
Edmisten
Activities
Set Friday
Attorney General Rufus Ed-
misten, a Democratic candidate
for Governor of North Carolina,
will be in Cleveland County. Fri-
day.
Edmisten will meet supporters
at a dutch breakfast Friday at 7
a.m. at the Shelby Elks CLub.
There will not be a regular pro-
gram but Edmisten’ will make
brief remarks.
There will be a barbecue and
bluegrass music show for Ed-
misten Friday from 6-9 p.m. at
Cedar Park on Highway 10
north of Shelby. Tickets are
available for $5 each by calling
Clyde Nolan at 487-6541, Joyce
Cashion at 7394962, Pete
Stamey at 538-7941 or Heyward
- Shuford at 538-7787.
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which persons pith the
$10 coupon are under no obliga-
tion to purchase.
Raising money for the project
is necessary, Squad Captain
Johnny Hutchins said, because
funds received by Cleveland
County Commissioners anil the
United Fund go toward the
operation of rescue services and
not toward capital building pro-
jects. The squad depends on raf-
fles, dances and other fund-
raising projects to provide those
necessary funds.
All of the squads in Cleveland
County are currently sponsoring
the same promotion, Hutchins
said. Rainbow recently finished
similar projects in Gaston and
Lincoln County.
Kings Mountain Rescue
Squad receives $5,000 annually
from the United Fund and 25
cents per mile for each transport
made from the Cleveland Coun-
Sewer
The Grover Town Council
Monday night set July 19 as the
date of a public: hearing to
receive input from citizens on
the matter of calling for a
$500,000 bond referendum to
help finance a sewer system.
The $500,000 bond would
support a $414,000 FmHA loan
and $82,000 in cost overruns.
The town has $600,000 in grants
to cover the remainder of the $1
million-phis project.
- years ago. The county,
ty Board of Commissioners,
According to Hutchins, there
has been a huge misunderstan-.
ding on the part of many citizens
since the county began charging
for ambulance services in Kings
Mountain and Shelby several
d not
Kings Mountain and’ Shelby
Rescue Squads, charges $20 per
transport. However, that $20
does not go to the individual
rescue squads but to pay the
salaries of the seven fulltime
rescue employees in the county
(three in Kings Mountain and
four in Shelby). Those paid
employees are paid for 40 hours
of work per week but are
volunteer rescuemen at other"
times.
“We don’t get enough money
from the county to operate am-
bulances,” Hutchins said. “If the
county went into the commer-
cial ambulance business, the cost
Hearing
McCarter said the loan would
be for 40 years and the town
would have to generate $4,500 a
month in revenues to cover it.
The public hearing will help
‘decide how the town will find
the revenue.
He said if taxes are not in-
creased, the funds could be
recovered by a minimum $13.50
sewer rate per family. Raising
taxes by 10 cents would cut the
monthly revenue need to $3,500
of transports would be $75 or
$80.
“If it weren’t for the
volunteers, we wouldn’t have an
ambulance service,” he con-
tinued. “These people hold down
full-time jobs and then devote
several hours a day to the rescue
squad.”
Hutchins said the rescue
squad receives no money what-
soever from most services pro-
vided, such as transporting the
elderly, transporting medical per-
sonnel during snow and ice, and
working ballgames, parades,
church activities, wrecks and
lake patrol.
Hutchins urges persons who
have purchased coupons to have
their portraits made or give the
coupons to a friend or relative.
The more portraits that are
taken means more money for the
squad, since the squad gets the
entire $10 if the picture is made.
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and lower the monthly rate, he
said.
McCarter estimated that the
referendum could be held in late
September.
In other matters Monday, the
board:
* Approved a 1983-84 budget.
of $148,942, an increase of ap-
proximately $13,000 over the
current budget.
*Accepted the resignatin of
police officer Ernie Willis.
J BN GAME
IT'S ALL OVER, BUT THE SHOUTING - Kings Mountain High
School seniors rejoice after receiving their diplomas Friday
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Photo by Gary Stewart
night at John Gamble Stadium. Over 200 seniors received
diplomas from Principal Bob McRae.
KM Attorney
Faces Charg. _
Kings Mountain Attorney
Christopher Steve Crosby was
indicted on charges of embezzle-
ment and forgery by the
Cleveland County Grand Jury
Monday.
Crosby allegedly forged and
cashed a $16,181 check made
out to him and a client, Earl Ben
Horton. Crosby allegedly forged
Horton’s name to the back of the
check, which was dated
February 2, 1983, and drawn on
the Northwestern Bank trust ac-
count of Herbert C. Combs Jr.
Written on the check was “pro-
ceeds from sale of house.”
State Bureau of Investigation .
Agent Dan Crawford testified
before the grand jury.
In another case, former Kings
Mountain School Board
Member Jerry Ledford was in-
dicted on charges of forging and
cashing two checks written on
the Kings Mountain Country
Club account.
Ledford is accused of forging
the signature of Thomas A. Tate
.on two $480 checks written to
himself and drawn on the coun-
try club account. One check was
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STEVE CROSBY
dated July 3, 1980 and the other
October 4, 1982.
Kings Mountain Police Chief
Jackie Barrett, who directed the
investigation into the country
_club checks, testified before the
grand jury. Ledford was book-
keeper at the club at the time the
checks were allegedly written.
Funeral Services Held
For Nevette Hughes, 79
Nevette Hughes, 79, of Route
4, Kings Mountain, died Wed.,
June 1 at Kings Mountain
Hospital.
A Kings Mountain native, he
was the son of the late William
Gordon. and Florence Welis
Hughes. He was a retired farmer
and former employee of the
ASCS office in Shelby.
He was a member and deacon
of Kings Mountain Baptist
Church.
He. is survived by his wife,
Carrie Gaffney Hughes; one
brother, Robert Hughes of
Dunedin, Fla.; five sisters, Mrs.
E.C. (Louise) Martin and Mrs.
Philip (Ruby) Baker of Kings
Mountain, Mrs. G.C. (Lucy)
Boone of Radford, Va., Mrs.
W.B. (Vic) Atchley of Raleigh,
and Mrs. W.I. Marie) Carroll of
Asheboro.
Services were conducted Fri-
day at 4 p.m. at Kings Mountain
Baptist Church by the Rev. J.C.
Goare. Burial was in Mountain
Rest Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were M.L.
Williams, Odell Benton, Harold
Crawford, Eddie Carroll, Tom-
NEVETTE HUGHES
mie Vaden and Ken Lewis.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr.
Charles Adams, Dr. John
McGill, Grady Tate, Jack
Hullender, Robert Oates, James
Childers, Ray Childers, Thomas
Tindall, Tom Tate, Gene
Roberts, Marion Dixon, Lee
Yarbro, J.C. Bridges and Glee
Bridges.
POWER OUTAGE
Some citizens of Kings Moun-
tain will be without power Sun-
day from 89 p.m. while Duke
Power makes repairs on the
Gaston Street sub-station. The
areas affected will be the same
streets that were without power
last Sunday.
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Peeler, Hamrick
Win Top Awards
David Kirk Peeler won the
American Legion Outstanding
Senior Boy Award and Trina
Hamrick won the Outstanding
Senior Girl Award during an-
nual awards day ceremonies
Thursday at Kings Mountain
High School. '
Other awards included:
Kiwanis Good Citizen Award,
Michael Hollingsworth;
Scheussler Award, Paul Hord
Jr.; Journalism Award, Tina
Thombs; Beta Club Outstanding
Student Award, David Peeler;
National Honor Society
Outstanding Senior Member
Award, Robin McElroy; Kings
Mountain Associatin of
Educators Good Citizen of the
Year Award, Trina Hamrick and
Tim Plonk; Fellowship of Chris-
tian Athletes Award, Teresa R.
Plonk; John Philip Sousa Band
Award, Joanie Hamrick;
Musical Excellence Award,
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