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"gu***p*rt*" tb* chanc* to win $75. All you l>av* to do i*
prodict th* larg**t numbor of winnor* from th* 20 gam** li*t*d
on th* football advortUomont pag*.
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Th* contoot i* op*n to ovoryon* oxcopt omploy*** of th*
Horold and thoir immodiat* familio*. Rulo* or* oxplainod on
th* contoot pag* and all contootant* or* urgod to road thorn
carofuUy.
Th* contoot pag* will run oach Tu**day throughout th* high
ochool rogular ooaoon. Entrio* muot b* in our hand* by noon
Friday*. Thoy may b* mailod to Football Contoot. P.O. Box 752,
King* Mountain. N.C. 28086; or you may bring thorn by our of-
fic* at th* intorooction of Eaot King Stroot and Cantorbury
Road.
Th* winnor* will b* oimouncsd oach Tuoodoy and tnoy moy
pick up thoir chock* at our offico on th* following Frid^.
So, got roady. It'* kickoff timo!
Tuesday
VOLUME 91, NUMBER 66
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1980
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Back To Old School
21 Students Transferred
By GARY STEWART
Co-Editor
Kings Mountain Schools are
in the process of transferring 21
students who had been attending
a school outside of their own
district back to their own atten
dance area.
The move became necessary
last week when some transfers
approved earlier by the board of
education resulted in overloads
at several elementary schools.
The board met in a special ses
sion Wednesday afternoon at the
Superintendent’s Office and ap
proved the action.
“We’ve met some disap
pointed parents as a result of
their children having to change
schools,” Supt. William Davis
said Friday. “We expected the
disappointment, Of course, we’re
disappointed too. But it’s a mat
ter of necessity and most people
are accepting it in good spirit.
• They understand.”
The board granted 88
transfers to students already liv
ing in the Kings Mountain
School District but who wanted
to attend a school outside their
attendance area. However,
Davis pointed out, that transfers
are approved on condition that
they do not create an overload,
and in cases where they do
create an overload, it is
understood students will be re
quired to go back to the school
in their own attendance areas.
When a selection of students is
required, Davis noted, they are
done on a first come, first serve
basis.
The 21 students reassigned
were ones whose transfers had
been received in the Superinten
dent’s Office at the latest dates.
In a number of cases of
overloaded classrooms, Davis
said the re-transferring of
students would not solve the
problem. Even after the re
transfers, overloaded situations
would still exist. In those cases,
he said, he would seek out
parents who may be willing to
have their children transferred to
another school.
Overloaded classrooms exist
at East School, where the
kindergarten class exceeds the
...suggested maximum .of 26 by
eight students; Bethware and
West. Many of the overloads at
West and Bethware were a result
of students transferring from
North, which has a number of
empty classrooms.
Davis said the system has free
ly allowed student transfers from
within the district but they had
never before created a “problem
of this magnitude.” Davis said a
few students had to be moved
out of West last year but the two
years prior to that, none had to
be moved.
“We have no assurance this
action will solve the problem,”
Davis said, “but it will get us so
ABC Election
In KM’s Future?
At least KX) petitions calling
for a referendum on creation of
an ABC store and off premises
sale of beer and wine are being
circulated in Kings Mountain.
Scott Goninger, Kings Moun
tain lawyer, acknowledged this
week that he drew up the peti
tions at the request of several
citizens. Goninger said that a
chairman of the of the effort is
still to be named.
The last referendum by Kings
Mountain citizens was narrowly
defeated at the polls in March
1975.
Goninger said that because of
the deadline on certifying names
on the petitions, the referendum
could not come as early as the
general election on Nov. 4. If the
petition drive is successful, the
referendum would probably be
held in January or February, he
said.
According to Goninger, the
petitions ask the city board of
commissioners to request the ci
ty elections board to set up a
referendum on the following
issues: for or against establish
ment of an ABC store, for or
against off premises sale of un
fortified wine and for or against
off-premises sale of malt
beverages.
Goninger estimated that
fewer than 400 signatures are
needed to call for the election
but that organizers are aiming
for a strong showing before the
petitions are turned over to the
commissioners.
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close to it (the recommended
class sizes) that we can manage.”
In a related matter Wednes
day, the board denied two dif
ferent requests for student
transfers. In one request, a
parent who is moving into Kings
Mountain from another town re
quested that his two children be
transferred to West from North.
In the other, a parent moving
out of the West ^strict into the
Grover district requested that his
children be allowed to continue
at West.
In another matter. Assistant
Superintendent Larry Allen
reported that several parents are
complaining about the bus
routes and explained the state
law and local policy concerning
routes and stop>s.
Allen says state law requires
buses to travel within one mile of
a residence and further states
that buses cannot travel on non
state roads.
Allen said the Cleveland
County Transportation
Organization passed a ruling that
school buses would try to travel
to within four-tenths of a mile of
each residence and that stops
should be scheduled no closer
than two-tenths of a mile apart.
Allen said a number of
parents feel buses should stop at
each driveway, as they have in
years past. However, he said, the
two-tenths of a mile ruling was
necessary because of last year’s
gas crunch and the result of it
was less consumption of fuel.
A number of roads in the KM
district are dead end roads, Allen
said, and students on some of
those roads must walk to the
main road and wait for the bus.
Some housing developments, he
said, have roads that were built
by the developer and have not
yet been adopted by the state.
Thus, it is illegal for a school bus
to travel them.
One example, he said, is the
White Plains community near
Bethlehem. The roads were pav
ed by the developer but are not
state-adopted roads. Students
there, he said, must catch the
bus at the Bethlehem and White
Plains intersection.
“We’re having requests to go
in there,” he said. “I followed a
Grover bus in there one day, and
I went to the Grover Principal,
Jim Scruggs, and told him it
would have to stop. If the state
adopts the roads, well route a
bus in there.”
Allen said he has also had re
quests for bus service where
students have transferred from
one district to another. Those
cannot be approved.
“If we have to send a child to
another school because of a
board decision, we will try our
best to provide transportation,”
he said. “But if the parents re
quest the transfer, they should
provide transportation.
“At White Plains, for exam
ple, if the state adopts the roads
there, we will route a Grover bus
in there because it is in the
Grover district. But we won’t be
able to route a Bethware bus in
there, because it is not the
Bethware school district.”
In all cases, Allen said, the
schools will “go as far as we can
in pleasing our patrons and treat
everyone as fairly as we can.”
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I 9
PROMOTE CELEBRATION-King* Mountain
Mayor lohn H*nry Mo**, loft, KMSHS Prin
cipal Bob McRa* and KMSHS lunior Down
Hambright oxhibit th* city'* iir*t bumpor
*tlck*r which call* attontion to tb* Octobor
colobration of th* 200th anniv*r*ary of th*
Bottl* of King* Mountain. Th* bumpor *tick*r*
Photo By LIB STEWART
or* ovailabl* in th* Bicontonniol h*ad-
quortor* downtown. Mi** Hombright i*
daughtor of Mr. and Mr*. Bob Hambright of
Grovor and i* a doscondont of CoL Frodorick
Hambright, Rovolutionory War boro at th*
Battl* of King* Mountain.
Men To March Again
Down from the hills and coves
they come, more than 1,000
strong, to seek out and destroy
the man who had promised to
bum their homes and destroy
their crops if they did not swear
allegiance to the king.
These “Overmountain Men”
brought their quarry, British
Major Patrick Ferguson and a
force of 900, to bay atop a South
Carolina ridge known as Kings
Mountain on the afternoon of
Oct. 7. 1780.
The overwhelming victory by
the frontiersmen is credited with
turning the tide of the Revolu
tion, which until then had been
going badly for Americans, and
hastening the end of the conflict
with England.
The 200th anniversary of that
219-mile march down from the
mountains to the battle site will
be reenacted in detail this fall,
beginning Sept. 24 at Abingdon,
Va.
There is a possibility that this
year the Overmountain Victory
Trail Association, the group that
began the march reenactments
five years ago, will find at Kings
Mountain on October 7 a prize
nearly as valuable as their
pred^essors found in Major
Ferguson 200 years ago.
That will be designation of the
route taken by the Overmoun
tain Men to reach Kings Moun
tain as the “Overmountain Vic
tory National Historic Trail.”
^ch a designation long has
been a goal of the Association
and a bill that would make the
dream a reality now is before
Congress. Favorable action by
that body before adjournment
on October 3 would add glitter
to what already promises to be a
significant occasion.
Dennis “Stump” Kline of
Rogersville, Tenn., a juvenile
court officer, will be the Grand
Marshal for this year’s march
and the Association could not
have selected a more appropriate
leader.
Kline is the only person to
have walked every step of the
five previous reenactments -170
miles in 1975 and 1976 when the
march began at Sycamore Shoals
near Elizabethton, Tenn., and
219 miles each year since 1977,
when the start was shifted nor
thward to Abingdon.
Kline said he expects fully half
of the OVT Association’s 500
members, plus many others
wishing to take part in the 200th
anniversary event, to make the
full journey this year.
“We will welcome anyone
who wishes to join us,” Kline
said, “but we will insist that all
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Petitions To Be Presented
To County Commissions
Petitions of thousands of
angered taxpayers are expected
to be presented to the Cleveland
County Board of Commissioners
at the Sept. 15 meeting in Shelby
by a citizens group who also ex
pect to field a slate of
Democratic candidates to oppose
incumbents in the general elec
tion.
The Association of Cleveland
County Taxpayers is led by
Bruce Seism of Kings Mountain,
who was officially elected the
leader, at an organizational
meeting Friday night in the
Cleveland County Office
Building. Dennis Rayfield of
Shelby was elected the vice
chairman.
More than 300 citizens attend
ed the meeting and called for tax
cuts and a change in county
leadership. More than $900 in
contributions was also raised at
the meeting.
Among those elected to serve
on the association’s board of
directors representing each
township of the county were
Robert Warlick, mayor of
Belwood; Freddie Harrill, unsuc
cessful candidate for the
Democratic nomination for state
House; and Everett Lutz, hus
band of state Rep. Edith Lutz.
Most of the questions raised
centered on why the county
commissioners chose "outsiders”
to conduct this year’s property
revaluation. Seism said that
citizens are “fed up on high pro
perty taxes.”