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VOL. 97 NUMBER 13
Youth
Killed
A 16-year-old Kings Moun-
tain youth died early Wednes-
day morning in a Charlotte
hospital after a shooting inci-
dent at a tavern just inside
Y ork County, S.C.
Landrum Blanton, who lived
on the Margrace Road in Kings
Mountain, died at 4 a.m. of
shotgun wounds to the head.
According to Captain Joe
Mitchell of the York County
Sheriff’s Department, Blanton
was standing behind a closed
door in Carson’s Place, a tavern
near Clover, S.C., on Highway
161, and was shot in the back
of the head with a shotgun
which had been stuck through
the window. The shotgun blast
apparently blew a hole through
‘the back door.
The Charlotte Observer
Rock Hill Bureau quoted in-
vestigating officers as saying
that the Kings Mountain boy
was an “innocent bystander.”
Roger Griffin, 29, and Billy
Griffin, 25, brothers, from
Route 2, Box 217, Blacksburg,
S.C., had reportedly gone to
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Photo by Gary Stewart
RECEIVES AWARD-John Brooks. right. Labor Commissioner for the State of North
Carolina, presents a certificate of special recognition to Joe Machnik, plant manager of
Clevelmont Mills, during a special plant safety celebration Wednesday at the Kings Moun-
tain Community Center. The Clevemont plant, a division of Union Underwear, honored its
employees for surpassing one million man hours without a lost time injury.
Clevemont Praises Safety
Clevemont: Mills of Kings
Mountain, a divisior. of Union
Underwear, celebrated a year of
lost-time accidents Wednesday
afternoon by treating its 625
employees to a barbecue lun-
Dedication
Slated For
Dedication of the new U.S. 74
Kings Mountain By-Pass will
take place on Tuesday, March
20th, at 2:30 p.m. on the
NC-216 Overpass (Piedmont
Avenue).
Governor Jim Hunt will at-
tend the ceremony and will be
joined by other state, local and
federal officials, according to
N.C. Department of Transporta-
tion Secretary William R. Rober-
son, Jr. and Kings Mountain
Mayor John Henry Moss.
“This is a big day for the
Kings Mountain area and we in-
vite everyone to come out for
this special ceremony”, said the
Mayor.
GROVER BOARD STUDIES DRAW-
cheon at the Kings Mountain
Community Center.
John Brooks, Commissioner
of the North Carolina Depart-
ment of Labor, presented Joe
Machnik, plant manager of
Of Bypass
March 20
Clevemont, with a certificate of
special recognition praising
Clevemont employees for work-
ing over one million man hours
without a lost-time accident.
“Reaching one million hours
is no -accident,” said Machnik.
“It requires committment.”
Machnik gave credit to
Russell Green, plant safety
manager, members of a special
committee to study safety, and
all employees for the safety ef-
fort. :
Special guests at the luncheon
were John Holland, chairman of
the board of Union Underwear;
Joseph Medallie, vice chairman
of the board; Nikki Peden, cor-
porate director of industrial safe-
ty; James Steele of the Nor-
thwest Industries office in
Chicago; Commissioner of
Labor John Brooks; assistant
Commissioner of Labor Charles
Jeffress; and Kings Mountain
Mayor John Henry Moss.
Holland praised Clevemont
employees for their decrease in
absences and increase in effec-
tiveness. “You've made a lot of
PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
recreation park estimated to cost $100,000.
progress in. the past 18 months,”
he said.
He noted that Union
Underwear had an all-time
record year in production and
sales last year, “and because
most of our customers had a
very successful Christmas
season, business in January was
one of the best months in recent
years.”
He said he foresees a good
1984 for Clevemont employees.
KMLT
Production
Scheduled
Final week end of pertor-
mances of “Arsenic and Old
Lace” by the Kings Mountain
Little Theatre will be on Friday
and Saturday nights at 8 p.m.
and Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m.
in Park Grace auditorium.
Admission is $4 for adults and
$2 for students with discounts
available for groups.
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
School Board
Okays Budget
By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
The Kings Mountain District
School Board approved a
$2,583,297 current expense and
$293,378 capital outlay budget
for the 1984-85 fiscal year dur-
ing Monday’s meeting at the
Schools Administration Office.
The budgets will be presented
to the Cleveland County Board
of Commissioners for approval.
Superintendent William Davis
presented the current expense
budget in two parts. The first
part, which he called a “hold-the-
line” budget which would allow
the system to continue the same
programs it has now, amounts to
$2,442,575 or about 9.9 percent
more than the current fiscal
year’s budget of $2,351,470,
The second part, which Davis
says is necessary to expand some
programs, came to $140,712.
Davis was quick to point out
that the extra is not “icing on the
cake” but simply would give
Kings Mountain schools some
programs that most other school
systems in North Carolina
already have, such as elementary
school guidance: counselors.
The current expense budget
includes a 10 percent salary in-
crease for locally paid
employees. “When there is a
state salary increase, we try to do
the same for locally paid
employees,” Davis told the
board.
The regular instructional pro-
gram would be allotted
$696,553, an increase of
$73,793. Davis said most of the
funds in that budget item go to
salaries.
Other instructional programs,
such as driver’s education, ex-
ceptional children’s programs, in-
school suspension, and voca-
tional programs, were budgeted
$671,793, or an increase of
$42,632.
Support programs, such as
sports, psychologists, guidance
and media services, would
receive $63,659, $8,000 less than
the current year. Davis said the
reason for the smaller figure is
because “We over-estimated a
little bit” last year.
Business support, such as
board expenses, administration
expense, principals and fiscal
control, would receive $247,055,
which is $11,033 less than the
current budget.
Operation of plants will cost
$450,617, an increase of $1,351.
Most of that figure will go
toward energy costs.
Other figures built into the
budget include pupil transporta-
tion, $4,100; maintenance of
plants, $271,798; fringe benefits,
$27,000; and community
schools, $11,000.
Of the revenue needed to
balance that budget, the board
plans to ask the county commis-
sioners for $1,317,628, com-
pared to $1,145,764 being
received this year; the schools
will receive $407,400 from voca-
tional funds, $80,000 from
Gaston County for students who
live in Gaston County but at-
tend Kings Mountain schools;
and miscellaneous funds from
such sources as tuition, rental of
facilities, fines, and interest, and
a $100,000 to $150,000 fund
balance from this year’s budget.
The expansion part of the
budget, if approved by county
commissioners, would allow the
system to add three locally paid
teachers to reduce class sizes in
several areas, (two guidance
counselors for she five elemen-
tary schools, a one-half time
computer instruction coor-
dinator, and a five percent sup-
plement increase and sup-
plements for department heads
at Kings Mountain High School.
The total request from county
commissioners is 21.8 percent
more than this year.
Board member June Lee said
that although the request might
make some people think Kings
Mountain is asking for some ex-
tras, that “this would not be put-
ting us above anyone else. We'd
just be getting up to par with
some of them.”
“This is not icing on the cake
items at all,” Superintendent
Davis said. “This is just meat and
potato , things. We would be
derelict not to ask for the things
we need.”
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The capital outlay budget
reflects a 15 percent increase
over last year. The first four re-
quests from principals are includ-
ed but Davis said “there was
more left out than what was in-
cluded in the budget.”
Some requests included in the
budget are computers for the
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Grover To Proceed
With Two Projects
BY ELIZABETH STEWART
News Editor
The Town of Grover expects
to be ready by May 1 to adver-
tise for bids on two major pro-
jects which have been in the
talking and planning stages for
10-15 years.
Surveying of the new $I
million plus sewer system has
been completed and engineers
have submitted blueprints and
specifications to the Farmers
Home Administration and state
agencies for approval, Mayor
Bill McCarter reported at Mon-
day night’s Town Board
meeting. The new sewer connec-
tor system will pump to Kings
Mountain’s line and Kings
with funding of the project.
The Town Board is moving
ahead on plans for construction
of a 12.78 acre recreation site
which will include two ballfields,
four tennis courts, a basketball
court, parking lot an dpicnic area
on the south side of Maple
Avenue across from the
residence of Bud Herndon. The
land was acquired recently from
former Grover resident, Avery
Hardin, of Hickory. Mayor Mc-
Carter said the project will be
completed in phases with bid let-
ting for clearing, grubbing and
grading set for May 1. The
Town has reapplied for a
$25,000 state grant to help cover
the costs of the project estimated
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Bloodmobile To Visit
First Baptist Church
The Cleveland County Red
Cross Bloodmobile will. be at
First Baptist Church in Kings
Mountain Thursday for a visit
The hours will be from 12:30
until 6 p.m.
All eliglble donors in the
The town will take bids May 1 on a $1 million
sewer construction project (plans also shown)
and the recreation complex.
Mountain will treat the sewage.
Citizens last Fall approved a
$414,000 bond issue to assis
INGS—Grady Ross, Ronald Queen, Mayor Bill
McCarter, Bill Camp and Jim Howell, left to
right. look over blueprints of a proposed
sponsored by Kings Mountain
Hospital.
Kings Mountain area are urged
to give.