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VOL. 98 NUMBER 20
OLLIE HARRIS
Team
George Lublanezki, retired
Kings Mountain school
teacher and businessman, is
excited about his upcoming
trip to Panama where he is
joining an 18-member
volunteer medical team of
Rotarians to give innocula-
tions to impoverished
children in the backwoods of
Panama.
The program is called 3-H
and focuses on health, hunger
and humanity, said
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1985
Decision To Be Made Saturday
KINGS MOUNTAIN, |
Bethlehem May Incorporate
Senator J. Ollie Harris has in-
troduced in the N.C. Senate a title to
incorporate the town of Bethlehem in
Cleveland County, he told The Herald
by telephone from Raleigh yesterday.
Senator Harris said that if the
citizens of the El Bethel, Bethware,
White Plains, Midpines, and Crocker
Road communities outside the Kings
Mountain city limits agree Saturday
night at a meeting at Bethware
School at 7 p.m. to pursue steps for in-
corporation that he will introduce a
local bill in the General Assembly by
May 15th. Passage of the bill requires
approval of both the N.C. Senate and
N.C. House.
Bob Hullender, spokesman for out-
side citizens fighting any future an-
nexation by the City of Kings Moun-
tain, said that all citizens of the area
of Bethlehem, White Plains, El
Bethel, Midpines, Bethware and
Crocker Road communities are en-
couraged to attend Saturday night's
meeting. “We want to get their opi-
nions. This is a very important
meeting’, said Hullender:
In late February Bethlehem area
residents living in the Bethlehem
Fire District organized a 11 member
committee with Hullender as tem-
porary chairman. Warren J. Wicker
moderated that meeting which was
attended by approximately 100
citizens from the area. At a second
meeting Gene White, who serves on
the city’s annexation study commit-
tee, met with the group and explained
that the City of Kings Mountain has
adopted what is called a resolution of
intent, first preliminary step and
there will be a year of evaluation
before an area is considered. A map
posted at City Hall gives citizens an
“advance notice’’ that their area
“could be considered for annexation
at a future time.”
Incorporation requires an act of the
General Assembly.
Hullender says the meeting Satur-
day night is open to the public and is
planned to ‘‘learn how everyone feels
and whether to proceed with steps for
incorporation.”
To Help Panama
Lublanezki who was packing
this week, learning to give
shots as well as obtaining a
Spanish dictionary.
Sponsored by Rotary Inter-
national, the 18 member
volunteer team will leave
from Charlotte on May 1 for
30 days in desolate and im-
poverished areas of Panama.
The program is funded by
Rotary International, a non-
profit organization, in con-
junction with Rotary clubs in
Panama. Lublanezki is a
member of the Kings Moun-
tain Rotary Club.
Polio vaccine will be given
orally in one or two drops and
children under five will
receive a one shot combina-
tion of diptheria, tetnus,
whooping cough and measles
from volunteers, working in
teams of two and under the
supervision of doctors and
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launch a revitalization pro-
gram designed to ‘‘enhance
. and accent” not only the
downtown area but Kings
Mountain’s heritage as well.
Mayor Moss outlined plans
for the city wide program, in
which he invited all citizens
to participate, at Monday
night’s city board meeting.
The Mayor said that Otis
Smith, of Western Auto, W.S.
on
Department Store, retire
teacher and businessman
George Lublanezki, and
County Commission Chair-
man L.E. (Josh) Hinnant
held their first meeting Mon-
day morning at City Hall to
explore such ideas as the for-
mation of an uptown associa-
tion, creation of a loan pool to
rovide low cost interest
oans and attempts at seeking
Wade Tyner Secretary
Of Car Dealers’ Group
WADE TYNER
Wade Tyner, owner of
Wade Ford in Kings Moun-
tain, was elected secretary of
the North Carolina
Automobile Dealers Associa-
tion at its 50th convention last
week in Nassau.
The association includes all
694 franchised dealers in
North Carolina. North
Carolina is the only state that
has 100 percent participation
in its association.
Tyner has served as a
‘director of the association for
two years, serving Gaston,
Lincoln and Cleveland coun-
ties. He is also an active
member of the Cleveland
County and United States
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Joe Davis To Manage
First Federal Branch
The Board of Directors of
First Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Kings
Mountain have announced
their intentions to open a
branch office in the Gastonia
area. Gary Whitaker, Ex-
ecutive Vice President,
stated that an application to
establish a Gastonia Branch
has been submitted to the
Federal Home Loan Bank in
Atlanta. Whitaker feels
that the Gastonia area will be
a very strong market and
that First Federal will be
very competitive in all the
“services that will be offered
to the people of Gaston Coun-
ty.
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JOE DAVIS
Moss said the committee
“has directed him to ask
revitalization experts from a
wide area to share their ex-
pertise and suggestions and
that volunteers and sugges-
tions from the general public
are needed and invited by the
merchants group.
“We have a tremendous
heritage in Kings Mountain’,
said the Mayor, who told the
45-50 citizens attending Mon-
day night’s board meeting
that he doesn’t know a single
citizen in Kings Mountain
who is not genuinely concern-
ed for the betterment of
Kings Mountain. Roots,
history, sacrifice are all part
of Kings Mountain’s heritage,
said the Mayor, who said he
would feel “very bad” if a
concerted effort is not made
to revitalize Kings Mountain
and progressive community
spirit. We ought to have
enough pride to get together
and hammer out a program
of revitalization”, he told the
board. He said that citizens
will be required to give their
time and talents to the pro-
gram for it to be a success.
Moss said he had observed
a trend for businesses to
move out of the downtown
district to shopping centers
but that in other areas he had
seen a successful trend
towards uptown revitaliza-
tion and would like to put that
effort to work in Kings Moun-
tain. “We can rejuvenate in-
terest in downtown Kings
Mountain. If we do nothing,
we will continue to
decline...It behooves all of us
to become concerned and to
support revitalization in
Kings Mountain”, said the
‘Mayor. :
“We have a challenge to
recapture a vibrant com-
munity spirit and make our
downtown a place for com-
merce and culture”, said the
Mayor.
According to the mayor,
the city has plans to take bids
for five acres of undeveloped
uptown property in which
get involved a
steering committee. “You've
heard about Urban Renewal,
40,000 communities with less
than 30,000 people are ap-
proaching this avenue to
revitalize downtown. Kings
Mountain is one of many’,
said the Mayor.
“We need businesses that
merchandise downtown’’,
said the Mayor, but we also
need to develop character
and heritage of the total com-
munity.”’ “A big job but
Kings Mountain can do it”,
said Moss, who encouraged
local people to become in-
volved as the exciting pro-
gram unfolds.
ups, to.
pport the
SBI Agents
Coming To KM
The State Bureau of In-
vestigation is expected to
send agents to Kings Moun-
tain the latter part of this
week to begin investigation of
the city cemetery depart-
ment.
Chief of Police J.D. Barrett
said he had been informed by
SBI agents they would begin
an “independent’ investiga-
tion ‘‘the end of this week’.
According to Commis-
sioner Irvin M. (Tootie)
Allen, chairman of a
commissioner me
cian, and
show collections from only
one monument supplier, Ben-
nett Masters, of Kings Moun-
tain.
The commission called the
police probe and KMPD last
week asked Cleveland County
District Attorney Marty
Shuford to ask the SBI to take
over the investigation.
Allen said that a five-year
audit was also requested by
the cemetery committee,
which also includes Commis-
sioners Corbet Nicholson and
Curt Gaffney. Allen said he
did not know if that audit has
been completed.
three-
Allen has claimed that
cemetery superintendent
Kenneth Jenkins has himself
supplied some monuments at
the cemetery and allegedly
paid no fees. Jenkins has
denied that he supplies
monuments and has said that
he makes collections from
suppliers in addition to
Masters and turns those col-
lections over to the city.
New Rec
How can the city recreation
department reach kids not
participating on organized
all teams?
That’s the question Mayor
John Moss put to the city
board Monday night as he
suggested, and the board ap-
proved, what the mayor
termed ‘‘a new concept’ in
summer recreation for youth
and senior citizens.
This summer, from June 3
through Aug. 9, the city will
offer supervised recreational
activities for ages 7 through
14 and for senior citizens.
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AT NEW HOME - Dennis Byrd, owner and manager of Mountain Video, stands at the en-
trance of his new store in the Kings Mountain Herald building. The store, now located on West
Mountain Street, re-opens in the Herald building Monday at 11 a.m.
Mountain Video Moving
Mountain Video of Kings Mountain will open in its new location Monday at the Kings Moun-
tain Herald building on Highway 74 east at Canterbury Road. :
Dennis Byrd, who has operated the store at 124 West Mountain Street since moving to Kings
Mountain 11, years ago, said the new location will allow him to expand his inventory and offer
“plenty of free parking and easy access.”
Byrd said his
new location will offer ‘‘excellent customer parking.”
Mountain Video, which rents and sells video cassette tapes and recorders and also sells
music, records and cassette tapes, will be located on the east side of the Herald building in the
former location of H&R Block. Mountain Video customers will have direct access to the store
from the Canterbury Road side of the building.
H&R Block has moved its offices to the front of the building. Also occupying space in the
Herald building is Herald Publishing Company, publishers of seven weekl
Printing Press, and Jones Intercable.
yrd said visitors to Mountain Video will see an expanded inventory of the latest VH i
releases. He will open for business Monday at 11 a.m. and will also Ele open Wide
day and Saturday nights.
iggest problem in his downtown location has been lack of parking and that the
y newspapers, the