Chief Gene Tignor and the Kings Mountain
Fire Department will be celebrating the 10th
anniversary of the city’s historical fire
museum on July 26-27. See feature story and
pictures on page 1-C.
CLONINGER
event begins Thursda
High School and the
umn on page 14-A.
Celebration Time
Winning Pro
~~ Kings Mountain’s Todd
Cloninger, a pitcher with the
Chicago Cubs’ Class A farm
club in Geneva, N.Y., turned
in his first professional vic-
tory, a three-hit shutout, last
week. Read about it on page
9-A...Also in sports, Kings
Mountain will host the
district Babe Ruth and Dixie
Youth baseball tournaments
this week. The Babe Ruth
y at Kings Mountain
i Dixie Youth tourney
begins Saturday at Deal Street Park.
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Blackie Retires
Blackie Oates, who operated Oates Shell
Service at the intersection of Highway 74 and
Cleveland Avenue for many years, has
retired. Read about him in Lib Stewart’s col-
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Christmas In July
North School teacher Connie Bell and her
family have been thinking cool thoughts dur-
ing these hot days. They've been trimming
White Pine and Virginia Pine Christmas trees
on their farm between Kings Mountain and
Grover. Read about them in Gary Stewart's
column on page 14-A. ~~
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Local Teens
Study Abroad
Julie Rush McGinnis,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James B. McGinnis, of
Kings Mountain, flew on
June 24 to Miami for an
orientation into a new
culture. She arrived in Rio
de Janiero, Brazil, on June
26 where she was met by
the Almira Ivo Gomes
JULIE McGINNIS
Manhaes family; the rest of
her new address is: Rua-
Ipiranga, 56/401, Campos,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
28.100.
Her new family consists
of her homemaker mother
and her businessman
father, her sister, 21 years
old (a student in her last
year of college, majoring in
English, and alread
teaching one Englis
course) and a brother, 14
years old, who attends
Catholic school.
Julie is living in a four-
bedroom town house with
her new family. It is famil
oriented and outings suc
as going to the beach are
planned. Julie feels that her
new brother is a lot like her,
especially in height.
Campos is a suburb of Rio
de Janiero about the same
size as Charlotte. It has 3
radio stations, 2
newspapers, and 4 TV sta-
tions. Temperatures range
between 60°-65° F. It is their
fall season.
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Drought Is Now Critical
The six-month drought which has lit-
tle hope of getting better has caused
serious water shortages and crop
damages in the Piedmont Carolinas.
Kings Mountain water customers
are fortunate as the 64-mile John H.
Moss Reservoir’s level has dropped
less than a foot and is not in any danger
of reaching a shortage stage.
But area towns, including Bessemer
City and Cherryville, are facing
critical water shortages and city of-
ficials there have initiated mandatory
conservation measures. Residents in
both towns face a $50 fine and up to 30
days in jail for violating the water con-
servation guidelines which include
non-watering of lawns and other
measures.
Larcenies
Vandalism
Reported
Larcenies and damage to
property kept Kings Moun-
tain police busy last week,
reported Marty Blanton,
secretary to Chief Jackie D.
Barrett.
Ralph Lowery of 502 Lynn
Street reported the larceny of
a bicycle valued at $30.
Ralph Chitwood of 133
McGinnis Street reported ‘
that someone broke into his =
home and did $25 damage to
screens on door and windows.
Frances Holly of 317 Wilson
Terrace reported that so-
meone did $25 damage to a
window and screen.
Robin Lovelace of Shelby
reported the theft of $100
while he was at the Pizza Hut
in Kings Mountain.
Jerry’s East King Mustang
reported that someone
pumped $2 worth of gas and
eft without paying.
William Walker of 108 East
Ridge Street reported that so-
meone siphoned about five
gallons of gas from his vehi-
cle.
Danny Wilson of 107-A
North Piedmont reported
damages to two cars while
they were parked at Marge’s
Restaurant. He reported that
someone broke a window,
damaged the paint and broke
a radio in a 1970 Ford.
Damage was $190. He also
reported that someone broke
the passenger window,
damaged a window frame
and door and stole a pair of
gloves from a 1984 Ford.
Damage was $330.
Charlene Hamrick of 202
Benfield Drive reported that
someone punched holes in the
side of her swimming pool.
Margaret Bowles of 304
Waco Road said someone
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A spokesman for the town of
Bessemer City said that its city-owned
lake on Lewis Dairy Road is about half
empty. Bessemer City residents can-
not water anything and the town’s only
car wash has closed down. Bessemer
City purchases some water from Kings
Mountain.
An employee at the water plant at
Kings Mountain’s Moss Reservoir said
Tuesday that the lake level has drop-
ped from 12’7”’ on May 30 to 11’9%”
yesterday but there is little or no
chance that the city would have to take
any conservation measures. The city
owns pumps at three different lake
levels and, in the event water would
become too low at the first level pump,
the second pump would take over.
Moss Lake has been pumping its
maximum eight million gallons of
water per day, up about two million
gallons per day over normal condi-
tions. The increase is due, the
spokesman said, to the hot and dry con-
ditions.
Many Kings Mountain residents
aren’t as fortunate as those inside the
city limits, though. About 125 families
in the Midpines Community south of
town were out of water last week. They
all share the same community well.
Many other wells used by multi-
families have been strained. A
spokesman for an area well-drilling
firm said drillers are going at least 10
feet further into the earth to hit water.
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Photo by Jeff Grigg
BEATING THE HEAT - About the only way to beat the 100-degree heat and high
humidity is to find some water and jump in it. These youngsters at the Deal Street swim-
ming pool in Kings Mountain don’t mind the weather at all.
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Joins KM Hospital Staff
PATRICK HAMRICK
love letters from all of us. It
will take five days for mail
.to reach her. Julie is a
senior in Kings Mountain
High School. She and her
family will be hosting the
AF'S German exchange stu-
dent from Hamlin, Ger-
many.
Patrick Spencer
Hamrick, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Larry D. Hamrick,
and a 1986 graduate of
Kings Mountain High
School, left June 7 for an
AFS summer adventure in
Australia. It is their winter
season and the temperature
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On July 1, Barbara Perry-Gargiulo of
Charlotte joined the staff of Kings Mountain
Hospital as coordinator of public relations
and marketing. ;
“We feel it’s important to make the public
more aware of the many fine services of-
fered here at Kings Mountain Hospital,”
said Mrs. Perry-Gargiulo. “The hospital is
furnished with some of the most atlvanced
medical equipment available and it‘has an
excellent, diversified medical staff. Part of
my effort in this position will be to help the
people of the greater area realize just how
many benefits the hospital offers them.”
A native of Hartford, Connecticut and a
long-time resident of Maryland, Mrs’
Perry-Gargiulo attended the University of
Missouri in Columbia, Missouri; Drew
University in Madison, New Jersey and
graduated from the University of the State
of New York. She moved to Rocky Mount,
North Carolina in 1979 and became sales
manager of Radio Station WRMT. In 1981
she joined Community Hospital of Rocky
Mount as Director of Public Relations and
Education. In 1984 she was engaged by
SunHealth, in Charlotte, as Director of
Communications for Management Ser-
vices.
Mrs. Perry-Gargiulo and her husband, Al,
will make their home in Kings Mountain.
Kings Mountain Hospital is a modern,
102-bed acute care facility. Mrs. Marilyn
Neisler is Presiden; of the Board of Trustees
and Huitt Reep is the administrator.
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