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Commissioners and four Carolinas statement. S D W 1 t k t
MERGER HealthCare System representatives. Thombs made a motion to set aside cv 1C Cc S
From 1A The new trustee advisory council the vote and wanted the sub-commit-
strategic plan.
e Assure there will be no major lay-
offs of staff at KMH or CRMC as a
direct result of the integration of the
two hospitals.
Within the first year, provide
salary and benefit equity for Cleveland
Regional Medical Center and Kings
Mountain Hospital employees, assur-
ing that equal jobs command equal
compensation.
* Do not merge the two medical
staffs, unless there comes a time when
it is the desire of both medical staffs to
do so.
The integrated hospitals would be
governed by a board of directors that
would have one representative from
the KMH Trustees” Advisory Council,
one representative from the CRMC
Trustee’s Advisory Council, one mem-
ber of the Cleveland County Board of
will have 20 members - 12 will be
appointed from the existing CRMC
council and eight will be appointed
from the existing KMH council.
But while the mid-morning press
conference announced a plan both hos-
pitals liked, the discussion during the
Kings Mountain trustees’ advisory
council was met with dissent.
During the morning meeting, council
members voted to approve the plan 7-
2, with Drs. Everette Thombs and
Abdul Gangoo opposing.
“We have not explored all the
options,” Gangoo said. “That raises a
very serious question in my mind.”
Thombs said he thought citizens and.
patients have not been made aware of
all the potential needs for the hospital.
~ “Little has been done to make them
* aware of the potential needs of the hos-
_ pital,” Thombs said from a prepared
tees to investigate other options.
Gangoo gave the second, but the
motion was killed because of lack of
votes.
Scott Neisler answered Thombs by
saying the sub-committee he was on
has already investigated other options.
Jane King left the meeting early but
said she voted for the agreement, with
several reservations.
“We need to be cautious as we go
along,” she said.
Doug Petersen, who talked for sever-
al minutes before the vote on the
agreement, said he has watched the
hospital improve and that it needs to
continue.
“I don’t see any value in delaying
that process,” he said.
A group of citizens, some with
orange “Save Our Hospital” stickers
were in attendance for the meeting.
SUMMIT
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closer to one of her goals of stopping
the industry’s bleeding.
Aldonis held a meeting earlier this
year with textile executives in Maiden.
A search for cheaper goods by many
American consumers has been one of
the reasons for the decline of U.S. tex-
tiles, officials said.
Ballenger said a discount retailer has
carried few American goods and he
had not been able to find any “made in
the U.S.A” labels during a trip to a
Hickory shopping mall.
The lack of American made goods
was evident to Jim Schollaert, with the
office of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.
“You go to any store and you just
can’t find American clothes,” he said.
And while a lack of American made
goods was discussed, Ron Daugherty,
‘who runs a mill in Morganton, said
elected officials created the lack of
goods.
Daugherty is seeking the nomination
for the 10th district U.S. Representative
currently held by Ballenger.
Daugherty read from an article that
said Ballenger was for the North
American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA.) He then asked the congress-
man how he could be trusted with the
future.
Ballenger countered that by saying
the Hickory-Morganton-Statesville area
lost 23 plants before NAFTA.
“Goods did come back to this coun-
try,” he said responding to Daugherty.
Ballenger said he questioned
whether the words Daugherty read
were his.
Since NAFTA was implemented in
1997, along with other agreements, the
U.S. has lost 180,000 jobs, Murphrey
said. Last year, approximately 116 mills
* closed in the U.S.
And while he said he initially sup-
ported NAFTA, Shelby Mayor Mike
Philbeck said the agreement is harming
the town.
“It’s devastating Shelby,” Philbeck
said. “But every time we have a reces-
sion, we just can’t keep raising the
sales tax.”
N.C. counties were given the option
of raising local sales tax by a half cent.
Cleveland County discussed the
issue earlier this month but has not
done anything further with the issue.
Kings Mountain resident J.C. Bridges
said something needs to be done about
bringing the U.S. to a fair level with
trade.
“This trade deficit bugs me quite a
bit,” Bridges said. “Something has to
be done. I don’t know the answer.”
Congress should work on solving
the trade problems, Bridges said.
While much of the summit was cen-
tered on finding solutions for the tex-
tile industry, one local official took
time to express his thoughts on other
timely issues.
Gaston County Commissioner Floyd
Wright said state legislators need to
deal more with the state’s financial
shortfall.
“We need the revenue sharing in our
county,” he said. ” Do not ask county
commissioners to raise taxes...It is your
responsibility.”
Wright represents Cherryville
Township on the Gaston County board.
Murphrey said Monday's summit
provided an opportunity to let state
and federal officials know the
American textile industry is still going.
“We're focused on working together
with legislators to save the jobs,” he
said. “It just brings a lot of focus and
lets them know we're still out there.”
TALBERT
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Talbert has noticed one change in the
organization, allowing girls as young
as five years old to be scouts. It has
helped get them involved in the organ-
ization, she said.
“Well I think getting girls started
earlier helps to keep them involved,”
she said. “It was just a way to pull
them in.
“I think it’s been a good thing for
girl scouting because those five year
olds are so excited.”
While they don’t currently have a
troop, Talbert and Goforth had one for
24 years. Currently, the two are master
trainers which involves training new
leaders and working on the Pioneer
Council's archives.
Talbert and Goforth grew up togeth-
er and both of their families were good
friends. :
Having the opportunity to do things
she could not do at her home was one
reason Talbert got involved with scout-
ing.
“I thought it was really fun to go
camping, working on badges, and to
do so many different kinds of things I
didn’t have the opportunity to do at
Kings Mountain Weather
home,” Talbert said.
Another opportunity Talbert men-
tioned was Wider Opportunities,
which allows scouts a chance to see a
different part of the country or world
by themselves. Girls interested in par-
ticipating fill out an application and
.are then picked to go.
“You see a big difference in those
girls when they leave and then when
they come back, Talbert said. “They’re
really a different child.
“They're not a child anymore really,
they've really matured a lot.”
Talbert went on one trip to
Massachusetts, and while there, went
on a whale watch and went to Salem to
learn more about the witch trials.
During another part of the trip, she
went to a small textile town, named
Lowell, which she said was similar to
the Gaston County municipality of the
same name.
“That was really different,” Talbert
said about the Massachusetts trip.
Whales and weavers were part of the
trip’s theme.
She also went on a trip to Wisconsin
where they built tepees and where
scouts learned how to build tepees.
“We just had lots of different experi-
ences like that and have been able to
work with lots of different girls,”
Talbert said.
Although they have been active in
area Girl Scout activities for over 30
years, Talbert did not reveal any plans
to stop their involvement.
“We really enjoyed working with the 1.
archives and we enjoyed the training,
00,” Talbert said about her favorite
activities with Girl Scouts.
“In the archives we get to really pre-
serve the past and that’s a lot of fun;
we're trained to do that,” Talbert said.
They have collected several things
for the council and for themselves they
have found during their archives work.
When they started the archives, most
of the materials were boxed up and are
now stored at the council's Gastonia
office.
Other activities the two are involved
in are activities at Boyce Memorial .
Presbyterian, Gastonia’s Schiele
Museum and a fund raising campaign
for a liver transplant for a local resi-
dent.
Since both have jobs working with
children and have helped them
through their community involvement,
Goforth said they wanted to give back.
“I think there has been a lot of adults
in our lives who have given to us,” she
said. “And we would like to give back
to the kids.”
FAIR
Exhibits can be entered on
Monday from 8 a.m-6 p.m.
issued in Booze It
and Lose It check
Local law enforcement
personnel issued seven DWI
citations during a Booze It &
Lose It checkpoint Friday
night on Highway 74 at
Buffalo Creek.
Officers from the North
Carolina Highway Patrol,
Shelby Police Department,
Cleveland County Sheriff's
Department, Kings
Mountain Police
Department, and the North
Carolina Division of Motor
Vehicles participated in the
checkpoint which ran from
11 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m.
Saturday.
It was the second chock.
point in a week in
Cleveland County as part of
the Statewide July 4th
Holiday Booze It & Lose It
Campaign, which officially
ended on Sunday.
The total breakdown of
charges/ citations issued
included:
DWI - 7.
No operator’s license - 9.
Driving while license
revoked - 6.
Marijuana possession - 2.
Child restrain violations -
,
Other citations (for vari-
ous charges such as seat belt
and inspection sticker viola-
tions) - 29.
Officers called Friday's
charges “typical” for the
County.
Statewide, though, the
Department of
Transportation reported that
the first week of the Booze It
& Lose It Campaign (June
28-july 7) netted 1,729 DWI
charges, which was in line
with last year’s record. Of
those charges, 187 were to
drivers under the legal
drinking age of 21.
During the first week, 12
checkpoints in Cleveland
County netted seven arrests
for DWI under age 21, and
19 for DWI over age 21.
There were also 108 safety
belt violations, 12 child safe-
ty violations, 216 speeding,
29 driving while license
revoked, 28 no operator's
license and 142 various traf-
fic citations, for a grand
total of 561 traffic violations.
Last year, officers
statewide issued 1,736 DWI
citations during the first
week of the campaign, the
highest number since 1995
when 2,294 DWI violations
© were recorded.
Counties with the highest
number of DWI citations
were Wake (109),
Cumberland (98) and
Mecklenburg (75). Other
counties reporting at least 40
DWI violations were
Carteret, Davidson, Forsyth,
Nash, New Hanover,
Onslow, Robeson and
Sampson.
Total violations during the
first week of the campaign
were 41,327, including
39,563 traffic violations.
PRIMARY
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