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VOL. 100 NUMBER 31
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1987
Violet Dixon has been placing Kin
ple.” When local industry needs workers
and new industries locate in town, the
‘woman to see at the employment office is
Violet Dixon, recently honored with one of
three state awards for ‘outstanding service
beyond the call of duty’”’ and nominated for
the award by her former manager Ms. Mar-
tha Edwards. She will now be eligible for
the Governor's Award of Excellence.
On hand earlier in the week to present the
plaque to Mrs. Dixon was Ms. Betsy Justus,
Chairman of the North Carolina Employ-
ment Commission, Don Hudson, Regional
Manager for the Charlotte area, Randy
Allen, Manager of the Shelby local office,
and Ms. Edwards, currently the Charlotte
area Claims Specialist.
Presenting the award on behalf of the
agency was the current Kings Mountain
branch Office Manager Charles L. Webber.
Mrs. Goforth averages placing 65 people
per month in jobs paying $15,000 or more
per year, the greatest number of in-
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11948 for the late Mary B. C th at its first
location in town next door to Saunders Dry
HONORED FOR SERVICE—Mrs. Violet Dixon, above, is congratulated by ESC Office
Manager Charles L. Webber after being nominated for the Governor's Award of Ex-
cellence as an interviewer for the KM branch office for over 37 years.
KM Job Interviewer Dixon
In Running For State Honor
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Cleaners on Cherokee Street. She came to
work in a three person office as a clerk-
stenographer but soon graduated to taking
applications, interviewing for jobs and tak-
ing claims. During the years she was off
from work twice to give birth to her two
daughters and when the local office moved
to Shelby she moved with them at closing of
the KM office located on Railroad Ave.,
next to Plonk’s in 1959, returning to work at
times on Mondays and Thursdays at
satellite offices set up at the City Hall, The
Armory and Community Center and over
the years working for only six ‘bosses’.
Whéén the Kinmont Plant Spore in Kings
Mountain she helped staff the big plant, as
well as Clevemont, and some of the other in-
dustries. ;
Charlie Webber, office manager here for
the ESC, at the Community Center on
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Mountain Brick Plant on Grov
Cleveland County Attorney Bob Yelton, KMG vice preside
Mayor John Moss, County Commissioner Josh Hinnant, Mildre 1G ) C k é
tional Bank of Charlotte, KMG owner Matt Ferro, KMG administrative vice president Bill
Stewart, KMG executive vice president J amie Ferro, Jeff Seals, pre
Magign Cochran of the Brick Association of North Carolina.
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GROUNDBREAKING - Ground was broken Tuesday morning for expansion of KMG’s Kings
er Road. Taking part in the ceremony, left to right, were
ent of production Hugh Lancaster,
d Gwinn of North Carolina Na-
sident of Sealcor Inc., and
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KINGS
MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAI
Hamrick Joins
KM Mayor Race
A contest developed for
Mayor this week when
Gilbert (Pee Wee) Hamrick,
46, of 308 S. Oriental Ave.,
paid his filing fee to Elections
Board Chairman Becky
Cook.
Both Kyle Smith, who an-
nounced his intentions to run
for the office, and Hamrick,
who was an unsuccessful can-
didate four years ago and ran
unsuccessfully two years ago
in District II, seek the seat
held by incumbent Mayor
John Henry Moss, who has
served for 22 years. Moss has
not announced his intentions
to run again but is expected
to file for another four year
term.
A Kings Mountain native,
Hamrick is the son of Wilburn
and Mary Jane Hamrick of
Kings Mountain. He and his
wife, Shirley, are parents of
two sons, Mike and Scott
Hamrick, both of whom are
married and have homes of
their own in Kings Mountain
and Grover. A disabled
veteran, Hamrick served as a
Military Policeman in the
U.S. Army. He is a member
of Kings Moun-
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CONNIE PUTNAM
GILBERT HAMRICK
Nicholson Is Seeking
Another Term On Board
A contest developed in
District III Tuesday when
veteran incumbent District
III City Commissioner Corbet
Nicholson filed for re-
lection. Livia
Kyle Smith and Gilbert
Versatile City
CORBET NICHOLSON
Hamrick challenge incum-
bent Mayor John Henry
Moss, who has not filed but is
expected to seek re-election
to another four year term.
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Employee
Connie Putnam Retires
Connie Putnam, city
employee since July 1974
when she joined the Aging
Department as a secretary,
retired on Friday.
Mrs. Putnam, a Kings
Mountain native, has worked
in virtually every depart-
ment of the City of Kings
Mountain, and for the past
four years has been an ad-
ministrative assistant in the
Codes department. For
several years she was
secretary in the Office of
Economic Development and
has also worked in the
Mayor’s Office and Police
Department assisting with
record keeping and
secretarial duties.
Mrs. Putnam said she
plans to work two days a
week for her son-in-law at
Butler Refrigeration and
devote the rest of her time to
her family and continue her
hobbies of reading, writing,
bowling and crocheting.
A graduate of Kings Moun-
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KMG Minerals Breaks Ground
KMG Minerals, Inc. broke
ground Tuesday for construc-
tion of a new 48 million brick
per year $5.5 million plant ad-
jacent to its present plant site
on Grover Road.
According to plant owners,
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A.
Ferro, the plant is to be fully
operational by July 1988 and
will be constructed by
Sealcor, Inc. on a site adja-
cent to the existing Kings
capacity.
employ the most state-of-the
art manufacturing equip-
ment and provide moderniz-
ed, energy efficient produc-
tion of the nationally
distributed Kings Mountain
white and grey brick pro-
ducts.
Montain
Mountain Brick Plant and
will effectively triple current
Ferro said the plant will
Kings Mountain Brick is a
division of mineral producer
KMG Minerals, Inc. of Kings
and has been
manufacturing white brick
for industrial, commercial
and residential uses since
1966. !
Also on hand for the
ground-breaking ceremonies
were Mayor John Henry
Moss and L.E. Hinnant,
chairman of the Cleveland
County Board of Commis-
sioners, who welcomed the
new facility to the Kings
Mountain area and Cleveland
County.
The new facility, including
a clay storage building, grin-
ding plant and kiln, will in-
corporate the latest high-tech
improvements in firing,
temperature control and in-
sulation. The existing Kkiln
will be modernized and will
continue to be used for the
production of certain special-
ty brick products.
KMG Minerals, Inc. is the
successor corporation to a
group of companies which
have been engaged in mining
For $5.5 Million Brick Plant
and production of mica,
feldspar, sand and kaolin pro-
ducts since approximately
1908. In 1966, an independent
company, the Kings Moun-
tain Brick Company, was
established and has been,
since its formation, manufac-
turing and successfully sell-
ing white and grey specialty
brick known as architectural,
brick.
The brick company began
its operations with the in-
stallation of a kiln on land
located on the northerly side
of Highway 29 in Kings Moun-
tain. The original kiln, in-
stalled in 1966, has been in
continous operation since
that time. It is proposed to
construct the new, modern,
high-technology facility at
the same site, adjacent to the
existing kiln.
In 1986, all of the various
companies were consolidated
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