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VOL. 96 NUMBER 35
THURSDAY, August 25, 1983
KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH CAROLINA
They’re Off And Running
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Jim Childers To Run
For District 1 Seat
Jim Childers, who is nearing
completion of his second four-
year term as Kings Mountain’s
District One Commissioner, filed
for re-election Friday afternoon.
Childers was the first person
to file for the October 11 city
election. He paid his $5 filing fee
shortly after filing began at 12
noon. Candidate filing will con-
tinue through 12 noon
September 9.
In announcing, Childers
pointed to several successful pro-
jects he’s had a hand in during
the 7'4 years he’s served on the
board.
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Family
Harassed
The wife and children of the
white man accused of fatally
stabbing a 15-year-old black
youth last week have been the
target of verbal abuse and their
apartment at 28 Pine Manor has
been broken into twice since the
stabbing incident last Tuesday.
Thomas Edgar Robinson, 33,
who was charged with murder in
* the death of T.C. Bowden III, is
in Dorethea Dix Hospital in
Raleigh undergoing evaluation.
His wife, Jean, who has taken:
her two children to live with
relatives in another area of the
city, said she has lost over
$1,500 worth of merchandise
and clothing in two separate
break-ins since the stabbing.
Both incidents are under in-
vestigation by the Kings Moun-
tain Police Department.
The apartment was broken in-
to the first time late Tuesday
night or early Wednesday morn-
ing of last week. Mrs. Robinson
said she returned to the apart-
ment Sunday to pickup some of
her things and it had been
broken into again.
When she entered her children
in school Monday morning, she
said they were the targets of ver-
bal abuse by other children and
have been subjected to questions
by other children since.
“The school officials. have
been very cooperative,” she said,
“and it’s getting better.
“I know the Bowden family
and their friends have gone
through a lot,” she added. “I'm
not condoning what happened,
but I don’t think the people
should take it out on my children
and me. We didn’t
anything to do with it.”
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Corbet Nicholson, incumbent
District Three Commissioner,
announced today that he will
seek re-election in the October
11 city election.
Nicholson will face a
challenge from T.C. “Red”
McKee, a former city fireman,
and Ronald Franks, an
employee of First Federal Sav-
ings and Loan Association of
Kings Mountain.
“I would like to take this op-
portunity to thank my many
friends in Kings Mountain for
their confidence and trust and
would appreciate their continued
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IT'S SCALDING HOT - Kings Mountain and North Carolina
received its hottest temperature readings of the year this
week, with record highs recorded in almost every city in the
state. It reached 106 Sunday in Kings Mountain, and was 110
in many eastern cities.
Home Savings
Won’t Merge
three additional savings and loan
associations which were also to
merge with North Carolina
Federal Savings and Loan.
“The association relied and
voted upon information contain-
ed in the joint proxy statement
regarding the composition of the
Board of Directors of N.C.
Federal, ownership of its
outstanding shares of stock, and
its financial standing. And this
joint proxy statement and the
reached for comment. The board stock subscription offering
issued the following statement: materials was Supplied to on
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“The association previously ficers, and agents of N.C.
voted in favor of a merger with Federal
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The proposed merger of Home
Savings and Loan of Kings
Mountain and North Carolina
Federal Savings and Loan of
Charlotte is officially off.
The Board of Directors of
Home Federal, in a meeting
Tuesday, voted unanimously to
continue operating as it has for
the past several years.
Tom Tate, president of the
association, was out of town
Wednesday and could not be
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Nicholson To Run
For District 3 Seat
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Norman King To Run
For District 4 Seat
Norman King announced to-
day that he will seek re-election
to the office of District Four
Commissioner for the City of
Kings Mountain.
King was first elected to his
seat in 1963. He thus far has op-
position from Harry “Dutch”
Wilson and the Rev. M.L.
Campbell.
“The office of city commis-
sioner has been challenging and
rewarding,” King said. “Many
things have been initiated and
completed for the benefit of all
citizens, namely the John Moss
Lake, community center,
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& NORMAN KING
Board Okays Repairs
To Moss Lake Dam
By GARY STEWART
Editor
For the second time this year,
City Commissioners Monday
night gave their approval to
necessary repairs of the John H.
Moss Lake dam.
The board accepted a bid of
$516,345 from Hickory Con-
struction Company, for repairs
in phases one and three of the
project. The total project cost
after administrative and
engineering fees will be
$577,000. The cost will be
shared by the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop-
ment ($385,000), the state of
North Carolina ($144,250) and
the City of Kings Mountain
$47,750).
The repairs should take about
a year, noted Ralph Johnson,
engineer with the W .K. Dickson
Company of Charlotte. At the
completion of the project, the ci-
ty will be in compliance with all
federal and state dam safety re-
quirements, Mayor John Moss
said.
The city has been discussing
the repair of the dam for several
years. Earlier this year, the board
okayed a plan by Johnson to
repair the dam, but on the night
bids were received, Johnson sug-
gested that the board reject them
and go back to the drawing
board to seek safer ways of in-
stalling an underwater valve.
“The dam is something that
you cannot fix and it stays
fixed,” Johnson warned the
board. “Maintenance is a must.
Especially, you should keep it
clean so if something occurs you
can detect it early.”
The city plans to lower the
lake level by 20 feet, or an
estimated seven billion gallons of
water. Moss said in cases of
emergency the lake level can be
lowered “in excess of 50
percent.”
To lower the water level, a
siphon is being installed 30 feet
below water level.
The main reason for the
repairs, however, is the leaking
liner of the dam. A new liner will
be installed and the area between
the old and new liners grouted
with concrete. Johnson said the
concrete will strengthen as it
ages.
Commissioners Jim Childers
and Jim Dickey, who served
with Mayor Moss on the com-
mittee which studied the leaking
dam situation, urged Johnson to
supply the city with a
maintenance schedule, so major
repairs won’t be necessary again
in the future.
“Hopefully, in a year we’ll
have the pipe lined and will be
meeting all the dam criteria,”
Moss said. “There are a number
of criteria that didn’t exist when
the dam was constructed in
1967. In the passing of time,
more criteria have become man-
datory. But upon completion of
this project we'll be in com-
pliance with the dam safety
lasws.”
Johnson said many devices
which will be used in repairing
the dam will be of use if the city
decides to build a hydro-electric
plant at the lake.
“However, I wouldn’t recom-
mend drawing any water out of
the lake for a hydro project. Use
only the water that goes over the
dam,” he said.
In other action Monday night,
the board:
*Approved a request from
M.E. White to rezone 26.116
acres on North Cansler Street
from general business to
Residential-10.
*Approved a request from
James E. White to rezone 29.769
acres in the Brookwood North
sub-division from R-20 to R-6
for the purpose of residential
development. Al Moretz,
engineer for the project, told the
board White plans to have the
property annexed into the city
limits when the first house is sold
in the development.
*Accepted a petition to curb
and gutter West Parker Street
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Bill McDaniel To Run
For KM School Board
Bill McDaniel announced to-
day that he will seek a second
six-year term on the Kings
Mountain Board of Education.
McDaniel will run for one of
the two outside city seats
available in this year’s race. The
other outside seat, currently held
by Paul Hord Jr., will be for the
two years remaining on the term
of Harold Lineberger, who
resigned last spring. Hord was
appointed to hold that seat until
the November election.
McDaniel becomes the third
person to enter this year’s race.
Kyle Smith and Doyle Campbell
earlier announced that they
would file for the two inside-<city
seats, Smith for the six-year term
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BILL McDANIEL