VOL. 100 NUMBER 2
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1987
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Pam Jones, 18, lost her struggle with
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cancer New Year’s Day but her fight to live
the last six years has been a lesson in
courage for all who know her.
Johnny and Sandi Jones said their
daughter was such a caring individual that
even in death she thought of others, leaving
behind an ‘‘informal will’’, handwritten, in
which she thanked her parents and brother
and sister and asked them not to grieve for
her but to cherish the good times they had
shared and to give some of her clothes to the
Salvation Army.
Typically Pam, Mr. Jones said her wish
to come home for Christmas from Duke
Medical Center included their promise she
could go shopping in a wheelchair and
select gifts for her family, her 15-year-old
sister, Gayla; her 12-year-old brother,
Jonathan; good friends Karen Holcome,
who helped her stock merchandise after
school at TG&Y; Lisa Buchanan, who she
grew up with and who played piano for her
funeral; and Peggy Baird, a favorite home
economics teacher whe wanted to emulate
and from whom she learned to cook and
share dishes with her family.
Prom nights her junior and senior years
at KMSHS and her high school graduation
in June 1986 were big events in her life
which she refused to let terminal illness
spoil. Her fellow students and the packed
Gamble Stadium crowd gave her a standing
ovation when she walked from her
wheelchair across the stage to receive her
diploma.
Jones said Pam decided Oct. 1 to stop
chemotheraphy. “I’m in God’s hands,” she
told her family and the doctors. ‘I have
a
PAM JON
Amber Leaha Bolden, held in the arms of her
mother, Carol Denise Bolden of Route 6,
Gastonia, was the first baby born in New Year
1987 at Kings Mountain Hospital. The baby
weighed in at eight pounds, three ounces, on Fri-
day, Jan. 2, at 1:45 p.m. Grandparents are
Charles and Wayburn Gilbert of Gastonia.
ed as lymphona and there followed six
weeks of radiation and two and one half
years of extensive treatments for leukemia.
For two years the disease was in remission
and the family made routine visits with
Pam to Duke Hospital. She kept up with her
schoolwork at home, thanks to her parents
and teachers, but in November 1985 Pam
suffered a relapse of T-cell leukemia and
weeks of chemotheraphy followed. She lost
faith that he will heal me or take me home.” per hair and she told of her struggles and }
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To Build
New KM
A Toledo, Ohio compan
that manufactures oo
bodies will announce its plans
to build a $10 to $15 million
dollar plant in the Kings
Mountain area at a press con-
ference Thursday morning at
10:45 a.m. at Cleveland Coun-
try Club in Shelby.
Sheller-Globe Corporation
will supply truck-cab bodies
to the Mack Truck plant
under construction in Winn-
sboro, South Carolina and
will employ 100-150 people.
Company officials have
been here and also looking at
sites within a 200 mile radius
of Winnsboro during the past
six months and have narrow-
ed its location to at least four
sites, two in Gaston County
and two in Cleveland County.
The Charlotte Observer in
its Wednesday edition quoted
state officials as saying that
the new plant would have
150,000 square feet and use
computer-controlled handl-
ing systems with production
scheduled to begin in early
1989 and plant construction to
begin in Fall of 1987. Com-
any officials liked the labor
ich skills and availability in
the Kings Mountain area and
the proximity to the Charlotte
airport, according to The
- Observer.
HOWARD BERRIER
There were 10 first-time donors.
Time To List Taxes
Cleveland County residents
should have already received
forms to list their county
taxes.
The simple tax listing card
should be completed and
returned to the Tax Lister’s
Office, P.O. Box 370, Shelby,
no later than Mon., Feb. 2.
Penalty for late listing is 10
percent of the personal pro-
perty tax.
Howard Berrier Retires After 43 Years On Job
Howard Berrier,66, will
always remember New
t Year’s Day 1987.That was the
day he retired after 43 years
| and eight months on-the-job
at Fredrickson Motor Ex-
| press
Berrier, who has enjoyed a
busy career with the com-
pany, started off in the truck-
ing business as a pick up
driver in High Point in 1943 as
a young man, working up the
. ladder to become terminal
manager in Greensboro in
Toznoyers will notice this
ear that there is no listing of
ousehold personal property.
New tax laws passed by the
General Assembly last year
removed those taxes.
The tax listing card in-
cludes spaces for listing pro-
perty such as vehicles, homes
and other buildings, and
other items.
1950 and then was promoted
to operations assistant in the
Eastern Division in 1968
where he served for 11 years.
After a heart attack in 1979,
he returned to work and
operated terminals in Kings
Mountain and Bryson City,
opening Fredrickson’s first
South Carolina terminal in
Greenville,S.C. where he
worked for 13 months before
returning to Kings Mountain
to close out his retirement
here as local terminal
BLOODMOBILE VISIT—Arlene Barrett, above, gives a pint of blood at the Red Cross blood-
mobile visit Tuesday at First Baptist Church. Assisting Mrs. Barrett is volunteer Samantha
McKinney. The City of Kings Mountain sponsored the visit at which 143 pints were collected.
Tax officials pointed out
that the figure in the shaded
area marked ‘‘vehicle value’
is last year’s value and has
nothing to do with what
vehicles owned on January 1,
1987 will be appraised at.
Any corrections to items
already filled in by the tax of-
fice should be made on the
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manager.
Berrier recalled that when
he went to work with
Fredrickson, now the
Number 1 trucking company
in North Carolina with trucks
rolling in six Southern states,
the company had three
pickups in High Point and no
tractor-trailers. Now there
are more than 1,200 tractor
trailer and pickups on the.
road in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia and the
Goal On New
Kings Mountain United
Way campaign leaders
received a New Year’s Day
present with news that the
1986 goal of $105,000 had been
topped.
At the official end of the
campaign drive on
November 30th the campaign
was short of goal. December
receipts pushed the cam-
paign over the top.
“We are pleased to an-
nounce that the 1987 Kings
Mountain United Way Cam-
paign has exceeded its
$105,000 goal. Through the
receipt of late contributions
we have received a total of
$106,701.55”, said President
Ted Kostek.
“We want to extend a
sincere thanks to the citizens
of Kings Mountain who made
this accomplishment possi-
ble,” said Kostek.
This year’s campaign was
co-chaired by Lavon
Strickland, personnel
manager of Parkdale Mills,
and Retired Schools
Superintendent Bill Davis.
Three of the eight divisions
in the drive exceeded goals,
including the big industrial
division headed by Bernard
Harvey; the professional divi-
sion headed by Dr. Joe
Zucker and the advanced
gifts division headed by Mrs.
Grady Howard. Other divi-
sion leaders were Mayor
company has 1100 on the
payroll.
Reared in Midway,N.C. in
Davidson County, Berrier
became a Kings Mountain
resident when he married
Ora Powell Ruff in 1977 and
they moved into a home on
Parkdale Circle. The family
is active in Grace United
Methodist Church and Ber-
rier is the immediate past
president of the Kings Moun-
tain Lions Club.
Berrier is proud of his
Year’s Day
John Moss for the City of
Kings Mountain; Glee E.
Bridges for commercial; Ron
Bagwell for hospital; Rev.
George Auman for
ministerial; and Dr. Larry
Allen for schools.
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Grover
To Open
Sewer Bids
Grover Town Board will
open bids for construction of
its sewer project at Town
Hall in Grover Thursday
afternoon at 2 p.m. The bids
will be awarded at a meeting
of the board on Jan.22.
City commissioners, at the
regular Monday night
meeting, announced plans for
the bid-opening.
Major business of the
January meeting was a
public hearing for closing of
an additional 208 feet portion
on Maple Avenue to allow
Grover Industries to extend
its loading dock. Elizabeth
Thorpe, a resident of the
area, was the only citizen
present to question the clos-
ing. The board approved the
closing by 4-0 vote with Com-
missioner Bill Camp absent.
outstanding career with
Fredrickson and his co-
workers honored him in
Charlotte New Year's Eve
with dinner and numerous
gifts including a 26 inch color
television set. During his long
service with the company,
Berrier worked 39 and one
half years without missing a
day at his job and since that
time has only been. away
twice: once in 1948 for an
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