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Performance Thursday
Photo by Gary Stewart
HE CAME TO TOWN - Santa Claus came to town Sunday in the Kings Mountain Eire
Department’s annual Christmas parade. As his sleigh proclaims, he’s not the sreaiest gift
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¥ the board’s tradition for the
we’ll receive this year, but he’s loading his sleigh with a tot of good gifts for his return wip ily
b j Docember «4. Other parade pictures are on page 1-B.
Kings Mountain School Board member
Kyle Smith said Tuesday morning he is con-
sidering resigning from the board after
fellow members did not elect him as board
chairman at Monday night’s meeting at the
junior high school.
- In a 3-2 vote, the board re-elected chairman
Bill McDaniel, who has served &s chairman
the past two years. Former chairman June
Lee nominated McDaniel and Paul Hord Jr.
nominated Smith. Lee, McDaniel and Doyle
Campbell voted for McDaniel and Smith and
Hord voted for Smith. :
In nominating Smith, Hord pointed out that
: st 10 years has
been to rotate chairmen. *‘I think each person
should have the chance to be chairman, and
Kyle Smith has shown excellent leadershi
abilities during his eight years on the board,
and is next in line for the position. He has
given many years of go
school system. Be is faithful and dedicated,”
Hord said. :
After McDaniel was elected chairman,
Smith was nominated by Campbell to be vice-
chairman. When Smith said he would not ac-
cept it, Mrs. Lee nominated Campbell and he
was elected by a unanimous vote.
Smith said he looked forward to being
elected chairman because boards had tradi-
tionally rotated the position. “I'm disap-
pointed, and Monday night I was mad,” he
said. “But I’ve had several people call me
and ask me not to resign. I plan to think about
it for a week or so before I make a definite
redision.’| 0 IRR Ld) /
Smith szic he doesn’t believe anyone In
Kings Mountain has ‘contributed any more
service to the =
KYLE SMITH
than he has during the past 20 years to the
school system. As personnel director for local
industries, Smith said he has hired over 1,500
KM seniors during the past 20 years. “I also
organized the Booster’s Club, have spoken to
vocational classes, and numerous |cther
things. I guarantee you I have put in
thousands of hours at our schools,” he said.
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Services Held For Harry Page, 77
Funeral services for Harry
~ Ephriam Page, 77, retired
textile executive, were con-
ducted Monday morning at 11
a.m. from First Presbyterian
Church of which he was a
member.
His pastor, Dr. Eric Faust,
officiated at the service,
assisted by Rev. Dick Little
and Lonnie Darnell and inter-
ment was in Mountain Rest
Cemetery. Active
pallbearers were David
Neisler, Andy Neisler, Chi
Neisler, Dick Hunnicutt, Rick
Photo by Gary Stewart
Neisler, Edward Little,
Parks Neisler, and Hayne
Neisler. Honorary
pallbearers were elders and
deacons of First
Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Page died at home
Saturday morning at 8:30
a.m. after several month’s il-
Iness.
Born Jan. 28, 1908 in
Hildebrand, N.C., Mr. Page
was the son of the late Harry
and Addie Hoover Page. At a
young age he moved with his
family to Lincolnton where
TOUR NEW FACILITY - School board members and visitors toured the new half-million
dollar addition to Kings Mountain Junior High School during the monthly meeting of the
board of education Monday night at KMJH. Junior High Principal Jerry Hoyle, third from
left, points out features of the new math and science classrooms to (left to right) Doyle
Campbell, Larry Allen, Glenda O’Shields, June Lee, Betsy Wells, Wanza Davis and Supt.
Bill Davis,
Facility Needs Discussed
‘The Kings Mountain Board
of Education was handed the
keys to the new half-million
dollar science and math wing
at Kings Mountain Junior
High Monday night and ap-
proved making request to the
Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners for approx-
imately $4.6 million in other
school improvements.
Superintendent Bill Davis
told the board that the county
commissioners are consider-
ing a county-wide school bond
referendum and asked the
KM, Cleveland County and
Shelby school systems to
study their needs.
The Kings Mountain board,
which approved by
unanimous vote Davis’s
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he attended public school. He
also attended Christ School in
Arden. In 1926 when he was 18
years old, Mr. Page went to
work in Charlotte as a yard
clerk and operator for Pied-
mont and Northern Railroad.
Eight years later he moved to
Kings Mountain to work for
Neisler Mills, Inc. He re-
mained with Neisler Mills un-
tii the mill was sold to
Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Co. in 1955. Mr. Page worked
for the new owners until 1959
when he opened Page’s Men
Store on Mountain Street. He
closed retail operations in
1965 but continued to repre-
sent several manufacturers
of band uniforms until his
retirement in 1971. In 1937 he
married Laura Grace Neisler
of Kings Mountain and they
moved to their present home
at 404 West Mountain Street
in 1939. They have two
daughters, Pauline Page
Moreau of Chapel Hill and
Laura Jean Page of Atlanta,
Ga. and two grandchildren,
Catherine Page Moreau and
David Stewart Moreau.
Mr. Page was baptized as
an Episcopalian by his grand-
father, George Augustus
Page. He joined the First
Presbyterian Church of
Kings Mountain in 1937 where
he served as deacon from
1947-59. In 1959 he was elected
to the office of Ruling Elder
and served one term as Clerk
of Session. Mr. Page also
served three years as
Superintendent of the Sunday
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Petition Asks For Rescue
Service To Be Left In KM
A petition is being cir-
culated in the community
calling for the county to con-
tinue to provide ambulance
service in this area.
Bethlehem Fire Chief
Larry McDaniel, who is also
on the board of directors of
Kings Mountain Rescue
Squad, said he will present
the petition to the Cleveland
County Board of Commis-
sioners at its December
. meeting Monday morning at
9:30 a.m, in Room 104-D of
the Cleveland County Law
Enforcement Center.
McDaniel said he has receiv-
ed petitions with signatures
of more than 150 residents
and that more are to be given
to him before Monday’s
meeting.
The Petition asks county
commissioners ‘to leave as
is the structure and makeup
of all rescue squads and
Emergency Management
Programs as controlled by
the Cleveland County office
of EMS” and is being signed
by residents of Kings Moun-
tain and adjacent areas now
served by the Kings Moun-
tain EMS.
The county EMS assumed
control of ambulance service
in Kings Mountain two weeks
ago, operating out of Kings
Mountain Hospital with the
four county-paid EMTs who
formerly worked at the
rescue squad and other part-
time EMTs. The Kings Moun-
tain Rescue Squad, lacking
certified manpower, had ask-
ed the county to take over the
ambulance service here.
“We are getting the peti-
tion out in all areas served by
the Kings Mountain Rescue
Squad after learning that
Shelby Rescue Squad want to
provide the service here”,
said McDaniel. “It’s not that
we have anything against the
Shelby Rescue Squad but we
have a system and it works”,
said McDaniel. McDaniel
said the county is providing
Kings Mountain with an ‘‘ex-
cellent” ambulance service
24 hours a day, seven days a
week, with backup service
from the Kings Mountain
Rescue Squad. “We want the
county to continue”, said
McDaniel.
Shelby Lifesaving and
Rescue Squad, in their re-
\
quest to the county commis-
sion to take over the Kings
Mountain area ambulance
service, are asking for four
more county-paid emergency
medical technicians in addi-
tion to the four now at the
Shelby Rescue and four at
Kings Mountain EMS and
want to hire parttime help, if
needed. They also want the
county to furnish a satellite
post in Kings Mountain and
comply with similar
agreements in a current con-
tract with the squad.
Kings Mountain’s two coun-
ty commissioners, L.E. Hin-
nant, former chairman, and
Joyce Cashion, the new vice
chairman, say their
telephones have been ringing
off the hook from citizens pro-
testing the request of the
Shelby Rescue Squad. ‘The
people want the county to be
in control and the ambulance
service left at the hospital,”
said both commissioners,
who praised the present ar-
rangement and say they are
leaning toward leaving am-
bulance service at KM
Hospital but feel commis-
sioners should listen to all
proposals.