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VOL. 98 NUMBER 32
*4.3 Million Marijuana Field Found Near KM
Officers of the Cleveland
County Sheriff’s Department.
State. Bureau of Investiga-
tion, Shelby and Kings Moun-
tain Police Departments.
guided by a state airplane
piloted by Special Agent B.C.
Matthews of Asheville and
accompanied by Cleveland
County Sheriffs Department
Sgt. Joel Newton - started the
search on Thursday and
found 500 plants growing in
four fields in two rural areas
of northern Cleveland Coun-
ty, Dirty Ankle and Moriah.
The team-with Matthews be-
ing accompanied by Sgt.
Marijuana plants growing
in a field near Kings Moun-
tain with a street value of
more than $4.3 million were
confiscated by law enforce-
ment officers during a drug
bust Friday.
During the second day of a
Cleveland County law en-
forcement ‘‘seek and
destroy’ drug operation, of-
ficers discovered 4,320 plants
growing in a one and one half
acre field on Wells Road, just
off the Dixon Community
near Kings Mountain. The
property borders the North
Carolina-South Carolina line.
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1985
Branch Road near Grover.
could harvest them.
McKinney said
are possible.
Phillip Todd of the Sheriff's
department, discovered the
large field about 1 p.m. and
second, small field Friday
afternoon of 50 plants grown-
ing in a wooded area off Long
Cleveland County Vice Sgt.
Ralph McKinney said the
purpose of the two day pro-
ject was to find marijuana
fields and to remove the
plants before the owners
that
suspects have been question-
ed and that criminal charges
Myers Hambright, retired Kings Moun-
tain teacher, was sworn in Tuesday at noon
as-a new member of the Cleveland County
Board of Elections.
Other members of the board, who also
took the oath of office from Clerk of
Superior Court Ruth Dedmon, were Tony
Eastman of Boiling Springs, who was
elected the chairman in a meeting following
the swearing-in ceremonies, and Mrs. Ruth
Wilson of Shelby who was elected secretary
to the board. Both Wilson and Eastman are
Republicans. Hambright is a Democrat.
The Board of Elections will be meeting
regularly on the first Wednesdays of the
month at 1 p.m. in Shelby and will begin
touring the 28 polling places in the county
BOARD OF ELECTIONS SWORN-—Myers Hambright, left, Ruth Wilson and Tony
Eastman, right, are sworn by Clerk of Superior Court Ruth Dedmon as new members of
the Cleveland County Board of Elections. /
'Hambright Takes Office
beginning July 24th at 1 p.m. Members will
also be seeking recommendations from
political parties for recommendations for
precinct officials and will be com-
municating with members of the county
board on commissioners to thank them for
their assistance and advising them they will
be following their recommendations in stu-
dying elections for efficiency.
Terrie Jones of Shelby is supervisor of the
Board of Elections. State chairman is
Robert Hunter, Jr. and Executive
Secretary-Director is Alex Brock.
Mrs. Hambright accompanied her hus-
band to Shelby for the noon swearing-in
ceremonies in the clerk of Superior Court’s
office in the Law Enforcement Building.
Rezoning Hearing Monday
The city board of commis-
Library To Get $10,000
From Pork Barrel Fund
quest by Kelly Bunch to
sioners will conduct a public rezone his Pauline Mill pro-
hearing Monday night on re- perty for proposed construc-
tion of condominium apart-
ment dwellings. gr
The meeting will be at 7:30
p.m. in Council Chambers at
City Hall.
Several property owners
opposed the proposed con-
struction before a recent
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Board, which has
recommended the city board
State Senator Ollie Harris
of Kings Mountain announced
today that Mauney Memorial
Library will receive $10,000
from the state’s Pork Barrel
fund.
The Pork Barrel Fund is
appropriated by legislators to
their districts.
Harris and Senators Mar-
shall Rauch and Helen Mar-
vin were allotted $100,000
each to direct to projects in
the 25th Senatorial District.
The three combined their
totals and vill distribute
them to organizations in their
four-county area
Harris said about $80,000
will be used in Cleveland
County with the Shelter
Workshop of Lawndale, a
division of the Cleveland
County Mental Health
Department, getting the big-
gest check, $55.000.
‘Harris said the KM Library
may use its $10.000 for
general operations or capital
needs.
aprove the request to rezone
from light industry to
residential multi-family
dwelling.
In another zoning matter
this week, the Zoning Board
of Adjustments denied a re-
quest by Eugene Isenhour,
1614 W. Franklin Ave.,
Gastonia, for variance of five
feet on his property fronting
75.05 feet on the north side of
Monte Vista Drive beginning
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*“This was the largest field
we've ever gotten around
here’, said McKinney. ‘The
discovery certainly ruined
somebody's day’’, he added.
McKinney said the large
field of plants ranged in
height from three to seven
feet and had been carefully
planted and cultivated. He
said the plants were in rows
and separated by exactly
28-inches of soil. He said that
North Carolina officers cut
the plants and filled two
pickup trucks to overflowing
with them. He said that of-
ficers also confiscated a tiller
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
and fuel for the tiller.
McKinney said the mari-
juana confiscated Thursday
was burned at the Cleveland
County landfill. The mari-
juana from the large Wells
Road field was turned over to
Cherokee County, S.C.
authorities for potential
evidence in criminal prosecu-
tion.
Officers used four-wheel
drive vehicles to enter the
field through a logging road.
McKinney said the Wells
Road field was the largest
ever spotted in North
Carolina.
Plants found in the small
field near Grover were cut
and removed to the Cleveland
County Law Enforcement
Center for later burning. he
said.
McKinney thanked all law
enforcement officers involv-
ed in the eradication project
for a ‘‘real coordinated ef-
fort.” He said another
eradication project will be
conducted in late August or
early September or about the
time marijuana plants would
mature and ready for their
growers to harvest them for
sale.
Fund Tops $300,000
Grady Howard, general
chairman of the current cam-
paign for funds to construct
an indoor swimming pool, to-
day announced that more
than $300,000 has been pledg-
ed or donated to the cam-
paign total at the present
time. Howard indicated that
the total includes gifts of
$150,000, $36,500, $25,000,
$16,500 and $15,000 committed
to this point, with some ex-
pected to rise in total a:nount.
Names of the donors will be
announced according to
wishes of those giving.
Howard said, at appropriate
times, including com-
Iemoratives that are nam-
ed.
“We have every reason to
believe,”’ Howard added,
‘that the campaign will be a
success. We believe we will,
- when all pledges and gifts are
in, meet out goal of $750,000."
At the time of this an-
nouncement, Tom Tate and
Frank Cagle, Co-chairmen of
the Special Gifts Division in
the campaign announced the
appointments of Team
Members in the division.
Those enlisted to work with
Tate are Bill Davis, Dr. and
Mrs. Roger Miller, Kelly
Bunch and Stella Putnam.
Those working with Cagle are
Corky Fulton, Jerry
Eskridge, Lynn Mauney and
David Neisler.
Jane King and June Lee an-
nounced the appointments of
Kathy James, Claudia
Grissom and Bob Maner as
Captains in the Community
Gifts Division that is Co-
chaired by King and Lee.
A meeting for both these
groups has been set for July
23rd, at 7:30 p.m. at the cam-
paign offices in the First
Union Bank building. The
meeting will be for purposes
of orientation and prospect
selection as appropriate.
‘‘We hope,” Howard said.
‘that all these people- as
well as those who may have
missed earlier meetings
scheduled for their
groups—will make every ef-
fort to attend.”
Taxi Owner Frank Price
Dies, Funeral Thursday
Funeral services for Frank
Ranson Price, 74, of 400 S.
Cansler St., who owned and
operated Price’s Taxi Com-
pany in Kings Mountain for 44
years, will be conducted at 3
p.m. from First Baptist
Church, interment following
in Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Price died Tuesday at
home.
He was a native of Catawba
County and had retired
several years ago. lle was a
veteran of World War II and
was the son of the late
William Wesley and Nancy
Elizabeth Starnes Price.
Surviving are his wife,
Mrs. Marie Phillips Price:
one son, Fred Price of High
Point; one daughter. Mrs.
Gail Metcalf of Kings Moun-
tain; two brothers. John
Price of Granite Falls and
J.C. Price of Lenoir: three
sisters, Mrs. Colise Patter-
son, Mrs. Elsie Dellinger and
FRANK PRICE
Mrs. Thelma Dellinger. all of
Kings Mountain: and two
grandchildren, Steve Eugene
Price and Timothy Brian
Price.
Harris Funct |! Fore
charge of arrangements.
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Photo by Gary Stewart
TG&Y BACK IN BUSINESS - Kings Mountain Mayor John Henry Moss, second from
right, cuts the ribbon to officially re-open TG&Y in the West Gate Plaza Thursday morn-
ing. Employees of the store look on. The store reported an excellent opening day of
business and is continuing its grand opening specials this week.
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