From Page 1-A
Mayse promised that the
Pool Foundation would raise
that money if necessary.
“For want of seeing the
project go down the drain, we
would guarantee that we’d
plek up that cost even if we
ave to go out and raise the
money every year,” Dr.
Mayse said. “I can’t see a
three-million dollar project
go down the drain for want of
$8,000 to $10,000.”
Supt. Davis said he felt the
school system could safely
appropriate $100,000 capital
outlay funds over the next
two budget years to make the
facility a reality.
The Pool Foundation has
been raising money for the
project for about a year. In
February, the school board
donated the land for the
facility thinking that it would
be an all-private project.
The fund raisers approach-
ed the board a
«later, stating that its efforts
had not resulted in raising
the full $750,000 and asked
the board to guarantee no
more than $150,000 to make
the Joo) a reality. Dr. Mayse
said that some potential
donors had threatened to
withdraw their pledges if
some action was not taken.
At that time, board chair-
man McDaniel named a com-
mittee from the board to
work with the Pool Founda-'
tion to try to come up with
ways to finance operation.
Since that time, Dr. Mayse
said Tuesday, the Pool Foun-
dation has received the help
Sale’s
Trial
Postponed
The trial of Ptl. Gary Sale,
39, charged with misde-
. meanor larceny of gasoline,
was postponed until July 24t
in Cleveland District Court
last week to call in a special
prosecutor from the state At-
torney General’s Office.
rett, who suspended the city
officer with pay June 14, said
that District Attorney Marty
Shuford requested the special
prosecutor to avoid any ap-
pearance of conflict of in-
terest.
Sale has been charged by
Jerry Oliver, Sr., owner and
operator of Jerry’s Mustang
Service Station, of pumping
$10.11 worth of gasoline in his
personal vehicle on four occa-
sions and not ba ing for it.
Sale has denied the charges.
Sale served a warrant in the
arrest of the owner’s son last
December on a similar
charge.
Jaycees
Support
St. Jude
From Page 1-A
forts. Today, 265,000 Jaycees
in 6,500 communities provide
thousands of hours of com-
munity service and raise
millions of dollars to support
disease research.
Founded by actor Danny
Thomas, St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital conducts
basic and clinical research
into dreaded childhood
diseases. The dream at the
Memphis, Tennessee-based
hospital is that one day no
child will be lost because of
cancer or other catastrophic
diseases.
‘““‘We share that dream,”
said Claude Suber, President,
of the Kings Mountain
Jaycees. “This is just one of
the many community service
projects that our chapter con-
ducts each year. Our chapter
has pledged to support the
ongoing research at St.
Jude’s by sending the pro-
ceds from our recent car-
wash held at Marge’s
Restaurant. With our support
and the support of many $}
others, we can help make
that dream a reality.”
Chief of Police J.D. Bar-
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School Board To Help F und Indoor Pool At KMHS
of the city, and has also rais-
ed more money and is now in
the position to guarantee at
least $650,000 toward the pro-
ject. He said he is confident
the fund raisers can provide
much more than that before
actual construction begins.
Mayse said that if some
donors do not following
through with their pledges,
that the Pool Foundation will
borrow the money to make
good its $650,000 pledge.
Board members Smith and
Hord said they opposed the
school system providing
money for the pool because
of other school facility needs.
“We realize there are a lot
of other needs,” Mayse said.
“But it appears certain that
the half-cent sales tax will be
passed by the State
Legislature and we feel that
we could have the pool and
other needs too.”
“I don’t think we’ve ever
been this strapped financial-
ly,” Smith said. “We have 40
Latin students who can’t
have Latin because we lost
their Latin teacher, we’ve
lost the elementary schools
guidance counselor and
many other positions. I know
we're talking about two dif-
ferent funds here--capital
outlay and current expense--
but I really believe it we had
the money to put in a pool we
could find the money to
employ these teachers.’
Smith said he also took
issue with recent newspaper
reports that said that a
“minority” of Kings Moun-
tain citizens opposed the con-
struction of the pool. “I've
had 259 calls against the pool
and only four calls and six
letters for it,”’ he said. “We
have more pressing needs.
When this thing first came
up, we were asked to give the
property, period. It started
out all-private and I tink it
should end all-private.”
Hord pointed out that the
system has lost 10 teachers
and 12 aides because of lack
of funds, and at this point in
time, the system could not af-
ford to hire a maintenance
man for the pool.
Asked about a potential
cost overrun, which the Pool
Foundation had earlier ask-
ed the school board to
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guarantee, Mayse said the
project “could be cut off at
$750,000 and be functional.
Other niceties could be added
on later.”
Pat Herndon, representing
a local group of citizens
which circulated petitions
urging the city to rescind its
recent action that pledged
$15,000 a year to the pool’s
operation, spoke briefly but
was told by McDaniel that
her views should be express-
ed to the city board.
Mrs. Lee said she was con-
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location of the pool on the
south side of the high school
would cause the school
system to have to build
another softball field. Supt.
Davis said, and Mayse and
Howard agreed, that the pool
could be constructed on the
west side of the school pro-
perty and not interfere with
any other activities.
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