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Mountaineers defeat South Point for Western 3-A championship 8-A GIVE BLOOD THURSDAY 1-6 p.m. | Central United Methodist Ch Hunt only area legislator in favor of open meetings bill IN NIW SON 2 d4::8:.00 * AAV INOWAAT xavag1l TV ITHOWER AANAVR 98087 VOL. 105 NO. 23 Thursday, June 10, 1993 186 +35¢ { / STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FACTS Kings Mount; Kings Mountain's Mountaineers hope to win their second state baseball championship in five years Friday and Saturday when they host Eastern champion Asheboro in a best-of-three series at Lancaster Field. The Mountaineers defeated South Point 6-2 Saturday night at Lancaster Field to win the Western Regional championship. Asheboro decision to Randleman on April 29. Game two will be played Saturday at 4 p.m. The third game, if needed, will be played one hour after the completion of the Saturday afternoon contest. Admission, set by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, is $5 per person. If 432. Second baseman Chad Whitson is hitting 409 and leads the club in home runs with five. Greene, Lawson and Whitson have combined for 77 runs batted in. Others over the .300 mark for are pitcher Avery Rogers (.382), leftfielder Zac Graham (.367), and pitcher Patrick Bell (.320). Game 1 - Friday, 7 p.m. Game 2 - Saturday, 4 p.m. Game 3 - Saturday (If Necessary) 1 hour after completion of Game 2 Admission - $5 per game. All games at Lancaster Field, Kings Mountain High School Crown. hander Patrick Bell (10-1) of the Blue Comets. Bell was recently drafted in the 54th round by the Houston Astros. Asheboro brings a 23-4 overall record into the contest while Kings Mountain is 21-3. Asheboro has won 13 games in a row since losing an 8-7 blanked North Lenoir 7-0 Friday for the Eastern The title series gets underway Friday at 7 p.m. with KMHS ace right-hander Stephen Fisher (12-0) going against 6-6, 230-pound right- a third game is needed, the stadium will be cleared after the Saturday afternoon game and fans will have to re-enter the stadium and pay again. The two teams appear to be well-matched. Both have good pitching, consistent hitting and excellent defense. The Blue Comets have a .353 team batting average. Alan Hartgrove a junior designated hitter/shortstop, is hitting .450, junior centerfielder Jermie Green is hitting .447, and senior first baseman Jason Lawson is hitting Bell has a 10-1 record on the mound with 77 strikeouts and a 1.24 earned run average in 67 innings of work. Asheboro's #2 pitcher, Avery Rogers, who hurled the Eastern Championship win over North Lenoir, is 7-0 with a 0.60 ERA in 46 innings of work. Whitson is 3-1 with a 2.10 ERA and 30 innings of work. It appears that the only big difference in the two teams is that Asheboro is predominately a junior team while Kings Mountain has 16 Seniors on its roster. See Baseball, 10-A 2.5 percent pay hike in KM's '94 budget City employees will get a 2.5 percent cost of living wage in- crease for the first time in three years and if they qualify a 2.5 per- cent merit raise in the proposed 1993-94 budget which tops $19 million, up $814,000 over fiscal year 1992-93. City Manager George Wood has distributed copies of the proposed budget to City Council. The budget is on the table for public review at City Hall and Mauney Memorial Library. The annual budget hearing 1s June 22 at 7:30 p.m, in Council Chambers. \ The good news for taxpayers is that the city is holding the line on taxes and there is no proposed in- crease in property taxes but the bad news is there are some increases in services. City employees will also feel the budget squeeze, although they are getting more take home pay. BM Natural gas and electricity - Causby to speak at school summit Dr. Jim Causby, superintendent of Polk County Schools, will be keynote presenter and facilitator for the second Education Summit Tuesday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Kings Mountain Holiday Inn. The event is sponsored by the Kings Mountain District Schools and Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce. : Supt. Dr. Bob McRae said the purpose of the summit will be to generate community input as to how the school system should pre- pare to best serve students as they “1 approach the new century.’ “The emphasis of the day will be to give our community members an opportunity to dialogue about how the Kings Mountain District School can best prepare to serve in the coming years its students and the community in which they live," said Wade Tyner, Chamber presi- dent. Tax rate County Commissioner Cecil Outside rec fees may be increased Kings Mountain may have to | tack on more non-city residents | fees in the recreation program if ! Cleveland County Commissioners cut an annual grant for recreation of $47,290.00. City Manager George Wood op- posed a cut at a meeting of nty | commissioners last week, noting ) that well over one-half of Moss |. % \ Lake participants of recreational activities are non-Kings Mountai residents. ty Recreation at the lake accounts for revenue of $162,950.00 in the budget with an additional $401,048.00 coming from general x fund and taxes for recreation at Moss Lake, the Community Center and walking track. The Kings Mountain recreational program boosts many participants from out- WESTERN N.C. CHAMPS - Kings Mountain's Mountaineers won the Western 3-A baseball champi- onship last week and will host the state 3-A championship series beginning Friday. Players include, front row, left to right, Chris Rider, Caja Ormand, Mike Smith, Kevin Melton, Robert Wingo and Sheldon Smith. Second row, Robbie Ruff, Todd Ware, Doran Moore, TG Goforth, Stephen Fisher and Rick Marr. Back row, Shane Webb, Damon Putnam, David R. Jenkins, Ben Ingle, Sharee Hopper, John Bunch, David C. Jenkins and Lewis Nantz. will probably go up 4 cents Kings Mountain said she supported Dickson says he doesn't see enough support for a six cent hike in prop- erty taxes to give two cents to the three school systems. The chairman of the board made the statement before Wednesday's meeting on the budget which opened at 1 p.m. in Shelby as The Herald went to press. Dickson said there had been a consensus by the commissioners to hike the tax rate to four cents per $100 property valuation. Commissioner Joyce Cashion of the six cent hike. Based on her conversations with two other com- missioners, she said the commis- sion is looking at adding another two cents to the property tax rate to support education. Dickson said the vote on the budget will be on June 15. He said Wednesday's agenda would feature comments from City of Shelby of- ficials protesting a cut in municipal grants and a representative of Boiling Springs asking for support of a water shed project. Commissioner Ralph Gilbert said that adding the tax increase was the only way to give the schools more money but he said a ruling from the state attorney gen- eral will prevent the county putting on a supplement tax for the county district and omitting Kings Mountain and Shelby which taxes its residents for a school supple- ment. "It would have to be distributed on a per pupil basis and distributed equally,” said Gilbert. Gilbert said that the county is looking for $1.3 million, a shortfall created because of $400,000 more in mandated social services pro- grams and a loss of $25 million in tax base when industries closed. "County Manager Lane Alexander and Finance Officer David Dear have cut the budget to the bone," said Gilbert. "T just don't know how the wind will blow," said Cashion, who said she had no firm commitment other than her own opinion of higher tax- es for schools. For the typical residential cus- tomer, the cost of gas and electrici- ty will increase about $2.30 a month. However, the city has adopted a monthly billing plan that will allow the city to quote month- ly prices based on each industry's alternative fuels instead of charg- ing the same as the least expensive fuel available. BH Water and sewer - Only indus- tries will pay higher water and sewer costs in the coming fiscal year. Water and sewer rates will go up 2.7 percent for industries. side Kings Mountain. Wood said a county-wide study recently identified a need for the county to provide recreation for all its citizens but noted that essential- ly Shelby and Kings Mountain, the two major cities, are providing the bulk. Wood said that 80-90 percent of lake users are non-residents of the city and that a fair share of the county's appropriations for recre- ation should be 1/2 of $401,048.00. "We're getting 25 percent of what it fairly should be," he said. Wood said the city has been sub- BW Landfill fees - For residents, the monthly landfill fee will in- crease $1, from $1.40 to $2.40. For industries, the monthly per-cubic- yard charge will increase by $1. Cleveland County is planning to raise its landfill fees from $19 per ton to $23 per ton, prompting sidizing the recreation program for non residents but that he hopes the county won't see their annual con- tribution as a school versus city is- sue, noting that some county com- missioners talked giving the recreation money to the schools to try to help their budget crunch Architect to present Central plans oger ollan wi resent ar- A es) a a KM NCAE: Use Central as an alternative school said at last month's meeting. Major dollars will be spent in the renovation, including more than $100,000 to bring the building of the old Central School at Monday night's Board of Education meeting at 7 p.m. in the administration offices on Parker Street. Supt. Dr. Bob McRae said the Central project is the main item on the agenda for the June meeting. Board members are leaning to- ward going full speed ahead on moving the current administrative offices into the old Central School up to codes, including an elevator, a $100,00 sprinkler system and a new roof and partitions. McRae said that the first reading of the new policy banning K-8 stu- dents from door to door fund-rais- ing will be read. Betty Gamble will present the vocational education plan for next Kings Mountain Association of Kings Mountain and other cities to Educators adopted a resolution Tuesday calling for the Board of Education to convert part of Central School as an alternative school for students with disci- pline/special problems. The resolutions also included a request to the board that elemen- tary students have access to regu- lar, professional counseling by a full-time counselor and that admin- istrators,with input from teachers, formulate alternate scheduling and/ or discipline plans for students with repeated behavior problems. Concern about the "lessening of minority educators,” they encour- aged the securing of vacant posi- See NCAE, 11-A See Central, 11-A increase landfill fees. The city's share of employees’ dependent health care is going down, which means that the 173 employees will pay 10 percent more for their family coverage. Wood says that medical costs continue to escalate at an alarming See Budget, 13-A and/or deleting grants during this tight fiscal year, Wood said that the $47,290.00 that Kings Mountain receives from the county for recreation is equiva- lent to two cents on the tax rate. "We're hopeful that the county commissioners will make its deci- sion before local council votes on the budget on June 29," he said. and prioritize improvements, they Rop new Herald publisher Bob Rop' has been named pub- lisher of the Knoxville, Tennessee based Republic Newspapers' five- 4 paper North Carolina group which : includes the Kings Mountain Say Herald, Bessemer City Record, T J : Cherryville Eagle, Belmont Banner BE ™& p gay J and Mount Holly News. i X : : The announcement was made by Nick W. Drewry, Executive Vice- President of the media company. Rop comes here from Farragut, Tn. where he served the last ycar as advertising manager and pub- lisher of the Press-Enterprise. He joined Republic Newspapers a year ago after serving five years in ad- vertising management with a daily newspaper in Tennessee. to be married later this year to Rop is a 1983 graduate of Amy Larson of Tennessee and they Maryville College. He is engaged plan to make their home in Kings ! 4 WG ¥ ¥ f ve 0 Mountain. "I am proud to be a part of this community,” said Rop. "It reminds me of my hometown. It's the same type area that I was brought up in. I look forward to being a permanent resident here." Rop said no personnel or other major changes arc planned for the Herald. "We will continue to provide the same editorial product, and contin- uc heading in the same direction," he said. "The Herald is the commu- nity's paper and will continue to scrve Kings Mountain, as it always has." Republic Newspapers also owns seven other community newspa- pers in Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky and Texas. . BOB ROP MOUNTAIN FEST - The popular local band Mink performs at Saturday's Mountain Fest in downtown Kings Mountain. Story and pictures are on page 1-B.
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