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ere rr a nj 0 IEIDEeee SANDERS Kings Mountain Police Chief Warren Goforth Explained Why Part-Time Policeman : Mike Sanders Shouldn’t Run Er, For Town Council At Tuesday Night's Board Meeting See Page 11-A Who Are The Members Of The Action Committee For Good Government? Read Their Letter On Page 4-A EGE DALE EC ({LOLVELEEEE GV COVER O0ee Fal | | My ob] ; \ 4, {/ § WY a 7. 3 & § $4 S (prs 25° | § 3 S I | ; ( lf i f = 0) \ Wy | <5 ON “3AY INOWag1gq 98087 S>., AIVIgTIT TVISONTR A =< > < =z = VOL. 100 NUMBER 37 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1987 It’s Official! Kings Mowiiain Now Has By GARY STEWART Managing Editor ‘same time comply with the law”’ which ‘states that neither the mayor nor a councilman may serve as interim or acting city manager. ; 1, 1988. The City Board of Commissioners of-. ficially initiated the City Council/City Manager form of government at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night at the Governmental Services Facilities Center. Commissioner Humes Houston sug- gested that the position become effec- tive on January 1 because he felt leav- ing the position vacant from December, when the new board is - sworn in, until March 1 would present many problems. After a lengthy discussion, Finger withdrew his mo- tion and the board agreed to go ahead and advertise the position and name a city manager ‘‘as soon as possible’ oie the new board is sworn into of- ice. persons to spea The amendment to the city charter favored the change. became effective Tuesday night but commissioners, in amending the Code of Ordinances, stipulated that the posi- tion of city manager will be filled by the newly-elected mayor and city coun- cil when it is sworn into office in December ‘or as soon thereafter as possible.” City Attorney Mickey Corry pointed out that the “soon as possible’ action would allow the city to continue to operate as a Mayor-Commissioner form of government until a city manager is appointed. According to state law,’ the salaries of the mayor Commissioner Fred Finger made a motion to make the position available on March 1, 1988 “to give the new mayor and board an opportunity to look for a city manager and at the tions. Under the of the city. GEORGE RAINES but for his children. them and now G.W.R. Midpines Community. Turn To Page 5-A ‘Grandfather’ Raines Builds His Own Clocks When George Raines retired from the mill 10 years ago his doctor advised him to keep busy and take up a hobby. Raines took the advice and went to work in his carpentry shop in his backyard and started making clocks, not for sale The six handsome 100 percent handcrafted Grandfather clocks are the pride and joy of his children who received Raines is working on a rocker for his only ‘possible for the squad to pur- fo daughters, Debbie Frederick and Donna Bucha handcrafted of heavy fir wood and hand stained and given as wedding presents. Edwards Raines, Marty and Debbie Frederick, Sue Strickland and Martha and Bob Myers are proud owners of the closk! His oldest son, Bob, of Shelby, asn’t placed an order yet. The children buy the movements for the clocks and their father does everything else to perfect moulding, finishing and initialing on the fact, Raines made a 50th anniversary clock for his wife, Ruth, with timbular bells which chimes every 15 minutes and strikes on the hour. The Raines initials are also on the face of this beautiful clock which is in a handsom mahogany cabinet and stands in the living room of their home in the George Raines’ love for woodworking goes back to even before he met and married Ruth Morris 52 years ago and went to Ellenboro to run a plush job for Margrace Mill. While he was still in Ellenboro Raines started building his present house and did most of the work himself. Over the ears, he renovated several times, adding his shop in the Earn, and retired from K Mills, although he worked at Council-Manager Form Of Government and commissioners cannot be cut until the next budget year which begins July The city board began seriously con- sidering changing to a city manager form of government when Mayor John Moss recently announced that he would not seek re-election, and held a public hearing two weeks ago to receive citizen input. The only four at the hearing Under the new government, the mayor and councilmen will serve part- time and the mayor’s responsibility will include presiding over council meetings, representing the city at public occasions, appointing commit- tees and making recommendations to the board. The mayor will not have any voting authority except in tie situa- resent government, the mayor is the chief executive officer City Gives Rescuers $10,000 City commissioners Tues- day night approved a one- time emergency grant of $10,000 to the Kings Mountain Rescue Squad to make if mu IS nan, ; bulance sever. ‘ago and had pledges of about $25,000 prior to approaching the city board at its monthly meeting at the Governmental Services Facilities Center. Squad member Johnny Hutchins pointed out that the Turn To Page 7-A Persistence and impa- tience finally paid off for developer Mike Brown Tues- day night when the city board of commissioners approved final plans for phase one of Brown Meadows sub-division on Chestnut Ridge Road. Brown, who said he had been trying for 2% years to Turn To Page 8-A ty Rox Sprouse Football Winner Dennis Sprouse of Grover picked 17 of 20 winners to win the $100 prize in the Herald’s first football contest. Sprouse won the money by coming closer to the tie-breaking score of 48 points (42-6) ~~ scored in Ashbrook’s win over South Point. Also picking 17 of 20 games was Todd Hullender of Kings Mountain. Hullender guessed 29 points on the tie-breaker and Sprouse predicted 33. ph ino Eas The secon st Rushorfor, d of 10 weekly ontests is inside today’s Herald. Pick the most winners and get us your entry by 4 p.m. Friday and you will join Sprouse in the winner’s circle. Mail your entry to Football Contest, P.O. Box 769, Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086, or bring it by our office on East King Street at Canter- bury Road. get the board to act on his re- quest for city services, told the board to ‘forget’ his re- quest for water and sewer services and approve his plat so he could finally see some results from a $140,000 invest- ment for land which lies in the city’s one-mile perimeter. “I don’t know what it takes to get this board to act,”’ he told the board. ‘‘People with money can come up here and get something done, but I'm a poor man and I can’t unders- tand why this board can sit on its rump for 21% years.” Brown, who plans to. con- struct nine homes in phase one, recently acquired Brown’s Sub-Division Plat Approved natural gas service from the city. He originally requested to be annexed and receive all city services, but finally decided Tuesday that if the board would approve his plans he would provide his own water and sewer service Turn To Page 7-A EVELYN WEST VLE OLIVE ake VOALRE ve ool Oy Lhe FL Lt oF Oe CC Hospice Ministers To Terminally HI Anyone can refer a terminally ill patient and his family to Hospice and there is no charge to the patient and family. Director Evelyn West made this state- ment during a presentation before Kings Mountain United Fund volunteers Friday as they kicked off adrive for $110,000 for 15 . agencies, which includes Hospice. The Hospice budget for the new year is about $27,000. Kings Mountain United Fund has budgeted $2,000 and the balance comes from Cleveland County United Way and special projects. Organized in 1986 with 78 patients, Hospice volunteers serve over 17,000 hours and drive over 20,000 miles to serve the ter- minally ill and their families in Cleveland County. ; ; Mrs. West pointed out that the total pa- tient load today is 24 and six of these pa- tients are from Kings Mountain. Twenty- eight percent of all patients served by Hospice during the past two years have come from Kings Mountain. “Once a person gives us the name of a person who is terminally ill and Hospice _ workers are certain the family consents to the service, we call his or her doctor to find out if that patient can be managed in the home with a hospice team. A nurse co- ordinator and a social worker visits in the home and sets up a plan of treatment with a volunteer nurse and two lay volunteers assigned to the home. A nurse is on call 24 hours a day’, said Mrs. West. In the middle ages, a hospice was a place of rest for and shelter for weary travelers, said Mrs. West. Today, the functions of Hospice are much the same. Hospice is an increasingly popular choice in health care for the nation’s terminally ill and their families. “It’s an organized system of support for terminally ill people’’, she said. ‘‘But one of the differences between us and most health care services is that at Hospice we consider the patient and his family as one unit of care. A terminal illness happens to the whole family. It affects everyone who knows the patients.” “It’s an organized system of support for terminally ill people’, she said. ‘But one of the differences between us and most health care services is that at Hospice we consider the patient and his family as one unit of care. A terminal illness happens to the whole family. It affects everyone who knows the patients.’ Hospice offers physical and emotional comfort to people facing death and to the family facing life without one of its members. “Our goal is to relieve the patient and the family for their extra burdens, so they can really live during these last weeks or months they have together’, said Mrs. West. In estimating needs in Cleveland County, Mrs. West said that the demand here has far surpassed expectations. “Hospice has been accepted by the medical community, other health care ser- vices and by the public as a valid alter- native in the mainstream of health care”, she said. “It’s not a little volunteer organization. It’s a choice you make in the way you want to receive your medical care,” she added. Mrs. West said that more volunteers are needed. A Hospice volunteer must. take Turn To Page 3-A
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