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— Since 1889 —
Member
North Carolina
Press Association
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA ]
The Kings Mountain Board school year before the
of Education, meeting Mon- organizalion could be put into
day at the Superintendent’s effect. Construction costs
office, unanimously adopted necessary to bring the
a reorganization plan which organization into being would
would create a K-5 elemen- be about $3 million, he said.
tary, 6-8 middle school and The reorganization was
9-12 high school situation.
Supt. Bob McRae, said it by a s
would be at least the 1989-90 pointed by McRae two mon-
unanimously recommended
ial committee ap-
KM Schools Reorganized
ths ago. The committee had
visited several middle
schools with a 6-8 organiza-
tion and one which included
only seventh and eighth
graders.
At a recent public hearing
at Central School, the only
four parents to speak favored
returning sixth graders to the
elementary schools and hav-
ing a 7-8 middle school.
McRae, however, favored the
~ 6-8 concept.
McRae said that if the
reorganization is phased in,
the first step would be mov-
ing the ninth graders to the
high school and seventh
graders to the middle school.
A first computer system for
the city was authorized by the
city board of commissioners
Tuesday night and bids are
expected to be presented to
the board at the Dec. 15th
meeting.
Computer specialists have
been working with Depart-
ment heads and city officials
for several months and
$65,000 in the budget will get
~ A newly organized commit-
Mountain school teacher ask-
d the g Be hi $
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elected mayor.
Rev.
M.L. Campbell,
spokesman for the Citizens
for Community Interest, urg-
ed the board to appoint John PO
Houze, who ran unsuccessful-
ly for the board four years
ago.
tee headed by a retired Kings H
the computer program
underway this year, Mayor
John Henry Moss said as he
named Commissioner Fred
Finger chairman of a com-
mittee with City Clerk Mar-
vin Chappell, Jack Bennett,
Walt Ollis, Jimmy Maney,
Fire Chief Gene Tignor and
Police Chief Warren Goforth
to implement a two year
phase of the program. Clerk
Committee Wants Black
Named To School Board
~~ Campbell said naming
ouze or another black to the
and newcomer Billy King
won the seats.
Smith’s seat is also an
inside-city seat and his ap-
intment must live within
the city limits of Kings Moun-
tain. Houze, a postal worker,
resides in the city.
moved on a major water and
nt Doyle Campbell $349,527.15
KM To Add Computers
Chappell has just returned
from a computer conference
at N.C. State University and
said that David Turschmann,
- Director of TACUT for
NCSU, has been working with
department heads for several
months with recommenda-
tions for the city’s needs. The
new system will cost $65,000
plus $8,000 for software and
two meter reading devices,
said Chappell. “We're look-
ing at probably April for get-
ting the computer in for the
committee and department
heads to take a look at’ said
Chappell.
The city commissioners
oject
for sewer construction lines
to serve 161 and Thermacote
Welco on York Road. Tabling
the awarding of bids for the
Gold Street waterline and
Grover Highway and
Margrace area waterline was
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United Fund
Is Extended
Kings Mountain United
Fund officials have extended
the 1987 campaign with $9,622
short of goal.
Campaign Chairman Bill
Davis said that pledges this
week total $100,378.00 or 91.2
percent of goal of $110,000. He
encouraged volunteers to
make reports of pledges as
soon as
e: paig
g his year is the big In-
dustrial division led by Ber-
nard Harvey, where industry
has donated 103 percent and
raised $73,983.47. The Ad-
vance gifts division led by
Susie Howard is 116 percent
followed by the school system
with 87 percent of goal.
PHOTO BY DARRIN GRIGGS
ABC STORE GOING UP - Thomas Norris of J.N.S.
Masonry in Gaffney, S.C., is pictured working on the new
ABC Store on Cleveland Avenue. Ted Huffman and Son Con-
struction Company is general contractor.
ssible and en-
sligh ‘as recommended
utility
in schedu
hei billings in by Southeastern Consulting
December. Engineers, Inc. of Charlotte
and authorized the Ad-
The city board will be pass- ministrative Department to
ing on to customers a half of track Duke Power
At Tuesday night's board rate schedule when adopted
meeting the commissioners by Duke Power Co.
le 1 rate
Paper To Publish Early
The Kings Mountain Herald will publish its Thanksgiving
week paper on Monday, November 23.
The paper asks your cooperation in observing earlier
deadlines for news and advertising copy. :
Deadline for display and classified advertising will be 5
p.m. Friday. Deadline for news normally carried in the
People Section (Section B) will be 5 p.m. Thursday. This in-
cludes weddings, anniversaries, engagements, birthdays,
church news, etc.
Deadline for regular news and sports copy will be 5 p.m.
Friday.
The Herald will be closed on Thursday and Friday,
November 26 and 27.
A $500,000 Endowment
Fund Drive for Cleveland
County Hospice will be kick-
ed off next Wednesday, Nov.
17th, a noon at Holiday Inn by
Hospice volunteers.
Mrs. Larry Hamrick is
Kings Mountain chairman for
the Cleveland County Drive
of which Dick Kelly of Shelby
is general chairman. Ronnie
Hawkins, also of Kings Moun-
tian, is a member of the local
committee.
Kelly said the driver will
seek pledges over a three
year period and the cash will
be invested and the funds us-
ed to provide nursing care for
hospice patients and to carry
on the total program of
Hospice which enables ter-
{ minally ill people all over
Cleveland County to live at
home with their loved ones
and friends in a surrounding
where they want to be. A total
of 168 people are full time
volunteers and many more
are needed, says Kelly.
“Hospice could not exist
without the tremendous
amount of volunteers who
volunteer for special projects
also during the year.” One
purpose of the fund drive is to
obtain enough funds so that
additional monies won't have
to be requested throughout
the year, he said.
Twenty-eight percent of
Hospice patients are from the
Kings Mountain area, said
Evelyn West, Director. :
Betty Fulton, of 803
Southwoods Drive, can’t say
PHOTO BY DARRIN GRIGGS
drants are getting a new facelifting thanks enough about Hospice which
Willard Yarborough, paints a hydrant on came to the aid of her family
during the illness of their late
PAINTING FIRE HYDRANTS — The city’s fire hy
to the Kings Mountain Fire Department. Above,
Gaston Street.
Hospice Begins Fund Drive
mother, Mrs. Dorcas
Morgan. Mrs. Fulton said
that without Hospice her
mother would not have been
able to live out her life at
home where she wanted to
be. Mrs. Fulton said Hospice
vulunteers “took my fear
away’ and said she would
never be able to thank them
enough for ‘‘just being
there.”
Mrs. Fulton said her family
KM Farm Center Owner
Ted Ledford Dies Sunday
Funeral services for
William T. (Ted) Ledford, 68,
of Route 2, Bethlehem Road,
owner and operator of Kings
Mountain Farm Center for 34
years, were conducted Tues-
day at 3 p.m. from Bethlehem
Baptist Church of which he
was a member.
Rev. Ed Sessom and Dr.
Randy Gardner officiated at
the rites. Interment, with full
masonic rites, was in
Bethlehem Cemetery.
Mr. Ledford died Sunday in
the Charlotte Memorial
Hospital after illness of
several months. He was a
Mason and veteran of World
War II. He was son of Mrs.
Eula Hayes Ledford of Kings
Mountain and the late
dford
Clarence Theodore Le or Shelby and Clarence Ledford,
and a native of Clevelan
County.
Surviving, in addition to his
mother, ar his wife, Mrs.
lost her father to cancer 11
months before the death of
her mother Feb. 7, 1987. She
said her doctor suggested
Hospice to her and that Doris
Dedmon, nursing coordinator
for Cleveland County
Hospice, met the family at
the hospital and immediately
began care in the home. The
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TED LEDFORD
Flora Herndon Ledford; one
daughter, Margaret Ann Led-
ford of Charlotte; two
brothers, Gene Ledford of
Jr. of Hendersonville; two
sisters, Mrs. Lucille Wells of
Kings Mountain and Mrs.
Virginia Efird of Oakboro.