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Judge Lewis did not rule on
motions to dismiss three
claims of libel against the ci-
ty but gave Shelby attorney
Bill Lamb until Feb. 29 to pro-
duce evidence that one or
more of the city officials
named in the suit were
responsible for allowing the
publication of a confidential
report regarding Jenkins’
tenure at the cemetery.
KEN JENKINS
Five hundred new jobs this
year! That’s the ambitious
goal of the newly-formed
Kings Mountain Economic
Development Commission.
The new commission, Spon-
sored by the KM Chamber of
Commerce, is off and running
following an organizational
luncheon meeting attended
by 18 of 22 members Monday
with Chairman John H
against the city in 1986 nam-
ing former Mayor John
Henry Moss, Commissioner
Humes Houston and former
commissioners Irvin M.
Allen, Jr., James Dickey,
Curtis Gaffney and Corbet
Nicholson.
In affadavits presented to
the court the defendants con-
tend they did not keep their
noting that two new in-
dustries locating on Grover
Road will bring in 250 new
employees and half the goal.
Insuranceman Larry
Hamrick reminded that the
Moss-Hinnant-Ollie Harris-
led industrial team had a
track record of 4700 new jobs
in the last 18 years in Kings
Mountain ‘and that with ex-
pansion of already-existing
turned it over to Lam
ly after Jenkins was
Judge Lewis said he would
rule on all the libel claims
and Jenkins request to
recover punitive damages
against the city during the
Feb. 29 term of court.
Attorney Lamb says he in-
tends to appeal the rulings.
Economic Committee Predicts
500 New Jobs For This Area
plants the goal of 500 new jobs
in 1988 could be surpassed.
“With the vision and
resources we have in this
room on this committee there
is no stopping us’’, said Moss.
Committee chairmen to be
named include: development
team, promotional and
marketing, research for
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Last-minute filing Monday
by two Kings Mountain
Oak View Baptist Church hosted
Brazilian minister Josue Oliveira and his
interpreter and youth director Ismael
Govea for a series of services, which end
this evening at 7 p.m.
“It’s been an exhilarating experience for
our congregation’, said Rev. Robbie
Moore, pastor, who first met 30-year-old
Govea in 1982 when Moore joined a Texas
Baptist Convention team in Rio de Janeiro
and visited in Taua Baptist Church of which
Oliveira is now pastor. More than half the
membership of the 787 member church is
youth and Govea is music director for six
choirs, plays piano and organ, and speaks
English, Portugeuse and Spanish fluently.
He teaches music, English and language in
private school.
Govea credits Rev. Moore with the
witness challenge he has found since Moore
first invited him to be an interpreter for a
pastor friend in Texas in 1982. Govea has
witnessed for the Lord since and become a
valuable tool in the ministry. ‘He is using
his gift,” said Moore.
Oliveira, who speaks a little English, was
enjoying his first trip to America this week.
Govea visited in Kings Mountain last year
with the Moore family and they invited him
to return this year with his pastor to hold
revival services. From Kings Mountain, the
team goes to Lubbock, Texas, then to
Dallas, Texas and then to Jackson, Miss.
before returning home. ;
Govea said he is finding the climate here
to his liking, preferring 15-20 degree lows to
hot, sweltering 120 degree high
temperatures in his hometown, population
10 million.
The Oak View Baptist Church revival
opened with Youth Night on Saturday and
Govea talked about his own experiences,
growing up in a Christian home and then
following the crowd out of curiosity to ex-
periment in drugs, life in a liberal environ-
ment and then giving his life to Christ.
“Youth in my country have the same pro-
blems as the youth here in Kings
Mountain,” he said. “God can help you as
he has helped me to grow in the faith.
Speaking through his interpreter, Rev.
Oliveira said that the secret of getting youth
in the church is to get them involved, “Pay
attention to them, he said, and give them
something to do.” One of the high points of
their work with youth of the church was tak-
ing a group of choir members who
presented 200 concerts all over Brazil, sing-
ing in churches, on beaches and in other
areas for “the glory of God.”
Utility Rates Going Down
March 1 utility bills to cit
custorners will reflect an ad-
ditional 2.65 percent rate
reduction -- for the average
customer a savings of $11 to
$12 a month. :
City Clerk Marvin Chappell
said that city customers have
‘actually received a total 5.35
decrease since December.
“We hope this news will
help somewhat in view of the
fact that the
snowstorm pushed utility
bills higher and the month of
they reflect electrical use for
coldest months of the year”,
he said. ; ;
Southeastern Engineering,
that 37 days worth of service
“are included on some of the
recent
February normally brings ars
higher utility bills because said.
December and January, our
electrical consultants for the usage.”
City of Kings Mountain,
made the recommendations
for the rate decrease this
week to Mayor Kyle Smith.
Chappell said that the 12
inch snow occurred during
the prime reading time for
electrical meter readers and
utility bills going out to
customers. “Because of the
heavy snow the meter
readers couldn’t get into the
area to read the meters’’, he
“Since more days are
included the bills will be
higher. Schools and
businesses closed during the
snowstorm also and there
was more cooking and
cluding expansion of existing
industry. Her motion was
quickly seconded by Glee E.
Bridges, retired hard-
wareman, who said he plann-
ed to push for more jobs and
economic development in the
city. “I have all the time to
spend now on something I
really love to do”, he said.
Other business and profes-
sional leaders, including
bankers, attorneys, and State
Senator J. Ollie Harris
echoed their enthusiasm.
Members wouldn’t
volunteer for specific tasks
on the commission but
authorized the chairman to
make committee appoint-
ments and Chamber of Com-
merce Secretary Lucille
Williams to distribute them
by mail in the next week or
two and set regular meetings
for first Tuesdays, each
month at noon.
Senator Harris asked Moss
and County Commission
Chairman L.E. Hinnant to
continue as co-chairman of
the industrial committee,
Republicans make it a race in
the District House and Senate
races.
Bruce Scism, who ran two
years ago, seeks one of the
N.C. Senate seats held by in-
cumbents J. Ollie Harris of
Kings Mountain and Marshal
Rauch and Helen Rhyne Mar-
vin, both of Gastonia.
John Weatherly, also Of
Kings Mountain, who served
from 1970-74 as a county com-
missioner in Catawba Coun-
ty, seeks one of the three
seats now held by incumbents
Edith Lutz and Jack Hunt,
both of Cleveland County,
and Charles W. Owens of
Forest City.
The 48th House District in-
cludes Cleveland, Ruther-
ford, and Polk Counties.
The 25th Senatorial District
includes Cleveland, Gaston,
Lincoln and Rutherford
Counties.
Scism, an excavating con-
tractor, lives on Scism Gin
Road in the Oak Grove Com-
munity.
BRUCE SCISM
Weatherly, of Route 3,
retired last year as a district
forester for paper company
Bowater Carolina.
Also filing for a House seat
is Democrat Don Holland, of
Route 5, Forest City which
assures a May primary with
incumbents Owens, Lutz and
Hunt.
Also filing for the House
seat on the Republican ticket
was Richard Hoagland of
Route 1, Forest City.
Grover’s Harry, KM’s Greer
File For County Commissioner
A Republican challenge in
the Cleveland County Board
of Commissioner race, in
which 11 Democrats have fil-
ed, was assured this week
with the announcement by
Charlie Harry, president and
treasurer of Grover In-
dustries, and Charles F.
Greer of Kings Mountain that
they plan to seek two of the
three seats up for grabs.
Terms of Joyce Falls
Cashion, Gene LeGrand and
Jack Spangler, expire later
this year. Mrs. Cashion and
Spangler have filed along
with 11 Democrats, including
William P. Mayes, Wiley H.
Allen, Robert E. Devoe,
Ralph Gilbert, Jr.,
A. Ledford, Joe E. Cabaniss,
CHARLIE HARRY
Charles H. Beam, Jr, James
Kenneth C. Sanders and Thomas A.
Brown.
Both Mrs. Cashion and
Wiley H. Allen are of Kings
Mountain. The other can-
didates are from the Shelby
area.
Harry, native of Grover,
also ran in 1984 and 1986.
He said he had been en-
couraged by a number of peo-
ple to offer again as a can-
didate and because of ‘‘my
continuing interest in
Cleveland County’’, he said.
Harry said a number of im-
ortant issues face the county
ut he believes the issue of
water is a critical one. Harry
said the rest of the county
needs to follow the lead of the
Upper Cleveland Sanitary
District.