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Monday
Fire Burns
35 Acres
A fire of undetermined
origin burned over 35 acres of
woods Monday near ‘‘Buz-
zard’s Roost’’, a popular
peak on the Kings Mountain
range which is a popular spot
$ for young people and hikers.
Firefighters from several
Cleveland County units and
one South Carolina unit battl-
ed the blaze from around 1:30
p.m. Monday until the wee
8 hours of Tuesday morning.
No damages other than
property damage was
reported, but Elaine Ollemi,
a nearby resident who was
confined to her bed after re-
cent surgery, had to be
rescued by the Kings Moun-
tain Rescue Squad.
Mrs. Ollemi said she was
alone in her home around 2,
-$ p.m. when she smelled smoke
and began to investigate in-
:¢ side her home. ‘I looked out
:
the window and saw the fire
spreading toward the house
and said, ‘Oh, my! What am I
, going to do?”’, she said.
She called the Cleveland
County Sheriff’s Department
and reported the fire and her
condition and the county
2 dispatcher radioed KMRS for
¢ assistance. She spent most of
the remainder of the after-
> noon hours in the rescue
, squad ambulance.
Rescuers also gave oxygen
to a junior member of the
Bethlehem Fire Deparment,
who had some breathing pro-
“ blems, but after taking the
oxygen he returned to join
almost 100 other firemen and
FIGHTING FIRE—Grover firemen try to make their way
help extinguish Monday afternoon’s fire on Kings Mountain near Love Valley Baptist
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1985
Church. Firemen from several area departments battled the
and into the night.
Firemen stopped the
Spread of the fire at the edge
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Ms. Ollemi’s yard and a.
field across the road from
Love Valley Baptist Church,
then, with the help of
bulldozers and chainsaws,
slowly worked their way to
the peak of the mountan and
the heart of the fire.
The fire was reported by
several residents of the area
as well as one Grover
firemen who saw smoke
billowing from behind the
peak of ‘‘Buzzard’s Roost.”
One Love Valley resident
night and that persons were
heard atop the small moun-.
tain, "However. (onn Hunt,
Cleveland Couilty Forest
Ranger who is investigating
the fire, said the cause had
not been determined.
During the height of the fire
at mid-afternoon, smoke
could be seen for miles. Many
trucks had to return to fire
stations to refill their tanks
with water.
The fire was brought under
control early Monday even-
ing but firemen stayed on the
scene until after midnight.
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PAUL FULTON
SCARLETT CLONINGER
Jones Intercable
Moving Its Offices
Jones Intercable, a Kings
Mountain business citizen
since 1982, is moving from 226
N. City Street to The Herald
building at the corner of West
King and Canterbury Roads
on April 1.
Steve Walters, general
manager, said the firm will
occupy offices in the front
portion of the building
(formerly The Fashion
Center) and will be staffed by
Scarlett Cloninger as office
manager and Paul Fulton as
salesman. Teddi Leonhardt
will be a part-time employee.
Also occupying The Herald
building is The Printing
Press, in offices at the rear of
the building, H & R Block, in
offices at the front of the
building, and Herald
Publishing Co.,- which
publishes seven weekly
newspapers. including The
Herald.
Jones Intercable also
operates an office in Cher-
ryville, with headquarters in
Lowell.
A native of Kings Moun-
tain, Paul Fulton resides on
Southwood Drive with his
wife, Betty, and their three
children, Angie, Andrew and
Jason. They attend First
Baptist Church and Fulton
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KM Man
Injured
In Wreck
A Kings Mountain man was
seriously injured Tuesday
afternoon when an out of con-
trol truck traveled across
three lanes of traffic and hit
his car in the fourth lane of
Cleveland Avenue.
Edgar Thomas Dobbins. 59.
of 207 N. Carpenter St.. was
rushed to Kings Mountain
Hospital at 3:30 p.m. and
transferred to Gaston
Memorial Hospital, where he
remains a patient. Drivers of
two other vehicles involved in
the crash were not injured.
According to Kings Moun-
tain police reports, Steven
Russell Gallman, of Route 1.
Gaffney, S.C.. operating a
heavyweight truck for FCX
of Gaffney, was traveling
east on the 74 hypass and
came off the ramp leading to
Cleveland Avenue. The
brakes on the truck failed.
The truck, according to
police reports traveled
across the southbound lane of
Cleveland Avenue into the
northbound lane, striking the.
Dobbins vehicle which was
traveling north on Cleveland
Avenue and then skidding in-
to a third vehicle, a 1977
Chevrolet truck, operated by
Jeffrey Marion Michael, of
Route 1, Dallas.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
eorge Heads
itizen’s Group
Rev. Kenneth George
was elected temporary
chairman and Clayvon
Kelly was elected co-
chairman of the newly
formed - Citizen’s Open
Forum at the ‘second
meeting Saturday morn-
ing at the Community
Center.
Fifteen local people at-
tended the meeting and
the group established as
its purpose to develop a
better city government
with help of interested
citizens.
. Rev. George opened the
meeting by praising Kings
Mountain and its citizens. REV. KENNETH GEORGE
“Kings Mountain has a lot of great assets but the citizens are
the greatest asset of all’, said the minister. ‘‘Our people have
not been united and we need to be united for a better com-
munity. We also need to be good diplomats and have open
communication and try to correct those things that are not
proper at this time. Changes do not come easy. Patience must
be used. We're not to fight City Hall but have better input and
communication’, said George.
Another purpose of the Forum is that each District, from
1-6 in Kings Mountain, have representatives attend the
meeting to enable the Forum to have enough strength in the
event that its members need to talk with elected officials and
attend town board meetings twice a month. George pointed
out that it is not the intent of the Forum to be politically
nictivated ‘ ‘but we do want te have thie input because we have
elected our city officials to direct us and if their direction is
good we would like to follow that direction but if we see that
things are not correct in government we need to work
together to change what is wrong to strengthen our total com-
munity’’, he added. :
Rev. George encouraged qualified individuals to volunteer
to serve on special committees, to be appointed at future
meetings of the group, to study human and community rela-
tions, codes, beautification, public works, finance, etc. and
serve as a liason on these special committees with those
already appointed in city government and then talk with
elected officials on Forum views with an eye to strengthening
the total community.
Next meeting of the Forum will be held on Saturday, March
30th, at 8:30 a.m. at the Community Center and the public is
encouraged to attend.
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FOOTE MINERAL RECEIVES AWARD—F oote Mineral Company’s Kings Mountain
Operation received the first annual Quality Supplier Award from Reynolds Metals Com-
pany Tuesday. From left, Foote General Manager Walter Cooke, Shippers Curtis Ruppe
and Ernest Hector, Shipping Foreman Mike Seawright and Reynolds Vice President of
Sales Jim Alexander. At back is Shuford Peeler, Foote’s chief chemist and shipping
supervisor.
Foote Receives Award
Foote Mineral Company
was one of four companies to
be awarded the first annual
Quality Supplier Award from
Reynolds Metals Company,
Richmond, Va. Reynolds is
the country’s second largest
producer of aluminum.
Foote produces lithium
carbonate at its Kings Moun-
tain, N.C. plant. This
material is supplied to
lithium-bearing ore, and a
chemical plant for the pro-
duction of lithium carbonate
in various forms.
Reynolds initiated a pro-
Reynolds and other pro-
ducers of aluminum, as well
as other markets. Reynolds
utilizes the lithium carbonate
in the production of primary
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creasing production and
reducing energy consump-
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Foote’s Kings Mountain
facility includes a mine and
mill for the processing of
gram to evaluate their major
suppliers of material who
could have a direct effect on
the quality of their finished
product. Its rating system is
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