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Grid Contest Coming
Okay, all you football guessperts. Get out your crystal balls,
Dunkels Index, Harmons Forecast, et all. It’s time again for the
Herald’s football contest.
Beginning next week. Herald advertisers will once again sponsor the
$73 winner-take-all grid contest, which over the years has proved to be
the most popular advertising promotion of this newspaper.
The contest will run for 10 weeks and will include high school, foot
ball and pro games. The person predicting the most of 20 winners will
receive the $75.
The Herald and its sister-papers in Belmont and Cherryville have
the distinction of giving away the largest amount of money of any
paper in the two Carolinas.
There are some slight changes in the rules over past years, so each
contestant should carefully read the rules. All entries that do not abide
by the rules will be disqualified.
The rules, which will be printed on the football page each week, in
clude: Only one entry per person; no typewritten entries; all entries
must be received by the Herald no later than 3 pm. on Friday; in case
of a tie, the tie-breaking method will decide the winner. If the tie
breaking method cannot decide the winner, the $73 will be divided if
no more than two persons tie. If more than two persons tie, a drawing
will determine the winner.
The first contest will appear in next week’s Herald. So get ready!'
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VOLUME 94, NUMBER 58
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HALLOWEEN?—Not quit#. It's Kings Mountain District
School kindargartan taachars participoting in a raading
workshop hald last waak at Bathwora SchooL For a faotura
story on tha suocasahil Kings Mountain raading program,
saa Mrs. Mewtha Bridgas' story and picturas on paga 1-B of
today's Harold. It's thaimrthiti a aarias-«4-17 arttelaa on tha
^Klngs Mountain School Systam. ^
* Moss To Participate
In Grant Meeting
Kings Mountain Mayor John
Henry Moss will travel to Atlan
ta Monday to attend a Reagan
Administration-sponsored transi
tion meeting on Block Grants
recently approved by Congress.
The focus of the meeting will
be on the roles of governors,
state legislators, state agencies
SERTOMA CLUB
Cleveland County Sheriff
Dale Costner will be the guest
speaker at the meeting of the
Kings Mountain Sertoma Club
Thursday at 7 p.m. at Hank’s
Chicken and Steak Ranch,
formerly Cattletown U.SA. All
members are prospective
members are urged to attend.
and local governments in im
plementing the block grants.
Representatives from the
Department of Health and
Human Services, Housing and
Urban Development, Education,
and the Office of Management
and Budget will be participating
and will respond to questions
from local officials.
The meeting will include an
overview of all block grants,
departmental sessions on im
plementation and sessions dur
ing which representatives from
the various states will have time
to discuss implementation from
their perspective.
The all-day meeting will be
held at the Georgia Tech Stu
dent Center.
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Harris Is Appointed
• To Service Committee
Lieutenant Governor Jimmy
Green announced the appointe-
ment of Senator Ollie Harris of
Kings Mountain to a two year
term of membership on the
Child and Family Service In
teragency Committee. His term
expires June 30, 1983.
In naming Harris to the Com-
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OLLIE HARRIS
mittee. Green said, “Senator
Harris is a fine legislator whose
abilities and experience will add
much to the Committee.’’
Senator Harris, who is Presi
dent of Harris Funeral Home,
Inc. of Kings Mountain, is serv
ing his fifth term in the Senate.
He represents the 25th
Senatoriid District, comprised of
Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln and
Rutherford Counties. During
the 1981 Session of the General
Assembly, he is Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Human
Resources, and Vice Chairman
of the Senate Conunittee on
Senior Citizens Affairs.
The General Assembly has
declared that the policy of the
State is “to promote and en
courage programs and practices
to support and strengthen
families in North Carcdina.” The
C3iild and Family Service In
teragency Committee is to coor
dinate federal, state, regional,
and local programs, agencies and
activities relating to the General
Assembly’s family and children
policy.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 27,1981
KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH CAROLINA
Gas Rates Reduced...
By GARY STEWART
Editor
The Kings Mountain City
Board of Commissioners Mon
day night approved a natural gas
reduction of seven percent, but
District One Commissioner Jim
Childers said “it should have
been more.”
Childers cast the only no vote
to the proposal by the city’s gas
consultants. Heath and
CALLED BOARD MEETING
Th« Kings Mountain Bocad of Conunlaaionors will hold a call-
•d mooting Fridcnr at noon at tho Govommontal Sorricos
Facilitios Contor.
Mayor John Moas aaid ho will oak commiaaionora to poas a
roaolution roquoating tho North Carolino Houaing Fincmco
' Agoncy to aot aaido $3 million in mortgogo monoy for in-
dividuol hotialng in tho city limita of Kings Mountodn.
'Wo fool this wUl osaist citizona in acquiring priTatoly-
ownod housing and will particularly aid young couplos in
buying thoir first homo,” Moss said.
Associates.
“I want the clerk to enter into
the minutes the reason why I am ^
casting a no vote,” Childers said.'
“I personally feel the decrease
can be more.”
The reduction comes to 33
cents per MCF, Mayor John
Moss said. One MCF equals out'
to IJXX) cuImc feet.
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...But Hospital Rates Increase
It will cost you more to get
sick next week.
Room rates at Kings Moun
tain Hospital will rise approx
imately $28 effective September
1, Hospital Administrator Grady
Howard announced today.
The average rate for semi
private rooms will rise from $94
to $120 and the average rate for
private rooms will rise from $97
to $123.
Howard said the increases are
“representative of the revenue
we will need to meet our budget,
and paying back money we bor
rowed to build our new
building.”
The hospital this year began a
$3.5 million building and
renovation project. Howard said
$9 to $10 of the room rate in
crease will go toward repaying
the loan.
“Heretofore, in most in
stances, this type of capital pro
gram has been financed by the
sale of bonds, paid for by the tax
payers,” Howard said. “This
loan will be paid back by the
hospital. This is the current
trend throughout the country.”
Howard said the new building
is about 23 percent complete,
but progress is behind schedule
Course
Slated
By WCU
Registration for Western
Cardina University’s off-campus
credit courses to be taught this
fall in Kings Mountain will be
held Thursday, Aug. 27, during
the first class meetings.
The classes to be offered are
Reading, Diagnosis and Correc
tion (EDRD 573) and Advanced
Children’s Literature (EDEL
653). Both three-hour credit
courses will be taught from 4 un
til 7 p.m. each Thursday through
Dec. 10 at Kings Mountain High
School.
The reading course will be
taught by Dr. Jimmie Ellis Cook,
director of WCU’s Reading
Center and professor of reading.
The children’s literature course
will be taught by Virgie M.
McIntyre, WCU associate pro
fessor of elementary education
and reading.
The fee for each course is
$133 JO, based on a minimum of
20 students. If less than 20
register, the fee will be adjusted.
For naore information, con-
tect the Division of Continuing
Education, Western Cotolina
University, Cullowhee, N.C.
28723, telephone (704)
227-7397.
due to rainy weather in June and
July.
The first phase of the project,
the construction of the new
wing, is expected to be com
pleted by late summer of 1982.
The second phase, which in
cludes renovating the current
building to make it an all-private
facility, is scheduled for comple
tion in late summer of 1983.
“We have a good plan,”
Howard said. ‘Everyone seems
to be well-fdeased with the pro
gress.”
Houston’s In The Race
Incumbent District Two Com
missioner Humes Houston
Saturday filed for re-election to
his third term on the Kings
Mountain Board of Commis
sioners.
Houston was the only can
didate to fiie during the past
week, Luther Bennett, chairman
of the Board of Elections,
reported.
Houston’s filing puts a can
didate in each district, but still
only one race is developing.
Houston is the only candidate in
District Two and Kings Moun
tain barber Curt Gaffney is the
only candidate for the District
Five seat currently held by Bill
Grissom.
The only race thus far is in
District Six, where incumbent
Jim Dickey is facing two
challengers, Jan Deaton and
Johnnie Caldwell.
Houston has served six years
on the board, one two-year term
and one four-year term. He
serves as chairman of the Per
sonnel Committee, which
developed the city’s first written
personnel policy, chaired the
Supply Committee, is co-
chairman of the Downtown
Revitilization Committee, and is
a member of several other com
mittees.
HUMES HOUSTON
He is retired from the US. Ar
my and is retired Sales and Pur
chasing Manager for Cornwell
Drug, formerly Kings Mountain
Drug. He was employed there
for 30 years.
Houston is a member of First
Presbyterian Church, the
Kiwanis Club and the American
Legion. He and his wife,
Dorothy, have one son, Samuel
Humes Houston Jr., who is assis
tant superintendent of the
Davidson County School
System.
Houston pointed to the '
building of the new city hall and
new Citizens Service Center
(Public Works Department), up
dating of the water and electrical
systems, and the implementation
of the the Perstmnel Policy and
Supply System as smne of the ad-
ministration’s top ac
complishments during the past
six years.
“If re-elected,” he said,
would like to see the city con
tinue updating gas, water and
sewer services, and one of my
primary objectives would be the
improvement of city streets and
ro^.”
The filing period for can
didates continues through
September 4. Interested can
didates may file through Luther '
Bennett, Elections Board chair
man. A $5 filing fee is required.
Voters who are not registered
may register at the Cleveland
County Board of Elections or
throiq^ the registrar at their
precinct. Voters registered by
September 7 will be eligiUe to
vote in the October 6 election. In
case of a runoff, voters registered
by October 3 will be eligible to
vote in the November 3 runoff.
Wells Is ACT Head
William Steven Wells, a
teacher in the Kings Mountain
District School System, recently
assumed the presidency of the
North Carolina Association of
Classroom Teachers, the largest
division of the North Carolina
Association of Educators.
Wells was elected to the posi
tion last year by the teachers of
North Carolina. His term of of
fice will expire July 1,1982. The
local Board of Education
granted Wells a year’s leave of
absence from his position as
resource teacher at Grover
Elementary School and as the
system’s homebound teacher.
Wells is a native of Grover
and graduated from Kings
Mountain High School in 1960.
After serving three years in the
U5. Army, he received his
Bachelor of Science degree in
1968 froin Appalachian State
University. He then served as
STEVE WELLS
director of an anti-poverty pro
gram which served mountain
counties in North Carolina and
initiated and maintained the
Head Start program for two
counties.
Wells came to Kings Moun
tain as a teacher at Central
School in 1970 and has been
assigned to Grover School for
the past eight years. He received
a Master’s Degree in Mental
Retardation from Appalachian
State in 1976.
His duties as president of the
ACT this year will include
assisting members of the
organization, speaking at
meetings, organizing programs
and representing the concerns of
the teachers of North Carolina.
Wells is married to the former
Betsy Hart, who is the
EnglishAJrama teacher at Kings
Mountain Senior High. They
reside on Dixon School Road
and are the parents of two sons,
William Hart, 4, and Brett
Hampton, 2. Wells also hat a
daughter, Kellene, 16. Wells it
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Harold Wells and the grandson
of Mrs. Eula H. Ledford and the
late C.T. Ledford.