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VOL. 103 NO. 33
West
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The Kings Mountain School
Board approved bids for construc-
* tion of West School at a special
meeting Friday morning.
The total project will cost
$1,413,386 and will leave the sys-
tem about $100,000 of reserve
money from its $10.5 million
school bond package.
"We were very pleased with the
bids," said Supt. Bob McRae. "We
have really been fortunate on the
timing of our building projects.
The last couple of years have been,
a good time for construction bids.
If we'd had to spread them out over
more years the bids may have gone
up. We've been able to stretch our
dollars tremendously and also had
very good luck in local bidders be-
ing able to be involved. We feel
like we got the most cut of the
bond package as possible."
West is the last major construc-
tion project for KM schools. The
middle school, high school, Grover
and East have entered new facili-
ties during the past two school
years and Bethware expects to oc-
cupy a new 14-classroom wing in
January.
Demolition was under way at
West Tuesday and Wednesday and
the site should be totally cleared by
the end of the hii A new admin-
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wing will be bui it fa
Mountain Street.
See West, 3-A
KM fireman
Plato Heavner, 75, belonged to
the "old school” of Kings
Mountain fireman and he never
tired of talking about those "good
ole days" with his fire-fighting
buddies.
Heavner died August 20, 1991 at
Cleveland Memorial Hospital.
His bout with cancer the past
several months prevented him from
regular visits to the fire department
he joined in 1963 as one of only
four paid firemen when firemen
worked shifts of 24 hours on-the-
job and 24 hours off. The com-
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East Sch oi second grade student Amand ay of Monday:
East students are studying in a brand new $1.4 million building this year after spending the 1990-91 school
year at Central School. Almost 3,800 Kings Mountain K-12 students began a new year Monday. Tr
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Photo by Chris Nancy.
raderie of the department then and
now was what he said he enjoyed
and liked most.
A native of Kings Mountain,
Heavner was the son of the late
Fonzo Franklin and Minnie
Mauney Heavner. He attended
Kings Mountain High School and
worked in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
during the early part of World War
II. A former carpenter, he also de-
livered milk and drycleaning dur-
ing the early years of his life. He
was hired by the late mayor Glee
A. Bridges and fire chief Floyd
Plato Heavner, 75, dead
Thornburg in 1963 and retired
from the city on February 22, 1985
after 22 years. He was a member of
Grace United Methodist Church.
He and his wife, Louise Allen
Heavner, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary in 1988. The
couple was married September 3,
1948.
Heavner's hobbies were raising
goats and collecting baseball caps
and he shared both with his five
grandchildren. It wasn't unusual to
see children, rabbits, parakeets, pi-
See Plato, 2-A
PLATO HEAVNER
KM School year off to great start
The school year is off to a great
start in Kings Mountain but first-
day enrollment was down 28 stu-
dents from last year.
Supt. Bob McRae said opening
day presented only a few problems
and they are being ironed out this
week.
"The schools, faculties and other
employees have done a terrific job
getting ready for the kids," McRae
said. "We are real anxious to see
how attendance goes the rest of the
week because the numbers in those
elementary grades that were in-
volved in reassignment were a little
smaller in some schools than we
expected."
This year's first-day enrollment
was 3,749 compared to 3,777 last
year. McRae said he feels like the
enrollment will increase over the
next several days. "I believe some
people just didn't come to school
Monday," he said.
McRae said he was a little con-
cerned about first-day minority
percentages at Bethware and
North. Bethware's was 17.8 per-
cent, which is below the projected
percentage, and North's was 33.3,
which was slightly higher than the
UF drive seeks $120,000
Kings Mountain United Fund
kicked off its 1992 campaign for
$120,750.00 for 15 causes
Tuesday.
Campaign chairman Pat Carter
and UF President Glenn Anderson
stressed the theme, "Together, we'll
be there," at a luncheon at Holiday
Inn which attracted volunteers and
representatives of 15 agencies ap-
proved for funds.
Both speakers said the sluggish
economy will have an impact on
fund-raising efforts but called the
goal "attainable" and a "stretch
goal." "Let's go to work and attain
an early goal," said Anderson.
Although some agencies were
not funded, the agencies receiving
money for local needs are:
American Red Cross, Ministerial
Association Helping Hand Fund
and Chaplain service; Girl Scouts
of Pioneer Council; Boy Scouts of
Piedmont Council; Kings
Mountain Rescue Squad;
Children's Home of Cleveland
County; Kings Mountain Boys
Club; Grover Rescue Squad; CO-
DAP; Salvation Army; Cleveland
County Mental Health Association;
Cleveland County Hospice;
Cleveland Vocational Industries;
and Cleveland County Abuse
Prevention Council.
Marjorie Christopher, a director
of Cleveland County Shelter
Home, and longtime volunteer J.
C. Bridges talked about how the
United Fund serves the people in
Kings Mountain. Bridges, retired
hardwareman who chairs the ad-
vance gifts division with his wife,
says pcople find by giving to
See Fund, 3-A
projected percentage. The school's
redistricting policy called for
schools to fall with plus or minus
five percent of the system-wide av-
erage of 26 percent.
McRae said only 20 students
from Pine Manor showed up at
Bethware and there could have
been a few other cases where reas-
signed students showed up at the
wrong school.
"We'll continue to monitor that,"
he said. "The Pine Manor mode is
the major hinge in our racial bal-
ance. There were 60 students from
Pine Manor at East last year.
Numbers are going to change from
year to year, but not that much.
Assuming that the 20 figure at
Bethware becomes 40 it would
move the percentage up to about
21 percent."
The only other problem the sys-
tem experienced was traffic con-
gestion on Phifer Road. On
Monday morning, there was no po-
liceman to direct traffic at the
Phifer-Fulton Road intersection in
front of KMHS and traffic entering
the high school was backed up in
every direction. A policeman was
See School, 3-A
UNITED FUND AGENCY - The Cleveland County Chapter-of
the American Red Cross is one of the agencies funded by Kings
Mountain United Fund. Mrs. Martha Scruggs, exccutive secretary
of the county chapter, talks with UF President Glenn Anderson
about needs of the Red Cross in this area.
The Kings Mountain Herald will
sponsor a public forum for City
Council and School Board candi-
dates Tuesday, September 17, at
6:30 p.m. at
Auditorium.
All candidates running for politi-
cal office in Kings Mountain will
be invited and will respond to
questions submitted by the general
public.
Local realtor Jerry King will
moderate the meeting.
The auditorium will be open at 6
p.m. for citizens to present ques-
tions. The questions must be sub-
mitted to a representative of the
newspaper in the auditorium lobby
between 6 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. They
should be neatly written or typed;
however, they can also be present-
ed orally to the newspaper repre-
sentative. The questions should be
addressed to all of the candidates.
Under no circumstances will ques-
tions be allowed to be directed to
any one candidate, and under no
circumstances will questions be al-
lowed from the floor. Candidates
are urged to be in the lobby at 6
p.m. to greet the public.
At the beginning of the meeting,
King will explain the format of the
_ program, and, at the end, each can-
didate will be given the Spportuni-
ty i make a brief statement. f
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by the mayoral Cn: and then HE
the council hopefuls.
B.N. Barnes -
The fields for this fall's elections
were set two weeks ago after a
month-long filing period.
The School Board race features
five people seeking two inside city
seats. The election is slated for
Tuesday, November 5 with the top
two vote-getters winning the seats.
There are no run-offs in school
board elections.
Chairman Billy King currently
holds one of the two seats and he is
running for a second four-year
term. The other seat that is to be
filled is being vacated by Doyle
Campbell.
Also seeking a seat are Shearra
Miller, B.S. "Sonny" Peeler, David
Lynn and Mark George.
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The city primary is Tuesday,
October 8. If run-offs are neces-
sary, they will be on November 5.
Former commissioners Jim
Childers and Scott Neisler and
Gilbert Hamrick seek the office of
mayor being held by Kyle Smith,
who did not seek reelection after
his first four-year term. All regis-
tered voters in the city's five wards
may vote for one candidate.
In Ward One, Fortee Gamble,
Philip Hager and Roosevelt Ingram
seek the newly-created minority
seat. Voters from Ward One only
will the representative.
Nothing says lovin’ like
goodies from Peggy's oven
By ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
Peggy Childers, the chef at the
family-run restaurant on North
Piedmont Avenue, rises at 3 a.m.
six days a week to prepare break-
fast, a routine she loves because
she likes to "turn out pretty things
from the oven."
Cooking over a grill is nothing
new to the Kings Mountain native,
whose mouth-watering breakfasts,
lunches and suppers are popular
with her customers she considers
part of her big close-knit family.
Peggy and her six Chaney sisters
have worked side-by-side in the
restaurant at some time during the
past quarter century. Peggy's sister,
‘Loretta Owens, is now owner of
the restaurant named for Peggy
Chaney Childers in the early 1970's
and their sister, Sherri Short, is also
a waitress. The other sisters are
Lucille Gladden, Dot Phillips, Sue
Rhea, all of Kings Mountain, and
Edith Millwood of Bessemer City.
PEGGY CHILDERS
Brothers Jack and Johnny Chaney
never worked in the kitchen but
Peggy says the family of 11 chil-
dren of the late Rev. and Mrs. R. L.
Chaney have long been supportive
of the Kings Mountain business.
"My family has always been
See Peggy, 7-A
Appointments may be made
Kings Mountain city council
will probably appoint a new Ward
4 commissioner and a new member
of the elections board Tuesday
night at 7:30 p.m. at city hall.
Mayor Kyle Smith said he is
placing the two items of business
on the agenda.
Former commissioner and may-
or pro tem Scott Neisler resigned
after two years on the board to run
for mayor and Philip Hager rc-
signed his position on the elections
board to run for the newly-created
minority Ward Onc on the board.
The mayor said he has asked for
recommendations: [rom clection
board members for the elections
board position and have asked the
five council members to make ree-
ommendations for the two-year ap-
pointment on council,” said Smith,
who will complete his first four-
year term as mayor this year and
has decided not to seck reelection.
"It's up to them (the board) and
I'm confident they will make the
right choices," said Smith.
Smith says he has no idea who
the board may select to fill the
Ward 4 post. He acknowledged
Ictters from two former candidates
in the last ¢lection: Jerry White,
who placed third; and Will
Sanders, who placed fourth.
Ncisler defeated the late Harold
Phillips in a runoff for what was
then the District 6 scat on the
board. Willard Boyles placed fifth
in the race. Both Boyles and White
reside in the current Ward 4 but
new redistricting moved Sanders to
Ward §.> The council may appoint
any registered voter residing in
Ward 4 to the two-year (erm.