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VOL. 98 NUMBER 27
Five Face
Gambling
Charges
Five Kings Mountain men
were charged with gambling
and poker machines were
confiscated at Depot Stop-N-
Go and Ole Country Store last
Friday as police, assisted by
county officers, raided both
Kings Mountain businesses.
Det. Billy Benton, of the
Kings Mountain Police |
Department, said the raids
were the result of a month-
long police undercover opera-
tion in which city police ask-
ed officers of the Shelby |
Police Department and |
Cleveland County Sheriff's *
Department to help crack
down on illegal gambling and
illegal use of video poker
machines. Benton said that
video poker machines were
played by an undercover of-
ficer and the officer was paid
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GOOD CITIZENS OF THE YEAR—These
Kings Mountain students were honored as
Good Citizens of the Year and recognized at
last Friday’s meeting of the KM Association
of Educators with silver cups. From left,
front row, Forrest Lail of Central School
and Mark Carpenter of North School. Se-
cond row, from left, Angela Hawkins of
Grover School, Holly Harmon of East
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1985
Senior High.
School, Karen Helms of Bethware School
and Jamie Gilbert of West School; Back
row, from left, Chris Henson of Central
School, Suzanne Lee of Kings Mountain
Junior High and Lisa Edwards of Kings
Mountain Senior High. Not pictured are
Bryan Jones of Kings Mountain Junior High
and Mike Reynolds of Kings Mountain
Court Action Ordered
The city board of commis-
sioners Tuesday night in-
itiated legal steps via a peti-
tion to the Cleveland County
Superior Court to order an
East King Street property
owner to clean up his proper-
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~ Bob and Hetty Cox of
Kingstree, S.C. own the house
at 212 E. King Street which is
occupied by Fashion
Cleaners. /
Codes Director Jerry King
told the Board that he had
contacted both Cox and Gene
Austin owner of Fashion
Cleaners, asking them to
comply with the city housing
codes but efforts had been un-
successful over a year’s
duration.
Petitions signed by Thomas
L. Trott, Selena P. Trott, Cor-
lave JH. Stowe, Margaret
Vaugh
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Douglas M. Felts, Cindy L.
Fortenberry, Stephen Sher-
rill, Shellie Sherrill and Dolly
Lefevers, adjoining property
owners or rentors in the area
accompanied the request of
the Codes Department.
Fn a related matter, City
Atlorhiey Gedrge Thomasson
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CARL...
Smoking Ban
At KM High
Discussed
The Kings Mountain Board of Education will act this sum-
mer on whether or not to ban--or attempt to better control--
smoking on the Kings Mountain High School campus.
Superintendent William Davis and KMHS Principal Ron-
nie Wilson brought the matter before the board Monday
night, and they, along with all members of the board.
agreed that enforcing a smoking ban would be difficult.
Wilson, who said he favored ‘‘trying to eliminate smoking
and use of tobacco”, said he felt a policy should be adopted
and that the policy should be specific about the penalties in-
volved. He said he felt that enforcing a smoking ban would
not be over-bearing on school officials.
“I think we should address all the tobacco products,” he
said. “I assure you that students will continue to smoke but
we would enforce the policy to the best of our ability.”
“I have debated on this for a good while,’’ said Supt.
Davis. “When I first became a high school principal it was
not possible for students to smoke, but enforcing it was very
difficult.” :
Davis said banning smoking on the campus would be good
for public relations. ‘It would eliminate the smoking area,
which is a dirty place,” he said, ‘‘and a place where many
youngsters gather to reinforce each others bad habits.”
Davis said the use of tobacco by the faculty and on
athletic fields should be addressed in discussing a possible
policy.
“As far as I'm concerned, if the students can’t smoke, the
faculty can’t smoke,” commented Board Chairman Bill
McDaniel. “When I was in high school, the students had to
go off the school grounds to smoke, but the principal slipped
down to the boiler room to do his smoking...and we all knew
it? :
Board members Kyle Smith and Paul Hord both question-
ed whether the board should ban smoking altogether or put
more teeth into the school’s present rule that students
‘“moke only in designated areas.
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For Indoor Pool Drive
Gary Whitaker as Captains in
‘reposted to the board that he
~ had sold his property at 405
East King Street that the new
owners had informed him
they plan “to clean it up and
put it in order.” ‘I’m getting
out of the rental business,”
said Thomasson.
Codes Director Jerry King
said that contacts are being
designated area,” Smith said. ‘‘T question which is most
dangerous...to put more teeth into the rule we've got or
make a new one.”’ ;
“The ones that are going to smoke are going to do it one |
way or the other,’ Hord said. ‘‘Keep then) in the designated
area and tell themif it is not kept clean, there will be a ban
on smoking.”
June Lee said she is opposed to smoking at school. *'I feel
we're supposed to be educating the students on good health
through our efforts.” habits and we are allowing them to smoke. I wouldn't
Grady Howard, general
chairman of the Kings Moun-
tain (Indoor Pool)
. Natatoriam Campaign, has
announced several new ap-
pointments within the
organizational structure of
the effort. :
“Dr. Scott Mayse,’”’
Howard said, “has agreed to
head up a special effort
among those in the medical
field—physicians, dentists,
pharmacists, etc.” Mayse in-
dicated that Joseph Lee,
George Plonk, Geeper
Howard, Wilson Griffin and
Ragan Harper had agreed to
assist in this effort and
reported that a meeting of the
group was held on June 3 in
the campaign offices, at
which time orientation and
prospect selection had taken
place.
“This group,” Mayse said,
“provides a promise of
significant potential for the
campaign. We hope to set a
really good example for the
whole community to follow
Howard also named Tom
Tate and Frank Cagle as Co-
chairmen for the Special
Gifts Division and indicated
that a preliminary meeting
with the two would take place
next week for organizing the
division.
Tate is President of Home
Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Kings Moun-
tain. Cagle is Vice President
and City Executive of Branch
Banking and Trust Company
in Kings Mountain.
“I think both Tom and
Frank, with their whole-
hearted interest in: the suc-
cess of the campaign, are
valuable additions to our
leadership,” Howard said.
“They can be counted on.”
Howard provided further
information about the Major
Gifts Division, whose leader-
ship was announced last
week in the naming of Glee
Bridges and John Young as
Co-chairmen and Doyle
Campbell, Odus Smith and
‘really
the Division.
Campbell reported the
enlistments of S.R. Suber,
III, J.C. Bridges, Scoop
Peeler, Ruby Alexander and
Hallie Blanton as team
members of his group.
Smith reported as team
members for his group Lewis
Dellinger, Ernest Rome,
Sharon McPhail, Larry
Hamrick, Jr., and Charles
Mauney.
Whitaker reported Gregory
Birskovich, Kemp Mauney,
Andy Neisler, Bill Fulton and
Andrew Milewski as
members of his team.
“This group—our Major
Gifts Division—represents a
fine team of
volunteers,” Howard stated
in releasing the names.
The Co-chairmain, Cap-
tains and Team Members
met for an organizational and
training meeting at the cam-
paign offices on June 11, at
which time the brochure for
the campaign was introduced
made with several other pro-
perty owners in the West
Mountain Street-King Street
areas encouraging them to
take steps to clean up un-
sightly property and comply
with city housing codes
before the city takes legal ac-
tion. ‘‘We’d like for citizens to
volunteer to clean up their
properties’’, he said. The ci-
ty’s codes of ordinances
regulate the appearance and
condition of housing, weeds,
trash, etc. and some King
Street and some West Moun-
tain Street property owners
received copies of letters
from the Codes Department
making them aware of the ci-
ty’s efforts to see the im-
provement of housing all over
town.
King said the Cox property
is in violation of the housing
codes because of rubbish,
trash, weeds, grass, junk and
doghouses, all of which is
restricted under city or-
dinance.
3 oel Rountree Teacher Of Year
hesitate to say no smoking,’’ she said.
Doyle Campbell said he, too, is against smoking but ad-
vised the board to take some time to think about it. ‘(The
General Assembly is considering this type of thing now.” he
said. “If we do nothing, it could be that in two or three years
it’s going to happen anyway.’
Moss Says City’s Taking
Steps To Comply With Law
The city has contracted
with the City of Gastonia for
60 days to discharge sludge
accumulations due, in part,
to failure of three aerators at
the waste treatment plant.
Mayor John Henry Moss
said that the city is also tak-
ing steps to qualify the city’s
landfill to discharge sludge
from the waste treatment
plant.
The city of Kings
Mountain’s wastewater treat-
ment plant came under the
scrutiny of state environmen-
tal officials April 25th when
the Pilot Creek treatment
plant was declared ‘“‘out of
compliance” by the Division
of Environmental Manage-
ment.
Walt Ollis, of the city public
works staff, said that an in-
spector visited the city facili-
ty on the same day that
lightning struck two aerators
and put them out of action
and the third aerator was out
of order. “Were in com-
pliance and the inspector is
due back on June 20th,’ he
said. The mayor said the city
will be doing some self-
monitoring of its waste treat-
ment.
Joel Rountree, 36, is Kings Mountain District School’s
Teacher of the Year. :
Rountree, history and social studies teacher at Kings
Mountain Senior High since 1977, received the coveted pla-
que Friday afternoon during the annual meeting of the
Association of Educators at B.N. Barnes Auditorium. Mr.
Rountree will now compete on the district level for District
d Teacher of the Year. The District winner advances to the
state competition which will decide the North Carolina
bh Teacher of 1985. ¢
R A native of Grover, he is the son of Glenn and Jackie
Rountree and is married to the former Patsy Smith. The
Rountrees are parents of two children, Katy, age five, and
Joshua, age four, and they reside in Grover. Mrs. Roun-
tree is a teacher at Central School.
A graduate of Shelby High School, Rountree was
educated at Davidson College and took additional work at
Appalachian State University and the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte for his Master’s degree. He also
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teaches an advanced placement class at KMSHS and for
two weeks this summer is teaching Italian Language
School at Pfeiffer College in Misenheimer. He served two
years in the U.S. Army and is active in the North Carolina
National Guard. He is an Elder in Grover’s Shiloh
Presbyterian Church which the family attends.
Supt. Bill Davis presented an engraved plaque to Roun-
tree, KMSH Teacher of the Year, Friday and a $100 cash
award from the Kings Mountain Association of Educators.
He also presented engraved plaques to Teachers of the
Year from the various school plants and congratulated
them ‘‘on an outstanding job this year in the system and
with our young people.” :
Other Teachers of the Year at the various plants were
Faye Howard, Bethware; Steve Lazenby, Central; Kay
Jolly, East; Lynda Stewart, Grover; Lillie Hinton, KM
Junior High; Ann Rudisill, West School and Katherine
Blanton, North School.
TEACHER OF YEAR—Joel Rountree, left,
teacher, is congratulated by Schools Supt. Bill Davis as
Teacher of the Year following the announcement at Fri-
day’s meeting of the KM Association of Educators.
KMSHS ¢