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Page 2A-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday. March 8, 1984 Lib Stewart In Washington, D.C. a calendar isn’t necessary to tell when it’s Leap Year. Just remember the rhyme: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November, all the rest have 31 except for Election Year That’s the time when February’s days are 29. Arlene (Mrs. J.D.) Barrett and I were in the nation’s capital during the recent weekend to attend the 1984 Awareness Assembly which featured a keynote address by President Ronald Reagan. Last year, when we were three, the Auxiliary delegates went to the White House for a tea with Mrs. Reagan and a brief address by the President. This year, The President came to the Washington Hilton and addressed the 600 delegates in the International Ballroom. We don’t know if his ap- pearance before the world’s largest patriotic organization had anything to do with politics, but out of 64 invitations the President received this week to address meetings underway in D.C. he chose four groups to speak before the Auxiliary was one of them. The Auxiliary also heard the Vice President’s wife, Barbara Bush, on Friday and went tothe State Department for a briefing and to pre- sent the prestigious third annual Public Spirit Award to Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Sixteen North Carolinians attended the Assembly which focused on “The World On Your Doorstep Is Your Concern”. Secretary of the Army John O. Marsh, Jr. addressed the group Saturday morning and Kathleen “Troia, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense of Public Affairs, was the speaker on Thursday evening. Lt. Robert O. Goodman, the flier shot down by the Syrians and dramatically rescued by Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson, was also a keynote speaker. Goodman, 27, seems older and more poised in his perfectly pressed Navy uniform, his dark skin striking against a crisp white shirt, he looks all American: taut body, strong jaw, closely cropped Afro, dazzl- ing white teeth. It wasn’t surprising to learn that he had once modeled for ads that appeared in Ebony and Jet. Every once in a while American anoints a national hero, an event that sometimes says less about that person’s achievements and more about the-patriotism that can be found in this country. Goodman, who knows he did nothing more than his job, and who in fact did nothing more than survive, may have been as much a hero for the graceful, ar- ticulate control he showed under pressures of the public and press. The Washington Post featured Goodman in a feature, “An Officer and Gentleman” and used his picture atop the wing of an airplane and the caption, “Out of the Glare of a Hero’s Welcome The Navy Man waits For His Next Test.” He’s back home in Hangar 122 at the Naval Air Station Oceana, trying to settle down after his celebrated release from Syrian captivity. The rest of his squadron is still stationed off the Lebanese coast. Goodman’s squadron won’t be back until May. He reports to the base most days but spends a lot of time making public appearances and speaking to ROTC groups. The Navy i is delighted with their minority spokesman, he said. Buy back to Leap. Year. Leap Day was not heated, as rumor has it, to give women one day out of 1,461 to chase men (who need a special day for that) even though the town of Aurora, Ill. deputizes single women and allows them to arrest bachelors, fine $4, every Feb. 29. The origins of Leap Day are far more scientific. Leap Day was designed to avert precicely the kind of disaster we now face, time slipping out of joint. Throughout history astronomers have struggled to create a calendar that is the same length as the cycle of the seasons. And it’s not easy. Julius Caesar, being an honorable man, tried to get the calendar into seasonal sync in 46 B.C. Up until then, a committee of priests tossed a few leap days or leap months into theyear at their whim. So if you think time flies fast as you get older, you are right. Today’s year is about nine seconds shorter than it was when lions dined on Christians. The most popular calendar innovations let you know what day of the week any particular date falls on without having to look it up. For example: Thirteen months of four seven day weeks always start on Sunday. The leftover day is a holiday. The second is always a Mon- day, the 18th is always a Wednesday, the 24th is always a Tuesday. But the 13th is always a Friday. Board Discusses 12 Areas For Improvement The Kings Mountain School Board Monday night discussed with Superintendent William Davis 12 areas it wants improv- ed during the next year. The list includes some items, such as promoting guidance and counseling services in grades kindergarten through five, which will depend on whether or not the county commissioners approve all the funds requested for the 1984-85 budget. Other improvements sug- gested would not require addi- tional funds. The board suggested that Davis set the time frames for ac- INSURANCE WOMEN Roger White, of the Gaston County Department of Mental Health, will be guest speaker at the March meeting of Gaston County Association of In- surance Women on Tuesday, March 13, at 5:30 p.m. at Western Sizzlin Steak House on Highway 321 in Gastonia. White will speak on the warning signals of depression and other mental health problems. JOINT SERVICE A joint Sunday evening wor- ship service will be held by con- gregations of Second Baptist and First Wesleyan Methodist Chur- ches Sunday evening at 7 p.m. at the Wesleyan Church. The Sacrament of the Lords Supper will be observed. complishing the goals, but sug- gested completing as many as possible by March of 1985. The areas of improvement in- clude: 1 - Promote guidance and counseling services in grades K-5. 2 - Raise performance expecta- tions of students. 3 - Articulate the gains made in reading programs in grades K-7 with grades 8-12. 4 - Establish more consistency of administration in school board policy. 5 - Improve public relations. 6 - Minimize the loss of teaching and learning time by eliminating early dismissal of high school students except for workers and extreme hardship cases. 7 - On the junior-senior high level, articulate more effectively the inter-scholastic sports pro- gram with the rest of the school programs. 8 - Do a policy study to deter- mine if any policies are irrele- vant. 9 - Make an appropriate response to the state accredita- tion study which recommended 58 areas of improvement. 10 - Update personnel pro- cedures. 11 - Implement interpretation of the annual financial audit. 12 - Keep school board better informed regarding the status of facilities. CLL RR TT TTR NY ~ AWARENESS ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT REAGAN ADDRESSES AUX- ILIARY President Ronald Reagan was the keynote speaker at the American Legion Aux- iliary Awareness Assembly in Washington, Grover Projects On Go From Page 1-A to be about $100,000 when coni- pleted. McCarter said that local citizens cut pulpwood fron the land this year. Board mienibers looked at plans for the develop- ment at Monday’s meeting. McCarter estimated that the park would be playable for daylight use by 1985. Survey crews have been in Grover for the past few weeks mapping sewer line locations and running elevations. said Mec- Carter. In other actions: The Board unanimously ap- pointed Don Rich, of 101 Brookside Drive in Spring Acres. to replace Commissioner Dennis McDaniel on the Board. Rich. an employee of Overnight Trucking in the Gaffney, S.C. terminal, is a deacon in Grover First Baptist Church: Mrs. Rich is employed by Southern Bell in Gastonia. The Board drew from former alderman Juanita Pruette and former alderman Martha ‘Byers, also an unsuc- cessful candidate for mayor, for. criticism: “going outside and appointing someone who did not run for the office in the recent elections.” Both Mrs. Pruette and Tony An- thony ran unsuccessfully for the office in November. Mrs. Pruette said that “next highest votegetter should have been selected” and Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Mary Lou Adkins agreed. Mayor McCarter defended the Board’s action and said that it had not been Board policy in re- cent years to appoint one of the unsuccessful candidates. The on-: ly criteria is that the person chosen be’ a registered voter of Grover, he said. Rich will serve until the 1985 elections when Grover will elect four commissioners. The three highest vote getters will be elected to four year terms and the fourth highest will serve a {wo year term. Because of a legislative change, the new member would not serve out the full term of McDaniel. The Board reiterated its op- position to a proposed change by the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners in the sales tax distribution system. McCarter said a change in the distribution SPT ATR TST 4 3 D.C. last week. The crowd of reporters are pic- tured in front of the podium. Over 600 women attended the national meeting. method would cut about $7,000 or 51 percent from the town’s present share of the county sales tax money. Mayor McCarter said he attended a meeting of co'nty mayors recently in Polkville protesting the change. After an executive session to discuss water department per-. sonnel, Mayor McCarter an- nounced that the board is hiring Hoyt Brooks on a full-time basis as meter reader and maintenance inspector for the water and sewer departments. In a related action, the board agreed to pur- chase meter boxes, meters and connectors at cost of $600 to serve five houses outside the ci- ty. ‘ Town Clerk Laura Mellon reported that she had written let- ters to delinquent utility ac- counts and reported that 70 per- cent of past due accounts were collected. The Board authorized her to continue the policy of sen- ding out second notices to water customers. The Board designated the week of April 8-14 as Clean Up Week in Grover and authorized a heavy trash pickup on April 43. J Rev. Looney Elected Rev. Ken Looney was elected chairman of the Kings Mountain Cemetery Committee at an organizational meeting of the mayoral committee recently. Mrs. Gerry Werner will serve as secretary of the group which meets weekly on Tuesdays from '8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall. At the organizational meeting Mayor John Moss explained the need for an in-depth study which would address the short and long term needs of the city with respect to the cemetery situa- tion. The city is committed, he said, to perpetual care. Mayor Moss noted that cemetery privileges extend to those living within’ the Kings Mountain School District, thus the commit- tee is dealing with a population of 35,000 as compared to 10,000. He charged the commit- tee with exploring all aspects of expansion, land acquisition, KEN LOONEY alternate procedures for inter- ment, fees structure, etc. not on- ly for the immediate future but far into the next century. Moss asked that this committee submit a written report of their recom- mendations within 30-60 days. Ken Jenkins, cemetery superintendent, displayed a map of the new part of the cemetery and explained that at the present rate of use the cemetery will have only four more years of un- sold lots available. Many of the large lots are held by absentee owners. Chairman Looney requested that city commissioner Curtis Gaffney contact. other municipalities of similar size where the city has undertaken perpetual care and determine how they were handling their ex- pansion problems. Chairman Looney asked Ben- nett Masters to explore the use of alternate interment forms such as mausoleums, particularly where a chapel might be includ- ed in the structure. Other members of the com- mittee include George H. Mauney, Senator Ollie Harris, Jonas Bridges, Commissioner Corbet Nicholson and Lib ‘Stewart. — | Register ) Saturday The Cleveland County Democratic Party will sponsor a special two- hour voter registration Saturday at all 28 voting precincts in the county. Registrars will be at the voting places from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., chair- man Bobby Rogers said. Voting places in the Kings Mountain area are the National Guard Ar- mory (West Kings Moun- tain), Community Center (East Kings Mountain), Grover Rescue Squad and Bethware School. “Wed like to en- courage all citizens who are not registered to vote to do so on Saturday,” Rogers said. “Believe it or not, there are over 20,000 citizens in Cleveland Couny who are not registered to vote.” Persons who register Saturday will be elgible to vote in the May 8 primary. : ] Schools Present Budget From Page 1-A high school, new intercom system, cafeteria furniture and ‘kitchen ventilation for Grover School, a new roof for North School, renovation of the office at West School, $6,600 to begin a three-year band uniform replacement fund, and 30 panels for the junior high. Principals’ first-priority re- quests came to $62,493; second priority items to $34,977; third priority items to $32,600; and fourth priority items to $28,750. “There were many other items requested but we didn’t feel like there was any hope of including them in the budget,” Davis said. Davis said the dollar amount of the items left out came to $249,316.17. i The board approved beginn- ing a capital reserve fund with the $75,000 which will be receiv- ed from the sale of Compact Sehool. In other action Monday, the board: *Was informed that the system had received final notice from the State Board of Educa- tion that Kings Mountain’s ac- creditation had been approved. * Appointed Rev. Bruce Han- cock and Mike Trammell to the Schools Health Council, replac- ing Rev. Sam Murphy and Mrs. Emily Suber, who resigned. * Approved issuing a resolu- tion in support of the Bethware Progressive Club’s request that the road in front of Bethware School (previously old Highway 74) be named Bethware School Road. * Approved changing the date of the auction of surplus proper. ty to April 14. * Approved a leave of absence for Cynthia Kiser at West School and appointed Jeannine Fisher to be interim teacher in ‘Ms. Kiser’s position through March 25. * Accepted Teresa Ann Con- ner from Cleveland County Schools. Police Investigating Rash Of Vandalism City police are investigating a rash of vandalism during the weekend and goods stolen range in value from jeans taken from a clothesline to vehicle property damages. KMPD Secretary Marti Blan- ton said the list of complaints in- clude: Sunshine Linen Service, Gastonia, reported that the windshield of their trailer was damaged by someone throwing a rock or large object. Stowe Devenney, 200 Rox- ford Road, reported that so- meone broke into his residence and stole checks and a money market certificate. Gwen Odum, Route 1, reported that someone cut the vinyl top of her automobile. Tim Rogers, 524 Belvedere Circle, reported that someone broke into his residence and stole his class ring. Frito Lay Warehouse, Slater St., reported that $400 was taken in foodstuffs from their warehouse. Kiser Construction Co., Route 2, Bessemer City, reported the theft of plywood from a new residence under con- struction on First Street. Walter Wade, 810 Wildwood Drive, reported that hub caps valued at $125 were removed from his parked vehicle. Nancy Bell, 215 Morris St., reported that someone vandaliz- ed the windows of her house and windows of her car. Janice Sides, Grover, reporeted the theft of wire hub- caps, valued at $125. Elizabeth Grigg, Cherry St., reported theft of a wallet con- taining approximately $120. Roy Navey, 411 Hill St. reported the theft of a car bat- tery valued at $55. Arlene Wright, 114 Robinson Dr., reported the theft of car hubcaps. Arthur Carr, Philadelphia Pa., reported vandalism of parked auto, damage $150. Patricia Holland, First St., reported that someone took three pair of jeans from her clothesline. Wrecks City police are investigating five accidents which occurred int he city limits during the past week. Cars operated by Minniea Mc- Clain, 521 Baker St., and Cor- aine Covington, Route 3, Bessemer City, collided in South Piedmont Ave. March 1 at 2:55 p.m. doing approximately $300 to the Covington 1975 Ford and $10 to McClain Pontiac. Alvin Scott Falls, 109 Marigold Ave., operating a 1976 Jeep, and Charles Parker, 704 Landing St., operating a 1979 Chevy, were involved in a colli- KM Youth Killed From Page 1-A Carson’s Place looking for a man of Dallas. An argument ensued, according to officers, and they were ordered to leave the tavern. According to the in- vestigating officers, the argu- ment spilled over into the park- ing lot. Three hours later, the shooting incident occurred, ac- cording to investigators. The Griffin brothers were first charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. The charge was changed to murder on Wednesday morning and the pair was jailed in Cleveland County jail. The Mecklenburg Medical Examiners Office said that the boy’s body would be returned to York County, S.C. where the incident occurred and where the investigation into the death was continuing Wedies- day afternoon. Harris Funeral Home is in charge of funeral ar- rangements, which are in- complete. oan Pr = SESE ERE ey ei 5 mC ea
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