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VOL. 101 NUMBER 10 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1988 | MRL oe EE Zz oo | QQ A { nN nt Sal | = Ho | Z Ht . = . O90 hah =a I". © a == s 33 No ® > OQ << iH D0 1 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NOF Tag ~ rl =< ‘Monday...in leap years, that is. his wife, Guynelle, five children, nine grandchildren and “celebrating on days other than his birthday. After all, it ‘comes just every four years. RAY OLIVER ...A ‘Leaper’ A leaper... Ray Oliver celebrates birthday on February 29 Kings Mountain’s Ray Oliver was 17 years old Oliver, 68, who lives on Parkdale Circle, celebrated with’ one great-grandchild at a party Sunday. That was okay, too, because Oliver’s accustomed to ‘He usually celebrates on March 1,” said his wife, the former Guynelle Robinson. ‘‘His stepsister, the late Florence Marlowe, also had a February 29th birthday and Ray was assigned March 1.” Oliver served as a mechanic for 30 years at nearby Park Yarn Mills but had to take early retirement in 1971 because of brown lung. He also suffers from a severe hearing pro- em, “He can’t communicate as much and he can’t be as active as he’d like to be,’ said Mrs. Oliver. ‘Before he had to start staying home most of the time, he loved to fish and restore old A models.” He sold his last A model about two years ago. Gastonia. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver have been married for 45 years. They have four daughters, including Brenda Humphries, Chris Roseberry and Linda Moss, all of Kings Mountain; and | twins, Darlene Killian of Clover and Marlene Denton of INSIDE Hospital bond vote also on ballot Super Tuesday primary set The ‘‘Super Tuesday’ Presidential primary elec- tions will be held in North Carolina and most southern states Tues., Mar. 8, and in Cleveland County voters will also decide the fate of a pro- posed $25 million hospital ex- pansion project for Cleveland Memorial Hospital in Shelby. Six men are on the Republican ballot and seven on the Democractic ballot. Running on the Republican side are Vice-President George Bush, Bob Dole, Pete Dupont, Alexander Haig Jr., Jack Kemp and Pat Robert- son. Democratic candidates include Bruce Babbitt, Michael S. Dukakis, Richard A. Gephardt, Al Gore, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson and Paul Simon. Many of the candidates campaigned in North and South Carolina during the past week and many more campaign stops are planned Intricate Word wasn’t difficult for spelling champ Melanie “Intricate” proved to be a “difficult, very hard” word for Nicole Setzer to spell, but Melanie Dixon spelled it and then correctly spelled ‘‘uni- que’ to win the annual Kings Mountain District Schools Spelling Bee Tuesday after- noon at the Schools Ad- ministration Building. Melanie, a seventh grader at Central School, will now represent the district in the annual Charlotte Observer Spelling Bee. Spelling champions from the district’s five elementary schools, Central and the junior high school competed at the district bee. Miss Setzer, of North, and Miss Dixon breezed through eight rounds before Nicole missed “intricate.” Before attempting to spell the word, Nicole asked pro- nouncer Lynne Mauney for a definition. Mrs. Mauney said the word meant ‘difficult, very hard.” Other school winners were Bret Burger of East, Jay Downey of KMJH, Misty Smith of Grover, Erika Ran- dall of West, and Cynthia Ware of Bethware. They were stumped on words such Central over the next several days. Greenville, S.C., native Jesse Jackson was in eastern North Carolina earlier in the week and made numerous stops in Robeson County where two Indians recently held hostage the staff of a daily newspaper, ‘The Robeso- nian”, in Lumberton. Pat Robertson greeted numerous area citizens, in- cluding Grover resident and druggist Quint McCoy, last SPELLING CHAMP - Melanie Dixon, Photo by Gary Stewart center, is con- week at Hamrick’s Clothing Outlet in Gaffney, S.C. Dixon won the Bethware and fifth grader and won the DAR essay contests in the fifth and gratulated by Kings Mountain’s district spelling bee coor- dinator, Martha Bridges, left, and pronouncer Lynne Mauney after winning Tuesday’s bee at the Superintendent’s office. as jagged, zodiac, tuxedo, academic and pompous. Judges for the contest were Kings Mountain High librarian Sara Griffin, KMHS assistant principal Jackie Labor Department removing 17-year-olds Obituaries ......3-A Editorials .......4-A Sports ........ 5-8A Business News . 10-A Classifieds. . . 12-14A Weddings ...... 2-B Club News ..... 3-4B Television ..... 5-6B School News ..8-11B of loads, Lavender, and former North School principal C.A. Allison. Winning is nothing new for Melanie, the daughter of Dwight and Kathy Dixon of Route 6, Kings Mountain. She The hospital bond vote was called recently by the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners. If passed it would authorize up to $25 million in bonds for hospital inmprovements and addi- tions at Cleveland Memorial Hospital, and authorize the levy of taxes in amount suffi- cient to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds. district spelling bees as a seventh grades. She won the sixth grade Scholastic Achievement Award last year at Central. She spent two weeks last year at the Duke University Young Writer’s Camp. Melanie’s hobbies are reading, writing, short fic- tion, and playing the piano, and she’s active in youth acitivities at her church. Hakg Nicole Setzer, daughter of Margaret Setzer of 318 Wilson Terrace, is a fifth grader at North. She won the North DAR essay contest on the U.S. Constitution, is a Prin- cipal’s Pal and library assis- _ tant. Erika Randall, fifth grader at West and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Randall of 1109 West Gold Street Exten- sion, also won the West Talent Show and is a cheerleader for the Optimist Club football team. Misty Smith, fourth grader at Grover, is the daughter of Turn To Page 15-A School officials seeking adult bus drivers Last week’s decision by the U.S. Department of Labor re- quiring public schools in North and South Carolina to remove 17-year-olds from behind the steering wheels of buses has created a hardship on three of the four Cleveland County high schools, says Dave Hinson, supervisor of transportation for the three county school systems. The decision, Hinson said, could result in buses not run- ning their routes, doubling up or extension of routes. The Labor Department, Kings Mountain optometrist Nathan H. Reed, 65, dead Funeral services for Dr. Nathan H. Reed, Kings Mountain optometrist, were conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Mountain Rest Cemetery by the Rev. Bob Collins. Dr. Reed, 65, of 206 Edge- mont Drive, died Thursday at his home. A Granite Falls native, he was the son of the late William and Amanda Austin Reed and wos a veteran of World War II. He had been an optometrist in Kings Moun- tain since 1948. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn McDaniel Reed; two sons, Dr. Charles Nathan Reed of Hickory and Dr. John David Reed of Chicago, Ill; and two grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Associa- tion or to the charity of the donor’s choice. which had earlier given schools in the Carolinas until the beginning of the 1988-89 school year to remove 17-year-old drivers, rescind- ed its action after saying school systems had not followed its policy guidelines of dealing with the issue. With the April 1 deadline quickly approaching, Kings Mountain High School must replace five of its 12 drivers, Burns 20 of 28, and Crest 12 of 32. Shelby High is the only unit in the county that does not have 17-year-old drivers. Hinson said local school of- DR. N.H. REED ficials are in the process of recruiting adult drivers through stories in local papers, letter to parents, PTO meetings, and letters to all mayors in the county and all churches in the county. ‘““‘We want to make everyone aware that we need school bus drivers 18 years of age or older,” he said. However, finding willing drivers is just the first step toward solving the problem, Hinson said. After that, all potential drivers must take 14 hours of classroom work, make at least 80 on a written ‘Rabbit’ “The Velveteen Rabbit’, by Margery Williams, will be presented Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Cen- tral School auditorium. The theme of the play revolves around the powerful love of a little boy (Brandon Wood) for his velveteen rab- bit (Stacey Grooms). Tickets are $4 for adults and $2 for senior citizens and test, and [pass two days of on- the-road bus driving tests. “I’m not going to be a part of anybody cutting short on the training,” said Hinson. “We're not going to pick up any Tom, Dick or Harry off the street and hand them a license and say ‘drive this bus’. || Hinson, who has been supervisor of the county transportation since 1964, says he feels 17-year-old bus drivers are just as safe as 18 and 19-year-olds and that bus drivers today are better trained than in the past. “It used to be, the day you turned 16 you could get cer-: tified to drive a school bus,’ Hinson said. “Then the state passed a law that said you had to be 17 and that worked out pretty good. Now the Department of Labor is say- ing its dangerous and hazar- dous for a 17-year-old to be driving a school bus and that you have to be 18 to perform that duty.” Hinson said the Labor Department has the final say on the matter and ‘‘there’s Turn To Page 9-A to open Thursday students. eos are given for groups of 10 or more at a charge of $1 per person. Reservations should be made for groups of over 10 people by calling 739-4683 ‘during business (hours or 739-2647 after business hours. The play is a production of Kings Mountain Little Theatre, which is supported in party by a grant from the Grassroots Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts Council. Members of the cast in- clude: Narrator, Charles Daven- port; Aunt Sally, Annie Grant; Uncle Fred, John Grant; Little Boy, Brandon Wood; Nana, Nan Jean Grant; Velveteen Rabbit, Stacey Grooms; First toy Turn To Page 9-A a Hc
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