PLAN PARK IMPROVEMENTS-Grover Town Board, above, are making improvements to Brice
Harry Memorial Park. Above, studying the plans, are Sandra Ellis, clerk Debora Philbeck, Mayor Bill
McCarter, Ronald Queen and Don Rich.
Grover Needs Policeman
Grover Town Board is still looking for a policeman,
although an officer was hired to report for work July 3.
"We had the position filled but the young man de-
cided to go to Lincolnton instead,"said Mayor Bill
McCarter Monday night as the board set July 24 to in-
terview another applicant for the job.
Two other new employees are on the job. Debora G.
Philbeck is the new Town Clerk and Hoyt Brooks is
maintenance worker.
At the July 24 meeting the board will draw up more
stringent ordinances governing in-town trailers and
trailer parks. Town Attorney Andy Neisler was asked
to beef-up the town mobile home ordinance, amending
it to stipulate that a mobile home can't be placed on the
same tract of land with a permanent dwelling and a lot
can't be sub-divided for two lots.
The board was responding to two citizen requests
for placement of trailers. Commissioner Sandra Ellis
said detailed diagrams of the requests should be
brought to the next meeting of the board for further
study. The board denied request by one mobile home
owner who wants to pay his water tap fee on a month-
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Kings Mountain High school and attended Cleveland
| @ommunity College and Gaston College where he
completed the courses of instruction in Police Science
and Criminal Investigations. He is a member of
Macedonia Baptist Church, a member of the Cleveland
County Law Enforcement Association and former
member of the Kings Mountain Rescue Squad and
Kings Mountain Volunteer Fire Department.
"I have demonstrated over the years my dedication
and hard work for the betterment of the community,"
he said. White, along with retired Fire Chief Gene
Tignor, co-founded the Kings Mountain Historical
Museum on Cleveland Avenue in 1975 and helped
reestablish the Christmas parade in 1975 which has
since been an annual event sponsored by Kings
Mountain Fire Department.
In a filing statement, White said that "I feel the
knowledge I acquired during the John Moss adminis-
tration gives me great insight into the handling of city
business.” )
A Kings Mountain native, Sanders has worked at
Spectrum 18 years. He is a member of First Wesleyan
Church and is active in the Kings Mountain Optimist
Club and City Recreation Committee. He and his wife,
Barbara Jane Moss Sanders, recently celebrated their
27th wedding anniversary. They have four children:
Lisa Moore, Rachel Sanders, Forrest Sanders and
Timothy Sanders, all of Kings Mountain, and five
grandchildren.
Houston, veteran member of the Kings Mountain
Council, has served 14 years, including three two-year
Scouts To ID
ly basis. The town charges a $350 water tap fee and a
$50 sewer tap fee to new customers to hook on to the
town water and sewer lines.
Commissioner Ronald Queen will take bids for
fencing and heavy duty gates for Brice Harry
Memorial Park. Queen said that four-wheel drive vehi-
cles are ruining the grass. "Grover spent $15,000 in
improvements at the Park, said Queen, who said that
four feet high fence is needed around the facility.
"Even the truck loads of dirt I hauled in the Park are
gone," he said. The Board will receive the bids at the
July 24 meeting.
McCarter said the 12-acre Grover Park was recently
inspected and passed with flying colors. "We have the
green light on this project,” he said.
The Board accepted the low bid of $13,740 from
Steel & Tank Service of Fort Mill, S. C. for repairs and
painting of the town water tank. The tank has not been
painted since it was installed in 1962, said McCarter,
who noted that the work will include sandblasting and
painting inside and out.
terms and two four-year terms. " I feel we have a pro-
gressive government and want to see projects complet-
-ed that I have had a part in," he said. Houston serves
on the Utility committee and also on the personnel
committee which recently updated city personnel poli-
cies he initiated when he was chairman of the person-
nel policy in 1976. A retired Major in the U. S. Army
who founded the North Carolina National Guard nit
in Kings Mountain in 1948, he is also a retired '#m-
ployee of Kings Mountain Drug Company and
Cornwell Drug Company. He was recipient of the
Bronze Star Medal twice and was on active duty in
1941-46 in the European Theater of Operations with
the 302nd Infantry Regiment as part of the 94th
Infantry Division. He won four campaign stars in
North France, Rhineland, Ardenes/Alsace and Central
Europe. He is a 1936 graduate of Kings Mountain
High School. His son, Dr. Sam H. Houston Jr., is su-
perintendent of Mooresville City Schools. Houston
and wife, Dot, reside at 201 South Deal Street. He is
active in First Presbyterian Church, a Mason, a mem-
ber of the Kiwanis Club and American Legion Post
1585.
A Kings Mountain native, Camp is retired from mil-
itary duty in both the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Camp of
Kings Mountain, he and his wife, Doris Morrison
Camp, reside at 403 N. Cansler St. He is a member of
the Nazarene Church. The Camps are parents of five
children: Tony Camp of Dallas, Mike Camp of
Gastonia, Ann Bolin, Robbie Johnson and Kelly
Goforth, all of Kings Mountain.The family includes 11
grandchildren.
The filing period closes on Aug. 4 at noon at the
home of Elections Board Chairman Becky Cook,
Meadowbrook Road. Filing fee is $36.
Houses In City
As an Eagle Scout service pro-
ject, Lindsey Suber and other Boy
Scouts in Troop 92 will begin a co-
operative effort with the Kings
Mountain Aging Program next
week to ensure that homes of se-
nior citizens are properly num-
bered. ?
Suber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
Suber, asked permission from City
Council Tuesday to begin the pro-
ject which is in line with the city's
plans to adopt the "911" county-
wide emergency system which re-
quires that all houses be properly
identified with correct addresses or
numbers.
Boy Scouts will be available to
paint house numbers on curbs for
senior citizens to allow quick iden-
tification of the house for police,
fire and medical services.
City Council endorsed the pro-
ject.
Aging Director = Monty
Thornburg said that several Eagle
Scout candidates will be leading
the project.
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Suber said the project could be
completed in two visits to each se-
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nior citizen's home-for painting the SAGESPORT
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Donald Rich Files For Grover Board
Donald Rich paid his $5 filing fee Monday in
Grover and announced he is a candidate for reelection
to Grover Town Board.
Three seats are up for grabs this election year and
filing opened Friday. Grover citizens will elect three
town commissioners on Nov. 7 at the polls. Candidate
filing ends Aug. 4 at noon.
The four year-term of Jim Howell on the board is al-
so expiring. Voters will choose a third commissioner to
succeed the late Grady Ross, whose term also expired
this year.
Other board members, whose terms are not up this
year, are Mayor Bill McCarter, Mayor Pro Tem Ronald
Queen and Sandra Ellis.
Dr. Crowley To Join Grover Practice
Dr. Richard V. Crowley has joined Dr. Joseph H.
Talley in the practice of general medicine at Grover
Medical Clinic, 328 Laurel Avenue, Grover.
Dr. Crowley, of Kings Mountain, was formerly asso-
ciated with Kings Mountain Family Practice, 711 West
Mountain Street, in the practice of general medicine.
The Crowley family will continue to reside in Kings
Mountain.
Hospital Lab Is Accredited
The Laboratory at Cleveland
Memorial Hospital Inc., Shelby,
has been awarded a two-year ac-
creditation by the Commission on
Laboratory Accreditation of the
College of American Pathologists,
by a CAP team consisting of a
pathologist and three laboratory
technologists. The team examined
the procedures and quality control
records of the laboratory for the
preceding two years, as well as the
qualifications of the staff, the ade-
quacy of facilities, the equipment,
laboratory safety policy, and labo-
ratory management to determine
how well the laboratory is serving
the patients and physicians.
Whitesides.
based on results of a recent on-site
inspection.
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The inspection was conducted
Council
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with all requirements to notify the
owners to repair or demolish the
structure and, to date, none has
been done.
In other actions, Council adopt-
ed resolution confirming assess-
ment rolls for Hawthorne Road,
amended resolutions confirming
the assessment roll to decrease the
levy of assessments on both
Oakland Street and Heritage Court.
The amounts were reduced after
city staffers compared the cost per
lineal foot using standard specifi-
cations. Hawthorne residents will
be billed for $5,038.60, Oakland
residents will be billed for
$7,666.17 and Hermitage Court
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residents will be billed for
$5,605.56 which represents 50% of
the cost of curb and gutter and im-
provements. j
The Board amended the zoning
map to rezone from NB to R-10
property of Betty and Otha
Campbell and referred to the
Planning and Zoning Board request
for rezoning from Kathleen
Bridges, who wants to construct a
restaurant on her property east of
York Road.
Council approved the final plat
for Mountain Manor Subdivision
which is being developed by Henry
City Manager George Wood dis-
played the new Codes of"
Ordinances. A copy is available
to the public in the City Clerk's of-
fice and at Mauney Memorial
Library. @ Municipal Code
Corporation, Tallahassee, Fla., was
hired by the city about 18 months
ago to update the code book which
provides a penalty for the violation
for certain ordinances and for the
repeal of certain ordinances. Since
zoning and sub-division ordinances
are being reviewed and are amend-
ed frequently, a complete list is not
included in the Code Book but can
be obtained in the Clerk's office.
Mayor Pro Tem Norma Bridges
presided in the absence of Mayor
Kyle Smith, who recently under-
went an appendectomy and is recu-
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