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VOL. 100 NUMBER 20
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1987
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA |
Campaign Is At Half-Way Mark
Mauney
A $200,000 fund drive for
Mauney Memorial Library
expansion reached the half-
way mark this week as drive
leaders reported pledges and
contributions are over
$100,000.
Meeting at the Library,
drive chairman Bill Davis
Six teachers, three aids and
a job training counselor will
not be rehired next year by
the Board of Education
because of funding related to
a reduction of school enroll-
ment.
The action followed an hour
and a half executive session
by the board in which they
authorized contracts to 24
career teachers who by com-
pletion of three years service
are eligible for career status
and 16 who are eligible for
continued probationary
status.
KM Rescue
Fund Drive
Underway
A $50,000 fund drive for a
new ambulance for the Kings
Mountain Rescue Squad was
kicked off this week by
Memorial Library Fup
made the report, noting that
pledge cards are still
available at the library to
those who have not made a
pledge and that contributions
can be forwarded to Jacob S.
Mauney Memorial Library,
P.O. Box 16, Kings Mountain,
N.C. 28086. ‘“‘We really ap-
Supt. Bob McRae said the
number to be reduced next
year is about the same as
reduced this past year and
most of those this year were
later rehired. McRae said
those terminated have not
worked for the school system
more than two years and he
hopes they can be given a
teaching contract by Fall
term depending on number of
retirees and resignations.
The state estimates a cut-
back in 170 students in the
system for the 1987-88 term of
school, he said.
volunteers who began a
house-to-house canvass of the
community.
man of the drive, said that
the 1977 and 1978 model am-
bulances now used by the
Squad have been rebuilt
several times and now have
more than 100,000 miles on
them. He said that additional
money is needed to purchase
the vehicle and that in-
dividuals and businesses are
being contacted by Rescue
Squad members and other
volunteers in the community.
The Rescue Squad receive
funds from United ways
Cleveland County and Kings
Mountain United Way con-
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is Debbie Morgan.
AMBULANCE FUND DRIVE UNDERWAY—Members of
began a fund drive for a $50,000 ambulance this week.
Lefevers, Curtis Sims, Steve Baker, Wanda Kyle and Rev.
Photo by Gary Stewart
ATHLETES OF THE YEAR - Mountaineer Booster’s Club Presid i
ent Mearl V
center, presents the KMHS Athletes of the Year awards to Regina Brown, joit, and Ionine
Hollifield at Tuesday night’s spring sports banquet. Story is on page 2-B.
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preciate the efforts of so
many people and feel that if
we step up our efforts just a
little more that the drive can
be over the top before many
weeks go by,” he told the
board members.
Students at West School
KM Board Terminates Teachers
Supervisor Martha Bridges
reported that remedial sum-
mer school will be held from
June 18-July 22 with students
attending from 8:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. at Central, the
Junior High and Senior High
plants and on tuition basis.
The summer school has been
expanded to serve students in
grades 1,2,3,4,6 and 8 and ap-
proximately 150 students are
expected to participate.
The state-mandated sum-
mer school will be held June
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Supporters of ‘“Wets”’ and
“Drys”’ fought the satellite
annexation of Little Dan’s
and Ole Country Store but
lost the battle with the city
board of commissioners
Tuesday night 4-1.
Commissioner Humes
Houston’s motion to deny the
controversial annexation
died on the floor for lack of a
second. Strong objections
from a packed Council
Chamber at City Hall and
petitions from several hun-
dred citizens living in the
area of Grover Road and
Cherryville Road failed to
change the board’s vote.
Voting for both requests were
Commissioners Norman
King, Corbet Nicholson, Fred
Finger and Harold Phillips.
Commissioner Irvin Allen,
Jr. was absent.
Houston made the motions
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started their own collection
for the Library recently dur-
ing a study of North Carolina
Heritage Week and chipped
in $60. Good Citizens from the
school presented the cash to
Librarian Rose Turner Mon-
day afternoon. Lillian Hanks,
instructor, said the children
JANE KING
the Kings Mountain Rescue Squad
From left, Jean Tesseniar, Ross
Elwood Barnes. Inside the vehicle
City Board Spot Annexes
Stores Wanting To Sell Beer
to deny the requests because,
he said ‘I can’t see that we
are doing the right thing. I
agree with citizens here that
this action will not be
economically feasible for the
Shelby Potographer Wants
Share of KM School Business
Shelby photographer Lem
education why a policy has not been established regarding
photography contracts at school functions such as proms
and graduations but the board said principals make that
decision.
However, after a lengthy discussion at Monday’s board of
education meeting, Supt. Bob
would receive a bid list next year.
Lynch expressed his dissatisfaction in the way contracts
are awarded because he says the board of education uses a
“buddy” system and that all photographers, including
Lynch, should have the opportunity to bid for the big events
where a large number of pictures are taken.
city and this move is not con-
sistent with our long-range
plans for annexation’. After
Houston’s motion died on the
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Lynch asked the board of
McRae promised Lynch he
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gave pennies, nickels and
dimes to aid the library pro-
ject.
The library plans a 2,700
square feet addition to the
present structure which is
3,300 square feet. The addi-
tion will include a multi pur-
pose room to be used
Drive Toph $100,00
especially for the children
and youth programs, an
assembly type facility which
could be used for community
meetings. There will also be a
new and enlarged Carolina
Room, book stacks,
children’s areas and addi-
tional office space.
North’s Jane King Named
KM Principal Of The Year
North School Principal
Jane King is Kings Mountain
Principal of the Year.
Mrs. King, wife of Jerry
King and a former principal
at West School, was voted the
honor by other principals in
the system and was recogniz-
ed, along with teachers of the
year from each plant in the
district, at the beginning of
Monday night’s board of
education meeting at the
school administration
building.
Jean Thrift made the
recognitions of Teacher of the
Year and those honored were
Nancy Hughes, a first grade
teacher at Bethware School;
Treda Berry, a music teacher
at Central School; Pamela
Lee, a third grade teacher at
East School; Lynda Stewart,
a fifth grade teacher at
Grover School; Teresa Big-
gerstaff, a resource teacher
at the Junior High; Barbara
Bridges, a reading lab
teacher at North School, Don-
na McDonald, a resource
teacher at West School, and
Kathy Goforth, KMHS
business teacher.
Two Local Men Charged
In October 1983 Shooting
Two Kings Mountain men—
Charles Hurbert Adams, Jr.,
23, and Steven Foy Crawford,
23, have been charged with
murder in the shooting death
and robbery Oct. 31, 1983 of
Shelby Road mobile home
dealer Clarence David Jay,
59.
They are also charged with
shooting Jay’s father,
Clarence Porter Jay, of
Shelby, and with the robbery
of $4,000 and a .25 caliber
pistol from the mobile home
office. The elder Jay, who
was 77 at the time of the inci-
dent, was shot in the neck but
survived the assault.
Crawford was arrested by
officers of the Cleveland
County Sheriff's Department
Sunday morning at his home
at Lake Montonia and for-
mally charged with murder,
assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill inflicting
serious injury and robbery
with a dangerous weapon. He
is being held without bond in
the Cleveland County Jail at
Shelby.
Cleveland County Sheriff
Buddy McKinney said
similar warrants have been
drawn on Adams and the
Sheriff’s Department is
beginning extradition pro-
cedures to formally charge
Adams, who is in the U. S. Ar-
my and currently serving
time for a drug conviction at
Fort Riley, Kansas stockade.
According to Sheriff Buddy
McKinney, two men entered
Bluebird Mobile Homes
around 10:30 a.m. on Hallo-
ween Day, Oct. 31, 1983.
Clarence David Jay, then 59,
and his father, Clarence
Porter Jay, then 77, had sold
mobile homes on the lot about
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