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VOLUME 95, NUMBER 16
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1982
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAR
DEDICATION SCHEDULED - Dedication of will bo hold Friday at 10 a.m. Govornor lamo*
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Governor Hunt To Speak
At Sulzer’s Dedication
Dedication of the new Sulzer
Brothers plant on Highway 29
near Grover will be held Friday
at 10 a.m.
Governor James B. Hunt will
be a special guest speaker, along
with Peter G. Sulzer, Executive
Vice President of the Interna
tional Group, Sulzer Brothers
Limited, and Walter Schneider,
Executive Vice President of the
Textile Machinery Group of
Sulzer Brothers Limited.
Kings Mountain Mayor John
Henry Moss will serve as Master
of Ceremonies. Following the
dedication ceremonies, there will
be a tour of the new 200,000
square foot facility.
Lunch will be served from
noon until 2 p.m. outdoors, and
music will be provided by the
North £aco)iaa School of,the
Arts.
Open house and tours for the
families of Sulzer employees and
the general public will be held
Saturday.
GOVERNOR JAMES B. HUNT
A plant tour will, begin, at
11:10 a.m. with each employee
showing the plant to his family.
Except for demonstration
machines, no machines or equip
ment win be in operation.
Lunch win be served at 12
noon in a tent behind the plant.
There wiU be a balloon flying
contest for children at 1 p.m. and
a new movie about Sulzer will be
shown to adults and children will
see cartoons beginning at 1:15.
Open house for the general
public will be held from 2 until S
p.m. Movies will be show,
refreshments served in the tent
behind the plant, and cakes bak
ed by the Kings Mountain High
School Home Economics
Department will be served.
Tile Kings Mountain High
School band will perform from 2
until 3 p.m.
Sulzer Brothers, Inc., is a sub
sidiary of Sulzer Brothers
Limited of Wintherthur,
Switzerland, and has been in the
Unh^ Stares stride 194Q,.l0jl|KL :
dition to manufocturing textile
weaving machines, the firm
markets diesel engines, turbo
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Teachers Didn’t Want
Names Sent To Raleigh
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Many teachers in the Kings
Mountain School System are
unhappy that their names were
sent to Raleigh along with
evaluations made of them during
the pilot year of the State Perfor
mance Appraisal System.
Connie Phifer, president of
the local unit of the North
Carolina Association of
Educators, and Dean
Westmoreland, a Kings Moun
tain High teacher and former
State NCAE president, spoke to
the Board of Education concern
ing the situation Monday night.
Ms. Phifer said the local unit
recently approved a resolution
asking Superintendent of
Schools William Davis not to in
clude their names on the evalua
tions which were sent to
Raleigh. Davis, however, said
the material was already packag
ed for mailing when he received
the resolution.
Kings Mountain was one of
24 school units in the state
which participated in the pilot
program, which will be im
plemented by all 143 state school
systems next year.
Ms. Phifer said local teachers
were concerned about their
names being attached to the
evaluations but that she had
been “assuredby the people in
Raleigh that these records will be
confidential. However, there are
ways to find out,” she said.
Davis said Assistant Superinten
dent Howard Bryant had written
Robert Boyd, Assistant State
Superintendent, and Attorney
General Rufus Edmisten, and
both had assured him that
teachers’ names will be held in
confidentiality.
Edmisten, in a letter to Boyd
which was passed on to Davis,
said “the evaluations of teachers
would not be considered a public
record...and would not be open
to inspection by the general
public. A general summary of
the results of the study, deleting
any personally identifia^ infor
mation, could be rele9§E^o the
public. Otherwise^Ht'ihforma-
tion gathered in thai study is con
fidential.”
But Westmoreland said there
was no reason to send names
along with the information. The
material could have been coded,
he said, and names left on the
local level.
“Teachers are the most
evaluated people on the face of
the earth,” he said. “I’m concern
ed with the fact that our names
were sent to Raleigh. There was
no reason for it. They do not
need our names in research.”
Westmoreland suggested that
the Personnel Policies Commit
tee meet with local teachers and
send some of the teachers’ com
ments to Raleigh.
“I’m concerned that this
leaves teachers subject to
criticism and not subject to
praise where praise is due,”
Westmoreland said.
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Bypass Detour
To Begin Today
By GARY STEWART
Editor
Work on the new Highway 74
bypass is slightly behind, but
Division Supervisor Ken
Mauney of the Shelby office of
the Department of Transporta
tion said the project will definite
ly be completed by the October
1, 1983 target date.
Mauney said “unusually wet
weather” has caused the inter
change project on 1-85 to be nine
percent behind schedule and the
Kings Mountain town project to
be seven percent behind.
“But those figures really don’t
mean anything,” he said. “With
good weather, we can catch up
in a hurry.”
The interchange project, he
said, is 65 percent complete. If
weather permits, he said, traffic
on 1-85 south will be detoured
from the existing southbound
lane today. The detour will take
traffic around the existing bridge
and into the old northbound
lane for about 14 mile and then
back onto the existing south
bound lane. The move is being
made to free the old bridge
which Highway 74 traffic went
under en route to 1-85 for
demolition and reconstruction.
U.S. 74 westbound traffic
from Gastonia will be placed on
the new end-to-end bridges over
1-85 and around a new loop and
into 1-85 southbound traffic, he
said. 1-85 northbound traffic will
not be affected by the change
and will continue as it is now for
. aiHtroximately one year, at
which time the final traffic pat
tern will be placed in effect.
Talent
Shows
Slated
The 25th annual Kings Moun
tain Kiwanis Club Talent Shows
will be held Thurs., Apr. 22 and
Thurs., Apr. 29 at B.N. Barnes
Auditorium.
The eighth through 12th
grade division will be held
tonight at 7:30 p.m. and the
kindergarten through seventh
grade division will be held
Thurs., Apr. 29.
Admission is one dollar.
Youngsters earned the right to
compete by winning preliminary
talent shows in their schools
earlier.
Jeff Jones is chairman of the
show. Kyle Smith is Kiwanis
Club president. Jonas Bridges,
manager of Radio Station
WKMT, will serve as master of
ceremonies.
Much of the proceeds, from
gate receipts and advertising, will
be used for the development of
the Kings Mountain communi
ty. In the past, the Kiwanis Club
has made numerous donations to
the schools, hospital, city recrea
tion program and other com
munity functions.
Mauney said in about five
weeks, U.S. 74 westbound traffic
will be placed in the 185 south
bound lane and will exit to Kings
Mountain under the bridge that
is to be constructed beginning in
May.
Westbound traffic to Kings
Mountain will be placed n the
new King Street flyover bridge
in about a year.
Mauney said the $30.4 million
project, which is being con
structed in three phases, will be
completed simultaneously by
October 1, 1983.
The west phase, near
Bethware School, is completed
except for paving, and paving
contracts will be let in late July
and awarded in early August, he
said. The 4.3 mile project near
Bethware will cost $6.3 million,
plus paving costs.
The town phase, from Waco
Road to Highway 161, will be
completed in about a year. Its
cost will be $8.6 million, plus
paving costs.
However, Mauney said, areas
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Cancer Drive
To Begin Sunday
The annual fund drive for the
Cleveland County Unit of the
American Cancer Society will
kickoff Sunday in Kings Moun
tain.
Jake Dixon, chairman for the
Kings Mountain drive, said
volunteers will go door-to-door
in Kings Mountain and Grover
Sunday soliciting funds to fight
the disease.
Kings Mountain had its most
successful drive ever last year,
raising over $4,000 of the overall
county goal of $40,000. This
year’s county-wide goal is
$43,400.
The Kings Mountain drive is
already off to a good start, said
Kay Holshouser of the
Cleveland County office. She
said the sale of cookbooks, raised
over $1,000 and a Fantom Din
ner Dance was also successful.
“Also,” she noted, “we have
had tremendous response from
Kings Mountain in our
memorial program. The people
of Kings Mountain deserve a lot
of credit.”
Persons interested in making
memorial contributions may ob
tain envelopes at funeral homes
in Kings Mountain and at Dell
inger’s Jewelry, or may mail the
donations to Mrs. Charles Sperl
ing, 807 Forest Hill Drive,
Shelby, N.C. 28150.
In addition to the door-to-door
soliciting Sunday, area churches
will also take part in a bulletin in
sert promotion to sc^icit funds
for the cancer drive. Rev. Sidney
Lanier, pastor of El Bethel
United Methodist Church, is
coordinating that effort through
the Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association.
Jerri Werner and Diane Dell
inger are coordinating the
neighborhood campaign for
Kings Mountain and Karen
Moss is in charge of the Grover
campaign.
A training session for all
volunteers will be held Thursday
at 7 p.m. at Home Federal Sav
ings and Loan. All persons in
terested in participating in the
fund drive are urged to attend
the meeting.
Several other prdjects will be
upcoming in the near future, in
cluding a Lou Sabetti Memorial
Golf Tournament to be held in
memory of last year’s Kings
Mountain chairman, the late
Lou Sabetti Sr.
That event will be headed by
Alex McCallum, John McGin
nis, Jim McGinnis, Bill McGin
nis, Stoney Jackson and Carroll
Ledford.
Janet Blair will head a cam
paign at Kings Mountain High
School, Jerry King will be the
chairman of the public
employees division. Bill Craig
will head the trades and industry
division, and Rosalyn Brown
and Addie Grier will serve as co-
chairmen of the Black
Neighborhoods Division.
There will also be a number of
efforts made to educate the
public on the warning symptons
of cancer. Dr. Everette Thombs
will head a task force in Kings
Mountain which will go into
minority neighborhoods to
educate the public.
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McCarter
Succumbs
Funeral services for Oscar
McCarter, 76, of 608 West Gold
Street, well-known Kings Moun
tain grocer, will be conducted
Friday at 3:30 p.m. at Boyce
Memorial A.R.P. Church by the
Rev. William Tyson. Burial will
be in Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Mr. McCarter died dt 10:30
Tuesday at Kings Mountain
Hospital following several mon
ths illness.
A native of York County,
S.C., he was the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. James McCarter
and a member of Boyce
Memorial A.R.P. Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Aileen Boyd McCarter; three
sons. Colonel Donald McCarter
of Winter Park, Fla., Major
Jerry McCarter of Fort Walton
Beach, Fla., and Rev. Neil Mc
Carter of Covington, Tenn.; one
daughter, Mrs. Paul (Dorothy)
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More Ingenuity Needed
By GJUtY STEWART
Editor
Americans must become more
economically ingenious in the
ftiture, Davidson College Pro
fessor of Philosophy, Dr. Earl R.
MacCormac told the audience at
the Town Meeting Monday
night at the Kings Mountain
Governmental Services Facilities
Center.
MacCormac was the featured
speaker at the Cleveland County
In Transition program, spon
sored by Mauney Memorial
Library as a part of the county
wide program which began last
year. MacCormac and a team of
panelists devoted the 1 kl time
period to speaking on Resources-
-Economic, Natural, Human,
and Technology.
MacCorman spoke on the
traditional value of love for the
land versus economic growth,
and spoke specifically to how
production of some necessities-
such as automobiles and
electricity-risks human lives.
He pointed to the production
of the Ford Pinto automobile
and electricity as two examples
of lives being risked to make
money.
A few years ago, he stated, a
Pinto model was manufactured
with a faulty gas tank which,
when hit from the rear, exploded
into flames.
“Ford knew about the defect,”
he said. “In the Mercury version
of the car, it had rubter liners
which cost only $11 each which
would avoid the explosion.”
He said Ford calculated how
much it would cost the company
to recall all the Pintos and install
the rubber liner versus how
much money it would cost the
company by lawsuits over deaths
and serious injuries.
According to MacCorman,
Ford figured there would be 180
burned deaths -and there would
be 180 lawsuits costing the com-
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TOWN MEETING • Dr. Earl MacCormac of
Davidson Collog* spooks during Tuosday
night's town mooting at tb* now City Hall as
mombors oi tb* ponol llston. LoH to right or*
MacCormoc. Bill Johnson oi Rolianc* Eloctrlc.
Chorlos Mounoy ol Mounoy Hosiery. I*rry
Schwoinor of Cormot and Mayor John Moss.