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VOL. 97 NUMBER 15 THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1984 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA \
HUNT COMES TO KM — Governor Jim Hunt came to Kings Mountain Tuesday to participate
in various activities in the city and county. In photo at left. Governor Hunt addresses the stu-
dent body at Kings Mountain High School during Celebrate America Week assembly. In
‘Road Of The Future’ Dedicated
photo at right, Hunt addresses a large gathering at the dedication of the new Highway 74
bypass at the Piedmont Avenue bridge. The Governor was later guest of honor at a fund-
raising reception at the Holiday Inn.
the future”, Governor James B.
‘Hunt Tuesday praised Kings
Mountain as a “growing com-
munity which has outgrown its
transportation system.”
~» Even the weatherman smiled
~ on Kings Mountain’s activities
* Tuesday afternoon, as rain
“poured in most all other areas of
the state. The Governor stood
behind the Seal of the State of
North Carolina at a podium on a
reviewing stand on the Piedmont
Avenue overpass . overlooking
the super highway below. The
Governor made his remarks
before a cheering crowd of Kings
Mountain area citizens, local,
state and government leaders,
and amidst the sounds of heavy
traffic and blaring horns .from
motorists, traveling the new ex-
pressway.
“This new ByPass will allow
Kings Mountain to improve its
urban quality of life and allow
for balanced growth all at the
same time”, declared the Gover-
nor.
“Economic development and
good jobs travel to North
Carolina on our transportation
Mrs. Jordan
Campaigns
BY ELIZABETH STEWART
“When Bob announced for
Lieutenant Governor he told us
he was running to win. He feels
obliged to serve and North
Carolina needs the leadership he
can provide.”
The speaker was Mrs. Bob
Jordan (Sarah), wife of the
Democratic candidate for
Lieutenant Governor of North
Carolina. Jordan, who has serv-
ed eight years in the North
Carolina Senate, is opposed by
Carl Stewart of Gastonia.
Mrs. Jordan was in the Kings
Mountain area last week pump-
ing hands and chatting with
citizens on the streets, in the
stores, at the mills, and before
several civic groups about her
husband’s candidacy.
A former school teacher,
Sarah Cole Jordan, native of
Raeford in Hoke County, is an
attractive brunette who likes to
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ountain ByPass as “the road to
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who came to Kings
tended a‘ Economic Develop-
ment Conference earlier in the
day.
“We are here today in
Cleveland County to celebrate
an achievement and a milestone
for North Carolina’s future,”
said the Governor.
“The completion of this $47
million-highway project -— the
Mountain Bypass —
represents the hard work of
David Hoyle and Bob Falls, your
Board of Transportation
members from Dallas and
Shelby. It represents the hard
work of local government of-
ficials in partnership with the
state and federal government.
And it is a road to the future.
“This project was designed to
provide an adequate level of traf-
fic service on US 74 in the Kings
Mountain area. In the past, US
74 was routed through Kings
Mountain over King Street.
That Street was the primary
east-west thoroughfare where
Kings Mountain has developed.
“As early as 1971, when the
new bypass was being planned,
Southwell, right.
viountain
from Charlotte where he had at- i carrying more
0 the secti
than 10,000
vehicles per day even then.
Speed restrictions, traffic signals,
and roadside development had
put a strangle-hold on the flow
of through traffic. Existing
development made it undesirable
and economically impractical to
provide the needed traffic relief
by widening King Street.
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tation would
state in recruiting desirable in-
dustry for areas like Cleveland
County.
“This new 10-mile highway
will receive the same high level
of maintenance care as the rest
of our 76,000-mile state highway
network.
“As a result, passage of the
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pare that
resurfacing the year prior to
1981.
“This kind of timely
maintenance protects the $25
billion-dollar public investment
in our roads.
“Just last year, our General
Assembly recognized the critical
need to match all of the federal
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y 350 miles of “That
we could more
than triple our bridge replace-
ment program. Of our 16,000
bridges, about 10,000 are defi-
cient or substandard in some
way — 3,000 of them cannot
carry the weight of a loaded
school bus.
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KMHS Celebrates America
“Celebrate America Day” was
just that at Kings Mountain
Senior High School Tuesday.
Patriotic speeches by three
students who won prizes for best
essays on “What America
Means To Me”, red, white and
blue bunting and decorations in
B.N. Barnes Auditorium, the
presence of the Governor of
North Carolina to make the
keynote address, and students
decked out in red, white and
blue plus choral and band music
that brought tears to the eyes
and speechmaking that made up
even prouder to be an American.
The patriotic spirit was there
and Governor James B. Hunt
called the program “one of the
most anthitious, impressive pro-
grams I have seen in any school
system in North Carolina.”
“You are not only com-
memorating an important event’
in the history of Kings Mountain
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PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
CAMPAIGN IN KINGS MOUNTAIN—Sara Jordan, third from left, campaigned for her hus-
band, Senator Bob Jordan, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, in Kings Mountain last week.
From left, Mrs. Charlie Carpenter, Jim Cloninger, Mrs. Jordan, Carl DeVane and Mrs. Bob
and, indeed, the entire nation,
you are also teaching yourselves
and your community about a
spirit and a set of values that has
sustained America throughout
its history and that offers hope
and optimism for our future”, he
told the Assembly program of
high school students, teachers,
and a number of guests from the
community, including legislators
representing the 25th Senatorial
District and 40th House District,
county and city officials, in-
cluding Mayor and Mrs. John
Henry Moss, and elected city of-
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Dr. Toffolo Appointed
Chief Of Radiology
Thomas A. Tate, Sr., Presi-
dent of the Kings Mountain
Hospital Board of Trustees, and
Dr. R. Scott Mayse, President of
the Hospital Medical Staff joint-
ly announce the appointment of
Dr. R. Ronald Toffolo as Chief
of Radiology at Kings Mountain
Hospital.
Dr. Toffolo came to Kings
Mountain from Pulaski,
Virginia, where he served in a
similar position. He is a native of
Buffalo, New Y ork. He received
his B.A. degree from the Univer-
sity of Buffalo and his M.D.
degree from the University of
. Buffalo Medical School. His
residency in radiology was done
at Millard Fillmore Hospital in
Buffalo and his fellowship in
Radiation Therapy and Nuclear
Medicine at Buffalo General
Hospital. He was clinical instruc-
tor in Nuclear Medicine and
Assistant Clinical Professor of
Radiology at the University of
Buffalo from 1972-1982. He is a
Diplomat of the American Board
of Radiology with special com-
DR. RONALD TOFFOLO
petence in Nuclear Medicine. He
is a member of the American
Medical Association, the North
Carolina Medical Society, and
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at
the University of Buffalo as an
undergraduate.
Dr. Toffolo and his wife,
Diane, reside in Kings Moun-
tain.
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