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| VOL. 100 NUMBER 16
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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Thursday in
State Principal of the Year.
" The awards banquet was held at the
Raleigh Civic Center. Nanney had been an-
ounced the week before as a state finalist,
along with Joseph C. Hawley, principal of
Coats Elementary Shool in Harnett County.
Nanney, who had earlier said he was
pleased just to be one of the state finalists,
said winning the award was a complete sur-
rise.
r “1 did not know until the last split second
that I was going to be the winner,” Nanney
said. He received a huge plaque.
| Winning was not a surprise, though, to
Nanney’s teachers and 450 students at
Bethware. They knew all along that their
principal is the best.
“Mr. Nanney provides a relaxed at-
mosphere in which to teach,” said teacher
Hilda Kiser. ‘We are all very thrilled and
proud of his achievements.”
© “Mr. Nanney is a trusting principal, who
has faith in his staff and finds the good in all
of us,” added Joey Hopper.
“Mr. Nanney provides our staff with op-
portunities for in-service training which
allows us to be more effective teachers,”
noted Mary Ann Gibson. ‘He has a kind
word for all of his students every day. The
children love him.”
That love was no more evident than
Thursday morning Nanney left to go to
Raleigh, and Friday afternoon when he
returned to school as State Principal of the
Year. Both times, all teachers, staff and
children lined the road in front of the school
to give Nanney what the principal called a
‘‘one-man parade.” :
When Nanney left school Thursday he had
a large, blue box sitting in the back seat of
his car. It contained good luck charms from
each of the school’s 450 students...ranging
from four-leaf clovers to horseshoes and
stuffed animals. ‘Anything a student owned
luck, they put it in the good luck box,” Nan-
ney said.
that he or she thought would bring good.
Dr. Joel Jenkins, pastor of
STATE PRINCIPAL OF YEAR - Bethware principal Ronald Nanney shows off his State
Principal of the Year plaque to the Bethware student body after returning from Raleigh last
Friday.
‘When I was pulling out of the parking
lot, the staff and entire student body lined
up along the road to give me a big send off,”’
he said. ‘During this whole time of competi-
tion from the district to state level, and even
winning, that was probably the most mean-
ingful thing to me. Everybody was cheering
me on, and it was a good experience.”’
Nanney returned to Bethware around lun-
chtime Friday to a huge ‘‘welcome back”
celebration which included signs along old
Highway 74 and a school decorated inside
and out with banners, flowers and other
congratulatory messages.
“They had a great deal of faith in their
principal, and I really appreciate it,”’ Nanney
said. “It was a great experience for all of
us.”
The congratulations continue to pour in.
Nanney received phone calls over the
weekend from numerous friends and co-
workers, and even had calls from teachers
who taught him when he was in elementary
school. The school hosted a reception for him
Monday afternoon.
“I'm happy to have won the award and
hope that something good comes out of it,” he
said. ‘‘But the reason I won it is the simple
fact that I have an outstanding staff to work
with, outstanding students, and outstanding
parents who have been very supportive of the
things I wanted to do even though it meant a
lot of extra work and time on their part.”
Since moving to Bethware in 1975, Nanney
has successfully implemented at least one
new program every year, and that is what
impressed judges the most. The NCAE selec-
tion committee noted that at Bethware ‘“‘suc-
cessful management of student behavior has
been accomplished through means that en-
courage students to be responsible for their
own behavior. Nanney, faced with no locally-
provided music and physical education pro-
gram, wrote objectives and worked with a
local college. As a result, student teachers in
music and physical education are provided
by the college each semester.”
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Mountain
Ministerial
DR. JOEL JENKINS
First Baptist Church, will
deliver the sermon in .the
traditional community-wide
Easter Sunrise Service Sun-
day morning at 6 a.m. in
Veterans Park of Mountain
Rest Cemetery.
He will use the sermon
topic, ‘He Is Risen’.
The service, under sponsor-
ship of the Greater Kings
Association, will include par-
ticipation by various
ministers of the community
who will read scripture and
lead prayers.
Dr. Eric Faust, pastor of
First Presbyterian Church
and president of KM
Ministerial Association, will
give the welcome and Rev.
David Engle, pastor of First
KM Schools Budget Includes
Increase In Supplement Tax
Kings Mountain District
Board of Education Monday
night approved a local capital
outlay and current expense
budget which calls for in-
creasing the school supple-
ment tax from the current 14
cents per $100 valuation to the
maximum 20 cents.
Supt. Bob McRae said this
is the first time since the sup-
plement tax was approved in
1937 that KM schools have
asked for the maximum-
approved figure. However,
he added, it is necessary to
maintain the current level of
programs because Kings
Mountain is losing money
through declining enroll-
ment. Next year’s enrollment
will be down an estimated 170
students. ;
The increase, he said,
would amount to about $30
per year for a person owning
a $50,000 home. iT
County Commissioners
allot local school monies on a
p
funds from the county to be
comparable with last year’s,
it would take most of that six-
cents tax increase ($228,000)
just to pay continuation
costs,” McRae said.
McRae said he has asked
the commissioners to look at
Kings Mountain’s overall
program needs, rather than
on a per pupil basis, hoping
the county would increase the
er-pupil expenditures to
Por make up for the loss of
170 pupils. ‘If you spread 170
students across eight schools,
you're talking about losing
only three or four students
per classroom, and it takes
just as much money to
operate the buildings,” he
er pupil basis, McRae ex-
judged not acc
said. “I hope the commis-
sioners will give serious con-
sideration to what it costs to
run the school system.”
KM’s proposed budget of
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Reorganization Study
Will Continue Until Fall
ninth graders to the high |
The Kings Mountain Board
of Education delayed action
on reorganization of the
school system Monday night
and said it will probably visit
other schools in the state next
fall before making a decision.
The board has been study-
ing reorganization for
several months and feels
there is a need of approx-
imately $9.9 million in new
construction and facility in
tral School, whic
classroom facility. The board
is considering three options
involving Central, including
building a new middle school
to house sixth and seventh
graders, moving the sixth
grade back to the five
elementary schools in the
district; and moving the sixth
grade to Kings Mountain
Junior High.
The board held a public
hearing last month and only
four parents spoke. All four
favored moving sixth graders
back to elementary cam-
puses.
However, Supt. Bob McRae
leans toward moving sixth
graders to the junior high and
ch he js
ptable as a
$1,416,768 for current ex-
penses and $280,646 for
capital outlay represents a
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school.
McRae says moving sixth
graders back to the elemen-
tary campuses would be the
least expensive option, but
would require renovations at
all five elementary schools at
the same time. Moving the
sixth graders to the junior
high would be a little more
expensive ‘but less
sive than rebuil
ante ,’ he 7
eventh-eighth grade mi
hool is 0st p
sonal knowledge from having
served as principal of such a
school as well as advice from
experts in school planning.
“Most of the concerns that
have been voiced is that of
the ability of sixth graders to
- handle situations they’ll en-
counter with seventh and
eighth graders,” McRae
said. “But I believe sixth
graders have changed so
much that they're closer in
nature to seventh and eighth
graders than they are with
fifth graders. The sixth grade
represents a time in their
school careers when they
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Developer Brown Finally Wins
A Round Against City Hall
Developer Mike Brown
says he’s been fighting City
Hall since 1985 and finally
won part of his battle Tues-
day night with agreement by
the board of city commis-
sioners to grant the use of one
water tap at his rental pro-
perty at 1506 Cansler Street.
During a story session of
the Tuesday night board
meeting, Brown charged that
Mayor John Moss and some
city commissioners ‘‘have
been sitting on my requests
for city services and annexa-
tion for two years.”
Other developers did not
fare as well as Brown.
Commissioners could come
Assembly of God, will give
the invocation. The congrega-
tion will sing ‘Christ The
Lord Is Risen Today”, led by
Rev. Morris Jordan, Minister
of Music at First Baptist
Church.
Rev. Harwood T. Smith,
pastor of St. Matthew's
Lutheran Church, will lead
the responsive reading and
Rev. Clinton Feemster,
to no agreement for the se-
cond month in a row on Mrs.
Ruby M. Alexander’s request
for extension of water lines to
Gold Run Development and
requests from four other
developers for city serves
were tabled.
Why don’t we start doing
something in the city? asked
Commissioner Harold
Phillips. Commissioner Fred
Finger suggested that a
meeting be held with
developers with a look at how
developers may put in their
own services with the city
taking in the properties later
and buying the lines. Phillips
said that water lines are
pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, will give the pastoral
prayer. Special music, ‘An
Easter Greeting”, will be
sung by Mrs. Linda Dixon,
Minister of Music at Central
United Methodist Church.
Rev. Frank Gordan, pastor of
Grace United Methodist
Church, will read the Easter
story from Luke 24:13-35.
After the sermon, the con-
busting every day in town,
the streets are in the worst
condition ever and people pay
taxes here and deserve to
have services first. He said
he knows of in town residents
who have been petitioning for
curb and gutter for 11 years
without success.
Developer Brown said his
request for satellite annexa-
tion was tabled and he of-
fered to pay for 1500 feet of
power, gas and sewer lines.
Responding to Mrs. Haywood
Lynch’s suggestion that “‘an-
nexation is needed now’,
Brown said, ‘‘I should be the
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Community Sunrise Service Sunday At Cemetery
gregation will sing ‘‘He
Lives” and Rev. Eugene
Land, pastor of Second Bap-
tist Church, will pronounce
the benediction.
Rev. George Simmons,
pastor of East Gold Street
Wesleyan Church and
publicity chairman for the
event, said that the public is
invited and welcome to
celebrate the Resurrection a
the early morning service. ¢
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