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Page 2A-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Wednesday, November 30, 1988
It’s beginning to look like Christmas in the area as citizens buy trees and begin
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decorating for the holidays. Larry Parsons, above, puts up trees at Christmas Express corner of East
Gold and 161, where Frazier fir and white pines range from 4-12 foot high and where the lot will be open -
daily until Dec. 23 from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight. Christmas Express, which opened this year for the first
season, is owned by KM National Military Park Ranger Dick Paisley. Some of the trees are homegrown.
103 Units In Christmas Parade
A total of 103 units are gearing
up for Kings Mountain’s
Christmas parade Sunday, Dec.
11.
The parade will form on East
King Street, branching off on
Deal, Dilling and Carpenter
Streets and will kick off at 2 p.m.
and follow the traditional route,
proceeding from King to the
overhead bridge and turning left
on Battleground Avenue. The
parade will continue down Bat-
tleground, turning left on East
Gold (beside KM Farm Center)
and disbanding at the site of the
new Post Office.
Leading off the parade will be
units of the State Highway Patrol
and Cleveland County Sheriff’s
Department followed by Kings
Mountain Police Chief and Kings
Mountain Fire Chief, by Mayor
Kyle Smith, the Kings Mountain
City Council, a Parks & Recrea-
tion car and by Senator J. Ollie
Harris.
Co-chairmen of the parade are
Parks & Recreation Director
David Hancock and Fire Chief
Gene Tignor.
Other units, in order of their
appearance, are:
Kings Mountain
Cheerleaders, Jr.
Cheerleaders, Kings Mountain
High
Varsity
High Band, Carrousel Princess
Lisa Lund, Homecoming Queen
Allison Bumgardner, Sandra
Grant, Leslie Dover, Tonya
Hawkins, Tammy Gillespie,
Carry Rhine, Ann Hawkins,
Robin Waterson, Shannon Smith,
Jennifer Mullax, Denise Meeks,
Kimberly Thompson, Robin
Goforth, Gina Anthony, Andrea
Mayhew, De De Brown, and Deb-
bie Gore.
Also, Jane Ledford, Student
Body President J.J. Warlick,
Marsha Ware Art Club, Holly
Denton Beauty Queen, Kings
Mountain High Radio Broadcast,
BBT Float, Jane Campbell
Dancers, Tex-Tyler & Textile
Queen, Bethware Queen Christie
Hughes, Little Miss Kings Moun-
tain Miranda Smith, Amity &
Belks float, Broadway Dance
Studio, Toot Smith Race Team (2
cars), Bethware Cub Scouts (3
units), Cleveland County Cancer
Society (walking), Cub Scout
Troop #92, Career Club - Central
School, Olivers Christmas
Assortment (walking), Vickie
Arrowood Dance Academy
(marchers), Grand Marshall
James Fulghum, City of Kings
Mountain, Dance Reflections
Susan Horne (marchers), Con-
velescent Home (car), Little
Wee Miss Kings Mountain D.
; Bicycles, Snow Fox
Favorite Yuletide Gifts
The hottest selling Christmas
gift items in Kings Mountain
stores range from bicycles to
Snow Fox, the latest three runn-
ing snow sled with seat and steer-
ing wheel, and college logos.
Kings Mountain merchants are
expecting their busiest holiday
season and shoppers have been
gift wrapping and laying away
items since October.
Corky Fulton, owner and
manager of Sagesport, said sales
are at a definite upswing and that
popular items for all ages are
sweat shirts, including the
popular Mountie jackets, ski
jackets with bib overalls, tobog-
gan and snow type sleds, the new
Snow Fox, and hottest items this
season are Niki Air Cross
Trainer Shoes for men, women
and children. ‘‘Some kids have
been eyeballing some of these
items but already we are laying
away popular items,” he said.
Odus Smith, owner of Western
Auto Store, said BMW bikes are
hot items for boys and girls as
well as wheel goods of all kinds,
including scooters and wagons. A.
popular item in appliances are
refrigerators.
Wade Ford salesmen con-
ducted a poll of the best selling
car this season and the most
popular model was the Mustang
LX 5.0, a two door sportscar.
At Jim Testa Chevrolet
salesmen voted unanimously for
the Cavalier, Camara, and S-10
small trucks. “The affordable
car is what most new car buyers
are looking for this season,” said
one salesman.
The day after Thanksgiving
was a busy day for most
retailers. Doyle Campbell, of
McGinnis Department Store,
said that Christmas shoppers are
choosing the ever popular jeans
for every member of the family,
sweaters, pants, jackets, shirts,
and Agner proces including
handbags and jackets.
Remote control cars, electric
guitars with microphones, and
electric trains are hot items in
the toy department at McCrory
Stores (TG&Y). The store is open:
six days a week until 9 p.m. and
on Sundays until 6 p.m. with later
store hours to accommodate last
minute shoppers. The store has
sold out of electric guitars with
microphones but more have been
ordered.
Nintendo Entertainment
System by Nintendo is expected
to do a big business this holiday
season as well as Barbie, by Mat-
tel, Inc., the reigning queen of
fashion dolls, about to turn 30:
G.I. Joe by Hasbro, Inc. Military
action figures and vehicles con-
tinue to be best sellers at
Christmas and Win, Lose or
Draw, by Milton Bradley, is
another popular board game bas-
ed on charades.
With the countys unemploy-
ment rate at 3.8 percent local
merchants are having no difficul-
ty in hiring seasonal employ-
ment.
“I think sales will definitely be
up for Kings Mountain mer-
chants this year,” said Campbell
who said the Christmas shopping
rush is already here.
Fulton said he thinks sales will
definitely be up this holiday
season. ‘There seems to be a
confidence among customers
who are just looking and making
their list,”’ he said. ‘Kings Moun-
tain is fortunate to have such low
unemployment.”
Bridges, Hancock Appointed
To Indoor Pool Committee
Mayor Kyle Smith, at the Nov.
22nd meeting, appointed Coun-
cilwoman Norma Bridges and
recreation Director David Han-
cock as the city’s representatives
to the Kathryn M. Neisler
Natatorium Governing Board.
The new indoor swimming pool
should be completed by mid-
December and in full use by mid-
January, according to Dr. Scott
Mayse, chairman of the Kings
Moumain Indoor Pool Founda-
on.
Others previously appointed to
the board were Dr. Scott Mayse
and Bob Maner, representing the
Pool Foundation; and Dr. Bob
McRae and Dr. Larry Allen,
representing the school system.
The enclosed 11,000-square-
foot facility features six 75-foot
swimming lanes, with an
overhead gallery seating 300.
Cost for the natatorium has been
announced at $820,000.
A drive for an additional
$140,000 to meet an announced
project short-fall is going well,
Dr. Mayse said, with (progress
report and sales pitch)
The foundation director said
that a dedication service will be
held in . mid-January. Planned
meetings of the governing board
will be held to establish schedule
and use plans.
Chapman, Kings Mountain Op- | #
timist Club Jr. Pee Wee
Cheerleaders & Homecoming
Queen, Little Miss Cleveland
County, Gastonia Gazette Float,
Oasis Temple (2 units), and
Sparky the Dog (wandering).
Also Adams Chapel AME Zion
Church (singers), Linderman
Three Wheelers, Kings Mountain
Body Shopo (truck), McDonalds,
Dune Buggie Club (7 units),
Command Post (music). Holiday
Inn, Brownie Troop -#1 Leslie
Moore, Fredrickson Motor Lines
(antique truck), Rotary Club !
(truck with house), K.M.G.
(truck), Suzuki (motorcycles),
Curry’s Beauty Shop (van 2
units), Cindy Bullock
(dance/music), Robbie Moore
Model-T (go cart), Kevin Sawyer
(car), Rodney Graham (car),
Thomas Dover (car), Herman
Simpson (car), Richard Welch
III (car), Rodney German (car),
Wally Stroupe (car), Jerome
Bridges (car), Jeff Goodwin
(car), and Doug Shelby.
Also Cameron Maples, Scott
Rollins, Arnold Blanton, Bill Ew-
ing, Glen Rice, James Garren,
Timmy Hunt, Keith Baldwin,
Allen White, Darrell Adams,
Greg Thompson, Jay Hamrick,
and Steve Ingrim (car).
ment (truck), Kings Mountain
Rescue (4 units), Yamaha of
Gastonia Float & bikes, Fist
Union Bank Float, Scuba Boat
Kings Mountain Fire (truck and
boat), Antique Fire Truck (1938),
Antique Fire Truck (1935), Burch
Electric Company (7 units),
First Presbyterian Church,
WADA Radio Station (music), Al
Lane Suzuki Lincolnton (motor-
cycles), Antique Tractor H.C.
Lankford, Burch Liquor Still
(truck), Home Federal & 1st °
Federal Savings & Loan Float,
Ed Brown Rodeo Horse Wagon (7
units), Shriners (3 units), Santa
Clause Float, and Horses.
Full Recommendation Not Accepted a
Council failed to accept in full
an ad hoc personnel committee
recommendation seeking
amendments to the city’s job
classification and pay plan at its
regular semi-monthly meting at
city hall on Nov. 22nd.
One ad hoc member, Coun-
cilman Jackie D. Barrett, voted
for Councilman Al Moretz’s mo-
tion in the action and the other,
Councilman Humes Houston,
abstained. Mayor Kyle Smith,
the other representative on the
ad hoc committee that met at
least two times on the matter, on-
ly gets to vote in case of a tie.
The motion by Moretz that “it
remain the same’ was seconded
by Councilwoman Norma
Bridges but was questioned by
Councilman Fred E. Finger, who
asked “what do you mean? I
want the motion read back.”
Councilman Houston asked
Moretz, ‘‘what are your
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satisfactory answer before the
vote was called.
What the confusion was all
about was mostly the recommen-
dation made by Municipal Ad-
visors, Inc., the city’s consulting
firm contracted to recommend
the new job classification and
pay plan. Their plan which coun-
cil adopted Aug. 16, 1988, drew 13
appeals from employees.
Roger Scott, principal of
Municipal Advisors, was advised
by City Manager George Wood in
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a letter Nov. 2nd that the number
of appeals was minimal, “When
you consider that we were notin-
stalling an update, but a com-
pletely new system, I believe itis
a commendable effort on your
part,” he said. tf
The matter was tabled at the
Nov. 7th meeting and the ad hoe
committee was named. hg
The 13 appeals were reduced to
five which were ruled valid and
to one reclassification and the =
addition of one new position, a
pretreatment cordinator.
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