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Kings Mountain native Fire
Captain Roger Gantt, busy
fighting raging forest fires in
Mariposa County, Calif., talk-
ed to his mother, Mrs. Isaac
Gantt, this week and reported
the fires under control and he
was glad to be home.
The 1965 graduate of Kings
Mountain High School also
said “It feels good to drive
through a town that hasn’t
burned.” ‘“There’s a lot of
satisfaction in knowing that if
we hadn’t been there the
houses would have been
history.”
Gantt also told his mother
that when the Citrus Heights
fire engine lumbered through
the smokey streets of Greely
Hill last week, townfolk came
out to wave and shout, ‘God
Bless the firefighters.”
The engine crew was en-
ding a grueling five days of
duty on mountain homes sur-
rounded by raging forest
fires in Mariposa County. The
duty meant little sleep,
aching heads, canned water
and burning eyes for the
Sacramento firefighters. But
the stay in the mountains was
not without its reward to the
men, said Gantt.
Gantt, who heads up the
Citrus Heights fire crew, and
his men were part of a local
strike team that includes
KM Native Helps Fight Fires
engines from Florin, Elk
Grove, Folsom and Galt,
Calif., and they went to a
number of fires referred to as
the Stanislaus Complex fire.
Gantt, who is the son of the
late Issac Gantt and grand-
son of Mrs. W.R. Millen, has
lived in California for 17
years after marrying Jean-
nine Milner of California
while he was in service. They
have two children, Robert,
15, and Rachelle, 13. Gantt
came to Kings Mountain for
his 40th year reunion at
KMSH and was here
Christmas with his family.
The Sacramento County
strike theme was there main-
ly to protect evacuated struc-
tures from the burning debris
caused by the backfires,
Gantt explained to his
mother. His particular team,
Gantt said proudly, didn’t
lose a single home, business
or item of value.
Many firefighters were
among the thousands who
battled the recent mountain-
side blazes in Northern
California. A total of 107 OES
engines are stationed
stratigically around the state
in case of emergency. The
Citrus Heights engine is one
of four OES engines in
Sacramento County.
Roger Gantt
Workmen were at Kings
Mountain Senior High School
Wednesday repairing the roof
and entranceway which was
: damaged over $100,000 when
a tractor-trailer crashed into
it when the cab top of the
truck caught underneath the
overhang Tuesday.
Kings Mountain Patrolman
Benny Melvin, of the Kings
Mountain Police Depart-
ment, said the freak accident
occurred at 10:45 a.m. and
luckily no student was out-
side the building at the time
Six Wrecks
Kings Mountain Police
were busy investigating
wrecks this week, six of
which occurred Monday, and
involving high property
damages and injuries to four
people.
Michael Ray Carlisle, of
Edgewood Road, Gastonia,
was charged with stop light
violation after a two car
crash at the intersection of
Gold and Cansler Streets.
Carlisle’s vehicle struck a
car operated by Marcus Clif-
ford Gold, of Shelby.
Damages were estimated at
$300.
Sybile Jean Patterson, of
131 McGinnis St., was treated
at the hospital for injuries
after her 1986 Nissan was
struck in the rear by a 1987
Chevrolet operated by Tracy
Walton Smith, of Lithium
Springs, Ga. Damages were
estimated at $850. The acci-
dent occurred at the intersec-
tion of W. King and Cansler
Streets.
Vandalism
5 Reported
{ Police are investigating
i reports of mailboxes being
i torn down, among other
reports of damage to proper-
ty.
Fred Hambright, 307
Maner Road, and Lawrence
Cobb, of 102 Fulton St.,
reported that their mailboxes
were torn down.
Deborah Hullender, No. 52
Pine Manor Apts., reported
that someone damaged the
hood of her car while it was
parked outside her apart-
ment.
New Image Hair Salon, 116
_ S. Railroad Ave., reported
«that an unknown vehicle
struck the brick-walled
flower bed in front of the
business and extensively
damaged it, about $500.
Betty Ivy, 700 Sterling
Drive, reported that someone
busted the windshield on the
i driver’s side of her
automobile.
| Rodney Eugene Short, 1002
| N. Piedmont Ave., reported
that his car was damaged
$250 while parked at
McDonald’s.
Jimmy Thompson, 129
McGinnis St., Trip Morris,
709 Groves St., and Kelly
Franklin Ware, 807 Boyce St.,
reported larceny of bicycles.
Laura Ruff, 407-A E. King
St., reported that someone
broke into her residence,
damaging the window and
back door, and taking money.
Bobby Lee McAbee, of Apt.
5 Pine Manor, told police he
was assaulted and held while
| another person hit him. In-
| vestigation is continuing and
no charges have been made.
of the incident.
According to the officer,
Lewis Hood, of Waxhaw, was
operating a Ryder Truck
Rental tractor trailer of
Charlotte and delivery tex-
tbooks to the high school.
Hood told KMPD he swerved
his vehicle to avoid a parked
truck in front of the shed area
of the high school at the en-
tranceway, pulled too far to
the right, according to the
police report, and the roof
egan caving in along with
support beams.
Monday
Keep KM Police Busy
A 1985 Ford operated by
William Eugene Davis, of 408
S. Columbia St., Gastonia,
backed out of a parking space
at Hardee’s and into a 1978
Plymouth owned by Regina
Oates which was damaged
$300.
Sandra Ladara, of 200
Marigold Ave., operating a
1981 Toyota at the intersec-
tion of Cleveland Avenue and
York Road, pulled around a
1983 Chevrolet Truck
operated by Richard Charles
Belch, of Browns Summitt,
S.C., attempting a right turn.
Damages were estimated at’
$3,000.
Thomas McKee, of 501
Rhodes Ave., backing his 1984
Mazda from the driveway of
the KM Police Department,
struck a parked 1986
Chevrolet in the door which
was owned by Benny Melvin,
Jr., of 902 Henry St., a city
police dispatcher who was on
duty at the time of the acci-
dent. Damages were
estimated at $650 to the
patrolman’s private car and
$150 to the McKee vehicle.
An nnoocupied parked
vehicle owned by Myrtis Hill
Propst, Route 3, Lincolnton,
rolled into a 1974 Pontiac at
519 Katherine Ave, doing $450
damages. Mrs. Propst’s 1965
Ford rolled across the street,
police said.
A hit-and-run driver fled
the scene after his car struck
a parked car owned by Robin
Leon King, 23-A Battleforest
Apts. doing $200 damage to
the 1981 Mercury.
A vehicle operated by
Barry Randall Dellinger, 606
Bridges Drive, backed from a
parking space at McDonald's
and into a car owned by
Freida Judith Farmer, of
Route 2. There were no
damages reported.
Freddie Lee Byrd, of
School St., backing from The
Pantry on Phifer Road,
struck a 1982 Pontiac owned
by Raymond Sean Garris, do-
ing $150 damage to his car
and $100 to her 1981 Buick.
A Two car crash at a stop
sign at the intersection of
West Mountain and Sims
Street involved a 1986
Chevrolet operated by Rhon-
da G. Washburn of Landing
St., and Joyce Brown, of
Grover, operating a 1979 Dat-
sun. Police estimated $1200
damage to the Washburn
vehicle and $500 to the Brown
vehicle.
Joey Ward Pennington, of
115 Deal Street, and two
passengers were hurt in a two
car rear end collision. Police
said that a 1971 Chevy truck
operated by Jerry Earl Nor-
man, Route 1, hit a 1977
Toyota operated by Joey
Ward Pennington, doing $500
damage to her car and $300
damage to his truck.
Workmen Repairing Roof
According to Vivian Dun-
can, secretary to Principal
Ronnie Wilson, office
workers heard a loud crash
and then a crumbling noise,
rushed to investigate and saw
the big truck cab caught
underneath the roof and ac-
tually holding it up until a
crane was dispatched to free
the truck. Workmen are put-
ting on another roof and
repairing the entranceway, a
chore they began as soon as
school closed at noon Tues-
day. Students were back in
classes Wednesday.
“It could have been a
disastrous situation if
students had been outside the
building and standing in the
entranceway’’, said Mrs.
Duncan. “We are so thankful
no one was hurt.”
WORK ROOM
FORMER TEACHERS AT DEDICATION—Former Grover School teachers, Dessie Cox, left,
and Edith Jones, right, took part in the dedication ceremonies by Grover PTO Monday night of
the Barbara R. Lail Primary Building. The PTO presented a picture and plaque which were
hung in the Primary Building in memory of the late Mrs. Lail, a teacher from 1972-84. Mrs.
Lail was a niece of Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Jones.
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City of Kings Mountain, N.C.
REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1987
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