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3 ¥ Thursday, August 12, 1999 PUT Te wr pe pgp a IRR { Te SHS SR SR SU RRR SE REL BR SS i Rs KINGS MOUNTAIN Vol. 111 No. 32 Heral Since 1889 50 Cents SPORTS Quarterback Matt Ash tries to get off a pass in Kings Mountain High intra-squad scrimmage Saturday night at John Gamble Stadium. Mountaineer gridders brave 90+ heat wave Kings Mountain High's football team is braving 90- plus degree temperatures to get ready for their 1999 opener August 27 against East Gaston. The Mountaineers held an intra-squad scrim- mage Saturday and will travel to Fort Mill, SC Friday for a scrimmage. 2B Mack, Jones selected players of the 1980s Two of Kings Mountain's greatest all-time athletes had banner decade in the 1980s. Bryan Jones was a tennis sen- sation at KMHS and UNC- Chapel Hill. Kevin Mack was an All-Pro running back for the Cleveland Browns. 1B BUSINESS Rick Moore sells Ole Country Store Rick Moore has sold the “Ole Country Store” to Bob and Barry Patel. Moore will concentrate fully on operating Timms Furniture which he purchased recently. 2A COMMUNITY Annexation work session set Monday Kings Mountain City Council will hold a work ses- sion Monday night on revi- sions to its annexation plans. 3A Gospel sing to help KM anorexia patient A gospel singing August 14 at Christian Freedom Baptist Church will raise money to help offset the medical expens- es of Christy Walker Kinmon. 9A ET SCHOOLS KM District Schools enrollment increases Enrollment on the first day of school in Kings Mountain was 4,314, up 75 students from | the same period last year. 5A Field complete for fall election Filing by last-minute candidates swelled the total to 31 seeking eight : seats in November on Kings Mountain city council, two Annexation : work session | Seats on the Kings Monday Mountain Board of at KM Plum and three seats on Grover Clty Hall Town Board 3A Home free are Ward 3 councilman |——————— Clavon Kelly, unop- posed for his second two-year term at city hall, and former Ward 4 council- man Dean Spears, who lost to Gene White two years ago. Council says no to 4-year term All seven city council members said they agreed with Mayor Scott Neisler on four year staggered terms Wednesday night but they voted against putting the vote to the people in November, saying that a petition drive was the way to go. Led by Phil Hager, who called it a political football, and by Gene White, who argued that the issue on the ballot at the same time that all seats on coun- cil are up was a political risk. “Do you want to take that chance that the two people on this beard (Nora Bridges and Rick Murphrey) £tunping for mayor could lose by 100 or 200 votes because of this?” asked The addition of Gilbert “Pee Wee” Hamrick in the mayor's race brings to five the number of candidates seeking Scott Neisler’s job. They are former mayor Kyle Smith; at large council- woman and mayor pro tem Norma Bridges; Ward 5 councilman Rick Murphrey and political newcomer Ted Chandler. One of the biggest races is for the two open at-large council seats now held by incumbents Bob Hayes and Norma Bridges. Mrs. Bridges is run- ning for mayor and Hayes has an- nounced for reelection. Also running are Ward 4 councilman Gene White; See Election, 3A White. Neisler first brought the idea before council on June 29. He said the out- come would not affect those elected in 1999, The issue last Wednesday night at a special meeting, however, wasn’t whether or not council members prefer four year terms or whether they should be staggered. The issue was whether ornot the council itself should vote to let the voters decide or let the citizens of the city organize a petition drive to change the policy. The mayor said after the meeting that he may organize a petition drive See Council, 3A SPEARS ALAN HODGE/THE HERALD The first day of school at East Elementary in Kings Mountain had students Kenneth Denton and Brittany Myers eagerly answering questions in Mrs. Moton’s third grade class. East is one of the top twenty five elementary schools in the state. Gazebo will be focal point for city cultural activities BY ALAN HODGE Staff Writer Ground was broken Friday in Kings Mountain for a gazebo destined to be a focal point for the city’s cultural and social life. To be located on an acre and a half lot at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Gold Street, the 30- foot tall gazebo was designed by Kings Mountain building codes inspector Holly Galloway and Shirley Brutko of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce. The project is a joint effort be- tween the Kings Mountain Business and Professional Association, the Chamber, and the City. “The Kings Mountain Business and Professional Association has been working for two years to get the gazebo built,” said president Joe Smith. “It was a long and arduous task that has finally paid off.” Supporters of the project hope to have the large, octagonal structure completed in time for October’s Mountaineer Days festival in Kings Mountain. Most of the work to erect the structure will be done by volunteers. Mark Thompson of Shelby is the con- sulting architect. Blending the old and the new, the gazebo will be topped with ~ the cupola which once crowned the old City Hall. Inside the cupola will be bells and a $6,000 clock bought with a donation from Caswell Taylor of Belmont. Taylor is a relative of the late Jette Plonk of Kings Mountain. Original plans called for a structure with a wooden base, but realizing that the cupola was too heavy for such a frame, . plans were altered to allow the gazebo to be put on concrete and bricks. This structural change accounted for some of the delay in getting the gazebo going. “The way we are going to build the gazebo means it will stand the test of time,” said See Gazebo, 3A Kings Mountain 300 W. Mountain St. 739-4781 329 New Hope Rd. 1 . MURPHREY CHANDLER MULLINAX NORRIS ‘GRISSOM DEVANE BRIDGES HAMRICK NAVY WORCESTER Mayor & City Council Candidates BRACKETT It’s official! KM scores top county BY ALAN HODGE Staff Writer Teamwork and just plain hard work kept the Kings Mountain schools on top coun- tywide in final ABC state test- ing scores released August 5. Not only did the Kings Mountain District Schools top Cleveland County in ABC test- ing, East Elementary made the top 25 list of most improved K- 8 schools statewide. “The Kings Mountain District Schools superintendent and board has high expectations,” said assistant superintendent Dr. Jane King. “This concern trickles down to teachers and students. We are constantly looking for ways to meet the needs of our school system, in- cluding examining the teaching strategies employed by other successful systems.” The State Board of Education developed the ABCs of Public IN Education in response to the School Based Management and Accountability Program enact- ed by the General Assembly in 1996. The ABCs concentrates on high levels of accountability with focus on high educational standards. An accountability model for elementary and mid- dle schools was put into effect in 1996-97. A high school ac- countability model was devel- oped in 1996-97 and imple- mented the next year. Schools are judged and held accountable for the progress of their students with two types of annual performance goals set by the State Board of Education. Performance standards are the absolute achievement of the percentage of students in a school at or above Achievement Level III. Growth and gain stan- dards are those set annually to measure a school’s progress to- See ABC, 3A i HITTITE Drawing of gazebo for downtown KM Gastonia 865-1111 Shelby Man Othiee i106 S. Lafayette St. ERE IY Member FDIC
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