KM Weather
Precipitation
March 15-21, 1988
March 15-21, 1987
GRADING UNDERWAY-Grading is underway at the site as a Kiwanis Club project, the project was a big fund-raising
PHOTO BY GARY STEWART
of Kings Mountain Natatorium, indoor swimming complex on effort by the community.
the campus of Kings Mountain Senior High School. Initiated
John
Weatherly, 63,
retired in-
dustrial
forester who
resides on
Moss Lake, is
running for a
seat in the
N.C. House of |
Represen-WEATHERLY
tatives, 48th
District, to demonstrate
his life-long dedication to ef-
fective two party policy in
North Carolina.
“If voters are to have the
option of two parties, there
must be Republican ecan-
didates on the ballot. The fact
there never has been a
Republican elected to this of-
fice does not cause me to
believe I will not be elected
this November. I believe peo-
le are ready more than ever
or a change in their
legislative body’, he said this
week.
Weatherly, who is opposed
by three Democratic in-
cumbents Edith Lutz of
Polkville, Jack Hunt of Lat-
timore and Babe Owens of
Forest City, says he wants to
help bring into better balance
the makeup of the General
Assembly and offset the over-
whelming dominance by
Democrats.
Weatherly retired last year
after 35 years as District
Forester for Bowater
Carolina Co., a major paper
compnay, with offices in
Mooresboro. A native of Mc-
Coll, S.C, he is a graduate of
the University of Georgia and
retired from the Marine
Corps as a fighter pilot with
the rank of Major after five
years of service. He holds the
distinquished Flying Cross
with gold star and Air Medal
with eight gold stars. He is an
elder and Sunday School
teacher at Shelby
Presbyterian Church and has
been a Boy Scout leader for 30
year with Silver Beaver
Award. A Woodbridge
Scouter, he most recently
was a member of the Pied-
mont Council Camp Develop-
ment Committee responsible
for planning and building the
Mrs. Dixon Died Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs.
Blanche Patterson Dixon, 80,
of 209 N. Sims St., widow of
former Mayor Kelly Dixon,
will be held Friday at 3 p.m.
from Central United
Methodist Church of which
she was a member.
Her pastor, Rev. George
Auman, will officiate at the
rites and interment will be in
Mountain Cemetery.
Mrs. Dixon oo. Tuesday
morning.
She was the daughter of the
late Annie Huffstetler Patter-
son.
Surviving are four
daughters, Mrs. William A.
(Peggy) Tinsley, Mrs.
George G. (Marilyn)
MRS. KELLY DIXON
Hamrick and Mrs. Wayne R.
Becky Odell, all of Kings
Mountain, and Mrs. Allan
D.(Jo Ann) Ludquist of
Marion, Ohio; five sons,
Delbert Dixon, A. Lindberg
Dixon, Jacob A. Dixon, R.
Lane Dixon, all of Kings
Mountain, and Herbert D.
Dixon of Cary; 15 grand-
children and nine great-
grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers,
memorials may be made to
Central United Methodist
Church or the charity of the
donor’s choice.
The family will receive
friends Thursday night from
7 until 9 p.m. at Harris
Funeral Home.
Suit Dismissed, Appeal Filed
A $3.8 million lawsuit
against the City of Kings
Mountain filed by former
Mountain Rest Superinten-
dent Ken Jenkins was
dismissed in Cleveland Coun-
ty Superior Court last
Wednesday. Jenkins’ at-
torney Bill Lamb of Shelby
entered notice of appeal to
Cyprus To Take Over
Foote Mineral April 1
Cyprus Minerals Co. of
Englewood, Colo.,which
recently announced that it
has agreed in principle to ac-
quire Foote Mineral Com-
pany for $90 million, has
formed three new operating
companies in its metals sub-
sidiary, including the Kings
Mountain Foote Operation.
Management officials were
at the local plant last Friday
and expect to take over here
April 1.
L.E.(Gene) Dotson, local
Operations Manager, said the
Kings Mountain plant will
operate as Cyprus Specialty
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Donkey Game Saturday
The White Plains Shrine Club will sponsor its annual
donkey basketball game Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Kings
Mountain Community Center.
Shriners will be battling members of the Kings Mountain
Fire Department in a fund-raiser for Shriners hospitals for
crippled children and burn centers.
Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children. Advanced
tickets are $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for children and may be
purchased from any Shriner or at Linwood Produce on
Cleveland Avenue in Kings Mountain, or Green’s Tiny Mart
at 550 Cox Road in Gastonia.
Beginning at 5 p.m. members of the White Plains Shrinettes
will be selling hotdogs, hamburgers and other concessions
and Shriners will be giving free donkey rides for the
youngsters.
the N. C. Court of Appeals.
On Feb. 2, Judge Robert
Lewis of Ashevillle dismissed
four of seven claims in the ac-
tion filed in 1986 by Jenkins,
who ws fired by city commis-
sioners in 1985. Last Wednes-
day, the three libel charges
were dismissed ‘with pre-
judice’’, which prohibits
Jenkins from filing another
lawsuit on the same grounds.
Judge Lewis ruled on a mo-
tion for dismissal by KM City
Attorney Mickey Corry and
Charlotte attorney Wayne
Huckel who contended there
were ‘no genuine issues of
material fact’’issues usually
heard by a jury.
Named as defendants in the
suit, which never came to
trial, were former Mayor
John Henry Moss, Commis-
sioner Humes Houston, and
former Commissioners Irvin
Allen, James Dickey, Curtis
Gaffney and Corbet
Nicholson.
The libel claims stemmed
from three ' sources:
statements Commissioner
Allen made to the press, an
official press release com-
menting on Jenkins’
dismissal from the city and
the publication of a confiden-
tial report on Jenkins’ tenure
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Weatherly Running For N.C. House
Council Camp in Rutherford
County.
He was a vice chairman of
Catawba County Board of
Commisssioners in 1-70-74.
“I want to help governor
Jim Martin to be successful
with his program. He wants
to make North Carolina the
best state in the nation.”
‘“His program of education,
roads, and jobs should be sup-
ported, not obstructed.”
“I am the best candidate
because I am completely free
to serve the interests of the
people I will not be directed
y the interests of political
party, or the democrat power
rokers. With my experience
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FLY A KITE! -Brian War-
ren took advantage of Sun-
day’s high March winds to fly
a kite. Windy weather will
continue this week with
temperatures in the 60’s.
City officials have no plans
to float a bond issue to come
up with the city’s portion, $3.4
million, of a proposed $25
million regional Crowders
Creek Waste Treatment
Plant.
Mayor Kyle Smith said that
City Council will soon budget
$963,873 during its 1988-1989
budget year deliberations
and plans to get the money by
cutting expenditures in some
areas.
Smith said the wastewater
treatment plant proposed for
Kings Mountain and Gaston
County will be smaller-6
million gallon-and cost
less-$25.7 million-than earlier
anticipated. ‘“We have no
choice but to get these funds
and close down the overload-
ed McGill Treatment Plant to
open the surrounding areas
for development’’ said
Smith.
Members of the steering
committee representing City
of Kings Mountain, City of
Gastonia, Town of Bessemer
City and County of Gaston
heard a progress report from
consultants J. M. Pease Co,.
of Charlotte in a meeting
Monday with Gastonia’s
Public Works Supt. Sam
Wilkins.
Gene White, Commissioner
Al Moretz and Walt Ollis of
the city staff said the project
is ahead of schedule and mov-
ing “on a fast track.”” White
said the state has given ten-
tative approval of the project
The plant is te be located on
Crowders Creek near the
South Carolina line and would
serve Kings Mountain and
Gaston County residents.
White said consultants said
the least cost alternative,
subject to 201 study approval,
is $25,680,173. The city’s
share of the project to be
financed in three fiscal years
beginning 1988-89 is
$3,400,000. The city’s cost will
be $963,873 for the first year;
$1,504,000 to be budgeted in
fiscal year 1989-90 and
$537,000 to be budgeted in
1990-91 or 26 prcent of the
total project cost. The state of
North Carolina will be con-
tributing 55 percent or $14
million. Gastonia City will be
providing 35 percent of the
cost, Gaston County 32 per-
cent of the cost and Bessemer
City seven percent of the
cost. The total cost does not
include engineering and ad-
ministrative fees.
White said the plant is now
at the 10 percent review stage
and the 50 percent review
stage will come the first week
of May. He said the state will
look at structural,
mechanical, electrical, ar-
chitectural costs,etc. and
determine if there are ways
to cut down on the cost. Lead
agency Gastonia will submit
design plans and specifica-
tions on Aug. 1.
“The City of Kings Moun-
tain’s major concern is get-
ting our committees together
and making certain all have a
clear understanding of this
mammoth project and be in a
position to make com-
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Highest Temperature 79 (21st) 72 (21st) 3 Coa
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mitments on behalf of the city
and execute interlocal
agreements’ said White.
Inter-local agreements are
to be signed on June 1 and
schedule for tentative grant
offer is Sept.30 with bids to go
out in December or early
January 1989. Construction
would begin 18 months after
bid-letting of the project,
about late 1992, said White.
Mayor Smith said if the Ci-
ty of Kings Mountain built a
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Tickets
On Sale
Tickets for the first an-
nual Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce
Sports Hall of Fame are on
sale at several downtown
locations and from
members of the Hall of
Fame committee.
Tickets are $10 each and
may be purchased at the
Chamber of Commerce Of-
fice, McGinnis Depart-
ment Store, First Federal
Savings and Loan, Goforth
Plumbing, Kings Mountain
High School and the Kings
Mountain Herald.
Four men will be in-
ducted and Marty Schot-
tenheimer, head coach of
the Cleveland Browns, will
be the guest speaker. Other
guests include Danny
Ford, head football coach
at Clemson University,
Dan Brooks, defensive line
coach for the University of
North Carolina, former
Gardner-Webb College
basketball coach Eddie
Holbrook, and Earnest
Byner, runningback with
the Cleveland Browns.
Inductees will be the late
Jake Early, who caught in
the major leagues for
almost 10 years; George
Adams, three-time
Gardner-Webb All-
American basketballer
who played four years in
the ABA; John Henry
Moss, president of the
South Atlantic League;
and Kevin Mack, runn-
ingback with the Cleveland
Browns who was the AFC
Rookie of the Year and
breaker of Jim Brown’s
rookie rushing records.
Symphony To Be Planned
At Wednesday Breakfast
Breakfast
with One(pro-
nounced
Onay) will be
given for pre-
sent and past
Shonen of
the Kings
Mountain
Symphony on
Wednesday, |
March 30 at
8:30 a.m. at
the Kings
Mountain Holiday Inn.
Darryl One
Darryl One, the new assis-
tant conductor of the
Charlotte Symphony, will
present highlights of the con-
cert’s program at the
breakfast. The Kings Moun-
tain Senior High School
Chorus will also perform.
To be a sponser, call Hallie
Blanton at 739-5156. This pro-
gram is sponsered by the
Kings Mountain School
system.
One, a Chicago native,
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