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PLANE CRASH-LANDS HERE - Kings Mountain assis-
tant police chief Bob Hayes, right, and members of the
Kings Mountain Fire Department inspect the engine of a.
small plane which crash-landed in a field between Highway
Plane Crash
A father and son delivering Christmas presents in their
small plane enroute from Kannapolis to Royston, Ga. crash- e
landed in a Kings Mountain field Thursday afternoon and
escaped with onty minor injuries and scratches. RY
City firemen said there was no fire despite the fact that
the pilot had taken on a full load of fuel in Salisbury before
taking off for the return trip to the Athens area.
Myron Lipe, 48-year-old-veteran pilot and Georgia
restaurant owner, told Kings Mountain police officers and
Assistant Fire Chief Frank Burns of the Volunteer Fire
Department, that his Cessna 172 started to lose power over
the Kings Mountain area at 4:50 p.m. Thursday. Lipe and
his son, Byron, 25, had been delivering gifts to relatives in
Cabarrus County where they had attended a Christmas Eve
- Wesleyans are
investigating o
Photo by Gary Stewart
74 and East Gold Street late Thursday afternoon. The two
passengers in the plane escaped with minor cuts and
bruises. The FAA has moved the plane to a local aircraft
repair shop to determine the cause of the crash.
Lands In KM
baptismal service for the senior Lipe’s grandchild.
lane crash landed and flipped over in a terraced
field adjacent to the Sadie Mill at the intersection of Gold
and Oriental "Streets niar the site where Hast "Gold
lanning to build a new church. The pilot told
ficers he could have landed without incident
had the field not been terraced. Several witnesses to the
ccrash said they heard ‘‘a sound like an engine cutting off’’
just before the plane came down.
Kings Mountain Police guarded the plane for several days
until the Federal Aviation Administration removed the
plane over the weekend to a local hanger to continue formal
investigation to determine the cause of the crash.
News Was Good
And Bad In ‘85
Newspaper headlines
recorded a large number of
news events, some good and
some bad, during the year
1985 just ending.
Looking back on 1985,
Kings Mountain area citizens
could see that in 1985 they
enerally had their share of
un, happiness and sadness.
The city shared with the
county the announcement
that one of the world’s largest
disc production facilities
would bring its operation to
Grover with new jobs in 1986
and with plans to employ 500
people in the near future.
City politics had its share of
the headlines in 1985. Kings
Mountain voters ousted two
veteran commissioners, 12
year veteran Jim Dickey and
four year veteran Curt Gaff-
ney in one of the city’s hottest
elections in recent memory,
bringing two new faces to Ci-
ty Hall in the persons of Com-
missioner Harold Phillips,
who served in the Glee A.
Bridges administration in the
1950’s, and newcomer Fred
E. Finger who defeated Rub
M. Alexander in the run off
by 37 votes. Ten people filed
for three seats up for grabs
on the board and the run-off
totals saw narrow margins of
victory for the winners with
12 vear veteran. Humes
Houston. winning over
challenger and newcomer
Leonard Smith by 36 votes.
The new board split on two
issues during its first session
at City Hall and Mayor John
Moss broke a tie on the elec-
tion of Mayor Pro Tem
Humes Houston. Board
policy since 1951 that the top
vote-getter in the first elec-
Tax Listing Will Be By Mail
Happy New Year! It's the
time to pay 1985 tax bills to |
avoid penalty and to list 1986
property taxes.
This year, there will be no
standing in long lines in late
January to list property. Tax
listing will be done by mail.
The county, continuing its
move toward a computerized
propert revaluation in 1988,
is mailing out this month
32,000 cards for property
owners to list their fur-
nishings, cars, trucks, mobile
homes, boats and other per-
sonal property. Your real
CITY [SCHL | FIRE | TYPE
CORRECT ITEMS, 'A” THROUGH “F" IF
NOT CORRECT. i
NAME & ADDRESS
TOWNSHIP :
BIRTH YEAR . ; ER
LIVE IN CITY OF a
FIRE DISTRICT
SOCIAL SEC. NO.
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TURN TO BACK SIDE OF CARD AND
FILL OUT ITEMS “G” THROUGH “Q"
ny
CLEVELAND COUNTY, N. C.
1986 PERSONAL PROPERTY LISTING
EE RC GS
ACCOUNT NUMBER
“LATE | NO. VEH, VEHICLE VALUE HOUSEHOLD VALUE
roperty—homes and
TX-17 VALUE
LESS
EXEMPTION
and—are already listed in
the permanent system
established by the county. No
values for real property are
going to change unless you
“FILL IN THIS SIDE ITEMS “G” THROUGH “Q"”
PHONE NUMBER
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RETURN TO:
No. 069931
IMPORTANT
YOU MUST LIST ALL
PERSONAL PROPERTY
OWNED :
NITY RIE:
TO AVOID LATE
LISTING PENALTY
OF 10%, RETURN
NO LATER THAN
JANUARY 31, 1986.
TAX SUPERVISOR
P.O. BOX 1210
SHELBY, N.C. 28150
RETURN DATE
LIST BELOW ALL MOTOR VEHICLES. {Ff MORE SPACE NEEDED, ATTACH SEPARATE SHEET.
receive a notice in the mail EMPLOYER Hl
‘SERIES
VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER
TITLED IN NAME OF
DO NOT'WRITE
IN SHADED AREA
from County Tax Supervisor SPOUSE'S NAME
DO YOU RENT [ } FURNISHED [ ]
Jim Hendrick. A Supplemen
tal listing form is also being UNFURNISHED [
aad : DO YOU OWN [ ]
mailed to those who previous- HOUSE [ ) Aen [ ] APARTMENT [']
ly have listed farm equip- MODULAR [ ] MOBILE HOME {
ment and a LIVE WITH PARENTS { | CONDOMINIUM [ ]
HOME OWNERS-FOR HOUSEHOLD VALUE
USE 5% OF MY HOUSE VALUE YES{ |
RENTERS-MY MONTHLY RENT ISS
LIST NEW HOUSES, NEW BUILDINGS,
OR NEW ADDITIONS SINCE 1-1-84
LIST HOUSES OR BUILDINGS THAT HAVE
BEEN DESTROYED OR MOVED TO A NEW
LOCATION SINGE 1-1-85
OWNERS OF FARM MACHINERY, FARM ANIMALS
OR VALUABLE OBJECTS, MUST LIST THESE ON
FORM TX-17. CONTACT THE TAX SUPERVISOR'S
OFFICE IF ONE IS NEEDED AND WAS NOT SENT.
Residents who have built or
torn down buildings or added
-= “= *-—-3 during the past
ked to list these
a separate sheet.
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must be returned
ipervisor’s office
0 avoid a 10 per-
; SOE 60
PROPERTY TAX RELIEF FOR PERSONS 65 ANO YR
OVER OR TOTALLY AND PERMANENTLY
DISABLED WITH LIMITED INCOME. *
IF YOU RECEIVED THIS EXCLUSION LAST YEAR
AND ARE STILL ELIGIBLE, YOU ARE NOT RE-
QUIRED TO REAPPLY FOR IT THIS YEAR. YOU
ARE STILL REQUIRED TO COMPLETE AND
RETURN THIS CARD. TOTAL INCOME
IF YOU HAVE NEVER RECEIVED THIS EXCLU-
ION BUT FEEL YOU ARE ELIGIBLE THIS YEAR,
YOU SHOULD CONTACT THE TAX SUPERVISOR'S
OFFICE AND REQUEST AN APPLICATION.
PHONE: 484-4846
ADDRESS: P.0. BOX 1210, SHELBY, N.C. 28150
MAKE
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CAMPER TRAILER SIZE X
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BOAT TRAILER SIZE
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returned in the SIGNATURE
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UNDER THE PENALTIES PRESCRIBED BY LAW, | HEREBY AFFIRM THAT INFORMATION GIVEN HEREIN IS CORRECT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF. $
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Sample Of County Tax Listing Form
which will apply Jan. 7, 1986. 6 without being charged a
Because the last day) for penalty for late payment.
itmarked no later paying without penalty (Jan.
ly, Jan. 6, 1986 to 5th) falls on a weekend, tax- have
) percent penalty payers may pay through Jan. request of citizens, but only a
In past years tax forms
n mailed only at the
DAY YEAR
small percentage chose to do
so. Tax supervisor Jim Hen-
drick said the mailing
system, which he recom-
mended and county commis-
TOTAL
VEHICLES
sioners approved, is used by
60 to 70 percent of the coun-
ties in North Carolina. ‘It’s
designed to save taxpayers
money”’, he said.
‘Education
tion be accorded the honor
voted by commissioners was
challenged by Commis-
sioners Norman King,
Phillips and Finger who said
the honor should go to the top
votegetter in the run-off. The
board also split 3-3 on cutting
their pay $100 a month, on a
motion by newcomer.
Phillips. The old board, at its
last meeting of old year 1985,
gave citizens a new year’s
present—an electronic voting
system so those attending
board meetings on second
and fourth Tuesdays will
have no problems hearing
how commissioners vote on
issues. The commissioners
method of oral voting had
been heavily criticized,
especially when confusion
resulted about how commis-
sioners voted on controver-
sial issues.
School district voters re-
‘elected Paul A. Hord to a four
year term on the Board of
in a hotly-
contested race in which 2,225
people went to the polls. An-
nie A. Corry, who received
885 votes to Hord’s 1,113 and
was second-runner in the
three-candidate field, com-
plained to the County Board
of Elections that some voters
were not given ballots for the
school board election and no
Blacks were working as elec-
tion officials for the county in
the East Kings Mountain
Precinct. She called the pro-
blem ‘‘one of common
courtesy.” Voters were
voting in both the city and
county elections on the same
day at the polling places.
The Board of Education
made news again in
December when Kyle Smith,
eight year veteran who is ser-
ving his second six year
term, threatened to resign
when he was not elected
chairman, a post which he
said he expected to receive
since board chairmen have
been rotated every two years
for the past 10 years. Bill
McDaniel was re-elected the
board chairman on 3-2 vote.
The SBI investigation into
alleged irregularities in the
operation of city owned
Mountain Rest Cemetery was
in the news much in 1985.
Cemetery Superintendent
Ken Jenkins, fired by the city
board of commissioners, was
cleared. District Attorney
Marty Shuford said in
November that he would not
rosecute Jenkins. Shuford
issued a public statement to
the media stating that ‘upon
a thorough review of the in-
itial and supplemental SBI in-
vestigations it has been
determined that there is no
substantial criminal violation
which would merit prosecu-
tion.” The SBI investigation
was conducted over a seven
month period and included an
audit of the city cemetery go-
ing back five years.
On Sept. 4, former
Lawndale resident Barbara
Buck Newman suffered a
minor leg injury in a car
wreck on King Street. She
assured the investigation
Kings Mountain policeman
Don Ivey that she didn’t need
medical attention, then walk-
ed away. She hasn't been
seen since. Mrs. Newman is
described as white, 5 feet 7 in-
ches tall, weighing 130
pounds, with shoulder length
rown hair and brown eyes.
She is said to appear 45
rather than 56 years of age.
‘After many contacts by ci-
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