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VOL. 98 NUMBER 33
A proposal by developer
Kelly Bunch to convert the
old Pauline Mill into apart-
ments was tabled by the city
board of commissioners Mon-
day night on request by
Bunch.
Bunch wrote a letter to
Mayor John Moss and the
board, saying he had ‘“‘en-
countered unexpected com-
plications in our efforts to
finance the Pauline Mill ven-
ture but we intend to consum-
mate this matter but request
you table the subject until we
work out the details.”
Bunch was not present at
the meeting but at least two
dozen property owners in the
Pauline Mill section of the ci-
ty were present and ready to
K Mills
Is Sold
The assets of K Mills and
Underdown Textiles on Marie
Street in Kings
ve been acquired
manag
» nel and sales agents.
Ned L. Lilly is President of
Fr
and will be .in complete
» charge of the operation.
» The plant will continue to
be a supplier of woven
velvets, friezes, and other
specialty fabrics to the fur-
» niture, contract and
y automotive trades.
Washington
Leaving KM
Dr. John Washington has
announced that he will close
his Kings Mountain practice
on August 1 to go into
business with two other
OB/GYNs in Burlington.
His office, located on
Highway 74 West, will be
open for at least one month
after August 1 to accept col-
lections and transfer ac-
counts.
Dr. Washington has been in
Kings Mountain for two
years.
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any, are removed.
Citizens Oppose Rezoning
Bunch Request Tabled
Mountain
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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1985
object to the rezoning to allow
the development of apart-
ments.
“Thirty or 40 of us were on
hand at the meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Board
last week which already had
their minds made up and
recommended the rezoning,’
said Tommy Barnette, who
owns a business in the area.
“We will be at every meeting
and plan to oppose it
everytime the subject comes
up’, he said.
The rezoning was approved
over the property owners’ ob-
jection by the Planning and
Zoning Board and was on the
agenda in the form of a public
hearing to be held at Monday
night’s special meeting of the
board of commissioners. In
his motion to table the mat-
ter, Comm. Norman King
stipulated that Bunch be
notified he is required to take
his proposal to the planning
and zoning board again for
reconsideration and readver-
tisement of the public hear-
ing by the city board.
After the meeting several
residents of the Pauline Mill
area said they did not object
to Bunch’s original request to
refurbish the mill and con-
vert to condos but oppose the
apartment complex because
of narrow streets and conges-
tion that apartment dwellings
would create.
In a meeting which lasted
10 minutes, board members
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
approved a resolution endors-
ing the week of Aug. 12-17 as
Hosiery Week, saluting the
Catawba Hosiery Association
for its continuing efforts to
promote the general welfare
of the industry, and con-
tracted with Southern Cross
of Norcross, Ga. at rate of
$219 per eight hour day for
15-20 days to conduct the an-
nual leakage survey. Other
bidder was Heath Con-
sultants, Nashville, Tenn.,
who quoted a price of $275 per
eight hour day.
Mayor Pro Tem Irvin M.
Allen, Jr. presided over the
short session in the absence
of the vacationing Mayor
John Henry Moss.
NEWCOMERS TO GROVER — Larry Liang, his wife, Mary, their daughter, Rhea, and
their daughter, Eva, are pictured in their Grover home. Liang has returned after a month’s
visit to his former home in Shanghai, China. The Liangs became permanent residents of the
United States in January.
Chinese Like Grover
Thomas Wolfe said ‘You Can’t go home
again” but Chinese-born Larry Liang, now of
Grover, says you-can and he went home this
summer after being in this country three
years.
It was a nostalgic experience for Liang,
who became a permanent resident of the
U.S., along with wife Mary, and two
daughters, Rhea and Eva, in January.
Liang, who worked for a chemical and light
industry company in Shanghai, is a chemical
engineer at Grover’s Minette Mills and the
family are enjoying life in Grover and the
Kings Mountain area. Rhea Liang is a stu-
dent at Cleveland Technical College and Eva
“China is more open now than it once was’’,
said Liang, who returned to Shanghai to take
care of some personal matters and enjoyed
returning to The Community Church where
he and his family belonged when he was in
Liang is a student at Western Carolina
University.
SURGERY LIKE PRESIDENT REAGAN’S NOT UNUSUAL—Freda Sellers, left, and
instruments, above, for a colonoscopy at Kings Mountain
a fiber optic instrument is inserted in the colon and polyps, if
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Shanghai. Liang is Methodist. He said that
the government reopened the churches in
1980 and his Priest gave him the news that 16
churches, including a Catholic church, had
been opened in that area since 1980. He said
that a cable TV system donated by some
former members from Hong Kong enabled
the overflowing congregation outside the
church to hear the services. ‘‘We have had so
many worshipers that we have scheduled two
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Surgery
Not That
Unusual
The type of surgery in
which a cancerous polyp was
discovered and removed
from President Reagan is not
unusual in Kings Mountain.
Dr. Sam Robinson, Kings
Mountain surgeon, performs
the surgery at Kings Moun-
tain Hospital, and Huitt
Reep, Administrator of Kings
Mountain Hospital says that
the local hospital has been do-
ing sigmoidoscopies for colon
and rectum cancer for
several years.
Other procedures using dif-
ferent scopes, are bing used
at the hospital to detect other
types of cancer such as ‘“Col-
onoscope, can detect cancer
higher in the colon,
Gastroscope,
cancer of the throat
esophagus, and stomach; and
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