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Herald To Publish
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The Kings Mountain Herald
will publish only one edition next
week under date of Wed., Nov.
21.
Since Thurs., Nov. 22, Is
Thanksgiving Day and a
holiday, the publishers are
combining the Tuesday and
TTiursday editions In order that
subscribers and advertisers can
receive the paper prior to the
holiday.
The Herald will be delivered
Wednesday morning.
lliursday will be a holiday for
virtually all business and
government offices.
VOLUME 90 ■ NUMBER 91 - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1979
Citizens’ Protest Upheld
By EUZABBTH STEWART
Oo-Edltor
Declaring that the property
his neighbor requested rezoned
Is “spot zoning”, Thomas
Boheler and 31 other Shelby Rd.
residents petitioned the city
board of commissioners Monday
to deny Roger Guln’s request to
rezone from R-6 to OB the
former Doc Byars Floor
Covering property on Shelby Rd.
Mr. Guln told the board he
wanted to use the building for a
mobile home parts and supply
house to serve Suburban Mobile
Home Park, which he owns and
operates on Waco Rd.
Boheler, who spoke out in a
public hearing conducted by the
board during the regular
meeting, objected to a business
being placed “in the middle of a
residential district’’ and to
customer use of one driveway
which he claims he owns and
serves both houses, however,
Guln offered to show com
missioners plats of the property,
maintaining that the driveway is
Guln property.
’Ihe board, upon motion of BUI
Grissom, seconded by Jim
ChUders, unanimously denied
the rezoning request which had
earlier been approved, although
by a majority and not
unanimous vote of the KM
Planning and Zoning Board
which reviews all requests for
rezonlng and then makes
recommendations to the city
commission.
After a second public hearing,
the board approved request
from Dewey Dotson of Gastonia
and Sam Leigh of Kings
Mountain to rezone from R-20 to
general business property off
U.S. 74 west of the city and
adjacent to Sharon Park Sub-
Division for an automobile
repair shop.
Bob Maner, insurance and
real estate agent, speaking on
behalf of the petitioners, said a
"thoroughly modern” buUdlng
Is projected which would be six
or seven feet below grade and
barely visible from U.S. 74 with
trees and a chain link fence to
protect the view from residents.
He said a survey of area neigh
bors revealed no objections to
the rezoning which had been
BIO WINNERS—These tour men received
special awards at the United Fund Awards
Banquet Tuesday night. From left are Dr. Terry
Sellers, campaign chairman, Mike NappI, whose
city employes division surpassed its goal by the
Photo hy Gary Stewan
biggest percentage of any division, Alex Mc-
Callum, winner of the President’s Award, For
Excellence, and outgoing president. Rev. Bob
Boggan.
UF Banquet Is Held
By GARY STEWART
Oo-Edltor
Kings Mountain United Fund
workers officially climaxed
their 1980 fund-raising effort
’IXiesday night with the annual
Awards Banquet at the Kings
Mountain Junior High cafeteria.
Campaign chairman Dr.
’Terry Sellers announced the
contributions totalled $60,888.89,
or 110.6 percent of the $66,000
goal. Kings Mountain surpassed
Its goal for the fifth straight year
and ranked among the top five
campaigns In the state.
Rocking Ray Gooding, WBT
radio personality known mainly
tor his popular" Sunday Night
Hall of Fame” show, was guest
speaker for the event and
remarks were also made by
Dwyer Sump, a representative
of the N.C. United Way.
’The city employes’ division
won the award for raising the
highest percent of its goal and
Alex McCallum, chairman of the
Industrial division, won the
President’s Award for Ex
cellence, which each year goes
to the one Individual who makes
an extra special effort to make
the goal a success.
President Robert Boggan and
Chairmsui Sellers also received
special awards, as well as all the
division chairpersons, city
workers Dorlcla Cllppard,
Gloria Stacey and Pat Blanton,
who were honored by city em
ployes’ co-chalrpersons Mike
Nappi and Connie Putnam for
their outstanding work In
helping that dlvlalon reach the
highest percentage of its goal,
hospital employe Ron Bagwell
and the KM Hospital business
office.
Rev. Boggan praised Mc
Callum for "structuring the
industrial division campaign In
a way that Is going to put us In a
good stead for future cam
paigns. Several divisions raised
less than 100 percent of their
goals," said Boggan, "and had It
not been for the industrial
division going over Its large
goal, our success would not have
been possible."
’The Industrial division, which
had a huge goal of $86,000, raised
$46,206.
Other division totals an
nounced Tuesday Included
(Turn to page OA)
recommended unanimously by
the KM Planning and Zoning
Board.
On a third zoning matter, the
commission referred to the PAZ
Board request from Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence H. Davis to
rezone their property at 1324
Shelby Rd. from. R-20 to neigh
borhood business.
In other major actions of the
two-hour meeting the board
formally closed out two major
projects, approving an amend
ment to the capital budget to
include $18,000 to cover the
flnEmcial close out of the new
City Hall (KM Government
Facilities Building) after Im
posing a $23,000 penalty against
the general contractor and
$1,000 against Caldwell Electric
Cb. for exceeding by 264 days
the completion of the new City
Hall was approved and formally
held a public hearing and passed
resolution abolishing the nearly
10-year-old Kings Mountain
Redevelopment Commission,
effective Feb. 12, 1980, and
transferring its functions to the
Community Development
Department.
Upon recommendations of
Moodye CJlary, architect for the
new Qty Hall, the board allowed
the general contractor, Cecil’s
Inc., of SpsLTtanburg, S.C., 17
days of credit of the ap
proximately 46 days requested
for inclement weather. Clary
said a check with the U.S.
Weather Bureau indicated 17
days was a fair amount of time
for weather “of such severity
that work couldn’t be ac
complished at the site."
(Turn to page lOA)
Senior Citizen
Day Saturday
At KM Depot
Senior Citizens Day is
Saturday from 10 a.m. until 3
p.m. at KM Depot Center.
The event will feature special
music by “Swinging Moun
taineers,” senior citizens band,
baked goods, a big auction and
hotdogs, hamburgers and
barbecue with all the trim
mings.
All proceeds are earmarked
for the big annual Christmas
party for senior citizens In the
KM Aging Program to be held
Dec. 18th at the Depot Center.
Volunteers In the Aging
program are staging the fund
raising project Saturday and are
inviting the community to turn
out and support the event and
enjoy the day of fellowship.
Auctioneer will be Jonas
Bridges, manager of Radio
Station WKMT. Among auction
items are quilts, which senior
citizens have made, crafts,
canned goods and other hand
made items.
CAGO MEETING—Lt. Governor Jimmy Green, of Ralelgli,
center. Is greeted Tuesday night In Kings Mountain by Jack
Palmer, right, chairman of toe county board of commissioners,
as other representatives of school boards and city and county
governments look on.
Jimmy Green Says
He’s In The Race
By EUZABETH STEWART
Co-Editor
“I’m running for re-election,”
Lt. Governor Jimmy Green said
after an address ’Tuesday night
before members of the
Cleveland County Organization
of Governmental Officials.
'nie presiding officer of the
N.C. Senate had not alluded in
his speech to the political
campsdgn of 1980 In which he
faces opposition from Gastonlan
Carl Stewart, speaker of the
N.C. House of Representatives
but limited remarks to issues
toeing the General Assembly
which particularly concern area
school and government leaders,
using the occasion to encourage
leaders of local government to
push local legislators on bills
they want passed In Raleigh.
After the meeting at KM
Country Club, Green chatted
with the large group present and
said, “It’s no secret that I'm
running. I just haven’t had the
time to formally announce for
re-election.”
Green, a 23-year-veteran in
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Grady K. Howard Jr.
Begins Dental Practice
Kings Mountain native Grady
K (Geeper) Howard Jr. will
GRADY K. HOWARD JR.
assume the dental practices of
the late Dr. D.F. Hord Tuesday
morning.
Dr. Howard has been an
associate of Dr. T.L. Morton In
Asheville. He Is a 1971 graduate
of Kings Mountain High, 1976
graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill
with a B.S. in denlstry and a 1979
graduate of the UNC School of
Dentistry.
He was a member of the PI
Kappa Alpha social fraternity
and the Psi Omega Dental
Fraternity.
Dr. Howard, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Grady K. Howard Sr. of
Kings Mountain, Is married to
the former Linda Homowski of
Asheville.
Dr. Howard’s practice of
general denistry Is located at 206
South Cansler Street. He Is now
making appointments. For
appointments, call 739-1331 or
739-4466.
Teachers Buck Request
JOB WELL DONE-Betsy Wells, right,
president of the Association of Classroom
Teachers, presents a plaque of appreciation to
School Board Chairman Alex Owens at Monday
night's board meeting. Owens retired aRer two
Photo by Gary'Stowart
terms on the board of education. Including the last
two years as chairman. Harold LIneberger will be
sworn In as Owens’ replacement at toe December
.3 meeting.
By GARY STEWART
Oo-Edltor
The Kings Mountain District
Board of Education Monday
night tabled a request from
school auditor Barry Jenkins
that would require local
teachers to give a receipt for all
monies collected after a handful
of teachers present protested
that it would take time the
teachers feel should be used In
instruction.
The receipt suggestion was
just one of many Jenkins
recommended to the board. He
said his recommendations
would Improve the schools’
accounting system and make
end-of-the-year auditing easier.
Jenkins also suggested that
deposits be made each day if the
money total was at least $280,
that teachers file end-of-the-
year financial reports (already
a practice), that each school
have a petty cash fund, that
each receipt or disbursement be
classified, and that disbur
sements be made for school
activities only.
Jenkins said he had discussed
the recommendations with all of
the principals and only one
principal had given any feed
back.
"These recommendations
don't mean anything is wrong,”
Jenkins said, "but they are
necessary to enhance a more
unified system of accounting.”
Betsy Wells, president of the
Association of Classroom
Teachers and a teacher at the
high, school, protested the In
dividual receipt of monies
collected, as did her husband.
Steve Wells, a teacher at
Grover.
"It will be very time-
consuming when you have to
make receipt every time you
collect money,” Mrs. Wells said.
"That will be cutting Into a big
part of the school day.”
The teachers pointed out that
they often collect small amounts
of money for such things as
lunch. Intramural ballgames,
pictures and hot dog sales. If
each Individual child has to have
a receipt, it could add up to 30 or
40 receipts. Wells said.
.-e not expecting each
teacher to be a bookkeeper.”
Jenkins said, "but it would help
If each teacher had a record to
show how much money was
turned in to the school
treasurer.”
Mrs. Wells pointed out that it
has been a practice in the past
for all teachers to submit a year-
end financial report, which must
be turned in to the school