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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1986
KINGS MOUNTAIN, = =
NORTH CAROLINA
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aminers.
MAUNEY SWORN — Dr. Jeff Mauney,-of Kings Mountain, above, takes the oath from
Kings Mountain Mayor John Moss as a new member of the State Board of Podiatry Ex-
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was charged with safe Carpet Lane, operating a 1966
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56 feet into a 1966 Chevrolet parked 1985 Ford owned by
operated by Steven Chad :
Bowen, Route 1, Grover, and
the Bowen vehicle into a
‘school bus operated by Linda
Sue Crawford, 607 Groves St.
None of the 53 passengers in
the school bus were hurt. The
1974 Thomas bus was damag-
ed $100, the Bowen 1966
Chevrolet $500 and the
Fowler 1983 Chevrolet $1,000.
Ten minutes later in the
parking lot of Central School,
Robert Ray Scism, Route 6,
operating a 1984 truck belong-
ing to KM City Schools,
struck a 1974 Dodge truck
operated by Mary Jimison,
201 Thornburg Dr., doing $150
damage to the Jimison vehi-
cle and no damage to the apartment.
school truck. Casey Wiggins, 505 Ellen-
A third accident occurred Wood Drive, reported that a
on Thursday in the parking driver backed over his bicy-
lot of Anvil Knit, where police cle, doing $100 damage.
Several attempted break-
ins were reported to Kings
Mountain Police during the
weekend.
Bill Wiggins, 505 Ellenwood
Dr., told police that someone
attempted to gain entry into
his house by breaking in the
back door.
Elizabeth Chambers, Apt.
35 Landmark, told police her
back door was kicked open
but no entry made to her
ms, dama
School Kids Unhurt
Wreck
Donald Ray Fowler, Route said that Jimmy Adams, 508 (Linda Bennett, Phifer Road,
in the parking lot of KM
Family Practice on W. Moun-
tain St. The Bennett car was
$700, police said.
of Route 1,
was damaged $2,000. Pron
Police Busy
Answering Calls
A City of Kings Mountain
sidewalk was damaged when
a tree fell on Gaston and
Ridge while residents were
cutting trees on their proper-
ty.
In a second incident involv-
ing city property, Pump Sta-
tion operators reported that
vandals knocked out an elec-
tric meter on Second Street,
turning off power to the pump
station and doing $200
damage to the meter.
James Adams, 312 E.
Ridge St., reported that his
1970 Chevrolet was stolen
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Into KM Man’s
The badly decomposed
body of Stevan Newall Rob-
bins, 44, of 904 Henry Street,
was found Friday morning in
the trunk of his 1979 Buick on
a dirt road in a wooded
residential area of Rock-
ingham.
Rockingham Police Chief
E.R. Martin said that Rob-
bins was killed about Sept. 11
and his body stuffed in the
trunk. | :
Chief Martin said that no
arrests in the homicide had
been made today but that
Rockingham Police and the
SBI are continuing their in-
vestigation.
A Medical Examiner from
the N.C. Medical Examiner’s
Office in Chapel Hill, after an
autopsy on the body and us-
ing dental records, positively
identified the victim, said
Chief Martin.
Robbins had been an
employee of Doran Textiles
Fox Yarn Plant in Rock-
ingham for six months.
His wife Linda Robbins is
employed .as receptionist at
The Kings Mountain Herald.
Fair
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Gates to the 1986 eveland
County Fair open Friday and
the Fair runs through Satur-
day, Oct. 4th, at the
Cleveland County
Fairgrounds.
Two special Grandstand
events are slated for this
year’s Fair.
The Bar H Wild West Rodeo
Show, sponsored by the
Cleveland County Textile
Association, will be held Oct.
3 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 4 at 3
and 7:30 p.m. The free show
is an exhibition of the skill of
today’s and yesterday’s
rodeo cowboys and cowgirls.
Another attraction, the In-
ternational Demolition Der-
by, will be held on the open-
ing night of the Fair, Friday,
at 7:30 p.m., and on Satur-
day, Oct. 2.
Chief Martin said that
Rockingham police received
a telephone call Friday morn-
ing from a citizen who said he
noticed a foul odor coming
from the trunk of a car off
Marshall Avenue. Rock-
ingham police called in the
State Bureau of Investigation
and agents pried open the
trunk of the car and found
‘Robbins’ body inside, Chief
Martin said.
A native of Gaston County,
Robbins was son of Buford
Robbins of Lincolnton and the
late Annie Laura Troutman
Robbins. He was a retired
USAF Master Sergeant
decorated with the Vietnam
Cross of Gallantry with
Palm.
He is survived, in addition
to his father, by his wife, Lin-
da Brown Robbins; one son,
Stevan Robbins, Jr. and one
daughter, Annie Laura Rob-
Senator Harris
To Be Honored
_ Kings Mountain Senator J.
Ollie Harris will be honored
Deacons, will be recog
by the Board of Deacons and |
church members in a special
ceremony at which state and
county elected officials have
been invited to attend. He is
serving his seventh term in
the North Carolina senate.
Thomas D. Tindall, chair-
man of the Board of Deacons,
said special invitations have
been issued to N.C. Governor
Jim Martin along with
Senators Helen Marvin, Mar-
shall Rauch, Charles Owens,
all of this district, and Rep.
Edith Lutz of Shelby. Mayor
John Moss will participate in
the ceremonies and city com-
‘missioners Fred Finger and
Humes Houston also will at-
tend.
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SENATOR
J. OLLIE HARRIS
After the service, the
visiting dignitaries and Har-
ris will be guests of the
church and deacons of the
church will be guests of Bar-
bara and Tom Tindall at a
luncheon at Holiday Inn.
JACKIE McCURRY
...EMS Supervisor
Every second counts when someone is
critically hurt or injured.
That’s the philosophy of EMS Supervisor
Jackie McCurry, of Grover, a certified
paramedic, who heads the County’s
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) team
operated out of the Kings Mountain
Hospital.
“We're fortunate in Cleveland County and
North Carolina to have one of the most pro-
gressive EMS systems but it’s taken a lot of
hard working, dedicated people, including
logis)ators, medical professionals and
volunteer rescue squad members to reach
this level of care,” said McCurry who
presently heads a staff of eight employees
who work two separate shifts, 24 hours on
and 48 hours off rotation, and one crew of an
eight hour shift, reporting directly to Abbey
Ledford. Cleveland County’s Director of
Emergency Services, one of five women in
this state who serve as directors of county
emergency services departments.
McCurry, who is also Captain of the
Grover Rescue Squad, praises Mrs. Ledford
highly, also a former Grover resident who
assumed the director’s job two years ago
“Every Second Counts,” Says EMS Chief
after several years as a secretary and later
as EMS assistant director.
Cleveland County EMS has operated out
of the local hospital since November 1985
when the Rescue Squad asked the county to
take over, due to insufficient staff here to
give Kings Mountain citizens 24 hour-a-day
service.
McCurry says the EMS program at the
hospital is ideally suited for Kings Mountain
needs and he doesn’t want to see it changed.
“I believe in volunteers’, he is quick to
add, since he has been a volunteer for a
number of years on the Grover Rescue
Squad. “But I think the time has come in
this country for the commissioners to take
the lead and follow other counties in looking
at paramedics to answer the county
emergency services need.”
McCurry has worked in his Srotent posi-
tion since February and sees the
volunteer’s role strictly as a back up role
and a major function of the EMS system. He
wants to see volunteers integrated with
EMS to give advanced life support in the
Kings Mountain area, and all of Cleveland
County, and spent a day: recently in
Catawba County observing five rescue
squads in action along with an active EMS
team of paramedics.
McCurry also believes that county com-
missioners should remove ‘‘politics’’ from
any decision-making involving rescue
squads. Volunteer rescue squads versus
paid staff. ‘People put their lives on the line
many times to help others but paid staff
earn their bread from this important work
and volunteers work in other jobs all day
long and then give of themselves to help
others.”
McCurry had high praise for volunteer
rescue squads in Cleveland County but he
said that a recent petition by the Kings
Mountain squad to resume operation 24
hours as the major respondent from Satur-
day 5 p.m. to Sunday 5 p.m. should be
postponed by the county board of commis-
sioners until new inexperienced EMTs get
experience and become dedicated to doing a
Job, and doing it well. All volunteers should
commended but right now Kings Moun-
tain’s back up service is inadequate,” he
said, citing response time to calls inade-
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