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VOL. 99 NUMBER 25
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
First
Union
Expands
First Union National Bank
is doubling its present park-
ing facilities on N. Bat-
tleground Avenue and com-
pletion of a $175,000 expan-
sion program is expected to
be completed by Labor Day.
City Executive John Young
announced the bank’s plans
for expansion Tuesday.
Young said that directors
of the bank approved the ex-
pansion to ‘improve the traf-
ic flow and better accom-
modate our customers who
have sometimes found lines
long and heavy traffic con-
gestion.”
Young said the gxponsion
will provide four drive-in
lanes, one direct and three
preumatics, with customers
aving access from both the
new entrance being created
on the North side of Bat-
tleground and from the old
entrance on S. Battleground.
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Fortenberry said
MRS. C.S. PLONK
Item-by-item Inspection of
the estimated city budget for
1986-87 got underway Monday
night as the city board of
commissioners held a two-
and-one-half budget session,
first of two planned, as they
became acquainted with the
many items involved in
suspending (and collecting)
$14 million dollars. ;
The city board is expected
to hold the second budget ses-
sion Monday night at 7:30
p.m. in Council Chambers
and formally adopt the
1986-87 budget after a public
hearing Tuesday night, June
24th, at 7:30 p.m. in Council
Chambers.
Mayor John Moss, presen-
ting in detail the city’s pro-
jected budget of $14 million to
the board of commissioners
Monday night, said that the
best piece of the city budget
is found in capital outlay
‘items which total $480,485, up
23 percent from last year.
“It is in capital outlay that
a city makes progress’, said
the Mayor, who noted that
capital outlay includes long
life equipment that enables
the city to perform services
at less cost and more quickly
for permanent improvements
like streets, sidewalks, and
‘| water and sewer lines.
Plonk,
celebrated her 100th birth-
day, Monday, June 23.
2 Mis Ellen
Ellen Patterson
99, would have
Mrs.
The well-known Kings
Mountain native died
Wednesday afternoon, June
11th, after being in declining
health for sometime. She had
just returned to her home on
Route 3 after being
bospiiatised for several days.
The Plonk family, in-
cluding eight children, 39
grandchildren and 66 great-
A few questions by the
board, Mayor John Henry
Moss explained page-by-page
the 55 page-thick budget and
then the rd went into ex-
ecutive discussions to discuss
personnel changes in the
“table of organization and
various positions’’, Mayor
Moss said a committee will
review the recommendations
and present them to the full
board for action.
In presenting the budget
review, the Mayor pointed
out that increases are dic-
tated by annual pay raises for
all city employees, which
they will receive July 1, in-
creased cost of insurance
‘Mayor Moss Praises
Capital Outlay Budget
Street improvements have
high priority in the new
budget with $200,000
estimated for street paving
and resurfacing, curb and
gutter and sidewalks and
$43,000 earmarked for a
street sweeper on lease pur-
chase agreement, he said. He
also said that the city is tak-
ing steps to develope its own
waste sludge disposal system
with $80,000 earmarked for
aerators and mixers and a
sludge disposal and drying
bed. He said that the Police
Department, which has re-
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grandchildren, had planned a
quiet birthday celebration for
her on June 23 to mark her
century of life.
Except one son, the late
Fred W. Plonk, and one
daughter, the late Willie
Plonk Patterson, all of Mrs.
Plonk’s 116 direct descen-
dants are still living. Her hus-
band, the late Clarence Sloan
Plonk, Sr., prominent farmer
and livestock dealer died in
September 1966 after more
than 61 years of marriage to
Board Inspects Budget
coverage for 160 city
employees which amounts to
a Whopping $466,976, and in-
creased costs of energy torun
the city.
Mayor Moss told the board
that he 2Dreciales, and he
said he spoke on behalf of city
employees, the board's ap-
proval of excellent fringe
enefits to all city employees
over the past 22 years. In ad-
dition to the three percent
cost-of-living raise, a three
percent merit increase for
qualified
employees is slated to begin
after Oct. 1, 1986. Additional-
ly, all city employees receive
seven paid holidays, paid sick -
leave, vacations, paid
hospitalization insurance
plus prescription drugs for
every member of his or her
immediate family at cost to
the employee of $2 per
prescripiion and retirement
enefits. Insurance is carried
on a city employee for life
after he or she works for the
city 20 years.
No member of the six
member board of commis-
sioners commented on raises
in any department for per-
sonnel, including Dxolecied
raises of the city administra-
tion, which includes the six
commissioners and mayor.
Commissioner Harold
Phillips called attention to
the fact that salaries are up
$38,000 in the Police Depart-
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the former Ellen Patterson
and after living all his life in
Kings Mountain. Mrs. Plonk
and her late husband reared
10 children on the Plonk
homeplace on St. Luke's
Church Road. Mr. Plonk, son
of the late Mr. and Mrs.
William L. Plonk, was one of
10 children and Mrs. Plonk,
daughter of the late Ira Har-
din and Angelina Whitesides
Patterson, was one of 12
children.
Before her marriage, Mrs.
Plonk taught school at Pat-
terson Grove Elementary
School.
Born June 23, 1886, she was
a graduate of Kings Mountain
High School. For more than
30 years she and her family
were members of St. Luke’s
Lutheran Church on St.
Luke’s Church Road five
miles from Kings Mountain.
During those years she
taught Sunday School and
played the organ for church
service. After St. Luke’s
Killed
In Shooting
At Dance Club
John Charles Anderson, 27,
of 213 E. Parker St., was shot Tuesday.
and killed early Sunday mor-
poring lot of Fortenberry, the Anderson
Country Roun up Dance Club brothers were standing on the
hurch Road east side of the dance club
According to Cleveland When an ar
County Sheriff’s Department, 1
Anderson’s brother, Ronnie Fortenberry said the weapon
Anderson, 30, of Grover, was used
shot in the right arm at the to be a handgun.
Lt. Bob Fortenberry, a apparently climbed into the
detective with the Sheriff’s back of a Datsun pickup
Department, said the State truck, which his brother
Bureau of Investigation is drove to Kings Mountain
assisting in investigation into Hospital.
the shootings but no arrests Johnny Anderson died at
made.
{ eye
witnesses were being ques- in good condition at Kings
tioned and autopsy on Ander- Mountain Hospital.
lonk Dies At Age 909
son’s body was conducted
According to Lt.
parking lot between 2:40 and
2:50 a.m. Sunday morning
ent erupted
and the brothers were shot.
in the shooting appears
The younger Anderson,
bleeding from the chest, then
3:26 a.m. Sunday.
Ronnie Anderson is listed
Church was discontinued, 35
years ago, she transferred
er membership to St. Mat-
thew’s Church, where she
was active for many years as
a Sunday School teacher and
church worker. She was
great-great granddaughter of
Arthur Patterson, Sr. who
fought in the Revolutionary
War Battle of Kings Moun-
tain. She was married April
20, 1905 to Clarence Sloan
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COMMENDATION - Legionnaire Bob Davies of Post 155, left, codes officer for the City.
of Kings Mountain, presents framed commendations from the City of Kings Mountain to
Ruth Gamble, center, newly installed state chaplain of the American Legion Auxiliary,
and Arlene Barrett, right, newly installed state president, at the state convention in
Raleigh during the weekend. Mrs. Barrett and Mrs. Gamble also received long-
stemmed roses from Post 155. ‘
KM Women Are Installed
Two Kings Mountain
women - Arlene Barrett and
Ruth Gamble - were installed
as new state officers of the
American Legion Auxiliary
at the 66th annual convention
during the weekend in
Raleigh.
Mrs. Barrett, wife of Kings
Mountain Police Chief J.D.
Barrett, was installed as the
new president and Mrs. Gam-
ble, widow of Leonard Gam-
ble, was installed as the new
chaplain.
They were presented com-
mendation plaques from the
City of Kings Mountain by
Bob Davies, city codes of-
ficer, who was also installed
as District 23 Commander
during the American Legion
convention, which was also
being held at the North
Raleigh Hilton. Mr. Davies,
‘Post Commander Whitey
Hogue and Post Adjutant
Larry Deaver presented Mrs.
Barrett and Mrs. Gamble
with a dozen long-stemmed
American Beauty roses from
Post 155. Elizabeth Stewart,
past state president from
Kings Mountain, installed the
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