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VOL. 100 NUMBER 23 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1987 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH | > 2
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Shelby Police Lieutenant
Charles Warren Goforth, 37,
is Kings 'Mountain’s new
Chief of Police.
Goforth was hired by the ci-
ty board of commissioners
Monday night in a split vote.
He will assume his new duties
June 22 at annual salary of
$28,000 and supervise a
24-member department.
“Warren Goforth comes
highly recommended by law
‘enforcement, judges and
ministers of the community
and was among 26 applicants
with the board interviewing
12 and then five on two dif-
ferent occasions for evalua-
tion’’, said Mayor John Moss
in breaking the 3-3 tie vote,
which also included a waiver
for Goforth of a requirement
that department heads live
inside the city. Goforth, his
wife, and son built a new
home on Moss Lake 13 mon-
ths ago. Moss Lake is owned
by the city and supervised by
KMPD.
Commissioner Humes
Houston’s motion to hire
Goforth and waive the inside
city residence requirement
was seconded by Commis-
sioner Irvin Allen with Com-
missioner Corbet Nicholson
voting in favor of the motion.
Commissioners Norman
TOP SCHOLARS -
Bethan Faust and junior Bryan Jones, left to right, were
ranked number one academically in their classes this year at
Kings Mountain High School. Pictures and a list of award
winners at KMHS are on page 16-A.
LEAVING THEIR TRACKS - Members of the Kings Moun-
tain High Class of 1986-87 march past the huge Mountaineer
footprints leading into John Gamble Stadium for Tuesday
night's graduation exercises. The class left some footprints
of its own, earning over $400,000 in college scholarships.
Smith To Ri
| For KM Mayor
Kyle Smith, 59, Kings
Mountain resident for the
past 21 years, announced this
week that he will seek the of-
fice of mayor in the upcoming
city election.
Smith, who has served for
10 years on the Kings Moun-
tain Board of Education, is a
personnel manager of Wales
Manufacturing Company in
Gastonia. He and his wife,
Miki White Smith, live at 906
Sharon Drive. The Smiths are
parents of three children, all
college graduates. They are
members of First Baptist
Church and Smith is past
President of the Kings Moun-
tain Kiwanis Club and served
as first president of the Kings
Mountain Personnel Associa-
tion.
Smith said, that if voters
elect him in the October city
election, he will push for a ci-
ty manager form of govern-
KYLE SMITH
ment and will run his can-
didacy on the city manager
platform. ‘Kings Mountain is
one of two cities in the state
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| Room To Honor Mrs. Weir
AdvVa9I11 TVINOWNIANW AANNVRH
Goforth Named
Police Chief
Harold Phillips
against, Finger and Phillips
saying they felt the Chief
should live inside the city
limits and would approve his
appointment if he moved in-
side the city.
A native of Cleveland Coun-
ty, Goforth is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Arnold
Goforth of Oak Grove Road
voted
For over a half a century
the town of Kings Mountain
has been the recipient of the
outstanding services of Mrs.
Josephine Ellerbe Weir -- as
beloved teacher, school
librarian and untiring civic
promotor.
« Out of deep gratitude and
Yireciation for her
diitinguished leadership, a
special committee has been
formed to honor Mrs. Weir by
raising the $25,000 necessary
¢ for the addition of the com-
| munity auditorium of the
Mauney Memorial Library
and dedicating it in her
JOSEPHINE WEIR
honor. This sum constitutes a
portion of the current $200,000
Community Fund Raising
Campaign for the much-
needed addition and renova-
tion of the library.
In a progressive communi-
ty the public library is a cor-
nerstone, providing a variety
of programs, services and
materials tor the informa-
tion, education and recrea-
tion of its citizens.
The following letter has
been mailed to many former
students of Mrs. Weir and is
herewith being publicly sub-
mitted to many more of her
King, Fred Finger and
Senior Andrew Faust, sophomore
and has 13 years experience
in law enforcement with eight
years supervisory ex-
perience, eight years
teaching experience in the
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The State ABC Commission
has unanimously approved
the Cleveland Avenue site of
the new ABC store and
cleared the way for construc-
tion to begin immediately on
a 4,000 square feet building
and parking lot.
The move came in spite of
written objections of Kings
Mountain realtor Charlie
Carpenter about ‘adverse ef-
fect on additional traffic
volume on N.C. 161.”
Carpenter, in his letter to the
board, which was read Mon-
day at the board meeting,
also said two of his clients
had each offered one acre
tracts of land $30,000 less
than the three quarter acre
site opposite the Kings Moun-
WARREN GOFORTH
The city’s proposed budget
covers 135 pages and is quite
different from previous
budgets that Mayor Jehn
Moss has presented to the
board for study and adoption
by June 30.
Kings Mountain’s new
budget for fiscal year 1987-83
is 16.5 percent higher than
last year - a whopping $16.7
million - that calls for no in-
crease in taxes and no in-
crease in utilities but in-
cludes two carry over items:
a whopping $1,175,000 surplus
and a cemetery care fund
amounting to $141,699.81, said
the Mayor. It also proposes $1
million in water and sewer
improvements.
The budget also provides a
big 18 percent for capital im-
provements over the next
year, proposes three resolu-
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Recently-Annexed Stores
Receive Privilege Licenses
City privilege licenses were
issued by the city Thursday
to Ole Country Store and on
Friday to Little Dan’s
Grocery to sell beer and
wine.
Both establishments have
received ABC permits and
state and county privilege
licenses and were in business
this week. They are the first
to be satellite annexed by the
city.
Codes officials, however,
City Budget Up
tions regarding cash
management, travel and
employee benefits and pro-
poses a three percent hike in
salaries for qualified
employees as of July 1 and a
savings fund in which
employees may invest two
percent of their salaries.
Mayor Moss also proposes
that the commissioners adopt
resolution sheltering an
employee’s contribution to
the N.C. Local Government
Employees Retirement
System from taxes. The
Mayor said the effect of the
proposed change would be to
increase an employee’s take
home pay by two to four per-
cent.
New regulations for
residential sub-divisions are
an important part of the new
budget as well as a new rate
are critical of the manner in
which the city license was
issued to Ole Country Store.
Clerk Connie Putnam said
zoning rules were ignored by
Commissioner Norman King,
who Mrs. Putnam said, in-
structed her to issue the
license to Rick Moore. Mrs.
Putnam maintained the Ole
Country Store was not pro-
perly zoned general business
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16.5 Percent
structure for city utilities and
plans for expansion of Moun-
tain Rest Cemetery.
The thick budget, which
has taken several months of
work by the mayor, City
Clerk Marvin Chappell and
Department heads, includes
a department-by-department
index prefaced by plans by
each department for objec-
tives in the coming year
along with capital projects
requests along with
estimates and figures on
what has been expended from
1984-87 with recommendation
for 1987-88. Several work ses-
sions will be held by the
board of commissioners
before the budget is formally
adopied June 30th.
The Mayor said that the
loss of $109,060 in local option
sales tax and federal revenue
Approved
former students, who may
wish to honor her in this way.
“How far back can you
remember - entering the first
grade or perhaps your last
year in high school? Did so-
meone encourage you and
care whether you passed
English - helped you decide
whether or not to go to college
or, what you might like to do
with your life? Could it have
been Mrs. Josephine Ellerbe
Weir? It certainly might have
been since she has done one
or more of these services for
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tain Historical Fire Museum
that the local ABC board is
acquiring from Ruth and Bill
Fulton at cost of $75,000.
Chairman Andy Neisler
has said the main reason the
commission favored the
Cleveland Avenue site is
because of its proximity to
the Highway 74 Bypass,
which intersects Cleveland
Avenue.
A spokesman for the state
board said noone appeared in
opposition and if a concern
for traffic had been voiced it
would have been in-
vestigated. An ABC ad-
ministrator said Carpenter’s
letter was passed on to the
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sharing funds will be offset
by stressing a strong collec-
tion policy of current years
ad valorem taxes, prior years
ad valorem taxes, street
assessments, utilities
receivable and fees for city
services and permits. The ad
valorem tax base of an
estimated $160,408, 200 will
yield $786,000, projected 98
percent collection. Ad
valorem taxes contribute 18.9
percent toward costs of the
operation of the city.
The big changes can be
seen in the fee structure, for
instance, in the codes depart-
ment. Formerly, an inside ci-
ty customer paid $150 for a 34
inch water tap and the actual
cost to the city was $399.98. In
the new budget, the customer
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