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THURW9 KIMC; MOUtITWn MIRROR VOL 8» NO. 14 3 MOUNTAIN, NORTH 'CAROLINA 28086 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1978 15c H€RI^LD Coroner’s biquest Next Wednesday But Still Lower Than Duke^s New Electric Rate Adopted A coroner’* Inqueet Into the ehotgun elaylng of a Rt. 1, Grover man late Saturday night wUl Tje held next Wedneeday at 7 p. m. CSeveland County Coroner Bennett Maaters aald the Inquest Jur y will be selected begliutlng at 7 p.. m. next Monday In the county com- mlesloner* chambers el. the Law Enforcement Center, Shelby. The Inquest will be held In die same chambers. The Jury will determ liw If there Is or la not probable cause for charge* against Herman Cash, owner of a grocery store wost of Kings Mountain, who reportedly shot Bobby Lee Archie In connection with a breaking and entering at Cash’s store, according 'to Masters. Archie died about 1:40 a. m. Sunday during surgery at Kings Moiaitaln Hcapltja, about two hours after he had received wounds from a single blast from a 12-gauge shotgun. Cash told Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Paul Bfsibee that a special alarm system he has tigged between his grocery store on Shelby Rd., and his home was triggered about 11 ;40 p. m. Saturday night. He said he knew someone had entered hla store Illegally aitd he armed himself with a shotgun and went to the store. Barbee aald Cash reported finding entry had been gained by knocking a panel from ttie rear door. Cash told police he saw the intruder at the cash register inside the store and he steiqred Into ttie doorway and or dered the Intruder to come out. The Intruder, according to Cash, picked iq> a baseball bat and came toward Cash despite warnings from Cash to atop. Cash aald he fired once when the Intruder continued ad vancing on him with the bat Barbee and Deputy Garland CSary arrested a second man, Bennie J. Meeks, Jr., IB, also of Rt. 1, Grover, at the scene and charged him with aiding and abetting breaking, en tering and larceny. Meeks has been released from the county Jail under a $2,000 bond. Housing Authority To Prepare Repcut Kl’ngs Mountain Housing Autlioiity Executive Director Tym Hv.per ssld today Ms office will prepare a report on the need for 70 adidltlonal conventional housing units for members of the city commission. Mbndsy night the commissioners voted to table Harper’s request to make application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development fOr the 70 units. Commissioner Jim Childers made the motion In order to give Harper time to supply statlstles to backup the request for the unlU. Childers said he felt the board should have Information showing the Justification for the request. Harper said Justification can easily be riiown since the authority ha* over 800 local appUcatlons on file for the conventional housing units requested. ”We have over 600 ap- plicatlona If you want to count the ones from within aeveland Cbun- ty,” Harper said. TTie Kings MounUln Housing Authority recelvod notification of housing assistance availability from the Greensboro office of HUD on Jan. 80,1978. The authority has until Mar. 8 to subnUt an appttcatlon to HUD for assistance consideration or the funds win be mads available to another area. under the notification from HUD, Harper said available under the "new constructlan’’ category are 80 units for largs famnies featuring three or more bedrooms and 40 units featuring on* to two bedrooms. "We have at least 78 appUcatlons as of totey (’Tuesday) for the one to two bedroom units," Harper said, “with more appUcatlons coming In aU the time.’’ Harper was Informed of com ments attributed to Charles Freeman, chairman of the Forest CRy Housing Authority, In the Feb. 8 laiue of Forest City’s TMs Week- Cbuiier-8un newspaper. Freeman appeared before the Forest Qty Board of CommlssloiMrs to request approval to a preUmlnary study loan for 70 units oonvonUonal housing he said he had been allocated to Region C. The region Includes aeveland County. Freeman’s Information to the Forsst aty Board, as reported by This Week, Indicated the aUooatton roportedly Is to be divided between ForsU aty, Shelby and Kings derstand Shelby la not Intorested," so ha recommended that Forest aty make appUcatlon for all 70 units. Harper said, "I have no wish to get Into a controversy with Mr. Freeman, but I beUeve there has been some mlsunderstrandlng here. HUD does not allocate housing units according to regions. Notification of housing assistance availablUty Is done by counties." Harper said HUD base* Its notification on data riiowlng the needs for low Income housing In each county. He said the notification received Jan. 80 does not Indicate housing for Region C or Kings Mountain, but for aeveland County. ‘T did not anUclpate any action such as takenby the Kings Mountain Board Monday night,” Harper said. ‘Tf I had known I would have at tended the meeting with the statistics to answer the com missioners’ questions then. Our office will prepare a report and, perhaps, meet Individually with the commissioners to answer their questions fully." Should the board give approval for the local authority to submit an application for the 70 units. Harper said the city Is looking toward 28 to 86 months before such units would be a reaUty. 171* entire process Include* fin ding snd optioning enough property to contain the new units; surveying and planning; property purchase, based on HUD approval; hiring an architect to draw construction plans, again to be approved by HUD; then letting contracts to Your electric bills may be a blti higher next moith but will continue to be lower than Duke Power Company’s new rate changes ef fective March 1. The city board of commissioners took recommendations of Southeastern Consulting Engineers Monday night and unanimously adopted the current Duke Power retail customer rate, effective March 1 for the bills after i^rll 1. In the case of some large in dustries, rates have been realigned so these customers will actually be paying less than under the old rates. The recommendation Includes IXike’s electric rates for residential, all-electric, commercial and In dustrial users. Engineer WllUam H. UtUe Jr. also recommended the city continue passing along Duke’s montMy wholesale fuel adjustment charge, which the board passed unanimously. "This will bring the city’s rate In line with Duke’s current rates, which means the city rate* will continue to be lower than Duke rates In all areas of use," explained Little, who compared In a lengthy presentation the city’s existing and proposed rates with DukO’s and when compared to the total bUl he showed that existing rates In residential and resldiattol aU- eleetrle will continue to be lower than Duke’s rate. "The city la In very good position to compete with electric rates, ’ ’ said Uttle, citing statistics that Kings Mountain la five percent lower than the national average rates. The comparison charts are available tai City Hall and will also be posted In the billing dqiartment for electrical customers to peruse when they pay their power bills on the first of month. The city’s cost for operating the electrical system has bicreaaed over the years - from $179,000 In 1974 to $202,000 In 1977, some 12.8 percent, declared Uttte. Examining the chart. Little said that the city’s fuel charge might be higher than Duke’s during a certain Nicholson Returns To Board Seat aty Oomm. Corbet Nicholson was back at his desk Monday night In Council Chambers after a several months absence following a heart attack. District Four Comm. NlchMson aald he was very happy to be back and Mayor John Moss welcomed the conunlasloner on behalf of the fuU board. The Mayor also took the occasion at the opening of the Monday night sesalan to welcome visiting Boy RESIDENTIAL CITY’5 RATES DUKES RATES COST EXIST PROP EXIST PROP EFF 1 EFF 3-1-7» 325 KWH BASE *12.42 *13.00 *12.49 *I3.G6 FOiEL Z.dJo 1.09 1.09 1.09 TOTAL *15.08 *14.09 *13.78 *14.75 AVG/KWH 4.4G4« 4.33G4 4.24(H 4.538t ^725 KWH BASE *22.99 *29.51 *28.78 *31.03 FUEL 5.94 2.44 2.42 2.42 TOTAL 1228.93] 1*3 l.9g & 31.20] [*33.4^ AVCyKWH 3.9904 4.4074 4.3034 4.4144 ♦♦AVERAGE CUSTOIAER VFW Commander-in-Chief To Visit KM On Friday Or. John Wasyltk, Commander-In- Chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Stotes, will pay a special visit to Kli«s Mountain Fri., Fab. 17. D. H. Brown, commander of the Frank Glass VFW Post 9811 in iClt«s MounUln, said, "Dr. Wasyiik wUl arrive here about tp. m. and win meet local member* and community dlFitUrie* In a reception at the locel poet.*' Brown said this is the first visit to Kings MounUln by any VFW US Com- mander-in-Chtef and he urge* local post member* and auxiliary members to attend the program on Fsb. 17. During a whirlwind three day-tour of North CaroUna facilities. Dr. Wasyiik wfll have lunch at noon at the Shelby Post, then meet with KMer* at 2 p. m. and attend a program at the Course Post rrxmth but that In the total orwlysU city customers’ f\Ml charges will be lower. The city’s fuel Miarge U regulated throu^ Duke Power Cb. by the Federal Power Commission whereas Duke’s comes from a different formula at the state level, explained Little. Cbmporlng the city’s existing and proposed rotes with Duke’s, for example: Average consumption for a residential user of 724 kw: existing city rates total 28.98 compared to Duke’s $81.20. New rates tor this customer would be $81.96 for the city os compared to $88.46 for Duke Power. Under commercial, 2400 kilowatt hour usage, the city’s new rate would be $209.49 as compared to Duke’s new rate of $114.84. Little explained that the city utilises basically four different rates, 80 percent of city electrical users ore residential customers, 10 percent are residential oll-electrlc customers, and 10 percent ore commercial and Industrial at 4 p. m. Brown said he ha* issued special In- vtations to Mayor John H. Moss, Police Chief Jackie Barrett, Sen. OUie Hairis and American Legion Cmdr. Bob Smith and other* to attmd the meeting with Dr. Wasyiik. An optometrist in SanduMiy, Ohio, Dr. Wasyiik is also deeply Involved in youth, dvic, profesrional and veterans’ ac- Uvlti** there. He ha* hsid nianerou* Jobs wUhln Ih* VFW prior to hU eleetion as (kxnmander inOiisf at the VFW GmvanUon la Mianaspolis, Minn., on Aug. 2$. itn. Dr. Wasyiik is a veisran of the Korean War where be served with the 7th In fantry Diviston as a machine Bin ssetion eergeant. He esmsdth* Combat Infantry Bodge, Unit Ckatlon and ths Brans* Ster. Girl Scouts Will Have Their Day By action of the city board of commlsslonsr* Monday night area Girl Scouts will also have their day at aty Hall. CHrl Scout Day In Mimlclpol Government ho* been aUtsd tor Mon., Mar. 18th and various Girt Boouto will serve with Mty officials os the Boy Scouts did on the recent Monday. The 66th observance of Glri Scout Week U the week of March l$th. kwh usage category. Looking at the chart. Little pointed out their new rate wUl be below Duke Power’s, for Instance: city’s base rate for a customer using 1600 kvrti was $44.08 plus a fuel charge of $12.89 which brought the total of $84.72. The aty’s proposed luto for that customer is $68.40 tor a base rate plus $6.18 for fuel charge or a total of $71.68. This example represents what Little called a "high use month" for thU particular residential customer. You con see the comparison also In the case of the residential all- electric user whose billing U baaed on 1260 kwh, for example, exUtlng base rate Is $86.17 plus a fuel charge of $10.24 or a total of $46.41. The proposed city rate U $48.47, base, phis $4.20 fuel charge or a total of $47.67, up 26 cento. Duke’s exUtlng cost for this customer U $4L4l, base, phi* $4.18 for fuel charge or a total of $46.69. Duke’s proposed rate U $46.70, base, plus $4.18 for fuel charge or a total of $49.88, up by $4.29. In some Instanoes, there’s about a one dollar difference between the old rates auid the new proposed city rates. For residential all-electric customer using 2700 kwh, the figure show that the exUtlng rate U $64.16 phis 22.11 tor fuel charge or a total of $88.27 as compared with a proposed rate of $80.66, base, plus $9.09 fusl charge or a total of $89.68. For Duke Power Company, the proposed rate of $86.28 compares with $98.77, their proposed rate. You can notlc* that In soma In- sUnces the fuel charges of the present rate and three ttmes a* much os that proposed. For in stance; commercial ussr of 2100 kwh; 80 kw demand; city’s base rate is $67.90 plus $17.80 fuel 'Charge asi compared to city’s proposed rote of $108.48 base, phis $7.06 for fusl charge, or a total of na9.4B. D*..* present rate Is $98.07 base, plus fuel charge of $7.02 or total of $106.06; whereas proposed rote U $107.88, phis $7.08 fuel or a total of $118.84. UttU oUo compared the "con- troversUl” fuel charge stotUtlcs from January 1977 through February 1978, noting on the chart that a rasldenilal user of 726 kwh paid lower rate* than Duke’s: city’s base rate $82.99, plus $4.89 fuel charge or total of $87.88. Duke’s proposed rate: $28.78, base, phis $1.94 or a totel of $80.02. Ten percent of the city customers, on-electric residential, paid op- proxlmi for city 2700 In $18A6 $88.41. $4.68 fU Mayo present last year f will pay r. For In- mer using ease, plus total cost I76A0 phis I of $80.88. I after the that "this igs Moun- and Com- vent a stop the fuel m a con- y customer ItUen* see y compare that their In all rates neflt from andad( these r with D mofdM and ou these * Mayor John Moss commented that, "Our whole obJecUv* U to cut through the rad tape and get the total cost* of electric power. Including the fuel adjustment or coal charge, to where the bottom line costs to Kings Mountain cltlxsns below or equal to Duke’s. TM* 1* what w* are going to do.” Typical bills tor both the city’s and Duke customers tor comparison, booed on the some amount of kilowatt hours, are posted at city
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