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A petition signed by 726 people
supporting the City Council's
“stance on stopping rate increases"
was hand delivered by a group of
citizens to Mayor Scott Neisler
Tuesday night.
Sam Tesenair and Rocky Ford
delivered the petition to city offi-
cials before the special meeting to
discuss proposed budget reduc-
tions.
The mayor made no mention of
the petition during the meeting and
citizens made no comment and did
Petition supports Council's request
not ask to be: recognized on the
agenda.
Tesenair said that all the names
on the petition represent registered
voters of the City of Kings
Mountain.
"We have enough names on this
petition to elect a Councilman,"
said Ford.
A large crowd of people, includ-
ing industrial leaders of the com-
munity, were in the audience.
See Petition, 3-A
Guyton:
get rid
of lakes
City Councilman Jim Guyton
suggested Tuesday to City Council
that the city do away with both
Davidson and City Lakes to save
the city repairs which could cost
$150,000.
He made the remarks after City °
Manager George Wood said the
city has been told by state officials,
after annual inspection, to fix the
Davidson Lake dam and begin
work no later than June 18.
following a dam inspection by the
Department of Environment Health
and Natural Resources.
Wood said the state is mandating
that both dams be repairs and funds
must be included in next year's
budget.
The Utilities Committee will
hear recommendations from W.K
Dickson engineers for doing the re-
pairs at a 5:30 p.m. meeting
Monday at City Hall. The design
for the project is estimated to cost
$5,000.
The lake dilemma surfaced at
Tuesday's City Council meeting
during discussion of making
spending cuts to balance the wa-
ter/sewer fund in the current bud-
get.
See Lakes, 3-A
Kings Mountain City Council
has tabled until Tuesday the
$153,609 spending cuts recom-
mended by City Manager George
Wood.
Although the board indicated it
approved using mostly one-time
savings to plug the hole in the wa-
ter/sewer fund shortfall, the vote
was unanimous to postpone the ac-
tion until the seven-member board
could review "constructively" the
_proposals.
The motion to table was made
by Councilman Rick Murphrey,
seconded by Councilman Dean
Spears.
The proposed cuts don't reflect
cuts in services, which Wood said
he does not recommend.
Wood presented # ouncil a pro-
posed list of ways t@ cut, which in-
cluded a change ig once a week
sanitation servicef which would
bring in S300) a savings
from dropping commercial garbage
collection which wolild amount to
$43,601. Should Coucil opt for
those items, this will b& almost the
amount needed to close the gap on
the budget and retain thé savings
figured in the fund balances.
However, Wood sugested
cuts, which are mostly one time
See Budget, 3-A
Grover parent Jonas Hansen studies a co
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py of the state's health care curriculum and objects to contro-
versial portions that deal with sex education during a Parent Center meeting Monday of abou n> people
at West School.
Grover Council cuts salaries in half
GROVER - The five members
of Grover City Council cut their
own salaries Monday to show by
example that residents need to
tighten their belts to meet the bud-
get.
"We're instituting cuts in spend-
ing in every department and I make
the motion that we cut our pay in
half, from $200 to $100 a month,"
said Councilman Tim Rowland.
Councilman Robbie Sides sec-
onded the motion and Council
members Noel Spivey, Sandra Ellis
and Jack Herndon also favored the
cuts.
Mayor Ronald Queen said he ap-
preciated the stance that the board
had taken to reduce expenditures.
Garrison Goforth, 70, never
meets a stranger and perhaps that
trait is the reason for his success as
a salesman.
A brick salesman for 37 years at
Bennett Brick Company, his phi-
losophy has been to sell himself to
a customer. "When they ask me if
I'm a brick salesman, I just tell
them I'm an order taker,” says the
personable Mr. Goforth who has
sold thousands of brick since he
was hired by Clyde Bennett at
Bennett Brick & Tile in 1957.
Goforth got his first experience
as a salesman selling groceries at a
small ‘grocery store and service sta-
tion he operated for several years
on Shelby Road. As the oldest of
"We're closing the city office on
Wednesday and reducing expendi-
. tures in the police and maintenance
departments,” said Queen. He said
that expenses were $44,000 over
the budget this month.
"If we're losing money some-
thing is wrong," said
Commissioner Herndon. "I notice
that both our neighboring cities
Shelby and Kings Mountain are
having to cut to stay within their
budgets, so we are all in trouble."
Rowland said that expenditures
had risen, including the addition of
landfill fees and capital expendi-
tures that included the new Town
Hall addition and the new trash
truck.
four children of the late Marvin
and Ada Goforth, he worked in the
fields, raised and butchered hogs
and learned the value of hard work,
along with his brothers Tom and
Rob Goforth and their sister, Mae
Sue McGill. A
Because he has endeared himself
to his customers, it was natural that
Goforth's birthday party on his
birthday January 29 include the
customers as special guests in his
home on Garrison Drive.
"Garrison loves people and he
had rather talk than eat," says his
wife of 46 years, Rachel McClain
Goforth.
"We decided we'd surprise him
and so we invited his customers to
GROVER - The 293 households
and businesses in town will start
paying $4 a month garbage pickup
fees in March.
Town Council Monday adopted
the fee schedule. The sanitation
‘tipping’ fee will be added to water
bills,
"We think this is fair to busi-
nesses and residents," said Mayor
Ronald Queen.
Councilman Robbie Sides said
the town is spending $15,000 at the
county landfill and costs are going
up. "We either do this or raise taxes
and no one wants taxes increased."
Grover garbage fees to increase
The board tabled until the March
meeting a decision on a proposed
plan to cut paid vacation time for
four full time employees and add
two paid holidays which would
correspond with the 12 paid holi-
days allowed state employees.
Commissioner Noel Spivey said he
opposed the addition of two paid
holidays.
"Five years is a long time to
work for a 10-day vacation," said
Councilwoman Sandra Ellis, who
opposed the plan that would give
See grover, 3-A
Goforth a good ‘order taker
come for a party and then had a
family party on Sunday," said Mrs.
Goforth.
Goforth's bosses now are the
sons of his former boss. Tom and
Johnny Bennett joined a crowd of
people to celebrate Garrison's
birthday with pound cake and ice
cream.
A native of Kings Mountain,
Garrison graduated from Kings
Mountain High School. His wife
was also a KMHS graduate but she
didn't catch Garrison's eye until af-
ter she went to Charlotte to nursing
school. Rachel dropped out of
nursing school after a year to be-
See Goforth, 5-A
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A crowd of citizens attended Tuesday's City Council meeting at
which the board tabled until next Tuesday proposed budget cuts.
Sex education
IS under fire
The sex education aspect of the
state's revised Healthful Living
curriculum for grades K-12 and
particularly the curriculum for
middle school grades 7-9 drew
questions from at least two dozen
people, including two ministers
and two police officers, Monday at
West School Parent Center.
The parents said they were up-
set they were not notified of the 10
5
Center special programming and
that parents will be given a chance
to look at the supplementary mate-
rials and teacher's books in March
once they come from the printers. ,
Borders said the supplementary
materials support the state curricu-
lum which the local system updat-
ed with new videos over the past
five or six years. She said parent
meetings are planned at all grade
levels to cover what is in the state
curriculum and the controversial
areas.
"Today's meeting is. a special
workshop provided at the request
of the Parent Center," she told the
parents.
Jean McAbee said that she had
difficulty obtaining copies of the
200- ples pages of the state cur-
riculum trom the school office un-
til a board member asked for the
materials.
"W2 are not trying to hide any-
thing from you," said Dr. Jane
King, Assistant Superintendent of
Instruction, "We welcome your
concerns and comments."
School officials said that parents
who object to the classes on sex
education can take their children
out of those specific classes. But
parents said they when do that,
children are looked down upon by
their peers and teachers.
Audrey Harris, who instructs
"Healthful Living" in Physical
Education classes at the middle
school, said that only four of 150
kids at the middle school opt out of
the class and are assigned alterna-
tive assignments. She said that
meeting but Health
that the meeting grew out of Parent
"We are not frying to
hide anything from you."
-Jane King
teachers are discreet and that no
child is humiliated if parental per-
mission is not given.
Se Larry Burns, pastor of Faith
t Chu;
from sex and said that rising sexu-
ally transmitted diseases occur
when a curriculum like Kings
Mountain's is in effect.
"We tell kids not to do some-
thing and you tell them to be pro-
tected."
Burns gave statistics from
Colorado which showed the preg-
nancy rate dropped among
teenagers in schools which stressed
abstinence only in their sex educa-
tion curriculum.
School officials agreed the issue
_is controversial but King said that
the system is making tremendous
strides.
"When you talk about physical
stuff do you taik about the emo-
tional changes a kid encounters?"
asked Jonas Hansen of Grover.
Harris said that sixth grade chil-
dren may be trying to act like
adults but the system must teach
responsibility and the kids are not
ready for it.
"Why is it taught if they aren't
ready for the sex subject," asked
Hansen.
Other parents said that kids are
ready for the sex topics and one
parent suggested that teachers
should supplement lessons that
"scare the daylights out of the kids"
with what could happen if they
contacted AIDS.
Other parents and ministers
voiced religious objections to hav-
ing their children's teachers men-
tion condoms.
The curriculum requires teachers
to present abstinence as the best
See Sex Ed, 5-A
Watson files for County Board
Harold Watson, who filed
Wednesday as a candidate for one
of two seats up for grabs on the
Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners, favors district rep-
resentation and supports a change
from a five-member to a seven-
member board
Watson, General
Manager and
Acc ou nt
Executive with
Radio Station
WOHS in
Shelby, said he is
running because
he believes it's
time to get in-
volved.
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I'he county is at
a stand still." said Watson,
Watson. a newcomer to politics
and a Democrat. said he has no ax
to grind and no preconceived agen-
da.
Watson worked through the
ranks from radio announcer to the
top of his profession at WOHS for
37 1/2 years. He is president of
Shelby Radio Corporation and
Watson Broadcasting Inc. When
WOHS was sold to KTC
Broadcasting in Cherryville,
Watson remained as General
Manager and Account Executive.
A 1950 graduate of Hickory
High School. he earned degrees in
English and Business
Administration from Lenoir-Rhyne
College in 1954. He is married to
the former Billie Bolick of
Hickory. They have two daughters
and one grandson. He is active in
Aldersgate United Methodist
Church, the Shelby Rotary Club
See Watson, 5-A
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