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VOLUME 91 - NUMBER 66 ■ TUESDA Y, OCTOBER 21,1980 - KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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WRECK SCENE — RMidmU of th« North Pied
mont area found thenuelyea without power
eorly Sunday morning when a car operated
by Freddie Lee Bell slammed into a power
pole and then into o oor parked in a driveway.
The cor was headed north ond when it came
to rest was heading south. A city electrical
department employe works to disconnect the
Photos by Gary Stewart
hot wires from the pole which is ready to
break in the photo ot top. In bottom photo.
Kings Mountain Police Sgt. Bob Hayes in
spects the damage to Bell's Trans Am, which
was listed at $4,000. Power was off from 1:30
until 7:30 a.m. in the northern portion of the ci
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Bridget Glass Nominated
F or Morehead Scholarship
Bridget Glass, KMSHS senior
student and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Glass, is one of
three Cleveland County
nominees for a $13,000 John
Motley Morehead Foundation
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BRIDGET GLASS
Scholarship for undergraduate
study at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Other nominees are Melissa
tail of Crest and Jimmy Wilson
of Shelby High. Lee Jamieson of
Shelby High is an alternate.
Miss Glass aspires to become a
pediatrician. Ranked lOth in a
class of 260, her activities in
clude student government. Na
tional Honor Society, Beta,
Monogram, Science and French
clubs. Fellowship of Christian
Athletes, Governor’s School and
church. She lettered in basket
ball, tennis, track and softball
and was a member of the
KMSHS homecoming court.
Currently studying at the
University under the Morehead
program are Chris Holmes of
Kings Mountain and Vicki
Latham and Blair Butler, both of
Shelby.
Grover Board
Sets Meeting
For Tonight
Grovar—The Town of
Grover has hired a new
policeman who will take the
oath of office Sunday.
Michael Brown, 27, of
Hickory, formerly of Kings
Mountain, has been employed as
the Town chief of Police. Brown
is married to the former Susan
Owens of Kings Mountain.
Grover Town Commissioners
will welcome the new Chief at a
special meeting Tuesday
(tonight) at 7 pjn. in Council
Chambers and will discuss
renovation of the Town Hall,
among other items on the agen
da.
FIRE ALARM
Kings Mountain Fire Depan-
ment responded to a fire alarm
Friday at Pine Manor Apts. A
pot left on the cookstove caught
fire and caused minor damage,
said firemen.
Local School Systems
To Participate In Tests
Thirteen school systems, in
cluding Cleveland County have
been chosen to participate in a
writing field test this fall which
might eventually become part of
the statewide Competency Test.
The Competency Test is present
ly a test of math and reading
skills which students must piass
in order to graduate from a
public high school in North
Carolina.
Buncombe County, Carteret
County, Chapel Hill, Cleveland
County, Forsyth County,
Greene County, Greensboro,
Hendersonville, Iredell County,
New Hanover County, Robeson
County, Transylvania County
and Wilson County schools were
chosen at random to participate
in the testing.
A contract has been awarded
Planning, Development, Evalua
tion and Associates, Inc., of
Tampa, Florida to conduct the
field operations, scoring, and
data analysis for the study. The
contractor will communicate
with the selected local agencies
during October to select students
and coordinate the project tasks.
Two test forms of four items
each (a business letter, an ex
pository paragraph, a written
note4nemo, and the completion
of an application form) will be
administered to students in the
ninth and eleventh grades during
the week of December 4. A
si^al ^tdcle of eleventh grade
exceptional students will be
selected in half the school’s par
ticipating; ninth graders will be
selected in the remainder of the
schools.
Teachers of the chosen class
will attend sessions in January
for training in scoring pro
cedures to be used in evaluating
the papers. The papers will then
be scored by those teachers and,
subsequently, by a team of
scorers at a central site within
the state.
The field test is being con
ducted by the Competency
Testing Commission, in conjunc
tion with the Division of Com
munication Skills and Research.
Speeding Car
Cuts Power Off
A city utility pole clipped at
ground level by a speeding car
Sunday morning knocked out
power in the North Piedmont
section of the city from 1:30 un
til 7 a.m. Sunday morning.
Kings Mountain Fire Depart
ment stood by the scene with a
light truck during the power
outage.
According to Kings Mountain
Police Department reports,
Freddie Lee Bell, of Rt. 4, travel
ing on North Piedmont near the
area of McAbee’s Store, was
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Fain Hambright.. ^eu national post
Grover’s Fain Hambright
Named To National PM Post
Grover Postmaster Ralph
Fain Hcunbright was recently
elected to the post of Executive
Vice President of the National
League of Postmasters. The
League of Postmasters is a
70,000 member organization
whose membership includes
federal employees as well as
Postmasters.
Postmaster Hambright won
handily over other candidates at
the organization’s 77th Annual
National Convention held in
Kansas City, Missouri. Ham
bright also served as National
Convention Chairman.
The Grover Postmaster’s ac
complishments in his Post Of
fice, Community, Civic and
Fraternal activities were
previously recognized by the
Postmaster’s organizaton by his
being selected as National
Postmaster of the Year.
Hambright has been a
member of the Organization’s
National Executive Board for a
number of years but this is his
first term as it’s Executive Vice
President. His duties will require
that he be in Washington fre
quently as the organization
representatives in consulation
meeting with the Postmaster
General and other high-ranking
postal officials.
In addition, he will have
responsibilities in administration
of the League’s multi-million
dollar budget. Postmasters’
grievances at the national level
and other national activities.
Mr. Hambright has previously
received numerous commenda
tions from both the League and
the Postal Service for outstan
ding accomplishments at the
District, Regional and National
levels.
HANDICAP TOURNEY
Kings Mountain Women
Golfers will hold a Handicap
Tournament Thursday morning
with ^-off at 9:30 a.m. on the
KM Country Club Golf greens.
This Thursday’s tournament is
rescheduled from a rained-out
tourney set in Sepjtember.
John Linderman Is Appointed
John B. Linderman Jr. of
Kings Mountain has been ap-
piointed director of coiporate
and parents relations at
Meredith College, Dr. Jerry E.
McGee, Meredith vice president
for institutional advancement,
has announced.
Linderman, 2S, served as a
journeyman missionary in
Salzburg, Austria under the
auspiices of the Southern Baptist
Convention Foreign Mission
Board from July, 1978-June
1980. As a journeyman, his
respxinsibilities included piastor-
ing an English language, in
terdenominational church and
counseling for English boarding
schools and university groups.
In his new position at
Meredith, Linderman will be
responsible for planning and
JOHN UNDERMAN
directing the pwrents’ programs
at the Baptist supported
women’s college. He will also
work closely with the coiporate
community to explore areas of
mutual interest and to seek cor
porate support for the institu
tion.
Linderman is a graduate of
Gardner-Webb College with a
B.S. degree in psychology. He
was born in Rock Hill, S.C. and
was graduated from Hunter
Huss High School in Gastonia.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John B. Linderman of Kings
Mountain.
While a student in college, he
was active in student govern
ment activities and was a
volunteer worker in the p)resi-
dent’s office at Gardner-Webb.
He is single and is a veteran of
the United States Marine Corpts.