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Police Investigate 11 Holiday Accidents
Kings Mountain police
reported 11 traffic accidents dur-
ing the holiday period.
A car driven by Robert Lee
Black of Route 4 went out of
control on December 21 and
struck a brick wall at the Kings
Mountain Depot Center.
Damage to Black’s car was $700.
Vehicles driven by Robert Lee
White of 414 Wilson Street and
Faye Lovelace of 111 Center
Street collided December 21 on
North Cansler Street. Damages
“.were $300 to Lovelace’s 1970
Chevy and $200 to White’s 1976
Chevy.
Police reported that a car
operated by Angela Hill of 205
Cook Circle struck a car driven’
. by Charlie Taylor of 809 Ellison
Drive December 21 on Linwood
Road. Damage to Hill’s 1984
Chevrolet was $100. There was
no damage to Taylor’s 1964
Ford.
Cars driven by Edward Ford
of 805 Gantt Street and Julia
Jarrett of 1713 Northwoods
Drive collided December 21 on
East Ridge Street. Damages
were $200 to Jarrett’s 1977 Pon-
tiac and $20 to Fords 1973
Chevrolet.
A car driven by Loretta Kiser
of Route 4 struck a utility pole
December 22 on Battleground
Avenue. Damage to Kiser’s 1974
Ford was $1,000.
A car driven by Ronald Barrs
of Route 2, Stanley, struck a
telephone pole on York Road on
Christmas Eve. Damage to the
car was $500.
An unknown vehicle struck a
car driven by Clarence Grigg of
417 Cherokee Street December
27 on Gold Street. Damage to
. Grigg’s car was $2,000.
An unknown vehicle struck a
parked car owned by John
Wilson Jr. of 928 Alpine
December 28 on Thornburg
Drive. Damage to Wilson’s car
was $350.
A car driven by Linda Lawson
of 210 Parrish Drive struck a
parked car owned by, Melvin
White of Charlotte December 29
on Barnette Drive. Damage to
White’s car ‘was $1,000 and
damage to Lawson’s car was
$150.
Bicyclist Tyrone Garcia was
treated for injuries December 29
after he was struck by a car
driven by Marlene Bennett of
Phifer Road. The wreck occured
on King Street. Damage to Mrs.
Bennett’s car was $5.
A car driven by Jeffrey Phillip
Ross of 205 Fulton Street hit an
embankment December 30 on
North Piedmont Avenue.
Damage to the car was $1,500.
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Are you aware of the annual outcry regarding the abysmally low
graduation rates of student-athletes throughout the country? The
ACC is no different. Last year about one-third of the ACC’s scholar-
ship athletes in school for four years actually graduated.
At NCAA meetings, people sit around between coffee breaks and
presumeably try to come up with schemes to do something about the
problem. If they did, it would be simple.
Here, digest this masterpiece of common sense that should be ob-
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“This is so simple you ‘have to {vondet how anyone can not fe Svhical
about the NCAA.
What would be difficult about this?
Let each basketball team, for example, have the 14 scholarships it
has now, and make the official signing date for high school players
June 1-AFTER graduation. Make the rule EACH SCHOOL MAY
GIVE AS MANY SCHOLARSHIPS AS IT HAS PLAYERS
GRADUATING.
“If no one graduates, then there are no scholarships to give. Under
this plan, coaches who pay mere lip service to academics would soon
be without any scholarship players—-and they would lose.
I would add this rule as well. NO COACH MAY ACCEPT A JOB
AT A SCHOOL WITH MORE SCHOLARSHIPS TO GIVE THAN
HE HAD AT THE SCHOOL HE IS LEAVING.
This would keep coaches from hurting one program and then mov-
ing merrily on to another. If a coach truly wanted to move onward and
upward in his career, he would have to become the educator£ounselor
they all claim to be.
Another aspect...What if a school offered a kid a scholarship prior to
June 1, contingent of course on a certain player graduating on time,
and then the player did not graduate? Would that leave the high
school player out in no man’s land?
Not necessarily. Why not make it a rule that if a kid is offered a
scholarship which can not by rule be given, then the kid can choose
the school of his choice but the scholarship must be paid by the offer-
ing school?
With this rule, schools not adequately concerned with academics
would actually be paying for other schools’ sports programs. This
could happen easily enough. Teams are already accustomed to sharing
bowl payouts, and TV revenues, so paying each other for scholarships
would be simple.
Let’s go one step further now. Any team which finishes a year with
14 scholarships—the full quota, meaning every scholarship athlete who
has entered has graduated—would be given the right to offer a seven or
eight year scholarship, allowing a kid to get a scholarship that would
take him all the way through Law School or Medical School.
Do you realize it is against NCAA rules for a school to offer a kid a
seven year scholarship? Why should it be? There is sufficient money at
many schools to do this. But it is not allowed BY RULE, although the
rules do permit schools to offer five new scholarships every year even
though no one ever graduates with this money.
So what about it? Do you think it would be so difficult to implement
these rules? Do you think the NCAA really cares about kids
graduating?
I don’t.
Meeting Slated
ping and fishing regulations
while the seasons are still fresh in
their minds has been scheduled
by Dr. John Hamrick, Wildlife
Commissioner for. Wildlife
Disrict Eight.
The meeting will be held on
Thursday, January 3rd at the
Gaston County Courthouse in
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A public meeting to allow area
sportsmen the opportunity to of-
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School Booster’s Club will meet
Monday at 7 p.m. at Jed’s Buf-
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Bruce Clark, KMHS girls soft-
ball coach, will be the 1e guest
speaker. He will discuss pro-
spects for the coming season.
All members and prospective
members are urged to attend.
The group will discuss its pro-
jects for the spring.
Gastonia. It begins at 7:00 p.m.
According to Dr. Hamrick,
the Wildlife Resources Commis-
sion has received some excellent
suggestions from sportsmen at
similiar meetings in the past—
some of which have evolved into
regulation changes. He en-
courages sportsmen and others
interested in North Carolina’s
wildlife programs to attend.
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