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VOL. 99 NUMBER 20
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1986
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
TEACHERS OF THE YEAR - Teachers of the Year from
Kings Mountain’s eight schools are pictured above. They will
compete against each other next week for District Teacher of
the Year and the winner will enter Regional competition in
By GARY STEWART
; Managing Editor
The Kings Mountain Board of Education Monday night
stood by its March decision to change all schools in the
district to a six-weeks grading period at the beginning of the
1986-87 school year. :
_ No vote was taken since three board members stated dur-
ing discussion that they favored a six-weeks grading period
and two stated that they favored staying with the current
nine-weeks grading system. Board chairman Bill McDaniel,
June Lee and Doyle Campbell said they were in favor of
changing to a six-weeks system. Paul Hord Jr., the onl
board member to vote against it in March, said he still
favored a nine-weeks grading period and Kyle Smith said he
had changed his opinion since March and now favors sticking
with the nine-weeks period.
Superintendent Bill Davis reminded the board that he had
met with principals and central office personnel early in the
school year and discussed the appropriate lengths of grading
periods. He said the leadership team’s only motive in sug-
gesting a six-weeks grading period was “to implement a
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Photo by Gary Stewart
the fall. Left to right, Diana Allen, Bethware; Sherrill Toney,
Central; Elizabeth Allen, Grover; Ann Scism, North; Denise
Buchanan, KM Senior High; Dorcas Beasley, East; Barbara
Lovelace, KM Junior High; and Kathy James, West.
Six-Weeks Grading Stays
system of reporting to parents relative to the progress of their
students.” : :
In March, when Davis presented the proposal to the board,
he said he felt the current method of reporting any academic
problems to parents through an informal mid-nine weeks
grading period report was not sufficient because it was not re-
quired of all teachers ‘and that it is not an “official’’ report
card.
After the board adopted the leadership team’s proposal,
many teachers, especially from Kings Mountain High School,
opposed the action. They said sending report cards every six
weeks would take more time away from teaching and that
computers used to store grade reports would have to be re-
programmed. The board asked Davis to take the matter back
to the leadership team and study the pros and cons of both
systems.
“I took it back to the leadership team, and the leadership
team has a unanimous feeling that what we originally recom-
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Aides Want Questions Answered
Hearing
Underway
A preliminary injunction
hearing was underway in
Cleveland County Superior
Court Wednesday morning in
a civil suit filed by Secretary
of State Thad Eure and At-
torney General Lacy Thorn-
-burg against Bennett
Masters, Sr., his wife, Betty
P. Masters, and Masters
Funeral Home, Inc.
The show cause hearing
was to seek a jury trial and a
permanent injunction against
the defendants.
As the Herald went to press
at mid-morning Wednesday,
Superior Court Judge James
A. Beatty, Jr. had not ruled in
the Masters case. Lawyers
for Mr. and Mrs. Masters and
for the plaintiffs were confer-
ring and Judge Beatty said
the matter was held open.
The Masters case was the
first case on the 9:30 a.m.
agenda. Both Betty and Ben-
nett Masters were present
with their lawyers.
Superior Court Judge
Frank Snepp issued a 10 day
temporary restraining order
last Thursday, freezing the
before Superior Court Clerk
Ruth Dedmon.
The defendants are listed
as Bennet J. Masters, Sr.,
president and registered
agent of the defendant cor-
poration Masters Funeral
Home; Betty P. Masters,
secretary of the defendant
corporation; and Masters
Funeral Home, Inc., the
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Board
Okays
Pool $
Mayor John Moss broke a
tie vote Tuesday night as the
board of commissioners ap-
proved 4-3 a $15,000 annual
contribution, effective
1988-89, for the Kings Moun-
tain Indoor Pool Foundation.
“In view of the confidence
citizens have shown in the
future of Kings Mountain in
pledging over $600,000 for a
community-wide indoor pool,
assets and prohibiting the one of the greatest amount of
alleged sale of unregistered Money ever raised for a pro-
securities by
Snepp ap
Church, Shelby lawyer, to ad-
minister the corporation’s
assets.
State agents closed the
funeral home Friday. The
SBI is continuing an in-
vestigation into allegations of
fraud.
The temporary restraining
order was effective May 8th
at 10:57 a.m. and the defen-
dants were ordered by Judge
Snepp to show cause before
the court why an order
against them should not be
entered at 9:30 a.m. Wednes-
day in Cleveland County
Superior Court. The order
prohibited Masters from sell-
ing or soliciting sales for
the Masterses. ¢
ointed John Vote for this progressive step
Forty-seven teacher aides
who feel they may not have
received their full pay for
several years packed the
Board of Education meeting
room Monday night to to
find out whether or not their.
pay had been STronSousy
Re oul ted in 1979 and to as
questions about future pay
and fringe benefits.
But Board Chairman Bill
McDaniel refused to hear
from the group’s NCAE
representative, Bob Van
Dine, and their complaints
Cleanup
Authorized
The city board of commis-
sioners put more teeth in
codes enforcement Tuesday
night by authorizing Codes
Director Bob Davies to use
private contractors in clean-
ing up lots and declaring un-
sightly lots where cars have
been abandoned as health
and safety hazards.
Davies said that 39
residents have asked the city
to do bush-hogging and clean-
ng up of-lots but that pulling
off city equ ent to do these
jobs can be s¥iminated by hir-
ing local private contractors
'| to da the swork. He said the ci-
ty wii bill the property
owners for the work and that
ordinances stipulate the costs
must be paid by property
owners or the city can take a
tax lien against the premises.
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were presented by Connie
Phifer, North School teacher
and president of the local
NCAE.
The only promise the group
received from the board was
a statement from McDaniel
that the ‘board would study
the matter and ‘‘do what’s
right by it.”’
The typewritten statement
prepared by Van Dine, who is
Uniserv Director for an
11-county area which in-
cludes Kings Mountain,
stated that aides met with
Assistant Superintendent
Larry Allen on April 23 at
Barnes Auditorium to discuss
a memorandum from the
Controller’s Office of the
State Board of Education.
The memo related the
40-hour week and stated that
school units which operate on
a less than 40-hour week must
pro-rate salaries of teacher
aides.
Aides in Kings Mountain
work 37% hours. Allen
reportedly told aides they
could either work 40 hours a
week, or have their pay pro--
rated at 91.6 percent of their
current wages.
Kings Mountain aides
claim that their pay was pro-
rated in 1979 when the
General Assembly enacted
legislation directing the State
Board to pay non-certified
school personnel on a 40-hour
structure. They further
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unregistered securities,
disposing of or otherwise
destroying corporate
records; issuing any checks
drafts or otherwise or mak-
ing any withdrawals or
transfers from any account in
which either defendant had
,an equitable or legal interest.
Eugene J. Cella, staff at-
torney for the N.C. Division
of Securities, and H.A. Cole,
Jr., special deputy attorney
general, signed the motion
for issuance of the restrain-
ing order and injunction
ject in Cleveland County, I
for the future to benefit the
citizens of Kings Mountain:
and cast my vote for this pro-
posal,” said the mayor.
Voting with the mayor
were Commissioner Humes
Houston, who made the mo-
tion, Commissioner Irvin
Allen, who seconded it, and
Commissioner Corbet
Nicholson. Voting against the
motion were Commissioners
Norman King, Fred Finger
and Harold Phillips.
There was no discussion
other than Houston’s opening
motion when he called the
pool proposal ‘good for Kings
Mountain” and praised Kings
Mountain citizens for display-
ing confidence and pride in
the community. I have no
crystal ball to look in the
future but I vote to honor this
request of $15,000 annually
beginning with fiscal year
1988-89 and ultimately sup-
port it as an ongoing effort
and permanent move for the
city,” he declared.
Allen seconded.
The vote was taken, Mayor
Moss casting the deciding
vote for approval, and there
followed loud applause for
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HONORED FOR SERVICE - Lion Sam Weir, center, is congratulated by Lions Club
President Howard Barrier, left, and Howard Bryant, right, as he accepts the coveted
life membership for 42 years of service in the Kings Mountain Lions Club.
Sam Weir, honored by the
Kings Mountain Lions Club
for 42 years service, was
presented the coveted life
membership from the Kings
Mountain civic club Tuesday
night.
Weir was recognized with a
40 year monarch member-
ship pin tab, a life member-
ship tab with attached con-
gratulatory letter from Lions
International President
Joseph Wroblewski; a silver
life membership card and a
personalized life member-
ship certificate in ceremonies
at which Lion Howard Bryant
saluted Weir, on behalf of his
fellow members, as a man
who considered his volunteer
work with Lions as a “full
time job which he loved to
do” and a man ‘‘who gave his
Weir Given Lifetime
Membership In KM Lions
all in a variety of projects for
Mountain over many years.”
Year for District 31C and had
District 31C “Most Outstan-
ple see” and for “making
the betterment of Kings
Weir is a former Lion of the
also been recognized as
ding Lion”.
Weir’s volunteer service in
the community is well known
and Bryant praised Weir for
“helping sight impaired peo-
other i le happy by his
good deeds.” With a fruit
cake under one arm and a
broom in the other hand,
Weir has always been a
worker in street and door-to-
door sales by Lions of brooms
and cakes and has distributed
white canes every year for
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