VOL. 98 NUMBER 10
CHARTER NIGHT—Charles R. Baskerville, Jr., left, state
president of the N.C. Association of Realtors, Inc., presented
the charter to Ruby M. Alexander, first president of the
newly-formed Kings Mountain Board of Realtors, as KM
Board Secretary Larry Hamrick, Sr. looks on.
Board Of Realtors
Officially Chartered
Kings Mountain Board of
Realtors was officially
chartered and became the
newest board and No. 72 in
the state, at a Charter Night
Banquet Monday night at
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Jr., of Charlotte, Vice Presi-
dent of Region 7, Elmer C.
Jenkins, of Blowing Rock,
immediate past state presi-
dent, and Charles R. Basker-
ville, Jr., of Asheville, state
president, joined 21 realtors,
seven affiliates, business
leaders and guests who
numbered 75, who attended
the Charter Night Banquet.
“We salute you on this
tremendous occasion,” said
Bichsel, who noted that the
N.C. Association of Realtors
is the fifth largest state in the
nation in the number of
boards of realtors with 72 and
North Carolina is 22nd
largest state in the number of
members, at nearly 11,000.
Ten boards in North Carolina
are smaller than Kings
Mountain and the average
size of boards across the state
is 150 with about one third of
the boards numbering
membership of fewer than 50.
“You are a typical board and
bring much strength and add-
ed pride to the community
and are the voice of real
estate in Kings Mountain’,
said Bichsel.
city, sai
Other state officials offered
congratulations to the new of-
ficers and all members of the
group and Kings Mountain
Mayor John Moss, who
brought greetings from the
d that ‘‘tonight
epresents a big step f
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all realtors. The Mayor also
took the occasion to read a
resolution of congratulations
from the board of city com-
missioners and remarked
that it was a fitting occasion
to celebrate the 110th birth-
day of the City of Kings
Mountain.
‘“This is a momentous occa-
sion for us’’, said Mrs. Alex-
ander, first president and one
of the first women realtors in
the community, ‘‘as we have
worked long and hard for
many years.” Other officers
echoed her expressions of
faith in the community that
led to the formation and
chartering of the Kings
Mountain Board of Realtors.
The other officers are Hal S.
Plonk, vice president; Larry
Hamrick, Sr., secretary; and
B.F. Maner, treasurer.
Directors are Charles
Carpenter, Donald W.
Crawford and Charlene Ellis.
Dr. Joel Jenkins, pastor of
First Baptist Church, gave
the invocation and the pledge
of allegiance was led by
Donald Crawford. President
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for $34,954.
bids f m chanical work.
‘Hamrick
Services
Thursday
Frank L. Hamrick, 67, of
Route 6, Kings Mountain,
died Tuesday at Gaston
Memorial Hospital.
A Cleveland County native,
he was a retired. auto
mechanic and member of
Patterson Grove Baptist
. Church. He was Commander
of Otis D. Green Post 155,
American Legion, a member
of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and a World War II
veteran.
He was the son of the late
Guthrie and Dora Allen
Hamrick.
He is survived by his wife,
Helen Patterson Hamrick;
two daughters, Mrs. Ann
Tuckett of Charlotte and Mrs.
Frankie Webster of Kings
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Order Blocks Suspension
Of High School Student
The suspension of a 16-year-old Kings
Mountain student has been blocked by a
restraining order by Superior Court Judge
John Friday and a hearing on whether to.
keep the order in force is slated for Friday
moening in Lincoln County Superior Court.
The restraining order was issued as the
result of a $20,000 suit filed against school of-
ficials by Joe Brown, father and guardian of
the student, Ashlie Dianne Brown.
The suit claims that on Jan: 31 the girl
“without any justification or provocation
whatsoever was attacked by another student
and a 20-year-old male, who was not a stu-
dent, in the hallway of Kings Mountain High
School and beaten and choked during the at-
tack.” After the “onset of the attack she at-
tempted to defend herself.”
"The suit alleges Principal Ronnie Wilson
told the girl and her parents that school
day in-school suspension. The suit alleges
that the parents asked for a hearing and that
the school board ‘‘met privately on Feb. 4th
and decided to uphold the suspension.” It
claimed the parents were not allowed to hear
the board’s deliberations. The student, the
suit,claims, was ‘‘unconstitutionally depriv-
ed of the due process and the right to defend
herself from attack without punishment.’
School officials, who met with the girls’
parents again in closed session Monday
night, said after the meeting that school
policy is to suspend any student involved in a
fight on school grounds regardless of who in-
itiates the fight. They confirmed that Miss
Allen and another female student were both
suspended. Miss Brown was in school Mon-
day. Supt. Bill Davis said the first School
policy required the expelling of any student
involved in a fight on school grounds through
a five day out-of-school suspension and a five sion.
board hearing on the matter was held on Feb.
1 and that as of Monday, when KM Board of
Education received the restraining order,
Miss Brown had served most of her suspen-
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The City of Kings Mountain
is reviewing contracts ‘‘as to
form” and consulting with
state EPA officials on re-
quests from the Town of
Grover, as well as from
others, for sewer service, ac-
cording to Mayor John Moss
who made a report of the city
utility committee’s Monday
i
- City of Kings Mountain treat
up to 60,000 gallons of sewage
daily and that the city is in
process of being ready to sign
the necessary documents.
Moss said that the board is
also consulting with its at-
torneys on certain legalities.
to establish ‘‘language’”
assuring the city board of
commissioners would be in
control of establishing fees.
- setting forth restrictions to
all residential users and
ascertain point of connection
with the city system and set
fees for initial connection
which would reflect cost per
gallon of space used by the
user in the Kings Mountain
system. A local developer.
Mike Brown, has made a re-
quest to place a sub-division
within the city’s one mile
perimeter area and plans call
for the construction of
several homes. Moss said
that preliminary plans have
not been submitted to the
planning and zoning board
but that members of the utili-
ty committee have instructed
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KM Reviewing
For Junior High Project
The Kings Mountain Board of Education Monday night
awarded bids totaling $383,207 for general construction,
electrical and plumbing work for the new wing to be built
at Kings Mountain Junior High School.
The board delayed action on bids received for
mechanical work. Supt. Bill Davis said he felt all bids
received were too high and asked the architects to work
toward getting lower bids for those services. He said bid-
ders may have over-bid on that work because of confu-
sion. “I know that at least one bidder thought that he
would be responsible for putting (heating and air condi-
tioning) units together when all he would have to do
would be to slide it in place, plug it in, hook it up and do
the duct work,’’ Davis said.
The board awarded the general construction bid to T.C.
Strickland Company for $306,503; the elctrical contract to
Lail Electric Service of Lincolnton for $41,750; and the
plumbing contract to Ben T. Goforth of Kings Mountain
ed was $111,736 by Shelby Heating and Air Conditioning.
If the board awards that bid, the total cost of the project 3
would be $494,943, slightly less than the half-million a
. dollar price tag which was projected. &
“It’s very comforting to know that the bids came in
under what we projected,” Davis said. &
The board several months ago approved the addition of
eight classrooms and other renovations to the school,
which became over-crowded in recent years. The project
will be paid for by Kings Mountain’s proceeds of sales tax
and money from a capital reserve fund which was
established several months ago.
Davis said the delay on awarding the contract for :
mechanical work will not delay the construction. ‘The 3
generl contractor can go ahead with his work,” Davis
said. “The mechanical contractor wouldn’t come in until
we're halfway through the project.”
If construction work goes as expected, the new wing
will be occupied after the Christmas break of the 1985-86
school year.
him to confer with Brown on
potential city services.
In addition, the city has
been requested to supply
sewer services to a develop-
ment which Ted Huffman
plans to build and will pro-
vide Qual Run Sub-Division
ed for the season, accor-
ding to Jim Downey of the
City Sanitation Depart-
ment. :
Downey said that all
leaves placed on the curb
for pickup must now be
placed in bags or boxes.
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with water with the Quail
Run activity currently in pro-
gress, Moss said in his report.
Responding to question of
Comm. Norman King, city at-
torney George Thomasson
said that rezoning of property
on Sipes Street from residen-
tial to neighborhood business
ould not constitute ‘‘spot
request, which
proved by the cit
and zoning board. The Board
passed the rezoning request.
The board executed con-
tract with the accounting
firm of McGladrey, Hen-
drickson and Pullen of Shelby
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d been ap
Griffin Drug Sold,
Employees To Stay On
Griffin Drug Company,
Kings Mountain business
citizen since 1919, has been
sold by Wilson and Sara Grif-
fin to Charles E. (Chuck)
Zimmerman and John M.
Heilmon, both of Valdese,
who form a corporation
which will be called Griffin
Pharmacy, Inc.
The new owners said they
plan to continue to operate as
Griffin Drug Company and
will offer the same fine ser-
vices Kings Mountain
Citizens have enjoyed over
the years, retain the same
employees, and employ
Wilson Griffin to remain on
the staff and work as a phar-
macist ‘‘as many hours as he
wants to work.”
Griffin, who became 60 in
September, said he and his
wife had made the decision to
sell the company to allow
“continuity in the downtown
area and to bring more youth
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PRESENTED AWARDS - Tom Tindall, left, Outgoing President of the White Plains
Shrine Club, and Anne Hord, right, Shrine Queen for the past year, receive awards from
Club President Carl Champion for their work with the club during the past year.