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Thursday, March 29, 1990
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. 28086
Mayor's Vote Puts Bins On East Side
Mayor Kyle Smith broke a tie
vote for the first time in two years
Tuesday as City Council split on
the site for a recycling center.
After an hour of discussion and
after taking two votes by Council
to try to determine how Council
stood on the issue of moving the
site to the Community Center,
Smith broke the tie. The motion by
Neisler was originally to move the
site from Railroad to Cleveland
KM Police
Blame Shots
On Dispute
* Police said an ongoing dispute
between two families resulted in
the shots fired Thursday on Cansler
Street in which two men were hurt
and two suspects were arrested.
John Patrick Logan, 21, and
Larry Dean Logan, 24, both of 225
N. City Street, were transferred
from Kings Mountain Hospital to
Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Det.
Billy Benton and Sgt. Derek
Johnson said John Logan was hit in
the face and upper chest area with
shots from a .38 caliber handgun
and Larry Logan was shot with a
sawed off .20 gauge shotgun in the
face area and upper chest. Police
charged Jack Cole Nichols, 46, of
110 N. Cansler Street, with one
count of assault with deadly
weapon inflicting serious bodily
injury and Larry Dean Logan, 24
of 225 N. City Street, with one
count simple assault in connection
See Shooting, 3-A
Avenue but after it drew strong op-
position from four members of
Council and some citizens living
in the Cleveland Avenue area dur-
ing a public hearing, he expanded
the motion to keep the current
Parkdale Mills site and add more
bins at the Community Center.
Favoring the motion were
Commissioners Fred Finger,
Neisler and Al Moretz. Opposing
the motion were Commissioners
Bridges, Jackie Barrett and Elvin
Greene.
The city recreation commission
also opposed the Community
Center site, suggesting on March
22 that if the recycling facility is
placed on park property that it be
located in the parking lot at the
corner of Parker and Chestnut
Streets with fencing to shield the
center from public view.
Neisler said the Community
Center site is the perfect spot for a
new $14,000 machine to be put up
by Alcoa Aluminum of Shelby
which will automatically weigh
cans and give people 35 cents per
pound-an incentive for residents to
drop off their recyclable items,
such as newspapers, plastic and
glass. He said that the Center is
open until 9 p.m. each night, the
area is paved, well lighted and pa-
trolled by police. The recycling
Photo by Dieter Melkhorn
KEEPING OUT VANDALS-Tommy Barnett, East Kings Mountain merchant, shows how otie merchant
on North Piedmont Avenue has covered his windows with mesh wire since a rash of ig in the area.
Two other stores were hit Saturday night.
Piedmont Looks Like War Zohe
Boarded-up windows dot busi-
nesses along North Piedmont
Avenue since vandals knocked out
windows again Saturday at
Gaffney's Barber Shop and Mike's
Game Room.
Curtis Gaffney, owner of
Gaffney's, said he doesn't plan to
replace his windows. "I'm just go-
ing to leave them boarded up and
hope customers won't think I'm
closed."
Property owners at the nine busi-
nesses say vandals have targeted
their businesses for several years,
breaking windows out and Join
Cancer Crusade Plann&d
The annual Kings Mountain
Cancer Crusade will be conducted
Sunday afternoon from 2 until 5
p.m. and volunteers will be can-
vassing the community to solicit
funds.
Co-chairmen Nancy Scism and
Susie Sellers said that volunteers
will be delivering packets of infor-
mation about cancer and inviting
contributions in the Residential
Educational and Fund-Raising
Crusade. She said more volunteers
are needed and they may contact
her at Home Federal Bank on West
King Street.
Mrs. Scism said statistics show
that the research program of the
American Cancer Society is paying
off in that nearly three million
Americans, alive today, are consid-
ered cured and American Cancer
Society research can take its share
of the credit. She cited as one ex-
ample: ACS supported the devel-
opment of the PAP test which is
used to diagnose cervical cancer.
This test has already saved the
lives of thousands of women be-
cause it can detect cancer of the
uterine cervix at its earliest and
most curable stage. Other research
Kings Mountain People
extensive damage. They suspect ju-
veniles.
Chief of Police Warren Goforth
said he personally talked to seven
merchants on North Piedmont
Avenue this week about the rash of
vandalism, which has included bro-
ken windows a number of times
For Sunday
progress is the link established by
the ACS between smoking and
lung cancer.
The local Cancer Society office
in Shelby, she says, provides an in-
formation center. For the cancer
patient, it may make available such
services as transportation to places
of treatment; dressings; sickroom
supplies and other special equip-
ment.
Some of the materials that vol-
unteers will hand out to residents
includes answers about cancer, ba-
See Cancer, 3-A
over the past two years. "This is a
major thoroughfare of town and it's
hard for us to catch the juveniles
who the merchants believe are re-
sponsible for this disregard of
property. We've beefed up our pa-
trol in that area with a walking pa-
See Piedmont, 2-A
Daylight Savings Time
begins Sunday at 2 am
Push your clocks ahead
one hour.
center will front on three sides of
Cleveland Avenue on the curb side
between the north side of the build-
ing and Jake Early Memorial Park.
Neisler said the recycling com-
mittee had received complaints
from three or four households in
the vicinity of the Community
Center but had met with them and
pointed out that the recycling cen-
ter, where it will now be located,
won't be visible from the resi-
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Hearing Set
The site of what may be a sec-
ond controversial city project will
be decided possibly on April 12 at
a 7:30 p.m. public hearing to be
conducted by City Council.
Although the public hearing is
not a legal requirement, City
Manager George Wood said the
city utilities committee wants the
public to have input into the site of
a new 15,000 volt electrical substa-
tion the city wants to put on Sims
and Parker Street and have their
questions answered concerning
noise and safety.
The electric substation is part of
$9 million improvements package
voied by Kings Mountain citizens
For utility improveients. Tt will bis
45 feet high with 80 to 100 foot
powerlines.
"There will be a low hum from
the electrical equipment, however
it should not cause a nuisance,”
said a question-answer sheet on the
location of the new substation and
distributed to city council members
and the press in a packet of materi-
als at Tuesday night's board meet-
ing. The noise level will be 95
decibels, which is slightly louder
than heavy street traffic and slight-
ly less noisy than an elevated train.
According to the memo, the sub-
station isn't supposed to affect
neighbors’ television or radio re-
ception.
The equipment will be bordered
by a 10-foot fence on a two-acre
site to guard against children get-
ting near it.
City Council is looking at prop-
erty owned by the Kings Mountain
District Schools and is negotiating
with the KM Board of Education
for the site. Council met in execu-
tive session Tuesday night to con-
sider possible purchase of land.
The substation will receive its
clectricity over power lines on tow-
ers that range from 80 to 100 feet
in height.
The EPA has said that no new
equipment shall contain PCB in a
level high enough to harm the en-
vironment, according to the memo
which asked the possibilities of
having electrical equipment con-
taining PCB.
At the April 12th meeting,
moved up two days to allow three
commissioners to attend a seminar
for newly-elected officials in
Asheville, Council will act on bids
for the Pilot Creek WWTP im-
provements, bids for stump grind-
ing and removal of Hugo debris
and a possible sale o land by upset
bid.
In another action at Tuesday's
meeting, Council set April 17 as
date for a public hearing by th
Recreation Commission to discusg
recommendations for Davidson
Paik. Recreation, Director Davicy
Hancock, in a meme to Council
said the commission is ready 10
present the Davidson park modifi-
cations plan. He said their recom-
mendation is to close the pool at
Davidson permanently, to make
Deal Street the city-wide pool and
to move with plans to modify
Davidson Park.
In a related action, Council ap-
proved the Recreation
Commission's request to solicit
funds and materials donations for
the purpose of constructing a re-
stroom facility for the walking
track. The work will be done by
all-volunteer labor.
Council authorized Mayor Kyle
Smith and City Managr Wood to
apply for Title III funds for 1990-
91 for the KM Aging Program with
the maximum city share of the
funds being $4,995. The city is re-
questing transportation funding of
$28,661 and Senior Center opera-
tions funding of $16,286.
Council set April 24 at 7:30 p.m.
or public hearing on a rezoning re-
quest from Sue Ledford McCluney,
who owns property near the West
Gate Plaza, and accepted bid of
$13,200 from Mount Zion Baptist
Church for land adjacent to the
church.
Council selected the Public
Works. facility grounds as the site
for the new 5 million gallon water
See Council, 3-A
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JACK HUGHES tery.
Jack Hug
- Retired poultry and cattle farmer Jack Hughes has
earned the reputation as a busy, enthusiastic chronicler
of family trees, family histories, and Grover School.
When he retired 12 years ago from poultry and cat-
te farming in the Dixon Community, he found he
‘could stay busy 24 hours a day compiling histories and
matching names with the pictures of Grover School
alumni dating back to the 20's.
"History has always fascinated me even when I was
a kid at Grover School but I took up this hobby purely
by accident," said Jack, who said his son, Mark, got
him started one day 12 years ago when he asked Jack
to find him information about his Civil War great-
grandfather for a history project in school. Jack made
his first of many visits to the Cleveland County
Historical Museum which resulted in more than 500
Wells ancestors to cemeteries all over the Carolinas,
some as close by as the Wells cemetery near the
Hughes home, the Antioch Baptist Church cemetery
where Hughes is an active member, and the old
Jeremiah Blalock cemetery at Kings Creek Station.
His Wells ancestors are buried in the old Wells ceme-
sheets of material tracing his Hughes, Dunlap, and
His big le was organization of a reunion of ish
service buddies who served aboard the USS
Christopher DE 100 during World War II. Jack, in the
U.S. Navy from 1942-45 , is so proud of that group that
“he bought a personalized automobile tag for his truck
with the lettering DE100. Jack recalled that the group's
first reunion was in 1985 and it took months of work
to locate the former crew members and officers for the
reunion in Charlotte which saw 133 people in atten-
dance; their first reunion in 45 years. Each year the re-
union group has grown in attendance but last year's re-
union, scheduled for Charleston, S.C., was canceled by
Hurricane Hugo which forced the reunion crowd to
give up their motel rooms to Hurricane victims. This
year, however, the reunion is on again in Charleston on
Oct. 21-22. Jack recalled that the USS Christopher DE
100 was commissioned in the Philadelphia Naval
Yards on October 23, 1943. Thirty-five percent of the
crew is deceased. Jack recalled that searching for ad-
dresses of crew members was a job but no one was
more pleased than he when he welcomed crew mem-
bers and their families for the first reunion.
Jack's interest in Grover School began as a student.
A member of the Class of 1942, Jack started his photo
had accumulated throug
Ahm ” liopitse fron ‘The Herald and pictures he |
ie years. His friends will re-
call that he was one wee school bus drivers at
Grover School (1937-41) and some days he didn't
make it to class because two of the other school buses
invariably broke down and Jack had to transport all the
Dixon and Bethlehem students to elementary schools
in the two communities and then take the other stu-
dents to Grover. Clyde McDaniel and Warren Goforth
drove the other two busses but the wintertime was hard
on the old busses and they refused to start up many
cold mornings. The busses had double seats and a strip
“down the middle. "Now you boys sit on one side, you |
girls sit on the other and you little ones sit in the mid-
dle," Ms. Livingstone, the teacher, always instructed |
the little ones who climbed on Jack's bus. "Sometimes
1 wouldn't make it to class'because I spent all the time
driving the bus," recalled Jack who said he earned $9 a
month, ;
- His friends will io recall that Grover's unbeaten
baseball champs of 1941 won the Cleveland County |
championship with a perfect 13-0 record and is be- |
See Hughes, 2 2-A