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Thursday, April 12, 2001 Vol. 113 No. 15 «dinner 8A Since 1889 20 Cents New school named KM By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Kings Mountain folks will soon see some build- ing activity at the site of the new Kings Mountain 5-6 school on Kings Mountain Boulevard. The School Board, meeting Monday night at Central School, officially named the school Kings Mountain Intermediate School. That name was chosen because someday it may be possible to change the grade set-up to middle school grades, and a name change at that time would not be as drastic as it would be if the school were named for an individual. pr Richard Prow portrays Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane in a scene from Crosswalk - The Trail produced in downtown Kings Mountain Friday and Saturday. Story and more photos are on page 2B. New Supt. Dr. Larry Allen reported that grad- ing is almost complete and workers are laying off the building for the center section and they antici- pate laying block early next week. : “When it starts you'll see it take shape pretty quickly,” Dr. Allen said. “We hope to have it in the dry by cold weather.” Board member Stella Putnam made the motion to name the school Kings Mountain Intermediate School, and it passed unanimously. “That kind of says what we're about,” she said. “If it becomes a middle school later and we name it after a person it becomes a problem.” Allen suggested, and the Board agreed, that let- Phase two of city main water project complete By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald - Water is flowing freely - and at much greater pressure - in the north section of the city as the second phase of the new 36” main water line from Moss Lake to town was turned on last Friday. The city is in the process of upgrading the entire system over an 8-year, 8-phase period at a cost of approximately one million dollars per phase. Phase I - bringing the new line from the T.J. Ellison Treatment Plant across Muddy Fork Creek - was completed last summer and eliminated the 90- degree bend along Oak Grove Road which had resulted in most of the line breaks over the past 30 years. The second phase included KM Hospital turns S50 BY ALAN HODGE Staff Writer Lottie Goforth may have passed on, but her legacy lives on in Kings Mountain Hospital and its upcoming 50th anniver- sary. A local property owner, Goforth set the hospital wheels in motion one year before her January 20, 1942 death when she bequeathed in her will that all money received from the set- tlement of her estate go to “build and equip, or help build and equip an institution, clinic, or hospital, located within some 3,500 feet of 36” line from the North Piedmont storage tank at Public Works to Cansler Street. It included a 1,850 feet’ section of 16” line along Cansler to Sterling Street where it tied into an existing 16” line. Another section of 16” line was laid from Walker Street some 1,300 feet to Childers Street where it tied into an existing 12” line. Total project cost $930,000. The third phase of the project will pick up at the end of the new 36” line at Cansler Street and go under Highway 74 near Oak Grove Road. It will be de- signed during the 2001-02 bud- get year but will be funded dur- ing the 2002-03 budget year. “We're ahead of schedule, be- cause we actually did the first two phases in the current bud- See Water, 3A Kings Mountain, to give medi- cal and surgical aid, free or at reduced cost, to the poor and helpless citizens of Kings Mountain.” Goforth’s will also stipulated that “my feather pil- lows and feather beds be not sold but be put to use in the above described institution.” Even though Goforth had set these terms, a temporary distur- bance named World War II slowed things down a little. During the conflict, Goforth’s $33,000 bequest was put into U.S. Bonds. Even naysayers such as an “expert” from the Duke Endowment who told FIRST NATIONAL BANK Celebrating 127 Years 300 W. Mountain St. tering would not be placed on the building but on some type of structure in front of the building so if a name change does occur holes would not be left in the structure. “Intermediate is really the only thing we've ev- er called the school,” said Board Chairman Shearra Miller. “It’s not an elementary school and it’s not a middle school.” “It’s a Kings Mountain District School and we're proud of it no matter what the name is,” added Vice-Chairman Melony Bolin. In another matter Monday night, the Board ap- proved Dr. Allen's plan to operate on a four-day summer schedule. He said energy costs are esca- money. The 14th annual Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame Banquet and the dedication of the Donald [ L. Parker Gymnasium will be held Tuesday, April 17 at 6 p.m. at Kings Mountain High School. The meal gets under way at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria. The Hall of Fame induction cer- emony will begin at 7 p.m. in B.N. Barnes Auditorium. The gym dedication will be held af- terward inside the gym. ' Tickets, which cover all of the events, are $10 each and are available at McGinnis Department Store, Linwood Restaurant, and The Herald. Tickets will be also available at the door if it does not sell out in advance. This year’s Hall of Fame in- ductees are: Judy Medlin Champion of Monroe. She was an All- Conference scoring sensation for the KMHS women’s basket- ball team in 1956-59. She still holds the school single game scoring record of 55 points. She led the Southwestern AAA Conference in scoring her se- nior year with 501 points and a 25-points per game average, and she scored 1,028 points over her three-year varsity ca- reer. Medlin will be inducted by her high school coach, Bill Bates. Gary Stewart, longtime editor of the Kings Mountain Herald who has covered city and school sports in Kings Mountain since 1964. He was also one of the founding mem- bers of the Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame, and is its current president. He will be in- ducted by Dwight Frady, editor of the Belmont Banner-Mount Holly News and a co-worker of PARKER GARY STEWART / THE HERALD to Amazing Grace, which was . GARY STEWART / THE HERALD Wait Ollis, Rick Murphrey, Al Moretz and Vern Smith, left to right, turn on the water for the new 36” main line in the north section of the city Friday. Intermediate lating and shutting down the heating/cooling systems on Friday and weekends could save “We anticipate the energy costs being even more drastic next year,” he said. “This would al- low us to shut down the mechanical system. We would change the work schedules the first four i days to match the amount that would be worked in a five-day week. I'm convinced we will save some significant money on energy by not having to run the air conditioning system.” Allen said the schedule should not drastically affect the summer school schedule, but would See School, 3A Hall of Fame, y gym dedication next Tuesday Stewart's at Republic Newspapers. Delbert Dixon, longtime score clock operator for Kings Mountain High School football games and a founding member of the Kings Mountain Rescue Squad. Dixon has been a Mountaineer fan for over 50 years. He will be inducted by former KMHS football coach and athletic director Ron Massey. The gym dedication will be handled by Dr. Larry Allen, Superintendent of Kings Mountain District Schools, with assistance from KMHS Principal John Yarbro and foot- ball coach /athletic director Dave Farquharson. Another highlight of the ded- ication will be a tribute to Coach Parker by three of his former players, Bob Neill, Jack Ruth and George Adams. Neill, a two-time All-State football player for the Mountaineers, started on Coach Parker’s 1943 through ‘45 bas- ketball teams which had a com- bined record of 47-1. The 1945 team finished 16-0 and won the Western Conference champi- onship. Ruth was a three-sport stand- out for the Mountaineers in the late 1940s, playing basketball for Coach Parker and football and baseball for Coach Shu Carlton. He went on to become the first T-formation quarter- back for the Davidson College Wildcats. Adams played on Parker's, last team at KMHS. He led the 1967 Mountaineers to the Southwestern 3A Conference championship and a 20-1 over- all record. He was the school’s first High School All-American in basketball, and was a three- time All-American at Gardner- Webb College. He was drafted x by the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA and played several years for the San Diego Conquistadors in the American Basketball Association. See Hall, 3A KM Kiwanians that the town was too small to have a hospital failed to dampen the spark Goforth’s dream had ignited. In 1947, the flames flared when the N.C. General Assembly adopted a program where state supplied funds were teamed up with federal money to build community hos- pitals. The catch was that mon- 0 ey would first go to counties : / a Wy that had no i at all. At a that time, the facility in Shelby i “was already serving Cleveland County. All the while this tech- See Hospital, 3A wide range of state-of-the-art services. Gastonia 529 New Hope Road 704-865-1233 Kings Mountain 106 S. Lafayette St. 704-739-4782 704-484-6200 ALAN HODGE/THE HERALD Kings Mountain Hospital is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary. The late Lottie Goforth left her estate specifically to found the hospital. Currently, the facility has 102 beds as well as a Bessemer City 1225 Gastonia Hwy. 704-629-3906 Member FDIC
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