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an JUNE 22, 1988 NEXT WEEK: Sum The Herald's Kings KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. 25° The Kings Mountain District Schools An old-fashioned Fourth of Ju- mittee is asking persons to par. ly celebration is planned for Sat., in the Grover Elementary School July 2 in Grover. ‘and Minette Mill parking lots. A committee which was ap- Opening ceremonies will be pointed by City Council to plan held following the parade under the event will hold its final the big oak trees at First Baptist meeting Thursday night and then Church. begin getting the city in shape for theevent. va During the afternoon, a Martha Wright is chairing the number of musical groups, clog- committee which also includes gers, and other groups will per- Lynn Roland, Ronald Queen, Jeff form until 5 p.m. During the Cash, Patsy Rountree, Quay same time, there will be games, Moss and Joann Turner. including greasy pole climbs and A big parade at 12 noon will get watermelon eating contests, in the festivities underway. Other the vacant lot behind Shiloh activities include a street dance, Presbyterian Church. Food will games, food and performers. be available at both locations by The parade will lineup at the the youth of First Baptist Church Cameron Mill Plant and proceed and the Grover Rescue Squad. down Main Street. From Main Beginning at 8 p.m., there will Street it will turn on Cleveland be a street dance on Laurel Avenue and continue to First Avenue in front of Grover In- Baptist Church, where it will dis- dustries. Music will be provided band. 1 Bl by “The Trust” of Shelby. The Quay Moss is coordinating the street will be blocked off at 7 parade and says there is still p.m. plenty of time for units to enter. “We invite all of the people in Those interested in participating the Kings Mountain-Grover area in the parade may call Moss. to come and participate in the For the parade and other ac- day-long fun events,’’ Mrs. tivities during the day, the com- Wright said. KM Plans A ‘Big Time’ At Community Center It’s celebration time for the Mark your calendars and join historical city of’ Kings Moun- the fun at the City’s annual In- tain, Monday July 4th. The Parks dependence Day Celebration, and Recreation Department is starting at 1 p.m. at the Deal Big Time" for all at. Street inn : aE Rec o HO the festivities and | iele or speculate in illed en- joyable annual celebration. Events will kick off at 1 p.m. 12:00 Noon - Swim Race : and will conclude in a “Bang” 1:00 p.m. - Cannon Ball “Big with the Giant Fireworks Ex- Splash” travaganza at 10 p.m. Many ONGOING EVENTS - Fire events are slated this year. Pool Truck Rides Waterslide 2:00 til events included; a penny dive, 4:00 p.m. (in front of Community diving contest, watermelon Center) Kiddie Rides. carry, swimming race, and a cannon ball big splash. Various OTHER EVENTS fields events will also be under- 1:00 p.m. Horseshoe Pitching way. Contest (sign up at Horseshoe pit Other events as horseshoe pit- area) ching contests, greasy pole 2:00 p.m. Cake Baking Contest climb, cake baking contest, 3:00 p.m. Greasy Pole Climb - bingo, kiddie rides are also plan- $20 money prize ned. The ever popular waterslide 2:30-4:30 p.m. Bingo - in Com- will be wet and waiting in front of munity Building (nice prizes) A N Le 11:30 a.m. - Watermelon Carry the Community Center. Public 2:30-4:30 p.m. Dunkin’ swimming will be from 12 til 2 Machine p.m. Antique fire trucks rides 5:00 p.m. Jake Early around the complex will be going Memorial Park Dedication on and the dunking machine will 5:30 p.m. Old Timers Softball be in place. An old timers soft- Game (40 and over) ball Fape is scheduled following 6:30-7:30 p.m. Beauty Pageant the dedication of the Jake Early (Various Age Group) sign up at Memorial Park. Live Bands will stage area fill the air with music from 5:30 FIELD EVENTS-sign-up at the til 9:30 with a beauty pageant P.A. Tent highlighted from 6:30 til 7:30. Sack Race Culminating this fun-filled day Egg Toss will be the Giant Fireworks Ex- And Much More. . . . travaganza in the evening at 10 ENTERTAINMENT p.m. Prizes, awards and trophies Variety Music - supplied by will be given throughout the day Live Bands and complete concessions willbe 10:00 = p.m. GIANT available for those who wish to FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGAN- leave the food cooking chores at ZA Kings Mountain City Council will take a second look at the pro- posed $15,690,371.00 city budget Wednesday night at a 7:30 p.m. workshop meeting at City Hall. City Manager George Wood Monday night presented a preliminary budget proposal but said that at least two work ses- sions will be held before the council formally adopts the new budget Thursday, June 30, dur- ing a special meeting. Under state law, local governmental budgets must be approved by Ju- be adopted. Wood is proposing reduction in the city tax rate from 50 cents to 38 cents per $100 property valua- tion. The 50 cent tax rate has ap- plied for many years, reflects a 24 percent drop, although the county wide property reap- praisal upped Kings Mountain’s taxable valuation from $159.4 million to $209.1 million this year. With the old valuation and 50 cent tax rate the city would have collected $797,000 by the end of the fiscal year. The new revaluation and tax rate will br- of property taxes as last year although the city budget is less. Last year’s budget was $16.1 million. In his budget message to city council Monday, Wood stressed the change of the tax rate due to the octennial revaluation by Cleveland County; the need to address water and sewer rates in order to finance needed utility improvements with a general obligation bond issue; the inclu- sion of funds to implement the Job Classification and Pay Plan expected soon from Municipal Photo by Darrin Griggs DREDGING WORK CONTINUES - Dredging and other work to get the PIlot Creek Wastewater Treat- ment Plant into compliance with state laws is continuing. The city hopes to have the state-imposed moratorium against accepting new sewer customers lifted by July 1. 17 Charged With Selling Beer To Seventeen businesses were in- dicted by Kings Mountain Police this week for selling alcoholic beverages to minors. Kings Mountain Police Sgt. Billy Benton, Sgt. James Camp, and Sgt. James West led the undercover operation June 8, 14, and 15 after complaints from citizens who reported that some of the 25 establishments in the ci- ty with beer, wine and liquor per- mits had sold to minors under the age of 21. “The Police Department did not go after any one individual store or person’, said Benton. Benton said that Sgt. West ac- companied a 19-year-old to each store to make a ‘buy’ and that at 17 of the businesses the clerk did not request proof of age and purchases were made. At the new ABC Store on Cleveland Avenue, Benton said the young man bought a pint of Canadian Mist and was not asked to pro- duce an ID card. Court date for all 17 defendants home. is July 14th in Cleveland District Court at Shelby. Benton said that on a first offense a defendant is usually given a written warning and the report included in his récords with the state ALE and state ABC commissions. Kings Mountain area stores refusing to sell to the minor were Winn Dixie Store, Pantry Store on King Street, Pantry Store on Cleveland Avenue and Pizza Hut, Police said. Police plan to continue similar ‘buys’ on a periodic basis and warn operators of establishments in town who sell beer, wine and alcohol that it is against the law to sell to a person under the age of 21. By law, the store operators or clerks are re- quired to ask for an ID card if a person ‘‘looks questionable.” Criminal summons were serv- ed on the following businesses and employees for sale of alcoholic beverages to an under age person: Ole Country Store, Cherryville Road, Darrell Forbes and Steve Bess, employees. Depot Stop and Go, Gary Dean Martin, clerk. Allen’s Grocery, Joe Duncan, clerk. KM Weather Total Precipitation Maximum One Day Year To Date Minimum Temperature Maximum Temperature Average Temperature (Compiled by Kenneth Kitzmiller) June 15-21 Year Ago 58 32 .38 (18th) .21 (20th) 13.16 22.46 63 (15th) 68 (17th) 96 (21st) 90 (21st) 78.5 78.3 Summer Report To The . : People a Lifestyle — SINCE 1889 — ZSf Edition Soo Inse Zo VOL. 101 NUMBER 26 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA oe > rd Soo Z Hi . = Tax Rate May Be Lowered ) ==2% ~ ~ Fourth Celebration : ; I B = ourth Celebration ity Considering budget Sar Scheduled In G | EEE C € u € n rover BY LIB STEWART ly 1, beginning of the new fiscal ing in $758,000. The Wood budget Advisors, Inc. w z NEWS EDITOR year, or an interim budget must requires about the same amount preparing a manag = requested by the ci determine staffing ticipated insurance creases and ways to limit the ci- ty’s costs; acquisition of the Old Post Office for $90,000 for a new police station; economic development and the need for a capital improvements program to begin as soon as possible. Wood told Council members state law only allows the city to budget based on the actual col- lection rate for taxes; in Kings Mountain's case 96.7 percent. While most city managers have months to work on budget proposals, Wood only moved to the city May 9 and became the ci- ty’s first city manager in the new city manager-council form of government. He said that City Clerk-Treasurer Marvin Chap- pell had assisted him tremen- dously in working up the pro- posals they presented to the city council Monday. The proposed budget is available for public inspection at City Hall and Mauney Memorial Library. Normally the city would have had the budget ready for public inspection by June 1. Wood said the reasons for a smaller budget for 1988-89 is that one time capital projects were completed last year “but that monies are provided to take care of costs of a bond issue. cil consider a $8 to $10 million bond issue to pay for critical renovations to the utility system. The city is under a state imposed moratorium at Pilot Creek Waste Treatment Plant. A referendum, if approved by citizens, would pay for upgrading of the city electrical and sewer systems, although the council has yet to act on which will be the priority item, Wood said. Turn To Page 3-A Minors Petroleum World, Kim Cooke and Robert Murphree, clerks. Little’ Dan’s Grocery, Grover Rd., Mary Goforth, clerk. The Pantry on Phifer road, An- na Duell, clerk. Holiday Inn Lounge, Mickey Moss, clerk. Reynolds Drive-In on York Road, Brad Reynolds, clerk. Harris-Teeter Super Markets, King St., Kim Gantt, cashier. East King Shell Station, Shane Shockley, clerk. Handy Pantry, Cleveland Avenue, cashier Debbie Allen. Eckerd’s Drug Store, King St., Shannon bloomer, clerk. Food Mart, formerly Crawford Quick Stop, Carolyn Ward, clerk. Linwood Superette, Linwood Road, Keith Falls and Kirk Falls. ABC Store, Cleveland Avenue, Scottie Edwards, clerk. Carey’s Restaurant, King St., Foy Cunningham, clerk. KM Express Store, King St., Ophelia Pressley, clerk. Wood has proposed that coun- Citizens Warned Of Scams Kings Mountain Rescue Squad has been hit twice in the past several months by flim-flam ‘‘scam’s’’ in which persons representing the Squad ask for money for tickets for a music show or for ads for a newspaper. Captain Jonie Blanton and Equipment Officer Ross Lefevers warn that persons con- tacted should call the local Police Department. Attorney General Lacy H. Thornburg recently wrote issued the following ruling to officers of the local Squad would like for citizens to be aware of his ruling on ad scams. Thornburg’s letter reads: “Most, if not all of you already know about the continuing pro- blem of businesses being asked to buy ads in publications that supposedly benefit rescue Turn To Page 2-A Darrell Whetstine...Interim Rec Director Darrell Whetstine Is Employed” As Interim Recreation Director By TODD GOSSETT Sixth grade teacher Darrell Whetstine said he likes to find other jobs in the summer when he’s not teaching at Costner Elementary School in Gaston County. For this summer he found a job ip Kings Mountain --as the city’s interim Recreation Director. Whetstine took over the job on June 13, replacing George Adams, who recently took a coaching postition in Bridgeport, Conn. : Whetstine grew up in Kings same time, he was studying for a certification in teaching from Gardner-Webb College. He received his certificate in 1974 and started teaching at Costner Elementary in the 1975-1976 school year, where he has taught school since. Whetstine continued his educa- tion at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C., and earned a Master’s degree in education in 1981. He first became associated with the department of recrea- tion in Kings Mountain when he worked for a couple of summers with George Adams at the Com- Mountain and graduated from munity - Center, When. Adams Kings Mountain High School. In decided to take the job in Connec- 11972, he graduated from Western ticut, he proposed to the city Carolina University with a manager to let Whetstine take degree in psychology and a con- over the job unitl a full-time centration in physical education. replacement was found. After graduation, he worked a Whetstine accepted, and will be® few different jobs before landing with department until he returns a job as a part-time teacher at to teaching in August. A perma- the optional school at Kings nent replacement has not yet Mountain High School during the been named. 1973-1974 school year. At the Turn To Page 2-A Ll EAC Ps
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