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VOL. 99 NUMBER 32 5
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NOR >
Says New Procedure ‘Singles Out’ Cemetery Department 33
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~ New Cemetery Superintendent
Resigns Over Fee Collection
By Lib Stewart
News Editor
A memorandum issued Monday by the
mayor and board of commissioners on
handling of funds at city-owned Mountain
Rest Cemetery is drawing criticism from
the new cemetery superintendent who is
quitting.
Friday will be Johnnie Allison’s last day
with the city. He said he gave his resigna-
tion to Mayor John Henry Moss July 25th to
© accept a job as a supervisor in a local in-
- dustrial plant.
“I really decided to quit before I was
Grover Votes To Support
Proposed Metro Water Idea
By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
Grover Town Council Mon-
fired”, he said, noting that he asked com-
missioners for the superintendent’s job for
a year before he was hired by the six com- -
missioners in ‘a trade off”’ two and a half
months ago when commissioners gave
several promotions and rearranged the
Public Works Department with a new table
of organization. Allison was promoted from
meter reader in the Utilities Department.
Allison is concerned about the new pro-
cedure for handling city funds at the
cemetery because it actually singles out his
department, he says.
‘A lady came in Monday morning to pur-
chase a lot. She came in a taxi cab from Se-
cond Street. I helped her with her choice of
lots and she wanted to pay me. Under the
new policy, in effect Monday, I had to send
her to City Hall to pay for the grave lots. She
left here walking to City Hall.” Judy Har-
mon, (Acting City Clerk-Treasurer), under
the new rules, sent a receipt back to me and
I entered the transaction in my books.”
“It’s double work and double trouble for
the city clerk and for whoever is in this
job”, says Allison.
JOHNNIE ALLISON
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UNILITY DISTR
its water from the City of
Kings Mountain. Mayor Bill
McCarter told the Grover
include about 1,500 acres and
would be larger than the
John H. Moss Reservoir
day night adopted a resolu- board that if the Metro Water which presently supplies
tion of intent to participate in System becomes reality that water to Kings Mountain and
creation of a
Metropolitan Water System
for rural areas surrounding
Kings Mountain.
The idea of Kings Moun-
tain Mayor John Henry
Moss, which was announced
last week, is gaining wide
Grover would purchase
water from that system.
“I think the idea is a good
one,” McCarter told the
board members, who agreed
unanimously. ‘‘The plan
calls for updating the present
Kings Mountain water treat-
some neighboring areas.
“We might need something
like that someday,” said
Commissioner Bill Camp.
“The water level is going
down so we’d better be plann-
ing ahead.”
“As time goes on, these
yi bport in the area. Many ment plan to be able to pump wells here aren’t going to
other area towns have also 16 million gallons per day, to supply people,” added Com-
voiced support of the project begin laying some new water missioner Ronald Queen.
which would supply water for lines, and to impound Muddy As recently as two weeks
{ most rural areas of Fork Creek.”
ago, emergency measures
£24 4 | Cleveland County.
n
The proposed new lake,
Grover purchases some of (McCarter pointed out, wouid
had to be taken by Kings
Mountain, Grover and
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, Les Roark Says Debate
Announcement Premature
Tenth District Congressional candidate Les Roark of
Shelby says he is willing to debate his Republican oppo-
nent Cass Ballenger of Hickory but that a premature an-
nouncement in a Hickory newspaper surprised him and
was done without his knowledge.
In a news conference in
Hickory Monday morning,
Roark said that he ‘‘per-
sonally considers it
reprehensible and totally in-
excusable’ of Ballenger and
Catawba County Chamber of
Commerce Executive Vice
President Charles P. Ewart,
Jr. to allow the announce-
ment to be released in the
Hickory newspaper July 30th
without first discussing it
with him or some member of
his staff.
The Hickory Daily Record
reported the Catawba County
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agr to co-sponsor the ir
hots with the Gaston Coun- LES ROARK
ty and Shelby Chambers and quoted Charles P. Ewart, Jr.
as saying the candidates had approved the debate and the
format.
Roark charged the details of the debate were quietly
worked out and agreed upon by Ballenger and Ewart at a
private luncheon on Thursday, July 24th.
Although the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed
Ballenger, Roark said he would be willing to have the local
chambers sponsor a debate provided it is set up in a fair
way.
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KM Policeman Gary Sale
Found Guilty Of Larceny
Kings Mountain police officer Gary E. Sale, 39, suspend-
ed with pay since June 10th pending trial, was found guilty
Tuesday in Cleveland County District Court of four counts
of misdemeanor larceny of gasoline.
Notice of appeal to Superior Court was entered by Sale’s
attorney, Steve Dolley, of Gastonia. oh
Judge Ralph Phillips sentenced Sale to 13 months in jail
on each count to run consecutively, suspended for two
years under unsupervised probation, that he pay $100 fine
on each of the four counts, and court costs. :
Assistant Attorney General Christopher Brewer, special
grosecutor for the state, called as witnesses, Jerry Oliver,
r., owner and operator of Jerry's East King Mustang,
who brought the charges; his son, Jerry Oliver, Jr., Scott
Bush and Dennis Vanadore, all employees of the service
station who testified they were present on the four occa-
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Mineite Mills of Grover to
supply adequate water to
Minette, which has its own
water reservoir but was on
the verge of a temporary
shutdown because of the
drought. Minette is now pur-
chasing up to 250,000 gallons
of KM water per day through
an agreement with the Kings
Mountain and Grover town
councils.
In other action Monday
night, the board:
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400 Sign
Beer, Wine
Petitions
More than 400 signatures
were collected last week in
the first week that a newly
formed Kings Mountain
Committee for Legal Control
have been circulating ABC
petitions in the city.
It has been three years and
eight days since Kings Moun-
tain last voted down a
referendum on the sale of
alcoholic beverages and by a
small margin.
Claude Suber, who with
Kemp Mauney is co-
chairmen of ‘wet’ forces,
feels that Kings Mountain
voters will support the peti-
tion at the polls, in early
February or March 1987, the
earliest that elections board
chairman Becky Cook feels
that the election can be held.
However, Rev. Eugene
Land, pastor of Second Bap-
tist Church and President of
the Positive Action League
which fought the ABC elec-
tion in previous years, says
that an election every three
years is a waste of taxpayers
money. ‘“We’re not against
people having free expres-
sion at the polls but will set
an organizational meeting in
the next few weeks depen-
ding upon the outcome of
petitions.”
If the ABC periiion is suc-
cessful, the elections board
could call for an election no
sooner than 60 days and no
longer than 120 days after the
signatures are verified, says
TESS
Mrs. Cook.
Map Of Proposed Metro Water District...
A meeting to review the
proposed schedule for
development of Phase I of
the proposed $25.8 million
Metropolitan Utility District
has been scheduled by Mayor
John Henry Moss for early
next week with the mayors of
Grover, Bessemer City,
Cherryville, Waco and Pat-
terson Springs.
On last Wednesday Mayor
Moss announced plans for
the construction of a 1,500
acre sister lake to be located
east of the existing John H.
Moss reservoir to supply
‘water to new customers in a
90 square mile utility area
extending from Shelby to
. Kings Mountain and from the
South Carolina line to Moss
Lake with a potential of serv-
ing more than 11,000 utility
Water Meeting Slated
customers, including Kings
Mountain, with water and
sussequently sewer over the
four years, with Kings Moun-
tain to operate the project.
Moss took preliminary
steps this week to fund Phase
I by signing a Feapplication
for $6 million bond program
with Charles W. Teseneer,
Farmers Home ad-
ministrator, in Hickory.
Phase I calls for the in-
stallation of two water
storage tanks with three and
five million gallon capacity,
and 200,000 linear feet of
water lines ranging in size
from 2-24 inches in diameter
in these seven areas: Oak
Grove to the Community Ser-
vices Center; Light Oak to
Route 226/180 intersection;
Woodland Park, Hillsdale
and Robert E. Lee areas;
services off existing 24 inch
line; El Bethel community;
White Plains community and
Midpines community.
The new water system
distribution would serve new
customers in Cleveland and
Gaston County cities of Cher-
ryville, Bessemer City,
Grover, Earl and Patterson
Springs as well as present
customers in the Kings
Mountain area. The city is
already supplying emergen-
cy water to Grover and water
to Bessemer City and Quail
Run Sub-Division and agreed
to supply ‘emergency water
to Cherryville but has not yet
determined the mechanics of
delivering the water to a
town hard hit by the summer
drought. Some rain in this
area brought relief to
citizens this week.
Commercial Shearing Manager
To Head 1986-87 United Way
Theodore P. Kostek, plant manager of Commercial
Shearing, Inc., has been elected by the Board of Directors
of Kings Mountain United Way to serve as president for
1986-87.
Kostek will replace John Young, who has been promoted
by First Union National Bank and is being transferred to
Cabarrus County.
Kostek and his wife, Rose Mary, and two sons, Teddy
and Matthew, moved to Kings Mountain in November 1985
from the Commercial Shearing Company headquarters in
Youngstown, Ohio. Third son, John Kostek, was born in
Kings Mountain.
Kostek is a native of Erie, Pa. but lived the last 15 years
in Youngstown, Ohio.
Plans for the 1987 fund campaign for United Way will be
announced soon by Chairman Lavon Strickland.