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VOL. 97 NUMBER 5
Street
Work
To Begin
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Repaving of King Street,
widening of Cleveland Avenue
from the By Pass interchange to
Linwood Road, and installation
of street lights at two of the By
Pass overpasses are major street
improvements projects to get
underway in the city by Spring.
Mayor John Moss reported at
Monday night’s city commission
meeting that the Department of
Transportation had approved
and will share in the costs of two
of the projects, the resurfacing
and street widening, but turned
down a request to install the
lights. The city board voted then
to install four lights near the
North Piedmont Avenue inter-
change and four lights at the
Cleveland Avenue interchange
at cost of $3500. Illumination of
the area will make pedestrian
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© Kings Mountain’s ‘Board of
Education Monday night ap-
proved the sale of the Compact
School property to Jack Barrett
for $75,000.
Barrett, owner of Barrett’s
Floor Covering in Kings Moun-
tain, plans to move his
warehouse to the Compact site.
The property, which contains
a gymnasium which has been
rented to the J.E. Herndon Com-
pany, several classroom
buildings and over six acres of
land, was put up for sale early
last year. After several public
auctions did not bring a satisfac-
tory price, the board agreed to
try to sell the property itself.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1984
Photo by Gary Stewart
NEW BYPASS - The long-awaited Highway 74 bypass opened without ceremony Friday
afternoon. State officials plan a formal dedication led by Governor Jim Hunt later this year.
This photo, taken from the Piedmont Avenue bridge, shows westbound traffic. Crowders
Mountain is in the background.
by the school system since 1976,
when ninth grade students at-
tended classes there briefly while
construction was completed on
the new junior high school.
Since then, Cleveland Tech used
the facility briefly for night
classes and the buildings stood
empty for several years until the
J.E. Herndon Company rented
the gym for storage space.
The plant has not been used as
a high school since the fall of
1966, when Compact _con-
solidated with Kings Mountain
District Schools. It was used in
the early 70’s for the Exceptional
Children’s program.
Hord Suggests Security
Measures At KM Schools
The Kings Mountain District
Board of Education Monday
night approved a security system
and instructed Superintendent
William Davis to work out the
details.
Board member Paul Hord Jr.
suggested that the system’ re-
quire all visitors to have some
type of visitor's pass before
visiting the schools. He said he
was suggesting the security
measures because of a recent in-
cident in the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg School System
when someone entered a school
and molested a young student.
Hord suggested making dif-
ferent colors of passes to be clip-
ped on a person anytime he visits
a school, with each school hav-
Bloodmobile
Here Thursday
Kings Mountain Fire Depart-
ment will sponsor Thursday’s
visit of the Red Cross ,Blood-
mobile.
Donors will be processed from
12:30 until 6 p.m. at First Bap-
tist Church and goal of the one-
day collection is 150 pints of
blood.
Homemade vegetable soup
will be served to each donor dur-
ing the visit of the Bloodmobile.
The need for blood is critical
in the area and local firemen are
encouraging Kings Mountain
area citizens to come out and
participate and make this visit
the best ever.
ing a different color. “Then, if a
teacher or student sees someone
in the building without a pass,
the principal could be contacted.
It may prevent us from having
problems in the future.”
Superintendent Davis said all
visitors to schools are instructed
through posted signs at the en-
trances to check by the
principal’s office before visiting a
teacher or student. However, he
said, all persons don’t do it.
“It would be little trouble to
provide some sort of identificas
tion,” Davis said.
Davis said Kings Mountain
schools have not had any trouble
with students being molested at
school, but there was one case
recently when one young stu-
dent was accosted on the way
home from school.
Davis said the schools have
had some “hairy incidents when
an angry parent came into
schools and went directly to a
teachers” and attacked them ver-
bablly.
Patti Weathers, a teacher at
Central School, spoke in favor of
Hord’s request. “Many times, we
see people in the buildings and
don’t know if they’re supposed
to be there or not,” she said.
Board member Kyle Smith
said if the system is not too cost-
ly “I would go along with it” and
board member Doyle Campbell
said “if it would prevent an inci-
dent, it would be well worth it.”
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~The facility has not been used. :
unanimously to sell the property
to Barrett. Superintendent
William Davis said he would in-
struct School Board Attorney
Scott Cloninger to draw ‘up the
property documents to sell the
property.
Barrett said he has not heard
anything official from the school
board yet, but hopes to begin
moving some warehouse goods
into the property within a
month. Local Attorney Mickey
Corry has purchased the proper-
ty beside of Barrett’s current
location and after Corry begins
construction of his new lawyer’s
RACHEL GLADDEN
Mrs. Gladden
Wins Local
NCAE Award
Rachel Plonk Mrs. Tim)
Gladden is winner of the Kings
Mountain competition for the
1983-84 NCAE Human Rela-
tions Award.
Mrs. Gladden, third grade
teacher at North School and a
classroom teacher with 25 years
experience, was notified of her
selection by the Kings Mountain
Instructional-Professional
Development Committee. The
local winner from KM District
Schools advances to regional
competition and the regional
winner advances to state com-
petition.
The NCAE Human Relations
Award is given annually te a
NCAE-NEA member who has
developed successful methods of
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The school hoard sollowing. a,
~ lenghty executive session, voted
offices, Barrett said he tractor- x
trailers which carry “his goods
will not be able to eet to his
warehouse.
“I’m not sure right now what
we'll do, but we will use the pro-
perty ourselves,” Barrett said.
“We'll have to do something
within a month or so. As I
understand it, Mickey Corry has
only 90 days to start his
building.”
Barrett said he had rented
warehouse space in Shelby in
case his purchase offer for the
Compact property was not ac-
cepted.
Barrett said he is not sure yet
whether or not he’ll move his of-
fices to the Compact property.
He also is a Glidden Paint dealer
and said he might continue to
operate the paint store out of his
current location.
Four-Year
Term Sought
Kings Mountain District
Schools will ask State Senator
Ollie Harris to introduce a bill in
the next regular session of the
General Assembly to change the
length of Kings Mountain
School Board Member terms
from six to four years.
Superintendent William Davis
told the board Monday night
that he had been in contact with
William Peak, Associate State
Superintendent, about the pro-
per way to change the length of
terms.
Davis said he foresees no pro-
blems in having the terms chang-
ed since local bills usually do not
attract any opposition if local
citizens do not oppose them.
Davis said he would instruct
Peak to write the bill and send it
to the Kings Mountain Board for
its approval. It would then be
given to Senator Harris.
Since another school board
election is not due until the fall
of 1985, Davis said there was no
hurry in getting the proposed bill
to Senator Harris.
If the length of terms are
changed, school board elections
over the next several years
would fall in this order:
1985 - The outside city seat of
Paul Hord Jr. would be available
for four years.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Scism To Run
For N.C. Senate
A contest developed in the
25th District Senate race this
week when Democrat Bruce
Scism of Kings Mountain filed as
a candidate for one of the three
seats up for grabs this year.
Scism ran unsuccessfully two
years ago but polled more than
16,000 votes in his first bid for
political office.
Helen Rhyne Marvin of
Gastonia filed Friday for her
fifth term in the N.C. State
Senate representing Cleveland,
Gaston, Lincoln and Rutherford
Counties. Incumbents J. Ollie
Harris of Kings Mountain and
Marshall Rauch of Gastonia will
file prior to the Feb. 6 filing
deadline for the May primary.
“There are three seats open
and I want to be elected to fill
one”, said Scism. “It’s my opi-
nion that our state government
needs’ more plain ordinary
Godfearing people like myself to
help make the laws that govern
all the people of North Carolina.
A lot of people have told me
they are dissatisfied and want me
to run again”, said Scism.
Sonn is son of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Scism of the Patterson
Grove Community. During the
1980 county commissioner elec-
tion he helped organize the
Association of Cleveland Coun-
ty Taxpayers and his wife, Mar-
tha Ernst Scism, ran for a seat on
the county commission. Mrs.
Scism said she would not be a
candidate this year. The Scisms
are parents of three sons, Darin,
18, Jeffrey, 15, and Kevin, 13.
They are members of Patterson
Grove Baptist Church.
The May 8 Democratic
primary has attracted a spate of
candidates for seats on the board
of county commissioners.
Veteran Board Chairman Jack
Palmer, Jr. and veteran member
Hugh Dover have announced
they will not seek re-election. Six
candidates this week joined the
race. They are Democrats Carl
H.A. THOMPSON
Mountain,
BRUCE SCISM
Pearson, former Shelby alder-
man; Henry L. Botts, a Shelby
businessman and cattle farmer;
Bobby Crawford, a write in can-
didate four years ago; Buford
Cline, former Cleveland County
school board member, Ollie An-
thony, Jr., a Shelby realtor, and
Doyne R. Allison of Boiling Spr
Rogers also filed for re-election
this week and Chief District
Court Judge George Hamrick fil-
ed for re-<lection.
Mrs. Rogers, seeking her third
four-year term in office,
native of Cleveland County who
attended Gardner Webb College.
She is a member of Shelby’s Cen-
tral United Methodist Church
and past president of Cleveland
County Democratic Women. In
announcing her candidacy Mrs.
Rogers said that she has enjoyed
her service and would like to
continue as Register of Deeds.” |
would like to thank the voters of
Cleveland County for their past
support and ask for their con-
tinued support in the upcoming
election. I have made a number
of improvements. in the office
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Thompson
To Speak
H.A. Thompson, well-known
WBT radio personality, will be
the guest speaker at the Kings
Mountain Jaycees Distinguished
Service Awards Banquet Mon.
Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Holi-
day Inn.
Reservations should be made
before January 16 by calling
Larry Hamrick Jr. at 739-3611
or Tom Bennett at 739-8620.
Ticket prices are $8 single or
$15 couple for the buffet dinner,
Thompson’s speech and the
awards ceremony.
McDaniel Resigns
From Grover Board
Grover Commissioner Dennis
McDaniel has become the fourth
commissioner in the past three
terms to resign his position on
the Town Council.
Mayor Bill McCarter an-
nounced at Monday night’s
regular monthly meeting that
McDaniel had offered his
resignation because of “personal
reasons.”
McDaniel had taken the oath
of office for his second two-year
term in December. He was
elected Mayor Pro Tem by the
other members of the board after
he tied with Commissioner
Ronald Queen with the highest
number of votes (150) in the
November election. Queen was
appointed to replace McDaniel
as Mayor Pro Team but the
board did not act on a replace-
ment for McDaniel’s council
seat. Former councilwoman
Juanita Pruette was the sixth
highest vote getter in the
November election with 88.
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