Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 9

Recycling Center Published in the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark Temporarily Closed Section Two Statesville NC riday January 24 1975 No 21 Change In Reading Program Is Urged By HUGH County STATESVILLE Dinner Session Scheduled Yokefellow Meeting Set Blackwelder's Big savings as far as the eye can see! MJSDQBUOCIC WE ARE OVERSTOCKED! US 11 1 11 1 77 3 the the teachers adminis BREAKAST PLANNED A fellowship breakfast is scheduled for 8 am Sunday at irst Baptist Church Davie Ave The event will launch acti vities for ellowship Day which is being observed at the local church Dr the public hearing will be held jointly with the Human Rela tions Committee at 7:30 pm Monday in the council room of City Hall to present the pro gram to the residents of the community Under the Housing and Com munity Development Act of 1974 the city could receive $46 million for the improvement of slum and blight areas and to benefit low and middle income families Herman Dickerson city man ager recommended as HUD requires that a specific bank be named as depository and sug gested the Northwestern Bank This suggestion was approved A contract was awarded to Westinghouse Electric for the purchase of street lighting material and transformers for the annexation area Westing house was the low bidder in the amount of $1085305 unds for teachers under an Education for Handicapped Students Pro gram developed at the school The school is one of five across the state selected as a demonstration school to devise a program for placing educable mentally retarded students in regular classrooms Dr com ments to teachers from the county Statesville and Moores ville school systems included a call for the reformation of the education system to prevent reading failures Under Dr plan a student would be pro gressed to a higher grade only after he had mastered the re quired subjects rather than after he had spent the time in each grade must begin to consider time a variable in education rather than a he said we have got to do is make achievement a constant and make time a Dr Schoephoerster called this Mastery learning Strategy most humanizing notion to hit education in our To accomplish mastery learning Dr Schoephoerster continued the school can either fail the students who have not mastered the required subjects and begin teaching them at the point they left off during the next school year or advance the student to the next grade but begin to teach him from where he left off from the previous school year reorganization will al low the teacher more time to keep searching for the right way to get the student to Dr Schoephoerster said Cautioning the teachers Dr Schoephoerster added job is only done when the learning is ruined by garbage have to be dumped adding to the solid waste problem A number of users have also delivered items to the center on weekdays and the center has been open only on Saturdays The center is located in the parking lot of the shopping cen ter where the Mammoth Mart was formerly located across from the A ood Store and Revco Drug Store Mrs Stewart said recent figures have shown that each individual in America includ ing children discards about 2000 pounds of solid waste every year Complicating the problem are growing shortages of landfill space and bans on burning The recycling concept pro vides for some of these dis carded materials to be put to good use by being used again Mrs Stewart said members of the Commission for Environ mental Improvement a body created by the City of States ville felt that improper use of the recycling center was not fair to those who used the faci lity properly She said the commission is on two for recycling which would allow the center to reopen As soon as something definite is decided the center will be reopened she said She added that those who sup port the recycling center are being asked to voice your feel ings by writing to the commis sion at the following address: Mrs Pat Stewart Chairman Commission for Environmental Improvement 2503 Heritage Circle Statesville 28677 All of those who are interested in seeing the recycling center continued or who have sugges tions concerning the center are asked to write to the commis sion newspapers and magazines with a large dumpster set aside for each of these categories It has been open each Satur day for the collection of these items However some people have misused the center by placing garbage and other refuse in the dumpsters Not only can such garbage not be recycled it often ruins the items properly placed in the dumpsters for recycling Mrs Stewart said Newspapers and magazines Black welder's has the reputation lor paying you more for your old pianos and organs trade plus easiest terms tn town the ob the Yokefellow operates on a budget of less than $20000 Its programs include a Ministry to the Aged the Ministry of Reconciliation Cup of Water Ministry and the Emergency Child Care Center all of which are self supporting and not included in the regular budget Approximately $10000 of the regular budget comes from the self supporting used furniture and clothes closet ministries coordinated by the pastoral director who is the only full time salaried person in the organization Part time workers assist at the clothes closet and are paid from funds received there The Good Samaritan und amounting to $2000 is the REORMATION hoerster director of SCAoe inal approval of a sub division plat of Hope Brothers addition to the Westover Sub division was granted last night by the council Adoption of a resolution de claring a 1947 and a 1951 model fire truck as surplus was deferred until a check could be made on the possibility of using one of the two trucks at the Statesville Airport The council authorized transfer of funds between jects of expenditure within General und which did not change the budgeted total of the fund The council adopted a resolu tion designating eb 12 as Boy Scout Government Day David Comer president of the Greater Statesville Yokefellow Ministry has announced plans for the annual meeting which will be held Tuesday at Race Street United Methodist Church Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm in fellowship hall and all interested persons are invited to join delegates from local churches for the event New officers will be elected and the proposed 1975 budget is to be presented Approximately 11000 people belong to the 30 churches holding membership in the Yokefellow organization and representatives from each member church are expected to attend A right to read and the educational duty to teach him were the subject of a presentation by Dr Hugh Schoephoerster director of Right to Read Pro gram to Iredell teachers Thursday Approximately 70 school officials and trators gathered at Cool Springs Elementary School to hear Dr Schoephoerster call for a re organization of the education system to allow students as much time as they require to learn to read have got to stop letting it (reading failures) happen rather than condoning the failure and trying to cure it CENTER The signs still mark the loca tion of the Statesville Recycling Center but the facility has been temporarily closed due to improper use The city has removed the dumpsters at the center and ways of solving the center's problems are now being dis cussed Improper use of the States ville Recycling Center has led to the temporary closing of the center located on North Center St in a shopping center parking lot Dumping of garbage has been the primary problem leading to closing of the center according to Mrs Pat Stewart chairman of the Commission for Environ mental Improvement The center provides for the recycling of cans clear glass "The Income Tax People Who Care About You URGED Dr Hugh Schoep Minnesota's Right to Read Pro gram urged school teachers to change the present school system to allow students as much time as necessary to learn to read Dr Schoephoerster spoke to approximately 70 teachers and school officials Thurs day afternoon at Cool Springs Elementary School Plans Given lint Norwood librarian for the Iredell Public1 Library today announced next schedule for the bookmobile Monday Cartner 11 11:15 am Mrs Roy Gaither noon Mrs Buck Page 1 1:30 pm Mrs Swann 1:45 2 pm Mrs Pat Griffin 2 15 2 30 pm Mrs oe ox 2:45 3 pm Miss Allye Ramsey 3:15 3:30 pm Wednesday Rosewood Rest Home 10 10:30 am Exxon Service Station 11 11:30 am Houstonville community noon 2 pm Harmony 2:15 3 pm riday Mrs Charles Haus ner 9:30 9:45 am Prison Unit 10 10:30 am Rest Home noon Padgett's Service Station 1 2 pm Mrs George McAuley 2:30 3:30 pm this expenditure were budgeted The council authorized during the budget sessions last city clerk to investigate spring sufficiency of the petition and The council authorized Peir submit his findings at the regu son and Whitman Inc con lar meeting on eb 3 suiting engineers to conduct a water and sewer rate study to be available during the budget preparation for 1975 76 A request to lease a lot from Brookgreen Inc located on the Northeast corner of Mt Vernon Ave and Hunter St for recrea tional purposes was denied by the council A petition for annexation of 623 acres of land owned by the Ed Griffin Co was submitted and accepted by the council last night The property lies generally south of McLaughlin St and by city policy as there is only one owner the owner will bear the cost (Where there are more than 10 property owners the city generally bears the costs of annexation) 103 West ront Street Statesville Tel 873 3356 Hurry To Western Largest Keyboard Dealer DOWNTOWN 125 Broad St SIGNAL HILL MALL STORE MAIN TURNERSBURG RD HWY21N OPEN EV EN INGS TILL 7: 30 PM I IGHTS TILL 9 PM ROBERTSON MOBILE HOME SALES Located At Charles NC ROGER TEMPLETON MANAGER TEL 873 3896 By Ruritans The Cool Springs Ruritan Club will hold its second annual pancake supper on Saturday night at Cool Springs School cafeteria Serving will be held from 5 until 8 pm according to Ruri tan Club officials with plenty of pancakes and all the trim mings The price will be a donation to tfie club and all proceeds will go to Ruritan projects on com munityactivities and promotion of the youth athletic program Gene Combs is president of the Ruritan Club and Morris Overcash and Bill Robertson are co chairmen of the pancake supper committee Bookmobile after it has Dr Schoephoerster said all vitamins are cheaper than According to government statistics 15 per cent or eight million of the 50 million students in the United States are classi fied as reading failures while 20 million people over age 16 are classified as functional illiter ates have reached the point where parents expect their chil dren will at least learn how to read in Schoephoerster told audience to do that we are going to have to Dr Schoephoerster is one in a series of speakers and consul tants to talk to Cool Springs Open Weekdays 9am to 9pm Open Saturdays 9 to 5 No Appointment Necessary UlVdV largest single item in the budget The fund is used to help people who have such needs as food medicines utilities and kindred needs that they are unable to afford Churches church groups individuals or civic groups can contribute to the fund Other Yokefellow ministries include the Prison Ministry Telephone Ministry Renewal and Retreat Ministry Trans portation Ministry and Dial A Prayer 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UP TO 25 YEAR INANCING! Guaranteed not to be undersold US II 1 Remember: Buy in January and Receive Three Months ree Lessons One Year ree Service On All New Organs GET VOLUME SAVINGS WHILE THEY LAST! I SAVE $300 to 700 THESE ARE JUST A EW EXAMPLES OUR STOCK! City To Seek Advance unding By EILEEN WILKINSON The city of Statesville will apply for advance funding for planning under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 with $115000 expected to be received The city council last night authorized application for ad vance funding under the pro vision of the act which allocates 10 per cent of the first funds for planning This in case would be $115000 and the money would not affect the total re ceived for the actual com munity development program Mayor Thomas A anjoy also advised the council that the city staff has devised a three year program to submit to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) adding that only the first plan was concrete He also announced that a wkIH smO IwMapj' a i RECYCLING CENTER I I i KOT 4 lllll' ttv i IHMHM r'fe Tyv it i fit: 1 I h' 2s i I I fESp fa 1005447 Wurlitzer Organ W95 NOW $1495 1071206 Wurlitzer Organ "$1605 NOW $1295 997159 Wurlitzer Organ JT995 NOW $1495 668159 Lowery Organ 'ST56Q NOW $1068 1058270 Wurlitzer Organ NOW $1595 2082295 Thomas Organ 2149 NOW $1649 1 1 1 0082 Thomas Organ T395 NOW $849 70031 Kimball Organ $2295 NOW $1495 i.