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Pag* BA KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thunday. lun* 18. 1981
Transportation Council Created
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ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Barry W. Str-
ingiellow of Kings Mountain announce the engagement of
their daughter. Susan Lynette, to Douglas Todd Johnson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James Felton Johnson of Hillsborough. The bride-
to-be is a graduate of Kings Mountain Senior High School and
a nursing major at UNCC. She is employed as surgical techni
cian at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. The bridegroom-to-be is a
Junior student at UNCC where he is a criminal justice major.
He is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He is
employed by Baucom's Nursery in Charlotte. The wedding wil
be an event of Aug. 1 in St. Matthew s Lutheran Church.
Governor Jim Hunt has sign
ed an executive order creating a
County Transportation Efficien
cy Council in Cleveland County
and each of North Carolina’s
100 counties.
Under the executive order, the
councils “will examine the work
program, policies, methods and
operations of each Department
of Transportation county
maintenance unit” and “make
recommendations to the Gover
nor and the Board of Transpor
tation on improving efficiency
and productivity in those units.”
Each council will have five to
10 members appointed by the
Governor, as well as an ex-
officio member of the Board of
Transportation serving with
them.
In announcing his order
establishing the councils last
week, Governor Hunt said, “this
will give citizens someone to go
to when they have complaints
about a maintenance crew
wasting time, or not doing a
thorough job, or whatever it
may be.”
He added, “1 would particular
ly look for business people and
local government and civic
leaders, people who have a broad
range of contacts and who are
known throughout their
county.”
The Governor said, “these
councils will work with division
and district engineers, as well as
with the maintenance super
visors, to review the perfor
mance of state highway crews.”
He said the councils “can pro
vide an excellent channel for im
proving efficiency and produc-
Ramsey Hurls
Perfect Game
Morris Ramsey of Tultex
hurled a perfect game in In
dustrial League Softball action
last Monday night at Deal Street
Park.
The Grover resident retired all
15 men he faced in a five-inning,
12-0 victory over Parkdale.
The victory kept Tultex
undefeated and two games
ahead of Foote Mineral in the
race for the regular season cham
pionship. Tultex now has a 13-0
mark, followed by Foote 11-2,
Commercial Shearing 94, Little
Dan’s 7-6, Spectrum 7-6, Carmet
6-7, Anvil Knit 4-9. Kinmont 4-9
and Parkdale 2-12.
Tigers Post
Two
' Dennis’s Tigers won two
games last week to run their
record to 8-1 and maintain their
lead in the 14-15 year old Babe
Ruth League race.
led the Tigers with 3-for-3 and
Kelly Stewart was 3-for-3 for
Grover.
The Tigers defeated Army-
Navy 9-6 and Grover 7-1.
BLOODMOBILE
The Cleveland County Red
Cross Bloodmobile will be at
First Baptist Church on June 30
from 12 noon until 5:30 p.m.
The visit is being sponsored by
civic groups of the city.
Lavar Curry hurled the win
over Army-Navy and was also
one of five Tigers to secure two
hits. Others were Todd Clon-
inger, Wade Cash, Brad
Reynolds and Shane Burton.
Tommy Batchler was the losing
pitcher and led the Army-Navy
at the plate with 3-for4. Steve
Plonk was 2-for-2.
In another 14-15 year old
game last week, Army-Navy
bounced back from its loss to the
Tigers to defeat Southern
Escavating 74. Curt Pressley
was the winning pitcher.
The Handy Pantry of Kings
Mountain kept its perfect league
record in the 13-year-old division
intact last week with a hard-
earned 11-10 victory over
Grover. Handy Pantry is now
5-0 in league play.
Bucky Greene hurled the win
over Grover with relief help
from Johnny Yarboro. Steve
Blanton took the loss. Reynolds
In a practice game Saturday at
the junior high, the KM nine
dropped a 12-6 decision to Bel
mont.
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tivity in our highway crews.”
The Governor said the idea
for the councils came from
several members of the General
Assembly.
He said, “as they have talked
to their constituents in their
home districts, these legislators
have heard this message: “We
understand the need for more
money in our highway program,
but we want a guarantee that it
will be spent right’.”
The Governor added, “1 agree
with these legislators that the
best way to give people that
guarantee is to give them a
chance to examine and review
the work of the Department of
Transportation on the roads
where they live.”
He said, “like these legislators
who suggested this, 1 am acutely
aware of the public’s concern
about waste and inefficiency in
the Depanment of Transporta
tion. That is a proper concern
whenever any department of
state government must ask the
public for more money to carry
out the job it is supposed to do.”
He noted that he has already
ordered the Department to take
several steps to save money, in
cluding putting more prisoners
to work on the roads and reduc
ing the size of state highway
crews.
Those steps will save $20
million a year, he said, but “will
not, by themselves, give us the
money we need to keep a good
highway program going in
North Carolina.”
The Governor said, “the
legislature must provide addi
tional revenue for our roads —
without taking money from the
schexjis — if we are going to ade
quately maintain our existing
roads and make a very few im
provements that are essential to
economic development in North
Carolina.”
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