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A big change is in store for voters in the next city
election which could be this fall.
Kings Mountain Redistricting Committee has
called a public hearing for Thursday, April 11, at
7:30 p.m. at City Hall to receive input on suggestions
for redistricting City Council, redrawing new elec-
tion ward lines and creation of a minority district fol-
lowing guidelines from the U. S. Department of
Justice,
After looking at nine scenarios for ward changes,
the committee Wednesday leaned toward three op-
tions but will present seven options to citizens at a
public hearing and will consider other ideas and com-
ments as well.
The three choices of the members of the new re-
districting committee:
1) A city council composed of the mayor, four
ward commissioners elected from the members of
their wards, and two commissioners who would run
at-large. A voter would have the chance to pick four
See Redistricting Map
Page 8-A
of seven who sit on council.
2) A city council composed of five wards, two at-
large seats and mayor. This would give the voter four
choices out of eight but an extra person on council.
3) A city council composed of five wards, one at
large seat and mayor. This would give the voter a
chance to pick three of the seven who sit on council.
The other four options are:
4) Six council members elected by wards; mayor
elected at-large.
5) Five council members elected by wards; mayor
elected at-large.
6) Four council members elected by wards; mayor
elected at-large.
7) Four council members elected by wards; one
council member elected at-large; mayor elected at-
large.
Elections Board Chairman Becky Cook favors the
first proposal: four wards with the commissioners
running in their individual wards where they would
be chosen by their wards; two at-large seats where
the entire community would vote and elect two mem-
bers of council and the mayor who would also run at-
large. Ward lines would be redrawn and henceforth
commissioners would be representing wards, not dis-
tricts.
The committee on Wednesday waded through 25
pages of guidelines from the U. S. Justice
Department, which must approve the final plan be-
fore a city election can be held, and found that the
ideal number of minority citizens versus white in a
ward is about 60 percent. 3 i
The creation of a minority district, |
a black may sit on city council for the first ume ever.
The recent U. S. Census listed the minority popula-
tion at 1,791 black and 160 Asian, American Indian,
Hispanic or a minority population of 22.3 percent.
City Attorney Mickey Corry told the redistricting
committee that a minority district can be formed and
the land does not have to be contiguous meaning that
the board can pick up predominant black areas as
they need. Possibly minorities living in part of Ward
5, Ward 6 the Northwoods area and Pine Manor
Apartments area will comprise the minority ward. "If
we go less than four wards we have too big a white
population or black to comply and if we keep adding
wards then the councilman'’s representation area will
get smaller and smaller," said Cook.
Kings Mountain City Council will receive the sug-
See Redistrict, 10-A
Youth
killed
in wreck
A 14-year-old Kings Mountain
High student was killed early
Tuesday morning after he lost con-
trol of the car he was driving and
struck a tree, police said.
Derek Loy Morrow of 709
Groves Street died at the scene of
the 3:26 a.m. accident from mas-
sive head injuries, Cleveland
County Coroner Ralph Mitchem
said.
Morrow was driving a 1983
Oldsmobile Cutlass that belonged
to Paul Fulton, of 803 Southwoods
Drive, a friend's father, when he
rounded a curve and struck the tree
at Piedmont avenue near McGinnis
Street, according to investigating
KMPD Ptl. Maurice Jamerson.
Police say they do not know why
Derek took the car or where he was
headed.
Paul and Betty Fulton answered
their doorbell about 4 a.m. Tuesday
morning to police who said they
thought their son had been in an
accident in the family car. But after
seeing that Jason, 15, and another
son, Andrew, 18, were asleep in
bed the Fultons thought of Derek, a
longtime friend of Jason's who had
been spending the night. The boys
had watched the NCAA Final Four
basketball game and planned to go
fishing Tuesday with Jason's father.
After the game, the boys and some
of Andrew Fulton's friends played
Nintendo and talked into the early
hours. Derek was in the kitchen
making a sandwich when the
Fulton boys went to bed before 2
a.m., according to Fulton.
The teenagers's death is the sec-
ond in Kings Mountain and the
third in Cleveland County since
Friday that occurred by drivers hit-
ting trees. Talmadge C. Duncan,
57, of 305 Parker St., died of in-
juries Saturday at 3:22 p.m. in the
emergency room at Cleveland
Memorial Hospital. The N.C.
Highway Patrol said Duncan lost
control of his truck on Oak Grove
"The Lord supplies your need when you live for
N Him." Sage advice from a couple married 59 years
still sweethearts and counting their blessings in the
twilight years of life.
Millard Putnam, 80, and Hester Chapman Putnam,
78, both disabled, feel that help for them is
only a telephone call away thanks to Cleveland
County Home Health Care.
Putnam, a patient of CCHHA for two years, was
recently hospitalized for surgery. He is in a
with physical therapy. Two days a week Corlis
Childs, a registered nurse, and aide Mary Briscoe vis-
it the Putnams on Patterson Road. Until he and his
wife are well again, Briscoe assists him with bathing
and personal care needs. 5
When it comes to health care, there's no place like
home, say the Putnams, who praise the 25-year-old
agency and the nurses and staff as "wonderful."
* Without extra insurance besides Medicare, Mrs.
Putnam said home care is cost savings for the couple
who were billed $3,000 for one night in a hospital re-
cently. \
Home Health supplies home-bound paticnts like
wheelchair now but hopes his mobility will return
THEY MAKE HOUSE CALLS
THEY MAKE HOUSE CALLS-Corliss Childs, left, and Mary Briscoe, right, nurses on the staff of
Cleveland County Home Health Agency, make a house call to home-bound patient ‘Millard Putnam.
Cleveland Home Health
just a phone call away
the Putnams with medicines prescribed by their doc-
tors and all the benefits of a hospital plus tender lov-
ing care in their own home, a service which its 77
employees provide to a wide range of patients, pre-
dominately the elderly, although the agency also
serves high risk infants and teenagers with 80 percent
of its patients residing in Cleveland County, accord-
ing to Ronald Clitherow, director of the facility in
Shelby since 1983.
Twenty-seven nurses on the local staff see home
bound patients on a regular basis. Clitherow says the
local staff has seen over 30,000 patients and now are
seeing third generation patients. It's exciting for them
to work with multi-generational families and to help
older couples like the Putnams maintain a degree of
independence in their own homes.
Hands-on skills, family patient training of spouses -
to help care for the patient and distributing medica-
tion and special diets are just some of the helps that
the staff give. In addition, nurses like Childs become
good friends of the patients and relate back to the at-
tending physician additional information about the
patient's needs.
: See Health, 3-A
Road and hit a tree.
Hall of Fame April 22
Gordon, Dennis Hicks, Charlic
The fourth annual Kings
Mountain Sports Hall of Fame
Banquet will be held Monday,
April 22 at 7 p.m. al the Kings
Mountain Community Center.
Tickets are on sale for $10 cach
and include an all-you-can-cal
meal and the induction ceremony.
Tickets arc available at the Kings
Mountain Chamber of Commerce,
Kings Mountain Herald, McGinnis
Department Store, Champion
Contracting and from any member
of the Hall of Fame commitlicc
which includes Gary Stewart, Carl
Champion, John McGinnis, Chuck
Burns, Perry Champion, Mearl
Valentine, Scott Neisler, Loretta
Cozart and Lucille Williams.
Terry Holland, athletic director
at Davidson College and onc of the
top 20 winningest college basket-
ball coaches of all time, will be the
guest speaker. Holland coached for
many ycars at Davidson and
Virginia.
Inducted into the Hall of Fame
will be Jim Kimmell, former
KMHS football, basketball and
bascball star; Ken Baity, KM's all-
See Hall, 2-A
. DR. JANE C. KING
Dr, Jane C. King, Assistant
Superintendent for Instruction, of
Kings Mountain District Schools,
has completed requirements for her
Doctorate in Education from the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Mrs. King, wife of insurance-
man Jerry King, has been a mem-
ber of the faculty of KM schools
22 years. A former classroom
teacher and special education
teacher, she also formerly directed
the Exceptional Children's Program
and was Principal of both West and
North Elementary Schools before
New KM bank
to open Monday
Grand opening and ribbon-cut-
ting ceremonies for the new
Carolina State Bank at 114 East
Gold Street will be held Monday at
noon.
John Godbold, president; senior
vice president and chief operating
officer Jay Rhodes Jr.; Joe
Cabaniss, chairman of the
Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners, Kings Mountain
{Mayor Hayter mith rand - Charlie
Harry, county commissioner and
chairman of the local bank's board
of directors, will cut the ribbon
which will be followed by an open
house hosted by officers, directors
and employees.
"This is an exciting event in the
life of Kings Mountain since this is
the first new bank to open in
Cleveland County in 67 years,"
said Rhodes, who said a similar fa-
cility in Shelby will hold ribbon
cutting at 9 a.m. Monday.
Rhodes said that Libby Blanton,
formerly with Home Federal
Savings Bank, and Joann Hall, for-
merly with First Citizens of Kings
Mountain, have been employed as
senior account representatives.
Brenda Cobb, formerly of First
Citizens and Wade Ford, is head
teller. Elaine Clemmer, formerly of
First Carolina Savings Bank, has
also been employed as teller and
Pam Wood, a former employee of
North Carolina National Bank, has
been employed on a parttime basis
as a teller.
Members of the local advisory
board include Charles F. Mauney,
Larry Hamrick, county commis-
sioner Joyce Cashion, Mickey
Corry, Melissa Lawrence, Kyle
Smith, Jack Herndon and Hugh
Lancaster.
The new bank represents an in-
vestment of $600,000. The brick
facility with 3500 square feet of
floor space has three spacious of-
fices, a conference room, teller,
vault and safety deposit areas,
kitchenette, rest rooms and parking
space for 30 customers plus a
drive-up facility. The decor is coor-
dinated to enhance the bank's col-
or of purple in carpet, gray tile,
fabric and walipaper. Carolina
Holland were architects.
"We feel that Carolina State
Bank is in a super location to ac-
commodate prospective customers
and we have constructed a road on
Spruce Street behind the bank for
further customer convenience,”
said Rhodes, who notes that a
unique feature of the new bank is
the message board in front of the
facility which will give time and
temperature and information on
banking services and function as a
community bulletin board. Another
unique feature of the new bank's
services is that it will be open on
Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 12
noon, the only bank in the area to
offer Saturday service. The bank
opens to customers Monday at 9
a.m. and will open Mondays
through Thursdays from 9 a.m. un-
til 5S p.m. and on Fridays from 9
a.m. until 6 p.m. The window ser-
vice is open daily beginning at
8:30 a.m.
Kings Mountain High School
Band will play for the opening cer-
emony Monday. Rhodes invites the
public to come out Monday for the
open house and to also enjoy re-
freshments all week during bank-
ing hours to celebrate the first
week of business.
New PD design expected
A preliminary design for the
new Kings Mountain Law
Enforcement Center is expected
from architects and consultants in
the next two months, says city en-
gineer Tom Howard.
Howard said the next fiscal year
will see the removal of asbestos
from the old postoffice building
and work beginning on the roof
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joining the administrative office
staff.
She holds a B. S. degree from
Western Carolina University, a
Master's degree from UNCC and
an advanced certificate from
Appalachian State University.
The Kings reside on Crescent
Circle and are active in First
Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. King completed her re-
quired dissertation on the
"Characteristics of Teachers and
Sources of Information Valued by
Principals and Central Office
Personnel Administrators In
and cupola. The old postoffice
building is targeted to be renovated
and eventually house the Kings
Mountain Police Department.
The city is budgeting $90,000
this year for *1e pollution abatc-
ment, asbestc | removal and roof
work, which expected to begin
this fall.
r. King
Making Employment Decisions."
Previous stedies and input from
professional ¢ glleagues were used
to design a qi stionnaire for gath-
ering the dat: she said. The ques-
tionnaire cont. ned 28 items, or at-
tributes, to be rated in importance
on a scale of 1-10. For cach at-
tribute, subjects were also asked to
identify the primary source of in-
formation and to describe their
confidence in the named course, on
a scale of 1-10. The statistical pro-
cedures included a survey of 300
principals and 100 Central office
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