KMSHS.
Eighty-one KMSHS
students were honored for
academic achievement, a 3.5
cumulative grade average, at
the sixth annual Academic
| Awards Banquet Monday
: Hight which wis attended by
achievement as ‘‘money in
‘the bank drawing compoun
interest year after year and
resulting from pursuit in
knowledge which is power.”
“Be a shaper of the land-
scape and have a part in
moulding your future” she
told the group who she com-
mended for ‘taking a giant
step for a great future.”
KMSHS Principal Ronnie
Wilson presented certificates
to each honoree and introduc-
ed each class of students,
along with their parents and
other relatives present for
the program which followed a
banquet of turkey with all the
trimmings. Principal Wilson
“also took the occasion to
publicly commend KM
District Schools Supt. Bill
Davis for his outstanding
leadership and example, not
only to students but to
educators, and called him a
“friend of all’”’. The audience
gave Mr. Davis, who is retir-
ing at end
ner ed
llence in Teaching” plaque
d which was awarded by the
faculty of Kings Mountain
Senior High School to Mrs.
Denise Buchanan, special
education teacher, who was
instrumental intting up a
tutorial program in use at the
high school.
Dean Westmoreland in-
troduced Senator Rhyne and
Principal Wilson was
assisted by Assistant Prin-
cipal Barry Gibson and Assis-
tant Principal Jackie
Lavender in the awards
presentations. Patrick S.
Hamrick, SPO President,
gave the invocation and
special entertainment was by
the ‘‘Kings Revue’’, a
talented group of musicians
d of this school year,
g ovation. Guests in
: sat Roderick
ACLLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD—Denise Buchanan, above, is congratulated by
: MSHS Principal Ronnie Wilson as winner of the annual Excellence In Teaching Award
or the year, a selection made by the teachers themselves. A teacher of exceptional
children, Mrs. Buchanan was instrumental in setting up the tutoring program in use at
81 KMHS Students Honored
At Academic Awards Banquet
from the Junior-Senior High
school who sang two numbers
under the direction of Eugene
Bumgardner. Among
students honored were those
who had attained all “A’s”
and they included junior Eric
Andrew Faust, sophomores
Lynn Bid-
nifer Bradley, Lisa
Buchanan, David Kevin
Clontz, Revonda Crockett,
Lynn Eskridge, Fluvanna
Ferebee, Wendy Greene,
Lynn Grigg, Lisa Marie
Hambright, Patrick S.
Hamrick, Donald Lee
Mauney, Patricia Lynn
McGinnis, Maria Teresa
Milewska, Sybil Jean Patter-
son, Becky Penley, Lisa Anne
Rhyne, Kathy Simpson,
Tracie Lynn Smith, Tina
Lynn Starr, Norma Elizabeth
Webster; Juniors—Regina
Brown, Russell Bumgardner,
Lisa Camp, Greg Conner,
Keith Duncan, Andrew
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i Boyce, Jen-
‘“‘Computerized record-
keeping should be the first
‘indepth study’ the newly-
created city efficiency com-
mittee makes and not a con-
troversial proposed pay plan
recently presented them’’,
says Commissioner Fred
Finger, a member of the
committee.
But Finger believes the
board of commissioners took
a giant step in tackling what,
he feels, will be the city’s
“most indepth study ever”
into cost efficient city govern-
ment on Thursday when com-
missioners, Mayor John
Moss and all 14 department
heads met for an informal
session with a computer
technologist.
David J. Turschmann,
from the Center of Urban Af-
fairs and Community Ser-
vices, N.C. State University,
came to Kings Mountain, said
Finger, “for the express pur-
pose of evaluating the city’s
needs with respect to a com-
puter system.”
Turschmann met with each
department head during the
day from 9:30 a.m. until 4
p.m., said Finger, and
returned afterwards for a
summation period with com-
missioners. Finger says that
members of the efficiency
study committee, which also
includes Commissioners Cor-
return from the seminar,
Finger said the board will
make a decision about pursu-
ing a feasibility study which
would take about six months
to complete.
Finger said that
Turschmann has worked with
local governments in the area
of data processing for more
than five years and is not con-
nected with any vendor or
computer company. During
his one day visit here, the
research associate in com-
puter technology for local
government programs talked
to city staffers about specific
problems and needs and of-
fered technical assistance in
'F inger: Efficiency
Should Be Top Goal
assessing those needs for
computerization. As part of
the Center for Urban Affairs
Computer Technology for
Local Government Pro-
grams, co-sponsored by the
Institute of Government, he
offered objective advice. For
a city the size of Kings Moun-
tain, he told the board that
“automation is most definite-
ly in your future and by tak-
ing the time to carefully
analyze your needs and op-
tions, you will insure that
funds spent on a computer
will buy a system that will
meet your city’s needs.”
Finger, who campaigned
for computerized recor-
dkeeping last year when he
ran for district commis-
sioner, said that not only
would automation insure in-
ventory control but enhance
record keeping, and would
mean that all information
would be instantly
retrieavable by anyone for
utility bills, etc. and would be
cost efficient. “We have to
look at the cost situation and
get the feasibility study but
we are definitely taking a
step in the right direction”,
said Finger.
Finger says employees
should not be afraid that com-
Lake Residents’ Suit
bet Nicholson and Humes
‘Houston, as well as commis-
TP
Lake against
one-week session
Cleveland County Superior
Court which opens Monday in
Shelby at 10 a.m.
Defendants Jerry N. and
Marietta G. Floyd and Mar-
vin and Joan Allen requested
the jury trial. Judge Frank
W. Snepp, Jr. will be on the
bench.
The Moss Lake property
owners say the city refused to
accept their $25.00 pier per-
mit in June 1984 contendings
that an additional $125 fee
was due using a strip of land
bordering their property and
Moss Lake. This land lies bet-
ween the high water mark of
the land and 744 feet above
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puters will cut out jobs. The
city now employs 160 people, |.
and Finger believes ‘‘com-
puters would help everyone
do a better job.” EY
Finger said he has not
studied a proposed pay plan,
which Isothermal Planning
and Development Commis-
sion, presented to the cit
board at its request on March
4th. The economic planning
agency conducted a study of
the existing pay scale for all
employees, comparing
salaries paid for similar posi-
tions in towns of similarly siz-
ed population.
Finger made no prediction
about what type of action the
efficiency study committee,
chaired by Commissioner
Humes Houston, former
chairman of the personnel
committee, will make to the
full board.
Finger emphasized com-
parisons in salaries in the
IPDC study, in some in-
stances, do not take into ac-
count seniority and dif-
ferences in duties for jobs
grouped in the same
classification and in some
cases factors such as those
could be used to justify dif-
ferences in salaries.
remove the piers while the
lake was lowered for normal
maintenance. The plaintiffs
also allege that because their
real property is a portion of
an original 1 tract of land sold
to the city by Buford and
Wilda Cline that they are en-
titled to rights of ingress and
egress across the strip of land
without payment of compen-
sation to the city and In a
judgment handed down to the
Clines no fees for the use of
easement reserved for access
to waters edge for egress, in-
gress and regress were to be
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Rev. Fitts Guest Chaplain
For Meeting Of U.S. House
Rev. Russell Fitts, pastor of Zion Baptist Church of Shelby
the City of In a letter under date of |
‘Kings Mountain and John H. June 22, 1984, the city inform- |
- Moss Lake Authority Com- ed the plaintiffs that unless
mission is slated during the all fees were paid the city of
of Kings Mountain would
ASYHI1T TV IHONIN. AINNYN
and former pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Kings
Mountain, served as guest chaplain for the U.S. House of
Representatives in its first meeting after the U.S. attack on
Libya last Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. Fitts was invited by Rev. James Ford, permanent
chaplain of the House, and Rep. Jim Broyhill of Lenoir.
Rev. Fitts, a Baptist Wg
minister since 1947, renewed a
acquaintances with childhood
friend Rep. Charles Whitley
of Siler City, and Broyhill, ac-
quaintance for a number of
years, and met many other
top-ranking House officials,
including Speaker Tip
O’Neill.
Rev. Fitts’ wife, Mary, who
is cafeteria manager at
Kings Mountain Junior High,
accompanied him on the trip.
Both were a little nervous
prior to meeting with the
Speaker.
“There was some doubt as
to whether or not he’d be able
to meet our 3:15 appoint
REV. RUSSELL FITTS
ment,” Rev. Fitts recalled. ‘He was in New York that morn-
ing attending the funeral services of a House member. We
Austin, and Elizabeth Lynn Eskridge. Back row, from left,
Elabieta Marie Teresa Milewska, Fluvanna Elease Ferebee,
had already made pictures with Mr. Whitley and Mr.
Broyhill, and with the House session scheduled for 3:30, we
didn’t think Mr. O’Neill was going to make it.
“But, all of a sudden, the doors to his office swung open and
he walked in, surrounded by Secret Servicemen. We were all
quiet, and he looked at my wife and said, ‘My, what aj ~ *
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SENIORS HONORED FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT -
The seniors, pictured, were honored for 3.5 cumulative grade
average at the sixth annual Academic Awards banquet Mon-
day night at Kings Mountain Senior High Cafeteria. Front
‘row, from left, Becky Penley, Wendy Lee Greene, Kathy
Miriam Simpson, Sandra Lynn Batchler, Lisa Michelle
Buchanan, Revonda Vinelle Crockett, Patricia Lynn McGin-
nis, Karen Lynn Biddix, Tracie Lynn Smith, Amy Elizabeth
Teresa Lynn Grigg, Donald Lee Mauney, Patrick S.
Hamrick, Roderick L. Boyce, Jennifer Leigh Bradley, Tina
Lynn Starr, Lisa Ann Rhyne, Sybil Jean Patterson, and Nor-
ma Elizabeth Webster. Not pictured are David Kevin Clontz
and Lisa Marie Hambright.