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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1982
FIRE SCENE - Two people died and two
others were critically injured when this house
at 504 Broad Street burned Tuesday morning.
The blaze apparently began in a front
‘bedroom, where three of the four people were
sleeping. The fire claimed the life of Conley
“Dude” Payne, 22, and Connie Sue Martin,
Photo by Gary Stewart
age 14 months. Payne pushed Nancy Martin
to safety through a front window and three-
year-old Melissa Lynn Martin, who was in a
back bedroom, was rescued by Kings Moun-
tain policeman Harry Martin and revived by
Kings Mountain fireman Frank Burns.
Two New Industries
By GARY STEWART
Editor
The Kings
next three years.
New industries locating here
are Cable Link Products, a sub-
sidiary of Magnetic Controls
Company , of Minneapolis,
Minn., which will manufacture
] Mountain In-
8 dustrial Committee ‘Tuesday an
0 nounced that two. new | ind tries
jobs for area citizens within the
computer grade molded cable
connection assemblies for the.
telecommunications and com-
puter industries; ‘and Cirtex, a
will manufacting precision gears
for hydraulic gear pumps.
According to General
Manager Clyde Shultz, Cable
Link Products, which is located
at 311 Childers Street in a
building owned by ' Charles
gp declitie™: ‘he says.
Mauney, will employ 10 people
initially and build to a work
force of 80 to 100 in three years.
recession, companies are still
purchasing computers.”
The company located in Kings
Mountain by coincidence,
Shultz explained.
“I called a friend, Claire Kin-
caid, in Gastonia, looking for a
NOW, LISTEN UP - Julie Hovis, eight-year-
old daughter of Robert and Nelling Hovis of
Route 3, Kings Mountain,
whispers her
day night.
Christmas requests into Santa's ear. Julie is a
student at Tryon School. Santa Claus will be
visiting Julie and all other youngsters late Fri-
Photo by Gary Stewart
Cop, Fireman Save Child
2 Die In Fir
By GARY STEWART
Editor ;
A 22-year-old Bessemer City
man and a 14-month-old child
died and two other persons were
critically injured in a house fire
Tuesday morning at 504 Broad
Street in Kings Mountain.
Dead are Conley Elwood
“Dude” Payne, 22, cf 211 East
Georgia Avenue, Bessemer City,
and his daughter, 14-month-old
Connie Sue Martin of 504 Broad
Street, Kings Mountain.
The baby’s mother, Nancy
Martin, who was burned over 90
percent of her body, was thrown
through a bedroom window by
Payne and is in critical condition
at the North Carolina Burn
Center in Chapel Hill. Three-
year-old Melissa Lynn Martin
was rescued by Kings Mountain
Policeman Harry. Martin and
given life-saving mouth-to-
mouth resuscitation by Kings
Mountain Fireman Frank
Burns. She is in critical condition
at Presbyterian Hospital in
Charlotte. ~ ,
‘According to the Kings
Locate,
building,” Shultz said, “and she
talked to Mayer John Henry
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$400. 000 worth ‘of equipment,
Shultz said. Four employees
have been hired and the com-
pany will begin operations by
March 15. It will begin hiring on
February 15.
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will be supervisors and trainers -
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Mountain Fire Department, the
fire began around 10:40 a.m., ap-
parently from a faulty gas stove
in a front bedroom where Payne,
Mrs. Martin and the baby were
sleeping. The three-year-old
child was apparently playing in a
back bedroom, with the door
shut.
The front portion of the home
HARRY MARTIN
..Rescues child
was apparently engulfed in
flames before anyone knew the
house was on fire. A teenage
neighbor, Louise Price, attemp-
ted to call the fire department
but instead called the number of
Foote Mineral Company. A
Foote employee called the fire
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ne Expands
for additional personnel, Shultz
said. The company plans : a two-.
tion :
thing 1
their inclination. is they can go
that way.”
Cirtex, owbd by Fredric
Moore, opened December 1 in a
10,000 square foot building own-
ed by Carolina Throwing. Three
persons have already been hired
and will serve as instructors for
future employee training.
* kk
‘Moore said the company
hopes to expand every two mo
“It’s
unlimited,” Moore said. “The
market is just beginning to open
up. We're looking to grow. very
slowly and get the market
adapted to our product.”
Moore said if all goes well his
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Parkdale Mills Is Sold
Stockholders. of Parkdale
Mills, Inc. today approved, with
no dissenting votes, a plan under
which Parkdale Mills will be ac-
quired by Parkdale Holding
company, a corporation owned
50-50 by the W. Duke Kimbrell
family and the George F. Henry,
Jr. family of Gastonia.
Henry’s wife, Douglas, is the
‘daughter of the late William
Robinson, who before his death
in 1961 was president and chief
executive officer of Parkdale.
Kimbrell succeeded him as presi-
dent.
UFO
Sighted
In Sky
Kings Mountain Police
Sgt. Bob Hayes reported
the sighting of an uniden-
tified flying object last
night while running radar
on Highway 74.
Hayes said the object
was several thousand feet
in the air and appeared to
be heading in a southerly
direction.
Although the flying ob-
ject appeared to be many
miles away, Hayes said it
resembled a sleigh, pulled
by about eight reindeer,
and was carrying a big fat.
man dressed in a red suit
and black boots. In the
back were several big
sacks which Hayes said
contained toys, fruit,
clothes and other items.
If it continues at its cur-
rent speed, Hayes
predicted it would be in
Kings Mountain sometime
late Friday night or early
Saturday morning.
In announcing the results of
the stockholder vote, Kimbrell
said, “We had two objectives: to
insure « that ownership and
management of Parkdale re-
mained in local hands and to
reward our stockholders with a
good price for their shares. We
accomplished both. We believe -
that our customers, our
employees and the community
will benefit from a continuation
of our present management and
way of doing buiness.”
Under the terms of the ac-
quisition, holders of 63.59% of
Parkdale stock will receive a
total of $47,515,200 for their
shares. The remaiming 36.41%,
now owned by the Kimbrell and
Henry interests, will be retained
by them. Founded in 1916,
Parkdale is a major producer of
high quality sales yarn for the
U.S. knitwear industry. Its an-
nula sales are $106 million. With
mills in Gastonia, Lexington,
Kings Mountain and
Thomasville, it has 1,500
employees and an annual payroll
in excess of $20 million.
‘Two Grover Men Killed
In One-Car Wreck Monday
Two Grover men were killed
Monday afternoon when the
pickup truck in which they were
riding ran off the road in an at-
tempt to avoid hitting a car
head-on.
The accident occured on
Highway 29 just inside the
South Carolina line.
‘Dead on arrival at Cherokee
County Hospital in Gaffney,
S.C., were Dewey Lovelace, 46,
% of Route 1, Grover, and Randy
Rails, 26, of Grover.
Paul M. Neisler Jr.
According to the South
Carolina Highway Patrol, the
pickup truck which Lovelace
was driving was traveling north
and tried to pass two vehicles. As
it rounded a curve, it en-
countered a car head-on. In an
attempt to avoid hitting that car,
Lovelace ran the truck off the
road. It traveled up an embank-
ment, overturned and struck a
tree.
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Dead At Age Of 60
Paul M. Neisler Jr., Kings
Mountain textile executive, died
Saturday in a Charlotte hospital
at the age of 60. f
A native of Kings Mountain,
he was the son of Kathryn Moss
Neisler of Kings Mountain and
the late Paul M. Neisler. He
served as president of Elizabeth
Weaving Company of Grover
and Dicey Mills of Shelby.
He was a veteran of World
War II and a member of First
Presbyterian Church.
In addition to his mother, he is
survived by his wife, Joan Alex-
ander Neisler; three sons,
Charles Neisler and Paul Neisler
III of Kings Mountain and Alec
Neisler of San Francisco, Calif.;
a daughter, Elizabeth Sumner of
Gastonia; two brothers, Charles
Neisler and Henry Neisler of
Kings Mountain; and one grand-
child.
Graveside services were con-
ducted Monday at 2 p.m. at
Mountain Rest Cemetery by the
Rev. Eric Faust.
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