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Cleveland Tomorrow - a joint ef-
fort of county and city govern-
ments in Cleveland County to plan
future growth - will hold the first
of five town meetings October 20
at 7 p.m. at Kings Mountain High
School.
The meetings are designed to re-
ceive citizen input into plans for
future growth and services.
A task force of over 150 people,
representing the county, Kings
Mountain, Boiling Springs and
Shelby, began a study earlier this
year through the Urban Institute at
the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte. Committees studied
such areas as health, transportation,
economic development, education,
and arts, listing the county's
strengths and weaknesses in each
The committee includes several
Kings Mountain residents, includ-
ing leaders in government, educa-
tion and business.
All five town meetings will have
the same format, so anyone in the
Kings Mountain area who misses
next week's meeting here may at-
tend future meetings.
The schedule of meetings is:
October 20, Kings Mountain
High School. ]
Qctober 27, Fallston Elementary
School.
November 5, Upper Cleveland
Rescue Squad.
November 10, Boiling Springs
Elementary School.
November 12,0 Cleveland
Community College. »
All meetings are at 7 p.m.
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By ELIZABETH STEWART
The Herald Staff
Thursday will mark the end of
"an era in Kings Mountain as Dr.
John C. McGill takes down his
shingle at the second longest
recorded medical practice in Kings
Mountain.
"Dr. John," as he is affectionate-
ly called by hundreds of patients, is
retiring after what he calls a chal-
lenging, rewarding and interesting
career which spans 42 years.
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Instead of tending. sick folk, he
will tend a large herd of cattle on
his country farm, do volunteer
work, read more and enjoy family
and friends. He looks forward to
moving his books to his Hillside
Drive home but plans to visit often
with Dr. Charles Adams and Dr.
Frank Sincox, who will continue to
. practice family medicine at McGill
Clinic on Watterson Street.
McGill came to Kings Mountain
in September 1951, five months af-
ter Kings Mountain Hospital
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opened. He had practiced one year
in Williamston, SC after serving
two years in the Army Medical
Corps in Osaka and Kobe, Japan
and following his medical training.
He graduated as a top scholar at
Erskine College, Class of 1943,
where he was president of the stu-
dent body and from Vanderbilt
Medical School, Nashville, TN,
Class of 1946. He completed post
graduate training at Medical
College of Virginia in Richmond
and at Charlotte Memorial
Secret Service agents and members of President Bush's staff discuss a potential stop of the President's
whistle-stop tour of the Carolinas during a dry run by staff from Atlanta to Raleigh Tuesday. The
President's train will come through Kings Mountain next Wednesday morning but it is not yet official
whether it will stop or not.
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Hospital.
"Marriott Phifer called me one
day and said the Jaycees were
looking for another doctor to locate
in Kings Mountain," said McGill.
Other physicians here in 1951
were Dr. J. E. Anthony, who prac-
ticed 56 years; Dr. W. L. Ramseur.
and Dr. P. G. Padgett. Dr. Paul
Hendricks was on a tour of duty in
the Army at the time and Dr. Craig
Jones of Shelby performed surgery
at the hospital which had opened in
April 1951. Several years later Dr.
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and they started housekeeping in a
house where Kentucky Fried
Chicken stands today. They later
moved to Crescent Hill and their
children played with the Heddens,
Howards, Hords, Carpenters,
Hamricks, Sabetties, Kenneth
McGills, Durhams, Browns,
Craigs, Griggs, Housers and
Simmons.
See McGill, 11-A
Is President
coming here?
Fact: President Bush's train will
come through Kings Mountain
next Wednesday morning on a
whistle-stop tour from Atlanta, Ga.
to Raleigh.
What's uncertain is, will Bush be
on the train and will it stop in
Kings Mountain?
About 40 Secret Service agents
and members of the White House
press staff made a dry run Tuesday
and Wednesday and stopped in
Kings Mountain. They looked at
the downtown area, including park-
ing accessibility and safety features
of the downtown area, just in case
the train would stop.
Peter Gaillard of the Press Staff
said the train will make 10 one-
hour stops between Atlanta and
Raleigh. It is safe to say, he said,
that the train will stop in the area,
probably in Kings Mountain,
Gastonia or Charlotte. He said after
the dry run is completed (late
Wednesday afternoon in Raleigh)
Bush's campaign officials will de-
cide where the stops will be made.
At the Herald's press time, no deci-
sions had been made.
Tuesday, officials checking out
downtown Kings Mountain said
Bush would board the train in
Atlanta early Tuesday moming and
See Bush, 12-A
Tuesday's parent/superintendent forum was encouraging
Despite a small turnout, Kings
Mountain Schools Supt. Bob
McRae said he was pleased with
the attendance at the first
Superintendent/Parent forum
Tuesday night at Kings Mountain
Middle School.
Only about 30 parents showed
up, but most took part in the
lengthy discussion about concerns
within the school system. McRae
said another forum may be planned
for next year.
Most of the discussion was posi-
tive, but a few parents did express
their disappointment in some sub-
jects and other areas.
"I was pleased at the kind of in-
terchange we had,” McRae said.
"It's important for parents to have
Wastewater discharge was accidental
For a few minutes Tuesday
golfers at the 15th hole at Kings
Mountain Country Club were see-
ing purple,
Spectrum Textured Fibers, the
city's biggest user of water and us-
er, accidentally discharged too
much wastewater from their equal-
ization ponds while emptying dye-
ing vats and backed up the sewer in
the pipe and popped a manhole
cover at the city's line. Dark-col-
ored dye water flowed heavily into
the creek.
"It was an honest mistake and
Spectrum has corrected it," said
City Manager George Wood.
Wood said luckily there was not
a break in the line and no repairs
are necessary. "It's just a matter of
scheduling changes,” he said.
City engineer Tom Howard
closed the weirs to cut down the
flow from the pipes and Spectrum
workers adjusted the flow from the
equalization ponds.
"If the flow is too heavy for the
pipes the pressure builds up and
pops the cover on the manholes,"
said Howard.
The Mooresville Office of the
Environmental Protection Agency
got calls from several residents
who noticed the strange color of
the water.
"We don't mind folks calling the
EPA but it saves them long-dis-
tance calls to call 734-0333, city
hall, or the police department, 734-
0444," said Wood, who said all in-
cidents of this nature, by law, are
See Wastewater, 3-A
Pleasure boat request unanimously denied
A proposal from a Moss Lake
resident to put a cruise and plea-
sure boat on the lake was unani-
mously rejected by the Moss Lake
Commission Monday night.
But Wanda L. Hays isn't through
yet. She will take the request for a
permit to the city council at the
7:30 p.m. October 27 meeting.
Three petitions from Moss Lake
residents opposing a permit for the
venture were received by the board
and a half dozen residents from a
crowd of about 40 voiced objection
during a public hearing conducted
by acting chairman M. C. Pructie.
Only Hays spoke in favor of the
project.
Hays admitted that her dream
for a cruise boat might not gct on
the water but she said she envi-
sioned that some day that would
happen and it would be good for
the community and revenue for the
city. She said she got the idea after
experiencing similar excursions in
Indiana and was impressed with
the Catawba Queen on Lake
Norman after her family moved to
Moss Lake.
"I wanted to give back some-
thing to this area. Everyone was so
good to us when our 22-year-old
daughter was killed by a drunk
driver,” she said after the meeting.
"But I would not want to do any-
thing to bring harm. This is thc
most beautiful area in the world."
Responding to questions, Hays
See Boat, 4-A
the opportunity to express tneir
concerns about things going on in
the school system." He added,
however, that he did not want such
meetings to take the place of par-
ents' communications with their in-
dividual schools’ principals and
teachers.
McRae said it was reassuring
that there were not a "lot of new
things" that surfaced io catch him
off guard. "That's reassuring,” he
said.
One matter did catch McRae off
guard. Mike Hardin objected to a
video entitled "Rock the Vote" that
was shown at the Middle School.
He said the film "was hostile to
Christianity,” showed a cross burn-
ing,/and "bordered on pornogiaph-
ic: k
The film was shown in a math
class, Hardin's wife Linda said, and
she felt that was inappropriate.
Hardin asked if the system did not
have a policy to prevent such a
showing, which he referred to as
"lewd."
Principal John Goforth ex-
plained that the film deals with
voting responsibilities and was
shown because the school is regis-
tering students for a mock election.
One teacher screened the video and
judged it appropriate. Other teach-
ers who did not screen it began
showing the video and deemed it
inappropriate and stopped it, he
said.
An accidental discharge of wastewater into Potts Creek turned the
water a dark purple Tuesday.
“It ' was designed more for teen-
agers," Goforth said. "I think their
objection was who was on the
video (Madonna), rather than what
was said. I would question using
Madonna as a role model and if I
had previewed the video to show in
my class, I probably would not
have shown it. But it was the
teacher's judgment call. What one
may think is lewd behavior may
not be lewd to someone else."
Goforth, who is in his first year
as principal at KMMS, said the is-
sue will probably be discussed at
the next faculty meeting but added
that he doesn't believe in taking
teaching freedoms away from the
teachers. .
"When you get into setting up
policies cn things like videos, the
next step is to set policies about
what you can say or do," he said.
"I think it's a matter of judgment. I
hope our teachers always use good
judgment but I hate to get into poli-
cies about the freedom of teachers
‘to teach their class."
McRae said he respects the
Hardins' feelings but could not
make a judgment before giving the
teachers involved a chance to re-
spond.
"Mike's exactly right in that the
school system should have no in-
terest in showing anything that bor-
ders on lewd or inappropriate ma-
terial," he said.
See Parents, 12-A
Park Grace School will be sold
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education will probably offer the
old Park Grace School for sale at
public auction in early December.
Board Attorney Scott Cloninger
Was instructed to draw a resolution
of intent to sell to be acted upon at
the next School Board meeting. If
it is approved, the board can adver-
tise the facility. for sale in 30 days.
Cloninger said the board can sell
the facility at public auction but re-
serve the right to reject the high
bid. If the high bid is not accept-
able by the board, it can be sold
privately.
"Since this is not a judicial sale,
you do not have to allow for an up-
set bid," he told the board.
In another matter, the board
agreed to hear from the community
during the "comments from the
community” portion of next mon-
th's board meeting on the possibili-
ty of revising legislation to estab-
lish the seats on the School Board.
The board is considering chang-
ing Priscilla Mauney's inside city
seat to an at-large seat since the
majority of the population of the
school district has shifted to out-
side the city limits. Presently, there
are three inside city and two out-
side city seats.
Rev. Billy Houze, who requested
population figures several months
ago, said that designating the seat
as "at large" would safeguard
against future annexation which
would shift the majority of the
population back inside the city.
- See Park Grace, 11-A
County candidates discuss issues
All six candidates for three scats
on the county board of commis-
sioners rate education as the No. 1
priority for spending in Cleveland
County.
They made their remarks during
a forum attended by 125 people at
Cleveland Community College
Tuesday night.
Voters on November 6 will
choose from a candidate lincup that
includes one political veteran and
five newcomers.
Charlic Harry, the incumbent
Republican, says that while there
arc no simple answers. to issucs
that his cxpericnce gives him an
cdge over the opponents. He called
attention to scveral important pro-
grams now underway that all six
candidates stressed during the two-
hour forum.
None of the candidates threw
barbs and all pledged © support
the three who win election. Each
spoke candidly about issucs and
differences they sce in the cam-
paign on questions submitted to the
League of Women Voters and
Cleveland County Jaycecs, co-
Sponsors.
All six candidates favor district
representation but with different
idcas on the board makeup. Harry
expects redistricting to be on the
agenda for action by the new board
when it takes office. He said that
the current board will take a look
at redistricting at the next board
See Candidates, 2-A