Vol. 110 No. 42
This Waal
Thursday
12 noon - Kings Mountain
Rotary Club meets at The
Ramada Limited
1:30- 6 p.m. - Red Cross
Bloodmobile, Grace United
Methodist Church, Kings
Mountain.
6:30 p.m.- Kings Mountain
Kiwanis Club meets at Central
United Methodist Church.
Friday
7:30 p.m. - High School foot-
ball, Kings Mountain at R-S
Central :
Tuesday
7 p.m. - Kings Mountain
Planning and Zoning Board
meets at City Hall
7 p.m. - Cleveland County
Commissioners meet at
Country Administration
Building, Shelby.
Wednesday
11:30 -7 p.m. - Fall festival
and floral fair at Kings
Mountain Woman's Club,
West Mountain Street. Lunch
11:30-1:30, dinner 5:30-7.
Inside
SA Mountaineer Day
draws big crowd Saturday at
Kings Mountain Walking
Track
10A Colonial militia units
set up a living history at Kings
Mountain National Military
Park
4A Grover student goes
to great lengths to get report
on her hero.
1B Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers defeat Burns 31-
6 in opening Southwestern 3A
Conference football game
1B Kings Mountain
High's girls volleyball team
has its eyes on the state cham-
pionship.
7B Get ready for some
good food and deals at the
Kings Mountain Woman's
Club will hold its annual Fall
Festival and Floral Fair
Wednesday, Oct. 21
Deaths
Bud Ware, 62
Kings Mountain
Dexter Lovelace, 41
Grover
Thomas Eskew
West Union, SC
Jack Randall, 78
Kings Mountain
Ray Short, 59
Kings Mountain
Frances Murphy, 93
Sarasota, FL
John Hawkins, 84
Shelby
3A
George Runyans, 83
Blacksburg, SC
Blanche Franklin, 83
Kings Mountain
Roberta Whitaker, 80
Kings Mountain
Nancy Collins, 87
Kings Mountain
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Student wants
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School Board says it will receive more input from staff, community before making a decision
By GARY STEWART
Editor of the Herald
Although the consensus of
the Kings Mountain Board of
Education seems to be that it
hates breathing cigarette smoke
too, members seem to feel it
will be very difficult to enforce
a policy to completely ban
smoking at school facilities.
KMHS student Amanda
Johnsonbaugh appeared before
eas. Smoking is also allowed by
anyone in open air stadiums.
Johnsonbaugh, who earlier
wrote the board asking for a
smoke-free school system, quot-
ed statistics on second hand
smoke and pointed out that
schools "are for children" and
the system should be "setting a
good example" for them.
"Smokers claim they have a
right to smoke," she said. "But I
also have a right to breathe
the Board at its regular monthly
meeting Monday night at the
Central Office and asked the
board to adopt a system-wide
no smoking policy for every-
one, including a smoking ban at
open air stadiums.
The board's existing policy,
adopted in 1993, prohibits
smoking and use of tobacco
products by students during the
school day, but allows smoking
by employees in designated ar-
clean air."
Johnsonbaugh said she used
to play in the KMHS band and
noted that it was difficult to
play an instrument at the foot-
ball stadium while breathing
second-hand smoke from peo-
ple sitting nearby. Also, she said
her mother and her best friend
suffer from asthma, and even
second-hand smoke from desig-
nated smoking areas can bring
on an asthma attack for them.
"Kings Mountain Schools
need to set an example for other
school systems to look up to,"
she told the Board.
All of the Board members
commended Johnsonbaugh for
taking a stand, but agreed that
~ the matter should be tabled un-
til Dr. Bob McRae can look at
policies from other systems,
and also to give other citizens a
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Kings Mountain, NC «Since 1889 *50¢
“I'm no hero...I was just doing my job." - Jamie Black
Kings Mountain fireman pulls
from burning house
woman
By Alan Hodge
Though he's being called a
hero for pulling a woman from
her burning home last Tuesday,
Kings Mountain firefighter
Jamie Black insists he was just
doing his job. Responding to a
call the evening of October 6,
Black and other firemen arrived
to find the home of Toni
Lawson at 904 First St. ablaze.
"When we got there, the front
of the house was fully in-
volved," Black said. "Two other
firefighters and myself attacked
the fire."
Entering the home, Black
found Lawson in the kitchen.
"She was laying face down on
the floor," Black recalled. "I
picked her up and carried her
out the back door where some
EMTs took over. I went back in
the house to make sure no one
else was in there."
When questioned about what
was going through his mind at
the time of the rescue, Black
was matter-of-fact in his an- |
"Tt all happened so fast |
swer.
that I really didn't have time to
think about it," Black said. "It's
times like that when our train-
ing takes over and you just do
your job. I'm no hero, I just hap-
pened to be the one who found
her. Any firefighter would have
done the same thing."
Don't think that the serious-
ness of what they do doesn't go
through the minds of firemen.
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JAMIE BLACK
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Alternative
school renamed
Davidson School
By GARY STEWART
Editor of the Herald
Kings Mountain's Parker Street Alternative
School was officially renamed Davidson School
by the Board of Education at its regular month-
ly meeting Monday night.
The Board unanimously approved the re-
quest which had been on the table since the
Davidson School Alumni Association first ap-
proached the board two months ago.
Although no one from the Board ever dis-
agreed with the request, it is tradition that the
Board wait two months before making such a
decision to give the community an opportunity
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Margaret Leach, representing the Davidson
Alumni Association, said she was grateful for
the decision.
"We can truly identify with Alex Haley and
know how he must have felt," she said. "We
want our children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren for many generations in
the future to be able to trace their educational
roots back to Davidson."
The school was founded in 1888, and in 1925
was named Davidson School in honor of its
principal. Rev. R.]. Davidson.
After integration in the mid-sixties,
Davidson School ceased to exist and its stu-
dents were assigned to different schools in the
Kings Mountain District. The facility housed
the Administrative Offices until three years ago
when they were moved to the renovated
Central School on East Ridge Street.
Two years ago, when the Kings Mountain,
Shelby and Cleveland County systems began a
joint effort to provide an alternative school for
students from all across the county, the
Davidson facility was picked as the site.
Because the building is located on Parker Street
and a name was needed on grant forms, the
name Parker Street School came into being.
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Park notes 218th anniversary of battle
218TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION AT KINGS MOUNTAIN BATTLEFIELD-
Revolutionary War reenactors climb Kings Mountain for wreath laying ceremony at monument
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honoring those who fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain.
By Alan Hodge
Kings Mountain National
Military Park saw dignitaries,
history buffs, and
Revolutionary War reenactors
clad in buckskin and knee
breeches gather October 7 for
ceremonies marking the 218th
anniversary of the Battle of
Kings Mountain. One of the
pivotal battles of the American
Revolution, Kings Mountain
saw patriots defeat loyalist
forces led by Major Patrick
Ferguson in a fight which has
been called the turning point of
the war in the South.
Activities at the park got un-
der way around 3 PM. when
reenactors representing the
Overmountain Men arrived af-
ter completing a 14 day 300
mile march. Retracing the origi-
nal route taken by patriot forces
to Kings Mountain from Dunn's
Meadow in Abingdon, Virginia,
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the marchers were clad in 18th
century backwoodsman garb
and carried flintlock muskets.
Several of the reenactors were
actual descendants of men who
had made the march in 1780.
On their trek along the
Overmountain Victory Trail as
. the route is called, marchers
made as few concessions to
modern traffic as possible.
Allen Ray of Marion, N.C. led
the twenty or so men and wom-
en who participated in the
march. Along their path, the
marchers had encamped in
places like Piney Flats,
Tennessee, and Quaker
Meadows near Morganton.
"We walk where it's safe to,"
Allen said as he cradled his
musket. "We cover about half of
the original trail that the patri-
ots followed."
Though the Overmountain
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