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Special Football Section Begins Next Wel ©
This newspaper will begin a new feature section next week.
Each week during the football season, Friday’s Heroes will be an entire section devoted to the covera
Friday night high school football games in the areas of Gaston and Cleveland County which are Hria
Herald Publishing Company newspapers. ;
Each week, your paper will give you detailed coverage of Kings Mountain, Cherryville, Bessemer Ci 2S
: North Gaston, East Gaston and South Point high schools. Included in the coverage will be a “Game of oy 2
5: Week”’, featuring action photos and news coverage of that game. Reports and photos of all the other gay
; will also be included in the section.
hh! At the end of the season, the writers and photographers who cover the area, with advice from the coac
by from the six high schools involved, will select an Area Coach and Player of the Year.
Look for this new feature in next week’s paper. Included in the first issue will be coverage of Fri
night's opening season games between Kings Mountain and Bessemer City, and Cherryville and Fr
Foard, along with pre-season reports on the other three area high schools (South Point, East Gaston i
North Gaston) who open on September 5. 1
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VOL. 99 NUMBER 35
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1986
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
PHOTO BY GARY STEWART
There’s no chill in the air, but football season begins
for area high schools Friday night. Kings Mountains
Mountaineers will kickoff their season at Bessemer Ci-
ty. Handling the placekicking duties for the KM team
will be Rusty Bumgardner, above. For game writeup
and photos, see page 9-A.
Posters Remind Drivers
That School Has Opened
With schools in Kings Mountain open, posters an-
nouncing, ‘‘School’s Open — Drive Care ully”’, are
beginning to appear around the city in areas where
children will be traveling to and from their classes.
] The traffic safety campaign is conducted annually
{ by the Kings Mountain Police Department and the
AAA Carolina Motor Club, according to Police Chief
J.D. Barrett. :
The traffic safety
campaign is conducted
annually by the Kings
Mountain Police
Department and the
AAA Carolina Motor
Club, according to
Police Chief J.D. Bar-
rett.
Elementary students
will report to their
classes by 8:20 a.m. and
be dismissed at 2:40
p.m. School Crossing
Guards will be at their post at these elementary
schools from 8 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. and from 2:30 p.m.
until 3 p.m. daily to see that children cross at the in-
tersections safely.
Ralph Peters, president of the 330,000 member af-
filiate of the American Automobile Association, said,
“Whenever motorists are in the vicinity of a school
zone or crossing signs, or observe children walking
along a street or roadway, please slow down and re-
main alert.” :
During 1985, 32 children under the age of 15 were kill-
ed in pedestrian accidents in North Carolina. In South
Carolina, 16 children in the same age category were
killed in pedestrian accidents.
Licensing Could Take Nine Months
City Files Hydro Application
The City of Kings Mountain
is filing today a final applica-
tion with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission
(FEDC) for a license for a
hydro-electric project on
Moss Lake.
Mayor John Henry Moss
said the city is mailing 25
copies of a 108 page formal
application to the FEDC in
Washington, D.C. with copies
to the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, the U.S. Wildlife
Commission, the North
Carolina Department of
Natural Resources and the
U.S. Corps of Engineers,
among others. g
A preliminary hydro per-
mit was obtained by the city
some months ago.
Licensing, which may take
up to nine months, would
allow the city to construct
and operate a hydro plant on
city-owned Moss Lake, which
the Mayor says would mean
considerable savings in utili-
ty costs, up to $400,000 an-
nually, in electrical power to
operate the city’s water and
waste treatment plants and
enhance the city’s utility
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Water
Survey
In Mail
The city is surveying
residents of area towns of
Bessemer City, Grover,
Cherryville, Patterson Spr-
ings and Earl to determine
their interest in obtaining
water and/or sewer services
from Kings Mountain in a
mobile will be at First Baptist Church in
Kings Mountain Tuesday from 12:30 until 6
p.m.
This visit is being sponsored by Kings
Mountain industry. Goal is 135 pints.
The Red Cross has issued an urgent ap-
peal for type O- blood because of a critical
shortage. Red Cross officials ask that all
O-donors donate at the Kings Mountain
visit. Because of the urgent need, additional
el will be on hand io process Kings
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nature and address and
telephone number but notes
that return of the question-
naire does not obligate the
person in any way. It asks the
resident to check whether or
not he is interested in par-
ticipating in a proposed
district which would provide
water and or sewer services
or both and asks him to check
a block if he is not interested
in the proposed project.
The city is already pro-
| ceeding with Phase I of the
project by signing a pre-
application for funding of a $6
million bond program with
the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration.
Mayors of the surrounding
cities are meeting on
Wednesdays with Mayor
Moss who said that he is
| receiving tremendous = sup-
port for a metropolitan water
and sewer district from per-
sons already signing the
uestionnaires and returning
em to City Hall.
Students
Return
To School
First day school ‘‘but-
terflies” may be normal but
at most Kings Mountain
school plants Monday going
back to school was a big deal
for the young folk.
It was time to get new
things for many of the kids,
who came to school dressed
up for Fall 1986 and with new
school supplies too.
Teachers said that worry
about peer acceptance and
ability to master schoolwork
confronts most students
returning to school and books
after two months of summer
vacation.
On the first day of school
Monday, students were mak-
ing new friends, receiving
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tions are urgentl
Blood Visit Tuesday
The Cleveland County Red Cross blood- However, because of traditionally low sum-
mer collections, type O- reserves have been
tapped for the past several weeks in order
to fill the patient needs. Approximately six
percent of the population has O- type blood,
et type O- is used by 12 percent of the
ospitalized patients. Type O- can be
substituted in cases of emergency. Also, the
region needs approximately 70 units of type
O- pediatric packs each day to meet
transfusion needs of area infants.
The Red Cross states that type O- dona-
needed next week to
ANGELA CROTTS
Opens Monday
Gates will swing open on the 1986
Bethware Community Fair Monday, Sept.
1. The fair continues through Saturday,
Sept. 8, at midnight.
Bethware Progressive Club is sponsoring
the 39th annual Fair which will reflect the
ever-advancing agricultural, commercial
and industrial trends in the ara and for the
28th consecutive year offers cash prizes to
winning exhibitors. This is the second year
the Fair will run six days on the grounds of
Bethware School. There is no admission.
Angela Crotts, Bethware 5th grader and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Crotts, is
Queen of the Fair.
_ Opening Day on Sept. 1 will feature
games and contests for children, midway
rides and shows plus a big drawing for
prizes at 9:30 p.m. Family Night is Tues-
day, Sept. 3, with a price of $6 for unlimited
rides and the fair opening at 6 p.m. Judging
of all exhibits will take place on Wed., Sept.
3 and the Fair will open at 6 p.m. McLaury’s
Magical Moments will perform at 7 p.m. on
the midway Thursday, Sept. 4, which is
Family Night, offers unlimited rides for $6
ticket. Special events are also planned on
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Grover Postmaster Returns
R. Fain Hambright,
Postmaster of Grover, has
returned to his duties follow-
ing a five year absence.
Postmaster Hambright
was on leave of absence from
his t while serving as
President and Resident Of-
ficer of the 22,000 member
National League of
Postmasters in Washington,
D.C. His duties while there
included representing
Postmasters nationally
before top postal manage-
ment, Congress and other
Administrative officials.
One of his many ac-
FAIN HAMBRIGHT
complishments while in
Washington, was to have
enacted into law a bill giving
Postmasters adverse action
appeal rights to the Merit
Systems Protection Board,
rights previously available
only to veterans.
The League National Con-
vention recently limited Na-
tional Officer terms to four
years of service.
Hambright said that, “I
will miss the excitement of
Washington, but look for-
ward to being with my many
lifetime friends in Grover,
that I have also missed.”
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