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VOL. 97 NUMBER 17
City
Fined
$2,800
Fines totaling $4,300 for alleg-
ed violations of permits in
discharging * acetic waste have
been assessed the City of Kings
Mountain and Clevemont Mills,
a subsidiary of Union
Underwear, by the Environmen-
tal Management Commission of
the N.C. Department of Natural
Resources and Community
Development.
The city and Clevemont Mills
have 30 days in which to pay the
fine or submit written request
for remission or mitigation of
written request for ad-
ministrative hearing in the civil
penalties action.
Specifically, the penalties of
$1500 against Clevemont and
$2800 against the City of Kings
Mountain stem from an
Oct.3,1983 incident at Cleve-
mont Mill when acetic acid was
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plant on Moss Lake, and annex-
ation of outside city areas is all in
the planning stages by the city
administration.
And each man on the city
board will tell you he’s not
dreaming.
The first 100 days, or three
months, in which the new city
administration has served, has
set a busy pace for what Mayor
John Henry Moss, in his 19th
year as Mayor, sees as just the
beginning of many programs
which are getting off the draw-
ing boards.’
The Utility District was form-
ed last month by the city board
of commissioners. Since incep-
' tion, the members have been
working with engineers and utili-
ty representatives and calling on
prospective customers as far
west as Buffalo Creek and as far
north as Waco and areas below
Cherryville.
Mayor Moss says the Utility
district will include all of the
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County. The Mayor this
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1984
PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
PRELIMINARY STUDY MAP OF UTILITY DISTRICT - Mayor John Henry Moss points to the
large area which a Kings Mountain Utility District would encompass on a preliminary study
map. Committees will give progress reports on three major city projects at upcoming board
meetings.
committee which also includes
city commissioners Irvin
Allen,Humes Houston, Jim
Dickey and Curt Gaffney.
Preliminary study maps have
been drawn up and are being
studied by the committee and
engineers and a progress report is
to be presented to the full board
of commissioners at the April 23
meeting in Council Chambers.
‘This is not something that
can be accomplished overight’,
said the mayor, but ‘it’s going to
be a reality. he would not
estimate the boost to the
economy in terms of dollars that
the project,when completed,
would mean to Kings
Mountain’s economic develop-
ment.
Building of a hydro plant on
Moss Lake would enhance the
magnitude of the Utility District,
said Moss. Jim Dickey, chair-
man, and commissioners Curt
‘Just Beginning’
ty and will present a progress
report to the city board of com-
missioners on May 1.
Commissioner Humes
Houston chairs the new annexa-
tion committee which is charged
with studying the fesibility of an-
nexation as it meets North
Carolina statutes and the city’s
capabilities to provide city
serices. Other members of that
committee, in addition to the
Mayor, are commissionrs Corbet
Nicholson, Jim Dickey, and Nor-
man King. This committee is to
report back to the full board of
commissioners one June 11 and
present a progress report.
Previous policy by the city has
been to annex by petition re-
quest only of property owners. A
new policy may be inaugurated
as this committee explores the
feasibility of annexing outlying
areas and extend water and
sewer and other city services.
citizens, according to the mayor.
Comm. Norman King heads
the communications committee
which will evaluate the present
telephone and radio communica-
tions system used by all city
departments with an eye toward
restructuring. Other members of
the King committee are Police
Chief Jackie Barrett, Fire Chief
Gene Tignor and Mayor Moss.
A new committee on policy
and procedures is expected to be
named at Monday night’s city
board meeting and this commit-
tee will be charged with
establishing a policy on pro-
cedures for bidding and purchas-
ing and will be responsible for
having printed manuals to be
distributed to any citizens who
desire them spelling out the
policies and procedures for all ci-
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Presbyterian
Centennial
= Is Sunday
Dr. Ben F. Ormand, Jr. of
Brevard, the first member of
First Presbyterian Church to
enter the ministry, will deliver
the sermon at Sunday’s Centen-
nial Celebration .
He will fill the pulpit at the ll
o’clock morning worship hour.
Dr. Ormand will use the sermon
topic, “What Is The Church?”
Assisting in the service will be
former ministers, Rev. Gary
Bryant, pastor of Paw Creek
Presbyterian Church of
Charlotte, Dr. Paul Ausley,
retired minister, of Kings Moun-
tain, and the present minister,
Rev. Eric Faust.
A second member of the con-
gregation who became a minister
and served on the mission field,
Rev. James Moss, now of Ab-
beville, S.C., will also participate
in the morning service.
Luncheon will be served at
noon in the Fellowship Hall and
Recreation Building to 430, in-
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contain memorabilia of church
life in 1984. The box containing
in formation from each class will
be buried and a granite marker
placed on top. The time capsule
will be opened April 5, 2034 in
celebration of the church’s 150th
anniversary.
Ringing of the Centennial
Memorial Bell will call the con-
gregation to worship and to a
musical program of praise and
Thanksgiving by the Chancel,
Junior and Youth Choirs at 2
p.m. The program will be
directed by Mrs. Darrell Austin.
Copies of the church’s history,
along with cookbooks, will be
available to members. Group
picture taking will be held from
10 until 11 a.m. along with a
hymn sing. A nursery will be
provided from 10 until noon and
from 2 until 3 p.m.
Student ministers assisting on
Vance Polley
Members will wear cross-
stitched nametags and visitors
will register on arrival for the ser-
vice. ‘Youth of the church will
serve as guides, Marily Neisler
and David Roof are members of
the welcoming committee, and
ushers are Hall Goforth,
Howard Jackson, Paul Mauney,
Charles Neisler, Henry Neisler,
Harry Page, George Thomasson
and Humes Houston. Register-
ing guests will be Margaret Hun-
nicutt, Hilda Goforth, Daisy
Queen, Grace Page, Sarah Kate
Lewis, Nancy Nickels, Hazel
Fryer, Mildred Hoyle and
Charlene Padgett.
A native of Kings Mountain,
Dr. Ormand graduated from
Union Theological Seminary in
May 1937 and was ordained on
October 10, 1937 in Lost City,
West Virginia.
CAMPAIGNING - John Ingram. second from left, Democratic
candidate for Governor of North Carolina, campaigned in
Kings Mountain Friday morning. He's pictured here at the
Kings Mountain Fire Department with (left to right) Mayor John
Moss and city firemen Gene Tignor, Bill Herndon and Bobby
King.
Photo by Gary Stewart
Ingram Campaigns Here
By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
Gubernatorial candidate John
Ingram called on an elected
Utilities Commission and im-
proved education as he cam-
paigned in Kings Mountain and
Cleveland County Friday.
Ingram, the N.C. Insurance
Commissioner who is reportedly
running third to Eddie Knox and
Lauch Faircloth in Democratic
polls, says he is the only can-
didate who supports an elected
Utilities Commission and is the
only Democratic candidate who
has sent all of his children
through the public school
system.
Ingram spent most of Friday
morning in Kings Mountain
shaking hands and handing out
brochures proclaiming him as
the “Governor fighting for you.”
“l am the only candidate in
the race who has given a specific
plan to end the utilities crisis,” he
said as he talked to supporters at
the Kings Mountain Fire
Department, which has utilized
. with ‘the
the Insurance Commissioner’s
office in its past fire safety train-
ing. “I propose that we change
the law that allows utility com-
panies to charge the rate-paying
citizens in advance for their
abandoned nuclear power plants
that will never produce a
killowatt of electricity. The cur-
rent law has been a blank check
for waste and mismanagement,
and the people are fed up with it.
“The people are also fed up
appointment of
members to the Utilities Com-
mission,” he went on. “The peo-
ple want the right to elect the
Utilities Commission and | say
let the people vote.”
Ingram supports higher pay
for school teachers through bet-
ter management of the state’s
budget, and also is working for
smaller class size.
“I am the only candidate who
has sent all of his children all of
their lives through the public
school system,” Ingram said,
“and I have three graduates of
our university system. When |
talk about education, it’s family
talk. I am the son of a teacher,
the brother of a teacher and the
father-in-law of a teacher.”
As a legislator, Ingram in-
troduced bills in the General
Assembly to limit classroom size
and give 18-year-olds the right to
vote.
“For our children’s sake, I pro-
mise to make teachers’ spendable
income, or buying power, equal
to the best in the nation in real
dollars,” he said. “Real dollars
are two very important words.
North Carolina salaries need not
equal Alaska or New York
because those states’ cost of liv-
ing is much higher than ours.
Taxes do not have to be raised
to make these improvements,
but priorities must be changed.”
“Besides decent pay for profes-
sional educators, I believe we
must fight for smaller class size,”
he said. “It is the individual at-
tention and personal contact bet-
ween teacher and child which
puts the quality in quality educa-
tion. We also must end the
needless red tape
strangling
teach. Teachers are professional
educators, not bureaucrats.”
more industry and jobs,
water and better roads.
which is
teachers’ time to
Ingram said he also supports
clean
As insurance commissioner,
he says he has already brought
more jobs to the state by saving
North Carolina business people
over $100 million dollars in in-
surance premium savings. Dur-
ing the last legislative session, his
office was able to get a law pass-
ed which stopped price fixing by
the workman's compensation in-
surance companies. “Now, the
business people of North
Carolina get discounts on
workman’s compensation
premiums as high as 27.5 per-
cent, or a savings of over $100
million for employers. Those
dollars were going out of state to
insurance companies but now
are staying in North Carolina
cash registers and can be used
for new capital and new jobs.”