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VOLUME 94. NUMBER 56
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1981
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
JERRY ESKRIDGE
COLEMAN GOFORTH
Eskridge, Goforth Named
To First Citizens Board
Jerry L. Eskridge and Col
eman W. Goforth have been
named to the local board of
directors of First Citizens Bank
in Kings Mountain, Lewis R.
Holding, chairman of the board,
announced.
As members of the local
board, these men will assist bank
management in business
development and policy matters
and will serve as an additional
liaison between the Bank and the
community.
Eskridge is a doctor of
veterinary medicine with the
Kings Mountain Animal
Hospital. He is an alumnus of
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, N.C. State
University and the University of
Georgia where he earned his
D.V.M. A native of Shelby, Er-
skridge is president-elect of the
Kings Mountain Rotary Club.
He is married to the former
Lynn Lineberger, a native of
Shelby, and they have three
children. They attend First
Presbyterian Church where he
has served as a Deacon.
Goforth is owner and operator
of Stony Point Dairy Farm. A
native of Cleveland County, he
has served as a member of the
Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners for 13 years and
.is in his seventh year as a
member of the Social Service
Board. Goforth is chairman of
the Cleveland County Rural
First Commission, serves on the
boards of directors of Gaston
Skilb and the Rutherfordton
Vocational Workshop and is a
member of the Shelby Kiwanis.
He is also a member of the
boards of directors of the N.C.
Dairy Herd Improvement
Association and the Southern
Piedmont Dairy Herd Improve
ment Association. He is married
to the former Mary Beam and
they have two children. They at
tend Beulah United Methodist
Church where he has served as
treasurer and steward.
School Lunch
Prices Hiked
Parents will pay 10 cents per
plate more for their children’s
lunch when Kings Mountain
Schools open for the 1981-82
school year on August 24.
The board of education Mon
day night approved a price of 80
cents for elementary students, 83
. cents for junior and senior high
9 students and S1.23 for adult lun
ches.
Mrs. Martha Wright, director
of the child nutrition program,
said lunch prices may increase
again after the schools receive
new federal regulations. She said
federal cutbacks resulted in
$100,000 in losses to the food
service program and the increas-
Kindergarten
Schedules
Announced
Kings Mountain District
Schools has announced the
following schedule for beginning
A of school for kindergarten
^ students:
On Monday, August 24,
kindergarten children whose last
names begin with A through E
are asked to report to school
from 820 until 11:30 am. On
Tuesday, August 23, children
whose last names begin with F
through P are to attend. On
Wednesday, August 26, the re-
W maining children will attend for
their first half day.
From Thursday, August 27,
through Friday, September 4, all
kindergarten students will attend
school for only a half day, leav
ing at 11:30 am. Beginning
Tuesday, September 8, they will
attend full days.
Any parent who has not
enrolled his child for
^ kindergarten should do so im
mediately by calling for instruc
tion from the principal of the
school where the child will at
tend.
HOT DOG SALE
The Chestnut Ridge
Volunteer Fire Department will
be selling hot dogs on Sat., Aug.
22 behind the Chestnut Ridge
A Baptist Church. Hot dogs will be
^ 65 cents each or two for S1. Pro
ceeds go to the fire department.
ed lunches and food purchasing
and production changes will
regain about $73,000.
She said an offer versus served
option in grades kindergarten
through five will allow pupils to
choose three of the five regular
meal components. The meal will
be priced as a unit regardless of
how many meal components the
student chooses.
Students in grades six through
12 may choose individual items
without purchasing the entire
plate, Mrs. Wright said.
In other action Monday, the
board:
‘Approved a student fee
schedule for junior and senior
high students. Superintendent
Bill Davis said it will bring in
$18,030 to $20,000 in revenues.
Fees are necessary this year, he
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Candidate Filing Begins
Candidate filing for the Oc
tober 6 election of three Kings
Mountain City Commissioners
will begin Friday at 12 noon and
continue through 12 noon
September 4, Luther Bennett,
chairman of the City Board of
Elections, announced today.
The three seats available in
this year’s race are District Two,
currently held by Humes
Houston; District Five, current
ly held by Bill Grissom; and
District Six, currently held by
Jim Dickey. All are four-year
terms.
Bennett said any citizens in
terested in filing for the commis
sioner’s race should contact him
and make arrangements for fil
ing. A $3 filing fee is required.
Citizens who are not
registered voters but are in
terested in registering must do so
by September 7 in order to be
eligible to vote in the October 6
election. In there is a runoff,
citizens who register by October
3 will be eligible to vote in the
November 3 runoff.
Bennett explained that voters
must be registered at least 30
days prior to the election date.
Voters may register at any
time at the Cleveland County
Board of Elections Office in
Shelby. Voters may make ar
rangements to register in Kings
Mountain by calling precinct
registrars.
Registrars and judges for the
upcoming election were approv
ed at a meeting of the County
Board of Elections last week.
They include;
West Kings Mountain: Becky
Cook, registrar; Lewis Hovis (D)
and Geraldine Myers (R), judges.
East Kings Mountain:
Margaret White, registrar;
Hilliard Black (D), and Connie
Putnam (R), judges.
Bethware: Hilda Goforth,
registrar; Jack Anthony (R), and
Jack Wyte (D), judges.
Grover; Doris Cook, registrar;
Jeannette H. Rountree (D), and
Betty M. Earl (R), judges.
Any persons interested in
registering through the local
registrars should call and make
an appointment before gt^g to
register.
Traffic Signalization
Project Gets Approval
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DR.THOMAS BREEDEN
Dr. Breeden
Opens Office
Dr. Thomas Breeden,
Gynecologist, of Gastonia, will
begin seeing patients in his Kings
Mountain office on Friday,
August 21. He will be alter
nating the use of an office with
Dr. John Brooks, Allergy
Specialist, who presently oc
cupies the office located at 608
West King Street. Dr. Breeden
will continue to operate his of
fice in Gastonia, where he has
his home.
Dr. Breeden is a graduate of
Davidson College and the
Medical College of South
Carolina, interned at Orange
Memorial Hospital, Orlando,
Florida and served on the OB-
Gyn Service at Eglin Air Force
Base, Florida. He obtained his
specialty training in Obstetrics-
Gynecology at Charlotte
Memorial Hospital, Union
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Tops Goal
The Cleveland County blood-
mobile exceeded its goal by one
pint in its visit to Kings Moun
tain Baptist Church last week.
Mrs. Martha Scruggs, pro
grams director, said 164 donors
came to the visit, sponsored by
Kings Mountain City
employees. Thirteen were defer
red for a total of 131 productive
pints.
By GARY STEWART
Editor
The Kings Mountain Board of
Commissioners Monday night
approved a $36,300 traffic
signalization project and also ap
proved the temporary detouring
of truck traffic onto Cansler
Street until bypass work on Pied
mont Avenue is completed.
The signalization project,
which will be done in conjunc
tion with the N.C. Department
of Transportation, will effect
every traffic light in the city.
Mayor John Moss pointed out.
Moss said there is a need for
28 new traffic signal heads.
Some of the existing lights can
be re-worked and used, he said.
Moss said much work will be
necessary on King Street since
“The Highway 74 bypass will be
a reality soon. King Street will
become basically an urban street
with the bypass carrying most of
the flow of out-of-town traffic.”
The state will synchronize and
update traffic signalization on
King Street. Much work will also
be necessary on West Mountain
Street and tettleground Avenue,
Moss said, and those streets wil
be coordinated and synchroniz
ed with Railroad Avenue.
The board approved advertise
ment of bids for materials for the
project. Moss said erection of the
lights will be handled by the
city’s work force. The state has
not yet set a figure on its part of
the project. Moss said.
In a related matter. Moss
reported that the DOT is gmng
ahead with plans to upgrade
railroad crossings in the city.
Eventually, all crossings in the
city will have safety gates and
signals.
The DOT held a public hear
ing in Kings Mountain recently
on a proposal to close the
Hawthorne Street crossing and
upgrade the Oak Street crossing,
but met objection from a
number of citizens.
Since that time. Moss said, the
state has decided not to close
Hawthorne, but to improve it.
‘The state has been back in
since the public hearing and
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Harris On Committee
Senator Ollie Harris of Kings
Mountain has been re-appointed
to a two-year term on the Men
tal Health Study Commission,
Lieutenant Governor Jimmy
Green announced today.
Also re-appointed were
Senator Julian R. Allsbrook of
Roanoke Rapids, Senator
Harold Hardison of Deep Run,
former Senator John T. Henley
of Hope Mills and former
Senator Benjamin D. Schwartz
of Wilmington.
Senator Harris, who
represents the 23th District, has
served five terms in the Senate.
He has been on the Commission
as a voting member since 1977,
and currently serves as Chair
man of the Senate Committee on
Human Resources.
The Mental Health Study
Commission was originally
established during the 1973
General Assembly. It has been
continously extended by the
General Assembly, and then ex
panded by the 1979 General
OLLIE HARRIS
Assembly to deal with the in
creasing complexity of issues
before the Commission, par
ticularly those raised by the
decriminalization of public
drunkenness. The purpose of the
Study Commission is to study
the delivery of mental health ser
vices, mental retardation ser
vices, and substance abuse ser
vices, and to make recommenda
tions to the General Assembly.
Among other responsibilities,
the Commission is to study the
extent of alcohol and drug abuse
and the effectiveness of publicly
funded responses to this abuse.
In addition to the flve
members appointed by Green,
the Mental Health Study Com
mission has five members ap
pointed by Speaker of the House
Liston Ramsey, and eight
members appointed by Gover
nor Jim Hunt. The Governor is
also responsible for appointing
the Chairman.
ROTARY CLUB
State Senator Ollie Harris will
be the guest speaker at the
regular weekly meeting of the
Kings Mountain Rotary Club at
noon Thursday at Kings Moun
tain Country Club. Mayor John
Moss is in charge of the pro
gram.
Summer Is Busy Time
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PAINTING CLASSROOM - Dal* Thornburg
oi tb* King* Mountain Schools Malnt*nonc*
D*partm*nt paints a classroom at W*st
El*m*ntary School. Th* maintononc* doport-
m*nt has b—n busy all summ*r proporlng ior
th* Augtwt 24 op*ning of school^
By LARRY ALLEN
Asst. Supt.
Ready or not, school bells will
ring for the 1981-82 school year
on August 17 for teachers and
August 24 for students. Kings
Mountain Schools maintenance
program is assuring everyone
that the facilities will be ready
for the deadline.
One might assume that school
preparation is not very exciting
or difficult but a closer look at
the magnitude of work that must
be done prior to the opening day
excites the maintenance and
custodial staff as they deligently
strive to meet the deadline and
improve facilities.
Summer is the busiest and
most fruitful time for the
maintenance program in that
major repairs and renovations
can best be accomplished with
students and teachers away from
the building. Every effort is
made to maximize the two mon
ths of summer break as major
projects are completed. The
Kings Mountain stafr has work
ed throughout the year, par
ticularly during the summer
months, to spruce up, repair, and
renovate facilities throughout
the school system. Floors,
carpet, windows, etc. have been
cleaned; many classrooms
painted; carpet replaced and
repaired: partitions erected; air
conditioning installed at three
schools; landscape im
provements and lawn care; and
many other minOT maintenance
repairs completed. Approximate
ly 500,000 square feet of floor
space has bMn cleaned CTile
floors scrubbed and waxed,
carpet shampooed, and hard
wood floors reftaished). 21
classrooms, covered wallways,
cafeterias, restrooms and
hallways throughout the system
have been painted. 33
classrooms air conditioned at
East, West, and Bethware
Schools. Air conditioning for
North and Grover Elementary
Schools is scheduled for the fldi
season. It is anticipated that by
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