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North Carolina ™
Press Association
VOL. 100 NUMBER 35
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1987
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Governor Jim Martin makes
the keynote address at ceremonies marking the ground-
breaking of the Sheller-Globe plant Monday in Grover.
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By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
GROVER - Local and state government leaders joined
officials of Sheller-Globe Corporation of Toledo, Ohio, in
breaking ground for its new $10 million Truck and Body
Division Plant here Monday.
Construction of the 135,000 square feet facility will begin
construction in the spring of 1988 and it will begin opera-
tion in the spring of 1989. It will employ 150 people and will
produce truck beds for the Mack Truck Plant in Winn-
-sboro, S.C.
Alfred H. Grava, company president, said the state of
the art design of the plant will include automated material
handling and assembly systems, the the latest in Cathodic
E-Coat prime painting, microprocessor controlled equip-
ment and advanced robotics and welding equipment.
“This will enable Sheller-Globe to meet the ever chang-
ing industry requirements for high product quality and
reduced operating cost,” he said. ‘Overall, the new facili-
ty will help us improve services, including just-in-time
delivery to our customers.’’
He said Sheller-Globe has ‘high expectations’ for the
facility here and predicted that the plant *‘will be recogniz-
ed throughout the industry for setting new standards in
quality, efficiency and technology. It will indeed set a new
chapter in the Sheller-Globe success story.”
Governor Jim Martin, Senator Ollie Harris, Mayor John
Moss of Kings Mountain, and Josh Hinnant, chairman of
the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners, and other
Sheller-Globe officials took part in the ceremony.
Martin pointed out that North Carolina has averaged two
new or expanded plant openings a week during the past
year and said that was possible because of the spirit of uni-
ty shown between community and government leaders on
the state and local levels.
‘We've found that the State Department of Commerce's
effort alone is not going to deliver,” he said. ‘‘We have to
work with our highway officials, Department of Natural
Resources and Community Development, legislature, and
local legislative delegates to be successful. But we've
found it has to go beyond that. We have to involve the com-
munity leaders, government leaders, spiritual leaders,
business leaders, and Chambers of Commerce, working
together with the state officials in partnership.”
Martin said the new plant here is another important part
of his administration's efforts to foster more economic
development in the rural areas of the state.
“What we see here is a tribute to the spirit of determina-
tion,” he said. ‘We are all North Carolinians. It’s what we
can do as one great, united state that is going to build the
future of North Carolina.” :
Martin pointed out that, over the past 10 years,
automotive component manufacturers have invested more
than $1 billion in new plants and equipment in North
Carolina. The industry employs over 30,000 in the state and
has opened up 15,000 new Jobs in the past 10 years.
“We see this happening because our relationship to new
and expanding industry is like a marriage,” he said. ‘We
don’t just recruit them and then shake their hand and walk
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Political Action Group’s Co-Chairman
Says Someone Tampered With Letter
An Action Committee For Good made in a professional and ethi - di
Government ro Tas p hical man- did not want to work for alcohol sales
ngs Mountain to work for ‘‘pro- Suber, executive vice-president of personal beliefs,” i
gressive government’ but already so- Kings Mountain Knit, ——— group in- py eu.
meone has taken a recent letter mailed cludes
by the group, typed in a P.S. at the bot- businessmen and individuals who want remarks at the bottom, and re-mailed it
tom linking it to liquor issues and re- to “get commissioners out of the every typed a message to the effect that the
mailed it to citizens, says ACFGG co- day workings of the city. We want them group will help bring in ‘liquor by the
chairman Claude Suber.
Suber and Kemp Mauney, who co- ed to be, and let the mayor--or city ‘legal bars.”
chaired the wet committee for the re- manager if the city goes to that type of
cent ABC referendum, are also co- government--run the city.”
Shojrmen of the political action commit-
ee which says its goal is to ‘‘help elect ly members of the group that worked for vestigating. ‘When they find out w
the best possible candidates, so that the wet forces during the recent ABC did this, 2 ont know ot the fh
decisions which affect all of us can be campaign. ‘‘The others are people who
because of their business interests or
However, Suber said, the persons who
20-25 Kings Mountain have taken the letter and added the P.S.
to be policy makers, like they're suppos- drink’, ‘‘beer sales over the bar”, and
When he was given a copy of the
tampered letter, Suber said he notified
Suber said he and Mauney are the on- federal postal officials and they are in-
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resolution of intent to pu
' governmant into effect
| meeting two weeks ago.
Manager
Gets Four
Responses
The only four citizens to
speak at Tuesday night's
public hearing on the propos-
ed city manager-council
form of government spoke in
favor of the issue.
The city board will give of-
ficial consideration of the
matter at its September 8
meeting at the Governmen-
tal Services Facilities
Center. The board passed a
Two of the Tuesday night
speakers, Jeff Gregory and
Robert Poston, are can-
didates for the board of com-
missioners in the upcoming
October election. Gregory is
running for the District IV
seat now held by Norman
King, and Poston is running
for Corbet Nicholson's
District III seat.
Both said they had talked
- to numerous citizens during
their campaigns and agreed
that a huge majority of Kings
Mountain residents want a
city manager form of
government.
“I feel like this is the ideal
transition time.’' said
Gregory. ‘‘We should move
on with progress.’
Poston thanked the current
administration for ‘‘setting
the wheels in motion’ but
said the public fears the cur- °
rent board is ‘ ‘rushing it a lit-
tle bit too fast.”
“The public fears that the
current administration
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THEY WANT YOUR BLOOD - Mary Adams, Tommy Tate, and Lavon Strickland, left
to right, hold large arrows which will point blood donors toward First Baptist Church in
Kings Mountain Tuesday for the visit by the American Red Cross bloodmobile. There is
an urgent need for blood in the county and state.
Bloodmobile To Visit KM
The Cleveland County Chapter of the and statewide, blood collections have really
American Red Cross is out for been low this year,” says Mary Adams of
blood...yours...and is making an urgent the Red Cross. “There’s a great emergen-
plea for everyone to give Tues., Sept. 1 from cy.” Ll
1-6 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Kings Lavon Strickland of Parkdale Mills is
Mountain. heading up Tuesday’s recruitment efforts
Due to summer vacations, when many here. The bloodmobile is being billed as the
people who normally give forget or don’t Kings Mountain Industrial Bloodmobile,
take time to do so, and the unusually high but Mrs. Strickland is quick to point out that
number of wrecks and other accidents dur- it is open fo everyone.
ing the summer, there is an extreme shor- “The goal is 135 pints, but we’ll gladly
tage of all types of blood, including take 200 or more,” she says. ‘‘Most people,
O-negative, B-negative, A-negative and when you think of an industrial blood-
B-positive.
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40th Bethware Fair
Set September 7-12
events are also scheduled for Friday
and Saturday nights. The fair closes at
midnight Saturday.
The fair catalog, which will be
available to advertisers Friday, is
dedicated to Ralph Arrowood, long-time
member of the Progressive Club who
recently retired from the Kings Moun-
tain Post Office.
Fred Tate serves as president of the
club. Other officers are Charles Put-
nam, vice president; Jerry Crotts,
secretary; Raeford White, treasurer,
and Jim Yarbro, assistan! treasurer.
Directors are Charles Scism, Cameron
Ware, Paul Hord, Fred Tate, Jim Yar-
bro, Charles Dover, Raeford White Sr.,
Stokes Wright, Charles Putnam, Marion
Dixon, Jerry Crotts and Roger Goforth.
The 40th annual Bethware Fair, spon-
sored by the Bethware Progressive
Club, will be held September 7-12 on the
campus of Bethware School.
The gates will open at 6 p.m. Monday
irougn Friday and at 3 p.m. on Satur-
ay. ;
Each days activities will include
games and contests for children, mid-
way rides and shows, and drawing for
prizes.
The school gymnasium will be full of
exhibits made by Bethware School
students and members of the communi-
ty, and will also house information
ooths from various businesses, clubs
and non-profit organizations. Judging of
® exhibits will be conducted Wednesday.
Thursday night's activities will in-
clude a magic show by McLaurys’
Magical Moments at 7 p.m. Special
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