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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1984
son, Jr. os BAe,
Governor Jim Hunt will join
Secretary Roberson and other
federal, state and local officials
at the dedication ceremony.
The public is invited to attend.
The new 9.6 mile bypass is a
four-lane freeway skirting the
Fedodkok
Celebrate America Day at
Kings Mountain Senior High
School Tuesday will be a red,
white and blue event and will
feature Governor Jim Hunt as
the principal speaker for the 1:30
p.m. assembly program.
~The patriotic program, under
sponsorship of the Student
Council, will feature all students
dressed in red, white and blue
dent registration with members
of Elections invited to be present
to register eligible voters.
The “Get Out The Vote” ap-
peal is just part of the festivities.
Prior to the special assembly
program, a number of events are
scheduled. The Student Council
is sponsoring an essay contest on
and a special emphasis on stu-
of the Cleveland County Board
KINGS MOUNTAIN BYPASS
DEDICATION
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1984 -
2:30 P.M.
COUNTY
7
Bypass Dedication Set
ed about the
dedication of such an important
project”, commented Secretary
Roberson. “This four-lane, divid-
ed freeway is the type of
highway we need in Kings
Mountain to both relieve conges-
tion in the downtown area and
contribute to ‘the economic
growth of the area.”
dodekeok
Hunt To Be At KMHS
. CLEVELAND
i dedication
Mountain Community Center.
Right-of-way and construc-
tion costs for the Kings Moun-
tain By-Pass from existing
SR-2244 to existing US 74, total-
ed $47 million. This approximate
cost includes the upgrading of
the interchange at
US-74.
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Means To Me”. Prizes of $50,
$25 and $15 are to be awarded.
A “Decorate Your Locker” con-
test will also be held and cash
prizes of $15, $10 and $5 will be
given to the top winners. A trivia
contest, a buffet luncheon and
fund raising project, “Save Our
Statue,” will also be featured
with students making a contribu-
tion to the renovation of the
Statut of Liberty.
Mrs. Anita M. Campbell and
Dean Westmoreland, sponsors
for the Student Council, said
that Celebrate America Day is a
new concept for Kings Moun-
tain High students ‘and is being
held in response to students wan-
ting a special time and means for
reflecting on the meaning of our
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By ELIZABETH STEWART
NEWS EDITOR
An eight-member mayoral ap-
pointed annexation committee
will soon begin work evaluating
and studying procedures for an-
meeting of the board of city com-
missioners. Three more citizens
will be appointed this week.
and a former state senator, was
to annex by petition only of pro-
perty owners. “The time is com-
ing when Kings Mountain needs
to love at another avenue for an-
nexation and this committee will
work toward the aim of envision-
ing future growth for the area”
said the mayor. “We will take
our plans to those in the adja-
cent area and ask them to par-
a communications committee to
include Norman King, chair-
man, Jim Dickey, and Irvin
Allen, Jr. This committee is to
report at the April 23 meeting of
the board.
By resolution, the city board
asked the State Highway Depart-
ment to make several road im-
Board
Appoints
Corry
Clayward (Mickey) Corry,
Kings Mountain lawyer, was ap-
pointed assistant city attorney
by the board of city commis-
sioners Monday night at the
regular meeting.
In making the recommenda-
tion, Mayor John Henry Moss
said that Mr. Corry will assist Ci-
ty Attorney George B.
Thomasson with the legal work
load which is sure to grow with
the development of a hydro-
electric energy program at Moss
Lake, a Kings Mountain Utility
District, an annexation program,
active codes enforcement pro-
gram and co-generation plann-
ing.
The action of the board was
absence of vacationing George
historical significance, he named
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Annexation
Being Studied
provements, including the
widening of York Road,
Highway 161, from the end of
curb and gutter near the
Fredrickson Motor Lines fence
gate to the bridge over I-85.
74 Business (King Street) from
Oriental Avenue, city streets, to
35 m.p.h. Also, by resolution the
board; changed the route
designation; of U.S. 74 to U.S.
74 Business to concur with the
Department of Transportation.
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Supporters To Replenish
Kings Mountain area sup-
porters of Dr. Kenneth McGill's
missionary work in Zaire are try-
ing to replenish the McGill Mis-
sion Fund at First Union Na-
tional Bank.
Dr. McGill, a former doctor
here, is chief surgeon at the
Presbyterian Hospital in Bulape,
Zaire.
The local mission fund was
established last year and thus far
he ork a
y
- hospital presently uses a diesel
generator but diesel fuel in Zaire
is about five times as high as it is
solar give to the mission
for the Hospital The soat First U ion National Bank,
¢ Ce The city’s annexation policy, o . o
’ >’ ’ beginning in 1922 when the late Dr. McGill Mission Fund
¢ ’ J. Roan Davis was city attorney
in the United States. Electricity
is available at the hospital only a
few hours a day.
In a recent letter to Leroy
Howell, who organized the Mis-
sion Fund drive here, Dr. McGill
said, “we are overwhelmed by
the generosity of our Kings
Mountain friends...we hope that
we can supply enough solar
energy to run the hospital for
. treating the sick in the name of
or by contacting John L. McGill,
treasurer, at 739-5513. Dona-
tions are tax deductible.
Cancer Jail-A-Thon
Slated For April 26-27
The second annual American
Cancer Society Jail-A-Thon for
the Kings Mountain area will be
held April 26-27 at Mountain Ci-
ty Building Supply.
Lavon Strickland and Darrell
Austin are cochairpersons of the
1984 event, which has set a goal
of $15,000. In the first annual
Kings Mountain Jail-A-Thon
last year, area citizens raised
$13,049, exceeding a goal of
$10,000 despite having a six-inch
snowfall on one of the days.
The chairpersons, Police Chief
Jackie D. Barrett and Kay
Holshouser of the Cleveland
County unit of the Cancer Socie-
ty met last week to begin plann-
ing this year’s event.
Kings Mountain area citizens
may have their friends, co-
workers, spouses and others jail-
ed by giving a donation to the
Cancer Society. The persons
who are arrested will have to ap-
pear before Kings Mountains
most feared hanging judges, who
Cancer Society equal to or more
than the amount of their fines
before being released.
During all the fun, Cancer
Society volunteers will also be
passing out literature on cancer’s
warning signals and tips on how
to quit smoking.
Sara Jordan
Campaigning
Sara Jordan, wife of the
Democratic candidate for
Lieutenant Governor Bob Jor-
dan, was campaigning in Kings
Mountain Wednesay and Thurs-
day, March 14-15.
Mrs. Jordan was featured in a
live interview by Radio Station
WKMT on Wednesday morning
and on Thursday, March 15th,
will address the noon meeting of
the Kings Mountain Rotary
Club at the Holiday Inn.
Mrs. Jordan is houseguest of
Dottie and Bob Southwell and
ce i i i ill be accompanied on her visits
he topic, ‘What: America GOVERNOR HUNT unanimous. will pass judgment and fine wil ¢ ]
the opi country for each of us. Attorney Corry went im- them. They will be jailed and by Mrs. Charlie (Marian)
mediately to work, in the must secure pledges to the Carpenter.
: momen, and wened Funeral Rites Held
Zoning Map Amended =o" por Lanny Blanton, 16
zoning requests.
After a second public hearing
Monday night the city board of
commissioners adopted an
amended zoning map upon
recommendation of the city
planning and zoning board.
Wilson Griffin, chairman of
the Zoning Board, said the up-
dated map, which shows an ac-
cummulation of rezoning
changes and incorporates the
new ByPass, is the result of
much hard work and study by
the Planning & Zoning Board,
city commissioners and planners
with the N.C. Division of Com-
munity Planning. Woody
Harden and Herman Rector, of
the Asheville office of Depart-
ment of Natural Resources, were
also present.
The maps were last updated in
1976, according to Griffin.
The city’s 10 zoning districts
are outlined on the map and the
text spells out, he said, ad-
ministrative procedures and how
variances and amendments are
obtained.
Griffin said that any petitions
for zoning changes are submitted
properly through hearing pro-
cesses and the only changes on
the map are the results of public
hearings. There are no changes
on the map which were not
previously petitioned for and
heard in public hearings before
property owners, the planning
board and board of adjustments
and the city board of commis-
sioners, the latter board having
the final authority on property
rezoning.
Upon recommendation of the
mayor, the board agreed to up-
date the maps annually.
After some discussion and
after receiving a petition in op-
position of the rezoning, the
board amended Ben H.
Goforth’s request to rezone from
R-10 to RO at South Roxford
and West King. He proposses to
rent his property for retail florist
use by Mrs. Ken Yarbro.
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LANNY BLANTON
Funeral services for Landrum
Yates (Lanny) Blanton, 16, of
5800 Margrace Road, were con-
ducted Friday afternoon at 2
p.m. from Piedmont Baptist
Church.
Rey. Tim Spicer and Rev. Roy
Clark officiated at the rites and
interment was in Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
The youth died of a gunshot
wound last Wednesday morning
at 4 a.m. in Charlotte Memorial
Hospital, an ‘innocent
bystander, according to police, in
a Tuesday night shooting at a
South Carolina club.
According to investigating of-
ficers, Blanton was standing near
a rear door at Carson’s Place on
Highway 161 south of Kings
Mountain when a shotgun blast
ripped through the door about
9:20 p.m. and struck him in the
head. Captain Joe Mitchell of
the York County Sheriff’s
Department said that Blanton
was taken to Piedmont Medical
Center at Rock Hill and was
later transferred to Charlotte
Memorial Hospital.
After investigating the inci-
dent, sheriff’s detectives arrested
Billy Ray Griffin, 29, and Roger
Dean Griffin, 25, brothers,
whose mailing address is Route 2
Blacksburg, S.C. but whose
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fmmmd==-f Ww nexation that other Y ork Road is heavily traveled In other business:
pn mm nm mm KINGS i ¢# GASTON municipalities use in view of a and is a main thoroughfare for ~The board received five bids
Cm” r ! o new policy for the city. interstate traffic. Certain por- for fencing of Moss Lake in the
MOUNTAIN i ! s’ Mayor John Henry Moss tions of the highway are only Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
! »” named Commissioners Humes two lanes wide thus causing traf- Project and awarded the low bid
»’ i 2% Houston, Corbet Nicholson, Jim fic congestion. By resolution, the ~~ to Cyclone Fence, U.S. Steel |
2° » GAS TON Dickey and W. Norman King to city changed the designated Corporation, Charlotte, in the |
oe J “ COUNTY serve with him at Monday's speed limit of 45 m.p.h. on U.S. |