Flat Nose
From Page 4-A
him that he may have a good thing on his hands, and
Odom began working with him.
"He called my cousin, Bill, an attorney in Rock Hill,
S.C., and told him he wanted to copyright the act,"
Godbold recalled. "Bill didn't believe it so we rode out
on a Sunday afternoon. Flat Nose climbed a tree for us
and I signed him on Monday."
Godbold, who works for Elizabeth Weaving in
Grover, first brought Barney and Flat Nose to this area
about a year ago when they did a free, private act for a
young leukemia patient. They came back to KM in
June to do a show for Plonk Brothers, which has pro-
vided clothing for Godbold for many national appear-
ances with Flat Nose.
Godbold has been flying back and forth to Raleigh
this week to visit Barney and Flat Nose. Flat Nose will
have to remain hospitalized for about a week and
Barney plans to stay the entire time.
"There was a guy from the Humane Society up there
the other night who was sort of having a negative atti-
tude," Godbold reported. "He asked us if we hadn't had
him climbing trees would he not have had this heart
problem. But Flat Nose did this on his own. He's al-
ways climbed on his own. Barney just trained him to
go at his command for safety reasons, so if he fell
someone would be there to catch him."
Flat Nose has been booked almost every Tuesday
and Thursday and every weekend over the past five
years. He's been on vitamins and heart worm pills for
sometime.
Flat Nose, 9, is thought to be the first celebrity dog
to have a pacemaker.
"I understand they've used animals in the past to do
surgeries before they did it in humans," said Godbold,
"but to our knowledge he was the first celebrity dog to
have a pacemaker installed and I'm sure he'll be
watched very carefully." He'll surely be watched close-
ly by the insurance company which carries his $1.2
million policy.
Flat Nose, who sees a vet in Hartsville, S.C., once a
week, suffers from a condition called arrhythmia, or ir-
regular heartbeat. The abnormal beating of the heart
has caused him to occasionally lose consciousness
when his heart did not supply enough blood to the
brain. A temporary pacing wire was implanted to regu-
late the heartbeat, followed by implantation of the per-
manent pacemaker wire in the heart and the attachment
of a generator.
Godbold hopes his future, even though it appears
uncertain at this time, will continue to be bright.
"I'm not going to let him do anything until
November," said Godbold. "He's scheduled each year
at the Southern 500 in Darlington, where he's the guest
of Dale Earnhart. Dale and Barney are good friends.
But I don't think I'll let him do that this year.
"Barney has another dog, Peeper, who is Flat Nose's
son, that can climb also, but not as well as Flat Nose.
He's been climbing a year and was on Johnny Carson a
couple months ago. If anything were to happen to Flat
Nose, his son would take over."
Bank
From Page 1-A
Additionally, the completion of
the transaction will be subject to
the successful sale of stock associ-
ated with Home Federal's mutual
stock conversion. Shares of stock
offered as a part of Home Federal's
conversion will be shares in Omni.
The membership of Home Federal
will be given the first priority to
buy shares in Omni. The proposed
transaction is expected to take
place by the end of this year or ear-
ly 1990.
Omni owns Home Federal
Savings Bank, Salisbury, North
Carolina and Citizens Savings, F.
S. B., Concord, North Carolina.
Omni was formed and acquired the
two institutions in December 1988.
Omni's stock is traded on the NAS-
DAQ System under the symbol
"OCGlL."
Many thrifts in recent years have
converted from mutual to stock
ownership as a way to raise capital
or net worth-the reserves thrifts are
required by law to set aside." That's
what the move will do for Home
Federal," Tate said.. "Qur capital. ..
base is good now, but this just
strengthens it." The stock sale will
add to the capital.
In a prepared statement, Jordan
and Tate stated that "we believe the
proposed transaction offers tremen-
dous advantages to both Omni and
Home Federal. Both will benefit
from the transaction with the re-
sults being a thrift institution with
stronger financial and managerial
resources, and greater geographic
and operational diversification than
if Home Federal continued to oper-
ate on its own. The multi-thrift
holding company format, with
Home Federal keeping its name
and local orientation, recognizes
the cooperative nature of the trans-
action."
Jordan said the Kings Mountain
thrift offers a chance for Omni to
expand into nearby small cities,
“the kind of market that we are tar-
geting."
Tate stated that "Home Federal's
normal business of accepting sav-
ings and making loans will contin-
ue without interruption throughout
the conversion process. After the
completion of the transaction,
Home Federal will continue to op-
erate independently under its pre-
sent management and staff.
Savings account holders will con-
tinue to hold accounts in each insti-
tution identical as to dollar amount,
rate of return and general terms
and such accounts will continue to
be insured by the Federal Savings
and Loan Insurance Corporation.
Borrowers' loans will be unaffected
by the conversion, with the
amount, rate, maturity, security and
other conditions remaining con-
tractually fixed as they existed pri-
or to the transaction."
Tate also said that "questions re-
lating to the proposed conversion
terials to be sent out by Home
Federal after all regulatory ap-
provals of the proposed plan of
holding company conversion have
been obtained." Tate stated that
questions at this time may be an-
swered by telephoning or writing
him at Home Federal or Jordan at
Omni.
At June 30, 1989, Omni had
consolidated assets of approxi-
mately $406,818,000 with eight of-
fices serving Rowan and Cabarrus
Counties.
Home Federal had assets at
June 30, 1989 of approximately
$101,784,000 and has its home of-
fice in Kings Mountain and a
branch in Gastonia and in
Thursday, August 3, 1989-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 5A
Weatherly's Bill Lodged In Senate Committee
Cleveland County's freshman Republican lawmaker,
John Weatherly, is determined to get his windshield
wiper-headlight bill passed in the next session of the
General Assembly.
As for this year, the issue is lodged in a Senate com-
mittee after passing the N.C. House by a 5-to-1 mar-
in.
? Weatherly says he's pleased the measure passed the
House and still hopes the bill will be passed through
the committee when the General Assembly convenes
for its short session in May of 1990.
The bill, if enacted into law, would require motorists
to burn their headlights whenever it is necessary to run
their windshield wipers because of rain or fog. Failure
comply would be classed as an infraction and penalty
for a violation would be a $5 fine, no court costs, no
driver license points and no insurance points.
Weatherly says his bill has the support of the N.C.
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Highway Patrol and the Carolina Motor Club and he
feels it would prevent some weather-related accidents
and deaths.
The bill would require student driver courses and
educational programs of the Department of Motor
Vehicles to persuade and educate motorists to use
headlights as an "I can see you and you can see me de-
fensive driving practice." Weatherly said highway ex-
perts say the ability to be seen and to see the other ve-
hicle is greatly improved when headlights and
taillights are burning.
Weatherly says his first year in the House has been
enhanced by working the bill through the legislative
process.
"The experience has really helped me lear the pro-
cess and learn what it takes to get legislation enacted,”
he said before returning to Raleigh Monday for what
lawmakers hope will be the last week of this session.
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