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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 28086 TUESDAY, JANUARY 17,1978
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THIS WEATHER’S FOR THE BIRDS - Last week’s ice not
only brought discomfort to those traveling the highways but to
this pigeon which found itself iced in under the water tank at
Neisco Industries. The bird’s wings and tail feathers were
Over Grover Action
Sisk Considers Suit
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ByTOMMcINTYRE
Editor, Mirror-Herald
I In last Thursday’s Mirror-Herald
I concerning complaints by Glenn
I Rountree about abuMS of cemetery rules
! at Grover, the caretaker alluded to
\ abuses by Sisk Funeral Home.
, T\ro specifics Rountree recounted to
I the Grover Town Board at last week’s
meeting were that Sisk has improperly
placed a tombstone on a cemetery site
and that Sisk-employed grave diggers
had dumped dirt on a site other than the
one pointed out.
Frank Sisk, owner-operator of Sisk
Funeral Home of Bessemer City, told
’TheMirror-Hwald Monday, "all of this is
news to me and to my employes.”
Side said he is not in the tombstone
business. “We never have been and
never will be in the tombstone business,”
he continued. “We do hire F. L. Beam of
CherryvUle to handle gravedigging for
our services, but as far as I know we have
not received any complaints concerning
their work.”
The 76-year«ld funeral (Urector said
the commmts by Rountree and the
decision by the Grover Town Board to
bar his company from handing services
in the Grover Cemetery “upset” him and
his first reaction was “to sue the parties
concerned.”
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Peeler Hies For Board
C. M. Peeler Jr. filed Monday morning
to seek his second term on theCleveland^
County Board of Commissionars.
The Shelby realtor and Insurance agent
makes the fourth countian to seek the bid
to run for office in the May 8 Democratic
Primary. ’Tommy Bridges and L. E.
(Josh) Hlnnant of Kings Mountoin and
Pete Stamey of PoUnrUe filed to tun
earlier.
In his filing statement. Commissioner
Peeler said, “Cleveland Cousty and Its
people have bean good to me and my
lamUy. In return I wish to serve and
fgnder the best businsss-llke and sound
dkdsion possible.
“PbUtlcally I am obligated to no person
or group and neither seek nor will accept
any funds for my campaign,” he con
tinued. “I have learned much from my
.experimce on the board of com-
mlaslonsrs. We have good, clean
government In Cleveland County, but
Improvement can always be made.”
Peeler is conservative, “but am
progressive with ideas and with people. I
appreciate the support that has been
given to me in the past and look forward
to serving our county in the future.”
Peeler attended N. C. State Umverslty
and graduated from Lenoir Rhyne with
degree in business administration. He is
also a graduate of Realtor’a Institute,
UNC-Chapel Hill.
He is past director of the Independent
Insurance Agents of N. C. and N. C.
Association of Real Estate Boards, a
member and past president of In
dependent Insurance Agents of
Clmeland Coiaity and past president of
Cleveland Ooisity Board of Realtors.
He is a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner
and holds memberships in the Elks,
Moose, Amvets and American Legion
organ lutions.
He is an elder in Shelby Presbyterian
Church.
C.M. PEELER JR.
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Make Take Case
Of Penalty To Court
Photo By Gary Stewart
frozen and had to be rescued from the predicament For a
human interest story about this pigeon, turn to Tom
McIntyre’s column on page two.
ByTOMMcINTYRE
Editor, Mirror-Herald
The City of Kings Mouitain may be
going to court to fight the ruling against it
made by the N. C. Department of Natural
and Economic Resources, En
vironmental Management Commission.
In a hearing last Thursday in Raleigh
the commission ruled the city must pay a
civil penalty of $1,200 for failing to live up
to a wastewater treatment facility
permit issued in 1976.
Mayor John H. Moss, Qty Attorney
George Thomasson, Engineer Alvin
Moretz and city engineer W. K. Dickson
and Ralph Johnson attended the hearing
last Thursday. Jdning them on behalf of
the city was Attorney Sid Eagles of
Raleigh.
Mayor Moss said, “We (fidn’t get ’our
day in court,’ so to speak, at the hearing.
We weren’t even allowed to present our;
side of the case.”
Attorney Thomasson was on his feet
less than two miniles after waiting for
almost three hours before being
“gaveled down” by the commission
chairman, who interrupted the city at
torney’s remarks to “call for a motion.”
The civil penalty of tSOO and the $50 per
day assessment for the continued
violation was the decision of W . E.
Knight, director of the Environmental
ManagEment Diviaion, SUowing hia
invastigation into why the City of Kings
Mountain had failed to construct and
begin operations of a wastewater
treatment tecility at Moss Lake by June
1,1977.
Knight said the penalty and
assessment was based on the following:
(1) The city discharges raw untreated
wastewater to Buffalo Creek without a
permit for the disdiarge of such wastes
to the state’s surface waters;
(2) The dty took no action to prevent
the violation in that it neither began the
construction of the wastewater treat
ment works, nor did it adopt any plan to
otherwise dispose of the untreated
wastewater in a lawful manner;
(3) and the effect on receiving waters,
fish and wildlife, and public health is
unknown.
Knight also stated in a letter of Nov. 17
that the city had not contacted the
Western Field Office Personnel about
alternate plans and had ignored the of
fice’s queries concerning alternate plans
to treat the wastewater.
Mayor Moss emphatically stated that
this is not true. He said the city had been
in touch with the Western Field Office
and had answered all queries concerning
the facility.
“The reason we neither built nor
operated the facility is because the
guidelines laid down for us to follow on
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Fboto By Tom McIntyre
HOST COFFEE — Ronald Nanney, principal of Bethware School, and William
F. Davis, sigia'intendent of the KM District Schools hosted a volunteer coffee at
Bethware School last Thursday to explain the school’s primary reading volunteer
program.
Volunteers Needed
ByTOMMcINTYRE
Editor. Mirror-Herald
About 20 women from the community
munched sausage balls and drank hot
apple cider and coffee at Bethware
Sheriff Hies
Sheriff Haywood Allen has filed as a
candidate in the May 2 Democratic
Primary.
In his filing statement. Sheriff Allen
said, “I would like to continue my whole
hearted effort as being your sheriff.
During my previous terms I have been
able to organize many added features
within the sherifTs department, such as a
Youth Bureau, a detective dlvislan, and a
narcotics squad.”
Sheriff Allen said the department also
has a staff of fulltime jail matrons, a
polygraph operator “and one of the beat
civil and criminals records systems in
this state.”
Cleveland County’s Sheriff’s Depart
ment is rated in the top bracket of law
enforcement agsndet in the state by tha
Attorney Genwal’s office.
“The size of our department now
requires good administration,” tha
sheriff said, “which I feel wall qualifM
to handle. I am a senior member of tbs
North Carolina Shwiff’s Associatlaa
board of directors and am also a chartai
member and serve on the advisory board
of the North Carolina Police Informatlaa
Network. I am also a qualified Instructor
in basic police and criminal science and
jail detention training.”
The incumbent candidata said he Is
looking forward to a continuation of top
flight law enforcement In Cleveland-
County, which has one of the lowest
crime rates in North Carolina.
“I will also be working toward a new
organized program of crime prevention,
beneficial to all citizens,” he said. “I feel
with my seniority and experimoe, I will
have a great deal of input into future
changes in our criminal laws.”
SHERIFP HAYWOOD ALLEN
,... niet for ree lection
School last Thursday and listened to
Ronald Nanney talk about the school’s
primary reading program.
The volunteer coffee, according to
Natmey, Bethware principal, was to
interest citizens from the conununity in
offering a portion of their time each week
or each month to assist in bolstering the
primary reading program among the
first, second and third grade students.
Supt. William Davis was also on hand
to welcome the guesU and to encourage
them to take part in the program. Davis
said, “The success of the student in
school depends a great deal on the
cooperation school officials receive from
the student’s home. With programs such
as the voluiteer reading program, we
find that more and more the functiona of
the school and the home move together.
We fed you will appreciate jour school
more if you have an opportiiiity to
become more closely involved directly
with some of its activities.”
Nanney told his school library
audience, “We are trying to get parent
volunteers to come and be part of the
Bethware primary reading program.”
He said the program in grades one
through three can be expanded to reach
the goal of offering every student the
chance to read, to comprehend. For the
moment there are three teachers and
three aides for the first, second and third
grades. For the first grade there are Mrs.
Athta Rice, teacher, and Betty White,
aide; for the second grade, Mrs. Kaye
Lovelace, teadier, and Marlene Bennett,
aide; and third grade, Mrs. Evelyn Kiser
atxl Mrs Helen Van Dyke.
Nanney said these teachers and aidss
carmot afford each todividial child
etuugh personal attention in the reading
program “and that’s where volunteers
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