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VOL.102 NO.1
Two days after Christmas Leonard Anderson got
his Christmas wish. He underwent a successful liver
transplant at Duke Hospital in Durham and his family
says he is "doing well."
The 38-year-old Martin Road resident has needed a
liver since July and Christmas Day the call came from
Duke Hospital that a donor was available.
Leonard, his wife, Joy, their daughter, Tina, her
mother, Mrs. Helen Roberts, and other members of the
family, including Bill Roberts, Mr. and Mrs.. Grady
Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Roberts, Mickey
Anderson, Betty Ivey and Lisa Ivey went to Durham.
Leonard's positive attitude was contagious but their ex-
Rosencrans
Named Clerk
Kings Mountain's new City Clerk-Treasurer is
Jeffrey S. Rosencrans, of Lancaster, S. C., who as-
sumes his new duties Jan. 29 as finance director at
starting, annual salary of
$34,197.00. :
City Manager ‘George
Wood announced at a press confer-
ence Wednesday morning that
Rosencrans, finance director of the
City of Lancaster, S. C. for four
years, was hired from a field of 75
applicants for the /position vacated
by Marvin Chappell in November.
Rosencrans, in his late 30's,
will be introduced to members’ of
ROSENCRANS City Council at the Jan. 30 meeting
at City Hall.
A graduate of St. Andrews Presbyterian College
{ swith By S. in Business Administration, Rosencrans
holds an A.A. degree in accounting from Sand Hills
Community College in Southern Pines. He will receive
his certification as a municipal financial administrator
later this month from the Municipal Treasurer's
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citement was short-lived. A doctor told them the
Texas liver could not be used. The family returned
home the day after Christmas and Leonard's name re-
mained on the waiting list for a kidney.
Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. the hospital called again
and Anderson was notified that he was again on stand-
by for a new liver. His surgeon flew to Michigan and
brought the liver back to Durham and the Anderson
and Roberts families got in their cars again Friday
evening and drove to the hospital. At 8 a.m. Saturday
morning, Anderson went into surgery with a team of
surgeons and came out of surgery nine hours later with
anew liver.
Liver
His wife said Anderson made
her day when he said,"Come here
Mama Moo" when she walked into
the Intensive Care Unit for her
first visit with him after surgery.
Doctors have told the family
that Anderson will be in intensive
care for five to seven days .
Wednesday he was sitting on the
side of the bed and was expected
to be moved to Intermediate Care,
said his brother-in-law, Bill
Roberts. ANDERSON
Photo oy Dieter Melhorn
JUNIOR HIGH CONSTRUCTION - Comnstruetion workers work on the 700f of a new classroom addi-
tion at Kings Mountain Junior High, which will become Kings Mountain Middle School next year.
Construction will continue at both the junior and senior highs in 1990 and school officials also hope to be-
gin new construction at some elementary schools.
Trash Big Priority In '90
The new year may see some changes in our habits
of handling trash.
The unsightly Midpines Greenbox on Margrace
Road may soon become the site of Cleveland County's
next manned recycling center, says Larry Hamrick Sr,,
Kings Mountain businessman who is chairman of the
Cleveland County Solid Waste Advisory Board
(SWAB).
"Recycling education is on everybody's mind as we
move into 1990 and the way we handle trash is going
to affect our pocketbooks even more into the new
year," he said. "Don't be surprised to see tipping or
user fees at the landfill during 1990 where the county
is building the first of several manned green box/recy-
cling centers," Hamrick predicts.
Kings Mountain is following Shelby's lead in in-
stalling a recycling center and city officials, in cooper-
Moss Learning
To Walk Again
Time and more therapy are key ingredients to
Emmett Moss' success story.
The 52-year-old city employee was painfully injured
when a car slammed into a barricade where he was
fixing a broken water line Saturday, Aug. 12, between
4:30 and 5:30 a.m. at the corner of Mountain and
Juniper Streets.
His co-workers tease him that Emmett's big 220- _§ :
pound frame may have saved his life.
Moss gives the credit to God and a caring family,
friends, neighbors and co-workers who encouraged
him to learn to walk again and to laugh, in spite of the
pain.
After four weeks flat on his back in the hospital
with broken limbs and multiple blood clots, Moss
came home for two weeks and was back in the hospital
another week with infection.
But now he's definitely on the mend.Three weeks
ago the cast was removed from his left leg and he slept
in his own bed for the first time in 4 1/2 months, stor-
ing the hospital bed his wife, Hilda, had set up for him
in the den of their home on Fulton Road. His leg won't
bend and his arms ache but he walks around, if diffi-
cult, with the aid of a cane and uses his wheelchair. He
has driven his car a couple times up to the Public
Works Building for lunch with Karl Moss and Bill
McMurray. He's been to church once at First Baptist
Church but finds himself short-winded and tires easily
if he stays up all day. Cold days finds him in front of
the fire with a book or television or rereading the sev-
eral hundred cards he has received from friends or
See Moss, 10-A
ation with the Cleveland County Health Department,
are opening a recycling site on S. Railroad Avenue just
south of Parkdale Mills near Hawthorne Road. The
land is being provided at no cost to the city by the
families of David Faunce and Kemp Mauney and the
bins for recyclable materials are being set up by the
health department.
Recycling translates directly into savings for tax-
payers, say city officials, who said that new tipping
fees, expected to be initiated by the county next sum-
mer, will cost the city more for the garbage deposit
business.
"We don't have any choice but to go to recycling,"
says City Manager George Wood, who, along with
Hamrick, Planning and Zoning Board Chairman
Wilson Griffin and Planning Director Gene White see
See Trash, 10-A
EMMETT AND HILDA MOSS
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C,28086
"We're still on pins and needles but Leonard |
so well," said his mother-in-law. Mrs. Robe
doctors have told the family that liver transphe,
95 to 98 percent successful.
Leonard never gave up hope for a donor, si
Roberts: "Leonard kept saying he'd get his |
Christmas or by New Year's." |
Doctors discovered Anderson's damaged |
July. Mrs. Roberts said her son-in-law, a non-
has always been healthy. His sclerosis of the liy
have been caused by a virus settling in the li
said doctors told them. \
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Utility Rates
Should Hold
No rate increases for city services are predicted by
Kings Mountain city officials in new year 1990.
That's good news from City Manager George Wood
who said Kings Mountain will let bids on $3.7 million
in sewer improvements in about two months and in
subsequent months of new year 1990 for the $3.6 mil-
lion water improvements project and $1.8 million elec-
tric system improvements will take shape.
Kings Mountain voters approved funds for the three
projects last February in a bond issue and sold the
bonds in September. All three projects are now in the
engineering stage, says Wood.
The city will also continue to upgrade financial
record keeping and implement suggestions by auditors
made in the recent audit of the city books which city
council will study at a Jan. 16 work session.
Wood said the city council will set priorities for oo
er projects to be incloded i in the 1990 chy budget fo
which work begins in Maren. © 7 1
Kings Mountain citizens can also see completed in
early 1990 a long-awaited walking track at the
Community Center and crank up a first recycling cen-
ter near Parkdale Mills.
See Rates, 10-A
Harris Seeks Re-Election,
Cloninger To Run For Judge
The New Year was kicked off
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this week with candidate filing by
veteran Senator J. Ollie Harris,
lawyer Scott Cloninger, both of
Kings Mountain, and Linda Thrift
of Shelby who announced they will
run for elective offices in the May
Democratic Primary.
The filing period ends on Feb. 5.
The Cleveland County Elections
Board also listed filings by
Coleman Goforth for county com-
missioner, Ralph Mitcham for
coroner and Buddy McKinney for
sheriff. All are incumbents.
Senator Harris, 76, Kings
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Mountain mortician, says he wants
to serve another term and then he
plans to retire. Harris, Kings
See Harris, 15-A
Projects To Carry Over Into 1990
Unfinished major projects in 1989 that carry over
into 1990 will mean continued progress for Kings
Mountain District schools.
Supt. Bob McRae said the system's future hinges on
a major decision to be made by the Kings Mountain
Board of Education when it decides whether to redraw
school attendance lines and/ or split the city's five ele-
mentary schools as solutions to bringing the racial bal-
ance back into line with system-wide ratios of black
and white students.
Making the K-5 School decision their top goal for
1990, the school board is meeting Thursday (tonight)
at 7 p.m. to study a new proposal to make East or West
Schools into K-1 schools and North and East or West
into grades 2-5 schools with final decision anticipated
by Monday night's regular board meeting or by the
February meeting. The issue arises four months after
' the board yielded to public pressure and voted not to
close East School which has shown a steadily-decreas-
ing enrollment.
Another top priority for 1990 is getting the new
middle school open by August and moving ninth
graders to the Senior High School with grades 10-12
and completing building projects at both Grover and
‘East Schools.” School patrons passed a big bond issue
last: April for school improvements.
The month of December was a tough month for con-
struction due to bad weather but major changes can be
seen in the kitchen and cafeteria area at the Junior
High school this week. Asbestos was also removed at
Grover School during the holidays and the next as-
bestos removal project is targeted at Bethware 4th and
5th grade buildings. A major asbestos removal project
has been completed at North School.
See Schools, 10-A
Real Estate Growth To Continue
New Year 1990 will see a continuation of real es-
tate growth trends Kings Mountain and Cleveland
County have felt in the late 1980's, new subdivisions,
more housing choices, improvements in water and
sewer systems and industrial and commercial develop-
ments all should do well.
That's the predictions of Larry Hamrick Sr., realtor
and insuranceman with Warlick Insurance and
Hamrick Realtors and an opinion shared by Jerry
King, outgoing president of the KM Board of Realtors.
Hamrick predicts the 1990's will see Kings
Mountain and Cleveland County discovered as a new
frontier in the Greater Charlotte perimeter.
King also sees a major concern of citizens in devel-
oping a high degree of civic pride, working on clean-
ing up the city of unsightly trash and making the envi-
ronment more attractive to newcomers, improving
traffic flow, and seeking a diversification of industry
and business that are environmentally clean and that
have high tech applicants as top priorities for 1990.
"Other people see us as we see ourselves, Without
addressing these issues, industry, business and poten-
tial residents will not see us in a very favorable light
and will prefer to live in nearby towns," said King.
King says Kings Mountain will continue to grow
and prosper, if for no other reason, because of our lo-
cation along I-85 and the 74 Bypass. The
city is blessed with natural resources, utilities, trans-
portation, labor force, low union activity, climate and
undeveloped land."
"We must be sure, however, that we do not grow as a
weed patch but that we have planned and controlled
See Growth, 10-A
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