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The second annual Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce Sports Hall of Fame
banquet will be held Monday at 7 p.m. at the
Kings Mountain Community Center.
Mack Brown, head football coach at the
University of North Carolina, will be the
guest speaker. He will be introduced by
Kings Mountain native Jim Heavner of
Chapel Hill, who is president of Village
Broadcasting and analyst for the Tar Heel
Sports Network which broadcasts Carolina
football and basketball games,
Three individuals and the 1964 KMHS
championship football team will be inducted
into the Hall of Fame. The individuals are
Jim Dickey, who was a star lineman at
Paul Hord
Eyes Return
To KM Board
Paul Hord Jr. announced today
that he will run for another four-
year term on the Kings Mountain
District Schools Board of
Education.
Hord will complete seven years
of service in November. His out-
side city seat is up for election
along with the outside city seat of
Chairman Bill McDaniel and the
inside city seat of Priscilla Mauney.
Lineberger,
who had re-
signed after
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the district.
PAUL HORD
Hord then won election to the final
two years of Lineberger's term then
won a full-year term in the 1985
election.
McDaniel has been on the board
for two terms and Mrs. Mauney
was recently appointed to fill the
term of Kyle Smith, who resigned
after being elected mayor. Neither
has announced whether or not
they'll seek their seats again.
Filing for the three seats will be
held July 5-August 5 at the
Cleveland County Board of
Elections in Shelby.
"I consider it a great honor that
the citizens of our school district
have placed their trust and confi-
dence in me by electing me to the
school board for the past 6 1/2
years,” Hord said. "Since I have
served on the board we've been
KM Hall Of Fame
KMHS in the late 1930's and at Catawba
College in the 1940's; Marjorie Crisp of
Grover, the retired women's athletic director
at Wake Forest University; and Pat Murphy,
quarterback of the 1964 KMHS
championship football team who later made
All-American at Appalachian State
University. The new inductees join the late
Jake Early, John Henry Moss, George Adams
and Kevin Mack in the KM Hall of Fame.
Tickets, which are $10 each, may be
obtained at Harper's Pharmacy, the Kings
Mountain Herald, McGinnis Department
Store, C&S Mart, Western Auto, Sagesport,
Plonk Brothers, or from Johnny McGinnis,
Bob Maner, Carl Champion, Lynne Mauney,
Step aside Orel Hershiser. Tuesday's warm, sunny weather brought
six-year-old Daniel Mauney, son of Ted and Kathy Mauney of Kings
Mountain, outside to play some catch. There may be very few opportu-
nities for youngsters to get outside the rest of the week as the weather-
man is calling for rain through Friday.
anquet
Bill Grissom, Scott Neisler, Denny Hicks,
John Moss, Gary Stewart, Lyn Cheshire or
Bob Jones.
"The Hall of Fame committee has worked
long and hard to make this second banquet a
success, and we hope all of the people of the
Kings Mountain area will come out and help
honor these outstanding inductees,” said Carl
Champion, committee chairman.
The inductees read like a Who's Who of
high school and college sports in this area.
Jim Dickey is one of only a handful of
athletes to play five years of high school
football. He was a junior in 1939 when the
Kings Mountain School System decided to
add the 12th grade. So, he and some of his
Monday
friends dropped English so they could return
in 1940 and play football. Dickey and
teammate Jim Gibson, a star running back,
were regarded as two of the top players in the
western end of the state. Both made All-
Western Conference in an era in which the
confernce included 18 schools from all over
the western part of the state.
Dickey signed a scholarship with Catawba
and played two years there before having his
career interrupted because of World War II.
He joined the U.S. Marine V-12 program and
played Marine football for several years with
some of the top professional and major
college stars of that time.
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involved in implementing some
building programs, re-organization
plans and many other programs
that have made our schools the
good schools that they are today.
"I know the duties and responsi-
bilities of a board member," he
continued. "I have made every ef-
fort to listen to everyone, to deter-
mine public opinion and to repre-
sent the people to the best of my
abilities."
Hord and other members of the
current board were responsible for
bringing Dr. Bob McRae back to
Kings Mountain as superintendent
when Bill Davis retired. McRae
was principal of Kings Mountain
High before moving to Asheboro
See Hord, Page 9-A
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JIM HEAVNER
George's Grade: A
City Manager's Decisions, Negotiations
Have Saved Kings Mountain
By LIB STEWART
Of the Herald Staff
After 11 months as Kings Mountain City Manager
in a new era of city government for this community
George Wood would get an A+ on a report card rating
by his constituents.
"George is tops in our book," said Mayor Kyle
Smith who credits Wood with being a top-notch ad-
ministrator whose first big decision saved the city big
bucks to the tune of $3 million in the recent $14 mil-
lion Crowders Creek Wastewater Sewer project, a co-
operative venture between the City of Gastonia,
Gaston County , Bessemer City and Kings Mountain
and which resulted in Kings Mountain agreeing to pay
industrial rates for services but only upfront money of
$500,000.
In a meeting last Tuesday night the council ap-
proved a contract with Cleveland County, in which the
county agrees to turn over to the city county-owned
water and sewer lines attached to the city system. The
contract had previously been approved by county com-
missioners. City Councilman Harold Phillips recalled
that two years age, Wie city approached the County
abont baying the lines and the county had asked for
'$650,000. Phillip said at the meeting last week that
"Kings Mountain didn't have the money."
Phillips praised Wood for the negotiations that
brought about the new contract.
"I sleep well at night since we hired George (Wood)
who had a big job to do. The Council backs him 100
percent," said the mayor.
Wood said hiring the right people for key positions
at City Hall and a reorganization of Public Works,
computerized bookkeeping and cutting down on the
number of personnel-related lawsuits and medical in-
surance costs are positive results of improved commu-
nication among the employees and management
which the public can readily see by coming to City
Hall or attending city council meetings.
Wood praised the Mayor and Council for acting on
tough issues in such a short period of time and praised
leaders of government in Cleveland and Gaston coun-
ties for their wide spirit of cooperation. "Since I have
been here I have seen a real spirit of working through
problems. The city also looks forward to working with
schools, * Economic Development Commission and
Chamber of Commerce for the betterment of the com-
munity," he said.
“T have never seen such a spirit of cooperation as I
Millions
GEORGE WOOD
have witnessed over the past few months," said Smith,
praising citizens for their support during an adjustment
period from Mayor-Board to City Manager-Council
form of government which Smith proposed when he
ran for Mayor and was elected in December 1987 suc-
ceeding John Henry Moss, who retired after 22 1/2
years as mayor and chief executive officer of the city.
The tough decisions made by Council have included
substantially raising rates of water and sewer, which
went into effect April 1; calling for a $9 million bond
issue for improvements to the utility systems which
narrowly passed in February; and the employment of
key personnel which for the first time created a per-
sonnel office at City Hall. A city engineer was hired to
head up the revamped Public Works Department and a
new recreation director was hired to head up the ex-
See Wood, Page 8-A
Annexation Being Studied
Kings Mountain city officials are looking at three
areas for possible annexation in 1989 and feasibility
study is underway by planners of the N. C.
Department of Natural Resources and Community
Development at request of City Council.
City Manager George Wood identified the areas as:
*U. S. 74 West where the biggest problem is there is
no sewer but two years after annexation the city
would, under law, have to provide sewer, in addition to
all city services. Wood said the current study is com-
paring the cost if property owners bear the cost and
the city puts in the lines. Water is already available in
the area of Shelby Highway and some residents have
already tapped on to the line. City planner Eugene
White said the proposed area is 400-500 feet on the
north and south side of U. S. 74 at a point near the
National Guard Armory west to Crocker Road in the
area of the Veterinary Clinic on Shelby Highway. Most
of the area is not incorporated and includes, for in-
stance, McDonald's and the area of South Roxford
Road near the city limits west commonly known as the
West Gold Extension on the south side.
*Kings Mountain Industrial Park on N. C. 161 be-
cause of its tax base potential. This area is Second
Street Extension and borders 161 on the east and
Second Street on the west.
*A small area along York Road beyond I-85 south
where Transco has a delivery point and because of
See Annexation, Page 8
A Miracle For A Swell 'Guy’
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Of the Herald Staff
"It's a miracle Mama, I can see," said 15-year-old
Anthony Guy Friday at Duke Hospital where he un-
derwent a seven-hour operation last Wednesday for a
brain tumor.
oss Ed and Judy Guy brought
Anthony home Wednesday where
his older brother, Jeff, and friends
| welcomed them back home after
| along three weeks in Durham.
"Without the support of so
many Kings Mountain friends
like our pastor, Eric Faust, our
family and co-workers of Ed at
Kings Mountain Junior High
we just couldn't have made it,"
said Mrs. Guy who said the fami-
ly "is blessed."
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Hospital for 28 radiation treatments after two weeks at 33
home. He will be staying at the hospital during the
week and returning home on weekends. Mrs. Guy said
Anthony will be able to make up his school work: this PAGES TODAY
summer. "Would you believe that he was tutored here
in the hospital in math, science, English and history
See Guy, Page 9-A