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SCHOLARSHIP AND
AWARD WINNERS
At Kings Mountain
Senior High School
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udget.
meeting and voted to
PRINCIPAL OF YEAR - Supt. William Davis, left, con- TEACHER OF YEAR - Supt. William Davis, left, and Grover
Bethware Principal Ronnie
Nanne Tuesday was
honored as Kings Mountain
Principal of the Year.
The first annual award was
presenisn to Nanney by the
ings Mountain Schools Ad-
ministrative Unit at the an-
nual breakfast meeting of the
KM Association of Educators
at KMSHS Cafeteria.
The award included an
Sniraved plaque and a $100
Mr. Nanney was voted the
honor y his fellow principals,
Mayor John Henry Moss has presented a proposed
budget to the city board of commissioners of
$14,379,954 for the coming year.
The proposed budget provides for no increase in the
ad valorem tax rate, for the 22nd straight year, (50
cents per $100 valuation) and projects a salary in-
crease of three percent for qualified permanent
employees of the City of Kings Mountain as of Sept. I,
1986, and a three percent merit increase for qualified
permanent employees, beginning after Oct. 1, 1986, as
well as continuing current fringe benefits, which in-
cludes paid hospitalization insurance, retirement,
paid vacations and paid holidays which approximates
about $5,000 annually to employees.
The 1986-87 budget for governmental funds
represents a 9.5 increase over this fiscal year’s
budget. The 1986-87 budget for the Kings Mountain
Utilities District Funds that covers the city utility
systems-water, sewer, electric and gas, shows a 3.3
percent increase compared to this year’s fiscal
The board of commissioners was presented the pro-
posed budget Y onday at a special called noon
{ old informal budget sessions
with the first work session set for June 16 at 7:30 p.m.
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and commending them for practicin
Wilson, right, and Paula Hildebrand,
and Shelby Schools and conductor of t
gratulates Bethware Principal Ronnie Nanney as KM Prin-
cipal of the year, in KM District Schools.
and a leadership team com-
posed of principals and
supervisors and staff.
upt. William Davis, in
making the presentation,
said the incentive award will
be given annually.
Nanney has served as prin-
cipal at Bethware since 1976.
He started his career in
Kings Mountain at Central
School as a classroom
teacher and before going to
Bethware was assistant prin-
cipal at the Junior High
School.
in council chambers. A public hearing on the budget
proposal will be held June 24th at 7:30 p.m. in Council
Chambers. Mayor Moss presented a copy of the
budget to Assistant Clerk Judy Harmon and said the
copy is available to the public.
In his budget message to the board, the mayor said
the proposed budget takes into consideration the tight
constraints of municipal funding from Washington
and Raleigh and sets into place proposals for the
development of programs to increase and replace lost
revenues.
_ Cost of energy to run the water and sewer facilities
is currently $415,993 annually, Mayor Moss said, and
the city is taking steps to eliminate that amount with
the construction of its own hydro plant on Moss Lake.
_ A computer system, estimated to cost $60,000 is pro-
jected in this year’s budget and will be designed to im-
prove management capabilities and assist the respec-
tive departments in providing efficient and effective
delivery of services to citizens. Mayor Moss said that
he and commissioners are quite pleased with the
recently installed communications system at City
Hall. He anticipated the computerized equipment
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1986
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principal Jim Scruggs, right, congratulate Grover fourth
grade teacher Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, as Kings Mountain
Teacher of the Year for 1985-86.
Grover fourth grade
teacher Elizabeth Allen is
Kings Mountain’s Teacher of
the Year.
Mrs. Allen received the
coveted plaque and $100 at
the annual breakfast meeting
of the Kings Mountain
Association of Educators
Tuesday at KMSHS
Cafeteria.
The surprise announce-
ment was made b Sunt
William Davis, after he
recognized each winner from
the eight schools and took the
PHOTO BY JEFF MELTON
KM WINS SEAT BELT AWARD - Paul B. Jones, left, Director of the Governor’s
Highway Safety Program, presents Kings Mountain Senior High with the N.C. Seat Belt
Award. In addition, KMSHS received a fr ;
gratulating the students for having the highest percentage of students wearing seat belts
g a positive health habit. KMSHS Principal Ronnie
center, Health Coordinator for the Kings Mountian
he local seat belt program, accept the award. The
UNC Highway Safety Research Center sponsored the Seat Belt Incentive Program.
amed letter from Gevernor Martin con-
Top Teacher, Principal Named
occasion to present each
teacher with an engraved
plaque.
Mrs. Allen has taught at
Grover School since 1952.
Mrs. Allen will compete in
regional competition in the
fall to decide the winner of
the state teacher of the year.
“We are very proud of Mrs.
Allen,” said Grover Principal
Jim Scruggs, assisting with
the special plaque presenta-
ion.
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North Principal Resigns
To Accept Charlotte Post
Dr. Allen Queen, principal
of North School for two years,
has resigned to accept the
principalship of the
750-student Derita Elemen-
tary School in Mecklenburg
County.
He will assume his new
duties July 1.
Dr. and Mrs. Queen and
eight months old son, Alex,
will continue to reside in
Kings Mountain. Mrs. Queen
is professor of nursing at
Gardner: Webb College at
Boiling Springs.
Dr. Queen came to the
Kings Mountain School
system from Gardner Webb
College where he was chair-
man of the Department of
Education. He holds: a
bachelor’s and master’s
LESTER ROARK
DR. ALLEN QUEEN
degrees from Western
Carolina University and a
doctorate degree from the
University of Virginia.
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Les Roark
Wins Demo
Nomination
Grover native Lester
Roark, former Mayor of
Shelby, easily defeated Jack
Rhyne in Tuesday’s run-off to
win the Democratic nomina-
tion for the 10th Congres-
sional District.
Roark beat Rhyne 66 per-
cent to 34 percent (10,204 to
5,209) winning every county
but Rhyne’s home county of
Gaston.
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Captain James Blanton, 44,
Full military honors for
~ Captain James Cordell Blan-
ton, 44, Kings Mountain
native and Commander of the
U.S. Navy Explosive Ord-
nance Disposal School, In-
dian Head, Md. and assigned.
to The Pentagon, were held
May 28th from Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery.
Mr. Blanton, son of Mrs.
Bonnie Yates Blanton of
Kings Mountain and the late
Dewitt Blanton, died May 23
at home after a lengthy il-
Iness.
Captain Blanton earned his
present rank during a change
of command ceremony July
8, 1983 at Naval Ordnance
Station, Indian Head, Md.
and has been assigned since
that time to The Pentaon,
Washington, D.C. He and his
wife, Ann Gildea Blanton,
and their four sons, Brett,
Brian, Damon and Darin,
lived in Alexandria, Va.
A graduate of Kings Moun-
tain Senior High School and
East Carolina University,
JAMES BLANTON
Class of 1965, he was commis-
sioned an Ensign on July 2,
1965 from Officer Candidate
School, Newport, Rhode
Island. Commander Blanton
served aboard USS
Tidewater, in Norfolk, Va.
from Sept. 1965 to April 1966
as the damage control assis-
tant and aboard USS
Sheldrake in Pearl Harbor,
Hawai, from April 1966 to
CH Dies After Lengthy Illness
April 1968 as the damage con-
trol assistant and later as the
engineering officer. In
September 1968 Commander
Blanton commenced EOD
training at Ordnance
Disposal, Indian Head, Md. in
June 1969. His first EOD
assignment was at EOD Ship-
board Unit Pacific at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, where he
served from July 1969 to
August 1971 as Operations Of-
ficer and Assistant Officer in
charge. He deployed to the
Republic of Vietnam during
this time as the senior EOD
advisor to the Vietnamese
Navy. He was transferred to
the Naval Ocean Sytems
Center, Hawaii, Laboratory,
Kaneohe, Hawaii, as Officer
in Charge, Military Detach-
ment and Deputy Technical
Officer. He assumed com-
mand of Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Training and
Evaluation Unit One on Feb.
21, 1974. During the period
October 1977 to July 1979, he
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