A total of 1,866 residents of No. 3 and No. 4
Townships have signed preliminary survey
questionnaires stating they are interested
in buying water and sewer from Kings
Mountain in a Metro Utility District propos-
ed by Mayor John Henry Moss.
The figures represent overwhelming
response 97.8 percent of the residents of the
proposed district-which would include
outlying areas of Kings Mountain, Patter-
son Springs, Earl and Grover in Cleveland
County.
Volunteer firemen are also circulating
the survey forms in neighboring Gaston
County towns of Bessemer City and Cher-
ryville, where interest in the water project
is also high. Those survey sheets are to be
returned by Sept. 30 to Mayor Moss.
Mayor Moss at a press conference
Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. announced
the survey results. Only 42 people surveyed
said they would not want to buy utilities
from Kings Mountain.
Mayor Says 97.8 Percent Want Water
1,866 Respond To Water Survey
“I am delighted at the initial first returns
of these surveys, which only underscores
the need for water in an area hit hard by the
drought’, Moss said. ‘‘Residents of this pro-
posed district have come to Kings Mountain
or a solution to their water problems and
during Phase I the district proposal would
be to buy water and sewer from Kings
Mountain with Phase II the expansion of the
treatment facilities and Phase III, the crea-
tion of a sister lake to Moss Lake, a project
estimated to cost $25.8 million and cover a
four year period,”’ he said. The Mayor said
the results of the survey will be followed by
a feasibility study on the project. Mean-
time, the information from the survey
sheets have been tabulated and placed in a
computer with exactly the detailed requests
as to location and services requested.
Meantime, some opposition to the propos-
ed project surfaced at the recent city board
of commissioners meeting. Several
citizens, including some commissioners,
asked for specifics and answers to questions
about financing, which the Mayor said he is
unable to give “at this early stage of plann-
ing”’. The Mayor said he would honor the
citizen's request for a public meeting as
soon as he can get the answers.
Both L.E. (Josh) Hinnant and Joyce
Cashion, county commissioners from Kings
Mountain, said they had received several
telephone calls from concerned residents in
the area which has been targeted for a pro-
sed sister lake to Moss Lake. ‘‘There has
een some confusion-word has gotten out
commissioners are going to levy a tax to
construct the lake’’, said Hinnant.
Mayor Moss said at the recent city board
meeting there will be no increase in taxes.
County Manager Joe Hendrick has said
Kings Mountain’s water study is indepen-
dent of the county and municipalities are
within their rights to study issues. Hendrick
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Symphony
North Carolina Symphony is
slated for Sept. 30th at 1 p.m.
in B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
The program will be under
the direction of Gerhardt
Zimmerman, Music Director
and Conductor; James Ogle,
Associate Conductor;
Jackson Parkhurst,
Associate Conductor; and
Benjamin Swalin, Conductor
+ Emeritus.
The Education Concert
Program will include
Beethoven's ‘Symphony No.
7 In A Major, Op. 92”;
Ravel’s ‘“‘Daphnis and Chloe
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County Manager Joe Hen-
drick has called a meeting of
town officials with water
systems to attend a meeting
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Room
104-D in the County Law En-
forcement Center to discuss
and update Cleveland Coun-
ty’s future water needs.
Hendrick has asked a
representative from the
State’s Division of Water
Resources of the Department
Kings Mountain, Shelby,
Boiling Springs, Grover and
Darrell Austin, general
publishers of the Belmont
Banner, the Mount Holly
News, the Kings Mountain
Record (Stanley, Bessemer
City, Dallas) announces that
Belmont’s Sam Davis has
joined the company as adver-
relations.
sibilities for Southern Bell
before retiring, will work in
the Belmont, Mount Holly
Davis, who worked for 33 |
years in public relations and
othér management respon- |
PRACTICE FOR SYMPHONY - Marie Ballard, left, fourth grade teacher at East School,
leads her students in playing the flute in preparation for the N.C. Symphony’s children concert
on September 30 at 1 p.m. at Barnes Auditorium.
County Water
location of water lines and
statistics on water capacities
and treatment facilities.
Hendrick said the informa-
tion will be compared by
state officials with a previous
study completed years ago of
potential water sources of
Cleveland County-Buffalo
Creek, an impoundment on
the First Broad River and in
Upper Cleveland County and
the Broad River.
study.”
“Regardless of what an-
tising director and in public .
SAM DAVIS
Meeting Tonight
quoted in The Shelby Star on
Tuesday.
From the information ob-
tained at tonight's meeting
the state will be asked by the
county commissioners and
CAGO, Cleveland Association
of Government Officials, to
look at the conty’s overall
water supply and future
needs.
Hendrick said the public is
invited to attend the meeting
tend but are not conducting
tonight’s meeting.
Belmont’s Sam Davis Joins
Staff Of Herald Publishing
i working with our advertisers
Stanley communities.’’
Davis is the son of the late
S. Moseley Davis and Grace
y have three children,
Margaret Lynch Smith, Anne
Davis Walker and Sam III,
all college graduates, and
two granddaughters, Kristin
and Julia.
In high school, Davis was
the first person to be named
resident of all of his four
igh school classes.
He attended Davidson Col-
District was formed and
Kings Mountain has expand-
ed its services into the
Grover-Bessemer City-Quail
Run areas and has just com-
pleted a preliminary survey
of No. 3 and No. 4 Township
water needs, while staking
out a proposal for a
Metropolitan Water District
to take in a 90 plus acre area
and an ambitious four year
proposal for a $25.8 million
water to outlying areas.
In Serving
With 13 EMT’s and four
ambulance attendants now
on its roster of qualified
volunteers, Kings Mountain
again in Kings Mountain as
“primary responder’ during
a 24 hour period Saturdays
tors, was presented to Pete
Stamey, Chairman of the
Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners, last Friday
afternoon.
The request was not on the
agenda for Monday
morning’s meeting of the
County Board of Commis-
sioners, but Captain Richard
Byers said he has been
assured that the request
said today there will ‘‘ab-
solutely be no increase in
taxes.”
The Mayor said he has been
deluged with rumors cir-
culating in the. past several
weeks about the project and
that he wants to set the
Former Resident
Moss Says New Lake Would
Is Coming Not Increase Taxes In City
What will the proposed record straight that the pro-
To KMHS $25.8 million Metropolitan ject is designed to be “a self
; Utility District cost the sustaining project, paid for
citizens of Kings Mountain? and operated by the city out
A Children’s Concert by the Mayor John Henry Moss Of revenues from the sale of
water and sewer services.”
The Mayor announced to-
day that with overwhelming
response from citizens
surveyed, that the city could
begin soon a feasibility study
of the proposed project.
Jenny Oates
Dies Monday In Myrtle Beach
Funeral services for Mrs. ff
Rufus (Jenny) Oates, who
died Monday at Grand Strand
General Hospital in Myrtle
Beach, S.C., were conducted
Wednesday afternoon from
First Baptist Church of Myr-
tle Beach, S.C.
Mrs. Oates had been in ill
health for several years.
Mrs. Oates had owned and |
operated Sea Cove Motel in |
Myrtle Beach, S.C. for some
years. For some years she =
was active on a local bowling §
team.
She is survived by her hus-
band, Rufus (Blackie) Oates
of Kings Mountain; their
daughter, Evelyn Califf of
Myrtle Beach; their son, Tim
Oates, of San Francisco,
Calif.; her sister, Margaret
Williams, of Kannapolis; her
brother, Carlston Rhodes of
MRS. RUFUS OATES
Dr. Carl Compton and Dr.
Jeff Kersey officiated at the
rites and interment was in
: : i isa 1 iste: ; - Oceanwood Memorial
of Natural Resources and Hendrick said ‘a lot of in the Commissioners Room. Metro Utility District that en- Lowell; and two grand !
Community Development to things have happend with Hendrick said that commis- visions creation of a sister children. Cemetery in Myrtle Beach.
meet with officials from water since the original sioners are also invited to at- lake to Moss Lake to serve
Services Held Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs.
Josephine Beam McAbee, 78,
of 804 Second St., who died
Thursday in the Kings Moun-
tain Hospital, were con-
ducted Sunday at 3 p.m. from
Second Baptist Church of
: i i which she was a member.
manager of Herald and the people in the Bel- Rescue Squad wants to begin A Toh
Publishing Company, mont, Mount Holly and Teseug-ambulance Service ficiated at ie rites and inter-
ment was in Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
Mrs. McAbee was a retired
Herald, the Cherryville L. Davis of Mount Olive. Heis and Sundays. tenth a Tale
i-Ci ied to the former Agnes A petition, signed by all exile emp.oyee, 1ghte
Eagle, 2nd ihe Tri ori of Tres iy officers and direc- the late Joe and Lydia Tiddy
Beam and widow of James
Russell McAbee. She was a
native of Cleveland County,
born Sept. 27, 1907.
Surviving are four sons,
Tommy McAbee of Gastonia,
Don McAbee, Kenny McAbee
and ‘Danny McAbee, all of
Kings Mountain; four
daughters, Mrs. Sue Holmes,
Mrs. Brenda Foster, Mrs.
e
Upper Cleveland County. The nouncements have been Since the original state Rescuers
Town officials have been ask- made, we have to look at the study some years ago, the F or J ose hine McAbee
ed to bring maps showing the entire county’”’, Hendrick was Upper Cleveland Water Interested P
JOSEPHINE McABEE
el Pearson and Mrs. and Mrs. Oveda Gladden,
and Stanley areas. Wanda Wilson, all of Kings both of Kings Mountain and
Mountain; one brother, Bill Mrs. Grace Homesley of
Goins of Raleigh; four Cherryville; 10 grand-
sisters, Mrs. Louise Collins of children and one great-
Gastonia, Mrs. Eva Roper grandchild.
would be on the agenda for
the next meeting, probably in
October.
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“We feel that with the 8reas, and with his expertise
lege and graduated from
Bowling Green Business
University and American
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in dealing with the public, he
many Yeats Sublic §rVer as will be a big asset to our com-
with Southern Bell and in pany,” Austin said. x
other management-related ‘‘We look forward to his