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Kings Mountain commis
sioners Jim Childers, Norman
King and Bill Orissom attended
the annual National League of
Cities Conference in
Washington, D.C. Part of the
agenda was a speech by Presi
dent Reagan during which he
outlined his proposed tax and
budget cuts.
Kings Mountain Schools
adopted a 1981-82 budget of
$2,M3,675, up by 6'A percent
over last year and which called
for a five percent across the
board increase for personnel.
Dry weather and March
winds resulted in over ISO grass
and woodsfires in North
Carolina during the March
14-15 weekend, but Kings
Mountain did not have any flres.
Paul Hambright, 60, of
Grover, agriculture teacher at
Grover and Kings Mountain
high schools for a number of
years, died.
Oscar Winfred Myers, 96, of
Charlotte, long-time clothing
store owner and salesman in
Kings Mountain, died.
Superior Court Judge Preston
Cornelius of Mooresville upheld
the ballot recount in January by
the State Board of Elections in
the race for Cleveland County
Commissioners in which one of
the three write-in candidates had
appealed the State Board’s deci
sion.
Groundbreaking was held for
the S5.5 million expansion and
renovation at Kings Mountain
Hospital, expected to be one of
the nicest in the southeast.
Dr. David R. McDaniel an
nounced the opening of Kings
Mountain Eye Clinic.
Michael Theodore Ledford,
'40, of Route 2, Kings Mountain,
a partner in Kings Mountain
Farm Center with his father,
died.
Emmett Edison Ross, 67, of
Route 1, active in Demolay,
Order of the Eastern Star and
the Masonic Lodge, died.
Eighteen citizens appieared
before the City Board of Com
missioners to protest the pro
posal to close the Hawthorne
Street railroad crossing.
City commissioners, over a
protest from commissioner's Jlni
Childers and Norman King, ap
proved spending $5,000 to help
the Downtown Revitilization
Committee in a marketing
survey.
Bill Johnson, 45,' and his
daughter, Dana Ann Johnson
Gerber, were reunited after a
23-year separation.
Jeremy Funderburk, fourth
grader at Grover School, suf
fered a broken leg and broken rib
when his bicycle was hit by a
car.
Jennifer Payseur, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Payseur,
was named Little Wee Miss
Kings Mountain, and Traci
Lynn Johnson, daughter of Judy
Johnson, was named Little Miss
Kings Mountain in the third an
nual beauty pageant sponsored
by the Booster’s Club at B.N.
Barnes Auditorium.
APRIL
Emma Cornwell Austelle, 93,
former Kings Mountain High
teacher, died in Oxford.
Leah Patterson, Kings Moun
tain Junior High eighth grader,
correctly spelled “reiterate” to
win the Kings Mountain Spell
ing Bee.
Kings Mountain teachers who
are members of the NCAE voted
overwhelmingly against collec
tive bargaining.
A fun Saturday night of
skating and camping turned into
a Sunday morning tragedy for
three Kings Mountain teenagers
when a barn in which they were
camping burned. The youths,
Todd Banett of 902 Lee Street,
Rodney Lewis of 320 Amherst
Drive, and Jeffery Wood of 900
Lee Street, all died in the fire.
Paul Dean Gann of 306
Gaston Street, James Ernest
Mauney of Route 3, Blacksburg,
Arnold Eugene Mauney of 1017
Plymouth Street in Gastonia,
and Keith Freeland Ramsey of
402 South Cansler Street, Kings
Mountain, were indicted by a
federal grand jury on charges of
manufacturing and possessing an
over the counter explosive that
sparked an eruption of gunfire
last summer culminating in the
death of a Kings Mountain
woman and injuries to three
men, including Kings Mountain
Policeman Johnny Belk at
Chesterfield Court Apartaments.
Kings Mountain Junior High
students planted dogwood trees
on the school lawn in memory of
the three student who died in the
fire.
Kings Mountain’s pre
application for a $917,000 small
cities grant to finance a housing
rehabilitation project in the nor
thern end of the city, was denied
by the Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).
Mrs. Jim Potter, Kings Moun
tain District Schools Attendance
Officer, was elected president of
the Support Services for the
Children of Cleveland County.
Kings Mountain commis
sioners denied a rezoning request
from a representative of a mobiel
home park after a property
owner protest^. TWK Enter
prises of Morganton and Charles
E. Clark of Shelby, owner of the
nine acre tract on Shelby Road,
requested that the land be rezon
ed from R-20 to GB.
Officials of the Charles T.
Main Inc., representing the State
of North Carolina, conducted an
inspection of the dam area at
Moss Lake.
Mary Adams was named
director of the Kings Mountain
Program for the Aging.
Great Dominion Corporation
announced plans to construct a
45,000 square feet plant and
3,500 square feet office near Ar
chdale Farms on Grover Road.
Kings Mountain High
students Pamela Hatch and
Robert Lee Smith III were
selected to attend 1981 Gover
nors School.
Chestnut Ridge Volunteer
Fire Department kicked off its
second annual membership
drive.
Kelli Harry of Grover regain
ed consciousness after being in a
coma for 13'/I weeks following
an accident at Grover School on
December 18.
City Commissioners approved
a sewer use ordinance over the
protest of several citizens and an
industry spokesman. The fee was
set at 35 cents per 1,000 gallons
for domestic, commercial and in
dustrial users inside the city
limites and 55 cents per gallon
for users outside the city limits.
The City Board of Commis
sioners fired Recreation Super
visor Mike Nappi in open ses
sion. The vote was 4-2, with
commissioners Humes Houston
and Bill Grissom voting against.
A large number of citizens
representing the Church Softball
League spoke against Nappi’s
handling of the recreation
department.
MAY
City (Commissioners awarded
the bid on 38 lots in the Cansler
Street Urban Renewal project to
Fred Mills of Shelby for a bid of
$74,600.
Annie Burns, 11 th grader and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Burns, won the Superinten
dent’s Art Award at KMHS.
A dozen citizens appeared
before the Grover Town Board
to air their concerns that a
government subsidized rural ren
tal housing project was planned
for Grover.
Thirty-two KMHS students
were cited for academic
achievements at the first annual
KMHS top ten banquet.
Rev. Gary Bryant, pastor of
First Presbyterian (Church for
almost seven years, resigned to
accept the call as pastor of Paw
Creek Presbyterian Church in
Charlotte.
Myers Hambright Jr. was in
stalled as presidem of the Kings
Mountain Jaycees. Mike Neely,
pastor external vice president of
the Kings Mountain Jaycees,
was elected District Director of
the Midwest Region.
Breaknns were repiorted at
Cornwell |Drug and McGinnis
Furniture^
Samuel Humes Houston, 62,
retired as a salesman at Cornwell
Drug after 34 years.
Tinky Scarborough, secretary
and administrative assistant in
the Office of Economic Develop
ment, was suspended for public
ly criticizing the Mayor and
Board of Commissioners for Br
ing Recreation Department
Supervisor Mike Nappi in an
open meeting.
Mrs. Betty R. Gambie was
elected new director of vocation
education in the Kings Moun
tain Schools, replacing Myers
Hambright.
Rev. G. Tom Patterson,
pastor of Macedonia Baptist
Church, received his earned
Doctor of Ministry Degree from
the Luther Rice Seminary in
Jacksonville, Fla.
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Rev. Sidney Lanier, pastor of
El Bethel United and Hoey
United Methodist churches,
received a Master of Divinity
degree from Duke University.
Tinky Scarborough, secretary
and administrative assistant in
the Office of Community
Development, who publicly
criticized the Mayor and Board
of Commissioners for firing
Recreation Supervisor Mike
Nappi in an open meeting,
resigned her position and ac
cepted new employment.
Linwood Road residents
presented a petition with
signatures of 257 citizens propos
ing the re-opening of the area
closed due to the 74 bypass con
struction, but DOT officials at a
public meeting at the communi
ty center said the project was too
advanced to change.
Mrs. Charles Mauney and
Mrs. Betty Gamble were cited as
outstanding board members by
the Cleveland County Chapter
of the American Red Cross.
Kings Mountain Hospital
received a $200,000 memorial
gift from the estate of Ms. Inez
Swindell Dodd, representing the
single largest individual con
tribution ever received by the
hospital.
Kings Mountain Schools
Superintendent William F.
Davis was installed as president
of the Southwest Region
Superintendent’s Council for the
Sixth Educational Region.
Twenty-three KMHS drama
students toured New York City.
City Commissioners went
behind closed doors to discuss a
personnel matter with Emmett
Moss, a Fulton Street resident
and former city employee.
W. Donald Crawford was
named Kings Mountain Lions
Club Lion of the Y ear.
City Commissioners approved
the use of $156,388 in revenue
sharing funds, with the police
department getting $69,000 of
which $35,000 will be used for
renovating the old city hall into
a modern law enforcement
center.
Mrs. W.D. Werner was nam
ed outstanding member by the
Kings Mountain Woman’s Club.
JUNE
Two hundred and sixty-six
seniors were presenteddiplomas
at KMHS graduation exercises.
Central School sixth grader
Kent Green, 13, drowned while
swimming in Buffalo Creek near
Grover.
Dr. C. Dewitt Blanton Jr. was
appointed to the position of
director of research and studies
at the University of Georgia
School of Pharmacy.
Kelli Harry, nine, of Grover
was honored by her classmates
at Grover School on the last day
of school and was prsented a jar
holding thousands of pennies
which her school mates saved to
help her with her hospital ex
penses.
Grover Town Board adopted
a $101,525 budget for 1981-82
with over one-fourth of the
amount ($9,622.60) for opera
tion of the police department.
Kim Dixon was named
outstanding senior girl and Jeff
Lineberger was outstanding
senior boy at KMHS awards day
ceremonies.
Mills Construction Company
announced construction to begin
on the First 10 homes in the
redevelopment area off Cansler
Street.
David Ray Mullinax, formerly
of Kings Mountain, and his
nephew, John Alexander
Hearold, drowned when their 12
foot Ashing boat capsized during
a thunderstorm.
Juanita Goforth, English
teacher at KMHS, announced
her retirement.
Rev. Jery A. Smith, pastor of
the Kings Mountain Church of
God on Parker Street, was
elected to serve as superinten
dent of the Church of God
Home for Children in Kan
napolis.
Luther Philip Baker Jr., 67, of
1203 Shelby Road, died.
KMHS students Peggy
Davison, Lee Neisler, Danna
Seism and David Bradley attend
ed the fourth annual Close Up
North Carolina program in
Raleigh.
Mrs. Joyce Falls Cashion was
honored by Attorney General
Rufus Edminsten and Sheriff
Dale Costner for outstanding
citizen participation in aiding
law enforcement in reducing
crime in Cleveland County. Mrs.
Cashion’s daring and bravery
directly led to the arrest of 22
people during a series of break-
ins in the area, and she actually
held the robbers at bay with a
gun until officers arrived.
Kings Mountain Church of
God burned a note signifying
that all properties owned by the,
church are paid in full.
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