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Mountaineer
Celebration
Is Saturday
Food, Music, Family Fun
Planned In Downtown KM |
Mountaineer Day Saturday in Kings Mountain
promises to be fun for the whole family. Crowds are
expected for a variety of events which start with open-
ing ceremonies at 9:45 a.m.
Mayor Kyle Smith will kick-off the full day's cele-
bration of the 210th anniversary of the Revolutionary
War Battle of Kings Mountain on a stage to be set up
downtown. The back parking lots and the street run-
ning in front of the new City Hall on East Gold Street
will be the setting for events all day and until 11 p.m.
A street dance, featuring "Mink", is on tap for 8 p.m.
followed by a fireworks extravaganza at 9 p.m.
Shriners will set up a makeshift jail in the parking
area of Plonk Tire Friday afternoon and will lock up
citizens Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, with as-
sistance of volunteer off-duty city police. For a dona-
tion of $5, you can jail your best friend or worst ene-
my and he/she will be handcuffed and placed in jail
until fines are paid, all of which is in good fun and for
benefit of White Plains Shrine club and its projects for
crippled and burned children. Shriners will also be of-
fering barbecue for sale at a concession stand down-
town Saturday and will be cooking barbecue and oper-
ating a big barbecue stand at the American Legion
parking lot starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. BBQ shoul-
ders, available for $30, may be picked until noon
8 lates are $4 and sandwiche
said that local HorIeys: will serve as i: for the
_ jail-a-thon and Marty Blanton and Linda Haynes, of
the local police department, will serve as bailiffs. City {
police will begin serving warrants about 3 p.m. on
Friday, Yarbro said.
KMHS Pep Band and Kings Revue will open the
festivities at 10 a.m. followed by a balloon release.
Area dance schools, square dance groups, gospel
groups and Swinging Seniors will entertain from the
stage area Saturday moming.
See M-Day, 9-A
County Gets Ready
For "The Challenge’
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Photo by Jeff Grigg |
PARK CELEBRATION MARKS BATTLE CELEBRATION-Musket shots fired by the
Guilford Militia, a history reenactment group, featured the 210th anniversary celebration
of the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain Sunday afternoon at KM National
Military Park amphitheater. Downtown Kings Mountain will be the celebration focal
point Saturday for annual Mountaineer Day festivities which begin at 9:45 a.m. with
fireworks at 9 p.m. and street dancing until 11 p.m.
Two years ago Cleveland
County Challenge was born as a
dream of a 19-member steering
committee appointed by the Shelby
City Council and Cleveland
County Economic Development
| Commission and today-many pro-
jects later-local people see it as a
strategic planning project for the
entire county.
"It's up and growing and Kings
Mountain is a definite part of it,"
says KM Schools Supt. Bob
McRae and County Manager Lane
Alexander.
The program began with a sur-
vey of 300 people in the county on
what they viewed as the areas's
strengths and weaknesses and for
months since task forces, such as
the education task force that Supt.
McRae serves on, have been in-
volved public meetings with an eye
toward implementing some of the
goals.
Among the wide range of project
goals are the achievement of a
Bank Awards Contract
Carolina State Bank has awarded the general con-
tract for construction of its 3,600 square foot single
story Kings Mountain office at 114 E. Gold Street to
Carolina Artisans.
The Kings Mountain office will be located across
countywide water system, expan-
sion of preschool programs and in-
creased support for school voca-
tional education opportunities,
reduction in adult illiteracy, expan-
sion of drug abuse prevention and
treatment efforts and coordination
of services for strengthening fami-
lies.
Affordable housing was one of
the most critical issues the study
addressed but education was listed
as top need in the county followed
by water and sewer needs.
"While I'm very pleased that ed-
ucation is foremost in the minds of
the majority of people surveyed,
what we want to emphasize is that
this is not just an educational plan
but a countywide plan for strategic
development of the whole commu-
nity and many people are busy on
task force groups such as trans-
portation, which recommended, in
addition to the U.S. 74 bypass of
Shelby, a transportation system for
See County, 5-A
GLENN ROUNTREE
Looks Over Damage At Grover Cemetery
Redistricting
Meetings Set
Student Assignment Plan
Top Goal Of School Board
Public meetings on school redis-
tricting will begin Nov. 8 at Grover
and East Schools and similar meet-
ings are planned on Nov. 19 at
North and West Schools and Nov.
20 at Bethware School.
Kings Mountain Board of
Education at Monday's regular
meeting set the wheels in motion
for achievement of the board's
number one priority this year: de-
veloping and implementing an ele-
mentary student assignment plan.
All meetings will be at 7 p.m.
and the public is encouraged to
participate and find out how redis-
tricting will affect them.
As school officials work with
consultants to balance the schools
racially, they also want the public
to know that the school transfer
policy, defined as "fairly loose" by
school officials, will be tighter next
school year. This year, 133 students
of 1800 in K-5 grades, transferred
from their assigned schools for var-
ious reasons. Next: school year it
won't be as easy to transfer but
school board members promised
fairness in Yealing with the prob-
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transfer policies from other school
districts to the board, as it dis-
cussed briefly a tougher transfer
plan.
"It's human nature to resist
change," said Chairman Doyle
Campbell. "Speaking as a parent, if
I can get my child back there (in
the child's original school before
See Redistrict, 2-A
project.
school assignment and sample
Preliminary figures for the
tal outlay project are $ i
or $50 per square
higher than the $40.10 per sq
foot cost of the
Officials at Monday
they
Damage To Cemetery
Will Reach Thousands
GROVER-Cemetery Supt.
Glenn Rountree is sad and angry.
For 35 years the well-known
Grover citizen has worked--most
times on a volunteer basis-at the
beautiful cemetery on Bethlehem
Road to keep both the old and new
portion of the cemetery in good
shape. He's proud of the town's fi-
nal resting place for its residents.
Recently, vandals turned over
15 monuments in the cemetery,
some dating back 50 to 75 years,
doing thousands of dollars in dam-
age.
Rountree is sad because of the
desecration of the cemetery and an-
gry that vandals would uproot
memorials to deceased citizens. *
"I hurt all over," said Rountree,
as he inspected the damage at the
head stone of a friend.
Rountree got the job of cemetery
superintendent by accident. "I was
driving my mother-in-law, Mrs. C.
F. Harry Sr. through the cemetery
one day about 35 years ago, and
she asked me to take over the du-
ties. There hasn't been a day since
that I haven't been at this ceme-
tery," he said, as he pointed to the
mausoleum of the late Effie
(Nannie) Holmes and C. F. (Cap)
Harry Sr., parents of his wife,
Jackie Harry Rountree. Harry died
in 1952 and Mrs. Harry died in
1958.
The late Carlee Martin was the
. first superintendent of Grover
cemetery. Rountree supervised the
addition of the new portion of the
six acre tract.
The Town of Grover, which
owns the cemetery, isn't liable for
the damages, said Mayor Bill
McCarter. Property owners will
have to repair the monuments.
Grover Police and the Cleveland
County Sheriff's Department are
asking that persons call them if
they have names of suspects in the
case.
See Grover, 5-A
tive facility to do one's banking business."
A March 1991 completion for the bank is expected
to coincide with the completion of the Shelby office
currently under construction.
the street from Kings Mountain Post Office. It will be
consistent in both design and appearance to the Shelby
office for Carolina State Bank, the first new bank to
open in Cleveland County in 67 years.
Jay Rhodes, Senior Vice President and City
Executive for Kings Mountain, commented that he
was pleased with the plans and contract for the new
bank. "The building will be very functional, one that
will enhance the downtown area of Kings Mountain.
Our location will be convenient for the entire commu-
nity, offering both a pleasant atmosphere and a attrac-
Loretta Cozart, Executive Director of the Kings
Mountain Chamber of Commerce, said, "I am very
pleased that Carolina State Bank has chosen to open a
branch in Kings Mountain. A community must have a
strong economic base to support new financial institu-
tions; this speaks well for both Kings Mountain and
Cleveland county. The decision to locate in our central
feetiaaiiisil
business district is particularly exciting, because we
are making strong efforts to revitalize our downtown.
Carolina State Bank's decision to locate there will help
tremendously in achieving this goal."
DRAWING OF CAROLINA STATE BANK
Grading Underway For New Facility In Kings Mountain
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