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VOL. 97 NUMBER 51
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1984
City, County Need To Work Together
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Economic Development Needed
“Textiles is hurting in Kings
Mountain and we need diver-
sification and to ‘merchandise
ourselves”, : said Comm. Jim
Dickey, and his remarks were
echoed by most speakers on the
program for the two-day seminar
for elected city officials Monday
and Tuesday sponsored by the
City of Kings Mountain.
“We’re going to have to look
for new industry but we're going
to have to do it in an orderly
manner”, said County Commis-
sioner L.E. Hinnant who co-
“chairs with Senator J.Ollie Har-
. ris, Mayor John Henry Moss’ ci-
ty industrial committee.
Of a number of common ob-
jectives, which a dozen or more
spoke to which would benefit all
of Cleveland County, the topic
of economic development was
strongly featured.
Attorney George Thomasson
proposed that county govern-
‘ments work together to push for
the repeal of the state inventory
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tax to help bring in diversified in-
dustry as well as help textile in-
dustry. But in Tuesday after-
noon’s session both Senator J.
Ollie Harris and Rep. Edith
Lutz, both of whom represent
Cleveland County in the
legislature, said they could not
vote for repeal unless some alter-
natives for these funds which
come from the inventory and in-
tangibles taxes were obtained
and then decide what services
would be eliminated. How can
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SEMINAR-WORKSHOP FOR CITY OFFICIALS — Mayor John
Moss, at head of table, above opens a two-day workshop Mon-
day in which leaders from city and county government voted
to hold similar meetings semi-annually. From left around the
table, Stern Dixon, Shelby Star reporter: city attorney George
Thomasson, city commissioners Irvin Allen and Jim Dickey,
School Boss Lists G
An indoor swimming pool at
Kings Mountain Senior High
was one of the goals raised by
KM Schools Supt. Bill Davis
during Tuesday’s seminar for ci-
ty officials and attended by
educators from Gardner-Webb,
Cleveland Technical and Gaston
Colleges. : ;
Davis said the Kings Moun-
tain Kiwanis Club is lending
strong support to the project and
that other civic clubs are invited
to “get on our bandwagon and
push for this much needed facili-
ty for our young people.”
Physical conditioning rooms
would be a part of the projected
United Way Hurting
Closing of Sulzer Industries,
short-time for employees in
numerous mills in the area, and
anticipated ‘for sale” signs
rumored at two mills in the area
is taking a bite on the industrial
division ‘of the 1985 United
Way. :
“We aren’t quitting and are
hopeful that the industrial drive
will reach its goal. A total of
$80,500 for 15 good causes is be-
ing sought,” said Chairman John
_ Young. !
Pledges and cash-on-hand to
date is $68,815.00, according to
Young, who said that an evalua-
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tion committee is looking at
ways and means to recruit some
more volunteers and some more
donors in the Kings Mountain
area.
Most divisions of the cam-
paign have reached their goals,
with exception of the heavy in-
* dustrial committee which is hard
hit this year with closing and cut
backs in plants which have
heavily * supported the United
Way for many years in Kings
Mountain.
Kings Mountain United Way
- approved the following budget
requests for 1985. They include:
American Red Cross, $15,000;
Ministerial Association and
Helping Hand Fund, and
Chaplain Service, $12,750; Girl
Scouts, $7,000; Boy Scouts,
$6,500; North Carolina United,
$6,237; Kings Mountain Rescue
Squad, $6,050; Cleveland Coun-
ty Shelter Home, $5,775; Kings
Mountain Boys Club, $5,500;
Grover Rescue Squad, $5,000;
CODAP, $3,000; Salvation Ar-
my, $2,200; Cleveland County
Mental Health Association,
$1,000; Hospice, $1,000; Child
Abuse Prevention, $500; Com-
munity Partnership For Disabl-
ed, $500.
Photo by Gary Stewart
! SHOW - Santa Claus, aided by members of the White Plains Shrine Club,
rows canay to the children as he rides through the streets of Kings Mountain in Sunday's
Christmas Parade which was sponsored by the Kings Mountain Fire Department. More
parade photos are on page 1-B.
we cut out services to the needy,
the poor, the blind,” asked Har-
ris.
According to Hinnant, the
county gets $1,800,000 from the
state as its share of revenues
from inventory and intangibles
taxes. Of that amount, he said
about half, or $900,000 comes
from inventory tax revenues. If
the state repeals these taxes, as
Governor-Elect Jim Martin is
proposing, it will be up to the
local level to start to look for
Mayor Moss, county commissioners L.E. and Hinnant and Pete
Stamey. commissioner-elect Joyce Cashion and city commis-
sioner Humes Houston. City Commissioner Curt Gaffney was
also present as were county commissioner-elect Gene
LeGrand. Region C Director Paul Hughes.
oals
: facility.
“We have more pressing facili-
ty goals now but with communi-
ty support and effort this could
be a reality”, said Davis.
Other goals in the KM system,
said Davis, based on a long range
Blue Ribbon Study, are to phase
out Central Middle School and
move the Ninth Grade to the
KMHS plant, which now houses |,
only 10th, 11th, and 12th
graders. Seventh and eighth
graders would comprise Junior
High plant. “All of this would in-
volve money and construction
and is in the future planning”,
said Davis. © Currently, eight
classrooms are being built at the
Junior High.
Dr. Larry Sale, of Boiling Spr-
ings, said that in the last six years
Gardner-Webb has merged from
an institution in Boiling Springs
to programs throughout North
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Advent
Services
Slated
Kings Mountain churches are
sponsoring Wednesday noon ser-
vices during the Advent Season
beginning Wednesday, Dec. 5th,
at Boyce Memorial ARP Church
with Dr. Joel Jenkins, pastor of
First Baptist Church, leading the
service of worship.
Rev. J.C. Goare, pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist Church,
will deliver the message at the
Dec. 12th service at noon at
Central United Methodist
Church.
Dr. Eric Faust, pastor of First
Presbyterian Church, will
deliver the message at the Dec.
19th noon worship service at St,
Matthews Lutheran Church.
After each service at 12:30
women of the sponsoring chur-
ches will serve a light luncheon.
A donation of $1 will be received
to help defray the cost of the
meal.
The downtown churches,
sponsoring the Advent Services,
plan the services at noon so that
the working public can par-
ticipate during their lunch hour.
other ways. of getting the
revenue it needs to continue to
provide all the services the public
wants. Hinnant said the county’s
“going wet” and “some type of
lottery” would increase revenue.
Senator Harris said he is open to
suggestions but that he will vote
against lottery and gambling, as
did Mrs. Lutz, who invited their
constituents .to let them know
there feelings on all the issues of
the 1985 General Assembly.
Mrs. Lutz said that it has been
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the policy of the local delegation
to caucus in Raleigh before
voting on any issues and that
feelings of the voters back home
were solicited via newspaper
advertising paid by Senator Har-
ris, Mrs. Lutz, and other
legislators representing area
voters. Area legislators are Har-
ris, Marshall Rauch, Helen Mar-
vin, Rep. Lutz and Represen-
tatives Charles Owens and Jack
Hunt.
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Harris Favors Vote
On State Lottery
Senator J. Ollie Harris,
Democrat from Cleveland Coun-
ty, said he favors a referendum
on the question of whether the
governor would serve more than
one term but said he doubted
legislators would approve a vote
unless it specified an effective
date of 1992, to give incoming
Governor Jim Martin the oppor-
tunity to run for re-election
under present legislation.
Responding to a question,
Harris said the N.C. Senate
didn’t kill a lottery bill in the
1984 session but killed “the time
to have it.” He said the sponsor
of the Senate Bill had specified
| that only ciites would vote aud
that this was killed because
(counties should also make the
/" determination along with cities.
Harris said he will vote against
« lotteries in this state but that he
would favor a referendum on the
question of lotteries to let the
public make the decision at the
ballot box.
Hollingsworth Heads
State Student Group
Michael Hollingsworth of
Kings Mountain has been nam-
ed president of the North
Carolina Comprehensive Com-
munity College Student Govern-
ment Association.
The 19-year-old Gaston Col-
lege student was elevated to the
position from the
Vice-President’s post at the fall
conference of the organization in
Winston-Salem.
Hollingsworth had been
elected vice-president at the spr-
ing conference and had been
delegated many of the
president’s duties since that time
by President Mike Reid of Cen-
tral Piedmont Community Col-
lege in Charlotte, whose job
responsibilities were becoming
more time-consuming. Reid of-
ficially resigned his position at
the opening business meeting of
the fall conference and Holl-
ingsworth became the youngest
president in the association’s
history.
Hollingsworth is a 1983
Harris, Kings Mountain mor-
tician, made the remarks during
a seminar for elected city of-
ficials Tuesday. He also said he
would favor a ‘right to know
law?” involving rescue personnel,
who he said go into dangerous
buildings where there, is hazar-
dous waste. And in response to a
question, he said he would op-
pose a county option of appeal-
ing intangibles and inventory
tax. “That would be an easy way
out for the legislature”, said Har-
ris, who said the tax repeal sub-
ject will be of the hottest sub-
(tion. The siate receives in excess. + J
‘of $300 million in inventory
"taxes and over $100 in in- ir
tangibles. : iy b
Both Harris and Rep. Edith ry:
Lutz, also of Cleveland County 4 7
jects facing the 1985 state H
legislature. However, Harris said
he would favor a state wide op”
said other revenues would have ™, ,
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MIKE HOLLINGSWORTH
graduate of Kings Mountain
High School. He plans to run for
reelection at the spring con-
ference of N4CSGA next May
and plans to transfer to UNC-
Chapel Hill year after next to
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5th Graders May Enter
Christmas Essay Contest !
Fifth graders in the Kings Mountain School District are
eligible to enter the Kings Mountain Herald's Christmas
essay contest. Winners will receive awards and have their
pictures published on the front page of the Herald's annual
Christmas edition.
Essays will be written on “What Christmas Means to Me"
and must be 100 words or less.
Students should submit their essays to their teachers before
December 14. Essays will be judged by the principals of the
five Kings Mountain elementary schools but the principals
will not judge essays by students from his or her own school.
The Herald urges students in grades kindergarten through
four to submit Letters to Santa Claus which will appear in the
paper during the Christmas season.
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