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“ TT ro NB a i a ls ct 0 enh ghee gt gl gm Vi Sg gg] i am ® } 3 Se on Monday, November 23. The Kings Mountain Herald will publish its Thanksgiving week paper The paper asks your cooperation in observing earlier deadlines for news and advertising copy. 2 Deadline for display ai d classified advertising will be 5 pw. Frid | Deadline for news normally carried in the People Section (Section B) will 1gs, anniversaries, be 5 p.m. Thursday. This includes in engagements, birthdays, church news, etc. Deadline for regular news an rts cop The Herald will be closed o d sports copy will be 5 p.m. Friday, Thursday and Friday November 26 and 27 SONI ‘S 001 "NIW "HAV INOWAIIg AAVIEIT TVIYOWNIR AINAVR 9808¢ ON° ie AW | [l % 3 [ — Since 1889 — of 4 Member North Carolina | Press Association it fF VOL. 100 NUMBER 47 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA | IOE00 Ese This is American Education Week i and Kings Moun- bol tain District Schools are celebrating with special activities. See Lib Stewart’s feature story and pic- tures beginning on Kings Mountain High’s varsity basket- ball teams are busy preparing for the 1987-88 season which begins on December 4. The varsity squads will scrimmage Thurs- day night at East a Gaston. See pre- season report beginn- ing on page 5-A. Also in sports, Gary Stewart this week writes a column about LIBRARY BIDS OPENED—Contractors representing five firms, above, bid for a major renovation project at Mauney Memorial Library. Trustees are not expected to award the bid for 30 days pending study and results of a state grant application made for additional construc- tion. : Library Receives Bids For the proposed Kings Mountain Hall of Fame and some Kings Mountain people who are worthy of recogni- tion. See page 7-A. Many area chur- I ches are planning fi Thanksgiving ser- vices. For those news items, and other church news, see pages 2, 3 and 4-A. Mauney Memorial Library trustees received five bids ranging from $249,5001 to $264,770 for new additions and alterations Tuesday after- noon but probably won’t award them for 30 days. Mrs. Bob Baker, a member of the board, said that trustees are awaiting results’ of a state application for a grant and “we are crossing our fingers for an answer in the next few days’, she said. alternate proposals, one for installation of a metal roof and another add-on for dumb- waiters. Huffman & Son Construc- tion Company of Kings Moun- tain and Dixie Lumber Com- pany of Cherryville are the apparent low bidders, accor- ding to the bid tabulations, but library officials will be making the decision on the low bidder after deciding what to do on alternate add $249,500 with a 180 day com- pletion time. He bid Sin. 000 for metal roof installation and $11,000 for dumbwaiters. Dixie Lumber’s base bid was $254,600 with a 180 day com- pletion date. Dixie bid $14,300 on the metal roof and $13,900 on dumbwaiter installations. Other bidders were: Carolina Artisans, base bid $264,770 with 250 day completion date and $28,600 for alternate one (metal roof) and $213,367 for alternate two (dumbwaiter). ons. : ) The Fox Firm’s base bid Contractors were invited to Huffman’s base bid was make a base bid and give two ABC Store Plans To Open Kings Mountain ABC Board, shooting for a Dec. 14 or Dec. 21 opening date for the new ABC Store, employed Carolyn Swartz, 36, of Shelby, as the first manager and Cheryl Leach, of Kings Moun- tain, as assistant manager this week. Miss Swartz, who has been administrative assistant at the Shelby ABC Store for 12 years, will assume her new duties Monday, operati ra Neisler serves as chairman of the local ABC Board with Van Birmingham and Roosevelt Ingram. Miss Swartz said her duties will be to coordinate the open- ing, obtain registers, com- puter equipment and stock the new store which she an- ticipates will do a $1 million a year business in the city. The In December Shelby Store operates with a $2.5 budget. The local store will also employ two full time and three part time cashiers. Miss Swartz, a native of Shelby, plans to move to Kings Mountain when she completes the sale of her home in Shelby. Miss Leach is completing her duties in Belmont where she is assistant manager of 19 graduate of the w ation if psychology. She resides with her mother at Carolina Garden Apart- ments. Miss Swartz said contrac- tors are looking at a Dec. 14 or Dec. 21 opening date for the store but that work was slowed Tuesday due to the rain. Ted Huffman is general contractor. Expansion was $269,990 with 150 days ;completion time and $55,635 for alternate one and $14,268 for alternate two; A.A. Ramsey and Son’s base bid for construction work was $255,200 with 210 days of con- struction time. Ramsey did not bid on add on alternate one but submitted $14,000 bid for dumbwaiters. A $200,000 fund drive is vir- tually assured from pledges and donations secured since February 1987 when residents kicked off a drive for a 2,700 square feet addi- tion to include a multiple pur- pose room to be used especially for youth pro- grams. A new and enlarged Carolina Room book stacks, children’s areas and office space is projected. Mrs. Baker pointed out it would re- quire additional funds which Library trustees hope will be forthcoming from a state grant and memorial gifts from local patrons of the library. t The 1987-1988 school year @ for the Masquers Kings § Mountain Senior High School Drama Club will begin Nov. i 19th-22nd with the classic pro- f duction of ‘Flowers for Algernon.” The site for the ¢ production is B.N. Barnes Auditorium at Kings Moun- tain Senior High School. Times will be 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Satur- day. The Sunday matinee will be at 3 o'clock. Admission will be $3.00 for adults and $2.00 for students and senior i citizens. f the cast of “Flowers for Alger- This play is a story about a non”’ which the Masquers of KMSHS will present Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and retarded man Charlie Gor- Sunday afternoon in Barnes Auditorium. On platform, from left, David Leadbetter, Dawn don, who is put through an ex- Gainey, Geri Thacker, Lynn Goddard. Front row, from left, Katherine Jenkins, Pam Connor, periment that increases his Joe Champion, Wayne Brazzell, William Hula and Ted Kostek. intelligence level from a DRAMA CLUB PLAY CAST—Pictured are some members o ‘Flowers For Algernon’ By KM Drama Club moron to a genius. His life is in constant comparison with Algernon, a mouse that has gone through the same opera- tion. Charlie, played by Wayne Brazzell, falls in love with his teacher Alice Kin- nian, who is played by Pam Connor. Their relationship is difficult as Charlie grows more intelligent and Alice feels frustrated because Charlie cannot cope with his feelings for her. The experi- ment is devised by the Welberg Foundation con- ducted by Doctor Strauss, played by Ted Kostek, Pro- fessor Nemur, played by William Hul and Burt Seldon played by Joe Champion. Charlie is scarred by the memories of his childhood. His mother, played by Geri Thacker shows a combina- tion of sympathy, rejection, cruelty, and mental illness. His father, played by David Ledbetter, cannot handle the pressures of his family and leaves for a new life of his own. Charlie’s youngest sister Norma as & child is played by Dawn Gainey and as an adult by Lisa Cloninger. Norma is cruel and eventual- ly tricks her parents into sen- ding him away. Charlie’s life is simple before the operation. He has a job at the bakery as a delivery boy. Mrs. Donner, Turn To Page 4-A Burger King. She is a May °
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