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Kings Mountain school children will leave
home earlier and return later next year as
the district moves to comply with new
classroom hour guidelines set forth by the
General Assembly in the new Basic Educa-
tion Act.
Superintendent Bill Davis explained at
Monday High's regular monthly meeting at
the School Administration Building that
students must spend at least 5% hours in the
classroom beginning next year. Lunch
periods, class change time and recesses
Class Time Extends To 5% Hours
chool Days Will Be Longer
cannot be counted as class time.
No school schedules were drastically
changed. Elementary students will spend 20
minutes more at school, beginning at 8:20
a.m. and being dismissed at 2:40 p.m.
The time schedules at Central Middle
School and the junior and senior highs won’t
be drastically changed. Central classes will
begin at 8 a.m. and dismiss at 2:33 p.m, to
coincide with the junior and senior high
with extra curricular activities. According
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to Davis, the total time Central students
spend at school will actually be two minutes
‘less than the old schedule.
Davis said the junior high will operate on
a 7:48 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. schedule, adding
about 20 minutes to the instructional time.
The senior high will operate from 8 a.m. un-
til 2:15 p.m. The high school schedule adds
13 minutes at the end of the day and five
minutes will be cut from the lunch period.
Davis said elementary teachers will be on
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duty from 8 a.m. until 3:20, and all others
from 7:40 until 3 p.m.
“This is a workable schedule,” Davis told
the board. “It’s not much of an adjustment
but it seemed necessary in order to get in
the instructional time.”
Davis said most units in the state will
have to adjust their schedules. Cleveland
County Schools will use the same hours as
Kings Mountain and Shelby’s hours will
vary only slightly, he said.
teacher aide salaries at Monday night’s meeting at the tain.
Voice Concern Over Pay
Aides Go To Boarc
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ADDRESSES SCHOOL BOARD - Bob Van Dine, standing, Superintendent’s Office. Van Dine is the NCAE’s Uniserv
speaks to the Kings Mountain Board of Education about Director for an 11-county area which includes Kings Moun-
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Kings Mountain teacher aides-appeared before the Board
of Education for the second time in two months at Monday
‘night’s monthly meeting at the Superintendent’s office to
voice their concerns over salaries which they feel are too
low.
Bob Van Dine, NCAE-NEA UniServ Director who was not
allowed to speak at last month’s meeting, spoke for the
aides after Assistant Superintendent Larry Allen told the
board that he had sampled six aides’ salaries and that the
board had passed on every across-the-board pay increase
and had moved aides up the salary scale each time it had
been directed to by the State Department of Instruction.
“In our opinion, we have paid aides equitably and along
state guidelines,” Allen told the board. He also pledged to
meet with any aide and discuss the individual’s salary in-
creases and placement on the scale and promised Board
Chairman Bill McDaniel that he would bring any arising
problems back to the full board.
Van Dine said he agreed with Allen’s statement that aides
had been treated fairly in regard to salary increases.
However, he said the local board has the authority to move
aides up the salary scale in order to better reward those
with many years experience, and he also pointed to one ex-
ample where he feels an aide lost over $1,900 since the
1979-80 school year because of incorrect placement on the
salary scale.
““The problem of the misplacement kept compounding
every year, and at the end she lost a substantial amount of
money,” Van Dine told the board. “If we picked up a
teacher aide randomly and found this kind of discrepancy,
then I agree with Dr. Allen that there should be a review of
all the aides. This error was a very, very costly mistake for
a person who can ill afford to lose that kind of money.”
Charged With Stealing $10 Worth Of Gas
City Ptl. Gary E. Sale was
suspended from the Kings
Mountain Police force Tues-
day about 5 p.m. after of-
ficers served him with four
warrants charging him with
misdemeanor larceny of
gasoline.
The charges were made by
Jerry Oliver, Sr., operator of
Jerry's Mustang Service Sta-
tion on East King Street.
Det. James Camp served
the warrants, in the presence
of Magistrate Dot Hayes, and
was instructed by Chief J.D.
Barrett to ask for Sale’s
badge and gun.
Captain Hayes said Sale
was suspended pending the
outcome of his court trial.
In the warrants, signed by
Jerry Oliver, Sr., Sale
allegedly pulled up to the
regular self service gas pump
at Mustang Service Station
four times, on Feb. 6, 1986,
Feb. 21, 1986, Feb. 25, 1986,
and March 8, 1986, and in his
presence, or in the presence
Captain Bob Hayes. Camp of attendants Jerry Oliver,
American Legion Auxiliary
Arlene Barrett, wife of
Kings Mountain Police Chief
Jackie D. Barrett, will be in-
stalled as state president of
the 11,000 member American
Legion Auxiliary and Ruth
Gamble, also of Kings Moun-
tain Unit 155, will be installed
as state chaplain at the an-
nual American Legion-
American Legion Auxiliary
convention this weekend in
Raleigh.
The new officers will be in-
stalled on Saturday afternoon
at2 p.m. at the North Raleigh
Hilton by another Kings
Mountain auxiliary member,
Herald staffer Elizabeth
Stewart, who was state presi-
dent 10 years ago and served
last year as National Vice
President of the Southern
Division.
Myrtle Christenson, also of
the Kings Mountain Unit, will
be Mrs. Barrett's personal
page for the convention. Also
Jr., James Pearson and Scott
Bush, turned the handle on
the gas pump back to zero
and pumped more gas in his
personal vehicle than he sign-
ed the ticket for. On all four
occasions, Sale allegedly
signed a ticket for $5 worth of
gasoline. On March 8, police
were called by Jerry Oliver,
Jr. but Sale had pulled away
from the gas pumps before
they arrived on the scene.
Oliver estimates that Sale
owes him about $10 for gas.
He said Sale had paid the $5
Barrett State President
attending from Kings Moun-
tain will be Mrs. Ruth Ruff,
Mrs. Maybelle Jones, and
Mrs. Daphine Starnes.
Members of Mrs. Barrett's
family, including her hus-
band, Chief Barrett, son
David Barrett, and daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Randy Butler, and members
of her family from Corydon,
Indiana, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
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tickets for gas for each of the
four trips. Oliver said he
questioned Sale about the ex-
tra gas.and that the officer
denied pumping any more
gas than the $5 worth each
trip that he had asked service
station attendants to put on
his charge ticket.
Oliver said that Sale had
been a gas customer since
Jan. 1 and he considered him
a friend. His son, Jerry, Jr.,
had received from the officer
a dog, which Oliver, Sr. said
was a token of friendship. ‘If
ARLENE BARRETT
Jane King Named
North Principal
The Kings Mountain Board
of Education transferred one
principal and hired a new
Food Services Director dur-
ing its regular monthly
Ziseting Monday night at the
Schools Administration
Building.
Jane King, who for the past
several years has served as
principal of West School, was
named principal of North
School. She replaces Dr.
Allen Queen, who resigned to
accept a principal’s job in the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
School System.
Stella Ware was employed
as Food Services Director,
replacing Martha Wright who
resigned several months ago
to go into the insurance
business. Mrs. Ware had
been smployed by Shelby Ci-
ty Schools.
resignations of Dr.
‘.. In other personnel matters,
Sgn ‘accepted the
in the Ysceptional Children’s
Program. The board approv-
ed the retirements of Maxine
Grayson, teacher at East
School, and Nora Blalock and
Evelyn Scism, employees in
Food Services at Bethware
and Kings Mountain Junior
High, respectively. The
board also approved materni-
ty leaves for Lana Sills of
Grover and Reca Clark of
East.
The board recognized Dean
Westmoreland, a KM Senior
High teacher, as the new
president of the local NCAE
chapter and pledged to work
with his organization to im-
prove relations between the
KM Cop Suspended Pending Outcome Of Trial
he (Sale) would just admit to
taking that gas and pay me
for it, I would never have
gone this far’, said Oliver.
Oliver denied charges by
Sale that a reported ‘‘feud”
between the two men had
developed because police ar-
rested Oliver, Jr., last year
with larceny of 2100 gallons of
gasoline from Jerry’s
Mustang Service Station.
According to police
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: Kim rly Miller, o = ion iad :
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JANE KING
board and teachers.
“It is essential hat
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good
downward,”
said. ‘‘We can do a better job
in everybody works
together.”
Westmoreland suggested
that the two groups hold at
least two meetings to discuss
ways to better serve the
needs of the 4,000 KM school
children.
Board member Doyle
Campbell Lraised outgoing
Superintendent Bill Davis for
his nine years of service to
Kings Mountain schools and
wished him well in his retire-
ment. :
“I appreciate his help to
me during my time on the
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David Griggs were charged
by Fletcher Oil Co., gas
distributors, with larceny of
2100 gallons of gasoline from
Jerry’s Mustang Service.
Oliver, Sr. accompanied his
son to the police station. The
young people admitted to the
thefts and made restitution to
the oil company, which
agreed to drop the charges.
Det. James Camp was the in-
i Kings Mountain
officer and obtained the war-
rants. Det. Camp and Ptl.
records, Oliver, Jr., Joel and Sale served the warrants.
Petitions Oppose City
Petitions with 857
Yghanres of citizens oppos-
to the city spending $15,000
annually for a proposed’ in-
door swimming pool were
presented to the city board of
commissioners Tuesday
night
he petition asks the board
to rescind its May 12 action,
in which the board, in a split
vote with the mayor breaking
the tie, voted the $15,000
| donation to KM Indoor Pool
Helping With Pool Costs
Foundation, effective 1988-89.
The petitioners also ask a
city-wide referendum on the
question.
Pat Herndon, who
presented the petition at the
close of Tuesday’s meeting,
said the petitioners represent
half the voters in the city who
went to the polls in the last
election. She handed Mayor
John Moss 23 petitions and
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