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Shopping guide
to be distributed
A downtown shopping and busi-
ness guide is in the works by the
newly formed Kings Mountain
Business and Professional
Association.
The new booklet will not only
list Kings Mountain area business-
es and professional people but will
give the motoring public a listing
of events and activities that are of-
fered in this area, including shop-
ping and camping and recreational
activities.
"This will be a big drawing card
for the community," said Jeannie
Moore of the Kings Mountain
Chamber.
Moore called Tuesday night's
meeting of a large group of local
business people "very upbeat.”
President Kathy Neilly said that
the results of surveys mailed out by
the association are giving input to
the needs of the community and
she encouraged everyone who re-
ceived a survey/questionnaire to
return it.
Linda Allen is vice-president of
the group, Angie Barrett is secre-
tary and Joe Smith is treasurer.
"We have a variety of services
offered in the Kings Mountain area
and are seeing some of the new;
services at the monthly meetings of
this group and they are most wel-
come,’ said Smith,
Tuesday's meeting was held in
the second floor conference room
at City Hall and attracted a large
crowd.
City Council sets
annual budget retreat
Kings Mountain City Council
has scheduled the annual budget
retreat for Saturday, May 3, at 9
a.m. at City Hall.
Mayor Scott Neisler said that
City Manager Gary Hicks will con-
duct the meeting which could be
recessed on Saturday and contin-
ued on Sunday afternoon.
City department heads are busy
this week trimming their budget re-
quests before presentation to the
manager.
Public hearing set
on Health Curriculum
A public hearing on the 9th
grade health curriculum has been
scheduled for May 9 at 7 p.m. in
the Board Room, Kings Mountain
District Schools, 105 E. Ridge
Street.
Copies of the curriculum are
available for check out at the
District Office.
Area industries
to get safety awards
Area industries will receive spe-
cial awards for compiling one mil-
lion or more hours with no dis-
abling injuries Thursday night at
the annual safety banquet of the N.
C. Department of Labor and the
Greater Shelby Chamber of
Commerce.
The banquet will honor 46 busi-
nesses and will be held at 6:30 p.m.
at Cleveland Country Club.
Chamber sets
tree planting Thursday
The Kings Mountain Chamber
of Commerce will plant a tree
Thursday at noon at the Western
entrance to the city.
Chamber executive Jeannie
Moore said the tree planting cere-
mony will be held at the monument
across from Wade Ford.
Connor to review
block scheduling program
KMHS teacher Nelson Connor
will be guest speaker Thursday at 7
p.m. to the American Legion
Auxiliary at 7 p.m. at the American
Legion building.
He will talk about progress of
the block scheduling program in its
second year at Kings Mountain
High School.
A request by Ingles for satellite annexation by the City
of Kings Mountain for a super market on Oak Grove Road
is still up in the air but Mayor Scott Neisler said the
request will probably on the agenda again at the April 30
meeting of City Council.
Monday, the mayor met with Cleveland County
Manage Lane Alexander and requested some help from the
county for funds to extend the sewer line which could cost
about $240,000.
The mayor asked the county to forgive four years of
property tax toward infrastructure which would mean a
county contribution of about $72,000.
"The catch, however, is that the county could approve
Thursday, April 18, 1996
for manufacturing jobs although Ingles would employ
about 60 people in the new facility," said Neisler.
Neisler said the city needs to upsize the city's sewer
line to Oak Grove for future use and now is a good time to
begin with the new proposed construction.
Gold Run residents of the Oak Grove Community
turned out in force at last month's City Council meeting,
saying they would like to see Ingles come to Kings
Mountain but not in their neighborhood.
Van Wilson, a Gold Run resident, circulated a petition
signed by 100 percent of the property owners.
Ingles officials presented city officials with a petition
signed by 1100 people favoring the location.
City Council postponed action on the request by
Kings Mountain High School students Josh Rountree, Matt Smith, Heather Tittle and Kathryn
Champion, left to right, and Renaissance Club advisor Tim Echols, standing, enjoy spring weather during
a picnic on the school grounds, a Sock Hop, which honored card-carrying club members for academics.
All registered voters can vote in
the May 7 Democratic and
Republican Primaries in Cleveland
County and that's good news for
those who are registered as
Independents and good news for
the big number of candidates who
are pumping hands for votes three
weeks before the big day.
The U. S. Justice Department's
ruling that independent voters in
North Carolina can participate in
next month's Democratic Party pri-
mary could mean more people at
the polls on election day.
In Cleveland County nearly
4,000 new voters registered to vote
during the first four months of this
year and Elections Board
Chairman Debra Blanton predicts
that 60 to 70 percent of all county
residents 18 years or older are now
registered to vote.
Blanton said unaffiliated voters
can vote in either the Democratic
or Republican primary, not both.
After arriving at the polling place,
the voter must request a ballot
from a precinct officials, she said.
The new voter registration has
swelled due to the fact that it has
been easy to get forms - at the local
library, driver's license bureau and
health department, among other
places.
The May primaries will narrow
the field for county commissioner
Kings Mountain People
Independents can vote in Primaries
candidates, state House and Senate
and two Congressional seats and
will decide the race for Register of
Deeds, since all three candidates
are Democrats.
Democrats, Republicans and un-
affiliated voters can also vote in a
non partisan election for three
Cleveland County Board of
Education members.
Seventeen-year-olds who will be
18 before the general election Nov.
5 are eligible to vote in the primary
but not in the school board race.
Candidate signs are popping up
all over the area but outwardly pol-
itics appears quiet in the Kings
Mountain area.
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City Council ponders annexation issue
property owners Paul and Judy Scism after questioning
who would pay for the cost of the sewer line installation.
Neisler said he has understood from some property
owners they will volunteer to help Ingles find a suitable
location on the Highway 74 Bypass.
the mayor.
"1 have talked with Ingles officials and find them to be
good neighbors and business citizens and hope that City
Council will make its decision at the May meeting," said
Charles Murdock, of Asheville, real estate agent, told
Council that options for payment of sewer lines include a
50/50 split of the cost with Kings Mountain, a possible
grant and stated at last month's meeting that Ingles could
fund the project totally.
Block scheduling works
in Chancey's classes
Students in Melinda Chancey's
Chemistry and Biology classes are
adjusting well to the second year of
block scheduling at Kings
Mountain High School.
"They have RE
learned: they
can't procrasti-
nate and they
have only two | §
or three days to
memorize for-
mulas it used to
take a week or
more," said ;
Kings Mountain CHANCEY
High's Teacher of the Month for
February.
Chancey makes her classes in-
teresting and promotes self-learn-
ing and motivation.
With block scheduling the stu-
dents have more time for labs, an
important part of the two subjects
that Chancey instructs in three 90-
minute classes every day.
"The beautiful part of block
scheduling is that we don't have to
rush and my students can follow
through on projects and it's fun,"
she said.
Chemistry didn't click for
Chancey as a student at Baker
County High School in Macclenny,
Florida. She recalls that as a 15-
year-old sophomore she wrote a
poem about her dislike of the sub-
ject. In her poem she wrote,
this class is bad, it's over my head,
if I don't do better I'm gonna be
dead, Chemistry, what a joy.!
Chancey enrolled at Gardner-
Webb University and found that
she loved Chemistry because en-
thusiastic teachers made the class
interesting. She graduated in 1994
after completing her student teach-
ing at Kings Mountain High and
serving in an interim position.
Her first teaching job is reward- -
ing for Chancey, daughter of
Marvin and Brenda Callaway of
Macclenny, Fla. She relishes the
excitement she sees in her 75 stu-
dents in 10th, 11th and 12th grades.
Chancey is married to David
See Chancey, 2A
Broad menu for School
Board in Orlando
School board members were
treated to a broad menu of pro-
grams and educational speakers at
the annual National School Boards
Association convention in Orlando,
Fla.
The full Board of Education at-
tended the convention from Friday
until Tuesday and received expens-
es from budgeted funds.
The delegation was headed by
Supt. and Mrs. Bob McRae and al-
so included Board of Education
members: Ronnie; Hawkins and
Mrs. Hawkins; Shearra Miller and
husband Tim and daughters,
Kathleen and Rebekah; B. S.
Peeler, Connie Allison and Mrs.
Allison and Rev. Billy Houze. Also
attending the meeting were
Assistant Supt. for Instruction Jane
King and husband Jerry King and
the McRae's daughter, Molly
McRae.
Miller and Mrs. McRae accom-
panied the students home on
Sunday.
Mini clinics, nationally-known
speakers, and huge exhibit halls
which demonstrated hundreds of
supplies from school buses to in-
structional materials and mobile
units gave the convention delegates
plenty to do and see during a busy
session.
"It's amazing that many of the
situations and challenges we deal
with are similar to those in even
larger systems," said Dr. McRae,
who said interaction with board
members from all over the country
is a valuable experience for board
of education members.
The convention attracted over
20,000 educators from across the
country. Local people attended
clinics on at-risk programs, anti-vi-
olence programs, instructional ma-
terials, financial planning, school
See School Board, 2A
A humanitarian and evangelist,
Moses Nueman cculd be called a
modern-day Moses.
The Kings Mountain man, a
U.S. citizen for 16 years, wants to
give his native people of Nigeria a
better life and he is taking that
message to churches large and
small, black and white.
Just back from a month's mis-
sion to Nigeria where they dis-
tributed Bibles at 20 churches,
Moses and his wife, Claudia, came
away with a higher zeal to spread
the news of a need for a Crisis
Ministry in Lagos and a hands-on
ministry to involve other Christians
in teaching Africans how to help
themselves. J
"Americans send money, foo
and clothes to these poverty-stri
en areas but unfortunately mary
them never see it," said a shocked
Claudia Nueman on her recent vis-
it.
"I saw doors closed at some help
agencies and I saw people living in
trash dumps and trying to salvage
food and children unable to go to
school because they could not af-
ford the $2 cost of the required uni-
form," she said.
Nueman says people need to go
to Africa themselves and partici-
pate in a hands-on ministry. He
says that's the Christian calling. If
they can't go, they can send help in
the form of money, clothes, educa-
tional materials and God's Word.
They plan another trip to Nigeria at
their own expense in December
nd they invite gifts of money,
lothing, books and Bibles and en-
¥ courage churches to support a mis-
sion program to drill wells in the
poverty-stricken areas.
Mrs. Nueman said she walked
with one family five miles to get
sterile water but unlike the natives
she was unable to carry the big
Moses taking hope to Nigerians
bucket on her head.
'I saw old people foraging for
food in trash dumps and I was
shocked at the living conditions
and saw people walk 50 miles to
hear my husband preach,” said the
Kings Mountain beautician.
Nigeria is the most populated
place on earth with 100 million
people.
Nueman preached for five weeks
at Four Square Gospel Church and
at Celestial Church of Christ in
Lagos, Nigeria. More than 2500
people came out for a Mothers’
Day celebration at St. Mary's
Anglican Church in Enugu and
many received Bibles at Ututu
Presbyterian Church in
Arochukwu.
Nueman was ordained at the
Celestial Church in 1983 and since
then he has been back in his pulpit
there five times. Mrs. Nueman, his
See Nueman, 3A
MOSES AND CLAUDIA NUEMAN