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VOL. 100 NUMBER 2:
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987
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|| troduce the speak lins, pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist Church, will pronounce! the
Baccalaureate Sunday
KMHS Graduation Tuesday
Commencement exercises for 235 graduating KMSHS
seniors will begin Sunday night with the baccalaureate ser-
mon in B.N, Barnes Auditorium and culminate on Tuesday
evening with graduation exercises in John Gamble
| Memorial Football Stadium.
Both programs are at 7 p.m.
Rev. George E. Auman, pastor of Central United
: | Methodist Church, will deliver the baccalaureate and other
1 ministers of the community will participate in the service.
Jnvocation
Rev. Nancy Brown, pastor of Adams Chapel AME Zion
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stor of Secou Baptist (1
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benediction. : ;
The Kings Mountain Senior High School Choral Union,
under the direction of Eugene Bumgardner with Mrs. Lynn
Echols as pianist, will sing ‘‘My Eternal King’ by Jane
Marshall and “Go Ye Now In Peace’ by Joyce Ellers. The
congregation will sing the hymn, “Joyful, Joyful We Adore
The” by Beethoven. Mrs. Echols will play “Pomp and Cir-
cumstance’’ for the processional and recessional marches.
Senior Class officers will lead the program at graduation
exercises Tuesday night. The Kings Mountain Junior High
Ninth Grade Band, under the direction of Mrs. Sarah Cole,
will play the processional march and Paris Michelle Floyd
will give the invocation. Daniel B. Hamrick, Jr., president
of the Student Participation Organization, will give the
welcome and the KMSHS Choral Union will sing ‘‘Showing
Us The Way’ by Michael V. Fococelli and ‘‘Reach For A
Star’ by Don Besig. Class President Russell Bumgardner
will present the Class of 1987 and Secretary Billie Jean Van
Dyke will recognize honor graduates. Principal Ronnie
Wilson, assisted by Supt. Robert R. McRae, Jr. and Chief
“Marshal Bryan Jetferev Jones, will present diplomas, Class
Treasurer Shannon Gay Yarboro Seer will present the
ift which will b
als are
Sth Junior marshals are Kevin Craig Bolin, Hea
Bryte Bradshaw, Tanya Terrell Crosby, Michael Shan
Farris, Patrick Dwayne Heavner, Erin Leslie Joy, Suzanne
Lee, Ashley Elizabeth‘ McGinnis, Jeannie Michelle Perry,
Jeri Melissa Rikard and David Alexander Shaw.
Senior sponsors are Mrs. Peggy Baird, Mrs. Linda Dixon,
Mrs. Pam Goforth, Steve Lazenby, Mrs. Brenda Neal, Miss
Annette Parker, Mrs. Jaquitha Reid, Mrs. Donna Russ,
Mrs. Sheila Sisk, Mrs. Elizabeth Throop and Dean
Westmoreland.
the school, by
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The class motto, is ‘Yesterday is gone, today is here, :
tomorrow is what we live for.” The class colors are black
and gold, the class flower is daisy, and the class song is
“Louie, Louie.”
State To Monitor
Approximately 20 persons that it will closely monitor
; attended a public hearing the truck wash’s discharges
Thursday night at Grover to see that it does not dump
School on Kings Mountain any illegal chemicals into the
Truck Plaza’s request to in- stream.
crease the volume of Neighbors who own farms
| wastewater it releases into through which Dixon Branch,
k Dixon Branch because of the or Mill Creek as it is known
I! recently-constructed truck locally, runs voiced concerns
f wash.
that illegal chemicals wash-
The permit was granted ed from tractor-trailer rigs
fwith the State EPA’s promise would pollute the stream.
East Gold Wesleyans
To Begin New Building
1 East Gold Street Wesleyan pleted about 10 months from
Church will break ground for said Pastor Sim-
mons. Eddie Smith of Shelby
is’ architect, Carolina Ar-
tisans of Shelby is general
contractor, and local contrac-
tors Ben T. Goforth, Burch
Electric and Butler Air-
a new $600,000 church
building Sunday at 6 p.m. at
e site on East Gold and
driental Avenue near the
badie Mill.
District Superintendent
Rev. Marlin Mull and Rev.
George Simmons, pastor, will
ead the service, assisted by
hembers of the building
dommittee, including Jim
fonner, Jay Biddix, Don
Ware, Gertie Barnette,
ill Huntsinger, Seymore
Biddix, and Ollie Wheeler.
“We have been two and one
half years in planning for this
new sanctuary and we are
hopeful construction can
Audrey Biddix, Steve Brown,
begin in June and the new.
church home will be com-
today’’,
Conditioning-Heating are
sub-contractors of plumbing,
electricity, heating and air-
conditioning.
Brick from a local firm,
Kings Mountain Brick Co.,
will also be used in the con-
struction of the church which
will feature a fan-shaped
sanctuary surrounded by 17
Sunday School classrooms
with total square footage of
16,800 square feet and
enhanced by a 50x60 foot
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Waste Discharges
However, Jim Testa, owner
of the truck stop which leases
the wash facility, explained
that the facility washes only
the outside of tractor-trailer
rigs and does not have--nor
does it ever intend to seek--a
permit to wash inside of
tankers which haul
chemicals.
that.”
“We intend to always be Turn To Page 2-A
very good neighbors and
don’t intend to do anything to
pullute the stream,” Testa
said. ‘I own 30 acres on that
stream and hope to eventual-
ly build a housing project
there, so I don’t plan to ever
do anything that would harm
the creek or the people there.
I’d close down before I'd do
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH
AYVIAIT TVIVMOWAW AINAVR
New Mica Plant
To Locate
J.M. Huber Corporation, a
national producer of raw
materials, announced plans
Thursday and broke ground
for a muscovite mica plant on
Highway 29 opposite Combus-
tion Engineering.
The mica mining opera-
tion, estimated to cost $3.4
million, will initially employ
26 full-time people and will
process and separate mica
ore which will be shipped to
Huber’s Spruce Pine, North
Carolina processing plant for
further refinement.
Mayor John Henry Moss
and Cleveland County chair-
man L.E. Hinnant welcomed
J.M. Huber Corporation Vice
President Jack A. Rogers
and other Huber officials and
their announcement to locate
a plant and mines in
Cleveland County at a lun-
cheon at Holiday Inn which
preceded the groundbreaking
at the site.
The new plant is expected
to be completed in mid-1988.
The initial facility will in-
clude a 20,000 square foot pro-
cess building, a small
laboratory, a sanitary
system and loading and ship-
ping facilities.
“This is a great day for
Cleveland County to attract a
corporation with the reputa-
tion such as Huber’, said
Hinnant and Moss who said
that Huber had been eyeing
thi option for more tha
om that
tinct:
| has the distinction of being
selected by a 104 year old
company such a Huber”’, said
the Mayor. ‘‘J.M. Huber Cor-
poration has given us the kind
of challenge our citizens
love.”
Also representing Huber’s
Clay Division at the luncheon
and groundbreaking
ceremonies were Assistant
Vice President Jake Ferro,
Paul Traylor, Billy Goodwin,
and Lee Lemke.
Moss said Huber’s ‘“‘total
commitment to a policy of
high standards for the en-
vironment and soil reclama-
tion makes our appreciation
even greater for the J.M.
Huber Corporation.” Moss
said the Kings Mountain
operation will include a small
laboratory and noted that
Huber is ‘‘a pioneer of high
tech reserve relative to the
potential use of mica in the
decades ahead.
Huber’s Spruce Pine plant
produces wet-ground mica
Architect’s Drawing Of New East Gold Church
Here
products which are used in
the paint and plastics in-
dustry. Some dry-ground pro-
ducts will be produced at its
Kings Mountain operation.
These products will be par-
ticularly suited for joint com- |'
pounds and wallboard ap-
plications. In addition,
feldspathic sands and
primary kaolin clays will be
produced as by-products.
Beginning in 1883 as a
manufacturer of printing
inks and dry color pigments,
J.M. Huber Corporation is a
highly diversified company
that produces crude oil and
natural gas, kaolin clay, car-
bon black, calcium car-
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Realtor
Takes Beef
To State
Local realtor Charlie
Carpenter is taking his com-
plaints about heavy traffic on
161 to not only local and ABC
state officials who are con-
sidering building an ABC
store on Cleveland Avenue
but to state highway officials.
© Carpenter said his remarks
; i site of the store
Vi 0
s in
repo.
‘client for
main objection to Cleveland
Avenue as the site for a new
ABC Store is because of
adverse affect of additional
traffic volume on N.C. 161,
Cleveland Avenue,” he said.
In his letters to local ABC
Chairman Andy Neisler,
State ABC officials in
Raleigh, and State DOT of-
ficials in Raleigh, Carpenter
also attached tracing of DOT
plans showing existing
driveways and center traffic
control islands south of the
bypass on Cleveland Avenue.
arpenter contends that
extra traffic generated by an
ABC Store at the access road
to Battle Forest Apartments,
across from KM Fire
Museum and in the vicinity of
the Community Center, will
require complete rebuilding
of traffic patterns from Lin-
wood Road to Hardee’s and
will cost the state ‘‘a pile of
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ecuase he has a
e store site. “My
el.