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YOL. 99 NUMBER 41
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1986
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Number 1
Kings Mountain’s Jerry Bedsole
Gospel Music D.J. Of The Year
By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
Jerry Bedsole, gospel music disc jockey on Kings Moun-
tain Radio Station WKMT, has just returned from
Nashville, Tn., where he was named Gospel D.J. of the
Year at the national convention of the Southern Gospel
Music Association.
Bedsole won the award for small market stations and was
one of four disc jockeys honored by the Eddie Crook Com-
pany, the nation’s largest gospel record producer.
Bedsole was accompanied to Nashville by his number one
fan, his mother, Mrs. Vera Bedsole of Kings Mountain.
Before the announcement was made, Bedsole said he was
thinking about what he’d say ‘‘just in case they called out
my name.”
While gathering his thoughts, the emcee did call out Bed-
sole’s name. “I was really nervous,” he said. “I don’t
remember exactly what I said, but I do know that it was a
dream come true for me.”
Bedsole has been employed by WKMT for the past nine
years and the station’s programming of gospel music has
increased steadily during that time. Bedsole is host for the
highly popular morning gospel music program and Gene
Austin hosts the nighttime gospel program from 8-11 p.m.
Photo by Gary Stewart
DJ OF YEAR - Jerry Bedsole, gospel music disc jockey at
City To
Kings Mountain will
receive $191,161,18 from
Powell Bill funds distributed
this month for street im-
provements.
The state’s pothole popula-
tion is expected to be reduced
and many important street
improvements made follow-
ing the distribution this
month of $54.8 million to aid
468 municipalities across
North Carolina.
This year’s allocation in-
cludes extra funds that come
in part from Governor James
G. Martin’s “Roads To The
Future” program. Portions
of the Governor’s program
were approved by the state
General Assembly in July.
The $54.8 million allocated
Get
Powell Bill $
this year is $7.7 million
greater than last year’s
amount. Seventy-five percent
of the population funds are
allocated on the basis of
population, while the number
of non-state system street
miles in each town or city is
used to calculate the remain-
ing 25 percent.
Kings "Mountain, with
population of 9,381, has 54.34
non-system miles of streets.
The 1986 General Assembly
increased the State Motor
Fuel tax effective July 15,
1986, and at the same time in-
creased the Powell Bill share
of the tax from 1-3/8 cents tax
on each gallon to 1-3/4 cents
tax on each gallon of
gasoline.
Grover Board Okays
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Radio Station WKMT in Kings Mountain, is pictured with
the plaque he received last week in Nashville, Tn., after be-
ing named Gospel Music D.J. of the Year for small market
radio stations in the United States.
The public relations work not normally a part of one’s
Cable Vision Franchise
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Grover within the next 12 day night with second i
months following action by reading, as required by law,
the board of city commis- to take place at the
‘““The station has really built up its gospel library over the
past several years,”’ Bedsole noted. ‘‘We have a good varie-
ty of gospel songs for our listeners to hear.”
Bedsole often takes dedications and always has a good
response from his listeners. Kings Mountain is one of the
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few radio stations in the area promoting gospel music. Joading gospel music groups and record producers. Such | sioners Monday night. November meeting, said
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Garbage
Pick Up
To Expand
The city sanitation depart-
ment will expand garbage
ickup to two days a week, ef-
ective November 1.
Karl Moss, Department
Head of Construction, which
also includes Sanitation, said
that City crews will pick up
household garbage two days
a week and roadside trash
two days a week.
“If a truck comes to a
residence on Monday morn-
ing, that resident can expect
the truck to return to pick up
household garbage on Thurs-
day morning,” he said. Moss
said that sanitation workers
are dividing the city into four
sections to serve the area. He
said that a new garbage truck
and several pieces of new
equipment will enable the ci-
ty to offer expanded service
in this area.
“There should not be any
complaints of missed gar-
bage,’”’ said Moss.
INJURED IN WRECK—Donald Lewis Grant is helped by Kings Mountain policeman
Bob Hayes and Cleveland County Emergency Medical personnel after he was injured in
a two-car wreck Tuesday on Phifer Road. He was transported to Kings Mountain
Driver Hurt In Wreck
Hospital.
Donald Lewis Grant of
Route 6, Kings Mountain, sus-
tained head cuts and possible
neck injuries in a two-car col-
lision Tuesday afternoon on
Phifer Road.
According to investigating
officer Harry Kyle, Grant's
1969 Volkswagen struck the:
rear of a 1972 Ford driven by
Laura Patrick Allen after the
Allen vehicle stopped to
make a left turn into the
Kings Mountain Plaza Shopp-
ing Center.
Mrs. Allen and three
passengers in her car drove
themselves to Kings Moun-
tain Hospital, where they
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Spartanburg, S.C.
First reading of the agree-
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Kings Mountain Woman
Killed In Downtown Wreck
A 22-year-old Kings Moun-
tain woman, Tonya Yvonne
Foster Noblett, of 715
Meadowbrook Road, died
Friday morning when the car
she was driving hit a pole on
South Battleground Avenue.
Kings Mountain Police Sgt.
Houston Corn, who in-
vestigated, said the woman
apparently fell asleep at the
wheel. The accident occurred
at 4:20 a.m. Ms. Noblett was
alone in the car when it ran
off the road into a pole
holding the McGinnis Fur-
niture Store sign in front of
the S. Battleground Avenue
store. Sgt. Corn estimated the
car’s speed at 60 miles per
hour.
A native of Cleveland Coun-
ty, she was the daughter of
Henry Foster of Bessemer Ci-
ty and the late Cheryl Stewar
Foster.
Surviving, in addition to
her ‘father, are two sons,
Brian and David Noblett of
Gastonia; her grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Stewart, of Kings
Mountain; and a brother,
Harold Foster of Kings Moun-
tain.
Funeral services were con-
ducted Sunday afternoon at 4
p.m. from Pentecostal
Holiness Church by Rev. Dar-
rell Alexander and Rev. Carl
Brown. Interment was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Safe-Cracking
Charge Filed
Against KM Men
Safe-cracking charges
were lodged against three
Kings Mountain people
Thursday.
Arrested by the Cleveland
County Sheriff’s Department
were Edna D. Wray, 20, of
7290 Midpines; Rodney Allen
Hovis, 21, Route 4, and Clem-
mie Wray Humphries, 24, of
7290 Midpines.
They were charged in con-
nection with a break-in and
the theft of a safe containing
$40,000 in payroll checks at
Glen Raven Mill on Grover
Road.
Bond in each case was set
at $13,000.
The safe and its contents
were recovered on the ground
just outside the mill.
CHARLIE BENTON
Charlie Benton,
By LIB STEWART
News Editor
Charlie Benton at 83 hasn’t
stopped working.
Now, he’s making lamps
from almost any item he
finds in his shop or house.
“It helps me to take my
mind off my health problems
and my friends take
pleasurein them. I may even
start up a business at my
age,” he laughed, placing a
“for sale” sign over a large
collection of lamps he
displays on his back porch.
The lamps, which Benton
says are made from
‘scratch’ tell a story of their
own, he reminisces, talking
of his late wife, Viola, who
died four days before their
62nd wedding anniversary six
months ago. “I cared for her
at home for several months
before her death and cooked
eggs just like she like 'em’’,
Benton recalled, even though
he had a leg amputated two
83, And Still Working
years ago and in the past five
years has suffered two heart
attacks, an appendectomy, a
gall bladder operation and a
broken hip.
His daughter, Mary Lou
Adkins, also of Grover, says
nothing has ever stopped
“Daddy’”’. Her mother and
father were a familiar couple
in the Grover area on a riding
mower cutting grass for
years at Antioch Baptist
Church Cemetery, Grover
Cemetery, and Bethlehem
Baptist Church Cemetery.
“They kept those cemeteries
neat and pretty’’, said Mrs.
Adkins. The couple retired
because of illness in 1982.
Charlie Benton has fashion-
ed lamps from almost
anything and everything:
washboards, smoothing iron,
kettle, coffee pot, gourd, beer
cans, mailbox, birdhouse
clock, the dash from an old
washing machine, an antique
swingletree and has even
carved a barn and made the
animals and farmer for it.
When the lights go on, Benton
chuckles, he hates to part
with them but he wants
friends to enjoy his lamps
too. The beer can lamp is a
popular model, he says,as a
night light, and the coffee
potlamp is a conversation
piece for any kitchen. Two
antique lamps in the collec-
tion he has promised to his
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