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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988
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BIG SNOWFALL - The Siberian Express rolled through
Kings Mountain and the Carolinas early Thursday morning,
dumping 12 inches of snow on the area and shutting down
schools and many businesses. Most of the roads have been
cleared but much of the snow is still on lawns and in wooded
areas. The weatherman is calling for a slight chance of
snow again this weekend.
KM Board To Interview
Architects For Project
provements at all schools by
1997.
In non-related construction
The Kings Mountain Board
of Education Monday night
took steps to hire architects
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for proposed facility addi-
tions at the junior and senior
high schools.
The board authorized
Superintendent Bob McRae
and assistant Larry Allen to
interview interested firms at
the Administration Office
and make a recommendation
to the board at a later
meeting. ;
completed long-range
facilities plan are additions
and renovations at the junior
and senior highs which would
make it possible to turn the
junior high into a middle
school for grades six through
“eight and the high school into
a ninth through 12th grade
organization.
McRae said that he had
discussed the matter with the
county manager and county
finance officer and they had
agreed that it is ‘‘very possi-
ble we can pull off both pro-
jects at one time.”
McRae said the system has
funds available through its
capital reserve fund to hire
an architect and predicted
that if all goes well construc-
tion could begin late next
year with a target of beginn-
ing the new grade structure
in the fall of 1990.
The system’s long range
facilities plan calls for im-
of Smith’s term.
| Kings Mountain's top two
|’ projects in a recently-
matters, McRae updated the
board on the progress of two
projects.
He said that the canopy at
the senior high school, which
was damaged by a tractor-
trailer recently, will be
replaced beginning in mid-
February or March and will
be a two-month project. The
architect’s drawings have
ready to be put out to bid, he
said. The estimated cost of
replacing the canopy as it
was is $50,000.
McRae also said the Kings
Mountain Indoor Pool Foun-
dation’s plans for a
natatorium at KMHS are
complete and ready to be
presented to the state.
McRae predicted a March or
April groundbreaking for the
facility.
In other matters Monday,
the board:
*Received information
from McRae on the State
Board of Education-approved
aids curriculum, a four-
lesson instructional program
for seventh graders. McRae
said Kings Mountain will pro-
bably give the instruction to
seventh through 12th graders
this year, and then to seventh
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12-Inch Snow Cripples KM
There’s an old saying
there’s no use to argue with
the weather.
Residents of this area, if
they doubted it before, saw
Kings Mountain and the Pied-
mont area of the state
blanketed with 12 inches of
snow Thursday and Friday,
piling up in driveway, park-
ing lots and on streets and
making it virtually impossi-
ble to travel Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday without
chains.
The snow started falling
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Wrecks
Blamed
On Snow
Snow was blamed for
several wrecks involving per-
sonal injury and high proper-
ty damage when driver slost
control of their vehicles on
slippery roads.
Pam Mcintyre, of 805
Frederick St., Shelby, was
riding in a 1977 Olds operated
by Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson, Jr. of Route 5, Thurs-
day and making a right turn
onto Cleveland Avenue at the
U.S. 74 Bypass when her car
was struck by a 1981 Toyota
operated by Goldie Byers, Jr.
of 604 Skyland Drive,
Bessemer City. Damages
were estimated at $500 to the ‘=
Byers car and $500 to the
Wilson car. Byers was charg-
ed with DWI and safe move-
“ment violation
Another wreck occurred on
the 74 Bypass at the 161 exit
ramp when a car operated by
Vanessa Spann Jingles of 413
Gardner St., Shelby, struck a
1976 Pontiac operated by
Shirley Cash Philbeck of 202
Parrish Drive. Jimmy
Stewart, a passenger in the
Pontiac, was injured. Proper-
ty damages were estimated
at $150.
Friday in the Holiday Inn
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Testa’s Annexation Request Denied
A satellite annexation peti-
tion from Jim Testa, owner
and operator of KM Truck
Plaza on Dixon Road, was
denied unanimsouly by the ci-
ty board of commissioner
Tuesday night.
“The truck plaza is too far
beyond our service area and
Photo by Gary Stewart
NEW BOARD MEMBER - Mayor Kyle Smith, right, administers the oath of office to new
school board member Priscilla Mauney as Mrs. Mauney’s husband, Jeff, holds the Bible at
Monday’s school board meeting. Mrs. Mauney was appointed to complete the final two years
early Thursday and by
midafternoon had clogged
highways and posed con-
siderable problems for many.
The good news was that
local residents only suffered
inconveniences by King
Winter's below-freezing
temperatures and heavy
snow. There were no reports
of power, gas or water
outages, some reports of
frozen pipes, and only one in-
jury was reported due to a
sledding accident.
Several fender-benders oc-
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were kept hopping to wreck removal when the ic Ei
scenes where motorists had the blades on the sng Oris
ventured out, in some in- Smith said the call
stances trying to drive to impatient about the
work.
Schools, businesses, some
industry and some churches
closed during a weekend
which proved to be an unex-
pected long holiday for
students and teachers.
Mayor Kyle Smith praised
street crews who answered
emergency calls around the
clock during the weekend but
clearing off streets
did the best we coul
said with limited equipment.
Tuesday as the higher
temperatures started
melting the snow city crews
were out on the streets again.
Mayor Smith said the city’s
snow policy is that emergen-
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Six More
Local weatherman Arthur
Biltcliffe says there’s more
snow headed our way. In fact,
we can look for six more
snows in 1988,
Biltcliffe, who keeps a
weather chart and has
always enjoyed weather
forecasting as a hobby,
blames the “wet year ahead’
as the reason for the snow.
“Last year about this time
we had a seven inch snowfall
but this one is the biggest one
I remember in quite awhile,’
he said.
“The problem is we got all
the Northern winter this past
weekend”, he said, ‘‘and we
aren’t used to it and are not
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Sledding
Accident
To Come
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prepared The wet year of 1988 means we'll have more water
or spring and summer but we’ll get more snow.”
Biltcliffe, like most Kings Mountain citizens, was enjoying
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Street.
the snow from his window of his home on North Goforth
“of Apt. 40 Charles St., became
the first woman elected to the
one-year-old Kings Mountain
ABC Board Tuesday night on
4-2 vote of the city board of
commissioners.
Mrs. Hillman will replace
Roosevelt Ingram on expira-
tion of his one year term on
the board Feb. 18.
She said she received en-
couragement from her
cousin, City Attorney Mickey
Corry, and from Leroy Blan-
we would have to provide ser-
vices and I can’t see how the
city would gain by annexa-
tion’’, said Commissioner Al
Moretz in making a motion to
deny the request.
The item on the agenda was
to consider receipt of the
Testa petition and then to
Former Herald Pressman
Paul Jackson, 67, Is Dead
Funeral services for Paul
Jackson, 67, retired Kings
Mountain Herald pressman
for nearly 30 years, will be
conducted Thursday at 4 p.m.
from Mount Zion Baptist
church of which he was a
member.
Rev. C.A! Feemster will
conduct the rites and inter-
ment will be in Mountain
Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Jackson was a native
of Cleveland County, son of
the late John H. and Ida Blan-
ton Jackson. He was a
veteran of World War II and
joined the staff of the Kings
Mountain Herald after his
discharge from the Army in
1945. He was the Herald
pressman for nearly 30 years,
Mrs. Mary Corry Hillman,
Mary Hillman First Woman
Elected To KM ABC Board
“ton, one of the unsuccessful
candidates for the position
when the ABC Board was ap-
pointed by the city board with
then-Mayor John Henry Moss
breaking the tie on the In-
gram appointment.
Tuesday night at the first
regular meeting of the new
Smith Administration, Com-
missioner Humes Houston
made the motion that Ingram
be reappointed to a three-
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direct the city clerk to in-
vestigate the petition for an-
nexation.
Commissioner Humes
Houston, chairman of the an-
nexation study committee
during the Moss administra-
tion, and who voted against
previous satellite requests
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PAUL JACKSON
retiring in 1974 when the Withrow’s Funeral Home on
Herald was sold to Mr. and East King Street.
Hospital.
Surviving are his wife,
Eloise H. Jackson; two
daughters, Melvenia M.
Hurts Youth
Mark Crawford, 17,
KMSHS senior football
Dlaver and wrestler, is a
lucky young man.
Young Crawford and 50-100
young people were snow sled-
ding on ‘“The Hill” at Down-
ing Drive and Wales Road
Friday when Crawford fell
from an innertube being pull-
ed by a car and struck a
street sign. pr :
Several )
other young fl
people were
on the inner-
tube also and
a friend was §
driving the
curve, the in-
nertube apparently swung
out and Crawford hit the
street sign, the heavy impact
damaging his right kidney
and causing internal
bleeding.
Crawford underwent
emergency surgery for
several hours at Kings Moun-
tain Hospital Friday about
midnight. He was rushed to
the hospital at 8 p.m. for tests
and exploratory surgery.
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granted by the old board in
split decisions, seconded.
The truck stop, owned by
Chevrolet dealer Testa, is not
contiguous to the city limits.
Two other annexation peti-
tions were on Tuesday’s
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Mrs. W. Garland Atkins. He
was custodian for several
years at First Baptist
Church.
Mr. Jackson died suddenly
Friday in the Kings Mountain
Jackson and Paula R.
Jackson, all of the home; four
grandchildren, and two
sisters, Missouri J. Morgan
of Kings MOuntain and Mar-
tha J. Mitchem of Brooklyn,
New York.
The family will receive
friends Wednesday night
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