Page 2A-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday. January 7.1982
McKinney
In Running
For Sheriff
Filing for county offices in the
May primary began Monday at
the Cleveland County Board of
Elections in Shelby and will con-
tinue until noon, February 1.
Buddy McKinney, 43, of
Mooresboro, was the first local
person to file for office. He will
: seek the County Sheriff’s office,
: currently held by Dale Costner,
: who was appointed to the posi-
tion after the retirement of
: Haywood Allen in 1980.
: Costner has not officially an-
: nounced his candidacy, but has
said he plans to run.
McKinney served 10 years in
the Sheriff’s Department but was
fired a year ago by .Costner.
McKinney said he was fired
because he had said he planned
to run for sheriff in this year’s
election.
He began his career in the
sheriff’s department as a jailer,
: and was a detective sergeant in
‘ the narcotics division when he
+ was fired.
: He attended numerous
: schools ‘while with the depart-
: ment and graduated with honors
: from Cleveland Technical Col-
. lege with an associate degree in
. criminal justice. He has also at-
: tended Gardner-Webb College.
He holds an Advanced Law
Enforcement Certificate and
while with the Sheriff’s Depart-
ment received three commenda-
* tions from the Region C
Criminal Planning Agency for
felony apprehensions.
He is married to the former
Ruby E. Cash, a school tacher,
and has one son.
He is a member of Trinity
Baptist Church in Number 2
township.
WINTER SCENE - These icy limbs lining this
country road in rural Kings Mountain were
typical of scenes around the area during the
New Year's Eve ice storm which hit the coun-
ty. The i ice storm and and thunder and wind-
Winter Comes To KM
Mother Nature ended 1981
and began 1982 in style for
‘Kings Mountain -area residents
by giving the area an ice storm
on New Years Eve and a
thunderstorm with evil winds
early Monday morning.
Both storms caused some
residents the inconvenience of
having their power knocked off
Pharmacy
Topics
By RAY JOYE
! Some chicos hospitals offor telephone video hookups that enable patients who are parents
to! ‘visit’ with underage children in the lobby Sort of reassures Seryone:
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Scientists report the synthesis of Cantharidin, a substance that removes warts without !
needles or knives. Natural source of this substance is very rare.
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. Flu fighter: a drug that treats flu patients effectively and seems to limit the spread of the
. disease was studied in the Infectious Diseases Unit of the University of Rochester School of
: Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y. Amantadine works ‘against Influenza A.
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". Best wishes for a happy and HEALTHY New Year from your friends at Rays.
KM Plaza
* Kings Mountain
Phone 739-8161
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Store hours: Monday - Friday 9:00-5:30
Saturday - 9:00-4:30
briefly, but neither storm
resulted in major damages.
Area residents awakened the
last day of the year to find freez-
ing rain falling, and it presented
some slippery situations until the
temperature rose to the early 40s
around nightfall.
By New Years Eve Baht.
most of the icy spots had disap-
peared.
Ted Huffman, supervisor of
the City Public Works Depart-
ment, said city crews stayed on
the job until 8 p.m. New Year’s
Eve restoring power and remov-
ing trees and limbs which fell on
lines in several areas of town.
The most affected areas were the
Southwoods sub-division near
Kings Mountain High School,
South Cleveland Avenue and
Crescent Hill.
Upper Cleveland County, was.
tne hardest hit area: In,
Lawndale area, several’ ‘trees
were reported in the roads and
on power lines.
A blown transformer and a
tree which fell 'on a power line
caused power to be off in the
Compact School area for about
two hours late Thursday after-
noon.
Citizens awakened during the
wee hours of Monday morning
to the sounds of thunder and
lightning, and accompanying
high winds resulted in more
fallen trees and tree limbs which
caused additional power outages.
Limbs which blew into power
lines knocked out the 4160 sub-
Photo by Gary Stewart
storm early Monday morning dumped several
inches of rain on the area and fallen trees and
limbs kept local utility companies busy restor-
ing power to citizens.
station on North Gaston Street
but city work crews restored
power within an hour, Huffman
said.
Altogether, Huffman said,
about 15 to 20 trees fell in Kings
Mountain, including six in the
front lawn of the Earl Siercy
residence on North Piedmont
Avenue. Huffman said there
were three trees down at one
time on Piedmont.
A sub-division in the:
Bethlehem Community was also
out of power for several hours,
as well as many other smaller
sections of the greater Rings
Mountain area.
Both the city and rural areas
experienced some minor
flooding. Many creeks were out
of their banks and many city
streets flooded because the
The ‘storms did bring some
good news, though. The water
level, which has been down
drastically since last summer’s
drought, rose considerably and,
according to television reports, is
now only six inches below nor-
mal.
On Dean’s List
Cathy Denise Heavener of
203 Morris Street and William
Eugene McCarter of 801 Cres-
cent Circle were among the
1,240 undergraduate students
who were named to the fall
semester Dean’s List at Ap-
palachian State University.
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