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VOLUME 95, NUMBER 15 THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1982 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CA %
Cite Water Problems
Citizens Unhappy
With Improvements
The City Board of Commis-
sioners Monday night approved
assessments for recent street im-
provements in three areas of
town, but some residents in two
of those three areas said they
were not pleased with the work.
Assessments were made for
residents of Hawthorne Road for
improvements made from South
Cansler Street to Crescent Hill
Road; Hawthorne and Hillside
Street, from Marion Street to
Meadowbrook Road; and
Williamsburg = Court, from
+ Somerset Drive to the dead end.
Three residents of Cansler
said the amount of road frontage
the city reported for their proper-
ty was not correct and several
residents of Hawthore said
they have serious water pro-
blems.
The board entered into its
assessment resolution a provi-
sion for re-measuring the road
frontage of the three residents of
Cansler and correcting the water
problems on Hawthoren. .
Thelma Morehead, Willie
Williams and Mrs. David Jones
all said the frontage reported by
the city for their property was
not the same amount called for
on their deeds.
Ted Huffman, public works
supervisor, said his crew “went
by city maps” which: are record- ia
and that he would re-measure
the property Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Morehead added that she
has a water drainage problem on
“her property which she feels was
caused by the city while it was
curbing streets.
“I wish they had put a drain
in,” she said. “I have more water
than I did before they curbed it.”
Five residents of Cansler
were assessed a total amount of
$2,172.99, based on $3.39 per
foot.
William Hullender and Glenn
Spearman, residents of
Hawthore in the Meadowbrook
area, appeared before the board
to air their dissatisfaction over
water problems.
Hullender, who said he was a
spokesman for seveal residents,
said they have not been able to
keep water out of their yards
since the street improvement
project began. )
He claimed a catch basin had
been moved three times. “I tried
to get them to stop so we could
get something done,” Hullender -
told the board. “That’s a sorry
street for us to have to pay for.”
He said when it rains, water
runs into people’s driveways on
the lower end of the street,
ponds up, and then goes through
someone else’s yard.
IN BRIEF
A invite any. of you to ride. fis
rains, and it doesn’t have to be a
big rain,” he said.
Hullender said the water in his
yard is so bad that when it rains,
the city meter reader can’t read
his meter because of the water
standing in his yard.
Hullender said Mayor John
Moss and Commissioner Jim
Childers were familiar with the
problem, but Moss, Childers and
Huffman all said this was the
first time they’d heard of a water
problem.
Huffman ‘said the basin
Hullender referred to had not
been moved, but that it had only
been taken out of the ground
when the project began and put
back in the same place.
Spearman said he catches “all
of the water coming off the slope
on Hillside Drive. It has created
enough damage under my house
that it’s mildewed all my walls,”
he said.
Ten residents of Hawihorns
and Hillside were assessed
amounts totaling $5,814.38, or
$4.18 per foot.
No one spoke on the
Williamsburg Court project.
Seven residents of that street
were assessed amounts totaling
$1,348.20, or $1.80 per foot.
Turn To Page 8-A
Mrs. Jones Is Recommended
Mrs. Nancy Jones of Ruther-
ford County Tuesday night was
recommended by the House of
Representatives Executive Com-
mittee of the 40th District of
North Carolina to fill the unex-
pired term of her late husband,
Robert A. (Bob) Jones.
Jones died recently in an
airplane crash in Rutherford
County.
Mrs. Jones was recommended
by acclamation to Governor
James B. Hunt, who will official-
ly make the appointment. Her
term will expire December 31.
The committee, chaired by
Mrs. Joyce Cashion of Kings
Mountain, met in the council
chambers of the Forest City City
Hall. Mrs.
pointed by Russell
Cashion was ap-
Walker,
chairman of the North Carolina
Democratic Party, to chair the
committee.
The ¢ommittee was composed
of two persons from Cleveland,
two from Polk, and two from
Rutherford counties.
Sulzer Grand Opening April 23
Sulzer Brothers, Inc., the
world’s leading supplier of textile
weaving machines, will celebrate
the opening of its Kings Moun-
«tain Plant on April 23, at 10 a.m.
The 200,000 square foot facili-
ty will manufacture the projec-
tile weaving machine model PS
3600, first introduced by Sulzer
in 1979.
Six-Year-Old Found
A six-year-old boy who was
lost for about five hours Satur-
day at Kings Mountain State
Park was found late Saturday
night asleep i in a tree.
Authorities said David
Framer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
. Textile Machinery
Thomas Huber, vice president
- manufacturing of Sulzer’s U.S.
Division,
manages the Kings Mountain
Plant which presently employs
130 people. All the machines
manufactured at the Kings
Mountain ‘Plant will be sold in
the United States. By 1984, the
plant will have an output of 700
machines annually.
Wayne Farmer of Lyman, S.C.,
was found about 10:45 p.m. near
the Lake Crawford campground
where his family was staying.
Bethel Volunteer firemen
Craig Adams and Chuck
Pendleton found the boy
unharmed.
Sulzer Brothers, Inc. is a sub-
sidiary of Sulzer Brothers,
Limited of Wintherthur,
Switzerland, and has been in the
United States since 1940. In ad-
dition two manufacturing textile
weaving machines, . the firm
markets diesel engines,
compressors, hydroelectric tur-
bines and a variety of textile
machinery.
Asleep
He reportedly wandered away
from the campsite about 5 p.m.
Rescue squads, fire deapr-
tments, other volunteers and
campers from York, Cleveland
and Gaston counties took part in
the search.
Next Week Is Clean-Up Week
April 19-25 will be Clean-up,
Fix-up, Paint-up Week in Kings
Mountain and other com-
munities in North Carolina.
The city is coopérating with
the Department of Transporta-
tion in urging all citizens to have’
Mrs. Dailey Named Grover Town
Grover Town Council,
meeting in a special session Tues-
day afternoon, employed Jill
Dailey of Patterson Springs as
office secretary and town clerk.
Mrs, Dailey replaces Gloria
Horton, who was terminated last
week.
Mrs. Dailey is a native of
Atlanta, Ga. She graduated from
high school in Atlanta and at-
clean-up projects.
Commissioner Norman King
is chairman of the local projects.
Plastic bags will be available at
the Mayor’s Office for all
citizens, Boy Scouts and Girl
tended Georgia Southern Col-
lege in Statesboro.
Her husband, Steve Dailey, is
employed by Union Carbide of
Shelby, having been transferred
1% years ago from the Union
Carbide plant in Greenville, S.C.
In other action Tuesday, the
board:
*Delayed action on a request
from Police Chief Mike Brown
Scouts at no charge.
“We encourage all citizens to
participate in this project,” said
King and Mayor John Moss,
“and appreciate everybody’s ef-
fort.”
for purchasing ammunition for
firearms qualification for the
town’s two fulltime and one
reserve policemen; delayed ac-
tion on a request by Brown that
he and Officer Derek Johnson be
allowed to attend school at the
Police Academy in Salemburg;
told Brown to compile a list of
names for the town to contact
about their dogs running loose;
i
IT'S SPRING : 3 Last weeldg brief snow flurries
have given way to much prettier spring
Weather this week. with temperatures during
; v_ hitting the high 70s and low 80s
: laughter of Ernst and
Mary Borchert and a senior at Kings Mountain
High School. took advantage of the warm
weather and a week's vacation from school to
b admire the beauty of the dogwood trees.
RATA
turbo
Accident
Is Fatal
To Hardin
A Kings Mountain man walk-
ing for help after having car
trouble died after being struck by
a car at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday on
Highway 74 in Shelby.
Gene Edwin Hardin, , 36, of
914 Sharon Drive, was crossing
74 toward The Pantry when he
was struck by a car driven by
Ona McKibbey Dover, 18, of
Shelby. The Dover car was
traveling east on Highway 74.
Investigating Patrolman L.W.
Blanton made no charges.
Assistant County Coroner Jim
Gold reported that Hardin and
his wife had parked on a service
road in front of the Western
Steer after experiencing car trou-
ble. He said Hardin was walking
across 74 to seek help when the
accident occurred. :
Hardin. was a native of
Cleveland County and an
employee of Spectrum Fibers
Inc. He was a Vietnam veteran
and a member of Second Baptist
Church.
He was the son of Walter
Raleigh Hardin of Shelby and
the late Donna Bivens Hardin.
He is survived by his wife,
Gloria Tate Hardin; two
daughters, Adriane Michele Har-
din and Allison Hardin, both of
the home; one brother, Jim Har-
din of Charlotte; and two sisters,
Mrs. Bob (Louise) Ledford and
Miss Bertha Jo Hardin, both of
Shelby.
Funeral services were con-
ducted at- 4 p.m. Friday at Se-
cond Baptist Church by the Rev.
Eugene Land. Burial was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Clerk
and delayed action on servicing
the police car’s radar unit.
* Authorized the police depart-
ment to give old automobile tires
being stored to Borders Body
Shop, which recently made some
repairs on the police car at no
charge. ;
*Approved a vacation
schedule for Officer Johnson.
Funeral Services Held
For Edna Rhyne Houser
Mrs. Edna Rhyne Houser, 95,
of Kings Mountain Convales-
cent Center, formerly of 303
East King Street, died at 5:30
p.m. Sunday at Kings Mountain
Corvalescent Center following a
short illness.
A native of Gaston County,
she was the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John Blair Rhyne.
She was the widow of Marvin
Lowrance Houser.
She was a graduate of Lenoir
College, now Lenoir-Rhyne, and
a former teacher in the
“Cleveland County School:
District.
She was a member of Central
United Methodist Church,
where she was active in the
Women’s Society of Christian
Service and other activities, and
was a member of the Daughters
of the Confederacy and a
former member of the Kings
Mountain Woman’s Club.
She is survived by two sons,
Marvin L. Houser of Goldsboro
and Joseph Houser of Tucson,
Ariz; three daughters, Mrs. Prue
Nell Poston of Kings Mountain,
Mrs. Viola Stokes of Ruffin,
N.C.,, and Mrs. Edna Ruth
MRS. HOUSER
Saunders of Charlotte; 12 grand-
children, 15 great-grandchildren
and two « great-great grand-
children.
Funeral services: were con-
ducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cen- :
tral United Methodist Church
Ivan Stephans. ©
Burial was in. Mountain Rest °
by the Rev.
Cemetery.
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. Maxie Briggs
Mrs. Maxie Hamrick Briggs,
75, of 506 West Gold Street,
died at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at
Cleveland Memorial Hospital
following an illness of several
months.
A Rutherford County native,
she was the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Hamrick
and the widow of Paul H. Briggs,
who died in January.
She was a member of Central
United Methodist Church,
Surviving are one son, Dr.
William J. Briggs, president of
Limestone College in Gaffney,
S.C.; one daughter, Mrs. William
* (Margaret) Ware of Charlotte;
one brother, James Hamrick of
Shelby; three sisters, Mrs. Eury
Oates of Kings Mountain, Mrs.
Alpha Morrison of Shelby and
Mrs. Myrtice Powers of Easley,
S.C.; five grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren,
MRS. BRIGGS
Graveside services were con- -
ducted Monday at 2 p.m. at
Mountain Rest Cemetery by the
Rev. Ivan Stephens.