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Barbara Barrett of Shelby was
_ appointed acting Town Clerk by
Grover Town Board Monday night.
Wife of Lewis Barrett, she
_ comes to her new position from
Shelby Printing. She is a graduate
: of Crest High School and Gardner-
Webb Junior College. The family
includes one married daughter.
Barrett assumed her duties on
June 16 after Mayor Ronald Queen
. consolidated the positions of book-
keeper and town clerk.
Queen said that town finances
- were the reason for the change
. which makes the operation of the
_ town's office a one person job and
phased out the position of clerk
Grover hires new Town Clerk
held by Lynn Davis for the past 2
1/2 years. .
The mayor said the decision to
streamline the office operations
was made several months ago. The
office was formerly operated by a
bookkeeper and a general clerk and
office manager at annual salary of
$21,000. The change will combine
those two positions and Queen said
the town will save money through
decreased employee benefits.
Mrs. Davis was given severance
pay of three weeks.
Mrs. Davis was present at
Monday night's meeting.
The board's action was unani-
mous. Councilman Robbie Sides
was absent.
Crawley appointed to DSS board
County Commissioner Jim
- Crawley will replace former coun-
ty commissioner Joyce Cashion of
Kings Mountain on the Cleveland
County Board of Social Services
- June 30.
~ Crawley was named by county
commissioners at last week's meet-
5 ing. Commissioner Ralph Gilbert
stipulated in his motion that
| Crawley not serve as chairman.
Cashion chaired her last meeting
| during 10 years on the board
Monday and received an apprecia-
tion plaque. Cashion presented a
| plaque to the outgoing vice-chair-
. man Rhonda Skorman, who is
- completing three years on the
7 board on appointment by Governor
+. Hunt. Skorman will be succeeded
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City Council Tuesday night
+ unanimously endorsed Interim
+ Chief of Police Bob Hayes as the
+ choice for Kings Mountain's next
7. police chief.
~ Councilman Jerry White, a for-
- mer city policeman and a detective
- in the Cleveland County Sheriff's
- Department, made the motion, sec-
- onded by a former city policeman
- and Councilman Ralph Grindstaff.
: "I wholeheartedly recommend
- Hayes based on his service," said
+ White.
- Captain Hayes joined the Kings
. Mountain Police Department near-
- ly 34 years ago and has worked up
- through the ranks from patrolman.
. City Manager Chuck Nance said
Teacher's son
“dies from fall
The son of Kings Mountain
- High School French teacher Carol
. Peeler was killed last Wednesday
. morning after apparently falling
- from a moving jeep.
Jonathan Samuel Peeler, 19, of
- 703 Mayo Road in Shelby, died
. from head injuries sustained when
- he fell from the 1989 Jeep driven
by Amold Oneal Humphries, ac-
- cording to the N. C. Highway
- Patrol.
Humphries was driving the Jeep
: along East Main Street in Shelby
: just after 1 a.m. when Peeler re-
- portedly tried to stand up, lost his
- balance and fell from the passenger
. side of the vehicle. He struck his
. head on the pavement, the report
© said.
Peeler was transported to
* Cleveland Memorial Hospital and
. then was airlifted to Carolinas
© Medical Center in Charlotte where
* he was pronounced dead on arrival,
« hospital officials said.
Neither the driver nor another
. passenger in the car, Jennifer Page
* Brown, of 1126 Scottsdale Drive,
+ Shelby, were injured.
Humphries was charged with
. DWI, according to the Highway
Patrol.
A 1994 graduate of Shelby High
- School, Peeler was a student at
- Gaston College.
Former KM Chief
turns himself in
Former Kings Mountain Police
* Chief Warren Goforth turned him-
- self in Thursday at the Cleveland
- County Sheriff's Department to be
-
“
charged with a felony of obtaining
property under false pretenses.
~ He was released under a $10,000
. bond.
Goforth was indicted by a
Cleveland County Grand Jury
Monday. :
Goforth, KMPD chief for seven
. years and a 20-year veteran of law
. enforcement, resigned suddenly
- last November during a controver-
- sy over his purchase of a Chevrolet
- Suburban truck which had been
. seized in a drug raid.
Goforth said at the time that he
- and narcotics officer Billy Benton
- sold the Suburban for the city po-
. lice department to a Shelby auto
* dealer as a part of an exchange for
- a department undercover vehicle.
- Goforth later bought the truck from
. the dealer. :
by Shelby realtor Jeri Horne.
Other members of the board are
Rosalind Hunt and Stuart LeGrand
of Shelby and Robert Williams of
Fallston.
Only business of the meeting
was the approval of a revised fraud
policy. Williams objected, saying
that the new board should study the
revisions and make the decision at -
the next meeting.
Williams said if the county does-
n't prosecute fraud cases it will lose
public and state funds but Cashion
said the new plan recommended by
Social Services Director Lorene
Rogers will eliminate some court
time.
Social Services supervises 48
programs in the county.
Council wants Hayes as Chief
he is giving serious consideration
to Hayes but said he is interview-
ing a list of final candidates among
30 men for the job.
Local people who applied for the
job were Hayes and Det. Lt.
Richard Reynolds, a 23-year veter-
an of KMPD.
Nance said he expects to make
his decision next week.
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Thursday, June 29, 1995 -THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 3A
GROVER - Town Board adopt-
$476,246 Monday night without
comment,
Mayor Ronald Queen said the
budget includes no increases for
water and sewer.
Queen said citizens will see only
a slight change in their tax bills
from the county due to the county-
wide reevaluation of properties but
Grover's property tax rate will re-
main the same.
The budget proposes $239,537
in the general fund, $55,709 in the
Powell Bill fund for streets and
$181,000 in the utility fund. He
said ad valorem taxes will bring in
$80,000.
Nicole Sees, Kings Mountain Hospital Emergency Room secretary,
registers six-year-old Crystal Ventris, an outpatient, for removal of
stitches. Tim Sawyer accompanied the child.
ed a 1995-96 fiscal year budget of
4 Grover adopts $476,246 budget
The Police Department, where
three county officers work on part-
time shifts, has the biggest chunk
of the budget pie at $45,740.
Queen has said on several occa-
sions that the police department
operation is working well.
Included in the budget is $5,000
for beautification and $5,000 for
park improvements.
Queen asked Town Attorney
Mickey Corry to draft a letter to
owners of lots in town to clean
them up. He said that neighbors are
complaining about unsightly lots.
He said the town plans to spend
$4,000 to seed and grass the lot
across from the town park which a
resident described as "atrocious."
Anonymous
donor gives
KMH $10,000
Kings Mountain Hospital
Emergncy Room has a facelift
thanks to an anonymous donor's
gift of $10,000.
New tile floors and newly-paint-
ed walls in teal and white are en-
hanced by teal chairs, other new
furniture and contrasting paintings
in the reception room.
The outpatient reception office is
also newly painted and refurbished.
Marie Graham, ER nurse man-
ager, said the improvements are
much appreciated, not only by the
staff but by the patients who find a
brighter and more comfortable
waiting room area.
Nicole Sees, ER secretary, said
that all patients have praised the
renovation and new look, including
six-year-old Crystal Ventris who
recently had to have some stitches.
Friday Crystal was accompanied to
the hospital by Tim Sawyer to have
her stitches removed.
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