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VOLUME 95, NUMBER 31 THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1982 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTHC, =
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LAKE VISITOR - Residents and visitors at
Moss Lake over the weekend were surprised
with a visit from a stork. This one, which arriv-
ed Saturday and was still hanging around the
banks early this week, is a White Stork, which
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Photo by Gary Stewart
Africa in the winter, according to the en-
cyclopedia. Lake and wildlife officers figured
the bird was flying over the lake during a
storm and was injured and had to land for rest
and relaxation.
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Property Must Meet Standard;
Trailer Park Request Tabled
Kings Mountain Board of
Commissioners Monday night
received a petition from 18
residents of the Walker Street
area which requested that the ci-
ty take steps to demolish a home
at 315 Walker Street and bring a
neighborhood grocery store at
the intersection of Walker and
Waco Road up to city codes
standards.
The property is owned by
Fred Plonk. The petition stated
that the house is an “eyesore”
and “health hazard”.
Ted Huffman, Acting Codes
Director, said the city approved
tearing the house down on
September 24, 1979, but steps
have not been taken. He said
grass around the structure is
“head high”.
Commissioner, Norman King
said he has been on the property
“several times, and I agree it
ought to be cleaned up or torn
down. There are rats there, and
other health hazards.”
King said the matter had
already been “turned over to the
city attorney” and should have
been taken care of four years
ago.
Huffman said he has “20 to
30” letters in his file concerning
the matter, and added that his
department has “made every ef-
fort” to work with the property
owner but has had a “negative”
response.
Three More
Plant Layoffs
Three more Kings Mountain
area plants announced layoffs
last week.
Sulzer Brothers, which recent-
ly opened a textile weaving
machine manufacturing opera-
tion near Grover, has laid off 12
employees and reduced the
working schedule for its other
120 workers.
Eaton Corporation, a truck
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The petition calls for giving
Plonk 90 days to bring the store
building up to codes standards
and remove the house.
In another matter Monday,
the board tabled a request from
Charlie Clark for a mobile home
park west of the city and in the
one-mile perimeter.
In other action Monday, the
board:
*Approved a
authorizing execution ' of an
agreement with Southern
Railway and the payment of $50
consideration for electrical lines
on Highway 216.
The request, on a motion by
Commissioner Corbet
Nicholson, was tabled because
Attorney George Thomasson
was not present at the meeting.
Huffman said Clark already
has some trailers on the proper-
ty. He said it is zoned R20 and
has never been approved as a
mobile home park.
Huffman said he had examin-
ed the land and it meets “all the
. established criteria” for a mobile
home park.
A request several months ago
to approve a mobile home sales
business for the same seven-acre
tract was turned down by the
board after a resident of the area
protested.
Huffman said Clark told him
he only wants to put in two
more trailers, and they would
" not be close to the road, but he
added that the request was for
the entire seven acres.
Huffman said the permit
could be revoked at any time. He
said Clark had been mailed a
copy of the city mobile home or-
dinance and has said he would
comply with it.
“I have no objection to tabling
(it until the city attorney can be
here,” Commissioner Jim
Childers said, “but the thing that
bugs me is here’s a man with pro-
perty and we're going to sit here
and tell him if he can or cannot
use it.”
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resolution
*Approved a resolution
authorizing “execution of an
agreement with Southern
Railway and payment of a $50
consideration for underground
electrical lines at the intersectin
of East Gold Street and Bat-
tleground Avenue west across
the tracks.
*Received a certificate of suf-
ficiency for improvements on
Landing Street. A petition, sign-
ed by 17 of the 32 property
owners, was received at the last
board meeting.
*Approved the re-
appointment of Laura Houser
and Rev. M.L. Campbell to four
year terms on the Jacob S.
Mauney Memorial Library
Board.
POURING SIDEWALKS Employees of the
North Carolina Department of Transportation
are busy this week pouring sidewalks near
the Highway 74 bypass interchange with
~ money, should it be obtained.
Moss Dam Repairs
Grant Application
Okayed By Board
The Kings Mountain Board of
Commissioners Monday night
approved the application of a
North Carolina Small Cities
Community Development Block
Grant to cover the expense of
repairing the dam at John Henry
Moss Lake.
Repairs will cost $439,958, ac-
cording to plans recently drawn
by W.K. Dickson Co., the city’s
consulting engineer.
The resolution, which will be
submitted to the North Carolina
Department of Natural
Resources and Human Develop-
ment, states that the dam poses a
“serious threat to health and
public safety”, the repair is
necessary because of “unusual
circumstances”, and there is “in-
sufficient local financial
resources and no other state and
federal funds avilable.”
“We feel like the application
will merit serious consideration
for funding,” Mayor John Moss
said.
Moss said the state is expec-
ting over 200 applications for
block grants. The federal govern-
ment has turned the administra-
tion of the block grant program
over to the 50 states and Moss
said the state is doing a good job
of getting input from various
communities in the state.
The city recently held two
public hearings for input into
how to spend block grant
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‘their two roqiiess would not be
eligible for funding, therefore,
they were not included in the ap-
plication.
However, Moss added, steps
are being taken to make their re-
quests reality.
William C. Kelly, a resident of
the Linwood area, requested
sidewalks on Cleveland Avenue
near East School. The lack of
sidewalks, he said, pose a threat
for children who walk to and
from school.
Moss said Monday he has re-
quested that the North Carolina
Department of Transportation,
which is working on the new
Highway 74 bypass project in
the East School area, construct
sidewalks from the bypass to
Linwood Road. He said the
DOT has not acted on that re-
quest but he expects to have a
reply within a month.
Carl Wiesener, a resident of
Gaston Street, requested that the
board close the entrance to City
Stadium and acquire property at
the south end of the stadium for
Cleveland Avenue. The DOT is constructing
the purpose of building a new en-
trance and parking area.
Wiesener said players and fans
attending tournaments at the
stadium liter the area and create
traffic problems.
Moss said he has discussed the
acquisition of property and
hopes the city can soon take
steps to create a new entrance to
the field.
Speaking further on the
bypass project, Moss said it “is
beginning to take shape on the
eastern end where I-85 and 74
merged for so many years, and
once completed, we’ll all be able
to breath a big sigh of relief.
“In the Piedmont area,” he
went on, “some service roads are
supposed to be open by the open-
ing of school, and we hope that
shortly thereafter, Piedmont will
be opened again. ”
Commissioner Norman King
pointed out that several months
ago a petition was circulated in
the Linwood area, asking the
state not to close the Linwood
access to Highway 74 and 1-85,
and asked Moss if any decision
had been made on that request.
“A public meeting was held at
the Community Center, and that
petition was presented at that
meeting,” Moss recalled. “It
iwent into the records, but we
really haven’t received any
response other than the Depart-
ment of Transportation thought
that plans had gone to the extent
that it couldn’t be considered un-
til the completion of the
project.”
Moss said the DOT had in-
formed him that the entire pro-
ject “on or a little ahead” of
schedule, and the project should
meet the October, 1983 comple-
tion deadline.
Bloodmobile To Visit
First Baptist Monday
The bloodmobile visit for the Kings Mountain community and Ci-
ty of Kings Mountain employees will be held Mon., Aug. 2 from 12
noon until 5:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church. The goal is 150 pints.
This is the first bloodmobile for the new fiscal year in the Kings
Mountain area. There are six visits scheduled here during the
1982-83 fiscal year, which ends on June 30, 1983.
The six visits are all scheduled at least 56 days apart so donors can
give at each visit, with the exception of the two summer ones.
of ‘Therefore, any donor. who gave on J
Cron. Stared that Li just completed our second Siceessful blood
year by meeting the Cleveland County goal of 5,800 pints and the
great number of blood donors, sponsors and volunteers in Kings
Mountain can be very proud of their part in helping this to become a
reality. The goal was met by adding bloodmobiles due to emergency
needs of specific blood types, or to meet hospital orders. Last year,
hospital orders exceeded the amount of blood scheduled by more
than 11 percent, and the stated hospital orders for the coming year
are expected to exceed this year’s quota by more than 13 percent.
The increase in the usage of blood by breaking it down into various
blood components has created most of this shortage. More than 83
percent of the blood now collected by the Red Cross is used in blood
components such as platelets for cancer patients, plasma, red cells,
white cells, etc. Last week the Blood Center in Charlotte became the
fourth largest blood center in the United States.
“The VIP program was started July 1, 1982, to encourage those
who are already blood donors to give more often than in the past,”
she continued, “A VIP is a donor who will give a minimum of four,
five or six times during the blood year. Last year, more than 3,000
people gave one time, but only 900 gave twice. Fifty donors gave
four, five or six times. We particularly need the O donors, those with
O positive or O negative blood, to become VIPs.
“At the Monday bloodmobile, we would like to encourage any O
donor who did not give on June 30 to come, and we need some B
positive and B negative also,” she said. “All Kings Mountain High
students who gave in May are invited to come to this visit, as many
were first time donors and did not know their blood types. August is a
critical month in the blood program, due to vacations, plant layoffs,
gardening, etc., but the patients in the hospitals still need blood.”
sidewalks from East School to the entrance to
the Kings Mountain Community Center. The
city hopes soon to pour sidewalks from East
School to Linwood Road.
Yawn!
Runoff
Vote Light
With no local candidates in
the race, Tuesday’s primary
runoff election in Cleveland
County drew less than 300
voters.
The only two races on the
ballot . were for the North :
Carolina Court of Appeals. In
Cleveland County, Eugene
Phillips, a Winston-Salem at-
torney, won over Pitt County
District Judge Horton Rountree
in one race, and Wayne County
District Judge Paul . Wright
defeated Raleigh Attorney
Sidney Eagles in the other.
County-wide, Phillips netted
281 votes to 178 for Rountree.
Wright collected 239 votes to
212 for Eagles.
The few voters who showed in
the four Kings Mountain area
ineligible to donate this.
precincts went with Rountree
and White. In the East and West
Mountain precincts,
Kings
Bethware and Grover, Rountree
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