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Page 16A - THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD - Thursday, October 24, 1985
Local Army Recruiters Have Banner Year
Army recruiters assigned
to the U.S. Army Recruiting
Station, 201 East Franklin
Ave., Gastonia, have com-
mended area residents for
their support of recruiting as
fiscal year 1985 ended on
September 30.
Station Commander
Sergeant First Class Danny,
W. Vanover said that 121
young men and women from
this area took advantage of
Army opportunities during
the fiscal year. “We ap-
preciate that support,” he
said. “It’s enlistments from
the small cities and towns of
America that collectively
build an Army.” .
Fiscal Year 1985 began last
October 1 with some ap-
prehension from Army
recruiters. A difficult year in
military recruiting had been
predicted due to an improved
economy and fewer people
between the ages of 17 to 19.
Despite those factors, Army
recruiters enlisted 125,434
Americans into the Regular
Army. Another 68,391 joined
the Army Reserve to serve
part-time as citizen-soldiers.
Recruiting records indicate
that the U.S. Army has
History Museum
Selling Calendars
Do you have your 1986
calendar yet, especially one
with a picture of the Old
Courthouse? If not, you are in
luck. The Cleveland County
Historical Museum, which is
located in the Old Courthouse
is presenting a special
limited edifion calendar for
1986 showing a pen and ink
drawing of the Courthouse
that has not been shown
before. The drawing shows
the west side of the Cour-
thouse and includes the
monument. This year the
calendars are printed with
brown ink on beige colored
aper and are designed for
raming.
The calendars, a first in a
series, are a special project
of the Museum, and is spon-
sored by Doran Textiles. The
calendars are on sale at the
Museum Gift shop located in
the Old Courthouse.
The Museum is gathering
suggestions for the 1987
calendar. If you have a sug-
gestion for a drawing, con-
tact the Museum.
For further information,
call the Museum at 482-8186.
KMHS Senior
Scores Improve
Average scores of Kings
Mountain’s 1985 seniors im-
proved 15 points on the verbal
section and four points on the
math section of the Scholastic
Aptitute Tests (SAT).
The average College Board
scores of 1985 seniors rose at
every high school in
Cleveland County bringing
them closer to the state and
national averages. Average
scores at all high schools in
the county dropped last year.
At Kings Mountain Senior
High, where 105 students
were tested, the scores were
372, verbal; 416, math.
National averages on the
SAT dropped significantly
since 1963, when verbal
2 erages were 478 and math,
2.
Monograming
Class Slated
A class in beginning
monograming will begin
November 7 at North
Elementary School.
Phyllis Lackey will be the
instructor. Fee is $20. There
will also be a weekly fee of
about $10 for supplies. :
Each participant will need
to bring a zig-zag sewing
machine, three empty bob-
bins, a small screw driver,
straight pins, ruler, scissors
and one yard of muslin. The
instructor will provide kit
markers, hoops, threads and
books.
To pre-register or for fur-
ther information, call the
Community Schools Office at
739-2296 or Phyllis Lackey at
739-9497.
The course will run each
Thursday through December
5 from 6:30-9 p.m. It is open to
anyone age 16 or over.
ssibly become the smartest
ighting force in its history.
Sixty-three percent of those
who enlisted during fiscal
Jour 1985 scored in the upper
alf of the Army’s aptitude
examination, versus 25 per-
cent in 1980 and 56 percent
last year. On the other end of
the scale, Regular Army
enlistees who scored in the
lowest aptitude category fell
to about 9 percent from last
year’s 13 percent, and 1980’s
57 percent.
“We try to recruit quality
people every year,”’ Vanover
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