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VOL. 97 NUMBER 7
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Photo by Gary Stewart
MAN OF THE YEAR - Dr. David McDaniel, center, accepts the Kings Mountain Jaycees DSA
Award for 1983 from Club President Louis Sabettie Jr.. right. at Monday’s banquet at the Holi-
day Inn. Left is H.A. Thompson, WBT radio personality, who was guest speaker.
Monaging Editor
Dr. David McDaniel, local op-
tometrist, was named winner of
the 1983 Young Man of the
Year Award at the annual Kings
Mountain Jaycees Distinguished
Service Awards banquet Mon-
day night at the Holiday Inn.
Other winners included
Angela Wood, Outstanding
Young Teenager; Joy McCoy,
Outstanding Teenager; Randy
Short, Outstanding Young
Firefighter; Russell Falls,
Outstanding Young Rescuer;
Paul Walker, Boss of the Year;
W.K. Mauney, Outstanding
Former Jaycee; P.J. Lavelle,
Presidential Award winner; and
Laura McDaniel, Outstanding
Young Educator.
H.A. Thompson, well-known
Charlotte radio personality, was
guest speaker. Members of the
Jaycees presented the awards.
Dr. McDaniel, who opened
his practice here in 1981, was
selected over semi-finalists Dr.
Grady K. Howard Jr., local den-
tist, and Larry Wood, personnel
manager of Foote Mineral.
Jaycee President ‘Louis Sabettie
Jr. said the selection was “the
toughest we've had in the five
years I’ve been associated with
the Jaycees.”
Dr. McDaniel is active in a
number of community and
church activities. He serves as
Youth Leader at Central United
Methodist Church, is treasurer
of the Rotary Club and is also
active in Kiwanis Club, United
Way and the Kings Mountain
Hospital Continuing Education
Program.
Paula McDaniel is a Special
Education teacher of grades one
through five at North Elemen-
tary School. She is a gradaute of
Winthrop College.
Other nominees for the
Outstanding Young Educator
Award were Denise LeVene,-
Learning Disabled teacher at
Kings Mountain High School;
Mary S. Roberts, first grade
teacher at West School; Audrey
Leonhart, Science teacher at
Kings Mountain Junior High;
Paula McDaniel, Chapter I
reading teacher at Bethware;
Hilda Leonard, kindergarten-
first grade teacher at East
School; and Treda Berry, music
teacher at Central.
Dr. McDaniel Wins
~ Outstanding Young Te
Award over William Scott Belk,
age 12. Miss Wood is a student.
“at Kings Mountain Junior High,
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nager
where she is active in the band.
She is also active in 4-H work
and sings in her church choir.
Joy McCoy, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Quint McCoy of
Grover, won the Outstanding
Teenager Award over Sandra
Watterson and Angel Allen.
Miss McCoy is active in a
number of activities at KMHS
and in her church.
Randy Short is a volunteer
fireman with the Kings Moun-
tain Fire Department, as is
Willard Yarborough Jr., the
other nominee for Outstanding
Young Firefighter. Short has at-
tended Cleveland County’s
Firefighting Rookie School as
well as other training schools
and seminars, and participates in
NuUMErous community activities,
including Toys For Tots and
Mountaineer Days celebrations.
He has also volunteered his time
to work at the Kings Mountain
Fire Museum.
ith the King
serves as. treasurer. Other
- nominees for the Outstanding
Rescuer Award were Jeff Clon-
inger and Johnny Blanton.
Paul Walker, a former Jaycee,
was selected as Boss of the Year
over Tommy Bridges. Walker
manages Plonk Brothers Depart-
ment Store and Bridges is owner
of Brides Auto Parts. Walker is a
former Jaycee president and is
active in the ‘Eastern Star,
Masons and Central United
Methodist Church.
WK. “Billy” Mauney, former
North Carolina legislator, was a
charter member of the Kings
Mountain Jaycees, which were
chartered in 1946. He served in
the North Carolina House of
Representatives for six years and
the North Carolina Senate for
four years. He is president of
Mauney Mills.
P.J. Lavelle is manager of
Cleveland Mall and assisted the
Jaycees in a number of fund-
raising activities during 1983.
tain Rescue Squad, which he
KM Board Protests
By ELIZABETH STEWART
News Editor
The city board of commis-
sioners voted Tuesday night dur-
“ing a special session to formally
protest by resolution a proposed
. formula change for sales tax
distribution by the Cleveland
County Board of Commis-
sioners.
Specifically, the city board is
asking the county board to re-
tain the system which has been
in effect for 12 years.
A letter was to be forwarded
Wednesday to Chairman Jack
Palmer.
The resolution points out that
the method of sales tax distribu-
tion used in Cleveland County is
the same used in the majority of
counties in North Carolina and
is acknowledged as the more
equitable means of sharing this
sales tax revenue source among
government units and thereby
sharing these revenues equally
with all citizens of Cleveland
QO
tial loss for the budget of the Ci-
ty of Kings Mountain and place
an unequal burden on the
citizens of Kings Mountain, in
actuality constituting an unfair
shifting of cost to the city
residents”, the resolution con-
tinued.
The City Board pointed out in
the Resolution that presently
Kings Mountain residents com-
prise 9.9 percent of the county’s
total population and only receive
about 7.2 percent of the pro-
ceeds from the sales tax source,
and that if a change in distribu-
tion method is effected, the
percentage of the revenue source
drops to less than five percent.
“The City Commission of the
City of Kings Mountain does
respectfully express its extreme
concern for the lack of equitable
treatment of all citizens in view
of the proposed possible change
occurring”, the resolution con-
tinued.
In other actions during a brief
session, rescheduled from Mon-
day so that board members could
attend the Jaycee DSA Banquet,
the board:
Photo by Gary Stewart
JAYCEE WINNERS - Winners of awards at Monday night's Kings Mountain Jaycees DSA
banquet are pictured above. Left to right. W.K. Mauney Jr., Outstanding Former Jaycee; Ran-
dy Short, Outstanding Young Firefighter; Laura McDaniel, Outstanding Yéung Educator;
Angela Wood, Outstanding Young Teenager: Joy McCoy, Outstanding Teenager; Paul
Walker, Boss of the Year: and Russell Falls, Outstanding Young Rescuer.
der op Red Jed
cent ‘would represent a substan-
Approved without discussion
the rezoning request of Mrs.
Robert Johnson, Waco Road
(R-8 to R-20). City Codes Officer
Jerry King recommended the
stipulation be made that the
placement of her mobile home
comply with the distances re-
quired in the Kings Mountain
zoning ordinances. Responding
to question from Mr. Johnson,
Mr. King said that mobile homes
can be placed 30 feet from the
property’s outside boundary line.
The Board concurred with
King’s recommendation and the
motion to rezone was made by
Comm. Corbet Nicholson,
seconded by Comm. Irvin Allen,
Jr.
In another zoning matter, the
board referred to the Planning
and Zoning Board a request
from W.S. Fulton, III to rezone
from R-8 to G-B his property
fronting 165 feet on the east side
of Cleveland Avenue at the in-
pair ays
~ Home Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Kings
Mountain has filed a $12.3
million suit against North
Carolina Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Albemarle
and Charlotte, its officers and
directors.
The suit was filed in Cleveland
County Superior Court last week
and alleges that a merger of
Home Federal, North Carolina
Federal and three other North
Carolina savings and loan
associations failed as the result of
a “power struggle” for control of
North Carolina Federal begun
last year.
According to the suit, ten-
tative agreement on the merger
was reached in February 1983.
New Tax Formula
tersection of East King Street
and Cleveland Avenue.
The Board authorized execu-
tion of boundary agreement bet-
ween the City of Kings Moun-
tain and Michael E. Taylor, Sr.
and wife, Vera Taylor, for the
purpose of establishing and fix-
ing the boundary line between
the two properties. City At-
torney George Thomasson said
the Milton Hope Estate property
is close to the KM Sub-Station
and checking titles, defects were
found in deeds.
The city board received six
bids for hydraulic sewer cleaner
and authorized advertising for
bids for four patrol vehicles for
the Police Department. The
Mayor said that cost of two of
the cars are projected in the an-
nual budget. “We lost two
vehicles recently”, said the
Mayor.
The Board set a special
meeting for noon Friday in
Council Chambers.
~The suit alleges breach
tract, fraud and unfair and
deceptive practices by North
ofcon-
Carolina Federal, breach of con-'
tract and fraud by North
Carolina Federal director O.
Bruton Smith, and conspiracy by
director Smith and H.A.
Wheeler, Jr., president and
general manager of Charlotte
Motor Speedway, of which
Smith was majority stockholder
and chairman of the board, and
Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The suit alleges that Smith,
Wheeler and the Speedway con-
spired to purchase stocks in
North Carolina Federal to gain
control for Smith and that they
intended to block the proposed
merger.
Commendation Honors
The Late Hunter Allen
By ELIZABETH STEWART
News Editor
A Resolution of Commenda-
tion from the City of Kings
Mountain to the late D. Hunter
Allen was approved Tuesday
night by the city board of com-
missioners.
Mr. Allen died January 13th.
He had worked over 40 years
with the city of Kings Mountain
and retired as Superintendent of
the Electrical Department.
The Resolution, signed by
Mayor John Moss and Board,
reads:
“WHEREAS, the Citizens of
Kings Mountain have been sad-
dened by the passing of one of its
outstanding citizens, Mr. D.
Hunter Allen; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Allen served
the City of Kings Mountain as
superintendent of the Electrical
Department from 1931 until his
retirement, and as a Volunteer
Firemen from 1932 until his
retirement; and
WHEREAS, Mr, Allen was
most interested in the well-being
of his fellow citizens and his
community; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Allen was
always ready and willing to serve
in any capacity for the better-
ment of his community; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Allen’s per-
sonal life was one embodying the
highest Christian principles and
moral standards;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED by the Mayor and
Board of Commissioners of the
City of Kings Mountain, in
Special Session on this the 24th
day of January, 1984, that we
hereby extend to Mr. Allen’s
family, his friends and citizens of
Kings Mountain, our heartfelt
sympathy and offer in his
memory this Resolution of Com-
mendation for a life dedicated to
his fellow-men.”
Tax Listing
Ends Tuesday
Tuesday, Jan. 31 is the final
day to list property for taxes to
avoid penalty.
Cleveland County taxlisters
will be at City Hall today, Fri-
day, Monday and Tuesday from
8:30 until § p.m.
Taxlisters will be at Grover
Saturday morning until 1 p.m. at
Grover Rescue Squad.