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This Is Guidance Week
In District Schools
How would you like to be 13
years old again? We can almost
hear adult readers answering
that question in one booming
voice: No thanks. Everyone in
our culture wants to remain
young, but not that young! And
why not? Because we grown-ups
remember our adolescent years
as the most stressful and
threatening years of our lives.
From this perspective, Na-
tional School Guidance and
Counseling Week this. week
focuses on the role of teachers
and administration as part of an
effective guidance program, on
parents and how they can
benefit from working with
school counselors, on the impor-
tance of career development
beginning at the teen age years,
and on government and com-
munity. serving students.
"honoring
Special activities are planned
at all the schools this week.
The week’s activities were
kicked off Tuesday when Mayor
John Moss proclaimed this week
as School Guidance and
Counseling Week and a tea
and ad-
teachers
ministrators was held at Central
School. On Tuesday, teachers
were giving “Appreciograms” to
students during the day and win-
ners of poster contests were an-
nounced. On Wednesday,
students were sending memos
home from the counselors home
to the parents; Thursday will be
Career Day at Central School
and local citizens on the program
will be Darrell Austin, Max
Howell,. Richard Reynolds,
George Adams, Stan Hardin,
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Funeral Rites Tuesday
For Ernest Hayes, 69
Funeral services for Ernest
Floyd Hayes, 69, who died Sun-
day at home, were conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m.
from the Chapel of Masters
ERNEST HAYES
Funeral Home by Rev. Ivan
Stephens, interment following in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Hayes was a native of
Kings Mountain, son of the late
Oliver Thomas and Ruth Eaker
Hayes. He was retired owner of
Washing Well Laundromat and
a member of Central United
Methodist Church and Walhalla
Masonic Lodge of Charleston,
SiC.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Agnes Cornwell Hayes; two
daughters, Patricia Latta of
Mocksville and Rebecca Hein of
Charleston, S.C.; brother, Ned
Hayes of Burlington; four sisters,
Betty Moss and Dot Hayes, both
of Kings Mountain, Joann Har-
rison of Hollywood, S.C. and
Nell Teeter of Oakboro; five
grandchildren and a great-
grandchild.
Masters Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1984
The city board of commis-
sioners took the recommenda-
tion of Commissioner Jim
Dickey Wednesday and
authorized Mayor John Henry
Moss to appoint a committee to
proceed with plans for
establishing a Hydroelectric
plant at Moss Lake.
“We've talked a Hydro plant
for the last couple years and now
is the time to do more than talk”,
said Dickey who is back from
Hickory where he attended a
seminar sponsored by the N.C.
Alternative Energy Corporation, °
organized in 1980 by the N.C.
Utilities Commission along with
the major utility organizations to
recognize the need of
cooperative effort to take full ad-
vantage of cost effective alter-
native energy systems.
“We're spending up to
$225,000 a year with Duke
Power to operate a water treat-
ment plant, a waste treatiint
Two more candidates squeez-
ed by the deadline Monday and
filed for one of three seats open
on the county board of commis-
sioners. Charles F. Harry, Ill,
Treasurer of Grover Industries,
and Ruth Barnett Wilson of
Shelby filed on the Republican
ticket. Seventeen candidates-13
Democrats and four
Republicans, are running.
Mr. Harry is married to the
former Ann Lutz of Shelby and
they are parents of two children,
Robin, a senior at UNC in
Chapel Hill,
freshman at Anderson College in
Anderson, S.C.
“lI am running for county
commissioner because I feel
more active ‘business managers
should be involved in local and
state government”, said Harry.
“For good reason I think the
federal government is going to
and: Scott, a.
with all the water that’s going
over the dam at Moss Lake we
can generate that much plus.
The water’s there”, said Dickey.
“With improvements under-
way at Moss Lake to draw the
lake down the city has the poten-
tial and has already completed
some of the preliminary steps the
state recommends to -start the
project’, said’ Dickey.
Preliminary evaluation, permit
process, regulatory evaluation
and requirements, detailed
analysis, FERC application, ac-
tual construction and operation
were the steps listed.
Dickey explained that initially
a hydro plant could cost more
Versus a co-generation plant but
that once completed it would be
virtually maintenance free. “Oil,
grease and keeping the screen
clean would be about all the
maintenance required”, he said.
Dickey told the board that the
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CHARLIE HARRY
continue to shift more financial
burden to local and state levels
where in my opinion, it can be
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tional and Duke Power is involv-
ed in 21 such projects over the
state. Installation of hydro
plants are being encouraged in
all 50 states, he said, with some
units as small as 5 KV.
Water power has been used in
North Carolina for 280 years,
Dickey said. A sawmill was
started in 1702 with water
power. In 1815 the first cotton
mill was run by water power and
this unit was recently re-
juvenated at Lincolnton by
Allen McNeill of McBess Spinn-
ing in Bessemer City. In 1850
the city of Asheville had a small
40 KV unit to operate the street
cars and later increased to take
care of lights and in 1898 there
was a unit installed on the
Yadkin River to Serve Salem, at
Winston Salem, the state’s first
largest hydro plant which is still
producing electricity today for
Duke Power customers.
RUTH B. WILSON
managed more efficiently. I am
willing to commit the time
necessary to fulfill the duties of a
tract with Tenneco Oil Expira-
tion and Production Company
for a Tenneflex Spot Sales Pro-
gram which would make the city
eligible to acquire certain
amounts of gas when customer
requirements meets the criteria
as provided for by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
and Tenneco.
The Board authorized a
special reduction of tap fees (in-
side city customers $50 and out-
side city customers $100) for the
next 200 residential gas taps.
This step was taken to encourage
new residential gas customers.
Old rates were $275 for outside
and $150 for inside city
residents. This new rate will app-
ly to the first 200 new gas
customers.
The Board accepted the
recommendations of Comm.
Humes Houston, chairman of
the Personnel Policy Committee,
dments to the
commissioner and would hope
any contribution I may make
would be beneficial to the coun-
ty”, he said. '
Harry, an elder in Shelby
Presbyterian Church, is a
member of the Board of Gover-
nors of The Shrine Bowl of the
Carolinas, a trustee of Oasis
Temple, president of the
Cleveland County Historical
Association, and has been in-
volved in various civic and com-
munity activities. He grew up in
Grover and his family was long
associated with the Grover
business and industrial com-
munity.
The Harrys reside in Shelby.
Mrs. Wilson, a Republican,
has served since 1975 as either a
registrar or judge in Shelby No.
2 precinct and is presently serv-
ing for the second time on the
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FAMILY HOBBY - Beverly and Tommy Berry
enjoyed tractor pulling as a family hobby and
will participate in pulls in five states this spr-
PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
ing, beginning in Louisville, Ky. later this
month. Berry has built nine tractors and is
working on Nov. 10.
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Beverly
Excels
In Sport
By ELIZABETH STEWART
News Editor
“Tractor Puller of the Year”, a
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title once reserved for males only
in a he-man sport, is now held by
Beverly Stewart (Mrs. Tommy)
Berry, 27, a pretty brunette
nurse in the Special Care Unit of
Kings Mountain Hospital.
Beverly, daughter of Grace
and Ralph Stewart of the Dixon
Community, is the only woman
puller in the Piedmont Tractor
Pullers Association and has been
a winner consistently at. all
events she’s entered the past
year. She was recently honored
as the 1983 Puller of the year.
Tommy Berry, 28, got his wife
interested in their family hobby
by accident but now he takes a
lot of good-natured ribbing from
his fellow pullers who tell him
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