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$20 Million Industry To Locate Here
Mayor John Henry Moss and
Jack Palmer, chairman of the
Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners, have called a
press conference for 11 a.m. to
day for announcement of a S20
million-plus new industry for
Kings Mountain.
Mayor Moss said further
details will be released today, but
he is very pleased to have an in
ternational company locate in
the Kings Mountain area that
represents a trend toward
developing diversification and
techncriogy in the industrial com
munity of the Kings Mountain
area.
The press conference will be
held at Holiday Inn in Kings
the company will be announced
and company officials will be in
troduced to the community.
The mayor said, “This an
nouncement represents another
diversification and high
technology industries for the
Kings Mountain area, and we
are quite pleased to have a com
pany of this international stature
Mountain, where the name of step in our effort to acquire to select our area.”
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Thursday, August 7, 1980
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Should Town Or Developers
Construct Water Lines?
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Co-Editor
GROVER — Should the
town be required to construct
water lines for private developers
in Spring .Acres or should the
developer, Hambright and Hern
don, be responsible?
Commissioner Quay Moss
piosed the age-old question again
at Monday’s meeting of the
Town Board and reminded the
five-member board that the ques
tion had been cropping up for
several years.
“I hate to make a decision
without firm prices on the cost,”
Moss said in making the motion,
seconded by Ronald Queen, that
the board delay its decision until
Queen can obtain estimates for a
new six inch water line requested
to be laid at the corner of
Brookwood, Briarcliff Road and
Timberlake Drive in Spring
Acres plus the addition of three
fire hydrants.
Bobby Hambright, partner in
the development firm with Ex-
Commissioner Harold Herndon,
told the board his firm is ready to
build two houses and is re
questing the 1,448 feet line to
serve 20 lots. “Give us your let
ter of intent to proceed, well go
to work,” said Hambright.
Mayor W.W. McCarter
estimates the construction costs
will be about $16,500 with the
town’s share of the expense
totaling $12,000.
Queen proposed that an ex
isting two inch line be extended
320 more feet to hook into the
proposed six inch line around a
loop which he said would be the
best method to realize equal
pressure at both ends of the
development.
Comm. Juanita Pruette ques
tioned the feasibility of an
engineering study on both the
Hambright-Herndon proposal
adding a request by five outside-
city property owners for a water
line on N.C. 226.
Mayor McCarter estimated
that an engineering study would
cost approximately $2,000 and
suggested that the study not be
made unless the board is serious
ly intending to approve the new
water lines.
According to Queen’s pro
posal, the six inch line, if approv-
Bloodmobile
Exceeds Goal
The first Red Cross Blood-
mobile visit to Kings Mountain
for year 1980-81 was a huge suc
cess, said Martha Scruggs, chair
man of the County program.
Monday’s visit to First Baptist
Church, sponsored by city
employes, netted 130 productive
pints, five more than the goal of
125.
There were 20 first-time
donors out of the 157 persons
present. Twenty-seven were
deferred.
“Kings Mountain really came
through,” said Mrs. Scruggs. “It
was a great bloodmobile visit.”
' Next visit is scheduled for
Fri., Oct. 3 at First Baptist
Church. It will be held from 11
a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and will be
sponsored by local industries.
The goal is 200 pints.
“We’d like to remind everyone
in the Kings Mountain area that
all six visits this year are com
munity visits. The sponsors just
help us get ready for them. Their
success will depend upon a
community-wide giving effort.”
ed, would run parallel with the
two inch line already in ex
istence.
Responding to question of
Comm. Quay Moss, Bobby
Hambright said his firm would
not consider paying any portion
of the line installation. “1 didn’t
pay for mine at my house and
neither did you,” he said, “and
we can’t compete with the hous
ing market in Kings Mountain
and Shelby. It boils down to
whether you are willing to pro
vide the same services for
residents of Spring Acres as you
do for our other citizens,” he
continued.
The Hambright-Herndon firm
made its first proposal to the
town board April 3, 1978 and
renewed the request at several
meetings. The board passed a
resolution of intent at a recent
meeting to lay a two inch line
but Queen said the work on that
line has not begun in view of the
new proposal. He said it will be
more beneficial to the town to
hook on the existing line.
Both Moss and Queen said
they are not against the proposal
but want to shop around for
prices. Comm. Pruitt said she is
for housing and pointed out that
housing is not now available to
newcomers to Grover who elect
to move to Kings Mountain and
Shelby.
in other actions, the board:
•Accepted James Wilkie’s
high bid of $190.00 for the old
1976 Plymouth Police car which
the town advertised for sale and
took the high bid of $256.01
from Lewis F. Foster of Grover
for a 1971 Dodge pickup truck
which the town advertised for
sale. Seven bids were opened.
•Reiterated its position on in
stallation of crossing signals on
Carolina Avenue, requesting the
State Highway Department to
take over maintenance of pre
sent signals. Mayor McCarter
reported that the signals have
not worked properly at the 226
crossing since they were installed
and that the town will not ex
ecute contract for more grade
crossing signals or for
maintenance.
•Tabled for more study Office
Manager Edward Philbeck’s re
quest for employment of a “fill
in” person to be trained to assist
Clerk Gloria Horton in water
billing.
•Researching of the town’s
minute books to compile Town
Ordinances was discussed but no
action was taken. Police Chief
Steve Walker said that town or
dinances are outdated and that
citizens need to know just what
the laws of the town are and if
they are in violation of such of
fenses as loitering on the streets,
discharging firearms in the town
limits, etc. Commissioners
agreed and asked Clerk Horton
to begin gleaning the minutes
and working with the Institute
of Government, where possible,
to begin a study.
•Voted to purchase a new co
pying machine at cost of
$720.00 from O.G. Penegar Co.
upon recommendation of
Comm. Philbeck.
•Upon motion of Comm.
Moss, invited Mrs. B.A. Harry,
town historian who was in
strumental in placing pictures of
the town mayors in the city hall
offices, to designate where the
pictures are to be hung.
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PLANNING MEETING — Commissioner Humes
Houston, left, W.S. (Corky) Fulton, and David
Quinn discuss plans for improvements in the
Photo by Gory Stewart
downtown area which Fulton will shore with
all mercants at the next meeting of the
downtown revitalisation group.
Downtown To Come Alive
Downtown Kings Mountain
“Comes Alive” this weekend for
a big sale Thursday, Friday and
Saturday in which 26 merchants
are participating.
W.S. (Corky) Fulton, chair
man of the Kings Mountain
Revitilization Committee, said
that merchants are “ready” and
will offer quality merchandise at
bargain prices. “We think this is
one of the best promotions our
merchants have sponsored in a
long time and are very excited
about it,” said Fulton.
Fulton and Comm. Humes
Houston, also a member of the
committee, met with David
Quinn of Raleigh, area
downtown specialist with the
N.C. Department of Economic
Resources and Community
Development, Tuesday and got
ideas on how local merchants
can improve the appearance of
the downtown shopping area
and also learned how the state
can help them in the form of
assistance in both overall plann
ing and architectural im
provements. Mr. Fulton said
that he will present the ideas to a
full committee of downtown
merchants after the sale ends this
weekend. Fulton said a com
munity survey will be the first
step in the proejct to, not only
recruit new businesses, but
enhance the shopping area of
Kings Mountain.
KM Bank
Promotes
Honeycutt
Dan Honeycutt has been pro
moted to assistant vice president
at First Union National Bank.
Honeycutt joined the bank’s
consumer loan area in Raleigh in
1967. He has served in various
positions in Raleigh and
Elizabeth City and in 1972
transferred to Kings Mountain,
where he currently serves as con
sumer credit officer and branch
manager.
Honeycutt graduated from
Cleveland High School and at
tended Chowan College and
Campbell College. He has served
as vice president of the Rotary
Club and is on the board of
directors of the Chamber of
Commerce and the Kings Moun
tain Country Club. He also
serves as a member of the Kings
Mountain Housing Committee.
Honeycutt and his wife, Betty
Sue, are both natives of Benson,
N.C.
First Union National Bank, a
subsidiary of First Union Cor
poration, with 180 offices in
North Carolina, is the third
largest in the state and ranks
57th out of 14,700 in the United
States.
People Are Eyeing Jaycees
By GARY STEWART
Co-Editor
The eyes of Jaycees all over
the United States are watching
North Carolina Jaycees, Glen
Jenkins, U.S. Jaycees Represen
tative for the Southern Region,
told local Jaycees at a breakfast
meeting Tuesday at the Holiday
Inn.
The reason is current pro
blems of mis-handling of funds
by high-ranking officers on the
state level.
“If ever anyone needed an ex
cuse to blame something on the
Jaycees, now is the time,” said
Jenkins, a Kansas native now
based in Tulsa, Okla.
‘The North Carolina Jaycees
have gotten more than their
share of the bad coverage,” he
said, “but there’s not too much
press coverage on some of the
good things they do in the com
munity.”
Community work is the
backbone of the Jaycees, he said,
and in the near future North
Carolina clubs must work harder
than ever to prove themselves.
“North Carolina Jaycees are
my heroes,” Jenkins said. “North
Carolina has always been on a
pedestal. North Carolina Jaycees
have always been a group to
look up to. It hurts me to see the
bad things that have been hap
pening.
“But,” he continued, “one or
two people don’t make all
Jaycees bad. The thing we have
to do is convince people that
we’re working to improve the
community.”
Jaycees can do one of two
things, he said.
“We can quit and ignore
what’s going on,” he said, “or we
can make the community a bet
ter place to live. The fate of the
community, and its future
leaders, are in your hands. It’s a
matter of whether you have a
positive impact or no impact at
all.”
Jenkins is touring the Midwest
Region of North Carolina with
Midwest Representative, Ashley
Houser of Cherryville. Jenkins
represents 10 Southern states.
Jenkins rose through the
ranks of his local club to become
the youngest State President in
history of the Kansas Jaycees,
and gave up his own business in
Wichita to become a member of
the staff of the U.S. Jaycees in
Oklahoma.
“I have seven years left in the
Jaycees,” he said. “It’s in my
blood. I enjoy what I’m doing
more than anything else in the
world and sometimes it makes
me feel bad to know that I get
paid to do it.”
Jenkins and Houser praised
the Kings Mountain Jaycees for
their record of progress.
“A lot of chapters in North
Carolina are using our present
problems as a crutch,” said
Houser. “But I’ve just finished
reviewing all the programs in our
region, and Kings Mountain had
the best program in the Midwest
Region during the first quarter.
“A lot of people are betting on
us to fall,” he added. “But it’s not
going to happen. We have to
have some leaders to emerge.”
Local President Allen Propst
said the KM group has “decided
that this is the year we’re going
to make believers out of the com
munity.” In addition to proven
projects of the past, the Jaycees
have begun others which they
feel will be of great benefit to the
community.
The Jaycees, Propst said, will
play a major role in the upcom
ing Bicentennial Celebration,
have already begun work on a
Haunted House and acquired
the Morrison building
downtown “to aid in the
downtown revitilization and give
us a place for special activities in
the downtown area.”
The Jaycees, under the leader
ship of former president Al
Moretz and Larry .Hamrick Jr.,
are organizing a state-wide
bloodmobile program and are
also working with the Cleveland
County American Red Cross in
promoting bloodmobile visits in
Kings Mountain.
The club also sponsors CPR
courses, personal dynamics, little
league baseball and basketball;
car washes and other projects,
Propst said.
♦
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