SPELLING CHAMP—Eighth grader Chris Allen, above, is
congratulated by Mrs. Glee E.
Bridges after he won the KM
District Schools Spelling Bee Monday in the Administrative
Office Building. He now advances to regional competition
April 12 in Charlotte.
Chris Allen Spelling
Champ In KM Schools
Eighth grader Chris Allen,
14, is Kings Mountain Spell-
ing Champion and will repre-
sent KM District Schools in
the Charlotte Observer-
sponsored Regional Bee April
12th in Charlotte.
. He outspelled six other
elementary students to
become the champion Mon-
day.
Both Chris and runnerup
Dawn Hardin, Grover fifth
- grader, misspelled the word,
auger, then Dawn spelled
cordial correctly and Chris
spelled narcotic correctly.
Dawn then misspelled legible
and Chris spelled that word
correctly and then went on to
spell correctly the word
vaguely which made him the
champ.
Chris is son of Yvonne Pat-
terson of Route 5 and Ken-
neth Eugene Allen of Kings
Mountain and stepson of
Butch Patterson. He is an
honor student at KM Junior
High and social studies is his .
| favorite subject.
DRIV ER TRAINING
There will be a Bus
Driver’s Training Class at
Barnes Auditorium, Kings
Mountain Senior High School,
on April 16th & 18th. The
classwork will be from 8:30
a.m. until 2:30 p.m.
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CURLER TEE RY IHL
All winners from the Kings
Mountain schools will be
guests of the KM Board of
Education at lunch in
Charlotte April 12th while at-
tending the Regional Bee at
which Chris Allen will com-
pete with other winners and
vie for a trip to Washington,
D.C. and the national spelling
bee.
Other students competing
in Monday’s Spelling Bee in
the Administrative Offices
were Lisa Droz, sixth grader,
representing Central School;
Jimmy Raines, fifth grader,
representing East School;
Chad Huntsinger, fourth
grader, representing West
‘School. Jennifer Carroll, fifth
grader, representing North
School; Melonie Dixon,
fourth grader, alternate
Bethware student who took
the place of Karen Helms, the
Bethware winner who was
out of school due to illness;
and Dawn Hardin, fifth
grader, representing Grover
School. AEN i
Pronouncers for the
were Mrs. Charles Mauney
and Dr. Eric Faust. Judges
were Mrs. Wilson Griffin,
KMSHS Librarian, chair-
man; Mrs. Jackie Lavender,
Assistant KMSHS Principal
and C.A. Allison, retired
North School principal.
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RALEIGH—Senator Helen
Rhyne Mavin (D-Gaston) is a
strong supporter of public
education. She has expressed
concern that the proposed tax
package being prepared by
Governor Jim Martin will en-
danger North Carolina’s
chances of achieving educa-
tional advancement.
“We are focusing on educa-
tion and the resources which
will be available to imple-
ment the proposed new pro-
grams for assuring quality
public school education for
every child in North
Carolina,” Senator Marvin
said. |
She outlined those pro-
grams: the basic education
program for all school
systems; a career develop-
ment program for teachers
and principals; restructuring
of the state board of educa-
tion; a long term program for
funding the public schools.
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ed about $400 million surplus
in state government revenues
last year went to the beginn-
ing of the implementation of
many of the recommenda-
tions of former Governor
Hunt’s North Carolina Com-
mission on Education for
Economic Growth,”” Marvin
said. ;
That commission was com-
posed of leaders from
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Show Set
Tuesday
North School’s annual
P-TA Talent Show will be
held Tuesday, March 26, at
the school at 7 p.m.
Admission is $1 for adults
and 50 cents for students.
Winners from the talent
event represents ;North
School ii wanis Schools
Talent ne in April.
Special entertainment will
feature The Cloggers under
direction of Mrs. Kathy
James, West School Physical
"Education Teacher.
Marlene Reynolds, PTA
President, said the public is
invited to attend.
LENDER
business, education and
government. Many of its in-
itial recommendations were
funded, including a 14.8 per-
cent salary increase for cer-
tified educational personnel
at $196.6 million; a reduction
in class size in grades 4-6 at
$31.3 million; educational
equipment in science, math,
vocational and computer labs
at $13.4 million; school bus
replacements at $6.2 million;
vocational education in
grades 7-8 at $2.4 million and
enrollment increases at $6.4
million.
Marvin said that the cur- .
rent budget considerations of
the legislature would build on
these initiatives including in-
creasing salaries for school
teachers and reinstating the
salary increment program.
Other initiatives currently
being considered are further
reductions in classroom size,
offering remedial summer
school, increasing funds for
textbooks and increasing
vocational educational equip-
ment.
“The big question which
everyone here in the General
Assembly is discussing is
how much of the Commission
recommendations will be en-
dorsed by the new governor.
What concerns me is how the
governor proposes to fund
our educational needs while
at the same time advocating
repeal of taxes which con-
tribute hundreds of millions
of dollars in state revenues.”
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