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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1984
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Festival
To Help
The Needy
By JEFF GRIGG
The Kings Mountain Spring
Festival, sponsored by the Kings
Mountain Fire Department and
Mountain City Building Supply,
through Saturday in the front
parking lot of Mountain City
Building Supply on Cherokee
Street.
The fire department’s share of
the proceeds will go to the Toys
for Tots program.
The amusement rides were
brought to Kings Mountain by
Jimmy Drew Rides which
travels throughout the country
each year and attends many car-
nivals and state fairs.
Jimmy Drew is no stranger to
Kings Mountain. His father
started the carnival tradition
during the depression when he
got a job with the Coal Brothers
World Tour Circus. After it
went out of business in 1940, his
father soon bought his first ride
and began the family business
which is now one of the top 10
in the United States.
His father, while traveling
through Kings M i
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began Tuesday and will run-
FESTIVAL RIDERS - Kings Mountain Festival
sponsors try out rides before starting the five-
day festival Tuesday at Mountain City
Building Supply. Front row, left to right, are
and married Eulia Whitworth, a
cousin of Jim Dickey, forming a
link to Kings Mountain and
many families in the community.
Drew begins a tour each July
and travels throughout the
United Stat til November,
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~ Tilta Whirl, two kiddie rides, and
when he goes back to his
Augusta, Ga., home and spends
the winter repairing, repainting
and improving his rides.
The festival which started
here Tuesday features five rides,
including a Merry Go Round,
C.E. Ware, assistant fire chief, and Jimmy
Dickey. Back row, Gene Tignor. fire chief, and
fireman Steve Hicks.
Photo by Jetf Grigg
a new Super Himalaya. The
Super Himalaya opens Thursday
because of its size and the careful
work needed to construct it.
The Himalaya is the newest of
Drew’s rides and comes from
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Bill For Four-Year Terms
The Kings Mountain District
Schools Board of Education
Monday night approved a
legislative bill which will reduce
the length of board members
from six to four years.
The bill will now be introduc-
ed in the General Assembly for
ratification. It is expected to be
passed without opposition.
The schedule for returning to
four-year terms includes:
*The outside city seat held by
Paul Hord Jr., who was elected
last year to fill the remaining two
years of the unexpired term of
Harold Lineberger, will be up for
election for a four-year term
next year.
*The inside<ity seats held by
June Lee and Doyle Campbell
will be available for four years in
1987. Campbell was elected last
year to fill the remaining four
years of the term of Jerry Led-
ford.
*The inside<ity seat of Kyle
Smith and the outside city seat
of Bill McDaniel will be
available for four-year terms in
1989. Both were elected to their
second six-year term last fall.
Photos by Lib Stewart
AWARDS TO MOTHERS-Mrs. Veralee Mask.left above, of the
City Recreation Department, presents plaques and gifts to
Alma Mitchem, center, 84, the senior mother attending the
city’s Aging Program at the Depot Center, and Willie Jo
‘Lossiah, right, the youngest at 81. Plonk’s and McGinnis
Department Stores presented gifts to the honorees and flowers
were also presented at the noon hour Friday at the Depot
Center. The Foods Service Program sponsored the event.
After 1989, all seats will be
available for four-year terms.
In other action Monday night,
the board:
*Was told by Kings Mountain
High School Principal Ronnie
Wilson that 250 seniors will
gradute-on June 1. That figure is
somewhat smaller than most re-
cent years. Of that number, 18
will receive scholar’s diplomas
and four have qualifiedfor the
Presidential Academic Fitness
Award program. Two seniors are
graduating through the Extend-
ed Day School program. Seven
seniors have already received
academic scholarships and
several others are expected to
receive partial or full scholar-
ships. Six seniors dropped out of
school this year, Wilson said.
* Accepted the 1984-85 voca-
tional education plan, presented
by Vocational Education Direc-
tor Betty ‘Gamble. The depart-
ment will have a budget of
$167,998 in local funds,
$331,472 in state funds and
$93,208 in federal funds. A new
industrial arts program is includ-
ed in next year’s program.
*Increased its liability in-
surance coverage from $1
million to $2 million for car
liability, and from $500,000 to
$1.5 million in general coverage.
The premiums will be $1,253 per
year.
*Was told by Davis that the
band program continues to grown
each year and is outgrowing its
facilities. He said there are 81
seventh and eighth graders in
band this year and 118 have
registered for next year. “We're
outgrowing space to teach them
and find it difficult to manage
the students with the two
teachers we have,” he said. He
said the board must find ways to
deal with the situation, either by
limiting the class size or finding
larger facilities. The board took
no action but will discuss the
problem at a later date.
*Was told by Davis that the
school system had closed the
deal on the sale of the Compact
School plant to Barrett’s Floor
Covering. Barrett paid $75,000
for the facility and plans to use it
as a warehouse.
*Was told by Davis that the
recent auction of surplus school
property brought in $2,796.
*Was told by Wilson that
three new subjects will be of-
fered at the high school next
year. There will be five classes of
woodworking, one Latin class
and one class of advanced place-
ment American History at the
junior high level.
New Industry
Coming To Area
The Kings Mountain In-
dustrial Committee announc-
ed today that a new industry
has been recruited to occupy
the building previously own-
ed by the Great Dominion
Corporation on Grover Road.
Mayor John Henry Moss
said a formal announcement
will be made tomorrow.
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Expansion
Is Needed
Bennett Masters, vice-
chairman of the special commit-
tee studying expansion of Moun-
tain Rest Cemetery, urged the
City Board of Commissioners
Monday night “to relieve the
“present critical situation” of
lack of grave plots at the
cemetery by making two-plot
graves available to the public
south of the area of the cemetery
known as Jenkins Circle.
The committee is also re-
questing that the city acquire ad-
ditional property to expand the
present cemetery.
Masters said the section of the
cemetery south of Jenkins Circle
needs to be “marked off quick”
in two-grave plots. “There’s a
shortage of two-grave plots and
that’s about all people want
anymore,” he said.
According to Masters, there
are a number of 12 to 20 grave
plots in the cemetery that have
only two people buried on them.
“That’s a waste of space,” he
said.
The committee is asking the
city to look into the possibility of
acquiring property which ad-
joins the cemetery on Gold
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and the present
Stadium be used to expand the
cemetery. Masters also said the
city should look into the
possibility of acquiring a 30-acre
tract of land south of 1-85 which
is presently owned by Foote
Mineral.
If these recommendations are
approved by the board, Masters
said, “it is the opinion of this
committee that the needs of
Kings Mountain and the area
will be taken care of for far into
the future.”
According to Mayor John
Henry Moss, all citizens of Kings
Mountain and the Kings Moun-
tain School District are eligible
to purchase plots at Mountain
Rest Cemetery.
Moss said most of the sugges-
tions will be looked upon as
“long-range recommendations”
but the board decided to study
the committee’s request about
making two-grave plots available
immediately and make a decision
at the next scheduled board
meeting.
The board passed a resolution
of appreciation to the committee
members, who volunteered their
time and met weekly over the
past several weeks. Committee
members were Masters, Rev.
Ken Looney, Geraldine Werner,
Curtis Gaffney, George
Mauney, Jonas Bridges, Corbet
Nicholson, Lib Stewart and Ron-
nie Hawkins.
In other action Monday, the
board:
*Held a public hearing to con-
sider the use of
revenue sharing funds. The city
hopes to receive $144 852, with
$62,287
department,
street department and $31,867
to the sanitation department for
general use.
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projected
going to the police
$50,698 to the
*Approved installing a lake
water level gauge to monitor the
lake level at Moss Lake. The ad-
dition will increase the price of.
lake improvements by $8,900 to
a total of $525,810. Moss said
the gauge
valuable, especially
think in terms of a hydro-electric
plant.”
would be located near the siphon
pipe and an instrument panel
would be
would be “very
when we
Moss said the gauge
inside the
constant
located
water plant for
monitoring of water level.
*Approved a resolution re-
questing the State Wildlife
Resources Commission to adopt
special rules for safety at Moss
Lake.
* Awarded a bid of $7,252.23
to Earl Tindol Ford for a truck
to be used by meter readers.
*Approved budget amend-
ments totaling $70,500. A
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Utility
Meters
Read Late
Some Kings Mountain
utility customers may be
alarmed when the receive
their bills this month, but
there's no reason to get ex-
cited.
Due to recent turnovers
of personnel in the meter
reading department,
many customers had their
meters read late this
month and their bills,
when they receive them,
could be for as many as
six to seven weeks.
However, the meter
readers should be back on
schedule by the first of
next month and - those
customers who receive
bills for six to seven weeks
of service this month will
receive bills for one to two
weeks of service next
month.
Normally, meters are
read by the 30th of the
month and bills are in the
mail on the first day of the
month.
Joyce Cashion Faces
Runoff Opposition June 5
The top six vote-getters in last
week’s Cleveland County Com-
missioners race in the
Democratic Primary will square
off in a runoff June 5.
The top three finishers in the
runoff will / face three
Republicans for the three vacant
seats on the Board of Commis-
sioners in November.
Two of the six candidates in
the June 5 runoff are from Kings
Mountain and led the 13-person
ticket in last week’s primary.
Gene LeGrand of Route 2, a
Shelby businessman, led the way
with 5,794 votes, followed by
Joyce Cashion of Route 1. Mrs.
Cashion, former chairman of the
Cleveland County Democratic
Party and a convenience store
owner, received 4,447 votes.
Jack Spangler of Lawndale
ran third last week with 3,537
votes.
Incumbent Commissioner
Coleman Goforth of Shelby,
T.W. Martin of Lattimore, and
Tom Brown of Shelby, who
finished fourth, fifth and sixth
last week, officially called for a
runoff this week.
Three Republican candidates—
Ruth Wilson, Charlie Harry and
Billy Davis-won their party’s
nomination last week and await
the three winners of the
Democratic runoff.
Only those persons who were
eligible to vote in the primary
will be eligible to vote in the
runoff.
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