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4 1 3 1 ¢€ 3 1 alll 3 : ; rs -~ > rr £ Ee. . (Compiled by Kenneth Kitzmiller) Ss AF THE A= ST, STR Jew, «PY March29- M LSS TE ETS 28 & vi ) arch 29- i TE] wd TZ 3 i SS — on April 4, 1988 April 4, 1987 Z pe = = m= Total Precipitation 15” 1.07” ’ J Maximum One Day 15” (3rd) 72” (29th) we § A - o 4 = & | | Be R a Year To Date 4.447 14.32” 2 VV & ARSE Minimum Temperature 48 (28th-3rd) 24 (30th) Maximum Temperature 81 (4th) 70 (30th) Average Temperature 64.9 60.4 : VOL. 101 NUMBER 15 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1988 KINGS MOUNTAIN, N(R; - = 7 i Hospital Adds Skilled Care Kings Mountain Hospital was approved today for a 10-bed skilled nursing care unit. This will help to meet the need in the community jr Short-term skilled nursing eds. The unit, located on East Wing of the second floor, ac- comodates patients who need more specialized care than a nursing home facility offers but who requires less acute care than the hospital pro- vides. “The extended care unit is a temporary, intermediate step. of care between the hospital and a nursing home or a person's residence,” says Bobbie Hadfield, RN Director of Nursing service at the hospital. A patient will be able tog ain strength while receiving professional nurs- ing care and continued in- struction to manage this il- Iness at a lower cost. Turn To Page 3-A SPRING FUN — Balm sliding even though the ca y temperatures Tuesday provided the perfect time for water lendar says April 5. Above, Jacob Moschler, of 310 W. Mountain Street, enjoys the spring holidays from school wi is si i i the 3] ag hon 7s from ol with his sister, Addie and brother, David. PHOTO BY DARRIN GRIGGS Getting acclimated to the antiquated McGill Plant. community and work on the Woods said that worksheets 1988-89 city budget are two have gone out to department functions that will keep Kings heads who are now making Mountain’s new city their budget requests. When manager busy during his first he arrives on the scene he weeks on the job. will be meeting with the city George A. Wood, 37, finance department and in- Pinehurst Willage manager, dividual department heads to who assumes duties here review those requests before May 9, said that obviously the presenuing a recommended proposed regional Crowders budget to the city council, Creek wastewater treatment hopefully, by June 1. Since he plant is a high priority for the won’t be arriving until May 9, city council, which must Wood said he may ask Coun- decide in budget delibera- cil to give him more time to tions how to finance 3 million present the preliminary over a three year period. The or By law, the council city is at or near its capacity must approve the new budget in wastewater treatment now by July 1. Wood To Assume KM Duties May 9 and must do something about “I want to leave my options Joyce Cashion County’s First Woman Commissioner (ED. NOTE - Second in a series of profiles on Kings Moun- tain political candidates in the May 3 primaries.) After her family, politics is the love of Joyce Cashion’s life. The Kings Mountain citizen, first woman ever elected to the Cleveland County Board of Commis- sioners in 1984 and first woman ever elected chair- man of the Cleveland County Democratic Party, has been active in politics for a quarter century, moving from chair- man of East KM precinct to the state executive commit- tee, where she worked six years and was county and ey chairman twice for Jim Hunt and Rufus Edmisten. On the national level she was on the steering committee for Jimmy Carter’s successful presidential campaign. JOYCE CASHION The Kings Mountain citizens, first woman ever elected to the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners in 1984 and first woman ever elected chairman of the Cleveland County Democratic Party, has been active in politics for a quarter century, moving from chairman of the East KM precinct to the state executive committee where she worked six years and was county and key chairman twice for Jim Hunt and Rufus Edmisten. On the national level she was on the steering committee for Jimmy Carter’s successful presidential cam- aign. Pp Four years ago Cashion ran for a seat on the county board Hall Of Fa Fete Mond Kings Mountain’s first Sports Hall of Fame banquet will be held Monday at 7 p.m. at the Kings Mountain Com- munity Center on Cleveland Avenue. Marty Schottenheimer, head coach of the Cleveland Browns, will be guest speaker. He will be introduc- ed by Danny Ford, head foot- ball coach at Clemson University. Other well-known sports figures participating in the event will be former Washington Senators’ third baseman J.K. ‘‘Buddy’’ Lewis, Sal Artiago of the Na- tional Association of Profes- sional Baseball Leagues, University of North Carolina assistant football coach Dan Brooks, Davidson College basketball coach Bobby Hussey, and former Gardner- County Commissioners Call For Piedmont Water District Cleveland County commis- Related Stories 1-4B Webb and Furman head basketball coach Eddie Holbrook. Jonas Bridges, manager of Radio WKMT, will be master of ceremonies and Leonnel Brunnemer of Gastonia, who ram-rodded the prestigious Gastonia Sports Hall of Fame for many years, will inter- view the special guests. Carl Champion, Hall of Fame committee chairman, will give the welcome and Rev. Eric Faust of First Presbyterian Church will give the invocation. Linda Dixon will sing the national anthem and the Kings Moun- tain Fire Department color Turn To Page 3-A sion will appoint three open 5 this point and come INSI DE into Kings Mountain with an : : 4 open mind, I want to discuss Diitunnis Suh 3-A with board members their ommunity News..... 1A concerns on financing the Classifieds aon ae a asa tae Ca 6-9A sewer project. I need to have | Editorials............ 10-A time to re-evaluate the city Women’s News... .. 11-13B Organ uation and Jor 7 thein- | School News....... 14-17B ernal policy as well as see where we are”, he said in a Sports............... 1-4B telephone interview from his | Church News.......... 5-B Pinehurst office Tuesday. Food... i. coi... 6-8B Although Wood would not say if.a hond issue is the route fo | go ir financing the city cost of {the $25 million sewer projeqt, he did say that a bond issue could be structured to make interest only payments for . two years. The board would Turn To Page 5-A 30 Pages Today PLUS ONE AD INSERT PHOTO BY DARRIN GRIGGS POSTAGE UP-Mrs. Mary Greene, or 302 Maner Road, stamps her letters with an additional three cent stamp at Kings Mountain Post Office as another customer in the background buys stamps. The new 25 cent postal rates became effective Sunday. sioners Tuesday night passed members to the board and unanimously resolution re- two others will be appointed, questing the N. C. Commis- one by community of Earl sion for Health Services to and one by community of create the Piedmont Patterson Springs. Metropolitan Water District. David Pond, engineer with The action came during a W. K.Dickson Co. of joint public hearing con- Charlotte, outlined the pro- ducted by officials of the ject proposal. He gave an State Department of Human estimate of February or Resources, Division of Health March 1989 as the date of Services. beginning of construction of The state is expected to act lines in the first of nine on the resolution May 5 after phases of a project estimated | ~« + which next step will be choos- to cover 130 square miles of ing the membership on the Southeastern Clveland Coun- board to operate the ty and cost $32.5 milion. district. The county commis- Turn To Page 7-A On Your ‘Guard,’ Men! There’s A Woman In Unit Step aside men! Make room for Lisa Oliver, 19, first female member of the 505th Engineers Battalion, Kings Mountain unit of the North Carolina Army National Guard. The five-foot-three strawberry blonde stands out in a squadron of 100 men, not only because of her natural good looks but because of out of 40 targets she hit 33 of them. For the pat 11 weeks, Oliver has joined the Na- tional Guard in Fort Lee, Va., for advanced training classes where she graduated with the top of her platoon as a 76 Charlie, the name given to equipment parts specialists. Every morning at 4:30 she was out of bed and dressed in BDU’s, camouflage outfits worn with combat boots and a hat, pinning her long hair up under the hat, a style she became accustomed to dur- ing both boot camp and ad- vanced training for a total of 20 weeks. When she wasn’t dressed in BDU’s she was wearing the traditional uniform of the Guard, light green shirt with bow tie and LISA OLIVER dark green jeans and green jacket. Basic training was rough and some recruits didn’t make it through the obstacle courses. However, Lisa Jays you get used to drills and the long hours and you meet nice people. She met her best friend, Tonya Wilburn, when they shared basic together and later roomed together at Fort Lee, Va. Turn To Page 5-A of commissioners and won. Vice Chairman for two years, she’s running again and her name is on the May 3 Democratic Primary ballot. Eleven Democrats and two Republicans seek the three seats open on the board. Cashion got interested in politics in Alexander County where her husband, Bill Cashion, was teaching and coaching and she was working as a secretary and school lunchroom manager in the early years of their marriage. In 1960 they moved back to Kings Mountain and Bill started coaching and teaching at Kings Mountain High and Joyce joined her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Craig Falls, in the family grocery business. Bill has retired after 30 years in education and Joyce and her mother run the family business since the death of Mr. Falls. The couple reared two children, Becky Bumgardner, who resides with her husband, Mike, and children, Mikey and Beth, on Countryside Road; and Bill Cashion Jr., who resides with his wife, Jennifer Pruette Cashion, at 1407 Briarcliff Road in Shelby. Mrs. Cashion also presently serves on the Social Services Board, the Region C Emergency Medical Services Council and the Kings Mountain Economic Development Committee. Turn To Page 2-A Dr. George Orvin, Pro- Kings Mountain and the coun- Symposium To Culminate Health Fair the research committee for DR. GEORGE ORVIN fessor of Psychiatry and the Chief of the Adolescent Sec- tion of the Medical University of South Carolina, will lead a symposium, ‘Living With Adolescents’, Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at B. N. Barnes Auditorium. The symposium will culminate a day-long Teen Health Fair to be held at KM Junior High free and open to all 9th graders. Dr. Orvin’s address is open to the public and parents of adolescents are encouraged to attend. The Health Fair, first in ty, is sponsored by the Cleveland County Health Department and KM District Health Council. The Sym- posium is sponsored by the Cleveland County Medical Society. Billed as a dynamic speaker, Dr. Orvin is a member of the Governor’s Coordinating Cabinet for Children and the Governor’s Task Force on Adolescent Pregnacies. He has served on the executive committee of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry and on "Health Fair adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Orvin is the author of numerous publications deal- ing with adolescents and several dozen scientific presentations. He also served as a clinical assistant at the Universety of London, Psychiatry. As a part of Adolescent | Awareness Week, Teen : promotes healthy lifestyles and healt awareness for adolescents, The Health screening vill Turn To Page 14-A Institute of |
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