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E of xr; xr; ') o JOHN GAMBLE STADIUM Kings Mountain Senior High Class Of 1982 Grat ^(ion Is Tuesday At KMSHS Commencement exercises for 254 Kings Mountain High School seniors will be held next week. The baccalaureate service is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sunday at B.N. Barnes Auditorium and graduation exercises will be Tuesday at 8 p.m. at John Gam ble Stadium. Rev. William Tyson, pastor of Boyce Memorial A.R.P. Church, will deliver the baccalaureate ser mon. Other area ministers will also take part in the program and special music will be presented by the Kings Mountain High School Chorale and Ensemble. The traditional “Pomp and Cir cumstance” will be used for the processional and recessional. Senior class officers will lead the graduation program and Robert R. McRae Jr., principal, and William F. Davis, superintendent, will present the diplomas. The Kings Mountain Junior High Ninth Grade Band will play “Pomp and Cir cumstance” for the processional. There will be no recessional. The Kings Mountain High School Chorale and Ensemble will present special music. Kristin Anne Gatts, vice presi dent of the senior class, will give the invocation, and Robert Lee Smith III, president of the Stu dent Participation Organization, will welcome the guests. Lee Sommers Neisler, presi dent of the senior class, will pre sent the Class of 1982, and Claude Russell Morrison Jr., secretary of the senior class, will recognize all honor graduates. Turn To Pag* 2-A n I Funds Usage * Is Discussed The City of Kings Mountain will receive SI56388 in revenue sharing bonds for budget year 1982-83, Mayor John Henry Moss told the board of commis sioners at its meeting Monday night at the Governmental Ser vices Facilities Center. During a brief public hearing, the board discussed possible uses of the funds. Moss proposed using $76,950 in the sanitation department for a chipper, trash truck and con tainer truck; $65300 in the police department for a truck for the animal control officer, police cars and other items; and $14338 in the general depart ment for insurance. In other action Monday night, the board: *Approved a resolution declaring costs, exclusive of costs incurred at streets and intersec tions, and ordering preparation for preliminary assessment roll for street improvements on South Sims Street from Hillside Street to Marion Street. Total cost of the project was $3,835 and a public hearing on the mat ter was scheduled for June 14 in the council chambers. *Approved a resolution declaring cost, exclusive of costs incurred at street intersections, and ordering preparation of preliminary assessment roll for improvements on Ark Street from Cloninger Street to Maner Road. Cost of the project was $1,618 and a public hearing was scheduled for June 14 in the council chambers. •Approved a resolution declaring cost, exclusive of costs incurred at street intersections, and ordering preparation of preliminary assessment roll for improvements on Marigold and Mini streets. Cost of the project was $4,590 and a public hearing, was scheduled for June 14 in the council chambers. •Received a request from Captain Arthur Allen of the Mt. Zion Community Watch asking that the city strictly enforce traf fic regulations and install road h|wnps in Harmon Court. The board authorized Mayor Moss and District Four Commissioner Norman King to look into the matter and give a report at the next meeting. The petition was signed by 14 citizens, who said they were concerned about the safety of the residents- particularly children-in the area. •Received two bids for an aerator for the Pilot Creek Treat ment Plant. Bids were from Skid more of Richmond, Va., in the amount of $8,843 and En vironmental Products of Hickory in the amount of $8,610. The board discussed moving a 30 horsepower aerator from the McGill Treatment Plant to Pilot Creek and replac ing the McGill aerator with a smaller and less expensive Turn To Pag* 3-A Fiber Phaseout Will Be Complete August 1 Ray’s Drugs Files Bankruptcy Petition Ray’s Drugs of Kings Moun tain, Inc., has filed a voluntary petition of bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Under Chapter II, Ray’s Drugs will continue as a Debtor- in-Possession to operate its business while formulating a plan for the payment of its debts. Landon M. Cooper of M ullen. Holland & Cooper, P.A., of Gastonia, said the bankruptcy was a result of “a disasterous 1981 Christmas Season and a generally sluggish economy” which combined to "curtail severely Ray’s Drugs cash flow. With some time and some reduc tion in overhead there appears to be a good possibility for a suc cessful reorganization,” Cooper said. CATHY McDANIEL Cathy Summer Intern Cathy McDaniel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe McDaniel of 811 West King Street, has joined the Herald staff as a summer in tern. Miss McDaniel is a rising junior at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, where she is working toward a degree in Radio-Television Broad casting and Mass Media with a minor in Journalism. At Western, she is a member of the staff and Editorial Board of the Western Carolinian, Western’s student newspaper, and a member of Western’s chapter of Alpha Epsilon Rho, the National Broadcasting Honor Fraternity. She is a 1980 graduate of Kings Mountain Senior High School. Broom Sale Is Underway The Kings Mountain Lions Club will be conducting its an nual broom sale between now and June 15. The yearly project raises funds for the Lions’s work with the blind. Lions will be going door- to<loor selling household and heavy duty brooms. Persons wishing to purchase a broom who are not c^led on by a Lion may call C.A. Allison at 739-2346 or Richard Barnett a* 739-2581, or contact any member of the Kings Mountain Lions Club. Fiber Industries Inc. is ac celerating the phaseout of tex tured polyester filament yam production toward completion by Aug. 1 and is closing per manently approximately 200 million pounds of partially oriented polyester filament yarn capacity. These actions are necessitated, according to company President M. Dow Sellers of Charlotte, by the imbalance of supply and de mand for polyester textile yarn products. The textured yarn phaseout announced by Fiber Industries late last year for completion in 1982 already has resulted in the termination of 260 employees at the company’s Greenville, S.C. plant and 1,025 of 1,275 phaseout-impacted employees at the Shelby, N.C., Plant. Also, additional Shelby Plant capacity for the production of partially oriented polyester yarn will be retired by Aug. 1, requir ing separation of 285 more staff, supervisory, clerical, laboratory, maintenance and hourly employees. All such employees are receiv ing allowances based on length of service and including vacation pay, continuation of basic and major medical insurance for three months and job-placement assistance. Shelby Plant employment after Setp. 1 is expected to be ap- proximately 775 people. The Shelby Plant will con tinue to produce low-denier in dustrial polyester filament yam, flat polyester textile filament yarn, partially oriented polyester yarn for specialty applications and specialty polymer, an in termediate raw material. The Greenville Plant produces par tially oriented and flat polyester filament yams. Fiber Industries is a subsidiary of Celanese Corp. and operates other manufacturing plants at Fayetteville and Salisbury in North Carolina and at Darl ington in South Carolina. Com pany headquarters offices and research and development laboratories are in Charlotte. No significant impact on Celanese income in 1982 is ex pected from these actions. FIl will continue to strengthen its capability to produce high-speed, partially oriented yam; will re main a major factor in both the flat and partially oriented yam businesses; and wil continue to market Fortrel polyester on a branded, full-service basis. Fiber industries’ fibers and yams are marketed by Celanese Fibers Marketing Co. High School Saddened By Death Of Student Jackie Hartgrove, 17, of Route 1, Grover, died Thursday night in Cleveland Memorial Hospital. An Ilth grader at Kings Mountain Senior High School, Jackie was well-liked by school administrators as well as her friends. “Jackie was a fine young lady,” said KMSHS principal Bob McRae. “She was not only a good student, she was also active in school. She was a likeable young lady. She was an en joyable girl to have around. There’s nothing bad I could say about her if I wanted to.” Jackie was also active in sports, participating in varsity basketb^l, soflball and track at KMSHS. Nancy Scoggins, her high school coach, said, “She was a super person. She was like the spark plug on the team-she made it easy. She kept everybody together. Everybody loved her to death. You wonder JACKIE HARTGROVE why it had to happen to a person like her.” Becky Summitt, who coached Jackie in Junior High, said, “She was very well-liked and very coachable. She was a happy-type person.” Jackie was a member of Shiloh AME Zion Church and the Young Adult Choir and Young Woman’s Missionary Circle. She is survived by her mother, Christine Hartgrove Johnson and her stepfather, Johnnie Johnson of the home; her grand mother, Elizabeth Ross of Nor walk, Conn.; her step grand mother, Elizabeth Johnson of Kings Mountain; three brothers, Albert Ross and Dave Hartgrove of Grover and Leon Ross of Blacksburg, S. C.; and two sisters, Fonda Houze of Kings Mountain and Barbara McClain of Shelby. Services were conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Shiloh A.M.E. Zion Church by the Rev. J.E. Floyd', the Rev. J.C. White, the Rev. Billy Houze and the Rev. Timothy Goode. Burial was in the church cemetery. The family received friends Tuesday night at B.N Barnes Auditorium.
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