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—- 0 £ 20 © 8 = FREE oo Mn Balloon x - Rides a5 Saturday 2 5 D3 ray ZT 3 EF 29% Member | rir _ Since 1889 — ibn x= z = — TE - { oe D n a x WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1986 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NOR b | Teacher Aides Get Salary Hikes Non-certified school employees received a monthly merit increase in salary of 1.2 percent, in one of the first actions of the district school board under the administra- tion of new superintendent Bob McRae, Jr. The board took the new superintendent’s recommendation during an executive ses- sion after Monday night’s regular meeting and after Assistant Superintendent Larry Allen reporied that a study of several mon- ths had shown that teacher aides had ESsnived pay increases as approved by the state. Allen said that “as best we can deter- mine, all has been satisfactorily handled”, referring to some teacher aides who had previously appeared before the board with concerns they may not have been treated fairly in regard to pay. _ Assistant Supt. Allen said the board ac- tion reaffirmed policy also that work day for teachers also include teacher aides and said the salary hike, now in effect, includes teacher aides, custodians, cafeteria workers, secretaries and maintenance employees, a total of 60 employees in the school system. The board also approved Supt. McRae’s recommendation that teacher aides work the same hours as teachers, seven hours and 20 minutes. In another action, the board took the recommendation of Supt. McRae and assigned students living in the new Gold Run Subdivision to Bethware School since most of the new subdivision, when com- SWEARING-IN - New KM Schools Superintendent Bob McRae, Jr., left, is sworn in by Kings Mountain Mayor John Henry Moss prior to the Board of Educa- tion meeting Monday night. McRae Sworn By Board School bells will ring Aug. 25 for 4,000 district students and for only the third time in the last half a century the students and teachers will welcome a new superinten- dent in the person of Bob McRae, Jr., 39, KMHS prin- cipal three years ago. McRae took the oath of office from Kings Mountain Mayor John Henry Moss Monday evening, the first item on the short agenda for the Kings Mountain Board of Education. McRae’s wife, Jackie, and their two daughters, Juli, 14, and Molly, 8, witnessed the ceremonies in the presence of a roomful of educators and parents and all members of the board of education. “I want to thank the Board of Education for giving me the opportunity and I just feel like I am coming home”, McRae said after he was sworn as the city’s only third superintendent since B.N. Barnes came to work in 1934 and on retirement nine years ago was succeeded by Bill Davis, who retired recently. The McRaes are moving to Kings Mountain from Ran- dolph County Schools in Asheboro where he was assis- tant superintendent and are living temporarily at Georgetown Apartments. Mayor Moss, after swear in the new superintendent, immediately named him to a city industrial committee. “I want him to feel right at home again and involved in community life’, said the Mayor, congratulating McRae and taking the opportunity to commend the board of education ‘for what you are doing for the citizens of Kings Mountain.” Kindergarten students will attend school on a one half day plan for the first week. On Monday-Friday, August 25-29, the Kindergarten students will be dismissed after they eat their lunch, approximately 11:30. Kindergarten bus students who do not have transportation at 11:30 will remain in the classroom and ride home as the bus runs its regular route at 3 p.m. Exceptional students being transported to self- contained classrooms will be contacted by Mrs. Hallie Blanton before school begins. Labor Day Monday, September 1, will be observed as a legal holiday. Schools will be closed on that day. Schools will operate on the following schedule. Begins Ends Elementary Schools 8:20 2:40 Central School 8:00 2:33 Junior High School 7:48 2:30 Senior High School 8:00 2:15 Bus routes for the Kings Mountain District Schools will serve the various school communities through routing patterns, outlined on pages 10A-12A and 13A in this edition of the Herald. pleted, will be in the Bethware attendance zone. McRae pointed out that Gold Run Sub- division, across from Patterson Grove Bap- tist Church, is divided by an attendance line with part of the subdivision in the Bethware zone and part in the North School zone. The board agreed also with Mr. McRae that arents with objections could appeal to the ard for possible reassignment but noted that very few school age children now live in the Gold Run area. Assistant Supt. Allen said that school buses will not be allowed to make stops in the new subdivision until the streets are taken over by the state and that parents be contacted school buses can be taken only to the en- trance of Scism Road and roads. McRae said minimal. recommended and told that residents will need to petition the state for paving of the Also Monday, the board approved a den- tal health program for the coming year with fluoride ‘‘swishing” in grades K-5 and brushing in grades 1-3. McRae recommend- ed the brushi . dropped in grades K, 4 and 5 because sup- plies for brushing are depleted and to reorder would cost the system $4,000. part of the program be the supplies for swishing is Dr. Allen also gave a facilities update and noted a number of improvements at the various school plants. : At Bethware School thermostats have been installed for conditioned space in the Continued On Page 4A Suspended Officer Fired Suspended police officer Gary E. Sale, 39, was fired by the city board of commis- sioners after a two hour ex- ecutive session Tuesday night. : = The Board also promoted Ptl. James Camp to the rank of Sergeant in the Kings Mountain Police Department and named Dorus L. Bennett, former Moss Lake employee, to the position of Superinten- dent of Mountain Rest Cemetery. Mr. Bennett, a former owner of Bennett Brick & Tile Co., has been with the city since April. Mayor John Moss announc- ed the board’s actions, then called for a vote, which was unanimous, in open session at J. y he action stipulated that Sale would be paid accrued benefits through August 12th. Sale had been suspended with pay since June 10, pen- ding outcome of a court trial Aug. 5 in Cleveland County District Court in which he was found guilty of four counts of misdemeanor larceny of gasoline from | Jerry Oliver’s Mustang Ser- vice Station, fined $400 and given a 13-15 months suspend- ed sentence. Sale’s auerney, Steve Dolley, immediately entered notice of appeal to Superior Court. Sale, an officer in the Kings Mountain Police Department since 1979, and his wife, Mary, were in Council Chambers at City Hall when Sale was fired by' commis- sioners. Also present for the nearly four-hour board meeting was Jerry Oliver, Sr., who took out the war- rants charging Sale with tak- ing 12 gallons of gas worth $10.11 on four occasions last February and March. Sale denied the charges. Sale said after the meeting that he was confident that a jury next month in Superior Local Group Wants KM Post Office A request from the Kings Mountain Historical Museum for acquisition of the old U.S. Post Office facility on East Mountain Street was receiv- ed “for information’ by the board of city commissioners Tuesday night. The Historical commission asked the board to ‘‘vigorous- ly push through negotiations” e acquisition of the old post office to be used as a historical museum for the Ci- ty of Kings Mountain. DistricE 4 Commissioner Norman King made the mo- tion, noting that some years ago a previous city ad- ministration had voted to negotiate for the post office Continued on page 5-A Court will set Judge Ralph Phillips verdict aside and find him not guilty. ; Mrs. Sale, in a letter to the editor released to all area newspapers, said that ‘‘the humiliation and embarrass- ment to her and her husband did not matter but after 15 years in law enforcement she did not think he would risk his career for $10.11 worth of gas. “I feel most disappointed with the Police Department. The entire time that Gary was suspended only two policemen said they were sorry. I guess he is the only officer in Kings Mountain that has been accused of or a charge brought against. I guess he was stepped on too [HE many toes in the Kings Moun- tain area. It didn’t matter to Gary whether you were rich or poor, black, or white, if you did something wrong, he would write you a citation or if necessary put you in jail, because that was his job and what the city paid him to do. I think the people at the Police Department should at least speak to him and act friendly when they pass him on the street. It appears to me that my husband was found guilty by the police department before he ever went to court Please Turn To Page 5-A HAY DELIVERY TO KM FARMER - §/Sgt. James A. Dula, on truck, hands down a bale of hay to Bill Plonk, of Kings Mountain as he helps bring drought relief to local farmers. PHOTO BY JEFF GRIGG. Hello Hay Hay continues on the way to North Carolina...and this time, Kings Mountain dairy farmer Bill Plonk, of Cher- ryville Road, was reci- pient of 160 bales for his 174 dairy cows. Sse James A. Dula, a member of Unit 1450 Transportation Company, N.C. National Guard, from Lenoir, made the delivery in Kings Mountain Thurs- day. Dula, making his sixth trip with hay, on other runs took hay to farmers in Hendersonville, Dob- son, Lenoir, Hickory, and Stokes. County. Dula said he usually carried as many as nine loads of hay at a time during this drought season when farmers have received aid from Midwestern farmers and agricultural officials since Cleveland County is one of the hardest hit drought areas in the state. Two other farmers receiv- ed 136 bales out of the 296 delivererd by Dula last week. Ninety farmers out of 130 who sighed up in Cleveland County have received some 7,000 bales of free hay so far. Cleveland County Exten- sion Agent Randy Sweeting said that the county has about 30 beef producers and 15 to 20 dairy farmers and estimates local farmers need 25,000 tons of hay to make it through the winter and most purchasing ar- rangements will have to be made by farmers themselves. He said some free hay is still available and farmers in need of hay should come by the Cleveland Office Building and fill out an application. eA PR A SH
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